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The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault called for increased campus preventive and response measures for sexual assault in its 2015 recommendations, released last week to the Dartmouth community. Following the release, SPCSA held a community forum last Thursday, where the recommendations and possible barriers to their promotion were discussed, SPCSA vice chair Shanet Hinds ’16 said. SPCSA was pleased by the implementation of two of its major 2014 recommendations — the introduction of a mandatory and comprehensive four-year sexual violence prevention and education program in the College’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative and the conduction of the Association of American Universities campus climate survey on sexual assault with publicized results, SPCSA member John Damianos ’16 said. In contrast to last year’s 21 recommendations, SPCSA members decided this year to focus on five to convey clearer goals that the committee, administrators and students could work with, Damianos said. The 2015 recommendations are as follows: regular responder workshops for all first-year faculty advisors, faculty members leading off-campus programs and Safety and Security officers; providing financial support covering the full cost of long-term counseling for student survivors of sexual violence; providing greater avenues for feedback from the different entities who respond to and adjudicate sexual assault; providing incentives for the integration of sexual SEE SPCSA PAGE 3
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Senator Lindsey Graham spoke about his views on foreign policy, immigration and the economy at the Hop
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked, “This is the only way I could get into an Ivy League School — by running for president,” at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Graham is the second presidential candidate to be featured in “America’s Economic Future,” a lecture series co-sponsored by the Tuck School of Business and the Rockefeller Center. At the
Professors discuss grad school
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Plans to create an administratively independent School of Graduate and Advanced Studies were discussed in detail at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Wednesday during the second of three “town hall” style meetings. Information included details about the organization of the new school and concerns
about the project’s budget. Dean of graduate studies Jon Kull — who presided over the task force that recommended creating the school — gave a presentation outlining the task force’s rationale for the suggestion of a freestanding graduate school. The task force was organized by Provost Carolyn Dever last year to explore the option of a stand-alone graduate school. Under the current
administrative structure, the various graduate programs — outside of the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business — all report to Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno, he said. Under the proposed plan, all graduate programs not contained within the College’s three SEE TOWN HALL PAGE 5
event — held at the Top of the Hop — Graham spoke about his early life, his military and public service career and his views on foreign policy and America’s economic standing. Graham concentrated on the importance of American leadership in foreign policy. The greatest threat America faces is radical Islam since the war being fought by extremists is an attempt to purify their own faith and eliminate all other faiths, he said. The aspirations of young
people in the Middle East are similar to those of Americans, Graham said. Most fathers and mothers in the Middle East do not want to give their children away to the Islamic State, he said. Graham said the solution to the problem lies in military campaigns as well as education and empowerment of the youth. “This is going to be a long, hard fight,” Graham said. “But we’re on the right side of the fight.” SEE GRAHAM PAGE 5
Teaching Science Fellows program supports students
B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff
The Teaching Science Fellows program — created to make difficult introductory science courses accessible to a wider range of students — is now in its second year. The two current fellows, Therese Kienemund ’15 and Joshua Prickel ’15, work with the professors and students of large science courses in a variety of
capacities, including holding office hours and conducting course surveys. Biology professor and program creator Lee Witters said he thought of the idea after realizing that the people best suited to help students in introductory science courses were those who had succeeded both in those courses and at Dartmouth. SEE FELLOWS PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing Brown University: Brown student group First-Gens@Brown plans to release a student-organized guidebook aimed toward helping firstgeneration college students navigate their time at the university, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The guidebook, which the group intends to release by the end of winter break, will attempt to counteract the unfamiliarity of college by offering information that these students may not already know, including information about meal plans, office hours and scholarship programs. Columbia University: This year’s Students Affairs Committee Quality of Life survey reported an overall increase in student satisfaction, but also showed a decline from 2013 in student satisfaction within three minority groups: students from low-income backgrounds, those who experience physical and mental disabilities and transgender students, the Columbia Spectator reported. University senator and committee vice chair Ramis Wadood said these results were unsurprising due to the unique challenges these groups face, noting that the findings demonstrate the existence of a concrete problem and will allow Columbia to implement programs to address these groups. Cornell University: Animal activists have accused Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, of chimpanzee abandonment, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. These protests began when the New York Blood Center withdrew funding from the Liberian Lab where Glimcher and the NYBC performed virus-testing research on chimpanzees. Protesters argued that the lack of financial support left 66 chimpanzees abandoned without food or water. Glimcher has denied any responsibility in NYBC’s withdrawal of funding and spoke of her support for the ethical treatment of animals. Harvard University: Harvard faculty and administrators have recently proposed changes to the University’s general education program, the Harvard Crimson reported. These changes would lower the number of required classes and implement more stringent requirements of departmental courses. Four town hall meetings have been held to discuss these changes, and the committee intends to propose official legislation in December. Princeton University: On Oct. 18, the Hidden Minority Council created a Princeton Class Confessions page on Facebook to offer first generation and low-income students a forum to anonymously post questions or personal stories, the Daily Princetonian reported. The page was initiated as a means of making students feel comfortable at Princeton and giving them an outlet to discuss their experiences. Brittney Watkins, co-chair of the council, hopes that the page will lead to broader culture and policy changes around these issues at Princeton.
