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Revenueincreases,largelyfromgifts B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff
The College’s revenue for fiscal year 2014 totaled $1,310,504,806, an increase of $116,638,828 over fiscal year’s 2013 revenue of $1,193,865,978.
Chief financial officer Michael Wagner said that the increase in revenue was largely due to gifts and contributions from donors. In 2014, the College received the largest donation on record, totaling $100 million, from a
single anonymous donor, leaving only $16.6 million in other increases. By comparison, there was an increase of $226 million between 2012 and 2013, largely due to the more successful returns on investments than to increases
Students involved in fewer alcohol-related incidents B y BOB WANG
While this year’s Green Key weekend involved fewer alcoholrelated incidents than last year’s, records indicate that this year’s numbers closely resemble those of years prior to 2014, with Safety and Security director Harry Kinne calling last year an “abnormal-
ity” in terms of increased safety incidents. Hanover Police Lieutenant Bradford Sargent said that this year saw significantly lower crime rates, with 17 arrests compared to last year’s 34. Of the 17 arrests made overall, Sargent said 15 were directly related SEE GK PAGE 3
The number of reported sexual assault cases at Dartmouth has increased significantly in the past two years, and campus experts think this reflects changes at both the Dartmouth and national levels that make survivors feel more comfortable sharing their experiences. For the past 11 years, the Committee on Standards, run through the judicial affairs office, had averaged three reports of sexual misconduct per year. Last year, there were 17, though not all of them resulted in a COS case, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. “It was a huge jump,” Remy said. “I wasn’t sure what would happen this year.” The report with this year’s numbers will come out this summer. Since last June, there have been five investigations of sexual assault and two other Title IX complaints that were not related to sexual assault. The Clery Report, which includes reported sexual assaults on campus and on other Dartmouth-owned or -controlled property, has shown an increasing trend in sexual assault reporting. There were 35 reported cases in 2013, 24 cases in 2012 and 15 cases in 2011, but Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist said that the 2014 numbers are even higher, though she cannot disclose them at this time. The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to collect, retain and disclose information about crime on or near their campuses or other college-owned property. In addition to the fact that not all disclosures go through the judicial process, Clery report and judicial affairs office numbers differ in that the Clery report includes a larger
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DAily debriefing The City of Lebanon has lifted its boil water order, the Valley News reported. After scheduled water tests showed evidence of coliform and E. coli bacteria, Friday’s test results showed no evidence of any kind of bacteria in the city’s water system. While the later rounds of tests repeatedly confirmed the lack of contaminants in the city’s water supply, officials are still unsure why initial testing indicated the presence of E. coli. City fire chief and emergency management director Chris Christopoulous Jr. told the Valley News that residents should maintain supplies of clean water in their homes in case of future contamination. The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society is now facing a complaint filed against it with the National Labor Relations Board, which claims that early this month the Hanover Co-op’s management intimidated workers and prevented them from discussing unionization on store premises, a violation of the National Labor Relations Act, the Valley News reported. The complaint was lodged by the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1459, a Springfield, Massachusetts-based union. Co-op managers were quoted saying that the decision whether to unionize or not was an employee matter in which they had no intention to intervene. Currently, the Co-op has not been presented with official charges. Hanover voters rejected the proposed West Wheelock Gateway, a high-density residential district proposed by the town’s planning board, at the town meeting last Tuesday, the Valley News reported. In addition to the failure of the West Wheelock Gateway district by a margin of 719 to 453, two other changes – one that would have expanded the Kendal retirement community on Lyme Road and one that would have restricted construction on large homes – also failed to pass in the town elections. Some voters interviewed by the Valley News expressed support for the basic concept of development on West Wheelock Street but objected either to the environmental considerations made by the regulations or to the proposed scale of the development. The town’s $26.2 million operating budget passed, as did non-substantive zoning changes. –COMPILED BY PARKER RICHARDS
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Fundraising efforts increased FROM REVENUE PAGE 1
in contributions. This year, investment income decreased from $381.7 million in 2013 to $373.2 in 2014, a decrease of over $8 million. Meanwhile, contributions and grants received by the College grew by over $94 million, increasing from $333.9 million in 2013 to $428.4 million in 2014. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence said that gifts and contributions are managed according to the gift type, which can be either restricted or unrestricted. A restricted gift is managed by a particular department or donorspecified group, while unrestricted gifts are managed by the Dartmouth College Fund. Endowment gifts, for example, are restricted to management under the College endowment. Chairman of the Dartmouth College Fund Bruce Miller said that the College Fund received over $48 million in donations for the 2014 calendar year, breaking its record for dollars received for the fifth consecutive year, and is working toward breaking its record for the sixth consecutive year in fiscal year 2015. The Dartmouth College Fund receives donations from alumni that support residential programs on cam-
