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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
SAE under investigation for hazing Cuevas ’14
alleges assault by Brown security By SAVANNAH MAHER The Dartmouth
organization also contacted administrators at the College, and that the two groups will continue to work closely together in determining more details of the case. He called the relationship between SAE national and its university affiliates — including the College — a “partnership.” The College subsequently notified Hanover Police about these allegations, and an on-
Geovanni Cuevas ’14 said that he was assaulted by a Brown University Department of Public Safety officer while representing Dartmouth as a senior delegate at the annual Latinx Ivy League Conference, hosted this weekend by Brown. The incident took place just after midnight on Saturday morning at a party hosted by Brown’s Machado house, a space for students interested in Spanish language and Hispanic culture. Hours earlier, Cuevas had verbally confronted officers regarding their aggression toward party-goers. A statement released to the Brown community on Saturday evening by Russell Carey, the university’s executive vice president for planning and policy, described the altercation as “heated and physical.” In a campus-wide email, Brown President Christina Paxson stated that the incident is under “active investigation.” The officer in question, whose identity has not been made public, has been taken off patrol until the investigation is completed. Dartmouth’s chapter of Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity is hosting an “emergency community meeting” today at Cutter-Shabazz Hall in response to the incident, according to a campus-wide email. In the email, LUL pointed to students at other Ivy League schools making demands of administrators in response to the incident.
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After reports of hazing, Sigma Alpha Epsilon national fraternity sent its Dartmouth chapter a cease and desist letter.
B y CAROLINE BERENS The Dartmouth Staff
The Hanover Police Department is investigating reports that Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater nity hazed its new members, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed Thursday. The College is cooperating with the separate investigations of both Hanover Police and SAE’s national organization.
SAE national’s staff notified the College after receiving the reports of hazing, Lawrence confirmed. SAE national also immediately issued a cease and desist order to the College’s chapter on Oct. 9, which mandated that the fraternity suspend all activity — namely, hosting events — while the investigation is ongoing, SAE media spokesperson Brandon Weghorst said. Weghorst said the national
Anderson to be WISE advocate B y AMANDA ZHOU The Dartmouth
Delaney Anderson began working with survivors of sexual assault when she herself was in college. Since then, she has traveled from campus to campus to learn more about the overlap between college environments and sexual assault and to serve sur-
vivors. Now she has come to Dartmouth to serve as WISE campus advocate through a formal partnership that bridges WISE of the Upper Valley and Dartmouth students. WISE is a crisis support, advocacy and prevention non-profit that services over 21 different towns SEE WISE PAGE 5
College aids rural libraries B y SONIA QIN
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Dartmouth a $3 million five-year grant to turn small, rural libraries around the nation into STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — learning centers. This project, called “Rural Gateways,” is led by mathematics and computer science professor Daniel Rockmore and co-investigators Karen Brown of Dominican University, John Falk
of Oregon State University and Meighan Maloney of Dawson Media Group. Rural Gateways follows on the heels of “Pushing the Limits,” a previous project also led by Rockmore that involved rolling out materials for informal science events to 100 libraries across the country. This project was also co-sponsored by the Dawson Media Group, Rockmore said. “Through that, we began to think about the impediments for librarians to do additional things,” Rockmore said.
Rural Gateways was a natural follow-up to this first initiative, he said. “The new project just funded is trying to better understand how to help librarians in rural communities feel better able to act as informal science providers,” Rockmore said. “That means helping people find information and hosting sciencethemed events.” This project, which Maloney described as a “book club and SEE LIBRARIES PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing A new study by WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies and the online program management company The Learning House has found that there exists a fundamental divide among institutions in the way online courses are conducted, Inside Higher Ed reported. The study also shows that adjunct labor in online education is decentralized and only lightly supervised. Two hundred and two administrators involved in online education at two- and four-year institutions were included in the study. The studies found that about 52.1 percent said the adjunct instructors are free to design their own courses with minimal supervision. The study found that the training policies for online course instructors are offered but lack institutional policies that establish how instructors are expected to interact with students. Seventy-four percent of respondents said that they were not given instruction on how many times they were expected to interact with students. Some critics suggest that this decentralized approach is unbeneficial for both the students and adjunct professors. The Obama administration released an updated GI Bill comparison tool last week that will allow veterans to compare colleges based on veteran specific graduation and retention rates, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Federal Trade Commission will also sign an agreement to enforce protection for veterans against programs that include misleading advertisements and deceitful enrollment practices that target veterans. The White House also announced that public colleges in all 50 states will allow recent veterans and their dependents to attend at lower in-state tuition rates despite their state of residency. The president is still encouraging Congress to pass a trio of bills that improve the accountability of schools. In response to the sustained protests at the University of Missouri, the prevalence of college protests, walkouts and racial justice campaigns has increased nationwide, Inside Higher Ed reported. Students at Ithaca College have demanded for the removal of College President Thomas Rochon from his position. This demand was fueled by student claims that the college president has failed to appropriately respond to racially charged incidents including one at a forum where two alumni called a black woman a “savage.” Rochon announced the creation of a chief of diversity officer to tend with the promoting inclusivity on campus, but students and faculty members alike upheld their belief that the president should be removed. Similarly, students at Vanderbilt University have petitioned for the suspension of professor Carol Swain, who wrote a controversial article that addressed Islam as a dangerous religion. Vanderbilt’s Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos issued a statement apologizing to students that may have been offended by Swain’s article and stated that his views and the University’s views are not represented by Swain.
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Rural libraries join STEM program FROM LIBRARIES PAGE 1
video discussion program,” entails training librarians to facilitate science events and discussions and providing books and videos to the libraries centered on different science themes. Community members all receive a copy of each book. The four primary public programs offered at each library are knowledge, nature, survival and connection. Periodically, discussions are held to talk about the contents of the books or videos. For the nature theme, one of the books read was “When the Killing’s Done” by T.C. Boyle. In the book, the characters on an island are in conflict about whether to save or destroy an invasion of black rats, which are non-native to the island’s environment, Brown said. This was an example of a science theme presented through a novel, Brown said, that explores the question of how to balance different aspects of nature and naturally-occurring events. Coupled with the book was a video interview with Boyle about how he came to use science in his work. There was also a human interest video of 10 to 15 minutes about a triple amputee who was using technology to push his physical limits. Brown said that one of the objectives of “Rural Gateways” is to discover new ways of using science and technology to push our own limits. “I think that the NSF is very interested in making libraries part of the informal science ecosystem,” Rockmore said. “Librarians are also becoming more and more interested in becoming informal science providers.” Rockmore explained that the libraries involved in the project are located around the country, and that they are looking for a healthy geographic distribution of participants rather than concentrating on one state or region in particular. Since many of the rural counties where the libraries are located do not
have science museums, the informal STEM centers provide the ideal source of science learning in the community, Rockmore said. “Public libraries are centers in the community for public dialogue, engagement with resources and partnership with community organizations,” Brown said. “This project really encourages small and rural libraries to think about libraries as centers for community engagement.” Brown said that adults often prefer to learn in free-choice environments, such as museums and parks, rather than traditional school or educational settings. Hence, the libraries adhere well to the “out-of-classroom” learning environment. Maloney said that projects like Pushing the Limits and Rural Gateways help community members develop an interest in science and empower them to become better citizens. “Science literacy is necessary for citizens to be part of a democracy,” Maloney said. “You need to be informed about what is science and what isn’t.” She said that scientific knowledge can have political, cultural and social impacts, and can improve the world around us. Director of South Carolina’s Georgetown Library Dwight McInvaill and his team have been involved in the promotion of technology, particularly toward youth, since 2006. Prior to being involved in the Rural Gateways project with Dartmouth, his library had used a $600,000 grant from a local foundation to hire one full-time teen-tech librarian and part-time librarians at each of the four branches, including headquarters. They were also able to hire someone to teach youth how to write the programming connected with the creation of video games, McInvaill said. “We have expanded one of our libraries and have a huge room dedicated to teen tech,” he said. With the Dartmouth initiative, McInvaill’s patrons were particularly enraptured by Boyle’s novel.
“We loved the book and loved the video that went with the book,” McInvaill said. “We engaged a scholar to actually talk about the scientific merit of the video and book and then we also had one of the agencies in the community that does scientific research to come in and do an exhibit.” In many instances, his library had to order additional copies of books because of the great amount of community members engaged in the project. “The people were very engaged in the discussions and they did not want to leave — we had a full house every time we did the program,” McInvaill said. “We would still be doing the [Dartmouth] program if we hadn’t run out of money.” McInvaill recommends that for the future, thought should be put into how to scale back expenses and make the program available to a much larger population. He suggested that for the purposes of reducing costs, the training of librarians could be done online through webinars and e-readers could be used. Nola Ramirez, a librarian in Gustine, California, was paired up with a high school teacher to facilitate the question-and-answer session each time after participants had read the story or watched the movie. “They trained us so we knew what to expect since we were the groundbreaking libraries,” Ramirez said, as she was part of the original 10 libraries involved in the Pushing the Limits project. Videos were also taken at the training sessions held in Oregon in order to be used as examples for future library participants, she said. Ramirez said that the program engaged the whole community, with participants ranging in age from midteens all the way up to people in their 80s. “It was a wide range of ages,” she said. “It spanned different generations, so we could get different inputs from different generations.”
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College and SAE national investigate Dartmouth chapter for hazing FROM SAE PAGE 1
going investigation of the fraternity has been underway since Oct. 20, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said. Dennis said the investigation is examining an alleged criminal act of hazing and that the specific nature of the hazing is part of the investigation. He also said whether or not individuals are liable is under investigation. The College’s hazing policy defines hazing as any act directed toward a student, or any coercion or intimidation of a student to perform or participate in an act likely to cause physical or psychological injury to any person, and if the act is a condition of initiation or admission into, continued membership in or association with any organization. The policy continues that this definition applies whether or not the act is considered voluntary. Weghorst said that members who do not comply with SAE national’s stringent health and safety program guidelines will be sanctioned accordingly. “We have a zero-tolerance policy for any actions or behaviors that deviate from our policies,
mission and creed — because that type of conduct is unacceptable,” Weghorst said. Weghorst added that fraternity chapters that do not fulfill SAE’s mission will face immediate repercussions. “Our goal is to provide a meaningful, safe and beneficial experience for all of our members and the communities in which they live,” Weghorst said. “If they cannot do so, our leadership will not hesitate to take swift actions or measures, as they have demonstrated in the past, in order to make our organization better.” Dennis said Safety and Security is not involved in the Hanover Police Department’s investigation. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that his department was not at liberty to comment on the ongoing investigation. Hanover Police will be contacting fraternity members and officers to request interviews, which Safety and Security officers will attend when possible. Assistant director of judicial affairs Katharine Strong sent a formal notice that Dartmouth is cooperating with the police investigation to SAE president Adam Grounds ’16 and other members
of the fraternity on Nov. 11. Weghorst said that SAE has sponsored an anti-hazing hotline for several years, and earlier this year created a new anonymous
“Our goal is to provide a meaningful, safe and beneficial experience for all our members and the communities in which they live. If they cannot do so, our leadership will not hesitate to take swift actions or measures.” - SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON NATIONAL MEDIA SPOKESPERSON BRANDON WEGHORST
hotline whereby students could call anonymously to report any
offensive, inappropriate or illegal matters or behaviors to the national organization. Weghorst emphasized that this measure to eradicate such behaviors — and that people take advantage of these efforts — is an integral part of ensuring the integrity of SAE’s national organization. “People might be intimidated about speaking up because they don’t want to draw attention to themselves, but it’s so important for people to speak out when they see something so we can intervene,” Weghorst said. “We can’t be everywhere at once.” He did not say whether or not the hazing allegations for the College’s chapter were made through such a hotline. This investigation marks the second hazing allegation at the College this year, after Alpha Delta fraternity was derecognized this past spring by the College following charges that its new members were branded. The College found that AD had violated the terms of its probation and violated College policy. Weghorst said that with SAE, and Greek life organizations more generally, the actions of a few can
provide challenges that affect the public perception of the house more generally. “We have a lot of chapters that are doing great things all the time, but that doesn’t get attention…a lot of people have challenged the Greek system in America, but for people who do it correctly it can be a very meaningful experience,” Weghorst said. Grounds did not respond to request for comment. Interfraternity council president Sam Macomber ’16 and public relations and outreach chair James Verhagen ’16 did not respond to request for comment at press time. Director of judicial affairs Leigh Remy declined to comment and instead deferred request for comment to Lawrence. Associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey declined to comment on the premise that the investigation is ongoing. Vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer did not respond to request for comment at press time. SAE chapter advisor Jim Morgan ’82 declined to comment. Chapter advisors Clark Griffiths ’57, Jeremy Katz ’95 and Ken Holmes ’81 also did not respond to request for comment at press time.
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CONTRIBUTING Columnist IOANA SOLOMON ’19
CONTRIBUTING Columnist MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18
Artificially Selecting Community
Midnight In Paris
The new residential communities will not address deeper problems at Dartmouth.
The recent changes in the College’s housing policy have incited quite a passionate outflow of responses. From the outbursts of indignation and despair on Yik Yak to the loud, frustrated chatter in the lines for dinner, to even the calmer, more controlled and more intellectual conversations I have had with peers and classmates, I have come to one conclusion — it seems few, if any, are happy about the new residential communities. I have heard angry opinions and I have heard indifferent ones, but no one I know has been openly ecstatic about the policy shift. One specific facet of its implementation particularly hurts the Class of 2019 — though house assignments will be randomized beginning with the Class of 2020, the ’19s, ’18s and ’17s have until Dec. 9 to choose up to five friends to be in our residential communities. At first glance, the new housing policy does not seem too bad. For an upperclassman, I can see why it would be nice to come home after a term abroad and find familiar faces on my floor. I see why living with the same people for the next four years would seem exciting to a first-year. Yet, because the residential communities will be comprised of hundreds of students, I find it hard to believe that they will truly facilitate close and long-lasting relationships — I see little significant difference between that future and what we have now. Though I have been on this campus for less than two months, I have already realized we have much that needs work. I can see why we are sometimes described as a “duck pond,” where everyone seems happy and calm on the outside, but is barely holding it together beneath the surface — attempting to hide the chaos below. I can see that many of us are unhappy and refuse to admit it, that some of us are afraid to be seen alone, afraid to acknowledge that we have not found our perfect place. I can see why so many of the relationships we form in these first terms
are simply out of convenience — they are superficial and rarely meaningful. But, for ’19s especially, forcing us to choose five people to be in the same residential community with for the next four years is not going to make us more open as people. It is not going to calm our fears. It is not going to make us feel less alone, and it is not going to make those relationships more real. For the ’19s, our first year is not enough time for us to realize who we are or who our real friends are — and while that may very well be the case for some sophomores and juniors as well, it hits my class particularly hard. Because we are all changing so much during this time, the people we meet now may not be the same people with whom we will have strong bonds a year or two from now. Our relationships with them will inevitably change. Forcing the ’19s to choose a cluster of people so early on is damaging. It legitimizes artificial relationships and sends the message to those of us who have not settled well into a friend group by the end of fall term that we are strange — that being alone or selective about our friendships is neither normal nor good. Administrators should not be sending this message to ’19s — it is certainly no way to start off our college career. Yet for ’19s and future classes alike, sharing the same residential community with other students for the next three years will not make us grow any closer if we do not become more open and more comfortable as an entire Dartmouth community. Knowing that there are familiar faces behind closed doors or in community lounges will not necessarily make our time here any easier. We need to tackle the roots of a culture of isolation, depression and fear instead of covering up its symptoms. While this new housing policy might work toward that goal it is not the end-all, be-all solution — and the College would do best not to treat it as such.
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Light can shine through tragedy even in the darkest times. On Friday, terrorists attacked the city of Paris. One hundred and twenty nine people were murdered, and hundreds more injured. It is times like these that make people cynical. It is also times like these in which we grow up, in which we realize that it has been a long time coming, but we have been growing slowly and then — well, then it hits all at once. On Friday night, I grew up. As I sat, eyes glued to a computer that was a poor substitute for a television, my mind did not wander to the SWAT teams I had seen in movies. My grasp of what was happening did not devolve into a guilty, twisted and morbidly curious waiting game to see how many people had been killed. My fingers did not dash to my phone keyboard to ask friends if they, too, were seeing what I was. For the first time I can remember, I sat in near silence for hours while I watched events unfold. It was a while before I noticed my hands were still glued to the sides of my head in incredulity. It was even longer before the bile rising in my throat abated and I stopped feeling sick. As have most people reading this column, I’ve lived through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings in London. I’ve lived through the 2008 seige in Mumbai. I’ve lived through the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing, Boko Haram’s massacre in Baga, Nigeria, and the attack at Garissa University in Kenya that killed 147 students this past April. If not every day, it seems that every week during my lifetime has played host to another attack in Godknows-where motivated by God-knows-what. Another moment of outrage. Another slow march out of our minds and into the history books. And now, in the past week, I have lived through three more attacks. The bombings in Beirut and Baghdad were tragic and reprehensible. And call me what you may, but for me, Paris was different. This was not
a place that had been a warzone for most of my life — and, of course, by no means does that diminish the value of the lives lost in other places. But on Friday night, over a hundred people lay slain on the streets where they shot “The 400 Blows” (1959). Over 300 people lay bruised, bloodied and battered in the city where the Mona Lisa lives. This is Paris — whose smell is love and whose taste is wine. Paris, the city of lasting romance and hope in “Casablanca” (1942). Paris, whose buildings have borne bloody revolution, fascist flags and then the miraculous glow of a peaceful future. Paris, perhaps the one original seat of Western democracy. Whatever may come of this awful tragedy, Nov. 13, 2015 will be a day remembered not only in France but around the world. It will be a day when something changed — what, I do not know. And regardless of whether it is right or wrong, for much of the world it will be remembered far more than either Beirut or Baghdad, or Kabul, Peshawar, Pakistan or Sana, Yemen. It just will. I grew up on Friday night as I heard the screams of people fleeing a concert hall and imagined it was me. My family. My friends. Imagined the terror of knowing that just a few feet away stands somebody willing and able to end all you have ever worked toward. Somebody whose hatred for your life far outweighs their love for their own. It is at times like this that we become cynical. But we must remember that it is also at times like this that the full range of human love and support is on display. And we must, in the face of absolute evil, never lose that love. A small part of the universe broke on Friday, as it does every other day that someone is murdered. But so long as there is darkness there is light that can drive it out. So long as we remember that we must always push for good, maybe we will not have to become cynical. And maybe one day we can grow up a little less often.
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Delaney Anderson will serve in new WISE advocate role on campus FROM WISE PAGE 1
in the Upper Valley. Following a formal partnership formed in May 2015, Delaney Anderson will connect WISE and the College. “I love what I do, and I’m excited to be a part of the Dartmouth community and the different faculty, staff and students there,” Anderson said. Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said that finding a campus advocate had been a goal since she first arrived. She said she started talking with WISE executive director Peggy O’Neil in September 2014. Anderson’s position is a combination of a new position and a connection of resources. “This is the first endeavor, and it’s important to be open to how the process will evolve,” Lindkvist said. While some confidential counselors are only available to graduate and undergraduate students, Lindkvist said that Anderson’s position is to support all members of our community, including faculty and staff. “She is not the end all, be all, of the community, but she’s an important conduit,” Lindkvist said, emphasizing other resources as well. Anderson’s work in advocacy started when she joined a crisis hotline as an undergraduate student. When she went to graduate school
for a master’s in social work, she did research on violence against women and learned how to be a victim advocate. Since then she has remained interested in the overlap of college campuses and genderbased violence. Anderson said she feels fulfilled by working with individuals who have experienced sexual and dating violence and is interested in navigating the different processes available to them. She seeks to understand the different systems available and make them approachable for others. “Working with college students is really enjoyable,” she said. “They have a lot of resilience which you get to see working with them in this field.” Karen Oehme, director of the Institute for Family Violence Studies at Florida State University and Anderson’s former supervisor, said that Anderson is an “incredibly genuine person” who has been fully immersed in the word of trauma-informed care. Under Oehme, Anderson co-authored a paper on police officers’ perceptions of rape and campaigned for the University to hire more female security officers. “When she’s advocating for students, she’s doing it through a trauma lens and she really understands the higher education system, which is incredibly important for WISE,” Oehme said. Oehme also said Anderson
cares about social justice and is a strong feminist, who believes that everybody deserves a voice. Oehme described Anderson as an “evenly heeled” person who was very mature in dealing with emotions. “She likes working with students and she has strong personal advocacy skills and she’s compassionate,” Oehme said. “What’s great is that she can explain difficult concepts in simple and straightforward ways, and that’s kind of an art.” Anderson represents a partnership between Dartmouth and WISE to strengthen the existing sexual assault framework on campus. WISE offers unique services apart from existing sexual assault resources on campuses. Until Anderson, Dartmouth did not have a campus advocate. WISE director Kate Rohdenburg said that Dartmouth was taking advantage of an existing community by partnering with WISE. “It’s helpful in separating out and creating some distance from the school, [since WISE is] not beholden to the campus system,” she said. “We can help them make decisions operating within and outside the campus system.” WISE is able to provide outside confidentiality and is protected by federal mandates and statues. It is completely separate from Title IX and other federal requirements. WISE also offers a support network outside of the Dartmouth
community. “When students graduate, they are already connected to community organization and not losing all the resources that went along with them being in school,” Rohdenburg said. Previously, Ander son had worked in large universities and she said she looks forward to delving into a small community and examining how that relates to accessibility to sexual assault resources. “I think every campus community has its own distinct campus culture, so I’m looking forward to learning more about Dartmouth,” she said. As her first goal, Anderson said she wants to focus on student education on resources. “Ultimately we want to increase knowledge and awareness of WISE services to faculty and staff since I’ll be there representing the organization — I think that’s a good first step,” she said. “Sometimes even when resources are available students don’t see it as often or don’t see it until they go looking for it.” More specifically, Anderson hopes to improve prevention education through working with separate groups on campus. Although transitioning to the culture and system of a new campus is difficult, Anderson said she is eager to take on the task. “Any time you start someplace new, you don’t want to go in think-
ing you have this model that’s one-plan-fits all,” she said. “Every campus has a different culture, which is a challenge, but I think it’s an important one.” She said she hopes to learn more about the college through meeting more students and learning more about the College’s policies and procedures. Anderson will be holding office hours in 109 Fairbanks Hall and will have set hours on campus starting in the winter term. As Title IX coordinator, Lindkvist said she will keep Anderson up to date resources and policy changes. Anderson will participate in community conversations about sexual assault and stalking and may also accompany Lindkvist to meetings. Lindkvist participated in the interviewing process but WISE ultimately had the decision to hire Anderson. From initial impressions Lindkvist said, “I find her incredibly grounded. She has an excellent grasp on navigating Title IX and learning processes in the college context.” “She’s certainly got a knowledge base that will enhance advocacy on campus and how to support faculty and staff,” Lindkvist said. Lindkvist also emphasized that WISE would bring a “team approach” to helping victims since if Anderson were not available, another WISE advocate could step
Brown President holds forum after campus security assaults Cuevas ’14 FROM CUEVAS PAGE 1
Numerous students, both at Dartmouth and Brown, took to social media to express outrage over the incident, using the hashtag “#IStandWithGeo.” In an interview, Cuevas described the officers’ behavior throughout the event as overly aggressive. “The officers hired as security for the event were rude and disrespectful to people all night, yelling in women’s faces and intimidating people,” he said. “I was the recipient of excessive force by these glorified bouncers.” Other members of Dartmouth’s Latinx delegation report similar experiences with the event’s security personnel. Dennise Hernández ’17 says she was “affronted” by officers when she tried to enter the party. “Frankly, the officers were trying to intimidate the students of color,” Hernández said. Cuevas was also waiting to gain admission when he said he
witnessed two officers confront and aggressively pat down an intoxicated Brown student in what he perceived as an abuse of power. “I voiced my dissent at their inappropriate conduct,” Cuevas said. “They motioned toward me in an intimidating way and told me I would be arrested for trespassing.” When he informed the officers that he was a guest of the conference and that his hosts were residents of the Machado house, Cuevas says the officers told him that their authority “outrank[ed] Brown students” and that he could “never win against the badge.” Cuevas decided to remove himself, but informed the officers that, despite their orders that he stay away, he would be returning to the Machado house where he had been assigned to spend the night. About 10 minutes later, Cuevas re-entered the house to find his hosts and was quickly “slammed to the ground,” physically restrained and handcuffed by an officer who threatened to use pepper spray to subdue him. Cuevas said that he
never resisted detainment. “[The officer] told me that I was resisting when I simply wasn’t,”
“The officers hired as security for the event were rude and disrespectful to people all night, yelling in women’s faces and intimidating people. I was the recipienct of excessive force by these glorified bouncers.” - GEOVANNI CUEVAS ’14 Cuevas said. Hernández, who said she witnessed Cuevas being “dragged” outside by the officer, supported this statement.
“He was clearly not resisting,” she said. “His body was moving like a rag doll.” Cuevas was detained for 30 minutes, with at least five officers present, before Brown students could arrive at the scene to verify that he was a guest of the conference and of the house. No arrest was made, and no criminal charges were filed. Cuevas, who says that the officer was not properly trained or “aware of the power dynamics at play” during the altercation, described the experience as “an engagement with white supremacy.” “Overall, it was an invalidating experience as a person of color,” he said. Josué Ruiz ’17, who attended the conference, says the experience was “jarring” for the student delegates at the conference. “You see police brutality on TV and in all these videos coming out, but you don’t expect it to happen at a conference at a University,” Ruiz said. “We went to talk about the condition of Latinos in the
Ivy League, and one of our members gets thrown around by these pseudo-policemen. It was very jarring for us.” On Sunday evening students who represented Dartmouth at the conference met with College President Phil Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Denver, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron and vice provost for student affairs IngeLise Ameer to address the events that took place at the conference. Twice during the two-hour meeting, students asked that the administration formally ask for the officer in question’s resignation, a request that Cuevas said administrators did not address. “I directly asked if they thought he should be let go,” Cuevas said. He said the question was met with “total silence” by the administrators, who have yet to release a statement regarding the incident. At present, Cuevas is consulting the “legal minds available to [him]” to see what actions can be taken.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 1:30 p.m. “Microbiology and Immunology,” seminar presented by Dr. Michelle Momany, Vail Building, Chilcott Auditorium
4:30 p.m. “Almost Human: The Discovery of Homo naledi,” with professor Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, Moore Building, Filene Auditorium
4:30 p.m. “The Power of Permaculture” with Ryan Harb, Collis 101
TOMORROW 12:30 p.m. “Collecting and Sharing,” lunchtime gallery talk, second-floor galleries, Hood Museum of Art
7:00 p.m. Handel Society of Dartmouth College performance, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
8:00 p.m. “SHEBA: Fall Dance Showcase,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater
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“Sicario” (2015) shines through with its cartel craft
B y andrew kingsley The Dartmouth Staff
