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from the safety organizations will be outside of Robinson Hall and will be giving away 500 reflective bracelets for bikers to wear while riding at night, Young said. Young said that due to Green Key events at the Collis Center next door, he hopes to draw students from the large crowd that will already be there.

Later in the day, the organization will hold a “very

Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce released a study last week that shows that students who major in health, STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and business fields end up with higher average annual wages at the entry level and over the course of a person’s career. The lowest-paying majors were in the arts, liberal arts and humanities. The study used United States Census data to examine the wages for 137 college majors to identify the most economically beneficial undergraduate areas of study.

The report indicated that major is a main determining factor for income level. The study revealed that 80 percent of college students study a major linked to careers, while 20 percent major in the humanities and liberal arts. Senior analyst for the Center on Education and the Workforce Andrew Hanson, who co-led the study, wrote that the study aimed to investigate the variation of future earnings between majors. One of the purposes of the study, he emphasized, was to assist students and advisors in their academic decisionmaking and navigating their school curricula.

According to the report, the top-paying college majors earn $3.4 million more than the lowest-paying majors over a lifetime.

“People have to internally decide what their currency for success is,” theater professor Dan Kotlowitz said in response to the study. Their currency could either be earning large sums of money or enjoying the other satisfactions of life, he said. As an artist, he

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Hanover addresses bike safety

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Fo l l o w i n g i n c r e a s e d complaints from Hanover residents about Dartmouth cyclists and dangerous riding practices, the Hanover Bike and Pedestrian Committee has recently teamed up with Hanover Police, Dartmouth Safety and Security and the Dartmouth Wellness Committee to put on a series of events to raise awareness

about bike safety, committee chairman Bill Young said.

The committee plans to launch a campaign to make individuals riding bikes at night more visible to drivers and pedestrians around campus, Young said. The campaign aims to educate students about the importance of bike safety while encouraging those who are already exhibiting safe behaviors, he said. On May 16, a tent with representatives

Black Lives Matter lecture raises questions of humanity B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Harvard histor y professor Walter Johnson gave a lecture yesterday about American slavery and what Johnson believed were common misconceptions about the labeling of slaves and slave owners in the pre-Civil War American South. The talk, titled “What Is Wrong With Saying Slavery ‘Dehumanized’ Black People” saw nearly 50 attendees.

Johnson began the event by reading parts of his book, “River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom,” which, according to its description, examines and critiques the “logic” of American slavery in a variety of venues, such as cotton plantations, steamboats and in pro-slavery adventures.

He then discussed the legacy of slavery and dehumanization within the context of the recent national

“Black Lives Matter” movement.

Johnson presented two visual images to the audience. The first was a black wall, which was covered in white writing with phrases such as “Black queers’ lives matter,” “Black immigrants’ lives matter,” “Black transvestites’ lives matter” and a variety of other phrases regarding different groups of black people.

Each of the phrases had the word “black” crossed out with red and the word “All” written over it.

He then displayed the website for The GEO group, the selfdescribed “world’s leading provider of correctional detention, and community reentry services, ” in order to share his thoughts on racial issues within the prison system.

When he turned to the page describing the group’s diversity, the entire room burst into laughter at an apparent irony.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: A Brown Daily Herald poll in March asked the question “Do you feel inadequate relative to other Brown students?” The poll found that non-heterosexual students feel more inadequate compared to heterosexual students in categories such as academic abilities, social lives, sex/love lives, appearances and socioeconomic statuses. Hispanic and black students also reported greater feelings of inadequacy, whereas athletes and international students did not.

Cornell University: Authorities, with the help of a New York State Police SCUBA Dive Team and a police helicopter, found the body of a man who fell into the Ithaca Falls on Tuesday near the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. According to the Cornell Daily Sun, the police do not suspect foul play. They will not release the name of the victim until his identity has been confirmed through fingerprint identification.

Columbia University: Columbia student Criss Moon ’18 was arrested at a protest against police brutality in Union Square last month, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The officers secured tight zip ties on her wrists and escorted her into a van.

Moon was then put in a jail cell with other female protestors from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., when she was released.

Harvard University: The Harvard Crimson reported that an assault occurred in Harvard Square around 11 p.m. last Saturday night. Several homeless men assaulted another homeless man and fled the scene before the police arrived. The victim experienced bleeding and bruising to the head. Officers at the scene were unable to locate potential subjects.

Princeton University: The Class of 2019 has given Princeton its highest yield in history at 69.4 percent, the Daily Princetonian reported. Of the 1,909 students admitted to the University, 1,324 students have committed, marking a 0.2 percent increase over last year. The goal enrollment number remains 1,310, since the University expects 20-30 students to decline over the summer.

University of Pennsylvania: A man was found guilty yesterday of the murder of a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician and a student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The man was found unanimously guilty of first-degree murder, arson and related offenses.

Yale University: The Yale Daily News reported that Yale has received a $150 million donation from Stephen Schwarzman ’69, the founder of Blackstone. The University plans to renovate Commons into a “world-class campus center” for student life. A fall 2014 report recognized “the absence of any central place” on Yale’s campus, which the soon-to-be-renamed Schwarzman Center will aim to create.

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The May 13 story “Hull, Smith and Will named associate deans” misquoted professor Barbara Will as saying, “There’s all of these things you learn through the study of arts and humanities that are intangible but has incredibly important effects on society. We are at a moment now, as an institution, where it’s important to articulate what is valuable in each of these divisions of the administrations.”

Will said, “There’s all of these things that you learn through the study of the arts and humanities that are intangible but have incredibly important effects on society. We are at a moment now, as an institution, where it’s important to articulate what is valuable in each of these divisions of the administration.”

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said that he believes that although economic value is important, students should not prioritize it over other values.

Kotlowitz said that he thought the study was limited to only the economic element of life and did not consider other benefits of a liberal arts education.

Kotlowitz said that studying theater has benefited him because it explores the human condition and teaches critical thinking and creativity. He said that the best professionals are the ones who possess a liberal arts background because they tend to be more creative and collaborative.

Kotlowitz added that college is an once-in-a-lifetime experience that students should use to broaden their impact and world scope.

Throughout the study, STEM fields are featured as the most economically beneficial majors.

Hanson wrote that STEM majors are valuable because of the country’s intensive labor market and information-based economy, so employers appreciate the analytical and technical skills that STEM majors have, he said.

Computer science department

chair Thomas Cormen echoed this sentiment, saying that today’s technology boom and information economy plays a role in the economic value of STEM majors.

Although Cor men believes economic values are an important consideration, he said that a broad education, regardless of major, is

“This is one of the nice things about Dartmouth. No matter what you major in you have the capabilities of getting a broad education.”

- THOMAS CORMEN, COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT CHAIR essential.

“This is one of the nice things about Dartmouth,” he said. “No matter what you major in you have the capabilities of getting a broad education.”

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He added that non-STEM majors also need to master quantitative and technical skills as they are essential in different ways of thinking analogically, technically and critically.

Nicole Boyd ’15, an economics major, said that STEM and business majors have high payouts because they teach skills important in product-oriented fields in the private sector.

“You can’t measure value based solely on pay,” she said. “Monetary and humanistic value are not mutually exclusive.”

She also stressed that the social sciences and liberal arts have their intrinsic social and personal values despite their leading to lower pay.

While Georgetown’s study can be seen as discouraging for liberal arts, social sciences and humanities majors, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce and a co-leader of the study Anthony Carnevale reminded the readers of the study that “a college major isn’t destiny,” citing the fact that top 25 percent of humanities and liberal arts majors earn more than the bottom 25 percent of engineering majors.

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with “for-profit” policing, an issue he said was present in Ferguson, Missouri, as seen with the tens of thousands of citations for municipal violations and subsequent violations that he said were issued to raise over two million dollars for further government expenditures.

Johnson also noted that a majority of those government employees were white and in the police department.

Johnson said that “Black Lives Matter” movement was dangerous in that it raised a question that he said really should not be a question, in the sense that people should not have to question whether black lives matter in the first place.

The discussion ended with an open question-and-answer period, which lasted approximately 45 minutes.

Audience questions ranged from asking about genocide in relation to dehumanization to questions about different interpretations of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

When discussing the idea of dehumanization, Johnson brought up questions such as “who gets to decide when someone loses their humanity.”

Jessica Winters ’18 said that she originally attended the event due to a requirement for her course, “Race and Slavery in U.S. History,” in addition to personal interest in the subject matter.

Winters said that Johnson’s relating of the concept of dehumanization to the “Black Lives Matter” movement was the part that she liked the most.

Women and gender studies professor Giavanna Munafo wrote

in an emailed statement that the discussion was planned independently of the “Black Lives Matter” course that is being offered for the first time this term.

She wrote that she enjoyed seeing students engaged in discourse and action in regards to the subject matter, as she said it is a sign of consciousness and engagement among the student body.

“I’m always heartened to see students organize to protest injustice,” she wrote.

Munafo also noted that these kinds of discussions or protests in general are valuable as they serve to inform the public. “[The lecture] demonstrates awareness and resistance to the costs of maintaining the status quo, especially for people of color but also for every member of every community where some lives matter more than others,” she wrote.

This lecture and discussion follows a series of on campus protests revolving around the “Black Lives Matter” movement, including a march across campus and protests at two on campus parties.

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Staff Columnist MICHAEL M c DAVID ’15

STAFF COLUMNIST JON MILLER ’15

Cherry-Picking the Problem

A Tribute to Fribble

The refusal to hear offensive or clashing viewpoints is not limited to the left.

The College’s mission statement reads in part, “Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership,” and its core values include “support[ing] the vigorous and open debate of ideas.” If the College and its students are to embrace a liberal arts education — a broad education that provides students with knowledge of a wide range of topics, an education that will equip young people with the skills to be engaged, responsible citizens of the world — then we ought to do a better job of creating spaces to consider opposing opinions and viewpoints.

In recent years a debate has cropped up around college students’ apparent predilection for avoiding “offensive ideas.” In publications such as the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, opinion columnists have bemoaned the infantilizing tendency of universities to shut down transgressive or offensive speech and writing. Often such commentators refer to the issue through the lens of political correctness. They see this tendency as an extension of political correctness, as a bastardization of the perfectly legitimate idea that we should consider how our words and actions affect those around us. There is some merit to being sensitive, especially at Dartmouth.

A liberal arts education is meant to prepare us to be citizens of the world, but it is not exactly easy to say what that means. I think that it must and does mean something more than preparing us for a job or a career. We could go to trade school or, perhaps more realistically, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, but at Dartmouth, engineers and other students with highly specific tracks are required to fulfill distributive requirements. We want to educate the whole person.

Enough ink has been spilled in defense of the liberal arts education, but I will quickly add that a broad education is undeniably important.

Especially if the College aims to continue creating world leaders — leaders of not only banks and businesses but also of states and people, leaders in thought and theory — then it must

continue educating the entire person. The world is complex, and when leaders make decisions they do not do so in a vacuum. Understanding the myriad concerns and pressures on the lives of constituents, shareholders or employees is not a trifling matter. Understanding that cultural forces act on people’s lives in real and tangible ways is not a luxury. We need people who see the world in all its complexity.

Any tendency to censor offensive or problematic ideas and speech, then, is antithetical to the ideal of the liberal arts education. We must embrace the marketplace of ideas — the concept that, in a society that protects free speech, the best and most valuable ideas will rise to the top, while the worst and least valuable will be discarded. We have to trust that, given the freedom to choose, students will identify those ideas that have value.

But on the national stage, this conversation has been too focused on one side of the political spectrum. Critics have tended to accuse universities of creating a safe haven for liberal ideas at the expense of those who disagree. There is certainly some validity to this argument, but I do not want to discuss institutional politics at this moment. Of greater importance is how we, the students, conceive of our place in this issue.

I think we have a tendency to limit our ability or will to consider opposing viewpoints, especially those that offend or confront us, regardless of political and cultural considerations. I am not suggesting that we all have to agree, but we do all have to be willing to listen. If people shout their opinions at you in an aggressive or hostile manner, then you can disagree and be offended.

You should not, however, ignore them.

Mutual respect is, of course, important to creating and sustaining meaningful dialogue, and there is no doubt that we can all be better in that regard. But we must also try to listen and consider the perspectives of others, not because we are all Dartmouth students, but because we are all people. We have to be more honest with ourselves about how seriously and meaningfully we are considering the viewpoints of those with whom we differ. We have to do a better job.

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Websites like The Dartmouth’s should not block objectionable comments.

There has recently been a plethora of columns regarding respectful discussion, yet all have an underlying theme — a complete disregard of true openness for multiple views. A friend of mine, fellow senior and columnist Aylin Woodward ’15, wrote a column last week about the commenter “fribble.” She wrote that readers of The Dartmouth’s comments section might encounter “the bombastic, belligerent and often incoherent commentary penned under the moniker ‘fribble.’” Fribble, far from “bombastic, belligerent and often incoherent,” usually expresses opinions in the defense of personal liberty, transparency, accountability and the pursuit of truth.

Those of you who read columns on The Dartmouth’s website might not know that members of The Dartmouth senior staff take the authoritarian step of screening and censoring comments on all articles. The moral justification for this censorship appears to be that “offensive” comments on The Dartmouth’s website cannot possibly be tolerated.

The Dartmouth’s website states that comments that are “off-topic” or contain “vulgarity, inappropriate language or ad hominem attacks” will not be allowed, but what exactly qualifies as unacceptable under this policy is at the sole discretion of those in upper management at The Dartmouth.

If The Dartmouth wanted real discussion, they would give individuals viewing the site the ability to up and down vote comments, with a certain number of down votes resulting in comment removal. Many large websites, such as YouTube, use this method and are successfully regulated by their online communities. By unilaterally deciding which comments are appropriate, The Dartmouth risks prioritizing political correctness and personal agendas over free expression.

In her May 7 column “On Honoring Culture,” Jessica Lu ’18 wrote about cultural appropriation in regard to the Chicago Blackhawks logo. The argument that borrowing elements of another group’s culture — in a way that clearly does not intend to mock — is offensive simply because those using the symbol are not part of the original culture is ridiculous. This is a good example of how political correctness can go over the top and stifle conversation. Should I be offended that Western-style clothing, originally from Western Europe, is worn in eastern Asia? To use antiquated historical social dynamics as the qualifier for why

one form of “appropriation” is more acceptable than another is hypocritical. Soon we will live in a world where philanthropic fundraisers that respectfully celebrate a culture can be shut down by a single student’s complaint to the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. Oh, wait — we reached that point with last year’s “Phiesta” incident. Perhaps the World View station in the Class of 1953 Commons should be shut down as well because some may find the appropriation of burritos offensive.

In its May 8 Verbum Ultimum, “Reacting with Respect,” The Dartmouth editorial board wrote that although some students may find slogans used in the Pigstick-Derby protests offensive, “this does not warrant ad hominem attacks” or “a dismissal of the demonstrators.” Interesting that the editorial does not deny that the slogans of some protesters, such as “F--k your white tears,” are offensive, yet this same group censors user comments so relentlessly in the name of political correctness. Interesting that we do not hear about the racial slur that many have alleged Student Assembly president-elect Frank Cunningham ’16 was called and instead get a euphemistic comment, which hides just how heinous the insult is. All the editorial states is that they “must acknowledge” that Cunningham referenced “his being called a ‘derogatory name’” in a campuswide email. “Must” is an appropriate verb, since it is telling of what I perceive to be their resistance to present a full story of the incident.

In her May 11 column, “Language and Power,” Nicole Simineri ’17 defended political correctness, arguing that political correctness entails openness to critiques of and corrections to language “to reflect the needs of those around you.” On the contrary, political correctness is about not being open to ideas you find offensive.

I am often offended by the anti-libertarian ideas presented in The Dartmouth’s opinion pages, but I do not want to “correct the language” of my peers with censorship — I prefer to leave that sort of thing to individuals like Kim Jong-un. I try to engage with peers who have different ideas, not stifle and censor them. I hope this can be a two-way road — that The Dartmouth will end its policy of allowing its editor-in-chief and executive editors to censor online comments and demonstrate a commitment to unbiased journalistic integrity.

A Letter from the Editor

In today’s opinion column, “A Tribute to Fribble,” staff columnist Jon Miller ’15 discusses The Dartmouth’s online commenting system and our comments policies.

In 2013, The Dartmouth launched its new website, which included the integration of Disqus, our current online commenting platform. This system allows users to vote comments up or down and to respond directly to one another.

Our policies are publicly available on our website and can be found at: http://thedartmouth.com/policies/. We do not edit any comments, and we only remove comments that are off-topic or contain vulgarity, inappropriate language or ad hominem attacks.

Many of our peer newspapers use Disqus,

as do some national media outlets. Online comments, however, are a subject of controversy in the journalist community, as there is no one platform that has become standard in the industry — and some outlets have removed comments altogether. We remain committed to fostering constructive dialogue and encourage our readers to further the discussion on our coverage.

We also welcome dialogue on our policies and encourage our readers to comment online through Disqus, write letters to the editor or even submit full-length opinion columns.

As always, I welcome any responses, criticism or concerns and can be reached at editor@ thedartmouth.com or my personal blitz.

— Katie McKay ’16 Editor-in-Chief

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Town of Hanover hopes to raise awareness of safe biking practices FROM BIKE PAGE 1

visible” run around campus and a nighttime bike ride to exemplify safe nighttime bike riding, Young said.

Such awareness events will be repeated many times in the future, Young added, especially during big weekends and occassions such as first-year orientation in the fall.

The group hopes to use outlets such as the Stall Street Journal and the Vox Daily email, as well as collaborate with student groups to further spread their message, Young said.

The committee is also working to add signs on Main Street and other high-traffic areas discouraging cyclists from riding on the sidewalk, which is illegal for those over age 12, Young said. The signs will go up over the weekend, he said.

The Hanover Police Department will also be more rigorous in reminding cyclists about what is and is not allowed, Young said, describing their planned actions as “gentle enforcement.”

Young said he had received a number of complaints from Hanover residents about Dartmouth students riding on the sidewalks.

There are numerous accidents per

year with pedestrians and cyclists, with mishaps occurring most commonly on West Wheelock Street and Crosby Street, Young said.

“I can’t tell you how many staff and faculty on campus and people in town have called and thanked me for doing this because they just saw a student do something unsafe,” Young said.

The majority of bicycle accidents in Hanover are caused

by Dartmouth students, Young confirmed.

The College’s director of fitness Hugh Mellert, a founding member of the Hanover Bike and Pedestrian Committee, emphasized the importance of bike safety, saying he hopes to encourage bike riding for health and fitness — as long as it is practiced safely.

Advance Transit drivers, who circle campus daily, have also repeatedly reported run-ins with student cyclists, Mellert said.

“It’s not just campus but it spills over to downtown,” Mellert said.

Mellert said he hopes to hold programming to reach the freshman class every year in order to educate the thousand new members of campus.

Student pedestrians also cause issues, Mellert added, noting that

a particular problem was students looking at their phones while walking into the street.

“It almost gets to the point that if you drive frequently on campus, you caution yourself in your driving,” Mellert said. “You’re always looking for that one student who’s going to pop out in the middle of a block and run across in front of you. You kind of have to drive differently when you’re around campus.”

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said the problem of bike safety is prevalent in any college town. Hanover’s downtown is “relatively compact” and has especially narrow streets, she added, making for a challenging cycling environment.

Hanover has several roads which are simply not equipped to accommodate cyclists, and every time the town gets the opportunity to repave a road, they look to narrow the travel space for vehicles in order to create more space for bicycles, she said. Harsh seasons have kept recreational cyclists off the streets up until 10 or 15 years ago, Griffin said.

The majority of Hanover’s “bike versus vehicle” incidents have been Dartmouth students, Griffin said, though there have

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“Young adults tend to have this sort of ‘I’m immortal’ feeling about life,” Griffin said. “They’re

young, and they’re not always as cognizant of risk, so they’re often taking chances on bicycles that an older adult wouldn’t feel comfortable taking or that a younger child would be told not to take.”

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Handel Society meets “Requiem” in sold out show

B y HALLIE HUFFAKER The Dartmouth Staff

This Saturday evening, the Dartmouth Handel Society will take to Spaulding Auditorium to tackle Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem,” welcoming four professional soloists to the stage.

Described by members of the group as a “haunting,” “challenging” and “ornate,” “Requiem” has sold out with two days remaining before the performance.

Handel Society conductor Robert Duff, also a music professor, said that despite the difficult work, preparing for the performance has been “fun from the very beginning.” Composed of both students and community members, the Handel Society is the nation’s oldest town-gown choral society.

“Verdi himself was basically an opera composer,” Duff said. “So for him to be writing this work that includes four operatic voices, it

takes the piece in a very different direction than the society has gone in during my time here.”

In part due to its complexity, “Requiem” requires not only a full choral group and a full orchestra but also four soloists. Else Drooff ’18, a soprano in the group, said that when rehearsals began in the winter, she was surprised by how much the piece brought to the table musically.

“The cool thing about this piece is that there is so much going on,” Droff said. “Looking at the music at first, I remember thinking, ‘Oh my god,’ because I had never done anything that intense in high school.”

Visiting soprano soloist Othalie Graham, who has sung “Requiem” twice before, called the piece “one of the greatest works that’s ever been done.” Graham said that she especially appreciates Verdi’s decision to write his score for powerful voices.

“It is such a special work, and it is so full of challenges and just exhilarating moments,” she said.

“Any soprano would cut off her arm to have a chance to sing it.”

