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In the early hours of Thursday morning, a large piece of plywood with the Dartmouth Indian head painted on it and a sign that read “WE stand with NAD. We say ENOUGH” were placed on the steps of Dartmouth Hall. The piece of plywood — a pong table — also included the words “Boom Boom Lodge,” a slang phrase used to refer to Theta Delta Chi fraternity and its physical building. The sign also said the Dartmouth Indian “seeps from our basements, to our minds, to our hearts” and that it “dehumanizes cultures, and individuals.” The Dartmouth Indian “makes people afraid” and “is racist,”
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“Stop Hiding, Start Talking”campaign culminated in panel
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Six panelists discussed mental health issues at what was a culminating event for Student Assembly’s “Stop Hiding, Start Talking” initiative on Thursday night in Rollins Chapel. Topics ranged from struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and eating disorders. The panel began with opening remarks from Student Assembly health and wellness chair Speight Carr ’16,
who spoke about how critical of an issue mental health is at the College and campuses nationwide. Carr said mental health is a stigmatized and taboo topic. Without talking about the issue, however, we cannot normalize it, so it is important to start a dialogue that moves beyond the stigma, he said. Director of Counseling and Human Development Heather Earle said representations of mental health in the media prevent people from wanting to discuss it. Panels like
this are important in creating safe spaces for discussion and education on campus, she said. “I think it’s really great when students speak about mental health issues and really break the silence and put a different face to it,” Earle said. Writing professor Jennifer Sargent spoke about her own struggles with mental health throughout her life and career, emphasizing the importance of self-recognition and reaching out to the available resources.
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United by a common interest in discussing and developing immigration reform, students from 20 different institutions representing all corners of the United States will arrive at Dartmouth today for the sixth annual Collegial Alliance for Immigration Reform Conference. The conference, organized by the non-partisan Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, will run from Nov.
Sargent said many faculty, staff and administrators are dealing with the same issues as students, which makes them more understanding. In total, six panelists spoke about their experiences with mental illness, both at the College and before they arrived. Alex Libre ’16 discussed his diagnosis with bipolar disorder and his experience with psychiatric medication. He said the medication kept SEE STOP HIDING PAGE 3
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6 to Nov. 8 and has a varied schedule of events, including lectures, workshops, presentations and discussions. Around 50 people from other institutions are expected to be at the conference. These students represent a mix of four-year and two-year private and public schools, from both the East and West Coast, including all of the Ivy League. There will be about 100 people at the conference including Dartmouth students, staff and ALICE HARRISON/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Phi Beta Kappa held its induction ceremony at the President’s House on Tuesday. The criteria for induction are any undergraduate students who have completed eight residence or off-campus terms three years after matriculation and ranks in cumulative average among the 20 highest in that category. Twenty-two students were inducted: Stephanie Alden ’16, Claire Beskin ’16, Michael Patrick Blank ’16, Gina D’Andrea-Penna ’16, Mary Decker ’16, Michael Dettmer ’16, Axel Hufford ’16, Lacey Jones ’16, Naho Kitade ’16, Bob Klingenberger ’16, Chris Leech ’16, Ke Li ’16, Alex Liao ’16, Brian Masterson ’16, Zonia Moore ’16, Youxiang Peng ’16, Charles Rafkin ’16, Robert Scales ’16, Lea Schroeder ’16, Jon Vandermause ’16, Sarah Waltcher ’16 and Bingyue Wang ’16. Eight members of the Class of 2017 were awarded the Phi Beta Kappa sophomore prize: Brian Chen ’17, Hae-Lin Cho ’17, Tyler David Kelsall ’17, Meghana Noni Anandita Mishra ’17, Yevgenia L Rem ’17, Yerin Yang ’17, Zhecheng Yao ’17 and Ran Zhuo ’17. This prize is awarded to students who have the highest academic rank after five terms of enrollment at Dartmouth. —COMPILED BY JOYCE LEE
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faculty, CoFIRED co-director Dennise Hernandez ’17 said. The conference is free and open to the anyone interested in immigration reform, CoFIRED co-founder and co-director Oscar Cornejo Jr. ’17 wrote in an email. Cornejo is in the Native American studies domestic study program in New Mexico and was unable to speak over the phone. Faculty advisor to CoFIRED and Spanish and Portuguese professor Douglas Moody said that the event was organized entirely by CoFIRED. “They’ve taken this all on themselves, from fundraising to the details of reaching out to people from other institutions,” Moody said. “I’m continually inspired by the dedication, energy and enthusiasm they put forth.” CoFIRED did receive financial assistance from various parts of the College. Cornejo wrote in an email that CoFIRED would like to thank various organizations and departments at the College for their support, calling them “undocu-allies.” The purpose of the CAIR conference is to “unite collegiate organizations, community organizers, students, activists, scholars and leaders of the immigration reform movement,” Cornejo wrote.
