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Paganucci program receives Library of Congress $3 million endowment to replace term
‘illegal aliens’ By SONIA QIN
The Dartmouth Staff
OPINION
ALBRECHT: JESUS, TAKE THE VETO PAGE 4
BACH: SOMBRERO PARTY FIASCO PAGE 4
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The Tuck Center for Leadership received a $3 million endowment for the Paganucci Fellows.
By MICHAEL QIAN AND ALEXA GREEN The Dartmouth Staff
Earlier this month, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation permanently endowed the Paganucci Fellows Program with $3 million. The program, which started in 2006 and is directed by the Tuck Center for Leadership, is an undergraduate development initiative that provides students with opportunities
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to participate in immersive learning projects. Paganucci program director Richard McNulty said that while such an endowment would not necessarily shake up the Paganucci Fellowships in the short term, it has potential longer term effects. “When something’s endowed, it increases the gravitas of the program,” McNulty said. “It makes
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While many students spent spring break posting photos of tropical vacations or adventures closer to home, Regina Yan ’19 was clinging to a mountain ledge trying not to get blown away. Her rock-climbing trip in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada with the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club was one of many unconventional trips that Dartmouth students
participated in over the past week. Organizations from the Dartmouth Outing Club to the William Jewett Tucker Center organized trips both within the United States and abroad for a variety of social justice and outdoor-oriented students. Yan said she was introduced to rock climbing during DOC First-Year Trips and “absolutely fell in love with it.” She went on a rockSEE BREAK PAGE 2
us all that much more committed to doing good work, because now the program is forever, and it’s received the attention associated with that.” The most recent cohort of Paganucci fellows, comprised of six students, developed strategies to support the Dandelion Project — an organization that works with SEE TUCK PAGE 5
The Library of Congress will replace the term “illegal aliens” with “noncitizens” and “unauthorized immigrants” in its subject headings, a decision that was announced on March 22. This change, which was initially proposed by Dartmouth’s Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, will lead to a sweep of heading changes for all libraries in the United States and Canada that use records distributed by the Library of Congress. The changes will come into effect no earlier than May 2016. CoFIRED began its grassroots petition for this change in winter 2014, putting forth a petition to the Library of Congress in the summer of 2014. In February of 2015, the Library of Congress posted a public response to the petition on a memo that was made available to all librarians in the internal
system, stating that the petition had not been approved, Cataloging and metadata services librarian at Baker-Berry John DeSantis said. The Library of Congress did not approve the petition initially because the phrase undocumented immigrant is not synonymous with illegal alien. Further, the Policy and Standards Division’s usual sources for establishing legal terminology use illegal aliens. The division chose to keep the established heading and continue to look into the situation. After the rejection, the American Library Association took up the cause and put forward a resolution. In a meeting of higher administration in February, the Library of Congress discussed ALA’s resolution, DeSantis said, adding that the sudden approval of terminolSEE COFIRED PAGE 5
Services offer iPhone repairs
By MEGAN CLYNE
The Dartmouth Staff
An icy sidewalk, a dropped phone, a shattered screen. Many Dartmouth students experience challenges associated with a broken cellphone each term, but new local resources aimed at repairing phones could help. The Dartmouth Computer Store started offering phone repair services last term to students. Theresa Woodward, manager of computer sales and science for Dartmouth’s Information Technology Services, said that there are
currently two technicians certified in phone repairs at the Computer Store. Students with phone issues bring their devices into the shop and will most likely receive their repaired phone the next day, Woodward said. If the issue is extensive, ITS will send the phone to Apple, she said. If this is the case, Woodward indicated that students will receive an interim loaner device that they can use while their actual device is being repaired offsite. Woodward said that the reason that the College decided to provide this service was
because students constantly approached ITS with phone issues. Apple does not typically allow colleges to provide these services, but they agreed to try it out at Dartmouth as a test run, Woodward said. She said she believes it will be a useful tool for students facing technology issues on campus. Erik Nordahl ’16 and Martín Anguita ’16 created a new phone repair service in January — Dartmouth Phone Repairs — after having experienced firsthand the high SEE IPHONE PAGE 3
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DAILY DEBRIEFING In U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of graduate schools, which were released earlier this month, the Tuck School of Business rose from ninth to eighth place among business schools. The Thayer School of Engineering rose from 61st — where it was ranked for the previous two years — to 57th. The Geisel School of Medicine fell in rankings from 37th in research and 29th in primary care last year to 40th in research and 45th in primary care this year. In the fall of 2015, The Economist’s rankings placed Tuck third among business schools behind the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. In these rankings Tuck was placed first both for diversity of recruiters and for student rating of alumni effectiveness. According to Tuck’s website, there have been 69 rankings published since 2000, of which eight have ranked Tuck as the best business school. The school has also placed in the top ten in 81 percent of these rankings. A new study co-authored by College sociology professor Jason Houle has found that black young adults have an average of 68.2 percent more student loan debt than white young adults, Inside Higher Ed reported. Published in the journal Race and Social Problems, the research hypothesizes that this gap is rooted in the greater average wealth of white families. While white students from wealthy families borrow less money, the same is not true for black families. Spiders consuming stream insects cause a significant amount of mercury transfer from aquatic to land food webs, a new study including researchers from Dartmouth, Bates College, and Colby-Sawyer College shows. The Vermont Digger reported that lead author Ramsa Chaves-Ulloa led the study as part of her work towards a doctorate in biology at Dartmouth. The study’s findings, published in the journal Ecological Applications, reveal the transfer of toxic methyl mercury between terrestrial predators beyond land carnivores consuming fish, which is where much of the research on methylmercury bioaccumulation focuses. A study lead by biology professor Matt Ayres sheds new insight into managing tree-killing bark beetles, Eureka Alert reported. The study’s findings, published in the journal Ecography, show that southern pine beetle outbreaks can be predicted across any year and region using a monitoring program that tracks the beetles’ abundance by using traps baited with their pheromones. Southern pine beetles cause extensive damage each year, and climate change has enabled them to invade more northern areas where landowners may not have experience in managing them. - COMPILED BY MICHAEL QIAN AND PRIYA RAMAIAH
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climbing trip in Arizona over winter break and jumped on the chance to climb again during spring break. The group of 24 students spent seven to eight hours each day climbing in the area and hung out together in the evenings, eating dinner, singing campfire songs and playing games. “Having the opportunity to spend spring break with this amazing group of people, doing what I love, is something I would never give up,” Yan said. The DOC organized several other trips through its subgroups, such as Cabin and Trail’s backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon and Ledyard Canoe Club’s annual whitewater kayaking trip to North Carolina. For Greg Partridge ’16, this spring break marked his eighth trip with Cabin and Trail. The group left for the Grand Canyon right after finals and hiked and camped in the canyon for about five days. More than half of the 18 trip members were Cabin and Trail leaders, which helped the trip go particularly smoothly, Partridge said. In one instance, a trip member bruised her ankle while hiking, and within a matter of seconds, everyone in the group rushed to her aid, providing water and first aid, he said. Partridge said he wanted to go on the trip because he had never seen the Grand Canyon before and many of his closest friends are part of Cabin and Trail. He noted that backpacking provides a break from Dartmouth’s hectic schedule. “It’s both relaxing and challenging,” he said. “It exercises you both mentally and physically in ways you don’t get academically.” The Ledyard trip is a chance for Ledyard’s members — especially freshmen — to get to know other club members and be exposed to beginning whitewater kayaking, Chachi Riesco ’17 said. “The trip really is a bonding experience for incoming people — it’s the best part of the club,” she said. During the break, 13 students also traveled to Washington D.C. as part of a trip organized by the Tucker Center studying the intersection of race, faith and social justice. The group visited Howard University — a historically black college — to explore aspects of race on campus. The trip also canvassed the local, predominantly black neighborhood for signatures, said Heeju Kim ’19, a student who went on the trip. Additional programming included visits to a mosque, a synagogue and a church to evaluate different faith traditions and how they intersect. “That was really cool because I feel like it’s a little harder to find people who are really religious on campus — or at least that’s been my
didn’t have much experience with the political process, or the justice system, or anything like that. But now I’m thinking about being more involved in community organizing, campaigning, things like that.” Dokko added the Tucker Center was considering not organizing a spring break trip this year as it transitions into its new programs, and Tucker interim multi-faith advisor Leah Torrey had to work hard “What we were talking to make the trip happen. Lee ’16 and about was so intensely AmyTheophila Liang ’17 traveled to personal, and everybody Hanoi, Vietnam with Geisel of Medicine professor had to be extremely School Joseph Rosen and 47 other medical professionals as part vulnerable.” of the Reconstructive International Cooperation Exchange -HEEJU KIM ’19, STUDENT ON program. The group performed surgeries, including WASHINGTON D.C. TUCKER reconstructive procedures, CENTER TRIP tumor removals and cancer surgery, Lee said. Rosen, who the trip’s focus on intersectionality founded the project, goes on the trip and how different factors converge every spring break and sometimes brings interested undergraduate to influence identity. “That was really important in students, Liang said. “It was very eye-opening and terms of trying to understand how we can be productive or effective inspiring,” Liang said. “I found microtia cases, where surgeons made activists for social justice,” he said. Kim said she was looking for ears out of rib cartilage, to be the an opportunity that would sustain most interesting.” Lee and Liang also helped with intellectual growth over the break, and the trip encouraged the type of an SMS-based disease surveillance deep, intellectual discussions she has and outbreak detection project in not found elsewhere at Dartmouth. northern Vietnam. To Lee, being “What we were talking about was able to improve Vietnamese health so intensely personal, and everybody care policy through this mechanism had to be extremely vulnerable,” she was the most fulfilling aspect of the trip. said. “What I took away, when we Rachel Dokko ’18, who went on the trip and works for the Tucker went to the rural health communes, Center, said the trip was one of the is that even if they are understaffed best experiences she has had with a or under-resourced, we still get to see how they try to make it work,” Dartmouth program. “I think it has changed my out- she said. “They’re very efficient with look on a lot of things,” she said. “I their resources.” experience,” Kim said. “It was very interesting to travel with people who had very strong opinions on faith.” In regard to social justice, the group toured the White House and the Senate and visited the offices of Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ’78 of New Hampshire and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 of New York. Anirudh Udutha ’18, another participant, said he was interested in
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Three services offer repairs at College
The price of Dartmouth Phone price depends on the type and model Repairs is comparable to the price of the device that requires servicing. costs and frustrations associated with of phone repairs at Apple, which for iPhones cost about $110 to $180, phone damage and repairs. newer models is approximately $80 Samsung devices cost anywhere from The service to $150, depend- $150 to $250 and iPads cost between repairs iPhone “While I have yet to ing on the exact $130 and $150 to repair. screens in under phone model Johansen said he can usually repair an hour and is use the service, it’s and whether or devices in an hour or less, and that located at 303 good to know that not the client has there is an unlimited warranty for all South MassaAppleCare. devices that NH iPhone Repair fixes. chusetts Hall, ac- there’s a safety net for N H NH iPhone Repair is also affiliated cording to their me in case I break my iPhone Repair with iCracked, a national company website. is another lo- that consists of a network of 3,000 phone” Nordahl and cal phone repair technicians. Johansen said iCracked Anguita declined resource for stu- will honor the warranty at any locaan in-per son -WILL JOHNSON ‘19 dents and faculty tion, even after students graduate. interview, but members with Johansen also said that he always wrote in an email cracked or bro- examines the extent of the phone’s they experienced success after their ken phones. damage up front. If he finds that company’s launch, repairing about Chad Johansen, the director of a device is irreparable, he does not 100 phones during their first month NH iPhone Repair, said that he travels charge his client. of operation. from Springfield, MagThe cost of Dartmouth Phone Vermont to the “It’s great to have a gie Stiefvater ’19 Repairs depends on the phone model, College twice a said that she is Nordahl said. Repairs start at $75. week to repair cheap way to fix a happy to know Will Johnson ’19 said that he was devices for stu- phone that is also right there are nearhappy to have this service. dents and faculty by resources at on campus.” Johnson said that he would be will- at Dartmouth. which students ing to pay more for the Dartmouth In addition can repair their service because he trusts Dartmouth to iPhones, NH devices. -MAGGIE STIEFVATER ’19 students to repair his devices. iPhone Repair “It’s “While I have yet to use the service, also fixes Samgreat to have a it’s good to know that there’s a safety sung Galaxy decheap way to fix net for me in case I break my phone,” vices and iPads, a phone that is he said. Johansen said, adding that the repair also right on campus,” she said. FROM IPHONE PAGE 1
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STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ’17
SENIOR STAFF COLUMNIST EMILY ALBRECHT ’16
Sombrero Party Fiasco
Jesus, Take the Veto
American universities are oversensitive to perceived racial injustices. Nary a day goes by without mention of the words “cultural appropriation” in American universities, and most recently they have come to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. On Feb. 22, the college’s dean of students sent an email to campus regarding an instance of “ethnic stereotyping.” The incident in question was a “tequila party,” at which some students wore sombreros and which was quickly construed as an offensive stereotyping of Hispanic students. In response, the Bowdoin Student Government issued a “statement of solidarity” decrying the party as “unacceptable” and calling for the administration to “create a space” for students who felt targeted by the party. Two of the Student Government’s own members even faced impeachment proceedings for attending the party. As a Korean-American student, I am familiar with racial prejudice, having experienced its cruelty myself. If I had a penny for every time I was ever called a “chink” or mocked for my squinty Asian eyes, I would have a bank account to rival Donald Trump’s. Like so many other students of color, I know the pain of racial prejudice firsthand. Yet terms like “racism” or “cultural appropriation” have all but lost their meaning in how frequently they are used to describe perceived personal slights. To so many outside the American university system, they have instead become the moaning of overly coddled whiners looking for an excuse to be angry. And let’s be brutally honest with ourselves: They’re entirely right. When university students at Bowdoin or otherwise freely accuse others of appropriating their culture, such accusations imply not only injustice but also malicious intent. To the accusers, it matters little what the true intentions might have been or whether the appeal to stereotypes was offensive by design. Nor do they consider that stereotypes and cultural appropriation can be resolved with constructive dialogue rather than by resorting to such harsh accusations. Instead, they feel hurt and lash out, rational thinking be damned. Still, the offended parties have a slight point: Insensitivity to culture hurts. Nowhere is it more important to embrace inclusivity than in education, and ignorance does not excuse poor conduct.
None of this, however, justifies the rampant and inherently divisive exaggerations that usually surround accusations of cultural appropriation. When such heavy words like “race” enter the picture, they immediately bring with them the full weight of their charged, bloody history. In their wake, they leave everyone all the angrier and more suspicious of one another. We have already seen it happen at the University of Missouri and at Yale University, and we have even seen it begin to rear its ugly head in the halls of dear old Dartmouth. Why must we subscribe to the fallacy that culture is limited only to those born under it? We are privileged to attend a college that encourages not only the exchange of cultures but also the freedom to partake in them. Cultures can be poorly represented, yes, and the sombrero party very well may have been a poor representation of Mexican culture. But, in my opinion, it was clearly done out of the desire to celebrate a culture — not appropriate or mock it. For those so concerned about the misrepresentation of culture, they should take it upon themselves to educate others rather than scream “racist” and make the problem worse. Does such punitive denunciation of our fellow students — who clearly mean no harm — really solve racism in any meaningful way? We should not applaud an atmosphere that would silence our peers or make them afraid to speak for fear of offending. Instead, we should seek to educate and cooperate, easing racial tensions with love rather than anger and destroying our enemies by making them our friends. What we really need is not conflict but mutual trust. Accusing everyone and everything of cultural insensitivity gives us none of that. To the Bowdoin student body, I say this: Your accusations of “cultural appropriation” and “stereotyping” were not only ridiculous — they also risked tearing apart the fabric of the very school you supposedly love so much. Rescinding the impeachment of your fellow students is only the first step in the right direction, and I hope you continue along that path. And I, as a Dartmouth student, sincerely hope that our own college never has to deal with such embarrassment.
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Religious freedom does not justify discrimination against same-sex couples. Yesterday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal fundamental facets of one’s unshakable and announced that he will veto HB 757, a bill natural identity. In other words, it is not a passed by the Georgia state legislature last choice, and it certainly should not be used week regarding what its proponents define as as a basis for discrimination. “religious freedom.” HB 757, as it was passed J. Robert White, the executive director in the Georgia senate about a week ago, aims of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, arto “protect faith-based groups that refuse to gues that, “It is wrong to accuse persons of serve or hire someone for religious reasons,” discrimination who live and conduct their according to a CBS News report from March businesses according to their deeply held 24. The bill has been in the media for two religious beliefs.” Using “deeply held religious years now, attracting both vocal support and beliefs” as a justification for refusing to offer opposition. Supporters have particularly cited services or to hire an individual, however, is the federal developments in same-sex mar- exactly that. As members of a free society, riage over recent years, we should all have equal while opponents claim “Religious freedom opportunity and access to that the bill legalizes disthe fruits of that society. crimination. I commend follows a ‘do no harm’ While supporters of HB governor Deal’s intent policy: you should be 757 and similar legislation to veto the bill and urge argue that anti-discrimiother governors facing free to practice your nation legislation actually bills such as HB 757 in own religion so long discriminates against emthe future to do the same. ployers by preventing them The bill’s primary as it does not impede from hiring or retaining goal is to ensure that that same right or any employees on the basis of churches and pastors sexual orientation and relido not have to perform other rights for anyone gion, such logic is a fallacy; same-sex marriages if else.” freedom of choice means they do not want to and the freedom to choose for that faith-based organiourselves — not for others. zations do not have to Legislation barhost events they find morally questionable. ring discrimination against people based on These stipulations, however, are already le- race, sex, gender and sexuality does not force gally protected under the First Amendment anyone to change their convictions in their and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, own life. Instead, it only prevents people among others. The real reason for the bill lies from harming other’s lives and opportunities in its allowing the hiring or firing of people by forcing those convictions on others. If based on their sexual orientation, which fun- something is against one’s religious beliefs, damentally denies equal then they have the choice opportunity and access to “Sexuality is a state to refrain from supporting millions of Americans. businesses that endorse or of being, reflecting When citing “deeply exhibit that behavior or held religious beliefs,” fundamental facets belief. It does not work supporters of HB 757 are both ways, however — you of one’s unshakeable clearly referring to Chriscan make that choice for tianity. In this way, HB and natural identity. yourself, but you cannot 757 would make Chrisdeny the choice of others In other words, it is tian beliefs paramount to patronize certain busito the right to equal not a choice, and it nesses or organizations. opportunity. However, certainly should not The former is religious as I argued in my Jan. 6 freedom; the latter, relieditorial, “Good Without be used as a basis for gious tyranny. God,” religious freedom discrimination. ” Finally, I grew does not condone — and, up Christian. I have been in fact, contradicts — to years and years of Sunsuch a normalization of day school and sermons, any one religion in society. Religious freedom masses and services across various denominafollows a “do no harm” policy: you should tions. All four Gospels, the books of Hebrews, be free to practice your own religion so long 1 Corinthians, Psalms, 1 Thessalonians and as it does not impede that same right or any so many more all emphasize one core point other rights for anyone else. — love others, including strangers and sinFurthermore, allowing discrimination ners, friends and enemies and everyone in based on deeply held religious beliefs is a between no matter what. Using my personal slippery slope. What if my religion finds interpretation of the Bible and the teachings heterosexual marriage immoral? Or show- I have learned throughout my life, I sincerely ing too much — or too little — skin? It is doubt that Christ would condone turning unlikely that supporters of HB 757 would people away from one’s business because of accept being barred from employment or their identity. In the wake of Easter Sunday, banned from using certain venues simply any supporter of HB 757 and similar bills for being heterosexual or Christian. Denying should look back to their elementary Sunday these rights to same-sex couples is no differ- school classes and remember to ask themselves ent. Sexuality is a state of being, reflecting one question — what would Jesus do?
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CoFIRED inspires ALA resolution Endowment to support Paganucci program petition around the time that the “Freedom Budget” was being writogy change was in response to this ten in the winter of 2014, Cornejo ALA resolution rather than to the said. The Freedom Budget was a list CoFIRED petition. of over 70 demands for the College The Library of Congress usu- that related to diversity and inclually changes its headings following sivity. The request for a change in public opinion, not preceding it, the libraries use of “illegal alien” associate librarian for information was one of the document’s points. services at Baker-Berry Library Kirk said the complaint many Elizabeth Kirk said. people have with the term “illegal DeSantis said this is the first time alien” is that its construction makes that the Library of Congress has it seem as if the people themselves changed its headings in response are illegal, rather than just their to community pressure. He noted status. the large-scale and political na- Cornejo and Padilla also said ture of this change, adding that that CoFIRED helped Baker-Berry a grassroots movement led to the librarians in compiling all the docudecision rather than being driven mentation needed to support their by the library community. argument. Melissa Padilla ’16, the member “It was a long list of evidence,” of CoFIRED who initiated the Cornejo said. “There were arproposal, said ticles, books, the subject eve r y t h i n g heading used “This change at the we could in the College Library of Congress can think of to catalog sysdemonstrate tem came to make a change in the t h at t h e re her attention words that politicians has been a when she was shift in teruse and what is known working on a minologies.” project for an to be acceptable and D e independent Santis put unacceptable.” s t u dy c l a s s, together where she the summer r e s e a r c h e d -MELISSA PADILLA ’16, 2014 report activism led submitted to by u n d o c u - COFIRED MEMBER the Library mented stuof Congress. dents across DeSantis the country. said one of the challenges in Padilla approached a librarian navigating the petition process for help at Baker-Berry Library, was compiling all the necessary and as the librarian was scrolling documentation. through documents, Padilla said Kirk said that the College is the she recalled seeing “illegal alien” first institution to bring up the isand “illegal immigrant” frequently. sue of subject headings referring She brought up the issue to the li- to unauthorized immigrants. brarian, who said that this problem This is the first time that the had never been pointed out before. library has collaborated with stu “[Padilla] came to the Co- dents to create a change of this FIRED meeting and told us about magnitude, Kirk added. it,” Oscar Cornejo ’17, a member CoFIRED continued their of CoFIRED, said. “We were all activist efforts despite the earlier very concerned.” rejection, and decided to ask a Initially, CoFIRED approached different college or university to the librarians at Baker-Berry with submit a petition to their library, the intent of just changing the Cornejo said. subject headings at the College, He said that CoFIRED selected Padilla said. Princeton University as their first “We found out that the way the attempt. library categorizes everything in Kirk said that it was a “wonderour system is actually done through ful affirmation” for the students the federal Library of Congress that the ALA took up their cause. subject headings,” she said. “There That was testimony to the fact wasn’t anything they could do, that CoFIRED was on the right because this was what everybody track, she said. was seeing across the nation.” Cornejo said that CoFIRED However, the librarians at had not expected the sudden Baker-Berry showed CoFIRED decision by the Library of Cona list of past changes that the gress. Library of Congress has made to “We were just hoping for Princother subject headings, including eton to send in their petition, and the elimination of the n-word and if that failed, ask another college, other racial slurs. essentially wearing down the Li With the help of the Baker-Berry brary of Congress,” he said. librarians, CoFIRED finalized its Kirk said she was pleasantly FROM COFIRED PAGE 1
surprised by the change after the initial rejection. Kirk said that when subject headings are updated in one place, they automatically populate out to all relevant catalogue records. “Many libraries, including ours, outsource that updating, so ours will all be automatically flipped to the new heading, replacing all of them,” Kirk said. She said that once the change is put into effect, if “illegal aliens” is typed as a subject heading, a record will be shown indicating the replacement of that term with “non-citizens.” “It is a lot less pejorative, a lot better than saying illegal,” Cornejo said. “We were willing to concede a little bit.” He added that CoFIRED would have preferred the term “undocumented immigrants,” but the Library of Congress fixated more on the word’s legal dimension. Cornejo said that the larger issue beyond this change revolves around the terms and the connotations that permeate everyday dialogue, public discourses and the media. Many of the references to undocumented immigrants are “racializing, dehumanizing and pejorative,” Cornejo added. “The mission of changing that rhetoric is going to be a continuing battle,” Cornejo said. He said that there needs to be a larger cultural shift in thinking and media representations, which has seen changes in the way the disabled and elderly are described today. “This change at the Library of Congress can make a change in the words that politicians use and what is known to be acceptable and unacceptable,” Padilla said. Padilla said CoFIRED will now focus on getting the word out to the public about this terminology change. She has reached out to the Huffington Post, Al-Jazeera and College professors who publish in national outlets. CoFIRED is also considering another “Drop the I-Word” campaign to raise awareness of the racialization of the term “illegal.” The first campaign, hosted in April 2014, addressed the use of the word “illegal” in reference to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. DeSantis said that students have never petitioned to change subject headings in the library catalogue before. “I thought it was a really wonderful opportunity to engage students in a process that was bigger than they expected,” Kirk said. “They were able to help create a change and strike a blow for inclusion for our entire country and not just for ourselves.”
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the Dandelion School in Beijing, China to combat educational disparities among school-aged children. The Dandelion Project was started by Mary Peng ’15, who was coincidentally a previous Paganucci Fellow. The Dandelion School provides English language training and other support services to the children of migrant workers, who are not otherwise entitled to public education. “When we took on Dandelion as a Paganucci project, the idea was, ‘How do you take a good program and make it sustainable?’” McNulty said. “So from Tuck’s perspective, that’s what we bring to the table. It’s key that the organization will benefit from a business perspective.” Kieran Sim ’17, a fellow from the most recent cohort, said that being able to travel abroad and work with the Dandelion Project was an incredible experience. He added that his team sincerely felt like they took ownership of their work and provided valuable recommendations. “I loved the program because it took the liberal arts ideas I was forming here at Dartmouth and allowed me to apply them to something that I’m very passionate about,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to grow not only through the academic realm, but also through taking action.” Lorie Loeb, a computer science professor and advisor for the Paganucci program, added that getting students “out into the world” to add social value can be highly beneficial. “Social entrepreneurship at its best is using a design-driven business approach to help people think about their business models and help them understand how they can do their work better and more sustainably,” she said. Economics professor Andrew Samwick, another program advisor, said that the Paganucci Fellowships align well with College President Phil Hanlon’s framework for experiential
learning. “The program is really a chance for students to complete the active learning pedagogy in a way where they have a lot of good of support,” he said. “The Dandelion Project, I felt, was a good example because it also included an intercultural competence component.” McNulty said that the Paganucci program lasts for eight weeks in the summer and typically has five undergraduate fellows. The recent endowment, he said, increases the degree of flexibility that the program can have with various projects. “I can imagine that in some years, we might take on a project where we actually need one sub-team working in Latin America, and one sub-team working in South Africa,” McNulty said. “And instead of only taking on five fellows, it could be six, with three in each area.” Samwick also said the endowment grants stability because the program no longer has to compete for annual funding. McNulty said that, in his estimation, Tuck students do team-based work more often than undergraduate students at the College. Tuck has increased its focus on experiential learning in recent years by launching programs like a global experience requirement. Sim said that he would like to see expanded outreach from Tuck to undergraduate students to increase access to the “amazing amount of resources they have to support students in creating positive impacts.” The Paganucci program is named in honor of Paul Paganucci ’53 Tu’54 — a former professor and associate dean at the school. The Sherman Fairchild Foundation is a charitable foundation that focuses on providing support for higher education, fine arts, cultural institutions, medical research and social welfare. Established in 1955, it currently has over $435 million in assets under management.
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“Perceiving Data as Music,” University of New Hampshire Prof. Marty Quinn, Wilder 111
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Jesse Clegg to open at the Lebanon Opera House tonight By SOPHIA SIU
The Dartmouth Staff
South African singer-songwriter Jesse Clegg will be opening for The Johnny Clegg Band at the Lebanon Opera House tonight. Clegg, who just released his third studio album, is a platinum-selling success in South Africa and his performance will be part of his North American tour. Clegg will play a stripped-down acoustic set with bandmate Gavin Shea, with Clegg playing the acoustic guitar and singing the lead vocals. Shea will be playing a combination of acoustic guitar, pedalboard, synthesizer, MIDI drums, as well as singing. “It’s quite a unique combination of acoustic and electric, and it’s really been working really well. We’ve been getting a great response,” Clegg said. According to Shea, while the performance will be acoustic, vocal and harmony driven, the added electronic elements will allow the set to more closely align with the sound of the full album. “It’s an acoustic set but we brought in elements from the new album,” Clegg said. “Sort of the electronic elements and the syn-
thetic sound to make it fit in the way the album was recorded and how the songs feel on the album.” Clegg’s set list primarily consists of songs from his new album, which he finished the day before he left for America and has not yet been released in South Africa. The North American tour is the first time he has played these songs live and is the first time he has sold his new album at shows. “People don’t know this album, and we can play whatever we like from it. I’m playing stuff that maybe I wouldn’t necessarily be playing in South Africa. We got free reign to present the most musical moments on the album without worrying about which songs have gotten the most exposure,” said Clegg. Clegg describes his new album as being a change in sound from his previous two albums. His third album is less guitar driven and rock-oriented, and more contemporary as he used some of the newer technologies now available to musicians in the studio. “Nowadays you can use the studio as the instrument,” Clegg said. “I was using a lot of synths, electronic drums, a lot of modern technology that I’m hearing in
wanted to do my own thing, so music now that inspires me.” As the son of the widely-popular I tried to find my own roots,” he and iconic South African singer, said. Johnny Clegg, Clegg grew up After receiving acclaim in South surrounded by music. He spent Africa for his first two albums, the first six years of his life on Clegg brought his music to the intour nine months out of the year ternational stage in 2014. Although with his father, and his childhood his popularity in his home country experiences gave him a glimpse of allows Clegg to play at larger venthe positive and negative realities ues to audiences who are already of having a career in music, he familiar with his music, Clegg enjoys the challenges that playing said. overseas “I think it was a good “I think audiences respond brings. “Eveducation ery time we for me and to an honest performance, do overseas it definitely someone who’s trying stuff, we’re inspired me to get a message across. starting to to want to do introduce it, but do it for Music is an act of people to the right rea- communication, and I the musons,” Clegg think that audiences pick sic,” Clegg said. said. “It’s A l t h o u g h up on that sincerity, first playing to Clegg’s muand foremost.” crowds who sic career has haven’t indubitably heard you, b e e n i n f l u - -JESSE CLEGG, which is enced by his actually father, Clegg SINGER-SONGWRITER an exciting also emphasized the importance of individual- challenge because you really have to convince them.” ity in his music. “For me it was very important Adam Lewis, who works to when I went into music that I promote Clegg’s music to college
and non-commercial radios across the United States and Canada, described Clegg’s music as appealing to audiences of all ages. “Musically the record was solid,” Lewis said. “There’s a lot of good songs on there, and good songs never go out of style, no matter what age, and that’s what attracted me to work on his album.” Shea is excited to introduce Clegg’s music to Upper Valley residents for the first time. “We have to make sure we vibe with them, but everything’s been going really well,” Shea said. “At the core of all the songs we’re doing are just great songs with great melodies. We just give it glitter and glitz.” As a songwriter as well as a singer, Clegg stresses the importance of honesty and sincerity in his music. “I think audiences respond to an honest performance, someone who’s trying to get a message across,” Clegg said. “Music is an act of communication, and I think that audiences pick up on that sincerity, first and foremost.” After his North America tour, Clegg plans on returning to South Africa to launch his new album.
‘This is a Long Drive’ (1996) celebrates 20 years By WILL TACKETT
The Dartmouth Staff
In a few weeks, Modest Mouse’s debut album “This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About” (1996), will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The record is overshadowed by its follow ups, “The Lonesome Crowded West” (1997), which Pitchfork dedicated an entire documentary to, and their major label debut “The Moon & Antarctica” (2000). Those two albums are titans to be sure, but they unfortunately obscure the shine of “This is a Long Drive,” an album that is a classic in its own right. As the title suggests, the record is filled with images of travel: cars, road trips, highways, gas stations all pervade frontman Isaac Brock’s brilliant lyrics. The first line of the album is “Travelling, swallowing Dramamine.” The album brings us past shrinking beaches, through Ohio and takes a bus to Baltimore. We go from northern pines to southern palm trees, shout “Carolina!” and go to a naturalsounding place called Minnow Brook that is really just another suburb. The idea of travel on the album often ends up equating to escape and the struggle involved in that
endeavor. “I can’t swim so I dog “Tundra/Desert” and “Ohio” are paddle,” Brock bemoans in “Dog all song titles), it never really seems Paddle,” with one interpretation like escaping the tight places and being that he’s toiling to keep moving out into the open is even moving forward (or desperately possible. get away from something, as Then there’s the fact that evother vague, ominous lines sug- erything on the album sounds so gest: “We don’t like what we just unique — each song totally distinct saw.”) He comes to something of from not only the other indie rock a conclusion later on the album in groups of the time, but often any “Exit Does other songs on the Not Exist,” album or in Mod“No matter what is when he est Mouse’s cataplainly de- going on, the guitarlogue up to that clares that playing is sure to be point. When the such an esband first started, cape is im- marked with little they made sure possible. In Brock-isms, the to say they were a way that is from the small subgenius in its instantly recognizable urb of Issaquah, s i m p l i c i t y, harmonics and string Washington. They h e r e l a t e s bends that he likes to were not a part of the idea of the Seattle grunge s p i r i t u a l sneak into his playing.” scene exploding at movement the time, nor were and escape they one of the back to physical travel. “Take an punk bands from Olympia. They exit,” he taunts as if it were as sim- were Modest Mouse. ple as getting off a freeway. Both The rhythm section of bassist songs start with Brock wheezing Eric Judy and drummer Jeremiah and gasping in the background. It Green is great enough in itself as is the breathing of someone drown- it shuffles and rolls along while ing, the sounds of claustrophobia avoiding the typical tired beats. But and the struggle of escaping a tight it really gets interesting with Brock. space. And with all the album’s Brock’s voice, unconventional but loud talk about wide, open spaces not whiny, is definitely recogniz(“Breakthrough,” “Head South,” able — even unforgettable — as he
shifts from folk-crooning to punkscreaming to shout-rapping. But it is Brock’s guitar playing that might be what truly sets Modest Mouse apart. Sometimes it is clean-toned, chimey and beautifully layered and other times it lurches into loud power chords. No matter what is going on, the guitar-playing is sure to be marked with little Brock-isms, the instantly recognizable harmonics and string bends that he likes to sneak into his playing. “This is a Long Drive” is so important because of how it sets up the masterpieces to come. “Lounge (Closing Time)” from “The Lonesome Crowded West” is a lyrical and musical improvement on the “This is a Long Drive” tune, but the original sets up the funky, genre-bending music and the themes of hollowness of a club scene — “Closing Time” just perfects those elements. But “This is a Long Drive” sets the stage for later Modest Mouse in less obvious ways. “Beach Side Property” has a line that goes “Town hasn’t moved but it’s getting closer, losing ground.” This line introduces an idea explored later on “The Lonesome Crowded West”: “Didn’t move to the city, the city moved to me.” “The Lonesome Crowded West” basically perfects what “This is a Long Drive” set out to do in
an effort that is loose and raw and sometimes lacking perfect execution. But it is precisely that rawness that makes “This is a Long Drive” so great. According to Green, they started touring for the album the day they got out of high school. There is a youthfulness throughout the album that is unmatched by any other Modest Mouse record, a youthfulness that is excited but also confused, unsure and scared. For me it all comes to a head on “Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset,” one of my favorites: “Changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it / My mind changed me so much I can’t even trust myself.” It epitomizes the anxiety of youth: wanting to go somewhere and go there fast, but being unsure about where exactly you actually want to go. “I think I know my geography pretty damn well,” Brock retorts during an argument on “Dramamine,” but he doesn’t sound so confident. “This is a Long Drive” captures a deeply rich moment both in Modest Mouses’ trajectory and in 90s indie rock, and as the album comes up on its 20th anniversary, it’s interesting to see where Modest Mouse started and how they’ve grown.
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Hopkins Center lines up diverse spring programming By JOYCE LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
The Hopkins Center jumps right into a packed spring term featuring lively performances by prominent visiting artists, thought-provoking film specials and innovative student works. On April 7, the Hop will feature a performance by the Swingles Singers, a prominent London-based a cappella group that was created in the 1960s and is performing with its third generation of singers. Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence said that the group has been known to perform everything from pop music to Bach. “They have the most amazing blend of sound, almost as if it’s something that’s made out of silver,” Lawrence said. “I can’t even describe it, it’s just really beautiful music.” Following the Swingles, Brazilian dance company Companhia Urbana de Dança will be visiting campus for a week. They will perform with student dance groups, including South African Fusion dance team Raaz and Fusion, in Collis Common Ground and are hosting a master class open to the public. The group will also perform two types of dance pieces in the Moore Theater. One will be a more serious piece about racial identity in Brazil, while the second will be a “party dance” with dancers attempting to
out-perform one another on stage, Lawrence said. “The basic vocabulary of the dances by this group is hip-hop, but with the help of the director, the performances are formed into dances that tell stories and make something more visually spectacular by involving large number of dancers and juxtaposing their movement,” Hop programming director Rebecca Bailey said. “Their dances really retain a connection to the dancers and personal stories.” Two-time Grammy winner Maria Schneider will visit Dartmouth for a jazz performance on April 19 in Spaulding Auditorium. “[Schneider’s] band features eighteen players, which makes her jazz music almost orchestral,” Bailey said. “Her band has really great, versatile players. Each of them contribute so much to the texture, and Maria Schneider’s compositions are really lush, beautiful music that has a powerful, almost physical impact.” Schneider will also be a part of a panel at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network on April 18 about digital rights for artists, Lawrence said. The panel will bring Schneider together with faculty from the arts department and an intellectual properties lawyer. The panelists will discuss the experience of artists and their needs and challenges with regards to intellectual property. On April 26, Grammy-award win-
ner and musician Ang élique Kidjo will visit. Featuring a fusion of music genres including R&B, jazz and the sounds of the artist’s native West Africa, Kidjo’s performances will not only bring pleasure to the listener but also motivate them to get up and dance, Bailey said. “The post-performance conversation with her should also be very interesting, since Kidjo uses her music to bring attention to human rights issues,” Bailey said. At Rollins Chapel, music group Ensemble Sequentia will perform little-known pieces from the medieval period on April 28. The group will perform non-sacred works that were composed in the pre-Christian era. “We wanted performances that didn’t feel like a museum piece,” Bailey said. “Ensemble Sequentia’s music is wonderfully researched, but when you hear them perform, you don’t hear the research; you’re drawn into the experience.” Student performances at the Hop this term will include ones by the Gospel Choir, the Dartmouth College Glee Club and the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, which will feature a student conductor, Jacob Weiss ’16. Starting on May 1, student musicians, such as Ensemble Mise-en, Wind Ensemble and Glee Club, will be featured in the “New Music Festival: Music, Soundspace, and Architecture,” a series of musical events that will
explore how sounds can be inspired by virtual and physical spaces. “It’s an exciting way to see what your fellow students are doing with music on campus in a more contemporary, innovative route, and it really showcases the adventurous spirit of music with the arts,” Bailey said. Film will continue to play a large role in Hop programming. The Dartmouth Film Society will feature film specials and live guests relating to the theme of “Family Business,” Hop film manager and programmer Johanna Evans said. Radheshwar Arora ’18 proposed the theme based on his experience watching the two part, five-hour Indian epic “Gangs of Wasseypur” (2012), Evans said. “He said he wanted to create a series where [‘Gangs of Wasseypur’] and ‘The Godfather’ were the anchor films, to explore feelings of tension and crime and other things and finding where the two films overlap,” Evans said. Because there aren’t a large number of multi-generational crime epics, the DFS decided to expand the scope of the theme to films that include different familial dynamics, Evans said. The series will include “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989), in which Jones’ father is also an archaeologist, and “Creed” (2015), in which protagonist Adonis is following in the footsteps of his father, Apollo Creed.
The DFS will collaborate with Programming Board on April 7 to present the documentary “In My Father’s House” (2015) by Anne Sundberg ’90 and Ricki Stern ’87. The documentary tells the story of rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith reconnecting with his estranged father and touches on issues of race, class, poverty and family, Evans said. Rhymefest will speak at the end of the screening along with the directors of the documentary and will perform in a concert that weekend. Hop films will include works that discuss political and socioeconomic issues relevant to contemporary American society, Evans said. Such works include “Requiem for the American Dream” (2015), which features Noam Chomsky and discusses wealth inequality, and “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” (2014), a documentary by current Montgomery Fellow Thomas Allen Harris that discusses how white photographers have portrayed black Americans in certain, disparate ways that are often inaccurate, Evans said. “A lot of students might not come seeking films at the Hop because they might think that we present films from an academic perspective, but that’s not it at all,” Evans said. “We’re interested in the power of storytelling and the messages that film can convey as well as looking at it as an art form.”
‘The Lady in the Van’ (2015) takes its own backseat By ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff
Beyond her turn as the beloved Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series or Violet Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” Dame Maggie Smith may be unknown to most American audiences. A giant of the British stage and screen, Smith has received two Oscars (“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969) and “California Suite” (1978)), two Emmys for “Downton Abbey” and a Tony for “Lettice and Lovage” (1990). But this great Dame, finding a second wind in her not so twilight years, trades her Downton pomp and circumstance for the grime and acerbity of Miss Shepherd, the lady in the van. Based off Alan Bennett’s 1989 eponymous book, “The Lady in the Van”(2015) follows writer/
playwright Alex Jennings and his neighbors as they cope with the local, homeless leech, Miss Shepherd. Mary Shepherd — in reality, Margaret Fairchild — bumbles from home to home in her van looking for that goldilocks lot free from vandals and nature’s vicissitudes. It is only a matter of time before she chooses Alan as her next host and parks her dingy van in his oh-so-spacious driveway. As the tale goes, her original stint of a couple weeks lingers for over 15 years until her eventual death. In this time, Mary becomes a local landmark, as her dilapidation and crustiness adds some bite to the otherwise nondescript Camden hamlet. The neighbors may gripe and gossip, but they embrace the inevitable and adopt her at arm’s-length. To Alan, she becomes a welcome nepenthe from the guilt of ignoring his own
ailing mother, a companion for his solitary life or perhaps just material for his future magnum opus. Ironically, she also becomes his beard; when neighbors ask, “How’s the old lady?” Mary becomes wife by proxy — and a far more entertaining one at that. His quiet life of late-night homosexual trysts go unnoticed, as Miss Shepherd deems him a closet communist and leaves it at that. Despite the seeming potential for uproarious comedy, the film relegates the humor to minor set pieces of Mary rolling down the hill in her wheelchair or shooing away generous social workers — moments that add up to a paltry trailer’s worth. The bulk of the film is rather plotless and parks its narrative drive when Mary pulls into Alan’s driveway. Like tailgating a slow driver on the highway, the film slogs on for two hours of repetitive interactions and
empty conversations between Alan and his disembodied superego. The lady in the van takes an unfortunate backseat to Alan’s timorous, Hamlet-esque inner conflicts which become mere words, words, words. The film follows a “Citizen Kane” (1941) structure, as Alan attempts to piece together Miss Shepherd’s past from visitors and family members. However, we only glimpse meager scraps of Mary’s history, which add up to a rather skeletal portrait and leave the emotional center of the film empty. While we do discover that Margaret Shepherd was committed to an institution, was a concert pianist, a former nun and a hit and run driver, director Nicholas Hytner fails to convey Mary’s transformation into her destitute state. Like other films centering on a mysterious woman with similar names (“Lady in the
Water” (2006) and “The Woman in Black”(2012)), we must grapple with a fairly enigmatic central female; however, this trope falls flat here, as Hytner ignores the real drama of Margaret’s fall from grace. Her accumulation of ragged clothes and plastic bags is taken as fact, but its genesis is elided. In short, we never discover her Rosebud, that moment when all was lost and her life spiraled into something out of her own control. Thus, one feels like one of the neighbors, still confused about and disconnected from this mysterious lady in her gauche yellow van and silently wondering when she will go away. Rating: 5/10 “The Lady in the Van” is playing at the Nugget Theater in Hanover at 4:15 p.m. until Thursday.