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Tuck hosts Tuck Runs EKT required to for Veterans participate in ISC rush B y GIGI GRIGORIAN The Dartmouth Staff

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Green Key was not the only crowd-drawing event that took place on campus this past weekend. On May 19 the Tuck Veterans Club hosted its annual Tuck Runs for Veterans event, drawing more than 170 participants, including Dartmouth students, faculty and Upper Valley residents.

The event, co-hosted by the Tuck Athletic Club, raised money for the Veterans Education and Research Association of Norther n New England, a White River Junction-based nonprofit that works to improve

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and advance healthcare for veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

The fundraiser’s primary run was a 5K route through the College’s campus and around Occom Pond. The event also hosted a 1K “Kids Fun Run” on Tuck Mall. In addition, at Tuck Circle, there was live music, food and raffles with prizes from Upper Valley businesses.

Event co-chair and Tuck Ve t e r a n s C l u b c o - c h a i r M itch ell L eestm a Tu’1 9 estimated that this year’s Tuck Runs for Veterans raised SEE TUCK PAGE 3

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Thisfall,William“Billy”Sandlund ’18 and Rae Winborn ’14 will travel to Beijing, China as Yenching Scholars, pursuing interdisciplinary master’s degrees in Chinese studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. The scholarship covers tuition fees, travel expenses for one round-trip, accommodations and living costs on Peking University’s

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This fall, Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority will partake in the ISC’s formal recruitment process.

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campus, according to the Yenching Academy website.

The scholarship aims to connect China to the rest of the world by offering “young people who have demonstrated a talent for leadership and innovation” the opportunity to immerse themselves in an intensive learning environment focused on China’s “past, present and future role in SEE YENCHING PAGE 2

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This fall’s sorority recruitment process will see a significant change.

Following a Dartmouth Inter-Sorority Council decision, Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority will be required to participate in the College’s ISC formal recruitment process in addition to hosting its distinctive shakeout style of rush.

Since 2014, EKT has hosted shakeout, which has served as its alternative to formal recruitment.

Shakeout is similar to the fraternity rush process,

in which potential new members can choose to visit only their top preferred Greek houses and interact with current members in those houses rather than being required to go to all Greek houses.

F u t h e r m o r e, d u r i n g shakeout potential new members can express their interest in directly rushing that house.

Shakeout at EKT was initially implemented as a measure to attract more members to the house, since EKT has historically reported relatively small member classes through for mal recruitment.

However, shakeout grew

to mean more to the sorority, according to EKT president Thuyen Tran ’19.

“It evolved into part of the EKT identity,” Tran said. “We attracted entirely new groups of women who did not want to participate in formal recruitment, which is timeand energy-intensive.”

In an email statement, the ISC wrote that shakeout “is a policy that must be proposed each recruitment cycle as an exception from formal recruitment.” The statement said that the ISC invited EKT to propose SEE EKT PAGE 3

Nine Geisel students awarded Schweitzer Fellowships B y alec rossi The Dartmouth

Nine first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine have been awarded the Albert S ch we i t ze r Fe l l ow s h i p, which provides students with funding to complete innovative projects that

improve the health, safety and welfare of the community.

Each project will receive $2,000 in funding from the foundation.

This year’s recipients are Shuaibu Ali Med’21, Tianrae Ch u M ed’21, K athr yn C o l l i e r M e d ’ 2 1 , Ju l i a Danford Med’21, Jacqueline Gresham Med’21, Kira

Gressman Med’21, Lindsay Holdcroft Med’21, Sand Mastrangelo Med’21 and Kenneth Williams Med’21.

The nine Geisel students are part of a larger group of 23 fellows from New Hampshire and Vermont.

Director of the New Hampshire and Vermont chapter of the Schweitzer

Foundation Nancy Gabriel said that the number of applications from Geisel has remained largely constant over the last several application cycles.

Chu said that he will work with teenagers to determine what constitutes healthy relationships, consent in sexual relationships and safe

sex. Chu said he hopes to explore how pornography shapes unrealistic perceptions of relationships in order to promote positive relationship dynamics.

Holdcroft said that she and Danford will be working with the Grafton Country SEE SCHWEITZER PAGE 5

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Yenching scholars will travel to Beijing

influenced him to pursue his interests opportunity] as a stepping stone to in the subject by writing a senior thesis. become a practitioner in the industry.” the world,” according to the program’s “I was lucky enough to be mentored After she completes her master’s brochure. by … Crossley — a renowned scholar program at the Yenching Academy, The two-year master’s program in modern Chinese history,” Sandlund Winborn said that she would like work at consists of a 12-month mandatory said. “[Crossley] encouraged me to a private equity firm in China and then residence period at the Yenching pursue my longstanding [academic] return to the U.S. to pursue a master’s Academy for international students, interests and actually [become] a degree in business administration. which is followed by an additional 12 rigorous historian of China.”

Comparative literature professor and months where the students must write As a history major and Chinese assistant dean of faculty for scholarship and defend a master’s thesis. minor, Sandlund also participated advising Jessica Smolin said that the Scholars must choose to concentrate in the history department’s foreign office of fellowship advising provides their graduate study program in assistance to all students and alumni studies on one of London, England interested in applying to scholarship “My current work has six research areas, at University and fellowship programs. Smolin added which include exposed me to the College London that she met with both Sandlund and economics and private equity industry in fall 2016 and Winborn when they were in the process management, in a Chinese study of applying to the program. h i s t o r y a n d in China. I’m really abroad program The surge of scholarship programs a r c h e o l o g y, interested in how in Beijing, China that allow students to study in China philosophy and in summer 2017. in recent years, such as the Yenching religion, politics private equity plays a D u r i n g t h e Scholarship and the Schwarzman and international role in social impact.”

