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College to add solar panels

Sexual misconduct committee presents

By abby mihaly

Six students attended a student community session held by the Presidential Steering Committee on Sexual Misconduct on Apr. 25. The session took place in One Wheelock and was intended to provide students with the chance to offer input on questions raised by the committee.

The session consisted of a short presentation by comittee members and a longer open discussion. Similar future sessions will be held for faculty and staff, according to Leslie Henderson, Geisel School of Medicine dean of faculty affairs and chair of

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Presidential Steering Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

“This is really a first step to begin to engage the community in the same discussions that we’ve been having as a committee,” Henderson said, adding that the “listening sessions” are meant to serve as “informal conversations” between community members and the committee.

The committee was created in February to examine the College’s sexual misconduct policies and processes and began meeting weekly in mid-February to discuss possible improvements in the campus-wide sexual misconduct

Beginning midJune, Dartmouth will be installing new solar panels on eight buildings on campus. Photovoltaic arrays will be added to the roofs of the Class of 1953 Commons and Fahey-McLane, KemenyHaldeman, McLaughlin, Moore, Russell-Sage, Silsby and Sudikoff halls.

Three campus buildings — Berry Sports Center, Davis Varsity House and MacLean Engineering Sciences Center — already underwent solar installations last October.

The decision to add solar installations t o c a m p u s bu i l d i n g s follows a report by the College’s Sustainability Task Force, according to environmental studies professor and S u s t a i n a b i l i t y Ta s k Force co-chair Andrew Friedland.

The report, entitled “Our Green Future: The Sustainability Road Map For Dartmouth,” was released last April and proposed moving to 50 percent of campus energy from renewable sources by 2025 and 100 percent by 2050.

Friedland said that

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the re port’s “big gest recommendation, because it’s the biggest part of Dartmouth’s carbon footprint, was [transitioning away from] the [use of] No. 6 fuel oil, [which is a dense, viscous mixture produced by blending heavy residual oils with a lighter oil], ... at the power plant.”

In order to facilitate this transition away from No. 6 fuel oil, the report s u g g e s t e d i n c re a s i n g t h e C o l l e g e ’s s o l a r capabilities, pursuing wind power and reducing the energy consumption of campus food systems, SEE SOLAR PAGE 2

College publishing company to shut down By ruben gallardo The Dartmouth Staff

The University Press of New England board of governors voted on Apr. 17 to dissolve the publishing consortium and wind down operations by December. Founded in 1970, the UPNE consortium included as many as 10 institutions, but for the last two years, it has been run by Dartmouth and

Brandeis University. Both institutions indicated that the decrease in membership over the years made the press “financially unsustainable” to operate and that they will take independent control of their own imprints.

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The University Press of New England’s offices are currently located in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

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Allison Gelman ’18 awarded Carnegie policy fellowship B y Alice zhang The Dartmouth

A f t e r a h i g h s ch o o l trip to Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., Allison Gelman ’18 said she wanted t o s t u d y i n t e r n at i o n a l relations and make an impact on the world. On her way to doing so, Gelman

was recently named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The fellowship will allow her to participate in the geoeconomics and strategy program, where she will be conducting policy research in Washington D.C. with Carnegie’s senior scholars.

“I really love working with other people and having a dialogue, and I guess I wanted to do something that was big and meaningful,” Gelman said. “I thought the way to do that was … working with other countries and trying to make things work globally.”

According to Gelman,

she will also be working on a project with 13 other junior fellows, which could include attending policy conferences as well as conducting data analytics and background research.

“T hey’re still tr ying to figure out what [the geoeconomics] program is for Carnegie,” Gelman

said. “How I like to think about it is, it’s like doing inter national economic strategy, but then looking at how that inf luences international policy and how that influences things that happen on our side domestically.”

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Assistant dean for scholarship advising Jessica Smolin, who serves as the College’s nominating official for the Gaither program, noted that the fellowship is a valuable opportunity to work with Carnegie staff and researchers. “ Yo u ’ r e r e a l l y d o i n g groundbreaking work on international issues at the Carnegie Foundation and really having a voice and getting to really make an impact on how we understand some of the most pressing global issues today,” Smolin said.

While attending an alumni recruitment event on campus, Gelman met Sarah Geithner ’86, who has worked as an independent consultant for the United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank.

Geithner then advised her to apply for the fellowship position, according to Gelman.

Geithner said she found that Gelman was “very open and showed impressive initiative.”

Now a double major in history and economics, Gelman said her previous internships in consulting and private equity led her to recognize that her interests lie in a more specialized field of economics.

“It took me a while to learn that economics doesn’t mean business,” she said. “Economics, the way it’s taught here at Dartmouth, is really more policy-oriented and big picture thinking.”

One source of her inspiration to pursue geoeconomics was a section of Economics 70, “The Transformation of Poland into a Market Economy,” in which she and her classmates traveled to Poland over the winter interim to study the effects of a market transition in Poland. The class gave her an understanding of how different policy solutions influenced different economic sectors, she said.

“My [application] essay was almost completely motivated by [the course],” she said. “We looked at education and labor markets, and so I used some of the research we did in the past, and then looked more into the relationship between universities and the labor market.”

Economics professor Elisabeth Curtis, who has had Gelman as a student in both Economics 70 and Economics 22, “Macroeconomics,” said that Gelman is an outgoing student whose enthusiasm shines through in teamwork.

“She will be well prepared for [the Fellowship’s research projects],” Curtis said.

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Eight new solar installations planned

Before the installation of ultimately identified eight buildings solar panels on campus Friedland said. could begin, the “The town is that were wellThe eight installations this College spent suited to solar summer will generate about three several months really excited that installations. times as much energy as the three d e t e r m i n i n g Dartmouth is putting According to arrays already in place, director which campus Bjorklund, these solar on so many of of engineering and utilities Abbe b u i l d i n g s eight buildings Bjorklund said. Despite the would be viable its buildings’ rooftops. a re re a dy fo r increase, however, she added that c a n d i d a t e s We think it’s a great installations. once all eight systems are online, f o r r o o f t o p “ W e ’ v e solar power will only cover about s o l a r a r r ay s, idea — we’re putting done a pretty 1.5 percent of the College’s total a c c o rd i n g t o solar wherever we comprehensive energy needs.

Bjorklund. look at all the can and we’re excited While that percentage may She said the buildings on seem insignificant, the solar main eligibility the College is also campus and installations will have a tangible c r i t e r i a pursuing that.” have shortlisted impact on the College’s energy included proper these eight as our expenses, according to Dan Weeks, o r i e n t a t i o n Priority 1 group director of market development for good solar that are good to for ReVision Energy, the firm exposure and go,” Bjorklund Dartmouth contracted to install ensuring that -JULIA GRIFFIN, said. the arrays. According to Weeks, the t h e a g e a n d HANOVER TOWN According installations will yield substantial c o n d i t i o n MANAGER to Hanover savings for the College over a of each roof town manager period of decades. could safely Ju l i a G r i f f i n , “These projects will add in the and efficiently Dartmouth’s millions of dollars in money saved accommodate commitment to over their installed ex p a n d i n g i t s l i f e, ” h e s a i d . a s o l a r solar capabilities is a major “These projects will “ T h a t ’s b a s e d installation. step in the right direction of on conservative add in the millions “ W e environmental sustainability. p r o j e c t i o n s of dollars in money d o n’t w a n t “The town is really excited that of grid energy to put solar Dartmouth is putting solar on so saved over their costs.” p a n e l s o n many of its buildings’ rooftops,” E a c h ro o f ’s installed life. That’s a roof that Griffin said. “We think it’s a solar installation we’re going to great idea — we’re putting solar based on conservative will take an have to take wherever we can and we’re excited average o f projections of grid them off of the College is also pursuing that.” t w o w e e k s t o energy costs.” to do work While she agreed that solar complete, Weeks on the roof,” energy’s impact on the College’s total said.

B j o r k l u n d energy needs is currently minimal, Bjorklund said -DAN WEEKS, s a i d . Griffin expressed confidence in the that the College “Then also, College’s trajectory with regard DIRECTOR OF MARKET plans to continue structurally, to renewable energy, noting that e x p a n d i n g i t s DEVELOPMENT AT will the roof incremental progress is still a solar capabilities REVISION ENERGY b e a b l e t o positive development. and will include support the “It’s a drop in the bucket, but solar technologies panels?” we’ve got to start somewhere,” she in many of its T h e said. “It’s important progress on u p c o m i n g C o l l e g e the College’s part.” building projects. She noted that there are plans to place panels on the renovated Dana Hall, the new joint building for the computer science department and the Thayer School of Engineering and existing older buildings once their roofs get replaced.

Ultimately, however, the College hopes to eventually focus less on rooftop solar installations and instead on larger, more efficient ground-mounted arrays, Bjorklund said.

“We have been studying our options, and I suspect that will be the next project,” she said. “[It will be] a larger-scale ground mount that will provide a much larger percentage of our campus energy use.”

Bjorklund added that potential locations for such an installation have been identified, but declined to go into specifics since plans have not yet been finalized.

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University Press of New Englad closes FROM PRESS PAGE 1

increase in financial support from the College for UPNE without any “commensurate increase in production volume for the remaining member imprints” presents a significant liability.

UPNE has sales under $1.5 million annually and the costs are offset by sales, services provided to other publishers, title subsides or grants from authors and member support, Lawrence wrote.

As the host institution, the College employs all of UPNE’s 20 staff members, and the press is headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire. UPNE production coordinator Doug Tifft said that the press also depends on freelancers for production editing, design and typesetting. T he College has scheduled individual appointments for UPNE staff members with Dartmouth College Human Resources to assist them with the transition, according to Tifft. “[Dartmouth] will take care of people both in ter ms of giving them a certain amount of severance and putting them in touch with job placement groups,” Tiff said. “I have no complaints so far in how they have treated us since they made their decision.”

For mer editor-in-chief of the UPNE Phyllis Deutsch said that state wide budget cuts for public universities prompted the universities to leave the consortium over the years.

She added that the expense of

membership fees did not seem to balance the benefits these institutions received by being a part of the consortium in terms of prestige and status. As institutions left the consortium, costs increased for remaining members, Deutsch explained.

“Every time [an institution] dropped out, the membership costs were split among fewer members, so [the costs] went up,” she said.

“It became a recurring pattern.”

UPNE also felt the effects of shifting trends in academic publications, according to Deutsch. For example, university presses previously published monog raphs, which covered broad new topics such as women’s studies and African-American studies. With the increase in graduate students, however, these monographs became narrower and geared towards smaller audiences, selling fewer copies. This decrease in popularity of monographs since they were first published in the 1960s could explain the decrease in sales, Deutsch said.

Acquisitions editor of the UPNE Stephen Hull added that due to the limited sales of scholarly monographs, in 2014, UPNE launched ForeEdge, a specialized trade name or imprint, to publish general interest books for a wider national audience.

“With [institutions] of higher education tur ning out more graduate students, the books started getting narrower, more theoretical and were increasingly written for a small [audience],”

Deutsch said. “There weren’t as many reasons to buy the books unless they were exactly in your field.”

UPNE’s publishing program focuses on the humanities, arts, literature, New England culture and interdisciplinary studies.

Some notable publications include winner of the 2004 National Book Award in Poetry, “Door in the Mountain,” by Jean Valentine and winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems” by Yusef Komunyakaa.

In fiscal year 2017, UPNE published 60 titles, which included 21 member titles that carry a joint imprint and 39 titles under the UPNE imprint. Of the 21 member titles, the Dartmouth College Press published eight books while Brandeis University Press published 13. UPNE also distributes around 140 titles annually from small to mediumsized publishers through its Book Partners program, according to the UPNE website.

History and Native American studies professor Colin Calloway said that the closure of the press is a loss, but recognizes that at the same time the press is less robust than when he first worked with them in the 1990s.

“I don’t know enough [about the financial considerations] to say that this is a huge mistake … hopefully it took a lot of careful consideration,” Calloway said.

“At the same time, not everything should be about the financial considerations, and university presses are not typically moneymaking operations.”

Tifft said that the shutdown of the press is a blow to non-profit book publishing because scholars now have one less place to publish their academic work.

“Profit doesn’t measure value when it comes to [evaluating] the worth of a book,” Tifft said.

“Profit was based on how many people might buy [the book], but it doesn’t measure how long it will be around … and how many people will read one [sole] copy.”

Hull said that his first concern is taking care of both the authors that had their books recently published and authors with titles under contract that will no longer be published by the press.

The College has commissioned a faculty study group, led by professor Graziella Parati, that is charged with evaluating the future of the Dartmouth College Press, which used to be a part of the UPNE consortium. The study group will present their recommendations to the president and provost of the College in November.

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An Easy Way Out

Revitalizing Dartmouth

Closing fraternity basements ignores the prevalence of intimate partner violence.

In April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a number of fraternities at Dartmouth closed their basements on the Friday of the first weekend. While their effort to stand in solidarity with those who have been sexually assaulted is laudable, such basic initiatives, including the #MeToo movement, fail to capture the complexity of the issue. These initiatives do draw attention to the prevalence of sexual assault, but they are relatively unidimensional and do not engage with issues about sexual assault that are harder to face, creating a false sense of resolvability. It is important that fraternities at Dartmouth College are acknowledging culpability for perpetuating sexual violence, even if only in a small way. However, limiting action to the physical space of a fraternity removes responsibility from individuals. Furthermore, this limited action does not address the fact that many assaults happen outside of basements and in intimate spaces with familiar people.

First of all, simply shutting down fraternity basements overlooks the influence of fraternity culture outside the physical space. Cornell’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity’s “pig roast” contest, for example, in which brothers allegedly competed to sleep with “overweight” women, took place over a long period of time. Florida International University’s Tau Kappa Epsilon came under fire for sharing at least eight female students’ nude photos in a group chat and joking about rape, among other things. In casual conversation, some women mention knowing they have been the subject of body shaming in brothers’ online or in person conversations, dismissed as a sort of “locker room talk.” These actions occurred outside of fraternity spaces while still under fraternity auspices. Fraternities are culpable for enhancing problematic sexual dynamics that already exist throughout society.

It is statistically known that sexual violence is often committed by perpetrators known to the victim, but this fact is not always reflected in trendy social media movements. According to a study by RAINN in 2015, 28 percent of rapes are committed by a stranger while at least 70 percent are committed by someone known to the victim. Forty-five percent are committed by an acquaintance and 25 percent by a current

spouse or significant other. The fraternities’ decision to close their basements echoes widespread perceptions of college sexual assault policies. An article in The Atlantic quotes College President Phil Hanlon’s online statement about the special committee, casting it as a crackdown on fraternities to “end harmful behavior, including sexual violence, high-risk drinking and exclusion in campus social spaces.” But can a special committee really end harmful behavior?

There is a stereotype that sexual violence usually occurs when two strangers meet in a basement; however, a sexual encounter can begin between two acquaintances either in or outside a fraternity basement.

Focusing all of the attention on fraternities removes the onus from individuals and places the blame on institutions, perpetuating the notion that only sleazy frat boys are capable of committing sexual assault. This attitude is echoed in another Atlantic article by Caitlin Flanagan called “The Dark Power of Fraternities,” a title that characterizes fraternities as an ominous and unknown force rather than a collective of negative attitudes from the people in it. It seems people have learned little from the Harvey Weinstein aftermath, in which men attempt to deny claims of sexual misconduct based on their supposed identity as upstanding citizens.

Stephen Wynn, chairman of the RNC, said, “The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous” and Matt Lauer, co-host of “Today,” said, “Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized.” It is not institutions that create people, but people who create institutions.

Being intoxicated in a male-dominated space clearly creates a power dynamic.

However, a more ambiguous — and perhaps even more dangerous — power dynamic exists between acquaintances and friends. Similar to the way it was difficult for the national consciousness to imagine “respectable” people and mentors as perpetrators of assault, it can be hard for people to imagine that someone they know — and maybe even someone they trust — can take advantage of them.

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The College must constantly reexamine how it meets its mission.

In its current mission statement, Dartmouth declares its commitment to preparing students for “a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership,” qualities that have been integral to Dartmouth’s mission in one form or another since its founding.

As a liberal arts college, Dartmouth achieves this by encouraging engagement with a wide range of subjects, often in intimate and dynamic contexts. In many ways, the College fulfills this successfully: Dartmouth has a student-to-faculty ratio of seven to one, boasts the highest participation rate in study abroad programs of any Ivy League institution as of 2014 and offers a plethora of opportunities for innovative learning and experience in and out of the classroom.

The current system, however, is not without its faults. In a rapidly changing world, the skills and education necessary for a truly effective liberal arts education are in flux. The purpose of a liberal arts education is to instill passion, adaptability and autonomy in students so they may live as free and thinking people. But the skills, knowledge and reasoning necessary for a successfully liberated person change with time. In this tempermental era, Dartmouth must adapt to changing environments by interrogating how it achieves its exceptional liberal arts education. There are timeless aspects of a Dartmouth education that cannot be sacrificed, but some details may require reexamination. To remain a premier destination for students, the College must recognize this reality and constantly recreate itself.

The first time many students are introduced to the liberal arts model is through the first-year writing courses and seminars.

This system, adopted to introduce first-year students to college writing, offers a myriad of options for first-year students across almost every department at the College. Though this strategy at first seems amenable to the liberal arts model, in practice, the freshman writing course does not always meet expectations. In many courses at Dartmouth, professors feel compelled to give pointers on how to write well at the college level, a sign that some students remain underprepared even after their first-year writing courses.

Additionally, the divergent nature of firstyear writing courses, which are taught by faculty from a variety of departments, may simply polarize students’ writing abilities further. A student interested in the sciences, for example, has the wonderful opportunity to learn basic writing skills in a writing course of their choice. But this focus on teaching writing through a particular academic area, if not implemented thoughtfully and with care, could provide students with an incomplete picture of the writing skills needed to succeed in a variety of disciplines. Similarly, students with deep experience in creative writing projects may segregate themselves away from more analytical compositions, making them woefully unprepared for work steeped in scientific language and style. Such balkanization is unacceptable for students as

ostensibly dynamic as those Dartmouth takes pride in educating.

The College must question the role of firstyear writing courses and seminars. Do the wide variety of courses available adequately prepare students to write, think and function in many dynamic contexts? Students will be expected in their time at Dartmouth and in life to be adroit consumers and producers of many types of writing and media; it is in the College’s interest to ensure that its graduates are able to navigate such tasks with ease.

After their first year, students at the College continue to be molded by the distributive requirements, the fundamental way through which the College ensures students partake in a liberal arts education. Spread across eight different classifications, students are required to take courses meant to impart understanding of the arts, scientific thinking, social analysis and global perspectives. The College attempts to deepen this final point, with debatable success, by implementing world culture requirements that mandate coursework studying western and nonwestern societies, as well as human culture and identity.

Adopted in 1994, the College’s current model for distributive requirements is laudable, yet risks antiquation. Dartmouth should again scrutinize its success in providing a liberal arts education in line with the skills necessary to live a truly free and enlightened life in the modern world. For example, in an era of increasing concern about identity and morality, the Systems and Traditions of Thought, Meaning and Value requirement may need to be expanded or reinterpreted.

Under the status quo, a religion course and a course on political philosophy fulfill the same distributive requirement — does the College truly believe that these each fill the same intellectual niche? Similarly, the Social Analysis requirement covers topics from history to linguistics to sociology. A course on ancient Greek history teaches very different lessons than a course on sociolinguistics, yet the College treats them as equivalent. In its 1994 renovation, the number of distributive requirements was decreased in exchange for increased breadth of subject material per requirement. The College may again consider this idea as it reevaluates the realities that come with professional, personal and academic living in the 21st century.

Navigating the world of the 21st century, a time that will be dominated by technological advancements and social upheaval that will fundamentally alter the human condition, current and future students must be independent, critical and dynamic thinkers and actors. The College should consider the imperative of creating tomorrow’s global citizens more deeply and examine if the current model of distributive requirements meets the standards to which future generations will be held.

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Six attend sexual misconduct session

an online platform called the Sexual Henderson said that the committee Respect Website in order to house has and will continue to discuss the and consensual relationship policies all of the school’s policies in a single pros and cons of universal training. and procedures. The committee is location. She added that following the “I definitely feel like I have a tasked with reporting suggestions to “listening sessions,” the committee clearer sense of what the committee the senior leadership of the College will post questions and information has been focusing on and a sense of in May, when the committee’s work on an electronic site that will allow where they’re moving,” attendee Clara is scheduled to end, Henderson said. community members to provide Batchelder ’19 said. Batchelder is a The Steering Committee’s domain written feedback. member of MAV and an intern for the is threefold: to look into ways in which The student discussion and Sexual Violence Prevention Project.

Dartmouth might improve campus- question portion of the event raised a SPCSA executive chair and wide sexual misconduct policies, variety of issues, including the pros and MAV and SAPA member Paulina to examine possible methods of cons of the involvement of a private Calcaterra ’19 expressed her concern creating greater clarity and consistency i n v e s t i g a t o r about the lack of between polices and to identify areas v e r s u s a “The Dartmouth student voice on into which Dartmouth should consider c o m m u n i t y the committee. incorporating education and training member panel community recognizes “Just for all on-campus constituencies, to determine the benefit of having asking for student according to an email advertising the responsibility feedback in a onegood policies and community session. and sanctioning time session gives Henderson mediated the event, i n s e x u a l training now, rather the impression along senior associate dean of student m i s c o n d u c t that it’s not an than looking back later affairs Liz Agosto ’01, assistant cases. integral part to dean of postdoctoral affairs at the Agosto noted and wishing you had.” the committee’s School of Graduate and Advanced that though she w o r k , ” Studies Victoria Blodgett and biology always hopes Calcaterra said.

-LESLIE HENDERSON, professor Mark McPeek, who are all f o r h i g h e r “I think it’s cool members of the committee. Associate attendance, she CHAIR OF PRESIDENTIAL that they’re general counsel at the College Dana “got a lot out of” STEERING COMMITTEE ON i n t e g r a t i n g Scaduto was present to answer legal the Wednesday feedback from questions. session. Agosto SEXUAL MISCONDUCT all of the student, Henderson began Wednesday’s said she valued faculty and staff session by presenting questions the hearing student pieces of it, but Presidential Steering Committee input on the topic I wonder why a on Sexual Misconduct had been at the session, due student is not on considering, including whether to the importance the committee.”

Dartmouth should adopt a single of a training, knowledge and awareness Calcaterra said she was policy to address all areas of sexual program that meets the needs of “uncomfortable” with the current lack misconduct, and whether this singular students, faculty and staff. of a mandatory training for all faculty policy should cover faculty, students One of the most discussed topics members, especially in light of the and staff consistently. was faculty training. Though new recent sexual misconduct allegations Currently, the employees at the of Dartmouth psychology and brain College’s most “[Training is] so College attend sciences professors. She added that the comprehensive a new employee committee’s timeline is concerning. important and so policy is training which Due to the stated inconsistencies — t h e U n i f i e d vital to making sure includes a module such as a lack of comprehensive policy Disciplinary on Title IX, there is for staff members — Calcaterra felt our community has Procedures for currently no shared these issues required more urgent Sexual Assault, a shared baseline training among all action than the Steering Committee which generally language around members of the allows for. applies to students wider Dartmouth “This committee is just going to a n d s t u d e n t sexual violence faculty and staff. form recommendations,” she said, organizations. and gender based “[Training is] so adding that implementation would Henderson important and so have to be a second process and violence and a called the policy vital to making sure interim measures would be one way “ g o o d ” a n d shared baseline our community has to take immediate action and speed “well-vetted,” understanding of a shared baseline up reform. but emphasized language around She stressed that she did not want to that it is not a “full their rights and sexual violence sound negative, and said that having a umbrella policy,” responsibilities.” and gender based committee to think about these issues as there may be violence and a is a “good start.” cases concerning shared baseline Henderson said she expected to find faculty and staff -LIZ AGOSTO, ASSOCIATE understanding of support for increased training among notcoveredbythe DEAN OF STUDENT their rights and senior leadership. procedure, such responsibilities,” “The Dartmouth community as issues of sexual AFFAIRS Agosto said. recognizes the benefit of having good misconduct McPeek said that policies and training now, rather than where both the committee was looking back later and wishing you reporting and responding parties are also discussing how to structure had,” Henderson said. faculty members. She said some of the training to feel more like “community As to funding and support from policies that do exist are old, do not engagement” than an obligation. the College, Agosto said College connect well to other policies or lack Agosto echoed this sentiment. President Phil Hanlon “hasn’t let associated procedures.

“How do we build a program that is up the pressure on it since he started Henderson also said in the mandatory, but also embedded, and in terms of continuing to work on presentation that part of the just part of what we do at Dartmouth?” finding ways to engage on this issue [of committee’s recommendation to Agosto said. “[It] takes a long time, sexual misconduct], and that’s really senior leadership will be to create and that takes a lot of work.” heartening for me.”

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018

SUNJU LEE ‘18

TODAY

8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Exhibit: “Ledyard Canoe Club: A History of Exploration and Adventure,” curated by Jaime Eeg ‘18, Rauner Special Collections Library, Webster Hall

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Film: “Mariannes Noires,” directed by Kaytie Nielsen and MameFatou Niang, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Public Astronomical Observing, sponsored by the physics department, Shattuck Observatory

TOMORROW

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day featuring workshops and talks, sponsored by the mathematics department, Kemeny Hall 008

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“boundary 2” Anniversary Conference, sponsored by the Geisel Professorship and the Dartmouth english department, Wren Room, Sanborn House

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Met Opera in HD: “Cendrillon,” starring Joyce DiDonato and conducted by Bertrand de Billy, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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friends-with-benefits relationships are popular, it is important to consider how sexual relationships with acquaintances can create power dynamics. While the power dynamics in fraternities are now a prevalent topic, articles in the mainstream about friends-with-benefits are typically fun anecdotes about awkwardness; rarely do they consider the potential for an imbalance of power. Girls often use a buddy system when they go out, and even brothers take precautions — at least publicly — to make their basement a safer space, but a sexual encounter with a friend can begin outside of a frat, unlike hooking up with strangers after dancing in a frat basement. It is only natural

to want to trust friends, but a friend may take advantage of and betray this trust, resulting in a sexual assault that is both shocking and numbing.

Sexual violence in fraternities is still a vital conversation, and should not be minimized. In line with RAINN’s statistics, sexual harassment and shame at the hand of “friends” should be a conversation that exists beyond the genre of blog anecdotes. It is difficult but doable to place restrictions on a fraternity, but relationships cannot be regulated. This conversation is more difficult to face emotionally and practically, which makes it all the more necessary.

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Cheng’s ‘His Music Was Not A Weapon’ talk educates, inspires

of the case. The lecture often played like a conversation with multiple voices. One of those was Informed in part by the interest Regina Bradley, a scholar who of students in his course Music critically engages with concepts 45.04, “Changing the World with of black sonic resistance and Music,” professor of music William respectability. Cheng incorporated Cheng has been sharing his Dr. Bradley’s own reading of work lecture “Loud into the lecture.

Music Trial: T he interest in H i s M u s i c “Dunn’s lawyer showcasing Wa s N o t A implied Davis’ loud multiple voices was We a p o n ” best employed by a t c o l l e g e s rap music was the presence of a ro u n d t h e dangerous — in effect Ron Davis, the country. On father of the slain putting blackness M o n d a y, teen.

C h e n g itself on trial.

Following the b r o u g h t Sometimes when we presentation, the talk to Cheng’s lecture D a r t m o u t h , judge people based became a question s h a r i n g t h e on the music that and answer session story of the that included Davis they like or listen to, fatal shooting and Edens. Davis’s of unar med really terrible things presence brought b l a c k t e e n can happen.” an intimacy to the Jordan Davis. discussion that Seventeencaptivated the y e a r - o l d -WILLIAM CHENG, MUSIC audience at times Davis was shot to the point of PROFESSOR in Florida speechlessness.

by M i c h a e l He spoke about Dunn, a his own grieving 47-year-old white man who process and emergence into claimed that Davis’ “loud rap activism following the loss of his music” constituted a threat to son. In those moments, the physical his life. Cheng’s talk is primarily proximity the audience shared with interested in the subsequent trial Davis challenged the individual and political organizing that distance often maintained in occurred in the wake of Jordan’s discourse on racial violence. Davis death, and its proceeds are donated was a direct link to the life that to the Jordan Davis Foundation. was lost, a reminder of the impact Cheng’s work explores music as violence has on the lives of loved a landscape across which cultural ones. difference, social exchange and Professo r of A fri can an d political discour se can take African American Studies Trica shape. In “His Music Was Not Keaton was stirred by Davis’s A Weapon,” he used a highly words. interactive slideshow to examine “For a parent, the loss of a child how sound and music have been is unimaginable,” Keaton wrote in racialized in American society. an email. “The senseless murder of “Dunn’s lawyer implied Davis’s a child — for playing loud music loud rap music was dangerous — in — should defy all logic. Should is effect putting blackness itself on the operative word.” trial,” Cheng said. “Sometimes C o m m e n d i n g D av i s a n d when we judge people based on Cheng’s collaboration, Keaton the music that they like or listen to, wrote, “Ron Davis’s poignant really terrible things can happen.” message of forgiveness necessarily Rachel Edens, an assistant disrupts the comfort of hatred, dean at the Office of Pluralism and William Cheng’s exquisite and Leadership who advises a n a l y s i s d e m o n s t r at e s wh at black students, set the tone for the scholar-activism could and should evening with her opening remarks. resemble. Jordan Davis is now our Sharing personal thoughts on “the collective child who represents not songs that live within us” and one but many, and he should be the lives caught in the crosshairs here, playing his music and playing of hostile environments, Edens it loudly.” introduced a gravity that grounded Embracing a collectivist vision the lecture in the emotional weight of his own, Davis placed his it deserved. Her voice joined son’s death in conversation with with the many others that were the police shootings of unarmed incorporated into the lecture.

Black people in the U.S., as well C e n t e r i n g t h e a u d i t o r y as the multinational Black Lives elements of what has become Matter movement. In doing so, known as “Loud Music Trial,” Davis articulated why he believes Cheng’s presentation immersed his family was granted justice in the audience in the sensory details ways others families have not.

By JORDAN MCDONALD The Dartmouth Staff

After sharing a clip of “3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets,” a criticallyacclaimed documentary about his son, Davis reflected upon this distinction in systemic response.

He asserted that the just results of his son’s trial reveal the way that injustices committed by civilians are judged differently than those perpetrated by law enforcement.

He suspects that this is partly why his family received public support from the local police and why his son’s murderer was ultimately convicted. These differences have propelled Davis to organize with Black Lives Matter and support those who have not been protected by the criminal justice system, as he considers his son’s story of injustice to be inextricably linked to national discourse on police brutality and racial profiling.

Davis, who was thrust into the limelight following the tragedy of Jordan’s death, shared about his experiences as an activist. During the talk, Davis proclaimed to the audience that “you’re all activists now,” suggesting that activism is for everyone. Nai-lah Dixon ’21, a student who attended the

event, was inspired by Davis’s coordinated to wear black hoodies, words. Struck by the historical an item of clothing that alludes implications of Jordan’s story, to unarmed shooting victims like Dixon noted that “we still live in Trayvon Martin, who was killed the past,” and a s a re s u l t was emboldened of others’ “For a parent, the by the event to p e rc e p t i o n s loss of a child is change this. of his “ T h i s i s a unimaginable. The c r i m i n a l i t y. m ov e m e n t w e Fo l l o w i n g all have to take senseless murder of his lecture, part in to lead for a child — for playing Cheng sat radical change,” next to loud music — should Dixon said.

Davis and A f e w d a y s defy all logic. Should is was notably after the event, I the operative word.” reserved sat down to speak during the with Cheng about question the lecture and -TRICA KEATON, AFRICAN and answer his decision to session, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN invite Ron Davis answering to Dartmouth. STUDIES PROFESSOR questions that Having shared were directed two days and a few at h i m bu t meals with Davis, Cheng recalled ultimately leaving space for Davis Jordan’s presence throughout their to express his unfiltered opinions. interactions and conversation.

Acting as a witness in this portion “Jordan was always there, if of the event, Cheng was noticeably not explicitly, then at least in silent but still engaged in the spirit,” he emphasized. Allowing conversation.

Jordan’s story to shape their literal “I wanted it to be his moment,” presentation, Davis and Cheng Cheng remarked.

COURTESY OF WILLIAM CHENG

Professor of music William Cheng’s current research explores the relationship between music and social justice.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS ONE ONE

TODAY’S LINEUP

NO EVENTS SCHEDULED

ON

with Nathalie Ferneau ’18

By ANDREW WRIGHT The Dartmouth Staff

Nathalie Fer neau ’18, an intermediate flat and novice fences rider, will be the sole representative for the Big Green at the 2018 Teresa L. McDonald IHSA Scholarship Challenge National Qualifiers, in which she previously competed in 2015. Ferneau will be joined at another Nationals event by teammate Olivia Champ ’19,who is entered in the Open Equitation Over Fences event.

How did you first get into equestrian competitions?

NF: I started off competing when I was only about six years old doing small shows for fun that were hosted by the barns that I took lessons at.

These shows were purely for fun and I think that starting my show career at such low stakes events really helped me stay relaxed at bigger competitions in high school and later at Dartmouth. I started traveling to more serious competitions across New England and into New York once I got my own horse in middle school and kept competing at least a few times a year with my trainer Heidi Hauri Gill until I started college.

What has been your favorite moment from competition in your time at Dartmouth?

NF: We won the Ivies at home my sophomore year which was really wonderful. Winning a big title on our own horses with our friends and family watching makes it just that much better.

What made you want to come to Dartmouth?

NF: Growing up in Canaan, New Hampshire, I have always been aware of Dartmouth and I have known the equestrian coach Sally Batton for years. I wasn’t originally planning on coming to Dartmouth and was actually talking to Sally about tips for getting recruited to other schools’ teams. However, I took a Dartmouth class with Professor Julie Hruby in the classics department while still in high school and I loved it so much that I started seriously considering Dartmouth as an option. I also realized that Dartmouth had by far the best

riding program of any of the other schools I was considering and that definitely ended up factoring into my choice to apply early decision.

You’ll be competing in the Teresa McDonald Scholarship Challenge at Nationals in May, which isn’t a conventional equestrian competition, but is instead a test on h o rs e m a n s h i p. H o w h a s preparing for this been?

NF: I competed in this challenge my freshman year and my teammate Erin McCarthy-Keeler ’19 has also competed in it the past two years, so I have a pretty good idea of what to expect. However, the last time I went, a lot of the practical skills [I was] tested on such as wrapping the horse’s legs and taking the horse’s pulse were second nature because the horse I had in high school was constantly hurting himself and I was used to taking care of him. At Dartmouth I really don’t have to do things like this on a regular basis so I’ve been having to set aside time to practice.

I was just practicing with Sally this morning and I’ll probably be at the farm most days until Nationals to make sure I’m not rusty.

How would you describe the chemistry of the team with ever yone doing dif ferent eve n t s ? D o e s t h i s m a ke a dif ference in ter ms of cohesiveness?

NF: Everyone on our team comes in with different backgrounds and experience levels which is somewhat exacerbated by the competition structure of different divisions. However, I think that our practice structure really helps combat the divisiveness because Sally plans our practices around our class schedule, not our competition level. This means that each practice of five people will probably have people of all grades and levels riding together.

The small groups keep our team really close knit. We [also] lift as a full team twice a week and always travel to competition as a whole group and get a lot of meals together, so ultimately, I think we are a very close team despite the competition structure.

COURTESY OF NATHALIE FERNEAU

Nathalie Ferneau ’18 will be the sole representative for the Big Green at the 2018 Teresa L. McDonald IHSA Scholarship Challenge National Qualifiers in which she previously competed in 2015.

How does it feel to be a senior on the team? In what ways have things been different from your past seasons competing?

NF: This year I am not only a senior but we also have a very young team.

I feel like this naturally made my focus turn away from my individual competition and more toward showing the new members the ropes.

This has been my favorite year on the team because I feel like I learned that I am most effective as a team member behind the scenes rather than in the show ring. I love riding and showing, but I think I love helping my friends and teammates even more.

What has been the most challenging part or moment of your time on the equestrian team?

NF: The type of competition in college is judging the rider’s position and effectiveness on the horse. Before

college, I rode in events that were either more objective because they were timed speed events or judged both the horse and the rider. At the beginning of college, I had a hard time dealing with the extremely subjective nature of the sport, along with the pressure of having all the attention on me. Nerves weren’t really a problem, but I did have to learn that sometimes the judge and your coach won’t see the same things and to not take judging decisions too personally.

How has it been balancing athletics and schoolwork, along with extracurriculars, over the last four years?

NF: I think because I was on the team almost from day one, I really don’t have anything else to compare it to.

While practicing takes up a ton of my time, it ultimately makes me much more organized with my time and

my grades are usually better when I’m in season than when I’m out. I do think that I missed out on other extracurricular activities because I am on the team, but I have never regretted it.

Do you think you’ll try to stay involved with horses and competition after your time at Dartmouth?

NF: I really hope that horses can always be a part of my life. However, owning a horse and especially competing is very expensive and time-consuming, so it probably won’t be in the cards until at least a few years after graduation. I’m very lucky in that I know I will always have the Morton Farm and the Dartmouth Riding Center to come home to if I ever need a horse fix.

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