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PRIDE hosted a barbeque in front of Collis as part of its programming this year.
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Tonight, students will gather over hors d’oeuvres and an open bar at the Lavender Graduation, a ceremony which recognizes the achievements of graduating seniors who are part of the LGBTQIA
community. The event, hosted at the Triangle House, will cap off a two-week long PRIDE 2016 and will include a book dedication from authors in the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/Ae Association. PRIDE 2016 co-
chairs Shiv Sethi '17 and Alexander Johnson '18 said that PRIDE Week was a success in terms of reinforcing the LGBTQIA community on campus, strengthening allyship and also cultivating students from the Class of 2019 as future PRIDE Week SEE PRIDE PAGE 7
A student was allegedly threatened and asked to leave a panel hosted by the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth on Saturday after he attempted to film remarks by Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar. Puar is known for her controversial remarks about Israel, which was her main topic during the panel. The stated topic of the event was related to feminism and the environment rather than Middle Eastern politics, according to GRID’s website. Matthew Goldstein ’18 accused GRID director Annabel Martín of threatening him with force after he attempted to record the lecture. Later, Hanover Police and Safety and Security became involved, and Goldstein was told he would be arrested if he did not stop recording. At that point, he chose to leave the area. Goldstein brought a camera to the event, which he believed was legal under New Hampshire law, in order to record Puar’s remarks. At an event at Vassar College in February, Puar requested that her talk not be recorded. Goldstein said he had been told by Martín that the GRID-sponsored event would not be recorded, and he felt it was important to have a record of the panel. Goldstein said Martín accosted him shortly after he began filming during Puar’s talk before summoning a Safety and Security officer who was monitoring the event to ask Goldstein to cease filming, which he refused to do. New Hampshire’s legal code does permit recording of public events, but that law does not extend to events that occur on private property, which included the panel. “If you’re inside a building at Dartmouth College, they have the right to have any rules or regulations there,” Hanover Police chief Charlie Dennis said. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne did not respond to requests to comment by press time. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email no one was threatened with force or physically restricted during the event. Martín responded to requests seeking comment with an emailed statement but did not respond to specific questions about the panel, its content and planning or her actions during the incident with Goldstein. SEE PUAR PAGE 5
The Skinny Pancake Hanover to vote on new budget opens in town today By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff
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All-day breakfast, locally sourced food, craft beers and live music: these will be among the varied offerings at the Hanover location of The Skinny Pancake, which holds its grand opening today. The fast casual dining establishment specializes in crêpes and can be found in
the Hanover Park Building on Lebanon Street. In celebration of the grand opening, The Skinny Pancake will host two live performers this weekend — Brett Hughes from Burlington on Friday and Christopher Paul Stellingon Saturday. Co-owner Benjy Adler described the restaurant as SEE PANCAKE PAGE 9
Next Tuesday evening, May 10, the town of Hanover will vote to approve the year’s proposed budget, which the Hanover finance committee voted 3-1 to support. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin characterized this year’s budget as fairly stable compared to previous ones. Overall, expenditures have decreased compared
to last year’s budget. This year, the town has proposed a budget of $25,517,534, a 2.5 percent decrease from last year’s $26,177,606. This is largely the result of reduced funding from reserve fund purchases – monies that have previously been set aside to fund specific programs. Last year, reserve funds supported $2,271,023 of funding, whereas this year they will cover only $1,302,675, a 42.6 percent decrease. With reserve funds
factored out, the budget has seen a slight increase in funding, from $23,906,583 to $24,214,859. The town’s tax rate is set to increase by 1.57 percent, from 6.11 to 6.21, while its tax levies will go up by 2.63 percent. This tax rate increase is lower than the Hanover select board’s recommended maximum of 2.5 percent. Griffin emphasized the SEE BUDGET PAGE 13
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DAILY DEBRIEFING In a campus-wide email yesterday, health service director Mark Reed announced that while the College currently has no confirmed cases of mumps, multiple students have exhibited symptoms consistent with the illness. These students have undergone State Public Health Department testing, and are currently in self-isolation. The department requires at least five days of isolation for patients diagnosed with mumps. Common symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and tender salivary glands under the ears. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms typically appear 16 to 18 days after infection. The virus itself spreads through infected saliva. Best practices for preventing transmission include frequent hand washing, the use of hand sanitizer and proper cough etiquette. The CDC states that vaccines are good at preventing mumps — with prevention rates of 88 percent after two doses — but they are not fully effective. According to the campus wide email, students will also be able to contact nursing staff and Primary Care Preventive Medicine staff for “wellness checks” as needed. On April 29, Harvard University health services director Paul Barreira said that there had been 45 confirmed cases of mumps at the University. Additionally, other people presented with “definite clinical signs of mumps.” The number of cases at Harvard has been growing since late February, when the first two cases of mumps were confirmed. In his email, Reed alluded toward the connections between the Dartmouth and Harvard communities as potential vectors for the spread of mumps. - COMPILED BY MICHAEL QIAN
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Student ejected from Puar’s talk last week for attempt to record FROM PUAR PAGE 1
In her statement, Martín wrote that it was Puar’s decision to allow only an official College recording. Martín said an audio recording will be made available today. No video recording is currently set to be made available. The professional recording will eliminate any dispute over Puar’s statements, Martin added. In a follow-up email, Martín wrote that “the only way to be objective” is to listen the recording. Anthropology professor Sergei Kan expressed displeasure with Martín’s actions and said she was “very hostile” and did not “have the right” to eject Goldstein in the manner she did. Goldstein praised the conduct of the Safety and Security officer and the Hanover Police officer who were summoned by Martín after Goldstein’s initial refusals to cease filming the panel. Goldstein was told he would be arrested for disorderly conduct if he did not stop filming, but no arrest was made, according to Dennis. Goldstein elected to leave instead. Noah David ’19, who attended the event and witnessed the confrontation between Goldstein, Martín and the law enforcement officials, said Goldstein and the officers were all respectful throughout the entirety of the proceedings. Following Goldstein’s exit and the end of Puar’s section of the panel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English professor Neel Ahuja rose to speak. According to numerous people in attendance, Ahuja began by calling out Goldstein for his actions. Kan recounted Ahuja saying that Goldstein had “invaded professor Puar.” Alex Leibowitz ’19 said that Ahuja stated that attempting to record Puar “was the equivalent of silencing minorities.” He said he did not see the logic of the comment, which struck him as an
odd one for Ahuja to make. David said Ahuja alleged that Goldstein’s attempt to record the event “shows the militancy of the whites versus the brown and black people in the world.” David said he believes Ahuja’s comments were potentially anti-Semitic because Goldstein was visibly wearing a shirt with Hebrew lettering and a yarmulke. Ahuja initially responded to a request seeking comment asking for further information. After being provided with such, he did not respond further. Rather than discussing the gender and ecological issues that were the topic of the panel, Puar began discussing conflicts in Israel and Palestine. Many Jewish students in attendance took issue with the content of Puar’s talk. Kan said Puar’s statements at the GRID-sponsored event were “academic anti-Semitism.” He said he saw one Jewish student close to tears while others were emotionally distraught because their faith “was being covered in dirt.” “This is hatred,” Kan said of Puar’s statements. “This is the kind of scholarship that wants to provoke, wants to offend and does it without any concern for accuracy.” Puar did not respond to a request seeking comment by press time. Goldstein — who is the co-president of Chabad at Dartmouth but said he was speaking only in a personal capacity — expressed displeasure with the decision to bring Puar to campus before her talk, a position supported by many campus Jewish leaders. Puar made accusations that Israelis maim Palestinians, a claim that represents a “deliberate maligning of Israel that has no factual or almost no factual foundation,” Kan said. David, who is a member of Chabad and Hillel at the College and has a brother and cousin, as well as many close
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friends, serving in the Israel Defense Force said he was offended by Puar’s remarks. Prior to the speech, Goldstein said he believed Israel would not be brought up. “It was made to seem like the speech was not going to be explicitly about Israel and if there was anything that was mentioned, it would be sort of an ancillary component, not really the full thing,” Goldstein said. “The entire speech was about Israel.” Both Kan and Goldstein criticized Puar’s qualifications to speak on issues of Middle Eastern politics. Puar is a professor of women and gender studies at Rutgers, where she specializes in queer theory, feminism, globalization and diaspora studies. Goldstein noted that Puar has no background in Middle Eastern studies and does not speak Arabic or Hebrew. Puar said at the event she intends to learn Arabic. She made no similar mention of Hebrew. David said Puar’s rhetoric was close to anti-Semitism and some of the things she referenced were antiSemitic, but he did not call the entire content of her talk anti-Semitic. Leibowitz said many of Puar’s writings are anti-Semitic but stopped short of saying the same of her presentation on the panel.
Goldstein, however, stated that the entire event was highly anti-Semitic and accused GRID of promoting anti-Semitic speech. “I believe that in GRID’s sponsoring of Puar’s speech, they were sponsoring anti-Semitic rhetoric, because it kept fully in line with what she has said before,” he said. “Not only was
it anti-Semitic, it’s also not academically honest — garbage scholarship, really.” Goldstein is a former member of The Dartmouth opinion staff. Leibowitz is a member of The Dartmouth business staff. Zachary Benjamin and Samantha Stern contributed reporting.
