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Amidst the fervor of the #MeToo movement and the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, New Hampshire state senator Martha Hennessey ’76 has spoken out about her personal experience with gender-based violence at the College in 1976. In September, Hennessey described an incident in which she, a female student in the early days of coeducation at the College, was beaten by a fraternity brother while attending
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How does Dartmouth spend nearly $133,000 on each student? On Oct. 2, Dartmouth students had the opportunity to learn how at a presentation titled “Inside Dartmouth’s Budget.” Executive vice president Rick Mills, assistant vice president for finance Tricia Spellman and chief financial officer Mike Wagner hosted the presentation, which introduced
Dartmouth’s organizational structure, revenue streams, expenses, tuition and financial aid calculations, and endowment. Roughly two dozen students and community members attended the presentation, which took place in House Center B. The session was a preview for the spring term mini-series of the same name, which for five years has taken an in-depth look at Dartmouth’s finances. Open to students, faculty and staff, the course consists of five or six two-hour sessions that “provide
an insider’s perspective on higher education finance and Dartmouth’s budget planning,” according to slides shown during Tuesday’s presentation. The goal of this session was to provide an introduction to topics covered in the spring mini-course and solicit student input about the most engaging format for the course going forward. Rik Abels ’21 said he attended the event because he is interested in higher education finance and hopes to learn more about it.
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A forum hosted on Wednesday at the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship showcased opportunities for New Hampshire’s expanding entrepreneurial network to a small crowd of about 25 Dartmouth students and members of the public. The event, entitled “NH Entrepreneurship: Best Practices for Starting or Expanding Your Business in NH,” was organized in concert with the
“I think the topic being discussed today is one that impacts us all,” Abels said. “It’s something that I know very little about and I think a lot of people know very little about. I just wanted to get a little more insight into what it takes to run this college on a day-to-day basis from a financial perspective.” Wagner began the presentation by describing Dartmouth’s organizational structure in the 2017 fiscal year. Dominating the budget, he noted, was SEE BUDGET PAGE 3
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New Hampshire High Tech Council, a statewide business organization promoting technological innovation. The forum brought together a panel of experts with experience in entrepreneurship from across New Hampshire to discuss the challenges and opportunities afforded to new businesses in the state. The event also hosted Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the New Hampshire department of business affairs, as keynote speaker. During his SERGIO CARVALLO/THE DARTMOUTH
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Q&A with visiting professor Peter DeShazo B y Aryeh lande
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Where was your favorite posting? Peter DeShazo ’69 is a visiting PD: That’s really hard to say, professor in the Latin American, because each one was enjoyable Latino and Caribbean Studies and certainly very challenging. I Department. DeShazo began ended up living six or seven years in his career serving in the United Chile, which is perhaps the foreign States Foreign Service, working country that I know best. I was there primarily in South America. After at different times during Chile’s nearly 30 years of service, DeShazo history, so I got an especially rich transitioned to academia, serving feel for that country and for U.S. as the director of the Center relations with that country. for Strategic and International Studies’s Americas Program in Can you tell me about your work Washington, D.C. from 2004 to at the Center for Strategic and 2010. He then taught at both International Studies? Harvard University and Boston PD: CSIS is a think tank that, as its University while working in name implies, is focused on defense, Cambridge, Massachusetts at a security and international issues. I nonprofit. His research focuses on was the director of the America’s Latin American program at h i s t o r y , “I feel very privileged CSIS. This government and came after I had to be able to work U.S. diplomacy. retired from the with young people Foreign Service How did you who are very aware, — that was first become my first sort of interested in very interested in the new career after g o v e r n m e n t subject matter, but t h e Fo r e i g n service? — but who are in a period of Service PD: I became it was a perfect i n t e res t e d i n formation of people, sequence to t h e Fo r e i g n as citizens.” my work in Service as a diplomacy result of living because I was a b r o a d a n d -PETER DESHAZO ’69, able to continue thinking about t o s t u dy t h e VISITING PROFESSOR IN the relationship region, write of the U.S. to THE LATIN AMERICAN, policy papers the rest of the LATINO AND CARRIBEAN about the world. I was region, do fortunate to have STUDIES DEPARTMENT research and be a scholarship relevant in the f r o m foreign policy Dartmouth in 1970 and 1971 — a discussion on Latin America. It was Reynolds scholarship — to study for a very interesting and stimulating a year in Chile. That sort of steered sort of follow on to a Foreign me in the direction of learning Service career. more about Latin America, and as I was preparing for a Ph.D. in What do you love most about your Latin American history, I had the work at Dartmouth? opportunity to visit the region for PD: The interaction with the research. I was always very much students. That’s the most important interested in international policy part. I feel very privileged to be able and world affairs. It struck me to work with young people who that I would find a career in the are very aware, very interested in U.S. Foreign Service. I really did the subject matter, but who are in want to do something to be able a period of formation as people, to serve my country in a way that as citizens. They come from I thought would be most effective. different backgrounds, they will So I applied for the Foreign Service, go in different directions, but for took the test and when I had the me it’s a challenge to be as good a opportunity, when I was invited teacher as I can be. Secondly, it’s to join a Foreign Service Junior a real pleasure to be able to work Officer class, I decided to do that. with young people to try to help It ended up being a career in the them to understand the world as
it is, and to prepare them for the world as it’s going to be. Can you summarize what you see as the biggest challenges facing the Americas from a foreign policy lens? PD: In general, Latin America is going through a period of inwardlooking examination of its own institutions of government. In country after country, there are scandals involving corruption or barriers to effective economic growth because of poor governance or lacking institutions. There’s been a lot of progress, but in many countries in the region, the key [challenges] are putting in place effective institutions and government administrations, justice, effective law enforcement, t r a n s p a re n c y, a s w e l l a s a government that produces sound economic policies but also looks out for the well being of the people. The people want democracy that works — they want government that’s effective and that’s really the key challenge throughout the region. What are you currently researching? PD: I am most focused on issues related to one, economic development in Latin America and two, governance. The countries that I focus the most closely on are ones that I have a particular background in — the Andean region of Latin America, the Southern Cone — but it’s a big region, so I’m trying to keep current on issues, try to see the big picture. Most of my work is related to my teaching, trying to harness what I am investigating and put it to good use in the classroom. What will professors in your field be looking at in 10 to 15 years? PD: Ten to 15 years from now, the relationship of Latin America to the rest of the world will be related to long-term economic development and environmental issues, which will be big all around the world. Big global issues will [also] affect Latin America — migration, international cooperation. A lot of big issues looking ahead. Latin America has advantages, and some issues that still need to be worked on for the region to progress beyond the state that it currently is. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Students learn about Talk addresses state tech industry Dartmouth’s budget FROM FORUM PAGE 1
[students pay in] their tuition … so I thought that was pretty cool,” the nearly $600 million allotment for Gaurav Varma ’20 said. The statistic also resonated with the College of Arts and Sciences, graduate program entities and Camille Pauley ’21, who attended the central functioning of the College, presentation because she is involved with which includes areas such as Campus the Divest Dartmouth group, which Services, the Office of the President advocates for the College’s divestment and the library system. This dwarfed from fossil fuels. “I think the part about the the budgets for the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School endowment was interesting just because of Engineering, the Tuck School that’s what I’m personally invested in of Business and “auxiliaries” — learning about, but I think the part that such as college-owned businesses stood out to me the most was the cost like the Hanover Inn, Dartmouth per student and how much we spend Dining Services and the Dartmouth on that,” Pauley said. “I think it’s pretty Skiway — which, according to astounding.” Mills and Wagner also discussed Mills, demonstrates the College’s several reasons why prioritizing of Dartmouth’s cost undergraduate “I think the part that per student is as learning. high as it is, citing According stood out to me the location, economies t o Wa g n e r, most was the cost per of scale and students are t y p i c a l l y student and how much increased access to undergraduate s u r p r i s e d we spend on that. research. that only 24 I think that’s pretty Dartmouth has to percent of pay more for large revenue comes astounding.” quantities of food in through and for construction “tuition and companies based f e e s . ” T h e -CAMILLE PAULEY ’21 in Boston, even endowment as it saves money distribution, on land in rural sponsored Hanover, Mills research, “current use gifts” — which are said. Additionally, because the price donations to the College’s annual fund to support annual expenditures, of a stadium or another athletic as opposed to donations to the facility, for example, is relatively fixed, endowment — and other sources but Dartmouth’s overall student round out the rest. In particular, the population is smaller than many peer large portion that comes from current institutions, those costs are distributed use gifts compared to other colleges among fewer students, driving up the and universities shows the loyalty of per-student number. Additionally, most peer institutions do not sponsor Dartmouth alumni, Wagner said. In the “average cost per undergraduate research to the same undergraduate student” section extent that Dartmouth does, according of the presentation, Wagner said to Mills and Wagner. One of the last topics discussed that on average, Dartmouth spends $133,668 on one year of education was the structure and functioning of for one student, only $68,109 of the endowment, which returned 12.2 which is covered by tuition and percent in the last fiscal year. Wagner mandatory fees. The other $65,559 is noted that when spending money covered by other revenue, mainly the from the endowment, the College endowment distribution and current must consider the concept of “intergenerational equity.” use gifts. “We can’t spend all of that Wagner added that this number money in one year — or five years can be misleading. “I don’t expect any student will — because it’s intended to be for say, ‘Where did I spend $130,000?’” the eternity of Dartmouth,” Wagner he said. “That’s not the point. It’s said. Mills noted the College must an average across every student, so some students get more out of that also consider the fact that certain $130,000 than others depending on contributions are intended for what they’re involved in on campus.” specific programs. “People give endowment to Wagner noted that lab courses, theatre and athletics facilities are Dartmouth and it usually comes with restrictions, like, ‘I loved my particularly expensive. The $130,000 price tag seemed Latin class, so I’m going to give $100 million dollars to support to stick with audience members. “I think that was interesting just Latin at Dartmouth,’” Mills said. because they’re spending almost “We can’t take excess payout from a twice as much per student as fund that was given to support Latin FROM BUDGET PAGE 1
address, Caswell spoke about the state’s efforts to attract companies from high-tech industries. “We’re finding all sorts of new opportunities and ways to collaborate,” he said. Healsodiscussedthestate’sworkforce recruitment shortage — currently sitting at a 2.7 percent unemployment rate, the economy of New Hampshire allows from 15,000 to 18,000 jobs to go unfilled at any time, Caswell said. He added that his office, which includes the state’s travel and tourism department, was working diligently to entice more people to live and work in New Hampshire. “We continue to see huge growth in companies that are located here and that are relocating here, and there are all sorts of challenges that go along with that,” he said. Caswell’s target groups included New Hampshire-born millennials who have since moved out of state and might want to return, as well as commuters who might wish to live in the scenic, low-cost New Hampshire and work in neighboring states. He noted that his department wants to encourage diverse hiring practices and the recruitment of a more diverse workforce. “That’s a continual challenge for the state, not just in New Hampshire, I think, but throughout Northern New England,” he said. As part of that effort, Caswell emphasized the department’s new “Live Free” campaign, a long-term promotion meant to show out of state residents what New Hampshire has to offer. He showcased the campaign’s website and promotional video during the address. After Caswell’s presentation, a panel of four entrepreneurs from the Upper
Valley region assembled to discuss their she graduated. experiences forming and maintaining “This is where you have a safe space companies in New Hampshire. to start experimenting with ideas,” she Moderating the discussion was Phil said. Ferneau ’84 Tu’98, venture capitalist The panel was one of the first and founding executive director of the events held at the newly rebranded Tuck School of Business’ Center for Magnuson Center, formerly known Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. as the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Onthepanelwas Network Errik Anderson ’00 Innovation Th’06 Tu’07, CEO “We continue to C e n t e r. of Hanover-based see huge growth in Receiving over Ulysses Diversified $42 million in companies that are Holdings and new funding, b i o t e c h n o l o g y located here and the College’s companiesAdimab, that are relocating entrepreneurial LLC and Compass prog ram Therapeutics. The here, and there are b e c a m e panel’s second all sorts of challenges endowed biomedical last year. The associated with that. company founder program has was Thayer since embarked graduate Lidia -TAYLOR CASWELL, on new, lasting Valdez ’14 Th’15, entrepreneurial co-founder and COMMISSIONER OF education and CEO of Lodestone THE NEW HAMPSHIRE venture creation Biomedical. Julie programs, DEPARTMENT OF Coleman, grant according to program manager BUSINESS DEN director for Lebanon-based Jamie Coughlin. Celdara Medical, “What rounded out the it allows us to group. do is create The panel perma n e n c e discussed their in serving own experiences the students, working in the biotech and medtech faculty, and alumni community,” industries in the area. Valdez, Coughlin said. whose company engineers medical H a r s h i t Ya d av ’ 2 2 , w h o technologies that help clinicians better attended the Wednesday forum, monitor tumors, runs her company said he found the panel inspiring out of the Dartmouth Regional as a student interested in pursuing Technology Center, a Lebanon-based entrepreneurship. nonprofit incubator for startups. She “Some of these people have said that her Dartmouth undergraduate been in our shoes before, so they experience prepared her for a career in exactly know how to pursue it,” entrepreneurship, starting long before he said.
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STAFF COLUMNIST SYDNEY ALLARD ‘21
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Independent Isn’t Apathetic
All the Men We’ve Made
The independence movement has a branding problem.
This summer at a family barbecue, conversation turned –– as it so often does –– political. At some point in the conversation, my dad divulged that he identifies as an independent voter, to which his friends responded with shock and horror: “But don’t you care about politics?” My dad is an independent voter precisely because he cares about politics. He cares about this country enough to research candidates on his own, and then to draw conclusions about who will best represent him and his values, regardless of party affiliation. He reads the news from sources both left and right of center, and he has canvassed for politicians about whom he felt passionate. He cares a great deal about politics and is just as upset as anyone about the current state of this country. This summer, I interned at an organization called Independent Voting, which is the largest network of independent voters in the country. Often when I describe my summer job, I find myself entangled in conversations much like the one my dad had at that barbecue. Somehow my belief in voting based on my convictions and not limiting myself to one party is often perceived as my being apathetic or complacent. In fact, many of the people I met through my work this summer have dedicated their entire lives to politics. Some were fervent Bernie Sanders supporters who became disillusioned with the party system after the last presidential election. Some were Libertarians who felt unrepresented by the current dominant parties. Others still were just people like me, who weren’t willing to tie themselves to one party’s platform because to do so would be to settle for representation that doesn’t quite align with my beliefs on either side. The independent movement has a branding problem. In a time when so many people feel dissatisfied with both parties, being an independent should be seen as a thoughtful, logical choice. But too often it is perceived as an indirect way of saying one just doesn’t care. In some states, independents are referred to as unaffiliated voters, which adds to the perception of independents as apathetic. In some states, independents are thought of as moderates. I found this to be particularly true growing up in New York City, perhaps because our mayor at the time, Michael Bloomberg, was an independent
and a centrist. Although being an independent does not by any means imply that someone is a moderate, the two are inextricably linked in many New Yorkers’ minds, and in the minds of others around the country. Add to all that confusion the fact that there is also an Independent Party — a far right movement based on a segregationist platform. If ever there was a group that independent voters don’t want to be associated with, the Independent Party is it. Defining an independent voter is hard. Some are far right, some are far left, some are in the middle, some don’t believe in the party system, and, admittedly, some just don’t care. But perhaps uniting the group with a common name would be a good place to start in organizing the movement. According to Independent Voting, 44 percent of the country self-identifies as independent—that’s the plurality of the electorate. It would be a shame not to harness all that energy to change the system. I suggest that independent voters be renamed “non-party voters.” I know that self-defining in the negative is rarely a good idea, and that campaigns based around “yes” usually win. But I think this may be an exception. There is already so much negative energy in the country around the party system. A name like “non-party voters” is clear and illustrates that voting independently is an active choice, not a passive one. In today’s political climate, being a non-party voter is a brave choice. Tensions between political parties run high and claiming to be anything but passionately on one side can be perceived as siding with the opposition. But to be a non-party voter is to say that Americans deserve better than the best of two bad options. It’s to say that enough is enough, that voters shouldn’t have to continue to choose between two candidates who don’t represent them. It is to say that an unwillingness to compromise across the aisle is not only not an asset, it is unacceptable — legislators have to be willing to be flexible to get things done. To be a non-party voter is to say that voters don’t have to pledge to agree with one side or another forever and always because they are multifaceted and thoughtful, and it takes more than the label Democrat or Republican to win an election. To be a non-party voter is certainly not to be apathetic. We deserve a name that conveys that.
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Elite campuses cannot continue to empower toxic and violent men. As the controversy surrounding Judge It was a pithy and pointed joke for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination process to his aristocratic audience, but one that the Supreme Court reaches its climax, the unfortunately held truth for a school that nation’s attention has shifted to the elite hasn’t fully shaken its “Animal House” spaces that nourished him. Recent exposés reputation or disappointing history of of Kavanaugh’s fraternity and secret society sexism, racism, classism and homophobia. at Yale describe cultures of binge-drinking It should be noted that the men who slipped and law-breaking. Comments by friends abusive pamphlets under the doors of and former classmates, as well as anecdotes Dartmouth’s first class of women are still given by professors and mentors describe a alive today, as are any number of assaulters, culture of excess opportunity, privilege and misogynists and problematic men who have power foreign to most Americans. been caringly nurtured through the College. To the inhabitants of elite campuses, More worryingly, though Dartmouth however, these reports, though at times has made progress in these areas, Greek life somewhat exaggerated, are all too familiar. and its patriarchal power structure remains Elite colleges and universities, a group which the centerpiece of social life at Dartmouth. Dartmouth prides itself for being among, Drinking and cultures of entitlement remain often tout the great benefits given under their dominant on campus, as do entrenched social tutelage. Rarely do they acknowledge their systems that will only perpetuate this state. complicity in shaping so many arrogant and The College wants to curtail this bad uncaring individuals, nor in arming them behavior, but there is a limit to what it can do; with pedigrees that enable their foul actions often, too much has been invested for justice and then protect them from consequences. to properly served. In making powerful men, The dilemma facing Dartmouth and and recently some women, elite colleges have its peer institutions is frustrating. These always risked abetting their corruption and universities openly and proudly seek to subsequent wrongdoing. Given all that has leverage their wealth and power to offer been invested in them, however, in all the students the best education, mentorship, hope riding on the success of every student on resources and opportunities the world offers. elite campuses, can Dartmouth afford to see This process can and has them fail or be punished? empowered some of the Dartmouth, “The College wants most exceptional and as with all elite college reputable people the world to curtail this bad campuses, has a choice. has ever seen. Power tends behavior, but there is The College can decide to corrupt, however, with a limit on what it can that, in this moment of proximity to it causing a national scrutiny, it will do; often, too much second-hand effect. weather the storm, stay The cultures, social has been invested for its present course and networks and pipelines justiced to be properly risk continuing to nurture m a i n t a i n e d by e l i t e served.” the worst impulses and institutions also have a intentions of problematic tendency of producing men –– a path it has entitled, violent and powerful men. No forged for over a century now. Or, it can student at the College, or any other Ivy take seriously the privilege it bestows on all League school, is immune from the effects those who come through its doors. of the cultures of exceptionalism often The Dartmouth community can and must promoted by these schools. When combined become better stewards of its members, with already problematic pretensions, deciding to not tolerate the behavior that this however, the culture of elite campuses often place too often engenders. It’s bewildering proves a powerful and toxic catalyst. to think that students have nurtured a The by-product of this combination is performance of humility by denouncing seen in the relatively high prevalence per “self-calls,” but also maintains a culture that capita of sexual violence on elite college enables sexual violence. Demanding more campuses, in the impunity provided to from each other is imperative. students to engage in otherwise illicit Elite college campuses are manicured, behavior undisturbed and in the tight-knit prestigious and consequential places. Such yet toxic social circles that arise from these is the case for anywhere where wealth, campuses. They go by many names –– Greek power and influence converge. They need houses, societies, clubs –– but their function not, however, be violent places; they need is the same, and the effect their often-warped not be abusive places; they need not be cultures have on the mentalities of the future places lacking compassion or concern. elite can last lifetimes. This national scandal has been, among so The College is by no means unique in many things, a wakeup call. Should students this regard, but its reputation makes its case and alumni brush aside this incident and almost comically, if tragically, exemplary. continue as usual, they will, to paraphrase On Sept. 24, Stephen Colbert said of Judge Kavanaugh, reap what they sow. accusations made against Judge Kavanaugh by his former classmate Deborah Ramirez, The editorial board consists of opinion staff “Wow. Seriously, that’s not good. I mean, you columnists, the opinion editors, the associate expect that kind of thing at Dartmouth, but opinion editor, both executive editors and the Yale?” editor-in-chief.
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a birthday party for a friend at a Greek house. She had not planned to stay at the event for long because she needed to study for an exam the next day, Hennessey said in an interview with The Dartmouth. As she was leaving the event, the fraternity brother took her keys, ran from her and taunted her with them, causing her to try to grab his arm, she continued. “He just lost it in rage about how I could’ve torn his sweater,” Hennessey said. “He was angry, maybe because I had broken up with one of the brothers, maybe because he never wanted coeducation — I don’t know.” The fraternity brother then b e g a n t o p hy s i c a l l y a t t a c k Hennessey, she said. “He picks me up, throws me around on the floor and the fireplace and throwing my keys down on the floor so that when I went to get them, he’d pick me up again and throw me again,” Hennessey said. “Finally somebody came into that room from outside — it was like in the entryway of this fraternity — and it distracted him, and I grabbed my keys and ran out.” Hennessey said that another student called the campus police, who called her and asked her to come see them. According to Hennessey, they suggested that she press charges. She said that she also talked to a senior administrator, who also suggested that she press charges. Her father was the Dean of the Tuck School of Business at the time of this incident, and Hennessey said she thought that her father’s position made the issue particularly sensitive as she decided whether or not to press charges. “Everybody seemed at the end to leave it up to me [about whether to press charges], which was, I think, a good thing,” Hennessey said. “They honored my request not to do anything about it.” She noted that she still sometimes wishes that she had pressed charges after the incident. Hennessey added that she saw the fraternity brother at reunions as he “stood glaring at me” and “telling anyone who would listen how horrible I was that I went to the campus police, which, of course, I actually hadn’t done.” Hennessey also said that she twice narrowly escaped being raped as a Dartmouth student. She had been held against her will but managed to break free both times. “The whole thing was just insane,” she said. “And almost every single person from my era at Dartmouth will tell you t h at t h ey we re s ex u a l l y o r
physically assaulted, and certainly emotionally assaulted.” Hennessey said that she did not come forward about the fraternity brother assault incident at the time due to pressure for women to ignore the flaws at the newly co-ed College. She also noted that she did not want to develop a reputation or identity surrounding the assault. “I never really wanted anyone ever to think that I was doing it for my own to get attention, because it’s not attention I would ever want,” she said. With this comment, Hennessey alluded to a problem that has gar nered significant national media attention in recent weeks with the Kavanaugh hearings and Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony — assault survivor s coming forward with their experiences and being received with dismissal or disbelief. The hearing for Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation is ongoing. Last week, Ford appeared at the confirmation hearing to deliver her testimony alleging that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were in high school. Kavanaugh maintains that he did not sexually assault Ford. “I think the biggest fear of any reporting party is that they won’t be believed,” Title IX coordinator Kristi Clemens said. “My worry is that what is happening now in [Washington,] D.C. underscores that for some people.” Women’s, gender and sexuality s t u d i e s p ro f e s s o r G i av a n n a Munafo teaches Women’s, gender and sexuality studies 20.02, “ # M e To o : I n t e r s e c t i o n a l i t y, Hashtag Activism, and our Lives” in which students learn about modern feminism, including the #MeToo movement. “From my perspective and from most of the people in the class’s perspective, [the Kavanaugh hearing] is a good lesson in history repeating itself, sadly,” Munafo said. In reaction to the Kavanaugh hearing, Student Assembly sent a campus-wide email with the subject “Dr. Ford: We believe you” on Sept. 28. In the message, SA president Monik Walters ’19 and vice president Nicole Knape ’19 noted Ford’s “tremendous bravery” and asked Dartmouth students to “take note of the ways we contribute to a society where survivors of sexual assault feel systematically silenced.” According to Knape, Student Assembly sent this email to support sexual assault survivors at the College and highlight how student leaders are taking measures to become an institution free of sexual violence. Knape and Walters ran for their positions on a platform
of “reinforcing sexual assault prevention energies on campus,” Knape said. “We want to establish a campus climate where survivor s are supported whether or not they come forward to report,” Knape said.“We didn’t want news of the [Kavanaugh] trial to be yet another roadblock for people who are considering reporting … there are many barriers already for why people do not report.” Hennessey said that she decided to come forward with her own story last month after hearing President Donald Trump question the validity of Ford’s claim due to the length of time she waited to report the incident. Hennessey also emphasized how, although she experienced genderbased violence over four decades ago, many students at the College today still feel uncomfortable in many on-campus social spaces. She said that she has talked to Dartmouth administrators in the past about addressing sexual assault on campus but her concerns were “brush[ed] under the carpet.” “[President Kim] made it pretty clear he was not interested in any of our concerns at the time,” Hennessey said. “It was not until Joe Biden started saying that there were problems of sexual assault on college campuses that the Dartmouth administration started to really pay attention to it.” She said while the College has recently taken measures to reduce the prevalence of sexual assault on campus, she does not think these measures are “evidence-based.” Hennessey identified fraternities as a mechanism for perpetuating sexual violence at Dartmouth. “Many of the all-male fraternities are propagating a n t i - f e m a l e sentiments,” Hennessey said. “Probably not at all fraternities, but I think it’s the ethos and I’m very concerned. I’m not sure what the solution is in my opinion, except to drastically change the nature of fraternities or get rid of them or make them all co-ed.” Munafo echoed this idea, similarly identifying Greek life as a “flawed system” with an “undue influence” on campus culture. “It’s always so incendiary to say that fraternities are a problem and we shouldn’t have them, but that’s what I’ve been saying since 1994 when I first started working at Dartmouth,” she said. Munafo added that she has seen other universities abolish Greek life from their campuses. “People flip out and then they move on and then they don’t have [Greek institutions] anymore,” she said. “People still have fun, and they still have brotherhood and sisterhood.”
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018
DARTMOUTHEVENTS
TODAY
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Film: “Crazy Rich Asians,” directed by Jon M. Chu, sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Public Astronomical Observing, sponsored by the physics department, Shattuck Observatory
10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Performance: “Latinx Late Night,” sponsored by Collis After Dark, Common Ground, Collis Center
TOMORROW
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Performance: “Met Opera in HD: “Aida” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Film: “Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley, sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Film: “What Will People Say,” directed by Iram Haq, sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Review: Melissa McCartney stuns in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’
quick to humor, placing McCarthy in a tiff with a pet clinic nurse, bartering The Dartmouth with an eccentric landlord and “I have a hangover that is a real scheming with Richard E. Grant, museum piece,” Lee Israel writes, who plays a fragile and tragically imitating writer Dorothy Parker funny Jack Hock. Indeed Hock and in a particularly famous forgery of Israel first met when he was ostracized Parker’s letters. Israel, a biographer from the New York City literary who became a literary forger in the scene after urinating in a closet 1990s as her writing career came at a high society party. Escapades between the to a standstill, two include a is the subject mild prank on a of the Telluride The intense rude bookstore selected film, tenderness [Melissa owner and “Can Yo u many inebriated Ever Forgive McCarthy] is able to afternoons. Me?” Melissa give to a character The whole McCarthy who is mostly mean, thing would gives incredible be hilarious nuance to her mostly uncaring and if it wasn’t so role as Israel, mostly lawless is what heartbreaking. offering both Hock sympathy and really moves me. is insinuated to humor to her be homeless. portrayal. The film begins with Israel visibly Israel’s beloved cat is sick and she drunk at her day job, caustic and cannot pay the medical bills. She haughty as younger employees offer is behind on rent, she doesn’t know barbs her way, one even commenting how to receive or demonstrate that she would rather be dead than affection and she is, above all, deeply working as a copy editor at her age. alone. Her publisher rightly points Israel slugs alcohol and slews jabs at out Israel’s barbed personality and her co-workers, jokes that could have openly tells her that no one will pay very well originated from McCarthy for her writing. Working on an unsupported herself. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is biography of comedian Fanny Brice,
By MIA NELSON
Israel stumbles upon two original letters from Brice. Desperate, she sells one to a bookstore, receiving payment in cash and the assurance that, for more interesting content, future letters could receive higher offers. This is how Israel becomes a forger, by adding a “P.S.” line to the end of Brice’s second letter. As the movie progresses, we see Israel becoming more and more emboldened, relishing her forged letters and even proclaiming that she is “a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.” Her hubris, however, is impossible to see as independent from her lack of self-worth. McCarthy subtly and convincingly imbues Israel’s desperation into the good fun of forgery. She is a writer unable to put her name with her best work, as she seeks affirmation by eagerly asking the booksellers if they find her forged letters funny. At the height of the movie, it is easy to see that Israel is a very good Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward and Louise Brooks. But as we see the FBI catch on to the forgeries, her old cat Jersey die and her friendship with Jack become terse as he skims money from her, we notice that Israel is not good at being herself. On a park bench with her former partner, we see that even when Israel
had the chance to love and be loved, our work. We are all too prideful, her instinct to detach from herself Israel’s story reminds us, we want ruined her relationship. nothing more than to be loved, but The intense tenderness McCarthy we refuse to risk losing. We are all is able to give to a character who is imitators, forgers of self, and we mostly mean, mostly uncaring and can all feel the tender melancholy mostly lawless is what really moves of realizing we so badly wish to be me. I am someone else. p a r t i c u l a rl y We are all too prideful, At the end struck by of the most Israel’s story reminds the strained famous Dorothy hope in her us, we want nothing Pa r k e r l e t t e r, t e s t i m o n y more than to be Israel apologizes before court a s Pa rk e r fo r as her crimes, loved, but we refuse the actions at last, catch to risk losing. We are precipitating up to her. She her massive all imitators, forgers admits to the “museum piece” forgeries, but of self, and we can of a hangover. also to the all feel the tender “ I a m s u r e, ” truth that she Israel writes, doesn’t regret melancholy of realizing “ T h at I h ave them, saying we so badly wish to be said something “In many terrible.” That someone else. ways, this has letter, in the final been the best scene of the time of my movie, is left on life.” display in a rare This is what makes “Can You book store even when it is known Ever Forgive Me?” a film that lasts, to be a forgery. There is too much not just the questions it raises about truth in it. We have all done or said which of our pariahs we are willing something terrible and we are all to resurrect from the grave of public ashamed. We all must ask, as the opinion, but the incessant tugging imagined Dorothy Parker asks in at our collective mea culpa: our the conclusion of the letter, “Can shared fear of putting our name on you ever forgive me?”
Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend
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Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“Sorry to Bother You”
Friday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center
Saturday, 7 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Did you miss seeing one of the biggest movies of the summer? Are you down for a sweeping romantic comedy that also made history with an all-Asian cast? The Hopkins Center will be showing “Crazy Rich Asians” in Loew Auditorium at the Black Family Visual Arts Center. Based on Kevin Kwan’s novel of the same name, the film features Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, an NYU economics professor who’s swept off her feet to Singapore by her obscenely wealthy boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding). Naturally, hijinks ensue. Michelle Yeoh costars as Nick’s fearsomely elegant mother, Gemma Chan is his beautiful cousin Astrid, and Ken Jeong and Awkwafina shine as hilarious additions to the all-star, all-Asian cast. -Joyce Lee
“Use your white voice.” This shockingly practical piece of advice triggers a crazy dystopian satire that takes place in an alternate-world Oakland, where telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) lives in his uncle’s garage. His situation soon reverses as he follows his mother’s advice and rapidly ascends the corporate ladder. But at what cost? Eviscerating the role of class, racism and capitalism in perpetuating systems of oppression, the film also features Tessa Thompson, of “Thor: Ragnorak” fame, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun and Armie Hammer as the main pro-capitalist, cocaine-snorting villain. The film is shown in conjunction with the 2018 International Black Theatre Summit. -Joyce Lee
Friday, 8 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Grammy-award winning ensemble Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by composer and pianist Arturo O’Farrill, will play at Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts today. Combining traditional, big band jazz with Latin rhythm, the orchestra and O’Farrill draw on a long tradition of Latin jazz, with albums that even helped facilitate U.S. and Cuban relations. O’Farril, whose father Chico was a Cuban jazz legend, has formerly performed with the Barbery Coast Jazz Ensemble as a guest artist. O’Farrill acts as an informal cultural ambassador to Cuba, and has traveled back and forth to work with Cuban artists, as well as leading exchanges of American and Cuban artists between the two countries. -Joyce Lee
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SPORTS ONE ONE ON
with Grace Scott ’22
By BAILY DEETER The Dartmouth
Grace Scott ’22 comes to Dartmouth with more than 10 years of climbing and bouldering experience and a long history of success in both. Scott, a Rhode Island native, has been to the Bouldering Youth National Championships eight times and has rock climbed competitively throughout that time frame as well. Recently, she began trying winter climbing, including ice climbing and mountaineering and climbed Mount Rainier, the 17th-tallest mountain in the United States and the tallest mountain in Washington State. She spent her past summer in New Hampshire as a climbing guide. How did you first get involved with bouldering and climbing? GS: The first time I ever rock climbed, I was 7 years old and I went to a birthday party at my local rock gym. Since then, I sort of never stopped doing it. It was the first sport that I wasn’t really horrible at. I did a few others and didn’t enjoy them that much. What has your training been like as a competitive climber?
GS: Training can be pretty intense when you’re a competitive climber. I did a climbing team back home for roughly 10 years. The training is structured around the competition schedule. I was always much more into fall climbing, which was bouldering season, than I was into the summer sport climbing season. What made bouldering more enticing to you than other climbing disciplines? GS: Part of it was the structure of the competitions. In sport climbing, if you fall, you don’t get to get back up on the wall, but in bouldering you get another turn. Also, the style of climbing required for bouldering suited me better. How would you describe your climbing style? GS: For bouldering, I tend to climb statically and make moves that require a lot of strength rather than technique. For sport climbing, the moves are less difficult individually. But they require a lot more endurance, which has never been my strength. What has your experience been like at the Bouldering Youth National Championships and
COURTESY OF GRACE SCOTT
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with competitive climbing in general? GS: I went to the [Bouldering Youth National Championships] eight times and climbed competitively for 10 years. I did it for a long time, but I thought competing was somewhat arbitrary. Since last year, I’ve started to move away from climbing competitively and have focused more on climbing outside. What do you enjoy about climbing outdoors? GS: I just love that it lends itself more to traveling and adventuring, which takes up a lot of time too but doesn’t carry the stress of competitive climbing. The style is also different; in outdoor climbing, you use natural protection that you put in the rock. What has your experience been like climbing outdoors for Dartmouth? GS: Since coming here, I’ve basically gone climbing every weekend, and it’s been a great time. Dartmouth has a great outdoor climbing community. It’s super supportive, and there are so many opportunities to get outside in New Hampshire and to travel further. Have you used any of Dartmouth’s indoor climbing f a c i l i t i e s , t h e Jo n a t h a n B. Daniels ’86 Memorial Climbing Gym? GS: I have, and it’s a great facility to train in. For basically any kind of climbing you want to do, you can find a way to train for it in that gym. Even though it’s small, it’s well curated for what you want to do in terms of training. Are you on an official climbing team for Dartmouth? GS: I’m not for this term. I’ve been training independently and climbing outside for now. I’m trying to get away from competing because I did it for so long and wasn’t always fulfilled by it.
Grace Scott ’22 has competed at eight Bouldering Youth National Championships.
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How do you plan to continue with climbing in the next four years? GS: The school has amazing resources for its mountaineers and climbers. There are a few grants you can apply for to do expeditions, and I look forward to applying for those in future years and hopefully getting some funding for bigger adventures.
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Grace Scott ’22’s career in bouldering has recently extended to ice climbing.
Which specific grants would you consider applying for? GS: They offer a few different types of grants, ranging from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars. I want to go to Alaska and do something big, like climbing the Ruth Gorge. I think that’d be really cool. Have you had any memorable climbs since getting to campus? GS: I loved going to Pickle Dish last weekend. It’s close to campus by the [Dartmouth Skiway], so I got a ride there and it only took about 15 minutes. I’d never been there before; other spots I’ve been to since coming here I’d already climbed before. I thought it was really cool to explore this little piece of granite that’s so close to
campus. Did you factor in the outdoors aspect of Dartmouth when choosing your college? GS: Climbing was definitely something I considered when deciding to come here because we’re in the presence of so much granite. There’s a reason it’s in the “Alma Mater” so much; it’s amazing and so abundant here. I’ve climbed a lot in New Hampshire before coming here, and I wanted to be able to continue to climb somewhere I was familiar with. I basically only looked at schools in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It was the natural setting that was the draw. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.