pus and contribute to faculty and staff compensation and financial assistance for students. Millier highlighted the fact that Dartmouth is one of a small number of colleges in the nation that offers need-blind admission, 100 percent demonstrated need assistance and a promise to increase financial assistance if a student’s financial situation worsens, Miller said. “The College Fund makes that possible, thanks to the generous alumni, which is why it’s so important,” Miller saidw. Miller said that the College Fund received many generous donations for 2014 from various groups of alumni, including the Centennial Circle and the Class of 1989. The Centennial Circle was formed with the goal of collecting College Fund donations of $100,000 each from 100 women. Over 120 women have donated to the fund thus far. This year, the Class of 1989 also broke the record for the most donations received at a 25th reunion. Members of the Class of 1989 donated over $8 million, breaking the former record by $2 million. Despite the growth in contributions and grants, Wagner said that fiscal year 2014 did not show many dramatic differences from fiscal year 2013.
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“This is one of the years where we see that it’s relatively uniform, nothing much has changed from last year,” Wagner said. Though the 990 tax return shows information from the 2014 fiscal year, its salary data covers the 2013 calendar year. Total compensation expenses increased from $478,924,633 in calendar year 2012 to $495,498,726 in calendar year 2013. During the 2013 calendar year, Hanlon received $695,568 in total compensation, which includes bonuses and other reportable incentives including a signing bonus. Lawrence said that the College’s total compensation records are difficult to compare on a yearly basis due to several varying factors. “You aren’t comparing apples to apples,” Lawrence said. “Some compensation is only partial, people leave throughout the year, positions can go unfilled.” Chief investment officer Pamela Peedin received the highest compensation, totaling $1,110,486, which included an incentive of $600,000. Wagner said that the College awards salaries at a level that is able to compete with national standards. “We are competing to have some the best in the country,” Wagner said.
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Number of Green Key incidents on par with most previous years FROM GK PAGE 1
to Green Key. Seven of the 15 arrested people were Dartmouth students, while the others were not affiliated with the College. All but one of the Green Key-related arrests involved alcohol, he said. Sargent said that the majority of this year’s incidents occurred prior to, during and shortly after Friday’s Programming Board Concert on Gold Coast Lawn. Sargent said that it is hard to tell whether this year’s decrease in arrests is directly tied to the recent hard alcohol ban, but that the Hanover Police has tried to work with the College to implement this term’s reforms and reduce the number of drinking-related incidents. Kinne said that Safety and Security felt increased collaboration with event staff this weekend. “I think we saw less instances regarding hard alcohol,” Kinne said. “Many events contacted our office early seeking advice and coverage at the event and checking in to make sure that we were aware.” Kinne said that fewer students were sent to Dick’s House and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center compared to last year, and that the number of calls made to Safety and Security was about half the number placed last year. He said that the number of incidents this year was “on par with Winter Carnival.” Eric Ramsey, Collis Center director and head of the inaugural Green Key committee, said that the committee was able to increase communication and safety overall. The Green Key committee, a centralized safety and planning committee, was formed this year in response to a shortage of resources during last year’s big weekend. The committee consists of students and staff who planned the
weekend’s events. “It was to boost communication to make sure that event planners have the best support possible,” Ramsey said. Ramsey said that the committee model increased communication between administrators, Hanover Police and Safety and Security through the use of a single online calendar to allocate appropriate resources. This year was the first year that Collis approached Green Key in a similar way to Homecoming and Winter Carnival with regards to using a committee model. Any potential improvements to the model will be addressed in a future debriefing, Ramsey said. Traditionally, the most active weekend for Safety and Security is Homecoming Weekend, known for its influx of alumni and visitors, Kinne said. Kinne said last year’s high number of incidents was an “abberation.” “[This year] was more aligned with past Green Key weekends other than last year’s,” Kinne said. “I’ve been here for 12 years, and last year’s Green Key was the most active with the most amount of people needing medical attention.” Kinne said that the changes in the College alcohol policy and the Collis Center’s organizational skills might have been beneficial in resulting in reduced crime this weekend. Kinne said that the Town of Hanover was largely involved with the planning process. “Hanover Police Chief [Charlie] Dennis was present at [Green Key] meetings and was hearing all the things that the College was doing,” Kinne said. This year, Safety and Security worked exceptionally closely with the Fire Department and the Police Department using the Green Key committee’s resources, he said. The Safety and Security blotter
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Safety and Security officers monitored student events over Green Key weekend.