Student members of the Handel Society interviewed expressed similar enthusiasm to Graham.

Ben Weinstock ’17, for example — a tenor and the group’s student manager — described Verdi’s work as “fiery, intense and full of emotion.” Jimmy Ragan ’16, a bass, added that the work is “haunting but beautiful.”

According to Ragan, the piece’s short and focused nature required the group to work harder than usual to find the intent behind each note.

Lydia Freehafer ’18 described an exercise where members of the group stood in a circle around the room and, turning to their neighbor, looked into their eyes and sang them parts of the piece.

“I think that the reason [Duff] did it was so that no one could

get away with not putting enough emotion into it,” she said. “After we did it we were like, ‘Wow,’ because we really had to think about the meaning behind what we were singing.”

Graham, who has not worked with the Dartmouth Handel Society before, called Duff “a singer’s conductor,” adding that all singers would “jump at the chance” to work with him. She said that she appreciates working with college groups since they have a real love for the music.

In addition to Graham, mezzo soprano Cynthia Hanna, tenor Brian Cheney and bass Kyle Albertson will also join the group for the performance. All three have received positive feedback for their performances, with the Washington Post hailing Hanna as “bright” and “luminous” and The New York Sun announcing that Cheney exhibits “expressiveness and pure vocal beauty.”

Duff, who stressed the importance of understanding Verdi’s relationship to the piece, said that he wants the audience to “think and be curious” during the performance.

Verdi himself was an atheist, Duff said, but still worked with a text drawn from the liturgical mass for the dead.

“Whenever we approach a work there is something we can learn for ourselves from the composition of others,” Duff said. “My hope for the audience is that they would have a better appreciation for how [the piece] can potentially influence each of them to be better in touch with their own human condition.”

No tickets remain for Saturday’s performance, held in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. In light of interest in the performance, Duff has opened the group’s Friday, May 15 rehearsal — held in Spaulding Auditorium from 7 to 10 p.m. — to the public.

Dartmouth Comic Conference sees continued success B y JOSH KOENIG

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Featuring a clearer focus on connecting the different disciplines that study illustration, this year’s Illustration, Comics and Animation Conference — the College’s third annual — welcomed more than 20 scholars and artists to Hanover this weekend, event organizer and English professor Michael Chaney wrote in an email. Events at the conference, held primarily in Haldeman Center, ranged from a book festival on Friday to a Saturday evening banquet in the Hanover Inn. “I think it was a success on both counts,” Chaney said, referencing the conference’s dual goals of providing students with a pedagogical experience and catalyzing new scholarship.

“My students never let me down whenever it comes to matters of intellectual performance — they asked questions that were critical and engaging, and the scholars felt a real energy.”

At many of the conference’s sessions, undergraduates at the College were able to mingle with visiting scholars and faculty, who traveled from as far as Louisiana and Georgia to participate. The conference also drew on local resources in the Upper Valley, including participation from the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, whose students provided work for Friday’s book festival.

“This was another opportunity to bring Dartmouth and the Center for Cartoon Studies together,” James Sturm, the center’s co-founder and a Friday panelist, said.

At the Friday Book Festival, attendees had the opportunity to view and purchase work by students at the Center for Cartoon Studies, which offers two-year master of fine arts degrees, as well as one- and two-year certificates in cartooning and summer workshops. In between the festival’s sessions, Harper College English professor Brian Cremins and Harvard University comparative literature professor Nhora Lucía Serrano — both executive board members of the newly formed Comics Studies Society — moderated a panel with Sturm and Dartmouth studio art professor Enrico Riley.

Cremins, who also attended the conference’s inaugural year, said that the book festival in particular impressed him at this year’s conference.

“It was really exciting and, for me, brought in an entirely new energy because it balanced the scholars who were there with working artists,” Cremins said. “It was a wonderful expansion of the initial idea [of the first conference], which was already interdisciplinary to begin with.”

On Saturday — the conference’s most-scheduled day — attendees were treated to five sessions, ranging from a roundtable on utilitarianism in the work of Noah Berlatsky to a panel on “Crossing Comics Cultures,” with the latter including remarks from Dartmouth French and Italian professor Annabelle Cone, who said that she viewed the conference as an excellent opportunity to “test the waters” with a paper she will give at an international conference later this year.

“Just the fact that you’re presenting it in public, and you hear yourself

reading your work, you hear things you didn’t hear before,” she said.

On its last day, the conference featured a final session titled “Comics, Constructions and Collections,” with remarks from Dartmouth film and media studies professor Paul Young.

Reflecting on the conference, several participants and organizers interviewed reminisced on how far cartooning has come as an academic discipline and culturally relevant practice in the last decade. Cremins

said that he “could not have imagined” as an undergraduate that the College would one day play host to a conference devoted to comics, and Sturm added that these conferences reflect the rising cultural recognition of the form.

“Ten years ago, the idea of a cartooning school seemed really odd to people,” Sturm said. “The fact that Harvard dissertations are being done in comics and that Ivy League schools like Dartmouth are having animation

and cartooning conferences really goes to show how far comics have come.”

In addition to Chaney and Cremins, administrative assistant Kelly Palmer, English professor Jeff Sharlet and research librarian Laura Braunstein played important roles in helping the conference come to fruition, Chaney wrote in an email.

“Although I’m exhausted, I suddenly can’t wait to do it again,” he wrote.

“WE BUILT OUR OWN HOUSE”

JEFFREY LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Work by Ryan Hueston ’14 catches the light as the current display at the Hopkins Center’s Barrows Rotunda.

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THURSDAY LINEUP

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Softball heads to Florida for NCAA Regionals this weekend

B y DANIEL LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth softball team will head to Tallahassee, Florida, this weekend to face the ninth-seeded Florida State University in the first round of the NCAA tournament in the Tallahassee Regional. After winning the Ivy League Championship against the University of Pennsylvania for the second consecutive year, the Big Green (25-16, 16-4 Ivy) is gearing up to compete against 63 of the best softball teams across the nation.

Their first-round matchup, Florida State (45-12, 20-3 ACC), is currently on an eight-game win streak, having won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship against the University of Pittsburgh.

Seminole infielder Jessica Warren has established herself as a power hitter

with a team high of 50 RBIs and 16 home runs, while leadoff hitter Morgan Klaevemann holds a .401 batting average and .486 on-base percentage.

The team is collectively batting .293 with a .455 slugging percentage, proving to be a threat to any pitcher on the mound.

“We’re going to do what we did all year,” Dartmouth head coach Shannon Doepking said. “We’re going to go to our own strength, and the most important thing when you’re facing a powerful line-up like Florida State is making sure we’re living off the plate, our mistakes are going outside and not staying in the middle of the plate and we’re consistent with hitting our spot.”

Florida State’s ace pitcher Lacey Waldrop has won 28 games this season, compiling a 1.49 ERA and 222 strikeouts over 201.2 innings, and their second starting pitcher, Jessica

Burroughs, holds a 2.33 ERA and 198 strikeouts through 156 innings.

Doepking emphasized the importance of making routine plays and being disciplined at the plate.

“We’re going to face really talented pitchers this weekend, and it’s going to be important that we don’t help them out,” Dopeking said. “We need to make sure our pitchers are living off the plate and not throwing the ball over the plate. That’s been our game plan all year, and it’s worked so far and it’s going to be really important this weekend.”

Earlier this week, Katie McEachern ’16 was crowned with the Ivy League Player of the Year Award, and Kristen Rumley ’15 became the first pitcher to win the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Award three consecutive years. Doepking was also named the Coach of the Year.

For McEachern, the award has been something that she has been eyeing since the beginning of the season.

“It was a pretty high goal that I set, and I was working for it throughout the year, so for me it means a lot to me to have achieved that, and now it’s just setting up my goal for next year,” McEachern said. “As for my team, I wouldn’t have half the stats I have without [them], and it just shows how great of a team that we have.”

McEachern and Rumley have lead the team offensively and defensively.

With McEachern posting a .449 average, 10 home runs, 28 RBIs and a .956 fielding percentage, and Rumley recording a 1.99 ERA over 151.1 innings, racking up 125 strikeouts and also batting .364 on the season, the team was close to invincible. Thanks to a combination of a deadly offense, unhittable pitching and smart coach-

ing, the Big Green has enjoyed success this season.

Traveling to another part of the country, especially Florida, is nothing new to the team as they opened their season at South Florida against Auburn University, where the Big Green recorded their first win of the season, a 4-2 game against Auburn.

“At the beginning of the season, we traveled to Texas and several other places so it’s just the same,” Rumley said. “We’re used to the travel, and we’re just excited to play at regionals.”

The Big Green and the Seminoles will face off at 7 p.m. on Friday after Central Florida and South Carolina Universities kick off the Tallahassee Regional at 4:30 p.m. This weekend’s regional will be double elimination, with the winner moving on to the Super Regional on May 21-24 against the victor of the Knoxville Regional.

Ng ’17 to represent Dartmouth at NCAA Singles Championship

B y HALEY GORDON The Dartmouth Staff

Taylor Ng ’17 began playing tennis with her older sister when she was around five years old, but did not commit fully to the sport until her junior year of high school. Now, as a sophomore at the Colleg, Ng is the number one singles player on the College’s women’s team, is ranked in the top-100 players nationally and has helped to lead the Big Green to one of their most successful years in program history.

Ng enjoyed playing several sports until high school, when she narrowed her scope to tennis and lacrosse.

“I like how it’s very physical,” Ng said. “I’m more of someone who likes sprints…and that’s kind of what tennis is, you need to be able to do quick bursts of energy and recover, and as much as I enjoyed soccer and lacrosse, it was just a different kind of conditioning.”

Ng also enjoyed the kind of flexibility that tennis offers its players, since players can compete as individuals or as a team.

“Playing singles you can rely on yourself — you have the most trust usually in yourself — but also, I loved doubles and the dynamic aspect of it,” she said. “To be able to play both of those in junior tournaments was really fun.”

Ng said that she has been able to compete in both doubles and singles at Dartmouth.

“Most people do both,” Ng said. “I actually used to like doubles a lot more but now I think I like singles more. I don’t really know why. They’re both fun.”

Her high school had an “unusually good” tennis program with a decent array of players, Ng said. Ng played only in high school seasons, unlike many other elite players who travel the country playing tournaments and do not compete at the high-school level.

“I liked having a team,” Ng said.

“That’s probably what appealed to me about high school tennis.”

Ng stopped playing in tournaments when she was 14 years old, not resuming until her junior year of high school when she began considering playing tennis in college. Faced with a tournament record lacking compared to other players her age, Ng sent coaches emails with her high school record as well as tournaments she would be competing at later in the year.

“I sat down and had a thought [about] how I’d feel about if tennis weren’t as prominent in my life and that kind of made me sad,” Ng said.

“After that, I definitely knew I wanted to pursue tennis.”

Some coaches came to see Ng play after receiving her emails. “[Dartmouth coach Robert Dallis] actually drove four hours down, not knowing anything about me, and just watched me play a tournament,” Ng said. “I feel so indebted to him because

he took a chance on me and gave me an opportunity to grow. In terms of choosing where to go…when you see anyone put that much effort into you, obviously they care… I just wanted to go here.”

Dallis said that Ng has a great ability to focus and handle pressure during a match.

Ng said that her playing style differs from that of many other collegiate players. She said that most players, especially at the elite levels, “pound from the baseline” so there is not a lot of volleying.

“When I was younger, I was very, very weak, and so people could just beat me by hitting it hard to the end of the baseline. A lot of times I would just hit the ball and run to the net and try to hit volleys, because I had pretty decent reactions,” she said. “So, I would say that my game is a little bit different from other people’s because I’m not really afraid to come up to the net, and I think that throws people off their rhythms sometimes.”

Dallis named vision, athleticism, movement, ability to change direction and a “great backhand” as Ng’s particular strengths.

Ng found the adjustment from playing a few months of the year to six days a week to be easier than she anticipated, as she liked the repetition and the structure that practices gave her day.

Ng’s doubles partner Kristina Mathis ’18 described Ng as an “all-court player” with a personality that lightens the mood at practices.

“I didn’t have very much experience with doubles when I came to college, and she really helped me know what to do during a point and where to be at the net,” Mathis said. “[Ng] helps me mentally by giving me some confidence because sometimes I can get down on myself. She pumps me up.”

Ng is currently 36-6 in singles play and 21-1 at the number one position. Ng was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional Player to Watch this year. Ng was also

unanimously chosen as the Ivy League player of the year and made first team all Ivy for both singles and doubles.

Ng will be heading to the NCAA singles championship in Waco, Texas to compete in the singles events. She is the first Dartmouth player ever selected to play in this championship, and is the only contender from the Ivy League this year.

Ng said her main preparations would be mental and that confidence is the key to her game play.

“My goal is to win the whole thing,” Ng said. “I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be really cool to be able to represent Dartmouth out there.”

JEFFERY LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Taylor Ng ’17 has led women’s tennis in the No. 1 singles and doubles spots this year.