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Morton residents adjust after Endowment fire destroys belongings loss in line with

national trends

By MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

they could not find a place to stay for the night, the roommates said, it did not have any specific areas set aside. Buckley and Gabriele reached out to their friends for a place to sleep once news of the fire broke. Gabriele eventually spent the night “literally under the bed” of one of her friends before having to shower a couple of hours later in the Alumni Gym. The two did not hear anything about the state of their room until 11

Dartmouth’s endowment reported a loss of 1.9 percent on its investments for the fiscal year that ending in June 30, posting its worst performance since 2009. The endowment is now valued at $4.5 billion, down from $4.7 billion last fiscal year.

The negative net return accounts for the $100 million net investment loss and subtraction of the year’s distribution of $200 million, offset by $119 million in endowment gifts and transfers.

“The endowment was not immune from turbulent global markets,” Chief Investment Officer Pamela L. Peedin said in a press release. “But despite overall weak absolute results, we did see impressive relative returns from some managers who were able to capitalize on opportunities resulting from the volatility.”

This fiscal year witnessed stagnant growth in major international markets and in domestic healthcare and energy sectors.

“The Brexit vote hit in June and it really crushed a lot of asset markets,” economics professor Bruce Sacerdote said. “It was a big negative factor and that was included in this year’s performance.”

Economics professor Eric Zitzewitz also emphasized the difficult investment climate.

“This was a flag year for[Standard & Poor’s 500] and a down year for the international markets,” Zitzewitz said, referencing the stock index and the global economy respectively. “Hedge funds also had a tough year, perhaps

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Early Saturday morning, Abigail Buckley ’19 and Monika Gabriele ’19, two members of a quad on the third floor of Morton Hall, received a call from one of their roommates informing them that their building was on fire. The pair stayed up together until 3 a.m., waiting not only for firefighters to put out the blaze but also any update from the

College.

“We didn’t receive any Morton-specific information; it was all just sent out to campus like ‘there is a fire,’ not what’s going to happen to us,” Buckley said.

Buckley and Gabriele are two of 67 students forced to relocate for the remainder of the fall term after Morton was rendered uninhabitable by a four-alarm fire caused by an unattended charcoal grill.

Although the College requested that students contact them if

CPD hosts the graduate school fair

By EMMA DEMERS

The Dartmouth Staff

Yesterday over 85 institutions participated in the third annual Graduate and Professional School Fair, giving students the opportunity to meet with admissions representatives from many schools. Hosted by the Center for Professional Development in the Hopkins Center, the fair provides students exposure to graduate programs in the arts and sciences, medical schools, law schools, business schools and other educational opportunities. Repre-

sentatives came from schools across the nation.

Past fairs have drawn 120 to 170 students. The CPD gives students a list of potential questions to ask admissions officers, as well as a list of possible questions that the officers may ask them in return.

“You don’t have to know now if you’re going to go to graduate school,” said project manager and CPD associate director Leslie Kingsley, encouraging students to take advantage of resources like the fair.

Kingsley and the other CPD advisors involved in the fair work to

ensure that the schools present are those that are attractive to students.

Medical schools and law schools were the most popular types of graduate programs represented at the fair, reflecting a high level of undergraduate student interest in both disciplines.

However, for some attendees, finding the right school proved to be a challenges. Physics major Sam Greydanus ’17 said he enjoyed talking to many school representatives but was hard-pressed to find schools representing the sciences.

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Q&A with second-year sociology professor Kimberly Rogers

By MELANIE KOS

The Dartmouth Staff

Now entering her second year at the College, Kimberly Rogers has dedicated a great portion of her life to studying social interactions on multiple levels, from culture, to groups within a culture, to individuals within a group.

The sociology professor came to Dartmouth in 2015 from Mount Holyoke College. She is originally from Virginia, but did her graduate work at Wake Forest University and Duke University in North Carolina, where she studied psychology and sociology.

She calls herself a “social psychologist on the sociology side.” Sociological social psychologists typically study microstructures, including social interactions, small groups, social networks and organizations, which mediate between the individual and society. These structures affect individual thoughts, feelings and behavior.

Rogers studies how inequalities are reproduced or overturned within these microstructures. She teaches a course at the College on status and power in social interaction, as well as an introductory course that has been selected for the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning Gateway Program, which she hopes will make her classroom environment even more interactive. Rogers is also working with the Neukom Institute for Computational Science to build a software tool that anybody from students to faculty can use to simulate social interactions they are interested in and understand what their likely consequences are.

How does your research on cultures, groups, and individuals tie into everyday life?

