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Burglary, written Green Key sees fewest arrests in threat reported at four years after policy changes KDE sorority By ANTHONY ROBLES The Dartmouth Staff
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A g raphic message threatening sexual violence was found inside Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority house Wednesday night. According to a campuswide email sent Wednesday night by Safety and Security, the department responded to a report of a possible burglary at a sorority house
around 7:50 p.m. that day. In the email, interim Safety and Security director Keysi Montás said a written message had been left that was “obscene and threatened sexual violence.” According to sources familiar with the incident, the message was found in the house’s basement. The SEE BURGLARY PAGE 2
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Safety and Security interim director Keysi Montás said that from Wednesday to Saturday, the department responded to 90 incidents. Last year, Safety and Security saw 88 incidents. Montás said that 18 were on Wednesday, 13 were on Thursday, 41 were on Friday and 18 were on Saturday. Montás said that the department dealt with six students over the course of those days whose state of intoxication did not warrant transportation to SEE GREEN KEY PAGE 2
EBAs closes following recent profit losses
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Green Key weekend arrests by the Hanover Police Department reached their lowest total in the past four years at only 10, down from 22 in 2016, 17 in 2015 and 34 in 2014. Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said that the 10 arrests were alcohol-related, with the charges including public intoxication and unlawful possession of alcohol. While all of the arrests involved at least one of these two charges, Dennis said that some of the arrests had
additional charges. Dennis said there were two arrests on Thursday, four arrests on Friday, of which two were at the Green Key concert, four arrests on Saturday and no arrests on Sunday. Three of those arrested over the weekend were College students. “The same amount of Dartmouth students were dealt with, but there [were] less nonDartmouth students from last year to this year,” Dennis said. “I think part of that could be the fact that the concert was only open to Dartmouth students and their guests.”
Following months of financial struggles, local restaurant Everything But Anchovies abruptly closed on May 16. The restaurant was run by EBAs president Maureen Bogosian and her family since 1979 , serving pizza, burgers and wings and more to the Hanover and Dartmouth communities for 38 years. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said she was not surprised
when she heard about the closure due to the changing face of EBAs’ competition. Griffin said that EBAs had been suffering from a loss in pizza delivery business ever since a Domino’s Pizza opened in West Lebanon and began offering delivery until 3 a.m. She added that while the arrival of the restaurant franchise hurt business for other local pizza places such as Ramunto’s Brick and Brew Pizzeria and C&A Pizza, they did not suffer losses as much as EBAs did because
Graduate housing will be assigned to undergrads By JULIAN NATHAN
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Thursday mor ning, dean of graduate and advanced studies Jon Kull announced in an email statement to the graduate student body that the North Park graduate housing will not be available to graduate and professional students this coming fall due to an “unprecedented” admissions yield for the undergraduate Class of
EBAs specialized in the late-night delivery business, which is Domino’s forte. Bogosian declined to comment. A May 5 article in The Dartmouth also reported that EBAs saw a 20 percent decline in late night deliveries following the opening of the Domino’s franchise last fall. Ramunto’s owner Tim Cullen added that Domino’s has corporate software and advertising resources, while EBAs was a local family business.
“They did a lot of late night pizza delivery and Domino’s offers specials upon specials upon specials and ... that’s not the best thing to do,” he said. “I think that you should stand by your product and not necessarily be discounting it all the time. I think that hurt EBAs a lot.” Ramunto’s felt the presence of Domino’s with an initial dip in profits but has since recovered, Cullen said. He added that his business has seen SEE EBAS PAGE 3
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2021. Historically, the 33-apartment, 111-bed housing cluster situated on the northeast corner of campus has housed first-year graduate students, according to g raduate student council vice president Christopher Carroll , who is a postdoctoral candidate in astronomy. In his email statement, Kull SEE HOUSING PAGE 5
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Safety and Security, Ten arrested over Green Key weekend police respond to threat, burglary at KDE said that the barriers were put in place to reduce the likelihood of non-Dartmouth Dick’s House or Dartmouth-Hitchcock students, particularly underage high Medical Center. Another six students school students, attending the concert. were sent to Dick’s House, although In previous years, town officials have two of those students were sent for seen a significant number of highly non-alcoholic reasons. Additionally, intoxicated non-Dartmouth students there were 18 in attendance, many total transports of whom required “...there [were] less to DHMC, of transport to DHMC, which 10 were non-Dartmouth Griffin said. alcohol-related. students from last “It’sabouttryingto Last year, five to control that perimeter 10 people were year to this year.” a little bit better in transported to addition to getting the Dick’s House, word out in the Upper -CHARLIE DENNIS, and eight to Valley that this is not 10 went to HANOVER POLICE CHIEF a party for the whole DHMC. Upper Valley,” Griffin Montás said. “This is not a also said that party for high school one individual students, it’s a party for was taken into Dartmouth students protective and their visitors. It’s custody by Hanover Police over the not an Upper Valley bash.” weekend. Additionally, Griffin said that while Dennis said that the decrease in the number of arrests this year was down arrests could be partially attributed to the compared to those of previous years, the new security measures that were enacted number of emergency medical service this year, which included requiring interactions, which totaled 23, was still concert-goers to wear wristbands on the higher end. Despite this, she said for the first time in an effort to curb that emergency services did not have accessibility to the Friday night concert to transport any more than they could and barriers to prevent entry by Upper handle. Valley residents. Griffin said that the town’s main Hanover town manager Julia Griffin mission was preventing a reoccurring FROM GREEN KEY PAGE 1
