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‘Ahead of his time’: Albert LaValley remembered for brilliance and generosity Tuck hosts Chris Sununu as part of speaker series

Brown said.

“Al was gay and understood what it felt like to be an outsider in a certain way,” Brown said. “[He] lived a life that was very open and very conscious of ‘this is who I am.’” LaValley’s goddaughter, Claire Brown, said she admired the way he carried himself.

“Being an early member of the LGBTQ+ movement must have come with its struggles, but he stood by his openness,” Claire Brown said. “I respect that so much now about him, especially now.”

After teaching at Yale, LaValley took a position at University of California, Santa Barbara, as a visiting professor in film studies. He then moved to San Francisco, where he ran The Limelight Bookstore, which specialized in film and theater works and doubled as a center for activism. He taught at eight universities during his lifetime, according to LaValley’s obituary.

This article was originally published on May 11, 2023.

Film and media studies professor emeritus Albert LaValley, nicknamed Al, was described as “feisty,” “eclectic” and “ahead of his time” by his close friend and former Dartmouth colleague James Brown. LaValley founded the Dartmouth film and media studies department, one of the first departments to integrate history, theory and production in the Ivy League, according to the department’s website.

“Al was one of the smartest people I’ve ever known,” Brown said. “There are people [that], when you’re in a room with them, [they] make you feel kind of dumb, but Al made everybody feel smart — even though he was the smartest.”

In addition, Brown said LaValley never let himself get “tied down” by one profession.

LaValley died at the age of 87 on April 11, 2023 in Noble, Oklahoma, according to his obituary. A brilliant and caring scholar, LaValley died from a long-term, unspecified illness.

LaValley was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, an area he stayed in most of his early life. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and received a B.A. in English in 1957. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Yale University and taught various courses there between 1961 and 1967, according to his obituary.

According to Brown, LaValley had planned to become a priest while he studied at Holy Cross. However, LaValley’s teaching experience atYale inspired him to pursue a different career path and embrace his sexuality,

LaValley also edited a number of volumes on film, including “Focus on Hitchcock,” “Mildred Pierce,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “Eisenstein at 100,” according to his profile online.

Friend and film professor Joanna Rapf said LaValley had a deep knowledge of his field, calling him a true “Renaissance man.”

“His knowledge of film was encyclopedic,” Rapf said. “I’ve never known anyone [who] knows as much about film as he did.”

At the time of his death, LaValley had written 700 pages of a book about filmmakers in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, chalk full of original research, Rapf said. Fluent in Spanish, LaValley was especially passionate about Mexican literature and film, sheadded.

Professor Lynn Higgins, Edward Tuck French studies professor emerita and interim chair of the film and

Duende opens, Hanover True Value closes downtown

BY EMILIA WILLIAMS

The Dartmouth Staff husband have a home in downtown Hanover and plan to stay in the area, adding that they feel “rooted” in the town.

In recent weeks, downtown Hanover has seen two changes to its store and restaurant offerings. On April 14, Duende, a traditional Spanish tapería, opened for business, according to restaurant owner Juan Garcerán GR’16. The next day, local hardware store Hanover True Value closed as owner Sonya Campbell retired, according to the store’s Facebook page. Hanover True Value first opened in 1918, The US Sun reported.

Campbell said she had been a part of the business for 47 years — first as a “housewares girl” in the 1970s before she bought the shop in 1991.

Campbell said she and her husband, store manager Mike Campbell, listed the store for sale more than a year ago but could not find a buyer.

According to Mike Campbell, the location has brought the community together for years.

“There are so many people that we’ve known over the years — and their families that we’ve known — that still pop in and say hi when they’re in town,” he said. “I’ve helped the engineering students or the engineering classes make hundreds of different projects because nobody knew what to do.”

Dartmouth students agreed that True Value was a valuable addition to the community. Catherine Jewitt ’26 said the store had a “lot of cool stuff.”

“Every time I [went], it was an adventure,” she said. Sam Roth Gordon ’25 said he was “super sad” to learn about the store’s closure, adding that he had planned to return for future hardware projects.

“I went there a couple of times, last fall in particular, to buy some hardware parts,” he said. “All of the workers were super nice, helpful and chatty.”

Sonya Campbell said she and her

“We are not in a big rush to make any great changes,” she said. “Eventually we may move and try to get something smaller all on one level. But we’ve enjoyed living downtown and I’m still a member of the Hanover Improvement Society.” While True Value has closed its doors, Duende has opened to foster a new sense of community in Hanover. The tapería aims to provide a “space where everyone can enjoy and share the energy of Spanish community culture,” according to its website.

“The idea was to really bring a bit of diversity to the dining scene in the Upper Valley through our backgrounds,” Garcerán said. “This is inspired by a very traditional Southern Spanish dining style — very informal. The aesthetic, music, everything is inspired by Spain itself.”

Garcerán, who graduated from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in 2016, added that he opened Duende in Hanover because he “loves the Upper Valley.” He said he hopes the restaurant, which is currently open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, will provide a place for local residents to “informally hang out.”

According to Garcerán, the restaurant’s name stems from a flamenco term “that describes an innate talent.” More specifically, “duende” means “a quality of passion and inspiration,” according to the restaurant’s website.

“You may see a seven year old playing guitar in Spain, and people may say, ‘Oh that kid has duende,’” Garcerán said. “It’s only within the flamenco world, but duende is that talent that some people are born with and something that you cannot really

BY TAYLOR HABER

On May 8, the Tuck School of Business hosted Gov. Chris Sununu R-N.H., for its View from the Top speaker series. Sununu spoke about his experiences in public service and fielded questions — both from moderator Dean Matthew Slaughter and audience members — about potentially running for president in 2024.

While Sununu said he was neither ruling out nor “really thinking about” seeking a fifth term as governor, he said that a role in Washington D.C. is “on the table, very much.” Sununu previously stated in April he will make a decision about a White House bid this summer, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.

The hour-long event, which was cosponsored by the Center for Business, Government and Society at Tuck, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center’s Brooks Family Lecture Series and the Tuck Business and Politics Club, was attended in-person by 267 community members, with another 70 viewers joining via Zoom, according to visiting executive program manager Alison Greene.

In an opening conversation with Slaughter, Sununu spoke about leading the Granite State and the experiences which drew him to the Governor’s Mansion. Sununu said his interest in government stemmed from his parents, who instilled in him the importance of community service. Sununu’s father, John Sununu, served as governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to -1989, and as White House Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to -1991.

To be effective in government, though, Sununu emphasized thate workinglessons he learned in the private sector , where he served as a corporate executive before entering politics taught him lessons he has used in public office. before entering politics.

“All these skills that you learn in the private sector all translate, I think, to better leadership,” Sununu said. “Not that you have to run a business, per se. Be at a non-profit, do something, get out in the world so that when you do commit to yourself [to] public service or whatever it might be, you give 120%.”

Asked to reflect on his accomplishments in office, Sununu said he was most proud of his administration’s pandemic response, citing “the team and the people that understood what had to be done,” which he assembled. In terms of areas of improvement, Sununu said he hoped to inspire more bipartisanship in the legislative process.

In the latter part of the conversation, Slaughter focused on Sununu’s hypothetical presidential bid. Sununu discussed compared himself to former President Donald Trump, who is widely seen as the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, asking the audience, “Why should you favor me over Trump, really?”

“It’s really simple,” Sununu said. “If you elect somebody, you vote for somebody, it has to be because they can win and get something done — that’s it. We should always vote for the most conservative candidate that aligns with our ideals and can win in November and get stuff done in 2025.”

Although Sununu said he supported Trump in both 2016 and 2020, adding that he would support Trump again if the former president wins the GOP nomination next year, he argued that Trump failed to secure “easy wins for Republicans with Republicans” during his time in office.

