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VOL. CLXXII NO. 66

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

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OAC and COS see fewer student candidates

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Fewer students than last year ran on the official ballot to fill seats on the Organizational Adjudication Committee and the Committee on Standards, two bodies that carry out the bulk of student judiciary proceedings at the College.

Four students were official candidates going into election day on Monday, compared to the 12 students who ran on the official ballot last year. Eight students in total — four official candidates and four write-ins — were elected to the committee on Monday.

Shagun Hegur ’16, Jose Rodarte-Canales ’16, Tori Nevel ’16 and Rui Zhang ’16 were elected as official candidates,

The Organizational Adjudication Committee and Committee on Standards saw eight candidates total.

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Conservative political and social critic David Brooks, who pens a regular column for the New York Times, will serve as this year’s commencement speaker in June.

Brooks has delivered s everal c om m en c em e n t addresses including one at

Wake Forest University in 2007, both Brandeis and Rice Universities in 2011 and Sewanee, the University of the South in 2013.

Brooks was unavailable for comment by press time.

Last May, NPR included Brooks’ speeches at Wake Forest, Rice and Sewanee in

their list of best commencement speeches of all time.

Recurring themes include the importance of friendship, companionship, happiness and emotional well-being over material or professional success.

“I’ve observed a few things about the few re-

ally great people I’ve had a chance to meet and cover... they need to be around people,” Brooks said at Wake Forest in 2007. “You and I require sleep. They require people.”

In Brooks’ 2011 address at Rice, he advised graduates, “don’t go by how the

coin flips — go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip.”

Of the 10 students surveyed by The Dartmouth, six expressed dissatisfaction with the choice of speaker and believed that they were not alone in their opinion.

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Town of Hanover storefronts see changes B y Max Gibson

With several relocations and closings, the storefronts along Main Street are changing. The Indigo and Lemon Tree Gifts have moved onto Main Street, wood planks block the entrances to what once was Metro Bakery and Cafe and 3 Guys Basement Barbeque and brown paper cov-

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ers the windows of Indigo’s previous home.

The town has a tendency to cycle through businesses quickly, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said.

Given the high rents in town and with the seasonal population fluctuations caused by the College’s academic schedule, it can be difficult to sustain JEFFREY LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Students present at the Dickey Center’s Global Health Day event.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: Around 50 students and alumni exercised their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to request personal records relating to their admission to the University, the Brown Daily Herald reported.

Brown declined to share notes made by admissions officers, noting that the university had the right to define what consisted a “permanent record.”

Columbia University: Commuter students at Columbia’s two undergraduate schools, Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, will gain the right to swipe access of residence halls beginning in the fall, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The policy designating non-resident students as guests has been in place since 2013 and was overturned due to reports by student leaders calling for the policy’s removal.

Cornell University: The University Assembly at Cornell passed a resolution calling for full divestment of fossil fuels, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Eleven representatives voted in favor of the proposal while four voted against and one abstained. This will be the fourth time the assembly has officially voted on divestment and is a reversal of a vote last year that did not back divestment.

Harvard University: A group of around 75 students at Harvard called for a cap upon undergraduate course section sizes to be set at 12 students in a protest earlier this week, the Harvard Crimson reported. The Harvard Teaching Campaign organized a petition that had garnered 2,273 signatures from undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and alumni by the time it was delivered to administrators on Tuesday. Supporters marched under the slogan “If sections were smaller, that would be baller.”

Princeton University: Princeton announced that it has reestablished a new position at the Graduate School for a new dean for diversity and inclusion, the Daily Princetonian reported. Dale Trevino will step into the role on July 1. Trevino, currently the director of the office of diversity at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will help to address issues of diversity and inclusivity in his new role, which was reestablished in November after student, faculty and trustee complaints.

University of Pennsylvania: Several students were moved to accommodations in the Sheraton Hotel near campus last October because of sewage water dripping from a ceiling, the Daily Pennsylvanian. Some students, however, have objected to the perceived lack of timeliness of Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services department. The group took 10 days to repair the damage, and have taken hours or days to repair other damage, leading students to question its efficacy.

Yale University: The Yale College Council and the Yale Women’s Center jointly released a report earlier this week highlighting the state of the university’s sexual misconduct procedures. The report also included the responses of the University Title IX Steering Committee, a group of administrators tasked with overseeing Title IX coordinators at Yale.

College will award six honorary degrees FROM COMMENCEMENT PAGE 1

tive views as the reason for their concerns. Three students said they did not know of Brooks before the announcement. Only one person interviewed said he was interested in hearing Brooks speak.

