The Dartmouth 02/17/2023

BY JACKIE WRIGHT

The Dartmouth Staff

SWCD holding vote to strike for $21 base wage for student dining workers Students celebrate ‘Black Joy’ during Black Legacy Month

After being involved in negotiations with the College since last May, the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth is undergoing a strike authorization vote, according to SWCD vice chair Sheen Kim ’23. After the College refused SWCD’s latest proposal at the Jan. 24 bargaining session, the group put the decision to strike to a vote on Tuesday and is still voting.

“A strike is highly likely to occur in the near future if the school does not accept the package that we provided them in our last bargaining session,” Kim said.

The SWCD’s current proposition outlines a $21 per hour base wage and new mental health and sick pay policies, according to Kim.

The College’s current counter proposal outlines a base pay of $18.50 for cafe workers and $17.50 for snack bar and Collis Market workers, according to a Jan. 31 statement from SWCD. Wages will not increase until an agreement is reached and a new contract is ratifed, according to grievance ofcer and SWCD bargaining committee member Ian Scott ’24.

Currently, student workers in the higher pay bracket — which includes Novack Café, the Class of 1953 Commons, Courtyard Café, Ramekin and other café locations — earn $15 per hour base pay and $3 per hour in meal plan credit, according to an email from associate vice president of business and hospitality David Newlove. Snack bar and market workers earn $13 per hour base pay with $2 in meal plan credit per hour. For both pay brackets, hourly wages increase by 50 cents after the frst term of employment and by 25 cents in subsequent terms, Newlove added.

Scott and Kim referenced recent union eforts at Northeastern University — where dining hall workers will see an increase to $30 per hour wages — and Columbia University, which ratifed its frst contract

with the Student Workers of ColumbiaUAW and increased wages from $15 to $21 per hour.

“It would not be a strike that comes out of nowhere, and our frustration [doesn’t come] out of nowhere,” Kim said. “It is the fact that we’ve been telling you this for months and months. And you’re seeing what’s going on around campuses — this is not the fght that you want to fght.”

Attorney Joseph McConnell, whose frm represents the College declined to comment on specifc aspects of the negotiations with the SWCD.

“Dartmouth is meeting regularly with the SWCD this term in an efort to reach a contract as soon as possible,” McConnell wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “Negotiations have taken place with a positive spirit of cooperation and understanding and we look forward to reaching a signed agreement.”

In a Feb. 6 campus-wide email, Dartmouth Student Government announced that the DSG senate had unanimously voted to endorse the call for $21 per hour wages. According to student body president David Millman ’23, a supermajority of DSG voted to approve a resolution outlining the reasons for its support.

“We stand behind student workers,” Millman said. “The nature of the situation is that a lot of students do have to work and some students don’t have to work, and so we want to move any way that we can to help move to a more equitable and just campus. That’s why we’ve been very intentional to support and not dictate what these communities want. It’s really important to not try to speak for them, but amplify their message.”

Scott, who works in ’53 Commons, said that if wages were increased to $21, he could work 10 hours a week instead of his current schedule of about 15 hours per week and make approximately the same amount.

“There’s never really a time where I get to feel like I am on top of everything,” Scott said. “I’m always very disoriented, always feeling like I’m treading water in a lot of ways. That extra fve hours a week is everything. That allows me to put more time into classes, more time into my personal life, more time into my spiritual life.”

Last winter, Scott worked washing dishes at ’53 Commons. He said that after dining closed at 8:30 p.m., he would typically work until 11 p.m., and some of his coworkers stayed later to fnish cleaning.

“You’re rushing the trays and trying to get all these plates clean and of the carousel because if they’re not getting them of the carousel fast enough it’s going to back up out there and people aren’t going to have a place to put their dirty plates,” Scott said.

“So that whole system comes to rest on the people that are in the dish room.”

Scott said working evening shifts at ’53 Commons occupied his Saturday and Sunday nights for the entirety of winter term last year.

“By the end of the night my clothes were soaking wet and then I’d go out into the night air and by the time I get back to my dorm my clothes are frozen and I’m dog tired from standing, working, running around for the last fve, six hours,” Scott said.

“It’s just not fun — I wasn’t hanging out with friends, I wasn’t going out to parties, anything like that because I had to make money.”

Sabik Jawad ’26 is a member of the SWCD who works at Novack Café and said that SWCD’s proposed increase for student workers “means way more” for student workers than it does for the College.

“SWCD showed the numbers, it costs $90,000 a year for Dartmouth to increase to $21,” Jawad said. “And that means nothing to Dartmouth compared to its overall operating budget. But it means literally everything to student workers.”

Advancing Pathways grant works to deepen collaboration between College libraries and Hood Museum

BY KENT FRIEL The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Feb. 16, 2023.

A grant from the Mellon Foundation that provides funding to advance collaboration between the Dartmouth Library and the Hood Museum of Art is nearing the end of its initial three-year duration. The $500,000 grant, which is called Advancing Pathways for LongTerm Collaboration at Dartmouth, was awarded in January 2020 — though it faced delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic — and has a focus on Native American and Indigenous Arctic collections.

Dean of libraries and grant steering committee member Susanne Mehrer said that the project grant arose from a larger strand of funding that the Mellon Foundation intended for collaboration between libraries and museums in higher education. Mehrer added that members of the steering committee saw the grant as an opportunity to work specifcally on Native American and Indigenous collections at the College.

Cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledges fellow Zachary Miller said that the grant serves a variety of purposes, including providing workshops and residency programs, improving digital archiving software and educating and connecting library and museum staff. Miller added that the grant seeks to create a “collaborative relationship” with Indigenous communities, in addition to student-and-staf-oriented educational opportunities related to the collections.

“A core value of this project is to establish respectful and enduring relationships with Indigenous communities whose cultural heritage is refected in both the Library’s and Hood Museum’s collections,” Mehrer said.

An important aspect of the project

so far has been a “deep dive” into working with the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak community, according to College archivist and steering committee member Peter Carini. Carini added that the library’s recent collections related to the Odanak people date back to anthropologist Gordon Day, who was employed by the College in the 1950s and 1960s to study the Abenaki peoples.

“There’s a long history between Dartmouth and Odanak,” Carini said, noting that part of the recent work has involved “helping their cultural center with collection management databases and systems.”

Musician Mali Obomsawin ’18, a member of the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, said that she completed a weeklong residency program focused on the Gordon Day papers this January as part of Advancing Pathways programming.

“It was a weeklong residency, but I feel like it actually started a couple months ago when recordings that include interviews with people at Odanak were sent to me,” Obomsawin said. “It is a huge collection that I’ve been working my way through over the past few months.”

The idea for the residency came after several members of the steering committee attended Obomsawin’s concert in 2021, according to cultural heritage technical developer for the grant Richel Cuyler ’06. Obomsawin met with the team over the summer of 2022, Cuyler said. During her residency, Obomsawin spent time at both Rauner Special Collections Library and the Hood Museum, in addition to leading workshops for students and faculty, Cuyler said.

Obomsawin said that working her way through the reel-to-reel recordings in the Gordon Day collection has been inspiring.

“I’m interested in fguring out what

BY ARYANNA QUSBA

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Feb. 14, 2023.

Student organizations have planned an abundance of programming throughout February to honor Black Legacy Month. According to the Black Legacy Month 2023 website, the month aims to celebrate and recognize Black culture at Dartmouth and is “dedicated to the education, awareness and commemoration of Black heritage and people.” The events this year embrace the theme “Black Joy,” according to planning committee co-chair Laura Logan ’22.

Beginning with an opening ceremony on Feb. 2, this year’s Black Legacy Month programming includes a fashion show, Black hair care event, a workshop on Black queer joy and a final keynote speech from actress DeWanda Wise. Planning committee member Anthony Fosu ’24 said that since Dartmouth’s first Black Legacy Month celebration in 2016, many student organizations have been revived or founded and are partnering with the committee to plan events for this year’s celebration.

This year is the biggest slate of programming I’ve seen,” Fosu said. “It’s been amazing to see the renaissance of student involvement around campus — particularly as it relates to the theme of Black Joy.”

Black Legacy Month is studentdirected and student-run, and receives support from the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, according to planning committee co-chair Rawan Hashim ’26. Black Underground Theater Association executive Chara Lyons ’23 — who performed at the Black Legacy Month opening ceremony — said that this student focus is integral to creating a celebration that benefits the student body.

“[Black Legacy Month] has to be student-driven because there’s no way that a predominantly white institution [like Dartmouth] will understand what a Black student body needs,” she said. “We have to carefully cultivate what we want these events to look like, otherwise it can become performative, objectifying [and] not actually supporting the people that it’s probably meant for.”

Logan said that she has been thrilled with the high student turnout so far and believes the Black community at Dartmouth appreciates being able to celebrate fully in person for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Fosu added that it was “beautiful” to see more than 200 people attend Black Legacy Month’s opening ceremony.

“We’ve actually underestimated how many people were craving that kind of physical space, being able to eat with their Black peers and have discussions with a greater level of vulnerability by being in the same room together,”

Logan said. “We’re creating spaces for us to take care of ourselves and to be rejuvenated.”

Hashim said that this year’s theme was decided by the planning committee at the end of the summer term. Planning committee co-chair SarrahAnn Allen ’23 said that the committee was considering a focus on Black mental health but wanted “to shift toward celebrating what it means to be Black and to be joyful.”

“To me Black Joy is just existing in a way where we don’t feel like we’re living in a space that’s not built for us,” Hashim said.

Lyons said that in her experience as a student within the New York City public school system, she learned from an overwhelmingly Eurocentric curriculum and was only taught about the Black body as enslaved and subdued. This year’s theme serves as a “radical” rejection of that teaching, she said.

“Black Joy is realizing that all of these things do not define us,” Lyons said. “Our histories are of royalty and innovation. You will see my skin, you will see my culture and it will be unapologetic. To be joyful is not to be joyful and quiet; it is to be loud and to be proud.”

Logan said that she was moved by the strength of the Black community as she collaborated with students across campus to plan this month’s events. Watching a group of strangers connect and grow together as they organized this month’s celebrations was a “reiteration of what Black Joy means as a lived experience,” she said.

In terms of upcoming Black Legacy Month events, Hashim said that she is most excited about the Black Legacy Month brunch and the Black Diaspora fashion show on Feb. 19 at the Onion, which will showcase cultural attire across the Black community. Logan said that she is also looking forward to Wise’s keynote closing address on Feb. 27 on the portrayal of Black Joy in the media.

“I think it’s very important to talk about the stereotypes that exist as to what Black Joy should look like in the media and how films reinforce these ideas in popular culture,” Allen said.

As students walk by the banners hung around campus that honor various students and faculty who embody the theme of Black Joy, Allen said that she hopes they will think intentionally about the impressive legacy of the Black community at Dartmouth. Ultimately, the events and programming of Black Legacy Month are designed to “start a conversation that continues on,” Allen said.

“It’s also important to remember that we don’t just have to be joyful in February during Black Legacy Month, but throughout the whole entire year,” Lyons said. “Especially at a predominately white institution like Dartmouth, we must be radical with our joy throughout our time here.”

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Zoning Board approves North End Housing project zoning exception

BY THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

On Thursday evening, the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to grant the College’s special exception request for the North End Housing project, a 397-bed student residence on Lyme Road. Before voting, the Board made several amendments to the permit request, which it discussed in a series of public hearings.

Deliberations focused on student safety and preserving Hanover’s values, such as limiting light pollution and maintaining the integrity of neighborhoods. Notably, the Board voted to add a stipulation for “architecturally appropriate” lighting to the multi-use path on Lyme Road, proposed by board member Jeremy Eggleton, who cited safety concerns at night. The Board also voted to revise trafc requirements for the multi-use path; rather than separating pedestrians from vehicles entirely, the language of the proposal now stipulates “efectively managing” pedestrian trafc.

The North End Housing project has faced opposition from some students, faculty and Hanover residents, who have cited concerns about campus cultureand disruptions to the town community. The Garipay Neighborhood Association formed as a result of community concerns with the project and amassed more than 380 petition signatures by the end of December 2022, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth.

The Zoning Board addressed several of these issues during Thursday’s town hall, determining that the revised project follows special exception stipulations under the zoning ordinance — which requires the project to not adversely afect highways, sidewalks, town services and facilities or the “character of the area.”

Notably, the Board found the Intertek noise evaluation to be “persuasive” and interactions between residents and students to be positive, according to board chair Bernie Waugh, Jr.’s recommendation.

“The Board is leery of fnding the

presence of students to be adverse, per se,” Waugh said. “On the contrary, many in Hanover feel that the occasional opportunity of town residents to interact with students and vice versa is one of the benefts of living in a college community.”

The College was required to receive aspecial exception to build student residences on any site within the institutional zone of Hanover. Now that the exemption has been approved by the Zoning Board, the project will be further reviewed by the Hanover Planning Board.

As plans stand, the location will feature 397 beds, in-apartment kitchens, a cafe on the frst foor and 25 parking spaces, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth. The location will be used to house undergraduate students while older residences are renovated, and will then transition to primarily graduate housing. That said, Waugh noted that these plans are “fexible” and “the College does not wish to be bound by them.”

Iranian-American activist Masih

Alinejad speaks at Democracy Summit

BY HEYA SHAH

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Feb. 13, 2023.

Last Wednesday, Iranian-American journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad spoke at Filene Auditorium at an event titled “Ending Gender Apartheid in Iran.” The talk was the inaugural event for the Democracy Summit — a student-led series exploring contemporary democracy — and hosted by the Dartmouth Political Union, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Dickey Center for International Understanding.

Alinejad gained worldwide attention in 2014 when she removed her hijab and posted a picture of her hair blowing in the wind on Facebook. Since then, Alinejad has become a popular symbol and fgure of dissent against the Islamic regime.

Alinejad spoke to a crowd of 170, and according to DPU president Jessica Chiriboga ’24, the event was entirely booked in advance. The event was also live-streamed on the College’s YouTube channel.

Because of her continued outspoken criticism against the Islamic Regime in Iran, Alinejad herself has been targeted in two assassination and kidnapping plots in the United States, Chiriboga said. Security detail was higher than usual for Alinejad’s safety, according to DPU vice president Dylan Grifth ’25. He added that the event involved Safety and Security, the Hanover Police Department and plain-clothed ofcers.

The event began with an introduction by Chiriboga and Grifth, followed by an interview moderated by Middle Eastern studies lecturer Andrew Simon and an audience question and answer session.

Chiriboga said that Alinejad gained notoriety for the viral My Stealthy Freedom social media campaign against the compulsory hijab in Iran. The campaign, which has almost 11 million followers today, has progressed into the biggest civil disobedience movement in the history of the Islamic republic, Chiriboga added.

“Her activism led her to be kicked out of school, college, parliament and eventually her country in 2009,” Chiriboga said.

Alinejad has continued to dissent against the Iranian government during the current protests in Iran, Chiriboga added. The protests in Iran started last September

Q&A with new O ce of Pluralism and Leadership director Rachele Hall

after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was in police custody for violating the Islamic Republic’s conservative dress code. The Islamic Republic responded violently, killing over 500 people with 50 more on death row since the commencement of the protests, according to Alinejad.

Alinejad started by thanking all the students in the audience, whom she called “the future of the world.”

“The women of Iran and Afghanistan, they need you,” she said.

While answering a question about the prominent slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom,” Alinejad gave an overview of the restrictions women face in Iran.

“Woman, life, freedom — it is a crime. Being a free woman in Iran means you are a criminal,” Alinejad said. “From the age of seven, if you are a girl and you don’t cover your hair, you won’t be able to go to school.”

Alinejad said that the rules of the Islamic Regime made her a “master criminal” because she has “too much hair, too much voice and [is] too much of a woman.” She also emphasized the infuence of social media on protest movements, calling it “a weapon… of ordinary people,” as it turned Amini’s funeral into “massive protests against the Islamic Republic.”

When Simon asked Alinejad about how social media can be used by repressive and democratic forces, Alinejad added that she felt that dictators are now using social media to attack dissidents, normalize oppressive regimes and mislead the rest of the world.

“The Iranian regime used social media to publish videos of women, inviting some tourists from Western countries to show that people like [me] are lying because people are unveiled and walking in the streets, not getting arrested or harassed in public,” Alinejad added.

In an interview after the event, Alinejad said she disregarded news of Iran abolishing the morality police.

“Dictators know that when they are weakened and shaken it’s time to spread misinformation and disinformation to calm down the protests and mislead the rest of the world,” Alinejad said.

Alinejad maintained that the next necessary step is for Western countries to unite against and isolate the Islamic Republic, which she said “is a threat to democracy and freedom in the region.”

“I want [the] Western [governments] to be as brave as [the] women of Iran and

Afghanistan,” Alinejad said during the event.

Simon asked Alinejad to comment on critiques of economic sanctions as measures that exert more damage to ordinary Iranians rather than oppressive government ofcials.

“Right after the nuclear deal, we witnessed the money being sent to fund violence in the region,” Alinejad said. “The Iranian regime, even under sanctions, increased the budget for 51 religious institutions, including the morality police.”

The audience question and answer session included the perspectives of some students who opposed her views and beliefs. One female student from Afghanistan said that Alinejad’s act of removing the hijab, waving it in the air and burning it discriminated against the student’s values.

“My dream is to walk shoulder to shoulder with you in Iran and in Afghanistan — me, unveiled — without getting killed,” Alinejad said in response. “We are all fghting for freedom of choice.”

Alinejad ended the event with an Iranian song and translated the lyrics to English when they fnished.

“God, if you don’t give me what I want, I can burn the whole world,” Alinejad translated.

Armita Mirkarimi ’25, who is IranianAmerican, said that the event was especially powerful for her because she has followed Alinejad’s career in activism since she was a young girl, having migrated from Iran to the US when she was in third grade.

“I think it’s really important that students here at Dartmouth hear that voice because it’s a voice that is a lot of times oppressed and not talked about,” Mirkarimi said. “I really respect what she has to say as an activist and especially with everything happening in Iran right now with the protests, the social movements [and] the death of Mahsa Amini.”

Carter Anderson ’26 said that the event underscored the value of free speech, as Alinejad was persecuted for speaking out against the government in Iran.

“I think it’s rare that you get the opportunity to interact with a journalist who has really had her free speech infringed, especially coming from the US,” Anderson said. “Free speech is often taken for granted and I don’t think that’s true globally. It’s interesting to see that perspective.”

Armita Mirkarimi is a former member of The Dartmouth’s Arts staf.

College refused SWCD’s call for $21

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According to the SWCD’s statement, the diference between $18.50 and $21 per hour would amount to a cost of “about $89,000 per year, representing a 0.02% increase in the amount Dartmouth already spends on wages.”

Kim also said that the College is hiring

a human resources consultant for labor relations with an annual salary close to that diference. According to the job posting, the hiring salary ranges from $78,900 to $96,000.

“The fact is, these universities have been so heavily fnancialized where money is funneled into paying endless amounts of bureaucratic managers, investing in hedge

funds, investing millions of dollars into real estate,” Kim said. “[The College is] forgetting that it is and must be the students and the folks who are actually doing the labor of academia, of service, of research, that actually give Dartmouth its standing.”

Sheen Kim is a member of The Dartmouth’s Opinion staf. .

BY LUKE MCMAHON The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Feb. 16, 2023.

Rachele Hall arrived at the College in February, taking her position as the new Senior Assistant Dean and director of the Ofce of Pluralism and Leadership. Hall comes from the State University of New York, Westchester — where she served as the interim Dean of Student Life — and said she will be working to identify and address opportunities to improve diversity and cultural competence on Dartmouth’s campus. The Dartmouth sat down with Hall to talk about her past career experience and what she hopes to accomplish at OPAL.

What motivated you to pursue a career in higher education?

RH: At frst, I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to teach the ffth grade, and you couldn’t tell me that I wasn’t going to. Then, in April of my Junior year [at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta], I was teaching in my small town, sitting in a classroom, when I realized ‘Oh my gosh, there are no bathroom breaks and I’m too sarcastic for small children.’ So I changed my degree to Philosophy, but I had been very involved as a student when I was on campus at [SUNY] Oneonta, and through that I fell in love with higher education. Those experiences that I had in my co-curricular life really ended up dictating what I did with my professional life — so it was an accident, but a happy accident. I am so glad I am here working with college students and helping them to fgure out what is next in their lives because I needed that, and that’s what people in student afairs did for me.

Your doctoral research focused on immigration, and you established a training program for allies of undocumented students at your previous institution, SUNY Westchester. Why has immigration been such an important issue for you?

RH: I am not a first-generation immigrant and neither is my family. My family was brought here by slavery like most Black Americans. But in my work in higher-ed, I have come in constant contact with students who come from undocumented immigrant families. So on campus, I found myself trying to support those students in a secret way, because they are a hidden population. I realized when I got my chance to educate myself and pursue my doctoral degree that I had this power and privilege that this hidden population does not.

Most often, what you see is migrants who have gone through the legal process of getting married and getting a visa advocate for their community, but rarely do you see people who were born as American citizens advocate for migrants without proper documentation. But we all need to be advocating for humankind. This country was built on the backs of people who migrated here or were brought here on ships, so why do we now have these rules and policies to keep migrants away? Researching how to support them led to my research, and it led to my [ally] training later.

What made you decide to depart SUNY Westchester and come to Dartmouth?

RH: I never wanted to leave Westchester. I was like, ‘I’m going to be president of this college one day,’ and it just didn’t work out that way. I knew I didn’t want to be completely away from students, because that is what happens sometimes when you move up in higher-ed — you move away from working with students. But I also wanted to be in charge of an ofce, and that just didn’t present itself to me at Westchester. I was really intentional about what I wanted next in my life: having a Black female supervisor and having professional development opportunities. That all came to a head with Dartmouth and this opportunity at OPAL. I know the students are brilliant here, and I am excited to learn from, and with, them.

What are your goals for your tenure at OPAL?

RH: My frst goal is to connect with my staf. We have some vacancies in the ofce, and so I am thinking about how we can intentionally fll those spaces — I don’t want to just be recruiting people into spaces. Then, I want to build collaborative relationships with the rest of campus. Because of the pandemic and the hybrid model, we have gotten away from doing things in-person and have become interested in Zoom everything, but I’m all about showing up at your ofce.

My last goal is to make sure that students across campus know what OPAL is. Whether or not they identify with any of the afnity groups on campus, I want students to know that they can still participate with OPAL. I want us to get out of the idea that you have to check a box to ft into a box. I probably said this goal last because it will take more time than the others: It is defnitely a cultural shift — to show people that they can be a part of something even if they identify as something else.

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

Grant focuses on Indigenous collections at Hood, College libraries

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my relationship, artistically, will be with this collection,” Obomsawin said.

In addition to programs like Obomsawin’s residency, grant resources have gone toward technologies that connect Indigenous communities with museum and library items, Cuyler said.

“A community may want increased digital access,” Cuyler said. “We might use photogrammetry to create 3D models or build a digital exhibition of

cultural heritage that we have.”

Assistant director of digital platforms at the Hood and steering committee member Meredith Steinfels described a new “linchpin” software associated with the grant called, International Image Interoperability Framework, She added that IIIF helps to “unify the library and museum holdings” by allowing interoperability between images and objects in Dartmouth’s collections.

With a physical basket at the Hood Museum and photos of a woman

making the basket in the Rauner Special Collections Library, for example, “IIIF would allow us to put those two images together in a single viewer, and then start to annotate and add text and context,” Steinfels said.

Beyond increased digital access, Indigenous communities may ask for the physical repatriation of objects within Dartmouth’s collections, but that process occurs outside the realm of the funding provided by the Advancing Pathways grant, Mehrer said.

Multiple steering committee members said that the grant is a step forward in the College’s relationship with Indigenous communities. Carini said that the broader work associated with the grant “is still in the early stages.”

“Whatever we learn here needs to keep going,” Steinfels said.

Obomsawin hopes that the grant would help Dartmouth “right its relationship” to Odanak.

“I think there is a really awesome opportunity here with this grant to

open a new chapter in the relationship between the Odanak Nation and Dartmouth,” she said.

Additionally, Miller said the grant marks a shift in how the College conceptualizes the role of institutions like the museum and libraries. “Museums can be pretty hostile places for Indigenous cultural heritage,” Miller said. “The Advancing Pathways team is working to right historical wrongs and change structures within these spaces.”

Dunleavy: It Starts with Us

Improving mental health at Dartmouth will require confrontng students’ roles in feelings of loneliness and isolaton that cause peers to struggle.

Dialogue around poor mental health on campus largely centers around Dartmouth as an institution, focusing on the administration’s failings, faulty healthcare and lack of academic support. The College deserves this scrutiny, and these criticisms have successfully pushed for institution-wide positive change, as seen by the College signing a four-year partnership with the youth mental health nonprofit JED foundation. Yet, these conversations around mental health frequently omit crucial parts of students’ wellbeing — peer support, perceived acceptance and belonging.

By excluding campus culture and social dynamics from the discourse, we fail to address our own roles in our peers’ mental health. Loneliness, isolation and social stress play substantial roles in young people’s mental health.

To combat this, students must build a culture of compassion and sustained support. Students can provide peer support and social acceptance crucial to each other’s well-being by working together to dispel misconceptions surrounding the frequency of mental distress, discourage speech that negatively targets individuals or specific groups and maintain a consistent, baseline level of support and acceptance of one another.

The importance of peer support is nearly impossible to understate. The biggest obstacle to the average college student’s mental well-being comes not from academics, finances, romance or family, but from perceived peer acceptance. A 2022 study published in Frontiers in Psychology concluded that peer acceptance, dependable friendships and ease of making new friends all significantly reduce depressive symptoms in young adults. Without that peer support and acceptance, students’ mental health drastically struggles. A Boston University study found that two-thirds of college students reported struggling with feelings of loneliness and isolation. The impact of loneliness disproportionately affects students of color, further emphasizing the need for community and peer acceptance. A 2017 poll found that students of color are 16% more likely to feel isolated on campus and twice as likely not to seek mental health support compared to their white peers.

Of course, the academic pressures of a rigorous school like Dartmouth play a role in deteriorating mental health. However, there is the question of the chicken and the egg: What comes first, poor mental health or poor academic performance? The American College Health Association’s assessment discovered that mental afflictions had the most significant adverse effect on academic success. That said, there is no doubt that academic struggles and mental distress in college students are closely related, and students do require support and accommodations from professors and Dartmouth as an institution, in addition to support from friends and the student body.

This is not to say that students should shoulder the burden of their peers’ mental health struggles alone. The American College Health Association’s assessment further reported that 10.8% of students say concern for a troubled friend or family member negatively impacted their academic performance. This would surely feed into a cycle of continually escalating mental distress within the student body. For serious or extended circumstances, students need the formal support and treatment provided by clinicians. And luckily, as an institution, the College has taken significant steps to ensure this

Verbum Ultimum: All Washed Up

Dartmouth must renegotate its laundry contract to ensure that students have access to functonal and afordable laundry facilites.

is possible — including increasing the number of counselors on call and providing free, confidential teletherapy to all students via Uwill. However, a campus culture that defends against loneliness and encourages peer acceptance would hopefully reduce the number of students who end up needing that professional help.

First, the student body must embrace mental illness as an ongoing and common struggle. Mental health struggles are widespread and likely far more prevalent than you might think: Nearly half of students nationally have received counseling or therapy for mental health concerns in their lifetime. Despite this shared experience, the Healthy Minds Network found that 45% of students perceive a public stigma towards mental illness — believing that most people would think less of someone receiving mental health treatment. Contrary to that perception, only 6% of students report a personal stigma, admitting they would think less of students who seek mental health treatment. Combating this public stigma will require working towards mutual compassion facilitated by openly sharing experiences with mental health struggles and treatment.

Second, we must discourage hateful, targeting or discriminatory speech — especially the sensationalization of rumors. Fizz, an anonymous discussion app, illustrates this malady by reflecting attitudes and language in interpersonal relationships and conversations on campus. Though there is plenty of positive content shared on Fizz, the negative content is striking: fraternity rankings, judgments on sexual histories, polls on what’s considered attractive or unattractive, hateful and discriminatory posts about marginalized groups and targeted rumors — all of which contribute to feelings of isolation, loneliness and judgment from peers.

Cultivating a collective disdain for negative speech would strengthen social connectivity and, in turn, build a campus with stronger friendships and creator connectivity. A 2022 University of Virginia study found that college students who refrained from engaging in negative gossip were much more likely to have stronger friendships and greater connectivity to others compared with peers that did participate in the spread of such gossip. Discouraging the spread of harmful speech online and in real life would increase students’ feelings of connectivity to other students and the Dartmouth community — reducing stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Third, we must emphasize proactive over reactive support for other students. Following tragedies this academic year, professions of empathy and support soared on social media apps like Instagram and Fizz, with people posting their own stories or offering themselves up as a helping hand and ear. However, it only took a few days for the status quo of social stratification and derogatory comments to return to Fizz. If that peer support isn’t sustained, it may be considered fleeting or ingenuine — or simply be forgotten.

Accepting a degree of personal responsibility for the feelings of isolation and loneliness felt by your peers is daunting. It requires becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable feeling of curbing social behavior unconsciously reinforced by unhealthy social norms. Only once we address our own role in shaping Dartmouth’s culture — including social pressures and norms that favor stress, isolation and loneliness — can they change Dartmouth’s culture to one where students feel accepted and cared for by their peers.

Last month, The Dartmouth reported some of the challenges students face when trying to do laundry in their dorms. From dryers that require several cycles to dry, to washers that leak or don’t adequately wring out clothes, to machines that don’t work at all, the current laundry system sets students up to fail. When adding in the exorbitant cost that students incur when these machines don’t work properly — it is clear that the current laundry service provider, CSC ServiceWorks, is not able to keep up with student needs, at least in its current state.

As Dartmouth is currently in the eighth year of a 10-year contract with CSC ServiceWorks, it is vital that the College negotiate terms that address the issues students face while doing laundry.

Although faulty and unreliable washers and dryers may seem like a small inconvenience, it is one that can consume much of students’ free time and money. While it is reasonable to expect that students can allot two hours a week to do their laundry, faulty machines mean that a two-hour task may take several hours longer to complete. Laundry facilities are also communal — which means that if students aren’t available to switch their laundry or start another cycle, they risk their clothing being left in the laundry room soaking or damp or moved to the foor by other students. This can lead to a vicious cycle where, since clothing was left out wet, it must be washed again.

Additionally, these minor inconveniences are rather costly. If each wash and dry cycle costs $1.50 and students are having to wash and dry one load of laundry two or three times, they may spend upwards of $6 on a single load of laundry. Additionally, if students have several loads of laundry to do per week — which is often necessary to avoid overloading the small machines and causing them to break further — they may pay $10-15 per week on laundry. This payment, importantly, is not billed with a student’s tuition, where it might be covered by fnancial aid. Rather, most must pay with a credit or debit card. Although the expense appears small, for low-income students who have to work to provide for themselves — and in some cases also for their families — this extra expense means an additional, unavoidable fnancial burden.

The students who opt to pay for the laundry pick-up services such as E&R Laundry do not have to worry about the unreliability of the College’s laundry facilities. However, E&R services cost between $486.2 for the most basic plan and $953.71 for the premium package each year — making them a luxury few students could have.

This means that students who can aford to access these services never have to deal with the timeconsuming, aggravating process of trying to do laundry with broken and dilapidated machines. In short, the time burden that students spend waiting for their laundry to fnish its second or third cycle is endured primarily by students who are not extremely wealthy.

Although it is up to students to report issues with laundry machines to Residential Operations, a necessary service such as laundry should not be such a large problem that these struggles are a ubiquitous experience. In short, it is the College’s responsibility to ensure that their machines aren’t in such poor condition that they are so easily broken. We understand that improper use — such as using too much detergent or overloading the machines — can lead to some of these problems, but students would be less likely to do these things if the machines worked in the frst place. If each typical load of laundry would cost less than $6 and more laundry machines were available, students would be less likely to overfll the machines — consequently extending their lifespan. And at a certain point, if a problem is this widespread, the issue seems to be with the system itself.

That being said, we understand that some machines do break down from time to time. However, why else are we paying for laundry, except to cover the costs of the machines? Without addressing the poor quality and high price of doing laundry, the cost of these services only compounds the inconvenience of such issues. To this end, as the College negotiates their contract with CSC ServiceWorks, we urge them to ensure that free laundry — or at least laundry costs which are billed with tuition — is a part of this contract, as are working laundry machines. Many of Dartmouth’s peer institutions, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, have already implemented such policies and it is time that Dartmouth does the same.

Laundry is a necessary chore. However, it is unacceptable for students to be constantly dealing with broken and inefcient machines at a school like Dartmouth that touts the amount of resources it has. In short, the College must do more to ensure that the current inconveniences students face in doing something as simple and necessary as their laundry do not continue into perpetuity.

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Trends: The rom-com is coming back in a new way

BY EMMA COULTER

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on Feb. 13, 2023.

The romantic comedy, often dubbed rom-com, has been loved and hated by audiences in waves for decades. Proclaimed dead by many critics in the late 2000s following a slew of flms with poor critical and box ofce performance, the rom-com is a genre that is often disparaged for being formulaic and cheesy. However, beginning about fve years ago and especially following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rom-com has risen from the dead — and it looks slightly diferent.

Though their prominence has fuctuated, rom-coms have long been a staple in Hollywood. They date as far back as a 1934’s “It Happened One Night.” The romance comedy flm was so successful that it swept all fve major Academy Awards. This success of “It Happened One Night” led to a fux in the output of a myriad of similar screwball comedies, featuring stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

Many critics credit Nora Ephron’s 1989 “When Harry Met Sally” as the basis of the “neotraditional” rom-com that audiences know (and love?) today. The genre success of “When Harry Met Sally” was followed by smash 1990s hits such as “Pretty Woman” and “Sleepless in Seattle,” which earned $463.4 million and $227.8 million respectively.

Audiences were drawn to watching the chemistry between skilled actors as well as to the feel-good formula. The rom-com’s popularity came from its relatability, dealing with a fundamental aspect of the human experience: the desire to be loved. The worth of the genre itself is often minimized by those who dismiss rom-coms as cheesy “chick-ficks,” a label that is rooted in sexism. According to Vox editor Constance

Grady, rom-coms are “a genre that’s about delivering joy to the audience, and what is wrong with that?”

While the 2000s produced plenty of iconic rom-coms such as “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and “13 Going on 30,” by the latter end of the decade, the genre signifcantly declined. The movies became formulaic: very white and heteronormative. They began to shift priorities to other genres, and action, adventure or raunchy comedy movies with hints of romance became more popular with audiences than rom-coms. There was a huge increase in the polarization of releases between massive blockbusters and Oscar-favored flms. In the early 2010s,“ [rom-coms] were never going to make $1 billion worldwide, and critically, they were never going to get the awards applause that studios are hungry for… So there was a sense that they weren’t serving the purpose the studios needed them to,” according to author Scott Meslow.

A shift occurred around the summer of 2018. Netfix released a slew of romcoms that gained immense popularity and positive reviews. This included flms such as “Set it Up,” “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and “The Kissing Booth.” According to Variety, in October 2018 Netflix reported that over 80 million subscribers had watched its rom-coms.

Even in theaters, the August 2018 release of “Crazy Rich Asians” brought in $239 million — making it the sixth highest grossing rom-com of all time.

The resurgence of rom-coms has only increased in years since 2018. However, they have come back in a new and perhaps more enduring way. Gone are the days where all a rom-com needed for moderate success were two perfect-looking, Hollywood stars with a one-dimensional “will they, won’t they” plot. Audiences have come to crave authenticity — perhaps they always have.

This desire for authenticity can be proven by the highest grossing rom-com of all time, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” A

semi-autobiographical flm which tackles culture shock among families, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is successful because it provides a charming look into a quirky lifestyle.

Characters with depth and unique experiences and perspectives make rom-coms more relatable despite less generalization. Films such as “Crazy Rich Asians” (2018) — which notably features the frst predominantly Asian cast in a Hollywood movie since 1992 — or “Bros” (2022) — which follows two commitmentaverse gay men in Manhattan who are drawn together — ofered audiences fresh and endearing perspectives. This has paid of both at the box ofce and critically, with the flms earning 91 percent and 89 percent Rotten Tomatoes scores respectively.

Despite some occurrences of box ofce

success, the most striking evidence for the rebirth of the rom-coms lies on streaming platforms. Throughout and following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, audiences began to once again crave the uplifting stories rom-coms typically ofer. U.K. television psychologist Emma Kenny weighed in on this, saying, it is unlikely the rom-com viewer will feel sad or as if the characters did not get the happy ending they deserved. The comforting nature of rom-coms could be a reason for their resurgence, especially on streaming platforms like Netfix.

According to Nielsen ratings, Netfix original rom-com “Holidate” (2020) was viewed an impressive 654 million times within its frst week of release. Netfix has especially taken the lead in rom-com production. In 2022, 25 Netfix original

rom-coms were released. Compared to Netfix’s mere eight rom-com releases in 2019, this number indicates a clear trend in production. Netfix does not often release their viewership data, but this signifcant jump in output of rom-coms demonstrates that audiences are engaging in and enjoying the material.

Recent Netflix original rom-coms featuring diverse casts and stories such as “The Half of It” (2019), “Always Be My Maybe” (2019) and “Wedding Season” (2022) are bringing the genre to new places. There is no shortage of stories and perspectives surrounding love and relationships. If this willingness to incorporate fresh and diverse stories into the rom-com genre continues, rom-coms will surely grow and thrive for years to come.

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra to perform at Rollins Chapel

BY EMMA COULTER

The Dartmouth looking forward to the change in location, as Rollins will be a unique space to hear an ensemble.

On Thursday, Feb. 23, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will perform its annual winter concert at 8 p.m. in Rollins Chapel. Under the direction of Filippo Ciabatti, the DSO will be playing an all-string repertoire, including Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” and Shostakovich’s “Chamber Symphony Op. 110a.”

Due to the current renovation of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the winter term concert will look different than in previous years. Rather than playing Faulkner Hall, the DSO will be performing in the smaller, more intimate venue of Rollins. In order to compensate for the smaller space, the DSO is opening up the dress rehearsal performance to the public at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22. DSO will be performing its full repertoire as if it were a concert, and it promises to provide experience to the audience: the ability to observe the ensemble refine its performance.

Despite these changes, student manager Ida Claude ’22 said that student members of the DSO are excited to perform a collection of all-string pieces.

“Because we’re doing just these works for string orchestra we’re playing some really popular works,” Claude said. “Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ I think is actually a work that many people have heard before, even though they might not know it by name. It’s really beautiful.”

Concertmaster and student manager Teddy Glover ’25 highlighted the history behind Shostakovich’s unique piece, which he described as “haunting” but “beautiful.”.

“The last piece we’re playing is again another chamber symphony, by Dmitri Shostakovich, who is a 20th century Russian composer,” Glover said. “That one is not super pleasing to the ear, I would say. It’s jolting, it’s dedicated to the victims of fascism and war and it is in the dedication that Shostakovich wrote.”

DSO member Tyler Grubelich ’26 added that the concert will show off performers’ technical capabilities.

“We are playing a lot of slower sections that try to highlight everyone’s musicality and technique,” Grubelich said. “There are really exciting fast sections, but overall it is mainly to showcase the strings orchestra aspect.”

Grubelich said that he is also

“I am excited to be in Rollins Chapel because the acoustics in there are supposedly really good,” Grubelich said. “And so our sound will be amplified very well and that’ll make us sound very beautiful, and I’m excited to play in it.”

The limited size of the venue and orchestra also means that the number of professional performers that the DSO managers usually bring in to accompany students has decreased.

“This term it’s only gonna be strings, and we have a couple of student woodwind, brass and percussion players but usually we hire a ton of professionals to come from Boston and New York,” Claude said.

“Because we are playing these reduced ensembles, just strings pieces, we’re not hiring as many players, so it’ll just be a little bit of a smaller group — and a different sound.”

Claude added that there will still be a handful of hired professionals, allowing student members to collaborate with a professional musician.

“Your stand partner will be a professional,” Claude said. “So it’s really cool because you’re sort of learning from them and you can talk to them about their career. You sort of get to know them throughout that week of intense rehearsals. So we’ll still have that part of it which is cool.”

Grubelich and Glover also noted that there would be a reduced number of professionals. Glover described the performance as “a little more Dartmouth.”

“Last term it was kind of building up to the final week of rehearsals when we would bring in all of the professionals,” Grubelich said. “This time we have a greater responsibility because we don’t have many professionals; we have to carry it ourselves.”

Apart from these changes, members of the DSO said that they are excited to share their passion for music with each other and with the audience.

“Definitely the most special thing about the DSO is the people and our sense of community,” Claude said, who has been in the DSO since her freshman fall in 2018. “We have a bunch of social events and I think that it’s a really strong group of people who really love music and really like playing with each other and getting to know each other.”

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SPORTS

e Look Ahead: Week 8

BY CAROLINE YORK The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, Feb. 17

The ski team will travel to Woodford, Vermont to take on Williams College for the frst day of the Williams Carnival. The team is hoping to carry on its momentum after placing frst in the Harvard Carnival last week — the Big Green’s frst Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association carnival win in almost four years.

Women’s swimming and diving (1-9) will compete in day three of the Ivy League Championship at Princeton University. The frst competition will begin at 11 a.m., with events concluding at 6 p.m. The Big Green fnished the frst day of races in eighth place with 88 points.

Women’s squash (7-8) will conclude its season this weekend. The Big Green will take on Amherst College (12-5) in the Women’s Team Championships in Philadelphia, beginning at 12:30 p.m. The team enters the tournament ranked 10th in the Collegiate Squash Association.

Starting at 6 p.m., men’s basketball (915) will travel to Ithaca to compete against Cornell University (15-8). The two sides hold matching 5-5 conference records, making this game pivotal for the Big Green’s Ivy tournament hopes — kept alive by last week’s win against Princeton University.

Women’s basketball (2-22) will also take on the Big Red (9-14) at home in Leede Arena at 6 p.m.

Men’s tennis (6-1) will compete against Columbia University (3-1) in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Championship at Boss Indoor Tennis Center at 6 p.m. The team is looking to bounce back from its frst loss in its most recent match, a 2-5 afair against Indiana University.

Women’s hockey (7-20-0) will travel to face Ivy League opponent Yale University (24-2-1) in New Haven starting at 6 p.m. The team is looking to break its four-game losing streak. The two teams last met on Oct. 29, a game that the Bulldogs won 4-1.

Men’s hockey (4-20-1) will host Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (12-17-1) in Thompson Arena beginning at 7 p.m., hoping to snap a fve-game losing streak. RPI beat the Big Green in their last meeting on Nov. 12 by a score of 2-1.

Saturday, Feb. 18

Men’s tennis will continue the ECAC Indoor Championship, taking on Yale University (4-1) and the University of Pennsylvania (3-2).

The ski team will reconvene for day two

of the Williams Carnival.

Women’s and men’s track will both compete in the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Indiana at Notre Dame University. The frst event of the day will be the men’s and women’s 5000 meter run at 10:15 a.m., and the last will be the 4x400 meter relay for both the women and men.

Women’s squash will continue with the second day of the Women’s Team Championships.

Women’s swim will continue with day four of the Ivy League Championship.

Men’s lacrosse will take on Merrimack College on the road in North Andover, Massachusetts, for its season opener, starting at 1 p.m. Last year, Merrimack beat Dartmouth 8-6. In the 2023 season, the Big Green will be looking for its frst Ivy League win since 2015.

Women’s lacrosse will play the University of New Hampshire at home at 1 p.m. to kick of its season. Last season, the Big Green beat UNH 11-3 in the season opener on the road.

Women’s hockey will play Brown University (8-18-1) on the road beginning at 3 p.m. in Meehan Auditorium in Providence. At 4 p.m., women’s basketball will take on Columbia University (19-4) in Leede Arena. The Lions, the top-seeded team in the Ivy League, will provide a big test for the Big Green — which is still seeking its frst conference win.

Men’s basketball will also take on the Lions (6-19) in a 7 p.m. tilt on the road in Levien Gymnasium in New York. The last time the two teams played this season, the Big Green took the win at home on the back of a historic scoring performance from Dame Adelekun ’23.

Men’s hockey will host Union College (13-15-2) in Thompson Arena starting at 5 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 19

Men’s tennis will play in day three of the ECAC Indoor Championship with the start time still to be determined.

Women’s squash will fnish the last day of the Women’s Team Championships.

Wednesday, Feb. 22

Men’s swimming and diving (2-7) will begin day one of the Ivy League Championship at Brown. The team is looking to improve on last year’s eighth place fnish at the championship.

Thursday, Feb. 23

Men’s swimming and diving will continue at the Ivy League Championship.

Men’s basketball takes down top-ranked Princeton

BY WILL DEHMEL

This article was originally published on Feb. 13, 2023.

When you’re up by two on the conference leader, at home, with less than two minutes remaining, silence isn’t something you expect. On Friday night, though, visitors of Leede Arena heard just that. Up 73-71 against Princeton University, Dame Adelukun’s ’23 free throw bounced of the back of the rim, then the front of the rim, then, for good measure, of the side of the rim. Oh, and then it went in.

“I think it hit the rim nine times,” head coach David McLaughlin joked after the game, articulating what every viewer was thinking.

Dartmouth went on to bury its next fve free throws — bringing its total on the day to an impressive 18 of 19 — to go up eight points, eliminating the fear that the Tiger curse would strike again, as it did earlier in the season. In the end, Dartmouth pulled out an 83-76 victory to advance to 5-5 in Ivy League play. The Tigers, formerly alone at number one, now share that spot with Yale University at 7-3 after Saturday’s loss. Just three weeks ago, Dartmouth had been up four on Princeton with even less time remaining, but a series of three turnovers within 19 seconds cut the Big Green lead and led to a devastating overtime loss. This time, the team held on.

“It’s experience,” McLaughlin said. “You have to take care of the basketball at the end, and we did a good job.”

But that doesn’t mean the Big Green was perfect. In fact, seven of Princeton’s 10 steals came in the last nine and a half minutes of the contest, four of them on Ryan Cornish ’25. Princeton adopted a 1-31 zone defense late in the game, applying pressure to the young guard.

“They did a really good job in that defense,” Cornish said. “They made it aggressive where sometimes if you’re

dribbling at them, they’ll both trap you or they would kind of play with you, make you pick it up and then they would space out.”

Still, the Big Green prevailed, and it marked a welcome return to winning after a tough weekend where the team lost to both Brown University and Yale at home.

“So on Monday we said, ‘Okay, this is who we are, this is how we played — that’s not a version of what we want to be,’” McLaughlin said. “This is what we need to do to have a great week.”

Dartmouth started of hot, hitting two three-pointers en route to a 10-0 scoring run.

“We knew we had to make a run to stay in the game,” Adelekun said. “We knew Princeton is the type of team that knows how to fnish of teams. We knew we couldn’t wait for it to happen — we knew we had to take it ourselves.”

But after that, the Big Green briefy faltered, watching Princeton spark a 13-2 run to go up by one. It didn’t help that Ryan Langborg, Princeton’s senior guard, was heating up from beyond the arc, making his frst three treys.

A Princeton shooting drought, however, let Dartmouth regain a fve-point lead, but the Tigers played strong on ofense in the fnal 6:13, scoring 19 points to go ahead 40-35 at intermission.

Although Princeton would convert the frst feld goal of the second half, Dartmouth then went on a 12-0 run to go up 47-42.

In the next seven minutes, the Tigers would score just eight more points; meanwhile, the Big Green scored 30, granting Dartmouth a 65-50 lead.

It was then that Princeton fully adopted its 1-3-1 defense, and sloppy turnovers and fouls threatened the Big Green lead, eventually allowing the Tigers to cut it to two. At its worst, the Big Green had four turnovers in 2 minutes and 37 seconds.

Although McLaughlin acknowledged the team needs to continue working on avoiding costly turnovers, he credited the Princeton defense.

“It’s loose pressure, and it allows the ball to see length and then on certain dribbles — or certain passing angles or when you pick up the ball — that’s when the pressure really comes,” McLaughlin said. “Princeton’s a very good team, they’re very well coached, and they showed us a diferent look defensively.”

The key to the Big Green victory was strong play by Adelekun, whose 30 minutes easily surpassed the 17 minutes he played in the Princeton game three weeks ago. A big part of that was avoiding foul trouble, as his fouling out right before overtime was costly in the last meeting of the teams.

“I was like ‘If I can get to the frst half with zero fouls, I’m good for the rest of

the game,’” Adelekun said. “I was able to just focus on doing me, going full speed, not trying to play tentative and just play as hard as I could.”

Adelekun ended up with 25 points, just above the 21 scored by Dusan Neskovic ’24, who has played phenomenally well in the last two matchups against the Tigers, putting up an efcient 24 points in the teams’ previous meeting. The third leading scorer was Romeo Myrhtil ’25, who played for 29 minutes and put up 12 points despite entering the game averaging just 16 minutes.

“He’s been producing practice, and the staf said, ‘I think we need to give him a shot,’” McLaughlin said. “He played great

on both ends — he didn’t just make some threes and free throws, but he played great on both ends of the ball.”

The strong defense of Myrthil and the rest of the Big Green team held Princeton to its second-poorest shooting performance of the season, which will be important when Dartmouth takes on Cornell University’s ofense on Friday, which leads the league in scoring at 84 points per game.

With four games remaining, Dartmouth stands tied with Cornell for ffth in the Ivy League, just outside of the Ivy League tournament picture. A strong fnish to the season could vault men’s basketball into the Ivy tournament — and a chance at a March Madness bid.

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Big Green’s 15-point second-half lead, grabbed afer a 30-8

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Men’s basketball plays crucial games on the road against Cornell and Columbia, women’s and men’s lacrosse kick of their seasons and men’s tennis and women’s squash play championship games.

Where in the World were the ’24s?

By Halle Troadec STORY

This story was originally published on Feb. 15, 2023.

There’s snow on the ground, ’26s in your classes and the brothers on door at your favorite frat don’t know who you are. The experience of a ’24 coming back to Dartmouth after being gone in the fall is a somewhat unique one, as historically — before recent changes to D-Plan rules — the majority of juniors have taken their of-term during the winter of their junior year. This past fall, many ’24s took on internships, whether in their hometown or a diferent city, living at home with their families or in apartments. Others went abroad, as was the case with Blake Rouzie ’24, a history major who spent his fall term

on the history foreign study program in London. Rouzie said the highlight was all of the other traveling he was able to do outside of his program.

“I think it was good to get away from Dartmouth’s culture for a bit and experience something diferent,” Rouzie said.

Rouzie said that he found his term at University College London to be easier academically than a term at Dartmouth, which gave him more free time to take advantage of all of the things there were to do in London.

Living on his own also forced Rouzie to learn how to take care of himself in a way he never had to do before, such as learning to cook his own meals and regulate his own schedule. He said that

while he’s happy to be back at Dartmouth, it also comes with a loss of freedom.

“Coming back… you lose a lot of that free time that you would have to explore, hang out and check out new places,” Rouzie said.

He’s not the only ’24 to feel this way.

Rujuta Pandit ’24 spent her fall term in Washington, D.C. completing an internship with the White House Council and said her sense of agency has changed now that she’s back on campus.

“It was really valuable to have to remove myself from a comfortable situation, live in a city and be more independent,” Pandit said. “But that independence is limited now because Dartmouth is so structured. Your day is pretty scheduled out between clubs, classes and other extracurriculars.”

Pandit utilized the free time she had on her of-term to not only explore her academic interests and prepare herself for a career in the feld that she hopes to pursue after graduation, but also to learn more about herself.

“It defnitely allowed me to slow down and focus on myself for a little bit. I was reading a lot, which I’m barely able to do during the term,” she said.

Pandit noted that the ability to slow down while on campus is harder to fnd. .

“When I was on my of-term, I would have a dedicated hour to myself,” Pandit said. “Now, it’s no longer an hour — it’s fve to ten minutes.”

Given the pace of Dartmouth’s quarter system, being able to set aside fve to ten minutes is an accomplishment. As a ’24 who was of in the fall myself, one of the biggest diferences I noticed coming back has been the loss of having consistent down time all to myself. While the experience of completing an internship during an ofterm helped me learn how to comfortably live independently, it’d be remiss not to acknowledge the challenge of maintaining the same level of independence while back at Dartmouth.

For Pandit, implementing moments of solitude similar to those she had while on her of-term has been a priority. In many ways, it’s been as simple as learning to be comfortable with saying no to certain social activities, or choosing to eat a meal alone as opposed to with friends or acquaintances. This may, however, have more to do with simply being an upperclassmen than the independence gained during an of-term.

Afton Morton ’24 said she found her fall to be benefcial in helping her get over the fear of missing out, which she typically struggles with on campus. Morton spent her of-term working at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Although close to Hanover, she felt that the Lodge’s distance from campus was enough for her to worry less about all that was happening

From South Fay to Wedding Day

By Chris Scanlon STORY

This story was originally published on Feb. 15, 2023.

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day — a celebration that, every year, the cynics disparage and hopeful romantics await with anticipation. For some students, the commercialized expectations of the day echo hollowly, reinforcing the seeming absence of romance at Dartmouth. Yet, despite their often innocuous arrivals, lifelong relationships spark on our campus in the most feeting moments.

To spotlight this sometimes farawayfeeling truth, I decided to interview three former students who found their eventual spouse here in the woods. Because as Hugh Grant said in the opening of “Love Actually” — and as is true on a campus even as small as Dartmouth — “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll fnd that love actually is all around.”

Carolyn Anctil Med’92, on meeting her husband Ken Libre Med’94

CA: I did try to, you know, stalk my husband a little bit. I saw this really cute guy playing a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, and I kept running into him. And I was thinking, “Oh, I wonder if that guy is an undergrad?

I wonder if he is a grad student?”

I remember walking out of the medical school’s library, and I had fallen of my mountain bike horribly. I had road rash all over me and I was limping. And there’s the guy — Oh my god! There’s the guy that I think is so cute, that I see playing frisbee and who I watch around campus. He stops, and I stop, and we both say “Hi!”

He asks, “Oh, what happened to you?”

My husband has a really profound stutter, so I thought he was stuttering because he thought I was really cute. It was not the case. But we talked for a while, and about two weeks later, we essentially were inseparable.

In med school, particularly before the internet and everything, you had to choose what you were going to specialize in and where you were going to match in January — and Ken and I met in October. I really wanted to go to one of the best emergency medicine programs in the country, and none of them were in New England.

So I said to Ken, “Hey, I could spend another year here, or I could match where I want to match, but I guess I would want a commitment from you. Do you want to get married?”

And he’s like, “Oh, my God! We just

met two months ago.” I said, “Yeah, but this is going to change my whole life. Do you want to get married or not?”

He responds, “No! I don’’t want to get married.” I was like, “Okay, fne. Great! This is terrible.”

Two years go by, and Ken is out in New Mexico with me. It’s now his time to make a career decision, so he asks me, “Do you want to get married?” And I was like, “No! We live together. Life is great. Why would we get married?” Why ruin anything, you know?

Another couple years go by. Finally, we wrote on the refrigerator: “If I ask you to marry me, we are going to ask each other every day for a month.” So we asked each other every day for a month, “Do you want to get married?” And we said “yes.”

That was 31 years ago.

Laurie Donaghu ’90, on meeting her husband Michael Donaghu ’89

LD: Michael was a year ahead of me on the cross country and track team, and I was coming in as a freshman and joining the cross country team. We met at a party at South Fayerweather freshman fall, before classes even started my freshman year, so I was actually still 17.

Dating is diferent now then it was then, probably, but we set a date that night to meet again. He introduced himself to me as a fellow cross country teammate — I had not met him before — and then we just chatted for a little bit. Then he said, “Hey, have you seen the weight room yet? I could show it to you.” It sounds really forward now, but it didn’t feel like that.

This is going to sound so weird, and I will tell you, it is absolutely true. I knew that frst night I met him at South Fayerweather that I would marry him. I don’t know that he knew, but I did. It was just that thing.

I was with another friend of mine, a guy who had been on my freshman trip, and he was there when Michael walked up and introduced himself to me. I was walking home from the party with this friend of mine, and he said, “You want to marry him, don’t you?”

“Oh, my gosh!” I thought in my head, “How does he know?” But then I said, “No, no, no.” But I was wondering, “Shoot, how does he know?!”

We didn’t have a breakup at all. He graduated a year before me, and he moved to the West Coast to start his job at Nike, where he still is. We were apart that year but not dating other people.

Then after my senior year, I moved out to Portland, Oregon and joined him. I graduated in June of ’90, and we got engaged in January of ’91. We went out to dinner, the ring came out on my dessert plate and he asked me.

We’ve been married 30 years, almost 31.

Alice Rudd ’86, on meeting her husband Brooks Elder ’86

AR: I met Brooks on the steps of MidMass Hall freshman fall. A classmate, Russell Aney ’86, was standing down the street, and I was going into the dorm, and he called, “Hey, Alice!” I turned, and he said “Meet Brooks!”

I was like, “Hi, Brooks!” Then fade out, fade in, I saw him later.

We had hung out a bit together, and he was very cute, very cool and had a single in Butterfeld, so I’m spending a lot of time over there. He was a babe, and he started ski jumping — he’d never ski jumped before — but put a cute guy in a ski jumping outft, and you’re done. We went on a date to Lou’s. That was Dec. 3, so we celebrate every year, Dec. 3, 1982, as an anniversary. We had a great time at Dartmouth, great friends, and then after college we traveled

at Dartmouth than she does during an average term.

“This fall I was a lot less nervous about missing out on anything… I was really happy with where I was at,” Morton said.

All of the ’24s I spoke to were excited to come back. While of-terms and study abroad programs can be an incredibly rewarding part of being a Dartmouth student, at the end of the day, Hanover feels like home for the majority of students at this stage in their college experience.

“I no longer feel like I need to meet a bunch of new people and fnd my place,” Pandit said. “I know who my friends are; I know where at Dartmouth I ft.”

But returning to campus after being away for an entire term also comes with its difculties. For many ’24s, this winter has marked their frst time in Hanover since sophomore summer, a term that can make you feel like you know everyone on campus.

“Coming from sophomore summer and not recognizing a single face has been really weird,” said Morton.

This winter is also our frst term with the ’26s, a whole new class of students that we haven’t yet met. It’s somewhat jarring on a campus where you’re used to knowing everyone’s faces.

“You don’t expect to feel like you’re in a big city when you come back to Dartmouth,” said Pandit.

There are, however, upsides that come with feeling like you no longer recognize everyone on campus. Dartmouth’s small size makes it challenging to maintain any element of anonymity — . it can be refreshing to feel like not every face is familiar, and the prospect of potential new friends is exciting.

“I’m very eager to meet people, especially the ’25s that rushed my sorority,” Morton said. “It’s very disorienting, but also kind of exciting. It’s almost like I’m a new student again, except I’m a lot more mature this time.”

together. We went rock climbing for fve and a half months throughout the country from ’86 to ’87. I joke that we lived out of the back of a 1984 Ford F-150 — that truck was our frst home. We traveled to fve or six states climbing and stuf. We’ve been breathing each other’s air ever since.

During sophomore summer, we were doing this big bike loop — it was a classic, gorgeous sophomore summer day — and it was blissful. I said, “You know, one day, we’re going to live in this state, in the state of Vermont.”

So by hook or crook — and as I said, we were probably young enough and dumb enough and had nothing to lose — in ’93, we moved to Burlington.

Laurel Richie ’81, who used to be the chair of the College’s Board of Trustees, came up with some defning descriptions of what Dartmouth is. She said that Dartmouth is the “base camp to the world.”

Dartmouth and my experience there, it’s our base camp. Every time we get to campus, my blood pressure drops — I feel at home, I always feel so welcome. There is no other school that has that, where the minute you set foot on campus, you feel like you’re home again, and even though with the D-Plan people are coming and going, you really feel connected to a sense

of place. I think that really permeates my relationship with Brooks, in that we feel like this experience at Dartmouth is so in our DNA together that it’s been the backdrop of our relationship. Dartmouth really is supportive, not just your four years that you’re there but for your entire life.

We say it’s either the greatest love story of all time, or we are the only two losers in the world that can stand each other. Either one.

Takeaways

Love — as extraordinary as 30 years of marriage and as ordinary as a reunion between friends — pervades our community, even after Valentine’s Day passes. So enjoy the little moments: the evenings, the still winter nights, the snow and the cold. Savor the quiet and appreciate Dartmouth for what it is. Or maybe, put your fear aside and just say “Hi.”

Because as banal as it might sound, each of these couples is living proof that we might be one more introduction away from love.

Interviews have been edited for clarity and length.

LAUREN LIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF