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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
College hosts 44th Powwow
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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This past weekend, Dartmouth hosted the 44th annual Dartmouth Powwow drawing people from across the country and featuring dances and ceremonies as well as vendors.
By DANIEL KIM The Dartmouth Staff
This past weekend, Dartmouth hosted its 44th annual Dartmouth Powwow — a social gathering and celebration held by Native American communities. Thousands attended the event, powwow committee co-chair and Cherokee Nation citizen Andrew Shipman ’18 said, which featured activities like dancing, drumming and singing. An 18-person powwow committee — consisting only of freshmen and sophomores — oversaw all aspects of the event, including fundraising, advertising and inviting drum groups and vendors. Co-chair Marina Van Pelt ’18 of Cochiti Pueblo said that the event’s goal is to let non-Native American undergraduates, as well as those from outside Hanover, partake in a uniquely Native American experience. “There isn’t that much education with Native Americans so people don’t really know much about us,” she said.
The powwow — which runs over two days — was preceded on Saturday morning by a blessing of the Green. At noon, the host drum, Mystic River and the master of ceremonies, Glenn Drapeau of the Yankton Sioux tribe officially welcomed attendees during the Grand Entry. The rest of the day consisted of several dance competitions including Fancy, Jingle Grass, Traditional and Golden Age. The day ended with a dance honoring the senior attendees. “I think the best part of the day was seeing everyone stopping by in their tracks to stay a while and watch the dances and finding their own way to participate in the powwows,” Van Pelt said. “It’s just seeing everyone’s faces and expressions when they walk up to us and tell us that they enjoyed everything.” Because of rain, the powwow moved to Leede Arena for Sunday’s programming. The day consisted of more dance competitions and a session honoring mothers and veterans. Other special events included the Switch Dance,
where men and women switch roles, and the Potato Dance, where a couple attempts various dance moves while balancing a potato between their foreheads. “Some people don’t even know what powwow is, and that’s fine,” Shipman said. “But it really helps educate people on Native American culture as well as allow us to express ourselves and our culture.” In addition to dances and ceremonies, the powwow hosted vendors who sold various Native American clothes, accessories and other goods. Cindy and Bob Shelley, who were both adopted by Native American tribes, ran a booth where they sold Navajo and Zuni jewelry, Cherokee soaps, buffalo jerky and fry bread mix. Although this was the first time they attended Dartmouth’s powwow, they said they “never will miss it again.” Drapeau was led to the powwow by his niece, Augusta Terkildsen ’19, who is a member of Native Americans SEE POWWOW PAGE 5
Yesterday, the Arts and Sciences faculty voted to approve the simplification of distributive requirements and the creation of world culture and quantitative and formal reasoning requirements. While these changes to the core curriculum will not affect current students, the proposals are intended to take effect as soon as possible. The faculty also rejected a proposal to require all students to take a non-English language class at level three or higher, without students being able to place out of the requirement. The faculty also postponed the discussion and vote on a measure to replace the non-recording option with a satisfactory/D/E option. This means that students could no longer set grade limits on certain courses. Rather for those who elect this option, any grade above a failing one would show up on a transcript as satisfactory. Only 80 members of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, including College President Phil Hanlon and Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno, were present for voting, just above the quorum of 75 Arts and Sciences faculty needed to have a binding vote on the proposals. The new distributive system will require that SEE FACULTY PAGE2
Astronomy department hosts viewing
By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff
Rather than snapping selfies, students pulled out their iPhones to capture an image of Mercury’s transit of the sun, ref lected by projection telescopes on the Green yesterday morning. Mercury’s transit occurs once every five to 10 years, and
its next one is set to take place in 2019. Students, faculty and Hanover residents observed a small speck on the sun’s surface as Mercury — the smallest and fastest planet in the solar system — journeyed across the sun and cast its shadow. About 200 people stopped by the teleSEE ASTRO PAGE 2
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Viewing on Green looks at Mercury