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perpetrator’s message described entering the house, accessing sisters’ personal possessions and committing vulgar and offensive acts inside the house with said possessions. The message called the sisters vulgar names, and the perpetrator threatened rape and continued surveillance of the house. Hanover Police Department L i e u t e n a n t S c o t t R at h bu r n confirmed that the department was investigating the incident. While the incident was first reported on May 24, Rathburn said that the time frame for the burglary may go back several days. Rathburn said it was too early in the investigation to give a definitive timeline. “At this point, I don’t have anything further on any potential suspects or motive or anything like that,” Rathburn said. “What we are giving out for information is just some basic safety tips — always being alert, aware of your surroundings, being aware of any strangers. If you’ve got to be out, let somebody know where you’re going or have somebody else with you.” Rathburn said the department made changes in its patrol procedures alongside working with Safety and Security to ensure that extra time was being spent in the area. He did not specify what those procedures were. While Rathburn did not say whether the department was considering the sentence in the message alluding to sexual violence as a legitimate threat, he said that the potential suspect could have broken into the house with the intention of committing such a crime. R at h bu r n a d d e d that an additional message was found written in the house but could not expand further. Although he stated that the department had formulated a theory as to how the burglary at KDE had occurred, Rathburn did not divulge that information because of the ongoing investigation. A d d i t i o n a l l y, R a t h b u r n confirmed that the department was investigating a reported burglary near the West Street area, though he did not believe that the incident was connected to the incident at KDE. Dean of the College Rebecca Biron and Provost Carolyn Dever
sent a campus-wide email in response to the incident Thursday morning. In the email, Biron and Dever said that the behavior and threatening language included in the message found in KDE had “no place in [the Dartmouth] community.” According to the email, staff from Student Affairs have reached out to KDE, Greek leadership, underg raduate advisor s and concerned students. The email also added that affected students could reach out to counseling staff, undergraduate deans and College chaplains for support. The email urged any students with information regarding the crime to contact Safety and Security or Hanover Police. In an email sent to campus by the Greek Leadership Council on Thursday night, the organization joined “with other organizations in condemning these actions.” The email further stated that the GLC recognized the possibility that the perpetrator of the burglary might be a student of the College, noting that “violence against women on campus, particularly in our Greek Spaces, is unfortunately nothing new.” Student Assembly president Ian Sullivan ’18 and vice president Matt Ferguson ’18 sent an email to campus condemning the incident, which “left many feelings unsafe in their own homes.” They are planning to meet with College President Phil Hanlon to discuss ways to make women feel safer on campus, the email stated. The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault stated that these “deeply disturbing incidents” are “indicative ... of a pervasive rape culture” on campus and “have no place in the Dartmouth community.” The email noted that a photograph of the threatening message has spread via social media and cautioned that such an image is “triggering content and the implications of sharing it can be very damaging.” A KDE representative declined to comment, as did Montás, citing the ongoing investigation. Anyone with information about the incident should contact Safety and Security at (603) 646-6000 or Hanover Police at (603) 643-2222.
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problem over the last few years, namely diverting many of the ambulances in the Upper Valley to transport patients from Dartmouth to DHMC’s emergency room. In 2015, every ambulance in the Upper Valley had to respond to intoxication calls at the College during the concert, she said. “That, to us, was just not going to be acceptable,” Griffin said. “We can’t have every single ambulance in the entire region tied up because, heaven forbid, there’s another medical emergency and somebody can’t get transported because we’re transporting intoxicated students.” As for the barrier, Griffin believes that it will be used during future Green Key concerts because it was a “positive influence” on the event. While town officials have not debriefed College administrators about this new security measure, Griffin believes that the College will see the barrier as something that “helped manage the number of non-Dartmouth students attending the events on Friday.” In an email statement, associate director of the Collis Center for Student Involvement David Pack echoed Griffin’s statement, saying that the initial feedback from Hanover Police and emergency medical services at the concert on Friday was generally positive with regard to the changes and their effectiveness.
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a general uptick in sales from Dartmouth students and faculty since the closure of EBAs. Cullen said that he thinks some of the void left by EBAs will be filled by Ramunto’s and other local restaurants, but he expects Domino’s to continue to get more of the late-night delivery business. While the arrival of Domino’s played a large role in EBAs’ decision to shut down, Griffin said there were other significant factors. The College’s decision years ago to change its term calendar to include a five- to six-week winter break harmed the profits of many Hanover businesses, she said. Following the calendar change, faculty and students leave campus before Thanksgiving and return at the start of the winter term in early January. This reduced profits for EBAs, which had previously seen high profits during November and December. Griffin added the arrival of the College’s late-night food truck also affected EBAs’ business. “The College now has a latenight food truck and on the one hand, trying to meet the needs of students is what Dartmouth Dining Services is all about, but
that was also a sucker punch to is a region of the state that really EBAs, because before Domino’s supports locally grown, locally came in big time and the College owned and homegrown businesses added the food truck, a quarter and we hate to see them lose out of the late-night food delivery to national chains.” market was EBAs,” Griffin said. Griffin said that she is curious “This was a triple whammy that to see whether another restaurant hit the restaurant m o v e s that resulted in “We hate to see into EBAs’ their decision to previouslya big chain stamp close.” held restaurant G r i f f i n s a i d out another locallyspace on Allen that while many because owned business. We Street wondered about of its proximity the timing of the just hate to see that to the College’s a n n o u n c e m e n t happen.” campus. She and decision, it hopes there was ultimately the will be another Bogosian family’s -JULIA GRIFFIN, restaurant collective decision tenant looking to shut down the HANOVER TOWN to locate there restaurant on its MANAGER but doubts own ter ms and that any new timing. restaurant will Griffin said that be looking the loss of EBAs to enter the was particularly disappointing for competitive nighttime delivery the town of Hanover because the corner of the market due to town strongly supports locally- Domino’s presence. owned businesses. Associate dean for student life “We hate to see a big chain Eric Ramsey said that when he stamp out another locally-owned found out EBAs had closed, he business,” Griffin said. “We was shocked and immediately just hate to see that happen. concerned for those who worked No comment on the quality of at the restaurant. Ramsey had Domino’s pizza. It’s just that this placed an order for a Green Key
midnight breakfast event when he caterer that understood students’ was notified that EBAs was closed needs better than a generic and that his order could not be national restaurant chain. fulfilled. H a n ove r re s i d e n t S h e l l ey “I have worked at Dartmouth for Gilbert has gotten her lunch 13 years, and they everyday for were my trusted, the past 30 go-to caterer — “It’s a loss for the town ye a r s f ro m whether it was a in that EBAs served all the salad large formal event bar at EBAs the sports teams; it we were having or and was all of a sudden we was a great place for disappointed needed dinner for young kids to go and when she 30 people in 45 found out minutes, they were be independent and through always the ones to have a meal out, and Fa c e b o o k deliver and deliver that the w e l l , ” R a m s ey they were open late so r e s t a u r a n t said. “They have it was great for college had closed a l w a y s b e e n students.” down. so f lexible and “It’s a nimble and willing loss for the to try anything for -SHELLEY GILBERT, town in that us. I have always EBAs served appreciated the HANOVER RESIDENT all the sports partnership and teams; it was we could not have a great place done so many of for young our events without kids to go and them, so I hope someone steps up be independent and have a meal and fills the significant void that out, and they were open late so it EBAs has left in Hanover.” was great for college students,” Ramsey said that he thinks Gilbert said. “I think it was just most student organizations at the great for the community across College ordered regularly from the board, and it’s a real loss for EBAs because they were a local the town.”
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STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19
Wasted Time
Fraternities and Sublimity
Students need free time to thrive and create. Opportunities for independent creation, the most important of which is simply free time, have become rarer and rarer on college campuses. Dartmouth, like most higher education institutions, would surely like to produce more acclaimed writers, more lauded artists, more successful entrepreneurs and more vaunted musicians. However, the next Donna Tartt or Vampire Weekend is unlikely to come out of institutionalized creativity. Armed with the necessary resources, students will create, not because they are told to, but because they want to. Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, to a certain extent, provides some resources necessary for student entrepreneurs. If nothing else, it organizes a dedicated space and time for creativity. Those same resources may be harder for artists to access. The creative spaces at the Black Family Visual Arts Center are generally open only to those currently enrolled in classes that utilize those specific spaces. Musicians by hobby can be underserved; those not directly affiliated with the music department are limited to some isolated studios in the Jones Media Center and practice rooms in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. On the other hand, resources like the wood shop and jewelry studio are beneficial for students looking to exercise their creative habits. Dartmouth’s student body would benefit from the establishment of more spaces for creativity. It is impossible to institutionalize art or innovation effectively on a college campus. These effects will propagate only when there is an abundance of resources and free time in which students can pursue their interests, passions and whims. Such whims may in fact become the most important work done at the College, but to access those potentialities, Dartmouth’s leadership must step back from objective rubrics of success. It is impossible to guarantee a conventional return on investment from a free flowing of creative impulses, but taking this risk is necessary. Dartmouth should provide necessary resources, step back and let the combination of free time and intellectual and artistic passions flourish. Government professor Julie Rose’s 2016 book “Free Time” addressed many of these concerns. She argued that citizens in any society require free time not devoted to work or to meeting the basic necessities of life. At Dartmouth, the “basic necessities” are the requirements for courses and the heavy extracurricular loads that are expected
of modern college students. Students need, in the words of architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, to “think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” Free time is thus not a reduction in intellectual activity but an increase in such activity in a self-directed and creative situation. Some activities may even seem antithetical to productivity. Is going for a walk around Occom Pond productive? Perhaps not — in the short term. But in the long term, such a walk can generate creative energies, ideas and projects. It can also, simply, clear the headspace of a student who badly needs a break. But students would not gain that creative impetus if they had no free time or severely limited free time. Opening up the option to take walks in nature also opens up the opportunity to grow creatively from those experiences. The same is true of more time spent reading for pleasure, going to films at the Hop or any of a dozen other activities that are not, at face value, “productive.” One way to build greater creative freedom on Dartmouth’s system is through a system of micro-grants to students. By offering students easily accessible grants of $200, $300 or $500 with creative, leisure time-based proposals on how to use the money and a straightforward application process, the College could help build creative potential. The money could be spent on art supplies, for travel to an inspiring destination or production expenses. The returns on these investments will not be immediate, and they may never be crystal clear. Maybe just one student in a thousand will become the next Mindy Kaling ’01, Jake Tapper ’91 or Shonda Rhimes ’91. But by investing in its students’ creativity and individual drive, Dartmouth would allow them to blossom, to build based on their own interests and passions — embracing the College’s potential as an interdisciplinary creative campus and its students’ potential as innovators. Creating a genuinely spontaneous, creative culture where résumé building and structured time are only one part of a more fulfilling and interesting life is essential for Dartmouth. The College should provide resources to creators — then let them create. Attempting to regulate and institutionalize students’ creativity ultimately hurts all involved and creates a less healthy, less fulfilled campus. The editorial board consists of the opinion staff, the opinion editor, both executive editors and the editor-in-chief.
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Finding alternative social spaces within fraternities is vital.
“A sad voluptuousness, a despondent intoxication make up the humdrum backdrop against which our ideals and euphorias oft stand out...” In “Black Sun,” Julia Kristeva connected the euphoric sublime to Sigmund Freud’s notion of melancholia, elaborating upon two theories to understand how our environment and the people around us translate into effects immortalized in our memories. Sublimity was first defined by Immanuel Kant and later Edmund Burke as the greatness of man and coopted by gothic and romantic writers to evoke grandeur and joyous exaltation of emotions in towering gothic mountains and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s scenes of nature. In contrast, Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” describes melancholia as a depressive effect that occurs due to an irreconcilable loss. By intertwining the melancholy with the sublime, Kristeva demonstrated the complexity of various aesthetic experiences, whether it be in the case of art or social interactions. A landscape painting or a commercial movie like “Beauty and the Beast” might be lush and beautiful. But staring at Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” watching Pina Bausch’s terrifying depiction of murderous rituals in “The Rite of Spring” or viewing the strangely elegant cannibalistic scenes in Julia Ducorneau’s film “Raw” create an atypical and contradictory form of beauty and pleasure. At Dartmouth, we are surrounded by stereotypical images of sublimity — lush forests, towering mountains, an expansive clear sky — that have since become trite. While we can always find beauty in nature, there exists a more ephemeral and unexpected site of the melancholy beauty of which Kristeva writes — found in the fraternities and sororities on our campus. From the Alpha Delta-inspired movie “Animal House” to Andrew Lohse ’12’s infamous article in Rolling Stone, the media portrays fraternities as places where young people get excessively drunk and become emotionally numb. While this may sometimes be true, the media exaggerates students’ often mundane, low-key experiences. Even those who go to frats to party hard will eventually undertake a tone of nostalgia instead of numbness in their long term memory of their escapades. In the past, I have critiqued Greek letter organizations for their social and political implications. While I stand by my previous comments and maintain that Greek life can perpetuate a sexually and racially normative culture that remains exclusive to many, I do not think that Greek life is monolithically bad. In fact, the ambiguous aesthetic qualities of fraternities add insight to sublimity in the modern age, while the theory of sublimity can help us understand fraternities as complex social spaces that can be both critiqued and enjoyed. A trend in literary and aesthetic theory right now is breaking down the dichotomy of high and low culture. We saw this in Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win for literature for his bardic music, with the Harvard University student who submitted an honors thesis in the form of a rap album and in art movements like dadaism and abstract expressionism. Kristeva may not have pictured sticky pong tables or literal intoxication when she
wrote on sublimity, but beauty, loss and nostalgia can be found not only in lightness but in darker corners such as the poorly lit ones in Theta Delta Chi. An important quality of the sublime is ephemerality, accounting for its extreme joy as well and inevitable sense of loss. We can always return to Dartmouth and tour the library, walk down Main Street or watch the Homecoming bonfire. But returning to the frat basements for a game of pong is an experience harder to come by and one especially prone to making alumni yearn for their youth. Fraternities and sororities also seem timeless and spaceless, a contradiction that aligns with the duality of the sublime. Some fraternities decorate their basements with street signs, evoking the sense of being in a fragmented city in the middle of a forest. Others don eccentric, mysterious décor, like a picture of a face made with beige masking tape or quotes from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” painted in red. In addition to shaping the unique identity of each fraternity, these decorations create juxtaposition and unexpectedness. At TDX, it is not unusual to hear “Come On Eileen” followed by “Gas Pedal,” “Toxic” and a remix of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” — a strange mix of music that makes sure to evoke nostalgia for anyone, no matter their taste in music. This hodgepodge environment creates a mixture of familiarity and novelty, which enables one to engage in conversation with strangers and enjoy other unexpected, sublime moments. The key aesthetic potential of fraternities lies in the unique ways individuals enjoy fraternities. While fraternities are dominant social spaces, there are ways to find alternative social spaces within the fraternities themselves. My own favorite memory consists of the night when I sat with a small number of brothers and friends in my favorite fraternity, peeling oranges and listening to my favorite jazz album by Chick Corea — almost like a chapter out of a Haruki Murakami novel. At fraternities, you might play a game of pong with a mysterious person that you will never see again, dance uninhibitedly under cover of the dark lights and presence of strangers or share an intimate yet eccentric moment with someone you love. As Theodor Adorno said, beauty is not something definable, and by defining it with formal standards, we forget about the tensions and discomfort that create the best, most complex kind of beauty. Beauty and pleasure are not simple; rather, beauty allows one to reconcile their inner tensions and feelings of duality. For me, part of this discomfort is the knowledge that I enjoy a social space that can sometimes be problematic. We should realize, however, that many of the social issues often linked to fraternities are not particular to the Greek system but are microcosmic problems of society. Adorno wrote, “Mountains are sublime not when they crush the human being, but when they evoke images of a space that does not fetter or hem in its occupants and when they invite the viewer to become part of their space.” Fraternities may not be mountains, but students who spend a night in a fraternity become part of a space full of tensions, contradictions and what Adorno calls radical negativity, forming memories that we will look back on with both sorrow and joy.
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North Park grad student housing to be assigned to undergrads a high probability undergraduate students would begin living in wrote that his office has contacted the North Park residences to incoming first-year g raduate accommodate the unexpectedly students who had been expecting large Class of 2021. Kull said to live in the North Park residences administrators considered other and has worked with the Dartmouth solutions, such Re a l E s t a t e as encouraging Office t o “We left the meeting i n c o m i n g i d e n t i f y feeling like there was members of the alternate Class of 2021 to h o u s i n g not an alternative take g ap year s options. but believed option [being K u l l ’ s c o nve r t i n g t h e announcement considered].” North Park follows recent residences into speculation undergraduate -RACHEL BROG, that the housing was r e s i d e n c e s GRADUATE STUDENT the most viable would no longer COUNCIL EXECUTIVE option available, b e av a i l a bl e according to for g raduate BOARD MEMBER Carroll. students next “ We l e f t t h e fall, according meeting feeling to graduate like there was not student council an alter native executive option [being board member considered],” Rachel Brog , Brog said. who is a Carroll said postdoctoral that he and other candidate in members of the biology. council were Carroll said sur prised when Kull informed the graduate student Kull first told them that this council on May 15 that there was course of action was a possibility. FROM HOUSING PAGE 1
He said converting the residences to undergraduate housing would adversely affect the graduate student body because many graduate students who do not have cars on campus, such as international students, choose to live in North Park residences because they are close to campus. Brog said students who come from other regions of the country might also choose not to bring cars to campus, necessitating housing close to campus. If graduate students without ve h i c l e s c a n n o t l i ve i n t h e residences next year, they might have to rely on the Advanced Transit bus system to travel to and from campus, which is undesirable because the buses suspend service in the evenings and during weekends, Carroll noted. He added that the North Park residences serve as “a center of the graduate community” and help graduate students find friends and meet colleagues in different departments. He said that if graduate students are dispersed throughout Hanover and the Upper Valley, that sense of community will be lost. He said he wished College administrators had consulted the graduate student body for its
input before making the decision, explaining that measures like town hall meetings or surveys might have been useful to find a solution that worked well for both undergraduate and graduate student communities. Brog said that she felt the administration’s lack of consultation with graduate students on this decision is tied to a larger pattern of administrative neglect of the graduate student body. “It feels like graduate students are only a part of the Dartmouth community when it is convenient for the administration, and when issues arise we are automatically pushed out of the community and our opinions don’t really matter,” she said. Carroll said that, to the best of his knowledge, senior College officials did not consult graduate school administrators in their decision-making process. “My understanding [is that] administrators [from the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of the Provost] got together and decided on this course of action without consulting [Kull],” Carroll said. In his email statement to the graduate student body, Kull wrote
that College Provost Carolyn Dever and executive vice president Rick Mills “informed” him of their decision to convert the North Park residences into undergraduate housing, adding that the decision “comes as a disappointment to those of us in the GRAD community.” Before Kull’s announcement, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron said that incoming members of the Class of 2021 will not live in current graduate student housing. When asked whether upperclassmen undergraduates would live there, Biron later wrote in an email that this was a possibility. “We may be able to offer College-owned beds that have not been available for undergraduates before,” Biron wrote. “In a very constrained housing environment, we are exploring all options.” Kull did not respond to a request for comment sent two days prior to his announcement to the graduate student body. Associate director of undergraduate housing Elicia Ro w a n , a s s o c i a t e d e a n o f residential life Michael Wooten and associate dean of student affairs Katherine Burke did not respond to requests for comment.
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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: “Imaging Space Plasmas and Robotic Exploration of the Solar Systems,” with University of Texas San Antonio professor Jerry Goldstein, Wilder Hall 104
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Lecture: “A Community Approach to Insect Behavior,” with Elon University professor Jennifer Hamel, Life Sciences Center 201
TOMORROW
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Film: “T2: Trainspotting,” directed by Danny Boyle, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra performance, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
SUNDAY
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Play: “What Every Girl Should Know,” by Monica Bryne, directed by Virginia Ogden ’18, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Senior Recital: clarinetist Josh Warzecha ’17, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts RELEASE DATE– Friday, May 26, 2017
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Dartmouth Dance Ensemble to showcase new choreography By ELISE HIGGINS
The Dartmouth Staff
This Friday and Saturday, the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble will showcase the choreography that it has been rehearsing all year in its spring performance, “Steps and Sounds.” While the ensemble offered a sneak preview of this weekend’s show in its winter works-in-progress performance, this weekend will be the first time that the public can view the culmination of a year of choreography and rehearsals. The Dartmouth Dance Ensemble,
directed by John Heginbotham, is the sole professionally-run dance ensemble on campus. While students must audition to be in the group, the ensemble welcomes a variety of participants ranging from students to community members. Rebecca Stenn, the choreographerin-residence, said that this diversity of dancers is what makes the ensemble so special. “It’s really cool that we have this very disparate group that joins together to make something really cohesive,” Stenn said.
Kevin Shee, a graduate student pursuing a postdoctorate at Dartmouth, added that he also enjoys the mix of students in the ensemble. “Every person brings something new to the table,” Shee said. Heginbotham added that there has been an increasing number of graduate students participating in the ensemble during his past five years as director. He also said that there are actually many ex-professional or professional dancers studying at Dartmouth, particularly in the Geisel School of Medicine. For example, Philip Montana Med’18
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Members of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble include students and community members.
is one of the choreographers for the spring performance. Shee said he was interested in joining the ensemble as a graduate student because it is professionally run. “It’s kind of the closest thing to a professional experience that I’ve been able to get here at Dartmouth, so I’ve been really involved,” Shee said. Shee added that he has been dancing since he was 5 and was involved in the ballet company at Harvard University while he was an undergraduate there. “I both love [dance], and it’s something to get me through the hard grueling years,” Shee said. Many undergraduate students also search out a more professional type of dance ensemble. Jovanay Carter ’19 said she joined the ensemble because she participated in a dance independent study through the theater department in the fall. Carter said that Dartmouth does not offer many dance classes, so an independent study that included her participation in the ensemble was a great way to pursue her minor. Although she joined the ensemble because of her studies, Carter added that she will most likely to continue to participate in the coming years. This weekend’s performance will showcase seven pieces by four different choreographers. Heginbotham and Stenn have both worked with students to choreograph pieces. In addition, Montana and professional choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie have created pieces. Stenn said that when creating choreography for her dances, she is very inspired by the music. She described her approach to choreography as improvisational; she does not always
know what she wants to do when she walks into the room but rather takes in the people and the energy and goes from there. “Each person really brings to the room something different, something interesting, something from their background that they can share that just kind of weaves into a really exciting creative energy,” Stenn said. Shee added that Stenn really brought out the personal styles of the dancers in her piece. “I think that’s the style that [Stenn] really likes,” Shee said. “What do dancers create themselves, and how can I organize this in a way that makes sense?” Sheealsosaidthatthechoreographers all have different styles, describing Stenn’s movements as unpredictable but organically. Heginbotham moves in a very original manner with many movement parts, Carter added. Carter said that Moultrie’s choreography was very fun. She will be featured in three of Moultrie’s numbers: “The Grand Get Down,” “12 Dances for 11 People” and “As One.” Shee noted that Montana’s work, which is a third edition of choreography he has created in the past, involves lots of partner work and has a lyrical style with flowing movements. Another exciting aspect of the ensemble’s spring performance is that five of the pieces will be performed with live music. Heginbotham said the overarching theme of the show is “collaboration.” This will be translated through the numbers featuring professional musicians including pianist Elizabeth Borowsky and accordionist Nathan Koci as well as a performance with the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble. In addition, a group of eight singers, some of whom are students, will be singing a cappella during a piece called “Verum.” “We were very interested this year to try to bring together other talented people on campus, not just dance, so we really wanted to have this be a collaboration with a lot of musicians,” Stenn said. Shee said that working with live musicians is a whole different experience for dancers, and although he is excited, he is somewhat nervous as well. “I would say it’s more exciting for the audience, and it’s a little more nervewracking for the dancers because it’s hard to anticipate what your cues are going to sound like,” Shee said. Stenn is looking forward to this spring performance, noting this is a very exciting time for the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble. “People in [the ensemble] are interested in taking risks and growing as performers and artists,” Stenn said. The Dartmouth Dance Ensemble will showcase its spring performance May 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. in the Moore Theater.
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TRACK & FIELD AT NCAA EAST PRELIMINARY ROUND 4:30 p.m.
Senior Spring: James Hickok ’17 keeps the dream alive By JONATHAN KATZMAN The Dartmouth Staff
Initial attempts to contact men’s soccer co-captain and starting goalkeeper James Hickok ’17 proved fruitless. Then I received a reply from him saying that he had been on the road in Spain wrapping up a trial with a professional club in Spain. Not a bad excuse by any means. While Hickok’s dream of playing professional soccer has a strong chance of becoming reality after he graduates in June, there was a time during the First Team All-Ivy keeper’s career when the future did not look as bright. Hickok’s Dartmouth soccer career got off to a promising start. The Westport, Connecticut native started 10 games during his freshman year while splitting time with then-sophomore Stefan Cleveland ’16, earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors twice. Without a clear-cut starter as Hickok’s sophomore year approached, men’s soccer head coach Chad Riley decided to rotate keepers again and let competition bring out the best of his backstops. Hickok and Cleveland, who is now a supplemental keeper with Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire, traded off halves during the first two games of the season, but that all changed in what seemed like an instant. “I sat out one game during which [Cleveland] played well, and we ended up earning our first win of the season,” Hickok said. “[Cleveland] basically
started the entire next two seasons, and the team enjoyed tremendous success when he played. My sophomore season was definitely my most difficult time here because I had to adjust to being a full-time backup for the first time. Because we had been in tight competition for so long, it was time for a decision to be made, and unfortunately it didn’t go my way back then.” While it would have been easy for Hickok to accept his position, his focus and motivation only increased. In fact, a significant amount of good did come out of his time on the bench. “The biggest transformation concerned my focus and attitude towards soccer,” Hickok said. “I learned that what was truly important was not how much I contributed in games but rather the mentality with which I approached day-to-day training and embracing my role within the team.” After two years of waiting, Hickok’s patience paid off. He reclaimed the starting job immediately after Cleveland graduated last spring, more excited than ever to get back into action. “I felt that a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders because I no longer had to fight day in and day out for my spot,” Hickok recalled. “I had seen action in 20 games in my career thus far, so I already felt ready to go and did not need to adjust to the feel of games. I was able to enjoy my senior season and the time I spent with my teammates so much more than in years past.” Being the starting keeper during
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this past season’s Ivy League title run also made all his dedication that much sweeter. Hickok said he was filled with a feeling of “pure satisfaction” after the men’s soccer team won its third consecutive Ivy League Championship in 2016. “Being able to win that third championship was so special because it was something I had envisioned since I arrived on campus,” Hickok said. “It was a feeling of true accomplishment because we felt like we had earned that title.” While Hickok acknowledged the individual accomplishments he garnered in the past season, being a part of one of the brightest eras in Dartmouth men’s soccer history is something that he will always remember. He noted a shift in the team’s culture that began in his sophomore year and continues today. “Everybody is now more serious, hard-working and professional about soccer, and the program is on a level from which [Riley] stands to recruit players who want to play pro soccer after college and not just play while they attend school,” Hickok said. “We were all willing to make sacrifices in order to push the program to a new level and wanted to be role models for the younger guys in the program.” The student-athlete experience, one particular to the American university system, also stood out for Hickok during
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James Hickok ’17 is chasing a professional career following a stellar senior season.
his time at Dartmouth. His experience with professional clubs in Scotland and Spain has exposed him to a multitude of professional players who grew up without the viable option of playing collegiate soccer. “The college athletic experience is really special,” Hickok concluded. “Most players overseas do not understand it because they grew up in countries where the system doesn’t exist. Hickok has also seen the unseen rigors of the professional athlete experience. “The guys I met all have families and essentially use soccer as a means
to feed their families,” he said. “That very fact brings about a different edge in the professional ranks. You no longer play alongside your best friends, as I did during my entire career at Dartmouth.” Hickok’s dream of playing professional soccer is still alive and well. He is currently in contact with teams around the globe and believes signing with a professional club will become a reality when the European soccer season kicks off in June. And while he expects stiff competition wherever he plays, he will be that much more prepared to overcome what is in front of him.
Men’s hockey edges then-No. 11 University of Michigan in season opener
The men’s hockey team’s win over the University of Michigan is The Dartmouth’s 2017 moment of the year with 39 votes. With the score knotted 2-2 late in the third period, Cam Strong ’20 looked to have given Dartmouth the lead. After a seemingly interminable video replay, the goal was waved off due to goalie interference. But with the final seconds ticking away, Troy Crema ’17 fired a quick wrist shot inside the far post. The puck got a favorable bounce off the skate of Corey Kalk ’18 and beat the University of Michigan goalie low, giving the Big Green its first win over the Wolverines since 1971.
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Frankie Sands ’19
Frankie Sands ’19 racked up 1,989 votes and is The Dartmouth’s female athlete of the year. The center and captain, in her first season after transferring to Dartmouth from Norwich University, was named a finalist for the Sorensen Award, given to the best collegiate women’s rugby player in the nation. In the fall, Sands was third on the team in points and her seven tries was second-most on the Big Green squad. She was also named as one of the team’s captains for next year. COURTESY OF FRANKIE SANDS
Male Athlete of the Year
Troy Crema ’17 With 811 votes, Troy Crema ’17 is The Dartmouth’s male athlete of the year. Crema erupted during the 2016-17 season to lead the Big Green in nearly every offensive category, including goals, points and shots on goal. In Dartmouth’s regular season opener on Oct. 29, Crema scored the game-winning goal against then-No. 11 Michigan University with 49 seconds left in the final frame. “I can’t thank my teammates enough for giving me confidence and opportunity to perform and have my best year statistically and be a leader on and off the ice,” Crema said.
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