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PRIDE works with longer schedule but same-sized budget FROM PRIDE PAGE 1
organizers. Sethi said that PRIDE Week helps bring together dispersed LGBTQIA communities on campus and that some of its programs — such as Outspoken, a story-sharing event and Transform, a fashion show mostly comprised of LGBTQIA+ students — had a great impact in uniting the community. The stories shared by panelists in Outspoken were “awesome” and many people with whom the stories resonated stayed after to discuss their lives, he said. TRANSFORM model and performer Carlos Tifa Jr. '19 said that the event provided the LGBTQIA community with a stage upon which they could exhibit their aesthetic. “The theme was based on selfexpression,” he said. “People portray what they identify as in their clothes, the way they walk and the way they held themselves during the performance.” Tifa said that his performance outfit was inspired by Prince’s look, including included heels, silver belts and “dramatic” Black Swan-esque makeup. Johnson said that there was a strong ally showing at PRIDE Week events, especially at TRANSFORM,
the speech of the Baltimore Trans Alliance director Bryanna Jenkins and Outspoken. This year was the first time that PRIDE Week programming continued over two weeks, as opposed to just one. Johnson said the extension was worth it because the opportunity to host more events created greater impact. Despite the increase in the number of events, Johnson said that the PRIDE 2016 budget did not increase, partly due to some budgeting modifications. Instead of inviting a single keynote speaker who typically takes up a great part of the budget, this year’s PRIDE Week featured several non-keynote speakers, he said. “Spending less money on individual events allowed us to extend roughly the same amount of money into a longer timeframe without sacrificing the quality,” Johnson said. In reference to the PRIDE 2016 committee board, Sethi said that the Class of 2019 co-chairs all did well in their various positions as leaders. Johnson agreed, adding that the cochairs were “really good at reaching out to people.” PRIDE 2016 social co-chair Armando Ortiz '19 said that he personally improved his organizational skills, and that he received useful tips from
advisors and people who previously worked on PRIDE boards. A Class of 2019 co-chair, who requested anonymity because she does not want her sexual orientation to be public knowledge, said that planning PRIDE Week required her to create and maintain many interpersonal relationships. In addition, she managed details related to contacting the music industry, She also said that future PRIDE weeks could improve on certain aspects, such as the budget, which she said was less than the amount the team really wanted. Because of the budget constraints, she said that she had to eliminate some performers from the list, including actress and musician Julia Weldon who would have spoken about being queer in the entertainment industry and would have added more of an educational component to PRIDE Week. “Her appearance could have exposed students to someone genderqueer in the music industry, or generally any industry, and tell them about ‘What is it like to navigate as a gender queer person in a certain industry?’” she said. Weldon’s music, she added, often portrays people in the LGBTQIA community as living people with emo-
tions as opposed to walking political statements. The Class of 2019 co-chair also said that while many allies do exist, the amount of participation from people who are not LGBTQIA affiliated was still lower than expected. One of the ultimate goals of PRIDE, she said, is to increase the level of connection between people within and outside of the LGBTQIA community. Some PRIDE Week events such as Outspoken, however, were specifically targeted at students who identified as LGBTQIA. “We do want to create safe spaces for queer people, which is why the
speakers in Outspoken are anonymous,” the co-chair said. “However, the fact that we need ‘safe space’ is horrible. Everywhere is a ‘safe space’ for straight people, but queers, even in a panel like Outspoken, still have to remain anonymous.” This year’s PRIDE Week marks the 10th annual celebration since Dartmouth held its first PRIDE Week in 2007. In addition to PRIDE, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership is planning on hosting an LGBTQIA History Month in October. PRIDE 2017 will take place at roughly the same time next spring term, Sethi said.
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The Skinny Pancake to feature local food, musical acts and craft beer FROM PANCACKE PAGE 1
a “mission-driven business” that is aggressive about serving affordable and locally sourced food. The space will also have some of the longest hours in the Upper Valley — 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 8 a.m. to midnight Thursday through Saturday. General house manager Keith Troy Walsh said that the restaurant expects to have about 50 employees because of the long hours. The menu features a variety of crêpes — including lunch, dinner and dessert options. Adler said that burgers, paninis and “group munchies” like nachos, spinach artichoke dip and French fries will also be served. The Skinny Pancake, which has a price point of about $10 for most items, is committed to keeping its food affordable, he said. “We’re trying to keep local food affordable and thus accessible,” Adler said. “We talk about it being everyday eats, not a special treat.” To craft beer afficionados, The Skinny Pancake will be a welcome addition to Hanover. Adler said the team is working on a “really deep” local sourcing of craft beer, with 22 taps at the bar. Located in the same complex as restaurants like The Orient, Subway and Base Camp Cafe, The Skinny Pancake moved into its current space after the owners of Essentials for Men and The Chocolate Shop retired. Hanover was an ideal place to open The Skinny Pancake’s next location because it is a combined “college-hospital town,” Adler said, and more people suggested Hanover as a location than any other place. The Upper Valley is also a fertile agricultural area, which plays into the restaurant’s mission of serving local food, he added.
Walsh said that by using ingredients from local producers, The Skinny Pancake can support the community beyond its customers. The business currently spends $1,000,000 in food annually and will add another $400,000 with the Hanover location. In addition to its food offerings, The Skinny Pancake will also aim to have live music performances between two and five days a week. Adler, who was a music major in college, said the restaurant will have a proper set up that makes the space an attractive venue and for musicians. He also said that Hanover could benefit from a venue where the musical genre of choice gravitates toward folk, bluegrass and Americana. The Skinny Pancake also plans to hold community events like storytelling sessions and fundraising for local nonprofits. “We want this to be a space that can be activated for special events in a casual atmosphere,” Adler said. Several students expressed excitement at The Skinny Pancake’s grand opening. The restaurant’s Facebook event, which advertises its opening celebration, has 244 people responding “going” as of press time. The Skinny Pancake also promoted itself at a King Arthur Flour event in Norwich last week. Sai Mupparaju ’18 and Alexandra Fricke ’18 both said that they are excited for The Skinny Pancake’s Hanover opening after seeing it at the Norwich event. Alex Brown ’19 said that he looks forward to having another venue for musical performances on campus. Working alongside his brother Jonny, Adler has opened several locations of The Skinny Pancake. Their food service experience started out in 2003 when they opened a food cart on Church Street in Burlington.
Adler said that they started the food cart with no “plans or ambitions,” and that it was just going to be a summer job. After some more friends joined the endeavor, however, he said he began thinking of expansion. “We started having these crêpe dreams and visions of a distant future with a restaurant with a kitchen and a stage and live music,” he said. After working at the food cart, the team bought a school bus, converted it to run on vegetable oil and took it to festivals and fairs. Soon after, when the volume level became too loud for a bus, Adler and his team started looking into rental apartments to use as a commercial kitchen, which eventually led to them looking at restaurants. The Skinny Pancake chain currently has other locations on the Burlington waterfront, Montpelier, the Burlington International Airport, the Sugarbush ski resort and the University of Vermont. Their location at the Burlington International Airport makes them the most locally sourced airport eatery in the country, Adler said. The Skinny Pancake opened earlier this week for breakfast and lunch, but will begin its full regular hours following today’s grand opening.
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The Skinny Pancake opens today, featuring an assortment of offerings.
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STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’16
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Obama the Media Master
Real Term, Real Education
Obama’s media savvy sets a high bar for future administrations. If this week’s reaction to last Saturday’s 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner is any indication, President Barack Obama was a better comedian than this year’s host, Larry Wilmore, host of Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show.” Based on the reactions of the celebrities, political figures, pundits and journalists in the Washington Hilton ballroom last Saturday, you would think Obama was the comedian. Obama has traditionally done very well at the Correspondents’ Dinner, his success this year as a charismatic communicator and manipulator of the media is not an isolated event. Indeed, throughout his two terms as president, Obama and his administration have consistently shown themselves to be media masters. In our fast-paced 24/7 news cycle, being prepared to spin issues, frame actions and time public statements is an invaluable skill for the leader of the free world. Obama’s timing, charisma and media skills are impeccable, as evidenced by the White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech. Many conservatives would argue that the President’s media success is due to a liberal media bias. In reality, the media mastery is mostly due to a White House that has taken old tricks for shaping media coverage like friendly interviews and staged leaks and put them on steroids while adding new ones like social media, comedy, content creation and pop-culture references. Additionally, the liberal media is not the only media constituency benefiting from Obama’s savviness. Media organizations across the ideological spectrum are scrambling for access to Obama’s White House. Moreover, the American people love hearing from their president and do not hesitate to share and talk about Obama’s videos, photos, speeches and interviews on social media platforms. This has all led to a revolution in the White House-press relationship. The power balance between the White House and press has tipped toward the government. This is a development that the Obama White House — experts in digital media and no fan of the Washington press — has exploited effectively. Future presidents from both parties will copy and expand upon this approach. According to Mike McCurry, who was press secretary to former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal “the balance of power used to be much more in favor of the mainstream
press.” Nowadays, sensationalism and the endless media cycle has given the White House an opportunity to develop a media persona — contrary to the restraining effect one would expect. After all, a around the clock news cycle is primed for finding and blowing up every scandal, no matter its size. Obama and his administration have managed to turn this idea on its head by deploying well-organized and well-timed media statements that are often immersed in the language and humor of the moment. During Saturday night’s dinner, Obama evoked current events. He used a video chock full of pop-culture references to depict a parody of his post-presidency plans. He chose to talk about GOP dinner attendees who were asked to order steak or fish, but who instead kept choosing House Speaker Paul Ryan, saying “that’s not an option, people.” Moreover, he cleverly skewered both the mainstream press and depicted his administration’s social media prowess, showing himself embroiled in a fictional Snapchat scandal. Ex-GOP presidential candidates John Kasich and Ted Cruz along with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are all well-spoken politicians, but none of them have the same media savviness and charisma that Obama demonstrated during his two terms. The 2016 presidential race has been largely dominated by mogul Donald Trump, who has repeatedly shown his media savviness. Using Twitter, Trump has managed to enthrall the news cycle, keeping all eyes on him. He may not be as eloquent as Obama, but Trump’s timing and charisma are as impeccable as the President’s. He is certainly better than Clinton at limiting, shaping and manipulating the media coverage of himself. Obama’s success as a media master provides an example for whoever finds themselves sitting in the Oval Office come 2017. Future presidents need to be prepared to handle the fast-paced news and social media cycle, and as Obama has demonstrated, pop culture references and charisma can go a long way. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, while not as serious as a solemn address to the country, is a lighthearted medium by which a president can develop a relationship with the public and show of their charm. The American public will certainly miss Obama’s charismatic personality — I know I will.
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The College needs to improve education over sophomore summer. One of the most interesting characteris- do to any other, and we should expect the tics of a Dartmouth education that distin- school to do the same. guishes us from other similar institutions Instead of offering the bare bones course is the famous — or infamous — D-Plan. selection that has made sophomore summer Not only well known as a death sentence a designated “Let’s knock out our distribs for college romances, the D-Plan even term,” Dartmouth should strive to ensure serves to set us apart from other schools that it offers useful and challenging classes. that use a quarter system. The strangest Instead of a diminished faculty featuring part of our system, which has prompted mostly visiting or untenured professors, many a question like “Wait, you have to Dartmouth should pony up to keep as go to summer school?” is Dartmouth’s many of our esteemed faculty on campus sophomore summer. as possible. If this is Started as a way unrealistic, the College “If the College to alleviate the strain should then reach out that a growing student can’t make to esteemed professors body puts on limited sophomore summer from peer institutions facilities, the Collegewho may not be working mandated sophomore as academically during the summer and summer has become rewarding as have them come as visita time-honored tradiing professors, offering tion. Lovingly referred other terms, they courses and perspectives to as Camp Dartmouth, can at least make that we may not be privy the summer is seen as a to at any other point in time to relax, reconnect it academically our college careers. If with your class and get unique.” the College can’t make outside to enjoy the sophomore summer as beautiful New England academically rewarding weather. Sophomore summer often features as other terms, they can at least make it a lighter course load. While it’s a choice academically unique. for some as they take advantage of more We understand why sophomore summer time at the river, the reality is that many has to exist. We want as many qualified take fewer classes because there are not people as possible to have access to the enough worthwhile courses from which Dartmouth experience, but Hanover is to choose. The College needs to make a small and the College is smaller. It would concerted effort to improve educational be virtually impossible to have the entire opportunities during sophomore summer, student body on campus at once. However, from class offerings to the professors who if the school is going to require us to be are on campus. here over the summer for a real term, they Many other schools have should treat it as a real optional summer terms term. Perhaps some during which students can “If Dartmouth can’t of the recommendaearn a few credits to catch make this term as tions outlined above up or get ahead on their aren’t immediately degrees. In programs such valuable as every feasible because of as these, it would make other term, then we financial or logistic sense that those schools issues. If that is in fact offer very limited courses shouldn’t have to pay the case, and Darttaught by inexperienced as much as we do mouth can’t make or visiting professors. But sophomore summer since we are required to be every other term.” any more than it is here sophomore summer, now, than it should save the small minority of lower the price of tustudents who are able to successfully appeal ition for that term. We currently pay exactly to the administration the school should the same as we do during a regular term for take the term seriously. The courses are fewer courses, fewer professors, fewer dining 10 weeks long, just like any other term. options and worse living accommodations. They count towards our majors, just like If Dartmouth can’t make this term as valuany other term. They can have a significant able as every other term, then we shouldn’t influence over our overall GPA, just like any have to pay as much as we do every other other term. Perhaps it is unreasonable to term. When a product becomes less valuexpect the College to put as much time and able, it should be discounted. As it stands as many resources into summer as they do now, sophomore summer just isn’t giving to a jam-packed term like spring, but that students a fair bang for their buck. We are doesn’t mean that the current system should asked to treat sophomore summer as a real remain completely unchanged. Students term, both academically and financially. If are required to pay the same steep price Dartmouth isn’t going to do the same, we for sophomore summer, not to mention should at least get a decent discount. the opportunity cost of not being able to secure a summer internship or spend time The Editorial Board is made up of the Editorwith friends and family at home. Many of in-Chief, the Executive Editors, the Publisher, and us commit to this term just as much as we the Editorial Director.
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importance of maintaining stability in the budget to minimize property tax rate increases, especially because property taxes fund so much of the budget. The general fund, which covers the majority of Hanover’s tax-funded departments, will see a 6.3 percent decrease in funding under the proposed budget. Other tax-supported funds that will be affected include the fire fund, which will see a 2.9 percent decrease, and the parking operations fund, which will see a 1.7 percent increase — though it is largely self-funded via parking fines and fees. In total, taxes will fund 63.85 percent of these departments, an increase of 8.1 percent compared to last year. Under the general fund, the largest absolute increase in terms of dollars spent is to the public works department, which is set to receive an additional $298,859 for a total budget of $3,863,827. In terms of percentages, the conservation department will receive a 45.9 percent increase under the proposed budget, bringing their appropriations to a total of $31,800. The town property division will
see the largest decrease in funds, both relative to the size of their budget and in absolute terms. They are set to have $792,599 cut from their budget last year of $1,635,615, a decrease of 48.5 percent. Hanover’s director of administrative services Betsy McClain attributed this to an uptick last year in capital works projects such as solar panels, projects that were funded by capital reserves. This year, the scale of the projects has been contracted, she said. Salaries and benefits under the general fund are set to increase by 2.6 percent, or $257,247. According to the 2015 town report, part of this increase comes from the implementation for the police bargaining unit of a classification and compensation study first conducted last year. It also includes regular increases based on performance and cost-of-living adjustments. Under reserve funded projects, most areas will see decreases in funding of around 50 to 60 percent. However, the water reclamation facility will receive an 867.4 percent increase, going from $47,500 to $459,500. McClain said this increase is to fund the replacement of a grit filtration system in
the town’s wastewater treatment plant. Water reclamation superintendent Kevin MacLean said that the system deals with pretreatment of wastewater in the system’s headworks, where the water first enters the facility. It is designed to separate out sand and other nonorganic components from the water, which is then conveyed back into the facility. The current system’s technology, which was installed in 1985, is functional but badly worn. Some pieces have rusted enough that the department is beginning to be concerned about safety, MacLean said, and they want to replace those parts before any serious safety issues arise. MacLean estimated repairs to cost approximately $360,000 to $420,000. The town report budgets $350,000 for repairs. He estimated that repairs would take about a month or two to complete, though he noted that the work would be done in stages and that grit removal would not be down for that entire period. The budget has been affected by fiscal instability and uncertainty at the state and federal levels. As a result, the town is unwilling to
take on many new initiatives at this time, Griffin said. One aspect of the state legislature she criticized was their willingness to “rob Peter to pay Paul,” as she put it. This refers to a tendency to displace cost increases onto municipalities rather than absorbing them at the state level. Griffin attributed this in part to an unwillingness to implement state income or sales taxes, which would have a negative effect on New Hampshire’s public image. She took issue with an incident two years ago in which the state reneged on grant monies that were
originally set to go to towns for water and wastewater projects. The town had invested several million dollars into these projects, with a 20 percent subsidy from the state, when the new legislature decided to defund the grant program. This forced the town to find a way to make up the discrepancies, which meant raising wastewater rates more than they potentially would have needed to, Griffin said. The town report noted that the New Hampshire House of Respresntatives agreed to refund the project in March; the bill is now awaiting a decision in the Senate.
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
“Rumors, Truths and Reality - A Study of Political Misinformation,” by Adam Berinsky, Room 215, Silsby Hall
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
“Mediating a Cold War in the Digital Age,” Room 111, Wilder Hall
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
“Hello, My Name is Doris,” a bittersweet dramedy starring Sally Field, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
TOMORROW
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Dartmouth Women’s Rugby V. Middlebury College, Brophy Field
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
“Purple Rain (1984),” screened as tribute to the late music legend Prince, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble presents a symphony reflecting on the work of Antoni Gaudi, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016
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Wind Ensemble spring concert features departing seniors By KAINA CHEN
The Dartmouth Staff
Every year, as spring term speeds towards an end, seniors in the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble graduate and hand off their roles to the remaining members. This spring, five seniors — Aadam Barclay ’16, Steven Povich ’16, Anne Reed-Weston ’16, Jacob Weiss ’16 and Simone Wien ’16 — will be giving their last performance, “The Great Spirit,” as student musicians under Wind Ensemble director Matthew Marsit. The four featured works will echo notes of the natural elements, delivered to audience members with accents of fierce drama and peaceful calm. The first piece on the program, Yasuhide Ito’s “… yet the sun rises” (2011) is an audial story of a tsunami ravaging Japan’s coast and the quiet peace and tentative hope that follow such disaster. The piece will feature guest conductor Jacob Weiss ’16. The second piece, Joseph Turrin’s “Chronicles for Trumpet and Wind Symphony” (1998) will feature Steven Povich ’16 as trumpet soloist. “[Chronicles] is in standard concerto form. It opens with a fast, exciting and showy first movement that announces the beginning of the piece, relaxes in a lyrical second movement and ends with a faster finale,” Povich said. Rounding out the concert will be Kathryn Salfelder’s “Cathedrals” (2007) and Ferrer Ferran’s “Symphony No. 3 ‘The Great Spirit’” (2006). Ferran’s composition aims to capture magnificence of Catalan
architect Antonio Gaudi’s natureinspired cathedral, Sagrada Familia, a Roman Catholic church in Barcelona that took 118 years to construct, which recently opened in 2010. The two seniors that will be taking the spotlight have had different yet instrumental roles in the wind ensemble. Povich knew that he wanted to join a musical ensemble when first coming to Dartmouth. For him, a key characteristic of the wind ensemble was its tendency to perform more modern pieces. When Povich’s looks back, many unique opportunities that he experienced as a member of the wind ensemble stand out to him. His sophomore spring break, the ensemble toured Costa Rica and worked with the national youth program. On the subject of his featured solo, Povich said that he found the opportunity to work closely with Marsit particularly exciting and helpful for his musical development. He noted that he has spent a considerable amount of time preparing for his upcoming solo, but has enjoyed the additional commitment. On the other hand, Weiss wasn’t planning on joining the ensemble when first coming to Dartmouth. “Matt stopped me in the hall one day during my freshman fall and suggested I try out,” Weiss said. Weiss has participated in many other ensembles on campus, but wind ensemble was the one he chose to commit to throughout his four years at Dartmouth. When asked why wind ensemble
turned out to be the winning ticket, Weiss mentioned both the culture of the group and the quality of the pieces. “Matt is really focused on making us play really excellent music,” he said. Tomorrow’s concert is not Weiss’s first foray into conducting. In high school, Weiss served as drum major and conducted occasionally for his high school’s concert band. More recently, he completed his second year co-conducting for the Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble, a group of middle school musicians from the Upper Valley and surrounding regions directed by Marsit. However, he said that his newest experience has taught him a lot. “The actual process [as guest conductor] has been a huge learning experience,” Weiss said. “I have never conducted anything as complicated as this.” Weiss’s main focus was learning how to lead the ensemble through “… yet the sun rises,” a complex piece of music. “I’m focused on the big, large-scale things as opposed to individual parts,” Weiss said. Weiss and Povich were students that stood out to Marsit as having shown incredible dedication to the ensemble. Marsit worked closely with Weiss and Povich both during rehearsals and individually to prepare them for their respective roles. Mallory Rutigliano ’17, a flutist in the ensemble, commented on the uniqueness of the opportunity for students to conduct. “I have known Steven and Jacob
my entire career in the wind ensemble,” Rutigliano said. “I think it’s fantastic that they can showcase their talents on the stage.” Marsit, like Weiss, noted that a unique aspect of Dartmouth’s wind ensemble is how it differs from ensembles at music conservatories, where the instrumentalists will most likely have a professional career in music. “These are students for whom music is not going to be a career but by no means does this matter. They want to perform and achieve just as though it is their career field,” Marsit said.
Weiss appreciates that the wind ensemble is something that students choose to participate in because they want to, not because it is required. “We might not be as technically perfect, but on the flip side, we enjoy it,” Weiss said. After graduation, Povich will head to Boston to work in finance. He noted that he would like to continue music as a hobby. Weiss will follow a professional path in computer science and hopes to conduct and play in a small ensemble in the future. The concert will be performed in Spaulding Auditorium tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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Two seniors will be featured in tomorrow’s spring concert, “The Great Spirit.”
‘The Brimstone Guild’ proves an ambitious film project By ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff
Like “Ringu” (1998) or “It Follows” (2014) à la Dartmouth, “The Brimstone Guild,” the latest film from Dartmouth TV, turns our quaint Hanover campus into a Gothic nightmare. Written, directed, edited, shot and co-produced by Alex Hurt ’16, the film brings Hurt’s unique cinematic vision to life in an ambitious 40-minute package. The film begins 25 years in the past with a young woman putting a gun to her head, prepared to end it all. Before she can pull the trigger, a hooded figure storms her bathroom stall and murders her in cold blood. Fast forward to the present day, where we meet Brie, a Dartmouth student who fears she is being stalked by a supernatural force that haunts the suicidal and their friends to punish them for invoking Death. Aided by her friend Connors, she must discover which of her friends is suicidal and stop
the curse. Kudos to cinematographers Olivia Powell ’17, Nicole Chen ’19, Seth Welling and Hurt for their technically nuanced shooting, particularly in the bathroom and outlet sequences. Actors Claire Feuille ’18, Dominic Giugliano ’19 and Carina Conti ’16 also shine in the lead roles, bringing a difficult script to life. Bill Phillips, horror film screenwriter and film professor deserves a shout-out for getting down and dirty as a bloodied victim in the film’s closing moments. Inevitably, the film is occasionally belied by its Dartmouth context — a bathroom murder is undermined by the all too familiar “Tear and Take” sticker on the paper towel dispenser. Horror films often take place in geographically displaced regions to enhance their alterity — for example Dracula originates from Transylvania. The familiarity of each location made it difficult to suspend disbelief and accept the film’s horrific
bent. Moreover, the concatenated, arbitrary stock footage aimed at forming a sense of Gothic dread proved kitschy and unnecessary. That being said, the Dartmouth TV team strove valiantly to craft a compelling thriller. The film actually works when distanced from all its fire and brimstone and viewed simply as a supernatural metaphor for the consequences of suicide on one’s community. The “demons” that haunt the suicidal psyche are transposed into their friends and family after the murder. The interchanging bodies in the final fight sequence speak to how suicide devastates everyone involved, leaving behind a wasteland of emotionally scarred bodies. At its core, “The Brimstone Guild” is a call to live, at the very least to avoid shape-shifting phantoms from attacking your friends. “The Brimstone Guild” is playing tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium.
COURTESY OF ALEX HURT
Claire Feuille ’18, Dominic Giugliano ’19 and Carina Conti ’16 star in the film.
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2016
FRIDAY LINEUP
SPORTS
No athletic events scheduled
For first time since 2007, all three sailing teams go to nationals By MATT YUEN
The Dartmouth Staff
At home in Hanover, the co-ed sailing team placed seventh out of 18 last Sunday at the New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Dinghy Championship, qualifying them for the Inter-collegiate Sailing Association National Championship in San Diego, California. In collegiate sailing, there are three main events: team fleet racing, women’s fleet racing and co-ed fleet racing. Over the past two weeks, both the women’s fleet and team fleet racing teams qualified for nationals, making this year the first time since 2007 all three events qualified for the national championship. At last weekend’s race, the weather conditions were a bit lackluster. Because of the lack of wind, only four races were held — the minimum to make the regatta an official national qualifier event. Hunter Johnstone ’16 and Rebecca McElvain ’19 sailed four races in the A-division, while Abigail Rohman ’16 and Charlie
Lalumiere ’17 sailed four races in the B-division. Although the team successfully qualified for the nationals, last Sunday would prove to be a test of mental endurance and fortitude. “It’s more physically demanding when there’s more breeze, and certainly a more exciting game when there’s more breeze,” said Rohman. “When the winds are lighter, it’s more of a tactical game. You have to be so disciplined and methodical. Because it’s so light and there were only a couple of races left, we had to be really mentally disciplined to not be thrown off if something went wrong, such as if you had a bad start or someone fouls you.” The lack of strong winds also turns the race into a bit of a waiting game. Rohman said that it is a bit unnerving when you are waiting on the boat for the next race, not really knowing when the winds will be strong enough for an official race. While you have to be mentally prepared and ready for the race to start at any time, you also have to ration your mental focus and power. That being
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Baseball At Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Tuesday, Dartmouth (18-24, 11-9 Ivy) split its doubleheader with Harvard University. The Big Green dropped the opener 3-1 but won the nightcap by the same score, keeping its hopes for a division title alive. Michael Danielak ’16 went six innings in Game 1, giving up two runs and eight hits before being relieved by Chris Burkholder ’17. The lone Big Green run came in the seventh on a two-out single from Ben Socher ’17. But the next batter, Adam Gauthier ’16, fouled out to end the game with the tying run on second. In the second game, Dartmouth got on the board in the third. After belting a triple to right center, Nick Ruppert ’16 came home on a groundout from Dustin Shirley ’18. In the next inning, Kyle Holbrook ’18 walked and scored the eventual winning run on a Gauthier RBI. An RBI from Rob Emery ’19 tacked on an insurance run in the eighth.
Cole O’Connor ’19 took a shutout into the fourth frame before being pulled in favor of Marc Bachman ’18. Bachman surrendered an unearned run in the sixth and was lifted for Patrick Peterson ’18, who twirled 3.1 scoreless innings to record his fourth save. Thomas Roulis ’15, who scored the final run in Game 2 and was a key contributor in the week’s preceding three games, was named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week. Roulis’s .384 conference batting average ranks fourth in the Ancient Eight. Dartmouth won the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division each of the past eight seasons. The Harvard win moved the Big Green into a tie with Yale University, whom it will face Saturday in New Haven for the division crown. Softball The Dartmouth softball team split its last two games versus Harvard University, winning Game 1 7-6 and setting up a clash in Game
said, the fact that the co-ed sailing team was able to outlast the waiting game and qualify for nationals is a testament to the team’s practice and diligence. “Mental toughness has been something we’ve been really focusing on this season,” Sophia Diserio ’18 said. With all three teams in each event qualified for nationals for the first time in almost ten years, the stakes are high, and the team is ready to sail out into the ocean and bring home the victory. “There’s a lot of work to be done, a lot to prepare for nationals, but we’re feeding off of the fact that all of the hard work we put in the fall, winter and spring has paid off,” Rohman said. “We’re looking to keep going with that. Focus on the water, focus in practice and to have a tough attitude to really get the best results at nationals.” At the same time, the team emphasizes the importance of remaining composed and focusing on the task at hand.
2 to see who would take the North Division title. The Big Green fell 8-5 after four runs in the seventh inning by Harvard gave the win to the Crimson. The Big Green lost three of four in the decisive series. The Big Green conclude the season 27-15 and 15-5 in Ivy play, while Harvard finish the season 2815 and 16-4 to take the Ivy League North Division title. Harvard will play Princeton University for the Ivy title. The first game was a back and forth affair with the Crimson. Maddie Damore ’17 hit a two run homerun in the bottom of the first to give the Big Green a 2-0 lead. Both teams exchanged runs in the third, giving Dartmouth a 3-1 lead. The Crimson scored three runs in the fourth and two runs in the sixth to take a 6-3 lead. The Big Green exploded in the bottom of the sixth with a homerun hit by Katie McEachern ’16, a two run double by Kassidy Williams ’19 and a sac fly by Kathy Dzienkowski ’16 to give the Big Green a 7-6 lead. Dartmouth was able to close the game out and set the stage for a do-or-die match for both teams in Game 2. Morgan McCalmon ’16 pitched a complete game in Game 1, allowing six runs and 10 hits.
COURTESY OF NATHANIEL JOHANSSON
The team, women’s and co-ed fleet racing teams are all headed to nationals.
“Nationals are just another repetition of what we have been practicing all year,” McElvain said. “I don’t think of it as anything else than another regatta. Our team is driven and focused, and we will be prepared to sail just as we practice. That being said, I am excited to compete since it is hosted in my hometown, San Diego.” Another tight game decided the North Division title between the Big Green and the Crimson. Dartmouth opened the game with two runs in the bottom of the second by a Lourlin Lara ’18 double. Harvard responded with three runs in the top of fourth to take a 3-2 lead. The Crimson added another in the fifth, but the Big Green scored three runs as Karen Chaw ’17 recorded a two run double and Brianna Lohmann ’16 doubled to center field to allow Dartmouth to lead 5-4. The Crimson was able to scored four runs in the top of the seventh to lead 8-5 when the Big Green just needed three outs to win. The Crimson went on to win 8-5, effectively ending Dartmouth’s season.. Men’s Tennis The men’s tennis team is heading to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1997 to face Tulane University in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on May 13-15. The Big Green finished with an 18-8 record and 6-1 record in Ivy League play. A few members of the team were also honored by the Ivy League with postseason awards. Head coach Chris Drake was awarded Coach
From May 24 to May 27, the women’s sailing team will set out to the West coast to compete in the ICSA Women’s Championship, and from May 31 to June 3, the co-ed sailing team will compete in the ICSA National Championship. From May 28 to May 30, the Team Race Championship will also run in San Diego. of the Year by the Ivy League. Women’s Tennis Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 qualified for the NCAA Division I Tennis Championship for doubles in Tulsa, Oklahoma from May 25 to May 30. Ng and Mathis are the only Ivy League pair to qualify and to be awarded one of 11 automatic spots. In 2016, the pair went 14-1 and has ended the season on a 13 match unbeaten streak. Men’s Lacrosse Jack Korzelius ’18 was given an Honorable Mention by the Ivy League. Korzelius scored 17 goals and had 24 points with seven assists this season. Women’s Lacrosse Jaclyn Leto ’16 was named 2016 Ivy League Midfielder of the Year by the Ivy League. Leto scored 53 goals this season and was unanimously voted an All-Ivy First Team selection. Taryn Deck ’17 was named to the All-Ivy League Second Team, while Lauren Maiorano ’17 and Elizabeth Mastrio ’19 earned Honorable Mentions.