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In policy reversal, College opens Homecoming sees social space access to all students one arrest, bonfire proceeded as planned B y COALTER PALMER The Dartmouth

No students attempted to touch this year’s Homecoming bonfire, marking the second year without major bonfire incidents. Additionally, the College saw fewer Good Sam incidents than past years and only one arrest, according to interim director of Safety and Security Keysi Montás and Hanover police chief Charlie Dennis.

On the Tuesday before Homecoming, dean of the

College Kathryn Lively sent out an email to all undergraduates in which she addressed concerns about the annual bonfire. The email stipulated that firstyear students were to make “just one loop” around the fire and that any students caught attempting to touch the fire would face up to a three-term suspension. In addition, the community was notified that, were any student to “enter the inner SEE HOMECOMING PAGE 5

Construction begins on West End Irving Institute building B y Andrew Sasser The Dartmouth

As students walk around campus, they may notice yet another construction project underway. Construction began on the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society on Oct. 7. Expected to open at the beginning of the Fall 2021 term, the new building will be located

between the Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering on Tuck Drive.

In 2016, the College announced the creation of the Irving Institute, which intends to address issues of energy and society, prepare future generations of energy leaders and enhance understanding SEE IRVING PAGE 3

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Students of all House communities will again be able to access social spaces such as House Center B.

B y HAYDEN WELTY The Dartmouth

The five residential social spaces on campus — House Center A, House Center B, Occom Commons, Brace Commons and the common spaces of Fahey — will, effective this Friday, again be open to students of all House communities.

This change, announced in an email to campus by Student Assembly leadership Thursday evening, alters the campus access policy changes enacted earlier in the term. However, the policy restricting access to residential buildings outside of one’s House community remain in place.

These changes come after two full meetings and several other smaller discussions over the past two and a half weeks of a working group on campus access.

The group consists of Student Assembly senators, Inter-House council members, dean of the College Kathryn Lively, student body president Luke Cuomo ’20, student body vice president Ariela Kovary ’20, associate dean of residential life Michael Wooten and occasionally various House professors.

Kovary said that the main objective of the group is to bring both the student and administrator perspective together to the complex issue of the balance of safety,

community and access in College facilities.

Wooten noted that the policy change is not the last step for the working group.

“This isn’t a conclusion,” Wooten said. “This is an intermediary step that we’ve taken because we’ve all agreed together that opening these communal spaces again is in the best interest of campus.”

Cuomo added that he wants to see additional changes and that he and Kovary are committed to compromise.

A Student Assembly-led petition, which included over 3,000 signatures and hundreds of comments, prompted the creation of this working group.

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Dartmouth hosts meeting of Ivy League veterans group B y JOEY CHONG

The Dartmouth Staff

Earlier this month, Dartmouth hosted the fall 2019 meeting of the Ivy League Veterans Council. Over 50 student-veterans gathered in Collis Common Ground to update the other members about the veteran community and work together to solve veterans’ issues.

The ILVC was founded in 2015 to address the underrepresentation of veterans, according to ILVC president and Stanford University undergraduate Adam Behrendt.

ILVC member schools include Brown University, the College of William and Mary, Cornell University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Stanford, the University

of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California had representatives at the meeting but do not have official chapters of the ILVC. The meeting opened with a welcome from Dartmouth President Emeritus James Wright. Wright discussed the importance of veterans coming together and sharing their experiences with the community.

During the morning session, school representatives described the changes in their respective populations of student-veterans and highlighted successes and areas for improvement. In the afternoon session, the participants had a discussion about increasing productivity, Behrendt said.

The University of Chicago was inducted as an official member of the ILVC during the meeting. The member institutions also agreed to publish an annual report to document updates within their organization. The report also allows student-veterans to “have a collective voice that says these are issues that are common across many schools,” Behrendt said.

This recent meeting was the first time that Dartmouth hosted the ILVC on campus. Behrendt said that this meeting was the first time the Dartmouth Student Veterans Association attended the ILVC’s meetings.

S VA p r e s i d e n t B r a n d y n Humberstone ’22 said that D a r t m o u t h w a s a p p ro a ch e d approximately two months ago by

the ILVC about Dartmouth hosting the meeting.