KR: I study group process theories. I study how mechanisms that operate within groups affect individuals and how inequalities are reproduced and overturned within groups. Some important mechanisms we study are status and power dynamics. Who gets status, who gets power, how is their higher position within the group legitimated, how do they seem like a legitimate authority figure, how do we form those perceptions, how do those perceptions then affect the dynamics that happen within a group are all questions that my research looks to answer.

For instance, if we had a group of people working on a task, someone becomes the group leader. We perceive the leader’s contributions to the task as more valuable, we let the leader talk more, we defer to the leader’s judgement in various types of ways that only reinforce the pre-existing belief we have that whomever was picked as the leader should be in charge of the group.

This is one way that sociological social psychology shows how we reproduce the social order, by basically coming into a situation with perceptions of who people are and having those perceptions bias the way we treat others and feel about them, and how we feel and act in response.

Are there any present day trends that you’ve noticed that relate to your research?

KR: I also study culture and how culture impacts our behavior and emotions, the way that we treat other people, and the way that we feel. Since that is a part of so much of our lives, it relates to a lot of types of current events in different ways. For example, in terms of the current presidential election, one way that what I do and what other social psychologists do is relevant is that it helps us understand gendered beliefs, about what is appropriate for a male versus a female political candidate to do, say, think, and feel. Those types of things shape our perceptions of them in ways that can bias us towards supporting one candidate over another, for thinking, for instance, would Hillary Clinton be a legitimate leader or would Donald Trump be a legitimate leader. So we use gender frames to shape our perceptions of people’s actions, behavior, feelings, and make decisions like in this way.

In terms of thinking about Black Lives Matter, and controversial issues where different groups of our society have really different perceptions of social issues, cultural consensus steps in. A lot of old theory in my discipline talked about culture as being a nice, big, coherent “seamless web” with generalizations like, “America has a culture,” and we all sort-of know what that culture is, and that helps bring us together and understand each other. What a lot of my work actually shows is that many of our cultural beliefs are tied to our own personal experiences, our place in society, and the day-to-day interactions that we have.

What are you currently work-

ing on?

KR: The current work that I’m doing right now is actually looking at how we form hypotheses about what is going on at a social event. We have a set of cultural knowledge; the people we’re interacting with have their own set of cultural knowledge, and those things come together.

We have to negotiate the interaction and make sense of it, together. In situations when we have really common beliefs with people, it’s really straightforward to accomplish that. But when COURTESY OF KIMBERLY ROGERS we have really different beliefs from people, a much Rogers closely studies social interactions. more complex process has to happen for us to negotiate an inter- it comes from, rather than how to fix action that works and makes sense for it. More and more of my work has everybody. been shifting in that problem-solving direction over time.

A lot of my work involves mathematically modeling how we form these in- Why did you come to Dartmouth, ferences and update them by observing and what do you like to do outside other people’s behavior and emotions of the classroom? when we’re interacting with them, so we can make predictions about how KR: Dartmouth is both a top research that cultural knowledge comes together college and a place where a liberal arts in interactions. These mathematical curriculum is valued, and I think Dartmodels allow for the identification mouth is very unique in this respect, as of inflection points where you could many schools are usually just one or the intervene to improve interactions. other. It is a great intellectual community where research is supported and This has become an increasing interest even undergraduates can participate. over time for me because much more I also have two dogs, Finn and Lilah, sociological work tends to focus on who love to go hiking as much as I do, the problem of inequality and where so this is a really fun place for that.

Graduate school fair features programs from around the country FROM CPD PAGE 1

search,” he said. “Same for biology and chemistry to a certain degree.”

Every year, the CPD reaches out to a multitude of schools as well as to the Graduate Enrollment Professional Association to gather a group of the top schools in a variety of fields. Schools represented this year included Tufts University School of Medicine, the Rhode Island School of Design and New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

“We really look strategically at what are past behaviors of where people are going, where people are applying, what kind of programs they’re looking into,” Kingsley said.

According to Kingsley, less than 20 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates go directly into a gradu-

ate school program. However, a significant proportion of students eventually pursue a graduate degree, often after waiting five to seven years.

While the fair is a culmination of the CPD’s efforts to connect undergraduates with future education, it also offers the Dartmouth GraduateUndergraduate Program, where an undergraduate student is paired with a graduate student in order to learn more about life in graduate school.

Kingsley hopes that students use the fair and the CPD to learn how to become a competitive applicant in the graduate and professional school pool.

