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Dartmouth students attended the Inter-Ivy First-Generational student’s conference.
By RACHEL FAVORS The Dartmouth Staff
Three-hundred and fifty college students, administrators, alumni, experts and community partners from around the country came together at Harvard University to celebrate the first-generation college student identity during the second annual Inter-Ivy First-Genera-
tion Students’ conference last weekend. The conference, hosted by the 1vyG student organization that spans the Ivy League, featured student-guided discussions, breakout sessions and panels led by corporate representatives and experts in educational inequality and first-generation student experiences. Prudence Carter,
a sociology and education professor at Stanford University, delivered the keynote address. Coming off of the momentum of the inaugural conference at Brown University, the first-generation student experience has received “relatively new coverage” and a greater number of SEE CONFERENCE PAGE 5
Student Assembly unveiled a first draft of its student Bill of Rights today via a campus-wide email, following a Feb. 10 announcement of the document’s creation. The draft of the bill of rights, which is also viewable online, outlines its three main purposes: facilitating communication between students and College administration, increasing transparency of College policies and further defining sections of the student handbook to retain student rights and privileges. The Assembly hopes to incorporate amendments and suggestions. The five-article document addresses different areas of student rights including academic affairs, judicial affairs and Safety and Security. The document also states that any future amendments must be ratified by the Student Assembly General Body as well as any administrative party involved. In academic affairs, the Bill calls for professors to provide academic accommodations for
students facing an injury or other personal emergency, as well as inform students of all course policies on their syllabuses. The Bill states that Safety and Security must not engage in coercive activities such as verbal or physical intimidation. The document also calls for all Safety and Security protocols such as walkthroughs and Good Samaritan calls to be published online and printed in the student handbook so that Safety and Security abides by the established protocols and does not misrepresent protocols. The Bill draft also calls for the establishment of a “twostrike policy” whereby Safety and Security does not have the grounds to enter a room after one noise complaint unless they have probable cause in the form of visual or olfactory evidence that a prohibited activity is occurring. However, if Safety and Security is summoned to the room again, officers may enter the room and disband the gathering. On Thursday, the Assembly SEE BILL PAGE 5
Alumni design ‘Wanda’ device improves security vibrator for women By JOSEPH REGAN The Dartmouth
By EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff
After hearing about her midwest conservative upbringing, one might be surprised to learn that Elizabeth Klinger ’10 created Lioness, a company focused on creating a vibrator for women, with her business partner James Wang ’10. Wang said that the market is not geared towards women because the niche emerged as a result of men
deciding to incorporate vibrators into their sex lives during a lull in a longterm relationship. He also pointed out that many of the current vibrators on the market have features that men think women want. “These things are loud and a lot of the time have a bunch of different vibrations, which, if you walk into a sex shop, are things that you might think you SEE VIBRATOR PAGE 3
Computer science doctoral student Tim Pierson’s new device may seem to many like a magic wand. Better known as “Wanda,” the programmed wand allows users to securely connect wireless devices to a Wi-Fi network with a tap, removing a number of security risks in the process. In the abstract of his recently published paper “Wanda: Securely Introducing Mobile Devices,” Pierson identified three main goals of the device: to configure devices to local
Wi-Fi networks, to partner different devices together such as a glucose monitor and insulin pump and to ensure these devices are connected to the relevant personal or organizational account intended by the user. Wanda is currently a working prototype that has met each of these goals. The invention can securely send information such as the password of a Wi-Fi router to other devices wirelessly, securely adding them to the shared network. To connect a device to the network with Wanda, a user simply points the two-antenna
wand at the device. Pierson said this idea came from his desire to help patients in small health networks such as a home or doctor’s office without an IT team. Doctors and patients are often unable to use the latest technology because they are not technologically savvy, he said, which the device will help address. Wanda also boosts security by deterring wireless eavesdropping by relying on properties of how radio waves propagate through space. SEE WANDA PAGE 5
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Brown University: Faculty members voted to change the name of Fall Weekend holiday to Indigenous People’s Day, effective next fall, The Brown Daily Herald reported. The holiday used to be known as Columbus Day, until a 2009 student movement resulted in changing the name to Fall Weekend. This year, protests by student groups and a widely-circulated petition prompted the holiday’s most recent change to Indigenous People’s Day. Columbia University: Columbia College Student Council will present the Dean of the College with a list of the five most important issues facing students, the Daily Columbia Spectator reported. The Student Council sent out a college-wide survey to determine the most pressing campus issues. They include academics, administrative transparency, community development and stress reduction, racial diversity and student advising. Cornell University: James Franco will speak during Cornell’s 148th Commencement Weekend, the Cornell Chronicle reported. The acclaimed actor and director will give the keynote address during the convocation ceremony on May 28. - COMPILED BY LUCY TANTUM
CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. The Feb. 23 article, “Town hall talks new working groups,” stated that the Dimensions protest took place in April of 2014. The protest, in fact, took place in April of 2013. The Feb. 23 article, “College considers new heating system,” incorrectly stated that the College buys an additional 50 to 55 kilowatt-hours each year that cannot be cogenerated. In fact, the College buys an additional 50 to 55 million kilowatt-hours annually. The Feb. 23 article, “Students build department websites,” incorrectly stated that students build department sites through Content Corps. In fact, students create content for department sites through Content Corps. The article also stated that Gricelda Ramos ’18, one of the students involved with the group, was designing websites. In fact, she does not design websites, but was working on a presentation through Content Corps.
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Klinger explores women’s sexual health FROM VIBRATOR PAGE 1
she said. “The culture was very different.” She added, however, that her time at both schools only played a small role in her passion for sexual health. Jessica Jolicoeur, founder of Athena Home Novelties, a company that distributes sexual novelties in a home-party setting, said that vibrators and other toys aid both male and female sexuality. Jolicoeur said that her company’s familiar setting — private consultations within a home — helps women open up about their sexuality and their fears regarding new experiences. “People often open up about their previous sexual abuse, or sexual dysfunction, and you see these women actually wanting to try something new and reconnect with their sexuality,” Jolicoeur said.
want, especially if you don’t know a lot about the topic,” he said. Both Klinger and her partner explained that the Lioness vibrator began as a quest to make a typical vibrator with the best materials. The vibrator then evolved to feature sensors which track the preferences of the user, Klinger said. The vibrator also connects to an app which keeps track of the experiences of the users. The two have raised $77,460 of a $50,000 goal on their Indiegogo campaign with a month left to go. Klinger has always been interested in women’s sexual health, she said, but went on to work for an investment bank after graduation. After leaving that job, Klinger “I wanted to create a decided that Jolicoeur she wanted forum in which women highlighted to explore could explore their the fact that her interest in female sexuality and have their the people who attend sexual health questions answered.” her homeand spoke to parties are many women not sexual in the New -ELIZABETH KLINGER ‘10, deviants or York tri-state CREATOR OF LIONESS particularly area about provocative. their sexual “It’s questions and just a lot experiences. of normal She said people, none of us are dressed that women from all different like strippers or anything like backgrounds had several questhat,” she said. tions about their own sexuality. The goal of her parties is to “I wanted to create a forum in which women could explore their educate and help people who are interested in using toys or other sexuality and have their quessexual novelties to enhance their tions answered,” Klingen said. experiences, she said. Both Klinger and Wang exLogan Levkoff, a sexologist plained that the Lioness provides a platform for women to not only and relationship expert, said that she dislikes vibrators and other use and enjoy the product, but novelties’ description as toys, also for women to learn more because she feels it discredits the about their preferences and their need some women and couples own bodies. have for them in order to have a On their website, the compleasurable sexual experience. pany has features such as a Both Jolicoeur and Levkoff question of the week, with this agreed that the discussion and week’s question exploring how use of vibrators and other novelthe Hitachi Magic Wand, one of ties has become much less taboo the most popular vibrators since in recent years. Levkoff cited a the 1960s, works. “Sex and the City” episode in Klinger also said that she felt which a rabbit vibrator was menwomen’s sexual health was not tioned, saying that since then it talked about enough at Darthas become much more common mouth, especially when comparing her time at Dartmouth to her for sex toys to be brought up on television. Jolicoeur says that time at Wellesley College, where since her time starting in the inshe spent her first two years of dustry in the 1990s, people have her undergraduate career. “Wellesley has always been an become much more overt about their use of toys in their sexual all women’s college, and Dartmouth was the one of the last Ivy experiences with themselves or League schools to let in women,” with a partner.
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STAFF COLUMNIST MICHAEL BEECHERT ’16
COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ’17
Crying Out for the Future
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Students need to use their voices to create change.
One of the most beautiful aspects of this beautiful school is something often given little thought. The College’s motto — “Vox clamantis in deserto,” or “a voice crying out in the wilderness” — naturally holds meaning with respect to Hanover’s geographical location; everyone visiting Dartmouth for the first time, provided that he or she hails from actual civilization, is immediately struck by the seemingly never-ending sea of trees that surrounds campus. But we cheat ourselves by believing that this motto, which has roots in the Gospels, is simply a literal reference to the College’s place in the vast northern woods. It should serve, rather, as a poignant reminder that we have a duty as students to use our intellectual capabilities, as expressed by our literal and figurative voices, to speak out in times that demand the presence of forceful and well-reasoned opinions to protest an unacceptable status quo. What exactly this means for each and every individual on this campus will probably be different. Perhaps you have participated in one of the many working groups established over the past few years to address social and academic issues that have been deemed relevant to the Dartmouth community. You might express yourself through less formalized avenues — in conversations with friends and professors about how this or that policy could best be implemented or reworked, to name one possibility. For me, this column — which I have written since my very first term at the College — has served as a way to share my own voice. Like all of you, I have opinions about what problems exist at this school and how those problems should be solved. My goal in expressing my voice is less to convince readers that my personal viewpoints are correct than to provide a perspective that will spark debate about important topics. The absence of vigorous and vigilant engagement with such issues on our part breeds complacency, and complacency leads to decay. People have remarked to me, with increasing frequency, that my pieces in this paper have become ever-more negative over the years. This is more or less true, but I long struggled to determine why. I don’t believe that I made a
conscious decision at any point to adopt a more jaded or frustrated tone. The unfortunate truth is that, after observing up-close how things tend to work at the College over a period of several years, I’ve simply become much more cynical about the direction in which Dartmouth is headed as an institution. Instead of cutting extraneous costs and refocusing resources towards the undergraduate experience, the College has embarked on an ill-advised quest to become the Harvard-lite of New Hampshire. A stifling sense of political correctness has meanwhile enveloped this campus, granting administrators ammunition to mount a gradual assault against student social life. A select few raise ire now and then, but by and large, Dartmouth’s march downwards continues unabated. The tacit acceptance of this backwards momentum, I believe, is the wilderness we need to pierce. As an incessant parade of buzzwords — diversity, inclusion, innovation — blankets the College like a never-ending snowstorm and slowly lulls students to a sleepy acceptance of thoughtpoliced mediocrity, the need for a chorus of voices that will say “No!” becomes increasingly urgent. Intolerance towards those of us who would dare to dissent — which, unfortunately, exists in spades here — can be no deterrent. The administration, which has ignored and even demeaned the silent majority on this campus time and time again, can only continue down its path of mismanagement if that majority remains silent. And so, as my time in Hanover draws to a close, I would give this advice to the younger classes responsible for shaping Dartmouth’s future: use your voices to stand up for what is right, even when your concerns are brushed aside as unimportant or misguided. I don’t know how many cries will be necessary to effect change on this campus, or if it is even possible to right the ship after it has spent so many years askew. A lean, affordable institution dedicated fully to the proper elements of undergraduate education may well be beyond our reach at this point. But if that ideal is still achievable, your words must first break through the wilderness before progress can be made.
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On Twitter’s new Trust and Safety Council distorts free speech. On Feb. 9, one of the supposed great of comfort. Not trolls, not cyberbullying, champions of the internet struck a terrible not threats, not harassment. Comfort. Thus blow to free speech. Twitter announced the is the true goal of the Trust and Safety adoption of a Trust and Safety Council to, Council revealed: not to make Twitter a in its own words, “ensure that people feel place free of extremism, but for a feel-good safe expressing themselves on Twitter.” cushioned space where one never has to Tw i t t e r e m p owe re d feel challenged or upset. this body with the role The council’s inclusion of not only oversee- “We cannot and of such members as the ing Twitter’s products should not invite such Feminist Frequency and and policies, but also the Anti-Defamation enforcing them for the unparalleled — and League, many of which sake of creating what frankly, unnecessary support tight controls on they no doubt believe dissenting speech under to be a better Twitter. — oversight into our the guise of fighting It seeks to set guidelines online activities.” abuse, is also particularly for language or comtelling. The council’s vimentary that might be sion is a Twitter where considered hateful and people can turn away potentially purge them from the realities of this from Twitter altogether. “g lobal mir ror” and On the surface, such an action seems bury their heads in the sand like so many noble enough. After all, why not welcome ostriches do. The only grounds for being efforts to make Twitter a safer space for branded as unsafe for Twitter is, apparently, everyone? Why should we not safeguard our unpopularity. friends and family online from undesirable If universal online safety is what Twitter influences on the web? Why subject them truly wants for its users, then it does not to the cruelty of online bullying? With the have to resort to Orwellian oversight to likes of ISIS using social media as a recruit- achieve it. Twitter already allows other users ing office and online trolls spewing vitriol, to report those who abuse the medium for it only seems natural that a company like personal attacks or as a platform to incite Twitter would take measures to keep its violence. There are existing resources for users safe. If the most stringent protection victims of cyberbullying or hate speech. A of free speech does not refinement of these apallow one to falsely shout “Unpalatable though proaches, and not some “fire” in a theater, then council of arbitrary it may be to many is Twitter’s oversight not standards, is far more entirely justified? students of today, in line with the ideals Let us give Twitter at to which Twitter should the very idea of free least this much. It’s intenhold itself. We already tions are noble enough, speech is to feel have the tools at our and we should cautiously disposal to overcome challenged.” applaud its initiative to hateful voices, so why take a stance against defer to an all-seeing bullying and extremism. body that can tell us Yet we cannot and should what is correct and not invite such unparalleled — and frankly, what is not? Why purge that which makes unnecessary — oversight into our online us uncomfortable for no other reason than activities. In creating an enforcing body to the fact that it makes us uncomfortable? tell the average user what is safe and what is Unpalatable though it may be to many not, Twitter’s actions set an extraordinarily students of today, the very idea of free dangerous precedent for all of us with an speech is to feel challenged. Free speech opinion to share. is not some wonderland of sunshine and Most damning is a statement by Nick rainbows, but a beautiful clash of ideas. Pickles, head of policy at Twitter UK, made Some ideas are good, some are bad and to The Guardian regarding the council’s some are downright ugly, but none should announcement. “If there’s one thing that’s be silenced. This writer finds it alarming certain,” he writes, “it’s that the Internet’s that the inherent challenges of free speech growth has brought into the open some chal- are often perceived as personal attacks lenging, even upsetting viewpoints. These rather than an opportunity to defend a viewpoints, which existed long before the cherished position. Nobody — least of all iPhone, have become more visible because Twitter — should back down in the face of the power of the technology we have at of adversity just because, to borrow from our fingertips. The internet has become a a popular internet meme, it “rustles your real-time global mirror, reflecting society jimmies.” in a way that is not always comfortable to Democracy is built on the principle that look at.” we are allowed to speak our minds without Let us really take the time to think about fear of reprisal. The fact that Twitter feels the meaning of those words. Not once does the need to create a safety council speaks to Pickles emphasize the importance of safety. an unequivocal failure of this core foundaNo, instead he emphasizes the importance tion of free speech.
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Students reflect on being first-gen
institution, which gives students impacted by Carter’s keynote admore of a sense of connection, dress in which she explained that students are embracing their first- belonging and strong community. first-generation student challenges generation student identity and “It is specifically reassuring for are more of an integration and inexperience, Dartmouth delegate students to be aware that this [is] clusion issue rather than a diversity Ayub Sharif ’19 said. a struggle that people have gone issue. Carter also emphasized how Sharif said that the confer- through, are going through and this inclusion is cultural and not ence was intended to foster a have overcome,” Tough said. just numerical, he said. greater sense Sharif said that he also enjoyed of community To u g h , the conference because he and the “It is specifically reassuring among firstw h o i s other Dartmouth delegates had an g e n e r a t i o n for students to be aware currently action planning gathering where students, who that this [is] a struggle that writing a they discussed building a stronger can often feel b o o k first-generation community on camalone within people have gone through, about in- pus and holding the College more elite institu- and have overcome.” equality accountable for making the campus tions. The in Amer- environment more inclusive, he conference i c a n said. p r o v i d e s a -PAUL TOUGH, CONFERENCE h i g h e r “Although this movement is relaspace to come SPEAKER e d u c a - tively new, we should expect to see together to tion, said more activism by first-generation speak about t h a t i n students on Dartmouth’s campus,” their experihis “Who Sharif said. ences, he said, N e e d s Marcu said that his favorite event whereas in the College” was the panel discussion with expast students have not always felt session at the conference he dis- perts from various companies such comfortable expressing challenges cussed how the specific challenges as Google and Goldman Sachs who they face as first-generation college of first-generation students at elite were also the first in their families students. universities connect to broader to attend college. These experts The conference aimed to or- questions of inequality in higher shared their struggles in becomganize first-generation students education. ing successful and were “open and around the understanding that Keels said that in her panel dis- eager to help fellow first-generation there are unique challenges that cussion she spoke about research students achieve their goals.” they face associated with integrat- evidence on first-generation stu- Dartmouth delegate Halimo ing into campus life and academic dent college transition and success Hassen ’17 said that her favorite part expectations at elite institutions, with students and administrators. were the breakout sessions where she said Micere Keels, a panelist on She specifically emphasized the engaged with students from differthe “Helping Colleges Help Stu- importance for universities to ent universities and they discussed dents” discussion and University report the graduation rates of first- how they could take what they of Chicago human development generation learned professor. s t u d e n t s “Although this movement back to Schools are not always effec- because it their is relatively new, we should tive at managing these challenges, forces the schools Keels said, which led students to institutions expect to see more activism to grow take action to better understand to be held by first-generation students on t h e i r their own situations and help accountable firsttheir schools expand institutional for improv- Dartmouth’s campus.” generunderstanding and support. ing those ation Conference speaker Paul Tough o u t c o m e s, student -AYUB SHARIF ’19, DARTMOUTH said that students have the oppor- she said. p r o tunity to think about advocacy and T h e DELEGATE grams. kinds of changes they want their other issue, Hasadministration to make in order particularly sen said to improve the first-generation for undert h a t student experience. represented she is a Students collectively sharing students at elite institutions, is not mentor for the College’s First Year their experiences also allows them whether or not they will graduate, Student Enrichment Program, to identify commonalities in policy but what will be the “social, physi- which is designed to assist firstand agenda issues and push for ological and emotional toll on these generation students to succeed change with stronger voices as they students if these institutions are academically and in the greater display the same concerns across not as welcoming and supportive College community through an multiple institutions, Keels said. to non-traditional students,” Keels eight-day pre-orientation program Additional goals of the confer- said. and ongoing support throughout ence include establishing “genuine She added that a lot of data in- their first year. Dartmouth students networking connections” between dicates that first-generation status seem to be “ahead of the curve in first-generation students, profes- determines college success more so regards to first-generation students sors and employers and encourag- than race and ethnicity. Although programs” because some peer instiing students to take advantage of first-generation students might tutions do not have such programs, these resources to enhance their graduate at very high rates, it will she said. college experience and success be- come at a high cost to their personal FYSEP and other support proyond college, Dartmouth delegate well-being. The conversation needs grams are “crucial” for the transiJulian Marcu ’18 said. to be more about ensuring that tion of first-generation students, Tough said that the conference their college experience is positive, and conferences like 1vyG provide sends a message that the first-gen- rather than on just ensuring the the information and skills needed to eration experience is happening graduate, Keels said. improve FYSEP and its mentorship everywhere and not just at a specific Sharif said that he was especially networks, Hassen added. FROM CONFERENCE PAGE 1
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Device has wide use beyond medical field FROM WANDA PAGE 1
One antenna is at the tip of the wand and a second is seven centimeters farther down. At distances of around seven centimeters, a receiving device can sense the difference in signal strength when the wand transmits a Wi-Fi packet using the first antenna as opposed to when it sends a packet using the second antenna. Would-be hackers trying to listen in from more than 30 centimeters away would not be able to determine which antenna sent the packet, as the signals arrive at their antenna with the same strength. This means hackers would not be able to access any information, including passwords. The key to Wanda is proximity — the two antennas on the wand used to transmit packets of information are close together, and the receiving device itself is located close to the wand. Wanda secures the transfer of information — the user does not need to know the password when tapping a device to connect it. Networks can then use complex, hard-to-remember passwords, ones that are much harder for hackers to crack than a word or phrase. Wanda also reduces human error since users do not need to write anything down and risk losing the slip of paper. Pierson also envisions more possibilities for Wanda beyond healthcare. Wanda would be to able incorporate multiple household devices regardless of the different manufacturers of each home’s smart devices. The need for dozens of smart device set-up apps or interfaces could be eliminated by Wanda. As an intermediary, Wanda is capable of conveying any information put into it. Pierson said that the method of transmitting information in Wanda has many possibilities, as it is the first prototype where the technology has been implemented.
Wanda is currently under patent review. Wanda is a part of the Trustworthy Health and Wellness project, a $10 million National Science Foundation initiative that focuses on studying security and privacy issues within health and wellness involving mobile and cloud technology. Computer science professor David Kotz, who is the principal investigator for THaW, said that the group studies the intersection of security and privacy within health and wellness. “Part of that is understanding the current state of affairs, in particular what are the risks that might be related to security and privacy,” Kotz said. “[We’re] inventing new solutions that have fewer security privacy risks, or at least strong security but are more efficient, easier to use, or cheaper.” The grant included professors from four other universities originally, and recently added one more, Kotz said. At Dartmouth, the THaW project provides a source of funding and training for three other doctoral candidates and three undergraduates. David Rozenfeld ’17 wrote in an email that working on the Wanda project gave him exposure to possible paths he could pursue post graduation. Rozenfeld was responsible for obtaining medical devices that were bluetooth enabled, but not Wi-Fi enabled. Kotz said that there are many projects THaW is currently funding at Dartmouth. One of these seeks to help log out people on hospital computers automatically, as opposed to the current situation where computers are left logged in and susceptible to other unauthorized individuals. This process is also under patent review. Kotz said that he will be reapplying for the grant in two years, as long as the recent halfway review does not terminate the project earlier.
Assembly will hold town hall on Thursday FROM BILL PAGE 1
will host a town hall meeting in Collis Common Ground to solicit student feedback on the Bill. After this, the draft will be ratified by the General Body. The Assembly then hopes to work with administrators to incorporate the Bill into the Student Handbook. Student Assembly communications director Jessica Barfield D’16 said that the end goal is to make the Bill of Rights an official part of the
Student Handbook. The Assembly has been in contact with College administration about the document, and administrators will be present at the town hall event on Thursday, Barfield said. The Assembly encourages students to submit questions and feedback by attending the event or by using the submission form on the Bill’s website, she added. This story will be updated as more information is reported.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m.
“Bend,” a live performance by Kimi Maeda, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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“Why Do State Supreme Courts Matter to You? A Conversation with Alumni Justices,” Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
7:00 p.m.
“The Pitch,” presented by the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network and DALI Lab, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
TOMORROW 12:00 p.m.
“STEM and the Liberal Arts,” presented by history professor Cecilia Gaposchkin, Haldeman 246
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Q&A with presidential speechwriters Don Baer (President Bill Clinton) and Clark Judge (President Ronald Reagan), Carson L01
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“V-Feb: Men in Feminism Panel,” featuring male faculty from Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and students as panelists, First Floor Lounge, Fahey Hall RELEASE DATE– Wednesday, February 24, 2016
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Dartmouth Film Society themes series ‘Question Authority’ By WILL TACKETT The Dartmouth
As presidential candidates began to pass through campus and election pamphlets were passed around this past summer, the Dartmouth Film Society began to examine the idea of the absolutism of governmental authority. This spark turned into the theme for the DFS’ termly film series at the Hopkins Center: “Question Authority.” Under this theme, DFS included films such as 2016 Oscar nominees “Brooklyn” (2015) and “Trumbo” (2015) as well as classics such as “Chicken Run” (2000). Film Society director Johanna Evans ’10 said that the theme was inspired in part by the upcoming presidential election. “You could tell that the issue of government’s role in society, whether to trust the government or not trust the government, choosing an establishment candidate versus choosing a Washington outsider, it was already a big part of the conversation,” she said.
