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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Counselors respond to DDS seeking to implement claims about mental biometric technology at registers health resources

B y JASON ROMERO The Dartmouth

Near the beginning of this term, a poster was hung in Novack Cafe criticizing how the College addresses mental health on campus. The poster specifically called attention to the fact that Dick’s House employs only 12 counselors for over 6,000 students, and how it does not provide long-term individual counseling services.

The poster described how students with long-term concerns are forced to seek

local support — a process the poster stated could be stressful and emotionally taxing. It also included a number and a QR code that could be reached for reactions and comments.

“Sorry, we don’t treat ch ro n i c i s s u e s, D i c k ’s counseling only treats shortterm problems,” the poster stated as an example of the College’s response to students asking for long-term counseling.

Additionally, the poster SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 5

Bar One debuts as ‘equivalent social space’ B y SOLEIL GAYLORD The Dartmouth Staff

Last Thursday evening, Bar One made its debut — with nearly 140 students in attendance. Organized by the Palaeopitus senior society and funded by the Office of the President, Bar One attempts to supplement other campus offerings such as Collis After Dark, which provide students with alternative social spaces.

James Park ’20, who helped organize Bar One, said that

Hanover’s lack of studentoriented bars was the main inspiration for creating the event. Park added that the organizers of the event have referred to Bar One as an “equivalent social space,” which he said is an important distinction from what are commonly called “alternative social spaces.” Park said that the ultimate goal in creating Bar One was to create another social option through a weekly SEE BAR ONE PAGE 3

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Under the proposal, students entering the Class of ’53 Commons would swipe their hands at the register.

B y JASON ROMERO The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Dining Services has been actively looking into incorporating biometrics at the Class of 1953 Commons, according to Dartmouth Dining Services director Jon Plodzik.

“We realized that we had to be more efficient in getting you into the property and allowing you to get food in the property,” Plodzik said.

According to Plodzik, biometric technology would allow students to swipe their hands at a scanner as opposed to having their Dartmouth student ID card swiped at a register. He referred to the technology as a “game-

changer,” and added that it would allow the registers to focus on cash and DBA transactions, Green2Go orders and guest passes.

According to Plodzik, DDS has not yet received approval from the College to incorporate biometrics at ’53 Commons, but is currently in talks with the administration about moving the program forward. Plodzik added that he hopes that the program will be in place in the coming years.

Plodzik said that the implementation of biometrics would allow greater efficiency for students who are currently using meal swipes to enter ’53 Commons and prevent long lines from forming.

Deedee Hernandez ’23 said that the lines at ’53 Commons can negatively impact students’ dining experiences.

“I mean, there are times during the day — especially around the afternoon when everyone is out of class and having lunch where the line can go outside the building — and you either have to deal with that line or choose another time to go eat,” Hernandez said.

Plodzik, who previously worked with biometrics during his time at the University of New Hampshire, said that other colleges have seen a benefit from biometrics, SEE BIOMETRICS PAGE 3

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020

THE DARTMOUTH NEWS

Q&A with Stinson’s Village Store owner Jack Stinson B y CAITLIN MCCARTHY The Dartmouth Staff

Many people at the College know of as Jack Stinson as a Hanover fixture. The owner of Stinson’s Village Store and a common caterer for the College — such as for the First-Year Trips program — Stinson has seen Hanover and the College change and adapt over the last 40 years. He spoke with The Dartmouth about his experiences and relationship with the College.

How long have you been in town?

JS: We got the store from Moe Halligan in September of ’79 — just about the time that EBA’s came in too. We’ve been here, we’ve gone through the busy beer times when there was only kegs on campus and no such thing as a 30-pack. It was all bottles and then all kegs. And then when the kegs got ripped out of the fraternities, 30-packs came in.

Milwaukee’s Best was a big thing, and then it went to PBR, and then Keystone.

And that’s where we are right now.

Dostudentstypicallybuyalcoholic beverages at your store?

JS: Well, they do. There’s a bunch of graduate programs, like Tuck. They love the value of having kegs, because kegs are a better value than bottles, especially for large groups. We do reunions. But there’s other places. We’ve never had all the business, and the fraternity system is every quarter — every new term, there’s a new social chair who’s gonna come in and do a better job and run around.

And some of them have unlimited time and they can run around to different places and save 50 cents, 25 cents, and pick it up because they’re not paying for the gas. So we’re controlled by the beer prices, and we try to keep it low and keep good selection.

What’s the most common item you sell here?

JS: Most of the sales are beer and cigarettes. A long time ago we recognized that the beer sales were going down,

so we do barbecues. We do parents’ weekend barbecue for 1,100 people, and we do a lot of department and end-ofthe year things, sometimes some events for residential life or different residential communities in the summer for a short time. You mentioned Trips. We were lucky enough to get that, too. We have these outdoor, expensive steam tables so we can serve quickly and everyone could sit down together.

What has it been like to meet all the first-year students at the beginning of the year?

JS: Well, I think that’s one of the greatest things, because you can recognize it’s great publicity for us. It’s great that we do it. You get to see the temperament of the individuals. Some people are gregarious, others are quiet and set back. But I’ve had the great opportunity in the beginning to work with the trip leaders, and I think that’s one of the biggest values. A lot of trip leaders are like mid-management of the College.

They’re people who are doing things for the College and believe in the College — kind of giving back their time. A lot of times in the past we never get to see students until junior, senior year. We’ve missed everybody, so it’s a good little shot to get on the map.

How have you seen the town change over time?

JS: Back in the day, we had five people delivering to the College. We don’t do that anymore. And we usually actually delivered to the dormitories. But the drinking age has changed, it’s being enforced, and there’s liability, so it’s a natural transition away from the heyday of the 18-year-old going to College. When we started to notice it a bunch of years ago, and that was when the convenience store at the College came in — that changed our business dramatically. It’s the same footprint, but our 30-pack cooler over here was all laundry detergent. We did 32 cases of groceries up this aisle. We did 15 cases of yogurt a week. So you walk in,

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Jack Stinson is the owner of Stinson’s Village Store in Hanover.

and it would be this little bodega like the ones that you’d go into the city and see. But the College put a convenience store in Collis.

A big difference for us was also when President Hanlon decided to ban hard alcohol. That was very good for us.

We’d go out to the back of the car and we would lose hundreds and hundreds of 30-pack sales because people’s cars would be packed with hard alcohol.

When they made the decision to stop that, they still had their tails, meetings and stuff, but they went to something sweet like cider, and then White Claw.

We used to have an unbelievable amount of fraternities running back last-minute, just before we closed, to pick up extra.

Now, that doesn’t happen. We used to stay open to 11:45 last-minute. Now, that whole behavior has changed for us.

It’s reduced our hours at night — the liability of people picking up last-minute and the cops driving around.

Do you see a lot of alumni come back during the big weekends?

JS: Oh, yeah. Some of them even after one, two years are coming back. I don’t

think there’s any other college around the world that has as much alumni support as you guys do. So we’re lucky to have that, because then all of a sudden in the summer, they come back. So it’s great to see all the students; you remember them and stuff like that.

to get an impression the first time. This last September, we caught one or two of the people that were just coming in, and the word spread, “Don’t go there.”

Here in a college town, you get good at protecting yourself. You gotta protect your license or you won’t be here.

With the large student population, do you see a lot of people coming in trying to use fake IDs here?

JS: A long time ago, someone on campus had a $50,000 photocopy machine. In one week, we had 18 fake IDs. So I took four to eight of them up to the dean. In three weeks, they figured out who was doing it. We had to make a decision ,because under New Hampshire law, you can give it back to them and let them go.

But if we get a fake ID, we turn it over to the police. In New Hampshire, for us, three strikes and you’re out in three years.

So if you’re at one, then you get another one, you might be out of business in three years. It’s pretty serious. I catch one or two a week, every week. Sometimes it’s people visiting, sometimes it’s just undergrads that come in at odd hours — but IDs are getting better. But it’s good

Do you have a favorite memory from your time here?

JS: I think when we started doing Trips, sometimes they were working 18 hours a day and not just me, it’s the trip leaders.

We would crack six dozen eggs a day and peel two bushels of corn every day. That was for just one dinner. So we would do it every day, 10 days in a row. I’d drop it off, it’d be out, eggs all over the place. I’d be picking the eggs up, rushing them back, so they were not out too long. I think that one of the most memorable times is when you work long hours with people, especially students that are committed to working as many hours as I am, nonstop and breaking eggs, shucking corn up behind Collis.

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

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THE DARTMOUTH NEWS

Biometrics system would Bar One event debuted last Thursday not store fingerprints FROM BAR ONE PAGE 1

FROM BIOMETRICS PAGE 1

citing the University of Maryland as an example.

“The director [of The University o f M a r y l a n d ] w ro t e t o m e yesterday,” Plodzik said. “She said, ‘I can’t imagine life without biometric entry. It’s such an efficient process for us.’”

Computer science technology services specialist James Gerjevic said that one of the key features of a biometric system is that it would not store fingerprints.

“Your fingerprints are used at the beginning to create your hash,” Gerjevic said. “And that’s all that gets stored on the server.”

Gerjevic said that the biometric technology DDS wants to implement functions similarly to the current card-swiping system, adding that “the technology isn’t a wild divergence from what we already do.” Both the suggested technology and the card-swiping system require a system of checks to confirm the number associated with either the card or the fingerprint.

Plodzik said that if a biometric system at ’53 Commons was

established, DDS would most likely redistribute employees working at the register to other locations. According to Plodzik, these employees would fill in understaffed tasks such as waiting tables and loading utensils and tableware.

Ultimately, Plodzik said that biometric entr y would allow ’53 Commons to have “a better utilization of resources.”

However, he said that a biometric program would be entirely optional, and one of the major challenges for the program would be campus outreach, especially in regards toward the storage of students’ fingerprints.

“There is no data kept in this system that could be utilized by law enforcement, meaning there’s no fingerprints that live in this system,” Plodzik said.

Plodzik said that the machine would only take “points on your fingers,” and from those points, a numeric value would be created.

He added that this numeric value would have “no meaning,” and that it would not be possible for someone to take a numeric value and recreate a student’s fingerprints.

event where students could interact in an informal bar atmosphere.

“Our inspiration was students talking about the lack of social options on campus,” Park said.

Park said the goal of the event is to create a reliable space that is open weekly, rather than just a one-time event. Organizers of Bar One said that they aim to create something close to a campus bar.

“All you have is the fraternities,” Park said, who also is also the chair of the Greek Life Council. “Salt Hill Pub and Murphy’s aren’t undergrad spaces.”

The event took place last Thursday from 9 p.m. to midnight in One Wheelock and included a diverse crowd of both Greek-affiliated and non affiliated students, according to Park.

He said that Collis’ central location and the cozy atmosphere of One Wheelock were integral in the planning and the atmosphere of the event. Park added that the Bar One organizers hope to make the event regular during on nights.

“Hopefully, we want to give people

an option for Fridays and Saturdays, and make it known that you can hang out there,” Park said.

Extensive efforts to create alternative social gatherings have been taking place on campus well before Bar One. Mychaela Anderson ’20, a co-moderator of Palaeopitus, Collis After Dark intern and chair of Collis Governing Board, helps to organize several alcohol-related events outside the Greek system. These include Microbrew Mondays, Brews & Bands — where there is a live band and an open bar — and Cork & Canvas, where wine and painting are offered.

One of the more notable events hosted by the College with alcohol was BarHop, an event that was regularly hosted weekly from Winter 2014 until May 2017. BarHop events took place in the garage space of the Hopkins Center, where drinks were served in addition to other activities such as dancing, painting, drawing and trivia. It was founded by students but eventually put on hold in 2017, apparently due to a lack of funding, staffing and space.

The event has not returned since.

Regarding the current offerings by Collis After Dark, Anderson said they

are well attended.

“People like the other opportunities there are,” Anderson said. “There are some people who would potentially want other things, and these events are always there.”

Collis Center deputy director Joseph Castelot said the planning of alcoholrelated events is overseen by the Collis Governing Board, and the planning of such events is mostly student-driven.