“Graduate school becomes a much more narrowed focus for your future career trajectory and career aspirations,” she said, “so we want to give students that insight and clarity.”

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The Center for Professional Development strives to connect students to connect students to graduate programs.

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Students find support in community Most of Ivy League sees loss in their endowment FROM FIRE PAGE 1

a.m., when they were called to meet at House Center A, at noon. There, affected students were given toiletries as well as supply packs from the Red Cross.

Students still ran into logistical problems, with some lacking access to their medications. Buckley had left her emergency inhaler in her room and was unable to get it back. Nor could she get a replacement from either Dick’s House, due to their policies on prescription medicines, or the Red Cross, because it were closed on Sunday.

Even something as simple as taking a shower was an issue for Gabriele, who was not made aware of the codes for the bathrooms in the River Cluster, where she was relocated with Buckley.

She found herself locked out of the bathroom without access to her phone, and eventually broke down.

“I was cold, standing in a towel, after the long weekend I just started sobbing,” she said.

Other students have also had difficult transitions into their new living quarters, particularly with getting necessary furniture in a timely manner.

Taringana Guranungo ’18, Morton first and second floor’s undergraduate advisor, converted the McCulloch study room into a living space for himself and fellow UGA Issa Sylla ’17 so they can continue to fulfill their duties as East Wheelock UGAs. They moved into this space on Saturday, but only received their furniture this Tuesday.

“They’ve tried to accommodate for everyone but maybe they failed to do so in a timely manner,” Guranungo said.

Fellow resident Jonah Cohen ’19, who lived on the fourth floor, said that he also experienced distress over the weekend because he had no way of

finding out about the condition of his possessions until the fire was over.

“I didn’t know if when I got let back in there if all my stuff was just going to be completely obliterated,” Cohen said.

Apart from some minor smoke damage, however, his room escaped any major harm. Cohen, who was relocated to an apartment on South Park Street, noted that the College’s ability to find places for 67 students to stay at a time when the campus was already at “virtual capacity” had impressed him.

While Cohen was most impressed with the assistance from the College, Gabriele and Buckley have both found that most help has come from Sylla, their UGA. Sylla consistently asked his residents if they needed anything and offered to take them to places like Walmart for things they need.

“He’s incredible,” Gabriele said.

“I don’t know what our floor would be doing without him.”

Sylla, in turn, was grateful that his residents were both responsive and cooperative, even though they were not entirely sure how their situation would turn out.

“I’ve received a ton of support just from my residents and moving forward I just want to be in a good enough place that I can continue supporting them,” he said.

In the same way that Sylla’s residents saw him as the most helpful resource, Sylla found help in the generosity shown to him by his professors, such as from Hany Farid, his former “Introduction to Computer Science” professor, who offered him a place to stay.

“To me that was the most emotional part of this whole thing just because of how it was such a generous gesture,” Sylla said. “I almost broke down and cried. That in itself, not everything else,

not the building burning, not losing my stuff, it was just that act of generosity was really, really huge for me.”

Sylla, however, did not escape the fire unscathed. Though he can easily replace some of his lost items, one of the biggest losses he incurred was the damage to his United States citizenship certificate, which he said will cost him $400 to replace.

Fellow resident Regina Yan ’19, who lived on the fourth floor of Morton, recounted that her room had suffered extensive water and smoke damage.

While Yan was able to salvage most of her belongings, the effects of the fire were clear— she was forced to contend with losing an entire weekend during which she could have been doing homework, and was forced to cancel a majority of her plans.

Considering that the fire’s breakout lined up with the weekend leading up to midterms, students noted difficulties juggling academics and other responsibilities, adding to the difficulties of fall term.

“It’s no longer a typical college life,” Sylla said. His hope for the residents of Morton is that they can “at least transition back into what a regular term should look like.”

The community’s response, however, has allowed students like Yan to move forward, as she said that in the days following the fire numerous people contacted her through blitz and Facebook asking her if she needed any sort of assistance. Yan also said that her professors had been very understanding in regards to the situation, thus allowing her ample time to adjust to the sudden change.

“I really appreciate everything that everyone has done,” Yan said. “It’s a situation that’s not ideal, but everyone has made it so much better than it could have been.”

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a tougher year than we expected from the way equity markets move, so that’s playing into [the low return] too.”

Poor performances across these markets could have contributed to the College’s negative returns — Dartmouth annually allocates approximately 35 percent and 20 percent of its total investments to global equities and equity hedge funds respectively, according to its

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The College is not alone in seeing underwhelming results. In the Ivy League alone, five other schools recorded negative returns on their endowments. Cornell reported the lowest return among all the Ivies with a loss of 3.3 percent. Yale posted the largest gain of 3.4 percent, but when factoring in its administrative spending, its endowment still diminished in value.

Despite delivering the worst performance since the financial crisis in 2009, Dartmouth’s return is slightly higher compared to the 2.7 percent average loss U.S. colleges and universities took this fiscal year, as estimated

by Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm that manages almost $9.9 billion worth of foundations and endowments.

In a press release, chair of the Board of Trustees Richard Kimball said that the Board focuses on longterm results as they manage the endowment.

“We position the portfolio and the institution to be prepared for investment volatility in the short term to ensure that we are maximizing our opportunity for exceptional longterm risk-adjusted results,” he added.

The endowment remains crucial in funding the College’s operations.

Endowment distributions have steadily increased since 2011, according to the endowment report in 2015. In the most recent fiscal year, the endowment distribution constituted over 20 percent of the College’s operating budget.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST HANNAH WILCZYNSKI ’20

For the Seventh Generation

A Whole New World

Dartmouth must go beyond divestment for effective sustainability.

Cell phones should not be a portal to one’s entire world.

In the Sept. 22 news article “Sustainabil- especially considering what other colleges ity task force to meet this month,” Maanav and universities are doing. Ironically, Jalan ’19 advocates for the divestment of Dartmouth didn’t even make the Princeton fossil fuel stocks owned by the College, Review’s top 50 “green” schools in 2015. while the task force chair, professor Andrew In 2006, leaders in campus sustainability Friedland, says “getting Dartmouth to stop — schools that had been working on sustainburning No. 6 fuel oil would have a much ability and global warming for 10 years — greater impact on CO2 emissions.” This, created the American College and University however, understates the importance of Presidents Climate Commitment, which is the issue of climate change – one of the a plan to become climate neutral that greatest issue of our time, and one that we garnered the signatures of nearly 700 must face directly. colleges and universities.

It is essential that we Early signatories include “Given what we decide to stop burning Cornell University, the No. 6 bunker fuel and now know about University of Pennsyllearn how to replace it vania, the College of global warming, with alternatives. Bunker the Holy Cross, Smith fuel is one of the dirtiest it is not enough College, the University fossil fuels — eliminating for Dartmouth of Massachusetts and the it is already 20-plus years University of New Hampoverdue! But divestment to simply meet shire. Signing a formal is also very important: the EPA’s goal of commitment like this investing in companies makes a public statement that are destroying our reducing emissions and encourages others future makes a mockery by 30 percent by in the community to take of pledges to become action. sustainable. So why not in- 2030 , especially in The students I worked vest those endowment considering what with as an internship funds in a comprehensive coordinator for the Alproject to dramatically other colleges and liance for Sustainable reduce greenhouse gas universities are Communities in Pennsylemissions, a high-return vania are outraged and investment with near- doing.” disgusted by businesses, zero risk? governments and instituThe solution is not limited to the central tions that threaten their future by continuheating plant; we need to reduce the overall ing to generate global warming emissions, amount of energy we use. In fact, climate release toxic chemicals that cause disease impact is influenced by many seemingly- and genetic defects and sell food that unsimple factors, such as leaving the lights dermines our health instead of nurturing on and setting the thermostat too high. it.

According to the Environmental Protection Back when Dartmouth was still young, Agency, even a 1 degree Fahrenheit reduc- indigenous people knew that all life is tion in heating can reduce energy usage by 3 connected, and the Iroquois Confederacy percent. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions even spelled out the importance of making also necessitates supply chain improvements decisions for the benefit of those living such as switching to 100 percent recycled seven generations into the future. We paper, eliminating single-use containers and might all be better off if the colonists had utensils and purchasing organic food. taken the opportunity to learn from them Given what we now know about instead of blindly trying to “educate” them. global warming, it is not enough for Dartmouth to simply meet the EPA’s goal of -Peter Crownfield ’66 reducing emissions by 30 percent by 2030, Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania

Upon coming to Dartmouth, I was excited and instead opting to observe my surroundfor the glorious anarchy of college life. As ings, I felt even more isolated than did my a senior at a strict New England boarding cell phone-using counterparts, whose minds school, I fantasized about college, where I were light years away from the environment could wear athletic leggings or jeans to class, around them. spend Saturday mornings sleeping in, stay As part of orientation, the vast majority out past 10:45 p.m. and not have mandatory of incoming Dartmouth students participate nightly study hall from 8 to 10 p.m. Although in the Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year I begrudgingly understood that the 72 pages Trips, a tradition in which a group of five to of rules detailed in my boarding school’s nine students spend four days in the outdoors student handbook were meant to promote getting to know each other. The success of this the academic, social and personal well-being program in promoting class bonding isn’t as and growth of all students, I felt like many much a result of doing crazy dances as it is of of them were trivial or unnecessary. Thus, merely spending time together in the absence as I turned 18 during my senior year of high of cell phones. Because the experience is school, I was ready for college, where my shared by students who are all fully engaged “legal adult” status would be acknowledged in the present, the resulting friendships and and uninhibited by a handbook full of rules connections often have a rare durability that limiting everything I did. crosses social groups and academic interests.

However, as I walked to my first class at Smart phones have become an indisDartmouth, I couldn’t help but notice that pensable part of our lives. One would be something felt unnatural about my newfound hard-pressed to find a public area void of freedom. Was it the jeans I was wearing? Was the beeping, tweeting, flashing or vibrating of it that no bell had rung to indicate the start mobile devices. And while the nearly infinite of class in five minutes? Was it the fact that applications of cell phones have revolutionit was nearly noon and I ized and facilitated interwas just now walking to personal communication my first class of the day? “If the seductive in both the professional While these were three allure of the and social spheres, there unmistakable differences remains a precarious line between my life at Dart- cellphone disables between the use of cell mouth and my previous any interactions or phones as a convenience experience at boarding of the modern-day world exchanges between school, none of them and the use of cell phones explained why my long- students, then the as the portal to one’s anticipated autonomy entire world.

Dartmouth campus now felt vaguely forlorn.

Dartmouth is undoubtAnd then it occurred to is no longer any edly full of highly accomme: Not once during my plished individuals, each different from an 10 minute walk from the of whom has a different Choates to Dartmouth ordinary city block.” background and set of talHall had students acents. There are very few knowledged — or even places like it in the world, noticed — each other; virtually everyone was and current students bear the responsibility of too entranced by the glowing light in their safeguarding the school’s legacy that makes it hands to look up. so unique, one aspect of which is its relatively Within the 72 pages of rules I was ac- tight-knit student body. But if the seductive customed to following in boarding school allure of the cell phone disables any interacwas a “not to be seen, not to be heard” cell tions or exchanges between students, then the phone policy. Administrators reasoned that Dartmouth campus is no longer any different cell phones decrease opportunities for direct from an ordinary city block. The gifts and person-to-person interaction and thus thwart diversity of the individuals that comprise the the development of an intimate sense of student body become significant only when community. Having gotten accustomed to ideas are exchanged, connections are formed this rule, I experienced some culture shock and students agree to actively share the present when I came to Dartmouth. experience of being a Dartmouth student.

I was astonished by the number of students While I was excited for the anarchy of who walked around campus with their gaze college life, perhaps I overestimated the fastened irremovably to the phone held in extent to which the 72 pages of rules at my front of them. It was as though students had boarding school were pointless. I realize now mastered the dexterity necessary to travel that autonomy might mean that I can wear on autopilot: they had trained their legs to jeans to class, but it doesn’t mean that I can slice confidently through the crowd so their disregard basic social etiquette. With that in minds could wander through the abyss of mind, I challenge the Dartmouth community a virtual universe. Some students opted for to walk to class without looking at a phone an even deeper level of disengagement by or wearing headphones. Observe your classwearing headphones that canceled out noise mates, observe your school and make haste and separated them further from their sur- to connect yourself with your present surroundings. They were at once disconnected roundings. Your time in such an extraordinary and intimately engaged. The irony, however, place is limited, and you should not waste it lies in the fact that by not using my cell phone scrolling mindlessly through your phone.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST CRISTOFORO COPPOLA ’19

STAFF COLUMNIST DANIEL FISHBEIN ’19

The American Berlusconi

Freedom from Frats

Success in business doesn’t necessarily mean success in politics.

Not buying into the Greek system allows personal liberation.

“I don’t need to go into office for the Berlusconi won that election, and the power. I have houses all over the world, years that followed proved to the Italians stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a that a businessman is no less corruptible beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am than any other man. On the contrary, he making a sacrifice.” One would probably may be more likely to have implicit conflicts think that these words belong to this year’s of interest. How can a businessman regulate Republican candidate for the presidency, the economy without considering the effects Donald Trump. Yet these words were said on his own business interests? long before Trump, in 1994 when another Berlusconi’s stated reforms, ranging from businessman sought to govern his country. reducing taxes to cutting public spending, His name was Silvio Berlusconi. were always front and center on his elec The similarities between the two men tion flyers but had little priority in the law are striking. They are both successful real proposals he presented to Parliament. On estate businessmen who made their names the other hand, laws that favored Berlusin the television industry. While Berlusconi coni’s businesses were probably his biggest owns one of the biggest accomplishment while television broadcast in office. Even the act of companies in Italy, “Berlusconi proclaimed running for office could Trump rose to fame himself ‘the best have benefited him by hosting the famous personally. What bettelevision show,The Ap- Italian businessman ter publicity scheme is prentice. there than to run for the post-World War II’ They both have large country’s highest offamilies with numerous and persuaded the fice? This period, later children and grand- Italian people that coined Tangentopoli, children through mulwhich is translated littiple marriages and he could apply his erally as “Bribesville,” successive divorces. business skills to turn saw two major political They both have damparties collapse due to politics into a practical, corruption aged their campaigns scandals. through their treatment problem-solving job.”

As an Italian of women; Berlusconi is who loves his country infamous for his erotic and who has lived “Bunga Bunga” parties, and Trump has through the failures of the Berlusconi made several derogatory comments about years, I urge Americans not to fall into the women, such as “it doesn’t really matter same trap. The claim that in order to solve what [the media] write as long as you’ve got the problems of the American political a young and beautiful piece of ass.” To an system, the American people must elect an extent, even their appearances are similar: “outsider,” a businessman who has for his Both resemble one of Madame Tussauds’ entire life worked solely for his own interest, wax statues. is unfounded. The system has to be changed In 1994, when Berfrom within. People lusconi first ran for “Tangentopoli, which have to start caring Prime Minister of Italy, more about all levels is translated literally some people were skepof government, not just tical. Yet, one of the as ‘Bribesville,’ saw the presidency. We canbiggest talking points of not complain about the two major political his campaign is one that failures of democracy is also dear to Trump parties collapse due to if we use our power today. Berlusconi pro- corruption scandals. as voters to hand our claimed himself “the country to a politician best Italian business- As an Italian who who can clearly do it so man post-World War loves his country and much harm.

II” and persuaded the I write this well-aware Italian people that he who has lived through that Berlusconi and could apply his busi- the failures of the Trump are not the same ness skills to turn the person. Nonetheless, theoretical and bu- Berlusconi years, I urge their platforms have reaucratic world of Americans not to fall some clear similarities, politics into a practical, especially the emphasis into the same trap.” problem-solving job. on promising that a For most Italians, successful businessthis sounded like the man will solve all the solution to the country’s problems. Finally, country’s problems. Berlusconi famously there was someone outside the political declared that he was “cursed to win ” beestablishment ready to bypass the special cause he “always wins.” Trump promises interests and party politics within it. Simi- that America will “start winning again” lar to the United States today, there was and emphasizes that only he “knows how to at the time an unprecedented distaste for win.” When you look closely, the similarities establishment politicians, who were viewed are remarkable. Berlusconi and Trump are as corrupt. truly two peas in a pod.

When I first came here as a freshman, is a mutual affinity for sucking cheap beer I had two goals for my college experience: out of orange cans. While you might know get good grades and join a fraternity. I chose brothers from classes you’ve taken together Dartmouth because I wanted the exceptional or from clubs you’ve both joined, becoming undergraduate education it offered. Outside a member of a fraternity does not depend the classroom, though, I just wanted a place on joint interest in one subject. If you’re in where I could relax, maybe drink some the Dartmouth Outing beer and hang out with Club or write for The “I worry that friends.

Dartmouth like I do, I’m happy to say you know that other fraternities by nature that I accomplished members either like that first goal. With inhibit people from climbing mountains or guidance and support exploring what really writing. In a frat, you from family, friends and might have nothing faculty members, I was interests them.” in common with your encouraged to take a brothers. wide range of courses

During a comand pursue my intellectual interests. With petitive rush process, I often felt like a monkey this freedom to move around and explore forced to act out a more interesting, outgoing different topics, I thrived academically. and artificial version of myself so that certain While the academic aspect of Dartmouth people liked me. During mandatory pre-rush has proven itself to be positive, I have not ac- meetings, the Greek Leadership Council complished the second goal and have instead often told me that frats would not make me ended up outside of the Greek system. Al- feel uncomfortable and that I should feel free though I rushed, I never to be myself within the felt invested in joining “I wanted social Greek system. a particular fraternity.

But when I had to I wanted social mobil- mobility in the same get to know a bunch ity in the same sense sense that I had of brothers and try to that I had academic make them like me so mobility: I wanted to academic mobility: they would give me a be able to meet new I wanted to be able bid, I naturally had groups of people who to put aside some of had different interests to meet new groups my own interests. In and develop my own of people who had conversations, I had interests as a result. to talk about music or different interests However, because I did movies or TV — topics not form strong friend- and develop my own that I could talk about ships with a group of with brothers, many of interests as a result.” brothers, I did not end whom I had little else in up receiving a bid. Yet common with. In that this rejection has given me the opportunity sense, I felt myself buying into a certain type to continue pursuing my Dartmouth educa- of institutional groupthink, wanting to echo tion both inside and outside the classroom. the house culture. Rather than fostering my I can explore different academic and social interests, I found the Greek system stifling. interests, and as a result, grow as a student Since I am not a brother anywhere, I and a person. have a lot of free time on my hands. This, I admit that fraternities definitely have however, does have some downsides. I have perks. With almost two-thirds of upper- to self-enterprise and look on my own for class students affiliated things to do. Since the with Greek life, I feel Greek system is such “I felt myself buying somewhat ostracized a dominant presence without a house to call into a certain type on campus, most of home. Additionally, frathe people I know or of institutional ternities offer a specific meet are busy as new place where you can groupthink, wanting members. On the other go and feel comforthand, I have the opto echo the house able around everybody. portunity to explore Although I often relax culture. Rather than my own interests, and with my roommate fostering my interests, don’t have to spend all and our friends in my my time getting drunk dorm and have become I found the Greek with the same people involved in a couple of system somewhat in the same place four clubs, part of me wishes nights a week.

I had a more definite stifling.”

While Dartcommunity on campus. mouth has always given Yet at the same time, I worry that frater- me academic freedom to explore my internities by nature inhibit people from explor- ests, I now feel like I have social freedom ing what really interests them. When I set and am able to do what I want when I want. foot in fraternity basements, I often get the Not joining the Greek system has given me sense that all that bonds brothers together the liberty to be myself.

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Student Spotlight: Drayton Harvey ’17, dancer and future doctor

By ZACH CHERIAN The Dartmouth

Although Drayton Harvey ’17 was never a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars,” the popular reality show changed the trajectory of his life. When 13-year-old Harvey — then involved with fencing, archery and baseball — first saw the show, it was the spark that ignited what would eventually become a passion for ballroom dancing.

“My mom was watching ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and I just sat down and watched it with her,” Harvey said. “This one professional jumped off the stage and did a front flip over his partner. My mom told me if I could find a studio and call them and set up a lesson, that she would pay for it, thinking I would never actually follow through — but I did.”

Harvey began lessons at a studio in Colorado, and his first ballroom dancing partner was his then-girlfriend, he said.

However, he was soon ready to take the next step and compete at a higher level.

“I didn’t just want to do it for fun, I wanted to be competitive,” Harvey said.

This led to his very fateful decision to switch partners — although he did not know it at the time, his second

partner would eventually become his wife, whom he married last year, he said.

Amber Harvey, two years her husband’s senior, lives in the area with Harvey and currently works as an events coordinator at Simon Pearce in Quechee, Vt. Dartmouth, unlike some other peer schools such as Harvard Univeristy and the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, does not have a ballroom dancing team, but Dartmouth students are not lacking in opportunities to learn and hone their dancing skills. This is partially thanks to the Harveys, who co-teach a class weekly as part of the larger Tuesday dancing series.

Caroline Petro ’18, one of the Harveys’ current students, has been dancing since she was four, but she was not familiar with ballroom before the Harveys’ class.

“I had no experience with social dancing before I came to Dartmouth,” Petro said. Her first Tuesday night series class was Swing Dancing, but she soon joined the Harveys’ class.

“They’re very clear instructors,” Petro said. “They start off by demonstrating something, and then break down by count exactly how they did it.

Having had a lot of dance teachers in

the past couple of years, not everyone does that.”

Kevin Ma ’17, another one of Harveys’ students, agrees. Ma had no dancing background prior to this past summer, when his friendship with Harvey lead him to sign up for the class.

“It was probably one of the things I looked forward to most the entire summer,” Ma said. “He’s an excellent teacher.”

The Harveys compose the structure of the class at the beginning of the term.

“We like to tackle one dance for four to five weeks,” Drayton Harvey said.

“Just start with the very basics and move to an intermediate level, throw in some tricks in the end.”

Though the couple acts as stewards of the class, they take care to make the planning interactive and engaging with their students. They craft the schedule with student interest in mind, Petro said.

Next year is sure to be different for Dartmouth’s ballroom dancing class as Drayton Harvey will graduate this spring and the dancing duo plans to leave Dartmouth. In the next chapter of his life, Drayton Harvey plans to pursue his dreams of becoming a doctor.

Petro expressed sadness at their

impending departure but also made it clear that she will continue to pursue ballroom dance at Dartmouth next year.

Although Drayton Harvey will not be dancing competitively while he is a medical student, he did say that both he and his wife will most likely make time to teach a similar class at his new institution.

“It might just be that small one slot in a week, but it’s something that I feel has to be in my life now, that it’s a time

that my wife and I have to connect every week and something that has been the foundation of our relationship,” Harvey said. “So that’s really nice to tap into.”

His students, similarly, do not feel that the Harveys’ departure means the end of their own relationships with ballroom dance.

“We’re sad to see them go,” Petro said. “But [their departure] doesn’t necessarily mean the end of ballroom at Dartmouth.”

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Drayton Harvey ’17 and his wife Amber teach a ballroom dance class.

Sanborn tea and cookies: the story behind the tradition

By EMMA GUO The Dartmouth

Every afternoon at 4 p.m. in Sanborn Library, the chime of bells momentarily awakens students from their studies, pulling them away from their schoolwork and into the world of tea and cookies.

Located next to Baker-Berry Library, Sanborn boasts a vast collection of Oxford editions of English and American authors, as well as couches in small niches and large tables where students can study. Reminiscent more of a classic scene from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel than of a real college library, Sanborn transports students back to a different time, allowing them to appreciate the welcoming, nostalgic ambience of old novels while hunkering down with their latest readings and problem sets.

Students who choose to make Sanborn their second home as their go-to study spot typically find solace in the tranquility of the atmosphere, as well as in the study break provided by the distribution of tea and cookies every afternoon. According to Carrie

Hiller ’20, “Sanborn Library is exactly what I expected it to be: quiet, cozy and brimming with old books.”

The long-standing tradition of Sanborn tea began as an homage to Edwin David Sanborn, who was most remembered for his tradition of serving tea to students in his home on Thursday afternoons. After the construction of Sanborn House, a large donation was left for the daily continuation of afternoon tea in the library.

These days, Sanborn tea is served less for the purpose of engaging in

intellectual conversation than for taking a momentary pause from studying or for the opportunity to escape from the cold. Students can purchase tea or a cookie for 10 and 15 cents, respectively.

That being said, if you are running low on change, don’t worry – the tea server will rarely turn anyone away.

While purchasing the materials for afternoon tea is left to Sandra Hobbs, an administrative assistant in the English department, the student server is responsible for making and serving the tea and cookies each day.

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Tea and cookies are served at 4 p.m. every afternoon in Sanborn Library.

Sanborn tea is a well-known and time-honored tradition, and it would not exist without the help of the students who serve the tea. Each day starting at 3:30 p.m., the student in charge of serving the tea begins preparations for the day, which include making the tea, cutting up lemons to serve and taking out the cookies, along with at least 20 tea cups. Around 3:45 p.m., the student enters the library and begins setting up the materials they have prepared for the day. After the bells chime at 4 p.m., the server is left to serve tea and chat with any students and alumni that may visit.

Many students work as tea servers, including Ho-Chun Herbert Chang ’18, who has been serving tea at Sanborn since his freshman year.

“I wanted to find a job on campus, so I just asked the [English] department administrator at the time if there was an opening, and there was — the Sanborn tea server job,” Chang said. “So I sent in an application, and a week later I was cutting up lemons.”

Not surprisingly, many alumni participate in Sanborn tea when they return to visit.

“During homecoming, a lot of alumni return to campus, and my freshman year a couple came with two of their children who were five years old and three years old,” Chang said. “They told me they were coming back for the tea. I found out that as sophomores, they met in Sanborn.”

Professors also take pleasure in participating in Sanborn tea, especially when the infamously cold Hanover winter begins to settle in. One day during the particularly cold winter term of Chang’s freshman year, a professor came in for the typical afternooon tea, and as Chang began pouring, the cup was cold that that it exploded in his hands.

Altogether, nearly 1,000 students and alumni are served annually. According to Chang, the most vacant days are usually Fridays, while the most crowded days in the library are during exam periods and winter term.

Whatever initially brings a student to Sanborn, whether it’s the quiet, cozy atmosphere or the welcoming smell of old books, the traditional tea and cookies will forever be a reason to always come back.