The Dartmouth 10/21/2022

BY CASSANDRA MONTEMAYOR THOMAS The Dartmouth Senior Staff

In his junior year of

Joshua Watson ’22 was preparing for a long-awaited trip to scuba dive in Belize when a basketball hit him in the face during a practice with his varsity team, smashing and breaking his nose. Doctors advised him not to go on his trip — which was just days away — until they could schedule his surgery. Watson’s mother, April Morrow, said her son — ever determined and eager for an adventure — forwent treatment to make the trip.

For Morrow, the memory was typical

of her son — a persistent scholar, athlete, musician and cherished friend to many.

“Josh was a persistent child growing up — very determined, very focused,” Morrow said. “He was also very kind and thoughtful, willing to do anything for anybody.”

Watson died by suicide on Aug. 27 at his home in Carmel, Indiana, according to Morrow. He is survived by his mother, brother Christian Watson, and maternal grandparents David and Arline Morrow. Watson was on medical withdrawal for mental health from the College at the time of his death, Morrow said.

According to friends, Watson possessed a “rare” mixture of charisma and confdence while putting others around him at ease. Benjamin Hartwell ’22, who lived on the same foor as

Watson in South Fayerweather Hall during their freshman year, said “gentle and poised” are the two words that best represent Watson. The pair met at a computer set-up during Orientation and bonded over “mutual confusion,” Hartwell said.

“He had this rare quality where people really wanted to like him,” Hartwell said. “Something about him was more than popular — he just had a magnetism to him without being arrogant. He was so nice to be around, just able to make you feel good.”

Hartwell added that one of the best parts of their friendship was how much they saw each other outside of school. Watson saved up money to fy to California, where Hartwell and other friends live, to visit multiple times.

“He had to save up to do that, but he would always make it happen,” Hartwell said. “He came out again to go skiing and even came out a diferent time to Arizona [where some friends were living for a term]. He was really committed to seeing friends.”

Jael Campbell ’22, a close friend of Watson since their freshman year, echoed Hartwell’s description of Watson’s charisma and warmth.

“He would always walk into a room and light it up,” Campbell said. “He [had] a very strong presence that just kind of draws you in with his aura. … He could get along with anyone and wasn’t judgmental at all.”

For Watson and Campbell, who lived together in Panarchy undergraduate society during the fall of 2021, music was a binding force that brought them together in venues big and small, Campbell said. At Panarchy, Watson would rif on the guitar he brought to campus, trying out new chords and songs with Campbell as his audience. He shared with Campbell his passion

GLC extends freshman ‘frat ban’ by 24 hours

BY THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

This article was originally published on Oct. 19, 2022.

The Greek Leadership Council announced a 24-hour extension of the Greek First Year Safety and Risk Reduction Policy — known as the “frat ban” — until 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1 in an email to campus on Wednesday evening.

According to the email, Greek presidents voted on the change to ease the pressure of

“intense logistical challenges” associated with the return of alumni for Homecoming weekend and Halloween festivities in Greek houses. The email noted that the news may be “disappointing” to some, but is intended to allow Greek chapters to update their risk procedures and prepare to welcome freshmen into a “safe and enjoyable environment” come Nov. 1.

The GLC also confrmed that there will be no additional extension of the frat ban policy, despite the alleged circulation of misinformation on campus and online.

Classes to return to newly renovated Dartmouth Hall in winter

BY TESSA AUGSBERGER The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Oct. 20, 2022.

On Oct. 24, spaces in Dartmouth Hall will reopen after a 21-month long renovation period that updated its interior with improved accessibility features and eco-friendly modifcations that were almost entirely funded by College alumnae. Although faculty began moving into their ofces in Dartmouth Hall on Sept. 30 and an ofcial dedication ceremony will be held on Nov. 11, the building will not fully reopen for classes until the start of the winter term.

The College’s project management services senior director Patrick O’Hern said that COVID-19 related supply chain issues and labor shortages contributed to delays in construction. He said his team found it difcult to obtain certain materials, such as audiovisual equipment, needed for the renovation that are usually readily available.

According to Dartmouth Hall project manager Lindsay Walkinshaw, COVID-19 cases within the construction

crew contributed to further delays in the completion of the project. In addition to individual workers contracting COVID-19, she said that a subcontractor experienced an outbreak within their crew, causing them to be absent from the worksite for several weeks.

The Call to Lead About 1,700 alumnae raised over $25 million to fund the renovations, according to Call to Lead campaign co-chair and trustee Peggy Epstein Tanner ’79, who helped organize fundraising eforts for the project. Epstein Tanner said the Call to Lead campaign empowered alumnae to show their support for the College and for one another, especially after a period of “bad press” several years ago about whether Dartmouth was a “hospitable place to women.”

Epstein Tanner said Call to Lead also emphasized the importance of making fundraising contributions more accessible to smaller donors.

The renovated Dartmouth Hall features a donor wall in its entrance with the names of those who donated to the project, as well as a small exhibit

This article was originally published on Oct. 18, 2022.

Close to midnight on Sunday, Oct. 9, Indigenous students at Dartmouth gathered on the Green to kick of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which ofcially began on Oct. 10 and commemorates Indigenous history and sovereignty. The events for the month are largely organized by Native Americans at Dartmouth, a student organization founded to support and celebrate Native and Indigenous students.

In a yearly tradition known as the Midnight Drum Circle, Indigenous students sang together, shared prayers in their tribal languages and read poems, according to NAD co-president Ahnili Johnson-Jennings ’23, a member of the Quapaw, Choctaw, Sac and Fox and Miami tribes. In the afternoon, they came together on the Green again to hold a demonstration with the larger Dartmouth community, inviting non-Indigenous students to learn more about Indigenous cultures, she added.

“A big issue for Native people is the erasure of us and our identities. That’s just always a constant fght within our communities … to be seen and heard,”

NAD co-president Aaní Perkins ’23, a member of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, said.

“This year’s demonstration got a lot more people out, which was exciting. It was a really good time for Indigenous voices to be heard.”

For Johnson-Jennings, an event highlight was chalking sidewalks across campus on Monday night with messages highlighting Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a “yearly student favorite.” Some of these chalk messages drew attention to Dartmouth’s location on Indigenous land and called for land restitution — the returning of land and property to Indigenous groups who previously owned and lived on that land.

“[Chalking is] a way for us to increase visibility and write statements that are meaningful to us,” Johnson-Jennings said.

Dartmouth’s Indigenous students were also joined by prospective students through the College’s Indigenous Fly-In program, which brings Indigenous prospective students from across the United States to visit Dartmouth in person and typically overlaps with Indigneous Peoples’ Day, as it did this year.

Other events organized by NAD included a movie screening of “Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting” last Monday night that was open to campus. On Sunday, the Native American House hosted a poetry workshop with writer Kinsale Drake, a student at Yale University and recipient of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Prize for Poetry.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day falls on Columbus Day as a symbol of rejecting the harm that the explorer brought to Native communities, including dispossession and genocide. According ot the Library of Congress, Columbus Day has been a national holiday since 1934, and while President Joe Biden issued the firstever presidential proclamation to mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2021, it is not ofcially recognized nationally or by the state of New Hampshire.

“We believe that the people who were caretakers of this land long before Columbus was even thought of deserve the holiday more,” Yazmyn Azure ’23, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Anishinabe) tribe and NAD social chair, said.

At Dartmouth, the celebration has evolved into Indigenous Peoples’ Month, with events running throughout October. These events extend into November, which is nationally recognized as Native American Heritage Month. The College

According to Perkins, the NAD organizers behind Indigenous Peoples’ Day “really wanted to move away from anti-Columbus messaging.” Perkins said that in 2021, for example, some of the past posters that some Indigenous students created contained expletives directed at Columbus.

“Replacing Columbus Day is obviously important. But our point and goal this year as an executive board was to make it about celebrating our cultures and celebrating us and our languages, not so much focusing on Columbus,” Perkins said.

This year’s celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day also marked the frst full-scale, in-person celebration since 2019, according to Johnson-Jennings.

“It was very meaningful to be in person and at full capacity, without masks — to be together and really building momentum [for the rest of events happening this month],” she said.

These celebrations come as the department of Native American and Indigenous studies — which ofcially became an academic department and changed its name from the Native American studies program last year — marks its 50th anniversary this year. 2022 also saw the repatriation of the papers of Samson Occom — a member of the Mohegan Tribe and a pivotal fgure in the College’s founding — from the College to his Tribe in Connecticut. However, Perkins said that the celebrations were not specifcally centered on these milestones.

“Those are defnitely two signifcant events at Dartmouth and for the Mohegan People … It was at the back of our mind, but it wasn’t exactly our focus,” Perkins said. “But it is really important to talk about the origins of Dartmouth as an institution to ‘educate’ Native people, and the erasure of the Mohegan people. Those things will always be relevant.”

NAIS chair and professor N. Bruce Duthu agreed.

“I don’t think we’re attaching any particular significance to Indigenous Peoples’ Month in light of [those] milestones,” he wrote in an email statement. “Those milestones have been in the works for quite some time and we look forward to building on those successes for years to come.”

Indigenous students are now preparing for the Indigenous Fashion Show, which will take place at the Hood Museum of Art on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 8 to 9 p.m. This will be the fourth such show in Dartmouth’s history. Hōkūpa`a, a studentled organization for students from or connected to the Pacifc Islands, co-chair Kalā Harman ’23 said that the show is a “good way for people to see fashion from diferent cultures,” most of which include a “modern twist.”

Azure, one of the key organizers of the show, said she encourages all students to attend in order to “gain a better understanding of what is important to Native people.”

“The fashion show is ultimately a showcase of Indigenous perspectives and feelings,” Azure said. “There are a lot of people here who will go on to become policymakers or be in positions of power, and it is important for them to understand what is important to Indigenous people.”

Perkins said that the support of nonIndigenous students “means a lot” to Indigenous communities on campus.

“In my opinion, silence about Native people is one of the worst things you can do,” she said. “We want people to show up to things like our demonstrations. The more people that see it and the more people are aware, the closer we are to addressing some of these issues.”

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that could be there for you, acknowledge you and lift you up’

Indigenous students organize, celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, plan for month-long events

PHOTO COURTESY OF APRIL MORROW

excused Indigenous students from classes on Indigenous Peoples’ Day so that they could fully partake in events, according to Azure.

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BY KATE YEO

The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Political Union hosts Republican nominee for Congress Robert Burns in candidate forum

BY VARUN SWAMINATHAN

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Oct. 20, 2022.

On Monday, Oct. 17, Robert Burns, the Republican nominee for New Hampshire’s second congressional district, fielded student questions in a candidate forum hosted by the Dartmouth Political Union in Filene Auditorium. New Hampshire’s second congressional district covers the western portion of the state, including Hanover and the state capital, Concord.

The forum, which had around 30 attendees, began with several prepared questions from moderator Matthew Skrod ’24, the debate director of the DPU, and was followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Over the course of the event, Burns articulated his views on pressing issues such as inflation, abortion and climate change.

Burns is a small business owner who describes himself as “America First.” He defeated Keene, N.H. Mayor George Hansel — a more moderate candidate endorsed by New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, a Republican — as well as five other Republican candidates in the September primaries. Several Trump administration officials, including former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, have endorsed Burns’s campaign. Some of his positions include a wall at the southern border to protect from “narcoterrorists” who kill “tens of thousands of Americans,” and sponsoring federal legislation to protect the concealed carry of firearms nationwide.

A number of students attended the event in order to better understand Burns. Lexie Gauthier ’26, who has not yet decided whether to switch her voter registration from Montana to New Hampshire, said she only likes to vote when she knows the representatives.

“It’s also just good to know what’s going on,” she said.

Gabriel Brigham ’26 said that he

came to the event to better understand the candidate, also noting that he wanted to “challenge” Burns’s views.

The first question of the event concerned Burns’s motivation for running. He cited his uneasiness with a lack of food and manufacturing security in the United States — a problem he attributed to an overdependence on foreign goods that mainly come from China. In particular, Burns pointed to semiconductors as an example of the dangers of foreign dependence.

“If China were to put an invasion over to Taiwan, they would control something about 85 to 90 percent of this chip manufacturing,” Burns said, noting the importance of bringing manufacturing back to the United States.

When asked about potential antiinflation legislation, Burns voiced his support for investing in cleaner nuclear energy production in order to bring down the high energy costs which “cause everything else to go up in price.” He also advocated for increased investment in various forms of clean energy such as battery technology, despite questioning the idea that climate change is anthropogenic.

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June, abortion has become increasingly central to the upcoming midterm elections. Burns firmly held that he is “unapologetically pro-life.”

During an interview after the event, Burns broadly stated that the United States allows abortions at 40 weeks, or 10 months. In reality, only six states and Washington, D.C. have no restriction on abortion, with no other state allowing abortion past 25 weeks. Additionally, an average pregnancy lasts 36 weeks, or 9 months.

Burns compared the United States’ alleged “40-week” allowance with Germany, France, Italy and Spain, none of which allow abortion after 15 weeks except in extenuating circumstances concerning the mother’s health.

“Don’t you think that’s kind of radical?” Burns said, in reference to this “disparity.”

Throughout the forum, Burns emphasized the importance of small government especially on issues of education, healthcare and government regulation. He quoted President Ronald Reagan, who memorably stated, “The top nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Later in the Q&A, an audience member inquired about Burns’s stance on recent Florida legislation that bans LGBTQ+ education from kindergarten through third grade. Burns, who added that he opposes the existence of a federal Department of Education, said, “Florida wants to do what Florida wants to do.”

Burns’s primary win drew national attention, partially because it served as an example of a polarizing Democratic campaign strategy known as “boosting.” This election

cycle has seen Democratic political action committees spend money on ads that positively highlight Republican primary candidates who are particularly close to former President Donald Trump. The goal of the strategy is to have an easier campaign against an extremist candidate in the general election. In Burns’s case, a Democratic PAC spent over $90,000 on advertisements calling him an “unapologetic conservative,” according to the New York Times.

Burns’s opponent, incumbent Rep. Ann Kuster ’78, declined the DPU’s invitation to participate jointly in the town hall-style event. Instead, she will address the Dartmouth community on Oct. 20 as a guest of the Dartmouth Democrats.

“Well I think she wants something more controlled, she really only has one issue [abortion] that they’re running on right now,” Burns said, speaking on Kuster’s absence. “ … Obviously with inflation and [President Joe Biden] and the economic situation

right now, there are questions that are very uncomfortable for her to answer.”

In response to Burns’ comment, Kuster campaign manager Jon Gonin provided a statement to The Dartmouth.

“The congresswoman has proposed a robust schedule of debates and forums with her opponent and looks forward to a civil discussion on the issues most important to New Hampshire,” Gonin wrote.

Prior to the event, Dalton Swenson ’26, who grew up in New Hampshire’s second congressional district, said he has decided to support Burns.

“I was an original supporter of George Hansel in the primary, but am going to vote for Bob Burns in the general election,” Swenson said.

The general election between Kuster and Burns will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Dartmouth students are eligible to vote at Hanover’s only voting location, Hanover High School. Polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.

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Campbell said that one of her favorite memories with Watson involved a summer road trip to New York City for a friend’s birthday and a concert series where they listened to live music every night.

“He was an incredible, amazing person,” Campbell said. “[He is] defnitely the best friend I’ll ever have in this life. And he is sorely missed.”

Morrow said that Watson’s relationship with music began at a young age, when she signed Watson up for piano lessons and his teacher reported Watson had naturally perfect pitch. According to Christian Watson, his brother’s love for playing and listening to music only grew over time, as he learned trumpet, saxophone, drums and guitar. Joshua introduced Christian Watson to artists they would both grow to love, such as Led Zeppelin. Joshua recommended that they cover the band’s song “Out on the Tiles” with equally strong drum and guitar parts, so both brothers could showcase their strengths.

The brothers’ living room jam sessions eventually merited expansion into a designated space, Christian Watson said, prompting the conversion of their garage into an informal music studio. Joshua went so far as to soundproof the garage wall, relying on his own engineering skills to complete the setup.

“He would fgure out a lot of it on his own,” Christian Watson said. “He put a lot of thought into it and it really worked out. It was kind of cool to be able to do that project with him.”

Christian Watson noted that while he was slightly older than Joshua — 364 days, to be exact — his younger brother frequently led the charge on projects and daunting adventures, often pushing him to try new things. In order to “nudge” his older brother to overcome his aversion for roller coasters, Joshua would insist that the two of them ride a specifc roller coaster at the Indiana Beach amusement park 30 to 50 times, over and over again, on each visit. Over time, Christian Watson said that Joshua’s insistence helped him gain a new sense of confdence over his former fear. Eventually, the ride made them “giddy.”

“He always brought the sense of just ease,” Christian Watson said. “And [he] just made you feel like whatever you were doing, it was going to be alright, it wasn’t going to be a big deal. It would be something that we could get through.”

Joshua Watson’s inclination to help others extended to Hassan Ali ’22, who Watson advocated for in team deliberations when Ali tried out for club basketball as a senior.

“Apparently they were gonna cut me and [Watson] was the person who was like ‘yeah, I got you Hassan, I talked to the guys and told them you’re good,’” Ali said. “That’s my guy right there.”

Watson played on the club basketball team throughout his time at Dartmouth, according to Ali, but his athletic prowess didn’t end at the basketball court. He was “pretty phenomenal” at any sport that he tried, according to Morrow, who noted that Watson helped lead his varsity basketball high school team to win their sectional championships their senior year. He also played football in middle school and worked as a swim instructor and lifeguard while in high school after having swam competitively when he was younger. Morrow said that Watson could have pursued competitive swimming over basketball, except that “he didn’t really like cold water.”

In attempting to describe Watson’s basketball skills, Hartwell struggled to fnd the right words.

“Like smooth but better — I almost want to say sexy,” Hartwell said. “The way he played would make me very jealous, and I think it would for other people too.”

Watson, a studio arts major, was also an accomplished artist in acrylic painting, metallurgy and sculpture, according to Morrow. She added that a sculpture he created during high school called “The Tree of Life” was permanently put on display in front of his alma mater University High School.

Morrow said that one of her favorite paintings from Watson was an unfnished portrait of an older man in a wool cap.

“It’s a very detailed acrylic painting, with a kind of weathered face bearing all the little details of the scars of life,” Morrow said. “It’s a beautiful painting from the standpoint of being a study of humanity, of life lived hard but lived in a purposeful way.”

Watson was familiar with life’s hardships, Morrow said. Towards the end of his life, he struggled with mental health, which, along with a leg injury, prompted him to take leave from Dartmouth during winter 2022 to recover.

“He put so much such pressure on himself,” Morrow said. “The culture [at Dartmouth] can be very demanding, which was a bit of a blessing and curse for him, because he pushed himself in situations trying to meet people where they were at. I believe that caused him to fall apart a little bit. Between being a sensitive person and having a touch of anxiety, that anxiety was exacerbated at school.”

Morrow noted that her son’s sensitivity was refected not only in his struggles with mental health, but also in his insights as a writer and scholar. Watson had considered majoring in English, Morrow said, and took classes such as ENGL 22, “The Rise of the Novel” in 2019, where he garnered attention from professor Alysia Garrison.

“Joshua was a brilliant young thinker, a wonderful contributor to our class discussions, a charismatic and sweet guy and a truly good person,” Garrison wrote in an email statement. “He possessed intelligences of so many kinds, from studio art to literature to culture to athletics to deep emotional understanding of other humans and the world.”

Watson’s writing capabilities were noticed at a younger age by his high school English teacher Kirstin Northenscold. Tasked with writing Watson’s letter of recommendation for college applications, Northenscold sampled from Watson’s writing to put his skills on full display — specifcally, from an assignment in which students refected on personal ideologies. Watson wrote about burying a dead rabbit he found in an essay that touched on the fragility of life and immortality.

“What I’ve gained from this is that it is okay to reminisce, but never to sulk. Our timeline is measured not by what we accomplish or establish (this will never save us) but rather how genuinely we live in the present,” Watson wrote. “That is, value being and only being, because you never know when the ants will arrive.”

Dartmouth Hall will reopen on Oct. 24 after 21 months of renovations

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in the basement honoring the history of coeducation — which celebrates its 50th year this year — and impact of women at Dartmouth.

The exhibit, set to open this week, features several walls with photographs of women at Dartmouth throughout the past several decades as well as display cases highlighting the contributions of women at Dartmouth. There is also a section detailing the history of the building itself, with the original classroom doors from the historic building lining the walls.

Improved Accessibility

Walkinshaw said that she took over the project during construction in March 2021. She added that the building is designed with accessibility in mind to make it easier for students to navigate the building.

“Previously, to get from one side [of Dartmouth Hall] to the other, you’d be really limited with how far you could get without encountering some stairs,” Walkinshaw said. “… There’s a living room space on the third foor that [now] has some loose furniture for [greater] accessibility, there are multiple seating options within [Room 105] and every entrance into the building is accessible, whereas before there was one [accessible entrance].”

Walkinshaw said her team increased the building’s accessibility by adding outdoor ramps, incorporating accessible signage, replacing door knobs with lever handlesets and more. With the addition of a ramp leading to the front entrance of the hall, Epstein Tanner said she hopes the space feels more welcoming to all students.

“In the past there was kind of a back entrance where someone who was either in a wheelchair or on crutches could have easier access to the building,” Epstein Tanner said. “You almost felt like a second-class citizen if you were handicapped because you couldn’t go in the front door.”

Changes in Dartmouth Hall

The school hired Boston-based frm designLAB architects and construction

manager Engelberth Construction to carry out the renovations.

O’Hern said the building was designed for LEED Gold certifcation — a classification that certifies the building’s lower environmental impact. He highlighted how the building is more energy efcient due to the installation of storm windows, reinsulation of the building’s exterior and the replacement of steam heating with hot water heating.

“We’re able to use the building more efectively over 12 months,” O’Hern said. “[The building now has] really good temperature control for everybody.”

Italian professor Giorgio Alberti, who worked in Dartmouth Hall for four years before moving with the French and Italian department to Berry Library during the renovations, said construction workers continue to develop the inside of Dartmouth Hall even as professors move back into their ofces, calling the transition “a little premature.” However, Alberti said he appreciates the renovations and is excited to begin teaching students in the space.

“I think we’re very privileged to be here,” Alberti said. “They certainly packed a lot of things in the same building.”

ITAL 1, “Introductory Italian 1” student Claire O’Flynn ’26 said that she used a third-level alcove in Dartmouth Hall as a study space for her Italian midterm. She added that the updated interior of the building is more conducive to her working style than other work spaces, such as those ofered by College libraries.

“There’s a huge whiteboard and I love to write everything out super big, so I really like [the space],” O’Flynn said. “I [also] like a lot of the little nooks and crannies, individual meeting rooms and small halls.”

Reflecting on his previous office in Dartmouth Hall, Alberti said the renovations improve upon many of the early building’s faws and inconveniences.

“I had a dark, very drafty ofce, and there was no air conditioning,” Alberti said. “The [new] style is very much in dialogue with the identity of the building, but it feels like a completely diferent place. Everything is so much more rational.”

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Talking Greek

This column was originally published on Oct. 18, 2022

Despite comprising 64% of eligible students, Greek life at Dartmouth has a peculiar knack for wiggling its way out of campus discourse. To be sure, there is no shortage of surface-level conversation; we fll in friends on where we went over the weekend and we discuss the latest fraternity scandal, but we rarely talk seriously about more foundational aspects of Greek life. Students eagerly interrogate institutions for their sexist and exclusionary pasts in Canvas posts and midterm papers, but seldom acknowledge just how strange it is that our primary social spaces are gender-segregated. And for all our academic talk of “power dynamics,” it’s remarkable how little “pledge term” is recognized as a paradigm case.

More frustrating than those who (somehow) miss these aspects of Greek life are those who pay lip service to them. “Of course, there are power imbalances inherent to Greek life,” they say in passing. “Of course, we have to recognize that fraternities are a historically white space,” they drone on. Shallow acknowledgement of the issues with Greek life is where discussion dies. The upshot, whatever it is, remains unsaid.

I don’t claim to have any silver bullets for addressing the problems with Greek life (or even what the problems are in the frst place). What I do know is that we have become far too willing to shrug of serious introspection and discussion, too quick to turn away from Greek life’s faws or treat them as so inherent that they are irreparable.

There are many reasons for this collective failure. For one, there is pressure from inside Greek houses —whether implicit or explicit — to not seriously discuss the issues with Greek life. Speaking candidly about the system of Greek life risks being misunderstood as a slight against one’s own house, as well as the people within it. Then there is the simple fact that most students are afliated for just three years. In such a short time, it is tempting to throw your hands up and leave the problem-solving to future members. Finally, there’s a sense that serious conversation simply isn’t worth our time — that Greek life will always be as it is now, that College administrators and fraternity leadership are similarly uninterested in reform, and that the best we can do is just get used to it. The intersection of these factors leaves a massive hole in our dialogue, to the detriment of our campus and community.

There are concrete steps we can — and should — take to combat these obstacles. Fraternity and sorority leadership must afrm the right — and responsibility — of members to speak openly about the issues of Greek life. Moreover, they should positively encourage dialogue within and between

houses. Mandatory discussions akin to the service requirements of most Greek organizations may be awkward and inorganic, but they’re somewhere to start.

At the same time, precisely because our time in Greek life is fnite, upperclassmen need to make sure campus dialogue extends across class years. In a sense, it is inevitable that we leave the problems of Greek life to the years below us; we cannot resolve every issue in our short time on campus. This makes it all the more important that we prepare those who follow us to continue the discussions and reforms we cannot complete in three years. In this vein, Greek organizations must bring newlyafliated sophomores into positions of leadership so discussions aren’t interrupted every time seniors graduate.

The last reason for our silence — the suspicion that Greek life will never change, and that discussion is not worth our time — is not unfounded. To be sure, Greek life can feel frustratingly static. Talking to any Dartmouth alumni, it is obvious that the issues of Greek life are far from new. Nonetheless, real progress has been made. To give one example, the fact that many fraternities make an explicit efort to combat sexual assault — however insufcient these measures are — is evidence that incremental change is possible. We should approach conversations with an eye to the long-term, recognizing that progress extends beyond our time on campus.

If taken seriously, each of these measures would help to reignite campus dialogue around Greek life, and I hope Greek leadership and afliated upperclassmen take them seriously. But there is a less concrete upshot which is even more important. Put simply, each of us must individually commit ourselves to having serious conversations about Greek life.

That’s my ask. Dialogue is the prerequisite for any meaningful change. So, let’s talk deeply and seriously about Greek life. Talk about the hierarchy of Greek spaces, where “A-side” and “B-side” seem to matter so much, even to those who claim to care so little. Talk about how fundamentally dehumanizing the rush process is, where potential new members are often viewed more like assets to acquire than human beings. Talk about what we do gain from Greek communities, and talk about what we might gain if we stepped away, even just for a moment.

Anders Knospe is a member of the Class of 2023 and the academic chair and interim diversity and inclusion chair of Sigma Nu fraternity.

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is November, Vote at Home

Every other fall, in the months leading up to a general election, student political activism at Dartmouth reaches its peak. From tabling by Novack Cafe to pro-voting sidewalk chalk outside Foco to official housing community emails reminding students about local voter registration, election cycles at Dartmouth bring the same message: Students should vote, and they should consider voting in Hanover.

Most students at Dartmouth are faced with two legal voting choices: They can either vote in their home state, or they can vote in New Hampshire if they are domiciled on this side of the river. That said, most of the campus messaging ignores this genuine binary. The argument is largely as follows: If you are from a deep red or a deep blue state, you should vote in purple New Hampshire to secure your voice in federal elections. True, Dartmouth students may hold major electoral sway: In 2016, Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., beat incumbent U.S. senator Kelly Ayotte by a mere 1,017 votes. The undergraduate population at Dartmouth is more than four times larger than this margin of victory. This year, Hassan is being challenged by Don Bolduc, and if the patterns are at all similar to 2016, Dartmouth students may decide who wins that race — and, by extension, who controls the U.S. Senate.

Why would any Dartmouth student from a federally non-competitive state forgo voting in New Hampshire? Two years ago, Spencer Allen ’23 argued that prioritizing Hanover voting for the sake of federal elections overemphasizes the importance of a New Hamphsire vote and ignores important down-ballot races. I argue that if given a choice, Dartmouth students have a duty to vote where their expertise and investment is greatest. Students who vote at home can secure long-term national political influence while realizing more particularized policy priorities.

Many Dartmouth students have greater connections to their hometown than to New Hampshire. For the vast majority of undergraduates, we will irregularly live in Hanover over 10 week spurts for less than four years, often returning home in between. Despite our deep affection for Dartmouth, when my peers are asked “Where are you from?” they answer “Arkansas,” “Colorado,” “North Carolina” and, yes, “just outside of Boston” prior to mentioning anything about Hanover. This is telling. Even for students who moved during their childhood, many have lived more continuously in their home state than New Hampshire. For voting, continuous residency is important: Living in a place for extended periods of time makes one more prone to make choices in the long-term interest of the place and the people who live there.

When students consider whether to vote in New Hampshire or Nebraska (or Massachusetts or Colorado or Oregon), we should honestly ask ourselves which place we are more knowledgeable about and invested in. We should vote in the place of our permanent dwelling, where we would vote even if on an off-term. We should vote where home is.

Some might argue that using the concept of

“home” as a test for where to vote is a quaint idea that might be better suited for 18th-century New England than the modern American republic. However, even if a student seeks to maximize their national sway, they should recognize the immense importance of local- and state-level elections in determining control of Congress for years to come. This was a lesson that, for better or worse, Democrats missed in 2010 while a Republican project called REDMAP secured major districting advantages through investment in state-level politics. The strategy was to fund gubernatorial and state legislature candidates in vulnerable 2010 races. From a political perspective, it was a stunning success. After breaking modern records of state legislative gains and flipping major governorships, Republicans secured control over key institutions involved in redistricting. Because they deemphasized the importance of state and local races, Democrats lost major electoral advantages on the federal level. Dartmouth students of any political persuasion should not make the same mistake in 2022.

Regardless of where “home” is or what long-term advantages might be gained from focusing on state and local politics, perhaps the federal issues of 2022 are too important to forgo a New Hampshire vote. Let’s consider one of the major issues that might energize Dartmouth students this cycle: the operation of elections themselves. The aftermath of the 2020 presidential election looms large over this next cycle, and who gets elected to state offices could majorly affect the proceedings of the next. The importance of the vice president and the U.S. Senate in the certification of the Electoral College vote was made clear to the nation on Jan. 6, 2021. Thankfully, the constitutional process prevailed. Since then, bipartisan legislation with the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been introduced to clarify the ceremonial role of the vice president in counting the Electoral College’s votes. While the role of the vice president and Senate in opening and counting electoral votes may have broad-based agreement among U.S. senators, the result of the Electoral College itself is determined by state legislatures and governors. While some states have protections, there are no Constitutional provisions that hold state legislatures to appoint electors that reflect the popular vote of the state.

The process of running elections and submitting slates of electors is determined by state legislatures and governors, and how each state’s process will proceed in 2024 may be decided in 2022. Statelevel election operation is one of many issues of public policy over which state-level politics hold relatively large sway –– economic policy, climate adaptation and even immigration are all areas in which citizens voting in local elections can register their preference with direct policy outcomes.

At first glance, voting in New Hampshire might appear to be a no-brainer for most Dartmouth students. However, the expertise and investment of most students is more robust in their home state, not Hanover. Allowing local connections to guide voting decisions can yield impacts in the future of national-level elections and a higher chance to realize particularized state-level policy. This November, students should vote in races at home.

Review: ‘Stick Season’ captures the complexities of homesickness

BY ELLE MULLER The Dartmouth Senior Staff

This article was originally published on Oct. 17, 2022.

Growing up in a desert city, I never thought that I would be so deeply connected to an album written about a small town in Vermont. Yet, Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season,” released on Oct. 14, perfectly embodies the transitional period between fall and winter in New England — something Dartmouth students are all too familiar with. For the Dartmouth community, this album is already a community treasure: Kahan graduated from Hanover High School and draws on his upbringings in Straford, Vt. and Hanover in the album. Whether a New England native or someone who has never visited, Kahan has created widespread nostalgia for the region through the album. Kahan said in an interview with Insider that stick season is “the time between peak foliage and Halloween and the frst snow — when all the leaves are of the trees. It’s a time of transition. And it’s super depressing.” Mimicking this bleak time of the year, the album is full of transitions surrounding leaving home, growing up and getting help for mental health. Kahan further highlights the transition from quarantine to

semi-normal life as “Stick Season” touches upon the inability to leave home because of “COVID on the planes.”

The frst two tracks on the album, “Northern Attitude” and “Stick Season,” were released before the rest of the album and gained widespread popularity on TikTok: “Stick Season” was released frst on July 8 with “Northern Attitude” coming out on Sept. 16. Stick Season immediately became a Dartmouth anthem for me, despite being extremely far from Hanover at the time. The lyrics “I love Vermont,” and “I’ll dream each night of some version of you,” immediately caused me to reminisce about autumn in Hanover.

The connections to Hanover continue throughout the album. In “Come Over,” Kahan sings about “a sad house on Balch street,” possibly referencing the street in Hanover. Then, in “New Perspective,” Kahan describes “the intersection got a Target and they’re calling it downtown,” which reminds me of the Target in West Lebanon that opened recently. Even as a relatively new Hanover resident, the connection to this town felt incredibly resonant. Lyrics throughout the album remind me how much I have grown here and how Hanover will always be part of where I grew up.

In addition to the sense of place, Kahan

also draws on a deep sense of nostalgia for the people of his adolescence throughout the album. “All My Love” is a beautiful song that references a past love, as Kahan sings “Now I know your name, but not who you are. It’s all okay. There ain’t a drop of bad blood.” This upbeat song makes my heart ache as Kahan reminisces about former relationships that are still flled with love. “Strawberry Wine” continues the feeling of lost youth and lost love with lyrics, “Strawberry wine, and all the time we used to have. Those things I miss but know are never coming back.” Kahan’s masterful instrumentalism is highlighted with “Strawberry Wine” as the last two minutes are flled with melodic instrumental guitar and Kahan vocalizing and whistling.

“Come Over” is my current favorite on the album because it gives a similar highschool reminiscent feeling, while beautifully addressing the fear of fnancial insecurity. The bridge of this song will continue to repeat through my mind as Kahan describes the feeling of inviting a stranger into his space: “I know that it ain’t much, I know that it ain’t cool. Oh, you don’t have to tell the other kids at school. My dad’ll strike it rich, we’ll be the big house on the block. Someday I’m gonna be somebody people want.” Kahan reveals small details about his family life, such as their “sad house,” while expressing the overarching desire to

‘Animal Modernities’ addresses questions of animals’ agency in modern art

BY SOPHIE CHADHA The Dartmouth

The “Animal Modernities” symposium brought together professors from around the world to speak on an extraordinarily wide range of topics relating to the way in which animal depictions in 18th and 19th century art reveal the changing relationship between humans and animals over time. The symposium, which took place on Oct. 13, was hosted by the Leslie Center for the Arts and Humanities and the departments of art history, French and Italian in the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

“We’re trying to get away from iconography and think of animals as co-creators, with a more active role in art history than just as inert subject matter for brilliant artists to discover and represent,” Dartmouth assistant professor of art history and co-organizer Katie Hornstein wrote.

The symposium was co-organized by Hornstein and Colby College professor Daniel Harkett. While collaborating on a research project relating to animal agency in art, Hornstein and Harkett got the idea for the conference. The pair sent out a call to scholars, colleagues and listservs “to challenge the traditional subservience of ‘non-human animals’ in accounts of the emergence of modern visual culture between 1750 and 1900,” according to the English department website. Due to the flood of interest in presenting, they had a rigorous acceptance process which helped them cultivate a selection of “truly high-caliber presentations,” which Hornstein said she and Harkett were “really thrilled with.”

Virginia Tech University assistant art history professor Annie Ronan, one of the speakers at the conference, said that she became involved in the underrepresented field of animal modernities completely by accident.

“My friends would often send me paintings of dogs dressed in human costumes and similarly ridiculous images because they thought I would find them funny as an art historian,” Ronan said.

While they did make her laugh, these strange depictions of animals in nineteenth century paintings piqued her interest beyond purely the comedic. When she first came across “It is Very Queer, Isn’t it?” — an 1885 oil painting by James Henry Beard which depicts a chimpanzee sitting in a chair and holding Darwin’s classic “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex” — she said that she sent it to her advisor because she thought he would find it entertaining.

Though originally having nothing to do with her dissertation, Ronan eventually told her advisor that she was actually shifting her focus to the painting — to which her advisor responded with confusion and

skepticism, saying “‘you do know that painting is insane, right?’ He asked me. I said, ‘I know.’”

Similar to Ronan, professor Catherine Girard at St. Francis Xavier’s University in Montreal also found her transition into animal studies to be a strange one. Referencing early 20th century German art historian Erwin Panofsky’s famous quote that beavers’ constructions cannot be considered art because only humans can make art, Girard began asking herself whether or not art historians should “start to study and interrogate the aesthetic productions of nonhuman species.”

“It’s kind of a funny question, but it’s also a profoundly serious one about what differentiates human and non-human animals,” Girard said.

In her presentation, “What Do Seals Want? Unsettling the Visual Culture of Seals and Sealing through Restorative Art History and Deference to Indigenous Epistemologies,” Girard explored art made with materials from seals — emphasizing the importance of repatriation and respecting indigenous peoples’ perspectives on how their artworks are represented to the public. She discussed the Inuit culture as an example of how indigenous communities often give animals more agency and respect than Western cultures do and how they maintain a less strict identity boundary between themselves and animals.

Reflecting back on the symposium as a whole, Girard said she resonated with the “transversal idea of gender” which frequently appeared in the other presentations.

“As soon as we start interrogating the margin of gender identities — as part of moving away from the centrality of the human experience — other identities that are marginalized begin to come more into play. The symposium generated discourse that would create associations between animality and different conditions of otherness,” Girard said.

Dartmouth Middle Eastern studies professor Tarek El-Ariss, discussed how the concept of modernity draws its inspiration from multiple different cultures. In his talk on the plurality of modernity he asked, “How do you make modernity inclusive of multiple cultural traditions of thought?”

El-Ariss underscored that though “modernity” may be a Western concept, it is built on global contributions “from different sides, with different perspectives.”

“Modernity is established through exclusion but also undermines itself –no longer subject to the architecture of control that modernity imagines itself having,” he said.

Jonas Rosenthal ’25, one of the few student attendees of the symposium, met El-Ariss on the Arabic LSA+ in Morocco. Rosenthal said that he

found El-Ariss’ talk interesting and was particularly struck by this idea that the monster in “Frankenstein” was “serving as a symbol of the failure of modernity,” erasing humans’ allknowing gaze and capacity to classify.

In their both humorous and pensive talk, “Modernism is a Cat,” University of California, Davis art history professor Michael Yonan and Southern Methodist University’s art history chair Amy Freund analyzed the significance of cats in eighteenth and nineteenth century paintings. Often overlooked as mere symbols of domesticity in paintings of this era, Yonan and Freund argued that cats actually “stand in for qualities that resonated with the artist that is depicting them.”

Yonan and Freund highlighted the positioning of the cat in “The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist,” as an example of this. They said while the painter, Gustav Courbet, asserts himself as a hunter and not a “flâneur,” which is the fashionable personae of a detached, observatory figure that most French artists assumed at this time. In their paper, Yonan and Freund are proposing an alternative to the flâneur: that, like cats in their hunter mindsets, “artists instead pounce on reality, and even kill it.”

The “Modernism is a Cat” speakers elicited lots of laughter by ending with an acknowledgement of the contribution of their own cats to this paper. Yonan and Freund said that the cats’ presence while their owners have been working has informed the professors’ research because cats train you to do what they want and to look at them in specific ways. Tying back to one of the central questions of the symposium, Yonan and Freund said that they both fully support the idea that animals have agency over how we depict them in art.

Hornstein said the symposium’s guiding question of the humananimal relationship in art history is particularly urgent given what she described as the era of anthropogenic environmental catastrophe that we are currently living in.

“What would it mean to kind of destabilize this arrogant, powerful conception of the human?” Hornstein said. “One answer we have to that is by looking to the spaces in art history where the conception of the human is established, and seeing how the animal might kind of disrupt, destabilize [or] trouble.”

The second part of this symposium, which will be hosted at Colby College on April 13, will shift focus slightly to workshopping the collection of papers presented at Dartmouth’s symposium and drawing out the main threads connecting the vast range of topics to be synthesized into a book or anthology.

be wanted. The intimate inclusion of these vague — yet powerful — lyrics strengthens “Come Over.”

In addition to seasonal New England nostalgia, mental health is a deep theme within the album. In the second verse of “Stick Season,” Kahan sings, “So I thought that if I piled something good on all my bad, that I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from dad.” Kahan highlights his experience in therapy in the song “Growing Sideways” opening with “So I took my medication, and I poured my trauma out.” Kahan also talks about the struggles of relapse in mental health recovery in the same song. In the second verse he writes that he forgets his medication and drives on an empty engine, but that “there are worse ways to stay alive.” These “worse ways” are alluded to with Kahan’s frequent references to alcoholism throughout the album. “Orange Juice” specifcally captures the painful struggle of a friend’s alcoholism in a heartbreakingly beautiful song.

The album also touches on the desire to leave one’s home — while still being haunted by the location and the people connected to it. In “Halloween,” Kahan sings about “The ash of the home that I started the fre in,” and still being followed by “the ghost you’re dressed up as.” Then, in a much more upbeat “Homesick,” Kahan laments

small-town communities that don’t change. The happy-sad combination within this song emphasizes the love and desire to leave home that exist at the same time. Using the word homesick as both a way to describe sick of home and home sick for home, Kahan really emphasizes the unique experience of loving and hating one’s hometown.

The fnal track “The View Between Villages” feels like waking up from this hibernation and includes one of the most beautiful moments of this album — the crescendo of this song that coincides with Kahan driving home. Kahan references passing Alger Brook road, a road in Strafford, Vt., and continues to build through memories of his dog, the people he knew and the people he lost. Then, the crescendo ends as Kahan sings “I’m back between villages and everything’s still.”

This album will certainly be getting me through all future fall and winter terms when the Hanover weather feels particularly hard. But even if you aren’t experiencing stick season in New England, the album captures complicated feelings of home for everyone. Whether the listener has a connection to New England or not, the nostalgia and growth that Kahan captured is universal.

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Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week 7

BY ALEXandra SURPRENANT The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, Oct. 21

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will be showing Fernando León de Aranoa’s 2021 flm, “The Good Boss,” at the Loew Auditorium at 7 p.m. Starring Javier Bardem, the dark comedy portrays a dispute between a Spanish factory boss and his employees. The flm is in Spanish with subtitles.

At the Spaulding Auditorium at 7:30 p.m, award-winning violinist Midori and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will be performing Beethoven’s frst, fourth, seventh and eight violin sonatas. This is the fnal day of the three day ‘recital marathon’ in which Midori and Thibaudet perform Beethoven’s complete set of ten violin sonatas. This performance commences the duo’s world tour, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of Midori’s professional debut.

Saturday, Oct. 22

Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea,” produced by the Metropolitan Opera, will be shown at the Spaulding Auditorium at 1 p.m. Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the powerful sorceress. “Medea” is a part of the Met’s “Live in HD” series, which provides opera to movie theaters around the world.

At 7 p.m., “Retrograde” will be shown at the Spaulding Auditorium. Directed by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Matthew Heineman ’05, “Retrograde” premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and follows the painful aftermath of the American withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan. When American soldiers left, Heinemen and his crew remained, flming Afghanistan’s former military leader, Lt. General Sami Sadat, during the aftermath. A conversation with Heineman will follow the flm.

Sunday, Oct. 23

Dartmouth’s Glee Club will put

on their frst performance of the year at 2 p.m. at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth. The Glee Club includes around 4o choir singers of all ages performing a variety of choral repertoire. At 4 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium, The Hop will be screening “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a new flm by “Mad Max” director George Miller. The flm premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in August this year. Starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, the flm is described as a “stunning fantastical romance.”

Tuesday, Oct. 25

At 7:30 p.m. in the Spaulding Auditorium, world-renowned Spanish famenco dancer Farruquito will be starring in his latest performance, “Intimo Farruquito.” In addition to showing the dancer’s “personal side,” this show details the history of famenco dancing. There will be a gathering with the dancers, musicians and vocalists following the show.

Wednesday, Oct. 26

At 12:30 p.m. at the Hood Museum of Art, curator of academic programming Amelia Kahl will be giving an introduction to the new exhibition “Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined,” on view until Mar. 19, 2023. This exhibition, curated by art history professor Sunglim Kim, includes 23 paintings by Korean artist Park Dae Sung that reimagine traditional Korean brush-and-ink techniques through a contemporary lens. According to the Hood’s website, “This is the largest solo exhibition of Park’s work to be shown in the United States.” Tickets are not required to attend this event.

Thursday, Oct. 27

The Coast Jazz orchestra will play at Spaulding Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. This performance will showcase new works by student composers, as well as pay homage to the renowned jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus.

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This week, explore events at the Hop and the Hood and atend both Glee Club’s and Coast Jazz Orchestra’s culminatng concerts for the term.

BY CHRISTOPHER SCANLON

The Dartmouth

Friday, Oct. 21

Searching for its frst conference win, feld hockey (3-10) travels to New York to face Columbia University (4-8). Despite its seven-game losing streak, the team hopes to build upon its recent tight losses — two of them to top-15 ranked opponents — and secure a win in Ivy play.

Starting on Friday, men’s tennis will compete in the three-day Dartmouth Invitational on the Thompson Outdoor Courts, hoping to put on a strong showing at home. Additionally, Hikaru Takeda ’25 will travel to Harvard University to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Super Regionals.

After securing an exhibition match win, women’s hockey heads down to Cambridge, Mass. for its season opener. Following a strong rookie campaign, second-year head coach Liz Keady Norton and her team will face 15th-ranked Harvard in an Eastern Conference Athletic Conference hockey matchup. With 17 returning players, the Big Green hopes to carry over its experience from last season.

In its annual “Dig Pink” match to support breast cancer awareness, the fourth-place women’s volleyball team (4-3 in conference play) hosts ffth-place Harvard University (3-4) at Leede Arena. Led by the strong play of Ivy League player of the week Bomi Ogunlari ’24, Dartmouth will attempt to notch an important conference win. Men’s ice hockey hosts the University of Guelph in its second and final preseason game. Getting in rhythm for the start of recorded play, the team

is preparing for next Friday’s season opener against Harvard.

Saturday, Oct. 22

Starting on Saturday, Dartmouth’s heavyweight rowing team will travel to Harvard for its frst competition of the year in the Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend. Over two days, the men will participate in the Club Eights, Championship Doubles and Championship Eights.

Like the men’s team, women’s rowing will race in its frst competition in the Head of the Charles. Spanning Saturday and Sunday, the women will race in the Club Fours, Club Eights, Championship Fours and Championship Eights.

Sailing will race in a trio of regattas: the Open Atlantic Coast Championship, Yale Women’s regatta, and Oberg Trophy event. After strong fall performances, Dartmouth ranks ffth in the open and women’s competition per the Inter-collegiate Sailing Association’s College Sailing rankings and hopes to increase its placing this weekend.

After nearly three weeks of rest following the ITA Regionals, women’s tennis will play in the Brown Invitational. Split across Saturday and Sunday, the tournament marks the team’s second-to-last invitational before spring play.

Following a close comeback victory against a strong opponent in Harvard, women’s rugby (5-0) returns home to face Princeton University (0-6). Nearing the end of the season, the team hopes to maintain its undefeated status and compete to defend its championship.

Reeling after four consecutive losses, football (1-4) hopes to right the ship and earn its frst Ivy League win against

Columbia University (3-2) in New York. The Lions were the Big Green’s lone defeat last year when Columbia came to Hanover and shut Dartmouth out 19-0.

On Saturday night, women’s soccer (8-4-2) faces Columbia (6-3-3) under the home lights of Burnham Field. After a dominant non-conference victory against Colby-Sawyer College, the surging team seeks to vault themselves as high as third in the Ivy League standings with a win.

Also facing Columbia (1-5-5) at home, men’s soccer (4-5-3) hopes to bounce back from a 0-3 loss to 10th ranked University of Vermont. With four Ivy league competitors remaining on the schedule, the men hope to fnish strong in conference play.

Sunday, Oct. 23

Men’s lightweight rowing will begin competition in the Head of the Charles in Boston. Racing in the Lightweight Fours and the Lightweight Eights, the

team hopes to start the season on the right note.

After three straight losses, the equestrian team (0-3) comes home to Hanover to scrimmage against Brown University. Using non-recorded play as an opportunity to improve, the women hope to build into the fnal stretch of the fall season.

After one day’s rest, feld hockey will travel to nearby Burlington, Vt. and compete against a strong-performing UVM (11-3) squad.

Granite Bowl concludes with a UNH shutout of Dartmouth, handing Big Green football its fourth straight defeat

BY WILL DEHMEL

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Oct. 17, 2022.

In this year’s rendition of the Granite Bowl, Dartmouth fell 14-0 to the University of New Hampshire, extending its losing streak to four games and dropping its record to 1-4. The game was more lopsided than the score alone indicates, with the Wildcats possessing the ball for nearly twice as long as Dartmouth, while the Big Green was held to 198 ofensive yards – the team’s lowest output in 11 years.

Dartmouth – employing a dualquarterback system for the frst time this season – could not get anything going

ofensively. Nick Howard ’23, whom UNH head coach Sean McDonnell described as a “fullback at quarterback” in the postgame presser, ran the ball for an underwhelming nine yards on six carries and threw for 54.

Dylan Cadwallader ’24, his counterpart in the two-quarterback system, did no better, completing 8 of his 20 passes for 86 yards with one interception.

“[Howard] has been our leading ball carrier, and [UNH] seemed to focus on him pretty good,” head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said. “Cadwallader was very consistent last week against Yale in terms of throwing the football … so we’re trying to fgure out what’s the right mix, and we never really found it during the course of the day.”

Despite the struggles from both Howard and Cadwallader, wide receiver Paxton Scott

’23 praised both of them for their passing skills.

“I think both of them do a really great job throwing the ball,” Scott said. “[Cadwallader] defnitely has a lot of zip on it, has a really good arm, puts the ball where it needs to be. So does [Howard].”

The game, like last week’s, did not start in Dartmouth’s favor. On UNH’s frst ofensive play, the Wildcats completed a pass and found room to run after the catch before fnally being brought down at the Dartmouth 10-yard line after a 56-yard gain. Three plays later, the Wildcats found the endzone.

The Big Green couldn’t respond, but a strong Dartmouth punt pinned UNH on its own fve. Penalties, like last week, proved Dartmouth’s undoing — this time a holding

call on Macklin Ayers ’24 after pushing UNH all the way back to its one-yard line.

So the Wildcats managed to evade a potential safety, putting together a promising drive characterized by snag routes and picking up fve frst downs. That drive would take 10:32 of the clock, running the frst quarter to completion before the Big Green managed to get the ball back.

Dartmouth, having converted only one frst down in the opening quarter, fnally established a rhythm at the start of the second quarter, converting three consecutive frst downs before eventually being forced to punt.

The next time Dartmouth got the ball, they started fast again. Q Jones ’25 had a 17-yard carry and Noah Roper ’23 snared a 24-yard reception, but Dartmouth came up short again. On fourth and three at the UNH fve, the Big Green unsuccessfully faked a feld goal.

“Bad call on my part,” Teevens said. “When the margin is small, you can’t have those mistakes … If it works, you’re a genius; when it doesn’t, you’re an idiot.”

Another penalty on that fake feld goal made it worse. A personal foul advanced the Wildcats 15 yards, and from there they took advantage. A 41-yard reception and subsequent rushes brought UNH into the end zone with 0:29 remaining in the half, cementing the score at 14-0 — which would eventually prove the fnal score after a scoreless second half.

In the second half’s opening drive, the Big Green was bitten by a mistake yet again. Dartmouth drove all the way to the UNH 32, until Jones fumbled for the second straight week to give the Wildcats possession.

“You come out, you revitalize, you’re executing, we’re running the football, mixing it up,and all of a sudden [the football’s] on the ground — it’s a turnover,” Teevens said.

When Dartmouth did get the ball back at its own fve, they did no better. The Big Green went three-and-out as Cadwallader overthrew an open Jamal Cooney ’23. The Wildcats returned the next punt nearly all the way back to where it came from, before being tackled in the red zone.

The Big Green defense responded, though, with Robert Crockett III ’22 picking up his frst career interception.

“I knew they were gonna try a fade; they tried a couple of times on the 1,” Crockett said. “I knew we needed a big play, so I went out there and got one for us.”

But Crockett’s interception did little to help the Big Green ofense, which went three and out for the second consecutive drive and then did that twice more the next two drives.

“We had three long open receivers, and we overshot all of them,” Teevens said of those three-and-outs. “If you hit one of those plays, those things potentially change feld position …We can’t aford to go three-andout often.”

The Wildcats got the ball from there with 8:45 remaining and ran out the clock until 2:35. On its ensuing drive, the Big Green did manage to pick up a pair of frst downs, but ultimately turned the ball over on downs.

For the fourth straight week, Teevens and his players faced a defeat — but they continue to look ahead with optimism.

“It’s got to be that mindset: You didn’t get what you wanted, but it shouldn’t deter you from what you want in the next opportunity,” Teevens said. “Really there are no options … we’ll win or have a lack of success based on collective efort.”

As Dartmouth gears up for its Ivy League matchup against Columbia next week, the team will likely play without Ayers and defensive end Luca Di Leo ’22, both of whom sustained injuries during the UNH game.

Arguably the closest the Big Green got to defeating the Wildcats on Saturday was in the post-game scrum, which Teevens said was initiated by UNH.

“University of New Hampshire players decided to come over to Dartmouth’s bench,” Teevens said, dismantling UNH’s claim that they thought the Granite Bowl Trophy was on the Big Green sideline. “To me, it’s a refection on the University of New Hampshire. Why would they come over to our side of the feld?...Could have been a horror show.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK HOWARD

Despite the reintroducton of a dual-quarterback system, the Big Green established neither a running nor passing game against UNH.

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Fraternity Debauchery or the Ivy League Elite?

By Lucie MortonSTORY

This article was originally published on Oct. 19, 2022.

When people think of Dartmouth, its picturesque location and Ivy League status might come to mind, but oftentimes, the frst question posed is, “Isn’t that a party school?”

Throughout its history, Dartmouth has been set forth as the defnition of “work hard, play hard” — a reputation that outgoing President Phil Hanlon ’77 began his tenure trying to beat. Most depictions of Dartmouth in pop culture concern its “fratty” nature — most clearly and infamously depicted in the 1977 flm “Animal House,” cowritten by Dartmouth alumnus and National Lampoon writer Chris Miller ’63. The movie focuses on the antics and experiences of Delta Tau Chi fraternity, which was famously inspired by Miller’s experience as a brother in the now-defunct Alpha Delta fraternity — ironically the same fraternity to which Hanlon belonged as a student.

In the movie, as with most Dartmouth

depictions, the brothers of DTX engage in much more debauchery than class discussion. Without the famous “college” sweatshirt, audiences might have trouble identifying the fctional campus as a place where learning takes place. Much like the embattled DTX in the movie, AD has since been de-recognized as of 2015. But what do current students think about “Animal House” and its efect on the perception of Dartmouth?

When Sophie Reynolds ’26 considers Dartmouth in pop culture, she said that she frst thinks about Keggy the Keg. Dartmouth’s unofcial mascot — an anthropomorphized keg — was created in 2003 by writers for The Jack-OLantern after a school-wide vote for a new mascot ended with nothing. In any case, having the College’s unofcial mascot be a literal beer keg certainly plays up the fratty stereotype seen in “Animal House.”

Reynolds acknowledged that, to outsiders at least, “Animal House” reigns supreme as Dartmouth’s number one stereotype. When she discusses

Dartmouth with those not in attendance, what stuck out the most was “defnitely the amount of people that have referenced ‘Animal House’ to me, especially older generations… I think that’s defnitely the frst thing they think of.”

Reynolds is not the only student who thinks of “Animal House” when they think of Dartmouth’s reputation, but it’s not always a welcome comparison. Robert Victor ’25 is of the mind that these representations don’t truly refect Dartmouth.

“I think that the representation of Dartmouth in pop culture is probably of a school that parties instead of studying,” Victor said. “I think that most people don’t know what Dartmouth is, but those who do from things like ‘Animal House,’ and ‘Superbad’ maybe less so, would probably have that perception of our school, and I think that’s an uneducated and misguided view.”

As Victor noted, “Animal House” is not the only depiction of Dartmouth in the media. Other famous representations

include “Superbad,” “The Mindy Project,” “22 Jump Street,” “The Colbert Report,” “The Simpsons,” “The Sex Life of College Girls,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Gossip Girl.” Much like “Animal House,” these depictions mostly focus on Dartmouth’s party reputation. Interestingly, it’s not outsiders who are perpetuating these stereotypes, but oftentimes the school’s own alumni. These include directing duo Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97, who met at Dartmouth, comedian Mindy Kaling ’01 and screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes ’91.

In Lord and Miller’s “22 Jump Street” and Kaling’s “The Mindy Project,” pong gets a spotlight. In “22 Jump Street,” undercover cop Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) attends a frat party and plays “doubles” with a brother. In Kaling’s “The Mindy Project,” Dr. Peter Prentice is the pinnacle of a pop-culture Dartmouth alum. He is a successful doctor, but seems to still be stuck in college, both in maturity and school pride. In the episode “The Devil Wears Lands End,” he attends an alumni pong tournament which even features Shonda Rhimes ’91 as herself and a reigning pong champ. Like Prentice, the other alumni are white, afuent, afliated and decked head-to-toe in Co-op merch: stereotypical frat guys.

In a self-aware moment, “The Mindy Project” pokes fun at Dartmouth’s reputation when fellow doctor Jeremy Reed masquerades as a Dartmouth alum in order to play as Prentice’s partner in the tournament. The uptight, British Reed puts on an exaggerated American accent, taking on the backstory of having an assault accusation and a subsequent probation in order to conceal his status as a non-alum. This not only works, but endears him to the group.

Curiously, in this scene, Kaling depicts pong as “Beirut,” the more universally popular version of throw beer pong, rather than the traditional Dartmouth variety with handleless ping-pong paddles. Miller himself called Kaling out for this disparity on Twitter, which she then attributed to a lack of flming time. Despite this gameplay inconsistency, the emphasis on drinking games and debauchery falls in line with the pop

culture precedent set in “Animal House.”

If its own alumni and the outside world still see Dartmouth in an “Animal House” light, what about current students? According to Eme Stark ’26, that image of Dartmouth is still prevalent, but it might be on the decline.

“I don’t think our generation watches that movie anymore or don’t know the association,” Stark said. “However, once they do I think it does afect it.”

In Stark’s eyes, the more infuential and accurate references lay in shows which current students grew up watching, like “Gossip Girl.” During one episode, two students are competing for the chance to be an usher for the Dartmouth alumni representative (and thus curry admissions favor). Wealthy Dartmouth legacy Nate Archibald has little interest, whereas it is the dream school of Dan Humprey, one of his classmates on fnancial aid. Despite his disinterest, Archibald is given the role of usher over Humphrey.

Stark pointed to this interaction as more representative of today’s Dartmouth than “Animal House.”

“I think people see [Dartmouth] as a destination school, kind of how they act as it was in ‘Gossip Girl,’ but they are also so pushy to get in,” Stark said.

This representation — which was not written by an alumnus — plays up Dartmouth’s non-partying-related reputation as an Ivy League school. In “Gossip Girl” — and, often, in real life — non-legacy students are on the outs in Dartmouth admissions, compared to students with previous connections and wealth. Recently, this element of college admissions came to a head in real life, with investigations like the “Varsity Blues” scandal and controversies over legacy admissions, which started at Dartmouth in the 1920s.

Whether it is the reputation for fratbased debauchery or the Ivy League elitism, pop culture’s depictions of Dartmouth stick to the school despite Hanlon’s best eforts. However, all of these representations are almost a decade or older, so what comes next? Whether it’s Kaling’s newest TV show or one of our current classmates destined for media producing fame, Dartmouth’s future reputation is up for grabs.

The ‘Right’ Way to Rebrand: Identity in a New Environment

By Noelle BlakeSTORY

This article was originally published on Oct. 19, 2022.

Many students come to college ready to reinvent themselves. Whether it’s new interests, new style or a completely new personality, it’s easy to see this chapter of our lives as a chance for a complete rebrand.

But it’s a bit difcult to reinvent yourself if you don’t have a strong sense of who you are. In my short time at Dartmouth, I’ve met so many unique people who have talents and interests that I truly admire. And even though I can identify these qualities in others, I can’t help but draw a blank when I think about myself. It’s odd to think about which parts of myself are apparent to others right away, versus other aspects of my personality that might only surface after months or even years of getting to know me.

I should clarify: When I say I don’t know who I am, what I really mean is I don’t know who I appear to be. Before coming to college, I had lived and gone to school in the same two towns in Connecticut for all of my life. I was comfortable; I had a general idea of what I liked, what my role was in my community and how others saw me.. I liked to read, paint, get food with friends and listen to the same twenty songs for months at a time. Those things haven’t really changed, and I’ve never really had to think about my traits or how they contributed to identity, because these aspects of my personality — at least the essential ones — had been part of me for years.

It’s also difcult to gauge whether or not I’ve rebranded in college because I’m not completely sure what my ‘brand’ is. A large part of what defnes me — my interests, my hobbies, my mannerisms —

came from the people I spent the most time with. But now that I’ve transitioned to a new space with completely diferent people, do those traits still defne me? I’m sure that these past six weeks have changed me, but I don’t think I’ve had enough experiences to call it a rebrand just yet.

That being said, I’ve already enjoyed experiences that I probably never would’ve been able to have elsewhere.

Despite growing up in New England, I’d never camped or done anything particularly outdoorsy until my FirstYear Trip. Even though it was jarring to go from never having camped to not showering for four days, it helped me to realize how much I love observing and interacting with nature (and how much I love showers). But if I decided to become a frequent hiker because of my Trips experience, would that be a rebrand?

Am I suddenly crunchy?

Even if I had wanted to, I’m not sure if I would have had time to reinvent myself amid adjusting to one of the most drastic changes I’ve ever experienced. In a whirlwind of adapting to a new learning environment and trying to take advantage of all of the fun activities on campus, I’m not sure I could simultaneously maintain new interests, a style transformation or some other metamorphosis into a new and improved me.

But the logistics of a rebrand aren’t really the main thing that interests me. As I thought about the small ways in which I’ve changed since starting my freshman year, I asked myself: Why would I even want to rebrand?

I could become an organized and Pinterest-worthy studier who uses Notion and gets eight hours of sleep every night. I could develop the skill of an expert mountaineer who goes on unbelievably scenic hikes twice a week. These are

things that could drastically change my experience at Dartmouth for the better, and they probably wouldn’t occur without me pushing myself to do them in the frst place. Even if it’s just to emulate some version of myself that currently isn’t, but could be.

But even in these scenarios, the act of rebranding carries some negative connotation in my mind. It seems to involve a deliberate alteration of the self, a transformation so drastic that it could take away from parts of myself that I like.

What if, in all my exploration of nature and investment in my hiking journey, I

never paint again? I’m hesitant to call all the changes I’ve already undergone a rebrand, because it almost seems like rebranding is somehow disingenuous or inauthentic compared to a more organic change in identity. Really, I think the concern is that I’m changing at all, whether it be on my own account or due to outside circumstances.

Despite my anxieties, I believe that intentional and unintentional changes allow us to grow and learn new things about ourselves. I can be a mountaineering, reading, Notion-using painter, and that can be my brand. To

me, rebranding is really just introducing a new element into your existing passions, and learning and improving because of it. If your frst rebranding doesn’t work out, just rebrand again!

At any rate, change is bound to happen to all of us as we attach ourselves to various parts of the Dartmouth community. Instead of concentrating on the image that I want others to see and shaping myself to that ideal, I hope to capture memories of myself throughout the diferent phases of my life. One day, I may look back on them and be glad that I rebranded.

NATIONAL LAMPOONS ANIMAL HOUSE, John Belushi, 1978. ©Universal Pictures/COURTESY OF EVERETT COLLECTION