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Dartmouth in the Arena Page 2 Review April 22, 2014 Dartmouth’s Ersatz Elections By: Charles C.W. Jang and Julie A. McConville cheaper, at least, but is a sad sign of the decline of alumni of its members do not have backgrounds in education, participation. coming instead from the business world. Understandably, Last month, the last of almost nine thousand ballots were The administration did not always have such a blatant alumni have become frustrated at this lackadaisical ap- submitted in an election in which a slate of candidates was disregard for the will of the alumni. According to John proach to governance and have stopped giving as much to elected handily, each receiving well over eighty percent of MacGovern ’80, an alumnus of The Review and former the College; the giving rate is in the mid-forties, compared the votes cast. These voters also approved a new amendment member of the House of Representatives, with pre-1990 rates in the mid-sixties. to their constitution (which we’ll get to in a moment) at a Dartmouth alumni held a position of some power following Falling alumni involvement and participation rates rate of about eighty-nine percent. Where might this elec- the Board’s 1891 resolution, when members succeeded in is not only representative of the College’s administrative tion have taken place? The plebiscite in the Crimea? Some a decades-long battle for the right to elect five Trustees, concerns, but of Dartmouth’s general decline. The recent sleepy municipal backwater? Try . half of the non-ex officio Board members at the time. By fall in applications and rise in acceptance rate has roots in The election mentioned was the annual Association contrast, today’s Board has twenty-three members, of the College’s mismanagement, in both finance and public of Alumni election, which decides its executive board and which only eight have been chosen by alumni. Now each relations. As some may know, Dartmouth spends more facilitates the vote for Board of Trustees alumni candidates. member holds a proportionally smaller representation on a money than Brown does, which has 30% more students and These data may appear to larger Board where each voice faculty in a more expensive city; of course, such facts are suggest that there is over- fter all, governance fights are noth- carries less weight. well reflected in our already high and ever rising tuition. whelming support behind the This current state of This problem has continued over the last decade, with no ing new for Dartmouth alums. As a nominees elected, but a closer A affairs arose after a period end in sight. look reveals the election’s certain -granite-brained in which alumni vigorously Confounding this are the unforced errors Parkhurst has ersatz nature. The 8,860 vot- and -muscled lawyer said in 1819, “It is a exercised one of their rights in made as of late. Take, for instance, the recent decision to ers comprise only 12% of the College governance -- that of stop accepting Advanced Placement exam credits, or the over seventy thousand living small college, sir, and yet there are those nominating their own candi- ham-handed, craven obeisance to the Dimensions protesters alumni. That twelve percent who love it.” dates. If alumni were unhappy last year. Adding to an already bloated staff, the College has voted for eleven candidates, with the choice(s) set forth by hired over one hundred new staff members within the last who were running for eleven executive positions. This the Alumni Council, they could put forth one of their own year. All these issues are why the number of applicants has pattern is not exactly new, as the Association of Alumni with a petition signed by a certain number (these days, five fallen and why the College could be taking a hit in rankings has run similar elections a few years in a row now, having hundred) of other postgraduates. These alumni-nominated for higher education, as Asch notes. “People are starting a small percentage of alumni “vote” for positions, which “petition candidates” won a string of elections: John Steel to see that the management is just terrible and that’s why have one candidate each. in 1980; T. J. Rodgers in 2004; Peter Robinson and Todd the giving rate is down, the participation rate is down, and Perhaps, though, we are getting a bit ahead of our- Zywicki in 2005; and Stephen Smith in 2007. why we’re hurting in a lot of areas.” selves. To understand these elections and their importance It was at this time that the Wright Administration and Both Asch and MacGovern attribute the previous and (or lack thereof, these days), one must know what these the charter trustees made their move to stop this blatant current administrations’ bumbling in key areas to the vastly organizations are and what they do. Let’s start off with our alumni concern for College affairs. Analogous to President disproportionate yearly donations given by relatively few Board of Trustees. Currently, it is a cabal of twenty-three Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court-packing” scheme in 1938, Dartmouth alumni. According to Joe Asch, eighty-five members who, theoretically at least, have control over they would increase the size of the board without increasing percent of alumni giving in the last capital campaign came what goes on in the College. After all, if they disapprove the number of alumni trustees. In a long-fought campaign, from about eleven hundred people. This income stream of Parkhurst’s moves, they can hand President Hanlon the including a lawsuit by the then alumni-controlled Associa- has blinded the College’s leaders to increasingly apparent pink slip at any time. The Board’s denizens include two ex tion of Alumni to keep the Board’s constitution constant, problems, as alumni have largely become apathetic to trying officio (“by default,” essentially) members, the President the Administration spent millions of dollars in an adver- to repair matters. Quoth MacGovern,“They want [alumni] of the College and the Governor of New Hampshire; eight tising campaign to defeat alumni candidates for the Board to show up at football games and have a good time, but so-called “alumni members,” who are chosen in the alumni of Trustees and executive positions on the Association of they don’t want them to have enough power to ‘rock the elections run by the Association of Alumni; and thirteen Alumni. Dartblog writer and former management consul- boat’ and their plan is to make up what they lose there with “charter members” who are chosen by a committee within tant, Joe Asch ’79, made a last stand running as a petition donations from a few extremely wealthy alumni and federal the Board. trustee candidate in 2010, but ultimately lost to a similar grants.” Dartmouth’s unfortunate trend of decline can be The aforementioned Association of Alumni’s main negative advertising blitz. expected to continue without new educational initiatives job is to run alumni elections. It used to be the main group As a result, alumni participation in College elections and ways for alumni to participate in College affairs other governing alumni relations with the administration, but its fell precipitously. Previously, alumni voted at a rate of about than requests for donations. role has atrophied over time. Another group, the Alumni 30-40%, but, as was noted earlier, that has dropped this year Despite their many grievances, both Asch and MacGov- Council, a group made up of delegates chosen from each to a mere 12%, a similar rate to those of 2011, 2012, and ern believe a reversal in the College’s fortunes is possible. graduating class, nominates alumni trustee candidates. 2013. This could be chalked up to a sense of futility. Why Cuts made to federal grants and a further drop in donations Previously, it chose three nominees for each vacancy, but run as or vote for a petition candidate when your opinion could force the administration to implore support from a now, the council is required to choose only “one or more” will be ignored by the administration or drowned out by wider alumni base. A similar situation a long time ago candidates; of late, that “or more” has been ignored. In the charter trustees who exist these days to rubber-stamp established the 1891 agreement, where the College’s lack fact, this led to the approval of the previously mentioned the President’s agenda? of funds brought them to make concessions to the girdled amendment this election -- it was decided that for such Joe Asch notes that the current Board “doesn’t do much Earth’s wanderers. one-candidate elections, paper ballots would not even be other than pick a president and essentially rubber-stamp what “If I thought there was no hope, then I wouldn’t be sent out unless requested. This step makes sham elections he does. They don’t spend nearly enough time on campus criticizing it,” says Asch. After all, governance fights talking to faculty, and ... students to find out how poorly are nothing new for Dartmouth alumni. As a certain New Mr. Jang is a sophomore at the College and a contributor managed the place is.” According to him, the Board is now Hampshire-granite-brained and -muscled lawyer said in to . Ms. McConville is a freshman at a cliquish group that does not want a “micromanager” to 1819, “It is a small college, sir, and yet there are those who the College and a Web Editor at The Dartmouth Review. investigate details of College day-to-day operations. Many love it.” n April 22, 2014 The Dartmouth Review Page 3 The Editorial Dartmouth Review Founders The First Reform Greg Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, Keeney Jones Recently, there has been a quite a lot of talk about – in the room “to bridge the gap” with those who rose their “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great well – talk on the Dartmouth campus. In the days since voices in protest earlier this month and involve them in triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take the Freedom Budget protests, “discourse” has emerged as the conversations ahead. rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor the subject of choice for local savants determined to fo- While there is nothing wrong with the substance of suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that ment change. One can hardly wait in line for Collis pasta this statement (after all, excluding individuals from an knows neither victory nor defeat.” “inclusive discourse” is rather hypocritical), a problem — or pretend to write a paper on First Floor Berry without hearing impassioned pleas for improved dialogue. The can be found in the imagery provided by the “bridge” Nicholas P. Desatnick topic has permeated editorial pages and has become the analogy. In literature, “bridges” are most often used to Editor-in-Chief primary feature of President Hanlon’s newly inaugurated span voids and link two fundamentally unalike things Taylor D. Cathcart “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative. It seems that artificially. Rarely are they necessary where natural means President everyone – whether they be progressive or conservative, of connection and communication already exist. At risk moderate or apathetic – has decided that “discourse” is the of sounding pedantic, we believe that these implications John Hammel Strauss and Nicholas S. Duva preferred solution to Dartmouth’s most pressing problems can easily be applied to the evolution of Dartmouth’s Executive Editors and has made it the centerpiece of their campaigns for a “discourse” in recent weeks and months. Alexander J. Kane, Matthew R. Zubrow, and better campus. Judging by the radicalism of the Brandon G. Gill This is an encouraging devel- recent Freedom Budget demonstra- Vice Presidents opment, to be sure. Catchphrases tion, conversation at the College James G. Rascoff, Henry C. Woram, and like “end the Greek system!” and has suffered from the absence of “racism!” can only get Dartmouth a shared intellectual and social William R.F. Duncan so far. Much like the rhetoric of foundation around the Green. Words Managing Editors communism, fascism, and so many like “ableism” and “imperialism” Sandor Farkas and Kush S. Desai other “isms” throughout history, have a very different meaning Staff Editors angry sound bites are designed to for those who occupied President provoke an argument, not end one. Hanlon’s office than they do for the Paul F. Danyow and George A. Mendoza They can get people talking, but typical history or English major. Week Editors are ill suited at encouraging people And a lack of shared community Brian Chen and Julie A. McConville to listen. For that reason, they are experiences has made opportuni- Web Editors incapable of producing a healthy ties for overcoming that divide exchange of ideas, and as we have increasingly difficult to come by. Julian R. McIntyre Matthew R. Zubrow seen all too frequently in Hanover, For this reason, the recent protests Sports Editor Arts & Culture Editor wind up becoming part of the prob- embody an evolving trend at the lem rather than part of the solution. College whereby “the Dartmouth Alexander J. Kane and Samuel L. Hatcher We are glad that substantive Nicholas P. Desatnick experience” has balkanized into a Assistant Editors discourse is back in vogue and variety of tracts based on what one Contributors that many seem sincere in their efforts to engage with studies, how one communicates, and who one chooses to Eliot Harper, Kirk Jing, Jay M. Keating III, Brandon G. the ideas of others. Our optimism, however, does have associate with. Gill, Martin J. Gatens, Charles C.W. Jang, Michael L. its limits. Amid the many calls for a more expansive and These divisions present very real impediments to Klein, Joon H. Cho, Paul C. Chang, and Stuart Allan accessible dialogue, we cannot help but notice that few the cultivation of “positive and productive discourse” at Mean-Spirited, Cruel and Ugly people have stopped to ask the hard questions about what Dartmouth. The German social philosopher Jürgen Haber- Legal Counsel the desired conversation mas, once wrote that the will look like. To the best uch like the rhetoric of communism, fas- only opinions that “[had The Review Advisory Board of our knowledge, no one cism, and so many other “isms” through- been] translated from the Martin Anderson, Patrick Buchanan, Theodore Cooper- has tried to define what Mout history, angry sound bites are designed to realm of personal values stein, Dinesh D’Souza, Michael Ellis, Robert Flanigan, makes some types of dis- provoke an argument, not end one. into that of reasonable jus- John Fund, Kevin Robbins, Gordon Haff, , course more “inclusive” tification” could be safely , Mildred Fay Jefferson, William Lind, than others. Nor has any- included in the pursuit of Steven Menashi, , Hugo Restall, Roland one explained what is required to make our discussions the common good. What Dartmouth lacks now is such a Reynolds, William Rusher, Weston Sager, Emily Esfahani “productive” and “positive.” Instead, there seems to be way to translate the thoughts of its various constituencies Smith, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Sidney Zion the idealistic assumption that when people get together, into the public sphere. Without a shared academic and their words will erode any and all differences and the path social foundation, priorities and arguments become lodged “I joined a gym once. I only ever used the sauna.” forward will become self-evident. within their various siloes and campus-wide communica- This mode of thinking strikes us as rather naïve given tion becomes increasingly difficult, if not impossible. Special Thanks to the late William F. Buckley, Jr. the current state of affairs on campus. And one need not It is for this reason that if Dartmouth is serious about The Editors of The Dartmouth Review welcome cor- look any further than the events of Wednesday evening to seeking solutions in discourse, it needs to first examine respondence from readers concerning any subject, but see why. At President Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth For- how such a discourse might be possible. To President prefer to publish letters that comment directly on mate- ward” summit, Trustee Laurel Richie ‘81 gave a keynote Hanlon’s list of “binge drinking, sexual misconduct, and rial published previously in The Review. We reserve the address in which she called on those in attendance to make social exclusion,” we would add the compartmentaliza- right to edit all letters for clarity and length. Dartmouth “a safer and more inclusive place” by solving tion of the campus as one of the school’s most pressing Submit letters by mail, fax at (603) 643-1470, or e-mail: the problems of binge drinking, sexual misconduct, and problems and would encourage change agents to think [email protected] social exclusion. So far so good. But, after acknowledging long and hard about the best way to promote honest con- versation. Only after Dartmouth finds a better platform The Dartmouth Review is produced bi-weekly by Dart- that such a process of change and improvement would be mouth College undergraduates for Dartmouth students gradual, she concluded her remarks with a rather striking for discourse will solutions to these other issues become and alumni. It is published by the Hanover Review, Inc., exhortation: the most important thing was for the leaders possible. n a non-profit tax-deductible organization. Please send all inquiries to: Inside This Issue The Dartmouth Review Dartmouth Ersatz Elections Page 2 P.O. Box 343 Letter from the Editor Page 3 Hanover, N.H. 03755 The Week in Review Pages 4 & 5 Housing Changes at the College Page 6 Rethinking Sexual Assault Policy Page 7 Hiring the Best Faculty Page 8 Subscribe: $40 The History of Natives at Dartmouth Pages 8 & 9 Dartmouth EMS Conference Page 10 The Dartmouth Review The Madeline Albright Lecture Page 10 An Interview with Alex Mooney Page 11 P.O. 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Dartmouth Alumnus Arrested for Disturbance in Parkhurst

Early in the afternoon of April 15th, David Vincelette ’84 was arrested by Hanover police for causing a disturbance in the office of President Hanlon, according to a series of tweets from The Daily Dartmouth, which included quotes from Hanover Police Chief Frank Moran and one from Mr. Vincelette him- self. The exact nature of Mr. Vincelette’s disturbance remains unknown, although The Daily Dartmouth quoted him as saying that “Dartmouth is the Polluter.” Moran was paraphrased as saying that Vincelette has a history of such disturbances. A quick Internet search of Mr. Vincelette produces several documents, including a 2005 letter of deficiency from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services asking Mr. Vincelette to rectify a sewage leak on his property that was allowing untreated sewage to flow into Mink Brook. Alumnus: “I bet $100 million you won’t storm into Hanlon’s office. The sewage incident appeared to be referenced again in Vincelette: “Deal!” the record of a Hanover town meeting from May 2013, in which Mr. Vincelette spoke about his property during a debate on another topic, and indicated that the town was involved in can express interest in the house. One will occur before formal litigation against him for the still allegedly unresolved pollution. Dartmouth Men’s recruitment starts, and the other towards the end of the process. The meeting’s moderator eventually asked Mr. Vincelette to In previous years, the house has offered the “shake out” system wait and speak at the end of the meeting. Later in the meeting, Rugby Wins in addition to formal recruitment. The executives of the sorority Vincelette spoke again in objection to the construction of a stated in their email to campus that this change was in response new park on the grounds that it was downstream from where Championship to the climate on campus and the “inevitable flaws of the for- the Town, the College, and others stored asphalt, which he mal recruitment, such as superficial conversation, ranking and alleged was polluting the stream and was being covered up The Dartmouth men’s rugby team defeated Harvard 52-3 numbering of women, and competition between Potential New by the town. The town denied these allegations. Several more on Saturday, April 12th, resulting in their seventh straight Ivy Members and between houses.” times throughout the meeting Mr. Vincelette spoke about the League championship. The team had defeated UPenn 38-0 the This email echoes the concerns of the five members of pollution in Mink Brook. weekend before. Madison Hughes returned from playing with the Panhellenic Executive Council, who immediately prior to At this time, it is not known whether or not Mr. Vince- the U.S. National 7s team at the Hong Kong IRB Sevens Series the start of winter recruitment emailed campus explaining their lette was referencing this pollution as he was escorted out of to lead Dartmouth to another victory. decision to abstain from winter rush. The Panhellenic Executive Parkhurst. More details will follow as they emerge. The rugby team was coming off a tough road trip to California, Council’s email caused great confusion among those who were losing to Cal Berkeley and Cal Poly, but, despite the losses, the planning to participate in the process, as many took it to mean road trip allowed for some much needed preparation for the Ivy that there would not be a winter recruitment cycle for sorori- Dartmouth Receives 100 15s tournament. ties. In fact, this was not the case, as the Executive Council was The team has a busy schedule ahead of it. Dartmouth will merely explaining its feelings on the girl’s recruitment process. Million Dollar Gift play Clemson this Saturday to start off the Varsity Cup. The The executives stated that “the Recruitment process stratifies game is at Dartmouth and should be a tough test for the team. the Dartmouth community along race, class, gender and sexual On April 9th, President Hanlon announced in an email The other teams competing in the tournament are Texas, Notre orientation, where those individuals who better approximate a that the College has received an anonymous $100 million Dame, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, Air Force, Brigham Young, narrow sorority ideal receive preferential treatment.” gift to support “academic excellence.” The gift is the largest Navy, Cal Berkeley, and Central Washington. The championship In both cases, these policy statements have been framed as single donation in the history of the College. The donation is May 3rd in Salt Lake City. methods of bringing sororities onto more equal social footing also includes a 2-1 challenge to double its size. The Ivy Rugby Playoffs will take place April 12-13 at with fraternities. In their email, the Theta executives mentioned “This historic gift is an exceptional vote of confidence Princeton and will determine which team will represent the Ivy their other efforts to improve this process, such as Theta’s fre- as we embark on an exciting journey to ensure Dartmouth League in the USA Rugby playoffs. quent parties and open basement nights in an effort to provide remains the preeminent undergraduate institution in the na- social spaces other than fraternity basements, a desire that was tion; a magnet for human talent; and a college that cultivates outlined in the earlier Panhellenic Council email. In both cases, a culture of ideas, discovery, and solutions to problems that EKT Rush Change the authors desired to change the traditional role of sororities on will make the world a better place,” said President Hanlon in campus. a press release. This past week, Epsilon Kappa Theta announced that it will It remains to be seen whether the changes Theta is making With the enormity of negative press currently surrounding forgo the formal recruitment method used by the other sororities will have a ripple effect on other sororities on campus. One factor the College, the timing of the gift is indeed “an exceptional on campus in the upcoming recruitment cycle. Instead, EKT will limiting this possibility is the remaining nationalized sororities on vote of confidence.” use the “shake out” system that is used by fraternities on campus, campus, whose recruitment process and other methods of opera- hosting two open social events at which prospective members tion, such as hosting parties and opening the house to campus, Stinson’s: Your Pong HQ Cups, Balls, Paddles, Accessories (603) 643-6086 | www.stinsonsvillagestore.com April 22, 2014 The Dartmouth Review Page 5 The Week in Review and the founder of Dartmouth Roots, Esteban Castano ’14, attendees divided into smaller groups for a series of break-out sessions and brainstorming activities. Although these discus- sions were closed to the press, The Dartmouth Review spoke with a number of participants who used words like “inspir- ing” and “constructive” to describe the nature of these side conversations. Upon completing the planned exercises, attendees recon- vened in Dartmouth 105 for concluding remarks from trustee Jeffrey Immelt ’78. After reflecting on his time at the College and what it has meant for him in his life after graduation, he articulated the need for Dartmouth to develop a healthier cul- ture and pursue a breed of educational and social excellence unique to the 21st Century. The summit was organized by Dartmouth Roots, a student-organization that works with the College administra- tion to implement ideas and promote positive change around campus. They began planning the event months in advance and expressed hope that this would be “the first of many con- versations” in an ongoing effort to make Dartmouth a better place. Theta Alumna:“Don’t you remember when ‘shake-outs’ were something For its part, The Dartmouth Review has enjoyed par- we used to do in the back of the movie theatre, Herb?” ticipating in the conversation thus far and eagerly awaits the opportunity to contribute many of its own proposals to the campus discussion. are regulated by their respective national organizations. The ’15 (340), and Jon Miller ’15 (265). Cunningham, who ran merits and drawbacks to national organizations can be debated as a team with Dennis despite the individually elected seats, endlessly, but regardless they will significantly limit the ability received 1,108 votes, placing him significantly ahead of Matt Conservative Newspaper to fundamentally change the role of sororities on campus. Addi- Robinson ’15 with 635 and Harry Qi ’17 with 240. Robinson tionally, it is not yet clear whether Theta’s changes will spread to and Qi ran as packages with Graham and Miller, respectively, Attacked other houses. In their email, the Theta executives mentioned that while Pedlow was the only write-in candidate recognized by Theta was the first house to establish a freshman outreach chair, the Student Assembly electoral process. Our colleagues at The Morris NorthStar, the University a practice that has now spread to other houses. The recruitment A number of other student offices were also filled as a of Minnesota at Morris’ conservative student publication, have process, however, is much more ingrained and significant, and result of the same elections. In the class council race, Chase found themselves in a precarious position as of late. Follow- changes to recruitment may not fundamentally alter the social Mertz ’15 was elected 2015 Class Council President, Danny ing the very vocal diatribe of an outspoken liberal professor landscape of the College, just as the move by some fraternities Reitsch ’16 and Victor Muchatuta ’16 were elected 2016 Class of biology, hundreds of copies of the paper were stolen from to go co-ed did not spur a campus wide change to this effect. Council President and Vice President, respectively, and Paul distribution bins scattered around the University of Minnesota’s Regardless of its long-term effects, though, the change in Ghazal ’17 and Elisabeth Schricker ’17 were elected 2017 Class campus. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative policy represents an earnest attempt to change the nature of the Council President and Vice President, respectively. Addition- nonprofit group, approximated the theft to have incurred a sorority system on campus. ally, Janelle Bullock ’15, Taylor Cathcart ’15, Chase Gilmore loss of nearly $1,750 to the small student-run paper. Such an ’16, Grant Mortell ’16, Victor Muchatuta ’16, Daniel Pham incident follows another one that occurred last January, when ’16, Julia Pomerantz ’16, and Andrew Zhu ’16 were elected around 100 copies of The NorthStar had been defaced after it Ultraviolet Ad Response as student representatives to the Committee On Standards, had published a pro-life story. Dartmouth’s internal adjudication panel for disciplinary mat- Despite recent media attention, the aforementioned vo- In response to the UltraViolet attack ads claiming that ters. Taylor Cathcart is the current President of The Dartmouth cal biology professor – Dr. Paul Zachary Myers – has shown Dartmouth has a “rape problem,” Dartmouth has launched Review. little hesitation in continuing his harsh rhetoric. In a its own counter-advertisement campaign on the internet. The Overall, 2,376 students voted in last week’s electoral interview last Friday, Myers described young Republicans as UltraViolet ads, which certainly aren’t helping the College’s process. The Review’s Editorial Staff wish the best of luck to “assholes.” His views on the conservative Morris NorthStar are public profile, have prompted a great deal of controversy on all of the newly elected students as they begin their tenures only slightly worse – “a terrible, terrible paper” and a “terrible campus. According to Karin Ping of UltraViolet, the anti- in office. little rag” that ought to be treated like “hate-filled trash.” Dartmouth ads pinged 60,000 views as of April 12. Such radical opposition to The NorthStar is nothing un- By April 11, Dartmouth had released a series of coun- familiar. Many other conservative publications in the United ter advertisements that netted 204,928 views on Facebook President Hanlon’s Call to States, including our own Dartmouth Review, have similarly and 31,597 shares on Twitter. Their content has focused on been victims of popular demonization and even, as in the case explicating the nature of Dartmouth’s “rape problem,” high- Action of The NorthStar, physical action. Fortunately, opposition to lighting steps that the administration has taken to combat it, The Review has remained limited to its derogatory label as “a and correcting misconceptions furthered by the UltraViolet In the evening of April 16, President Phil Hanlon convened doormat upon delivery” or to a poorly thought out, anti-Review campaign. Chief among these is a factual error that can be select students, administrators, and alumni for a discussion provision in the recent Freedom Budget. found in the first line of a blurb on UltraViolet’s website, about social reform on Dartmouth’s campus. Entitled “Mov- In any event, colleges and universities are meant to be a which cites the Bored@Baker “rape guide” as preceding the ing Dartmouth Forward,” the summit focused on “generating forum for free and civil discourse and debate. Instead of urging now notorious sexual assault of a student on the Dartmouth ideas and evaluating steps” that will improve student life at the paper’s mass disposal, Professor Myers could have better campus. The student’s sexual assault, however, preceded this the College and combat “high-risk and harmful behaviors.” represented his views by simply writing a strongly worded anonymous online post, and if UltraViolet had done its due Although attendance at the event was by invitation only, letter to the editor to The NorthStar. In that way, political po- diligence, such a sequence of events would be apparent. over 120 community leaders participated in the two-hour larization is avoided and a back-and-forth channel of discourse Semantics aside, the fact that the powers that be have forum. Shortly after 8:00 PM, President Hanlon kicked off could have been established between the stakeholders of The launched an internet advertising campaign further illustrates the night’s activities with his keynote address that highlighted NorthStar and its ideological opponents. the magnitude of Dartmouth’s less-than -positive reputation. steps his administration was taking to reduce hazing, racism, We at The Dartmouth Review hope such lowly incidents To help combat this negative press and reduce the severity of and sexism in Hanover. of petty intimidation and silencing remain outliers in what the College’s “rape problem,” the administration has taken a Early in his remarks, he noted that “Dartmouth’s promise should be a peaceful and open exchange of ideas. number of additional steps and proposed a policy that makes [was] being hijacked by extreme and harmful behaviors” and expulsion mandatory in the most egregious cases of sexual suggested that the destructive tendencies of a few students assault. It remains to be seen if such policies have a positive were dividing the College and damaging its reputation. He also Spring Sports Update impact on the problem at Dartmouth and can help end the linked the recent 14% drop in undergraduate applications and series of public controversies that have rocked the campus the ongoing Title IX investigation to Dartmouth’s problems Strong preseason performances are cause for much in recent months. with binge drinking, sexual assault, and exclusion in campus anticipation as championship season approaches for the Big social spaces. To help resolve these issues in a proactive and Green. inclusive way, he announced the creation of a presidential On April nineteenth, Dartmouth’s equestrian team won Student Assembly steering committee that would examine key areas of change the Ivy League title for the fourth time in its history. The team and present its findings to the Board of Trustees in November. will now direct its focus towards the Intercollegiate Horse Elections Trustee Laurel Richie ’81 spoke next, echoing President Show Association’s national championship to be held next Hanlon’s calls for a more inclusive Dartmouth and noting that month in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In an online election that lasted from midnight until 8 PM many of problems she faced as a student in the early 1980s A Dartmouth athlete on nearly everyone’s radar is seven- on Monday, April 14th, Casey Dennis ’15 and Frank Cunning- were still present today. She suggested that the process of time NCAA Division I national champion Abbey D’Agostino ham ’16 won the offices of Student Assembly President and change and improvement needed to be inclusive and that it ’14 of women’s track. D’Agostino is surrounded by a troupe Vice-President, respectively. Dennis took the Presidency with was important for the leaders in the room to “bridge the gap of sprinters, throwers and middle-distance runners who have a total of 930 votes, with the remainder divided up between with those who rose their voice in protest” earlier this month. also been posting elite preseason performances for the Big Sophia Pedlow ’15 (649), Jay Graham ’15 (609), Yesuto Shaw After similar remarks from Professor Rebecca Biron Green. n Page 6 The Dartmouth Review April 22, 2014 Housing Changes at the College By: James G. Rascoff and John Hammel Strauss on the other hand, every freshman was immediately part of 1,000 students, and Harvard, Columbia, Penn, and Brown, all a diverse residential community with its own sense of pride, of which recorded 0.00 arrests per 1,000 students. Some might On March 21st, the Chair of Dartmouth’s Board of Trust- tradition and shared experience. A common story shared by attribute these appalling statistics to Dartmouth’s dominant ees, Steve Mandel, announced the College’s intention to make many older alumni is that of receiving a knock on their door Greek life; to the contrary, the popularity of Dartmouth’s sweeping reforms to the undergraduate housing system. The during their first week at Dartmouth from upperclassmen Greek life is among the symptoms of the College’s disciplin- proposal, once enacted, would establish a “house system” under who encouraged them to join the dorm’s intramural teams. ary tactics, not the cause. which students would live together in upper-class residence Of course, the house system did not guarantee that freshmen Dartmouth students are unable to socialize in dorm clusters after freshman year, for the duration of their Dartmouth would develop close relationships with upperclassmen, but rooms in sizeable groups without attracting the unwanted careers. Currently, upperclassmen are forced to move from it facilitated these relationships much like athletic teams and attention of Undergraduate Advisors and the College’s dormitory to dormitory in accordance with their “D-Plan” Greek organizations do today. police force; any dormitory social event involving alcohol schedules, a lottery system that causes some students to live in While the house system still appears to be in the preliminary and moderately loud music is subject to the wrath of Safety a different dorm every term. The administration and Board of planning stage, the administration has also introduced a new and Security. As much as the College may choose to believe Trustees aim to ad- housing initiative otherwise, drinking is part and parcel of campus social life dress the lack of that will take ef- at any school. The inability of undergraduates to socialize in continuity in this fect in the fall. residence halls is one of the primary factors driving students current system, Three new “Living to Greek houses for fun, when many of those students might and to once again Learning Com- otherwise choose to spend their weekend nights partying with “allow for a sense munities” will friends in residence halls. Accepting this, the administration of community integrate student must adopt a pragmatic approach to the issue of drinking in in our residence learning with resi- residence halls, addressing the risks of binge drinking while halls,” as Mandel dential life: one not precluding consumption of alcohol entirely. The College wrote in his email community will needn’t encourage drinking in the student population; it must to campus. focus on entrepre- merely accept that alcohol will remain a prominent feature Until the early neurship, another of campus social life, regardless of any punitive disciplinary 1980s, it was not on the LGBTQIA measures aimed at stemming underage consumption. uncommon for a community, and a One method of discouraging high-risk drinking while Dartmouth student third on global citi- opening residence halls as social spaces would be an “open to spend all four zenship and issues. door” policy. If beer or wine were being consumed in a dorm years of his or her These new resi- room, the students in the room would have to keep their door time at Dartmouth dential communi- open. Undergraduate Advisors could monitor the hallways living in the same ties will supple- and ensure that no hard alcohol was being consumed. UGA’s dormitory. Under ment the existing could also ensure that music remained at a reasonable volume, the current hous- Affinity Houses, and prevent gatherings from becoming too crowded. Any ing system, dormi- Zimmerman Hall in the East Wheelock Clusters has been cited as a model for a recently rebranded failure to abide by the rules established under this system, tories have become, restored residential college system at Dartmouth. as “Special Interest or any failure to keep a door open during a gathering involv- for all intents and Communities.” ing alcohol, would warrant a call to Safety and Security by purposes, hotel rooms for Dartmouth students, devoid of any This initiative, while well-intentioned, will not foment the the UGA. This is one of many ways that the College could sense of community or permanence. The D-Plan and current revolution in community-wide social norms that Board of realistically grapple with the issue of binge drinking, while housing system combine to make life as a Dartmouth student Trustees Chair Steve Mandel called for in his email to campus. not futilely attempting to stop college students from drinking a peripatetic existence, effectively precluding any opportunity If the administration truly wants to create a social alternative entirely. If, however, drinking of a more social and low-risk for students to develop emotional bonds with their residential that will attract students away from fraternities or sororities, it nature continues to be policed with the same vigor that is clusters and the people within them. Unlike the temporary lodg- needs to accept college social life for what it is, and abandon indicated by Dartmouth’s alcohol-related arrests, then it will ings that Dartmouth dormitories have become, the residential the pursuit of a utopian community absent of drinking and merely drive students to fraternity basements or secretive clusters of old were hubs of social activity, from dorm parties partying. A Dartmouth student who would spend Friday night dorm room “pregames” that encourage high-risk behavior. to intense inter-cluster intramural rivalries. participating in Living Learning activities at the entrepreneurial Drinking aside, there is a pressing issue that the College Despite the apparent distaste for the traditions of “old community would be unlikely to spend much time in a frater- must address before reinstituting a house system: dorm equal- Dartmouth” generally apparent in the administration’s deci- nity basement ity. Is it fair, one might ask, if one sions, this reintroduction of the house system is a plan that, anyway. The student spends all four years liv- if implemented correctly, will benefit all Dartmouth students. administration ing in Gold Coast while another Faculty, administrators, and opponents of the Greek system should not de- student must live in the River among the student body have long called for an alternative to lude itself into Cluster? This very issue has been the social monopoly enjoyed by Greek houses. After years of believing that an obstacle to the reintroduction developing contrived “alternative social spaces” (and despite the introduc- of a house system in the past. In the administration’s best efforts to pretend that these spaces tion of three January 2000, President James actually present an alternative to Greek life for the majority new affinity- Wright presented his Student Life of students), the proposed house system may present the first based themed Initiative to the College’s Board organic social alternative to Greek life since the College moved residences will of Trustees as a comprehensive towards the housing lottery system years ago. alter the cam- approach “to strengthen the in- The current housing system allows fraternities and sorori- pus social en- stitution’s social and residential ties to wield an undue amount of influence over campus social vironment in system.” Among the chief objec- life. Students rush Greek houses for many reasons, but surely any significant tives of the Student Life Initiative the most prominent among these reasons are a lasting sense way. was to transform the residential of community and camaraderie; a dedicated space to social- The house system to more closely resemble ize with friends; a sense of communal pride in the institution system is a far the “house system” of old by you’ve joined; and, for many upperclassmen, a place to live. more promis- As valuable as they are to the campus, affinity houses like La Casa allowing students to “elect to The proposed house system would not, on its own, render ing and sweep- cannot match the scale of the solution offered by a residential college. return to the same residence hall Dartmouth’s Greek system superfluous. However, as older ing initiative or cluster for at least two years alumni can attest, the decision to rush a Greek house when than the Living Learning Communities. It will prove similarly and preferably three—with the possibility of all four years Dartmouth still employed a residential house system was not ineffective in altering the College’s social climate, however, if if the student so wished.” The report acknowledged that to quite as straightforward as it is for the majority of students to- the administration doesn’t approach the issue of student drink- accomplish this, the “quality gap” between the College’s best day. Like Greek houses, each dormitory had its own traditions, ing realistically. Admittedly, this is no small endeavor to ask and worst residence halls needed to be reduced. “This may passed down from one generation of inhabitants to the next. of our administrators. Dartmouth’s original house system was require the replacement of the River Cluster and Choates,” Dorms were also hubs of nightlife, and fostered relationships discontinued before New Hampshire’s minimum drinking age reads the report. Fourteen years later, the lottery system re- between underclassmen and upperclassmen through social was raised to 21 in mid-1980s. Therefore, the administration mains and the River Cluster is no more inviting. The disparity events and intramural sports. A dorm did not necessarily pro- did not have the onerous responsibility of controlling under- in dormitory quality has only gotten worse since President vide all the social opportunities of a fraternity or sorority, but age drinking in the residence halls of old. Still, if the proposed Wright’s Student Life Initiative and the College will have to it was certainly a viable alternative. house system is to provide an alterative to fraternity basements address this issue forthrightly if the “house system” is to be Of the aforementioned qualities of dorm life under the on Friday and Saturday nights, drinking must be part of the successful. house system, the most rewarding may be the facilitation of conversation. The changes to residential life proposed by the admin- friendships among students of different ages. The current The current method of discipline employed by Dart- istration and Board of Trustees will take the better part of a housing system limits interaction between underclassmen mouth’s Office of Residential Life, Safety and Security, and decade to fully implement, if not longer. The return to the and upperclassmen to organized sports teams, some perform- Hanover Police is one of the foremost factors driving students house system is, as of now, more a vision than an actionable ing arts groups, and Greek houses. Under the house system, to Greek houses for their social activity. Dartmouth leads the plan. Financial constraints and limited space may eventually Ivy League in alcohol-related arrests by a long shot. According hinder the realization of the vision. There is a tough road Mr. Rascoff is a junior at the College and a Managing to Business Insider, in the three-year span between 2009 and ahead, but the objectives laid out by the College’s leaders are Editor at The Dartmouth Review. Mr. Strauss is a junior at the 2011, Dartmouth had 12.53 alcohol arrests per 1,000 students. admirable, and stand to benefit the Dartmouth community as College and an Executive Editor at The Dartmouth Review. Compare that to second-place Yale, which had 2.27 arrests per a whole if properly enacted. n April 22, 2014 The Dartmouth Review Page 7 Rethinking Sexual Assault Policy By Gaius Suetonius Paulinus victim. While other patterns of assault exist, the aforementioned imprisonment. In light of these repercussions, such a standard is by far the most common and thus makes the most sense to of evidence makes a great deal of sense. But because the most Recently, Dartmouth has been plagued by a string of at- address. serious punishment a student convicted under the College’s tack ads run by UltraViolet that have claimed the College has One of the biggest problems with the arguments of various system is expulsion (still serious, but nowhere near imprison- a “rape problem.” Timed to coincide with the period in which student protest groups like “RealTalk” and the authors of the ment), and because the ultimate goal of the College’s system prospective members of the Class of 2018 are deciding whether “Freedom Budget” is that they implicitly, if not explicitly, tie should be to remove these repeat offenders who are a threat to or not to attend Dartmouth, the impact of these ads could be sexual assault to straight, white, affiliated males. Studies have the safety of our community, considering an accused’s entire devastating on admissions. In response to this negative publicity, shown that over 90 percent of sexual assaults are committed history should prove both reasonable and helpful in the College’s the administration has begun a counter-advertising campaign by roughly 6 percent of men. Therefore, categorically blaming judicial process. Such a provision may already exist somewhere urging readers to “see how Dartmouth is taking action” against fraternity members who make up over 70 percent of eligible within the numerous codes and policies of the Committee on sexual assault. males for a pattern of offenses committed by a tiny minority is Standards, but explicitly reemphasizing it in the new policy is No one denies that sexual assault occurs at the College, but completely inaccurate. It also has the counterproductive effect still a sensible step. across the community there seem to be different perceptions of of alienating an incredibly powerful force within the Dartmouth The resources available at Dartmouth to victims of sexual how widespread the problem social culture. This is particu- assault need to be far more clearly delineated than they are at is. Some people believe that larly unfortunate because this present. The administration, true to overly bureaucratic form, Dartmouth experiences sex- ategorically blaming fraternity members force is made up of men who, has created a veritable alphabet soup of student and professional ual assault at approximately Cwho make up over 70 percent of eligible with only a very few excep- groups to function in some capacity related to sexual assault. the same rate as many other males for a pattern of offenses committed by a tions, want to help combat Examples include the Mentors Against Violence (MAV), the colleges and universities tiny minority is completely inaccurate. sexual assault. Dartmouth Bystander Initiative (DBI), the Sexual Assault across the country. Others Another area that needs to Peer Advisors (SAPA), and others. For the sake of clarity for seem to think that sexual assault here is not a manifestation of change is students’ perception of the administration’s willing- victims, these various organizations need to be condensed and a wider cultural issue that spans across the country, but rather a ness and ability to prosecute those accused of sexual assault. streamlined into one or two well-organized and funded groups. unique, Dartmouth-specific problem perpetuated by the Greek The reason 6 percent of men are able to account for over 90 There is no denying that all of these organizations contain system and a concentration of students who frequently have percent of sexual assaults is that the assaults committed by bright and hardworking people with honorable goals, and this the financial means to evade conviction. these individuals are not spontaneous incidents, but rather a suggestion for unification is not meant as a criticism of them in Although the truth is probably somewhere between these consistent and predatory pattern of behavior. Without getting any way. Rather, bringing these groups together would provide two extremes, I would argue that the exact rate of assault here into the details of any specific case, there seems to be a trend of the victims of assault with a much clearer set of resources to in relation to other institutions is irrelevant. Dartmouth is not these repeat offenders coming from fairly wealthy families, and turn to, which could make an important difference in a time just any college; despite the significant drop in applications for this in turn has led to an unfortunate perception amongst many of crisis. the Class of 2018, this remains one of the most selective and students that the College’s default response when presented Finally, another area for potential improvement is the prestigious schools in the nation, if not in the world. Students with an accusation is to sweep the allegations under the rug. counseling services provided through Dick’s House. I have here and at our peer institutions will someday become our Regardless of whether or not this perception has any basis personally heard multiple horror stories of sexual assault victims country’s leaders in every discipline. From politics to finance in reality, the mere fact that it exists is a colossal problem be- who sought counseling at Dick’s House, only to find that it is to law to medicine to academia, the fields in which Dartmouth cause it is almost certainly discourages victims from reporting very difficult to even schedule an appointment. Once one had graduates have excelled and continue to excel are incredibly their assaults. Therefore, the administration needs to do more to been made, many report that the counselors have ranged from diverse. publicly demonstrate to victims that they are firmly impartial detached to completely unhelpful. Although this evidence is Therefore, when discussing an issue like sexual assault, in their investigation and internal prosecution of these cases. anecdotal, with as delicate a matter as providing psychological it makes little difference whether it represents a more serious One positive sign from the Hanlon administration is the counseling to sexual assault victims, it scarcely matters: if even problem at Dartmouth than at other schools or whether our College’s newly proposed Sexual Assault Disciplinary Policy, one victim has a horrifying experience with the system, then assault rate is closer to the national average. Quite simply, as which represents a step in the right direction if not a comprehen- that taints the reputation of first line of help for all others. Some an institution that represents the future leaders of society, the sive solution. This policy, which was released in March and was sort of reform is necessary to ensure that this does not persist only acceptable position for Dartmouth as a whole is to be ac- circulating around the College community for comment until as an issue, even if it is as simple as hiring more competent tively leading the way in addressing sexual assault on campus. mid April, contains several important reforms. These include staff members. Anything less is an underutilization of the wealth of talent and a very clear definition of consent as it relates to sexual assault Overall, Dartmouth certainly does have a sexual assault resources that exists here in Hanover, as well as an insult to the and a provision for the mandatory separation (expulsion) of problem, but it is not an insurmountable one. Rather than simply survivors of sexual assault. any student found guilty of penetrative sexual assault. abandon this great institution as the UltraViolet campaign is The first important step in moving forward is for all members A helpful additional step from a policy perspective would encouraging prospective students to do, significant changes of the community to be clear on the category of person that is be to clearly state in the new document that an accused student’s need to be made, especially with regard to the perceived and actually committing these assaults and to stop alienating those prior sexual and disciplinary history should be fully admissible actual ways accused students are prosecuted and the resources who are not. For the purposes of this article, I will be talking when considering a particular case. In the criminal justice the College provides to victims. The newly proposed Sexual about heterosexual assaults with a male perpetrator and female system, these elements are, of course, inadmissible, because Assault Disciplinary Policy is certainly an encouraging step from in a trial the accused can only be evaluated on the basis of his the administration, but more needs to be done if Dartmouth is Mr. Paulinus was a Consul Ordinarius of Rome and is conduct during the specific incident in question. However, a to assume its rightful role as a leader amongst colleges seeking a posthumous contributor to The Dartmouth Review. criminal trial can end in an extremely serious punishment like to address sexual assault on campus. n Page 8 The Dartmouth Review April 22, 2014 Recruiting the Best Faculty By Michael L. Klein of a minority background, the College will often hire both that every department should expand the size of each ap- candidates Additionally, the College will often provide ad- plicant pool for new faculty hires. As Dean Mastanduno Dartmouth’s commitment to attracting and retaining its ditional resources to hire qualified minorities even when not alluded to, there is definitely room for improvement in the exceptional faculty is fundamental to the institution’s suc- actively filling positions in a particular field. way some departments build an applicant pool. A commit- cess. While most research universities are primarily focused With all faculty hires, Dartmouth is often at several ment to review the process for publicizing an open position on hiring the best scholars and most liberal arts colleges are disadvantages compared to its competition. As Professor and soliciting applications would allow for more variety primarily focused on hiring the best teachers, Dartmouth Ronald Shaiko of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center ex- and inclusivity in each search. This could take the form of is fully committed to both. This dual focus is an important plains, Dartmouth demands more of its professors than most reaching out to more institutions or reviewing the work in a part of the College’s ability to provide the preeminent un- institutions. Tenure-tracked faculty members are expected greater selection of scholarly journals. There should also be dergraduate education it offers. to teach a full course load, publish at the same level as a comparison to comparable departments at peer institutions However, this dual mandate, coupled with other factors faculty at other research universities, and (in the case of to gauge where our applicant pools are smaller or missing inherent to the College’s location and size, makes it difficult many professors not in the natural sciences) do so without out on important constituencies. What is most important is for the College to compete with peer institutions for the best Ph.D. students. As Dean Mastanduno explains, though many that each department individually proposes tangible, additive faculty. On Tuesday, April 15, potential hires are attracted to steps. Dean of the Faculty Michael y making the job offer at Dartmouth the Hanover community as a Second, we propose that the hiring of faculty shift away Mastanduno and Dean of the Bmore competitive, the College will be safe environment to raise a from rigidly following static lines within departments and Thayer School of Engineering better suited to identify, attract, and retain family, Hanover has its dif- allow for more flexibility to incorporate student demand. Joseph Helble facilitated the an even more talented and diverse faculty. ficulties. It can be difficult to As some departments become more popular, the inability ‘Moving Dartmouth Forward: find occupational work for the to hire additional professors puts a strain on enrollment Faculty Recruitment and Re- spouses of potential hires in where people are either locked out of necessary classes, tention’ discussion and spoke at length on the subject. Their Hanover, it is relatively expensive to live in surrounding area, or forced into over-enrolled classes where size inhibits the remarks primarily focused on the challenges the College and there is the ever-present ‘playmate problem’ of faculty student experience. Conversely, as some departments or faces in attracting faculty and the initiatives currently in being isolated as the only professor in their particular field. subject areas become less popular, classes can suffer from place to hire faculty of minority backgrounds. This can make Dartmouth a tough sell for many qualified significant under-enrollment or cancellation, which isa According to Mastanduno, the College currently has professors, including ones of a minority background. waste of resources. Creating more interdisciplinary posi- about 420 tenure track faculty and 200 visiting or adjunct The Freedom Budget’s recommendations do not address tions could not only solves these problems, but they could professors. Of this pool, 39% are females and about 20% any of these fundamental issues in attracting or retaining also create broader and more appealing opportunities with self-identify as underrepresented minorities. Over the last underrepresented minority faculty, nor do they reference any which Dartmouth can attract more talented faculty. five years, there have been about 95 professors hired, of of the current policies in place. Suggesting that the alloca- Lastly, we believe that the College of Arts and Sciences which 27% self-identified as underrepresented as minorities, tion of more funds for diversity hiring is meaningless – the should adopt the formal mentorship initiative employed at compared to the 80 professors that left during this period, issue is finding and attracting talented minority faculty, and the Thayer School of Engineering. As Dean Helble outlined of which about 20% self-identified as underrepresented the current policy is explicit in making that a priority. The at the discussion, the Thayer School has a formal policy of minorities. This net increase reflects the College’s focus on College has been relatively transparent with its tenure and naming a mentor in the offer letter for each new hire. This increasing diversity. hiring processes. While it is true that professors of minor- is based significantly on input from the new hire, and is not A number of policies are geared toward creating a more ity backgrounds are often called upon for mentorship and restricted to the department nor to Thayer. This allows newly diverse interview pool and expanding Dartmouth’s ability service, the tenure process takes that into account. But as hired faculty to solicit advice without impacting tenure deci- to hire tenure-tracked faculty of minority backgrounds. Dean Mastanduno explains, mentorship and service cannot sion. By importing this structure to the College, we believe Typically, each department’s search committee will bring compensate for inadequate research or inadequate teaching that the additional formal guidance for junior faculty would the top three candidates to campus for interviews. If there in the hiring process. To declare a department ‘in crisis’ and be constructive to retention. are no minority candidates amongst the three, the search in need of ‘immediate action to right the injustice’ solely The suggestions outlined above are but a few steps in committees are allowed to bring a fourth candidate of a because of a lack of diversity undermines the central focus strengthening an already strong process, and are certainly not minority background to campus (assuming that candidate of the College to support the best scholar-teachers. Need- all-inclusive. Dartmouth needs to continue its focus on hiring is roughly within the top ten or fifteen candidates within less to say, it is impractical to run a search for a department the best scholar-teachers in order to provide the unparalleled the applicant pool). Should the second best candidate be solely based on race. undergraduate education the College is known for. And by We propose several alternative suggestions to aid in the making the job offer at Dartmouth more competitive, the Mr. Klein is a senior at the College and a contributor to hiring and retention of talented faculty, including those of College will be better suited to identify, attract, and retain The Dartmouth Review. underrepresented minority backgrounds. First, we believe an even more talented and diverse faculty. n A Brief History of Natives at Dartmouth

By: Sandor Farkas and Charles C.W. Jang this small school was to prepare students to become Protestant and such figures as King George III and William Legge, Earl missionaries, including Natives among their own tribes and of Dartmouth. This so-called “bushel of money” allowed the Editor’s Note: This piece is intended as an historical exploration colonists in areas where Native numbers were lacking. This school to operate in the black, but Wheelock soon had bigger of the facts pertaining to the early history of Native American school was open to male and female students of many ages and dreams. students at Dartmouth. Many conflicting views are explored, and was free to attend, operating upon donations (both monetary Yale College as well as numerous smaller educational none should be taken as the explicit views of the authors or of and farm product-based). Despite English being the only lan- institutions contributed to a sense of shrinking room to ma- The Dartmouth Review collectively. This publication is proud guage necessary to preach, Wheelock insisted upon teaching neuver in Connecticut. Though Wheelock treated his charges of the College’s native heritage and wishes only to increase his pupils Latin, Greek, and Hebrew as well. The Reverend with compassion and empathy, those friends he tasked with awareness and discussion of this vital history. also taught his charges farming and agricultural skills, despite recruiting students for the Charity School were less than tact- complaints from some students’ parents, who were themselves ful. These ambassadors (especially his son, Ralph) were often Worse than the many uninformed opinions on Native farmers. Underlying the obvious paternal motivations behind rude and coercive, giving the good reverend an unduly harsh American issues here at Dartmouth College is the ignorance of these curricular choices, we can see the nucleus of what would reputation among Native American tribes, and alienating the the fact that these issues exist. In past controversies regarding become a liberal arts curriculum. Six Nations of the Confederacy. Due to a lack of re- such heated topics as the “Indian mascot,” campus has been Though the school graduated a significant number of Na- tention among his pupils, a need for more advanced education, crucially divided between two groups: those who have strong tive youth to proselytize to their home tribes, Wheelock was and a perceived lack of spiritual preparedness of his native opinions based off of minimal knowledge of Dartmouth’s Native disappointed to note that, “I don’t hear of more than half who missionaries, Wheelock become dissatisfied with the status history and those who have no knowledge or interest in it at all. have preserved their characters unstained either by a course of quo. He was determined to both move the Charity School to a In order for discussion to commence on this topic so dear to intemperance or uncleaniness, or both; and some who on ac- better location and to found a third institution, one that would Dartmouth’s core, we as a community must acknowledge two count of their parts, and learning, bid the fairest for usefulness, fulfill his dream of “civilizing” the natives through Christianity truths. First, Dartmouth has a history founded in and funda- are sunk down into as low, savage, and brutish a manner of and agriculture. To accomplish this feat, the reverend needed mentally inseparable from the history of the Native American. living as they were in before.” Wheelock had had to “beg” for land, and a lot of it. After weighing various options, such as Second, this history is anything but concrete and indisputable: donations to the Charity School, which never seemed to make Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, Massachusetts’s Berkshire it is riddled with questions, contradictions, falsehoods, and ends meet, given the amount of care he had put into it and the County, and New York’s Albany, Wheelock chose Hanover, surprises. It is the goal of this article to lay out the history of students (“procuring Cloathing, Governing the Boys out of New Hampshire. (The Wyoming Valley people responded too Native Americans at Dartmouth in an objective manner, as well School … forming their Manners … taking care of their Diet, late to Wheelock’s overtures; Berkshire had too small a donor as expose the community to the vital debates contained within and other things to preserve their Health … Catechising them base and too little land; Albany scared him off because of the it. … taking Care of them when they are sick,” in his words). inhabitants, in his words, “Corousing frolicking Cursing and Essential to the understanding of the founding of Dartmouth Upon one suggestion of Rev. Charles Jeffrey Smith, a Damming their own Souls and Sutch Great wickedness I Never is knowledge of Reverend ’s previous trusted advisor, Wheelock sent and Reverend Saw In my Life Before”). academic endeavors. Wheelock, a Congregationalist minister, Nathaniel Whitaker (a Connecticut minister who ended up on The area called “Hanover Plain” fulfilled Wheelock’s first founded a private “Latin” school, aimed at educating both the journey by default) as emissaries to Britain to “beg” for criteria -- there was plenty of space with good soil and the colonists and natives in the classics, including a young Samson money in 1765. The two went throughout England and Scotland, location was a wilderness far from “the Temptations to the Occom, a who became trained as an excellent min- displaying Occom’s erudition as an example of how Wheelock’s Vices.” Theodore Atkinson, secretary of the Province of New ister. In time, Wheelock realized his passion, founding Moor’s efforts had edified Indians throughout , collect- Hampshire, had written that the region was the “main passage Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut. The sole purpose of ing about eleven thousand pounds from both common people made use of by [Coos] Indians from Canada to this country.” April 22, 2014 The Dartmouth Review Page 9 “The Paternalistic Pyramid Scheme” Best of all, fourteen inhabitants of Hanover pledged subscrip- by the name of Dartmouth College, for the education tion payments in January 1769. and instruction of youth of the Indian tribes in this land “…and especially by the consideration that such a situ- It is also important to note that Wheelock’s desire to place in reading, writing, and all parts of learning which shall ation would be as convenient as any for carrying on the his school amongst the Native people he sought to educate was appear necessary and expedient for civilizing and chris- great design among the Indians; and also, considering, a reversal of his previous thought. When he established Moor’s tianizing children of pagans, as well as in all liberal arts that without the least impediment to the said design, the Charity School, he decided that, according to James McCal- and sciences, and also of English youth and any others.” same school may be enlarged and improved to promote lum in his collection of the letters of Wheelock’s students, “... Dartmouth College Charter. learning among the English, and be a means to supply a if established among the Indians, [it] was likely to fail because great number of churches and congregations which are of the attendant temptations. Dishonest and rum-selling traders, At this point it is necessary to remark that Wheelock’s likely soon to be formed in that new country…” Dartmouth the lure of the hunt or of warfare or of roaming, and the scoffing primary aim was “Christianising,” or in a broader sense, “civilis- College Charter. of unconverted savages always tended,” he argued, “to frustrate ing,” those he saw as savage pagans. Though Wheelock wished discipline.” This calls into question Wheelock’s motives in mov- to educate them in the liberal arts as well, the Charter specifies This passage reinforces the suspicion that Wheelock’s motives ing the school. While there is no doubt that the Reverend had a that the Natives to be educated are those who have not already for moving the school were to create breathing room for his sincere desire to convert the Natives (he was a minister greatly accepted Christianity and Western ways. It also includes English fledgling “Great Design” and to create an institution on par influenced by the First Great Awakening, after all), his decisions (colonist) youth in its targeted student pool, with stated aim of with his previous neighbor, Yale. If this is true, then the place reflected a disillusionment using them to aid their Native of Natives as students becomes all the more important. with his dream of Native mis- fellows in missionary work, As previously stated, the passage of the Charter regard- sionaries. It was his original and the possible tacit goal of ing religious freedom seems to suggest that “heathen” Native intention that Christianized expanding Dartmouth to be a American students could attend Dartmouth without convert- Natives would be the principle college in the more traditional ing. While any person who has read Wheelock’s rants and the harbingers of the gospel, with sense. In a remarkable show of Charter is skeptical of this notion, it raises the more important his English students providing acceptance for that period, the question of the role of Native Americans at Dartmouth. If Na- critical oversight of their work. Charter adds to this latter group tives could attend and not convert, then, contrary to the previous Despite the move to the wilder- “any others,” a phrase that may theory proposed here, it was the Native American and not the ness to be closer to the Native have led to Dartmouth’s status “heathen” or “pagan” status of a student that made a young man tribes, he continued to place as the first of the Ivy Leagues suited to attend Dartmouth. Taken down this shaky yet intact emphasis on the education of to graduate a black student. train of logic, the Charter seems to say that Dartmouth is meant these English students while The question that derives to educate three types of students. Primarily, the College would noting the declining will of the from this passage and that has be to educate non-Christian Native Americans as missionaries, Natives to attend his school. It caused debate into modern a task that met with limited success due to a general animosity is even possible that the move times is whether the Native among the predominantly Catholic and French-sympathizing Early anonymous sketch of Moor’s Charity School, courtesy of represented not a desire to be youth, born into a Christian Natives of the region (though there were many exceptions). Its Rauner Special Collections. closer to the Native populace and educated family, fell into secondary role would be as a liberal arts institution for “English of the colonies, but to distance him from the established col- the former group of “Native youth” or the latter group of “any youth and any other.” In this latter role, the “any others” would leges in the colonies in order to compete more effectively for others.” specifically include and emphasize Native American students, the enrollment of non-Natives. Curious is the passage of the Charter in which religious regardless of their status as pagan or Christian and civilized or The move to New Hampshire was all well and good, or it freedom among the student body is provided for. As the Charter savage. would have been had Wheelock been more open to his backers gives the College the right and duty to outline a set of internal It is this secondary role, which Dartmouth continues to play, about his plans to found a college. He sent letters to his English laws, it specifies that these rules will be set out, “not excluding and it is this interpretation of the role of Native Americans at supporters only after the charter for what became Dartmouth any person of any religious denomination whatsoever, from free Dartmouth which the College has adopted as official policy. College (not an “Academy” as was originally drafted, and and equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of Unfortunately for the logically-minded, the Charter does not named after Lord Dartmouth, head of the English trustees, to the liberties and privileges or immunities of the said college, end there. Supporting the differentiating of “pagan” Natives try getting on his good side) had been approved in December on account of his or their speculative sentiments in religion, from Christianized Native students in regards to their role at of 1769. The overseas trustees had donated to educate Indians, and of his or their being of a religious profession different from Dartmouth, the following passage comes near the end of the not establish a college, writing that the move was “certainly a the said trustees of the said Dartmouth College.” Perhaps no Charter and is designed solely to confuse the reader, “And this very wrong Step for you to take without Consulting us -- it is single passage in the charter is seemingly more contradictory to continue so long as they shall perpetuate their board of trust, the sentiment of us all that by lodging the Power in other hands, to the stated goals of the new college. With an understanding and there shall be any of the Indian natives remaining to be it has Superceded the Trust here.” This dissension came too that Wheelock’s America was ripe with hatred for Catholics, proper objects of that charity,” (emphasis added). The majority late, as by July 6, 1770, New Hampshire Governor Benning including their French, Spanish, and recently deposed Stuart of this sentence seems to be straightforward, stating that the Wentworth transferred five hundred acres to the new College, enemies, did Wheelock truly intend to found a school in which College will continue to educate Native American youth as long which had been teaching classes to sixteen students since April Catholics were given the same treatment as Protestants? For as they continue to exist (which, despite the worst intentions of 12 of that year. The founding had been relatively uneventful; that matter, did Wheelock even entertain the idea of admitting many historical figures, they thankfully have). It is the second apart from a mix-up in which Wheelock could not get a quorum the few Jews resident in the colonies or Muslims who surely part that causes us to call into question what once seemed so of trustees to show up initially (someone had forgotten to send seemed a world away? clear. What does it mean for Native American students to be out an advertisement for the event), the group made several There are many ways to interpret this passage. A narrow a “proper objects of that charity?” Wheelock intended that his pertinent yet mundane decisions: for example, approving the reading would write off “any religious denomination whatso- Native graduates would go back to their respective tribes and appointment of tutors for the College. Wheelock’s students built ever” as either referring to denominations within Christianity or convert their fellows. He also intended that they would follow his huts for themselves, while hired teams began constructing what allowing for “pagan” Natives to be admitted before their even- example and teach other Natives, civilizing them and gradually is now Dartmouth Hall (although it was not complete until 1791, tual conversion. This view is naive, as the Charter has already turning all Native American tribes into Christian, Westernized twelve years after Wheelock’s death, and the original burned spelled out in definite and clear terms that the school was to farming communities, much like a huge paternalistic pyramid down in 1904). admit Native students for the purpose of converting them, and scheme. In that case, it could be easily argued that this passage While this early history of the College and the events Wheelock, however single-minded, was not so ignorant that he means that those Natives who had already been Christianized and preceding its founding are largely unknown to many students, would use this language and think it only applied to Protestant taught by missionaries were not the target pupils for Wheelock’s the Charter of Dartmouth College has become such a part of or even Christian sects. new college. While this certainly would not preclude Native Dartmouth legend that its content is relegated to the status of If this is not the case, the passage can have a number of students from attending the College, this interpretation would kitsch. If a student took the time to stop during his busy day, important meanings. It would suggest that a non-Christian suggest that once a youth fit Wheelock’s image of a civilized pause for a moment beside the small room in Baker Library, student could attend and graduate from Dartmouth College man, he was no longer in a category of his own when it came decipher the elegant script of the old parchment hanging there, without converting in any way to Wheelock’s faith. The implica- to his matriculation at Dartmouth. and locate the actual content of the charter amidst its lines of tions of this concept are radical. In one fell swoop, it manages Having presented what we hope are two compelling yet 18th century legalese, the student would find the Charter a to obliterate any notion of Dartmouth as a purely religious vastly different historical perspectives on the role of native charming and dated yet interesting read. The following passage institution, completely wiping away the lengthy diatribes the Americans in the early history of our Dear Old Dartmouth, we serves as the definitive statement establishing the College: Charter uses to spell out Dartmouth’s role as a training ground hope we have not turned anyone away from this interesting and for missionaries. While a Dartmouth that trained missionaries rewarding field of history. The Charter is a complex thing, and “KNOW YE, THEREFORE that We, considering the and simultaneously educated students in secular liberal arts we urge anyone looking to procrastinate to go online and read premises and being willing to encourage the laudable and could exist, this is not what Wheelock’s personal history and this fascinating and seemingly hypocritical document. This charitable design of spreading Christian knowledge among writings or the Charter would lead one to believe. Of greater article is intended not as a definitive answer to any debates. the savages of our American wilderness, and also that the importance, we know that this is certainly not what the trustees We hope it is rather a starting point for future inquiry. Aside best means of education be established in our province of who funded the College believed when they donated money. As from myriad primary sources available at the Rauner Special New Hampshire, for the benefit of said province, do, of our previously posited, could it have been Wheelock’s aim to found Collections Library, there is a plethora of sources on Native special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, by and a college not “simply” to educate and “Christeanise” Natives, American history at Dartmouth, including two excellent tomes with the advice of our counsel for said province, by these but to rival the contemporary institutions of higher learning? which were consulted for this article, Eleazer Wheelock and presents, will, ordain, grant and constitute that there be Wheelock repeatedly justified the move to the New Hamp- the Adventurous Founding of Dartmouth College, by Dick a college erected in our said province of New Hampshire shire Grants as being closer to Native tribes, though we know Hoefnagel, and The Indian History of an American Institution, this was not always his design. Considering that this motivation by current Dartmouth professor Colin G. Calloway. The Review Mr. Farkas is a freshman at the College and a Staff Editor may be false, the following Charter excerpt seems to support would like to thank Rauner Special Collections Library as well at The Dartmouth Review. Mr. Jang is a sophomore at the the idea that Dartmouth was intended not just as a school for as authors of these two books for opening the door to academic College and a contributor to The Dartmouth Review. Natives but as a rival to the other Colonial Colleges: study of our beloved Dartmouth College. n Page 10 The Dartmouth Review April 22, 2014 Help! Medic! By Charles C.W. Jang ing blood loss. In the trauma bay, where he works as surgeon, formed well. Daubed with crimson makeup, stage blood the success of damage control surgery depends on preventing and the occasional fake bone sticking from the skin, actors On the afternoon of April 12, a disaster that authorities hypothermia, coagulopathy, and acidosis (the so-called “lethal screamed, wandered around in either simulated drunkenness have termed a “vehicle ejection incident” occurred in front of triad”). This surgery depends on preventing excessive hemor- or a post-traumatic daze, and sometimes became angry and Mass Row, leaving about twenty casualties. Some shrieked rhaging in the field with tourniquets and controlled hypotension belligerent with the medics for not treating this or that patient piteously, “Help me!” while others appeared inconsolable (lowered blood pressure). The last speaker, Boston University (“He was my friend...are you doing your job?!”). The EMS over the loss of their children. Teams of Emergency Medical EMS director Aaron Gettinger, described how EMS personnel technicians, for their part, remained professional throughout Service (EMS) medics set to work; armed with bright orange responded to the Boston Marathon bombings last year. While the whole ordeal, putting triage tags on patients signifying first aid bags containing triage tags, splints, oxygen masks, the various private and Boston ambulance crews performed their medical condition, removing the walking wounded, and other accouterments, they dodged gawking bystanders to well in bringing the wounded to hospitals, Gettinger pointed and trying to put the remaining humans in as stable a shape treat the wounded and began putting chaotic violent bystanders out issues that would have cropped up had a similar disaster as possible before ambulances could arrive at the disaster’s into custody. Each team would shout, “Pulse?” or “Breathing occurred under different conditions. Earlier in the race, for epicenter. Gettinger, who stuck around to observe the MCI rate?” or “Injuries?” Replies would come: “Ninety-eight,” or example, there were fewer hospitals and ambulances than were drill, had some comments to this effect during the debriefing. “Eighteen, but shallow,” or “Abrasions to the arm and bone in Boston itself; many emergency services in other locations He noted that communication could have been better between sticking out of the right leg.” have issues in communications, including ambulance radios each of the three-man teams, pointing out a situation where Despite the dramatic description, this event was a practice that function on different frequencies. Gettinger recommended a woman actor labeled as an, “altered mental-state yellow [a “Mass Casualty Incident” (MCI), part of the annual Northern that the collegiate groups in attendance take pains to avoid such triage tag indication]” was told to stay in place, to prevent New England Collegiate EMS Conference, and was held problems by coordinating with local police, fire departments her wandering off and pestering other teams -- seven times. for the fifth year in a row at Dartmouth this month. In an and ambulance providers and by making plans to deal with However, the practicing medics’ coolness under fire could not all-day affair, seventy attendees from seven schools listened various contingencies, major or minor. be faulted; Gettinger confessed that he would have wanted to to guest speakers, participated in role-playing scenarios, and After the lectures, the attendees went off to practice scenar- smite a particularly confrontational bystander, something the performed the MCI drill. In what seemed to be a common ios. In these meetings, groups of five or six medics-in-training conference attendees avoided doing. thread throughout the day, the conference attendees trained to took turns acting out roles as patients, bystanders, or medics In a conversation with the event’s Executive Director Ethan deal with worst-case scenarios, the kind of cases no one wants in possible campus situations, ranging from the mundane (a Thomas, he explained that the EMS is a, “state-licensed [Basic to face but everyone must prepare for. student has fallen from a fraternity balcony and can’t get up) to Life Support] squad staffed and run completely by students,” The three guest speakers emphasized this idea in different the flashy, yet plausible (a feverish, twitching student is rolling whose main job is to be “on-call during the night” and during ways. The first, Mike Lauria, ’05, gave a talk on “Making the around a dormitory floor clad in glow-sticks and sunglasses certain events. Describing the procedure used to determine Call: Cognition, Decision Making, and the Tactics of Emergency extolling feelings of being “awesome”). In each case, those placement of the injured, Thomas explained that, “If S&S gets Medical Care.” As a former Air Force paramedic and current acting as the medics had to figure out what was wrong with a call for a medical issue while we’re on, then we’ll come to DART member (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response the patient and determine the proper treatment. Dartmouth evaluate and treat … before deciding whether Dick’s House Team, DHMC’s helicopter squad), Lauria had several insights EMS members who were running these exercises explained is the best option or [Hanover Fire Department ambulance into the nature of decision-making -- a skill essential to both that participating in these simulations was a productive way to delivery to] DHMC is.” Thomas was pleased with how the elite soldiers in foreign war zones and medics responding to practice treatment, as on-the-job training was obviously more conference turned out and plans to integrate the conference’s emergencies at home. He emphasized, “training to one hundred- than a little impractical. motif of vigilance into the group’s Weltanschauung, making thirty percent” in intentionally stressful situations, because in The skills practiced in the scenarios were put to the test in sure to cover, “those things that are really severe, that you the real world, “You don’t rise to the challenge, you fall back the Mass Casualty Incident drill. According to EMS Execu- never see…that you have to keep on the back of your mind to your level of training.” While the collegiate EMS groups tive Director Ethan Thomas ’14, Dartmouth freshmen plan the the most, because those are the things you forget how to do if in attendance probably will not throw initiates bound hand annual event, which is then coordinated by the sophomores. you don’t train enough.” and foot into pools, they may consider Lauria’s suggestions of Many different types of disasters can be considered MCIs. Both Following Thomas’s postmortem, the EMS technicians practicing procedures in distracting environments: in the dark, the 2012 and 2013 Boston Marathons were considered mass dispersed. Technicians who had come from distant locales in noisy environments, or with a fog machine, for example. casualty incidents; last year’s race was bombed, while 2012’s (Boston University, Mt. Holyoke, Colby, Tufts, Rensselaer According to the next speaker, Dr. Kurt Rhynhart, many had a significant amount of runners falling to heat-related is- Polytechnic Institute, and the University of New Hampshire emergency procedures have the all-important job of prevent- sues. students at McGregor Memorial EMS) started the trek home, This year’s MCI drill was a “vehicular ejection incident” while Dartmouth EMS members began preparing for another Mr. Jang is a sophomore at the College and a con- (which, thanks to paperwork issues, lacked an actual vehicle). night’s duty. After all, it was a Saturday night, and the job is tributor to The Dartmouth Review. Props aside, both the “victims” and the EMS attendees per- an important one. n Madeline Albright Comes to Campus strategic consultancy on international affairs, and Albright Capital events and the question of Russia’s endgame in the Ukraine. The By Matthew R. Zubrow Management, a private asset management company concentrat- former Secretary demured popular comparisons of Putin’s activi- Our nation’s first female Secretary of State, the dynamic ing in emerging markets. What this author did not know about ties in Eastern Europe to Hitler’s in the Sudtenland and argued Madeline Albright, was certainly being understated when she the Secretary’s biography, until she proudly announced it at the that the recent events in the region can best be understood as part described herself in her memoir, Madame Secretary, “as a strong beginning of the event, is that though she attended the all-girls of a broad trend of resurgent nationalism in Europe.She did see person with strong opinions,” and, “born with a tendency to ex- liberal arts school Wellesley College, she nonetheless has close the comparison as an apt cautionary tale, however, in the sense press them.” Indeed, if there was one overarching theme that came personal ties to our fair alma mater. One of her three children, that during the Sudeten Crisis, “the country was sold down the across in the course of the Center-sponsored Anne Korbel Albright, attended Dartmouth and played on the river,” and that this mistake cannot be made in Crimea. “The event, “Madeline Albright, in Conversation with Ambassador women’s ice hockey team. Albright’s daughter is now an associate Ukrainians have to be at the table,” she declared. Daniel Benjamin,” it was that this transformative figure whose Sixth Circuit Judge presiding in Montgomery County, Maryland. Continuing, Ms. Albright asserted that though, “Crimea reach has extended far beyond the scope of American foreign As previously stated, Madame Albright, with her endear- has a complicated history,” Russia’s unilateral invasion of it policy continues to be, as she writes, “brave and outspoken,” and ingly inflated (but well-deserved) ego, was quite outspoken was “not the way to do it.” She further theorized that President thus still relevant in current political discourse. Born in Prague and entertainingly engaging Putin wanted to renew the impe- to a prominent Czech diplomat, Madame Albright (born Marie throughout the hour-and-a-half rial glory of the Soviet Union, Jana Korbel) prolifically served in the Clinton Administration, verall, then, the event featuring Mad- lecture. She certainly spoke for eline Albright was insightful, though I avoiding resignation to a fate first as Ambassador to the United Nations until 1997 and then at least ninety percent of the O as a glorified “Bangladesh with as Secretary of State until the Republicans took back the White time. The event, therefore, was admittedly do wish that the Dickey Center missiles.” The Ambassador then House in 2001. not really “Madeline Albright, had invited Henry Kissinger instead. pointed out that, “[w]hether it’s As evidenced in her spirited conversation with Ambassador in Conversation with Ambas- Bangladesh or not, it has nuclear Benjamin, Ms. Albright has not skipped a beat since leaving sador Daniel Benjamin,” as it was billed, than it was, “Madeline weapons.” The two agreed, and rightfully so, that unilateral government service, continuing to display her emblematic quick Albright, in Conversation with Herself.” sanctions against Russia imposed by the U.S. not only would wit, insightfulness, and vivacious personality—what friends The former Secretary of State spent much of the evening be unsuccessful, but would in fact make us look weak. affectionately call, “the lion in Madeline,” for which she has discussing the challenges associated with the collapse of the From a broader, more philosophical perspective, I thought it become famous. In fact, since then, the divorcée has been quite Soviet Union, at one point opining that, “I happen to believe was effective that she broadly framed foreign policy as “just get- busy, authoring a number of books, serving as a key Democratic we didn’t win the Cold War, [but that] they lost the Cold War.” ting some country to do what you want[,]” and spoke constantly Party surrogate, obtaining prominent leadership positions on the These remarks were in keeping with the content of her most of the tools with which this was done. But the problem is that boards of the National Democratic Institute for International Af- recent book, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore in terms of our tools, “we always like to choose the middle op- fairs and the Council on Foreign Relations and is also a professor America’s Reputation and Leadership, in which she dismissively tion,” which is “the use of sanctions.” She subsequently opined at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. But perhaps called President Reagan’s foreign policy as “simplistic,” and that “the problem with sanctions is that they take a long time to most impressively, Ms. Albright, who jokingly called herself said that he, “knew next to no history.” In her eyes, Reagan did take effect.” This is certainly very true. While not giving more “really old” at the ripe age of seventy six and said she, “went not, “win the Cold War, save for some strong rhetoric and as- specifics, at the end of this portion of the conversation, Madeline to college sometime between the invention of the iPad and the sistance to Poland.” Rather, Albright claims, Reagan, “like the Albright said definitively that Russia’s move “is a game changer,” discovery of fire,” proudly boasts that she “can leg press 450 rooster claimed credit for the sunrise [and] he just happened to pointing out that there are Russian-speaking minority populations pounds.” She has also shown considerable business acumen in be around when the USSR lost it.” Not only is this a disparaging in many former Soviet-bloc countries such as in the Balkans,” her retirement, founding the lucrative firms the Albright Group, a and highly primitive view, it is factually inaccurate, forgetting and warned that this type of unilateral action may spread. Mr. Zubrow is a sophmore at the College and the Arts such important interventions as CIA involvement in Soviet-bloc Overall, then, the event featuring Madeline Albright was and Culture Editor at The Dartmouth Review. protests. insightful, though I admittedly do wish that the Dickey Center Following this interlude, the conversation turned to current had invited Henry Kissinger instead. n April 22, 2014 The Dartmouth Review Page 11 An Interview with Alex Mooney By: Kush S. Desai and Nicholas P. Desatnick people are familiar with how [Governor Scott] Walker took most others, and [Obama’s proposals would] really hurt the on the special interests and teacher’s unions and cut state economy in West Virginia and it’s also one of the reasons Editor’s Note: Recently, The Dartmouth Review had the spending. His constituents [attempted to] recall him and they why we West Virginians are not voting for Democrats these privledge of catching up with Alex Mooney, a member of the attacked him viciously…Walker did everything right. He days. Maryland voters have similar concerns and want to see Class of 1993 here at Dartmouth and a Republican candidate passed right to carry, he passed the school choice propos- government spending cut and don’t want to see more debt for Congress in West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. als, and because of that, the Democrats really wanted to get ceiling increases without any kind of balanced budget plans. Here is what he had to say: him. Scott Walker stuck to his principles. Now, has reformed its spending patterns and they have a balanced TDR: How did your time at Dartmouth help you develop as TDR: As a Hispanic American, what drew you to the budget and the voters have rewarded Governor Walker with a leader and get you involved in politics in the first place? Republican Party and the ideals of conservatism more reelection. I think we need to apply the same principles in broadly? Congress…We need a balanced budget. The American people AM: I was a philosophy major, so I like to think that I have want a balanced budget. I think if the Republicans stick to a good, thought-out basis for my views. When someone AM: Well, I’m the son of an immigrant, and on my father’s their principles and say ‘we’re going to balance the budget,’ challenges me on why I take a position or why I won’t raise side, my grandfather came from Ireland. I believe all immi- that they would be rewarded for that. I think one of the reasons taxes, I feel I have an answer. Unfortunately, in the political grants come here simply looking for an opportunity. They that Republicans give into increased spending and increased process, there is not a whole lot of time given to explaining don’t come here looking for a handout or welfare or special debt was because they are afraid of the political backlash. your position. One of the things I learned at Dartmouth was privileges. They want an equal chance to live the American But I don’t think there will be a backlash. I think if the vot- how to write well; I was not an English major, but you can’t Dream. [They want to] own their own business; own their ers actually see them not cutting a deal, not trying to do a graduate from Dartmouth without learning how to write well. own home; keep the profits from their hard work - that is bailout or give a special interest a benefit, I think they will This skills has served me well. Dartmouth alumni have [also] the crux of what they want. The moment an immigrant ar- reward the GOP with greater representation in Washington. been supportive. I know from when I was a student that rives – whether it’s from some Hispanic country or [another the College always promoted alumni loyalty. When I meet country]– the Democratic Party comes in with its agenda of TDR: Within that vein, what were your personal take- another Dartmouth grad somewhere, they’re usually open ‘we’ll give you free stuff! We’ll give you free healthcare! aways from the Republican defeats in recent national to being of assistance in the campaign if they can. We’ll give you money for food and housing! The countries elections and what have you tried to do differently in where these immigrants come from, most of them anyway, your own campaign? TDR: How were you politically engaged on campus? don’t give out free stuff. [Immigrants] are not used to that and they aren’t stupid either. They know that someone has AM: I make it clear that I will stick to my principles… I AM: I was active with the Aquinas house, AQ, where I went to pay for all of these benefits the Democrats want to give say repeal Obamacare completely. Don’t fix it; don’t try to to church. I was actually vice president at AQ. I was also the them. It’s tough. It’s a temptation. It’s hard to turn down make it work better. It’s a complete train wreck. Just repeal president for two years of the Dartmouth Coalition for Life. free benefits. And that’s the whole agenda of the Democratic it completely. I say you have to have a balanced budget. I did that my junior and senior year of college. We did have Party. Unfortunately, [the promises of these entitlements] just In the recent years, people like Ted Cruz have tried to cut a Republican Club… I was a member… but I can’t say it can’t continue. People want to work and keep their profits; Obamacare, but the Democrats just had a better resolve than was very active. I didn’t write for The Review, but a lot of they don’t want to give [their money] to somebody else… we did. But, I still want to give the House of Representa- my friends did. I was [also] a SigEp – Sigma Phi Epsilon. Our country cannot continue that way. That’s what worries tives some credit. They have passed a repeal of Obamacare me, and that’s why I try to explain to my Hispanic friends just over 50 times now. And the US Senate won’t take it up. TDR: What were your perceptions of The Review at that that they should be voting conservative, because we want a So, at this point, it’s all about the November election and point in its history? government that’s going to function in the future. hopefully if the Republicans can take over the US Senate, we can start to dismantle Obamacare… and cut spending AM: I was a big Review fan. It was a needed perspective on TDR: We noticed that you were chosen as the “Taxpayer’s and pass balanced budgets. campus. I was a conservative, so I agreed with what I read in Hero” in 2003 for cutting regulations and taxes on small The Review. My father – who’s passed away now – made a business. Can you give us a specific example of regula- TDR: We also read that you recently got an endorse- point of subscribing to The Review, even long after I gradu- tions you would cut should you be elected to Congress? ment from former Congressman Ron Paul. Would you ated and had left Dartmouth…. The Editor-in-Chief [of the characterize yourself as a fellow libertarian? paper] during my senior year was named Ken Weissman. AM: Sure. I would lower the corporate tax rate to encourage He was one of my best friends on campus. reinvestment in domestic jobs. I would absolutely cut the AM: I describe myself as a traditional conservative in the death tax because it is an onerous tax on people’s estates mold of . For example, when I was a state TDR: Why did you decide to run for the New Hamp- when they pass away. I would repeal Obamacare completely. senator, I led the fight against things like red light cameras shire House of Representatives back when you were a [Obamacare] is a horrible government intrusion in the free and speed cameras and I fought against taxes. Folks that Dartmouth student? market. Let the free market take over. Let people [purchase are – like Ron Paul – concerned about growing government, insurance] from whichever state they want to buy from, the surveillance of US citizens, and the inappropriate use of AM: Actually, some folk in Hanover, acting with the pro-life or whatever private insurer they choose. The reason I got government have seen my voting record and I’ve earned their group, asked if I would run to fill the slate, as it was actually that award, in addition to having a proven record of voting respect. There can be differences with folks on an issue here hard to find three candidates to run. Anybody who was a for small government… was the pledge I took not to raise and there, but my voting record has been so strong on less Republican nominee was automatically delegate in the New taxes. And during my 12 years as a State Senator, I never government and… personal privacy that Dr. Paul endorsed me. Hampshire Republican Convention, which would allow you once voted to raise taxes. In the liberal state of Maryland, to vote for conservative [positions] in the platform, such as where I was Senator and where I used to live, that was hard TDR: On a similar topic, there’s been a lot of talk about the pro-life plank, so that was how it came about. The primary to do. I stood my ground and I said during my campaign I a ‘civil war’ within the Republican Party between the was unopposed. They knew that it was extremely unlikely would not raise taxes and I was one of the few Republicans establishment and Tea Party upstarts. What is your for a Republican to win from that particular area, and that’s that stuck to that pledge… and that was one of the reasons opinion of the Tea Party movement and how would you what happened: the Democrats won by about a 2-to-1 margin. I got that award. My father was a feisty Irishman from New identify yourself within that theoretical rift? But I was able to participate in the Republican convention York and I remember when I was 12 years old during the and was able to vote for the pro-life plank for the party. 1984 election, Walter Mondale, the Democrat candidate for AM: I continue to identify myself as a traditional conservative, President, admitted during a debate with Ronald Reagan that and to me that means the Ronald Reagan mold where you have TDR: Did that encourage your interest in politics or he was going to raise taxes. Later when I was a student at strong national defense, less taxes, fiscal conservatism, and persuade you to pursue politics after graduation? Dartmouth and I studied the election results, I realized that traditional values. I think that there’s been too much in the Reagan won that election 49 states to one. I connected that to press made up about the divide in the party. I think that the AM: I was always passionate about the political process what my father said about the American people not wanting establishment conservatives and the Tea Party have a lot in and I think it’s hard to fight the left no matter what state or their taxes raised. The first time I ran for the State Senate, common: they all oppose Obamacare, for example, and they country you run in. I ran for the [State] Senate four times and which was 1998, I knocked on 10,000 doors. Of all 10,000 want a balanced budget, so I think the real problem in this I won three, and frankly, just as in sports and other things people’s doors I knocked on and the thousands of people I country is the liberal wing, the social wing, the progressives. in life, you often learn more by your failures than your suc- talked to, no one asked me to raise their taxes… Not once did I’ve been able to get support from all parts of the Republican cesses. Just going through the process of an election is a anyone say ‘Hey Alex, I want to vote for you and once you Party who have seen my record and my willingness to work learning process. get in the Senate, raise my taxes!’ No one ever said that. So, with all Republicans. when I got elected of course, I got all these special interest TDR: As a Dartmouth alumnus we’re curious about how groups and liberals who wanted to benefit from higher taxes TDR: How is running for office and connecting with the you’re connected to the Dartmouth community and if you came to lobby me for taxes. But I kept my pledge and that’s electorate in Maryland different from campaigning and have any advice to impart on the younger Dartmouth why I got the award. connecting with the electorate in West Virginia? student readers.

TDR: So how do you see yourself working with the cur- AM: Well, what I found the voters in West Virginia are AM: My connection is through staying in touch with alumni rent Congressional leadership and overcoming some of concerned about the spending issue. Maryland is a higher that I’ve gotten to know. A few years ago [I was elected to] the national legislative gridlock? income state, and West Virginia is not. The hardworking the Dartmouth Association of Alumni, and that’s the group folks of West Virginia live within their means and therefore that sets the rules for the Trustees Elections… I was involved AM: I think [legislators should] stick to principles. Most when they see the federal government spending out of con- with that, which connected me to a lot of other alumni who trol, it’s really offensive to [them]. West Virginia has a coal were concerned with the direction of the College. As far as Mr. Desai is a freshman at the College and a Staff Editor industry: it’s their top private enterprise. Obama is waging advice goes, I would [encourage students] to your principles at The Dartmouth Review. Mr. Desatnick is a junior at the an all out war on the coal industry, which is essentially a war and just get involved in whatever God calls you to get in- College and the Editor-in-Chief at The Dartmouth Review. on West Virginia. West Virginia is more of a coal state than volved in. n Page 12 The Dartmouth Review April 22, 2014

“The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.” “How time flies when you’s doin’ all the talking.” “Faith, that’s as well said, as if I had said it myself.” -- Bryant McGill -- Harvey Fierstein -- Jonathon Swift

“The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s “Different people, in good faith, can look at the same “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. fact and interpret it differently. But that’s where an That’s why there are so few good conversations: Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.” interesting conversation begins.” due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” -- Arthur Dent -- Eric Schlosser -- Truman Capote

“A more significant phase should mean serious po- “Although there exist many thousand subjects for “You can discover more about a person in an hour litical dialogue.” elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot of play than in a year of conversation.” -- Aung San Suu Kyi meet a cripple without talking about feet.” -- Plato

“When you have shot and killed a man you have in -- W. Somerset Maugham “Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to have given a definite answer to a definite problem. someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you’ve For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a got to remember those inspirations.” way, the next move is up to him.” -- James Cameron -- R. A. Lafferty gordon haff’s “There are two things in ordinary conversation which “You must not treat others with cruelty and that much ordinary people dislike -- information and wit.” harshly, you must fight others but through peace and the last word. -- Stephen Leacock through dialogue and through education.” -- Malala Yousafzai “One thing talk can’t accomplish, however, is com- munication. This is because everybody’s talking too Compiled by: Brian Chen “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives much to pay attention to what anyone else is saying.” which he habitually uses in conversation.” -- P. J. O’Rourke -- Mark Twain “Two people in a conversation amount to four peo- ple talking. The four are what one person says, what “‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — of conversation with the average voter.” what he thought he heard.” cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.’” -- Winston Churchill -- William Jennings Bryan -- Lewis Carroll

“Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never “‘Are you lost, Daddy?’ I asked, tenderly. “If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it wasted.” ‘Shut up,’ he explained.” in conversation.” -- Christopher Hitchens -- Ring Lardner -- Oscar Wilde

“If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control “A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of “Those at too great a distance may … mistake igno- of the conversation.” you probably realize.” rance for perspective.” -- Taylor Swift -- George Wald -- Carl Sagan Barrett’s Mixology By Ignatius J. Reilly Prospie Punch EBAS.com 30-rack of Keystone Light A pleasant weekend A tough decision

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