The film series emphasizes how film influences the relationship between authority figures and those subject to their authority, in particular how film can inspire people to question authority. “It is an interesting time to reflect on the ways that movies affect the way you think about the government,” Evans said. “The basic idea was looking at the ways that cinema has shaped our ideas of authority and particularly government authority.” “Jafar Panahi’s Taxi” (2015), for example, explores how the act of film-making can be a form of resistance in itself. Although banned by the Iranian government from making movies, Panahi films one in a taxi, interviewing the citizens of Tehran about social issues plaguing the country. The illicit production of the film serves as a way to undermine the authority of the Iranian government itself. The initial focus of the series was on one’s own government as the enemy, but DFS expanded the
theme to include other kinds of authority figures. DFS member Alex Hurt ’16 said that there can be many interpretations of the theme. “You could be talking about more social order or political order or you could be talking about a predetermined destiny for your life,” Hurt said. One such alternative authority figure is the farmer antagonist in “Chicken Run,” a Nick Park film in which a flock of chickens attempts to escape from their doomed life on a farm. Hurt said that “Chicken Run” was one of the films he was particularly excited about having in the series. “I remember watching it when I was a kid,” Hurt said. “I thought that it was kind of a cool departure from our normal pattern. It was fun to see it on the screen again.” With the Academy Awards coming up, this term’s series involves more new releases. DFS chose to include more Oscar-nominated films in the series in order to satisfy audiences’ interest in seeing these
movies before the awards ceremony. They also made a conscious effort to include foreign films in the series. One such film, “Mustang” (2015), a French film nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, follows five young orphaned sisters growing up in conservative Turkey. “Mustang” replaced “Son of Saul” (2015), another Oscar-nominated film in the foreign language category, in the series when the studio decided to not give DFS permission to show “Son of Saul.” In “Mustang,” the authority is essentially the patriarchy, manifested in the form of the sisters’ abusive uncle. DFS member Mac Simonson ’16 said he was glad that “Mustang” ended up being included in the series due to the limited presence of foreign films in movie theaters outside of New York or Los Angeles. “Being able to program that stuff here and have an Upper Valley and student audience for it is great,” Simonson said. “Labyrinth of Lies” (2015), another foreign film included in the
series, tells the story of a lawyer who finds out about a German government attempt at covering up the Holocaust. Evans noted that the film fits the theme of the series particularly well. “That is more of a clear example of the government deliberately trying to stop justice and push the little guy and erase this atrocity and one person standing up and questioning the government’s right to do that,” Evans said. “Suffragette” (2015), also fits the theme in a straightforward way. DFS member Ava Giglio ’19 was particularly excited to see it because it came up as part of the Telluride at Dartmouth screening of six films this past September. All of the movies in the series “reflect that kind of suspicion that Americans in particular have towards authority figures and I think it’s in our blood,” Evans said. The series will conclude with a screening of “Macbeth” (2015) on Sunday, March 6 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium.
Alumnus Q&A: Screenwriter and actor Eyal Podell ’97 By NALINI RAMANATHAN The Dartmouth
Eyal Podell ’97 graduated from Dartmouth with a major in theater. After graduation, he moved directly to Los Angeles, where he acted in many television shows including “The Young and the Restless” (1973) and “Defying Gravity” (2009) before going into screenwriting. Podell partnered with fellow Dartmouth alum Jonathon “Stew” Stewart ’96. In 2006, the two worked together on “USONIA,” which tells the story of Podell’s grandparents and grand uncle who founded a utopian cooperative community. They later wrote a biopic about Theodor Geisel titled “Seuss” which later landed on the Black List, a list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. What inspired you to start acting in the first place? EP: I think one of the things that inspired me to be an actor or a storyteller, if you want to go more macro on it, was just growing up and living internationally. I was born in Israel, and I lived in Hong Kong as a kid. And then I moved to New York and got exposed to Broadway theater on a regular basis by my parents. And just kind of seeing stories of people all around the world and then getting to see the arts at their finest in American format in Broadway kind of galvanized my interest in it, and I just started doing plays and musicals in high school. And then when I came to Dartmouth I tried out for the play freshman year and then
decided I was going to take a semester off of theater to see if there were things in other fields that interested me and there weren’t. And my grades kind of plummeted and I got kind of really disenchanted and lost some passion and so the next term I got back on to this sort of a theater bandwagon and I sort of realized, “Alright, this is what I am called to do.”
I’ve also noticed that some of your work deals with Israeli and Jewish identities, as well as conflicts in the region. Would you say this is the focus of your work and if so, what drives you to focus on these areas? EP: I think as an artist, you’re usually drawn to things that are close to you, and you’re usually kind of pulling back layers of a mask on yourself and exposing that to the world, however it may be, and so, spending summers in Israel as a kid, I definitely became very familiar and passionate with the notion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the peace process. And that definitely is a world of interest for me still and unresolved politically still. So anything you can do in the arts to shed light on that and tell the story from a human perspective as opposed to from a geopolitical, strategic perspective or a news anchor’s “if it bleeds, it leads” perspective, I think you can kind of offer new and fresh insight, so one of the stories I wanted to tell about that was a camp called Seeds of Peace that puts Israel and Palestinian kids together on neutral turf. I think it was a camp
in Maine, and I was just so intrigued by that idea, that these kids would get together in the summer together and workshop their issues and then be kids. That was one of the things that got me interested in that first screenplay that I wrote, called “Homeland.” And I mean as a writer, a lot of those in the writing profession will tell you in the beginning, write what you know. Write what you’re passionate about, because it’s easier to get through a story. Now that you have more experience in screenwriting, are you focused in a different area? And if so what is that focus?
EP: What’s interesting to me and my writing partner, as far as screenwriting goes, is sort of that there are these two buckets that we really love. As we grew up, what made us fall in love with movies are these sort of like Amblin Entertainment big family adventures like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “E.T.,” so those kind of movies we’re still excited about making. Ironically, they make them more now in the animation space than they do in live action, so we chase those kind of movies, on the one hand. And on the other hand, there’s a part of us that is very excited by adult-themed movies that we started being moved by as we became adults, like whether it’s the “Good Will Hunting”’s or the “Dead Poet Society”’s of the world or “Finding Neverland” or you know, movies about famous people or just about sort of growing up, sort of rites of passage movies, adult-themed stuff that we also are very excited about. We have
COURTESY OF EYAL PODELL
Eyal Podell ’97 works as an actor and screenwriter in Hollywood.
the Dr. Seuss biography, we’re working on a Marlon Brando biography, we did the Frank Lloyd Wright story, but those seem to be kind of like the other stakes that excite us. How have your experiences an actor shaped your work in the screenwriting world? EP: I think as an actor for the first 10 years of my career, primarily, I just read so many scripts, and I would devour them, whether they were TV pilots or films or whatever, and the more you read, the more you begin to understand. In television, the writer is king, so whatever’s written in TV, you kind of have to do whatever’s written. You get really good at dissecting clues on the page, and that then informs how you write. You know, what do you
think the actors or the audience needs to know as you’re writing to convey the story you’re trying to tell? I remember starting writing when I first came out here, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck just wrote “Good Will Hunting,” and I was like “Oh, I can write a screenplay. Those guys can.” And I started writing like a big, chill college reunion story where everyone goes back for the five-year, and it was awful. I couldn’t get past the first 30 pages, I had no idea where the thing was going, and I took some screenwriting courses, you know a great course from Robert McKee, who teaches this story seminar which is phenomenal. I read as many books as I could, and slowly started teaching myself and paying more attention to the scripts that I was reading and how they are and what makes them work. So it’s just a lot of hard work, time and effort.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016
WEDNESDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Tennis teams dominate Minnesota, UMass in final winter games B y MARK CUI
The Dartmouth Staff
On Feb. 19, the then No. 40, now No. 38 Dartmouth men’s tennis team followed up its two victories over Brown University and St. John’s University last week to win its third consecutive match, defeating the then No. 45, now unranked University of Minnesota 5-2 at the Boss Tennis Center. Over the past weekend, the then No. 41, now No. 31 Dartmouth women’s team dominated its two opponents, defeating the then No. 58, now No. 56 Minnesota Gophers 7-0 and the University of Massachusetts 6-1. The win against UMass was the team’s fifth consecutive victory, improving the team’s overall record to 6-2. In the season, the team has also won an astounding seven out of eight of its double points, propelling the team to consistently start out with an early lead. “We had set high goals for this current season,” Jacqueline Crawford ’17 said. “It’s great that we’re on a five game win streak. [Our success in doubles] means that we won at least two out of three doubles matches to clinch the first point, making a big difference in matches. One of our goals was to win all of them throughout this season, so that’s something that we will
continue to try to do going forward.” The two most recent wins came against strong opponents, yet the Big Green was able to dominate the field 7-0 and 6-1 and rose 10 places in the national rankings. “Those were two of the quickest matches I’ve played in college tennis, which is a testament to how we’ve grown as a team and developed in the past winter season,” Crawford said. “I think it’s the best everyone has played individually all year. It was a really great way to end the winter season.” On Saturday afternoon, the team first defeated Minnesota at home, going 3-0 in doubles and 6-0 in singles. The team continued to establish its strong doubles play, with all three duos of No. 7 Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18, Katherine Yau ’16 and Julia Schroeder ’18, and Crawford and Julienne Keong ’16 securing victories with final respective scores of 6-2, 6-3 and 6-4. The singles built off the stellar play of the doubles, easily sweeping Minnesota, with all six victories coming in straight sets. Yau and Schroeder each took a set without allowing the opponent to score a single point. On Sunday, the Big Green built off the sweep of Minnesota by defeating UMass 6-1. The team once again jumped off to a blazing start, winning all three doubles matches in lopsided
fashion to take the doubles point. The tandems of Ng and Mathis, and Yau and Schroeder both bageled their opponents, while Suzy Tan ’16 and Lexxi Kiven ’18 only gave up a breadstick to their adversaries. “It was fantastic that there was a moment in which all doubles matches were at 4-0 in the first set,” Crawford said. After undergoing hip surgery in the fall, Kiven made her debut in the lineup. “[Kiven] and her partner, a senior, started just as fast as everyone else,” Crawford said. “To see her come out that strong in that first match after struggling with injuries, and especially knowing how tough that first match usually is, was fantastic.” Despite the final singles score of 5-1, many of the matches were very competitive and hard-fought. Ng and Chuang both won in a tiebreaker, with respective scores of 1-6, 6-3, 10-6, and 6-2, 3-6, 10-6. Mathis, Crawford and Schroeder rounded out the scoring with straight set victories. In the second singles spot, Yau lost in a tough battle against UMass’ Ana Yrazusta 1-6, 6-7. In both matches, the team was able to jump off to an early lead, and never looked back. The team will next take a nearly one-month break before traveling
to California in a stretch of matches against San Diego State University, the University of California at Irvine and Long Beach State University. Schroeder said the team will head to the weight room and push itself physically before traveling to California. “We want to make sure that we are in the best physical shape coming up for Ivy season,” Schroeder said. “I know that each individual has sent in some goals to our coach, and this is a break period in which we really hone in on making sure we are able to reach these goals I also know that we are all making sure we work on doubles. ” On the men’s side, the Big Green also took down the Gophers. “I was very happy with the team’s performance,” Eddie Grabill ’19 said of the men’s team’s performance. “Minnesota is a very tough team that beat us last year, so it was huge to get the win.” On Friday, Dartmouth claimed victory over Minnesota with a solid 5-2 victory, going 1-2 in doubles and 5-1 in singles. While the No. 49 duo of Dovydas Sakinis ’16 and Roko Glasnovic ’19 easily defeated Minnesota’s Marino Alpez and Ruben Weber 6-2, the other two Dartmouth duos of George Wall ’17 and Brendan Tannenbaum ’16, and Max Fliegner ’18 and Max Schmidt ’17 fell with
respective final scores of 4-6 and 2-6. Despite the doubles loss, singles stepped up significantly to secure the win. While No. 50 Sakinis lost in an extremely close 6-4, 5-7, 7-10 match, the other five Dartmouth singles players including Ciro Riccardi ’18, Fliegner, Wall, Grabill and Glasnovic all claimed victories, with four of the victories coming in straight sets. Wall’s opponent retired in the early stages of the third set, granting the team the fifth singles win for good measure. Glasnovic, primarily a doubles player, played his first collegiate singles matches for Dartmouth, dominating his opponent Jeremy Lynn 6-2, 6-1. “I was very proud of the way the team responded after losing the doubles point,” Grabill said. “I was very excited to see Roko come out and dominate in his first collegiate singles match. I was also happy with the other guys, battling through tough Minnesota opponents.” The team will next host St. John’s and Sacred Heart University on Feb. 27. Entering the stretch with a strong 8-4 record, the team looks forward to the challenge. “St. John’s and Sacred Heart will both be tough,” Grabill said. “They both have good programs and want a piece of us, so we have to be fully ready to go.”
Women’s hockey concludes season with two, tight 1-0 losses By JAMES HANDAL
The Dartmouth Staff
The women’s hockey team fell 1-0 to both Cornell University and Colgate University on the road this weekend to finish the 2015-2016 season with a 6-19-3 overall record, 6-13-3 record in ECAC play. Head coach Mark Hudak noted the team played well defensively, with both goalies, Robyn Chemago ’17 and Christie Honor ’19, turning in strong performances. “We created a lot of good things in terms of opportunity and we just could not finish,” Hudak said. “It has been a part of the story of the season.” On Friday night, the Big Green faced Cornell for the second time this season after the Big Green’s 5-3 loss on Jan. 9, though the match was much closer this time around. In the early stages of the first period, both Dartmouth and Cornell tested the netminders with a flurry of shots.
Chemago made a few quick saves to deny the Big Red offense, but a shot on a shorthanded breakaway by Kaitlin Doering passed Chemago into the net at 11:22 to give the Big Red a 1-0 lead. Just a few seconds later, a Cornell player scored a goal which was waived off to keep the score knotted at 1-0. Towards the end of the period, Eleni Tebano ’17 had a clear chance to even the scoring, but netminder Paula Voorheis slid to save the attempt. Dartmouth outshot Cornell 14-12 in the first period. In the second period, the Big Green managed to take 9 shots but was unable to find the back of the net. Cornell came close with Hanna Bunton hitting the right post, but the Green defenders cleared the puck. In the third period, Dartmouth had control of the puck, but Cornell’s defense kept Dartmouth off the board finishing the game at 1-0. Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 had 6 shots, while Laura Stacey ’16 had 4. Chemago had 30 saves to Voorheis’ 28. In terms
of face-offs, Dartmouth won 34 of 61. The Big Red outshot the Big Green 31-28 and kept Cornell 0-4 on the power play while also not capitalizing on any of their own three player advantages. In another tight contest, Dartmouth ended the season on Saturday night with a 1-0 loss to Colgate. “We just couldn’t put the puck in the net versus Cornell and Colgate, and it seemed to be one of the setbacks of our season, not scoring enough,” Ottenbreit said. “We would make opportunities and battle so hard but somehow just couldn’t score.” The Big Green were just unable to find the back of the net, taking 32 shots on goal to Colgate’s 35, in the first and second period. Dartmouth came close when Lindsey Allen ’16 was at the top of the right circle and hit a slap shot which hit the pipe. Kate Landers ’19 was close to the rebound and took a few rebound shots, but netminder Ashlynne Rando was able to get ahold of the puck.
Allen and Stacey came close on a number of opportunities could not sink the puck. In the third period, the Big Green were two players down but was able to cope with Colgate’s power play. A few minutes later, Colgate managed to get on the board when Bailey Larson took a shot and Breanne WilsonBennett scored from close range on the rebound to give Colgate the 1-0 lead. Colgate had another chance with a few minutes remaining in the third period with Honor coming up with a big save to deny Shelby Perry a breakaway goal after going past the defense. In net, Honor started her third game, stopping 34 shots. “Christie had a really good game and she started a couple games earlier in the season to get her confidence up,” Hudak said. “It was a little shaky at the beginning and in the past couple of weeks, but she has been competing well in practice and has been doing well. She did a great job and it helps her confidence.”
Reflecting on the season, Allen said that despite unfavorable outcomes, she never lost belief in her team. “The season didn’t go how we had planned, but we stuck together and played as a team,”Allen said. “There was never a time when we didn’t believe in one another or didn’t believe we could do it. Unfortunately, we weren’t as successful as we had hoped, but I can’t speak highly enough of my class, this team, and Dartmouth women’s ice hockey.” Hudak said the leadership of the seniors helped keep the team together and working hard. “This class has been really impactful, and they are certainly disappointed with the outcome on the ice this year,” Hudak said. “Given the year we had, without their leadership, we could have fallen apart.” Hudak announced his retirement on Monday after serving as the head coach for 13 years of his 18 with the program.