The Dartmouth 09/16/2016

VOL. CLXXIII NO.109

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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Diversity plan initiatives begin

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Biron replaces Calsbeek as North Park House professor

By ALEXA GREEN

OPINION

The College has taken the first steps in implementing its plan for improving diversity and inclusion on campus and among alumni.

In late May, the College released its action plan for inclusive excellence. Yesterday, a website was released that outlines the six main initiatives and multiple subinitiatives of the plan. Of the 47 subinitiatives listed on the website, seven are marked as complete.

On the website, each subinitiative is labeled with a status, description and comment form. Special Assistant to the President Christianne Wohlforth, who manages the website, said she hopes that as the website evolves there will be more transparency on who is working on these programs.

Wohlforth described the website’s release as a soft launch, noting it will be publicized in a few weeks when there is more content.

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Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will replace Ryan Calsbeek as North Park house professor. Biron will serve in this position in addition to her role as dean.

Calsbeek, a biological sciences professor and director of the biology foreign study program, stepped down from his position as the North

Park house professor early this term, Biron wrote in an email to North Park house members on Sept. 1. He will continue his teaching and research activities at the College.

House professors and families live a short walk from their respective communities, with each professor serving a four-year term.

Calsbeek will continue to live in the North Park residential

home for the duration of the fall. Biron will not live in the North Park’s house this term.

She did not specify whether or not she will be moving into North Park’s professor residence after this term.

T here were over 20 applications for six house professor positions this past spring. However, the College did not anticipate Calsbeek’s departure at the start of the term, so they did not

College apologizes for water contamination

By PRIYA RAMAIAH

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Executive Vice President Rick Mills apologized for the College’s use of Rennie Farm as a dumping site for laboratory waste in the 1960s and 1970s at a public meeting on Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center.

The Geisel School of Medicine used the rural site as a burial ground for test animals. A 2011

begin a search process for a new house professor, Biron said. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in a statement that any changes to North Park’s house professor role will be publicly announced, and the goal of building a stable community remains unchanged.

Several students interviewed expressed concerns about the creation of strong house communities.

“Everything is up in the air right now,” said North Park House undergraduate advisor Barry Yang ’18, adding that the house committees do not seem to have a specific idea of how community-building interactions will come about.

However, Yang said that he believes the housing system will have a positive SEE BIRON PAGE 5

POOLING TOGETHER

excavation found that chemicals from these bodies had infiltrated the well of a nearby family. In April 2012, the toxic chemical 1,4-dioxane was detected in groundwater samples. Last month, the chemical was also detected in a nearby stream.

1,4-Dioxane is a synthetic substance used primarily as an additive in solvents and has been TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Students play pool in the 8 Ball Hall in the basement of the Collis Center.

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Timeline of the ‘Action Plan for Inclusive Excellence’ The Action Plan for Inclusive Excellence is the College’s plan to improve diversity and inclusivity on campus and among alumni.

The action plan draws from the reports of three inclusive excellence groups published in early May 2016, and many initiatives outlined in the plan are assigned due dates, which are outlined below.

Beginning of 2016-2017:

By Sept. 15, 2016:

Freshmen orientation will include training on diversity and inclusion.

Formation of a working group charged with identifying a target by which to increase underrepresented minorities and provide strategies and benchmarks by which to achieve that goal Formation of a new Council of Institutional Diversity and Inclusivity, which will be made up of students, faculty and staff, to advice senior administration on diversity and inclusivity Formation of a Research and Assessment Team to develop metrics to evaluate efforts, study data, and work with senior administrations Report with recommendations from the Provost and Advancement Division that looked at ways to increase connections between alumni and students in order to support students of color and LGBTQIA students will be released

By Jan. 6, 2017:

By Feb. 15, 2017:

By May 30, 2017:

By June 1, 2017:

In 2019:

By 2020:

The president and provost, in consultation with the vice president of institutional diversity and equity, will review the optimal design and resourcing necessary for the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, and issue a report

The working group formed in September will report their findings to the President and Provost

Publication of the first annual Dartmouth College diversity and inclusion report card, which will be posted on the website

The faculty of each school must review their tenure and promotion process and report outcomes and proposed new practices Deans must report to the provost on the participation rates of faculty members engaging in activities such as mentoring and committee service, burdens which usually fall more heavily on faculty of color and women

Commission of public projects on the subject of Dartmouth’s involvement in slavery, historic treatment of underrepresented minorities and marginalized and excluded groups, and an examination of those moments in history where Dartmouth had led.

Increase the percentage of underrepresented tenure-track faculty institution-wide from 16 percent to 25 percent

*There are additional tasks outlined in the action plan that are ongoing and do not have due dates. These are not listed above.

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Water on Rennie Farm contaminated by waste FROM WATER PAGE 1

deemed a likely carcinogen by the Centers for Disease Control.

Mills said at the meeting that the public apology is the ďŹ rst of its kind for the water contamination.

The next phase of cleaning the site involved installing a pump system to remove the toxin from groundwater.

The pumps are scheduled to be installed by the end of the year.

This summer, 36 petitioners called for an expanded cleanup initiative from the College. The petition questioned why the College did not begin a remediation process until four years after the chemical

was detected in a well.

James Wiek, a water remediation contractor for the College, said at the meeting that 2012 data had shown that the contaminant presence would decrease naturally.

Director of Environmental Health and Safety Maureen O’Leary said that the College is conducting a survey to assess whether or not the College had attempted to contact residents of the area surrounding Rennie Farm to gauge their health.

The public meeting, attended by about 60 community members, was called by local environmental regulators and College administrators.

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GUEST COLUMNIST LEEHI YONA ’16

STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ‘17

Do The Right Thing

Common Sense

Dartmouth needs to divest if it wants to be on the right side of history.

What does it mean to do the right thing?

The decisions Dartmouth students and alumni make reverberate far beyond Hanover.

Climate change is an issue where Dartmouth can lead. Dartmouth is already leading in climate research – research that College President Phil Hanlon witnessed when he visited the Arctic in August. But, what about climate solutions?

Global warming is the greatest issue of our generation, and, without a doubt, the single most pressing issue affecting future generations of Dartmouth students. Where is Dartmouth’s leadership in this challenge?

In the 1980s, Dartmouth became the first Ivy League institutions to divest from companies profiting from South African Apartheid. At the time, nearly a quarter of the endowment was invested in these companies. Trustees said divestment had “great symbolic meaning”, which motivated their decision. Dartmouth was on the right side of history then; what about now?

On Monday, Dartmouth Alumni for Climate Action delivered a letter to Hanlon and the Board of Trustees in support of fossil fuel divestment.

With over 500 signatories spanning 57 class years, the letter is one of the largest alumni letters published. It requested, among other demands, a decision on divestment by spring 2017.

Student organizers of Divest Dartmouth – a campaign to disinvest the College’s endowment from the top 200 coal, oil and gas companies – have worked on this campaign since 2012. Many fellow 16’s helped found this campaign as freshmen.

Since then, thousands of Dartmouth community members joined us – yet, we graduated this spring without ever meeting on record with neither the Board of Trustees nor with Hanlon.

In May, a report commissioned by Hanlon objectively weighing the pros and cons of divestment was released, over two years behind schedule.

The report, written by Mark Borsuk, a Thayer School of Engineering professor, found that by no metric – financial, moral or reputational – could refusing to divest be a rational decision.

All this time, Divest Dartmouth diligently went through all administrative channels in order to request a conversation with the Trustees. Our online petition has garnered over 2,500 signatures.

In April of this year, we organized the Big Green Rally, which had over 115 co-sponsors and nearly 500 attendees – the largest gathering of its kind in Dartmouth history.

Finally, four years into our campaign, we were granted a meeting with two Trustees: Board Chair Bill Helman and Investment Chair Richard Kimball. We will be meeting with them at 7a.m. this Thursday, our first such conversation that will be on record. We hope that this conversation can begin in earnest during this meeting, and to meet with the full Board at their next meeting, so that this dialogue may continue. If we remain invested in these companies, we will be making a statement about where our values lie.

What does it mean to do the right thing?

After the campaign to divest from Apartheid in South Africa began at Dartmouth in the 1970s, it became clear that it was no longer morally acceptable to for the College to fund Apartheid. I believe that the same will be said of investing in climate change: the impacts of human-caused global warming are here. The United States is grappling with its own climate change refugees – from Native American communities in Louisiana to Inupiaq communities in Alaska. Every month in 2016 has been the hottest on record, shattering the records set in 2015. Our oceans are warming, reaching record temperatures. We are in a crisis.

Yet, in the face of this crisis, the fossil fuel industry has only acted in bad faith. Many of these companies knew about climate change since at least 1977. But, rather than shift their business practices, companies launched a disinformation campaign, deliberately misleading the public. The attorneys general of many states, including New York and Massachusetts, are now investigating the role of Exxon Mobil in this deception.

These facts terrify and anger me. But as I think about the campaign to end Apartheid in South Africa, I have faith in our ability to do what is right.

Divesting from fossil fuels alone will not solve climate change, much like divesting from companies in South Africa did not end Apartheid. Yet, as was the case with Apartheid, divesting from fossil fuels creates dialogue around the morality of investing in unethical companies. When Dartmouth divests- and it will, the question is when- our community will be making a statement about where we stand on this urgent moral issue.

What will it take for Dartmouth to do the right thing?

Leehi Yona ’16 is one of the founders of Divest Dartmouth and is a member of Dartmouth Alumni for Climate Action.

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The time is overdue for a no confidence vote in President Hanlon.

The 2016 Senior Survey reveals a wide disap- has pledged to judge others not on the color of proval with the administration’s responsiveness to one’s skin, but the content of one’s character. student concerns: 75 percent of its respondents Academic integrity has been slighted in favor of stated they are either “generally dissatisfied” or a desperate, flailing attempt to convince the world “very dissatisfied.” I have no doubt that a dozen that Dartmouth is not a racist institution. Even hands in Parkhurst reached up to scratch their in that regard, for all of Hanlon’s pandering, the heads at this news, mystified by the poor recep- world remains thoroughly unconvinced. tion to their munificence. I am just as certain that Hanlon and his administration care little for they shrugged it off as a mere fluke of statistics, so the quality of education at our beloved College. convinced of their own righteousness that they What have any of them to show for three years refused to accept the word of lowly students. of dawdling? Theirs is an agenda of misguided What they failed to understand then, and still fail principles wholly contrary to the school’s interests, to understand now, is the bitter frustration that accepting no input from an increasingly aggrieved fuels these numbers. school. For such dedicated service, the 2014 IRS The fact is that the administration’s current Form 990 for the College discloses that Hanlon state of affairs can sustain itself no longer. Its was paid a sum of $1,124,289 in that year alone! catastrophic ineptitude speaks for itself when Surely, no price is too small for such undying they continue to support a half-baked housing devotion, especially when paid out of the pockets system nobody desired or asked for, wasting of honest students and their families. valuable money in a mealy-mouthed attempt Perhaps all these grievances, inexcusable to supplant Greek houses. as they are, could still be Nor does it fare well for our if our president “A precedent must be forgiven education that our faculty and his administration gave is among the most poorly set for a leadership the slightest impression that compensated among our they were listening. Instead, that will truly serve peer schools. Precious rethey have pursued business sources are squandered the College in its best as usual, clasping their hands on hollow programs that capacity and mend about their ears and ignoring pay lip service to diversity the withering criticism about and safety but deliver on the damage to ou them. Time and time again, neither, while administra- school’s pride.”

Hanlon’s hollow emails tive bloat continues to to campus have betrayed astound us with its careless his disconnect from where extravagance. We have lost our status as the Ivy things truly stand. Even his own blog reveals how League institution with the best undergraduate little he cares, insisting we ought to care more teaching, a casualty of the unsustainable rise in about his vacation in the Arctic than the very real admissions rates. In exchange for our grief, the problems our school faces right now. Hanlon and administration would have us pay even greater his administration have proven their blindness to tuition fees – a reminder that their incompetence the very people they were meant to serve, and is funded out of our own pocketbooks. thus the time is right for their replacement.

It is unfair to students that their families should It is true that other members of the adminbear the financial brunt of these disastrous policies. istration, as well as the Board of Trustees, are as It is just as unfair to the members of our faculty, complicit in these failures as Hanlon. Nonetheless, who have given so much on behalf of the Col- for now we must focus upon Hanlon because of lege, to suffer a leadership that does not care for his unique responsibilities as the College president. their welfare. Intolerable as the status quo may He is the face of the administration and the origibe, more intolerable still is inaction. The time nator of many of its initiatives, and so he must has come for the faculty to register a vote of no shoulder the cost of their failures. These failures confidence in College President Phil Hanlon. begin with his leadership, and so any meaningful From the Moving Dartmouth Forward policy change must begin there as well. initiative to the constant attacks upon our cherI will not be so naïve as to promise that a ished Greek houses, the administration refuses to vote of no confidence would bring forth returns accept any responsibility for its own failed policies. immediately, or that any meaningful action will When such policies have done so little to improve be taken soon afterwards. Nonetheless, the statethe College’s public image, and done so much to ment must be made inescapably clear that we turn even the most loyal of alumni against it, is will not stand idly by as our own leaders tear our it not worthwhile to concede the endeavor and beloved College down. A precedent must be set pursue something more productive? “No,” the for a leadership that will truly serve the College administration seems to say. “We care only for in its best capacity and mend the damage to our presenting a façade to the masses, a gilded image school’s pride. to hide the rot beneath. We care only about social I conclude with this parodic rearrangement justice and good appearances, even though our of Thomas Paine’s words from long ago: own policies can’t give us even those!”

In Parkhurst a president hath little more to do Nor does Hanlon have any valid strategy for than to make false promises and pursue frivolitiesthe College’s academic future. In his search for which in plain terms, is to impoverish the school a new Dean of Faculty, he has emphasized not and set it together by the ears. A pretty business integrity, not academic excellence, not even talent. indeed for a man to be allowed over one million Hanlon’s Dartmouth would instead see prestige dollars a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! rewarded on the basis of race and gender, to the Of more worth is one honest student to society exclusion of almost everything else. This is truly and in the sight of the College, than all the suited a tremendous step backwards for a society that ruffians that ever lived.

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Plan outlines multiple deadlines for reports and projects FROM DIVERSITY PAGE 1

The action plan attempts to increase diversity beyond just one office on campus or a particular group of people, said Vice Provost for Academic Iniatitives Denise Anthony, who sat on the faculty working group. Wohlforth also emphasized the comprehensive and far-reaching aspect of the action plan.

“Any task in isolation is insufficient to really move the needle on this. It’s everything lined up together which is going to create the sort of critical mass of activities that I think is going to change and shift the culture,”

Wohlforth said.

Wohlforth also emphasized that the initiative is “not diversity for diversity’s sake.”

“We see that a necessary precondition for excellence is a sense of belonging in the community or that concept of inclusion,” she said.

The action plan details several tasks to be completed by Sept. 15, including a report with recommendations from the Provost and Advancement Division that looked at ways to increase connections between alumni and students in order to support students of color and the LGBTQIA community.

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Martha Johnson Beattie ’76, vice president for alumni relations, said the report, which will be posted on the website, contains more information about diversity initatives within alumni relations. The alumni office initiatives include promoting more affiliated group representatives — such as members of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Assocation, Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth and Dartmouth Association of Latino Alumni — at admitted student events, facilitating phone calls from affiliated group representatives to prospective and admitted students, and matching prospective student interviews with seniors in the same underrepresented demographic.

A task of the diversity action plan is to improve diversity and inclusivity initiatives during freshman orientation. Associate Dean for Student Life Eric Ramsey, who oversees orientation, said the action plan has made him recalibrate current programs more than create new one. The choice of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as a summer reading book was made in part because it “resonate[s] with different experiences,” he said.

New Student Orientation was developed further over the summer

to make sure students were aware of opportunities for involvement in diversity iniatitives and how to report a bias incident, he said.

Ahmed Mohammad, director of talent acquisition, who chaired the staff working group, said human resources will conduct exit interviews along with interviews for all faculty and staff. In addition, Mohammad added that diversity and implicit bias training has become more robust and “more mandatory” under the action plan. Training is now required for all parts of hiring including managers and search committees.

Implicit bias training will be requried for all senior staff members, faculty search committess, department chairs, new managers, students and the Board of Trustees. Implicit bias are attitudes or steroetypes that are unconcious and unconciously affect how people understand the world, Anthony said. Implicit bias is an important part of bias overall, which is an issue the working groups wanted to addres.

“Trying to understand [implicit bias] a little more helps us in a community say, “‘Look, no matter how dedicated I am to these issues, I am still affected by implicit bias,” she said. Anthony added that awareness of implicit bias helps mitigate the bias

that might result.

The action also increased funding to employee resource networks, which are afinity groups comprised of faculty, staff, families and Upper Valley community members, from 6,000 to 60,000. Evelynn Ellis, vice president of institutional diversity and equality, said the money will go towards providing social events which can help staff destress as well as professional development opportunities.

The executive committee is still forming another committee consisting of non-Dartmouth researchers and professionals to both evaluate Dartmouth’s progress and help set future quotas, Ellis said. Wohlforth said the goal to form a council on diversity was stalled and is still in planning.

Mohammed said, as someone “coming from the inside and also being close to the leadership,” there is a large difference between the action plan’s exeutive committee and executive commitees in the past.

“These folks seem to be a lot more committed to putting their money where their mouth is,” he said.

Ellis expressed similar optimism concerning the action plan.

“I would rather have my heart broken then to not believe we can do it. I really would,” she said.

Calsbeek to maintain house residence FROM BIRON PAGE 1

impact in the long-term.

Biron said that the direct experience of opening the houses as a house professor supplements her job as dean of the College.

“My role as dean of the College overseeing the house communities is coordinating across all of the houses and that is intimately related to the house professor work itself,”

she said.

House professors work with undergraduate advisors, graduate student fellows, student leadership teams and affiliated faculty. In tandem with student affairs staff, they are working to select governing student leaders, develop house identities and plan house programs.

Yang said that his undergaduate advisor training incorporated these efforts to establish new traditions

through personal interactions and planning opportunities to get together.

Biron will also have a dual role serving on the House Council, which consists of herself, the house professors, Vice Provost of Student Affairs Inge-Lise Ameer, Student Affairs and Residential Life Dean Michael Wooten and each house’s new assistant director for residential education.

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“Explaining the Diversity in the ‘end state’ of Galactic Evolution,” Dr. Alison Crocker, Reed College, Wilder 104

4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Bandaloop, vertical dance free performance presented by the Hopkins Center, Maffei Arts Plaza

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

Telluride at Dartmouth Film: “Arrival” (2016), starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

TOMORROW

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Uncle Rock, a 3+ free concert presented by Hanover HopStop, Hopkins Center

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Conversations and Connections: An Afternoon with Artist Laetitia Soulier, Hood Downtown, 53 Main Street

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

Telluride at Dartmouth Film: “La La Land,” (2016) starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center RELEASE DATE– Friday, September 16, 2016

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The Mowgli’s prepare to perform at House Kickoff tonight

By HALLIE HUFFAKER

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

This evening, the normally peaceful Green will be awash with music, food and students as The Mowgli’s perform on the Green as the featured act in Collis Center and Programming Board’s House Kickoff. The event is intended to celebrate Dartmouth’s inaugural House Communities.

The idea for the concert was first brought up this past summer when faculty in the Housing Communities reached out to Programming Board for their help in bringing a band to campus. Acting Director of Student Involvement David Pack, who advises Programming Board, said that the board jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with the communities.

“We are really excited to show how this new system will work with a lot of our existing structures,” Pack said.

“Plus, the opportunity to bring in a great band like The Mowgli’s is really exciting.”

They began the process of looking for artists in July. The selection process

was very similar to that of other Programming Board concerts, such as the Green Key concert, in that the board, with the help of an agency, chooses a specific date and makes a list of available bands in their budget range.

The Mowgli’s stuck out as a top choice from the very beginning.

“Because it is a welcome back event and…a whole Dartmouth community event, we thought ‘OK, we want a band that is upbeat, family-friendly, enjoyable, accessible across a broad range and that has some name recognition,” Pack said.

Charlie Blatt ’18, who has been a fan of the group since their hit song “San Francisco” came out in 2012 during her junior year of high school, was thrilled to hear that The Mowgli’s were coming to campus.

“Usually bands that I’ve heard of don’t come to Dartmouth,” Blatt said.

“Or often bands that I like do come to campus, but I start liking them after they have come.”

Haley Taylor ’19, who currently serves as the publicity chair for Friday Night Rock, a group that brings bands

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Collis Center and Programming Board are bringing The Mowgli’s to campus for the House Kickoff.

to campus a few Fridays every term, said the band’s music ranges fro pop punk to folksy to indie rock.

Taylor said they remind her of bands from the 2000s like The Click Five.

Samantha Lafontaine ’18, one of two general managers for Friday Night

Rock, had heard of the Mowgli’s before, but she looked up more of their music after hearing that they would be coming to campus. Her favorite song is “San Francisco,” one of their most well-known hits.

“They’re fun, they’re upbeat and I like their harmonizing on the cho-

ruses,” Lafontaine said.

Taylor appreciates that their style is a departure from the more mainstream music acts that usually comes to Dartmouth during big concerts.

“This is a nice mix of mainstream and indie — a lot of students want to hear a mix of genres,” Taylor said.

articles for our website. I help them do a little bit of research, and I help them think about how we’re going to market the articles when we do launch. And I also brainstorm ideas for articles for our website and also sort of give a millennial perspective.

I think Conan is one of the most talented late night talk show hosts out there, and it was really cool to see him after he spoke at Dartmouth at the 2011 commencement. And one of his pieces of advice that he said at that commencement that I’ve taken to heart ever since then, at Dartmouth and in real life, is “Work hard, be kind, and good things will happen.”

thinking new media, which means producing or helping contribute to online content or marketing to people through the internet. As my resume or as my experiences have indicated, I’m still figuring out what I want to do by trying a bunch of different things right now, because I really think it’s something you can continue to do out of Dartmouth.

Alumna Q&A: editorial assistant Perrin Brown ’15

By NALINI RAMANATHAN The Dartmouth Staff

As a Dartmouth student, Perrin Brown ’15 interned for “Conan,” at an economics research firm and as a marketing intern for a Los Angelesbased company. After graduation, she worked as a hospitality assistant at the Napa Valley Film Festival and, more recently, as an editorial assistant at Bodhi Tree, a spiritual online vendor startup. There, she hopes to grow and explore her interests, including film and media.

How did you get interested in the arts?

PB: I really liked acting when I was in middle school, so as a freshman — between doing a bunch of club sports — I auditioned for the MainStage at the time, which was called “Breaking E.D.E.N.” So I did that and took Acting 1 with professor Jamie Horton, which I loved. I continued sort of doing theater on the side, but also focused on Chinese, and went on the FSP that summer. And when I was off, I was at an internship at an economic research firm. I was reading The D, and I saw an article about the new Los Angeles film FSP program and sort of thought to myself, “Oh my gosh, I like film. I like studying film and media. I should take a class in this, immediately.” So I took my first film class which was [“Film History (1960-1990)”] with Mary Desjardins, fell in love with it, wrote an essay about the history of Disney, and then applied to the FSP, got in,

and yeah, everything kind of fell into place after that. And I stayed pretty involved, as much as I could, throughout my time at Dartmouth, and minored in film.

Do you plan to integrate your Asian and Middle Eastern studies major into your work in the future?

PB: Right now I work at a vendor of spiritual books, and I’m learning about the history of different Asian spiritualities and religions in Asia.

I’m complementing what I studied at Dartmouth with that and contributing factoids for our marketing team, as well as understanding our products and the books we’re selling.

Can you say more about this startup?

PB: It was a bookstore in Los Angeles called Bodhi Tree. It was founded in 1970 and closed in 2011.

But it’s coming back online, and it’s expanding into not just selling books but also into offering online courses, live events, artisanal goods and various lifestyle products for your ceremonies, for your sanctuary, for sensuality. And there are spaces also used for live events to host authors and speakers and spiritual visionaries.

What’s your role at the startup?

PB: I’m an editorial assistant, so I help assign copy, I help editors in charge of assigning the future

Can you tell me more about your work at the Napa Valley Film Festival last fall?

PB: What was great about that festival was that it was accessible by providing some of the shorts filmmakers’ housing, so I helped coordinate all of the housing for the shorts filmmakers supported by the community. It was a really great experience because — I feel embarrassed — as a film minor I’d never been to a film festival nor had I been to Napa, so I thought, “Why not go and try this?”

Can you tell me a little bit more about your internship with Conan O’Brien during your study abroad?

PB: I was general production intern, but I also got to fill in for the control room as well as in clips and clearances. I got a really great opportunity to see what it’s like when you call a show, especially one that’s pre-taped, as well as seeing the overall breakdown in each show.

And then in clips and clearances, I helped research various clips if an upcoming guest was coming up or if they needed to use certain clips to show on the show. But it was a really great gig because, obviously,

Obviously, there’s a lot of diversity in the jobs you’ve worked. What drives the type of jobs you choose?

What advice do you have for people who are interested in the arts?

Do you know what field you’d like to go into in the future?

PB: I say explore what you’re unfamiliar with, get off the beaten track a little bit. Explore other points of view. If you’ve done theater, maybe try film or try stage managing, try analyzing films, try a bunch of different parts of the arts. And if you do go off the beaten path, also keep in mind that everyone else is going off the beaten path and support them. I think that sometimes people forget that it’s sort of a two-way street. I’m always grateful for my friends who would test my board games for my game class at midnight on a Tuesday. And a bunch of my friends who majored in theater and the arts were really grateful for my presence at their senior shows.

Again, take advantage of all the fantastic shows and films and artists that come through Dartmouth because they’re so accessible, and you won’t be able to as easily get to as many you can in the real world, unfortunately.

PB: I’m still narrowing that down.

It changes quite a bit, but I’m

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

PB: I think the biggest thing that influences the jobs I choose are the people that work there, especially having a strong female mentor. I’ve done a lot in still figuring out what I want to ultimately do, but with each different gig, I’ve learned from each of my mentors, understanding what it takes to get where they were and trying to emulate their strength and will, so to speak. It’s more trying to work with the right people to learn different skills. So through my marketing internship in Los Angeles, I learned a great deal about professionalism. In Napa, I learned a great deal about organization. And I think right now I’m learning a great deal about thinking outside the box and thinking in the context of spirituality.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

SPORTS

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TODAY’S LINEUP

WOMEN’S SOCCER AT BURNHAM FIELD 7 PM

SATURDAY’S LINEUP

FOOTBALL AT MEMORIAL FIELD 7 PM

Following 2015 championship, men’s soccer receives recognition

By KOURTNEY KAWANO

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Rankings aren’t everything when thinking about the best school, and that’s also true for the men’s soccer team.

Despite ranking well in a number of lists, the team is thinking about more than just the numbers as they head into the season.

The Big Green ended its 2015 campaign with a second consecutive Ivy League Championship, an automatic berth in the NCAA College Cup and a spot on the NCAA Men’s Soccer RPI ranking. After graduating only six seniors while retaining multiple players who have garnered Ivy League accolades, it wasn’t surprising that the team opened 2016 with a top 25 ranking among Division I schools. During preseason, analysts for Top Drawer Soccer, a website that publishes weekly polls of college teams’ rankings, placed Dartmouth at number 22. During this period, the Big Green was the only Ivy League institution to make the list, which included several powerhouse schools from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big East conferences.

Now in his fourth year, head coach Chad Riley said receiving the early recognition is flattering because it gives credit to what last year’s team accomplished, but it is a bit arbitrary until NCAA selection season.

“We don’t really talk much about [the rankings],” Riley said. “We’ve been ranked periodically throughout the last three seasons so I don’t think it has a huge impact on the guys.”

Due to Ivy League regulations, the Big Green’s season could not officially begin until Sept. 2, which occurred a week after other conferences had already started. By the time Dartmouth faced the University of Kentucky, the Wildcats had already played two games.

The situation was similar when the Big Green played Xavier University, the University of Washington and Seattle University. All three opponents had an advantage of an extra week’s worth of competing to develop team chemistry.

Team captains James Hickok ’17 and Emmanuel Arteaga ’17 echoed how playing teams who start earlier in the season is a welcomed challenge because it sets the standard for the remaining games. That isn’t to say doing so doesn’t come with its difficulties. The team only has a week to incorporate the freshmen and begin developing chemistry to create offensive and defensive plays. The dwarfed time span is especially odd when considering the men need to play against teams that have been training since July.

For Arteaga, playing other nationally-ranked teams early this season is reminiscent of his sophomore year, when the team opened against the

University of Notre Dame, a team that was ranked second in the country.

Despite the 4-1 loss in 2014, he credited the game’s impact in determining how hard the men needed to work, resulting in the team’s winning the Ivy League Championship.

Strangely, the Big Green started off the 2016 season in a similar fashion to its championship season last year. The men opened with two double overtime games against Kentucky and Xavier to parallel the 2015 games against the University of Connecticut and the College of the Holy Cross. The only difference was that this year, the Big Green played to a 1-1 draw against the Wildcats and the Musketeers, versus tying the Huskies and beating the Crusaders in the prior season.

Fortunately, Dartmouth improved on its performance against Washington and Seattle from last year. Although the Big Green lost to the Huskies, 1-0, for the second consecutive year, the team’s defense allowed fewer goals. Against the Red Hawks, the team was able to avenge its 2-1 loss in 2015 with a well-earned 2-1 win at Burnham Field.

Despite playing teams of an arguably higher caliber, Hickok said the men are still eager to buckle down after not starting the season with the results the team wanted.

Riley said the team played very well considering the hurdle in overcoming

the extra week their opponents had.

In week three, Top Drawer Soccer ranked Dartmouth at number 16, while its opponents Kentucky and Seattle were placed at numbers 10 and 24 respectively. Now in its fourth week, the sports analysts and voters are eagerly waiting to watch and judge every pass and kick attempted. It is, after all, a thriving business to critique college athletes.

Along with Top Drawer Soccer, there’s also Soccer America, College Soccer News and HERO Sports offering their own take on who deserves to be the best of the best week-by-week. Additionally, coaches who are members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America participate and vote in weekly polls, which are published on the NCAA’s men’s soccer rankings homepage.

Of this ranking system, Riley said the team isn’t really concerned with being first or 30th in a poll. For the most part, they “just focus in on the moment,” which questions the necessity of ranking teams early in the season as well as the reliability of “official college ranking polls.” While ordering people is a natural human response especially in sports, some analysts rank as a way to show growth over the season and to predict who will qualify for — and perhaps win — the NCAA College Cup. While the men’s soccer team will be sure to take each week and each game

as it comes — first with the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Saturday, then with the University of Hartford next Wednesday — rankings truly do not become as significant as getting in the necessary practice in preparation for Ivy League play.

Like Hickok said, “every year, each team has to build its own identity and leave its own identity.” Although it is still far in the making, this year’s team has the potential to forge an identity of being one of the greatest programs in conference history by winning a third consecutive Ivy League Championship, a feat which no other Ivy League team has accomplished since Columbia University did so by winning an astonishing eight titles from 1978-1985.

“As much pressure as there seems to be, it’s more exciting now that we get to prove how great we really are,” Arteaga said. “Rankings don’t matter to the culture of our team because we know how hard it is to win two in a row and to win three is not going to be any easier.”

According to Riley, the team needs to focus on working toward improving its game.

“Every time we get out there together we want to figure out a way to play well and win,” he said. “While we’re excited to chase history, mainly it serves as a tool to focus on that daily grind of getting better.”

IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL PICKS Ashley Dupuis ’19

Maxwell Kanefield ’19

Matt Yuen ’19

Mark Cui ’19

Sam Stockton ’19

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.”

-Mia Hamm

“We’re going to turn this team around, 360 degrees.”

-Jason Kidd

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”

-Winston Bennett

“You play to win the game!”

-Herm Edwards

“If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.”

-Mike Ditka

Dartmouth v.

UNH (9/17)

Dartmouth

Dartmouth

Dartmouth

Dartmouth

Dartmouth

Penn v.

Lehigh (9/17)

Penn

Penn

Lehigh

Penn

Lehigh

Harvard v.

URI (9/16) Yale v.

Colgate (9/17)

Harvard Yale

Harvard Yale

Rhode Island Colgate

Harvard Colgate

Harvard Colgate