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On Monday evening, members of the Upper Valley community gathered on the Green to hold a vigil in commemoration of those affected last Saturday during the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a member of the alt-right allegedly drove his car into a crowd of left-wing counter-protesters, injuring several and killing one woman, Heather Heyer. Around 50 demonstrators, including Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents, met across the street from the
A crowd of around 50 Upper Valley community members gathered on the Green.
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Voices of Summer draws a large audience
By PAULOMI RAO
The Dartmouth Staff
The third annual “Voices of Summer” production was held last week, featuring a total of 15 acts. Sponsored by the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, “Voices of Summer,” also known as VoX, is an original production performed by students exploring “how gender intersects with other identities at Dartmouth and beyond,” Paulina Calcaterra ’19, the director of this year’s performance
said. VoX is modeled after the annual winter production “Voices,” a monologue series that is part of the feminist event V-February. Unlike the “Voices” production during the regular school year, which only accepts performances from femaleidentifying students, VoX is gender inclusive, allowing performances from people of any gender. This year’s show featured monologues, short plays and dance routines performed by both female and male-identifying students.
After directing “Voices” this past winter, Calcaterra was approached by OPAL to direct VoX. One of her main goals as director was to circulate registration forms to organizations on campus, including Greek houses, that are usually less involved with genderidentity conversations, in order to try and ensure that the show was as inclusive as possible. During the five weeks of rehearsals leading up to the performance, the cast engaged in content-based educational discussions. Specifically,
Q&A with astronomy professor Mary Hudson By NALINI RAMANATHAN
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Professor Mary Hudson is a physics professor who served as chair of the physics and astronomy department for eight years. For her recent research on space radiation, Hudson was awarded the Fleming Medal by the American Geophysical Union, given annually to one honoree in recognition for “original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity,
the cast talked about activism on campus, gender stereotypes of biological sexes and gender identity in general. “Workshopping allowed our writers to take what they know about gender and identity and turn it into a personal narrative that was geared towards social change,” Calcaterra said. Overall, the cast was pleased with the large turnout for the show and the audience’s active participation during SEE VOX PAGE 2
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aeronomy, space physics and/or related sciences.” She is currently working in Boulder, Colorado. When you were young, how did you initially become interested in physics and astronomy? MH: When I was a youngster, we didn’t have PBS, NOVA or Neil deGrasse Tyson, but Walt Disney had a weekly show on Sunday nights that had a science segment PAULOMI RAO/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Students man the final support station of the Fifty.
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VoX sparks conversations in student body don’t think any institution is really doing enough, but Dartmouth is the peices. definitely doing better.” “It’s funny, because usually we Calcaterra noted that VoX in do these discussions at the end and particular tried to acknowledge the the people who stay are very self- subtle ways in which gender-based selecting, who agree with what the violence is perpetuated by reaching cast is thinking,” Calcaterra said. out to male organizations on campus “This is the first time we have had to maximize diversity and discourse such a divide between what the cast among the cast. is thinking and what the audience “In the end, we ruffled feathers in was thinking.” a very heavy way,” Calcaterra said. Calcaterra “And so that was mentioned that good, [because] “I think Dartmouth the cast expected people are a g e n u i n e is moving in the right h av i n g m o re reaction from direction. I don’t think discussions, the audience even amongst d u e t o t h e any institution is really their friends.” g r a p h i c a n d doing enough, but O n e delicate content the biggest Dartmouth is definitely of of the show. takeaways for A s d i r e c t o r, doing better.” both Calcaterra Calcaterra and Royek was said that one the support of of the biggest -AMANDA ROYEK ’19, VOX the cast. Neither challenges was PERFORMER of them knew figuring out the other cast how to present members well the stories before the in an engaging way, especially performance, but they reflected on with monologues that called out how tight-knit the group became particular groups on campus. during practice. “We expected the reaction to be Royek, who was on campus somewhat heated and defensive, and during last year’s production of for the audience to find themselves VoX, noted that the community caught off guard with how polarizing among last year’s cast was one reason some of the pieces were,” Calcaterra she chose to be a part of this year’s said. “There were definitely some performance. comments that felt a little,‘Wrong A member of the Movement place, wrong time,’ but I think overall Against Violence organization and the cast was pleased with the show.” a Sexual Assault Peer Advocate, Additionally, Calcaterra spoke of Royek said that while she was positive improvements to the sexual familiar with the content in a lot of assault prevention initiatives at the workshops, the approach VoX Dartmouth, especially those under chose was refreshing and unique for the Moving Dartmouth Forward those who might not have already initiative begun by College President been well-informed. Phil Hanlon in 2015. According “Every experience is different and to Calcaterra, Dartmouth is every group is different, so doing pioneering a four-year curriculum it with VoX alongside people who on sexual assault prevention that are queer-identifying or people of is revolutionary among four-year color was different from what I got colleges across the country. in past experiences, which added a “We are institutionally, on new perspective,” Royek said. paper, doing a very good job, and Royek credited the workshops culturally, too, people are adopting as one of the most helpful tools to this language,” Calcaterra said. navigate her own emotions, which “But behaviorally, the change is not she explored in her skit. According always there. And even people who to Royek, the workshops allowed are adopting this language, they are the cast to create a support network still engaging in harmful behaviors that opened up a crucial space for and are even being less self-reflective conversations centered around because they think they are sort of vulnerability and acceptance. ‘down with the cause.’” Participant Valentina Garcia Amanda Royek, ’19, another G o n z a l e z ’ 1 9 h i g h l i g h t e d cast member who performed a the experimental style of her piece called “Recovery,” expressed perfor mance to be the most a similar perspective. important factor in her monologue. “I think Dartmouth is moving Split into five different sections, in the right direction,” she said. “I Valentina hoped to show the FROM VOX PAGE 1
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continuity of problems discussed in her pieces with other cast members’ stories. “Being involved with ‘Voices’ was a way to help myself and a power play because I control the scene, what was heard and what was said,” Valentina said. “In those powerless situations, I exerted power over how I showed it to people.” Valentina hoped that by sharing her story, she would inform students on campus, particularly male students, that topics like sexual assault are not just abstract concepts introduced during academic meetings but real-life stories. One of her biggest goals for the upcoming school year is to ensure that the facilitation and conversations happening across campus this summer will continue in greater capacities. Several controversial comments toward certain organizations on campus were mentioned at the end of the performance by audience members. Gonzalez noted she found these comments to be “funny.” “[A student criticizing the singling out] proved himself wrong and us right,” she said. “He took up so much physical, emotional and mental space of the discussion and was more worried about being called out for being in a certain frat than
for helping contribute to the greater sexual assault. Royek said she thinks it is particularly conversation.” important for Royek said “In the end, we professors to that she hopes receive training events like VoX ruffled feathers in because studies will serve as a very heavy way. have found that one a catalyst for And so that was of every 10 students conversations has experienced t h r o u g h o u t good, [because] gender-based o t h e r people are having violence to some organizations extent. on campus. She more discussions, “I hope that noted that after even amongst their VoX and programs the show, many friends.” like it continue to peers reached have a ripple effect out to ask how on our campus, they can help -PAULINA CALCATERRA s o th at p eo p le contribute to the ’19, VOX DIRECTOR who are involved conversation. and people who “One of the witness the show most important can spread the things is to reach out to your friends who are part of conversation outside into their these marginalized communities social spheres and not let these ideas and start asking them specific escape from our minds among the questions, shifting from ‘How can craziness that Dartmouth brings I get involved?’ to ‘I really have a academically, athletically and in question about this specific aspect,’ all extracurriculars,” Royek said. so we can see that you have put “These ideas need to be at the in some work and are genuinely forefront of our thoughts, and the reality for so many students is interested,” Royek said. Outside of VoX, Royek has taken that they don’t have the luxury of the time to meet with the new Title not thinking about them. I hope IX coordinator to help implement that other students recognize that new programs and make suggestions and incorporate it into their daily for faculty training programs on routines as well.”
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Upper Valley residents gather on Green for Charlottesville vigil FROM VIGIL PAGE 1
Hanover Inn holding American flags and protest signs. Several demonstrators gathered to sing hymns and other songs of solidarity, while others made posters condemning racism, the Trump administration and the alt-right. Near the end of the event, demonstrators lit candles to commemorate those killed and injured during the violence last Saturday. The event was put together by a large number of groups in the community, said Sean Garnsey, a member of the Hanover Democrats who helped to organize the event. In addition to the Hanover Democrats, Garnsey said that community members also promoted the event by emailing the listserv for the town of Lyme. Upper Valley Resist!, a Facebook group formed to help organize liberal Upper Valley residents in a resistance effort against the Trump administration and the alt-right, also promoted the event, Garnsey said. TedGreene,anotherdemonstrator, said that he learned about the event from the website Indivisible, a selfdeclared guide to resisting the Trump administration and its agenda. Garnsey said that there was no specific plan for the event, except to show solidarity among the Upper Valley community during the vigil. He also emphasized his belief in the importance of faceto-face interactions for community members. “More and more these days, so much is being dictated by what’s
going out in media, social media, what they’re seeing on the newspaper and on TV news … it can be, I think, very isolating for people,” he said. “And so no we didn’t have any specific objective besides to get people to see each other face-to-face.” Greene said that while he came to the event mainly to honor the people injured in Charlottesville, the event seemed to be about meeting like-minded individuals, rather than having a somber tone. “They want to know that there are other people out there,” he said. During the protest, Greene assisted in making signs, working with Dartmouth students and other members of the community to gather cardboard and markers. Lisa Talmadge, a demonstrator from Norwich, said that many people likely came to the event because of its location, where many other protests are often held. Garnsey said that the actions last week in Charlottesville, such as the flying of Nazi flags and regalia, show the depths of the issues with racism in the U.S. today. Because of this, he said, it is essential to spread awareness about the truth of the situation. “I believe that fascism is borne of ignorance, and the only way to cure ignorance is awareness and getting the information out there,” he said. Talmadge expressed concern about an upcoming demonstration this Saturday at Boston Commons, featuring many of the same altright speakers who had appeared at Charlottesville. She said that racism, neo-Nazism and other forms of bigotry are not limited to the South.
“They’re everywhere,” she said. “We have KKK here in Vermont. We have people that disrupt our protest and yell Nazi stuff to me on the corner, right here at Dartmouth. And they’re coming to Boston too.” Talmadge and Garnsey said they plan to travel to Boston this Saturday to counter-protest the alt-right.
While he has not seen any blatant displays of xenophobia in the Upper Valley, especially because he has only been in the area for a limited time, Greene said that the predominantly white demographic makeup of the area can make many racial issues seem abstract. He expressed concern that well-meaning, educated
Democrats might still end up ignoring the input and needs of minorities in practice. Based off of RSVPs to his Facebook event, Garnsey said he had only initially expected around 20 people to arrive, and so he was pleasantly surprised by the level of turnout.
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Demonstrators for the Charlottesville vigil gathered across the street from the Hanover Inn.
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STAFF COLUMNIST STEVEN CHUN ’19
STAFF COLUMNIST MATTHEW BROWN ’19
Granular Affirmative Action
On Replacing Nazis
Treating racial groups as monoliths is antithetical to goals of affirmative action. Elite universities are places of careful research and meticulous formulation, yet their admissions policies are a far cry from the principles they ought to represent. In the chaotic debate over affirmative action in college admissions, the methodology problem is painfully apparent. Affirmative action needs to be more granular — especially as it applies to Asian Americans. This article is not a normative argument about affirmative action, but rather a necessary footnote about its methodology. Race-conscious policies have the potential to do a great deal of good, but they are limited by their lack of granularity. The Department of Justice’s investigation into whether universities’ affirmative action policies discriminate against white applicants has triggered preemptive responses from the Asian American community. In the context of the 2015 complaint filed by 64 Asian American groups and the Department of Justice inquiry, Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen writes, “The combination of the lawsuit and the potential federal civil rights inquiry signals that the treatment of Asians will frame the next phase of the legal debate over race-conscious admissions programs.” She argues that Asian Americans are not ammunition to be used against raceconscious admissions policies and that “continued use of affirmative action of the kind upheld by the Supreme Court is perfectly compatible with tackling the discrimination at issue.” This is important to remember, and the following logic is not intended to be ammunition against the entire idea of race-conscious admissions. When I filled out my Common Application, I checked two boxes on the ethnicity question: white and Asian. The latter box lumped me in with fellow Chinese applicants as well as Japanese, Taiwanese, Bengali, Filipino, Pakistani, Laotian, Korean, Cambodian, Malaysian and more. These ethnic groups span both the top and bottom percentiles of median income in the United States, yet that box reduces them to a singular entity. Asian, white, black and hispanic students are not monoliths, and treating them as such severely undermines the ethical and logical underpinnings of affirmative action. Just among Asian subgroups, Indian Americans earned a median household income of $100,547 in 2013, with Bangladeshi Americans earning a median of $51,331. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin, the landmark case regarding the University of Texas’s affirmative action admission policy, describes four objectives of affirmative action. First, it is intended to increase the scientifically-backed benefits of a diverse educational environment; second,
encourage racial integration in American society; third, serve as reparations for historical wrongs; and fourth, act as a means of combating ongoing structural racial discrimination. These are worthy and noble goals. Wealthy Asian subgroups make up a disproportionate percentage of elite universities — disqualifying them from the first justification — and many take their strong socioeconomic status to mean they do not qualify for the second. Wealthy Asian subgroups certainly qualify for the third and fourth justifications — the largest known mass lynching in American history was of 17 Chinese Americans in 1871 — but for many, only meeting two out of four goals means their exclusion from the benefits of affirmative action is justified. However, for poorer Asian subgroups, like Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian Americans, not a single rationale holds. Their median household incomes are some of the lowest of any ethnic group; they all attain bachelor’s degrees at a rate of at least 10 percent less than whites; and they have suffered under discriminatory laws like People vs. Hall, in which the California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese Americans could not testify against white Americans. A socioeconomically struggling group with poor representation in higher education and historical and ongoing racial discrimination is the exact target population of affirmative action. To ignore this population is a failure; to hurt this population is ethically indefensible. All of this is thrown out by the coarse granularity of college admissions. The fix is seemingly simple: use more categories. Ask more questions about someone’s background in college applications and use that data to make a better informed decision about the diversity an applicant brings to campus. Every descendant of a continent spanning 30 percent of the world’s landmass and containing over half of its population cannot be distilled into a singular experience or category. A wealthy Korean American student and a poor Cambodian student bring extremely different perspectives and backgrounds to a college campus, and Asian Americans are just one example — similar distinctions exist in every racial group. I would love to see Dartmouth lead the charge in fixing what can only be described as a gross over-simplification of diversity and an abhorrent application of sound statistical principles. Our current policy of treating racial groups as monoliths hurts so many groups that it has become antithetical to the spirit of affirmative action. Raceconscious admissions policies have a great capacity to generate positive change; it is a shame to see them crippled by poor methodology.
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Americans are many things. Fascist is not one of them. What is an American? This question toward better days. We believe in ourselves might not even make sense. Rarely do we and in better prospects for our children. argue about any fundamental qualities that While current events underscore that define Americans, because there are so few. America consistently fails to uphold ideals However, roughly once in a generation, of diversity, justice and equality, my naïve Americans are forced to interrogate our American spirit hopes that our ever more national project and decide who may partake perfect union will one day fully incorporate in it. The moment in which we live demands these values into our national soul. that we grapple with such questions. Critically, Americans are not defined This past weekend, thousands of white by our birthplace or lineage. Americans supremacists and neo-fascists descended are not defined by any class, race, creed on Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the or orientation. The superfluity of our city’s democratically-reached decision cultural quirks is what makes this country to take down a statue of Confederate unique. Americans can, ideally, eat apple General Robert E. Lee. What ensued was pie, collard greens, jollof rice, sushi, pho an upwelling of this nation’s perennial evils. and flour tortillas while listening to jazz, Raw, caustic racism and a hateful anxiety K-pop, hip-hop and country music without culminated in terrorism, violence and their nationality being questioned. I would murder. Chants of “Jews will not replace not even consider citizenship a requisite us,” “blood and soil” and “one people, for participation in our national project. one nation, end immigration” sent a clear An undocumented immigrant who comes message about where we are as a country to this country looking for a better life, — and where some fellow citizens wish to who lives and works toward the ideals of take us. this country, has more of a claim to the Americans should be familiar with the American identity than a neo-fascist gang racism we witnessed, as it has been a feature member with a passport. This inclusivity of our history since is a precious quality before colonization. we must nurture and The anxiety of the “The superfluity of our expand. white supremacists, cultural quirks is what America is, however, is not new, effectively, an idea. It is and strikes me as more makes this country an idea that transcends frenzied than we have unique.” the demographics of its seen in living memory. people and the power There is a frightened of its gover nment, suspicion in the American Klansmen that affirms the liberty and equality of that this country is no longer theirs. its citizens. It is an idea that can and has Cursory forays into the realm of so-called been indiscriminately carried by people of “alt-right” Twitter accounts and neo- all backgrounds. It is for this reason that I fascist publications such as The Daily only draw my dividing line for who can be Stormer reveal a deep anxiety about the American to exclude a very distinct group. supposed decline of white America. White Americans are not Nazis. Americans are not supremacists feel that current demographic Confederates. Americans are not Klansmen. trends will “dispossess” white Americans These people are the enemy of the from “their land,” and in turn destroy the American project, and must be opposed at country. Or something. every step. As imperfect as America was and What is sad about this anxiety is that it is, we managed to understand the horrors is not entirely isolated to the pages of Nazi of the Confederacy and Nazi Germany forums and the backwaters of Reddit. It is when confronted with them at their heights. the same anxiety that instigates white flight To succumb to their cancer decades and in cities across the nation; that motivates centuries later would be pathetic. Their policies that marginalize, oppress and terrify intolerance, illiberalism, racism and fascism minority communities; that won Donald mean they have forfeited the American ideal. Trump the White House. One of the many Our laws and morals mean we cannot treat infuriating things about this anxiety is that it them like the cockroaches they regard so is simply wrong, rooted in an idea that Nazi- many of their fellow citizens to be, but this defined “whiteness” is a fundamental aspect does not mean that we must tolerate their of American identity. As we again grapple ideas or actions in civil society. with what it means to be an American, Hate will fail. It will fail because we will it is imperative that we do not allow the stand against it, refusing to allow notions xenophobia, bigotry and fascism displayed of white supremacy to re-infect our culture in Charlottesville to creep any deeper into and fascism to overtake our government. our collective consciousness. An affirmative Eventually, these hateful individuals and conception of what an American is will be their ideas will be lost to history, studied integral to ensuring that. as disgraces alongside the Confederate Again, what is an American? Americans monuments to which they desperately are people who believe in democracy. We cling. The American spirit is a resilient believe in the civic rights of our fellow one, primarily because it can be evoked by citizens and the inalienable rights of our any person courageous enough to partake fellow humans. Americans are a hopeful in the challenge. This is our modern task, people. No matter how bleak our present and just as many generations of Americans condition, we have an audacity to work before us, we shall overcome.
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Fleming medal recipient Mary Hudson talks about her career FROM Q&A PAGE 1
that was wonderful. The show had a book that came along with it that described the whole evolution of astronomy and chemistry going back to the Age of Exploration. I loved the show, and my parents got me the book that got me hooked on science at around age eight. I then became an amateur astronomer as a kid. I’m going to take my childhood telescope up to Wyoming next week, the very one I had throughout elementary and middle school. That was the start and I just stayed on that track forever. That was also the beginning of the Space Age and the astronauts going to the Moon, and all of that just furthered my interest in the near space environment, which is why I designed labs focusing on that. Your work mainly focuses on “space weather,” or the Earth’s magnetosphere and atmospheric electricity. Why and how did you pick this focus? MH: Coming from a background in physics, I was and still am interested in natural phenomena, in the near space environment and in the fact that I did my Ph.D. on it. When I was a postdoctoral student, I went up to the University of California Berkeley. They had just launched an Aurora satellite at that time, which studied the Aurora Borealis and studied the intergenic particles that caused the Aurora, and so I focused on that while I was at Berkeley because they had all of this wonderful data. And then after I came to Dartmouth, NASA and the Air Force were preparing to launch a satellite to study the radiation belt environment, and I got involved with that studying the dynamics of it and how solar activity affects the radiation belt. So there are big weather aspects of all of those topics, anything that affects communication, satellites in space. I’m working on that because I am interested in the natural phenomena that has a practical side to it. Most of your studies were at the University of California Los Angeles. Why did you choose to work at Dartmouth? MH: I was always interested in teaching and I taught a couple of classes at Berkeley while being a research assistant during the summer. I then had the opportunity to teach at a women’s college in Oakland and I really enjoyed that. So when my department at Dartmouth was searching for someone in my general research area, it was an opportunity to join the faculty. Can you talk a little about your most recent work? MH: I am involved with two different instruments on the Van Allen probes in August 2012, which involves a
new generation of satellites. We’ve done a lot research on the pair of satellites basically chasing each other, but everything is newer — the information, the satellites and the computers are bigger. With my students, we have been modeling the evolution of the radiant belts in the current era as part of the climbing phase. What we want to do longterm is to better predict that the radiation is there. I was involved for the past 10 years with the Center for Integrated Space and Modeling, and I coordinated people.
You recently were awarded the Fleming Medal. How did it feel to be honored for your work? MH: It was a great honor to receive the medal, which means people in other fields are weighing in on who gets the award. I’ve been in the American Geophysical Union since graduate school, which was a long time ago, so it’s nice at this point in my career to get the award because it’s recognition by my colleagues who are also working hard, and I appreciate the efforts they put into writing letters and nominating me for the award. I know that physics and astronomy are typically maledominated fields. How did you deal with that at the beginning? What role do you think that played in your career? MH: When I was a freshman, I was the only woman in my class at UCLA. And then finally when I was a junior, a woman transferred in from Long Island Community College, so then there were two of us. And then when I was a graduate student, I was back to being the only woman in the class again. But times have changed, and I’m really very appreciative of my colleagues at Dartmouth and the support for hiring more women. Over eight years, we’ve hired several women. We now have four of us, if I’m counting right: myself, Robyn Millan, Lorenza Viola and Kristina Lynch. And in a department our size, it’s been about that number for at least 15 years now. At that time, when we started hiring more women in my department, much larger physics departments around the country didn’t have more than that. And so our percentage was substantially higher. I think it’s had an impact on the percentage of undergraduate students in our department, and I hope it’s had some impact on our percentage of majors. We’re still not up there with the Thayer School of Engineering that managed to graduate more women A.B. engineering majors than men — that’s really remarkable. But it’s certainly changed. I think it’s always been a little better in space physics and astronomy than it has been in some laboratory physics. Historically, there have been women astronomers going
back a long time. And I just think me an overview of how you’d that for some reason, observational describe that role? science tends to attract more women. MH: Currently, I have my postAnd that could doc, and she be one aspect “With my students, we was my grad of it, or the student. In terms patience that it have been modeling of mentoring takes to observe the evolution of the students, you the same kind know what I radiant belts in the of phenomenon have now? I have n i g h t a f t e r current era as part of grandchildren. I n i g h t a f t e r the climbing phase. have biological night. And then grandchildren, now, with the What we want to and I’ve had growing rates of do long-term is to some wonderful computational that I better predict that the students modeling, which have interacted is what I did in radiation is there.” with who are my career, there’s the students always been a of my former pretty strong -MARY HUDSON, students. And p r e s e n c e o f ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR so the fact that women in math, I get to continue more so than in to interact with physics. And so I them outside the think that again, the computational Dartmouth community, that’s been modeling side of things has attracted an amazing thing I’ve really enjoyed. more women than maybe just some of the laboratory area specifics. Where do you see your career going in a few years? Is there So, what kind of role do you anything you’d like to study try to play as a professor next, or any impacts you’d like at Dartmouth? I know you to have? don’t teach anymore, but MH: Well, I’m really enjoying the like you were talking about time that I’m spending at the High earlier, you’re still involved with Altitude Observatory at NCAR graduate students. Can you give — that’s the National Center for
Atmospheric Research here in Boulder, Colorado. And it’s a very vibrant community in my field. I’ve sent a number of former students here, who have established a research group here in Boulder. A couple over at the university, and others at NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And so I was just looking to continue interacting with the people here, and oversee the grad students I currently have completing their Ph.D.s. And I’ll be involved in the Van Allen probe project, which should end probably in 2020, I’m guessing. And so I just do what I do everyday, and I haven’t really thought about particularly stopping. I have no plans to stop what I do because I enjoy it, and I think that’s the kind of career everybody hopes for. Is there anything else you’d like to add? MH: I’ve tremendously enjoyed the opportunity to teach Dartmouth students. I realized that I was there longer than anywhere. My husband and I realized I was there for a third of a century. I’m grateful for having had that opportunity, and then also having to be back out West again most of the time, which is where I’m from. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Film: “Maudie,” directed by Aisling Walsh. Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center.
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Public Astronomical Observing: observation of the moon, planets and stars (weather permitting). Shattuck Observatory.
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New York Theater Workshop: 2017 Works-In-Progress, “Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till,” written and performed by Mike Wiley, directed by Lisa Rothe. Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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New York Theater Workshop: 2017 Works-In-Progress, “This Exquisite Corpse,’” written by Mia Chung, directed by Ken Prestininzi. Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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National Theatre Live in HD: “Angels in America Pt 2.” Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center. RELEASE DATE– Friday, August 18, 2017
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis ACROSS 1 Sound check item 4 Went down 8 Euripides tragedy 13 __ cross 14 Skewer relative 16 Hipbone-related 17 Woofer’s output? 18 Even less given to emotion 19 Quantum of solace? 20 Leave in disarray, probably 22 Copier room quantity 24 “Taking that as a given ... ” 25 Comfortable (with) 27 Indisposed 29 Dawn goddess 30 Bread component 31 Toy used on flights 34 Rural road track 35 Disney character who sings, “The cold never bothered me anyway” 36 Go Fish request 37 Turns red, maybe 39 ’90s-’00s sci-fi hit ... or what this puzzle’s circles graphically depict 42 2006 demotion 45 Heracles’ beloved 46 Very little 50 Agent 51 1962 “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” singer 53 Fla. resort 54 Natural resource 55 Physics unit 56 Shut off completely, as lights 58 Trident-shaped letters 60 Order to Spot 63 Sugar source 64 Civilian garb 66 Pair in the score for Beethoven’s Fifth 68 Dandy 69 Partner of ciencias
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32 Minuteman Statue city 33 About to receive 38 Not to be wasted 40 Diamond plate 41 Garlic relative 42 Stage employee 43 Down time 44 Makes joyous 47 Joyless 48 Paint thinner solvent 49 Dicey situation
52 Hosp. areas 57 “An Enemy of the People” playwright 59 Editor’s afterthought 61 Act as lookout, say 62 Time long past 65 Orbiting research facility: Abbr. 67 “Fairest of creation,” in a Milton classic
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New York Theater Workshop collaborates with students By OLIVIA HARVEY The Dartmouth
Over the course of this summer, the New York Theatre Workshop has presented a diverse array of new and exciting work-inprogress plays to the Dartmouth community. The pieces featured addressed topics that range from surreal fiction to the brutal truths of racial injustice in America. As a continuation of the Theatre Workshop’s 25-year partnership with Dartmouth, this summer term’s Theater 65 class worked closely with the directors, playwrights, cast and crew of the productions. This weekend’s performances mark the end NYTW’s production calendar at Dartmouth. Jim Nicola, artistic director of the organization, said that one work is a solo piece that reexamines Emmett Till’s life and death. The second work is a play set in Korea after the Korean War. The work examines “comfort women” who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese army during World War II. NYTW is a prestigious group of artists who produce shows every year and invite other artists at various stages in their careers to assist with these productions.
NYTW began its relationship with Dartmouth 25 years ago. Nicola said that the relationship originally began when he identified a need to produce works in progress outside of the highly active and critical New York Theatre community. Nicola said that Dartmouth was selected because two members of the NYTW were Dartmouth alumni. T he relationship between NYTW and Dartmouth College continues to succeed at offering undergraduates the opportunity to work with acclaimed professionals in the theater world. Theater 65 students spend the end of their term working intensively with NYTW said theater professor Jamie Horton said. He added that for students interested in careers in this field, the experience of working on these productions with professional artists in a premier theater organization is invaluable. “[NYTW] brings a wide variety of material up here from solo performances to full musicals which require all three weeks of the residency to create,” Horton said. “It’s a very exciting program, and the relationship between [NYTW] and Dartmouth is quite unique.” Director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Mary Lou Aleskie, added that this program is very
exciting for students because the NYTW is prestigious and some of the productions which are currently in the works could go on to achieve mass fame and recognition. Horton said in addition to simply witnessing the production of shows, students are actively involved in the process as well. “[NYTW] artists and the leader ship have been extraordinarily generous in the way that they involve our students, and so our students are involved at every step of the process during those weeks here,” Horton said. While the benefits that students derive from collaboration with the Theatre Workshop may be more apparent, the actors, directors and playwrights who come to Dartmouth appreciate the process as well. Aleskie said that coming to Dartmouth is a great opportunity for the workshop to have access to different resources than the ones available in New York. She added that the members of NYTW truly enjoy working with the students. “Over and over again they tell me how smart Dartmouth students are and how wise they are and insightful and how much they learn from Dartmouth students, so it’s not just about learning for Dartmouth students; it’s also the
exchange,” Aleskie said. Part of the exchange between students and artists comes from the feedback process. The works are still in the development process, meaning that student feedback is especi al l y val u abl e. Ky l a Mermejo-Varga ’17, a student in Theater 65, said that students go to the shows on Saturdays as part of class time, and then they go to a critical response session afterwards. “We discuss their pieces and how they can grow later on,” Mermejo-Varga said. Nicola agrees that the relationship between the professionals and the students is extremely important. “This is our 26th summer at Dartmouth, and it has become a really important and vital part for our life in the theater,” Nicola said. “There are probably thousands of artists who have come through these doors with us, and I think everyone has a great affection for our relationship here.” Collaboration is a major focus of NYTW. This weekend brings together artists from a variety of backgrounds. For students, the diversity of the actors, writers and directors adds to the appeal of the experiences. “New York Theatre Workshop
here in general is just all about collaborating and learning how to best work with others and how to bridge gaps,” Mermejo-Vega said. Horton said that he believes this program is an incredible opportunity for students. “It’s been a great experience. If you’re a theater major it’s such a wonderful way to spend your summer,” Horton said. “It’s hands on learning at its best and there’s no other experience like it.” Aleskie added that as director of the Hopkins Center, she hopes to bring more opportunities like this to campus. “It has been an inspiration to me since my arrival [at the College], to be thinking about how we can do more of these kinds of things in other artistic disciplines,” Aleskie said. “I see this as a model that we might be able to replicate for dance or music or other important collaborations that we can bring to campus, and that’s kind of number one on my list of things we can do in the future.” “The Lynching of Emmett Till” and “This Exquisite Corpse” will be presented on Saturday, August 19 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. respectively in the Bentley Theatre. Tickets are available on the Hopkins’ Center website or at the box office.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute features local artists By REBECCA FLOWERS The Dartmouth Staff
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth held a reception celebrating their newest art exhibit, “The Outsiders,” on July 6, 2017. The offices of the Institute were flooded with over 200 people, from children to retirees, to meet the artists: Anne Hartmann, Judith Pettingell and Ann Semprebon. The Institute is a lifelong learning program affiliated with the College that sponsors classes and art exhibits for its members. There are currently 80 courses offered in the upcoming fall term, including a course on national parks and another on quantum creativity. Program assistant at the Institute, Laura Belback, said that the fall term is the busiest. Many courses are taught by retired Dartmouth professors, and the target demographic is mainly individuals aged 55 and older, but classes do sometimes include Dartmouth student, faculty and staff, as well as high school and home-schooled students. The Institute also sponsors exhibits that rotate every few
months, usually created by local artists. Previous exhibits have ranged in media from fiber arts to photography, Belback said. For the summer term, the exhibit curator reached out to Hartmann and Pettingell, who are members of the Institute, and Semprebon, who is one of the Institute’s “study leaders,” or teachers, to collaborate on an exhibit. Previously, Semprebon has taught courses on colors and the garden. “We all like to paint out of doors,” Hartmann said, a common theme among their work. Semprebon suggested “The Outsiders,” as a title for their exhibit. “[The title] implies out-of-doors, but it also implies maybe you do something a little different from somebody else, so it had a double meaning,” Hartmann said. The artists had only previously met each other in passing, so when the Institute initially reached out to them, it was a somewhat “artificial grouping,” Pettingell said. “It turned out well because our works are very different,” she said. Semprebon has been drawing since she was young and believes she inherited her interest in art from her
father, who was a commercial artist. Her inspiration for her pieces in the exhibit came from her fascination with specific colors and shapes, and moving her pieces “a little beyond realism,” she said. S e m p re b o n s a i d s h e w a s previously more of a realist, but experimenting with colors has interested her recently. She also loves the use of watercolors as a medium for painting flowers, because flowers are very fragile, and watercolor is “a more fragile media than oil or acrylics,” she said. Pettingell has loved art for the majority of her life, which led to her majoring in art at Skidmore College. After graduating, she taught art education for several years, then worked as a consultant developing information systems before returning to teach art education. Although Pettinghell had been working with art, she had not put brush to paper in 50 years until she took a class with the New Hampshire League of Craftsmen. She has now been painting for nine years under the tutelage of an award-winning painter and has exhibited several times in local galleries. “Often, I feel like a newbie,” she
said. Pettingell’s inspiration behind her paintings partially come from her trip to Ireland last fall. “We had this amazing view [from our home], and we also went to a historical monument owned by the national hero who was the first person in the 1800s to talk about an independent Ireland,” Pettingell said. “It was very rugged, there were a lot of sheep around because [the country] is so poor the government pays people there to raise sheep.” This inspired seven of the total of 12 paintings Pettingell is exhibiting at the show. The other paintings were inspired by various areas around Hanover. “They’re all local paintings of local things,” Pettingell said. Hartmann has been interested in art for a long time, but with a busy home life and four children, she has only been able to fully pursue her love for watercolors in the past few years. Hartmann finds watercolor challenging, yet “it can be very fresh and very surprising.” Most of the nine pieces she contributed are painted in watercolor. One of her favorite pieces in the exhibit is called “Fish Shack,” and it depicts a shack on the rocky Maine coast with
lobster-men’s nets. This painting is one of several that have been sold. Artists usually put their work up for sale in this space, and, while they handle the transactions themselves, 10 percent of the proceeds are contributed to the Institute. Hartmann said that this is very fair, even generous, because many other places take a larger portion of the proceeds. It has been meaningful for all of the artists to pursue art in their later years when they had spent much of their life pursuing other things. “I was really afraid that I would have nothing to do when I retired, [but] I think my life is really rich,” Pettingell said. “When people get older, it doesn’t mean they can’t find something alternate from what they were doing before.” Overall, the artists wanted to have an emotional effect on the viewers. “I think what most artists are striving for, and I would also be in this category, is not just painting a picture but kind of conveying a feeling,” Hartmann said. The exhibit has been visited through the months from a variety of demographics, said Belback, and will end on August 24.
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Women’s swim and dive move forward following violation
winter training trip was part of the women’s team tradition, the team The Dartmouth Staff member said. The PowerPoint The women’s swim and dive was expected to be kept secret. team looks to move forward after Before the training trip, the receiving probation following a team member said, word of the violation of the College’s hazing PowerPoint generally circulated policy on July 17. The charge from upperclassmen team members concerned a team tradition in to freshmen team members via which freshmen created and rumor and word of mouth. presented a PowerPoint about Though freshmen were expected intimate relationships between to present the PowerPoint, the members of the men’s and women’s subject of the presentation was teams. the whole team, After a series according the of interviews “It was more of a team member. conducted by funny thing than “It was more of a Safety and funny thing than a punishment or Security and the a punishment Department of initiation. Objectively or initiation,” Athletics, the it wasn’t a great the team team admitted member said. to h a v i n g tradition — we got “Objectively it member s of charged with hazing, wasn’t a great the Class of — we so obviously it wasn’t tradition 2020 “create got charged a n d p r e s e n t a wonderful thing.” w i t h h a z i n g, a sexualized so obviously PowerPoint it wasn’t a p re s e n t at i o n ” -ANONYMOUS TEAM wonderful on the team’s MEMBER thing.” winter break The team was training trip this infor med that past December, it was under according to a press release investigation for hazing at the from the College. The team beginning of the spring term, will be required to serve one according to the team member. year of college probation and Safety and Security and senior participate in education and athletics staff conducted interviews development programs. Additional with team members during the athletic department sanctions have following weeks. Shortly after the cancelled the usual winter training investigation concluded, the team trip and prohibited the team from was informed that they had been participating in three meets during charged with hazing and learned the fall. of the College’s punishment several One member of the 2016-2017 weeks later. women’s swimming and diving Athletic director Harry Sheehy team agreed to speak on the said that following the College’s condition of anonymity due to the i nve s t i g a t i o n , t h e a t h l e t i c s sensitivity of the topic. department had the option to According to the team member, add additional sanctions to the the PowerPoint consisted of probation handed down by the p e r s o n a l i n fo r m at i o n a b o u t Org anizational Adjudication members of the women’s team. Committee. They opted to suspend The creation and presentation the fall portion of the upcoming of the PowerPoint during the season and to cancel the customary
By CODY FUJII and EVAN MORGAN
Quick Hit
training trip. and racist” messages on the team’s activities that cause physical harm, “We discussed it as a senior listserv. Columbia University’s Sheehy mentioned actions “where leadership team, we talked with wrestling team and Harvard someone normally wouldn’t do [head coach Jamie] Holder about University men’s soccer and men’s [said action] but they’re doing it because of the it, and we arrived at a place that we cross country pressure to do thought was appropriate [and] that teams were also it” as potential was not overly burdensome relative sanctioned by “As far as the h a z i n g, s i n c e to what they did, but certainly was their schools for sanctions go, they can foster a not an under-reaction,” Sheehy lewd conduct “bad dynamic” said. “We trust that this will be within the last while it’s a difficult and negative team enough to send a message.” year. punishment, I agree culture. Once the College handed down “As far as that it’s a fair one, I “When I was a the results of its investigation, the sanctions basketball coach, the team admitted that they had go, while it’s think for us it sends we used to have violated College hazing policy, a d i f f i c u l t a very clear message the freshmen sing Sheehy said. The case was not punishment, I their high school pursued as a criminal investigation agree that it’s that the [College] fight song on the under New Hampshire state law. a fa ir o n e, ” doesn’t tolerate way back from a “The women’s swimmers were Holder said. behavior like this. I road trip,” Sheehy very thoughtful and came back “I think for said. “Now, there to say, ‘Yeah, we see what you’re us it sends a fully support it.” are some places saying,’” Sheehy said. “They didn’t v e r y c l e a r that would define fight it.” message that that as hazing. According to the team member, the [College] -JAMES HOLDER, MEN’S That’s how stark the team was surprised about the doesn’t tolerate AND WOMEN’S SWIM & the contrast is severity of the sanctions, as some behavior like DIVE COACH [in interpreting athletes did not expect to lose the t h i s. I f u l l y hazing] … I privilege of participating in meets. support it.” actually think that “It’s stupid that we get a similar H o l d e r punishment to the Princeton added that he has not been able [if] we hand out papers to 10 people [University] to meet with the around a table to define hazing, we m e n ’ s entire team after might get 10 different answers. But [ s w i m m i n g “...we arrived at a sanctions were we all know it when we see it, and a n d d i v i n g ] place that we thought released earlier I think that’s the key — [a] slight team, for this summer. As smell test.” example,” the was appropriate [and] for moving on Though the athletic department team member that was not overly to next season, followed through with what it said. Holder mentioned deemed to be the appropriate T h e B i g burdensome relative r e c r u i t i n g a reaction, Sheehy added that Green is not to what they did, but great class and the women’s swimmers were the only Ivy certainly was not an b e c o m i n g a very considerate throughout the League team to competitive team investigation. be sanctioned under-reaction. We as two main goals. “I had a conversation with the for its conduct trust that this will S h e e h y s a i d captains [earlier in the summer] during the that the athletic and just said to them, ‘You know 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7 be enough to send a d e p a r t m e n t what, you get back on campus, s e a s o n . I n message.” would continue come see me, let me help you start D e c e m b e r, to investigate any to build the kind of culture you the Princeton hazing incidents want,’” Sheehy said. “Because m e n ’ s -HARRY SHEEHY, that come to its I think they’re diligent people swimming and ATHLETICS DIRECTOR attention, though and they’ll help us to build [the diving team was he acknowledged program’s culture] in a better way.” suspended for t h at t h e re a re The women’s swim and dive the remainder many dif ferent team will return to the pool on of the season interpretations of December 1 to begin the 2017-2018 after revelations of “misogynistic a hazing violation. In addition to season.
By MARK CUI The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Austen Michel ’20 nabs Futures League Pitcher of the Year. On August 15, Michel, a pitcher for the Big Green, was named
Futures League Pitcher of the Year after leading the Futures Collegiate Baseball League in earned run averages and complete games. In total, he pitched 46 1/3 innings for the North Shore Navigators, ending with a 2-0 record. He finished with a 1.55 ERA, recorded 50 strikeouts
and was the only pitcher in the league with an ERA under 2.00. He became the first pitcher for the Navigators to ever receive the award. Despite Michel’s brilliant individual performance, the team’s overall record of 21-32 fell short of securing a seed in the postseason.