from one another. Studying astronomy gives inscopes to view part of Mercury’s dividuals an appreciation for the seven-hour transit, physics and universe in which they live, Hickox astronomy graduate student Katie said. Weil said, who is responsible for the “Naturally, people tend to condepartment’s centrate on public observthat “I know for a fact a lot of things ing events. happen O b s e r v - us here are not science h e r e o n ing Merbut focused, and so it’s actually Earth, cury’s transit we know requires the really great to get out f r o m a s Earth, Merhere and see a practical tronomical cury and the observasun to all be application of science, tions that aligned in the live inwhich is more than just we same plane. side this big “ Y o u ’ d theories on a chalkboard.” solar sys think that if tem, which the planets are is then all lined up -WALKER SCHNEIDER ’19, part of this along a plane ASTRONOMY 1 STUDENT larger gal— which they axy, which [almost] are is part of — this would this huge happen all the universe,” time,” astronhe said. “It omy professor gives you a Ryan Hickox nice sense said. “But it turns out that the of perspective when you underorbits of the planets are slightly stand the larger context in which misaligned from each other.” the Earth exists.” Mercury’s orbit around the Hickox also noted that as Mersun, which takes 88 days in total, cury moves past the sun, the sun is inclined 7 degrees compared transmits slightly less light. This to Earth’s orbit. This causes the small change in brightness also planet to usually move above or occurs when planets pass over below an observer’s line of sight other stars, Hickox said. In fact, to the sun. the perceived dimming of stars is There are only two locations the mechanism used by the Kepler where Mercury crosses Earth’s spacecraft to detect thousands of orbital plane. If Mercury happens extrasolar planets, he noted. to pass one of these intersection Roughly half of those in attenpoints at the same time as Earth dance yesterday were students in does, the transit can be seen, Astronomy 1 who were conducting Hickox said. a solar lab, Weil said. Venus is the only other planet The students were comparing between the Earth and the sun. Al- data they collected to data from though transits of the sun by Venus the Solar Dynamics Observatory, do occur, they happen much less a satellite that takes images of frequently than those by Mercury. the sun every 15 minutes, physics Two transits typically occur and astronomy graduate student within eight years of one another, McKinley Brumback said. Stufollowed by a century without any, dents focused on observing Merhe said. The last two Venus transits cury’s transit and sun spots, which were in 2004 and 2012. The next are magnetic trappings of plasma two are predicted for the years in the Sun, she added. 2117 and 2125. Jack Smul ’19 said that this is one Hickox said that watching Venus of two outdoor labs the Astronomy transit the sun was one of the few 1 class has completed. The other, times he had an intuitive feeling conducted at night, largely confor the scale of the solar system, sisted of stargazing, he added. the relationship between the size “I know for a fact a lot of us here of the sun and the planets and how SEE ASTRO PAGE 3 distant the pieces of the system are FROM ASTRO PAGE 1
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New language requirement fails vote course each in western culture, non-western culture and culture students take three courses in the and identity. The new world culture natural and applied sciences, three requirement would modify the CI courses in the social sciences, three requirement, but is intended to be courses in the arts and humanities satisfied with a more limited range and one interdisciplinary course. It of 40 to 50 courses rather than the will replace the current system of 250 courses which currently satisfy 10 classes across eight distributive the CI requirement. Currently, categories. The proposal passed by the courses that satisfy the CI are a vote of 40-32. considered so amorphous that even The faculty amended the initial members of the Committee on Inproposal that would implement the struction were unsure of its current changes starting with the Class of meaning, Mastanduno said. The 2024 to a non-specified as soon as world culture requirement passed possible start date, by a narrow margin of 35-32. Dean of graduate studies Jon Sociology professor Deborah Kull and religion professor Susan King raised the concern that the Ackerman both questioned the rea- elimination of western and nonsoning behind the initial proposal western requirements would make of delaying the introduction of the it possible for a student to never curricular changes until the Class take a course relating to a place of 2024. beyond North America or Western Computer science professor Europe. Tom Cor men T h e was in favor of “This is a prime quantitative the flexibility and for mal example of why offered by the reasoning renew distributive students of color quirement will system. remain at least are so unhappy with Engineering one course, but professor Solo- this place, because it the faculty have mon Diamond embodies normative yet to decide criticized the on the specifsimplified dis- bias.” ics. One of the tributive system stated reasons for eliminating for the new the distinction - JOHN WATANABE, quantitative rebetween nat- ANTHROPOLGY quirement was ural and apthat it would PROFESSOR plied sciences. elevate quantiDiamond noted tative and forstudents often mal reasoning to the status of an have little experience in applied essential skill, akin to the writing sciences before college. requirement. Multiple professors also noted Three of the four proposals dethe risk of students taking three bated originated in the curricular similar courses within a distribu- review committee, which released tive section under the new system its report last April. rather than experimenting with a Mastanduno said that the four broader range of courses. proposals would be the final pro Mastanduno said the commit- posals from the curricular review tee wanted students to think like committee. The committee of someone in a distributive area, department chairs has previously be it a social scientist, scientist or approved the four proposals dishumanist. cussed at yesterday’s meeting. The passed proposal would also The curricular review commitrequire a “reflective