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Vasudha Thakur ’23 remembered for radiance and intelligence

particularly passionate about studying economics and agriculture, defending women’s rights and ending caste-based discrimination, Arora added.

Thakur’s friend and fellow geography major Sheen Kim ’23 wrote in an email statement that Thakur had a “striking presence” and an “absolutely bold, wicked sense of humor.”

“She reminded me how to be bold — or how to commit to the bit, in other words,” Kim wrote. “There’’s not many like that.”

To friend and roommate Mark Gitau ’23, Thakur was “kind and thoughtful.” Gitau said that he doesn’t “smile that much naturally,” but Thakur would notice when things were of with him, even though others often are notable to do so.

“People tend to think that I just have this resting face,” Gitau said. “She used to be able to tell the diference between my [resting] face, or when I’m actually not okay.”

BY Isabelle Han

Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on April 13, 2023.

Described by those close to her as kind, intelligent, passionate and genuine, Vasudha Thakur ’23 brought light to everyone around her.

“It was sort of like a breath of fresh air meeting [Vasudha] – As soon as we met, I knew that we would be close friends,” friend and classmate Saksham Arora ’23 said. “She [was] very intelligent and very positive.”

Arora said he and Vasudha Thakur ’23, both from New Delhi, India, met each other at a gathering of Indian students. Arora said that he instantly recognized Thakur as an “extremely radiant” person whose laughter was “contagious.”

Thakur, an economics and geography double major at Dartmouth, passed away on March 25 at age 21, according to an email sent by Dean of the College Scott Brown. The Dartmouth has not confrmed her cause of death at this time.

Thakur attended Sanskriti School in New Delhi and is survived by her two parents and her younger sister, Arora said.

At Dartmouth, Thakur was involved in a number of on-campus activities, Arora explained. She conducted research with Economics Professor Steve Mello during her junior year — studying the efects of wage increases on recidivism — and was involved with the International Students Association and the Film Club. Thakur also volunteered as an orientation leader for South Asian international students, helping them adjust to college. She was

According to Arora, Thakur hoped to follow in her parents’ footsteps as an Indian civil servant and was planning to return to India to take the civil service exam, Aora said.

“She wanted to use what she had to … improve people’s lives, ” Arora said.

Gitau said he met Thakur freshman year when they took COSC 01: “Introduction to Programming & Computation” together. The two “maintained their friendship” after the class ended and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They often went stargazing, watched movies and did art together, he added.

“She was in India for most of the time during COVID, and I was in Kenya,” Gitau said. “We didn’t really talk for a year, but when we came back to campus it was just like nothing had changed.”

Gitau said that Thakur had a very “grounding presence” in his life, and that she was someone he could turn to

Signs point to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s re-recognition by national organization

BY Lauren Azrin The Dartmouth Staff

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at Dartmouth, formerly known as Scarlett Hall, is now listed on SAE’s national organization website after it was derecognized nearly seven years ago. According to internet archives, the chapter was not listed on the national chapter list in September 2022 and appeared on the website by February 2023.

A member of Dartmouth’s SAE chapter, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about his experiences, stated that SAE’s national organization re-recognized the local chapter in October 2022. The organization remains unrecognized by and unafliated with the College, assistant director of Greek Life Josh Gamse wrote in an email statement.

The fraternity was initially derecognized by SAE’s national organization in January 2016 due to health and safety violations — following an investigation into a hazing complaint — as well as a failure to comply with national standards, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth. The fraternity was subsequently derecognized by the College due to its national suspension in February 2016.

According to the anonymous member of SAE, the fraternity attempted to obtain re-recognition for at least a year before achieving success. He said the fraternity proposed to national representatives a “detailed plan” for future operations before signing formal re-recognition paperwork in October.

“National just wanted to be very cautious and sure that we were ready to be re-recognized,” the brother said. “They take [hazing] very seriously, since it’s banned at all chapters.”

The member added that early in spring term, several SAE national executives spent the weekend in Hanover for “ceremonial” events, such as banquets and

presentations on promised expectations between Dartmouth’s chapter and the national organization.

According to the member, the chapter is “not even close” to re-recognition by the College. He said the group’s unrecognized status may stem from past hazing rumors, as well as an ongoing legal battle with the College.

The fraternity has been the subject of a civil land use appeal since 2016, when the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment ruled that the fraternity could no longer reside in its College Street property after its derecognition, according to the Valley News. Hanover Planning, Building and Codes director Robert Houseman stated that the town’s decision stemmed from SAE’s location on land zoned for institutional use, explaining that the fraternity was no longer connected to its institution — the College.

According to the Valley News, the fraternity’s lawyers argued that SAE itself should be regarded as an institution. Houseman said the appeal reached the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which found issue with one of the town’s decisions — what qualifes as “institutional” use. The appeal then went back to the town, who upheld the decision and sent the case back to court, where it stands now.

“Our defnition of an ‘institution’ in our zoning specifes exactly what an institution is, and the board found that [SAE] did not meet that criteria,” Houseman said. “And they’re appealing that.”

The SAE member said there remained “a lot of work” that needs to be done between the fraternity’s executives and the College before a potential re-recognition.

He added that SAE’s members decided to pursue national re-recognition so that its achievements — as well as any positive impact the fraternity has on the Hanover

BY Charlotte Hampton The Dartmouth Staff

“[Ife] knew how to bring people together,” Subomi Gbotosho’s Th’23 said at the funeral service for Ifeoluwa Adeleye Th’23 on March 10.

“They say no one is perfect, but she was perfect to me. She was special, and always will be,” Gbotosho ––friend, classmate and former partner of Adeleye –– said. “Her friends describe her as affectionate, selfless, kind, motherly. To me, she was my best friend.”

Adeleye, who came to Dartmouth from Lagos, Nigeria, died on March 1 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center after a stroke two weeks earlier, according to friend and classmate Serena Yombe Th’23. While Adeleye remained in the hospital, her friends asked doctors to continue her life support until her family from Nigeria could arrive in Hanover to say goodbye, Yombe said.

The Thayer community “came together” in response to Adeleye’s death, according to Geoffrey Parker, executive director of the Thayer Master of Engineering Management program. Although Adeleye lost responsiveness after her stroke, students sat vigil by her hospital bed.

“I don’t think [Subomi] left that hospital in over a week,” Parker said. “[Adeleye’s friends] … would leave for hours at a time, not days.”

Yombe described Adeleye as a fiercely thoughtful friend.

“Once you got close to her, she really understood you as a person,” Yombe said. “When I wasn’t feeling okay, she would notice that I was a little off compared to how I’ve been and was always the first person to ask, ‘Serena, I noticed something’s wrong. What’s going on?’”

Nandita Nanda Th’23 also noted that Adeleye cared deeply for her friends.

“She was very observant,” Nanda said. “She could tell when something was bothering you, and then, at the same time, she would do anything to help.”

During the two weeks Adeleye remained unresponsive, Adeleye’s family held out hope that she might survive, Nanda said, adding that the family’s positivity gave her strength.

“Her family [was] so positive: ‘He will bring her back. God has a plan. God will bring her back. That girl, she will be back,’” Nanda explained. “It made us feel like anything could happen.”

The funeral service was meant to “bid [Adeleye] farewell in a joyful way,” Nanda said. The service involved singing songs and sharing memories about Adeleye by her family and friends.

“Ife was exceptionally brilliant,” Gbotosho said at the service. “She was able to understand really complex concepts very quickly. I recall moments in class when I [was] lost at what the professor was saying, and she’d be like, ‘Calm down, don’t worry.’ She would then proceed to explain it to me, no matter how long it took.”

Gbotosho added that Adelye talked about her plans to one day adopt six children, and she often spent time with the kids at her church, bringing games and snacks for them.

Thayer Master of Engineering Management co-director Jennifer St. Laurence said she felt the effects of Adeleye’s “glowing” energy. St. Laurence said she once bought Adeleye a plant after Adeleye made a nice comment about the flowers blooming in her office.

“I said, ‘I’m gonna get one for you,” St. Lawrence said. “She just had that effect on me. I don’t traditionally buy gifts for students. She was just very excited about it, very happy to receive it.”

She was “somebody who was full of life,” friend and classmate Smiti Thapar Th’23 said.

“[Adeleye] always had positivity to offer,” Thapar added. “Beautiful inside [and] out, and very, very welcoming.”

For Nanda, Adeleye’s legacy reminds her to make the most of each moment.

“I didn’t think much about time,” Nanda said. “You take things for granted, and you think everyone has unlimited time, that there’s always time to do everything … You don’t want to think that there won’t be a next time. But at the same time, this sort of thing gives you a perspective on if you [want] to say something, maybe do it soon.”

‘She was exceptionally brilliant’: Ifeoluwa Adeleye Th’23 remembered for kindness, intelligence

PHOTO COURTESY OF SAKSHAM ARORA

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Graduate students protest revised union voter list

teach [in the mathematics department] include Calculus 1, Calculus 3 and the introductory math courses,” Freeman said. “These courses are basic prerequisites or required classes for lots of undergraduate students. Most undergraduates would not be able to fulfll their course requirements without the grad students teaching those classes.”

Fifth-year Ph.D student Chris Callahan said that he does not know why his vote was deemed ineligible. Although Callahan said he has served as a teaching assistant for at least fve classes, supervised laboratory sessions and published four academic papers, he said Dartmouth “does not think [he does] work for the university.” Callahan’s lab partner, on the other hand, was allowed to vote, with little explanation from the College, Callahan said.

BY Julia Abbott

The Dartmouth

On Tuesday, graduate students, representatives from New Hampshire Voices of Faith — a local multifaith political action coalition — and undergraduate students gathered on the Green to support the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth before their union election on Tuesday and Wednesday. The rally came one week after the College submitted a revised labor list to the National Labor Relations Board which proposed the exclusion of 54% of graduate workers from voting, GOLD-UE wrote in a document published on their website.

According to the GOLD-UE document, students and other supporters gathered to protest the College’s attempt to “disenfranchise” its voters, calling the revised list a “blatant attempt to deny” graduate students a free and fair election. The document also called on voters initially deemed ineligible to boycott the polls.

“The senior leadership of the College, including Provost [David] Kotz and the Dean of the Guarini School [of Graduate and Advanced Studies] Jon Kull are cowards,” second-year Ph.D student Logan Mann said. “They’re well aware that they can’t win in a free and fair election, and instead they’re trying to change the list of eligible voters to try and prevent us from meeting them at the bargaining table for as long as possible.”

Ultimately, GOLD-UE won the election by a 89% margin, with 261 graduate students voting to unionize, the organization announced on Twitter on Thursday. The union required a simple majority to win, according to third-year Ph.D student and GOLD-UE organizer Rendi Rogers.

The College previously rejected GOLD-UE’s request to voluntarily unionize in February, telling GOLD-UE that unionization would require an election based on NLRB regulations. At the time, Kotz wrote that unionization would “slow down” communication between the College and graduate students. After the decision, GOLD-UE fled a petition and requested an election, Rogers said.

Although the NLRB rejected

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Dartmouth’s revised list, the College informed GOLD-UE and the NLRB that they would “challenge all ballots” from voters not on its own list. Before the election, GOLD-UE had also requested that no ballots be challenged, according to the organization’s press release. Ultimately, the College contested only 13 ballots, according to GOLD-UE’s Twitter announcement.

According to College spokesperson Diana Lawrence, the College revised its voter list in order to comply with the NLRB’s standards.

“Dartmouth initially submitted a voter list for the election based on the description of the [voter list] to which it had agreed with GOLD-UE,” Lawrence wrote in an email statement. “Following the NLRB regional director’s March 13 decision determining that MIT’s graduate fellows were not employees, Dartmouth submitted a revised list on April 4 in alignment with that decision.”

Lawrence wrote that the College sent a notice of election to all students on the original list and encouraged them to participate in the election, adding that “any challenges would be resolved separately through the NLRB’s established process” following the vote. She added that the College would “look forward” to engaging with the union if they won.

Graduate students said that Dartmouth revised the voter list because College administrators “do not believe that a majority of all [graduate] workers perform work” for the College, according to the GOLD-UE document.

“I think it’s a little insulting and disrespectful that Dartmouth has chosen to disenfranchise 54% of its student workers,” sixth-year Ph.D student Vivian Sabla said. “They say we’re not being paid to teach or work here, but that’s exactly what we’re here for. I’ve been here for six years, paid by Dartmouth to be here — to teach, to grade homeworks, to go to labs, to supervise students [and] to do research for them, and my vote is personally being challenged.”

Third-year Ph.D student David Freeman also emphasized the essential role of graduate students at the College, which he said often goes underappreciated.

“The courses that the graduate students

“We do not understand how they’ve made this decision because my labmate, who does the exact same work I do on a daily basis, can vote and I cannot vote,” he said.

According to past reporting by The Dartmouth, the graduate union aims to secure higher graduate student stipends, increased privileges for international students — such as visas for immediate family members — and subsidized child care. As of February, Ph.D. students received $35,196 in annual stipends and annual tuition scholarships equal to $80,916.

“GOLD is representative of what I need here and want here, which is a living wage, benefts that include dental insurance and eye insurance and efcient implementation of grad student needs,” Ph.D. student James Logan said. “I found out my vote is being challenged simply because of the method of payment to me. I [work as a teaching assistant] three quarters a year as part of my duties.”

Non-graduate students also showed up to support GOLD-UE at its protest.

“We stand in absolute rock solid solidarity with the graduate workers at Dartmouth,” reverend doctor and worker justice minister at the Meriden Congregational Church Gail Kinney said. “Dartmouth’s behavior is egregious and shocking, and the message that we want to convey to the Dartmouth administration is that the state of New Hampshire is watching. The faith community of New Hampshire is watching. What they’re doing is immoral and amoral, and we will be with the students for as long as it takes.”

Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth member Polly Chesnokova ’24 said they attended the rally to show solidarity with GOLD-UE. The SWCD, an undergraduate union-organizing group, unanimously voted to unionize one year ago, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth.

“We believe in what they stand for, we believe that all the workers should be recognized for all the work they do,” Chesnokova said. “As an undergraduate myself, I was able to experience how great and amazing graduate teaching assistants are.”

Thakur remembered for her sincerity, kindness

FROM THAKUR PAGE 1 for “a logical sounding board.”

So Amano ’23 said Thakur loved cooking – a hobby she developed after the pandemic. Thakur frequently asked her friends if they wanted anything, and she was always “really excited to make stuf.” Friend and classmate Catariona Farquharson ’23 said Thakur was extremely “sincere” and “kind.”

“I remember when she complimented a sweater I was wearing that I really liked,” Farquharson said. “Usually, I’d be like, ‘Oh, thank you so much,’ but she just said it in a way that I feel like

she really wanted to show me how cool she thought it was.”

Farquharson and Thakur met during their junior year through mutual friends. Eventually, Farquharson said she spent more and more time hanging out with Thakur’s friend group in her senior apartment.

“We would often sit down and have these debates within the apartment about random stuf every day,” she said. “I feel like Vasudha was always so interested in whatever we were talking about and really wanted to both hear our perspectives [and] also challenge us.”

Amano said he also enjoyed debating

BY Chaeyoon Ok The Dartmouth

William Menard, a former Dartmouth employee who was arrested on Feb. 20 for groping two women in West Lebanon, was released from Grafton County jail on March 28. According to Lebanon police chief Philip Roberts, Menard is now awaiting trial. Prior to his arrest, Menard was banned from campus on Jan. 25 after fve cases of unwanted sexual touching near Dartmouth, which were separate from the more recent assaults in West Lebanon.

Menard was charged with eight counts of “misdemeanor sexual assault” for the incidents in West Lebanon, and one of his crimes has been referred to the Grafton County attorney’s ofce to be prosecuted at a felony level, Roberts added. Currently, Menard is under home confnement and “heavy surveillance,” which includes wearing an ankle monitoring device, according to Roberts. Menard allegedly attacked an unnamed frst victim in the parking lot of a West Lebanon Walmart and then assaulted Emma Wardwell, another shopper, in the parking lot of a nearby Target, according to the Valley News. Roberts said the intervention of two witnesses was key to identifying the suspect.

“We owe the two young bystanders who witnessed the whole thing from their car and tried to track Menard down,” said Roberts. “They were able to provide us with Menard’s license plate number by following the vehicle at a crucial moment, when our attention was divided by the fact that both of these incidents had occurred very close to one another.”

their pants.

Following the fve attacks on Dartmouth students in January, Menard was charged with a single “misdemeanor count of simple assault” and was released on “personal recognizance bail,” according to Hanover Police detective sergeant Nicholas McNutt. This kind of bail requires a written promise that the perpetrator will not violate the agreements in their bail contract and doesn’t require the perpetrator to pay, McNutt said.

Menard spent no time in jail as a result of the Dartmouth attacks, but McNutt said that this entitlement was “conditional.” The logistics of enforcing Menard’s ban from campus remained the sole prerogative of the College, according to McNutt.

“That doesn’t mean [Hanover police] can’t be of service,” clarifed McNutt, “[We can] work collaboratively, as we have in the past … even if [the College] has the fnal say.”

In addition to the sanctions imposed on Menard after the West Lebanon attacks, McNutt said the College should consider “extra precautions” but admitted that “coming up with a sure plan that can predict and prevent [such acts] from happening is difcult.”

“How they want to enforce [Menard’s ban from campus] is not up to Hanover police, that’s up to Dartmouth College itself,” he said.“As far as safety on campus is concerned, we can coordinate, but ultimately, Dartmouth’s Safety and Security should always have their guard up.”

The director of the Department of Safety and Security, Keiselim Montás, said that Menard would be arrested if he violated the ban.

with Thakur.

“She was very confdent in the way she thinks and what she believed in,” he said. “What was unique was that even though she would never change her opinion fundamentally, we could fnd a common point. Talking to her was like a safe space – not in that she would agree with everything you would say, but [when] she would disagree with you, it would be fair.”

Farquharson added that Thakur brought a “light” to everything she did.

“I think the best way to pay respect is to just keep talking about all the good times we had together,” Farquharson said.

Crimes like Menard’s are “very rare” in the Lebanon and Hanover areas, with only about one or two occurring annually, according to Roberts. He added that it is especially difcult to predict crimes when the defendant’s motives are “unclear psychologically” and when the victims are chosen “seemingly at random with no prior connection [to the defendant].”

According to Roberts, the most “concerning” element of Menard’s criminal behavior was the “marked escalation.” Unlike the incidents at Dartmouth — when Menard grabbed the backsides of victims — in West Lebanon, he put his hands beneath the womens’ clothing, in the front of

“All of DoSS staf are aware and alert, and if that individual were to come onto Dartmouth property, he would be arrested,” Montás wrote.“As always, our greatest ally is our community members who report things to us without delay.”

Enforcing Menard’s ban from campus will rely on the Dartmouth community looking out for him, McNutt said.

“As far as the Hanover Police, we’re always out [patrolling],” McNutt said. “There are certain limits, though, to how we can operate, where we can go. As cliché as it sounds, if people in the public see something that seems out of place, then say something, say something, say something.”

Students express mixed reactions to SAE’s national rerecognition

community — could be acknowledged beyond the College’s campus.

Although the College did not derecognize SAE until 2016, discourse surrounding the fraternity’s hazing — which has since been banned by the national organization — came to light in 2012, after Andrew Lohse ’12 exposed the fraternity in The Dartmouth. Lohse’s column sparked a widely circulated Rolling Stone article, “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses,” that further discussed Lohse’s experience with hazing in SAE, as well as the College’s Greek system at large. In 2014, Lohse published “Confessions of

an Ivy League Frat Boy: A Memoir” — a book that further outlined the soon-to-be derecognized fraternity’s culture.

Despite his experiences, Lohse said he is not surprised that SAE’s national organization is re-recognizing Dartmouth’s chapter.

“This is sort of just what happens — there’s a long history of that,” Lohse said. “Obviously SAE has a rich tradition of some scandal and intrigue, but then again, I would say probably that every house does in its own varying way, and it’s often just a matter of time before the re-recognition happens.”

Lohse attributed the College’s refusal to re-recognize SAE to the fraternity being a “unique case” of public interest, as the

house garnered signifcant publicity after the Rolling Stone article was published.

“I did a lot of research back in the day,” Lohse said. “It usually seems like [derecognized fraternities] come back.

FROM SAE PAGE 1 not harm each other [and] not harm themselves?” Lohse asked. “There may be a possibility that the idea of fraternities, if practiced in a way that doesn’t harm people and doesn’t commit crimes, can be a good thing and, in fact, the necessary thing against the creeping social contagion of insanity in America.”

[But] we live in such a unique cultural moment. It’s quite diferent from when I was a student. On a broader cultural level, we’re in a much more touchy and high [publicity] kind of ‘woke’ moment.”

Lohse said he believes that Dartmouth and the world at large have evolved to have “bigger” problems, adding that fraternities may take on a new role going forward.

“Would it be possible that fraternities can exist and not harm people — not harm women, not harm minorities,

Students expressed mixed reactions to SAE’s national re-recognition.

Ann Tran ’25, executive director of the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said she thinks the decision could give the chapter an opportunity to improve chapter culture.

“This is an opportunity for SAE to afect their culture in a meaningful way,” she said. “I don’t think that the house

itself should be defned by its past. They can use their past to learn, do better and improve their chapter to create a better and safer culture.”

Quinn Allred ’26, who has started to consider rushing a fraternity next fall, said that rumors of SAE’s past connections with sexual assault have led him to not consider the house in his recruitment process.

“I’m sure they’re saying things like, ‘Oh, we’ve learned,’ or whatever,” Allred said. “I honestly just don’t want that association.”

SAE president Perry Zhang ’24, along with several other SAE members, declined to comment. SAE’s national organization also declined to comment.

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Goebel: One Way or Another, Union Yes

Dartmouth’s union busting campaign reveals its total disregard for graduate student needs.

This column was originally published on April 10, 2023

Graduate student-workers at Dartmouth formed the Graduate Organized Laborers of DartmouthUnited Electrical Workers — GOLD-UE — out of a dire need to improve our quality of life. I joined the GOLD-UE Organizing Committee in April 2022 because I personally felt this obvious need. Though I’m fortunate to be advancing in my career, my living conditions have only worsened over the past four years. I’ve had to remain in the same apartment because fnding better, more afordable places to live is nearly impossible. At the same time, my rent has increased by $300 per month, while my pay has not kept pace. Without reliable public transportation from where I live in Vermont, I’ve had no choice but to take on credit card debt to cover essential — and expensive — maintenance when my car’s brakes failed and wheel bearings needed urgent replacement. I’ve only visited the dentist twice in the past four years because Dartmouth ofers us no dental coverage. I consider myself lucky to have avoided further crippling medical debt because Dartmouth doesn’t provide us adequate health insurance coverage. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that Dartmouth’s graduate students need a union. Only since the formation of GOLD-UE has Dartmouth started to take our pleas for a cost of living adjustment and other necessary changes seriously.

It may surprise some in the Upper Valley community, but graduate students at one of the country’s most prestigious collegiate institutions are not okay. We live paycheck-to-paycheck, sufer disproportionately in cases of illness due to unafordable medical expenses, and are subject to exploitation by advisors who hold outsized infuence over our careers. Furthermore, international students in all programs struggle to navigate processes like relocation and fling taxes without support. Thankfully, we no longer sufer in silence and solitude. Instead, we lean on each other when times get tough and fght for each other in the face of injustice.

We, as GOLD-UE, have built a strong community committed to advocating for each other’s needs. We demonstrated our capacity for mutual aid in tough times when students living in the Summit on Juniper apartments lost central heating for months, including during the single-digits cold snap in early February. GOLD-UE called for donations of space heaters and found volunteers to open their homes to those needing emergency shelter. The outpouring of volunteering and aid in those frigid times demonstrated that we care for each other in a way that the College simply doesn’t. We respond with immediate support when members of our community have unmet needs. By listening to each other, we developed a platform of four foundational needs: a living wage, better benefts, safety in our workplace and fairness for international students. As a result, a majority of graduate workers have now pledged to vote in favor of our union because we believe that unionizing is the most efective way for us to guarantee these things for all current and future graduate student-workers.

The College disagrees. Because it knows it has already lost the fght on our union’s merits, it has resorted to sleazy legal maneuvers to try and delay meeting us at the bargaining table. On April 3, Dartmouth notifed us that they consider students on fellowship, including the Dartmouth Fellowship, ineligible to vote in our union election, which will be held on Tuesday, April 11 and Wednesday, April

Verbum Ultimum: To Form a More Perfect Union

12. They already had formally agreed to include “all graduate students enrolled in Dartmouth College degree programs who are employed to provide teaching and research services” in our union’s bargaining unit. They now claim that graduate students on fellowship don’t provide teaching or research services to the college in exchange for their stipends.

This assertion is categorically untrue and deeply insulting. I’m a Dartmouth Fellow and must work as a graduate teaching assistant for two terms per year to receive my pay. For most of the academic year, I split my weeks between conducting my research and leading 4 hour lab sections, grading batches of over 30 assignments and meeting with students for ofce hours by appointment. I’m obviously a graduate student worker, yet Dartmouth has deemed me ineligible to participate in this crucial vote that clearly pertains to me.

To make matters worse, the day after they made the notifcation, Dartmouth submitted a list to the National Labor Relations Board that deemed 54% of our graduate student community, or 423 rightful voters, as ineligible to vote. The most notable aspect of this list is that Dartmouth broke its own rule of excluding voters based on fellowship. If we use their supposed criteria, there are 210 errors. They included 150 fellows as eligible voters and excluded 60 non-fellows for no apparent reason. Without any obvious logic determining voter eligibility, we have been left confused and scrambling to verify each voter’s eligibility individually, all in the fnal days before our union election.

We were slightly comforted on April 5 when the National Labor Relations Board took our side and rejected Dartmouth’s request to exclude voters on such short notice based on their meaningless criteria. Unfortunately, this ruling didn’t seem to matter to Dartmouth because they declared that they will still challenge every vote cast by a graduate worker they deem ineligible. To the College, it’s immaterial whether any of these challenges succeed. Their real goal is to delay and obfuscate so that we get bogged down in hearings rather than advocating for the changes to our living conditions that we need now. What’s worse is that they’re attempting to conceal their intentions by encouraging “all” graduate students, “regardless of the source of [their] stipend funding,” to vote. By going against the National Labor Relations Board’s decision and encouraging graduate students to cast ballots that they intend to challenge, they’ve completely dispelled any notion of sincerity when they claim to support graduate students. Dartmouth knows that what they’re doing puts our union in jeopardy. They’ve let go of any chance they had at saving face.

Luckily, these egregious moves by Dartmouth and its lawyers have galvanized our organizing workforce. Those still included as unchallenged voters can act in solidarity with us disenfranchised coworkers by casting their ballots on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11 and 12. We’re calling on all of our supporters to get involved in maximizing eligible voter turnout. The “ineligibles,” including me, are channeling frustration into focused organizing. We’re tirelessly canvassing graduate ofces and lab spaces during the day and phone banking in the evening. We’ve resolved to boycott the polls to deny Dartmouth the chance of slowing us down. Please help us spread the word about our Walk Out for Voting Rights on Tuesday, April 11, at 10 a.m. on the Dartmouth Green! We cannot let Dartmouth succeed in silencing us.

OF APRIL

Dartmouth’s attempt at busting graduate student worker unions is unacceptable and must end immediately.

On Wednesday, the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth won their vote to unionize by an 89% margin. Although this week’s vote was a triumph for the rights of student workers, the path to arrive at this point has been ridden with attempts by the College to derail GOLD-UE’s unionization efforts. Prior to this week’s vote, the College announced it would continue its efforts to delay its recognition of GOLD-UE, claiming that large portions of the graduate student population were ineligible to vote based on the technicalities of how they are paid. The lengths that the College has gone to in order to impede graduate students’ rights to unionize are embarrassing and unbecoming for a school of Dartmouth’s standing and resources. We call on the College to end its union-busting methods and take steps to ensure that student workers’ rights to unionize are never infringed upon again.

We are not the only student organization to advocate that the College recognize and work constructively with student unions. Past Editorial Boards and Dartmouth Student Government have made similar pleas over the past year — yet, the College continues to stubbornly stand on the wrong side of history. The College’s recent actions against GOLD-UE are no exception.

Graduate students provide essential services to the College — from conducting research to teaching undergraduate courses — and we should all agree they deserve to be able to afford basic necessities. However, Genevieve Goebel, a Ph.D. candidate and member of the GOLD-UE Organizing Committee, made it clear in her guest opinion column this week that Dartmouth leaves its graduate students in dire straits. Graduate students at Dartmouth today not only struggle to find adequate housing, but also have no dental coverage, insufficient health insurance and frequently live paycheck to paycheck. As we saw with the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth’s near strike, the College only acts on issues like these when forced to. A union would allow graduate students to vigorously advocate for their needs and force concessions from the College.

Instead of allowing graduate students to

unionize, the College has sought to delay this process via legal tactics. As mentioned, the College sought to disenfranchise over half of the graduate students it had previously deemed eligible to vote on flimsy technical grounds at the last minute before the election. With this common union-busting tactic, the College aimed to shrink the group of workers the union would have represented to minimize the impact of the vote. Fortunately, the National Labor Relations Board saw through the College’s actions and denied its request to disenfranchise graduate student workers. Nonetheless, the College announced it will effectively defy the NLRB’s ruling by challenging votes from graduate students it originally deemed “ineligible” to vote. This may result in long court cases and delays in determining the final outcome of the election. The College’s actions reveal its attempts to flout student workers’ rights to unionize and postpone long overdue improvements to graduate students’ quality of life. The College’s immoral anti-union actions could lead to embarrassing consequences for it down the road. The federal government has shown it is willing to punish organizations that engage in anti-union practices. Last month, an administrative court judge found Starbucks guilty of violating labor laws hundreds of times. As a result, the coffee chain had to rehire union leaders it had previously fired, compensate affected workers and post notices in its stores regarding the legal obligations it previously failed to obey. The judge also mandated that former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz make a video stating that his employees have the right to unionize and send them apology letters. We would expect that College administrators have no desire to face similar consequences.

We cannot predict if or to what extent the College will face consequences for employing union-busting methods. Still, we warn the College that organizations that engage in union busting have recently gained national attention –– and not in a positive way. The campus community — and perhaps the country, too — will be watching as Dartmouth decides what to do next. We hope it will choose correctly.

GUEST COLUMNIST GENEVIEVE GOEBEL ‘GR

NINA SLOAN ’24: A SPLASH

2023 New Music Festival represents an escape from the mainstream

BY RACHEL RONCKA

The Dartmouth Bynum was already familiar with his students’ projects for the New Music Festival. Several students participated in more than one of the six separate performances that comprised the festival, and many more contributed behind the scenes. Bynum jokingly attributed his selection of guest performers to “crass nepotism,” as they were all artists whom he had crossed paths and collaborated with in the music world.

From Thursday, April 6 to Saturday, April 8, members of the Dartmouth and Hanover communities gathered across campus to enjoy innovative performances from the New Music Festival. The festival originated in the 1970s as an opportunity for faculty and students — particularly those in the graduate music program — to showcase their talents to a wider audience. The 2023 festival is the frst to occur while the Hopkins Center for the Arts is under renovation.

Led by a diferent faculty member each year, the festival is a collaboration of eforts from students and educators of the music department, The Hop staf and visiting talent. This year, the African and African American studies department, the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the women’s, gender and sexuality studies program had a prominent infuence over the festival. The themes of the performances refected the impact these departments and programs had on the festival and explored pressing social issues through the medium of experimental music.

Production was spearheaded by artistic director Taylor Bynum and technical director Bethany Younge, as well as production assistants Raegan Padula ’24 and Eli Hecht ’23. As a professor in the music department,

“They’re all people who I knew would bring something important to the festival both in terms of the art and in terms of their person,” Bynum said.

“Everyone in the graduate program [was] all performing in each other’s work. We’re all always supporting each other through rehearsal and production and chipping in.”

In organizing the festival itinerary, Bynum incorporated plenty of opportunities for the guest performers to provide mentorship to the rising artists in Dartmouth’s graduate program. Workshops and lunches facilitated a collaborative sharing of musical knowledge beyond the stage.

On Thursday evening, the festival opened with guest performer and local musician Toby Summerfeld’s jazz composition “Never Enough Hope,” performed by the Dartmouth Coast Jazz Orchestra and conducted by Summerfield himself. Although most performances spotlighted the

creations of graduate students, the Coast Orchestra is composed almost entirely of undergraduates. Despite the size of the ensemble — about 25 instrumentalists in all — a key element of the performance was a spontaneity rooted in improvisation.

“There really was this sense of the value of improvisation,” bass player and undergraduate production assistant Eli Hecht ’24 said. “Every person on stage is giving creative input to the music every second. There’s this spirit of very democratic music making, that art is coming from the collective.”

Rather than conforming to a composer’s specifc intent for their music’s interpretation, festival performers sought to incorporate this greater sense of resourceful creativity.

In ElectroOrganic, guest performers Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris wove an impromptu arrangement of vocals, electronics and instrumentals into one unifed audio-visual experience. Not long before the show, the two artists — who typically draw inspiration from the Afrofuturist writings of author Octavia E. Butler — pivoted from their original plan to the improvised ElectroOrganic. As a viewer of the show, Hecht refected on the “embodied” nature of the performance, describing it as “diving into their sonic world.”

Eli Berman GR’23 achieved a similar free-fowing agency with coperformers Richel Cuyler and Charles

Peoples III GR’24. In addition to performing in the projects of classmates Armond Dorsey ’20 GR’23 and Olivia Shortt GR’23, Berman presented her own work “Golematriarchy” to bookend the festival. Berman merged fxed beats with more loosely arranged vocals — ranging from rhythmic, guttural noises to melodious verses from Hebrew prayer. Berman describes her vocal technique as integral to her experimentation as a musical artist.

“All the improvisations we were doing in between each of the dance tracks were all exploring this kind of circular breathing-singing,” Berman said. “I sing on the exhale and the inhale with all these diferent kinds of textural noisy distortion sounds.”

“Golematriarchy” took place in the Roth Center, a location beftting the performance’s major themes related to Berman’s ongoing discovery of her Jewish heritage. The musical performance was preceded by a traditional Havdalah ceremony, which marks the end of the Shabbat and the beginning of a new week. Each member of the audience — regardless of religious afliation — was invited to take part in the ceremony. The space of the Roth Center also provided room for the audience to take to the foor and dance throughout the performance — something more difcult to facilitate in a conventional performance hall.

The Hop’s ongoing renovations

Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week 3

BY JACK JERVIS

The Dartmouth

Thursday, April 13 - Saturday, April 15

Montreal ice skating group Le Patin Libre will perform their routine “Murmuration” in Thompson Arena as part of an event in collaboration with the Dartmouth athletics department. Le Patin Libre is a group of former fgure skaters who use their talents on the ice as a means of dance, expression and storytelling. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and hold a matinee performance on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. followed by an evening performance at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for all four performances are available on the Hop’s website for $25.

Saturday, April 15

At 12:00 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, the Hopkins Center will show the flmed opera “Der Rosenkavalier” by the Met

Opera in HD series. Der Roenkavalier is a renowned Viennese comedy by legendary composer Richard Strauss. The performance will last four hours and 45 minutes, costing $25 for general admission. Tickets are available on the Hop’s website. From 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Hood Museum of Art will host an exhibition tour: “¡Printing The Revolution¡” The exhibit is led by Beatriz Yanes Martinez, the Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow. Designed for Spanish speakers, Martinez will give an introductory tour of the Hood Museum exhibit in Spanish. This is a public event, and attendees should arrive at the Russo Atrium ten minutes before the event begins.

At 7:00 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, the Hop will screen a one hour and 24 minute collection of three short flms titled “James Baldwin Abroad.” These Criterion Collection short flms follow influential American writer James

Baldwin’s experience as a Black writer “still unsure of his sexual identity,” struggling with racial politics both in America and Europe. Tickets are $8 and are available on the Hop’s website.

At 9 p.m., Sawtooth Kitchen will host a listening party for local musicians Shy Husky and Ali T to celebrate their respective album releases. Shy Husky is an indie-rock band based in Hanover, and Ali T is a Vermont-based singer/ songwriter. Tickets are $10 and also available on the Hop’s website.

Sunday, April 16

On Sunday in Loew Auditorium, the Hopkins Center will screen the 2022 flm “Close” by Lucas Dhont. This flm explores the intimate relationship between two teenage boys, complicated by interfering classmates. The flm is one hour and 44 minutes long. Tickets cost $8 and are available on the Hop’s website. At 7:00 p.m in Loew Auditorium, there will be a two hour performance

documentary featuring the Sicilian puppetry group Figli d’Arte Cuticchio. After the documentary, a live Q&A will take place with members of the group. The viewing and Q&A kickof the group’s residency at Dartmouth, where they will perform multiple times over the next few days. The flm will be in Italian with English subtitles. This event is free and unticketed.

Tuesday, April 18 Conducted by Hop Orchestral and Choral Programs director Filippo Ciabatti, “La Storia del Soltado” — an adaptation of the Russian musical work “Histoire du Soldat” — will be performed by Figli d’Arte Cuticchio. Created by puppetmaster Mimmo Cuticchio, this performance is a multimedia puppet performance that highlights the complexities of human ambition. This performance will occur four times, at 3:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, and at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

forced the dissemination of the music scene across campus. Hecht and Bynam highlighted that the Hop closure provides an opportunity to recognize the acoustic potential of other locations on campus, allowing them to “create some site-specific performances.”

Both Bynum and Hecht praised the concerts that have been occurring regularly in the East Reading Room of Baker-Berry Library, which provide yet another chance for students to share their talents. In seeking new venues for the festival, Bynum drew upon his prior experience coordinating grassroots music festivals which lacked the institutional support of a college.

“We really kind of did a quick setup, quick breakdown — and that ends up being something that one does a lot in experimental music,” Bynum said. “It’s rarely supported on main stages. The music that survives, that is the most infuential, the most groundbreaking, is often the music that pushes up through the margins. This music became a really beautiful manifestation of that.”

Seating was more limited without the Hop, and nearly all festival events were sold-out. However, the expansion of Dartmouth’s music scene with venues across campus enabled performers to reach wider audiences. This wider reach defnes the New Music Festival’s ethos: a commitment to resilience and adaptiveness as expressed through music.

Tickets for this event are limited and are available on the Hop’s website. These performances will take place in Dartmouth Hall room 105. Before the show on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Italian professor Michael Wyatt, Filippo Ciabatti and Figli d’Arte Cuticchio will give a pre-show talk.

Wednesday, April 19

The Hood Museum will host a special tour titled “Painting History” from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Russo Atrium. Curator of Indigenous art Jami Powell and Jonathan Little Cohen associate curator of American art Michael Hartman will lead the tour, which explores how “artists construct and critique history” through two Hood exhibitions: “Kent Monkman: The Great Mystery” and “Historical Imaginary.” Although this is a free and open event, space is limited –– guests are advised to arrive to the Russo Atrium ten minutes before the exhibit begins.

e Look Ahead: Week 4

BY CAROLINE YORK The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, April 14

Members of the men’s and women’s track teams will split up to compete in both the University of Connecticut Northeast Challenge in Storrs, Connecticut, and the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University. The team found success at the Duke Invitational last weekend with Max Klein ’26 winning the shot put and Perside Ebengo Yolou ’25, Michelle Quinn ’23, Jada Jones ’26 and Bridget McNally ’24 winning the 4x100 m relay.

Saturday, April 15

Men’s and women’s track will conclude both invitationals.

Women’s rowing will travel to Princeton, New Jersey, for the Ivy Invite on Lake Carnegie. This is the third regatta of the season, and the team will look for success after Boston University swept all four races last weekend.

Men’s golf will compete in the RoarEE Invitational in Kingston, New York, hosted by Columbia University. The team competed in the Princeton Invitational last weekend and fnished in 10th place.

Mark Turner ’22 took fourth place with scores of 72-68-67.

Women’s golf will compete in the Navy Spring Invitational, hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The team fnished in fourth place in the Harvard Invitational last weekend as the team was 6-over for the last nine holes. Sophie Thai ’26 helped lead the Big Green and tied for fourth

overall.

Sailing will compete in the Women’s NEISA Team Race championships, Thompson Team Race and the Central 4 Events. Last weekend, the team competed in the Yale Women’s Team Race as well as the NEISA Team Race Championship and fnished ffth out of 12 teams.

Lightweight rowing will host Harvard University for the Biglin Bowl beginning at 9 a.m. on the Connecticut River. Last year, Dartmouth won the Biglin Bowl for the frst time in 14 years.

Baseball will host Yale University for the frst of two weekend games. The team has won only one of 25 games this season and looks to break its 17 game losing streak.

Softball will travel to Providence, Rhode Island, for a game against Brown University. The team is 9-16 overall and 4-5 within the Ivy League. After losing two of three games against Harvard last weekend, the Big Green will seek to best Brown in three weekend games.

Men’s lacrosse will host Princeton University on Scully-Fahey Field. The team stands at 6-3 overall and recently won its frst Ivy League game since 2015 against Harvard on March 25.

Women’s lacrosse will travel to New York to play Columbia at 1 p.m. The team is currently 4-7 with its most recent wins against the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brown. Maja Desmond ’25 scored a career-high three goals and had three assists against UMass Lowell.

Men’s and women’s tennis will also face of against Columbia. The men’s team will take on the Lions in Hanover at

the Thompson Outdoor courts starting at 1 p.m., while the women’s team will travel to New York. Men’s tennis is currently 11-10 and is seeking a win after a 0-7 loss to Yale. Women’s tennis stands at 4-11 and is also looking to avenge their loss to the Bulldogs.

Sunday, April 16

Women’s rowing will continue day two of the Ivy Invite. Sailing will fnish the last day of the

weekend’s races.

Women’s golf will conclude the Navy Spring Invitational.

Starting at noon, baseball will play a second game against Yale.

Softball will play Brown for a second game. Men’s and women’s tennis will face of against Cornell University. The men will play at home once again on the Thompson Outdoor courts at 1 p.m. while the women travel to Ithaca, New

York.

Tuesday, April 18

Women’s lacrosse will travel to Burlington to play the University of Vermont.

Wednesday, April 19 Softball will take on Merrimack College at home with two afternoon games at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Baseball will travel to Loudonville, New York, to play against Siena College.

Ski Patrol holds sixth annual Pond Skim at Dartmouth Skiway

BY BELLA MARTIN

The Dartmouth Staff

This story was orginally published on April 10, 2022.

On April 1, the Dartmouth Ski Patrol hosted its sixth annual Pond Skim at the Dartmouth Skiway. The event kicked of at 11 a.m. with youth (U17) skiers taking the frst lap of the day down the trail and through the pond, followed by Dartmouth students and community members. The event wrapped up with a concert from Dartmouth’s student band Milk inside the Ski Lodge. This year, all of the proceeds from the Pond Skim went to the Veterans Afairs Adaptive Sports Program.

At many ski resorts, including Killington and Sugarbush in Vermont, pond skimming serves as a way to close out the ski season and celebrate the start of spring. At Dartmouth, the tradition of the pond skim is relatively new, and participants ski or snowboard down a short run and skim across a pond created by the Ski Patrol. The pond is patrolled by members of the Ski Patrol that retrieve lost skis or snowboards and help participants out of the water when needed.

As part of the tradition, participants of the pond skim also dress in “fair” –– crazy, loud or strange attire that represents a Dartmouth tradition and makes a silly fashion statement. At her frst Pond Skim this year, Genevieve Schaefer ’26 wore a fufy cow onesie with bright pink ski goggles.

“I was really nervous to go down the run at frst, but once I was on the skis, it was so fun and I wanted to do it again almost immediately,” Schaefer said. “I loved having all of my friends watch me, and I think that having the support and cheers from the crowd made it all so much more fun.”

To organize the event, the Ski Patrol Board — a group of elected patrollers who oversee the Ski Patrol — collaborated with the Management Team and Mountain Operations Crew

at the Skiway. On the day of Pond Skim, members of the board and the Mountain Operations Crew dug a hole in the snow, covered it with tarp and flled it to the brim with water. Starting at 7 a.m. that morning, members of Ski Patrol had various tasks, such as watching over diferent sides of the mountain, grilling food or playing music.

The Ski Patrol also booked Milk to perform inside the ski lodge and the Trailbreak Taco Truck to cater lunch for participants and viewers. Katherine Takoudes ’24, assistant director of Ski Patrol, said the club’s hard work in planning the event paid of.

“I think that this event brings a ton of people out to the Skiway and shows everyone what we do, and what [Ski

Patrol] experiences every single winter,” Takoudes said. “It was really cool to see a bunch of people experience this magic in a new way.”

The Dartmouth Ski Patrol is a community service organization that teaches students and community members emergency medicine and preparedness. Members of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol are trained in frst aid, CPR and Outdoor Emergency Care and primarily serve the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, New Hampshire. In the winter, patrollers have two shifts on the mountain each week and are assigned to oversee diferent trails.

Every year, around 30 frst-year students out of approximately 60 to 70 applicants are chosen by the current Ski Patrol members to interview for

participation in the apprentice program. The apprentice program teaches future patrollers the necessary skills and certifcations to treat people on the mountain. After an average of 200 hours of training, frst-year patrollers participate in hands-on training under the supervision of experienced instructors. Ian Moulton ’26, a current apprentice, explained that Ski Patrol’s commitment has contributed to new, exciting experiences and a profound knowledge of emergency care.

“We ski, help injured skiers and have fun on the mountain,” Moulton said. “It’s about 10 hours per week at the mountain, and we can assess anyone who was injured and is on the mountain, in the lodge or anyone who walks into the aid room.”

Of the mountain, Ski Patrol is known for being an extremely social and tightknit group. Moulton explained that the close group dynamic of Ski Patrol often translates to their work on the mountain. “It really feels like a big team because we all trust each other so much…it makes it so much more fun and makes it feel like less of a job,” Moulton said. Takoudes echoed this sentiment and said that spending so much time together always makes the commitment worth it.

“While we are, frst and foremost, a medical professional organization and qualifed OEC technician, I think [members of Ski Patrol] really buy into the Pond Skim and buy into the grueling setup of it because of how fun it is,” Takoudes said. “We all get to do it together as a team.”

ZOORIEL TAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

PHOTO COURTESY OF MATT FULTON

‘We’re Doing What He Wants Us To’: Acting Head Football Coach Sammy McCorkle Continues Buddy Teevens’s Legacy

By Will Dehmel STORY

This article was originially published on Apr. 13, 2023.

It had been some of the longest days of his life, but at around 5:15 p.m. on the evening of April 4, Sammy McCorkle fnally stepped onto Memorial Field.

“I could not wait to step on this feld for two hours and twenty minutes, and just…” McCorkle trailed of, sighing. The word he was looking for was “breathe.”

After 18 years of coaching for Dartmouth football, Memorial Field is Sammy McCorkle’s getaway — it represents an escape from the stress of everyday life and a place to be present and engage with the sport he loves.

However, this month, returning to the feld felt diferent for McCorkle, who led practice for the frst time ever without his best friend, Dartmouth head football coach Buddy Teevens. The Big Green football program continues to grapple with the hospitalization of Teevens after he was involved in a severe bicycle crash on March 16 in St. Augustine, Florida.

Teevens’s accident has deeply impacted coaches and players of the Big Green football team. The players and staf who The Dartmouth interviewed expressed how it is difcult to adapt while also dealing with sadness in regards to their coach’s accident and the recent death of their teammate Josh Balara ’24.

“It’s tough when you don’t have your head coach there — someone who built this program from the ground up, someone who recruited you to come here, who set you up with so many amazing opportunities,” Quinten Arello ’23, a ffth-year safety and last year’s captain, said. “We don’t forget about Coach T, but we kind of let everything loose and we get a breath of fresh air and relax — and play how he would want us to play.”

McCorkle afrmed that the Big Green played on Tuesday like they always have — with intensity and purpose.

“We’re continuing our business like we always do,” McCorkle said. “We want to make sure we play max efort, and we want to hold each other accountable.”

After the Big Green’s disappointing 3-7 campaign last year following back-to-back Ivy League championships the prior two seasons, the team has work to do. And it’s exactly the work Teevens wants done.

“Nick Howard ’23, a fifth-year

quarterback and last year’s captain, said McCorkle and Teevens are “very similar guys,” adding, “We’ve hit the ground running, and I think everybody feels really, really comfortable … It’s not like we’re stepping away and into an entirely new program.”

Due to his previous coaching roles with the defensive secondary and special teams, McCorkle is the only coach other than Teevens to have worked with the entire team. And that, McCorkle explained, is crucial.

“I feel like it’s a lot easier for me to go over there on the ofensive side and say something to an ofensive player,” McCorkle said. “It’s not the frst time I’ve gotten on him, because I’ve gotten on him in special teams drills or given him kudos.”

But it’s not just a trust thing, McCorkle

Shapes of Spring

By Addison Verot STORY

This article was originally published on Jan. 11, 2022.

On a campus located in the middle of the woods, nature plays an integral role in many Dartmouth students’ lifestyles. During this past winter term, however, while many were enjoying skiing and ice skating, I could not say the same. After another long Hanover winter, I’ve recently realized I’m not as pessimistic as I thought — I’ve just been sun deprived. Like a plant by your bedroom window that straightens when you raise the blinds, I too feel as though I am now standing a little taller this spring. I feel ready to return to the Collis patio for meals, to hike again in a t-shirt and to pretend that I’m not allergic to grass so that I can study on the Green — followed by a trip after to CVS for anti-itch cream. Spring at Dartmouth brings a renewal of energy and spirit, and I know I’m not alone in my appreciation for all the many facets of spring.

“Just opening up the windows in the morning and letting all the natural light come in has made the start to my days better,” Emily Wangenheim ’25 said. “I even wore a skirt today, and who knows, maybe I’ll try on some fip fops this week.”

Others, like Annie Politi ’23, notice a diference not only in their mental well-being, but how they view themselves entirely.

“I think, oftentimes, when people are going through a hard spell, they wish they could present their actual selves to the world, at least for me.” Politi said. “And in the spring, with the physical removal of layers, I feel like I’m removing the layers that had been obscuring me from other people.”

Along with these mental benefits,

Wangenheim also pointed out how the presence of students outside can help inject energy into campus.

“The campus often feels very small … [so] when everyone is outside, it makes the campus feel a little bigger,” Wangenheim added. “It makes me happy to walk outside and see people enjoying themselves. It’s just infectious.”

While I am admittedly swept up in the excitement of the weather and what that means for the days ahead, I am simultaneously taking note of what I have lost with the change of seasons.

While spring serves as a time of rebirth, it is also a time of death for all that transpires during colder months. The taste of crisp air, the relief of warm drinks on cold days, movies watched under piles of fur and down, my sudden inclination to bake, the coziness of warm comfort food and lit candles on dark days. I will lose the one-on-one time with myself and the echo chambers of introspections, good and bad. As the cyclical nature of the seasons reassure us that what we let go of is sure to come again, I can’t help but to heed how this winter compared to last. I feel compelled to compare this spring to last, and note that the ideas, emotions and phases I had once explored, for better or for worse, that did not, and perhaps will not, return again.

Politi remarked that she thinks of Spring as “a liminal space” and “a transition between destinations.”

“Whether you’re a senior without a job lined up, or even a senior with a job, there is a lot of anticipation surrounding this time. Even the things we’re 100% sure of in our future … don’t exist yet … [they] could change with the fip of a coin,” Politi said.

“And so I have found that spring, especially this year, really feels like a space between

added. “I think that’s where there’s a little bit of an advantage for me,” he said. “I’m over there [on defense] and I can tell the ofensive guys, ‘I’m telling you, if you do this, that’s going to cause them problems.’”

The return of players like Howard and Arello –– leaders in terms of experience –– has also benefted the team.

“They realize [that the] little things are a big thing — they make a diference,” McCorkle said.“Because they’ve been down that road before, they’ve been here long enough … It’s helpful for those older guys to be able to push that message.”

Safety Sam Koscho ’23, linebacker Marques White ’23 and wide receiver Isaac Boston ’24 also returned to playing following injuries last year. Now, around 80 returning players have game

experience, which is signifcant as a majority of the team does not have to start from square one.

As the Big Green program awaits Teevens’s recovery and updates from his wife Kirsten, the squad is in capable hands. McCorkle explained that despite the new title, not much has been added to his plate because of the support of Dino Cauteruccio, Dartmouth’s director of football operations.

“Dino, he’s the best in the business,” McCorkle said. “He has done a phenomenal job for me … Him and I sit down for hours — and we’ve sat down for hours — and we just schedule every single day, we schedule every single thing … He’s a machine.”

McCorkle also emphasized that he and the other staf are making sure the players feel supported and can grieve

their coach’s accident properly.

“Everybody handles the situation their own way,” McCorkle explained. “And the biggest thing we want guys to know is we’re here for each other. And we want them to know, if you’re struggling and you’re having a tough time, let us know –– reach out.”

The players have supported themselves better than McCorkle could have imagined.

“Everybody thinks it’s the coaches supporting the kids,” he said. “It was actually the opposite. When we had our frst team meeting — just seeing our players, it made me feel better.”

For Arello, that part was obvious. “It’s not ever going to be a one-man show,” Arello said. “Coach McCorkle is at the helm, but I think we’re going to see everybody rally this spring ball.”

places.”

Madison Spivak ’24 echoed Politi’s emphasis on spring as a time of change.

“A lot of undergraduate associations, like my acapella group or sorority, have a transition of execs in the spring,” Spivak said. “I think most of us feel ready to take on those responsibilities, and the seniors defnitely seem to feel burnt out and excited to relax a little bit, and I think that contributes to the spring feeling like a time of transition on campus.”

Wangenheim also noted this prevalent sense of anticipation for the coming months, especially with sophomore summer coming up for her and the Class of 2025.

“It’s interesting because usually there’s the transition to summer vacation,” Emily said. “But there’s sophomore summer this

year, so it kind of feels like this fun little build up that’s just going to keep getting better.”

When I refect on last spring I think of the anticipation I felt for my upcoming softball season and the summer I would spend in California. I took note of what I thought would be my last term unafliated, the last time I’d sleep in my freshman dorm room, my last freshman class and my last few days playing pong at the bottom of the totem pole of class years. Now, I look forward to seeing friends that will return this summer and playing shows with my band. I am painstakingly aware that this is the last term I will live with the freshman year roommate, the last time I’ll eat on the Collis patio with my senior friends and my last spring of modest anxieties that concern class schedules and portfolios and not yet

internship hunting.

For me, spring represents a time of year when I try to practice my comfortability with in-betweens, with uncertainty and with “becoming” instead of “being.” It is difcult not to long for what is lost or worry about the future, and at a school that labels each week of the term in numbered order, it can feel impossible to take the term day-byday. Yet, while I have no words of profound wisdom to combat this feeling of unrest, I suppose I write to explore and accept that like the spring, my thoughts, feelings and days also occupy a liminal space. While they have bloomed, it feels as though they have not quite blossomed. And although it may feel as though these aspects of life cannot not exist outside of a state of resoluteness, they do — and we do.

COURTESY OF GIL TALBOT, DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS

HANNAH LI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF