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Campusreactstogaymarriageruling Hillary Clinton

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A pride flag hangs at the Collis Center as a part of this spring’s Pride Week celebrations.

B y ANNIE MA The Dartmouth Staff

Though it is unlikely that many students have upcoming nuptials on their minds, the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage has social ramifications that will impact the student community here at the College.

Women’s and gender studies professor Michael Bronski described the decision as “groundbreaking.” Bronski

reflected on his 40-plus years of political organizing in the LGBTQ+ community, noting that people his age at the beginning of their activism would have never imagined such progress.

“The ruling is saying something that no one thought was possible,” Bronski said.

“Beyond getting married, it says that you have a constitutional right to choosing your partner.”

Gover nment professor

Sonu Bedi called the decision “magisterial,” and said that the ruling sends a strong signal that members of the LGBTQ+ community are equal to everyone else.

“I think that the result the justices reached is required by the Constitution,” he said.

In New Hampshire, samesex marriage has been legal since 2010. While Bronski said that the Supreme Court decision may result in minimal

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will visit Hanover this afternoon at 12:30 p.m. and speak at a “grassroots organization event,” according to Clinton’s campaign website.

The public event was originally planned at a private home on Rope Ferry Road at 1:30 p.m. Clinton campaign aide Julie McClain said, however, that the event will now be held at the BEMA due to a large amount of local interest.

McClain said attendees at the event will have an opportunity to sign up as volunteers, hear Clinton speak about her campaign ideas and fill out commit to vote cards, which indicate an individual’s promise to vote for Clinton in the New Hampshire presidential primary election on Feb. 9, 2016. New Hampshire law states that its primary will be the first in the nation.

Government professor Joseph Bafumi said that this organizing event might function more as an effort to rally volunteers than as a way to attract votes.

“It’s a smaller, intimate setting,” he said. “Rather than targeting just voters, she’s speaking to people who are knocking on doors. It will organize the volunteer base rather than direct votes, and it’s in a more controlled setting, connecting staffers with potential volunteers, especially here at Dartmouth with people and students who could potentially contribute significantly to the campaign.”

As of press time, former senator and former Rhode SEE CLINTON PAGE 2

SEE GAY MARRIAGE PAGE 3

95 students audition for SHEBA-lite B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

“If you were a vegetable what would you be?” Anyone who auditioned for a cappella freshman fall — whether on a whim or as a diversion from an otherwise serious career — probably remembers answering some strange questions.

The 42 students who auditioned for Summerphonics, the summer a cappella spin-off of the Dartmouth

Dodecaphonics, had some entertaining answers to the above vegetable query, summer president Alyssa Gonzalez ’17 said.

“I think someone said, ‘Broccoli because I’m better steamy,’” Gonzalez said with a laugh.

She said that the large number of students surprised her as she found it difficult to gauge interest in the group. Gonzalez noted that the summer term provides an opportunity to open up

a cappella to more students.

“Most sang in high school and haven’t sung since,” Gonzalez said. “It’s great to get them back in the music world.”

She said that the majority of those who tried out for the group do not participate in other a cappela groups during the remainder of the year. Seeing people she knows from other contexts sing at auditions was exciting, she said.

SHEBA-lite co-director

Amanda Harkavy ’17 said that, based on past turn out, she expected many students to show up to auditions, but seeing the 95 students crowded in a rehearsal room in the gym last Sunday still shocked her.

SHEBA-lite is a much larger group than SHEBA, with 35 new members in addition to nine SHEBA members. The talent of those who came out to audition, including those who had never danced before,

pleasantly surprised her and her fellow SHEBA members, Harkavy said.

Summer perfor mance g roups give students a chance to meet peers in a more relaxing context, she said.

Splendaplum, the summer dance group run by members of Sugarplum, took 24 of the 35 students who auditioned for the group this week.

Splendaplum co-director SEE SUMMER DANCE PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing Several festivities are scheduled in and around the Upper Valley for the upcoming Independence Day weekend, the Valley News reported. Fireworks are planned this evening at the Mount Ascutney Resort at dusk, along with live music and children’s activities. Tomorrow morning, Fourth of July celebrations will begin in Lebanon and Hanover. The free Lebanon event will include a 1-mile fun run as well as a 6.2-mile race, in addition to a concert at 7 p.m. in Colburn Park, followed by fireworks at Storrs Hill at 8:45 p.m. In Hanover, a celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 1.p.m. on the Dartmouth College Green extending to the downtown area. The event will feature a parade as well as live music, pony rides and a pie-eating contest.

Drivers in New Hampshire will no longer be legally allowed to use any handheld devices that require data entry, such as cellphones, unless voice commands are used, the WMUR reported. The new hands-free law went into effect July 1. The Department of Transportation has been running an education initiative about the dangers of texting and driving ahead of the law’s implementation. The law prohibits the use of devices even when a vehicle is stopped in traffic, but allows for a “onetouch rule,” which means that a single press of a button can be made to accept a Bluetooth or speaker phone call. The fine for a first-time violation is one hundred dollars. As of July 1, New Hampshire is one of 14 states that have hands-free laws.

City councilors and residents at a meeting Wednesday night raised questions about the legality and environmental impacts of a proposal to rezone land south of DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center’s main campus to allow for a new palliative care facility, the Valley News reported. The $20.5 million facility, scheduled to open in 2017, will provide palliative and hospice patients with the level of care that they want, moving some patients from more intensive care in the hospital and others from home care situations that can be burdensome to family members and caregivers. Citing concerns about wildlife, which includes “breeding populations of black bear, bobcat and numerous other species,” former city Councilor Nicole Cormen in an email urged the city’s policymakers to encourage the hospital to move the facility to the east of its proposed location to land less ecologically sensitive. A public hearing on the issue is tentatively scheduled for September.