Heidi Ahn ’18 noted that several comments on the anonymous social media application Yik Yak reflected widespread student displeasure.

Brooks, along with six others, will be awarded an honorary degree from the College. Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, will receive a Doctor of Science, along with Columbia University geochemist and MacArthur fellow Terry Plank ’85.

Valerie Steele ’78, the director and curator at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, will receive a Doctor of Arts, and Earl Lewis, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Russell Carson ’65, philantropist and co-founder of the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe and William Neukom ’64, founder of the World Justice Project and former executive vice president of law and corporate affairs at Microsoft, will receive

Doctor of Humane Letters.

Plank said she was surprised and “in shock” to have received the honorary Doctor of Science.

She said she felt proud to repre-

“It’s very surprising and pleasing to have gotten the honorary degree. I don’t know how it happened, but it’s very lovely.”

-Valerie steele ’78, director and curator at the Museum at the fashion institute of technology and honorary degree recipient sent the College well through her work and noted the importance of recognizing women in science and in particular the earth science program at Dartmouth.

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examines why they erupt, how to determine how explosive they will be and how to predict when they will erupt.

She said her past work was mainly concerned with the earth’s core.

Plank said she will be traveling to the Aleutian Islands this summer to continue her work studying volcanoes but plans to attend the College’s commencement exercises.

Steele said she was similarly surprised by the honor and will also come to Hanover for the ceremony.

“It’s very surprising and pleasant to have gotten the honorary degree,” Steele said. “I don’t know how it happened, but it’s very lovely.”

Steele studies the history of fashion, which she describes as a “neglected area.”

She said that she began curating exhibits at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1997 and is currently working on one exhibit for next fall involving the “fashion underground” from the 1980s and ’90s to the present day as well as a show for next year looking at the fashion of a French aristocrat.

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COS and OAC spots will likely be filled with special appointments FROM COS PAGE 1

and Eliza Ezrapour ’18, Alex Liao ’16, Oliver Edelson ’18 and Jack Sullivan ’18 were elected as writeins.

Each year, the student members of the OAC and COS are elected every year through the same process as the rest of Student Assembly leadership, run by the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee.

Since there are a shortage of sophomore participants for the upcoming summer, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said there will likely be special appointments this summer, some of whom can continue into the fall if they enjoy their position.

The number of students who are elected or nominated each year depends on the number of graduating seniors. This year, 17 committee members are graduating.

The judicial affairs office, out of which the OAC and COS committees operate, does not play a large role in the election of committee members.

Each committee should have 12 members, for a total of 24 participating students. Because of the D-plan, there are often more than the needed 24 students are actually on the committees to ensure that there are 24 members present each term.

The judicial affairs office aims to have approximately half of their open membership spots elected by the student body each spring.

The other students are nominated by professors or peers in the fall and go through a written application process, Remy said. For the 2014-2015 school year, there are currently 30 students in total serving on both committees.

After being elected, students are then cross-trained for both committees and can participate on both based on future scheduling.

As of last week, the office of judicial affairs was informed that

only four students were officially running for a committee position this year, although the election ultimately produced “hundreds” of write-in candidates, EPAC chair Derek Whang ’17 said. Remy attributed the dearth of official candidates to a lack of knowledge about the positions rather than student apathy.

Zhang, who appeared on the official ballot and was elected to the committees, said that he wouldn’t have known about or run for the position if he were not friends with a current member of one of the committees.

Zhang said that he wanted to run because he is very interested in how the judicial process works.

“I am very interested specifically about how academic honesty cases are processed in COS,” he said.

Zhang said he only started campaigning a few days before because he knew how few students were running this year and did not want people to forget his name.

He does not mind, however, that several students wrote in their names last minute.

“I don’t think they are less qualified because they ran last minute,” he said.

Some of the students may not have heard about the opportunity until a few days before, he added. He believes that a general increase in advertising, both for COS but also for student elections in general, is needed to increase participation.

Ezrapour had a similar experience as Zhang — someone she knew mentioned that they enjoyed being on the committee and that it was an important part of their Dartmouth experience, and she thought that her participation in mock trial would make her more likely to succeed in the position.

Ezrapour won as a write-in despite collecting all of the 50 signatures required to be an official candidate. She said she missed the form date because of

Passover activities. Ezrapour said she had mixed feelings about the lack of extensive advertising for the committee positions.

“If it flies under the radar, it is a position you really have to seek out and is something you’re more interested in,” Ezrapour said. “But at the same time, maybe because it’s not publicized, people who would do a good job are missing out.”

