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More than 300 students participated in the Prouty last weekend.

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Thousands of Upper Valley residents and hundreds of Dartmouth students walked, biked, rowed and golfed as part of the 33rd annual Prouty on Saturday. The event collected more than $2.62 million on the day of the event for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center,

director Jean Brown said.

The total surpassed last year’s day-of fundraising by $20,000, Brown said, and may surpass last year’s total fundraising mark of $2.78 million by the fall deadline.

More than 5,000 participants took part in the Prouty this year, including more than 300 Dartmouth students, Brown said. Nearly every student

Petition rallies for fired Co-op workers B y Amelia rosch

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Since a meeting on Thursday, community members have circulated a petition asking the Co-Op Food Store to rehire two fired employees and to rethink their business policies.

At Thursday’s open meeting, about 100 community members unanimously voted to collect 1,800 signatures on a petition to call a special meeting of the Co-op’s board. They

also unanimously agreed to continue to support the petition asking the store’s management to reinstate both employees with back pay and review its current labor practices.

On June 13, employees Daniel King and John Boutin, both of whom had worked for the store for more than a decade, were fired without notice from the Lebanon store.

King, who worked in the wine department, said at the SEE CO-OP PAGE 5

volunteering or participating in the Prouty was affiliated with a Greek organization, Brown said, and these participants raised $100,985, roughly on par with the amounts from previous years.

Alex Kane ’16, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s summer vice president, served as the Greek house SEE PROUTY PAGE 2

More than 270 representatives from approximately 60 different colleges, the White House, government departments, military and non-profits have convened on campus this week at Dartmouth’s national Summit on Sexual Assault. The summit, which began Sunday, has already featured speeches by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.) and Department of Justice and Education officials, among other area experts.

In addition to a dense schedule of presenters, attendees will divide into working groups to produce concrete recommendations relevant to specific issues.

Outgoing Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, who was the first to speak on Sunday, said she hopes the high number of participants and knowledge will foster meaningful conversations and change.

“I think it’s good for Dartmouth and it’s good for our colleagues in higher education because we tend to want to do this work in isolation from on another,” Johnson said in an

interview. “I think doing it as a collective is good where we can share expertise and knowledge.”

Dartmouth is one of 55 universities being investigated by the Department of Education for violating Title IX and potentially mishandling sexual assault and harassment cases.

Johnson said Dartmouth’s decision to host the Summit displays its commitment to the issue.

Addressing sexual assault as a reality that the presidents of many institutions need to solve, College President Phil Hanlon said Monday morning. He spoke to the irreversibility of the damage caused by sexual assault.

He said Dartmouth’s decision to host the summit is not rooted in the idea his administration has the solution, but instead in that he wants to work towards solving the problem.

“Great colleges and universities are willing to take the most daunting challenges of the world and willing to make SEE SUMMIT PAGE 5

Observatory sees busy weekend

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Last Friday, a line formed outside the Shattuck Observatory as more than 30 Dartmouth students, Hanover residents and tourists waited to enter roofless wooden structure, barely 10 square feet in dimension, hoping to glimpse Saturn and Mars. Once inside, several steps lead up to the two large black telescope, each at least 6 feet in height.

In the dark room, the voice of observatory assistant and astrophysics graduate student Erek Alper stood out over the chatter of families and groups

of friends as he explained the visible galaxies and planets that could be seen through the telescope to eager ears.

Shattuck Observatory’s telescopes are open for free use every Friday night, and last Friday, high school campers had filled the small room. That night, instructor Michael Beechert ’16 said, was the observatory’s busiest all year.

“It’s like a mosh pit in there!” Chandler Boucher, a participant from the Thayer School of Engineering’s camp, said. The campers had learned about astronomy that day, and counselor Christian Ortiz ’11

Th’15 took them to the observatory to witness first-hand what they had learned.

On a day-to-day basis, the observatory is used for class instruction. The department of physics and astronomy’s website lists the planets, stars, clusters, nebulae and galaxies that will likely be visible that upcoming Friday.

Alper and Beechert, students in the physics and astronomy department, provide instruction for the telescopes and information about the celestial bodies.

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DAily debriefing Duane Compton, senior associate dean of research at the Geisel School of Medicine, assumed the role of interim Geisel dean today, College President Phil Hanlon announced Monday. A Dartmouth faculty member for more than 20 years, Compton will work with Provost Carolyn Dever “to make progress on a number of important initiatives at Geisel,” according to Hanlon’s email.

In June, Hanlon announced that Wiley “Chip” Souba, Geisel’s former dean, decided not to seek reappointment to his role. Many criticized Souba’s decision to cancel Geisel’s M.D./Ph.D. program, a decision reversed following a vocal reaction from faculty, alumni and students. Following the announcement of Souba’s departure, faculty expressed disapproval of his financial decisions, including what they said amounted to cuts in various departments in the medical school. Souba came to Geisel in 2010 after working as a surgical oncologist at Ohio State University, chief of surgical oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

After 11 years of “Magnet” recognition, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center executives withdrew the hospital’s application for renewal and will lose the recognition, the Valley News reported. Awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Magnet designation identifies hospitals for excellence in nurse practice based on education requirements and performance indices, according to the center’s website. Currently, three hospitals in New Hampshire have Magnet status on the center’s website, though DHMC is the only academic medical center in the state. The renewal process, initiated every four years, analyzes third-party data collected from employee and patient surveys relative to peer institutions. DHMC halted its application in light of survey results which found that the hospital did not surpass other institutions in employee engagement and did not meet or exceed the patient satisfaction benchmark in one of eight three-month periods. The ANCC noted that this accreditation is used as a primary criteria in compiling the U.S. News and World Report ranking of “Best Hospitals.”

In a press release on Monday, Gov. Maggie Hassan highlighted the New Hampshire Paycheck Fairness Act as a key piece of legislation for women working in the state and as a tool for economic growth, especially as the issue of pay equity has stalled in Congress, the Associated Press reported. The bill, which passed the state legislature with bipartisan support, was signed into law yesterday and outlaws discrimination based on sex for equal work. The bill allows increased access to information for employees and clarifies its enactment. According to the bill, violations that occurred up to four years prior can be prosecuted, with the possible consequence of a fine of up to $2,500. Through 2018, the annual fiscal impact of this legislation is estimated to be less than $10,000 per year.

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Corrections We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

“Vandermause: Indebted at Dartmouth” (7/11/14): A $10 million April gift established professorships in the field of computational science, not computer science. The column has been corrected.

“Climiate Institute hosts tribal sustainability panel” (7/11/14): The article online originally linked to “Potential ’19s to use a supplement essay.”

The link has been revised.

“Summer enrichment at Dartmouth sees new hire and activities” (7/11/14): SEAD students come from four partner high schools, not five, as the article originally reported.

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Theta Delt raises most among Greeks FROM PROUTY PAGE 1

volunteer coordinator for the event, working with Greek houses and event organizers to fill the event’s volunteering needs. Students served as members of the setup and cleanup crews and manned water stations along the various Prouty routes.

Greek houses also competed for three prizes sponsored by the Class of 1977 — one for the house with the most money raised, one for the house with the most riders in the 100-mile bike ride and one for the house with the most participating volunteers.

While the winners of the second two prizes have not yet been announced, Kane said, Theta Delta Chi fraternity had raised the most money and will likely to win the fundraising prize. The fraternity raised $30,051.37 by press time.

Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority collected the next highest amount among Dartmouth Greek houses, raising over $16,000.

Theta Delt members started raising money early and have a history of supporting the Prouty, summer programming chair Alex Rafter ’16 said. Theta Delt members of the Class of 2013 had been especially affected by cancer, he said, and raised more than $50,000 for the 2011 Prouty.

He also added that 13 members of the house — including himself — took part in the 100-mile bike ride, with more members taking part in other events.

“It was a really good bonding experience,” Rafter said. “We stuck together for the whole thing. We’re all closer because of it.”

The inaugural Prouty occurred in 1982 when four nurses raised $4,000 with a 100-mile bike ride to honor their patient, Audrey Prouty.

Since then, the event has evolved to include more cycling distances, 5K and 10K walks, rowing and golfing, Brown said.

“We stuck together for the whole thing. We’re all closer because of it.”

- ALEX RAFTER ’16, THETA DELTA CHI summer PROGRAMMING CHAIR There has also been a push to include tennis in next year’s Prouty, but there may not be the resources or manpower to support that addition, Brown said.

Psi Upsilon fraternity, in addition to having members solicit donations outside of the Hanover Inn, hosted the first Psi-U-4-U fundraiser. A member of the fraternity would perform any “legal and moral” service for anyone in exchange for $20, the fraternity announced by email.

Ryan Strain ’16, who coordinat-

ed Psi U’s fundraising efforts, said he received around 15 good-faith responses along with a significant number of joke requests.

Apart from a request from members of The Tabard coed fraternity to paint part of a wall in their basement, people mostly asked the group to do mundane chores, he said.

“I’ve done so much laundry,” Strain said. “I need to do my own.”

Strain said most entertaining tongue-in-cheek response was from a male student who requested an “upstanding” role model for his younger brother during his visit over the weekend.

Sigma Delta sorority sold Prouty-themed sports bras to raise money for the house’s team. The $20 bras display the slogan “D Supports.”

Summer philanthropy chair Lauren Yeager ’16 said that the she received around 80 orders and will have raised $580, after paying the supplier. The idea was not new, she said, noting that last year’s philanthropy chair also raised funds this way.

Shannon Cleary ’16, vice president of community service for Kappa Delta sorority, said that around 14 of members of her sorority signed up for the event and raised money through their networks of family and friends. Cleary took part in the 5K wooded walk.

“It was really great to get involved with the Upper Valley community,” Cleary said. “It was also nice just to walk with your house.”

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Beechert said summer is the busiest time for the observatory, though public viewing is offered all year. Community members, especially parents with kids, make up the majority of observatory visitors, he said.

Maryland native Karen Cline, who is vacationing in New Hampshire for the summer, heard about the observatory while researching activities to do in the Upper Valley. Cline said that she thought that these public viewing sessions were great because seeing stars and planets through a telescope is different than looking at pictures in a textbook.

Amee Schecter, a high school student vacationing in Woodstock, heard about the free viewing sessions from her father. Schecter said that she wants to study astrophysics in college and was excited by the information on the observatory’s website.

“I’ve seen pictures on TV and off the Internet but never in person,” Schecter said. “Saturn was really cool.”

Ortiz had previously come to the

Observatory when he took “Exploring the Universe.” He said that he regrets not taking advantage of the public viewing hours outside of the course.