document” tee also has recommended previous of all students by the end of their proposals that the faculty approved second year explaining their ratio- such as the new class schedule that nale for their selected distributive will start this coming summer term courses. and the extension of pre-major Cormen also said he was not advising to sophomores. sure what he would do if a student The faculty so overwhelmingly gave him a very poor reflective opposed the new language requiredocument. ment that the meeting’s organizers The simplified distributive sys- did not bother to count all those tem partially reverts back to the voting against the proposal. Mulold system of distributives used tiple professors objected that the before the 1994-1995 academic policy would force students fluent year, which also required three sci- in foreign languages not offered by ence, social science and humanities the College to take courses to level courses, as well as an interdisciplin- three in a language at the College ary course. despite their foreign language The single world culture re- proficiency. quirement replaces the current Anthropology professor John requirement that students take one Watanabe noted that a bilingual FROM FACULTY PAGE 1
student speaking English as a second language who had the daily experience of crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries would still have to take three terms of another language at Dartmouth. “This is a prime example of why students of color are so unhappy with this place, because it embodies normative bias,” he said. Had the language requirement change passed, waivers would have only been granted in the instance of students being unable to complete the requirement for reasons such as auditory disability. Students with waivers would still be expected to take an alternative course, potentially in English, to satisfy the requirement. Lynn Higgins, in defending the language proposal, said she found it problematic that high school foreign language classes could substitute for college-level foreign language instruction. Higgins also noted that students would be able to transfer language credit from other schools. Anthropology professor Deborah Nichols rebutted Higgins’ point about transfer credit by giving a past example of a native Navajo speaker whose family would have had difficulty securing the $2,000 dollar transfer fee. Nichols added that non-native English speakers had a more intensive immersion in English through the College’s writing requirement than many English speakers did in a foreign language through the language requirement. Some criticized the lack of specificity in some of the proposals. For instance, the curricular review committee did not define the precise nature of the world culture requirement but would instead task the committee on instruction with determining which courses will satisfy the requirement. German and comparative literature professor Irene Kacandes stated that she felt extremely uncomfortable voting on at least two of the proposals whose details were yet to be determined. Hanlon opened the meeting, mentioning recent faculty awards and campus initiatives and also announcing a search committee for a new dean of the faculty to replace Mastanduno. Sociology professor Denise Anthony then summarized the findings of the recent campus climate survey of the College. One professor questioned Anthony about the validity of the survey results due to the low 18 percent response rate from students. Anthony said that the survey results are corroborated by more frequent student surveys with as high as 40 percent student response rates that contain similar responses to the campus climate survey.
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Around 200 people watch Mercury’s transit FROM ASTRO PAGE 1
are not science focused, and so it’s actually really great to get out here and see a practical application of science, which is more than just theories on a chalkboard,” said Walker Schneider ’19 , another student in the class. “It’s very rewarding because we actually get to see the fruition of our studies and its physical manifestation.” Abigail Hartley ’16, an English major who has worked at NASA in social media, said that the class is “objectively really cool” and will aid in her understanding of the jargon used within the NASA machine-learning laboratory. A physics class from Hanover High School also participated in the viewing. The high school students were very excited about being able to look directly at the sun using the solar telescope and special glasses, Weil said. Weather-permitting, observing events are held every Friday night during term. Attendees have the opportunity to zoom in on the moon, planets, stars, clusters, nebulae and galaxies using the
astronomy department’s 12-inch telescopes. Today, small, amateur level reflecting telescopes are used for the department’s public observing events, Hickox said. However, the Shattuck Observatory, the first science building opened on campus, houses a Clark Refracting Telescope built in 1872. For research purposes, Dartmouth students and faculty travel to the MDM Observatory on Kitt Peak in Arizona and the Southern African Large Telescope. The College owns a share in both. Students on the astronomy foreign study program spend a number of days at the SALT telescope, the largest in the Southern hemisphere, and funds provided by Jay Weed ’80 Tu ’82 and Claudia Sweeney Weed ’81 Tu ’82 support undergraduate research at MDM in Arizona each year. T he Mercur y transit was fully visible from much of Europe, northwestern Africa, eastern North America and South America. NASA and the European Space Agency provided live streams of the crossing.
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COLUMNIST MERCEDES DE GUARDIOLA ’17
COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ’17
Better Opportunities
Crimson Alert
Dartmouth needs to improve internship opportunities fall all students. Without a doubt, one of Dartmouth’s biggest draws to prospective students is its outstanding alumni network and the jobs it offers. On the College’s website, it boasts that “a Dartmouth degree leads to success.” In this day and age when college costs are becoming increasingly insurmountable, return on investment matters, and Dartmouth delivers: in 20 years, our ROI is $822,600 — one of the best in the nation. In an information session during an official campus visit the first thing often mentioned is the D-Plan — or, more importantly, how taking a term off during the school year will help you get that once-in-a-lifetime internship. What’s not mentioned is the trade-off: as The Dartmouth Editorial Board covered in its May 5 piece “Real Term, Real Education,” students have to stay on campus for sophomore summer. They pay the same price in tuition for fewer classes, food and housing options. What’s implied during these sessions is that while students lose the chance at a summer internship, Dartmouth will help them get an equally great one during the school year. At first glance, the facts look great. If the 20year ROI is so high, the D-Plan must do something right. But money isn’t everything, and one of the frequent complaints at Dartmouth is that the Center for Professional Development only really works if you’re looking for a job in finance or consulting. Last week, The Dartmouth reporter Raul Rodriguez ’19 covered Vocate, an alumni-run startup focused on offering a free online career services platform. As he discusses in his article, more Dartmouth students are turning to services outside of the College to find jobs. But why? While the CPD maintains good ties with many financial institutions, the same doesn’t seem to hold for non-finance or consulting jobs. The CPD is meant to serve as a resource to all students, not just economics majors. Although there are real issues with logistics, financing and manpower, Dartmouth is a world class institution for higher learning. If we want to compete with other colleges, the CPD should offer equally amazing opportunities for all students. However, the issue isn’t just with a bias towards certain jobs. Regardless of major or job type, I have found that the majority of my peers struggle with the CPD’s online platform: Dartboard. For the uninitiated, Dartboard the official
job-listing site for Dartmouth students, is a semifunctional mess. While a thorough search can turn up a few good job opportunities, navigation of the site is a wormhole. For example, theoretically a keyword search and industry/career field search would return similar results, but they do not. Given that Dartmouth is known for its focus on technology, the site should be improved. If the school wants to talk up the benefits of the D-Plan, they should extend that to Dartboard: why not have a feature that lets you search by semester? Currently, searches of season keywords often result in internships that cross between terms. Instead, the CPD could have companies post job listings under the Dartmouth term it corresponds to by simply including it as part of the job listing form. In addition, support for internships should be improved. Once students have found jobs, one of the biggest concerns is housing. Dartmouth students have to pay one of the highest tuition rates in the country. If your internship is unpaid, finding affordable housing can be a nightmare. On the CPD website, only six functional sites are listed under “Housing Resources.” Personally, I’ve found better resources on other college websites. Even of the sites listed, hardly any are helpful. Instead of listing Craigslist, which is notorious for scams — especially for students who don’t have the time or the financial resources to visit each listing themselves — why not update it to Airbnb? Housingnyc.com doesn’t even provide listings, and a glance at Educational Housing Services’ Yelp page reveals arguably problematic reviews of “They are running a scam” and “Run as fast as you can from this company and its properties”. If the CPD doesn’t have the manpower to update housing resources, why not aggregate data from students? Just as the CPD collects data on past internships, they should collect data on housing so that future Dartmouth interns can benefit from historical insights. Students should be encouraged to pursue internships based on value, not pay or housing situations. If Dartmouth wants to distinguish itself to prospective students, the College needs to improve career services. A 20-year ROI is not an end-all guarantee of a student’s job path, and whether they chose to go into a high-paying job field or not, students should be supported in their journeys towards a “lifetime of learning and responsible leadership.”