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This conference will be important in unifying organizers, activists, scholars and students in discussing their role in the immigration reform movement, especially with the upcoming election, Cornejo wrote. CoFIRED hopes that the participants gain the skills necessary for leading reforms when they return to their institutions and help to foster long-term alliances across the country. Cornejo wrote that the conference marks a turning point in Dartmouth’s history toward undocumented students. Inspired to host the sixth Annual CAIR conference after attending last year’s conference at Princeton, CoFIRED sees the opportunity to host the conference as an opportunity to demonstrate Dartmouth’s commitment to immigration and undocumented students. CoFIRED, which is less than two years old, has not undertaken such a large project, Cornejo wrote. Drake University anthropology professor Lourdes Gutiérrez Najera, who also taught at the College from 2007 to 2014, said that hosting the conference will allow Dartmouth students to share their experiences in activism and other campaigns to effect social change, which have been successful and deserve recognition. She mentioned CoFIRED’s petition to the Library of Congress in 2014 to drop the phrase “illegal alien” from its catalog subject headings as an example. Additionally, Gutiérrez Najera hopes that the conference will bring more awareness of undocumented students to Dartmouth’s campus and the Upper Valley community. She said that there are people in the Upper Valley who want to support young peoples’ efforts for recognition but may not know how, so she hopes the conference will offer them concrete examples of how to be supportive in these efforts. There are also young people in the Upper Valley who are unable to obtain an education because of their immigration status, she said, so she hopes that these students will become informed and learn from other young people like themselves. CoFIRED alliance co-director Melissa Padilla ’16 said that conference is especially important with the upcoming presidential election. She hopes that the conference can be a way to bring information about immigration reform to the College. At the conference, there will be presentations by FWDYale and California Statue University at Northridge’s Dreams to be Heard, a keynote address with Freedom University, — a school in Georgia that offers courses for undocumented students — a workshop with DREAM Act Coalition activist Erika Andiola, a film, lectures and discussions. FWDYale will be presenting its mission, how the organization got started on Yale’s campus and its current d ailyUV.c
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projects and goals, FWDYale president and founder Carolina Rivera ’16 said. The “What is Your Campus Doing?” discussion is one that CoFIRED is especially excited about, Padilla said. Students will have the chance to discuss what they are doing on their campuses, what things work and can learn from them and adapt their model. There will also be various workshops. During the CoFIRED workshop, CoFIRED will share how the organization arose and on what projects it has been working. The “Social Movements and Revolutions” workshop will be a reflective to talk with other students, with the purposing of creating a selfdisclosing safe space. Gutiérrez Najera will be running a workshop titled “DREAMer, DACAmented or Something Else? Language and Labels and their Impact on Undocumented Identity” with Dartmouth speech professor Claudia Anguiano. During the workshop, participants will discuss the “common terminology used to describe participants of the DREAMer movement” to “complicate the contemporary conversation about undocumented young people,” Gutiérrez Najera said. The workshop will also consider the implications the contemporary conversation has for United States politics, and how it specifically affects students and migrant families of color. Gutiérrez Najera and Anguiano’s second workshop, “Real inclusivity in university settings? Undocumented Student Safe Spaces Training,” aims to make people aware of how to build safe spaces, Gutiérrez Najera said. The professors will use data from their research to provide specific strategies and resources meant to support undocumented students and help them to build networks of support, she said. “I hope that the students will walk away with confidence as they return to their institutions. We are aiming to provide students with fresh ideas for implementing awareness and promoting inclusiveness around undocumented students on campus,” Gutiérrez Najera said. Each of the respondents were most excited for different aspects of the conference. Cornejo wrote he was most looking forward to meeting Erika Andiola and the Freedom University students for their work at the forefront of immigration reform. “They are like my celebrities, my inspiration for the work I do. I look forward to seeing the scholars presenting on the theory and praxis of immigration activism,” he wrote. Hernandez said that she is looking forward to the conference for its focus on fostering discussion among students and connecting students who share the same struggle. Rivera said she is also excited to learn these students’ practices and experiences.
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him in a constant state of mild depression until he weaned himself off of it. “Mental health is so much more complicated than the treatment of disease X with medication Y,” he said. Deidra Nesbeth ’16, said she has dealt with an unhealthy relationship with food for years, yet initially did not accept her symptoms. “The psych major in me knew I didn’t fit perfectly into any diagnostic boxes, and I told myself I was okay,” she said. Eventually, she opened up to her friends, realizing that her eating disorder was taking control of her life. “Honesty was the only way that I could get the help that I needed,” she said. One sophomore panelist, Andi Norman ’18, spoke of her struggle with depression and anxiety and balancing academics and playing varsity basketball before reaching out to a counselor at Dick’s House. Jonathan Diakanwa ’16 said growing up in a culture where mental illness was not discussed bred a fear of speaking about weakness. He said the difficulty for him is not in the feeling of anxiety, but in not being able to explain it. He advised students to start small when opening up if they find it difficult. Xander Johnson ’18 said his issues with anxiety began when he started high school and have continued through his time at the College. He said he struggled with his own expectations for his future as well as the expectations of others, especially in relation to coming to terms with his sexuality. A senior female panelist, who asked to remain anonymous due to the personal nature of the issue, spoke about her struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder, saying that a big problem with the discussion of mental illness is
misinformation. She said she hopes that by breaking her own silence on the subject, she will contribute to breaking society’s silence on the subject. “I believe the more people that speak up, the more people will have the courage to do so in the future,” she said. Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 followed the panelists with his own remarks, speaking about how students should foster compassion by changing the way they view each other and participating in the conversation. “I hide my depression behind my smile,” he said, adding that students need to step out from behind their masks and be honest about what they are hiding and why. On Thursday, the Assembly encouraged students to wear stickers that said “I hide my___ behind my ___,” filling in the blanks to represent their own circumstances. Carly Kuperschmid ’16 offered a reflection after the panelists spoke, recognizing their bravery and honesty in coming forward. She said we all have something we dislike about ourselves, and emphasized the importance of support. “What matters is what you’re going to do about it and how you’re going to respond to it,” she said. The event culminated in a candlelight vigil on the Green, commemorating college students who have died by suicide. Cunningham said in an interview that he hoped Thursday would be a day where students recognize that the Assembly is seriously addressing the issue of mental health on campus. He said Student Assembly’s various mental health initiatives this term have been a success. “The ‘Stop Hiding, Start Talking’ campaign did exactly what it was supposed to do, it got people talking,” he said.
Some people were uncomfortable with the name of the initiative, he said. He saw this discomfort, however, as representative of how students at the College are uncomfortable with talking about mental health. The Assembly hosted three discussions open to campus over the course of the last few weeks, as part of a discussion series named “Breaking the Mask through Meaningful Dialogue.” The first discussion was called “Coping with the Rigors of College Life,” followed by “Sexuality, Identity and Mental Health” and finally “Social Anxiety and Substance Abuse.” Cunningham said that he wished attendance had been higher for these discussions, but said he measures success on the impact on students not on attendance. “The way that I would measure success is having students reach out to me,” he said. Students have told him they felt better and more at ease leaving the discussions, he said. “Stop Hiding, Start Talking” was the largest budget allocation for Student Assembly this term, Cunningham said. Carr said he was impressed
by the level of dialogue achieved at the three discussions before Thursday, and he said they were meaningful for the people who were in attendance. “As long as these words can affect at least one person in the room, I think we’ve done our job,” he said. Awareness of the campaign advanced more than last year. He said a similar panel last year was a success, and that he hoped to
replicate this with this term’s panel. The mental health campaign will continue throughout next term, he said. The Assembly has plans to collaborate with different schools and enhance faculty engagement with the discussions, through more awareness campaigns. “Hopefully we’ll get to a more concrete place where we can start writing policies and make campus better,” Carr said.
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ConTRIBUTING Columnist DAN FISHBEIN ’19
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New Hampshire’s marijuana laws are draconian and must be reformed.
Despite administrative discourse, sexual assault has not been solved on campus.
I commonly see something green other than lone pines here at Dartmouth. Many students here seem to enjoy using marijuana — which is not unusual, given that 36 percent of college students had used marijuana over a 12 month period, according to a 2014 survey from the University of Michigan. At Dartmouth, some students continue to use marijuana even given the draconian laws of New Hampshire, where possession of the drug in any quantity is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to one year in prison. It is time for New Hampshire to go along with the national trend and reform these laws, and we as college students can help fight to make this happen. During pre-Orientation, I attended a speech for ’19s about rules on campus and laws in Hanover. In that speech, the head of Safety and Security made the claim that the presence of marijuana inhibits the school’s goals as an educational institution. I could not disagree more. According to researchers at Vanderbilt University, marijuana acts on receptors in the brain in a manner that reduces anxiety and stress. At an Ivy League institution, where students are constantly pushing themselves to take on more challenges in a competitive environment, stress greatly impedes learning. Furthermore, the College’s dominant social system indirectly promotes drinking and enables situations in which alcohol consumption can easily get out of hand. Alcohol is a very dangerous drug — students are frequently sent to Dick’s House or even Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center when they have consumed too much. Alcohol can also lead to dangerous decisions, and can cause memory blackouts in which individuals become unaware of their actions. For the most part, marijuana does not share these dangerous effects. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, people cannot fatally overdose on marijuana. Unlike alcohol — the most common drug used in sexual assault — marijuana is not frequently used in similar cases. Clearly, then, lawmakers and constituents alike must reconsider the reasons to allow alcohol while banning marijuana.
This past August, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a second investigation into the College for alleged sex discrimination, which is prohibited by Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments. Administrators chose not to disclose this investigation to the public, leaving us to find out through third-party press reports. This silence stands out from the eager and occasionally self-congratulatory tone typically heard in administrators’ comments on the College’s plans to prevent sexual assault. This is not to say that administrators could not have credible reasons to prefer keeping this quiet. We do not know the nature or specific details of this investigation, and privacy laws limit public access to such information at this time. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence asserted that the College considered the complaint meritless. Moreover, the Office for Civil Rights considers itself to be a “neutral fact-finder,” and officials themselves stress that opening an investigation does not reflect the complaint’s merits. Whatever the complaint may be, a second Title IX investigation does not inspire confidence that the College is a leader in efforts to combat sexual assault on university campuses, as it claims. Recent data from Dartmouth’s 2015 Annual Report on Campus Security and Fire Safety and the American Association of Universities sexual assault survey indicate that Dartmouth has higher reported rates of sex crimes than many other schools. Administrators have cited the link between greater awareness and higher reported prevalence of sexual assault on campus, yet we are not convinced that an increase in reporting can fully explain these discrepancies. The possibility that other colleges may be just as unsafe as ours should not invite complacency, nor does it somehow render decisive measures an overreaction. It makes little sense to postpone our alarm until sexual misconduct is also within plain sight at peer institutions. Indeed, we have no way to verify that other schools currently have more unreported crimes than we do. Though the alternative, cynical hypothesis is that the reported rates of sexual assault just mean that biased respondents and false accusations are skewing the results, no quantita-
Although Dartmouth cannot let students engage in illegal activity, students should fight to change New Hampshire’s laws. In a state that prides itself on the motto “Live free or die,” locking people up for using a drug that many scientists believe is less harmful than alcohol is extremely contradictory. From 2001 to 2010, police across the country made more than 8 million marijuana arrests — almost 90 percent of which were only for possession. The American Civil Liberties Union found that enforcing possession laws costs states over $3.6 billion annually. In recent years, police have arrested more Americans per year on marijuana charges than the total number of those arrested for all violent crimes combined. Though these are national statistics, New Hampshire’s draconian marijuana laws indicate that our state government is similarly misguided. For those of us who believe that the College has a serious problem with sexual assault, it is downright foolish for the town of Hanover to be going after recreational marijuana users instead of those who inflict both physical and emotional pain on survivors. Hanover, and New Hampshire as a whole, must redirect where they spend their police budget and go after violent crimes instead of prosecuting people for making a choice that has little to no negative impact on those around them. So what can College students do to help New Hampshire take the steps necessary to rethink its incongruous stance on marijuana? In July of this year, a survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire showed that 60 percent of residents supported legalizing marijuana, while 72 percent of residents supported decriminalizing marijuana. It is unjust to have this degree of public support for a policy without any accompanying legislation. This past June, although the state House ruled 297-67 to decriminalize marijuana possession, the state Senate came to no such conclusion, tabling the decriminalization bill. As residents of New Hampshire, we must fight to get the state government’s views in line with those of the people. We must be active in local politics and utilize our voting power to make sure that we really get to live free in the Granite State.
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tive proof backs up that assertion either. We are obliged to act based on the information that we do have. Violence and abuse among students pose a grave threat to the College’s educational mission and deserve urgent attention. One might interject that the College’s revised sexual assault policy, which has been in effect since June 2014 and mandates expulsion for students found guilty of rape, proves administrative commitment and leadership on this issue. Yet the point of such rules is to act as a deterrent, and the changes to the policy are only commendable insofar as they are working. We have no data thus far on judicial outcomes under the new policy. We do know that the incidence of sexual assault must come down. That is unlikely to happen if there is no discernable change in outcomes compared to the previous policy. Stricter consequences do not change behaviours if they only exist in the abstract. A commitment to raising awareness does not equate to a commitment to reducing assault. Actions speak louder than words, and awareness and discussion are ultimately the means to an end. If we are willing to settle for mere awareness as a positive step forward — even if in practice our candid attitudes about sexual assault do not improve the reality — then we settle for a new status quo in which we openly acknowledge the occurrence of sexual abuse but still hesitate from intervening and confronting perpetrators. Heightened awareness should have existed all along. In a community marred by a steady incidence of harmful behaviors, it is disquieting that many could have ever gone about their lives without a clue, if not in willful ignorance. The College cannot fix the failures in our social norms, but it can minimize them by enforcing rules. Half measures will not work — the College’s vow to punish rape with expulsion must actually result in expulsions. To be certain, this approach has been contentious, and concerns about false accusations raised by critics of current sexual assault policies should not be dismissed out of hand. But we do not accept that we should set the bar low and be content with progress in dialogue. Few social ills have been fixed in the past by education and talking.
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the sign read. Theta Delt’s letters were written on a piece of paper attached to the plywood. Gamma Delta Chi fraternity’s letters were also posted on the board on a piece of paper. The act was carried out by a group of “concerned upperclasswomen.” A statement sent to The Dartmouth that was cosigned by “Concerned Upperclasswomen of Dartmouth” said the group is “committed to exposing the deep-seeded racial injustices of this institution.” The statement was sent in an email by an anonymous member of the Class of 2016 on behalf of the group. The student was granted anonymity due to concerns over legal repercussions. NAD — the Native Americans at Dartmouth — was not officially involved in the incident. NAD historian Bridget-Kate Sixkiller McNulty ’16 wrote in an email that the organization and its representatives declined to comment because NAD was uninvolved in the incident. An investigation into the incident is currently underway, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said. The plywood, signs and a College-owned camera were removed from Dartmouth Hall and secured by Safety and Security officers, he said. A piece of plywood was reported stolen by an organization — which Kinne did not identify — although it was not necessarily the same piece of plywood, Kinne said. “We haven’t made a conclusion as to whether this is the reported stolen
piece of property at this time,” he said. The plywood and signs were removed because they were not officially allowed to be positioned on the steps, Kinne said. “There are no banners or that type of thing that are allowed to be placed on the campus, so it was removed because of the fact that no one had gained approval to have it there,” he said. Kinne declined to comment on the ongoing investigation being conducted by Safety and Security. Currently, Safety and Security is attempting to find the last individual in possession of the College-owned camera and also locate any other potential witnesses, he said. The statement from the group of upperclasswomen discussed a “rigged” system against marginalized groups — particularly Native students — and criticized biases and racism within the Greek system and Dartmouth as a whole. Additionally, the statement highlighted specific iconography on campus as offensive to Native students, including the basement of Theta Delt, parts of GDX, the Hovey Murals, the weathervane on Baker Tower, the Paganucci Lounge in the Class of 1953 Commons, the basement of the now-derecognized Alpha Delta fraternity, the Tower Room, the College President’s office and the third floor of Psi Upsilon fraternity. The statement criticized campus reaction to the imagery on the grounds that it was directed at NAD. “What does it say that we as a ‘Dartmouth community’ expect the only people who care about racism to be the victims of racism?” the statement
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asked. Student Assembly President Frank Cunningham ’16 said that following the incident, he was most concerned about the backlash toward the NAD community, since they were not involved. He said that this community continues to experience hardship on campus, and that it is “a true problem that this Indian mascot still exists here at Dartmouth.” Members of Theta Delt could potentially feel threatened by the incident, Greek Leadership Council accountability chair Taylor Watson ’16 said. “If [Theta Delts] say they feel specifically unsafe, we can’t deny that and say ‘No you don’t,’ but I think it’s less ‘You broke in and stole something’ than ‘You broke in and stole something and used it to attack us,’” he said. Since fraternities are relatively public spaces, it is possible for non-members to enter somewhat easily, which can be challenging for those living in the house, he said. The GLC is considering amending its constitution to ban the Dartmouth Indian in all GLC houses, Watson said. Such a measure would require the presidents of all Greek houses to vote to amend the constitution. All the Greek presidents met on Wednesday night but the constitution was not amended after the issue was discussed, he said. It may
arise again in future. The statement from the group of concerned upperclasswomen criticized the GLC for failing to adopt the constitutional amendment that would fine Greek organizations for any depiction of the Dartmouth Indian. “Prominent members of the Greek system have been directly involved in generating this racist imagery,” the statement read. A major issue is the right of individuals to wear the symbol, Watson said. While the display of the Dartmouth Indian in a private room or on a Tshirt is not the purview of the GLC, a T-shirt displaying the Indian alongside a house’s Greek letters or a display of the Indian in a public place could be problematic, he said. Chi Heorot fraternity recently removed all Dartmouth Indian-related apparel from its premises, Watson said. Cunningham said he supports the movement to ban the Dartmouth Indian from GLC organizations because it would make Greek spaces more inclusive to all students. The incident follows the posting of flyers across Dartmouth residents halls last month. The flyers — which encouraged students to “celebrate Columbus Day all year” with “vintage” apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian — were removed by mainly Native
students shortly after they were posted. Many campus groups expressed outrage at the incident, which was reported to administrators as a bias incident. After the first incident, Sixkiller McNulty said some Native students did not feel safe on campus. “It is horrifying that students do not feel safe on their own college campus, do not feel free to walk around because other students have decided to intimidate and scare them,” Sixkiller McNulty said at the time. When the flyers were posted, 56 Native high school seniors were visiting campus as part of the Native American Community Program and saw the flyers. The GLC condemned the first incident in a campus-wide email and may take similar action for the more recent incident, Watson said. However, the GLC can only speak for itself and not for the Greek system as a whole, he said. Theta Delt president Curtis Oberg ’16 did not respond to a request seeking comment. Interfraternity Council president Sam Macomber ’16 declined to comment, citing the fact that he was not in Hanover and was not comfortable speaking on the matter until he discussed it with IFC officials at Dartmouth.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 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
TOMORROW 9:00 a.m. “Magna Carta - On the 800th Anniversary of the Great Charter,” conference, Rockefeller Center, Room 001
5:00 p.m. “Telluride Shorts Showcase” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
6:00 p.m. “Fourth Annual Veterans Banquet,” hosted by DUVA, DUSA and the Rockefeller Center, Collis Common Ground
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Dawit Workie ’17 guides Big Green as unconventional flyhalf
