The Dartmouth 05/03/2019

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Democrats criticize New sexual assault allegations made potential impact of in ongoing lawsuit against College new state voting bill B y Debora Cobon The Dartmouth

House Bill 1264, which would effectively bar many college students and “temporary residents” from voting in New Hampshire through its requirements for voters to establish residency in the state, is set to go into effect this July. Hoping to undo these provisions, New Hampshire Democrats are supporting bills in the state legislature that would reverse the effects of HB

1264.

The matter has gained national attention given the law’s potential impact on voting outcomes in the state.

On April 22, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) wrote a letter to every presidential candidate “to stand up for the tens of thousands of young Granite Staters who could lose the right to vote because of [HB 1264]” by signing a petition.

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Student Assembly launches bus ticket and food voucher program B y Mary Winters The Dartmouth Staff

Student Assembly has rolled out a voucher program to alleviate financial burdens for students at Dartmouth. The program provides students with gift cards to the Hanover Co-op food store and the Dartmouth Coach.

Launched on April 28, the first round of vouchers were available on a first-come, first-

served basis via a Google Form emailed to campus.

While the vouchers did go out on a first-come, firstserved basis, the email noted that the program was intended to assist students in need. On the form to apply for vouchers, students had to acknowledge their understanding of the program’s intentions.

“For very good reasons, SEE VOUCHERS PAGE 3

Moore Hall houses the psychological and brain sciences department.

B y THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Two former Dartmouth students have signed on as plaintiffs to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that for over 16 years College officials ignored evidence of sexual misconduct by three former psychological and brain sciences professors.

In an amended version of the original plaintiffs’ complaint filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, the two former students bring forward additional allegations of sexual assault and harassment, adding to an already significant and graphic list of charges made by seven other women who allege that the three PBS professors

turned the department into a “21st century Animal House.”

The original lawsuit, which calls for $70 million in damages, was filed in November 2018. The two new plaintiffs, labelled under the pseudonyms “Jane Doe 2” and “Jane Doe 3,” add new allegations against former professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen — all three of whom left the College last summer after an internal investigation led to recommendations of their termination.

“We applaud the courage of the two women who have added their harrowing accounts to the chorus of others who were assaulted, harassed and prevented from pursuing their

studies at Dartmouth,” wrote lead counsel for the plaintiffs Deborah Marcuse in an email statement to The Dartmouth.

Jane Doe 2 is described in the complaint as a former Dartmouth undergraduate student who attended the College from 2008 to 2012 and worked as a research assistant in Heatherton’s lab from fall 2012 to spring 2013. The lawsuit says that Kelley and Whalen began to make sexual comments about her in her presence, and that in November 2012, she was sexually assaulted and had non-consensual sex with Whalen.

In April 2013, the filing SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 2

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College to investigate Website for sharing college sexual new assault allegations harassment experiences launches FROM LAWSUIT PAGE 1

alleges, Whalen again initiated sexual advances toward Jane Doe 2 and “choked her to the point that she feared for her safety,” upon which a Dartmouth security guard soon walked in. Later, during Jane Doe 2’s final week working in the lab, the lawsuit alleges that Whalen invited her to a baseball game and said, “You’re not going to tell anybody, right? We’re good, right?”

The complaint describes the second new plaintiff, Jane Doe 3, as a former graduate student and post-doctoral fellow who attended Dartmouth from 2003 until 2009 and worked in both Heatherton’s and Kelley’s labs.

Jane Doe 3 did not originally work in Kelley’s lab, according to the complaint, but was encouraged to do so by Kelley in November 2003. The complaint alleges that after joining Kelley’s lab, Jane Doe 3 was coerced into an ongoing sexual relationship with him.

The filing alleges that a different female graduate student contacted former PBS chair Howard Hughes in 2004 to report knowing of a sexual relationship between Kelley and Jane Doe 3. Multiple students made similar complaints about Kelley and Jane Doe 3 between 2005 and 2007, according to the filing.

