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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
The Dartmouth announces its 177th directorate
B y CAITLIN MCCARTHY The Dartmouth Staff
T h i s s p r i n g, R a c h e l Pakianathan ’21 and Lydia Yeshitla ’21 will take up the mantles of editor-inchief and publisher of The Dartmouth, respectively. Pakianathan, an economics and philosophy double major from Plainsboro, NJ, began writing for the news section in her freshman fall. She was an associate managing editor in the winter and spring of 2019 and an editor of the
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Campus Climate and Culture Initiative director Theodosia Cook will leave the College on April 10 to become the chief diversity officer at the University of Colorado. The news of her departure comes less than a year after she took the job in March 2019. “WearepleasedforTheodosia
College, Dartmouth community grapple with risk of coronavirus
Homecoming special issue in fall 2018. Pakianathan will succeed outgoing editor-inchief Debora Hyemin Han ’20. Yeshitla is an economics m a j o r f r o m Fr a n k l i n Lakes, NJ. She has been a member of the marketing, analytics and technology staff since her freshman year, although it was called the communications and marketing staff until the fall of 2019. Yeshitla is replacing SEE DIRECTORATE PAGE 3
C3I director appointed chief diversity officer at University of Colorado B y AMAR SCHERZER
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and wish her the very best in her exciting and well-deserved new role in Colorado,” College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email statement. Cook said that she was impressed that one of the four major pillars of CU’s strategic plan focuses on diversity, inclusion, equity and access. Cook said that because this SEE COOK PAGE 3
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A high-level College task force meets daily to manage possible disruptions due to the coronavirus.
B y AMBER BHUTTA, ALEKA KROITZSH AND COALTER PALMER The Dartmouth Staff
In response to the recent exposure of members of the Dartmouth community to novel coronavirus, the College is grappling with how to manage and respond to the virus and its potential risks to more individuals. At the same time, students and community members are dealing with the reality of possible changes to everyday life. In a campus-wide update sent out yesterday afternoon, Geisel School of Medicine professor and dean for global health Lisa Adams MED ’90 and vice president for
institutional projects Josh Keniston — who are cochairing a task force to manage possible disruptions related to the coronavirus outbreak — announced that a Tuck School of Business graduate student had been experiencing “flulike symptoms” after attending an event at The Engine Room at which the first DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center employee to test positive for coronavirus was present. To mitigate risk, Adams and Keniston wrote that Tuck had decided to cancel its last day of class. The Engine Room owner Brandon Fox said that he received a call on March 3 informing him that the DHMC employee who had contracted
coronavirus had been at an event at the venue on Feb. 28, despite specific instruction to avoid contact with others. Fox added that he has spoken to both the Vermont and New Hampshire health departments as well as the Centers for Disease Control, which confirmed that no one else who attended the event with the coronavirus patient has been directed to selfquarantine, though everyone is being directed to self-monitor. An earlier email, sent to campus by Adams and Keniston on March 4, further informed the community that after the first DHMC employee broke advice to self-isolate SEE CORONAVIRUS PAGE 5
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Chabad executive director becomes certified Holocaust educator B y IOANA ANDRADA PANTELIMON The Dartmouth
Chabad executive director and Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray became a certified Holocaust educator for college campuses earlier this year. His certification followed his participation alongside other Chabad rabbis in an intensive week-long seminar at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial for the Holocaust. According to Gray, this was the first time Yad Vashem organized a program geared toward one specific organization: Chabad. “About a year ago, Yad Vashem approached Chabad with the opportunity to put together a cohort of rabbis and rebbetzins, rabbi wives, to do one of their seminars,” Gray said. “For Yad Vashem to offer — for the first time — one organization the chance to send
30 of their rabbis to study the Holocaust was a unique experiment from Yad Vashem’s point of view and an unique opportunity from Chabad’s point of view.” Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish Chasidic movement, traditionally does not focus on the Holocaust, according to Gray. “Quite frankly, in the last 20 years of my adult life, the Holocaust wasn’t [a topic] I particularly delved into in meaningful ways,” Gray said. “[The Yad Vashem seminar] was an opportunity to really do that.” Beyond the rabbi’s personal education, Gray said the goal of participating in this seminar was to reach students Chabad would not otherwise be able to reach. “[The Holocaust] is a very powerful subject matter to a lot of people; they identify to their Judaism through it,” Gray said. Gray said he is hoping to connect
CORRECTIONS Correction appended (March 5, 2020): The March 3 article “A Look into the Opioid Epidemic in the Upper Valley” originally stated the DHMC offers a needle exchange service called Project 439 in Lebanon, but Project 439 is no longer active. This article also referred to a “recovery clinic” known as “Recover.” However, syringe service programs are not recovery clinics. The online version of this article has been updated to more accurately reflect the state of services offered. We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.
what he learned at Yad Vashem with Chabad programming on campus through discussions that will focus on the ties between Judaism and resilience through tragedy. “We see a rise in anti-Semitism, we see holocaust denial; two-thirds of American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz is,” Gray said. “The focus would be not to educate people on the Holocaust, but to see the light in the darkness — the idea of time and Jewish resistance, [because] Jewish history is full of tragic moments.” At the College, the Jewish studies program offers classes on the Holocaust, according to program chair Susannah Heschel. Heschel added that some history and government classes also focus on the Holocaust. Heschel said that there are many reasons why Holocaust education is valuable, which starts from answering the question of who we
are as human beings. According to Heschel, the lessons drawn from the tragedy of the Holocaust should be used as the basis of “active political concer n” and applied against contemporary threats. “It’s striking how many millions of people visit the Holocaust museum in Washington every year,” Heschel said. “Obviously, only a small percentage are Jewish, but people go there because they are horrified by what human beings are capable of inflicting on others.” Heschel said that studying the Holocaust raises questions about the culpability of bystanders, such as the so-called “desk-murderers” responsible for the paperwork that enabled mass murder to occur. Heschel further outlined political reasons for learning about the Holocaust, which includes tying in the Holocaust with the history of anti-Semitism and racism, as well as with the dangers of authoritarianism
and totalitarianism. According to Heschel, scholars were also responsible for contributing to the Holocaust. “Scholars were involved in planning and carrying out the murder of Jews, as well as the murder of disabled German residents — the so-called euthanasia program,” Heschel said. Chabad academic programming chair Benjamin Cape ’22 said that he believes there is “a lot of room” for education about the Holocaust at the College. Cape also added that it would be difficult to implement such an “emotionally-draining” program at the College. “Imagine having a course for 10 weeks just about the Holocaust — that’s not something that can be easily done to a college student who is also taking other demanding courses and needs to be in an emotionally healthy state,” Cape said.
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177th Directorate will Cook created C3I ambassador program begin work spring term FROM COOK PAGE 1
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publisher Aidan Sheinberg ’20. 2020 Editorial Directorate Elizabeth Janowski ’21 will serve as news executive editor and Matthew Magann ’21 will serve as production executive editor. The pair will replace executive editor Alex Fredman ’20. Eileen Brady ’21 and Abby Mihaly ’21 will replace Peter Charalambous ’20 and Anthony Robles ’20 as news managing editors. Chantal Elias ’22 and Callum Zehner ’21 will replace Matthew Magann ’21 and Teddy Hill-Weld ’20 as opinion editors. Florida Huff ’21 and Lauren Segal ’21 will serve as arts editors, replacing Lex Kang ’21 and Lucy Turnipseed ’22. Segal served as arts editor in the fall of 2019. Addison Dick ’22 and Justin Kramer ’21 will continue serving as sports editors, with Lili Stern ’22 ending her tenure. Novi Zhukovsky ’22 will continue serving as Mirror editor, joined by Sarah Alpert ’21. Kylee Sibilia ’20 will end her tenure. Naina Bhalla ’22 will continue serving as photography editor along with Divya Kopalle ’21, who served
as photography editor in the spring and fall of 2019. Lorraine Liu ’22 will end her tenure. William Chen ’22 and Aaron Lee ’22 will continue serving as data visualization editors. Sophie Bailey ’22 will replace Samantha Burack ’20 and Bella Jacoby ’20 as design editor. Grant Pinkston ’23 will continue his tenure as templating editor. Lily Johnson ’21 will serve as social media editor, replacing Eliza Jane Schaeffer ’20. 2020 Business Directorate Tara Krumenacker ’22 will join Jasmine Fu ’21 as an advertising and finance director, replacing Jonathan Fried ’20. Bruna Decerega ’21 and Olivia Gomez ’22 will replace Albert Chen ’20 and Eleanor Niedermayer ’20 as strategy directors. Kate Bennett ’22 will join Kai Sherwin ’21 as business development directors, replacing Himadri Narasimhamurthy ’20. Halle Dantas ’21 and Robert Doherty ’22 will serve as marketing, analytics and technology directors, replacing Vinay Reddy ’20 and Eric Zhang ’20. Selina Noor ’22 will become the assistant director of this section, replacing Franklin Goldszer ’20.
pillar would directly intersect with the work she would be leading, she saw a unique opportunity to fully realize her goals. Additionally, Cook said that appreciated CU’s data-driven approach to diversity and inclusion. “That was transformative … these types of opportunities don’t come about often,” Cook said. “It was difficult because how do I leave this space, Dartmouth being my home. But a comparable opportunity may not come for another 10 years.” Cook said that compared to Dartmouth, the University of Colorado system has already taken certain concrete steps that would allow her vision to be efficiently implemented. At Dartmouth, Cook said that she experienced some barriers when advancing some of C3I’s recommendations. She cited a lack of communication and difficulties with transcending the hierarchical nature of the institution, both of which resulted in a tendency of people “to be working with the best intentions, but in complete silo.” Cook said she hopes that moving forward, communication at the College across department levels — and between departments themselves — will be enhanced. “As C3I director, I have never worked in silo,” Cook said. “I am very proud of my work with colleagues across this institution and having a multifaceted team to bring to the table.
I’ve been working on breaking down those power differentials and those barriers. Basically saying, ‘You from this department, you from this department, you both also deserve a place at this table. We should be building things together. I am seeing a cultural shift in that respect.” C3I was launched in January 2019 to address issues of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. It was structured on recommendations from a 2018 National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report addressing sexual harassment at institutions such as colleges and universities. The initiative came in the aftermath of a class action lawsuit against the College alleging the poor handling of sexual misconduct by three former psychological and brain sciences professors. Cook said that she believes her work for C3I will continue because much of her work been collaborative. For example, she said that she created one of her most prominent initiatives — the C3I Ambassador Program — with eight other co-facilitators. The Ambassador Program is comprised of 17 faculty and staff members who will work in their respective departments to reduce gender bias through gender bias training. Provost Joseph Helble said that another one of Cook’s achievements during her time as C3I director was her bringing a group from the University
of Michigan to campus to initiate leadership development training. He added that Cook has also worked with an external advisory committee to inform them about C3I’s progress. “Over the first year of the initiative, the emphasis has been on … things like mandatory sexual harassment training for all members of the community, revision of our sexual misconduct policies and procedures, initiating academic department climate reviews, the launch of leadership development programs, the launch of an external advisory committee and expansion of the Title IX office,” Helble said. One of the distinguishing features of C3I compared to other Dartmouth initiatives is C3I’s focus on helping faculty, staff and students understand the specific harm of gender bias, according to Cook. “Other initiatives have gender bias as a part of what they do; C3I highlights it,” Cook said. “It also highlights power differentials: director to administrative assistant, professor to student. Again, Dartmouth is very hierarchical, and we want to make sure this isn’t harmful to our constituents.” According to Cook, another distinguishing quality of C3I is its focus on graduate students, which is “a population that we can sometimes forget about.” Cook said she also spearheaded changes to graduate student orientation. This past year, students were onboarded in a new format to ensure that they are aware of the resources available to them, according to Cook. As she prepares to leave, Cook said that she is hopeful for the future of C3I. According to Helble, the program’s interim director will soon be announced, and a search for a successor will be announced subsequently. Cook is hopeful C3I will be “embedded into the veins” of institutions at Dartmouth. “All leaders should learn about the harm of gender bias, power differentials and not having an inclusive environment,” Cook said. “I hope we operate as one Dartmouth from the top all the way down, and are not afraid to take steps that have some groups looking like ‘What are you doing?’ Because we know we have a more diverse tomorrow.”
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THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD
Verbum Ultimum: Wash Your Hands
Campus must take precautions without causing panic, insensitivity or xenophobia.
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The coronavirus is here. What for so long seemed like something far away — in Wuhan, then the rest of China, then Korea and Italy and Iran — has made its presence clear in the Upper Valley. Two employees at DHMC have come down with COVID-19, the new coronavirus that has the world watching with bated breath. What’s more, New Hampshire’s patient zero ignored advice to self-quarantine and attended a Tuck School of Business social event last Friday, meaning that some number of community members may have been exposed to the virus. It’s easy to get nervous as the statistics slowly creep up hour by hour and day by day. The United States has now seen over 100 confirmed cases and 11 deaths from the virus — and the coronavirus now seems to be spreading through the community. Around campus, students seem to alternate between two reactions: dismissal and panic. Neither one is especially useful, and it’s on all of us to deal with this outbreak responsibly. We’d be wrong to dismiss the coronavirus outbreak — it’s approaching a pandemic, and many health experts reason that 40 to 70 percent of the world’s population could contract the virus. Though mortality rates remain hard to pin down, they may exceed one percent even when undiagnosed mild cases are accounted for. For context, the infamous Spanish Flu of 1918 — the worst pandemic in recent history, which left at least 50 million people dead — had a mortality rate of around 2.5 percent. Of course, that’s a worst-case scenario, and the coronavirus will in all likelihood prove far less lethal. At this stage, predictions are hard to make with any accuracy. For Dartmouth students, the implications of the outbreak are numerous. Notably, several foreign study abroad programs are in danger of being cancelled, leaving students unaware of their spring term plans with just a week left of winter. For many, this puts them in the impossible situation of deciding between a last-minute off term or another term on campus and the hope that enough housing can be made available to compensate for their adjusted plans. Regardless of which way it plays out, the uncertainty catalyzed by the outbreak is a serious difficulty in and of itself. But since we can’t control how the virus spreads or predict it with much accuracy, what we can do is exhibit common decency in the wake of potential widespread disfunction. Part of
that means taking simple precautions. Health experts emphasize constant hand-washing, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, avoiding physical contact with others and taking precautions when you feel sick. It can’t hurt to stay in and do work during reading period rather than going out with your friends. Part of it also means remaining aware that creating a paradigm of susceptibility based on age is not accurate or helpful. While the elderly are more likely to get the virus, people with compromised immune systems or other medical conditions are also uniquely vulnerable, and these people span all ages and are on this campus. Joking about the fact that “some of us” will most likely be fine if we’re infected is not helpful for people who are actually at risk. The best thing to do is to be mindful of the fact that you could be a victim or a carrier, and that maintaining your personal hygiene is good for yourself and those around you. Exhibiting common decency and avoiding selfish decisionmaking is critical for mitigating the spread of the virus, especially within such concentrated quarters as a college campus. In the end, one of the most detrimental effects of the novel coronavirus is the potential for fear to motivate bigotry and hatred as the virus spreads. Asian Americans have been harassed in public and online, including a Los Angeles middle-schooler who was beaten and hospitalized after classmates accused him of carrying the virus. A fake flier pretending to come from the World Health Organization warned community members to avoid Asian American restaurants in order to stay healthy. One man in New York City was aggressively sprayed with Febreeze simply for standing too close to someone else on the train. None of these incidents had any legitimate grounding, but we must be wary of the potential for fear to be directed toward people who are different from us. Ultimately, the coronavirus is something that we all must take seriously. But sincerity and panic are not equivalent, and neither are precautionary measures and xenophobia. We have a duty to ourselves and our communities to not only take care of ourselves but to look out for those around us and be mindful of those who are at risk. This is true for all places around the world, but starts in smaller communities like our campus. The editorial board consists of the opinion editors, the executive editor and the editor-in-chief.
