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The Dartmouth Senior Staff

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Associate dean of the faculty for the arts and humanities Adrian Randolph has been selected to take on the role of dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University beginning July 1, Northwestern reported.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed Randolph’s appointment and that he will be leaving the College in an email, adding that Northwestern is fortunate to have him and that the College wishes him luck in his new position.

Randolph was appointed to his current position in June 2011 to serve a four-year term. Currently the Leon E. Williams professor of art history at the College, he joined the art history faculty in 1995 and received tenure in 2001, serving as art history department chair in 2002. Randolph studies art and architecture of the Italian medieval and Renaissance periods.

Northwestern’s announcement emphasized Randolph’s interdisciplinary work, as well as the diversity of topics within his work and his ability to manage faculty. His time living abroad, promotion of global problem solving and encouragement of student knowledge of global issues were also noted.

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Divest Dartmouth joined the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund to add pressure to the divestment push.

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In the beginning of 2015, student-run group Divest Dartmouth joined with divestment groups from 16 other colleges to create the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund. The fund aims to puts pressure on the universities involved to divest from fossil fuels by collecting tax-deductible

donations that will be given to the universities only if they divest their investments in fossil fuels by Dec. 31, 2017, according to the Fund.

After that date, all donations will be split between schools that have already divested away from fossil fuels.

Divesting investments in fossil fuels has two steps, according to the website. Universities must both immediately freeze any new invest-

ment in fossil fuel companies and divest within five years from current holdings in these companies.

When alumni donate, the money is put in a growing portfolio for each college that is managed by an asset management firm, Connor Clark ’17, who is both a part of Divest Dartmouth and Divest Fund’s advisory council, said. The SEE DIVEST PAGE 5

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Lindkvist joins N.H.consortium Self Evident Truths photo project features students

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The New Hampshire Violence Against Women Campus Consortium restarted in September 2014, and Dartmouth’s Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, Heather Lindkvist, recently joined as the College’s consortium coordinator, attending her first meeting last month.

The consortium exists to create an environment where postsecondary institutions in the state can come together to develop policies that will help re-

duce and prevent violence against women on college campuses, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice website.

Kathy Kimball, the New Hampshire Sexual Assault Resource Team Coordinator, said that the New Hampshire College Consortium has been in place periodically since 2006 and consists of representatives from a variety of campuses around New Hampshire.

She said these representatives include administrators, Title IX Coordinators, counselors

and campus safety and security officers.

These representatives have been meeting monthly since the beginning of the academic year in September to discuss new policies that can be implemented on their campuses, Kimball said.

The new strategies being discussed include training sessions for faculty and staff on sexual assault issues, Kimball said, as well as training for students. The training could include education on consent and issues SEE CONSORTIUM PAGE 2

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Each of the 74 black and white portraits features the subject facing a camera against a blank backdrop, some donning smiles while others maintain stoic expressions. While subjects of the photos vary in appearance, they all have one thing in common — none of the 74 individuals identify as completely heterosexual.

Members of the Dartmouth community had their photos taken for a nationwide project titled “Self Evident Truths” last September, which aims to photo-

graph 10,000 people who do not identify as 100 percent straight.

The photos were published online this month.

The photographer behind the project, iO Tillett Wright, set up the photo shoot last fall outside of the Rockefeller Center using a canvas as the backdrop.

News of the project traveled through Facebook and word of mouth on campus. Prior to having their photo taken, students filled out a non-disclosure form and a separate questionnaire.

Wright took only one photo of SEE TRUTHS PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES Brown University: Laptop thefts at Brown University have declined sharply since a yearly high of 92 in 2008, with only 12 thefts reported in 2014, the Brown Daily Herald reported.

According to the Herald, the decline may in part stem from an increase in the number of students who register their devices with Operation Identification, a national program run in Providence by the Department of Public Safety.

Columbia University: After 100 years of inactivity, Gamma Phi Beta sorority will return to Columbia University’s campus this week, The Columbia Spectator reported. The chapter, which was active between 1901 and 1915 as a chartered sorority at Barnard College, has been taking initiative to recruit new members on campus since the University’s winter break. It is currently unknown how large the sorority’s first class will be. The sorority’s return is part of an effort to decrease overcrowding in current Columbia sororities.

Cornell University: Cornell will host the fourth Ivy League Vegan conference this year, marking the first time the conference has been held in Ithaca, New York, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. At the conference, which has been planned by the Cornell Vegan Society, participants will engage with speakers on the issues of plant-based diets and bioethics, as well as attend a career fair and lunch.

Harvard University: On May 28, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will address graduating seniors during Harvard University’s 364th commencement exercises, the Harvard Crimson reported. Patrick, who attended the University as an undergraduate and continued his studies at Harvard Law School, has spoken to students in Harvard in the past but never before as a commencement speaker. Recent commencement speakers have included Oprah Winfrey and Michal Bloomberg.

Princeton University: After a student was diagnosed with measles, Princeton University has requested that some members of its faculty and staff provide proof of protection against the disease before returning to work, the Daily Princetonian reported.

Several dining halls on campus were also closed as a precaution, and University spokesperson Martin Mbuga said that only dining operations have been affected by the requirement thus far.

University of Pennsylvania: Despite reports of a cockroach infestation in the University of Pennsylvanian’s 1920 Commons dining facility by the Daily Pennsylvanian’s Under the Button blog, student dining behavior appears relatively unchanged, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. While the report was shared widely by students on Facebook, officials involved with maintaining the dining halls said that a brief cockroach problem was resolved almost immediately after it was identified in October of last year and that Penn undertakes frequent inspections of its dining facilities.

Yale University: Several buildings at Yale University experienced pipe damage and water leaks this weekend, leading to flooding and a student evacuation, the Yale Daily News reported. Some dining facilities were impacted, causing them to suspend operations.

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Assault consortium shares best practices FROM CONSORTIUM PAGE 1

faced when first arriving on campus for freshmen, along with additional training for upperclassmen.

Kimball said that since the recent emphasis on reducing and preventing sexual assault on college campuses, exemplified by President Barack Obama’s “It’s On Us” initiative, the New Hampshire Department of Justice was given a grant to hire someone to specifically assist her with prevention at colleges in the state.

“The person who will be assisting me will be helping the colleges in developing and implementing these trainings and helping the schools to network with each other, and problem solve these issues, and meet the standards and requirements that are set,” Kimball said.

Kimball said that Lindkvist’s role as Dartmouth’s consortium coordinator will be to network with the other institutions involved in the consortium, as well as reach out to institutions that are not at the table to see what issues they may be facing.

“I believe that some colleges are unsure of how to do some of the things that are being talked about in Washington, and this gives them a forum with colleagues from other campuses here that may be dealing

with the same issues,” Kimball said.

She added that it provides a place to work together with other higher education institutions, as well as have access to national resources through the New Hampshire Department of Justice.

“The consortium representatives right now seem very enthusiastic about having someone in this position to help them,” Kimball said.

Consortium co-chair Forrest Seymour, sexual violence education and prevention coordinator at Keene State College, has been attending meetings for the campus consortium as the representative for the college for around seven years and began serving as co-chair several years ago. He said that he believes that the mission of the New Hampshire Violence Against Women Campus Consortium is not only to prevent violence on college campuses, but also to support professionals at these institutions in their efforts preventing these issues.

“It’s about providing a setting for the staff, faculty and administrators involved to share ideas, get new ideas and brainstorm,” Seymour said.

He added that the new sexual assault coordinator position commissioned by the Attorney General’s office will benefit the consortium in developing template trainings for

faculty and students.

“These templates will be made available to all of our member institutions, and every school can customize them to fit their needs,” he said.

Seymour said that while Dartmouth was a member of the consortium in previous years, he is glad to now have Lindkvist attending the meetings.

“Dartmouth is one of the premier schools in the country and it’s great to have representation on our consortium,” he added.

Other institutions that are a part of the Campus Consortium include the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College and Southern New Hampshire University, amongst others.

Jeffrey Furlone, the Title IX Coordinator at Plymouth State University, wrote in an email that he believes sharing knowledge and experience between institutions is the best way to benefit students.

He said that having a group of colleagues meet on a monthly basis to discuss these issues is the best way to remain informed and network with others that share the same desire to address violence on campuses.

Lindkvist could not be reached by press time.

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Self Evident Truths includes range of students FROM TRUTHS PAGE 1

each person, according to students involved.

The questions had people rank themselves from one to 100 in terms of gender identity and sexual orientation towards those of the same gender, as well as place themselves on a scale from hyper to non-sexual.

The aim of the project is to spread awareness of the broad spectrum of human sexuality.

Yejadai Dunn ’16, one of the subjects of the project, said she heard about the project through a mutual friend. She had picture taken, she said, because she wanted to contribute to the visibility of the gay community for others.

S o p h i e S h e e l i n e ’16 wh o learned of the project from a friend, said that whether or not to participate was not a big decision for her, as the only requirement to take part was that one does not identify as 100 percent straight and she fulfilled this requirement.

The project is important, Sheeline said, because it photographs gay people from all walks of life, from San Francisco and Los Angeles pride parades to students at various colleges. So far, the project has reached over 10 schools including Boston College, Amherst College and Davidson College.

“I think it shows that there are people who do not identify as completely straight or as one gender everywhere,” Sheelin said.

Nick Moolenijzer ’17 was invited to the event on Facebook.

“It also shows how Dartmouth has progressed,” Moolenijzer said.

“I can’t imagine this would happen

20 years ago, 30 years ago...that Dartmouth would accept people coming to campus to photograph queer students. It would have been a very weird thing to happen.”

Women and gender studies professor Michael Bronski said that the main issue with college LGBT event planning is reaching out beyond the LGBT community to the entire student body.

Examples would include holding LGBT-centric events that not just members of the gay community would attend. The project itself is interactive and inclusive in that people can view it on their own time, combined with the fact that it was not framed as an LGBT project but rather one for people who are not entirely heterosexual, Bronski said.

The main challenge will be making sure enough people see the project, Bronski said. He would have liked to see the photos set up in a campus facility such as the Hopkins Center or Collis Student Center.

Being included in the project also includes Dartmouth in a national conversation about sexuality, Bronski said, and that this could help serve as a positive public relations activity. He said Dartmouth could have been chosen as one of the locations due to its reputation as an Ivy League institution.

Once all 10,000 photos have been collected, the artist will create an installation on the front lawn of the Washington Monument prior to the 2016 presidential election.

After completion, people will be allowed to submit their own photos and stories online, thus rendering it indefinitely expansive.

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Staff Columnist Vivien RendLEman ’16

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Skip the Skimm

Suffering in Silence

TheSkimm does not adequately inform students about the news.

The Dartmouth bubble is perhaps never more apparent than when I receive a text from my mom asking my thoughts on an article or news story that I have missed entirely. In an attempt to stay well-informed — especially given that I write a regular opinion column — I find it my responsibility to stay caught up with current events. Staying informed, however, becomes difficult when midterms combine with application deadlines, research and campus jobs. It seems wrong to place the ins and outs of my individual life over international news, but hey, sometimes it happens. Luckily, though, there seems to be a solution for people who become embarrassed when they eventually miss a news story — theSkimm.

I have had countless friends recommend theSkimm to me. At first, it seems like an entirely benign concept. Each morning, Skimm subscribers receive a newsletter in their inbox detailing the previous day’s news. When someone mentions the war against the Islamic State in passing conversation, Skimm readers will not be uninformed, having read a few paragraphs on the topic that morning. TheSkimm provides a valuable timesaving service — selecting and condensing stories from across the web — for free. As one of its founders, Danielle Weisberg, said during an interview on NBC, “TheSkimm is all about making it easier to be smarter.” It’s no surprise that many Dartmouth students — and over a million people in total — are subscribed.

Let’s think about that statement more, though — “making it easier to be smarter.” Weisberg equates being intelligent with being informed, which is not necessarily the case. She assumes that the information theSkimm selects to circulate is, in fact, the only information a reader needs to stay topical on the day’s important news. The newsletter’s website echoes this sentiment, claiming that theSkimm “gives you everything you need to start your day.” This might be true, if all you needed to start your day were some easy-to-digest blurbs.

Forbes praised the brevity of Skimm emails in an article calling them “Your New Secret Weapon,” saying their length “keep[s] information (and word count) in check.” Maybe I’m a traditionalist, but this seems like a total perversion

of the news. The more information someone learns about a topic, the more capable they are of forming a nuanced opinion. When someone reads theSkimm as a sole news source, they receive a severely limited selection of stories, each already imbued with the opinions of Skimm writers — the “fresh editorial content” they advertise on their homepage. Reading the news in such a way is entirely antithetical to critical thinking, placing value in appearing well informed while sacrificing deeper understanding and exploration.

Moreover, Skimm writers decide for the newsletter’s readers which stories are important.

Even before being condensed into sassy newsletter form, the mainstream media already curates the stories that reach readers and listeners, lending an implicit bias to the most-covered stories. TheSkimm further curates these stories, reducing the breadth and depth of its readers’ knowledge.

More than most other news sources, theSkimm creates its newsletter with a very specific audience in mind. Its logo — a slim female wearing pearls and heels — reveals that audience. Weisberg labels the newsletter’s target subscribers as “female millennials.” So, theSkimm informs its readers on topics that it believes affluent, young and educated women would find important.

This type of narrow targeting does not do the world’s news justice — but I should not expect much from a news source that Instagrammed a photo reading, “It’s no coincidence that wine is win with an e on the end.”

I applaud theSkimm’s founders, Weisberg and Carly Zakin, on their innovation. They have clearly created a marketable product, as demonstrated by the many influential sponsors, including NBC and ABC. The goal of making it easier for people to get informed, especially with the glut of information available online and in print, is admirable. TheSkimm, however, falls short of this goal, focusing on quick stories selected for a narrow and non-representative demographic. While I continue to miss major events each week, I have firmly decided that it would not be worth it to subscribe to theSkimm.

Luckily, I have the weekends and the periodicals for catching up.

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Asian-American adolescents are particularly at risk for mental health conditions.

This past weekend I attended the East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference at Harvard University. One particular panel resonated with me — a discussion of mental illness in the Asian-American community. The stigma against treating mental illness found in AsianAmerican culture is a serious problem that must be addressed to create an environment in which Asian-Americans feel comfortable seeking help.

According to a national youth survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 29 percent of Asian-American high school students said that they felt “sad or hopeless” for extended periods of time, enough so that their daily lives were interrupted. This number is slightly higher than the national average at roughly 28 percent. In addition, the CDC reported that 19 percent of Asian-American students had seriously considered suicide in the past year — higher again than the national average of 16 percent.

The same report indicated that four percent of adolescent Asian-Americans attempted suicide within the past year — twice the national average for all students. In spite of these figures, a national survey found that Asian-Americans under 18 years of age are less likely to seek professional treatment than whites, African-Americans and Latinos. In fact, according to a study done by the California Asian Pacific Islander Joint Legislative Caucus, Asian-Americans utilize mental health services approximately half as frequently as the general population, despite showing high rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. This alarming juxtaposition prompts us to ask — why?

While a stigma around discussing and treating mental health exists across several cultures, the Western Journal of Medicine notes that it is “particularly relevant to Asian-American patients.”

Many other medical professionals and journals assert the same. Because of deeply imbedded values in their cultures, many people of Asian descent are extremely hesitant to admit that they may struggle with their mental health — much less seek professional treatment for it — as it is not traditionally considered to be a serious issue in many Asian countries. When Asians immigrate to the United States, they naturally many will raise

their children with the values to which they are accustomed. Thus, if their children start to suffer from depression or any other mental disorder, they do not know how to deal with the problem.

To many Asian-American parents, mental health illnesses are not real illnesses, an integral part of why Asian-American teens often fail to seek treatment, even when they direly need it. This may be because traditional Asian views on health do not divide mental and physiological health problems, as the Western Journal of Medicine also noted. One way to combat this barrier is by promoting mental health awareness among newly immigrated Asian-Americans.

Traditionally speaking, Asian culture promotes suffering in silence. Instead of admitting that they have a problem, many Asian-American youths choose to suppress any problems they might be experiencing and simply pretend that they are perfectly okay. Many Asian-American teens face pressure from their parents to be successful. To admit mental illness in this environment would be to admit weakness — and as a 2007 CNN article reported, this “push to achieve” can have drastic consequences on the mental health of Asian-Americans.

This same CNN report cited that the AsianAmerican “model minority” stereotype is a leading factor in mental health problems. I agree that this harmful, widely-held stereotype is primary reason for the continued prevalence of the stigma surrounding mental health. Many may see an Asian-American teen who gets straight A’s and never guess that he or she is actually suffering from debilitating depression. After all, Asian-Americans are supposed to be perfect. They couldn’t possibly be deeply troubled.

The thing that many people fail to understand, however, is the fact that this expectation from society hurts those students by preventing them from speaking out and admitting that they have a problem. In addition to increasing mental health awareness among the Asian-American community, we as a society must relentlessly work to overcome the cultural stigma that prevents Asian-American youths from seeking mental health treatment.

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College will only receive funds upon committing to divest FROM DIVEST PAGE 1

money accrues interest until a school decides to divest, and then it is handed over when it meets the Divest Fund’s requirements.

Divest Dartmouth alumni coordinator Morgan Curtis ’14 said that joining the Divest Fund has been an exciting way for Divest Dartmouth to engage with alumni in a new way.

“So many alumni quite often they feel like they’re not on campus or in the loop,” Curtis said. “The fund is such an interesting step because it does give alumni that power and that voice to put their money where their mouth is.”

Curtis pulled Dartmouth into the Divest Fund. She is currently also serving as a member of the Divest Fund advisory council and is in charge of media relations and outreach for the Fund.

Curtis thinks that divestment is a powerful moral tool that the institution can use to share its beliefs.

“I see divestment as such a crucial statement that Dartmouth College sees the injustice and the deep problematic impacts of climate change, that we as an institution believe in stepping towards the right side of history,” Curtis said.

The Divest Fund is an important next step in influencing college divestment, Divest Fund advisory council member Rajesh Kasturirangan said.

“Students are limited. They are doing fantastic work, but they don’t have the money,” Kasturirangan said.

“Alums are the perfect community to drive divestment. They span generations, they have influence and power, they have their own money but they can also influence the institutions they belong to. Getting alumni to work with students is the best way to drive this.”

Clark agrees the Divest Fund is an important step because it creates a platform for alumni and donors to

make divestment happen, Clark said.

Dartmouth Divest puts a constant pressure on the administration to divest.

“This fund is another leverage point, another incentive to have the school ultimately divest,” Clark said.

Perri Haser ’17, a member of Divest Dartmouth, said that relative to a lot of schools, Divest Dartmouth is fairly early in its campaign.

The group has been in communication with the advisory committee on investor responsibility, an impartial committee, which last September College President Phil Hanlon commissioned to write up a report on divestment.

The report is supposed to consider the pros and cons of divestment as a whole and its effect on Dartmouth specifically, Clark said.

The administration has been helpful so far, Haser said.

“They are at least indulging us in asking the questions that they need to ask before they can make this kind of decision,” Haser said.

The process, however, has gone much slower than Divest Dartmouth would have liked, Clark said, adding that the results of the report will eventually be presented to Hanlon and the Board of Trustees, who will then make the final decision about divestment.

One of the things that will be taken into consideration is that there is this multi-school divestment fund, Clark said. He said he thinks that both “alumni support for divestment” and the “monetary benefit to ultimately divesting” will weigh in as pros.

So far, there have been 22 individual donors to Dartmouth through the Divest Fund, almost all of which have been accompanied by messages of support, Curtis said.

Georges Dyer ’01 was the first Dartmouth alumnus to donate to the Divest Fund. Dyer is the principal of the Intentional Endowments Network and

helped develop and support the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment network.

Dyer said that his work in the related fields of endowment investment and sustainability made him familiar with the context of the issue. When he saw the multi-school approach, he thought it made sense and was interesting so he decided to donate.

“My motivation around donating was to send a message to alumni that this is an important issue the College should be treating as a top priority,” Dyer said.

He said that regardless of whether Dartmouth follows through and divests by the set date or not, the movement is still important because it is a “fruitful process” that generates educational opportunities for students, administrators, trustees and faculty about risks that current society is facing in terms of climate change.

Dave Goodrich ’74, who worked in climate-related fields for his entire career, is another alumni donator who has been involved with Divest Dartmouth since before it became a part of the multi-school fund.

Goodrich said that before this larger group was formed, one way he tried to influence Dartmouth through Divest Dartmouth was to write a letter to the advisory committee on investor

responsibility that Hanlon organized to advise them on matters of investment.

He said that his letter was acknowledged with a response, but said that ultimately divestment issues were Hanlon’s decision.

Goodrich was also part of a team, along with Curtis, Kasturirangan and MIT Ph.D. student Geoffrey Supran, that wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe about the divest fund. While the op-ed was not published, the Boston Globe released an article about divestment initiatives on college campuses, including the Divest Fund.

“Our intention was to spread the

word. We feel like this is one way we can influence not just Dartmouth but a lot of other influential schools to take up the cause and perhaps a way to gain a certain amount of leverage at our own school,” Goodman said.

Goodman, after looking at climate data throughout his entire career, thinks the issue is pressing.

“I see the damage that climate change is doing now. This is not something for our grandchildren,” Goodman said. “This is something that we can do something about and there’s not necessarily all the time in the world to do it.”

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Student Spotlight: Tess McGuinness ’18

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Tess McGuinness ’18, the lead actress in Dartmouth theater department’s winter production “Romeo and Juliet” has always been drawn to the stage, though not originally as an actress.

From the age of five and through high school, McGuinness studied and performed ballet. In sixth grade, she was cast in the lead role of Clara in Peter Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.”As a result of the extensive amount of acting required of that part, McGuinness began to explore the world of theater. In high school, she chose to lighten her commitment to dance in order to focus more on acting.

Throughout high school, she regularly took part in both musicals and Shakespearean plays. In the summers, she attended theater programs at Princeton University, which she said helped inspire her to focus even more on theater.

L a s t ye a r, w h i l e v i s i t i n g Dartmouth during the Dimensions of Dartmouth admitted students weekend, she attended an arts open house where she found out that this year’s winter theater department play was going to be “Romeo and Juliet.” Since then, she said that she has been keen to audition and land herself a part in the show.

“I love Shakespeare,” McGuinnes s s aid. “I pretty much wanted to audition since [Dimensions].”

While she knew she wanted the part, she said that the audition process had its surprises. During her audition, after delivering a more traditional soft and demure version

of Juliet, the director wanted her to try to portray the character in a more comedic way in order to better reflect the production’s novel and untraditional feel.

“You find something new out of it every time you hear it. The more you hear it, the more it begins to sound like a second language. I think it’s so beautiful.”

-Tess mcguinness ’18, juliet in “Romeo and Juliet,” on shakespeare “It was completely different than how I practiced it,” McGuinness said. “I did it completely spontaneously, and it actually turned out pretty well.”

After a month of memorizing and practicing her monologue every day in preparation, she was cast as Juliet.

“I just wanted to be in [the play],” McGuinness said. “I never thought I would get the title role.

I was so surprised and excited.”

Coming into the cast as the sole freshman lead, McGuinness said that she was nervous to meet and work with the rest of the cast, but found everyone to be “incredibly nice and generous.”

McGuinness took the

opportunity of working with actors from many different theater backgrounds to learn from others, adding that she had to “elevate” her own acting.

Max Samuels ’15, who plays the role of Mercutio, said that while having a freshman in such a large role is fairly rare, McGuinness has been doing a “killer job” as Juliet.

“There’s a tenacity about her,” Samuels said. “She’s a freshman and playing Shakespeare’s largest female role — it’s such an honor.”

Despite having a demanding rehearsal schedule, McGuinness said that she has been able to balance her commitments, social life and academics through effective time management.

“It’s hard to balance my time, especially in the last two weeks,” she said. “I finish class at around noon, and I just have that time before six to diligently do homework until rehearsal.”

Through her experience playing Juliet, McGuinness said that she was able to look at the show through a new perspective. As an actress, she found a unique experience in discovering why Juliet as a character would resort to suicide after a mere three days of knowing Romeo. This version, she says, is not only a love story — there is an ample amount of historical context within the play and a focus on some of the less traditional elements.

“As a character, she puts all of this faith into Romeo because she’s so pressured in other aspects of her life,” McGuinness said. “Her mom is marrying her off to someone else, her father is abusive and her nurse betrays her in the end. There are

so many different elements in the play besides just the love story.”

Her role as Juliet has certainly

“There’s a tenacity about her. She’s a freshman and playing Shakespeare’s largest female role — it’s such an honor.”

-Max samuels ’15, Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet”

not been all work, however, as she has enjoyed working with other members of the cast. Reed Latrowski ’15, who plays Romeo, remembers a moment in rehearsal when Juliet was to kill herself with Romeo’s knife, but the knife was hidden underneath a dead Romeo’s leg.

After a long 15 seconds of Tess searching for the hidden knife, Latrowski, supposedly playing dead, momentarily came back to life and shoved the knife in McGuinness’s direction.

“No one on stage or off watching

would kee p from laughing,” Latrowski said. “Luckily that hasn’t happened since!”

In addition to her role in the production, McGuinness is also a member of the Rude Mechanicals, a student-run Shakespeare troupe, and the Subtleties.

After “Romeo and Juliet,” McGuinness said that she is looking forward to the Rude Mechanicals’ production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” next term. This summer, McGuinness will study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts on the theater foreign study program.

McGuinness said that her love for Shakespeare and his language has only grown through her time in “Romeo and Juliet.”

“You find something new out of every time you hear it,” she said.

“The more you hear it, the more it begins to sound like a second language. I think it’s so beautiful.”

T h e F i n a l Wo rd w i t h Te s s McGuinness ’18 Favorite KAF Order: Blueberry scone and iced cider Coveted Roles: Little Red in “Into the Woods,” the musical, or a part in a movie production of “Looking for Alaska” by John Green Most people might not know: My dad works for Saturday Night Live.

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Track and field teams prepare for Heptagonal Championships

B y CHRIS SHIM

The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will look to continue their strong seasons at the 2015 Ivy League Heptagonal Championships this weekend. Hosted at Harvard University’s Gordon Indoor Track Facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Heps is arguably the most important meet of the indoor track season for both teams.

The meet marks the only time the Big Green will face all seven Ivy League teams during the indoor season.

“As coaches, we’re looking to have our athletes peak at the right time,” women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze said. “The right time is this weekend.”

In the 2014 championship, the women’s team placed second — netting its best finish in 18 years and the most points the program has garnered at an indoor competition — and the men placed fifth.

On the men’s side, defending champion No. 75 Cornell University is projected to repeat its success from last year. On the women’s side, No. 63 Dartmouth is ranked just six spots below No. 57 Columbia University, who finished third at last year’s Heps behind

Dartmouth and Harvard. Defending champion Harvard currently sits below both Dartmouth and Columbia at 83 in the rankings.

“We’ve come in second last year for indoor and outdoor Heps, and we have a great team this year,” Lauren Ready ’15 said. “We have a lot of girls in multiple events to increase our depth, and hopefully we can acquire more points this way.”

The Ivy League limits each team to 33 competitors in each gender, FordCentonze said, so both teams will look to some athletes to compete in as many as five races over the two-day span. Due to the restriction, choosing each athlete and event becomes a strategic decision.

“It’s a chess match trying to figure out what the other schools will be doing,” Ford-Centonze said. “Hopefully we’re putting people in the right place — it all comes down to what happens on those two days.”

This year’s championships mark the first time that the men’s and women’s teams will be competing in the exact same 20 events, men’s head coach Barry Harwick said. The women will look to their strong distance, sprint and jump squads led by Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16, Dana Giordano ’16 and Jennifer Meech ’16 for their best results, while

Allison Frantz ’18 is also a threat for the heptathlon crown.

The men’s side features an especially strong team of distance runners, led by Curtis King ’16 and Joey Chapin ’16.

Both runners are coming off of strong performances in the mile and 3000 meters in the past few weeks, including Chapin’s first-place finish in the 3000m at the Dartmouth Relays and both men being the first collegiate runners to cross the finish line in the event at the Boston University Terrier Classic.

“Our main goal is to score as many points as possible,” Harwick said. “We have 40 opportunities to score [in both the men’s and women’s competitions], and if we score in at least 30, we’ll definitely do well as a team.”

Despite these ambitious team goals, both the athletes and the coaches stressed the high level of thought that goes into determining the team that will head to Cambridge.

“The team needs to go into this meet with a high level of confidence,” Thomas Servino ’15 said. “Everyone has earned their place on the postseason roster and has a shot to do some damage in their respective events.”

Preparation for the meet has included weeks of hard training and competing. This week, though, the

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The track and field teams will compete at the Heptagonal Championships this weekend.

teams are focused on resting before the weekend.

“Physiologically, it’s not realistic to get in better shape between now and Saturday,” Harwick said. “If they can get as much rest as possible and get ahead in any academic work — going into the weekend without any papers hanging over their head — that’d be a great boost.”

Above all, the teams will look to be mentally prepared to compete at the

highest level.

“To do our best I think we have to be in the right mindset,” Ready said.

“With such a large team, it is important to support everyone at the meet.”

Heps will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday and conclude Sunday afternoon.

“Anything can happen at Heps,” Servino said. “The energy at this meet is incendiary, and those people who react to this energy and use it in their events are going to walk away successful.”

Women’s swimming and diving finishes eighth in Ivy League

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For the second consecutive year, the women’s swimming and diving team finished in eighth place at the threeday long Ivy League Championship with 569.5 points, coming 853.5 points behind first-place finisher Princeton University.

The Tigers managed a narrow victory over defending champions Harvard University, defeating the Crimson by 21.5 points to claim the championship title. Dartmouth faced a difficult preliminary round on Saturday morning, with the team’s highest finish coming from Charlotte Kamai’s ’16 11th-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, followed one-hundredth of a second later by Kendese Nangle ’16.

Despite a strong performance in the finals round later that day, the Big Green was unable to bounce back.

“We knew we had an uphill battle because we had placed eighth last year,” head coach Jim Wilson said. “We came a lot closer in the meets [during the season], but we didn’t get to the goal

we wanted to achieve.”

The point differential between Dartmouth and Cornell University, which placed seventh for the second consecutive year, was only 32.5 at the 2015 Championship compared to last year’s 127 point difference, showing signs of improvement for the Big Green.

On the first day of competition, AnnClaire MacArt ’18 broke the school record for the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:50.48, good for a sixth-place finish in the A-Final. MacArt’s recordbreaking performance in the finals of the 500-yard freestyle almost never happened.

In the preliminaries race, MacArt stole the eighth and final place with a time of 4:51.97, narrowly edging out the ninth-place finisher by only seven tenths of a second.

MacArt cut almost a second off her time with her performance in the finals, breaking the previous Dartmouth record by more than a tenth of a second in the process.

Led by MacArt’s standout performance, Dartmouth sat in sixth place at

the end of the first day of competition with 160 points compared to seventh place Columbia’s 157.

“I was really proud of myself for pushing through it because it was a really tough race, and I could see everything that I worked for come together at that very moment,” MacArt said. “To get out [of the pool] and have everyone there was an amazing experience.”

In the meets heading into the Ivy Championship, MacArt had gradually built up to breaking the school record, coming extremely close earlier in the season at Brown University.

At the Brown Invitational, she recorded a time of 4:51.42, a fraction of a second longer than the record held at the time by Danielle Kerr ’14, which MacArt broke at the Championship.

At the end of day two, Dartmouth had slid to eighth in the tournament.

Nangle was the highlight of the day, delivering another record-breaking performance that almost never happened for the Big Green.

In the A-final for the 100-yard backstroke, Nangle broke a record that she

had set in 2013 by a tenth of a second with a time of 54.78 seconds. Nangle’s time delivered a third place finish in the A-final, a five position improvement over her eighth place finish in the preliminaries.

Nangle now holds four individual school records, including the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard backstroke.

Nangle also shares four school records for team events as well, holding a spot on the 200-yard medley, 400-yard medley, 200-yard freestyle and 400-yard freestyle relay teams.

The third and final day of competition saw varied success for the Big Green, with the team’s highest finish coming from Kamai, who took ninth in the 100-yard freestyle.

While the individual events did not produce many top finishes for Dartmouth, the 400-yard freestyle team, consisting of Kamai, MacArt, Nangle and Siobhan Hengemuhle ’15, finished in fourth and just beat the University of Pennsylvania team by under one second.

Despite the last place finish, the swimming and diving team had an optimistic overall reaction toward the Ivy Championship.

“Even though we didn’t win, the energy on our team was still so great and there was so much companionship in the atmosphere,” Taylor Yamahata ’18 said. “I wouldn’t say that the meet was a loss because we knew we had done everything we could.”

With the long off-season having just started, the coaching staff stressed one key goal going into next season.

“The most important part is staying healthy, especially because we had many people out with injuries this year,” Wilson said.

With the exception of the Dartmouth Invitational, the Big Green will compete exclusively at other schools next year, MacArt said.

“I’m looking forward to traveling and getting to race at all the different pools,” MacArt said. “But more importantly, because I have more experience and depth, I looking forward to competing at a higher level.”