Students anticipate Clinton’s visit FROM HILLARY PAGE 1

Island governor Lincoln Chafee (DR.I.), former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (D-Md.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) have all announced official Democratic presidential bids. O’Malley visited the College at the end of May, speaking with students and community members in Carson Hall just one day after launching his presidential campaign. Sanders visited the College last October, speaking at a rally that focused on November’s primary race between Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and former Republican Massachusetts senator Scott Brown.

Although Clinton is currently ahead of other Democratic candidates in many polls, Sanders is gaining support, particularly in New Hampshire. According to recent polls conducted by Morning Consult, a digital politics and policy outlet, 44 percent of Democratic voters who say they will participate in next year’s New Hampshire primary back Clinton. Meanwhile,

32 percent indicated support for Sanders.

Bafumi said that he thinks Clinton is taking that challenge seriously, adding that more candidates might join the presidential race if Clinton is not a clear leader.

Hannah Solomon ’17, who plans to attend the event, said she hopes to learn more about Clinton’s policy ideas and positions, as she wants to familiarize herself with the details of Clinton’s campaign before voting.

“As a woman and a feminist, I like to see strong women in positions of power,” she said, while noting that she plans to support a presidential candidate because of his or her political positions, and not solely on the basis of gender.

Similarly, Patricia Bai ’17 said she plans on going to the event to learn more about Clinton than simply what she has heard from other people or read in the news.

“Because I’m of voting age, I should probably learn a little more about the candidates,” Bai said. “I feel like meeting [Clinton] firsthand and hearing what she has

to say would probably be the best way to see why she’s running the campaign.”

Clinton’s Hanover event is part of her campaign’s attempt to gain supporters across the state of New Hampshire, even in smaller towns, including Pittsburg and Hollis, New Hampshire McClain wrote in an email. Clinton, who will also visit Glen, New Hampshire, over the weekend, has outlined four main tenets of her campaign, which she calls “The Four Fights” — building the economy, strengthening families, revitalizing America’s political system and keeping the nation secure.

In 2008, Clinton beat President Barack Obama in the New Hampshire presidential primary election by 2.6 percent.

According to the Hillary for America campaign invitation, Clinton’s event will have airport-style security screening. Small personal cameras and cell phones, however, will be permitted.

Annie Ma and Michael Qian contributed reporting.

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Students enjoy a break from the recently-rainy weather and share a meal together on the Green.

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Still LGBTQ+ progress to be made, campus says FROM GAY MARRIAGE PAGE 1

policy changes, it could catalyze a shift in attitude that would result in positive changes for LGBTQ+ youth at the College and beyond.

Bronski said that socially, marriage is often viewed as a next step.

Now that it is nationally available to same-sex couples, he said that it may change the way same-sex relationships are viewed.

“It can change the way parents, siblings, relatives and clergy view LGBTQ+ youth,” Bronski said.

“Parents can rethink how their children can now go into the world in this social setting, where marriage is thought of as a good thing. The social ramifications are so much larger than just being able to get married, which may be fundamental in how parents think about the future for their gay children.”

Bedi also said that, although gay marriage has been legal in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court ruling affects the viability of marriage for those living in the state who may move to or visit other areas in which same-sex marriage was previously not recognized.

“You can basically now go anywhere and your marriage will be recognized in the United States, wherever you are,” he said.

For example, before the ruling, if a same-sex married couple visited Arkansas, which outlawed same-sex marriage until the Supreme Court’s recent decision, he said, the marriage’s recognition would be called

into question.

Center for Gender and Student Engagement program coordinator Sebastian Muñoz-Medina also said that the ruling would likely have broader social effects. MuñozMedina said that the LGBTQ+ community could see same-sex legalization as an affirmation and empowerment of their identity and relationships.

Muñoz-Medina and Bronski said that despite the decision’s significance, there still remains much room for progress.

“Winning marriage is fabulous, but you have to think about the entirety of people’s lives,” Bronski said. “It unfortunately does not eliminate other oppressions people experience.”

The two also stated that progress does not exist in a vacuum, and that it is essential to look at the intersectionality of race, socioeconomic status and other aspects of identity to further LGBTQ+ rights.

“This a huge milestone, but it’s also just a stepping stone,” MuñozMedina said. “It’s possible now to get married, but you can still be fired, denied service or discriminated in housing if you identify as LGBTQ+. Whatever that might look like, it’s still legally acceptable.”

Similarly, Amara Ihionu ’17 said that while the ruling is an important landmark that deserves to be celebrated, she is wary of people thinking that the decision marks the end of all LGBTQ+ struggles.

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The newly constructed Triangle House offers support for LGBTQ+ students on campus.

“It doesn’t happen like that overnight,” she said. “There is still bigotry and so many other issues in the LGBTQ+ community other than marriage inequality.”

Bronski said he was also struck by the portrayal of the ruling in the media, which masked the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community and its members’ experiences.

“If you watched the news, you’d think the only people who are gay are young, attractive white people or older white people,” he said.

The limited media portrayal

NOT IN VEIN

diverted attention away from the diversity of struggles faced by the LGBTQ+ community, he said.

Bronski used the example of a black lesbian couple in Missouri, who could now get married but would still be unable to vote unless they had proper identification because of discriminatory laws in the state.

Muñoz-Medina said that because the right to marry has dominated the popular discussion of the queer liberation movement for so long, what comes next remains an open question. For a state like New Hampshire that has recognized the right to marry since 2010, identifying missing anti-discriminatory legislation could be a useful next step.

“It’s so hard to say what the needs are, because the community is so diverse in itself,” Muñoz-Medina

said. “Non-discrimination is definitely a focus, though. Getting it acknowledged federally versus just having rights protected in limited towns or regions might be next.”

Within the College, Muñoz-Medina said there are many resources that foster empowerment, citing examples such as the ability to go by one’s preferred name and a vast healthcare system, issues that are relevant for transgender students in particular.

“I can’t speak for what the queer experience is like, because everyone faces their own struggles,” Muñoz-Medina said. “But at least at Dartmouth, these opportunities exist and people are listening, so you can reach out and make something happen here.”

Kate Hildreth and Sara McGahan contributed reporting.

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Staff Columnists REEM CHAMSEDDINE ’17 and ANdres Smith ’17

Get Smart(er)

Students should make more of an effort to be informed on world events.

Dartmouth students, like college students almost anywhere, are busy. It seems like everyone at Dartmouth is constantly embroiled in something or another for a class, team or performance group. Sometimes, even, they’re too busy too keep up with the news. Although we would consider most of our classmates very intelligent, one could make the argument that we are a great deal less aware of current events and pending issues than students at other schools. Perhaps it’s our isolation in the beautiful mountains of New Hampshire, or the time and emphasis that we place on very Dartmouth-specific activities, that leads to us being more insulated than, say, young people at a school in New York City. As fun and important as all of our Dartmouth activities are, more of an effort needs to be made to “break the bubble” and become more acutely aware of current events. College is a great time to learn, develop interests and get coffee with friends, and we need to take this time to leverage these opportunities.

One of the most important purposes of college is for young people from diverse backgrounds to get together and broaden their horizons, growing from naïve teenagers to young adults who are beginning to understand their place in the world. An aware, politically-engaged citizenry can make more educated decisions regarding its government and elected officials. Terren Klein ‘17, who keeps up with the news through the Skimm daily newsletter and Google News, explains why this task is important.

“Given that voter turnout is significantly lower among our age group, maybe if we kept up with national news we would feel more inclined to cast our vote,” Klein said.

Additionally, keeping up with the news allows students to think about the real world and the very few issues that do not come up in regular conversation. Patricia Bai ‘17 echoed Klien’s statement. She said that she believes it is too easy to get caught up and forget that there is a whole world outside of Hanover.

“We are only here for four years, and the

purpose of college is to prepare us for the world after college,” Bai said.

Finally, it is also important to keep with the news out of intellectual curiosity. As a government major, Hannah Solomon ‘17 said she believes that it is important to know about current events. Many of us are going to be in positions where we can lead and exert a good deal of influence, and it is naïve to think that we can do so effectively without understanding the most important issues that shape our world. One Dartmouth student stated that many students read the news, particularly the Wall Street Journal, in order to do well in professional interviews.

Dartmouth students claim to value news generally, however, many do not find the time to read it on a regular basis. For instance, Klein said that there exists “a direct negative correlation between how much I keep with the news and how much work I get in my classes.”

It is also worth noting that in this day and age, news sources have become so diverse and appeal to such specific niches that we as consumers can pick and choose the exact kinds of news that we are exposed to based on our interests. For example, because of my (Andres’) massive interest in entertainment news and the latest developments in everything “geek” I get almost all of my relevant news from places like The Nerdist and Indiewire.

While this “designer news” does allow people to get more in depth into topics about which they are passionate, it also leads to reasonably intelligent young opinion writers who cannot tell you the first thing about the battle against the Islamic State, but know exactly how Jimmy Buffett landed a cameo in “Jurassic World” (2015).

It is very easy for a Dartmouth student, especially one who is heavily involved on campus, to become insulated. We need to make more of an effort to set aside time for self-improvement through an understanding of national and international current events, and not just those we’re interested in.

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SENIOR STAFF COLUMNIST EMILY ALBRECHT ’16

Stop Flying that Flag

The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism that cannot be redefined.

Whether you hail from Texas, as I do, or have spent your entire life north of the Mason-Dixon, the “Stars and Bars” Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery, racism and white supremacy. It does not deserve to be presented or preserved as anything else.

First, I must mention that I am a half-white, half-Hispanic woman. I do not and cannot claim to have experienced the racism represented by the Confederate flag, and this isn’t directed toward those African-American individuals who wish to reclaim this symbol for themselves. This column is directed toward those who have benefitted from the United States’ racist, white supremacist history — that is, white and white-passing Americans, such as myself. This is why, though a recent CNN/ORC poll shows that 66 percent of white Americans disagree with me, I argue that — given that they were the victims of slavery and white supremacy — what really matters is that 72 percent of black Americans see the flag as a brutal, sometimes daily reminder of the United States’ racist legacy.

In the wake of the tragic murder of nine African-American citizens in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17 at the historically-black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Confederate flag has sparked a national debate.

The perpetrator of this horrific act of hate and domestic terror — who doesn’t deserve to have his name remembered — was a young white male who was later found to own and operate a white supremacist website entitled the “Last Rhodesian.” On it, there was a picture of him proudly flying the Confederate flag behind him.

Before shooting the nine victims at Emanuel, the murderer went on an “eerie tour of American slavery,” as the Washington Post called it. He specifically visited places “that he associated with the subjugation of black people,” including a museum devoted to the Confederacy. It’s hard to believe this man posed with the Confederate flag because of his “Southern pride”.

I do not have to imagine the counter-argument, because I have heard it many times. It sounds something like, “It means racism to racists, but I’m not a racist! It means Southern pride to me!”

While I believe that most who make this argument are not actively racist and see the Confederate flag

as nothing but a sign of Dixieland, as individuals, we do not get to decide what culturally relevant symbols mean for society at large. MerriamWebster defines the word symbol as “an action, object, event, etc., that expresses or represents a particular idea or quality.” The entire point of a symbol is that when used properly, people can understand and read it without confusion. A symbol is defined by a group, not an individual.

It is foolish to believe that any one person can redefine a symbol whose history is tied to a certain ideology. What would the reaction be if I tried to argue that the peace sign represents hatred and war?

Just as the “it doesn’t symbolize that to me,” argument falls flat, so does the tired argument that what popular culture deems the Confederate flag is actually the Civil War battle flag of the Army of North Virginia, not the true “Stars and Bars”. Though that may be technically true, it is effectively meaningless. The so-called “Stars and Bars” largely re-emerged in the mid-20th century with the racist, segregationist States’ Rights Democratic political party, popularly known as the “Dixiecrats”, then as an anti-civil rights, white supremacist symbol. The fact is that, because popular culture has deemed this flag to be the Confederate flag, it now functions as such.

When it comes to the effect of cultural symbols and symbolic language, meaning and understanding reign supreme — not technicalities.

Essentially, the display of the Confederate flag boils down to intent versus impact. With public, symbolic language, intent is subordinate to impact. What you mean to say when you proudly display a Confederate bumper sticker on your car is irrelevant — all that matters is what people are going to reasonably understand that symbol to communicate. The perpetrator of the Emanuel AME massacre did not choose to use the Confederate flag because he thought that people would read that symbol as anything other than white supremacy. If something has been a symbol of racism for over a century, you do not get to decide to redefine it now. If you want to show Southern pride, listen to the Dixie Chicks or brag about the superiority of Texas food (my favorite pastime) — let the Confederate flag be relegated to museums and history books, where it belongs.

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This sophomore summer’s course registration period started out exactly like every other term’s - at the last minute I frantically searched for an adequate third class to replace one with too much reading.

In a frenzy, I came across a course on friendships and relationships. I was initially hesitant to sign up for this course - would it be worth my time to learn about how to make friends, compared to a class about something more serious or academic? The answer wasn’t as simple as I had thought. Although, in the end, it turned out to be very simple because I realized I couldn’t take this course due to a scheduling conflict.

Thank you Registrar! Although we pride ourselves on being the most social Ivy, I feel as though Dartmouth students often take it for granted how hard it is to make friends and how important it is to keep them. If you don’t make a conscious effort to prioritize friends, you run the risk of losing them.

It’s no secret that the people at Dartmouth can make or break your college experience. Your best or worst days are often defined by the connections you make – whether it’s the stranger who tells you that your backpack is open, the girl who sat down next to you on the first class and became one of your best friends, or your unicorn who you somehow see every day at FoCo for lunch. That’s why this issue is all about friendships at Dartmouth. This sophomore summer, as we reach our Dartmouth mid-life crisis and start to think about the legacies that we’re going to leave behind, I hope that we all resolve to be better friends and members of the Dartmouth community.

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Being on campus means that for the most par t we’ve all heard the phrase “facetimey.” The first time I heard this phrase was on the Dar tmouth Outing Club’s First Year Trips during a campus tour when one of my leaders remarked that a student was par ticularly “facetimey.” I had no idea what this meant, nor did I realize that I’d hear this phrase hundreds of times during my Dar tmouth career.

I’ve grown to have at least a loose grasp of the phrase’s meaning over the past two years — to be facetimey generally means that you socialize in certain locations around campus where you are more visible to students walking by. A recent email from the college’s Center for Professional Development, however, caused me to question my comprehension — they asser ted that being facetimey is a skill (But does their approval now mean that it is less cool to be facetimey?) that could even get you a job.

The CPD’s adoption of the term as their own, taking it out of its normal context of college slang and turning it into something more serious is definitely a testament to the term’s popularity around campus. How the word actually reached the CPD’s of fice is still a myster y to me. But I began to wonder: Do Dar tmouth students actually value being facetimey? Does the phrase have any meaning beyond Hanover? Or has it become yet another word that enters into the circulation of campus lingo without being anything but a meaningless sound bite?

I inter viewed four students to investigate how the campus perceives the concept of facetime and how impor tant it is to students.

Julieta Feltrin ’17 remembers coming to Dar tmouth and hearing the word “facetime” for the first time and thinking that the students were talking about the video chat application. Now that she understands its meaning, Feltrin said that she does not think that we have any more of a facetime culture at Dartmouth than some of the other Ivy League schools, such as Yale or Har vard. She said that at these other schools, people may be more motivated on building their careers through acquaintances rather than talking to people for the sake of true friendships.

In what could be seen as evidence of

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the idea that there are in fact facetimey locations on campus, I coincidentally ran into Megan Paul’17 and Alyssa Schmid ’17 10 minutes before our scheduled phone inter view as they were coming out of King Arthur Flour (a hangout spot infamous for drawing masses of people who want to be seen).

As soon as we began our inter view, a mention of the word “facetime” immediately provoked a quick game of word association. “[First Floor Berr y],” Paul said.

“Bottom of the stairs at Novack.

KAF. Spor ts teams at FoCo. Dark side — that’s old money,” Schmid said.

