VOL. CLXXII NO. 35
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
BarHop sees success, future funding uncertain
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By Parker Richards The Dartmouth Staff
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Students enjoy a round of trivia at BarHop on Thursday evening.
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Sexual assault activist Susan Brison works to improve campus
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On an otherwise quiet Thursday night, students head to the Hopkins Center for an evening of doughnuts, beer, cider and dancing. At BarHop, a wide range of attendees lounge at tables lit by candles or compete in trivia while others begin to dance on floors lit in psychedelic, spiraling patterns as the music shifts from Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds to Drake and Lil Wayne. While students and organizers agree that Barhop — which celebrated its anniversary over Winter Car-
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Susan Brison, a philosophy professor and sexual assault activist, was told by an attorney to forget her assault. Instead, she focused her academic and activist work on combating sexual assault through writing both books and op-eds, public speaking and advocacy for violence against women. Brison’s most recent op-ed “Why I Spoke Out About One Rape But
Stayed Silent About Another,” published in Time magazine in December, describes two personal experiences of sexual assault. As part of her advocacy work, Brison lobbied for the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 and its reauthorization in subsequent years. Her 2003 book “After math: Violence and the Remaking of a Self ” received wide acclaim for its emotionally and intellectually stimulating account of her own sexual assault and her subsequent
journey as a survivor. Brison said that writing was an essential form of activism for her and for advocates in general. The process of writing “de-stigmatizes” sexual assault by talking about it and raising awareness, she said. “One of the most important things in anti-rape activism is to enable survivors of rape to speak and to make it possible for others to listen,” Brison said. “I think even just writing about one’s own experience or other survivors’ experiences is an
Students see success following “Repcoin” launch B y KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff
From computational immunology and bioinformatics to ukelele and “being a legend,” Repcoin — a new site launched Feb. 12 by Stephen Malina ’15 and Matt Ritter ’15 — provides users both a reputation marketplace and a platform for experts to be discovered in different categories. One week after the launch, 250 people are using the site in about 150 different
essential part of doing something about the problem of rape.” Brison said that she was partly inspired to write the book because of others’ reactions to her own assault. One instance in particular stood out to her. “The Attorney General looked at me and said, ‘after the trial, you must forget that this ever happened,’” Brison said. Brison said she considers her own SEE BRISON PAGE 3
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categories, Ritter said. On the site, experts can sign up for a self-professed skill and create their own categories, and investors give them “reps” as endorsement. Malina and Ritter believe that this will increase the credibility of experts and give them a platform on which to be discovered. Reps are a form of virtual currency that investors can give to experts they want to support. Giving these to experts will build
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Students study at the Top of the Hop on a snowy afternoon.