“Some students see it as a service to Dartmouth and fellow students. Others see it as a leadership position and an opportunity to forward the College.”

-Judicial affairs director leigh remy Remy said that last year, the COS and OAC ballot saw a high amount of applicants and unusually high amount of competition.

There were only eight open slots, and 12 candidates ran on the official ballot and 155 writeins were submitted. Many of the

write-ins were later nominated for positions in the fall process.

Remy credits the increased amount of official applicants to the work that EPAC did under former chair Ryan Tibble ’14.

“Last year really spoke to the work EPAC did to promote elections all over,” Remy said, referring their efforts to promote student leadership positions in general.

EPAC also reached out to the judicial affairs office last year, inviting them to information sessions for all Student Assembly candidates.

The judicial affairs office was also able to host an open house to answer questions. Remy thinks that EPAC could be doing more to let students know about positions for which they are eligible to run, she said.

“The Student Assembly envisions students running against each other,” she said. “They should be petitioning the student body for membership.”

She acknowledged, however, that the judicial affairs office could advertise more to students as well.

Whang, who took office on April 13, does not think that the EPAC advertising efforts have changed in the last year.

He noted that EPAC sent emails out to the campus listserv advertising their three open houses, as they have in past years. Regardless,

he said he did not think that more publicity is needed.

“If you’re not checking listserv and you want to run, honestly it’s on you,” he said. “I don’t think it’s necessary to go beyond what we’ve done.”

He said that the EPAC could address the question of increased advertising going forward.

Remy said that often, students who are a good fit for the OAC and COS do not always run for the positions, adding that sometimes the best candidates do not consider running and are nominated by others.

Remy said she considers a good candidate to be fair, a good listener and respectful to the stressful situations that students are in at the time of a hearing.

She also believes it is important that they can separate on-campus issues that they are passionate about from individual student cases.

“Some students see it as a service to Dartmouth and fellow students,” she said. “Others see it as a leadership position and an opportunity to forward the College or uphold its standards.”

Ezrapour said that she ran because she wanted to serve her fellow students.

“It’s a chance to hopefully represent and defend and do right by the students,” she said. “I hope I do a good job.”

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It’s Not About the Cigars

An Effortless Response

Lifting the embargo is not the way to improve the lives of all Cubans.

Regardless of whether you agree with it, the Obama administration has made its mark on Cuba-United States foreign policy. Last December, President Barack Obama addressed the nation and laid out a plan to normalize relations with the island. Obama not only pressured Congress to repeal the longstanding embargo, but also called for an embassy in Havana and a resumption of diplomatic relations with the regime. As justification for the policy shift, the president coolly remarked that he was “not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before [he] was born.”

Nearly four months later, the president seems intent on renewing relations with the Communist state. Most recently, Obama exchanged pleasantries with Raul Castro in Panama and expunged the island from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. The president, however, fails to recognize that resuming relations with Cuba means more than fancy photo-ops and free trade of fine cigars. The impact of simply eliminating the Cuban embargo and normalizing relations will have lasting repercussions, and it is questionable whether this foreign policy reversal will benefit anyone at all.

Today, many Americans associate the word “embargo” with “Cuba” just as easily as they associate “Sunday” with “football.” Yet sentiment has turned against the embargo as of late, and many have expressed their desire for resuming relations with Cuba. According to a Feb. 2014 poll conducted by the Atlantic Council, 56 percent of Americans support a return to business as usual with the island nation. Unfortunately, lifting the embargo would be a severe miscalculation that would benefit neither country.

In short, the lifting of the Cuban embargo is far from mutually beneficial — it is, rather, mutually detrimental. Both countries would suffer losses if the embargo were repealed. For the U.S., these losses are easy to understand. To put it simply, at the moment Cuba is, in many respects, a poor investment. As Jorge Benitez wrote in a Feb. 2014 U.S. News column, investing in Cuba is essentially “pouring billions of dollars down the drain.”

Benitez points out that under the Castro regime

Cuba has defaulted on several of its multi-billion dollar loans since the 1980s. Countries such as Russia and Mexico have lost large sums of money to the regime. To boot, Moody’s Investors Service recently rated Cuba as a Caa2 investment — it is a “substantial risk” and no better than putting money in “junk bonds,” according to Benitez.

Lifting the embargo would likely result in loss, not profitable trade, for the U.S. Perhaps more importantly, lifting the embargo would result in a significant loss of a political bargaining chip for the U.S. — an obvious sign of weakness.

On the other hand, proponents of eliminating the embargo argue that keeping it in place harms the Cuban population and bars their access to basic necessities. This argument, however, is flawed.

Lifting the embargo is not guaranteed to deliver benefits to Cubans. Because of its centralized economy, many Cubans likely would not reap the benefits of free trade. While government officials may be able to line their pockets with new trade prospects, Cubans young and old will continue living in squalor.

Herein lies the crux of the matter — the regime’s oppressive policies will surely persist in the absence of the embargo. Those in support of lifting the embargo fail to realize that Cuba-U.S. relations are a two-way street. It is naïve to assume that the Castro regime will throw up its arms, embrace free trade and immediately address its egregious violations of human rights. Lifting the embargo is not a panacea for the ills that plague the island.

Unfortunately, panderers on both sides of the aisle have fashioned the Cuba issue to fit their political agendas. Last Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-NY, embarked on a highly publicized trade mission to the island. Cuomo, joined by several New York moguls, hoped to set the ball rolling for the New York business interest. The Cuban embargo is not a partisan matter, and such pandering only distracts from the need to find a mutually beneficial solution for both nations. Any decision on Cuba — even if it requires complex political calculus — should further not just business interests but the wellbeing of Cubans, Americans and Cuban-Americans like myself.

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To collectively criticize is easy — it’s constructive reflection that’s difficult.

My initial reaction to yesterday’s column that claim.

“Difficult to Recognize” by Michelle Gil ’16 Students should be better than that — was likely similar to most of the reactions better than making complaints without the from others who had read it — or at least information. Rather than complain that we everyone who’s been vocal about it on Yik don’t have access to all the information, we Yak or shared it on Facebook in the past could make efforts to remedy that by trying 24 hours. I thought to myself, “Huh. I wish to actually meet our supposedly evil adminI had mustered the istrators, by sitting gumption to write in on a town hall “It’s easy to bemoan and that column. I’m meeting or going glad someone fi- whine about realities — and to College President nally expressed their exaggerated realities at that — Phil Hanlon’s office views in such a blunt that are admittedly not ideal hours. Essentially, manner on such a and to demonize those we think we should underwidely-read forum.” are responsible.” stand to the best of My remorse, howour abilities how this ever, was incredibly school works before short-lived. At a second glance what I read we make judgments on why it’s broken. horrified me, and I took it upon myself to Anyone can pen a column that is a refute it. As a senior who still bleeds green, summation of all the bad things that have despite everything that’s happened and happened at the College in recent years. despite all of the evidence Gil cites — the And it will, proverbially, “sell.” It’s a popuaccurate, the inaccurate and the miscon- lar notion, universally attractive even, to strued — about the College’s backward promote negativity. The far more difficult evolution, I expect nothing less from myself. challenge is to look beyond such negativity There are portions of Gil’s column that at face value and to reflect on its validity. ring true. The enthusiasm of students is We should think about whether or not waning, and many people, like Gil and things such as the loss of pledge terms or even myself in the past, have been quick to the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy voice their dislike for current policies. The initiatives are truly bad, and if so, underpoint I’m trying to make here, however, is stand why they happened and exactly where that it’s easy to make such complaints. It’s such actions and policies came from. After easy to bemoan and whine about realities we have given it some thought, we should — and exaggerated realities at that — that have the courage to put our own behavior are admittedly not ideal and to demonize on the stand and say, maybe, just maybe, those we think are responsible. Gil’s column we too are to blame for the state of things. does just that — it waxes poetically on the The seeming lack of trust administrators state of things that we all already know. have in us might be because we’ve done Her argument is built on assertions that some things that warrant such a retraction amount to nothing more than a vaguely of good faith. Without that critical realizaput, succinct list of what people don’t like. tion — without at least the consideration of Some details simply weren’t true. accepting some responsibility for ourselves As an active participant and senior tour — we will never grow past this moment as guide through the admissions office and a school. head of the after-dark tours program for We are taught to think critically and to Dimensions, I can assure you all that the stand up for what we believe in here — what Dimensions at Dartmouth program we all we know to be true and what we know to loved is still very be right. I know much here — the that speaking out show, quite liter- “After we have given it some against Gil’s column ally, goes on. The thought, we should have the is tantamount to only major change courage to put our own behavior paddling upstream from the Dimen- on the stand and say, maybe, with no boat and sions Show that my just maybe, we too are to blame no oars — but I’ll class year attended do it anyway. I will for the state of things.” is that admissions no stake my reputation longer encourages — as a writer, as a and condones fake “prospies.” That’s it. member of the Class of 2015, as a friend Yes, Dartmouth Dining Services is still and peer — on the assertion that the Coloverpriced and underperforming. Yes, the lege is still the best college out there. Yes, hard alcohol ban makes it more difficult to it may look different from the school to learn to drink responsibly. Yet at the same which I, too, matriculated four years ago, time, Gil points to less concrete elements but its core values, its intellectual worth, its without evidence — like the “potentially moral compass have not changed. As Daniel great strides that could have been made Webster stated, “It is, Sir, as I have said, a regarding sexual assault and high-risk small college. And yet there are those who drinking,” despite not explicitly stating love it.” Even if I’m only one of a handful what those possibilities could be. Gil ac- of students left who think this way, I will cuses administrators of “dumping all fault remain one of those who love it, and I will at the feet of the Greek system,” yet the respect the people who ensure that its spirit very fact that the system lives on disproves endures.

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Hanover experiences frequent turnover for local businesses FROM TOWN PAGE 1

a business, she said.

With the College’s decision to end the fall term before Thanksgiving, which took effect in the 2012-2013 academic year, it has been more difficult for businesses to bear the financial burdens of the seasonal influx and exodus of college students.

While several businesses, including 3 Guys, Eastman’s Pharmacy, College Supplies, Amadon, Rosey Jekes and Metro Cafe, have all closed their doors recently, Griffin said this is no reason for concern.

It is difficult, she said, for a small pharmacy like Eastman’s to compete with a large national corporation like CVS. Not all closures were a matter of competition, she said, College Supplies closed because the owner decided to retire, and Amidon consolidated its Hanover location into its other stores.

Though the door of the 3 Guys location remains covered with plywood and a “closed” sign hangs on the Metro Cafe door, Griffin said both locations have secured new tenants, adding that a Thai restaurant will replace 3 Guys in its old location.

Indigo, a women’s clothing store that was located in the Nugget Square for two and a half years, bought and moved into Eastman’s Pharmacy’s former location.

Indigo owner Mia Vogt said she made the move because of the new location’s larger size, and she said she hopes the store will be able to attract more students and Hanover visitors with its closer proximity to campus. Vogt said it took some students a few years to discover Indigo at its previous location.

Griffin also stressed the importance for businesses to be close to campus. Melissa Locher Hass, owner of Lemon Tree Gifts, said that in her 10 days at the new location, she has already seen a significantly higher amount of student traffic in her store.

“I know a lot of students never make it around the corner,” she said, referring to Lemon Tree’s previous location.

The J List, a clothing store which has operated in Norwich for the past 12 years, will open in Indigo’s former location on May 1.

Currently, sheets of brown paper, taped to the windows, block passersby from seeing the store’s interior, but owner Jillian Butler and her staff are busy inside.

Yesterday they were in the midst of assembling shelves, talking to advertisers and arranging the stock in the storefront.

Butler said she is trying to use organic materials, and the shelves and displays incorporate locally collected birch wood and burlap.

The store will feature American-made and goods produced in a way that promotes sustainability.

It will also feature clothing made by Yala Designs, whose vice president is Chelsea Morgan Epstein ’04.

Butler does not view the current number of boutique stores in Hanover as a cause for concern, but rather as a positive force for business in town.

“I’m a believer in ‘high water raises all boats,’” she said. “What’s nice is there are a lot of boutiques now, and there are a lot of independent businesses on Main Street, which is what I think main streets should be.”

Vogt shared similar sentiments about the addition of The J List to Hanover. She said she believes local businesses are “complementary, not competitive.”

Of eight students interviewed

by The Dartmouth, seven said they did not shop for non-food items regularly in town, but all eight students said they eat sometimes or often in town.

Four students said they did not shop in town because of financial concerns — either due to limited spending budgets or because they thought the stores in town were overpriced.

The small selection of stores also determines whether students shop in town. Two male students, for example, said they don’t go to shops in town because they believe the shops target a female customer base.

“It seems like most of the commercial activity is tailored toward women,” James Esse ’16 said. “I think guys in general are more concerned with different food options.”

Three students expressed excitement at the opening of a Thai restaurant in place of 3 Guys, saying that it might offer a better option for Thai food in town.

Caroline Estill ’16, who has shopped at Indigo in the past, said she likes that Indigo’s new location is closer to campus.

She said she thinks The J List could be a good addition to Hanover and said she hopes it will stay in business.

“While it may seem like we’re seeing a lot of turnaround right now, we’re not,” Griffin said.

“This is not particularly unusual for Hanover.”

She said that Hanover can be a challenging town for businesses, so it’s typical for turnover to occur “relatively quickly because a business either survives or it doesn’t.”

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“The Evolution of Conflict in the Lower Courts,” lecture with Deborah Beim of Yale University, Silsby 215

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“Member Exclusive,” tour and lunch with artist Victor Ekpuk, Hood Museum of Art

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“Blackness and Poetry,” annual William Cook lecture with poet Fred Moten, Sanborn House, Wren Room

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“Farm Fresh Friday,” local food vendors and music event, Webster Avenue

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Hood Museum shows original artwork by Victor Ekpuk

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Closing Friday, Nigerian-born artist Victor Ekpuk will spend four days creating an original work on the wall of the Hood Museum’s Lathrop Gallery as part of his exhibition “AutoGraphics.”

The exhibition, which opened at the Hood on Saturday, showcases Ekpuk’s bold, intricate forms and signature painting-like script. The exhibition, originally curated by Allyson Purpura at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, contains 18 works and will remain at the Hood until Aug. 2nd.

Ekpuk said that “Auto-Graphics” is primarily a drawing exhibition, as he wanted to explore the form as its own medium. Creating graphic-based works, he primarily uses pastels and graphite on canvas, though he said he has incorporated collage and digital prints into the show.

Ekpuk is perhaps best known for his use of “nsibidi,” a type of symbolbased writing traditionally associated with the secret male Ekpe society from southeastern Nigeria, Hood Curator of African Art Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi said.

Ekpuk said that nsibidi relies heavily on symbols and body movements to communicate, and that he was inspired to make contemporary art out of an old system.

“My work is mainly about mining an old form of art and an old African idea of aesthetics and making contemporary statements from that,” Ekpuk said.

Ekpuk said that his fascination with nsibidi began during his art studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife, Nigeria , where he explored the intricacies of pattern and design in indigenous African art forms. He said that he was particularly interested in nsibidi’s use of line and encoded meanings and how drawing and writing could be interconnected.

Ekpuk said that his studies of nsibidi have allowed him to develop his own fluid letterforms over time, using nsibidi as a “backdrop.” He said that he “doesn’t put emphasis on the meaning of the symbols” and has instead chosen to explore their aesthetic value. He said that he enjoys creating abstraction and reducing complex ideas and forms to basic symbols, and his art is saturated with distinctive dots, figures, scratches, scrawls and signs.

Hood curatorial intern Elissa Watters ’15, who worked alongside Nwezi to facilitate Ekpuk’s exhibition at the Hood, said that Ekpuk’s work revolves around recontextualizing. “[Ekpuk] works with symbols, reinventing them and taking them out of the context of their meanings — sometimes he doesn’t even know what their meanings are,” she said.

Nzewi said that he has known about Ekpuk since 2009 and has been at-

tracted to the “richness” of his practice ever since. Nzewi helped curate last year’s “Dak’Art” — the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Senegal — and said that Ekpuk was one of the major artists featured there.

“One of the things we try to do at the Hood is show diversity of cultures — diversity of artistic practice — and so I felt it was important to bring [Ekpuk’s] work to Dartmouth because I think it’s good for our students and the studio program to be exposed to that,” Nzewi said.

Ekpuk described his drawing in the Lathrop Gallery as “a drawing performance.” The importance of memory and the desire to express cultural memory through art is another major sub-theme in his work, Ekpuk said. He explained that this live, temporary drawing on the museum wall will encompass this concept.

“Memory is something that informs our identity, and it is ephemeral in itself,” Ekpuk said. “When the exhibition is over the wall will be wiped off — a result of circumstance.”

Watters said that she enjoyed this interactive part of the exhibition, as seeing Ekpuk in action allowed her

to participate more in his process of creation. She finds that artists usually become so “tied up” with their vision that the two become synonymous. Watters appreciated how Ekpuk’s physical presence allowed her to distinguish between the artist and his art. “[Ekpuk’s] interactive art shows the way he thinks,” she said. “It is very spontaneous and reactive. It was interesting to see [Ekpuk] and how the art relates to him as a person — it is so personal.”

Vice chair of the English department Michael Chaney, who will be giving a talk in May linking Ekpuk’s work to 19th-century slave artisan Dave the Potter, said he will be comparing nsibidi to the secret form of communication used by African slaves, as both depended on coding. Dave the Potter would often write illegibly and incoherently on the outside of the clay objects he made, which Chaney said directly connects to the principles of nsibidi .

“Students will gain the ability to see what was formerly ‘invisible,’” Chaney said. “Learning about a visual tradition equips you with a way of seeing the world that you wouldn’t have

otherwise.”

