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BarHop relies on alumni donations Campus rallies

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with an average over 300 students a night for the first three weeks of the term.

“BarHop requires a lot of student labor, from interns who run it and also plan the events and the programming,” Kol said. “Now that we’ve reverted to one day a week, it seems to be going well.

Staffing [BarHop] has not been a problem; attendance has been a good number and

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a cohort of mainly Native students trudged from residence hall to residence hall, removing flyers encouraging students to “celebrate Columbus Day all year” with “vintage” apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian.

“A lot of people were working so that when people woke up, they didn’t even know about it, because it was a very triggering image,” MOSAIC president Carene Mekertichyan ’16 said.

In reaction to the incident, groups from all over campus have expressed outrage at the act and support for the Native Americans at Dartmouth community. They encouraged students to submit a bias incident report in response.

College spokesperson Diana Laurence confirmed via email that the incident was reported to administrators as a bias incident.

NAD historian Bridget-Kate Sixkiller McNulty ’16 said that the NAD community saw the flyers and was directly involved in tearing them down.

Sixkiller McNulty said that the community is concerned, upset and disappointed about the incident, which it views as “completely unacceptable.”

“Some students do not feel safe on this campus,” she said. “It is horrifying that students do not feel safe on their own college campus, do not feel free to walk around because other students have decided to intimidate and scare them.”

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BarHop — once offered twice a week — now caters to students who want a bar-like atmosphere on Thursdays.

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Now on its sixth term since its creation in winter term 2014, BarHop continues to offer a social space for students, with free drinks, music and other activities every Thursday at the Hop Garage. After experimenting with hosting the event two nights a week beginning in winter term 2015, BarHop has returned to a once-weekly

schedule due to staffing issues, director of student performance programs at the Hopkins Center Joshua Price Kol ’93 said.

The staff currently consists of three to five permanent interns, six to seven bartenders, two to three DJs, four to six ushers, a head usher and a house manager, student programs coordinator at the Hopkins Center Sean Gao ’13 said. He said attendance has increased,

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T he Interfrater nity Council, in conjunction with the Panhellenic Council, the Greek Letters Organizations and Societies office and the Dartmouth Center for Service, has announced plans for an annual Greek Philanthropy Competition that it hopes will excite Greek members

about service, enhance intra-organization community and add structure to current philanthropic efforts on campus.

The new program will focus on philanthropic events hosted by Greek organizations, IFC service chair Peter Gips ’16 said.

Rather than measuring service hours contributed by

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With the change of the seasons comes a photographer’s dream — thousands upon thousands of leaves saturated in the characteristic warm hues of fall.

Once the leaves begin to change color, Hanover is swarmed by tourists toting cameras hoping to snap an Instagram-worthy picture of the foliage.

New Hampshire division of travel and tourism communications manager Kris Neilsen said that around 8.5 million visitors

are expected in the state this fall. This could mark a 3 percent growth from last year, when the state received 8.2 million fall visitors.

Tourist spending is also expected to rise this year, Neilsen says. From September through November, an estimated $1.3 billion will be spent — a 7 percent increase from 2014.

Neilsen has received positive feedback from visitors who have leaf-peeped.

“The scenery is certainly spectacular, and we are getting reports from folks all over the

state that this year has been an exceptional year for the viewing of the leaves — some really spectacular colors, and people love to see the scenic drives,” Neilsen said.

Besides gazing at the fall foliage, visitors have many activities from which to choose.

“It really is a scenic beauty, but there’s also a lot of other activities that happen in the fall that bring a lot of people,” Neilsen said. “There’s a lot of festivals, agricultural fairs, visiting farm SEE PEEPERS PAGE 3

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AROUND THE IVIES Brown University: On Friday, Brown University students staged a “die-in” in support of Native Americans at Brown, the Brown Daily Herald reported. On Monday, students participated in a protest advocating for that the University rename a student celebration “Indigenous People’s Day” instead of “Fall Weekend.”

These events occurred after the Brown Daily Herald issued an apology in the wake of publishing of two opinion columns widely perceived to be racist.

Columbia University: Jonah Reider, a Columbia University senior, has started a pop-up gourmet restaurant named Pith in his dorm room, the Columbia Spectator reported. Reider prepares multiple course meals for two to four diners four nights a week, and prepares the food in the common kitchen of his suite in Hogan Hall. He takes reservations on Yelp and is already fully booked through mid-November.

Cornell University: While meeting with several reporters at a Cornell Club breakfast in New York City, Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett expressed her support of academic freedom and free speech, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. She said she would never require professors to provide a “trigger warning” prior to teaching a particular topic or book. She also argued that there should be no limits on free speech at universities, stating, “We’re about reason, rationality, debate. So if you disagree with someone, the answer isn’t to shut them down.”

Harvard University: Last month, Harvard University’s world champion debate team lost to inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, the Harvard Crimson reported. The prison’s debaters are members of the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides inmates with a college education in conjunction with Bard College.

Last year, the Eastern New York Correctional team also defeated the University of Vermont’s nationally-ranked team as well as a team from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Princeton University: Princeton University professor Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this week, the Daily Princetonian reported. Princeton economics department chair Janet Currie explained that Deaton was recognized for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare. Specifically, Deaton’s work analyzed “the impact of individuals on policy by understanding that decisions of individual consumers aggregate to the economy as a whole.”

University of Pennsylvania: An alum of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will be hosting Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The show he is set to host airs exactly one year and one day before the 2016 election.

Yale University: Seven new senior societies were created this fall at Yale University as part of an ongoing initiative to make the society system more inclusive, the Yale Daily News reported. The initiative began in response to ongoing criticism that the current tap system was “hyper-exclusive, stressful and opaque.” About 100 students are members of these new societies, each of which has an officer designated to communicate with administrators in charge of the initiative.

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people seem to like the programming. And this way, I think we can really focus on interesting programming ideas and different arts-themed activities each week.

That’s not to say we won’t throw a Friday night in here or there, re-think it again, but right now, Thursday night feels like the right thing.”

BarHop was initially funded by a donation from an alum who wanted to see a bar on campus.

Since then, BarHop has received intermittent donations that keep the program running.

Kol said there was some discussion about seeking College funding earlier in BarHop’s existence, but that BarHop decided against it at the time. This decision could change in the future, he said.

Bartender Reed Sturtevant ’16 said the bartenders cannot buy the best drinks every week and tend to buy instead less of the more expensive “crowd-favorites” such as “Not your Father’s Root Beer” or “Sam Adams Rebel Rouser Double IPA.” In response to the claim that BarHop’s funds are uncertain, Kol said that funding is a long-term

problem that has yet to be tackled, but is not the biggest concern in the short term.

“The funds are definitely not set to run out at the end of spring — we’re not in that position yet,” Kol said. “There’s a lot of alumni interest, so I’m not worried that gifts aren’t going to continue to come in to support BarHop.” Kol said some of the long-term solutions to funding include more consistent alumni gifts, College subvention or a pay system, although the latter two have not been explored fully.

“We are hoping that the College will step in and [offer funding],” Sturtevant said. “The reason they should do that is BarHop is exactly the kind of alternative social space that the College is trying to promote in the sort of unspoken crusade against the Greek system.

BarHop is a really terrific weekly event where underg raduates mingle with graduate students and sometimes even alumni, who can just kind of relax in a partially supervised space and have excellent free drinks and live DJing.”

Gao said that although its intention was to meet a general desire among the student body for a bar-like social environment,

BarHop turned out to become an additional or alternative option for a social space aside from Greek life.

“We never really thought about creating an alternative social scene,” Gao said. “We just wanted to create a social scene in general, just involving arts in general. Throughout the year, we’ve embraced the idea that we are, by default, the alternative in the social space arena, but my opinions are just that we should just try to provide the best quality experience to people and that people like it. I don’t care whether it’s alternative or mainstream, just that people like it.”

In terms of programming, Gao said that BarHop will explore arts-themed projects — both of performance art as well as arts and crafts.

“We found that people really enjoy making art and having an outlet to do so and an outlet of creativity, so we’ve been trying to integrate that into our programming this year,” Gao said. “The first couple weeks, we did a lot of cool art-making activities such as sand art and open mic live performances. Going forward, we’re going to try to push those interactive arts themes.”

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individual members, this competition will emphasize the role of entire Greek organizations in organizing charitable events, especially fundraisers, he said. Organizations will compete with one another to see who can host the most successful events and raise the most money for their causes.

“The Greek system presents a really huge source of potential collective action, and the more we can incentivize that, the more we can tap into that source,” Gips said.

Most Greek organizations already host these sorts of events, but the Philanthropic Competition will provide a better structure for measuring their effectiveness, he said.

Organizations will be scored using a standardized rubric measuring participation, hours put into the event, money raised, campus attendance and possibility of growth for the event, among other factors.

The winning organization will be awarded a trophy, Gips said. In addition, the IFC and its partner organizations are working out the specifics of what other prizes, if any, will be given. He said that IFC hopes to organize a meal with College President Phil Hanlon and his wife Gail Gentes, director of action-based learning programs, for the winning organization, though this has not yet been finalized.

Discussion about organizing the event began last spring, Panhell vice president of community and outreach Carene Mekertichyan ’16 said. She said that Panhell is focused on giving the event as much support as it needs, specifically by working with sororities to get them involved.

Panhell is also working on integrating the new competition with their existing philanthropy events, she said.

The competition will hopefully encourage students, especially new members of Greek organizations, to get out and participate in philanthropic events, Gips said.

“The more we can encourage people to get out there and do service, the more likely it is for someone who’s never done it before to try it through their Greek house,” he said.

In addition, the competitive nature of the event might motivate Greek organizations as a whole to get more involved with community service, Mekertichyan said. In doing so, it might also build a sense of community within organizations, she said.

New member recruitment made it difficult to roll out the event this fall, Mekertichyan said. She emphasized that since this is a year-long

event, students still have plenty of time to get involved.

In addition to the Philanthropy Competition, Greek organizations will continue participation in GLOS’s Million Minutes of Service Initiative, piloted last year. Million Minutes of Service is a competition between Greek organizations to see who can devote the most hours to community service.

The ultimate goal is for the Greek system to spend a collective million minutes performing community service across the year.

The contest’s first year was a success, Gips said. Last year, the Greek system exceeded its goal and spent more than a million minutes doing service.

“This year, we’re going to try to keep up the momentum and have another good competition,” he said.

While the Greek system was able to exceed its goals for the Million Minutes program last year, it is unclear how much the program has increased service within Greek organizations. For example, while Sigma Phi Epsilon spent almost 400 hours on community service last spring, most brothers were not concerned with winning the competition, Sigma Phi Epsilon vice president of membership development David Berg ’16 said.

“The focus wasn’t the competition, the focus was simply tracking the hours we were already completing,” he said.

Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity service chair Alex Bulteel ’16 said he thinks the College student body is moving toward wanting service to be a larger component of its education, without or without the challenge.

“I think we as a brotherhood are generally very interested in doing service,” he said. “I don’t know that the Million Minutes campaign itself really changed the amount that we did.”

Going into year two, there will be an increased focus on publicizing the Million Minutes of Service competition to Greek organizations, Gips said.

In addition, organizers will try and make it easier for organizations to record their service hours, as there were problems with this last year, he said.

Ultimately, Gips is hopeful that both the Philanthropic Competition and the Million Minutes of Service program will motivate Greek members to participate in community service for years to come.

“I hope that I can come back and visit as an alumni and see that they’re still going on, and that people are participating in service,” he said.

stands, picking pumpkins and apples, so it’s really a combination of things that draw people here.”

Hanover Inn general manager Keith Wagner recently joined the staff and has only been in Hanover for two weeks.

Having previously lived in Philadelphia, he said that the beauty of New Hampshire foliage is unique to the area.

“Weather is similar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But the colors and the foliage [in New Hampshire] — nothing matches it.” he said.

This year, the waves of leaf peepers coincided with the arrival of alumni for homecoming weekend. This created an unusual boom for local businesses.

“This year they’re both together, so it’s kind of the perfect storm, but when

the foliage is earlier we do get a draw of people wanting to see the seasons change,” Wagner said.

For Sixth South Street Hotel employee Chris Calhoun, a New England native, viewing the fall foliage is an annual ritual. This year, however, Calhoun noticed a delay in the changing of leaf colors, which he attributed to the unusually warm weather. Once the season became more temperate, he said, the leaves changed color quite quickly.

Dining room manager at Lou’s Restaurant Donna Langlais noticed the larger-than-usual crowds this year. She also noted that because the leaf-peeping season coincided with Homecoming Weekend — including a football game against Yale University — Lou’s has attracted many customers.

She also said that of the tourists she

has seen, some hailed from beyond New England.

“We’ve seen a significant increase in tourists — a lot of people from Canada, people from the south coming up to New England who are just kind of traveling.

We’re always busy here, but it just seems more significantly busy this year,” she added.

The benches on the outskirts of the Green are a popular place to admire the foliage.

John Samson, the father of Olivia Samson ’16, enjoyed the view with his wife as they waited for their daughter.

“I try to come up here a lot,” he said. “It’s her last year, so I want to get as much time here as I can. It’s great this time of year — all the trees, the leaves on the ground… makes me wish I was a student here.”

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DARTMOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS Complete Guidelines & Applications online: hop.dartmouth.edu (hover over Students link)

The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,800 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

DEADLINE: Thursday, November 12, 2015 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 or via email to Sherry.L.Fiore@dartmouth.edu.

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Staff Columnist SaraH Perez ’17

CONTRIBUTING Columnist MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18

“Faux” Feminism No More

Call Terror By Its Name

To make real progress for women’s rights, feminism cannot be a partisan label.

The F-word is complicated, and it is no secret that it elicits a broad spectrum of reactions. For some, the word “feminism” is a cringe-inducing combination of letters. For others, it is something to live by. With two female candidates currently in the race for the White House, the F-word has been tossed about more than usual. It has been on the lips of reporters and talking heads on both sides of the aisle, and even the candidates have broached the subject. Despite its newfound status as a campaign buzzword, discussion of feminism has been dishearteningly shallow.

In most instances, dialogue has devolved into shouting matches over the recent Planned Parenthood controversy. Being pro-choice has been made a pre-requisite for being a feminist. Being pro-life has been conflated with hating women, or at least failing to properly support them. As a result, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has been disparaged for peddling faux feminism on the campaign trail.

While Fiorina’s most ardent critics may see themselves as crusading for women’s rights, they could not be farther from the truth. Branding Fiorina an anti-feminist because she espouses a conservative view on women’s health is not only absurd — it is counterproductive. Feminist disdain for conservative women is nothing new.

Indeed, women on the right have long been seen as mere tokens, pawns of the patriarchy.

The truth of the matter is this — haggling over ideology will do little to improve women’s status in society. True progress necessitates looking past party lines.

South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal said it best in a Dec. 2014 interview with the Washington Post: “Being prochoice is a litmus test for women, and we’ve got to get over it. We need to not be ashamed that we are who we are. We are different. We need to honor difference of opinion. That’s the only way we’ll ever reach critical mass.” An avowed Democrat and lifelong civil rights activist, Toal is also a staunch pro-life advocate. She shed light on the apparent contradiction, explaining, “I was one of the few right-to-life Democrats that there has ever been, but nobody ever held it against

me.” In today’s political climate, it is hard to imagine a self-identified pro-life Democrat being taken seriously as a feminist. Yet, if we can agree that marked progress for women is the ultimate goal, uncompromising liberal feminists must step down from their high horses and accept conservative women — or even just women with some traditionally conservative viewpoints — as equals.

Democrats do not inherently champion women’s rights. Republicans do not fundamentally oppose women’s advancement. This simple-minded dichotomy has existed far too long and must be discarded. It not only obfuscates the issues at hand, but also impedes constructive conversation from taking place. For example, at a Sept. 2014 roundtable discussion on women’s issues, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz declared, “What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.” This comment followed Wasserman Schultz’s less-than-subtle comment, “Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand.” Wasserman Schultz is painting the entire Republican Party as anti-feminist, including the women within it. To ensure true progress, we must condemn such instances of unabashed pandering. Such indiscriminate vilification of the other side is unacceptable and contributes absolutely nothing to fruitful dialogue.

The longer we allow demagogues like Wasserman Schultz to exploit trite narratives for the purpose of political expediency, the longer it will take to make true progress in the realm of women’s rights. By restricting women’s advancement to the purview of a specific party, we limit the possibility of any progress at all.

The longer conservative women are shut out from all discussion, the longer it will be before a woman — Republican or Democrat — enters the White House. Women everywhere must realize that they are playing for the same team.

If not, the patriarchy still has plenty of time to grab another cold one from the fridge, prop his feet up and finish off the other half of that sandwich.

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The recent Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens is terrorism.

In the past week, nearly 20 Israelis have been shot and stabbed — some to death — as Palestinian shooting attacks and rock-throwing at innocent passersby have once again become the norm. There are imams and Arab political leaders who praise the terrorists, brandishing knives at rallies and prayer. Some Palestinians praise what looks like another Intifada. There are banners hung up to honor the “heroes” who murder men, women and children in cold blood; the so-called “martyrs” who use their cars and knives to kill as many Israelis as they can; their “brave” comrades who fight their unholy war.

There has been no substantive apology for the barbaric actions of these violent criminals.

If you expect here a digression trying to justify their behavior, or exonerate them because of something irrelevant but important-sounding, or blame Israeli police for taking action to stop them, then prepare to be disappointed. Don’t worry, the New York Times is always at your disposal. Headlines like “Violence Spreads in Israel, Despite Security Crackdown” point to “violence” as the culprit — yet never the violence from the terrorists who perpetrate and glorify it.

This is a simple story, and we have seen it play out before. The world loves to find a victim — and Palestine fits this narrative. The world simply does not care about Israeli deaths. But throw the word “oppression” around and people will rally around any cause. So we see explanations for Palestinian behavior and lengthy diatribes on the historical causes of Palestinian behavior and internet warriors asserting nonsensical rhetoric that is grounded nowhere near reality.

Palestinians in Israel have the full citizenship rights of any other Israeli citizen. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank live in horrific conditions caused by nothing more than the negligence, warmongering and stupidity of Hamas and the governing Palestinian Authority.

So spare me your retaliatory attack on Israeli “domination.” And unless you would like to see Israeli citizens regularly stabbing Palestinians in a religious effort to erase that group from the face of the planet — and make no mistake, the complete annihilation of Israel is the stated goal of Palestinian terrorists and their supporters — spare me your rhetoric about “proportional response.”

As a society, the U.S. abhors hate crimes. It is considered unconscionable when “privileged” groups speak and advocate for others louder than

those others advocate for themselves. In relation to this conflict, the U.S. is certainly a privileged group — yet many of its citizens defend Palestinians as victims. So why, when Palestinians and Arabs who call for the death of all Jews and avail lone-wolf terrorists of the means to carry out that goal, do we not cry out in anger? Why, when they do not try to justify their actions as anything but violent anti-Semitism, do we?

The Palestinians carrying out these attacks, and the wider Arab world which condones them, do not want American sympathy. They do not even bother with explaining away their actions, yet college students and would-be warriors for social awareness do it for them.

Palestinian warmongers have found the sweet spot of advocating one goal — the destruction of Jews, Israel and the West. Yet the terrorists are still defended by a population that flatly ignores or dismisses that goal. As you decry the wall in Jerusalem, a Gaza imam jokes about the wall’s necessity to protect Israelis from the terrorists’ expressed murderous intent — while wielding and waving a knife. As you decry the Israeli military, Palestinian murderers gore an off-duty Israeli soldier with an axe while she waits for her bus home. As you decry Israeli police who shoot them, the terrorists joyously glorify dying for their despicable cause.

It is truly hard to comprehend the human capacity for stupidity. After all, I’d ask the many cause-seeking, self-riling murder apologists, who do you think they will come after when they are done with the Jews?

Let me be clear — violence is not an expression of self or society. These people are not freedom fighters. Every single Palestinian who stabs or shoots or throws rocks at or careens into an Israeli is a terrorist. Every person, Palestinian or otherwise, who openly and loudly condones these murders is a supporter of terrorism. And I hope everybody who would attempt to justify murder in cold blood can sleep well at night.

Freedom fighters do not stab a 14-year-old riding his bike. Terrorists do.

These are murderers who deserve no sympathy from the world. These are criminals without whom the world would be a vastly better place.

And as long as there are no apologies for their actions, I will not apologize for Israel. I will not apologize for Israelis. And I will not apologize for my people’s right to exist without the constant threat of a knife in the back.

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She said that the NAD community recognizes the attacks for what they are — “a racially charged and violent attempt to scare Native students of this college.”

At the time of the incident, 56 high school seniors from around the country were visiting campus as part of the annual Native American Community Program.

Sixkiller McNulty said she thinks the flyering could have been planned to intimidate potential Native students and discourage them from coming to the school.

The flyers read, “Celebrate Columbus Day all year ’round with vintage Dartmouth Indian gear!” with the phrase “Columbus Day” crossed out and replaced with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” They stated, “Native American and proud to be one? Hate political correctness? Love Dartmouth? Don’t want the Old Traditions to fail?” before advertising a CafePress website selling various apparel and other miscellaneous items featuring the Dartmouth Indian mascot.

The posting of the flyers followed a demonstration held by dozens of Native American students on Monday. Students stood on the Green and outside of Parkhurst Hall with signs bearing slogans such as “I am a survivor of genocide,” “This is Abenaki land” and “We are still here,” as well as “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a proposed replacement for Columbus Day that recognizes the lives and history of North American indigenous tribes. The holiday originated in Berkeley, California, and several major American cities, such as Minneapolis, Seattle and Denver, now officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The entire state of Alaska also recognizes Indigenous People’s Day as of this October.

The College does not officially recognize Columbus Day, and regularly scheduled classes met on Monday.

Tuesday evening, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the College Rebecca Biron co-signed an email to campus calling the distribution of flyers around campus “cowardly and disrespectful” and wrote that it is contradictory “our institutional commitment to supporting and maintaining an inclusive and respectful educational community.”

Dever and Biron called on community members behave in ways that “reflect our highest and best values” and “promote a positive living and learning environment for all.”

Shortly after, the Student Assembly sent a campus-wide email that called the incident a “premeditated act of racism” and stated that the Dartmouth community “cannot tolerate such deliberate acts of hate

speech perpetrated by those who wish to intimidate or harm other students.”

Assembly spokesperson Justin Maffett ’16, who wrote the email sent by the Assembly, said that after hearing about the flyers, he immediately contacted other Assembly and NAD executives for an emergency meeting.

“It was clear that the community already felt vulnerable from previous events outside of their control earlier this term,” Maffett said. “To be put in a situation where they felt isolated and invisible was something that Student Assembly could not overlook and be a bystander to.”

Maffet said that the Assembly asked NAD members for input on the email sent out to campus, as well as for permission to speak on the subject, and circulated a draft to NAD members before sending it out to campus.

In the email, the Assembly wrote that a member of the NAD community was recently egged on campus, something they described as a “violent and destructive act.”

The Assembly wrote that in response to the incident, Safety and Security officers will be conducting additional rounds and walk-throughs at the Native American House and that Native students who feel unsafe can contact Safety and Security for temporary housing reassignments.

Dick’s House counselors were also made available for any affected students.

Maffett said that in some respects, he thought those actions might have been redundant, as he expected administrators to make those resources available.

“I’m glad we went through with it, because in the end, the administration didn’t make those resources available on their own,” he said.

“The important thing is that affected students have a support network available to them.”

Maffett said that he was surprised that administrators omitted safety measures from their message. He said the Assembly saw an opportunity to show students that they should feel confident they they need not rely on solely administrators to speak out against clear acts of violence, hate speech and racism.

“We would like to create a space, an environment, a community, where we can rely on peer-to-peer accountability,” he said.

Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said that he was “extremely upset,” not as Assembly president, but as a student.

“When I see premeditated acts of racism such as this one, it really does break my heart,” he said.

Cunningham called the sense of humor of students who found the flyers funny “disgusting.”

He said that while the Assembly

supports the concept of free speech, “This was hate speech, and there’s a difference.”

Cunningham said that in the future, he thinks it is time for the entire community to have a serious conversation about what is acceptable.

The College chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural group Mosaic, the Panhellenic Council and the Pan Asian Council have also sent out campus-wide emails stating their solidarity with NAD. Mekertichyan ’16 said that MOSAIC sent the email to “show that we stand by the Native community.”

She emphasized that MOSAIC does not have a specific movement, but is instead “standing in solidarity” with the Native community as allies.

“This is about people caring about human beings and the Native community that’s been so oppressed,” she said. “We stand behind them 100 percent.”

Cunningham and Mekertichyan both said that they looked to administrators to take further action.

Cunningham said that he definitely thinks administrators should investigate the incident.

“This is a time for the administration to act,” Cunningham said.

“Student Assembly is more than happy to act and wants to act with them.”

The Assembly stated in its email that it calls on the administration to “open a full inquiry into this incident.”

“I would just like to see the administration take this seriously as a

hate crime and work to find out who did this,” Mekertichyan said.

She added that she thought the email the Dever and Biron sent was very political in its wording.

“With our response, we wanted to be very real and stand by community,” she said.

Cunningham said that acting on this issue is not just a job for administrators, but also a job for the Assembly and larger community.

“All of us standing together will show whoever did this that it is unacceptable,” he said. “We can be the power, and we can be the voice to make sure that racist acts such as this never happen again.”

Mekertichyan was part of the group of students who spent much of Tuesday morning, from approximately 1:30 to 5 a.m., removing the flyers from residential halls across campus before students could wake up and see the “triggering image,” she said.

History and Native American studies professor Colin Calloway, who was chair of the Native American studies program for 12 years, said that these types of issues “crop up time and time again” at the College.

He characterized this incident as an instance where “malicious” and “offensive” actions are committed under the guise of freedom of speech.

Calloway said that this type of behavior “demeans all of us as an institution and a community, and goes against the grain of the type of community we are invoking and trying to build.”

Calloway said that this problem affects everyone at the College.

“This is not just a Native American problem, it is a Dartmouth problem,”

he said.

Calloway, who has written a book on the history of Native Americans at Dartmouth, said that Native American history is essential to the history of the College. “[Native Americans] are as integral a part of the Dartmouth tradition as you can get,” he said.

The College was established by money raised by a Native American and would not have been established here and in 1769 had it not been for that Native American, he said. The original College charter commits the College to providing education to the youth of Native American tribes.

In 1970, then-College President John Kemeny announced that 200 years after the College’s pledge to provide this education, he was recommitting the institution to its founding pledge. Since then, Native students have been actively recruited, a Native American studies program was created and over 800 Native students have graduated from the College.

“To say that Dartmouth is committed to the education of Native students and then invite them into a hostile environment where people are not welcoming and some individuals seem to be targeting them is a problem,” he said. “As long as that’s going on, that’s going to hold us back as an academic institution.”

Sixkiller McNulty said that the NAD community will persevere.

“We will not be frightened into a corner by a few students who have decided to use all of their Greenprint money on a sophomoric but deeply hurtful act,” she said. “Native Americans at Dartmouth is an extremely resilient community, and we will be resilient against this.”

THE INTERVIEW

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Rockefeller Center’s VoxMasters group hosts a public speaking event with a focus on interviews etiquette and techniques.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

Students perform 30 skits in 60 minutes

for some reason this time around. We have something called ‘Confessions of The Dartmouth Senior Staff a Frat Dog,’” Klein said.

In 60 minutes, “Too Much Light Klein said that they started with Makes the Baby go Blind” will cover ma- around 85 different ideas and pared it terial from the Coldown to 30, but lege’s slang to the that the flexible recent change in “We have cheesy structure of the international stu- pick-up lines, literally play allows them dent financial aid to edit the roster pick-up lines about policy. Ariel Klein of plays up until ’17 and Naomi cheese. We have a lot the last minute.

Lazar ’17, both of British accents going “ T o o members of the Much Light Displaced Theater on for some reason Makes the Baby Company, are pro- this time around. We Go Blind” deducing the series on audihave something called pends of 30 skits in 60 ence participa‘Confessions of a Frat minutes. tion for the order T h e N e o - Dog.’” of the show.

Futurists, a “Part Chicago-based of the fun of theater company, - ariel klein ’17, cothe form of this originally created piece is that the producer of “Too the concept of audience gets to “Too Much Light Much Light Makes the chose the order Makes a Baby Go Baby Go Blind” we perform the Blind” with an skits in,” she said. eponymous show.

“They get a list of Amber Porter ’14 brought the piece to all the titles in the show, and there are Dartmouth in winter 2014 with the help numbers associated with each title. They of the Displaced Theater Company, Klein said.

Klein and Lazar took leadership of the Displaced Theater Company in spring 2014.

“The Displaced Theater Company’s mission is to provide theater opportunities specifically to non-majors or people in general who have some kind of interest in performing theater, writing, directing or anything really but don’t necessarily have the time to commit to main stage,” Klein said.

The company focuses on a collective work environment, and all members contribute to the playwriting and direct$10 ing process, she said.

“The cast completely originates ! the ideas, write them ourselves, directs EE R them collaboratively and then performs F them,” Klein said.

Jenny Seong ’16 participated in multiple parts of the production process.

“We all wrote, directed and produced skits,” she said.

To get people involved, the company reached out to previous participants, friends, people recommended by professors and the general campus via listserv, she said.

The group has been working on the production for the past four weeks with an average of five hours of practice a $5 week, Klein said.

“We’ve had about 25 people circle in and out throughout the process, in some capacity,” she said Currently there are about 13 performers for this weekend’s shows, Klein said.

The 30 pieces in “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” range from $10 lighthearted to serious.

“We have cheesy pick-up lines — literally pick-up lines about cheese. We have a lot of British accents going on

B y Maya Poddar

are in an order, and based on whichever title sounds most interesting to the audience, they call out that number and we perform the show in the audience’s order of choice.”

The hope is that students will engage with the non-traditional format of the show.

“I’m excited about the experimental aspect. How it changes the traditional structure of the play and is a fun new twist on the idea of a continuous story line,” Victoria Rowe ’17, who is playing on seeing the show, said.

Due to the variable nature of the show, props and costumes have to be easily adaptable.

“It’s a really low-tech production overall. We don’t have any costumes for the most part, though we might be using some fake moustaches. We really rely on the good old piece of paper taped to your shirt to identify who you are in a scene,” Klein said.

Props are sourced from friends and the theater department, she said.

“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” will be playing in the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 9 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 18, at 5 p.m. Admission is free.

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PLAY AT READING, READ PLAYS

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SPORTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

THURSDAY LINEUP

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Men’s tennis starts season strong at Dartmouth Invitational

B y MARK CUI The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth men’s tennis team hosted its first event of the 2015-16 season, the Dartmouth Invitational, this past weekend. A total of nine teams — Amherst College, Brown University, Fairfield University, Middlebury College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the United States Military Academy, Williams College and Yale University — participated in the tournament at the Boss Tennis Center. Over the three-day tournament, Dartmouth went 14-7 in singles and 9-1 in doubles.

“Overall, the results were pretty good,” head coach Chris Drake said.

“We got what we needed for the team.

We took a couple of steps forward.”

On the first day of the Dartmouth Invitational, Dartmouth went 4-3 in singles action. Three of the Big Green’s seven singles matches went the full three sets, and of those the team won two.

Despite dropping the first set of his match 3-6, Max Fliegner ’18 won the next two sets 6-4, 6-1 to pull out an impressive win over Yale senior Martin Svenning. Dartmouth’s Eddie Grabill ’19, Roko Glasnovic ’19 and Paul Midgley ’18 also emerged victorious for the day.

The team dominated the second day of the tournament, going 6-1 in singles

and 2-1 in doubles. Rather than a threeset format for doubles, the participants played a pro set to eight. Two of the doubles matches were nail-biters. Max Schmidt ’17 and Glasnovic defeated Buffalo’s Tony Miller and Akhil Mehta 8-6 while Joey Haig ’19 and Grabill clung on to win against Buffalo’s Ethan Nittolo and Pablo Alvarez 8-7. Only one of the singles matches went into a full three sets, in which Haig defeated Buffalo’s Mehta 6-0, 6-7, 6-0.

Haig credited his calm mindset as a factor in his success in the final set.

“I just tried to get the game back under control and finish it off,” Haig said.

On the final day, Dartmouth went 4-3 in singles and 3-0 in doubles, wrapping up the tournament with an outstanding overall record of 23-8.

Haig had a standout performance in the tournament, finishing with a 2-1 singles record and a 2-0 doubles record.

The freshman is now an astounding 8-0 in doubles this season.

“We’ve seen quite some improvement this tournament. [Haig’s] serve, especially, was better,” Drake said.

The other two freshmen, Glasnovic and Grabill, also had strong showings at the tournament.

“I think the freshmen are settling in well. They’ve been playing well.

[Grabill] always puts himself in a posi-

tion to win,” Drake said. “Same with [Glasnovic]. He competed well. He also seems like he’s pretty good at finding ways to win matches.”

The week prior to the Dartmouth Invitational, the men’s tennis team participated in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championship in Oklahoma. It is one of the largest tournaments of the year with over 350 players participating from around the country.

On the first day of the tournament, Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 lost in the pre-qualifying round to East Tennessee State University’s Diego Nunez 4-6, 6-1, 3-6. Tannenbaum rebounded in the consolation round, cruising to a 6-1, 6-0 victory over the College of William & Mary’s Aiden Talcott. Dartmouth also sent three other players, Diego Pedraza ’17, Ciro Riccardi ’18 and Dovydas Sakinis ’16, to the tournament.

Pedraza defeated University of Nebraska’s Dusty Boyer 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-3 in the first round of qualifying before falling to San Diego State University’s Hendrik Jebens 7-6 (9), 4-6, 4-6. In the second Riccardi lost to the University of Florida’s Alfredo Perez 4-6, 4-6 in the first round, but won his consolation round against Eastern Washington University’s Victor Pereira 6-3, 6-1.

Out of the Dartmouth singles players, Sakinis lasted the longest, defeating

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The men’s tennis team put up a stellar performance at the Dartmouth Invitational.

the Florida’s Chase Perez-Blanco 6-3, 6-4 in the first round and Denver University’s Henry Craig in the second round through a walkover before falling to Northwestern University’s Konrad Zieba in the Round of 16 with a score of 6-7 (5), 6-2, 2-6.

“It was disappointing,” Sakinis said.

“I wish I could’ve gone farther, but it was a great experience.”

The four Dartmouth singles players combined to form two double teams for the tournament. The duo of Pedraza and Riccardi lost in the first round of qualifying to Wake Forest University’s Jonathan Ho and Keivon Tabrizi 5-7, 6-7 (4).

Taking advantage of a first round

bye, Dartmouth’s other doubles team, Sakinis and Tannenbaum, emerged victorious against Texas A&M’s AJ Catanzariti and Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 6-2 and the University of San Francisco’s Nils Skajaa and Vasco Valverde 6-4, 6-4. Despite their impressive play, the duo fell to University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Vikram Hundal and Jordi Massalle Ferrer in the third round of qualifying.

“There were some of the best teams in the country, and our guys still held up pretty well,” Drake said.

The team’s next tournament is the ITA Northeast Regional Champion at New Haven, Connecticut, from Oct. 22 to 27.

Swimming finds success in Boston College preseason relays

B y ASHLEY DUPUIS The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth men’s and women’s swim teams started their season this past weekend away with a non-scoring relay scrimmage against Boston College. A total of 14 events took place, including two mixed relays. The women’s side came out with a strong showing, winning all its relays, along with the mixed events. The men’s side also proved a formidable opponent coming out 4-2 in its events at the meet. The team, which just kicked off official training on Oct. 1, is working toward major growth in the coming weeks before the regular season commences.

“Our team had really strong finishes, and the anchors [in each relay] did a great job,” team captain Olivia Samson ’16 said of the team’s performance last Sunday.

The Big Green came out with a powerful showing within the first few events of the meet. For the first and second events in the 300-yard backstroke relay, the Big Green women’s A and B teams finished with the top two times over Boston College, and on the men’s side, Dartmouth narrowly beat out BC’s A team to claim the top spot. In event eight, the women’s 500-yard freestyle relay, Dartmouth claimed the top three finishes, effectively shutting out the Eagles.

Katie Papa ’16 said the best part of the meet was seeing this season’s squad competing together for the first time.

Head coach Jim Wilson said the team’s performance was a good start, but fitness will be a key area of improvement in subsequent matches.

“Our endurance was lagging during the latter part of the meet,”

Wilson said. Wilson also wants to have the team work to refine their turns and starts before their next meet.

Joining Wilson and diving coach Chris Hamilton this season are assistant coaches Blaire Bachman and Eliot Scymanski . The two bring strong coaching backgrounds to the Big Green. Bachman was head coach at Brenau University for five years. At the time of her hiring, she was the youngest head coach in the nation. Bachman was selected in the 2014-15 season as the NAIA Coach of the Year and has been a four-time Appalachian Swimming Conference Coach of the Year. She also led Brenau to a third-place finish at the NAIA National Championship — the highest finish in school history.

Scymanski took over as assistant coach and aquatics director at Franklin and Marshall College

in December 2012. During his time at Franklin and Marshall, Scymanski helped lead the men’s team to a third-place finish and the women’s team to a second-place finish at the Centennial Conference Championship.

“Everything has changed [with the addition of the two new assistant coaches],” Wilson said.

“There is new energy and drive.”

Samson described the expanded coaching staff as creating a “totally new team dynamic.”

The team looks forward to a bright future with a historically strong men’s diving team, and new first-year swimmers that will play a key role in future successes, Samson said. For the 2015-16 season, nine women and six men were added to the team’s roster.

“There is a momentum in training that I haven’t seen in awhile,” Samson said, adding that she

wants to see the team “keep up this momentum heading into the season and also have fun.”

“Last year we really lost focus in the second half of the season, so this year we want to maintain our focus and intensity,” Wilson said.

The teams will start regular season play when they face Cornell University and Harvard University at a tri-meet in Ithaca, New York, on Saturday, Nov. 14, beginning at 11 a.m.

“We finished poorly last season [in the league], so we want to improve that,” Wilson said.

Samson echoed this statement, saying she hopes to see the team “move up in the Ivy League significantly.”

The team’s season will wrap up with the Ivy League Championship at Providence, Rhode Island, in late February.