“Now that I am a grad student looking back at my Dartmouth undergrad

“Now that I am a grad student looking back at my Dartmuth undergrad, there are all these thinks I wish I had done.”

- Christian ortiz ’11

there are all these things I wish I had done,” Ortiz said.

Shattuck Observatory houses a telescope built in the early 1870s with a 9.5-inch diameter lens.

In 1852, astronomy professor Ira Young, Class of 1828, pressed the Board of Trustees for modern astro-

nomical equipment to aid his instruction. As a result, Boston physician George Shattuck, Class of 1803, gave the College $7,000 to build an observatory, and the Board of Trustees granted an additional $4,000. Located behind Wilder Hall, Shattuck Observatory is the oldest physics and astronomy building on campus, dating back to 1854.

The College also owns a share of the largest telescope of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, the 11-meter Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) located in Sutherland, South Africa as well as the MDM Observatory in Kitt Peak, Arizona, which holds 1.3 and 2.4 meter telescopes.

Beginning in winter 2015, a new physics and astronomy foreign study program based in Cape Town, South Africa will make use of the telescope.

Students will have the opportunity to collect data and tour the telescope, as well as interact with other programs hosted by the South African astronomical observatory.

Beechert is a member of the Dartmouth staff.

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There’s a war going on at Dartmouth. We’ve all witnessed it. We’ve all heard and seen its effects. It is a war against high-risk drinking, sexual assault and a lack of inclusivity — problems that have plagued our community for decades.

These problems exist. They affect us personally and they hurt our friends. But we must not accept the status quo. The time is now for substantive change. And the time is now for students to lead this change. We believe in right now because of the unprecedented level of student and institutional support for effective and lasting change.

As you know, this April, President Hanlon announced that in November the Board of Trustees will pass big changes to all parts where social life occurs in order to address high-risk drinking, sexual assault, and a lack of inclusivity. He appointed a Presidential Steering Committee composed of students, faculty, staff, and alumni to solicit ideas, assess feasibility, and propose a final list of recommendations to the Board in November.

We believe that this process must be student-led. Alumni, faculty and staff have important contributions to give, but it is we, the students, who spend four years here learning, growing, laughing, and making mistakes alongside each other. We understand why we act the ways we do and we are the most prepared to reflect and propose changes that would actually achieve the desired results.

As your student representatives, we have been working closely with Improve Dartmouth and other student organizations to gather your ideas. We built a blackboard cube to promote awareness, created otg.improvedartmouth.com where you submitted over 700 ideas, and met with hundreds of students across campus through dinner discussions. But this is not enough.

We have gathered over 700 of your ideas. But now we need to study and analyze them to find the most promising ideas. We all need to do this together.

Next week, we will host open dinner sessions with facilitators from Improve Dartmouth during which we, the students, will work together to analyze specific ideas that have been proposed. We will pick each idea apart, do research, and make the best argument for and against specific ideas. The conclusions we reach during these meetings will directly inform the decisions that the Steering Committee will make. We will blitz out with signups soon.

Dartmouth – our home – is going to change dynamically in the next few years. How so is up to us. So speak up. Submit your ideas to otg.improvedartmouth.com or blitz us to discuss them in person. Attend the open meetings next week. Do it for our predecessors, the proud alumni. Do it for ourselves, the dedicated students. We may not all agree on exactly what the future of Dartmouth looks like, but that’s okay. To Move Dartmouth Forward, we need all of our voices.

The flame of this hope burns in our hearts. Let us come together joining our passions and ideas, turning our individuals flames into a beacon blazing mightier than even the homecoming bonfire. Stand as sister stands by brother, for this is our time to Move Dartmouth Forward.

The Students of the Presidential Steering Committee Frank Cunningham ‘16 John Damianos ‘16 Kayla Wade ‘16

We want to create a truly interactive dialogue with our community. Starting today, the Students Moving Dartmouth Forward will have an online presence via Facebook and Instagram. We are also continuing to work with organizations on campus to ensure that everyone is a part of the conversation during this crucial summer term.

For more information, like us at www.Facebook.com/StudentsMDF, follow @studentsmdf on Instagram, or Blitz Moving.Dartmouth.Forward@Dartmouth.edu or any of us individually.

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Staff Columnist WILLIAM ALSTON ’16

Contributing Columnist ANDRES SMITH ’17

Plenty of Choices

A Risky Business

Complaints about lack of summer course offerings are unfounded.

Thus far, sophomore summer has been my favorite term at Dartmouth. As discussed in Michael Beechert’s July 8 column “Sophomore Bummer,” there is always plenty to complain about at Dartmouth, not least of which is how the administration attempts to nickel-and-dime us at every turn. Not only do they force us to dig deep in our pockets to cover endless bloat, but the school then fails to provide the same basic level of services this term than it does the rest of the year.

I will admit that I am disappointed that I cannot enjoy a General Tso’s bob at the Courtyard Cafe this term, or that even if I could, I would then not be able to go to the gym at 8:30 p.m. to work it off. However, I understand why such cutbacks are necessary.

Moreover, the last thing we should complain about is the school’s summer academic offerings. Not only does it make sense for Dartmouth to offer fewer classes during the summer, but the particular classes that are offered create a unique learning environment that fosters class bonding.

Over the summer Dartmouth does suffer a decline in the amount of funding available for services despite its massive endowment, since fewer students are on campus and paying tuition. With this reduction in number of students paying tuition, it is certainly reasonable to assume that the school cannot necessarily provide the same services.

If the school were to hire the same number of people to staff the same facilities with this smaller amount of funding, it would make the cost per student even higher than it already is, so some service cutbacks are prudent.

On top of this, many classes that would be viable during other terms, like some small seminars, may just not work because there may not be enough students with the necessary background to produce quality work in those classes. With just a few rising juniors on campus interested in such narrow, specialized topics characteristic of seminar, the course simply won’t function anymore.

In general, the school is making a fairly logical cost-conscious decision in cutting back services and courses over the summer.

I, like many other students, have found a dearth of summer courses available for my major. Yet why should Dartmouth be blamed for that? It is my fault that I did not look ahead at summer course offerings and leave room for major courses in the summer.

Yes, we could all use more flexibility, but I feel there are more important things to worry about (the lack of air conditioning in dorms, for instance).

In many ways, my academic experience so far this summer has reminded me of freshman year. Students bound for all different majors, from environmental science to English literature, were in the same few introductory classes, along with a host of writing classes and seminars that similarly brought together students with diverse backgrounds and future goals.

Even when such classes were medium to large lectures, they connected students with classmates headed down various academic and vocational paths. The same can be said for the summer’s intermediate introductory classes. Popular summer courses like “Linear Algebra with Applications” and “Classical Mythology,” chock full of people who aren’t majoring in those particular subjects, provide this type of experience.

If you cannot find enough classes over the summer that both interest you and are academically engaging, I believe you have come to the wrong school. Dartmouth is a liberal arts college, where you should not just focus on one subject continually until graduation. You should be sailing into uncharted waters, always exploring new subjects and constantly trying to meet people from different academic and social backgrounds. If the fact that there are fewer course offerings means that many members of the class of 2016 have to resort to such diversification this summer, I would say that’s a good thing.

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Artistry and risk-taking have left Hollywood for the small screen.

To a movie lover like myself, summer means time for all the movie studios to roll out longawaited, big-budget blockbusters. This summer alone we have seen or will see the release of movies that are part of some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood — think “X-men,” “Godzilla,” and “Planet of the Apes.” These movies cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and usually double or triple their budgets in profits. While colossal films like “Transformers” provide some good, old-fashioned summertime fun, they reflect an unfortunate larger trend in filmmaking. That is, mainstream Hollywood’s abandonment of creativity and risk taking. Luckily, it seems that television is filling the creative void that the movie industry has left.

Originality seems to be largely a thing of the past in the American movie industry. You would be hard-pressed to find a big-budget release this summer that is not a sequel, a reboot or based on an already established, popular novel or comic book. On the other hand, consider movies like “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) and “Pacific Rim” (2013); despite having relatively original plots and not sacrificing the action that summer moviegoers often crave, they did not perform so well at the box office. When audiences are unreceptive to unfamiliar ideas, why would a studio risk investing in them? The major studios appear to have completely separated artistic and commercial filmmaking. Studio executives pack explosions and fun into summer comic book movies and save artistry and intelligence for Oscar-bait films that are not expected to make major money. For instance, “The Avengers” (2012) had an estimated marketing budget of more than $100 million, more than five times the entire budget allotted to Academy Award-winning “Twelve Years a Slave” (2013). However, just because originality and creativity are disappearing from commercial filmmaking does not mean that they are gone from mainstream media forever. They have simply moved to television.

For decades, TV was treated as Hollywood’s creative and financial little brother. Stock family sitcoms and formulaic police or hospital dramas dominated the airwaves. Film buffs scoffed at

television as mindless entertainment that best served as background noise during family dinner.

Yet the tables have turned dramatically in the last 20 years. Many new cable channels looking to make a name for themselves took risks on shows that, in the past, would have never gotten airtime on a main network for fear that anything different would scare away advertisers. These risks paid off with gems such as “Breaking Bad,” “The Sopranos” and “American Horror Story.” Even network TV has begun to catch up to riskier cable networks like AMC and FX, with shows like “24” and “Community” that break the tried mold of cop shows and sitcoms. A diverse and highly competitive TV landscape, in which hundreds of channels rather than just four big players compete for viewers, has created an environment that allows artists to take immense risks, resulting in beloved and acclaimed shows like “Game of Thrones.”

These changes in television programming have brought the industry the respect and artistic admiration it deserves. Twenty years ago, the only movie stars who acted on the small screen were either washed-up or making a 10-second cameo in everyone’s favorite cop show. Actors used television to get famous enough to cross over into movies, where the real money and acclaim supposedly lay. Now, respected actors are clamoring for TV roles that would allow them to flex their creative muscles. Robin Williams and Paul Giamatti are among dozens of movie actors with TV series that premiered this year. Ten years ago, the idea of Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey starring in their own shows would have seemed absurd, but today their work on popular television shows “True Detective” and “House of Cards,” respectively, is considered by some to be among the best in their careers.

Although movies are, and will continue to be, a huge part of our cultural landscape and a massive source of revenue for Hollywood, television has surpassed them both artistically and in popularity.

TV has become a place where innovative, risky ideas can find backing, and although the majority of these experiments may fail, some have created fan bases more rabid than the zombies on AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

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Speakers discuss culture Petition circulates as tension rises of assault on campuses FROM CO-OP PAGE 1

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change,” he said.

Kuster addressed attendees Sunday following Johnson’s opening and said that while Dartmouth has made “good progress” recently, partially due to Hanlon’s commitment to the issue, sexual assault is a problem that “can and must be solved.”

Educator and curriculum developer Gail Stern spoke next, using a Jenga tower to represent rape culture.

“We nibble around the edges because the whole thing we don’t want to give up,” she said.

On Monday, Hanlon listed technology, excessive drinking and drug abuse as some factors contributing to sexual assault.

In order to prevent campus sexual assault, Hanlon said, higher education institutions must review current investigative processes for sexual assault cases and bolster prevention efforts.

He was followed by psychologist and forensic consultant David Lisak, who welcomed attendees at Spaulding Auditorium to “the unglamorous part of fighting sexual assault.”

Lisak, a researcher who has studied interpersonal violence for nearly 30 years, said that universities across the country are afraid to make a “war call” on the sexual assault issue, fearful of addressing it inappropriately.

The purpose of this summit, he said, is to devise a solution to this problem faced by many colleges.

“There definitely has been an expectation from the federal government, but what really motivated this event was the survivors of the sexual assaults and their parents,” Lisak said, to a large round of applause.

A Monday morning session called “The Water in Which We Swim: the Role of Media in Promoting a ‘Rape Culture,’” featured executive director of the media education foundation and University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor Sut Jhally, cofounder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program Jackson Katz and author and advertising expert Jean Kilbourne.

Johnson said she found this presentation on the media’s influence to be particularly informative.

“To have them break down the influence of media on gender perception and the normalizing of the perceptions and the normalization of violence, particularly against women, was very eye-opening,” she said.

Department of Education assistant secretary for civil rights Catherine Lhamon and Department of Justice Civil Rights Division educational opportunities section chief Anurima Bhargava spoke on a panel titled “Sexual Assault on Campus: Federal Perspectives,” held that afternoon. Native American studies professor Bruce Duthu, also a former law professor, moderated the panel, which he opened with pre-written questions followed by about 50 minutes of questions from attendees.

Lhamon and Bhargava both expressed that the underlying purpose of federal legislation, like Title IX and the Clery Act, is to create a safe environment for students on campus.

In response to a question about the culture within fraternities and male sports teams, Lhamon said that while research has shown some institutions tend to harbor rape cultures, nobody should get away with being a perpetrator, regardless of the activities in which they are involved.

If an organization — whether a club, team or Greek house — harbors a rape culture, that culture needs to be eradicated “yesterday,” Lhamon said.

“This is not a situation in which the law gives any organization on campus a pass,” Bhargava said.

In adjucation, institutions must meet legal standards and make sure campus is not a hostile environment for any student, they said.

While colleges and universities are not and should not be criminal justice systems, they have a responsibility to make sure students are safe, Lhamon said. She said the role of schools is fundamentally different from that of the criminal justice system, but she does not find that problematic.

“I resist pretty hard that schools don’t have a role in this,” Lhamon said. “They absolutely do.”

Grace Brotsker, a rising junior at Amherst College, said that she wished more students spoke, but was happy to hear Lisak speak about the importance of collaborating with student activists.

“However, I feel like sometimes it’s dangerous for administrators at these schools to automatically think of themselves as the good guy,” she said. “Just because they want to do the right thing, it doesn’t mean that they suddenly have to stop questioning everything they are doing.”

Laura Weiss and Hannah Chung contributed reporting.

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meeting that he was upset that the Coop’s management had not explained the reason for his dismissal.

“If I were honestly told what I had done wrong, I would have walked away,” he said. “I have enough guts to walk away when I’m not wanted.”

Meeting facilitator and Norwich resident Sharon Racusin said that the group is trying to communicate with the Co-op’s board of directors to prevent a similar conflict in the future.

“We’re not going to let it go,” Racusin said. “We’re not going to let it happen to anyone else. We don’t want to see another employee of our co-op fired in that way.”

According to New Hampshire’s “employment-at-will” laws, employers can fire employees who have not signed an employment contract without giving explanation or notice. Employers, however, cannot dismiss employees in retaliation for their actions or out of malice.

The Facebook group “Concerned About the Co-op” published a petition on July 7 demanding the reemployment of the two fired men with back pay. As of press time, 358 people had signed.

Don Kreis, a former member of the Co-op’s board of directors, started a counter-petition called “Don’t Squander the Legacy of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society” on July 8. The petition, which seeks to

affirm that the Co-op was in its rights to fire the employees and that it is inappropriate for the Co-op’s thousands of members to override decisions made by the general manager, currently has 92 signatures.

Jim Heffernan, an emeritus English professor and a member of the Co-op since 1965, suggested advocating to meet with the Co-op’s board of directors. Heffernan said that under the Co-op’s bylaws, special meetings can be called if requested by 10 percent of its members. The Co-op currently has around 18,000 members, the Valley News reported.

A special meeting, he said, would solicit a satisfactory response regarding King and Boutin’s firing.

Residents must continue monitoring the situation, Etna resident Tim Cornell said, especially if the reasons for King and Boutin’s dismissal went against New Hampshire state law.

“The concern should be why they were dismissed,” he said. “That could be [of] much deeper concern to all of us than the manner in which they were dismissed.”

To East Thetford resident Liora Alschuler, a 22-year Co-op member, employers have a moral duty to provide reason for the dismissal.

“It’s a violent act to take someone’s livelihood away,” she said.

The Co-op’s board of directors will host a public meeting July 23, but

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some attendees of Thursday’s meeting were unsure if their voices would be effectively heard.

Community members also discussed other agendas on Thursday, including a possible movement to help employees unionize and the resolution of past issues involving the Co-op’s increased corporatization.

Grantham resident and Co-op member Brian Sullivan said community members should help Co-op employees unionize.

“What is a co-op except for a union of members?” he said.

Lyme resident Barbara Woodard said she feels like King and Boutin’s firing strengthened her feelings against the Co-op. She said she has felt that the Co-op’s managers have made decisions in the past without considering what the community wanted, like the attempt to close the Co-op Service Center. In late 2011, the Co-op announced that it would close the service center in March 2012, even though it is the only car service center in Hanover and one of three gas stations in town. Many locals expressed disappointment that the station would be closed, and the decision was later reversed.

The Thursday meeting was held in the Richard W. Black Recreation and Senior Center. The July 23 meeting will be held at the same location at 4 p.m.

Co-op representatives could not be reached for comment by press time.

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‘Snowpiercer,’ though moralizing, will thrill

They’re up against the guards, led by the bureaucrat Mason, played The Dartmouth Staff by a toothy, awkward, skittish and If you took Aldous Huxley’s barely recognizable Tilda Swinton.

“Brave New World,” shoved every- As hateful and callous as she is, I one onto a post-apocalyptic Noah’s never wanted her to die. She was Ark and added a heaping spoonful like a car accident: no matter how of slow-mo, you would get Bong bad she got, I couldn’t look away.

Fueling this disparate world is Joon-ho’s “Snowpiercer” (2013).

The movie, based on the 1982 Wilford — Oz-like, revered as the French graphic novel “Le Transper- merciful, divine God of this techceneige,” is itself an ark of sorts that nological world of pistons and rails.

And this is where the social comrescues audiences from the flood of cookie-cutter summer blockbust- mentary becomes clearest. The film ers like “The Expendables 3” and holds a carnival mirror up to society, exaggerating “ Tr a n s f o r m issues of class ers 4,” which “In ‘Snowpiercer,’ Bong disparities, fate seem hell-bent and God for our on cashing in takes the overworked, contemplative on for mulaic steampunk, dystopic pleasure. The 1 p r e m i s e s. I n future tale and gives it percent is back “Snowpiercer,” under the miBong takes the an oil change.” croscope. While overworked, stenot completely ampunk, dystopic future tale and gives it an oil subtle, Bong’s metaphors are delivered either humorously or during change.

Set in 2031, the film opens to a plot twist, so they are decently an Al Gore wet dream: the world camouflaged to avoid overt moralhas been thrown into another ice izing. Like a pill in applesauce, they age from humanity’s botched at- go down rather gently.

For example, Mason’s cold-yettempt to thwart global warming by using the cooling agent CW-7. comic speeches to economy are Only the ingenious Wilford (Ed straight out of Orwell’s “Animal Harris), who invented an eternally Farm” or George Saunders’ “Pascircumnavigating train, along with a toralia,” citing predetermination few hundred other humans, escape for the proles’ misery — how they this “The Day After Tomorrow”- were born to be the “shoes” for the upper class “hats.” Our shock inspired wasteland.

Inside the train is your typical or laughter permits these cruder, future-gone-inegalitarian fare: an sartorial points.

The film’s numerous fight extreme class system has been established, where the lowest class, fit- sequences are also fairly commontingly deemed “economy,” wallows place in their framing, but Bong in filth, while the business and first adds finer strokes to create more class wine and dine, ignorant of the artful episodes typical of Korean caboose’s plight. This is “Titanic” auteurs. There are the standoffs, (1997), only the vehicle in question the slow-mo killings and enough resembles the Coors Light train blood splashing to rival “Kill Bill” more than a luxe transcontinental (2003). But once you add some liner, we do not get to delight in night vision, a hazy sauna playing some steamy romance on a floating the song “Midnight, the Stars and door, and the $39 million budget You” that played during the end of “Snowpiercer” barely registers credits of “The Shining” (1980) or when compared to the $200 million a nightmarishly lurid schoolroom, James Cameron unloaded to drown you’ve got something.

The film’s conclusion will make a dusky Leonardo DiCaprio.

But out of the dregs arrives Cur- many roll their eyes, as Bong turns tis (Chris Evans), the indomitable the moral knob up to 11. But unleader of the rebellion against the derneath this banal bow lies a gift first class, joined by the sagacious of a film, filled with shocking twists, Gilliam (John Hurt), the drug-ad- battles to sate anyone’s bloodlust dicted engineer Namgoong Minsu and a fairly nuanced allegory of (Song Kang-ho), his clairvoyant society.

Whether you are a “shoe,” a girlfriend Yona (Ko Ah-sung) and sympathetic mother Tanya (Octavia “hat,” some “overalls” or maybe Spencer). Like in the myth of Her- a “used sweater,” “Snowpiercer” cules and his 12 labors, our heroic should make for a thrill ride — even band must advance through the if it only takes place on a train. numerous train cars up to Wilford in the engine. Much of the suspense Rating: 8.0/10 is created by the “Let’s Make a Deal”-style door openings to each “Snowpiercer” is playing daily at the Nugget at 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. train car.

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Museum draws visitors to idyllic site B y Josh Koenig The Dartmouth Staff

At the side of a gently winding road that hugs the shores of Mascoma Lake, the turnoff to the Enfield Shaker Museum is fittingly named Chosen Vale Lane. As “the Great Stone Dwelling,” the largest Shaker residence in the country, rises into the beautiful azure sky, it is clear what made the site so attractive to Shakers more than 220 years ago.

The Shakers adopted confession of sin, celibacy and communal living in their search for a perfect Christian life. Their beliefs are often associated with their energetic and whirling expressions during worship — hence the name “Shakers.”

Today, the settlement that was once called home by about 300 members in the middle of the 19th century maintains only remnants of a community first formed in 1793. The Enfield Shakers constructed more than 200 buildings before eventually leaving due to declining membership.

Left behind, however, is a site of striking historical importance and natural beauty. Museum highlights include an open meeting room where Shakers would promote their faith and a side room containing a handheld projector used to create three-dimensional images, called a stereopticon.

The museum’s swept wooden floors, exhibits reconstructed to resemble the community’s past, and furniture and

photographs placed throughout the museum’s public spaces further the sense of retreat to a simpler time.

A sign by the museum’s front door admonishes visitors to leave behind alcohol and refrain from smoking, a suggestion that heightens the sense of spirituality maintained at the site.

At the museum, exhibits attempt to preserve the Shakers’s spiritual legacy alongside their history and culture, executive director Dolores Struckhoff wrote in an email, declining to speak by phone due to illness. In addition to the exhibits, the museum — organized as a non-profit educational institution — offers further educational programs intended to share the values and work ethic of the Shaker community. “[The Shakers] shared and learned from their neighbors, and we hope to keep that spirit alive by welcoming local, regional, national and international people to this site,” Struckhoff wrote.

Despite living just 12 miles from the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the Enfield Shakers had little to no interaction with students and faculty in Hanover, College historian Jere Daniell ’55 said.

“Dartmouth at that time was a congregationally oriented training ground for ministers, some of whom pursued other objectives,” Daniell said. “It would have been cheapening the brand, to use a modern expression, if they had anything to do with the Shakers.”

Over the second quarter of the 19th century, Daniell said, New England was home to dozens of religious groups, but amid changing religious activity, Dartmouth remained dominated by Congregational orthodoxy until former College President William Jewett Tucker’s tenure, he said.

With membership dwindling, the Shakers ultimately sold their land in 1927.

This problem of diminishing membership is often seen in religious communes, Stanford University professor of economics Ran Abramitzky, who has studied communes’ instability, said.

“If a community is trying to redistribute, a big problem for example is often adverse selection,” Abramitzky said. “In fact, a group of economists have found this trend in the Shakers.”

In his work, Abramitzky has noted the problems adverse selection, brain drain and celibacy pose to growth in religious communes.

Even without an active Shaker community, the area retains its vibrancy and beauty. Especially over the summer, the museum works to bring in musical acts, and its location close to Mascoma Lake remains a pull in itself, Shaker Mountain Real Estate sales associate Jim Kelleher said.

“The village is quaint, but most people interested in the community are interested in the community on the lake,” he said. “The museum is a bonus, though.”

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Ivy League ahead on new NCAA guidelines

B y Hannah CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

During practice during his freshman fall, offensive lineman Niko Mamula ’16 was running toward another player to block him. Mamula hit his head as they made contact. He blacked out, everything “went fuzzy” and he woke up with his teammates standing around him, unaware for a few seconds of what had happened.

He was helped off the field and went through preliminary testing.

He could remember his name, his hometown. After practice, Mamula sat in the training room as his trainers briefed him on the steps he would be taking to ensure his recover.

This concussion, which kept him out for about two weeks, was Mamula’s second, following a less severe high school injury, he said.

The NCAA published new guidelines on concussion safety earlier this month that limit full-contact practices to twice per week during season and encourage transparency in the process of caring for injured players. Dartmouth football players reflected on their experiences with and opinions on concussions, and playing under safety regulations, in interviews Monday.

The new guidelines are not rules, but they could become NCAA legislation in the future, depending on what the further studies reveal on the correlation between full-contact practice and concussions.

Dartmouth complies to Ivy League football practice standards on concussion safety. The Ivy League is one of only two conferences that currently mandate live-contact practice rules, which the NCAA does not.

The new guidelines’ restriction on full-contact practices match the Ivy League policy, except for spring practices. Under the new NCAA guidelines, teams can have eight fullcontact practices during the spring, whereas the Ivy League policy only allows seven.

Along with abiding by the League policy, Dartmouth’s team strives to minimize the potential concussion by educating players on concussion symptoms and implementing regular medical check-ups.

To make sure he was healthy enough to play, Mamula said he first had to pass a cognitive function test,

which provided a score that could be compared to a baseline test he had taken at the start of his freshman year before the season. While he failed the test one week after his concussion, he passed several days later.

Mamula then had to pass a bike test, where he had to maintain a certain speed on an exercise bike for a certain amount of time. After doing a field work out without any symptoms, Manula eased back into contact play, first practicing without hitting, then taking light hits for a few days without symptoms.

“I definitely feel like the football training staff made sure that we were absolutely ready to come back before they cleared us to play,” he said.

He said he feels Dartmouth has a good program for handling athletic concussions in place, and that it is good to know staff are knowledgeable and operating above the level of NCAA mandates.

“It makes you feel better knowing that you’re getting the recovery time you need,” Mamula said. “It could potentially mess up your brain for life.”

Safety is a priority in Dartmouth football, offensive lineman Jacob Flores ’16 said, and he is glad to see the nation following suit by prioritizing player safety and concussion prevention.

Tight end Jvonte Brooks ’15 said the team has become used to preparing for games without having fullcontact practices, since it has followed the Ivy League guidelines for a several years. Teams just now transitioning may have initial difficulties preparing for games, Brooks said.

During many practices, there is no tackling, quarterback Thomas Militello ’16 said, noting that players know how to hit from high school.

“You’re pretty much taking the chance of injury out of the equation,” he said.

While the new NCAA guidelines and Ivy League rules may lower risk, Mamula does not think the risk for concussions can be eliminated — it’s simply the nature of the game, he said.

“The NCAA and NFL and all the rules they’re putting in place can help reduce concussions, but I don’t think they’d ever be able to eliminate concussions without changing the nature of the game,” he said.

RIDING THE PINE Murmurs of Riding the Pine now echo through the halls of Baker-Berry Library. “Did you see what Hank and Fish wrote this week? I can’t believe our boys did it again!” Our Riding the Pine groupies may think we have it all figured out. They see the trappings of glory but are sadly blind to the reality of the life of the columnist. Sure, our picture may run on the back page of The Dartmouth once a week, but we still can’t get on table at Heorot supertails. Yeah, we may get eight likes on the Facebook post of our latest column, but neither of us could score an invite to Sigma Delt semi. We’re rolling in Internet dollars, but unfortunately, that’s not an accepted form of payment for a Boloco burrito bowl.

This week, you probably turned to this column expecting a hot take on LeBron James’s move to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but while Riding the Pine stands for many things, bending to the will of the idiotic masses is not one of them. While our simple-minded readers sit, slack-jawed, drooling on their editions of The Dartmouth, chuckling absentmindedly at our use of the word “Boloco,” we sit in our ivory tower pitying you, yes, but are still inexplicably dedicated to bringing you informative and original takes on the world of sports. You are all but begging us to tell you what to think about LeBron James. Guess what? The 24-hour news cycle has already chewed that story up and spit it out. Instead, in a desperate attempt to stay relevant, this week’s Riding the Pine is looking across the pond at the potential resurrection of an old friend.

Here are the greatest quotes of the 21st century: “I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence,” by Nicolas Cage in “National Treasure” (2004), and “Tiger Woods will win the

WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT

2014 British Open,” by Hank and Fish in Riding the Pine. Tiger has not won a major tournament since 2008 or any tournament whatsoever since last summer. He’s been cut or withdrawn from two of his last four events and is still recovering from a recent back surgery. But none of that matters. The only thing that does matter is that Tiger Woods is undoubtedly the biggest boss on the PGA Tour, and charisma wins every time (except for when he missed the cut last time).

We want to make it very clear that our prediction is based on proud ignorance of nearly everything to do with golf. Hank, though he aced the 17th and 18th holes at the Fore-U Golf Center, unfortunately cannot use that natural talent to make accurate forecasts about PGA Tour play. Fish, on the other hand, is bad at both mini-golf and making predictions. While we don’t know anything about golf, we know a lot about people. And perhaps even more about Tiger Woods. We know about him because he’s a lot like us.

We’re all prodigies in our given fields. A 2-year-old Tiger Woods was featured on “The Mike Douglas Show” hitting golf balls. We started blogging for Dartbeat at 19. We all have iconoclastic wardrobes. For Tiger, it’s of course the scintillating red polo and black pants championship Sunday combination. For Hank and Fish, it’s probably just a gray T-shirt.

Simplicity meets haute couture: don’t underestimate the swagger of a gray tee. We also all like to live on the wild side. For Riding the Pine, that means still bringing our own red social cups to FoCo, refusing to give up our belief in a dream that died long ago. For Tiger Woods, that means extramarital indiscretions. All we can do is present to you the facts. The burden is on our

reader to connect the dots.

Last time the British Open was played at Royal Liverpool, Tiger Woods won in memorable fashion.

That history provides us with 99 percent of the information we need to predict that he will win there once again. Many golf pundits are quick to point out that the course has been totally transformed, rendered nearly unrecognizable when compared to the course Tiger laid his golden egg on eight years ago. To those pundits we respond, the course still has the same name. Shakespeare (we must wonder if these so-called pundits have ever heard of him) once questioned whether a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. Riding the Pine barely understands this question, but call anything a rose and we will probably think it smells good. Call anything Royal Liverpool and we will predict another Tiger Woods victory.

Woods hasn’t been winning because he lost his mojo. He went from being the guy who could carry on dozens of simultaneous extramarital affairs without blinking an eye to the guy who said the following statement four years ago in a press conference apology: “I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me.

I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn’t have far — didn’t have to go far to find them. I was wrong.

I was foolish.”

Riding the Pine wants to leave our readers with one message: Tiger is a changed man, changed exactly back to the way he used to be before he got caught. As evidence, we offer you an admittedly out-of-context quote the new Tiger gave to ESPN at Hoylake: “I can do whatever I want.”