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Loved ones remember Summer Hammond ’17

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HARARY: TERRORISM AND MENTAL ILLNESS

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To Summer Hammond ’17, happiness was incomplete unless those around her felt it too. Not even a cancer diagnosis on her 16th birthday could shake her firm belief in positivity, in living life to the fullest. Family members say that Summer never made anything about herself — rather, it was always about what she could do for her friends.

High school classmate Mary Vansuch remembers that when the school raised money to help pay for Hammond’s cancer treatment, Hammond insisted on donating the funds. She reasoned that she could afford the treatment, while someone else out there could not.

“She was always a very genuinely nice and caring person, even to people who barely knew her,” Vansuch said.

Hammond was kind, welcoming and unstoppable in her commitment to live every day like it mattered, family and friends said. After a five-year battle with cancer, Hammond passed away due to complications from radiation treatment at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Medical Center on July 20, 2015. She was 20.

Growing up in Centennial, Colorado, Hammond developed a love for sports, animals and the outdoors. While a student at Grandview High School, she was a member of the varsity soccer, gymnastics, swimming and diving teams, among others.

Hammond refused to let her diagnosis dictate how she lived her life, friends said.

Despite undergoing a very aggressive chemotherapy regimen that almost always limits patients from attending school, Hammond continued to do so and often carried her treatments on her back while going to classes, her mother Sharon Hammond said.

The treatment led Hammond to lose all her hair, though her mother laughed while recalling how adamantly she refused to wear a wig. The only exception was once for a wedding, though her mother said she ripped it off right after.

“To her, cancer was just an inconvenience,” Sharon Hammond remembers. “She would never allow it to be a barrier to living her life.”

At the start of her freshman fall, Hammond tried out for

club soccer. She also discovered that her cancer had returned, this time in an isolated lesion, her mother said. Still, she played three out of the four days of tryouts and made the cut, her teammate Sarah Latulipe ‘17 said.

“When you make the team, the upperclassmen come to your room and surprise wake you up,” Latulipe said. “We did that for Summer too, except we went to Dick’s House where she was staying after treatment and she was just so incredibly happy that she was part of the team that she couldn’t care less about the cancer.”

Friends remember Hammond as the type of person who could facilitate friendships, making sure everyone involved felt included and happy.

“Summer believed that everyone should be comfortable and happy with how they were,” Sharon Hammond said. “Until then, she would work towards making other people happy, because it was never about herself.”

Aliyah Gallup ‘17 met Hammond on Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips.

They later roomed together their sophomore year. Gallup

Courtesy of Sharon Hammond

Hammond’s friends said she loved the outdoors.

recalls many nights where the two could never fall asleep, because they would keep each other up talking about their days.

“We’d be lying there just so tired, but then we’d realize there’s this other thing we had to talk about,” Gallup said. “Conversations would last hours, and I just knew she was the person I could go to because she was so good at really listening.”

Hammond loved to dance, and Gallup remembers how she would create a fun environment for her friends regardless

of the situation.

“We would be out dancing at a party, and she’s this cowgirl from Colorado at heart,” Gallup said. “She’d grab my hand, twirl me around and teach me some line dance move and not care at all and be so happy.”

Freshmen floormate Jennie Cunningham ‘17 remembers how dedicated Hammond was to building genuine, meaningful friendships. Though they were miles apart during their freshman summer, Hammond working on a ranch in WyoSEE SUMMER PAGE 3

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Four panelists shared stories of intersectionality last night at a panel kicking off the Center for Gender and Student Engagement’s Voices of Summer programming. The event featured three student panelists in addition to Kari Cooke, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership’s

assistant dean and advisor to black students.

During the discussion, panelists Asha Wills ’17, Micah Park ’17 and Tsion Abera ’17 pointed out that students at Dartmouth each experience the College differently as a function of the different parts of their respective identities, a tenet of intersectionality.

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Alumni giving breaks records

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The College received a record-breaking $325.4 million in gifts and commitments in the 2014-15 fiscal year, the College announced on July 15. This total exceeds last year’s by 27 percent. The Dartmouth College Fund and the annual funds for the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck Business School also broke records this year.

Almost 43 percent of Dartmouth alumni contributed for the fiscal year, which

ended on June 30.

Most of the money raised will go toward implementing the new academic clusters, endowing professorships and increasing the number of scholarships awarded.

In addition to these proposals, the money will fund the transformation of residential clusters, an important part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy.

Three of the four largest gifts will create academic clusters in applied mathematics, globalization and health care delivery. Each of these

fi elds will host three new faculty members.

Donors endowed 15 professorships for both current and future faculty members, which will recognize faculty for their teaching and scholarly work.

Donations also contributed to the King Scholars Program, which was established by Dottie and Bob King ’57 in 2013. Four additional King Scholars, students from developing countries who are passionate SEE GIVING PAGE 2

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about global poverty alleviation, will arrive in September, adding on to the six scholars who have already matriculated. The donations will allow the program to eventually grow to 24 students.

Past donations have led to the creation of living-learning communities, such as the Triangle House and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network in Residence.

Ashley Manning ’17, the undergraduate advisor for the Japanese language floor for the fall of 2014 and the winter of 2015, expressed how placing people who were interested in Japanese language and culture on the same floor fostered a community.

“They all loved watching anime and playing Japanese board games,”

Manning said, “So what they’ve been doing alone, they were able to do in a community.”

Several different classes broke reunion records as well as participation records this year. The Class of 1955 at their 60th reunion gave $1,164,655, breaking its previous record of $800,054. The Class of 1960 and the Class of 1994 gave $1,207,229 and $1,745,105 respectively, surpassing previous records as well. Meanwhile, The Class of 1960 and the Class of 1979 broke participation records, with over 67 percent of each class donating.

One way that alumni were able to contribute was talking to a GreenCorps associate. GreenCorps, which operates out of the Dartmouth College Fund, consists of students who call alumni to solicit donations.

Yingna Wang ’17, who previously worked for GreenCorps, said she received many positive comments from alumni who said they would be thrilled to contribute.

“I once talked to an alumnus who was upset because he forgot to donate last year, breaking his streak of annual donations,” she said. “It’s amazing to see how dedicated people are in giving back to Dartmouth.”

Many alumni also join societies and groups, such as the Bartlett Tower Society, which grants membership to alumni who have either donated to the College or included Dartmouth in their estate plans. It has more than 220 alumni members.

Sixteen women joined the Centennial Circle of Dartmouth Alumnae, with commitments of $100,000 or more to go toward student scholarships.

The Tuck School of Business Annual Fund broke a new giving record of $6.4 million.

“Dartmouth is extremely grateful for this reunion-year giving,” College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email.

The donations, she wrote, reflected the time and effort of many staff and alumni, as well as the charitable alumni contributions.

DAily debriefing Crews rescued two Appalachian Trail hikers in separate incidents in Lyme and Orford Wednesday morning, the Valley News reported. One woman injured herself while staying at the shelter on Smarts Mountain in Lyme. Another women fell near the summit of Mount Cube and sustained injuries that prohibited her from continuing without assistance. She was brought to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for evaluation. Members of the Wentworth Fire Department, Orford Fire Department, Warren/Wentworth Ambulance Service, Pemi Valley Search and Rescue Team and the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team assisted with the carry-out, according to a release by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.

Officials said hikers can buy a Hike Safe Card, available for purchase for $25 per individual, which helps support Fish and Game’s search and rescue efforts and exempts the holder from certain liability for repaying search and rescue costs.

Residents in Hartland, New Hampshire are protesting a development that some have called a “dog census,” in which animal control officers will come to residents’ doors to ensure that they do not own unregistered animals, the Valley News reported. The concerns primarily derive from ones regarding privacy, with some residents describing the change as “invasive.”

Those involved in creating the policy defended its merits and assured residents that the measure is not an attempt to violate their privacy or infringe on their rights.

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Summer Hammond ’17 urged friends “Let’s be better” FROM SUMMER PAGE 1

ming and Cunningham at a job back home in Alabama, Cunningham said that was the term that brought them even closer together.

“We had to drive a lot at our jobs,” Cunningham said. “So whenever we were both in the car, we’d just stay on the phone with each other and talk.

It’s funny to me that we became closer as we were so far apart.”

Friends and family say the summer she spent working on a ranch in Wyoming after her freshman year brought together the things she loved most. At Dartmouth, Hammond was pursuing a degree in biology with a minor in studio art, with the goal of becoming a veterinarian.

Hammond also valued the small gestures that made her relationships so genuine, Cunningham said. The two were in the same Math 8 class, where Hammond kept a running list of their inside jokes on the back of her notebook. At the end of the term, Hammond cut out the back of the notebook and had it framed as a Christmas present to Cunningham.

“She did things like that, which made you feel like you were one in a million,” Cunningham said.

For Hammond, it was not a question that she would take advantage of all the opportunities Dartmouth offered, her mother said. During her sophomore winter, Hammond studied Spanish while abroad in Argentina.

In Argentina, Joy Shen ‘17 said that Hammond pushed the citydwellers to hike, horseback ride and explore remote towns, cheerfully teasing them for being “afraid of dirt.”

Shen was also Hammond’s freshman floormate and remembered how easily she could bring strangers together.

“When Summer found out she had to go through treatment again, she decided to dye her hair blue because she might as well go crazy before she lost it,” Shen said. “So then she invited our floor to do it with her, and some soccer girls as well. We don’t know anyone, and we’re dying our hair and she made us all feel so comfortable with each other.”

Throughout her treatment, Hammond continued to give back to the community. At Dartmouth, she was deeply involved with Relay for Life to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

Though she was often unable to make meetings because of ongoing treatments, Relay for Life co-president Mercedes De Guardiola ’17 said that Hammond would always email in ideas for improving the event.

At the Relay event in the spring, De Guardiola recalls Hammond being one of few volunteers who stayed for the entire 12 hours. Relay participants wore one of three types of shirts — volunteer, committee

member or survivor. De Guardiola recalls that Hammond chose to forego her survivor status for the committee shirt, believing her most important role was to support the event and other survivors.

De Guardiola said that the committee will dedicate next year’s Relay for Life event at Dartmouth in honor of Hammond.

In May of 2015, Hammond’s cancer had spread to her bones. Still, she participated in the Memorial Challenge, an event held in honor of Blaine Steinberg ’15 and Torin Tucker ’15.

Hammond and Steinberg were both members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, though they never had the chance to meet, fellow member Tanya Budler ‘15 said. Still, Hammond drew inspiration from Steinberg’s memory, always wearing a bracelet that read “Live Like Blaine.”

“Summer recognized the specialness of Blaine,” Budler said. “She felt like there was something in Blaine’s legacy that needed to be remembered, to live up to. I remember visiting her at the hospital just recently, when she didn’t have very many personal things on her, and she still was wearing that bracelet.”

Kappa president Autumn Chuang ’16 said Hammond was a dedicated member of Kappa and an inspiration to the whole sisterhood. Current summer president Audrey Djiya ’17 echoed Chuang’s sentiments, calling

Hammond a “blessing.”

“I will never forget when she sent out a blitz to the house — the subject line was ‘Let’s be better.’ That’s who she was,” Chuang said.

Determined to participate in her sophomore summer, Hammond’s mother said they moved her in to her room in the sorority house at the beginning of the term. At that point, her mother said her health had weakened to the point where she could not be around anyone with even the slightest infection. Yet Hammond refused to hear her prognosis, instead believing that positivity was the answer to healing.

In a letter to her mother, Summer wrote, “I believe in Western medicine, but it’s not the only thing. We should believe in the positive. I need to approach every day with the belief that, ‘I will live, I will live.’”

Despite new challenges, Budler said Hammond was still determined to make the most out of the term.

The two planned on doing the Prouty together on July 11. Though Hammond was too weak to bike or walk, she had been a golfer in high school and signed up to play that Saturday.

Budler arrived on Friday, when she said it was clear that Hammond was likely too weak to play. The next morning, her condition had not improved.

“God knows how she held a club that day,” Sharon Hammond said.

Still, Hammond was adamant about playing and the two made their 1 p.m. tee time. A few holes in and growing tired, Hammond and Budler noticed two signs posted.

One read, “Keep going, you’re the one fore me” over a photo of Ryan Gosling. The second read “Summer Hammond Rocks!” in hand-drawn, colorful letters.

“I don’t know who put those up, but I think it was her nurses at DHMC,” Budler said. “That made Summer say ‘Hey, we have to keep going, we have to finish this!’ She pushed through and we did nine holes, not all 18, but it was a lot for how she was feeling. She was so relentlessly into supporting good causes, like this and the Memorial Challenge. It’s a memory I’ll cherish forever.”

The Prouty was the last time Hammond left her hospital room.

“She fought the cancer until the end,” her mother said. “The thing about Summer was that she had a very bad cancer, and she knew it. In no way did that limit her. She knew she wanted to study abroad and she did. She kept playing soccer, kept showing up when she couldn’t play.

She wanted to live her life. Even if it meant two to six hours at the hospital, she’d be there and then come back and keep living.”

After Hammond’s passing, Shen reached out to the Argentina language study abroad group, offering

her room as a space for friends to process their emotions. Almost immediately, responses poured in and the group spent the afternoon painting and putting together photos on a memorial board.

“She loved being outside, so we hiked to some random place in the woods and put it there in her memory,” Shen said.

Sharon Hammond said that throughout her daughter’s battle with cancer, Hammond never let her diagnosis define her relationships.

“She didn’t care to be the focus,” she said. “Cancer was just a fact, and the rest was what mattered. When she died, very few people knew how sick she was, because she wanted them to be happy, to live their lives, to not let her cancer dictate anything.”

Her mother said that Hammond believed in positivity, in warmth and in making every interaction, every relationship special.

“The most important thing about my daughter, from a young kid getting bad news at 16 to the woman she became, is that she was a woman who strongly felt that everyone should be loved for who they were,” Sharon Hammond said. “If that wasn’t true for everyone, she’d work toward that until it was.”

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST PAUL HARARY ’18

The Cost of One’s Major

Terror and Mental Illness

A recent Atlantic study raises questions about how much academic freedom we have.

The Atlantic recently published an article with the sensational title, “Rich Kids Study English,” which explores the results of a study that show a correlation between parental wealth and student major.

It appears that nationally, college students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds choose majors in “hireable” fields more often than their wealthier peers. Because wealthy students do not have to worry as much about landing a job solely based on their major, the study suggests, they pursue less practical fields of study. At Dartmouth, we are often sold the idea of the holistic, liberal arts education. The admissions office advertises this ideal, and our professors and deans, among others, tell us from day one of orientation that we should major in something we love. But that is often easier said than done.

The practical reality for many students is that a Dartmouth diploma is not enough — the major printed on this diploma still matters. As The Atlantic study suggests, the pressure to follow career-oriented paths and eschew the liberal arts is often higher for those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. While French or art history can lead to some career options, other majors promise directly applicable skills in more lucrative fields. For those who may be burdened by student loans, a less hireable major may not be worth the risk of unemployment after graduation. A degree in a STEM field often opens up higher-paying opportunities with better benefits to those who need them most. STEM majors frequently rank among the highest-paid upon graduation, while many humanities fields consistently dwell somewhere near the bottom in most major rankings. Further, the option to expand upon one’s undergraduate degree through graduate programs is not always viable, particularly for those facing student debt.

Thinking of the financial outcomes of one’s college education is reasonable. While

we should celebrate the ideals of a liberal arts education, we must acknowledge these concerns and the sociopolitical nuances of selecting a major.

In many ways, liberal arts institutions are facing a crisis of confidence. William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” is one of the latest high-profile attacks on the Ivy League and the liberal arts institution more broadly. A liberal arts education stimulates the mind, makes room for intellectual debate and allows students to enjoy learning for its own sake. It also forces students to learn to think in an abstract way and exposure to new and complex ideas.

An often-overlooked yet vital component to rethinking the liberal arts, however, is the extent to which students have equal access to this experience. People often debate the objective merits of humanities studies — broad thinking, moral and intellectual development, exposure to great cultural works — against those of STEM fields, which include knowing technical skills, competing on a world stage, and so on. They do not consider, however, that many students do not have the opportunity to make this choice, even if they value the skills and experiences that a humanities education might offer them.

So, if you have the means, choose the major that you feel passionate about, but recognize the privilege embedded in that choice. That being said, the beauty of a liberal arts education is that the major you choose does not define your experience at the College. Even if you pursue a more practical major, the liberal arts can be explored through distributive requirements and though course exploration outside one’s major. Experiences outside the classroom, from casual, spontaneous conversations with a professor to lecture series or programs, can foster that sort of learning as well. College aims to prepare us for our adult lives, and sometimes adulthood requires compromise and practicality.

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We must resist the temptation to conflate terrorism and mental illness.

How do we define terrorism? Although the America and a conversion to radical Islam, word often calls to mind violence, insurgency to a senseless act of violence by a mentally and extremism, it has proven to be a difficult ill individual. Abdulazeez had a long hisconcept to describe in more concrete terms. tory of drug and alcohol abuse, and he In October 2005, the United Nations had difficulties keeping a job. He moved General Assembly attempted to layout a around frequently and even came close to framework for what could be considered being enrolled into a rehab facility, but was “acts of terror.” They came to an agreement unable to receive treatment because his that terrorism is characterized by attacks on parents’ health insurance refused to cover “respect for human rights, the rule of law, it. His record of DUIs does not describe a rules of war that protect civilians, tolerance fanatical follower of Sharia law, but rather among peoples and nations and the peace- a troubled and unstable man. It is only in ful resolution of conflict.” Although this his final months that his family and friends may seem like a vague outline of terror, the recall him beginning to haphazardly identify Federal Bureau of Investigation, here in the with Islamic fundamentalism. This pattern, United States, drew even broader strokes. mental illness followed by a rash alignment In the aftermath of the September with an extremist ideology, bears significant 11 attacks, the Patriot resemblance to the case Act was quickly spirited of Dylann Roof, the perthrough Congress and “Things become much petrator of the Charlessigned into effect. One more uncertain when ton church shooting. of its provisions called

