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Student committee College, state officials investigate cause of missing student incident petitions College over transcript policy B y CASSANDRA THOMAS The Dartmouth Staff
The College’s Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault has released a petition urging the College to change its policy regarding student transcripts during and after investigations of sexual assault. U n d e r D a r t m o u t h ’s current policies, students under investigation for sexual assault, or those who have
been found responsible for sexual assault, can transfer to other institutions or places of employment without a notation on their transcripts indicating their past violations or investigation, according to SPCSA member Henry Tracey ’19. Former SPCSA executive chair Paulina Calcaterra ’19 said that SPCSA’s research of colleges with similar policies as Dartmouth has found that SEE TRANSCRIPT PAGE 3
College develops new recognition process for service groups B y ANNE GEORGE
The Dartmouth Staff
The Dartmouth Center for Social Impact is working with the Council for Student Organizations to create a new joint process to recognize student service groups starting in the fall. Even with this new process for recognition — which gives these groups an official affiliation with the College as well as more resources — many student service groups have been left without clear sources of funding
for their off-campus operations. At the moment, student service organizations are not able to get recognition from COSO, according to Student Involvement director and COSO chair Anna Hall. She said that COSO does not offer recognition to these groups because they already receive support through the DCSI. However, DCSI director Tracy Dustin-Eichler noted that the DCSI was never supposed SEE SERVICE GROUPS PAGE 5
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Anand was rescued after going missing for two days during a hiking trip that left from Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.
B y SAVANNAH ELLER The Dartmouth Staff
Both the College and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department are currently investigating how Arun Hari Anand ’19 was separated from May 10 until May 12 from a Mount Moosilauke hiking trip led by Dartmouth’s Outdoor Programs Office. While the large search-and-rescue operation to find Anand ended successfully, questions remain over how the student became lost and whether the trip met reasonable safety guidelines. In an email statement to The Dartmouth, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence
wrote that the College is looking into the incident as a possible case of negligence, saying the College uncovered “a number of troubling factors concerning the way the trip to Mt. Moosilauke was planned and carried out.” Lawrence wrote that the College would be looking into changes to its policies and practices regarding outdoor programs. She added that the College would pay for the state’s large rescue operation. According to NHFG colonel Kevin Jordan, the agency is currently investigating the incident to determine if the College is liable under New Hampshire law. “It’s concerning to me if this was preventable, and I
think it was,” he said. If the agency determines that the trip was conducted negligently, the College will be expected to reimburse the state for the cost of the rescue, according to Jordan. Jordan estimates that the agency spent several thousand dollars over the course of the three-day search. The cost mostly came from the use of helicopters and the transportation and maintenance of NHFG employees on-site, according to Jordan. Jordan added that College provost Joseph Helble had already reached out to the agency to express thanks and SEE INVESTIGATION PAGE 3
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Q&A with College Republicans chairman Daniel Bring ’21 B y ELLIOTT ZORNITSKY The Dartmouth
In the past year, the College Republicans have hosted events with conservative figures such as Herman Cain, Dinesh D’Souza and David Horowitz. Protests that occurred at the latter two events have spurred discussion about the nature of free speech and what it means to be a Republican on a college campus. Daniel Bring ’21 is the chairman of Dartmouth’s College Republicans chapter, an organization he joined during his freshman fall. In the following interview, Bring addresses these speakers, as well as the evolution of the College Republicans organization on campus, the experiences of conservatives at a left-leaning school and a recent guest column in The Dartmouth by a former College Republicans treasurer arguing that the organization no longer respects open discourse. What do you think the role of the College Republicans is on Dartmouth’s campus? DB: I think that the first goal is of course to represent the values and the platform of the National Conference of College Republicans. But, I also believe that our purpose at Dartmouth is to provide an avenue for a right-ofcenter discourse that is open to people of all opinions, particularly for those opinions that would not be welcomed at the College Democrats or in some of the other political circles on campus. Can you elaborate on what you mean by “right-of-center discourse?” DB: Well, I think right of center — pretty broadly — would be Libertarian and Republican. I do believe Libertarians and Republicans are distinct. Centrists though, on some issues, might feel alienated from the broader cohort of students and from the College Democrats.
