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Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity wins an appeal with the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment to remain a residential space for its members.
Harrington wins Assembly elections
By HEYI JIANG
The Dartmouth Staff
Nick Harrington ’17 and Sally Portman ’17 emerged as Student Assembly President and Vice President in this year’s election, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee announced Sunday night. From 8 p.m. Saturday to 8
p.m. Sunday, students cast 1,556 ballots for student body president and 1,379 ballots for student body vice president. This year’s election saw an unusually large candidate pool, with the number of presidential candidates being the highest since 2012.
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The Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously on Monday evening to grant Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s appeal for continued use of its house as a student residence. The appeal argued that the residence is not a violation of town zoning ordinances because the fraternity gave sufficient evidence that they should be “grandfathered” in under previous zoning ordinances. This decision only comments on the legality of the house’s use as a student residence, not on whether the College will continue to allow students to live in it. In a letter to campus on June 22, 2015, then Interim Dean of the College SEE SAE PAGE 3
Libertarianism in the woods of New Hampshire
By PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff
This article is the first in a three-part series on libertarianism and liberty in New Hampshire. Subsequent articles will be published on Thursday and Friday, and the full story will be available online Friday morning. On the morning of June 16, it will be just over 60 de-
grees in Lancaster if average temperatures hold. The city lies on the southern edge of Coös County, near the banks of the Connecticut River. At its heart is a small, insular community cut off from the state around it by forests and mountains stretching out for miles around. At the edge of town, out in the woods, is Roger’s Campground. That
morning, the final preparations will be underway in these woods for one of the largest gatherings of libertarians in the world: PorcFest. The Porcupine Freedom Festival — entering its 13th year — is the annual gathering for supporters of the Free State Project, a libertarian SEE LIBERTARIANISM PAGE 2
Terri Batchelder lead’s KAF Relay for Life team
By PAULOMI RAO The Dartmouth
Led by campus employee Terri Batchelder, the King Arthur Flour company will participate in its first Relay for Life this June in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The event, organized through the American Cancer Society, will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 4. As a daughter of a threetime cancer survivor, Batch-
elder will be taking part in her second Relay for Life. Batchelder originally learned about the event in the early 2000s and has been involved with the organization ever since. “It really is one of the amazing things the American Cancer Society does with research and outreach programs for people with cancer and families for people who are going through cancer,” Batchelder said.
According to the American Cancer Society website, more than 4 million people each year in over 20 countries raise funds and awareness to save lives affected by cancer through Relay for Life. The event, which is primarily an overnight team fundraising walk, also includes a survivors lap and luminiaria lighting ceremony, followed by a fight back ceremony. Originally started in 1985, the movement has raised
nearly $5 billion for the American Cancer Society. Currently, 17 teams and 99 participants have raised $9,536 for the Relay for Life of Greater Lebanon. The King Arthur Flour team has raised $750. “My hope is to have as many King Arthur Flour employees involved as possible in addition to other people joining the team,” Batchelder said. “I encourage people to be involved in any small
way possible whether directly walking or even contributing through a small donation.” Batchelder’s overall goal is to raise $1,000 in hopes of helping the American Cancer Society move one step closer to finding a cure. “Watching my mother, who is my hero, go through cancer twice was very challenging and if I can do my part in trying to help another SEE KAF PAGE 5
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1,556 vote for Assembly president FROM ASSEMBLY PAGE 1
Presidential candidate Aaron Cheese’18 said that one probable cause for last year’s especially small candidate pool was that students were “fed up” with the old system, where they felt that only the elected president had the major voice in the Student Assembly while others had a lesser role. Among this year’s five presidential candidates and four vice presidential candidates, Harrington and Portman received a total of 612 votes and 714 votes, respectively. Harrington received more than twice the number of votes as the first runner-up, Cheese, who received 304 votes. Menaka Reddy ’18 was the first runner-up in the vice president election, receiving 287 votes. The “approval voting” system was adopted by EPAC in 2010 and allows voters to cast votes for more than one candidate, EPAC Chair Derek Whang ‘17 said. Whang said that this system allows students to vote in favor of all of the candidates they like and exclude the ones they do not. He added that EPAC plans to restructure both the campaign and voting process in the coming year. Harrington said that he found it great to witness a diverse group of candidates who had built platforms upon the primary concerns of the student body. “The enhanced quality of the election pushed each candidate hard to show why they felt they deserved to win,” he said. Harrington, who was chief of staff under previous Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ‘16, said that he aims for a smooth transition from the previous administration. One of his goals for the coming year is to create a more democratic and inclusive Student Assembly. One approach to doing so would be electing members of the Student Assembly through the housing system, he said. Portman said that it was exciting to see their hard work paying off and that the majority of the student body agreed with their platform. “Our focus this term is going to be setting up the new constitution and getting everything in place to be able to kick off a restructured version of the Student Assembly,” she said. Portman said that both she and Harrington believe that it is important to have a more “democratic, transparent and inclusive” Student Assembly through the proposed reconstruction. She also said that she
is looking forward to working with members of the class councils on finding the most effective approach in tackling the reconstruction. The newly elected 2017 Class Council president and vice president are Dillon Rich ’17 and Abena Frempong ’17. Rich, running unopposed, received 322 votes out of 371 ballots cast, while Frempong received 285 votes out of 373 ballots cast. Andrew Goldfarb ‘17 received 77 votes. Rich and Frempong said that one of their biggest hopes is to expand the role of the senior Class Council. In the past, the Class Council has focused largely on programming and class unity, but now, they said that they also hope to use the voice of the senior class to effect policy change on campus potentially through collaboration with the Student Assembly, the administration and other student groups on campus. “We are both really inspired to create an impact on Dartmouth’s campus that screams Class of 2017,” Rich said. Frempong agreed, and emphasized the importance of bringing the senior class together to effect change on campus. “We are really focused on uniting the 17s so that we as a class are strong enough to impact the rest of the campus,” Frempong said. Toryima Asom ’18 , running for 2018 Class Council executive, received 258 votes out of 337 ballots cast, while two other write-in candidates William Tremml ‘18 and Madeleine Yi ‘18, were elected as executives. Danny Li ’19, Josephine Kalshoven ’19 and Hanting Guo ’19 were elected as 2019 Class Council executives. This year is Asom’s second year running for positions in Student Assembly. Having been on the board previously, Asom said he is glad to be back. While 10 students vied for positions in the 2018 Class Council last year, Asom was the only named candidate on the ballot in this year’s election. Asom said that the absence of other candidates could be attributed to their plans on having off-terms during junior year. “It’s reassuring know that you will be on board, but at the same time, competition is not necessarily a bad thing,” Asom said. Asom said that making sophomore summer a great experience for everyone is at the top of his agenda, along with connecting Dartmouth students who are offcampus with each other. Timo Vaimann ’17, who ran for
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vice president, said that he hopes to see the newly elected president and vice president take advantage of the ideas put on the table by other candidates. Looking back at his election experience, Vaimann said that it offered him a great opportunity to be involved in healthy discussions pertinent to current issues on campus. Nathan Busam ’17, who also ran for vice president, echoed this sentiment, saying that he hopes Harrington and Portman remain open to ideas outside of their original platform. Having known his running mate Sean Cann ’17 since freshman year, Busam said he saw their friendship evolve throughout the election process. “We’ve already reached out to all the other candidates,” Portman said. “We really hope they will continue to be involved in SA and continue sharing ideas.” Oliver Edelson ’18, Morgan Corley ’18, Daniel Lee ’17 and Ian Whitney ’18 were elected as at-large members on the Committee on Standards/Organizational Adjudication Committee. Two write-in candidates, Spencer Blair ’17 and Jack Sullivan ’18,, were also elected to the COS/OAC, were also elected to the COS/OAC.
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Free State Project reaches goal FROM LIBERTARIANISM PAGE 1
group that, in February, reached its longstanding goal of committing 20,000 individuals to move to New Hampshire to shift the state’s politics toward ideals of personal liberty, individual freedom and limited government. The Free State Project began in New Haven, Connecticut 16 years ago, founded by Dartmouth government professor Jason Sorens, who wrote an essay while working on his dissertation at Yale University on the merits of a state-by-state approach to securing limited government in America, an alternative method to advance his political views at a time when the “libertarian moment” of the 1980s and 1990s was waning. “This idea of focusing on the state level came to me, and I think it was partly because of my research,” he said. Sorens specializes in secessionism. His doctoral dissertation focused on small political parties in western democracies that aim for the secession of distinct regions and, through those efforts, secure increased powers for their homelands.
Sorens thought the time was ripe for a new approach to securing that same sort of power for state governments in the United States. “The Berlin Wall had fallen, globalization was preceding apace, China and India were liberalizing, the internet was spreading, there was a sense of optimism that maybe all these new technologies and new markets were going to make governments less relevant,” he said. But then the dot-com bubble burst. The economy started turning downhill, George W. Bush won the presidency. Sorens could not have predicted the USA PATRIOT Act, the National Security Agency’s domestic and international surveillance programs and the two major overseas wars that would spring out of the 9/11 attacks, but those events likely sped enthusiasm for his new project. Sorens published his first essay proposing the Free State Project in July 2001. Within two weeks, hundreds of people had contacted Sorens. Their message? “Let’s do this.” Chris Lopez — the Free State SEE LIBERTARIANISM PAGE 5
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SAE allowed to continue using house as residence FROM SAE PAGE 1
Inge-Lise Ameer announced that students at the College may not live in an unrecognized Greek, undergraduate or senior society facility. The policy had been in effect until 2011 before it was reinstated at the start of the 2015 summer term. The argument is similar to the one Alpha Delta fraternity made last June. AD was derecognized by the College last April and forced to vacate by the town. In that case, the board declined to grant the appeal, ruling that AD did not present enough evidence to warrant grandfathered status. Originally, the board ruled that SAE could not continue to house students after its derecognition in February because it was no longer “operated in conjunction with another institutional use,” part of the current definition of a “student residence.” However, this definition was not adopted until 1976, at which time SAE was already serving as a student residence. Under the previous ordinance, adopted in 1961, SAE
was zoned in a general residence, or GR, district, where one of the permitted uses was “fraternity or dormitory for students or personnel of an institution.” In their decision, the board cited a previous ruling that students living in college residences will potentially have their health and safety overseen to some degree by the College, whereas non-student residences will not have this same supervision. To demonstrate that they should be considered grandfathered in, SAE needed to demonstrate that before and during the 1976 ordinance’s adoption the College was not “exercising any appreciable health or safety oversight over the residential lives of students living at SAE.” While the board commented that AD did not provide any evidence that they had operated in a manner other than “in conjunction with Dartmouth” under earlier definitions, they said that SAE gave a “substantial” amount. The ruling cited testimony from several former presidents and members of SAE who claimed that during their SEE SAE PAGE 5
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STAFF COLUMNIST STEVEN CHUN ’19
GUEST COLUMNIST REGAN ROBERTS ’16
If Assembly Were Angels
Peace, Love and Conformity
Why pay for a student government that’s widely regarded as inconsequential? With the recent blitzstorm about Student Assembly elections, I felt like it would be a good time to write about our governing body. Then I realized I had no idea what Student Assembly actually does. So I did what any curious college student would do: go to the Assembly’s website. A few initial impressions: the landing page is a photo slideshow, of which slides one, two and four are the exact same picture with different captions. The “SA News” section’s last post was on Sept. 16, 2012. The website highlights two of the Assembly’s recent initiatives — the Dartmouth Group Directory and Course Picker. The DGD hasn’t been updated in four years, based on the page for this newspaper, which lists a ’12 as editorin-chief. The Course Picker, on the other hand, does not work whatsoever. Any attempt to search for a class immediately returns an error. But maybe their website just has some issues — it might not reflect the state of Student Assembly. After all, the recent Bill of Rights website certainly looks great, and maybe the fact that two of their initiatives have gone nowhere is just a coincidence. But if the prevailing opinion on campus is to believed, it’s not. The Assembly’s current annual budget is $44,000, down from $58,000 for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. And yet despite such a massive allocation of funds, it is difficult to pinpoint any concrete accomplishments. The much lauded Bill of Rights is, at first glance, a significant move forward. However, there are several glaring issues. The foremost of these is the fact that it has absolutely no authority. It’s unclear whether the administration has agreed to the bill at all, but considering the Assembly’s history, it’s unlikely anything will come of this. The return on investment for Student Assembly is close to zero. Assembly members have confessed their own bewilderment at the organization. Upperclassmen have explicitly advised me against participating in Student Assembly. The student body rejects the Assembly as an advocate, as a representative body and as an effective organization. Indeed, in the process of writing this article, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee released the results of the election; 1,556 students cast ballots for Student Assembly president, representing 36 percent of Dartmouth’s undergraduate population.
This is a mere fraction of the student body and clearly shows a lack of interest in the Assembly on the part of students — the very people the Assembly is supposed to represent. Yet, the administration gives the Assembly $44,000. True, we need a student government, but that government doesn’t need such a ludicrous sum of money for the trifling, if any, accomplishments it manages. There is only one logical solution: slash the Assembly’s funding. This sum of money, a full $44,000, goes a long way in any other organization. Student Assembly needs reform and, until it can prove it is worth $44,000, it should receive a substantially reduced budget. After accounting for certain important programs, such as subscriptions to national newspapers for the dining halls and “Take A Faculty Member to Lunch,” the Assembly’s budget needs serious reevaluation. Critics might argue that Student Assembly cannot have the impact students want with a slashed budget, but, with such a substantial budget, it is absurd to argue that the Assembly’s problem is a lack of funds. A reduced budget would not only free up funding for productive student organizations but also pressure the Assembly into being effective and purposeful with their expenses — Patagonia jackets aside. This past Assembly election gives me hope. The candidates seemed to be aware of the organizations’s dismal track record, and their proposals reflected a desire for the Assembly to implement concrete change. These changes ranged from softer toilet paper and standing desks to simply donating Assembly funds — but the student body is disillusioned with the Assembly and years of campaigns have promised change that never came. Student Assembly simply isn’t beholden to the student body nor to any standard of productivity. But it is beholden to the Undergraduate Finance Committee, who establishes the Assembly’s funding. A change is possible. If anything, an ineffective student government shouldn’t cost Dartmouth tens of thousands of dollars a year. Elections and scandals have failed to change Student Assembly. A tight budget might be the pressure the Assembly needs to focus on a few meaningful projects. There’s too much to fix on campus — too much change still in the works to not have a productive Student Assembly.
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If everyone is agreeing, no one is thinking.
The group of misfit women who established Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority in 1993 initiated the house’s traditional “Derby” party. These women created a home for themselves beyond the existing options in Greek life. When mulling over a spring “darty” theme, these local sisters thought of the horse racing parties, such as the Kentucky Derby and the Carolina Cup, that are the staple theme for springtime sorority parties in the South. Considering this, sisters have in years past invited guests and dressed in hats and flair rather than dresses to make a creative and light-hearted “mockery” of the typical parties thrown by their nationally affiliated counterparts. Just two weeks ago, KDE’s current executive board met with the protesters of last year’s Derby party. Afterward, the executive board held a meeting to express its view that the origin of the Kentucky Derby involves severe racism. They argued that the Derby theme should be changed to Woodstock to appease protesters’ demands, uphold the house’s reputation of inclusivity and avoid bad press. Although the executive board’s claim that the party “recreates the Antebellum South” was not substantiated with evidence beyond protestors’ claims, it was clearly taken for truth when 96 percent of the 50 women present voted in favor of the change. The executive board presented a slideshow on the problematic nature of the allegedly “racist and classist” Derby party. During this time, they assured us that Woodstock —the four-day music festival of drug-induced selfindulgence by a crowd of white, anti-war southerners — is not at all problematic, asserting their opinion to be the singular, correct interpretation of the proposed theme. Such statements, however, inaccurately suggest that there is a correct, enforceable definition of what “problematic” means. Everything is problematic to someone. In light of the anti-war nature of the festival, however, it is understandable how some students perceive the choice to instead celebrate Woodstock is perceived as problematic. While veterans at Dartmouth have remained quiet so far, the Black Lives Matter protesters did not hesitate to threaten this year’s spring event. Is this why KDE felt compelled to yield to the protesters’ demands? Instances such as the elimination of the Derby theme speak to the loss of an open campus. Rather than shifting the emphasis of the theme back to the party’s original purpose, the executive board insisted that the party may not reflect “Derby” nominally, because last year’s protesters pledged to return for this year’s event should the name of the party again be “Derby.” This submission to threat of protest is appalling on a college campus, meant to serve as a forum of intellectual discourse. On this campus, we are privileged to be surrounded by a wealth of students representing different backgrounds. Diversity is only worthwhile, however, when all opinions are permitted and encouraged equally — there is no right answer. Today, however, we forfeit our opinions to others’ threats and complaints of insensitivity.
Respectfully sharing your interpretation of an issue is hugely distinct from preaching it in the name of tolerance, reputation and political correctness. The current KDE executive board’s assertion of what they deemed an acceptable opinion reinforces the idea that there exists a correct interpretation. In reality, there is never a correct answer as to what is problematic or acceptable. If higher education teaches us one lesson, it is that no opinion is correct, just as no opinion is incorrect. All voices have validity — and we are here to consider them all. While I can always appreciate the pursuit of mutual respect, I take issue with the culture of sensitivity and, truly, of protectionism that is prevailing on college campuses across the country. Fear of disagreement and of having to forfeit your own opinions for those deemed “acceptable and tolerant” has become the norm. Last year, students at Princeton University established a student group, “Open Campus Coalition,” to raise awareness of this oppressive culture of political correctness. The POCC’s mission is to “[protect] diversity of thought and the right of all students to advance their academic and personal convictions in a manner free from intimidation” — and these grievances resonate within Dartmouth’s campus climate. While I respect the initiative of KDE’s current executive board, I am concerned by their compulsion to advocate for political correctness. This decision reflects this prevailing protectionist culture. At what point did the purpose of academia shift from serving as a platform of respectful disagreement to emphasizing the promotion of a singular opinion? The purpose of academia has a much higher calling than preaching a politically “correct” interpretation of history, current events or any discourse. We pursue higher education for disagreement and discussion — not to conform to the “correct” interpretation of issues our country faces. Reverting the Derby theme to its original purpose as a critique of southern Greek culture would have opened the door to an important conversation at Dartmouth. Instead, conversations about some individuals’ perceived connotations of Derby, or the debate of local versus national Greek life, have been sidestepped for fear of protest and discomfort. Protest and dialogue are perfectly acceptable modes of ideological discussion that should be pursued rather than avoided like the plague. We should be asking ourselves and our peers every question under the sun while we are still at this College, among the brightest and most diverse thinkers we may ever meet. I echo J. Moreau Brown ‘39, when he stated, “If the answer to the problems of the world is to resign, well education at Dartmouth has changed.” Education is the process of challenging yourself; growth and knowledge from disagreement require critical thinking and an “open campus” mindset. Otherwise, if everyone agrees, it is clear that no one is thinking. Roberts is a member of Kappa Delta Epsilon Sorority and was the vice president of the ’16 executive board.
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Granite state has limited government Batchelder inspired for Relay by her mother FROM LIBERTARIANISM PAGE 2
Project’s administrator who, like many libertarians, signs his emails “in liberty” — wrote in an email that the group’s participants began moving to New Hampshire in droves even before the official move was triggered in February. Currently, there are about 1,900 active “Free Staters” in New Hampshire, he wrote. In the Granite State, government strives to be close to the people — there is essentially no county government to speak of, so policymaking must be done either in small town meetings or at the state level, and each member of the state House represents just 3,000 people, the smallest legislative constituencies in the U.S. Diehard libertarians may wish to paint those politicians — who play a large role in state politics despite the state’s localism — as agents of an ever-enlarging state, but many of those same representatives vow to keep government small. Steve Merrill served as New Hampshire’s governor for four years in the mid-1990s, a time when the state faced a $40 million shortfall in revenues. A Republican, he oversaw cutting of the budget and was twice selected as “the most fiscally responsible governor in America” by The Wall Street Journal and the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “The key to understanding New Hampshire’s politics in my view is appreciating the fact that there’s an independent streak that is represented by libertarianism that is as strong here as I can ever see in any state, and it represents the feeling that the individual, him or herself, should have a great deal to say about how politics is conducted,” Merrill said. Friendliness to business is a key part of “the New Hampshire advan-
tage,” a phrase Merrill coined and ployment rate during his term — 7.8 championed during his time in office. percent when he entered office, 3.2 Today, that advantage — low taxes, percent when he left it — as just one a good atmosphere for businesses, sign of his successes. strong community support — may be “I think there’s a growing tendency under threat, he said. The advantage to take businesses for granted, and we “has persisted but not grown, and it can never do that and succeed,” he has not persisted as vigorously” since said. “I was a believer in individual he left office. responsibility, and I think people There have been three Democrats appreciated the fact that if we were and just one Republican in the gov- going to give them that responsibility, ernor’s mansion since Merrill’s term we expected them to respond, and ended. The Democrats — current they did, and therefore we were able Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Tuck School to do it without larger government.” of Business fellow John Lynch and And much in the laws of the “Live incumbent Maggie Hassan — sup- Free or Die” state does suggest a liberported more libertarian policies tarian streak more redoubtable than than their national Democratic the White Mountains. In terms of counterparts but nonetheless may overall tax burden, New Hampshire not have been as friendly to Merrill’s ranks 44th in the country, well bepro-business vihind every other sion as he would “I think there’s a New England have liked. (Vermont, growing tendency to state And Merrill Rhode Island, was not even the take businesses for Massachusetts most libertarianand Maine take granted, and we can minded goverfour of the five nor the state has never do that and spots between had in its renine and 13; succeed.” cent past. Enter Connecticut is Craig Benson, ranked second). a Republican -STEVE MERRILL, FORMER That’s almost all with libertarian from property learnings who NEW HAMPSHIRE tax, a substanwelcomed the GOVERNOR tial levy on New Free State ProjHampshirites ect with open who own large arms when they properties in the selected New Hampshire as their state. destination in 2003. Benson served “Some states have no income just one two-year term as governor tax, some states have no sales tax, before being narrowly defeated by but having neither makes any kind Lynch in 2004. of energetic government virtually An interview with Benson was not impossible unless you tax people to possible by press time, and Lynch death on their property taxes, and did not respond to a request seeking most people aren’t thrilled with that,” comment. said Ronald Shaiko, associate director According to Merrill, his pro- of the Rockefeller Center for Public business, pro-liberty approach works. Policy. He cited New Hampshire’s unemAll of that comes from “the pledge,” a guarantee signed onto by almost all elected officials in the state to guarantee that they will never introduce state income or sales taxes, Shaiko said. The measure is largely popular, but it can tie the hands of state legislators. Those policies are broadly popular according to Shaiko, who organizes the Rockefeller Center’s annual State of the State Poll, a yearly survey conducted at Dartmouth that analyzes public opinion throughout the state. New Hampshire’s libertarianism appears obvious when viewed through a wide-angle lens. There is no law mandating motorcycle helmets nor seatbelt use — New Hampshire is the only state in the country to lack either — and government intervention is rarely seen. But the reality of the situation may be more complicated. Disclosure: The author participated in the organization of the 2015 Rockefeller Center State of the State Poll.
Colao, who originally got involved because her uncle and one of her child not have to watch their parent friend’s grandfathers had passed go through that twice, then that’s away from cancer, said she hoped all I want,” Batchelder said. “Then to honor their memories in participating. I’m a happy girl.” “I think the exposure of the According to company policy, each King Arthur Flour employee event on campus is important, regardless of the is paid for 40 reasons it may hours of vol- “The all-night b e s p r e a d i n g, unteer work because it really per year, that aspect with a helps people,” can be used to strong emphasis on Colao said. “The participate in community makes all-night aspect a wide range with a strong emof activities at the event unique, phasis on comthe employee’s particularly with its mu n i t y m a k e s discretion. the event unique, In the past, balance between particularly with King Arthur fun, inspirational, its balance beFlour has been tween fun, inspivery involved more serious and rational, more w i t h g i v i n g respectful events like serious and reback to the spectful events l o c a l c o m - the luminaria lap.” like the luminaria munity along lap.” with other volBatchelder said unteer events, -STEFFI COLAO ’19 that, having including graduated from their “baked for good” truck, monthly donations Hanover High School, she loves beto food banks, stocking cans and ing part of the Relay for Life team participating in walks for various because it allows her to interact with Dartmouth students in a very causes, Batchelder said. This year, she is planning to use positive way. Similar Relay for Life events her volunteer hours to help out at her daughter’s high school gradu- have happened across the country on other college campuses. Curation. Born and raised in Hanover, rently, around 300,000 college Batchelder believes being a part students from more than 500 of the King Arthur Flour team at campuses host a collegiate Relay Baker-Berry Library is something For Life event. University of South Carolina “especially personal.” With a daughter heading to college next freshman Anna Johnson helped year, Batcheleder talked about how organized a team this past month incredible it is to be around caring in Columbia, South Carolina. “It’s great having college kids so college students. Steffi Colao ’19 has been in- involved.” she said. “Their willingvolved with Relay for Life for the ness to help so many families have last five years and sees the King more birthdays with their loved Arthur Flour team as a wonderful ones affected by this disease, is opportunity to spread awareness. incredible.” FROM KAF PAGE 1
College can file for rehearing on appeal FROM SAE PAGE 3
time at the fraternity the College did not provide any oversight of students’ residential lives. Unlike in the AD case, the College did not provide counter-evidence to challenge SAE’s assertions. In light of the evidence presented, the board found it unnecessary to consider SAE’s other arguments and upheld the appeal. They noted that the scope of the
decision is relatively narrow, not applying to residences zoned after 1976 or necessarily to other fraternities. Furthermore, they added that contrary evidence could be introduced if another party, such as the College, were to request a rehearing. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email that the College cannot comment on the outcome until they have reviewed the decision.
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Discussion with graphic book writer and artist Kyle Baker, Carpenter Hall 13 RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS 1 “Yeah, like that’s gonna happen” 5 “That’s clear now” 9 Honored with a big bash 14 New Jersey or California city 15 French champagne maker founded in Germany 16 Bakery lure 17 Maximum impact 19 Olympic racer since 2008 20 Staggering dizzily 21 Get dizzy 23 “__ out!” 25 Suffix with switch 26 DJ’s stack 27 Accessory for note-taking 31 __ Wiedersehen 33 Lang. of Florence 34 Close pal 40 Slush __ 41 JFK overseer 42 Food Network’s “Beat Bobby __” 43 Healthy, with “in” 47 IRS agent 48 Ukr. neighbor 49 Softball of a question 51 Little newt 54 Pokes fun at 57 Baseball : ump :: football : __ 58 Beach footwear 61 British elevators 65 What the suffix “phile” means 66 Achilles’ heel 68 Stood 69 Italian automaker since 1899 70 Melt fish 71 Tentative bite 72 Airing, as a sitcom 73 Safecracker DOWN 1 __ Romeo: sports car 2 Like lemons 3 Doing nothing
4 Office cabinet document holder 5 Texter’s “If you ask me” 6 Browse websites 7 Oscars host, e.g. 8 Mideast VIP 9 British Invasion nickname 10 Humorist Bombeck 11 Poisonous 12 Correct, as text 13 Game that drives home a point? 18 Envelope part 22 Pumpernickel buy 24 U.K. fliers 27 Annoy 28 Storage case for tiny scissors 29 “Death in Venice” author Thomas 30 Senseless 32 Six for you, six for me, e.g. 35 Posed 36 Bit of folklore 37 Giggly Muppet 38 Tandoori bread 39 Physics unit
44 On the house 45 Disney’s “__ and the Detectives” 46 Place for a hoop 50 Get bought up quickly 51 Key above D 52 Fauna’s partner 53 Records for later, in a way 55 Super, at the box office
56 Where rain falls mainly on the plain 59 Bothersome insect 60 Doc’s “Now!” 62 Santa’s access 63 Zesty flavor 64 Loot 67 Off-road transport, briefly
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‘Son of Saul’ (2015) reconceptualizes the Holocaust in cinema escapism quickly becomes entrapment and internment when one The Dartmouth Staff revitalizes Auschwitz on the screen. After seeing “Son of Saul” Therefore, Nemes crafts his anti(2015) at the Telluride Film Festival, sentimental, icily confrontational I witnessed director László Nemes debut tour-de-force to dismantle correct renowned Holocaust film decades of misrepresentation and scholar Annette Insdorf, who lik- display Auschwitz in its infernal, ened his film to “Schindler’s List” chaotic form. (1993) . To Nemes, “Schindler’s The film follows Saul Ausländer List” focused on some 3,000 survi- (Géza Röhrig), a stoic, rugged vors amongst 12 million casualties member of the Sonderkommando, and absurdly a select unit romanticized “Therefore, Nemes of Jewish pristhe Holocaust. oners tasked T h i s a b s u rd crafts his antiwith disposing portrayal of an sentimental, icily of gas chamalready absurd b e r v i c t i m s. confrontational debut era normalizes In one of the a n d re n d e r s tour-de-force to most traumatic cloyingly pal- dismantle decades of opening scenes atable this horin recent cinrific past. One misrepresentation and ema, the sees the same display Auschwitz in its Sonderkomi n m a ny o f ando and infernal, chaotic form.” m cinema’s most Germans correcognizable r a l c a p t i ve s Holocaust titles such as “La vita into their showers, with the è bella” (1997) and “Inglourious promise that the Germans will Basterds” (2009) . While there employ them afterwards. The near is “Night and Fog” (1955) and maternal affectations of the Nazis of course, “Shoah” (1985) , the — “Hurry up or your soup will atrocities of concentration camps get cold” — become deadly lures, precisely preclude the immediacy leading to the abject cacophony of the filmic image. Cinematic of dying prisoners choking on
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their poisonous reality. Soon, Saul translates the myopia inflicted on and other Sonderkommando are Holocaust victims, as death lurked rifling through jacket pockets for behind every corner. The only valuable goods and scrubbing the object in constant clarity is Saul’s blood-stained chamber floors, lapel, a solipsistic representation until the coughing of a teenage amidst the horrors of Auschwitz; boy interrupts the frenzy. A doctor amongst the burning corpses and quickly extingas showers, guishes the “While the film’s can any realchild; howevity exist beer, Saul vows cinematographic aesthetic sides one’s t o p rov i d e tires into a tactic rather own? This him a proper unreality inJewish burial. than expressive mode, forms Saul’s Saul’s dogged particularly in rather desperate promise to his attempt to benign moments of son carries give this him through plotting or marching, young boy a t h e s u b s e - it confronts a central proper Jewquent abuses ish burial, of camp life. dilemma with the and find The dra- Holocaust: can it be put to some sigma then unnificance film?” folds in the within this interstices of nightmarish the frame, as we follow behind realm. The debate of whether Saul experiencing his daily trials. the boy is truly Saul’s son seems The blurred, abstracted camp peripheral to Saul’s central drive diminishes the trauma and forces to preserve humanity within this audiences to complete the elliptical chaos. Nemes captures other forms visuals. While avoiding the histri- of rebellion, from one Sonderkomonics of Spielberg or the gratuity mando capturing furtive photos of Resnais, Nemes aims for a stark of abuses to another privately yet accessible articulation of Aus- writing his narrative in the bunks. chwitz. The shallow focus perhaps Ultimately, the Sonderkommando
plan an uprising, and enlist Saul in their grand scheme to rage and rage against the dying of their light. Whether they escape and survive must be told by Nemes himself. While the film’s cinematographic aesthetic tires into a tactic rather than expressive mode, particularly in rather benign moments of plotting or marching, it confronts a central dilemma with the Holocaust: can it be put to film? The hundreds of articulations and inflections on this theme point to its impossible, abject vastness. As David Novak put it, “The Holocaust is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.” Will there be one image or a series of juxtaposed images which translate the atrocities? Or must it be experienced? Nemes, through his first person idiom attempts to give us just that; divorced from sentimentality and contrived plotting, the camera merely follows the winding trajectory of Saul’s death march. While it exists in the shadow of “Shoah,” “Son of Saul” confronts the dark abyss and attempts to reconceptualize the Holocaust in cinema and largely succeeds in this gutsy, unforgiving debut. Rating: 9/10
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Student Spotlight: Singer and band member Grace Carney ’17 Grace and the Carnivore with her drag talent show in Provincetown two brothers, John Carney, who called “Show Girls,” which helped The Dartmouth Staff plays guitar and bass, and Robert the band’s musical career along. This past spring and summer, Although she is perhaps most Carney, who plays drums. The band well-known around campus for also plays live shows with bassist Grace and the Carnivore recorded singing with the Rockapellas or as John Margaris and lead guitarist an album entitled “Look at Me” at this year’s Dartmouth Idol winner, Alex Fatato, longtime friends of the Hanging Horse Studio in Norwood, Massachusetts. Bradford Krieger Grace Carney ’17 began her musical Carney family. The group formed early on after produced the record, which was career as a drummer. Sort of. “When [my brothers and I] were the siblings received instruments as released in July of that summer. Much of the writing for the album younger we used to do these little presents in their early teens. “It started one Christmas in fifth and other Grace and the Carnivore toddler drum circle things that our songs was a colparents signed us up for,” she said. or sixth grade, laborative eff ort “We come from a pretty musical where our parbetween Grace family. We’d sing at like family ents got me a “We started to really guitar, Grace intake sounds from Carney and John gatherings and stuff like that.” Car ney. Grace Carney has a diverse musical a bass, and Boston’s basement Carney said that background. She grew up taking Robert a drum normally she classical cello lessons for 12 years s e t , ” J o h n show scene, especially writes the lyrics and played in a few orchestras. In Carney said. because we wanted to and then the two addition, she also participated in “ Fro m t h a t of them arrange several choirs and singing groups point on, we play in that setting.” the song together. when she was young, such as her started taking “I tend to write church choir, a chamber choir in band lessons.” -JOHN CARNEY, GRACE The band the lyrics and high school, a show choir and her sometimes have high school’s all female a cappella initially start- AND THE CARNIVORE ed playing at GUITAR AND BASE PLAYER an idea for a group. melody, but not Carney’s family still plays a large theater and always,” Grace role in her musical life today. She is church events. the lead singer of her band, Grace By the time John Carney was in Carney said. “Sometimes John will and the Carnivore, an alternative ninth grade, they started writing have a musical idea, and we’ll sort rock group based in Boston, where their own songs and playing in the of meld things together. We figure she grew up and where her fam- street in Provincetown, Massachu- it out.” The first Grace and the Carniily currently lives. Carney formed setts, eventually progressing to a vore songs were influenced by jazzpop musicians like Corinne Bailey Rae, Sara Bareilles and Etta James, but then they started to listen to a lot more rock music, especially bands from Boston like Speedy Ortiz and Lady Lamb. “We started to really intake sounds from Boston’s basement show scene, especially because we wanted to play in that setting, so we wanted to write songs that people in those settings could appreciate,” John Carney said. Grace Carney added that it was “the music [they] were listening to the most.” Grace and John Carney work with a range of styles when writing, resulting in a somewhat varied repertoire. “I would call certain songs on our album maybe more like grunge-y rock type things but then others are a little bit more pop-y or jazzy. It really depends on the song,” Grace Carney said. Fellow Rockapellas member Sarah Petroni ’18 corroborated the jazzy component of Grace Carney’s SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH voice. Women and Gender Studies 35 takes the class discussion outside. “Her vocal style is almost kind of
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COURTESY OF GRACE CARNEY
Grace Carney ’17 sings with the Rockapellas and is in a band with her brothers.
like a vintage, jazzy sound,” Petroni Grace Carney also sings for said. “Her voice is very distinctive.” and is the musical director of the Grace and the Carnivore play Rockapellas. Her association with a lot of shows in Boston, including the group actually predates her maone tomorrow at the Red Room of triculation at Dartmouth; it started the Berklee College of Music’s Café when she visited her senior spring. 939. For most Grace and the Car“I sat in on a class called ‘Music in nivore shows, Grace Carney travels the Civil Rights Era; and that’s kind to Boston to perform. Recently of like the Rocks’ deal, so there were though, Carney performed much like five Rockapellas in the class,” closer — playing at Friday Night Grace Carney said. “When I came Rock in Sarner Underground this back, I connected with them.” term. Grace Carney particularly She eventually auditioned and enjoyed the opportunity to show then chose the Rockapellas over her music live another group. to friends who “Grace is a very As muhad previously sical director, thoughtful director, listened to it. Grace Carney “I think it she always really plans rehearswas great for the ls, chooses encourages us to think asongs whole band, it to sing, was super fun,” about how current helps teach peoshe said. “It’s events pertain to what ple their parts certainly very and conducts different for me we’re singing.” during shows. to perform for Petroni said that someone than Grace Carney -SARAH PETRONI ’18 to show them puts a lot of my music.” thought behind John Carney her decisions. remarked that Dartmouth’s audi“Grace is a very thoughtful ence was much more engaged than director, she always really encourBoston audiences. ages us to think about how cur“The scene in Boston doesn’t rent events pertain to what we’re necessarily get into [the show] all singing,” Petroni said. “She really that much all the time,” he said. thinks about how we can get people “So playing up here is really, really thinking about these issues via the fun and different.” music.”