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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019
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Pride events kick off, Kamala Harris campaigns at will conclude May 3 Dartmouth, lauds student activism B y REILLY OLINGER The Dartmouth
From April 19 to May 3, Dartmouth will celebrate its 13th annual celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride. A wide variety of programming will be held under the general theme of “Different Strides, One Pride” — a call for inclusivity and unity in the queer community. This year’s Pride will last for two weeks in order to accommodate the large number of events, according to Pride’s programing chair Jeremy Rodriguez ’22. “I think it’s really important to acknowledge and celebrate everyone and include everyone,”
Rodriguez said. “People from the queer community come from so many different backgrounds that it’s really important to acknowledge that and acknowledge that not everyone is openly proud and queer.” Last year’s theme was “Queer and Here,” a theme which Rodriguez said he believes “spoke to being more out and proud about being queer.” Although this message rings true for many people, he said the committee tried to emphasize inclusivity this year. Makale Camara ’21, a
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New food-ordering app spreads to several Hanover restaurants B y SAVANNAH ELLER The Dartmouth Staff
A new food-ordering application is gaining popularity among College students and restaurants along Hanover’s Main Street. Called Snackpass, the app allows students to order food in advance for delivery or pickup at participating restaurants. Since the app’s
Hanover launch last month, 10 restaurants have joined the app and over 2,000 students at the College have created accounts, according to Kevin Tan, who cofounded the app with Yale student Jamie Marshall and Ohio State University alumnus Jonathan Cameron. Tan said he co-founded SEE SNACKPASS PAGE 3
Harris spoke to a crowd of 400 students and community members at Alumni Hall on Tuesday
B y ANDREW CULVER AND MARY WinteRS The Dartmouth Staff
2020 Democratic presidential candidate and California senator Kamala Harris spoke to a standingroom-only crowd of around 400 Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents Tuesday afternoon in Alumni Hall. Speaking on topics ranging from healthcare to racism to President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, Harris spoke about her policies and campaign for about 30 minutes before taking two questions from the audience. The most recent polling for the New Hampshire primary — conducted by the
University of New Hampshire — showed Harris with four percent support in the state. She trails Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former vice president Joe Biden (D), South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who are polling at 30, 18, 15 and five percent respectively. Prior to speaking in Alumni Hall, Harris addressed the overflow of people outside of the Hopkins Center for the Arts who were unable to make it into the event due to occupancy constraints. Once on stage, Harris opened her remarks by commenting on the power of student activism. “In the history of our country, some of the most
significant advances we have made in our movement towards social justice and equality have been prompted and fueled by the students of America,” she said. Harris then assured the audience that she fully intends to prevail in next year’s presidential election. Harris’ talk focused on the importance of truth in our politics and the importance of always “speaking truth,” even if it may not be easy. “If Charlottesville didn’t make it clear — if the Tree of Life synagogue didn’t make it clear — racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia SEE HARRIS PAGE 2
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Harris pledges to institute universal background checks FROM HARRIS PAGE 1
are real in this country and we must speak these truths,” she said, referencing the sites of a 2017 white supremacist rally and a 2018 mass shooting in Pittsburgh, PA. H ar ri s th en s p oke to the importance of supporting America’s teachers and schools. “One of the greatest expressions of love a society can extend to its children is to invest in their education, and that means investing in their teachers,” she said. Harris also pledged that within her first 100 days as president, she would institute universal background checks, require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to remove the licenses of any gun seller who violates the law and place fugitives back on the list of people unable to buy guns. She promised to use executive power to achieve these goals if Congress refused to act. “It’s not like we are sitting around waiting for good ideas,” Harris said. “Those ideas have been had. It’s about people not having the courage to act.” Harris also spoke on issues facing the country including access to healthcare, climate change, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity, hate and discrimination and President Trump’s willingness to trust foreign dictators over American intelligence agencies. Harris closed with an appeal to the resilience of the American people. “One of our greatest strengths of who we are as a nation is that by our very nature we are aspirational,” she said. Harris added that while the United States is a country founded on “noble ideals,” the country has much work to do to fully achieve these principles. “Let this be a fight that we know
is born out of love for country and knowing that we are better than this,” she said. Harris added that moving toward 2020, “the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s speak that truth and know it to be true.” After her remarks, Harris took two student questions from the audience, the first of which focused on her plan to tackle student debt for college graduates. “We’ve got to have real leadership at the top, and that’s why I’m running for president,” she said in response to the second question, which focused on the importance of bipartisanship. Daniella Omeruo ’21, who attended the event, said she appreciated Harris’ “direct and tough rhetoric” on challenging and often uncomfortable issues. “I think we are not really going to get far unless we speak directly and take [these issues] on,” she said. Marina Cepeda ’21 said she was impressed by Harris’ specificity. “I didn’t expect her to be so vocal about issues that were very personal to under-represented communities,” she said. The event saw a strong turnout from Upper Valley residents, who comprised a large percentage of the town hall audience. “She was a dynamic prosecutor,” local resident Renee Snow said. “She speaks well. I think she articulates well what all of the generations are looking for, not just the under-30 generation.” Dartmouth College Democrats president Gigi Gunderson ’21 said that Harris has a “really robust team of students who are working on campus,” and that her campaign is showing signs of strong enthusiasm among students. “It’s just fantastic to see the energy of everyone willing to skip their 2A to come out and hear [Harris] speak,” Gunderson said.
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Harris, a 2020 presidential candidate, currently has single-digit support in New Hampshire, according to recent polling.
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Ten Hanover restaurants are currently using Snackpass FROM SNACKPASS PAGE 1
the company in his senior year as a takeout and rewards app for New Haven, CT restaurants. He added that over 80 percent of campus was soon on the app. “It was really cool to see that it was something that my friends use,” he said. Snackpass then expanded to cover the campus of Brown University and eight other colleges in the Northeast and California, according to Tan. Dartmouth is the latest addition. “We think it’s going to be great,” Marshall said. “Dartmouth is a great little campus, and it’s so walkable.” The app is currently in use at Base Camp Cafe, Boloco, Jewel of India, Lou’s Restaurant & Bakery, Noodle Station, SamosaMan, Salt Hill Pub, Sushiya, The Skinny Pancake and Tuk Tuk T hai. Restaurants list their menus on the app and have the ability to post discounts and promotions. While all of the restaurants offer take-out options, only some offer delivery. Marshall said the app is small-
business friendly and focused on making eating out less expensive. Recent promotions have included free crepes at The Skinny Pancake, a free entree at Tuk Tuk Thai and discounted breakfast sandwiches at Lou’s — though some of these promotions have been scaled down. “During some slow hours in the afternoon, a restaurant can run a flash promotion,” Marshall said. “We can send out a message to students letting them know where they can get a good discount.” According to Tan, Snackpass distinguishes itself from other food-ordering apps with a “robust” social aspect. Users create personal profiles and can “gift” accrued purchase points towards free food to friends also connected on the app. “What we’re trying to do is make ordering food cheaper, more convenient and more social for students,” Tan said. R a my H a n n a ’ 2 2 s a i d h e downloaded Snackpass when he heard about free food promotions at Tuk Tuk last week. He said he appreciates the app’s convenient menu listing for each restaurant.
“It’s all listed right there, so you can look and find what you want,” he said. Upon agreeing to join Snackpass, restaurants receive a tablet to keep up with incoming orders. Salt Hill Pub assistant manager Isabelle Parrott said the new system has made takeout orders run more smoothly, as customers using the app free up time devoted to taking phone and in-person orders. “It’s a lot easier than having to call in, come in and wait,” she said. “You can just pick it up and go.” The Noodle Station co-founder Chris Gale said that since joining the app, his restaurant has not received a significant influx of new online-ordering customers. He said he does remain optimistic, however, as Snackpass grows on campus. “Honestly, it’s great that it’s a slow start,” he said. “It helps us ease into this.” Since its founding in 2017, Snackpass has grown into a company that makes $8 million per year with eight employees, according to Tan. He said the company recently moved its headquarters to Berkeley, CA and is posed to expand to 100
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Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery is one of several Hanover restaurants using Snackpass.
campuses nationwide in the next 18 months. He said Snackpass would stick to its “bread and butter” of expanding in college towns only, although the app could easily be adapted to other locations. Tan said his company’s goal is to
have Snackpass in every restaurant in downtown Hanover. He added that he is confident the platform will grow. “Paying with cash or credit is in the past, and mobile order is the future,” he said.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lecture: “An American in Berlin: What Kept Lyonel Feininger in Berlin?” by Andreas Platthaus, sponsored by the Department of German, Haldeman Hall, Room 246.
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Seminar: “Decolonial Aesthetics in the Global South,” by Macarena Gomez-Barris, sponsored by the Department of Art History, Carson Hall, Room L01.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Film: “Alien,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium.
TOMORROW
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Meditation: “Free Lunch Time Mindfulness Meditation,” sponsored by the Student Wellness Center, Robinson Hall, Room 322.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Film: “Transit,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium.
9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Physics and Astronomy: “Public Astronomical Observing,” sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shattuck Observatory.
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Pride to coincide with 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots FROM PRIDE PAGE 1
member of Pride’s programming committee, said they focused on inclusivity by highlighting the variety of lived experiences in the queer community and trying to welcome all people into Pride. Camara said that this year’s goal was “to make Pride events and Pride spaces more accessible to people who are marginalized within the LGBT community, [including] disabled queer people, queer people dealing with mental health, queer people of color [and] queer trans people — because that is our community.” Pride kicked off with Queer Prom on April 19. Rodriguez described the event as an opportunity for queer students to participate in a prom — something she said they might not have been able to in high schools where proms are heterosexually-dominated spaces. Pride also included a tie-dye fundraiser on Sunday to raise money for the Trevor Project, a keynote address and discussion on queer justice and anti-racism with queer activist and theologian Robyn HendersonEspinoza on Tuesday and a “voguing” workshop yesterday. Upcoming Pride events include
Rainbow Roller-Skating on Friday, a comedy show from queer stand up comedian and “The Daily Show” correspondent Jaboukie Young-White on Saturday, a fashion and drag show put on by queer student performers show called Transform, a screening of the film “Moonlight” and Lavender Graduation — a celebration of graduating students who have made a lasting impact on Dartmouth’s LGBTQIA+ community. Camara, the director of Transform, described the event as, “a bit of a drag show, a bit of performance and a really good time.” But according to Camara, the event has a deeper meaning. “In my mind it is a celebration of queerness, queerness not being like a word for sexuality, but queerness being theoretical non-normatives,” Camara said. “Finding ways to celebrate outside of mainstream culture which is often ... for me and for us, speaking as someone who is part of the queer and black communities, normally against us.” All Pride events aim to create unity in a queer campus community that many students feel is fragmented, Rodriguez said. This lack of cohesion was a concern for Samantha Locke ’22 when she was deciding which school to attend last year. She said Pride had a large
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Structures prominently featuring bicycle tires have popped up around campus.
impact on her decision to commit to Dartmouth. During her visit, she said she spoke to members of the queer community and participated in Pride programing, which she said made her feel connected to and accepted at the school. “Going to Pride and seeing it here — just seeing the Pride flag in front of Collis — I was so shocked and pleasantly surprised to see it,” Locke said. “And it was really fun for me, and that’s why I decided to take the risk to come here.” For Rodriguez, creating community and unity means prioritizing queer leadership. “Pride should be a celebration of queer identities, and it should be queers leading that movement — it shouldn’t be non-queers leading that movement,” he said. He noted that non-queer people can still participate in Pride events, but the events should prioritize queer students. “It’s definitely important to include non-queers, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just [that] some events should be just to unify the queer community,” Rodriguez said. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings in New York City, which is generally considered to be the catalyst of the national Pride
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Collis Center will host multiple Pride events coming up.
movement. Members of Dartmouth Pride’s planning committee did not incorporate the anniversary into its celebrations but noted the event marks an important milestone in queer history that marks the progress of the movement as well as the work that still needs to be done. Sophia Whittemore ’20, a member of the planning committee, said she was grateful for the support and
dedication that so many people put into Pride. “Without each other [in the queer community] to lean on, we couldn’t have done it,” she said. “And without the amazing members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community at Dartmouth, it wouldn’t have been the same hosting these events. I don’t think I’ve ever smiled so hard in my life than seeing these events come together.”
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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST ZACH COUVILLION ’22
STAFF COLUMNIST MAYA KHANNA ’22
In Defense of Discussion
Safe Spaces
True education requires self-direction.
I like discussion-based classes. They facilitate closer interactions between students and professors. But judging from my classroom experiences and several conversations with students, the student body is not quite as enthusiastic about discussionbased classroom environments. “It’s so dumb,” one economics student complained to me, bemoaning that a system of free-form dialogue could only work for humanities classes. In his view, discussion had no place in analytical STEM classes in which students should only be concerned with the “facts.” Another student, this time in a math class, explained that while he admires the way that discussion encourages participation, he thought that a lecture environment was still the most efficient place for students to absorb information about topics like math. I came to Dartmouth with a similar opinion. During my fall term, I admired well-planned lectures. On each course assessment I submitted that term, I denied that there was any room for improvement. It wasn’t until my winter term, when I took WRIT 5, “Thinking About Education” that my view faced a challenge. The class focused on Paulo Freire’s idea of “dialogic” pedagogy, in which hierarchical relationships between students and teachers are leveled to pave the way for student learning via dialogue and creativity. This stands in opposition to the commonly practiced “banking method” of education, which entails passively absorbing information and, according to Freire, less effective learning. The most idealistic manifestation of this philosophy is an environment of free conversation with zero lecture, which was the intended structure of my Writing 5 class. While we struggled to meet the demands of this ideal some days, I believe that
our understanding of the course material reached a point that would have been unachievable through pure lecture. By the time final papers came, we had a wealth of ideas to work — ideas that were all produced by our classmates. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced in a classroom. I grew up attending a rural Mississippi public school. In my school, the prevailing sentiment toward academics was even worse than dismissive: Academia was seen as arcane. Students at my school were brought up with the banking method of rote memorization, and I suspect that ineffective education was the root of the commonly-held attitude of just “getting through” school. I saw some of the most intelligent students I know lose their love of learning. Who wouldn’t after passively taking in information for so many years without ever getting the opportunity to create? The military is a popular choice for students from my school district. While I look up to my classmates for their bravery and service, I still believe that most of those students never had the privilege of exploring other options that may have been a better fit for them. After all, I do not think it is a coincidence that students forced to learn through the banking method gravitate towards the strict rigors of military training, as pure a manifestation of the banking method as one can find. Here at Dartmouth, we have many more opportunities open to us — still, we too often gravitate towards banking method classes. We should try to keep our options and our minds as open as possible, both in and out of the classroom. But to stay open to new ideas and the changes they promise, we need spaces that encourage dialogue. We need a dynamic exchange of ideas. We need our discussion-based classes here at Dartmouth.
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The spaces where we thrive are necessary for free speech. To most people walking through Robinson negative realities that often incite movements for Hall on any given day, Room 110 wouldn’t seem social change. to be anything but ordinary. If anyone did stop Detractors of safe spaces often reference an by, they might notice that the small, rectangular absolutist tradeoff between free speech and the chamber has a few lopsided old couches and emotional security of students. Yet this conviction a rickety wooden table accompanied by four fails to recognize the interplay between the two creaking chairs and a layer of dust. objectives. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs claims that Despite its slightly grimy, cramped appearance, an individual’s self-esteem and self-actualization Room 110 has become my safe space at are necessarily dependent upon their ability to Dartmouth; ground zero for the rest of my life first fulfill their needs of love and belonging. here at the Big Green. Though it might not Though it is worth noting that psychological seem special to a bystander, inclination is not binding for me the room will always in all cases, many students be a source of laughter that “Despite its slightly have difficulty attaining makes my sides ache. The grimy, cramped self-actualization amidst a soft chords of guitar music life with many competing that often echo softly off its appearance, Room 110 demands. As such, many walls harmonize to the quiet has become my safe students must have access to scratching of my pencil on space at Dartmouth; an environment that allows paper, the notes carrying them to gain friendship, me through problem sets ground zero for the i n t i m a c y, a c c e p t a n c e and midterm exams. Most rest of my life here at and community before of all, the individuals who they have a good shot at frequent 110 have a way the Big Green.” fulfilling their personal and of making me feel both academic potential. In order protected and strong enough for students to effectively to take on any challenge. They are my friends but engage in meaningful discourse, many will first have also served as my confidants, cheerleaders, need access to an environment where they can sounding boards and sources of tough truths as collect their thoughts, emotions and reflections the day requires. Room 110 and its inhabitants with people they trust. Safe spaces provide this have created a space in which I feel comfortable forum for many students and are thus a critical expressing my thoughts and feelings without fear component of creating intellectual discourse. that my words, experiences or identity will ever Dartmouth’s students have diverse identities. be used against me — a safe space, in the truest Though one of the College’s strengths is the sense of the word. ability of its diverse study body to create an The term “safe space” has been used in popular intellectually stimulating environment, students discourse to refer to areas within an institution must have a comfortable and secure place within intended to benefit marginalized students. Though which to critically reflect upon their pre-existing some safe spaces are specifically constructed for assumptions. A balance of emotional comfort this purpose, others emerge organically in response and non-judgment enables students to express to the wide range of student experiences and needs thoughts that are “in the works” to people whom in a diverse environment like Dartmouth. Still, they trust. safe spaces hold the same underlying objective: to It is important to ensure that safe spaces provide students with a community and a place are sustained in conjunction with concerted where they feel comfortable talking about their spaces for open debate such as the press and experiences. community events, creating a balance of security In recent years, safe spaces have come under and enlightenment. Safe spaces should be held fire as a part of a national reckoning about the accountable for the responsibility of upholding role of free speech on college campuses. Many both tenets of the student experience by providing argue that safe spaces shield students from having opportunities for members to participate to confront ideas and practices different from in campus discourse. Participating in crosstheir own. In creating safe spaces, the theory campus discourse backed by the safe spaces they goes, colleges are justifying censorship and fail to participate in will enable students to express their provide students with an education that challenges perspectives more articulately and thoughtfully. their preconceived notions. Others may claim that Safe spaces, therefore, are not a restriction on safe spaces enable students to hide away from the free speech but its very foundation.
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STAFF COLUMNIST TEDDY HILL-WELD ’20
Surviving Symbols
STAFF COLUMNIST GABRIELLE LEVY ’22
Escape the Bubble
Notre-Dame is not the only cultural icon worth saving.
Escaping the Dartmouth bubble is about more than ourselves.
On Monday, April 15, people around the world as the violence that came before it in New Spain watched as emergency responders struggled to and the United States. Those monuments that did halt the flames tearing apart the Notre-Dame not survive were not eliminated by some natural Cathedral in Paris. The Notre-Dame fire was process but rather out of the power to enact violence. likely caused by accident. However, in the same Evidently, there is power in the ability to destroy others’ monuments and in the month that the cathedral burned, cultural and religious “The Notre-Dame fire ability to preserve your own. OnMarch26,April institutions around the world was likely caused by experienced very deliberate 2 and April 4, an arsonist destroyedthreepredominantly attacks. Consider church accident. However, in black churches in St. Landry burnings in Louisiana or the the same month that recent terrorist attack in Sri Parish, LA. These places of Lanka. The damage to Notre the cathedral burned, worship brought together Dame is no doubt a tragedy. cultural and religious communities for something But the present destruction greater than themselves, much institutions around of spaces of communal like Notre-Dame. But the worship reflects a larger and the world experienced over $2.1 million raised by far more concerning pattern very deliberate a crowdfunding campaign throughout history regarding for the black churches pales the circumstances that enable attacks.” in comparison to the over some sites to survive and not $1 billion already pledged others. to repair the cathedral. The This pattern has occurred fundraising differential is all throughout history, in a world where those due to more than just the value of the buildings responsible for the most widespread destruction themselves. It is a reflection of France’s entire of cultural sites were able to write their role as history of the nation’s development — including explorers, liberators and developers of civilization. colonization — for as long as the cathedral has When Spanish conquistadors, for example, built been around. churches on top of Incan spiritual sites, there was no So yes, it is tragic that damage has befallen a one around to raise hundreds of millions of dollars site that has survived as long as Notre-Dame. But to rebuild their temples. America repeated the same it’s not as if those other sites are no longer around story in 2016. The construction of the Dakota Access simply because they weren’t as important. NotrePipeline pointed to continued disenfranchisement Dame does have tremendous historic value by of indigenous peoples in the United States, as the sheer virtue of its longevity, but we cannot let its Standing Rock Sioux tribe saw their access to clean survival alone legitimize the history it represents. water threatened by environmentally-irresponsible Succumbing to triumphalism in our evaluation of infrastructure projects. As the the damages erases the fact Trump administration opened that much of this history is formerly protected lands to “Notre-Dame does marred by extreme violence leasing for oil extraction and have tremendous and imperialism. other private interests, the Many in France march of economic progress historic value for by identify with the cathedral as continued to destroy the sheer virtue of its a symbol of their resoluteness spiritual sites of indigenous in the face of threats, but we longevity, but we peoples. should take care to think of In the Middle East, ISIS cannot let its survival those who did not survive the forces have destroyed countless alone legitimize the threats to their ways of living. mosquesandancientbuildings. Simply because the victims of In 2017, they destroyed the history it represents.” imperialism were unable to 842-year-old al-Nuri mosque resist the forces that tore their in Mosul as Iraqi forces closed families and tribes apart does in on the city. Their campaign has demonstrated not mean that their loss is any less significant. It is the symbolic power of this kind of destruction in precisely this form of normalized, institutionalized real time, and it will take countless years to repair violence that threatens humanity the most. We must the damage caused by the group. This kind of save more than just the Notre-Dame: We must save deliberate destruction follows the exact same model our lost sympathy for the oppressed.
Last week, I was fortunate enough to be campus, students hear from parents, faculty, invited to celebrate Passover at a professor’s administrators and advisors that we should house off campus. During the Seder, I had the try to escape the Dartmouth bubble. We are opportunity to interact with my professor’s encouraged to take a day trip to Boston or elderly parents and young kids. I participated go on a hike and enjoy the beauty of New in lively discussions about Hampshire. We hear that world affairs and listened “We hear that leaving the bubble will intently to cherished family “broaden our horizons” leaving the bubble stories. Importantly, none and “put our lives on of these conversations will ‘broaden our campus into perspective.” were centered around horizons’ and ‘put The arguments that I Dartmouth or dominated hear tend to focus on the by the perspectives of our lives on campus personal benefits of leaving Dartmouth students. If into perspective.’ The the bubble. only for one night of food, arguments that I hear s at i s f ac tTi ohn e argus me el nf -t song and prayer, I escaped the infamous Dartmouth tend to focus on the for leaving the bubble, bubble. h oweve r, i s n o t ve r y personal benefits of Personally, I have much convincing to me. I agree more experience living leaving the bubble.” that leaving the bubble inside of “bubbles” than provides a reprieve from outside of them. At my the day-to-day Dartmouth private high school in a grind. Most of the time, small town in California, the word was invoked however, quarter-system students like us are frequently to point out the privilege of students too busy and stressed to venture beyond the and the emphasis my school placed on political periphery of Main Street simply for a greater correctness. Nonetheless, I felt more tethered sense of satisfaction. to the real world during high school than I do So, we should remember that leaving here at Dartmouth. After all, I had frequent the bubble can be more than just a selfinteractions with non-academic adults and absorbed search for a temporary escape from easy access to transportation that connected Dartmouth. It can be an opportunity to make me to the world outside of my school and an impact on the world. Indeed, the worldhome. So, I didn’t really see a problem with class education we receive and the resources bubbles. Then I came to Dartmouth. to which we have access oblige us to do more The Dartmouth bubble is pervasive. than just get good grades. In a survey by College Pulse, 90 percent We should escape the Dartmouth bubble of Dartmouth students by taking our newly-gained agreed that Dartmouth knowledge and skills and exists in a bubble, which “We should escape applying them in the real the survey defined as “a the Dartmouth bubble world in order to give place where people are back to our community. isolated from the real world by taking our newlyIt doesn’t take much for and most of the things gained knowledge and a math major to tutor a that happen outside the Hanover high student skills and applying bubble don’t affect the once a week or for an people in the bubble.” Even them in the real world engineering student to help Dartmouth’s Admissions in order to give back to with a local project. website acknowledges Yes, these things this. In a piece on the our community.” will help Dartmouth Dartmouth Admissions students reflect on what website, Manny Howzeactually matters in life and Warkie ’20 described the Dartmouth bubble hopefully gain some personal satisfaction. But as “a sort of tunnel vision where students lose more importantly, they make a big difference track of things happening outside the invisible for those outside of the bubble — the people we walls of this campus.” will one day join after we don our graduation From the moment we set foot on caps and leave the Dartmouth bubble for good.
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Student-curated exhibit explores consent through photography
Ethics.” The final exhibition features photography by Nobuyoshi The Dartmouth Staff Araki, Tier ney Gearson, Tim The Hood Museum is currently Hetherington, James Karales, Atta exhibiting the student-curated Kim, Nikki Lee, Jerome Liebling, show “Consent: Complicating Mário Macilau, Vivian Maier, Agency in Photography,” featuring Doug Rickard, Daniela Rossell and photographs that visualize the Sebastiao Salgado. subject of consent. The exhibition “In light of our current political was curated by 2017-18 Hood climate and the issues around senior interns Gina Campanelli privacy, climate change, poverty, ’18, Marie-Therese Cummings identity and social media, this ’18, Ashley Dotson ’18, Tess exhibition hopes to start critical McGuinness ’18 and Kimberly conversations,” the interns write in Yu ’18, and displays a collection the exhibition’s introductory wall of photographs procured through text. “We hope these photographs — the Hood’s Museum Collecting often intimate, sometimes perverse, 101 program, in which students but all thoughtful and intentional curate photographic works to the — reflect the diverse challenges Hood Museum. The exhibition presented by our increasingly is the first to be displayed at the globalized world.” renovated Hood Museum as part According to Dotson, issues of the student-curated “A Space of consent arise constantly on for Dialogue” series. campus, and for the interns to have Not only does the opportunity the exhibition “The beauty and to address p r e s e n t them in public i n s i g h t f u l truth of art is that it is shows the value c o m m e n t a r y subjective, but that is Dartmouth on consent, places on open also what makes it so but it also dialogue. d e m o n s t r a t e s powerful.” “As this Dartmouth’s was the grand commitment reopening to highlighting -ASHLEY DOTSON ’18 of the Hood, s t u d e n t we wanted to curatorial work, choose a relevant said associate theme; rarely do curator of academic programming students get to make a commentary Amelia Kahl ’01. in such a big, public forum like The interns sought to unite 13 this,” Dotson said. Kahl said she photographs under a common believes that the exhibition offers theme that was relevant to the an insightful commentary on the Dartmouth community. “Consent: subject of consent and that the C o m p l i c a t i n g A g e n c y i n medium of photography provides Photography” is divided into four the opportunity to delve further sub-categories: “Self-reflections,” into the topic’s complexities. “Individuals and Identities,” According to Kahl, the idea of “Public Spheres” and “Global consent is implicit in photography
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as a medium due to the interplay of power dynamics between the photographer and the subject. Not only does the exhibition raise the topic of consent within intimate relationships but also within the discussion of the role technology plays in our lives and the influence of social media, she said. “Consent: Complicating Agency in Photography,” Kahl added, explores the public discussion of privacy and the increasingly complex issue of self-presentation and representation by others. Dotson noted that photography raises questions about how even the way one wishes to portray themself is not necessarily a decision one has
complete agency over. “I want viewers to take away the complexity of the notion of consent, the complexity involved in the idea of consent and how consent plays out in our own lives,” Kahl said. “I want viewers to be thoughtful about the photography and images they create.” During the curatorial process, the team faced a dilemma when photographer Nobuyoshi Araki — whose artwork “Untitled ‘Bondage (Kinbaku)’” was among the selected photographs — was accused of financial exploitation by one of his models a few months prior to the opening of the exhibition. According to Kahl, this discovery
prompted debate among the student curators as they considered the implications of featuring an artist who violated his model’s consent. The curators ultimately decided to include a reproduction in the final exhibition and discuss the incident in the accompanying didactic. Dotson said that she hopes viewers of the show discover their own meaning in the artworks displayed. “The beauty and truth of art is that it is subjective, but that is also what makes it so powerful,” she said. “Consent: Complicating Agency in Photography” will be exhibited in the Hood Museum until May 9.
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