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PRIDE expands to two weeks

College faculty are least diverse in Ivy League

By ALEXA GREEN

The Dartmouth Staff

PRIDE 2016 co-chair Johnson described the community as one that is often overlooked and relatively fragmented, since many subgroups such as Dartmouth Alliance and the Triangle House all exist independently.

“By centering the community for a longer period of time, we’re able to strengthen it, as well as allowing for more voices to be heard,” Johnson said.

Despite the change, PRIDE

Faculty diversity at the College lags far behind that of the undergraduate student body. Whereas 37 percent of Dartmouth’s undergraduate population identifies as part of a minority group, only 14.7 percent of Dartmouth’s full-time instructional faculty identifies as belonging to a minority group, according to the 2015-2016 Common Data set published by the Office of Institutional Research. These numbers represent 1,597 out of 4,307 students and 108 out of 734 faculty, respectively, making Dartmouth the least diverse schools in the Ivy League.

Underrepresented minorities include Hispanic or Latino, African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander or two or more races.

According to the 2010 Dartmouth Fact Book, approximately 3 percent of faculty members were African American, 5 percent were Hispanic or Latino, 5 percent were Asian and 1 percent of faculty — four professors — were Native American. In 2010, 80 percent of the College’s undergraduate faculty were white. The remaining 5 percent were international.

Compared to 2010, the percentage of Native American professors has stayed the same, while the total number of African American faculty members has decreased. A 2015 breakdown of Dartmouth’s undergraduate faculty holds that 1 percent are Native American, 6 percent are Asian, 2 percent are Afri-

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This year’s PRIDE celebration will take place over two weeks and includes a series of talks, mixers and events celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community.

By SONIA QIN The Dartmouth Staff

This past weekend, red, yellow, pink, green, blue and purple lights illuminated the front of Dartmouth Hall in honor of PRIDE 2016. The 10th annual PRIDE week will celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, and for the first time, will last two weeks instead of one.

Francis Slaughter ’16, who was co-chair of PRIDE for the last two years but is taking an

advisory role this year, said that the PRIDE committee decided to expand programming to two weeks to accommodate all the events they had in mind. Shivang Sethi ’17, Xander Johnson ’18 and Saba Nejad ’18 co-chaired PRIDE 2016.

Nejad wrote in an email that as the College does not have a strong LGBTQIA+ group on campus, the committee hopes that the longer timespan this year will help foster the community’s growth on campus.

Thomas Allen Harris begins as Montgomery Fellow

By JOSEPH REGAN

The Dartmouth Staff

Award-winning director and filmmaker and current Montgomery Fellow Thomas Allen Harris will bring his Digital Diaspora Roadshow to the College next month. The piece, a companion transmedia project to “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,” focuses on promoting audiences to discover connections between their own family archives and the film’s historical narrative.

The Montgomery Fellowship

Program, established in 1977 through gifts from Kenneth Montgomery ’25 and his wife Harle Montgomery, seeks to enrich the experience of Dartmouth students in the classroom primarily by bringing distinguished individuals to the College to live at Montgomery House varying from a few weeks to a full year.

Harris’s company, Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., is dedicated to producing audio-visual experiences that focus on themes of identity, family and spirituality. His work also touches on personal archiving

and using media for social change.

Harris’ feature film “Through a Lens Darkly” will be shown in Loew Auditorium on May 5, followed by a discussion with Harris.

Harris said that the 2014 film was inspired by African-American photographer Deborah Willis’ “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present” (2000). In the film, Harris’s own family photos are interspersed within a narrative that ultimately includes 954 photos. These photos, however, were only a fraction of the 15,000 photos Harris collected from

various archives around the world while working on the film, he said.

Harris is currently working on the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion roadshow. Harris will bring the show to Dartmouth in May, where he will preside for two hours over a digital production featuring family photos that will be as “diverse and meaningful” as the type and number of people he hopes will attend.

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Lawmakers in Illinois approved $600 million in shortterm higher education funding to keep public colleges and universities in operation during the state’s current budget gridlock, the Associated Press reports. The bill, a one-time deal that will include nearly $170 million in tuition grants for low-income students, will be signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner ’78. One school in the state, Chicago State University, has been close to shutting down due to budget concerns.

Beginning this summer, students using the Common Application to apply to college will be asked to indicate their “sex assigned at birth” rather than gender, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. An optional free-response text box will be added for applicants to indicate their gender identity.

The changes, announced today, comes in the wake of calls from several students and advocates to change the gender identification options.