“From a Collis Center standpoint, we leave it up to the students to decide if there is a need for an event, and they determine that they want to have alcohol at it,” Castelot said.

According to Castelot, while the Collis Governing Board includes alcohol at some of its events, their goal is that something other than alcohol itself is at the center of the event.

“I think the goal that we have within the Collis Governing Board is trying to make sure that there is something else other than the alcohol that becomes the feature of the event,” Castelot said.

According to Anderson, planning of alcohol-related events is simple.

She noted that organizations fill out an online form to request to host events serving alcohol.

LORRAINE LIU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

The Bar One event debuted last Thursday in One Wheelock.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020

THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

Verbum Ultimum: Crying Wolf Recent antics to stir up controversy are disingenuous.

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If the Dartmouth College Republicans had not used the phrase “They’re bringing drugs…” in the subject line of an email sent to campus earlier this week, it is quite likely that none of what is described in the remainder of this editorial would have happened.

But, of course, that is what the College Republicans titled their email announcing a “policy talk” with a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Bryant “Corky” Messner, who was scheduled to have an event at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy on Tuesday on the topic of the need for more border security — specifically, a wall at the southern border — to fight the opioid crisis.

Setting aside the rather galling implication that a border wall constitutes a serious solution to one of the United States’ most important problems today, one might reasonably understand why titling an email “They’re bringing drugs…” would upset people and lead to students expressing concern — which is exactly what happened.

What cannot be reasonably understood is why, two days later, the College Republicans announced that the event had been postponed, citing “serious security concerns.” If there had been legitimate security threats made, then the College and local police would have been involved in the postponement decision — which, as this newspaper reported yesterday, was not the case.

In fact, as College Republicans secretary Griffin Mackey ’21 told The Dartmouth, the decision to cancel was made because the group determined it did not have the budget or time to secure security resources.

So maybe this was all one big mix-up, in which the College Republicans sent out a provocative email to campus that was misconstrued by students concerned about the event. But that would not explain why the leadership of the College Republicans then told a right-wing news outlet that the event was postponed due to “a possible violent response by left-wing campus activists” at a campus with “a large contingent of radical leftists,” in the words of then-College Republicans chairman Daniel Bring ’21.

This version of events has since spread to a few other right-wing websites, all of which tell the same story about liberal intolerance for free speech and conservative ideas on college campuses. Yet missing from any of these accounts — or from the College Republicans themselves — is any proof that there was a serious threat of violence from members of the Dartmouth College Democrats or others directed toward the event or Mr. Messner.

Much to his discredit, Messner has fullthroatedly embraced the right-wing narrative that

he was silenced campus “leftists.” “.@DartRepublicans were forced to cancel my appearance due to the militant stance of the Dartmouth College Dems,” Messner’s campaign posted on Twitter Tuesday evening. “Security threats demonized free speech at an institution of higher learning. Stop liberal censorship!”

The tweet, already on shaky grounds in terms of veracity — the College Democrats never made any sort of “militant stance” toward Messner — links to a page on Messner’s campaign website with a large photo of Mr. Messner, with his mouth covered with a black box with the word “SILENCED” written in white letters.

“Liberals have taken over higher learning and have officially CANCELLED my appearance,” the page reads. “Help stop liberal censorship on campuses across the country by signing below.”

Strong believers in the First Amendment then need only to provide their name, email address and ZIP code and click on a button proclaiming “DEMAND FREE SPEECH!” But the threat of violence must have subsided, as Messner braved the snows of New Hampshire and made the trek to Hanover on Wednesday, where he filmed a brief video apparently taken on the Green.

“The First Amendment applies to everybody,” Messner declared in the video, which his campaign posted on Twitter. “And shouting down and intimidating people so they can’t exercise their First Amendment rights is absolutely wrong. We will fight this battle. We will fight it hard.”

This editorial board would be the first to agree with Mr. Messner about the freedom of speech — after all, the First Amendment is the lifeblood of any newspaper. But the “battle” he is fighting is a rather pathetic attempt to spin a controversy out of something that, for all we can tell, did not actually happen.

Taking advantage of dubious controversies to promote free speech cheapens the cause of free speech. By casting himself as the victim of a supposed conspiracy, Messner cynically abused the cause of free speech to further his own campaign.

But we do hope that Mr. Messner comes to campus to speak — it’s his right to do so.

Nonetheless, Messner’s campaign antics — ranging from misrepresentations to blatant lies — are unbecoming of a candidate for the United States Senate. And the College Republicans’ evident attempt to stir up trouble is a sad reminder of just how far our political culture has fallen.

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Dick’s House has resources for mental health, but challenges exist FROM MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 1

contains an apparent testimony from a student in which the student says that they were told to call local providers, look up their insurance and organize their own transport — a solution the alleged student said was the College “giving [them] the hardest possible task and telling [them] to suck it up.”

However, Dick’s House counselors told The Dartmouth that, in conjunction with other initiatives and student organizations, there is a range of mental health resources for students on campus.

Counseling Center director Heather Earle said that she sees the counseling center as consisting of two branches: counseling and outreach.

She added that counseling focuses on individuals and that outreach encompasses 300 hours on campus per term.

Dick’s House psychologist Bryant Ford also added that Dick’s House has started numerous initiatives with the goal of spreading awareness of mental health on campus. One of these initiative is called Campus Connect, a peer education program that aims to address suicide prevention.

“It really builds from sort of teaching people how to develop empathy for people who might be in

a crisis,” Ford said.

Ford added that Dick’s House, in collaboration with the Student Wellness Center, has other initiatives that can provide students with knowledge about general mental health topics, which can include anxiety, depression, eating disorders and substance abuse.

While Earle said that Dick’s House is actively trying to assist students with mental illnesses, there are many challenges.

“In an ideal world, it would be great if we could do long-term therapy with any student that wants to, right?” Earle said. “You know, we don’t live in an ideal world, and we serve the whole campus community.”

Earle said that for Dick’s House to serve the entire student population, the Counseling Center has to provide short-term therapy, as opposed to long-term counseling. However, Earle added that Dick’s House does not have a policy that limits how many appointments a student is limited to.

“We don’t put a tie, we don’t say you can only have six or eight or 12,” Earle said. “You know, we try to stay away from that and let the clinician and client look at figuring that out themselves.”

Earle said that directors and clinicians at all colleges and universities

would like to do more long-term work with students, but are unable to due to limited resources and high demand.

However, Earle added that Dick’s House does offer a form of long-term counseling in the shape of group counseling.

Fo rd s a i d t h at u n l i m i t e d psychotherapy provided by the College would be impossible to do.

However, he said he believes that many students are unaware of other things the College does to address student mental health.

“I think for many students, they will hear about what they think Dartmouth does through friends or peers, but may not really understand some of the processes that are going on, not only with the health service, but other places on campus that are involved in mental health advocacy,” Ford said.

Both Earle and Ford said they were concerned that some students may be unaware of all the mental health resources available on campus.

Members of the Mental Health Student Union also expressed the same concern.

Mental Health Student Union vice president Brian Kim ’23 said that turnout for the MHSU program Late Night Solace — a peer support program in which students can talk to volunteers who have undergone

over 30 hours of training — is still low. However, Kim added that Late Night Solace has only existed for three terms and that MHSU is currently focused on increasing their presence on campus.

“I think most students here don’t even know this club exists,” said MHSU secretary Pulkit Nagpal ’23.

“So, we want our student peer support program out in the open.”

Earle said that the MSHU is helping make mental health resources more widely accessible. Earle added that as of right now, both the counselors at Dick’s House and the MHSU are working on making the College an environment where mental illness can be openly talked about — an initiative that Ford supports.

“I would love places and opportunities for people to really be able to talk about some of these issues,” Ford said. “One, to destigmatize it, and to really correct some of the misperceptions [that] are happening on campus regarding not only mental services, but mental health advocacy.”

Nagpal said that he would like to introduce an online course for mental health resources, similar to AlcoholEDU and the Sexual Violence Prevention Project — courses that incoming students must complete

before orientation.

Both Earle and Ford said they supported that idea, with Ford adding that it could be helpful for students to know the breadth of mental health resources available to them on campus.

Sports psychology director Mark Hiatt said that student-athletes are also bringing mental health into public conversation through an initiative called “D-stigmatized,” which will launch in the near future.

Hiatt said that athletes are perhaps less likely to access mental health services and that some current studentathletes are “trying to destigmatize that and promote mental health and wellness among student-athletes.”

Both the MSHU and the counselors at Dick’s House expressed hope for the evolving ways in which the College will tackle student mental health in the future.

“I will say one of the things that I really appreciate about Dartmouth students is no matter how much they may have some grievances against mental health services; the students are involved,” Ford said. “I am always amazed at how students are willing to sort of look after one another.”

The individual or group behind the poster in Novack did not respond to requests for comment.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Talk: “Politics of In/Visibility: Solidarity and Justice Across Borders.”

Sponsored by the Dartmouth Centers Forum, Haldeman 41.

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Performance: “Broken Treaty Reading,” with Gina Adams. Sponsored by the Hood Museum.

6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Talk: “Merge and Prosper,” with Taylor Ho Bynum and Filippo Ciabatti.

Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Top of the Hop.

7:30 p.m. – 10:15 p.m.

Film: “National Theatre in HD: ‘All My Sons.’” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium.

7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Performance: “Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra with guests Coast Jazz Orchestra.” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium.

8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Performance: “The Sweet Science of Bruising,” by Joy Wilkinson.

Sponsored by the Theater Department, Moore Theater.

TOMORROW 8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Talk: “2020 Camden Conference: The Media Revolution: Changing the World.” Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, Auditorium H.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Tour: “Hood Highlights.” Sponsored by the Hood Museum.

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Film: “Bombshell.” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Visual Arts Center Loew Auditorium. Also screening 8:00pm - 10:00pm.

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Talk: “Pre-Show Panel Discussion: Victorian Morality and Reality in 19th Century London,” with playwright Joy Wilkinson and professor Carolyn Dever. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Theater Department, Top of the Hop.

7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Performance: “Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra with guests Coast Jazz Orchestra.” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium.

8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Performance: “The Sweet Science of Bruising,” by Joy Wilkinson.

Sponsored by the Theater Department, Moore Theater.

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Spotlight: Christina Seely addresses climate crisis in new exhibit B y Zoe Chen

The Dartmouth

Studio art professor Christina Seely’s work puts art into an ongoing dialogue about climate change. Her new solo exhibition “Dissonance,” currently showing at Jaffe Friede and Strauss Galleries in the Hopkins Center until March 6, intertwines her affair with the Arctic with the urgency of the climate crisis.

Her exhibition includes several projects, including “Markers of Time,” “Next of Kin,” “Species Impact,” “Terra Systema” and “Perdita,” as well as a video piece also entitled “Dissonance.”

“Each project reflects a facet or lens of change. Every project builds off the previous,” Seely said.

All of the pieces work together to highlight the complexities of the contemporary human relationship with the natural world. The striking beauty of each piece both showcases and obscures the reality of an ever-evolving landscape, globally shaped by the effects of human actions. Seely confronts the viewer, intimately and spectacularly, with the dark truth. And even though such realities lie thousands of miles away from the gallery, her artwork offers an opportunity to witness them up close.

“Marker s of Time” of fer s sharp juxtapositions that reveal how jarring the impacts of human action have been on natural cycles in the Arctic. Meanwhile, “Species Impact” takes advantage of the daguerreotype medium to reflect the extreme losses of the sixth mass extinction.

“I’m excited to see how [Seely’s] work has been evolving ... especially with her use of film and video,” said Jessica Hong, associate curator

of global contemporary art at with the natural world and love I the Hood Museum. “I’m really have for that place. Hopefully, that interested in the gallery and the translates as dissonance for the museum space being this really viewer.” potent, at times fraught, mediated With the footage, Seely sought to site of quiet, the slow looking.” translate her own understanding of Through a single-channel video the surroundings with the audience, featuring various scenes from Seely’s providing a “visceral, multi-sensory trip to Greenland experience in 2019, that’s so hard “ D i s s o n a n c e ” “I feel like because of to explain.” encaptures the the scale of the Arctic Her focus was viewer with get into the and what’s happening to footage of audience’s body, climate change, is so hard to translate to give viewers depicting shards that I’ve started to the experience of melting ice of having this j u x t a p o s e d think about my body emotional against a as a conduit.” r e a c t i o n . background of Inherently, she meltwater. said, she fails.

“In the last -CHRISTINA SEELY, STUDIO But she succeeds year or so, there’s ART PROFESSOR in providing a been a real sense scale for just how of urgency about imminent and what’s happening, and I feel it and sizeable the reality is — and just I know it in my body in a way that how vulnerable we are. a lot of people don’t,” Seely said.

Seely draws inspiration from “I’ve carried with me this really her passion for her surroundings; deep change and it’s very obvious her process entails full immersion there in Greenland.” in locations like Greenland and In “Dissonance” specifically, Panama. For a previous project Seely said she wanted to do titled “Lux,” Seely moved to the something different. Through Arctic by herself to witness the having the body positioned in front phenomenon of perpetual day of the view, Seely adds a dimension and night, investigating humanity’s that allows the viewer to exist within relationship with time. the frame of the work, immersed in During these trips, Seely said every breath and footstep. she focuses on gathering material “I feel like because the scale of to archive for future projects, the Arctic and of what’s happening often experimenting as she goes. is so hard to translate that I’ve As she has developed as an artist, started to think about my body as a she has also developed a lengthy conduit — so for the viewer there’s relationship with the region over a kind of emotional connection an especially “complicated time t h at ’s p o s s i bl e, ” S e e l y s a i d . and intense moment of change.” “[“Dissonance” is] about trying to Seely said her devotion to the find that uncomfortability, but also North has continuously informed this sort of real, deep connection the subjects of her artwork.

“I have this love affair with the climate change.” arctic in particular. I’m enamored Dartmouth and Harvard are with it — it’s magical. It’s other- not alone in their efforts to have worldly.” The same sense of more conscious art exhibits, as “enchantment and surrealness” is many colleges are trying to meet something she said she hopes to the growing demand for art as a captivate and share with the viewer. medium for social change.

S e e l y ’s w o rk i s n o t o n l y “I’ve noticed on campus there’s a e s t h e t i c a l l y i n t r i g u i n g a n d been an increase in attention for emotionally present, but politically environmental issues related to potent as well. With the effects of consumption, climate change, climate change becoming more and our imprint on the landscape,” more evident, she documents this Hong said. “Christina has been transformation in her art. contending with [climate change] “Art can be a very important throughout her entire practice.” bridge ... [it is] a very important space Seely said that the College has of mediation also encouraged b e t w e e n her to bring her d i f f e r e n t “Art can be a very climate change disciplines and important bridge ... [it exhibition to ways of seeing campus. t h e w o r l d , ” is] a very important “I’ve said art history space of mediation had a massive professor Chad amount of between different Elias. Elias said s u p p o r t f ro m he was inspired disciplines and ways of the Institute of to org anize a seeing the world.”

Arctic Studies symposium and the sciences entitled “Futures in particular ...

Uncertain” after -CHAD ELIAS, ART My involvement seeing Seely’s with the Institute HISTORY PROFESSOR exhibition “Next of Arctic Studies of Kin” at the has been one of Harvard Museum of Natural History. the most important aspects of my The symposium investigated artistic time at Dartmouth,” Seely said. responses to the anthropocene and Seely also acknowledged how aimed to put art into dialogue with relevant it is to bring these current the scientists, engaging the two in issues to a college setting and an institutional space. expressed how touched she is to “We don’t just leave it up to have had her artwork be so well scientists to get their messages out received. to the wider public,” Elias said.

“I’ve been really moved by “I think it’s a real challenge for the reactions of my students and scientists at the moment because students in general. It’s been a really their knowledge is very specialized beautiful exchange to have my work and we’re operating in a media on campus,” Seely said. “It feels like landscape. I don’t think you can just my work has real weight and is doing leave it up to just the scientists to something. It gets to have a life and communicate the urgency around I think that is really important.”

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Softball team, boosted by strong returning lineup, kicks off season

B y Caitlyn Mcgovern The Dartmouth Staff

T he softball team will be beginning its season this weekend as it travels to Charleston, SC to compete in the Charleston Classic. The team will be playing in five games between Feb. 21 and Feb. 23, competing against No. 25 Virginia Tech, Charleston Southern University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ohio University, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

The Big Green welcomed six freshmen to the softball team this year: Maria Angelino ’23, Kate Farren ’23, Maddie Katona ’23, Regan Weekly ’23 and Walker Wicklund ’23. Head coach Jen Williams is enthusiastic about the way they’ve each integrated themselves into and impacted the group so far.

“They bring a lot of energy,” Williams said. “They bring a lot of competitive fire, which is great.

They also bring a lot of talent — it’s a very, very talented group. And they’ve really been great about integrating seamlessly with the team, really letting themselves be supported by the team, throwing themselves into what the team does together on and off the field, so really they’ve just been a fantastic addition to what we’re doing both on and off the field.”

Infielder Calista Almer ’20 said she has also seen the positive impact of the ’23s so far this season.

“The ’23s came in in the best shape that a class has come in since I’ve been here, and I think they’re competitive and good teammates,” Almer said. “They understand

the importance of fitness and challenging each other, and I think the competition they bring in has been pushing a lot of the upperclassmen because it’s always a fight to outplay one another. It’s a really healthy competition and they’ve created this really healthy, competitive atmosphere on the team of being supportive but also wanting to be the best one out there.”

While there are new additions, the team also boasts a strong retur ning lineup. Powerhouse second baseman Micah Schroder ’20 will be returning for her fourth and final season with the Big Green.

In 2019 alone, she earned the title of Ivy League Player of the Year and was unanimously named First Team All-Ivy, in addition to getting a spot on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-Region First Team. In the same year, she shattered the record for Dartmouth’s single season batting average, hitting .473, and she also recorded the most RBIs in a single season in the program’s history.

Schroder was recently named to the USA Softball Player of the Year Watch List as well, and was the only player from the Ivy League to earn a spot on the list.

Schroder said is enthusiastic to play one last season for the Big Green.

“I think as a whole this season I’m personally just looking forward to having one more year of softball with the team that we have,” she said. “It’s been the most I’ve enjoyed playing with a group because everyone has bought in. I think that with the culture that we have going this year, whatever happens we’re going to be successful in what we want to do with our season.”

Pitcher Shelby Wilkison ’21 will not be returning to the team this year, and pitching recruit Mia Bagatourian ’23 has stepped away from the team as well. There are now four pitchers in the Big Green’s pitching staff: Madie Augusto ’22, Brooke Plonka ’22, Heather Turner ’21 and Bryce West ’22. While Plonka, West and Augusto were staples on the mound last year, Turner was unable to throw last season as she was recovering from an injury and is currently recovering from a new one.

“We have a lot of talent in the pitching staff and they will be learning very quickly, both in games and out of them, how to take on

those challenges and how to go out and go after every team that they’re facing,” Williams said.

Almer is also confident in the team’s ability to step up this season.

“We’re all around pretty solid but I think fitness wise our strength is going to help us with hitting a lot this year,” Almer said. “I think we’re going to be contenders at the plate and our hitting lineup is going to be really competitive — it’s going to be hard to choose a starting line-up because everyone is hitting so well right now.”

Schroder remarked that the team’s current culture will also play a role in its success. “ We h av e a r e a l l y g o o d

transformation team culture this year,” she said. “What I’ve already seen from the fall and preseason is we don’t really have any failures or setbacks. Every time something happens, we just find a way to grow from it and make it better.”

In her final season, Schroder has an important goal: to be the best teammate possible.

“My main goal is just to be a good teammate,” she said. “I think that’s something I’ve set out for since freshman year and something that I continuously have to work for, and everybody has setbacks but my own personal goal is to just to be a great teammate. That’s all I can ask for myself this season.”

COURTESY OF MICAH SCHRODER

The softball team will look for a boost from 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year Micah Schroder.