Jane Doe 3 alleges in the complaint that Kelley regarded her as a sexual object rather than a scientist, and told her she was “too pretty to be smart.” The suit additionally claims that Jane Doe 3 was referred to in the department by a sexually demeaning nickname, coined after Heatherton shared with male PBS faculty members that he hoped the plaintiff’s shirt buttons would open during her interview.

The complaint alleges that when Jane Doe 3 attempted to end their sexual relationship, Kelley threatened to withdraw academic support for Jane Doe 3. When Jane Doe 3 ended the relationship in 2007, the filing alleges that Kelley told her, “Good luck getting your Ph.D. now.” In retaliation, the lawsuit claims that Kelley gave data Jane Doe 3 collected to another student and removed her from an ongoing research project.

In fall 2017, the complaint alleges that Kelley called Jane Doe 3, advising her to not speak with anyone from Dartmouth about the investigation.

In October 2017, PBS department chair David Bucci contacted Jane Doe 3 informing her of the Title IX investigation and acknowledged “rumors” of Jane Doe 3’s relationship with Kelley, according to the filing.

“The new complaint shows that there is a long-standing problem, and women are coming forward to address it,” said Charles Douglas, a Concord, NH attorney who is one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, in an interview with The Dartmouth.

In an email statement, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote that the new allegations in the updated complaint were not reported as part of an independent Title IX investigation begun in the spring of 2017.

“We take the allegations seriously and are investigating them now,” Lawrence wrote.

Lawrence added that the College commends the individuals for stepping forward.

“We deeply regret that any student experienced or was exposed to such conduct at Dartmouth,” Lawrence wrote.

Another story with more information will be published in the near future.

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B y Reilly olinger The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Speaks, a website and Instagram page created by a group of Dartmouth students and alumni to anonymously share the experiences of people in the Dartmouth community who have faced sexual violence or harassment, recently launched.

The website, according to one of its founders, author and poet Diana Whitney ’95, “offers a platform to anonymously and safely come forward and share [victims and survivor’s] stories,” in order to provide support as well as collect the experiences of generations of people within the Dartmouth community.

Additionally, it allows a space for allies of sexual assault survivors to express support and advocate for change, according to Whitney.

Whitney said that the intention is not to “[mine] people for graphic details,” but rather to provide a Dartmouth-specific space for survivors to say, “I’m a Dartmouth survivor and this is what I need.”

Itzel Rojas GR ’19, another one of the site’s founders, said she believes that all readers, including “survivors, allies, advocates or people who are ignorant to these issues” can better connect with the stories shared on the website because of the common experiences shared and the way the site gives users to visualize the locations described.

“People can tap into their empathy a little more,” Rojas said. “You can put yourself in that person’s shoes.”

The team behind the website’s development is the Dartmouth C o m mu n i t y a g a i n s t G e n d e r Harassment and Sexual Violence, a group that was formed after a federal lawsuit was filed by seven former Dartmouth students last November that accused the College of allowing three psychology and brain sciences professors of creating a culture of sexual misconduct against female students.

The website currently has two

posts, one of which is titled “He raped me on a Wednesday.” In the post, a Dartmouth alumnae described being sexually assaulted around 30 years ago and choosing not to report the rape, as “rapists were not disciplined.”

The second post, titled “Students’ lives and bodies are not among faculty perks” was written by Robbin Derry ’75. In the post, she writes that “students and alums must stand together to demand more from Dartmouth faculty, administrators and the Board of Trustees” in regards to sexual misconduct conducted by faculty members against students.

Whitney said she saw an outpouring of support for the plaintiffs of the lawsuit. She added that following the filing of the lawsuit, more people began to share their own stories of sexual violence and harassment at Dartmouth.

“The question became, how can we create a living repository of stories, to collect them all in one place?” Whitney said.

To Whitney, the answer was Dartmouth Speaks. Whitney said that the idea behind the website is to empower survivors, who can choose to share their stories so they feel less isolated and alone.

“All of these incidents [of sexual assault] are done in a way that purposely isolates people,” Rojas said. “It can create a lot of shame and a lot of guilt. So to see that in such a small place — that there are more people who share your experience than not ... is comforting.”