How has the College Republicans’ role evolved or changed over time? DB: I think that in the grand sweep of history, with the College Republicans having been established in 1958, there have been enormous differences in terms of organizational structure and membership composition. I think there have been broader shifts, even in the last few years. When I joined, it was a much looser community, and it wasn’t where I found my closest community. Since then we have really rebounded; we have a large base. I hear stories from three or five years ago about the organization only having five active members. Now, we’ve got close to 30 very active members. That has been a definite improvement. Dartmouth is a liberal campus, and Grafton County overwhelmingly votes for Democrats. Would you classify Republicans at Dartmouth as a sort of ideological minority, and how do you navigate that? DB: I wouldn’t call Republicans an ideological minority. I don’t think the Republican Party is an ideology. I would say that they are certainly a minority in terms who is registered with a party. There is some exaggeration that says Dartmouth is 95 percent liberal, as conservative students are more common than that would suggest. When I’ve talked to a lot of athletes and friends in the Greek system, they all hold what I would characterize as right-of-center opinions but do not have the time to be politically active. How was the decision made to invite Dinesh D’Souza and David Horowitz to campus, and how would you classify their representationsof conservatism? DB: There is a major distinction between the events, as they transpired, of David Horowitz and Dinesh
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D’Souza. I think that the issue with David Horowitz particularly was that he acquitted himself very poorly under the circumstances. He was unnecessarily inflammatory. His invitation was a decision undertaken by the executives of the College Republicans, but I think everyone would agree it was not ideal for him to behave in the way that he did. Dinesh D’Souza, I would say, is a legitimate representative of conservative opinion. Just like the David Horowitz event, there were disruptions. There were people rising in the audience, but he handled it so differently. He never got into ad hominem arguments. He sent off one witty remark that was well received by the audience, as opposed to Horowitz who just seemed like he was rather malicious at times.
Did you suspect that there would be a reaction to the Horowitz and D’Souza events because they have said inflammatory comments either on Twitter or other speaking events in the past? DB: I think we would expect a reaction with any earnestly conservative speaker because the vocal, left-wing and Democratic student groups are going to disagree — and in many cases, quite strongly — with what conservative speakers have to say. The reaction should be a conversational challenge; it should be disputing ideas with ideas, not with silencing them, not with interrupting the event and preventing people from hearing them. That’s something they teach in kindergarten or preschool: Everyone has their turn to speak. In the case of Horowitz, it devolved into personal attacks, which was enormously regrettable. But it isn’t reasonable for us to want to bring a speaker to campus and for there to be signs saying “defund racist Republicans” and for protesters to attack the speaker’s personal life. Why do you think the ideas of the speakers are not accepted by the larger student body? DB: Well, I don’t think that an idea is necessarily bad just because it isn’t progressive. The idea of conservatism as expressed by the late, great Russell Kirk was that it’s a system of gradual change,
not radical progress. To a lot of these students, these ideas are new. That’s why you see such a hostile reaction. I’ve talked to students who say they’ve never met a Republican until talking to me. I don’t think that just because an idea has been stated before makes it antiquated; I think the reason that a lot of students aren’t so receptive — especially on the left — is because they don’t really investigate these things on their own. They get them from the news media and from their peers.
How do the College Republicans interact with other conservative groups on campus, particularly The Dartmouth Review? Is there a fracturing within the group? DB: I don’t want to discuss The Dartmouth Review or go into what was written about our organization in The Dartmouth because there are so many myths and so much hearsay about the College Republicans and what’s been going on in the College Republicans. I’m here to say what really is happening in our organization and what our organization stands for. I think that College Republicans is actually stronger and more cohesive than it has ever been. How do you respond to criticism that your organization fosters unhealthy and even threatening ideology for many on campus?
DB: I think that ideology is a singular cohesive way of viewing the world and prescribing policy and making judgments about issues. That’s how I define ideology. I don’t think that our organization advances an ideology because we bring in a broad range of speakers and each speak about something different. If we were only going to bring speakers to have conversations about the most dry, or sterile economic or policy topics, then that is not going to necessarily provoke or even cultivate a productive conversation because they’re going to have a very self-selecting audience. We want people to have difficult questions. We want to encourage the community to have conversations even if they’re difficult, even if they’re serious and about personally important issues. If you were to look into the future, what would you want the College Republicans to look like and be doing? DB: I think that the goal is not just to have high-profile speakers that attract the most people, but to get our message and our beliefs out to the student body. We have to find a balance between someone who’s going to be the most substantive and someone who’s going to draw the biggest crowd. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Concerns include students transferring while under investigation FROM TRANSCRIPT PAGE 1
individuals under investigation or found responsible of sexual assault have transferred and committed additional acts of sexual assault at their new institutions. The issue of the transcript policy was brought to light at an SPCSA round table meeting in the fall of 2018, according to Calcaterra. Round table meetings allow members of the Dartmouth community to weigh in on matters of sexual assault on campus. Since the round table, members of SPCSA have researched Dartmouth’s internal policies on student transcripts under these circumstances, as well as the policies at other institutions, recommendations by the National Association of Registrars and the Association of Title IX coordinators, according to Calcaterra. She added that Dartmouth’s transcript policies fall under the jurisdiction of the registrar, and changes within this realm are usually decided by committees comprised of faculty members. “We found a lot of evidence of cases where people had left schools in the middle of these procedures and then got on to continue harming people,” Calcaterra said. “Everyone realizes after the fact ‘Oh, this person slipped through the cracks and we
didn’t know this when we accepted them.’” Tracey said that there are two loopholes that allow students to transfer without their records revealing ongoing investigations of sexual assault or proven sexual assault. Students can either transfer to institutions that do not use the Common A pplication or immediately seek employment. In those two instances, Tracey said institutions “won’t uncover what’s wrong with the student’s application.” SPCSA’s petition suggests two changes to the transcript policy, according to Calcaterra and Tracey. First, SPCSA is asking to include temporary notation to cover cases in which a student leaves during an investigation. The second change would include a permanent transcript notation if the student is found responsible. College registrar Meredith Braz said in an email to The Dartmouth that she has been communicating with SPCSA members. She indicated that students with serious conduct violations attempting to transfer to another institution are required to answer questions about past conduct and provide “a Dean’s support.” Therefore, she wrote that she believes “‘repercussions’ exist.” Additionally, she stated that transcripts should only
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The issue of the College’s transcript policy was first raised at a Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault meeting.
contain academic information. In an email statement, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence reiterated the statement that “transcripts are purely academic.” Lawrence also explained what will happen going forward if the College agrees to bring the SPCSA’s petition to a vote. “The faculty determine (by vote) what goes on the transcript and they determine how the policy should be enacted,” Lawrence wrote. “The
faculty also determine the process for making any change, including the possible creation of subcommittees.” Calcaterra said that SPCSA is not asking for other institutions to make a “value judgment” about transfers from Dartmouth. Rather, she said the group is advocating that “the College’s factual judicial record is plainly stated.” Until the issue of transcript policies is brought before committee, Tracey said that he hopes the petition
will pressure the administration and faculty to act and demonstrate w i d es p rea d s tu d en t s u p p o r t . Although the policy process may unfold slowly, student awareness and support could potentially expedite the process, according to Tracey. “Our aim is to demonstrate that we have broad student support for the policy that we’re putting forward,” Tracey said. “The intention is to fill our role as advocates for the student voice to the administration.”
College offers to pay for cost of rescue operation for missing student FROM INVESTIGATION PAGE 1
to offer to pay the cost of the rescue operation. “It’s a little unique for them to be reaching out to me first,” he said. “It’s refreshing, to be honest.” Jordan said the investigation is ongoing and will be submitted to New Hampshire attorney general Gordon MacDonald ’83 for review soon. The OPO trip was part of a introductory hiking and camping class for physical education credit n a m e d “ H i k i n g O ve r n i g h t , ” according to the OPO’s website.
The trip was led and organized by OPO assistant director for leadership and experiential education Tracie Williams ’05. In her current role, Williams primarily works in student outreach and organizes the Dartmouth Outing Club’s PE classes. Williams declined to comment on the incident. While on the trip, Anand departed from the rest of the hiking group ascending Mt. Moosilauke because he felt he did not have adequate clothing and equipment on May 11, according to NHFG sergeant Tom Dakai. Anand told Dakai that he was instructed by a group leader
to return to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge on his own. He left the trail on the way back to the Lodge and became lost. When Anand did not reach the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge that evening, individuals at the lodge notified Fish and Game of the emergency, according to Dakai. Conservation officers from NHFG were called to conduct an overnight search, which was aided by volunteers from Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue, New England K-9 Search and Rescue and the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team.
On May 12, volunteers conducted a more thorough search of the area where Anand was last seen. Several Dartmouth students and the Lakes Region Search and Rescue Team joined the ground search, forming a revolving team of over 50 volunteers, according to Dakai. An Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter and a DartmouthHitchcock Air Response Team helicopter were also called in to assist in the search. The search was called off that night and resumed the following day. Although Anand was found on the morning of May 13, Dakai said
that with the combination of freezing conditions and the period of time that Anand had been lost, rescuers did not think that Anand would be found alive. “I was losing hope,” Dakai said, “I was personally surprised that we found him.” According to Dakai, Anand had found the trail himself and was walking back to the lodge when he was found was rescuers. He was traveling without shoes and suffering from exposure. After volunteers helped him down the mountain, he was admitted to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center.
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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION
STAFF COLUMNIST SYDNEY ALLARD ‘22
THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD
To Destroy or Rebuild
Abolishing organizations lets us hide from real change. This past April, Swarthmore College’s fraternities found themselves in the middle of a crisis — old meeting minutes containing racist, derogatory and otherwise vile language were suddenly made public. Swarthmore’s two fraternities — Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon — responded by disbanding completely. But dissolving in the face of scandal was the easy way out. By dissolving themselves, the Swarthmore fraternities gave up the opportunity to use their platform — their houses, their organizations and their “brotherhoods”— to effect positive change. They chose to hide rather than to change. It doesn’t have to be this way. During the civil rights movement, Dartmouth’s Sigma Nu offered an admirable example of reckoning with the past. Sigma Nu national was a segregated organization, founded by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute just after the Civil War. As the rest of the country slowly integrated, Sigma Nu hesitated. Though the fraternity began to debate allowing nonwhite and Jewish students to rush in 1954, integration did not happen until the late 1960s. In response to segregation in the national fraternity, in 1963 Dartmouth’s chapter of Sigma Nu publicly disaffiliated from the national organization and refused to rejoin until 1983, well after the organization was integrated . Rather than abolishing itself in light of injustice, Sigma Nu used its organizational power to take an active stand against segregation. That kind of activism is not what happened
at Swarthmore. As the controversy there wore on, my newsfeed was flooded with posts urging the fraternities to give up their houses. Swarthmore students even organized an indefinite sit-in until the college removed Phi Psi fraternity from its house. In the wake of the outrage, the brothers of Phi Psi issued a statement declaring that they “cannot in good conscience be members of an organization with such a painful history.” Referencing wounds “too deep to repair,” the brothers unanimously voted to disband the fraternity. When Sigma Nu’s values came into question, the brothers used their organization as a means to push for positive change. The brothers of Swarthmore’s fraternities had a similar opportunity to use an organization with a long history and high social status to make a difference. Instead, they chose to spare themselves of accountability and give up their platform. Fraternities in the U.S. have a long and complicated history, replete with episodes of racism, sexism and homophobia. It would be easy to argue that they should be torn apart completely. But the reality is that when one social space closes, another will take its place, and we don’t what that space will look like. Swarthmore’s fraternities should rebrand — it might even behoove them to remove “fraternity” from their titles — and challenge themselves to be more inclusive, respectful and reflective. They might just inspire other fraternities around the country to follow suit. Recently, many social justice movements SEE ALLARD PAGE 6
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Verbum Ultimum: A Fair Hearing? Harvard’s dismissal of Ronald Sullivan is unfair.
On May 11, Harvard University’s dean of the college Rakesh Khurana announced that the faculty dean of Winthrop House, Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., would be removed from his position. The news comes five months after Sullivan, a professor at Harvard Law School, announced that he would serve as a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein, who currently faces multiple criminal charges for sexual misconduct. Sullivan’s decision to represent Weinstein provoked immediate backlash among some Harvard students, who incited numerous protests and created online petitions. The students claimed that Sullivan’s defense of Weinstein conflicted with his role as faculty dean of Winthrop House, a position which requires him to foster a sense of community within the house. In response to the backlash, Harvard initiated a month-long “climate review” process, which assessed whether students felt “homophobia, elitism and friendliness” were present within Winthrop House — questions which gauged students’ reactions to Sullivan without explicitly naming him. The results of the climate review have not been publicly released. However, even though Harvard also considered allegations that Sullivan created a hostile work environment within Winthrop — a claim that is unconnected to Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein — the immediate and obvious impetus for this investigation was Sullivan’s choice to represent an unpopular client. There is nothing wrong with Sullivan’s decision as a lawyer to defend Weinstein. The right to counsel is a cornerstone of our legal system, and even characters as unsavory as Harvey Weinstein deserve a fair trial. To fire Sullivan solely on the grounds of representing an unpopular client would be blatantly unjust. But Harvard only removed Sullivan after extensive student backlash, raising the question of whether student opinions were what ultimately determined the university’s decision. The controversy at Harvard is reminiscent of a similar case that unfolded here at Dartmouth. In the spring of 2017, Native American studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80 was appointed as the dean of faculty of arts and sciences; however, some members of the Dartmouth community raised concerns about his external affiliations. Economics professor Alan Gustman circulated a campus-wide email saying that Duthu’s prior advocacy of an academic boycott of Israeli institutions disqualified him for a leadership position at Dartmouth. The 2013 paper, which
Duthu wrote while he was treasurer of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, expressed support for the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement, an organization that is strongly critical of Israel and that some consider to be anti-Semitic. The situation escalated as Duthu and Gustman sent additional emails to the faculty. On May 5, 2017, one of Gustman’s letters to the faculty was published in the right-wing publication FrontPage Magazine under the headline “Dartmouth Appoints Anti-Semitic Terrorist Enabler as its New Dean.” Meanwhile, many members of the Dartmouth faculty, including the chair of the Jewish studies program, defended Duthu and expressed support for him at a faculty meeting. Duthu eventually declined the appointment, saying that the controversy had become a “distraction for me professionally and a source of considerable pain and frustration for me personally.” For his part, College President Phil Hanlon expressed “great regret” about the decision and praised Duthu’s “enormous integrity and moral character.” Both of these cases highlight external factors that, in the eyes of some people, disqualify a faculty member from a dean position. But neither case is clear-cut enough to disqualify the faculty member, especially in Sullivan’s case — in our view, his decision to defend Weinstein is fully justified. Instead of acting on that principle and defending Sullivan, Harvard seems to have decided that its students’ feelings about Harvey Weinstein ought to hold more weight than Weinstein’s right to counsel and Sullivan’s right to exercise his duty as counsel. We haven’t seen the results of Harvard’s climate review, and perhaps Harvard’s administration genuinely uncovered legitimate reasons that Sullivan cannot adequately perform his duties as faculty dean of Winthrop House. We hope, however, that Harvard made this decision based on a careful consideration of the facts and not as a concession to the whims of a protest movement. If Harvard removed Sullivan purely for representing Weinstein, it set a dangerous precedent, one that undermines the fundamental tenets of our legal system. Sullivan, like everyone, deserves a fair hearing, and it seems as though Harvard didn’t give him one. The editorial board consists of opinion staff columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors and the editor-in-chief.
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Service groups left with limited funding for off-campus work FROM SERVICE GROUPS PAGE 1
to provide long term support and supervision for student-led service groups. Examples of said student service groups include Dartmouth’s Habitat for Humanity chapter and Students Fighting Hunger. Dustin-Eichler said that when the William Jewett Tucker Foundation was split into the DCSI and the Tucker Center in 2015, student-led groups were left with less staff support. “The staff played a really important role in supervising student service groups,” Dustin-Eichler said. “When the split happened, many of those groups were moved into a much less staff-led model and into a student-led one.” Since this split, Dustin-Eichler said that the DCSI has supported service groups by providing them with modest amounts of funding, allowing them to recruit through the management system OrgSync, inviting them to the Community Connections Fair and advertising their activities in DCSI’s weekly emails. Hall said that, with these constraints, it is difficult for student service groups to function. Hall and Dustin-Eichler both believe there needs to be a more formal and streamlined process of recognition, which is why they are working towards launching a new recognition process for the fall. In order to be recognized, Dustin-
Eichler said student groups will be required to complete a memorandum of understanding by connecting with established non-profit organizations that will provide them with training and resources. “This means they will be trained in the volunteer activities they are engaged in,” she said. “We think this will help ensure that student service organizations are using the best practices when servicing vulnerable populations, even given student schedules and leadership transitions.” Hall said that COSO has not yet decided how it will fund student service organizations. Because the College’s Undergraduate Finance Committee, which funds COSO, is not allowed to fund off-campus student work, it is unclear if these students organizations will be able to obtain funding from COSO for their operations in the community, according to DustinEichler. She noted that these groups will be able to fundraise on campus and can be subsidized by the larger non-profit organizations with which they work. “We are still working out the details regarding funding, and most of these groups don’t require a lot of funding,” Dustin-Eichler said. “The UFC could potentially provide funding for student groups for certain parts of their activities, especially their educational and campusfocused ones, but not the ones they are doing in the community.”
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The Dartmouth Center for Social Impact is working to develop a new policy for student service groups.
COSO believes that this joint process will be a step towards increasing the number of organizations they support, according to COSO member Erin Fitzgerald ’20. “This is becoming an institutionalized change because students are passionate
about service and we want to support that,” she said. “As a board that cares about students pursuing things they are interested in, we recognize that not every student finds their niche in [currently-] COSO recognized groups.” Dustin-Eichler hopes this will further
encourage students to make an impact on surrounding communities. “I am excited that we were able to work with COSO to support student groups, and I am looking forward to getting this process up and running in the fall,” she said.
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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019
THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Performance: “Dartmouth Dance Ensemble,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater.
9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Viewing: “Public Astronomical Observing,” sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shattuck Observatory.
TOMORROW 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Tour: “Hood Highlights Tour,” sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art.
7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Film: “Fast Color,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Visual Arts Center 104.
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Concert: “Dartmouth College Symphony Orchestra,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium.
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have aimed at tearing down institutions with upsetting histories so that newer, fairer or more equitable ones can take their place — destruction seems to have displaced the capacity for reform. But people can change. That might be a more productive way to move forward — using existing organizations to reeducate each other and ourselves. We can use our platforms — fraternities, friend groups, universities and social media — to speak about injustices
and begin to fix them. The brothers of Phi Psi were, or at least claim to have been, disgusted with the behavior of their own fraternity’s former members. They could have channeled that outrage into something productive. They could have used their brotherhood and their status as a popular social space to change the way they and their fellow students spoke about and acted toward one another. But the brothers of Phi Psi didn’t do that. Instead, they hid in the face of controversy.
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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS
Student Spotlight: Lila McKenna ’20 and Nextlife collaborate B y ELIZABETH GARRISON
“Nextlife has the qualities of pop dance that students at Dartmouth know and love from acts like the Music is the art of collaboration, Chainsmokers or Lost Kings, but and no one knows this better than Lila they also bring a production and McKenna ’20, who started working songwriting edge that pushes some with the musical duo Nextlife this past boundaries more along the lines of fall. Consisting of Max Fuster ’21 and artists like Weathin or Louis the Child Henry Phipps who are known in ’21, Nextlife music to be “If the environment at dance f o r m e d pop-sympathetic but during Fuster Dartmouth wasn’t the riskier,” O’Sullivan and Phipps’ way it is, I don’t think said. freshman fall O’Sullivan w h e n t h e people would really booked recording pair met and be hearing our music, space for both bonded over Nextlife and and it would just be their shared McKenna and said love for music. something that is very that he saw the Their song insular. Dartmouth has potential for them “Be Better,” to collaborate. f e a t u r i n g allowed us not only to McKenna brings M c K e n n a , amplify our audience a new element to reached music with but also to amplify our Nextlife’s 100,000 her more positive l i s t e n e r s own skills, because it energ y, he said. o n S p o t i f y is a very collaborative Wh i le N ex tli f e’s since it was music may be less released last place to be in to work accessible on its own, year. The trio on music.” O’Sullivan found also recently that McKenn made released their their song warmer n e w s i n g l e - MAX FUSTER ’21 and into something “Glide” on that people could all major listen to over and musical platfor ms. Since their over. collaboration, the trio said that they McKenna, who is also a member have challenged each other as artists of the Decibelles a capella group, and have created music that resonates said she encourages anyone who is with listeners. interested in making music to reach McKenna encountered Nextlife out to other musicians on campus. through PJ O’Sullivan ’19, the “Just reach out to people who are founder of Dartmouth student in your acapella group, or if you have DJ group Booth. O’Sullivan, who a friend in an a capella group, or became friends with Phipps and know anyone in any music group,” Fuster and invited them to join she said. “People are so willing to Booth, said that he admired Nextlife accept any talent you can bring to as a fresh new musical group. the table.” The Dartmouth Staff
COURTESY OF LILA MCKENNA
Lila McKenna and Nextlife performed during Green Key weekend.
Creating “Be Better” was a very organic process. Fuster and Phipps said they first came up with the original demo during a jam session, when they were playing around with a ukulele. They proceed to show the demo to McKenna, who started writing lyrics and recording vocals. Phipps said that the best way to make music was to not to put too much pressure on themselves and to have fun. He said that going into a studio with the intention of making good music was often more frustrating than rewarding; having a good time in the studio sometimes led to better ideas. Music professor Sang Wook Nam helped Nextlife master “Better Me.” Nam taught Fuster and Phipps in his course MUS 28, “Sonic Space and Form,” during the winter term. According to Nam, Fuster and Phipps learned how to be objective
by editing other people’s music, as well as how to be objective about what worked in their own music. Nam said that Fuster and Phipps brought different strengths to the table. “[Phipps] is very good at making the melody line [have a hook] and [feel] poppy, which draws people’s attention,” Nam said. “I see him as a very melodic composer. [Fuster] is really good at maneuvering sound and laying out the musical elements over the melody that [Phipps] wrote. It makes for a really great collaboration.” Nam said that Dartmouth students might feel discouraged from pursuing music due to outside expectations and peer pressure to do something else. “In order make the decision to go a different route that many don’t usually go down, it takes passion rather than trying to calculate
what you will get from your time investment.” Nam said. “I really admire the energy and passion and excitement from my students who have decided to go down the music route.” Nextlife and McKenna have found that they can overcome these potential challenges by connecting with other students. Fuster said that the collaborative atmosphere at Dartmouth has had a huge impact on Nextlife’s artistic growth. “If the environment at Dartmouth wasn’t the way it is, I don’t think people would really be hearing our music, and it would just be something that is very insular,” Fuster said. “Dartmouth has allowed us not only to amplify our audience but also to amplify our own skills, because it is a very collaborative place to be in to work on music.”
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The D Sports Awards 2018-19: Athletes of the Year rookie of the Year
B y Justin Kramer and Lili Stern The Dartmouth Senior Staff
At the end of each academic year, The Dartmouth’s sports section puts up players to be voted upon by the student body as the best of the best. In this year’s The D Sports Awards, five of the top rookies, five of the top female athletes and five of the top male athletes at Dartmouth were pitted against each other. The winners emerged after 481 popular votes were cast by members of the Dartmouth community. The D is happy to announce Emily Henrich, Tanguy Nef and Kierra Sweeney as the winners of this year’s awards.
Emily Henrich ’22 of the women’s rugby team is The Dartmouth’s Rookie of the Year. After recently winning the MA Sorensen Award as the top player in all of collegiate women’s rugby, Henrich capitalized on her momentum to receive recognition from The Dartmouth. A season that saw women’s rugby win its firstever National Intercollegiate Rugby Association championship fittingly brought Dartmouth its first Sorensen winner in Henrich. The young center carried the team with a team-high 11 tries and 73 points in the fall — the second-most on the team — and was named to the All-Ivy First Team and a U.S. national team. Henrich’s final vote share was 37.27 percent, with Tricia Mangan ’19 in second (25.93 percent) and Mia Leko ’22 in third (15.74 percent). “It’s such a huge honor to win Rookie of the Year as it is not only a win for me but a win for the game of rugby,” Henrich wrote in an email statement. “As one of Dartmouth’s youngest varsity programs, it’s amazing the direction and dedication of everyone in the program. I could not have had my on-field success without them. This season with Dartmouth has truly been incredible.”
Female Athlete of the Year
COURTESY OF KIERRA SWEENEY
Sweeney led 2019 Ivy League champion women’s lacrosse in goals.
Kierra Sweeney ’19 of the women’s lacrosse team is The Dartmouth’s Female Athlete of the Year. Sweeney led this year’s squad — the only Big Green team to win an Ivy League championship this spring — in goals and points. Her 58 goals this season are the most any Dartmouth women’s lacrosse player has netted in a
season since 2005 and the fifth-most in a single season in school history. With 73 career points, Sweeney is now tied for the second-most points in school history. She averaged 3.41 goals per game, which was the 16th-most in all of Division I women’s lacrosse this season and the second-most in the Ivy League. This season alone, she earned Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Northeast Region honors, All-Ivy First Team honors and an Ivy League All-Tournament team selection. Sweeney earned 43.84 percent of the vote, with Katharine Ogden ’21 in second (21.17 percent) and Remy Borinsky ’19 in third (11.88 percent). “Wow, this is so amazing!” Sweeney wrote in an email statement. “I was honored to even be nominated and am so grateful to receive this award. My team is an incredible group of women and I definitely could not have gotten this far if it weren’t for all of them.”
COURTESY OF EMILY HENRICH
Henrich was named the best women’s collegiate rugby player as a rookie.
Male Athlete of the Year For the second consecutive year, alpine skier Tanguy Nef ’20 is The Dartmouth’s Male Athlete of the Year. This accolade is not Nef ’s only proof of ongoing success. He brought a national championship in the giant slalom back to Hanover this year after winning in the slalom in 2018; he was named the Men’s Alpine Skier of the Year by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association for the second consecutive year; he was an AllAmerican for the third year in a row; and he won the Norwegian Trophy, which Dartmouth’s coaches award to the skier with the best performance, for the second consecutive year. Monday evening, the Dartmouth athletics department awarded Nef with the Alfred E. Watson Trophy as the top male athlete. After receiving 29.81 percent of
COURTESY OF TANGUY NEF
Nef was recognized for being Dartmouth’s top male athlete of 2018-19.
the final vote, Nef now has another award as The Dartmouth’s Male Athlete of the Year. Adrian Clark ’20 came in second (23.94 percent) and Isiah Swann ’20 in third (19.95 percent). “It’s an incredible honor to win this award and I am super pumped
by the support and trust that the ski team, athletics and the school have brought me for the last 3 years,” Nef wrote in an email statement. “I also want to congratulate all the other award recipients and nominees for the awesome achievements. Go Big Green!”