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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Students gathered at Rollins Chapel for the Candlelight Ceremony for Black Lives Thursday afternoon. Participants lighted candles and created a visual board in tribute.
Fund set up in honor of Alana Donohue ’18 By CAROLINE BERENS
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
The family of Alana Donohue ’18 is setting up a scholarship fund through the College in her honor. Donohue died on June 23 at home in New
York City from anaphylaxis at the age of 19. Ted Donohue said that the idea for the fund originated from the comments made by Donohue’s friends from Dartmouth during her funeral. With Donohue’s
Bored at Baker returns to campus
By NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff
Anonymous social forum Bored at Baker is being revamped after being shut down in October of 2015 by founder Jonathan Pappas — known online as Jae Daemon. A Columbia University student, Pappas launched Bored at Butler, named after the university’s main library, in 2006 and later expanded the brand to other colleges
and universities. A g roup of studentbased moderators ran the Dartmouth site from late 2006 through late 2015, with a two-year hiatus starting on October of 2007 due to attempts by Daemon to redirect traffic to a different website. Pappas announced the website’s shut down on his blog in October of 2015, w r it ing t hat he wou ld SEE BORED PAGE 3
zealous passion and pride for the school, Ted Donohue said it seemed an obvious choice to try to pay that spirited devotion forward. “We want to celebrate SEE FUND PAGE 5
Kalie Marsicano ’17 stepped down from her position as Panhellenic Council president at the end of spring term, citing institutional problems with the Greek system as a whole and personal reservations about perpetuating the system as reasons in an emailed statement to The Dartmouth. Vice president Lauren Huff ’17 will take her position through the end of the elected term as described in the Panhell bylaws. Though Marsicano wrote in an email that she admired the efforts of past Panhell presidents who worked to create change from within the system, she eventually felt that, while her work was improving the state of Greek system in the short term, it was also counteracting her broader goal to make the College “a more equitable and less hostile place.” “After two terms as president, I came to believe that the more work that I and other students put in to make the Greek system less harmful, the more staying
power we were giving it,” Marsicano wrote. The decision was ultimately personal, she wrote. “I didn’t want to continue pouring my efforts into marginal progress for the Greek system when I could be dedicating my time to work that feels inherently good and productive for both short and long-term progress,” she wrote. “With three terms left, there’s only so much I can do as one person, and I think there are other, more effective and more rewarding ways for me to engage in activism on campus, which I will be pursuing throughout senior year.” Current Panhell summer president Samantha Maltais ’18 said that, for her, running for Panhell president was not about an overwhelming desire to get more involved with Greek life on campus. “For me, running was more about not being complacent with the issues I have with the system and actually working to make a difference,” she said. SEE PANHELL PAGE 5
Bike-sharing service Zagster will launch at College in fall
By ERIN LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
When Hannah Carlino ’17 found herself late to class every day walking from the Thayer School of Engineering to the Life Sciences Center sophomore year, she had the idea to bring a bike-sharing service to campus. Last winter, she partnered with Nick Ford ’17 to solve this problem, and their solution will come to life this fall. Fifty bikes at eight different stations will arrive on
campus in early September, via bike-sharing company Zagster. Students and other community members will be able to rent the bikes using a phone app, though pricing is currently unknown. In June, the College approved Carlino and Ford’s proposal to implement the program. Twenty other universities already partner with Zagster, and Dartmouth will be its fourth Ivy League partner and one of its smallest. Zagster communications manager Jon Terbush said that once a con-
tract is worked out, Zagster is generally able to launch a new program in four to six weeks. Students will most likely be able to sign up for the service with their student ID and DPay or a credit card, Ford said. After downloading Zagster’s app, users can see which bikes are available and make reservations. Rental rates for Dartmouth are still being determined, though typical pricing schemes vary between SEE BIKES PAGE 2
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New bike sharing service coming to campus in the fall term
program is relatively large — Zagster generally starts with one bike station institutions. Students can rent bikes at a college and expand if it sees good and return them to any station after a ridership. set period of time. Some colleges allow Terbush said eight stations is larger a few hours of free usage before charg- than a typical pilot program and will aling, while others charge $50 to $60 for low the company to assess how widely a termly subscription, Ford said. The used the program is at Dartmouth. College will most likely receive a small “It’s a larger initial launch, but percentage of the program’s revenue, ultimately we think that’s a better way he said. to gauge the system and its effective Carlino wrote in an email that she ness,” he said. believes the bike-sharing service might He said expansion has already been be free in order to promote frequent discussed with the College and mutual use and optimal convenience. interest has been expressed. Last winter, Carlino began working Carlino wrote that she believes the with Ford while he was an intern at bike-sharing service will be widely Zagster. They spent this past winter used, citing the success of similar brainstorming ideas and creating a programs at other universities. detailed proposal to bring to adminis- Ford noted that in their research, trators. In the spring, they met with a they found that common problems variety of departments and organiza- students encountered with owning tions to obtain funding and support, bikes included theft, storage in the including parking and transportation, winter and dealing with them durzoning, sustainability, Student Assem- ing off terms or post graduation. He bly and Improve Dartmouth. They added that keeping a car on campus also surveyed the student body and can be inconvenient as well because found overwhelming interest, he said. of limited campus parking. “It ultimately happened pretty “I don’t think many people will quickly from there,” he said. fully substitute having a car, but they Ford noted could substitute that many ad- “The idea is to take having their own ministrator s bicycle,” he said. they talked all the headaches and He added that to were inter- knowledge needed to Zagster could be ested in start- run a bikeshare and a good option for ing a program student who only that would help keep it in house, since need a bike for solve parking we are the experts.” one day or others problems on visiting campus, campus. Their including alumni biggest chal- -JON TERBUSH, ZAGSTER and prospective lenge was findstudents. In the COMMUNICATIONS ing funding, winter, Zagster will Carlino wrote. MANAGER most likely negoti “When we ate a storage policy reached out to with the College, various organizations, many told us as it does with other schools in coldthey were either not allowed to sponsor weather areas, Ford said. student ideas or simply did not have Dart Bike Rentals is currently the the money to do so,” she said. school’s only alternative biking initia Zagster will take care of installing tive. the bikes and stations and will manage Carlino wrote that going forward, day to day operations, including cus- she and Ford will serve as liaisons tomer support and bike maintenance, between the administration, Zagster Terbush said. and the student body and be involved “The idea is to take all the head- with planning, execution, marketing aches and knowledge needed to run a and strategy. bikeshare and keep it in house, since “We’d like to stay pretty involved we are the experts,” he said. — both the College and Zagster ex He added that students and the pressed interest in us being involved,” College will have full control over Ford said. “We’ll definitely keep in the overall direction of the program, touch with them and the College to creating a “true partnership” between see how ridership’s going.” Zagster and Dartmouth. Hannah Carlino ’17 is a member of The Ford noted that Dartmouth’s initial Dartmouth senior staff. FROM BIKES PAGE 1
CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. The June 30 article “Giordano ’16 and Whitehorn ’16 named AllAmericans” incorrectly reported that Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 cleared a height of 5.82 meters in the high jump. In fact, she cleared a height of 1.82 meters or 5 feet 11 1/2 inches.
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Zagster’s bike services will debut on Dartmouth’s campus next fall with eight bike stations on campus.
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Website Bored at Baker returns after being shut down in the fall of 2015 FROM BORED PAGE 1
culture.” Before Pappas shut it down, Bored at Baker saw declined usage, but Pellowski thinks that it still offers its own benefits as opposed to Yik Yak, an anonymous social media app whose popularity Pellowski attributed to its ease of use and access. The app first became popular at Dartmouth in the fall of 2014 and continues to be used by students. He said that the advantage of Bored at Baker is the ability to have larger posts, branching conversations and cre-
“re-evaluate enabling a private space for Dartmouth” in June of this year. Pappas shut down Bored at Baker because the website took up too much of his time. It was the only website of the BoredAt, Inc. series to be shut down. Pappas did not respond to requests for comment. For mer mo der at or A a r on Pellowski ’15 said that he thinks Bored at Baker has the potential to contribute to Dartmouth culture by providing a centralized for um for student “I don’t know whether discourse about political and things are ever going cultural issues at Dartmouth and nationwide. However, he to get restored to their is unsure whether the website glory days.” will ever reach that state. “The foundation is there, but as for the triad of energy, orga- -AARON PELLOWSKI ’15, nization and direction, I don’t FORMER BORED AT BAKER know whether things are ever going to get restored to their MODERATOR glory days,” he said. “A large part of that is the intrusion of a mainstream tween kid-brother ating longer lasting conversations. While posts on Yik Yak disappear Bored at Baker.” In prior years, the website has within 24 hours, posts on Bored been home to personal attacks on at Baker are archived and thus can be accessed at a later time, students. A fter the 2013 Dimensions so trends in social conversations protest, several users posted rape can be seen and analyzed over a and death threats directed at the longer period of time. “People have been saying ‘noprotestors. In winter 2014, a user posted a guide on how to rape a body rages anymore’ every year specific member of the Class of for eight years,” Pellowski said. “I thought people started saying 2017. Andrew Wolff ’18 said that he does not think that bringing “Bored at Baker is back the website is a good idea not some third-party because the forum often served as an excuse for people to bully program that affects each other, either implicitly or culture, it is culture.” explicitly. Pellowski said that there will always be people who dis- -AARON PELLOWSKI ’15, approve of bringing back the FORMER BORED AT BAKER website due to the belief that the platform exists to perpetu- MODERATOR ate cyber-bullying, sexism and “general trash-culture.” While he noted that some ter- that during my freshman year.” He noted that he does not think rible conversations have occurred on Bored at Baker, he does not that the website will ever reach think that such conversations the same popularity level that it are indicative of Bored at Baker once had, but he foresees a spike of as a whole. He added that a lot reinterest among the student body, of criticism of the website is not as well as its revival resulting in something new for the website — solution-oriented. He said it is hard to say how although he is unsure as to what Bored at Baker affects campus that would be. A for mer moder ator, who discussions, as the website itself is a part of Dartmouth culture and requested anonymity due to not thus serves as a forum to share wanting to be associated with similar values that are indicative the message board post graduation, said they were not sure at of feelings on campus. “[Bored at Baker] is not some all how the website’s return will third-party program that affects affect campus discussions or how culture,” Pellowski said. “It is popular the website will be upon
its return. They said that because the website is a platform, it does not have a morality of its own. It is also totally dependent on its users, they added, meaning that the type of content that shows up on the website can ref lect campus thoughts. “It offers a ref lection, not an accurate or proportionate one, but a ref lection of what a lot of campus may be thinking,” they said. The website often had a bad reputation in the past as a result of these said ref lections, but the moderator said that they did not think that all of the posts were indicative of campus mindset, as they were not sure how many posts were attempts at humor versus people actually posting their beliefs. The former moderator felt the forum does not add much value to campus because all the issues brought up on Bored at Baker were inevitably brought up in other ways during its absence. They added that while Bored at Baker can have a negative impact on campus so too can almost any aspect of life, such as alcohol, drugs or even Facebook, and that the impact largely depends on those who use it and how they use it. The moderator said that they hope people build better relationships through the website, because they themselves made some of their closest friends through it. However, they are interested to see how the website will be used going forward. Av id Yik Yak user A ngela Zhang ’19 said that she was excited for the website to come back. As opposed to Yik Yak, which Zhang said does not allow for long term d iscussion, Bored at Ba ker’s archives will allow discussions to permanently remain on the internet. However, she said that the website’s return could be frustrating, as traffic could split between the website and Yik Yak, as opposed to being centralized in one location. Zhang also said that she was unsure as to why the website is coming back, as Yik Yak already seems to be doing what the website was created to do. Cr ist ina Curcel l i ’18 f irst heard about Bored at Baker from conversations with her friends. However, Curcelli said that she will probably not be using it, as it would only serve as an additional distraction to her everyday life. Aaron Pellowski ’15 is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
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STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18
STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ‘17
Unintentional Orientalism
Defending the Second
The Orientalist framework is still subtly used on a day-to-day basis. Western society has come a long way in redefining and refining its way of looking at Asian and Middle Eastern societies and cultures. Yet despite a reformed method of examining “Eastern” societies and cultures in scholarship, the Orientalist framework still continues to be subtly and unintentionally used on a day-to-day basis, in debates over assimilation and even in the relatively worldly and well-traveled student body at Dartmouth. Edward Said’s book “Orientalism” (1978) is undoubtedly the crown jewel and work par excellence in the field of Asian and Middle Eastern studies. Said especially criticized European society’s tendency to exoticize, essentialize, exaggerate and patronize nonEuropean societies and cultures, both explicitly for political purposes and implicitly due to feelings of superiority. Indeed, Said’s work has influenced how a generation of postcolonial scholars examines Asian and Middle Eastern societies. College students studying the history, politics, culture and economics of Asian and Middle Eastern societies are taught from early on to look at scholarship on “the East” produced in once imperialist Western societies with skepticism. That being said, there is still a long way to go to eliminating the Orientalist framework. One cannot discuss modern Orientalist worldviews in Western society without discussing the modern debate over assimilation. Proponents of assimilation argue that cultural assimilation of immigrants has always been part of Western, especially American, society, and that assimilation is key in the stability and security of such societies. Those who argue against aggressive cultural assimilation, on the other hand, claim that people from non-Western societies should maintain and cherish their unique cultures no matter where they live, and that multiculturalism has always been a part of modern Western societies. In reality, the truth lies somewhere between these two viewpoints. “Other” cultures have indeed contributed to Western society as distinct entities, but are frequently reduced to simple constructions through assimilation. Portrayals of Asian and Middle Eastern societies and culture often exaggerate, intentionally or not, the differences between Western and nonWestern people. This, in turn, influences general
perceptions of Asian and Middle Eastern societies and culture in the West by essentializing non-Western people as “Other” cultures. This process occurs at all levels of Western society, even at schools such as Dartmouth. For example, there is an exoticization of Asian student clubs — I have heard friends wanting to stop by an event organized by an Asian student organization to “grab some lassi” or to watch “that Asian dance troupe.” Though well-intentioned, these simple statements embody essentialist and exotic perceptions of non-Western culture. In personal interactions as well, some of my peers use phrases like “ethnic” food, “foreign” people and even “Muslim” and “terrorist” interchangeably to refer to ethnic groups originating anywhere from North Africa to South Asia. While I understand that these peers are in a minority and are more often than not attempting to be humorous rather than malicious, it is worrying to hear such things casually from students at Dartmouth. To be clear, I do not believe the debate over assimilation or my personally observed oncampus instances of Orientalist thinking mark a backward trend. Rather, these phenomena mark continuity and, in actuality, a slow decline in Orientalist thinking. The fact that Orientalist thinking has become less frequent, less malicious, increasingly unintentional and more subtle means that progress is occurring. Some will argue that certain non-Western societies themselves essentialize “Other” cultures and societies, which is undoubtedly true. However, those societies are in a completely different stage of development than Europe or the United States. While this does not excuse these countries, it still shows that Western societies have not progressed as much as they could. In the end, I am hopeful that the impulse of “Western” and “Eastern” societies to essentialize, derogate, patronize and exoticize each other will continue to shrink. In the 70plus years after the end of World War II and decolonization, mankind has come a long way in understanding and respecting the diversity and complexity of global cultures. But there is still a long way to go. If we, as students and people in general, are more conscious of what we say and more critical of what we believe, we can progress even further in closing the gap in understanding between East and West.
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Analyzing the right to bear arms in the United States Constitution. To mention the words “Second the sole foundation for the country’s legal Amendment” is to cast a spark into a powder frameworks; the law must accommodate the keg. Merely referencing the right to bear arms Constitution and not the other way around. This assumption is vastly important, can incite the passions of an entire nation, as people on both sides of the gun debate because it implies that one cannot legally emerge from the woodwork to throw their claim that only a part of the Constitution two cents onto an ever-growing pile. There applies to the people. The entire Constitution is no shortage of daily flame wars waged applies to everyone. Therefore, every single on every corner of the internet, no dearth one of the individual rights granted by of politicians bellowing out their opinions the Constitution also applies to everyone. for all of Washington to hear. Amidst these Individuals can choose not to exercise those opinions, an increasing number of voices rights, but they are nonetheless granted the agency to decide. The have begun to call for an Second Amendment is part overturning of the Second “On what grounds of this package deal, for to Amendment. Surely, they tell question any one part of the us, the United States is better can we point to the off having fewer guns. Isn’t Second Amendment Constitution is to question all of it. it worth pursuing if we can Let us entertain a prevent just one more murder and say that it ought or one more massacre? The to be as fundamental ridiculous extreme where we treat these other children, man! Think of the an American right amendments with the same children! heavy-handedness. Could I won’t be so callous as to as the right to free dismiss such positions up front. speech or the right to you imagine a world where publishing a Facebook post It is entirely understandable requires a full background that such concerns would vote?” check in the name of “free arise, especially in the midst of so many cowardly terrorist attacks on our speech control?” Or perhaps a world with own soil. These viewpoints are born from a new disenfranchisement laws in the name of desire to keep our children safe from harm “civil rights control?” I exaggerate, of course, — this fact alone is enough cause to applaud but such examples highlight the possibilities their passion. Nonetheless, I stand firmly in opened by a Pandora’s box of endless gun support of a position that has been affirmed control. An endless cycle of law after law to time and again by the laws of our nation and limit any legally granted rights negates the by the Supreme Court: the right to bear arms point of those rights. If a government can is an individual civil liberty provided by the justifiably push its own founding principles Constitution of the United States, and like aside to satisfy an agenda, then what right has it to call itself a democracy? any other Constitutional right This is the true cost of it extends to all citizens of the “If we can place so condemning the Second republic for which it stands. much constraint Amendment so harshly. In support of this If we can place so much argument, I will not be and oversight upon constraint and oversight examining whether firearms one amendment, upon one amendment, then have any place in the modern it carries dire consequences age. To discuss such matters then it carries dire is to complicate an already consequences for the for the other 26. The word law would mean nothing, heated discussion, so I leave other 26. The word of because it could be so easily that for another time. Instead, ignored. The document that I will focus specifically upon of law would mean protects both the freedom of the Second Amendment as a nothing, because it speech and the right to vote law and as a Constitutional might as well not exist at right. In other words, why could be so easily all, little more than blotches should we defend the right ignored.” of ink on ancient paper. to bear arms as a national law? On what grounds can we point to the Nothing would stand between the welfare Second Amendment and say that it ought to of the individual and the tyranny of others be as fundamental an American right as the more powerful. Is it worth setting such a dangerous precedent for our other civil right to free speech or the right to vote? The answer lies in the assumption that the liberties by placing so many constraints on Constitution is established as the “supreme just one? As with any cherished right, there are law of the land.” That is, neither the federal nor state governments have the legal sensible limits set by laws. No right is infinite, authority to override it. All American citizens for one’s liberties end where another’s begin. must abide by the Constitution’s provisions This is as true for gun rights as it is for free because it applies to all of them equally. The speech or any other liberties. However, when civil liberties provided by the Constitution we trim one right to make way for these limits, and its amendments, likewise, also extend we should take great care not to accidentally to all American citizens. It is therefore cut down our other rights with them.
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New scholarship fund Panhell president resigns, citing set up in student’s honor institutional problems up to being a proud alumnus and seeming to not entirely believe his Alana’s passion for Dartmouth,” words. However, he said after her Ted Donohue said. “It’s something first year at the College she had that will target that spirit and keep changed her tune. giving, giving to that community “After her first year or so, she that Alana loved so much.” came up to me and said, ‘Hey College spokesperson Diana Michael, I just wanted you to Lawrence said Donohue’s friends know that what you said back in and family approached the Col- Peru, about the school — you were lege shortly after Donohue’s right,’” Michael Marriott recalled death about developing a fund in with a laugh. memory of her. Currently, she said, Ted Donohue said the scholarthere are no specific restrictions ship fund serves to symbolize not around the scholarship or stipu- only his daughter’s affinity for the lations about who would benefit College, but also her passion for from the fund. intellectual pursuits and giving Lawrence said that scholarship spirit. funds are often established after the “We’re trying to narrow down passing of a student or alumna, as the theme [of the scholarship] to a way to continue the legacy of a be around Alana’s spirit of giving, loved one. loving and laughing with aca “Over the years, there have demic excellence and intellectual been many such memorial gifts, curiosity mixed in the brew,” Ted as families want to honor a loved Donohue said. “It’s a way to honor one’s devotion to Dartmouth,” and perpetuate that.” Lawrence said. Marriott echoed a similar sen Ted Donohue timent about said her daughD o n o h u e ’s ter appreciated “We want to celebrate intense love the close-knit Alana’s passion for knowlcommunity the edge. He said C o l l e g e p r o - for Dartmouth. It’s that when vided. In fact, something that will their families the family used went on vacatarget that spirit and to joke that it tion togethwasn’t “Dart- keep giving, giving to er, the tour m o u t h U n i - that community that guides often versity,” it was liked her the Dartmouth Col- Alana loved so much.” best, because lege, but Dono“she would hue used to call ask the best -TED DONOHUE it Dartmouth q u e s t i o n s. ” “community.” He said the “That’s how Alana viewed scholarship encompasses this intelDartmouth, as unique to any other lectual eagerness. college,” Ted Donohue said. “She “It was a way to memorialize thought it was an intense commu- her love of the school, but also [to nity of academics and social life, memorialize] her inquisitiveness and that can be so powerful and and love of knowledge acquisigive so much.” tion,” Marriott said. “Why not The Donohues’ family friend share that with others, who might Michael Marriott ’84, and the be less fortunate?” father of Alana Donohue’s close Ted Donohue said his daughter friend Dean Marriott ’18, is also had spoken of giving back to the intricately involved in the develop- College after she had graduated, ment of the fund. Like Donohue, and that this scholarship will allow Marriott said the formation of future students to benefit from the the scholarship was only natural wonderful community the College given Donohue’s great love for the provides, and to subsequently give College. back to it themselves. Michael Marriott described an He added that it exposes “a instance when Donohue had just little more beauty” of Dartmouth’s been accepted to the College, when community, and the great things the Marriotts and Donohues were that that community is capable of together on vacation in Peru. Upon producing. Marriott agreed. hearing the news, Michael Mar- “It’s a very fitting tribute,” Marriott shook Donohue’s hand and riott said. congratulated her on getting into Lawrence said a scholarship “the best school in the country.” fund requires a minimum of He said at the time she responded $250,000, although she said she with her classic “Alana smirk,” couldn’t speculate on how quickly probably chalking his enthusiasm that could be funded. FROM FUND PAGE 1
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“With that said, when I accepted the position, I didn’t exactly know what I was getting into. I didn’t know about the endless meetings with various student organizations, Greek officials, admin and staff or the countless hours the women on Panhell work through in order to advance policy agenda.” Maltais said that she preferred to think about her role as taking smaller opportunities for improvement, rather than attempting to change the Greek system as a whole. She said an example of this was overcoming the Greek-centric theme to sophomore summer and focusing on developing the community of her class as a whole in addition to individual Greek houses. Marsicano also depledged from Sigma Delta as part of her decision. “I didn’t want to participate complacently in the system after I had decided to stop working to change it,” she wrote. Marsicano wrote that she always believed that the Greek system should be abolished because it produces no unique benefits and
tice in the Greek system and will continue to pursue those goals, she wrote. Marsicano also said that many members of Sigma Delta congratulated her decision and expressed similar frustrations with the system as a whole. “The other members of the Panhellenic Council and I share the utmost respect for Kalie and the abundant time and passion she put into her role as president,” wrote summer Panhell vice president of public rela“I didn’t want to tions Maria Howe ’18 in participate complacently a statement to The Dartmouth. “We equally respect in the system after I had her thoughtful reflection on decided to stop working to Dartmouth’s Greek system that led to her ultimate change it.” decision to depledge and step down from Panhell.” Howe confir med that -KALIE MARSICANO ’17, Huff will take Marsicano’s FORMER PANHELLENIC role and added that the COUNCIL PRESIDENT Council does not yet know who will take Huff ’s place. Several sorority presidents and current Panhell in order to advocate for progress members did not respond to or declined requests for comment. from the inside. Current members of Panhell Kalie Marsicano ’17 is a former have visions of progress and jus- member of The Dartmouth staff. many unique costs, including social exclusion, concentration of alcohol within members of a house and a sense of entitlement over the social space. She also said that sorority recruitment specifically perpetuates classism and racism by excluding membership from students who can not afford dues and by marginalizing women of color in the selection process. She decided to rush in the first place
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2016
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
“MacBeth in Rhythm,” a workshop presentation exploring Shakespeare’s text through music, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center
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“Dheepan” (2015), a film by Jacques Audiard, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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“Tear a Root from the Earth,” a reading of a folk opera about a family in war-torn Afghanistan, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center
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“Dark Horse” (2015), a film by Louise Osmond, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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“The Awful Truth” (1937), a film by Leo McCarey, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Students and alumni workshop VoxFest theater projects By SOPHIA SIU
The Dartmouth Staff
During the annual theater festival VoxFest, Dartmouth students escape the classroom to experiment and workshop with alumni bringing theater projects to campus. Vox Theater, an alumni theater company, is in residence at Dartmouth from July 1 to 8 to workshop four theater works-inprogress with Dartmouth students and faculty. The weeklong festival, titled VoxFest, will culminate with the showcase of these projects in the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center. Three Dartmouth alumni Matthew Cohn ’08, Kate Mulley ’05 and Thom Pasculli ’05 formed VoxFest with the goal of fostering partnerships among alumni working in the arts. VoxFest, which is in its fourth year, allows alumni to not only bring art back to campus, but also to integrate current Dartmouth students in the creative process. VoxFest began on July 3 with the performance of “Vox Barter,” a collage of new works by VoxFest artists curated by Olivia Gilliatt ’08. Interactions between old theater troupes and residents of the towns in which they performed inspired the improvisational nature of “Vox Barter” works. The four productions are “Grab the Land,” directed by Cliff Campbell ’04, “Grey Lady,” directed
by Lillian King ’07, “Macbeth in Rhythm,” directed by Hannah Chodos ’06 and “Tear a Root from the Earth,” directed by Marina McClure ’04. “[Alumni] from Dartmouth come and bring a project that they’re working on, and they’re using the Dartmouth facilities in order to workshop it, be that create a new ending or workshop a new story or change characters,” Haley Gordon ’18 said. “Whatever part of the process they’re on, that’s what they work on.” Gordon is currently enrolled in Theater 65 and involved in “Tear a Root from the Earth.”
“A lot of the learning is observational because they’re watching us, professional artists, make a new work sort of from the ground up.” -MARINA MCCLURE ’06, DIRECTOR OF “TEAR A ROOT FROM THE EARTH”
Students in professor Jamie Horton’s Theater 65 course, “New Plays in Development,” are as-
signed to one of the four productions where they can learn from and collaborate with Dartmouth alumni. The students work in different capacities depending on their interests and skills, Gordon said. McClure noted that artistic retreats and professional theater programs, including the New York Theater Company and the Sun Dance Theater Lab, influenced VoxFest. The workshops expose students to collaboration among professional theater artists. “A lot of the learning is observational because they’re watching us, professional artists, make a new work sort of from the ground up,” McClure remarked. “This is great because it’s a chance for them to see how things get made in the real world, outside of a college or educational situation.” McClure’s production, “Tear a Root from the Earth,” is a folk musical following a rural Afghan family over the course of several generations. The piece is adapted from a concept album written by Americana and folk artist Johnny Walsh and his band Gramophonic. Last year, McClure worked on the first act of “Tear a Root from the Earth” at VoxFest. The first act is set in Afghanistan in 2006-2007, at the height of the insurgency. The second act, which she is currently workshopping, is set in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. The musical explores a young
woman’s relationship to political “The teaching is very hands-on, ideology, family and the external in the sense that there are practical forces pressuring family during the things that they’re accomplishing occupation, McClure said. and contributing to the work,” “The music starts off very McClure said. traditional, and then it begins to Chodos’ concept piece, “Machave foreign beth in Rhythm,” Wester n inis based on the di“I think it’s a really, fluences, and rector’s graduate eventually it really cool way for school actor traint u r n s v e r y someone like me ing. The producfolky. It kind tion is an abridged of sounds like to see what people version of ShakeAmerican mu- who have taken my s p e a re ’s “ M a c sic, and that’s beth,” retaining courses are doing in supposed to the text while also speak to the the field of theater incorporating Serinfluence of right now.” bian and Georgian foreign powfolk songs and exers in the perimenting with country even -VIRGINIA OGDEN ’18 rhythm and touch. though there Virginia Ogden are no foreign ’18 is acting in the character s,” production along Gordon said. with several pro“There are no characters who are fessional actors from Los Angeles. not part of the Afghani family.” “I think it’s a really, really cool Walsh and Afghan musician way for someone like me to see Qais Essar co-composed Act what people who have taken my Two, fusing Essar’s traditional courses are doing in the field of and classical Afghan sounds with theater right now,” Ogden said. Gramophonic’s Americana folk, “The variety is incredible — the blues and rock music. fact that it’s being offered here in Gordon and Sid Mehra ’18 are Hanover is incredible because this working with McClure on the piece is world-class theater.” in very different capacities. Mehra “Macbeth in Rhythm” and plays one of the characters in the “Tear a Root from the Earth” musical and performs in the band. will play at the Bentley Theater Gordon, on the other hand, works tonight, July 8, at 5:30 p.m. and as McClure’s assistant director and 8:00 p.m., respectively. stage manager while completing Haley Gordon ’17 is a member of dramaturgical research. The Dartmouth senior staff.
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Students prepare for the production of “Tear A Root from the Earth,” a musical directed by Marina McClure ‘06. McClure’s theater piece is one of four works-in-progress to be workshopped by students, faculty and alumni during this year’s VoxFest.
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Whitehorn ’16 places fifth at U.S. Olympic Trials By MAX ZHUANG The Dartmouth Staff
Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 turned in her best performance in her young career on Sunday, July 3, finishing fifth in the women’s high jump at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Although Whitehorn failed to finish in the top three and qualify for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro later this year, she set both a new school and personal record of 6 feet 2-1/4 inches in her final competition in a Big Green uniform. “It’s really exciting to see Kaitlin having the opportunity to jump against some of the best people in the world,” said Barry Harwick ’77, director of track and field. “Some of her competitors are even favored to win medals and the meet for her turned out almost perfectly.”
The path for Whitehorn to get to the Olympic Trials, however, was not always so clear. The three-time AllAmerican and six-time Ivy League Champion at the women’s high jump is by no means a “middling-athlete,” but up until the last meet of the school season, the Heptagonal Indoor Championship meet at Cornell University, she was still unsure if she could jump high enough to qualify. That’s when it all finally came together — Whitehorn used the meet as her first opportunity to test a change in her high jump approach from an 8-step to a newly refined 10-step high jump approach. She smashed her former personal record of 5-10.87 with a high jump of 6-00.5, just short of the Women’s High Jump Olympic qualifying standard of 6-00.83. “That was the first big thing for me where it was like ‘Okay, I can jump 6 feet now,’” Whitehorn said. “It’s like the barrier between someone who is
pretty good to someone who is very good and it gave me the opportunities I needed to get to the Olympic Trials.” Still, Whitehorn failed to hit the Olympic qualifying standard of 6-00.83 all season. As a result, she had to wait and see if the U.S.A. Track and Field Committee would give her a chance to compete at the Trials. Whitehorn said the committee wanted to take 24 athletes for the women’s high jump, even though not every athlete selected had met the qualifying standard. In the end, the committee added Whitehorn to the field to compete on the biggest stage of her life in what might have been the last competition of her high jumping career. “She was very excited to be there,” Harwick said. “It was the biggest meet of her life and she should be very proud that she was able to jump her best.”
In terms of physical training, Whitehorn believes what propelled her performance at the Olympic Trials was rest. During the collegiate season, Whitehorn trained relentlessly: constantly adjusting her approach throughout the season, lifting weights regularly and competing at meets every weekend. She said she never had the rest she needed for everything to come together. After graduating, she spent time off and fine tuned the technical aspects of her jump. When it came time for the Olympic Trials, Whitehorn said she just needed to get in the zone and focus to perform in the face of pressure. “I feel really blessed to have had the opportunity to go to Dartmouth because it doesn’t scare me to be on such stages. These four years at Dartmouth taught me how to be tough,” Whitehorn said. “It was already hard to perform at a meet, but then I would get back to campus and have to
prepare for a test the next day which is also really, really hard. I had to be tough all the time and so, mentally, I was ready for the Olympic Trials.” Harwick was impressed by her ability to compete at such a high level. “It’s really been a great trials for Kaitlin,” Harwick said. “One thing she’s going to have to think about is that because she jumped so well, she has consider continuing her jumping career post-collegiately.” Whitehorn seemed very excited and optimistic about the prospect of continuing her high jumping career. When asked about whether she believes she could qualify for the Olympics in 2020, Whitehorn replied, “Definitely -- after that [Olympic Trials], I really think I even could have made 1.91 meters and so 1.93 [meters] really isn’t a question in the next four years. By the time the next Olympics are around I really could be a contender.”
Lovejoy ’06 wins Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh Penguins
By VIKRAM BODAS The Dartmouth Staff
From the moment Ben Lovejoy ’06 stepped on the ice for the Big Green, it was clear he had the ability to play at the next level. Although he was not drafted upon graduating Dartmouth, Lovejoy worked his way through the minor league hockey ranks and eventually secured his first National Hockey League contract in 2008. On June 12, the 6-foot, 2-inch defensemen from Orford, NH reached the pinnacle of the professional hockey world by helping the Pittsburgh Penguins secure their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history by defeating the San Jose Sharks in a competitive sixgame series. Throughout the playoffs, Lovejoy was lauded for his ability to combine a high skill level while still logging many minutes on the ice. “He played quite a few minutes for the Penguins this year, especially down the stretch and in the playoffs,” men’s hockey head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 said. “So I think his strength and endurance coupled with his high skill level were just fabulous for Pittsburgh this year.” In the decisive sixth game of the series against the Sharks, Lovejoy came up big when it mattered most by playing an almost perfect game from a defensive perspective. “I thought in Game 6 against the
Sharks he played a flawless game,” Gaudet said. “It’s pretty rare for a defenseman to do that. I watched very closely and Ben just didn’t make any mistakes. So I think his ability to play within himself and use his physical strength helped him do a great job.” While at Dartmouth, Lovejoy showcased a similar skillset to what all of America was able to witness during this year’s Stanley Cup final. “Ben was just a wonderful defenseman while he was in Hanover,” Gaudet said. “I think what he had was a really good skill level and the ability to play a lot. I think what made him a special player was his skill level and his incredible physical engine. He had a lot of strength and a lot of endurance and was an excellent skater.” Lovejoy’s success is not something that is ignored by the current iteration of Dartmouth Hockey. Recentlyminted captain Carl Hesler ’18 spoke highly of Lovejoy’s recent success. “Seeing a Dartmouth alum win the cup was incredible and reminds us how lucky we are to play for this school and the opportunities that await after our college careers are over,” Hesler said. Defensemen Tim Shoup ’18 echoed Hesler’s sentiment on what Lovejoy’s Stanley Cup victory means to the team. “It means a lot to the boys,” Shoup said. “It’s pretty special to see one of our own win it, especially because no
one from Dartmouth [had] played in the [Stanley Cup] Finals and won. I mean, you spend four years here and it becomes your home and for one of our own to bring the cup is amazing. It is promising for the boys as well and shows us that any of us could make it far and bring another cup back to Dartmouth.” Hesler, Shoup and the rest of the Dartmouth community will be able to see the Stanley Cup trophy first hand
when Lovejoy brings it to Thompson Arena on August 1. It is a tremendous gesture from a player who became the first person from New Hampshire to win the Stanley Cup in history. “It’s really neat that he’s giving back to the community by bringing the cup back to Hanover,” Gaudet said. “It’s going to be at Thompson Arena on August 1 so that’s going to be great for kids in the community and students on campus. It’s really the most
iconic trophy in all of sports and will eventually have Ben Lovejoy’s name on it which is very special.” For his fine play this year and throughout his solid 10 year NHL career, Lovejoy recently signed a three-year, $8 million contract with the New Jersey Devils this offseason. The former Dartmouth standout will hope to invigorate Devils’ defense and hopefully capture his second Stanley Cup in as many years.
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Ben Lovejoy ’06 starred on defense for the Big Green from 2004 to 2007, shown here playing against Union College in 2005.