Whitney acknowledged that coming forward about sexual violence isn’t the right choice for all survivors but said that it was powerful for her.

“It took me decades to write about what happened to me at Dartmouth … I found it so empowering and cathartic — it was better than years of therapy,” she said.

According to Whitney, coming forward breaks a historical tradition of secrecy regarding survivorship.

“Silence has been such a defining characteristic of the survivor

experience — that we’re expected to live in silence and shame — either through victim blaming or the internal shame,” Whitney said.

“The default mechanism of sexual violence is to remain silent.”

In addition to providing support to survivors, the site is designed to confront the history of Dartmouth as an institution, according to Stanley Colla ’66 TU ’86.

Colla, who has spent decades working for the College and is now a part of the DCGHSV said, “My own sense is, for a good bit of the early part of co-education at Dartmouth, the culture of harassment and violence was in existence, but it was swept under the rug. In other cases, it was dismissed rather openly.”

He said he believes that this history should prompt Dartmouth to do more to change its culture.

“Our reputation as an institution and the history of the school, which has been pretty sexist in my own experience, suggests we could take some risks and be a leader in these issues if we wanted to be bold about it,” Colla said.

History isn’t the only reason for the institution to reckon with this change, according to Rojas. Although it is important to acknowledge the past, and seek redress for harm done, Rojas said she sees a more practical need for institutional change. “[Dartmouth] forces its students to be reliant on this institution because it’s such an isolated place,” Rojas said. “The institution can’t refuse to be supportive. What students have access to is only what the institution provides. That’s what makes Dartmouth different. This stuff happens everywhere, but there is a different process because of the role the institution plays in the everyday life and fabric of the students.”

According to Whitney, the DCGHSV aims to work towards transparency and change in terms of the College as an institution.

“We’re passionate about creating real change, and we’re not going to be quiet,” Whitney said.

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Sen. Shaheen authored letter to presidential candidates about law FROM VOTING PAGE 1

Multiple candidates, some of whom have recently visited campus, have voiced their support for the petition.

In a tweet responding to Shaheen’s petition, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 (D-NY) said that she “strongly [supported] efforts to amend and repeal this bill.” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), in another tweet reponding to the petition, said that signing the petition would send students the message that their “vote matters and must be protected.”

The controversial and highly politicized bill was signed into law

by Gov. Chris Sununu (R) last July.

HB 1264 redefines the terms of “residency” for voters to include only those persons who are “domiciled” in the state of New Hampshire and have demonstrated a clear intent to claim New Hampshire as their sole and primary place of physical presence. Supporters of the bill said that the intention of the bill is to make elections clearer and to add

integrity to the election, according to New Hampshire Young Democrats president Lucas Meyer.

Currently, there are bills in both chambers of the New Hampshire legislature that would combat aspects of HB 1264. House Bill 106, if passed, would repeal HB 1264’s definition of “domicile” for voting purposes.

Similarly, Senate Bill 67 would revise the definition of a “resident” to clarify that residents who do not intend to stay in New Hampshire indefinitely — such as college students, professors and hospital residents — are exempt from the requirements for residents, who must register any cars in New Hampshire and obtain a New Hampshire driver’s license.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire filed a federal lawsuit in February challenging the provisions of HB 1264 as unconstitutionally restricting the right to vote for students, young people and new residents.

Rep. David Huot (D-Belknap) said he sees the voting restrictions as a political tool and game of semantics

used to limit the rights of college students, which would in turn limit the impact of progressive ideologies.

“Most college students move into an apartment or dormitory in college and don’t actually consider their home as somewhere else,” Huot said. “‘Domicile’ refers to where you lay your head at night.”

Huot said that his support of HB 106 lies in his belief that “voting is not a privilege, but the quintessential right of citizenship.”

Dartmouth College Democrats president Gigi Gunderson ’21 said that being away at Dartmouth is a sufficient time frame to consider New Hampshire her primary home.

“I spend nine months out of 12 here,” Gunderson said. “Living in a place is defined by the Supreme Court by being there for six months and a day, and I know that we’re all here for over six months and day.”

Several New Hampshire Democrats agree with Gunderson.

Meyer said that HB 1264 has not been the only attempt to disenfranchise young voters and student voters in the

state. According to Meyer, there has been a trend in the New Hampshire State House to write election laws targeting college students over the past decade.

“Time after time, the common denominator has been that the group affected by these changes has been college students, either directly or indirectly,” Meyer said. “HB 1264 is an extension of that process — a seemingly innocuous bill which looks straightforward as statute, but has dire implications for college students’ voting rights.”

In order to provide evidence of one’s intent to stay in New Hampshire, hopeful voters face costly burdens to establish residence, particularly the requirements to obtain a New Hampshire’s driving license and register one’s car with the state within 60 days of becoming a resident, according to Rep. Mary Jane Mulligan (D-Grafton). If a voter does not meet these requirements, they risk paying burdensome fines and incurring voter fraud charges.

Mulligan, who co-sponsored HB

106, explained her support as wanting to ensure every person can exercise their constitutional right to vote without having to pay hundreds of dollars in fees and have to drive to the closest Department of Motor Vehicles office, which she said is not “terribly close” for Dartmouth students.

According to Meyer, HB 1264’s restrictions for young voters makes it hard to recruit young college students to supplement New Hampshire’s aging workforce, especially because New Hampshire has the highest percentage of high school graduates who leave the state to pursue higher education of any state in the country.

“If I’m considering staying here for the rest of my life, I want to have a voice in the politics of the state,” Gunderson said. “And even if I don’t intend to stay here for the rest of my life, it’s not like laws only affect people who have been living in New Hampshire their entire lives. The laws affect people whether they moved here yesterday or were born there, so we deserve the right to have our voices heard on those issues.”

First round of pilot voucher program experienced high demand FROM VOUCHERS PAGE 1

[we] shouldn’t have access to students’ financial information, so there’s no way for us to corroborate whether or not students are actually in need [of vouchers],” said outgoing Student Assembly president Monik Walters ’19 of the pilot’s first-come, firstserved nature.

The first round of the pilot program filled up quickly, demonstrating the demand for such a project, according to Walters. Walters said she limited the amount of vouchers in the first round of the pilot, so as not to exhaust funds and thereby allow for further rounds of testing. In the application for its budget, SA applied for funds designated for this project.

The idea for the Co-op vouchers followed a report by SA vice president Nicole Knape ’19 about food insecurity at the College. Walters and SA senator TJ Seo ’22 then worked

with Co-op member education manager Emily Rogers to determine how best to implement a pilot program.

“Originally we wanted to do $5,000 worth of vouchers, but then we ended up settling on the $2,500 just to sort of test it out, [and] see if it even makes a reasonable enough difference for us to continue the program,” Walters said of the Co-op vouchers.

The Co-op offered similar vouchers during the most recent winter break.

Eighty students were given three vouchers — each worth $35 — that were valid between Dec. 15, 2018 and Jan. 2, 2019. Events such as a store tour and cooking demonstration were held at the Co-op to educate student recipients about cooking and the Coop, according to Walters.

Co-op director of public relations Allan Reetz said the voucher programs have been successful, and that he is

optimistic for the future of such programs.

“This program has legs,” Reetz said, adding that the Co-op may expand voucher programs to its other locations in the Upper Valley, making vouchers available to local residents in need.

Regarding SA’s program to subsidize Dartmouth Coach bus tickets, Walters said she came up with the idea for the after experiencing the high prices of Coach tickets and limited transportation options to New York herself.

“The idea for the initiative just came from my own logic being a student here, [and] as someone who lives in New York, those Coach ticket prices can definitely add up,” Walters said. “For some people, it’s completely just prohibited them from being able to go home or even leave in case of an emergency or anything like that.”

SA did not work with the Dartmouth

Coach to provide vouchers to students. Rather, SA funds were used to purchase tickets for students who applied for vouchers, according to Walters. She added that they started the program by purchasing tickets for 100 people, which cost about $8000 in total.

A campus-wide email reporting some results of the first round of the pilot noted changes that will be made to the Coach voucher program in the second round of the pilot.

“Tickets can now only be used for round trip to and from Boston, only to avoid the issue of missing the Coach for New York,” the email stated.

Unlike the Boston Coach, tickets for the New York Coach can only be used on the day and time designated on the ticket. If they are not used, they cannot be transferred to a different time. Additionally, the second round will be “restricted to emergency cases only,” according to Walters.

Incoming SA president Luke Cuomo ’20 said he plans to expand the program next year and has included requests for funding for the program in his budget proposal.

“First thing is we have to secure funding for SA next year ... certainly both the Coach and the Co-op program are going to be a major component of our budget next year,” Cuomo said. “I’m hoping to secure increases in the Undergraduate Finance Committee allotment for SA because clearly the need and the desire among the student body for this program has been demonstrated by just how quickly its sold out.”

Cuomo said that he is also prepared to take on some of the logistical kinks that the pilot has presented, such as the issue of expiration with New York Coach tickets and the fact that “essentially giving students money counts as a gift, which then becomes taxable at a certain level.”

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST HELEN HORAN ‘22

VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

On Creating a Self

Don’t Pack the Court

Reflections on conformity at Dartmouth.

Before matriculating to Dartmouth, I read a book that both terrified and inspired me.

“Excellent Sheep” by William Deresiewicz is a sweeping condemnation of elite institutions in the U.S. and the overachieving students that he claims they damaged. Deresiewicz describes a problem that Dartmouth students know all too well: the résumé arms race, the seeking of various accomplishments and the addiction to success for the sake of success. Deresiewicz’s thesis is that, at elite schools, students focus on building a career rather than building a “self,” and that four years later they’re left with a surplus of achievements but a shortage of anything meaningful.

The book is well worth reading. It has planted a steady reminder in my mind that education should not solely be an acquisition of marketable skills but also a development of the entire person. In the beginning of the year, I was impatient and determined to know the purpose of my college career, as if it was something that could just poof into the air. But the path to finding an identity is intrinsically windy. Since arriving at Dartmouth, I’ve flirted with journalism and dabbled with the sciences, tried a share of outdoor clubs and experimented with other extracurriculars. In trying out a variety of endeavors, letting some stick but others fade, I’ve learned that the only way to combat purposelessness is to fall into it.

There is no disagreeing that Dartmouth’s culture emphasizes following a particular career path, be it consulting or finance. But that isn’t the whole picture. In fact, there’s a contrary narrative, one that encourages students to forcefully reject the predictable route. And

pressure not to conform isn’t so different from pressure to conform. We expect students to have the ability to secure a profitable career but also not “sell out;” to have an niche interest, but not be too quirky; to be an economics major, but to also take classes in the English department.

The College demands a careful balance of it all.

Herein, we find the ideal Dartmouth student — the singer in an acapella group, the social chair of an organization or the future intern at a job next summer. They apparently do all of this with ease and genuine passion. As I kept hearing about this ideal, I felt a pressure to find what I was really passionate about. I have since learned that conforming to some model or chasing an absurd ideal I have created for myself only left me running in circles. I can admire the do-it-alls or the polymaths, but I do not have to be them. And that’s okay.

I’m aware that my experiences are limited to a single year of college, and I know I can’t claim to have wisdom because I once read a book. I don’t doubt that my perspectives will change as the years go on. But I know that it isn’t easy to find a calling. That is why the focus of higher education should be to build a self — a morally, intellectually and spiritually whole person. A good start is to stop assigning value based on superficial factors. Extracurriculars, majors and D-Plans may be manifestations of one’s purpose, but they don’t constitute the real core of an existence. So let’s go beyond that. A good start is remaining infinitely curious and self-aware.

It lies in questioning decisions, looking beyond prestige, taking off the achievement goggles and simply doing things without any gain in mind.

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Political maneuvers will only undermine the judiciary.

Partisan rancor and gamesmanship have the court was a partisan move, but the proper spilled over into the nation’s highest court. In the response is not thinly-veiled partisan maneuvering. past two years, the Republican Party has secured Americans’ faith in the Supreme Court has been two conservative justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett declining for years as partisanship slips its way Kavanaugh, both of whom were confirmed after into what should remain an apolitical branch of Senate Republicans deployed the so-called nuclear government. This shows up too in confirmation option in 2017, an amendment to Senate rules that votes. In past years, the Senate frequently offered lowered the votes needed for cloture from 60 to a Supreme Court nominees near-unanimous simple majority vote. Democrats, now limited by support; now, confirmation hearings tend to time constraints on floor debates, have decried the proceed along party lines. This politicization processes for both confirmations as unfair, and with of the court is a dangerous trend, one that good cause. But the solutions proposed by some threatens the rule of law and the integrity of one on the left — which amount to court packing — of America’s core institutions. If large numbers are at least as threatening to the institution of the of Americans come to view the court as a biased Supreme Court. And that should worry us all. partisan instrument, judicial decisions will no Courtpackinghasrecently longer carry weight; that come into prominence on the threatens the foundations left. Some scholars have “If we’re to maintain of the constitutional order. proposed abolishing lifetime the court’s legitimacy, Partisanship in the court judicial appointments and nomination process has we must reject the imposing term limits. Some already strained trust in the Democratic 2020 hopefuls sort of partisanship court. Court packing takes oppose altering the court, but that caused its issues that partisanship to an even at least eight of them have more blatant extreme. expressed openness to adding in the first place.”

That erosion of more seats to the bench. Sen. trust affects us at Dartmouth.

Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 is one College students take such candidate who takes a dim view of American court packing seriously. In institutions: In a recent poll, a recent podcast interview, she said that court just 33 percent expressed confidence in the packing was an “interesting idea,” and that she court system, and only 24 percent expressed would “need to think more about it.” Another confidence in the federal government. Yet those Dartmouth alumnus, Neal Katyal ’91, the former institutions, especially the Supreme Court, have acting U.S. Solicitor General, anticipated such bold a track record of accomplishment. They’ve made proposals last August while presenting a lecture mistakes — think of Dred Scott — but they’ve also at the College. “I think the Democrats will feel, defended racial equality, rejected discrimination and not without some justification,” he predicted, and defended civil liberties. The Supreme Court “that there should be a penalty paid when there’s is an institution worth preserving. these types of games being played with a Supreme If we’re to maintain the court’s legitimacy, Court seat.” we must reject the sort of partisanship that Mentioning court packing might score points caused its issues in the first place. As students, we with some voters now. But presidential hopefuls recognize that our generation maintains a deep should tread lightly before proposing such a pessimism about the court and other governmental potentially dangerous change — a change that institutions; but that’s all the more reason for us to threatens the judiciary’s independence and reject defeatist ideas like court packing. Partisanship legitimacy. In the 1930s, President Franklin by an older generation has eroded trust in the Roosevelt infamously attempted to pack the court, and that partisanship won’t help us restore court in order to support his New Deal reforms. Americans’ faith in the judicial system. So let’s But members of his own party foiled the plan reject court packing and take a principled stand and denounced it as pure political maneuvering. in favor of the judicial system. That might not Current attempts at court packing deserve the generate buzz on the campaign trail, but it will same denunciation. No policy goal is worth more be what’s best for our nation. than the integrity of the court.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

PARENTS’ WEEKEND

Laurel Dernbach ’22

TODAY 8:45 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Symposium: “Art, Artists and the Museum,” sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art.

7:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.

Film: “Museo,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center.

9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Viewing: “Public Astronomical Observing,” sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shattuck Observatory.

TOMORROW 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Service & Volunteer: “Dartmouth Families Service Project,” sponsored by the Collis Center for Student Involvement, Hopkins Center for the Arts.

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Performance: “Hanover HopStop,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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“Art, Artists, and the Museum” symposium at the Hood B y VERONICA WINHAM The Dartmouth Staff

Today, the Hood Museum of Art is holding a symposium entitled “Arts, Artists, and the Museum: A Conversation.” Considered the Hood’s second major re-opening event, it consists of discussions with a variety of artists who have work on display in the galleries, an open house and a reception in the evening.

“This is not a run-of-the-mill event,” Hood director John Stomberg said. “This is a very special and rare event that we’ve organized to celebrate the reopening of the Hood.”

The program begins in the Gilman Auditorium shortly before 9 a.m. and consists of four panels throughout the day. Students and community members are welcome to join for any or all of these sessions, titled “Global Contemporary,” “New Photographies,” “Painting Now” and “Art and Social Justice.” “[The Symposium] is an obvious example [of] how involved the Hood is with the contemporary arts scene and actively coming up with new conversations and topics to discuss,” Hood intern Juliana Wheaton ’19 said.

After these panels, the public can explore the open galleries along with the artists and curators from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and then join them in the closing reception from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Russo Atrium.Each session will involve two to three artists, all boasting impressive resumes — Morehshin Allahyari, Bahar Behbahani, Markus Brunetti, Lalla Essaydi, Jeffrey Gibson, Jane Hammond, Sin-ying Ho, Cara Romero, Alison Saar and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie. Collectively, these artists represent the diversity of the different Hood collections and symposium topics.

“Students who are engaged in the art world might be intimidated by the fame and reputations of the artists, and yet one of the reasons why we selected this group is that they’re friendly and down to earth,” Stomberg said. “We’re literally going to walk through the museum with artists that we love and admire and have a conversation.”

The Hood’s associate curator of global contemporary art Jessica Hong, who is the moderator of the “Global Contemporary” session, which will focus on a global view of ideas, images and ideas that transcends political boundaries. For this panel in particular, Hong added that the artists’ perspectives will be especially crucial to the success of panel discussions.

The second and third panels are “New Photographies” and “Painting Now.” “New Photographies” will explore the techniques and skills of modern photography. “Painting Now” will look at balancing both innovation and tradition within an increasingly critical art world. These two sessions are being held so that the Hood to include so that the public can explicitly engage with both painting and photography — the two art mediums they are most likely to see on view in the Hood.

“Although we’re open to the public and people can walk through the galleries, it’s really important to have public engagement as a part of [the gallery experience], because oftentimes viewing [art] can be more of a passive experience,” Hong said.

According to Hong, the campus’ active engagement with the museum is central to the Hood Museum’s mission, as faculty members are encouraged to utilize the Hood in order to stimulate classes with tangible examples in an interactive,

personal experience outside of a tradition classroom. The upcoming art symposium represents another avenue for this kind of outreach.

“It’s not just what we have, but what we do with what we have,” Stomberg said. “That’s what’s so important.

Our engagement with teaching is unmatched.”

According to Stomberg, the different panel topics were chosen as part of an effort to be a “responsive” and “engaged” museum. For example, “Art and Social Justice,” the final panel of the symposium, will examine the past in order to better understand social issues and place their context in the present.

“There’s a kind of ethics of

citizenship that influences us,” Stomberg said. “And so we try to be a museum that actually does take a position and we are interested in improving the world and we are interested in subjects such as social justice.”

Following the four panels in which these subjects will be discussed, there will be an open house in the galleries for symposium attendees.

During the open house, attendees will have the opportunity to talk to the artist-panelists about not only their works on display, but also their opinions on other pieces within the same collections, according to Stomberg. “[The artists] each have a unique

perceptive and vantage point, but I think what ties them each together is this sensibility that they have,” Hong said. “I think that they inhabit the global sensibility as they embrace different forms of hybridity, encompassing different temporalities, cultures and traditions.”

Wheaton added that the open house is also a valuable opportunity to see art in a new light.

“I think having conversations with artists whose work is on view … [is] such a big opportunity to see [art] through [the artists’] eyes or see it through the perspective of its materiality, or the person’s story or their process that you might otherwise not know,” Wheaton said.

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Senior Spring: Kevan Kilistoff ’s legacy leaves big shoes to fill B y Gretta pickett The Dartmouth

Having just finished his final season on the Dartmouth men’s hockey team, Kevan Kilistoff ’19 is now enjoying his spare time with friends and focusing on his classes. As the senior captain of the team, Kilistoff’s strong work ethic and leadership shows through his many accomplishments on and off the ice.

An economics major hailing from Langley, British Columbia, Kilistoff played a key role for the hockey team starting his freshman year. In his first year, Kilistoff scored three goals for the Big Green, two of which were game winners. In his sophomore year, Kilistoff led the team in faceoffs won with a total of 248, and as a junior, he was named captain by his teammates — a role he would hold for the next two years.

Kilistoff began playing hockey at a young age, but it wasn’t love at first skate. In fact, Kilistoff said that when his parents first started teaching him to skate when he was two, he “absolutely hated it.” But he eventually grew to love the sport of hockey, a staple in Canada.

“In Canada, it’s different.

Everybody’s really into hockey — it’s kind of like a national sport there, so you are kind of expected to do it,” he said. Growing up, Kilistoff also played basketball and soccer but eventually chose to pursue hockey.

It’s common for hockey players who hope to continue their careers beyond high school to take a couple of years off to play junior hockey, and that is just what Kilistoff did. Following high school graduation, Kilistoff went on to play hockey in the British Columbia Hockey League for three years, playing for two local teams.

Eventually, Kilistoff caught the

eye of the Dartmouth men’s hockey coach Bob Gaudet. Gaudet said he was immediately impressed by his maturity.

“He was a fabulous guy, really mature and a captain of his team,” Gaudet said. “He was already seen as a leader by his peers. And a really bright kid, you know, really smart academically.”

Kilistoff committed to Dartmouth’s hockey team and enrolled as a freshman in the fall of 2015. The transition was a big one to say the least.

“It was pretty tough because in Juniors, when you start out, you’re like a 17-year-old playing against 20-yearolds,” Kilistoff said. “But here you’re a 20-year-old playing against 25-yearolds.”

Kilistoff was able to rise to the challenge and made an immediate impact for the team, according to Gaudet.

“He was a center for us for four years and won big face-offs and was excellent on the penalty kill,” Gaudet said. “He’s a really, really strong guy, just his physicality. He was really tough in the corners, good skill level. He’s a guy I could count on in all areas of the game, and his details were just fabulous.”

Beyond his impressive skills as a player, Kilistoff proved to be a fantastic leader.

“If any problems ever came up, he was always the first one to try and help you out,” teammate Brendan Demler ’21 said. “He always keeps it calm, cool and collected, and I think that’s one of his best strengths. There were times when he was expected to get fired up, and he handled that very well too.”

Gaudet noted that becoming a captain as a junior is not something that is easy to do and is a true testament to the respect that Kilistoff’s teammates had for him.

Outside of hockey, Gaudet was impressed with Kilistoff ’s selfless attitude. He noted that Kilistoff was always the first to volunteer for community service events and youth hockey clinics, acting as a “great role model for [the team] and for younger people in the community.”

It goes without saying that Kilistoff leaves some big shoes to be filled. When asked about how the team would change with Kilistoff ’s departure, Gaudet said that he hopes the younger classes will follow the example that Kilistoff set for them.

“We talk about leaving a jersey in a better place,” Gaudet said. “And [Kilistoff] really modelled that, so he’s kind of passing the torch to the next

group of leaders on the team.”

Demler remarked on other changes that might come with Kilistoff ’s departure.

“We’re going to lose a guy who can lift a lot of weights, so that’s not good,” Demler said. “He eats a lot, so we’re probably not going to have to order as much food.”

Demler also mentioned that he would miss joking around with Kilistoff and would especially miss Kilistoff’s distinct laugh.

After reflecting on his four years with the hockey team, Kilistoff said that his favorite memory came from playoffs his freshman year when the team beat Colgate University in overtime.

Kilistoff expressed his gratitude for the

friendships that hockey has brought him.

“The people on this team are just lifelong friends I won’t forget,” he said.

Looking to the future, Kilistoff hopes to find a job in finance. He appreciates what the sport has given him but is “set on working on [his] life after hockey.”

One thing is for sure — Kilistoff has had an enormous impact on the Dartmouth hockey program. “[Kilistoff] never thought he was too good for anyone or anything,” Demler said. “He put the team before himself every moment at school. He always put his best foot forward to represent the jersey well and put it in a better place moving forward.”