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THE IRRESISTIBLE CALL OF THE WILDER
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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Tour guides ask for changes to program By ZACHARY BENJAMIN
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
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LI: I AM A WOMAN PAGE 4
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Lush green ivy has been growing outside Wilder hall seemingly defined the laws of physics.
Subrahmanian to fill new cybersecurity position By MEGAN CLYNE
The Dartmouth Staff
V.S. Subrahmanian will begin his position as the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology and Society at the College on
August 1, joining the Cybersecurity Academic C l u s t e r. A c a d e m i c Clusters are an element of College President Phil Hanlon’s effort to increase emphasis and research on global issues by forming 10 groups,
or clusters, devoted to different world wide problems. P r i o r to his appointment at the College, Subrahmanian worked at the University
Members of the admissions office met with tour guides on July 12 to discuss issues that guides have raised with the office’s policies for their jobs, including payment, tour scheduling and inauthenticity in the tour script. One issue that came up during the meeting was payment. Multiple tour guides have expressed dissatisfaction with their pay scale, particularly because of how it compares with other jobs on campus. The entrylevel salary for new tour guides is $7.75 an hour, which increases to $8 an hour after 10 tours. After 35 tours, the rate is $9 an hour, and after 70 tours it is $10 an hour. Other jobs on campus earn higher rates. Research and information desk student assistants in Baker-Berry Library, for example, make $8.25 an hour, while test and exam readers earn $10 an hour. In the admissions office, videographers make $9 to $10 an hour and admissions bloggers make $8.50 to $9.50 an hour. $7.75 is the lowest hourly wage rate that the College recommends for its employees, following a rubric that analyzes the skills required for a job and the amount of responsibility
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it entails, among other factors. The current minimum wage in New Hampshire is $7.25. Rachel Kesler ’19, a current tour guide, believes that the current wage undervalues the work that tour guides put into their jobs and disincentivizes them from taking on higher loads. She thinks that the wage should be raised to a $10 starting salary, with further incremental increases down the road. This would encourage students to keep on working as tour guides and would help ensure that they are financially able to prioritize their tour guiding work over other, higher-paying campus jobs. Kesler said regular decision applications are down in general, and that she thinks that tour guides should be the first line of defense in trying to get applications up. The Dartmouth obtained minutes from a meeting between several tour guides and admissions officer Jade McLaughlin ’17. According to the meeting’s minutes, the admissions office has been conducting a review of the pay SEE TOUR GUIDE PAGE 3
Campus adopts reusable to-go containers By ALYSSA MEHRA
The Dartmouth Staff
Madison Sabol ’18 has come up with a way to greatly reduce the College’s carbon footprint. After two years of research and assistance from the Dartmouth Office of Sustainability and Dartmouth Dining Services, she has created the “Green2Go” food takeout program, which replaces the disposable togo containers in the Class
of 1953 Commons with reusable ones. “When I came back to school my sophomore fall, I was starting to recognize all the ways in which we produce waste on campus,” Sabol said. She said that she was inspired by her classes in environmental studies at the College and the blog “Trash is for Tossers,” where she learned that one needs to identify a need before finding a solutionl.
Sabol did preliminary research on waste at the College and found that students involved in the of fice of sustainability previously conducted an audit, discovering that 200 pounds of food are wasted every evening at dinner in FoCo, sustainability office director Rosalie Kerr ’98 said. “There are people in the Upper Valley who don’t have enough food, so it’s really a waste to throw away all that
food,” Kerr said. Before Green2Go, DDS tried dif ferent ways of reducing its waste, such as changing proportion sizes and encouraging students to not overfill their plates. Sabol herself found that 400 to 600 containers are used each dining period. She then interviewed and surveyed students in order to learn more about the reasons that students use to-go containers and how the current system makes it
difficult to prevent waste. Additionally, Sabol said she discussed the issue with peer institutes, researching the ways in which they d e a l t w i t h w a s t e. S h e learned about the efficacy of systems in place at schools including Harvard University, Oberlin College, C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y, Princeton University and Tulane University. “All of our sustainability SEE TO-GO PAGE 2
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Q&A with English Reusable container program launches Professor William Craig dropped off at any dining location on campus. Green2Go members initiatives have come from a have the option of exchanging passionate student. We’re excited their used box for a clean container to help students accomplish the or a carabiner that can be turned programs they want implemented,” in for a to-go box at a later Kerr said. date. One of the “For me, it’s changes made really cool when from the pilot a student comes “I was under the program was the up with an idea alternative use impression that you and really does of the carabiner t h e r e s e a rc h had to clean the rather than a t o m a k e i t container yourself. Green2Go happen,” she membership Now that I understand c a r d . T h e added. S a b o l [that] the process is carabiner was launched a pilot chosen because project last July far simpler than that, i t c a n at t a ch with the $1,000 I really support this to a student’s grant s h e initiative.” backpack, received from which is more the Dartmouth convenient than Outing Club’s - LIZZIE CARR ’19 the card. Environmental “I was under the S t u d i e s impression that Division. you had to clean T h e the container “Green2Go” yourself. Now p r o g r a m that I understand involves a one-time payment of [that] the process is far simpler $4 for a reusable container at than that, I really support this the Class of 1953 Commons. initiative,” Lizzie Carr ’19 said. Students fill the container and S a b o l s a i d t h e o n e - t i m e take it with them, as they would investment encourages students with the previous to-go containers. to stay accountable because they The used containers can then be would have to buy a new one if they FROM TO-GO PAGE 1
By REBECCA FLOWERS The Dartmouth Staff
English professor William Craig teaches both fiction and nonfiction creative writing at the College. His book, “Yankee Come Home: On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantanamo,” explores American imperialism in Cuba, and was published in 201. Craig also founded a grassroots public reading series called the Meetinghouse Readings, where he served as director from 1988 to 2012. This summer, Craig is teaching a class titled “Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction.”
I think that’s always been a part of my life, and I started teaching writing classes many years ago. I’m very glad to be here at Dartmouth in these last few years. Just before coming here, I was a professor in the community college system in New Hampshire, which has a very different mission with a very different demographic. People ask me if I’m startled by the differences. I’m really much more startled by the similarities. The biggest difference between community college students and students here that I see is learning opportunities and access to resources.
What do you hope that students When did you first become take away from your writing classes? interested in WC: Not everyone writing, and “I think the biggest has to be a writer, but what was your I believe everyone journey from struggle that any can write, and I there? writer faces, at any think we can all find WC: I was raised ways to say what we by writers. My age, is to believe in most need to say to m o t h e r a n d herself or himself.” ourselves and others father were in prose. I often think both writer s of writing as an act who found their -WILLIAM CRAIG, of citizenship. When voices in their ENGLISH PROFESSOR we’re honest about thirties, and our ourselves and then family life often revolved around manuscripts in honest about the world around us, progress. My father would write a I think we’re making the world a chapter at the dining room table and better place. ask “what do you think?” We would then pass it around. So, I’ve always Are you working on any projects thought of writing as a primary form currently? of expression, and I’ve always enjoyed WC: I’m working on a memoir of working with writers, to help them my crazy, lovely, doomed family find their voices. I think I accepted of writers, as well as another book myself as a writer when I pursued about imperialism. This one is set in a Master of Fine Arts in Writing. I the American Southwest, along the was working as a journalist, an art illusory border between the United critic and studying at the Master’s States and Mexico. level, which helped me realize my book-length ambitions. My book, What do you think are the “Yankee Come Home,” grew out biggest struggles that young of a family fascination with the writers are facing? Spanish-American War, and my great WC: I think the biggest struggle grandfather’s mysterious role in it, as that any writer faces, at any age, is well as frustration with the aggressive to believe in herself or himself. The imperialism of the global war on circumstances are always changing. terror. In my love and fascination People can say that this decade or for Cuba, I saw the opportunity to that decade was an easier or a harder talk about America’s infatuation with time to make a living as a writer. imperialism — past and present — That may be true, it may not. I think and the prices we’re all paying for it. the opportunities and markets are always changing, but there’s always Why did you decide to start an opportunity and always a market. teaching, and how did that bring You can not take advantage of those opportunities if you do not believe that you to Dartmouth? WC: Working with writers is always you should, and that people want to teaching. I am extremely fortunate hear what you have to say. to have writers in my life who look at my work, critique and guide me, who This interview has been edited and are all always teaching each other, so condensed for clarity and length.
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lose the carabiner or container. However, the price of the container has been a deterrent for some students in utilizing the to-go option. “$4 for a to-go container? It’s like the napkins all over again. It’s making things inconvenient,” Carter Copeland ’19 said. The boxes are sold at cost, said Sabol, DDS is not making any profit on them. DDS has initiated similar efforts to prevent waste in the Class of 1953 Commons. In January, they removed individual napkin dispensers at each table to reduce napkin waste by 30 percent. It reduced paper waste, because people were often throwing away clean napkins, Kerr said. “The napkin effort seemed to upset a lot of people. DDS did it without asking people,” Kerr said. “I think they didn’t really think that it was going to be a big deal.” DDS has continued their sustainability efforts in terms of food sourcing and is interested in solutions to these issues, especially when suggested by students. “It tends to be positive feedback wh e n D D S s w i t ch t o m o re sustainable or locally sourced food item. We’re all interested in the health of our food supply,” Kerr said.
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Tour guides express concerns over wages, schedule and script summer is one of the busiest terms, which means that tour guides are scale since the 2017 winter term. At likely to be giving more tours than at the latest, the office will implement a other points in their college careers. new scale by the beginning of the fall Raising the pay only after this period 2017 term, and possibly by the end of of increased activity is unfair, she said. the summer. The increased number of Director of admissions Paul responsibilities of the summer term, Sunde said that until a few years and the obligations this places on ago, admissions tour guides, was tour guides were another point of volunteers and disagreement. did not receive “I think we have to This summer, payment for look at the needs of the admissions their work. The office adopted ongoing broad our visitors on the a new schedule review of tour one hand, and our with four blocks guide practices tours each capacity to provide the of is the first such day, rather than review to take best possible visitor the normal two. place since the experience on the This was done job became a to keep tour p ay i n g o n e. other.” groups at more He declined to manageable give a specific sizes, Sunde - PAUL SUNDE, DIRECTOR amount for the said. As a result, upcoming pay OF ADMISSIONS tour guides were raise, though required to give he said that the at least two tours office was taking into account pay a week. Kesler said that a more typical rates for other jobs in the admissions number of tours per week during the office and on campus. rest of the year is one to two. “We certainly want to be According to Sunde, this new competitive,” he said. schedule is only a pilot, and will not Kesler expressed dissatisfaction necessarily be adopted for future terms. at the timing of the pay raise. The The admissions office will take into FROM TOUR GUIDE PAGE 1
account the results of the summer and the feedback it receives from tour guides when scheduling future tours. Next summer’s schedule will likely be posted by next spring, he said. “I think we have to look at the needs of our visitors on the one hand, and our capacity to provide the best possible visitor experience on the other,” he said. Kesler took issue with the required two tours per term, given the current low wage of the job, as it prevents tour guides from being able to spend their time working at more profitable jobs. Increasing the position’s wage would incentivize more people to take extra shifts, eliminating the need for required service, she said. In the meeting’s minutes, McLaughlin, a former tour guide, wrote that requiring a minimum number of shifts is something that should never occur, and that the office does not intend to impose such a requirement again. Another issue that came up during the meeting was the tour guide script. Multiple students complained that they feel they cannot express their true feelings about campus. Kesler, for example, said she often feels tokenized to speak about her experiences as a Native American student on campus. She also said that the admissions office has pressured tour guides to say that
they feel safe on campus, even though students involved with Greek life, she and other women of color often Sunde said that the College is typically do not. asked to include freshmen in their Last spring, Kesler, Michael calculations when surveyed by national Harteveldt ’19 and Anisha Ariff ’19, organizations about Greek life, and who are also tour guides, helped that the admissions tour guides are to rewrite a portion of the script encouraged to use this number to that discussed Dartmouth’s history maintain consistency. If visitors with Native h ave m o re American questions, they students. are welcome The previous “I think that’s something to ask them, script had not he said. He adequately [the admissions office] added that d i s c u s s e d like[s] to say, but I think most people Dartmouth’s would be able that ultimately, it’s not history of to tell that attempting honest to Dartmouth’s Dartmouth to religiously experience, but rather the has a large convert G r e e k N a t i v e image that the College c o m mu n i t y Americans, would like to put forward.” even when and the racial freshmen are undertones included in of t h e - RACHEL KESLER ’19 the number “education,” of affiliated Harteveldt students. said. Kesler Sunde added that it was misleading in how said that it is normal for the script to it portrayed the situation for Native evolve from year to year. Regarding American students today. For example, tour guides feeling uncomfortable it claimed that the College has a Native discussing Greek life, he said that while American department, when in fact it the experiences of individual tour only has a Native American program, guides are important and should be she said. included on tours, it is also important to Though the changes were emailed discuss the experiences of the campus to tour guides, Kesler and Harteveldt as a whole. said they are not sure how widely they “l think the student experience here have been adopted, as the official tour is something that we want to reflect,” guide manual is only revised once a he said. “I think I’ve consistently said, year, in the spring. I’ve used words like genuine, authentic Harteveldt also expressed that ... In my mind, that’s the bedrock of he feels unable to discuss Greek life any communication that we’re going at Dartmouth during tours due to to do.” administrative pressure. He cited as However, Kesler took issue with an example that tour guides are told to calling the script honest to the spirit provide tour groups with the number of Dartmouth. of students affiliated with Greek life, “I think that’s something [the even though this includes freshmen admissions office] like[s] to say, but who are ineligible to rush, rather than I think that ultimately, it’s not honest telling them the number of eligible to Dartmouth’s experience, but rather students involved with Greek life. the image that the College would like With regard to the number of to put forward,” she said.
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STAFF COLUMNIST LUCY LI ’19
STAFF COLUMNIST MATTHEW BROWN ’19
I Am a Woman
God Bless Incompetence
Unawareness of implicit gender inequality stigmatizes feminism. While studying abroad in Barcelona last term, I had a dinner conversation with my host mom, Lídia, about feminism. Up until this conversation, she and I had touched on feminist issues — negative encounters on the streets with cat-calling, overly aggressive men in dance clubs, her experiences growing up as a woman during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship — but we never directly brought up the word “feminism.” When this word was finally stated during dinner, she responded, “I am not a feminist.” This conversation took place in Spanish, and while I was fairly conversational in Spanish at that point, I thought that I had misunderstood her. Here was an eloquent, self-educated, absurdly independent and empowered woman who somehow did not identify as a feminist. Amused by my confusion, she said, “I am a woman. I don’t need to identity as a feminist in order to be one. Being a feminist should be inherent to being a woman.” Which, I realized, it should be. It should be in every woman’s self-interest to believe in her own advancement. However, feminism has taken on a somewhat negative connotation these days, and I often find myself apologizing for ever bringing it up. I realized that Lídia’s decision to disassociate herself from the word “feminist” did not mean that she was disassociating herself from the values that the word embodies, but instead the negative connotations that the word carries. Feminism — the advocacy of female empowerment based on the simple idea that women and men are equal — is a movement that has become central to my identity, and these days I feel as hopeless as I am empowered by what I am fighting for. It drains me to compulsively apologize for raising topics related to gender that are central to my and other women’s self-conception, and it’s enraging that a lot of people don’t even seem to realize that there are problems left to conquer. I believe this plays a huge role in feminism’s bad rep. If you don’t believe that there are problems left to solve, then we all just look like a hoard of bitter, angry women who can’t seem to give the world a break. It’s difficult to see the problems that are left because they are less visible. For the most part, women really do have equal rights. Instead of being written on paper, modern gender discrimination lies in the way that men and women have been socialized differently, and they exist in our everyday interactions. There are times when even women cannot recognize the injustices they face because those injustices have become so normal.
My hypersensitivity to the gender dynamics around me has made me realize how much being a woman has affected who I am in ways I wish it never had. Just like I know what is causing systematic gender violence around the world and unequal pay for women, I know why I have felt uncomfortable in certain classrooms, why I was never able to comfortably speak to certain professors, why I don’t go to certain fraternities and why I felt small during certain interactions. I can imagine that a lot of people, who have not felt oppressed or discriminated against, will be critical of what I’ve shared and will argue that my take on my experiences was simply that — my own take. I’ve heard it before — other people are not responsible for how you feel. After a certain number of negative past experiences, you will try to protect yourself from similar experiences in the future. In the past, certain male professors have talked down to me and other men have made me feel objectified as a woman of color. These experiences drive me to avoid uncomfortable situations in which I feel singled out as a woman. From the negative comments that I’ve received from men on previous columns and in regards to conversations about feminism, I’ve realized that this concept is difficult to put in perspective. Oftentimes, men will view feminist rhetoric as an attack against them to call them out for being bad people. In reality, feminist rhetoric aims to point out the negative actions contributing to gender inequality. Good people do and say the wrong things when they don’t know that those things are wrong. This is another huge factor that adds to the stigma surrounding feminism; a lot of men are too quick to view themselves as targets of criticism in the face of feminism. The most dangerous side effect of gender inequality is that women begin to doubt themselves and their capabilities. This side effect is not caused by overt injustices or lack of opportunities; it is caused by the way that women are constantly having to rearrange their world to fit a maleoriented world in order to avoid those injustices or attain those opportunities. It is caused by our compulsion to apologize unnecessarily and by the gender dynamics that silence women. I am proud to be a woman, even if I have to consciously remind myself to be unapologetic and take pride in my abilities and my contributions. I am proud to be a woman because of the strong women I am surrounded by, and I hope for their sake that gender equality is within reach. While history tells me that we have many more fights ahead of us, my optimism tells me it’s possible.
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The Trump phenomenon may be a blessing in disguise.
Six months into the Trump administration expected to roll back environmental and and The Donald has little to show for financial regulation, implement sweeping himself. Signature campaign promises such tax cuts, slash welfare and pass “tough as the Definitely-Not-Muslim Travel Ban on crime” laws. On top of this, we see in and “The Wall” have been bogged down in Trump a combination of a new American courts or have yet to even begin materializing authoritarianism fused with the personal respectively. Republican attempts to “Repeal ambition of the executive. Now that Trump and Replace” the Affordable Care Act have has shown us the susceptibility of our failed twice now, largely due to the lack of country’s institutions to demagogic action, executive leadership or comprehension of the I can’t help but wonder what even greater issue. The President’s meetings with foreign catastrophes could have befallen the country leaders, both at his private resorts and abroad, had a more cunning antidemocrat won in have unilaterally weakened America’s global November. standing and eliminated any notion that A smarter Donald Trump would have Trump understands or cares what a good hidden his financial ties to Russian banks political “deal” for the country would entail. and oligarchs. A smarter Donald Trump In addition to these offenses, Trump has would have effectively wiped away any yet to even nominate trace of Obama’s legacy personnel for many of the in his first 100 days in “Like an untrialed flu positions necessary to run office. A smarter Donald the federal government. injection, Trump has Tr u m p w o u l d h av e The White House itself systematically exposed handled James Comey has been transformed us to the fragility and and the Department of into a political mosh baselessness of our Justice with a delicacy and pit of familial interests, government.” precision that deflected if xenophobic svengali and not diffused the situation. alternative facts. Finally, R at h e r t h a n m e re l y let us not forget there is still the perennial distracting the media by rage-tweeting about question as to whether the leader of the free Morning Joe, a better Donald Trump would world is a puppet of Vladimir Putin. All of use Fox News to cudgel his opponents in the this has exasperated already deep cultural, press rather than rely on it to defend his every economic and racial divisions in our country, misstep. The activism and fervor of “The cratered the American people’s faith in the Resistance” would have been circumvented, nation’s institutions and damaged the very ridiculed and squashed by an equally intense bedrock of our democracy. rallying of his base. A smarter Donald Despite these troubles, I believe that Trump would have aggravated divides on the America may still come away from the Trump Left to press the advantage of his populist Era grateful for the knowledge gained from movement. In this world, I can even imagine his presidency. I do not meetings with Russian say this because I think “I do not believe that representatives occurring that Trump will eventually Donald Trump is stupid, via Donald Trump Jr. with get his act together; we merely that he is so no trace of an email leak. should all know by now intensely arrogant Like an untrialed who he is. Rather, I believe flu injection, Trump has and privileged that he that Trump may act as a systematically exposed cannot bring himself to u s t o t h e f r a g i l i t y vaccine for democracy — a temporary “disease” admit that he doesn’t and baselessness of that will allow America understand basic civics.” our gover nment. His to inoculate itself from campaign violated every future dangers should the convention of political American people seize the opportunity. life, dragging the national discourse down to Consider for a moment a world where a his base vocabulary. In office, he has revealed more cunning Donald Trump announced the lack of regulation for the president, his candidacy for the presidency in the and has knocked the judiciary and federal summer of 2015. In this scenario he has regulatory agencies back with the stress of the same platform, the same demeanor and checking his actions. The tragedy is that a rhetoric, but also the capacity to realize man that cannot resist the urge to rage-tweet his goals. In this startling reality, I assume nor muster the attention span to get through that the imaginary Trump would be able a Wall Street Journal article committed these to complete his and Paul Ryan’s policy acts. agendas in a defter manner than his real-life I do not believe that Donald Trump is counterpart. I differentiate between Trump stupid, merely that he is so intensely arrogant and the Republican establishment because, and privileged that he cannot bring himself unlike the establishment, it’s self-evident that to admit that he doesn’t understand basic Trump has no policy agenda above personal civics. I’m hopeful, then, that his hubris will gain. He has made it abundantly clear that his continue to limit his demagogic ambitions own and his family’s benefit are his primary and Paul Ryan’s policy agenda. This is by concern, and he will take any political actions no means guaranteed. But if the American necessary to maximize his personal power people make it through Trump’s presidency and wealth. and learn from our blunder, we will be a wiser Any Republican President, Congress country. God bless incompetence, and God or conservative Supreme Court would be bless America.
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Inaugural cybersecurity, technology and society position filled FROM CYBER PAGE 1
of Maryland as a professor of computer science for 28 years, where he performed research, taught undergraduate and graduate students and was a director of the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics. “Subrahmanian is one of our star faculty members,” professor of computer science at the University of Maryland Larry Davis said. Davis described Subrahmanian as a tireless, world-renowned worker, who has had an invaluable impact on both the University of Maryland and the global community. Subrahmanian said increased investment in cybersecurity, energy and medical devices throught the Academic Clusters majorly contributed to his interest in the position at the College. Subrahamanian also said he is enthusiastic about the opportunity to partner with researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. “I’m very excited about coming to Dartmouth,” Subrahmanian said. “I think it’s going to be the opportunity of a lifetime.” Professor of computer science and director of the Institute for
Security, Technology and Society his simultaneous application of Sean Smith said knowledge for realthat the search world global impact. “I can count process began with “I can count a hiring proposal, on one hand on one hand the i n w h i c h t h e the number number of people in committee shaped cybersecurity who are a vision of what of people in able to bridge both of this new cluster cybersecurity those talents, and he is would be. They one of those people,” who are able also deter mined Farid said. ways in which it to bridge Subrahmanian would fit seamlessly [the scientific was the chosen into the College’s candidate because his community culture. background, vision The committee and real-world and ability to take sought candidates innovative approaches application of who could put to cybersecurity t e a m s t o g e t h e r knowledge], issues align with the a n d i n s t i t u t e a and he is one of College’s mission, cross-disciplinary Smith said. approach to their those people.” Subrahmanian work, Smith said. characterized his work There were a as a process following -HANY FARID, large number of three main strategies applications, and PROFESSOR — he collects data on t h e c o m m i t t e e OF COMPUTER a topic of interest, eventually invited develops techniques six individuals for SCIENCE like predictive models informal visits to to analyze the data the College. and then determines Professor of computer science how to achieve his goals given his Hany Farid said that Subrahmanian hypotheses. is a distinguished academic due Subrahmanian’s work has to his profound influence on included data collection on Twitter the scientific community and bots, which led him to win the
DARPA Twitter Influence Bot age,” Farid said. Detection Challenge, a competition H e s a i d t h a t c o m p u t e r aimed at finding and deleting the technology is moving at a fast pace automated ‘trolls’ on the site before and offers major financial incentives they carry out harmful activity, he for hackers. said. T h e weaponization Subrahmanian of the Internet has also written “I’m very excited is a g rowing on the cyber- about coming to challenge, Farid vulnerability added, and the of s e v e r a l Dartmouth. I think polarization and global regions, it’s going to be the marginalization identifying the of g roups like occurrence of opportunity of a women and attacks in 44 lifetime.” minorities that countries. occur as a result of In the future, the “cyber-world” Subrahmanian -V.S SUBRAHMANIAN, are becoming p re d i c t s t h at PROFESSOR IN increasingly n e t w o rk s prevalent issues. w i l l b e c o m e CYBERSECURITY, Subrahmanian i n c r e a s i n g l y TECHNOLOGY AND added that sophisticated. SOCIETY he hopes He also cybersecurity foresees more prevention at the ransomware College will be attacks on multidisciplinary specific devices, which target and will involve individuals ranging individuals and hospitals. from undergraduates to Ph.D. Farid said that, among the most students and faculty members. pressing problems to arise in the The College seeks to build a next few decades, cybersecurity team to attack future cybersecurity will have significant influence. problems, and Subrahmanian is a “We are, whether we like it or magnet for students, faculty and not, living in an incredibly digital researchers alike, Farid said.
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Film Review: ‘The Vietnam War’ recognizes distinct perspectives By ALI HUNTER and WALKER SCHNEIDER The Dartmouth
The Vietnam War doesn’t fit neatly into American folklore. Unlike other American wars, it is not easily glorified. It cannot be summarized as “the good guys won, and the bad guys lost.” As a result, the war is one of the most emotionally charged and complex episodes in American history. Even though the last American soldiers left Saigon decades ago, one crucial fact was impressed on the audience in Spaulding Auditorium last Thursday night: the Vietnam War is as relevant today as it was 40 years ago. On July 13, the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts screened some clips from “The Vietnam War,” a documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The directors themselves sat on a panel following the screening, joined by two interviewees who appeared in the film. Spaulding Auditorium was full to standing
room. To us, the crowd looked like most crowds at Dartmouthsponsored lectures: faculty, some interested students, some not-sointerested students and a lot of retirees. It seemed like a normal crowd, until Burns asked all those who had served in the Vietnam War to rise for recognition. Around 50 men and women stood up. Two rose to their feet right in front of us. These two men could have stood in front of us in line at Dirt Cowboy or walked past us on the Green, and we wouldn’t have batted an eye. And yet here they were, a living testament to the Vietnam War. This fact was not coincidental. A large portion of Burns and Novick’s documentary is dedicated to revising the notion that Vietnam is a bygone war in a bygone era. The fighting has stopped, but Burns and Novick’s film shows that the conflict is very much still present in American and Vietnamese psyches. This is not an informational documentary in the classic sense.
The voice-over narration takes a significant backseat to the interviews of those who lived through the war. The film prioritizes color over chronology, individuality over generalizations. The bulk of the preview played on Thursday night was comprised of interviews of American and Vietnamese veterans and civilians. Each interview was a subjective retelling of history. It was the Vietnam War through that specific person’s eyes. However, by showcasing so many individual experiences, Burns and Novick find some of the objective narrative of the war. This narrative is not what you’d expect. In the U.S., memory of the Vietnam War tends to focus exclusively on the American experience. T he film delves poignantly into that experience, but it also challenges the U.S.centered perception of the war. “What I think sets this documentary apart [from other works on the Vietnam War] is the number and variety of Vietnamese voices and perspectives,”
commented history professor Ed ward Miller, who advised B u r n s o n t h e d o c u m e n t a r y. This was a conscious effort: the filmmaker s spent months in Vietnam, conducting interviews that appear throughout the film. The result is that this documentary stands out from its peers, boldly challenging how popular culture depicts the war. Whether in print journalism, “Forrest Gump” or “Apocalypse Now,” previous representations of the Vietnam War have followed an almost Manichaean logic: good versus evil, communist versus democrat. Burns and Novick bring the focus back to the individual. Each perspective shared in the film is given validity, whether from a U.S. soldier, Viet Cong or civilian from either country. By including Vietnamese experiences, the film questions the traditional dichotomous view of the war and the current understanding of the conflict. The film has another important message: inter-societal healing.
“I think all of us who worked on it are hopeful that it will allow Americans with diver se and divergent memories of the war to share their experiences with each other,” Miller said. Both in Vietnam and in the U.S., ideological turmoil lives on. The opening thesis of the documentary is that the war was followed by silence, in which societal cleavages were not addressed. Now, viewers can listen to a multiplicity of opinions and experiences: American, Vietnamese, pro-war, pacifist. Last Thursday, veterans and protesters had their perspectives validated, heard and respected. Hopefully, they did the same to differing perspectives. This is why this documentary promises an extraordinary impact. It reopens a conversation that will result in a newer and more nuanced understanding of the Vietnam War, the effects of which are still ricocheting around society today. Rating: 9/10
Film Review: ‘The Big Sick’ is a robust rom-com, but not much else By JOYCE LEE The Dartmouth Staff
As a film, “The Big Sick” is an unconventional addition to a long tradition of romantic comedies with memorable protagonists that include the likes of “When Harry Met Sally,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Notting Hill.” Kumail Nanjiani stars as Kumail, a character based on his early life as a standup comic who falls in love with psychology graduate student and quintessential girl next door, Emily, a somewhat underutilized Zoe Kazan, who is based on Nanjiani’s wife in real life, Emily Gordon. He battles family expectations, career mishaps and a cultural misunderstanding — as well as the fact that Emily falls into a coma halfway through the film. It’s here that the biggest flaw in “The Big Sick” becomes apparent. I would describe Emily as an “every girl” because that is, in essence, how she is portrayed. For a film that calls itself a romantic comedy, one half of the couple is disproportionately underwhelming. The film spends 40 minutes of its two hour run time intermittently checking in on the character as one of the many objects orbiting Kumail’s life. She is funny, interesting and pretty — but then again, so is every other romantic comedy heroine. It’s to Kazan’s credit that a certain amount of wry nervousness is injected into her character, but spending the majority of the second half of a film lying comatose would be too large of an
obstacle for any character actor to overcome. But Emily’s leave of absence from the film brings an unexpected gift in the form of her parents — Holly Hunter and Ray Romano give stunning performances as Beth and Terry. Perhaps the most riveting moment in the film is a fight between the two. The air is charged with what is unspoken, and Beth circles Terry for a moment like a predator before letting out a pained whimper and dashing away to her daughter. Kumail watches the fight with the air that such an encounter is a rare sight in his family’s household. Next to Beth and Terry, Kumail’s parents, played by Zenobia Shroff and Anupam Kher, are almost painfully one note. They are mostly comedic fodder, with none of the depth that is given to Emily’s parents. They are also the source of a large conflict between Kumail and Emily, seeming to exist only to parade a large selection of eligible Pakistani women in front of Kumail, deliver wry comments about the evils of American fast food culture and towards the end of the film, deliver what even the film seems to consider the typical immigrant parent monologue about their sacrifice for their children. Let’s not avoid the elephant in the room. Kumail is not Billy Crystal, Colin Firth or Hugh Grant. He’s introduced as a Pakistani-American who immigrated to the U.S. after high school. This movie is not “A Movie About Race,” but it is an American
film that contains a South Asian man as its main lead. The comments are not subtle. Viewers are introduced to Kumail with a montage of life in Pakistan, overlaid with audio from a set in Kumail’s standup, where he ironically describes Pakistan as a place very similar to America. Kumail’s one-man-show barrages his audience with seemingly irrelevant and somewhat dull facts about Pakistan. He is clearly a man dealing with his identity as an PakistaniAmerican. That is the first established trait of this character. But the people who seem to know and love him the most don’t understand this dilemma, nor how this might lead to Kumail dealing with his internal struggles by lying. He lies to his family about studying for the LSAT and waiting patiently for the right Pakistani girl, and he lies to Emily about their relationship and his resignation to an arranged marriage. The lies are not one-sided. After his one man show, Emily and his friends all tell him through their gritted teeth that they enjoyed his performance and the many facts about Pakistan. The source of Kumail’s lying is never completely addressed or explained between these characters. Kumail ultimately tells the truth that he is dating Emily, a white woman, to his parents, and that he will continue pursuing stand-up as a career. In an earlier scene, Kumail and Emily effectively break up because she discovers his box of photographs of potential arranged marriage candidates and realizes that there is
no future to their relationship. But the essential question is never asked between these characters: why does he lie, and how does he stop lying? Being a member of an ethnic minority in America dealing with the cultural clash between two or even more identities means that one must constantly switch between a series of selves. Here is the Kumail who is Emily’s boyfriend, here is the Kumail whose only friends seem to be white standup comics and here is the Kumail who eats dinner with his parents every week and pretends to pray before dinnertime in the garage. It is only when Kumail meets Emily’s parents that Kumail halts his constant shuffling between identities. It is this dynamic that becomes the redeeming factor of this film. Kumail bonds with Beth as she relates how her conservative, military family in North Carolina despised Terry for his New Yorker, civilian roots. Emily’s family and their transparency to each other are the foil to Kumail’s. Kumail hides everything from the fact that the girl coming to dinner is not a coincidence to the fact that he is no longer certain that he believes in Allah from his parents. Since Kunail’s relationship with Beth and Terry initially has little emotional weight, there is little to be lost if he is open and honest with them. It is to their credit that we, as viewers, spend the majority of the film with a Kumail who becomes increasingly honest with himself and with the people around him. It has to be acknowledged that while the contrast between Emily’s
family and Kumail’s family is obvious, it contains a context that the film is ultimately unable to approach. The conversation towards the end of the film, where Kumail is finally honest with his parents, is almost too painful to watch because of the weight of truth for Kumail and his parents. While Emily is honest with her parents about her troubles with her boyfriend, Kumail is hiding his hopes, his dreams, his love and even his faith. There is no way for him to repay his parents for their sacrifice, and to disrespect that even more by denying them their wishes is a heartbreaking notion that Kumail makes clear when he abruptly interrupts their monologue. This was a development I wish had occurred sooner in the film and explored with as much meaningful depth as Kumail’s developing relationship with Beth and Terry. “The Big Sick” is ultimately a thoughtful and honest film that approaches a number of themes but does not ultimately become The Movie about the big, overarching ideas it intersects. It is, instead, dedicated first and foremost to creating a romantic comedy loosely based on Nanjiani’s relationship with his wife. The film doesn’t pretend to be anything more than entertaining, and for a movie that is ultimately about a man and his girlfriend in a coma, it accomplishes a lot to be a funny and introspective two hours of film. Rating: 6/10
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Wendy Bordeau returns as women’s rowing coach The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Wendy Bordeau will return to the helm of women’s rowing in the 2017-18 season following the resignation of women’s rowing head coach Linda Muri. Bordeau previously coached the team from 2005 to 2014 before leaving to become senior associate athletics director for varsity sports. “I love coaching. I love working with student athletes, and that passion and that desire has not dissipated at all,” Bordeau said. Muri’s departure in late June surprised many on the team, according to team members Natalie Knight ’19 and Rebecca Conway ’19. “As far as we knew, we didn’t expect her to leave, and she hadn’t really said anything about that,” Conway said. Conway and Knight said that the team learned of Muri’s resignation in a June 26 email from executive associate athletics director for varsity sports Brian Austin. “He passed along a message from [Muri] that she had written to the team basically telling us that she has decided to step away from coaching for now and that she’s enjoyed the time she spent with the team and will continue living in the area,” Knight said. The athletic department released a statement from Muri on June 27 confirming her resignation. Muri had coached the team since the 201415 season, leading the Big Green to a victory over Cornell University in the Parents’ Cup and a second-place finish at the 2015 Eastern Women’s Sprint Championships. In the release announcing Muri’s departure, the athletic department stated, “a national search for a new head coach will begin immediately.” Within three days, the search was over, and Bordeau’s return was announced. During Bordeau’s first tenure as head coach, the Big Green qualified for the NCAA Championship in 2007, 2009 and 2011. The 2009 trip marked the first time since 1998 that the entire Dartmouth team qualified for the championship. While Bordeau found her three years spent as senior associate athletics director to be a valuable experience, the allure of coaching never left her.
“I always felt the tug to go back to coaching,” Bordeau said. “I wasn’t sure how or when that would happen, or if it would happen, but ultimately, I realized that I’m a coach at heart. What excites me most is having direct contact with players.” The day Bordeau’s return was announced, according to Conway and Knight, Austin and Bordeau met with rowers on campus. “[Bordeau] called us in right away the day we found out she was being hired and she sat us all down in a circle, introduced herself and shared her goals,” Conway said. “I think that says a lot about her coaching style, which is immediately she wanted to clear the air, introduce herself, where are we going, how are we going to get there and just was very direct about it from the beginning which is phenomenal.” Experience from Bordeau’s earlier stint with the team will inform her decision-making. “The fact that I coached for almost 10 years here means I know how to confront the challenges here and meet them,” Bordeau said. Dartmouth’s unique challenges, according to Bordeau, include the Dartmouth Plan, which can interrupt training plans for individual athletes, and the length of the winter season, which reduces the time the team can spend on the water.
It can take time for a new coach to “We row really well, and [Muri] build a relationship with a team and put a big emphasis on that, which align the team behind a particular I think is lost these days in a lot of vision, Knight said. That process programs where everybody’s so may not have been completed before focused on being strong and going Muri resigned. fast,” Knight said. “Moving forward, “ W i t h that technical any coaching “I always felt the groundwork that change, there she’s set for us will be a period tug to go back to will make a big of uncertainty, coaching. I wasn’t sure difference.” and coaching B o rd e a u w i l l how or when that styles can take the helm b e h u g e l y would happen, or if of a prog ram d i f f e r e n t , it would happen, but which has slipped so there was since she left the definitely a ultimately, I realized coaching ranks. In p e r i o d o f that I’m a coach at 2014, Bordeau’s adjustment year as coach, heart. What excites me last under [Muri],” the Big Green Knight said. “I most is having direct finished fifth in think it takes a contact with players.” the Ivy League long time for a Championship, new coach to beating the have the team - WENDY BORDEAU, U n i ve r s i t y o f totally behind Pe n n s y l v a n i a , WOMEN’S ROWING their style, so C o l u m b i a I don’t know COACH University and that three years Cor nell. With for [Muri] Muri at the was enough to helm, Dartmouth really make her coaching style stick.” finished seventh in 2015, sixth in Muri, a nine-time U.S. National 2016 and last in 2017. Team member and three-time “Last spring, we had kind of a world champion herself, focused on rough season — we were eighth in training technically sound rowers, the Ivies — and I think that was a according to Knight. surprise to us,” Conway said. “We
trained eight times a week, and you don’t want to do that all spring and be last in your league.” Bordeau has approached the challenges facing the team with a frank mindset. “My first task is to learn about the athletes on the team and figure out how we want to approach rebuilding the program ... and I’m looking to collaborate with them,” she said. According to Knight, that process has already begun. In the two weeks since her move was announced, Bordeau has communicated with team members to learn about both their personal and rowing backgrounds. “[Bordeau is] definitely pushing us in the direction of we’re going to keep working hard, and we’re going to be getting in a lot of meters, but I think everyone on the team is 100 percent ready to do that if it leads to results,” Conway said. Knight said Bordeau has already succeeded in communicating her vision for the program’s improvement to the sophomores on campus. “[Bordeau] so far has articulated the goals in a way that makes them very clear to the team, which is a really important step for everybody to have the same goals and make sure everybody’s moving in the same direction together,” Knight said.
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The women’s rowing team finished as high as third in the Ivy League in 2011 but has ranked sixth or lower four times in the past five seasons.