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Harvard’s sanctioning of single-sex organizations is an accountability failure. Scarcely two weeks have passed since my April 11 column “O’er The Land of the Free,” in which I took great relish in mocking our colleagues at Harvard University for referring to an American flag as an “unacceptable political statement.” I made my jabs with the understanding that this was, in many ways, a new low for academia. After all, who could have ever imagined that an Ivy League institution — in fact, to many the quintessential Ivy League institution — would lay claim to such diabolical self-censorship? Unfortunately, I was mistaken, as it seems the Harvard administration has taken matters to yet another extreme. The Harvard Crimson reports that, effective with the Class of 2021, members of unrecognized single-gender organizations will be banned from holding athletic team captaincies, leadership positions in recognized student groups or top fellowships at Harvard. This would affect membership not only in Greek houses, but also in finals clubs — exclusive undergraduate social clubs at Harvard. In essence, this places a ban on Greek house membership as it forces students to choose between the University and these social organizations. Harvard President Drew G. Faust has defended this move as necessary, insisting that “Although the fraternities, sororities and final clubs are not formally recognized by the College, they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.” This follows a suggestion made in a closed-door meeting in mid-April by Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, who first floated the idea of sanctioning such organizations. Before proceeding, I must first extend my most sincere congratulations to President Faust and Dean Khurana for exceeding all my expectations. I had never expected to see such a level of buffoonery outside of our own administration at Dartmouth, but they have surpassed anything I have seen here. So for now I can direct my attention to Harvard once again, conscience clean in my knowledge that we are, at the very least, not yet home to such failed policies. The Harvard administration’s actions are symptomatic of a fundamental failure of accountability. Faced with increased scrutiny amidst allegations of sexual assault on campus, the Harvard administration is eager to shift the blame away from itself. Despite its own failures to support students coming forth with rape accusations or to hold perpetrators responsible for their own actions, the administration hopes to make a scapegoat of single-sex organizations and absolve itself of any blame. These motions scarcely need further commentary, but allow me to name it for what it really is — cowardice. Alas, if only that were the end of it. Our colleagues at the Harvard Crimson have not only taken such policies in stride, but they also have the gall to suggest that such sanctions ought to be exclusive to male-only clubs. In its May 6 editorial “The Need for Nuance,” The Crimson Editorial Board claims “male final clubs are remarkably different in character” and that “precisely because of the potentially
hostile environments created by the male clubs, it is crucial that our campus have places for women to bond.” Thus the problem is not only with an administration’s cowardly attempts to shift blame to a third party. No, the problem is also with the students themselves. It is certainly bad enough when students are eager to accept such oversight as necessary, to stand and watch as their own rights are taken away in the name of safety. It is far, far worse when they decide that such oversight should target one gender in particular and leave the other unscathed. With this crooked position comes the subtle threat to tar dissenters with the label of “victim-blamers” — after all, says the Editorial Board, you wouldn’t want to be an apologist for rapists, would you? Surely anyone who believes in equal rights must agree that women must be allowed to feel safe. On this, I wholeheartedly agree. Women are entirely endowed to feel safe on campus. Women should be free to engage in their academic and personal pursuits free of sexual intimidation. However, this does not excuse the fallacy that victimization endows privilege of any kind. The Editorial Board would have you believe that women, by virtue of historical victimization at the hands of men, are allowed an exemption from rules that their male counterparts must follow. But this is incompatible with the notion that all students are given the same rights irrespective of gender, because it suggests that one gender holds responsibilities that the other gender does not. If men and women are entitled to the same rights, as the Editorial Board correctly suggests, then they must hold the same responsibilities as well. As goes the oft-repeated American maxim, freedom is not free. Therefore, if both men and women are equally free, then so too must they both pay their equal dues. Equal responsibility for equal students is not a novel concept, nor is it victim-blaming in any sense of the word. Instead of directing its attention to the individuals responsible for sexual assault, the Editorial Board demonizes an entire gender based on nothing more than a bloated sense of privilege. If the Harvard student body truly wishes to address the issue of sexual assault on their campus, then they must address the core failures of accountability at the highest echelons of their university. Individuals must be held accountable for their actions, and punished to the full extent of Harvard’s established regulations. The administration, likewise, must take responsibility even in the face of potential humiliation. For the administration to shift the blame to a third party and for the student body to happily accept such unwarranted scapegoating is a failure on two fronts. The only possible outcome of this dual failure is hostility between students, further distrust of the administration and the jeering mockery of an entire nation. As a Dartmouth student, I can only hope that our own school will not fall into the same trap of failed accountability, though given the current climate on campus it is a fear that keeps me up at night. For now, though, this voice crying out in the wilderness mourns the death of accountability at Harvard.
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Thousands travel to College for powwow
tending because of the powwow’s history and size. Nika Marion, a senior at Siena at Dartmouth. Drapeau said that he was impressed by the event and College in Loubdonville, New York, by College President Phil Hanlon’s has been coming to the Dartmouth support, and he emphasized the powwow since 2009 with her famimportance of recognizing the ily. She participated in the Jingle dance competition and intertribal Native American community. “These are indigenous home- and social dances. “There is a really strong sense lands to lots of different nations,” he said. “The significance to see of [Native American] community at Dartmouth,” that glimpse for non-native “There is a really strong she said. “Lot of it is tradition — relatives is very o f [ N a t i v e I’ve been dan important — to s e n s e let them know American] community cing Jingle since I was 12. The that we’re still here. Five hun- at Dartmouth. Lot of it powwow is also dred years of is tradition — I’ve been very personal and spiritual for occupation of our homeland dancing Jingle since I me.” Ship— but we’re was 12. The pow wow is man estimated still here.” also very personal and the Powwow’s Shipman t o t a l c o s t at said that one spiritual for me.” $30,000, which of the hardwas entirely covest parts about organizing the -NIKA MARION, POWWOW ered by sponsors including event was get- ATTENDEE the Office of ting people the President, from across the country to come. Although the Special Programs and Events Comcommittee primarily tried to host mittee, Native American Alumni people from the Northeast, they Association of Dartmouth, Native ultimately chose to bring people Americans at Dartmouth and the in from the Midwest and the West Dartmouth Native American Program. He added that not only is Coast as well. Despite the difficulty of find- the Dartmouth Powwow one of the ing drum groups and performers largest powwows in the region, but to invite, Van Pelt said that most it is also one of the largest among invitees were receptive toward at- colleges in general. FROM POWWOW PAGE 1
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The College’s 44th annual Powwow saw participants from all over the country.
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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Off-Campus Programs photo contest and exhibition, Common Ground, Collis Center
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Opening reception for the studio art department’s senior majors exhibition, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
“Who needs the Humanities?” Edward Bradley, Jim Heffernan, Brian Kennedy and Sheila Gallagher, Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
TOMORROW
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
“Gestures of Hospitality: Siqueiro’s March of Humanity for the Hotel de Mexico”, the Manton Foundation Annual Orozco Lecture, Hood Auditorium
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
“U.S. Climate Change Policy: A Report From the Front,” by Roth visiting scholar professor S. James Gates, Dartmouth Hall 105
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
“The Age of Light,” Lecture by Sophie Reculin, 312 Carson Hall
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Arts highlights from the 44th annual Dartmouth Powwow By KAINA CHEN
The Dartmouth Staff
Dancers in Native American regalia took center stage at the 44th annual Dartmouth Powwow. Performers dressed in beautiful beads and golden bells swirled and spun on the performance grounds, captivating the crowds in the stands. A heartbeat-like drum rhythm resonated throughout the area, audible from hundreds of meters away. The annual Dartmouth Powwow is a two-day celebration that first began in 1973. Andrew Shipman ’18 and Marina Van Pelt ’18 co-chaired the committee that oversees the event, sponsored by a variety of organizations, including Native Americans at Dartmouth, the Native American Program, the Native American Alumni Association at Dartmouth, the Office of the President and the Special Programs and Events Committee. The Dartmouth Powwow drew participants from around the country, including those from many different tribes. Each tribe has a distinct style of dress, and with the mix of traditional and contemporary colors, each traditional dress regalia was unique. The components of a dress regalia are often handmade by the wearer himself or herself or passed down from prior generations. “This regalia is something my cousin passed down to me,” Reed Two Bulls, a dancer in the Fancy Shawl category,
said. “Usually, you bead your own pieces or have your mother do it. With the colors, it’s mostly just personal.” The complex components of the dress regalia can be difficult to control during the dances. “I would say making sure everything is on very tightly is one of the most important things,” Two Bulls said. The Native regalia worn by the men and women have unique features. A distinct feature of menswear includes a breechclout, a rectangular-shaped piece of cloth worn over the belt. Leggings are common, especially those made of leather or fur. For women, the basis of the regalia usually consists of a skirt and leggings. Special regalia elements include shields, rattles, breastplates, headdresses and dance sticks. These are unique to the dress and often gifted to the dancers by loved ones or tribal leaders. Dance regalia is not static — many times, the pieces take years to make, and additions are made throughout the dancer’s lifetime. The Poncas, a Native American tribe in the Midwestern region that currently largely reside in Nebraska and Oklahoma, are credited with the creation of the first powwow in the early 1800s. The Plains tribe, a tribe from the Great Plains region, developed what became the modern-day powwow in the 1920s. Powwows fall under two general categories – “contesting,” a form in which participants dance competitively for prizes, and family-oriented events, a non-competitive form.
Men and women compete in two separate categories. For men, the categories of dance are typically Fancy Dance, Northern Traditional, Southern Straight and the Modern Grass. For women, categories typically include Traditional Buckskin or Cloth, Fancy Shawl and Jingle Dress. Many of the audience members, although unfamiliar with the styles of dance, appreciated them just the same. “The announcer said that one of the dances was meant to emulate a butterfly, and I think the dancer did a great job of that,” April Liu ’18, an audience member, said. Some dances can be learned by watching others, while other tribes teach their dancers. In the case of Two Bulls, she learned by going to powwows and watching other dancers. Drumming serves central to the powwow. Among the many drummers, there is a host drum, one that has authority and is greatly respected. The drumbeats serve as the foundation for the vocals, typically comprised of singing or chanting, or a combination of both. Over 20 vendors surrounded the performance area, offering a wide variety of products, including hand-woven baskets and fur articles. One particularly popular vendor offered frybread, a round disk of unsweetened fried dough, a common yet relatively recent food in Navajo culture. The history of the frybread reflects the history of its creators — it was an invention of necessity, a creation
that used the government-issued white flour and lard when traditional foods such as vegetables and beans were not available on relocated land. A vendor from The Wandering Bull Inc., offered wool blankets with traditional patterning and a variety of colorful beads. Beading is a time-intensive method of embellishment that many people employ on the various pieces of their regalia. Many of the dancers had elegant beadwork adorning their moccasins. “This powwow is interesting, because it brings together many different tribes; you can tell from their regalia,” Chris Bullock, owner of The Wander-
ing Bull Inc., said. Bullock was wearing regalia with deep red as the primary color. He noted that the handmade vest with intricate brass beading was added later. “There’s a mix between the more traditional hues in regalia, like mine, and the brighter colors of more modern pieces,” Bullock said. These many forms of art – including dance, regalia, music and singing – bring the campus and the Upper Valley community, as well as tribes from around the country, together every year during the powwow and offer a diverse and multifaceted perspective on the nature of Native American art.
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Dancers from all over competed at 44th Annual Powwow.
Singer-songwriter Odessa performs for Parents’ Weekend By JOYCE LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
Odessa, a folk and alternative singer-songwriter and instrumentalist who used to play backup for groups such as Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, played on Collis
Patio Saturday evening for the FirstYear Family Weekend, bringing her Los Angeles-based alternative music to Dartmouth. Lauren Mendelsohn ’19, who brought her own unique acoustic sound to her songs, opened for Odessa. Using her high pitched vocals and whimsical lyricism, Men-
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Odessa’s acoustic style provided a great vibe for First-Year Parents’ Weekend.
delsohn set the tone for the rest of Odessa’s stage. Mendelsohn first heard about the opportunity to perform from a friend on the programming board. Although she has been writing songs for a long time, this was her first time performing in this kind of venue. “It was really fun,” Mendelsohn said. “I really enjoyed meeting [Odessa].” With only a guitar, Odessa opened with “My Match,” a sweetly crooning song that exhibited the purer side of her vocals. Keen and almost haunting, the simplicity of her acoustic performance accentuated its transcendence, along with her white dress lit by a violet stagelight. Much of Odessa’s song featured her signature high-pitched vocals, emphasized by an echoing sound system which swept over the small patio. Following “My Match,” Odessa sang “Love Alone” — a darker, bluesy song that continued Odessa’s use of refrain and a narrative voice calling out to a loved one. The object of this song, unlike the warm, loving figure of the prior melody, is one who leaves her, thus solidifying the intensely
personal nature of her lyrics. The darker tone of this song also displays the range of Odessa’s compositions — from the pure, ephemeral “My Match” to the grittier undertone of “Love Alone” that wraps around Odessa’s higher vocals. Odessa continued her set with other songs from her repertoire, including “Thunder,” which displayed a kind of natural lyricism and imagery that showed Odessa’s impressive grasp on language and melody. Despite — or perhaps, because of — a gentle nature of her music, Odessa managed to convey the quieter nature of thunder that resonated with the listener. Odessa wrapped up her performance with “I Will Be There,” arguably the song that put her on the map after its use in a Subaru commercial in 2014. With its comforting lyrics and lilting melody, the song helped to cap the almost dream-like concert. Regina Yan ’19, who attended the concert, said that she had heard Odessa’s music before and that she was excited to find out that she was performing and that Mendelsohn, her friend, would be opening for her. “She has a very stripped back
acoustic sound with an indie vibe,” Yan said. “She’s really relaxing to listen to, and it brings up good memories, because I figure skated to one of songs.” Yan added that Odessa sounds better in person than on recordings because of her interesting performance quality. “[‘Hummed Low’] has interesting rhythmic beats to it that you can’t tell over an audio recording, but seeing her in person, it was so cool to see her manipulate the guitar in a way to really deliver those beats,” Yan said. Odessa’s concert is a part of the Programming Board Coffee House Concert series, said Assistant Programming Board concert chair Mary Clare Seeman ’18. Odessa had been on an initial list of up-and-coming artists that the Programming Board had wanted to feature, but had been unavailable in the winter. “Odessa is just one of those artists we all really liked and thought would be a great choice,” Seeman said. “She has a great vibe, and her music provides an atmosphere that’s a good way to relax after a big weekend like Family Weekend, which is sort of the goal of the Coffee House Concerts.”
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Arts Explores: Well-equipped BVAC Digital Arts Lab By SOPHIA SIU
The Dartmouth Staff
Surrounded by glass walls, the digital arts lab can be found in the middle of the first floor of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The lab is a space in which students can create digital art using some of the most powerful graphic design and video editing software available today. “I recommend anyone who wants to learn how to edit film, make a poster — just any creative thing they have in mind — that’s the best digital resource that Dartmouth has for that sort of stuff,” Matt Rossi ’16 said. The digital lab houses 11 computers in a multi-use room that is currently set up for seminar classes and workshops, as well as lectures. The most commonly-used software package available in the lab is Adobe Creative Cloud, a collection of software that includes After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro. Chris Ivanyi, the digital lab specialist, envisions the lab becoming a vibrant space in which all members of the Dartmouth community can experiment with and learn about
different digital arts software. “It’s always my hope that it becomes this third space — home, work and this place — where people can come in and just create cool things with the tools that we have,” Ivanyi said. Several classes have been held in the lab, including professor Karolina Kawiaka’s Studio Art 17 “Digital Drawing” class, as well as professor Jeffrey Ruoff ’s Film Studies 36 “Experimental Filmmaking” class. Only through key card access can studio art and film and media studies majors access the lab, but Ivanyi allows any student who wants to learn about the software or work on a project to use the lab. “I have this open door policy,” Ivanyi said. “If someone has a particular project they want to work on, with or without my help, they can come back anytime.” Rossi also noted how Ivanyi welcomes all students to the space. “If Chris knows that you’re pretty passionate about what you’re doing, and you ask him, he’s very laid back about it,” he said. In order to make the lab and the technology more accessible to students, Ivanyi also organizes
and holds weekly workshops that allow students to learn about and experiment with different software. These workshops are designed to cater both to people who are already familiar with the software and those who have never touched the programs. “People can get a little bit of a hands-on and not be so intimidated,” Ivanyi said. “Some folks already know this stuff already, but we have a lot of people come through who haven’t even touched Illustrator or Photoshop.” Ivanyi holds make-up workshops on Friday afternoons for people who missed them earlier in the week. In addition to workshops, Ivanyi invites professors from other departments to discuss how they use software in their courses. Last term, Ivanyi invited guest artists, including local filmmakers and computer science professor Patricia Hannaway who teaches animation courses, to demonstrate their use of the digital programs. Although Rossi has not taken a class that required the use of the digital lab, he has used the lab for several personal projects. “Chris was really welcoming,” Rossi said. “I basically told him
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The digital arts lab has some of the most powerful graphic design and video editing software available to students.
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Computers armed with the latest software line the digital arts lab.
what I wanted to do, and he got me started on Premiere Pro.” He recalled that after getting an introduction through Ivanyi, he was able to move on to more complicated techniques, such as “color correcting.” Kyle Kaplan , a second year masters student in digital musics, also found the lab’s software and hardware to be invaluable resources. “The computers are many times faster than what I personally would have access to with my own laptop,” he said. Rossi also appreciated that Ivanyi himself constantly learns as he teaches students about the software, making the interaction more like a conversation than a lecture. “The environment feels less like a lecture world, where all this information is being thrown at you,” Rossi said. “It’s more like a collaboration between whoever is working there and Chris.” For his first project using the lab, Rossi edited video footage he took with a drone flying over Dartmouth’s campus. He is currently filming a few short films as part of another personal project and plans on returning to the lab to edit his footage. Kaplan also noted that besides Ivanyi, other students working in the lab are available to provide
help. “There’s a nice sense of community that it creates because you’re just in contact with people who are also doing creative video work,” Kaplan said. “There’s a nice camaraderie that gets fostered in the digital lab.” Most of the video editing for two of Kaplan’s personal projects took place in the digital lab. One of the projects, an eponymous documentary on the Taiwanese noise musician, Dino, featured an extended interview interspersed with performance footage. “[Dino] is a very compelling person, with punk rock roots that led to noise music from Taiwan’s huge cultural revolution during the ’90s right after the democratization of Taiwan,” Kaplan said. “Western influence, and with it noise music, started to penetrate the culture. He was the product of that.” After attending Ivanyi’s workshop for After Effects and Premiere Pro, Kaplan sought to explore Premiere Pro as in depth as possible for his Dino project. Ivanyi acknowledged that being the sole person running the digital lab can be a lot of work, but the benefits are greater. “There’s nothing more rewarding than to have a student come in who has never worked on this and create something amazing,” Ivanyi said.