B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff
There is not a single rugby player in this world that has not been yelled at by his ten. Not setting a proper platform for the kick? Trying to run a pick when the call is to get the ball out? Generally doing anything that is not helpful to what the flyhalf wants to do in that moment? Breathing in a space where your ten is upset? It can make you wonder how Dawit Workie ’17 ever ended up at flyhalf. “I’m a pretty timid guy,” Workie said. “I’m shy at first. I try to be as understanding as possible and am definitely not too dominant in social situations. I don’t really put myself out there.” Workie, a recruit now in his third year with Dartmouth rugby, has been playing flyhalf since his senior year in high school when his team’s “stud ten” departed and the team had no one to replace him. After spending his first years at fullback — typically a fast player who can catch, kick, finish plays and make an open field tackle to stop a line break but is not really that involved in leading the team — Workie took over at flyhalf. “For us at Dartmouth, he’s instrumental in leading our attack,” head coach Gavin Hickie said. “His rugby IQ is very good and he sees things a little bit quicker than some other players, but in my eyes, there’s always room
for improvement.” A senior on the team who also played club rugby and rep-team rugby with the Washington Loggers, it was his experience and not his domineering personality that made him an excellent choice, because that is the real truth of the ten — they are smart, important orchestrators of the pace of play and the primary decision makers for the team. They are always — on every team — in at least one sense, a leader. If your ten is yelling at you, there’s about a 99.99 percent chance you are in the wrong. “If he feels strongly about something he’ll push for it but he also knows when to take the backseat for a little bit,” hooker Gordon Driscoll ’17 said. “Maybe his personality doesn’t exactly match with his position, but he knows the game so much better than us. He knows when to assume the leadership role.” Workie began his rugby career in eighth grade, when the Washington native headed out of town to go to boarding school in Victoria, British Columbia, at St. Michaels University School. At St. Michaels, Workie was introduced to rugby for the first time after playing basketball for most of his youth. He had never considered American football — partly because his mom would not allow it and partly because he “didn’t know about the whole pads thing.” As part of the culture at St. Michaels, Workie started playing rugby — with
no protest from his mother, who did not fully understand the sport. After playing the game at lunch, recess, before school and after school, Workie was hooked. “In 8th grade we used to play tackle [at lunch and recess],” he said. “We had uniforms and we would always get muddied and dirtied up before class and the teachers would get upset. But that stopped after one or two injuries.” While at St. Michaels, Dartmouth became Workie’s top choice. He was drawn in by the rugby program that was at the beginning of its peak. In the years of Workie’s college search, Dartmouth rugby took home two Collegiate Rugby Championships and continued more than a decade of domination in the Ivy League. Workie got in touch with Alex Magleby, the program’s technical advisor, who decided he would be a good fit and flagged his application. Since arriving at Dartmouth, Workie has been playing on the team’s a-side and has been a part of every CRC squad. “Coming in as a freshman I thought it was very difficult to step up and talk at ten just because you’re the one telling people where to go and commanding the offense in the system,” Workie said. “Being a freshman and having to tell seniors what to do was one of the tougher things I’ve had to go through. But the guys around me were always so understanding and so helpful. They didn’t see it as an, ‘Oh, he’s younger I’m not listening to him’ kind of thing. We
were out there playing and it doesn’t matter age, year, frat — when we’re out on the pitch none of that matters.” Since arriving as a freshman, Workie’s role on the field and on the team has only expanded. The program, like many non-varsity rugby programs, relies on the development of crossovers and walk-ons. While the coaches typically do a good job of developing players, due to the nature of the game — no stoppages to confer with coaches besides halftime — a large part of the responsibility falls to the players, making those with experience invaluable in game situations. For Workie, this is one of the most rewarding parts of Dartmouth’s program. “The guys around me are such good athletes or such smart kids that they pick it up really fast,” he said. “There are some frustrating times, but it’s also incredible. They’re really dedicated, and they try to learn all the time so their learning curve has been unbelievable.” And the guys on the team really do listen. In the sense of a younger player coming in and having to work with older teammates, Workie’s soft-spoken personality allows him to be a teammate who directs and coaches without losing the respect of his peers. A fine line must be observed when peers have to take control of a situation without coming off with a superiority complex. Workie is able to correct his peers by talking to his teammates, not talking down to them. He’s the kind of player that
walks smiling into a training room full of injured players while a single athletic trainer works to keep track of almost 100 athletes and makes conversation and waits his turn. The kind of player that everyone knows is important, but he never acts like it. “He’s really a guy that inspires everyone around him to play up to his level,” Driscoll said. “Off the field, he’s just a clown. He’s a jokester. He’s a great guy and he cares a lot about the people around him.” Outside of rugby, academics are Workie’s main priority. He is a quantitative social science major, a major comprised of six math classes and four of a social science concentration — his is psychology and brain sciences. Workie emphasized that he would like to play rugby as long as possible, but playing the game in the future, he said, is dependent on where he gets a job, holding his academics and career path ahead of all else — a trait he said he learned from his father. Spending virtually all his time with the rugby team, he said, never gets old. “I don’t really ever feel the urge to step away,” Workie said. “Dartmouth rugby is as much about on the field as it is off. The guys you’re close with, they’re your best friends off the field as well. They’re the guys you hang out with, do work with, watch T.V with, just as well as hit guys on the field with. I don’t think there’s a break from it, and I’ve never felt the need to take one.”
Shoot for It: With John Beneville ’16 and Alex Lee ’16
B y JOHN BENEVILLE AND ALEX LEE The Dartmouth Staff
What’s good Dartmouth? The “Shoot For It” boys are back in action this week talking about the reigning National Basketball Association’s Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry. In addition to winning regular season MVP, Curry led his team to an NBA Championship, averaging almost 24 points per game, while dishing out more than seven assists and grabbing four rebounds per contest over the course of the season. Probably the league’s best threepoint shooter, Steph Curry is known for his quick release and ability to knock down seemingly impossible shots from range. If there was any question mark before the season started as to whether or not he’d be able to replicate last year’s numbers, there isn’t anymore. Through his first five games this season, Curry has averaged a whopping 35.8 pointper-game shooting with over 57 percent from the field and over 50 percent from beyond the arc. Though it’s only been five games, those numbers are absolutely bonkers. We’ll break it all down in our takes below. Alex’s Take: Does anyone else remember in March of 2012 when the Golden State Warriors were thinking
about trading Steph Curry straight-up for Rajon Rondo? My oh my, how times have changed. As we mentioned, Curry’s numbers this past year and the first several games have been phenomenal, and early into the season, the Golden State Warriors seem even more formidable than they were when they won it all last year. I think most impressive of all is that Curry looks like a very average guy when he’s not geared up. I’ve seen plenty of people in the Zimmerman Fitness Center that look more athletic than Steph. On the court, however, Stephen Curry has been in complete control. His ability to craftily maneuver and finish against some of the shrewdest, most athletic defenders is very impressive. He plays for highlights, but it works. Stephen Curry plays basketball like a middle-schooler would play NBA 2K. He has an uncanny way of turning low percentage shots into high percentage shots. From what you’ve read of this column, you probably already know that I disagree with his play style, but I certainly do respect his results. All this being said and despite the fact that I believe the Warriors to be improved from last year, I disagree with John that the Warriors will come out on top in the West. I think that the Los Angeles Clippers are going to upset the
Golden State Warriors. As I predicted in week five, I strongly believe that the Clippers are going to be a very strong force out of the West this year. Their collapse against the Houston Rockets in the playoffs last year will motivate their efforts, a stark contrast to the title content Warriors. The physically overwhelming combination of Blake Griffin and Deandre Jordan, who are currently in their athletic primes, will be too much for Draymond Green and Festus Ezeli to handle. Let’s not forget that a significantly weakened Cleveland Cavaliers team took these Warriors to game six. Furthermore, I think that the loss of David Lee will hurt the Warriors more than one might think. Though Lee was not a prominent contributor numberswise, he was a staple of the organization that provided leadership on and off the court. I’m not convinced that Curry has matured enough to handle the burden that a great leader must when his team is struggling. I do not foresee the Warriors advancing to the finals this year. John’s Take: To say that Steph Curry has started the season well is an understatement. He’s been hotter than a summer fraternity basement during Masters and has made defenders look sillier than the Sun God on any day that’s
not Oct. 31. He’s shot three-pointers from ridiculous distances, weaved and bobbed around giant centers to make circus layups and absolutely electrified the Warriors’ Oracle Arena. I have to say that I wasn’t particularly impressed with Curry’s performance in the 2015 finals. He had some bad stretches and much longer periods of mediocre play, but I think that’s because Curry thrives when he’s having fun. Curry’s at his best when he’s playing at home, saluting the crowd and basking in the glory that comes with making absurd shots and plays on the court. Curry was a little tight in the finals, which is natural for someone that is still young, but the real test this year will be how he does in the playoffs. I don’t think there is any question that the Warriors will be a top team in the West this year, so their whole season is one long preview to their playoff run. On Monday night, in an absolutely embarrassing game for their opponents, Steph Curry and the Warriors trounced the Grizzlies by 50 points. Yes, that’s right. 50. The Memphis Grizzlies, by the way, have consistently been one of the best defensive teams over the last few years, making the lopsided victory especially impressive. The Warriors will get their losses of course, but I honestly don’t expect to see too many.
I’m confused as to how Alex still picks the Clippers to come out of the West above the Warriors this year. The Warriors have only become better since they won the championship, and I don’t think the same is true for the Clippers. Although I’m baffled by Alex’s Western Conference rankings, I am flabbergasted by his analysis of Steph Curry. I’m not sure how you can respect someone’s results, which by the way, include an NBA ring and an MVP award, and not respect their play style. To say that he plays basketball like someone playing a video game should be a compliment, not a critique. The man has been lauded as the best three-point shooter of our generation, possibly of all time. Just because you, or anybody else for that matter, can’t release the ball as quickly and accurately as Steph Curry, doesn’t mean the dude is just chucking up shots. Quite the contrary in fact, it means he has mastered his craft. I cannot believe Alex would be so disrespectful, so blasphemous and so outrageous in his commentary that he would suggest that there are people in the gym more athletic than Steph Curry. Steph Curry is anything but average, and I look forward to seeing him prove the remaining doubters wrong this season.
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SPORTS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015
FRIDAY LINEUP
MEN’S HOCKEY VS. BROWN 7 PM
VOLLEYBALL VS. COLUMBIA 7 PM
Football prepares to take on winless Cornell on Friday night
B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff
Much like it did in the 2014 season, the loss to the Harvard Crimson last Friday seems to have extinguished Dartmouth’s Ivy League title aspirations. Playing on the biggest stage of the season — a nationally broadcast matchup between two undefeated squads that would leave the victor with the best shot at winning the conference — the Big Green suffered a demoralizing comeback loss after only trailing the Crimson for the final 38 seconds of the game. While it can only hope for its rival to fall at some point this month, No. 24 Dartmouth (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) must now finish its season strongly — starting with last-place Cornell University (0-7, 0-4 Ivy) tonight at Memorial Stadium — if it wants any chance at salvaging the season’s title hopes. “I think everyone knows we should’ve won,” standout defensive tackle A.J. Zuttah ’16 said about the game against Harvard. “Everybody is very confident in what type of team we are. I think the mindset [moving forward] is going and winning the rest of the season.” Most teams try to focus on their own results, but the Big Green would benefit tremendously if Harvard gets upset by one of its last three remaining opponents. “If they lose, we’ll be happy,” Zuttah added. “At the end of the day, we can’t control that. So we have to really focus on what we’re doing this week, who we’re going up against, because we’re not playing Harvard again, so it doesn’t really matter what goes on with them.” At the same time, however, cornerback Vernon Harris ’16 acknowledges the team won’t completely turn a blind eye to the games the Crimson plays. “I’m not going to lie, we’ll definitely take a peek at the score after games,” Harris said. “But we definitely need to focus on ourselves.” In facing Cornell on Friday, the Big Green will attempt to put last week’s loss behind it in a game against the worst team in the Ivy League. A pitiful 0-7 record, however, fails to completely reflect the Big Red team’s course this year. Its first three games of the season, for example — while only involving one
matchup against an Ivy foe — were much closer than an 0-3 mark would indicate, as the margin of defeat for Cornell was seven points or less in all three opening contests. In the first of these, the team possessed a lead at one point, and against Yale University, the Big Red squandered a 19-point advantage and trailed for the first time with just 32 seconds left. This week, the Cornell offense will likely encounter one of its toughest challenges. Consistently an overpowering presence through seven games this season — having allowed more than 14 points once, and more than 10 points just twice — the Dartmouth defense currently ranks as the best in the country on a per-play basis, yielding just 3.81 yards on each opposing offensive play. At the forefront of their concern and preparations for tonight will be the opposing running game. Leading the Cornell attack, senior running back Luke Hagy has been a potent force out of the backfield during his entire career, having received second-team All-Ivy honors at his position as a junior in 2014. Playing in six of Cornell’s seven games this year, Hagy has accumulated 507 yards at a clip of 5.8 per carry — ranked second in the conference among runners with at least 50 attempts — and has ran for five touchdowns, in addition to contributing 124 yards in the receiving game. “It’s clear that their best player is at running back, he’s been a fouryear starter for them,” Zuttah said about Hagy. “He gave us a little bit of trouble last year. I think he had a 50-yard touchdown, a couple big pickups. So that’s first and foremost one of the things we have to stop against Cornell.” At quarterback, Robert Somborn has called the snaps for the Big Red this year. The junior has passed for 1,449 yards in the air at a 7.5 yard per attempt clip — which tabs him as the fourth most efficient passer among regular Ivy starters — as well as paired 10 touchdown throws with seven interceptions. “[Their] quarterback is pretty young but he’s pretty good, he can get the ball out there,” Harris said about his team’s upcoming opponent. “I know luck hasn’t gone [Cornell’s] way, but you still have to pay attention to their team, because
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Football will look to bounce back from a demoralizing loss to Harvard by taking down the struggling Cornell Big Red.
they definitely take a lot of chances [on offense], a lot of big shots down field.” After averaging 38 points across its first five games of the season, the explosive Dartmouth offense has receded as of late, scoring just 13 in each of the last two weekends. Fortunately for the unit, a Friday night matchup against Cornell grants quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 and company a chance to get back on track against a porous defense that allows the most yards on passing and rushing plays in the conference. “They mix it up,” wide receiver Victor Williams ’16 noted about Cornell’s defense. “They’re a big zone [defense] team, but when it comes down to third downs, they play some man [defense], too. You just really have to be ready for anything, and that comes from preparation and watching film.” But in the game against Harvard last Friday, the Big Green offense certainly did not slump. Throughout the night in Cambridge, Dalyn Williams — in receiving great offensive line protection — guided the group down the field several times and successfully connected on several deep passing plays. The trouble came, however, in capitalizing on the various opportunities it generated. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” Victor Williams said. “We had a false start on the one-yard line, I dropped a touchdown pass, we had a fumble…those were the plays that stuck out… It’s a team effort, and nobody’s blaming anything on
anybody. We just have to make sure we go out the next week with Cornell and take care of business, make those plays that we didn’t make this past week.” On a psychological level, the offense, and team more generally, will need a short memory to move past one of the more devastating losses a team can experience. “You have 24 hours to sort of look over film, to come to terms with it and move on, and whether it was a win or a loss, because you have a game the next week,” Williams said. “You can’t be worried about the past, so that’s the reality of the situation.” For nearly the entire contest last week, the Dartmouth defense dominated a Harvard offense that had never faced such overwhelming adversity before. Maintaining a shutout for the first 53 minutes, the Big Green eventually conceded the deciding 14 points in two of Harvard’s final three drives. “We wanted to go out and prove that we were the best defense in the country,” Zuttah said. “If you want to do that, you have to go up against the best team and play your best game, and prove that you’re deserving of that… I think we went out there with confidence, almost shut them out. But when it mattered, we let them score.” Above all else, a legendary goal-line stand early in the fourth quarter highlighted the defensive performance. Inside the Dartmouth four-yard line, the Crimson could only gain three yards on seven plays
— a sequence extended by a short first down and penalty — as the Big Green stuffed every opposing rush in what seemed like the defining moment of the game. “I think it was the trust that we all have for each other,” Harris said in pointing to what keyed the effort. “Even though we knew we were back [against] the end zone, you could tell nobody had given up mentally. And every time we made a stop, you could feel the emotion rising up within ourselves and the crowd. Since I’ve been here, Harvard’s offensive line [has been] one of the most dominant in the Ivy League, so for us to make a stand on that goal line was very special.” Moreover, Harris — who has the most tackles in the secondary and a pick to his name this season — remarked about the experience of playing in front of a Big Green crowd that rivaled that of the home side, and which fervently cheered on the team the entire night. “I was happy to see the atmosphere in the community that came around to watch us play,” Harris said. “That’s the first time I felt like in a long time since I’ve been here that the community definitely rallied around the football team. [The game] was a little disappointing, but to be able to have that type of fan support and from the community was good.” The Big Green will take on the Big Red this Friday at 8 p.m., and only two conference games — against Brown and Princeton Universities — remain in the team’s season.