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Two Dartmouth alumni spoke at the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention over the past two weeks, delivering a variety of remarks to audiences in Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively.

Former California Republican Party vice chair Harmeet Dhillon ’89 and talk radio host Laura Ingraham ’85 spoke at the Republican Convention last week while New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ’71 spoke at the

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Democratic Convention this week.

Dhillon delivered an invocation for the RNC’s second day, a prayer she sang in Punjabi, then translated into English.

“Republicans love people of all faiths who actively participate. Faith is not a barrier to participating in the party,” Dhillon said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

The Republican Party is concerned with illegal immigration but wants to welcome legal immigrants like Dhillon herself, she said.

By this fall, the Center for Service will withdraw as an intermediary between the 17 student volunteer organizations it oversees and their local Upper Valley affiliates. As part of this move, groups that are not sponsored by external organizations will no longer have the budget they used to have under the Tucker Foundation,

Patton’s resignation, alleged misconduct divides community

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Center for Service reorganizes, sees cuts

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deputy director for the Center for Service Loren Miller said.

Miller declined to comment on the current and future amount of money dedicated to groups.

Students will work more directly with Upper Valley organizations instead of coordinating through the Center for Service.

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Women’s lacrosse players during a match. Their coach resigned early this month after the athletic department completed an inquiry into her conduct.

By RAY LU The Dartmouth Staff On July 8, the Dartmouth athletic department announced women’s lacrosse head coach Amy Patton’s departure from the school after 26 years. Publicly, the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse community has criticized the investigation with letters and media statements. Other players interviewed by The Dartmouth that played under Patton, however, have been strongly supportive of the administration’s findings that Patton “engaged in conduct inconsistent with the standards of Dartmouth Athletics.”

“These things are never done lightly,”

Dartmouth athletic director Harry Sheehy said. “These things are impactful on many people’s lives.”

The Investigation An official grievance was filed in April and investigated by Megan Sobel, senior associate director of athletics for varsity sports and the division’s senior woman administrator, and Catherine Lark, director of college risk and internal control services. Both Sobel and Lark declined to comment for this story through Rick Bender, Dartmouth’s varsity athletics communications director.

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African leaders participate in entrepreneurship program

By KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff

For the past six weeks, 25 young African business leaders from 17 different countries have been participating in the Young African Leaders Initiative at Dartmouth, training to become entrepreneurs and

change-makers in their communities.

This is the third year that the College has hosted a cohort of Mandela Washington fellows, bringing the total number of fellows hosted to approximately 75, according to YALI academic director Amy Newcomb.

This year, the College

hosted fellows from countries including Cameroon, Ethiopia and Niger, which are being represented at the College for the first time since the program began, Newcomb said.

Newcomb, who is in charge of coordinating the different aspects of campus that come together to form

the cohesive YALI program, said that this year was unique in that the College hosted a larger cohort of fellows in the creative sector.

She said the College is involved with the program in Africa as well, helping to implement it on the continent by working with local trainers and YALI alumni in

about 14 countries to help the program expand.

T he prog ram at the College focuses on business and entrepreneurship with classes taught by Thayer School of Engineering professors and Dartmouth alumni. Fellows also engage SEE YALI PAGE 3

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Gillibrand, Ingraham play key roles Center to see changes FROM CONVENTIONS PAGE 1

“There has been no discussion of stopping or somehow delegitimizing legal immigration into this country,” she said. “I’m a legal immigrant and I’ve always felt 100 percent welcomed in the party.”

Dhillon stepped down from her post as vice chair of the Republican Party in California following the convention to fill the role of representative to the Republican National Committee instead, she said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan led the roll call after her invocation, so Dhillon read an edited version of the prayer rather than its full, roughly five-minute version, she said.

Ingraham’s speech raised questions over a gesture, some called a Nazi salute, she made at a projection of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s face. Many commentators have criticized the outcry at the gesture, which is now widely believed to have been unintentional.

Ingraham’s office did not return repeated requests seeking comment.

“I think she has a terrific career as a political commentator and thought leader in the conservative movement,” Dhillon said of Ingraham, who she considers a friend.

Government professor Linda Fowler said she was not surprised that Ingraham offered a full-throated endorsement of Trump, as she had been an early supporter of the Republican nominee. She said she had been disappointed by a talk Ingraham gave at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth in the past, however.

Ingraham — who has been a proponent of conservative causes since her time at the College, where she edited The Dartmouth Review — called for party unity behind Trump, dismissing his remaining critics and defeated primary opponents as “boys with wounded feelings and bruised egos.”

“To all my friends up there in the press, you all know why in your heart Donald Trump won the Republican nomination,” Ingraham said in remarks last Wednesday night. “You know why he won it? Because he dared to call out the phonies, the frauds and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long.”

Ingraham also called the Democratic nomination of Hillary Clinton “some cruel joke,” comparing it to “skinny jeans on men or man buns.”

Dhillon said her time at Dartmouth — where she was also an editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review — was formative for her

conservative values. At the College, she chaired a student group backing former U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp’s 1988 presidential campaign and was a vocal advocate for free speech rights on campus.

“It was really The Dartmouth Review involvement that has given me the springboard into my political career,” Dhillon said. “I would not be on that stage if it were not for the opportunity for spirited intellectual debate I had at Dartmouth.”

In Philadelphia, Gillibrand delivered a major speech on Monday in which she highlighted Clinton’s commitment to American families and her support for paid family leave. Other key Democratic figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders, First Lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren also spoke on Monday night.

“Today, our policies are stuck in the Mad Men era. We are the only industrialized nation that doesn’t guarantee workers paid family leave,” Gillibrand said Monday night. “Many women can’t even get a paid day off to give birth. Most parents work outside the home, yet childcare can cost as much as college tuition.”

She added that Clinton “gets it” and that, for her, paid family leave is a “core value.” Family-friendly policies like paid family leave have been a major goal of progressive Democrats for many years, making Gillibrand’s speech a key component in a night dedicated to unifying the Democratic Party after a contentious primary between Clinton and Sanders.

A spokesman for Gillibrand declined to comment beyond citing the senator’s speech.

During his DNC speech, Wolf criticized Trump’s treatment of small businesses and pregnant female employees in his speech last night.

A spokesman for Wolf did not return requests for comment.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman ’78 was a key force in getting the Republican Convention held in Cleveland this year, but some media outlets questioned whether the senator would attend. Many Republican lawmakers in tough reelection campaigns, like Portman, have distanced themselves from the nominee.

Kevin Smith, a spokesperson for Portman, said Portman attended all four days of the RNC, participating in interviews and speaking with delegates on the convention floor.

Smith wrote that Portman was “very pleased” with the convention

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and the hosting of Cleveland and confirmed that Portman still believes the nomination of Trump would be “positive in the end” for his campaign, a remark the senator made after endorsing Trump in May. Dhillon said she was honored to have been asked to participate in the convention and share her faith. The event was “a positive message about the inclusiveness of the United States political process” for all, she said.

Fowler was critical of the Republican Convention.

“There wasn’t an agenda in the Republican Convention. It was really about Trump and Trump’s family,” she said.

In general, conventions have moved from having a practical role as a nominating process to a largely ceremonial role of confirming the nominee as selected in primaries, she said.

“It’s basically an infomercial for the parties and a chance to remind people why they’re Republicans or why they’re Democrats,” she said.

Several members of the press covering the convention — notably CNN reporter Jake Tapper ’91 — are also Dartmouth alumni, as is the Democratic convention’s chief executive, Rev. Leah Daughtry ’84 , who held the same role in 2008.

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of different directions that students can go,” Miller said.

In June of 2014, the Board of Trustees voted to split the Tucker Foundation into the Center for Service and the William Jewett Tucker Center. The Board, in a statement at the time, wrote that the Center for Service would focus on public service and social activism. The Tucker Center’s focus is on spirituality and religious life. Provost Carolyn Dever approved plans for the two new centers in May of 2015. The 26 student volunteer groups affiliated with the Tucker Foundation at the time are now affiliated with either Tucker or the Center for Service, Miller said.

The center will continue to advise at least six student groups, but probably more, she said.

“We want to meet community needs and we want students to be able to continue to find a range of volunteer opportunities,” she said.

Miller said the center decided to prioritize helping student organizations to work with children because Upper Valley organizations working with children request a large number of student volunteers. The center will be also offering 40 internships, an all-time high for the center.

The center wants to prioritize providing more opportunities to individual students as several organizations have caps on the number of volunteers they can accept. The center will launch an online portal in OrgSync, an online community management system, in the fall. Miller said the system will allow community partners to advertise to more students and potentially gain more volunteers.

Students would use the portal to sign up for volunteer opportunities directly.

Some student groups currently working with local organizations already operate independently from the center. The Upper Valley Haven, for example, already has its own volunteer and internship program.

The center has been meeting with students and community partners to help create solutions to upcoming changes, such as the center no longer serving as an intermediary while still providing training to members of organizations. The center is also looking to incorporate faculty more in order to add expertise in a variety of fields, Miller said.

Despite changes in sponsorship, the Center of Service has guaranteed clubs that they can still use its cars for transport.

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YALI fellows depart after six weeks FROM YALI PAGE 1

in the Upper Valley community by participating in service projects and visiting local companies.

Engineering professor Peter Robbie ’69 taught a one-week intensive design-thinking workshop for the third year in a row, with the intent to help the YALI entrepreneurs focus on improving the experiences of the target population of their businesses, he wrote in an email.

“The goal of my session was to provide an introduction to the creative human-centered design process that forms the basis of design-driven entrepreneurship,” he wrote.

He wrote that the lens of design helps entrepreneurs to think about how to address the needs of real people.

Robbie said that the premise of President Barack Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship is to use American educational resources to help elevate young African business leaders to become effective leaders in their communities.

“It’s a wonderfully hopeful and optimistic point of view based on engagement, change, and personal growth that has infected all of us who have been involved with the program,” he wrote.

Robbie hopes fellows will leave the YALI program at the College with new points of view about sources of innovation, leadership, communication and networking with other African and American entrepreneurs.

Dartmouth alumnus and entrepreneur Richard Nadworny ’82 taught a four-week class centered around design-driven entrepreneurship, a class he also taught in Kenya last year.

He said that spending time thinking about and understanding the people that they are creating businesses for helps entrepreneurs build a stronger foundation for their businesses and stronger pitches for their clients.

Nadworny said that the biggest thing he wants Fellows to gain from the YALI program is a new perspective on business and a way to “disrupt the status quo of business creation in Africa” because the continent has huge potential but also faces huge challenges, he said.

“We give these young people a new way of looking at succeeding, and growing and creating an enterprise,” he said.

There are a total of 1,000 United States Mandela Washington fellows, and all will attend a three-day conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend, where they will participate in sessions with

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. One hundred of these Fellows are also selected to stay on in the U.S. and are placed in different companies around the country to see how American businesses function.

Fellow Ebunoluwa Farinde , from Nigeria, is the founder of Gallereno Works, a business that

“The goal of my session was to provide an introduction to the creative humancentered design process that forms the basis of design-driven entrepreneurship.”

-PETER ROBBIE ’69, ENGINEERING PROFESSOR makes beads and ashoke, a Nigerian ceremonial indigenous textile, and runs a foundation that focuses on training young disadvantaged women in communities.

She said she applied to the fellowship to gain valuable skills that would help her grow her business and networking community.

“I think it is the leverage I need to really expand my business,” she said.

She said she learned that the more processes involved in designing a product, the better it will be.

She also learned the importance

of the target audience.

“I also learned a lot about empathy, you should be able to solve your customers problems, relate to them and present to them a solution that they can easily use,” she said.

She hopes to adapt business models she has witnessed here and the program has inspired her to do more when she gets home.

Fellow Belisa Rodrigues, from South Africa, runs a boutique management consultancy firm for creative and cultural industries across Africa.

Rodrigues said that the group was very close and spent a great deal of time together and she felt constantly challenged to sharpen her interpersonal skills.

“You’re living together, eating together, laughing together, crying together and you’re making connections and I think that really is the most valuable part of the program,” she said.

She said that meeting other African business leaders is valuable for her, as for consultants, everything is based on your knowledge, network and social capital.

She said when she gets home she wants to create her own unique methodology using what she learned from the program, as well as her own pan-African experiences.

Nadworny said it is great to see the energy with which the fellows leave the program at the end of its six-week period.

“They are overflowing with creativity and innovative ideas and the will and belief that they can make significant changes in their countries and communities, and that is an amazing thing to be part of,” he said.

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Fire in a Crowded Theater

Feelings and Facts

Simply feeling threatened by new or opposing ideas does not warrant censorship.

Even the most cynical of persons will agree opinions have been unfairly shunned by those that the foundation of any free republic rests who found them distasteful. entirely upon the freedom of speech. Only with The problem with such claims is that they often the provision of such freedom can a nation hope mistake healthy contention for an attack against to prosper, for it is the ensuing clash of ideas and personal safety. Because their beliefs are being thoughts from which innovation is born. The same directly questioned, they no longer feel secure in ingenuity that has defined America’s finest mo- those beliefs and so they feel frightened. Young ments from independence to the Apollo 11 moon people associate their fright with a genuine sense landing did not spring from a vacuum, but from of physical danger, and so they are compelled to the free movement of ideas and beliefs. We owe label it as such even when there is clearly no threat most everything that we are as a nation – social, to their well-being. Unfortunately, this matters scientific, and everything in between – to our little to the institutions that encourage them to commitment to our First Amendment. act upon such feelings, shafting any intellectual It has nonetheless been established that such a thought to the side. Such is a cowardly means provision does not protect every form of speech. It of building a society, because it teaches its pupils provides no such protection for libel, for instance, that comfort trumps critical thinking. nor for theft of another’s intellectual property.

What too many do not realize is that such It does not protect speech contention is not only a meant to provoke a violent very normal part of free reaction, nor threats of such “Free speech exists speech, but also the very violence against others. It is a so that we can feel reason why it exists in the commonly heard maxim that first place. Free speech exthe most stringent protection challenged and ists so that we can feel chalof free speech would not questioned at every turn, lenged and questioned at protect a man falsely shouting every turn, our staunchest fire in a theater and causing our staunchest beliefs beliefs shaken to their a panic. In the spirit of such shaken to their core as core as we are forced to a sentiment, even our most take in new perspectives. cherished right to freedom we are forced to take in It broadens our horizons of speech is understood as new perspectives.” and allows us to think having its limits. upon differing opinions Such a dynamic presents and why such differences to us a unique dilemma. On the one hand, we exist. From such reflections, we can elucidate that must uphold our right to express ourselves freely which is the best path to follow. if we are to truly call ourselves a democracy. On Free speech was never meant to feel comfortthe other, we cannot allow one person’s freedom able, lest we become too complacent in our own of speech to trespass on another’s civil liberties. self-righteousness. Free speech can often feel like Untenable as it would be to allow anyone to say a battleground, and it should; the consequent anything in the name of liberty, it is just as unten- debate keeps the mind forever thinking about able to control such speech purely in the name what it believes in. There is no such excuse for of security. A balance must therefore be attained language that invites violence, of course, but between the two. But where, as a nation that values nonetheless the threshold is much higher than so both of these ideas, do we draw the red line? many people would think. We must understand As of late, the line has been drawn at a point that simply feeling threatened by new ideas is not where it places an excessive emphasis upon grounds for censorship. security over liberty. It has become too easy This is the heart of intellectualism. It arises for unpopular opinions to be dismissed on the from the knowledge that in understanding many grounds that they violate the safety of others. differing ideas and perspectives, one can learn a Even when such threats to safety are imagined great deal and weigh the best motion forward. and have little basis in fact, unpopular opinions Even amidst the adversity that the sharply critimay face a ruthless censorship at the hands of an cal voices around us can bring, such openness aggrieved opposition. One only needs to say that brings with it the compassion to understand they feel “triggered” or threatened to silence an and the power to be better. It all begins with the opinion they disagree with; we have already seen acknowledgement that, in spite of our misgivings, this happen time and again in academia, where liberty and security are often one and the same.

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Feelings are as important as facts to the Trump-led Republican Party.

The 2016 Republican National Con- with CNN during the Republican National vention saw the formal nomination of Convention, former Speaker of the House Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Newt Gingrich asserted that “the average Pence as the Republican presidential and American, I will bet you this morning, vice presidential candidates, respectively. does not think crime is down [and] does From Texas Sen. Ted Cruz not think they are safer.” being booed off the stage “To Gingrich and When repeatedly prefor not endorsing Trump sented with the statistics to accusations that Mela- many prominent that demonstrate crime nia Trump’s speech was Republican has indeed declined, plagiarized, the convenGingrich responded by tion was more reminiscent policymakers in saying “that’s your view” of reality television than Cleveland last week, and “what I said is also a a political event. Critics fact.” After playing this point to the dark tone of feelings are just as exchange on his weekly Trump’s nomination ac- valid as facts.” program, Oliver quipped ceptance speech and lack that “it’s only a fact that of concrete policy recom[feeling less safe] is a mendations as a major flaw in the over- feeling people have!” arching message of the convention. The To Gingrich and many prominent Reconvention, as John Oliver’s July 24 episode publican policymakers in Cleveland last of “Last Week Tonight” addressed quite week, feelings are just as valid as facts. When poignantly, showed that for the Trump-led CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota continuously Republican Party, “believing something pointed out to Gingrich that the overall to be true is the same as it being true.” In violent crime rate in America has undenishort, feelings are as important as facts. ably dropped considerably — and relatively Oliver claims that the Republican Na- consistently — over the last 25 years, he tional Convention was a “four-day exercise replied, “the current view is that liberals in emphasizing feelings over facts.” We live have a whole set of statistics that theoretiin a democracy, and everyone’s opinions cally may be right, but it’s not where human get to be heard. But is policymaking and beings are.” What is most frightening about governing based on intuition and emotions Gingrich’s view that feelings are equally not backed up by facts wise? Is influenc- or more significant than “liberal-biased” ing public opinion by preaching how you facts is that it implies political candidates “feel” a responsible action? At the Repub- can create facts from feelings — an idea lican National Convention, West Virginia “which is terrifying because essentially Sen. Shelley Moore someone like Donald Capito asserted that Trump can create “people around the “What is most frightening his own reality,” as countr y feel the about Gingrich’s view Oliver said.

Obama administraThere are plenty tion has kicked them that feelings are equally of Republican critito the curb.” Actor or more significant than cisms of Democratic Scott Baio said “our policies based on ‘liberal-biased’ facts is country right now is facts and statistics, in a very bad spot... that it implies political but the fact that feelyou can feel it.” intuition and candidates can create facts ings, Rudy Giuliani proshallow perceptions claimed that “the from feelings — an idea formed the basis of vast majority of Republican Na‘which is terrifying because the Americans today do tional Convention not feel safe.” Actor essentially someone like and its speeches is Antonio Sabato Jr., Donald Trump can create his significant. A good without any eviportion of America dence, stated that own reality,’ as Oliver said.” agrees with the Rehe does not feel that publican interprePresident Obama is tation of current a Christian, but rather a Muslim. Finally, affairs based simply on feelings . Trump’s Speaker of the House Paul Ryan bewil- acceptance speech at the Republican Naderingly stated “the whole economy feels tional Convention offered little substance, stuck.” Are any of these statements made logic or policy recommendations, but was by prominent policymakers and public intensely evocative emotionally. Trump’s figures based on reality? If not, what role, message attracts plenty of voters, but in if any, should feelings and intuition play the end we should want a presidential adin governing? ministration that focuses on reality when Take the United States crime rate for making policy, instead of simply relying on example. According to FBI statistics, na- sentiment and dismissing facts unless they tionwide violent crime and murder rates further one’s political goals. overall are down since President Obama The Dartmouth Summer Editorial Board is took office and have been falling for over comprised of the Editor-in-Chief, the Executive two decades. When discussing this topic Editor and the Opinion section of The Dartmouth.

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Breaking the Silence: Abortion at Dartmouth

The Dartmouth talks with local practitioners, students and analyzes a student survey to examine abortion on campus and in the Upper Valley.

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Happy sophomore summer, Mirror readers. My hiatus from the Mirror is over, although I return alone, without my coeditor Hayley. With nobody to monitor my coffee consumption and comment on it in editor’s notes, my coffee habits have only gotten more excessive.

This week, the Mirror is a bit unorthodox, in that I both wrote and edited it.

Inspired by the controversies surrounding Planned Parenthood last summer and a recent Supreme Court decision in Texas, I elected to write about a much more serious topic than typically graces the Mirror: abortion.

Upon telling people about this topic, some responded with skepticism and questions. To be fair, an article exploring abortion at the College and the Upper Valley doesn’t quite align with the typical light-heartedness of sophomore summer.

But in my opinion, is there ever really an “appropriate” time to discuss difficult topics like abortion? Issues like these don’t discriminate based on season; they’re omnipresent, and therefore always merit discussion.

A trend I’ve noticed about Dartmouth is that we sometimes tend to brush tough issues under the rug — mental health, socioeconomic inequities, sexual assault — because they don’t quite align with the idyllic Dartmouth façade. I believe that is especially true over sophomore summer, the quintessence of the “happy” Dartmouth. The truth is that difficult issues have touched us all, but sometimes discussions about those can get buried beneath topics that are easier to discuss, like the length of the KAF line or who is playing in Masters, and platforms for meaningful conversations can be lost.

But in my opinion, bringing these issues to light will help to put an end to the unhealthy cycles of shame and silence that students often face. So, it may not be the most carefree Mirror article, but hopefully it challenges you to think about the issue in a new way.

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Introduction As first-year students arriving at Dartmouth, we are bombarded with mandatory sessions and discussions about sex and sex-related healthcare. We are introduced to Sexperts, educated about sexual violence and assault and informed about safe sexual decision-making at floor meetings.

Heavy emphasis is placed on safe and consnsual sex. Bowls of brightly colored condoms (occasionally accompanied by candy) sit outside most undergraduate advisors’ doors, accessible and obvious. Numerous forms of birth control are readily available at Dick’s House, as is the morning-after pill, a contraceptive effective up to 72 hours after intercourse. There’s even a safer sex bar at the Student Wellness Center on the third floor of Robinson Hall, which provides numerous forms of contraception.

But the possibility of these many resources failing is never addressed; not once in any of the many pamphlets or discussions are the words “abortion” or “pregnancy.” The reality of contraception not being completely foolproof is never acknowledged.

As a first-year, one could attribute this to a lack of necessity — perhaps these plentiful resources were doing the trick, and no students needed to consider the possibility of an abortion, because nobody was getting pregnant. But this was naïvete; students were likely getting abortions, but due to the pervasive societal stigma and controversy surrounding the procedure, we were and are simply not talking about it.

Philosophy professor Ann Bumpus, who teaches a course called “Reproductive Ethics,” wrote in an email that the extent to which abortion is stigmatized in the United States is somewhat moderate in comparison to other parts of the world. In some areas, it’s seen as nothing more than a medical procedure, but in others it is still illegal, such as in Africa and South and Central America. Bumpus said that abortions are still occurring in those countries, but women often have to resort to unsafe procedures, which can not only engender a lot of shame, but can also pose significant medical risks.

Bumpus added that even though the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion over three decades ago in the United States, individual states can still place significant restrictions on women’s access.

“This means that while abortion is constitutionally protected in name, in reality, a woman or girl’s access to abortion can vary dramatically depending on where she lives,” Bumpus said.

Reasons for opposing abortion are numerous and multi-faceted, but the ones that most immediately come to mind are religious arguments. Many people, particularly those with a strong religious faith, believe that life begins at conception and consider abortion akin to killing.

Survey In a survey conducted by The Dartmouth, to which 505 students responded, students shared their opinions on abortion at Dartmouth. In the survey, the greatest percentage of respondents — nearly a majority of respondents, in fact, at 43.7 percent — said that their personal opinion on abortion was that it should be legal in all cases. Of the remaining respondents, 37.9% said they believed abortion should

be legal in most cases. In sum, 81.6 percent of students who responded to this survey believe, for the most part, that abortion should be legal.

This deviates heavily from popular opinion in the United States regarding abortion. Bumpus said that we remain almost evenly divided as a society, and polls suggest that just a little over half of Americans consider themselves pro-choice.

Interestingly, 43.7 percent of respondents saying they believed abortion should be legal in all cases contrasted with what people believed the majority of Dartmouth students’ position is on abortion: a majority, 74.0 percent, said that they believed most students would opine that abortion should be legal in most, but not all cases.

Director of Dick’s House clinical medical services and physician at Dick’s House Ann Bracken wrote in an email that she does see unplanned pregnancies at Dick’s House and that some people choose to pursue abortions, though she noted there are few. Bracken said that if a student comes to Dick’s House with an unplanned pregnancy, her staff can counsel the student on various options and make referrals, but Dick’s House does not perform abortions.

“If a student decides to have an abortion, we can help them with a referral to a health care facility that provides this service,” Bracken said. “Alternatively, if they choose to continue the pregnancy, we will refer them for prenatal care.”

Bracken noted that Dick’s House also provides counseling for students who face unplanned pregnancies, whatever the outcome of their decision.

In the survey, over a quarter of respondents — 26.9 percent — said that they knew someone at Dartmouth who has had an abortion.

A Personal Story The voices and stories of these students are rarely, if ever heard. Savannah Maher ’17 is one of very few students who chose to share her story publicly.

Maher elected to have an abortion the

summer after her freshman year at Dartmouth.

She was 19 and had the procedure done in Massachusetts, her home state.

She said that she was very open about her abortion with her friends, adding that this was particularly notable for her, as it was somewhat antithetical to how she typically approaches private matters.

“As soon as it happened I told most of my close friends, including some of my friends from Dartmouth,” Maher said. “It was surprising for some people, because I’m a private person and I like to work out things on my own. Sometimes even with close friends I just don’t really feel the need to share.”

She said her friends were surprised that it had happened but more surprised that she was willing to tell them. Maher decided to share her story because of the taboo surrounding abortion. She felt a responsibility to start a dialogue about such a heavily stigmatized issue.

“I knew from the beginning that it was going to be really important for me to talk about this,” Maher said. “Just in general there is such a taboo surrounding abortion and a lot of pressure to be silent. I knew I needed to tell people, even if it wasn’t just for me, to start a conversation.”

Maher explained that women who get abortions are expected to keep quiet and that being open about it, as she was, heavily deviates from the norm.

“It’s something you expect people to be silent and stoic about,” she said. “That’s just the typical narrative surrounding abortion.”

Maher also chose to tell her story of having an abortion publicly this past winter as part of Voices, an original student production that was directed, produced, written and performed by self-identifying women. Maher said that in her piece she was very honest about her sentiments toward the abortion, in particular that it did not devastate her.

“I basically said that I wasn’t going to act like I was ashamed or emotionally wrecked about what had happened to me, when I wasn’t, because that would be disingenuous and it would be contributing to this toxic cycle of silence and shame surrounding this issue,” she said.

Maher recalled that after she performed,

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the people in the communities she is a part of were overwhelmingly supportive. She added that some people — either acquaintances or total strangers — approached her after the performance to say that they liked the piece and were happy that she had been so open about the topic.

“Some people said it helped them to feel less alone in their own experiences,” Maher said.

She said that for the most part, people reacted with positivity and support. She added, though, that she tends to surround herself with politically like-minded and progressive people, and she can’t speak for the entire community due to being in these selective circles.

Maher noted that she did receive an email from someone who said they had been “on the fence” towards the issue for years and found her story very compelling, but advised her to be less apathetic towards her experience.

“They said, ‘I think you’d have more success winning people over if you didn’t speak about to their website, appears to perform abortions. this so callously, if you didn’t come off so cold and unfeeling in your retelling of the story,’” Pregnancy Center of the Upper Valley Maher said.

There is also the Pregnancy Center of the Maher said she found this ironic, as the Answer Upper Valley, located on Main Street in West entire purpose of her piece was to demonstrate Lebanon, N.H., which provides numerous that for her, having an abortion was not the resources for women with unplanned pregnanShould be legal in all cases emotionally destructive experience that some cies.

The center’s executive director, Anne people automatically consider abortion to be.

Should be legal in most cases Burge , said that their program’s mission has “That was the whole point of my piece,” three components: prevention, intervention and she said. “That I wasn’t going to pretend to feel recovery. a certain way when I didn’t and that for me to The prevention aspect, she explained, do so would just be contributing to these toxic involves comprehensive contraceptive consultacycles.” tions and helping women build healthy relaMaher added, though, that she can only tionship skills.

The intervention part involves speak from her experience, and that getting an counseling and supporting a woman when she abortion affects everyone differently. becomes unexpectedly pregnant and helping “There are some people for whom this prodirect her determine her actions going forward. cedure can be really, really emotionally taxing, The recovery part entails supporting and and I feel for those people, of course,” Maher counseling women for a variety of experisaid. “But that was not my experience.” ences related to sex and pregnancy, such as if a woman became sexually active before she was Local resources prepared or if she has had a miscarriage or an One reason why discussion — or perhaps prevalence — of abortion might seem scarce at abortion.

“The recovery aspect is mostly helping Dartmouth is due to the morning-after pill, also people to deal with potential pains of choices known as Plan B. Bracken said that Plan B can they might have made and trying to help them be purchased in the 24 hour vending machine July 28th 2016, 8:55 pm MDT reach a place of peace,” Burge said. or pharmacy at Dick’s House and can also be She noted that the center also provides purchased at CVS and other local drugstores. classes on childbirth, parenting and budgeting.

A seemingly frequent option for students who The center has an expansive room in its basehave had unprotected sex, Plan B is commonly ment lined with colorful maternity wear, baby discussed and very accessible. clothes and strollers.

However, for a plethora of reasons, people Burge noted that center provides all of its might be unable to take Plan B, or may not services free of charge, and it is entirely funded think it necessary, or might not even consider it

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by donations. She added that the center is not a medical clinic — aside from counseling and education, their health services are limited to pregnancy testing and limited obstetrical ultrasounds. In fact, Burge said the center%doesn’t administer or refer for contraceptives, and similarly, neither performs nor refers for abortions.

43.65% Burge explained that this was not necessarily 37.90% due to lack of funds but because the organization is faith-based. The tenets of Christianity, Burge explained, mandate that sexual activity be kept within the bounds of marriage.

“We acknowledge that all of our clients are sexually active,” Burge said, “But we do believe that abstaining from sex outside marriage is the best way to optimize sexual health and emotional stability.”

Despite these doctrines, Burge said the center treats every client with a non-judgmental and respectful approach and aims to help them make a fully informed decision without pushing them in a specific direction.

“We want to encourage our clients to look at the big picture,” Burge said. “We say, let’s look at where you’ve come from, where you want to go, what you want life to be like ten years from now.”

Burge said most of their clients who come in for the intervention aspect carry their pregnancies to term, others give up their baby for adoption and the rest terminate their pregnancies.

When asked if the center’s willingness to discuss and even support abortion decisions conflicted with its faith-based nature, Burge said it had not.

“It’s a legal option,” Burge said. “We know that for the women who come to us, whether they articulate it or not, that is an option that they undoubtedly have been looking at or have been faced with at some level.Count To ignore it would be naïve.”

Burge, whose personal impetus for becom220 ing involved in the center stemmed from vari191 ous members of her family facing unexpected pregnancies and getting abortions, said that she often sees women pressured into getting abortions. She said she aims to ensure that clients’ decisions surrounding abortion are their decision and not that of someone else.

Burge acknowledged that for some women, it can take a heavy emotional toll. Ostensibly, it depends on the person and circumstances.

Burge, who has been working at the center for 19 years, said that she has seen women from all different parts of Dartmouth, including undergraduates, Tuck School of Business students and professors. She said that on the other end of this spectrum, she also sees women who are on public assistance and didn’t graduate from high school and “everyone in between” the two groups. She said the average age of the center’s clients is about 20, but that the youngest client was 12 and the oldest 80. Burge noted that this woman came for the recovery program, being obviously well past child-carrying age.

Another local resource for women’s health is Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, located in Lebanon, N.H. President and chief executive

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altogether.

There are various resources for students who become unexpectedly pregnant in the Upper Valley besides Dick’s House. Although many students do not have access to a car, the majority of these locations are within 15 to 20 minutes of campus. Maher noted that for some people, particularly in different areas of the country, people might have to travel significantly longer distances than this — and that she did in Massachusetts — to get an abortion.

The resource that seems most well-known among students is the Planned Parenthood in White River Junction, Vt. Planned Parenthood provides numerous services, particularly regarding sex and pregnancy — everything from contraceptive consultations to general healthcare screening, from STD testing to flu vaccines. Ostensibly, though, its most wellknown service is abortions, providing both medical (often in the form of a pill) and surgical (in-clinic) abortions.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center referred comment to Dick’s House, but according

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and that abortion is just another point on the spectrum of women’s reproductive rights.

Discussion on campus Maher said that in her experience, discussion of abortion at Dartmouth is virtually nonexistent.

“In my whole Dartmouth experience, I had never heard anyone talk about having gotten an abortion or how they would go about doing that if they needed to,” Maher said.

She noted that she does know people who have gotten abortions while they were students at Dartmouth, but it’s just not something that people talk about.

She said that students receive a lot of information, particularly freshman year, about the healthcare that is available to students through Dick’s House, but mention of pregnancy or abortion is severely lacking.

“There’s no conversation about what to do if you get pregnant as a student, and you don’t want to stay pregnant,” Maher said.

Bumpus added, though, that for the most part students are not disinterested or apathetic towards important and controversial topics.

She said that students confront a number of topics in their day to day lives, implying that abortion might not be as discussed because it is not as relevant.

“I know Dartmouth students are focused on ways of making the College better such as by getting more faculty of color, combatting sexual assault, getting Dartmouth to divest,” Bumpus said. “I would be surprised and con-

officer Susan Mooney — who used to be an obstetrician-gynecologist — explained that in the hospital’s women’s health department, women with unplanned pregnancies can also get counseling about various options and trajectories. She said, though, that the hospital does not perform elective abortions. Typically, she explained, the hospital will refer women to places that perform abortions, such as the Planned Parenthood in White River Junction or other clinics in Concord, N.H. As opposed to the Pregnancy Center in the Upper Valley, Mooney said that the hospital not performing abortions is not related to ideological or political reasons, but is instead because there is not a great enough need or volume to merit abortion services. She said that she feels people would be better off terminating a pregnancy at a place where abortion is a “core competency.”

“It’s not making a political statement,” Mooney said. “It’s just not something we feel competent to do.”

Mooney, similarly to Burge, noted that women who she has seen seeking abortions vary greatly.

“It’s an equal opportunity challenge for women,” Mooney said. “I think we have in our heads stereotypes and ideas about who finds themselves in this kind of situation, that they didn’t intend to be in, and I think it’s a myth.

Unplanned pregnancies happen to all women of different age groups, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and it happens for lots of different reasons.”

She noted that every situation is unique

cerned if students were generally disinterested in social justice, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.”

few percentage points, the number of people who consider themselves pro-choice has declined since the 1990s.

Bumpus also said that discussions regardStudent health plan ing abortion are more crucial than ever; first, In the survey, nearly half of respondents because of a recent Supreme Court decision in said that they believed that the total cost of an Texas regarding “TRAP” laws — the result of abortion should be covered under the student which struck down on the state’s requirements health plan. In the response portion, people for wider hallways in abortion clinics (an effort expressed varying opinions regarding the to restrict abortion access) as posing an undue circumstances under which the College should burden on women trying to exercise their conassume the full cost of an abortion. One stitutional right to an abortion. Also, with the respondent said it should only be completely upcoming election and vacant Supreme Court covered in cases of pregnancy resulting from seat, Bumpus said, abortion will likely come rape, while others said it shouldn’t be covered under even greater scrutiny than usual. at all due to being an elective surgery, while “Maybe abortion seems like it was an issue others said the College should pay the full cost, for prior generations, though in reality, abortion since it’s a medical procedure. rights will be vulnerable if Trump is appointThe Dartmouth Student Group Health ing our next Supreme Court justices,” Bumpus Plan, which Bracken said half of Dartmouth said. students are on, covers certain contraceptive Maher said that at Dartmouth, awareness methods and sterilization procedures as preof abortion could be increased by making it scribed by doctors, but does not include abort- more a part of the typical dialogue surrounding facient drugs — drugs that induce abortions. healthcare. Information about resources should Maher noted that the procedure can pose be more widely dispensed, particularly transa financial burden for some people and that portation and financial payment methods. she was privileged to have the relative financial Maher said that she would tell others security that allowed her to afford it. considering getting an abortion that they are According to the Planned Parenthood web- not obligated to make anyone privy to their exsite, the abortion pill can cost up to $800, but perience. But she said if people are comfortable is often less. It states that surgical abortions can doing so, as she was, they should share their cost up to $1,500 in the first trimester, but that stories, to keep these conversations going. this too is often less. It’s important to note that “If you do feel comfortable, and if like me these prices do not take into account any costs you don’t feel necessarily too torn up about the that insurance or health plans might cover. whole thing, then I think it’s really important Bumpus noted that although it’s only by a you talk about that,” Maher said.

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The grievance policy from the Dartmouth College Student-Athlete handbook from 2011-2012 outlines the steps required for student-athletes to file a complaint. The handbook states “no complaint or concern should be too small to bring to someone’s attention, as long as the matter or the situation represents a condition that has grown beyond a onetime incident to one that is affecting the quality of the experience an individual or a group of individuals expects to have.”

According to a May 2 email to The Dartmouth from Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist, there have been no Title IX complaints filed since November 2015, indicating that the College’s inquiry was unrelated to Title IX. When the investigation began in April, several players had already approached the athletic department.

“It’s probably safe to say we knew something was percolating, but again one reason for the formality of the grievance process is because it takes some work for a student-athlete to bring something forward, so that it can’t just be a willy-nilly ‘I’m not happy today’ type of situation,” Sheehy said.

Sheehy compared a studentathlete coming in to see him to a “flare” that the athletic department would then investigate.

“We go into every one of them thinking that there probably isn’t anything there, but we’re going to look,” Sheehy said. “We have to do that. It would be negligent if we didn’t do that.”

In the end, the results of the investigation were presented to Patton, who then chose to resign. Patton did not respond to requests to be interviewed for this story.

Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis reported that since June, the Hanover Police has been actively investigating an unrelated violation of privacy involving some students of the women’s lacrosse team. There is no estimation of when the investigation will be concluded, and the College has already conducted its own investigation into this separate complaint, he said. According to Dennis, this criminal investigation is unrelated to the College’s inquiry into Patton’s conduct and the department would not release any more information at this time. Violation of privacy is a class A misdemeanor.

Misconduct Allegations Several sources cited a culture of bullying, distrust and emotional and verbal abuse under Patton. The Dartmouth granted anonymity to several

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players, who played under Patton, as they expressed fear of future abuse and retaliation.

“There’s an overwhelming silent majority that feels very grateful and very happy for what the athletic department has done,” one player who played under Patton said.

The player said that there are many players who are unwilling to publicly come forward in fear of retribution from the rest of the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse community.

“It makes sense that the silent majority who were abused by Amy are not coming forward and speaking their mind,” the player said. “They’re just silently thanking the administration.”

According to the player, several student-athletes that played under Patton also attended therapy sessions as a result of the coach’s treatment.

The player cited “check-ins,” private meetings with Patton, as a vehicle for misconduct. Assistant coaches would tap players at practice and inform them that Patton wanted to meet with them at some point the next day.

In check-ins, the player said, Patton sometimes turned abusive depending on her mood or the player’s standing with the team, attacking a player’s physical appearance or intelligence.

“People would stay up ruminating the night before, fearful of what would happen [during their check-in],” the player said.

The player also mentioned that most student-athletes buy into the culture that Patton cultivated, believing that the former coach’s methodology was making them “a better person” or “a better player.”

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There has been a range of responses to the changes but, Miller said, community leaders are excited about reaching out to more students.

She noted a few students expressed concerns about being able to sustain student leadership due to organizations not acting as formal groups.

Others, Miller said, are frustrated with the changes happening, but the center will be working with them to accommodate their concerns.

Heidi Ahn ’18, one of four cochairs for the Haven Shelter Cooking Program, said that the center taking a step back will make their group’s operations more difficult, as it will put more responsibility on the student leaders. With the Haven Cooking Program’s budget being cut, the chairs will have to find alternate sources of funding.

Ahn said the center warned the clubs of the changes at the beginning of this summer and is trying to help the organization with its transition.

If the organization cannot secure funding, then it may have to cut the number of times that it can cook at the Haven, Ahn said.

Dustin Sheehan ’18 is a student leader for MoneySmart, a five-to-10 member organization dedicated to teaching financial literacy and education to members of the Upper Valley community.

Prior to the changes, the center provided MoneySmart with transport in the form of cars in addition to advice and direction.

The club will be looking to partner with a group in the Upper Valley for mentorship and direction, he said.

Sheehan noted that despite the organizational shift, he did not expect MoneySmart to see many changes as the center has helped

the organization make the transition through suggesting new sponsors and being open to conversations with the leaders. However, he thought that clubs that needed funding may be hit harder than MoneySmart will be.

The center does not work as closely with groups like MoneySmart

“We want to meet community needs and we want students to be able to continue to find a range of volunteering opportunities.”

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that fall outside its main areas of expertise, Miller said.

Dylan Cahill ’18 is a student leader of the Cancer and Patient Services program, which provides volunteers to perform chores for local families affected by cancer or go to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to talk with people receiving treatment.

The organization has around 100 students per Dartmouth class on its email list, but, due to its flexible nature, a smaller subset regularly

participate, usually around 100 students, he said.

Cahill said that though CAPS is completely student-run and coordinated through the hospital, the club is still looking for a new sponsor. Depending on the sponsor, CAPS could see little to no change. However, if the organization has to operate through the hospital, members would be required to go through the hospital’s month-long training process.

Leaders of CAPS, which will operate through the center during the transition, have had multiple meetings with the center talking about the changes.

Cahill said that the center will also continue to help clubs in recruiting new members “With the Center for Service restructuring, CAPS is sort of its own self-run club. Maybe some minor tweaks will occur, but everything else is more bureaucratic in a way that won’t affect how CAPS operates,” Cahill said.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the center will be adding more opportunities to increase the depth of student volunteer work through providing skills that will be helpful fields such as social entrepreneurship or philanthropy while also increasing access to service opportunities.

The center’s new programming will be rolling out over the next three years, she wrote.

“My focus is that students who want to do service can do service,” Miller said.

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By KAINA CHEN The Dartmouth Staff

What happens when two tapeworms find themselves in the midst of a black market organ trade crisis?

A little girl’s grandfather is keeping a terrifying secret from his own daughter — what is it, and why is he so desperately trying to keep it hidden? What will be exposed of a family when its members gather to read the will of the family’s patriarch?

These questions, and more, will be answered for audience members this weekend at the Frost and Dodd Student Play Festival. The three plays featured in the festival are winners of the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Contest and the Ruth and Loring Dodd Playwriting Contest.

The winning Dodd Contest play, “Good Clean Holesome” by Elise Wein ’17, will be fully produced, while the winners of the Frost Contest will be performed as staged readings. These include “Bed Time,” written by Max Gibson ’16, and “The Will,” written

by Haley Gordon ’18.

A staged reading includes actors with scripts in hand, with a few select elements of a fully staged production such as light and suggestions towards costuming. These readings provide audience members with a unique insight into “a developmental stage that many new plays go through,” said Marina McClure ’04, director

of the Frost Contest winners.

While all entries were submitted to the same competition, the plays diverge significantly in theme and style.

“Good Clean Holesome” was written with “an interest in parasites as a framing device” and aimed to “illuminate the networks of interdependence that govern the characters’ lives,” Wein said. Both “The Will” and “Bed Time” explore the dynamics of family members when relationships are wrung through a crisis.

“Both [Dodd] plays are dealing with some rather heavy subject material, which is always a challenge,” McClure said. “There’s a great emotional depth that’s required for both of the plays, so it’s definitely stretching the student actors in really strong, meaningful ways.”

Beyond the student actors’ challenges regarding the material, other members of the production team saw opportunities to get creative when solving problems. Costume designer Celeste Jennings ’18 was tasked with creating a quirky and abstract tapeworm costume.

“I really enjoy working on [costumes] for something brand new, in part to create a backstory for the characters,” Jennings said.

Beyond the costume itself, the “feel of the environment” and “creation of the world of the characters” is important to establish, theater profes-

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Horton, director of “Good Clean Holesome,” is also the professor for the course “New Plays in Development,” of which the Frost and Dodd Student Play Festival is a component. The class devotes three weeks to working on the festival plays.

“The [theater] department believes in fostering the development of new playwrights,” Horton said. “To see the playwrights develop is a real joy for us.”

The class’ involvement in the festival allows students enrolled to “have an immersive experience in what it means to create theater,” Horton said.

“Bed Time” was born out of a desire to create something with emotion, something that resonated with people, Gibson said.

“A lot of plays don’t elicit that feel-

ing of anxiety for the audience and I wanted to recreate that,” Gibson said.

From Gibson’s perspective, the opportunity to witness his own play being produced is a chance to see “the story you’ve been writing come to life through other people.”

Live edits are also an exciting component for new plays. The playwrights Gordon, Gibson and Wein have been dropping in on rehearsals throughout the week. The revision process is a collaborative effort of the entire team, Horton said.

“The actors have suggestions, the dramaturg will have suggestions and the playwright will have suggestions,” Horton said. “We put it all out on the table and decide as a creative team which ones we want to act upon and which ones we want to cast aside.”

Even those who aren’t present at

rehearsals ­— the audience — are part of the production team.

“Due to [theater’s] nature as a live performance art, actors and audience are partners in a way,” Horton said.

To Horton, rehearsing a play to empty chairs lacks a tangible and critical link between the performers and audience members. At times, after a show for a full auditorium, changes can still be made before the next performance based on this relationship.

Regarding the staged readings, Haley Reicher ’18, actress in both Dodd plays, also hopes the audience pushes further and takes time to “imagine how the shows can be different when fully produced.”

“I hope the audience will connect with this material in a concrete way, and to have fun, to laugh,” Horton said.

Students discuss summer art courses

By KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Looking closely at students leaving the Black Family Visual Arts Center, one can see charcoal smudges or smeared paint on hands. Voices singing melodies or reciting Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter echo through the rehearsal rooms in the Hopkins Center. Photographers scout views on the Green and film students watch movies in the library with headphones in and eyes rapt.

Although the Hood Museum is currently under renovation and the Hop’s programming is limited, the arts are very much alive on campus.

Many of the students taking classes in the arts echoed sentiments regarding the amount of time needed to complete work in their respective departments.

To fulfill the art distributive, Andie Conching ’18 is taking “Drawing I” to explore an interest she has never taken formal classes in.

Each project requires dedicated time — an unexpected commitment that makes the class more challenging than Conching expected.

Brandi Reano ’18 is taking two studio art classes this term: “Drawing I” and “Printmaking I: Etching.”

Both classes, she said, are challenging in their own ways and require a lot of time, work and concentration.

Marina Van Pelt ’18 is currently taking “Photography I,” her second course in the studio art department.

After taking “Drawing I” during her freshman spring, Van Pelt knew to expect to spend most of her time during the week in the photography studio developing and printing her photos.

Despite the extensive time it may take to complete an assignment in these courses, the students find the results meaningful.

“It’s cool to see the finished prod-

ucts and how you’ve been progressing throughout the course,” Conching said.

Though printmaking is harder for her than drawing, Reano enjoys both because they involve creating a design from her imagination to symbolize a form and drawing perceptions from real life.

Claire Feuille ’18 and Sadhana Puri ’18 are taking “New Plays in Development,” the only theater course offered this summer.

To help develop her character for the upcoming Loring Dodd performance, Feuille is incorporating skills she learned from “Acting I,” a course she called both her most time-consuming and most rewarding.

“I’m using the same techniques that I learned in terms of coming up with a back story for the character and who she is,” Feuille said.

The small size of the theater course fosters relationships among the students. This past weekend, Puri recalled, she and the other seven members of her class traveled to the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Mass. and bonded during the two-hour car ride.

For some students, arts classes lead to new discoveries.

As an avid guitarist, Andrew Shipman ’18 is taking “Beginning Music Theory” because he wanted to learn and understand the mechanics of putting chords together.

Balancing textbook work and piano lessons for the course is a lot of work, he said, but not that difficult to do.

A math major, Shipman deepened his enjoyment of music theory more after realizing how much math is involved in it.

Before the summer, Puri took “Playwriting I” and “Playwriting II,” but she realized she never got to experience the reality of producing a script in real life.

She said “New Plays in Development” exposed her to the myriad components

that need to come together to produce a full production such as lighting, sound and stage management.

“I’m really happy that I get to see the multifaceted side of theater,” Puri said.

For a photography project focused on trees, Van Pelt learned how to take photos at different angles while incorporating natural sunlight and shadows.

“Finding different ways to take pictures of trees was fun,” Van Pelt said. “Normally you look past them, but when you’re focusing and taking a picture you see more beauty in them.”

Through her film viewings and class discussions in “Asian Animation,” Hannah Nam ’18 learned about the interdisciplinary nature of the film and media studies department.

Most of the work in “Asian Animation,” she said, is very creative but not limited to one particular field.

“We get to use so many media forms so it’s not necessarily just film or audio,” Nam said. “There’s a lot of art in it as well so we do drawing and creative writing.”

In “Introduction to Television,” Alex Adams ’18 has learned about the behind-the-scenes aspects of producing shows including camera work, set production, sound and marketing.

“It’s different to analyze TV because you never watch it and think about all the details that go into making the show,” she said.

Adams recently completed a paper that compared two shows — one shot with multiple cameras and one shot using a single camera.

“I analyzed how they vary in set design and theatrics, which complement the genre,” she said.

Regarding how students choose which of these classes to take and when to take it, the consensus is to take a course in the arts that one finds interesting and that provides balance to an overall term load.

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“But these aren’t the ways to become a better person or a better player as seen by the millions of other athletic departments and athletic teams that produce high-functioning, great contributors to society,” the player said.

The player also described a polarized team environment in her account.

“You look at any other team across the country, across sports, across colleges,” the player said. “If you look at them, there are people [who] don’t like the coach and do like the coach, and they coexist. There aren’t any hard feelings. But here, it’s either you’re with us or you’re against us.”

Patton’s alleged misconduct also affected student-athlete lives outside of the team environment.

“She completely destroyed my love of the game,” another player who played under Patton said. “At points, I had to leave class, because I was so distracted by the thought of going to practice.”

The player said that misconduct started to occur from her very first days on the team.

“Freshman fall, since the first day, Amy had a special talent [for] making girls feel like there was something wrong with them,” the player said. “Girl after girl signed up to see counseling because of her. She claimed that she would break girls down and then build them back up.”

Patton’s coaching methodology was both emotionally and verbally abusive, the player said.

“Personally, over and over she took blows at my confidence,” the player said. “She certainly broke me down and never seemed to care about building me back up. She proved herself to be nothing but malicious, disrespectful and crazed, and she treated my life like a game.”

There was “absolutely no sense of trust” in the team environment and “all relationships were very fake,” the player said. The player believed that the former coach created an oppressive, distrusting environment by verbally attacking players and encouraged a culture of “ratting teammates out.”

According to the player, the team had “a total mob mentality and girls were constantly being singled out.” Patton would try to dig into players’ personal lives, the player said.

“She squeezes the nitty-gritty details about your life, things that you don’t want to be shared publicly,” the player said. “She harasses people for things that

you can’t change, like physical qualities.”

Patton also picked favorites, the player said, who were “brainwashed” and “could do no wrong in Amy’s eyes.” According to the player, Patton “tormented” freshmen. The relationship would improve as players stayed with the program and attempted to curry favor with Patton in order to vie for leadership positions later on. The player cited this cycle of behavior as a key enabler of Patton’s misconduct.

“I understand that Amy has been at Dartmouth forever and she has had success in the past on the Ivy and national level[s], but after what I have been through I can tell you that her tenure and success is not indicative of the health of the program,” the player said.

A third player who played under Patton said that she heard stories about Patton’s conduct when she was being recruited to play at Dartmouth, but she thought that she was “strong-minded” enough to handle a difficult coaching environment. Once she was in the program, however, the player said that she realized Patton was a “mentally abusive coach who would attack your physical and emotional weaknesses.”

“I realized that her toughness went outside of lacrosse,” the player said.

The player also saw signs of misconduct from the beginning of freshman fall, but she attributed this, at first, to the college lacrosse environment.

“I started noticing this pattern of comments seeming to cross the line of professional and getting into the personal area, but at the time I just figured that’s just NCAA and Division I lacrosse,” the player said.

The player also mentioned a culture of “double standards” in which Patton treated different players differently.

“If you couldn’t get in line or if you showed any sense of being upset with the way Amy coached us or having any criticisms, you would be punished by the team,” the player said.

According to the player, Patton created a culture of mistrust to the point where players couldn’t trust each other or the assistant coaches, even if it was just about a bad day at practice.

“Any assistant coaches that really seemed to care about the players all left the program shortly after,” the player said. “We had so many different assistant coaches that came in and out.”

The player believed that players wouldn’t speak out against Amy Patton’s behavior for fear of retribution from the team. The player also stated that she has heard many stories of Patton’s

misconduct from other players who played under Patton, but complaints to the athletic department fell on deaf ears.

“There’s a lot of girls out there who had a miserable experience but are absolutely terrified of speaking up, because there is a huge alumni network and all the girls that are still on campus don’t want to be ostracized,” the player said.

Public Support Public letters from past and present Dartmouth women’s lacrosse players and coaches circulated throughout the media in support of Patton since her resignation.

The Friends of Dartmouth Lacrosse Women’s Advisory Board released a letter on July 13 to Dartblog addressed to College President Phil Hanlon and the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, stating that the Advisory Board is “stunned” by the announcement of Patton’s resignation.

“I was obviously incredibly disappointed and generally thought that the press release was in poor taste and reflects, frankly, poorly on Dartmouth as well as the athletic program,” said Shannie Mackenzie ’11, a member of the Friends of Dartmouth Lacrosse Women’s Advisory Board.

Mackenzie played under Patton from 2008 to 2011 and served as a team captain her senior year.

The letter raised several concerns with the inquiry process, including a “highly intimidating” interview process as well as “unethical” administrator conduct throughout the interview.

The current Dartmouth lacrosse team sent a letter to The Dartmouth after several current players declined to be interviewed in support of their former coach.

“It is possible that Amy may have been misunderstood by those who have never had the opportunity of putting on a jersey for her,” the letter stated.

The team’s letter described Patton as “an incredible coach, a mentor, and someone who upheld the Dartmouth way.”

“She gave her life to this program,” the letter said. “It is no coincidence that more Dartmouth parents and alumni appear at away games than the home teams’ fans. Amy created a family out of Dartmouth Women’s Lacrosse that transcends the game itself.”

Former athletic director and women’s lacrosse head coach Josie Harper expressed her disappointment in the findings of the investigation in a letter

to the editors of The Valley News.

“I personally will never believe what was stated in the Dartmouth press release, that Amy Patton ‘engaged in conduct inconsistent with the standards of Dartmouth athletics,’” Harper wrote.

Harper served as the women’s lacrosse head coach from 1981 to 1992.

She hired Patton as an assistant coach in 1990 before transitioning to work in administration. Harper was Dartmouth’s athletic director from 2002 to 2009.

Recently graduated players also voiced support for Patton. This past season, the team finished 3-11 overall and 3-4 in the Ivy League. The three wins were the fewest for the team since 1982.

“I think it’s just so disappointing that this is how it ended because she in her 26 years was not only a great lacrosse coach but just a great mentor that empowered so many women and produced so many incredible leaders,” said Jaclyn Leto ’16, who served as a co-captain of the women’s lacrosse team in Patton’s final season.

Leto said that players were sent a press release at 9 p.m. the day before the results of the investigation were announced at 9 a.m. She said that from her point of view, there didn’t seem to be any signs that this was going to happen.

“I can’t really speak to many of the [misconduct] allegations, but all I know is from what they were, I had never seen any of the allegations being done at practice,” Leto said.

Campbell Probert ’16, the other co-captain, echoed Leto’s sentiments.

“A lot of us didn’t quite understand what was behind the investigation, especially in the context of Amy and the coaches,” Probert said.

Probert said her first reaction was confusion, and then that she was disappointed by how it was conducted as the investigation progressed.

“I’ve always really respected and admired her coaching style,” Probert said. “She’s generally the type of coach that recognizes your own potential before you do.”

Patton served as Dartmouth’s head coach for 24 years and assistant coach for two. She departs Hanover with a 248-138 overall record and 119-44 in Ivy League play.

Under Patton, the team found much postseason success, winning nine Ivy League titles as well as making 13 NCAA tournament appearances. In 2006, Dartmouth advanced to the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship, where they lost to

Northwestern University 7-4. The game was the Big Green’s first ever title game.

The team finished under .500 the past three seasons, compiling a 16-27 overall record and 9-12 in Ivy League play.

Landscape across the country Stories of coaching abuse have appeared in the media more commonly as of late. This proliferation may indicate a shift in coaching standards in terms of what is or isn’t acceptable.

“The landscape is rife with this kind of stuff,” Sheehy said.

In 2013, Mike Rice, the head coach of the Rutgers University men’s basketball team, was fired after videos surfaced of Rice verbally and physically abusing his players at practice. Rice was fired the day after the video was released.

Former Women’s National Basketball Association star Sheryl Swoopes was fired from her women’s basketball head coaching position at Loyola University Chicago after the university investigated claims that she mistreated her players.

Most recently, in a July 21 Washington Post article, anonymous past and present George Washington University men’s basketball players reported “verbal and emotional abuse” from head coach Mike Lonergan.

Future of Dartmouth women’s lacrosse Sheehy said on July 14 that he hoped to hire a new head coach within the next two to three weeks.

“Ideally what we want is to help the players move forward, and the way we do that is to have an efficient hiring, with them involved in the process,” Sheehy said.

Patton is also the sixth head coach to leave Hanover since last October.

Women’s lacrosse joins swimming and diving, volleyball, men’s basketball, women’s ice hockey and men’s Nordic skiing as sports that will have a new head coach at the start of the 2016-17 academic year.

Some players had unforgettable memories under Patton, while others referred to it as the worst time of their lives.

MacKenzie said that she was “sad” that future Dartmouth women’s lacrosse players wouldn’t get the opportunity to play for Patton. Others expressed the opposite sentiment.

“I’m just relieved that the incoming freshman class won’t be subjected to Patton’s mental abuse,” one player said.