Time Higher Education reports that Tennessee’s House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill last week that will cut all $436,000 of state appropriation funding for the diversity office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Though it remains unclear whether or not Gov. Bill Halsam will sign the bill into law, the office has faced criticism from many conservative legislators, including for its “Sex Week” programming as well as a language guide that featured transgender and gender nonconforming pronouns.

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Harris inspired by family themes FROM FELLOWS PAGE 1

photos they brought to the event.

Ian Frey ’19, who attended the event, said that he was surprised at how meaningful it was to just share simple pictures of his family with other people.

“I was struck by the similarities between everyone’s family photos,” Frey said. “Either during the holidays or on vacation, even though every family obviously looked different, in a way they all looked the same.”

Harris said the roadshow gatherings are visual experiences that bring strangers together while breaking down boundaries through the photos’ commonalities.

Harris delves into his “artistic passion” of exploring what family means for all of us through his roadshow gatherings. Harris reflected on his time abroad, noting that his understanding of family reaches beyond the traditional nuclear family.

“For me, family is about the families we choose,” Harris said.

“What I want to do for Digital Diaspora is to have all of us look at each other, not exclusively through the lens of race, ethnicity, nationality, but as family members — I think that creates a one family album.”

His own family led to his interest in photography. Harris’s grandfather constantly took photographs, sparking his exploration of the medium. His grandfather’s house had a darkroom in the basement, which he started working in when he was a kid initially under the instruction of his cousin James.

Later in life, two photography classes in his senior year at Harvard University persuaded him to forego medical school for a career as an artist and photographer.

After working as a writer for Children’s Television Workshop and producing in public television, Harris realized he needed to do more personal work. As a result of this realization, Harris later started making experimental films.

Harris said that part of the Digital Diaspora Roadshow raises the question of, “What is going to happen to the family album as we are moving to images from cellphones?” Harris also wants to unearth photos not usually depicted as the typical American family, to ensure equal representations of all variations of the American family.

“Pictures of African-Americans from earlier times are rare; daguerreotypes of African-Americans go for thousands of dollars on eBay,” Harris said. “Students in high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools, they don’t get a complete visual history if these photos are left in rarefied family albums, or collector’s glass cages.

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Thomas Allen Harris , will discuss and screen his feature film on May 5.

These images provide another idea about the American family album.”

Harris said that the Montgomery Fellowship gives him the opportunity to be in one place for an extended period of time. Since he finished “Through a Lens Darkly” two years ago, he has been travel-

ing around the clock to countless places around the globe, including Belgium, Italy, Japan and Ethiopia as well as throughout the United States After the end of his fellowship in June, Harris will be teaching a course called Visual Memoirs at Yale University in the fall.

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PRIDE to highlight intersectionality

culture to create a genuinely inclusive atmosphere.

“It can be done through initiatives, 2016 will largely feature many of the same events from past years like free but it mostly has to be taken up by HIV screenings and the TransForm students to create spaces that welcome show that uses fashion to challenge people of different identities, not just gender binaries. While members of those that easily blend in,” Slaughter the planning committee come up with said.

Planning for this year’s PRIDE some events, the committee also solicits feedback from the broader College events began late last fall, he said, addcommunity through campus emails ing that from his personal experience committee members can spend up to and PRIDE Week meetings.

Rather than having a small number several hours a day on planning.

Nejad said that the most difficult of well-known speakers, Nejad said this year’s goal was to host more events that part of the planning process this year the majority of campus could relate to. was finalizing the event list, especially Michelle Kermond, assistant dean and given the limited funding and the diverse advisor for sexuality, women and gender audience that committee members in the Office of Pluralism and Leader- hoped to reach out to.

Dartmouth’s PRIDE Week started in ship and for sexuality, women and gender, identified three goals for PRIDE. 2007, and that year the planning comOne objective is for members of the mittee raised $27,830.20 for the events.

As PRIDE events PRIDE commitoccur throughout tee to gain leaderthe world, they ship skills through “The goal is frequently take the organization, to continue place on college marketing and campuses. execution of highlighting these “Most programs. OPAL intersectionalities other schools have also hopes to crejust a set PRIDE ate spaces that and by bringing more budget that they foster a greater intersectional voices can use every sense of belongyear,” Johnson ing and helps LG- to PRIDE.” said. “I know that BTQIA+ explore the other Ivies their identities, - XANDER JOHNSON ’18, have larger budwhile focusing on gets to bring larger how all members PRIDE 2016 CO-CHAIR speakers.” of the commuHownity can create ever, he added that an emotionally he did not think the lower budget at the supportive campus environment.

This is the first year in which College affected the overall quality of Dartmouth Hall was illuminated in PRIDE programming.

Johnson said that PRIDE has a rainbow colors. The lighting serves to advertise the week and to make sure that variety of sources for its fundraising, LGBTQIA+ experiences on campus including Greek houses, academic are celebrated with a bigger statement departments, the administration and than in the past, Slaughter said. PRIDE the Special Programs and Events Comhopes to continue having the lights mittee.

SPEC has traditionally provided every year from now on, Johnson said, adding that next year there may even most of the funding, but this year most be a banner hung on Dartmouth Hall of the funding came from senior associas a more public display of pride in the ate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto, Johnson said. community.

In future years, Johnson said he hopes Slaughter emphasized PRIDE’s intentional focus on representing the to keep PRIDE as long as possible.

“The goal is to continue highlighting diversity of the LGBTQIA+ experience, the narrative of which is frequently these intersectionalities and by bringing centered on “gay men of privilege.” more intersectional voices to PRIDE,” Slaughter pointed to deeper issues of he said.

In addition to PRIDE, OPAL is also homelessness and unemployment in queer communities, which are often planning on hosting an LGBTQIA+ ignored when too much focus is placed History Month in October, Kermond said. The history month builds on the on issues like marriage equality.

Not all LGBTQIA+ students want two-week PRIDE celebration by conto be visible, Slaughter said, a fact that tinuing to explore queer history, culture has somewhat held back attempts to and identity.

PRIDE 2016 kicked off this Saturday build up a widespread queer community on campus. He added that while there with a dance party in Sarner Underhas been significant support from the ground and will conclude May 6 with administration, more support must be a Lavender Graduation Banquet at the generated through a shifting in campus Triangle House.

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GUEST COLUMNIST KELLY AYOTTE & KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND ’88

STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ‘17

Students Deserve Better

Not Considerate or Correct

Transparency is the key to ending campus sexual assaults.

Choosing a college is an important decision.

Each year, students spend dozens of hours discussing with their parents, teachers, counselors and coaches where they would like to spend the next few years of their lives. They pore over statistics, rankings and testimonials, trying to decide which school is the best fit. And data is everywhere: A prospective student can go online to find anything from financial aid statistics to the average class size to the number of robberies on campus.

But one piece of critical information is conspicuously absent. When a high school senior wants to know how well her dream university responds to sexual assault cases, that information is nowhere to be found. In the hypercompetitive world of college admissions, few schools are willing to stand up and make public just how well their students think they are addressing incidents of sexual assault on their campuses. Instead, colleges essentially have an incentive to stay quiet; no school wants to be the outlier, the only one to admit it has a problem.

We must change this. Our colleges and universities need a new set of incentives that would encourage them to go public and be transparent about their ability to prevent and respond to sexual assault on their campuses.

Colleges and universities must address the problems on their campuses so that their students feel safe. To get to that point, our bill, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, would require every college and university in the country to take part in a national survey that asks students about the campus sexual assault climate at their school. The results would be made public, for any prospective applicant and any parent to see and be able to consider during the admissions process.

We already have a snapshot of how big this problem is. The Department of Justice recently released the results of a major study that polled thousands of students across nine different universities about their experiences with campus sexual assault. The results were disturbing — one out of every four female

college seniors reported experiencing sexual assault on campus during their college career, but they don’t tell us anything about where these assaults occurred.

Without a survey, it is nearly impossible for applicants, students and parents to know how good or bad the climate is at any particular school. This information should be transparent and public. Our families deserve to know which schools have a sexual assault problem and which schools don’t, just as much as they deserve to know the school’s academic rankings or endowment.

We recognize that there are skeptics who suggest that a standardized, national survey is a “one-size-fits-all” approach, and would be too difficult to implement. The Department of Justice study proved them wrong. The agency collected data from thousands of students for their recent study, from colleges and universities with diverse characteristics, including public and private, two- and four-year, with various student population sizes, and across different regions of the country. The survey reminded us that America’s college students need to have a voice on this issue. Without a clear, standardized picture of the sexual assault climate in all of our schools, we can’t fully diagnose this problem and ultimately resolve it.

The key to understanding campus sexual assault — and then fighting it — is in the data. If students report in the survey that their universities take them seriously and are doing everything possible to prevent assaults, to help survivors and to respond to incidents in a fair and transparent manner, the data will reflect it, and schools will have no reason to worry about going public with this information.

Our families need to know which schools are taking the problem seriously and which are pretending there’s no problem at all. Our schools need to feel motivated to come clean about the extent of their sexual assault problem, so they can move to fix it.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 is a Democrat from New York. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is a Republican from New Hampshire.

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Political correctness has no place on our campus.

Though it is always concerning when societies implement a culture of censorship, more concerning still are the attempts to defend it.

Jessica Lu ’18’s April 20 column “Considerate Correctness” is exactly such an attempt, and I must voice my vehement disagreement with her position. A culture of political correctness is not only antithetical to the core values that Dartmouth should uphold, but it also sets a dangerous precedent for higher education across the country.

Lu argued that changing Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority’s spring party theme from Derby to Woodstock was necessary because the original theme had racist undertones that marginalized minority groups on campus.

Shockingly, the justification wasn’t that people had decided that it was truly racist, but that some people simply felt like it might have been.

“Whether or not the theme of Derby is racist is an important question to ask,” Lu writes. “But it is not the most important issue at play here.

What matters is that our peers felt the theme was problematic.”

Here lies the core weakness of Lu’s argument, that people within the student body “felt” the theme was problematic. In her words, whether or not it actually was problematic simply didn’t matter. There was no regard for the realities behind the Derby theme, or its intentions or true impact on sensitivity. What’s more, she argues that the answer to such perceived injustice is to immediately do away with it, without so much as a second thought — a “no-brainer,” to borrow her phrasing.

Lu’s appeal to emotion does her own argument a disservice, especially in her anecdotes regarding students of color on campus. Gaze ye, says she, upon the plight of non-white folk!

In her view, the case of a student who feels offended by the word “Derby” holds the same moral weight as that of a black man bleeding out at the hands of police brutality. With this argument comes an implicit accusation that anyone who disagrees must be a racist bigot out of touch with modern society.

What this misguided appeal to emotion forgets is that safe spaces, censorship and divisive language are not the right answer to racism.

A case like KDE’s should invite discourse and intelligent discussion, not a knee-jerk reflex to ban anything that might be the slightest bit uncomfortable. The changing of the Derby name is symptomatic of a naïve ideal to keep everyone happy and unoffended — an ideal that is incompatible with the rigors inherent to an educational institution of Dartmouth’s caliber. More importantly, it does nothing to change racism in our society — it certainly does no good for Khairuldeen Makhzoomi or any of the other victims of true prejudice that Lu has highlighted in her piece.

“People on both sides should be vocal and unafraid to share their opinions,” notes Lu, and on this sole point I wholeheartedly agree. Nonetheless, she maintains the position that political correctness helps “ensure that vulnerable groups feel safe.” But is this truly the design of a politically correct culture? Perception of injustice does not injustice make, and yet with political correctness it is all too easy

to stifle dissenting opinions. It is impossible for such a system, so easily abused and so enabling of poor conduct, to be benign — especially when its momentum is almost exclusively tilted to one side.

It is with rising alarm that I have observed this enabling trend grow at Dartmouth. The Derby fiasco is the most recent casualty of a culture that engenders division. In the name of social justice, it seeks to crush traditions and ideas alike to serve some supposed ideal where nobody feels hurt or insulted by anything. This culture seeks not to challenge or innovate, but instead to cater to emotions and emotions only — even if society must grind to a screeching halt to do so. Such sacrifices have already risked the very integrity of our school, as students fight their own peers and breed even more discontent.

Ours is an administration that applauds this divisive behavior, and openly dismisses dissenting voices as “not being very nice.” It seems that the administration is complicit in such behavior, tacitly supporting its spread while denouncing alternative perspectives as unacceptable. This begs the question, why does our administration submit itself so freely to hurt feelings, with no regard for logic or facts?

Why does a school with the history and pride of Dartmouth allow such travesty to happen at our own campus?

The answer is at once beautiful and painful in its brevity: incompetence.

To avoid the embarrassment that comes with controversy, the administration has failed to promote sensible dialogue and has instead pressed forward with ham-handed attempts to tackle issues it has little power to control.

In response to sexual violence, it has attacked the Greek houses that form the cornerstone of Dartmouth social life, replacing them with the half-baked concept of “residential houses” that nobody asked for or desired. In response to alcohol-related controversies, it has placed a Prohibition-like ban on hard liquor that is neither enforceable nor necessary. Such changes have rightly incited backlash from an outraged student body.

One must question the financial motives of the administration as well. When controversies at such schools as the University of Missouri have led to a drastic drop in applicants, it is all but impossible to suggest that the administration’s constant pandering to political correctness doesn’t have at least something to do with money. Ironically, such pandering has only bred controversy over questions that were never controversial to begin with, inciting the very drama and controversy it had hoped to prevent.

All this foolishness has achieved exactly nothing to improve Dartmouth’s image. Even as I write these words, tuition and admissions rates continue to rise unsustainably for a school whose national rankings continue to fall. The administration fiddles while Dartmouth burns, convincing itself that it is doing the right thing.

What ineptitude have we put our faith in to allow such things to pass?

The culture of political correctness is anything but correct, and the time is long overdue for the administration to realize that.

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Tenure review process remains a complicated issue FROM FACULTY PAGE 1

can American and 4 percent are Hispanic or Latino. White faculty members are approximately 83 percent of the total. International faculty members make up the remaining 3 percent.

Fifty percent of the College’s undergraduate faculty have tenure.

While few tenured professors are faculty of color, the numbers are proportionally reflective of total undergraduate faculty diversity.

The 2015 Dartmouth Fact Book reports that 85 percent of tenured faculty members are white, 5 percent are Asian, 3 percent are African American and 4 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

At Dartmouth, Judith Byfield ’80 held both a tenured faculty position and chaired the women, gender and sexuality studies department.

After 16 years as a professor at Dartmouth, Byfield left the College in 2007 to teach at Cornell University. She said that she left due to a number of reasons, including her need for a larger intellectual community.

“Tenure is a really complicated issue. There are benchmarks that people have to reach in order to get tenure, but I think that there are instances where the benchmarks keep moving,” Byfield said.

The changing requirements

of tenure have resulted in a lack of transparency for the faculty involved, according to Byfield.

“There are times when people seem to have the benchmarks, but things like ‘Oh, which publisher published their book?’ become the deciding factor,” Byfield said. “It’s a very complicated process and at some point just leaves many of us a little lost as to how to even advise and mentor junior faculty since it is less clear than you would imagine.”

A lack of faculty diversity, Byfield said, also places additional burden on faculty of color, because they are often tasked with student mentorship, committee work and other miscellaneous responsibilities. The unique demands that come with being a minority faculty member, she said, can lead to feelings of “intellectual isolation” at Dartmouth.

History professor Soyoung Suh also pointed toward the College’s physical isolation as a force that often exacerbates the experience of minority faculty members.

“Teaching Korean history in California or in Hong Kong has a different meaning than teaching it here,” Suh said. “It’s not geopolitical, but Dartmouth’s location itself makes it difficult for certain people to make their agenda available.”

Armando Bengochea is the director of the Mellon Mays

Undergraduate Fellowship, which prepares several undergraduates from underrepresented groups to become professors. Government professor Lisa Baldez, who also directs the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, attended Bengochea’s April 20 talk on minority faculty recruitment as a part of the Leading Voices series.

At the lecture, Bengochea cited how students could expose inadequacy within university policies toward faculty diversity.

Baldez, recalling how numerous protests on campuses across the country have erupted over the issue of diversity, said that people are becoming increasingly aware of problems like faculty diversity.

“That has mobilized campuses to do more on this issue,” Baldez said. “What I see happening at Dartmouth is a much stronger commitment from faculty and the administration on this issue and some real intentional efforts to change the situation.”

The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning focuses on teaching and learning.

“Faculty recruitment is not explicitly in our mandate, but teaching is a big part of what faculty do here,” Baldez said. “The way that we come at it is by talking about diversity and inclusivity in the classroom. For example, we have

had a series of lectures focusing on disrupting bias in the classroom and faculty are enthusiastic about these sessions.”

Student Assembly presidentelect Nick Harrington ’17 said that he hopes Student Assembly will be able to play a positive role in faculty diversity and inclusivity on campus.

“We can hopefully use the course evaluations or some other mechanism to show to what degree professors are acting as those mentors to students. It is something that is somewhat touched upon in the course evaluations but not enough,” he said. “The ultimate goal is to take the input that is given for the tenure track process and assure that students have a real input there.”

Harrington also mentioned how important it is for the College to not only to have the numbers they need, but put an infrastructure in place within the community so minority faculty members can thrive at Dartmouth.

To Byfield, faculty diversity remains a problem at Dartmouth partly because actions toward making change have not necessarily followed the stated goals.

“At some point there needs to be an honest conversation about what Dartmouth professes and what Dartmouth actually does,” Byfield said.

Dartmouth has the lowest minority faculty representation in the Ivy League at 14.7 percent. At Yale University, 488 out of 1,635 faculty members identify as a member of a minority group, ranking as the most diverse University in the Ivy League at 30 percent. At Columbia University, 981 out of 3,876 faculty members identify as a member of a minority group. Its 25 percent minority population places Columbia at the second most diverse school in the Ivy League. Twenty-three percent of Princeton University’s faculty identify as members of minority groups, which results in 270 out of 1,172 faculty members.

Brown University has a 19 percent minority faculty population; 167 out of 885 faculty members at the university identify as a member of a minority group. At the University of Pennsylvania, 382 out of 2,085 faculty members, or 18 percent, identify as a member of a minority group. Cornell University’s minority faculty members make up 367 out of 2,141, or 17 percent, of its faculty. The Harvard Common Data Set has not been published for the 2015-2016 academic year.

The 2014-2015 report states that at Harvard University, 370 out of 2,012 instructional faculty members identify as members of minority groups. This accounts for 18 percent of its teaching faculty.

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“America’s Forced Migration Crisis,” Martin Barahona, Filene Auditorium, Moore Building

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Grammy-winning, international music artist Angelique Kidjo, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

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“EYEWASH: Experimental Images and Sounds,” Eli Keszler, Visual Arts Center 001, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Dartmouth Men’s Baseball v. Siena College, Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park

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Arts Explores: BVAC painting studio, a nurturing space

By KIRA MIKES The Dartmouth

Two floors up from the elegantly minimalist lobby of the Black Family Visual Arts Center, the studio art department’s painting studios promise a boldly different aesthetic. Paint of every color splatters the tables and chairs, and the students’ workspaces exhibit their unique artistic styles. A wide array of artificial flowers and fruit crowd a table toward the front of the “Painting I” area, waiting to be arranged for upcoming still-life assignments. Tall white panels create a series of alcoves, each one used by a different student from “Painting I,” “Painting II” or “Painting III” as his or her place of creative refuge for the term.

“This becomes your space,” current studio art intern Gabriel Barrios ’15 said. “This is where you’re developing your own voice.”

The department offers painting classes each term that attract students from every corner of campus.

Adelaida Tamayo ’16, an anthropology major and studio art minor, is currently enrolled in “Painting III” with professor Colleen Randall.

She recalled her experiences in earlier painting courses at Dartmouth and explained that, no matter what her fellow students’ majors or intended career paths may have been, they were all fully dedicated to the creative process.

“Everyone [was] clearly very invested in what they were working on,” Tamayo said.

Students enrolled in painting standing of a medium to the point classes have constant access to the where they become independent studios and a wealth of resources and it becomes theirs,” Riley said. at their disposal.

Hardy has certainly reached that “I always have more than I point. This term, she is stationed in need,” Tamayo said. “It’s insane the senior studio space working on to see the amount of new materials her pieces for the spring showcase. we get here every single term.”

She will be working for an art and Studio art professor Enrico Riley design start-up after graduation. explained that a large screen projec- The department’s painting tion system is also in place for class classes stimulate ongoing artistic use. and personal “T he stugrowth. Studios are wired “One of the most dents are for audio-vi- amazing experiences you encouraged sual, which is regularly to really helpful,” can have as a professor break out of Riley said. their comis seeing your students Riley went fort zones. gain understanding of on to recall the

“ Yo u ove rc row d e d a medium to the point get so unpainting stu- where they become comfortable dios that were so quickly,” used prior to independent and it Barrios said. the construc- becomes theirs.”

“Some peotion of the ple also get BVAC, which very vulnero p e n e d i t s -ENRICO RILEY, STUDIO ART able very doors to the PROFESSOR quickly, and public in 2012.

I think that’s He commented something to that in comparison the new studios embrace. That’s when [students] are “quite amazing.” will get the most out of a class.”

Corinne Hardy ’16, a studio art Painting students also form lastmajor who has focused on painting ing bonds within this challenging throughout her time at Dartmouth, creative context. said that she has always appreciated “We have a lot of work days, so how incredibly supportive Riley and we can just kind of be in the studio his colleagues are, especially for and get feedback and see how other students that are just starting out. people are working too,” Tamayo “One of the most amazing expe- said. “It’s always fun when it’s filled riences you can have as a professor with other students’ art and we can is seeing your students gain under- get inspiration from what they’re

doing.”

Barrios echoed her statements, calling the environment “communal.”

All the students agreed that their hard work pays off once they have the chance to step back, appreciate the work they’ve produced and reflect on their artistic progress.

“It’s always just really rewarding at the end of the term,” Hardy explained.

For those looking to get started with painting, Barrios recommends first enrolling in “Drawing I,” the prerequisite for every other studio art course. He also suggests that students remain patient with themselves and follow the valuable

guidance offered by professors. ”If you just take a leap of faith and trust what the professors are telling you, you’ll get somewhere pretty quickly,” Barrios said. “[They] are super encouraging and have helped me develop my skills tremendously.”

Barrios concluded by pointing out that classes such as painting, which stray from conventional college pedagogy, are an invaluable experience for students across the board.

“The community [is] just great,” he said. “You get this really wild energy that I think is hard to recreate in more traditionally academic environments.”

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The BVAC painting studio has individual workspaces for student artists.

Everybody should get some of ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ (2016)

By ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff

More than 20 years after the success of “Dazed and Confused” (1993), Richard Linklater graduates from ’70s high school to ’80s college in “Everybody Wants Some!!”

(2016). These two films along with “Boyhood” (2014) complete his unofficial adolescence trilogy, which showcases Linklater’s paternalistic nostalgia for decades past. Instead of sentimental photo albums, his films feel more like highlight reels, anthropological studies charting the richest rituals and mating patterns of young sub-cultures.

The film centers on Jake (Blake Jenner), the newest member of the Southeast Texas State University baseball team. Having played baseball himself at Sam Houston State University back in the late ’70s, Linklater recreates the indolent bromances of his college years.

With his box of records and set of monochrome tees, Jake moves into

the dilapidated baseball house, an architectural nod to the Delta Tau Chi fraternity of “Animal House” (1978). Yet in Linklater’s universe, there are no threats of double-secret probation — that would ruin all the fun. The coach limply bans girls and alcohol from the house, but even he seems in on it. Playfulness is just as integral as game play.

Like a clown car, teammate after teammate pops out of the cramped quarters and soon the house comes alive. The ensemble includes a delicious diversity of humor, notably the Zen pothead Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), the Southern stereotype “Beuter” (Will Brittain), the mustachioed head case Jay (Juston Street) and the faux-philosopher and wit Finnegan (Glen Powell). Over the three days before classes start, we follow these self-proclaimed gods around campus while a countdown clock occasionally marks the nearing first day. But this deadline is harmless and arbitrary; these antics will continue for another four years. From

disco dances and the Cotton-Eyed bets all the funnier. Their humor feels Joe to mattress slides and endless largely improvisational, a jazzy style cans of Miller Lite, it’s the summer of camaraderie and mockery which camp of boobs and booze. leaves no one unscathed. This quirky With an ensemble typical of a chorus holds nobody sacred, and this television series, Linklater somehow instability charges the air with riotous manages to flesh out the entire team possibility. An awkward comment or in under two hours, boiling each stray look can set any scene off into player down Marx Brothersto an essence, esque tag team m i x i n g a n d “These are the guys excess. matching per- you’re supposed to hate T h e sonalities in a episodic strucseries of hilari- in college: the ones ture is loosely ous set pieces. who golf off roofs and strung together Still, I could see by the spontainvade other parties. myself binge neous whims watching epi- Yet Linklater makes you and boredom sodes of the part of the team so you of these athteam’s antics on l e t e s. W h i l e Netflix as they can’t help but embrace there is a rowreak havoc on the hedonism.” mantic subplot airplanes, other between Jake campuses and and a theater the diamond. Their brawny exteriors student, the film mostly sidelines veil the competitive, impetuous chil- their relationship and prefers simply dren inside, which only make their to watch his teammates practice medieval impressions and foolish drinking and sex as if it were integral

to their regimen. Fundamentally, there is no plot; a plot assumes significance, development or conflict.

Any profundity would be laughed at and handed a beer to shut it up. But their debauchery is rather clean. The gauche entropy of “Animal House” is replaced by Linklater’s verbal acrobatics; their fun is words, not destruction. While fairly repetitive and aimless, these men find ways of making each party and flirtation entertaining. Which is surprising.

These are the guys you’re supposed to hate in college: the ones who hit golf ball off roofs and invade other parties. Yet Linklater makes you part of the team so you can’t help but embrace the hedonism. If you’re in college, it may just make you put down your books and find the nearest beer funnel. You know you want some.

Rating: 9/10 “Everybody Wants Some!!” is now playing at the Nugget Theater in Hanover at 4:15 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.

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Photography exhibit humanizes sexual assault statistics

By ELISE HIGGINS

The Dartmouth Staff

One in five women will experience sexual assault during their lifetime. Despite this fact, many people still feel distanced from the idea of sexual assault.

Jadyn Petterson-Rae’15 wanted to change this and help more people understand sexual assault and its prevalence in society, so she created an exhibition featuring pictures of Dartmouth women who have experienced sexual assault. The exhibit is currently being displayed in the Black Family Visual Arts Center for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Petterson-Rae said she began working on this project during her “Sex, Gender and Society” class, eventually expanding it when she took “Photography I.” She believes that putting faces to the idea of sexual assault can have an extremely powerful impact on increasing awareness of sexual assault, an impact that she has seen firsthand. Petterson-Rae noted that one of her friends was not able to fully understand sexual assault and its effects until he had heard her story.

“It really just made an abstract concept tangible and real,” Petterson-Rae said. “It brought it close to home.”

After this experience, Petterson-Rae realized her project could humanize sexual assault.

Petterson-Rae said she hopes that when people see the exhibit, they will be struck both by the number of faces and their recognition of some of the faces.

Francesca Gundrum ’17 said that part of what made her want to be a part of the exhibit is that when she first saw it, she recognized every face on the wall.

“The impact hits you like a ton of bricks,” Gundrum said. “It’s so powerful.”

Once Petterson-Rae had the idea for the exhibition, she reached out to women by emailing sororities through an account she created for the project. She mentioned her experience with sexual assault and then began to talk about her project. She hoped that by talking about her own experience first, women would be more willing to open up to her and step forward.

“It’s asking someone to be in a very vulnerable position, so I felt it was important to be vulnerable first,” Petterson-Rae said.

After she reached out to people, Petterson-Rae said that she received positive responses across the board. Many women were eager and willing to have their faces be displayed for the exhibit. Others said they were not yet ready to talk about it or be displayed, but they were appreciative of her project.

The survivors who came forward in this article all said that they themselves did not have problems

talking about their experiences, but they understood that others might not be ready yet.

For some women though, simply displaying their picture was a good way to acknowledge sexual assault without actually talking about it.

Petterson-Rae said one woman told her that although she was not ready to talk about her experience with sexual assault, she did not want to be silent anymore.

Gundrum also acknowledged the power of expression that a picture can have.

“It’s not very often that someone who is a victim can nonverbally express what happened to them in such a collective way and in such a powerful way,” Gundrum said.

Petterson-Rae hoped that being featured in the exhibit would help some women start to find their voice and reclaim their experience.

“It’s about the experience of the audience but it’s also about the experience of the women coming forward,” Petterson-Rae said.

All the survivors that came forward to speak said that being part of the exhibit made them think about and process their experiences.

Eva Munday ’16 said that being displayed in Petterson-Rae’s exhibit in addition to her own artwork, which also focuses on sexual assault, helped her cope with her experience.

Ashley Zepeda ’18 said being

COURTESY OF JADYN PETTERSON-RAE

Jadyn Petterson-Rae ‘15’s exhibit features women at Dartmouth who have been victims of sexual assault.

COURTESY OF JADYN PETTERSON-RAE

Jadyn Petterson-Rae ’15 returned to campus to complete the project.

part of the work along with so many other women made her not only reflect on her own experience but on the prevalence of sexual assault.

“If anything, it made me think of all the other people it’s affected,” Zepeda said.

Gundrum talked about standing in solidarity with other survivors.

“This is me addressing something did happen to me, and I’m okay, and I’m going to be okay, and I’m standing with everyone even if they’re not in the place that I am,” Gundrum said.

Petterson-Rae said she also hopes that women who have experienced sexual assault but did not come forward will find comfort in the exhibit because they will see that they are not alone. Although the exhibit only features women, Petterson-Rae acknowledged that sexual assault can affect anyone.

“That’s been something that I kind of struggled with because I don’t want anyone to feel like their experience is being disregarded by the fact that I’m focusing on this specific group,” Petterson-Rae said.

However, because PettersonRae chose to work with the statistic that one in five women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their life, she chose to only exhibit women. In addition, she

exclusively featured Dartmouth women. Despite this, she said that the focus is not about sexual assault at Dartmouth but rather about the problem nationwide. Portraying Dartmouth women made it easier for people to connect to the problem because they would recognize people, she said.

Eventually, Petterson-Rae wants to take her project national and possibly display her exhibit at other colleges. However, for those exhibitions she would use faces of women from those colleges as opposed to Dartmouth women so they would have the same effect on those students.

Petterson-Rae said she believes the format of her exhibit humanizes sexual assault by bringing it close to home. Gundrum, Munday and Zepeda all said they hoped the exhibit would allow people to understand the reality of sexual assault and its prevalence by putting faces to the problem.

“The main goal of the project is to start a discussion,” PettersonRae said. “Because things won’t change unless they’re talked about.”

Petterson-Rae’s exhibit will be displayed in the BVAC until May 3. If you would like to reach out to her about adding your picture to the exhibit, please contact her at jadynpr@gmail.com.