“We did this on very short notice,” Humberstone said. “It went much smoother than I expected.”

The SVA also received guidance from the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni. DUSA Adjutant Chad Rairie ’16 explained that he helped guide the SVA in planning the meeting. According to Rairie, DUSA helps to “facilitate for the undergraduate veterans their goals and what they want to achieve with the College” by providing mentorship and advice throughout the planning process.

“The undergraduates run and plan everything,” Rairie said. “I’m just here as a backstop.”

Humberstone said he appreciated the community developed within

Dartmouth through the process of hosting the ILVC. Behrendt underscored the wider community developed through the ILVC. “The group is really nice for the community that it builds,” Behrendt said. “They do some productive things, but one of the greater values is there are so few vets at each school — which is why the group exists.

This gives them a community.”

Rairie highlighted the importance of student-veterans coming together to discuss institutional changes they wish to see at their respective universities.

“The biggest benefit of this is that they get to talk to other people with similar experiences and see how other people have solved issues,” Rairie said. “It’s an opportunity for Dartmouth to lead.”

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Restrictions on student access to dorm buildings remain in place FROM CARD ACCESS PAGE 1

Wooten said he was surprised by the significant response from the student body.

“Students … really feel like they own their experience, which is great,” Wooten said. “As such, when a decision is made that changes the way students can navigate the space the way they’re accustomed to, there’s discomfort about that.”

According to a recent survey conducted by The Dartmouth, 80 percent of students strongly oppose the new policies while an additional 14 percent somewhat oppose the changes.

Despite the progress of the working group on social spaces, access to residential spaces is still a contested issue.

Wooten said that he made the initial decision to restrict access because he believed it would help

promote safety. He added that while the changes may be inconvenient, he feels that the changes have been unduly criticized.

“One of my disappointments is that the characterization of this has been that it [has] actually … created less safe communities, and I think those are categorically false statements,” Wooten said.

However, Cuomo said that Student Assembly still maintains its stance that the restriction of residential access makes campus less safe.

“Our stance is that in some ways access restrictions can improve safety, but in other ways, there are unintended consequences of restricted access that perhaps have undermined a little bit the intentions of the policy,” Cuomo said.

Wooten said that House Centers A and B, commonly referred to as “The Onion” and “The Cube,” have

been a real focal point of access, and that students –– regardless of their house affiliation –– enjoy these space many students. He said that the main theme in the student body’s petition was access to social spaces.

Cuomo agreed, adding that “we have to find a balance between community and safety and flexibility that is amenable to both students and the administration.”

Wooten said that he wants to continue to strive to balance competing concerns of safety and access, especially in light of the varying quality of Dartmouth’s facilities Cuomo said he appreciated “Mike [Wooten] and Dean Lively’s absolute willingness to engage with us and listening to our concerns.”

Likewise, Wooten said that Cuomo and Kovary have been great partners in the working group.

Cuomo said that the results of

this process show that student-driven change in administrative policies is possible and thanked the student body for its help in propelling action.

“I learned the value of coming out with a strong point and quickly addressing an issue,” Cuomo said.

“I also learned that I think the most valuable thing we had as Student Assembly in this process was the support of the overwhelming majority [of the] student body — and not just support, but the fact that they were outspoken, not just with us, but with the administration at large.”

In response to questions about freshmen who had not lived on campus under the previous system of universal access, Cuomo said that members of the Class of 2023 had the most signatures on the petition.

“Many of them [first-year students] experienced universal access for one week during Orientation and had it taken away,” Cuomo said. “So they

were a little bit aware of how things used to be. But I think they were as fierce in their opposition as any of the other classes I know.”

Wooten said he encourages students to continue voicing their feedback.

“What we saw is the immense response as a student body that is possible, and it would be great to see more of that,” Wooten said. “It would be great to see students activated about important issues.”

Wooten added that he disagrees with the notion of the administration and students as competing forces.

“We subdivide as if we’re not on the same team,” Wooten said. “My job is to enable this place to be the best place, not to create barriers for people to be productive members of the community.”

Peter Charalambous contributed reporting.

New building, with sustainability features, to be 55,000 square-feet FROM IRVING PAGE 1

of the field. Gifts of $113 million, led by an $80 million donation from the Irving Oil Company, funded the enterprise, which was named in honor of energy industrialist Arthur Irving.

According to senior project manager for construction James Pike, the new 55,000 square-foot building will house two classrooms in its basement. On the main floor, there will be a multi-use atrium space, small café and meeting rooms. The upper floor will feature two dry labs, which Irving Institute director Elizabeth Wilson said will be used for important research on energy and society.

The building has also been designed to enhance sustainability.

According to Pike, the building will make use of energy-efficient mechanical systems and natural ventilation to reduce the energy demands of the building. Pike also noted that the institute will seek a LEED platinum certification, the highest-level energy rating for

energy efficiency from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Wilson said that she hopes the building becomes a hub for discussion on energy and society. While she joked that the current building is just a “hole in the ground,” she emphasized the cross-disciplinary nature of the Irving Institute, adding that she hopes to draw upon resources from Tuck, Thayer and other departments to further the institute’s mission and research.

“We hope the new building will become a crossroads for energy and society-related research, education and community,” Wilson said. “We want people to come together.”

Wilson also said that though the building is currently under construction, the Irving Institute is already having a significant impact on campus. Through initiatives such as the Energy 101 lecture series, biweekly lunches on energy topics and Energy Immersion trips to Texas and Louisiana, Wilson hopes that the institute will continually facilitate

discussion and research on campus about energy topics.

Max Holden ’22, a leader in the Dartmouth Energy Alliance, said he hopes that the opening of the new building will excite students about the topics of energy and society.

According to its website, the Energy Alliance, a student organization that allows students to “broaden their understanding of the field, engage with the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, and connect with the energy community at Dartmouth and beyond campus,” gained recognition from the Council on Student Organizations on Oct. 16.

Holden also said that the new building will be a space for new extracur ricular opportunities and student learning beyond the classroom.

“It will be an open, creative space,” Holden said. “Hopefully, [the institute] will spark an interest in energy at an early stage for new students.”

Pike said that the first week of

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Construction on the Irving Institute recently began on the campus’ West End.

construction has involved setting up site logistics and temporary fencing for the areas impacted on Tuck Mall.

He projected that the roof will be completed by September 2020, with the final installation of sustainability features coming in April of 2021.

With the ongoing construction, Wilson did note that there may be some disruption of traffic on Tuck

Drive. Pike said that regular bus routes that stop at Tuck will still be able to run their normal routes.

Visitors will be directed to park at a temporary location on Tuck Mall, and a new access road has also been opened off of Wheelock Street to allow access to the Channing Cox parking lot and back circle behind Thayer.

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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST EZGI OKUTAN ‘22

THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

Being an International Student

Verbum Ultimum: Answering the Call

Dartmouth fosters cultural richness, but at what cost?

International students consist of 12 percent of the Class of 2023, and they come from 51 different countries, each bringing their own cultural richness to the College.

Have you ever wondered, “At what cost?”

There are many challenges I face as an international student, such as language, a homesickness for my culture and a lack of cultural integration to Dartmouth values.

By confronting these issues, the Dartmouth community can improve the experience of its international students and create a campus that is both cohesive and diverse.

The first obstacle for international students upon arriving is the misunderstanding about our troubles with language. Being bilingual isn’t the same as learning a language and studying abroad for a term — in that we understand the nuances of both languages — but we still make mistakes out of habit. Though Turkish is my first language, when I go back to Turkey, I have a slightly harder time speaking it. I forget certain idioms, or translate English idioms to their Turkish counterpart in an awkward way.

And when I come back to the United States, I may speak slowly and make mistakes I’m aware of like saying “close” instead of “switch off” the lights. Occasionally, an American friend will correct me with a smile. I appreciate the effort, but I am aware that I make hundreds of grammar or vocabulary mistakes everyday, and being corrected doesn’t rectify this. Native speakers should not correct us when we make small mistakes, and should not laugh if what we say sounds awkward. It can come off as condescending, especially because we’re already

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trying our best.

Cultural integration is also an ongoing journey, and homesickness for a familiar culture comes with it. The Dartmouth community makes significant efforts to appreciate different cultures, but some cultures have been underappreciated compared to others. From my experience, I can say that the Turkish, Islamic and Middle Eastern cultural heritages have been neglected. When I say I am from Turkey, my friends always perk up with interest in knowing more about the country, culture and its people. However, I don’t get to share my culture with people apart from my close circle. Dartmouth should continue to build and expand the platforms through which we can share our culture.

I am a part of the International Students Association, which has events that foster cultural awareness and provide a space for dialogue. The next ISA event is going to be a discussion between students from both China and Hong Kong. The Great Issues Scholars program, run by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, also gave me the opportunity to meet lots of people whose cultures were different from my own. I got to appreciate their cultures and they got to appreciate mine. One of my friends whom I met through GIS visited me in Istanbul, and I took him to Hagia Sophia, which was built in the Byzantine era as a church and then converted to a mosque by the Ottomans. It now operates as a museum due to Turkey’s respect for both religions, which he found very interesting. The funding for these Dartmouth programs should SEE OKUTAN PAGE 6

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Donors to the College should consider where funds are needed most.

This Homecoming weekend, during Dartmouth’s sestercentennial, alumni came to celebrate. Between green-lit buildings and a cake shaped like Dartmouth Hall, an implicit push for alumni to share their wealth with the College was tangible.

That tradition is not unique to this school — depending upon the donations of alumni to provide for current and future students is core to the business model of any college.

But as Dartmouth continues with its capital campaign, “The Call to Lead,” it is important to consider how those donations are allocated and who benefits from them.

Dartmouth is fortunate to have a wealth of generous donors, for which all of us should be grateful. Those individuals and corporations who do feel so moved to support this College should, however, seriously consider what is most needed by the school for day-to-day life. For instance, many dorms — including the Masses, Topliff, River, Fayes and Choates — are physically inaccessible, meaning they have stairs at entrances and do not include elevators. This causes issues for students when they are frequently moving residences, as well as excludes students with mobility disabilities from living or attending events in these spaces. In the day-to-day life of a student, something like an elevator or, perhaps, new vacuum cleaners for dorms may not seem like the most glamorous of donations — nor does it result in one’s name stretching across a doorway — but they are pragmatic and significant student needs.

We are not insensitive to the daunting task of fundraising. Instead, this Editorial Board is asking a donor who would be enticed by a named and permanent legacy of theirs on campus to question how far-reaching their gift would be. Perhaps it could reach further.

There are issues of physical and financial accessibility on this campus that could be rectified by strategic donations. Those in a position to do so could, for example, eliminate the fees for materials that accompany studio art courses but not lab courses. Another donation could make physical education courses — one of the few ways to satisfy the physical education requirement — totally free.

Some of this burden falls to the College to direct donors to these less ostentatious, but critically important, areas. The website and advertising campaign of The Call to Lead has commonly touted bold and ambitious

projects, like building a new computer science and engineering building and renovating Dartmouth Hall — rather than needs that are more mundane but still as pressing.

If Dartmouth doesn’t want to include a “vacuum cleaners and paintbrushes” section on the capital campaign’s website, then it should prioritize soliciting donations for the general endowment fund, which in turn helps feed the yearly operating budget.

Furthermore, money from the general fund should be frequently directed toward inequalities that exist on campus. Despite a financial aid program more robust than those of many of its peer institutions, the College does still present many hurdles for lower-income students in the form of hidden fees and additional payments that add up.

Additionally, the College’s own goals to help fund The Call to Lead’s “First Generation/Low Income Enrichment Fund,” meant to help a group that should obviously be prioritized in terms of money and resources, are unfortunately low in comparison to its bolder, flashier initiatives.

The fundraising goal was set at $25,000 to address “other needs not met through Dartmouth financial aid,” and to “promote equal access to all aspects of the Dartmouth experience for our first-generation and lowincome students.” And while $25,000 might seem like a hefty amount, this initiative is the lowest of the fundraising goals, compared to a $75,000 goal for mental health resources, $500,000 for international undergraduate scholarships and $12 million for the renovation of Dartmouth Hall.

And while most other projects are still in their funding rounds, funding for the First Generation/Low Income Enrichment Fund has been stamped with a “Funded!” icon, reaching 100 percent of the goal after having just 34 participants. This stamp is a visual indicator to donors that the initiative is no longer in need of money, despite the opposite. There’s no debating that all of The Call to Lead initiatives will expand student opportunities and financial aid scholarships, but it is important that we support those who need it not only upon matriculation, but throughout their four years.

Many students may be unfamiliar with where the College’s dollars come from and how they are allocated. Trite quips about SEE VERBUM ULTIMUM PAGE 6

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Fire, with similar design from last year, burned exactly as expected FROM HOMECOMING PAGE 1

ring,” on-duty members of the Hanover Fire Department would extinguish the bonfire. Following the guidelines set forth by the College, no students attempted to either climb the fence or to touch the bonfire.

In recent years, a handful of students have gotten past the fence and entered this inner ring, which the town calls the “collapse zone,” in an attempt to touch the bonfire. Seven students attempted to enter the collapse zone in 2017 and an estimated 50 did in 2016, according to previous reporting by The Dartmouth.

“This is exactly what we were hoping would occur in terms of a shift in how bystanders interact with the fire,” said Hanover town manager Julia Griffin. “I think the College making it very clear that if one person attempted to touch [the fire], [it] would be extinguished, is what it’s taken for people to take seriously our concern … in terms of that fire’s capacity to collapse in any direction at any time.”

For this year’s bonfire, the town was on particularly high alert, expecting a large crowd for a Homecoming weekend that coincided with the College’s 250th anniversary celebration and with the peak of leaf-peeping season, according to Griffin.

Dartmouth Safety and Security and the Hanover Fire Department worked together throughout the evening to ensure bonfire safety.

During the event, embers flew out from the bonfire, in some cases floating down into the crowd of spectators. Montás and Hanover Fire Department chief Martin McMillan remained in constant communication throughout this period, according to Montás.

“Had the wind shifted where the sparks were to come in below, then we were ready to spray a mist of water to subdue the sparks,” Montás said. “We were monitoring very closely and were at the ready.”

According to Griffin, several of these embers landed on the clothing of spectators and “one or two” onlookers sought medical attention from an ambulance stationed nearby after embers landed in their eyes.

H o w e v e r, e n g i n e e r i n g department chair Douglas Van Citters ’99, who served as head of a committee tasked with redesigning the bonfire and organizing social activities, said that he believes these embers were “the function of the pallets that have been used for many years as the filler for the fire.” He said that the department “certainly paid attention to this,” but the gusts subsided and the sparks became a “non-problem.”

He added that this year’s fire — which had the same design as

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No students attempted to touch the Homecoming bonfire this year.

last year — burned and collapsed exactly as expected.

Van Citters first took up the task in the summer of 2018, after Hanover sent a letter informing the College that it would not approve an outdoor activities permit for the bonfire unless Dartmouth agreed to modify its structure.

Before the 2018 bonfire, Van Citters conducted a failure analysis of the previous tower’s tendency to collapse sideways. He then began the process of designing a tower that would instead fall in on itself. Van Citters decided to modify the top of the tower to resemble a “beehiveshaped structure” that would fall in first, subsequently causing the “remainder of the tower to fall in on itself.” “[The tower] did exactly as expected,” Van Citters said. “In fact, the collapse was identical to last year’s, where the very top level fell into the center first and after that, about 20 minutes later, the remainder of the fire collapsed inward on itself.”

D e n n i s c a l l e d t h i s ye a r ’s Homecoming a “very safe event” and applauded the College for providing attendees with other “opportunities and events to enjoy” along with the bonfire.

“The Hanover Fire Department and the Hanover Police were outstanding,” Montás said. He also noted that additional support was provided by Green Mountain Concert Services, a company that provides security for events throughout the Northeast.

Additionally, Griffin added safety and security issues were kept to a minimum during the weekend.

“It went really well,” Griffin said. “I heard of no problems. It was about an average Homecoming in terms of the number of issues that [Safety and Security], [Hanover Police] and Hanover Fire dealt with.”

In certain locations — notably near th e co n s t r u ct i o n cr an e on Engineering Drive where two students were arrested for trespassing earlier this term — the

town and the College stepped up security according to Griffin. No incidents were reported at these sites.

According to Dennis, no arrests were made on the night of the bonfire. The only student arrest of the weekend — for underage intoxication — came on Saturday.

Montás also said that his office had seen a “noted decline” in Good Sam incidents relative to Homecoming in 2018 — only three students required the service over the weekend.

“This weekend almost felt like a regular weekend,” he said.

Dennis emphasized that this and last year’s Homecoming weekends were “certainly better than in years past.”

Nicholas Taborsky ’23 described his Homecoming experience as “pretty great” and noted that other students were not bothered by the one-lap rule.

“It obviously would have been fun to run around,” Taborsky said, “but I don’t think it detracted from the experience.”

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019

THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

THE MONSTER IN THE BASEMENT UUGANZUL TUMURBAATAR ’21

TODAY 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Lecture: “Political Theology as Political Orthodoxy in Contemporary Russia,” with Loyola Marymount University professor Cyril Hovorun, sponsored by the Russian Department, Moore B03.

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Staged Reading: “Bla(n)ck Piranha,” by Stella Asa ’22, sponsored by the Theater Department, 004 Bentley Theater.

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Viewing: “Public Astronomical Observing,” sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Department, Shattuck Observatory.

TOMORROW 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Dinner: “Community Harvest Dinner,” sponsored by the Native American Program, Native American House.

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Staged Reading: “Tires of a Dream,” by Nicholas Gutierrez ’20 and directed by Naomi Agnew ’20, sponsored by the Theater Department, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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be maintained and expanded.

Part of cultural integration is not just expressing an interest, but recognizing and respecting the differences between cultures. International students come with a distinct set of cultural norms that might not align with the values of Dartmouth life. Talking about sex and drinking culture might be taboo for some international students. It might take time to adapt to living in a mixedgender dorm. Turkish college dorms are usually divided into separate girls’ and boys’ dorms, and it might even be considered a disciplinary violation to enter the other sex’s dorms. Clearly, these are very different from the Dartmouth dorm system. There is no way to be aware of specific differences in every culture, but students at Dartmouth should be cognizant of differences and understand that some questions or topics may be

considered insensitive or offensive.

Rather than just expecting students to learn how to navigate through college life and effortlessly assimilate American values into their lives, the Dartmouth community should validate the right to different values and communicate that there’s no one specific way to experience college. More cultural sensitivity and integration training for freshmen can be one way to go about this, but most importantly, this endeavor should include both international students and U.S. residents.

Cultural exchanges go both ways, so while American students should be more respectful and hopefully take an interest in their peers’ cultures, it behooves international students to learn about American culture as well.

However, there is a lot of progress needed to make Dartmouth more inclusive for international students, and sharing the problems we face is the first step.

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the size of the endowment overestimate how many of those dollars are actually available for the College to spend freely. If gifts are earmarked for a specific purpose, legally, the College may only use them for those purposes.

An example is the Sanborn Tea Service, a treasured tradition that likely would have been cut from a budget somewhere across the decades if it had not been endowed specifically for the purpose of keeping it alive. Quirks like this one texture the campus community in important ways, but they are also not critical to the function of the College. The fact that it has survived is a testament to the importance of donations — as well as who makes them and what they give them to.

Where money is spent says a lot about the values of a community, both of the people who reap the benefits of that money and the people who care enough to give theirs away. As Dartmouth reimagines its community and looks toward the future, our community should remember that change comes from practice, not from words.

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Student Spotlight: Adam Riegler ’20 a director with an acting past B y Veronica Winham The Dartmouth Staff

Before coming to the woods of New Hampshire for college, Adam Riegler ’20 found his love for theater on some of the biggest stages in New York. From acting on Broadway to directing at Dartmouth, Riegler’s upcoming show “Red Speedo,” which will premiere on a Dartmouth stage on Nov. 15, will draw on his lifetime of experience with theater.

Riegler boasts an impressive acting resume; he has been in multiple films and involved in two Broadway shows, including playing the role of young Shrek in “Shrek The Musical” in 2008 and Pugsley Addams in “The Addams Family” in 2010. “[Working on Broadway] was really incredible, I mean as great as it sounds,” Riegler said. “It was a super exciting time. I learned both about working in the theater and Broadway, but also about work ethic in general.”

Upon coming to Dartmouth, Riegler discovered that his passion for theater did not lie solely in acting; rather he found that re-imagining plays he respected was what he wanted to do with his life.

“I think it’s sort of something that happened when I came to college … starting my freshman year, I realized that acting was not really my end goal in life,” Riegler explained. “The thing that makes me happiest in the theater is to really create a show, take a script and build the show out of that.”

During his sophomore year at Dartmouth, Riegler took to Broadway again, this time as a production assistant for the show “Meteor Shower.” This experience solidified his newfound enthusiasm for working behind the scenes and led him from acting onto the path

of working off-stage and behind the Similar to “Mr. Wolf,” “Red scenes.

Speedo” also features a small cast Theater professor Jamie Horton — this time with only four people: has known Riegler throughout his Ray, his coach, his ex-girlfriend and time at the College and has served his brother are the main characters. as Riegler’s adviser on both of the “I love working on shows with shows Riegler has produced, “Mr. small casts because we can sit around Wolf ” and, soon, “Red Speedo.” a table and I can basically chat with “He started out as an actor and the actors over the script and we can has had some significant professional figure out who these characters are experience and then he decided and what we’re trying to achieve in that he was really more interested each scene,” Riegler said. “I get a lot in the world of directing, which he of input from them, which is nice, has embraced and has distinguished because obviously I’m still learning.” himself already,” During Horton said. t h e d i r ecting “The thing that makes The first play process, Riegler t h a t R i e g l e r me happiest in the said he loves p r e s e n t e d t o theater is to really giving notes to the department his cast members, create a show, take a to put on was because if they Rajiv Joseph’s script and build the disag ree with “ M r. Wo l f , ” show out of that.” some of his which is about points, he feels as an abducted girl though he learns reuniting with -ADAM RIEGLER ’20 even more. her family. In Nicolas order to direct Bergen ’20, who a show at Dartmouth, students are was known Riegler through the required to take a directing class and transition from actor to director, plays a design class prior to proposing their Peter, the brother, who Riegler says project. is an “incredibly well-crafted” and Riegler described “Mr. Wolf ” “multi-dimensional” character. as a “perfect” first show to direct; “I’m very excited to see where he was able to bounce ideas off [Adam] takes ‘Red Speedo,’” Bergen of professors, managed a cast of said. “It has a lot of great opportunity only five people and had a lot of and potential in it, and I think he departmental support. As opposed sees that. He often brings a different to the independence Riegler has perspective to lines and moments with “Red Speedo,” “Mr. Wolf ” was than what I consider, which I facilitated by the theater department. appreciate because it helps me “Red Speedo” is scheduled to play expand and diversify my acting.” at the Bentley Theater in the Hop Riegler said he saw “Red Speedo” on Nov. 15-17. The play, written by performed in New York years ago Lucas Hnath, is centered around and fell in love with it, so he was a swimmer named Ray and the eager to propose a production of it performance-enhancing drugs found at Dartmouth. in his team’s locker room fridge the Riegler added that he is drawn night before the Olympic trials. to the show because of the complex

ch a r a c t e r s a n d c o m p l i c at e d relationship dynamics that make the show into one about moral implications and underlying agendas.

In addition to directing “Mr. Wolf ” and “Red Speedo,” Riegler spent his off term working at a casting agency in New York and his summer studying theater in London. He said these learning opportunities were invaluable to his future work in the

industry.

Horton said he has noticed the effects of Riegler’s dedication to gaining experience in the theater world while he is off campus.

“You can sense not only does he have the skills and the discipline but the inspiration and instincts of a director now, and it is exciting for us to see those develop and look forward to his future,” Horton said.

COURTSESY OF ADAM RIEGLER

Adam Riegler ’20 enjoys the beautiful foliage from the top of Gile Mountain.

SPORTS SPORTS The Redshirt Senior

with Evan Griffith ’18 Th’20 The Redshirt Senior: A Look Back at Dartmouth’s Big Win on Homecoming Homecoming weekend has come and gone, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how perfect the weather was that weekend. As far as I can remember as a sixthyear (yeah I’m old), this is the only time Homecoming has aligned so perfectly with the changing leaves.

It’s important to take a moment to reflect on what’s important to you and take time to ensure your mental health is in order. I recently caught up with an old friend of mine in the Class of 2018 who made it up for Homecoming, and it was refreshing to have a conversation with her outside the realm of the Dartmouth bubble.

Take the time you need to ensure that you’re happy — that’s all that’s important.

Now that I’m done waxing poetic about happiness in a sports column, let’s talk about what happened in Hanover over Homecoming weekend. Well, the Dartmouth football team held up on its home turf against the Yale University Bulldogs in a match that featured two teams in the upper echelon of the Ivy League

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(and a game which I did not attend).

Dartmouth beat Yale 42-10. This win was also fitting to have happened on Homecoming weekend, as it was Buddy Teevens’ 100th win as the Big Green’s head coach. Going into this matchup, both Dartmouth and Yale were undefeated and Yale was also named the favorite to win the Ivy League in this year’s Ivy League preseason poll. The stage was set for a high quality matchup, but after the first quarter it seemed like just another game for the Big Green.

Dartmouth jumped out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter. Quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20 connected with wide receiver Drew Estrada ’20 on a 75-yard touchdown pass on the second play of the game. Then Gerbino ran for a six-yard touchdown in addition to quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 running for a two-yard score after an interception by Quinton

Arello ’23 to put the Big Green up 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. Hunter Hagdorn ’20 would then put up another touchdown to secure a 28-3 lead for the Big Green at halftime.

Dartmouth would do the opposite of the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl and would keep the lead throughout the game, only allowing the Bulldogs one touchdown by Yale’s Darrion Carrington with only 47 seconds to play.

The state of the Ivy League after this weekend leaves three undefeated teams in conference play: Dartmouth, the Princeton University Tigers and the Harvard University Crimson.

Harvard has one loss outside of conference play to the University of San Diego, but then went on to defeat Brown University, Howard University and Cornell University to reach 3-1.

Princeton University is 4-0 on the year with only one conference win

against Columbia University, but the reigning Ivy League champions have some play makers to make another run for the title. In the Tigers’ most recent win against Lafayette College, running back Collin Eaddy ran the ball 17 times for 89 yards and three touchdowns to help the Tigers win 28-3. Princeton’s winning streak is currently at 14 games including the Tigers’ undefeated season last year.

Also, Princeton and Dartmouth are the only Ivy League teams currently ranked in the FCS Top 25 poll, clocking in at numbers 16 and 21, respectively. If Dartmouth wants to make a run at the Ivy League title this year, the upcoming neutral site matchup against Princeton at Yankee Stadium will be the game to watch.

Harvard has some play makers to worry about as well. In Harvard’s most recent victory this past weekend over Cornell, quarterback Jake

Smith threw for three touchdowns in Harvard’s 35-22 victory. Harvard is currently averaging 40.5 points per game, which is good for most in the Ivy League ahead of both Princeton and Dartmouth. What Dartmouth does have going for it is the best defense in the Ivy League, giving up an average of just over eight points per game in its four contests. Dartmouth plays Harvard in Cambridge the week before the Princeton matchup at Yankee Stadium, so if the Big Green can win the away matchup against Harvard that week, it’ll be a good sign going into the matchup against Princeton. It doesn’t help that the matchup against Princeton was supposed to be a home game this year due to the alternating scheduling, but now the game is at a neutral site which makes the matchup that much tougher. Here’s hoping the matchup turns out well.

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After walloping Yale, the Big Green looks ahead to fierce competition in Harvard and Princeton. These teams, along with the Big Green, currently sit atop the Ivy standings.