Chinese study Scholarship, has increased the relations, law abroad program, number of scholarship and fellowship and society and Sandlundsaidthat opportunities for all students at the literature and -RAE WINBORN ’14 he also completed College, according to Smolin. culture. an internship in “Another thing that both Yenching Winborn said market research and Schwarzman have in common that she will concentrate on economics and at Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, a is really valuable is that [these programs] business management. Sandlund, on global investment group. are open to students of all nationalities,” the other hand, said he plans to study Sandlund, who is currently interested Smolin said. “[This] seems to be a trend Chinese law and society. in pursuing a future career in journalism, in fellowships, which is really positive Winborn, a Chinese adoptee academia or business, said he hopes because then we have more students who grew up in rural Colorado, did that the program will help him choose who can apply for these [programs].” not have the opportunity to learn which of these careers to pursue. He Sandlund said that programs either Mandarin or about Chinese added that first and like the Yenching culture before coming to Dartmouth. foremost he would are “Another thing that Scholarship As a result, she double majored in like to become important for those government and Asian and Middle completely fluent both Yenching and interested in learning Eastern studies with a concentration in Mandarin after Schwarzman have more about China. in Chinese, participated in a Chinese completing the According to him, it in common that study abroad program in Beijing in program. is also important for fall 2011, completed an internship at A f t e r is really valuable people in the U.S. an orphanage in Jiaozuo, China in graduating from to learn more about is that [these winter 2012 and wrote a senior thesis Dartmouth in June China — the second on “Chinese adoptee racial and ethnic 2014, Winborn programs] are open biggest economy identity.” said she worked for to students of all in the world — in In addition to her academic pursuits a social enterprise order to replace the nationalities. in Chinese studies, Winborn said in India for six U.S.’s fear of China’s she was involved in extracurricular months and joined growing power with activities such as the Dartmouth Asian Emerging Market knowledge and -JESSICA SMOLIN, Organization and the Dartmouth Private Equity understanding.

Chinese Culture Society. She also played Association in ASSISTANT DEAN “There’s a lot of the saxophone for the Dartmouth Wind January 2015, OF FACULTY FOR anxiety in the U.S. Ensemble and was one of the founding where she is about the rise of members of Asian American Students now a manager SCHOLARSHIP China,” Sandlund for Action at Dartmouth in her senior in the research ADVISING said. “Instead of year. department seeing [China] as a Sandlund, who was born in Hong concentrated on threat to the United Kong and raised in Singapore, said the Chinese private States’ hegemony, that after being exposed to Chinese equity market. [people] need to understand [China’s history and culture at a young age, he “My current work has exposed me rise] as a natural progression of China’s decided to pursue his interest in China to the private equity industry in China,” own history and [figure] out a way to at Dartmouth through history courses. Winborn said. “I’m really interested accommodate both [countries’] set of Sandlund noted that after he took in how private equity plays a role in interests within one world.”

History 74, “Intellectual History of East social impact. I wanted to explore [this] Asia” with history professor Pamela further within China — on the ground.

Sandlund is a former member of The Crossley, she became his mentor and Hopefully I can use [this scholarship Dartmouth staff.

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COURTESY OF RAE WINBORN

Rae Winborn ’14 is interested in pursuing a career in private equity in China.

CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth. com for corrections.

Correction Appended (May 24, 2018): The original version of the May 22 article, “American University of Kuwait extends partnership with the College” has been updated to properly introduce Dale Eickelman.

ELI BURAKIAN/COURTESY OF WILLIAM SANDLUND

William “Billy” Sandlund ’18 pursued his interest in China through history courses.

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EKT will continue offering shakeout Tuck Runs for Veterans raises almost $4,000 FROM EKT PAGE 1

shakeout for the 2018-19 recruitment cycle to illustrate the necessity of the system. According to the statement, the evidence presented in the proposal was insufficient to grant EKT an exception from the formal recruitment process.

T h e I S C i n fo r m e d E K T about reevaluating the sorority’s recruitment process “as early as” Apr. 17 and formally notified EKT of its decision on May 10, according to the email statement.

“As governing body, the ISC has to push for fair regulations on behalf of all of our member chapters,” ISC’s email stated. “Dartmouth does not have the infrastructure to allow all sororities to do [shakeout].”

The statement added that allowing EKT to continue with shakeout without evidence that the process is critical is unfair to other chapters who would also prefer shakeout to formal recruitment.

The ISC also cited the fact that EKT’s new member class sizes have decreased since shakeout was implemented, which indicates that it “may not independently be the

best solution for the house.”

Tran said that the request to renew shakeout as an exception to ISC formal recruitment was a shock.

“When I traced back the history, ever since the year we started shakeout [in 2014], there’s never been a request for a proposal from [the Panhellenic Council], or the ISC or the Office of Greek Life,” Tran said.

To be congruent with what it sees as its house identity, EKT will continue to offer shakeout next year in addition to participating in formal recruitment, according to Tran. She said her primary concern is that doing both shakeout and formal recruitment will place a logistical burden on the sisters, as EKT is a relatively small Dartmouth Greek organization.

There were 394 potential new members registered for fall 2017’s sorority recruitment, according to the ISC’s email statement.

“Last fall, over 100 potential new members dropped recruitment over the course of what was then a two-week process,” the ISC wrote.

“We hope that by adding EKT back into the formal rush process that the

house could provide an additional option for PNMs who may have otherwise decided to drop from rush.”

According to an email statement from Office of Greek Life program coordinator Samantha Easby, EKT currently has 72 members. In comparison, the average size of a Dartmouth sorority is around 140 members.

Of those 72 EKT sisters, 41 are members of the Class of 2018, who will graduate and not be around to help with rush next fall, Tran said.

That leaves 31 EKT sisters to accommodate, greet and entertain all potential new members during the open house events, as well as make eventual call-back and bid decisions.

“To keep the house open for every woman participating in formal recruitment will be burdensome on the sisters, especially when many of the sisters also work on-campus jobs,” Tran said.

She said she has voiced this logistical concern to the ISC, and that ISC is working to accommodate EKT’s participation in formal recruitment.

“ISC has agreed to lower the limit of open hours during formal recruitment for EKT,” Tran said.

The EKT website states that part of motivation behind instituting shakeout was to address “flaws of formal recruitment,” wh i ch i n c l u d e d “ s u p e r f i c i a l conversation,” ranking women and competition between PNMs and greek houses.

In response to this, ISC stated in the email that since EKT instituted shakeout, the formal recruitment process has changed significantly to attempt to address those concerns. Houses are still individually responsible for the method of member selection.

Additionally, the email stated that the open-house system gives houses full autonomy on how to interact with PNMs. “Shake Out is an imperfect solution to flaws in the Greek System,” ISC’s email stated.

The statement added that ISC hopes that the new version of recruitment combined with continuous open bidding will combine the benefits of both formal recruitment and shakeout.

“We agree wholeheartedly with EKT’s commitment to provide a space for typically marginalized groups on our campus,” the email stated. “We have been working with the president and rush chairs of EKT to make reasonable accommodations to make the transition back to formal recruitment as smooth as possible.”

Director of Greek Life Brian Joyce did not respond to a request for comment.

Whatever we can do to help veterans is absolutely important approximately $3,500 to $4,000. given what they’ve done for us.”

The Tuck Veterans Club, which Like last year, the money raised from the event will be donated was called the Tuck Armed Forces to support VERANNE’s effort to Alumni Association until this purchase a new wheelchair van year, is a student-organized group which will cost more than $20,000, consisting of 18 Tuck students.

In addition according to t o o rg a n i z i n g VERANNE Tuck Runs for e x e c u t i v e “National services Veterans every director Priscilla don’t always spring, the club West. puts on a panel The v a n necessarily provide each fall called will be used to the care that might “Microbrews transport local be needed or desired and the Military” veterans to their to allow the a p p o i n t m e n t s by local veterans . . . w i d e r Tu c k at the Veterans Whatever we can do student body Affairs Medical to ask veterans Center i n to help veterans is about their W h i t e R i v e r absolutely important experiences, Junction as well Leestma said. as to recreation given what they’ve Keating therapy events in done to us.” said that there the Upper Valley. were no major S p e c i f i c a l l y, West said that -LINDSEY WILCOX TU ’19, changes between this year’s and the van will be TUCK ATHLETIC CLUB last year’s events. used to transport MEMBER AND RUN In the future, he disabled veterans said he hopes t o a d a p t i v e ORGANIZER that Tuck Runs sporting events, for Veterans will which include expand to more biking, canoeing, widely engage the Dartmouth ice hockey and skiing.

“We liked being able to donate community by drawing more directly to [VERANNE],” event undergraduates to the event.

According to Keating, the most co-chair Michael Keating Tu’19 said. “They had a pretty valuable valuable aspect of the club is — albeit simple — goal [of comradery among its members and purchasing a van], and we thought the support with which members can provide each we could see a other. good return “As Tuck veterans, “[The club’s] on investment we’re a particularly primary role there.” is just to help L e e s t m a privileged group. [members] said that while pivot away from healthcare is a There’s a lot of skills [their] military “very heated” we’ve developed careers into what topic in the here and access we is a very different U.S. right now, life in private he thinks most have that can benefit i n d u s t r y, ” A m e r i c a n s local veterans.”

Keating said. want veterans Keating said to receive the he appreciates healthcare and -MICHAEL KEATING TU that the Tuck treatment they Veterans Club need. He added ’19, EVENT CO-CHAIR can serve Upper that supporting Valley veterans VERANNE with through events this year’s run is like Tuck Runs a step toward for Veterans. increasing “A s Tu c k healthcare veterans, we’re a particularly access for veterans.

“National services don’t always privileged group,” he said. “There’s necessarily provide the care that a lot of skills we’ve developed here might be needed or desired by and access we have that can benefit local veterans,” Tuck Athletic local veterans.”

West said the Tuck Veterans Club member and run organizer Lindsey Wilcox Tu’19 said. “We’re Club’s continued support for local in a very privileged position here veterans is valuable, noting that “it at [the] Tuck [Business School]. means so much to the vets.”

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STAFF COLUMNIST BEN SZUHAJ ’19

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Kill Your Heroes

Retracing Dartmouth’s Roots

Find self-love through the power of presence.

A friend, a relative, an Olympian and an old teammate: Four people who, though they did not do so knowingly, contributed in one way, shape or form over the past week to challenge my view of the world. It may sound hyperbolic, or tinged with shades of a philosophical game of Clue, so let’s start somewhere light: Green Key. So much happens over Green Key. From the finances of executing events to the increased number of people on campus, it’s a weekend of excess and surplus. It’s a weekend of seeing old friends and making new ones, where acceptable social parlay completely changes. People act and interact differently on a major weekend like Green Key for the simple fact that when enough of the campus population is going out, and when the sound of the GDX concert is shaking the walls of the library, collective inhibition drops and a general level of absurdity is acceptable.

Students look forward to Green Key as a break from the grind of classes and as a chance to refresh. They imagine the fun they’ll end up having while studying for that last midterm before the weekend. There’s actually a German word for this: “vorfreude,” which means the intense and joyful anticipation of imagining future pleasures.

Not only do students project a sense of potential and happiness onto Green Key, they tend to remember it with rose-tinted glasses. After all, who wants to be the person who says their Green Key wasn’t fun when all of their friends ‘”had the best time ever”?

I bring up Green Key as a case study for the larger Dartmouth issue of insisting “I’m fine” regardless of whether or not one truly is. To this point: A friend of mine — let’s call this person Charlie — had an unquestionably bad Green Key. Still trying to process the weekend, Charlie confided in me that life just sucked. “Are you okay?” I asked dumbly. “No, I’m not,” Charlie said, with refreshing honesty. “And I don’t think I have to be.”

I paused, unsure how to respond. Charlie’s directness struck me. In general, it’s something lacking at Dartmouth. As a community of busy, self-motivated individuals who rely heavily on digital communication and a shared vernacular of emotionally-ambivalent terms like “sure, roll thru @now,” it’s rare to hear someone stop and share exactly how they feel. Thankfully, Charlie did.

That being said, her words did not instantaneously trigger a life-changing epiphany for me. I recognized that Charlie’s outlook and transparency had struck me, and then I went about my day. It wasn’t until the next morning when received a text from a family member that I reconsidered what Charlie said. The family member — let’s call this person Cassidy — texted me about her current living situation, among other things. It was a fairly long text that ended with the poignantly direct confession, “I think that I’m lonely.”

“Yes,” I texted back, “welcome to the club.”

But I didn’t leave it there. I elaborated, overly analytically, on the origins of that loneliness, on people’s make-up as social creatures and their desire for companionship as a pre-requisite for the survival and perpetuation of the human species. I told her that people get comfortable, lose a sensation of physical discomfort and begin to feel something small and strange and worse arise inside them: loneliness. Then, naturally, I took the discussion outside to the existential playground, talking about how we’re dust and shall return to dust.

Without acknowledging my motley thesis on human existence, Cassidy asked me, “Where are you?”

“Dirt Cowboy. Drinking coffee.”

“That sounds nice. Can you FaceTime for a minute?”

“Sure,” I texted back. It wasn’t the best place to FaceTime, but after a few minutes, I realized that what Cassidy wanted was not for me to ruminate on the genealogy of loneliness, but rather to listen.

By the end of our conversation, something else had become apparent to me: Not only did Cassidy have little interest in investigating the way she felt with a razor-toothed academic comb, she also felt no need to deny it or run from it.

She had accepted her situation and knew that it would come to pass, but for now, it was her reality and she may as well live with it. No, she may as well live in it — really experience it and feel its ins-and-outs, as unpleasant and unsettling as they may be. Because — and perhaps she said this just to get back at me for my returning to dust comment from earlier — “What else do we have in this life?”

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Dartmouth must reflect on its past to shape its future.

Take a trip down memory lane, back to first-generation college students and students 1769, when Dartmouth was taking its first from lower socioeconomic backgrounds than steps. The College was founded to serve as ever before. Alumni from the 80’s who return an institution to educate Native Americans. to campus will find that while the Green has Despite this, Dartmouth’s relationship with remained just as green, those who claim it Native Americans has been complicated; now look vastly different from those who the College had no more than 20 Native claimed it in the past. students throughout the first 200 years of its Hopefully, Dartmouth will continue to history. Perhaps to pay homage to its past, grow into a home for any student who values and in recognition of its changing cultural the experience of a liberal arts education. values, Dartmouth has now enrolled more Going forward, however, the College must Native American students than all other recognize that implementing positive change Ivy League institutions combined, and the will not suffice if the implications of such College’s Native American Studies program a change are not weighed. Consider the has become one of the most highly regarded aftermath of coeducation: today, Dartmouth in the country. grapples with pervasive sexual violence and Why, though, did it take 200 years imbalanced gender dynamics. Although for Dartmouth to start taking proactive these issues are also pervasive in society at measures to reframe its original mission? large, they are exacerbated on campus by the Rather than pioneering efforts, many of lingering historical traditions and sentiments Dartmouth’s major institutional changes of entitlement and masculinity. Dartmouth over the years seem to have been reactions failed to consider the implications of to the social, political and transitioning to coeducation cultural climate of the time. the wellbeing of female “Being reactionary on Coeducation came during a students, which would have time that was rife with social is not enough necessitated the sustained movements gunning for the — Dartmouth implementation of a revised rights of women, minorities social and organizational and indigenous peoples. must cultivate infrastructure on campus.

Furthermore, coeducation an attitude that The right resources must be was a bandwagon that many put in place in preparation, proactively schools had already jumped not as a reaction to change. on. And, in a sense, the considers its own It’s time for Dartmouth major concerns leading to future and the to start turning tables before coeducation focused more they turn themselves. All those on the future wellbeing implications of its affiliated with the College of the all-male, mostly- decisions.” must be more thoughtful white student body than the about Dartmouth’s identity greater social good; College and ethos and its evolution as President John Kemeny, an institution going forward. who initiated Dartmouth’s move toward This requires every member of this coeducation, was concerned that Dartmouth community to reflect, ask the right questions would “be turning out a generation of male and decide if they are willing to accept the chauvinist pigs who would not be able to work discomfort that follows change. The College with women as equals in the professions.” has taken a step in the right direction through What makes Dartmouth slow to change a historical accountability project, part of is its sustained and pervasive culture of the Inclusive Excellence Initiative, piloted entitlement. English and women’s, gender by the Rauner Special Collections Library. and sexuality studies professor Ivy Schweitzer This project aims to confront and learn from said it best in a May 2016 interview with The the College’s past in relation to marginalized Dartmouth: “Privilege reproduces itself, and groups, and the stories and histories that doesn’t want to give up its power or open its will emerge from this project will serve to doors to others.” Dartmouth has sustained a positively shape Dartmouth’s future. resistance to reframing and erasing harmful Of course, no individual will see traditions and status quos. Dartmouth Dartmouth through the same lens as another students are expected and pushed to grow — but if everyone can all agree upon a during their four years here, and it is necessary guiding set of values, the College can move to hold that same standard to the College ahead with the ability to enact meaningful, on an institutional level. Being reactionary proactive and longlasting change, all while is not enough — Dartmouth must cultivate maintaining a cohesive identity. Let one an attitude that proactively considers its own of this campus’s guiding values be active future and the implications of its decisions. and thoughtful growth, demonstrated by Fast forward to today’s campus. Women are students’, administrators’ and faculty’s now fully integrated, and Dartmouth has the willingness to act. As Dartmouth continues to largest representation of Native Americans expand its identity, it must practice constant in the Ivy League. The College has begun to reflection in order to sensibly integrate new actively examine its past transgressions and identities. their current implications. The student body no longer resembles the all-male, mostly white The editorial board consists of opinion staff demographic that it once was; over time, the columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors College has welcomed more students of color, and the editor-in-chief.

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Senior Citizens Council to increase access to healthcare among the elderly. In addition to this work, Holdcraft said that she and Danford hope to address social isolation among elders. The two will work at Quail Hollow, a senior living community in West Lebanon, to create programming that promotes social interactions with residents in the living community.

Holdcroft said that the community service aspect of the fellowship encouraged her to apply.

“Coming into medical school, the community service piece was always really important to me,” she said. “Sometimes it can be easy to feel like you lose touch with those communities that you are ultimately trying to serve [during the first two years of medical school], and so that is what inspired me generally to apply for the Schweitzer [Fellowship].”

Collier and Gressman will be working to address issues of drug abuse. Partnering with the HIV/ HCV Resource Center, the pair hopes to educate users about how to prevent overdoses. They also hope to provide clean needles and community support to intravenous drug users.

Geisel Schweitzer Fellowship faculty advisor Timothy Lahey said he has noticed that more student projects are addressing the opioid crisis in the Upper Valley.

“This is the second year in a row that we have had a project aimed at getting clean needle exchanges going in New Hampshire,” Lahey

said.

Gresham said that she and Mastrangelo are partnering with Rural Outright, an organization that serves LGBTQIA+ teens and allies in the area, to create a mentorship program between college-age students and area youth.

Mastrangelo said that students at the College will be able to apply to become mentors to students in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Interested students and mentors will each fill out an interest survey used to create mentor-student pairings, she added.

“Some students are going to be working on personal statement writing for college applications, some students are looking for more activity-based mentorships and some are just looking for someone to talk to about navigating high school as an ‘out’ teen,” Mastrangelo said.

Mastrangelo said that before coming to Geisel, both she and Gresham worked with students in the past.

“Prior to coming to medical school, [Gresham] and I were involved with students in various capacities,” Mastrangelo said. “I was a ninth grade English teacher in Colorado and the faculty mentor of the LGBT alliance. [I recognized], from personal experience and faculty experience, the need for support for LGBTQIA+ students — especially ‘out’ students navigating high school.”

Ali said that he and Williams will be working with students at Hartford High School to build relationships with students interested in STEM fields. In addition to completing

science projects with students, Ali said that he and Williams will try to build a robust mentorship program among students, the College’s graduate schools and professors.

“We see an opportunity to get kids who may not have really seen themselves as scientists exposed to science, and we’ll hopefully use that as a leverage point for [college matriculation],” Ali said.

Ali said that he was motivated to apply for the fellowship because of his prior career as a community health educator.

“One of the hardest things for me [as I was] coming to medical school was leaving the kids that I worked with,” Ali said. “I jumped on the opportunity to be able to affect my local community by working with youth and empowering them through mentorship and education.”

Gabriel said that this year is unusual because three of the fellows’ projects are continuations of projects from last year. According to him, this is because it takes time for impactful and meaningful programs to become fully sustainable.

Lahey said he believes that participation in the Schweitzer fellowship augments the medical school experience by allowing students to apply the skills they learn in the classroom to their communities. Additionally, he said that participation in the community allows students to see how their learning can make a difference.

“I think of medical school as this great combination of scholarship and making a difference in the world,” Lahey said.

LETTUCE TURNIP THE BEET ON THE GREEN

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Warmer weather means that groups of students can often be found lounging on the Green.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

2018 FORECAST

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018

DAVID VELONA ’21

TODAY

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Honors Thesis Performance: “The Houses with Ramps,” written by Lela Gannon ‘18 and directed by Irma Mayorga, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Performance: Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Filippo Ciabatti, performing Stravinsky’s classic ballet “Petrushka” in collaboration with the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Performance: Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, choreographed by John Heginbotham and Rebecca Stenn, performing Stravinsky’s classic ballet “Petrushka” in collaboration with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW 9:15 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

4th Annual Dartmouth Illustration, Comics and Animation Conference, Kreindler Conference Hall, Haldeman Center

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Student Film Showcase 2018, curated by student filmmakers and members of the Dartmouth Film and Media Club, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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reasonable thing I could do after experiencing such a genuine human interaction: I opened Instagram. Usually, that would have been a meaningless time-sink, but on this day, things were not destined to be usual. I came across a lengthy post

by Olympian and Dartmouth Alumnus, Abbey D’Agostino ’14, written in response to her decision to end her track season early due to a nagging injury. In the post, D’Agostino acknowledged that after she “stopped bucking and started surrendering to the clear signs of a breakdown,” she felt “the sweet peace of knowing, deep down, [she needs] another plan and there is one.” She encouraged everyone else who has been stuck in a “negative cycle” to “Take heart… Take comfort in your smallness.”

Taking comfort in smallness reminded me of something that my cross country captain told the team during my freshman year: kill your heroes. At the time, I assumed he meant figuratively “killing” the professional runners, like D’Agostino, whom we looked up to and wished to emulate. I thought he was encouraging us to wipe them from the pedestals we had constructed in our minds so that there might be room for us up there someday. Maybe that’s what he meant. But, sitting there in Dirt Cowboy, I began to reconsider what it meant to kill your heroes — and not just your general idols,

but one hero in particular: that idealized, impossible version of yourself that exists only in your mind. It’s who you wish you were. I began to wonder what it would mean to give up on “vorfreude” and “I’m fine” and rosy recollections, and instead to say “I am what I am and that’s all. I am no more or less than what I am right now — and that’s fine.”

If you learn to love and appreciate yourself as you currently are, you can stop the desperate search for external love and appreciation. That desperate search is the root of a whole host of unhealthy behaviors — from substance addiction to the excessive accumulation of money and objects to using and abusing people. If self-love is reserved only for a version of yourself that is yet to exist, you will spend forever chasing an unattainable idea. During that pursuit, you cling to anything that gives you the feeling you refuse to give yourself.

The tragic yet redemptive fact is that loving yourself as you currently are is a choice you can make right now. Should you choose to do so — and I hope that you do — “I’m not smart enough for Dartmouth” becomes just one bad grade on a midterm, and “I didn’t get into that sorority because I’m not good enough,” becomes “it’s probably for the best.”

And loneliness, as debilitating as it can sometimes be, becomes nothing more than being alone.

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‘The Petrushka Project’ to bring together DSO and DDE

By HYO LIM JEONG The Dartmouth

Over drinks one night last spring, Dartmouth Dance Ensemble co-director Rebecca Stenn and Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Director Filippo Ciabatti discussed how ideal it would be for the two ensembles to work together. Each year, the DSO and DDE would have concerts on the same night, making collaboration impossible — but with enough planning for 2018, a joint performance could be possible.

Ciabatti knew what he wanted to perform: “Petrushka,” the Stravinsky ballet that brings a pair of Russian folk puppets to life. Stenn and DDE co-director John Heginbotham were soon on board with the idea. There was just one problem: the Hopkins Center for the Arts did not have a venue large enough to accommodate both the ensembles. Several options were considered, including an open concert on the Green, but an outdoor event ran the risk of bad weather.

Together with the production managers of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, they reached an innovative solution: the DSO would perform in Spaulding Auditorium, the DDE in Moore Theater, and the two performances would be connected by a live simulcast.

The simulcast is an exciting, never-before-done project for the DSO and DDE that required both new infrastructure and special staffing. Six fiber optic cables, each 350 feet long, were newly installed in both Spaulding and Moore specifically for “The Petrushka Project.”

Because the two groups are not performing together in the same space, the main challenge of the performance is a technical one. Even in a live ballet with music and dancers in the same hall, it’s difficult to achieve flawless synchronization. In “The Petrushka Project,” processing equipment for sound and visuals will naturally add delay — an extra degree of difficulty. A delay in the

sound reaching the Moore Theatre could cause the dancers to fall behind in responding to the music. And since dancers look to the conductor for cues through a live video feed, a delay could also cause dancers to see a cue unaccompanied by music, resulting in a dysfunctional performance.

According to recording engineer and Dartmouth lecturer Sang Wook Nam, the key to achieving an appropriate speed of sound was to use analog, rather than digital, sound equipment. Digital equipment adds delay because it requires digitization and processing of an analog signal, while analog equipment processes signals in real time.

It is a bit of irony that the older analog system makes simulcasting possible even though the technology as a whole is relatively new. Analog instruments have become a rarity in the last 10 to 15 years, and the performance venue did not have any analog consoles. Nam, who describes himself as “still the analog guy,” had to bring his own and rent additional consoles to use in Spaulding Auditorium.

New and old working together is powerfully echoed in the artistic direction of the project. Ciabatti characterizes “Petrushka” as the intermediate piece in the development of Stravinsky’s personal and Russian style. It is the bridge between the Western musicology of “Firebird” and the expressive maturity of “The Rite of Spring.”

“Stravinsky was researching, he was looking for new solutions,” Ciabatti said. “And out came a piece that is very fragmented in a way, that makes the music like a movie. [“Petrushka” is] a structured piece, but more naïve than the Rite of Spring.”

According to concertmaster Katie Wee ’19, the break from classical tradition was initially a challenge for members of the DSO. “The rubato areas are where the tempo is relaxed and stretched in any way you want — you go with the feel,” Wee said. “Figuring that out

COURTESY OF THE HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The DSO will be connected to the DDE by six high-speed fiber optic cables.

COURTESY OF THE HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The choreography in “The Petrushka Project” diverges from the ballet’s plot but remains connected to its atmosphere.

was probably the hardest part. We had to make sure we are consistent, so that the dancers don’t have to guess where we are going next.”

Another part of Petrushka that attracted Ciabatti was the story told by the music. In the original ballet, a puppet named Petrushka is in love with a ballerina, but she rejects him for the far more powerful Moor.

“He is a psychologically complex hero, who lives a weird life, isolated, not understood, and dies in the middle of a complex and disappointing situation,” Ciabatti said. “Yet the soul of him remains. So the story doesn’t really end, but gets interrupted.”

Ciabatti believes that musical performances must adapt to a 21st century audience with easy access to cheap, high-quality music. However, he also maintains that music endures through time and must be rendered faithfully.

In contrast, Heginbotham and Stenn, who had danced to Stravinsky since their days at Juilliard, decided early on that they were not going to reproduce the original ballet. Instead, they gave themselves the freedom to reimagine a choreography that could diverge from the plot but remained deeply connected to the music and atmosphere. Heginbotham likened their creative process to a game of exquisite corpse, a surrealist composition technique where each artist draws a part of the whole based on clues left by the previous artist.

“Where [Stenn] ended is where I started, and from there I had to figure out where I was going to take it,” Heginbotham said. “It was a fun game. At the same time we gave each other permission to insert or play with our own ideas in the other’s choreography, so we were able to converse and not be rigid about it.”

While the two directors had very specific choreography based on contemporary modern dance, they also brought in the backgrounds of the dancers.

“John and I like to say, ‘Who is in the room, who [are] our cast members and what can they bring to the table?’” Stenn said. “And we often ask for the contributions from the cast. If they say, ‘Oh, I know classical Indian dance,’ we say, ‘Show us.’ And that’s how we brought them into the piece.”

The technical demands of the simulcast mean that several technicians also had to make artistic choices. The microphones used for DSO concerts are usually set high up to capture the conductor’s balance, but in “The Petrushka Project,” they would obstruct the view of the live transmission of the dance. To solve the problem, Nam positioned 40 individual microphones, one for each instrument. Using a mixer, he then recreated the balance based on what he thought the conductor would have intended.

The sound then enters Moore in its uncompressed form.

“That is pure sound, coming as they are hearing it over there,” said Keely Ayres, senior production manager at the Moore Theater.

“The louds are really loud and quiets are really quiet, so our sound engineer Todd Hendricks is going to be monitoring that to make sure it’s not too piercing, and that we are not missing anything on the low end.”

The simulcast amplifies individual performers in both theaters.

“The camera zooms in on dancers, and you never know when you are going to be zoomed iN on,” DDE member and biology lecturer Jessica Trout-Haney said. “At any

moment, you could be the soloist on the screen. A couple of times somebody would scratch something, and you can’t get away with any of that. It might be a good thing because it keeps you in performance mode, as any details might be blasted.”

In each venue, the simulcast performance of “The Petrushka Project” will be the second act. For the first act, each ensemble will perform works independently. The DSO will perform a short piece called “Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant” by Stravinsky and two short pieces by Ravel. The DDE will perform “Petrushka Papers,” a theatrical dance piece which will serve as a narrative complement to the more abstract “Petrushka.”

Elise Wien ’17, commissioned to write the script, noticed parallels between Petrushka’s character and Vaslav Nijinsky, who portrayed the original Petrushka. For her, the collapse of Petrushka is intertwined with Nijinsky’s own mental illness and his highly toxic relationship with the controlling impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Wien’s script was further developed by students of the class Theater 29, “Dance and Theater Performance,” which was taught by Stenn and Heginbotham this spring, Viewed one way, the simulcast compensates for the lack of an ideal venue but sacrifices the authenticity and accuracy of having both ensembles under one roof.

Viewed another way, the simulcast can add something by highlighting the conversation that takes place between ensembles. “The Petrushka Project” promises to be a feast for the senses that is highly aware of its time.

Wien is a former member of The Dartmouth Staff.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018

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The D Sports Awards 2017-18: Athletes of the Year B y SAMANTHA HUSSEY

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 were pitted against each other. The winners emerged only after a popular vote by members of the Dartmouth community. The D is happy to announce the following athletes as the winners of this year’s awards.

Rookie of the Year

Katharine Ogden ’21 of the women’s Nordic skiing team is The Dartmouth’s Rookie of the Year.

Ogden received 34.6 percent of the 445 votes placed from May 21 to May 23. During the 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships, Ogden took not one, but two national titles home in a single year — something a Big Green skier has not done in 56 years — and was also the first woman ever to win a cross-country race for the Big Green. Ogden swept the NCAA women Nordic races, finishing the 5K Classic 46.9 seconds ahead of the nearest racer, and winning the 15K Freestyle with a 37.6 second buffer. With Ogden’s contributions, the Big Green maintained its position in third place with 448.5 points, its best finish in seven years, and won four individual events at the NCAA Championships for just the second time ever. Ogden’s impressive showing this year was affirmed when she was named to the Women’s All-East First Team and also earned the title of EISA Women’s Nordic Rookie of the Year and Women’s Classic Leader.

Female Athlete of the Year

Male Athlete of the Year

enthusiastic. It makes me feel very supported and that support is needed as a student-athlete sometimes.

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Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 currently holds four school records.

Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 of the women’s track and field team is The Dartmouth’s Female of Athlete of the Year.

Rothwell received 49.2 percent of the 445 votes placed from May 21 to May 23. Rothwell currently has four school records: 60-meter dash (7.45 seconds), 60-meter hurdles (8.28 seconds), long jump (20 feet, 7 inches) and 100-meter hurdles (13.24 seconds). Rothwell was named the Most Outstanding Field Performer for the second year in a row during the Women’s Indoor Ivy League Championships, as well as to the First Team All-Ivy for the 60-meter hurdles and long jump and to the Second Team All-Ivy for the 200-meter dash. For the outdoor season, Rothwell was named to the First Team All-Ivy for the 100-meter hurdles and Second-Team All-Ivy for the long jump. Formerly, Rothwell was also The Dartmouth’s 2016-17 Rookie of the Year.

What does it mean to you to be recognized by our readers as the Female Athlete of the year?

CR: Obviously, very encouraging and

What do you think contributed to your even more dominant performance?

CR: I think my season last year was pretty wild and shocked a lot of people because I was a freshman, and so when you have that great of a season, the bullseye kind of gets a little bigger because people expect for you to either fall off or get better. So I think I came in and wanted to prove that I could keep up that level of competition. There wasn’t really any change in the way I approached my training.

What is your goal moving forward into next season and for the rest of your Dartmouth career?

CR: Next season is for sure Indoor Nationals and Outdoor Nationals.

I want to get to both of those. I was first spot out of long-jump for Indoor Nationals this season, which was kind of a bummer but that is definitely high on the list of next year’s priorities.

What are you looking forward to most now that the season is winding down?

CR: I think time to recover. Track season can be really long but our recovery is just as important, so I’ll obviously still be training, but it is a really nice opportunity to just wind things down a little bit and bring it back a couple notches and building up once again once we start moving into the fall preseason.

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During the 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships, Katharine Ogden ’21 took home two national titles

COURTESY OF TANGUY NEF

Tanguy Nef ’20 was named to the All-American First Team.

Tanguy Nef ’20 of the men’s alpine skiing team is The Dartmouth’s Male of Athlete of the Year.

Nef received 36.4 percent of the 445 votes placed from May 21 to May 23. This season, Nef was named to the All-American First Team after finishing first in the men’s slalom at NCAA Championships. He became the first Dartmouth slalom champion since Karl Johnson in 2006 and is also the first Dartmouth skier to be awarded All-American honors in both the slalom and giant slalom since 2011.

What does it mean to you to be recognized by our readers as the Male Athlete of the year?

TN: It’s a little bit of a surprise. I wouldn’t think of myself as a popularity figure on campus, but it’s also very valorizing. It makes me happy that people do think that, not just the athletic department but also students all around.

What does it mean to you this year to have walked away with the NCAA Slalom title and for

Dartmouth Skiing to walk away overall in third place?

TN: It was definitely a great feeling on the personal level, because I came to college with a goal to definitely win NCAAs at some point. I didn’t know if that was going to be possible or anything. I had the chance to experience that my first year; and it didn’t go as expected. This year, I knew that I kind of had a shot and being able to do what you want to do is very valorizing, it’s a great feeling. We did win the overall title for men’s alpine, and in the women’s alpine they didn’t do as well as they wanted to, but it’s just how skiing goes — it can go either way. It can go super well because everything clicks, but it can also go really bad in a split second.

It was definitely fun being there with all of the people and receiving all of the support.

What do you think contributed to your dominant performance this season?

TN: I like to think of different pillars that support me. I look at it like a table with four legs, so if you lose one you have three more so the table can still hold, but if you lose one more it is basically down. These four are like: friendships and relationships, school, sports and overall well-being. I think I really managed to have all these four working together to make myself not too worried with my performances. I was always able to just like look back at it with a different perspective based on my results and not take it too personally.

I remember that second run when I won NCAAs, at the start I was like I can’t

really lose anything. Like it matters but it doesn’t matter. It’s not about winning, it’s about how you get to the point. At this point, you don’t have to think about what you have to do like either you have it or you don’t. Being able to have that confidence was definitely key, I think, to a lot of the successes that I’ve had this season and I hope to carry it along next season.

What is your goal moving forward into next season and for the rest of your Dartmouth career?

TN: There is still a big question mark, because logically the next step would be to perform at the World Cup level, and then World Championships and the Olympics. I also want to get most out of my Dartmouth experience and not just take one term a year like some skiers do, so it’s kind of balancing these two goals without compromising any of them. That will definitely be the tricky part and for next season, right now, I’m planning to come back in the winter, but who knows what is going to come up. If I have a shot to do well in the World Cup, I might choose to do that instead, at least for a season, just give it a shot and see how it goes. I could also definitely see myself being here and having a different focus and being less on the Carnival circuit. It is a bit uncertain at this point, but I think the most important is that I want to get most out of my Dartmouth experience because it is a great experience and as I said, it’s all about the balance.

These interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity and length.