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Fellows provide support for sciences FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1
Witters then wrote a proposal, in conjunction with a few other faculty members in the biology and chemistry departments, and submitted it to the dean of the faculty office. The dean of the faculty office then worked with the Office of the Provost to approve the program. The fellows attend every class session and take notes, submitting summaries on Canvas at the end of the week. Students in the course can attend review sessions run by the fellows, either one-on-one or in groups, during convenient times such evenings or weekends. The fellows also run surveys for their classes, including a pre-class survey to learn why students are taking the course and to identify potential issues and a midterm survey. Then, the fellows collate the results and send them to the faculty members. Witters said he hopes the fellows will encourage students to continue on in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — commonly referred to as STEM — fields. He said the program was looking for applicants who had just graduated from the College, had prior success in those classes and could be both a role model and peer advisor for the students. Kienemund is working with sections of “Cell Structure and Function” and “Gene Expression and Inheritance.” Prickel is working with Chemistry 5. The classes with which the fellows are assisting are the ones most
frequently taken by biology majors and pre-health students. Kienemund said she has noticed improvement in some of the students that she worked with and that she offers help outside of just going over material. “It is important to me to take a holistic approach to student success where the A is not the only thing that matters,” she said. The fellows reach out campuswide to people who may be interested in the sciences and will be preparing videos with the Jones Media Center on how to study, among other non-class related activities, Witters said. Kienemund said her position allows her to act as a resource for faculty members where she can provide input and give feedback that she hears from students, such as whether a particular subject was especially difficult. She said the sessions can get tight around midterms, but that she was committed to making sure students get the resources they need. Kienemund heard about the position from an email that Witters sent with a short description of the program. She then talked with a prior fellow, Natalia Vecerek ’14, and Witters before deciding to apply for the position as it would allow her to explore teaching. Prickel said he decided to apply to the program because he wanted to take a gap year before going to medical school and wanted to try teaching. He said he serves as both academic and social support for the students with whom he works.
He said he has seen about half of the 80 “General Chemistry” students in his office hours or in his one-on-one sessions, which is just as much, if not more, than the amount that go to teaching assistant hours or professor office hours. Kienemund and Prickel went through a training program in the summer designed by Witters, which included meeting with faculty members. “General Chemistry” professor John Winn said he got involved in the program after its creation by Witters and helped choose the fellows. He said that he only looked at potential chemistry fellows this year, of which there were six applicants. Winn said he meets with Prickel at least once a week to get updates on the class. The difference between a fellow and a graduate or undergraduate teaching assistant is that the fellows are much more involved with the class, he said. Witters oversees the fellows during the term and meets with them and the professors periodically to make sure everything is running smoothly. Witters said he could see the program being expanded in science, social science and the humanities courses. Witters said he is looking for funding to expand the program along with having discussions about affiliating the fellows with the residential communities by placing them in each one. The formal application process for next year’s fellows will start in the winter, he said.
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University of Pennsylvania: Rachel Senturia, a member of the University’s Class of 2006, has launched STEMsocks, a sciencethemed sock company, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Senturia began STEMsocks in 2012, and has continued her business to prove that scientists are not necessarily how stereotypes often portray them. Senturia intends to expand her business by increasing the accessibility of STEMsocks and selling a greater variety of products. Yale University: Yale sophomore Neema Githere accused Yale’s Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of racial discrimination, the Yale Daily News reported. Githere posted a Facebook status describing an incident where women of color were not permitted into the fraternity last week with the justification that the party was “white girls only.” Githere was not in attendance at the event, but mentioned that she had been affected by a similar situation in the past. SAE has denied all accusations. —COMPILED BY ANNA STAROPOLI
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assault peer advocates and responder workshops into the Greek system and residential housing and requiring all Greek Letter Organizations and Societies organizations to have a sexual misconduct policy and to have members undergo a mandatory sexual violence prevention education program. “I am fully behind SPCSA engaging the entire community in everything we can do to reduce sexual violence,” special assistant to the College President and SPCSA administrative advisor Laura Hercod said. The SPCSA recommendations are mainly formulated by the students on the committee. The administrative advisors simply help the committee reach its goal by providing support to the students, Hercod said. In drafting the recommendations, SPCSA utilized research and community feedback gathered at the Committee’s annual symposium and in discussions and interviews with campus groups about their concerns with sexual assault, Hinds said. The primary considerations in this year’s recommendations were prevention and response, rather than the creation of more education programs on sexual assault, since the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative mandated the creation of such a program, Damianos said. Damianos said the Committee also examined the previous year’s recommendations to recycle back some important proposals that were not implemented and to find areas where different needs of the Dartmouth community had not been addressed. “One of the big goals for this year was looking at sexual assault in minority communities,” Damianos said. “We know from data and from hearing people’s experiences that sexual assault looks different in minority communities than it does in a heteronormative narrative.” The Committee’s recommendations represent best practices in a national context, founding member of Faculty Against Rape, a volunteer-run thinktank concerned with increasing the role of faculty in preventing sexual assaults on college campuses, Simona Sharoni said. “The recommendations do not require a lot of the administration and represent a shift from the top-down approach that administrators have taken,” Sharoni said. Sharoni said she thinks the students deserve an apology from administrators for failing to provide students with the safe and supportive environment they were promised by the College. Overall, she said the students have done an outstanding job with seeking to improve campus sexual assault prevention and resource measures,. DartmouthChange co-founder Susy Struble ’93 echoed Sharoni’s sentiments about the recommendations being fea-
sible and reflective of what the College community needs. Struble said SPCSA has shown remarkable leadership and its members have thought broadly and critically of ways to enhance victim support and prevention. Struble said her biggest concern is whether there is enough willpower in the administration to fully implement these recommendations because of what she said is a past disconnect between what students say needs to be done and how the College responds. “I would like to see people from within the College administration stand up and take leadership and ownership of these recommendations,” she said. For Kathryn Kiefer, the New Hampshire attorney general office’s college consortium coordinator, the recommendations were both solid and creative. They could have had more details, Kiefer said, as the recommendations left her with some unanswered questions as to how they would implemented on campus. The first recommendation con-
cerning the requirement of regular responder workshops for all first-year advisors and faculty leaders of offcampus programs should be broadened to include all faculty members, she said. Other improvements to the recommendations could include the expansion of the proposed mandatory sexual violence prevention education programs for all GLOS societies to all members of the College community for academic credit, Sharoni said. “The only way to ensure a qualitative shift in programming is to have a collaboration with academic affairs and grant students credit,” Sharoni said. “The only way that most students will take training seriously on sexual assault is if it is integrated in the curriculum and they get credit for it.” Now that the recommendations have been released, SPCSA will focus on implementation and research for next year’s recommendations by examining what was overlooked this year and evaluating the best ways to reach out to the community, Damianos said.
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Ready For Hillary
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton offers solutions to create change. One problem with social justice movements that are supported and nurtured by social media is that 140 characters are generally just enough to point out problems — but not enough to propose solutions. I myself am guilty of this — a lot of the time, my columns will identify problems I see without offering a comprehensive solution beyond “this has to change.” But change how? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers this question, and for that reason and more, she deserves to be the next president of the United States. Clinton understands that it is not enough to change peoples’ hearts and minds. Getting people to believe in equality does not necessarily make it a reality. General public support for marriage equality, for example, effectively meant little until the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in June this year. Recognition that racism-fueled police brutality is a problem is important, but that alone will not lead to substantive change until legal measures — like body camera requirements — are put in place to prevent continued abuses. Cataloguing the failures of our justice system to adequately address sexual assault cases is important work, but only if it contributes to changes in that system. We can convince the majority of everyday Americans that each person should enjoy equal rights regardless of their gender, race or religion, but that will not improve anyone’s life until we address institutional bias from within the institution itself. It is possible to point out problem after problem, but unless we find a way to fix them and put the right people in power, all the ink we spill is useless. Millions of hearts and minds can be changed, but if that is not partnered with inspiring policy change, activism is no more effective than a hamster running on a wheel. The candidate you support cannot just be someone with whom you agree — they must be someone you believe can create the change you want to see. As a self-identified progressive, I feel Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) most closely represents my political beliefs. But I have worked tirelessly to elect Clinton for the past two months because I believe she is the only person who can
create the change I want to see, the candidate who will pass progressive legislation rather than simply paying the progressives in the country lip service. Many people accuse Clinton of being an old-school feminist and of being out of touch, but she just understands that we cannot move onto new battles without finishing the old ones. For example, Clinton focuses on economic issues regarding women’s rights, such as the wage gap between men and women. She recognizes that we never won the battles of second wave feminism. The third wave of feminism may no longer see feminist struggles as purely economic, but we must keep that focus — it may not be as bombastic as other priorities of the women’s movement, but economic success undeniably opens the door to the goals of modern intersectional feminists. In fact, all parts of Clinton’s platforms do address the goals of intersectional feminism. Fighting for equal pay, for example, will address both the racial and gender wage gap, which is felt most acutely by black, Latina and Native women. Paid pregnancy leave will protect single mothers from risking economic ruin if they can not return to work immediately after childbirth. The eradication of gender discrimination, however, is not just a fight to uplift women. These battles are conducted alongside the fight against mass incarceration, for the rights of LGBTQ Americans and for the rights of all immigrants, documented and not. While the language Clinton and second wave feminism uses is woman-centric, the people she represents and stands to help have multiple identities — poor, Latina, unemployed, transgender and more. She may not use the language intersectional feminists want, but her policy goals are multi-issue and, at their core, deeply intersectional. Clinton, with her focus on policies pursuing rights for all disadvantaged Americans, represents a change we need. Activists need to turn their words into meaningful, lasting reform, and Clinton’s focused policy agenda and political experience is the solution we need. She does not just call for change, but offers concrete solutions to actually create it.
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Diversity panels do not need to cater to the comfort of privileged groups. In his Oct. 28 column for The Dartmouth Re- likewise serves to dismiss rational feelings and view, “Finding a Place at Dartmouth: Thoughts opinions that are inconvenient to privileged on Diversity Panels,” columnist Sandor Farkas groups. The common sentiment that anger ’17 unleashed a wave of criticisms against di- invalidates arguments is thus a product of kyriversity panels. He berates their participants as archy — which takes into account intersectional “living, shouting proof that Soviet-era Stalinist systems of oppression, unlike patriarchy, which propaganda” exists on college campuses, and only focuses on binary gender. cites them as spaces where “independent and... Additionally, anger is a product of passion. conservative” views are “unwelcome” and even Those who become angry in an argument do attacked. As evidenced from such comments, it so because they care that much and have that seems that Farkas has failed to learn anything much at stake. Anger should not be used to from the panels about diversity or the issues dismiss, but to support certain arguments. In a that minority groups face. country where a disproRather, his column is portionate number of teeming with the en- “[Farkas’] column unarmed people of color titlement, disrespect and instead focuses on are killed by the police ignorance that come with white, male discomfort with no justifiable reason an unwillingness to think and wrongly shifts the and where the number of critically about issues of blame for minority issues transgender women being race, sex and gender. His stemming from systems murdered is at an all-time column instead focuses of oppressions to those high, it is understandable on white, male discomfort that those with similar fighting these systems.” and wrongly shifts the identifications would be blame for minority issues angry. To minority groups, stemming from systems of oppressions to those diversity panels are not just about slight discomfighting these systems. fort — this is about their lives. For those who do Farkas begins by remarking on his annoyance not share such identifications, it is not nor ever at the “flood of emails that advertised groups will be their place to dictate what is “appropriand events utterly unrelated to [his] interests and ate.” identity,” such as the Women of Color Collective. Finally, Farkas’ column implies that systems This annoyance demonstrates entitlement and of oppression do not exist and portrays minora lack of understanding, as these organizations ity groups as complainers who have no one to exist to create safe spaces for groups that are blame for their problems but themselves. Farunderrepresented and vulnerable. Spreading kas writes, “Whenever I hear someone blame information about such organizations — espe- ‘systems of oppression,’ for something that is cially on what Farkas himself admits to being a wrong in his life, I see a desperate person who is predominately white, “ivory trying to place his faults tower” of a college campus onto the shoulders of “No privileged group is — is more important than But personal entitled to minority groups’ others.” a cluttered inbox. flaws cannot explain Diversity panels, too, spaces or time. If a white, the disproportionate are partly meant to be safe heterosexual, cisgendered number of people of spaces — places where man who shares Farkas’ color in prison and the people are free to express views seeks spaces systemic — and often their experiences, thoughts where he can be fully and fatal — violence against and feelings without fear completely comfortable, women and the LGof retribution. Yet, Farkas then he need only step BTQIA+ community. describes many of the Rather, this appalling outside — and I would be diversity panelists as agreality is the result of happy to show him the gressive, even accusing oppressive systems that them of contributing to a door.” privilege white, heteroculture that “ignore[s] or sexual, cisgendered men attack[s] the diversity of identities and beliefs at the expense of everyone else. around them.” These diversity panels, however, To support his discriminatory opinion, Farkas were not created for his comfort or for the then quotes former College President Ernest entertainment of individuals who attend only Martin Hopkins as stating, “...the greatest weakto feel like self-proclaimed “fearless” heroes ness in American society at the present day is the of conservatism or to satisfy a half-hearted disposition of individuals to avoid responsibility attempt at understanding. Rather, they were and to delegate this to outside agencies.” These created to discuss and spread awareness about are the words of yet another white man reaping issues that affect people of color, women and the benefits of systems of oppressions — and at the LGBTQIA+ community — not to cater to a time when Dartmouth excluded women, no the needs of white, heterosexual, cisgendered less. As such, this person’s words are old in both men. time and in concept, and the fact that Farkas Moreover, citing anger to derail the argu- seemingly identifies with them is disturbing. ments of minority groups is a classic tactic No privileged group is entitled to minority used by privileged groups to disregard these groups’ spaces or time. If a white, heterosexual, arguments. Although angry men are seen as cisgendered man who shares Farkas’ views seeks assertive, intimidating and influential, women spaces where he can be fully and completely are dismissed as emotional and irrational. The comfortable, then he need only walk outside damaging trope of the “angry black woman” — and I would be happy to show him the door.
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Graham may face difficulty in the primaries, professors say FROM GRAHAM PAGE 1
Graham cited anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric as evidence of an existential threat posed by the Islamic State. The civil war in Syria is a major issue for American national security because of the nation’s strategic and central location in the Middle East, Graham said, adding that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime — if it stays in power — will guarantee regional instability and a protracted, endless war in the Middle East. The only way to destroy the Islamic State and Assad involves employing a ground campaign in Syria, he said. To cripple the Islamic State in Syria, Graham proposed introducing a nofly zone — so affected people do not feel obliged to leave Syria — training the Free Syrian Army and creating a regional alliance with forces from a wide variety of Middle Eastern countries. The new coalition’s forces should then remain in Syria and force Assad out of power, Graham said. “The enemy offers glorious death. I intend to create hopeful life,” he said. Graham linked the ability of the United States to defeat its enemies with the country’s current economic situation. The U.S. national debt could undermine efforts to combat Islamic extremism, he said. Sintha Rajasingham Tu’16 said she
attended the event because she hopes to find a candidate to support in the upcoming election. She believes that one of the most pressing issues facing the country today is the threat posed by the Islamic State and had heard Graham was one of the foremost experts on foreign policy within Congress. Mitzi Sampson, a community member, said she hoped to hear Graham’s thoughts on economics to gain a broader understanding of his platform, as Graham’s foreign policy positions usually receive more attention. Though Graham did not discuss specific economic policies, he proposed delaying the Social Security retirement age. Deregulating the American economy slightly would allow the country to prosper, he added. Graham answered questions relating to Israel and a two-state solution. Graham also said he would not urge Israel to adopt a peace deal until Hamas is marginalized or changed within the Gaza Strip, explaining that while he yearns for peace in the Middle East, Hamas indoctrinates its youth with hatred of the Israelis and has continuously launched thousands of rockets into Israel. If elected, Graham would refuse to pressure Israel to sign a “suicide pact” that he believes would threaten the Jewish state, he said. “As to Israel, I’ll have their back,” Graham said. Graham also fielded questions on
immigration reform in the United States. The senator proposed a modified version of amnesty for undocumented immigrants through which they would be required to pay a fine for entering the country illegally, pay taxes, pass an English proficiency exam and wait “at the back of the line” for a green card. “I promise you, if I get to be president of the United States, we’re going to fix immigration once and for all,” Graham said. “We’re going to be firm, and we’re going to be fair.” Graham stressed the need for bipartisan compromise in American politics, citing his own record working across the aisle on immigration policy, Social Security and student loans. The differences between Graham’s positions and those of many within the Republican Party can be traced to his upbringing, he said. The senator grew up living in a single room behind his family’s liquor store and bar. He was the first in his family to attend college and raised his younger sister following his parents’ deaths while he was still in school, he said. Since his own family benefited from student loan programs and government benefits, Graham said he believes such programs can be essential for realizing the American Dream. “I’m a Republican, proud of it, but there’s a role for the government,” Graham said. “I am running as a
Professors discuss graduate school FROM TOWN HALL PAGE 1
professional schools would be housed under the new, separate graduate school and would report directly to Dever. This would make it easier for graduate programs to advocate for and allocate funding, Kull said. The new structure would also help interdisciplinary graduate programs housed across multiple schools communicate with one another and manage their budgets, Kull said. In the current system, programs housed under multiple departments often place a disproportionate financial burden on a single department for funding. Having a single, freestanding graduate school that supervises programs across disciplines would allow these costs to be distributed more evenly by reducing administrative barriers, he said. In addition, having an administratively independent graduate school would be a signal to potential faculty members that Dartmouth is committed to graduate education and research, which could help to recruit more world-class faculty to the College, particularly in the sciences, Kull said. Uniting graduate programs under a single school would allow for more consistent evaluations, particularly for interdisciplinary programs, he said.
Nineteen people attended the meeting, most of whom are faculty members. The previous town hall meeting had a marginally higher turnout, Kull said. A final meeting will be held this Monday at the Life Sciences Center. Feedback from faculty interviewed at the event was generally positive. Geisel microbiology and immunology professor Brent Berwin said he was glad to have the graduate school’s goals explicitly presented. Berwin said he was supportive of the project, but added that future challenges and questions will likely arise. “I think if executed properly, it will be a good thing,” he said. Geisel biochemistry professor Arminja Kettenbach said Kull’s presentation was informative and she supported combining the different administrative structures of graduate programs under one department. Many graduate students wanted a greater connection to students in other programs, Geisel surgery professor Jack Hoopes said. The graduate school could help foster this connectivity and increase dialogue between students from different programs, he said. “I think it would function to make the programs more aware of each other and the students more aware of each other,” he said. “I think Ph.D.
students by nature do research, and the more of their colleagues they get to talk to and get to know, I think that there’s some benefit there.” Some faculty members in the audience, however, presented concerns about the potential cost of the proposed plan. The three professional schools may need to cover a larger portion of per-student costs currently covered by arts and sciences funds, Kull said in response to a question asked by a Geisel proessor. While the proposed graduate school would inevitably have funding issues, those issues should not be an overriding concern in evaluating its merit, Hoopes said. “It’s about graduate students,” he said. “It’s about having a better experience for the graduate students and being able to support them better so that their research is better and they can get better jobs.” Some faculty members have contacted Kull with reservations about the project, Kull said, adding that overall support for the new school has been varied. “I think there were some really good issues brought up,” he said. “Now I need to sit down with senior leadership and more faculty and talk about responding to those questions.”
Republican, but I will govern as an American.” This ability to be bipartisan without compromising personal ideals is highly appealing to Sandor Farkas ’17, a Graham supporter. “What I see in Lindsey Graham is someone who has often worked with Democrats to achieve things, to actually get things done in Washington,” he said. While Graham’s support of moderate positions is a highly attractive factor for some students, others believe that the eventual Republican nominee needs to be consistently conservative in order to unite the party’s base. To win the primaries, Republican presidential candidates should be prolife, pro-gun and opposed to amnesty for undocumented immigrants, College Republicans vice president Brian Chen ’17 said. “Graham is extremely unpopular among pretty much everyone [because] he takes positions that are so abhorrent to the base of the Republican Party,” Chen said. “He has a record of intentionally antagonizing and insulting the base of the party. He has deliberately angered and annoyed the people he needs to appeal to.” Graham’s bipartisanship can be his greatest weakness — rather than a strength — because Graham has not worked across aisles so much as he has capitulated to Democrats, Chen said. “There are many senators who work across the aisle and who are problem solvers, but they don’t deliberately insult the elements of their party, and they don’t deliberately scorn those elements of their own party, and they hold conservative values,” he said. Graham’s appearance in the second-tier debates — rather than the debates including the major leading candidates — has likely kept him from being perceived as a viable contender, government professor and electoral politics expert Dean Lacy said. While history has provided examples of candidates emerging as frontrunners later in the race, candidates as far behind as Graham usually do not stand a chance of winning, Lacy said. Nevertheless, the digital age is making it easier for candidates to advertise, helping Graham stay relevant, he said. “All of the candidates are getting more free media than they would if the available media was constrained to a 30-minute evening news program, where maybe five minutes would be devoted to the presidential race and only a few candidates would get coverage,” Lacy said. In order for Graham to advance in the polls, he needs to stand out, stay in the debates and raise money, Lacy said. Moreover, Lacy said Graham should seek to emphasize his breadth of knowledge and extensive experience in government. Graham sat in the House of Representatives for four terms before his election to the Senate, where he is now in his third term. Additionally, Graham
has served in the military for more than 30 years, including almost seven years on active duty. In order to be competitive in later primary states, Graham should focus on building up a base of support in Iowa and New Hampshire, Lacy said. “He has to survive through New Hampshire in the top tier so that he looks like a legitimate contender moving into Super Tuesday and the Southern primaries,” Lacy said. Presidents need to be able to work effectively across the aisle, government professor Eric Svensen said. Since Graham has been a leader in many notable bipartisan projects during his time in Congress — including the “Gang of Eight” that allied across the aisle to propose an immigration reform law — he might be more willing to work with Democrats as president, Svensen said. Graham’s support for some social welfare programs and high defense spending poses a philosophical challenge as he is seeking to represent a party that supports limited government, Svensen said. While Graham’s conflicting views will put him at odds with the Republican Party during the primaries, such views would actually help him in a general election, particularly by endearing him to independent voters, Svensen said. Dartmouth faculty thought to capitalize on candidates’ frequent visits to New Hampshire by inviting them to speak at the College, providing an educational opportunity for students at Dartmouth and Tuck to listen firsthand to presidential contenders, former New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, a fellow at Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government, said. Lynch said students, faculty and local voters can gain a sense of the candidates’ personalities as well as their policies. Additionally, meeting candidates can elucidate the process of running for president, including its challenges, he said. There is a value to bringing all candidates of both parties to Dartmouth, Farkas said. Graham’s views in particular can demonstrate to students that amidst many polarizing voices, a middle-of-the-road perspective exists within the Republican Party, he added. While all Republican and Democratic candidates have been invited to speak in the America’s Economic Future series, only former New York governor George Pataki and Senator Graham have spoken thus far. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is slated to speak next week. Coming to Dartmouth and Tuck is on all of the candidates’ radar screens, but trying to schedule their visits can be difficult because candidates have demands on their time from a variety of constituencies, Lynch said. “Scheduling these presidential candidates is like trying to put together a 4,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, and the pieces are changing all the time,” he said.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m. “A Musical Portrait of Paul Bowles,” performance, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faulkner Recital Hall
4:00 p.m. “Christianity and Human Rights,” lecture with Samuel Moyn of Harvard University, Rockefeller Center, Room 003
4:30 p.m. “Challenges Beyond Number,” lecture with former acting homeland security secretary Rand Beers ’64, Haldeman Center 41
TOMORROW 3:00 p.m. “Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond,” presented by journalist Dan Fagin ’85, Steele Building, Room 006
3:30 p.m. “Development and Validation of a Racial Trauma Measure” with professor Tony Brown of Vanderbilt University, Haldeman Center 41
7:00 p.m. “The Dinner” (2014), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
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“Don Juan” to explore history, war and more
B y Kate SchReiber The Dartmouth Staff
With barbed wire lining the back of the stage, the floor sloped at an angle and light bulbs dangling from a dilapidated staircase, the set of the theater department’s upcoming mainstage production “Don Juan Comes Back from the War” can only be described as apocalyptic. Written by the Austro-Hungarian-born playwright Ödön von Horváth, the play tells the story of the soldier Don Juan, who returns from World War I to find that he is the only man alive in a world of women. Once a notorious philanderer, Don Juan claims that he has come home from the war a changed man. As he searches for the fiancée he abandoned before the war, he has a series of encounters with other women. The director, theater professor Peter Hackett, said that he and the cast had done research to understand the play’s historical context. The seemingly bizarre premise — that the world is populated solely by women — is not far from reality, he said. So many men had died in World War I that many women talked about “being the only ones there,” he said. Theater professor Dan Kotlowitz said that the department chose the play in part because of its relevance to contemporary issues. “We keep having these huge wars and we keep saying that they’re the ‘war to end all wars,’” he said. “That’s what they said about World War I, but really it was the war to begin all wars. It seems to me that we’re in the same place now as we were then, in a lot of ways.” Von Horváth wrote “Don Juan” in Germany in 1936, several years after the Nazi party came to power. After the war, the country was in shambles, which Kotlowitz said is reflected in the play. “There was a sense of real loss, and a real sense of loss of values,” he said. “The play is kind of about this valueless world.” Thomas Latta ’18, who plays Don Juan, said that the play challenges the masculine idealization of women. “[Don Juan] has this kind of ideal, this fantasy about what a woman should be and what his woman should be,” he said. “The play is kind of about shattering that.” Kotlowitz said that the play also explores the idea of change while staying the same. “Don Juan says he’s changed, that he’s different.” Kotlowitz said. “But he isn’t — all the time that he’s looking for his fiancée, he’s
also sleeping with other women and being cruel to them. So the world really hasn’t changed, and he hasn’t changed, even though he thinks he has.” Stage manager Veronica Burt ’16 said that she appreciated the play’s overt political commentary. “In my opinion, there always needs to be a contemporary social, cultural, political reason for doing a piece,” she said.
“It’s like looking in a scrapbook and seeing 20 or so pictures lined up that tell a story in chronologial order. They’re very brief snapshots, but they tell a tremendous amount about a character and history.” -Peter hackett, director and theater professor She said that even though the audience never sees any fighting the impact and trauma of the war are constantly present. Kotlowitz said that the play was also chosen because it offered a wide range of female roles. There are 35 female characters in the show, which means that the 11 female actors are constantly switching roles, Kotlowitz said. “It’s really hard — they’ll go from one scene to another, and they’re suddenly a different character,” he said. Hackett said that rapid quality of the play was a challenge. It is around 90 minutes long with no intermission, and is divided into short, three-or-four minute scenes. Because scenes and characters are constantly changing, he said it is important to create a sense of continuity. Hackett compared the play’s vignette structure to a series of snapshots. “It’s like looking in a scrapbook and seeing 20 or so pictures lined up that tell a story in chronological order,” he said. “They’re very brief snapshots, but they tell a tremendous amount about character and history.” In many ways, “Don Juan” is a proto-feminist play, Kotlowitz said. “There are all these women that suddenly have been empowered because all the men have been killed or have left,” Kotlowitz said. “All these women are finding their
own power within the play as well.” Latta said that he felt like the play was extremely modern for the time period in which it was written. He said that one of his favorite scenes comes at the play’s end, when he comes to an inn and all the female characters start delivering lines like robots. “It’s where the tables start to turn on me,” he said. “It always freaks me out.” Latta said that the relationship between truth and fiction in the play is unclear. “The whole play is this fantasy of reality, where it’s a little bit ambiguous what’s real and what’s in my head,” he said. “At the end it gets very wobbly and weird.” The show’s set design also contributes to this sense of unreality. The entire stage is rigged, which creates a sense of distortion and forces actors to move in a different
way, Burt said. Burt said that the production has a unique focus on design.
“The whole play is this fantasy of reality, where it’s a little bit ambiguous what’s real and what’s in my head. At the end, it gets very wobbly and weird.” -thomas latta ’18, TITLE character in “Don juan” “This show stands out in my mind as a really design-heavy show, and that’s something that
Dartmouth doesn’t necessarily focus on all the time,” she said. Because “Don Juan” is produced by the theater department, the show’s designers are all hired professionals, Kotlowitz said, such as set designer Bill Clarke, who designed the set for “A Walk on the Woods” on Broadway. Kotlowitz said that he had been excited about the design opportunities that the play offered. “It’s visually striking — there are these very intimate scenes that happen amidst the rubble,” he said. Latta said that he found the sets to be both brutal and beautiful. The play will be shown this weekend on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Moore Theater. Next week, the show will be performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and between $10 and $12 for community members.
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Dovydas Sakinis ’16 wins ITA Northeast Regional Singles Title
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From Oct. 22 to Oct. 26, eight members of the men’s tennis team competed in the Intercollegiate Northeast Regional Championship hosted by Yale University. Dovydas Sakinis ’16 became the second Big Green singles player — and the first since 1992 — to capture the championship with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Columbia University freshman Victor Pham. Roko Glasnovic ’19 and Diego Pedraza ’17 came just short of winning the doubles title for Darmouth, losing to Columbia juniors Richard Pham and Shawn Hadavi in the final round in three sets, 6-2, 3-6 (10-8). “Overall the team did quite well,” head coach Chris Drake said. “We were one of the few teams with all eight guys in the main draw. Guys competed well all around. It’s certainly something we can build on for the rest of the year.” Glasnovic and Max Schmidt ’17 had to play their way through two qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the
singles tournament. Glasnovic cruised through his matches, defeating Boston College junior Aiden McNulty 6-3, 6-1 and New Jersey Institute of Technology freshman Lukas Zvikas 6-0, 6-1. Schmidt also made his way into the main draw with two wins. The main draw of the tournament formally began on Oct. 23. Dartmouth won three singles matches, but Glasnovic’s run came to an end with a three-set loss. The Big Green won its lone doubles match on the first day of play, as its two other teams both received byes to the next round. After receiving byes in the first round, Sakinis, Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 and Ciro Riccardi ’18 advanced to the round of 32. The other four members of the team bowed out of the singles tournament. Tannenbaum was unable to play in the round of 32, but Sakinis and Riccardi continued their run of form. Sakinis disposed of Brown University freshman Mladen Mitak 6-2, 6-0, and Riccardi dispatched Princeton Univer-
sity junior Joshua Yablon in straight sets. In a singles field thinned to 16, two Big Green players remained. Riccardi’s journey ended in the round of 16 as he failed to keep up with Columbia’s Shawn Hadavi and ended his singles tournament with a 6-0, 6-3 loss. Sakinis, who still had not dropped a set during the tournament, continued his momentum dispatching his opponent 7-6, 6-1. Sakinis encountered his first real test in the quarterfinals. Playing against Columbia senior Eric Rubin, Sakinis dropped the first set of the match — his first of the tournament — 7-5. Despite the small setback, Sakinis quickly regrouped and closed the match with 6-4, 6-2 sets. In the semifinals, Sakinis found himself in a similar situation. Once again, he went down a set early and battled back to win his next two for a spot in the tournament final. “He’s gotten better at finding ways to win matches,” Drake said. “He wasn’t panicking and stayed calm. [Sakinis]
has grown significantly in that regard. We also worked on his serve a lot and it really kept him in the matches, and then in the third set of those matches, he began playing really well.” Sakinis squared off against Columbia’s phenom freshman Victor Pham in the finals. Pham was ranked as high as No. 11 in the nation in his high school class, but he was unable to match Sakinis’ pace. Finding some of his best form of the tournament, Sakinis downed Pham 6-3,6-2 to claim the championship for Dartmouth. “I was so exhausted and tired after the [semifinals,] but in the morning [of the finals] I just felt great,” Sakinis said. “I don’t know why. I just felt it was going to be a great day. I played probably my best match of the tournament, and I was happy that it was in the finals.” With the victory, Sakinis qualified for the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship in November. In addition to singles, Dartmouth sent three doubles teams to the tournament. All three squads made it to
the round of 16, but only the duo of Pedraza and Glasnovic was able to survive and move into the quarterfinals. The Dartmouth pair beat its counterparts from Colgate University in the quarterfinals for a spot in the semifinals and the opportunity to avenge the loss of teammates Max Fleigner ’18 and Schmidt to Princeton’s Luke Gamble and Alexander Day. Pedraza and Glasnovic accomplished what their teammates could not and took down Gamble and Day 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinals. In another Dartmouth-Columbia finals, this time the Big Green was edged by the Lions. “I’m pretty upset we didn’t win in the finals,” Glasnovic said. “It was hard. Honestly, entering the tournament, I didn’t think I could make it to the finals. But when we got there with my partner [Pedraza], who was very good, we definitely felt we could win it.” Members of the team will next travel to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to play in the Wake Forest Invitational this Friday through Sunday.
Men’s soccer blanks Northeastern University 2-0 at home B y john martin The Dartmouth
The No. 22 men’s soccer team continued its winning ways, defeating non-conference foe Northeastern University 2-0 at Burnham Field on Tuesday evening. The victory — the Big Green’s eighth in its last nine contests, including five straight victories at home — improves Dartmouth’s overall record to 10-4-1, while it maintains an undefeated 5-0 Ivy League record. Despite a first half in which Northeastern (3-12-2, 2-6-0 CAA) outshot Dartmouth 10 to two, the Big Green regrouped and came out firing in the second half with Amadu Kunateh ’19 and Eduvie Ikoba ’19 both netting goals to grab the two-goal victory. “Our challenge in a mid-week [game] is having all 29 guys focused on getting a performance and a result,” head coach Chad Riley said. “At this time of the year you want to be doing both of those things — you want to play well, but you also want to win. I was proud of the whole group for being very focused for this game.” Northeastern started out strong with a series of attacks to begin the first half. None of the Huskies’ 10 shots found their target, as goalkeeper James Hickok ’17 performed exceedingly well
and kept the ball out of the net, despite some great chances for Northeastern. Hickock finished the game with five saves, significantly higher than Northeastern’s single save throughout the competition. “I thought [Hickok] had a great game,” Riley said. “I really do. He was composed back there in some scary moments. I think he came off his line well, and he handled some crosses and direct kicks very well.” In front of him, Dartmouth’s defense held firm after the opening minutes and was able to handle Northeastern’s forwards. After the opening minutes neither team took complete control for the remainder of the half, and both defenses stopped any potential danger, leaving the score tied at no goals. The team, however, is no stranger to a slower first half of a game, as several of this season’s victories have come from goals made late in the match. Hickok said that making sure the team focuses throughout the entire 90 minutes and not letting a scoreless beginning slow its momentum have been key to this season’s success. “A lesson we’ve learned all season long is that you’ve got to keep believing throughout the entire game, the full 90 minutes,” Hickok said. “Multiple times
this season we haven’t scored until late, sometimes even the last minute, but we’ve found a way to get it done. We just need to keep our focus for the full 90 minutes, and we have the talent to beat teams.” This focus in the last half of the game is what brought the Big Green its victory. After the halftime break, the Big Green took control of the game, consistently keeping play on Northeastern’s half of the field. Although the game remained scoreless for much of the second half, Dartmouth successfully pushed the ball up the field on multiple occasions, setting up crosses into the box and shots on goal. On one of these surges, Alberto Gorini ’16 held the ball in the top corner of the box and lobbed a pass to Kunateh in front of the goal. With the ball still in the air, Kunateh, whose back was to the goal, kicked the ball over his head into the net for a low bicycle kick in the 74th minute. Kunateh’s acrobatic goal gave Dartmouth the first lead of the match and ended up the game-winner, marking the second consecutive game that Kunateh has scored the winning goal. “It surprised everybody on the field,” Hickok said. “The [Northeastern] goalie didn’t even move because it was something they definitely did not
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The men’s soccer team has a chance to clinch the Ivy League title this weekend.
expect. [Kunateh] just made it happen. He got the ball in the net, and that’s what it took.” With the one-goal lead, Dartmouth refused to relent, upping the pressure in an effort to slot another goal before time expired. The opportunity presented itself in the 84th minute when Ikoba took the ball at the top of the box, dribbled between two defenders and sent the ball into the top left corner of the goal. “I thought it was a good team victory,” Ikoba said. “We struggled at
the beginning, but we realized that we had the ability to switch the flow of the game. I think it was good that we could overcome the small adversity we had at the beginning of the game.” The Big Green will continue its season on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Burnham Field against Cornell University (4-101, 2-3 Ivy). Currently in solo possession of first place in the conference standings, Dartmouth has an opportunity to clinch its second consecutive Ivy League title if the team comes out with a victory against fifth-place Cornell.