“And he had Republicans, by the way, in the House and the Senate,” Sununu said. “He said he was going to secure the border. He didn’t do it. He said he was going to be fiscally responsible and $8 trillion more into the debt. That didn’t happen either.”

Sununu pitched his potential candidacy on the idea that both he and the government “are not here to solve … problems” but rather to “create as many doors of opportunity” for constituents. Operating under a “live free or die” mentality, Sununu said he wants the government to spur individual development and local community involvement.

A self-described “fiscal hawk,” Sununu added if he were to have his ownthat in his own presidential administration, top priorities would include balancing the federal budget, decentralizing the federal government and empowering state governments to take more control of the legislative process. Sununu added the welfare system needs redesigningto be redesigned to protect seniors from future cuts to their benefits, describing social security reform as “the third rail of politics.”

“I’m thinking, ‘what are we going to get out of this five, 10 or 20 years down the road,’ in terms of the state of New Hampshire,” Sununu said. “And I think that if you bring that mentality into Washington, D.C., you’re going to get far better results.”

After the conversation, Sununu answered questions from audience members in a Q&A segment, followed by five minutes of closing remarks. During the Q&A, Sununu engaged with a number of political issues, including climate change, gun control, immigration, healthcare and the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Sununu answered the final audience question with a call for comity.

“We can have it out, but it doesn’t mean we’re personally opposed,” Sununu said. “It means we’re passionate about our issues, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Alex Lawson ’23, who attended the event, said it was “an amazing opportunity.” He added that Sununu’s answer to the final audience question was “really interesting.”

“His response was that we need to have those tough conversations,” Lawson said. “And he highlighted how New Hampshire is an example of doing that because they can work together, and it’s one of the more purple states with a mixed legislature.”

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Carey Callaghan ’83 and Jennie Chamberlain elected to Selectboard

Hillel and Chabad co-sponsor Prospects for Peace Discussion

BY EMILIA WILLIAMS The Dartmouth

On May 9, Hillel at Dartmouth and the Hilary Chana Chabad House co-sponsored “Prospects for Peace: A Discussion about Potential Steps Forward in the Israel-Palestine Confict,” which featured a conversation with two fellows from The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Ghaith al-Omari and Dennis Ross.

According to Georgetown University’s website, Ross serves as a counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute, as well as a Practice of Diplomacy distinguished professor at Georgetown. For more than twelve years, Ross played a leading role in the Middle East peace process, working as a diplomat under the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Ross is widely credited with helping facilitate the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, the website wrote.

BY KENT FRIEL

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on May 10, 2023.

At yesterday’s annual Hanover Town Meeting, Carey Callaghan ’83 and Jennie Chamberlain were elected to the Hanover Selectboard, receiving 596 and 545 votes, respectively. Selectboard chairman Peter Christie, who has served on the board since 2002 and as its chair since 2011, was defeated after receiving 427 votes. Callaghan and Chamberlain will serve three-year terms.

The Town Meeting started at 7 p.m. and lasted past 10 p.m. About 150 people attended, and over 900 votes

were cast throughout the day. Every article voted on at the meeting passed.

Of the other candidates running for office, Elizabeth Storrs was elected a Trustee of the Etna Town Library with 761 votes. Kari Asmus — who currently serves as chair of the Hanover Finance Committee — won election as Trustee of the Trust Funds with 757 votes. Both candidates ran unopposed.

Articles 9 through 11 passed after a private vote, and voters had an hour to place their votes after they were announced. Articles 14 and 16 were passed with amendments that were proposed and voted on during the Town Meeting.

Article 15, which asked whether the Town should transfer five acres to Twin Pines Housing Trust for development

as workforce housing, passed after 15 separate comments from Town Meeting participants. There was a motion to consolidate articles 18 to 20 and 24 to 26, respectively. The items were consolidated and passed.

There was a motion to move directly to a vote on article 28, regarding the budget, which passed.

Hanover resident Bill Young, who attended the Town Meeting, said that the most important takeaway from the day was Christie’s loss. “Peter Christie has been a role model municipal government leader for years and years,” Selectboard vice chairman Athos Rathias said. “I have the utmost respect for him, and the Town owes him an incredible amount of respect.”

Friends of LaValley share memories of his warmth and compassion

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media studies department, wrote that she remembers LaValley as “an endless source of fascinating and rare information about directors, actors, producers and the mechanics of Hollywood.”

He also created one of the first documentaries about AIDS ever produced, “A Time of Change: Confronting AIDS,” Brown said.

When students felt excluded from Greek life culture in the 1990s, LaValley would host parties at his home for students to get together, Brown said.

“He had this great way of embracing people and making them feel comfortable,” Brown said.

While he was chair of the film department, visiting professors and junior faculty often lived with Al for as long as they needed, according to film and media studies professor Amy Lawrence. After he retired, he would allow people who were struggling to stay at his place or find ways to sponsor them for jobs, Lawrence said.

Rapf said that LaValley’s compassion also extended to his love for animals, noting that he took care of two stray cats and adopted a stray

dog. LaValley loved birds and could identify them by their calls alone, she added.

Claire Brown said that Professor LaValley was a memorable figure in her childhood.

“Of course, I will never forget using his belly as a trampoline — leaping from the arm of the old fuzzy green couch and plopping, and likely bouncing off, just to repeat it several times, laughing all the while,” she wrote.

According to Lawrence, everyone loved being around Al — “a lively, funny, generous man.”

Duende moves into space previously occupied by

Tapas Lounge

Ghaith Al-Omari is a non-resident fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, according to the American Task Force on Palestine website. He previously served in various positions within the Palestinian Authority, including international relations department director in the Palestinian president’s office and advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abba. Al-Omari also participated in various negotiating rounds of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, most notably the 2000 Camp David Summit and the Taba Summit.

In his opening remarks, Ross discussed the battle between authoritarianism and democracy across the world, emphasizing Israel’s commitment to democracy through popular demonstrations. He explained that the demonstrations seek to address issues including selection of legal counsel, the structure of Israel’s government and Supreme Court politicization.

“We’re seeing in some ways what may be a model for other democracies, because we are seeing unprecedented levels of grassroots protests,” he said. “We’ve never seen anything like it before in Israel. [There have been] 18 weeks of demonstrations, grassroots driven. Up to 4% of the population demonstrates every week.”

Ross added that the selection of judges was the “core issue” driving protests.

“There was a sense that the government was going to pick judges they know they efectively own, and given this government, they will basically be able to decide everything,” Ross said. “This has caused people who have never demonstrated before to demonstrate.”

The risk of becoming a binational

state, also known as a one-state solution, poses another threat to democracy in Israel, Ross said.

“A binational state means it can be Jewish or democratic, but it cannot be both,” he said.

Al-Omari began his statements by advocating for a two-state solution — a joint Jewish and Palestinian state where each can “express their identity” — calling it the “only way” to end the ongoing confict between Israel and Palestine.

“What are the prospects for peace today?” Al-Omari asked. “I would say they are non-existent. The best we can hope for is to preserve the possibility for peace and a two-state solution. If you rephrase the question and ask what are the prospects for progress, I think there is a lot that can be done.”

Al-Omari called on the United States to lower their expectations and pursue more modest objectives for peace in Israel-Palestine relations. He also highlighted the importance of “stopping the [democratic] backslide,” including a recent decline in separation of powers and politicization of the courts.

In an interview after the event, Ross said that he and Al-Omari have been traveling to college campuses across the country to demonstrate the nuance of the Israel-Palestine debate.

