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Sororities extend bids to 92 women Students, faculty
anticipate MDF policy changes By Noah Goldstein
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Epsilon Kappa Theta held “shake-out” recruitment events outside the formal Panhell recruitment. A major change to this year’s winter rush was in the adjudication process for rush violations, Ke said. For the first time, rush violations — including intentional rudeness and skipping parties at houses — were handled by a committee of sorority presidents rather
As President Phil Hanlon gears up to present his final Moving Dartmouth Forward plan to the Board of Trustees next week, some student leaders and faculty members have expressed skepticism as to whether the new policies will effectively change student social life, while others are hopeful and supportive. His presentation, which will take place on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 8:30 a.m. in the Moore Theater, represents the final step in a nine-month process to generate feedback and create new campus policies to combat harmful student behaviors and exclusivity. Hanlon formed the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative last spring to address high-risk drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity. The presidential steering committee, a group of 10 individuals comprised of faculty members, alumni and students, gathered feedback from members of the Dartmouth community over a period of five months and created recommendations. Chair of the presidential steering committee Barbara Will submitted the committee’s final recommendation report to Hanlon on Monday. Hanlon is currently reviewing the recommendations to inform his final policy. Student leaders from across campus have varying priorities in terms of what they most hope the new policies will address and how they will be implemented. Student member of the steering committee John Damianos ’16 hopes that he, along with the other committee members, will continue to be consulted while the recommendations are being instituted. He also said that Moving Dartmouth Foward was created to make large-scale changes.
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One hundred and seven women participated in Panhellenic recruitment, and 92 were offered bids.
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This winter’s Panhellenic recruitment, the second to implement more intense Rho Chi training and alterations to the call back system, ended Wednesday with 92 women receiving bids, Panhellenic vice president for public relations Jessica Ke ’15 said. One hundred and seven women registered for rush, meaning that 86 percent of those who
registered received bids. At Alpha Xi Delta sorority, 12 bids were accepted; Delta Delta Delta sorority, 14; Kappa Delta Epsilon, 14; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 13; and Sigma Delta, 12. Alpha Phi president Courtney Wong ’15 said that she could not provide exact figures by press time. The president of Kappa Delta sorority did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Obama discusses higher education B y Tim Connor The Dartmouth Staff
President Obama delivered his sixth and penultimate State of the Union address on Tuesday night, in which he called for a focus on middle-class economics and outlined his plans for the final years of his administration. Citing that current job growth rates are at their highest since 1999, college completion rates are at an all-time high, there is a decreasing dependence on foreign oil and the American combat mission in Af-
ghanistan has ended, the President said that “the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong.” Among the various issues outlined in the speech was the president’s community college plan, which was unveiled Jan. 9 and aims to eliminate the cost of two years of community college tuition for qualified Americans who maintain at least a 2.5 grade point average. Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote said that the plan is promising but is unlikely bring meaningful change to the current state of higher education.
“I’m sort of encouraged by this community college proposal, but the truth is that community college is already very affordable, and for the lowest income folks and low-income folks it’s extremely affordable because they have the Pell grant, which in most states more than covers the cost of community college,” he said. “I’m sure there’s a middle group of people who don’t get the full Pell for whom this could be helpful, but it’s kind of a funny thing.” The words “college” appeared in the address a total of 12 times. SEE SOTU PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing Brown University: Karla Kaun, assistant professor of neuroscience at Brown University, has obtained a three-year grant worth $300,000 for her work on alcohol and memory studies, the Brown Daily Herald reports. Supported by the grant, which was awarded by the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research, Kaun will study fruit flies’ propensity for alcohol with the intention of discovering treatment methods for alcohol addiction. Columbia University: Columbia is under investigation for potential violations of Title IX and Title II, the Columbia Spectator reported on Jan. 12. According to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the investigations were launched on Jan. 8. In a statement to the Spectator, the University’s administration said that it was committed to complying with the investigations. Cornell University: Following its construction in Enfield, New York — a town only a short distance from Ithaca — Black Oak Wind Farm will provide Cornell with up to 20 percent of the university’s electricity usage, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. According to Sarah Zemanick, Cornell’s director of campus sustainability, the wind farm might help Cornell reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than five percent. Harvard University: Harvard has decided to renovate its Smith Campus Center, the Harvard Crimson reports. Plans for the renovation, which were first formulated in 2013, include modifying the Center so that it spans three floors and adding additional workspaces and student lockers. Renovation is expected to begin in the spring 2016 and continue until 2018. Princeton University: GirlCode, an application that made the codes for women’s restrooms in Princeton University residential spaces available for download, has been taken off the iTunes store, the Daily Princetonian reported on Jan. 15. The app, developed by Princeton freshmen Victor Zhou ’18 and twin sisters Amanda and Monica Shi ’18, was intended to foster dialogue and reform bathroom code policies for women, according to its creators. Administrators pressured the students to remove the application, the Daily Princetonian reported. University of Pennsylvania: In a meeting with Daily Pennsylvanian staff, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann explained her decision to participate in a December “die-in” protest, the Daily Pennsylvanian reports. Gutmann, who made national headlines for her participation in the protest, faced criticism from Penn Police Association president Eric Rohrback, who authored a column in the Daily Pennsylvanian criticizing her actions. Gutmann explained her participation by saying that is possible to show both solidarity with protestors and support for police. Yale University: Charles Johnson ’54, the largest single-gift donor in the history of Yale University, has been accused of defrauding $150 million from the heir of one of his mutual funds earliest investors, the Yale Daily News reports. Johnson, who chaired the fund Franklin Resources, retired from his position in June of 2013. He is being sued for breaching fiduciary duty, amongst other actions.
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Government professor Joseph Bafumi said that the Obama’s focus on community college is a natural extension of his economic interests. “Obama talks a lot about outreach and giving people the opportunity to move up the socioeconomic ladder, so it’s no surprise that [he] supports community colleges and feels that they’re a useful way to economically empower people and improve the macroeconomy as a whole,” Bafumi said. Obama also reported that his administration has been working to connect community colleges with employers to train students to fill high-paying jobs and called on companies to offer more apprenticeships that would allow workers to earn higher wages without a higher education degree. College Republicans vice president Matt Zubrow ’17 said that Obama’s college plan circumvents more major issues that should be priorities on the president’s agenda. “I’m not in favor of the community college bill that he’s talking about,” Zubrow said. “I think it’s interesting, but I think the president isn’t committed enough to address some of the issues that Republicans would like to deal with to even look
at that, such as budget cuts to rein in the debt.” Zubrow also praised the president’s delivery but said that the president didn’t make enough of an effort to reach out to Congress. “He gave a really good speech in terms of the oration,” he said. “As usual, in a speech of this nature no matter which administration, they’re
“I’m sort of encouraged by this community college proposal, but the truth is that community college is already very affordable.” - bruce sacerdote, economics professor generally short on substance. There were no really new shockers here. I thought that he’d be a bit more conciliatory toward the new Republican Senate and House majorities.” College Democrats president Spencer Blair ’17 said that the issues outlined in the speech were important benchmarks for the next two years.
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“It’s great to see that President Obama intends to spend his last two years in office pushing forward important progressive goals like reducing income inequality, protecting labor rights, combating climate change, making higher education more affordable and pursuing freedom and equality for marginalized groups such as people of color and LGBTQ individuals,” Blair said. He added that the College Democrats intend to promote that agenda by rallying support on campus and participating in the discussion surrounding it at all levels of government. Bafumi said that he thought the speech was well-delivered, but was critical of the president’s mixed message. “He did something that was perhaps a bit controversial — he listed a bunch of items that made Democrats look good and embarrassed Republicans some, but then at the end of his speech he talked about going back to being one America and people working together,” he said. “If there’s a criticism to be made from someone who’s in the center in following politics, it’s that there might have been a little bit of hypocrisy there.” Spencer Blair is a member of The Dartmouth Staff.
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Campus leaders are skeptical of Moving Dartmouth Forward FROM MDF PAGE 1
“The goal in Moving [Dartmouth] Forward is not to create small policy changes but to add new programs to have students become more intellectually enriched and to become safer on campus,” he said. Former Gender-Inclusive Greek Council president Noah Cramer ’16 said he would like to see Dartmouth work more extensively with WISE — a non-profit in the Upper Valley that provides services for those affected by domestic and sexual violence and stalking — reevaluate the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training program and require more effective sexual assault prevention and response training for Greek leaders. Cramer said he is worried that the recommendations may target the Greek system as a whole, which he said would be unfair for the gender-inclusive Greek houses and undergraduate societies. Gender-Inclusive Greek Council president Matthew Digman ’15 said that he would not be surprised if new alcohol policies were put in place. Student body president Casey Dennis ’16 said that he does not expect the recommendations to contain anything surprising to students, and believes that Hanlon has recognized the work that student leaders have done create a safer and more inclusive community. In terms of the Moving Dartmouth Forward process, steering committee
member and student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said that there could have been more transparency, and that having a larger representation of the student body during the re-engagement phase, during which recommendations were narrowed down, would have improved that stage. Professors interviewed by The Dartmouth expressed doubt that Hanlon’s policies will drastically change the social climate at Dartmouth. Writing professor John Donaghy said that though those involved are well-intentioned, the new policies will likely be “a lot of window dressing.” “I think what is going to come out of here is some pretty snazzy policy changes that are going to look great,” Donaghy said. “It will turn what should be an embarrassment for Dartmouth into a photo op for administrators and committees and it’s not going to make a single bit of difference.” He said that in pursuing Moving Dartmouth Forward, the administration has been reactive to several campus events, rather than pursuing a more drastic change that could possibly anger trustees and “old guard” alumni. “It seems to me that there has to be a complete change of campus ethos, that we do in fact have to be a less extreme and exclusive institution and everyone has to see how they have been contributing to the problem,” Donaghy said. Women’s and gender studies professor Michael Bronski said he expects
small, incremental changes, such as more peer group counseling or the urging of faculty to get involved with supporting students who face problems. Bronski agrees with Donaghy, saying that part of Moving Dartmouth Forward’s purpose is to serve as a public relations move, and worries that it may be seen as such by the public. He said for Dartmouth to see improvement, it needs to make large, structural changes. “I think the school needs to take a really hard look at itself,” Bronski said. For one, Bronski said, Dartmouth has underlying issues of racism that need to be examined — highlighting incidents on Bored at Baker — but he said he doubts that these recommendations will address such issues or that Hanlon will even mention them. Bronski also challenged the efficiency of the Moving Dartmouth Forward process, saying that an outside committee would be needed to properly evaluate Dartmouth’s historical problems — such as gender equality — that have yet to be addressed. The Moving Dartmouth Forward process had four phases. The first phase was gathering information, which consisted of consulting student groups, a variety of experts and other schools such as Bowdoin College and Amherst College to gather ideas for potential changes. Bowdoin was consulted to gather feedback on their student life, specifically the house social system that exists in place of a Greek system, Cun-
ningham said, although that particular system will not be coming to Dartmouth. In total, the steering committee met with over 40 student groups, read thousands of emails, talked to hundreds of faculty members and consulted with hundreds of alums, Will said. Phase two employed discussion amongst the committee as to what practices should be considered. The third phase included commu-
nity re-engagement and the narrowing down of recommendations, and the fourth phase was the completion of the recommendation packet. As of Monday, when the steering committee submitted the recommendations, their work is officially complete. Hanlon is reviewing the recommendations, then will decide the final policy and announce the changes to campus next Thursday.
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Even those who have committed violent crimes deserve a respectful burial. Two things in life are inevitable — death and taxes. While taxes differ for Americans and Europeans, the reality of death applies to each universally. The aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, however, illustrates the strange fact that the rights of the dead — particularly those who have committed terroristic acts — are wildly divergent between the U.S. and France. In the wake of the shooting, French laws regarding proper burials for anyone, regardless of what they did while alive, stand in stark and unflattering contrast to America’s vengeful habit of refusing respectful burials to certain deceased individuals. After the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s family struggled to find a home for his remains after the Worcester, Massachusetts funeral home that initially housed them became a target for protests. Tsarnaev’s remains were refused by various other cemeteries in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. A proposal that called for burying him on the grounds of a Massachusetts state prison was unsuccessful. The situation became so dire that Worcester Police chief Garry J. Gemme was forced to make a public appeal requesting that someone volunteer to provide a burial site for Tsarnaev. Ultimately, he was buried in an unmarked plot in a small Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia. Even then, his burial was highly controversial, prompting the county sheriff to alert the state attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, to the situation. Cuccinelli’s office said they would investigate the burial in order to ensure that all laws had been followed in burying Tsarnaev there. That said, at least Tsarnaev was given the dignity of a burial. After Osama bin Laden’s assassination, the U.S. Navy chose to bury him in the North Arabian Sea. This was an unusual move for a number of reasons, chiefly that burials at sea are uncommon in Muslim tradition, which has highly specific parameters for burials. Immediately after the assassination, radical Lebanese cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed called the burial an effort to “humiliate Muslims” — an exaggeration, given that most mainstream Muslims had no love lost for bin Laden and the fact that the U.S. made every other attempt to honor Muslim tradition,
including respecting the alotted 24 hours, washing the body and shrouding it in a white cloth. The statement nonetheless had a grain of truth, especially in light of the fact that U.S. officials cited their desire to avoid creating a burial shrine for bin Laden’s fellow jihadists, rather than an inability to find him a burial site, as a major driving factor in the decision to bury him at sea. Compare these cases to the reaction to the quiet burial of Said Kouachi, who was one of the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Over the weekend, officials in his hometown of Reims confirmed that Kouachi had been buried in an unmarked grave in a Muslim burial area in the city. Despite unease about the possibility of the burial site becoming a shrine for extremists, the decision to place the body in Reims came at the demand of the French government. The burial happened over the objection of the city’s mayor, Arnaud Robinet, who had previously pledged to “categorically refuse” Kouachi’s family’s request to bury him in the city. After Robinet’s comments, the French national government intervened to enforce a French law guaranteeing a right to be buried in the last town in which one lived. Similarly, Kouachi’s brother, Cherif, will soon be buried in a Muslim burial plot in a Parisian suburb, Gennevilliers, under the protection of the same French law. The stark difference between American and French willingness — or lack thereof — to guarantee proper burials for all speaks volumes about the relationship each nation and its people have to terror. While the public and officials in both nations are understandably horrified by the acts of terror themselves, it is not the state’s place to use crimes as a pretext to deny a burial in accordance with one’s religious traditions. As we continue to grapple with the threat of terrorism, it is important for the free world to treat all with respect and dignity — even those who we consider to be our enemies. Proper, respectful treatment of adversaries is essential to building a peaceful, better world. We should start by treating individuals who have perpetuated violence within our borders with the very dignity and compassion that they denied to others.
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Dartmouth needs to take more initiative on open access. Dartmouth is counted among the best universities in the world, so why is it failing to lead on one of the world’s most pressing issues? Most of our research — and most research in America — is published behind immense paywalls that keep the American public and students and scholars in developing nations from accessing the information they need. Preventive vaccines for the Ebola virus in primates were developed 14 years ago and published in Nature, an international science journal, behind a $32 access fee. Had this information been readily available to the general public after its date of publication, a human vaccine could have potentially been researched and tested prior to 2014’s Ebola crisis. The open access movement believes that if knowledge is power, then timely access to information is an issue of global justice. Open access means widespread, freely available online access to scholarly research. It might seem like we have open access at Dartmouth because when we click on “get PDF” through the Summon system, we’re usually linked immediately to the article we want. We don’t have to pull out our ID cards and use our DASH accounts to pay for access to each article. That freedom, however, is superficial. Twenty citations in an essay can be equivalent to over $600 in scholarly resources. Dartmouth shells out massive amounts of money every year to purchase journal subscriptions and make sure you get the scholarly information you need. Unless you’re planning on attending another research institution after Dartmouth, your inexpensive access to scholarly information might end with graduation. Open access seeks to stop rising publishing fees. These fees have become so expensive that one of the richest institutions in the world — Harvard University — announced in 2012 that it could no longer afford to pay for them. If Harvard maintains the largest endowment of any American university — nearly $32.7 billion for 2013 — and still can’t pay for scholarly information, who can? The open access movement wants to change this system by making research available to global audiences, regardless of their economic status. While groups like Open Access Nigeria have
been loudly advocating the benefits of open access, Dartmouth has been whispering around its edges. Although many individual faculty and staff — especially many of our librarians — provide support for the movement, a sustained commitment to open access at the institutional level is lacking. The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, Harvard, and several other institutions already have open access policies that allow faculty members to retain rights to their scholarly and scientific articles before they sign these rights away to publishers. These policies allow institutions to develop open access repositories of their work, which disseminate their scholarship and encourage international access to information. There are more than 700 open access repositories in the United States. Dartmouth does not have an open access policy yet. The faculty Council on the Libraries has drafted an open access policy proposal, but it was tabled at the Nov. 2014 faculty meeting amidst objections from some faculty members. Despite Dartmouth’s inaction, students elsewhere are launching major efforts to increase open access. Jack Andraka, a high school student from Maryland, developed an early detector kit for pancreatic cancer that costs a whopping three cents with help from several publications he accessed through open access. Hundreds of university students have risked legal reprimands by participating in #icanhazpdf, a simple online request system on Twitter that lets students request academic PDFs from students who have access to them. Students at Dartmouth can and should work to increase the world’s access to information. Ask professors in your classes to address information justice. Ask your research mentors if they plan to publish via open access. Check out the library’s “Scholarly Publishing and Communication” research guide. Take your subject librarian out for coffee. Spread the word. Lead where Dartmouth doesn’t yet. Schroer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science. The views in this column are solely those of its author and do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s institution.
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Women’s recruitment policy reforms see greater success FROM RUSH PAGE 1
than by the Panhell executives. There were very few violations, Ke said, which she partially attributed to the participation of sorority presidents in the process. “It’s really scary to go before a board of presidents, and I think that’s a disincentive to be rude,” Panhell president Rachel Funk ’15 said. Ke said that other changes implemented during fall rush ran more smoothly in the winter, the second recruitment season for which they were in effect. The more intensive Rho Chi training implemented in the fall was a solid improvement from previous recruitments, Ke said. The 17 Rho Chis who participated in winter recruitment were an integral part of what Panhell sees as a successful recruitment season, Panhell co-vice president for recruitment Kathleen Wahl ’15 said. “They are the absolute foundation,” Ke said. “They are the reason why recruitment runs so well.” During fall rush, Panhell implemented a new policy that aimed for each potential new member to be called back to the second-round parties of at least four sororities. Panhell executives backed down slightly from that policy for this winter’s recruitment. “We work really hard to make sure that every woman does in fact get callbacks,” Ke said. “We try to maximize the PNMs’ options whenever possible. That being said, we cannot mandate that houses call back certain girls, so while it’s not mandatory, we do work hard so that every PNM has the maximum possible options.” Rather than mandating that every PNM receive at least four callbacks, Panhell opted to adjust its system so that houses would have to call back a higher proportion of PNMs, Ke said. The figures were
based upon the number of women each sorority attracted to their house in recent years, which is then used within a computer algorithm that assigns a quota — the number of women rushing divided by the number of sororities — to each house, she said. Rush chairs and sorority presidents were generally more willing to call back women who were not on their original lists than they were in the fall, Funk said. The process in the fall was negatively impacted due to regulatory loopholes, Funk said. “Houses were able to find what they considered loopholes, and we didn’t really consider [them] loopholes — just them not following the rules,” she said. Both Panhell leadership and individual sororities did all they could to implement the changes in the fall, KDE president Emily Uniman ’15 said. “I think part of the problem that didn’t work out in the fall were the policies in place,” she said. “I think every president and every rush chair did their best to kind of hold up to that deal that Panhell tried to do. I know Panhell worked extremely hard to match girls to at least four houses.” Despite the work of Panhell executives, not all students were satisfied with callbacks. Danielle Melvin ’17, who said she was pleased with rush, said that some acquaintances had not been called back anywhere for preference night. “I was under the impression that everyone would be given the opportunity to join a house if they went through this long, time-consuming process,” she said. “I don’t know what happened there, maybe there was an overload of women rushing this year, but that was what I was disappointed with.” This winter’s recruitment season offered sorority leadership a second
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opportunity to follow the recommendations proposed by Panhell. “Hopefully winter recruitment manifested those changes that we were looking to implement,” Courtney Wong ’15, president of Alpha Phi, said. “I think we’ve made strides toward more inclusiveness, more diversity and more transparency, but I think there could always be improvement in those areas.” The changes implemented in the fall were a step in the right direction, KDE president Emily Uniman ’15 said. “I think Panhell has done a great job,” she said. “I think since this recruitment season is done, we can now go back and reflect on our changes and go from there.” Clara Wang ’17, who accepted a bid at AZD, said that the changes implemented in the fall were beneficial. While the process was “not as bad” as she expected it to be, she said that it could still be improved. “Going through rush was still kind of an emotionally draining process, because no matter what you’re not going to get called back somewhere,” she said. “It means you talked to people and they didn’t think you were a good fit.” Wang also went to the EKT “shake-out” event, and said she
preferred it to the larger Panhell rush process. “It was a lot more relaxed, and I felt it was more comfortable,” she said. Panhell executives said that they hope future leaders will continue to reform the recruitment process, although their own terms are up at the end of winter term. “I think there’s more conversation going on in the Panhellenic community recently, and that’s something that our executive board has pushed a lot,” Panhell co-programming chair Molly Chodakewitz ’15 said. “There’s more dialogue around inclusivity and making recruitment as transparent as possible. I think that’s something that the whole Panhellenic community, from my standpoint, has really gotten on board with.” Funk said that she thought winter rush was better than fall rush, but hoped that future Panhell executives would continue to implement changes. “We know that this process isn’t perfect, but it’s really easy to criticize when you see only certain outcomes, and it’s really easy to compliment when you see only certain other outcomes, but it’s important to look at all outcomes,” Ke said.
Panhell will hold internal elections at the end of this term for its new executive board. In addition to other changes, Panhell has also drastically reduced the budget for recruitment, eliminating both food and decorations from houses, Funk said. Panhell hopes to use the funds saved to increase scholarships and promote exclusivity, Wahl said. She added that scholarship funding has quadrupled over the past year. “I think we’ve made significant strides toward making recruitment more inclusive,” Ke said. Panhell hopes to continue to make recruitment more inclusive and to “level the playing field” for both PNMs and houses, Ke said. “I think we’re making great strides, and I think we made significant strides in the past year,” Funk said. Before their terms expire in March, the Panhell executives will review the changes they have made and consider their impacts. “Everything we do we can improve upon,” Ke said. “After this, we’ll be sitting down figuring out what worked, what didn’t, how we can make this better and what we can pass on to the next executive board.”
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Rotunda exhibition explores gender roles in Turkey
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Concrete slabs reminiscent of ancient Middle Eastern tablets stand alone in the Barrows Rotunda, the circular glass gallery space that students pass by as they enter the Hopkins Center. These imposing slabs are a part of studio art intern Sera Boeno’s ’14 politically and personally charged piece “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz (:Words Naked/Are Not Enough.)” Boeno said that the piece represents her personal interpretation of gender relations in her native country of Turkey. “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz” is made of ten concrete slabs of various sizes, evoking 3,000-year-old tablets from the Assyrian Empire. Inscribed on these tablets are a selection of quotations from various Turkish politicians, quotes that Boeno has heard at different times throughout her life. Boeno said that she chose to inscribe the quotes in a mixture of Turkish and English in an attempt to make the piece more accessible to the general public. “Creating art that is about Turkey often presents the difficulty of translation,” she said. “I use text a lot in my art work, which can be difficult for viewers at Dartmouth to understand.” Although her exhibition is concerned with the political issue of gender relations in Turkey, Boeno said, that she is not an ambassador to the United States, a role that people who view her work sometimes assume she inhabits. She said
that the opinions presented in her work are not meant to represent the opinions of all Turkish people at the College.
“I’ve watched people look at her work at the Rotunda, wandering in and out of the building, reading the text and trying to figure it out. Ultimately, I think that is what art work needs to do — engage the viewer and start a sort of conversation.” -GERALD AUTEN, STUDIO ART PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS “This is my individual commentary on the Turkish socio-political situation,” Boeno said. “But because international students from Turkey are such a small minority at Dartmouth, my work is often portrayed as a definitive representation of how things are in Turkey.” Boeno said that the tendency of people to misinterpret her work has
made it difficult for her to emphasize that her art only represents her own thoughts on Turkish politics. She said that a way to avoid this misinterpretation is to go beyond emotional poignancy by including factual information. Beyond the difficulty with expressing her message, Boeno said that she encountered physical troubles in the creation of the exhibition. Each of the concrete pieces found in the exhibition weighed anywhere from 50 to 120 pounds. “The most practical issue in the creation of this exhibition was moving the pieces to the Rotunda,” she said. “I had a lot of help from my housemates, friends and other studio arts interns in the moving process.” The unusual circular shape, as well as the size of the Rotunda, also presented challenges, Boeno said. Because she knew that her exhibition would be held in the Rotunda, however, she was able to create the piece with the space in mind. Boeno added that the limits of a space are very important in art, especially in sculpture. Director of exhibitions and studio art professor Gerald Auten said that “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz” is powerful in its ability to engage its viewers. “I’ve watched people look at her work at the Rotunda, wandering in and out of the building, reading the text and trying to figure it out,” Auten said. “Ultimately, I think that is what art work needs
to do — engage the viewer and start a sort of conversation. Sera’s work does this very well.” Sean Hammett ’14, another studio art intern who has frequently worked with Boeno during their time at the College, said that she has grown as an artist over the time that he has known her. “Her work has become a lot more mature, a lot more considerate and a lot more consistent,” Hammett said. “She also experiments a lot with different materials. She is a lot more adventurous than she was as a younger student.” Hammett said that her work tends to have more of a political message than other artists at the College and described her artistic endeavors as “tough.” He said that he believes that her exhibition show represents the next step in her development as an artist and demonstrates a strong and forceful point of view in the topic that she is discussing. “This exhibition has similar content to some of her other pieces in that it is concerned with the politics of Turkey,” Hammett said. “But this exhibition is more clearly presented and it is more succinctly distilled into a coherent piece.” He said that he thinks it can be challenging for art students to do work about politics. “I think its great for a young artist to be doing mature work like that, that is drawing on current events and on a political climate,” he said. “I think that’s tough for
students to do well, but Sera definitely succeeded in her work.” Auten said that Boeno represents what the studio art department expects from its majors, due to the force behind both the exhibition and her work in general. Boeno’s work is serious, ambitious, well-crafted and conceptually strong, he said. “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz” will be exhibited through Feb. 16 in the Barrows Rotunda in the entrance to the Hop. After the conclusion of “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz,” Hammett’s work will be exhibited in the gallery.
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Squash teams go 2-1 in New Haven B y EMILY WECHSLER The Dartmouth Staff
The No. 10 women’s squash team notched two upsets in a successful trip to New Haven, Connecticut this past weekend. At Yale University’s Brady Squash Courts, the Big Green (3-4, 0-3) beat No. 7 Stanford University 7-2 on Saturday and No. 8 George Washington University 5-4 on Sunday. The No. 8 men’s team, also in New Haven, lost 7-2 to the No. 4 University of Rochester. The women’s squash team overcame unfavorable history with the Stanford team, which it had not beaten since 2006. “We knew they were very good, [but] we knew we’d have a chance like always,” men’s and women’s head coach Hansi Wiens said. “Our team performed very, very well, especially our freshman and seniors [who] pushed through and did really well under pressure.” T h e i m p re s s i ve w i n ove r Stanford was followed closely by another upset against George Washington, albeit a harder fought one. The first round of matches featured a four-game victory for Lydie McKenzie ’16 and two fivegame losses from Madeline Fraser ’17 and Oona Morris ’15. Fraser, who clinched the win against Stanford with a 3-0 victory, was chosen as a Northeast Credit Union Athlete of the Week for her play in New Haven. The second and third rounds saw George Washington and Dartmouth trade blow for blow. Co-captain Sarah Caughey ’15 and Rebecca Brownell ’18 secured two three-game wins in the second round of games, which ended with the teams tied 3-3. Another win for each team left the score tied at 4-4, and all eyes turned toward cocaptain Helena Darling ’15, who was tied with George Washington’s Eunice Tan, both women at one game each. During the third game, Tan went down to the court after a drop shot from Darling, and was forced to retire from the match due to injury, giving the Big Green the win. “We’re very, very happy about this weekend,” Wiens said. “We can be in the top eight, and the top eight go in four weeks and play
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for the national championship in Boston.” The team seemed to play more confidently this weekend, Wiens said. Having faced some hard loses earlier this season, the team has remained remarkably mentally tough, and spirits were high at practice on Tuesday. The team’s training atmosphere and dynamic have been very strong. “This is the highest we’ve been ranked since I’ve been here,” Caughey said. “My first couple of years here we were [ranked] eight, but we got crushed by one through seven and then crushed anyone below us. It’s been really fun this season to actually have close matches.” The women were prepared for a down season after four of its top five players graduated last year. However, there has been no visible slack, and the freshmen have made valuable contributions to the team’s play, Caughey said. The men’s team (2-5, 0-3) saw its lineup shift this weekend as four top-nine players were unable to travel. Yet in a demonstration of the depth of Dartmouth squash talent, the team’s two wins came from Bayard Kuensell ’15 in the
eighth spot and George Henderson ’17 in the ninth, players who otherwise might not have travelled. “[Dartmouth has] one of the deepest teams out there,” Kuensell said. “We know that we have 14 players who can step up at any time.” Rochester looked to be stout competition for the Big Green even before illness and injury struck several players. “Everyone had to play to the best of their ability for us to even have a chance,” Kuensell said. Despite only winning two matches, Wiens did not look negatively on the men’s weekend, pointing out that James Fisch ’16 and Glen Brickman ’17 forced fifth games in their matches, despite ultimately losing. The team won’t be making big changes in these last four weeks of practice and competition. The men have solid fitness, and they’ll focus on polishing their mental game, thinking about taking opportunities to “shoot,” or attack from bad positions, Wiens said. Both men’s and women’s squash start four-game home stands this Sunday, beginning by taking on Bates College at the John Berry Sports Center.
“The fact that you just submitted a Pro Bowl vote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever witnessed. At no point were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having witnessed your idiocy. May God have mercy on your soul.” — Richard “Billy Madison” Shen ‘17 Last Sunday, many of us witnessed one of the greatest comebacks to ever occur in a playoff football game. The Seattle Seahawks, down 12 points with five minutes remaining, had just a .1 percent chance of winning the game, according to Pro-Football-Reference. com. Despite the odds, Seattle never quit and rallied back to force overtime. Three minutes into the extra period, Russell Wilson hit Jermaine Kearse on a 35-yard touchdown strike to end the game. Kearse had been the intended receiver of all four of Wilson’s interceptions. The game perfectly illustrated why football can be such a thrilling ride, and how it can leave many of us craving more. Unfortunately, the only football this Sunday will be the annual Pro Bowl, which epitomizes the fact that All-Star games in professional sports never live up to their potential. The idea of an invincible team of superstars is undeniably appealing. Look at the number of people who play career mode in video games and create leagues of fantasy sports with friends. These fans aim to construct an unbeatable team and watch as it destroys the competition. All-Star games are supposed to bring this fantasy to life. Fans want to see the best players in their respective sports go head-tohead. After all, who doesn’t want to see Aaron Rodgers being chased down by DeMarcus Ware as he launches a deep ball to Calvin Johnson? Or see LeBron James dunking off an alleyoop pass from Derrick Rose over a helpless Kobe Bryant? (Fun fact: according to the share of team wins every player contributes in a given season, selecting Kobe Bryant as an All-Star this year would be the second worst selection in 35 years — second only to Kobe Bryant last year.) The idea is so tantalizing, and yet,
every year, All-Star games disappoint. You see players half-heartedly competing in a marginalized game, where their sole goal is to make it out without any injuries. As a sports fan, it is hard to watch an opportunity for something so great be squandered and rendered painful to watch. To make matters worse, a player’s number of All-Star selections has a big impact on their legacy and their chances at getting into the Hall of Fame. Yet, every year some of the best players in their respective sports are ignored and overlooked for the AllStar games, meaning in the end they often miss out on earning entrance into the Hall of Fame for reasons beyond their control. Rich and I, the sports geniuses that we are, have come up with a few solutions to this problem. Here’s a list of our top three ideas: 1. The players all sprint out of the tunnel and are greeted by a “Hunger Games”-like world. Picture Peyton Manning sniping Wes Welker (google “Peyton-Welker text conversation” for a good time) in the head with a coconut, giving him his 102,932,919th concussion (but seriously, how is he alive?), Andy Dalton (yes, he is in fact in the Pro Bowl this year) showing up for the game and having everyone laugh at him because he’s Andy Dalton and J.J. Watt wrecking every kicker and punter there before screaming to the audience, “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?” 2. The players are all brought together in a room. It is dimly lit, and there is a feeling of angst in the air. Each player is handed a controller and given a set of rules. Then they play Madden against each other as themselves. Imagine how cool this would be — watching Richard Sherman play as himself and listening as he talks trash to Tom Brady, sitting next to him on the couch and Marshawn Lynch actually saying something (maybe). This scenario provides an alternative where the players actually try — as long as Vince Wilfork doesn’t eat his controller first. 3. Just get rid of the Pro Bowl. Seriously, no one likes it. Once again, thanks for reading. Try to avoid walking past a TV on Sunday — you might accidentally watch some of the Pro Bowl.