The Dartmouth Homecoming Issue 2018 by The Dartmouth Newspaper

VOL. CLXXV NO. 91

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

MIA ZHANG NACKE/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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EDITORS’ NOTE

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Changes at Dartmouth don’t often go unnoticed. Paper straws, missing napkin dispensers, fences in front of Collis and a new logo bring out students’ passionate sides. Attempts to expand class sizes and build residence halls in College Park are shot down. A committee of experts is assembled to ensure we have a standing bonfire this year. We have a strong sense of what we want our College to stand for, and we reject what we see as incompatible with those values. As alumni and their families return to the Green this Homecoming, much of what they see will be the same. The bonfire, the buzz of the incoming class and the sense of belonging to a decades-old tradition will remain. Yet in many ways, the Dartmouth they come back to will have changed. This issue hopes to reflect on what change means, both on a personal level and in the context of 250 years of change and tradition. We take a look at the factors that have changed Dartmouth culture into its current form — and how that culture makes Dartmouth students who they are today. Amidst all the change, Homecoming Weekend is one aspect of Dartmouth culture that will not be going away any time soon. Make it a fun, safe and responsible few days.

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ZACH GORMAN, Issue Editor ZACHARY BENJAMIN, Editor-in-Chief IOANA SOLOMON, Executive Editor ALEXA GREEN, Managing Editor PRODUCTION EDITORS MATT BROWN & LUCY LI, Opinion Editors MARIE-CAPUCINE PINEAU-VALENCIENNE & CAROLYN ZHOU, Mirror Editors NATHAN ALBRINCK, MARK CUI & SAMANTHA HUSSEY, Sports Editors JOYCE LEE, Arts Editor LILY JOHNSON & CAROLYN SILVERSTEIN, Dartbeat Editors DIVYA KOPALLE & MICHAEL LIN, Photo Editors JEE SEOB JUNG & MIA ZHANG NACKE, Design Editors HATTIE NEWTON, Templating Editor

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Table of Contents A history of the bonfire tradition

Faculty diversity a priority for students and administration

Fueling Dartmouth: A look at the College’s energy goals

Main Street Hanover through the years

Greek-life education efforts focus on open conversations

Majors see shifts in popularity over time

Students adjust study habits to Dartmouth climate

International students find community

Past and Present: Native-American symbols at Dartmouth

Housing communities address student concerns

Calling an audible: Changes for Dartmouth football

First-Year Trips program focuses on inclusivity and identity

Legacy student forge their own paths

OPINION: Elias: Some Things Just Don’t Change

OPINION: Magann: Without Representation

OPINION: Leutz: Don’t Bother

VERBUM ULTIMUM: Let the Old Traditions Change

Students reflect on personal growth at Dartmouth

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A history of the Dartmouth Night bonfire team had extended its season to begin in the middle of the fall term, causing it to overlap with the “Lest the Old Traditions football season. The Dartmouth Fail” — the famous line from the reported in that article, “We know Dartmouth Alma Mater, “Dear the game of baseball fairly well Old Dartmouth” — has been and can hold our own with most thrown around often in the last colleges in that. But in football we few weeks as the future of the are scarcely acquainted with the Homecoming bonfire tradition rudiments.” lies at stake. These bonfires continued for In an email sent to campus by baseball game victories until 1895, the President’s Intern on Oct. when College president William 16, the administration made Jewett Tucker officially recognized clear that “if “Dartmouth [they] do not “The whole event was Night” as implement the an annual much less controlled town’s changes ceremony. On s u c c e s s f u l l y back then than it is September a n d r e s o l v e now. It was honestly 17, 1895, the their concerns first official about student pretty rowdy.” Dartmouth behavior, this Night bonfire will be the last was lit, and the bonfire.” modern bonfire W h i l e i t -DOUGLAS VAN CITTERS tradition began seems that the ’99 to take shape. bonfire custom As the bonfire as we know it was ignited, the is in danger of College faculty ending, change and president is nothing new addressed to this tradition. students and The first alumni with bonfire was speeches. When a celebration former College of an 1888 president victorious baseball game, and was Tucker gave his opening speech, he attended by all four classes. During described the event as intending to this time, the baseball program had “promote class spirit and … initiate a “monopoly of attention” over freshmen into the community.” the football program, according to The bonfire tradition continued an October 1888 article published to develop as William Heneage by The Dartmouth. The baseball Legge, the Sixth Earl of Dartmouth,

B y JENNIE RHODES The Dartmouth Staff

visited the College in the early 1900s. Students marched around the Green with the bonfire at the center, hoping to make a lasting impression on the Earl. It was not until 1923 after the dedication of Memorial Field that the football program became associated with the bonfire tradition. Former College president Ernest Hopkins and student athletes gave speeches at the stadium, and the class proceeded to the Green. During his speech, Hopkins reiterated that the event was designed to “perpetuate the Dartmouth spirit, and capitalize on the history of the College. Let us set a watch lest the old traditions fail.” Beginning in the early 1950s, the College scheduled the Dartmouth Night bonfire and the Homecoming football game to occur on the same weekend. Dartmouth Night was then officially dubbed “Homecoming” in 1961. W h i l e r e c e n t ye a r s h ave seen new safety and security concerns surrounding the bonfire, Homecoming has had a history of issues. The 1950 Homecoming fire was ignited by a student 24 hours before the event was intended to begin. By the time the fire was put out that night, the structure was merely debris. In response, 200 Dartmouth students rebuilt the hexagonal structure with wooden railroad ties, working until early morning the next day. The rallying of the student body to reconstruct the bonfire moved the College to allow students help build the structure after that year. While the tradition had been to erect a structure the same number of tiers as the freshman class’s graduating year, the Dartmouth class of 1979 decided to build a 100-tier structure. The resulting bonfire was so hot that it drove students and alumni alike off the Green. The College consequently imposed a new height limit and a redesign of the structure for future years. In 1988, the College decided to limit the height of the structure to 60 feet and transition to using eco-friendly wood. The creosotesoaked railroad ties were replaced with environmentally friendlier newly cut timber. Yet when the structure was lit on Homecoming night, it did not bur n. The Dartmouth reported the next morning that the structure was still standing completely sound. An opinion article from The Dartmouth said, “The fact that the bonfire was as some have said, ‘the lamest ever’ has nothing to do with the freshman class. We can’t blame the weak fire on the idea that ‘cellos don’t burn’. The ’92s

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Seven students attempted to touch the fire during last year’s Homecoming.

did not make the decision to use green wood.” The bonfire’s three-tiered geometric structure did not change between 1995 and 2015, according to Douglas Van Citters ’99, the engineering professor who led the team redesigning this year’s bonfire. However, following the 1999 incident at Texas A&M University where 12 students were killed and 27 students were injured by a collapsed bonfire, the College limited the number of students allowed to assist with the construction. According to Van Citters, the biggest change to the bonfire that occurred between 1995 and 2015, was the “freshmen sweep” before the event. “The parade happened by residence hall, not by house community,” he said. “It was much longer, since it snaked all around campus and main street. The whole event was much less controlled back then than it is now. It was honestly pretty rowdy.” Vice president of alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82 said the biggest change she has seen in the last decade has been the increased access to the bonfire for alumni through pictures or

livestreams. “Through technology, alumni who can’t physically get back [to Hanover] can still experience [the Bonfire],” she said. One of the newest changes over the past few decades has been the student-initiated tradition of freshmen attempting to touch the bonfire. Since the ’90s, the College has seen an increase in the number of students trying to touch the fire and avoid the title of “worst class ever” by the upperclassmen. During the 2016 Homecoming bonfire, the volume of students charging the fire was so great that a portion of the fire was extinguished early. During last year’s Homecoming, the College erected a fence to prevent students from running toward the fire. In spite of the barrier, there were seven attempts to jump the fence and touch the fire. This year’s bonfire will see two major changes. The first is the redesigned bonfire structure. “Hanover’s concern was the fire was falling sideways, which I verified did fall slightly sideways in some years,” Van Citters SEE BONFIRE PAGE 23

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Faculty diversity a priority for students and administration 10-year plan. However, the College struggled to meet its goals during this time frame. In a 1986 letter to Nearly 200 years passed after members of the faculty of Arts and Dartmouth’s founding in 1769 Sciences, mathematics professor before associate professor of biology C. Dwight Lair recognized some Hannah Croasdale became the first of the inherent difficulties facing tenured female faculty member in the College in its recruitment 1964, more than three decades of women and minority faculty after being hired. That same year, members, including other schools’ biochemistry professor at the development of similar affirmative medical school E. Lucile Smith was action programs and the College’s promoted to full professor before “location and notoriety with regard to diversity and openness.” receiving tenure two years later. At the end of the 1986-87 school In the years that followed, the College doubled down on its year, the College’s affirmative action annual report plans to make stated that D a r t m o u t h “I think especially 24.8 percent of more diverse in the College’s terms of both for students of color faculty who are gender and race. here on campus in the tenured or on An excerpt from ’70s, [Errol Hill, the the tenure-track the College’s of the Arts and A f f i r m a t i v e first African-American Sciences were A c t i o n P l a n faculty member to women, while stated that “for 7.4 percent were b o t h m o r a l receive tenure] was minorities. Of a n d s o u n d a really important the medical educational role model and school’s faculty, reasons, the 1 7 .2 p erc en t o b j e c t i ve o f mentor.” were women, the College while only 3.3 is to achieve percent were a d i v e r s e , -MORGAN SWAN, SPECIAL minorities. m u l t i r a c i a l COLLECTIONS EDUCATION At Tuck, 15.6 faculty of both AND OUTREACH percent of sexes.” the tenureErrol Hill, LIBRARIAN line faculty — the first Africanfaculty who are American faculty member to receive tenure, either tenured or tenure-track — was instrumental in pushing for were women, while 12.5 percent a more diverse faculty at the were minorities. Lastly, none of College, serving as the College’s first Thayer’s tenure-track faculty were affirmative action chairman from women, and only 4.2 percent were 1973 to 1975, according to special minorities, a small enough number collections education and outreach to account for a single professor. According to the College’s 2015librarian Morgan Swan. “He was an advisor to the Afro- 16 annual report on faculty diversity American society,” Hill said. “He and inclusivity, there was a total performed in, as well as directed number of 403 tenure-line faculty and wrote, a lot of plays that were members in the Arts and Sciences performed here on campus. I think in November 2015. Of those 403 especially for students of color here professors, only 36 percent were on campus in the ’70s, he was a female. This marked a three percent really important role model and decrease from 2010. While female tenure-line faculty mentor.” In 1975, tenured white males members only accounted for 36 constituted 96.3 percent of the percent of the total number of total number of tenured faculty tenure-line faculty members in the members in the School of Arts and Arts and Sciences, minority faculty Sciences and the Thayer School of members only accounted for half Engineering. Staggeringly, while of that number. Of the 403 tenure59.9 percent of white male faculty line faculty members, only 72 were members were tenured, only 5.4 minorities. The Office of Institutional percent of white female faculty members were tenured — a lower Research first began tracking the figure than that of both minority percentage of female and minority male and female faculty members. tenure-line faculty members in By 1979, the first year that the figures 2004. That year, 35 percent of all for Arts and Sciences and Thayer tenure-line faculty members were were not combined, white males female, while only 13 percent were constituted 91.8 percent of the total minorities. Compared to 2015, the data shows that the male-female number of tenured faculty. Ten years after the approval of composition of the faculty has the College’s first affirmative action stayed roughly the same, while plan, the College renewed another the percentage of minorities has

B y anthony robles The Dartmouth Staff

marginally increased. they were more likely to choose one asking people, for instance, should This comes despite research faculty candidate member over the Dartmouth make an effort to showing that students prefer a other. However, despite comparing increase faculty diversity, for one more diverse faculty. Government multiple varying subsets, such as thing, people will generally say professor John Carey, along with athletes versus non-athletes, whites yes,” Carey said. “They might say government professor Yusaku versus minorities and men versus yes because they genuinely really Horiuchi and research assistant women, Carey found a lot more value that. They also might say yes Katie Clayton ’18, conducted consensus than he was anticipating. because they think that you want a series of experiments over the “For example, with respect to them to say yes … It’s called social course of a year at seven colleges ‘how strong is your preference for desirability bias.” — Dartmouth, the University of Hispanic faculty Over 50 years Nevada, the University of New candidates versus “It’s always the after Croasdale Mexico, the University of California, white [faculty became the first San Diego, the United States Naval c a n d i d at e s ] ? ’ , case, if we think female faculty Academy, the University of North y o u m i g h t about the diversitymember to Carolina and the London School of think that there receive tenure, related elements, Economics — and compiled them w o u l d b e a interim provost into a manuscript entitled “The strong difference that if you change a David Kotz ’86 Hidden Consensus on Campus between Hispanic candidate from being said that faculty Diversity.” students and diversity was still a man to a woman, D u r i n g t h e ex p e r i m e n t s, white students,” one of the most each student was presented C a r e y s a i d . other things equal, important issues with comparison tables of two “ S o m e t i m e s facing the College the likelihood of professorial candidates, who both there’s a mild today. He named had around ten assigned traits. difference, but selection goes up.” several methods These traits included the candidate’s it’s usually not that the College college education level, teaching even statistically was using to quality, race and gender, among distinguishable.” -JOHN CAREY, further diversify other things. Furthermore, GOVERNMENT its faculty, which According to Carey, the study C a r e y n o t e d stemmed from PROFESSOR found that the most important factor that despite the t h e C o l l e g e ’s that determined which candidates d e m o g r a p h i c I n c l u s i ve the students chose was their teaching d i f f e r e n c e s Excellence quality. The second most important between the schools that participated initiative. characteristic was the candidate’s in the experiments — for instance, According to Kotz, one of research and scholarship record. UCSD boasts a large Asian these methods was the creation of However, the study also found population, while New Mexico the position of assistant provost that students were more likely to boasts a large Latino and Native of faculty recruitment, whose job pick female candidates over male American population — the results involves working with the search candidates and minority candidates showed no more differences than committees of different academic over non-minority candidates. “you would find by random chance.” departments to help them further “It’s always the case, if we think Additionally, Carey added that the diversify their pools of candidates. about the diversity-related elements, results of the experiment stayed After finalizing the candidates, the that if you c o n s i s t e n t provost’s office also assists these c h a n g e a “There are different r e g a r d l e s s search committees with finding candidate of t h e ways to attract the candidates to ways one would want from being participant’s the College, which can include a a m a n t o to characterize diversity year. lab renovation or offering a job to a w o m a n , and I would say, Carey the candidate’s spouse. other things stressed that Another method that the College e q u a l , t h e intellectually speaking, in advertising has recently employed to attract likelihood of that we would want t h e a higher number of female and selection goes experiments minority applicants is the “postdoc a campus faculty who up,” Carey o r i n t h e to tenure system,” Kotz said. Funded said. “If you are drawn from a wide experiments in part by the Mellon Foundation, change [the range of backgrounds, themselves, this grant has most commonly been candidate] t h e w o r d offered “in fields where there’s from white some of which we track “ d i ve r s i t y ” a higher statistical likelihood of t o b l a c k , and measure, like race w a s n e v e r there being a diverse candidate or white s t a t e d . population” and gives recent Ph.D. and ethnicity and some t o L a t i n o, He cited a recipients the opportunity to work o r w h i t e of which we do not, like survey that on a two-year postdoc before t o N a t i v e political leanings.” the College beginning a six-year tenure-track American, conducted a faculty position, Kotz added. or white to few years ago “There are different ways one A s i a n , t h e -DAVID KOTZ, INTERIM t h at a s k e d would want to characterize diversity, likelihood of s t u d e n t s and I would say, intellectually selection goes PROVOST w h e t h e r speaking, that we would want a up. There’s the College campus faculty who are drawn a preference should work from a wide range of backgrounds for diversity to diversify — some of which we track and on both the gender and race [and] the faculty as an example of a study measure, like race and ethnicity ethnicity grounds.” that he would “approach with a and some of which we do not, Carey said that in analyzing great degree of skepticism,” as the like political leanings,” Kotz said. the results of the experiment, he results would most likely be heavily “Having a diverse community looked at certain subsets of the biased. helps for better learning and better student population to see whether “If you just do a regular survey scholarship.”

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Fueling Dartmouth: A look at the College’s energy goals B y cristian cano The Dartmouth Staff

Think about the role that energy consumption plays in your life. You might think about charging your electronics, the gas that goes into your car’s fuel tank or even your monthly power bill. Chances are, though, that you don’t often think about energy consumption, at least not actively. Now imagine a world without working computers or cell phones. No air conditioning or heating. No cars or planes. Thinking a little bit differently now? This is the explanation that Rosi Kerr ’97, Dartmouth’s director of sustainability, gave for why the Dartmouth community should more intentionally consider its use of energy and how Dartmouth’s energy system can be improved. As an undergraduate here at Dartmouth, Kerr didn’t often think about her energy consumption. Sure, she was aware of the steam radiators in dorm rooms, but she never stopped to consider where all that steam was coming from. She believed that, like her, many Dartmouth students today are so

focused on and committed to their different endeavors on campus that they don’t always realize how intricate the energy system really is. “I think most students would be like, ‘Energy isn’t a big thing for me. I don’t really think about energy,’” Kerr said. “But if I was like, ‘Okay great, let’s live without it for 24 hours,’ they would [say that they] absolutely can’t do that.” Kerr pointed to communities that have been hit by hurricanes, such as Florida and Puerto Rico, that lose power for weeks and months as examples of how energy problems are very real. Her word of choice to describe an ideal energy system is “resilient” — that is, an energy system that can adapt both to changes in the environment, such as fuel supplies and natural disasters, and technological advancements. In her role at the Sustainability Office, Kerr works with a variety of Dartmouth community members to make the College a more sustainable, environmentallyresponsible place. In a given day, she might speak with the Facilities Operation and Management team

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Dartmouth’s power plant burns 3.5 million gallons of oil each year.

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to address concerns, meet with unrepresented in the task force because Dartmouth would need to student groups and her office’s composition. implement such a large system to student interns to assist with In order to understand the make up for the 3.5 million gallons gathering and sharing data, speak proposals set forth by the task of oil that it is currently burning in the classroom force, it is first yearly, looking into other options in about topics necessary to addition to wind and solar energy “We’ve actually had r a n g i n g f ro m u n d e r s t a n d is important. engineering to a pretty active energy h o w The energy goals set forth in environmental efficiency program for Dartmouth’s the task force’s report include: a studies to e n e r g y 20 percent more efficient energy architecture or about 10 years now system works. distribution system by 2030, a 50 work with other on campus, and over F r i e d l a n d percent renewable energy supply p ro f e s s o r s o n offered a brief by 2025, a 100 percent renewable grant proposals that time we were explanation. energy supply by 2050 and a 50 for off-campus successful in cutting “ T o percent greenhouse gas emissions research. do an energy reduction by 2025 (using a 2010 our campus energy K e r r 101 on this baseline). In addition to energy d e s c r i b e s h e r usage by about 25 campus: the goals, the report also listed goals p o s i t i o n a s percent.” D a r t m o u t h in other areas such as waste having “one c a m p u s i s production and food consumption. foot on each powered by Abbe Bjorklund, director of iceberg” of what -ABBE BJORKLUND, o i l , w h i c h engineering and utilities, spoke Dartmouth does. comes into the to how much progress the College DIRECTOR OF “ O u r D a r t m o u t h has already made and continues to f o c u s i n t h e ENGINEERING AND power plant, make. S u s t a i n a b i l i t y UTILITIES and electricity, “We’ve actually had a pretty Office is at that which comes active energy efficiency program intersection,” in f r o m for about 10 year s now on Kerr said. “How do we support a multiple locations around the campus, and over that time we transition from what we do now to campus and from the g rid,” were successful in cutting our more sustainable operations, and Friedland said. “In addition, the campus energy usage by about 25 how do we do that in a way that oil … is used to make steam, which percent,” Bjorklund said. “Now we supports the teaching and research makes hot water and either heats are launching what we’re calling mission of the College?” buildings or water, and also does Energy 2.0 — our next stage of One example of Kerr’s work a little bit of air condition[ing] … energy efficiency initiatives.” with both students and the Dartmouth also generates some of The first major project of greater Dartmouth community its own electricity. The power plant Energy 2.0 was completed this past is the Sustainability Task Force, behind [New Hampshire Hall] summer in Steele Hall, which houses which she co-chaired alongside takes 3.5 million gallons of oil per the Department of Chemistry. The environmental studies professor year, burns it, and from the energy building’s air handling system on Andrew Friedland. The task force, released, heats the roof was which met monthly between Earth water, heats updated with “Our focus in the Day 2016 and Earth Day 2017, buildings and n e w, m o r e consisted of undergraduates, g e n e r a t e s Sustainability Office is at energ ygraduate students, professors and electricity.” that intersection. How do e f f i c i e n t directors. After one year, the task Dartmouth’s equipment. force released the report “Our power plant we support a transition Bjorklund Green Future: The Sustainability burns No. 6 from what we do now says that Road Map for Dartmouth,” which f u e l , w h i c h s c i e n c e to more sustainable detailed many of the College’s Friedland said buildings environmental goals for the future. is the residue operations, and how do use the most Fr i e d l a n d ex p l a i n e d h ow l e f t b e h i n d we do that in a way that energy on members of the task force were after distilling campus, and chosen. p e t r o l e u m supports the teaching one reason “Rosi Kerr and I, the two co- f r o m t h e and research mission of for that is chairs of the task force, put together g r o u n d . because of the College?” a list of recommended names N o . 6 f u e l the need which we sent to the President’s contains more for air in Office, since the president is the i m p u r i t i e s -ROSI KERR ’97, laboratories one who created this task force,” t h a n m a n y t o b e Friedland said. “If I remember o t h e r f u e l SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR replaced, correctly, the president accepted t y p e s — i n since leaving most of our recommendations and Kerr’s words, it could allow perhaps had a few people that he Dartmouth is “still burning a 1920s for the buildup of toxic fumes. wanted to add to the list.” fuel in 2018” — and Friedland Thanks to two new heat pumps and He said that they tried to listed some of the alternative other improvements, the amount represent as wide a cross-section energy sources that Dartmouth is of heat lost in the air replacement of the Dartmouth community considering. He said that propane system has been lowered and the as possible, prioritizing having gas is a little cleaner than No. 6 steam use in Steele is predicted to each of the College’s schools fuel, though it is still a fossil fuel and be reduced by 70 percent. represented by either a student carries the risk of leakage; burning Similar projects are planned or professor and representing the locally-sourced woodchips is also for other buildings in the near diversity of the student body. He an option. future, and other plans include admitted that, despite these goals, He added that one common L E D l i g h t i n g r e t ro f i t s a n d representing every community on question is: why not simply continued work on a new hot campus proved difficult, and there invest in a lot of wind and solar SEE ENERGY PAGE 23 were many student communities energy? It is a possibility, but

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Main Street Hanover through the years

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Retail and restaurant turnover is common on Main Street as local businesses struggle to compete with large chains and pay high rents.

B y Anna wilinsky The Dartmouth Staff

The landscape of Main Street Hanover has seen significant changes in recent years, notably with the departure of pizza shop Everything But Anchovies and the imminent departure of the Dartmouth Bookstore. Despite the recent loss of these mainstay businesses, downtown Hanover is no stranger to change. In the College’s early years, Main Street housed several businesses and faculty residences. According to Hanover town files held in Rauner Special Collections Library, the town had a few stores, a tavern and a highway as early as 1775. By 1795, Hanover was home to at least one bookstore. Transportation to and from Hanover’s downtown area increased significantly during the late 18th century and into the 19th century, with the construction of canals on the Connecticut River, railroads in the Upper Valley, and stagecoaches traveling to and from Boston. Increased traffic allowed Main Street Hanover to evolve into a bustling downtown district by the mid 19th century. New establishments such as grocers, salons, hardware stores, clothiers, smoke shops and the Dartmouth Hotel emerged during this time, and many faculty still resided in the downtown area. Nineteenth century Dartmouth students relied on downtown Hanover for school supplies, books and clothing.

“Since [Hanover] is so remote, [students] would always have to have the essentials right around the Green,” Hanover Historical Society historian Cynthia Bittinger said. According to Bittinger, the biggest disruption to Hanover’s downtown area occurred as a result of a devastating late 19th century fire. “The entire downtown burned down,” she said. Freezing Hanover temperatures and a lack of a reservoir system left local firefighters scrambling to find water to combat the fire. The blaze started in the Dartmouth Hotel, but quickly spread to neighboring buildings including the fire department. The Lebanon fire department stepped in to assist, but significant damage had already been done, with several buildings reduced to smoldering piles of ashes. The town of Hanover and the College were tasked with rebuilding much of Hanover’s business district, according to Bittinger. New buildings were constructed with brick and mortar instead of flammable wood. Following the disastrous 1887 fire, Bittinger said the town of Hanover also built a reservoir system so as to have sufficient water if a fire were to catch in Hanover again. Calls for change on Main Street arose throughout the 20th century. In 1949, a proposal to remodel storefronts on Main Street was submitted to the Valley News,

asking that the architecture of Main Street be remodeled to better match the architecture of Dartmouth buildings. More significant calls for change came in 1964, when town planner Hans Klunder proposed an ambitious redesign of downtown Hanover that included turning South Main Street into an entirely pedestrian plaza and installing additional parking. Most of Klunder’s ideas never came to fruition, and insufficient parking continued to be an issue throughout the 20th century. In 1987, a Tuck School of Business study urged the town of Hanover to build a parking garage, according to records found in Rauner library. In addition to a lack of parking, current students and Hanover residents might find another 20th century complaint familiar. In 1958, a Valley News article complained that the streets of Hanover were deserted at night because stores closed too early. Businesses in Hanover continued to evolve during the 20th century. T hroughout the mid-to-late nineties, Main Street housed a multitude of new establishments. Several ski shops served Upper Valley residents and students over the years. A dance studio, offering classes in steps such as the waltz and “the chicken” opened on 35 South Main Street in 1958. In 1985, a shopping complex opened at 80 South Main Street. By the early 2000s, downtown Hanover had seen many businesses come and go. Chain stores and restaurants such as Talbots, CVS

and Starbucks established locations on Main Street during the early 21st century, to the dismay of many local business owners who feared big chains would steal their customers. These fears held true for some businesses, such as Eastman’s Pharmacy, which had served Hanover for over 75 years. The family-owned phar macy eventually succumbed to challenges such as supply-side pressures and competition from CVS and closed in 2014. Retail and restaurant turnover has always been typical of Main Street, according to Hanover town manager Julia Grif fin. The 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession particularly affected Main Street businesses, she said. Main Street businesses also face unique challenges. Rents on Main Street are notoriously high, causing many businesses to struggle with costs. Online retail has also affected the businesses, Griffin added, as the student population tur ns to inter net retailers for their shopping needs instead of going to downtown Hanover establishments. The six-week winter interim also poses a unique challenge to businesses in Hanover, who have lost peak holiday season business since Dartmouth’s calendar was adjusted, Griffin noted. Despite significant changes on Main Street over the last 250 years, several things have remained the same — some of them largely unchanged for centuries. Local

business has long been valued by Hanover residents, who, according to Griffin, tend to favor small, locally-owned businesses over larger chain stores. Local restaurants and local, often high-end retail have been defining features of Main Street for decades. A hotel has existed on the property where the Hanover Inn now stands since the Dartmouth Hotel was constructed in 1813. Certain businesses have existed on Main Street for years, such as the century-old Nugget Theater, Lou’s Diner and the iconic Dartmouth Co-op. Perhaps the most important mainstay of Main Street is its relationship to the College. Main Street’s proximity to Dartmouth has allowed its businesses to serve Dartmouth students and faculty for generations. Main Street also serves as an attraction for visitors to the College, enticing prospective students and families with its small college town charm. Moreover, Main Street businesses depend on the Dartmouth community. Commitment to local business is especially important in the age of digital commerce, according to Bittinger. She said that local business on Main Street not only maintains the unique college town feel of Hanover, but supports the broader Hanover community. “There is a lot to be very proud of in this town,” observed Bittinger, who stressed the importance of the Dartmouth community and the broader Hanover community continuing to support one another.

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Greek-life education efforts focus on open conversations at Dartmouth, students were required to complete a course in sexual assault prevention. She said With the spotlight on college that, despite this required training, Greek life across the country, she was aware that some students Dartmouth has taken certain still dismissed the ideas taught and steps to respond to nationwide “felt entitled” to disrespect women. “Dartmouth hasn’t had women concerns. Student leaders have been collaborating with the here for that long,” Gallagher said. administration to create safer and “The remnants of that patriarchal more welcoming Greek spaces, system are definitely still here and according to Office of Greek Life reinforced.” According to Errik Anderson director Brian Joyce. “We have worked very hard ’00, a former brother of Psi Upsilon on the culture of bystander fraternity and current chapter advisor to the intervention,” frater nity, the Jo yc e s a i d . “These houses are implementation “ G r e e k of new rules and leaders have open 24/7, 365 days to requirements is p r i o r i t i z e d the entire Dartmouth a “reflection of [bystander how Dartmouth intervention]; community. While I ex i s t s o n t h e our students was at Dartmouth, I national scene.” h a v e came to appreciate “I think the nor malized i n t e r v e n i n g that that was singularly changes to the Greek system are and stepping unique to Dartmouth.” an appropriate in when things reaction to aren’t safe.” certain poor J o y c e -ERRIK ANDERSON ’00 behavior in added that the other Greek Dartmouth organizations Bystander that are not at Initiative is a consequence of Greek leaders’ Dartmouth.” Anderson said. “It’s decision to address concer ns a shame to paint the Dartmouth regarding the safety of Dartmouth social system with the same brush students. To ensure that the that you would paint other schools’ principles of the program are social systems.” While Greek leaders have heard, the Greek Leadership Council requires that students e m p h a s i ze d t h e i m p o r t a n c e interested in becoming members o f by s t a n d e r i n t e r v e n t i o n , of Greek organizations attend the financial accessibility of a s e s s i o n f a c i l i t at e d by t h e Dartmouth’s Greek system has also drawn recent attention. This Dartmouth Bystander Initiative. At the Dartmouth Bystander year, several Greek houses made Initiative overview session, students sure to highlight the financial discussed the nature of incidents support available to prospective related to sexual violence and new members. “Many alcohol at of our groups the College, already had a c c o r d i n g “It’s nice to see that the financial aid t o J e n n a College is trying to do programs Gallagher something [to address in place but ’21, a lacked a strong member of issues with Greek life]. statement Sigma Delta How effective it’ll be — about their sorority. The financial session also I’m not really sure.” i n c l u s i v i t y, ” discussed Jo yc e s a i d . w a y s -JENNA GALLAGHER ’21 “I fear what students has happened could step in the past is in to help that many their peers in prospective threatening new members have self-selected situations. “It’s nice to see that the College out prior to the recruitment is trying to do something [to process.” While Gallagher said there are address issues with Greek life],” Gallagher said. “How effective still problems with diversity and inclusivity in the Greek system, she it’ll be — I’m not really sure.” G a l l a g h e r ex p l a i n e d t h at said she believes Greek houses have s h e w a s n o t c o n f i d e n t t h at begun to make more concentrated mandating students to attend one efforts to be inclusive. According session would change anything. to Gallagher, she felt immediately Before starting their first year welcomed and valued by her sisters

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at Sigma Delta when she joined this fall. “I didn’t really have that weird transitional period that I thought I would as a new member,” Gallagher said. “I immediately felt like it was my space, and I was a part of the house.” She added that being in Sigma Delta affords her the opportunity to experience a female-dominated social space. Sisters are able to feel at home in a Greek space, unlike the typical freshman experience in maledominated fraternity basements, according to Gallagher. Anderson said he felt a similar sense of camaraderie during his time in Psi Upsilon. With a class of 24 members, he was able to forge “incredibly close relationships” with his brothers. Anderson added that the inclusivity of the Greek system at Dartmouth sets it apart from others around the country. “These houses are open 24/7, 365 days to the entire Dartmouth community,” he said. “While I was at Dartmouth, I came to appreciate that that was singularly unique to Dartmouth.” While Dartmouth’s Greek system remains a pillar of the College’s social life, it continues to face significant criticism. Conversations surrounding sexual

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violence, hazing, high-risk alcohol to attend an introductory panel consumption and mental health to prepare them for going out in point to the Greek system as a Greek spaces this year. The panel, source of these issues. which saw extremely low turnout According to Joyce, the Greek from freshmen, intended to discuss Leadership acceptable Council has behavior in m a d e e f f o r t s “We support our Greek spaces. to counteract students increasing Joyc e the stigma added that he standards and making associated appreciates with Greek life changes to the system that “we’re on campus. being critical — making Dartmouth’s Last year, the of where our College joined Greek system one system is at and t h e H a z i n g we’re proud of.” continuing that Prevention conversation.” Consortium, This past a data-driven -BRIAN JOYCE, OFFICE OF s u m m e r, t h e prevention group hosted GREEK LIFE DIRECTOR model, in a community order to better discussion understand about topics hazing attitudes such as the and behaviors per petuation at Dartmouth. of toxic “We have a better understanding masculinity at Dartmouth. of the hazing spectrum so we can “We support our students comprehend the power dynamics increasing standards and making that come into play in all forms of changes to the system — making hazing,” Joyce said. “We’re using Dartmouth’s Greek system one the data-driven approach to better we’re proud of,” Joyce said. inform and educate students.” “They’re actively leading us in In addition to the Hazing a change in our culture toward Prevention Consortium, members a positive, safe and meaningful of the class of 2022 were invited Greek experience.”

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Majors see shifts in popularity over time his belief in the strength of the English department has not been lessened by the decreasing number As a liberal arts college, of majors. He added that the Dartmouth offers its students many flexibility of the English major options to specialize their academic allows it to meet student needs goals according to their needs and and makes it an attractive choice. interests. Despite the flexibility the H oweve r, M c C a n n n o t e d College offers, the distribution of that the English department majors is far from even. According does recognize the decrease in to statistics provided by the Office majors and hopes to raise that of Institutional Research, the two number. He said that the English most popular majors, economics department simplified the process and government, graduated 197 of obtaining an English degree and 151 majors respectively for by “[dropping] the requirement the Class of 2018. The third most to have a concentration” and popular major was computer introducing new courses that “put science, which graduated 95 an older media form into dialogue majors. The departments with with a contemporary medium” the fewest majors were ancient to pique student interest, such as history and astronomy, both with English 52.18, “Netflix and The only one graduating student with Victorian Serial Novel.” a degree from the department. Though the social sciences The numbers help shed light on division has also seen a general how the popularities of varying decrease in popularity, each departments have ebbed and department showed varied results. flowed over the years, and how While neuroscience and psychology the curriculum or the faculty majors fell by roughly 25 percent of a department influences its from the Class of 2014 to the popularity. Class of 2018, both economics The first significant trend and gover nment are steadily has been the the top two d e c r e a s i n g “Parents, parental most popular popularity of m a j o r s . expectations and the arts and the According h u m a n i t i e s. parental advice often to history Though it department play an important role, may have been chair and p r e v i o u s l y as do the advice and professor c o n s i d e r e d experience of peers or R o b e r t one of the B o n n e r, quintessential recent graduates.” the history m a j o r s department of higher is also seeing -CECILIA GAPOSCHKIN, education, the a decrease in English major ASSISTANT DEAN OF majors. has seen a fall FACULTY FOR PRE-MAJOR “ We , in graduating I think, are majors. The ADVISING smaller than department we were had 61 maybe even graduating five years majors in ago,” Bonner 2014 and only 39 in 2018. said. “Certainly smaller than we However, English department were twenty years ago when we chair and professor Andrew were the biggest major at the McCann noted that the statistics college … We once had 150 majors do not tell the full story. graduating every year.” “There’s been a decline in the Bonner added that with the number of students majoring decrease in standalone majors, the in humanities,” McCann said. history department experienced “But that doesn’t mean that our an increased number of double enrollments have dropped; there and modified majors, indicating are still large numbers of students a high number of students taking taking classes in English and advantage of the multiple ways the creative writing.” history department allows their McCann added that he has major to be modified. also noticed a substantial number Re g a r d i n g t h e d e c r e a s e of students interested in some of in majors, Bonner said that the “robust areas” of the English the national trend of history major. decreasing in popularity as an “Students have seemed very academic discipline, particularly interested in American literature, at “less selective schools” like “big and creative writing is a very state schools,” indicated that there popular set of courses for students is little chance of history returning at Dartmouth,” McCann said. to its former level of popularity. Furthermore, McCann said Despite the prospects, Bonner

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added that he “really [resists] even a new concentration field, thinking that [the decrease is] a macroeconomics. Additionally, loss,” but rather an opportunity to she noted that managing a highly “do more with our majors.” Rather coveted department posed some than requiring one seminar with challenges, such as having to 16 people, the history department find ways to have multiple course has switched to requiring two 12 offerings and stay competitive to person seminars, Bonner said. retain professors. Even so, Bonner said that the The popularity of the major history department is also in has not deterred the department the process of from wanting trying to attract “We would love to expand more students its course to teach an to the major. offerings. According to environmental “ W e B o n n e r, l i k e economics course [and] w o u l d l o v e the English to teach an d e p a r t m e n t , a behavioral economics environmental t h e h i s t o r y course. Those would be e c o n o m i c s department cour se [and] nice additions.” a l s o a beh av i o r al re m ove d t h e economics concentration -NINA PAVCNIK, CHAIR c o u r s e , ” re q u i re m e n t , P a v c n i k and t h e OF THE ECONOMICS said. “T hose d e p a r t m e n t DEPARTMENT would be nice is currently additions.” undergoing Majors such a regularly as engineering, scheduled computer external review to find further ways science and quantitative social to “recast the major.” The history science have also been growing department is also attempting to rapidly in recent years. QSS introduce courses that are focused department chair and professor on specific themes, such as the Michael Herron noted that though history of medicine or the history the department, which had its first of sexuality, Bonner said. He added two graduates in 2016, is very new, that he hopes such methods will the major shows promising signs attract a wide variety of students of growth. to “maybe no major, but at least “ L a s t ye a r we g r a d u at e d to come to our classes” because thirteen,” Herron said. “Prior to “[history is] so important for the that it was two. This year, I believe world we live in now and maybe we’re on target to [graduate] increasingly so.” around 30 [students].” “What we’re bringing to the Herron said that the QSS table as people who are training curriculum teaches “a combination your generation to think about of data analytic skills [and] social problem solving … is sort of a science,” a skillset necessary to guilty conscience of assuming any “study the world.” This highly evidence is transparent,” Bonner applicative nature of the discipline said. led the department to “emphasize Naturally, the per spective research” and require “all fourth of a highly and consistently years to write projects.” He added popular department is different. that he believed the increasing Economics department chair and interest in the department is professor Nina Pavcnik attributes reflective of “the way a lot of the the popularity of the major to the world operates.” association many students make “I suspect that on campus, between an economics degree and the interest in this sort of way of lucrative career. thinking will grow,” Herron said. “I also hope [that] part of “Whether that translates into the reason why [economics] is a numbers [of majors], harder [to popular major is because we tried say].” to do a good job teaching students,” According to Herron, the Pavcnik said. “What we teach in QSS department faces unique economics are really liberal arts challenges as a new program. tools … and some of that could The department is trying to be applied to finance, but you can figure out where it fits in the also use the tools that economists institution, the same struggle many use to study [other things, like] interdisciplinary programs face education.” at their inception, Herron said. As a result of its overwhelming Herron added that there is still popularity, Pavcnik added that some confusion about what the the economics faculty had to program itself is. expand from 21 to 29 members “One question [asked] is: in the past twenty years, along what does this major mean in the with adding new classes and sense of being on a transcript?”

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Herron said. “What [QSS major alumni] tell me is that when they’re engaging with people outside of Dartmouth, it’s not immediately obvious [to them], [since] it’s not an obvious discipline name.” Another challenge is “staying on top of ” new quantitative techniques, which “move quickly,” Herron said. He added that to address the challenge of a rapidly changing discipline, many of the classes are taught by postdoctorate students. Despite the challenges, Herron said that the de partment is continuing to set goals for itself to continue expanding and improving. An external committee is currently evaluating the program and the department plans on developing a course that all majors take, Herron said. On the student side of the situation, major selection, and thus, major popularity, is dependent on factors beyond the efforts of faculty. According to an email statement from assistant dean of faculty for pre-major advising Cecilia Gaposchkin, the reasons students have for selecting majors are highly individualized. “If there are about 1200 students in the sophomore class this year, I bet there will be about 1200 different reasons for choosing a course of study.” Gaposchkin said. “Parents, parental expectations and parental advice often play an important role, as do the advice and experience of peers or recent graduates.” Gaposchkin added that incoming students’ potential major selections change drastically due to “shifting intellectual development and exploration” as their Dartmouth career progresses. Upon arrival to the College, Gaposchkin said engineering, economics, biology, computer science and traditional disciplines like history or English are popular with matriculating students, but soon diverge into fields they didn’t have access to before like sociology, geography or women’s, gender and sexuality studies. Computer science and environmental studies have also seen notable growth, Gaposchkin said. According to Gaposchkin, individual faculty, departments and the College as a whole are always factoring size and popularity of subject matter for institutional priorities. However, Gaposchkin strongly noted that this does not mean smaller departments are neglected. “The College is also committed to breadth and coverage, so [it] makes sure we also have faculty availability in subject matters that are of great important to a fewer number of students.”

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Students adjust study habits to Dartmouth climate B y claire callahan The Dartmouth

So many pamphlets, websites, lectures and discussions are made available to high school students to prepare them for college’s intense social transition that it’s easy for Dartmouth students to forget that they are at the College to receive an education. Engaging with Dartmouth’s higher level learning could certainly be a shock to first-year students who are accustomed to high school learning methods and grading. Nora “Gus” Guszkowski ’22 quickly learned the difficulty of maintaining high grades at the College. They are willing to admit how simple high school was in comparison to Dartmouth. “[I always received] As and A-pluses,” Guszkowzki said. “If I got an 89, I’d be horrified.” Not all Dartmouth students have this background of excelling in high school. “I got a 2.3 GPA [in high school], which was one of the reasons I joined the Army,” Ian Littau ’22 said. “I barely went to class.” Littau had to step up his studying upon entering the United States Army; he learned to use flashcards as his method of choice, a studying strategy which he has continued at Dartmouth. “When you get promoted, you have to go to a board and you have to memorize all this stuff,” Littau said. “You get quizzed by a Sergeant Major and other higher-ups in the unit.” While ’22s are still adjusting, s e n i o r s h av e h a d t i m e t o acclimate to Dartmouth’s studying environment. The biggest change Alexis Colbert ’19 has experienced is the inclusion of others in her studying. “[In high school] there wasn’t really the kind of culture of getting together and studying with other people to prepare for an exam,” Colbert said. “Rather, everyone studied on their own and we all complained about the exam together but none of us actually studied for it together.” Colbert sees the Dartmouth academic culture much differently. “It’s a lot more collaborative, but that might have to do just with my major — I’m an anthropology major with a minor in women’s, gender and sexuality studies, so I definitely think I study something that’s a lot more conducive to conversation,” Colbert said. “But there does tend to be a lot more of a camaraderie that we’re going through this struggle together and can help each other out.” Guskowzski first witnessed this benevolence in Dartmouth’s a c a d e m i c c o m mu n i t y wh i l e

preparing for their multivariable calculus midterm. “No one I spoke to was anything but supportive and a little bit nervous,” Guszkowski said. Guszkowski was nervous for their test because of their history of minimal studying. “I didn’t have to do a lot of hard, well-planned, multi-week studying endeavors [before], so it felt very foreign having to do that here,” Guszkowski said. “It made for more of a jarring transition for me.” Guszkowski soon discovered that some Dartmouth professors are willing to make studying an easier job for their students. “[Some professors] were nice enough to provide us with a lot of resources like practice midterms and previous years’ midterms,” Guszkowski said. “I did use a lot of resources that had been provided for me, which is good, because otherwise I would not have really known where to begin.” Despite their trouble in adjusting to college and new study habits, Guszkowski’s first midterm did not go badly. “I thought I planned pretty well: I started pretty early, I did a nice mix of working with other people and working alone, and I did all the

practice midterms,” Guszkowski said. “I still didn’t do as well as [I’d] hoped, but I did about as well as I could’ve expected to do, so I’m okay with that.” Guszkowski’s transition was jarring due to the increased necessity for studying, but Littau’s transition was entirely different. “I would say being here is just as challenging as the Army in different ways,” Littau said. “The Army was a lot more physically challenging and … [it’s about] getting over how terrible things are sometimes. Here, it’s more academic and more mental.” Littau has a straightforward approach to studying. “You just kinda grind it out,” Littau said. “You just kinda gotta do it.” Colbert pays more attention to certain environments and situations that are conducive to productivity for her. “Freshman year I felt a little bit of the pressure to study in the library or pull all-nighters and these sorts of things that seemed like they were normal for Dartmouth or just normal for a college student,” Colbert reflected. “Throughout my time here I’ve really been able to learn more about what helps me actually work and be productive.”

Colbert found that she didn’t work well in the library, where it was too quiet, or in “Blobby,” the lobby of Baker-Berry Library, where it was too social. “I work better when I go to Starbucks,” Colbert said. “There are people talking around me but a lot of them are working or I have my headphones in and it’s not silent. I still have that sense of noise without it being too distracting.” Much of the time, however, Colbert is studying with her classmates. Because many of her courses are writing-heavy, she enjoys having others take a look at her essays. “I like to have larger group discussions before I start writing and then, from there, move more into a peer review,” Colbert said. “I’ve been pretty lucky to have friends who are willing to read the stuff that I write, whether or not they’re in that class.” Colbert has figured out what kinds of studying work for her, and advised incoming Dartmouth students to notice their own study habits sooner than she did. “Pay attention to when you actually get work done,” she said. “[You can be] spending five hours on an assignment and talking most of the time and barely finishing it

versus sitting down and actually getting it done in an hour and a half. What’s different in those situations and those environments that could be causing the procrastination?” Now that he has adjusted to Dartmouth’s academic rigor, Littau advised veterans to follow in his somewhat unconventional footsteps. “A lot of veterans don’t really seek higher education because they don’t believe they can do it or it’s not for them, but I would say just go for it,” Littau said. “It’s been challenging but also really rewarding — I’m using muscles I haven’t used before.” Although these Dartmouth students are all too familiar with late nights of stressful studying, their overall enjoyment of the intellectual reward makes the effort worth it. Specifically for Colbert, personal agency when it comes to choosing classes is integral to her enjoyment. “There’s a lot more flexibility and choice on my part of being able to decide what I’m taking,” Colbert said. “Even if it is something I don’t normally do and is academically challenging because of that, it’s still something that I’m interested in … so I’m still having fun and enjoying myself as I learn.”

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Students work in the Tower Room of Baker-Berry library , a popular study spot.

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International students find community on campus with is so different. The Korean culture and the American culture, and all that. The way [that] people Adjusting to college can be interact with each other, the way a significant challenge for all they speak, the way they act.” students, but a student who also One of the steps Dartmouth has to acclimate to a new country takes to help international students is in an even tougher position. adjust is the International Student Students living overseas, who Orientation, which takes place in account for roughly 13 percent of the five days before traditional the Class of 2022 and who come orientation for first-year students. from 57 different Some students, c o u n t r i e s , “International like Janel simultaneously Consuelo Perez n a v i g a t e t h e students have this ‘22, who is t r a d i t i o n a l joke, ‘Don’t do f ro m M a n i l a , adjustments to Philippines, find this, or we will get Dartmouth’s this orientation a c a d e m i c deported’… Like if very helpful. r i g o r a n d a n we are crossing the “I met a lot of adjustment my friends in the street, ‘Oh, I can’t to American Inter national culture. jaywalk, I’ll get S t u d e n t Fo r s o m e Organization,” deported.’” s t u d e n t s, t h e Consuelo Perez difference said, “and it was b e t w e e n -LAMEES KAREEM ’22 definitely a great A m e r i c a n vibe learning culture and the about different culture of their c u l t u r e s . I t ’s home countries easy to connect is significant. Ruben In ’21, who with people who were as worried is from Seoul, South Korea, felt as you about the U.S., or people serious culture shock. who have also never seen snow in “It’s actually pretty huge,” In their lives.” said. “The culture itself to begin I n a d d i t i o n t o t h e I S O,

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inter national students can take part in other campus preorientation events. The First-Year Student Enrichment Program for first-generation and low-income students is open to both domestic and international students. Dev Punaini ’22, who is from Punjab, India, had FYSEP Orientation at the same time as ISO. He found it interesting to compare the two. Unlike Consuelo Perez, Punaini did not find ISO to be as conducive to forming a community. “I felt like FYSEP was a lot more focused on community building, while ISO was more information overload,” Punaini said. “It was necessary information. I needed to hear what to do [to] not to screw up my visa status, but … the Inter national Student [Organization] never felt like a community the way FYSEP did and does … If the intention was at all community building [in the ISO], I don’t think that was well done,” Punaini said. I n a g re e d w i t h P u n a i n i ’s evaluation of the ISO. “They’re not really helpful,” In said. “They’re just talking about visa related things, things we already know about.” Concer ns regarding visa status are of great importance

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to inter national students. of community with other Dartmouth has an Office of Visa inter national students really and Immigration Services, which helped him during freshman year, sponsors student visas and advises though he understands that this students on visa-related issues. isn’t the case for all international “They do really well with students. scaring us in the first OVIS “I’m a [fraternity] brother now, orientation on how to not get so my friends are from all over the deported,” Consuelo Perez said. place,” In said. “Last year, though, P u n a i n i s e e m e d t o a g re e [the Korean Students Association] with Consuelo Perez that the really helped me out a lot, because information given at the orientation they’re either Korean or Koreanwas thorough, but intimidating. American, so they know where I’m “Because of the information coming from.” overload we got in orientation, The change in culture can also I understand what things can exacerbate homesickness, but go wrong and how they can go it’s often much more difficult for wrong,” Punaini said. “But it’s international students to go home unnerving over breaks. in that there “I think [one] part of Fo r s o m e are so many international Dartmouth that I’ve ways for it students, to go wrong started thinking more even the that you’re about [is] my interactions six weeks always on of winter the lookout, with people. Making sure break aren’t a n d t h e r e I’m being understood enough to are some make going things that across cultural home worth are still quite boundaries. Noticing it. c o n f u s i n g , how certain gestures are “I’m like the tax staying on interpreted.” form.” campus,” Due to this Punaini confusion, said. “Going -DEV PUNAINI ’22 L a m e e s home is just K a r e e m too much of ’22, an a hassle.” international F o r s t u d e n t those who from Saudi do go home, Arabia, says that international buying tickets comes at a steep students often make jokes about cost. Janel is going back to the getting deported for mundane Philippines, but says tickets were things. extremely expensive. In already “International students have bought his ticket back, but isn’t this joke, ‘Don’t do this, or we sure if he’ll be using it. will get deported’… Like if we Part of change is growing, but are crossing the street, ‘Oh, I another big part of it is adapting to can’t jaywalk, I’ll get deported,’” different situations and expanding Kareem said. one’s worldview. For international K areem expressed that it students, this is amplified, because is important for international of the stark change in environment. students to have peers to vent to “I think [one] part of Dartmouth and share advice. that I’ve started thinking more “I think it’s especially important about [is] my interactions with [to have other inter national people,” Punaini said. “Making students to talk to] just because there sure I’m being understood across are struggles that international cultural boundaries. Noticing how students might go though that certain gestures are interpreted.” might not be relatable to other Consuelo Perez has felt the need domestic students,” Kareem said. to put in effort to be more sensitive Punaini says he’s made an effort to American cultural boundaries. to maintain strong friendships with “It definitely is a step, and it’s domestic students, but realizes that something I’m trying to remember the percentage of international to think about,” Consuelo Perez students at Dartmouth is much said. “I used to not really think lower than the percentage of about [cultural sensitivities] his friends who are international before.” students. Through all of the effort and “I go to the [International trouble that Consuelo Perez has Students’] Association events now gone through in adjusting to the and then because I like to meet United States, she sees at least one other international students, and major upside. whine to people who understand “I [get to] wake up later than I visa issues,” Punaini said. normally [did]!” she said. “I used In believes that the sense to wake up at 5 a.m.”

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Past and Present: Native-American symbols at Dartmouth “English youth and any others.” Wheelock’s change of heart created a rift between himself and Occom, Nearly 50 years ago, a group who found his family destitute upon of Native American students his return to America. approached the steps of Parkhurst The first Native American did Hall with a clear goal in mind — not graduate from Dartmouth to end the use of the Dartmouth until 1788, nearly 20 years after “Indian” as the College’s symbol the College’s founding, according and mascot. to Carini. “We, the Native Americans at Carini noted that while very Dartmouth, declare that various few Native Americans attended traditions and symbols used by the or graduated from the College Dartmouth Community are based for much of its early history, upon insensitivity to the culture of Dartmouth’s student body found Native American Peoples,” they itself swept up in the lore of the wrote in their statement to the College, and the constructed image College administration. of the Native American as a “sort Dartmouth is an institution of noble savage” became popular heavily steeped in history and on campus by the late 1800s. One tradition. As Homecoming season of the most prominent depictions rolls around once again, the College of Native Americans on campus will soon rekindle its commitment at the time can be traced back to to “the old traditions” of the Alma “Indian head canes” — walking Mater through its annual bonfire canes carried by upperclassmen that celebration, football game and featured a wooden caricature of a alumni reunions. However, at a Native American’s head at the top. time when school spirit peaks and “The College became known tradition-driven sentimentality for being a school for Native tends to resurface, it is just as Americans, which it never had been important to recognize the aspects in that sense or at least not until very of Dartmouth’s history that often recently,” Carini said. go unacknowledged or undiscussed. By the 1920s, Boston Dartmouth’s relationship with sportswriters had adopted the Native American peoples marks Dartmouth “Indians” as the name a particularly troubled facet of for Dartmouth’s football team. the College’s nearly 250-year-old While Dartmouth never officially history. adopted the Indian as its symbol, According to College archivist its wide usage and popularity lent Peter Carini, the history of it legitimacy as the main icon for Dartmouth’s iconography — the the College until the 1960s. symbols and visuals found around Within this period, portrayals of campus — reveals a pattern of Native Americans on Dartmouth’s relegating Native Americans to the campus abounded, manifesting subjects of myth within College in ever ything from College tradition. merchandis e to cheerleader The strains costumes to b e t w e e n advertisements “[The Hovey murals] Dartmouth in local a n d N a t i v e are a part of our p u b l i c a t i o n s. Americans Images in p r e d a t e t h e history, and if you the College’s founding of the don’t engage with archives at the College itself, Rauner Special it, you’re effectively Carini noted. Collections In the College’s erasing it. Don’t illustrate the charter, Eleazar celebrate them, but extent to which Wheelock wrote the symbol contextualize them, that his school of the Indian would fulfill the keep them open and dominated purpose of the c a m p u s let people judge for “education and culture. One instruction of themselves.” photograph youth of the depicts a football Indian tribes.” team from the H e f a m o u s l y -ISHAAN JAJODIA ’20 1940s wearing sent one of “Indian heads” his brightest — red rubber students, a masks made to Mohegan Indian named Samson resemble a caricature of a Native Occom, to England in order to American. An advertisement in preach and raise funds for the the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, establishment of an “Indian charity drawn by Dr. Seuss for an alumni school.” While Occom was abroad, fundraiser, features a cartoon of a however, Wheelock decided to Native American and a drawing repurpose his school as a college, of the Cat in the Hat with broken which would more broadly educate feathers protruding from his

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a vociferous handful who did not headpiece. Notably, the appearance of the properly represent the group they Indian symbol on football uniforms claimed to,” wrote Gil Hahn ’75 in did not occur until 1965, according a 1974 issue of Dartmouth Alumni to a 1972 article in The Dartmouth Magazine. In contrast, Edward Nickerson by former College president and then-history professor James ’49 sarcastically wrote to the Magazine, “Dartmouth, we are told Wright By 1970, former College president in tones of self-pity, is being pushed John G. Kemeny’s initiative to re- around by minorities. All because center Dartmouth’s mission upon some groups in the College showed its original purpose of educating some sensitivity to the feelings of Native Americans led to an influx the majority of Native Americans on campus, of students when someone from indigenous “Some of us live with actually asked backgrounds. them how they Upon arriving at daily reminders of felt. Don’t those the school, many how the past still redskins know Native American they exist for students found the haunts the present the pur poses characterization and therefore need of myth, not of the Dartmouth reality?” “Indian” harmful fewer, if any, visual T h e and disturbing. reminders about Dartmouth A g r o u p o f our past sorrowful Re v i e w a l s o these students, championed a s s e m b l e d b y treatment of each efforts to revive H o w a r d B a d other.” the Indian Hand ’73, Duane mascot, selling Bird Bear ’71 and shirts featuring Rick Buckanaga -N. BRUCE DUTHU ’80, the Indian ’72, wrote a policy NATIVE AMERICAN symbol and statement to the polling Native a d m i n i s t r a t i o n STUDIES PROFESSOR Americans calling for the from tribes immediate end of the use of the “Indian” as a across the country in an attempt mascot, the discontinuation of to prove that the Dartmouth Indian college merchandising and images was inoffensive. Resurgences of support for the in publications that depicted the Indian and the removal of the Indian symbol have periodically controversial murals in the Hovey flared up in the decades following the board’s decision. In 1983, Grill. “We Native Americans at students in the stands of a football Dartmouth unequivocally declare game unfurled a banner depicting that the ‘Indian symbol’ is a a caricature of a Native American mythical creation of non-Indian head with the words “Dartmouth culture and in no manner reflects Indian” scrawled across it. More the basic philosophies of Native recently, in 2006, the men’s crew American peoples,” the students team garnered controversy for wrote. “… It is said that these hosting a formal in which guests “Indian” symbols represent ‘pride’ dressed up as stereotypical Native and ‘respect,’ yet pride and respect Americans. However, Native American do not lie in caricatures of people, but in self-awareness of fallibility.” studies professor N. Bruce Duthu ’80 The College Board of Trustees points to the progress Dartmouth launched an investigation into has made in spite of these setbacks. “With a Native alumni body the matter, which found the use of the Indian symbol “in approaching 1200, a nationally any form” to be “inconsistent respected academic program in with the present institutional and Native American Studies and academic objectives of the College renewed leadership in the Native in advancing Native American American program … the College education.” The board urged the has certainly strengthened its case College towards the “voluntary for sustained commitment to the discontinuance” of the symbol, Native community in the last several and the Indian was subsequently decades,” Duthu said. Duthu recently served as a code-recognized as the College’s mascot and removed from athletic chair on a committee to determine the fate of Dartmouth’s Hovey uniforms. However, the decision was met murals — a series of paintings in with a substantial share of vitriol the basement of the Class of 1953 from many alumni and students Commons that have long served as alike, who perceived the symbol’s point of contention at the College. rejection as an affront to tradition. The murals, painted by Walter “The original revocation was Beach Humphrey, Class of 1914, in ill-considered and engineered by the late 1930s, prominently feature

depictions of naked women and inebriated Native Americans. In late September of this year, the committee arrived at the decision to move the murals to an off-campus facility. Ishaan Jajodia ’20, a writer for The Dartmouth Review, said he disagreed with the decision to move the murals. “[The Hovey murals] are a part of our history, and if you don’t engage with it, you’re effectively erasing it ... Don’t celebrate them, but contextualize them, keep them open and let people judge for themselves,” he said. Duthu said that keeping the murals in the basement of ’53 Commons can be seen as an implied endorsement of the images in the murals. “In their current location, the murals accumulated undeserved prominence and power — a position that was often equated with institutional approval or endorsement of the visual images depicting Native people,” Duthu said. “Removing them from the major dining facility on campus serves to make that space more accessible to all students.” Today, depictions of Native Americans on Dartmouth’s campus exist to a far lesser degree than they did 50 years ago. At the same time, the Dartmouth seal still prominently features two Native American figures. Likewise, the weathervane atop Baker-Berry Library depicts Wheelock sitting on a stump, with a Native American student sitting on the ground below him. As Duthu points out, even the “uglier” aspects of Dartmouth’s history are inextricably bound to the identity of the College. The recent re-ignition of debates over the Hovey murals, for example, points to a larger narrative in which the College continually attempts to acknowledge its past transgressions against Native Americans and re-evaluate its obligations as an institution. However, it is ultimately up to each student to decide how Dartmouth’s traditions — including its symbols and visuals — should manifest themselves on campus in the future. “At its core, history is about remembering — or more particularly, what we choose to remember,” Duthu said. “Some of us live with daily reminders of how the past still haunts the present and therefore need fewer, if any, visual reminders about our past sorrowful treatment of each other. For others, those reminders — visual and otherwise — are a necessary element in the pursuit of a liberal and morally grounded education.” Ishaan Jajodia is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Housing communities address student concerns campus are newer and seem better located than others. Colbert also noted that because Established in the fall of 2016 the Class of 2019 transitioned as part of the Moving Dartmouth into the housing system after their Forward initiative, the housing freshman year, many of her peers communities have become a felt limited by the fact that they key source of community and could only choose to live with other involvement for many students. students in their assigned house. However, in the system’s first few Students also felt they had been years, students have raised concerns randomly assigned membership about its initial roll-out. Some, but not to a community that they did not all, have been tackled and resulted in choose, Hickox said. For this reason, changes to operations. the Class of 2019 and older classes According to West House professor may have felt less connected to their Ryan Hickox, the purpose of the house communities, especially having house communities is threefold: already developed their spaces at “They are to create more intellectual Dartmouth before the house system’s engagement in residential life, inception, Hickox noted. they are to create a better sense of Despite complaints from students continuity among the students in about being randomly assigned to their residential experience and to a housing community, Hickox said create a general sense of community,” there were certain benefits. Hickox said. “The beauty of being part of a While the house communities have community that’s not self-selected not deviated from these overarching but deliberately and totally random is goals that have been in place since exposure to a complete cross-section the system’s inception, there has been of the student body,” Hickox said. an effort to address student critiques According to Colbert, one of and concerns the greatest by each benefits of “We think a lot about house’s student the system is e x e c u t i v e how to create a good its access to b o a r d s , balance of events that both graduate West House students and are social, and events historian the house Alexis Colbert that are intellectual, and professors. ’19 said. “Because how to create a space “ T h e yo u r h o u s e criticisms we that is both a living professor isn’t are most able community and a social chosen based to address are off of what the ones about community.” department what kinds of they teach in, events people this gives you want to see,” an opportunity Colbert said. -RYAN HICKOX, WEST HOUSE to have access “We think a PROFESSOR to a professor lot about how outside the to create a classroom who good balance you may not of events that are social, and events otherwise meet,” Colbert said. “If that are intellectual, and how to it wasn’t for the housing system I create a space that is both a living would have never have met Professor community and a social community.” Hickox. I meet with him for West Hickox noted that programming House every Sunday. He’s written for the house communities has recommendation letters for me, I’ve shifted from more lecture-oriented met his family and I have developed events to open discussions and social a relationship with him that has events in order to encourage more become a mentorship,” she added. engagement, a change that was Colbert also noted that having made in response to criticism of the house professors live on campus lecture-oriented events. Events such makes them especially accessible. as the House Cup, where members Allen House professor Janice of houses compete against each McCabe said that she values the other in intramural sports such as opportunity to be on a meal plan and flag football, as well as the design of eat in student dining locations, and intricate house crests have resulted that some of her most meaningful in a greater sense of connection to conversations with students happen one’s house community, according in these less formal settings. to Colbert. House communities have created Colbert added that some of the more opportunities for leadership common student complaints are within each community, and more harder to address. These include the students have gotten involved over concern that there is a disparity in time, according to McCabe. the quality of the house communities “I came on in summer of 2017, because certain residence halls on and I feel like the system has become

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The Allen House and School House crests are displayed outside of House Center B, the Cube

much more vibrant and student- they’re things that we don’t have initiated just in that time,” McCabe currently at Dartmouth but they said. “I feel like students are taking aren’t things that are impossible,” more ownership of the housing Colbert said. communities and making it more She added that large-scale their own which has been really developments will most certainly amazing to see,” she added. take time. According to Colbert, student “Seeing as this system at involvement is something that has Dartmouth has only existed for been emphasized and encouraged three years we might not see these within all the house communities. kinds of developments for a while, “ “All our executive board meetings she said. “Yale has had their college are open to West House students system for over 100 years and they whether they are on the board or have a lot more money and a lot more not,” Colbert said. “If you’re there infrastructure.” you can vote on anything we’re voting Hickox noted that the residential on, you have full right as a member systems at other institutions faced of West House to be a part of these similar challenges to Dartmouth’s discussions and help make those housing communities at their decisions,” she added. inception. Colbert noted that as part of the “If you go back and read effort to improve the old issues the housing of the Harvard “I feel like students system, the West Crimson from House executive are taking more that time, there board visited Yale are criticisms that ownership of the University earlier are very similar to this ter m and housing communities a bunch of what stayed in one of and making it more we hear now,” Yale’s residential Hickox said. colleges. T he their own which has Hickox also residential college been really amazing noted that the systems at Yale plans for a to see.” and Harvard new residence serve a similar hall create the role to the house -JANICE MCCABE, ALLEN potential for communities at spaces to be HOUSE PROFESSOR Dartmouth. constructed that “It was really are compatible cool to stay there with the housing and talk to students about how communities. connected they are to their residential “The plan is to build a new dorm college,” Colbert said. “All of the [where House Center A currently is], colleges have their own dining halls. and when that is built, to then begin These are things that really influence renovating the existing space. And the sense of community there and of course once you do that, there’s a

lot of opportunity for really tailoring things to work with a residential house community in mind,” Hickox said. In addition to creating community and encouraging student involvement and leadership, continuity in students’ residential experiences across their years at Dartmouth has been an overarching goal of the system. According to Hickox, the system originally sought out to address the issue of students moving between residence halls frequently as a result of the D-plan. Returning back to campus after an off or abroad term and seeing familiar faces in residence halls is something the house communities have helped foster, Hickox said. The residential communities, in some ways, also provide a similar continuity to that of the Greek system, according to McCabe. However, she also noted that while the residential communities may be the main source of community for some students on campus, for most it is simply another source of community among many, which may include community through clubs, teams and Greek organizations. Hickox noted that among those students who are very involved with their residential communities, many are also affiliated with Greek organizations. “[The house communities] provide continuity in that it’s a place to return to each term and a place to return to after graduating. Greek organizations also have a place to return to, but many other organizations and clubs don’t have that same sense of place that the housing communities do,” McCabe said.

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Calling an audible: Changes for Dartmouth football allowing the team to practice tackling more frequently. “Our guys are more efficient and At a college that prides itself on being technically-sound ... because they on the cutting edge, it’s only natural that [tackle] probably more than anyone in the Dartmouth football program fosters the country,” Teevens said. “I consider a culture that stands out from the rest. ourselves to be the best tackling team In the last decade, head coach Buddy in the Ivy League.” Teevens ’79 has implemented multiple The on-field results certainly back up changes to benefit his team on and off Teevens’ assertion. Dartmouth’s defense the field. has allowed the fewest yards of any of Teevens emphasizes multiple critical the 125 teams in the NCAA’s Football innovations and bold choices that the Big Championship Green has made Subdivision. to improve safety, “Callie stood out Safety Kyran p r o d u c t i v i t y organizationally; McKinneyand fair ness. Crudden ’19, who These include she had meticulous has the second the elimination preparation and most total tackles of live tackling on the team for detail about what she in practice, the the 2018 season, a d o p t i o n o f wanted to do.” attributes much virtual reality of the team’s technology defensive success outside of practice -BUDDY TEEVENS ’79, to its techniques and the hiring of FOOTBALL HEAD COACH in practice. Division I college “ W e football’s first fullreally break down time female coach. So far this year, these how to make a [sound] tackle as opposed changes have worked to perfection. As to just running around like crazy,” of Homecoming Week, the Big Green McKinney-Crudden said. “I think it’s stands at 6-0 and has won 14 of its last actually harder to tackle the MVP than 16 games since the beginning of the a live player because [the MVP can 2017 season. change direction faster], which makes The first of these changes was the it easier to tackle an actual person.” elimination of live tackling in practice. The MVPs have become popular With football being such a physical across multiple levels of football. sport, it is common for teams to tackle According to Teevens, 18 NFL teams extensively during practice to prepare are using them, as well as approximately for the intensity of a game. 70 colleges and numerous high schools, However, about eight years ago, indicating that teams are beginning Teevens decided that the team would to limit live tackling for technical and no longer employ live tackling during safety purposes. Other teams have team practices. Dartmouth was the first been hesitant to officially eliminate live team in all of college or professional tackling, but Teevens never practices it, football to make this change and is still, even during the offseason. to Teevens’ knowledge, the only team “I don’t tackle in the spring and to have completely eliminated tackling the preseason, which [college football in all practices. coaches call] ‘concussion season’ Teevens’ decision stemmed largely because the greatest number occur from a desire to limit concussions. in those time frames,” Teevens said. He cited a concussion study that “Our numbers of head injuries and determined that multiple former NFL concussive hits dropped; we really don’t players suffered from a football-induced have many concussions, if any.” brain disease called Chronic Traumatic On top of utilizing the MVPs for Encephalopathy, which causes contact in practice, the team has also symptoms of cognitive dysfunction adopted other key technology that similar to those of Alzheimer’s disease players can use to their advantage and dementia. outside of practice. Dartmouth brought Initially, the team struggled to in virtual reality technology called simulate live-game action because STRIVR to simulate in-game scenarios they were forced to tackle inanimate from the confines of a player’s dorm objects. After failed experiments pulling room. tackling dummies along on golf carts “You can replicate plays, pressures and ropes, the team came up with the and different looks an opponent will solution of a mobile tackling device, run, and [you can] react in real time,” known as a “Mobile Virtual Player” Teevens said. “You’re basically training or “MVP”. The device was developed your vision.” by Dartmouth graduate students and STRIVR is used by seven NFL Thayer School of Engineering graduate teams and many major college football professor John Currier. programs, including second-ranked The mobile tackling devices are built Clemson University. The Big Green, to resemble an actual football player; the only Ivy League squad to use they are six feet tall, 190 pounds and the technology, has placed a unique complete the 40-yard dash in a stellar emphasis on STRIVR. Quarterback 4.7 seconds. Most importantly, they Jack Heneghan ’18, who spent the can take an unlimited number of hits, summer on the San Francisco 49ers’

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preseason roster and had a stellar performance in the NFL team’s final preseason game, remains an ardent supporter of the technology. “STRIVR helped me improve my game even when I wasn’t taking physical reps and [it] helped me better prepare for games once I started to play a bigger role on the team,” Heneghan said. “If Dartmouth didn’t have STRIVR, I don’t think I would have had the chance to keep playing football after college.” The aforementioned technological changes have brought attention to the Big Green in the past few years, but the team’s latest splash may be its most significant. In September, Dartmouth hired Callie Brownson as its offensive quality control coach, making her the first full-time female college football coach. Brownson had spent her previous few years playing in women’s football leagues, and she interned for the New York Jets in the summer of 2017 before working at the Manning Passing Academy this past summer. Multiple women were asked to coach at the camp, but Brownson’s resume immediately set her apart. “Callie stood out organizationally; she had meticulous preparation and detail about what she wanted to do,” Teevens said. Teevens got to know the female coaches over the course of the camp,

which inspired him to create internship positions for women for the beginning of Dartmouth’s football season; Brownson was chosen to be one of the interns. Soon afterward, Teevens happened to have an opening in his staff, and Brownson stood out enough to receive consideration for the role. As Teevens considered hiring Brownson, a group of receivers approached him and asked if he would consider hiring her to fill the staff opening. “I thought this was a supreme recommendation,” Teevens said. “I didn’t know [that no other college team] had hired a woman. What I knew was [that] she was a good coach, she was knowledgeable, she was passionate and she communicated effectively. Those are all the qualities I look for when hiring a coach.” Brownson has loved the job so far, in large part due to her broad role as a quality control coach. “My job is all-inclusive in so many different departments; I do a lot of operations and player personnel stuff as well as handling my job as a coach,” Brownson said. While she’s honored to be the first female full-time college football coach, Brownson isn’t hoping for any special treatment. “Coach Teevens didn’t hire a female, he hired a coach,” she said. “The expectations on me to do my job are

the same.” While Brownson was able to earn her current job and the support of the players, she is aware of the difficulty for women to break into a largely-male dominated industry. “It’s hard to be competitive when, no matter what your knowledge is, a lot of the men you’re going up against have been around ... for a lot longer than you have,” Brownson said. “I want there to be no hesitation and no doubt in a coach’s mind that female coaches can contribute. This is all about creating a positive example and a positive blueprint that [having a woman on a coaching staff] works and helps.” Teevens is optimistic that this hire will provide more opportunities for women in the future. “My hope is that people will emulate the internship program,” Teevens said. “If we can help women access information they may not have access to, they [can] make football a safer and more technically sound sport.” While it is difficult to attribute a team’s success or failure to any one factor, the football team’s changes certainly have had no ill effect on the team’s performance this season. More importantly, however, the football team’s changes can help to pioneer a shift in the culture of football as a whole, creating a safer and more inclusive sport that can withstand the test of time.

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First-Year Trips program focuses on inclusivity and identity B y alice zhang

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When alumni come back to Dartmouth for Homecoming, they may be surprised the number of changes that have occurred at the College and in Hanover. They may be astounded by the construction of the Life Sciences Center, the addition of Skinny Pancake in downtown Hanover, the derecognition of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, or the changes in the bonfire tradition within the past year. One quintessential experience for many Dartmouth students is the Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips program. According to the DOC website, First-Year Trips is designed to “ease [the] transition to college by connecting [students] to [their] class and [their] peers at Dartmouth, who can help [them] define [their] experience and find [their] own sense of place.” Just like the College, First-Year Trips is constantly evolving. Lucia Pierson ’18 was this past year’s First-Year Trips Director. She commented on the goal of inclusivity for this past year’s Trips. “The journey that I think Trips is on right now is that we’re trying to be a lot more considerate that even though it started as an outdoor program, it’s now a program that wants to cater to the entire incoming class, regardless of their experience with the outdoors,” Pierson said. Pierson explains that traditional forms of outdoor experiences can

often be exclusive to some, not only in terms of experience required, but also in terms of a student’s socioeconomic background. “Outdoor athletic activities like hiking, backpacking, climbing [and] kayaking [are] things that are not only … pretty expensive to participate in, but you have to have a lot of accessibility to be able to get out to the woods, to have the free time to do so [and] to have the exposure to be able to do so from a young age,” Pierson said. Environmental studies professor Terry Osborne is the teacher for Environmental Studies 11, “Humans and Nature in America,” which explores the different ways in which people have viewed nature throughout the course of American history. He, like Pierson, acknowledges many people’s lack of accessibility to some traditional outdoor activities. “[In the past] it had mostly been assumed that there were certain ways to interact with nature.” Osborne said. “But the closer we look at it, we realize there are many ways that people … connect to the outdoors, especially if one has never had many interactions with nature. To offer that opportunity in ways that feel safe but also boundary stretching … is always beneficial.” Laura Hutchinson ’19, last year’s Oak Hill Croo Captain, helped facilitate the mountain biking and “adventure quest” trip sections. Though she says that little has changed Oak Hill Croo, she says

that recent changes made under the new Trips directorate have impacted those who she works closely with. According to Hutchinson, the Trips directorate started a meal aid program to reduce the burden on Trip leaders who needed to stay in Hanover, and didn’t have the funds to go home. Hutchinson believes that such changes have made Trips more open and accessible to those who wish to participate in any capacity. “Trips is an institution,” Hutchinson said, “so it’s not like we, as a directorate, completely flipped it around on its head … A lot of the work we did was stewarding it and taking a critical lens at who it’s serving and how, and trying to … recenter people [who] it typically has disenfranchised.” Emma Chiu ’19, the Lodj Croo Captain this past year, remarked on a less tangible change in Trips that aimed to make everyone more aware of the different identities of people at Dartmouth. Chiu said that there has traditionally been a discussion that takes place during the Trippees’ last day on Trips when they are at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. In 2015, the year that Chiu participated in Trips as a first-year student, the discussion was an open-ended forum in which Trippees asked any questions about Dartmouth that arose. By 2017, it changed so that the discussion became more centered on identity. Chiu said that 2018’s discussion circle remained largely

Legacy students forge their own paths B y Michaela artavia-HIGH The Dartmouth

E ve r y s t u d e n t ’s c o l l e g e experience is influenced by their parents, whether they helped choose what college to attend, what major to pursue or what activities to participate in. However, when one attends the same college as one or both parents, this influence can be compounded. Sharing a parent’s alma mater can become an act of balancing their informed advice and guidance with the desire to forge one’s own path. The advice legacy students receive from their parents can reflect the College’s changes across generations, or demonstrate that, despite the decades between two students, the spirit of Dartmouth holds true. Jessica Weil ’21, a legacy student, first visited Dartmouth at her mother’s reunion for the Class of 1991. When Weil later made the decision to attend Dartmouth, she traced it back to that first visit to the campus. “My mom going here didn’t

really affect my decision to go here except that it brought me here in the first place,” Weil said. “Just being here for [the reunion] really felt like home.” After coming to Dartmouth, Weil’s primary focus was finding activities that she enjoyed. “I’m trying to live my life and do what I want, and I think that doesn’t really have to do with what [my mother] did,” Weil said. We i l s a y s, h o w e ve r, t h a t she sometimes compares her experiences at the College to her mother’s and wonders about the things that might have changed since her mother attended. “It’s weird for me to picture her here [at] my age, especially because the buildings are different,” Weil said. “A lot of things are different.” While attending the College, Weil’s mother wrote for The Dartmouth and sang in the Glee Club and Rockapellas. Weil followed in her mother’s footsteps by joining the Rockapellas. “I really wanted [to join] the Rockapellas as an acapella group,

not just because I went to their open rehearsal and felt really good about it, but because I recognized them,” Weil said. “I heard my mom talking about it and her time with them, and I really wanted to be in their group.” However, Weil says she is just as influenced by what her mother didn’t do than what she did do. “[My mother] did say that she was too scared to study abroad, so I am making an effort to go out of my way to study abroad,” Weil said. “My mom told me that her biggest college regret was not trying enough new things, so I’m trying to put myself out there more.” Another legacy student, Alice Bennett ’20, is one of several people in her family who attended the College, including her mother. Bennett said that there wasn’t any parental pressure to attend Dartmouth, but she enjoyed her frequent visits. Ultimately, Bennett chose to attend the College because of her connection to the campus. “I knew Dartmouth better, so I

the same, but with a slight change. “We sent a survey out to campus giving other students the opportunity to anonymously share what they wish other students knew about … [their] identity and the ways in which [they] have experienced Dartmouth,” Chiu said. In the discussion group, Chiu said, Trippees would read the quotes they gathered in groups, allowing them to more easily voice their concerns about Dartmouth. She said it also gave firstyear students an opportunity to relate to something that they could identify with, or learn about the ways in which other people experience Dartmouth. “If [the Trippees] had a similar concern or worry going into Dartmouth, and they felt uncomfortable to be the person to raise it with other people in their discussion circle or felt it was too heavy of a topic ... there would already be … content there for them,” Chiu said. Pierson says that another change Trips made to promote well-being and diversity was embedded in the way that trip leaders were trained. “We’ve been working on developing [a] trip leader training curriculum that talks to trip leaders about how different facets of a Trippee’s identity can impact their experience on Trips and also at Dartmouth,” Pierson said. Pierson said that the goal of the initiative was for trip leaders to be more prepared to talk to Trippees about those experiences and have conversations about issues with inclusivity. In addition, Pierson said that the directorate instated a mental

health training program so that the trip leaders could adequately support Trippees who may have issues with anxiety or other issues regarding their mental health. “Mental health is a part of health, so if we’re teaching people how to handle first aid and how to help their Trippees physically, they should help them emotionally as well,” Pierson said. Finally, Pierson said that in an effort to make the idea of getting outside more broad, the directorate added two more Trips: Cabin Camping Performing Arts and Cabin Camping Cooking. “You don’t have to be doing those athletic, hardcore activities to hang out in nature and have fun,” Pierson said. “One shouldn’t be considered less than the other.” Pierson believes that the point of Trips isn’t just to create a welcoming, fun and inclusive environment for first-year students, but also to show them how many members of the Dartmouth community care about their experience. “Mentorship is such a huge part of the program,” Pierson remarked, “[but] I would say that love is the center core of the program. Obviously, the outdoors is important too, and that’s a great … setting to put that love, but the love that creates the program is the foundation. Otherwise, it would just be camping trips, and that’s not what Trips is.”

was a little bit more drawn to it,” Bennett said. At the College, Bennett is part of the acapella group The Sings; Bennett is the first of her family to participate in acapella. “They love [acapella], but they would never have done that,” Bennett said. In comparison, her mother was a member of the field hockey and lacrosse teams, Bennett doesn’t participate in any sports teams. “I think I’ve managed to lead a very different Dartmouth career than anyone in my family has,” Bennett said. While her family doesn’t directly influence her experience at the College, Bennett believes that they do play a part in guiding her ultimate choices. “With family members saying, ‘Oh, are you doing this like your mom did?’ it was a push to be different, but it was also nice having the familiarity of being able to ask for advice,” Bennett said. Bennett added that despite d i f f e re n c e s i n t h e i r ch o s e n

activities, she and her mother still bond over shared Dartmouth experiences. “My mom and I both love the winter here, so a lot of the stuff she was doing in the winter here, I find myself doing,” Bennett said. “And then [I] realize, ‘Oh wait, I feel like my mom did this.’” Bennett said that she and her mother will often bond over anecdotes of similar experiences, ranging from winter activities they both took part in to professors they both had class with. “It’s really nice to have someone I was … close to outside of Dartmouth, and then to come in to Dartmouth and share that kind of stuff,” Bennett said. Both of Eleanor Mitchell ’20’s parents attended the College, her mother in the Class of 1992 and her father in the Class of 1993. When choosing what college to attend, Mitchell said she looked at several before selecting Dartmouth. Mitchell knew she wanted to go to a small liberal arts

Chiu is a former member of The Dartmouth Senior Staff.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST CHANTAL ELIAS ’22

STAFF COLUMNIST MATTHEW MAGANN ’21

Some Things Just Don’t Change

Without Representation

Years later, Dartmouth still retains a culture of female objectification.

Hanover’s attack on the bonfire highlights the importance of student voting.

As we light the bonfire for the 125th time similar spaces. So where is Dartmouth falling tonight, it is a perfect opportunity to reflect short? By the looks of it, the College is doing on the evolving environment for women at everything right: it has programs such as the Dartmouth. Attending an all-girls school Bystander Initiative and Movement Against up until this year has fed my interest in the Violence trainings, as well as the Sexual dynamics between men and women in the Violence Prevention Project, a plethora of academic and social worlds on campus. discussions platforms on sexual assault and a Through personal experience and interactions robust Title IX office. with upperclassmen and freshman peers, Late at night in fraternities, however, all of my eyes have been opened to the reality of this programming seems to fall to the wayside. Dartmouth life for women: favorable in the Here, I have observed the reappearance of academic setting, but not so much on the social primal gender roles: the men command and scene. the women fall silent and subservient. I have Dartmouth is recognized as a leading post- observed a status quo that new freshmen secondary institution for women’s education. are fearful of breaking: a social culture that The College’s accolades in regard to women perpetuates shame with the refusal of sexual are numerous: women constitute half the advances. undergraduate population, the Tuck School There is a need to refocus and admit that has one of the best representations of women impactful change has yet to come to this among top-tier M.B.A programs, the Thayer dimension of the College. While the avenue School of Engineering’s 2016 graduating class through which women are objectified has was 52 percent female, and Dartmouth even evolved, the culture of female victimization has has its own women’s, gender and sexuality not. In 1988, a women’s advocacy group shared studies department. that “dozens of women received anonymous But this hasn’t always been the case. There obscene phone calls and several women were were no women running around the bonfire assaulted.” And similar to the committees on Homecoming night that exist today, in 1986, 125 years ago. Up until “I am proud of the Dartmouth women were 1972, in fact, women did Dartmouth community advocating for the creation not exist in Dartmouth’s of a Women’s Support story. Dartmouth was the I have joined, and of Task Force to provide last Ivy League school to the women — past, legal services for “women admit women, and faced who have been victims vehement opposition from present and future of sexual assault, sexual those who did not see — who have shaped harassment, and sexual Dartmouth as a place for discrimination.” the College into the women. In this respect, Sadly, the exact students should be proud of institution it is today. same concer ns that the strides Dartmouth has I am also cognizant, existed in 1986 continue made in gender inclusivity. to plague the minds of however, of the Today, Dartmouth women Dartmouth women in are athletes, intellectuals, change that still lies 2018. As the Dartmouth artists and leaders. We community celebrates before us, as we come are decision-makers, this Homecoming, we questioners and activists. to realize that it is not must reaffirm feminism And yet, in the social enough to solely have as a core Dartmouth scene, an entirely different value. Women on campus narrative exists. The respect for women’s must know that there is discrepancy is alarming minds — there must no societal mandate that — and perplexing. How requires them to comply also be respect for can Dartmouth publish with sexual harassment, such impressive statistics women’s bodies.” and no shame that will and still have women come with saying no. If being preyed on in the we fail to emphasize this, basement of fraternities? In 2016, Dartmouth we risk remaining stagnant in the same culture had 18 reports of rape on campus. In 2017, a that existed five decades ago. Dartmouth sexual misconduct survey revealed I am proud of the Dartmouth community that 34 percent of undergraduate women had I have joined, and of the women — past, experienced “non-consensual penetration or present and future — who have shaped the sexual touching involving physical force or College into the institution it is today. I am incapacitation” during their time on campus. also cognizant, however, of the change that still When I arrived on campus in September, lies before us, as we come to realize that it is I was optimistic about the social scene for not enough to solely have respect for women’s women. After all, orientation was filled with minds — there must also be respect for women’s sexual violence prevention talks, informative bodies. Students must set the goal of creating a pamphlets and a clear message of commitment campus in which sexual violence is non-existent to gender violence eradication. By week seven and zero discrepancy lies between the power of the term, however, I have already seen of a man and that of a woman. Now is the my friend experience inappropriate sexual time to be optimistically hopeful, to unite as a advances in a fraternity that made her feel community, to celebrate the past and mobilize used as a sexual toy and afraid to return to toward a better future.

In the ongoing battles over student voting the collapse. Still, by unilaterally setting the in New Hampshire, the anti-vote side latches terms for the bonfire, Hanover’s elected officials onto the claim that students aren’t “real” directly targeted the student body. residents of New Hampshire, and so don’t I’ve yet to meet a student who appreciates deserve the right to vote. And they’ve acted the changes. Most begrudgingly accept the on it. A court recently struck down Senate Bill gutted shell of a tradition since, as the town has 3, one of two recent voter-regulation bills, but made abundantly clear, any failure to comply House Bill 1264, another bill that effectively with the new rules will result in a permanent disenfranchises students, goes into effect on July ban on the Homecoming bonfire. Hanover 1. Unless something changes, many students town manager Julia Griffin stated her position will still essentially lose their right to vote. clearly in a recent interview with the New Granted, many students at New Hampshire Hampshire Union Leader: “It’s a tradition,” colleges won’t live in the state long-term. Griffin asserted, and “it’s become the kind of Therefore, the line goes, students don’t deserve tradition that should be changed.” No input a vote, since they lack some vaguely-defined from students is needed; as she sees it, “it’s commitment to the state. Drawing that really hazing.” logic out reveals its incoherence. Perhaps, I’ll admit, Dartmouth has a problem one might argue, living with hazing and other in New Hampshire for “Hanover’s coercive behavior — four years is too little of a and the College should paternalistic new commitment. Let’s say five absolutely oppose it. The years qualifies a person as regulations directly bonfire, though, isn’t worthy. What, then, of a target students. hazing. It provides a rare lifelong New Hampshire experience that draws resident planning to And remember: all together students from retire to Florida in four this happens while across campus, welcoming years? Or someone with new class to campus students still have the the a terminal illness? By the and joining everyone long-term commitment right to vote. What together in celebration. logic, both should lose happens when we lose Yes, upperclassmen and their right to vote. That’s alumni sometimes yell at clearly absurd, and no that right? Without the freshmen to “touch one could seriously claim a vote, we lose our the fire.” It’s an old joke, that disenfranchisement and it almost never targets as just. That said, anyone agency as citizens to specific individuals. As I who considers long-term defend what matters ran around the fire, I never commitment a prerequisite to us.” felt any pressure to touch for voting needs to apply it. Students understand that principle equally. The the danger, and if a few impossibility of doing so reveals the argument’s choose to engage in dangerous behavior, they absurdity. have no one but themselves to blame. The Perhaps, if applied in any reasonable town of Hanover, unfortunately, has ignored manner, long-term residency requirements the reality of the situation and cracked down would unfairly exclude many of this state’s on Dartmouth, threatening the College into residents. But let’s examine the root logic of the submission. long-term commitment argument. Ultimately, Hanover’s paternalistic new regulations proponents place value on long-term residency directly target students. And remember: all this due to the impacts of policies. Understandably, happens while students still have the right to they worry about people voting on policies vote. What happens when we lose that right? and leaving before the effects materialize. But Without a vote, we lose our agency as citizens the inverse is even more concerning: without to defend what matters to us. New Hampshire universal suffrage, policies affect those who laws clearly impact students, and if this state have no say in them. claims to take democracy seriously, it can’t Dartmouth students experienced just such a selectively disenfranchise students. It needs case with the Homecoming bonfire. The town to give every citizen the right to vote. of Hanover, in all its lawsuit-averse wisdom, Hanover’s population stands, as of 2016, threatened Dartmouth with revocation of at 11,416. Of that, Dartmouth’s student the bonfire permit unless the College made population totaled 6,381. Clearly, students substantial changes to the ceremony. The form a major constituency in this town. town effectively held the College hostage to Disenfranchising half of the town’s residents its demands — and not all those demands represents a gross injustice, especially in light were reasonable. On the fire permit, the town of Hanover’s recent actions against student demanded that the fire collapse either before interests. However long students remain in or “as the students complete their one-and- New Hampshire, this state’s laws directly only lap around the bonfire.” The terrifying affect us, as Hanover’s takedown of the bonfire prospect of the bonfire collapsing as students illustrates all too clearly. Granted, students surround it hardly seems reasonable, especially tend to vote Democrat, but perhaps, amid given the town’s concerns about students this age of partisanship, we can look past touching the fire. Thankfully, Dartmouth petty fights and focus on our common beliefs pushed back against that stipulation, given in democracy, freedom and equal opportunity the logistical challenges of precisely timing for all citizens — students included.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

Don’t Bother

Let the Old Traditions Change

The powerless pen.

This year, the Class of 2022 will run just inelastic in its practices. Next, it is regulated one lap around the Homecoming bonfire. overseas in Vatican City. Finally, the Globe As a member of that class, I was aiming released its piece on the Catholic Church in to write a piece about why this is unjust, print, which is not quite the most consumed and how Dartmouth will quickly lose its form of media in our time. Therefore, it is identity if it ditches defining characteristics unfair to define the futility of journalism in the name of safety. Then I thought, why based on this one example. even bother? An opinion piece written by a American journalism couldn’t incite freshman will be far from change in the church, convincing to the officials “If change is the but American journalists of the town of Hanover, should at least be heard weather, journalists who have already made by their own government up their minds about the are just weathermen. if they communicate possible dangers of this They report on it, with the public in a clear, tradition. This internal accessible way, right? dialogue illustrates a prepare for it and even In the very same year much darker reality in the predict it. Much like that the Globe exposed world beyond the Green. the Catholic Church, I f c h a n g e i s t h e weathermen, their legendary documentary weather, journalists are predictions aren’t director Michael Moore just weathermen. They released “Bowling for always correct, and report on it, prepare for Columbine.” This film, a it and even predict it. much like weather, far more accessible form Much like weathermen, change can often only of reporting in today’s their predictions aren’t age, explored the gun be accurately depicted always correct, and much laws in this country and like weather, change can from the rearview how they make America often only be accurately the perfect landscape mirror. ” depicted from the for mass shootings like rearview mirror. Just as the one at Columbine. weathermen do not make This past March, over the weather, journalists do not directly make one million Americans participated in the change. Weaving words, sentences and “March for our Lives,” pleading lawmakers columns into stories, journalists materialize to reform gun laws that have been stagnant the feeling of being alive on this particular in the wake of many more mass shootings. day into our newspapers. They have little As a nation, these have been two of impact on what it will feel like to be alive our most impactful pieces of journalism, tomorrow. Their voices are heard, but in yet 16 years later we are still searching for the face of power, talk can be cheap. change while children get shot at school In our generation, even the most and assaulted at church. Granted, change impactful pieces fall flat when it comes to cannot be expected overnight, but pieces creating change. One of the most famous of such power should have been a wakeup of these, recounted in the Oscar Award call — and certainly not one with a 16-year Winning movie “Spotlight,” was a 2002 snooze button. article in the Boston Globe that exposed As a journalist obsessed with words, the misconduct of countless Catholic priests sentences, columns and the chatter that who had molested children with little to comes along with this industry, I somberly no punishment. In July of 2018, Attorney accept the ironic reality that in the process General Josh Shapiro of change, my work has wrote a personal letter to little tangible impact. “Just as weathermen Pope Francis regarding a As an American citizen, new report on damning tell us the forecast, however, I believe that details of continued not all hope is lost. journalists are abuse by Catholic priests. Where words have failed Shapiro never received tasked with creating us, votes will not. While a response. The Globe awareness on the number of laps that published one of the this year’s freshman most g roundbreaking major issues — not class is allowed to take pieces of journalism of precipitating progress around the bonfire will our time, and 16 years never be put to a vote, to solve them. Change, later, little has changed. decisions made by our There are reasons, should we see it nation’s policy makers o f c o u r s e, w hy t h e necessary, is our civic will. Just as weathermen journalists at the Globe t e l l u s t h e fo re c a s t , were unable to change duty as citizens of journalists are tasked the practices of the democracy.” with creating awareness church. First, whether on major issues — not you are a member of precipitating progress the church or not, it has to solve them. Change, proven itself, throughout history, to be a should we see it necessary, is our civic duty corrupt institution and thus extremely as citizens of democracy.

Dartmouth’s traditions need not be immutable.

The earliest signs of the Homecoming sacrificing the role of social spaces on tradition go back to the era of William campus in building community. It is not Jewett Tucker’s presidency at Dartmouth only expected, but necessary, that change in the 1890s. Back then, the College had will ultimately happen for the better without weekly student body meetings that were collapsing the foundations of the Dartmouth known as “Rhetoricals,” which took place experience. in the Old Chapel of Dartmouth Hall. By Most traditions of the College’s past 1895, the student body population grew too look vastly different in their modern forms; large for the Old Chapel, and “Dartmouth some traditions have been lost to history Night,” the tradition we know today, took because they no longer fit the Dartmouth root. Dartmouth Night was an opportunity of today. With change being inevitable, it for members of the Dartmouth community is crucial to keep in mind that Dartmouth “to devote an evening to the traditions and must progress in a direction that will glory of Dartmouth, and to stimulate pride improve the experiences of its current and in her achievements, and strengthen the future students. Traditions that continue purpose that the present and the future of to further harmful power dynamics and the college shall be worthy of its past,” as the entitlement that this institution has passed Congressional Record and New Hampshire down must not remain as they are. Change Journal wrote in 1896. must happen with the goal of including a The original Dartmouth Night tradition greater diversity of voices in the collective did not include the Homecoming bonfire — Dartmouth experience and making room nor did it even include the Homecoming for students who have been historically football game. It wasn’t until 1962 that marginalized and underrepresented to create Dartmouth Night was even referred to as their own traditions. “Home-coming Day” by The Dartmouth Our traditions make us who we are. for the first time. Over the course of more If Dartmouth wants to be an inclusive, than a century, what started off as a serious progressive and inspiring community, the gathering known as “Rhetoricals” phased traditions it holds dear must reflect that. out to make room for the blazing and Dartmouth can still retain the core of its energetic Homecoming purpose and identity bonfire tradition of “What many fail to with change — and that the modern day. Yet purpose and identity may see is that change, in the original sentiment evolve as Dartmouth’s behind the event still fact, facilitates the values evolve as well. remains. The purpose longevity of traditions; The shifting values of of Dartmouth Night is American society in without change, and has always been to the ’70s pressured the bring the Dartmouth traditions cannot keep institution to shift its own community together to values toward diversity up with the evolution celebrate its collective and social equality. identity and revel in of the institutions and Dartmouth grew into Dartmouth pride. itself when it finally the world at large to Re c e n t r e a c t i o n s recommitted itself to to the changes made which they belong.” its chartered mission to to the Homecoming educate Native American bonfire suggest that the youth, and when it finally Dartmouth community seems to view these opened its doors to women. Prior to the changes as threats to the legitimacy of the College’s expansion to include more tradition itself, without realizing that change identities into the Dartmouth narrative, does not have to be antithetical to tradition. it would have been hard to believe that If the College had not made changes to the one of the institution’s core values is that structure of the Homecoming bonfire this it “embraces diversity with the knowledge year, the town of Hanover would not have that it significantly enhances the quality allowed the bonfire at all. What many fail of a Dartmouth education.” In today’s to see is that change, in fact, facilitates the Dartmouth, however, through the emergence longevity of traditions; without change, of new traditions, academic departments, traditions cannot keep up with the evolution events and social spaces that celebrate of the institutions and the world at large to and provide community for historically which they belong. marginalized and underrepresented Members of the Dartmouth community students, the College is beginning to see tend to falsely assume aspects of the this value take tangible form. Dartmouth experience to be more ingrained Dartmouth needs to change and has in “tradition” than they really are. The always been changing. Long-lasting and College has facilitated many changes in the valuable traditions survive because they are social spheres on campus in the past several fluid. They have evolved to fit the climate years — the hard alcohol ban, the housing of today, just as they will continue to evolve community system, the first-year Greek to fit the climate of tomorrow. house ban — that ignited strong reactions at the time of their implementation. Today, The editorial board consists of opinion staff however, these changes have molded columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors themselves into the new status quo without and the editor-in-chief.

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Legacy students discuss parental expectations FROM LEGACY PAGE 18

school, but didn’t feel pressured to choose Dartmouth because of her parents. Mitchell said she ultimately chose to attend the College for the freedom to choose and change her academic path as an undergraduate. “My parents didn’t pressure me at all,” Mitchell said. “I was looking around. I knew I really liked Johns Hopkins. I really liked Brown [and] Vassar. I was definitely looking for a small, liberal arts kind of experience. But I think what drew me was [that] I liked that I didn’t have to pick what to do right off the bat [at Dartmouth].” Mitchell’s time at Dartmouth shares a few similarities with her parents’ time at the College. All three participated in the arts — her father played cello in the Symphony Orchestra, her mother pursued studio arts and Mitchell herself is involved in theater. Despite surface similarities, however, Mitchell said that her experiences at the College are largely the result of her own choices. “Our paths were different,

and I’m sure our Dartmouth experiences have been different,” Mitchell said. Mitchell believes that her parents’ experiences on campus gave her family new ways to bond through their shared enjoyment of the outdoors and familiar academic experiences. “My mom and I still joke about professors that they had,” Mitchell added. Mitchell said that both she and her parents also shared in the strong emotional connection of the College’s student body and campus. “I think the love of this place has stayed the same,” Mitchell said. “I think everyone here is super passionate, and they’re passionate about the campus as well.” While some of their experiences are shared across generations, Mitchell’s choices are usually free of her parents’ direct influence. Mitchell said attending the same college as her parents didn’t define her path. “Dartmouth is very [much] what you make of it,” Mitchell said. “It’s not Dartmouth itself that makes the experience different, it’s me.”

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Sustainability Office assesses energy goals FROM ENERGY PAGE 5

water distribution system. In the next five years or so, changing the lights in most buildings to LEDs is predicted to reduce electricity use by 25 percent. The hot water distribution system, on the other hand, has already been in the works for the past six months and will eventually replace the steam distribution system currently in place, reducing the amount of energy used by the College’s heating system by 20 percent. Bjorklund said that one of the biggest challenges that she and her team face is securing funding for these projects. “For a lot of our energ y efficiency projects, we’ve been pretty successful in getting support from the administration and the Board of Trustees to fund them, but as we try to do bigger and bigger initiatives, there’s more competition for funding,” Bjorklund said. Another challenge that Dartmouth faces is the rate at which these changes get carried out. Friedland expressed his disappointment that several of the goals in the task force’s report won’t be completed for many years. However, he also acknowledged that these changes would take time even if finances weren’t an obstacle, and the campus would probably look more like a construction site than a college if too much was attempted at once. Kerr said that even if these goals seem far away to a student, the teams that work to reach these goals are making progress every day. She also emphasized the importance of not over-investing in any one energy source. Dartmouth has been using No. 6 fuel for about a century, and Kerr believes that the College needs to be careful not

to commit to another fuel source carry out major changes and large for another century. Instead, she enough to make an impact on said, the College should leave the greater community. He spoke room to adapt and utilize future positively of student groups like technological progress that can’t Divest Dartmouth that work to even be imagined yet. lessen the environmental impact “ T h o s e that we, as a 2025 goals feel “Those 2025 goals College, make. really far away A t to [students], feel really far away to the same time, but they don’t [students], but they however, he was feel far away uncertain how don’t feel far away to to the people much change who w o r k the people who work student groups h e r e , ” K e r r here.” alone could said. “They make without feel really the support of urgent. There’s -ROSI KERR ’97, administration an enor mous and the Board amount of work SUSTAINABILITY of Trustees. t h a t ’s g o i n g DIRECTOR to happen “I think the between here Dartmouth and there so student body that we meet really wants to that goal.” make changes Gabe Lewis, that will never who was one of two graduate happen unless the administration student members on the task listens and acknowledges what the force, offered a more skeptical student body is saying,” Lewis said. perspective about Dartmouth’s “I think so much of our 3 billion energy consumption. dollar endowment is wrapped up While on the task force, Lewis in oil and gas, and unless that was surprised by how poorly changes … it’s really difficult to Dartmouth compared to other do anything.” Ivy League schools — as well as The exact impact of Middlebury College and Stanford Dartmouth’s investments on its University, which he described as energ y consumption goals is the “leaders of green campuses.” unclear, but one thing is certain: “Being on the task force, the its progress toward those goals numbers that we saw were pretty continues constantly, with tangible amazing in terms of how much results already apparent. energy different buildings use and When ask ed how cur rent how many pounds of trash we students can best contribute to throw out and how many pounds these goals, each source offered a of unused food go to waste,” different piece of advice. Lewis said. “Dartmouth has a lot Lewis believes that students of potential, [but] I’ve heard that can make the largest impact by we’re the least sustainable Ivy exercising their political power League school.” and voting in local elections. Lewis believes that places like “The biggest number one thing Dartmouth are small enough to you can do for global climate

change is to vote for representatives in the energy sector, and she that believe in science and believe encouraged students to be on the in making a better impact on the lookout for experiential learning world,” Lewis said. “As Dartmouth opportunities. students, day-of we can walk to the “One of the goals [in the report] high school and vote. Or, a lot of was to provide experiential learning students here are still registered o ppo r tuni ti es fo r s tu d en ts, ” in their home states, and they can Bjorklund said. “We’re also trying vote. It would be lovely to see [a to design those systems with as higher] percentage of Dartmouth much flexibility as possible for students eligible to vote walk five experiential learning opportunities minutes to the high school and fill in the energy field.” out a ballot.” Kerr Fr i e d l a n d believes that believes that “I think the Dartmouth t h e re i s a n students don’t student body really incredible need to choose amount of wants to make b e t w e e n opportunity d e c r e a s i n g changes that will never in addressing their everyday happen unless the t h e s e footprint problems, a nd j oi ni ng administration listens and she used student groups and acknowledges what herself as an related to the ex a m p l e o f the student body is environment. h ow p e o p l e They can do saying.” can even both, and in make a living ei th er c a s e, and support f o c u s i n g -GABE LEWIS, GRADUATE their families o n s m a l l e r, STUDENT ON THE by w o r k i n g yearly goals t o p r e s e r ve SUSTAINABILITY TASK FORCE on the path the planet. toward longWhether term goals is a student is crucial. interested “I’m a big i n f i n a n c e, fan of saying, government or ‘Whatever engineering, we’re doing this year, let’s do X there are ways to participate in the percent less next year,’” Friedland energy sector — a pursuit that she said. “Maybe only five percent, finds worthwhile. or two percent, but let’s just draw “There’s a huge amount of a line in the sand and say that opportunity in our transition and Dartmouth, as an institution, is in our collective resolution to deal not going to contribute as much with and tackle climate change, carbon dioxide next year as it did [and] I personally can find a job this year.” doing that.” Kerr said. “I like Bjorklund noted that one of the hanging my body weight on a lever goals set forth in the task force’s that I think is really going to move report was utilizing campus as the world. Even though Dartmouth a “living lab” for students to is one tiny corner of the world, for learn about and get involved me, that’s how you do it.”

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explained. “The town said that cannot happen again.” The town was concerned that when the bonfire falls sideways, it can potentially fall on either the Safety and Security officers or the students, according to Van Citters. In response, he and a team of engineers and students redesigned the 2018 bonfire to be slightly wider, a few feet shorter, and have a different center of mass to fall inwards instead of sideways. The structure is made with the same amount of wood as in the last 20 years, Citters said. The second change is the implementation of a fence at the end of the ring of the bonfire

preventing students from running more than one lap. “Running around leads to situations where there may be mob mentality or the inability to track students trying to run into the fire and touch the fire,” he said. After running one lap, the freshmen will be funneled in front of Dartmouth Hall to take a class photo and watch the fire burn. “Every tradition has been maintained with the exception of running around the fire, which was the town’s mandate,” Van Citters said, “There will be alumni and athlete speeches, the pep rally aspect, the true tradition of marching around fire is even

maintained. We fought hard for that. We still wanted that to be part of [the Homecoming tradition].” While many aspects of the Homecoming tradition will be maintained, the Dartmouth administration had made clear that any attempts to touch the fire this year will end the bonfire tradition for future classes. While Sam Selleck ’22 said he was disheartened by the limitations on running around the fire, he is optimistic that this event will be a unifying event for his class. “Twenty-two laps around the fire wouldn’t be the defining event,” he said. “Just being able to run around with my class is what

makes it for me.” Bascomb said that the tradition will still be about “great people, a great place and great fun.” Associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey said he believes the Dartmouth spirit of Homecoming means something different to every person on campus. “The Dartmouth spirit is really about this wonderful sense of place in the northern woods surrounded by the natural landscape around us,” he said. “It is the continuity of the College through multi generations. There is a deep pride in the various student experiences, student athletes and academic organizations.”

It is clear that the bonfire tradition will continue to grow and change. However, to most, this tradition is not about the bonfire, or the parade, or the speeches. It is about celebrating the Dartmouth spirit with classmates and alumni. As Allison Lynn ’91 wrote in The Dartmouth in 1988, “the changes which may, as some claim, have created a new Dartmouth, have in no way killed the old one. The administration can make changes, but if the students continue to perceive the school as the family and environment that it is cracked up to be, these changes won’t be allowed to alter Dartmouth’s core.”

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THE DARTMOUTH HOMECOMING ISSUE 2018

Students reflect on personal growth at Dartmouth

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018

with a population greater than mind about meeting new people and just falls into place.” one determines the people who they Hanover’s 11,500 — half of which keeping a sense of adventure alive. Once one begins to figure out what care about most and who they wish are Dartmouth students. “Keep[ing] an open mind to he or she wants to do at Dartmouth, it to continue seeing regularly. It’s freshman year. All eyes are on For ’19s currently making their different things [is important],” feels like time is ticking faster than ever “These are going to be my friends you. Especially when you check the way through senior fall, nothing Wong said. “Being willing to pursue before. By senior year, the feeling of after college and that makes my countless emails seems to have adventure, I think I have certainly one’s time at the College being endless experience so much better because coming from the changed from tried to do that at certain stretches. is now gone. Students begin to come I know they are not just with me for College’s Listserv “Keep[ing] an open fall 2015 when But I wish I were more deliberate to terms with the fact that the clock these four years.” Thomas said. “They inviting you to mind to different they began their about that.” is running out on their Dartmouth are with me for the rest of my life.” attend meetings college career. Being in college for a few years experiences. After living through the myriad things [is important]. or join a new club. But it also seems definitely makes you mature, says “The feeling that your time is events that occurred between her Upperclassmen Being willing to pursue like everything Monika Gabriele ’19. infinite here … is first days at the recommend you has changed. She says that she did not realize the feeling I miss “I am definitely older. College and adventure, I think I take Computer Russell Sage — how young she was when she was the most,” said her senior year, I don’t think I realized T h o m a s h a s Science 1 and have certainly tried once the hot spot a freshman, but realized it as new Wong. to choose the to do that at certain for freshmen — classes have joined the Dartmouth W h e n how young I was thought of one Non-Recording is no longer a community. discussing how keypieceof advice when I came into Option to protect stretches. But I wish I freshman dorm. “I am definitely older,” Gabriele their idea of fun for incoming your GPA. Just were more deliberate The Fays are the said. “I don’t think I realized how had changed over college … You mature students who are in case. Your new cool place young I was when I came into college the years, all three so much, especially about to forge about that.” senior self will for freshmen. … You mature so much, especially seniors echoed their own unique thank you. But Everything But [during] freshman year.” t h a t f i n d i n g [during] freshman paths through graduation feels -DAVID WONG ’19 Anchovies closed Part of that maturation comes in people who they year.” Dartmouth life. infinitely far its doors and the the form of one’s major and interests. truly enjoy being “[I would tell away; you have chain Domino’s Anneliese Thomas ’19 remembers around is much them to] go easy a long, long way Pizza took over. how she thought she would end up more important -ANNELIESE THOMAS ’19 on [themselves],” to go. Morton Hall in East Wheelock burned majoring in economics during her now than when Thomas said. “I You wait through the six-week frat down, as did the once-ubiquitous freshman year, but soon discovered t h e y were think freshman ban. You exhaustedly run around discussion forum Yik Yak. Time only her interest in sociology. She feels younger. fall is really tough the bonfire during Homecoming seems to be moving faster, yet First that freshmen should come into the “People who I spend my time with academically and also socially. It can while trying to ignore the hundreds Year Trips feels like it was last year. College with an open mind and to be are people who I know and absolutely be kind of frustrating to feel like college of people shouting “touch the fire.” By the time one reaches senior year, more receptive to advice. love,” Gabriele said. “And [I] have a is supposed to be the greatest time of You reluctantly attend awkward Trips there seems to be little time remaining “I spent a lot of time stressing strong confidence that they also love your life. Give yourself time to fall into reunions. Perhaps you are still a little to try new things. However, David over what I wanted to do [freshman me, which I didn’t have [during] that. It’s okay to say no to things you shy or maybe you are the one freshman Wong ’19 emphasizes that a student year],” Thomas said. “When you find freshman fall.” do not want to do and prioritize … in an introductory philosophy or should try to continue having an open something that you like, everything Furthermore, senior year is when the things you love the most.” government class who is always eager to express every thought. It’s sophomore year. You get neverending emails from your dean asking you to declare your D-Plan. People are rushing Greek houses. Upperclassmen are already asking you whether you are ready for sophomore summer before you even start thinking about it. You are no longer new to Dartmouth. Perhaps you think you have everything figured out now. It seems like everyone else does. It’s sophomore summer. It’s hot and humid outside. The water on the Connecticut River is finally warm enough to complete the famous Ledyard Challenge. You go sit on the dock hoping Safety and Security does not show up uninvited. Perhaps you spent all summer trying to convince your friends, who were going through corporate recruiting, to come out for just one evening. It’s junior year. You’re finally an upperclassman. Things are getting serious now. There are those who will not stop talking about how great sophomore summer was. And there are others who will express their relief of it being over. Students begin to gain confidence and become more comfortable with being themselves. It seems to be the most uneventful — but pleasant — year. It’s senior year. Time is winding down. People are preparing to leave the Dartmouth bubble. It’s your last DIVYA KOPALLE/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Homecoming before everyone heads to the most remote areas of the world. Friends and family of the graduating Class of 2018 watch their loved ones walk through the crowd. Or, more realistically, somewhere

B y nelly mendoza-mendoza The Dartmouth Staff