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by attending the event, a second DHMC employee tested positive for coronavirus, and four Geisel students had been identified as close contacts to this employee. The email went on to state that the College has decided to cancel student international programming over spring break and plans to come out with a decision later in the week on school-sponsored, longer-term travel. According to College provost Joseph Helble, the task force chaired by Adams and Keniston has been “charged with assessing the situation, assessing the decisions that Dartmouth needs to make based on guidance from the authorities and their own assessment of risk and then making recommendations to me that potentially impact operations for Dartmouth.” Helble added that the decision to cancel Tuck classes was made independently by Tuck leadership. “It wasn’t a central administrative decision,” Helble said. “It was a decision that the Tuck leadership made out of an abundance of caution.” He noted that a number of factors had influenced Tuck’s decision to close. Helble explained that the College and the task force are working with New Hampshire officials to handle cases of potential exposure. “We have cooperated with the state to make sure that they have names and contact information for the individuals who attended, and we help facilitate contact,” Helble said. Helble said that these determinations of medical risk are being made by state health officials, with guidance from the CDC, independently of the task force. The task force’s responsibilities include determining whether to bring students home early from off-campus programs, decisions about springterm off-campus programs, spring international travel and the logistics of handling housing and education for study abroad program students in the case that their program is cancelled, according to Helble.
Helble said that the College is committed to making a decision by the end of the week about whether spring-term study abroad programs will be cancelled. A sub-group on the task force is dedicated to exploring options for student accommodations in the case cancellation is necessary, according to Helble. “I mean physical accommodations — how can you live here in the community — and then how do we make sure that your education can continue,” Helble said. “And so if we make a decision to cancel some or many of our off-campus programs, our intention is to answer these questions.” Another sub-group of the task force is working through questions of how to manage potential situations where students living on campus have to self-isolate, according to Helble. He added that these are challenging questions given that students, staff and faculty share facilities. Helble added that while Dartmouth is discouraging international travel, it is not within the College’s power to prohibit it. As of now, Helble said, the task force is asking students to inform the College should they travel to any high-risk regions. Additionally, Helble said that the College expects anyone traveling to countries with CDC Level 2 or 3 advisories to self-isolate for 14 days before returning to campus. Christopher Candelora ’22, who was participating in the Italian LSA+ study abroad program in Rome, said he learned that the remainder of the program had been canceled on Feb. 26. According to Candelora, the decision was made by Dartmouth’s Guarini Institute for International Education because of concerns that travel bans from Italy would prevent students from returning home. According to Candelora, since returning to the United States, the program has continued remotely. He said that this has been a “little tough,” considering that students are no longer able to practice speaking Italian around-the-clock. On March 4, Adams and Keniston sent a campus-wide email directing students who had traveled to high-risk countries to self-quarantine for 14
days after their arrival in the United States. Because he had been home since Feb. 28, Candelora said that he had already been “out and about” and had visited with his grandparents, but started to self-quarantine once he received the email. The spread of coronavirus in Europe has also rendered spring term academic plans uncertain for a number of students, including Campbell Whalen ’22. Originally scheduled to leave for the Spanish LSA in Barcelona on March 14, Whalen said that she is now awaiting further communication from the College about the status of the program. “I have received information from my professor who is already in Spain and says that it’s fine,” Whalen said. “But I haven’t received any information from the College ... We keep getting emails saying that they will inform us soon.” Whalen said that creating a contingency plan in case the College cancels the program has been difficult, especially when considering oncampus housing and course selection. She added that despite the potential difficulties that a cancellation would cause, she believes that the College should postpone the trip. “The Barcelona LSA is supposed to start on March 15, which is really, really soon, and everything is so up in the air,” Campbell said. “I think that they should at least postpone it until after spring break just to see how things go.” Concerns about the coronavirus are not limited to students whose spring term plans will be affected by the College’s response. Faculty members such as English and creative writing professor Nancy Crumbine also expressed concern about the presence of the virus on campus. “I’m of a certain age, and that’s a risk factor,” Crumbine said. “I’ve gotten some supplies in case we’re quarantined. I’m washing my hands all the time, and I’m trying to not touch my face, and those are the two most important things. I’m not hugging people and trying to keep a social distance.” As many community members
have similarly attempted to purchase supplies, both hand sanitizer and face masks are out of stock and few bottles of Lysol disinfectant spray remain on the shelves at the Hanover CVS. At Collis Market, hand sanitizer is also currently out of stock. Crumbine said that she has also spent time during her classes advising students to take precautions to protect themselves from the virus and to “take it seriously.” “There’s a lot of anxiety floating around — some of it from rumors and some of it legitimate,” Crumbine said. “It’s complicated, because even if you’re young and healthy, you’re going home to parents and grandparents. Even if you’re not at risk, you could be a carrier ... You do have to pay attention to [the virus] even if you’re not personally fearful of it.” Crumbine added that she also urged her students to read the College’s email about traveling abroad over spring break and “think ahead about their plans and how [those plans] would affect coming back to campus.” One such student who had plans to go abroad over the break is Jane Bryan ’23. Bryan had originally planned to travel to Spain during the break, but the spread of coronavirus in Europe and quarantine advisories issued by
the College caused her to cancel her trip. “It makes sense, especially more for the community than just for the students,” Bryan said. “We have a lot of at-risk people in our population, and this much international travel has a very high likelihood of bringing [the virus] to campus after the break.” Addressing rumors of potential spring-term course cancellation, Helble said that the College currently does not plan to cancel spring term classes. However, according to Helble, the task force includes an Information, Technology and Consulting group and incorporates the online learning capabilities of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning to answer the question of how content would be delivered to students in the event that classes cannot be held in person. “The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic hit colleges and universities hard … Dartmouth has through the century given thought to what to do, how to manage the logistics, if a disruption like that were to happen again,” Helble said. “That doesn’t mean that people are stockpiling supplies, that doesn’t mean that we’re on the verge of cancelling — it simply means that there’s prudent long-term planning that’s going on.”
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 7:30 p.m. — 10:30 p.m.
Performance: “Dartmouth Idol Finals.” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium.
7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.
Game: “Men’s Ice Hockey VS Princeton.” Thompson Arena.
8:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m.
Viewing: “Public Astronomical Observing,” sponsored by the Department of Physics, Shattuck Observatory.
TOMORROW 11:00 a.m. — 11:45 a.m.
Family Activities: “Storytime in the Galleries.” Sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum.
2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Family Activities: “Family Workshop.” Sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum.
7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.
Athletics: “Men’s Basketball vs. Brown.” Leede Arena.
7:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.
Game: “Men’s Ice Hockey VS Princeton.” Thompson Arena.
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Dartmouth Idol finals to celebrate diversity and collaboration B y Sathvika korandla The Dartmouth
The 13th Dartmouth Idol Finals take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium. Featuring six finalists who were selected out of 29 semi-finalists, the show will include solo performances by each finalist as well as group performances. This year, the show will be hosted by Jake Johnson ’21, Jesse VanNewkirk ’23 and Deby Xiadani ’15. Judges Eni Oyeleye ’20 and Grace Carney ’17 will give feedback to the performers after each piece. At the end of the show, the audience will vote for the winners. The six finalists are Daniel Abate ’23, Summer Cody ’20, Matt Dempsey ’23, Soomin Kim ’20, Molly McQuoid ’23 and Caitlin Wanic ’21. Dartmouth Idol gives students on campus the opportunity to perform and exhibit their individual vocal talents. It also allows students interested in other aspects of show production to be involved — whether it’s through playing in the live orchestra, dancing, performing as a backup vocalist or filming videos that will be played during the show. Walt Cunningham, director and founder of Dartmouth Idol, noted that every year, student involvement in the show has grown, and that this year, the show will feature a 17-piece orchestra and background singers to support the finalists. This year, Dartmouth Idol will be honoring the children’s television show “Sesame Street,” which celebrated its 50th birthday last year. The theme will be incorporated through musical performances and videos. “‘Sesame Street’ was a program
so ahead of its time, because it was all about providing access to early education to socioeconomically disadvantaged people,” Cunningham said. “Additionally, ‘Sesame Street’ was all about diversity of programming and diversity of the casting. It was one of the few shows that had people of different ethnicities and different ages, and celebrated diversity. It has a very similar focus to Dartmouth Idol.” To incor porate this theme, Dartmouth Idol reached out to people in the local community. The finalists filmed a video with students from Bernice A. Ray elementary school in Hanover, in which they all sing songs from Sesame Street. The video will be played during the show. “This video was really cool and fun to do because I like working with kids,” McQuoid said. McQuoid noted that working on these different aspects of the show and production have brought the finalists closer together. Each musician comes from a different background: some have been performing their whole lives and others have never performed this type of show before. Three of the six finalists this year are firstyears. “I hope the biggest thing [the contestants] can take away from it is self-awareness, confidence, an understanding of the value of the collaborative process and most importantly, the value of diversity,” Cunningham said. “If they walk away from the show having an appreciation for each other’s uniqueness and appreciation for what it’s like to put on a production, I think I’ve done my job.” Cody, president of the Dartmouth
Sings, noted that the atmosphere of the show highlights this feeling, which is that Idol is more about coming together through a shared passion for music, rather than competing. “Dartmouth Idol spreads the message of coming together and finding love and family in everyone,” Cody said. “That’s the message that pervades through this year’s show.” Abate, a member of the Dartmouth Aires, noted how preparing with Kim for a group performance has been enjoyable. “I’ve been working quite closely with Soomin, and she is such a joy,” Abate said. “We’re both exploring new realms, so it’s been kind of fun to see how our dynamic would work because we will be in some performances together. We’ve been working on how we can bring out the best in each other.” Similarly, Cody shared how working with McQuoid, who is also
a member of The Sings, has helped them both to grow as musicians. “I’m looking forward to singing with Molly, since we’ll be singing a song together,” Cody said. “She’s in my a cappella group, and she’s a sweetheart and an amazing singer. There’s going to be a lot of fun chemistry on the stage so I’m excited to make that happen.” Dempsey, another finalist and member of the Dartmouth Cords, noted how Dartmouth Idol not only gives students the opportunity to perform with other talented musicians on campus, but also showcase their individual talents through solos. “I’m a bass voice and we don’t get solos all that often. Just being able to perform … it’s a great experience. Even if you don’t solo that often, or don’t perform in front of an audience that often, that’s what Idol is there for,” Dempsey said. “It gives you the opportunity
to be yourself and showcase your own voice and talent. I’ve loved a cappella and glee club, which are very group oriented, but it’s fun to be able to sing for yourself once in a while.” Cunningham works with the performers one-on-one and coaches them through their pieces. He helped them choose songs that fit the theme while also highlighting their vocal strengths. “A show of this size, with this many moving pieces, could not happen without someone like Walt,” Cody said. “I think because there’s so much to do, you run the risk of the person in charge being stressed out and having that energy bleed onto people that are in the show, but he’s always so positive and so happy. It allows the rest of us, the Idols and the rest of the people in the show, to feel despite all of the work that this is going to be a fun show.”
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Track and field teams take sixth and eighth place at Ivy Heps B y Emily lu
The Dartmouth Staff
Since the start of the season, a digital countdown clock had been running inside Leverone Field House, showing the exact number of days, hours, minutes and even seconds until the 2020 Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships meet. The countdown hit zero this weekend as both the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Cornell University to compete at Heps, finishing in sixth and last place, respectively. “The men’s team’s result was probably okay; the women’s team’s result was probably on the disappointing side,” said men’s head coach Barry Harwick ’77. “The Ivy League is an incredibly strong conference in the sport of track and field, so I think everyone approached it with the idea that they were going to be challenged. They worked very hard to make sure they were ready to put their best effort there.” While competing, every Big Green athlete donned a black ribbon on their singlet in honor of women’s track and field head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze, who passed away in December after battling cancer. Ford-Centonze coached the women’s team for 28 seasons and was also honored by the Ivy League before the award ceremony on Sunday. “It was definitely an emotional meet for that reason,” said Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20. “We wanted to do well and have her in our hearts and our minds — just to have her presence be felt at that meet. We all went into it kind of wanting to respect her and honor her legacy.” The first day of Heps featured fewer scored events; for the most part, athletes competed first in a preliminary round on Saturday in hopes of placing in the top eight of their events to qualify for finals on Sunday.
The women’s team earned points in all five events on Saturday to finish the day in seventh. Lily Lockhart ’21 earned the most points with a fourthplace finish in the weight throw, while Rothwell snagged fifth in the long jump. Pole vaulter Julia Valenti ’20, a two-time defending champion, was unable to three-peat and tied for fifth. Both Lauren Sapone ’20 and Anoush Krafian ’22 finished sixth in their respective events of the 3000m run and the pentathlon. The men’s team only scored a point on Saturday after Corbin Mayes ’21 took sixth in the pole vault. Tim Zepf ’21’s time of 1:52.46 in the 800m made him the top qualifier, while Donovan Spearman ’21 finished just one-hundreth of a second back in the 60m. Ahead of the finals on Sunday, five members of the women’s team came down with cases of food poisoning, according to Harwick. He said some of the athletes had to be taken to the hospital for IV drips. “Obviously being that it was out of our control, everyone was just trying to deal with the situation, and people were still going out there competing even though they didn’t feel well,” Rothwell said. “I think it just shows the grit that people had in not wanting to back down even though we did have an unfortunate food poisoning breakout.” Rothwell dominated on the second day of Heps by winning the 60m hurdle event for the fourth year in a row, joining only two other women in the Ivy League who have accomplished the same feat. Her time of 8.31 seconds was her best of the season, propelling her to her sixth Heps indoor championship overall. “This is the kind of race where one little thing coming out of the blocks incorrectly or clipping one hurdle can blow the whole thing up, and when you’re the defending champion, there’s
a lot of people looking at you,” Harwick said. “To win the hurdles for the fourth time really indicates to me what a tremendous competitor she is.” The Big Green earned additional points through third-place finishes from both Camille Landon ’21 in the high jump and Claire Dougherty ’20 in the 800m run. In the 4x800m relay, Lauren Archer ’20, Dougherty, Arianna Gragg ’22 and Anya Hirschfeld ’23 captured fourth. Breanna Glover ’22 and Kathryn Laskoski ’21 each scored a point by placing sixth in their respective events in the mile and the 500m run. The distance medley team of Glover, Danielle Okonta ’20, Lauren Sapone ’20 and Meg Tuthill ’20 also finished sixth. After sitting in last place on Saturday, the men’s team rallied back behind top
finishes in several different events to earn sixth overall. Zepf improved on his time from Saturday, winning the 800m title with a time of 1:51.10 after just coming up short the last two seasons in second place. “My plan was really just to take the lead from the gun and run as fast as I could for 800 meters,” Zepf said. “I was super excited; all the work that me and my teammates and coaches have put in all year — it felt like I had finally put it together.” Joining Zepf in the 800m was teammate Will Baginski ’23, who placed fourth. The Big Green had a strong showing in some of the sprinting events; Spearman took second while Myles Epstein ’23 placed sixth in the 60m. Epstein also nabbed a fifth-place finish
in the 200m run. The men’s team had three fourthplace finishers in individual events: Max Frye ’21 in the 500m, Thomas Lingard ’22 in the 1000m and Quin Cooney TH in the 5000m. Henry Raymond ’20 added a point by getting sixth in the mile. Toward the end of the meet, the Big Green captured more points thanks to a fourth-place finish for the 4x400m group (MJ Farber ’21, Frye, Julian Martelly ’23 and Charles Wade ’22) and fifth place in the 4x800m team (Baginski, Nicholas Feffer ’21, Raymond and Zepf). The teams have a short break following indoor Heps, but soon the countdown clock in Leverone Field House will have to be reset; outdoor Heps are just around the corner in May.
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The Big Green finally got its chance to compete at indoor Heps this weekend after counting down all season.