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MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015
Staff Columnist ANDRES SMITH ’17
Staff Columnist REEM CHAMSEDDINE ’17
Don’t Discredit Internships
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The College should offer academic credit for certain unpaid internships. As this term comes to a close, many of my classmates and I are looking forward to our sophomore summer. Those of us who will be off campus in the fall, however, must have a little more foresight. Several employers have begun hiring interns for the fall, and a lot of us are already scrambling to secure one of these coveted positions. The market for internships is competitive, and as Dartmouth students we have certain advantages over students from other schools. One of the biggest of these is the flexibility that comes with the D-Plan — because we can take an off-term during our sophomore or junior year, we can have the option of accepting internships at times other than the summer, when students with more traditional academic calendars often work. With fewer people competing for jobs in the fall, winter or spring, we have a leg up. Yet, the College’s refusal to offer academic credit for internships put students at a large disadvantage. Despite the ethical controversy surrounding unpaid internships, many companies, particularly small ones, still do not pay their interns. Rather, they have worked out a different system — interns can work without monetary compensation and instead receive college credit. Many schools participate in arrangements like this, such as Boston College and Emory University, but unfortunately, Dartmouth is not one of them. To ensure they are not breaking labor laws for unpaid work, several companies’ internship positions are dependent on a student receiving academic credit — and since we cannot, Dartmouth students are excluded from applying. The College should revise its policy on awarding academic credit so students can have the best possible opportunity to gain invaluable work experience and make connections that will prepare us for our eminent — and terrifying — entry into the job market. Moreover, allowing students to receive academic credit for certain internships fits well with College President Phil Hanlon’s emphasis on experiential learning. After all, what’s more “experiential” than actual, intensive on-the-job experience? While they are some caveats that can be lever-
aged to circumvent this rule, such as receiving the credit from another institution or asking if your employer would accept a letter from a professor instead, these are less effective and can cost hundreds of dollars. These difficulties, though, could be avoided if students could receive academic credits from the College. Countless more opportunities that are currently unattainable for Dartmouth students would open up. I’m not proposing that the school just offer credit for any and every internship that a student is able to secure — internships can sometimes be pretty easygoing, and a Dartmouth credit should be something that is earned. Students should be given the opportunity, however, if we are able to secure a for-credit internship, to then appeal to the relevant department head or the Registrar to receive credit. Receiving credit could be dependent on a presentation after the completion of the internship that demonstrates the value of the experience and proves that the position served as an important part of the student’s learning experience. If, after an in-depth presentation on the internship’s relevance to a student’s area of study and its ability to enhance the classroom education, the department head sees fit, he or she should then be able to grant the student the opportunity to earn credit through the internship. Of course, we are at Dartmouth for the sake of expanding our horizons and opening up new worlds of knowledge. A liberal arts education alone sometimes is not quite enough to help us turn that knowledge into a paycheck. The College does a lot to help prepare us for life after graduation, but it is only hindering students by not offering credit for internships. After graduation, we are going to be competing with students from innumerable of schools around the world for the same jobs. Many of those schools, however, offer an opportunity for their students to prepare themselves that the College does not. If President Hanlon cares about experiential learning as much as he purports to do, then Dartmouth needs to make credit available for internships.
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Despite continuing violence, Mali is closer to peace than ever before. Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali, started this past weekend well — according to Radio France Internationale, on May 14, French President Francois Hollande visited Algeria to see the signing ceremony of a long-awaited peace deal between the Malian government and a Tuareg-led rebel alliance. The Tuareg-led alliance initialled the agreement, and negotations over the details are still up for debate. Mali is home to a large Tuareg population, and the traditionally nomadic Tuareg people, with their own language, culture and rich history, have inhabited much of the Saharan interior of North Africa. Violence has plagued the region and surged in 2012, when Tuareg rebels took the northern region of Mali, which goes by the name of Azawad — in fact, the main Tuareg rebel movement, the MNLA, stands for the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad. The conflict led to the overthrow of then-president of Mali Amadou Toumani Toure, the temporary suspension of the country’s constitution and a struggle for control of major cities. Islamist groups in the region began to oppose the more secularist Tuareg rebels. For the past three years, fighting between rebel organizations, security forces and the United Nations peacekeepers in Mali has been near-daily news. When the Algeria-mediated peace and reconciliation agreement was drawn earlier this year, the MNLA refused to sign it. As Andy Morgan wrote in The Guardian on May 15, many believed at the time that the truce was “dead in the water.” On the contrary, I firmly believe that Mali is now closer to peace than ever before. On May 14, a day before the preliminary peace agreement ceremony was to be held, the MNLA stated that it initialled — though not formally signed — the preliminary draft as a gesture of good faith. Although the MNLA wants to amend much of the proposed deal, they have shown their willingness to accept the truce in theory. This is important, as it represents the furthest that the group has gone in expressing support for the peace accord. Though they did not ultimately sign the peace deal this past weekend, their initialling — along with the actual signature of two
groups under the separatist coalition — indicates constructive progress in this long conflict. The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali — or in layman’s terms, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali — continues to maintain a presence in the country. Under the terms of the resolution calling for the mission, peacekeepers “would support the political process and carry out a number of security-related stabilization tasks ... protecting civilians, human rights monitoring, the creation of conditions for the provision of humanitarian assistance ... and the preparation of free, inclusive and peaceful elections.” Finally, foreign countries like Algeria and France continue to be supportive of the peace process. Algeria has deployed forces to secure Algeria’s border with Mali, which thereby ensures Mali’s northern border as well. France, too, conducted air strikes against certain rebel locations in northern Mali in 2013. These nations, with the help of the U.N., may help provide a more stable political future for the country. Mali is also a major recipient of foreign aid and assistance. Major donors include the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Union, the United States, France and the Netherlands. While it is difficult to assess how effective the use of this aid has been, it is important to note that the Malian government has taken action to curb corruption with legislation since 2013. Foreign assistance, when used correctly, can help develop new opportunities for the country’s youth — hopefully giving them options to avoid joining and fighting with rebel groups. Ultimately, despite lasting tensions, the components necessary for long-term peace exist — a peace accord that everyone has agreed to in principle, support from the international community and aid for future development. Of course, this is not to say that the situation in Mali will turn around overnight. One must wait to see how the implementation of all these factors will play out on the ground. For now, though, there are reasons to be optimistic about Mali, and there is much to which we can look forward.
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Rise in sexual assault reporting due to College policies,national trends FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT PAGE 5
geographical area and includes anonymous reports. There are also tallying differences — Clery numbers include reports throughout the calendar year, while judicial affairs numbers are only counted during the academic calendar, Lindkvist said. Remy listed a few potential reasons for this trend. Last June, the College enacted a new sexual assault policy which calls for, in some cases, mandatory expulsion of those found guilty of sexual assault and for an independent investigator to examine complaints. It also streamlined and clarified how to report sexual assault at the College. While in some ways this increase is in response to national legislative change, it was mostly sparked by feedback from the community about why students did not report and what factors served as blocks to reporting, she said. Reporting can happen in various ways. It could be telling someone and seeking support, notifying the College without taking action or asking the College or police to take action. The new policy attempts to show students what it means to report and that they have options, Remy said. Lindkvist says that she has seen an increase in people — including students, faculty and staff — coming to disclose sexual assault to her, even in the nine months she has been acting as the College’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer. Disclosures help people get information about the resources and services available and the processes through
which they can go, Lindkvist said. The new sexual assault policy was also intended to eliminate perceived barriers to reporting. The new policy included information about retaliation and clarified the definitions of consent and incapacitation. The code also set forth a community expectation that there are certain actions that, if the independent investigator determines to have happened based on a preponderance of evidence, the individual who committed the actions will be expelled. These actions include certain types of sexual contact via physical force, threat or intentional incapacitation, sexual assault motivated by bias or if the responding person has been previously found responsible of sexual assault. Previously, the policy was strongly worded that expulsion was likely to happen, but did not mandate it, Remy said. The last key change was taking the investigation and adjudication processes out of the COS and handing them over to an external investigator, which came about in response to feedback about students feeling uncomfortable discussing private and personal information with other students and faculty, Remy said. Both parties are also no longer present in the room at the same time, but rather speak to the external investigator separately. Remy clarified that the issue was not that the COS did not perform an adequate job, but that many people thought “you should have a level of expertise or specialization in this type of investigation.” Another change that Remy thinks may have provoked an increase in reports is the non-gendered wording
of the policy, saying that the change is “trying to counter this prevailing notion that sexual assault is not only a women’s issue. It may be subtle to most people, but to me it was profound.” Remy said that a decrease in reports to the judicial affairs office — down to seven currently from 17 last year — may be because of Lindkvist’s more prominent role on campus. She said with Lindkvist available as a resource, students affected by sexual misconduct may be choosing options other than reporting to the judicial affairs office. Lindkvist arrived on campus last August. She was previously the Title IX officer at Bates College. “I think that what ended up happening is that because our office was so closely and visibly connected to the policy change, I think students were coming here who this year might have chosen to go to [Lindkvist] first,” Remy said. Because of the focus that has emerged since the Office of Civil Rights’ “Dear Colleague” Letters in 2001 and 2011 and an increased focus on sexual assault on college campuses, there is more recognition that the mandatory Title IX coordinator should be a fulltime position, Lindkvist said. “My role has been to centralize and coordinate efforts related to sexual violence, intimate-partner violence and assault on campus,” Lindkvist said. She is responsible for overseeing cases and making sure that all cases are fair, equitable and prompt, she said. There have also been several national changes recently that have raised awareness for the issue of sexual assault on col-
lege campuses. Remy emphasized that the trend of increasing sexual assault reports is not particular to Dartmouth, but is rather “a cultural shift on our campus and on other campuses about how people talk about this.” Peer institutions have experienced a similar trend of increased reporting. Brown University reported 21 sexual assault cases in 2013, 16 in 2012 and seven in 2011, Columbia University reported 22 in 2013, 14 in 2012 and four in 2011 and Harvard University reported 40 in 2013, 38 in 2012 and 26 in 2011, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator Amanda Childress called the national increase in reporting something that “those of us in the field who work with advocacy and survivors view as really positive.” An increase in national visibility
means that survivors are more knowledgeable about the resources they have and feel less alone, Childress said, which may make them more likely to report offenses. “It may encourage them or help them feel more comfortable that if they do report they will be supported by their peers, by their families, by their institutions,” she said. Childress cited increased national attention such as the White House task force developed by the Obama administration to address sexual violence on college campus. The task force published a report on the subject under the title “Not Alone”. There have also been some recent amendments relating to college campuses made to the Violence Against Women’s Act. “A lot of this all together has really started this movement,” Childress said.