Ekpuk said that he would ultimately rather viewers consider his work more as “contemporary art” than “African art.” “[Pablo] Picasso was inspired by African art, but that doesn’t make his work ‘African,’” Ekpuk said. “I want viewers to think more about how different cultures affect visual expressions.”

Nzewi said he appreciates how Ekpuk draws from disparate influences and takes inspiration from many unique sources, including textiles, writing and traditional African art forms. “[Ekpuk’s] work speaks to contemporary art but also to anthropology,” Nzewi said. “His exhibition will resonate with the various constituents the museum serves.”

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Victor Ekpuk works on his original piece on the walls of the Larthrop Gallery.

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Men’s lacrosse doubles up UMass Lowell under the lights B y EMILY WECHSLER The Dartmouth Staff

In its first and only game of the year under the lights, men’s lacrosse took on another rookie program Tuesday night, routing the University of Massachusetts at Lowell 18-9. In a predictable win over the fresh-faced River Hawks — who just ended their first Division I season at 1-12 overall — the Big Green earned its most decisive victory of the season, putting itself over its previous season high of 16 goals in a game. The game also marked the first time the team came away with a victory of more than two goals.

In a conscious effort to get more marks on the board, Dartmouth put up 41 shots, raising its shots per game average on the season to 30.8.

“Our mentality for our last two games has been to let it rip,” head coach Brendan Callahan said. “We want to generate 40 shots and shoot the ball every opportunity that we get. To score enough goals to win, we have to shoot more, so we took the lid off of it and said ‘Hey, let’s get on the attack here.’”

The Big Green began the match with a slow start, winning the first faceoff but giving up the first goal to UMass sophomore Martin Winter. UMass controlled possession for most of the first quarter, forcing Big Green turnovers with tight defensive pressure. The River Hawk’s

goalkeeper, sophomore Alex Desmarais, came up with strong saves on low shots, thwarting several Dartmouth chances early on and finishing the game with eight saves and 11 goals allowed. The first quarter – and the entire game – showed a large amount of sloppy play and was filled with turnovers, with 30 on the night for the Big Green and 28 for UMass.

“In the first quarter, we were shooting a lot low, and their goalie was great today low,” captain Phil Hession ’15 said. “We certainly played sloppy the whole day, and that’s why they did get a bunch of chances and that’s why it was tight in the first quarter, but eventually I thought [our chances were] just too much.”

It wasn’t until the last 10 seconds of the first that Cam Lee ’16 put the Big Green on the board, tying the score at 1-1 to end the quarter.

Once the whistle blew for the second quarter, the Big Green got hot. Thirteen seconds into the second, Adam Fishman ’15 was on the board, and a minute later Lee had a second marker. UMass got on the board next, but the last six minutes of the first half saw five more goals from Dartmouth, ending the half with an 8-2 lead.

“That realization [of needing to shoot more] has been the biggest step forward we’ve taken all year,” Hession

said. “And it’s way more fun. It’s a lot more fun playing games like that where you’re going up and down the whole time.”

By halftime, it looked like the Big Green might have put the game out of reach, but more goals were on tap in the third. After opening the quarter with a goal once again — this time a ninth-second pitch from Wiley Osborne ’17 — Dartmouth fell into a back-andforth game with the River Hawks.

UMass Lowell pulled some unusual maneuvers in the second half, including removing its goalie from the net and sending a defender with a goalie stick to replace him.

“That was the first time I’ve ever seen that as a coach in a Division I game, so it certainly took a little bit of getting used to,” Callahan said.

This unconventional strategy allowed the River Hawks to bring out an extra defender for more double teaming and defensive pressure on the ball. The River Hawks were rewarded for their risky, high-pressure strategy, winning the third quarter 5-3 and bringing the game back to a four-goal deficit at an 11-7 Big Green lead.

“Horrible third quarter,” Hession said. “We’ve struggled in third quarters all year. It was just too many mistakes again.”

As the night grew darker and the

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Men’s lacrosse has a chance to knock Brown University out of Ivy contention.

temperature dropped, the score continued to climb. Dartmouth got back on track in the fourth and exploded for seven goals in the final quarter. A standout performance in the X from Hession helped the Big Green maintain control of the game and get the looks it needed to put up 18 goals on the night.

Led by Hession, the Big Green won 27 out of 31 faceoffs in the game.

Hession attributed his success in the X partially to his successful adaptation to UMass Lowell’s unique three pole formation on the face-off.

“Most teams, like us, only play with one pole,” Hession said. “They were really just trying to make it a fight, and when they do that, I’ve gotten good

enough that I can just get it out real quick and go pick it up.”

The men have just one game remaining in the season — a home contest against Brown University on Saturday at 1 p.m. The result will decide Brown’s qualification for the Ivy League tournament, for which Dartmouth is already out of the running.

“To knock Brown out of Ivy tournament contention would be awesome to send the seniors out the right way,” Lee said.

The lacrosse team has not reached six overall wins and two conferences wins since the 2007-08 season. It has a chance to do so for the first time in eight years this Saturday.

Football spring practices lay the groundwork for next fall B y jasper bingham The Dartmouth Staff

Each spring, the men’s football team conducts 12 spring practices to prepare for the coming fall season. Both players and coaches see spring work as a prime opportunity for young and under-used players to show their skills, as well as a chance for experienced veterans and core units to add to their repertoire and improve cohesion.

The football team enjoyed one of its best seasons in recent memory, finishing the fall with an 8-2 overall record and 6-1 against Ivy League competition.

The 6-1 conference record left the Big Green second among the Ancient Eight, one game behind Harvard University, which claimed the Ivy League title by winning all seven of its conference games, including a 23-12 victory over Dartmouth in the Big Green’s only conference loss of the season.

“Both of the games we lost were ours to lose,” Pat Hand ’15 said. “Physically, we’re on the same level as Harvard.

Our players are just as good, a lot of our players are better. I fully expect us to beat Harvard next year.”

This year, the team has an unusual amount of top players returning next fall and looks to use that to its advantage in pursuit of the Ivy League crown.

“There’s certainly a buzz on campus about this upcoming season,” Rob Lauzen ’15 said. “With the potent [quarterback-wide receiver] combo of [Dalyn Williams ’16] and [Ryan McManus ’15] returning for their final season, an experienced defense and [head coach Buddy Teevens ’79] again at the helm, the team has high expectations.”

The structure of spring training is the same every year, as dictated by the Ivy League. The conference allows all teams 12 practices with pads. Dartmouth adds three sessions without pads before launching into the main body of work. The team uses 11 of the 12 allotted workouts to run through traditional drills, and turns the 12th into the Green-White scrimmage — this year

on May 2 — where incoming players and their parents are invited to watch from the stands, Teevens said.

Teevens said that spring training can “teach guys that might not have played a lot in the fall their positions [and] their responsibilities, [and] emphasize fundamentals and basics,” as well as get “different people who have not worked together working a bit more closely.”

He also said that the current practice cycle serves to work younger players into the fold who will fill in the roles of departing student-athletes. “[We] graduate a number of people — we’ll graduate 29 guys this spring — and [we] have guys step up in their place and work with the people that are surrounding them,” Teevens said.

Defensive end Cody Fulleton ’16 added that spring training can give less prominent players a chance to land on the coaches’ radar.

“When it comes time for camp and stuff, like in the fall, the depth chart’s pretty much set, and I think it’s harder for those young guys to get those reps,”

he said. “In spring, we’ve lost all the seniors, so there’s reps for everybody to have. So it’s huge for the young guys from a developmental standpoint.”

The team is graduating relatively few of its star players this year, with 12 of 16 members of the team who received All-Ivy selections last season returning this coming fall. Fulleton believes the fact that so many high-quality athletes can stay is an exciting prospect for the Big Green going forward.

“It’s huge. It’s providing tons of leadership for the guys,” he said. “[We’ve] got a lot of seasoned people on the team and a lot of knowledge and things that the younger guys can feed off of.”

While the concept of a no-pad practice might seem strange in football, Teevens said that it isn’t a huge change from his typical in-season practices, where athletes are not allowed to make full tackles in order to avoid long-term injury.

He said that the same techniques are widespread in the NFL as a result of pressure from the players’ union, but

that his type of system is very rare in the college game.

The concern for the physical wellbeing of the players is important for their performance on the field, but Teevens said he also considers what players will be doing once their collegiate football careers wind down.

“And the other thing is you wear yourself down,” he said. “I get guys who are going to be doctors and lawyers and engineers and investment bankers and so forth, and I want to keep them healthy.”

The scrimmage at the end of spring training will also not have full tackles, but Teevens still believes it can be an opportunity for breakout performances.

“You’d like to think that you’re developing guys through practice — culmination, it’s a game environment, let’s see what [they] can do under pressure,” Teevens said. “What you like to see is just steady improvement in each of the 12 opportunities.”

The Green-White scrimmage will be held on May 2 at 10 a.m.