The Dartmouth - Freshman Issue 2017 by The Dartmouth Newspaper

VOL. CLXXIV

08.11.2017

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EDITORS’ NOTE

ZACHARY BENJAMIN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Dear Class of 2021, For a while now, you’ve known you were coming to Dartmouth. Although you may have been excitedly telling everyone you know and proudly wearing Big Green gear, the reality of what exactly College will be like has yet to be actualized. You may have a lot of questions: What is “normal” in College? What should I bring when I pack? Will the food be any good? We’re sure you’ve heard the statistics on your class — highest yield in 25 years, largest percentage of international students on record in addition to the seemingly meaningful SAT scores and impressive number of valedictorians. It can be hard to imagine the personalities behind these numbers and much harder to envision sharing a place with them. College comes at you fast. The first weeks are full of learning new names and faces, figuring out where your classes are and deciding which of the dozens opportunities, programs and clubs you want to devote your time to. Your freshman year is quickly approaching and perhaps unlike high school assignments, getting used to this place, that everyone seems to call home, is not something you can study for. With that said, we hope this issue of The Dartmouth can provide you with the current events of our community, advice and tips as well as the voices of current students so that the vague idea of Dartmouth can start to materialize. Every experience here is unique, but we hope that you learn from our stories. Give yourself the chance to take the challenge head on. Operate outside of your comfort zone, reaching for opportunities that you may of never thought you’d be afforded. Go on a hike, join a random club and be inquisitive about something new. Remember you’re at Dartmouth for a reason; you and every other incoming freshman were chosen specifically to be a part of the Big Green. And we trust that in a bit, you’ll find a way to navigate, understand and impact this place.

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Table of Contents Join The Dartmouth!

Students ﬁnd meaning through political activism

Dartmouth and Hanover pledge renewable energy goals

Low-income students ﬁnd challenges and community

Housing communities utilize programming in ﬁrst year

Students reﬂect on their experiences abroad

Secret happy places: locations for rest, relaxations and readings

DDS Hacks: Optimizing your dining experience

Hidden gems: Lesser known departments at Dartmouth

Alumni spotlight: Where are they now?

The Freshman Year Bucket List

Community found in performance groups

Skiing at the College: A history of tradition and championship 17 A survey of freshman year experiences

Insider’s guide to outdoor clubs

Decoding the Dartmouth dictionary

Making your way around Dartmouth

M4-M5

Live ﬂair or die

Trippin’ over Trips: What to expect

Packing: What you think you will need

The D Sports Awards: Athletes of the Year

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MARIE-CAPUCINE PINEAU-VALENCIENNE, Issue Mirror Editor RAY LU, Editor-in-Chief KOURTNEY KAWANO, Executive Editor CAROLINE BERENS, Managing Editor PRODUCTION EDITORS PARKER RICHARDS & ZIQIN YUAN, Opinion Editors LAUREN BUDD, ANNETTE DENEKAS & MAY MANSOUR Mirror Editors EVAN MORGAN & CHRIS SHIM, Sports Editors

ERIN LEE, Executive Editor NOAH GOLDSTEIN, Managing Editor BUSINESS DIRECTORS ALFREDO GURMENDI, Finance & Strategy Director ROSHNI CHANDWANI, Finance & Strategy Director KELLY CHEN, Product Development Director EMMA MARSANO, Marketing & Communications Director

JACLYN EAGLE, Templating Editor ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN, Survey Editor

Brown: Place of the Mind

Yuan: Dreaming or Settling?

Chin: Sense of Sprezzatura

The D Sports Awards: Moment of the Year

SHINAR JAIN, Advertising Director

HALEY GORDON & MADELINE KILLEN, Arts Editors

TANYA SHAH & ERIC WANG, Design Editors

PHILIP RASANSKY, Publisher

EMMA CHIU & MARGARET JONES, Dartbeat Editors JESSICA CAMPANILE, Multimedia Editor

Huebner: Academically Directionless?

HENRY WILSON, Technology Director PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS ELIZA MCDONOUGH HOLLYE SWINEHART TIFFANY ZHAI

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Join the Dartmouth! B y THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

The offices of The Dartmouth are located on the second floor of Robinson Hall (known as Robo). With editors and reporters cycling in and out as well as business staff facilitating the day-to-day operations, the offices are always filled with activity. The Dartmouth holds the distinction of being America’s oldest college newspaper (founded in 1799) and prints daily. In addition to our day-to-day written content, we have a blog (Dartbeat) as well as a social media presence on Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. With nearly two million online page views every year, The Dartmouth serves an important role as campus’ independent newspaper. Most importantly, we are a teaching institution: many of our current Directorate members had their first taste of journalism at The Dartmouth and have stuck with it since, gaining real-world skills in editing, communication and management. Keep an eye out for applications for both our editorial and business sections during Orientation. The newspaper and the Dartmouth community welcome you to Hanover — our doors are always open. EDITORIAL News The news section keeps up with the pulse of the Dartmouth community, informing campus and our broader audience with happenings from all corners of the College. When Dartmouth news breaks, the community looks to The D for the important details. Recently, we’ve covered topics such as the new residential house system, changes in Greek life and controversial administrative appointments. Through investigative pieces, we delve deeper into campus issues and incorporate data analysis and visualization, providing insight into topics from political leanings on campus to the impact of social programming. Sports T h e D a r t m o u t h ’s s p o r t s coverage extends beyond game recaps to include columns, Q&As, weekly features and “Roundups” of a week’s game activity. Recent content included a series of columns on senior athletes and their last terms as well as The Dart,,pisports awards for the year’s most outstanding players. The sports section has featured a broad range of topics, from Mormon players and how their faith ties into football to different coaching styles by different coaches and how they motivate their players.

Arts Arts highlights creative endeavors at the College, covering everything from performances and exhibitions at the Hopkins Center for the Arts to new movie reviews. The arts section also regularly features profiles of the College’s own artistic talent, such as student writers, playwrights, musicians and painters. Opinion The opinion section offers staff columnists and community guest columnists a platform for lively debate on relevant issues, both on and off campus. Recent pieces have taken a critical look at the current political environment, perceptions of feminism in today’s culture and Dartmouth’s social interactions. Opinion also features work from student cartoonists humorously critiquing campus and popular culture.

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Collaboration is a critical part of the day-to-day work at The Dartmouth.

Mirror The Mirror, our weekly eightpage magazine published every Wednesday, focuses on campus culture and student life through both long-form features and lighthearted stories. In addition to senior columns, photo essays and “Through the Looking Glass” reflection pieces from guest writers, The Mirror has recently examined themes such as friendship, fact and fiction and underrepresented voices. Dartbeat Dartbeat is our daily blog, which features content such as weekly “overheards,” surveys, “Texts From Last Night” Dartmouth-edition and more. Check out the page for your fill of Dartmouth-specific laughs and musings. While our editorial staff is working around the clock making sure our pages are filled with relevant, up-todate information on the goings on of campus and the Upper Valley, our Business Staff works to ensure that the production and operation of the paper run as smooth as possible. That’s because The Dartmouth receives no funding from the College — we are a registered nonprofit in the State of New Hampshire and are the largest student-run business in Hanover. That is, The D operates as a business run entirely by you, the students, and the Business Staff provides an unparalleled real-world opportunity to engage in this business with a variety of different teams. BUSINESS Advertising The Advertising Staff works to sell the ads that fill our pages on a daily basis. The bulk of their work includes building relationships with local clients — from Dartmouth academic

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The offices at The Dartmouth are open to staff members for newspaper-related work, homework or socializing.

departments to local grocery and hardware stores — to ensure that our advertising platform fits with their specific marketing needs. Together, they build and implement the outbound sales strategy that makes up the bulk of the paper’s revenue. Technology Our Technology Staff supports The D’s web and mobile presence. They create customized websites for our Special Issues and help design and implement changes to our website. More recently, they have begun work to integrate the paper with mobile news mediums, such as Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles and Snapchat. Strategy If you’d like to solve real-world

business problems, then our Strategy Staff is the place for you. They operate as The D’s internal consultants. Each quarter, they split up into teams and tackle pressing issues we face every day. How do we effectively recruit and retain talent? How can we change our advertising offerings to fit a mobilefirst media landscape? How do we better foment a strong community of the paper’s alumni? The Strategy Staff has tackled all these questions and more over the last couple years. Communications and Marketing This staff aims to refine and improve both the internal and external perspective of the paper. Internally, they focus on staff development, helping plan termly socials along with our annual Changeover and

Banquet celebrations. Externally, they manage staff recruitment, run our social media accounts, help with recruiting and develop our alumni network. Product Development Ever been told that print news is a dying industry? Try telling that to members of our Product Development team. They focus exclusively on making sure that our product offerings remain useful and relevant with our readers by developing alternative revenue streams that add to The D’s core news offering. Recently, they’ve worked on building out a digital classifieds section and have begun development of a Dartmouth-themed coffee table book based on the paper’s historical archives.

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Students find meaning through political activism B y JULIAN NATHAN The Dartmouth Staff

“Dartmouth College has a problem,” declared Linda Chavez in a widely-read April 2014 New York Post opinion column. Student protesters, she wrote, had occupied President Phil Hanlon’s office and demanded increased faculty diversity, gender-neutral bathrooms and coverage of sex change operations under student health insurance plans. It can be difficult to ignore sensational articles published by major news outlets following instances of student-led political activism at the College. However, student activists in Divest Dartmouth, Turning Point USA and other groups view their work as more than just fodder for national headlines. Some, like Jesus Franco ’20, say that rather than being “a problem,” political activism is a powerful instrument of change on campus. Franco is the co-director of Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, or CoFIRED, a campus organization that gathers resources for undocumented students. Franco said that he became involved in CoFIRED last fall as a freshman because he wanted to make a difference on campus. He added that he felt connected to CoFIRED in particular because he comes from a “mixed status” family — while Franco has legal status in the United States, his parents are undocumented immigrants. CoFIRED’s fall 2016 programming included hosting students from Freedom University, an Atlanta-based school

for undocumented youth that was founded in 2011 after the Georgia Board of Regents banned undocumented students from attending Georgia’s top public universities and removed in-state tuition eligibility for undocumented students. The group hosted students from Freedom University to raise awareness for issues affecting undocumented youth, he said. Additionally, some of CoFIRED’s previous work has received national recognition, such as the group’s successful 2016 petition which helped to replace the term “illegal alien” with “undocumented immigrant” in the Library of Congress classification system. Fr a n c o s a i d t h a t s i n c e Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, CoFIRED has been “acting pre-emptively” to reassure undocumented students at Dartmouth that the College is prepared to support them in any way possible in the event that the Trump administration phases out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era policy that allows undocumented immigrants who entered the country as minors to receive renewable deferral from deportation. “Dartmouth has a long history of political activism … and no student should be complacent when they [notice issues at the College],” he said. Divest Dartmouth member Alex Miller ’20 echoed Franco’s sentiment that student-initiated political advocacy is an important source of positive change on campus, saying that he especially appreciated how many of the College’s faculty members encouraged students to

become politically involved in issues that interest them. Miller added that he enjoys his work with Divest Dartmouth because there is a strong sense of progress in the organization and its small size allows him to take a more active role in the group’s operations. For example, he helped to coordinate a Keystone pipeline protest, in which Divest members strung together empty Keystone Light beer cans and placed them around the administrative building, Parkhurst Hall, to protest the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Miller said that Divest intends to plan more visible projects, similar to the Keystone pipeline protest, to bring more awareness to the organization and its mission. Miller expects membership in Divest to increase as a result of more visible activism techniques, adding that increased membership would improve the organization’s ability to attract attention from the College administration. He also said that he is optimistic that Divest will realize its goal of convincing College officials to divest from certain fossil fuel companies because of changes within the Board of Trustees. Miller added that newer, younger trustees seem more interested in Divest Dartmouth’s mission than previous trustees. Founder of Dartmouth’s chapter of Turning Point USA, a right-wing non-profit organization, Tyler Baum ’20 said that political activism on campus allows students to learn from their peers’ perspectives. Turning Point USA is known for its founder, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and its Professor

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Dartmouth students and Hanover community members canvass for the 2016 New Hampshire Senate election.

COURTESY OF CATHERINE ROCCHI

Divest Dartmouth organized a demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Watchlist — on which Dartmouth’s women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Eng-Beng Lim is listed. The group seeks to promote fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government through campus activist programming. Baum said that he founded Dartmouth’s chapter of Turning Point USA because he was disappointed with how political discussions in other organizations sometimes devolved into partisan debates. “Turning Point USA is for people to come together regardless of party or ideology…[before I created Turning Point USA] there wasn’t really a place where people from both sides of the aisle could come together and talk about issues,” he said. Baum said that in having nonpartisan discussions with his peers, he has at times adapted his own views. “As a conservative on campus, [it’s important for me to learn] from people I may not agree with,” he said. Baum said that in addition to hosting guest speakers, Dartmouth’s chapter of Turning Point USA intends to address issues affecting college students, such as free speech on campus and the student debt crisis. He said that Turning Point USA is planning to organize a “free speech ball” event during the fall term in which students can write whatever they want on a large beach ball. President of the College Democrats Jennifer West ’20 said that she became more politically involved than she expected she would be during her first year at Dartmouth because the College’s culture is “a breeding ground for political activism.” West added that she was “overwhelmed” with the student body’s strong interest in attending the Women’s March on Washington in January 2017 after posting about the event in the Dartmouth Class of 2020 Facebook page. Some students,

she said, created their own groups to attend the march together following her post. She explained that political activism is an especially powerful force at the College because as other universities grapple with issues of free speech, Dartmouth seems “relatively isolated” from the controversy surrounding this issue. Instead, West said, she and her peers feel free to speak their minds and disagree with each other in a civil, productive way. “I have friends with political views that could not be more different than mine, and I think that it is because of Dartmouth that we are able to have productive conversations,” West said. “This school really does foster a great sense of community and respect among students.” She added that a debate between the College Republicans and the College Democrats during the spring term successfully maintained a strong policy focus, and that participants did not resort to making snide remarks or ad hominem attacks that have recently become a fixture of national politics. West also said that while she disagrees with Milo Yiannopoulos, a political commentator closely associated with the alt-right movement, she was glad that he had the opportunity to speak to Dartmouth students without interruption when he visited campus in November 2016. Yiannopoulos’s visits to college campuses were the subject of intense media scrutiny in February 2017 when the University of California, Berkeley canceled his talk after 150 student protesters caused $100,000 worth of damage ahead of his scheduled appearance. West said that she supports the right of an individual to express their opinion peacefully, adding that in this regard, “Dartmouth is really a model for other campuses to follow.” Miller echoed this sentiment, saying “There has never been a part of me that feels I am being silenced.”

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Dartmouth and Hanover pledge renewable energy goals B y MEGAN CLYNE

The Dartmouth Staff

The College and Hanover community set significant goals to transition towards renewable energy sources this past year. Director of sustainability Rosi Kerr ’98 said that the College continues to emphasize a strong focus on sustainability efforts and impact. Earlier this spring, Hanover residents voted overwhelmingly to join the Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 campaign, passing an article to set the goal for transitioning the town’s heat and transportation to run on renewable resources by 2050 and all of the town’s electricity to renewable energy by 2030. The verbal vote at the town meeting established Hanover as the first town in the state of New Hampshire and the 29th municipality in the nation to set these goals. A few weeks prior, the College’s Sustainability Task Force, a group created by College President Phil Hanlon consisting of students and

professors, released its inaugural report, which aimed to direct the College towards more sustainable practices and to set objectives. The guide also recommended that the College obtain 50 percent of campus energy from renewable sources by 2025 and 100 percent by 2050. Aside from these recent goals, over the past 10 years the College has undertaken initiatives to improve several of the six main categories as they relate to sustainability, Kerr said. These categories include energy, water, waste, food, landscape, ecology and transportation. Catherine Rocchi ’19 said this report is a sign of the College committing to eliminate its carbon footprint. Kerr said that in terms of energy, the College has invested in a considerable gain in energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emission. Even as the College adds more square feet to its campus by incorporating new buildings, she added, it has worked to lessen the energy Dartmouth uses by improving the efficiency of both old and new structures on campus.

Rocchi added that the recently established Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at the College is a major advancement in promoting an environmentally conscious campus at the College. The creation of the Irving Institute, named in honor of Irving Oil and the Irving family foundation for their donation, was announced late 2016 and was founded with the goal of consolidating interdisciplinary resources at the College to solve the world’s most pressing energy problems. In terms of food sustainability, the College is currently exploring how to make waste systems more efficient and has enacted plans to drastically reduce waste, Kerr said. Dartmouth also encourages students to become involved with sustainability efforts. Endeavors like the “Green2Go” food take-out program, which replaces the Class of 1953 Commons’ disposable take-out containers with reusable ones, form part of the student-initiated responses to curb excessive waste and plastic use. As part of this effort, a student thought of an innovative idea,

researched it and then implemented her plan into a successful pilot project. Dartmouth’s rigorous academic endeavors and resources prepare them to contribute to climate change mitigation and to progress sustainability in the future, Rocchi said. The environmental science, earth science and geography departments afford undergraduates the opportunity to explore climate change and preventive measures through a diverse selection of courses and research opportunities. The hope is that freshmen will advocate for change in areas they believe have a lack of growth, Rocchi added, because change is the result of students who are unsatisfied with current initiatives and actively seek growth and advancement. As sustainability is a growing field that attracts a cohort of talented, dedicated students, the College has provided many structured ways for students to get involved on campus, Kerr said. The sustainability office at the

College has a program for freshmen to become ECO Reps and learn about sustainability. The opportunity allows freshmen to undertake a project in an area of sustainability of their choosing. There are also project-based programs, Kerr said. She added that the enthusiasm for projects was so striking, that the College implemented project-based programs in order to provide students with a solid foundation to enact meaningful, sustainable change. There are also a number of green groups and hubs on campus, including the club Divest Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Organic Farm. “I encourage freshmen to look at Dartmouth with a critical eye in terms of sustainability,” Rocchi said. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin identified next steps for the future of sustainability at the College. “Next stop is moving much more comprehensively to using renewable sources of energy and we are excited to hitch Hanover to their star,” Griffin wrote in an email.

Low-income students find challenges and community B y SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff

Being a low-income student at Dartmouth is not easy. It is often accompanied with working several hours a week on campus, hunting for online PDFs of textbooks and facing the uncomfortable prospect of saying no to your friends when asked to eat out or travel abroad for spring break. While Dartmouth has come a long way from being an institution that catered to white wealthy males, there is still a stigma low-income students face on campus. The College’s socioeconomic divide remains one of the highest amongst its peer institutions. This January, The New York Times Upshot conducted a study of student income levels and socioeconomic status at colleges across America and found that elite colleges are very economically segregated. Dartmouth was one of the 38 colleges in the nation with more students represented from the top one percent income percentile than the bottom 60 percent. The study found that 21 percent of Dartmouth students come from the top one percent, which was the 16th highest percentage out of the colleges analyzed and the highest among the Ivy League. Moreover, 69 percent of Dartmouth students come from the top 20 percent while 2.6 percent come from the bottom 20 percent. The median family income of Dartmouth students is $200,400. On top of these statistics, lowincome students also have to navigate a variety of financial and non-financial challenges on campus. Juan Iscoa ’20 said that he was shocked by the amount of privilege at

Dartmouth, demonstrated by students openly discussing spending copious amounts of money. Iscoa described his financial background as lower middle class and said that he has had to sleep on a floor and go hungry for extended periods of time in his life. He added that at Dartmouth, he has had to say no multiple times to friends to go out and eat because much of the food in Hanover is expensive. Iscoa added that he has occasionally felt out of place because other students have had the privilege of attending prestigious boarding schools and conferences that have prepared them for the rigor of Dartmouth. Andrew Sosanya ’20 said he learned about Dartmouth through QuestBridge, a national non-profit focused on connecting low-income students with top colleges through programs like the National College Match and the College Prep Scholarship. He matched with the College through the QuestBridge National College Match, granting him a full scholarship. Sosanya said that he doesn’t think socioeconomic status is largely visible on campus and believes it is not a big part of most students’ identities on campus. “Unless you show it off, socioeconomic status really isn’t a big part of your identity at all ... generally for me, it isn’t a big part of my identity and I can make friends with people from all kinds of income brackets,” Sosanya said. Lucia Caballero ’19 agreed with Sosanya, saying that socioeconomic status is something that you can conceal and that the socioeconomic disparities on campus aren’t necessarily highly visible. However, she added that as an

incoming freshman, she did not expect the socioeconomic divide to be as wide as it is, finding the student population to be much more privileged than she originally thought. Caballero said that socioeconomic status can manifest itself in subtle ways on campus such as when she isn’t invited to eat out by her friends because they know she can’t afford it or when other students will refrain from talking about spending money around her. “Sometimes people are afraid to say certain things in front of you,” Caballero said. “Like a lot of my friends won’t admit to having spent $500 online shopping in front of me but they’ll say it to someone else because they think it’s going to offend me for some reason and I think that is an incorrect assumption to make.” One reality for many students in Dartmouth’s low-income community is the need to work a job, or multiple jobs, in order to support themselves and occasionally send money back home. Caballero recently conducted a study, entitled “The Racial Divisions of Labor at Dartmouth: a Novack Case Study,” for Geography 28, “Immigration, Race and Ethnicity.” According to the research, the majority of student employees at Novak Cafe, a subdivision of Dartmouth Dining Services, are minorities and from low-income backgrounds. Her study interviewed 10 participants: 7 Latino, 1 Black, 1 White, 1 Asian; 8 women and 2 men. Caballero said that all of the students surveyed said that they knew they would have to work on campus to support themselves. The study found that 90 percent of the students who work at Novack

are minorities and from low-income backgrounds. All but one of the students interviewed said that they work multiple jobs in addition to working at Novack and all of the participants said that they were financially dependent on their jobs there. She said that many students work at Novack out of financial necessity, citing the fact that DDS jobs are typically the highest-paying work-study jobs. She added that Novack employees are comprised of a very strong minority community, where freshmen who are minorities work there after hearing about the position from minority upperclassmen. Caballero said that being a minority and being low-income go hand-in-hand and that working at Novack identifies students as low-income. Novack employees tend to be affiliated with communities such as the First-Year Student Enrichment program and the Latinx community, which is how they end up forming a space for low-income minorities through working at Novack, she added. Barbara Olachea ’19 said she got her first job at Novack through FYSEP upperclassmen and that getting a job was very important for her financial security. She added that she had to get multiple other jobs. “As a freshman I didn’t have money saved up and so that money that I made was really crucial in my transitioning for the first couple of months to Dartmouth,” Olachea said. She added that Novack has given her a network of people to study with and is a space that is has helped students of color come to terms with being a lowincome student at Dartmouth.

Caballero said that many students often minimize the interactions they have with Novack employees because of the socioeconomic gap between them. She said students often make assumptions because Novack employees are mostly from low-income backgrounds and sometimes treat them rudely. “I think that there are people who, due to the background they come from, could never picture themselves in the position we put ourselves in by working at Novack,” Caballero said. “They could never imagine working in a food service job, especially a food service job where the people you are serving are your classmates — they think it’s degrading.” Novack is just one example of the many spaces in which low-income students at Dartmouth find community. Programs such as FYSEP, directed at first generation students, and Dartmouth Quest for Socioeconomic Engagement and Dartmouth’s QuestBridge Chapter, help low-income students to transition into Dartmouth and find common bonds with those from similar backgrounds. Even though low-income and minority students have often overcome tremendous adversity to get to Dartmouth, they often find it helpful in navigating certain situations and helping other students from similar backgrounds. Olachea said that being a lowincome student plays a big part in her Dartmouth experience but that she has been able to use her experience as a point of reference, helping other students with similar backgrounds as SEE INCOME PAGE 35

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Housing communities utilize programming in first year B y PETER CHARALAMBOUS The Dartmouth Staff

While Dartmouth is home to both traditions and buildings that harken back to the College’s nearly 250-year history, one of the most referenced parts of the College’s academic and social structure is relatively young. The residential house system, which was announced by College President Phil Hanlon as a cornerstone of the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative in 2015, will celebrate its second year this coming fall. Marked by both relative success as well as criticism in its first year, leadership structures consisting of students, graduate students and professors have materialized and contributed towards a variety of programming. The residential house system places all Dartmouth students into one of six houses: Allen, East Wheelock, North Park, School, South and West. Most students, with the notable exception of students living in Living Learning Communities, affinity houses and Greek houses, live on floors with other students who share the same house. Furthermore, social and academic programming was organized through these houses in an effort to increase house unity. These houses aimed to “deepen intellectual engagement for everyone on campus” and strengthen “a sense of community across all of our different community groups” from undergraduates to graduate students, faculty and staff, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron said. With the arrival of the Class of 2020 last fall, the residential house system began to implement programming to increase student participation. “At the beginning of last year, there was nothing really holding the community together other than the fact that people were living in particular floors or dorms together,” said physics professor Ryan Hickox, who is the house professor for West House. The house system was a major element of the first-year orientation and many academic and social events were organized by house. Once the fall term began, first-year students had their first academic advising session in groups with other students from the same house, which were orchestrated by their respective house professors. In addition, the house system kickoff barbeque was planned in unison with the Programming Board’s fall concert. Attempting to pave its way into Dartmouth tradition, the first-year sweep during homecoming was also organized based on residential house. All of these events helped increase house unity and participation in the residential house system, Biron noted. Staff, faculty and students in each house helped orchestrate these events. Each house is co-led by a residential education professional staff member, who lives in one of the house dorms,

as well as a house professor, who serves as the “intellectual head of the house,” according to sociology professor Janice McCabe, who serves as the house professor for Allen House. Currently, sociology professor Kathryn Lively serves as the house professor for South House, mathematics professor Craig Sutton for School House, mathematics professor Sergi Elizalde for East Wheelock and Native American studies professor Melanie Taylor for North Park. While the LLCs are technically not their own house, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies Dennis Washburn serves as the house professor for students living in them. These house professors help organize events, offer guidance to students and foster the unity and growth of their respective house, Hickox said. In addition to the house professors and residential education professional staff members, each of the houses has four residential fellows, who are graduate students at the College. The fellows help organize activities and often hold office hours within their subject areas. Undergraduate Advisors, who are also students, serve a crucial role within the house system, as they are often in direct contact with other students. UGAs live on the floor they are responsible for, organizing meetings and events for the floor as well as working with house assistant directors to coordinate house events. Lastly, the executive board of each house is comprised of elected or volunteer students who help organize programming and events. Given the relatively horizontal leadership structure of the house system, students are easily able to become members of this board or work with the board to implement programming, Lively said. “The principle that all the houses shared was to create as much studentdriven decision making as possible, and different houses did different things to accomplish that,” Biron said. The physical structure of the house system is not solely in the dormitories which students reside but also the two house centers on campus as well as the residential houses where the house professors live. Allen House and School House share House Center B on the west side of campus which is often referred to as “the Cube,” and North Park House and South House share House Center A on the east side of campus, which students often refer to as “the Onion.” These buildings contain study and social spaces as well as snack bars. House Center A or “the Onion” was designed under the impression it would be for a temporary community center with a 7-to-12-year lifespan. House Center B or “the Cube” was designed to be a longer-term structure. Biron said that both were designed to be temporary in order to study the best use of the buildings. The house professors’ residential

homes are scattered throughout campus. These houses not only serve as the homes of house professors but are also often used for more intimate house events. House professors often hold dinners and other meals at these houses, which are open to all the members of the professor’s respective house. These professor houses, the house centers and programming budget utilize only donor-based funding. Biron also noted that naming opportunities for these houses are available for donors who are willing to make long-term significant endowments which can fund these houses in perpetuity. While each house has unique events, examples of programming include community meals, evening teas, Sunday brunches, events with guest speakers at the college such as Salman Rushdie, study sessions, a broomball tournament on an ice rink on the Green during Winter Carnival, tailgates during homecoming, mentorship programming, trips to places like Six Flags and Boston Red Sox games and other house specific programming. Houses also have begun to produce apparel for each house. Students also were able to create their own programming based on their own backgrounds and interests. For example, a student in South House was able to host a tea event with more than 30 other students that displayed parts of Great Britain’s tea culture. Another South House student was able to host an event where he cooked authentic Chinese food for other members of South House, according to Lively. “If you have a vision, you could be the one to create the tradition that they are doing in 150 years,” Lively said. She noted that if students have an idea that fits with the broad goals of the house system, they can pursue it using the resources of the house system. Biron also noted that she thinks more

“cross institutional partnerships” may “grow organically” in the future as students connect their house affiliation with their own extracurricular groups such as Greek houses, affinity groups or athletic teams. For many students, the house system allowed them to pursue career and leadership opportunities on campus. Dania Torres ’20 was able to find a sense of community in Allen House. She noted she and other students are able to present ideas for projects and get to know other house members. “Community is what characterizes Dartmouth,” Torres said. She was also able to participate in a mentorship program through Allen House and the College’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which provides educational programs for residents in the Upper Valley. Her mentor Roland Kuchel served as the former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia and Haiti. Through this mentorship program, she was able to learn more about possible career options and internship opportunities. Another student, Jenna Salvay ’20, noted that the house system allows students to create programming based on their interests and backgrounds. She added that the horizontal leadership structure also creates both flexibility and freedom in regards to programming ideas. While the house system began to make inroads at the College, it was met with a fair share of criticism from students, faculty and alumni who believed that the money used for the house system could be better utilized elsewhere. Furthermore, some students saw the house system as an attempt at replacing the College’s Greek system. McCabe said that the house system is intended to be a supplement for “students who haven’t already found their place here.” Biron also emphasized this sentiment and added

that leadership in the house system is looking into a joint community service partnership between members of Greek Houses and house community members. “When [the new housing system] was first brought about and proposed, it was met with a lot of apprehension from the student body because they did not see a direct need and it did not seem to align with a lot of the cultural aspects of Dartmouth, but we see it as another opportunity to form relationships and get closer to our Dartmouth classmates as well as faculty,” student assembly president Ian Sullivan ’18 said. The house system also faced some unexpected leadership turnover in its first year of implementation. An announcement notifying campus that biology professor Ryan Calsbeek, the original North Park house professor named during the 2015-16 school year, would step down from his position was emailed to students on September 1, 2016. Biron temporarily served in this role until Taylor was named as the current North Park house professor. Later during the spring term, Allen House professor Jane Hill was removed from her position and replaced by McCabe. Hill claims that her firing as house professor was involuntary, and Allen house students expressed disappointment over her removal. Despite these setbacks, Biron said that housing communities have continued to provide inclusive programming for students. House structures served as study and social spaces, faculty from each house served as mentors and students began to create a sense of house unity, she said. “An interesting thing at Dartmouth is that some people think traditions need to be 250 years old to be valuable, but traditions can be established very quickly when students value them and find that they produce community,” Biron said.

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Students reflect on Dartmouth programs and experiences abroad B y MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

From observing the Southern hemisphere’s night sky in South Africa to cultivating a deeper understanding of Chinese culture in Beijing, over 55 percent of Dartmouth students participate in an off-campus program before they graduate. Every year, the College provides various opportunities for students to take their education outside of the classroom and beyond Hanover. A center for these academic off-campus programs is the Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education, which supports language study abroad, foreign study programs and exchange programs. Participants in most LSAs travel to a foreign country and live with local families for a term. While abroad, students study the country’s language, culture and literature all in that country’s language with Dartmouth faculty and local instructors. The Guarini Institute also funds LSA+ programs, which are designed for students who have already fulfilled the language requirement. Languages studied in LSA and LSA+ programs include Chinese, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Arabic. For Kevin Ryu ’18, living with a local family as part of the LSA+ program in Tokyo allowed him to apply the Japanese language skills he learned at the College to real-life situations outside

the classroom. “I wanted to test how much I’ve grown over the past year and see if I could spend an entire term in a foreign country,” Ryu said. “Being able to have an entire family to practice my Japanese with everyday really helped improve my language skills.” After spending his sophomore summer in Tokyo on the Japanese LSA+, Ryu said his desire to “give back to the next generation of students” prompted him to participate in the same program again as a teaching assistant the next summer. Some language departments also offer FSPs, which allow greater exposure to the host country’s history, culture and literature. For example, Rachel Martin ’19 travelled to Madrid, Spain as part of the Spanish FSP this past fall. In addition to taking classes at the University of Madrid, Martin said she enjoyed going on group excursions to historic and artistic monuments in Barcelona and northern regions of Spain. Non-language departments also organize FSPs and domestic study programs conducted primarily in English. Participants can study various disciplines overseas, taking advantage of unique resources available in a foreign country or at an off-campus location in the United States. Examples of current programs include the Government FSP in London, the Film Studies DSP in Los Angeles and the

Music FSP in Vienna. According to the Guarini Institute’s executive director John Tansey MALS’95, there will be a combined 46 LSA, LSA+, FSP and DSP programs and 29 exchange programs during in the 2017 academic year. Off-campus programs are not limited to the select programs organized by the College’s academic departments. The Dickey Center for International Understanding also funds international internships, fellowships and research opportunities in “focus areas” such as the environment, human development and security. Student programs manager at the Dickey Center Casey Aldrich said the Center funds from 80 to 100 student interns who choose to work in around 35 different countries. The interns range from students who have never travelled overseas to those who have had plenty of international experience, Aldrich added. Aldrich said internships in general allow students a hands-on experience in topics they learn in the classroom. Furthermore, students wanting to add an international dimension to their internship can benefit from gaining a cross-cultural experience, she added. “[Participating in an international internship] is an opportunity for students to not only explore these topics of their interest, but also learn more about themselves in another region of the world,” Aldrich said.

Every year, the College offers a few “course-embedded programs,” which are academic courses taken on campus that involve an off-campus trip, typically after the course is completed. In the 2016 winter interim, students in Anthropology 70, “Experiencing Human Origins and Evolution” and Biology 70, “Biologic Lessons of the Eye,” went to South Africa and India, respectively. For Rachel Van Gelder ’18, writing a research proposal while taking Biology 70 at Dartmouth and then presenting it at a conference in India was especially an unique experience. “It was cool because it was something that you rarely get the opportunity to do in other biology classes,” Van Gelder said. Another program that takes students abroad is Project Preservation, which meets during the spring term and travels abroad during the springsummer interim. During the trip, Dartmouth Hillel takes a broad range of students from different backgrounds to Eastern Europe to restore a desolate Jewish cemetery. The Dickey Center, Dartmouth Hillel, the Tucker Foundation and the College support Project Preservation. After studying genocide and the Holocaust every week with Rabbi Boraz and around fifteen other students during her freshman spring, Martin went to Poland and Auschwitz with her peers that summer. She said visiting

Auschwitz and seeing in real-life how small the concentration camp was made the trip an emotional experience. Martin said she also helped restore an abandoned Jewish cemetery during the trip. Martin emphasized how important it was go outside the United States and meet local people who have undergone experiences that students usually read about in the classroom. “Meeting other people from other places who have actually had those experiences and could share stories about whatever you are learning makes it much more impactful and memorable,” Martin said. Additionally, the College provides many service opportunities abroad. For Sydney Kamen ’19, her trip to the Siuna region of Nicaragua to provide medical facilities and care was a transformative experience. Kamen said the trip exposed her to a variety of cultures and life experiences that she had previously been unaware of. This exposure changed how she approached other courses on international development and stimulated her interest in taking more classes on Latin America, she added. Kamen urges the incoming class to be open to trying new things and emphasized the importance of “complicating your perspective, your experience and where you fit in the world.”

Secret happy places: locations for rest, relaxation and reading B y ANNIKA KOUHIA The Dartmouth Staff

The Statue of Liberty, the Four Corners, the original Starbucks — all iconic places we acknowledge because of some grand public meaning or established importance. Some places, however, are special for more personal reasons. Maybe it’s the diner you’d frequent with friends every weekend, or the lookout point where you had your first kiss or wherever you were when you received your Dartmouth acceptance — for me this was in the back of a class I was too nervous to pay attention to, and then the hallway outside after I began to cry from happiness and had to excuse myself. The point is, as you arrive at Dartmouth for the first time, you’re arriving at a very special place which will only become better as you create memories and experiences across campus. Here, we celebrate a few of the lesser-known happy places in our little corner of the woods. By this time next year, you will have a few of your own to add to the list. While I hope this list helps you discover a few hidden gems at Dartmouth, I know you’ll eventually find your own secret happy places. For the Faux-Crunchy and Sunshine-Seekers: The Greenhouse. The greenhouse occupies the top floor

of the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center and encompasses all things green and wholesome. You have the benefit of being surrounded by beautiful plants and feeling super outdoorsy from the safety of the indoors — a plus for those of us who may be less crunchy than the average person. Stick around long enough you’ll get to see Morphy, the Amorphophallus titanum “corpse flower”, bloom, an event that only occurs every five to six years. You also can hide away in a warm safe haven during the winters you’ve probably heard so much about. Where else can you visit the plants of different warm climates, ranging from exotic flowers to cacti, while gazing out at Baker Tower? Even when there’s a blizzard outside and you feel like you haven’t seen the sun for days, you can count on the greenhouse to feel like summer. For those whose computers are never above 10 percent battery: The Hop Patio. Located on the top of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, this patio gives a wonderful view of campus — perfect for appreciating Dartmouth’s wholesome side during the spring when groups of students can be found throwing frisbees, eating lunch and “studying” on the Green. The Hop patio also boasts what could be the most important amenity for any

space: outlets. Idyllic views, cool breezes AND access to electricity? What more could you ask for? Take a psychology reading, a Hop grill item or just a good friend to the patio for ensured good vibes and chill times. For those who love good people and good food: The O Farm. A few miles off campus, the Dartmouth Organic Farm or the “O Farm” is sure to be bustling with activity. Whether it’s volunteers working in its sprawling garden, professors completing slightly messier research projects or students participating in social events like Brewhaha and Farmal, there is always something to do on this 220 acre patch of land that is home to students, plants and the Dartmouth Bee Keeping Association! For the posh: Sanborn Library. Snag yourself an upper level seat in Sanborn, the small English department library off of Baker-Berry with comfy leather chairs and an “old, wise book” smell. A popular destination on tours, Sanborn is one of the most beautiful libraries on campus. It has the old school allure of a Downton Abbey parlor or somewhere you would see Sherlock Holmes smoking his pipe. Despite the urge, please don’t bring a pipe to smoke in Sanborn, you will be asked to leave! To top it all off, an anonymous

successful alumnus made a generous donation to the College a long time ago with instructions that it should go towards funding tea and cookies at 4:00 pm each afternoon in Sanborn at the bargain price of ten cents for the rest of time. What could be better? Whether you’re looking for the traditional and ornate side of Dartmouth, or just are low on DBA and need to snag some cookies and tea as you walk through, make sure to check out Sanborn and those super comfy chairs. For the posh who fall asleep in Sanborn: The Periodicals. If you’re like me and love Sanborn, but tend to fall asleep with half a cup of tea and cookie crumbs on your lap as you sink into those leather chairs, then I suggest trying out Sanborn’s alternate identity: the Current Periodicals room. It took me a full two terms to actually find the Periodicals, because the only way to access the room is to walk through King Arthur Flour café and go through the doors in the back. The Periodicals have the exact layout of Sanborn, but with an opposite design scheme. Where Sanborn is old wood, Periodicals are painted over in a bright white. Where Sanborn has comfortable, sinking chairs, Periodicals has more classic straight-backed wooden chairs. Where Sanborn is mysterious and cozy,

Periodicals is one of the brightest places on campus, generally filled with natural lighting. Though Periodicals do not boast tea and cookies, it is roughly 15 seconds away from KAF, which is both a blessing and a curse as you’ll notice your mood lightening as you chomp through a flaky pastry and a chai tea latte, and your DBA steadily declining until you’re trying to live off of the free saltine crackers in Novack. For those who love a nice walk: Occom Pond. My personal favorite, Occom provides a tranquil and scenic break from the usual bustle of campus. Whether chatting with a friend about weekend happenings, assuring my mom over the phone that I had not transformed into an Animal House crazed wild-child without her supervision or spending a few minutes in solitude pretending I didn’t have looming homework, walks around Occom Pond were a constant source of happiness during my freshman year. It’s a place to stop worrying about challenging courses and your alarmingly short supply of clean underwear and instead focus on all of the good. The things we love, the things we look forward to and the things that were at once humiliating and funny are all remembered, analyzed and glorified around Occom Pond.

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DDS Hacks: Optimzing your dining experience B y EMMA CHIU

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

As you can probably tell by now, Dartmouth uses quite a few acronyms. Although all of them are important for you to learn at some point, certain ones will come up far more often in your daily life than others will. One such acronym is DDS — the abbreviated form of Dartmouth Dining Services. As its title would imply, DDS runs the dining facilities on campus as well as the meal plans that students use to eat at said dining locations. Although I’ve personally been very satisfied with the “food aspect” of my college experience, it took me many terms to figure out how to navigate my termly meal plan in a tactful manner. When you’re paying $2,230 for your first term meal plan, it becomes very easy to internalize the age-old maxim that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Therefore, if there’s one thing I’ve learned about food here: DDS hacks are inherently life hacks. At least, Dartmouth life hacks. During your first term on campus, you are required to be on a meal plan called the SmartChoice20, more

commonly referred to as “the 20” because it includes 20 meal swipes per week as well as $200 of DBA (i.e. dining dollars) for the entire term. Before we get too deep into the details, I suggest that you first hop onto the College’s website and search for Dartmouth Dining’s frequently asked questions. DDS does a good job of explaining the overall concept of meal swipes and how the dollar value of a meal swipe varies depending on the meal period and dining facility itself. However, what they don’t tell you is that maximizing your DBA and meal swipes is an art form. Class of 1953 Commons: Frequently (read: only) referred to as Foco, this location is the only allyou-can-eat buffet option and it’s open for three meals a day, seven days a week. When you’re feeling especially hungry, this is your go-to place for a meal. As a general rule of thumb, always use a meal swipe (as opposed to DBA) when you go to Foco, except perhaps breakfast. Speaking of Foco breakfast, it’s a great place for those who like to start their morning early (or for athletes who have morning practice) since it opens at 7 a.m. While you’re at it, pick up a free copy of The

New York Times and read it as you sip on a cup of morning joe. As you enter the College on the 20, you will be using many of your meal swipes here. Collis Café: Although the Collis Center is a large building and consists of many different offices and facilities, if someone says “I’m going to Collis,” they’re most likely talking about getting a meal the building’s dining café. Because of it’s à la carte options, Collis tends to be frequented by upperclassmen on meals with fewer meal swipes and more DBA. The lines can get pretty long at Collis, particularly after popular classes get out around lunch time (e.g. when 10As end on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon, the place becomes a zoo). I’m personally partial to the fresh food quality of Collis, but it comes at the price of a potentially intimidating methodology of weighing vegetables and understanding what’s even available in the first place. If you find the system overwhelming, don’t be afraid to ask the random student next to you or even the cooks themselves how to order a particular type of dish, such as stir fry or pasta. You’ll learn the ways in which you can combine all

the meals that Collis offers, including vegetables from the salad bar to your eggs or even in your smoothie! TAKE NOTE: Collis is closed on Saturday and Sunday except for Late Night which opens every night starting at 9:30 p.m. KAF: Technically named “King Arthur Flour” (whoa, more acronyms!), KAF is located in BakerBerry Library. It is a smaller café version of the bakery and restaurant in Norwich. The most important thing to remember about KAF is that it never accepts meal swipes. The only way you can pay with your student ID there is by using DBA. When you only have $200 of DBA for the entire term, going to KAF every day will probably put you into negative DBA by week 5. But don’t let that deter you from stopping by once in a while for a nice pick-me-up – especially if you decide to order a chocolate milk with an added shot of espresso. The Hop: If you ever read anything from DDS referencing the Courtyard Café, they’re really talking about the Hop, which is located in the lower level of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. One of the most commonly raved about items at the Hop is the

“tender queso,” which is a quesadilla stuffed with chicken tenders and salsa. The tender queso gives a pretty good indication of Hop food in general, but it also has a solid salad bar that often goes unnoticed because it’s tucked in a corner beyond the cash register! Novack Café: Located within Baker-Berry Library, Novack is generally used in situations when you need food on the go, such as a premade sandwich, cup of Greek yogurt or hummus and carrots. Novak is one of the two 24-hour study spaces in the library and the café serves food until 2 a.m. daily. If you’re someone who drinks tea every day and also enjoys being extra, you can save $100 a term by ordering a cup of hot water and then whipping out a tea bag that conveniently saved in your backpack. (You will frequently see me doing this.) The final piece of advice I’ll leave you with is that you should download the “GET Mobile” app on your phone. It will tell you how many meal swipes you have left for the week and total dining dollars that you have left for the term! It also tells you how, when and where you’ve been spending your swipes and DBA. Bon appétit, friends.

Hidden gems: Lesser known departments draw interest

B y REBECCA FLOWERS

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

When there are over 50 majors and minors provided, choosing a discipline to concentrate in can be difficult. Beyond traditional biology, English and history majors are a variety of programs unique to the College that may encourage students to think broadly and bring them to far ends of the earth. The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding is the College’s “focal point for international affairs,” director Daniel Benjamin said. His mission is to provide opportunities to students to outstanding issues such as security, the climate and the arctic and global health. The International Studies minor is one of these programs and consists of four core courses such as International Studies 15, “Violence and Security” and International Studies 16, “Introduction to International Development,” senior programs officer at the Dickey Center Amy Newcomb said. Students must also complete one advanced language, literature course and one elective course. “The core courses kind of interplay a lot of the big topics of concern that pop up around the globe, and the electives allow the students to bridge their specific interests in the minor with their major or with particular regions in the world,” Newcomb said. In addition, the Dickey Center supports the Institute of Arctic Studies, which focuses on polar studies and climate issues, and runs the

Global Health Initiative, which offers internships around the globe and the global health fellows program. The War and Peace Fellowship program is also run through the Dickey Center and funds speakers on campus and a trip to Washington D.C. to meet high-level policy makers in the Senate, Pentagon and State Department. In the past, students have even met with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For first-year students, Benjamin especially encourages participation in the Great Issues Scholars program, which involves a crisis simulation, such as a clash in the South China Sea, and students “spend a weekend role-playing and learning from expert faculty on issues.” Benjamin feels that the Dickey Center is important because it often allows students to get to know experts in international affairs. The Native American Studies program offers both a major and a minor, with courses including a prerequisite course called “Perspectives in Native American Studies,” one class on literature and languages, others on history and culture and governance and sovereignty and a culminating experience. The program began in 1972, and intended to revisit the initial purpose of Dartmouth’s founding in 1769 of Native American education. It also offers an off-campus program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rachel Kesler ’19, who is pursuing a double major in History and Native American studies, said she has gotten

to know many of the professors who teach the classes so well that she feels comfortable going into Sherman House, where the Native American studies offices are, just to say hello. As a history major, she said many of the classes she has taken through the program have been an important supplement to “fill in the gaps” of the curriculum taught in most high school American history courses and added that the scholarship surrounding Native American studies at the College is unparalleled in comparison to other universities. The minor in materials science is sponsored by the chemistry, physics and engineering departments, and can be combined with majors in any of these departments. Required courses include “Science of Materials,” “Methods of Experimental Physics” and “Methods of Materials Characterization.” Students can then choose two courses from three groups of electives: solid state science, macromolecules chemistry, materials processing and thermodynamics. Dartmouth also has a Medieval and Renaissance studies program, which allows students to modify their majors with courses from a variety of departments, including art history, classics, comparative Jewish studies, philosophy, Spanish and Portuguese and theatre. Art history professor Jane Carroll, who is one of the members of the steering committee for the program, said that the program began with a conversation between her and a fellow faculty member about the faculty

members who focus on the Medieval and Renaissance time periods, but are in different departments. A student named Dana Polanichka ’02 then came to them asking for a program exactly like this. “We helped her build a major,” Carroll said, “and she was so successful, and in fact she did a senior honors thesis that won an award. We thought ‘hey, we can do this,’ and we started sitting down all around a table … thinking about ways that we could make this something formal that students could use.” Carroll thinks the program is

important because of its intense focus on a single time period. “What you learn in a religious history course taught by professor [Christopher] MacEvitt about the crusades plays out when you’re suddenly doing a course in the English department on Medieval legends, or when you’re doing my course on Gothic [art],” Carroll said. She estimates that three to five students receive the major modification, or the Medieval and Renaissance Studies “certificate,” each year. Some former SEE ACADEMICS PAGE 17

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Alumni Spotlight: Where are they now? B y ALEXANDRA STEINBERG The Dartmouth Staff

Approximately sixty-six thousand Dartmouth graduates “roam the girdled earth,” as we sing in the alma mater. Some you may not have heard of, and some you may know and are ecstatic to share the same Dartmouth identity. Theodor Seuss Geisel ’25: Theodor Geisel was instructed to cease his participation in extracurricular activities after being caught consuming alcoholic beverages in his dorm room during Prohibition. However, Geisel continued to write for the Jack-OLantern, the College’s satirical humor publication, under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss. During his time at Dartmouth, Geisel was the editor-in-chief of the Jack-O and a brother at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. After graduating from Dartmouth, Geisel attended Lincoln College at the University of Oxford but left without a degree. He drew advertisements for companies, including General Electric, National Broadcasting Company and Standard Oil, during the Great Depression. Additionally, Geisel was a commander of the animation department for the

Army in 1943. Although Geisel died in 1991, today many know him for his popular children’s books, such as “The Lorax,” “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat.” Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine is named in his honor and a room in Baker-Berry Library is devoted to his work. Timothy Geithner ’83: Tim Geithner received his B.A. in government and Asian Studies, followed by a master’s in international economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University. He later became the president and chief executive officer at the Federal Reserve of New York from 2003 to 2009. Geithner served as the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Obama from 2009 to 2013, succeeding another Dartmouth alumnus, Henry Paulson Jr. ’68. Following his tenure as treasure secretary, he was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2013. In 2014, Geithner also released his memoir, “Stress Test: Reflection on Financial Crises.” Geithner’s signature is featured on bills still in circulation. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88: Tina Rutnik, as she was known to her classmates, was an Asian Studies major, squash and tennis player

and magna cum laude graduate. Since her time in Hanover, Rutnik abandoned her nickname, returned to using her birth name Kirsten and took the last name of her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand. Gillibrand was a Democratic U.S. Representative for New York from 2007 to 2009, and since 2009, she has represented New York in the U.S. Senate. The Senator came to Dartmouth in October 2016 to campaign for then-Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then-candidate for U.S. Senate Maggie Hassan (D-NH). Shonda Rhimes ’91: Meredith Grey, the lead character in the medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” often wears a Dartmouth t-shirt during the series. This is how Shonda Rhimes ’91, the TV show’s creator, head writer and executive producer, represents her alma mater. Since her tenure directing the Black Underground Theater Association at Dartmouth, Rhimes created other drama series, including “Scandal” and “Private Practice.” In 2004, the Dartmouth English and film studies major created her own production company Shondaland. Time Magazine named Rhimes one of its 100 Most Influential People in the

World in 2013. She has been featured on many similar lists, including Fortune Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” Glamour Magazine’s “Women of the Year” and Variety Magazine’s “Power of Women.” Rhimes presented the commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2014. Mindy Kaling ’01: Mindy Kaling came to Dartmouth to follow her “love of white people and North Face parkas,” she wrote in her memoir “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” At Dartmouth, Kaling was a theater major and a member of the improv comedy troupe Dog Day. She also sang with the a cappella group the Rockapellas and created a comic strip for The Dartmouth entitled “Badly Drawn Girl.” After her time at Dartmouth, Kaling shortened her last name from Chokalingam to Kaling and pursued a career in television and comedy. When she was 24, Kaling became the first woman to join the writing staff of the TV sitcom “The Office” when she was 24, a show in which she played the character Kelly Kapoor. Kaling also writes and stars in her own television series, “The Mindy Project.” Time Magazine named

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Kaling one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013. Currently, Kaling is preparing the sixth and final season of “The Mindy Project” and is starring in the film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time.” KyleHendricks’12:KyleHendricks was selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft when he was a senior in high school. Hendricks declined, instead committing to play baseball for the Big Green at Dartmouth. In 2011, Hendricks signed with the Texas Rangers, pitched for their minor league team and then was traded to the Chicago Cubs. He was the Cubs’ 2013 Minor League Pitcher of the Year. While pursuing his professional career, Hendricks completed his degree in economics modified with math and graduated in the spring of 2014. Hendricks pitched his first major league game that same year with the Cubs. He also pitched in the 2016 World Series, when the Cubs won their first title in more than a century. This June, Hendricks was placed on the disabled list for inflammation in a tendon in a finger in his right hand, his pitching hand. He returned to pitch July 28.

The Freshman Year Bucketlist: Experiences essential for first years B y ALYSSA MEHRA The Dartmouth Staff

Time flies quickly inside our little bubble of Hanover and your first year at college can be overwhelming with all the various things grabbing your attention. This list consists of experiences and activities that are Dartmouth specific and easy enough to be spontaneously added on to your busy calendar. While it may feel like you can’t do it all, hit these 14 things and you’ll be on your way to immersing yourself in a quintessential Dartmouth experience. 1. Stargaze on the golf course: The rural nature of our school means less pollution and clearer skies. Pick a warm night with a couple of good friends and head to the golf course. The Shattuck Observatory, located behind Wilder Hall, is open every Friday night as well. 2. Lou’s challenge: The famous Lou’s challenge involves an all-nighter that ends with you chowing on pancakes or eggs at Lou’s at daybreak. The diner opens at 6 am and this may very well be the only time the line isn’t out the door. 3. Go to a football game: While it may sound cliché, you should definitely go support the Big Green and watch our football team. Sitting in the stands as everyone cheers them on automatically makes you feel a little bit more a part of the Dartmouth community. The student section is a lot of fun. Plus, admission is free for students.

4. Get a fracket stolen: Nights get cold here quickly in Hanover and that means you’ll need a jacket that you don’t care about to wear out. A frat jacket, or “fracket,” is a warm article of clothing that you might not care about losing. Despite your best efforts to hide it in a frat, it will be taken at some point. It’s a rite of passage to have one stolen. Of course, this doesn’t mean you should steal someone else’s. 5. Sunrike Gile: If you manage to find a car to borrow, a sunrike (sunrise hike) up Gile Mountain fire tower is more of a leisurely walk and a set of stairs, allowing some of less crunchy Dartmouth students to get in on the fun. Make the extra effort to set that early alarm because the view combined with the surrounding foliage is hard to beat.

6. Actually run around the fire: Twenty-two times or you didn’t do it. A highlight of your freshman fall will be Homecoming weekend, of which the Bonfire is a main event. The tradition ensues you run around the fire with the rest of your class for 100 laps with the addition of the last two digits of your class year. A long-standing custom, running around the fire is an experience you won’t forget. You don’t need to run 121 laps, but 22 will suffice — your class year quota and one more for good luck. Just remember not to touch the fire. 7. Check out the Hop: The Hopkins Center for the Arts puts on a multitude of wonderful shows and acts that are

worth seeing. Dartmouth is able to get fantastic visiting performers to our secluded campus and it’s a shame not to take advantage of it. If you’re feeling inspired to make some art, the Hop has a ceramics studio, carpentry shop and jewelry making studio open to students.

8. Paddleboard or canoe on the Connecticut River: While the weather is nice, go out on a paddleboard or canoe on the river. Grab Foco-to-go or Collis and bring it out there for an aquatic picnic. Bonus points for the rope swings: For the more adventurous, make it to Pine Park for the ropes or Gilman Island for the swings. 9. Ice skate on Occom Pond: When winter comes around (and it will come around sooner than you think), don’t be bogged down by the cold temperatures and snowy ground. Occom Pond turns into an ice skating rink — the perfect afternoon activity for you and your friends. Head to KAF, the coffee shop and bakery in the library, after to warm up with hot chocolate and marshmallows. 10. Visit the Dartmouth Skiway: Make the most of the snowy days and sign up for a skiing P.E. class. One of the unique things about Dartmouth is that it has its own place to ski. Buses run everyday during the winter term and day passes are as little as $20. Any beginner can learn on the bunny hill and advanced skiers can race down the harder runs.

11. Join a club: The club fair will take place early your freshman fall and it’s one of the most important things you can go to. Various student groups and organizations on campus will set up booths for you to get on their email lists and learn more. Try out for a performance group or sign up for a club that you wouldn’t have been involved in during high school. It’s an amazing way to meet upperclassmen. Fill your time outside of academics and get more involved with our community. 12. Go to office hours: Even if you can’t find the time to do all the others on this list, go to office hours! The accessibility of professors is one of the great things about Dartmouth — take advantage of it. Even if it’s not class related, ask questions about their experiences, their work and learn about their lives. They’ve done some pretty

cool stuff.

13. Bring your teacher to lunch: Continue the conversation and bring your teacher to lunch at Pine, the restaurant in the Hanover Inn. If you’re intimidated to go by yourself alone, ask up to three classmates to join. These conversations can turn into future research opportunities or lifelong mentorships. And the best part is that Dartmouth pays. 14. Explore different departments: Try any class that piques your desire. Don’t be constrained by a tentative major plan or class distributive credits because an awesome class is always worth it. Classes you’re genuinely interested in will always be the ones you remember the most. Ask upperclassmen for their favorite recommendations and don’t be afraid to shop around.

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Physics and astronomy departments, in Wilder Hall, hold open office hours.

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Community found in performance groups B y ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth Staff

After the outdoor adventures of first-year trips and the presentations of orientation week, many freshmen put themselves on the spot by auditioning for one of the College’s many performance groups. These groups encompass everything from a cappella ensembles to improvisational comedy troupes and dance companies, and can become an integral part of a student’s life at the College. Daniel Shlien ’18, a member of the co-ed a cappella group, the Dodecaphonics or “the Dodecs,” said that it would be hard to imagine Dartmouth without having been a member of the organization. “They’re like my main group of people,” he said. “When I was a freshman, they were the first people that I would reach out to, whether it was about classes, rush or basically anything ... They’re still there for me now.” Founded in 1984, the College’s oldest co-ed a cappella group has performed at presidential debates and at the Lincoln Center, Shlien said. The Dodecaphonics primarily perform modern music, but their repertoire encompasses pieces from many genres from “smatterings of country” to more traditional a cappella pieces, he added. The group’s president Tara Joshi ’18 said that the College quickly became her home away from home after she joined the Dodecaphonics her freshman fall. “I was a wide-eyed freshman and I had no idea how to navigate so many different things,” Joshi said. “I think I was really unprepared to begin with.” She added that she had not thought about “what classes I wanted to take, what I wanted my major to be [or] what kind of social life I wanted” and upperclassmen from the group helped guide her. Citing a love for rhythm and blues music, Joshi said her favorite pieces to perform with the group are “What Goes Around ... Comes Around” by Justin Timberlake and “Bills, Bills, Bills” by Destiny’s Child. Member and co-director of Sheba, a hip-hop dance troupe, Emily Smid ’18 said that she joined the group her freshman fall because she sought a tight-knit dance community of people to share the art with her. “[Dance] was always a part of me as an artistic outlet and my favorite type of exercise so I wanted to continue dancing at Dartmouth and I wanted to grow as a dancer,” she said. “I hadn’t done much hip-hop and I was looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone stylistically.” While the group, which was founded in 1995, is primarily known for its hip-hop routines, Smid said their

focus has extended into urban dance styles. Smid added that being a member of the dance troupe has changed her experience at the College by challenging her as a dancer and allowing her to dance with people who have had different backgrounds and mastered different styles. She also said that joining Sheba has given her access to some of the “best people on campus.” “I think people at Dartmouth tend to limit themselves socially,” Smid said. “Being on Sheba has allowed me to meet different people outside of the Greek system, in the arts and across class lines, which I think is really important.” Sheba member and co-director Olivia Deng ’18 wrote in an email that one of the highlights of her time in the group is the annual senior brunch. Deng mentioned that it reminds them of what they’ve learned from each other and how they’ve leaned on one another. “Even though practice can be tough and claws sometimes come out, it is amazing to see how a love of dance can bring together so many amazing individuals doing so many different things with their lives,” Deng wrote. Member of the long-for m improvisational comedy troupe, the Dog Day Players, Brooke Bazarian ’20, said that being a member of the group has been her favorite thing at the College thus far. Bazarian said the troupe, which is the College’s oldest long-form improvisational comedy group, first formed under the name “Said and Done” in the 1980s and counted comedian Rachel Dratch ’88 among its earliest members. The group changed its name to the Dog Day Players in the 1990s. The troupe went on tour in Florida this past spring break, performing at other colleges and visiting the Universal Orlando Resort and the Bahamas, which Bazarian deemed one of the best weeks of her life. “When you get a bunch of improv people in the same group in one place, it’s a pretty fun time,” Bazarian said. Member of the Dog Day Players Walker Schneider ’19 recalled that he auditioned for the troupe on a whim after the first lacrosse tryout of the season. As he was walking past the doors of Carson Hall, Schneider saw a sign that indicated that tryouts were being held inside. The group welcomed him in and he eventually ended up as a member of the group. “I think these opportunities come around less and less as you go in your Dartmouth career,” he said. “You have to go for it freshman year or that opportunity probably won’t come up again. Take your freshman fall as an opportunity to really go for everything — spread yourself as wide as you can.”

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Skiing at the College: A history of tradition and championship B y MARK CUI

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Despite its small size, Dartmouth College, as author Ste phen Waterhouse asserts in “Passion for Skiing,” can “claim the lead role in the development of skiing in the past, present and future.” The school has been crucial to shaping the skiing landscape on both the national, collegiate and international level. The Big Green has consistently sported powerhouse rosters, and has brought out the best in individual team members. Dartmouth has contributed more skiers, coaches and staff to the Olympics than any other institution, and as of 2017, Dartmouth-affiliated members make up nine percent of the total National Ski and Snowboarding Hall of Fame. Players and coaches alike have been drawn to the school’s outstanding skiing program. “Dartmouth, in my opinion, is the most storied program in all of collegiate skiing,” women’s Alpine skiing head coach for the past two years John Dwyer said. “The quality of athletes that we get are tremendous both athletically and intellectually.” Cami Thompson, who has been the head coach of women’s Nordic skiing for the past 11 years, noted that Dartmouth’s reputation and general mindset for players are crucial to its recruitment of athletes. “We’ve been fortunate to attract some of the top talent in the country,” Thompson said. “Our reputation certainly helps with that. Skiing at Dartmouth is more than just skiing on the Eastern circuit, and we really encourage our athletes to think big.” Today, the College’s ski team consists of a women’s and men’s team, competing in both Nordic and Alpine events, but the skiing tradition was not always as established as it is today. How did Dartmouth attain its reputation as the collegiate center of the skiing world? The story unfolds, as expected, in the town of Hanover. The humble beginnings of skiing at Dartmouth did not gain traction until the turn of the 19th century. John Ash, class of 1899, and Ralph Wilder, class of 1899, were the first students to make skis in 1896; several students soon followed by forming a skiing club thereafter. While these students discovered the excitement of learning this new skill, the club and their skis faded into obscurity after their graduation. A pivotal moment in Dartmouth skiing history occurred in the winter of 1910 — Fred Harris, class of 1911, founded the Dartmouth Outing Club, which has since remained fixated at the heart of national skiing developments and

informed thousands of Dartmouth alums’ passion for skiing. During the year of its initial founding, the club organized the first Winter Carnival, attracting coverage from all of the top news press of the day. Harris himself later became one of the first people to be elected to the National Ski and Snowboarding Hall of Fame. The Dartmouth Outing Club has since spearheaded Dartmouth’s efforts to be a pioneer in the skiing world. The first ski exploration by Dartmouth students was of Mount Moosilauke by Carl Shumway, class of 1913, and G.S. Foster, class of 1913, on Jan. 31, 1912. The first collegiate ski race was organized by professor Charles Proctor, class of 1900, who led a party of 12 students and faculty members from Dartmouth to challenge a group of McGill skiers on Feb. 1, 1914. Soon thereafter, John Carleton, class of 1922 was Dartmouth’s first Olympic skier and competed at the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Due to these early developments, Dartmouth was relied upon during the two World Wars. When experienced skiers were needed on the frontline to help evacuate people from snow-covered mountains, Dartmouth was the first place the American government and its allies looked to for volunteers. Two notable alums who answered the call despite the danger were Charles Dabney Horton, class of 1915, and Charles McLane, class of 1941. Horton was subsequently awarded with the Croix de Guerre military decoration for his service by the French government. After the DOC popularized skiing, Dartmouth quickly dominated the competitive scene. The College became one of the first teams to incorporate advanced European racing techniques in the 1930s after closely following their successes abroad. Richard Durrance, class of 1939 trained in the Austrian and German Alps before matriculating to Dartmouth, and used his European techniques to become on the greatest American skiers of the day and inspire significant ski developments in America. Influenced by Durrance’s success, Harris and other early DOC skiers hired several European skiers, such as the legendary Walter Pragner, from 1923-1957 to develop the Dartmouth ski racing team. Dartmouth skiing has naturally excelled on the national collegiate stage. Since the NCAA National Championships was first founded in 1954 and became co-ed in 1983, Dartmouth has secured second place five times and won it all three times; it took second in 1955, 1956, 1964, 1969 and 1970, and won the titles in 1958, 1976 and 2007. Arguably the most famous

Dartmouth team in the 21st century is the 2007 team that won NCAA Championships. Peter Dodge ’78, coach of men’s alpine skiing for the past 11 years and former member of the U.S. skiing team, recalls the electric atmosphere and describes the experience as the epitome of a true team victory. “That was a magical time,” Dodge said. “The key was that it wasn’t individual superstars who made it happen, but it was everyone at the time, men and women, alpine and cross country. [It was] the role players who outperformed expectations. There was also a big vibe of the Dartmouth community, people were watching and coming out, and the energy built throughout the whole [experience].” In addition to the three national championships the Big Green has captured, Dartmouth has had a skier represented in every Winter Olympics since its initial inception in 1924. During the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dartmouth contributed 14 Olympians and many staff members. The Dartmouth members ended up securing three Gold and two Bronze medals for the U.S. team. While the freshman skiers coming in already have top-notch talent, Dartmouth actively facilitates a culture to further develop their skills and realize their potential. “We set the standard for being the best what you can be,” Dodge said. “Sometimes a skier moves on and goes to the pro level, and while we might miss [him or her] not scoring any points for Dartmouth, we’re really excited about that because that person is achieving [his or her] potential and reaching as high as [he or she] can.” Today, Da r tm outh s k iin g continues its storied legacy. Alums continue to develop new skiing technology and sports medicine, support industry entrepreneurs, popularize skiing in the national and internal media, accrue more skiing feats and spread their overall passion for skiing. In addition, the Big Green remains one of the powerhouse skiing teams in the nations. Last season, the team added several top freshmen and finished in fourth place in the NCAA Skiing Championships. The coaches and player look forward to continuing to improve for the upcoming season while upholding traditional Dartmouth values. “There is a lot of history and tradition in Dartmouth skiing. It goes beyond Dartmouth to their continued involvement in the skiing world,” Dodge said. “We really preach the idea of achieving excellence in both the classroom and on the hill, and we look to continue doing that.”

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Specialized and recent programs gain traction

statistical skills to study important social science issues.” students have even gone on to The Ethics Institute offers an become colleagues in the field. ethics minor as well as lectures The NelsonA. Rockefeller Center open to campus. Sonu Bedi, the for Public Policy and the Social recently appointed director of the Sciences offers a public policy Ethics Institute, said that, while the minor and a variety of leadership minor is currently being reviewed programs for students. The public by a new faculty minor committee, policy minor is geared towards the Institute will support the Dorsett preparing students for careers such fellowship lecture series this as policy analysts, researchers coming year, which will discuss for nonprofit organizations and free speech on college campuses. consultants for businesses and the The first speaker will be Geoffrey government. The minor includes a Stone, from the University of statistics course, a policymaking Chicago law school. Bedi hopes to process course, two public policy approach ethics with a more lawmethods courses, such as “The related focus than has been the case Economics in the past. of Public “ W e Policymaking” don’t have a o r “ Wr i t i n g “We really don’t have law school,” and Speaking any institute at DartBedi said. about Pu b lic “ We r e a l l y mouth that is focused Policy,” as well don’t have as high-level on understanding the any institute p o l i c y t r a c k law from a liberal arts at Dartmouth and seminar that is courses, such as perspective.” focused on “Urban Politics understanding and Public the law from -SONU BEDI, DIRECTOR OF Policymaking.” a liberal arts Students can THE ETHICS INSTITUTE perspective.” concentrate Bedi on a variety of himself has a topics from healthcare policy to background in law and political international development. The theory and believes that the Ethics senior seminar, Public Policy 85, Institute is important for asking “Global Policy Leadership,” even the question of what one “ought” includes an in-depth study of a to do, which may have more than country and travel to that country one answer. He hopes that the during the winter break to develop lecture series this coming year will a policy memo. address free speech from a variety The program in Quantitative of different angles and approach Social Sciences is one of the thought from the student body. In newest interdisciplinary programs the future, Bedi hopes to establish a on campus. Both majors and leadership fellows program similar minors in the QSS program must to that at the Nelson A. Rockefeller take prerequisites in introductory Center. programming, statistics, game T h e Thayer School theory and social science. All of Engineering also offers a minors and majors must also work human-centered design minor, on an independent research project, which focuses on innovation for one or two terms respectively, for addressing human needs. that addresses an important social Prerequisites include “Design science question and has the goal of Thinking” and “Introduction to publication in a scientific journal. Engineering,” as well as upper-level The program has rapidly expanded courses that focus on ethnographic over the past couple of years, methods, human psychology and government professor and interim design electives. The humanchair of the QSS program Yusaku centered design minor allows Horiuchi said, with only two majors students to get a understanding and five minors in the class of 2017, of how to address societal needs and 17 to 18 anticipated majors through the lens of human behavior and about 10 minors in the class and interdisciplinary classes. In of 2019. Horiuchi said he believes “Design Thinking,” assignments that the interdisciplinary approach often consist of observing everyday is important for today’s students. systems and objects and proposing “This is the age of big data,” he solutions. The final project is a said. “Most of the QSS people think group project based around campus that there is a huge demand in the issues and involves qualitiative business industry and academia for research. the young scholars who can apply computational, mathematical and Amanda Zhou contributed to reporting. FROM ACADEMICS PAGE 8

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A Survey of Freshman Year Experiences B y Alexander Agadjanian The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Forty percent of Dartmouth students say they currently have the same major as when they first started at the College their freshmen year, while 33 percent say they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the same major and 28 percent indicate they were undecided at the start of their time at Dartmouth. More members of the Class of 2020 say they have kept their initial major (48 percent) than members of the Class of 2019 and 2018 have (35 percent).

At 47 percent, a plurality of Dartmouth students say their view of Greek life became more positive from the start to the end of their freshman year. 27 percent said their view on Greek life did not change over the course of their first year, while 19 percent say it became more negative.

When asked whether they think high school prepared them well for their freshman year at Dartmouth, 63 percent of current students agree that it did, while 28 percent disagree and nine percent neither agree nor disagree.

When asked whether at any point during their freshman year they had regrets about coming to Dartmouth, roughly an even number of student said yes (48 percent) and no (45 percent), while seven percent are not sure.

Seventy percent of Dartmouth students met most or some of their current friends during their freshman fall term. Nineteen percent said they met a few of them during their first term on campus, and only six percent said all of them while four percent said none of them.

Methodology Notes: From Sunday, July 23 to Saturday, July 29, 2017, The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of Dartmouth students on topics related to social and academic life as a freshman. The survey was sent out once to 3,218 students through their school email addresses. Three hundred sixty-six complete responses were recorded, making for an 11.4 percent response rate. Using administrative data from the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Greek Life, responses were first weighted by Greek affiliation for all non-freshmen, and then weighted by class year, gender, race/ethnicity and international student status for all students. Iterative post-stratification (raking) was the weighting method. Survey results have a margin of error +/- 4.8. Note: Reported percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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Dartmouth is known for having a high number of options for outdoor activities — one of the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire. The Mirror explores the various sub-clubs of the largest collegiate outdoor club in the country, the Dartmouth Outing Club, as well as some of the other options for outdoor fun that students have access to.

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Welcome to the Dartmouth Insider’s Survival Guide. You’ve written an essay explaining why you want to come to Dartmouth. You’ve maybe visited campus and learned (but forgotten) where things are. You’ve scrolled through the Dartmouth meme page. But maybe you don’t feel like you have a grasp of where exactly you’ll be living for the next four years. Maybe the memes on the meme page don’t make sense just yet. Perhaps you feel nervous about what Hanover winters are really like, and what “warm layers” means. Some of you will rely on College Confidential to figure out how much clothing to pack, and others will rely on the advice of their elder siblings. But if you do not feel like going through blog posts from 2006, or do not have the wise guidance of an older brother or sister, have no fear. The Mirror’s “Insider’s Guide to Dartmouth” is here. We are easily foldable, highlightable and memorizable. Our tips and tricks will give you a glimpse into the your new life as a Dartmouth student. In some ways, the issue is improperly titled as a survival guide. There will be moments during freshman year when you’ll feel challenged, and sometimes it may feel like the most trying time of your life. But we don’t want you to just survive freshman year, we want you to conquer it.

Cabin and Trail: Cabin and Trail, or “CnT,” organizes all trips related to hiking, trail work and cabin camping. From easy sunset hikes up Cardigan mountain to the 23-mile Presidential traverse across the White Mountains, CnT welcomes hikers of all levels. However, it’s not all about fitness, as members are known to love trying various diners around the Upper Valley. A sophomore summer tradition includes “Portage,” a day in which students take turns carrying a canoe up Mount Washington to paddle in the tiny Lake of the Clouds. CnT also operates the Woodsmen’s Team, which competes against other colleges in lumberjack skills such as splitting wood and axe throwing. Ledyard Canoe Club: Located by the Connecticut River, the Ledyard clubhouse contains dozens of canoes, paddleboards and both flatwater and whitewater kayaks. Members hold rolling sessions in the river and at the pool, where students learn how to turn over in a capsized kayak during whitewater kayaking. Trips that take place over school breaks include kayaking in Asheville, North Carolina and flatwater kayaking in the Everglades. When the river isn’t at a hypothermic temperature, the clubhouse is open to the public for sunbathing and renting kayaks, canoes and paddleboards. Dartmouth Mountaineering Club: The Dartmouth Mountaineering Club, or “DMC,” runs regular weekend climbing trips to locations in New Hampshire, such as the crags in the town of Rumney. DMC members also operate the Daniels Climbing Gym in the basement of Maxwell Hall of the River cluster dorms, where students can learn how to boulder or climb without a harness

at a safe height. An interim break trip travels to Red Rock Canyon in Nevada, where students can advance their skills to sport and lead climbing. A sub-group of the DMC includes the climbing team, which competes in the “USA Climbing: Collegiate Climbing” series. Farm Club: Operated through the Office of Sustainability, Farm Club works to maintain the Dartmouth Organic Farm, as well as its social and education activities. The club holds regular work sessions during the growing season, including soil preparation, seeding and transplanting and harvesting. Out-of-season activities include landbased workshops and festivals and an annual visit to the Winter Conference held by the Northeast Organic Farming Association in Vermont. Alpine Ski Racing Club: The club is open to skiers of all abilities. Members practice at the Dartmouth Ski Way and compete in the USCSA Thompson division races against DIII varsity teams and other club programs. Bait and Bullet: Founded in 1921 for the purpose of fishing and hunting in areas close to Hanover. Bait and Bullet organizes workshops close to campus and hunter safety courses every fall. Women in the Wilderness: Founded in 1992, Women in the Wilderness runs trips and seminars to provide women with the opportunity to develop outdoor skills, confidence and leadership in an all-female environment. The Fifty: The “Fifty” is not a club, but a DOC event that occurs every fall and summer. If snow melt conditions permit, the event operates during the spring term as well. Teams of four students attempt to hike the 53.4 miles between Hanover and Moosilauke mountain in one trip. Those who do not wish to hike the full distance but who still want to be involved can support the various stations along the way at which hikers can refill their water, get a snack or change their clothing.

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By Nelly Mendoza-Mendoza

There is something special about attending a college in the middle of nowhere, and that is the pleasure of coming up with words that make no sense in the real world. That is, until you go into the real world and realize that no one understands what a D-Plan is or what you mean when you say that you’ve gotten two frackets stolen at TDX. But don’t fear — the Dartmouth Dictionary is here to help you understand why we need frackets and why warmcuts are important. A-Side/B-Side (noun|eɪ-saɪd/bi-saɪd): If you are A-Side, you are more on the cool side, while B-Side is more on the DL. These terms are mostly used semi-ironically to identify Greek houses. Berry (noun|bɛri): The newer half of the library. The higher you go, the quieter it gets. It starts with FFB — First-Floor Berry — and goes up four floors to 4FB. Each floor has its own personality. FFB is the Mount Olympus of facetiminess (see below); 2FB is generally more relaxed being home to the Jones Media Center; 3FB is quiet (but somehow there is always that one person who thinks that whispering on 3FB is okay); 4FB is where you go when you actually need to study without having to glare at a whispering neighbor. Blitz (noun, verb|blɪts): A blitz is an email. The name is a reference to Dartmouth’s old email system, BlitzMail. A flitz is just a flirty blitz. You can be as cheesy as you want in your email, whether that be by inserting cute puppy gifs and sonnets or simply inviting your crush from your math class out for coffee at Dirt Cowboy Café. Blobby (noun|blɑbi): A portmanteau of “Baker,” as in the older half of the library, and “lobby.” Features black and white tiles and tall ceilings. Expect high traffic during all hours, especially when the second KAF window is open. Dark Side/Light Side/Upstairs Foco (noun|dɑrk saɪd/laɪt saɪd/əpˈstɛrz foʊkoʊ): To some, where you sit in Foco reflects your personality. Dark side is where you can find athletes and facetimey folk, while light side is home to NARPs. (See NARP for reference.) Upstairs is for the non-facetimey people who just want to eat their food in a quieter environment. Facetimey (adjective|feɪstaɪmi): Someone who purposefully studies in or frequents high-traffic areas such as Blobby or FFB to socialize while doing “work.” It’s that one friend who seems to be part of everything and know everyone. If you don’t know this person, it’s probably you. Fracket (noun|frækət): Never, ever wear a nice jacket out to a frat party. It will probably get stolen by some drunk person who got their own jacket stolen, or who just realized how cold it is outside. Instead, invest in a cheap “frat

jacket” — a fracket. It’s not unusual to see brightly-colored frackets with people’s names written on them, so they can be easily identified from a mile away. Golden Treed (verb|ˈgoʊldən trid): You’ve been golden treed if you have failed to hit any of your opponent’s cups in a game of pong. There’s also a silver tree, where you hit at least one cup but fail to completely empty any (by sinking the ball into the cup). Honestly, there’s a good chance this will happen the first time you play.

with the same people in the woods with no showers, sharing Annie’s Mac and Cheese. Sometimes you love them or sometimes you ignore each other once you’re back on campus. Tripcest/Floorcest (noun|tripcest): Hooking up with a trippee/hooking up with a floormate. Warmcut (noun|wɔrm kət): Useful during winter. You go into as many

buildings as possible as you cross campus to avoid the cold. @now (adjective|æt naw): “Immediately,” as in, “Come to Collis @ now there are so many cute dogs!!” Often seen in GroupMe messages. 1fp (noun|wən fɔr pɔŋ): Short for “one for pong.” Usually sent on a Friday or Saturday. Or at any point of the week, honestly.

Hundo-p (adverb|hʌndoʊ-pi): Short for one hundred percent. “Are you going out tonight?” “Hundo-p.” Layup (noun|leɪʌp): A class that is supposedly “easy” compared to the average class at Dartmouth. However, don’t always trust what you hear — taking classes for how “easy” they might be even if you aren’t interested in the topic may not be as fun as you imagine.

Pong @now?

NARP (noun|narp): “Non-athletic regular person.” Anyone who isn’t on a varsity sports team and doesn’t own a DP2 shirt qualifies as a NARP. NRO (noun|ɛn ar o): Non-recording option. If you elect an NRO for a class, you only receive a grade if you score at or above a predefined level (so you can feel safe taking that tough physics course knowing that your grade will only show up if you get a B or better). Peaked (adjective|pikt): You’ve reached the best part of your Dartmouth experience. You had a great time and you think that you will never live in such a great era again. You believe that there is no way for you to relive your freshman year, when everyone loved you and wanted to be your friend. Now you’re stuck in the library trying to learn organic chemistry without staining your textbook with too many tears. It’s all downhill from here.

Hundo-p! Let’s take a warmcut through Blobby.

Self-call (noun|sɛlf kɔl): Basically a humblebrag. People will call you out for your self-calls, but we say do them anyways. Tails (noun|telz): Short for “cocktails.” A social gathering, often between a fraternity and a sorority or for members of a campus group. People often wear flair and other mismatched, funky clothing. Imagine it’s Halloween every week. The Dartmouth Seven (noun|ðə dartməθ sɛvən): Having sex on campus in seven different places: the Top of the Hop, the BEMA, the fifty-yard line, the Green, the Stacks, the steps of Dartmouth Hall and the President’s lawn. Complete at your own risk. Trippees (noun|trippees): These are the people with whom you go on DOC First-Year Trips. You spend five days

We better not get golden treed this time!

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MIRROR //5

Making your way around Dartmouth: The map to essential locations on campus STORY

By Cristian Cano

The Green: When the Green is actually green, it’s a place of lighthearted celebration and relaxation, and you’ll often find both students and Hanover locals playing and getting their daily dose of Vitamin D. In the summer and fall, there is a weekly farmer’s market! When the Green isn’t green, it should generally be avoided. Unless you’re building a snowman or having a snowball fight (which are, admittedly, a ton of fun), you don’t want to deal with wading through the mud and slush. McLaughlin: Home to most of the Living-Learning Communities. The McLaughlin buildings are some of the newest on campus, complete with elevators and air conditioning, and the spacious rooms are envied by many on campus. Living-Learning Communities aren’t for everyone, but if you hear about one you like, apply and you might be able to live in the luxurious “Hotel McLaughlin.” East Wheelock: One of Dartmouth’s housing clusters. A good portion of freshmen are assigned here, though upperclassmen live here too. East Wheelock residents receive two main benefits: a snack bar and proximity to the gym. Food and exercise basically cancel each other out, right? Robo: Short for Robinson Hall. Several important offices are located here, including the Student Wellness Center, The Dartmouth (us!) and the Dartmouth Outing Club. It is also privy to a whole lot of dancing at the beginning and end of First-Year Trips. DOROTHY QU/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Foco: Short for “food court.” This building’s full name is the Class of 1953 Commons, but no one really calls it that, not even the actual members of the Class of 1953 (probably). Whatever you call it, you’ll be spending a lot of time here this fall thanks to your mandatory new student meal plan: the SmartChoice20. Foco is Dartmouth’s only all-you-can-eat dining hall, and you can get inside using one of your meal swipes or for a set amount of DBA (the equivalent of dining dollars). There are three main eating areas inside: “light side” (the room on the left), “dark side” (the room on the right) and upstairs. You might hear that “dark side” is where the athletes sit and “light side” is for NARPs (non-athletic regular people), but this isn’t the lunch room from Mean Girls. You CAN sit with us — or anywhere else! Collis Center: Doubles as both a student center and a café. There are several spaces in Collis worth checking out: 8 Ball Hall, a pool hall, Collis Commonground, a study area by day and a multi-purpose social area by night, Collis Market, a place to buy things like overpriced toothpaste when the walk to CVS is too far and One Wheelock, a hybrid coffee shop that

serves free coffee and tea and hosts live performances on the weekend. Collis also has a café with fantastic pasta and stirfry stations for dinner, though the main attraction is definitely Collis Late Night. It’s almost always a good idea to stop by — it’s open until 2:00 am on the weekends — for some last minute mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders before calling it a night. The Hop: Short for “The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts.” The Hop is home to both of Dartmouth’s performing arts departments and is where both student and professional performances are held. In the basement of the Hop, there are practice rooms that anyone can use to fine-tune their shower singing or kazoo playing. Inside the Hop, you can also find the Courtyard Café, Dartmouth’s very own diner-style dining location, though everyone just calls it “the Hop.” (Yes, “the Hop” is inside the Hop.) There, you can wait in a (usually long) line to order all sorts of burgers, quesadillas and other fried foods. The Hop is also home to the Hinman Mail Center where you can wait in a (again, usually long) line to pick up packages.

Baker-Berry: Dartmouth’s main library. Baker is the part of the library you first walk into, and Berry is the newer addition that begins when you walk past KAF. However you prefer to study, whether that’s with friends or in total isolation, there’s a spot somewhere in the library where you can thrive. I recommend you find that spot sooner rather than later, because you’ll likely be there for many hours each week. If you’re a social studier, FFB (First-Floor Berry) is probably where you’ll end up. Need peace and quiet for all your serious academic pursuits? Berry’s four floors get quieter the farther you go (4FB is #academicrigor). Fun fact: in the Jones Media Center on the second floor of Berry, there’s a video game room that you can reserve! They have a decent of collection of games to check out from the front desk for your much-needed study breaks. Novack: The café in the back of the library, known for having a wide variety of sandwiches and wraps. Novack food is quick and easy — sometimes hit or miss, but when you have an exam in an hour, you’ll take whatever you can get without wasting time. If you’re studying

late and craving a pepperoni Hot Pocket or Odwalla smoothie, Novack is your best friend. KAF: An acronym for King Arthur Flour, a bakery and café conveniently stationed in the heart of campus: Baker-Berry. KAF is regarded by many as having the best sandwiches, coffees and pastries on campus. Unfortunately, they are also the most expensive sandwiches, coffees and pastries on campus, and KAF is the only café on campus that doesn’t accept meal swipes. Whenever you hear about someone whose DBA is negative $300, you can bet KAF is to blame. But, if you’re willing to wait in the massive lines and pay the high prices, you won’t be disappointed. The Stacks: Deep within the interior of Baker-Berry, there exists a place where few venture … and even fewer return. Legend has it that the Stacks are a collection of labyrinth-like rooms where thousands of books lay dormant, ready to be checked out if they can only be located. Some brave students willingly choose to study here to avoid distractions, knowing that even a sneeze or hiccup will echo throughout this silent space. There have

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even been tales of students hiding in the Stacks to study all night long, inhabiting a corner in Annex B long after the library has officially closed. It goes up six floors and down into the basement for two more. Explore at your own risk. LSC: The LSC, short for the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, is farther away than most other academic buildings, but if you’re a biology major or on the pre-health track, you’ll get used to the walk pretty quickly. The LSC has, in my opinion, one of the most visually pleasing interiors on campus: lots of natural light, as well as some really cool artwork and sculptures. The LSC is also LEED Platinum certified — the highest rating from the U.S. Green Building Council that a building can receive for sustainability and energy efficiency. A hidden gem on the 4th floor of the LSC is the greenhouse, which is open to the public and which

makes for a nice, warm study spot when the weather gets colder. The River: Objectively the farthest freshman dorm from everything (except Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering). They even say that the zip code for the cluster of dorms is in Vermont. Subjectively the best freshmen dorm on campus, according to some. The Choates: A freshman dorm cluster, most identifiable by its hamster tunnel connections between buildings. The buildings themselves aren’t always everyone’s favorite, but they’re located on prime real estate. You’re close to both the library and frat row, so it’s a little easier for you to reach that golden balance of studying and going out. The Fayweathers: An all-freshmen

housing cluster. North Fayweather, Mid Fayweather and South Fayweather are all part of one big building, and you can walk through the basement to get from one to the other without going outside. Compared to the other freshmen dorms, the Fayes have a great location right by the Green and Dartmouth Hall. If you live here, be sure to have some empathy when your friends in other dorms complain about how long they have to walk to get anywhere. Alumni Gym: The building where the Zimmerman Fitness Center is located. Believe it or not, we have the biggest recreational fitness center in the Ivy League! How often you use the gym is a personal choice, but if your dorm is far enough away, then the walk to and from the gym might all the exercise you need. No need to even go inside!

Dick’s House: Dartmouth’s on-campus infirmary. Dick’s House offers a variety of medical services, including mental health services like counseling, and it also houses a pharmacy. Hopefully you never have to spend a night at Dick’s House, but if you ever start to feel sick and cough drops aren’t enough, this is where you should go. Dartmouth Hall: One of the most well-recognized symbols of Dartmouth. Dartmouth Hall would be the oldest building on campus … if it hadn’t burned down twice over the past couple of centuries. If you choose to study any of the Romance languages on campus, you’ll be spending plenty of time here. Enjoy the beautiful architecture while you can — once your 7:00 a.m. drill starts, you might not be so enamored. Webster Ave: Dartmouth’s beloved frat row. Most, but not all, fraternities can be found along this street, as well as several sororities. College President Phil Hanlon’s house is also at the end of this street, fittingly enough. I guess even he can’t resist the allure of the Greek scene? (Though you all will have to resist it, at least until the freshmen fall “frat ban” is over.)

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Live flair or die STORY

By Eliza Jane Schaeffer

One time, I went to Forever 21 with my grandmother. It was not an enjoyable experience. “AIN’T WORRIED BOUT NOTHIN’,” announced the shirts. “Victorian funeral in the front, public nudity in the back,” suggested the dresses. “I will disintegrate the second time you wear me,” promised the sweaters. “I’m going to wait outside,” whimpered my grandmother. Now, you might be wondering what possessed me to drag my sweet, unwitting grandmother to Forever 21. Alas, this was a decision born of perceived necessity rather than deliberated pragmatism. I was about to begin my freshman year at Dartmouth, and I was painfully aware of the fact that my flair wardrobe was wanting. In retrospect, the sparkly dress, mesh cheetahprint shirt and tutu were not worth the steep, steep price of my grandmother’s twenty dollars (thanks, Geraldine) and discomfort (sorry, Geraldine). I’m sure you have questions. What is flair? Do I need to buy flair? Where do I buy flair? Why does Forever 21 sell mesh cheetah-print shirts? “Flair” is what Dartmouth students call the tacky clothing and costume attire worn

non-ironically to social events. It is often worn in other scenarios as well, such as Dimensions and supporting the Fifty. Many other extracurricular activities, including a cappella groups, DOC clubs, sororities, fraternities and sports teams, also have “bequests” or hand-me-downs that represent meaningful or funny traits. While I won’t pretend that a shark onesie doesn’t make for “fintastic” party attire or that a pair of iridescent leggings won’t let you shine, you certainly do not need to buy anything. In fact, the best place to find flair is the back corner of your closet. The hideous “Donuts make me go nuts!” shirt you w o r e three times F in the F A T S UTH TMO s i x t h DAR E H T OU/ H g rade and for Z NDA AMA some reason have not yet thrown away? Gold! The sweater that your mom made you wear for family photos? Not a waste after all! Old Halloween costumes? Recycling is good for the planet! If you have the means and the will to spend money on horrid clothing, I would recommend checking out Forever 21, thrift stores and Walmart. Maybe even Justice:

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Just for Girls! if you’re feeling adventurous. But please, please do not feel like you have to buy — or even wear — flair. We will love you just as you are. In fact, that is one of my favorite things about Dartmouth. Here, you will soon learn, we celebrate the weird and wacky. At Dartmouth, your first thought after seeing someone out and about in a tutu, ski jacket and feather boa is “I wonder where they are going,” rather than “I wonder if they would like my therapist’s number.” At Dartmouth, people compete aggressively for the esteemed honor of making a fool of themselves in front

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of the incoming freshman class (remember Dimensions?). At Dartmouth, we (you!) run around a multi-story blazing inferno to commemorate freshman matriculation. In short, at Dartmouth, there is absolutely no reason to worry about sticking out or being different, because we all stick out and we are all different. It would be weird to not be, weird. So go all out with the flair, or don’t — you will be perfectly fine either way. And if I see you walking down the street in a tube top made out of Keystone Light boxes, I will tip my camo bucket hat to you.

COURTESY OF CHARLIE JOHNSON

MIRR OR //7

Trippin’ over Trips: What to expect STORY

By Elise Higgins

For many decades, Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips has been a rite of passage for students starting the College. The goal of Trips, a five-day program of outdoor activities, is to welcome students into the Dartmouth community and ease them into college life. While many students are excited about starting college and meeting new people, many are also nervous, especially if they are trying something new. While Trips may push many students out of their comfort zone, it is an incredible way to bond with fellow students and learn more about the many traditions that color the Dartmouth experience. This year’s Trips director Doug Phipps ’17 said that although he was excited to come to Dartmouth as a freshman, he was also extremely nervous. He had even read a book on how to make a good first impression on the drive up. However, he began to feel more comfortable once he was on the lawn outside Robinson Hall with all the other incoming students. “For me, it was a really cool opportunity to be able to get to know a lot of other people in an environment that is at once really comforting and at the same time really challenging and scary and nerve wracking,” Phipps said. David Ringel ’19 agrees with Phipps that Trips was a great introduction to the College and his class. “It was a uniquely Dartmouth experience,” Ringel said. “No other school has this, and I thought it was really interesting.” Ringel said he especially enjoyed spending the first night in Leverone Field House with all of the other students on his trip section. “Sitting there and thinking, ‘Wow, all these people are going to be my new classmates’ was really cool,” he said. After the first night, each group departs on their own trip. At Dartmouth, there are many types of trips of varying levels. While many students choose less strenuous trips like

nature photography, moderate hiking or cabin camping, students who are more comfortable in the outdoors have more challenging options, such as rock climbing or whitewater kayaking. Ringel said he chose Hiking 3, the secondmost challenging hiking option, because he had previous experience doing outdoor activities. “I thought I had done a lot of hiking before coming to Dartmouth, but it had all been in Wisconsin, so it was super different,” Ringel said. “The views [here] were way better and the mountains were bigger.” However, many incoming Dartmouth students have never been camping before. For example, with little prior outdoor camping experience, Phipps chose Cabin Camping for his trip. However, Phipps said he later felt inspired by the experience and decided to take part in the traditional sunrise hike up Mount Moosilauke at the end of his trip. “I was already doing so many things that were so far out of my comfort zone that I was like, ‘What the heck, I’m going to do this,’” Phipps said. Phipps said that the climb was a really exciting experience that made him feel particularly independent. In fact, Phipps enjoyed his trip so much that he served as a trip leader multiple times before becoming the director of this year’s program. While not all Dartmouth students will develop the same excitement for the outdoors as Phipps, many do enjoy stepping out of their comfort and discovering something they really love. “I was not outdoorsy,” Morgan Lee ’19 said. “I’m definitely a true city girl.” Although she said she was somewhat out of her element on Trips, Lee still enjoyed herself and did not find the camping to be too strenuous. In fact, she applied to be a Trip leader the following year. Although Lee is not leading a trip this year, she said it is something

ALEXA GREEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF A Hiking 2 trip takes a rest from their hike to gaze upon the granite of New Hampshire.

ALEXA GREEN/ THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Trip members jump for joy as they prepare to set off on a three-day hike up Smarts Mountain.

she is interested in doing again. “I probably will try to lead one next year because I really enjoy the experience, and I think there’s something really special about it in terms of ... welcoming freshman to Dartmouth,” Lee said. Associate director of Trips Apoorva Dixit ’17 said that Trips was a great introduction to Dartmouth. “It definitely did introduce me to people, but more importantly it introduced me to Dartmouth,” Dixit said. While not all trips will remain an extremely close-knit group, Lee said that it is helpful to have some familiar faces on campus. “I think that’s the best part of trips,” Lee said. “When you get to campus you’re not [alone] ... you’re meeting a lot of people, but just to have people that first week to hang out with and get a meal with is really, really nice.” Lee said that her Trip leaders planned occasional reunions, and she tried to do the same when she was a Trip leader. Phipps said that although the trip that he led drifted apart, he still feels connected to them as their Trip leader and reaches out to some of them individually. “None of my trips stayed particularly close as a group, but I definitely felt like I, as a Trip leader, got to know them all pretty well and understand them well as people and was able to connect them to resources that would be helpful for them at Dartmouth,” Phipps said. Ringel added that he believes Trip leaders can be particularly significant for incoming freshman, and that he saw that influence from not only his own Trip leader, but from a close friend’s leader as well. This inspired Ringer to be a Trip leader. “I wanted to give back, and I think Trips is an amazing program,” Ringel said. “[It’s] the best way possible to introduce someone to Dartmouth, and I want to be part of that, and we need volunteers to do that.” This year in particular, it was especially important that students volunteer to assist with Trips due to the number of ’21s going on

Trips. The 1,130 incoming freshman, making up 89 percent of their class, will participate in Trips. This is the highest number of students who have ever been a part of the program, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of the class. While ’21s attending Trips this year will continue to take part in a decades-old tradition, there will be some new aspects due the renovation of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, where students traditionally meet on the fourth day of their trip. Phipps said that the directorate and all the volunteers have been working extremely hard to ensure that Trips this year will be a success, even with the location change from Moosilauke Lodge to the Dartmouth Skiway. Dixit added that this change created many obstacles, but she along with the rest of the directorate have been able to overcome them. In addition, the Skiway presents many new opportunities. For example, in prior years students have had the opportunity to do a sunrise hike up Mount Moosilauke their last day at Moosilauke Lodge. This year, the hike will be up Holt’s Ledge, which is much less strenuous than Moosilauke, making the hike more accessible to all students on Trips. Although there will be changes, students attending Trips will continue to take part in decades-old traditions. “I feel like Trips balances tradition and progress well,” Dixit said. She added that although she enjoyed taking part in such an old tradition Trips remains up to date with today’s student body because the program is student-led. “Having the autonomy to totally run a program this large as students has been so fantastic,” Dixit said. “It’s definitely been challenging ... but we have the insight of being a student here.” “It’s been a really cool opportunity to try out new and exciting things about the program that haven’t been tried out in a long time, or have never been tried before,” Phipps said. “I think the ’21s are in for a really unique, creative and awesome trip experience.”

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Packing: What you think you will need STORY

B y Joyce Lee

Almost all Dartmouth students are many for free on campus that it’s absolutely familiar with the moment of panic that ridiculous,” Kim said. “Also, don’t bring comes while attempting to pack their 17 pairs of shoes, you wear like three belongings at the end of the term. They [maximum]. You also don’t really need sit in the eye of the storm that was once decorations, but I think that’s just me.” their rooms and look helplessly around at Liao said that he made the mistake of half-filled cardboard boxes, overflowing bringing clothing that his mother had bought suitcases and shoes kicked haphazardly for him but that he already knew he would across the floor. This distressing moment not wear. He also brought cleaning supplies, often comes in the middle of the night, including stain remover, that he never ended hours after sleep-deprived finals and right up using. before they have to leave campus. On such “I have [the stain remover], and I have nights, if you listen carefully, you can hear stains on my pants, but I don’t use it,” he small, regretful whimpers: “Why did I bring said. “Just don’t bring things that you didn’t so much useless stuff ?” need before college because most of it is Over-packing is a not essential. Overall, I tragic flaw for college “I’ll often plan out wish I brought less since students. For many of you get a lot of free stuff us, it’s our first time my schedule but in college.” away from home, and there won’t be room M i c h e l l e Wa n g ’ 1 9 e s s e n t i a l s l i k e c o a t for error. So leave said that she brought hangers, laundry baskets organizers that ultimately and that little tray for room for error in did not fit underneath our shoes so they don’t your day.” her bed. Instead, she make the floor dirty seem recommended that essential. A college term students bring items that appears to stretch on -SUSIE KIM ’19 were more personal, such forever, making you think as items that could be that surely, there must worn as flair. Liao added be a time where you will need that copy of that he thought it was cool if students “Crime and Punishment” to establish your brought decorations with personal touches, credentials as the intellectual floormate such as favorite movie posters. during orientation. Edward Pyun ’18 said that he brought But Dartmouth students who have already way too much ramen with him during his made these mistakes know better. Stephen first term on campus. Liao ’19 and Heeju Kim ’19 both said “It was way more than I could ever eat,” that they brought way too many clothes to he said. “It was because my aunt insisted campus. I bring it. I told her that it was too much, “Don’t bring unisex t-shirts, you get so but she made me take it anyways. One of

the [undergraduate advisors] pointed and bringing so many of her headscarves with laughed at me during move-in day. Trust her to college. me, the 20 [meal plan] provides more than “I’m usually too lazy to wear different enough food.” headscarves everyday, so I wear the Linford Zirangwa ’19 gave a less material same one most days and people think example and said that that I only own one he reg retted bringing “One of the [underheadscarf,” she said. the idea of having to “But I actually have a b e l o n g t o a c e r t a i n graduate advisors] ton in my room that I group on campus. As an pointed and laughed just never take out of international student from closet. College life, at me during move-in the Zimbabwe, he said that you know?” he had heard from other day. Trust me, that 20 Harith said international students that [meal plan] provides that rather than they had trouble adjusting headscarves, she to the fraternities and more than enough wishes she could have sororities within the Greek food.” somehow brought her system, and this affected family to college. As an his decisions to join certain international student -EDWARD PYUN ’18 student groups. from Malaysia, she “My choices ended up said that she often being made on the fact that finds it difficult to I belonged somewhere the c o m mu n i c at e w i t h people I knew were, and them due to the 12not based on what the hour time difference. group actually was,” he said. “So now I’m “Sometimes, when you’re so far away making decisions based on what makes me from your family, you don’t go beyond the happy, and not based on what people tell basics of the conversation,” she said. “I me.” don’t know how to go into the details of Susie Kim ’19 said that while she couldn’t my life. I don’t feel the same dynamic that think of an item she regretted bringing I felt when I was at home.” to college, she did regret not being more So, incoming first-year students packing flexible. for this fall, maybe it’s better to leave that fifth “A lot of times in college, one little thing coffee mug at home and instead bring what can go wrong during your day,” she said. really matters — flair, a favorite poster or “I’ll often plan out my schedule but there something that can be a little piece of home won’t be room for error. So leave room for all the way in Hanover, New Hampshire. error in your day.” Heeju Kim is a member of The Dartmouth Irdhina Harith ’19 said that she regretted business staff.

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The Dartmouth Sports Awards Rookie of the Year

In this year’s Rookie of the Year poll, Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 of the women’s track and field team won with 53.4 percent of the 2020 votes placed from May 15 to May 21. Hunter Hagdorn ’20 placed second with 26.7 percent of the votes while Lauren Jortberg ’20 placed third with 16.9 percent. Rothwell currently has four school records, including the 60-meter dash (7.45 seconds). At this year’s team awards, she won the Excellence Award for the most valuable student-athlete on the women’s team. This spring, she ran a 13.60 in the 100-meter hurdles at the Virginia Challenge, placing sixth.

Male Athlete of the Year Summaries written by Nathan Albrinck ’20, Mark Cui ’19 and Chris Shim ’18.

COURTESY OF FOLARIN ORIMOLADE

Troy Crema ’17

Wyatt Omsberg ’18

Folarin Orimolade ’17

After a couple of injury-riddled years with Dartmouth men’s hockey, Troy Crema ’17 erupted during the 2016-17 season to lead the Big Green in nearly every offensive category, including goals, points and shots on goal. Crema, a Third Team All-Eastern College Athletic Conference selection, finished the season with 17 goals and 12 assists for 29 points. He attributed his success to the work he put in on the ice during the offseason. “I trained a lot this summer and put a lot of hours in to try and make this senior season my best year possible,” Crema said. Crema led Dartmouth hockey from the outset of this season. In the Big Green’s regular season opener on Oct. 29, Crema scored the game-winning goal against thenNo. 11 Michigan University with 49 seconds left in the final frame. “I can’t thank my teammates enough for giving me confidence and opportunity to perform and have my best year statistically and be a leader on and off the ice,” Crema said. On April 8, Crema began his professional career by signing an amateur tryout contract with the American Hockey League Rochester Americans. Crema appeared in two games for the Americans. “I’m going to try to play as far and as long as possible,” Crema said.

Hailing from Scarborough, Maine, Wyatt Omsberg ’18 burst onto the scene in his rookie year, starting in the majority of the games and winning Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice. This season, he spearheaded Dartmouth’s stifling defense that allowed only 12 goals throughout the entire regular season. In addition to this impeccable defense, the team also scored more goals than in previous years to finish 5-1-1 in the Ivy League and win a share of the Ivy League Title for the third consecutive year. Omsberg was recognized for his strong defensive presence, accumulating several prestigious individual accolades including a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Third Team All-American selection, Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and a First Team All-Ivy selection. While Omsberg was proud of these awards, he attributed the team’s success as the main factor. “It’s nice to win these individual awards, but it’s more of a team function,” Omsberg said. “These awards are usually given when the team is doing well.” Omsberg hopes that the team can clinch the title again and perhaps advance further in the NCAA tournament after the team fell in the second round to Syracuse University last year. Individually, Omsberg hopes to continue to show leadership and help his team in any way possible.

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Fabian Stocek ’17

NORDIC SKIING

Beau Sulser ’16

Folarin Orimolade ’17, a linebacker from Burtonsville, Maryland, led Dartmouth football in sacks, tackles, tackles-for-loss and forced fumbles. He ranks second in Big Green football history in career sacks with 23.5 during his storied, four-year career. Following his senior season, he was named a second-team Football Championship Subdivision AllAmerican and Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. Orimolade said he is grateful for all those who have helped him so far in his career. “It was a long road for me, but it was one that wasn’t completed on my own,” Orimolade said. “It was important for all those people who helped me — my parents, teammates, coaches and friends. The hard work was worth it.” After the National Football League Draft ended on April 29, Orimolade signed with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent. “It’s an honor to be able to sign a contract because many people don’t get that opportunity,” Orimolade said. Since his signing, Orimolade attended the Rams’ Rookie Minicamp in Thousand Oaks, California. He will fight to earn a roster spot over the summer. “I want to make every moment count and not take any steps back,” Orimolade said.

Men’s Nordic captain Fabian Stocek ’17 won at least one race at each carnival race during the regular season and leaves Dartmouth a first-team All-American. However, his 2017 season did not get to off to such an auspicious start. “I went back home to the Czech Republic at the end of December to try and qualify for U-23 Worlds, but I didn’t make it,” Stocek said. “It was upsetting since that was one of my goals for the season, but I was excited to focus on the season here in New England and focus on NCAAs.” That focus paid off. Stocek went on a tear, winning a race each weekend until NCAAs. He took victories at the St. Lawrence Carnival, University of New Hampshire Carnival, the University of Vermont Carnival, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, the Middlebury College Carnival and the Bates College Carnival. “I didn’t really go for the streak until late February when I realized I was still doing that,” Stocek said. At the NCAA Championships in Jackson, New Hampshire, Stocek was 12th in the 10-kilometer classic race on the first day of competition but finished fifth in the men’s 20-kilometers in 46:04.7. “I ended up being with the top crew, and it came down to a sprint finish, where I just didn’t have it at the finish,” Stocek said. “I wanted to accomplish at least top-10, so it was good.”

Beau Sulser ’16 capped off his final year for the Big Green with a bang. The righty from Santa Ysabel, California led the Ivy League in ERA (1.40, sixth in the NCAA) and finished with the league’s best WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) of 0.80 (fourth in the NCAA). His stellar efforts earned him Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, three Ivy League Player of the Week awards and first team All-Ivy honors. Sulser, who underwent Tommy John surgery following his sophomore year, credited the time off as well as the confidence instilled by head coach Bob Whalen to stick to pitching. “This year I was really back to full strength — I gained a lot of velocity and refined my mechanics,” Sulser said. “Sitting out a year and just getting to watch was really helpful my junior year. I got to learn what pitches work and what people were having success with without having to actually do it.” Sulser finished the season with a 6-1 record and recorded a careerhigh 52 strikeouts. Sulser looks to follow his older brother, Cole Sulser ’12, who also pitched for the Big Green, into professional baseball. “It’s getting exciting,” Sulser said. “At the beginning of the year, it was more about ‘I need to do well to make [playing in the majors] a reality,’ and now it really is.”

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Female Athlete of the Year Summaries written by Nathan Albrinck ’20, Cody Fujii ’18, Evan Morgan ’19 and Chris Shim ’18.

COURTESY OF FRANKIE SANDS

COURTESY OF COURTNEY WEISSE

Taylor Ng ’17

Foreste Peterson ’18

Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20

Frankie Sands ’19

Courtney Weisse ’17

The native of Haddonfield, New Jersey established herself as one of the best women’s tennis players to represent the Big Green. The team’s co-captain was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Northeast region player of the year and received All-Ivy First Team honors for the third time in her collegiate career. During her final season at Dartmouth, she accumulated a stellar 24-12 record in singles and a 22-12 record in doubles. But she was not always so committed to tennis. “I played a good number of USTA tournaments until the age of 14, and then I stopped completely.” Ng said. “It was only until the middle of my junior year that I got back into playing tournaments because I realized I wanted to play tennis in college.” Ng played many memorable games throughout her Dartmouth career, but her most memorable was her final regular season match against Princeton University on April 21. In that match, the Big Green clinched a share of the Ivy League title and with it, a berth to the NCAA tournament. During her four years, she helped Dartmouth qualify for the NCAA team tournament twice while being the first individual to qualify for the NCAA singles tournament in 2015 and part of the first Big Green duo to qualify for the NCAA doubles tournament with Kristina Mathis ’18.

Foreste Peterson ’18 was the top skier on an outstanding women’s alpine team that won carnival victories all season long, finishing no lower than second in the team standings of all 12 carnival races. Despite missing the University of Vermont carnival to compete at a North American Cup race, Peterson finished the season with three giant slalom victories and was the second-ranked giant slalom skier in the East. “I improved my mindset going into every race this year,” Peterson said. “I had a very straightforward mindset that let me trust myself to perform well and execute.” Peterson came into the season on a tear, with a series of top-10 and top-five finishes in NorAm Cup races before the college season. “I had a rough start in the college season and crashed in my first two carnival races, which humbled me a bit,” Peterson said. However, she quickly recovered and performed well down the stretch, winningthegiantslalomattheUniversity of New Hampshire, Dartmouth and Bates College carnivals. At the NCAA Championships, Peterson earned first team All-American status with a third-place finish in the slalom. She capped off the winter by taking fourth place in the slalom and second in the giant slalom at the U.S. Alpine Championships at Sugarloaf.

Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 blew away the competition with her Dartmouth record-breaking times. The Durham, North Carolina native quickly adjusted to the more intense college practices and finished with one of the best seasons for a program rookie. “I just came in with the mindset to work as hard as I can,” Rothwell said. “Freshman year can be a tossup for some people [because] it can go really well or really bad. I’m just really happy I had a successful season and surpassed many of my goals, which was something I wasn’t really expecting.” Rothwell owns four Dartmouth records in the long jump (20 feet, 3 inches), 60-meter hurdles (8.30 seconds), 60-meter dash (7.45s) and 100-meter hurdles (13.23s). Her 8.30s 60-meter hurdles time beat an all-time Ivy League meet record set 17 years ago. “I don’t really go into a race thinking I want to break this record,” Rothwell said. “I just go in thinking that I will go in and give it my best with the mindset that I want to become better, and in the process if that means me breaking a school record, then I am perfectly content with that.” After a stunning first year, Rothwell hopes to qualify for indoor nationals and surpass more Ivy League records.

Frankie Sands ’19 has dominated the rugby scene since transferring to Dartmouth. The center was named as one of four finalists for the Sorensen Award, given to the best collegiate women’s rugby player in the nation. Sands was an All-American in rugby and cheerleading in high school and was recruited to play rugby at Norwich University. While attending the National All-Star Camp, a week-long tryout for the U.S. Women’s Rugby National Team, she met head coach Katie Dowty, and the rest is history. “Getting to know [Dowty] and her coaching philosophy was something that really attracted me to Dartmouth ... once I got in, it was a no-brainer,” Sands said in a previous interview with The Dartmouth on May 2. In the fall, Sands was third on the team in points and her seven tries was second-most on the Big Green squad. She was also named as one of the team’s captains for next year. “The Sorensen Award is great — again, I can’t say enough how excited I am about it,” Sands said in the earlier interview. “But being named the captain of the women’s rugby team ... since coming to this team ... for them to have that confidence in me, that means the world.”

C o u r t n ey We i s s e ’ 1 7 , a n attacker for women’s lacrosse from Westfield, New Jersey, emerged as a clear offensive leader for the Big Green in her final season, leading the team in goals, points and shots. Her 2.47 goals per game tied for sixth in the Ivy League. On three separate occasions, against Univer sity of Massachusetts Lowell, Siena College and Cornell University, Weisse tallied five goals. After beginning their careers under a different head coach, Weisse and her teammates had to learn a new system under first-year head coach Danielle Spencer this past season. “When you’re on a team with 30 girls, you learn how to manage things very well, and it pushes you very far,” Weiss said in a previous interview with The Dartmouth on April 17. “It definitely hasn’t been an easy year, in the sense of switching up coaching staff, but that has taught me so much.” Weisse leaves Dartmouth a clear leader and offensive weapon. Her senior season efforts earned Second Team All-Ivy League honors. “I am really so proud of being on this lacrosse team and learning so many different skills and having so many different experiences,” Weisse said in her earlier interview.

Frankie Sands ’19 and Troy Crema ’17 won female and male athlete of the year, respectively

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ALPINE SKIING

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STAFF COLUMNIST JULIA HUEBNER ’20

Academically Directionless?

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STAFF COLUMNIST MATTHEW BROWN ’19

A Place of the Mind

Celebrate the College’s liberal arts curriculum.

Dartmouth is an exacting yet enjoyable experience. Don’t waste it.

The summer before my freshman year, I you want to be when you grow up?” would waltz around my neighborhood in a A mentor once told me that the answer Dartmouth t-shirt and Lone Pine baseball to that question should be “happy, healthy cap, telling family friends I was “just and productive in whatever I’m doing.” thrilled to go to Dartmouth in the fall!” and A more detailed answer, she said, is just “planning on majoring in communications speculation. That doesn’t mean that I’m or journalism, because they’re my passions.” aimless or purposeless. And that definitely As it turns out, Dartmouth doesn’t doesn’t mean that I’m good at everything have a communications department. Or I try (far from it). a journalism department. That summer I You’ve probably heard that freshman toyed with the idea that I may have chosen year is the time to try new things. That’s incorrectly. What if I was heading to the true, and it’s the crux of this liberal arts wrong school in the fall? institution. What people don’t tell you is that A weeks before First-Year Trips, I met trying new things can make your stomach an alumna whose one piece of advice churn. It is daunting to be in a class where was to take Engineering 12, “Design you know you’re not the smartest person. Thinking,” which was her favorite class at It hurt when I failed my first computer Dartmouth. An engineering class? I laughed. science exam. It was hard to call home and Engineering was the one thing I wouldn’t tell my mom that her Ivy League daughter do in college. Right? had failed a test. Wrong. I took her advice and when But every class I took was worth it. I I walked into the Thayer School of believe that Dartmouth, during the course Engineering for the first of my freshman year, day of class, I was the not only taught me how only freshman in a room “What people don’t to think more critically, full of cool, collected and tell you is that trying but also more fairly. It’s attractive upperclassmen. easier now to switch new things can make Just my luck. between academic It was exactly that: your stomach churn. perspectives, between luck. Luck led me to methodologies and It is daunting to be stay up until 10 p.m. ideologies, than ever in Thayer, building a in a class where you before. That’s the secret Foamcore rollercoaster. know you’re not the sauce of the liberal arts. Luck introduced me to The academic my then-editor of the smartest person.” pressure of exams, opinion section at The grade point averages Dartmouth. Luck helped and parents asking me find that senior who about school will always told me to take “Introduction to Computer exist. The bigger problem is the subtle Science.” Luck helped me discover a love pressure to “be successful,” which seems for problem solving and the methodology to mean having an elevator pitch and of human centered design. an impressive resume. Your friends of T h e m a d n e s s o f r a n d o m c o u r s e debauchery and wild nights will also exploration continued: first a comparative have curated LinkedIn profiles and email literature class, then a computer science signatures. It’s the strange reality of being class, then an environmental studies a Dartmouth student. class. Nordic skiing, philosophy and an Here’s the catch: as a freshman, the interdisciplinary Impact Design class pre-professionalism of resume workshops, followed. Freshman year was like a fancy name-dropped investment banks and cheese cart or upscale dessert platter of incessant LinkedIn requests are pure liberal arts classes. branding. By the time I had finished my first three I’m here to tell you that you don’t need quarters at Dartmouth, I had taken 10 classes to have it figured out. You don’t need to in 10 different departments — most were be a doctor, lawyer or banker. You don’t due to suggestions from upperclassmen. I need to have your classes picked out for all hope that the end of freshman year won’t of freshman year. You don’t need to shy mark the end of my academic exploration: away from being — that dreaded word — economics, geography and history are still on undeclared. What you do need are good the docket for sophomore year. My answer friends and better professors: friends who to “what’s your major?” changes with the will pick up the phone in the middle of the weather. night and professors who you revere like a I write this with both great excitement cool uncle or aunt. and lingering apprehension. My friends, I advise you to treat your tenure at many of whom are planning to apply for Dartmouth like a road trip: you’ll want a medical school, seem to have their academic map and an idea of where you’re going, trajectory set in stone. While they may but you will eventually take unplanned worry about satisfying all of the College’s roads and make unintended stops. Don’t distributive requirements, I wonder about just allow it to happen; celebrate it. the possibility (or impossibility) of deciding I hope that you finish your freshman on an academic path. What if I graduate year feeling more confused than when you without being able to answer: “What do started.

Sophomore summer has reminded me to America’s latest fashion trend or pop that Dartmouth is in fact a unique place. culture craze. People are more content to Given the many visiting professors and find enjoyment in hiking, skiing swimming keynote speakers, innumerable summer in the Connecticut River and maybe even programs and conferences, ever present having late-night talks about their interests, free-catered events and a generally campy which is a sharp contrast to the high-end vibe, Dartmouth has felt like more of itself entertainment college students feel the need in every way. This atmosphere reminds me to shell out money for elsewhere. of the intricate reality of this place, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some the opportunity it can provide. Regardless of the caveats to the College’s nature. of how each of us found our way to the Dartmouth’s location makes it a bubble, one College, we’ve arrived. We must claim our that is often resistant to change. The thrift time here, and make the best of our years of the community is reflected in the grimy, spent in the woods. off-beat social scene here, one dominated by Dartmouth is distinct, for better and for Greek houses and only possible in a place worse. It’s true that Dartmouth has amassed that disregards pomp and basic hygienic impressive prestige and resources during standards. Some students use Hanover’s its near 250-year existence. However, isolation and relative homogeneity to Dartmouth is hardly remain just as vapid the only or most and uninformed about elite university the world as when they in the world, and arrived. Furthermore, unquestionably one “The straightforwardness a modest demeanor of the most remote. of Dartmouth is reflected does not equate to Many of the pressing modest means. Our i s s u e s , t e n s i o n s in the campus community. lack of showiness does and dialogues on This isn’t an ostentatious not mask the effects t h i s c a m p u s a re of inequality on our place; people are much also shared by school. No doubt in communities and less likely to care what our bubble we have institutions across others wear or display also created codes the globe. It would and perfor mances be a mistake to think here. Brilliant, talented that signal status that we are special and accomplished people more subtly than is because of anything seen elsewhere. In that we can point to are unassuming here. short, Dartmouth is Unlike other schools, and advertise. a chance that is often D a r t m o u t h ’ s we don’t have a culture squandered. It is a unique condition chance nonetheless. is not due to its of pervasively bragging The paths ample resources, or bemoaning our we lead through per se, but rather Dartmouth are because the clutter achievements.” w i n d i n g, f u l l o f and consequences possibilities for growth present in the real and change. Many of world have largely the experiences we been removed. You have here will not be can focus on your personal growth here pleasant or comforting, but each one will — on bettering yourself and those around contribute to our time here — time that you, on discovering your wants, dreams we will own. It is important, then, that we and passions in a relatively low-stakes navigate this place well and seize every environment. This is in many ways a simple opportunity while we can. Amidst that, we and modest place, “a place of the mind” shouldn’t forget to enjoy Dartmouth, to as a visiting fellow recently described it revel in the traditions, parties and quirky to me. That feature is the opportunity we climate that also make this place a unlike cannot waste. any other. The straightforwardness of Dartmouth Dartmouth, as a university, community is reflected in the campus community. and location, is very well-fashioned for the This isn’t an ostentatious place; people cultivation of one’s self. If you can rise are much less likely to care what others above the inanity, the surrealism and the wear or display here. Brilliant, talented stress, this place can be a memorable and and accomplished people are unassuming impactful time. Both the good and the bad here. Unlike other schools, we don’t have will manifest differently for every person, a culture of pervasively bragging or something we must be cognizant of as we bemoaning our achievements. I suspect shape this place during our short time that the frequent ridicule of Dartmouth here. Making the best of our experience, Dining Services is more a campus tradition however, should be a given. It’s the least than any meaningful indignation. we owe ourselves. There’s an energy and The average student is more concerned opportunity here worth seizing, and a finite with bettering themselves by working out, amount of time for us to use it in. Don’t reading or studying rather than appealing waste it.

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Sense of Sprezzatura

Dartmouth’s culture may lead you towards the path of least resistance.

The ideal balance between cool and passionate is not always sincere.

The summer between high school and to stay in this role after college, all I could college, I dreamed of studying neuroscience think about was how much time it would take and becoming a doctor. I didn’t know what before I could transfer. But talking to full-time I wanted to do with my life except make a workers helped me realize how increasingly positive impact in other people’s lives, and I difficult it is to move once you’ve settled. thought that medicine was the most surefire Fortunately, internships end and allow you — and predictable — way to decide whether to stay to do so. “This end goal, a “good or to leave. After entering I t o o k H o n o r s job,” became increasa company, doing your Chemistry my freshman best to learn the job and fall and thought the skills ingly important to me mesh with the people, you that got me through as college progressed. hopefully come out with a a competitive public better sense of the person high school would also It also became increas- you want to become. get me through college. ingly vague.” Dartmouth can Unfortunately, they didn’t breed a culture of settling. quite translate, and on my While on campus, we first midterm I got the lowest score in the class. might not see it — everyone knows someone Though I ended the class with a decent grade, at a Fortune 500 company or a top graduate this unexpected taste of failure so early on in school, and just about everyone is working my college career gave me my first glimpse of incredibly hard for their future. But as I made true fear that I wouldn’t my way through I realized be able to complete my “But as I made my way I was starting to settle for carefully laid track. the Dartmouth dream, IbecameaGovernment through I realized I was not my own dream. major my freshman starting to settle for This school is built on spring, switching out of close-knit communities the pre-med track and the Dartmouth dream, of ambitious students, leaving the security it not my own dream.” but it can also make it brought. In the pre-med easy to conform to what track, you take specified everyone else is doing. As classes to get to one end goal, medical school, the terms went by, the path of least resistance after which you can start saving lives. As a was to follow the track Dartmouth provided Government major, I still wanted to do good, for me, not to pave a path I genuinely wanted but I now had to create my own path to do to go down. so. I set my sights on getting a good job. The Dartmouth track emphasizes job This end goal, a “good job,” became security, whether that be securing placement increasingly important to me as college at a top school or getting an offer from a progressed. It also became increasingly vague. top company. Its appeal lies in its safety and As sophomore summer came and went, it was prestige — you may not be doing what you no longer just a job that would help me help really want to do, but at least you’re proud to others — it also had to put it on your LinkedIn. be a job that paid well. “I understand that the The rationale is that As junior year passed, it you’ll work there while also had to be a job at a luxury to take risks is searching for something brand-name company, not something that better, which can work. because what was the everyone can afford. But seeing people who point of getting a job if had been working for nobody knew where you But to everyone with years, unsatisfied with worked? their job but afraid to the privilege of being I had spent an lose the security it brings, incredible amount of able to do so, the best made me realize that now time and energy my way to not settle for — while we’re young, sophomore year looking a safe but ultimately skilled and generally for an internship, and by free of dependents — is the time I was looking unsatisfying option is the time to make those f o r j u n i o r s u m m e r to eliminate that opdifficult decisions. internships, I was not I understand just overwhelmed but also tion to begin with, to that the luxury to take drained. When I received pull out the safety net risks is not something an offer from a respected that everyone can afford. from under.” company, I jumped on it. But to everyone with the It was the first and only privilege of being able to company I had applied do so, the best way to not for at the time, and I was so relieved to have settle for a safe but ultimately unsatisfying a summer prospect that I didn’t care about option is to eliminate that option to begin the job description. with, to pull out the safety net from under. Nine weeks into my internship, I realized The right amount of fear in the right direction that while I loved my coworkers, I didn’t can be necessary to push you toward what ultimately love the work I was doing. As I you really want — not what you think is easy found myself imagining what it would be like to achieve.

In a four-hour lunch with a couple to develop a healthy amount of practicality. of friends, I told one of my friends that On the other hand, I have found he seemed to master the projection of this pressure to perform sprezzatura an sprezzatura. He asked me what it was, and impediment on my creativity and morality. I explained that essentially, sprezzatura is My natural impulse is to isolate myself in the cool. It is studied carelessness. Originating library or the animation room all day, with from an Italian text, it is the ability to only a small break to nibble on a baguette, in effortlessly orient the self within societal order to lose myself in the creative process. rules, sometimes with the downside of I will not always be efficient nor will my hiding the true self. “Wow,” he exclaimed, project necessarily be polished, but it will briefly disrupting his apathetic disposition engage in innovative ideas and I will have with an expression of amusement. “You’ve taken risks that were beneficial to me in the got me pegged.” process of developing my craft as a writer After giving it some thought, I came to or artist. realize that it is not just this friend who Neither of these extremes are necessarily possesses this aesthetic. It is something good, but it is important to consider that I have encountered in various peers the advantages and disadvantages of at Dartmouth College, and even within both. Success on paper and adhering to myself, both for better and for worse. societal standards can As a freshman, I be important, but so is assumed that all of devotion and sincerity. my peers would be “I’ve realized that At Dartmouth, it can openly passionate seem incredibly easy about their intended Dartmouth is a to have it all. All you major, whether it microcosm of the rest of really have to do is was biology, English, work hard enough and Spanish, economics the world. You cannot choose not to question or government. After always expect to get norms of any kind. At about a ter m of praise for your passion, Dartmouth, you will freshman idealism, often be presented with a I soon realized that but that does not mean choice of consciousness p u r e , u n s u l l i e d that you should refrain or ignorance — do you passion was not choose to hang out with t h e D a r t m o u t h from being passionate... a selective g roup of l o o k . I n s t e a d , But when you take risks, friends and channel their the Dartmouth exclusivity? Do you write you are not asking for look is one of a boring paper to get a effortless perfection anything in return. You good grade, or take risks (sometimes referred take risks for the pure in the writing process? to as Duck Syndrome, Do you stay silent when where one looks calm love of what you do.” someone says something above water but is problematic in order frantically paddling to be liked more? The below). answer often depends on For some, a certain degree of ease the context. lies in social and economic privilege. I’ve realized that Dartmouth is a However, regardless of how easy life microcosm of the rest of the world. You actually is, we’re all encouraged to perform cannot always expect to get praise for your disaffectedness and an ability to succeed passion, but that does not mean that you (within the mainstream) effortlessly. Our should refrain from being passionate. When collective identity sits idealistically and you challenge the status quo or try to do therefore rather uncomfortably between more than what you are told, you will not the stereotypes of the Ivy League and of necessarily get anywhere. But when you the party school. So much so that a 1985 take risks, you are not asking for anything Aegis defined the Dartmouth Image as in return. You take risks for the pure love “serious students by day, and party animals of what you do. by night,” the perfect mix of smart and A freshman might expect to develop longcool. lasting friendships, a romantic relationship We may be able to make fools out of and a cultivation of passions that have ourselves by wearing flair or joking with been brewing since high school or even friends, but our need to appear relaxed childhood. Instead, a freshman is met with discourages us from making fools out one-term friendships that end as D-plans of ourselves when it comes to issues of and class schedules change, short-lived sincerity, such as putting in hard work for pseudo-romances and pleasure from grades reasons other than grades and emotionally rather than passion. It was Amy Winehouse distancing ourselves from our work. To who lamented, “Oh what a mess we made some extent, maintaining sprezzatura … love is a losing game.” At Dartmouth has been a productive experience. I College, and simply in life in general, we are have learned to look at my writing more encouraged to win. Instead, it is important to objectively and take criticism without keep not only success in mind, but passion, feeling offended. All of this has allowed me with even a willingness to fail.

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they transition to college life. She said that although Dartmouth isn’t perfectly suited for minorities, she found a support network through other low-income and minority students. “Organizations like FYSEP really reaffirm that you might have certain obstacles but you deserve to be here as much as anybody else even though you might not be a legacy or you might not be able to afford the same coat that your classmates can,” Olachea said. She said that the College has done a good job at making sure that events on campus cater to different identities and communication between administration and low-income groups on campus. However, she added that it follows the trend of mimicking other institutions rather than taking the initiative to listen to low-income students then taking a stance on what they are going to do for them. “It is easy to feel lost at Dartmouth as a lot of students don’t come from low-income backgrounds or face the struggles these students face,” Olachea said. Sosanya said that he has often sent money back to his parents but that, as a QuestBridge match, he has most things covered for him and knows that there is more financial assistance options available to him as a low-income student. “I sought help from multiple sources. I had my internship this summer funded, got an academic enrichment fund from FYSEP as well and I acquired textbooks online,” Sosanya said. “My friends would buy $200 textbooks ... while I had all these PDFs on my laptop. I had my health insurance paid for, I got $1,400 for a computer, free food during the interim provided by FYSEP, free tutoring, interim housing and I’m getting help on my medical bills.” He said that while he can mesh with people from different income brackets, he related more to people

through FYSEP, first-generation college students and people of color. Sosanya said looking back on freshman year he only made friends with students of color or Caucasian people who actively made the effort to diversify their interactions on campus. He was closer to others with same experiences as him, socioeconomically and racially. Although Dartmouth remains a largely privileged campus, it presents an opportunity for low-income students to change their socioeconomic status and rise above poverty levels. In the same New York Times piece referenced earlier, Dartmouth ranked 100th in the likelihood that a student has to move from the bottom fifth income bracket to the top fifth. According to the study, low-income students at Dartmouth have a 50 percent chance of making an income in the top fifth of income percentiles. Iscoa echoed the above sentiment, saying that compared to decades ago, Dartmouth has transformed itself to be more diverse and the student body looks completely different today. However, he acknowledged that in order to truly be diverse, Dartmouth has to better acknowledge racial and socioeconomic differences by accepting more students from lower-income backgrounds. “The top one percent thing has to change because Dartmouth has to help people get out of poverty and education is the key to that. They have tremendous privilege and we talk about helping the world and an efficient way of doing that would be to educate the lowest class and give them the agency to go out there and change the community,” Iscosa said. “Giving a bunch of rich white kids the opportunity to go out and volunteer in another country would not do the same as educating thirty low-income students.” The author is a Questbridge Scholar and a member of Dartmouth Quest for Socioeconomic Engagement. Sosanya is a staff writer for The Dartmouth.

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Novack Café, is located in the back of the library and is often open at late hours.

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THE DARTMOUTH FRESHMAN ISSUE 2017

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2017

SPORTS The Dartmouth Sports Awards Moment of the Year

The 2016-2017 school year featured several exciting moments for Dartmouth sports. This year’s top moments include historical wins for the Big Green, NCAA tournament berths and top finishes in major competitions. Summaries written by Evan Morgan ’19 and Chris Shim ’18.

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Women’s tennis Men’s heavyweight Football beats the Men’s soccer advances Men’s hockey edges clinches Ivy League rowing has highest University of New in NCAA tournament then-No.11 University title and earns NCAA Eastern Sprints finish Hampshire for the first on thrilling double- of Michigan in season tournament berth since 2010 time since 1976 overtime goal opener With a win in its final regularseason Ivy League matchup against Princeton University on April 23, the women’s tennis team clinched a share of the Ivy League title and secured an NCAA tournament bid, its second in program history. The Big Green entered April with a strong 12-2 record but suddenly lost its groove, losing to Ancient Eight rivals Harvard University on April 2 and Brown University on April 9. With a difficult conference slate ahead and slimmer chances of winning the Ivy League, the Big Green returned to the courts with renewed focus, taking victories against Cornell University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. In its final regular season matchup, the Big Green faced a Princeton team that had finished as Ivy League champions for the past three years. After winning the doubles point, quick singles wins from Allison McCann ’20, co-captain Jacqueline Crawford ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 secured the victory for the Big Green. “[Crawford] won her match very quickly, and when I saw that, I started crying in my match,” co-captain Taylor Ng ’17 said. “I was really happy for her and for our team. Then at the end of my match, I burst into tears. It was a long time coming, and it’s been so worth it.”

Heavyweight rowing entered the season with high expectations after a successful fall season and strong performances at the C.R.A.S.H.-B. sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships in the winter. There, senior captain Spencer Furey ’17 and Nevin Cunningham ’17 placed first and second, while Scott Ortlip ’17 finished sixth. The Big Green certainly had quite the spring. Defeating No. 14 Columbia University, No. 6 Boston University, No. 9 Brown University and No. 7 Syracuse University, the Big Green suffered its only loss of the spring regular season to No. 3 Yale University. The Big Green began the season ranked No. 8 in the country and headed into the Eastern Sprints Regatta ranked No. 6. At Eastern Sprints, the Big Green had two boats qualify for the grand finals in its respective races. The highlight of the regatta was the first varsity boat placing fifth in the grand finals, the first time that Dartmouth had qualified its 1V boat to the grand finals at Eastern Sprints since 2010. Overall, Dartmouth placed eighth out of 18 of the best crews in the eastern United States — the Big Green’s highest finish since 2010. The team is preparing for the culmination of its season at the IRA Regatta from June 2 to 4 at Lake Natoma in Gold River, California. Dartmouth will look to improve on its 14th place finish last year.

The last time it happened, Gerald Ford was president, “Play That Funky Music” was at the top of the charts and football head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 was a backup sophomore quarterback for the Big Green. In the 2016 season opener, the Dartmouth football team topped then-No. 22 University of New Hampshire 23-22, its first victory over the Wildcats since a 24-13 triumph in 1976. In the intervening editions of the Granite Bowl, Dartmouth was 0-18-2. Dartmouth began the season as a team with a big question hanging over it: Could the Big Green return to its 2015 form after losing a crop of talented seniors? The triumph over UNH, punctuated by a gamewinning fourth-quarter rally, seemed an emphatic answer. Jack Heneghan ’18 had a mixed performance in his first career start, tossing a pair of interceptions in addition to three touchdowns, but he and the rest of the offense showed up when the game was on the line. With Dartmouth trailing 21-16 late in the fourth quarter, the big Californian directed a six-play, 79-yard drive to the UNH one-yard line. On the next play, Heneghan rolled left and found Charles Mack ’18 running leftto-right in the end zone. Dartmouth went up by one and sealed the victory when Brendan Cascarano ’18 sacked Wildcats’ quarterback Trevor Knight on fourth down with 27 seconds remaining.

It took more than 104 minutes, but continuous Dartmouth pressure finally cracked a stingy St. Francis College defense in the first round of the NCAA College Cup. Midfielder Matt Danilack ’18 punched in an Alexander Marsh ’17 cross in the second overtime period to send Dartmouth to the tournament’s second round for the third consecutive year. The goal was the first allowed by the Terriers’ defense in nine games and 982 minutes. Dartmouth dominated the first half, posting six shots and holding the Terriers without a shot. But St. Francis showed life with five shots in the second half, and the Terriers and nearly won the game in the 89th minute. Dartmouth was unable to clear the ball, and St. Francis midfielder Salvatore Barone, all alone, shot a laser which sailed just wide of the net. Regulation ended in a 0-0 tie, as did the first overtime period. Then, in the 105th minute, Marsh sent in a cross which squirted through St. Francis’ back line and went right to Danilack. The Dartmouth midfielder beat St. Francis goalkeeper Seth Erdman with a hard shot to the lower right corner, then leapt into the stands to enjoy the adulation of a boisterous Big Green student section. Dartmouth’s season ended three days later with a 3-0 loss to No. 8 Syracuse University.

Men’s hockey edges then-No.11 University of Michigan in season opener

The men’s hockey began the season with a bang: a 3-2 win over then-No. 11 University of Michigan. As he did often in the 2016-2017 season, Troy Crema ’17 made the difference that night. His goal with 49 seconds remaining was the winning tally of an electrifying 3-2 victory in front of a standing-room-only crowd at Thompson Arena. It was Michigan who opened the scoring 17 minutes into a back-andforth first period. The Big Green responded two minutes into the second stanza with a Kevin Neiley ’18 goal, then took the lead nine minutes later when Cam Strong ’20 went top shelf on Michigan goalie Jack LaFontaine. Early in the third period, Michigan’s Alex Kile snuck one past Devin Buffalo ’18 on the power play, knotting the score at 2-2. Strong looked to have given Dartmouth the lead when he finished off a rebound just past the 15-minute mark. After a seemingly interminable video replay, the goal was waved off due to goalie interference. But the long delay didn’t faze the Big Green. With the final seconds ticking away, Crema fired a quick wrist shot inside the far post. The puck got a favorable bounce off the skate of linemate Corey Kalk ’18 and beat LaFontaine low to give Dartmouth the victory. The win was Dartmouth’s first over the Wolverines since 1971.