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Sue Reed ’81 discusses her career in architecture
B y haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff
Sue Reed ’81 graduated from College with a degree in anthropology, but in her senior spring decided that she wanted to become an architect. Reed attended a masters program in architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has worked as a professional architect ever since. Reed currently is a member of the firm Smith and Vansant architects, the Norwich-based firm that has worked on renovating Zeta Psi fraternity, Casque and Gauntlet and the Triangle House. What do you look for when renovating or updating an existing structure? SR: We look at historic precedent quite a bit. It also has to do with what the building has like Zeta Psi had these beautiful arches inside — that was existing, all we did was clean that up and what’s the budget and what’s the alternative. The alternative [in Zeta Psi case] the alums were looking at tearing it down versus keeping it, so we had to sort through the strategies to do it. What are challenges you have faced getting started in architecture? SR: One of the challenges that we
all had in 1981 was that there was a massive recession so we came out of college and there was no work. I wanted to get a job in the federal government but there was a hiring freeze on… I went home and lived with my parents and got a summer job at a museum and then was home unemployed applying to architecture school. So that’s not an atypical path for architects to have these pauses where you’re like regrouping and applying to school and trying to decided what in the world you’re going to do with yourself, so that’s a big challenge. Another, we were told pretty quickly this was not a field where you’re going to become rich. There might be a few rich architects but they aren’t typically that way because they’re good architects, they’re that way because they’re maybe a good investor or had family money, or- we were told in architecture school to marry rich and they weren’t entirely kidding but there weren’t really a lot of rich people at Virginia Tech so it was not that useful of advice. But the compensation is about like a schoolteacher, and the schoolteacher is going to get typically better benefits...it’s not typically a really well funded thing. You’re taught to appreciate the finer things in life but not how to pay for them. And they’re usually in architecture school pretty clear about that.
What keeps the field interesting for you? SR: It’s always interesting. There are moments that are dull, I must say. And there are moments when you have deadlines and have to
“I decided that I would be really fundamentally disappointed and I wouldn’t be happy in life if I wasn’t being creative.” -Sue Reed ’81 work to 11 o’clock at night — like I did Tuesday night — and email the stuff to the builder only to find that he didn’t bother to check his email and he didn’t get the thing the next morning. So there are frustrations, but it’s creative. I decided senior spring that I could go into...fields like being in museums or becoming an academic or becoming a journalist where you’re describing what other people do, and that can be really interesting but you know if I’m describing the Mayans well I have
opinions about what things look like and I can design a temple just as well as they can, why shouldn’t I go and design things? I decided that I would be really fundamentally disappointed and I wouldn’t be happy in life if I wasn’t being creative.
What was different about undergrad vs graduate? SR: Virginia Tech wasn’t that great in terms of classwork. I felt that it was kind of watered down because they were trying to do a quarter system like Dartmouth but they were doing five classes a quarter... One of the things that was really great at the architecture school was you studied what you were passionate in, because the professor really didn’t care about what class you were assigned to. You got a grade just to make the college happy, but they were mentoring you, teaching you, the whole time. If you were interested in studying the urban life of Istanbul then go and study the urban life in Istanbul or form a rock band or do performance art. You still had to get your projects in but they were about no just studying what you were given by professors to study and I was like oh, huh, what a concept. Which, of the houses your firm has designed, would you most like to live in? SR: This is a house up in Sugarhill,
New Hampshire, for a couple without kids but with an active social life with their friends. They want to have everybody come up for the weekend and bring their bikes and go mountain biking and hiking and skiing, and so it had to accommodate that kind of stuff. Lots of places to sleep, one place for a guy under the stairway... It sometimes appears in catalogs, it’s been in Western Living, the Loewen Window Company uses it for adds, we’ve used it for competitions... I really like this house. What advice would you give to students at Dartmouth who are considering the architecture career path? SR: We have an alumni group called “Dartmouth Alumni in Design and Architecture” and one of our aims is to help the students with that really rocky path… going from [undergraduate program] to becoming an architect because you have to get your professional degree then you get a three-year internship then you have to take an exam and be employed two to three times along the way, so it’s really bumpy even if you know you want to be an architect right out of the gate. We try and help with that, so we’ve been doing portfolio workshops...we’re available for mentoring...it’s a national network of people, and we’re glad to help.
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) is mad, wild fun
B y andrew kingsley The Dartmouth Staff
Cinematic sequels are notorious for padding their companies’ cof fer s and their derivative plots. George Miller brings his “Mad Max” franchise of “Mad Max” (1979), “Mad Max 2” (1981) and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”(1985) back from a three-decade drought with “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015). He doesn’t just reboot it, but gives it a paint job, flashy rims and some serious horsepower. “Mad Max: Fury Road” is somewhere between the apocalyptic grandiosity of a John Martin painting and a demolition derby, combining hell and spitfire diesel into a bad-ass rock and roll extravaganza. The eponymous role of Max Rockatansky, formerly filled by Mel Gibson, is now played by the brawny Tom Hardy, who is enslaved to a post-apocalyptic society reminiscent of the Aztecs and a car-crazed Detroit. Their demigod and ruler, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), pillages the surrounding desert for gasoline with his massive band of dehydrated albino road warriors. During one voyage, his road queen Imperator
Furiosa (Charlize Theron) defects for her distant homeland along with Max, initiating the film’s two-hour chase odyssey. Furiosa, as the name might suggest, is a crew-cut, bionicarmed, stone-cold killer cruiser who carries the matriarchy on her back in this phallocentric world of muscle, metal and misogyny. Like the Little Engine That Could fueled by fire and brimstone, her oil tanker has an iron will, as if casted by Vulcan himself, turning Joe’s armies into veritable junkyards. Beside her, Max is but a footnote, speaking in grunts and obeisant nods to her tempered mien. While Miller keeps the dialogue to a minimum anyway to let the epic battles do the talking, Theron and Hardy deliver controlled, lionhearted performances which ground the chaos. Miller may keep the title “Mad Max” to maintain a familiar face, but know this is Furiosa’s show. Miller creates something like a NASCAR event with only the crashes, giving us hedonistic audiences the modern equivalent of a high-octane gladiator battle. The film never runs out of gas with Joe’s endless, Hydra-like army, while constantly refueling
with some new roadblock or sidestreet littered with endless destruction. The hellish excess of Joe’s army is epitomized by its ringleader, a satanic, tongueflailing guitarist who shreds visceral chords of war with his fire-spitting, double-neck guitar and monolithic speaker system. Kiss and Slash look like little schoolgirls in comparison. Whether it be some desert nomads or Furiosa’s feminist clan, someone’s always waiting to shift the film into some impossible level of overdrive. Cinematographer John Seale avoids the traditionally bleak, desaturated apocalypse palette, opting for the lurid sensationalism of scorched oranges, sulfurous yellows and seething reds smeared over a canvas of caked, tar-like black. 3D is superfluous when the colors explode off the screen, with bodies and machines dismantling with furious momentum, throwing limbs and tires into the air like fireworks of celebratory carnage. What’s more, 80 percent of the effects — makeup and sets — are real to enhance the intense Namibian landscape where they filmed. What sets “Mad Max” apart from other car-thrillers such as the
“Fast and Furious” series is its, well, madness — it is lofted into a new mind-space of entropic, inhuman demolition, eschewing the sexiness and clean-cut, pithy sleekness of its counterparts. “Fast and Furious” is like hip-hop and meant to make you feel uncool, while “Fury Road” is like a hellish Mad Hatter’s tea party — everyone is welcome and deliciously insane. While it could be accused of being one-note in its
relentless violence, it’s a damn good note, composed of the mellifluous sounds of burning rubber and burbling engines. So buckle up — or perhaps don’t — and enjoy the raw, eight-cylinder insanity. Rating: 9/10 “Mad Max” is now playing at The Nugget in 2D at 4:15 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. and in 3D at 5 p.m. and 7:20 p.m.
PITCH PERFECT
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A variety of bands performed on the Collis porch this weekend.
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Creative Writing Awards celebrate various undergraduates
B y kourtney kawano The Dartmouth Staff
While some writers go through great lengths to find inspiration, author Meg Kearney says that she believes people should have an open mind because inspiration can be found anywhere. As the prize judge for the English department’s annual Creative Writing Awards, Kearney opened the ceremony last Thursday in Sanborn Library by reading nine of her poems, including “Creed” (2001), “Home By Now” (2009) and “A Grasshopper Walks Into A Bar” (2009). During her reading, Kearney said it was difficult to choose this year’s winners because of the high quality of all of the submissions. She said she judged the entries based on four criteria — the author’s sense of urgency, the piece’s originality, whether the piece conveyed a sense of controlled structure and the degree of musicality when hearing the piece read aloud. English professor Ernest Hebert, who will be retiring after this year, helped Kearney announce the winners. Sarah Khatry ’17 received the
Sidney Cox Memorial Prize, an award given for the piece that best
“It wasn’t until afterwards that someone told me, ‘When you’re up there, you’re not reading to be critiqued.’ You’re there because you’ve won and you’re celebrating your work as it is and what others saw in it.” -Sarah Khatry ’17. winner of the Sidney Cox memorial prize represents the high standards Cox, a former professor at the College, set for himself and his students
when he began teaching at Dartmouth in 1926. After accepting the award for her novella “Ritual,” Khatry shared an excerpt with the audience and said she wrote it in the fall for English professor William Craig’s class “Writing and Reading Fiction.” Khatry said that she was nervous to read her piece because the setting was different from reading for a workshop session. “It wasn’t until afterwards that someone told me, ‘When you’re up there, you’re not reading to be critiqued,’” Khatry said. “You’re there because you’ve won and you’re celebrating your work as it is and what others saw in it.” Lacey Jones ’16 won the Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem sequence “Internal Combustion.” Jones read the first two stanzas from one of her poems “The Itch.” Jones said she wrote the sequence after realizing many of the ideas she keeps in a list on her phone fit together. She said that winning the award helped her realize that she could, in fact, succeed at writing.
ON A HIGH NOTE
“Writing is something that really matters to me,” Jones said. Jones said she spoke with Kearney after the ceremony about how to make time for writing while balancing a busy work schedule. Tailour Garbutt ’16 won the Lockwood Prize, an award for a member of the junior class, for her piece “Individual Invisible,” which she said she wrote as her final piece for English professor Jeff Sharlet’s winter class “Raising the Dead.” “Individual Invisible” tells the story of Edward Mitchell, the first black man to attend the College in 1824, Garbutt said. Through her research, she discovered that the Board of Trustees originally denied Mitchell admission but decided to overturn its decision after the student body petitioned for Mitchell to attend.
“These officers are living in this kind of prison within a prison. There’s this conflict between professional and personal empathy towards the women. It’s very intense.” -Kelsey Stimson ’15, on her awardwinning creative nonfiction piece
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Misterwives lead singer Mandy Lee helped kick of Programming Board’s Green Key main concert on Friday night.
Garbutt said the win was incredible not only for her, but for Mitchell and all those who helped her research Mitchell’s story, including Woody Lee ’68, who provided resources about the early history of African Americans at the College. “I wrote this story because I felt that it needed to be shared,” Garbutt said. “It became more than an assignment. It became personal.” Kelsey Stimson ’15 won the Mecklin Prize for best writing in creative nonfiction or journalism for “You Need to Keep Your Things Secure,” a chapter from her thesis “Unduly Familiar.” Stimson said
her thesis is about the lives of the correctional officers at the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown, Hillsborough County. Rather than focusing on the views of the inmates as recent shows, such as “Orange is the New Black” (2013) have done, Stimson said she wanted to find the voice of the officers and flesh out their stories in a realistic way instead of the stereotypical media portrayals. She said that she discovered the officers are not allowed to be familiar with the inmates, share personal information or develop bonds with them. “These officers are living in this kind of prison within a prison,” Stimson said. “There’s this conflict between professional apathy and personal empathy towards the women. It’s very intense.” As the first two-time winner of the Mecklin Prize, Stimson said winning again feels a bit ironic since becoming an English major after making an agreement with Sharlet, who taught her first-year seminar “Investigative Memoir.” “I wanted to be an economics major, but Professor Sharlet told me if you win this contest, you have to be an English major,” Stimson said. “It’s kind of ironic winning freshman and senior year.” Andrew Lohse ’12 was awarded the Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award in Poetry for his manuscript “After the Object is Smashed.” Kevin Patterson ’17 won the Thomas Henry Ralston VI English 80 Prize for his short story “10 Top Albums.” Jenna van de Ruit ’15 won the Grimes Prize, an award given exclusively to a member of the graduating class, for her piece “Making Space.” Josh Koenig ’16 received the William C. Spengemann Award in Writing, which is chosen for the piece’s innovative and iconoclastic qualities, for the fictional prose “Having Once Been King” he wrote for professor Catherine Tudish’s class “Intermediate Workshop in Fiction.” Robert Herbst ’16 won the Erskine Caldwell Prize for his short story “Dusk.” Koenig is a member of the Dartmouth senior staff.