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Rollins Chapel reopens for campus, Hindu worship returns UWill counseling services draw 800 student registrations since November

pandemic, the Hindu Temple within Rollins was moved to a room in Sudikof Hall where worship and services were held. According to Vogele, only one or two Hindu community members were granted exemptions and allowed into the Chapel to practice puja — a daily worship ritual — before the Hindu Temple was moved to Sudikof.

“I have been a part of Shanti from its inception, so I vividly recall the great enthusiasm with which a bunch of students, and some of us on faculty and staf … started the vision of a temple,” Jayanti said. “Dartmouth has been very kind and gracious in giving us that space. This whole journey has been fantastic and it has been so emotionally and spiritually helpful for the students.”

BY Jackie Wright

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on Feb. 2, 2023.

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BY Angeles Juarez-Ruiz

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Jan. 30, 2023.

Rollins Chapel reopened on Thursday with a ceremony featuring several student religious groups, musical performances and readings in the newly renovated space. The Chapel was initially closed in March 2020 due to pandemic-related policies, but it remained shut in order to allow for renovations to the building’s ventilation and heating systems.

According to College chaplain and Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Living director Nancy Vogele, construction on the updated ventilation and heating systems began in June 2022 — two years after the Chapel’s initial closure — and people were not allowed to enter the chapel in the three years that the chapel was closed. The Chapel’s new features include radiant foor heating, the elimination of loud steam pipes and the installation of a hot water heating system, which is more energy efcient than the old steam heating system, she

“Back in the day, the steam would come on and the pipes would crank all along — we couldn’t keep worshiping right,” Vogele said. “So now it truly is quiet.”

Since its dedication in 1885, Rollins has been the spiritual center for Dartmouth. According to the Tucker Center’s website, the recent rededication celebrates the diverse environment which was created to serve all members of the College’s community.

“We certainly understand that it’s important for students, faculty, staf and related people at the campus to have quiet places for refection, and a place that’s probably a respite from academics but still a part of the community,” Facilities Operations and Management project manager Todd Thompson, who worked on the reopening of Rollins, said.

Of particular excitement is the restoration of the Hindu Temple within Rollins Chapel, which was created in 2005, according to Hindu student organization Shanti advisor and professor Prasad Jayanti. While the Chapel was closed during the

Now that the Chapel is open again, events and services it hosted before its closure — such as alumni weddings and memorial services — will return to the interfaith space, Vogele said. The Hopkins Center for the Arts, which is currently under construction and plans to reopen in fall 2025, will also utilize Rollins to host performances, such as musical concerts, she added.

After an organ prelude, the reopening ceremony began with a welcome address from Muslim chaplain and Tucker Center associate director Abdul Rahman Latif. For the next hour, students from Shanti and other student religious groups such as the Hillel Jewish student association, Al-Nur Muslim student association, the Zen Buddhist student group, Episcopal Campus Ministry and Morning Glory Christian Fellowship spoke at the ceremony.

“I was certainly impressed by just the diversity of students and their religious experiences and backgrounds,” Thompson said, who attended the reopening.

DAASC hosts vigil to grieve victims of Lunar New Year mass shootings

Since UWill’s counseling services were first offered to Dartmouth students free of charge in Nov. 2022, 800 students have registered for counseling and have attended 1,981 cumulative sessions, according to associate Counseling Center director Alex Lenzen.

UWill provides unlimited, 24/7, year-round counseling services to all Dartmouth students wherever they are currently residing, according to Lenzen. Students can connect with counselors on UWill’s online platform and communicate with them via video, chat or messaging and have access to crisis support. According to Lenzen, the average satisfaction rating following sessions from students is currently 9.2 out of ten.

“We’re hearing positive feedback about [UWill] filling a need in our campus — not that it’s for everybody, not that this is where we’re pushing all students to go for their therapy needs, but that it really does fit for a lot of students and what they’re looking for,” Lenzen said.

Shania Smith ’23 said that she attended UWill counseling sessions during winter break after registering in the fall term.

“The thing that really sold me … was it was so easy to sign up. I could literally be on the phone with the person and just chat,” Smith said. “I like the idea too that you’re not necessarily married to one therapist for the entirety of the time you’re using their services.”

Students can register for UWill online, where they provide personal information and note what they are looking for in a counselor, including specialization, timeframe and identity-based preferences like race and gender, according to Lenzen.

Dartmouth Student Government vice president and mental health committee chair Jessica Chiriboga ’24 said that she has been involved in bringing the service to campus since DSG began researching teletherapy options and submitted a proposal to the College in the fall of 2021. The proposal sparked a collaboration between student government, the counseling center and the Dartmouth Mental Health Student Union.

any more sessions since winter term began. Regardless, she reported a “positive” overall experience.

Lenzen said that UWill’s unlimited counseling means that students can receive long-term counseling without using their insurance or other financial resources to fund counseling with local providers. Other programs the College considered before choosing UWill would place caps on the number of sessions a patient could schedule, she added.

“[UWill] was driven by a student interest in a more affordable option for ongoing therapy, because the Counseling Center offers free therapy on a short term basis, and we do our best to accommodate as many students as we can, but there’s still a need for additional mental health services,” Lenzen said.

The contract the College signed with UWill will last two years before it is up for renewal, according to Lenzen. Though she declined to provide the total cost, Chiriboga wrote in a follow up email that UWill was “funded by a very generous donor.”

“This is really a chance for us to get some of that feedback from students to see if it is meeting the needs like we hope it will, and make sure those student ratings are high and make sure it’s being utilized by students in a way that feels like it’s supporting their mental health and treatment goals,” Chiriboga said.

Given the current level of interest in UWill, Chiriboga says DSG’s Mental Health Committee aims to support renewing the contract after two years.

Considering ways to improve UWill’s implementation on campus, Chiriboga and Lenzen both noted efforts to ensure students know that UWill is available, such as campus posters. Additionally, there is student demand for private locations on campus to take counseling sessions, according to Chiriboga.

“We’re actively working as the mental health committee to identify places in the library and other places around campus that students might be able to reserve spaces to take these appointments,” Chiriboga said.

BY TAYLOR HABER The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on Feb. 2, 2023.

The Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective hosted a Lunar New Year Vigil at Collis Patio on Monday “to collectively grieve and honor” the victims of the Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay and Oakland shootings that occurred in January, according to a Jan. 28 email from the organization.

The vigil, structured in three parts, featured nearly a dozen speakers — including Dartmouth students, faculty members and a student representative from Hanover High School. DAASC members and vigil co-organizers Jessi Yu ’25 and Lance Sunga ’26 read the names of 18 recent mass shooting victims aloud, along with remembrances released by the victims’ families.

The outdoor portion of the vigil continued with a candle-lighting ceremony and a series of call-andresponse afrmations, and concluded with an indoor “healing circle” in Collis. Approximately 80 to 100 people attended the event, according to DAASC member Daniel Lin ’23.

“It is political that [DAASC] had to do this last year, and the year before that — every year since the beginning of COVID — and before,” DAASC member and vigil co-organizer AnhTon Nguyen ’26 said. “It is political that an organization like DAASC has

to organize this, and not the school administration.”

Lin said that DAASC, founded in the summer of 2021, advocates for the creation of Asian American studies at the College. Currently, students are able to major or minor in Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages, but Dartmouth does not have an independent Asian American studies department. Several DAASC-afliated speakers at the vigil advocated for a greater focus on Asian American studies on campus in their speeches.

“We believe that it matters, not only because it legitimizes the feld, which is important, but also it sets an example for other institutions to also incorporate Asian American studies into their curriculums — because historically, Asian Americans have been marginalized,” Lin said in an interview after the vigil.

DAASC member and vigil coorganizer Rachel Kahng ’25, who spoke at the event, said in her speech that the organization’s mission extends beyond educational reform and having Asian American studies classes at the College.

“By demanding for Asian American studies, what we’re really demanding is that the individuals of this institution face its role in the deep-rooted exclusion of Asian people in this country,” Kahng said. “We demand that this institution acknowledges histories … and the hostile environments and violence we

“I was blown away by the number of signups that we got within the first two weeks,” Chiriboga said. “It was really a sign to me that students had always been asking for this resource, and [I saw] that need validated in the number of signups.”

According to Chiriboga, part of the appeal of UWill was its allday availability that could cater to students’ busy schedules — which Student Government and the Dartmouth MHU took into consideration when looking into teletherapy options.

Even so, Smith said she struggles to find the time to attend counseling sessions. Smith explained that she met with a counselor three times over winter break, but has not attended

In addition to the counseling services from UWill and the Counseling Department, Lenzen noted the Student Wellness Center, the Academic Skills Center, Student Accessibility Services, the undergraduate dean’s office and residential services as parts of a system supporting student mental health.

“[UWill is] not the end all, be all answer to some of the mental health concerns that we’re all experiencing collectively,” she said. “It is one of the options that are available.”

Students interested in counseling through Dartmouth College Health Service can schedule appointments either on the phone at 603-6469442, at the counseling office at 7 Rope Ferry Road, Dick’s House 2nd floor, or through their health service portal. In the case of an immediate crisis, these lines Uhelp Crisis Line at 833-646-1526, the New Hampshire Rapid Response Access Point at 833710-6477 or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.

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BY CHARLOTTE HAMPTON The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on Feb. 2, 2023.

On Jan. 25, fve female Dartmouth students came forward with accusations of unwanted sexual touching on campus by a temporary Dartmouth employee, according to director of the Department of Safety and Security Keiselim Montás. The Hanover Police Department has identifed the suspect and is now reinterviewing the victims to identify a charge and compile proof to present in court, according to Hanover Police lieutenant Michael Schibuola.

“We’re going back and reinterviewing the victims and then trying to make sure to connect the dots and make sure the suspect is actually the same person involved in every incident,” Schibuola said. “We’re still trying to fgure out exactly what happened, what the intentions [were]. There’s some minutiae that goes through it to make sure we got the right person, we got the right crime, to move our charges forward.”

Victims reporting incidents of harm is a critical part of ensuring safety on campus, Montás said.

“I’m glad that, frst and foremost, our community came forward with all of these [reports] because, if they did not, then we don’t know what we don’t know,” Montás said. “We were able to expeditiously act upon this and put a stop to it. With the community working with us, we are most efective.”

The suspect is a male between the ages of 17 and 21, and he was immediately fred and removed from campus in light of the allegations, according to Schibuola

and Montás.

Schibuola said that the suspect held a non-academic position at the College that did not regularly interact with students. He added that at least one of the incidents occurred when the suspect was on the way to work and at least one occurred while he was at work at Dartmouth.

Safety and Security was notifed of one of the attacks later in the day, and at least two accounts of misconduct were reported before Montás and Dean Scott Brown chose to send a campus-wide email to notify students last Wednesday.

“Although we had identified and removed the individual, perhaps there were other people that had not come forward, so we wanted to open up an avenue for people to be able to do that,” Montás said.

“[We wanted] to dispel rumors that tend to scare people when they don’t have factual information.”

After initial interviews with the victims — all of whom are female Dartmouth students — the Hanover Police Department said it worked with Safety and Security to identify a suspect, Schibuola said. One of the incidents was caught on a downtown area surveillance camera, and ofcials were able to use the footage to capture the perpetrator’s physical characteristics, which Montás said helped the police to identify the suspect.

According to past reporting by The Dartmouth, at least four of the incidents occurred between the downtown area of Hanover and the Collis Center for Student Involvement.

When one of the acts of “unwanted sexual touching” occurred, the suspect was wearing a Dartmouth garment, Montás said, which made it easier for Safety and Security to determine that he was afliated

Summit on Juniper faces heating outages

with the College. Montás and Schibuola both stressed the importance of victims coming forward if they have experienced a similar incident.

“If somebody comes forward to the Hanover Police Department that is a member of the community, we want to make sure that students feel comfortable so that we could arrange for them to meet with the police,” Montás said.

Title IX Coordinator Kristi Clemens said that the swift action on behalf of the College was indicative of a changing culture around sexual assault.

“It’s a sign that our community has faith that we will be responsive to their complaints and be able to provide support,” Clemens said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that the prevalence is higher, but it means that people feel comfortable and have trust in the institution to say something.”

Montás said that this case was an anomaly and a similar incident had not occurred in his 16 years at the College.

“I don’t think something like that could happen and we would not hear about it,” he said.

While Clemens said that the Title IX office focuses on responding to reports, Safety and Security works on the preventative side with student groups like the Sexual Violence Prevention Project. Safety and Security wants to address these incidents “by being present” and “responding as soon as we possibly can,” according to Montás.

“The takeaway for me is that people are comfortable speaking up when something wrong and harmful occurs on campus,” Clemens said. “We were able to demonstrate that we can take swift action to interrupt that behavior, and so I hope that people continue to report harm.”

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Anthony Fosu ’24 attended the event and spoke on behalf of Morning Glory. The reopening of Rollins has great signifcance to the Dartmouth community, he said.

“For me, [the reopening of Rollins] represents the chance for Dartmouth community members to do what our motto says: Be a voice crying out in the wilderness, especially in their respective traditions,” Fosu said. “I want our community to be able to use this space

as much as possible, because I think that sacred spaces like this should be an integral part of everything that we do here.”

Jayanti said that in the future, he hopes that the College will provide additional resources for Hindu community members.

“I really hope that Dartmouth will appreciate the need for having a Hindu chaplain who can be there to advise students, to support students, to guide students, to channel the enthusiasm of the students to constructively learning

about cultures … [and teach an] appreciation for things that are bigger than everyday common experiences that we all encounter,” he said.

Beyond his concerns for Dartmouth’s Hindu community, Jayanti said that he hopes that the inclusive nature of Rollins’s interfaith usage continues.

“[Rollins is] a place for everybody: Everyone is welcome and everyone is welcome just as they are,” Jayanti said. “You don’t have to be a Hindu and you don’t have to believe in this or that to be part of the community.”

BY ISABELLE HAN

Since the third week of January, apartment units at the Summit on Juniper complex have been experiencing systemic heating outages. According to senior vice president of operations of the Michaels Organization Cheree Lujan, about 40 units were impacted.

The Michaels Organization, a third-party company, is in charge of handling residential operations within three buildings at Summit on Juniper that are primarily occupied by graduate students. The fourth building, which primarily houses undergraduate students, is managed through the College’s office of residential life.

The issues have to do with the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, which works via heat compressors, according to Lujan. She noted that about eight compressors have been identified thus far as needing replacement.

“The manufacturer has been onsite to analyze the cause of the failures and to make any adjustments needed to ensure that the system is in good working order for the long haul,” Lujan wrote in an email statement.

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Goswami, who is pursuing a physics and astronomy Ph.D. at Dartmouth, said that the lack of heating has forced her to adopt measures in order to cope with the cold.

if anyone needed a space heater, they could reach out to us and we could supply it,” Mann said. “Since then, Summit has started providing space heaters. However, they’re only providing one per unit in sometimes four bedroom apartments, which is totally not acceptable.”

Mann added that on top of providing space heaters, GOLD will be shuttling people to temporary shelter in other housing locations if the need arises. He said that GOLD is calling for Dartmouth to relocate affected residents until the heat is restored.

“It is unsafe and totally unviable to have people just relying on space heaters when it’s negative 13 degrees out,” Mann said.

To exacerbate the heating issues, Goswami said that graduate student residents have to pay separately for electricity, on top of already high rent costs. According to Benson, the cheapest room at Summit is “more than $1,000” per month, adding that the rent at Summit exceeds the rent burden — defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as spending more than 30% of income on housing costs — for some residents who may have lower graduate student stipends.

Furthermore, Goswami said that there is a disconnect between the price of a unit and the living conditions.

“The house is not made of really good materials,” she said. “[For example], the pipeline has fluids coming out. Everything keeps getting broken. There is no sense of security, and the buildings are open.”

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face today, some of which has been unveiled by the pandemic.”

Three faculty members from the women’s, gender & sexuality studies department — Eng-Beng Lim, Mingwei Huang and MT Vallarta — echoed similar sentiments in their speeches at the vigil.

In his speech, Lim called for “the radicalization of Asian America” through “solidarities and coalitions,” in addition to the development of Asian American studies.

“We’re talking about racial, genderqueer, classed solidarities that have fragmented the U.S.,” Lim said in an interview after the event. “The work isn’t assimilationist — where we

try to ft into the mainstream — but to think about…the struggle for more equitable futures for all.”

Dean of the College Scott Brown, who attended the vigil, wrote in an email statement that the event was important as a way “to come together in community.” In response to several speakers’ demands for institutional reform, Brown wrote that the Dean of Faculty Ofce “have put a great deal of thought into how to best support the Asian and Asian American community.”

The Dean of Faculty Ofce is in the process of developing “curriculum and programming related to Asian American studies,” according to an email statement from associate dean of International and Interdisciplinary

Studies Matthew Delmont. While the Dean of Faculty Ofce has the goal of forming a steering committee to establish, among other features, an Asian American studies major and minor, such a committee has not yet been formed, Delmont wrote.

In the meantime, DAASC continues to organize. Lin said that while it “shouldn’t be the students’ job” — but rather the College administration’s responsibility — to make vigils possible, such events give the group a platform.

“In the morning when I have to go to the living room, it’s freezing,” Goswami said. “I have to wear … my winter clothes even if I just have to cook.”

While Lujan wrote that the compressors are being replaced on a “rolling basis,” she also stated that the Michaels Group management team has set up portable safety space heaters for residents who are experiencing “insufficient heating.”

“The safety space heaters can warm the apartments to an average temperature of 72 degrees, or higher, depending on the individual preferences of the residents,” she wrote.

However, according to vice president of the Graduate Student Council Josephine Benson, an earth sciences master’s degree candidate, the space heaters are not enough, and multiple students said that running several space heaters at a time is unsafe. Benson added that several residents had to request a space heater “multiple times,” while others were told that there were no more heaters. She noted that management has denied the lack of space heaters.

In her email statement, Lujan said that there are enough space heaters for everyone who needs one.

In response to the lack of space heaters, the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth started a space heater drive once they learned that Summit on Juniper management “could not locate” space heaters to provide to residents, GOLD member Logan Mann said. Goswami said that once GOLD was “in the picture,” every unit that needed a space heater had access to one, but this was not the case before then.

“[Before] if anyone had a space heater, they could offer it, and then

Benson said that the Graduate Student Council is hoping that the land and buildings will be leased back to the College, especially because of repeated “negative and dismissive interactions” with the Michaels Organization. She added that the Michaels Organization has policies that are “really detrimental” to graduate students, like not allowing subletting and charging an additional fee if rent is paid with a credit card.

“The [Michaels Organization] manager has made it very clear to us that her primary responsibility is to the investors and not to its residents,” Benson said.

According to Mann, the other demands that GOLD is making of the College include the termination of any contracts with the Michaels Organization.

“We want Dartmouth or Michaels to compensate all tenants for heating, and all other maintenance failures, of which there have been a ton,” Mann said. “And then … we are calling on Dartmouth to terminate the contract with Michaels and [remove them] from all other current and future contracts.”

Benson added that in the past, the North Park housing community used to be graduate student housing. The loss of access to those accommodations has been “devastating” for graduate students, she said, highlighting a need for change.

“We’ve had a lot of discontent among graduate students for various policies,” Benson said. “And this is the latest example of Summit not stepping up appropriately to take care of its residents and really putting profit over people.”

Shena Han ’25 contributed reporting..

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GUEST COLUMNIST DAMIEN SOLINGER JEFFERS ‘ 23

It’s Time to Invest More in the FirstGeneration Community

The First Generaton Ofce should be moved to the Ofce of Community Life and Inclusivity and given the resources and means to thrive.

Until recently, the First-Year Student Enrichment Program pre-orientation served as the primary resource for incoming firstgeneration students. It is the precursor to the First Generation Office, which opened its doors in Sept. 2021 under the supervision of Academic Support Services. With the re-opening of the FGO — now located in Sudikoff Hall — and the launch of Toward Equity, the College’s latest diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, now is the perfect time to review the resources that the College provides for first-generation students.

While many first-generation students, a group that includes myself, might be in need of additional academic support, this is not an issue exclusive to our community. Instead, having an office specifically for first-gen students is essential because so many of us lack financial support from our families, as well as practical advice. Many of us have left everyone we knew thousands of miles away, venturing into the unknown. Firstgen students are in need of personal guidance in this complicated social landscape, and the FGO would be most effective by tackling this broader need for mentorship and community.

Thus, I suggest that the First Generation Office be repositioned as a subdivision of the Office of Community Life and Inclusivity, rather than Academic Support Services.

The FGO’s programs have a wide reach, with 89 students in the Class of 2026 having participated in FYSEP alone — approximately eight percent of all 1,126 incoming undergraduates. More than $13 million in support from alumni donors and continued collaboration between several stakeholders across campus have demonstrated the goodwill of Dartmouth’s greater community.

I am grateful for the expanding resources for the first-gen community, but only recently did I come to feel that there was any support from the College administration.

The excitement I felt when the FGO was established was initially clouded by unease. As an “Exvangelical” — a former Evangelical Chrisitan — I was hurt when we were assigned a suite in the back of a local church. I know that other students and staff members felt similarly. I was happy that first-gen students were not stuffed in a closet, but the back of a church didn’t feel much better.

However, many students of color and myself were excited to see when several women of color joined the staff, in the fall 2021 and in the summer 2022. New hires led to initiatives like the Prepare to Launch Program — a collaboration with Center for Professional Development to aid first-gen students with their transition into the labor market. These staffing changes reflect the majority of the first-generation students, all while working to ensure that the FGO provides support during a student’s full four years. In addition to this exciting growth, I was excited to eventually learn that we would be moving to a new space in Sudikoff Hall. More than just being more comfortable for students like me, this recognizable and secular space adds an aura of professionalism to our office.

Many campus leaders have been happy to boast such expansion of first-generation programs in

the past. In conversation with The Dartmouth in May 2021, when asked about what the College was doing in regard to racial justice, College President Phil Hanlon described FYSEP and the E.E. Just Program — a two-year fellowship for underrepresented minorities in STEM — as mere “philanthropic commitments” and not a necessary means of supporting marginalized and deserving students. At least we can agree that there is a connection between class and race in this country.

While I find it appropriate to boast about a job well done, I urge Dartmouth’s leadership to reconceptualize their approach to providing resources for first-generation students and students of color. It is disheartening to hear that supporting these communities is conceived as just some sort of philanthropic venture. This approach leads a great number of first-gen students — especially those who are further marginalized — to feel like a mere diversity token. We should receive support because we deserve it, not because it bolsters the College’s image as a charitable or generous institution.

Still, I feel myself gaining hope as the FGO matures and as we continue to see first-gen representation in several key roles around campus, including Dean of the College Scott Brown and Vice Provost for Enrollment Lee Coffin. An advocate for first-gen students, Coffin has argued that we are not academically underprepared compared to our peers and that FYSEP has been particularly valuable as a cultural transition to Dartmouth. This insight, paired with my own experiences and those of my peers, leads me to assert that first-gen students deserve to be recognized as a community and really be given equal opportunity to thrive.

It is not realistic to expect the FGO to support students by duplicating resources that other departments at Dartmouth already work hard to provide. Why compete with colleagues at the Academic Skills Center or Student Wellness Center, who provide essential, campus-wide resources? Instead, we should expect the FGO to guide first-gen students, both as individuals and as a community, to opportunities that will help them curate their own success. The FGO can and will strive to foster an inclusive campus for first-generation students.

To make this all possible, the College must properly situate the office within the greater organizational structure. Ensuring that we have a proper space in Sudikoff Hall is the first step, but properly repositioning the FGO within the College will better promote cross-campus collaboration and community-building. The College must then provide the resources and personnel required to efficiently collaborate with potential partners and current stake-holders across campus. Our diverse community of Dartmouth first-generation students deserves to be treated with dignity — like the smart, independent and capable people that we are — not thought of as charity cases.

Verbum Ultimum: As Cold As Ice

Dartmouth must do more to ensure students have adequate heatng in their residences.

This weekend, temperatures in the Upper Valley are predicted to drop to treacherously low levels, with some news outlets predicting wind chills between -20 and -30 degrees Fahrenheit. The College has taken many precautions to warn students about the risks of such low temperatures. Residential Operations sent an email explaining ways for students to keep their rooms warmer and Student Government emailed to inform students about a bus system that will pick them up and drop them of at their dorm clusters. And with a campus-wide email warning about the health risks of such cold temperatures — particularly when drinking —the College has taken important steps to ensure students are aware of the risks this weekend.

Although we sincerely appreciate the proactive steps the College has taken to educate students during this cold snap, this knowledge does not address the most pressing concern as the temperatures begin to plummet: Student residences lack adequate heating.

Both on and of campus, many residences do not have adequate heating systems. While part of this issue for on-campus residences is due to old, poorly sealed windows — an admission Residential Operations even made in its campus-wide email — a much larger part of this problem stems from outdated and poorly maintained heating systems.

Stories about radiators that don’t adequately heat up dorm rooms, or central heating that heats rooms to radically diferent temperatures depending on the day, are all too common. In fact, members of this Editorial Board have experienced one if not both of these occurrences during their time at Dartmouth. In other cases, windows may seal so poorly that the heating systems simply can’t account for the cold air fowing into rooms.

In its email to students, Residential Operations ofers questionable solutions to some of these problems. If students suspect their room is cold due to poorly sealed windows, Residential Operationsinstructs them to “roll a towel up and use it to block the draft” and ensure that their beds are not positioned directly next to exterior windows. What’s more, they instruct all students to wear many layers even in their dorms. Although these seem like adequate solutions in the short-term, they reveal an unsettling truth that the College is clearly aware of: Studentsare likely struggling to keep warm due to infrastructure defciencies in dorms that are out of our control.

Some may argue that even if students’ radiators don’t work as well as they should or if a window isn’t fully sealed, it’s not that big of a deal — they won’t freeze. While we agree that in the vast majority of cases this is true, it is frustrating that a well-resourced college is advising students to rearrange their entire

bedroom and dress with multiple layers while in their rooms, while failing to acknowledge their systemic shortcomings. And this is not a one-of experience — the College has sent these emails in years past, and yet they continue to let time go by without working on fxing the issue.

Graduate students living on campus deal with these same problems, and those who live of-campus may encounter even worse situations. In the case of some graduate students in of-campus housing, freezing from the cold while in their rooms is a real fear. Some students haved reported living in residences so poorly insulated that they have icicles in their microwave — even when temperatures outside are well above zero. Others have electricity that is so inefcient they can’t keep up with the rate that their apartment burns through lightbulbs — faced with the cold of this weekend, we can only imagine how high their heating bill will be and whether they can aford to keep warm. Given how expensive and poorly maintained of-campus housing is and the current lack of graduate student on-campus housing and in short, it’s a lose-lose situation.

Dartmouth prides itself on its location and access to all four seasons — and yet, when the inevitable freezing temperatures of winter hit, as they do every year, Dartmouth is unable to keep its students warm. Besides being irresponsible, this is also a wholly avoidable problem. While it may be hard to do maintenance on heating systems and windows during the normal academic year, the summer provides ample opportunity to fx these problems during periods when student enrollment is low. Although we are aware that Dartmouth often uses dorms during the summer for camps and other purposes, we argue that it would not be difcult to work out a system to preemptively work on the heating.

Additionally, forcing graduate students into bad, even unsafe living conditions due to a failure to provide enough housing for the current student body is unacceptable. No Dartmouth student — no matter their age — should have to worry about how they will manage the cold winter months. At the very least, it is vital that the College provides graduate students with ample resources to stay warm, whether that be providing space heaters or increasing stipends during the winter months — any solution is better than the current lack of acknowledgement that a problem exists.

In short, if Dartmouth wants to fully embrace its sense of place in the Northwoods, it is imperative that the College provides students with the resources and housing to safely and comfortably endure it. The editorial board consists of opinion staf columnists, the opinion editors, the executive editors and the editor-in-chief.

Damien Solinger Jeffers ’23 is a FYSEP alum and the ccmmunity engagement student director & QuestBridge liaison at the First Generation Office.

EVAN KAYE ’26: NAVIGATING DARTMOUTH’S INUNDATED INFRASTRUCTURE

‘Noon Panir in the Dark’ sheds light on humanity, complexities behind women’s rights movement in Iran

BY SOPHIE-MARIE CHADHA

The Dartmouth Staff

From Friday, Jan. 27 to Monday, Jan. 30, 005 Sudikof Hall was transformed into an intimate Iranian classroom for the production of “Noon Panir in the Dark,” a play written by Armita Mirkarimi ’25. The winner of the 2022 Ruth and Loring Dodd Playwriting Competition, this is the frst play to be staged in Sudikof while the Hopkins Center undergoes renovations.

Located in a classroom, Iranian newspaper clippings plastered the walls, Persian rugs decorated the floor and subliminal messages covered the chalkboard — from the “women life freedom” mantra written in Farsi to important dates in the history of the women’s rights movement in Iran.

Of the fve main characters, four were played by Dartmouth undergraduates — Uma Misha ’26, Julia Abbott ’26, Tanaz Muhamed ’26 and Elda Kahssay ’24 — and one by a professional IranianAmerican actor from New York City, Sanam Laila Hashemi. In the two Saturday performances, Mirkarimi herself stepped into the role of Farzaneh at the last minute because one of the actresses was struggling with severe concussion symptoms.

Mirkarimi said that she had the unique opportunity to act in her own play and experienced it from multiple perspectives over the course of the weekend.

“I think throughout this entire process I’ve been feeling very lonely. Because it’s just an odd feeling to write about something that you are kind of a part of and yet also detached from,” Mirkarimi said. “When I’m watching it, I’m thinking, ‘are they going to laugh at the jokes? Are they going to understand what I’m saying?’ But when I was in it, it just happened. I felt like I was with the other actresses.”

The unique setting of the performance plays a large role in creating that sense of closeness in the piece. After the initial silence breaks and the characters come

into the room, the only light source is an enormous candle on the table that was created specifcally for the play to ft Mirkarimi’s vision of muting the senses of both the audience and the actors.

An experienced writer who has explored many literary forms, Mirkarimi said that this surrealist play broke all of her usual rules and limitations for playwriting.

“For a long time, I had this notion that if it’s not producible, it’s not good. But then with ‘Noon Panir,’ I just went for it,” Mirkarimi said.

Beatrice Burack ’25, who attended the play, said that she appreciated the intellectual complexity of the play. From the literary references to the specifc intention behind the actors’ every subtle movement, Burack described seeing the “manifestation of the [Iranian] culture” in the play as “a privilege.”

“Something I found really powerful about this play is the fact that the main characters are college women. As a female college student in the U.S., that perspective made a very foreign cultural experience to me a bit more accessible,” Burack said. Kahssay, the actress who played the daydreamer Leyli, similarly noted how the raw emotion and vulnerability of the characters really struck a chord with the audience.

“What I love about the play is the fact that, yes, it’s really heavy, and it’s really sad, but the characters are so well-developed that they kind of remind you of girls that you might have in your own life, so there is still that relatability,” Kahssay said.

Mirkarimi said that she aims to capture the multifaceted nature of being human in her play.

“I wanted to tell a story of being Iranian and honestly just growing up that isn’t completely surrounded by pain and trauma.

I hope people laugh,” Mirkarimi said.

In the Q&A session after the opening night performance, Mirkarimi and the cast reinforced that they are constantly grappling with whether they have the right to be telling

this story in the frst place. Mirkarimi made a clear statement to that efect:

“I don’t want to give the impression that this is what Iran is,” Mirkarimi said. “The stark, ugly reality of it is that I get to write my little plays and put this thing on… but there are people who are actually dying every day. That is something I really struggle with reconciling.”

Kahssay recalled how Mirkarimi helped her through her concerns about doing the story justice as a non-Iranian woman by making sure that she and the other actors were knowledgeable about the subject. She added that the actors went into the process highly conscious that they were tackling a really pressing and sensitive subject for many people.

“50 percent of the rehearsal process was parsing through the script, making sure we got all of the references and that we were

Review: ‘M3GAN’ attempts to tackle the intricacies of human relationships

BY KABIR BEOTRA

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Jan. 30, 2023.

The new movie “M3GAN,” which was released on Jan. 6, 2023, assembles the (un) holy trinity from horror flm hell. We have producers James Wan, who directed “The Conjuring” franchise, and Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum in addition to “Housebound” director Gerard Johnstone, all working together to write about an eerie doll. Working of a screenplay from American Horror Story screenwriter Akela Cooper, M3GAN seems to be striking horror celluloid gold. So far, so scary.

Set in present-day Seattle, “M3GAN” tells the story of Gemma (Allison Williams), a roboticist at a high-tech robot company, who becomes the guardian of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after her parents die in a horrifc car crash. After struggling to adjust to her new role as a parent, Gemma employs the help of her top-secret project, the Model 3 Generative Android — M3GAN for short — to raise Cady and become her best friend. M3GAN, superfcially, is the perfect invention — she helps Cady pick her outfts, reminds her to wash her hands, draws near-perfect portraits of her and eliminates any perceivable threat to her safety.

M3GAN conceptually comes from a long line of terror-inficting dolls. Think of Chucky from “Child’s Play” and “Annabelle.” It’s worth considering what makes these dolls — objects of children’s play fantasies — so compelling to the horror genre. Is it the ghost of our pasts that we cannot seem to outrun, manifesting in the things that gave us comfort as children?

Maybe it’s their haunting hollow porcelain faces that we cradled as children. Whatever the reason, M3GAN outshines both Chucky and Annabelle for a simple reason — she’s in on the joke. Throughout, the flmmakers make fun of themselves and the flm itself.

This is Cooper and Wan’s biggest success: they revel in, rather than run from, the stupidity of their viral creation.

M3GAN is undoubtedly campy; when she is unveiled, the head scientist at Gemma’s frm has one question: “More or less than a Tesla?” M3GAN looks expensive. Dressed in what seems to be Blair Waldorf’s 2010

archive, she dons classy trench coats, satin bows, designer purple-rimmed sunglasses and black ballet fats. Coupled with her dry, blank stare, M3GAN’s eventual descent into Terminator-like madness doesn’t seem completely of-character. The doll, modeled off middle-school mean girl energy, exists as oddly hypnotic: you want to beat her, but you also kind of want to be her.

This light touch and unserious tone permeates the rest of the flm too. Peppered with laugh-out-loud moments, “M3GAN” attempts to tackle the messy intricacies of human relationships without being too heavy-handed. There’s well executed messaging about the modern complexities of motherhood — how women, in today’s patriarchal set up, must fnd a way to balance a prominent career while successfully parenting. The movie also highlights our dangerous over-reliance on the technologies we use on a daily basis. However, the writers never let the messaging overpower the storytelling. It’s tucked into various narrative threads and becomes very apparent once the plot starts to come together, building to a rousing, albeit predictable, fnish.

Irrespective of what has already been said about it, “M3GAN” is an extremely successful flm. Made on a shoestring budget of just $12 million, the flm has garnered over ten times its investment, sitting at $146 million at the global box ofce. This begs the question: What has made this robotic doll so popular? Why is she such an internet sensation?

Blumhouse has always been fantastic marketers — think how they transformed Jordan Peele from half of a comedy duo to horror’s most promising new director overnight. Here, they seem to have wisely positioned M3GAN as a queer icon for the LGBTQ+ community, even inspiring a SNL skit. Think what happened with “Morbius” (2022) — except here, everyone, including the flmmakers, is in on the joke.

Cooper believes that the flm may resonate with the community because it drives home the idea of found family after losing one’s own, a feeling that many LGBTQ+ folks can relate to. Whatever the cause, M3GAN is a sensation. Her egregiously Charli D’Amelio-esque dance moves, Regina George-infuenced quips — voiced by a deadpan Jenna Davis — and signature snark seem to attract online

viewers, who have focked to theaters to patronize the production. The movie’s technical department does a marvelous job. The cinematography by Peter McCafrey feels eerie yet intimate. The background score and music selection by Anthony Willis is inspired by both the ‘campy’ horror movies of the past and teen dramas of the present — the use of a creepy remix of Taylor Swift’s “It’s Nice To Have a Friend” in the flm’s frst trailer is a masterstroke. The acting performances are also top-notch. Williams gets Gemma’s reluctantly sympathetic mood just right: When she breaks, we feel her pain. McGraw gives Cady intricate layers. The real star is Amie Donald, who plays the robo femmefatale. As M3GAN, she’s witty and smart, but deeply dangerous. Where the flm falters, however, is the horror aspect. It’s rarely very frightening, perhaps to retain its generous PG-13 rating. The kill scenes, of which there are less than fve —blasphemy in the typically violent Blumhouse fick — lack suspense and gore. While there is a creepy undertone that ebbs and fows throughout the flm, it never really crescendos in the climax. But then again, this criticism can be countered by pondering over what kind of flm “M3GAN” actually is: a horror-comedy, a pure horror fick, a satire about our over-reliance on technology or an extended skit with mighty intentions and slightly vague messaging?

Ultimately, “M3GAN” actually says more than it appears to. It questions why creating a humanoid robot to play with your children seems so appalling and futuristic, when we so gladly hand fve-year-olds iPads to pass away their time. It asks us to ponder the burden we place on women who are caregivers in our society. It asks us to refect:

Who is the real monster in this flm? Is it a modern-day Frankenstein gone rogue, her maker —Gemma, or her selfsh object of protection — Cady?

There are a myriad of things to unpack in this horror satire, and I expect to see many think-pieces pop up about it in the coming months. But the bottom line is that “M3GAN” is a fun, silly flm about a creepy, snarky doll who seems to have attained icon status in the Twittersphere. Maybe after watching the flm, which I highly recommend you do, you’d want a “M3GAN” too.

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pronouncing things in Farsi correctly. We wanted to do the show right,” Kahssay said.

Kahssay’s sentiment was echoed by her co-actress Muhamed, who played Farzaneh.

“It was such a cool experience of just decoding this beautiful text that Armita had written,” Muhamed said. “This play had never been staged before — and so while the words existed on paper, it was our job as a whole team to bring it to life for the frst time. We weren’t just telling the story; we were creating it as we went along.”

Both actresses also underscored how special it was to be in an all-female production and to work on this project with a female Egyptian director, Sharifa Yasmin.

“We formed a real sisterhood over the past month,” Muhamed said.

The playbill included a note from Mirkarimi in which she discussed how writing the play was a kind of “catharsis”

for her when missing home, how its meaning evolved over the past year with recent events in Iran surrounding protests for women’s rights and how she hopes the audience will feel coming out of the performance.

“I will never capture the complexities of the Iranian experience. My fractured sentences will never paint the brave men and women in Iran in the colors they deserve. But I hope you see the humanity in these women, look up Mahsa Amino’s name after the performance and leave with curiosity, not judgment,” Mirkarimi said. “There is darkness and profound loneliness in all of us. In a lot of ways, we are all searching for a home. This is just one path: We must keep carving them . . . We must keep telling stories.”

Armita Mirkarimi ’25 is a member of The Dartmouth’s arts staf.

Behind the Curtain: Week 6

BY MADELINE SAWYER

The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, Feb. 3

A showing of “Wakanda Forever” will be held at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, programmed in conjunction with the College’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration. In this sequel to “Black Panther,” the country of Wakanda mourns the death of King T’Challa — played in the first film by the late Chadwick Boseman — and faces new threats. Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira reprise their roles and Ryan Coogler returns as director of the film. Tickets may be bought on the Hopkins Center for the Arts’s website and are $8 for general admission and $5 for students.

Also at 7 p.m., the Stonefence Review presents “SLATE,” an open mic night featuring poetry, spoken word and music. This event will take place in One Wheelock and is cosponsored by the Collis Governing Board. Signups to perform are closed, but the event is open to the Dartmouth community.

Saturday, Feb. 4

The Hopkins Center will screen “Bad Axe” at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, followed by a discussion with director David Siev. In the film, Siev documents the experience of his Asian Mexican American family as they struggle to keep their rural Michigan restaurant in business during the pandemic. As the Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the country, an inspiring story of a multicultural family confronting generational scars, evolving family relationships and racism in their conservative community emerges. Tickets may be bought on the Hopkins Center’s website for $8 for general admission and $5 for students.

Sunday, Feb. 5

At 4 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, the play “Straight Line Crazy” will broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London. This new play centers on the life of Robert Moses, played by Ralph Fiennes, an urban planner in New York City known for his power and manipulation. Writer David Hare and director Nicholas Hytner tell the

story of the vast infrastructure Moses created in the 1920s through the 1960s as well as the protest groups that resisted him. Tickets are $5 for students and $15 for general admission.

Wednesday, Feb. 8

The Hood Museum will hold an exhibition tour at 12:30 p.m. of “¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now.” This introductory tour of the exhibition will be led by Michael Hartman, the associate curator of American Art, and Beatriz Yanes Martinez, Hood Museum board of advisors mutual learning fellow. This event is open to the public and there is no registration, but space is limited.

The workshop “Black Queer Joy” will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Triangle House. This creative wellness workshop will include wire-wrapped jewelry making and a discussion of Black joy. Led by Vanessa Miller, a licensed clinician and celebrated metalsmith, this event is promoted by the Office of Pluralism and Leadership as “an affinity space for students of color, centering Black and LGBTQIA+ experiences.” It is part of the office’s Black Legacy Month 2023 events. RSVP information can be found on the OPAL website.

Dartmouth’s figure skating club will perform a special exhibition for Winter Carnival at 8 p.m. at Thompson Arena. The performance is an exclusive exhibition geared toward Dartmouth students.

Thursday, Feb. 9

Join the Hood Museum from 7 to 9 p.m. for a “Hood After 5” event, organized and hosted by the Museum Club. The program of art, food and entertainment is free and open to all Dartmouth students.

Renowned musician Sally Pinkas, pianist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center, will perform a program of Austrian music at 8 p.m. in Rollins Chapel. The concert will feature pieces by Viennese composers. Vienna, considered the capital of classical music, is also the destination of a Dartmouth music study abroad program in the spring that Pinkas will lead. Tickets for the concert are $30 for general admission, $18 for students and $10 for Dartmouth students.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ARMITA MIRKARIMI

e Look Ahead: Week 6

BY CAROLINE YORK The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, Feb. 3

The ski team will travel to Jeffersonville, Vermont for the third day of the Saint Michael’s Carnival, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. The team competed in the first two days on Jan. 20 and 21 and placed sixth and fourth, respectively.

Wally Magill ’25 and Emma Reeder ’25 both finished in seventh place in each of their 15 km classic ski races on the first day, propelling the Big Green up two spots on the second day.

Men’s and women’s track will compete at the Crimson Elite track meet in Cambridge, hosted by Harvard University. The first event for the men’s team will begin at 10 a.m., with the women’s team following at noon.

Women’s hockey (7-16-0) will take on Quinnipiac University at Thompson Arena at 3 p.m.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams will both play Brown University on Friday. At 6 p.m., the men’s team (8-13) will play at home in Leede Arena, following their win against Columbia University last weekend. The women’s team (2-19) will travel to Providence to compete against the Bears at 7 p.m. The men’s team will look to continue their one game winning streak, while the women’s team will seek to end their 12-game losing streak.

Men’s hockey (4-17-1) will host Princeton University for one of the biggest home events of the year — one in which students throw tennis balls on the ice after the first Dartmouth goal in a display of school spirit. The two teams will face off in Thompson Arena at 8 p.m. The two teams last competed on Jan. 7, when the Tigers defeated the Big Green 4-2 on the road.

Saturday, Feb. 4

The ski team will continue to

compete in the Saint Michael’s Carnival for its fourth day.

Men’s and women’s track will both compete in the Scarlet and White Invitational, hosted by Boston University in Boston beginning at 11 a.m.

Women’s tennis (2-0) will play Boston College at Boss Tennis Center starting at 11 a.m. The team will look to continue its two-game winning streak.

Women’s (5-8) and men’s squash (4-8) will travel to Williamstown, Massachusetts for a matchup against Williams College. The matches will both start at noon. Women’s squash looks to maintain its momentum after its 8-1 win against Middlebury College on Feb. 1.

At noon, men’s swimming (2-6) will host Columbia in Karl Michael and Spaulding Pools. The team will seek its first Ivy League win of the season.

Women’s hockey will host Princeton at home at 3 p.m. The two teams last competed on Jan. 6, when the Big Green fell to the Tigers 5-2.

Men’s tennis (5-0) will travel to West Lafayette, Indiana to take on Purdue University at 3 p.m. The team looks to continue its undefeated streak.

Women’s and men’s basketball will both play Yale University. Women’s basketball will travel to New Haven to play at 4 p.m., while the men’s basketball team will host the Bulldogs in Hanover.

Men’s hockey will have their second home game of the weekend, taking on Quinnipiac in Thompson Arena at 8 p.m. The two teams have played twice this term thus far, with the Big Green losing both.

Sunday, Feb. 5

Men’s tennis will travel to Bloomington, Indiana to take on Indiana University.

Women’s tennis will host the University of Maryland for its second home game of the weekend at Boss Tennis Center.

Adelekun ties scoring record, lifting men’s basketball over Columbia

BY WILL DEHMEL The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published Jan. 30, 2023.

When Dame Adelekun ’23 fnally exited Leede Arena Saturday night — after autographs had been signed, alumni greeted and the media addressed — he did so wearing a rather odd piece of jewelry.

Dangled around Adelekun’s neck was a basketball net. The net had not been taken down from the rim because it needed fxing. Adelekun, who scored 41 points to tie the Leede Arena record, had clearly earned it.

“This was the frst net I’ve ever received in my life,” Adelekun said. “I was signing autographs after the game and someone — I forget who — walked up to me and was like ‘Here you go.’ I was like ‘Dang, this really means a lot.’ This is probably gonna be something I cherish for the entirety of my life.”

Adelekun’s performance Saturday night was nothing short of spectacular, and it helped lift the Big Green to an 83-73 victory, bumping its conference record to 4-3, good for a tie with Yale University for third place in the Ivy League.

But despite all the scoring, Adelekun was not immediately aware of the career-night he was having.

“I was on the bench and I saw 29 at one point, and I was like ‘Dang, I’m scoring a lot right now,’” Adelekun said. “I defnitely wish I could have made better free throws. One more free throw and I would’ve broken the record. But beggars can’t be choosers.”

It seemed nobody was more proud of Adelekun’s performance than head coach David McLaughlin, who has based his team’s ofensive scheme this season around the star forward.

“We’re an inside-out team,” head coach David McLaughlin said. “We just played through [Adelekun] in various ways the way they were guarding us. He really took his time, he did a nice job changing and getting to angles, and he did a nice job not rushing.”

Adelekun posted 10 rebounds along with his prolifc scoring to log his third double-double of the season and had

three blocks and drew 14 fouls, resulting in one Lion fouling out and and two others entering foul trouble with four fouls apiece.

“I apply a lot of pressure with my playstyle,” Adelekun said. “I like to drive either way, do a lot of hesitations and explode out of moves. I feel like it’s really hard to guard and I feel like they got frustrated for a while and just were trying to stop me — and they just fouled me I guess.”

Adelekun’s dominance did, however, mean that Big Green three-pointers were not in abundance. Of the just 10 that Dartmouth shot, only two went in.

“When someone’s completely heating up like that and they just completely can’t stop them, we’re kind of just spacing out, letting him get whatever he wants,” Ryan Cornish ’25 said. “And he was cooking them the whole game. So we were just doing our role, letting Dame rock out.”

But when other Dartmouth players did shoot, it was Adelekun’s dominance that made room for them.

“Dame was able to help us space out so much because [Columbia’s] bigs really couldn’t help too much,” Cornish said. “One of the drives where they were completely denying Dame, I tried to use that as a screen, and they got a goaltend on that play…We use Dame to our advantage.”

At the end of the frst half, the score was tied and the tension tangible. During the frst 20 minutes, neither team was able to extend a lead greater than four en route to a 33-33 halftime score.

But in the second half, Dartmouth began to show signs of pulling away.

Four minutes into the frst half, Adelekun put on a nice spin move to fnd the basket and execute a dunk, putting the Big Green up 43-37. 10 seconds later, Adelekun stalked a Lion’s shifty drive to the basket and swatted the ball away just as it was released, sending the crowd of nearly 1,000 into pandemonium.

With that sequence, Adelekun found himself on SportsCenter for the second time this year. But when Adelekun took a break on the bench following a media timeout, he watched Columbia drain back-to-back three-pointers to kickstart a 10-0 run to put the Lions up 47-43.

“At frst I was like, “Ah, they made a

three, whatever; they hit another three –we’re good,’” Adelekun said. “But after a while I was like ‘Yeah, let me get back in the game.’ I’m not trying to lose.”

From there, the game remained close until a 6-0 run with 3:30 remaining put Dartmouth up 72-67.

Two minutes later, up 77-69, McLaughlin and the Big Green watched Columbia score an and one and then use some strong backcourt pressure to force a Cornish turnover.

But unlike last Saturday against Princeton University, facing a comeback, the Big Green maintained its composure.

“I thought the guys were fine,” McLaughlin said. “They didn’t have any type of diferent look on their face. They were just like, alright, we got to take care of the ball, we got to handle pressure and I thought the belief and that ability to execute right after that possession was key.”

Although the bench was not much of a scoring factor this game — the

Big Green reserves only scored eight points, compared to Columbia’s 36 — starters Cornish, Cam Krystkowiak ’23 and Dusan Neskovic ’24 contributed with 16, 12 and nine, respectively, with Krystkowiak also adding seven rebounds.

Dartmouth also stopped a key component to Columbia’s ofense by avoiding foul trouble. The Lions were held to just eight attempts from the line, a move McLaughlin had planned.

“We were trying to keep them out of the paint,” McLaughlin said. “When you can really defne your hands and play physical basketball without fouling, when it comes down to later in the game, those hard fouls at the end don’t hurt you because they’re not going to the line.”

Most important to this efort was Adelekun, who, by avoiding foul trouble, was on the foor for 31 minutes, a seasonhigh. In the Princeton game, Adelekun fouled out just as the Tigers turned the

tide.

“I was probably told you can’t foul over 100 times this week,” Adelekun said. “I was really focused like ‘Okay, if I get through the frst half with one foul, I can play how I normally play.”

Now sitting in a spot to make the Ivy League tournament, Dartmouth’s performance throughout its upcoming home stand takes on serious signifcance. A strong two weeks of games in front of the friendly crowd could position the Big Green to make some noise in the conference postseason tournament in what would be its frst-ever appearance, since the tournament was established in 2017.

The Big Green will next take the court at home at 6 p.m. against Brown University on Friday, Feb. 4, and then again at 6 p.m. on Saturday against Yale University. The home stretch will conclude with a chance for revenge against Princeton the following Saturday.

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Postng 41 points, Adelekun was one point away from doubling his former career-high and claiming the record for himself.

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MIRROR

Trims and Braids and Dyes, Oh My!

By Mariel Fulghum STORY

This story was originally published on Feb. 1, 2023.

Students sport all sorts of hairstyles for some, a creative hairstyle can be an opportunity for self-expression. For others, regular trips to the salon or barber are just another task on a long to-do list. Whatever the case may be, the hair care needs of Dartmouth students are as diverse as our styles.

In the small town of Hanover, there are not many options for afordable barbers and stylists and even fewer for students with curly or coily hair textures. To meet this rising need for hassle-free hair care, some students have chosen to take things

into their own hands and clippers.

During the COVID-19 lockdown her freshmen fall, Rosanna Jennings ’24 said she started helping out friends who struggled to book hair appointments during the pandemic.

“Some of my friends would complain about not being able to get their hair cut anywhere, so I started cutting hair in the tents outside once we were able to gather in small groups,” Jennings said.

One of her friends posted the setup on their Instagram story, and it went “Dartmouth viral” from there Jennings said that “lots of people started texting me about it, and one of my friends helped me set up appointments.”

Now, Jennings works in dorms and common rooms, depending on where and when the client can meet. As far as what hair types she works with, Rosanna said that “most of my customers are men and will probably have shorter hair, so mostly, [I’ll do] trims and shaves.”

However, Jennings said that she is comfortable working with all hair types and lengths and has even helped to dye hair she encouraged interested students to reach out to her via Instagram.

Cuts and dyes aren’t the only hair care needs of Dartmouth students, though. For Black students, fnding professionals who are experienced with styles such as locs, twists and braids can be difcult, which has

inspired some students to create braiding businesses of their own.

Hosaena Tilahun ’25 started working with TnH Hair, an informal business started by her friend Tia Walker ’25, during her freshman year.

Like Jennings, Tilahun and Walker’s hair care operation started as something casual between friends. As the business got more customers, though, they began to take it more seriously.

“We decided to factor in how much time it took to braid hair,” Tilahun explained. “So retwisting would be $30 to $40, whereas braiding with extensions would range from $80 to $150 depending on the size of the braids and the time

commitment.”

She also noted that there are many talented yet unrecognized students on campus who can provide these services. She said Black students have found ways to connect over platforms such as GroupMe and Instagram, and there are also resources available on OPAL’s website for Black students in need of on-campus braiders.

“Because we have this shared understanding that Black hair care is hard to fnd, or at least quality care is, we exchange our skills and our knowledge,” Tilahun said. “Many Black students are sharing skills, many Black students have their friends or partners braid and learn how to access services while here [at Dartmouth].”

Although TnH Hair is currently inactive while Walker studies at Spelman College this winter, the business will start accepting clients again in the spring, Tilahun said.

While Jennings, Tilahun and Walker have scaled up their services to serve the wider campus community, some students interested in hair care have kept their activities more casual.

For Lily Pogue ’25, cutting hair is a way to connect with friends.

“Rather than doing the routine haircut appointment, it’s a fun way to hang out,” she said. “I never actually learned [to cut hair] I just tried it on one of my friends who was willing to let me.”

Similarly, Surina Prabhu ’24 frst started cutting her friends’ hair last winter.

“One of my friends was like ‘I need a hair trim, but I don’t want to pay for it,’” she recounted. “I’m not an expert by any means [but] I love working with hair. I’ve done so since sixth grade, so I was like, ‘oh, cut your hair? Why not?”

Not only was the informal trim more afordable, but it also saved her friends the time of setting up an appointment in Hanover or waiting until they traveled back home over break, Prabhu said. Since then, Prabhu has continued providing trims as a fun favor.

Whether you need a quick line up or a new set of braids, there are a number of Dartmouth students and student businesses to keep in mind before booking your next salon appointment.

The Meal Plan, Unplanned — A Taste of Personality

STORY

By Gretchen Bauman & Allison Burg

This story was originally published on Feb. 1, 2023.

As diferent as Dartmouth students can be, we share common characteristics a dislike of mud season, a love of sunshine and, most importantly, a need to eat. As midterms loom over us and temperatures plunge, fueling our brains becomes even more important. In a small town like Hanover where there are limited food options, most students turn to Dartmouth Dining Services to satisfy their hunger.

Though all on-campus students frequent

Dartmouth Dining in some capacity, students’ rationale behind choosing and managing their dining plans varies widely.

Trace Hilbun ’24, who is on the 80+ Block meal plan which comes with 80 meal swipes and $725 in dining dollars chose it based on his typical eating locations and on-campus job.

“I eat at the Hop and Collis, which use more DBA, so I don’t use swipes as much,” Hilbun said. “I also work at Ramekin, and I get extra DBA from working there, so it made more sense to be on a DBA-heavy plan.”

For those unfamiliar, a meal swipe can be used to swipe into Foco for all-you-can-eat dining, or exchanged for an “equivalent” value in dining dollars at other Dartmouth Dining establishments. Dining dollars, referred to as “DBA,” can be used at any Dartmouth Dining facility but make paying for Foco extra pricey.

Holland Bald ’25, who is also on the 80+ Block, said that this plan was the best value per dollar for him: Since he does not eat at Foco very often, he doesn’t need as many swipes.

Samantha Rago ’25 said she also picked her plan with maximizing value in mind, switching from the Unlimited plan which gives one swipe each meal period (thus “unlimited” Foco) and $250 DBA to the 80+ Block this term. “I was bored one day over the summer and fgured out how much money you get from each [meal plan],” Rago recalled. “I never went to Foco, so it seemed like a waste

I’m also a [computer science] major, but the cafes near the CS building only accept

DBA, so I wanted more DBA.”

Yet, as dining prices rise and meal plan values remain unchanged, dining plan management has grown more difcult.

The three students interviewed expressed concerns about the rising costs of both dining plans and food. Even Hilbun, who often schedules lunchtime shifts at Ramekin to eat for free in addition to receiving extra DBA noted that the dining plan barely covers his entire term.

“I still almost run out sometimes, which shows it’s a problem with how much money we get [compared to the cost of food],”

Hilbun said.

Although Bald tries to manage his plan by using one dinner swipe per day, he said that he still usually runs out of DBA by week seven.

Bald’s dining plan management is a microcosm for his life at large just as he uses leftover swipes haphazardly by the end of the term, he said that he tends to “deal with things as they come” and doesn’t plan out his life very meticulously.

Similarly, while writing this article, we Ally and Gretchen discovered that our approaches to our meal plans are wildly diferent, refecting our difering personalities.

I Gretchen am both frugal and extremely Type A, two characteristics evident in my dining plan management.

In the fall, I was on the Unlimited plan. Similarly to Rago, I hated feeling like I was wasting money by not using all of my swipes. I calculated the swipe to DBA ratio of each dining plan over winterim, eventually landing on the 115+ Block as a happy medium for both swipes and DBA.

At the beginning of this term, I planned out when I would use my swipes throughout the week and set myself reminders on my Google Calendar. This control on a micro-level manifests itself in my deep and abiding love for planning my life. My calendar, often described by my friends as horrifying, is extremely detailed and color-coded, complete with lists of goals for each day and when I’ll accomplish them. Was setting reminders to use my lunch swipe on my calendar overkill? Absolutely.

But having smaller aspects of my life under control, like my dining plan, makes me feel on top of things even during overwhelming weeks, when I struggle to fnish assignments and don’t look up from my computer screen for twelve hours.

Though I haven’t yet made it through a term on the 115, I’ve made it through several terms at Dartmouth using a similar level of planning. I’m fairly confdent that when other students fnd themselves dipping into the DBA negatives at the end of the term, I’ll be able to make it out of the 115 Block alive.

On the other hand, I Ally will likely be in dire need of a “DBA Daddy” in a few weeks, despite also being on the 115+ Block. (Seriously, Gretchen gasped when she saw my GET App.) As I tend to be unstructured in my spending habits, it is a game time decision whether I use a swipe, DBA or the enticing option of Snackpass.

While one morning’s breakfast may be a granola bar from my dorm, the next day might include three breakfasts. Yet, despite this nonchalance and disorder, I also habitually check the Foco menu and am always painstakingly aware of my DBA total. I am a creature of habit: I order two eggs over easy whenever I go to Collis, and I cannot step foot into Novack without buying fruit snacks.

Thus, in my life outside of Dartmouth Dining, I am unsurprisingly an organized mess. I may not know how I will complete my computer science lab, or how my clothes got scattered throughout my dorm, but I religiously use my agenda and can pinpoint exactly where my black jeans are located on my foor. My organized messiness seeps its way into everything I do from not knowing my major yet creating a spreadsheet of every distributive I need, to going to bed at rogue hours but having

an extensive nightly skin care routine. In all of its disorganized yet predictable glory, my DBA spending habits are truly indicative of my life.

Just as personality tests promise to reveal our true selves, so too do our strategies for managing Dartmouth’s meal plans.

Thinking about using Ally’s chaotic spending strategy gives me Gretchen mild heart palpitations, while the thought of planning meals to the extreme makes me Ally incredibly stressed. But ultimately, college is a time for self discovery. Even if Ally won’t know what she is having for breakfast tomorrow until her alarm goes of, while Gretchen has already set out her bowl for oatmeal, we both learned a little bit more about ourselves from analyzing our dining. So next time you answer the question “swipe or DBA?” consider what your answer might say about you.

MICHAEL BOND/THE DARTMOUTH

CAROLINE KRAMER/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF