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The Senate confirmed Eric Fanning ’90 as the secretary of the United States Army on Tuesday.

The appointment makes him the first openly gay secretary of any military branch, as well as the highest-ranking openly gay official at the Pentagon.

Fanning was nominated to the position last September, but his confirmation was delayed by Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who was concerned that Guantanamo Bay detainees would be transferred to a U.S. military prison in Kansas.

Roberts withdrew his opposition after receiving assurances that that this would not happen.

Fanning previously held positions as the Acting Under-Secretary of the Army and as the Acting Secretary of the Air Force, a position to which

he was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012, just one year after the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was repealed.

At Dartmouth, Fanning was a history major.

He was also involved in the World Affairs Council, the Tucker Foundation, the Rockefeller Center, the government department, Dartmouth Special Olympics and tutoring at Hanover High School, friends from his time at the College said. He also served as an undergraduate advisor for firstyear students, and was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Fanning was the recipient of Dartmouth’s Barrett All-Around Achievement Cup upon graduating from Dartmouth, according to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. The cup is awarded to the senior man who shows the greatest promise of becoming a factor in the outside world.

By CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth Staff

The College’s Committee Advisory to the President’s decision to deny tenure to Aimee Bahng — an English professor who is also affiliated women‘s, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature and African and African American studies — has been met with criticism from students, faculty and alumni in the Dartmouth community. The decision came in spite of many positive assessments of Bahng by leading scholars in her field and her own departments.

Those interviewed cited the inability of CAP to evaluate Bahng’s experimental and cross-disciplinary work and the lack of credit given for her extensive service commitments as some of the possible reasons for the denial of tenure. In addition, the decision has raised questions about the College’s commitment to faculty of color and the development of an Asian American studies program.

A petition started by faculty across the country urging se-

nior administrators to overturn Bahng’s tenure denial has gathered 2,808 supporters as of press time.

Bahng said that dean of the faculty Michael Mastanduno called her on the morning of May 6 to tell her that CAP recommended she not receive tenure and that College President Phil Hanlon agreed with this recommendation. There is a way to overturn the CAP’s decision, and Bahng said she has already taken the first step in the appeals process: meeting with a member of the Review Committee, which is another standing Arts and Sciences committee separate from CAP. Bahng, however, cannot start an official appeal until she receives an official letter explaining the reason for her rejection, which she has not yet obtained.

If Bahng is ultimately denied tenure through the appeals process, she will have to leave Dartmouth next spring and find a job at another institution.

Bahng’s tenure process began about a year ago. The first step was for her and the English department to separately identify

influential academics in her field with full professor status at Ivy League or peer institutions.

Associate dean for the arts and humanities Barbara Will then created the official list of professors who would write letters concerning Bahng’s merits as an academic.

Upon receiving the letters and reviewing Bahng’s work themselves, the senior faculty in the English department unanimously approved Bahng’s candidacy for tenure.

“They called me from the room cheering and very enthusiastic,” she said.

After the department review, tenure cases go to CAP, whose deliberations are confidential.

CAP is comprised of the dean of the faculty along with two faculty members each from the arts and humanities, social sciences and science divisions of the College. In an email statement, Will wrote that her role as an associate dean is to communicate the work that is done in fields within her division to CAP and SEE BAHNG PAGE 3

MacLean ’60 Th ’61 Teevens testifies in Congress on head injury donates $25 million

By ALYSSA MEHRA

The Dartmouth Staff

Last week, Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens ’78 and Karen Kinzle Zegel, mother of Dartmouth alumnus Patrick Risha ’06, testified before the House of Representatives’ energy and commerce committee’s subcommittee on investigations. The committee had convened a panel of expert witnesses to discuss concussions in youth sports — and how they can prevented.

Risha, a former football player at the College, committed suicide

following struggles with basic functions after repeated football-related injuries.

Later, it became clear he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. A progressive degenerative disease, CTE affects people who have suffered from multiple concussions or repeated head trauma. It takes about 10 years for CTE to develop, and it has no cure.

Risha’s head trauma, likely a result of his football career both at Dartmouth and prior to his time at SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 3

By MEGAN CLYNE

The Dartmouth Staff

Barry MacLean ’60 Th ’61 donated $25 million to the Thayer School of Engineering, the largest gift in Thayer’s 149-year history, the school announced on Monday.

The gift aims to further a variety of educational goals at Thayer while also supporting the construction of a third building for the school. Of the $25 million gift, $15 million is earmarked for the construction of a new engineering building and the remaining $10 million is for a challenge grant to foster endowed

professorships at Thayer.

The gift will be essential to Thayer’s expansion efforts, which aims to provide all undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with technology as part of their liberal arts education, according to a College press release announcing the gift.

The total estimated cost for the new building is $200 million. Thayer staff expect construction to take about two and a half years, a figure contingent upon funding availability.

MacLean is the co-chair of the fundSEE GIFT PAGE 2

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DAILY DEBRIEFING The Hanover Garden Club celebrated its 80th anniversary this year, an occasion commemorated by a plant sale as well as community outreach and volunteer events, the Valley News reported. The club maintains the town’s 12 public gardens and currently has about 225 members. Volunteers from the club plant all of the town’s gardens, though the town hires a part-time gardener in the summer months to water and weed. A public tour of the town gardens is scheduled for June 25.

Brian Chen ’17 ended his race for a seat on the Hanover Selectboard following the town zoning board’s decision to grant Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s appeal for continued use of their house as a student residence, the Valley News reported.

Selectboard members appoint members of the zoning board.

Chen said that the decisoon regarding SAE made his candidacy pointless.

Burlington College announced on Monday that it would end its academic programs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported, following the Board of Trustees unanimous May 13 decision to shut down the school. Carol Holm, the college’s dean of operations and advancement, said that the school had struggled with debt incurred by the purchase of a new property in 2010. The purchase in question was orchestrated by the college’s then-president Jane Sanders, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The school has been on probation with its accrediting agency due to failure to meet its financial resources standard. Students who have already submitted deposits for the coming fall term at the Burlington, Vermont institution will be able to move to other colleges in the area, according to the school.

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Thayer donation to fund expansion higher than the national average of 19 percent at engineering schools. raising effort for Thayer’s expansion Helble said the school plans to inwith Thayer Board of Overseers crease female enrollment further in chair Terry McGuire Th ’82. the future.

Currently, the school plans to inOver the past decade, the number corporate energy and medicine into of engineering majors has grown the engineering sciences curriculum. significantly. In 2006, there were Specific foci would include global 61 engineering majors, a figure that energy challenges, biomolecular climbed to 210 by 2016. An addimedicine and immunoengineering. tional 33 students are undergraduThayer dean Joseph Helble said ates receiving the new builda dual degree ing will include In 2006, there were 61 in engineering labs for faculty engineering majors, a from Dartmouth doing research with a bachelor’s in these fields. figure that climbed to from another inT he College 210 by 2016. stitution. Thayer decided that also has 61 bachThayer should elor of engineerfocus on these ing students and fields within enroughly 200 adgineering as they are essential to ditional students in its graduate moving engineering forward and to programs. generating solutions to the world’s The gift also aims to increase problems, he said. the number of faculty at Thayer, The new building — south of including individuals who have the current MacLean Center, also experiences with start-up creation. named for MacLean — will be Thayer values an integrated, 180,000 square feet. interactive approach to engineering, Thayer also plans to extend so it is important to them to provide student enrollment, with a specific students with easy access to the bestemphasis on women. In the Class qualified faculty, Helble said. of 2016, 51 percent of engineering The school also hopes to decrease majors are women, substantially its student-to-faculty ratio, Helble FROM GIFT PAGE 1

said. Currently, Thayer has 56 “core faculty” members and 31 visiting and adjunct faculty. The school hopes to add an additional 20 to 30 full faculty members in the future, Helble said.

College President Phil Hanlon expressed his gratitude and respect for MacLean’s support of the College for half a century in the press release. Not only did MacLean attend the College and Thayer, but he also served on Thayer’s Board of Overseers for 42 years, contributed to innovations in entrepreneurship and recruited students from the Midwest.

MacLean is chairman and CEO of MacLean-Fogg, an Illinois-based manufacturing company with more than 35 locations worldwide and a workforce of 4,500. He is the father of three Dartmouth alumni.

The College expects the gift to help increase the number of students majoring in engineering and going on to Thayer for postgraduate studies, according to the press release.

Helble said the expansion will broaden and strengthen student opportunities in this field. He noted that the expansion of the school supports Hanlon’s goal of increasing experiential learning opportunities at the College.

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Tenure application denied by CAP FROM BAHNG PAGE 1

the College President, as well as any other dimensions of a candidate’s profile that the members of CAP or the College President may not be familiar with.

The associate dean presents the case, CAP deliberates, usually

with the President and Provost, and comes to a decision to either reject or accept the case for tenure, art history professor Mary Coffey said. If the President approves the request, the case is then sent to the Board of Trustees for final approval.

The College is able to promote faculty members, however, without

granting them tenure. Two years ago, three female faculty members were promoted without tenure, two of whom were unanimously approved by their departments.

One of those two received tenure this year, while the other one was rejected.

Bahng said several people told her case could have received promotion without tenure.

There have been several cases in recent years at the College in which the department and experts in a candidate’s field recommended tenure but the appointment did not pass CAP review. Last year the history department unanimously approved Derrick White for tenure, but White was denied by CAP. Three years ago, the same situation occurred with Sharlene L. Mollett, who was unanimously recommended for tenure by the geography department but was denied tenure by CAP. Both White and Mollett are also faculty of color.

For president of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association Leah Threatte Bojnowski ’01, CAP’s decision to deny faculty of color belies the College’s commitment to diversity. The College recently SEE BAHNG PAGE 5

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Committee hears testimony on athletics FROM FOOTBALL PAGE 1

the College, is a well known case of CTE that was highlighted in a New York Times piece last year.

“The testimony was mainly to put a face on what CTE is like for families,” Kinzle Zegel said.

During her emotional testimony, Kinzle Zegel — who began by saying “I’m gonna cry” — discussed her son’s struggle with CTE and the disease’s impact on other young athletes.

Kinzle Zegel said she wants legislators to take action and limit the amount of collision allowed in youth sports.

Teevens, who was not Dartmouth’s coach when Risha played at the College, is a leader in exercising preventative practices for head injuries. He discussed recent successes at Dartmouth that utilize the Mobile Virtual Player.

The MVP is a robot used during football practices to avoid head-to-head collisions between players.

“It was a great honor to let people around the country learn a bit more about what exactly we do at Dartmouth,” Teevens said.

At the hearing, Teevens discussed the role of the MVP in improving both his players’ health and also their performance on the field. With the MVP, tackling can be practiced more regularly, which makes players more effect on the field, he told the committee.

Kinzle Zegel said equipment for youth is not as developed as equipment in the NFL. She also noted that many coaches are not trained in concussion management.

Youth football — particularly below the high school level — should not involve heavy physical contact, she said.

Additionally, eliminating in-practice hitting, as the MVP does, can prevent numerous injuries. Youth sports have already eliminated some high-contact practices including checking in hockey and heading in soccer, she said.

“In football, there are no limits at all,” Kinzle Zegel said.

Andrew Gregory, a member of the medical advisory committee for USA Football and an expert in pediatric sports medicine also testified at the Congressional hearing.

“We may be subjecting them to injuries that they may or may not understand the significance of,” Gregory said, “It’s important for parents, coaches, to fully understand those risks that are involved.”

Gregory said that because there is not a large database for youth sports injuries, he is looking for more funding to allotted to this area specifically and to research surrounding youth sports injuries.

USA Football is currently exploring approaches similar to Dartmouth’s to improve safety in youth competitions, he said.

Dartmouth’s football team tied with Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania to win the Ivy League title last fall, which shows that a team can practice safely by limiting contact and still have success on the field, Teevens said.

Representatives of lacrosse and ice hockey organizations were in attendance at the hearing, as were researchers and neurologists.

Hockey, lacrosse and football are amongst the most cited sports when discussions about youth sports injuries occur. Research suggests there are healthier ways to practice those sports, Teevens said.

Kinzle Zegel said that CTE is not being recognized enough by the medical community.

“Nobody equates it to playing in football games 10 years later,” Kinzle Zegel said. “In the meantime, we have young men and young women struggling in this country and don’t know what’s going on.”

In March 2015, after Risha died, Kinzle Zegel founded the Stop CTE foundation to raise awareness of the disease. The group is working with medical examiners to encourage more research on CTE. She is also working to start support groups for those suffering from the disease.

“Woodpeckers and rams and other species, it’s okay for them to bang their heads, but human beings were never meant to do that,” Kinzle Zegel said.

Raising awareness of CTE is important because the disease’s impacts are often felt before families realize what is happening.

“Our family didn’t even understand what CTE even was,” Kinzle Zegel said. “Patrick was gone before we knew what CTE was.”

Kinzle Zegel talks to families about what to do if their loved one has CTE as part of her work at Stop CTE. “The website is to help other caregivers understand with CTE they just really need a hug and love and help and understanding and just to help them navigate through the world — it’s not easy for them,” she said. “It’s to not let parents make the mistakes I did.”

In August, the MVP was first used.

The MVP allows players to practice tackling in a safer way, Teevens said.

Players use the dummy during practices so they only need to tackle during games, which allows for fewer collisions, he said.

Teevens said that at this level of football, the players know how to engage on the field and do not need to practice tackling extensively.

The subcommittee on investigations is chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy and its ranking member is Rep. Diana DeGette, who organized the hearings at which Teevens and Kinzle Zegel spoke.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ‘18

Voces Clamantium

Tunnel Vision

Letters to the Editor about sexual assault awareness and education.

Is This Enough?

The April 5 article, “SPCSA hosts fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault” reports on the outcomes of the Symposium and Dartmouth’s new four-year sexual assault education program. The new curriculum is based on the United States Navel Academy’s program and will require students to engage with sexual assault programming on a yearly basis, rather than just at the start of their freshman year.

The termly options will include watching online videos, using interactive websites, and attending workshops like the Dartmouth Bynstander Initiative and Movement Against Violence training. Yet, as a student, I am left asking if this is enough?

Will this plan really change our campus culture around sexual assault or will it just be another requirement we all have to fill?

I believe our campus goal should be to create lasting behavioral change around issues of sexual assault, and I don’t think that can be done through a computer screen. I am sure most of us can agree that Haven, the online sexual assault program we had to complete before orientation, was not especially impactful or effective. For this new education program to be effective we need to have peer-mediated discussions that require participants to critically engage with the issues at hand. Student organizations like MAV have found that time and time again that these strategies create the most effective prevention programs. This four-year program is an opportunity to create lasting and profound change for our campus and I want to be sure this chance isn’t wasted.

-Savannah Moss ‘18 Safe at Home Base This fall’s inauguration of the residential housing system restructures under-

graduate life at the College, but also creates a new frontier from which Dartmouth should combat sexual assaults. The simple logic that live-in faculty members and strong community bonds further education in the classroom also applies to education on the most urgent of matters: the nationwide reality of sexual assaults on college campuses. Best implemented, the new communities made up of upperclassmen resources and faculty advisors offer ideal “home bases” from which difficult yet important conversations can thrive as part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative’s round-the-clock learning priority. Perhaps most promising of all, persistence and dialogue will create a new cultural norm of responsible conduct.

While certainly no cure-all for such a difficult subject, next year’s overhaul of undergraduate life offers a unique window for the Dartmouth community to prioritize sexual assault awareness. Why not install multiple identifiable live-in sexual assault peer advisors in each community? Even current upperclassmen less invested in the new houses can rally behind installing this conversation into the very woodwork of our new residential life. Live-in faculty members also offer an opportunity to better gauge campus climate and encourage participation in the sexual assault surveys.

Such prioritization can help familiarize victims with mental health resources available to them and increase assault reporting. The housing system’s new social and academic spaces also provide much-needed physical anchors for existing programs such as the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative and the planned four-year sexual assault education program. Prioritizing sexual assault education in the new house`s will create meaningful change and a safer campus for all students. What better a way to welcome the 2020s into the Dartmouth family?

-James Fair ‘18

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It is important to recognize the nuances of American identity.

For all of its flaws and weaknesses, the United States is still an exceptional country. Despite over two hundred and thirty years of change, America is arguably the greatest country in the world now, just as it arguably was back in 1776, when it began as a democratic republic in an age of empires and kingdoms. The world looks to Washington, D.C. for leadership and strength in times of war and peace, in times of darkness and prosperity. In my opinion, Americans are the most diverse, industrious, innovative and hopeful people on earth. Our real GDP and GDP per capita are among the highest in the world, education is widespread, our economy is robust and our society is stable and secure, and Americans pride themselves on having freedom of speech, opportunity for upward mobility and welcoming immigrants from around the world throughout our history.

The defining feature of the American people is that we have constantly rethought what it means to be American as new people from around the world immigrated to the U.S. Today, as in the past, many Americans view immigrants as inherently “un-American” and use them as scapegoats for the challenges facing the country.

In reality, there never has existed a form of “pure” American culture that was not always rethought and reshaped – and we will never solve our problems by blaming immigrants for them.

The U.S. has always been a country of immigration, assimilation, change and progress. When imagining an “American,” the image that usually comes to mind is one of a white person, generally of European descent. Yet even these people have ancestors who were immigrants at one point. In 1776, most of the American population consisted of western Europeans and slaves. By the mid-nineteenth century, there was a huge influx of Irish and German immigrants. Starting in the latenineteenth century, southern and eastern Europeans moved en masse to America.

This was not without backlash — indeed, nativists saw the new Catholic and Orthodox-Christian immigrants as foreign despite the fact that they themselves had been immigrants until just recently.

Despite this initial backlash, Italian, Polish and Greek cultures are seen as fundamental aspects of the ‘melting pot’ that is America today. Enclaves of Americans who still practice the cultures and speak the languages of their homelands exist in most American cities, and many immigrants have intermingled and assimilated over time with others. We have had a Catholic and a biracial African American president. Some of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, inventors and politicians come from immigrant families. Throughout American history, progress, assimilation and inclusion have won out over conservatism, stagnancy, nativism and isolation.

Yet today we see these same nativist

arguments used throughout history leveraged against new immigrants. “They do not have the same values as us.” “They do not speak English.” “They do not look like us.” “They will steal ‘our’ jobs.” More recently, now-Republican Party nominee for president, Donald Trump, added to the fray his own criticisms of Hispanics, saying that “they’re bringing drugs...they’re bringing crime...they’re rapists.” This sort of rhetoric “otherizes” immigrants using the qualities of their worst cases, and the fact that such rhetoric has seeped even to the upper echelons of government is disturbing.

Nativist, essentialist and tunnel vision views of what it means to be American — what it means to be “foreign” and who “can” and “cannot” be an American — only hurt the U.S. in the long run. We live in an increasingly globalized world. Spanish and Chinese are more widely spoken worldwide than English, and Spanish, in particular, is quickly catching up to English in the U.S. Yet there has been significant pushback against this in the U.S., which has implications for American foreign relations. Conservative politicians often treat speaking Spanish as taboo. To appear more “American,” conservatives like Ted Cruz have claimed to speak lousy Spanish, only later to be revealed to actually be fluent. Evidently, those who desire a “pure” form of “American” culture see speaking a foreign language as an indicator of suspect national loyalty or limited intelligence. This has consequently led to the suppression of Spanish speaking in favor of English in some cases, as in the American southwest. Such measures and attitudes have woefully left Americans behind the rest of the world in multicultural awareness and multilingualism – despite America’s melting pot culture.

This tunnel vision worldview still exists today even among many influential Americans. I have hope that progress will ultimately win, and that new immigrants will be welcomed and allowed to contribute fundamentally to American society, as they have in the past. I have faith that, as my generation grows older and more politically aware, the old guard of “pure” American culture and values will move aside for a more inclusive, mixed and diverse American society. Being American is not simply valuing “freedom,” speaking English exclusively and being white — it is being hopeful that each generation will be better off than its parents. It is valuing the freedom of speech and assembly, and contributing to America’s melting pot culture. It is speaking multiple languages and being multiethnic or multiracial. We must recognize that there never has existed a single type of “American” or “American culture,” and understanding the nuances and complexities of immigrants and foreign cultures is increasingly important as the U.S. continues to dominate global affairs and attract a global community.

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Petition in support of Bahng’s tenure gains 2,823 signatures FROM BAHNG PAGE 3

released the results from a campus climate survey conducted last October, which focused on diversity and inclusivity amongst students, faculty and staff.

Minority faculty recruitment and retention is part of Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative. A January report on faculty diversity outlined a goal of having 25 percent faculty of color by 2020.

“The Bahng decision coupled with Derrick White last year raises a lot of questions for us about when are we going to see real changes and not just reports,” Bojnowski said.

In 2014, a student organization, the Asian American Students for Action, was created to advocate Asian American issues. One of their biggest foci has been to establish an Asian American studies department at Dartmouth. In February, alumni created a petition to push for the creation of a Asian American studies department, which garnered 376 supporters as of press time Pei-yun Chu ’18 said that when Asian American Students for Action met with Mastanduno and others, the group was told that administrators would support getting Asian

American studies on campus. The fact that CAP denied tenure to its only Asian American studies professor makes it seem that the College’s actions are not matching their words, she said.

Bojnowski said she was confused as to why Dartmouth would deny tenure to professors who were both recruited by the College and, as she understood it, had work that was promoted by the College’s Dartmouth Now website and received unanimous support in the tenure process from their departments.

According to Coffey, the reason deans give for the difference between CAP decisions and the earlier steps in the tenure process is that departments favor the candidates they know and external reviewers are pressured to only write positive letters. CAP then has to read between the lines, she said.

The current situation puts departments and external reviewers in a difficult situation in which enthusiastically positive letters are discounted as uncritical and more measured letters that acknowledge weaknesses are interpreted as ambivalent, Coffey said.

Coffey said that another reason for the difference between CAP, departments and external review-

ers could be an increased reliance on quantitative methods by CAP. These quantitative metrics value how much one has published and, in particular, published in established journals, which tend to have relatively rigid disciplinary boundaries, she noted. This can disproportionately disadvantage people working in emerging fields with few journals, she noted, particularly scholars in the emerging fields of ethnic studies such as Bahng. In turn, the lack of journals for more interdisciplinary studies can lead scholars to publish more in anthologies which are less valued in tenure evaluation, Coffey said.

Ethnic studies can face a broader problem of legitimacy, Bojnowski said. Faculty of color in ethnic studies departments — like Bahng and White, who also teaches in African and African American studies — need to establish why their work is valuable in ways more established departments do not.

“The economics department does not need to decide why economics should exist,” Bojnowski said.

Bahng said that Mastanduno told her that one of the issues with her candidacy was that some wanted to see more progress on her schol-

arly output beyond her dissertation project.

“One of the tough things to hold together in the tenure process is how to identify cutting-edge, emerging, great work while at the same time toeing a certain procedural line of already established excellence,” Bahng said. “A case like mine, I can easily imagine being subjected to that incommensurability, wanting to recognize scholarship that is pushing the enveloped while also trying to subject it to rubrics that reward the most already established.”

Coffey said that she feels that if Bahng’s case was viewed holistically and “with an emphasis on qualitative metrics,” she would have been granted tenure.

Students, faculty and alumni very positively assessed Bahng as a scholar, teacher and mentor.

“This is a scholar who is working at the cutting edge of certain fields, whose work is experimental and theoretically complex,” Coffey said. “She is incredibly well-known within her fields of literature and Asian American studies and science studies.”

Kevin Bui ’17 has taken two classes with Bahng and currently has her as their major advisor. Bui said they do not understand why the College would deny her tenure.

“I can unequivocally say with every interaction I’ve ever had with her, I’ve come away learning something new, because she is absolutely brilliant in everything she does.” Bui said.

Bui says that when they attended a conference with Bahng, scholars described her as having the potential to push the boundaries of Asian American studies.

Laura Sim ’16, who has Bahng as her thesis advisor, said that Bahng academically and emotionally supports her students.

Coffey noted that faculty of color tend to be more heavily involved in service commitments which can be undervalued in the tenure process.

Whenever there is a committee to discuss diversity issues, people of color are gathered and asked for their opinions on fixing Dartmouth’s “perennial problems” with diversity, Coffey said. She added that she thinks Bahng has done far more in terms of service than most other faculty.

As the undergraduate student body becomes increasingly diverse, with almost half of undergraduates being non-white, faculty of color are increasingly finding themselves inundated with students who are seeking mentorship and advice, Coffey said.

Chu said that mentoring and supporting students is a particular burden on faculty of color because there are so few faculty of color and an increasingly more students of

color.

“It’s really disproportionate how much work they have to put in compared to white faculty,” Chu said.

“I don’t really see it as something that the administration takes into account.”

The effect of these service commitments is that those who are demographically under-represented in academia, such as women and faculty of color, have less time for research productivity, Coffey said.

Another reason why both tenured and non-tenured faculty of color leave Dartmouth is because of a scholarly environment Bui described as racist and toxic.

A common complaint of faculty of color who left the College is that their white colleagues did not value their work in ethnic studies, Bui said, and did not treat them with the same respect they did their white colleagues.

Coffey pointed to some of the experimental nature of Bahng’s work that may have disadvantaged her in the tenure process. Bahng published a book called “Speculate This!” as part of an anonymous collective, but she was the primary author of that text, Coffey said. As a result, the book was not counted towards her productivity even though there were ways of verifying her authorship.

When Coffey came to Dartmouth 13 years ago, the deans would tell faculty members specifically what they needed to do to get tenure, such as how many articles they needed to publish. The College is now more vague on its standards, she said.

The decision has provoked an outpouring of support and outrage on Bahng’s behalf.

“It all just happened so quickly,” Bahng said. “It was a swift and decisive coalescing of forces, of undergrads, past and current students, people I didn’t even know, friends and colleagues from Dartmouth and beyond.”

Bahng and student activists cited transparency as a problem in Dartmouth’s tenure process.

Bui said that the decision to deny Bahng tenure reflects the opaqueness of the tenure process.

“A supposedly racially blind process is constantly producing racially skewed results,” Bui said.

Moreover, some pointed to a larger effect of Bahng being denied tenure — discouraging more Asian American studies scholars from joining the Dartmouth faculty, who might feel their work will not be valued and might not want to take the burden of establishing an Asian American Studies program as a new faculty member.

“When other institutions see that Aimee Bahng is denied tenure, no [Asian American studies professor] is going to come here,” Todd Huang ’19 said.

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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The Class of 1961 Robert Frost Statue Contest Awards, near the Loew Auditorium box office, Black Family Visual Arts Center

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

“Feminism and the Digital Humanities,” professor Elizabeth Losh from the College of William and Mary, Kemeny Hall 007

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“The Pitch!” presented by the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, Filene Auditorium, Moore Building

TOMORROW

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

“Quantum Tunneling as a Computational Resource,” by Vadim Smelyanskiy, Wilder 104

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

The 2016 Tracy Piano Competition, guest judge Marc Ryser, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“Miles Ahead,” directed by and starring Don Cheadle, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Alums collaborate and perform at NYC’s The Bitter End new artists and more established acts,” Griffith said. “It’s really a great place The Dartmouth Staff to be.”

Although Danny Calano ’15 did not The Bitter End’s head talent buyer anticipate being able to make his own discovered Calano’s music online and music less than one year after gradu- messaged him about performing at the ating from Dartmouth, for a young club during the prime time Saturday musician, his plans have taken a turn night slot after stating how much he in the best possible way. On April 30, liked his music, Calano shared.

Calano and classmate Evan Griffith ’15 “That performed at The was really amazBitter End, a rock “That was really amazing to ing to be able to and roll nightclub at this be able to perform at this perform and music venue historic venue in Greenwich Vil- historic venue at such an at such an early lage, New York early point in our careers.” point in our caCity. reers,” Griffith With a remarked.

230-person ca- -EVAN GRIFFITH ’15, Durpacity, The Bitter ing the perforEnd’s small size MUSIC PRODUCER mance, Calano belies its renown sang a mix of in the music inoriginal songs dustry. Many and covers, well-known artists, including Lady while Griffith, who is also Calano’s Gaga and Bruce Springsteen, have manager and producer, played the played at the venue. auxiliary keys. Guitarist David Cooper, Griffith said the venue is a common drummer Jake Nankin and bassist Sam site for musicians to perform at while Torres accompanied the duo for the set. traveling through the city.

“I was so excited to be performing “It’s a really amazing launchpad for at such an incredible venue,” Calano

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said.

Calano said he and the band rehearsed for an extensive period and performed at a few shows together before the show in New York.

“We had a lot of momentum going into our performance at The Bitter End thanks to those prior shows,” Calano said.

During their undergraduate years, he and Griffith were involved in a number of musical groups. Calano sang for the a cappella group the Dodecaphonics and opened last year’s Green Key concert with The Euphemisms, a student rock band based in the Upper Valley.

Griffith was involved in a number of classical music groups. He directed the Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra, the Dartmouth Hillel Choir and was a member of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College. Griffith found his passion in music production after doing an independent study with music professor Michael Casey over his sophomore summer. The track he produced in the independent study resulted in Calano’s debut song, “Can’t Let You Go” (2016).

Calano and Griffith met during

their sophomore summer when Griffith thing just fell right into where it should joined Summerphonics, the summer be and where it is now.” spin-off of the Dodecaphonics. During As the music producer, Griffith their senior year, Griffith asked Calano expands on a piece of music that to sing and record demo tracks for his Calano creates by proposing ideas and senior thesis on Jewish hymnals. shaping the piece until it resembles a Calano said the partnership came final product. easily because they work well together.

Griffith noted his job is to turn a “We’re both perfectionists and chal- composition into a final master that lenge each other,” people can hear Calano reflected. on the radio.

Calano decid- “It really was the perfect “It’s my ed to collaborate timing and perfect place. job to realize the with Griffith on chorus of a song contemporary Everything just fell right could hit a little pop tracks, mark- into where it should be harder in one ing the beginning place or that we of their current and where it is now.” need more lyrimusical partnercal content in the ship. They re- -DANNY CALANO ’15, verse,” Griffith corded two songs said. “Maybe we and released one MUSICIAN need more synth this past summer here or drumand the other earming there.” lier this year.

After putting the tracks together, Without Griffith’s support as his Griffith decided that Calano needed to producer, Calano said he didn’t think play these tracks in live performances he would be able to keep making music and put a band together to do so. after graduating.

“I don’t just sit behind the computer.

“It really was the perfect timing and I also produce the artist,” Griffith experfect place,” Calano said. “Every- plained.

Pulling connections from friends and colleagues, Griffith and Calano roped in Cooper, Nankins and Torres, to form the band they currently perform with.

With Calano working at a musicmarketing company, Griffith working as a music publicist in public relations and every member of the band having separate full-time jobs, Calano noted that being able to make music together required a high level of commitment and dedication.

However Griffith said the group clicked in early rehearsals and developed a great friendship and partnership.

“Now, we write music and everyone will chip in ideas for cool things to try,” Griffith said. “It’s really a collaborative, creative environment.”

John Rybicki, Calano and Griffith’s lawyer, who helped them set up their band agreement, said Calano’s on-stage persona is very sincere. “[Calano] is such a sweet, down-toearth guy,” Rybicki said. “It’s infectious when someone is that excited to be on stage.”

After experimenting with a mostly pop sound in their first few tracks, Griffith said the band intends to incorporate more rock into their next few songs.

Calano cited pop punk bands such as Green Day, All Time Low and Blink-182 as his vocal inspirations and noted that the driving but clear and powerful vocals of those bands were one of his major influences when he first started gaining confidence as a singer.

Calano and Griffith’s next performance will be at Leftfield, a bar and music venue in New York City on May 26. Beyond that, they plan on recording more songs and releasing an EP later this year.

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Men’s tennis wraps up stellar season at NCAA tournament

By MARK CUI

The Dartmouth Staff

On May 14, the Dartmouth men’s tennis team lost to No. 31 Tulane University 0-4 in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to playing Tulane, the team was on a red hot six-game win streak that began on April 3, having defeated all seven of the other Ivies except Columbia University, to whom the team lost 2-4 on April 2. The loss to Tulane marked the end of an overall strong season. The team went 18-9 in the regular season, and finished in second in the Ivy League behind Columbia with a 6-1 conference record, losing only to the undefeated Lions. The team also made its first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 1997.

“It was a great feeling to make the tournament after 19 years. It was an amazing honor to be on this team. We really deserved if after being so close for a couple of years in a row,” Dovydas Sakinis ’16 said. “Although we didn’t make it far, it was a great experience for the team moving forward.”

Earlier in the season on Jan. 31, the Big Green defeated Tulane in a close 4-3 victory at home. But

the conditions were very different, as that was indoors and on home turf. This time, Tulane, which boasts one of the top players in the country in No. 3 singles player Dominik Koepfer, came out firing from the beginning, going 2-0 in doubles. However, despite Tulane’s fast start, Dartmouth remained resilient, and the lopsided score belied just how close the match was.

“It was a really great fight. Both teams played well. Credit to Tulane, they had an amazing start and an amazing match overall. Guys fought really hard,” Sakinis said.

“It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get a win, but I think we were so close to turning things around.”

In doubles, Tulane’s duos of Koepfer and Chin-Shan Jao and Sebastian Rey and Ian Van Cott defeated both Dartmouth’s Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 and George Wall ’17, and Sakinis and Max Fliegner ’18 6-3. The final partnership of Max Schmidt ’17 and Roko Glasnovic ’19 was in a close 4-5 battle when the match was called off after Tulane secured the doubles point.

On the singles side, Tulane went 3-0 despite a late surge by Dartmouth. Dartmouth’s Wall lost to Rey 2-6, 3-6, and Eddie Grabill ’19 lost to Tyler Schick 5-7, 3-6.

ONE ON ONE

WITH VERNON HARRIS ’16

BY VIKRAM BODAS

This week, The Dartmouth had a chance to talk with standout cornerback Vernon Harris ’16.

The 6-foot-2-inch Fort Lauderdale, Florida native was recently signed by the Kansas City Chiefs. Harris left school early to participate in the Chiefs’ rookie mini-camp and is now preparing himself for training camp at which he will fight to make the 53-man regular season roster. In total, eight Dartmouth seniors have earned professional opportunities this year.

While at Dartmouth, Harris became the first player in school history to start 40 games in a career and earned two All-Ivy League

First Team selections in his time in Hanover. For his career, Harris put up gaudy statistics recording 190 tackles, six interceptions, two forced fumbles and 22 break ups.

When did you find out the Chiefs signed you?

VH: They called me literally two minutes after the draft ended on April 30 — it was a surreal moment for me and my family.

After falling 6-0 in the first set, Ciro Riccardi ’18 came back to win the second set 7-5. However, he ultimately fell in the third set 2-6.

With the three singles points and the doubles point, Tulane clinched the match. Schmidt, Fliegner and Sakinis were all in the midst of their third sets when the matches were cancelled.

“I think it was a great experience for our team who really deserved it and something very valuable for our program that continues to build,” Tannenbaum said. “It was a great time for all the players as we were able to play at a nice facility and enjoy the experience as much as we could.”

Sakinis attributes the team’s leap forward this season to head coach Chris Drake’s winning mentality.

“Chris just did a very good job of changing the mentality of the team, and the standards of the team,” Sakinis said. “It’s definitely not the last time the team will be playing in the NCAA tournament, and hopefully guys in the future will continue to achieve more.”

Two members of the team, Sakinis and Tannenbaum, played their final collegiate game last Saturday.

For Sakinis, getting to Dartmouth and playing on the tennis team were two steps in a long journey that ultimately changed him as a

person.

“To get to Dartmouth I had to fight for two years with the admissions. I was so happy they finally gave me an admission letter,” Sakinis said. “I couldn’t compete my first year due to some amateur and professionalism issues. It was so hard to keep the motivation to practice. After I began competing sophomore year, everything changed, [and] I was more into team things, and I changed as a person. By this year, I changed a lot. I was able to achieve a lot of things former players couldn’t do.

Hopefully, the guys will break all of my achievements, and I hope for the best for the team.”

Sakinis also fondly recalled some of the highlights from his four years as a member of the team, saying that the best moments were winning the regionals this season and playing in the United States Tennis Association National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship “[The National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship] felt like an [Association of Tennis Professionals] event,” Sakinis said. “It was a great experience fighting against the best players in the nation.”

Sakinis added that beating Harvard University two years in a row after not beating the Crimson

since 1993 was another high.

Both players have been fixtures in the lineup since coming to Dartmouth. The team hopes to fill in both the leadership void and their top-notch play on the court.

“It’s a big loss to lose Dovydas and Brendan,” Drake said.

“They’ve played on such a high level for us. Both have clinched many matches for us. Both have grown as great leaders [that are] committed not only to their own games but also to the team’s. Hopefully we will have guys that will step up and fill up that leadership void. On the court, we have a lot of good players, and there will be guys who will be excited to move up higher on the lineup. We also have two good freshmen coming in who are good players who will be anxious to try to get into the lineup as well. Hopefully this will continue to propel us forward despite losing two great players and leaders.”

The team looks forward to building off the superb season.

The biggest takeaway was to focus and do well on the aspects of the game that the team could control.

“When we were at our best this season, we were taking care of the things we could control very well,” Drake said. “When we’re able to do that, we can compete with teams in the top 25 in the country.”

I celebrated with them. They were extremely excited.

both athletics and stuff in the classroom. Football itself is what got me this far, but when you integrate the academic portion that’s when I really learned. This taught me to stay focused even when football may not be the main priority. Dartmouth really just taught me how to manage my time and balance my life.

the future?

What are you up to right now?

VH: Right now I’m in between a rookie mini-camp and regular training camp. Basically I’m just training by myself to get my body and mind ready for that.

What are your goals for this experience?

VH: I guess the key is to take things step-by-step. The first goal is just to make the team and make sure I have the opportunity to prove myself. If I get a chance to show what I can do, I am confident that things will work out.

What’s the first thing you did after hearing the news?

What facets of Dartmouth have prepared you for this opportunity?

VH: My parents were with me so

VH: Definitely a combination of

What do you think it says about the Dartmouth football program that eight guys have earned professional opportunities this year?

VH: It definitely says that the program keeps getting better and better. Each year we are recruiting more talented guys and it clearly shows in terms of how we are doing on the field and with more guys getting NFL opportunities.

You are an engineering major here at the College, so what are your academic plans for

VH: My plan is to definitely come back and finish up my credits. Any off term possible I can get away from football, I’ll try to come to Hanover. If that isn’t possible then when my football career is over, I’ll be back to finish what I started. It’s a very important part of my life.

Does Dartmouth football have a chance of repeating next year as Ivy League Champions even though the team is losing so much talent to graduation?

VH: Of course, every year you’re going to lose seniors. It’s all about the next group and I feel like we had a lot of depth going into last year. I think a lot of those guys can step up and do a good job and fill a role for the team.

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