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New dry cleaners to open pick-up drop-off location B y LAUREN SEGAL

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New London Cleaners is expected to open a pick-up and drop-off location in Hanover, replacing Kleen dry cleaners after its closure last month.

Kleen dry cleaners, which had operated in the Upper Valley since the 19th century, closed its laundromats, drop-off locations and its central facilities in downtown Lebanon last month after several months of reported financial difficulty.

The Outdoors Program Office has announced interim management following the resignation of director of outdoor programs Timothy Burdick ’89 Med ’02 on June 20. According to a College press release, the search for the next OPO director will begin this fall.

Under the interim

Proposed federal endowment tax to affect College

According to the Valley News, New London Cleaners is set to open this week, but the establishment did not appear to have any activity as of Thursday afternoon.

According to Hanover town manager Julia Griffin, Kleen faced potential closure since early this winter, but renegotiations with the College, which was loaning out the space, allowed Kleen to remain in business.

“Quite frankly, there MICHAEL LIN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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OPO announces interim co-directors and new hires The Dartmouth Senior staff

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

management, associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey will oversee administrative operations and OPO assistant director Rory Gawler ’05 and Paul “Coz” Teplitz will serve as co-directors. Teplitz has previously supervised the outdoor program at Harvard University for nine years and spent six years working at the North Carolina Outward SEE OPO PAGE 5

The Treasury Department proposed a new endowment tax that will affect Dartmouth.

B y eileen brady The Dartmouth Staff

On June 28, the U.S. Tr e a s u r y D e p a r t m e n t proposed rules for the excise tax on endowments on certain colleges and universities that was passed as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in late 2017. The 58-page document clarified certain aspects of the policy to aid administrators in determining whether the tax applies to their institution and how much colleges owe. The 1.4 percent tax applies to private colleges and universities with at least 500 students and endowments worth at least $500,000 per student. Dartmouth’s over 6,000 students and more than

$5 billion endowment puts it safely in this range, according to the College’s chief financial officer Mike Wagner, making it one of the 25-40 institutions the Internal Revenue Service expects to be affected by the tax.

The proposal defined “tuition-paying students” as only students “both enrolled at and attending the institution,” but specified that the $500,000 per student threshold would be based upon the total number of students at the institution, not just those who qualify as tuition-paying.

It also clarified what types of income would qualify as taxable, including interest on student loans provided by institutions and student

residential costs, but excluding athletic facilities and certain other campus buildings if 95 percent of their total use is for educational purposes.

Wagner noted that certain aspects of the proposal were unexpected. “[Taxing on] dorm rental, that was not one that we were expecting,” he said, but added that yielded interest on student loans came as an even bigger shock. Wagner said that the College thought of financial aids and the student loan program as related to the mission of the isntituiton.

“We think that financial aid and the student loan program is really critical to families and SEE ENDOWMENT TAX PAGE 2

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#SayHerName lecture College endowment tax proposed series opens

of the tax would be reducing the “It’s unclear to me what the amount of aid supported by the goal of the taxes is,” she said. “Is students being able to pay for their endowment, as opposed to sources it to generate more revenue for the like the Dartmouth College fund and federal government? Is it to punish education,” Wagner said. institutions that have worked hard to Although the tax has been widely others.

S o m e build up an endowment that supports publicized, of Dartmouth’s their students? Is it to make a public the impact on peer institutions statement about institutions that are Dartmouth will “This tax is going to will be feeling perceived as being wealthy?” likely be small, at result in fewer dollars similar effects, Johnston added that while she least in the short as the tax is set believes the purpose of the tax term, according that institutions to affect many unclear, she thinks it’s impact is t o e c o n o m i c s have available for of the nation’s damaging, as it is detrimental to both and public policy scholarships and for richest colleges students and institutions. professor Charles student services and and universities, “My overriding view of this is Wheelan. i n c l u d i n g that this tax is going to result in “ I s u s p e c t for research and for Harvard, Yale, fewer dollars that institutions have the effects are S t a n fo rd a n d available for scholarships and for fairly minimal,” operating expenses.”

Princeton. The student services and for research and Wheelan said.

5 0 0 - s t u d e n t for operating expenses,” she said.

“It’s going to -SUSAN WHEALLER m i n i m u m W h e e l a n s a i d h e b e l i eve s diminish the r e q u i r e m e n t motivations for the tax could be e n d o w m e n t JOHNSTON, PRESIDENT allows for some political, but added that even if a s l i g h t l y, b u t , AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF v e r y s m a l l left-leaning president is elected next by and large, schools to be year, it could be difficult to repeal the D a r t m o u t h ’ s NACUBO included as well, tax. going to set a according to “My working theory is that [the strategy based on the size of its endowment, more or Susan Whealler Johnston, president tax] is mostly political,” Wheelan less, and the excise tax isn’t going to and chief executive officer of the said. “The big-endowment schools National Association of College tend to be the Ivy League institutions radically change that vision.”

He added that the tax may even and University Business Officers, that are perceived as being more likely be offset by additional donations, a national trade organization of to be hostile to the administration, “if people decide that they want to which Dartmouth is an institutional and this is a bit of a poke in member. the eye for these liberal-leaning compensate.”

Wheelan also noted that the establishments.”

Wagner also said that the effects He added, however, that while would be minimal at first. Based on tax’s classification as an excise he sees no data from prior years, he estimates tax was slightly “legitimate that the tax will cost Dartmouth unexpected.

“Usually, an “Over time, $5 million e c o n o m i c around $5 million every year. While motivation” for $5 million, in the context of a $5 excise tax is a a year, compounding, the tax, it may be billion budget, makes little impact tax on a specific really becomes a big hard to repeal as at first, Wagner said the effects of g o o d , s o a deficits continue the money lost will be felt in the long cigarette tax is an number.” excise tax; a gas -MIKE WAGNER, CHIEF to grow, and any term. source of federal “Over time, $5 million a year, tax is an excise income may be compounding, really becomes a tax; it singles out FINANCIAL OFFICER hard to refuse. big number,” Wagner said, “and some particular the types of programs or financial good,” Wheelan said. “To me, it’s Though the tax is only expected aid that it can’t support becomes a a bit of a strange way to classify a to generate around $200 million, really big deal over time when it’s tax on endowment, because you’re Wheelan said he thinks it could be not available after compounding for kind of taxing a particular pool of hard to turn down in the future. capital, but I assume they figured The proposed rules will be years and years.”

Regardless, Wagner said, there that was really the only way they subjected to a 90-day public comment has been no indication that the could describe this very narrow way period ending on Oct 1. Wagner tax would impact how the College of taxing this particular form of said that Dartmouth has no specific plans to comment, but he expects awards financial aid. He added that, income.”

Johnston said that she believes the NACUBO to file a comment on as opposed to reducing awarded financial aid, a more likely result motivations of this tax are misplaced. behalf of its member institutions.

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B y elizabeth janowski The Dartmouth Staff

On Tuesday afternoon, a crowd filtered into Filene Auditorium for the opening of “#SayHerName: Intersectionality and Violence Against Black Women and Girls” — a six-part public lecture series exploring the topics of black feminism, social activism and responses to race and genderbased violence in America. Beth Richie, African American studies, sociology, and gender and women’s studies professor and head of the criminology, law and justice department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, initiated the series with a talk titled “Black Feminist Responses to Gender Violence: The Case for Abolition Politics and Praxis.” Women’s and gender studies professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick Brittney Cooper hosted the second installation to the series with her talk “The Future of Black Feminism (in Theory)” on Thursday afternoon.

Tuesday’s events began with introductions from philosophy p ro f e s s o r S u s a n B r i s o n a n d government professor Shatema Threadcraft, who co-organized the lecture series.

Brison emphasized in her introduction that the #SayHerName social movement arose from the need to address the gender-specific ways in which black women experience the effects of racial injustice — particularly the disproportionate violence that they face in American society.

In an interview with T he Dartmouth, Threadcraft stated that the idea of hosting a #SayHerName lecture series at the College came about after she and Brison heard each other speak at a conference

on the #MeToo movement hosted at the City University of New York last fall.

“Professor Brison got in touch with me and asked if I’d be interested in co-organizing a series that centered the concerns of black women and girls, given their absence in the mainstream #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements,” Threadcraft said.

“We both agreed that Dartmouth needed to address the issue of intersectionality and violence against black women and girls, and [Dartmouth] enthusiastically supported our plan.”

Richie opened her lecture by echoing Brison and Threadcraft’s sentiments, commenting on the lack of representation of black female experiences that she says tends to characterize mainstream social activist campaigns.

“Among the vigorous political debates about racial injustice, there was virtual silence about the issues of gender and sexuality,” Richie said. “The silence was not only troubling because gender wasn’t included in the frame of injustice, but also because women and gender non-conforming people were not considered to be suffering in the same way men were.”

Richie spoke out against the persistence of gender-based violence towards black women and urged the audience to challenge media representations — or lack thereof — of gender inequality and racial injustice.

“No one said their names,” Richie repeated several times as she told the stories of black women and girls who endured harassment, violence and police brutality with little to no media coverage.

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Democracy and justice Cleaners set to open in Hanover workshops begin FROM DRY CLEANING PAGE 1

B y Rachel pakianathan

said. “Here’s a lot to worry about and a lot to think about. We’re hoping to come up with a more clear understanding of Professors and individuals from where we are and how to shape where a variety of disciplines, including we’re going.” philosophy, law, history and political Approximately 35 people registered science, were invited to the College to for the first workshop, according to present and comment on papers for Becca Rothfeld ’14, a Harvard doctoral the Truth, Power and the Foundations candidate in philosophy who is helping of Democracy workshop series. The organize the series. Two more workshops interdisciplinary will be held on project, organized “There’s been a July 24-25 and by government August 6-7. The professor Russell democratic recession series also includes Muirhead and over the last 14 years,” a public lecture philosophy titled “Statistical professor David Re s e n t m e n t ” Plunkett, held -RUSSEL MUIRHEAD, given by Hebrew its first of three GOVERNMENT University workshops this o f Je r u s a l e m PROFESSOR week. professor David On Tuesday Enoch on July 26. and Wednesday, participants from Each workshop session includes 10 universities across the U.S. and abroad to 15 minutes of commentary, five discussed papers related to the topic of to 10 minutes of response from the democracy during hour and a half long author and a question and answer sessions. Five people presented papers, period. Participants read pre-distributed including Johns Hopkins University papers written by presenters prior to professor Yascha Mounk and Oxford the workshop. All workshops are free University professor Rachel Fraser. and open to all, but pre-registration The workshops aim to address is required, according to the project questions about the role of truth in website. democratic societies and the ability of Mounk,whosepaperonpopulismand democracy to handle problems related to democracy was discussed on Wednesday, misinformation, according to the project said he thought the commentary was website. Muirhead said that he wanted helpful. to have people from different academic “It was great feedback. It was the disciplines talking with each other about first time that I sort of had a chance the same set of problems. to have people read the piece, and give “We come with very different zones some feedback on it, and they’ll be lots of expertise, very different sources of of things that I’ll take away from it,” he familiarity and even different interests,” said.

Muirhead said. “So when we come Deniston University professor Amy together, it turns out we can speak to Shuster presented a paper on the each other, and we can teach each other Declaration of Independence and how things that we wouldn’t learn through just people interpret the phrase, “all men are talking to people in our own discipline.” created equal” on Tuesday. She said the Muirhead said that the stability discussions from the workshop addressed of democracy and its potential for core questions about the nature of improvement is one of the most urgent democracy. problems of today.

“I think that the some of the “There’s been a democratic recession conversation was about trying to think over the last 14 years, where more about what democracy is, as a actually countries have moved away from existing thing, rather than just a thing in democracy than toward democracy,” he our mind,” she added.

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were signs already that Kleen was struggling; we were hearing through the grapevine that they were having financial difficulties,” Griffin said. “It was likely only a matter of time before we lost them due to their precarious financial situation.”

Griffin said that the closure of Kleen affected the whole Upper Valley as Kleen provided a convenient pick-up and drop-off location that was widely used by both local residents and individuals who work in downtown Hanover.

“I just had a pile of clothes and nowhere to take them,” said Enfield resident Sue Hager man, who frequented Kleen dry cleaners prior to its closure.

Upon the announcement that Kleen was going out of business, many Upper Valley residents turned to New London Cleaners, a family owned and operated cleaning service.

“Immediately, folks pounced on New London Cleaners to see if they might convince them to provide pick-

up and drop-off service in Hanover,” Griffin said.

While this pressure from distressed residents pushed New London Cleaners to open the Hanover location, the decision was primarily made due to the increased volume of customers and potential business opportunity, according to New London Cleaners owner Jeff Owen.

Hagerman said that she was pleased about the New London Cleaners’ Hanover location.

“It was all over the Enfield listserv about the lack of laundry services in town,” Hagerman said.

“There was a flurry of emails when it was announced that New London Cleaners would open in Hanover.”

Despite Kleen’s closure, Griffin expects that New London Cleaners will not face the same difficulties that forced its predecessor out of business. Owen is very cautious about how much he wants to expand, and New London Cleaners will not be providing institutional laundry services for hospitals, police departments and fire departments

the way Kleen did before its closure, according to Griffin.

Although Griffin does not expect New London Cleaners to follow in Kleen’s steps, she noted that dry cleaning services are declining nationwide in the face of the comparative popularity of washand-wear fabrics and casual clothing choices. While Kleen faced its own financial difficulties on the micro level, Griffin suggests that its closure was related to a widespread trend. “[Kleen’s closure] is a reflection of what’s happening in the clothing and cleaning markets. I think fewer and fewer people need dry-cleaning services, but it’s still a service that many people rely on, so we were sad when we watched Kleen make the decision to close down,” Griffin said.

Owen, however, is confident in the market for dry cleaning services.

“The clothing attire in this area is always dry-cleaning-based,” Owen said. “Hanover, because of the hospital and the College, has plenty of dry cleaning customers.”

The Dartmouth College #SayHerName Summer Lecture Series Presents

Self-Care as an Act of

Political Warfare Salamishah Tillet Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies & Creative Writing, Rutgers University

Thursday,

July 18, 2019

4:30 pm • Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall RECEPTION TO FOLLOW • FREE & OPEN TO ALL

Convened by Professors Susan Brison (Philosophy) & Shatema Threadcraft (Government) Co-sponsored by Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department of Philosophy, Department of Government, and African and African American Studies

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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

STAFF COLUMNIST STEVEN ADELBERG ‘21

Career Consulting

Derelict Dining

Try looking for jobs you care about.

What if it were possible to get better job opportunities by doing less recruiting? That would be a godsend for many of my friends who are spending their sophomore summers trying to game the corporate recruiting process into offering them jobs in which they have no interest. Many of my friends feel intensely pressured to get jobs in consulting, private equity or investment banking. Some are in it for the money and others to appease an over-zealous parent. Some are drawn by the promise of status-security and others are running from the prospect of unemployment.

But very few have a genuine interest in these professions. This thoughtless pursuit of highstatus jobs is a problem that has fueled the “snake” stigma against consulting, finance and even the economics major.

There’s nothing wrong with businessoriented pursuits — it can be exhilarating to understand and improve America’s most powerful engines of value-creation.

Personally, I would love to build better businesses, and I derive a certain satisfaction from using Excel to solve business problems that matter. Sometimes, I even learn more in a job information session about how the real world works than I do in a lecture. It can, in fact, be truly rewarding to work in the business services sector, but only if done for the right reasons. The problem is that impure motives drive people to pursue the wealth and status associated with corporate jobs, not the unrivaled learning opportunities offered by these jobs.

Direct benefits like pay or prestige are not good goals for a first job out of college

Sophomore Summer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

because, ultimately, our future careers are much more important than our first jobs.

Whether you care about your happiness, your personal growth, your salary or your social status, much more is to be gained during the upwards trajectory of your career than from the period immediately following college.

This upwards career trajectory, however, is not automatic — it takes work. Most experts agree that career development is best served by impactful work, involving passion for the profession and leveraging of natural strengths, and a supportive workplace that maintains work-life balance.

Those who enter corporate professions for the wrong reasons also risk encountering job burnout. The Mayo Clinic defines this condition as “a special type of work-related stress” and “a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.” The Harvard Business Review warns that “burnout can take a serious toll on your health, performance, career prospects, psychological well-being, and relationships.”

Burnout squanders the gift of one’s youth and the promise of one’s future, a fact made more regrettable by its frequency. According to Deloitte, a professional services firm, 84 percent of millennial corporate professionals report experiencing burnout and nearly half of millennial corporate professionals have quit a job specifically because they felt burnt out.

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Sophomore summer is a heralded time — our requisite drawbacks. Those who agreed to the wonderful academic romp about the woodlands extra term fully understood that skeletal dining of New Hampshire. You’ve likely read about options would haunt their every mealtime when it in pamphlets or associated propaganda, they signed up. And yet, they found the benefits of wherein the administration lauds this time of the term to be greater than the lack in amenities. community and kinship. “The region around Dartmouth robs us of that agency. We, Hanover is ripe for exploring,” they say. And I as students, are summoned, presented with suppose it is; it has to be. You can’t afford to have a bill, and then met with lackluster dining students looking inward when you essentially facilities. I, for one, didn’t choose to sacrifice shortchange the summer-dwellers in regard to the Courtyard Café’s ineluctable “Burger of on-campus dining. That’s the Week” in exchange right. The Courtyard Café’s “You can’t afford for humid classrooms once miraculous kitchen and dormitories. And I lies vacant, collecting dust to have students most certainly wouldn’t bunnies rather than quelling looking inward have come to this decision our voracious appetites. The when you essentially without the poking and Collis Café’s beloved Late prodding of Dartmouth’s Night operates on truncated shortchange the bureaucracy. I didn’t have “summer hours.” The Cube, summer-dwellers in a choice to be here here, the only of the three snack and certainly didn’t want bars left alive, has seen its regard to on-campus to foot the same bill that I hours of operation dwindle. dining.” would have in a term ripe When the summer rolls with bountiful food options. around, it’s the Class of ’53 The financial Commons or bust. And it underbelly of our dining shouldn’t be. experience merits more than its fair share of We fortunate sophomores are nothing jaded criticism. Dining plans don’t suddenly short of academic hostages, herded into a shrink in cost on a term-by-term basis, meaning summer term with no particular recourse or that we sophomores are coughing up the same alternative but to suck it sum for a lesser product. up, given the scarcity of As much as I do love the options. Now, if Dartmouth “The financial Class of ’53 Commons, only mandated attendance underbelly of our it’s difficult to comprehend during fall, winter and why a stingier offering of dining experience spring, a relaxing of dining facilities shouldn’t diminish options for the summer merits more than its the overall price tag. If we season wouldn’t constitute fair share of jaded presume that the values an abuse of power. Many of the swipes, not DBA, other universities, in fact, criticism.” themselves hinge upon the do offer up some semblance overall food, employment of additional coursework or and facility costs, the effects programming when others would venture off on of closing certain sites and limiting hours should summer break and correspondingly reduce their play into that calculation. It is simply unfair of dining options. What differentiates Dartmouth Dartmouth to thrust the same bill on a group from some of its peers, though, is our summer of captive students when the college is perfectly term’s mandatory nature. conscious of its lackluster dining offerings.

Sophomores lodging on campus in the Logistically, I get it. With a fraction of the summer didn’t opt into the initiative. No, we foot traffic, most universities would be justified were forced into it; forced to cough up our share in balking at the ambitious idea of funding of tuition and room and board; forced to settle every campus dining facility throughout for less. Our peers at sibling universities who go this nontraditional term. But this isn’t most the way of a nontraditional term do so knowing universities. This is Dartmouth. And here at beforehand that it will come with a slew of Dartmouth, sophomores do not have a choice drawbacks and consequences. To suffer these in enrolling for the summer, do not face a lighter travails, however, is a choice, and this enviable bill and especially do not get what they pay for. freedom serves as its own compensation for the And all three are a bit too much to swallow.

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Editor’s Note Sophomore summer has to be the best term of your Dartmouth career. We’ve heard so many people say that you feel like you’re doing something wrong if you can’t say the same. We’re told that summer at Dartmouth is supposed to be full of fun and great weather, and we sometimes forget that it’s also just another term.

It’s no different from other terms in that you do work for your classes, get stressed out and run into a variety of problems that life might throw at you. It’s no different from other terms in that you’ll still have bad days, terrible days and days that are just alright. On some days the weather really is great, but we still get our fair share of rain, as well as days when it’s uncomfortably hot.

This issue highlights some fun outdoors activities and traditions of Dartmouth, but that doesn’t have to be what your summer is all about. Sure, summer is a great time to get out under the sun and embrace Hanover’s nature, but at the same time, it doesn’t have to be. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

In the midst of precarious weather, there are certain things that stay consistent.

People, things and ideas stay with you, regardless of the day’s weather. This might be a good friend, a go-to breakfast, or a goal that motivates you. There are certain things that stay, rain or shine. So next time, when you feel like your sophomore summer is not at all what people make it to be — the sunny, fun, perfect term — remember those things that are still with you. The things that already are pretty perfect.

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7.12.19 VOL. CLXXVI NO. 52 MIRROR EDITOR KRISTINE JIWOO AHN

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEBORA HYEMIN HAN PUBLISHER AIDAN SHEINBERG ISSUE EXECUTIVE MATTHEW MAGANN EDITOR

By Jacob Maguire

For many students, Dartmouth is a place of ever-present change. For generations of students and alumni, four years at Dartmouth can be profoundly transformative.

Yet amidst so much change, Cabin and Trail, a sub-club of the Dartmouth Outing Club, has remained, helping many students find meaning, continuity and lasting friendships during their time at Dartmouth. The organization’s hundredth birthday is approaching.

Several of the students who count Cabin and Trail among the most important influences during their years at Dartmouth include Kevin Donohue ’21, Rachel Kent ’21, Maya Khanna ’22, and Elijah Laird ’21. It is for this reason that Donohue, Kent, Khanna, and Laird are helping to plan the Centennial celebration for Cabin and Trail, which the club has dubbed “CnTennial” in recognition of Cabin and Trail’s longrunning nickname, “CnT.” Donohue, one of the chairs of CnT, views his involvement in CnT as one of the highlights of his time at Dartmouth, and his experiences have inspired him to take on leadership roles within the organization.

“Cabin and Trail has been the home that I found at Dartmouth,” said Donohue, who first got involved with CnT during his freshman year. “All of the work that I’ve done since then [has focused on] trying to make that happen for other people.”

Kent, who serves as a co-chair of CnT alongside Donohue, said that CnT has likewise become a focal point of her time at Dartmouth, largely because of the friendships she has created with fellow members.

“I knew coming to Dartmouth that I wanted to be involved in the outdoors,” Kent said. “I didn’t think this would be the primary place where I would spend my time at Dartmouth, but it quickly became that because of the people and how welcome I felt. I have since worked hard to make this a space where other students can feel and experience that.”

CnT was founded on June 4, 1920

by Sherman Adams, a 1920 Dartmouth

graduate who would later serve as the governor of New Hampshire from 1949 to 1953 and as White House chief of staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Adams founded the organization to represent the DoC to the College and recruit new members, among other goals.

The first 34 members of the organization included members of the classes of 1920, 1921 and 1922. Eventually, CnT became a sub-club under the broader DOC. Much like a century ago, CnT’s leadership and members include ’20s, ’21s and ’22s. But, according to Khanna and Laird, Cabin and Trail plans to focus a significant portion of its CnTennial celebration on helping welcome students from all corners of campus into the club, especially incoming ’23s and students who are not currently involved in the outdoors.

According to Khanna, Laird, Donohue and Kent, CnT intends to start celebrating CnTennial in the fall and host the celebration’s peak programs during the winter and spring of 2020.

Laird said that CnTennial’s opening celebration will likely take place at the DOC Clubhouse on Occom Pond, while the closing ceremony will tentatively be held at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and will be “reflective” in nature. CnT also hopes to plan some special break trips during CnTennial. In addition, CnTennial’s organizers plan to create a photo project about CnT’s history.

Donohue believes that efforts to enjoy the outdoors are central to CnTennial.

“I think that the best way for people to get involved in CnTennial is to go on a hike and sleep in a cabin,” Donohue said. “People have been doing that at Dartmouth for over 100 years and these are great experiences.”

Khanna, with help from Kent and other members, is leading the committee’s effort to examine logbooks in the DOC’s cabins, which have some entries that date back to the 1920s and 1930s. Khanna and her fellow researchers are searching for entries in the logbooks that are “in some way, significant.” For example, they have found entries at the DOC’s cabins from

conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza ’83, former Outdoor Programs Office director Tim Burdick ’89 and OPO employee Rory Gawler ’05.

Kent noticed while examining the earliest logbooks that nearly all of the entries in the DOC’s cabins during the 1920s and 1930s were written by men, who occasionally brought their wives with them. Until co-education in 1972, CnT was exclusively composed of men. “[These entries were] a reminder that CnT, and Dartmouth more generally, has not always been welcoming to women,” Kent said. “What that means is that CnT, and the DOC in general, [used to be] an all-boys club.”

Kent added that gender norms have long defined individuals’ perspectives and experiences in the outdoors.

Kent said that while masculine qualities have long been celebrated in the outdoors, it was important to start recognizing and valuing feminine qualities as well.

Nevertheless, Khanna and Kent pointed out that in recent decades, women have become integral members and leaders of Cabin and Trail. Women who serve in leadership positions in CnT are evidence of that progress, they said.

“Some of the most admirable and competent individuals that I’ve worked with in the club have been women,” Kent said. “We have definitely made progress in opening the DOC to women [through sub-clubs such as] CnT, Women in the Wilderness, and others.”

Khanna echoed Kent’s sentiments, adding that CnT and the DOC have had “many phenomenal, highly competent female leaders who have paved the way for women’s equality in both outdoor spaces and in the [greater Dartmouth community] more generally.”

BothKhannaandKentacknowledged that more work needs to be done to make the DOC more inclusive to gendernonconforming people and other students who have historically been excluded. They are confident, however, that CnT is on the right track.

Khanna is member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Lest the Old Traditions Fade: Remembering Tubestock STORY

By Sarah Alpert

Picture a Saturday afternoon on the Connecticut River, friends laughing beside you and your toes growing numb in the water. It’s hot, it’s sunny, and you “forgot” to bring your reading for Jews 11. Now picture the river jammed bank to bank with rafts and tubes, your entire class drunkenly drifting downstream in a jumble of swimsuits, abandoned flipflops and floating kegs of beer.

That is Tubestock, sophomore summer’s long lost “big weekend” tradition — and you’ll never see anything like it again.

Tubestock began in 1987, when Richard “Boomer” Akerboom ’80 and his band performed from the deck of off-campus house “River Ranch,” and over 200 people watched from the water. From there, the event grew into a wet and boozy party for the sophomore class, although non-Dartmouth students also participated. Tubestock took place every mid-July for almost two decades, drawing up to around 1,000 people at its peak.

Before the big day, Chi Heorot fraternity used to sell inner tubes to students, while others chose to build make-shift rafts with their Greek houses or friends, according to a 2001 article of The Dartmouth written by Tracy Landers. Once on the river, students unleashed their fraternity-party antics, beach-style, splashing off plastic slides and ripping off clothes. It was “Animal House” on water, Dartmouth’s party spirit let loose.

Despite the obvious risk in floating belligerent 20-year-olds down a quickly-flowing river, Tubestock rarely led to serious injuries. In 1994, Kishan Putta ’96 cut his foot on a motor boat propeller, landing a deep gash and a left-leg cast. Most years, however, reporters and authorities seemed almost surprised by the lack of major crises at Tubestock.

In 2000, Julia Levy reported for The Dartmouth that “the weekend greeted Dartmouth with few unusual disturbances or injuries to either sober or inebriated individuals.”

In 2003, The Dartmouth published the headline, “Tubestock passes with few incidents.” The same year, Valley News wrote, “While there were some rickety rafts, rambunctious young people, longrange water cannons, and a crowd of maybe 1,000, there were no floating kegs, no hordes of boozing students, and none of the rampant

platform, they have only two choices, they can either take their tops off and be considered skanks or be booed off the platform,” one man said to Tassel.

Chants to “take it off ” might seem more appalling in 2019 than they did in the early 2000s, but such crude energy was what gave Tubestock its charm, according to the students

fun was not so serious.”

At that point, Tubestock had only a few more years to scandalize the banks of the Connecticut. By 2003, the police presence at Tubestock had grown to 30 officers from different departments, anxious to rescue anyone who disappeared beneath the surface. But after the summer of 2005, an “open container town

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nudity that had colored reports of Tubestocks past.”

Although Tubestock led to more hangovers than harm, especially in its later years, some considered the event hostile for many participants.

In 2004, former sexual awareness program coordinator Abby Tassel told The Dartmouth that by pressuring female students to remove their tops, men may have engaged in sexual harassment on the river.

“When women go up on the

who participated. In 2002, when the Class of 2004 president urged students to act more responsibly on the river, The Dartmouth editorial board jumped to Tubestock’s defense: “Tubestock is not a cute, tidy event; it is at base a scene of debauchery that has historically never received — or, until recently, even sought — College recognition, and in present form it probably never should … a calmer, safer Tubestock may be inevitable, but it is also one that makes us yearn for a time when

ordinance” prevented drinking during Tubestock, and an “outdoor activities town ordinance” required anyone participating in an outdoor event to have a permit. Previously, only the organizers of an outdoor event — not the participants — could be fined for lacking a permit, and since Tubestock lacked a single organizer, it proceeded legally each year. Now, however, the new laws made it inconceivable for the tradition to continue.

When the town of Hanover

voted to terminate Tubestock for good, one student, Robert King ’08, protested vehemently before the Hanover Board of Selectmen. Many students, however, understood the decision, town manager Julia Griffin told The Dartmouth. For years, sophomores had marveled at the fact that Tubestock was allowed to happen, despite the blatant danger and illegality of underage drinking on public waters. In 2003, Anne E. Marbarger wrote, “As I bobbed up and down, shivering in the water and absorbing the action, I couldn’t help but wonder how we could get away with an event like Tubestock.”

Though great fun, Marbarger wrote that Tubestock seemed “more like a lesson in local law enforcement gone bad — real bad.”

In 2006, Tubestock made way for Fieldstock, a land-based and ultimately short-lived replacement of the beloved sophomore summer party. The first Fieldstock included a chariot race, previously a Green Key tradition, followed by a barbecue, live music, and sports activities at the Bema. While many students enjoyed participating in the new tradition, others lamented the loss of Tubestock’s more “ragey” fun.

After its debut, subsequent Fieldstocks offered a week-long Summer Olympics competition, replete with events such as capture the melon, eating contests, a carnival on Frat Row, and the classic chariot races. Although Fieldstock slowly gained support from the student body, Tom Mandel wrote for The Dartmouth in 2009, “It is the College’s attempt to shove a ‘big weekend’ down our throats.” Others must have shared his opinion, as Fieldstock faded from interest and was cancelled within the decade.

Fieldstock may have disappointed, but Tubestock was once a highlight of this sacred time we call sophomore summer. Although the crazy, rowdy, irresponsible event lasted only 19 years, Tubestock deserves our bemused affection as a relic of dear old Dartmouth.

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A Green Summer STORY PHOTO

By Divya Kopalle and Michael Lin

HOOD AFTER 5 Sophomore Summer Friday, July 12, 5–7pm Cool down in the museum with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Howl’n Good Kettle Corn, face-painting, art-making, and more.

Alma Woodsey Thomas, Wind Dancing with Spring Flowers (detail), 1969, acrylic on canvas. Purchased through a gift by exchange from Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H; 2016.5. Photo courtesy of Connersmith Gallery, Washington, D.C.

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OPO to begin search for Lectures cover intersectionality and violence against black women and girls new director in the fall OPO will solicit feedback and opinions from students, faculty, staff and Bound School. alumni in the summer and fall terms Prior OPO deputy director Brian regarding what qualities the community Kunz, who retired last year, will also assist hopes to see in a new OPO director, in the transition, serving as a consultant according to the press release. and advisor to the interim staff.

Burdick’s resignation came following Ramsey wrote in an email statement an incident on an outdoor programs that “supporting outdoor programs” office-led trip on Mount Moosilauke is his “highest in May in which priority” during “I look forward to a student was the transition. separated from “I look forward working closely with the group and to working closely the students, faculty, w e n t m i s s i n g. with the students, and staff to continue Ti nhvee s teixgtaetrinoanl faculty, alumni and staff to continue to provide many into the incident to provide many opportunities for concluded on the opportunities for day of Burdick’s engagement in engagement.” resignation. College the out-of-doors,” spokesperson Ramsey wrote.

Diana Lawrence -ERIC RAMSEY, OPO He added that confirmed Burdick’s he is committed INTERIM CO-DIRECTOR resignation, but to finding “the declined to speculate best educator” to on the motive at the permanently fill the director of outdoor time of his departure. The College programs position. has not released a full report of the The College also announced the investigation. hiring of Willow Nilsen and Gunnar The OPO falls under the student Johnson. Nilsen will serve as OPO life area of Dartmouth’s Student program coordinator and will support the Affairs Division and works on outdoor Dartmouth Outing Club, while Johnson programming such as overseeing will work as the program coordinator for the Dartmouth Outing Club and community and educational programs. Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.

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The College will consider community opinion in search for new OPO director.

as black female leaders.

Members of the audience asked Richie specifically discussed the Richies questions regarding incarceration, advocating for the their views on current politics, abolition of America’s prison gender violence at the university system. She argued that an over- level and how to become involved in reliance on policing has led to political and social activism, among the unfair and other topics. One disproportionate “Among the vigorous student garnered incarceration of applause after b l a c k w o m e n . political debates asking for advice R e f e r r i n g t o about racial injustice, on how to remain herself as an persistent as “ a b o l i t i o n there was virtual an activist, f e m i n i s t , ” s h e silence about the referencing the expressed hope lack of action issues of gender and that in the future, t a k e n by t h e communities will sexuality.” administration seek alternative in 2014 after a methods to group of students the process of -BETH RICHIE, proposed the criminalization UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISFreedom Budget that consider the — a list of CHICAGO AFRICAN health and safety suggested reforms of black women. AMERICAN STUDIES, that reflected “ W e h a v e SOCIOLOGY, AND c o n c e r n s ove r chosen to diversity and c r i m i n a l i z e GENDER AND WOMEN’S accessibility on people’s attempts STUDIES PROFESSOR campus. to survive and “When we build up a prison disagree, I hope nation instead,” Richie said. that you still use your voice to “We need to talk about the real advocate for what you believe in,” harm that’s done, re-investment Laurel Richie said. in communities, strong justice In her lecture on Thursday, Cooper relationships. What people is need discussed the marginalization of is therapeutic care, not to be put in black women in academia, the a cage.” performance of academic rigor Reflecting on Richie’s lecture, and the relationship between Threadcraft expressed enthusiasm radical social justice movements over the points that were discussed. and academic disciplines. She “Professor Richie’s talk was emphasized the importance of phenomenal,” Threadcraft said in liberation from the language of an interview after the event. “As a academic institutions — which great admirer of her work, I can she described as constraining and honestly say that I was dazzled “esoteric” — in favor of more by the depth of her analysis, her accessible methods of expression. talk’s complexity and clarity and Tensions arose during the question her decades-long commitment to and answer portion of the talk when scholarship and activism regarding Emory University philosophy violence against women.” professor and Montgomery Fellow After her talk, Richie was joined George Yancy objected to Cooper’s by her sister and Board of Trustees response to a student, in which she chair Laurel Richie ’81 to co-host said white women and black men a panel discussing their experiences are “on the d—s” of white men.

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She said that both white women and black men see “freedom” as obtaining the kind of power white men have, and are thus complicit in perpetuating the existing power structure.

Yancy said in an interview after the event that the “talk was incredibly good” and “directed towards black women in a very important way,” but that he could not tolerate “a black woman [saying] that black men and white women are on the jocks of white men.”

During the exchange, Cooper said that Yancy’s “performance of solidarity undercuts [his] commitment to solidarity,” pointing out the ways in which his interruption of her reflected existing patriarchal power structures and underlying assumptions about black feminism.

“The problem is that when black women try to talk about freedom — because of the ways black men have been treated — if we don’t begin our critiques at the space of acknowledging everything they have done for us, then there is criticism,” Cooper said to Yancy. Cooper declined to comment further on the matter.

Brison said that she was “deeply gratified” with the crowd that the series’ first events attracted. She added that she was particularly grateful for the attendance of College President Phil Hanlon, dean of the faculty Elizabeth Smith and associate dean for the faculty of arts and humanities Barbara Will at the first event.

The lectures will also serve to supplement the curriculum for Brison and Threadcraft’s courses this summer. Students in GOVT 86.35/AAAS 20/WGSS 67.05, “Feminist Theory” — taught by Threadcraft — and PHIL 004/ WGSS 46.01, “Philosophy and Gender” — taught by Brison — will attend the lectures as part of their courses and have the opportunity to speak with the lecturers following each event.

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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019

THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Film: “Sundance Shorts Tour”sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.

9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Viewing: “Public Astronomical Viewing,” sponsored by the Department of Physics, Shattuck Observatory.

TOMORROW 5:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Charity Event: “The 38th Annual Prouty,” Hanover, NH.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Tour: “Hood Highlights Tour,” sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art.

7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Film: “Star Wars: Episode IV ,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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industries like consulting and investment banking shower their entry-level employees with pay and advancement opportunities: Employer s must somehow compensate potential applicants for the long-term costs of burnout in order to remain competitive. High entry-level pay and prestige are not simply lavish perks — they are a riskpremium. Career-minded students with a long-term perspective who understand risk management and discounted cash flow analysis should think twice before they apply their talents in a workplace that exposes them to such a considerable burnout risk.

Still, intense corporate jobs can be a good fit for students who have the right talents, values and motivations.

Burnout and growth are both products of the interaction between an employee and their workplace, not the workplace itself. Two people can have very different experiences in the same environment. Especially for Dartmouth students, who have a

plethora of enviable career options, it should be clear that consulting and investment banking are not for everyone. Only those who truly thrive on long-hours of data-driven collaborative problem-solving should even consider joining Corporate America.

For these select business-oriented students, however, there are few better places to grow than a top consultancy or investment bank.

Where else can they learn to leverage their full creative, interdisciplinary pragmatism in a way that drives an impact measured in billions of dollars? Where else can they gain such a bottoms-up understanding of global economic structures?

Where else can they gain meaningful experiences working across functions at the top of exciting companies before they turn 30? There is no better place to grow for the businessminded student who values hard work and market impact than in the “high burnout” business services sector.

The paradoxical notion that some students should work in a high burnout environment for non-

monetary reasons speaks to a broader insight: Early-stage career choices must be made based on fit, not just on job characteristics. Our careers loom large before us. These careers are grand and exciting beyond measure, but also largely contingent on our own choices today. We can only grow into leaders if we find the supporting environments we need early on. With the recruiting process in full swing, I hope every Dartmouth student can exercise the judgement they need to find the spaces in which they can thrive.

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Review: ‘Stranger Things 3’ is an electric revival of the series

B y Maria HArrast

local paper. Meanwhile, the show’s beloved adult characters — Hopper, played by David Harbour ’97, and On Fourth of July weekend, Joyce Byers, played by Winona I powered up my laptop, logged Ryder — deal with the awkwardness into Netflix and clicked on the of parenthood while sorting out the big, bright banner advertising the details of their own personal lives. release of “Stranger Things 3.” With so much normalcy, it is easy My expectations were low. After a to forget that underneath the small lackluster second season, I missed town of Hawkins, Indiana is a portal the excitement that surrounded the to a dark, alternate dimension: the series when it first premiered — back Upside Down. when the #ImWithBarb campaign In the first and second seasons, we trended on social media, memes learn that the Upside Down is home about Eleven’s to the Mind name went viral Flayer, a giant and Eggo waffles “While the second spider-like surged in sales. season relied on the monster that I wanted the tries to invade success of the first third season of Earth by taking the sci-fi-horror season’s plot and its ove r h u m a n series to bring likeable characters — bodies. While the same magic it the second had created with creating a forgettable season relied its 2016 launch. plot that was all too on the success One weekendof the first similar to the first long Netflix season’s plot binge later, I season’s — the new and its likable a m c o n f i d e n t challenges of the characters that the magic — creating o f “ S t r a n g e r third season provide a forgettable T h i n g s ” h a s viewers with a freshly plot that was all finally returned too similar to entertaining plot and to Hawkins in the first — the what may be its the opportunity to new challenges best season yet. of the third witness the characters “Stranger season provide Things 3” takes develop in a way we viewers with place during the haven’t seen before.” a freshly summer of 1985, entertaining as the familiar plot and the crew of teens opportunity to juggle friendships, romances and witness the characters develop in a jobs. While younger members way we haven’t seen before. of the group navigate their first During the first two seasons, the relationships, the older teens take on Mind Flayer’s target is the young Will jobs at the ice cream parlor of the Byers, who only manages to survive newly-built Starcourt Mall and at the the Mind Flayer with the help of The Dartmouth Staff

his mom, friends, Hopper and circumstances. For example, when most importantly, Eleven. Played Eleven and Mike get into their first

by Millie Bobby Brown, Eleven is a fight, Max introduces Eleven to the quiet girl with psychokinetic abilities world of teen magazines, shopping and an affection for Eggo waffles. malls and neon scrunchies. When At the end of the second season, Hopper wants to have a talk about she uses her mind powers to close boundaries with Eleven, he turns the gate to the Upside Down, which to Joyce for sound parental advice. banishes the Mind Flayer from the When Robin and Steve are forced human dimension. to work together at the ice cream With the gate closed, all should parlor, they are willing to reexamine be well. But, within the first two old assumptions about one another. episodes of the third season, The third season takes the a citywide characters that power outage, “Rather than binging the “Stranger Russian radio Things” fanbase the season just to transmissions loves and hits and erratic rat get answers to its them with new behavior reveal sci-fi mysteries, I challenges that that something force them to r e m a i n s found myself excited g r o w. B a s e d v e r y w r o n g to watch how the on the past in Hawkins. network of characters t“wSot rs ae ans og nesr, Throughout the season, the crew and their relationships Things” fans o f ch a r a c t e r s would evolve and already know that works together these characters i n s e a r c h o f response to eachother can tackle e x p l a n a t i o n s and their new supernatural for the string of d e m o n s. T h e circumstances.” strange events, all-too-relatable before finally territory of discovering the puberty and truth of what young love thus they are up against: The Mind adds an unexpectedly welcome Flayer will not stop until he finds a dimension to our Demogorgonway out of the Upside Down and slaying heroes and heroines. Namely, into the minds and bodies of the the young couples — Eleven and humans of Hawkins.

Mike, Max and Lucas, Dustin T h e t h i r d i n s t a l l m e n t o f and his mystery girlfriend from “Stranger Things” hooked me camp — struggle with all of differently than its predecessors did. the typical obstacles of young Rather than binging the season just love, including time management, to get answers to its sci-fi mysteries, miscommunication and of course, I found myself excited to watch the “L” word. All of these struggles how the network of characters and combined help bring the characters their relationships would evolve and into a welcome new light in this respond to each other and their new coming-of-age-season.

While romance characterizes much of this “Stranger Things” chapter, the budding friendships and breakout characters are one of its greatest strengths. Eleven and Max become a power couple in the best of ways, embodying a girl team to counteract the show’s previously dominant boys’ club. Their alliance finally helps Max step out of the shadows of the second season, as she becomes a fierce leader who is more than just a female filler in a predominantly male show.

Max is not the only character who makes a name for herself this season.

Dustin, who was once written off as the nerdiest, dorkiest member of the Dungeons & Dragons-playing squad, finally takes charge as he tries to crack the code of the Russian radio transmissions. Billy, whose mean-spirited character was weak and underdeveloped in the second season, is finally given a backstory and a character arc that matters.

Lucas’s little sister Erica, who was a simple background character in “Stranger Things 2,” brings another dose of sass and personally as she finally takes part in the main action.

The strong character development throughout this season makes it truly entertaining and fun to watch.

So yes, after the breakout cultural phenomenon that was the first season and the forgettable storyline that was the second, I had little hope that the world of “Stranger Things” would continue to impress.

But, with the funky fashion, the classic film references and the gory visual effects topped off by relatable new challenges and impressive character development, “Stranger Things 3” delivers. It’s official — the excitement I once felt for this spooky series is back.

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One-on-one with new women’s lacrosse head coach Alex Frank B y eric vaughn

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Dartmouth women’s lacrosse hired Alex Frank earlier this month to be the fifth head coach in team history, replacing Stanford-bound coach Danielle Spencer.

Frank spent the past four seasons coaching at the University of Colorado Boulder and served as associate head coach during her final two seasons.

Frank had a successful tenure with Colorado, helping the Buffaloes reach the NCAA Tournament the last three years and the second round in the past two. Ironically, the Buffaloes’ first round victory this year came in a tight match against the Big Green. In 2018, Frank earned the distinction of Assistant Coach of the Year from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.

In addition to her associate coaching position with Colorado, Frank served as a coach for U.S. Lacrosse and the women’s national team. She also spent time as recruiting coordinator for Boston College before assuming similar responsibilities for Colorado. Prior to coaching, Frank had a decorated playing career, winning three national titles at Northwestern University. For her success on the field, Frank was named an All-American athlete three times.

How do you think your experiences with Colorado and your tournament success there helped prepare you for this position?

AF: You learn so much from your coaching career at all the different places that you’ve been. Every year you grow up a little bit, and this past year, we made it to the second round of the tournament again, so you know what it takes to get to that level. Playing Dartmouth in the first round was pretty special because that’s

where I’m now going to be the head coach, so seeing how far they made it and seeing how much fight they had to try to make it to the second round was great. Colorado just happened to score more goals than Dartmouth, so that’s why they came out on top. But there was so much fight and excitement for the opportunity, and it just shows what the Dartmouth program is capable of. It shows me what the team is willing to put in to be where they want to be.

In your opinion, what is the best part of being a coach?

AF: As you go throughout your career, you’re always trying to give back to the sport you love, so as a coach you feel you can do that at the top level. At the end of the day, I love going to work and love being able to mentor and motivate female student-athletes — it just makes everything fun.

What attributes do you think you bring to the table as a coach?

AF: I’m incredibly passionate as a head coach. I think I bring fun to everything that I do. I know when it’s time to be serious but also know when it’s time to have fun and enjoy what I’m doing. I’m incredibly competitive, and it pushes me to work hard and outwork others, which is something I was taught at a young age.

There will always be people outworking you, but how do you outwork them?

Hopefully that competitiveness brings success to the program that I’m at.

Part of what you’ve discussed about being a head coach at Dartmouth is the special culture here — could you speak to that and to the reasons why you chose this job?

AF: Dartmouth women’s lacrosse has a rich tradition of being successful in the

classroom and on the field. There have been so many good coaches who have been a part of this program and turned it into what it is. I am very thankful for what Spencer has done for this program over the last few years, and now I can slide in and put my mark on this program and continue this legacy of success.

That’s what helped make this job really attractive: There’s a lot of opportunity to be successful, and there’s so much support for athletics and academics so that student-athletes and coaches can be successful in whatever they want to accomplish.

How do you expect to build on the team’s recent success and what challenges do you expect in the process?

AF: I think it’s always challenging for the team when you have a new head coach — to learn their methods and styles — so hopefully I will be able to work with the players and get them accustomed to the way that I do things. I don’t think there will be too many differences, but it’s still a challenge to learn from one another and get the most out of the team. It’s always a challenge to be better than last year.

We lost a strong senior class, and while there are a lot of returners that are going to make an impact, we will always be building. We need to take advantage of the incoming freshmen that we have and find the perfect combination on the field to build off of what happened last year.

How do you expect the veteran players to step up, and who have you talked to the most?

AF: Honestly, I’ve had so many conversations with so many players in all the classes, so there’s not any person in particular. What’s exciting about that is that there are leaders across the board.

The senior class has so many good leaders

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Frank has extensive coaching experience at the collegiate and national levels.

in it, but to see the conversations with the other classes as well, you see what they want for the team. It will be important to work with all the players — the seniors especially — as they’ll be the big point of contact and get a pulse on the team.

To have leadership in every class is really exciting: It really allows your team to build and have so many different people to go to when they have questions.

You talked about the incoming freshmen, but broadly speaking, what’s the recruiting process like as a new coach?

AF: I have yet to wear green on the sideline at recruiting tournaments, and this weekend will be my first weekend.

I’ll be able to have a better answer after these next two weekends now that I can officially be in Dartmouth green on the sideline. Spencer did an excellent job of filling the ’19 and ’20 classes, and I’m excited to see what opportunities arise in the next class. I’m excited to get an idea of what I’m looking for in a Dartmouth student-athlete, but I know I want to find the right fit for Dartmouth: strong academics, strong athletics and passion

for the school.

What are your goals for this season and your general coaching philosophies?

AF: One of my philosophies is to get better everyday, and that’s something we can measure — are we better than we were yesterday? With that being said, we still want to get better than last season, advance to second round and win the Ivy League outright. Those goals are always something that we’re looking to accomplish. We want to be better than we were before — the day before, the season before. How do you do that? You evaluate yourself, and you look at points where you will improve.

We always need to evaluate ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. That has to do with hard work, even off the field, always outworking our opponents in every way, whether it is in the classroom or in the community. We’re always getting better in everything we do to help studentathletes meet their potential.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.