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The Hanover Police Department is investigating reports that Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity hazed its new members, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed Thursday night. The College is cooperating with both Hanover Police’s and SAE national’s separate investigations.

SAE national organization staff notified the College about the reports of hazing, Lawrence confirmed.

Assistant director of judicial affairs Katharine Strong sent a formal notice that Dartmouth

is cooperating with the police investigation to SAE president Adam Grounds ’16 and members of the fraternity on Nov. 11.

The Executive Director of SAE notified the College’s chapter on Oct. 9 that it was prohibited from hosting events or conducting activities, Lawrence confirmed.

Hanover Police will be contacting fraternity members and officers to request interviews, which Safety and Security officers will attend when possible.

The Dartmouth has reached out to Grounds for comment.

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Students gathered in front of Dartmouth Hall chanting “Black lives matter.”

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Counselors express concern over Coalition

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In late September, the College announced that it would join the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, which has prompted mixed responses from college counseling offices across the country. The Coalition offers a platform that will serve as an alternative to the Common App by allowing students to create a digital portfolio over the course of their high school experience.

College counseling offices and high schools have expressed their concerns surrounding the Coalition.

“One of our chief concerns is the speed at which this rollout is taking place,” Maura Brennan, director of college counseling at the Fordham Preparatory School, said.

There seems to be a push to get the Coalition online next year, SEE COALTION PAGE 2

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Chants of “We shall overcome” and “Black Lives Matter” echoed through the Green yesterday evening as more than 150 students, faculty, staff and community members dressed in black, walked from Novack Café to Dartmouth Hall in a demonstration of solidarity with the black communities at University of Missouri and Yale University and the larger Black Lives Matter movement.

Jonathan Diakanwa ’16, the president of Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People

and one of the organizers of the demonstration, said that he thought the protest was powerful and that there was “a lot of raw energy and raw emotion” on display.

Following the demonstration, Diakanwa said involved students gathered and breathed “a sigh of relief that there were so many people there with them.”

“They felt like they were alone in the struggle,” he said. “They felt like this is something they’ve been dealing with on their own — the issues that were brought up, the pain they felt as students and their sentiments for other campuses.”

Dartmouth’s chapter of the NAACP and Student

Assembly organized the Blackout, at first as a response to the vandalism of the #BlackLivesMatter display in the Collis Atrium after its reveal last Thursday.

The display shows 74 shirts representing the 74 unarmed individuals who lost their lives to police brutality this year.

Twenty-eight of these shirts were black, representing the 28 unarmed black individuals killed by police brutality in 2015.

With heightened racial tensions at the University of Missouri and Yale University this week, however, the NAACP and the Assembly broadened the focus of the SEE STUDENTS PAGE 5

Students consider new sorority with Latina emphasis

B y SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

Serving and educating through our diversity — “Sirviendo y educando a través de nuestra diversidad” — reads the motto of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a multicultural sorority that may establish a chapter at Dartmouth in the near future.

An information session was conducted using Google Hangout with, an OPBSI expansion committee member and president of the Alpha Theta professional chapter in Florida Yvette Ramirez last Thursday, Karen Afre, program coordinator of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies, said.

A group of five students attended the event, which sought to introduce

the sisterhood and its mission, as well as to gauge interest in the sorority within the Dartmouth community and answer students’ questions, Afre said. Questions raised dealt with typical concerns associated with Greek life, such as time commitment, the effect of membership on academics and dues, she said.

In the virtual session, the OPBSI representative emphasized the importance

of academic programming within the organization, Afre said.

While the email sent to the campus community markets the organization as a “multi-ethnically-based, Latina-oriented, not Latina-based, organization,” the organizational website makes no reference as to its Latina nature.

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which does not allow for much time to adjust foreseeable difficulties, Brennan said.

There is also a worry that students from low-income areas are not coming from schools that have the resources to let them know about the Coalition in the first place, Brennan said.

Paul Sunde, interim dean of admissions and financial aid, said that the root of the concern from college counselors about the Coalition is two-fold. The different elements of the Coalition — such as the virtual locker and collaboration platform — can be confusing for people to understand, he said.

He said there is also a concern about many transitions to the college process this upcoming year.

These changes include alterations to the SAT and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Sunde heard from college counselors that students may feel the need to add things to their lockers in anticipation that colleges will want to see them.

In response, he said that the locker belongs to the student, not the college.

Anything that is in the locker, the student controls, he said.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling and the College Board both hosted conferences to address these concerns.

“I think there is a very healthy conversation at this point among Coalition members and college counselors,” Sunde said.

Senior director of media relations at the University of Florida Steve Orlando said the Coalition provides a digital portfolio for students who come from backgrounds not conducive to the college mindset to collect and store their awards, essays and videos. The University of Florida is a Coalition member.

Director of public affairs at the University of Chicago Marielle Sainvilus said that the portfolio is an optional resource — one of the many valid pathways to get to college — that affords students the opportunity to take away any barriers preventing them from seeking higher education. The University of Chicago is also a Coalition member.

“Education is not valued by all families,” Orlando said.

The hope is that students from lowincome families, perhaps in which some or all members have not gone to college, can compile all the information they will need when they start to apply to college.

The whole idea is that colleges want to do more to support students as they apply, Sunde said.

“If we can help students make the most of their opportunities in high school, we can help them prepare to be successful applicants to college,” Sunde said.

Sainvilus hopes that the Coalition will relieve anxiety by making the path to college more clear for students by avoiding the rushed senior year transaction because the purpose of the Coalition is to allow students to begin collecting relevant application materials starting as early as their freshman year.

“Our goal is to say, ‘Yes, college is for you,’” Sainvilus said.

The member schools participating in the Coalition have high graduation rates, offering students the opportunity to get into a college where their chances of success will be better, Orlando said.

Orlando said starting to prepare for college during freshman year does not detract from the overall high school experience, as students are already thinking about college anyway.

Sainvilus said the Coalition is not going to take over the Common Application.

“We expect most Coalition member schools that accept the Common Application to continue to do so,” Sainvilus said.

Besides the concerns over the application process, Brennan said that to ask freshmen to start building a resume and locker of assignments is not developmentally what high schools should want students to be doing. She said students should be focused on enjoying high school rather than stressed about applying to college early on.

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Multicultural sorority may come to the College

informational meetings and trying to garner student interest, Afre said. Instiexemplified by its founders, Ramirez tuting and maintaining the presence of said. The makeup of the sorority varies a Greek organization requires immense between chapters, depending on the work, time and effort, and the GLOS size and student body of the university office wants to ensure there are enough where it is located, she said. Region students — at least 10 — to undertake IV, composed of universities in the the challenges associated with foundNortheast and into which Dartmouth’s ing a new chapter and to allow for the chapter would be placed, draws large organization to grow and thrive. numbers of Dominicans, Haitians, According to the GLOS Handbook, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, she said. these requirements include governing Ramirez stressed that the organization documents such as a constitution and/ is open to anybody who is interested. or bylaws, a code of conduct, a risk man “We don’t discriminate at all,” she agement plan, a crisis management said. plan and a new members program.

OPBSI believes strongly in women’s Many other stipulations exist for the empowerment, Ramirez said. Afre said petitioning organization including the that OPBSI’s progressive agenda and need to take out health insurance with philanthropy — which rallies around the College, Afre said. countering and spreading awareness “The whole point of having all these about violence regulations is that against women we want to make “I can’t stress the — would appeal sure this chapter to Dartmouth importance of minority continues being women, espea chapter at DartGreek organizations cially given the mouth and that it campus climate enough. [They] need to is successful,” she right now. be thought more of and said.

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Hav60 undergradu- included more when ing overcome ate chapters and people think about the initial hurdle nine professional of bringing an chapters, includ- the Greek community organization to ing chapters at at Dartmouth and Dartmouth, stuColumbia, Cordents will also be nell, Harvard and the Greek community faced with the Yale Universities. everywhere.” secondary chal Ramirez delenge of finding clined to coma space to meet, ment on expan- - MACY FERGUSON ’16, Afre said. Getting sion efforts and physical plans MULTICULTURAL GREEK the likelihood for a house is a of establishing a COUNCIL PRESIDENT lengthy process, OPBSI chapter at compounded by Dartmouth, but Hanover’s zoning said that multilaws, she said. cultural organiza Curtions could have a very positive impact rently, there are 30 different Greek on the Dartmouth community, seeing Letter organizations on campus — 10 as the school has been criticized for the sororities, 16 fraternities and three exclusivity of Greek life. gender-inclusive fraternities, accord Establishing a fraternity or soror- ing to the GLOS office. While the ity on campus requires an ongoing governing bodies of these organizations exchange between students and the is constantly evolving, Greek organizaGLOS office, Afre said. The last so- tions are currently overseen by either rority that was brought to Dartmouth the Interfraternity Council, Panhelwas Kappa Delta, which established a lenic Council, Gender Inclusive Greek chapter on campus in 2009, she said. Council, Multicultural Greek Council Chapters of national or local Greek or National Panhellenic Council, Afre letter organizations arise when students said. OPBSI would join the MGC, see a need for a particular organiza- Ramirez said. tion and take action, Afre said. While “I can’t stress the importance of the GLOS office does not spearhead minority Greek organizations enough,” outreach efforts or communication MGC president Macy Ferguson ’16, with the organization, it works closely said. “[They] need to be thought more in conjunction with students to sup- of and included more when people port those interested in achieving the think about the Greek community at requirements necessary to receive Dartmouth and the Greek community recognition from the College, she said. everywhere.”

Bringing OPBSI to Dartmouth was Ferguson, also the president of an initiative that began last spring under the Native American sorority Alpha the direction of Yaritza Gonzalez, ’15, Pi Omega, spoke about the role that and Louise Barias ’18. Gonzalez could APiO has played for her.

“It’s not be reached for comment. not just a social organization, it’s about Right now, the students are still empowering each other to embrace in the preliminary phases of holding our identities and empowering others FROM SORORITY PAGE 1

to embrace that identity,” she said.

The events held by APiO all have the purpose of community service, drawing attention to the minority Greek community or raising awareness about issues within indigenous populations, Ferguson said, noting that purely social events are few and far between.

Ferguson said that she had not been contacted about the possibility of OPBSI coming to Dartmouth, but that she welcomes and looks forward to the possibility of their arriving on campus.

Multicultural organizations are typically much smaller than other Greek organizations, Afre said. Ferguson said APiO currently has two members.

For some, like Sigma Lambda Upsilon — or Señoritas Latinas Unidad Sorority, Incorporated — president Nicole Castillo, ’17, small membership allows for a deeper bond to be built with other women within the organization.

Castillo is in contact not only with the other 13 “hermanas” who have been members since the sorority’s founding at Dartmouth in 2003, but also with her “online sisters,” women who pledged at other universities such as the University of Pennsylvania around the same time she did this past spring, she said.

Castillo was looking for a life-long group of women who would support her and whom she could support academically and personally. The women

in SLU were strong females whom Castillo felt were professional, smart and “everything her mom had taught her to be,” she said.

“I think it brings a voice for the Latina community. It provides a space for Latina women to promote events and advance causes that matter to us and to our communities,” Castillo said.

“I think the presence of another Latina based organization would be amazing.

I would love to see more collaboration among organizations and more Latina organizations on campus.”

Geovanni Cuevas ’14, the only active member of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. at the College, said he joined LUL in order to solidify the Latino part of his identity.

“I just really identified with being Latino because it includes the racial category of being black too. There are Afro-Latinos. It was a multi-racial idea that I was pursuing,” he said. “My fraternity is very diverse. I was attracted to the diversity within my chapter.”

Cuevas said he wanted to be part of a national network of Latinos.

“I wanted to know what it was like to be a first-generation Latino student at a state university in New York, and I wanted to know how that experience related to mine, for example,” he said. “I wanted to know how I could help them

and share my resources with them.”

Stepping out of one’s comfort zone and representing oneself and culture sometimes is an excuse for individuals to be targeted at Dartmouth, he said.

For Cuevas, the fraternity provides a space where the ethnic part of his identity — his “Latino-ness” — can be celebrated.

Dartmouth students are typically unclear as to the differences between Latino organizations on campus, Cuevas said. The Latin American, Latino and Caribbean House is an affinity house with a relationship to the school’s LALACS academic program, while La Alianza is a socio-political organization that serves as a liaison between students and administrators, as well as between student leaders and the overall student body, he said.

But despite the presence of other Latino organizations, having Latino fraternities and sororities is nonetheless important because of the access Greek letter organizations provide to financial resources, he explained.

“The reality is that being a part of a Greek house means having access to social capital that non-affiliated members don’t have access to,” Cuevas said.

“In order for the Latino community to access those [GLOS] funds, there must be a Latino organization that is Greek letter,” he said.

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Staff Columnist NICOLE SIMINERI ’17

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Expanding Language Programs

The Stakes of Speech

Dartmouth should offer non-Western-European languages year-round.

Recent campus events across the U.S. remind us of the importance of a free press.

For all the recent criticisms launched against our school, foreign language study is one area in which the College excels. Perhaps it is because of drill, the professors’ teaching styles, the language study abroad offerings or some combination of these. Whatever it is, I have never progressed so quickly and confidently in a foreign language than I have at Dartmouth, and I know many students who feel similarly. Still, the inflexibility of some of the College’s language programs is severely limiting. Administrators should strive to make foreign language study more flexible so that more students can access this experience that I so cherish.

Our foreign language study programs use the Rassias method, or what many Dartmouth students know notoriously as drill, which — excepting Latin and Greek — is mandatory for introductory language courses. Drill’s effectiveness is largely contingent on how well it is planned in alignment with the course material and on the instructor, or else it tends to become a mere regurgitation of barely intelligible sounds. When drill is done correctly, however, it establishes a foundation for that week’s course material and helps students learn to not only understand a foreign language but to also think quickly and respond efficiently in that language. Moreover, because drill is taught entirely by students, it is an opportunity to get to know more experienced students with similar interests. Drill also tends to be more flexible, giving students the chance to ask specific grammar and other language-related questions that there simply is not enough time to cover in class.

As beneficial as drill can be, the College’s emphasis on speaking is even more important.

Reading and writing are covered as well, but you are expected to practice that on your own time and are provided with the materials necessary to do so. Like drill instructors, many language professors also call on students randomly, so students are motivated to listen closely to their professors and to prepare themselves to reply. Albeit stressful, this teaching method combined with drill quickly taught me to absorb new vocabulary and grammar patterns and to craft that information into my own creative responses. When I finally went to Japan on the language study abroad program, the people I met often asked me how I spoke so

Last night, hundreds of students stood outside Dartmouth Hall and chanted, “Black Lives Matter” in unison. These students marched around campus, imploring others to join them. At times, the demonstrating students singled out individuals — individuals who, they said, were failing to support their movement and their lives. Some were offended by this method.

This demonstration coincides with a national movement to call out racism on college campuses.

This month, protests against racism at Yale University and the University of Missouri — among others — have brought attention to race, speech and inclusion. At Yale, students reacted with anger to a faculty member who questioned an administrative reminder regarding culturally sensitive Halloween attire. At Missouri, students protesting racism on campus led to the resignation of two senior administrators — the university system’s president and the Columbia campus chancellor. At a public demonstration, a faculty member encouraged students to physically block a journalist trying to photograph the event.

This campus is well acquainted with debate over free speech and inclusion. This year, we have grappled with racially-charged displays of the Dartmouth Indian symbol and the Pigstick and Derby protests inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. These events fit into a long-term trend that includes the spring 2014 Freedom Budget sitin at Parkhurst Hall and “Phiesta” controversy, the spring 2013 Dimensions of Dartmouth protest and the Occupy Dartmouth movement in fall 2011.

On other campuses, conversations about speech have been more worrisome. At Brown University, the Brown Daily Herald editorial board apologized for two opinion columns that expressed inflammatory views on race. One column was removed from the website. In September, the Wesleyan University student newspaper, the Argus, printed a front-page editorial apologizing for the “frustration, anger, pain and fear” supposedly caused by an opinion column that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement.

These instances highlight often-under discussed racial tensions on campuses across the nation — particularly for black students, whose lives have long been overlooked or lumped into more general conversations about “race.” At the same time, the protests’ messages are tied up in questions of free speech and its limits. Some believe that the right to free speech on college campuses is weakening. But what is at stake when our beliefs on speech rights diverge?

As a newspaper, we are naturally concerned about the freedom of the press. We cite the incidents at Brown, Wesleyan, Yale and Missouri not to label or shame enemies of free speech, but to suggest that the present climate needs repair. When news outlets are seen as foes, the free dissemination of information is threatened. This newspaper has had firsthand experience with community members who have declared public events off-limits and denied access to reporters. This puts reporters in a bind — on the one hand, we value respect and our community, yet we know that informing the public is vital to improving campus life.

Without the press, rumor dominates campus conversation. Further, students have less access to the beliefs and passions of those outside their immediate social circles. The press, when it func-

well in a language I had studied for less than a year.

I attribute much of my progress to this teaching style and the emphasis on speaking. The rest of my speedy progress I contribute to the LSA+.

Living with a homestay family and taking Japanese courses at a Japanese university every day was taxing, but notably improved my language skills and gave me a level of confidence in speaking Japanese that I had never thought possible.

Still, the College’s course offerings — particularly for non-romance languages — are limited and rigid, making it difficult and sometimes impossible for students to access them. The first two levels of first-year language courses in French, Italian, German and Spanish are offered every term of the year except summer. Introductory classes in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian, however, are offered only in the fall. If you are like me and only decide midway through your first fall term to study one of these languages, you have to wait a whole year to do so. This, combined with the D-Plan, makes it difficult to start nonWestern-European languages — which comprise half of all modern foreign languages offered by the College — after your first year.

The LSA programs in these languages are likewise inflexible, with only one offered every year. To fulfill my dream of going to Japan on the LSA+, for example, I had to forego my sophomore summer.

It is not a choice that I regret, but it is unfortunate that I had to make the choice at all. For this same reason, students often choose to quit foreign language study at Dartmouth altogether, since it is nearly impossible to fit with their D-Plans. Learning a foreign language is a remarkable experience that truly opens a whole new world of opportunities to have, people to meet and possibilities to explore — but as it currently stands, the College’s course offerings for non-Western-European languages are simply incompatible with the D-Plan, forcing some students to forego this great learning and life experience.

For a renowned institution of higher education, limited access to languages is unacceptable. Efforts must be made to mitigate this by making foreign language course offerings at least as flexible as the D-Plan which Dartmouth so proudly flaunts.

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tions at its best, humanizes those we do not know and do not understand — it gives us access to the narratives, voices and lives of others and helps expand our understanding of our community.

Years down the line, the press provides us with a vital historical record.

More knowledge is always better than less, and we should want to hear as many views as we can.

Our school motto, “Vox clamantis in deserto,” suggests there is something to be celebrated in those who go against the grain. Some words and ideas will anger and upset us. Regardless, we have a responsibility to endorse and guard all outlets of speech. We must not reject columns from this newspaper because they might offend. We must not lecture protesting students on how their protest was flawed or misguided while refusing to engage with their message.

Free speech, however, does not exist in a vacuum. We live in an unequal society, one where your skin color, your sex and your income can influence how free your speech really is. Censorship is not the only threat to free speech, and many of us fail to ensure that minority voices are equally audible. If the majority does not respond to speech that seeks to oppress, it fails to affirm that the lives of minority groups are valued. We cannot be shocked or outraged when these individuals in turn respond with unpopular demands.

For the College, the way forward is to foster a welcoming campus environment, to take the complaints and concerns of black students seriously — in addition to those of other marginalized groups — and to fix any shortcomings in institutional support.

If we, as individual students, wish to improve the situation, it is a poor choice to write off protesting students and other dissenting voices as hypocrites, even if they show an illiberal attitude toward speech. The marketplace of ideas is not a winner-takes-all system. We should not berate others or pass moral judgment on our peers because they have critical views of free speech — especially when the axiom of free speech has, for some, become an umbrella for hatred.

The marketplace of ideas is an imagined ideal, and in practice some speech acts are no longer an exercise of one’s rights but a danger to others.

The terrorist threats recently made against black students at the University of Missouri warrant punishment. Direct threats of violence, intimidation or retaliation share the express purpose of instilling fear into another and restricting their freedom. Intimidation and violent threats are antithetical to a healthy learning environment.

Students should not have to live in fear.

Censuring students or faculty for hate speech or insensitive views will not fix inequality on this campus. Speech does not cause such inequality — it reflects it. The failures of an allegedly color blind America show that prejudices persist even when unspoken. Individuals will only abandon such views if they are persuaded to do so. Shaming or harassing those who write right-wing columns as well as those who stage sit-ins creates a perverse new normal — you can harbor beliefs I consider unacceptable; just make sure I never hear or see them. If we are unwilling to defend the speech rights of every student — even when doing so is not in our self-interest — we only have ourselves to blame for the current state of affairs.

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Black Lives Matter protest controversy among students

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Students first gathered in Novack Cafe at 8 p.m. last night.

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event to act as a demonstration of solidarity with the black students on those campuses, Diakanwa said.

The president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned Monday after student activists criticized the administration’s lack of action to combat recent racist incidents on campus. At Yale, tensions have boiled after their Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter allegedly hosted a Halloween party open to “white girls only,” in which a SAE member allegedly refused to admit a group of women of color. In addition, an administrator at one of Yale’s residential houses, Erika Christakis, sent an email defending students’ dressing up in potentially offensive or culturally insensitive costumes.

“I know if I was in the same situation as a scared black student, I would want people to at least show that they care,” Aaron Cheese ’18, one of the demonstrators, said. “This is not only for the black community at Dartmouth but also for the students at Mizzou and Yale.”

Dartmouth’s chapter of the NAACP contacted student groups at peer institutions to spread the idea of hosting a Blackout. Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Harvard Universities and the University of Pennsylvania either had a Blackout event yesterday or will in coming weeks. More than 25 colleges, after hearing about the Blackout movement through social media, expressed interest in organizing a demonstration on their campus, Diakanwa said.

In addition to providing a “strong ground” on which supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement can stand in solidarity, leaders of the Dartmouth’s NAACP and the Assembly said they hoped the event would bring attention to the racism that continues to pervade college campuses, as well American society at large.

“It’s about all people coming together — not just the people of color coming together — everyone coming together, to address the serious issue of racism that’s still prevalent in our society,” Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said.

Cunningham also said the Blackout would be especially important in informing Dartmouth students of the issue’s relevance, since the College’s remoteness can make it easy to be detached from current events.

“We need to wake up and realize there are a lot of things that are happening outside of this bubble, and that we can feel those vibrations here,” Cunningham said.

Assistant dean and advisor to black students at the Office of Pluralism and Leadership Kari Cooke said that it is important for Dartmouth students to add their voices to the national conversation and find “ways to be intentional and proactive to ensure Dartmouth is a space where students can thrive and feel safe and valued.”

Diakanwa said while he has not seen the overt forms of racism that are present in more polarized parts of the country at Dartmouth, he cited events like the Bloods and Crips party — hosted by the now-derecognized Alpha Delta fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority, now Chi Delt sorority, in the summer of 2013 — the “latent racial tendencies that appear when people aren’t thinking” and lack of faculty diversity as examples of racism at Dartmouth that many fail to address.

Cunningham said that students have the ability to control the types of actions that happen on campus.

Diakanwa said that the Blackout event was most important in its visibility. Unlike the #BlackLivesMatter display that several students were able to anonymously vandalize without facing repercussions, the Blackout is a way to “show many people really stand for this issue and how many people care about this issue.”

“Seeing people wearing black will force people to think about these issues critically around them and to talk about something they could have easily ignored,” Diakanwa said Cunningham agreed that it was important for students to take action.

“Events such as the Blackout and coming together to support the community members here are great action

steps on our part, instead of looking to the administration to always solve these issues,” Cunningham said.

In May, Cunningham drew criticism for his yelling at a demonstrating student during a Black Lives Matter protest outside Kappa Delta Epsilon’s annual Kentucky Derby event — a video capturing the incident surfaced on YouTube and was widely shared on social media along with a petition calling for his resignation.

Cunningham issued a campus-wide email apologizing for his behavior days later.

AssemblyspokespersonJustinMaffett ’16 said in an interview on Wednesday that he hopes the Blackout will rehumanize the discussion on racism.

“We think of systems of oppression in the abstract,” Maffett said. “It’s very easy for students to discount that because they don’t experience the realities of it, so I hope their interaction in the presence of black students tomorrow will show the faces to these statistics.”

Maffet also said the Blackout may help to clear the misconception that black students at Dartmouth are “absolved, immune from outside forces and the systems of oppression.”

“The reality is that we’re still very much at risk,” Maffet said. “Our Dartmouth degrees and resumes don’t protect us. Your resume can’t stop a bullet.”

Co-chair of the Assembly inclusion and diversity committee Abbey Anderson ’18 said the Blackout will also be important in bringing together the black community at Dartmouth, which is “constantly forced to be healing from events either happening on or off campus.”

The other co-chair of the Assembly inclusion and diversity committee Sydney Walter ’18 said she hoped the Blackout will would show students how they can become allies.

“As an ally, it’s important to show solidarity, to take an hour of your life and show that you stand with the students whose feel threatened at other schools,” Regan Plekenpol ’17, another demonstrator, said.

In winter 2015, students staged a diein protest on First-Floor Berry that had fewer attendees than Thursday night’s demonstration. In May, students staged a protest titled “March in Solidarity with Baltimore Uprising and in Protest of Dartmouth’s Willfull Ignorance: Let’s fight police brutality and complicity/ complacency at Dartmouth” that saw roughly 150 demonstrating students.

The following day a group of roughly 20 students staged a protest outside Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s annual Pigstick party and KDE’s Derby in which students chanted “There are two Dartmouths, and they’re right here.”

This term, the College has also seen tension with the Native American community. On the federal holiday of Columbus Day, flyers advertising apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian mascot were posted in several dorm halls. This

past week, a pong table allegedly stolen from the basement of Theta Delta Chi fraternity with the Indian head painted on it was propped in front of Dartmouth Hall, along with a sign that read “WE stand with NAD. We say ENOUGH.” A group first met at the Afro-American Society then headed to Novack Cafe.

The group walked to the lawn in front of Dartmouth Hall, where several students shared their feelings and experiences.

At that point, the official protest ended, but many students wanted to continue moving throughout campus, Diakanwa said. As an organizer, he moved with the group to provide supervision and direction.

The demonstrators then went from First-Floor Berry up through FourthFloor Berry, then to Novack and Collis.

Some students who were at the library at the time said they felt uncomfortable with the disruption caused by the protest.

Some of the demonstrators called out specific students who were studying for not standing up and joining the protest or not wearing black. One student said at one point he was concerned over the possibility of violence, while another said that he called Safety and Security because he was annoyed by the disruption.

Diakanwa said that while he saw “a lot of passion and emotions from both sides,” he did not think the situation would ever escalate to violence. If it did, he said, the appropriate authorities would have been contacted to maintain and control the situation.

A member of the Class of 2017 who requested anonymity for fear of being targeted said that he did not want to be near the protest, but walked through the crowd of demonstrators when they were on First-Floor Berry in order to check out books. He said that after bumping into a demonstrator, she called him a “racist, privileged a--hole,” and as he was leaving another student told him to “go to hell” because he was not wearing black.

Sam Kater ’17 was in Novack at the time of the protest. Kater said that he

saw the demonstrating students come down the stairs and enter the study space, chanting “If we can’t study, you can’t study.”

Kater said that he saw one exchange between a female student and the demonstrators that might have been more aggressive, but he was out of earshot.

“There was definitely nothing hostile,” he said of what he observed.

Lucas Ribeiro ’19 was in a Berry study room at the time of the demonstration.

The demonstrating students told him to come out of his study room and join them, Ribeiro said.

“It’s my choice to join,” he said.

Ribeiro said that he agreed with the students’ message, but he could not support their method.

“You lose the argument as soon as you start yelling and swearing at people,” he said. “You’re not going to win.”

Diakanwa said that some of the reactions from other students may have stemmed from discomfort.

He said that the protest and the visual aspect of seeing students wearing black forced students to reflect on and address an issue that they could have otherwise ignored.

“We live in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire,” he said. “You could not turn on the T.V., just personalize your social media so you only see what you want to see and have no clue of what’s going on in the world, but today people had to take a second to stop, look and really think, and that makes people feel uncomfortable and that challenges some of their beliefs and asks them why this inequality exists.”

Diawanwa said that part of the goal of the demonstration was to engage students outside of the classroom.

“This is a conversation that will happen in every race and ethnic studies class,” he said. “This isn’t a conversation that will happen if you choose not to take those classes. Today, everyone was taking a race and ethnic studies class.”

Samantha Stern and Joyce Lee contributed reporting.

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Shoot for It: With John Beneville ’16 and Alex Lee ’16 B y JOHN BENEVILLE and ALEX LEE The Dartmouth Staff

Hello Dartmouth basketball fans! Shoot for it boys back again for our final column of the term.

Thank you so much for putting up with our basketball “analysis.” We thought it’d be fitting to discuss Kobe Bryant’s retirement rumors this week.

This may possibly be Kobe Bryant’s final season in the NBA. The 6’6” shooting guard has put together an impressive resume over the past 20 years, highlighted by five championships, two Finals MVPs and a regular season MVP. But to say that this year has been a struggle for the Black Mamba is a massive understatement. The 37-year-old Bryant has averaged 16.5 ppg on .320 shooting from the field, a far cry from his 25.3 ppg and .451 career averages. Moreover, he’s sat out the past two games with back soreness. The 1-7 Lakers look hardly improved from their abysmal state last year, and sports analysts, players and fans alike have been speculating whether this year is the Mamba’s final hurrah.

Alex’s Take: I’ve never liked Kobe Bryant. His basketball accomplishments have been tremendous to say the least, but his character as a person and a teammate have been irreconcilable to me.

In my mind, the relationship between Shaquille O’Neal and

Kobe Bryant summarizes the shortcomings of Kobe’s character.

Together they won three championships, after each of which Shaq was awarded Finals MVP. You would think that this would build an unbreakable brotherly bond between the two, similar to the one that LeBron James and Dwayne Wade share now, but this was very far from the case. The ’03-’04 season brought significant locker room turmoil. In an interview with ESPN, Bryant called O’Neal “fat and out of shape,” questioned the extent of his injury and criticized Shaq’s max contract efforts. Eventually, all of this vitriol led to O’Neal being traded to the Miami Heat during the offseason, and perhaps more significantly all-time great coach Phil Jackson also leaving the purple and gold.

Some say that at that point in career, Shaq was on the decline.

Clearly, however, he had some juice left in the tank since he and Wade led Miami its first championship in the 2005-2006 season.

Yet, Bryant’s off the court troubles were not a one-time incident.

Kobe essentially also ran Dwight Howard out of Los Angeles, with Howard eventually taking less money to play with the Houston Rockets. Dwight was supposed to be the centerpiece of the prestigious Los Angeles Lakers, but he couldn’t handle Kobe’s ego so he left after one season. The 2013 Lakers boast-

ed a starting lineup of Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard, yet the team struggled all season long and was eventually swept by the Spurs in the first round.

Yet, it seems that this has been Bryant’s way of life. Bryant said in a 2015 interview with GQ that he would never be a “great friend,” and seems proud of that fact. Is that the kind of person and player we should look up to? Is that someone who we want to celebrate?

In my mind, Kobe Bryant is a great individual scorer who falls short in his capacity as a great basketball player, both in his leadership and playing style.

To see what a true NBA great looks like, take five-time champion Tim Duncan for example, who is 39 years old and still contributing significant basketball play to his team. Most importantly, though, he is acting as a leader and mentor to the Spurs’ younger players like LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard, who will feel his positive influence for years to come. Players like Tim Duncan, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki will continue to stay relevant into their elder years and beyond retirement because of the imprint they leave on their teammates, while Kobe Bryant has done very little to mentor the Laker youth, and in fact has often been a very toxic locker room presence.

Ultimately, it seems more likely

than not that this will indeed be Kobe’s final season. A Derek Jeteresque goodbye tour has already begun, but I certainly won’t be taking part in the ceremonies.

John’s Take: Alex’s “analysis” is the most ridiculous collection of misguided opinions, errant judgements and untruths that I have ever encountered. Let’s take Alex’s criticisms one-by-one so that we can set the record straight. “Ran Dwight Howard out of L.A.?” Are you serious? Lakers fans quickly recognized that Dwight Howard did not have the will or the grit necessary to win a championship, as did Kobe Bryant.

Dwight Howard is as overrated as he is soft and left L.A. because his happy go-lucky, “I’m a champion even if I don’t win championships,” attitude didn’t mesh with the Lakers organization. Dwight has continued to fail to accomplish anything in the NBA since leaving the Lakers, who I’m sure told Dwight to make sure the door didn’t hit him on the way out.

Alex is correct that the team with Dwight Howard and Steve Nash should have won a championship had they been healthy. Perhaps Alex forgot that the expected starting five played less than a dozen regular season games together. Perhaps he forgot that Steve Nash has the physical fortitude of a nursing home resident. Perhaps he forgot that Kobe Bryant single-handedly willed the Lakers into the playoffs

that years while the other stars were injured and nursing their bad backs.

Kobe Bryant gave his Achilles for his team that year, and yes, he’s never been the same since. But to ignore the fact that Kobe was one of the top five players in the league that year, at his age, after all those minutes, is sacrilege.

Alex then goes on to take a Kobe Bryant quote out of context, a context which actually involved the five-time champion lamenting the fact that he could never be a great friend. Human beings like Kobe Bryant operate on another level — their greatness is either revered or feared. I think you know which camps Alex and I fall into. Kobe Bryant’s life has been dedicated to basketball, and his personal and social growth always had to take a back seat. Even a cursory look into Bryant’s past would have also led to Alex realizing that Kobe grew up in Italy and was thus immediately isolated when his family moved to America. His faults, like his greatness, are a product of circumstance and not conscious choice.

Is Kobe Bryant struggling this year? Yes. But Alex is using this struggle to submit an absurd line of thinking that someone so smart and knowledgeable should be ashamed to support. Kobe is not just a scorer, he is a student of the game. If Alex was more like Kobe in that regard, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Final previews for football, men’s soccer and women’s hockey B y JoE CLyne

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

As the end of the fall rapidly approaches, fall sports teams are wrapping up their seasons and putting the finishing touches on their pursuit of Ivy League championships. Men’s soccer and women’s rugby have already clinched Ivy League titles, while football remains in the hunt for the Ancient Eight crown.

For some Big Green teams, this weekend of games also marks some of the season’s first action. In honor of the last weekend of the fall term, The Dartmouth decided to bring back an old tradition, the Big Green Weekend Primer, where the sports editors give their predictions on the weekend to come.

Football at Brown University (Saturday at 12:30 p.m.)

This has been a banner season for Big Green football (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) with Dartmouth coming within a single point of an elusive undefeated mark to this point in the year. While the team has astounded some with its play to this point in the year, the last three weeks have marked a small though perceptible drop-off in play for the Big Green. Af-

ter winning each of its first five games by more than 20 points, Dartmouth’s last three games have been relative nailbiters, with two decided by single digits. The Big Green’s problems with penalties have also come to the forefront as the team has committed at least 15 penalties in two of the last three games.

Still, despite these struggles, Dartmouth should still be favored against an inconsistent Brown football team.

Brown (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) has seen the wrong end of a few crooked scores this year, falling by 20 points or more against the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. The Bears’ 20-point victory over Cornell University, however, outmatched the Big Green’s 18-point margin over the Big Red last week.

The biggest offensive threat that Dartmouth will have to contain is Brown’s senior wide receiver Troy Doles. Averaging over 100 yards per game receiving, Doles has showcased remarkable skill and scored in all but two of Brown’s games to date. Doles has three games with receptions of more than 50 yards this season and will be able to capitalize on even the slightest mistake in the Big Green secondary.

Dartmouth will have the advantage

on offense, though, as Brown’s defense has been mediocre at best. Brown has allowed 34 points per game, the worst in the Ivy League. When Dalyn Williams ’16 gets a look at the vulnerable Bears, he should be able to pick them apart with relative ease.

Prediction: Dartmouth 38-6

Men’s soccer at Brown (Saturday at 5:00 p.m.)

The men’s soccer team (11-4-1, 6-0 Ivy) has already clinched the Ivy League title, but the team should have plenty of motivation on Saturday with the chance for an undefeated Ivy League season on the line. Dartmouth has not gone undefeated in Ivy League play since 2004 and has never finished without a loss or tie in Ivy League play. Brown (9-5-2, 3-1-2 Ivy), currently at third place in the Ivy League, will certainly pose a stiff challenge to the Big Green.

Dartmouth’s strength in Ivy League play this season has been its stout defense. The Big Green has only allowed one goal in its six Ivy League games up to this point. Though the Big Green offense is averaging just a hair over a goal per game in Ancient Eight competition, that has been enough for a 6-0 record

to date.

Brown has a more balanced stat-line than Dartmouth, though it appears worse on both offense and defense.

Brown has scored just seven goals in Ivy League play and allowed five.

Brown’s top scorer is a freshman, Jack Hagstrom, who has tallied five goals in his first year in a Bears uniform. Hagstrom has not scored in the past month, but did notch an assist in Brown’s last game against Yale University. The Big Green will have to work to slow the freshman, but if they do so, should be in the catbird’s seat.

Prediction: Dartmouth 1-0

Women’s hockey vs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Friday at 7:00 p.m.)

Dartmouth’s women’s ice hockey team has had a tempestuous and inconsistent start to the season, a start more exciting than the team’s 2-2-2 record seems to indicate. In the Big Green’s season opener, it upset No. 5 Harvard University by a score of 2-1, seemingly pointing to great success ahead.

In the team’s only other battle against a ranked opponent this year, Dartmouth once again put together an impressive

effort by earning a tie against No. 4 Clarkson University. These two results would seem to position Dartmouth as one of the best teams in the country and certainly as a favorite against an unranked RPI squad. The Big Green’s other games, however, have not gone as smoothly. Dartmouth has fallen to both St. Lawrence University and the University of Maine, both unranked teams, by at least two goals. If Dartmouth hopes to be a true contender in the ECAC, it will have to tighten its game up against opponents that are less well-regarded than Harvard and Clarkson.

RPI (4-5-1) dropped its first three games of the season, but comes into Thompson Arena on a relative hot streak, having just taken down the same Clarkson team that Dartmouth tied early in the season. Dartmouth did take down the Engineers both times that the squads met last season, a good omen for the Big Green’s chances on Friday.

If the Big Green can get good performances from leading goalscorer Lindsey Allen ’16 and can even out the kinks that have rattled them against unranked teams, the squad should be able to take down the Engineers.

Prediction: Dartmouth 4-3

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Football prepares to take on Brown University this weekend B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

“The world didn’t end with the loss to Harvard [University],” football head coach Buddy Teevens said in reference to the last-minute defeat three weeks back that snapped his team’s 2015 undefeated record.

While the coach noted that it may have taken a week for his team to arrive at this realization, the Big Green nevertheless rebounded with a commanding victory over Cornell University last Friday and now looks to close out the season with two more wins. That path starts this Saturday afternoon against Brown University (4-4, 2-3 Ivy), as No. 23 Dartmouth (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) will need to overcome the most high-octane offense in the Ivy League in its final away game of the 2015 season.

After responding to an 0-2 start to the season with four straight victories — two in-conference — the Bears have suffered another losing streak, falling against their last two Ivy opponents by an average of 23.5 points. The up-and-down results leave Brown tied for the fourth-best in-conference record but with the sixth best overall record among all Ivy teams.

Notably, a 29.1 points-per-game output by an explosive offense has at times been offset by a dismal defensive unit that allows an average of 34 points a game, as well as a third-worst 5.8 yards per

opposing play in the conference.

For quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 and company, a clash with this opposing defense should provide an opportunity to return the offense to its earlier standards of proficiency after failing to score more than 21 points in a game for almost a month.

“Brown is particularly a zonepressure team,” Williams said.

“They’re always a sound football team. They’re always very aggressive and nice-sized guys who play hard, so we definitely have to bring the energy, especially at their place…it’s going to be a tough battle for us, we got to go in and establish our identity early, get some points on the board and continue to play aggressively.”

The matchup with Brown on offense and Dartmouth on defense, however, will likely go the furthest in determining who triumphs in Saturday’s game. The Big Green defense — ranked the best in the conference and among the best in the country with an FCS-leading 3.77 yards allowed per opposing play — will encounter one of its toughest challenges to date.

Representing one of the most prolific passing offenses in the FCS this season, Brown tops the Ivy League in raw passing totals, and, having run the most plays out of conference squads with 635 — just under 80 per game — also adds a high-paced dimension to its offense.

“A lot of guys have seen fast offenses, Princeton [University] likes to go really fast,” Dartmouth safety David Caldwell ’16 said. “We have a bunch of returning starters on the defense [that played Princeton last year], and we’re pretty deep, so I think that that will help us as well.”

Furthermore, the safety — who has a team-leading seven takeaways on the season — noted that he and the rest of the secondary will relish the chance to square off against a pass-heavy team.

“From the numbers I’ve been seeing, they’re going to chuck the rock, and as a secondary we love that,” Caldwell said. “When you get balls coming at you every time, there’s no lull for you… For us, it might even be better that they’re coming at us every time, so we’re going to be in the game on almost every play.”

But while a high volume of pass attempts and offensive plays has translated to gaudy statistics, this strategy detracts from the Bears’ efficiency, as a 7.3 yards-per-pass average comes in at only fourth in the conference.

Leading the way at the quarterback position, senior Marcus Fuller has thrown for more than 2,300 passing yards on the season, though his 10 interceptions to go with 12 touchdowns reveals a susceptible aspect of the team’s air attack. In the passing game, Fuller has three

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The Big Green will look to bounce back from a trio of moderately disappointing games with a strong showing against Brown.

primary receiving options, as these wideouts — Alexander Jette, Brian Strachan and Troy Doles — have all individually caught more than 50 passes each for more than 500 yards. Two of them — Doles and Jette — have exceeded the 800-yard mark. “[Fuller] is a talented guy, he throws the deep ball very well,” Teevens said about the opposing quarterback. “They are a highpaced offense. I think we’re a well-conditioned team, so I don’t see the endurance being a problem.

They’ve turned the ball over a little bit, and that’s something we need to focus on. We need to put pressure on the passer. He has taken a lot of hits as well, and that’s upsetting enough to a quarterback if he’s getting roughed up every time he’s throwing the football.”

The Dartmouth defense will attempt to get off to a better start to the game than it did last week, when it allowed Cornell to move deep into its territory on the opposition’s first two possessions. Much of the Big Red’s success came on the ground, as the Big Green surrendered 34 yards to opposing lead back Luke Hagy on Cornell’s first drive.

“Hagy’s a great running back, he has records at Cornell, so we knew that coming in,” Caldwell said. “[Cornell’s rushers] got to the edge a few times, which hurt us a little bit. They came in with a few different schemes than we had seen on film. So it took us a little while to adjust to that, and get guys going in the right spots. After we resolved [that], we were able to settle down a little bit.”

Although the passing game took some time to settle into the game, the rushing attack granted an important lift throughout the night last Friday. On the team’s first touchdown drive, the majority of the yardage came on the ground, capped by a Ryder Stone ’18 fourthdown run for six points. By the end of the night, Brian Grove ’16, Kyle Bramble ’16 and Vito Penza ’19 all had at least 50 yards rushing. Moreover, the ground game reached 211 yards — compared to 208 in the pass — which marked a season-high total.

“It’s very helpful [in] moving the ball,” Teevens said about the emergence of his running backs.

“It take a little bit of pressure

off the pass game, it takes a little pressure off the pass protection with the offensive line. I thought the matchups were good, and we were able to move some people.”

With 15 penalties accrued by the game’s final whistle, a harmful tendency had once again sprung up for the team. With the team’s propensity for penalties flaring up in these last two home games, Dartmouth now has as many penalties in its last three games as it had in its first five contests of the season.

According to Teevens, of the 41 flags called on his team in the last three weekends, he considered 27 of them “self-inflicted” — penalties along the lines of offsides, delay of game or other procedural fouls.

Looming over the next few weeks of football for the Big Green, the prospect of at least a share of the Ivy League title hinges entirely on whether an undefeated Harvard team falters at some point in its remaining two games. Such a situation nearly materialized last Saturday — when the Crimson played in one of its closest games of the season against Columbia University, edging out an eightpoint win — but Dartmouth still maintains that any success will result from focusing on what it can only do on the field.

“The championship, we don’t control completely,” Teevens said.

“We can’t. We lost to Harvard, but we can control what we do, and that puts us in a position to have success if Harvard struggles against [the University of Pennsylvania] or against Yale… We have things to do and things to prove and I’ve said it all along — I think our guys enjoy playing together, and playing well together.”

In terms of motivation the team holds as the season winds down, despite one blemish of a loss on its record, the Big Green remains committed to finishing 2015 on a strong note.

“We set out that we wanted to win every game, and it’s a couple plays that beat us at Harvard,” Williams said. “We definitely don’t want that to continue to affect us, we have to forget about the past.

It’s certainly nice to be 7-1 and we want to finish 9-1. So we’re definitely hungry to keep winning and keep playing with each other, because this is a tight-knit team.”