The Dartmouth 10/07/2016

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Resume drops double this year over last year

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Collis Center’s genderinclusive bathroom sign stolen

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The Center for Professional Development received more than double the number of fall recruiting applications this year than last, according to figures released by the CPD. A total of 645 students submitted 6,899 applications for the 131 positions offered by 92 employers advertised through the CPD’s online job portal, Dartboard. These numbers only account for applications submitted by the first major resume submission deadline, which was Sept. 25. The second major submission period ends Oct. 10.

Last fall, 398 students submitted a total of 3,143 applications, and 75 employers offered a total of 96 positions. The year before, 384 students submitted 3,354 applications.

Of the 131 positions open for resume submission this fall, 89 were entry-level jobs and 42 were internships. Many of these openings were related to consulting and business analytics.

Noah Grass ’17, one of the co-leaders of Dartmouth Consulting Group, said that consulting draws a lot of students who want a general entryway into business careers.

“Consulting gives students a general skill set that correlates with many different [business career] options,” he said.

Pre-professional organizations on campus such as DCG and Women in Business can provide resources SEE CPD PAGE 5

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The gender-inclusive bathroom sign in Collis has been stolen repeatedly.

By DANIELA ARMAS The Dartmouth

The repeated theft and tearing-down of the Collis Center’s signs designating single-stall bathrooms as gender-inclusive has continued into the fall term, according to Sean Cann ’17 and Thuy Le ’17 and Kelsey Phares ’17, co-chairs of the Collis Governing Board. They brought the issue to public attention in a campus-wide email sent out on Sept. 30.

The CGB chairs first became aware of the problem when Collis maintenance staff noticed the disappearance and damage of numerous signs as they opened the building in the morning.

The incidents, which Cann said began last spring, were originally sporadic. As time passed, however, he said it became evident that students have been targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming students in particular.

While the exact number of signs stolen is unknown, the num-

ber was high enough to prompt Collis staff to order a shipment of replacement signs and add daily inspections of gender-inclusive restrooms to their list of responsibilities.

So far, no perpetrators have been identified. Much of the difficulty in finding an exact perpetrator lies in the fact that people visit Collis so often. Cann and Le explained that the bathrooms commonly targeted are on the first SEE COLLIS PAGE 3

Second property tainted Clery Act data shows

by College’s waste disposal decline in violations

By ALEXA GREEN

The Dartmouth Staff

Contamined groundwater has been found on a second private property in the Hanover area. The contamination is from Rennie Farm, a site the College used as an experimental burial ground for laboratory animal waste in the 1960s and 1970s.

The private property’s

owners have not yet been identified.

The waste from Dartmouth’s Rennie Farm property contains 1,4-dioxane, classified as a probable human carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency. The chemical is following a path north to northeast from the Rennie Farm property. This recent find-

ing was found at a groundmonitoring well, at levels three times the state allotted limit for drinking water. The 1,4-dioxane groundwater standard is three micrograms per liter.

In February, the first contaminated private property was discovered.

Tests of the drinking water well at Richard and Deb SEE WATER PAGE 5

By AMANDA ZHOU The Dartmouth Staff

The College’s annual Security and Fire Safety report showed a decline in the number of reported rapes, drug law violations and liquor law violations. The report gives data on campus crime from the past year.

From 2012 to 2014, the College saw a steady increase in the number of reported rape cases.

In 2015, however, the number of reported rapes decreased.

In 2015, 20 rape cases were reported compared to 48 in 2014.

Prior to 2014, rape cases were categorized as forcible sex offenses.

In 2013, 35 cases of forcible sex offense were reported, compared to 24 in 2012.

The College must release this report each October as a requireSEE CLERY PAGE 3

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Tiro begins selling desserts on campus Iowa State University president Steven Leath apologized to students on Wednesday for using the university airplane on personal trips, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

Leath told the student government that he has learned his lesson and will change his behavior moving forward. Leath damaged a university plane when flying back from a family vacation, and also flew a larger university plane to transport family members to and from an NCAA basketball game.

All 750 members of Harvard University’s dining services staff did not report to work on Wednesday, the first academic-year strike in the institution’s history, the Harvard Crimson reported. The workers decided to strike after a series of negotiations over wages and health care benefits. Harvard officials prepared for the strike by stocking up on frozen food and arranging alternative staffing arrangements.

A machete-wielding man was shot and killed by police officers at the University of Colorado on Wednesday morning, the Chronicle reports. No one besides the man was injured, and it is unclear if he was affiliated with the institution. Campus police spokesperson Scott Proibble said that the suspect was killed after he did not relinquish his weapon.

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error process testing different ingredient amounts and proportions The Dartmouth Staff until they found the best seven For Emmanuel Hui ’17, business potential recipes. From there, is more about social good than it the duo worked with the DEN to conduct taste-tests, eventually is about making money.

With this ethos of social respon- narrowing their recipes to two. sibility in mind, Hui and Dominic After perfecting their recipe, the Filiano ’14 founded Tiro, LLC, team faced a number of bureaua company whose tiramisu-like cratic challenges. After a short seproducts debuted in two flavors ries of meetings and relatively little yesterday at the Courtyard Cafe. At paperwork, Dartmouth Dining least 20 percent of the company’s Services agreed to carry Hui and revenue will be given to a local Filiano’s product — given certain insurance charity.

The company’s “Tiramisu, but without and other requireproduct does not m e n t s seem to fit any es- the bready parts. So were met. tablished food type, it’s also like a pudding.

T h e re a l Hui describes it as But it’s also like a obstacle “tiramisu, but withwas attainout the bready parts. yogurt. But it’s not the i n g s t at e So it’s also like a same type of cheese.” approval, pudding. But it’s also Hui said. like a yogurt. But it’s Due to the not the same type of -EMMANUEL HUI ‘17, product’s cheese.” Its origins TIRO, LLC CO-FOUNDER uniquelie in a botched recn e s s , ipe. Last fall Filiano months attempted to make of backHui’s favorite dessert and-forth for his birthday, but p h o n e did not let it set and calls enmixed up the prosued as portions. The pair t h e s t at e decided to eat this new concoction anyway, and found needed to ensure that the prodit delicious. Hui, with a variety of uct was safe for consumption. entrepreneurial ventures under his After receiving governmental belt, saw this as a opportunity to authorization, the two still lacked further pursue his business inter- a kitchen. After contemplating producing in Manchester, Hui ests.

With ingredients bought at the and Filiano decided to reach out Hanover Co-op, Hui and Filiano to local restaurant owners to find a undertook a painstaking trial-and- kitchen for twice-weekly morning

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production.

Following rejection by several restaurants in town, Hui and Filiano were welcomed by the owner of Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine, Pannipa Pace, who agreed to rent the restaurant’s kitchen from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. twice a week. Tiro has promised the owners a share in the company in the case of expansion.

Although this is the first studentrun food company operating through DDS, Hui notes that plenty of food companies have roots on college campuses, citing Nantucket Nectars (founded by Brown graduates) as an example.

Tiro is permitted to sell anywhere within New Hampshire, and there are several investors lined-up in the case of the company’s success.

While Hui hopes to expand beyond Hanover, the company owes its existence to local support from organizations like DDS and Tuk Tuk. All of its ingredients are locally sourced, with its milk coming from Vermont Creamery, for example. Hanover lawyer Ned Whittington completed Tiro’s legal work free of charge. The charities the company is considering are also local.

Steve Edes, manager of the Courtyard Café, worked with Hui and Filiano through the process of getting their tiramisu cups on the shelves, “They worked hard to get their product out,” Edes said, adding that he is excited about the new selections. He noted that tiramisu cups were well-received by customers on the product’s debut day of sales.

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Collis begins to replace stolen signs Reporting of rapes also down from last year FROM COLLIS PAGE 1

and second floors of the building, the Center’s most populous areas.

Most of the incidents have occurred at night, during Late Night Collis dining hours and Collis After Dark programming hours.

Collis aims to combat the vandalism by reinforcing its role as a safe-haven for students, Cann said.

“It certainly functions as an alternative social space, and people who don’t feel comfortable elsewhere should absolutely feel like they have a place at Collis,” Cann said.

These occurrences are also a reflection of an ongoing national controversy regarding gender inclusive restrooms.

Earlier this year, contention over gender-inclusive restrooms arose in North Carolina after the state passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. In effect, the bill prevents people from using restrooms that do not correspond to their gender at birth. The

bill spawned numerous protests and national debate, prompting states like California to institute policies securing

“People who don’t feel comfortable elsewhere should absolutely feel like they have a place at Collis.”

-SEAN CANN ‘17, COLLIS GOVERNING BOARD COCHAIR

transgender rights. In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill designating all single-stall bathrooms in California as gender-inclusive.

Numerous colleges have taken steps to support gender-nonconforming students as well. Yale University in-

troduced gender-inclusive restrooms to its campus in the spring. In March, Cooper Union in New York City announced that it would convert all of their restrooms into gender-inclusive bathrooms.

Cann reiterated that the goal of Collis is to comfort the affected students and offer support.

The CGB plans to increase social and cultural awareness by supporting programming catered to traditionally marginalized groups. Students can report any incidents they witness to the Bias Incident Response Team, an organization aimed at combating violence targeting students based on race, gender, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation. Reports submitted online are directed to the Judicial Affairs Office, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, and Safety and Security.

The Office of Pluralism and Leadership was unavailable for comment by press time.

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ment in the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990.

Joshua Davis ’18, a member of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said that the committee is currently working on an “exit survey” for survivors to provide feedback on why they choose or did not choose to report the assault. Davis said this survey will hopefully give a more accurate description of the reporting climate on campus.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said a possible explanation for the decrease in reports is increasingly popularity of confidential resources known to

survivors. Confidential resources do not have to report rape cases that go into the Security and Fire Safety.

In 2015, arrests for liquor law violations decreased to 45 from 100 in both 2014 and 2013. In addition, there were 313 disciplinary referrals for liquor law violation in 2015, which Kinne said includes Good Samaritan or medical related calls.

In 2014 and 2013, there were 336 and 243 reports respectively.

Kinne also said that he speculates that the decrease in arrests may be increased student caution due to the hard alcohol ban.

Arrests for drug law violations in 2015 also decreased to nine reports from 21 in 2014 and 22 in 2013.

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Contamination could cause cancer radioactive agents.

“To Dartmouth’s credit, they did Higgins’ home found levels of roughly the initial clean-up of this site sevsix parts per billion of the chemical eral years ago and at that point they — double the state standard of three thought they had done a complete clean up,” Hanover town manager parts per billion.

Even short-term inhalation expo- Julia Griffin said. “They were as sursure to high levels of 1,4-dioxane has prised as anyone else when monitorcaused vertigo, drowsiness, headache, ing wells revealed that, in fact, there anorexia and irritation of the eyes, was this additional chemical that was nose, throat and lungs in humans. still present and migrating off-site.”

Environmental The chemical health and safety is also known “We are working with associate directo increase risks tor Michael Cimis of liver can- state supervision; said that the Colcer and other the New Hampshire lege then immeliver-related [Department of Envidiately provided diseases. bottled water as The College ronmental Services] well as an on-site has monitored supervises and guides filtration system the groundwathat is working to ter surround- all of our work.” remove the coni n g Re n n i e taminant.

Fa r m s i n c e -MICHAEL CIMIS, ENVIHowever, on its 2012 due to website, environthe presence of RONMENTAL HEALTH AND mental health and buried lab ani- SAFETY ASSOCIATE DIRECsafety describes mals, human 1,4-dioxane as tissue, fetuses TOR highly soluble in and radioacwater. Based on tive materials used for research. Clym Environ- the soil and groundwater collected, mental Services, the company hired the remaining 1,4-dioxane at the site

by Dartmouth to excavate Rennie may be dissolved in groundwater Farm, reported finding rusted cans located within the soil and fractured filled with “purple-colored liquid with rock, and removal of soil alone will strong solvent odor” that had leaked likely not remove all of the residual into the ground and discolored the 1,4-dioxane.

“The College is working as fast as groundwater “with a purple sheen.”

The report details evidence of broken they can. We are working with state bottles, rusted metal cans, syringes supervision; the New Hampshire and lab waste. Additionally, the soil [Department of Environmental was thought to contain long-lived Services] supervises and guides all FROM WATER PAGE 1

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of our work,” Cimis said.

He added that Dartmouth is now focusing on working to install a pump and treatment system. The goal of this treatment system is to control potential movement and migration of 1,4-dioxane.

Cimis also said that the College’s groundwater expert as well as a number of different environmental experts are working on the site to identify the path of the moving chemical.

The recent contamination finding was not surprising due to issues associated groundwater movement and elevation, moving down gradient into the north-northeast, Cimis said.

The environmental cleanup is under the jurisdiction of the N.H. Department of Environmental Services, and the town of Hanover is not directly involved, Griffin said.

“We only knew what was going on because we were copied in official communication back from DES to Dartmouth, Griffin said. “We do not have a regulatory role; we are more of a bystander at this point.”

She added that despite this, the town administration is ensuring all written communication between the N.H. Department of Environmental Services and Dartmouth concerning upcoming meetings are placed on the town website for transparency and accountability.

In an email, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote that Dartmouth sent an email to the neighbors outlining new and ongoing remedial action. The email included the addendum to the College’s May 5 work plan, which proposed the installation of additional off-site groundwater monitoring wells.

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Over 6,000 resumes submitted in first round FROM CPD PAGE 1

to help applicants prepare for the recruiting process. In addition to hosting alumni events and providing networking opportunities, they often organize specialized workshops on topics like interviewing.

“I think different organizations pursue different combinations of [such] strategies and generally I think they are pretty helpful,” Grass said, adding that members of certain organizations may gain additional access through exclusive sessions with alumni and other resources.

The CPD hosted its annual Em-

ployer Connections Fair on Sept.

20 and Sept. 21. The fair featured over 100 employers from industries including financial services, government, communications, consulting and technology. Over 1,000 students attended the fair, which was open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Interviews following the first round of resume submissions have already begun, and will run through early November. The CPD will continue to hold recruiting events throughout fall term.

Noah Grass is a former member of The Dartmouth business staff.

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STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19

Housing Not Houses

Not Just a Bowl of Skittles

The College needs to focus on adequate housing for everyone.

Most Dartmouth students were introduced to the new house community structures, or “centers,” when they arrived on campus this fall. The new buildings, one of which is located behind Gile Hall and the other behind the tennis courts next to the Alumni Gym, are a product of the new house community system implemented earlier this year as a part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative. The building by Gile, a wooden, two-story structure, is meant for School and Allen Houses, while the other is meant for South and North Park Houses. Both buildings were designed to be temporary spaces where students from those houses — and others, if they so please — can talk, work and create a social environment all their own. It is commendable that the administration is trying to provide social spaces for a student body that has had limited access to alternative options.

This focus on funneling resources and time into the house community system, however, seems like an empty gesture when there is still so much to be done with the housing system itself.

Whether or not one believes that Dartmouth implementing a house community system was the right move is a moot point; what’s done is done. The students have been sorted, the signs painted and the scarves distributed. However, the massive focus on and expenditure involved in implementing some parts of the new house system seems ridiculous when the housing system itself is in such dire need of repair. Yet despite the many needs of our ailing housing system, the administration still saw fit to spend considerable time and resources constructing social spaces in a half-hearted attempt to promote house unity.

Instead of focusing on creating cohesive bonds tied to dull house names and colors, perhaps the administration should focus on the fact that a large part of our first-year population has to live in buildings that are widely considered to be sub-standard. Anyone who lives in or has visited the Choates or the River clusters could tell you that they aren’t quite representative of the ideal of the College on the Hill. From plumbing to heating issues to literal black mold, these buildings simply

do not meet the standards that a Dartmouth student should expect. The administration has consistently denied that the levels of black mold in the River are dangerous; but it is also widely known that a freshman hoping to avoid the River could do so by obtaining a doctor’s note saying they are allergic to mold.

Not every dorm experience can be equal, but a disparity in living conditions shouldn’t be this glaring.

Spaces like those that the new house community centers provide are important, but they fall below “decent living conditions” on the hierarchy of needs. One might argue that these buildings are meant to be temporary, and that surely an improvement in living conditions will come before any serious community building projects. Dartmouth’s precedent, however, is not very reassuring. There are other buildings at Dartmouth that were originally intended to only be used temporarily: the Choates, the River and the Lodge. At the time, they were regarded as quick fixes, meant to house a surging student population until a better, permanent solution could be implemented. However, as the administration continuously implements “temporary solutions” to tackle new and different problems, it seems to forget the critical issues that were only meant to be tabled until later.

This is not a cry for a total halt on all activities related to the housing communities, nor is it a call for the Choates, River and Lodge to be torn down and reconstructed in McLaughlin’s image. However, it is not unreasonable to note that some of the considerable funds that were used on these new buildings may have been put to better use on improving housing. Think of all the improvements that could be made if the College took the money they spent on these house community centers and instead worked on renovating the River cluster over a summer. There are other spaces for students to socialize, work and feel comfortable. If the administration wants to show that it cares about its students, the best way to do so would be to take care of their most basic needs first.

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There’s a tradition of damaging rhetoric when it comes to refugees.

Donald Trump’s son recently faced criticism for a tweet that compared Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles. Accompanied by a graphic of a bowl filled with Skittles, Donald Trump Jr. wrote, “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful?” Most of the American public found that this image was offensive, trivializing the hardships of refugees and demonstrating a lack of sympathy. After deleting the tweet, Trump Jr. called his post a metaphor for “risk and probability” — but this doesn’t make the image any less problematic.

First of all, his probability metaphor is inaccurate: one would need an Olympicsized swimming pool full of Skittles to find three bad ones, according to CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Trump Jr. also said that people, presumably English majors like myself who unpack metaphors for a living, “look for a subtext that doesn’t exist.” But unfortunately for Trump Jr., subtext does not have to be intended in order for it to be present.

Not only are Skittles an already politically charged symbol, but food metaphors have been used historically to make sense of American heterogeneity.

When I was in elementary school, my class had to sing a song about the great American melting pot. According to the song, a diverse set of people live harmoniously in America, and the United States embraces immigrants with open arms. Neither seems to be the case now.

During the presidential debate last week, Lester Holt asked Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump how they would “heal the racial divide.” Trump has continued to use discriminatory rhetoric to discourage immigration, and the “birther” conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama has reemerged. In my little elementary school bubble, the idea of the melting pot still seemed plausible and pleasant. After all, many members of my extended family are immigrants who come from various parts of the world, including Vietnam, Jamaica and Colombia. I attended a high school with a large Asian demographic and attended writing workshops in Los Angeles that attracted an even more racially diverse participant group.

But like Trump Jr.’s tweet, the melting pot metaphor grossly reduces political issues and masks political tension and tragedy. The melting pot analogy, which has been re-appropriated to symbolize American unity, contains an ominous subtext. The term comes from Israel Zangwill’s play of the same name; it implied assimilation and, as The New York Times then described, a “mysterious force which blends all foreign elements in one homogeneous mass.” The term was employed to encourage a specific kind of unity. In other words, it arose out of racial fears and an attempt to force immigrants to assimilate to supposed American ideals and culture.

Trump Jr.’s analogy works much in the same way, reducing complex political is-

sues to a mere symbol. This takes out any historical, political and emotional contexts.

The Skittles analogy is even more dangerous than the melting pot analogy because it explicitly demonstrates, and therefore normalizes, fear of difference. Whereas the melting pot metaphor contains antiimmigrant, pro-homogeneity subtext, the Skittles analogy makes paranoia acceptable. The analogy suggests several fears.

First, the use of colorful candy hints at a fear of people of color. The bowl filled with Skittles connotes a fear of masses, which is another age-old fear that dates back to the panic caused by labor unions and other groups that changed the status quo. Third, there is a fear of infection from outside, unknown forces. Why should we fear a rogue, “poisonous” refugee any more than we should fear any other rogue, “poisonous” person in the U.S.? Thus, the analogy reflects a fear of outside forces, suggesting that our pure country can be “infected” when encountering differences.

To those who have few interactions with immigrants, refugees or just people of color, I understand why immigration might seem like a mysterious, unknown force. This may be one reason why Trump’s voter base rests in Utah, Nebraska and other inland states that are less racially diverse. People living in less diverse states, or states that do not have refugee support networks, build their knowledge of immigration mostly through information and ideas spread by the media.

When it is difficult to sift through long articles or read detailed facts, Skittles and melting pots are an easy way out of understanding complexity. Food metaphors simplify an issue that, frankly, isn’t simple.

Reducing immigration and the refugee situation to a metaphor means that the public must fill in the blanks for themselves, losing sight of reality and political context.

Trump Jr.’s statement sounds ridiculous, but it’s not the only deceptively fun, delicious metaphor about immigrants and refugees coming to the U.S. For those who find the melting pot metaphor inadequate, like my second grade teacher, a salad bowl better demonstrates the celebration of diversity in America. But none of these food metaphors truly captures what it means to be an immigrant, refugee or person of color in America. The U.S. consists of politically, ideologically and demographically different states and regions. Logically, it may be difficult for people living in Los Angeles to understand the political situation of someone living in Arkansas, and vice versa. While the racial demographics of the U.S. have changed overall, some cities’ demographics have not changed for decades. Much of the regional tension and fear of change is displaced and personified through the refugee crisis. The anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric of the Trump campaign is not an anomaly; rather, it reveals the regional fragmentation of the U.S. running contrary to its long espoused myth of cultural acceptance.

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The Promise is Hope to perform at The Skinny Pancake tonight

By KYLEE SIBILIA The Dartmouth

While most Hanover residents probably know The Skinny Pancake for its crepes, the restaurant also plays host to a burgeoning live music scene, putting on as many as five concerts a week.

Groups who have played at the venue range from acoustic folk, to Cuban jazz, to spiritual Turkish, to indie rock.

Tonight at 7 p.m., The Promise is Hope, a folk/rock group, will perform at the restaurant. The group consists of Ashley and Eric L’Esperance, a married couple from Worcester, Massachusetts who formed the band the day they got engaged.

Since its formation, the band has toured the New England and MidAtlantic regions. Their first album, “Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going,” debuted in April 2015 and

chronicles the two musicians’ experience different genres together, including folk, falling in love. electronic, acoustic and pop.

Ashley L’Esperance said that the Andrew Sun ’18, founder of the impact music can have on its listeners Dartmouth Bluegrass Society, said the group’s style is motivates the uniquely intimate. duo. “ [ M u s i c ] “[Music] can bring can bring a lot a lot of peace and a “I think that’s kind of a cool thing of peace and a about folk music is lot of joy to peo- lot of joy to people. that it really makes ple,” she said. We definitely feel like feel as if you’re “We definitely people need that more you feel like people part of a tiny gathneed that more and more.” ering with these and more.” musicians, even if you’re just listening Ashley and through MP3 or Eric’s last name, -ASHLEY L’ESPERANCE L’Esperance, something,” Sun means “the hope” in French and in- said. spired the name of their group.

Ashley L’Esperance noted that Eric “Our goal is that [our music] brings L’Esperance arranges the music, while people hope,” Ashley L’Esperance said. she mostly crafts the lyrics and melody.

The Promise is Hope blends several “Our strengths really compliment

each other well,” Ashley L’Esperance said.

Ashley and Eric L’Esperance are currently working on the group’s second album, which they hope to release next year. In the wake of several family members’ deaths, the duo is exploring the idea of recovering from tragedy in their songwriting.

“We just had a really bad year,” Ashley L’Esperance said. “And so coming out of that it seems like our music has a connection to talking about death and talking about the stuff you experience going through all that grief.”

The Promise is Hope will perform songs from their first albums, as well as selections from their upcoming album tonight.

Michael Cyr, brand manager for The Skinny Pancake, said that the restaurant hopes to bring a more active music scene to Hanover.

“We’re kind of making a music scene where there wasn’t necessarily a big touring music scene before,” he said. “[The restaurant] is designed to be a community space. Anyone can play there.”

Cyr noted that the restaurant picks acts it thinks will appeal to Dartmouth students. He said that the restaurant is aware of an intention to move social spaces away from Greek life and into the community. Cyr added that Skinny Pancake has begun to have conversations with Dartmouth about sharing bookings and connections.

In the future, Cyr hopes to incorporate the ideas of student groups like the Programming Board into the restaurant’s music selections. Student groups might even have the opportunity to perform at The Skinny Pancake.

“We’ll book pretty much anyone given the right act,” Cyr said.

Alumna Q&A: Guzman-Buchness ’15 makes it in New York

By KRIPA SHRESTHA The Dartmouth

Deby Xiadani Guzman-Buchness ’15, a neuroscience major and theater minor at Dartmouth, is working her way up the performing arts ladder in New York City. While at the College she was involved with Casual Thursday, a shortform improve comedy group. GuzmanBuchness recently finished a production internship with four-time Tony awardwinning Broadway producer Harriet Leve, producer of “Stomp,” “Beautiful: The Carole King musical,” “An American in Paris” and most recently “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” She currently works in New York City as a fitness instructor at Oasis Fitness Club.

She is set to shadow Peter Hackett, director of “Orwell in America,” in the coming months as an assistant director.

“Orwell in America,”originated at Vermont’s Northern Stage, is coming to New York City as an off-Broadway show at East 59 Theaters.

Can you tell us about your current work?

DG: For the past year, I was working for Broadway producer Harriet Leve who was an incredible mentor and role model because she started producing in her mid-30s and I feel like at my age, art can be very daunting as a career field.

But she is living proof that you can start in your mid-30s and be successful.

Can you tell us about your experience at Dartmouth? What did you study? What kind of clubs were you involved in? And how do you think these experiences shaped your interest in your future career?

DG: The biggest thing was that I realized how much I loved entertainment

and comedy and knew I wanted to get into that. So here in the city, I have been able to use that comedy background and try to establish that with other comedic artists. I also feel like the connections I’ve made through Dartmouth have really helped me outside especially in New York City where there are so many of them. In fact, the Harriet Leve producing job that I got was through a Dartmouth alum.

The analogy I would make school to is a ladder where you have these steps to get your major or to go forward, and you are constantly climbing up the ladder and the rungs are already there for you. The arts outside of school is much more like a forest where you’re finding your path so there are no rungs for you but it’s incredibly engaging.

I was really craving that ladder-like structure that I’m used to since kindergarten when I got out of school so I decided to make my own curriculum.

I realized the reason I did reasonably well at Dartmouth was because it was six weeks of intense pouring yourself into your classes, into your studies, into that focus and having a goal at the end of it. So I designed my own six-week curriculum and decided to focus on my performance when I was working with Harriet Leve. I was also rapping and setting up these projects that would be the essay equivalent at Dartmouth. I would set these goals for myself and have one for each week and I was finding that I was extremely successful and was able to learn the most from it.

It was a way to almost make a ladder in a forest or make my own path in the forest. So now I’m performing, in addition to assistant directing, at an open mic which I created myself at a place called Von on Bleaker Street.

Now I’m trying to continue working on my comedy and my rap and looking for an agent — ­ those are the next steps in my curriculum.

Can you elaborate on your comedy and your rap?

DG: I think initially, artists try to do what they know, so a lot of my initial stuff is about who I am and is origin-based. I did Women of Dartmouth my last year and I really appreciated that event because it was one where I was able to share something really personal, but I felt like I was able to make it a little funny, and I was able to illuminate the seriousness of it. So a lot of my rap and content is about the comedy of our origins, the comedy of my origins, specifically, my past, which is about making it funny because why not? I think we are very attracted to people that make us laugh and I really like making people laugh.

I’ve always been a rhymer, and I also make beats on my computer. So I put these rhymes to a beat and they end up being rap. I started my rap initially being very aggressive. I think women are less socially admired when they are aggressive so there’s a little bit of political and social satire in my raps as well. My raps are conscious; I like diving into real-life issues. My art is not going to be for everyone; it doesn’t need to be for everyone. But it gives me such thrill to make art that means something to me and then for it to mean something to someone else. That’s why I’m here!

going to do now?”, to which her answer is, “Do what you love now. And then you will do what you love later.” You will continuously do what you love if you practice doing what you love currently and practice it for the rest of your life.

What’s it like being a ’15 trying to make it in New York?

DG: It is entirely dependent on the type of personality you have. I get such inspiration and energy from people, so in a city of 8.5 million people, I am totally invigorated. It’s not even an issue of do I want to be doing this, the question is how. And I think for anyone coming out of college, the question should not be, “Do I want to be there?” You find a place you want to be, and figure out how you’re going to make it work.

For me, New York is the place I want to be — that’s the first step. While at Dartmouth, I took a term off and lived

on my own in Chicago for three months which prepared me for life after college.

Learning how to create my own budget and working with it was very important.

I was very fortunate because I was a Zumba instructor in college and found a fitness instructing job here in the city.

What I definitely recommend to anyone is, don’t go into just doing something for the money that you don’t like; there are so many jobs that can utilize your specific skill sets. You also have to just tap into that network of people willing to help you, and they will. The biggest thing about being in the city for me is utilizing the support you know you have and realizing that now is the time for you to make the best moves for yourself and to be bold about getting the help you need, which is why I’m trying as hard as I can to be a support for people.

The article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

Who are your inspirations or role models, either in the arts or in general?

DG: Harriet Leve, again, is my biggest role model because she’s shown me that you can be a woman in the arts and be successful. She’s a woman from a middle-income family and is now a high-grossing Broadway producer. She used to work at a travel agency and absolutely changed her career midway in her mid-30s which answers the question, “Do we need to figure out what we’re

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Deby Guzman-Buchness ’15 is directing, producing and rapping in New York.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2016

SPORTS WITH CARL HESLER ’18

By JONATHAN KATZMAN The Dartmouth

After receiving the Booma Award as the men’s hockey team’s rookie of the year two years ago and the Manser Award as the team’s most improved player last year, Carl Hesler ’18 received perhaps one of the biggest honors of his athletic career: being named the 118th team captain in the program’s history.

This week, Jonathan Katzman ’17 sat down with Hesler to discuss his new role, this season’s goals and the team’s first games against Harvard University and the University of Michigan at the end of this month.

To start things out, how will it feel to wear the “C” on your jersey, particularly as a junior?

CH: It’s an incredible honor. We have had so many great players wear it in the past who are great guys. For my coaches and teammates to pick me for that honor is incredible, and I am going to do my best to uphold that and keep what the past captains have started.

Have you spoken to and gotten any advice from past captains Tyler Sikura ’15 and Brad Schierhorn ’16?

CH: Yes, I have actually talked with them a lot. They are two of my really good friends. They are both similar to me because they are not the loudest guys but tend to lead by example on and off the ice. Their main advice for me was just to keep being myself.

How has preseason gone for the team so far?

CH: It has been great; I think we look really good. All 11 freshmen look like they can contribute right away. They are really good players and we are looking forward to having them. It looks like we are starting where we left off last season, looking strong, and the coaches are happy at the moment.

A recent poll predicted Dartmouth will finish ninth in the ECAC this year following the loss of 10 seniors, including forwards Jack Barre ’16 and Brett Patterson ’16 as well as Charles Grant ’16, who was stellar down the stretch. What is the attitude going into this season?

CH: The attitude is that we got picked ninth again, and we are going to play with a chip on our shoulder like last year and try to prove other teams and the polls wrong, and make it back to Lake

Placid. Hopefully we’ll have better fortune there, run for the ECAC championship and more. I think we have the potential to do that, and if we peak at the right time, anything can happen.

What brand of hockey can fans expect from Dartmouth this year?

CH: We are always a really hard working team. We are not always the biggest team and will not be this year. We always just wear teams down; we are very fast, physical, and have many skilled players. Not that we are labeled as a skilled team, but we have a good amount of skill and playmaking ability front and back.

With 11 incoming freshmen and only 10 upperclassmen, it is safe to say the Big Green features a young team. How have you displayed your leadership toward the younger players on the team in order to get them acclimated to college hockey, as well as toward the squad in general?

CH: I think it is important to display leadership right away. The assistant captains, Josh Hartley ’17 and Grant Opperman ’17, have been an unbelievable help. They are great guys and have just as big of a leadership role as I have. We just communicated really well and got to know all of the freshmen early on by doing things like showing them around campus; it was not necessarily all on the ice. I think

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that getting to know individuals early on is key and everybody seems very close so far.

The team plays Michigan, the preseason #11, at home on Oct. 29. Last year, you played a two-game series at Michigan and lost the first game, 7-0, before tying the Wolverines, 1-1, in overtime. Is there a certain excitement that the group has playing a Big Ten team early in the season?

CH: Definitely. There will be a lot of buzz and excitement around it because it is homecoming weekend.

Last year, we played them very hard in the second game in front of a sold out crowd. We are hoping for the same environment this year, and hopefully we can catch Michigan off guard and get off to a strong run. It will be a crazy game, and we will need the fans to be loud.

What are the top three things the team is focusing on?

CH: First is consistency. Last year, we were very consistent in the second half of the year, which led to the amazing run we had, capped by the series at Yale. Next, just get off to a better start. We lost to Harvard in our opener, 7-0, and got off to a rough start against them. The games after that were not much better. We need to get off to a better start and be ready when Michigan comes here.

Last is good chemistry. We made it far because everybody was playing for each other. Everyone was very

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good friends on the team. If we could have that again, it would be incredible and we could make an even better run.

Talk about playing in the ECAC: there are four teams in the conference currently in the NCAA’s preseason top 20 poll, with three others, including Dartmouth, receiving votes.

Describe the challenges of playing top tier competition week in and week out. What do you anticipate Coach Gaudet’s message will be throughout the season?

CH: There are no games off, absolutely none. If you do not come to play one night, whether that would be against Quinnipac or Princeton, you will lose. We have battles with every team and every game is close, and I love that each team you play is amongst the best in the country. It is what we dream about and makes for an exciting season.

What would you like to see the team accomplish this coming season?

CH: First, we want to win an ECAC Championship and earn a bid for the national tournament. I know this hasn’t happened for a while, so it would be cool to create history there and generate a buzz around hockey at Dartmouth, which I think there should be.

This article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

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