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Students organize in support of 2016 candidates

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Prouty raises more than $3.15 million

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As 2016 presidential election season begins to roll into high gear, New Hampshire is becoming a hotspot for presidential candidates. The Upper Valley has already seen visits from Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley in the last two months, and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders will be in Hanover on July 29. Republican candidate Rand Paul is planning to visit the Upper Valley on July 25.

Outside of the official scheduled visits, students are beginning to assemble campaign organizing groups to support and potentially attract candidates.

Ben Packer ’17, an organizer of Dartmouth’s branch of the College Students for Bernie Sanders movement, said that their first meeting, which occurred last Thursday, was a “success,” with 20 to 30 people in attendance.

Packer and other Sanders supporters gauged student interest by asking around and emailing out to campus, Packer said. He added that the group has many goals, including fundraising, campaigning and creating an online presence. The group has been in touch with the New Hampshire field organizer for Sanders, and they plan to campaign in different parts of the state as well as on campus.

“We are going to try and do it all,” Packer said.

Packer and other organizers contacted an organization called College Students for Bernie Sanders

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Norris Cotton Cancer Center executive director Jean Brown said the event raised more than $3.15 million.

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More than 5,000 people gathered to participate and volunteer for the 34th annual Prouty on Saturday, Norris Cotton Cancer Center executive director Jean Brown said.

The event raised more than $3.15 million for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, which is still continuing to receive donations.

This number is a significant

increase from last year’s $2.6 million.

Participants could walk, bike, row or golf this year as well as virtually participate via the Prouty website.

People from 38 different states gathered along with several people from the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities, Brown said, adding that the weather was ideal for the occasion. The College’s Greek organizations played a prominent role in the Prouty’s

success, she said.

Kevin Zhang ’17, a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, served as the volunteer coordinator for all Greek organizations, matching members of different organizations to the volunteer opportunities laid out by the Prouty’s organizers.

“I think we did a great job,” Zhang said. “Dartmouth students participated in 173 volunteer opportunities and contributed over 500 hours SEE PROUTY PAGE 5

Collis pilots new farm stand program

By Brendan apoo The Dartmouth

Unlike in years past, missing the Hanover Farmer’s Market will no longer ruin your week. This summer, the Dartmouth Sustainability Program and Dartmouth Dining Services have teamed up to offer students an opportunity to buy fresh, local produce on campus.

Held at Collis Center on Fridays between 3 and

5 p.m., Collis’ new organic farm stand allows students to purchase seasonal produce supplied by a host of local farms, including Edgewater Far m, Blythedale Farm, Neighborly Farm and the College’s own organic farm.

The farm stand features a variety of different items including an assortment of green produce, dairy products and cured meats. Any remaining produce is later incorporated in the meals

offered at the Class of 1953 Commons, DDS associate manager Don Reed said.

Rather than paying out of pocket, students are able to use their DBA to make purchases at the farm stand, which may be an option for those who prefer to cook for themselves.

Currently, there is a trial group of 30 students who have offered to allocate a portion of their DBA to purchase foods from the farm stand. The Sustain-

ability Office will survey this sample group throughout the summer to see where it can improve and gauge whether or not the program is a viable long-term option.

The organic farm stand has been in the works for over a year now, Reed said, adding that the idea for the project was proposed last summer. Lucia Pohlman ’15, who wrote a thesis on community-supported agriculture during her senior year, was a major factor in

the farm stand becoming a reality, he said.

Pohlman said that her environmental studies thesis examined agricultural systems and the benefits of involving the community in local agriculture. With the help of the sustainability office and DDS, she came up with the idea of piloting the farm stand.

“There was a good response initially from the draft that we had,” Reed said. “We tweaked it a little SEE FARM STAND PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Controversy at the Co-op Food Store over the past year will come to a head this later this month. Lebanon Food Store employees are scheduled to vote on whether to unionize under the United Food and Commercial Workers branch based in Springfield, Massachusetts. The vote comes amid multiple labor disputes at the store. The Valley News reported that about 110 of the 140 employees at the Lebanon location will be eligible to vote on whether to form a bargaining unit to represent the interest of both part-time and full-time workers, which could offer protection from New Hampshire’s “at will” policy for terminating employees. The Lebanon branch is the only subunit of the Co-op that is voting on whether to join the Massachussetts-based union.

A Canaan town administrator ordered a municipal employee to stop flying a small Confederate flag from his pickup truck while on town property, the Valley News reported. Transfer station manager J.R. Defosse said he attached the rebel battle flag to his truck to protest the South Carolina Legislature’s recent decision to remove the standard from outside the capitol building in Columbia, South Carolina. A resident then filed a complaint after seeing the mounted flag. Defosse has since removed the flag from his personal vehicle. Town Administrator Mike Samson said that three years ago, a town employee was reprimanded after ignoring repeated requests not to make political displays, and is no longer on the job.

This past Monday, three young children set fire to a Bradford, Vermont home, causing an estimated $200,000 damage according to state fire investigators. To previous chief of police and fireman Robert Nutting, however, this experience was not just a run-of-the-mill fire, because the burned home was his own. Nutting looks toward the future optimistically, but said that he recognizes the disaster will affect his life in myriad ways.

Many local men and women have reached out to Nutting — a well-respected community member — with words of support and kindness. Previously, among other occupations, he was a sewer and water commissioner, boardmember of an agency seeking to address poverty and a fire warden. Detective sergeant Maurice Lamothe said that the children were not seeking to cause any damage.

New farm stand features local agriculture FROM FARM STAND PAGE 1

bit, and we decided to go for it.”

The project aims to educate students about food and bring awareness to the sustainability

“I think that this exposes students to what the sustainability office is doing at the farm... and [to the] locovore movement.”

-Sustainability program director jenna musco

program at the College. Additionally, it allows local farmers to establish new markets in the Dartmouth community.

“I think that this exposes students to what the sustainability office is doing at the farm, and it exposes students to the sustainability and locovore movement

broadly so, after Dartmouth, they become good consumers for our economy,” sustainability program manager Jenna Musco said.

Reaching out to some of the local farms was not as difficult thanks to the help of broadline distributors, Reed said. These intermediary companies allow local farmers to interact with consumers they are normally unable to contact. The farmers ship their produce to the company, which then in turn ships the product directly to the food service operator.

Then, the food service operators sell the product to consumers.

Using the packaging codes on the products, students are able to track the origin of their food.

They can scan the codes with their phones and receive information about the farm that produced their food, Reed said.

“Each of their products will have a QR code that you can scan with your phone,” Reed said. “You would then get information about the food, where it is from, a little bit about the history of the farm.”

Though it is still early in the term, the farm stand has been well-received, he said. During its

first week, the stand completely sold out of some of its products, prompting the staff to increase its inventory for the upcoming weeks.

The staff intends to survey their customers later in the term

“Each of their products will have a QR code that you can scan with your phone.”

-Dartmouth dining services associate manager don reed

to see if any other changes can be made to improve the success of the pilot.

If the pilot is successful, the farm stand may return in the fall, Musco said, although seasonal changes in available agriculture may influence which terms the farm stand will operate.

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The Collis Farm Stand sold out of many items within its first hour, leading managers to increase inventory.

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Students organize support for 2016 presidential candidates FROM STUDENTS CAMPAIGN PAGE 1

and have set up a chapter at the College. The organization provides resources for student groups who wish to become a part of the movement and connects chapters to the Sanders’ campaign team.

Sanders has called for a student movement, Packer said, adding that he and other students are recognizing and responding to that call. Packer said that this is probably the largest-scale grassroots campaign that American politics has witnessed in a while.

Students have also organized groups supporting Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, College Republicans president Michelle Knesbach ’17 said. Knesbach added that in the next month, student groups supporting all the major candidates will have formed.

These groups will also aim to raise awareness about candidates and host events to spread information, though these student groups will not be doing any fundraising for the candidates, Knesbach said.

Brian Chen ’17, an organizer of the student group supporting Rand Paul, is organizing a trip to West Lebanon to see Paul on July 25.

Chen said that he expects this event to be “over capacity”, especially because the event falls on Sophomore Family Weekend, and some students plan to bring their parents.

Packer said that the ter m “movement” is especially important in defining how he and other students aim to support Sanders.

“Bernie Sanders knows that because of how much influence corporations have in the political process, no candidate that opposes the interests of the business class will get elected, unless there is a large scale grassroots movement,” he said.

This large-scale grassroots movement aims to revitalize and catalyze the student movement and labor movement into action, Packer said, adding that he thinks doing so is a goal not only of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, but also important for the long term even if Sanders does not win the election.

“The connections that are established throughout this campaign — among workers, between workers, among low income [citizens], between low income [citizens] and students, between people who are worried about climate change and all of the other aforementioned categories — those connections will last, and that’s not something that goes away easily,” Packer said. “We are trying to build a movement that can lose an election and keep going. So this is just as much about building a movement around a set of issues that are neglected in American politics as much as it is getting this candidate elected.”

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came to Hanover July 3 for a grassroots campaign event.

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Contributing Columnist Paul Harary ‘18

Contributing Columnist Julia Ceraolo ‘15

Grounds for Cooperration

Twitter As Gesture

The Iran nuclear accord is a step in the right direction for the U.S. and Iran.

The recent nuclear accord struck between the P5+1 and Iran, the result of over 20 months of intense negotiation, is clearly a win-win. The deal not only promises to bring greater stability to a tumultuous Middle East, but also, perhaps more importantly, marks a shift in the historically adversarial relationship between the United States and Iran. Although there is still significant tension between the two nations, it sets a precedent for cooperation and compromise.

Iran stands to make tremendous economic gains as a consequence of the lifting of international trade sanctions, particularly the ban on crude oil exports. There is also expected to be a notable humanitarian impact, as Iran’s new access to international payment systems will facilitate the import of drugs and medical equipment. Additionally, the anticipated influx of foreign investment into the automobile, oil and hotel sectors will grow infrastructure and provide employment opportunities. The response in Iran to the news of the nuclear accord was overwhelmingly positive, with youths storming the streets to celebrate. President Barack Obama’s statement from the Rose Garden, in which he described the terms of the deal, was broadcast on televisions throughout the country. The younger generation of Iranians, particularly those hoping to study and travel abroad, took to social media to sound off in support of the agreement.

On the other hand, the United States has certainly accomplished its main objective: ensure that Iran does not achieve nuclear capabilities in the immediate future. While the deal is by no means a be-all-end-all solution, it does put into place numerous safeguards against a nuclear Iran for at least the next decade. These include the reduction of Iranian centrifuges, used to enrich uranium, by two-thirds, as well as the continuous surveillance of Iranian nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency. There are also provisions for a “long-term presence in Iran” and ongoing communication between United Nations and Iranian representatives to ensure that the deal is not violated.

In the face of all these advantages, it at first might seem surprising that the nuclear deal is fac-

ing such stringent opposition. Many presidential hopefuls, however, are taking advantage of the opportunity for political posturing and claiming that the agreement does little to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities in the long-term. In addition, there are serious concerns in congress that the lifting of sanctions will bolster terrorist activity in the region.

Some vocal critics of the deal have raised objections regarding the threat of a richer, more powerful Iran. “Iran will receive billions in sanctions relief, a windfall to pursue its aggressive destabilizing agenda in the region and beyond” Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said.

This viewpoint, that keeping the Iranian people poor and cut off from economic and educational opportunities is in the best interest of the U.S., flies in the face of recent history. It is when the standard of living is kept low and the potential for social mobility smothered that countries are the most volatile and susceptible to extremism.

A clear example of this can be seen in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Afghanistan was left in chaos without the necessary foreign aid and investment to help the nation rebuild. The U.S. supplied billions of dollars in arms to the Mujahideen militants during their fight to expel the Soviet invaders, but was unwilling to spend even a fraction of that amount to support the 3.3 million Afghan refugees. Many blame this attitude for the rise of the Taliban and the prevalence of violent terrorist groups. So rather than fear a more developed and educated Iran, Americans should see the deal as helping bring Iranians into modern society, away from an atmosphere that is conducive to extremism and terrorist organizations.

It will be through compromise and peaceful collaboration that anti-American sentiment is reduced in the Middle East. By opening channels of communication and allowing Iran to participate in the international forum, the U.S. and its partners will begin to repair an antagonistic relationship. Although it certainly will not occur overnight, it is imperative to pass the nuclear arms accord in order to start this process.

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Twitter’s character limit can have dangerous consequences for users.

The cascade of pithy, snarky remarks one often finds on Twitter is unmatched in the social media world. Because the website accommodates and encourages the proliferation of rapid-fire, bite-sized posts, it allows the Twitter community to develop an enormous performative distance between themselves and their tweets. Consider then what accounts for the grossly disproportionate public backlash to poorly-considered tweets that go viral. The importance of the implications surrounding Twitter’s 140-character limit cannot be overstated.

Scholar Brian Rotman, a mathematician and philosopher whose research explores the semiotics of math, says that people regularly, and perhaps not surprisingly, think of math as rigid and structural, removed from the material world. Yet they disregard the materiality and corporeality necessary for such “structures” to exist in the first place.

Diagrams are effectively dismissed as “psychological props.” What’s forgotten, and what must be recognized, is that diagrams are “frozen gestures.”

The numbered rigidity involved in creating a tweet makes the writing process a mathematical one to the extent that the words are similarly dismissed as props, standing for their respective structures of signification in the public consciousness. Of course, any kind of honest discourse on Twitter is largely an illusion — each time someone tweets, there are entire swaths of details and context which can never fit into the allotted character count. And sometimes the comprehension of that context means the difference between an innocuous, stupid, unfunny tweet and a viral, life-changing one.

Thirty-year-old Justine Sacco, then-senior director of corporate communications at major media and internet company IAC, was traveling in 2013 between South Africa, London and New York. Between flights she fired off tweets like: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding.

I’m white!” The Twitter community exploded.

Sacco was quickly fired from her position. Then she was shunned by future employers and faced with violent threats online. She claimed to have been thinking about ways to ironically make fun of white privilege and ignorance. Unfortunately,

her sarcasm was not apparent. Instead, she just sounded like a one-dimensional racist, simply quoting other racists before her. The magnitude of this incident in the Twitter community — and Sacco’s own life — is not a matter of Sacco’s writing ability so much as Twitter’s structural flaws that enable such a miscommunication.

The website allows us to forget the dangers of over-coding our language. It encourages us to forget that our tweets are gestural by nature. As Rotman writes, gesture is “exterior to anything prior to its own performance.” Those thoughts that generated Sacco’s tweets were exterior the racist connotations of her tweet — when she sent the tweet, she did not believe that it would be such an error. Indeed, afterwards she said she thought no one could possibly think she’d say those things in seriousness. This thought, however, was likely unconscious — it was, rather, something automatic: a gesture. “The gesture is not referential,” Rotman asserts. It is not created as the product of analysis. Sacco clearly didn’t think about the likelihood of failure to communicate. Instead she seemed to rest comfortably under the assumption that she was wading into a warm pool of nodding retweets and favorites. This assumption couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Twitter records thoughts — or half-thoughts — at an overwhelming pace. Its vast volume of posts belies the way it minimizes each one into a soundbite and disconnects human beings from their tweets. It’s often difficult to read irony in a curt little tweet because it’s restricted to one dimension. There’s no instant clarification before biases and emotions get in the way. The reader is as automatically caught up in the process of interpretation as the tweeter is in the process of tweeting.

Even if you are in that rare position of feeling you have enough time to think, often the nature of the touch-screened tweet is too provocative to think clearly outside of it, to conceive of it as an entity, only moments old, in relation to a real person who spent three seconds writing it. You’re aware that a real person did it, but in that moment you forget what it is to be “real” in the first place — which is to say, deeply flawed and sometimes irrational.

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Theta Delta Chi, Kappa Delta Epsilon raise large sums for Prouty FROM PROUTY PAGE 1

of service over the course of three days.”

Theta Delta Chi fraternity raised the most money, with a total of $26,760, according to the Prouty website.

Members of Theta Delt began raising money for the Prouty several months in advance, organization president James Brown ’17 said. A family member of a student in the Class of 2013 in Theta Delt was affected by cancer, so the members raised more than $50,000 for that year’s Prouty. Since then, the Prouty has meant a lot to the house, Brown said, adding that this year, a few members’ parents got their employers to match their donations.

Members of Theta Delt were not the only ones who raised a significant amount of money for the event. Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority philantrophy chair Edom Wessenyeleh ’17 also provided sisters with information regarding the Prouty for several months prior.

Forty-seven members of the house participated, and seven of them chose to take part in the 100mile bike ride, Wessenyeleh said. To make that possible, she encouraged members to reach out to friends and

family for donations.

The sisters of KDE raised the second highest amount, which totaled more than $12,500.

Members of other houses also had creative ways of raising money for the Prouty this year. The sisters of Alpha Phi sorority held a “Popsicles for Prouty” sale, which aimed to provide some relief from the summer heat. The sale raised money that was distributed to the more than 50 APhi members who participated in the Prouty.

“I’m very proud of my sorority as well as the other Greek houses,” philanthropy chair Lauren Gruffi ’17 said. “I was very impressed by the Dartmouth community for coming together and supporting such a worthy cause.”

APhi had close to 100 percent participation in the Prouty this year, with more than 50 girls either biking or walking on Saturday, Gruffi said.

They emailed friends, family and alumnae, and also spread awareness by posting on social media sites such as Facebook, she said.

Sigma Delta sorority sold Proutythemed sports bras for $20 with the slogan “D Supports,” and Alpha Xi Delta sorority held grilled cheese sales to help support its members’ participation.

Brown said that the money raised by the Prouty has a significant impact on cancer research. The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is one of 41 National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centers in the country and is the only one in all of northern New England, Brown said.

Brown said that the Prouty al-

lows the Upper Valley community to unite to fight cancer.

“Everybody is touched by cancer,” she said.

The event is considered a “low dollar, high volume” event, which means that a large number of people jointly raise small amounts of money to contribute to a significant total sum, she said.

The Prouty began in 1982 in honor of Audrey Prouty, a cancer patient who fought ovarian cancer for nine years, Brown said. Prouty developed a close bond with her nurses, and after her passing the nurses wanted to honor her. They decided to bike 100 miles in the White Mountains to raise money for other cancer patients.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

Scenes of summer refreshment

TODAY All Day “Design it! Build it!” Summer engineering workshop for students entering grades 11 and 12, Thayer School of Engineering

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“Pitch Perfect 2” (2015), film screening, Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

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“Tangerines” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

TOMORROW 2:00 p.m.

“Water Ways: Tension and Flow”, special tour, Hood Museum of Art

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“Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015), film screening, Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

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“Gemma Bovery” (2014), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

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Q & A With Dartmouth Film Society Director Hallie huffaKer

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The Dartmouth Film Society, which chooses and oversees many of the films screened at the Hopkins Center, has two main programs: the Hop Film Program, which screens a variety of films, and the Dartmouth film series. The latter screens films that follow a predetermined theme, including time periods, genres, or nationalities. The Dartmouth sat down with Johanna Evans ’10, director of the Dartmouth Film Society, to find out more about the society and its summer programming.

How did you first get involved with the Dartmouth Film Society?

JE: I was a member of the film society when I was an undergraduate and then when I moved back into the area, the Hop film office was looking for someone to fill in.

Now here I am a couple of years later, and I feel like I’ve gotten a little more of a lay of the land.

Mostly my job is organizing the DFS meetings and leading the discussion group and then helping with some of the nuts and bolts of getting the films on the screen.

What kind of programming does the DFS do?

JE: So there are two sets of programs within the Hop film office.

There’s the DFS series, which the film society votes on. We choose the theme and the person who proposes the series works with us to curate the films and specify what the theme is. This term the theme is “take me seriously,” and it is about comedians in serious roles.

So there was some work back and forth about how serious the serious films should be or whether there could be a little bit of a comic thing and which actors are considered real comics versus actors who just happen to be in funny movies.

The Hop film program is usually made up of new releases; we get the films usually about 6-8 weeks after they’ve played in theaters, and it is a mix of foreign films we think people would be interested in, Indies, some blockbusters, especially in the summer and film specials, which run the gamut.

We have “The Sound of Music” (1965) this term. We always tried to do some restored classic. And Ken Burns was here last weekend.

It was really wonderful.

How does the film voting process happen?

JE: At the end of the summer term we will be voting on the series for the winter. It happens two quarters before. This is interesting because there are fewer students here in

the summer, but winter is one of our biggest, most important terms since it’s Academy Awards season, so the voting process is pretty interesting. We usually have a core group of about 12 to 15 directorate members, mostly students but some community members. We’ve

If you see a film that you feel really passionate about, you can just drop in for that meeting, eat dinner with us and say your two cents about the film.”

- Johanna Evans ‘10 got one community member who has been coming to DFS films for decades and hasn’t missed a single one.

Do students need to be on the directorate to vote?

JE: It’s very easy to get on the directorate. All you need to do is write two sets of film notes during the year and come to a majority of society meetings each term, and then you maintain your directorate status. Writing film notes is kind of cool, I’m going through the archives now of all the notes that have been written since 1960-something, and it’s cool to see how people’s perspectives on films change.

Can you tell us about the past film series’ themes?

JE: During the course of the year we try to cover several different territories. Last fall we had a series on the “long take,” which is a filmmaking technique where a shot lasts more than two to three minutes. So we did a whole series on long takes in cinema, which was fun because it was a lot of different kinds of films, but all using the same technique, and the films were noted specifically for that. In the winter we did a series on strong female characters in film and in the spring we did coming of age around the world. So we tried to cover everything from specific filmmaking techniques to genre to issues that are important to us. We did the women’s series because there are starting to be more powerful female characters on screen, but still most of the films are made by men for men, so it was an issue that was important to us in the office to show strong female characters, and it happened that a lot of the Oscar films featured strong female characters, so we got to do that too and that was great.

And then this summer, looking at an acting technique as opposed to filmmaking specifically. A lot of it was the buzz related to Steve Carrell in “Foxcatcher” (2014) and we thought people would want to see others doing the same thing.

What are the film society discussions like?

JE: It’s not like once you walk into a film society meeting we expect you to come for the rest of your life. If you see a film that you feel really passionate about, you can just drop in for that meeting, eat dinner with us and say your two cents about the film you saw. We

“It is a lot easier to access film, so now it’s not because you can’t get the content any other way, it’s often because you actually want to.” now devote a couple of minutes at the end of every meeting to talk about television.

How has the film society evolved?

JE: Before, it was so difficult to get films that the only way you could actually see anything was through film societies, because you could not get videocassettes. You had to say “Hey, we’re going to rent that print of ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939) for everybody,’ you couldn’t just rent it from the Jones Media Center or stream it. So, it’s kind of interesting in this modern age where it is a lot easier to access film, so now it’s not because you can’t get the content any other way, it’s often because you want to see it in

a theater with an audience. And there are some films where it might not matter as much, but we had a sneak screening of “Trainwreck” (2015) last term, and we had a sneak screening of “Minions” (2015) at the beginning of this term, and it’s a huge difference to see comedies like that with the right audience. Like seeing “Minions” with hundreds of little children is a great experience, it gives you a difference experience then watching it alone on your laptop.

Do you have a particular film that you are excited about as part of the series for this summer?

JE: People probably haven’t heard of this film, but everyone should go and watch the trailer for “Roar” (1981). It’s this film from the [1980s] with Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith, and they’re living with a menagerie of like one hundred lions and tigers. It’s described as the “most dangerous film ever made,” and “no animals were harmed in the making of this film but 70 cast and crew were,” and it’s just going to be so wild.

It’s kind of a B movie, it’s not lauded for its work as a film, but it’s going to be so much fun to see it with a crowd because it’s going to be so outrageously violent. But the trailer really sells it, so I think that students would really like it.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Johanna Evans ‘10 is the Director of the Dartmouth Film Society, and talks about her experiences in her position and her favorite films this summer.

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Rumley ’15 prepares for coaching role Three golf players named All-American scholars B y CHANELLE QI

The Dartmouth Staff

A self-described late bloomer, Kristen Rumley ’15 never imagined pitching in college. After initially starting her athletic career in soccer, Rumley switched over to softball at the age of seven and fell in love with a sport that would be deeply ingrained in the next decade and a half of her life.

The first few years of Rumley’s softball career were rocky, but after working with her father and switching to first base, Rumley improved quickly and her passion for softball grew.

Never one to shy away from trying new things, however, Rumley knew she wanted to try pitching in middle school. Challenged by her father to spin the ball every morning before school, Rumley demonstrated her focus and drive by waking up early and doing so for six months.

Entering high school, the Houston native exceeded at her sport. In addition to being named second-team all-state as a junior, Rumley helped her team clinch the district championship in 2008 and 2010.

After committing to the College the fall of her senior year, Rumley entered the women’s softball team not quite knowing what to expect from the program. Her softball career continued to grow, as she was positioned as starting pitcher her freshman year.

In the same year, Rumley was chosen as the team’s MVP and also garnered an all-Ivy honorable mention. From there, Rumley’s softball career became one for the record books. Two Ivy League championships and three Ivy League Pitcher of the Year designations later, Rumley leaves behind a legacy that will be hard to match.

“I didn’t imagine Dartmouth happening as it happened,” Rumley said.

“We had a great four years and really turned the program around. Being part of that process was amazing.”

A recent graduate, Rumley will continue to contribute to the women’s softball team in her new position of assistant coach in the upcoming 2016 season. The possibility of coaching for the team became a reality for Rumley the winter of her senior year.

“I went through job recruiting, but I still didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do,” Rumley said. “As February rolled around, my coach asked me how the job search was

B y JEHANNA AXELROD The Dartmouth Staff

Courtesy of Kristen Rumley

Kristen Rumley ‘15 will be the softball program’s assistant coach next year.

going. That was when she asked me if I had ever thought of coaching.”

Although Rumley knew that the assistant coaching position would be vacated at the end of her senior year, she had not previously considered coaching.

“I thought about being part of the program and how I loved my experience so much,” she said. “I remember thinking that I’d love to see how the team develops, and I fell in love with the idea.”

Softball head coach Shannon Doepking said in an interview with Dartmouth Sports that Rumley cares deeply and has contributed a lot to the program.

“She was a tremendous pitcher with a wealth of knowledge, and I’m eager to see the impact she will have on our pitching staff,” she said.

Rumley’s former role as team captain for the women’s softball team gave her leadership experience, which she found to be helpful in her transition from player to assistant coach.

“I think my experience of stepping into a leadership role and knowing that I have to become a leader and

know how to work with other players will really help me,” Rumley said.

Rumley’s main goal as assistant coach is simple — continue to improve the women’s softball program.

“I’m going to give the same effort as a coach that I did as a player. I want nothing more than to continue that experience,” Rumley said.

Former teammate Maddie Damore ’17 expressed excitement over Rumley’s new position as assistant coach, noting that Rumley consistently delivered a high degree of effort.

“Personality-wise, she’s laidback in an approachable way,” Damore said.

“She’s a three-time Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, yet she’s still a normal person who works super hard.”

In addition, Damore sees the addition of Rumley to the coaching staff as being especially beneficial to keeping the close team dynamic that permeates the softball team.

“We preach family a lot as a team, and [Rumley] brought so much of that aspect to the table as a player,” she said. “We’re all really excited to see how she grows as a coach.”

Three members of the women’s golf team, Jane Lee ’15, Lily Morrison ’16 and Jessica Kittelberger ’18, were named to the Collegiate Golf All-American Scholar team.

The team, which is compiled by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association, recognizes athletes who perform at a high level both on the course and in the classroom. To be eligible for recognition, golfers must compete in at least 50 percent of the tournaments, have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 and be in good standing with the College.

Kittelberger arrived on campus in the fall knowing that the combination of schoolwork and the time that golf required would be difficult to handle, but she was prepared.

“I had two passions coming into college — academics and athletics,” Kittelberger said. “I balance both of those priorities.”

The GPA requirement for the AllAmerican scholar golf team is one of the highest of any sport. Head coach Alex Kirk said he is unsure as to why this is so, but notes that the higher standard makes the feat all the more impressive.

“I think it’s just a balance of time and commitment,” Kirk said.

Though the Ivy League imposes rules on the number of classes students can miss for athletic commitments, weekend games, matches and tournaments still interfere with work time.

The golf team participates in around 10 tournaments each year, roughly split between the fall and spring seasons, so the golfers are often working from off-campus.

“They’re missing class, and they’re doing the homework on the road, in the hotel rooms or in the lobby,” Kirk said. “There are hurdles to get over.”

The golfers know to use all of their free time wisely, which often means working while on the road.

“The time I was traveling, I’d make sure that even in airplane rides of bus rides I would try to spend enough of my time doing work,” Kittelberger said.

Kittelberger was immediately successful, learning quickly how to excel in both school and athletics. In her first year as a member of the Big Green, Kittelberger competed in seven out

of 10 tournaments and shot an average of 80.5. Her best showing of the year came against Brown University, where she shot a 77 and tied for first with teammate Isabelle Kane ’18.

As for Lee, this was the fourth year she had been successful in achieving a balanced academic and athletic life.

“She’s a model player, model leader and a great person,” Kirk said. This past season, Lee participated in nine tournaments and recorded an average score of 79.2, the lowest on the women’s team.

For Morrison, winning a place on the All-American scholar team is exciting, but not a new experience.

“This is actually my third time, so I won it freshman, sophomore and now junior year,” Morrison said, adding that she nonetheless is very proud and happy about the achievement.

Morrison said that as each year passes, balancing both academics and golf grows increasingly difficult.

“I think time management is a really important factor,” she said. “I definitely make sure that I am getting my school work done in addition to practicing, but I’ve really enjoyed being able to have a sport at Dartmouth because it kind of creates a schedule for you, which I have found is easier.”

Kittelberger, an aspiring environmental studies major, added that taking classes within her general field of interest facilitated her academic success.

Likewise, Morrison said that simply taking classes that she enjoys makes it a lot easier to do well in them.

“I basically just make sure that I get all my work done before tournaments,” she said. “That’s the hardest thing for me, that it’s a full day event basically, and when we’re gone for a weekend we’re normally gone for a three-day tournament so it’s really hard to do school work. I can’t really do that so I make sure that I get it all done beforehand and meet teachers outside of class to get all caught up.”

Morrison said that Lee and Kittelberger are great teammates who have compatible personalities.

“They’re both really hard working, intelligent, smart, caring people that I really love, and I’m really honored to get to be on the team with them,” she said.