The Dartmouth 2016 Orientation Issue

VOL. CLXXIII NO. 104

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

MDF among other notable changes last year

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By PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff

A previous version of this article was published on Aug. 12, 2016 under the headline “MDF among notable changes last year,” and has been updated to include additional context.

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OPINION

SOLOMON: THE PATH LESS TRAVELED PAGE 11

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Moving Dartmouth Forward The past year has seen the continued implementation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy changes announced by College President Phil Hanlon in January of 2015, in addition to administrative turnover and

College President Phil Hanlon announced the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative in January 2015.

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Student Assembly leaders seek reform, transparency

By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

Student Assembly President Nick Harrington ’17 is no newcomer to politics. In addition to serving as the 2015-16 Assembly’s co-Chief of Staff, Harrington — a government major — has interned at both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the New York State’s Comptroller’s Office.

While working on Capitol Hill allowed him to broaden his knowledge

of international affairs, Harrington said legislators debate grandiose subjects that do not affect Americans on a day-to-day level. At the Comptroller’s Office, however, Harrington found that small changes, when well-executed, could positively influence the everyday citizen. Harrington intends to bring this lesson to the Assembly.

“I want everything to be done thoroughly and effectively. I’m not just trying to check off a bunch of boxes,” he said.

Harrington sees his student body president role as one of reform. A key part of his campaign — and his chief concern and challenge — will be re-structuring the governing body to increase transparency, inclusivity and democratic values, he said.

Harrington and Assembly vice president Sally Portman ’17 plan to execute this vision by holding elections in the fall, concurrent with the elections that housing communities will hold for their own governmental boards. If successful,

these elections would give members of each house the opportunity to appoint one sophomore, junior and senior to the Assembly, for a total of eighteen Assembly members.

Ideally, in the future, elections for these posts will be held in the spring alongside the presidential and vice presidential election, allowing Assembly members to spend the summer planning their agenda for the coming year, Harrington added.

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New housing communities launch this fall

By KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff

This story originally appeared in print in the freshman issue published on Aug. 12, 2016.

As incoming ’20s will quickly discover, Dartmouth is full of traditions — both outdated and timeless. From Dartmouth Outing Club’s FirstYear Trips and matriculation to the climactic Homecoming weekend, your first term will introduce you to a culture defined in part by rituals.

The upcoming fall term, however,

will be especially meaningful because it marks the beginning of a new tradition — the dividing of students into housing communities. The Class of 2020 will be the first to experience the housing system, which College President Phil Hanlon announced to faculty and students in 2015.

While the communities will affect all undergraduates, they will serve as a defining aspect of the Dartmouth experience for freshmen. To help prepare you for the transition to college and life within a house à la Gryffindor or Slytherin, here is a guide to the seven housing com-

munities: Allen House This housing community consists of three halls — Gile, Streeter and Lord — which are commonly referred to as the Gold Coast Cluster. Allen House, which is situated along Tuck Mall, will have access to House Center B, a social space that will be shared with members from School House. The two-story building located south of Gile Hall will have a convenience store and flexible spaces. Allen House professor, engineering professor Jane Hill said she is excited to meet students

and learn about the community they are interested in building during her first year.

“In addition to a great education amongst stimulating students and professors, you get an opportunity to interact with people who are at the peak of what they do,” Hill said.

“This creates an amazing circle of intellectual coolness.”

Hill said she is also looking forward to hosting house members at her new residence on Allen Street.

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Join the Dartmouth!

By PRIYA RAMAIAH AND RACHEL DECHIARA The Dartmouth Senior Staff

A previous version of this article was published on Aug. 12 under the headline “Join The Dartmouth!”

Located on the second floor of Robinson Hall (known as Robo), The Dartmouth’s offices constantly buzz with reporters typing stories, business staff selling advertisements, photographers editing shots and editors providing guidance and banter. As America’s oldest college newspaper (founded in 1799), we have undergone several changes over the past two centuries, and we continue to iterate upon and improve our practices every day. The D now prints daily, produces videos, runs a daily blog, and posts regularly to social media accounts (lately, we’ve been especially into Snapchat and Instagram @TheDartmouth). Our website drew over 183,000 unique visitors this past spring in addition to 1,100 daily print editions. With over a hundred students on staff, The Dartmouth is one of the largest organizations on campus.

We pride ourselves on our learning environment — many members of our editorial board had their first experience in journalism at The D, going on to develop real-world skills in communication, management and editing. Whatever your area of interest, The Dartmouth has a place for you.

Come say hello to our staff at the activities fair on Sunday Sept. 11 from 3 to 5 p.m. or during our open house on Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. in our offices on the second floor of Robinson Hall, and be on the lookout for a blitz about hiring and applications. Our Editorial application can be found on our Facebook and Twitter pages and is due on Wednesday, Sept. 14. If you have questions about the Editorial staff, feel free to contact editor-in-chief Rebecca Asoulin at editor@thedartmouth.com. If you have questions about the Business staff, please reach out to our publisher Rachel DeChiara at publisher@thedartmouth.com. Follow us on Twitter @TheDartmouth and like our Facebook page for regular updates.

We can’t wait to meet the Class of 2020!

EDITORIAL News The news section keeps up with the pulse of our community, informing campus and our broader audience with happenings from all corners of

the College. When news happens at Dartmouth, the community looks to The D for the important details. In recent months, we’ve covered topics such as presidential candidate visits, the College’s new house system and campus activism. More investigative pieces, on topics from administrative growth to gender breakdowns of Student Assembly candidates, allow us to dig deeper into campus issues and incorporate innovative techniques such as data visualization in the process.

Sports Covering both club and varsity sports, the sports section keeps the Dartmouth community up to date with Big Green athletics. In the past year, we’ve ramped up our sports analysis, showcasing hard-hitting investigations into coach departures as well as a number of regular columns by dedicated student journalists who also happen to be sports aficionados.

Sports is found on the back of the paper every Thursday in addition to an eight-page Sports Weekly published every Monday.

Arts The D’s arts and entertainment section highlights creative endeavors at the College, covering everything from performances and exhibitions at the Hopkins Center for the Arts to new movie reviews. Arts also features profiles on the College’s own artistic talent, such as student playwrights, musicians and painters.

Opinion Our opinion section gives staff columnists and community members a platform for lively debate about relevant campus and nationwide issues. Recent pieces have tackled the tenure process for faculty of color, free speech’s role in political correctness and College divestment from fossil fuels. Opinion also encompasses our comic section, where student cartoonists can humorously critique campus and popular culture. (Check out the “Badly Drawn Girl” series by Mindy Kaling ’01 for a notable example.)

Mirror The Mirror, our weekly magazine published every Wednesday, takes a critical and campus culture through both long-form features and more lighthearted pieces. In addition to photo essays, regular senior columns and “Through the Looking Glass” reflection pieces, some of the Mirror’s recent work include examinations of taboos, dating culture and religion at

CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

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Multimedia + Photo + Design Photographers at The Dartmouth give our readers a visual perspective on campus news, capturing events and scenes across campus and featuring them in print as well as online through our website and social media.

Our growing multimedia staff produce diverse and dynamic videos to complement and expand upon our editorial content, with topics ranging from blind coffee taste-tests on the Green to capturing sports rowing footage from the boat itself. Finally, our design staff works to create visually appealing illustrations, infographics and Mirror cover art.

Copy Editors + Layout The nature of The D’s daily print schedule lends special importance to our copyediting and layout teams.

Members of our layout staff learn and use InDesign software (no prior experience necessary) to arrange stories and photos in a coherent and readable order.

After content is laid out on a page, a draft copy is printed and copy editors meticulously check for D-style violations (our paper’s own style guide) and grammar.

Dartbeat Launched five years ago, Dartbeat is the paper’s irreverent, wildly outspoken younger sibling and online blog, now our fastest-growing section complete with its own website. In addition to commentary on campus quirks (see “The Definitive Ranking of 1902 Room Portraits” and “Types of People You See at Green Key Concerts”), dining hall innovations and the popular Overheards and Trending@Dartmouth weekly lists, Dartbeat has expanded into lifestyle quizzes, giving students a chance to

ponder philosophical questions with a Dartmouth-specific twist (“Which Collis Stir Fry Sauce Are You?”).

BUSINESS People are often surprised when they learn that The Dartmouth is a completely student-run organization, especially since we receive no funding from the College. In fact, The Dartmouth is the largest student-run business in Hanover, offering students an unparalleled level of real-world experience. The business side of our staff works to ensure that the paper’s editorial content can reach its intended audience and remain an independent, unbiased source of information. Students with a wide range of interests can find a place in one of the various sections comprising the business staff.

Advertising The advertising section sells the ads that fill the paper’s pages and appear on the website. Students build long-term client relationships to create mutually beneficial advertising packages and plans. The team works closely together to develop forward-looking strategies and promotions.

Technology Our growing technology staff support the paper’s online presence. Tech staff at The D creates web pages for special issues and troubleshoots issues with our website. Current projects in development include a mobile app to centralize our content and highlight exceptional work.

Strategy The strategy staff works in teams to solve the paper’s most pressing problems. Where should we be distributing the paper each day? How should we redesign the website? How do we effectively recruit and retain

talented staff given that all positions at The D are unpaid? The strategy team is a great place to work with peers to unpack the big-picture questions involved in managing and developing a business.

Development The product development staff works on alternate revenue streams — from smaller-scale ventures like student classifieds and apparel to more long-term projects. This team offers a mix of strategy, creativity and implementation that directly lends itself to the skills needed in careers like management consulting.

Communications and Marketing The communications and marketing staff focuses on staff and alumni relations as well as social media. The social media team develops and implements social media strategy on all platforms, while the communications team works on alumni outreach, staff recruitment and internal development. This staff also plans our termly social, called D-Tails, and our annual Banquet and Changeover events.

Both the business and editorial staff offer a wide-range of learning opportunities to build valuable skills and to work alongside diligent and creative peers. Mentorship is an invaluable component of working at The D, and you can often find upperclassmen giving advice to underclassmen on classes, job interviews, campus social life and everything in between.

With a great network on campus and beyond, the D is a great place to gain practical skills while building lasting relationships. Our alumni have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, write for publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and hold positions at elite finance and consulting firms.

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Questions emerge over faculty diversity, tenure

The petition was catalyzed, in the opinions of several professors interviewed, by the College’s deThe Dartmouth Staff cision to deny tenure to English A previous version of this article professor Aimee Bahng. The deciwas published on May 26, 2016 under sion was met with criticism from the headline “Faculty petition calls for students, alumni and faculty in the review of the tenure process,” and has Dartmouth community, and came been consolidated and updated to include despite many positive assessments of Bahng by leading scholars in additional context. her field and in her department.

A petition started T he Colby faculty across “The Bahng decision lege wrestled the country urgwith questions coupled with Derrick ing senior adof faculty diWhite last year raises ministrations to ve r s i t y a n d overturn Bahng’s t h e t e n u r e a lot of questions for tenure denial process in the us about when are has gathered spring in the 3,799 supportwe going to see real wake of Engers as of press lish professor changes and not just time.

Aimee Bahng reports.”

Many of those being denied critical of the tenure. Studecision said that dents and fac- -LEAH THREATTE CAP’s inability ulty members to evaluate the criticized the BOJNOWSKI ’01, full breadth of review process PRESIDENT OF THE BLACK B a h n g ’s w o rk and protests ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH and service to highlighted students was a the continued possible reason departure of for the denial of prominent faculty of color over tenure, and also voiced concerns the past decade.

In May, a group of roughly 20 for Dartmouth’s commitment to faculty members drafted and circu- faculty of color and the developlated a petition calling for a review ment of an Asian American studies program. of the tenure In recent years, process, which there have been 116 faculty several cases at members have “It all just happened the College where signed as of p r e s s t i m e. so quickly. It was a a candidate was The petition swift and decisive r e c o m m e n d e d for tenure by their cites concoalescing of forces, of department and cer ns about c a n d i d a t e s undergrads, past and experts of their being recom- current students, people field, but did not pass CAP review. mended for tenure by their I didn’t even know, Derrick White departments friends and colleagues and Sharlene L. Mollett both apultimately befrom Dartmouth and plied for tenure ing denied by with unanimous the College’s beyond.” approval from the Committee history and geAdvisor y to ography departthe President. -AIMEE BAHNG, ENGLISH ments, respecThe petition PROFESSOR tively, but were also raises denied tenure by questions of CAP. Both White unconscious bias and a lack of transparency in and Mollett were faculty of color.

President of the Black Alumni the tenure process. In particular, of Dartmouth Association Leah the petition’s authors raise the Threatte Bojnowski ’01 said that use of quantitative metrics as a CAP’s decision to deny faculty of concern. color belies the College’s commitThe authors, who call themment to diversity. selves Concerned Faculty, prefer “The Bahng decision coupled to remain anonymous to preserve with Derrick White last year raises their collectivity and because some a lot of questions for us about when of the members have not been

By CARTER BRACE AND JOYCE LEE

granted tenure yet, art history professor Mary Coffey said.

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TIMELINE OF RECENT ACTIVISM

April 24, 2013:

Classes are cancelled after protesters, organized as the group Real Talk, demonstrated at a Dimensions of Dartmouth show and subsequently received anonymous threats on the website Bored at Baker.

April 25, 2013: May 23, 2013: Over 30 students and alumni file a Clery Act complaint against the College alleging Clery violations of sexual assault, hate crimes, bullying, hazing and LGBTQIA, racial and religious discrimination.

Feb. 24, 2014: A group of students release the “Freedom Budget,” an eight-page document outlining more than 70 demands to the administration concerning systems of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and ableism.

May 1, 2015: 150 students march against police brutality and complicity and complacency at Dartmouth. The next day, 20 students protest outside Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s Pigstick party and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority’s Derby event.

Oct. 12, 2015: Students tear down flyers encouraging students to celebrate Columbus Day with vintage Dartmouth Indian apparel that were hung all over campus the night before. The flyers were put up at the same time perspective Native students were on campus as part of the Native American Community program, formerly known as the Native American Fly-In Program. The posting of the flyers followed a demonstration on the Green by Native American students the day before. Groups all over campus expressed outrage at the flyers and support for the NAD community through campus emails.

Fifty students and faculty participate in a “Take Back the Night” march protesting sexual assault. This march is held annually in April, which is sexual assault awareness month.

Feb. 10, 2014: Hundreds of students rally on the green against sexual assault after a student posted a step-by-step guide to assaulting a female member of the Class of 2017 on Bored at Baker.

April 1, 2014: Students protesting the College’s response to the “Freedom Budget” occupy College President Phil Hanlon’s office for two days.

Oct. 8, 2015: Over 20 students hold signs outside of a presentation titled “The College Rape Overcorrection,” featuring Slate columnist Emily Yoffe, to express disagreement with her views.

Nov. 12 2015: More than 150 students, staff and community members dressed in black and marched across campus and through Baker-Berry library in solidarity with the black communities of Yale University, the University of Missouri and the larger Black Lives Matter movement.

February 2016: Student-run Divest Dartmouth has obtained 1,905 of the 2,000 desired signatures on a petition to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, calling for the College to withdraw investments and endowments from the top 200 fossil fuel extraction companies, including BP and Chevron.

May 13, 2016: A display set up by the College Republicans in the Collis Center for National Police Week featuring the slogan “Blue Lives Matter” was removed by Black Lives Matter protestors. They replaced the display with posters that read “You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter.” Several Black Lives Matter protestors sat across from the posters until late into the evening. In an email to campus, College President Phil Hanlon wrote that the removal of the display violated freedom of expression.

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April 30, 2016: Divest Dartmouth holds a rally on Gold Coast Lawn in support of divestment from fossil fuels. The rally became the most co-sponsored event in Dartmouth’s history, with backing from over 110 Greek letter organizations and societies, student groups, Upper Valley community groups and allied sustainability campaigns.

May 27, 2016: Dressed in white, over 120 students marched from Wentworth Hall to Parkhurst Hall in support of the #fightforfacultyofcolor movement.

The rally responded directly to the College’s Committee Advisory to the President’s decision to deny tenure to Aimee Bahng – an English professor who is also affiliated with women’s, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature and African and African American studies. Thirtysix students walked with numbers pinned on their shirts to represent the number of faculty of color who have left the College since 2002. During the month of May, students involved in the movement also spoke out about the lack of diversity in the faculty and student body in community forums, which were organized to discuss the results of the campus climate survey.

In addition, over 100 faculty members signed a petition that called for a review of the tenure process after Bahng was denied tenure by the College.

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College releases diversity action plan

bias training as well.

Going forward, the President and The Dartmouth Staff the Provost will be responsible for A previous version of this article was publishing an annual Dartmouth published on May 31, 2016 under the College diversity and inclusion reheadline “College releases diversity action port card on May 30, 2017. plan,” and has been consolidated and Earlier in the spring, the results from the Dartmouth Community updated to include additional context.

Study were released, which con On May 31, an executive com- tributed to the recommendations mittee composed of senior admin- set forth in the action plan. The istrators published the Action Plan Community Study, which was part for Inclusive Excellence. The plan of College President Phil Hanlon’s contains more than three dozen new “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiatives as well as suggestions for policy initiative and conducted in enhancement of existing programs October 2015, was the College’s to improve diversity and inclusion first-ever extensive community study examining camat the College. pus climate.

This action T h e plan was pre- The Community Study, results showed ceded by the which was part of that gender nonrelease of the conforming surD a r t m o u t h Hanlon’s “Moving vey respondents C o m m u n i t y Dartmouth Forward” at the College Study results policy initiative and experience more and the recomhostile conduct mendations of conducted in October working groups, 2015, was the College’s compared to women and along with dismen, while parcussions during first-ever extensive ticipants of color community fo- community study and multiracial rums, which exexamining campus participants exposed challenges perience more to diversity and climate. hostile conduct inclusion on than their white campus.

The action plan presents initia- counterparts. Respondents of color tives led by more than 15 different also indicated that they believed the senior administration and faculty hostile conduct was based on their members. The individuals account- ethnicity. able for each initiative are outlined in Vice president of the Office of the plan, and many initiatives have Institutional Diversity and Equity Evelynn Ellis said the study was assigned due dates.

Diversity and inclusion training important because it the data is were included in orientation pro- not anecdotal. She added that the results give the gramming this administration year. By Sept. “Finding we are authority to sup15, the action port the energy, plan aims to consistent with other human resourclaunch a new institutions should not es and financial diversity and inbe satisfying to us.” resources put clusion website, into diversity release a report initiatives. w i t h r e c o m - -DENISE ANTHONY, VICE Memmendations on bers of the senior how to increase PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC administration connections be- AFFAIRS hosted a series tween alumni of community and students to support students of color and LG- forums in the spring to collect opinBTQIA students, along with form ions from the community. During working groups to develop metrics these forums, senior administration and advise the senior administration. presented the results of the survey In addition, the tenure and pro- to the audience and responded to motion processes in all Dartmouth’s questions. schools will be reviewed. When At one of the forums, vice provost evaluating the work of faculty and for academic affairs Denise Anthony staff, administration will now ac- said that while the study results at the count for the heavier obligation that College are consistent with those of minority and female employees have other universities in terms of discomto mentor students. Faculty, staff, fort levels on campus, “finding we students and the Board of Trustees are consistent with other institutions must engage in diversity and implicit should not be satisfying to us.”

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Campus reacts to Blue Lives Matter display replaced by #BlackLivesMatter

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN AND MICHAEL QIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Over the past year, The Dartmouth has covered several cases of student activism on campus. This story, originally published on May 13, 2016, lends a closer look at one example through one of our most widely-read stories about a “Blue Lives Matter” display that was taken down from a board the College Republicans had reserved in the Collis Center.

Friday morning, a display by the College Republicans in the Collis Center for National Police Week featuring the slogan “Blue Lives Matter” was removed and replaced by Black Lives Matter posters.

At around 11 a.m. on Saturday, Collis employees removed the Black Lives Matter posters to allow the College Republicans to repost their display on the reserved board, Collis director Anna Hall wrote in an email.

Currently on the board, the College Republicans have put up signs that read, “We will not be silenced, Blue Lives Matter” and copies of an email sent on Saturday morning to campus addressed to College President Phil Hanlon and the Board of Trustees.

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Several Black Lives Matter posters are now on the adjacent board. Those posters read, “You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter.”

On Sunday morning in a campus wide email, Hanlon called the removal of the display “an unacceptable violation of freedom of expression.”

Hanlon wrote that any students found to be involved will be subject to the College’s disciplinary process.

In Hanlon’s campus wide email, signed by Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron and vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer, also mentioned the removal of t-shirts in November from a Black Lives Matter display in Collis. The display included 74 shirts which symbolized 74 unarmed people who were killed by police in 2015. He wrote that the November incident and the removal of the display on Friday are both a “silencing of free exchange.”

Collis staff did not see the content of the display prior to its installment, Hall said, as the staff does not see the content of displays when approving requests. The request includes a title, requested dates and an optional description.

The College Republicans’ request, which included a description, did not contain the phrase “Blue Lives Matter.”

Around 11 a.m. Friday, the College Republicans’ display was removed and replaced with several posters that read, “You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter.”

Posters were also been put up in Baker-Berry Library in several locations.

Several students, who declined to comment, seated themselves across from the posters. Many students remained in the area until later at night.

The College Republicans have not responded to request for comment.

Hall said that the College Republicans requested and were approved to use the board from May 2 to May 15. She said the board is reserved on a first come first serve basis.

According to Collis’ policies, the board may be reserved by departments and organizations. Displays are limited to two week periods and must include the name of the sponsoring organization.

Eric Ramsay, associate dean for student life who oversees Collis, said that Collis aimed to support the College Republicans display while also “being responsive to people who wanted increased dialogue.”

The adjacent board, in addition to displaying Black Lives Matter posters, has several copies of Hanlon’s statement from last Wednesday regarding the faculty tenure process.

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MDF policies, administration, unpopular among some students FROM ROUNDUP PAGE 1

numerous student and faculty petitions recommending change at Dartmouth.

An external review panel tasked with evaluating the progress of the MDF policy changes — which include a hard alcohol ban, new residential housing communities and a four-year sexual assault program — found in November that most of the new initiatives were on track. The panel — headed by Tufts University president emeritus Lawrence Bacow — found that only the creation of an online consent manual was behind schedule in November.

A major component of the MDF program is the implementation of a new housing system at the College. Beginning with the Class of 2020, all undergraduates will be assigned to one of six residential houses — North Park, South, East Wheelock, West, School and Allen — upon matriculation and, after freshman year, will live with other members of their house if they select standard on-campus housing.

The houses have each been outfitted with a faculty member in residence and large budgets for

social and academic programming.

While freshman students will continue to live together, they will be associated with a house from the time they matriculate. Students will still have the option to live off-campus, in Greek houses or in living-learning communities, but they will still be associated with a residential house. Living-learning communities will be entirely housed within the McLaughlin Cluster.

The MDF policy changes have been met with some student dissatisfaction, however.

In May, a petition launched by senior class president Danny Reitsch ’16, senior class treasurer Michael Beechert ’16, Paleopitus senior society moderator Robert Scales ’16, Student Assembly vice president Dari Seo ’16 and junior class president Elisabeth Schricker ’17 called on College administrators to “depart from the realm of student life” and garnered over 1,500 signatures.

The petition criticized a “lack of fiscal discipline” at Dartmouth and pointed to a rapid increase in non-faculty staff without stated justification. It also expressed concern with rising tuition and attendance fees, while dubbing administrators

“paternalistic babysitters” too involved in students’ social lives.

Tuition, mandatory fees and room and board were by 3.8 percent by the Board of Trustees in March, increasing cost of attendance from $63,744 in the 20152016 academic year to $66,174 in 2016-2017. The increase exceeded the national inflation rate of 1.4 percent.

A survey conducted by The Dartmouth from July 5 to July 9 of the Class of 2018 found the MDF policy shifts to be broadly unpopular among participants.

The policies had a net approval rating of -66 percent in the survey, lower than Hanlon’s -58 percent approval rating but higher than the -76 percent approval rating of the administration as a whole.

The petition released in May cited, among other concerns, the recent downgrading of Dartmouth by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The group changed the College’s free speech code rating from “green light” to “yellow light” in November.

The non-partisan group believes the College’s bias reporting policies could be used to suppress free speech. The College had held a “green light” rating since 2005,

when the school was upgraded from a “red light” rating.

Social justice Issues surrounding social justice, race and the College’s history with Native Americans played a major role at Dartmouth over the past year. In November, a large piece of plywood with the Dartmouth Indian head painted on it and a sign that read “We stand with [Native Americans at Dartmouth]. We say ENOUGH” were placed on the steps of Dartmouth Hall.

Many have criticized the use of the Dartmouth Indian imagery as racist. In October, flyers were posted advertising Dartmouth Indian-branded apparel, prompting an email to campus from Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the College Rebecca Biron condemning the symbol as “cowardly and disrespectful.”

In February, in direct response to the incidents, the Greek Leadership Council amended their code of standards and greater bylaws to ban Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian.

In early November, a “Blackout” demonstration was hosted by the Dartmouth chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The demonstration — which began at Dartmouth Hall and later migrated to Baker-Berry Library — allegedly turned violent, according to posts on the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak and in an editorial published by The Dartmouth Review.

No police officers witnessed any acts of violence, however, and only one incident was reported.

The incident drew rebukes in the national media. NAACP leaders denied all allegations of violence.

A group of almost 200 faculty

released a letter supporting the library protest and student activism generally in the beginning of winter term.

In May, a display by the College Republicans was put up in the Collis Center for National Police Week featuring the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.” The display was removed and replaced by Black Lives Matter posters that read “You cannot co-op the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter.” The next morning, Collis employees removed the posters to repost the College Republicans’ reserved display. On the adjacent board, several Black Lives Matter posters were put up.

In a campus-wide email, Hanlon called the removal of the “Blue Lives Matter” posters “an unacceptable violation of freedom of expression.”

Several days later, students and faculty reacted to the denial of tenure to Aimee Bahng — an English professor — with criticism of the Committee Advisory to the President, the organization responsible for approving tenure.

Bahng became a rallying point for the “#fight4facultyofcolor” movement on campus, with a petition requesting her tenure denial be overturned garnering thousands of signatures online. Bahng is currently appealing the denial of tenure.

Sports Women’s lacrosse coach Amy Patton resigned after 26 years at the College following an athletic department investigation. The department’s investigation found SEE ROUNDUP PAGE 8

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that Patton “engaged in conduct inconsistent with the standards of Dartmouth Athletics” during her time as coach.

The inquiry began in April when students approached athletics director Harry Sheehy about Patton’s conduct and continued throughout the spring. While many lacrosse alumnae spoke out against Patton’s removal, players who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution said that a “silent majority” supported the Athletic Department’s investigation and Patton’s resignation, citing a culture of bullying, distrust and abuse under her leadership.

S eve n D a r t m o u t h a l u m n i participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Abbey D’Agostino ’14, who was awarded a special medal for sportsmanship from the International Fair Play Committee after she and New Zealander Nikki Hamblin collided and then helped each other to their feet to cross the finish line in the heat of the 5,000-meters.

D’Agostino was the most decorated Ivy League athlete in track and field and cross country running.

D’Agostino was joined in Rio can American studies professor J.

by Sean Furey ’04 Th ’05, com- Martin Favor was sentenced to 5 peting with the javelin in his sec- 1/2 years in prison in July after ond Olympics; Alexi Pappas ’12, pleading guilty to a federal child competing in the 10,000-meters pornography charge on March 31. for Greece; Anthony Fahden ’08, After his release from prison, he will competing for the second time on be subject to seven years of superthe lightweight four rowing team; vised release. Favor resigned from Josh Konieczny ’13, rowing in the double sculls; Former Panhellenic Council Madison Hughes ’15, leading the U.S. Men’s president Kalie Marsicano Rugby Sevens in the ’17 wrote in an email to The first Olympics to include Dartmouth that she feels that rugby since 1924; and Evelyn Stevens ’05, a the Greek system should be cyclist. wholly abolished because it

from its national organization in the early 1990s. The College promised to compensate the sorority for the roughly $90,000 in assets it lost when it separated from Delta Delta Delta, although Chi Delt representatives declined to comment in September on whether the sum had ever been paid.

Another local sorority, Kappa Delta Epsilon, opted to change the theme of a major annual party this spring following a protest at the event the previous year. The party, formerly a Derby-themed event, became Woodstock-themed is a net negative on students’ Significant changes following a near-unanimous In September, long- lives, perpetuating classism and vote in April. The invite-only time Dean of Admissions party faced protests in 2015 racism. and Financial Aid Maria — along with the concurLaskaris ’84 left her post rent Pigstick party hosted by to become special asAlpha Chi Alpha fraternity sistant to the provost for arts and his post in the English department — in relation to exclusivity and innovation. Laskaris had served as in early July before the sentencing. the ongoing Black Lives Matter dean since 2007 and had been with Following months of prepara- movement. the admissions office since 1987. tions, Chi Delta sorority was ofPanhellenic Council president Laskaris was replaced as dean first ficially created from Delta Delta Kalie Marsicano ’17 stepped

by Paul Sunde, the former director Delta sorority, its former national down after one term in the role, of admissions, and later by Lee governing body, in September. The citing institutional problems with Coffin, formerly of Tufts Univer- sorority became a local sorority the Greek system as a whole sity, who also took on the new post with the start of the school year, the and personal reservations about of vice president for enrollment. first to make such a change since continuing to support the system.

English and African and Afri- Epsilon Kappa Theta separated She also left Sigma Delta sorority,

of which she was a member. Vice president Lauren Huff ’17 assumed the presidency of the council following Marsicano’s resignation.

Marsicano wrote in an email to The Dartmouth that she feels that the Greek system should be wholly abolished because it is a net negative on students’ lives, perpetuating classism and racism.

The College raised substantial funds in donations, including meeting a $100 million fundraising goal to establish 10 new interdisciplinary faculty groups, known as “academic clusters.” Fully $150 million will be spent on the new clusters.

In May, Barry MacLean ’60 Th ’61 donated $25 million to the Thayer School of Engineering, the largest gift in the school’s history. The funds will go toward construction of a new building at the school and a challenge grant aimed at creating more endowed professorships. The new building is expected to cost $200 million.

The College created the new School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, which officially opened its doors in July. The new school will oversee postgraduate fellows and graduate students within the arts and sciences.

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Harrington pursues diverse initiatives Community reacts to Bahng’s denial of tenure FROM ASSEMBLY PAGE 1

Assembly members have traditionally been appointed by the student body president and vice president. Although nominees were required to submit applications, Harrington said that nepotism likely determined the outcomes. A letter on his newlyrevamped Student Assembly website reflects Harrington’s disdain for this approach, which he decried as “fundamentally flawed,” “far from democratic,” “outdated” and “corrupt.” Portman said she shared similar frustrations.

Harrington and Portman believe the Assembly’s structure must be reformed before they can meaningfully tackle any undergraduate issues.

“At the end of the day, I want this senate [of elected members] to be the crux of what Student Assembly is. I don’t want it to just be Sally and I dictating what can and can’t be,” Harrington said. “Yes, you have to be leaders, but it’s not like you’re the organization itself.

You’re a component of it.”

The Assembly leaders plan to use the polling application Pulse COURTESY OF NICK HARRINGTON to gather student input on relevant Student Assembly president Nick Harrington ‘17 seeks reform issues. Harrington said the application — developed by Terren Klein sire to build upon past initiatives, at the end of the day, we have an ’17, Ben Packer ’17, Robin Jayas- Harrington will ultimately grant opportunity to learn from very wal ’18, Sameer Bansal ’16, Gabe the Assembly full discretion in smart professors and from really Corso ’17 and Avery Feingold ’17 deciding the most pressing causes smart students at this school,” Har— will give metrics to support the of concern, another major change rington said. “Students must have a from years past, he said.

Assembly’s policy decisions. respect for others’ experiences, but “There’s too much word-of- Assembly Chief of Staff Noah at the same time understand that mouth about what is and what isn’t. Manning ’17 believes that this bot- learning is in some way stepping The administration has asked for tom-up structure will grant more out of your own shoes.” data [and] that was the reasoning students the ability to have their During his own freshmen oribehind this approach,” he said. voices heard, endow representa- entation, Harrington said he felt Harrington said he is especially tives with greater accountability unaware, caught up in a whirlwind interested in using the app to gauge and ensure that the Assembly’s of activities. Reflecting on his time student opinion on the College’s priorities are aligned with students’ at Dartmouth three years later, he concerns, he said. mental health resources. offered the Class of 2020 a few Harrington plans to propose a Manning lamented that as a pieces of advice. number of other initiatives. For member of the Assembly’s execu- “One: talk to as many older stuexample, he would like a com- tive committee last year, he was dents as you can about everything,” mittee to examine the percentage one of four students responsible he said. “Two: make sure you can for which final exams account for for making decisions on behalf of find balance in your college life. an overall grade across academic the entire student body.

You have so much free time and departments, and, dependent on “The fact that Frank [2015-16 so many options available to you findings, potentially propose a president], Dari [2015-16 vice with how you want to spend that “final exam grade cap,” a measure president], [Harrington] and I time. Don’t get overly attached to which has been taken by peer were in a room making decisions any one thing.” together was not fair to the rest of Harrington also recommended institutions, he said.

He and Portman would also like campus,” Manning said. that at some point, the ‘20s take a to increase dining flexibility for stu- When asked about the Assem- class with government professors dents living off-campus, convene a bly’s role issuing recommendations Daryl Press and Benjamin ValCampus Safety Task Force, work to apropos to the nationwide hot entino, who he called “fantastic protect the non-recording option topics of free speech, safe spaces, mentors and wicked professors.” and streamline the funding process trigger warnings and political Harrington won 612 of 1,556 for undergraduate organizations. correctness, Harrington said that cast votes for the five presidential Further, they plan to draw on though the Assembly will have its candidates in April 2016, about ideas presented by last year’s other ear to the ground, the governing twice the number of votes of presidential candidates, including body “does not have anything to runner-up Aaron Cheese ’18. a proposal by Shivang Sethi ’17 to gain from talking in grandiose Portman, who ran alongside expand career services resources terms about political correctness Harrington, garnered almost 50 or safe spaces.” beyond finance and consulting. percent of the ballots cast for vice Despite new ideas and his de- “My personal ideology is that, president.

FROM TENURE PAGE 3 of the scholarship of faculty of are we going to see real changes color who have left.” and not just reports,” Bojnowski Many students also spoke out said. against Bahng’s tenure denial and According to Coffey, the dif- the lack of faculty of color to Colference between CAP decisions lege administrators at town hall and the earlier steps in the tenure meetings and forums organized to process is that departments favor discuss the results of the campus the candidates they know and climate and diversity survey results external reviewers are pressured released in the spring. to only write positive letters.

In front of Parkhurst, students Coffey said that another reason read statements from for mer for the difference between CAP, faculty of color, including those departments and external review- from former Dartmouth biology ers could be CAP’s increased professor George Langford, Engreliance on quanlish professor titative methods, “One of the tough Jeffrey Santa which value how Ana and hismuch one has things to hold tory profespublished, espe- together in the tenure s o r s Ju d i t h cially in estabByfield and process is how to lished journals.

Russell RickPeople working identify cutting-edge, ford, which in emerging fields emerging, great work explained with few journals, their reasons such as Bahng, while at the same f o r l e av i n g could be at a dis- time toeing a certain Dartmouth advantage she and also deprocedural line of noted. tailed their “One of the already established acco mp li s h tough things to excellence.” ments since hold together in l e av i n g t h e the tenure proCollege. cess is how to -AIMEE BAHNG, ENGLISH Many identify cuttingof the statePROFESSOR edge, emerging, ments exgreat work while pressed simiat the same time lar sentiments toeing a certain of isolation, procedural line stress, bullying by other faculty and of already established excellence,” a hostile, toxic and unprofessional Bahng said. “A case like mine, I can working environment. One former easily imagine being subjected to professor advocated for a more that incommensurability, wanting “formal, fair, equitable, transparent to recognize scholarship that is hiring process” and asked that the pushing the envelope while also College have a more consistent hirtrying to subject it to rubrics that ing process with less nepotism and reward the most already estab- preferential treatment. Another lished.” former faculty member said that at Bahng also expressed surprise at the College, mentorship of students the outpouring of support for her of color by faculty of color is often and criticism of the tenure decision. dismissed as unimportant.

“It all just happened so quickly,” At the faculty meeting on May Bahng said. “It was a swift and 23, Dean of the Faculty Michael decisive coalescing of forces, of un- Mastanduno said he believed the dergrads, past and current students, tenure system was still working, people I didn’t even know, friends but announced that the Commitand colleagues from Dartmouth tee on Priorities would conduct a and beyond.” review of the tenure process in the On May 27, students held a rally next academic year. One potential in response to Bahng’s denial of change to the tenure system that tenure. Over 120 students dressed Mastanduno raised was an extenin white and marched from Wen- sion of the period a professor teachtworth Hall to Parkhurst Hall in es at the College before they are support of #fight4facultyofcolor, up for tenure review. The change a hashtag used by many students would extend the period from six to describe their movement. to eight years, in line with some Thirty-six students also walked other institutions, a change that with numbers pinned on their shirts Jewish Studies professor Susannah to represent the number of faculty Heschel said she was interested in. of color who have left the College Mastanduno and the members since 2002, and five students led the of the CAP did not respond to procession with a coffin represent- requests for comment. ing what emails called the “death Sonia Qin contributed reporting.

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STAFF COLUMNIST HANSA SHARMA ‘19

STAFF COLUMNIST BEN SZUHAJ ‘19

Let Your Voice Be Heard

The Pros of Long-Distance

Stay true to who you are and pursue what makes you happy.

Long-distance relationships are worthwhile in the transition to college.

Last year, I found myself overwhelmed by friends and immediately finding a secure social much of the information thrown at first-years group. Yet adjusting to Dartmouth social life during our first week on campus. From Ben & can take time, and placing yourself in a box Jerry’s with College President Phil Hanlon to or a “schmob” during the first week of college the discussion on our summer reading book, can be overwhelming as well as limiting — the orientation schedule was jam-packed many of my friends still joke about people they with programming before classes started. On met during Orientation and never saw again top of this academic transition, college is a once fall term started. significant social change. During Orientation, Schmob mentality applies to the classroom the Dartmouth campus buds off into schmobs, as well. When it is time to pick classes, many large groups of freshmen — some with little in freshmen, myself included, are overambitious common other than the activity they met at — and don’t realize how quickly a 10-week term walking from one activity to another. can fly by. Because we were high-achieving Going directly from Trips to Orientastudents in high school, we bite off more than tion seemed like a whirlwind, and I barely we can chew or find ourselves limiting our field remember half of the of study to focus on our preconsessions I attended. This ceived idea of an optimal career leads me to ask: is a week “One of the most path. of Orientation enough One of the most striking important lessons of a transition into colaspects of my first year at DartI took away from lege? There are many mouth was how pre-professional traditions, such as the my first year was to some of my classmates were. matriculation ceremony, of you will take Economics have an open mind Some that are integral to the 1, Chemistry 10 and Computer Dartmouth experience Science 10 simultaneously your during and after and help freshmen find first term in order to be that Orientation.” themselves as part of the superhuman pre-medical/preDartmouth community. finance student of your dreams.

But when classes pick A few may succeed, but most up in our intense 10-week schedule, would it will realize that this course load may heavily help to have new students develop friendships compromise the rest of your freshman fall organically and learn academic skills experienexperience. Dartmouth is first and foremost tially rather than through forced socialization a liberal arts institution. Many students do go in administration-sponsored mixers and geninto lucrative careers in finance and medicine, eral, impersonal advising sessions on various but these careers are still far off in the future, fields of study? and should not completely govern your field of In the midst of the frenzy surrounding study in your first term here or any other. settling into college, it feels as if quantity can One of the most important lessons I took overcome quality. Thankfully, student panels away from my first year was to have an open during Orientation last year addressed this mind during and after Orientation. Although very issue. Some of the most memorable and schmobs may disperse by the first day of poignant programs were the ones that included classes, it is all too easy to let your voice be student perspectives calling out duck syndrowned out amongst the seemingly perfect drome, otherwise known as a “fake it till you and put-together people around you. Our make it” mentality. Another openly discussed motto, “Vox clamantis in deserto,” translates the mental health issues that plague all college to “a voice crying out in the wilderness.” Let students but may hit freshmen especially hard. your voice be heard, regardless of what other Echoing the voices in the student panel, people are doing. many “schmobs” seem to exacerbate duck synAnd one final piece of advice: bring a drome — everyone looks as if they are making warm coat.

Don’t get me wrong. Long-distance you to communicate clearly with your relationships have a lot of drawbacks. significant other. Take, for instance, a The lack of physical proximity, the late-night phone conversation. If you are financial strain of seeing each other and rehashing your day, you must take the the enormous amount of trust required time to clearly explain to the other percan and often do challenge the health of son what happened. You speak, you listen long-distance relationships. But, if done — you are focused on understanding right, the relationship itself can pose a your experiences and translating them redemptive challenge that strengthens into words, and you are focused on taking both the individual and the couple as a in their words and understanding their whole. Hear me out. experiences. It is much harder to assume A long-distance relationship allows that your partner is a mind reader when you to develop a sense of self outside they aren’t with you, thereby forcing you of a significant other. I’m not saying to communicate more clearly. that being close to A long-distance someone is bad — relationship also affords “One of the blessings you perspective. As a intimacy can often be very positive and in disguise of a long- new student, it can be healthy. However, it is all too easy to become distance relationship absorbed in the novel, all too easy to become dependent on your is that it forces you to fast-paced atmosphere significant other if you of your freshman fall. communicate clearly Having a significant are constantly with them. In this regard, a with your significant other who is outside long-distance relationof your immediate other.” ship can actually be surroundings can keep a blessing in disguise. you grounded in reality.

On the one hand, you Your partner can rehave somebody you can share stories and mind you of who you were before coming secrets with, somebody you can speak to to Dartmouth; he or she can also remind if you need support. On the other hand, you that there is a fast-moving world you can still go to class, spend time with outside of our Hanover bubble. Change, newfound friends and explore various especially during the transition to college, passions in this exciting and formative is healthy and should be expected — but part of your life. having someone who knew you before That doesn’t mean your partner coming to Dartmouth, or at the very least should become a glorified therapist. knew you in a context outside of DartQuite the contrary. You should be able mouth, provides some contrast to those to come together — be it over the phone, changes. This can ground you when evvia Skype and in person when possible — erything else around you seems unstable. when you both have the time and energy For all of the positives I mentioned, to be fully available to each other. Being there will always be some correspondapart means you must make time for ing and disheartening negatives. “Haveach other. If this sounds like a burden, ing a sense of self ” can translate into then a long-distance forgetting about the relationship might not other person; “miss“Having a significant be for you. ing somebody dearly” However, if being can devolve into abject other who is outside apart sounds like the loneliness; “clear comof your immediate worst situation in the munication” can be world because you easily manipulated surroundings can will miss the other into less-than-honest keep you grounded in communication; “reperson dearly, then a long-distance relationmaining grounded” reality.” ship, as much as you can be thought of as may have been told preventing yourself otherwise, is exactly from changing for the the right choice. See, the thing about better. However, if you take the right missing somebody dearly is that you steps, if you plan visits and make phone know, precisely because you miss them, calls, if you are honest and focused and that they are important to you. Missing on the same page with your significant them, thinking of them and wishing that other, then you can remain close to them they were with you fosters an appreciaeven though they are far away. Going to tion of the other person. You appreciate Dartmouth shouldn’t mean giving up on the other person precisely because their something good. Going to Dartmouth absence is so painful. And, hopefully, you should allow you to follow your dreams, let them know that they are missed. both past and present. If all it takes is I say “hopefully” because communica- hard work, discipline and a little bit a tion is the bedrock of any relationship. faith to do what you love while staying One of the blessings in disguise of a together with the person you love, then I long-distance relationship is that it forces say why not give it a try?

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STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ‘19

Opinion Asks

Take the Path Less Traveled

What advice would you give to the class of 2020 that you wish you had gotten or retained from orientation?

It might seem cheesy, but time really flies — it feels like just yesterday that I was anxiously driving up for trips, unsure of the future and uncertain what to expect.

One thing that I am so glad I did, and I highly encourage everyone to do, is take diverse, random classes freshman year.

You might have a major in mind, but that usually ends up changing by the time you’re a junior. I am really grateful that I took classes I was actually interested in, because it helped me decide what I really want to do and gave me insight into things I never would have known otherwise.

You also should not be worried if you don’t find your “community” right away — Dartmouth might seem like one big, happy family (which it certainly is!), but it might not feel like one your freshman fall, when you’re still figuring out how to navigate college. It’s completely okay if you don’t have a clique of besties right after orientation week, because these things can take time.

Dartmouth is a truly special place, and you have an exciting four years ahead of you!

-Caroline Hsu ‘18 Like many of you, I was an overachiever in high school, and my ambition carried over to my first-year fall. Ambition can most definitely be a positive, driving force in your life, and being successful in high school is one of the reasons why you are here now. But for me, my ambition and my success also made me afraid — namely, afraid to fail.

I urge you from personal experience not to fall into that mindset. Do not be afraid to pursue the classes, clubs, sports, or anything else that interests you. You like singing? Great, audition for a capella! Volleyball sounds fun to you? Cool, try it out!

I know this is easier said than done; the prospect of failing can be incredibly scary, and getting into certain clubs and sports can be immensely competitive, particularly at Dartmouth. And yes, it can be disheartening when you hear your first “no,” and especially when that “no” comes from the school and campus you worked so hard to get to. But all you can do is try.

They say you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, so take them. You’ll regret it if you don’t.

-Nicole Simineri ‘17, Executive Editor It’s the first day of class, you’re in a big lecture hall and the professor asks a question. You are 60 percent sure you know the answer, but you’re afraid to raise your hand. You’re afraid of being wrong.

One of three things will happen. Someone else will raise their hand, say what you were thinking and be correct. Instant bonus points.

The second possibility is that they’re wrong, meaning that you also would have been wrong. But now the professor is

addressing that person directly and they are learning and retaining more than you will because of that unique, face-to-face, personal connection.

The final possibility is that the professor gives up and gives you all the answer. You write it down, and probably forget it until you open your notebook again the night before the midterm.

The point is that fear halts progress. It halts learning, and it halts personal connections from happening. If you’re afraid of speaking in public, start by giving the answers you’re surest of first. Eventually, you’ll stop being afraid of being wrong.

If you’re stressed out, or worried about a class, don’t be afraid to talk to your professor. Start by going to office hours with a specific problem set or list of questions.

Eventually, you’ll feel comfortable enough to just drop in and have a meaningful conversation with them on any subject.

The thing I regret most from freshman year is not doing that. The academic community here is incredible, and the professors most of the time can actually become your friends. And if not, they will at least give you the answers you need and the confidence to do better in that class and in classes to come.

Finally, ask out that person you are crushing on. If you’re afraid to, don’t go for straight for dinner. Go for coffee, or breakfast at FoCo or lunch at the Hop. The worst they can say is “no,” and, if you’ve gotten to this point, you’ve probably already heard that word before; if you haven’t, it’s time you did. And if they say yes, you’ll be happy.

TL;DR: Step 1: Define your fears.

Step 2: Confront them.

And don’t forget to have some fun while doing it!

-Ioana Solomon ‘19

“The academic community here is incredible, and the professors most of the time can actually become your friends.”

Honestly, fall term FLIES by. Before you know it, you’ll have a six week break over the interim. Personally, I didn’t account for how quickly not only the term but also the interim would go by.

If you think you might want to do something over the interim, start planning now. If you’re feeling stressed out during fall term, don’t worry; it’ll be over soon.

Either way, fall goes by fast, so take a moment out of your day to savor it.

-Ben Szuhaj ‘19

There are no wrong paths to take in college — ­­ only your path.

I will begin with a welcome and a On internships: you do not have to work disclaimer. at Goldman Sachs the summer after freshWelcome to a formidable and highly man year. In fact, there is a more than a 99 competitive institution, to a community percent chance that you will not. Dartof intelligent, successful and inspiring mouth offers you prestigious resources and individuals who will challenge you and who opportunities, but do not feel as if you have will make you demand the best of yourself. failed if things do not work out as initially Most of all, welcome to a place which will, planned. whether you expect it to or not, become Let me tell you what I did this summer. your home.

I worked for a solar energy company, proDisclaimer: I am just entering sophomoting a no-cost program that would allow more year, so take everything I say with a low- and middle-class families to save mongrain of salt. I might mistakenly ask you for ey while switching to clean energy. I was directions because I still do not know every not sitting at a desk in an air conditioned corner of this campus by heart; I might lis- room and working on Excel spreadsheets. ten to what you order at the Hop because I was knocking on around 100 doors a day, I have pretty much cycled through the in the scorching heat, leaving my house at same five orders this entire past year. In the 10:00 a.m. and coming back at 10:00 p.m. most desperate of times, I might even ask If you know anything about New York City you for advice. I still have no clue what my and especially about its streets, you know major is, who I really am or who I want to things are rough. I got doors slammed in be in life. You have just as much knowledge my face; I was cursed at, catcalled and and wisdom to impart on me as I have to pushed to my limits by exhaustion and by impart on you. But since I am typing and the pressure I had been putting on myself you are reading, I guess it is my turn to try. to succeed.

First, a word about academics: some of This was not the job I would have wantyou will come knowing that you want to be ed a year ago, and if I had done things doctors, professors or engineers. Others, differently, it would not have been the job like myself, will come with doubt, pushed I had. But I have no regrets. I learned the toward making career value of hard-earned choices by your family, money and the ease “Make the choices friends and high school with which we spend you want to or must mentors, or by less it. With the few families tangible infuences such I was able to persuade make, and do not as your high school culto sign up, I felt like I think about what ture, statistics you read had started to make a online about Dartmouth would have happened real impact. I learned alumni and articles about sexism, in real life otherwise.” titled “Top 100 Best and in the workplace, in Paying Jobs.” These a way in which most of all give you semi-valid us do not get exposed answers, but none with which your heart to at school. In the end, it all worked out. really agrees.

I now care more about green energy, am It is okay to know what you want; it is willing to do more to support the cause and also okay to not know. Lucikly, we attend am even changing my major to focus on it. an institution at a time when what you I matured a lot this summer, learned a lot study does not automatically dictate what about myself and figured out exactly what career you end up pursuing. If you know I am telling you now — there are no wrong for sure that you want to be a doctor, do paths to take. not listen to other people telling you that One final thought: if or when you it is too early to be so certain. It is your take Economics 1, you will spend a lot of choice, and, if you feel that you are ready time using the word “counterfactual.” In to make it, then by all means, go ahead. a two-choice scenario, it is essentially the On the other hand, do not assume that outcome of the choice you did not make. there is a ticking clock counting down the You will learn ways to estimate it, model it time you have left to figure out the next or make assumptions needed to analyze it. fifty years of your life. Yes, you do have to In life, though, you cannot do a mockup of declare a major by the end of sophomore the counterfactual. You cannot compare year, but declaring a major is not declaryour actual outcomes with the imaginary ing a career. It is declaring what you want outcomes that never actually happened. to study, what makes you passionate, what Make the choices you want to or must gives you a sense of meaning. Eventually, make, and do not think about what would your major may lead you to certain careers. have happened otherwise.

But do not limit your options. Find a major Whatever choices you make now will that inspires you. Find a major that gives be the building blocks toward who you will you meaning. eventually become. Barring very few excepOn friends: join a sports team. Or tions, there are no wrong choices. There don’t. Join a frat. Or don’t. Make your are no wrong paths. There are no mistakes, best friends your freshman year. Or don’t. and no “wrong” versions of yourself. There There is nothing to worry about, because are only the choices you make, the paths things do work out. You will be fine. you take and the “you” that you become.

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East Wheelock House Four modern residence halls — Andres, Zimmerman, McCulloch and Morton — comprise the East Wheelock House. These buildings have ample study spaces and access to a large flexible space, Brace Commons, as well as a snack bar.

Although East Wheelock is the easternmost community from the center of campus, it is close to the Alumni Gym and Leede Arena.

East Wheelock House professor, math professor Sergi Elizalde, previously served as the faculty director for the East Wheelock cluster.

In addition to providing house members with the opportunity to attend performances at the Hopkins Center and hosting dinners with visiting artists, Elizalde said he is also open to more informal community events such as a hiking trip or a barbeque. The East Wheelock House, he said, will provide some continuity to students’ lives for those who leave campus during foreign study programs or

off-terms.

“The fact that there will be the same students here for four years will create some community and students will have a place where they feel they belong,” Elizalde said.

North Park House North Park House includes Ripley, Woodward and Smith Halls, which are interconnected and located between East Wheelock House and the three Fayerweather halls.

Dean of the College and Spanish and comparative literature professor Rebecca Biron announced in an email on Sept. 1 that she will be replacing biology professor Ryan Calsbeek as the inaugural house professor for this housing community.

In addition to being a short walking distance from the Hopkins Center and the Alumni gym, North Park members will also be able to use House Center A as a gathering space along with members from South House. The center will include study spaces and a small

fire pit.

School House School House includes Massachusetts Row — South Massachusetts, Mid Massachusetts and North Massachusetts halls — as well as Hitchcock Hall.

Within walking distance of Baker-Berry Library, the Class of 1953 Commons and the Collis Center, this community boasts the one of the best locations on campus.

School House members will also have access to House Center B with Allen House members.

School House professor math professor Craig Sutton said he has already received input from School House upperclassmen and looks forward to adding the ’20s into the mix this fall.

“There must be something special about a community of scholars, a community of intellectuals, a community of civic minded people being within physical proximity of each other,” Sutton said. “Over the next four years, I’m interested in doubling down on this investment in a residential-liberal arts education and rearticulating what

it means for the Dartmouth’s existence.”

South House This housing community is comprised of Topliff and New Hampshire halls and the Lodge.

Though South house is spread out because of how far Topliff and New Hampshire halls are from the Lodge, members will be able to congregate at House Center A with members of North Park House. These residences are within walking distances from the Hopkins Center, the Black Family Visual Arts Center, Alumni Gym and off-campus restaurants on Lebanon Street. Sociology professor Kathryn Lively is the South House professor.

West House Physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox is the house professor of West House, which includes four residence halls — Fahey, McLane, Butterfield and Russell Sage Halls.

This community is located opposite Allen House along Tuck Mall. Its residence halls are nears BakerBerry Library, fraternity row and

Old Tuck Drive, which leads to the Connecticut River. These halls also combine the traditional New England aesthetic of Butterfield and Russell Sage with the modern architecture of Fahey and McLane halls.

Living Learning Communities Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Dennis Washburn will oversee living learning communities, which include members living in eight academic affinity houses and the McLaughlin Cluster. The affinity houses include the Chinese Language House, Sustainable Living Center and Triangle House. The McLaughlin Cluster is comprised of six halls — Thomas, Goldstein, Byrne II, Rauner, Bildner and Berry. Members have access to a snack bar and a gathering space in Goldstein.

Ashley Kekona ’18 , who has lived in an LLC and the Chinese Language House, said freshmen should apply to these communities if they want to connect with a smaller group of people who have similar interests and want to understand different cultures better.

Faculty approve curricular changes

By CARTER BRACE

The Dartmouth Staff

A previous version of this article was published on May 10, 2016 under the headline “Faculty approves future changes to curriculum requirements,” and has been consolidated and updated to include additional context.

This past spring term, the Arts and Sciences faculty voted to approve the simplification of distributive requirements and the creation of world culture and quantitative and formal reasoning requirements.

While these changes to the core curriculum were not to affect current students, the proposals are intended to take effect as soon as possible.

The new distributive system will require that students take three courses in the natural and applied sciences, three courses in the social sciences, three courses in the arts and humanities and one interdisciplinary course. It will replace the current system of 10 classes across eight distributive categories. The proposal passed by a vote of 40-32.

Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno said the committee wanted students to think like someone in a distributive area, be it a social scientist, scientist or humanist. The passed proposal would also require a “reflective document” of all students by the

end of their second year explaining their rationale for their selected distributive courses.

The simplified distributive system partially reverts back to the old system of distributives used before the 1994-1995 academic year, which also required three science, social science and humanities courses, as well as an interdisciplinary course.

The single world culture requirement replaces the current requirement that students take one course each in western culture, non-western culture and culture and identity. The new world culture requirement would modify the CI requirement, but is intended to be satisfied with a more limited range of 40 to 50 courses rather than the 250 courses which currently satisfy the CI requirement. Currently, the courses that satisfy the CI are considered so amorphous that even members of the Committee on Instruction were unsure of its current meaning, Mastanduno said.

The quantitative and formal reasoning requirement will remain at least one course, but the faculty have yet to decide on the specifics.

One of the stated reasons for the new quantitative requirement was that it would elevate quantitative and formal reasoning to the status of an essential skill, akin to the writing requirement.

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Editors’ Note

Taking Advantage of Orientation A list of things to make sure to check out during orientation week.

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Woohoo! On behalf of your more jaded upperclassmen, I’d like to say welcome to Dartmouth and congratulations on making it to your orientation week!

Even though you might be homesick and still pulling twigs out of your hair from Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips, you have a lot to look forward to.

I think that I speak for a lot of students when I say that I am jealous. Like many of you will, I met my best friends during my first week of Dartmouth. From wandering around Foco, I think. Or some other random place. The point is that you will stumble upon some great people, so try to meet as many students as you can — you never know who you might click with! Find people to sit next to in class and study with.

Before I give you any more sage advice and risk sounding didactic (which is silly because I am only a few years older than you), I am happy to present you with this issue’s theme: Getting Settled. Our writers have carefully thought about some good advice and what to expect your first week to help give you some peace of mind.

You are about to embark on a series of firsts — your first Collis smoothie, your first class, the first time you trip and fall on the Green (it will happen). Here’s to the firsts and the many good memories to come, and I hope you enjoy this issue as much as you enjoy your first week!

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By Carolyn Zhou

Welcome home, ’20s! While Dartmouth may not feel like home for a while, and college may seem like the scariest step away from home you’ve ever taken, hopefully Dartmouth will eventually become a place you have grown to love. It’s okay to be a bit apprehensive and afraid of what is going to happen in these next 10 weeks, and that’s why Orientation is a great way to get settled into life in Hanover. Here are the top 10 things to take advantage of during orientation week — and, by extension, freshman fall, the beginning of your adventures here: 1. Getting out of your comfort zone with classes. Freshman fall is the perfect time to explore your established interests and try out classes you never would have dreamed of taking in high school. Heck, most of these classes never would have even been offered in high school. Perhaps you’re set on being an engineering major, but maybe you’ll find a new passion in a history of jazz class. Sure, you might have labelled yourself a government major on your application, but you’ve got time to explore and see what you’re truly interested in. Try taking a chance, and you might be pleasantly surprised.

2. Free food. Somewhere on campus, there is always some talk or event that hosts free food. Of course, attending the event or club meeting is probably a prerequisite to obtaining the donuts/cake/pizza/ice cream/food you’re craving, but hey, free food is free food. Last year, a GroupMe (one of Dartmouth students’ favorite forms of communication) called “FREE FOOD @NOW” gained nearly school-wide membership, demonstrating Dartmouth’s love of, well, free food. I’m not sure if the GroupMe is still going to be active this year, but keep your eyes peeled for blitzes (Dartmouth lingo for emails sent through its email application) for campus events, like club meetings. They’ll often let you know that there’s free food in the body of the email to entice you to come.

3. The freshman frat ban. You probably laughed at this one, but you’ll have plenty of opportunities to party at frats once the ban lifts.

Use it as a chance to adjust to life at Dartmouth before you adventure into Greek life. You’ll find that there are many other social spaces at Dartmouth. Spend the next few weeks trying out the free social events that the college hosts.

For example, Collis After Dark, a student-run organization, hosts substance-free events, such

’20: “I’m so ready for the talent show at the lodge.”

as glow-in-the-dark mini-golf, skating at the ice hockey rink and dance parties. Whether or not you ultimately decide to rush, there will come a time when the majority of your class is affiliated, so you may long for the simpler, more low key times of alcohol-free fun.

4. Free concerts and shows. This is a great introduction to the wonder that is Dartmouth students’ creativity — and if you have a spark of talent, be sure to audition for one of Dartmouth’s many performance groups. Even if you can’t make the shows during orientation week, don’t worry. A cappella groups and dance troupes constantly perform at Greek houses, so there will be plenty of opportunities to enjoy the arts at Dartmouth. Furthermore, tons of famous speakers, performers, poets, authors, stand-up comedians and live music acts frequently pass through Dartmouth. Even though Dartmouth is nowhere near a major metropolitan area, there’s always something happening on campus!

5. Everyone being super approachable and friendly. Dartmouth is always filled with kind and loving people — especially during O-Week and, to a certain extent, freshman fall.

Worried about making friends? Chances are, that’s one of the concerns of every other single freshman right now. Don’t be afraid to reach out because it’s likely that the person whom you want to become friends with is hoping to meet someone new, too. What’s great about Dartmouth is that it’s small enough for people to know each other through mutual friends.

You’re usually only a couple of degrees of separation from everyone on campus. Start making those connections!

6. Being outside. This may sound silly, but Hanover is known for its extremely cold winters — and its winters are no laughing matter.

Enjoy the Green being green for now, being able to bike to class (don’t forget to lock your bike — some Dartmouth students are known to “borrow” unlocked bikes) and running across our beautiful campus. Farmers’ markets are frequently held on the Green in the fall, and you can also check out Dartmouth’s Organic Farm — its open house is this Sunday, from 2 to 3 p.m. (rides will leave from Robinson Hall, aka “Robo,” starting at 1:40 p.m.). Enjoy the fact that New Hampshire sees all four seasons in their supreme beauty.

7. Traditions. Dartmouth’s almost cult-like traditions make it unique. Throughout your freshman year, you’ll certainly ask yourself,

’20 during the Robert Frost ceremony: “Everyone take off their hats!”

’20: “So...where is Greek row?”

“Did I matriculate to a college, or did I join a cult?!” Dartmouth “inducts” you into the family through the Twilight Ceremony. Soon enough, you’ll know every word to the alma mater, and you’ll find yourself singing it in the shower occasionally. Every term, there will be some major event put on by the college — for fall, it’s Homecoming and the bonfire; in the winter, you get to experience Winter Carnival; and spring has the famous Green Key weekend. There are various other traditions (some more scandalous than others), but you’ll definitely hear about them from upperclassmen and maybe partake in a couple yourselves.

8. Signing up for 3,248,109 clubs at the Student Involvement Fair. While the fair (held on the Green on Sunday) is not the last time you’ll be able to join clubs, it’s a good place to get your name on the email list of any club that remotely tickles your fancy. You’ll get to talk to current club leaders and members and learn about what Dartmouth students like to do in their free time. Don’t see anything that grabs your interest? Creating a club isn’t too hard — just fill out some paperwork and find nine other students to join you!

9. So. Many. Resources. Whether it’s your undergraduate dean, academic advisor, Trip leaders, house professor or undergraduate advisor, you have a plethora of people whose role is to help you settle into Dartmouth, academically or socially. While you will be able to turn to these people for the rest of your next four years, during Orientation and freshman fall there are numerous scheduled events with these people who are eager to listen to and help you.

You don’t need to be thinking about long-term things like D-Plans just yet, but just know that you’ll certainly be in contact with some of these adults in the upcoming years. It doesn’t hurt to just introduce yourself!

10. Tabula rasa. It’s a Latin phrase, meaning “blank slate.” While college is not necessarily a time to reinvent oneself, it is the start of something new: you’ll make new friends, be exposed to new ideas, view points and values and encounter and conquer new struggles. You have new independence, and you’re going to make a lot of decisions on your own, taking on new responsibilities. You have the pen/pencil/ quill/writing utensil of your choice in your hand, and your story is unwritten. Slowly, the “Dartmouth” chapter of your book will fill up with new memories, knowledge and perspectives. So, go forth and write!

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’20 girl at McLaughlin: “Can you help me, I’m looking for Clemens...? Wait, no, it’s actually Kemeny!”

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Looking Forward to Your First Fall What to expect from your first-year fall — the good, the bad, and the fun.

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By Caroline Berens

Welcome to Dartmouth, ’20s. Hopefully you’ve recovered from your FirstYear Trip, are all moved into your new dorm and are eager to finally begin what you couldn’t stop thinking about these past few months: your freshman fall at Dartmouth. But first, you have to get through orientation week. Here’s a list of 10 things that will inevitably happen to you this week: 1. You will get lost. Although its campus is considered relatively small, Dartmouth is still large, and feels particularly enormous when you’re roaming around trying to find a certain building while simultaneously dodging other pedestrians and trying to not look totally clueless. It doesn’t help that a lot of buildings, with their identical Georgian architecture and dark green shutters, look so similar.

A word of advice: don’t be afraid to use a campus map — they make navigating Dartmouth vastly easier. And in the case that you are lost without a map, don’t be afraid to ask others for help. In fact, I met my best friend by asking if I could borrow her campus map when I was trying to get to Reed Hall during my own orientation week; you asking might just be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

2. You will eat too much at Foco.

Orientation week, Foco is a glistening paradise full of endless, mouth-watering options. Suddenly, you can get pizza and General Tso’s chicken and some French onion soup AND that butternut squash risotto they’re serving at World View AND some ice cream — all in one sitting! But as your intense food coma and ensuing stomachache will tell you, this isn’t a sustainable lifestyle. You’ll eventually figure out your typical Foco staples, and once the novelty of Foco wears off, you won’t even want to eat that much there anyway.

3. You will sign up for way too many things at the activities fair.

Dartmouth students tend to be great salespeople, and at no time is this quite as apparent as at the activities fair. Combine this with the fact that most clubs at Dartmouth are impressive and appealing, and you have the perfect storm for freshmen writing their blitz address down on over 20 lists — and subsequently being put on 20 listervs. Ultimately, there’s nothing wrong with this; you can attend the first meetings for clubs that interest you, and if it’s not your thing, you can just request to be taken off the listerv.

But in the interest of preventing your inbox from being bombarded by dozens of extraneous blitzes per day, try to be deliberate and realistic about where you write down your name, and how many times. But on the other hand, keep in mind that college is the time to take risks;

visit the tables of clubs that you never thought you’d join and chat with the upperclassmen — you never know what you might find.

4. You will lean on your trippees.

Orientation week is where having a built-in group of friends comes in clutch.

Maybe you Trip didn’t connect super well, or maybe you’re all the best of friends, but either way, during orientation week, it’s likely that you will cling to each other like there’s no tomorrow. And whether or not those friendships persist throughout the rest of your Dartmouth experience, it’s hugely comforting to have an automatic group of people, or at least a person or two, to hang out with the first week. As for your Trip leaders, you’ll probably ask them a million questions, and that’s okay; they are there to mentor and support you.

5. You will debate going to department open houses and other orientation activities. Admittedly, you can probably afford to skip a few of orientation week’s activities, but the majority of them are very valuable. The department open houses, especially, are beneficial to attend if you’re trying to figure out your fall classes, or just have an interest in a particular topic. The professors are willing and excited to speak with you, and it’s a great opportunity to make connections — you never know whose class you might end up in somewhere down the line. Even activities that might seem a bit silly, like “Managing College Reading,” can end up being extremely helpful. And you definitely won’t want to miss shows at Collis or the Hop, such as student a cappella, dances and the hypnotist.

6. You will feel out of place. The beginning of college is often thrilling, enjoyable and exciting, but it can also feel really overwhelming. Orientation week, too, is when it begins to set in that this is your life for the next four years, and the realization of that permanence can be wonderful, but it can also be scary. You’re in a new place, surrounded by new people, living an entirely different daily life than what you’re used to, and it might take you a little while to get the hang of it all. You’re bound to feel a little of out of place, and that’s entirely normal. Just remember that everyone around you feels the same way, even if they don’t act like it. You’ll feel that sense of belonging soon enough.

7. You will state your hometown, trip section, dorm and floor more times than you can count. One of the best things about orientation is how many people you meet, but one of the worst things is that every time you meet someone new, you have to introduce yourself by saying your name, home-

town, Trips section and dorm/floor. If I had a dollar of DBA for every time I said, “Hi, I’m Caroline from Boston, I was on Section B and I live on Fahey 4,” let’s just say I would not have gone negative $146.34 in DBA my first term.

It can be annoying to repeat again and again, but it helps you to find common ground with others, which helps you make friends.

8. You will miss something from home. Maybe you’ll miss your mom’s home cooking, or the spaciousness of your bedroom (compared to your cramped two room double in Judge) or the closeness of your friendships. You’re undergoing the most massive life change that you have ever experienced, and it’s natural to feel homesick or nostalgic, particularly at first, when you might not feel totally comfortable at Dartmouth yet. I can’t promise that all of those feelings will go away, but they do become less intense with time.

9. You will realize it’s both really fun and really hard to live with people. College is often the first time that you will live with people, in close quarters, for an extended period of time. Maybe you spent a whole summer at camp in a small cabin with 20 other people, or you’ve shared a room with your little brother for your whole life or you even went to boarding school, but chances are that living on your college freshman floor will be an entirely unique experience. It can be incredibly fun to have your friends so close by, and the close quarters will help you develop tight bonds with those around you. But it can also be tough, when you want to go to sleep and your floormates are in the hallway yelling loudly, or when you have to tiptoe around in the dark in the morning so your roommate doesn’t wake up. Just remember to give yourself some alone time every once in a while, but appreciate having friends in such close proximity — it’s a luxury you won’t have forever.

10. You will have a *moment*.

Amidst the frenzy of orientation week — some of which will, inevitably, continue into the rest of your freshman fall — you will have at least one moment where you’ll take a step back, look around and realize that you are here. You’re living on a beautiful campus, surrounded by brilliant and talented people, some of whom will soon become your best friends, living out your dream. Maybe it will come when you’re walking back to your dorm, watching the sunset illuminate the tree’s foliage. Maybe it will come when you’re walking across the Green looking at Dartmouth Hall. Or maybe it’ll happen when you try your first Foco cookie.

Whatever form it comes in, it will make the craziness of the first week worth it.

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CVS

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Students at the College react to display removal in Collis

lence people of color face on this campus.”

T h e C o l l e g e Re p u bl i c a n s On the copies of Hanlon’s state- posted a statement on its Facement, students wrote statements book page at 2:18 p.m. on Friday that questioned the tenure process confirming that they put up the specifically as it relates to faculty of original display. They said that color. Last week, students started they had received approval to post a social media campaign using the the display in Collis and expressed hashtag #fight4facultyofcolor af- dismay that other students chose ter English professor Aimee Bahng to take it down. was denied tenure.

They also said they hoped to One phrase written over a copy raise more awareness of the efof Hanlon’s statement read, “Black forts of law enforcement officers students have been asking for more to protect communities, especially faculty of color since 1979. Why those who are killed in the line of Hanlon?” duty, and pointed to the non-fatal Another statement also asked shooting of two New Hampshire for an explanation from Hanlon officers yesterday morning. of the recently

In the released results In “A Letter to description the of fall’s campus College Repubclimate survey. Campus,” students licans sent in Mikala Wil- last night referenced to Collis to reliams ’18, one quest the board of the students several alleged they said the who replaced incidents of bias on aim was to the display, said campus including “draw attention that she and to the sacrifices several other several incidents of made by law s t u d e n t s r e - students using racial enforcement placed the signs members,” notbecause they slurs and threats in ing that 128 offelt it reinforced public, private and ficers have died police violence while on duty in over social media. against people the past year. of color.

The description “It was taken also mentioned down by stuthat police offidents and replaced because it cers’ work is often an “overlooked actively co-opted a movement that struggle” and “a silenced sacriis supposed to comment on police ficed.” brutality against black individuals In “A Letter to Campus,” stuin this country,” she said. “It took dents last night referenced several that and by framing that as ‘Blue alleged incidents of bias on camLives Matter,’ it normalizes and pus including several incidents naturalizes violence against people of students using racial slurs and of color in this country. And that is threats in public, private and over not okay. That is in no way okay.” social media. The email also noted Several flyers on the original the removal of several t-shirts display expressed the slogan “Blue that were part of the Black Lives Lives Matter,” a phrase that ref- Matter display in Collis in the fall. erences the Black Lives Matter The email also points to alleged movement and has been used to incidents of assault of women of express support for police officers. color on campus and an incident The posters also listed statistics of a Native woman and man being about police fatalities in the United egged after a silent protest.

States, as well as deaths of police- “This campus is toxic,” the men and firefighters on 9/11. email reads. “Our goal is to il Friday night, some students luminate the severity of the vioalso started circulating an email lence people of color face on this entitled “A Letter to Campus”that campus.” criticized the usage of “Blue Lives By 8:30 p.m. on Friday, the Matter” as “co-opting a movement College Republicans sent an email intended to protect the livelihood addressed to Hanlon and the Board of Black people.” No authors are of Trustees. The email criticizes explicitly named. the administration for what the “This slogan denies that black College Republicans perceive as bodies are subjected to dispropor- unequal treatment. tionate state violence,” the email The College Republicans refread. “This has nothing to do with erenced the incident in the fall of individual police officers.” the removal of t-shirts in the Black The email said that Blue Lives Lives Matter display.

Matter “facilitates the erasure of The email continues, saying black lives.” It also said that the that the College “quickly and goal of removing the display was appropriately” condemned the to show “the severity of the vio- aforementioned defacement.

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In the fall, Hanlon sent out a campus wide email after the incident and the day after the Black Lives Matter protest in Baker-Berry Library that discussed diversity, inclusivity and free expression, but did not mention the removal of t-shirts directly.

In the College Republicans’ email, sent out before Hanlon’s Sunday email, the group expressed dissatisfaction that the same was not done immediately after Friday’s display board removal.

“We do not see the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements as mutually exclusive,” the email also said. “It is possible to recognize the service and contributions of law enforcement officers while simultaneously pushing for reform to correct the grave mistakes of the small minority of officers.”

The College Republicans sent out a similar email with the subject line “Response to College Suppression of Our Freedom of Speech” to campus at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday. The campus email announced a candlelight vigil next week for police officers who have been killed while on duty.

In “A Letter to Campus,” the email says that the fall protest in Baker Berry Library “affirmed black existence, humanity and resilience in light of the oppressive reality here at Dartmouth.”

“People are tired,” the email reads. “People of color are tired of being made inferior to their peers. We are tired of conservative rhetoric reproducing the same racial stereotypes that have positioned our bodies in a violent, inhumane fashion since slavery.”

In a statement signed “Concerned Students of Dartmouth” released to campus on Tuesday, the Dartmouth Action Collective wrote that “one hundred students’ disapproval for “Blue Lives Matter” does not constitute a disregard for free speech, nor does it condemn policemen who have died in the line of duty.”

The statement also said that displaying slogans that co-opt the language of the Black Lives Matter movement, such as “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter,” ignores the context of systemic racism out of which the original movement arose. The statement added that “language does not occur in a vacuum” and said that “Blue Lives Matter” encourages a dichotomy between black lives and police lives, correlating demanding protection of black lives with denying protection of police lives.

The Dartmouth Action Collective’s statement urged campus to honor law enforcement in a more nuanced manner.

Amanda Zhou contributed reporting.

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College Republicans put up the above display on the morning of May 13 to recognize National Police Week, using the phrase “Blue Lives Matter” and citing statistics on police deaths while on duty.

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SPORTS ONE ON ONE

WITH ABBEY D’AGOSTINO ’14

BY JAMES HANDAL

Abbey D’Agostino ’14 is the most decorated Ivy League athlete in history. At Dartmouth, D’Agostino was a seven-time National Champion, a 16-time Ivy League Champion, a 12-time All-American and a 15-time Regional/National Award winner.

D’Agostino is sponsored by New Balance and participated in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she was awarded the 2016 Rio Fair Play Award for her headlinemaking actions in the 5,000-meter race with Nikki Hamblin.

After your fifth place trials finish, what were you thinking when you heard that a 5,000-meter Olympic spot would open up for you? Did you feel any extra motivation in the Olympic preparation?

AD: I was completely content with crossing the line in fifth place. It was kind of crazy as I was in a similar position in 2012 placing fifth and just missing it. At the same time, I was at a different phase and I crossed the finished line completely exhausted. I do not know if it contributed to my motivation, but I was filled with gratitude for the way that it happened. The theme of the whole spring was just patience, and I was satisfied with my set of circumstances. I learned a lot when everything came together at the right time and it was like a gift which informed my training.

Medals at the Olympics are a sign of success on the track, but what do you feel after the world recognized the amazing display of sportsmanship with New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin?

AD: I had a sense that my experience there was destined given how the trials wound up and how I qualified. I had the sense that my selection to be on the Olympic team was because God chose me to be on the team for a specific reason. As the whole season unfolded, injuries kept popping up, and I knew I was at the Olympics for a reason. The Olympics were very powerful and the moment it happened, I was a part

of something that was a lot more than any accolades of the games.

This occasion was a different form of accolade, and it came at a time of negativity in the culture. It provided hope to people and I’m thankful to be a part of that. I was just chosen to be an instrument of it all.

You and Nikki had a great display of courage helping each other finish the last four and a half laps to complete the 5K? What was your natural thought and mental capacity to help a fellow runner and finish the 5K? AD: I feel really confident that it was not intentional and everything happened very quickly. The way I responded was the way that had been prepared. It was not a choice I made in the moment as God prepared me to respond that way as the spirit acted like that in the moment. It was miraculous that I was able to finish the race. I knew how my legs felt, but I had no idea how hurt I was until I started to jog and my leg started to buckle. It was the first telltale sign of an ACL injury.

The amount of hours you have spent at Dartmouth and training for the Olympics, what was it like to just step back and realize that helping a fellow athlete reach both your goals while letting go of your personal success?

AD: It was a blessing. I’ve had a lot of extremely well intentioned people respond to this and I really appreciate that. I do not feel an ounce of regret or bitterness that it happened. It is better to give than it is to receive. I was just able to experience that and it was part of altruism.

Congrats on being awarded the 2016 Rio Fair Play Award.

How has your Dartmouth experience as a student-athlete contributed to your actions at these Olympics?

AD: Dartmouth was invaluable for many reasons, but it was a powerful

place for me. College was a period of identity formation and I needed to be at a place like Dartmouth to learn. I learned how I responded in certain situations. I needed to go to Dartmouth to relearn how to operate in a real changing world. It had to be a place like Dartmouth.

The people and the situations were so helpful and my memories were a sense of wellness that has carried out to where I am now with relationships.

Have you and Nikki Hamblin connected and shared a moment just after the Olympic games have finished? What was your reaction?

AD: We exchanged contact information, but I have been recently recuperating. Nikki and I spent some time doing media and disclosing the story during the Olympics. The moment was really special, and it will be a long lasting connection between the two of us. I was able to watch her run the 5K final which was very special to me.

What are your goals after the Olympics and after your surgery?

AD: Right now, I’m living in the present, and it will be a long road until the recovery. It will be a very slow process, and I can’t even know the things that I will learn and how it will benefit me in the future. I hope to be back to elite running by the competition in the spring and to also compete at the USA Nationals next June assuming I recover as I should.

I have total faith and confidence that it is realistic.

How has Dartmouth shaped your track career and who at Dartmouth has had the biggest influence on you?

AD: My track and field experience was formational in the sense that I learned to be a leader, and I had a lot of opportunities to self-check and learn what you really care about.

There are so many opportunities personally at Dartmouth, and my team is more important than an individual. This opportunity to be a student athlete is important and a gift. My co-captain Arianna Vailas ’14 was huge, and we had parallel journeys as well as personal challenges while learning how to be a leader. Alexi Pappas ’12 was a close friend and mentor who I was able

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Former Big Green athletes compete in Rio

By RAY LU

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

A previous version of this article was printed on Aug. 19, 2016.

Abbey D’Agostino ’14 made national headlines this past Tuesday after tripping over fallen New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin in the preliminary round of the women’s 5,000-meter race and helping her back up. D’Agostino and Hamblin finished the race and were advanced to the final by default, but D’Agostino was forced to withdraw from competition with a torn ACL and meniscus. D’Agostino finished the last mile of the race despite her injuries.

“This whole time here [God’s] made clear to me that my experience in Rio was going to be about more than my race performance — and as soon as Nikki got up I knew that was it,” D’Agostino said in a statement released Wednesday

by USA Track and Field.

D’Agostino’s gesture and determination earned her the praise of the general public, with many calling the moment one of the most memorable of the Rio Games.

At Dartmouth, D’Agostino became the most decorated athlete in Ivy League history, winning several NCAA titles.

Other Dartmouth Olympians wrapped up competition this past week.

Anthony Fahden ’08 and the United States lightweight fours finished in fourth place in the B final last Thursday to grow with.

How has deciding to come to Dartmouth and run changed your life? Would you change anything so far?

AD: Dartmouth was so timely, and it was a time where I was developing security. I also developed all of the variables such as academics, the pressures, the different phases through running, the injuries that came with it and also realizing my potential. There were lots of different phases because of the Dartmouth community. Dartmouth was very life changing.

with a time of 6 minutes, 36.93 seconds.

Madison Hughes ’15 and the U.S. men’s rugby team defeated Spain 24-12 last Thursday to claim the ninth place title.

Alexi Pappas ’12 came in 17th in the final of the women’s 10,000-meter race last Friday. Pappas, who was competing for Greece, finished in 31:36.16, setting a national record.

Last Friday, Josh Konieczny ’13 and rowing partner Andrew Campbell, Jr. finished in fifth place in the finals of the men’s lightweight double sculls. The duo finished in 6:35.07, less than four seconds off the bronze medal time and less than five seconds behind the French, who took home gold.

On Wednesday, Sean Furey ’04, Th ’05 and ’06 finished 35th in the qualifying round of the javelin throw on Wednesday with a throw of 72.61 meters. Furey did not qualify for the final on Saturday.

Earlier in the Olympics, cyclist Evelyn Stevens ’05 placed 12th in the women’s road race on Sunday, Aug. 7, finishing the 85-mile competition in 3:52:43. Stevens also competed in the women’s individual time trial last Wednesday, coming in 10th place with a time of 46:00.08.

The last Dartmouth alumni to earn a summer Olympics medal was Dominic Seiterle ’98, who won gold in the 2008 Beijing Games with the Canadian men’s eights rowing team. tion and it is very hard to imagine without it. Faith has taught me what I can and can’t do. Having faith has really helped me summon joy and not just bliss. Faith is a by-product of having a purpose. Everything comes from the foundation of faith, God and a positive attitude.

What are your plans after your running career is finished?

How has your faith and positive attitude shaped your mental toughness in running?

AD: I am a psych major, and I just needed to adjust to this lifestyle before I commit to academics again.

I am open to the idea of further education, but I am very content with not knowing. I think this job is giving me a powerful platform to contribute to this sport that isn’t clear now, but will be clear by the time I’m done running.

AD: Faith and a positive attitude are everything. Faith is the founda-

This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

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Students talk dorm decorations

By KOURTNEY KAWANO

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

As another school year brings in a fresh crop of freshmen, campus is bustling with the sounds of doors slamming and people hauling boxes up and down stairs. For many, decorating a room is a chance not only to bring a taste of home to Dartmouth but also to showcase their artistic side or admiration for the arts.

For these students, bringing artwork from home served as a way to stay in touch with their roots in an unfamiliar setting.

In her first year, Ashley Kekona ’18 brought crafts such as a shell garland and mini puzzles made with her friends and family.

“I used the mementos to encourage myself to work hard for those who have supported me,” Ashley Kekona said. “They also made me feel more comfortable and helped ease my transition in a new place.”

Samantha Maltais ’18 brought her guitar and a record player to decorate her room, writing music in her free time to relieve stress.

Maltais also brought a few old drawings that she characterized as a “personal installation.” Some of those drawings inspire her new work, connecting her past with the present.

For the majority of students, posters are an easy way to cover wall space while displaying their

interests.

In the beginning of her freshman year, Kalei Akau ’18 bought prints of Andy Warhol and Matisse paintings as well as a movie poster for the film “Sabrina” (1954). Along with photos of her family and friends, these prints have moved with her in her travels from room to room.

After taking “Drawing I” this past summer, Andie Conching ’18 decided to keep some portraits and still-life sketches she completed for the course.

“Even though they weren’t perfect, these are pieces that I made, so I decided to keep them,” she said.

These drawings join photos Conching brought from home as well as a book her sister made for her before she left for college.

Room décor, she said, can be important, especially if it reminds someone to stay grounded in her values.

Akau echoed Conching’s statements, citing how necessary it is for students to take ownership of their rooms as “a place on campus that’s [their] home.”

“I feed off the spaces that I’m in,” Akau said. “For me, it’s special to decorate my room so that it’s a space that reminds me of home.”

While it may seem odd to some to ascribe such meaning to inanimate objects, room décor functions as a time capsule as students move term to term from their freshman dorms

into off-campus or affinity houses.

Kekona noted the significance crafts and posters hold for many.

“Memories associated with the objects can also help serve as a constant in an ever-changing environment that comes with college,” Kekona said.

This fall will be an especially memorable term for Kekona as her sister Leeya Kekona ’20 will join her at Dartmouth. After hearing about Ashley Kekona’s experiences, Leeya Kekona brought pieces to decorate her room that connect her to memories and her loved ones.

These pieces include paintings purchased in Italy and Belgium as well as self-made work, including a piece she made of dried flowers that her grandmother sent her from Japan.

“It feels important to have something from home in case I get homesick or lose my motivation,” Leeya Kekona said.

Oftentimes, students who create room décor may not initially intend to do so. A simple doodle during a study break may evolve into a fully-formed sketch that is worthy of being pinned to a wall instead of crumpled and thrown into the trash.

On the other hand, a student may save posters from performances they attended at the Hopkins Center and end up decorating their room with them as a way to relive the experience of listening to an ensemble play.

Taking the time to enjoy the arts at Dartmouth is one way to accumulate room décor over four years and is a way to personalize a room with past memories and future hopes.

“It’s the very act of creating that is necessary for some to survive the stress and pressure to do well,” Maltais said. “I think that being able to take a break and do something you’re passionate about is how a lot of people make it through their more tedious terms.”

Some embrace the arts by purchasing posters and prints while others do so by posting tickets from films and performances or displaying artwork they made. Regardless of whether one is a freshman figuring out how to hold onto the glory days of high school while making a mark in college or a graduating senior who’s already reminiscing about the past three years, room décor conveys an innate truth about time — it’s precious.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

ONE ON ONE

WITH DARBY RAYMOND-OVERSTREET ’16

BY MADELINE KILLEN

Darby Raymond-Overstreet ’16 is a studio art intern for the studio art department. At Dartmouth, she majored in studio art and psychology and was heavily involved with the Native Americans at Dartmouth community. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and she is from Flagstaff, Ariz.

She considers her biggest artistic achievement at Dartmouth to be completing her thesis in studio art.

As a student, she was awarded the Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Achievement Award in the Creative Arts, the Perspectives on Design award and the Class of 1960 Office of Residential Life Purchase Award.

Now that she has graduated, she wants to continue to build her art portfolio and is considering pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts.

Did you come to Dartmouth knowing that you wanted to major in art?

DR: No, I didn’t, actually. I took a ‘Drawing I’ class with Colleen Randall my freshman winter and I just really liked it and Colleen was a really good mentor and professor during that time for me and she encouraged me to take more art classes. After that, I was thinking I would minor and then I ended up wanting to take more classes and finish out the major and it just kind of worked out.

Were you involved in art when you were in high school?

DR: Yeah, but not super seriously. I had always liked drawing my whole life but there wasn’t really a solid place to go for good instruction, so it was more of a hobby.

What was the studio art major like?

DR: It was kind of difficult. The professors really want a lot and expect a lot of their students — you invest so much of yourself in it if you take your art seriously and want it to be the best it can be. It’s difficult at times but it’s really rewarding. It’s my favorite department on campus and I thought

the program was really awesome.

What can you say about arts at Dartmouth in general? Are there enough opportunities for scholarship? Are there any stigmas?

DR: I don’t know if there are stigmas but I think a lot of people on campus in general don’t really understand or know how much work doing art classes is. I feel like I see a lot of people taking introductory classes and they’re a lot more work than they expected and just a lot more of a time commitment than they had initially thought.

So I guess the arts at Dartmouth are really underrated in terms of how hard it is. And I think it’s more critical than people would expect — like, it’s one thing to just make really pretty art that you would hang up on your wall, but it’s kind of another thing to be working on a project that’s about something that’s bigger than you or more important than just making a little design to throw up somewhere.

Is there any advice you would give to incoming freshmen about what it means to be involved in the arts at Dartmouth, and what they should do if they’re interested in being involved in the arts at Dartmouth?

DR: Yeah. Everyone has to start out with ‘Drawing I,’ so I would just advise that you know you have enough time to really invest yourself in it and get what you can out of the initial classes because in the end, you get out of it what you put into it.

What does your job at Dartmouth now consist of ?

DR: I work as a studio art intern, so I work in the [Black Family Visual Arts Center] and I do monitor hours for the sculpture studio. I did that for the summer because there’s a summer position aside from the academic year position, but I’m going to be doing both, so I’ll be at Dartmouth through the spring.

This article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.