“We just felt that we want to introduce a little more reality into the discussion on the Middle East, and we wanted to show you can come from really diferent points of departure but basically have a thoughtful conversation on these kinds of issues,” Ross said. “We don’t have to see these things the same, yet you can actually look at these kinds of challenges — which tend to create great emotions — and take a step back and see there are ways to think about this diferently and build bridges.”

Gabe Chang-Deutsch ’25, who attended the event, said he appreciated the event’s nuance.

“I like how there were multiple perspectives both from the audience and the speakers about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he said. “I thought the discussion became a little detail-oriented for me, but that may be just because I am not an expert in the feld.”

Shoshie Bernstein ’26 said she believes that it was important that the event included multiple perspectives in the discussion.

“I think for any confict, especially one that is as complex and devastating as this one, it is very important to hear and understand every side and the voices of everyone involved — especially Al-Omari who was an advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team,” she said.

practice or learn.”

Garcerán added that Duende’s menu is curated by a chef and culinary school director, both from Spain. Duende moved into the same building that Candela Tapas Lounge used to occupy. Candela closed in June 2022 after its 10-year lease ended, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page. Sophia He ’23 said she was “really excited” to try Duende,

since she and her friends used to eat at Candela “all the time.”

He said that Candela was known for its affordable drinks, while Duende is “dining-focused,” with “more of a bright and family-friendly atmosphere compared to Candela.” She added that she and her friends ordered a variety of tapas, including croquettes, patatas bravas and toasts with toppings.

While He said the food “tasted really good,” she noted that prices were “a little steep.”

“I think it’s one of those things where if you’re a college student, you would probably save [the restaurant] for a special occasion,” she said.

Garcerán said he hopes to expand beyond food service and create a “cultural center” for the community. He said that he wants to create an art gallery for Spanish artists and hold live concerts with dinner and wine tastings. Garcerán added that he hopes people will be able to use the space to practice Spanish.

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Verbum Ultimum: Dig a Little Deeper

The JED Foundaton misses many important critcisms of the administraton regarding mental health and wellbeing on campus, despite repeated calls to acton by students.

On April 27, Provost David Kotz sent an email to campus with the JED Foundation’s fndings and recommendations regarding the state of mental health and well-being at the College. Dartmouth commissioned the report in May 2021 in response to heated student-led calls to re-evaluate college mental health policies after a wave of tragedies on campus. However, despite the College’s promise that this survey is a “comprehensive assessment of our campus mental health and well-being environment,” according to Kotz’s email, the report fails to adequately address concerns regarding the College’s mental health infrastructure and lacks meaningful suggestions for how to improve mental health on campus.

The JED Foundation’s report addresses some weaknesses in the College’s policies and practices, but it downplays them, or even worse, portrays them as strengths. Ever since the College frst partnered with the JED Foundation, students have criticized the College’s shortage of counselors compared to demand. Many students, including members of this Editorial Board, have found it difcult to schedule a single appointment with the counseling center in a timely manner. The JED report refects none of these concerns. In his email regarding the JED report, Kotz lists “Counseling Center Stafng” under “Representative Sample of Strengths,” despite continued reports that counselors are inaccessible. Apparently, the JED Foundation considers 14 clinicians and only one case manager to be satisfactory for a campus of 6,700 students, according to the report.

This section about the College’s counseling center also ofers perhaps the least impressive statistic in the entire report, boasting that the center ofers counseling in only three languages besides English: Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. These three languages are simply not enough. It is also worth noting that numerous commonly spoken languages are missing: Spanish, Korean, French and many others. The JED Foundation commends the supposed availability and diversity of counselors at the center, which is harmful when the reality leaves much to be desired. This leaves open the possibility for the College to use this report as a vindication of its insufcient commitment to students and justify investing its resources elsewhere.

The report also repeatedly recommends, in various forms, that the administration evaluate the state of mental health on campus or develop strategic plans to improve it. This confused some students, us included, who thought these were the responsibilities of the JED report itself and were surprised to see them so blatantly dodged. One recommendation in particular bafed us: The JED Foundation “recommended developing a strategic plan that included current and long-range plans.” It also ofers a similar suggestion: “that Dartmouth take a strategic approach to address mental health and well-being.” This sentence is totally devoid

Colao: Stop Pushing Professors of Color Out

Professor Lopez’s recent tenure denial is emblematc of Dartmouth’s discriminatory tenure decisions.

of substance and emblematic of the College’s repeated attempts to evade its responsibilities. We are extremely concerned that with such vague recommendations, the JED Foundation failed to illuminate any tangible paths forward.

The report’s “specifc recommendations” are also vague. While the JED Foundation correctly identifes a need to “streamline procedures” for medical leave, which students have demanded for years, it fails to ofer any concrete solutions to this end. It merely proposes “helping … students [communicate] with multiple ofces such as fnancial aid, housing and the registrar.” This solution does not provide the support that students need when taking medical leave. In addition to its vagueness, this proposal misses other important issues regarding medical leave, such as the stigma surrounding medical leave’s “legalistic language,” and a need for a longer appeals process for involuntary withdrawal, which students recently discussed.

Similarly, the report details the need to “cultivate more social opportunities beyond Greek life,” and observes that the “undergraduate social scene revolves around fraternities and sororities.”

It also comments on the potential for “high-risk drinking” in these spaces. This is, of course, true. However, it seems more intuitive that the abuse of alcohol is a symptom, rather than a cause, of poor mental health and well-being on campus. It further explains that any new spaces must be considered “high-value by students,” but neglects to ofer any direction as to what these hypothetical spaces might look like. Dartmouth has already made an efort to provide an alternative space in the form of housing communities, but we believe few students would argue that these spaces are “perceived as high-value by students.” Criticizing Greek life, without ofering a plausible alternative, does not ofer any substantive suggestions beyond attacking some students’ primary social community on campus.

We do not deny that the JED foundation has ofered some useful conjectures regarding the state of mental health and wellbeing on campus. Its preliminary recommendations over the summer supported some substantial changes, such as the addition of teletherapy, according to Kotz’s email: In the fall, the administration partnered with Dartmouth Student Government to provide “fexible access” to virtual mentalhealth counseling for all students through services provided by UWill.

However, the sheer number of issues brushed aside or misrepresented in the JED Foundation’s report is inexcusable. The College should proceed with caution when referring to this report for future decision-making with the understanding that the report is, indeed, imperfect. Rather, a truly comprehensive assessment requires the administration to consider long-standing input from its own students, who speak from experience.

Letter to the Editor: Return the Money

The College should return the donaton of Robert Keeler ’36, which was intended unambiguously for the now-closed golf course.

I write as the executor of the estate of Robert T. Keeler ’36, the president of the Robert T. Keeler Foundation and as his stepson.

The intent of Bob’s gift as stated in the Statement of Understanding was exclusively to support the Hanover Country Club golf course for future generations “at the course which he so loved.” A rejected SOU gave the Dartmouth Board of Trustees the right to reallocate the money if it so deemed. This provision was eliminated, leaving only the language: “Income (and/or principal if needed) is restricted to support upgrades and maintenance of the golf course.” It should be clear that the money is for the golf course and not, as the Dartmouth spokesperson said, ancillary golf activities. Additionally, the New Hampshire attorney general failed its obligation to represent the donor by disregarding this provision.

Bob, in no uncertain terms, instructed that the money was to go to the Hanover Country Club

golf course and not scholarships or academics. With no golf course, the bequest can no longer “serve future generations of the Dartmouth golf community.”

The donor left the bulk of his estate for the maintenance of the golf course and to his foundation. Money not needed to maintain the golf course was to go to the foundation. Without the golf course, Robert Keeler’s estate and foundation are asking Dartmouth to honor the donor’s unambiguous intent and return the money.

It is clear that Dartmouth wants the golf course land to build dormitories and other buildings.

President Hanlon and Dartmouth are making a Faustian bargain with the use of a suspect interpretation of a legal argument that fies in the face of the agreement it made with the donor.

Letters to the Editor represent the views of their author(s), which are not necessarily those of The Dartmouth.

This column was originally published on May 9, 2023

Throughout and after college, I’ve had to ask a lot of my professors: recommendation letters, thesis supervisions, career advice and article edits. When I was asked to write a tenure evaluation for geography professor Patricia (Tish) Lopez, it was a no-brainer — I could fnally reciprocate some of that energy by advocating for her. Professor Lopez is one of the College’s most beloved teachers, according to both current students and alumni. Not only that, but she’s exactly the type of professor the Dartmouth administration promises its students. The opportunity to work and learn with her remains one of the reasons I’m grateful to have gone to Dartmouth, despite my complicated feelings about the College.

On April 20, 2023, Dartmouth denied tenure to Professor Lopez. If it weren’t obvious already, Professor Lopez’s shocking tenure denial makes it clear: Dartmouth has a problem. Dartmouth has a terrible track record with retaining faculty of color. As of 2022, only 13 women professors of color were tenure-track, compared to 25 white women professors, out of 150. Only 21 percent of faculty are people of color, yet 45 percent of the class of 2026 are students of color. There is a serious lack of faculty representation to support students of color. Professor Lopez’s denial is symptomatic of Dartmouth’s inability to support faculty, staf and students of color.

I’m angry, as are many alumni. But following Professor Lopez’s example, I don’t want to talk about anger. I want to talk about care. We as alumni care about Professor Lopez, as well as our other former professors. Our professors have provided us countless hours of care. Yet Dartmouth does not care about the professors we’ve loved the most. I, and other alumni, are asking Dartmouth to realign its values when it comes to tenure decisions: we want Dartmouth to care about its faculty of color, we want Dartmouth to care about the experiences of its current and former students and we want Dartmouth to care about all the labor it requires of professors when it makes tenure decisions, particularly the time-consuming care work — like mentorship or support — that disproportionately falls to younger faculty of color.

My frst winter on campus in 2016, students protested the Dartmouth Committee Advisory to the President’s decision to deny tenure to Aimee Bahng, after tenure denials to Derrick White, Sharlene Mollett and numerous other faculty of color. The year prior to my arrival on campus, student activists had just presented Dartmouth with the Freedom Budget, a set of goals which included in its demands increasing the representation of faculty of color to at least 47%. The Freedom Budget specifcally noted that “because professors of color are often called upon for mentorship and service work, tenure processes should recognize these forms of labor.” Yet almost a decade later, CAP has not changed its pattern of discrimination, and Dartmouth has not done better. Still, just 12 percent of its tenure-track faculty are people of color. It is once again time for a serious reckoning with the unjust tenure process.

These tenure denials show two things. One, that CAP acts in complete disconnect, if not total opposition, to student opinion. CAP does not retain the educators who students clearly love, value and want to work with. Their method of evaluating tenure candidates does not prioritize what students value — mentorship, faculty involvement and support. Professor Lopez’s student evaluations speak for themselves. She’s described as “outstanding,” “amazing,” “defnitely the most compassionate AND smart[est] professor I have ever had,” “one of the most understanding people I have met” and “a passionate geographer that made me [fall] in love with her area [of study].” Students love and care about Professor Lopez, and her classes make a diference.

Second, CAP clearly does not value or respect the

disproportionate labor that falls to faculty of color, particularly younger, woman-identifying and queer faculty of color. There are many reasons for this.

Dartmouth is a predominantly white institution, and in an overwhelmingly white, rural town, many students of color need faculty who can help them navigate this often isolating experience. Students also look to professors who might share their beliefs or their politics, feeling more comfortable seeking mentorship from someone who “gets it.” On the other side, white students also often feel more entitled to request labor from faculty of color. As previously explained by Professor Treva Ellison, who has since left Dartmouth, “the temporary, precarious and disavowed labor of people of color at Dartmouth is [the College’s] purposeful and intentional diversity solution.”

When faculty of color, particularly those on the tenure track, receive disproportionate asks for recommendation letters and thesis advisories, they are spending time on this work that they cannot spend on research and writing. The year I wrote my thesis, Professor Lopez had the most supervision requests of any professor in the geography department, and in one month she received 20 recommendation letter requests. But much of this care work is immeasurable. I saw Professor Lopez attend student performances, answer emails almost immediately, meet with students in cofee shops and have a line out the door for ofce hours. I’ve never had another professor who seemed so willing to develop meaningful relationships with students. The trust she cultivated is not an accident or mere popularity — it is the product of her very intentional commitment to care work as part of being a professor.

Professor Lopez loves and cares about her students, as do many professors. But that does not mean that the work she does is not “work,” or that it is entirely her “choice.” I would not have fnished a thesis, participated in research or maybe even stayed at Dartmouth if I did not have her support, and I think a lot of students can say that. In that sense, her care work is not only time-consuming but invaluable to student success at Dartmouth. Yet CAP seems to devalue this care work — and its burden on faculty of color — by disproportionately denying tenure to professors who have made this investment.

Dartmouth prides itself on having “innovative scholars who love to teach.” Presently, Dartmouth ranks number 5 in undergraduate teaching. Its current Call to Lead Campaign urges investment in Dartmouth’s “distinctive educational model,” described as an “incomparable student experience … placing topfight teacher-scholars in the classroom,” with professors who are “readily available to their students outside of classroom hours.” Dartmouth capitalizes on the care work that its professors do, using this labor to fundraise and advertise. Clearly, this work has considerable value to the administration. If Dartmouth wants to trade on faculty mentorship, availability and student connection, it needs to reward faculty like Professor Lopez who are emblematic of this “incomparable” educational model.

I am tired of seeing people I care about pushed out of this school, whether through tenure denials or otherwise. I and other alumni call on Dartmouth to do better by its current faculty, staf and students of color. We ask that Dartmouth stop disrespecting faculty that actually made us grateful to have gone there, who made it possible for us to stay and who invested in us as scholars and humans. Most importantly, we want Dartmouth to seriously investigate and reject the white supremacy embedded in its tenure evaluation processes, which devalues and actively punishes professors of color for the care work that is disproportionately asked of them.

Stef Colao is a Dartmouth alum who graduated in 2019 with a major in geography. Colao is writing on behalf of a group of students, alumni and scholars who are organizing as “Dartmouth Denies Tenure.”

Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week 7

BY Caitlin FitzMaurice

The Dartmouth

Friday, May 12

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will screen the flm “John Wick: Chapter 4” at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium. Starring Keanu Reeves, this “shoot-’em-up thrill ride” of the action series’ fourth installment promises nearly three hours of intense stunt work and “gorgeous” imagery, as described by the Hop’s website. Tickets are available to buy on the Hopkins Center’s website at $5 for students and $8 for general admission.

Vermont-based soul musician Dave Keller will perform at Sawtooth at 9 p.m. Honored three times with Blues Music Award nominations for Best Soul Blues Album, Keller is now touring throughout the U.S. and Europe. Tickets can be purchased on Sawtooth’s website for $10.

Saturday, May 13

The Hopkins Center will show the A24 flm “Showing Up” in Loew Auditorium at 7 p.m. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, the flm stars Michelle Williams as protagonist Lizzie. Through exploring Lizzie’s work as a ceramicist, the comedy questions what it means to make art — particularly from a social and economic perspective. Tickets are available to buy on the Hopkins Center’s website at $5 for students and $8 for general admission.

The Hood Museum of Art will host a “Hood Highlights Tour” from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. This in-person tour will take museum-goers through featured exhibits such as “¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphic, 1965 to Now” and “Social Surrealism and the Exploration of Identity.” The tour is open to the public and free of charge.

New Haven-based band Canopy will play a show at Sawtooth at 9 p.m. Canopy incorporates several genres into their music, including rock, psychedelic funk, blues and jazz. Tickets are available to order in advance on the Sawtooth website for $5.

Sunday, May 14

The Hopkins Center will screen “Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition” at 4 p.m. in Loew Auditorium. The flm, directed by David Bickerstaf, is a behindthe-scenes look at the largest collection of Johannes Vermeer’s work ever compiled in one exhibit, with 28 of his remaining 35 pieces. The flm includes commentary by the Rijksmuseum director and curators who organized the exhibit. Tickets are available to purchase on the Hop’s website at $12 for general admission and $5 for students.

At 7 p.m. in the Cube, Displaced Theater Company will perform The Antipodes by Annie Baker. A production about seven writers attempting to write a story, The

Art History and Music

FSP students re ect on their experiences abroad

BY Ramsey Ash The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on May 8, 2023.

While Hanover and the Upper Valley may have vibrant arts scenes in their own regard, each year Dartmouth students who crave more than what Hanover has to ofer participate in Foreign Study Program (FSP) experiences tailored specifcally to the arts. This spring, 12 students traveled to Rome to study Art History with professor Ada Cohen and professor Steven Kangas from Dartmouth’s art history department. Likewise, 14 students forwent a Hanover spring for the opportunity to study in Vienna with music professor Sally Pinkas. In addition to Dartmouth faculty, both programs were supported by local professors and staf at onsite facilities in each respective city.

These programs offer Dartmouth students the unique encounter with arts abroad, and oftentimes, in their most original contexts. Anne Guidera ’25 shared that their FSP experiences were quite diferent from those of their time in arts courses at Dartmouth.

“At Dartmouth, it can sometimes be harder to appreciate what you’re learning about in the classroom,” said Guidera. “However, when you’re able to see [these works of art] in their original context … it adds a lot to the experience and understanding.”

The bulk of learning takes place on site visits to the art which that class will be about, and features student presentations, faculty commentary and group discussion in the presence of the works at hand. In addition to the signifcance of being physically present with the art, Guidera shared that the Art History FSP has made them even more engaged in appreciating art in their new everyday lives in Rome.

“Even when we’re not in the actual class time frame, we are always thinking about the things we have studied in our classes and are engaged in the art history and architecture that surrounds us in Rome,” said Guidera. “For example, today, my friend and I just went to the Pantheon, just for fun, and outside of class time, and while we were there, we found ourselves analyzing the design, materials, and signifcance of this masterpiece.”

Similar to Art History FSP students in Rome, Music FSP students in Vienna contrasted their experiences on the FSP with those in other Dartmouth courses in the arts. Sasha Usher ’25, a student studying violin and voice on the Music FSP, detailed the immersive element of their experiences thus far.

“Professor Pinkas has worked hard to craft a diverse lineup of concerts which we attend approximately 4-times per week and [we] have had the privilege of attending concerts at most of the major concert venues in Vienna, and some in other parts of Austria, as well,” said Usher.

Antipodes provides each character with a turn to tell stories. Displaced Theater Company is Dartmouth’s frst and only completely student-run contemporary theater company. The Antipodes has a content warning for explicit language, sexual themes and mentions of suicide.

Wednesday, May 17

Dartmouth Operal Lab presents “Cornucopia: Richness Abounds,” at 7:30 p.m. at Church of Christ at Dartmouth College. The end-of-term recital will feature the students of MUS 50.4, “Opera Lab” performing works from classical musical theater, popular and international canons, sung in English, Italian, French and Mandarin.

At 8 p.m. in Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth’s Handel Society & Glee Club present an open rehearsal, the frst of their two concerts. The next concert will occur at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 18 at Rollins Chapel. The Handel Society consists of nearly 100 vocalists including Dartmouth students, staff and faculty, while the Dartmouth Glee Club has approximately 40 Dartmouth student choir singers. For this performance, the Handel Society and Glee Club will collaborate with professional soloists and instrumentalists to perform Requiem Masses by French composers Fauré and Durufé. Tickets are available for purchase on the Hopkins Center’s website

for $15 and $5 for Dartmouth students.

Bluegrass musician Stash Wyslouch will perform at Sawtooth at 8 p.m. Wyslouch is a singer and songwriter known for his “fat-picking” on the guitar — a popular bluegrass and folk technique. Guitarist Billy Strings commended Wyslouch’s ability to break “musical boundaries by doing things that just don’t seem possible on acoustic instruments.” Tickets are available on the Sawtooth website for $12.

Thursday, May 18

From 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Irving 80, the Virtual Publics in the Memosphere — a Humanities project composed of a First Year Seminar, Memetics Working Group, Conference and Exhibit — will host a Q&A with Ryan Milner. The discussion will focus on Milner’s 2016 publication “The World Made Meme” and the ways in which internet cultures have changed.

From 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Wren Room in Sanborn House, “How to Do Things with Media: Interventions in Nineteenth-Century Studies” — a Venn Grant funded workshop within the Leslie Center for the Humanities — will present a public keynote panel. The panel will feature Richard Menke, Gabriella Safran and Richard Taws.

In collaboration with the Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective as a part of the Asian Diaspora on Screen

series, the Hopkins Center will screen the flm “First Cow” at 7 p.m. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow” is a Western set in the 1820s focused on the friendship between the kind-hearted cook, Cookie (John Magaro), and King Lu (Orion Lee). Tickets can be bought on the Hopkins Center’s website for $8 and $5 for Dartmouth students.

The Hood Museum will host the Manton Foundation Annual Orozco Lecture “From Terra Nova to Aztlán: The Politics of Territory in Latinx Printmaking” from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the museum’s Gilman Auditorium. According to The Hood’s website, the University of Notre Dame assistant art history professor Tatiana Reinoza will speak on the current “nativist and xenophobic discourses” prevalent in printmaking, “critiquing the medium’s historical complicity in the colonization of the Americas.” The talk will also consider José Clemente Orozco’s mural “The Epic of American Civilization.” This event is free to the public and no tickets are required.

Before the Handel Society & Glee Club’s second concert, Director Filippo Ciabatti will host a pre-show discussion at 7 p.m. in Baker Berry Library. This 30 minute talk will provide an opportunity to learn more about the group’s spring program before the concert at 8 p.m. in Rollins Chapel. This talk is free of charge and does not require a ticket.

Review: Lizzy McAlpine’s Boston performance exhibited her versatility

In addition to the new experiences with the arts, students’ experiences with cultural immersion in their respective cities adds a vital element to the arts education. Sophie Wiener ’25 highlighted the signifcance of studying art history in Rome.

“Rome is a super special city because you can experience the various palimpsests of art that exist in the city, ranging from ancient art and architecture to art from the early classical period,” Wiener said. “We constantly fnd ourselves running into important pieces of art in our everyday life in Rome.”

These programs have allowed students to encounter pieces of art in their true context. Furthermore, an emphasis on introducing classical music to young people has been key in sustaining the vibrant classical music scene which they have experienced frsthand.

Emma Ratchford ’25 shared the signifcance of studying music in Vienna, a town which has produced many of the classical music icons.

“There’s a deeper appreciation for classical music [in Vienna], notably the history of this place and the people who have lived and performed here. The added layer makes this experience all the more special,” Ratchford said.

While both groups of students found the educational aspects of their respective FSPs to be engaging and immersive, they also ofered insightful commentary on important experiences outside of the classroom.

“In and outside of the classroom, there is a lot of collaboration going on because we are all living together which builds close relationships, and in the classroom, one of our courses is entirely focused on group presentations, so we’re always developing the skills to work collaboratively with other [art history] students,” Guidera said.

The FSP programs have provided opportunities for closer connections to both faculty and students. Collaborative environments have been established by exploring Rome, Vienna and their surrounding cities through feld trips with the professors and fellow students, all while engaging in discussions and inquiries with them about the art which they visit.

“We have all gotten super close with each other on the program — many of us meeting one another for the frst time in meetings preparing for Vienna,” said Ratchford. “We share meals and experiences outside of the FSP and enjoy collaborating artistically with each other in classes and assignments as well.”

The FSPs in both Vienna and Rome not only created an immersive experience to teach about the vitality of art and music, but imbued its students with a renewed sense of purpose and consideration as their abroad experience nears its end.

“This experience has reminded me of how important music is in my life and has allowed me to pause for a minute and reevaluate how I imagine music existing in my life, at Dartmouth and beyond,” Usher said. “It has inspired me to let music have a larger role in my life, and for that I am really grateful.”

BY Caitlin FitzMaurice

The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on May 8, 2023.

By 6 p.m., on May 1, a line of teenagers clad in foral maxi skirts and leather jackets snaked past the drunken pre-game chaos of Fenway’s sportthemed bars, over the David Ortiz Bridge and onto the urban side-street past it. Boston’s House of Blues wouldn’t open their doors until 7 p.m., but these devoted concert-goers bided their time, happily sacrifcing an hour to secure a spot on the General Admission foor to see Lizzy McAlpine. Amidst Fenway’s boisterous atmosphere, as Red Sox fans fltered into the neighboring stadium, the hum of whirling anticipation and wistful melodies echoed down Lansdowne Street, outside the stadium’s high green walls.

Twenty-three year old singersongwriter Lizzy McAlpine has released two studio albums since her time at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The most recent — “fve seconds fat” — gained praise and popularity through various social media platforms, especially on TikTok. Her success on TikTok was apparent in the crowd’s demographic at House of Blues, the eighth venue in her “The End of the Movie” tour. It was challenging to spot anyone over the age of twenty-fve, with the rare exception of a stray parent-chaperone. McAlpine’s songs dissect relatable themes like young love, heartbreak and selfdiscovery, converting difcult emotions into something that feels cinematic to the teenage experience. In her concert, McAlpine exhibited a strong stage presence that supported the emotional authenticity of her lyricism and proved the technical accomplishments of her music. Playing her songs with a new rock twist, McAlpine gave concert-goers rare experience by changing the style of her performance.

The crowd pushed and stood on its tiptoes as we watched the crew construct an elaborate stage once opener Olivia Barton had fnished her short but moving set of melancholy tunes that prepared

our poor hearts to be further broken, in the best way, by McAlpine. Beyond the typical drum set, keyboards, guitars, etc, the crew arranged a large green velvet couch, several lamps and a wall partitioned by two pane windows and vintage movie posters. While observing this process, I readied myself for a dramatic performance that would match the intensity of McAlpine’s music. Her performance defed and surpassed my expectations.

She began her set with “an ego thing” which sent the audience into a furry of excited screams that were only stifed at the sound of McAlpine singing. Through its combative message and clipped phrases, “an ego thing” contrasted the second song “Over-the-Ocean Call,” which is a heart wrenching ballad that McAlpine and the band performed with a rock twist. The intensity built as the bridge rose to a crescendo: “I’m fne, I’m fne, I’m fne/ I’ll call from over the ocean.” She continued this dynamic of altering between calm and intense through her next three songs “all my ghosts,” “frearm” and “doomsday.”

The tone of the songs shifted from their recorded versions — they embodied a style more akin to rock than pop. McAlpine’s performances made space for the band to shine through with additional guitar solos and increased volume on all instruments, creating a tangible sonic atmosphere. At some points, the sheer passion and skill of the musicians almost overpowered McAlpine in volume and in focus, but I was not too bothered by this; the band was spectacular and brought a sharp edge to the singer-songwriter’s performance. The volatile mood within the music also kept the audience engaged, leaving us uncertain of what to expect from even the most familiar songs. In the span of a few seconds, McAlpine and the band could bring us from tears in response to her vulnerable vocals of all-too-relatable lyrics, to jumping and screaming those same words again and again until they lost all meaning.

The set list featured three unreleased songs — “broken glass,” “I guess” and “drunk running” — and an exciting announcement that there is another

album in the works. “broken glass,” my favorite of the three unreleased, haunted the audience with its swelling minor and slightly discordant melody and its violent, vivid lyrics. The opening line — “broken glass on the table/ pick it up, hold it to your throat” — elicited gasps from audience members. McAlpine later prefaced “drunk running” by telling us it had never been played live before, admitting “we don’t have any click [track] or anything; we’re really just rawdogging it.” Despite this preamble, McAlpine and the band delivered a cohesive and captivating frst performance of the ballad.

The infuence of her formal music education was present in her controlled vocals and casual confdence onstage, but it especially shone through during certain moments. Before playing “I guess,” she taught the audience a relatively simple three-line melody to sing during the song’s bridge, teaching us in a manner reminiscent of my high-school choral conductor. McAlpine’s performance of “erase me” — supported by her band and recordings of her voice singing complex harmonies — served as a microcosm for her entire body of work. It was enjoyable and easily-digestible to the audience, but not at the expense of its more musically interesting and experimental qualities. During the concert, I felt McAlpine was not the center of the show as much as she was a conduit for her music — while she possessed a tangible stage presence, she spared us many of the theatrics of a usual concert, heightening the concert as she allowed the music to speak for itself.

I particularly appreciated that, at its core, this concert was a love letter to Boston, my home city. McAlpine referenced the city’s impact on her work multiple times throughout. In her introduction for “drunk running” she refected that “it’s crazy because so many songs that I have written have memories based in Boston. All of these songs are tied to Boston somehow.” She also mentioned how she recorded her frst album not far from the venue, during her time at Berklee, and introduced another song, “called you again,” with the statement “this song is about the 7/11 on Mass Ave.” This connection the audience shared with McAlpine made the songs feel even more special, like we possessed some unique personal connection to her music, or like we played some role as a part of the surroundings that shaped her musical journey.

Lizzy McAlpine performed a spectacular concert that both exemplifed her musical aptitude and enchanted the audience. An up-and-coming artist, I see a promising future for her as she continues to build her body of work and hone her sound. McAlpine not only excels with her impressive and ever-growing discography, but in her ability to put on an amazing performance by enhancing her music with new twists in the live versions.

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e Look Ahead: Week 7

BY CAROLINE YORK

The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, May 12

Men’s and women’s track and field will travel to Boston for the New England Championship. Last weekend, the women’s team took home fourth and men’s finished sixth.

DJ Matusz ’25 and Julia Fenerty ’23 were both named The Richards Group Athletes of the week after winning their respective 800 meter races last weekend in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship.

Saturday, May 13

Men’s and women’s track will finish off competition at the New England Championship. Men and women’s track will also participate in the Last Chance Meet in New Haven.

Baseball will play a double header at Sacred Heart University at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. These games will conclude the 3-36 season for the Big Green. Last weekend, the team lost

two of three games against Cornell University. Dartmouth won 3-2 in the last game with Clark Gilmore ’24 and Jack Metzger ’23 having strong pitching performances to deny the Big Red a series sweep.

Sunday, May 14

Women’s rowing will wrap up its season at the Ivy League Championship on Lake Quinsigamond. On April 30, the team competed in the Women’s Eastern Sprints Invitational, with three crews advancing to petite finals. The Third Varsity Eight secured a victory in its final and the Big Green took home an overall 11th place finish out of 18 teams.

Men’s lightweight and heavyweight rowing will travel to Worcester, Massacussetts for the Eastern Sprints.

The heavyweight team last competed in the Lake Morey Invite on April 29 and 30, and the team won several races to capture the Bill Cup. The lightweight team most recently fell to Cornell in the Baggaley Bowl on April 29. The team has yet to win a race this season.

Baseball wins last game in series against Brown University

the crowd. Gilmore pitched his frst collegiate complete game and was the frst Big Green pitcher to do so this season. He gave up no earned runs and did not even think about giving up a walk.

Krewson’s bat was already heated up from the previous games against Brown and was able to bring in the frst run for Dartmouth in the frst to give his starter some leeway.

After giving up a double to the leadof hitter in the frst, Gilmore got the next three outs with two of those being strikeouts.

Gilmore was putting on a show in the second inning as he caught two behind the back balls on back-to-back pitches. The frst one was a groundout that made the Sport Center Top 10 that day and the other was a hard-hit liner that showcased Gilmore’s fast refexes.

BY AVA POLITIS

Dartmouth Staff

This story was orginally published on May 8, 2023.

On Saturday, April 29, despite falling behind in the two frst games against Brown University, Dartmouth was able to preserve through the third and take their frst Ivy League win with an extraordinary pitching performance by Clark Gilmore ’24. With their weekend win, Big Green baseball ended their 27 game losing streak. Head coach Bob Whalen was happy that his team took a win away from the past weekend.

“Me and the staf of course were proud of them,” Whalen said. “We were able to continue to play a little bit better through the weekend and I was pleased that they were reinforced with a win.”

The Big Green entered their series against the Bears with a 25 game losing streak. In hopes of turning the tables, captain Trystan Sarcone ’22 took the mound on Friday, as the game had to be moved up due to the weather conditions.

The Bears started the series of swinging as they put up 10 runs by the end of the ffth inning. Most of those runs came in during the bottom of the second inning as Brown hit a homer, double and three singles. A solo home run came in the third and back-to-back triples in the ffth.

Elliot Krewson ’25 did the heavy lifting for the Big Green as he slapped a single into left center feld in the sixth to bring in Tyler Robinson ’24 for the frst run for the Big Green. He added another run onto the scoreboard in the eighth as he smashed his frst career home run.

Captain Kolton Freeman ’23 batted in the only other run for the Big Green as

the fnal score was 11-3.

Heading into Murray Stadium the next game, pitcher Devin Milberg ’24 started his fourth game of the season. Milberg pitched three scoreless innings to start of the second game. Even though he had an easy 1-2-3 frst inning, he pitched his way out of a bases loaded jam as he struck out the next two batters.

The Big Green were the frst to get on the scoreboard this time, as Milo Suarez ’26 scored on the throw to catch Connor Bertsch ’23 stealing second in the second. Robinson scored on a double play in the sixth to give the Big Green a 2-0 lead.

However, a four-run seventh inning for the Bears put the Big Green in a position they could not come back from as Brown took the second game 4-3.

Facing the chance at a 28 game losing streak, Gilmore took the mound and put on a marvelous performance that stunned

“It’s something I have been doing as a kid,” Gilmore said. “It just so happens that it’s now become natural.”

In the fourth, Gilmore forced Brown to waste a lead-of triple. However, the Bears scored one run in the ffth that was unearned in order to tie the game 1-1.

The Big Green refused to leave their pitcher high and dry as Robinson was hit by the pitch in the seventh with the bases loaded to get the Big Green back on top.

Working with a 2-1 lead, Gilmore had an easy 1-2-3 seventh. The Big Green tried to add more in the eighth as they loaded the bases but the strong Brown pitching staf prevented them from doing anymore damage. Gilmore continued his brilliant performance in the eighth as he forced the Bears to leave two men stranded on the bases.

With 98 pitches, Whalen believed in his starting pitcher to fnish the game and

end the Big Green’s slump.

“Clark really helped himself by minimizing the number of runners on base,” said Whalen. “That was what allowed him to keep his pitch count reasonable which allowed us to extend him more than he’s ever gone before.”

Falling behind 3-0 on the frst batter, Gilmore got him to pop-out and was then granted a fast out with a fyout to Robinson. The Bears were down to their last out, but the next batter singled to keep their hopes alive. However, Gilmore shut that down fast as Robinson caught the fnal out to give the Big Green their frst Ivy League win of the season. Gilmore totaled fve strikeouts and threw 109 pitches in order to bring a win for the Big Green.

“I had a smile from ear to ear,” Gilmore said. “I pumped my fst a few times and gave my catcher, Zackarie Casebonne, a big hug.”

Teammates Zackarie Cassebone ’25 and Jackson Hower ’25 were very impressed with Gilmore’s performance.

“It was exciting that we were able to put a complete game together,” Casebonne said. “We were proud of Clark, he really gave us a shot.”

“I don’t think anybody was surprised how he pitched,” Hower said.

This past weekend, the Big Green competed in a series against Cornell University at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park to celebrate Senior day. Paralleling their matchup against Brown, Dartmouth lost the frst two games, while winning the third game of the series 3-2.

Dartmouth is now 3-36 overall. They will play their last two games of the season this weekend in Fairfeld, Conn. against Sacred Heart University starting on Saturday, May 13 at 11:30 a.m.

Dartmouth Athletics names Sammy McCorkle as interim football head coach for 2023 season

BY LANIE EVERETT

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

This story was orginally published on May 10, 2023.

On Monday, Dartmouth Athletics

officially named Sammy McCorkle as interim head football coach, according to a press release from Haldeman Family athletics and recreation director Mike Harrity. The announcement promptly followed the completion of the football team’s spring training on May 6 with the Green and White scrimmage.

“[McCorkle] has kept everyone within the program focused and purposeful as we prepare to compete for another Ivy League title this fall and make Buddy proud,” Harrity wrote.

McCorkle fills in for former Robert L. Blackman head football coach Buddy Teevens, who continues to recover from a severe bicycle accident that occurred in March.

The press release stated that both the football coaching staff and players were “enthusiastic” to hear of McCorkle’s promotion. Family members of Teevens and his wife, Kirsten Teevens,

have also shared support for McCorkle in the role. McCorkle will soon address the Dartmouth community about his vision and goals for the upcoming fall season, according to the press release.

Previously, McCorkle served as acting head football coach through spring training, which began on April 4 and ended on Saturday with the annual Green and White scrimmage, pitting Dartmouth’s offensive and defensive players against each other to showcase players’ abilities.

The scrimmage concluded with the announcement of the upcoming season’s team captains: Nick Howard ’23 and Quentin Arello ’23 — who will stay on as fifth years — as well as Tevita Moimoi ’24 and Macklin Ayers ’24.

McCorkle has spent the last 18 years at Dartmouth coaching players as defensive secondary, special teams and most recently as associate head coach.

Dartmouth’s first game of the 2023 season is scheduled for Saturday, September 16 at the University of New Hampshire for the Granite Bowl. It will mark the first time the Big Green has debuted a new head coach since 2005.

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Professors Discuss The Use of ChatGPT in The Classroom

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By Marius DeMartino

This article was originially published on May 10, 2023.

It is no secret that OpenAI’s artifcial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, is transforming the academic landscape especially due to its applications in coding and writing. Only a few months after its release, ChatGPT’s usage has become widespread, and Dartmouth professors are feeling the pressure to make a decision on the new technology’s role in the classroom.

Quantitative social sciences professor Feng Fu said he welcomes ChatGPT with open arms, allowing his students to “use it to what extent they want,” as long as they “provide the prompt history as part of their assignment.”

“ChatGPT is just a semantic search engine to get it to do really awesome work, you frst have to write a really good prompt,” Fu said. “If we keep everything transparent, there is no such potential for cheating. It becomes more about how we ask questions: We have to provide it with the substance, and it will help polish or streamline the argument.”

However, other professors, such as government professor Jeremy Ferwerda, said they feel wary of ChatGPT’s impacts on examinations.

“I think it changes certain types of assessments certain types of questions are not practical in the ChatGPT world, like short identifcation questions,” he said. “Assessment methods will have to change, which for now means a shift to handwritten [exams] as an emergency response.”

Ferwerda also acknowledged that ChatGPT presents “a clear advancement in tech that will boost productivity,” yet he added that similar to other developments in technology, it will cause “disruptions.”

“It’s not something you can stop and we sort of have to adapt to it there’s no putting the cat back in the bag,” he said.

For English and creative writing professor James Dobson, adjusting to the presence of ChatGPT requires a fundamental rethinking of how professors are teaching and why they are assigning their students certain tasks.

“We need to focus on creating an environment where students want to engage,” Dobson said. “I’ve talked to a lot of faculty who are deeply concerned about

it and my question to them is always, ‘Why are you assigning writing if you’re concerned that your students are committing academic misconduct? And are you properly providing them with the feedback and attention they need to feel like that writing is meaningful for them?’”

As the professor’s opinions on the multifaceted impact of ChatGPT varied, so did their methods of adapting to ChatGPT’s presence in the classroom.

Ferwerda said that a shift in the academic model will be necessary as the capabilities of AI continue to expand.

“Many responses [to ChatGPT] discount whether this tool is really a threat to traditional instruction,” he said. “[Open

language software] might become [more] capable in a couple years, and we have to think about what that means for what we assess and what skills we are trying to impart.”

Going beyond just present-day students, Ferwerda said he is particularly concerned about the impacts ChatGPT will have on the education of middle and high school students down the line.

“My biggest concern is actually not current [college] students, but when people use [ChatGPT] in middle or high school what sort of research or writing skills they will have,” Ferwerda said. “We’re asking people not to use it for certain tasks, but we’re assuming a set level of writing or analysis

ability, and that may change as people are outsourcing that earlier in their education.”

Fu, however, said that he thinks ChatGPT and other open language models could also act as “a tremendous equalizer,” especially in technology.

“It gives such knowledge to everyone… who may be scared of coding or programming,” he said. “They don’t have to chase someone to ask questions. It’s a tremendously useful tool, like a calculator.”

Dobson’s opinion about ChatGPT lies somewhere in between Fu’s argument for complete integration of the software and Ferwerda’s hesitancy and call for assessment changes. More specifcally, Dobson argued against “knee jerk responses” to ChatGPT.

The Not So Sacred Right to Vote

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By Bennett Mosk

This article was originally published on May 10, 2023.

Every other November, New Hampshire voters wait with bated breath for the state election results of their beloved Granite State. Over the last few election cycles, one question has bubbled to the surface: Should out-of-state students have the right to vote in New Hampshire elections? As of now, the law allows out-of-state students to vote in New Hampshire state elections by registering to vote through demonstration of identity, age, and citizenship, as well as documentation that shows you live in campus housing. Contention, however, runs deeper than party lines.

Some New Hampshirites decry this facet of state law, emphasizing that out-of-state students are merely temporary members of the New Hampshire community, thus not deserving of a say.

This concern resonates with Ferielle Fenichell ’26, who highlighted how students may not feel the impacts of their own vote.

“Voting on matters can have a long term impact on the state, and a lot of students won’t feel the repercussions of their vote,”Fenichell said. “If you are somebody who holds the right to vote near and dear to your heart, you are defnitely going to feel more passionate about it in your home state against a state you’re not really tied to [besides] education.”

As an out-of-state student, Emma Troost ’24 said the idea of voting in New Hampshire and impacting New Hampshire feels “uncomfortable.” As a result, she said she votes by absentee ballot in her home state of Michigan.

“I wouldn’t feel right making a decision that could impact someone who is a lifelong New Hampshire resident,” Troost said.

However, in addition to concerns about the impacts of student votes, college student voting rights have also been limited due to another area of scrutinization: Voter fraud. Recently, the Republican

Party focus has shifted heavily towards tightening voting laws under the claim of widespread voter fraud. Specifcally, advocates link the allowance of student IDs as permissible forms of ID with an increase in fraudulent voters. In New Hampshire,

G.O.P lawmakers proposed a bill this year that would have hindered voting access for out-of-state college students, but this bill did not pass committee.

State representative and government professor Russel Muirhead, D-Grafton, who resides on the House’s Election Law Committee, frmly disagreed with this assessment. Muirhead said fraud is not the problem with the American voting system.

Rather, he emphasized how the U.S. needs to focus on incentivizing citizens to show up at the polls and ease barriers residents face to voting. According to Muirhead, many struggle with the time commitment of registering to vote, assembling the right documents and missing out on a day of paid work.

“The idea that American democracy is marred by large scale voter fraud is at best, a fantasy, at worst, a lie,” Muirhead said.

“The real challenge, I think, for the health of American democracy, is to make voting more accessible, especially for working people.”

This message is especially poignant when considering college students.

Muirhead emphasized the idea that students are voting fraudulently is “preposterous.”

“It’s very difcult to motivate students to vote. They have a lot going on in their lives many are working to support themselves while taking class,” he said.

“Figuring out where to vote, how to vote, is its own challenge, so few students are actually voting.”

According to a verbal poll of 43 Dartmouth students on April 27, of those who responded, only 45% voted last November. In addition, out-of-state students were asked if they would vote by absentee ballot in their home state if

legislation passed that limited their ability to vote in New Hampshire. Of those who previously voted, roughly 60% agreed that they would make the efort to do so.

In September 2017, New Hampshire legislature passed Senate Bill 3, requiring newly-registering voters to provide proof of residency in the state before casting a ballot. This bill signifcantly hindered Dartmouth students from voting as New Hampshire citizens. Then, in April 2020, the New Hampshire State Supreme Court struck down this law, deeming it “unconstitutional.” According to Muirhead, the law was “explicitly aiming at disenfranchising Dartmouth and UNH students,” but he emphasized how Dartmouth students helped advocate against the legislation.

“Dartmouth students were absolutely essential to the fght against SB 3,” he said.

“I think there are a lot of Republicans that recognize the rights of students to vote in the state, and I do not see this right being confronted, or attacked, in a really powerful way. But the fght goes on.”

Evidently, the fght for student voting rights does not lie between Democrats and Republicans. Instead, the rift runs between inclusivity and disenfranchisement.

Further, Muirhead said he celebrates that the New Hampshire election law committee has successfully fought against infringement upon student voting with bipartisan support since Senate Bill 3 was passed. Many bills, such as House Bill 405 (2021), which sought to prohibit out-of-state students from voting in New

“Either adding [ChatGPT] to all of our classes or developing AI-proof assignments are both not correct positions,” Dobson said. “There are certainly places for that particular tool. There’s no escaping them we have to learn to live with them, and maybe hesitate before we run into using those tools.” Considering that it has been less than a year since the release of ChatGPT, it’s unclear how it will change the landscape of academia, but it is certain that Dartmouth will somehow have to evolve.

As Ferwerda put it, “It’s kind of a scary, uncomfortable conversation without clear answers right now, but having these discussions should be on the table for the institution.”

Hampshire, or House Bill 460 (2023), which attempted to eliminate the student ID as a permissible form of ID for voter registration, have been defeated in the New Hampshire Election Law Committee.

Although the Election Law Committee plays a powerful role in voting legislation, residents of New Hampshire, including students, can have a voice in these issues according to Fiona Hood ’26, a political director for the Dartmouth Democrats. She emphasized the importance of students joining in on the cause. “You can always voice your opinions. Call your legislators’ ofce or write them a letter. I mean, that is a little bit of extra efort,” Hood said. “But in numbers, it really goes a long way, especially when it’s from the voices of young people.”

HANNAH LI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF