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Failing safety check, Panarchy house closes
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Panarchy undergraduate society has been closed for the summer, effective 8 p.m. Thursday. Current residents were given until that time to vacate the building. The Hanover Fire Department and the Office of Residential Life staff conducted a routine fire inspection of the house earlier this week and were “very concerned” by SEE PANARCHY PAGE 3
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Students gather in the Collis Center to watch the U.S. soccer match.
Senior associate Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer will assume the role of interim Dean of the College on Aug. 1, College President Phil Hanlon announced in an email Wednesday morning. Ameer will take the place of Charlotte Johnson, who will depart to become vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Ameer has worked to expand both academic advising and new housing initiatives in her role leading student academic support services and campus life initiatives.
Discussing her plans as Interim Dean of the College, Ameer emphasized that she will not introduce major new initiatives but said she planned to continue the work she and Johnson have pursued over the past few years. That work includes supporting the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative, advancing initiatives like the Center for Community Action and Prevention and maintaining a push to end binge drinking, she said. In addition to those measures, Ameer said she plans to build on current advising programs, including the First-Year Student Enrichment SEE AMEER PAGE 3
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English professor Barbara Will stood in front of Wednesday’s class meeting of “Social Entrepreneurship,” an upper-level economics class. Introducing herself as the chair of the steering committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward, Will urged students to send in their feedback to the initiative, which the committee will collect this summer and synthesize into a report, with recommendations to be presented to College President Phil Hanlon this October.
The feedback gathered by Moving Dartmouth Forward, an umbrella initiative that intends to drive change on campus, will impact various student life concerns from housing to Greek life, Will said. The recent emphasis on feedback from students and faculty is spurred by a recognition that policies will not be effective without community buy-in, Will said. “Talk-down initiatives don’t work very well because it just feels like it’s coming from someone who doesn’t SEE FEEDBACK PAGE 5
When asked to bring a team of about 10 people to the top of a steep ramp located in the Storrs Pond ropes course, fellows from President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative first attempted to climb the ramp individually. After a few trials, some fellows crounched on their knees, enabling others to step on their backs to reach the top, while those at the top pulled up those at the bottom by their wrists. Soon the group completed the challenge. Twenty-five young professionals from sub-Saharan Af-
rica, all under 35 years of age, are participating in workshops run by the Rockefeller Center, Tucker Foundation, Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business on various topics including design thinking and entrepreneurship. The fellows will continue their courses, which culminates in final project, until July 26, when they will go to Washington for a summit with Obama. Fellows said that program has broadened their skill sets and exposed them to new perspectives. Mellisa Mazingi, a fellow who is also managing director of fashion events at the Zimbabwe public relations company Runway Productions, said that
the program has exposed her to diverse perspectives. She said that learning about the structural and systemic aspects of entrepreneurship will complement the intuitive entrepreneurial skills that most fellows possess. Ramatoulie Gassama, a fellow and the public relations officer at Ace Communications Executive in Gambia, said that the program has equipped her with skills for her future career. Liginiku Octavian Millinga, a fellow who works as a marketing manager for Vodacom Tanzania, said he looks forward to building a network with the other fellows and the DartSEE YALI PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing Potential Republican voters in New Hampshire favor Mitt Romney over other candidates for the GOP primary, Politico reported from a poll conducted by Suffolk University and the Boston Herald. Asking 419 tentative Republican voters whom they would select as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, the survey found that when Romney was excluded, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie led the field with 11.22 percent of the respondents naming him as their first choice, closely followed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul at 10.98 percent. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Texas Senator Ted Cruz trailed the two front runners in the poll at 8.35 percent and 7.88 percent respectively, but 31.50 percent remained undecided. In a separate question that included Romney, Romney received 24.20 percent of the votes, with Christie, the second highest vote-getter, earning just 9.25 percent. Romney won the New Hampshire primary in 2012. He has affirmed on multiple occasions that he will not run in the 2016 election. Vermont leads the nation in the number of guns used to commit crimes in other states, The Valley News reported. A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives study noted that in 2013, 147 firearms were traced to Vermont, translating to 23.5 guns for every 100,000 residents. New Hampshire had a similar gun export rate at 22.3 guns per 100,000 residents. Both states fell above the national average of 15.2 guns per 100,000 residents found by the police in crimes outside the state. The study also concluded that 52 percent of Vermont’s guns used in crimes had links with “dangerous drugs.” Lyme police officer Anthony Swett issued 21 summonses for underage drinking near the Dartmouth Skiway last Saturday, The Valley News reported. New Hampshire State Police and the Lebanon, Hanover and Canaan Police Departments provided support. Though two men were evaluated for intoxication, the 21 individuals, who hailed from local towns, were safely picked up by their parents, the Valley News reported. Each received a citation for “unlawful possession of alcohol by a minor.” The date for their hearing in the Lebanon District Court has been set for Aug. 11, and the individuals could face a fine of up to $1,000 each, according to the Valley News. —Compiled by Alexander Ganninger
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In Hartford, a new home provides refuge B y jorge bonilla The Dartmouth Staff
Every day after an exhausting shift, a woman enters the pale-blue residence at 1673 Maple Street in Hartford, about a 10 minute drive from Hanover. She sprawls out on a large blue sofa in front of the television set and flips the channel to her favorite crime shows on the Investigation Discovery (ID) channel, a routine so habitual that fellow residents have taken to calling her the “IDiva.” However, for “IDiva” and her nine fellow residents, most of whom are former prisoners, the dwelling that could easily be mistaken for a charming bed and breakfast has come to mean more than just a place to relax and unwind. It also represents an opportunity to transition back into the local community. This home is one of four that Dismas of Vermont operates in the state. Hartford Dismas celebrated its dedication this past Sunday after initially facing setbacks due to construction delays and zoning issues. The house opened in late March. Dismas of Vermont executive director Jan Tarjan said the organization eases the process of reintroducing formerly incarcerated individuals into society. The organization helps people obtain employment and provides them with homes where they can regain a sense of agency and community without being judged and stigmatized for their past actions. When articulating the role that the Dismas house plays in the lives of former inmates, Hartford Dismas director Ben Andrews points to a Cherokee proverb that he has pasted onto the wall of his small office near the back of the Hartford residence. In the proverb, an old Cherokee man tells his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people and is fought between a ‘good’ wolf and an ‘evil’ wolf. “The grandson asks him which one will win,” Andrews said. “The grand-
father replies, ‘The one you feed.’” Residents often go out to local shows and festivals and sit down together for nightly dinners, usually prepared by local volunteers, including some students from the College, who stay to eat and chat. “It’s just like eating dinner with a family,” resident Charles Handy said. “Here, there’s no pressure. They don’t preach to you. They don’t say, ‘Ywou should do this or that.’” Tracy Dustin-Eichler, the vice president of the Hartford Dismas’s executive committee and a program officer for local community service at the Tucker Foundation, called the nightly dinners a “win-win” for both the residents of the house and the students who volunteer to cook. “It’s an opportunity to meet people and hear stories from potentially very different circumstances,” DustinEichler said. “Hopefully that knowledge will help those students to be thoughtful and more informed when they’re voting on issues or thinking about prison reform in the United States.” Jonathan Marinelli ’16 attends the dinners each month and coordinates volunteers through the Tucker Foundation’s “Prison Project,” a program through which students work with inmates at the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor. He said that the Hartford house helps former inmates develop new relationships that may prevent them from falling into old habits. “I had one of the residents say that I changed his perspective about Dartmouth students,” Marinelli said. “It’s really great to get out into the community and change the perceptions that some people have by showing them we care. You really get a sense of satisfaction.” Andrews said that the residences supported by Dismas of Vermont yield more beneficial outcomes than simply
funneling individuals back into prison or into typical halfway houses that impose strict rules on residents. Housing someone at one of Dismas’ houses, he said, costs $19,000, compared to the approximately $60,000 that it would cost to house them in a correctional facility operated by the state. According to reports published by the Vermont and New Hampshire Department of Corrections in 2013, the annual cost of housing an inmate in a state prison is $58,114 and $32,872 respectively. Residents, who pay program fees and work together to resolve conflicts, are better prepared to tackle the problems that they will face in the future and to demonstrate fiscal responsibility, Andrews said. “It’s about people creating and using a toolkit of larger strategies so that they can successfully navigate in the community,” he said. “The activities we do together are a way of creating bridges back into the community.” Ana Ramirez ’17 also began attending the monthly dinners through the “Prison Project” last spring. She said she enjoyed hearing about the milestones that residents would relay at dinners, such as finding new jobs and obtaining driving privileges. She said her experience has helped her gain an appreciation for the importance of social justice. “I definitely realized some of the problems with the prison system,” she said. “A lot of people would benefit from rehabilitation more than being in the prison system. Being involved in social justice helps you become more aware of these bigger problems at stake.” The Hartford Dismas house was approved by Vermont judge Thomas Walsh in 2012 after two Hartford community members appealed the use of the property to house former inmates, The Valley News reported. Dismas of Vermont has two locations in Burlington and a location in Rutland.
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The Hartford House, located about 10 miles from Hanover, provides services to former inmates.
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Program, the Academic Skills Center and Advising 360, a program she spearheaded in 2012 for the Class of 2016. Once the steering committee for Moving Dartmouth Forward releases its recommendations, Ameer will coordinate with the committee to determine the best ways to implement changes, she said. Since the arrival of the Class of 2016 in fall 2012, Dartmouth has replaced its President, Provost and Dean of the College, among other high-level administrative positions. Ameer said that she does not expect these transitions to impact students, noting that “on-the-ground” infrastructure, like the Academic Skills Center and Undergraduate Deans Office, remains most important to student life, she said. “The other thing that I always say about new faces is it’s going to bring new ideas to the table, innovation to the table,” Ameer said. Ameer’s interim appointment comes with an uncertain end date. Some faculty and higher education experts interviewed in May preferred a candidate with an academic background. Sylvia Spears served a two-year interim appointment as Dean of the College that ended just before Johnson’s tenure began. Under her appointment, Spears designed new policies to combat alcohol abuse and sexual assault, oversaw the development of the First-Year Student Enrichment Plan and cut the Deans Office budget by $600,000. Johnson said she supported the idea of Ameer becoming the permanent Dean of the College. Johnson noted her close working relationship
national search, and I hope that she will apply for the position.” She said Ameer’s judgment, diplomacy and sense of humor have primed her to meet the challenge of juggling the Dean of the College’s various responsibilities. Student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said he approved of the appointment, citing Ameer’s close work with Johnson. Greek Leadership Council summer chair Elizabeth Wilkins ’16 said
“I know that Dartmouth will do a national search and I hope that she will apply for the position.” - Charlotte Johnson, Dean of the College that the GLC supported Ameer’s appointment because of her experience working with student life. In the past few months, Ameer has worked on the College’s future housing initiatives. In February, she hosted a Moving Dartmouth Forward session with residential education director Mike Wooten on housing initiatives that will begin in the fall, like affinity houses for students with common interests, including a “design-your-own” option. Before arriving at the College, Ameer worked as an assistant dean at Harvard University.
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“We’re sticking together and trying to make the best of it.” - Dan olson ’14, president of panarchy corporation the house would require hiring a third-party inspector. The house would also have to start construction quickly, provided that it can afford the quote, and must reach out to alumni to raise money if it has insufficient funds, he wrote. In the email, he wrote that if those options do not succeed, Panarchy will close permanently and Panarchy corporation will be dissolved. “We think this is very unlikely, but it’s definitely a possibility,” he said in the interview. Dylgjeri said she could not comment on future plans for the organization at this time. Panarchy’s future will depend on
the upcoming third-party evaluation. “Everybody’s taking it hard, both the students and members of the corporation, but we’re sticking together and trying to make the best of it,” Olson said. All Greek Letter Organizations and Societies houses are required to have inspections for fire, safety and health code, in addition to inspections of smoke detectors and private rooms. The inspections are conducted by residential operations and the town of Hanover. While various sources reported different numbers of residents living in the house, director of media relations Diana Lawrence wrote in an email to The Dartmouth that 10 students were immediately offered on-campus housing following the meeting. The majority of students decided to live in residence halls, she wrote. Other residents will reside in the Sustainable Living Center and Greek houses, Panarchy president Angie Dylgjeri ’14 said. While the house is closed, Panarchy will continue to hold meetings every week, along with house dinners and house events, at an off-campus location, Dylgjeri said. “Panarchy is still alive,” she said. Two Panarchy members said the society is not commenting to the press at this time. The College first recognized Panarchy, formerly a Greek house, as an undergraduate society in September 1993. Located at 9 School Street, Panarchy’s physical plant is privately owned. Panarchy has a required minimum occupancy of 14 residents, according to the GLOS handbook.
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“The other thing that I always say about new faces is it’s going to bring new ideas to the table, innovation to the table.” - Inge-lise Ameer, interim dean of the College
the “significant number” of violations that they found, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said. Dan Olson ’04, president of Panarchy corporation, the body that oversees Panarchy’s management, said that an emergency meeting was called Thursday morning with the fire department, Panarchy Corporation members and the Office of Residential Life. Olson said Hanover Fire Chief Martin McMillan did not clearly explain the violations found at Panarchy. There were a handful of minor issues cited, including a slightly clogged chimney, but no concrete or major violations were mentioned in the meeting, he said. Olson has not yet seen any documented evidence of specific issues, except the chimney. McMillan and his assistant did not respond to multiple requests for comment by press time. In the meeting, residents agreed to move out of the house until a third-party inspection has been completed and any problems discovered during that inspection have been addressed. Griffin said Panarchy must bring in an outside architect and a construction firm for cost estimates to bring the house up to compliance with fire and life safety codes. While the cost of bringing the house up to code can only be estimated, Griffin said she thinks that “we’re talking about much more than tens of thousands of dollars” and that the house needs “a very, very substantial readjustment” to meet the codes. Panarchy will remain closed
until all cited violations have been repaired, Griffin said. Hanover’s building inspection staff and fire department would need to agree that the house was in compliance before it could reopen, which might mean Panarchy will remain uninhabitable for the fall, she said. Dylgjeri and Olson said that the house may reopen this summer. The organization is hoping that the repairs will be completed and that residents can move back in by the end of July, Dylgjeri said. In an email sent to the Panarchy Listserv, Olson said that reopening
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Moving Dartmouth Forward must be more creative in future efforts. Since May, the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative’s presidential steering committee has collected more than 1,000 recommendations from faculty, staff and students. We commend the initiative’s transparency throughout these efforts. The members of the committee have reached out to students for comments through campus summits, online submissions and over email. This kind of active student outreach is integral to the success of any initiative regarding student life. The College’s new sexual assault policy exemplifies what transparency and acknowledging student feedback can accomplish. But the committee must be more creative in the ways they gather student opinion. The campus conversations under the Moving Dartmouth Forward banner have been attended by mostly faculty and staff; just seven students attended a recent session on global experiences. This past Tuesday English professor Barbara Will, the steering committee’s chair, held open office hours in Sanborn Library for two hours. Just three students, Will said, showed up. One area where the initiative could be more creative is in advertising. Poorly advertised events in quiet buildings will not catch the eye of the average student. These events should instead be heavily and effectively advertised in popular locations such as Collis and BakerBerry Library. The committee could send student representatives to clubs as a form of peer advertising. Moving Dartmouth Forward events should have their own blitz mail advertisements, instead of being subsumed under the oft-ignored VOX Daily. The events themselves should be in busy areas instead of tucked off to the corner of Sanborn. Moving Dartmouth Forward could also do more to incentivize students to join these conversations by offering free food from popular local restaurants. Another part of Moving Dartmouth Forward’s outreach issues involves the organization’s occasional lack of transparency. Four named students sit on the committee, in addition to five faculty and two alumni.
The College did not announce how it chose the committee’s members. Obfuscating the selection process is counterintuitive to the crowdsourcing and otherwise transparent methods of the initiative. Perhaps students could not apply for the committee because of the measure’s condensed timeline. However, it is disturbing that in the face of greater calls for transparency, four students were lifted out of several thousand to play such a large role in this influential initiative. The committee should publicly justify their choice to forego applications and outline their criteria for choosing its members. We hope this is just one step to enact even greater transparency in the future. On its website, the committee lists July through August as the “feasibility” phase, in which the “top ideas generated during the engagement period will be evaluated and assessed through feasibility studies and expert consultation.” The committee must continue to be transparent throughout this phase instead of remaining silent until September’s “re-engagement” phase. The committee should also announce what constitutes “expert consultation,” and make the names of those consultants public. Moving Dartmouth Forward’s efforts will change student life, and the committee will be ill-informed unless students take action and get involved. The steering committee will only hear the comments that we as students communicate to them. Online forums are useful tools to float ideas and check the campus’s temperature, but they cannot substitute real conversation with the committee. While Improve Dartmouth galvanizes student opinion on various issues, it does not in of itself lead to effective and nuanced student opinion on extensive campus issues. No matter how much Moving Dartmouth Forward tries, its efforts will be fruitless if we as a student body refuse to actually attend the initiative’s events. All of us must work to reap the benefits of this campus initiative. In doing so, we may actually accomplish its titular goal and move our campus forward.
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The date shouldn’t matter for the new disciplinary procedures. In a June 18 campus-wide email Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson announced that the new unified disciplinary procedures for sexual misconduct would come into effect the next day. This change, they wrote, “will provide for the prompt, effective, fair and impartial investigation and resolution of complaints of sexual assault.” But the policy excludes some survivors entirely. College President Phil Hanlon has repeatedly emphasized that Dartmouth is a trailblazer in the fight against sexual assault. Hanlon writes in Time Magazine that prevention is critical to eradicate campuses “of the extreme behaviors that harm our community and distract us from the passions of our pursuits.” Prevention is undoubtedly necessary, but what about assaults that have already occurred? The revised sexual assault adjudication process does little for the survivors of these assaults. In their email, Dever and Johnson wrote that complaints concerning conduct that occurred prior to June 19 will be processed under the existing rules. This clause in the new policy essentially grandfathers in any previously committed sexual misconduct. Though students have the option not to be present at their hearing, they are warned that doing so will likely result in the hearing being skewed in the responding student’s favor. The hearing itself involves recounting the trauma to a room full of people and being questioned by the panel. Survivors have to hear their assailant both retell the event and ask questions. These hearings provide inconsistent and often dissatisfying results. In our special issue on sexual assault, “A Campus Facing Violence,” Sara McGahan reported that Johnson said she believed that the new policy is a way to send a “clear” message that “institutional weight is behind expulsion as the presumptive outcome” in sexual assault cases. Failing to extend the policy to all assaults that are reported — not committed — after June 19 does not send a clear message. This oversight raises questions about administrative effectiveness in combating sexual assault. Moving from internal adjudication processes like the Committee on Standards is an important step towards improving the process
for both parties. As Michelle Goldberg explains in The Nation, some people believe that internal investigations trivialize the crime of rape. Other people believe that internal disciplinary boards may be more interested in protecting the school than reaching the appropriate verdict. Even conservatives criticize internal adjudication processes as kangaroo courts that deny accused students their basic right of due process. In light of these criticisms, the new unified procedures are a wise move — but why not make the change for all affected students? Recent lawsuits from accused and subsequently expelled students against various academic institutions may illuminate their decision. Perhaps the College wants to avoid lawsuits from those potentially found responsible for conduct that occurred before the new policy came into effect. The grounds for such a suit would be tenuous considering that separation was already an acceptable sanction for students found responsible of sexual misconduct at Dartmouth. Furthermore, responding students found responsible and separated from the College under the new policy can still potentially sue the College. By failing to provide the same protections to survivors of conduct that occurred prior to the policy’s implementation, the College mitigates little risk at great cost. What, precisely, is this cost? First, students who have already committed assaults will be tried under the less reliable system and are more likely to remain in our midst afterwards. This cost is also the suffering of our friends and peers. According to RAINN, survivors of sexual assault are three times likelier to suffer from depression and six times likelier to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Survivors are also 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol — double that for drug abuse. No hearing will make the assault and its effects disappear, but the new unified disciplinary processes will provide survivors with the respect they deserve. By failing to extend the policy to survivors who had already been assaulted, Dartmouth essentially sends the message that the date that an assault occurred is more important than the assault itself.
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know what it’s like to be on campus,” she said. Moving Dartmouth Forward has employed various methods of collecting feedback, including holding open sessions called “Campus Conversations” and reaching out to various student organizations. Will, physics professor Ryan Hickox and math professor Craig Sutton are asking for feedback in as many classes as possible. This past Tuesday, Will held office hours in Sanborn Library from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Three people showed, she said. “These are not simple problems and they have to do with...sides of students lives they are not comfortable talking about in large groups,” Will said. “I think that’s important for anybody to come in and just talk. I’m not sure how efficient that is. I’m trying to figure out how to move forward with the office hours idea.” One-on-one conversations, though time-consuming, are one of the more effective ways of getting meaningful suggestions, Will said. John Damianos ’16, one of four student members on the presidential steering committee listed on its website, focuses on student outreach. He and the other student members of Moving Dartmouth Forward host facilitations with student organizations to discuss binge drinking, sexual assault and inclusivity. “We all have ideas on how to make Dartmouth better,” Damianos said. “The challenge comes in how to express those ideas. In having discussions by the students, for the students, we are giving them a forum where they know they will be heard.” The steering committee is working with Improve Dartmouth, an organization that aims to centralize ideas on how to enact change on campus. Most notably, its website “Improve Dartmouth: On the Ground” created an online forum for community members to post ideas and feedback. Improve Dartmouth is forwarding the feedback they gather to the steering committee. “You can never be sure that any initiative will be successful,” co-founder Esteban Castano ’14 wrote in an email. “But I do believe that the climate is right to make meaningful progress on campus, and I believe that the actors necessary to make the changes — the President, Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, alums and students — are all at the table.” Of 10 students interviewed, eight had participated in some form of feedback mechanism, even if it was just “agreeing” with particular posts on Improve Dartmouth. Keaton Renta ’16, summer Kappa
Kappa Kappa fraternity president, said he enjoyed a facilitated discussion at Tri-Kap. Members broke into small groups and discussed suggestions on addressing problems like high-risk behavior, he said. “Bringing it to the attention of the brothers is a good step forward towards progress,” Renta said. Damiamos said that later this summer, the committee will examine “every single idea” they have received. The committee will publish a draft of its recommendations in September before it presents its report in November. Members will then again solicit feedback from the community — what Will described as a “crucial moment” in the process. The final product will be presented to the Board of Trustees this November. The steering committee is one of several administrative initiatives culling feedback this summer. Administrators are also beginning reforms to housing on campus. John Steidl, the project manager for the shift to a new housing model, said they have collected data and suggestions from various sources — visiting other universities with residential housing programs, holding open meetings and sending out surveys on how students use campus spaces. The goal is to have a set of preliminary scenarios and recommendations ready for the September board meeting. One prevalent idea garnered from housing feedback has been the desire for more student-faculty engagement, Steidl said. Advocates behind the recently-enacted sexual assault policy, announced in March, also solicited feedback at an April 22 Campus Conversations session. Community members had a onemonth period to submit feedback on the proposed policy either to Improve Dartmouth or a private email account. Four did so on Improve Dartmouth, though the numbers for private submissions were not provided by administrators once the deadline passed. Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault summer president Shanet Hinds ’16 and SPCSA president Sophia Pedlow ’15 did not respond to two requests for comment. Hanlon, Steidl said, has been seeking student feedback more vigorously than he has seen in the past three years during his time at Dartmouth, though this might be because of the nature of the issues Hanlon is trying to tackle. “Once we look at what scenarios the president and board are more interested in pursuing, then we have to dig deeper into specifics of what that means, and more questions will come up,” Steidl said. “As we find new questions, we’ll look at how we source community input.”
mouth community. “I’m just calling for the Dartmouth students to reach out to us whenever they have a project that they think they can execute in Africa,” he said. Hosting the program, alongside 20 other institutions, will increase the College’s international profile, as it allows students and faculty to interact with talented international young adults, Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin said.
“They are setting the fellows up to think critically on how to brainstorm and how to design, how to be innovative.”
Kara Wakefield said that Tucker has prepared a co-curricular program on community engagement and services, through which the fellows will meet various non-profit organizations in the Upper Valley once a week. Rockefeller Center program officer Vincent Mack said that the weekly leadership seminars will encourage the fellows to examine the concept of leadership more critically. The Dickey Center has also organized several public events to introduce the fellows to the student body. Dartmouth African Students Association, International Students Association and Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering have been involved in the program as assistants and as part of the welcome crew, Dickey Center student programs
officer Amy Newcomb said. Kofi Obeng-Asiedu, program officer for the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, said that the fellows at Dartmouth will be able to acquire knowledge and skills that they can bring home. “They are setting the fellows up to think critically on how to brainstorm and how to design, how to be innovative,” he said. “The session so far has been very experiential, hands-on, getting the fellows engaged.” Participating schools matched the $100,000 grant that the State Department awarded. Dickey Center associate managing director Thomas Candon said that the funding has been used to provide workshop materials, meal plans and residential spaces for the fellows.
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- KOFI OBENG-ASIEDU, PROGRAM OFFICER In the following weeks, Tuck professor Gregg Fairbrothers and volunteer assistants Catalina Gorla and William Nisen will teach an entrepreneurship seminar on the business elements of design thinking. The fellows will meet venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the Upper Valley and Boston, and for their final projects, they will pitch their business models to entrepreneurs and investors, Fairbrothers and Gorla said. Tucker Foundation program manager for fellowships and internships
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Outside Collis Center, students enjoy a reprieve from the rain.
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THE DARTMOUTH COMICS
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2014
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 7:00 p.m. “On My Way,” film about a beauty queen and her road-trip through France, Loew Auditorium
8:00 p.m. “Hubbard Dance Street Chicago,” dance performance, Hopkins Center Moore Theater
9:30 p.m. “Summer Public Astronomical Observing,” Shattuck Observatory
TOMORROW
2:00 p.m.
“Richard II,” live broadcast of Royal Shakespeare Company theater production, Loew Auditorium
2:00 p.m. Tour of the exhibition “In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth,” Hood Museum of Art
7:00 p.m. “Locke,” drama film starring Tom Hardy, Loew Auditorium
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Martínez Celaya to visit the Hood in July
with students and professors in Hanover. He will give a lecture on his five most recent works on July The Dartmouth Staff 15, he will give a public gallery Some children dream of being lecture about “Burning as It Were a physicists, and some children dream Lamp,” the following week. He will of being artists, but growing up to also have drop-in hours in the Hop be a physicist, pursuing a Ph.D. in Garage, where students can watch quantum electronics and then decid- as he begins work on new projects, ing to create art is arguably a rare Taylor said. path. For Enrique Martínez Celaya, As a Montgomery Fellow, MarJuly’s featured artist at the Hood tínez Celaya will speak not only to Museum of Art and a Montgomery art-specific classes but also to science Fellow at the College, lasers have classes and groups across campus. been as much a part of his work as Montgomery Fellows Program painting and sculpture. Director Chris Wohlforth said the Martínez Celaya, originally from process to bring artists like MarCuba, started training as an artist’s tínez Celaya can be lengthy. The apprentice when he was 12. As program’s fellow steering committee he pursued his Ph.D. in quantum meets twice a year, and candidates electronics at must have interdisthe University ciplinary support of Califor nia “His work is from more than at Berkeley, he incredbily complex one department. encountered She said that the felbecause he thinks the artists who lows can range from would inspire like a scientist. He presidents to Nobelhim to pursue transcends the limits winning writers. art, a path that Taylor said that would ultimate- of, say, painting, for Martínez Celaya’s ly bring him to example. That’s what background outside the College after of art and his talent gives the work the stops in Berlin, made him an excelChicago and visual power.” lent candidate. southern Cali“He has this interfornia. disciplinary knowlH o o d D i - - MICHAEL TAYLOR, edge that you just rector Michael HOOD DIRECTOR can’t beat,” Taylor Ta y l o r s a i d said. “He’s such an that Martínez electrifying force.” Celaya’s unique Art history minor Kate Hamilton intellectual background has had an ’16 said that she plans to be among apparent effect on his art. the first to see Martínez Celaya’s “His work is incredibly complex exhibit. because he thinks like a scientist,” “It’s always exciting for DartTaylor said. “He transcends the mouth students to interact with limits of, say, painting, for example. contemporary art,” Hamilton said. That’s what gives the work its visual “In art history we spend a lot of time power. When we saw the images we focusing on the artists themselves thought, ‘Wow! This will be stun- and the social circumstances they ning.’” lived in. Getting to stand in the Stunning is an apt description, studio while it’s happening would as much of Martínez Celaya’s work be a fantastic opportunity for both is dark, complex and eerie, full of student and artist.” twisted sculptures, images of animals Wohlforth said he hopes that attacking each other and haunting students will take advantage of this portraits of humanity and its flaws. opportunity. “It really haunts your memory,” “Identity plays a big role in his Taylor said. “Once you see a piece work, especially the sense of who of Enrique’s, you don’t forget it.” you are and what you do,” she said. Martínez Celaya’s work includes Hamilton said she thinks Marpainting, large-scale sculpture and tínez Celaya’s interdisciplinary multimedia composition. Instead background will draw students to of titling each individual piece, his work. the artist often prefers to arrange In addition to his background a mixture of works together in one in the sciences, Martínez Celaya room under the same title, creating founded Whale and Star Press, a cohesive picture from seemingly which publishes books on the arts disparate works. and critical theory. Martínez Celaya’s installation for Martínez Celaya’s exhibit will run the Hood, “Burning as It Were a in the Hood’s Harrington Gallery Lamp,” features a bronze sculpture, from July 12 through August 10. two paintings and a series of mirrors. Martínez Celaya could not be Martínez Celaya will interact reached for comment by press time.
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Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca perform for an excited audience in Spaulding Auditorium.
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
SPORTS In second year of golf, Prouty expands program
support for the move. Jackson Dean ’16, a self-described avid recreational golfer, said that he The Dartmouth Staff thought adding golf would boost inGolf tee times at the Hanover dividual participation. Dean plans on Country Club, introduced as part of taking part in the fundraiser. Adam Baer ’16, another recrethe Prouty for the first time last summer, will be available to nearly 100 more ational golfer, said that while he plans on participants this year, said Rebecca participating in the Prouty, he is leaning Gray, senior program manager of the towards choosing a more traditional friends of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock activity, like a biking route. However, he Norris Cotton Cancer Center. During did note that he thought golfing would this year’s Prouty — the 33rd annual be a positive asset to the Prouty. “The more people involved the — golfers will be able to tee off at the Club on Saturday as part of the cancer better, so any way to get more people involved I think is a good idea,” Baer research fundraiser. The previous limit on tee times will said. “People who might not want to be raised from 144 tee times to 244. do the walk or the bike ride now have Nearly 180 participants have already another way to get involved.” Kirk said the decision to incorposigned up to golf. rate golf in the The expanProuty was inision has allowed “I definitely think that tially intended to for a broader av- golf in the Prouty is involve individuenue of people als who wanted to support the a thing of the future, to support the event’s fundrais- and it’s not going to go fundraiser but ing efforts, Hawere not able to nover Country away.” participate in any Club head golf of the activities professional Alex - ALEX KIRK, HANOVER offered. Kirk said. Last Gray year, he noted, COUNTRY CLUB HEAD said that while participants trav- GOLF PROFESSIONAL she was optimistic eled from as far about the benefits away as Indiana of maintaining golf as part of the to golf at the event. “There are plenty of golfers out Prouty, she also was cognizant of the there who have been touched by cancer fact that the Hanover Country Club either personally or in their family,” and the Prouty will face restrictions if Kirk said. “You don’t really realize the they decide to expand golf even further. “We are somewhat limited beties of support that make people want to come back. I definitely think that golf cause we only have, at this point, in the Prouty is a thing of the future, one day to do it,” Gray said. “We hope we can figure out other ways and it’s not going to go away.” Golfers who choose to participate in to expand it, but at this point we the Prouty must pay a $50 registration are grateful just to fill it to 3 p.m.” Last year, the Prouty set a day-offee and pledge a minimum fundraising amount of $150. Rowing, walking and event fundraising record, netting $2.6 biking have no registration fee but do million. As of press time, this year’s have varying minimum fundraising Prouty had raised $904,446 of a $3 marks based on age and whether or million goal. The Prouty, which was started in not the participant is registering along 1982, at first included only cycling but with their family. Golfers will play 18 holes on the expanded to offer walking routes in Country Club’s course. As of press time, 1992 and rowing in 2012. Golf held the top individual golf fundraiser had tee times last summer and attracted roughly 140 new participants to the raised $2,556. Nine of 15 students interviewed on event, organizers announced in a news campus said that they were not aware release. At the time, Gray said, event that the Prouty had added golf or ex- organizers limited participation to panded its offerings, though those who ensure that they could handle the new were aware of the change expressed event.
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2014
WEEKLY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
ONE ON ONE
WITH ALEX MITOLA ’16
B y KATIE JARRETT
B y Josh koenig The Dartmouth Staff
This week, The Dartmouth chatted with Alex Mitola ’16, a standout point guard on the men’s basketball team. Recently named as a captain for the 2014-15 season alongside Gabas Maldunas ’15, the sharpshooter, honored as team MVP for his performance last season, opened up about leadership, his goals for the summer and his desire to win an Ivy League championship. As the Big Green attempts to build on last season’s 12-16 record this year, it will do so for the first time in three years with more than one captain. The Big Green will also boast a roster that will likely feature seven members of the Class of 2016 and two members of the Class of 2015, a stark change from the last two seasons when the team was often noted for its relative youth. When did you first start playing basketball? AM: I first started as far back as I can remember. I think my dad put a ball in my hands when I was around 2, and then from there I just kept playing — I have an older brother, and I grew up playing with him, and then I started playing more and more competitively. You’re known for your threepoint shooting — after only two seasons you’ve already converted more three-point shots than all but seven players in Big Green history and you’re on track to break the College record in that category. When did you first start incorporating shooting from the outside as a part of your game? AM: It wasn’t until the fifth grade. Before then I always wanted to stay inside the three-point line because I felt like I wasn’t strong enough to reach out there. I waited until I felt like I was strong enough and then I started to shoot it pretty well and it became a big part of my game.
captain for the 2014-15 season as a rising junior. What does that mean to you? What advice would you offer to fellow rising juniors who are stepping into leadership roles this summer? AM: It means a lot just to see the respect that my teammates have for me in electing me as a leader for the team. I’m going to do everything I can for my teammates and everything I can to help us have as successful a year as we can have. I think it’s important to figure out — and certainly everyone is different — but it’s important as a leader to figure out a way to motivate each person on your team. Sometimes you need to get on people to do that and sometimes you need to offer encouragement. You definitely need to have a good relationship with all of your teammates. You need to respect each other to the point where you can help them get to where they want to be. You need to look out for each other, and you’re going to have to do what you can to help them. What advice did you receive from your former captains about leadership? Does anything in particular stick out to you? AM: I had a very good relationship with Tyler [former captain Tyler Melville ’14] and he reached
out to me and congratulated me when he found out I was going to be a captain. We talked throughout the year, and I definitely learned some great things from the way he acted as a leader. I try to incorporate them into the way I lead — I think he did a particularly great job of getting to know each teammate and being a voice for the team. What goals do you have for this off season, both individually and as a team? AM: We have a lot of kids up here this summer. The rising junior class is a relatively big class, so we’re just trying as a group to get as much better as we possibly can. We have a good schedule for the summer in which we’ll be playing a decent amount and lifting. We just want to get better individually and continue to build chemistry as a group. Have you identified any concrete goals for the season yet? If so, what are those goals? AM: It’s probably a little too soon to say, but I think everyone on our team’s ultimate goal is to win the Ivy League championship. Whether that’s been established yet or not, I think that’s each person’s individual goal. This interview has been edited and condensed.
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This spring, you were named a
Mitola, a rising junior, will serve as a captain during the 2014-15 season.