“What’s the light side, then?” Paul asked.

“That’s new money, because it’s more modern,” Schmid said.

Cer tainly, if you sit in these places, you’re bound to see more students — or get more facetime. But it’s unclear whether where you sit around campus dictates how people perceive you socially. Nor was anyone inter viewed sure exactly how many people on campus actually fit into the label of ‘facetimey’ simply for the sake of ‘facetimey-ness.’

Paul and Schmid were only able to recall one mutual friend (who will remain unnamed) who they both considered to be notoriously facetimey.

Schmid said that she thought that he was a good example of someone being facetimey with pure intentions, while Paul said that she thought that because he values being friends with ever yone, people don’t see him as genuine. She added that it’s difficult for her to trust facetimey people because she feels as though they have ulterior motives.

Schmid said that although she wouldn’t characterize being facetimey as necessarily good or bad, she has experienced its benefits. She said, for example, that “it was nice that I randomly knew ever yone at KAF just now.”

Despite her waving to another ’17 across the grass over during our inter view (I was impressed by her social acumen), Schmid doesn’t consider herself to be Facetimey because she’s genuinely interested in people’s days and their lives.

“I actually wonder how many people are actually deliberately facetimey,” she said.

’17: This is actually the eighth class I’ve sat in on.

Paul, too, was reluctant to selfdescribe this way.

“I guess I’m a little bit facetimey. I like to feed of f of other people’s energies.

Ever yone at Dartmouth is impressive; I want to know about their lives,” she said. “There are people here who won the world Frisbee championship, or have done other amazing things, and I wouldn’t know without talking to them.”

Paul noted that Dartmouth’s facetimey culture places certain expectations on students that have ultimately changed her social interactions outside of the college.

“At Dartmouth, we say hi to ever yone we know because it would be rude not to.

When I go home and go to the grocer y store, I say hi to people from my high school that I wouldn’t have said hi to before college because I viewed them as the popular kids; there was a social hierarchy before. There were social boundaries at high school that don’t really exist at Dartmouth.”

Cassidy McDermott ‘17, who is from Seattle, Washington, said that she thinks that being facetimey is a concept only relevant at the College. She does not believe that it exists outside of Hanover’s small-town setting.

When I asked about whether she thought that the CPD was on to something with their emails inviting sophomores to events to teach them how to be facetimey with potential employers, she said, “Honestly, I delete the emails.”

Emily Neely ’17 thinks that “it’s a cute marketing tactic” to tr y to appeal to college students with that terminology. She noted, however, that she is sure that there are merits to being Facetimey during networking events.

Schmid thinks that the way in which Dar tmouth encourages students to make acquaintances has helped her with social interactions that could potentially lead to jobs.

“You always make small talk with people,” she said. “With recruiting, you’re using these little connections that you have to leverage yourself, especially with [former] Dar tmouth students. It’s the same thing.”

Neely said that she doesn’t think that how Dartmouth values being facetimey plays any role in how she makes friends.

“You can have a lot of acquaintances, but that doesn’t say anything about the quality of your friendships,” she said.

Prospie: These Foco cookies taste exactly the same as my high school’s.

’17: I have a business casual Unfortunately I only have pennies.

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cardigan for you to borrow if you don’t want to be too formal for recruiting.

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We’ve come a long way in the two years since Dartmouth Outing Club’s First Year Trips, orientation week and that fateful Sunday when we shook College President Phil Hanlon’s hand and began our Dartmouth careers. Remember when our first friends at Dartmouth were trippees or teammates?

Those many evenings we spent with our undergraduate advisors and floormates?

In the past two years, we’ve learned a lot about ourselves, have had the opportunities to meet more students our age and older than we are, watched another class run around the bonfire and have had to said goodbye to the ’14s and ’15s. In the fall, we’ll have yet another new experience — becoming upperclassmen.

Each term, finals period arrives abruptly and we have little time to catch our breaths before spending hours in the librar y, going over our notes and wondering why we didn’t pay closer attention in lecture. The pace of a ten-week term leaves little time for reflection about how things might have changed for each of us after five or six terms here.

In an effort to understand how far we’ve come, we inter viewed five ’17s about how their friendships have changed and why.

Caleb Caldwell ’17

want to see my friends it’s more deliberate, and I make more plans to see them. After joining my fraternity I met a lot of new people, especially upperclassmen and even recent alumni.

perclassmen through the DOC. My closest friends fluctuate based on the term and people’s involvement in different groups.

Erin Czer winski ’17

How did you meet your closest friends?

CK: I met my closest friends through Agape Christian Fellowship, Korean Students Association and my fraternity.

How has your friend group changed?

CK: I was never really close with my freshman floor or my trippees. We used to see each other occasionally, but after my trip leader graduated we grew apart. Two of my freshman floormates joined my fraternity with me, so I’ve gotten closer to them and the other brothers in my house. Each term I get close with people who are in classes with me, but I don’t usually stay close with them after the class is over.

How did you meet your closest friends?

EC: I met my closest friends on my freshman floor.

How has your friend group changed?

EC: I was a lot closer with my trippees during freshman fall. After that, we all got involved with different things and grew apart. I met my closest group of friends during freshman winter, and we’ve been close ever since.

When I joined my sorority my friend group got bigger, but I already knew a lot of the girls I’ve gotten closer with. Being affiliated has allowed me to meet new people, but my best friends from freshman year are still my best friends. I was worried about not being as close with friends who had off-terms or terms abroad, but once they came back it was like they had never left.

Dana Wieland ’17

How did you meet your closest friends?

CC: I met my closest friends through my freshman trip, classes and my fraternity.

How did you meet your closest friends?

DW: I met my closest friends through the Dartmouth Outing Club and the floor above my freshman floor.

How has your friend group changed?

CC: Freshman year it felt like my friend groups were decided based on who was on my freshman floor. I’m not as close to my freshman floor as I used to be, and I think that’s because I don’t run into them as often.

I’ve gotten to know more people just by being at Dartmouth longer, and taking more classes with different people has definitely expanded my friend group. Now when I

How has your friend group changed?

DW: I was never close with people on my freshman trip after Trips were over, apart from one who is involved in activities that we both participate in. I’ve been heavily involved in Dartmouth Sustainability and I’ve been living in the Sustainable Living Center for the entire term now, and I’ve gotten to know people a lot better through that. I’ve also gotten to know more up-

Caleb Kim ’17

Alexis Wallace ’17 How did you meet your closest friends?

AW: I met my closest friends through my freshman trip and my freshman floor.

How has your friend group changed?

AW: I’ve kept the same best friends since freshman year. As I got involved with more groups on campus, I met new people and made more friends, but I am still ver y close with friends from my freshman floor and people from my trip. I joined my sorority with a lot of my friends, so I got even closer with some of those friends. I’ve remained really close with some of my friends who didn’t join the same house as me. This summer, I’ve gotten involved in different organizations, and I think that will be a great way for me to make even more friends. In particular, friends I’ve made through dance groups have become some of my closest friends because of all the time we spend together.

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Summer performance groups take new members FROM SUMMER DANCE AGE 1

Shirley Fang ’17 said that, compared to Sugarplum, Splendaplum incorporates fewer technical dance elements and instead opens itself up to dancers from all backgrounds. Splendaplum is about “sassy styles and putting yourself out there,” she said.

Fang said that the number of people who auditioned, including many with little or no experience, who threw themselves into the dances impressed her.

“From the moment you step foot on campus people hype sophomore summer,” Splendaplum co-director Kathy Li ’17 said. “You have that mindset that this one term will be different from regular terms.”

Fang said that students attempt to leave their comfort zones over

the summer, herself included, as she also chose to join SHEBA-lite this term.

Li said that because many stu-

“From the moment you step foot on campus, people hype sophomore summer.”

-SPLENDAPLUM CO-DIRECTOR KATHY LI ’17 dent performance groups do not receive funding from the administration or the Hopkins Center, they need support and involvement

from students.

She said that during the rest of the academic year student performance groups play an important role in the College’s culture. Summer groups maintain a presence on campus, which is important to the longevity of these organizations, she said.

“To see performance groups thriving during the summer is really important to the culture of Dartmouth and how we see performance arts groups,” Li said.

Livia Clandorf ’17, a new member of Splendaplum, said she auditioned despite not having danced since high school. She said that summer gives a unique “entry level opportunity to perform.”

She said the co-directors’ patience and understanding of

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different skill backgrounds made both auditions and rehearsal a nurturing environment.

“[Splendaplum offers an] entrylevel opportunity to perform.”

-SPLENDAPLUM NEW MEMBER LIVIA CLANDORF ’17 Street Soul X co-director Angie Lee ’17 said that Street Soul would hold performances as Street Soul X, a first for the open dance group.

Lee said that Street Soul X has

around 30 members for the summer. She said the group was very active in the spring and capitalized on that for this term.

Lee said that the group does not hold auditions and focuses on individualized instruction and giving those who do not have prior experience a chance to learn and perform. The summer, as a term many students chose to take a less rigorous academic schedule, provides an opportunity to devote more time to new experiences including performance groups, she said.

The Dog Days of Summer, the summer version of comedy group Dog Day, held auditions on Tuesday. Christian a cappella group X.ado, known as 15X.ado held auditions on Sunday.

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Q &A with Pilobolus Dance Theatre’s Shawn Ahern

B y Hallie huffaker The Dartmouth Staff

Shawn Aher nis the dance captain of Pilobolus Dance Theatre, a modern dance company founded in 1971 at the College.

The group now consists of seven full company members and two apprentices. Pilobolus is known for its diverse repertoire, ranging from theatrical pieces to abstract ones. The company has performed in 64 countries, and on programs including the 79th Annual Academy Awards, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” Ahern, who has been with the company for five years, performed with the group at the Hopkins Center twice this week.

How would you describe the type of dance?

SA: That’s a hard thing to sum up in a couple of sentences because what Pilobolus does is so diverse both in its repertory and its interests. Pilobolus has historically created a body of work that is ranging from very theatrical to very abstract movement. It has worked especially in the past decade with many different collaborators outside the dance world, so choreographers but also nonchoreographers like rock bands, robotics laboratories, artists, graphic novelists, writers, filmmakers, all these different people that have interesting points of view on the world. We invite them into our studio to make the work with us. Collaboration is the defining characteristic of Pilobolus as an arts organization.

What pieces will you perform here?

SA: We will perform five pieces.

It’s a pretty characteristically wide range of work. “Sweet Purgatory” will close the evening. That was made in 1991 and it is a work for six people set to [composer Dmitri] Shostakovich. It’s sort of more on the abstract, modern dance side, set to classical music. On the other end of the spectrum we have “All is Not Lost” which is the second piece in the program. It is sort of an up close and personal kaleidoscopic look into a pop song [OK GO’s “All is Not Lost” (2010)]. It’s very much the opposite of “Sweet Purgatory” in many ways, in aesthetic and feel. It’s upbeat and happy and quick. Then we have three other pieces that we made with varying collaborators. “On the Nature of Things” opens the program and it’s a trio set on a small pedestal — we made that in-house. We are also presenting a work called “Atomaton” which features six dancers

and some large mirrors. It deals with how humans interface with technology and this search to find ourselves again away from these devices that consume us. Then we have a very theatrical piece called “The Inconsistent Peddler.” That

“Pilobus has historically created a body of work that is ranging from very theatrical to very abstract movement.”

-SHAWN AHERNIS, Dance captain of pilobus dance theatre takes a look at a fading patriarch and his struggles to find a peaceful ending with his family. It is a really comical but ultimately touching look at people. I think that is really what Pilobolus is looking to do — investigate people interacting with other people.

Are props a big part of your pieces?

SA: Pilobolus is always evolving and changing. Just like natural organisms that are deeply a part of the company’s history, Pilobolus as an arts organization, or organism, as we lovingly refer to it, is constantly changing and growing, and I think that is how it has managed to stay relevant over almost 45 years of being in existence since it started here at Dartmouth. Technology and props are something that we see more of in our daily lives, and I think that is being reflected in art. So in many of the recent works you see a heavier use of equipment outside of the bodies of dancers, but even some of the new works, like “On the Nature of Things,” have no prop manipulation or anything like that.

in the group?

SA: It’s non-traditional in that way. Not all of the dancers, especially historically, have had dance training. Currently, most of us have some sort of formal dance education, but not all of us. Some of us started dancing later in life, around 20s, college age. Some of us do have very intense ballet training, classical training and I think that all of these approaches are valid. If you have an able body and an able mind and you are flexible enough to use those tools in an interesting way, you can be a good Pilobolus dancer. It is about training your body and your mind to be expressive and supple and there are many ways to get there.

How long does it take to create a dance?

SA: We are sort of product-oriented — our process is very important to us, but at the end of the day we have deadlines. Typically we budget for ourselves about a week for the creation process for every dancer, so if we have a six person dance we allow about six weeks.

So on average it is about four to six weeks to create a dance, which will be on average 15 to 20 minutes.

You said you are using a piece from 1991 — is that the oldest piece you will use?

SA: We have pieces from 1971 that we are still dancing.

Do you modernize them or leave them untouched?

SA: That’s an interesting question because I think that the people that

“We are sort of product-oriented — our process is very important to us, but at the end of the day we have deadlines.”

-SHAWN AHERNIS

are in the room during the creation process create those works, but when you are resetting them, it’s not like taking a painting out of storage and tacking a nail on the wall — you have to repaint the painting. The dancers that you are using are different and they have lived and trained in a different time, so you are trying to do the original choreography justice and trying to recapture what it’s about, but it will be different by nature of being in a different time and with different people. That’s sort of part of the dancers’ jobs when

they are learning a piece that they were not part of creating, to use their artistry to do justice to the original choreography and bring their own artistry to it, to give it life again.

What is your favorite part of performing and traveling with Pilobolus?

SA: I think that the way that I am able to interact with people on tour, because of the history of this company. When travelling as a recognized member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre, people will invite you into their home and they want you to see where they live and to experience their culture.

It’s a very beautiful thing that is a nod to the fact that Pilobolus has created something beautiful in the breadth of its work over the past 45 years. It is not just the joy that audiences feel when they are watching the dances, it’s something about this creative collaboration that defines the group and has since the 1970s. I think it’s something about the ethos of the company that people identify as a positive force. So I would say those positive interactions on-stage and off-stage as well is really a beautiful thing to be a part of.

This article has been condensed and edited.

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What are your costumes like?

SA: Costumes are everything from naked to three-piece suits and crazy outfits and everything in between. Because everything we make comes out of improvisation, we start making the movement before we have a plan of what we are going to make, props and costumes usually come in much later.

Frequently the movement develops and an idea forms around that movement and then characters are sometimes created in and out of those ideas.

How varying is the dance background of the dancers

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The Summerphonics, the summer version of The Dartmouth Dodecaphonics a cappella group, holds rehearsal.

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WITH ABBEY D’AGOSTINO ’14

B y Gayne Kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

On Sunday, former Dartmouth women’s track and cross country star and 13-time All-American runner Abbey D’Agostino ’14 earned a spot in the World Championships in Beijing. The Dartmouth sat down with her to discuss her post-graduate running career, her training plan and this most recent success.

What have you been doing since you graduated?

AD: Basically, I signed a contract with New Balance last June, right after graduating and moved to Boston at the end of the summer and joined this new group, this new elite team, that New Balance just started in Boston. It’s being coached by Mark Coogan who was my coach at Dartmouth as well. We have currently four solid women. We had about seven and after a year, changes are expected and so it’s all women on our team and I’ve been training there and had an injury earlier this year and worked through that and was really fortunate to come back and be healthy in time for the USA Championships because that was kind of the most immediate goal right after graduating.

We were training for this past weekend.

How long ago was the injury?

AD: February 2 is when I was diagnosed. I wasn’t running for eight weeks and I was doing the... treadmill. I was in the pool. I didn’t take any time off because I was cross training, just not running. I had to come back slowly and here we are.

But then you set a personal record, right after coming back?

AD: The timing was right. I was fortunate to have a smart coach who was conservative on getting me back. It was slow to start, for sure. The first race back was a little rocky, but I took baby steps.

Has it been useful for you, having a coach that kind of knows you?

AD: Yeah, oh my gosh. That’s been kind of essential, I think, to this success, especially my first year out. I think that’s often times one of the hardest pieces of the transition from college to professional running for most elite runners. As soon as I found out that[Coogan] had taken that position, I had my eyes on moving to Boston as well, and it’s been a good fit.

Has the training changed significantly?

AD: I think for the most part the training has been about the same. I was trying to boost my mileage a bit right before I got injured but I don’t think it was just the mileage. We were out training at altitude in Boulder. There was just a lot of change.

I don’t think the mileage was that big of a deal.

After I got injured, we decided to stick with what

I have been doing at Dartmouth with the addition of some strength work to try to make sure I was recovering and could prevent the type of injury that I had from happening again.

Was Worlds your goal this year or was there a different goal?

AD: This meet definitely had a star next to it.

The World Championships in track and field are unique because they are just track and field. The Olympics are special because it’s such a renowned competition and it’s so well known. But in the track world, it is arguably more important. There is steeper competition. The stars aligned and I’ll be really excited to compete there in August.

Between now and then, what are you going to be doing and what are your goals for that meet?

AD: On Saturday, well I’m at the airport right now and I’m going back to Boston today, but Saturday we’ll fly to Ireland and do a few races in Europe and do just three actually in two weeks. We’ll come back and have a training stint in Boston from the end of July to [mid-August] and then I’ll fly into Japan. They don’t want us flying into Beijing because of the air quality, so there is a training camp, pre-Worlds, in Japan. We’ll fly there, get adjusted to the time there and all that and then fly to Beijing three days before we race.

Do you have to work another job while you do all this?

AD: No. I’m doing this full-time. But there are people who do it. It’s tough but they do it... [Teammate] Megan Krumpoch [’14 ]works full-time and competed this weekend at USA’s. She didn’t qualify but she was on the world-record breaking distance medley team in the winter. The women who won the 5000 this past weekend work full time. Different things work for different people, obviously. It’s incredible what some athletes are doing.

You said that Krumpoch was on your team, and you’re going to Worlds with another Dartmouth alum, Ben True ’08. You still have interactions with people who know you as a Dartmouth student, not just an athlete. What’s that like?

AD: Yeah, absolutely. That’s a really special connection just because [True] was always a source of inspiration for me while still in college. Of course, he’s a few years older and was already training professionally in Hanover, but he’s just such a work horse and I think the amount of drive it takes to train alone in Hanover is something amazing. To have a Dartmouth presence and a source of familiarity and comfort is really, really important, especially as we get to an even bigger stage in August. You kind of really hold on to what’s familiar in that really uncomfortable environment of traveling and racing.

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WITH JOEL WENG ’17

B y annie ma The Dartmouth Staff

How would you categorize this season?

JW: Our results at Eastern Sprints weren’t great. It was one of worst performances we’ve had since I’ve been here. It’s unfortunate because things looked promising early in the year. Even in the winter people were getting really fit, and our coaches were saying that this was going be our year. But at sprints things just didn’t fall into place. I wouldn’t call it a bad season, just a bad end but we’re looking ahead to next year.

What do you love about crew at Dartmouth?

JW: There’s a lot more beyond high school.

Obviously, there are nicer facilities, and the boats are pretty fantastic. One of the big differences is that being on a Division 1 varsity program, there’s a very high level of expectation. We’re expected to perform at our very best every day. I wasn’t used to that in high school. Crew was mainly a social outlet. It might be fun, it might be a way to relax. But here, the goal every day, every minute we spend rowing, is winning at championships. The coaches make that very clear. Crew is one of those sports that, unless you fall in love with it, it makes no sense to do. It takes a lot of hard work and patience. How well you do at championships is determined by everything.

It’s honestly determined before you get there.

All the work the year before leads up to that.

But there’s something magical about the way, or the feeling and sense of the boat moving perfectly. That’s something that all rowers strive for. I can’t describe in words how great it feels. The passion that a lot of people on the team share is one thing I love the most, and it really brings the team together.

we have a summer training camp. It’s a little bit different from the rest of the year, but still pretty rigourous. We’re out on the water a lot, really trying to take advantage of the weather.

What’s it like being a student-athlete?

JW: It’s definitely a big step up from high school in terms of the level of competition and commitment. I knew it was going to be hard. My first year, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it through, but we had a big walk-on class that bonded so well. There have obviously been times where I thought of quitting, but when I really think about it, there’s no way I could actually go through with it.

What are your goals for the upcoming season and the incoming class?

JW: The recruiting class is already determined, but there’s always a lot potential in the walkons. Some of the best talent in the past 5 years have come from strong, fit guys who had never rowed before. People like swimmers or runners, where their sport is a big part of their life but they just have never heard of crew before.

Personally, as a walk-on athlete, you’re not at the same level as some of the recruits.

I definitely want to strive to make a bigger contribution to the team next season. Beyond that, probably to become closer with everyone, be better friends with everyone on the team.

Of course, we’re close now, but I want to take that even further.

How did you get started rowing/have you rowed before?

JW: I started rowing my senior year of high school. It was definitely too late for recruiting, but I came in with the intention of walking on to the team. It’s one of the most amazing things about my Dartmouth experience and I can’t imagine Dartmouth without it.

What’s it like being removed from the season training now that it’s summer?

JW: If you talk to the rowers, they’ll tell you there’s no off-season even though, technically, we’re not in season during the summer. You have to be in the best shape you can be, and that means training every day of the year. In the summer, we don’t have formal practice, but

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Weng rows for the men’s lightweight crew team.