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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Fraternities vote to abolish pledge term
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The Big Green beat Central Connecticut State University 35-25 in a game under the lights.
Fraternities must abolish pledge terms for new members, members of the Interfraternity Council decided unanimously on Sunday night. The vote does not come with any new enforcement measures, IFC president Wil Chockley ’15 said, noting that College and government policies already ban hazing. Its student-driven nature, combined with a fear of system-wide retribution if
a fraternity violates the policy, will contribute to its enforcement, fraternity presidents interviewed said. The decision follows a closed session on the Greek system’s future hosted by College President Phil Hanlon last week. For an hour and a half, Hanlon, Board of Trustees Chair Bill Helman and “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee chair Barbara Will spoke with fraternity and sorority presidents and other Greek SEE IFC PAGE 3
‘Disorientation Guide’ promotes allyship, activism B y Priya RAMAIAH The Dartmouth Staff
Members of The Dartmouth Radical and the Action Collective released a “Disorientation Guide” late last week, distributing copies across campus newsstands and to passers-by in the Class of 1953 Commons. The 43-page booklet, marked with an image of Baker Tower inside a raised fist, contains information on
course selection, social life and cultural appropriation, among other topics. The compilation process began in July, said Oscar Cornejo ’17, who co-manages the Action Collective’s email list. The guide’s creators invited members of the Collective to submit essays, articles and other pieces of writing for inclusion in the publication. “We believe that there is a need for an orientation guide
Alumnus contributes to Liberia’s Ebola response
B y Charlie rafkin The Dartmouth Staff
When Timothy F lanigan ’79 called Hanover home as an undergraduate, he and a group of friends at Aquinas House, Dartmouth’s Catholic student center, drove to the Bronx to meet Mother Teresa. Flanigan said her words and history inspired him — not simply because she was generous, but also
because she was courageous in helping others, no matter the danger. Following Mother Teresa’s example, Flanigan took a break this August from his position as professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School’s infectious diseases division to set off for Monrovia, Liberia. In Monrovia, he has worked to SEE EBOLA PAGE 2
that provides our truths, and prepares underclassmen for a Dartmouth that we ourselves were unprepared to face,” the authors’ note states. Managing editors Melissa Padilla ’16 and Guillermo Rojas Hernandez ’13 declined to comment. While the guide is aimed toward freshmen, Cornejo said anyone could benefit from
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Students distributed the 43-page guide.
Women talk superficiality, pressure in panel about rush
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Eight women opened up Friday about their experiences with Greek life and community, describing a superficiality that pervades rush, pressure to join a house and the realities of being affiliated. Organized by the Inter-Community Council, Friday’s panel came days before the start of fall recruitment. About 400 women are expected to participate in Panhellenic Council sorority
recruitment, said Panhell recruitment vice presidents Sara Heard ’15 and Kathleen Wahl ’15, beginning with round one parties Monday. Sunday evening, posters urging students “Don’t Rush into Rush” were taped onto Collis Café’s walls and tacked onto bulletin boards on the first floor of the Collis Center for Student Involvement. “I didn’t want to rush, but I was influenced by my peers,” read one. “In my SEE PANEL PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing LOCAL NEWS Burlington has budgeted about $18,000 to purchase 60 body-worn cameras and equip the city’s entire police force with the new technology, Vermont Public Radio reported. The police department has used seven of the cameras for about two years. The cameras increase transparency and have helped reduce potential altercations, Police Chief Michael Schirling told VPR. Schirling said the cameras can be easily stopped and started, to accommodate officers when they enter public restrooms or visit a home where a resident does not want the camera to be used. The cameras recently dropped in price from $1,200 each to $300 each, making the purchase possible. The Vermont Democratic State Committee endorsed Lieutenant Governor candidate Dean Corren, though Corren will not have access to many of the party’s resources, such as the Democratic database or voter lists, Vermont Public radio reported Sunday. The committee voted 31 to four on Saturday to formally endorse Corren, who is a progressive candidate. Corren qualified for public financing, which prohibits him from participating in a coordinated Democratic campaign, VPR reported. Corren is challenging Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the race. Three new urgent care clinics will open this year in Keene, reflecting a recent uptick in the number of urgent care clinics in the state, New Hampshire Public Radio reported Friday. Since 2012, the number of urgent care clinics in New Hampshire has nearly doubled, increasing access for patients who hope to avoid expensive emergency room visits, NHPR reported. Representatives from the three clinics in Keene told NHPR that the area may be “oversaturated” by the wealth of new options, but all three said the competition would benefit patients. Urgent Care Association of America board director Alan Ayers told NHPR that urgent care clinics need a population of about 40,000 to survive. By these standards, the Monadnock region — the southwestern portion of New Hampshire — could sustain about one clinic. — Compiled by Taylor Malmsheimer
Corrections “’18 Again” (September 19, 2014): The print version of this article incorrectly identified the photographer. Photos of Oliver Engelhart ’18, Megan Batangan ’18 and Maya Moten ’18 were taken by Kate Herrington, not Tracy Wang. We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.
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Flanigan emphasizes training, strategy FROM EBOLA PAGE 1
improve the area’s Ebola response through training, strategy and protective equipment in area clinics. In a phone interview via Viber from Monrovia, F lanigan described the challenges of working in Liberia, a nation still reeling from a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003, where corruption is “endemic” and infrastructure menial. More than 2,600 people have perished during this Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone alone, the World Health Organization reported Thursday. As a result of continued deaths, President Barack Obama announced a bolstered effort to combat Ebola last week, relying on military infrastructure to provide care. Flanigan hailed Obama’s latest announcement, noting that the military, which has feared that Ebola might be used as a biological weapon, has superior capabilities to treat the disease. He called previous American support for Ebola insufficient. Flanigan emphasized the bravery of health workers aiding those stricken with Ebola, noting that a large number, especially those without an understanding of the disease, have refused to provide care. “It is a frightful and a fearful epidemic,” he said. “Ebola evokes this deep, dark fear in all of us, so it’s really important to understand it from an infectious disease point of view and really make sure you have all the tools to protect yourself and be thoughtful, careful about it.” To embark to Monrovia, Flanigan boarded the final Delta Air Lines flight to Accra, Ghana, before service to the country was cancelled. He said his family was supportive of the decision to help coordinate responses to the disease, but he did note his wife — also a doctor — had some safety concerns. “She said, ‘Oh, I can man the fort and take care of all the problems,’ — which she does mostly anyway — ‘And if you think you can make a difference, go right on over,” Flanigan said. “‘Just please be safe and be really, really careful.’” But distance from family can be difficult. Flanigan said he connects with his two children still at home and wife using Skype or Viber each night.
He plans to stay in Liberia for a total of two months, noting that much training must still occur. Flanigan is also a deacon, and he connected with health workers in Liberia through Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic charity. On Sept. 15, he delivered a homily and then discussed Ebola. Mixing the two, he wrote on his blog, felt quite unusual. Although several American doctors who have treated the disease have died after contracting Ebola,
“It is a frightful and a fearful epidemic. Ebola evokes this deep, dark fear in all of us.” - Timothy Flanigan ’79 Flanigan said he does not worry that the outbreak will afflict the U.S. The U.S., he said, has the know-how and infrastructure to isolate and treat infectious diseases, resources that West African countries lack. At Brown, Flanigan is a serious researcher — his resume lists 232 original publications in peerreviewed journals — and he said that his experience in Liberia will likely shape the future direction of his studies. Brown professor of medicine and epidemiology Josiah Rich, who has worked with Flanigan for more than 20 years, said Flanigan had “the ability to talk a dog off a meat wagon.” He emphasized Flanigan’s sharp thinking and said Flanigan predicted Liberia would be severely affected by Ebola before the current situation was clear. Rich said it was uncommon for researchers as prolific as Flanigan to depart for an emergency area. He added that Flanigan’s work in the Catholic Church and as a medical researcher “straddles several worlds.” “He is a card-carrying member — literally — of the Catholic Church,” Rich said. Vanderbilt University professor of preventive medicine William Schaffner, who has been quoted in media sources such as CNN regarding the outbreak, declined to estimate how many American doctors have left the U.S. to treat Ebola, as there are a wealth of organizations through which health
workers might link up with African medical systems. Doctors Without Borders wrote in early August that 200 international health workers were working in the region. Michael David, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago’s infectious diseases department, wrote in an email that he estimates far fewer than 100 of these are doctors. But a number of other organizations, such as Caritas or Partners in Health, have doctors in the region as well. David estimated in an interview that there are dozens of American doctors treating the disease in West Africa. Schaffner said organizing these diverse responses remains a significant challenge, but Obama’s recent announcement may bring better coordination. “There’s an old phrase: ‘the road to you-know-where is paved with good intentions,’” Schaffner said. “So you have all these groups, with their best of intentions, all very honorable, but they can contribute to fouling it up as well as doing things better.” Schaffner said training efforts were critical, citing the ‘teach a man to fish’ adage as illustrative of the impact of this work. It is quite common, Schaffner said, for doctors treating Ebola directly to provide training. David noted that Flanigan’s work is dangerous. Precautions against the disease include wearing gear that can take more than 10 minutes to put on. Davis said health workers like Flanigan are “sacrificing their safety,” he said. Dick’s House co-director Jack Turco recently emailed campus requesting that community members who visited Ebola-affected countries contact Health Services. He said in an interview that this accords with protocol laid out by the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services. Although Turco declined to provide an exact estimate of the number to whom the alert might apply, he speculated that the number is fewer than 100 people. Meetings have been held at the College and at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center to discuss health policies if the disease were found at Dartmouth, Turco said. If someone had Ebola on campus, the person would be sent to DHMC, he said, which has the requisite equipment to treat the disease.
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New members will receive full rights upon joining, IFC says FROM IFC PAGE 1
leaders about potential reforms, including eliminating fall pledge term. But the announcement also follows months of smaller conversations held within houses and with administrators, Chockley said, as well as a week of final discussions between presidents and their fraternities. After years of negative media attention and Hanlon’s stated desire to reform the Greek system, Chockley said this term presented a “perfect opportunity” for change. “New members will enjoy full rights and privileges of current members,” the IFC said in a campus-wide email Sunday night. New members will forgo both internal and outwardly visible aspects of the traditional six-week pledge term, Chockley said. Philanthropic and team-building activities will still be permitted. The College’s definition of hazing already bars organizations from public stunts and wearing clothing or other items “likely to subject the wearer to embarrassment, ridicule or harm.” A fall 2012 Greek Leadership Organizations and Societies policy aimed to ban the wearing of unusual clothing during pledge term, from fanny packs and blue bows for women to red hats and lunch boxes for men, though some organizations responded by asking all members to
wear such items. “The hope is that this announcement will really create an environment in fraternities for reflection on which parts of the process of joining the fraternity are really important and which can be stripped away,” Chockley said. Fraternity presidents interviewed expressed enthusiasm about the policy and confidence in its implementation. The policy will allow fraternities to rethink harmful traditions and find new ways to build community, Beta Alpha Omega fraternity rush chair Andres Isaza ’15 said. While he said some affiliated men may be hesitant about the changes, he predicted that the student-led policy would be welcomed and enforced. “The goal right now is having changes come from students,” he said. “If not, the College will step in and we don’t know what those changes will be.”’ In a poll of 71 students conducted by The Dartmouth last Wednesday, about 57 percent of affiliated respondents and 36 percent of unaffiliated respondents opposed ending pledge term. Seven of the 10 affiliated male respondents were against its elimination. Although the vote comes less than a week before the start of IFC fraternity recruitment on Friday, fraternities have discussed the policy and possible full-house bonding activities throughout the week, Isaza
said, citing paint ball trips and hosting meetings in cabins as examples of Beta’s plans. Isaza represented Beta at the meeting, as fraternity president Chet Brown ’15 could not attend. Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity president Zachary Queen ’15 praised the policy’s student-driven origins, adding that the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee has been too “opaque” in its efforts to evaluate and reform the Greek system. Queen said the move will form part of a “major overhaul” of Greek life. Any fraternity found violating the policy would likely be derecognized, but such an event would also reflect poorly on the entire Greek system, Queen said, noting that this respect for other houses will promote the policy’s enforcement. Phi Delta Alpha fraternity president Taylor Cathcart ’15 said that, faced with inaction from the Greek Leadership Council, fraternity presidents needed to take collective action. “It was certainly in the best interests of the Greek system and our new members this fall,” he said of the vote. Eliminating pledge term will not negatively affect the new member period, Alpha Delta fraternity president
Mike Haughey ’15 said. “This is not taking away new member period, it’s altering the new member period in the way that ensures every new member is afforded all of the rights and privileges of any member in the house, while also preserving the distinctive characteristics of every house,” he said. This is a decisive moment for the Greek system, Sigma Nu fraternity president Blaze Joel ’15 said, pointing to the council’s unanimity as evidence of its desire to act. At Sunday’s meeting, members also discussed creating new subcommittees on topics like sexual assault and student event management procedures, Queen said. Earlier on Sunday, the Greek Leadership Council convened fraternity, sorority and coed leaders in a wide-ranging discussion about campus Greek life. Students discussed both practical and “existential” issues, coed council interim president Noah Cramer ’16 said, from the frequency of fraternity parties to the potential benefits of a coeducational Greek system. Coeducational fraternity presidents will meet Tuesday with Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director Wes Schaub to solidify the absence of pledge terms in Phi Tau,
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Tabard and Alpha Theta coed fraternities, Cramer said. “We will definitely talk about our policies in terms of new members and new member education — coed pledges have the same rights as older members, and we will work to make that message clearer to them,” Cramer said. In an effort to equalize interactions between all members, coed fraternities could adjust their welcoming traditions, such as giving all members bags of candy, Alpha Theta president Cristy Altamirano ’15 said. “The reason why I don’t generally like pledge terms in other houses is because it seems to promote unity in new members, whereas I want everyone to feel connected to the house regardless of whether they’re a third-term member or an alum,” Altamirano said. “I want them to feel as important as the next term of members because that’s ultimately how I think and feel.” The presidents of Alpha Chi Alpha, Bones Gate, Chi Heorot, Gamma Delta Chi, Kappa Kappa Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi and Zeta Psi fraternities did not respond to requests for comment by press time. Joel is a member of The Dartmouth senior staff.
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Thinking About #Activism
Rushing and Relevance
Using hashtags should not always be derided as false activism. Dartmouth students, unlike other people in ally bring it up with me in conversation. Posting my life, seem to have a particular impatience opens a dialogue that would have otherwise with too much talk, while the institution itself been closed, and publicly voicing support for organizes a discussion committee at the first sign something can bring challenges that further of trouble. I hear “don’t just talk about it — do educate both yourself and others. something” so often on this campus that the Reading, vocally supporting, arguing — this phrase has begun to sound like some athletic leads to the “actual” involvement people ask for, brand’s motto. Though I agree that conceptual- and we shouldn’t fault others for being on the izing issues out of reality is dangerous, talking first step of the journey rather than the last. through complex problems is an important and Perhaps what we should really question necessary step toward progress. are the tactics used by large corporations that Shonda Rhimes ’91, in her 2014 Com- engage in the same trade-off but result in none mencement address, touched on similar issues of the positive externalities. For instance, Toms regarding the use of social raises the price of their networks as a vehicle for mediocre product, with “Reading, vocally change and solidarity. She the guarantee that a pursupporting, arguing — said, “A hashtag is not chase will help the world helping. #YesAllWomen this leads to the “actual” (in this case, by providing #TakeBacktheNight... A involvement people ask a pair of shoes to a child hashtag does not change for, and we shouldn’t fault “in need”). In this way, a anything. It’s a hashtag,” others for being on the first purchase functions as a suggesting that we should step of the journey rather donation, freeing you to volunteer rather than than the last.” stop worrying about the tweet. money you should donate But not only are her or the price of the product remarks about #YesAllWomen demonstrably you just purchased. Alleviating consumer guilt false — the hashtag did much to raise aware- halts the possibility of funneling that guilt into ness to the seldom-discussed microagressions “productive” forms of charity, which usually women face daily — Rhimes and many others entail learning about some aspect of the disadalso seem to ignore the efficacy of words them- vantages of others (something buying shoes just selves. Indeed, developed thought is a requisite doesn’t do). Why is it that buying into a fashion precursor to thoughtful action. trend is so much more acceptable than buying You tweet some form of solidarity, slap a into a social one? trending hashtag on it and call it a day — all the Let’s also not forget that we, as students while feeling like you’ve somehow done your part studying at a liberal arts institution, have a parto help some remote situation. However, there ticular connection with what many deem to be are certain (almost inevitable) benefits intrinsic “inaction.” One of my classes with government to voicing support for a cause that many, even professor Russell Muirhead, “Political Speech,” the posters themselves, overlook. discussed the governing principles behind a Though this cannot be said of everyone who liberal arts education. These principles do not posts about the latest news, oftentimes engaging uphold the idea that doing something is inherwith an issue can cause casual observers to be- ently better than thinking something. For our come versed in the subject. First they read more short time at college, we are given a space to articles and critiques, they talk to their friends rest in somber deliberation and consider what and family about what they just supported and exactly we should be doing before we spend the why. rest of our lives doing it. And that entails think When I post about something, people usu- ing, which is not synonymous with passivity.
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You can be socially satisfied regardless if you go Greek.
To the Class of 2017: When I was a freshman back in September 2011, I stumbled across a column in The Dartmouth titled “An Open Letter” by Jacob Batchelor ’12. It was addressed to the Class of 2015. “Over the course of the next four (or five) years,” he predicted, “almost everything you think, know, feel and believe in will undergo radical transformations ... you will change your major, life plan, sexual orientation and friend group at least five times each.” Though I dismissed his “radical” claims at the time, I have since found that a number of his predictions were indeed correct. While so much about my life has changed that I thought never would, the one thing that I thought would change never actually did: my (lack of) Greek affiliation. My story started the same as that of most Dartmouth freshmen. I had little exposure to Greek life before Dartmouth and wasn’t even sure I wanted to be part of it. Yet I found a certain adrenaline rush to shmobbing with my buddies over to frat row and exploring the scene. I was definitely a little apprehensive at first, but I eventually found myself hanging out at a couple of fraternities on the weekends. I looked forward to sophomore year — rushing would be awesome! I imagined what it would be like to be a brother, and how awesome my Greek life would be. Sweet, sweet social relevance. Sophomore year arrived. My friends and I all talked about where we wanted to rush and how cool we thought our respective houses were. I couldn’t wait to be affiliated — that is, until I was actually offered the opportunity. There were two houses that I was interested in. My chances with one house ended up going south and I was devastated. The other house did offer me an opportunity to pledge. I still remember being approached by two brothers, being told that they wanted me to join their brotherhood. In some ways it was an amazing feeling. Acceptance. But I knew deep inside that maybe this wasn’t for
me. After all, I would need to miss one of the first important fraternity events because of a mandatory rehearsal scheduled weeks before that I had organized. Maybe it was a sign. In the end, I politely refused the offer. At first I felt smug, but it soon started to dawn on me that this series of rejections (from both ends) might have cost me more than I had expected. Was my college social life ruined? Would I never go to any parties, hold any leadership positions, get any jobs? Was I suddenly ... socially irrelevant? Maybe not. Fast forward to senior year. I am currently the president of two prominent campus organizations, and spend my days doing what I love. I hold two jobs on campus, and have had multiple internship experiences ranging from investment to talent management. I have connected with so many amazing professors, mentors, alums and other students during my time at Dartmouth. I have learned and grown profoundly. I also have become friends with some amazing people from all around campus (particularly at a non-Greek house I joined called Amarna). Do I still engage with Greek life? Definitely. Some of my go-to college stories take place in a Greek house. In fact, I’m in the middle of helping plan a Greek social as I write. All of this is not to say that I have “risen above” the antics of Greek life. I think the Greek system has many merits, and if you want to rush, go for it. Just remember that the glorified process of rush can take some turns you won’t expect. These are not necessarily wrong turns. Moreover, I hope to dispel the notion that the unaffiliated are socially irrelevant. In fact, I have found that being unaffiliated allows me to engage freely with more social spheres and pursue more diverse leadership opportunities. Whether you end up joining a Greek house or not, get ready for the time of your life. No matter which route you go, one thing won’t change: the opportunity to self-actualize and take full advantage of the amazing years ahead.
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1:10 Time between goals by Alex Adelabu ’15 and Hugh Danilack ’15 in the men’s soccer game.
1,078 Days between games where the football team blocked two kicks, last done Oct. 8, 2011.
1 Margin of victory for the men’s golf team this weekend, for its second win of the year.
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In a dominating home effort in front of a raucous Burnham Field crowd, the men’s soccer team put up four goals to none against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell on Friday. After a slow start, the Big Green (2-2-0, 0-0-0 Ivy) exploded in the second half for three goals, including two in just 1:10 to seal the victory. The game started quickly for the Big Green, as Colin Heffron ’15 got the home team on the board in the 13th minute off a corner kick from Gabe Stauber ’15. Stauber swung the ball into the box and found Heffron, who buried it after a few bounces in front of the cage. The team rushed to its student section, which was particularly loud despite the home opener’s near-freezing temperatures. “The crowd is huge,” co-captain Hugh Danilack ’15 said. “They really give us that extra energy. We say we don’t lose on Burnham and, for this year, that’s key for winning the Ivy title and making the tournament.” The Big Green could not convert on a few more goals in the first half against the River Hawks (2-6-0). Alex Adelabu ’15 was stopped on a breakaway and a couple of close offside calls negated at least one Dartmouth goal. Head coach Chad Riley said that the offside trap at the collegiate level is “rare” and “surprising” to see, but he said he was proud of his team for handling the opponent’s strategy in a
professional manner. “The guys just figured it out, and that’s what you want to build,” he said. Danilack credited the team’s attitude and composure in helping them not to get discouraged. “It was really just patience and composure,” he said. “We knew we would break them down. We were the fitter and better team, so it was only a matter of time.” Neither team could find the net for the rest of the first half, and the horn sounded at 1-0 Dartmouth after 45 minutes. “No disrespect to them, but we felt we were the better team,” Adelabu said. “We knew that once we got that second goal, we would put it away.” The River Hawks came out pressing to begin the second half, notching two quality chances in the first 20 minutes that both sailed just over the bar. Despite a few good chances of its own in the beginning of the second half, the Big Green could not find the back of the net until the middle of the 68th minute, when Danilack ripped a shot from just outside the 6-yard box that Adelabu deflected up into the top of the net. The team and the crowd became more energized after the second breakthrough. “That’s the lesson,” Riley said. “That second goal is so important.” Just over a minute later, Adelabu returned the favor, finding Danilack in the box for the Big Green’s third goal of the night. Goalie Stefan Cleveland ’16 got the play started with a booming
free kick from the defensive half that was flicked on by Robin Alnas ’15 to Adelabu, who chipped it past the River Hawk defender into the box. The senior striker saw Danilack streaking down the left side of the box and fed him the ball, which Danilack redirected into the back of the net for a 3-0 advantage. Riley then emptied the bench, giving the reserves some time. But the Big Green continued to dominate. In the 83rd minute, the younger Danilack got in on the action as Matt Danilack ’18 tallied his first collegiate goal on a breakaway in the 83rd minute. The freshman intercepted a clear and moved the ball. After a quick onetwo pass on the top of the box, Matt Danilack got the ball back with no one between himself and keeper Austin Kroll. The freshman stayed composed and buried the ball for a 4-0 advantage. In this win, the Big Green ripped 16 shots and scored more than it had all season to this point. “It’s potentially a really good con-
fidence booster,” Adelabu said. “We should have scored more in Indiana, but we were unlucky and hit two posts. We knew it was coming and we needed this night.” The team still has two weeks until its Ivy opener at Princeton University and is looking to build on this victory going into the rest of the season. “It’s all about growth going towards Ivies,” Riley said. “We just approach it one game at a time, as the cliché goes, and then analyze them after the fact.” Because there is no Ivy League postseason tournament, Riley noted that every game is critical en route to an NCAA Tournament. “It’s really a seven game tournament,” he said. “It’s one of the most exciting and excruciating things about the Ivy League.” The team returns to action with a midweek game in Worcester, Massachusetts, against the College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday. It returns home to face Fordham University on Saturday.
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The Big Green notches a goal in a blowout victory over UMass Lowell.
Women’s soccer wins nailbiter in 2OT at home
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Time left on the clock when Lucielle Kozlov ’16 scored the game winning goal against Northeastern.
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Setting the stage for a 4-0 win at the University of Vermont yesterday, the women’s soccer team won a double overtime thriller against Northeastern University on Friday afternoon at Burnham Field 1-0. Lucielle Kozlov ’16 netted the remarkable game-winner with just 14 ticks remaining in double overtime to extend the Big Green’s
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home unbeaten streak to 15 games. As the second overtime wound down, the game was still knotted at zero. Less than a minute remained when Corey Delaney ’16 created a scoring opportunity for the Big Green (3-2-1, 0-0-0 Ivy) by dribbling past several Northeastern (5-3-2, 0-0-0 CAA) defenders. A through ball to Meredith Gurnee ’17 drew out Northeastern’s goalie, senior Paige Burnett. Gurnee then delivered a sharp pass to the unguarded far post where Kozlov deposited the ball into the empty net as her team rushed the field in celebration. The Big Green is just the third team to notch a goal against the Huskies in Northeastern’s 10 games to date. The Huskies had posted three consecutive shutouts entering Friday’s game at Burnham Field. Kozlov said crosses from the outside into the box were integral to Dartmouth’s strategy to break down the vaunted Husky defense. “We definitely wanted to make them make decisions,” Kozlov said. “Definitely going [one on one] especially on the outside and getting some crosses in. We were really just trying to get a head
on the ball, being the first one in the box and getting numbers into the box.” The efforts to get attackers into the box paid dividends on Sunday when the Big Green tallied four goals against the University of Vermont with two goals coming on rebounds. Dartmouth’s starting goalie Tatiana Saunders ’15 missed the game with an injury, bringing Casey Cousineau ’17 her first action in net of the year. Cousineau, who had four saves in the game, started two games last season for the Big Green. “Of course, there’s so many pregame jitters,” Cousineau said. “As a sophomore, there’s a lot less than there were my freshman year. I remember, I skyrocketed a ball my freshman year that went straight up and went nowhere.” Neither team could gain an edge through much of regulation, though both sides had opportunities at net. In the final 10 minutes, the momentum switched decisively to the Huskies, who controlled the ball in Dartmouth’s third. “I thought both teams had some opportunities today where they put some sustained pressure on the opponent,” head coach Ron Rainey said. “There
were some times where it seemed like we had it down in their half for two or three or four minutes and there were a couple times where they had it down in our half for two or three or four minutes.” In the 89th minute, Northeastern mounted its most serious attack of the game. Cousineau was slightly out of position when sophomore forward Nicole Wilkins saw an opportunity and attempted to place a chip shot over Cousineau’s head. Cousineau got back to the goal line and managed to tap the ball up and backwards off of the crossbar, saving the Big Green from what would have been a crushing 1-0 deficit. “We go over it so much,” Cousineau said. “That’s honestly one of the shots that women goalkeepers get scored on the most because it’s such a tough thing for them to drop back and get that drop step and get it up over. So being able to come up with that save was huge for me and huge for my career and really, really exciting for my team.” Cousineau’s save preserved the nilSEE W SOCC PAGE SW 3
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
ONE B y katie jarrett The Dartmouth Staff
This week, I sat down with Curtis King ’16. The reigning Northeast Credit Union Athlete of the Weekearned the title with a first place performance in the Dartmouth Invitational two weekends ago. King is a leader on a men’s cross country team that hopes to improve on its third-place finish in the Ivy League last season. What are some of the keys to your success right now? CK: In years past, we’ve had fitter and more talented guys on the team, who have just trained really stupidly. They just kill their bodies, let egos get in the way, and we’ve had worse performances because of it. I think that the real change this year will be that we have a less talented and fit team, but a smarter training team that puts those egos aside. I think that is going to be a big advantage when it comes to championship season. How is it having a yearlong season and training for that long? CK: That’s kind of a skill you have to learn. Our coach has this saying that you only get two good seasons, so everybody is constantly trying to prove him wrong. I hope that a lot of guys can this year. For me, it was really weird coming from the West Coast because [indoor cross country] is just not a thing there. We get like 12 weeks of nice chill break, which is really nice. But, out here, you get done with cross country and workouts start in like two weeks to get ready for indoor. It’s really tough. By the end of spring, your body is hurting; you’re kind of just mentally taxed. It’s getting your body peaked three times in
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a year where pro athletes do it maybe twice but usually once a year. But we have to do it again, and again and again. It’s really hard on our bodies, and that’s usually why people only get two seasons. What are some of your goals and the team goals for this year? CK: The team goals are definitely a Heps title. I think that is something that has eluded our team far too long. I think that are a number of teams past that could’ve and should’ve done it but just beat themselves into the ground early. They were either sick or there were a number of mistakes made in the past. I think egos were a big part of it. I think that this year the Ivy League is not as hierarchical as it was in years past where there’s one team that is clearly better than everybody else, and everybody else is just fighting for second or an upset. This year it is just going to be a dogfight and I think that will favor us. The results on Saturday the 13th make it seem like I’m a clear favorite for leading this team, but that’s not true. There are many people that will be first place or first guy on our team this year and it’ll vary from race to race. The great thing about that is guys that are like fourth, fifth or sixth can run with the first through third place guys on the team, and we can pull them further and faster than they would usually go on their own. I think one of my goals this season is to think about that and pull them as far as I can before I have to go off and chase down All-Americans. My individual goal besides that is I want to be an All-American. Is there a pro athlete or another runner that you look up to?
CK: This is probably very cheesy for distance runners but Ben True [’08]. Sometimes you’re chasing times and sometimes you’re chasing places, but I think in both cases he’s really shown his class. He’s very open about his training and what he does on a regular basis. When did you get into running? CK: I had a friend whose dad was into running. We were down at this boardwalk along the water. For the first section of it, it’s further out to shore and it was about a mile long. We had, like, two feet of space between the tide coming in and the seawall. My friend and I decided to try to make it to the pier before the tide came in. We are running as fast as we can. We finally make it and our feet don’t get wet. He is gassed, and there’s another three-mile section of this that is a little further out, so I was, like, I wonder if I could run all of this. So I spent about the next half hour running. This was about in sixth grade, and I beat the tide coming in. It was just nipping at my feet by the time I got to the end of the pier. My friend’s dad was just like, ‘you should try running.’ If you could just go for a run anywhere in the world, where would you want to go? CK: I’ve actually thought about this a lot. I’ve actually never been to Europe, but I think some of the mountains in Austria or Switzerland on a clear summer day, just get on some goat path and go. I would love to go on like an 18-20 mile run there. That would be a blast. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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nil draw heading into overtime and the Big Green took advantage. Northeastern only managed one shot in the two 10-minute overtime periods. “You also saw some really, really good defending,” Rainey said. “I think that’s a fun part of our sport too, when you have people step up when they’re isolated one on one.” Dartmouth created a number of chances throughout the game on set pieces, with multiple shots coming from corners. The Big Green had 10 corners compared to Northeastern’s two. Kozlov’s goal was her second of the season and the second game winner of her Dartmouth career. On Sunday, Dartmouth held on to the momentum from the Northeastern win by shellacking the Catamounts of Vermont. Dartmouth out-shot Vermont by a 21-6 margin and thoroughly controlled every facet of the game from whistle to whistle. The Big Green next takes the field at 1 p.m. at home on Sunday against Brown University for its Ivy League opener.
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Jackie Friedman ’16 lines up a free kick in Dartmouth’s battle against Northeastern.
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Football comes from behind for season-opening victory B y BRett Drucker
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Saturday under the lights, for the first time since a snowy November night, the gridiron came alive in Hanover. In a back-and-forth game, Dartmouth defeated the visiting Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils 35-25, thanks in large part to a mid-game run of 28 points. Despite falling behind the Blue Devils (1-3) in many statistical categories including total offense and time of possession, Dartmouth (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) rolled to its fifth consecutive season-opening victory on the back of a balanced offense and a defense that stood to the challenge in the red zone after a sloppy first half. Before this streak, the Big Green had dropped four of five season openers. “I think for the first half we kind of had the first game jitters,” wide receiver Ryan McManus ’15 said. “As time went on, I think we picked up our rhythm and got into doing things the way we practiced and wanted them to go.”
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After deferring the coin toss and kicking off to start the game, the Dartmouth defense got out to a quick start, forcing a three and out on CCSU’s first possession of the game. Taking over at the 45-yard line, the Big Green offense moved down the field methodically before Kyle Bramble ’16 took a screen pass from Dalyn Williams ’16 for 14 yards, following a pair of blockers. The junior running back hurdled over the last defender into the end zone to take a quick lead. Williams, who is coming off the fourth most productive offensive season in Dartmouth history, was efficient for most of the night, completing 14 of 24 passes for 216 yards and three touchdowns while adding 75 yards and a score on the ground. “There was a poise, there was a confidence and he made a bunch of plays,” head coach Buddy Teevens said comparing Williams’s play to that of last season.
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Alex Gakenheimer ’17 boots an extra point in Dartmouth’s double-digit victory over Central Connecticut State.
Bramble also impressed in his first game after off-season surgery, gaining 145 all-purpose yards for two touchdowns. In addition to being active in the screen game, Bramble had a few physical runs up the middle breaking tackles and dragging defenders, which contributed to his 5.2 yards per rush average on the game. “It’s great to see him back,” Teevens said. “He ran harder yards for us.” After getting on the board first, the Dartmouth offense stalled and CCSU began to take off, scoring a touchdown on the ensuing drive. Big Green defensive lineman Evan Chrustic ’15 blocked the extra point. On the next Dartmouth possession, the Blue Devils forced a fumble, the only turnover of the game, from Williams at the Dartmouth 30 as the Big Green signal caller was stuck in the pocket unable to find a target and taken down from behind, leading to a quick CCSU score. CCSU missed the two point conversion, extending its lead to only 12-7. The Blue Devils would break through again with 2:38 remaining in the second after an 81-yard touchdown march that took 6:16 off the clock and put them ahead 19-7. Time of possession was a problem for the Big Green throughout the game, as they only kept the ball for 22:23 compared to 37:37 for the visitors and didn’t have a single drive that lasted more than 3:15. The Blue Devils had six during the game. “From an offensive standpoint, we just didn’t have enough snaps, especially in the first half,” Teevens said. “We’ve got to be more consistent and maximize drive opportunities.” Kirby Schoenthaler ’15 returned the following kickoff to the 34,
positioning the Big Green well on a crucial two-minute drill. Williams drove the team down the field in less than a minute and a half, completing passes to Bramble, Victor Williams ’16 and two to McManus that set up a two-yard Bramble touchdown run to bring Dartmouth within five heading into the break. “One highlight was at the end of the half, the two minute operation,” Teevens said. “Going the distance, that was critical putting points on the board. It was well-executed and we could proceed from there in the second half.” The team then took the momentum into the second half, scoring three unanswered touchdowns to
build its lead and put the game out of reach. The Big Green picked up where it left off and drove 75 yards for a score to open the third quarter. Williams’ 20-yard touchdown pass miraculously slipped through the hands of Blake Orvis ’17 at the two yard line into the waiting arms of Bo Patterson ’15 in the end zone. The Blue Devils drove back to the Dartmouth 15, but were stifled when a field goal attempt was blocked by safety Troy Donahue ’15. Williams threw a 19-yard touchdown on the following drive after an acrobatic catch from McManus in the corner of the end zone where the senior, who Teevens called “fearless,”
barely managed to tap his right foot in play while coming down with the ball for the score. McManus ended the game with 117 receiving yards, a career high. It was the second time in his Big Green career that he passed the 100-yard plateau. The senior, who missed eight games last season with a concussion, said he appreciated the opportunity to return to the field and contribute. “It was pretty tough to watch on the sidelines [last year],” he said. “But I’ve been fortunate enough to be healthy and be able to come back this season and it’s been a great blessing for me to do so.” The Big Green finished its scoring on a masterful 91-yard drive that began after the defense forced a turnover on downs in the red zone. The eight-play drive ended with a designed draw for Williams who scampered down the left sideline into the south end zone for the score just one play after a holding penalty had pushed the Big Green out of the red zone and threatened to stall their progress. CCSU managed to score a late touchdown midway through the fourth quarter, but Dartmouth held on for the win. Overall, Teevens, who improved his career mark at Dartmouth in season openers to 7-8, cited the team’s maturity as a main factor in overcoming a tougher first half than expected. “Guys rallied and played as a team, and I’m happy with the end result,” he said Next week, the team heads to Durham to take one of last season’s FCS semi-finalists, No. 9 University of New Hampshire Wildcats.
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The Big Green offensive line performed admirably in Saturday’s game, allowing just two sacks on the day.
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Guide highlights recent history of activism at Dartmouth FROM DISORIENTATION PAGE 1
reading it. “Sometimes upperclassmen feel like they know the campus and the student body, so the guide really gives the campus through a different lens,” Cornejo said, “which I feel like upperclassmen should look into rather than seeing it through their normative daily lives.” Creators received $1,500 in funding through The Dartmouth Radical, a member group of the Council on Student Organizations, to cover publication costs, Cornejo said. He estimated that the creators printed 1,500 copies, or enough to fill eight cardboard boxes. So far, Action Collective members have distributed five boxes of pamphlets. Student members of the Action Collective gained campus and nationwide attention this February, with the publication of the “Freedom Budget,” a list of more than 70 demands related to diversity and inclusion, including proposals that
the College increase enrollment of black, Latino and Latina and Native American students to at least 10 percent each, make a multimillion dollar commitment to increasing the racial diversity of faculty and staff and provide pro-bono legal assistance and financial assistance to undocumented students. In April, students involved with the “Freedom Budget” staged a two-day sit-in of College President Phil Hanlon’s office, demanding a point-by-point response to their document. The protestors agreed to leave Parkhurst Hall only after signing an agreement with former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson that stated the administration would conduct a campus climate survey and hold meetings with the protestors, who would not face disciplinary action beyond “low-level judicial review.” Students who attended the meetings that spring said that while they were sometimes productive, at times students were frustrated with administrators’ lack of ac-
countability. The Dartmouth Radical, which bills itself as Dartmouth’s only progressive newspaper, began publishing in fall 2012. The Action Collective has no set structure or leader, but rather comprises a set of interested students who communicate over email, Cornejo said. Cornejo said that the guide is a way for the Collective to put its ideas “down on paper.” “I think everything we do is outreach,” he said. Twelve freshmen interviewed said they paid little attention to the guide when they picked it up, though some said it contained some useful information. Garrison Roe ’18 said that he found the guide helpful, but he disliked that it implied that freshmen were ignorant and “attacked” fraternities and other groups in a one-sided manner. “There are many good tips to help people be more considerate of the groups represented around
them,” Roe wrote in an email. The “Disorientation Guide” includes student reflections on their activism at the College, including the Real Talk Dimensions protest in spring 2013. Also highlighted are “life-changing” classes, favorite professors, job recommendations and advice on being an ally to different communities. One lengthy piece in the guide outlined a recent history of activism at the College, spotlighting the Occupy Dartmouth encampment in 2011, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day protest this January and the two-day sit-in Hanlon’s office. The guide cites inspiration from similar publications released at colleges around the country, including Columbia University, New York University, Tufts University and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Adam Odsess-Rubin, a 2014 graduate of UC Santa Cruz and editor of the school’s 2011 disorientation guide, said that the publications are created at schools
across the country, though their form and content varies by campus and year. The UC Santa Cruz edition, financially supported by the university, included essays about budget cuts, local grassroots activism and the university’s history. “We wanted people to think critically about what was happening at the school,” he said, adding that he believes the publication had a lasting impact. Like the Dartmouth Radical and Action Collective’s guide, other universities’ publications focus on diversity and safe social spaces. Dartmouth’s publication also highlights undocumented student life and school-specific issues like Greek life and last spring’s “Freedom Budget” protests. Writers Noah Cramer ’16, Yomalis Rosario ’15 and Tramon McZeal ’16 declined to comment, with Cramer citing an agreement among collaborators not to speak to The Dartmouth. Other contributors could not be reached by press time.
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house, girls from certain sports teams automatically got a bid,” read another. Many included the hashtag “#dontrushintorush.” Panhell released a statement early Monday morning expressing support for the movement and saying that Panhell members made posters on Sunday as well. “We hope to see some of our more favorable anecdotes displayed alongside the more critical ones in an effort to portray a balanced picture of Greek life,” according to the statement, posted by Panhell vice president for public relations Jessica Ke ’15. Lacey Jones ’16 opened the panel, describing her time leading up to sophomore winter, when she ultimately decided to rush. “Freshman year at Dartmouth was a rude awakening,” Jones said. Though she expected the small College to be a reprieve from her huge high school, she said she ended the year with no cohesive sense of community. So she chose to participate in winter rush. The sororities she liked best did not call her back, and none of her remaining options felt like a good fit, so she decided to drop out, she said. “I have never felt as worthless as I did after rush,” Jones said, explaining she was ashamed that recruitment had so much power on her self-perception. “It felt like I had slipped through Dartmouth’s cracks.” Jones found a new community after attending a poetry slam one night, discovering a group of people who she said made her feel safe and genuine.
She said being unaffiliated allowed her to rebuild her own identity, a theme reiterated by other panelists. Unlike Jones, Sam Parker ‘15 completed rush and joined a house, calling it “single-handedly the best and worst thing” that happened to her at Dartmouth. Currently inactive, she criticized common sorority events like tails and meetings as largely shallow, though she said she enjoyed sisterhood events, which occurred less frequently. She said that her efforts to have conversations with her sorority about potential reforms, such as those brought up by the Panhell executives who abstained from recruitment last winter, were mostly rebuffed. “For me, the house was too complacent,” Parker said. “I didn’t like the bureaucracy of how it was organized, and I didn’t like that our house wasn’t willing to take a stand.” Themes of superficiality, Greek resistance to change and a loss or discovery of identity continued through the other panelists’ narratives. Lulu Chang ’15, who said she believes that inclusivity and the Greek system are mutually exclusive, entered Dartmouth certain she was not going to rush. However, because all her friends decided to participate, she did as well. She was invited to two preference night parties but decided to drop out. “I felt like such a horrible hypocrite,” Chang said, explaining that she had always criticized the Greek system as superficial, yet still went through recruitment as a superficial version of herself. Chang said she has many friends who have grown from their Greek life
experiences, but dropping out of rush was the best decision for her. There is no need to sacrifice individuality to fit in with a greater community, she said, contrary to the myth she believes Dartmouth perpetuates. Like Jones, Adria Brown ’15 did not receive a bid at her first-choice sorority, and chose to drop out of Panhell rush. Although she “internalized negative feelings” in the aftermath of rush,
“When I found something that I liked, it enevitably led me to people. Searching for people was the wrong thing to do.” - Heidi Meyers ’14 she later joined Alpha Pi Omega, a historically Native American sorority, and said she felt more comfortable with her identity. She reminded the audience that communities for women exist outside of Panhell sororities. Whereas several other panelists came into Dartmouth uncertain about whether or not they would rush, Heidi Meyers ’14 said she had no hesitation at all that she would rush. As a result, she spent her freshman year cultivating relationships with affiliated women, and went into fall Panhell recruitment with confidence. She did not receive a bid at her house of choice, and said she spent much
of the term feeling demoralized and angry. She rushed again in the winter and said she enjoyed the experience, as she felt in control of her own situation. She joined a sorority in the winter and immediately felt loved by her sisters. However, her experience in and opinion of her sorority rapidly declined when, in the aftermath of a tough personal experience, few sisters reached out to her. Retrospectively, Meyers said, she never felt like she had a community. “When I found something that I liked, it inevitably led me to people,” Meyers said, ending her narrative with advice. “Searching for people was the wrong thing to do.” Unlike most of the other panelists, Jennifer Ontiveros ’15 did not feel as much peer pressure to rush, because none of her friends wanted to go through recruitment. After deciding to focus on other interests for a while, Ontiveros decided to join a coed house. She contrasted coed rush with her perception of Panhell recruitment, saying that she never encountered superficiality and did not feel stressed. “I didn’t think the stereotypes of sororities were all true, but at the same time, it turned me away from trying to do that kind of Greek life,” Ontiveros said. Discussions of superficiality and negative stereotypes of sorority life continued with Katie Wheeler ’15 recounting her experience — a story more elaborated upon in her opinion column, “True Rush,” published in The Dartmouth. Wheeler said she rushed because she wanted something to do, and the Greek system was a large part of her
freshman year social life. But she said the women’s rush process can have a negative effect on participants’ self-esteem. Despite this, she said, the College has normalized and accepted the process. During her time in a sorority, Wheeler realized that her interests did not align with those of her sisters and ultimately depledged her sorority. She added that recruitment deliberations were “unacceptably degrading” and that her sisters were often not supportive of her. “While my experience is personal, it is representative of trends and problems with the system at large,” Wheeler said. Unlike all the other panelists, Naldine Isaac ’15 remains active in a Panhell sorority, which she rushed her junior winter. She recounted her fear that joining the Greek system would come at odds with her affiliation with the Afro-American Society, a community in which she said certain people have strong anti-Greek sentiments. Although she felt that recruitment was superficial, Isaac said she was “pleasantly surprised” by the good relationships she formed in her sorority. She found that her house was diverse, accepting and gave her opportunities to share personal stories that she would not have talked about outside of a supportive space. “Whatever you end up doing, it will probably be the right decision for you,” Isaac said. Around 30 students attended the panel, which took place in Casque and Gauntlet Friday evening. Chang is a member of The Dartmouth senior staff. Wheeler is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:30 p.m. “A Millennial’s Take on Emerging Higher Education Policy Issues in the 21st Century” with Zakiya Smith of the Lumina Foundation, Rockefeller Center 003
6:00 p.m. “From the Archives: Civil Rights at Dartmouth,” Rauner Library Reading Room
7:30 p.m. Argentine tango course and practica, Collis Common Ground
TOMORROW 3:30 p.m. Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar with Dr. Juha Vierinen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory
4:00 p.m. “Two Days, One Night” (2014), Telluride at Dartmouth screening, Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium
7:00 p.m. Women’s volleyball versus Bryant University, Berry Leede Arena Court 2
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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
‘Wild’ thrives on emotion, grit
B y Andrew Kingsley The Dartmouth Staff
Imagine hiking for the first time, with a backpack equaling you in weight, being afraid of the wilderness and leaving your home behind. This sounds like the worst Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trip ever, or the premise of Jean-Marc Vallée’s latest film, “Wild” (2014). If there was a theme at last year’s Telluride Film Festival, it was the survival tale, captured in big hits like “All Is Lost,” “Gravity” and “Tracks.” Adapting Cheryl Strayed’s national bestselling autobiography “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” Vallée rides this wave of survivalist success. Strayed’s life snowballs into an avalanche of self-destruction, beginning with her beloved mother’s (Laura Dern) unexpected death to cancer. Buried under immense grief, Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) turns to drugs and sex to cope, which ultimately lead to a pregnancy and abortion. This is no “Legally Blonde” Witherspoon — we get a gritty, battered performance that rivals her Academy Award-winning June Carter Cash role from “Walk the Line” (2005). Vallée does not verbalize Strayed’s past. Rather, we glimpse stream of consciousness fragments of her memories as she hikes 1,100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail. With editing like this, Sergei Eisenstein is surely smiling from his grave. Vallée captures Strayed’s memories perfectly: as invasive, flickering ghosts, haunting her psyche. The trek is an exorcism. The
searing sun, bruises and overweight backpack reminiscent of Sisyphus’s stone are her physical “Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei.” With no hiking experience, Cheryl embarks on a 94-day odyssey of escapism, healing and self-rediscovery. This is the “Eat, Pray, Love” (2010) from hell. In the first few days, Strayed can’t set up her tent, is afraid of a caterpillar in her sleeping bag and faces a potential rape attempt. In the opening scene, she rips off her bloody big toe nail, and one of her boots falls off a cliff. She hurls her other boot away in frustration. Vallée follows the floating boot, its red laces ribboning in the wind. This was my favorite shot of the film. It embodied what French Impressionist filmmakers in the 1920s nebulously coined photogénie, which was the essence of cinema, the ability of the camera to enliven its subject, most powerfully achieved in the close-up. Vallée’s focus on the tumbling boot photogenetically produces a “bootcharacter” embodying all of Strayed’s frustration, pain and prior ignorance, which she then casts off the cliff. While worrisome, this scene was also very funny, as Vallée finds humor in Strayed’s vast inexperience as well as the coterie of quirky hikers she meets along the way. A man who initially seems threatening turns out to be a licorice-loving farmer who enjoys the sardonic wit of his wife. A potential hitchhiking ride turns out to be a writer for the Hobo Times, who insists Strayed is a feminist hobo. Strayed’s premise nearly sounds like a farce, so
Vallée thankfully threads an absurdist line through the film. So why all these survival films? Following the Great Depression, the screwball comedy was born, providing audiences with fun-loving duos like Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. This genre was implosive, always bringing couples together in marriage, a mimetic trope of America’s own reconstruction in this period. We are still coming out of the Great Recession, but cinema is there to mirror, support and inspire once again. We all experienced our own “127 Hours” (2010) these past few years, and can see ourselves in Strayed as she cries out in the wilderness or Dr. Ryan Stone of “Gravity” as she hopelessly drifts through space. Strayed closes the film by soliloquizing on the Bridge of the Gods, a cantilevered bridge in Washington. She has survived. She forgives herself for her past, even asking, “What if heroin taught me something?” The Great Recession was our nation’s heroin, slumping us into a comatose state. We take the hit, we struggle and, hopefully, we move forward. As Strayed’s mother quips about her troubled life, “There’s nothing I don’t get. But then what?” Then what? We can merely survive, embittered by the haunted past, or live in the present. What begins merely as a survivalist film ends as a thrive-alist film, an empowering reminder of (wo) man’s indefatigable will. Rating: 9.4/10 “Wild” is set to release in the U.S. on December 5.
A WARM WELCOME
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Band Clyde Lawrence performed at a welcome back lawn party on Gold Coast Lawn on Friday.
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Beyond the Bubble: Art in the Digital Age
B y Andrea Nease The Dartmouth Staff
The 21st century has left many living through their electronics rather than in real time. Since the Internet is now a person’s go-to advisor on most matters, why not take the physical world of art to the digital? In 2011, Google Cultural Institute initiated its Art Project platform to digitize the world’s art and make it available to anyone with an Internet connection. The collection features more than 40,000 images of different types of artwork taken from more than 40 countries. A notable feature of the project is its lack of fees and charges. Many museums, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, charge patrons upwards of $20 for a look around their institution. With its Art Project, Google has made fine art affordable. If you do not have the luxury of visiting the Palais Garnier in Paris to gaze awestruck at Marc Chagall’s magnificent work then you’re in luck — Google has brought Chagall’s work to the digital world in never-before-seen detail. Online viewers can zoom in on the work to see brush stroke texture and, most impressively, Chagall’s signature. The Google Cultural Institute also allows users to curate their own galleries, save favorite works to their accounts, share works or collections with other individuals via the web and compare various pieces to each other with side-by-side visuals and zoom capabilities. Google’s digitization of the art world is leading not only to a greater cultural knowledge base, but also greater autonomy and creativity for those who browse the site. And much to my surprise, the digitization of various works has actually
brought museums into the spotlight and led to an increase in museum patrons, the New Yorker reported. The project has an enormous capacity for global reach and independent curating projects. The platform allows museums to share online exhibitions and promote their institutions, which has in turn led to even smaller museums gaining the same global attention that much larger museums receive, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google’s Cultural Institute Art Project has thus far only enhanced access to the realm of art, boosted knowledge of museums and given the average person the privilege of creative independence at the click of a button. Google is far from the only company journeying to the world of art digitization. Dartmouth’s own Hood Museum of Art completed its Dartmouth Digital Orozco website this summer and has been working to digitize its Native American collection. As of July, there were 2,000 objects photographed and available for online viewing. Hood senior curator Katherine Hart said in July that she expects the project to be completed by next summer. The digitized Native American art collection includes video excerpts of art virtuosos showing off their expertise in front of the pieces, adding another layer of academic potential to the project. Student work involving the Orozco murals is available on the digital Orozco website. Student essays describe most panels of the mural. We now live in a world where we have instant access not only to an answer for every question we type into a search engine, but also to the beauty of a museum available in our very own living room — complete with a cup of tea and pajamas probably not suited for public.
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Alexander Stockton ’15 discusses upcoming feature film
B y Hallie Huffaker The Dartmouth Staff
Alexander Stockton ’15 planned what he wanted to accomplish at Dartmouth even before he set foot on campus. As a junior in high school, the McAllen, Texas resident knew he wanted to study and produce featurelength films. And he has stuck to that plan. A film studies and economics double major, Stockton spent the summer co-producing his first feature-length picture, “Transient,” which he also directed and wrote. Stockton’s Dartmouth classmates and friends filled critical roles on set, from technical positions to costume and set design. “Before coming to Dartmouth, I planned out everything that I wanted to accomplish in detail, what classes I was going to take, how to structure my D-Plan, when I wanted to do an internship,” Stockton said. “One of the things that was on the plan was to make a feature-length film my junior year.” Stockton spent his junior year building up his producing credentials, interning at The Bindery in New York City, which produces advertisements for national brands and non-profits as well as films. He also traveled and worked on the script for “Transient.”
In March, Stockton launched an $11,000 fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to support the film, and the project was fully funded by the end of June. Casting calls began in late May, and filming took place five days a week throughout June and July. Along with co-producer Mariana Gonzalez, cinematographer Taylor Washington, lead actor Michael Ocampo and close to 30 other actors in major roles and crew members, Stockton shot “Transient” in Austin and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, from mid-June through July. Stockton completed post-production, editing, coloring and sound design in August, though final edits and promotion for the film will continue throughout 2014 and 2015. Stockton said he plans to submit the film to festivals in 2016. “Transient” follows Franky DeLuna, an undocumented immigrant who emigrates with his mother to the U.S. when he is a child to escape cartel violence in Mexico. As an adult, DeLuna is deported to Mexico after he reports the attempted rape of a coworker to local police, forcing him to come to terms with conflicting notions of home and belonging. Stockton said he was motivated to produce a film that illuminated the experiences of his friends growing up
in McAllen. Many traveled to the U.S. without documentation as children, he said, and have struggled as young adults to take advantage of opportunities afforded to those with documentation. “A film’s story can be really powerful social force, and I’m trying to learn how to use [my experience] to affect people in the way that I was affected by movies growing up,” Stockton said. “This film is one that matters to me.” Varun Bhuchar ’15, Stockton’s roommate and one of the film’s producers, said that Stockton’s “fingerprints” are visible on the film, especially in his crafting of DeLuna’s character. “He loves hero characters,” Bhuchar said. “You can tell that with this movie — it’s very uplifting and the main character Frankie is a good, decent guy who’s had some hard times and is just trying to make things right.” Stockton co-founded Stories Growing Films, the first film production club on campus, his freshman fall, and participated on the film studies foreign studies program to Edinburgh the summer after his freshman year. Stockton said his love for film blossomed after watching “The Matrix” (1999). He tried out filmmaking in high school, making short movies on weekends. “I’ve watched [“The Matrix”] a bazillion times,” Stockton said. “Ev-
erything I did was always related to movies until eventually I thought, ‘Why not turn this into a career?’” Stockton lists producer and director Michael Mann (“Public Enemies” (2009)), director and writer Rian Johnson (“Breaking Bad”) and actress and writer Brit Marling (“Another Earth” (2011)) as storytelling inspirations. “Mann is just a good director, he knows how to tell a story and I appreciate that,” Stockton said. “Marling’s definitely one of my favorites — she tells these stories that you’ve just never heard before.” Film and media professor Jeffrey Ruoff described Stockton as “mature, responsible and trustworthy” behind the camera and in the classroom. Ruoff recalled how Stockton set an “unofficial record” for most films viewed by a Dartmouth student at the Edinburgh Film Festival — 33 over about two weeks. Stockton is working as a teacher’s assistant in two of Ruoff ’s classes this term. “[Stockton] strikes me as the Olympic high jumper who jumps 5 feet 4 inches, and then raises the bar another three-quarters of an inch and sets a new task for himself,” Ruoff said. “After he jumps that height, he raises it again and keeps challenging himself.” Ruoff described Stockton as a “tre-
mendous” example to younger students interested in pursuing film because he has actively sought out opportunities to study and make films. Randi Young ’15, costume designer for “Transient,” said Stockton was constantly encouraging and positive on set. “Even if you could see on his face that he did not like what was going on, he was always like ‘Great, now can you do this?’” Young said. “He was a very nice person to work with.” Hugh Sagona ’15, who worked on sound for the film, called Stockton “extremely even-keeled,” even given the high-pressure environment of shooting a film within set time and financial constraints. The clarity and strength of the film’s message attracted Sagona to working on the project, he said. “[Stockton] has an uncompromised message that he wants to send, particularly with this film. He knows what he wants to say and how to say it,” Sagona said. “The message is really key to him, and when it is on the big screen, I really think that it will really show.” Bhuchar is a former member of The Dartmouth staff. Final Word (with Alexander Stockton ’15): Favorite color: blue Favorite singer: Bruce Springsteen
PUTTING ON AIRES
SHARON CHO/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
Alexander Stockton ’15 co-produced his first full-length picture this summer.
KATELYN JONES/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
The Dartmouth Aires participated in joint a cappella auditions on Sunday.