Movies these days are addicted to drugs cartels. So popular in fact, they have become been Netflixized into the new series “Narcos” (2015). Too many action thrillers employ some drug kingpin as an antagonist crutch, a cardboard cutout of a classical evil whom the bad-ass good guys can shoot at, chase and kill. “Sicario” (2015) works within this mold, but manages to come out as a crystallized, complex negotiation of border politics injected with pinpoint acting and lush cinematography. Like something straight out of “Silence of the Lambs” (1991), FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) opens the film by invading the Phoenix, Arizona, home containing 42 plastic-wrapped corpses within its walls. This Pandora’s Box of death leads her to join a CIA special operatives team investigating the Sonora drug cartel in Mexico. Sicario translates to “hitman” in English, yet Kate becomes more like a hostage, dragged through CIA operations by her bosses Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro). Ignorant of her
real purpose. Kate gets a personal ride through the Styx that is Juarez, Mexico, where mutilated corpses hang off bridges like animals in a
“Ultimately, this war on drugs develops a crushing futility. Like a hydra, a dead drug boss births five new cartels hoping to make it big. Much like the war on terror, the war on the drug trade has become so abstraced, a metaphor for border relations and general crime, that is develops an impossible immensity.” slaughterhouse. The cartels have infected the city like a virus, corrupting citizens and police alike.
Alejandro takes this idea one step further, saying that taking down the cartel’s boss “would be like discovering a vaccine.” Director Denis Villeneuve paints in unease and the uncanny, artfully crafting reconnaissance missions with almost painful patience. Eerie aerial shots capture landscapes that feel not quite human. Accompanied by Johann Johannsson’s minimalist, pulsating score, a simple traffic jam becomes a pressure cooker waiting to explode, as the team’s extradition mission escalates into a highway shoot-out. A night-vision raid on a drug tunnel becomes a tortuous, nail-biting mission through the bowels of the cartel underworld. As the only woman in this universe, Kate has her early idealism systematically beaten out of her as she is punched, shot, prostituted and held at gunpoint by her own bosses. Kate endures humiliating abuse — with hands repeatedly wrapped around her throat, she cannot utter “the horror! The horror!” in this heart of darkness. Her trembling fingers and bruised mien belie her paper-thin composure, and Blunt adeptly captures Kate’s self-contained apocalypse. In this men’s club, cracks are fatal.
Her bosses’ robotic inhumanity transforms Kate into a masochistic pawn. But this self-torture borders on senselessness — beyond her loyalty to two fallen comrades, it is unclear why Kate perseveres. The film relishes the ambiguity between crime and law enforcement. While it proves its thesis early, it continues to beat this dying horse.
“Director Denis Villeneuve paints in unease and the uncanny, artfully crafting reconnaissance missions with almost painful patience. Eerie aerial shots capture landscapes that feel not quite human.” Alejandro, however, has crystal clear moves — track down the Sonora men who beheaded his wife and drowned his daughter in acid. Laconic and mechanical, he pursues his targets with monomaniacal efficiency and proves the
most engrossing member of this inferno. Akin to Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men” (2005), he single-handedly takes down the Sonora kingpins in a James Bond-esque denouement. Ultimately, this war on drugs develops a crushing futility. Like a hydra, a dead drug boss births five new cartels hoping to make it big. Much like the war on terror, the war on the drug trade has become so abstracted, a metaphor for border relations and general crime, that it develops an impossible immensity. Graver admits they are not trying to stop the drug trade, but rather restore order by confining it to one cartel. Villeneuve’s panoramic aerial shots of dense Mexican cityscapes capture this daunting scope. As Gore Vidal once stated. it’s like fighting a war against dandruff — that other white powder. It is endless. Fortunately, “Sicario” stays within a lean two-hour framework, bringing craft, crispness and vitality to a threadbare genre which itself serves as a cinematic narcotic. Rating: 9/10 “Sicario” played at the Loew Theater at the Hopkins Center this past Saturday at 8 p.m.
History 90.01 Topics in Digital History: U.S. History Through Census Data Winter 2016 – 10A | Emily Klancher Merchant | emily.r.merchant@dartmouth.edu Every ten years since 1850, the U.S. Census has recorded basic information for eac h resident individ ual, includ ing age, sex, race, occ upation, place of birth, and rela tionship to other members of the household. These da ta are now available in a harmonized digital format, facilita ting their use for historical research. This course will focus on race, im/migration, work, and family. With reference to these topics, you will learn to: • Find and download digital census microdata • Perform basic quantitative analysis of digital microdata using the R programming language • Produce visualizations of your data and analysis • Interpret your a nalysis in the context of U.S. a nd world history, drawing on theoretical frameworks from history, the social sciences, and science and technology studies • Present your findings in a digital format using WordPress No previous experience with quantitative analysis or statistical programming is required.
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Gospel Choir performed mix of songs on Saturday
B y amelia rosch
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
The Dartmouth College Gospel Choir took on a cloudy day and cold weather to bring together a mix of classical and traditional gospel music to help uplift their audience and bring a message of joy and inspiration to the College at its annual fall concert. Anna Driscoll ’16, a soprano in the gospel choir, said that the concert included a mix of a cappella songs, bilingual songs and medleys. She said that most of the songs that the choir sang were choir’s director Walt Cunningham’s original arrangements of traditional songs. Emma Hartswick ’17, an alto in the choir who has been a member since her freshman fall, said that Cunningham teaches through rote instead of the more traditional method of using sheet music. Some of the songs that the gospel choir sang included Milton Brunson’s “Over and Over and Over” (1986) and “There is No Failure in God” (1989), Ricky Dillard’s “There is No Way” (2004), the choir’s cover of “America the Beautiful” (1895) and a medley of songs by American gospel musician Kirk Franklin, as well as some original songs by Walt Cunningham. Hartswick said that this term’s concert was fairly typical in terms of the type of music the choir performed. “A lot of our music was faith based — not necessarily of one denomination, but about empowerment,” Hartswick said. “It’s about
empowering people, giving them hope.” Rebecca Maria Mari, an exchange student from Italy who is currently a soprano in the choir, said that she enjoyed all of the songs. She said, however, that her favorite song to perform was the choir’s cover of the traditional gospel song “Hallelujah” because of the challenges that it provided.
“I love the audience participation at our concerts. Walt [Cunningham, the group’s director] gets the crowd on their feet right away, clapping, swaying along, and even singing with us, and people respond really well to that and look like they’re having as much fun as we are.” -anna driscoll ’16, soprano in the choir
Hartswick said that her favorite song was “There is No Failure” because of its message and its music. She said that she loved the song’s melody and the solo featured in the song. “It’s such a great message,” she said. “It’s saying there is no way to fail. Singing that song, it’s great with a group that you really care about.” Driscoll said that she felt like the choir was able to create a sense of spontaneous joy in the theater through the music. She said that she feels that Cunningham’s enthusiasm plays a role in the audience’s excitement. “I love the audience participation at our concerts,” Driscoll said. “[Cunningham] gets the crowd on their feet right away, clapping, swaying along and even singing with us, and people respond really well to that and look like they’re having as much fun as we are.” Mari, who had never sung in a gospel choir prior to this term, said that she also thought that Cunningham did a good job preparing the group for the concert. “It was my first show in front of a big audience, and at first I was a little bit scared,” she said. “He did a fantastic job of helping us. We just had to learn it, sing what we learned and have a good time.”
Driscoll said that the choir had weekly group-wide rehearsals throughout the term, as well as
“We really did improve day by day. By the time of the show, we really knew every part of each song, every variation. We got so good at the songs, that we did not have to think a lot about it. We were singing spontaneously.” -rebecca maria mari, soprano in the choir
weekly sectional rehearsals organized by vocal part in the weeks leading up to the performance. She said that the group also had a pre-performance rehearsal to practice with their band. The gospel choir traditionally performs with a 12-piece band.
Mari said that she appreciated the rehearsals because of the opportunity they gave her to track her progress. “We really did improve day by day,” she said. “By the time of the show, we really knew every part of each song, every variation. We got so good at the songs that we did not have to think a lot about it. We were singing spontaneously.” Hartswick said that unlike in past years, the gospel choir saw a larger amount of community participation. She said that she feels like while the gospel choir is technically a studentbased group, it is an equal partnership between the student members, community members and Cunningham. “They are a great addition to us with both their voices and their knowledge,” Hartwsick said. “We are a community in ourselves. We all work together.” The choir, which is one of the College’s largest performing groups, has over 40 students and community members in it. Cunningham has been working at the College for over a decade and is also in charge of producing the annual “Dartmouth Idol” contest each winter. He also works with the Chicago-based band “One Accord.” The concert was on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.
“It was the song that gave me the most satisfaction,” Mari said. “It was the most difficult to sing. We didn’t do anything wrong. Everything worked perfectly and was completely right.”
WALTZING ON THE STAGE
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“Baltimore Waltz” marked the directing debut of Julie Solomon ’17.
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The Dartmouth College Gospel Choir performed their annual fall show on Saturday.