Roof ’s peer s for the expansion of we start talking about described him as bethe definition of “inter- individual acts of ing isolated and having national terrorism” to problems with drugs, random violence as include activities that including opiates. In ad“intimidate or coerce terrorism.” dition, given his record a civilian population,” of minor arrests and his “influence the policy of a precarious lifestyle, it is government by intimidation or coercion” or easy to see striking similarities between him “affect the conduct of a government by mass and Abdulazeez. In both cases, the young destruction, assassination or kidnapping.” men went through several years of intense This description was left intentionally open- dysfunction and personal struggle before ended, allowing the federal government the suddenly committing acts of brutality in the freedom to file any number of undesirable name of movements with which they had no activities under the umbrella of terror. These prior correction. These fanatical doctrines ­— changes were clearly made with organiza- militant Islam and white supremacy — may tions such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in have just served as pretexts for a mentally ill mind, both of which were strongly associated person’s violently lashing out. Neither Abduwith attacks on Americans domestically and lazeez nor Roof has been discovered to have abroad. More recently, we have witnessed membership in any extremist organization, the rise of the Islamic State, also known as and most experts agree that the attacks were ISIS or ISIL, another self-orchestrated. group to which this label “Regardless of how

If these tragof international terror edies were truly the result is well-suited. However, comprehensive our of untreated mental sickthings become much mental health coverage ness rather than coordimore uncertain when we nated efforts by militant may be, there are start talking about indigroups, then how can vidual acts of random bound to be unbalanced we address the problem? violence as terrorism.

Although it will certainly individiuals.”

For example, the be beneficial to expand horrific attacks on two mental health services — military installations in perhaps enabling people Chattanooga, Tennessee that resulted in like Abdulazeez to receive help before it is too the deaths of four active military members late — it is impossible to account for every are being widely portrayed as yet another outlier. Regardless of how comprehensive instance of a radicalized Muslim targeting our mental health coverage may be, there are American citizens. Many journalists and bound to be unbalanced individuals who are public figures are quick to latch onto the spurred to violence. It is possible to greatly fact that Youssef Abdulazeez, the shooter, reduce the damage caused by such attacks made several visits to Jordan and one trip by limiting access to firearms rather than to Kuwait over the past decade. In addi- focusing solely on mental health services. tion, there has been much attention given Gun control is the main difference between to his private writings which, although they the United States and other countries, and contained mostly gibberish, revealed that it is why we have been plagued by so many he felt himself to be “alienated by United of these terrible episodes compared to our States policies in the Middle East.” peers. The common denominator behind This type of coverage, however, is deeply these devastating attacks has almost always misguided. It attempts to affix a rational been the use of guns — not simply mental motive, in this case a supposed hate of health.

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CGSE panel highlights identity FROM PANEL PAGE 1

Abera, for example, explained how she experiences privilege as a heterosexual woman while also facing challenges as an African American woman.

Park described how she felt exoticized as an Asian-American student for the first time at Dartmouth even while she experiences privilege due to other parts of her identity, such as her socioeconomic status.

“You can be oppressed in one way and privileged in another,” she said. “Those two things can be happening at the same time.”

Coming from her hometown of San Francisco, Park said, she was aware of negative stereotypes about Asian Americans but had never felt lesser for her heritage. At Dartmouth, she said she has worked to come to terms with how the different parts of her identity affect her experience, especially when many people do not realize they are making others uncomfortable.

“You have to reevaluate what you’re going to let define you,” she said. “It’s easier said than done.”

Many people at the College and in general do not recognize the ways in which they are privileged, Wills said. In high school, Wills said, she

had been identified as an athlete or musician, but at Dartmouth found that her predominate identity was as a black woman.

All of the panelists agreed that having close friend groups on campus has allowed them to cope with negative experiences as both women and minorities, Cooke emphasized the impor-

“You can be oppressed in one way and privileged in another.

Those two things can be happening at the same time.”

-MICAH PARK ’17 tance of a form of feminism that takes into account the nuances of people’s lived experiences, such as her being both black and a woman.

She said the legacies of colonialism can be seen in the concept of firstwave feminism, which begins with the woman’s suffrage movement.

“Everyone experiences Dartmouth differently,” Cooke said,

adding that she hopes to provide support for students dealing with discomfort in her new role as an OPAL assistant dean.

CGSE intern and co-director of the Voices of Summer show Jessica King Fredel ’17 said that starting the summer programming with a panel on intersectionality helps create a framework for participants to view the other events.

“Having this event first allows this topic to be in conversation with the rest of the events,” CGSE intern and co-director Kalie Marsicano ’17 said.

Abera emphasized the importance of realizing that the problems faced by historically oppressed groups are systemic and far-reaching. Dartmouth can be an oppressive place, but it is not an isolated case, she said.

“When people talk about white privilege, a lot of white people see it as a personal attack and get defensive,” she added. “It’s not a personal attack. It’s that, systemically, a group of people is suffering.”

The event, attended by about 30 people, was held in Triangle House.

Programming will continue with a panel on healthy relationships at Alpha Theta coeducational fraternity on July 28.

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VoX to display stories about identity

B y HALLIE HUFFAKER The Dartmouth Staff

Voices of 15X or VoX, directed

by Jessica King-Fredel ’17 and Kalie Marsicano ‘17, will be a genderinclusive production of students bearing their souls to their peers.

VoX follows in the same vein as Voices, Upstaging Stereotypes and The Vagina Monologues — three shows presented during V-February, King-Fredel said. In the winter, Marsicano and King-Fredel co-directed Voices, which was in its second year.

“Everyone wanted to keep the momentum going,” King-Fredel said.

She said that VoX, like its predecessors, addresses themes of gender, sexuality and identity. The production provides a safe space for students to speak about anything meaningful to them, King-Fredel said.

“The idea is that we can expose some people to conversations that they haven’t previously been aware of before,” Hannah Solomon ’17 said.

Solomon joined the VoX committee after being “blown away” by Voices in the winter.

The directors expanded the production to be open to all genders.

“We wanted to take advantage of peoples’ willingness to try new things,” Marsicano said.

Chris Meyer ’17, another member of the VoX committee and a previous participant in Upstaging Stereotypes, said that the class unity created over the sophomore summer term makes it an ideal time to have conversations.

“It is unique because it is just us ’17s, so among the committee there is more of a sense that we as a class can come together and look at issues of identity — whether that’s gender, sexuality, really any aspect of your identity that you think is important,” he said.

Unlike with the V-February shows, everyone involved in VoX, including committee members, must write and perform their own pieces.

Committee member Gabby Bozarth ‘17 first participated in Voices as a freshman, and said that she appreciates the honesty of the performances.

“A lot of times on this campus we are asked to speak for things as representatives,” Bozarth said. “But during Voices you are only speaking for yourself, and you get to tell your narrative the way you want to.”

Everyone on the committee said that the goal of VoX is to allow people to share stories that are meaningful to them.

“Everyone has a story,” Meyer said. “I personally believe that it is very helpful for me as an individual to share that, and for my friends or other Dartmouth students to hear that.”

Marsicano said she appreciates the way that it provides a safe framework for people to speak their mind.

“A lot of times when you are talking about really hot issues it can be polarizing and it can turn people away, so this is a way for people to talk about things that matter to them,” she said.

King-Fredel echoed her peers and said that she learns from others’ pieces.

“Simultaneously they can be very personal stories but also speak to bigger social issues,” she said. “It’s nice to have these themes brought down to earth.”

Bozarth said that the performance is primarily about self-expression.

“I hope that when people come they just see our honest stories and take them as that,” she said. “I hope that they see us as individuals and the vulnerability there, and can appreciate that.

There are no restrictions on what the pieces can be about, King-Fredel said. Although performances are often related to gender, she said race would likely become a bigger part of the conversation.

The cast rehearses once a week.

They spent their first rehearsals doing team-building exercises, Bozarth said, before moving on to reading their drafts out loud.

Committee member Amara Ihionu ’17, listening to other cast members is a phenomenal experience.

“Looking at a person, you have

no idea about anything,” Ihionu said.

“Hearing their pieces in workshop is mind-blowing.”

The vulnerability of the process creates a tight bond within the cast, King-Fredel said. Meyer is particularly excited for how close the group will become during tech week, the final week of rehearsals.

“It can seem like you’ll never get it done, but the last few days of rehearsal it all comes together,” he said. “You can look back and know you did something special.”

Marsicano hopes that the central location of the performance — Collis Common Ground — will bring a large audience from all ends of campus, unlike their previous audiences, which she described as “selfselecting.”

“I’m hoping that we can keep the conversations going,” Marsicano said. “We want people to feel more comfortable and able to talk about these things that aren’t so easy to talk about.”

The main VoX performance will be accompanied by a series of panels organized by the Center for Gender and Student Engagement. These panels feature student and faculty speakers.

The performance will be on August 10th at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Marsicano is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Q&A with Jeff Georgantes

B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth sat down with Donald Claflin jewelry studio director Jeff Georgantes to talk about how the studio operates over the summer and what makes the space unique.

Does the studio have any special events coming up?

JG: Next Tuesday we’re going to do a pop-up jewelry studio over in Collis during lunchtime. For a couple of hours, people are going to have the opportunity to make beaded bracelets, and it’s free. It’s a way of just promoting the studio and creating fun and creative energy. And another one that’s going to be coming up is right before Fieldstock weekend. The thursday of that weekend-I like to think of as an opening to Fieldstock-we’re going to have Craftfest. The woodshop and the jewelry studio are going to collaborate and have a maker celebration — just making stuff, kind of like a making party. The jewelry studio will have earrings, bracelets, rings and handcolored buttons.

How will guest artist Deb Stoner’s visit work?

JG: She is a jeweler, a sculptor and a freelance eyeglass designer. She does designs for Donna Karan. She is the head of the jewelry program at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is teaching a workshop at a prestigious art school at Maine. We’re lucky enough to be able to divert her before she goes to Haystack [Mountain School of Crafts].

She will be here for one day and during that day she will teach a free workshop just for Dartmouth students and give a slide presentation about her career.

How is the jewelry studio an important space for students?

JG: What’s amazing about this program is how long it’s been in existence.

Student workshops have been in existence for 75 years and the jewelry program for almost 40 years. In that period of time, the world has changed a lot. During life before the internet, the idea of making things seemed to be much more important, but that still lives on. One of the most telling things that happens every year in the spring are seniors who have never had the opportunity to come down here and come down in their last month of being at Dartmouth. They list not knowing about it as one of their biggest regrets once they see how much fun it is.

Why did you get interested in jewelry making?

JG: I was lucky enough to go to a high school with jewelry making. Truthfully I was never really good at anything as a kid, and somehow I made a piece of jewelry, and it just came naturally to me and I became obsessed with it.

I went to a college that had jewelry as something you could emphasize as part of the art degree. I basically started as a high school kid and never stopped. I think part of what intrigues me about it is the intricate construction and being able to focus on detail. It’s very different from working big.

What are some interesting projects students are working on?

JG: Doug [Tallmadge ‘18] is working on a project in a physics lab where he is creating this globe that’s going to conduct electricity. And it has to be globe within a globe. It’s been super fun helping him make it. He’s never made anything like this before.

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Five teams honored with All-Academic distinctions

B y BRANDON APOO The Dartmouth

Big Green athletes have been on top of their game recently — on and off the field. In the past week, the men’s and women’s tennis teams were honored as Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic teams and the men’s and women’s track and field program was recognized as a U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic team. Seven members of the sailing team were also honored as members of the Inter-collegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) All-Academic team.

ITA Scholar-Athletes include Aman Agarwal ’18, Blake Niehaus ’17, Diego Pedraza ’17, Dovydas Sakinis ’16, Sam Todd ’15 and George Wall ’17 from the men’s tennis team as well as Sarah Bessen ’16, Julienne Keong ’16, Taylor Ng ’17 and Julia Schroeder ’18 from the women’s tennis team. Brian Masterson ’16, Nico Robinson ’17 and Silas Talbot ’15, all members of the men’s track and field team, were awarded individual spots on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team. Lizzie Guynn ’16, Hunter Johnstone ’16, Deirdre Lambert ’15, Emily Petno ’16, Abigail Rohman ’16, Sarah Williams ’16 and Hope Wilson ’16 were named to the ICSA All-Academic team.

Receiving the team All-Academic

distinction requires a collective effort on and off the field. The tennis teams had to maintain a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above, with each contributing athlete having competed in at least one varsity match. The track and field teams had to maintain an average GPA of at least 3.0 to earn the title, but both the men’s and women’s teams surpassed this requirement with a 3.32 and 3.31 respectively.

Individual athletes honored as All-Academic players were held to even higher standards. ITA ScholarAthletes must achieve a GPA of at least 3.50 for the academic year and must be varsity letter recipients. To qualify for the All-Academic track and field team, athletes must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 and must have participated in a round of the NCAA Division I championships. All sailors named to the ICSA All-Academic team must be a junior or senior in college, have a 3.3 GPA or higher and be either a starter or key reserve in at least seven university-sponsored regattas.

As an Ivy League student-athlete, time for academics is constrained by practice, competitions and travel.

Todd said that for student-athletes, effective time management sometimes requires doing work on the road to tournaments, alongside late nights and plenty of discipline.

“I was just sitting at this desk writ-

ing my paper all night and then had to go play a match the next afternoon on about two hours of sleep,” he said.

“It’s stuff like that. I mean, you get through it.”

Despite busy schedules, many athletes still find some time to engage in the College’s social scene.

“It was kind of one big balancing act,” Talbot said. “Everything was in moderation, and nothing really ever got old.”

Talbot, who will begin studies at Thayer School of Engineering this fall, was a season-round tennis player.

In addition, he was a member of the cross-country and Nordic ski teams and held All-Academic honors in both.

Barry Harwick, the head coach of the men’s track and field team, said that Masterson is a perfect example of a student-athlete with good time management — as evidenced by his GPA. “[Masterson] always clarifies dates with me after receiving our schedule,” Harwick said. Talbot echoed Harwick saying that Masterson is arguably one of the harder workers on the distance team.

Dartmouth athlete recruitment considers whether or not students can handle the pressure of balancing both their sports and academics.

“We definitely make a point of trying to recruit players that are really motivated for their tennis, but also

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Tennis player George Wall ’17 was recently named an ITA Scholar-Athlete. academically as well and that want the challenge of doing both,” men’s tennis head coach Chris Drake said.

He said the coaching staff also prioritizes academics and is willing to help in any way that it can.

“If somebody ended up having a tough term, we meet with them about it and try to get to the bottom of it,” Drake said.

These accolades are nothing new to the teams.

“The team has been recognized as an All-Academic every year since I have been a coach at Dartmouth,”

Harwick said. The tennis team has been recognized as an All-Academic team for the past five years under Drake.

Todd said he is not surprised that many students earned academic honors, and said that he expects such success to continue.

Last week, three members of the women’s golf team — Jane Lee ’15, Lily Morrison ’16 and Jessica Kittelberger ’18 — were honored as members of the Women’s Collegiate Golf All-American Scholars team, which requires a minimum GPA of 3.50.

Athletic trainers work with a variety of summer camps B y ALYSSA JORGENSEN The Dartmouth

All summer long, herds of high school students fill College sporting facilities, dorms, dining halls and crosswalks as they participate in numerous athletic summer camps held on campus. More than 15 camps will be held on campus this summer, including the Elite Soccer Camp, Buddy Teevens Football School, Nike Volleyball Camp, Go Green Swim Camp, Bob Whalen Baseball School, Gold Medal Running Camp, Paul Cormier Basketball Camp, Iron Pine Lacrosse Camp, Elite Softball Camp and the Hansi Wiens Squash Camps, among many others.

Coaches from Dartmouth and other colleges are the organizers and facilitators behind these camps.

They devote their time and effort to pour knowledge into their campers, regardless of whether campers are serious about competing for Dart-

mouth in the future or simply seeking more expertise in their sport. The heartbeat of these camps are the campers themselves, bringing a lively atmosphere to campus and its athletic facilities, while most of the College’s student population is off campus.

Meanwhile, the sports medicine staff — who make sure all activities run safely and dehydration-free — comprise the backbone of these camps.

On top of working long hours during the day, Dartmouth athletic trainers spend some time at night in dorms with campers to ensure that health and safety are prioritized. They keep medical histories and injury reports on all campers, act as mediators between the minors and their parents when complications or injuries occur and experience firsthand the interactions between campers and coaches.

Whether it is a concussion during a soccer drill, a broken clavicle during a lacrosse scrimmage, taping ankles for

a football game or watching a camper commit to Dartmouth after camp, the sports medicine staff witnesses it all.

Athletic trainer Bethanie Brann has been working at sports camps all summer. This week, she is with the women’s soccer camp, which is hosting 181 girls, Brann said.

“Ensuring their safety is our job, and I love getting to interact with the kids and help them out, even when it requires long days and nights sometimes,” Brann said. “For some of these girls, this is their third or fourth week of camp, so they have had a couple ankle sprains, their muscles are tight, we’ve had a few concussions, cases like that. We have to make sure these things stay treated so they can keep participating and be ready for the next camp.”

Brann also walks beside the campers during their days here, and said that she thinks the camps are great experiences for prospective Dartmouth students.

“The kids get to live in the dorms and go to the dining halls and see the campus,” she said. “They get to experience Dartmouth almost like a Dartmouth student would. It’s an awesome way for them to get to know the school, the coaches and the current players.”

Athletic trainer Chad Johnson worked the Buddy Teevens Football Camp during the last week of June.

Johnson said that head football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 runs a high-quality recruiting camp every summer.

“Most of the campers were recruited or invited, and there were 19 other coaches there besides the Dartmouth coaching staff, so all the kids got to be seen by many different colleges,” he said.

Johnson also commented on how amazing it was to have an up-close view of how much work the Dartmouth coaches put into their camps.

“Teevens is always on the field.

He makes himself very accessible to

the campers,” he said. “Coach [Keith] Clark even taught them life skills besides football skills, like how to shake someone’s hand properly and where to properly place a name tag. They really care about their campers, not just as football players, but as people.”

Athletic trainer Jean Troiano, who worked the volleyball and men’s lacrosse camps, said that the men’s lacrosse camp specifically was different this year because of the new coaching staff. Eight other college coaches joined the Dartmouth lacrosse coaches, and about 120 athletes attended the camp.

“For the lacrosse camp it was really cool watching the interactions between the coaches and the campers, because most of the campers were capable of getting recruited by the schools there,” Troiano said. “Watching them swap contact information and talk about unofficial and official visits and seeing the excitement on the kids’ faces was really awesome.”