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External investigator to Sigma Phi Epsilon look into hazing allegations closes following against 13 student groups charter revocation By elizabeth janowski The Dartmouth

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The College has received an increased number of reports this term about hazing incidents.

By amanda zhou and zachary benjamin The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The College will hire an external investigator to look into hazing allegations concerning 12 student organizations and the Dimensions performance group, senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto ’01 said on

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ed Greek houses, three athletic teams, one student life organization and the Dimensions performance group, which is a studentrun organization that performs songs and dances about the College in front of prospective students in the spring.

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Fraternities extend Joe Asch ’79 remembered for 356 bids during rush passionate dedication to College B y ARIELLE BEAK The Dartmouth

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Thursday evening.

The decision, which was made this week, came after the College received an increased number of reports this term about hazing incidents, including kinds that could threaten the health and safety of students.

T he org anizations include five fraternities, three sororities and co-

The national board of directors of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity announced that it has reached a unanimous decision to pull the charter of Dartmouth’s Sig Ep chapter, closing the fraternity effective immediately. The decision comes several months after the national board initially suspended the chapter’s charter and conducted a membership review that removed around 80 percent of its members.

“The Headquarters staff and New Hampshire Alpha alumni and volunteers have invested considerable time and energy to … ensure the success of our chapter at Dartmouth College,” Sig Ep chief executive officer Brian Warren wrote in a statement on Wednesday to the members of Dartmouth’s Sig Ep chapter. “Unfortunately, recent events clearly illustrate that the membership is not committed to living by our values and meeting the Fraternity’s

minimum expectations.”

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence noted in an email statement that the suspension of Sig Ep’s charter will last until winter 2021, after which the chapter may be granted the possibility of returning to campus.

In a statement posted on the chapter’s Facebook page, Sig Ep strategic communications director Andrew Parrish attributed the chapter’s closure to a string of alcohol-related violations that occurred while the chapter was already on probation.

“The chapter’s violations have demonstrated a consistent desire to per petuate an experience rooted in alcohol,” Parrish’s statement said.

In August 2017, Sig Ep National adopted a substancefree policy seeking to ban alcohol and other illicit substances from all chapter houses by 2020.

On Sept. 29, men’s fall fraternity rush came to a close.

356 new members bids were extended, compared to the 341 bids extended last fall.

Thirty-one bids were extended at Alpha Chi Alpha, 27 at Beta Alpha Omega, 31 at Bones Gate, 30 at Chi Gamma Epsilon, 35 at Chi Heorot, 27 at Gamma Delta Chi, 20 at Kappa Kappa Kappa, 28 at Phi Delta Alpha, 28 at Psi

Upsilon, 41 at Sigma Nu, 29 at Theta Delta Chi and 29 at Zeta Psi, according to Brian Joyce, director of the Office of Greek Life.

This year, a majority of the fraternities either maintained or increased the number of bids extended to new members. However, Heorot and GDX decreased their new member class sizes from last years’. The format of fraternity recruitment also SEE RUSH PAGE 3

B y debora hyemin han The Dartmouth Staff

Joseph Asch ’79 was a “passionate, complicated son of Dartmouth,” said College Rabbi Moshe Gray, a friend of Asch’s who last saw him the day before Asch passed away. He was 60.

An avid blogger and entrepreneur, Asch was found unconscious on the morning of Oct. 9, 2018 by first responders at his H a n ove r r e s i d e n c e. A

few hours later, a post on Dartblog.com — the blog with Asch’s commentary on the College and thoughts on higher education — indicated that his death was a suicide. While the Hanover Police Department has not yet commented further on the cause of death, a family friend, Sarah Roberts, said that the cause of death was “depression.” Asch was in the midst of divorce proceedings with his wife at the time.

The post was later deleted at around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Asch came to Dartmouth from Montreal, Quebec, and graduated cum laude from the College with distinction in History, according to Asch’s Dean’s File, obtained

by College archivist Peter Carini.

While at the College, Asch was active in the College radio station WDCR, was a SEE ASCH PAGE 5

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Former FDIC chair speaks at lecture Professors star in Global Business Forum video B y claudia bernstein

difference she and others made. two New York Times bestsellers: “I’m glad we could make a her memoir of the crisis, entitled The Dartmouth Staff contribution,” she said. “We had “Bull by the Horns: Fighting to On Oct. 9, former chair of well over 400 bank failures when Save Main Street from Wall Street the Federal Deposit Insurance I was there, and we handled all and Wall Street from Itself,” and a Corporation Sheila Bair spoke those very smoothly. There’s a lot young adult novel about the crisis, with former undersecretary of of confidence in FDIC insurance. entitled “Bullies of Wall Street.” the Treasury and current Tuck When somebody’s bank failed, we She noted that educating young Business School professor Peter could almost always immediately people, and students especially, Fisher as part of a public lecture sell it to a healthy bank.” about finance and the significance entitled “Ten Year Anniversary of Audience member Marisa of taking out debt is of particular the Financial S t a n c r o f f ’ 2 1 interest to her, and that she hoped C r i s i s , ” said that listening to get feedback from Dartmouth sponsored by “We pushed hard t o B a i r s p e a k students on the issue of student the Rockefeller and we saved several reminded her of debt.

Center for complexity “We initiated a lot of scholarship thousand homes. And “the Public Policy. of what really p ro g r a m s a n d a f f o r d a b i l i t y Bair served I’m proud of that. h a p p e n e d i n programs at Washington College as chair of the But we should have 2008.” She added while I was there and they’ve FDIC from that while she kept these programs and I’m still 2 0 0 6 u n t i l been saving millions a t t e n d e d t h e engaged with them,” Bair said.

2011, leading and we just didn’t do e v e n t b e c a u s e “I helped them raise money for it through she is pursuing some of those programs, so that enough.” the financial a n e c o n o m i c s was rewarding.” crisis of 2008, major, she ended Bair said that she hopes young which many -SHEILA BAIR, FORMER u p l e a r n i n g people will become better educated economists more than she about debt in a larger context, r e g a r d t o FDIC CHAIR anticipated. adding that the fiscal debt we be the worst B a i r a d d e d accumulate is growing to be a financial crisis that while she problem. She said that she is since the Great is proud of the currently focusing on student Depression. She has twice been work the FDIC did at that time, debt issues, working to provide named by Forbes Magazine the she regretted that they could not better resources and tools to help second most powerful woman provide relief to more homeowners students understand how debt and in the world and has served as than they did. its obligations work. a legal counsel to Senator Bob “We pushed hard and we saved “I hate the fact that the Dole, assistant secretary for several hundred thousand homes. government calls student loans financial institutions at the U.S. And I’m proud of that. But we financial aid, because it’s not Treasury, senior vice president of should have been saving millions financial aid,” Bair said. “It’s government relations for the New and we just didn’t do enough,” a loan. You’re going to have to York Stock Exchange and dean Bair said. pay it back, right? It’s a financial of financial regulatory policy at Responding to a question from obligation.” the University of Massachusetts the audience According to at Amherst. Bair also ran for d u r i n g h e r Bair, educating Congress in her home district lecture, Bair “I hate the fact that the younger — Kansas’s fifth congressional r e f l e c t e d the government generation about district — as a Republican in 1990, on her time calls student loans finance and the losing by “less than one percent of m i t i g a t i n g issue of debt is the vote,” according to Bair. the financial financial aid, because essential to the Before launching into their c r i s i s .

A it’s not financial aid. prevention of a conversation, Bair noted that she lesson to take “repeat” of the had actually met Fisher while a w a y f r o m It’s not a loan. You’re 2008 crisis, which working at the Treasury together in the recession going to have to pay she noted was 2001. He added that even in 2001, w a s t h a t it back, right? It’s a “avoidable and six years prior to the crisis, Bair the younger foreseeable.” was concerned about consumer g e n e r a t i o n financial obligation.”

Ja s m i n e L e e accruement of debt by taking out should not rely ’19, an audience too many loans. on monetary member at the In an interview with The p o l i c y t o -SHEILA BAIR, FORMER discussion, said D a r t m o u t h , B a i r s a i d t h a t i n c r e a s e FDIC CHAIR she “thought immediately when she started at e c o n o m i c the event was an the FDIC, it became apparent that g r o w t h , opportunity to the market was taking a turn. allowing big banks’ bad behavior learn more about the crisis from “I was quite terrified when we to continue on through bailouts, an expert in her field.” saw how bad it was, very low on she added.

She added that, as a government what we call loan to value ratios,” Since working at the FDIC, major, she particularly valued she said.

Bair has served as president listening to Bair speak about her Bair said that while leading o f Wa s h i n g t o n C o l l e g e i n time at the FDIC because “policy the FDIC during the crisis was Chestertown, Maryland from 2015 in economics is much not as visible challenging, she is proud of the to 2017. She has also published to the public.”

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Economics professors Douglas Irwin and Nina Pavcnik appeared in a video entitled “How Trade Advances Global Prosperity” at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum on Sept. 26, discussing the socioeconomic and political benefits of international trade. Over 70 heads of state and 200 business leaders attended the conference. According to Pavcnik, the event took place after the General Assembly of the United Nations and was attended by many heads of state as a result.

The video opens with three school-age children sitting at a lunch table discussing how they will trade their various lunch items with each other. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Irwin joked that the video mimics the stories he tells students about the times he makes lunch for his children.

“I give them a certain amount of stuff, but there’s no guarantee that that’s what they’re eating, or that’s what they’re consuming, because you can export and import and trade,” he said. “Your initial endowment or your initial production is no guarantee of what your consumption is going to be.”

The children negotiate their food trade until all three feel happy with the deal. The video then connects the children’s conversation with a global trade network, and economists discuss the benefits of international trade.

According to Pavcnik, inter national trade “enables countries to specialize in what they are really good in.” As a result, individuals and families in these specialty industries earn greater incomes and can buy cheaper goods from abroad. This specialization results in greater efficiencies that enable higher standards of living as a whole.

“Consumers benefit because they gain access to those cheaper goods,” she added.

However, Pavcnik acknowledged there are drawbacks to international trade, noting that in inefficient industries, jobs are lost due to competition. Some economies or governments can also struggle to adjust to international trade, she added.

“Trade also creates jobs in exporting industries, but what we’ve learned over time is that people who lose jobs in import-competing industries have a really hard time adjusting to that job loss,” she said.

The video also features Jayati Ghosh, a development economist and economics professor at

Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and Thomas Friedman, a three time Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for The New York Times.

When asked why Dartmouth professors made up half the participants in the video, both professors cited the strength of the international economics field within the economics department at the College.

Irwin said that Dartmouth’s “well-known niche” in international economics contributes to its “worldwide reputation.”

“We have many professors who are basically leaders in research on international economics topics,” Pavcnik said.

Pavcnik said her research focuses on international trade and development, focusing on the impact of trade on developing countries as well as the “consequences of international trade for inequality.”

“Within a country, some people will benefit from trade and some will be made worse off from trade, at least in relative terms, both in developed and developing countries alike,” she added.

Pavcnik provided China as an example of a developing country where trade granted people living in coastal areas opportunities to improve their standards of living.

“But China itself has issues instigated by globalization,” she added. “What do you do with the elderly who are left behind in rural provinces who can no longer rely on their immediate family members to take care of them?”

Christine Dong ’19, an economics major in the international economics track, conducted research with Pavcnik her sophomore year through the Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars program. She said she got to know Pavcnik well while working with her.

“She had me do some tasks that involved collecting data and organizing it into graphs, and doing literature reviews,” Dong said. “She didn’t really tell me what the bigger project was supposed to be because it was a confidential project at first, so I didn’t know that she was going to be presenting at [the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium] until after it happened!”

Irwin specializes in the history of American trade policy — he has written on the economic history of U.S. trade policy and authored the book “Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy.”

“Trade takes place for everyone on a personal level, in terms of our work life, at the national level,” he noted. “Trade is natural and pervasive in human life.”

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Number of extended Charter revoked until winter of 2021 bids increases slightly FROM SIG EP PAGE 1

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remained the same from last year.

As 61.4 percent of eligible male students are affiliated, Greek life plays a large role on Dartmouth’s campus.

Michael McGovern ’21, a new member at Alpha Chi, said that his decision to rush was based off Greek life’s predominance at the College and his desire “for the camaraderie.”

“I’d known I wanted to rush for a while [since] a lot of my friends were also rushing,” he said. “It’s a pretty big part of the Dartmouth community, and I didn’t want to miss out on that.”

Men’s rush at Dartmouth unofficially begins during freshman winter, when freshmen can mingle at different fraternities and build relationships with the brothers. The official recruitment process takes place over a two day period, during which prospective members visit houses of interest and interact with members of the fraternities. At the end of the evenings, prospective members can “shake out” at a house, which entails shaking hands with all of the brothers in the house to demonstrate one’s interest.

The brothers then deliberate and offer bids, according to Alpha Chi president Fisher Katlin ’19. This process differs from the women’s formal recruitment process, which occurs over a two week

period.

“A good analogy [for shakeout] is early decision acceptance to college,” he said. “You are saying that ‘if you want me to be in this house, I will be in this house.’”

The Interfraternity Council at Dartmouth facilitates two prior mandatory dry rush events that are open to campus, according to IFC public relations chair Caleb Smith ’19. “[Prospective members can] meet brothers in the houses in a more open environment,” he said. “It’s something that we sponsor, encourage and actually require houses to do.”

IFC president Yoga Acharya ’19 emphasized that the connections made in a fraternity extended far beyond a surface level commitment.

“At the end of the day, these fraternities offer so much more than just a social scene. It’s a brotherhood, and its relationships last a lifetime for so many people,” Acharya said.

“I think that’s really underrated and understated when people talk about their Greek experiences here.”

Rohan Chakravarty ’21 recently rushed Sig Nu because he said that he wanted form a bond with new people in his class.

“It was a lot of fun,” he said. “I met a lot of new people and I think I ended up at a house that I really like.”

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Even rainy weather isn’t enough to make Hanover’s intersections any less busy.

Warren’s statement further cited Sig Ep’s failure to meet guidelines set by the Alumni Advisory Council and Headquarters staff in the months following the membership review as a reason for the chapter’s closure.

He noted that over the summer, the Alumni Council and the NH Alpha Alumni and Volunteer Corporation, which owns the chapter’s house, requested additional staff members to support the chapter’s progress on these expectations, but the chapter continued to voice its desire to become a local organization instead.

Office of Greek Life director Brian Joyce said that he will not be considering the localization of Sig Ep’s Dartmouth chapter at this time, as the College does not consider requests from chapters not in good standing with their national organizations.

Per Sig Ep National’s charter revocation, all current members

have been suspended from the fraternity for the remainder of their underg raduate careers, according to Warren’s statement.

They will not be permitted to wear apparel bearing the fraternity’s insignia, recruit new members or sponsor or hold events under Sig Ep’s name. Members still living in the house will be permitted to remain there until the end of the fall term, after which they will be re-assigned College housing. After graduation, Sig Ep members in good standing with the national organization will be eligible for alumni status.

The Dartmouth chapter will launch a program to re-focus its policies around maintaining a substance-free facility in an effort to eventually regain its charter, according to the statement on its Facebook page.

“Chapter improvement is a priority of the Dartmouth Office of Greek Life,” Lawrence

wrote. “We support the national organization’s desire to elevate standards for their chapters, and we look forward to working with the national organization’s leadership and all members of the Dartmouth community to plan for a successful return of the chapter.”

According to Lawrence’s email, the AVC is working with the College on a two-year lease agreement for the Sig Ep house located on Webster Avenue. The use of the house is not yet determined at this time, though the College does not plan to house an organization in the facility, Lawrence wrote.

Senior chapter services director Pa u l A n d e r s e n a n d f o r m e r Dartmouth Sig Ep president David Ringel ’19 did not respond to requests for comment by press time. AVC president John-David “JD” Optekar ’91 Th’92 and vice president of programming Nicholas Weir ’09 declined requests for comment.

Hazing allegations to be investigated FROM HAZING PAGE 1

The organizations will be informed whether they are under investigation next week, Agosto said.

Four presidents of Greek organizations confir med that leaders of Greek houses on campus met with Office of Greek Life director Brian Joyce on Thursday afternoon, when Joyce informed them that the investigation would be taking place. Agosto said that similar meetings will occur later in the week with members of other student organizations.

Agosto emphasized that currently, the investigation will be conducted purely for the purpose of factfinding. If organizations are found guilty of hazing or other infractions, punishments will be determined at a later date, separate from this investigation.

“There is not a conversation that is happening right now about the end of Greek life as we know it, or any of those things,” Agosto said.

The investigation will consist of interviews with Greek house presidents and, in the case of suspected hazing, new members and new member educators.

The decision to hire an external investigator came after many anonymous and official reports were made through the LiveSafe app, which allows students to submit reports to the College; Safety and Security reports; firsthand accounts; and an op-ed briefly published on the Dartmouth Radical’s website, Agosto said.

She added that the number of incident reports submitted

during the fall term had increased Dimensions program, citing first and significantly compared to the past, second-hand sources anonymously. sparking the investigation. The The article has since been removed, external investigator will focus on with a note indicating that at least reports that concern a student’s one allegation was determined to health and safety — specifically be false. forced alcohol consumption and While the College is in sexualized behavior. communication with a potential Reports of incidents like students external investigator, no formal hire wearing “unicorn costumes” will has been made, Agosto said. be investigated internally by the Agosto, the Judicial Affairs College — not by the external Office and the College’s general investigator. counsel will work “If we together with the “If we get a report get a report investigator. that’s [about that’s [about seeing] Agosto declined s e e i n g ] f i ve five girls dressed to speculate on a girls dressed in timeline for the leotards doing in leotards doing a investigation. a dance, that dance, that doesn’t Presidents of d o e s n’t r i s e Greek houses rise to an issue where — i n c l u d i n g to an issue where we’re we’re concerned sororities, c o n c e r n e d about the health and fraternities and about the gender-inclusive h e a l t h a n d safety of our student houses — were safety o f organizations.” informed on our student Tuesday of the organizations,” meeting with -LIZ AGOSTO, SENIOR Agosto said.

Joyce through an She noted ASSOCIATE DEAN OF email, which The that while the Dartmouth later D a r t m o u t h STUDENT AFFAIRS obtained.

Radical op“I need to pull ed was not the impetus of this this group together to discuss some investigation, the article did provide on-going safety concerns,” Joyce some of the information taken into wrote in the email. “This is an consideration. important and timely meeting and The article, titled “Beyond the attendance is mandatory.”

Basement: Understanding the Two Greek house presidents relationship between hazing and confirmed that the Greek Leadership sexual violence,” was published Council will be meeting on Sunday on Oct. 1 and made specific to further discuss the investigation. hazing allegations toward specific fraternities, sororities and the Alexa Green contributed reporting.

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STAFF COLUMNIST AVERY SAKLAD ‘21

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The Outside Scoop

Don’t Touch the Fire

Looking at rush from an unaffiliated perspective.

Before coming to Dartmouth, everybody had something to tell me about the Greek system: it’s the campus social scene; one can find friends outside of it; it’s pervasive; it’s a great community; it’s overbearing. Most of my peers told me that despite my reluctance, I’d probably end up joining a sorority — it’s just what Dartmouth students do.

Despite everything I was told, I didn’t really understand the reality of Greek life when I committed to Dartmouth. After a little over a year on campus, I get it. This school is tough. We spend four or more years here slugging through classes and homework and exams and at the end of the day, isn’t it nice to have a place to blow off steam? Greek life can provide that space for many Dartmouth students; it’s a community in which one can undoubtedly belong. What’s more is that everybody’s doing it, and those who don’t rush are a scattered minority of outsiders.

I never saw myself as a sorority sister, but when ISC Rush sign-ups and events started flooding my blitz, I toyed with what it might be like to involve myself in the Greek system. While considering my options, I could conjure the names of two or three sororities I’d briefly entered for Dartmouth Outing Club pong tournaments and the like and then never returned to again. None of the names really meant anything to me. Although I know many affiliated women, I don’t associate any houses with groups of people or community values with which I feel particular solidarity.

I thought about submitting a portrait of myself and scampering from one sorority to the next for 30 minutes of strained conversation and feigned faces. I imagined acting like I belonged somewhere until a house let me purchase an official label.

In the future, my label would loosely bind me to a collection of women that I would associate myself with by little more than mere circumstance.

Rush deadlines slipped past, dragging throngs of women painted in an image of femininity that I don’t match. The brisk clacks of their heels across blistering stretches of pavement told me about concern, apprehension, anticipation, secondguessing. In the end, my freshman year instinct was right; Greek life’s not for me.

Rush is both relieving and lonely from the outside. It’s gratifying to watch my friends scramble to complete social tasks and know that I have nothing to pile atop of Dartmouth’s intense course load, nor feel an inclination to join them.

Unperturbed nights mandated exclusively by my own agenda are my reward for clinging stubbornly to the precipice of Greek life. On the other hand, it’s hard to reconcile my decision not to participate with the potential for a bustling social life. While most of my friends have house events and a sea of new faces to familiarize themselves with, my few unaffiliated friends and I spend an increasing amount of time keeping ourselves occupied with pastimes that don’t involve an automatic invite.

Now more than ever, the reality of living on a small campus is salient. There is enough activity to keep one occupied for days, but they all expire before most students even think about starting their evenings. Later in the night, while seemingly the whole campus is posting Snapchat stories from various basements, the social scene starts to feel a little more like it did freshman fall. I have to gather scattered bits of information and invitations, evaluate my random assortment of options rather than rely on designated programming. The unsystematic sparseness of it doesn’t feel exactly like missing out on rush, as that implies a desire to take part in the first place, but rather like my opportunities have refined themselves. It’s not the end of the world. Perhaps my social schedule isn’t assigned to me by my big sisters, but it exists and it’s only the things that I want to do.

We ought to take the pressure off women to rush. It’s a decision that’ll have tangible effects on how one spends their future at Dartmouth, and it should be deliberately made rather than assigned as a default option. Many students get sucked into Greek life because it’s where popular choice guides them. To those considering rushing, if you find a house you mesh well with, then brilliant. Spend a hectic term putting on your best face and running fool’s errands for the people who fall for it, and you’ll generate a community of friends you can rely on anytime during your years at Dartmouth.

You’ll be comfortable; you’ll have a label that announces you belong. But if you don’t find a Greek space that beckons to you before it’s time to make a three-year commitment, or if basements aren’t the places you prefer to spend your time, don’t feel compelled to commit to a house just because almost everybody else is doing it. For students like me who aren’t interested in Greek life, non-affiliation offers ample independence and autonomy to compensate slower nights over rush weeks. Either way you swing it, it’s alright.

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Tradition will fail if the Dartmouth community doesn’t start acting responsibly.

Dartmouth is full of beloved traditions, and however, the Dartmouth community overlooks the Homecoming bonfire every fall reigns as the miracle that the College will still construct one of the most sacred and celebrated. The the bonfire at all. Moreover, this tradition is bonfire saw its first flames over a century not about running laps while being egged ago, and every year since has welcomed on by alumni or showing off through darehome a new class with warm and open arms. devil behavior — these are only recent Dartmouth alumni, no matter where they developments in its lifetime. More important end up, return home en masse to pay their is how the bonfire celebrates the uniqueness, alma mater a visit. Amidst shouts of “Touch strength and endurance of our collective the fire!” and “Worst class ever!,” it sends identity. It’s meant to bring the Dartmouth the message to the newest members of the community together to welcome the newest Dartmouth community that her spell on them class into the family, and signify to first-years truly is enduring. that they have become a part Not everyone views the “The actual tradition of something bigger than bonfire with such fondness, of the bonfire is themselves. however. In recent years, one that is dear Traditions depend on the Dartmouth has received communities to which they pushback from the town of to the Dartmouth belong to keep them alive, Hanover, which has raised ethos — it’s one making Dartmouth students major safety concerns to the that celebrates the new and old responsible for forefront of the discussion uniqueness, strength their longevity. However, the surrounding the bonfire. It’s to touch the bonfire and endurance of our attempts not surprising why officials have made it an increasingly might be more concerned collective identity.” unsafe and unruly affair about the event given its over the last several years. recent history — in 2016, Dartmouth students must an estimated 50 or so students tried to realize that they cannot play with fire and still touch the fire, and last Homecoming, even run off unscathed. Without safety precautions with a chainlink fence and a water-filled in place, the bonfire has the potential to be plastic barrier, three students were caught deadly. In 1999, 12 students died when a for touching the fire. Clearly, students have bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M University. pushed their luck to the limit — and if the Dartmouth is not above tragedy — if an Dartmouth community doesn’t answer at least accident were to happen, Homecoming would some of Hanover’s concerns, they have the no longer carry the spirit and excitement that bonfire to pay for it. it has for the past 130 years.

In May, the town announced that it would Many members of this community are not grant the College an outdoor activities promoting dangerous and petulant behavior permit for the Homecoming bonfire. After that could cost Dartmouth a century-old negotiations, the College agreed to present a tradition. Upperclassmen and alumni must redesigned proposal to Hanover officials after realize that pushing first-years to touch the the administration convened. Since then, both fire is putting members of this community in the bonfire and the event as a whole have harm’s way. There are very real consequences been revamped. The bonfire will now be 28 that this community may face if they fail to feet tall instead of 33 feet, a change designed honor the tradition with respect. to maximize the chances The College can do that it will collapse inward everything in its power to in a worst-case scenario. “It’s important convince the town to keep The event has also been to realize that the bonfire going forward, redesigned to be more visible Dartmouth students but it ultimately depends to spectators — the fire will on Dartmouth students and cannot play with be lit before students arrive, alumni to ensure the longevity there will be a large tent fire and still run of this tradition. The outrage with food and music, and off scathe free — that the recent changes to speeches will be delivered there are very real the bonfire have ignited from Dartmouth Hall. demonstrates just how much consequences that The biggest change, and the Dartmouth community perhaps the one that students this community may has begun to lose sight of the are the most riled up about, face if they fail to true value of Homecoming. is that students will no longer honor the tradition Rather than centering be able to run laps around with respect.” t h i s t r a d i t i o n a ro u n d the bonfire. Instead, firstreckless endanger ment, year students will march Homecoming is a night to one lap around the fire celebrate the power of the before heading off to Dartmouth Hall for a connections that have been cultivated on this class photo. News of this change has ignited campus. It’s time to reevaluate where collective reactions from current students and recent values lie — or risk letting the old traditions alumni, for whom running laps around the fail. bonfire and dares to touch the fire are as much a part of the tradition of Homecoming as the The editorial board consists of opinion staff bonfire itself. columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors Amongst these incendiary reactions, and the editor-in-chief.

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Asch known for outspoken comments on popular blog FROM ASCH PAGE 1

Rassias drill instructor in French and Italian, taught skiing, played intramural sports and studied abroad in Germany and Italy. After earning a law degree from Yale Law School in 1983 and working as a management consultant for two years with Bain & Company, Asch began operating two businesses: Ballet Technologies Ltd., a medical products company he founded in 1987, and the River Valley Club, a fitness facility in Lebanon.

Asch lived in Paris from 1986 until 2004, but he spent many summers back in Hanover. During this time, he audited over 30 classes and discussion groups at the College.

Roberts said that, to the best of her knowledge, Asch took at least one class every year. Roberts added that she remembered him often talking about his classes and the dinners he would host for students in those classes.

“At the end of every summer, he would host a big dinner for his class — at his home, with his wine,” Roberts said. “He loved having kids from the College over. He just found young minds very exciting.”

Je w i s h s t u d i e s p r o f e s s o r Susannah Heschel, whose classes Asch audited, said the dinners he hosted was how he got to know the community. In this respect, she said Asch provided an example for others that she wishes others would follow.

“If you’re an alumnus of Dartmouth, if you want to be in Hanover because of Dartmouth College, because you’re interested in ideas, why not invite faculty and students to have a discussion in your home?” Heschel said.

Rockefeller Center for Public Policy director and economics professor Andrew Samwick, who also taught a class that Asch audited, noted that Asch was a generous host.

Samwick added that Asch’s participation in undergraduate life through classes was what gave him credibility as a commentator on the College and helped create Asch’s extensive network of connections.

“If you’re an observer from afar and you see that he’s actually s h ow i n g u p t o c l a s s e s a n d establishing relationships with professors, that’s a natural way to gain credibility in the community,” Samwick said.

Both Heschel and Samwick noted that their first interaction w i t h A s ch w a s t h ro u g h h i s writing. It was perhaps through his experiences at the College, and the transfer of his experiences and perspectives to his audience online, that Asch contributed most directly to the Dartmouth community.

Asch wrote columns for The Dartmouth between 2001 and 2009, voicing his opinions about the direction of the College and his perspective as an alumnus who had seen Dartmouth in different times. Many of his concerns with the College were imbued with the concern that the administration was attempting to radically transform the College “from an excellent undergraduate-centered college, coexisting with a small town, into a research university dominating its surroundings.” Asch’s articles offered everything from a “by the numbers” analysis of the College to his recommendations about Greek activity on campus.

In August 2009, Asch transitioned these writings to Dartblog.com, which had been founded in 2004 by Joe Malchow ’08.

According to Andrew Newman ’74, an Islamic Studies professor at the University of Edinburgh, Asch’s writing was underpinned by his belief that many administrators who had been coming into the College in the last 10 to 15 years had “forgotten what it was like to be a student.”

Newman, who taught a religion class at Dartmouth this past summer, stayed with Asch at his home and said he and Asch would frequently discuss matters of the College over dinner.

In 2010, Asch hoped to influence the administration directly by running for alumni trustee when Jim Yong Kim was president, putting forth the platforms of “ensuring fiscal prudence,” re-committing the College to “undergraduate excellence” and “restoring board parity.” Asch eventually lost after receiving pushback from community members.

Gray said that while this loss for the position of alumni trustee disheartened Asch and prompted him to stop writing for the blog for a few months, this hiatus “did not last long” and Asch resumed writing with even more vigor than before.

Asch’s columns on Dartblog. com were notorious and were oftentimes incendiary. In 2017, Asch wrote that Native American studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80 had a “manifest lack of qualification” for the position of dean of the faculty, to which Duthu had been appointed at the time, citing Duthu’s support fo r t h e b oyc o t t , d i ve s t m e n t and sanction campaign against Israeli universities. Other posts indicated skepticism about the trend of mental health resources for students at the College, about the experiences of women and minorities at Dartmouth, and about certain forms of student

activism.

Many who knew Asch said that though they had fundamental disagreements with some of his opinions, they think Asch believed he was doing what was best for the College.

Class of 1979 president Mark Winkler ’79 wrote in an email that Asch “has served as a beacon of information for Dartmouth, seeking to improve [the College] and impart his wisdom.”

Roberts, noting that almost every conversation with Asch involved Dartmouth “in one way or another,” said that Asch wanted Dartmouth to always improve.

“I would characterize him as a provocateur — he wanted the best for the [College] and felt that he was always encouraging it to its highest ideal,” Roberts said.

Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said that he took issue with some of Asch’s positions, but believed that Asch’s writing stemmed from his beliefs of what would most benefit the College.

“Some of the people may dispute it, but he was loyal to the institution as he saw it and what he felt was the best interest in the College’s future,” Teevens said.

This past summer, when the College was discussing options for the implementation of a new 350-bed dormitory on campus, Asch engaged in discussions with the community and the College administration, even coming

up with his own plan to address housing concerns, according to Newman. “[Asch] did the figures, he did the math, and it came out right in the same week that these series of meetings were being held across the campus,” Newman said.

Samwick echoed the level of scrutiny and detail with which Asch analyzed the College, simply based on what he could find from published sources and what he could “glean from his networks.”

“The thing that was really amazing about [Asch] is that his level of scrutiny of Dartmouth based on its published findings, you know, just what he could glean from his network and from what Dartmouth has to publish about itself or what its leaders say about it, was at the level of what you would expect in a for-profit entity by someone who had a deep ownership stake in it,” Samwick said.

According to Samwick, Asch will be missed for his dedication to the College.

“It’s as if the person who is the external inspector of the place has just stepped down from the position, and there’s no viable candidate for that,” he said.

Gray added that Asch’s service to the community as a source of information was invaluable to alumni, who already seem to miss his online presence.

“I think for a lot of alums this

was one of the first stops in the morning on the Internet,” Gray said. “Dartblog — what does Joe have to say? I think it’s valuable — information is valuable to people.”

Newman said that he would always save the Dartblog.com email for last when he went through his inbox, because the time difference in Edinburgh meant that he would get it right as it was going live in New Hampshire, at around 4:30 a.m.

Many described Asch as an early riser — someone who was always working and very efficient.

Malchow said that he believes what motivated Asch as an individual was the fact that he was interested in creating “beautiful, nearly perfect things, whether large or small.”

Asch is survived by his parents, his two brothers, his wife, his son and his daughter.

A memorial service will be held for Asch on Saturday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dartmouth Outing Club by the golf course. In lieu of flowers, Asch’s family has asked that community members donate to the Dartmouth Political Economy Project.

Counseling resources for students, faculty and staff are available through the Office of Counseling and Human Development, the College chaplain’s office, the dean on call and the Faculty/Employee Assistance Program.

Assistance can be obtained by calling Safety and Security at 603-646-4000.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

CAROLINE COOK ’21

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

Lecture: “Growing Your Own Food Gives You Power,” with community activist Karen Washington, Steele 006

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

Performance: “Orange is the New Black”’s Big Boo Lea DeLaria Live, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

Collis After Dark: Casino Night, Common Ground, Collis Center

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

Film: “In the Last Days of the City,” directed by Tamer El Said, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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

A PlaySpace Presentation: “Gallery,” a play by Nick Gutierrez ’20 and directed by Kelleen Moriarty ’19, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Collis After Dark: Fun Food Frenzy, Common Ground, Collis Center

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Lea DeLaria brings jazz, comedy and activism in one concert

By VERONICA WINHAM The Dartmouth

Jazz and comedy are two very different art forms, yet they share many similarities. Both are free form and improvisational. Both are honest and authentic.

Musician and actress Lea DeLaria, who will be performing at the Hopkins Center for the Arts tonight, combines these two mediums without compromising the integrity of either.

Her “Live in Concert” show will feature both her comedy and her jazz covers of songs by David Bowie and other artists.

“I do music and I do comedy, and I do it all together in kind of a heavy, high-energy, mixed form,” she said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Known for playing Carrie “Big Boo” Black on the hit show “Orange is the New Black,” DeLaria has been in other films and Broadway productions, and she has also released several recordwinning albums over the course of her career, including one reexamining Bowie’s music. She is also known to be a trailblazer for the queer community, as she was the first openly gay comic to come out on live TV. “That aspect of her being that trailblazer, willing to make a sacrifice in her own career in order to open doors for other people, is just something we should all be applauding her for,” said

Rebecca Bailey, the Hop publicity coordinator.

DeLaria first started jazz with her father as a child, and combining jazz with comedy helps her deliver a show that is both raw and truthful as well as enjoyable and funny. She attributes this to her past.

“When I started doing comedy … it was back in the ’80s and I was very rageful, so my comedy was really loud and in your face and vulgar,” DeLaria said. “I thought, ‘Why don’t I give these guys a respite,’ and that’s what I did. I would just sing a standard or whatever and basically lull them into a false sense of security before I would start screaming.”

DeLaria said she also wants to bring awareness to injustices in the entertainment industry. She defiantly takes on an “if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention” mindset, and as an active member of the queer community, she is keenly aware of the double standard when it comes to equity and respect.

“If they cast a straight man as a gay man in anything, our community goes crazy … If they cast a non-trans actor in a trans role, our community goes crazy,” DeLaria said.

She pointed out how that is not the case with lesbians, who are written, directed and acted by straight people with little resistance.

“We never stand up and scream about [casting lesbian characters with straight actors] ever … so basically what we find is we’re not in charge of our own stories,” she said. “That’s what made ‘Orange is the New Black’ interesting.

There were lesbians in the writer’s room, there were lesbian directors and there were lesbians playing lesbians …

It was greatly impacting to see that, and inspiring. Unfortunately, it lasted about five minutes.”

This refers to the “pendulum” effect: DeLaria is noticing how lesbian characters are being killed off in the show (as her character recently was), something she is advocating against as lesbian characters are commonly treated with violence in media.

This oppression does not just exist in Hollywood, and DeLaria has faced a lot of backlash since coming out in 1993 on the Arsenio Hall Show.

“I made a very bold statement as a lesbian on a stage about my sexuality,” she said. “And women aren’t supposed to have sex and aren’t supposed to talk about sex, still in our modern society.”

DeLaria makes an impact not only as a comedian and musician, but also as an activist.

“Performers like [DeLaria] expand our notions of what activism, and for that matter, what comedy can be,” Maanav Jalan ’19, a Hop Fellow, said in an email. “It’s exciting to have a

PHOTO COURTESY OF KHAREN HILL

Actress and musician Lea DeLaria will perform at the Hopkins Center tonight.

pioneer like her here.”

Bailey said that DeLaria sets an example by affirming all types of people as their authentic selves, and that this was an example for the Dartmouth community.

DeLaria herself is unapologetic for her assertions.

“You deal with the aftermath of whatever you say,” she said. “You got to stand up for what you believe in.

Comedy is a tremendous tool to affect change in the world … In my act, I’ve said many times, ‘If I offended you, you probably needed it.’”

DeLaria’s show at Dartmouth is

just the beginning of a tour that goes abroad to London for its last show.

“The public has really come around to see her as a three-dimensional performer and she’s been getting characters that have depth and aren’t just stereotypes,” Bailey said.

Today, there will be more than a comedy show at the Hop. There will be more than a jazz concert.

One can expect Lea DeLaria’s fusion performance to deliver both of these mediums, along with a progressive look at social issues.

DeLaria will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium.

Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend

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“Puzzle”

“In the Last Days of the City”

“Mountainfilm on Tour”

Friday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center

Saturday, 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

A suburban mom finds out she’s a jigsaw puzzle savant — it’s a premise that sounds far-fetched enough that it sounds like a special interest news article. But the film uses jigsaw puzzles as more of a metaphor for a midlife crisis, which is fitting when our heroine (Kathy Macdonald) also finds herself in the middle of an indie romance with a handsome fellow puzzler (Irrfan Khan). It’s a film that seems overwhelmingly about puzzles, but it’s also a look at how women often give up claiming themselves as whole individuals with dreams and desires, and instead fulfill roles that are supposedly required of them as mothers and wives. It’s not a story often told in the context of a charming comedy, and you don’t even have to like puzzles to appreciate Macdonald’s performance.

-Joyce Lee

It’s a unique filmmaker who can not only tell a story about a city from a place of affection and nostalgia, but also from memories of pain and trauma. Director Tamer El-Said’s film “In the Last Days of the City” features a protagonist who must confront a significant loss in Cairo two years before the revolution in Egypt. A melancholic and ambitious tour-de-force, the film has been described as a “lovehate poem” to Cairo. The film explores not only themes of loss, friendship, loneliness and memory, but how a city in of itself can become something faded despite its physical endurance — this becomes a reflection of the ephemeral nature of our own humanity. El-Said will be on campus to conduct a discussion after the film’s screening.

-Joyce Lee

It’s easy to get cabin fever once the term gets going at Dartmouth and there’s little time to leave the campus to readjust oneself in the “real world.” The film special “Mountainfilm on Tour” might provide the perfect remedy, as the compilation of featured documentaries from the Mountainfilm Festival takes viewes all over the world and on all sorts of adventures.

From mountain biking in Nepal to pedaling across the frozen terrain of Canada, this film special also brings you human stories that occur in the most extreme situations.

If you want to feel the adrenaline pumping before you head off to study for your Week Six midterms, take a break on Saturday evening for a rancorous ride through some of the most beautiful and dangerous places in the world.

-Joyce Lee

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SPORTS ONE ONE ON

with Sophia Kocher ’21

By JUSTIN KRAMER The Dartmouth Staff

Sophia Kocher ’21 set a Dartmouth equestrian record this past Saturday at Middlebury College, tallying up a perfect 42 points in her first six shows and becoming the first Dartmouth rider to go undefeated at every regular season competition. Her distinguished performance elevates her from the Advanced Walk Trot Canter class to the Novice Flat and Fences class while also qualifying her for Regionals. The equestrian team is off to a 2-0 start, in large part due to Kocher’s seven points earned in each week’s victory. The Dartmouth sat down for a one-onone discussion with Kocher about her equestrian career, her path to Dartmouth and more.

What was your experience with equestrian prior to coming to Dartmouth?

SK: I’ve always been interested in and loved horses, but I had never actually formally competed. I mostly just rode for fun growing up. My family lives on a farm, so I had two horses, and we have a small ring. Most of where I rode growing up was at my house with trainers who would come and coach me, but mostly it’s just been something that I love to do.

Having competed competitively now, what would you say are some of your favorite aspects of the sport?

SK: I just love being with the horses, and it’s such a unique experience to be sort of teammates with an animal that you can’t really communicate with verbally. Something that’s unique to the way that college competitions are is that you’re competing as an individual, but you’re also scoring points for your team. I’ve really loved the team atmosphere and having a group of people who were all equally passionate.

Did you know that you wanted to do equestrian when you came to Dartmouth? How did you end up joining the team?

SK: When I toured, I heard about it, so I had known about it coming

in initially. That piqued my interest, so I emailed the coach, and I went up to see the barn. It’s just gorgeous up there. That’s really when I got interested in it and started thinking about it a little bit after my visit and into the summer before I applied.

How does it feel with this year being longtime coach Sally Batton’s last season?

SK: It’s definitely very sad because Sally is just a wonderful coach, and she has dedicated so much to the program and making the team where it is. It was a club sport, and she brought it to the varsity level. I think that we’re all sad and we’re all going to miss her, and I think she is going to be difficult to replace as someone who has been so committed to the team for so long.

For a lot of us, this year is about gratitude, so we’re trying to give back to Sally. I think one of our goals is to make it to Nationals this year. We were super close last year — we were about a point away, so I think this year we really want to send Sally out with a bang.

Why did you choose to come to Dartmouth?

SK: I grew up ski racing, and I ski raced in the area at the skiway with a little team from the town of Hanover. I’ve loved the New Hampshire area for a long time, and when I got here, I felt like there was such a sense of place that was really important to me. I think people are super passionate about the College and they’re super passionate about everything that it represents. I really loved that, and you can definitely see that in the students and the people giving tours. The people you talk to are so connected to the school, even years out. For a place to have that much of an impact on people, there’s got to be something super special about it.

I t ’s r a r e t h a t s o m e o n e competes so prominently in one sport in high school, and then competes in a different varsity sport when they get to college. Can you talk a bit about your skiing career before coming here?

SK: Skiing is something that’s

pretty instrumental to my family.

My mom ski raced growing up, and I have four younger siblings, so we all ski race. That’s something we do every winter: we wake up at 5 in the morning and go to the mountain. That’s been such a large part of my life, so it’s definitely weird not having it anymore, but I’ve found I really love having a team environment and having a group of people that I can connect with. I would definitely say that having the equestrian team has been such a great part of my college experience, and one of the things I love most about Dartmouth. I do think that there are a lot of things in ski racing that you can transfer into riding. For example, with both skiing and riding, you put in so many more hours of preparation than you actually compete. With skiing, you’re on course for two minutes, and for riding you’re in the ring for five minutes, but you’re practicing every single day for multiple hours per day. I think that mentality of having to put in so much work for such little output is definitely something that’s similar.

There’s a lot of the same routine like getting ready, getting mentally ready so that has definitely carried over for me.

How does it feel to record a perfect 42 points in your six shows and become the first member of Dartmouth equestrian to win at every single regular season competition?

SK: I definitely think it’s an honor.

I’m proud of it, but I was never really focused on my individual

performance. I feel like I was always more concerned with, “I want to do well so the team does well and can do well at Regionals.”

That was more of what I was focused on. It’s been awesome.

W hat does the DartmouthSports.com Athlete of the Week award mean to you?

SK: I would say again that it’s a huge honor to be represented with a group of incredible athletes.

Because we’re not a mainstream sport, I feel like I can both represent myself and the program, so I’m really thankful to be able to do that.

Yo u r p e r f o r m a n c e o n Saturday secured a spot for you at Regionals and helped you class up to the Novice Flat and Fences Level. What does that entail for the rest of the season, and how do you feel about the opportunity?

SK: It’s definitely exciting because if I place well in Regionals, that could qualify me for Zones and then potentially Nationals later in the season. It’s something I’m looking forward to and working for. I’m in a higher division, so it’s obviously going to be a little bit more competitive; I’m going to be with some more experienced riders, so it will definitely be more of a challenge, but it’s very exciting.

You talked about your goals when we were talking about Coach Batton. W hat are some of the team goals for the season, and where are you

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hoping to get to?

SK: One of our main goals is to get to Nationals. You go through a series of competitions, and for all of the shows that we compete in, we get game points for how well individuals do in their classes. If we have the highest among all of the schools in our region, then we qualify to move to Zones, which is more of New England: Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. If we do well there, we will qualify to compete in Nationals.

That’s definitely the main goal of the team. Other goals are always to build a cohesive group and to really support each other.

Could you share any other personal goals for the season?

SK: In my previous division, I did a lot of flatwork, so I’m working more over fences now, and I’m going to start competing in that. One of my goals is to improve in that regard.

W hat do you do outside of equestrian in terms of academics and extracurriculars?

SK: I’m interested in medicine, specifically global health, and I’m currently undecided in my major. I have a bunch of different academic interests: classics, art history and environmental science, so I’m still exploring and hoping to settle on a department in the near future. In addition to riding, I’m on ski patrol, so I do still ski, which is great. I love getting out in the winter, being on snow and being with a group of people.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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