The Dartmouth 04/07/2023

Students accepted to the Class of 2027 respond to increased admissions resources, improved nancial aid

BY Isabelle Han The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on April 6, 2023.

On March 30, the College admitted 1,173 students through regular decision to the Class of 2027, drawing from a record-breaking 28,841 applicants, according to a Dartmouth News article. This year’s application cycle — which saw 2% more applicants apply than the Class of 2026 — marked the third consecutive year in which Dartmouth held a 6% acceptance rate and received more than 28,000 applicants.

The regular decision admits will join 578 students previously accepted in December through early decision and 47 who matched with the College through QuestBridge — a program that assists high-achieving, low-income students in college admissions. According to the College’s announcement, students admitted through regular decision have until May 1 to commit to attending next fall. The College expects an incoming class of 1,150 students.

According to the announcement, the Class of 2027 was the frst class to apply with full access to College application resources — including in-person campus tours, information sessions and high school visits by admissions ofcers — since the Class of 2024 applied in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

In the announcement, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and fnancial aid Lee Cofn wrote that the in-person experience “makes a big diference” in the application process.

Devin Giford ’27, an admitted student from North Yarmouth, Maine, said that her campus visit infuenced her decision to apply and commit to Dartmouth.

“I did an actual tour at Dartmouth, which I think was really benefcial to me

because my tour guide was incredible,”

Giford said. “What was really impressive about her story was the opportunities that she’d been aforded through the alumni network at Dartmouth.”

Despite additional in-person resources, Alan Lam ’27, an admitted student from Atlanta, Georgia, said he chose not to visit campus, citing lingering concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Lam said he learned about the College through online resources, adding that he was excited about economics research, designing his own major and the D-Plan.

“I like how [students are] able to study at Dartmouth for a quarter and then go study abroad, because studying abroad is one of the things that I want to do,” Lam said. “I feel like Dartmouth — with the D-plan — allows you to do that a lot better than some other schools.”

The Class of 2027 was also the frst cohort to apply since the College instituted several changes to fnancial aid, made possible by the Call to Lead campaign — a $3 billion initiative started in 2018 and aimed at cultivating leaders to tackle global issues, according to the campaign’s website.

For the upcoming academic year, Dartmouth will allocate $149 million to undergraduate financial aid, an increase from the current $135 million. The College also eliminated loans from financial aid packages and removed the required parent contribution from families whose earnings and assets fall below $65,000, the announcement stated.

Aubrey King ’27, an admitted student from Hendersonville, Tennessee, said the College’s fnancial aid ofer helped her decide to commit to Dartmouth.

“Compared to other schools, [Dartmouth] offered much better fnancial aid, so it was a much better option and better value,” King said. “I’m just really grateful for this opportunity. It’s not

something that happens to people where I’m from, so being given this chance to attend such a prestigious school — but also such a welcoming community — is a really excellent opportunity.”

The College is also one of seven U.S. institutions — along with Amherst College, Bowdoin College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University — that reports they apply a universal need-blind admissions policy and meet 100% of demonstrated need, regardless of citizenship, according to the announcement. In January 2022, however, plaintifs sued Dartmouth and 16 other colleges and universities for allegedly breaking federal antitrust laws and raising the cost of attendance. In July, the U.S. Department of Justice fled a statement of interest supporting the plaintifs.

According to the College’s announcement, admitted students in the Class of 2027 hail from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 75 nations outside the United States. Moreover, 56% of admitted students attend a charter or public school, and 444 admitted students rank frst or second in their class.

“The admitted cohort sustains the demographic highlights of recent classes,” Cofn wrote in the announcement. “It is a cohort of individuals literally drawn from around the world — and from a rainbow of socioeconomic backgrounds, points of view, ethnicities and geographies.”

The College will host students and families for “Dimensions of Dartmouth” — an open house program in which admitted students spend the day or night with a current student — on April 17 and April 24, the announcement stated. According to an email sent to students, the College has not held the program in-person since 2019.

Students and professors speak out against potential TikTok ban

Community reacts to College’s announcement of recently discovered Native remains

This article was originally published on April 4, 2023.

The announcement last Tuesday that the College had discovered Native remains in its possession felt like a “slap in the face” to the Native community on campus, according to Virginia Snake-Bumann ’24, who is HoChunk from Winnebago, Nebraska. Native students on campus have come together as College administrators begin an external audit to identify Native American remains in its collections and pursue repatriation, according to Hood Museum curator of Indigenous art Jami Powell.

Powell, who became the College’s NAGPRA ofcer, said that the external reviewers are “experts in the feld” who work under the guidelines of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, which mandates that institutions return Native American cultural artifacts to the appropriate federally-recognized tribe or Native Hawaiian organization. Powell said that the College had asked the reviewers to conduct a re-inventory of its collection prior to the discovery of the remains but were unable to do so due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

When Congress initially passed NAGPRA in 1990, the law required all institutions receiving federal funds to submit an inventory of Native American osteological and funerary remains in their possession by 1995, Powell noted. She added that NAGPRA did not allocate funding or provide standards for the inventories, which led to oversights.

“Since the [1990s], there’s been more consistency in terms of the kinds of things that institutions submit to the NAGPRA program,” Powell said. “But in the [1990s] … I think people were more concerned about getting them done on time than requesting more time to make sure that they did it right.”

As Dartmouth’s NAGPRA ofcer, Powell’s efort to ensure compliance with the law precipitated Dartmouth’s most recent review of its collections, which began in fall 2020 and led to the recent discovery of the remains of 15 Native Americans.

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Charlotte Hampton

The Dartmouth Staff

In recent months, lawmakers in several countries, including the United States, have discussed a possible ban on the social media app TikTok, sparking debate among the Dartmouth community.

While the government has cited issues with national security, students and professors have expressed concerns that a potential ban would infringe on First Amendment rights or have limited efectiveness.

On Feb. 27, the White House gave federal agencies 30 days to remove the app from government devices, and two days later, the U.S. House Foreign Afairs Committee advanced a bill that would allow President Joe Biden to ban TikTok nationwide, The New York Times reported. Government professor Sonu Bedi said that the legislation would likely violate the constitutional rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.

“This is going to generate a First Amendment case,” Bedi said. “How do we conceptualize or consider these platforms that are privately run but [create a space for individuals to exercise] First Amendment liberty? That’s the novel question. We’ve never had a situation where these private platforms are ones that are facilitating most

of our First Amendment freedoms.”

Bedi said Packingham v. North Carolina — a 2017 Supreme Court case that dealt with the issue of privatelyowned online platforms acting as a public forum — is relevant to the TikTok debate. According to Bedi, the case establishes that social media functions as a public sphere by facilitating the free and open exchange of ideas, and it should therefore be protected by the First Amendment.

“While in the past there may have been difculty in identifying the most important places, in a spatial sense, for the exchange of views, today the answer is clear,” the Court wrote in its opinion for Packingham v. North Carolina. “It is the cyberspace — ‘the vast democratic forums of the Internet’ in general … and social media in particular.”

While government professor Russell Muirhead recognized potential First Amendment infringements, he said he does not think the threat is dire because he doubts that a ban will be passed at all. Muirhead said the push to ban the app represents “symbolic position-taking,” or a way for legislators to show their electorate that they are worried about China. The U.S. government fears that the app — which is a subsidiary of Chinese

“A lot of the initial inventories that had been completed by institutions had errors both in terms of the number of individuals reported or listed as culturally identifable,” Powell said. “Knowing this, I wanted to work on a re-inventory to ensure that we had reported the correct number of individuals.”

Powell said that due to “discrepancies” in the Hood’s cataloging, the museum had no record of the whereabouts of some ancestors who were listed as missing or withdrawn from the collection. According to the College’s press release on March 28, when the Hood opened in 1985, artifacts from various academic departments were consolidated into its collection “with little or no documentation regarding their movements.”

Upon reaching out to anthropology department chair Jeremy DeSilva, who had been working on a similar inventory of the anthropology department’s collection, Powell and NAGPRA research assistant Emily Andrews ’22 found that bones in the anthropology collection shared catalog numbers with those missing from the Hood’s inventory.

“We were fnally able to connect the dots in mid-November,” DeSilva said.

“When that happened, we immediately went through the entire collection, bone by bone, to identify any that had … College museum accession numbers.”

The College organized a gathering for the Native community to announce the news on Native remains ahead of the

College’s ofcial announcement.

Dartmouth’s strong Native community was the reason Snake-Bumann chose to attend the College, making the news more painful, but the fallout more supportive, she added.

“With all of this happening, I feel like we’ve all kind of grown together in one way or another,” Snake-Bumann said. “I’m just really thankful for our community.”

At the gathering, president Phil Hanlon left the event early, leaving some students feeling unsettled, according to Snake-Bumann.

“[It] didn’t really come of the right way,” she said.

After its 1995 review, the College believed “with good faith” that there were no Native American remains in the collection, according to Provost David Kotz. The initial audit was complicated by a lack of information on the provenance of the remains and changing cataloging systems.

“Dartmouth has been receiving — collecting, or receiving as donations — these kinds of materials for over 200 years,” Kotz said. “Not only were attitudes diferent, perhaps, back then, but also the records of where these things may have come from … were lost. I think what’s happening now is a much more in depth, comprehensive efort to track that down.”

According to DeSilva, the remains discovered by the anthropology department had been part of a teaching collection used in ANTH 43: “Human Osteology” and ANTH 50: “Forensic Anthropology,” both of which have been removed from course oferings as a result of the fndings. He added that the anthropology department has removed all the bones in its teaching collection — including those of non-Native origin — and is working to create a new teaching collection of ethically sourced bones through the Geisel School of Medicine’s anatomical donor program.

“Although this wasn’t deliberate, it is the most recent example of a long history of our discipline causing harm to Native communities,” DeSilva said. “We are committed to making this right … and the only way to assure that this can never happen again is to never again teach with human skeletal remains unless you know exactly where they came from.”

Anthropology major Sydney Hoose ’25, who took ANTH 43 in the fall, said that DeSilva and Powell communicated the discovery to Native students in the class before speaking to the Native community at Dartmouth as a whole. Hoose is enrolled with the Cherokee Nation but also identifes as Skidi Pawnee and Chickasaw.

“They wanted to tell us more personally in a small group because … we were handling our ancestors,” Hoose said. “I’m glad they told us beforehand.”

Hoose added that the professors did not know there were Native American bones in the collection, overtly telling students in the class that there were not. She said that though she was “extremely disappointed” by the news, she appreciates the steps the College has taken to remove the bones from campus and support the Native community.

Beyond auditing the College’s collection and suspending certain osteological classes, the “next step” for Kotz is to create a working group “to coordinate the actual hard work that is ahead.” They are in the process of hiring a project manager to help handle the process of repatriation, which Kotz said may look similar to the 2018 efort to return Inuit bones found in the College’s collection to Nunavik, Canada.

While other institutions like Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley have had similar incidents in recent years, Dartmouth has a specifc obligation

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BY Charlotte Hampton and Shena Han

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Dartmouth Coach bus kills 47-year-old man

that if I went outside and saw what was going on, I would probably freak out.”

Although the bus only experienced an hour-and-a-half delay, Mesropian said she was initially concerned that she was “going to be stuck [at the airport] for the next day.”

“The police came in and said there will be another bus in fve minutes,” Mesoprian said. “And then fve minutes would pass, and there was no bus.”

At the scene, state troopers interviewed the 54-year-old bus driver — who declined medical treatment, documented the scene and inspected the bus, the police report stated. The scene cleared shortly after 8 p.m., the state police wrote. Mesropian added that Terminal B was closed after the accident.

Several groups — including the State Police Detective Unit for Sufolk County, State Police Troop F and the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction, Crime Scene Services and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Sections — are investigating whether “criminal charges are warranted,” according to the report.

New Hampshire House votes to protect abortion rights

BY Varun Swaminathan The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on April 4, 2023.

Last month, New Hampshire state representatives voted on a series of abortionrelated bills in the closely divided New Hampshire House of Representatives. In a win for reproductive rights advocates, the House voted to codify abortion rights up to 24 weeks into pregnancy and remove civil and criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions after that period, according to state legislative records.

BY Isabelle Han

This article was originally published on April 4, 2023.

On March 27, a Dartmouth Coach bus struck and killed Vishwachand Kolla, a 47-year-old man from Lexington, Massachusetts, at Boston Logan International Airport.

The accident occurred at 4:59 p.m. on the Terminal B lower roadway in the arrivals section of the airport, according to a written statement from the Massachusetts state police. Kolla had just emerged from his Acura SUV when the bus made contact with him and “dragged him along” the driver’s side of the car, the statement added. Kolla was picking up his friend, a visiting musician, when he was hit, according to a GoFundMe page organized by friends Priya and Girish Hanchinamani.

According to Noemi Mesropian ’26, a passenger on the Coach at the time of the accident, the bus was en route from Boston Logan airport to Hanover. The bus had left its frst terminal at 4:50 p.m. and was making its way through the airport to pick up additional passengers, Mesropian said. She added that when

the bus arrived in Terminal B, it “turned too close to the car that was next to [the bus].”

“[The bus driver] screamed ‘I think I just hit someone,’ and everyone just freaked out,” Mesropian said. “I saw [the bus driver] fall to her knees.”

Members of the Massport Fire Department and Boston EMS, along with an of-duty nurse who witnessed the accident frsthand, performed “lifesaving measures” on Kolla, the police statement noted. However, Kolla had sustained severe injuries and was pronounced dead on-scene by a paramedic.

The Massachusetts state police wrote that the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, which “regulates the commercial bus industry,” and the Dartmouth Transportation Company, which owns the Dartmouth Coach, also responded to the accident.

After the accident, police interviewed several Coach passengers and told them all to remain in place, Mesropian said. After approximately an hour and a half, the passengers and their luggage were transferred to another bus, she added.

“It just continued to escalate, and the police started showing up,” Mesropian said. “People were screaming outside, and I was literally just sitting there. I knew

“We are devastated by the death of Mr. Kolla, and the pain his family is enduring,” Dartmouth Coach General Manager Keith Skorupski wrote in an email statement. Skorupski declined further comments due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.

According to his GoFundMe page, Kolla is survived by his wife Soujanya and his two sons: Madhav, a second grade student, and Dhruva, a ninth grade student.

“His departure has left a void among the community,” the GoFundMe page stated. “His last moments in this life were spent doing what he loved to do — helping everyone in need.”

According to an obituary from the Cremation Society of New Hampshire, Kolla worked as a Data Analytics Director for Takeda Pharmaceuticals and was an “integral part” of JET USA and VT Seva, organizations that serve community youth. He was also an active member of the Telugu and Indian communities in the Greater Boston area, the obituary noted.

“[Kolla] is remembered by his students as one of the most infuential persons in their lives and was their role model,” the Cremation Society of New Hampshire wrote.

Kolla’s funeral service was held on Apr. 1 in Manchester, NH.

Community reacts to College’s announcement of recently discovered

Native remains

to make amends and repatriate the remains, according to Kotz. The Dartmouth charter, written in 1769, describes the College’s mission as “for the education and instruction of youth of the Indian tribes in this land,” which was deemed “necessary and expedient for civilizing and Christianizing children of pagans.”

“It is clear from our history, literally from our founding, that Native Americans are an important part of our essence,” Kotz said.

“To me, it feels ethically [and] morally all the more important that we do this work well and that we do it thoroughly, and we do it thoughtfully – and we do it in partnership with the Native Americans.”

Native Americans at Dartmouth president Ahnili Johnson-Jennings ’23 wrote in an email statement that there was “grief and sorrow” in the Native community in response to the announcement, and that they hosted internal events “focused on communal togetherness, [which] included some cultural traditions.”

“Moving forward I think the College needs to continue to give support to the Native staf, faculty and students,” Johnson-Jennings wrote. “They have a plan to reach out to the tribes impacted and cleanse the area according to our cultural mandates.

It is my hope the College can mitigate any further damage and continue to handle the situation to their best ability.”

The administration waited to make the announcement until students were back on campus after spring break, according to Kotz. Following the news, the Native American community on campus came together, convening students at the Native American House with fry bread and soup, he added.

“I see this as both a looking backward and a looking forward activity,” Kotz said. “There’s an efort to look backward at our history and to reconcile with that, which in some cases includes repatriating remains. I also see it as an opportunity and a duty to look forward to make sure we put systems into place that will prevent this kind of thing from happening again.”

Students and professors speak out against potential TikTok ban

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technology frm ByteDance Ltd. — will grant China access to sensitive information, The New York Times reported.

“They’re not serious about passing legislation,” Muirhead said. “This is a general problem in American politics right now. We have a legislative class that isn’t serious about governing. They’re just taking symbolic positions for the sake of advancing their own celebrity and power.”

Muirhead added that he does not “quite see the mechanism by which TikTok is posing a security problem.” He explained that companies like Chinese-owned technology corporation Huawei — which Muirhead said might be connected to the Chinese government — could be more likely to violate American privacy than TikTok.

Bedi added that the U.S. government has not released enough information on the security issues posed by TikTok to warrant a ban.

“[The government] can’t just say it’s a national security threat,” he said. “That’s not sufcient if the government is seeking to restrict the First Amendment.”

According to Muirhead, other issues with TikTok — such as the spread of misinformation online — will persist in spite

of a ban, as younger users could easily turn to a similar app. Muirhead added that the country should instead focus on learning to regulate the rapidly changing digital landscape and understand our reliance on online information.

“The half-life of these platforms is very short,” Muirhead said. “Something that’s really compelling to you is not going to be very compelling to the kids who are in third grade today. They’re going to go to something else. Believe it or not, Facebook was once upon a time used by young people, not just grandparents.”

Already-existing alternatives, like Instagram Reels, would be the greatest beneficiaries of a ban, government professor Brendan Nyhan wrote in an email statement. Nyhan called for federal privacy legislation and platform transparency, “not an ad hoc ban on a single product.”

Zoe McGuirk ’25, who said she uses TikTok for about an hour every day, agreed that other apps could simply replace the platform.

“There’s so many other social media platforms, and you already see TikToks [reposted] on Instagram Reels, and other apps adopting similar features,” McGuirk said. “I feel like you could just seek out the

Multiple other abortion-related bills were tabled or rejected, according to the records. A constitutional amendment to protect abortion failed to reach the threeffths margin required to pass. The House also rejected a proposed “heartbeat bill” that would outlaw abortions after the frst detectable heartbeat in a fetus — which can occur six weeks into pregnancy — as well as a bill that would require medical treatment for infants still alive after an attempted abortion. Representatives also voted against a bill that would mandate individuals to wait 24 hours for treatment after requesting an abortion.

According to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England website, New Hampshire law allows abortions for any reason until six months into pregnancy. After six months, abortion is banned with exceptions for protecting the life of the mother and fatal fetal diagnoses. A 2022 St. Anselm poll found that current state law aligns with the views of most New Hampshire residents — while 71% of Granite Staters describe themselves as pro-choice, 71% also oppose unrestricted abortion access.

During the 2022 gubernatorial race, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, said that he would codify abortion rights and sign a bill removing civil and criminal penalties for doctors who perform abortions. Although both of Sununu’s legislative priorities recently passed the House, their fates — HB 88 for codifcation and HB 224 for civil and criminal penalties — will be determined in the Republican-controlled State Senate, which rejected a similar bill to codify abortion before 24 weeks on March 9, the Associated Press reported.

The new bills — and abortion laws in general — are hotly contested among both parties in the state legislature.

State representative Ross Berry, R-Manchester, said he voted against HB 224 because he did not want to act against current state laws — including a bill passed in February 2022, which made it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks and required every person seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound. Berry added that he thinks the current state law is “extraordinarily reasonable.”

“The promise I made to my voters was that I would not make any changes to the existing laws pertaining to abortion,” Berry said. “That means no new restrictions and no attempting to undermine those restrictions.”

Jason Hennessey, president of New

Hampshire Right to Life, a pro-life organization, also criticized the new bill, explaining that such laws need penalties to be efective.

“HB 224, by removing the penalties [for doctors], would render the law moot because a law with no penalties means that nobody has to follow it,” he said. “[Members of New Hampshire Right to Life] consider this to be one of the worst human rights travesties that we could do.”

He added that the bill “does literally nothing,” as abortion is already legal before the third trimester in New Hampshire and the bill could later be repealed by a pro-life legislature.

Hennessey dismissed the idea that the New Hampshire ban is extreme, adding that many states restrict abortion earlier than New Hampshire does.

Berry added that he took issue with the principle of codifcation, explaining that the government should not have to grant rights, since rights are assumed by citizens of a free society.

“The government does not tell you that you can do something,” Berry said. “It tells you that you cannot do something.”

Government professor and state representative Russell Muirhead, D-Hanover, disagreed, adding that codifcation brings both awareness and permanence to reproductive rights.

“Any time you make the nature of the protection more explicit it becomes more secure,” Muirhead said.“It’s true that every policy can be overturned in the future, but a policy that is popular, widely understood and has the force of precedent is going to be harder to overturn.”

Josie Pinto, executive director of the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, a pro-choice group, added that 24-week codifcation is necessary to protect reproductive rights.

“New Hampshire is the only state in New England that doesn’t have proactive protections for abortion rights,” Pinto said. “We want a law saying that we are proactively afrming the right to abortion so we are not at the whims of the legislature who can just chip away at that 24-week ban.”

Pinto added that restrictions on third trimester abortions unnecessarily insert the government between the patient and a doctor.

“To date, I cannot remember a single patient ever coming to us just because they wanted an abortion in the third trimester,” Pinto said. “We don’t want the government to have an unnecessary week number ban because we think it’s important that we let this be between a provider and a patient.”

Muirhead also emphasized that restrictions may harm both the pregnant individual and their children.

“I don’t see that an infexible policy is going to serve mothers or their children,” he said.

Dartmouth Democrats member Fiona Hood ’26 added that HB 224 encourages doctors to provide strong care.

“I think that doctors should not be criminalized for doing their job,” she said. “If there are criminal restrictions on doing their job, the best doctors will be disincentivized from coming to the state.”

Dartmouth Conservatives declined to comment for this article.

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same platform elsewhere.”

While David Rogers ’25 — who reached 66,000 followers on TikTok after posting a video where he cosplayed as Augustus Gloop and smeared chocolate on his face — agreed that video content can be found elsewhere, he said that he appreciates the “fun” aspects of TikTok that distinguish it from written media.

“I’m not a big newspaper reader, but I’ll watch a video,” Rogers said. “Give me some fun music behind it, like some Dua Lipa, [and] I will sit there and watch your one-minute video on whatever you’re talking about.”

Rogers said he has since deleted the app because of how much time he was spending on his phone, adding that he used to watch TikTok for about five hours everyday. Still, Rogers agreed with Nyhan that alternative platforms, such as Youtube Shorts and Instagram Reels, have replaced his TikTok habits. “I’ve also switched into the Snapchat and Instagram versions of [TikTok], which is kind of the same thing,” Rogers said. “It’s easier for me to click out of [Instagram and Snapchat], because I just feel like TikTok is its special little thing.”

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Last week, the Dartmouth community learned that the College possesses the remains of 15 Native American individuals –– a discovery resulting from the re-inventories of the Hood Museum and anthropology department archives. Since then, the College has created a task force to ensure these remains are returned to their respective tribes. This announcement directly impacted students who had interacted with these bones in ANTH 43: “Human Osteology” and ANTH 50: “Forensic Anthropology” last fall. In addition, many Native students on campus grieved in reaction to the news — and rightfully so.

The discovery revealed the College’s inexcusable failure to comply with NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. For Native students, this is more than a federal violation by the College — it is the mishandling of ancestors. To give our Native classmates a space to mourn, students and faculty should educate themselves on the historical and cultural signifcance of this discovery using other resources.

Following the announcement, several Native students created Instagram stories asking non-Native students to educate themselves rather than asking Native students for explanations. The burden of educating campus should not fall on the shoulders of the Native American community. We urge the community to take the initiative to educate themselves on the repatriation and the importance of Native bones held by institutions like Dartmouth. We urge students to do their own investigations, not only to encourage understanding of our fellow community members, but because this is our historically inherited responsibility due to the College’s troubled and often paradoxical history with Native students.

We have all heard, at one time or another, the following words from the College’s charter: “for the education and instruction of youth of the Indian tribes in this land.” However, for approximately 200 years after the College’s founding, fewer than 100 Native students attended Dartmouth, a fgure that demonstrates the College’s failure to fulfll its stated purpose. When the College recommited itself to its original mission in 1970 under former President John G. Kemeny, he proclaimed that a “signifcantly greater” number of Native students would be enrolled. To that extent, Dartmouth has earned a reputation as the “Native Ivy.” Native students now comprise 4% of the current student population, the highest percentage of Native students at any Ivy League school.

Despite the College’s more recent recommitment to its original mission, it has continued to let down Native students. For example, when Native students arrived at Dartmouth under the Kemeny administration, many were disturbed by the prolifc and ofensive usage of Native imagery, especially the unofcial Dartmouth Indian mascot. Although the College urged the “voluntary discontinuance” of the mascot in the 1970s, people continued to use the image decades later, and the College only removed other ofensive symbols within the last few years. For years, Native students also demanded the removal of the weather vane which formerly sat on top of Baker Tower — which depicted a stereotypical and patronizing image of a Native American smoking a pipe in front of Dartmouth’s founder, Eleazar Wheelock. Still, it wasn’t until 2020 that the College

fnally removed the weathervane. The mere existence of the weather vane, along with other Native imagery, indicates a pattern — although one not exclusive to Dartmouth itself — that relegates Native people to characters in myths and traditions.

While the discovery of Native remains in the College’s inventories may be news to some, Native students are all too familiar with the topic. According to federal documents, the College returned some remains in a series of repatriations after 1996, with the last returns occurring a mind-boggling 20 years later in 2016. The fact that there were still more remains following the prior repatriations reveals the College’s lack of oversight. Had the College been more diligent, students would not have unknowingly used Native American bones in anthropology classes, and Native students would not have experienced grief yet again.

In light of these events, what should non-Native students do? The answer is not to contact Native students seeking information about the subject — unless, of course, these communities reach out on their own to ofer their wisdom and personal experiences. Many Native students are grieving, and among some communities — such as the Navajo or Diné — it is taboo to even speak on the topic. The discovery of the remains is deeply personal for the Native American community. As our recent news coverage shows, these remains are peoples’ ancestors, and each individual’s response to the news may be diferent. It is important to give Native students the respect and space they need to process and grieve. Yet, if Native students do choose to speak up, non-Native students should listen to what they have to say.

Non-Native students must work to educate themselves on the cultural signifcance of remains, rather than relying on their Native peers. Many of us grew up with a woefully inadequate understanding of Native peoples, through a lack of Native American representation in our school systems and through popular stereotypes and misconceptions of Native peoples. A good place to start is by reading this informational comic book series on NAGPRA, published in collaboration with the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways. In addition, articles on NAGPRA from Indian Country Today, a newspaper on Indigenous afairs globally are highly informative. These resources are not comprehensive nor complete, but we hope students will use them as a way to begin learning more about this topic.

Needless to say, the non-Native members of this editorial board are not experts on the matter — one of our members, who is Mixtec, does not consider themselves an expert either. However, we encourage students to educate themselves on repatriation and other issues impacting Native peoples in the United States. We have the privilege of attending Dartmouth, yet many of us do not fully understand the College’s history with Native peoples. In an interview, Provost David Kotz claimed that Native Americans are an “important part of [the College’s] essence.” However, we hope that the College recognizes that the large community of Native students on campus today does not excuse the College from its troubled past. Likewise, the recently discovered Native remains are more than just remains, and it is time non-Native students take their share of the responsibility for building a better future.

As the presidential nominee process for 2024 barrels towards us, future candidates are deep into planning their campaigns, refining their messages and scheduling rallies. As Governor Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and his staff do the same, they ought to consider the governor’s somewhat brilliantly dexterous environmental policies. Governor DeSantis’ environmental strategies appeal to environmentally-conscious conservatives, giving him an edge over other Republican presidential candidates come 2024. DeSantis has successfully avoided being painted as economically damaging or leftist, which causes Republican and Republican-leaning voters to balk at voting for moderates or Democrats with strong climate change policies. In stark contrast to Democrats, Governor DeSantis’ environmental policies instead capitalize on fears of economic damage and “leftist” labeled policies. By assuring Republicans that his environmental policies will exclude leftist beliefs, DeSantis quiets these concerns.

Although DeSantis has not yet launched a presidential bid, Republicans should be prepared for DeSantis to be a competitor for the Republican nomination. Political pundits and much of the public alike expect his candidacy due to his rapidly growing popularity, campaignstyle rallies in major cities and an uptick in big donations. A Quinnipiac University poll indicates that Republican and Republicanleaning voters favor former President Trump over DeSantis, with Trump earning 43% of the hypothetical Republican and Republicanleaning vote and DeSantis earning 41% of that vote. However, with the nomination process more than a year away, DeSantis has plenty of time to tilt the scales in his favor. With the right strategy, DeSantis can win over environmentallyconscious conservatives who have climate change on the top of their minds. Those voters would be unlikely to vote for Trump if Trump’s opponents call enough attention to his disastrous climate record, leaving those voters to decide between Biden or a Republican candidate.

Many Republican voters are concerned about the climate and support environmentallyfriendly policy goals. More than a third of all Republicans and Republican-leaning voters and almost two-thirds of moderate Republicans think the federal government is doing too little to reduce the effect of climate change. Almost two-thirds of Republicans overall think the US government and businesses should do at least a moderate amount to address the effects of climate change, and nearly two-thirds of Republicans think the average person should do at least a moderate amount to deal with climate change.

Regardless, even Republicans who care about reducing climate change’s effects are concerned about the economic impacts of such policies. Only a quarter of moderate Republicans say climate policies help the US economy. Some Republican and Republicanleaning voters worry that Democrats and environmentalists are willing to cause energy poverty if it means reducing or cutting the use of fossil fuels. Reducing fossil fuel production and implementing additional taxes on fossil fuel companies, Republican politicians argue, would increase the costs of electricity and gas, making energy bills unplayable for many Americans. While pushing this narrative, Republican politicians of course neglect scientists’ findings that a clean energy transition will lead to trillions of dollars in savings for the US economy.

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DeSantis’’ climate change policies have focused almost entirely on adaptation strategies, allowing DeSantis to steer clear of fearmongering surrounding mitigation policies. There are two approaches to addressing climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation tactics seek to lessen the severity of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while adaptation strategies strive to adjust to climate change’s current and future effects. By focusing exclusively on adaptation, DeSantis can address the effects of climate change without acknowledging humans’ role in creating and accelerating those changes. For example, in DeSantis’ first few weeks as governor, he signed an executive order that appointed a chief science officer and created the Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection. Throughout his tenure, DeSantis signed several bills that dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to fund projects to protect infrastructure from sea rise, storms and inland flooding. His allies have applauded his adaptation plans as bold and a sign of leadership that prioritized protecting Florida communities. At the same time, DeSantis has done nothing to prevent further climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and opposes government interference in industry and emissions. It is a global scientific consensus that human action and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause of global warming, which causes the increasing severity and frequency of storms, hurricanes and inland flooding that plague Floridians. By not mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, DeSantis turns a blind eye to the root cause of the climate-induced suffering of Floridians. For example, DeSantis supported and signed a bill that banned local governments from pushing for state utilities to use clean energy, and he blocked the state pension fund from considering environmental, social and governance metrics when making investments.

Yet, his approach of completely excluding mitigation tactics successfully escapes rightwing critiques of stifling economic activity, as DeSantis’ policies avoid restraining industry and reject the idea of collective action to protect the environment. DeSantis’ policies thus appeal to the 20% of Americans who think human activity does not play a role in climate change and the 42% of moderate Republicans that think human activity contributes only some to the changing climate.

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DeSantis’s anti-leftist narrative fits some Republican and Republican-leaning voters’ biggest worries about Democraticled environmentalism. DeSantis works to create a hard boundary between his policies and Democrat’s climate policies, dodging Republican-leaning and Republican voters’ uneasiness about climate change concerns being exploited to achieve certain political agendas. In 2021, he answered a reporter’s question about climate change policies with, “What I’ve found is people, when they start talking about things like global warming, they typically use that as a pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things that they would want to do anyways. We’re not doing any left-wing stuff.” He also warned, “Be very careful of people trying to smuggle in their ideology [into environmental policies].” More recently, DeSantis declared he is “not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists.” DeSantis’s competitors in the 2024 presidential election will be put at a disadvantage if they neglect developing a clear environmental policy platform. His environmental plans are carefully sculpted to avoid conservative criticism and have strong follow through, making them appealing to Republicans and moderates.

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Before the Curtain: Week 3

BY MADELINE SAWYER The Dartmouth Staff

This article was orginally published on Apr. 6, 2023.

Thursday, April 6

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will screen the documentary “Cane Fire” at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium as part of the Asian Diaspora on Screen series in collaboration with the Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective.

Filmmaker Anthony Bauna-Simon follows four generations of his family who immigrated from the Philippines to work on sugar plantations in Kauai. The documentary reveals the destructive impact of Hollywood’s marketing of the Hawaiian islands through media, which neglects to show the impact of tourism on the lives of Indigenous and workingclass residents. Tickets are for sale on the Hopkins Center’s website and are $8 for general admission and $5 for students.

Friday, April 7

The courtroom drama “Saint Omer” will screen at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium. The flm is based on the trial of a French Senegalese mother following the drowning of her baby in 2013 in the town of SaintOmer in northwestern France. According to the Hopkins Center’s website, “the flm rejects the cliched trappings of the courtroom drama and the true crime genre.” Guslagie Malanda and Kayije Kagame star in this debut narrative feature directed by French Senegalese documentarian Alice Diop, who attended the trial in person. Tickets may be bought on the Hopkins Center’s website and are $8 for general admission and $5 for students.

Saturday, April 8

The Hopkins Center will screen “Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind” at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium, followed by a discussion with flmmaker Nora Jacobson ’74 and Stone’s granddaughter Bianca Stone. Part of the Dartmouth Alumnae Film Series, this documentary provides an intimate look at the life and work of Vermont Poet Laureate Ruth Stone. Jacobson, an award-winning local flmmaker from Norwich, draws on interviews with people close to Stone, archival footage and animation by Bianca Stone. Tickets may be bought on the Hopkins Center’s website; general admission is $10 and student tickets are $5.

Thursday, April 6 - Saturday, April 8

The New Music Festival, brought to campus by the music department and the Hopkins Center, includes events in a number of spaces around Dartmouth over the course of three days. On Thursday, the Coast Jazz Orchestra will perform and feature a solo guitar performance by musician Toby Summerfeld at 7:30 p.m. at Collis Common Ground. The event

is free, but a ticket is required. Friday’s events, which will be held at Baker-Berry Library, consist of a poetry event titled “The Breathing Suite,” at 6:30 p.m. by poet Armond Dorsey ’20 and a music-guided breathing event by the J. Pavone String Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Both may be sold out; contact the Box Ofce for ticketing availability.

On Saturday, the New Music Festival will continue with an exciting lineup of events. The Hood Atrium in the Hood Museum of Art will host Olivia Shortt’s multi-disciplinary opera “The Museum of the Lost and Found: gaakaazootaadiwag” at 2 p.m. (may be sold out; contact the Box Ofce for ticketing availability). The opera, according to the Hopkins Center’s website, tells the tale of a fctional museum that holds items from all over the world –– an allegory for the repatriation of stolen Indigenous items and bodies from

museums. Also in the Hood Atrium, Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris will be performing the musical and optical work “ElectroOrganic” at 3:30 p.m., which involves “voice, fute, electronics, theremin and visuals.” Tickets are free but required. The fnal event of the festival is “Eli Berman GOLEMATRIARK,” a queer exploration of music, dance and Jewish ritual, which will be held at the Roth Center at 9 p.m.

Monday, April 10

At 7:30 p.m., Sawtooth Kitchen will host bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry, who will present their most recent work “RADICAL ACCEPTANCE.” Guidry’s work embraces “radical selflove, compassion, laughter and the drive to amplify Black art makers and noisemakers.” Tickets are free and are available on Sawtooth’s website.

Tuesday, April 11

The Hopkins Center will host a panel discussion titled “Music and Social Change” at 12:10 p.m. in the McLaughlin Atrium of Raether Hall at the Tuck School of Business. Members of the Apple Hill String Quartet and Dartmouth director of bands Brian Messier will discuss structures of artistic leadership and the essential role that overlooked voices have played in the creation of new classical music. Topics also include the arts as a model for social enterprises and non-hierarchical teams’ impact on leadership development. This event will take place in-person and via webinar, and registration is required.

Wednesday, April 12

The Hood will hold the gallery talk “Taking Up Space: Forming Body and Identity” at 4 p.m. Homma Family Intern Milanne Berg ’24 will discuss

her exhibition “Taking Up Space” which explores identity formation and expression and investigates a number of contemporary American artists’ physical and emotional relationships with their bodies. This event is open to the public and a livestream will be available on The Hood’s Facebook page. Apple Hill String Quartet will also conclude its year-long residency at the Hopkins Center with a concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of Christ. The program features a variety of classical works, from pieces inspired by Mexican folk tunes — drawing inspiration from Dartmouth’s Mexican Repertoire Initiative — to works by Chinese American and Japanese composers. Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in E major will close out the program. Tickets for the concert are $30 for general admission, $18 for students and $10 for Dartmouth students.

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Baseball falls to UMass Lowell after sweep by UPenn

BY AVA POLITIS The Dartmouth

The University of Pennsylvania swept the Big Green in Dartmouth’s three-game opening series at home this past weekend with two matches on Sunday and a final match on Monday. Despite hoping to gain momentum after a difficult defeat, the University of Massachusetts Lowell defeated the Big Green 6-1 on Tuesday.

In the Big Green’s first Ivy League matchup in Hanover this season, their double header against UPenn, set to start on Saturday, was postponed to Sunday due to inclement weather.

With an extra day of preparation, the Quakers took an early 4-0 lead in the first five innings of the first game. UPenn starter Owen Coady struckout 11 in the five and two-thirds innings he pitched. However, Coady left UPenn vulnerable with six Big Green batters having walked, consequently loading up the bases twice.

Jack Metzger ’23 started as pitcher for the Big Green and had a strong performance. After the Quakers scored their third run in the second inning, Metzger retired seven straight batters in a row. The Quakers resisted any Dartmouth efforts to shift the tide, making the score 9-0 in the top of the sixth.

Coady was no-hit until Peter

O’Toole ’23 came up in the sixth inning and ripped a double. However, no runs for Dartmouth were scored.

“I’m glad I could get one going,”

O’Toole said on breaking up the nohitter.

The Big Green came alive in the

eighth inning as they took advantage of a bases loaded jam. Max Zajec ’24 stepped up to the plate and crushed the ball into left center field to bring in three runs. Jackson Hower ’25 followed with another run. O’Toole once again hit a double to get the Big Green back in the game as they cut the lead to 9-6.

“We kept fighting and put up a good fight,” O’Toole said. “We always have a chance.”

The Quakers ended up taking the first game of the double header 10-6.

With only thirty minutes of recovery, the Big Green started the second match with Trystan Sarcone ’22 on the mound, who retired the first ten batters he faced with six strikeouts.

“Home turf, I have to defend it,” Sarcone said. “I’m glad I can get back to the way I usually pitch.”

In the fourth inning, the Quakers got the first runs on the board, giving them a 2-0 lead. Sarcone got back in his groove for the fifth inning and ended with a new season high of nine strikeouts thanks to his slider.

“Slider was my best pitch today, and it’s always been my best pitch,” Sarcone said.

Dartmouth’s batters took advantage of the Quakers’ two fielding errors in the fifth inning. The Big Green took a 3-2 lead the first time they were able to do so that weekend. There was a double steal, a warning issued and a triple by Tyler Robinson ’24. However, the Quakers took back the lead the next inning and ended up winning 9-4.

Head baseball coach Bob

Whalen recognized the impressive performances of Metzger and Sarcone.

“Our two starting pitchers gave us

a chance and did a pretty good job,” Whalen said.

The last game of the three-game series took place on Monday. The Quakers showed their eagerness to complete the sweep, putting up 13 runs in the first three innings.

The Big Green produced three runs in total that game. James House ’23 scored on a wild pitch, Elliot Krewson ’25 stole home while O’Toole got called out stealing second base and Hower batted in a run.

The Quakers eventually won 17-3 to complete the series sweep.

UMass Lowell’s River Hawks came to Hanover on Tuesday to face the Big Green.

The River Hawks took an early 4-0 lead in the first four innings. The Big Green responded in the fourth as O’Toole scored on an error. This would be the only run scored for the Big Green as they had five hits in total, with two of them coming from O’Toole.

UMass secured a 6-1 win, extending the Big Green’s losing streak to 13 games. “We’re going to come right back to it,” Whalen said in response to encouraging team spirit amidst these difficult defeats.

The Big Green will play at Red Rolfe at Biondi Park in Hanover to face Harvard University in a threegame series. The double header on Saturday and match on Sunday will be streamed on ESPN+.

The Look Ahead: Week 3 in Hanover and on the road

BY CAROLINE YORK & LANIE EVERETT

The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, April 7

Women’s and men’s track and feld will kick of the weekend by traveling to Durham, North Carolina, to compete in the Duke Invitational. Both teams are coming of a race weekend at the University of Connecticut Dog Fight in Storrs, Connecticut. Highlights include a second place fnish for Julia Fenerty ’23 in the 400m with a time of 57.15, as well as a personal best of 21.76 for Liam Murray ’26 in the 200m dash. Murray was ranked ninth on the Ivy League performance list.

Women’s rugby will compete in the Tropical 7s tournament in Tampa, Florida, this weekend. The team is currently undefeated with a 9-0 record, coming off a Division I National Championship win.

Women’s tennis will face of against Brown University at home at the Thompson Outdoor Courts at 2:00 p.m. The team seeks to gain momentum after a 4-1 loss to Harvard University on

April 1. Despite the loss, No. 2 doubles Katie Weber ’24 and Brooke Hess ’26 and No. 5 singles Ujvala Jupalli ’25 had impressive performances.

Men’s tennis will travel to Providence, Rhode Island, to compete against the Brown Bears. After a loss to the Harvard Crimson, the Big Green looks to defeat the Bears in this matchup.

Saturday, April 8

Women’s and men’s track and feld will continue to compete in the Duke Invitational.

Women’s rugby will compete on the last day of the Tropical 7s tournament.

Men’s lightweight rowing will compete in the Diamond Challenge cup in Princeton, New Jersey. This marks their frst race since the Head of the Charles regatta in October 2022.

Men’s heavyweight rowing will compete against Yale in the Olympic Axe regatta in Derby, Connecticut. The Big Green recently defeated the College of the Holy Cross and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their spring opener.

Women’s rowing will travel to Boston University to compete in the Charles River Basin. The Big Green pulled out of the Doc Hosea Invitational on April 1, along with many other teams, due to forecasted extreme weather conditions.

Men’s golf will travel to Princeton, New Jersey, to compete in the Princeton Invitational. Last weekend, the Big Green took on Cornell University at the Breakers West County Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Cameron Keith ’26 shined, fnishing 5- to secure frst place.

Women’s golf will compete against Harvard University at The Oaks Golf Club in Sarasota, Florida. This is the frst time Dartmouth will tee of since winning the Poppy Hills Patriot Invitational in Pebble Beach, California, whereKatherine Sung ’24 took second place.

In Hanover, baseball will face of against Harvard at the Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. The University of Pennsylvania swept the Big Green in a three-game series last weekend, and Dartmouth also fell to the

University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Softball will also play Harvard with games at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Dartmouth Softball Park in Hanover.

Men’s lacrosse will compete against Yale University at Reese Stadium in New Haven, Connecticut, at 1 p.m. The team currently holds a 6-2 overall record.

Women’s lacrosse will play Brown in at Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover at 1 p.m.

Sailing will spend the day competing at the NEISA Team Race championships, Yale Women’s Team Race and other regattas. The Big Green looks forward to continuing a successful performance on the water after placing third last week at the Marchiando Team Race.

Sunday, April 9

Sailing will continue their races.

Men’s golf will continue their work at the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club.

Women’s golf will continue with day two of competition at the Harvard Invitational.

Men’s lightweight rowing will travel to Leonia, New Jersey, where they will race against Columbia University in the Subin Bowl.

Baseball will conclude the Harvard series with a fnal game at noon. Softball will also fnish their series against the Crimson at 12:30 p.m. at Dartmouth Softball Park.

The men’s tennis team will travel back to Hanover to compete against Yale University on the Thompson Outdoor Courts starting at 1 p.m.

The women’s tennis team will face of with the Bulldogs in New Haven, Connecticut, at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 11

Women’s lacrosse will travel to Lowell, Massachusetts, to compete against the University of Massachusetts Lowell at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 12 Baseball will face of against Boston College in Hanover at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. The game will begin at 3 p.m.

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The Big Green loses all three matches to UPenn afer a postponement due to weather, quickly followed by another loss to UMass Lowell this past week.

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Reflection: Adrift in Paradise

By Marius DeMartino STORY

This article was originally published on April 5, 2023.

There’s nothing more rejuvenating than returning to my home state of Florida after braving a frigid New Hampshire winter. I often joke with my friends that the moment I return my skin suddenly tans, my back un-hunches and the persistent cough that had plagued me since week six of the last term spontaneously disappears. Basking in the Floridian sunshine over spring break is the cure to all the ills that Hanover winter brings.

These thoughts ran through my mind as I drove back to my house from lunch one spring afternoon, sunroof open

and windows down, the sunshine gently warming my hair. Seeking the fastest way back to minimize time spent in notorious Orlando trafc, I casually typed in “home” to get directions.

Strangely, instead of providing my usual ffteen-minute route, my phone suddenly began reciting directions for a twenty-hour drive. Confused, I glanced down — only to realize that instead of directions home, my phone had mapped out a route that would take me straight to my Dartmouth dorm.

It was nothing but a technological mishap: My phone had noticed where I spent most of my time and replaced its defnition of “home” accordingly. But it felt like a poignant realization, one that stuck with

me for the rest of my feeting spring break in Florida. Is Hanover, New Hampshire my home?

I tend to view New Hampshire as a place I visit, enjoying the novelty of each term before I eventually go back home. Most of my time, though, isn’t spent in Florida anymore. For every ten weeks at Dartmouth, I only get a handful back in Florida. It can be hard for me to consider Dartmouth my home. Maybe it’s because of the turbulent ups and downs I have experienced here, but it doesn’t exactly feel like a place of tranquility or comfortability. Yet, I also hold this place dear to my heart. Some of my greatest memories and deepest friendships have been formed

here in Hanover. When I return to Florida, though, I recognize that it’s no longer the same home I grew up in. I sometimes feel like I’m caught between the two ends of the East Coast — one foot in each of the places I call “home,” only half belonging in either.

I’m sometimes inclined to believe that when I come back to Florida, everything will be exactly as I left it: a time capsule of joyful nostalgia for my childhood. But it’s hard to maintain this illusion of untouched bliss when the things closest to my heart aren’t all still there — things like my childhood dog Keikei.

In the middle of winter term, I found out over the course of one dreadful day that my mom had to put her down. She was my emotional support, my forever snuggler, my sunbathing buddy. In every term before, I would count the days until I could see her again — but this time, I dreaded more and more the gut-wrenching fnality of returning to a home where she no longer was.

It was sobering, to say the least — an emotional wound, fresh and raw again the second I returned home. I couldn’t walk around the house without noticing her absence; it was just a little quieter, absent of her smushed-nose snufes or her little paws clacking on the foor as she followed me into the pantry.

It was quite the existential spring break to be had. I had hoped for an escape into Florida paradise after a depressing winter, yet all that awaited me was a struggle to understand where I belonged. I wouldn’t say that I have quite pulled myself out of this disengaged feeling. It’s easy to start a term and simply drift, unmoored and going through the motions. But interestingly enough, just as the spring began, I was presented with a fresh outlook.

Last week, I wrote a piece interviewing a handful of the ’23s to get their perspective on their fnal term. Each of them had a similar

thing to say — they all had an unshakeable focus on living in the present, savoring their fnal moments at Dartmouth and treasuring the friends that they made along the way.

This depressing mulling over my sense of belonging has presented me with a path forward. The fact is that I, along with every other Dartmouth student, am forever caught in between two places — but regardless of where we are or what places we consider home, the best we can do is to enjoy each moment.

I lament the brief time I get to spend with my family, and I miss my dog more than words can describe. But I suppose the best we can do with the little time we have is simply to embrace it. I will never forget how my dog changed my life for the better, even if she’s not there anymore. I will always be sad when break ends. In the meantime I will have to appreciate every homemade breakfast, every backyard barbecue, every early morning spent driving my sister to school and wishing that our goodbye hug would last just a little longer.

It’s high time I turned this point of view onto Dartmouth too, even if it is a “home” I sometimes love to hate. Sometimes I dread returning here and getting back into the termly grind — but I can’t ignore the ways my heart flls with happiness when I get to reunite with my friends on my frst day back. I treasure every Foco meal, every late night out, every second I spend with them reclined on the Green.

Regardless of where I am, whether it’s Florida or Hanover, it’s essential to grab onto each passing moment and hold it close to my chest. Perhaps I should remember not to allow tiny, irrelevant details to prevent my enjoyment of what’s going on around me. I’ll make my own little paradise and relish the sunshine, whether I’m relaxing in my Orlando backyard or laying down on the Dartmouth Green.

Begin Again: Adjusting to a New College for the Second Time

By Emily Wadlow STORY

This article was originally published on April 5, 2023.

As a freshman, the closest I have gotten to experiencing spring in New Hampshire is through second-hand stories from my upperclassman friends. During the dreary and cold winter, I used to imagine the Dartmouth they told me about, picturing myself soaking up the sun on the Green or paddling down the Connecticut River in between classes. Like me, many transfer and dual-degree students who arrived this fall also wait in anticipation to witness Hanover’s spring blossoming for the frst time. As the days grow longer and the weather begins to warm, I spoke to transfer and dual-degree students about their hopes for spring term and refections on their past year at Dartmouth.

Caitlin Doak ’24, a transfer student from UCLA, said she hopes the term will bring warm weather reminiscent of her days in California. Doak matriculated at Dartmouth this fall, and although she said she loved Los Angeles, the beach and her friends, she explained that in high school, Dartmouth was her frst choice during her application process.

She submitted her transfer application in March 2022 at the last minute — just three hours before the deadline — but once she got in, there was no turning back.

“Once I make a decision, I just stick with it,” Doak explained.

Similar to Doak, Ed Park ’24 also transferred from UCLA, though he had diferent motivations. After his freshman year, Park spent two years in the South Korean military, and when he returned to UCLA, he said he felt out-of-touch with the school.

“By the time I came back, the dynamic had kind of shifted in terms of friend groups,” he said. “[My friends] were seniors, and some of them were even working. I thought a change of scenery would be nice, so I applied to transfer.”

The engineering dual-degree program, which is run through Thayer, allows students from other liberal arts colleges to spend two years at Dartmouth to attain a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth on top of a bachelor’s degree from their home college in just fve years.

One such student is Remi Kauderer ’25, who spent her frst two years of school at Vassar College and is now attending Dartmouth for her third year. Next year, she will return to Vassar for year four before returning to Dartmouth for her ffth and fnal year.

“I was really nervous about coming here initially,” Kauderer said. “I was like, ‘I don’t know anyone — I don’t really know what year I even ft into.” Kauderer added that despite her worries before arriving, she quickly connected with fellow dual-degree students at Dartmouth. She met her two closest friends — also in the dual-degree program — on her frst day. After forming a small network, Kauderer said the three of them expanded their social circle.

“Initially, I think first meeting people within my program helped, and then us three started branching out and meeting more people,” she explained. “I feel like everyone is really welcoming.”

Doak also said that the social transition to Dartmouth also felt smooth.

“At frst, I had to be the one to initiate a lot of interactions,” Doak said. “But once you start to put yourself in those uncomfortable situations of not knowing a lot of people — because Dartmouth is a tight knit community — then [people] are really accepting.”

Doak said she quickly established friendships on campus, in large part due to her membership in her Greek house. She explained that because she was part of a nationally recognized sorority at UCLA, she was able to join the Dartmouth chapter of the organization without needing to go through the recruitment process again.

Although Doak said she appreciated not having to rush a second time, she also noted that there are some downsides to missing out on rush, especially as a new transfer student looking to embrace Dartmouth culture.

“I don’t think that Dartmouth is very used to having transfers that also transfer [Greek] houses,” Doak said. “You get there and it’s like, ‘Oh, who’s that random person,’ but once you make that frst step it’s really nice.”

For Kauderer, joining a Greek organization at Dartmouth also provided an opportunity for her to meet students outside the dual-degree program.

“My rush process was really good — I wasn’t stressed about it because I didn’t know anything about it, so there weren’t any stakes involved,” Kauderer said. “I think with the sorority and social events, everyone is just really welcoming.”

When asked how she feels about this being her last term at Dartmouth for a year, Kauderer said “it’s bittersweet.” She said she hopes to spend her free time swimming at the river, hiking and enjoying the weather once it gets warmer.

“I’m excited to go back to Vassar and I have really great friends there, but I know that when I come back [to Dartmouth] it’s just going to be even better than I remember,” Kauderer said.

By forming friendships with people in smaller social settings — whether it be an athletic team, club, or Greek space — these transfer students immersed themselves in Dartmouth’s culture by connecting to students with similar

interests.

Park said he also found community through Greek life, as well as in organizations for international students and Korean students.

“I like spending my time with people that are of a similar background as me,” Park said. “I’m a Korean, international student who also lived in Singapore, so for me, my communities are the Korean community, people who studied in Singapore and Greek Life.”

Transfer and dual-degree students face the challenge of starting a new college not once, but twice, and the challenge is heightened by the fact that the class they entered has already shared at least a year together.

It can be hard to be an outsider, but

Doak said the outcomes are well worth the efort. She advised transfer students to put themselves out there even if it seems scary.

“Put yourself in the uncomfortable situations even if you’re just standing there, and you don’t know a group of people… it’s just something that you have to do to get involved and really understand the culture,” she advised. “No one thinks it’s weird.”

Whether you’re a frst-year hoping to make friends, or a senior making a fnal efort to bond with others before graduation, we can all learn from transfer students. Place yourself in those uncomfortable positions — you’ll never know who you’ll meet.

April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month

can be physical

Any unwanted touch, groping, sexual activity while you are asleep, too intoxicated, or too young to consent is sexual violence.

Sexual Violence

can be coercive

Any manipulation, lies, using the relationship, social pressure, gender stereotypes or threats that make you feel like you cannot say no, is sexual violence.

can happen online

Any pressure to send nudes, receiving unwanted pictures, sexual comments or DM’s, leaking or sharing personal pictures without permission is sexual violence.

can be verbal

Any unwanted comments about your body, graphic sexual language, insults about orientation or sexual behavior, or threats, is sexual violence.

Sexual violence is not your fault. We’re here to support you.

ELAINE PU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF