When I Became an Activist at DARTMOUTH by Guillermo
“I can’t pinpoint a ‘beginning’ to my ‘activism,’ but I became aware of a discomfort, and of thoughts and feelings about the U.S. and about the Ivy League, around the beginning of my sophomore year. Perhaps a few important experiences were a class I took that made me understand the fundamental racism and inhumanity of the U.S. as a nation and therefore of the institutions that it reveres (like Dartmouth), a friendship with a foormate who wasn’t here for anyone’s shit, and a talk I attended at which several sexual assault survivors shared their experiences...it was more a general growing sense of disillusionment with the things our society worships, like the “education” we are receiving. If you’re paying attention to your inner self and also the world outside Dartmouth/things that matter to you, it will probably happen to you too.” -anonymous ‘15
“I became involved quite late in my Dartmouth career. Coming from a homogeneous foreign country with almost zero education on and awareness of the workings of privilege, it took me some time to detangle the power dynamics on campus and in America (and the world!) in general. Te Diversity Peer Program my sophomore winter got me started, as did my classes in cultural anthropology and the Social Justice Mediation program ofered through the Mediation team. I have spent a lot of time since learning how to become the best ally I could--a lot of listen- ing and RealTalk were just the frst steps on that long path.” - anonymous ‘14
1 “Occupy Dartmouth introduced me to public, collective resistance eforts during my frst year at Dartmouth. Trough that group, I also started attending Students Stand with Staf meetings and became involved in the People’s Coalition once Occupy Dartmouth became inactive. I continued to participate in group that organized and planned actions to hold the Dartmouth ad- ministration accountable such as the ‘Dimensions Protest’ and the recent sit-in in the President’s Ofce. Trough all of these collectives and courses with professors that openly engage radical, transformative politics, I’ve also been challenged to practice resistance in my personal choices and academic work. Recognizing the political signifcance of every decision I make, every action and inaction, has given me the strength to complete my academic work in times of despair and courage to show up to protest.” -Yomalis Rosario ‘15
“I became involved in activism my freshman winter term when layofs were announced at the College. I had a chance to follow Students Stand with Staf for a documentary flm project, and the more I learned, the more activism made sense to me. Dartmouth’s choice to save money by cutting working-class positions instead of lowering high-paid administration salaries didn’t make sense to me, particularly because of my working-class background.” - Guillermo K. Rojas
“I became involved in activism my sophomore winter term after a Chinese American friend in the military killed himself because his peers and superiors hazed and abused him for his race. As a way of grappling with his suicide, I attended sessions of the Diversity Peer Program organized by OPAL and began to understand the larger issues of institutional racism and systemic oppres- sion that connected my friend’s suicide to cases like Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, and other injustices inficted on people of color simply for the way they looked.” – Gavin A. Huang
2 Table of Dis-Contents
1. When I Became an Activist ...... p. 1 2. Advice for Incoming Students ...... p. 5 3. Advice and Encouragement ...... p. 6 4. What DARTMOUTH Can Do for You...... p. 7 5. Te Hidden Costs of DARTMOUTH ...... p.11 6. Where to Eat: Vegan and Vegetarian ...... p.16 7. Jobs on Campus ...... p.17 8. DARTMOUTH Got Money ...... p.21 9. DARTMOUTH’S Direct Investments...... p.21 10. Divest DARTMOUTH ...... p.23 11. Refections on RealTalk ...... p.25 12. Call to Action Workshops ...... p.29 13. Cultural Appropriation 101 ...... p.30 14. A Year of Mourning (2016 - 2017 ) ...... p.31 15. Black Intellectual Lives Matter ...... p.33 16. Undocumented at DARTMOUTH ...... p.35 17 . Points of Contact on Campus ...... p.38 18. When You Say “Deport Tem...” ...... p.39 19. On the Importance of Safe Spaces...... p.40 20. How to Be an Ally ...... p.42 21. How to Be a Trans* Ally ...... p.43 22. A Practical Guide to Happiness ...... p.45 23. How to Avoid... the Dartmouth Bubble ...... p.47 24. Post-Protest Poetry ...... p.51 25. Invest in Your Spiritual Health ...... p.53 26. Fuck Your White Tears ...... p.57 27 . Classic Comebacks for Activists ...... p.59 28. Myth vs. Fact: Social Life...... p.62 29. Ethnic Studies ...... p.63 30. What is Pan Asian? ...... p.65 31. Rad Professors and Bad Professors ...... p.67 32. A Recent History of Activism ...... p.69
3 Tis guide was created by many members of Te Dartmouth Radical and Te Dartmouth Action Collective. We believe that there is a need for an orientation guide that provides our truths and prepares underclassmen for a Dartmouth that we ourselves were unprepared to face. We also wish to preserve an institutional memory of recent activism and progressive thught at Dartmouth. Tis guide is inspired by those of NYU, Tufs, UC Santa Cruz, and Columbia. We hope that this guide proves informative, but most impor- tantly, that it challenges you as a person and as a Dartmouth Student.
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For Returning Alum
First of all, welcome back to Dartmouth!
Te Disorientation Guide might seem like it’s come out of nowhere, but there is a history to this document. As the 4th edition, the 2017-2018 Guide is a mix of new articles and classic (read: controversial) submissions. Te result is our largest publication to date, a collaborative labor of love for the ‘21s, older students, and anyone interested in changing the world around them.
While each writer has a unique vision of the future, it warms my jaded heart to see students and alum working together to confront and harness Dartmouth’s institutional power. Just as others have done before, and just as they will far past our graduation years. I invite you to think back to the student groups you participated in as an undergraduate. While the details might have gone out of focus, the feeling of solidarity just as lucent.
Happy Homecoming.
4 Advice for Incoming Students by Professor Giavanna Munafo
“Hi ______. Below our my thoughts for the Disorientation Guide. I want to echo Alex’s encouragement for you and all radical students to be inspired by the alum activ- ists before you, and all the faculty and staf who have also been pushing Dartmouth forward -- toward that “arc of the moral universe” that, as Teodore Parker and, echoing him, Martin Luther King Jr. insisted, ‘bends toward justice.’”
Also, I don’t know how much or what kind of information you’re providing about those to submit for the guide, but I am a senior lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies, formerly directed the Center for Women, and, subsequently, was director for training and educational programs in IDE.
Here are my three points of advice for incoming students:
Research and common sense tell us that students who get to know, and are known by, at least one professor or dean (or other trustworthy, institutionally-savvy, 1 credible individual) do better --- they make better choices because they get good counsel. Tey try and discover that they like more new things. Tey have a shoulder to cry on or an advocate to rely upon if/when things get tough. Tey are better able to make sense of the complex, often maddening, and too often bu- reaucratic institutions to which they pay tuition. Get to know such a person and engage in lively, critical assessment of your college experience with that person.
2 All students need to know that if they or someone they know wants truly confden- tial support, counseling, or advocacy related to sexual assault, they can call WISE (866-348-947 3). WISE staf are available 24/7 for free, and they are trained in an empowerment mod- el to advocate on behalf of those who have experienced sexual assault or domestic/ partner violence. Our campus personnel are also well trained to support survivors in various ways, but (regardless of job titles and responsibilities) under current laws and regulations Dartmouth personnel can be required to testify in a court of law (subpoenaed), whereas WISE counselors and advocates cannot.
3 Dartmouth’s “Principles of Community” encourage members of the campus community to act in principled ways. Te College does not enforce these principles unless the behavior that violates them is also a violation of our Standards of Conduct. While most students agree with the idea that everyone deserves to be treated fairly and to have equal access to educational and social/cultural resources on campus, the inequity and harm caused by bigotry, hostility, harassment, and assault can and do impact students’ lives. Listen to one another. Believe one another. Stand up for one another. Step in for one another. Speak out for one another. And know that we non-students are here to support you.
5 Advice and Encouragement
Despite its persistent conservative streak, Dartmouth has a strong tradition of progressive activism, and I’m excited to see you all strengthen this further. In the ‘80s the anti-apartheid divestment movement was huge (time for a new oil divestment campaign!), then in 2011-12 SSWS and Occupy were powerful on campus, paving the way for RealTalk, which helped raise national awareness of sexual assault and harassment, the Freedom Budget, and more. We all know there remain many problems to fx, and we must push forward with creative solutions and campaigns.
Here’s some advice and encouragement, in no particular order, based on my involvement in campus causes with student and faculty groups.
• Pick your issue, stay focused on it, and read the research literature and history. Te problems we face have been studied in depth. • Don’t try to bundle all issues and “isms” together; this can be a confused mess. • Avoid excessive identity politics and claims to being “more oppressed/triggered than thou”. We all have privilege, so use it for good. • Use public art (sheets hanging from the trees? projections on buildings?), humor, music. • Use stealth to document ills (eg hazing) with your iPhones. • Study the Yes Men. • Do something highly visible that will get media attention: the fear of loss of control of public image drives Dartmouth’s administration. • Educate prospies and their parents; get them to sign (more!) pledges. • Secrecy and hierarchy can rule this place: fght back with transparency and information/video release. • Don’t buy into the hierarchy or the prestige, don’t be afraid to cause a fuss, and don’t read or believe what reactionary peers say about you. • Form inclu - sive rather than exclusive groups. • Get outside the campus bubble, connect with local justice and environmental groups such as WISE, Donella Meadows Institute, COVER. • Hang in WRJ.
• Turn your passion/outrage in the direction your talents *best* help the cause, be it journalist, artist, direct action, organizer, marcher, artist/flmmaker, back-room data/evidence collector, app programmer, webmaster... Somebody has to photocopy the leafets. • Try to limit meetings to 90 minutes! Make them fun with small-group & social activities, training. • Meet in person: organizing online fails to create the same community. • You have many faculty, staf and other allies in expected but also unexpected places (eg science departments, deans, unions, alums, journalists). • Carefully document failures of the system, retaliation, and demand accountability. Culture and tradition have a huge efect on human behavior (especially here!): try to document and change culture rather than demonize individuals. • Organize a dance party in the middle of the Green.
Finally, I have some writing and literature on campus sexual assault and the ills of the Greek system (the issues I have focused on recently), here: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~ahb/studentlife
Enjoy & go out and make this a better university.
Alex Barnett, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Dartmouth, 8/18/14 6 What DARTMOUTH Can Do for You
by Barbara Olachea '19 and Margarita Ren '18
Dartmouth is an insanely fast paced environment and can be difcult for anyone to navigate. Depending on many factors such as your previous educational background, socioeconomic status, and health, it is important to be cognizant of your overall well-being even amidst a busy term on campus. Included below are resources from diferent departments and ofces on campus that may initially seem obscure and difcult to access but are well worth exploring.
a class, obtain a tutor, and ask for Triving Academically at Dartmouth help during ofce hours. It is easy to fall behind in the quarter system, • Before classes start, reach out to your especially when making the transi- professors for the class syllabus. Tis will tion freshman year. Upperclassmen allow you to start looking for the best deal sometimes ofer free tutoring as on books, as well as whether the class is volunteers, and you may qualify for the right ft for you. Do not buy Whee- a certain number of free tutoring lock books! Some places to get cheaper or sessions if you have fnancial aid. free books are BorrowDirect, Amazon, googling pdfs online, or asking around • If you are thinking of pursuing a for borrowed copies. pre-professional degree after Dart- mouth, or want a support network • If you are experiencing discrimination for professional development, seek in the classroom and do not feel comfort- advisors early on. Tere are diferent able talking to your professor, talk to your departments on campus for this: the dean- professors should be held account- Center for Professional Development able for their actions and their ability to (CPD), Undergraduate Dean’s Ofce, enhance, not hinder your learning during Health Professions Program, etc. and outside of class. • Use your dean- your assigned dean • Whatever accommodations you may (or whomever you connect with) need- whether it is fnancial issues, serves many roles: academic advisor, extenuating circumstances outside of the mentor, gateway to other resources, classroom,etc. should be taken into con- etc. sideration by your professor. You are the customer! It does not matter how much • If your dean is not doing their job of your tuition you paid in comparison to by not taking your concerns seri- your classmate. Professors are there frst ously, making you feel unsafe, and/ and foremost to make sure you under- or not advocating for you, there are stand the material. other options. Feel free to reach out to other deans, including frst-year • If you have even the slightest inkling deans and OPAL deans you do trust, that you will struggle with material in to advocate on your behalf or give you advice.
7 Mental Health
• Identify an advocate or confdante Counseling and Human you can talk to for advice- ideally Development (CHD) this should be someone that holds general knowledge about resources • Tere are on-call counselors you can on campus such as an upperclass- call 24/7. Tese counselors transition men, or a staf member. between nurses and counselors; gener- ally they’re there to talk through any • Mental health can impact your issues. academics- learn to recognize when this is happening and talk to your • If you feel like you might be involved dean. Tis can be triggered by with something that may incur a many things (a death in the family, judicial afair in the future, make sure political climate efects on mental to ask beforehand what must be legally health for example: post-Trump reported. For example, all counsel- election--). You don’t have to tell ors/medical staf will ask if you are deans too much, just an idea as to currently feeling like you want to harm why you are not able to do your someone else and if you are feeling like coursework on time. Physical injury you want to harm yourself. Tese are (including a concussion) also counts. two instances where they are contrac- You may qualify for an extension for tually obligated to legally report. On assignments or an incomplete for the the other hand, mention of cannabis is term which allows you to fnish after within patient-practitioner confden- fnals period. tially and does not need to be legally reported. If you are unsure, make sure Health Resources to ask beforehand the legal implications of mentioning a certain topic. • During certain times such as the start of the term, free appointments • Dick’s House Counselors are available for fu shots are ofered. But make to schedule via direct messaging, by sure to book them soon! Dick’s calling the main ofce, or by coming House gets backed up quickly. into the main ofce on the second foor to make an appointment. You will • Intrauterine devices (IUD’s) used get access to a counselor and the only as a long-term birth control method psychiatrist, Dr. Hu, faster by checking are free under the Dartmouth yourself in as an in-patient. Checking Student Group Health Plan. You in for mental health is always free and will initially be responsible for the you are able to check out at any time. cost upfront, and can request a Any meals are deducted from your reimbursement from the school’s ongoing meal plan. insurance provider. Considering you are paying for insurance, make sure you are taking advantage of all services covered.
8 What DARTMOUTH Can Do for You
Professional Development Alcohol • You made it to Dartmouth- and your • Good Sam-ing is free--but not driven personality and perseverance in terms of the ride. An SnS ride most certainly had something to do to Dick’s House can range from with it! Let your motivation continue $300-$500; a ride to DHMC can to ground you as you seek opportu- go upwards of $3000 or more for nities on campus- one of the primary ambulance fees. Many insurances reasons you are at Dartmouth is to will not cover this fee, so be careful. gain a degree that will ultimately help However, if you bring yourself into you pursue a career. Dick’s House for alcohol poisoning treatment, your care and stay is free. • Ask for opportunities wherever you can- there are frequent events on Medication for Mental Health campus during which you can meet with alumni and important fgures in Doctors: diferent felds. It is never too early to • Dr. Da-Shih Hu is the only psy- network and make connections with chologist and has mixed reviews from professionals. students. He generally goes by the principle that you know best and that • See your professors as a potential he is there to provide you with infor- resource for professional development, mation (though honestly, sometimes not just learning. Dartmouth profes- you need to prod him about infor- sors are some of the best in their re- mation rather than taking what he spective feld, and can serve as valuable says; for example, if you have ADHD mentors who may be able to provide and require medication, ritalin comes recommendations, research opportu- in immediate release and extended nities, or point you to internships in release but he generally will only give the future. you information on the immediate release unless you ask for it). Tere- Getting of Campus fore, if you are looking for direction, he may not be the doctor that would Dartmouth starts to feel like a bubble suit you best. sometimes- and getting of campus for an excursion may be just what you • Dr. Anne Bracken is a highly, highly need to de-stress and take a breather. trusted physician at Dick’s House. Actually, she may be the only trusted • If you are interested in attending a physician--with anything. As a physi- conference, whether it is for network- cian, she can also prescribe medication ing or with an organization, there for mental health. are various funding sources available. Collis, COSO (Council on Student Organizations), and the Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences are some examples. You will be asked to write a proposal justifying the reason for attendance. 9 • Seek enriching activities of campus such as museums, galleries, and other events only available in bigger cities Distinguishing between such as Boston and New York- there Funding vs Loans are often funds to support these op- portunities for students! • A source of funding is money that, like grants, you don’t have to pay back. Tis • For of-terms, internships are a list includes forms of emergency fund- popular (and expensive) option for ing, internship funding, and conference students if they are traveling away funding that should ofset the need to from home. Look to funding sources take out a loan that would have to be such as Rocky (Rockefeller Center), paid back in the future. the Center for Service, CPD, etc. early on and talk to program coordinators • Tis is not to be confused with loans, to get an idea of what they are looking in which you are expected to pay back for in applications. the money. In instances where funding is needed, many ofces like the Ofce of • Another option during of-terms is Financial Aid will provide loans to ofset carrying out a personal project. Look any fnancial burdens you have incurred. for programs such as Stamp Scholars, Keep in mind you will have to pay this as well as other grants such as Mellon back after graduation in addition to Mays specifcally targeted towards interest. students of color interested in going into academia. Dealing with Unexpected Costs
Financial Matters • Depending on your fnancial situation, you may be faced with unexpected costs • As you will come to fnd out, the for which you are unprepared for. Re- miscellaneous costs portion of your placing a broken laptop, glasses, or even fnancial aid package is optimistic extracting painful wisdom teeth are all at best, and most of the time grossly situations that can be covered by fund- underestimated. Te world is a messy ing for students on fnancial aid. Talk to place and often times requires that your frst-year dean, OPAL low-income we invest money for educational or advisor Rachel Edens, or any trusted personal reasons even at times when staf member. we don’t have that disposable income.
10 Te Hidden Costs of Dartmouth
(Or How to Save Money and Get the Most Out of College)
by Gavin
Despite its location in a middle-of-nowhere town in New Hampshire, the cost of a Dartmouth education is second highest in the Ivy League (the frst of course is Columbia University, located in the most expensive city in the country). But it doesn’t have to be so. Here are some tips to ensure you save as much money as possible on your pursuit of that $240,000 diploma.
Campus Living
• Consider living of-campus. It costs about $900 per month to live on campus. If you don’t mind the distance and can fnd a place of-campus for less than $900 per month, take it into consideration.
• After your frst term, choose the cheapest dining plan. Unless you really like Foco, there is really no need to • You’ll have to pay for your own laun- get more than the SmartChoice-5 or dry. It’s $1.25 for the washer and $1.25 7 plan. Since you are stuck with the for the dryer. SmartChoice-20 meal plan for fall term, you’ll get a sense of whether • Topside (or Collis Market) is a rip-of. you like Foco. Te Chinese Language It goes without saying – better to make House, Foley House, and Sustainable the trip down Main Street to CVS. Living Center ofer the DBA-only of-campus meal plan, the least expen- • Free food is usually left out at Novack sive plan. Café and outside Collis Common Ground. Feel free to grab at leftover • Financial aid does not cover all pizza and the occasional Chinese food. physical education classes, even though they’re required to graduate. Tere is a fnancial aid grant for PE classes ofered by the Dartmouth Outing Club, but you will only receive this aid if you are a paying member of the DOC and the aid will only cover 30 percent, 55 percent or 70 percent of the cost of the class depending on your aid. For most other PE classes, you will have to pay for them out-of-pocket.
11 Books One of the greatest shams in higher educa- tion is that most of your time will be spent reading books, but fnancial aid and tuition do not cover the cost of those books. But • Use course reserves and scan pages fear not; there are plenty of ways to get your from the books. Professors will place books without breaking your bank. books that are required for class on reserve at the library so that it’s available • Wheelock Books is a rip-of. Try to avoid for limited checkout. Depending on the buying books there. Buying used books or book, you can check it out for two hours, renting them online are good alternatives. four hours, or 24 hours. If you can’t If you are stuck with the dreaded course fnish the readings in time, you can scan reader (basically a customized compilation the pages for free using scanners in the of readings specifc to a class), see if you can library. get a copy from someone who has taken the class before, or share with a friend and split • Use BorrowDirect. Most books are the cost. available to check out from libraries at the other Ivies (MIT, Johns Hopkins, • Find previous or international editions. and UChicago are also in the BorrowDi- No matter how much a professor insists you rect partnership). Take advantage of this buy the newest edition of a textbook (likely, service. it’s because your professor wrote the book), the diference between diferent editions of • Search for the book online. If you have textbooks is minimal. a Kindle or other electronic reading device, chances are the book is available there. Also try doing a simple Google search for PDF copies of textbooks by searching the title of the book, author, and then “fletype:PDF.” You just might get lucky and fnd that someone has put your book completely online.
12 Study Abroad
Dartmouth has a great study abroad additional Dartmouth scholarship; loan program, mainly because there are lit- assistance is ofered for the other half. erally not enough beds on campus to ft every single student enrolled at once. But • Loan assistance is ofered to replace beware; there are some things fnancial the employment that would normally aid won’t cover when you go of to the be included in an on-campus term. You other side of the world. can take the loan, or pay it all upfront; either way, the burden is on you to • Financial aid will not cover your plane cover half of the extra cost of studying ticket. You’ll have to pay for airfare out- abroad. of-pocket. Depending on the program, you’ll probably also have to pay for your • Te cost of a transfer term at a own food too. non-Dartmouth approved program is $1,100 for the fall term and $2,200 for • You will be responsible for half the the winter, spring and summer terms. extra cost of a study abroad program. If you study abroad at an institution Studying abroad is often more expen- that does not have a formal partnership sive than an on-campus term. If you’re with Dartmouth, you will have to pay receiving fnancial aid from Dartmouth, an extra application fee of $1,100 in the half of that extra cost is met with fall or $2,200 during other terms. (Tis fee used to be $25 per term.)
Grants
As a Dartmouth student, you can take advantage of many grants ofered by the College, but you will have to apply for them. Te application deadlines for grants generally follow this pattern. Make sure you keep on top of these deadlines! Applications for fall term grants are generally due in early July. Applications for winter term grants are generally due in early October. Applications for spring term grants are generally due in late January. Applications for summer term grants are generally due in late April.
13 Unpaid Internship Grants Many ofces provide grants to students in the form of a single check and generally don’t look at expense reports. Once you receive the check, the money is yours to spend however you see ft. Applications for these grants can be found on the respective ofce’s website.
• Career Services Unpaid Internship Grants: Career Services (or the Center for Professional Development) ofers two grants for unpaid internships: the Robinson Grant (named after the founder of Scholastic, Maurice Robinson ‘19) of up to $3,000 for work in educational media or children’s media or work that directly benefts at-risk or inner-city children, or trains teachers, and the Fisher Grant of up to $2,500 for work in advertising, public relations, or publishing.
Hopkins Center Dickey Center Grants Arts Grants COSO Funding Te Dickey Center for Inter- Te Hopkins Center for the national Understanding ofers Arts ofers four grants each Te Council on Student several grants and internships, with varying levels of funding: Organizations oversees and including grants of up to a dance grant of up to $3,900, manages student organizations $4,000 for overseas leave-term a musical theater grant of up to on campus. Most student internships, the Stefansson $1,700, a special projects grant organization groups on campus Fellowship of up to $4,000 of up to $3,000, and another receive funding through COSO. for research in the Arctic, and special projects grant of up to Te money often goes towards a paid internship at Seeds of $1,500. Te grants are only things like planning events and Peace. Te Dickey Center ofered once per year and appli- publications, but COSO can also participates in the Davis cation deadlines are typically also sponsor transportation and Projects for Peace program, in early November. registration fees for students which ofers a grant of $10,000 who wish to attend conferences. for students to create and test Students applying for conference projects that promote peace funding from COSO should do so on behalf of an organization. during a summer. Te Dickey Center also awards prizes for essay contests: the Chase Essay Prize of $500 for the best essay on war or peace, and the Chase Senior Tesis Prize of $1,500 for the best senior thesis on war, confict resolu- tion, peace maintenance, or other related topics. For recent college graduates, the Dickey Center, in collaboration with Tucker, ofers the Lombard Fellowship, a grant of up to $15,000 for a six-month to one-year service project.
14 Fellowships and Special Funding
OPAL/Student Academic Services Funds Te Ofce of Pluralism and Leadership provides diferent kinds of funding and endowments for each afnity community. Student Academic Services has an emer- Leslie Center Fellowships gency fund that students can apply for if, for example, a family member is sick and a student can’t aford to go Te Leslie Center for the home. Student Academic Services also has an educational Humanities ofers three enrichment fund that can be applied for out-of-pocket annual grants of up to $1,000 expenses not covered by fnancial aid, such as certain for students working on costs of of-campus programs, interview suits, and going research or creative proj- to interviews. ects in the humanities. Te center also ofers two annual grants of up to $500 each to Rockefeller Center Grants support unpaid internships in humanities-related areas, or Te Rockefeller Center for Public Policy ofers mini-grants of students who wish to attend up to $300 to cover the cost of conference registration fees for scholarly meetings. Applica- an individual student and grants of up to $1,000 to cover the tions for these grants are due costs of an on-campus event or program by a student organiza- on November 1, February 1, tion. Te conference grant does not cover travel and food. Te and May 1. Rockefeller Center also ofers grants of up $4,000 for unpaid internships, and runs the First-Year Fellows Program, a sum- mer internship for frst-year students in Washington, D.C. Tucker Foundation Grants Te Tucker Foundation ofers several grants for internships related to service, spirituality, and social justice, including overseas leave-term internship funding of up to $4,000, funding of up to $4,000 for internships in domestic non-profts, funding of up to $4,000 for work in a faith-based organization, a fellowship of $6,500 spread over a four to eight-term period for a project focused on non-proft work in the Upper Valley, and a fully funded fellowship in South Africa. For recent college graduates, the Tucker Foundation also ofers the Lewin Fellowship of up to $15,000 for a post-graduate internship in non-proft work and the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service post-graduate fellowship, which provides a salary of at least $30,000, depending on the host organization.
Undergraduate Research Ofce Grants Te UndergraduateSTEP Research Ofce ofers leave term research grants of up to $4,000 and senior honors thesis research 3 grants of up to $2,000 per term. Students applying for a leave term research grant must be working directly with a Dartmouth faculty member on the research. First-year students are eligible to apply in the spring for funding in the summer after their frst year. In general, these grants can cover the cost of housing, travel, food, research services, and equipment rentals. Tey generally do not cover equipment purchases, books, or retroactive funding.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
15 Where to Eat Vegan/Vegetarian Dining in Hanover by Mayowa
Jewel of India 27 Lebanon Street Many vegetarian and roughly three or four vegan entrees are available. Know that the naan is made with butter, not “oil”. If you are looking for a non-dairy bread such and such, try the paratha.
The Noodle Station 11 Lebanon Street Te selection available is not particularly riveting but it does exist. Tere are about four diferent noodle types and three potential noodle toppings available for you to build your noodle dream.
**gluten free rice noodles also available**
The Farmer’s Market Te Dartmouth Green Occurs every Wednesday from 3-6PM until October 15th. Fresh, local produce, way better than what you’d fnd in stores.
16 Jobs on Campus
by Barbara Olachea '19
At Dartmouth, there are a wide variety of jobs available to students. Whether you are looking for a job that will help you develop a certain skillset, or simply an easy and convenient way to make money, there is ample opportunity for employment. Some of the best ways to go about looking for jobs is browsing on JobNet, or asking upperclassmen. Listed below are some job opportunities that are popular on campus.
Jones Media Center Baker Library Information Desk Student Assistant Te Jones Media Center ofers two kinds of jobs. Te students working Te Information Desk Student Assis- at the Center’s front desk manage the tant gives directions to visitors, answers lending and returning of movies and general questions about library resourc- equipment from the Center’s collec- es, and sometimes reflls Greenprint tions, and answer questions about its stations. resources. Te Tech students at Jones sit in the editing area and create multi- Hours / Wage: media presentations for the Center Minimum 10 hrs a week, at a rate of (e.g., short flms and posters about its $9.25 hourly with opportunities to pick resources), and ofer technical help to up extra shifts. students with multimedia projects for their classes and extracurriculars. Pros: Tis campus job gives you a raise each Hours / Wage: term, provides plenty of downtime Minimum 6 hrs a week, with plenty during which you can do homework of opportunities for picking up extra on your laptop, fexible hours from shifts. 7:45AM to 2AM, and simple, straight- forward responsibilities. Pros: Te info desk job provides plenty of Tip: downtime during which you can do Interviews occur before the term starts work on your laptop. Flexible hours and shifts are decided the day before from 10AM to 10PM, and very simple classes begin; seniority rules in choos- responsibilities. You get to know lots of ing hours. cool movies, too! Te tech job (4PM to 10PM) ofers students a chance to learn Apply: multimedia editing software while get- Contact J. Wendel Cox for an applica- ting paid for it, and it ofers a creative tion at
Apply: Contact
Tips: Blitz in early, expressing interest in working; DDS is expecting freshmen. Ofce of Pluralism and Leadership Be willing and eager to learn, and they’ll contact you for training. Te OPAL staf and advisors to each community on campus regularly hire Apply: one or two student assistants per term. Contact
Collis Building Manager
Te Collis Center hires student workers to serve as the primary contact for the building during the Hinman Student Mail Assistant weekdays and weekends. Duties in - clude locking and unlocking doors, Student workers at Hinman (where you assisting tech crew during events, pick up your mail) receive and sign of completing hourly rounds of the mail from various delivery services. You premises, and answering emails for will be in charge of organizing pack - the Manager email account. ages, sorting mail into student mail boxes, answering questions, etc. Hours / Wage: Day shifts are $8.25/hr, and night Hours / Wage: shifts are $13/hr. Raise of $0.25 per Hourly wage depends on experience, hour each term. Expect to work a but you start at $10/hr. Hours are minimum of 2 night shifts or 3 day fexible, and there is no minimum or shifts per week. Maximum hours maximum hours you can work. per week are 40 if you are looking to make extra money. Pros: Although the mail center gets busy at Pros: peak times, there is plenty of down Aside from when you work evenings time where you can work on home- and deal with inebriated people, work. shifts are chill. Because of the central location, you can talk to people and Apply: also be on your computer. Contact Johnathon Nadeau at vv
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by Kimberlee John '18
the pre-health track, I ended up having Dartmouth as an institution has a habit both spring and summer of during of making women of color feel unap- my junior year and thought that this preciated. Be it the social settings, the would be the perfect opportunity to overwhelming amount of white male put my dream into action and pursue faculty members, or simple geographic travel. I knew that I wanted to go location of the school. My time at Dart- back to Paris; I wasn’t done exploring mouth has been ripe with struggles and the city and wanted to ameliorate my a goal of mine was to escape campus as French skills since I am a Romance frequently as possible. Tis goal turned Languages major. I met with various into one of the most valuable experi- faculty members who were in charge ences thus far in my academic career; of certain grants and funds and was securing funding from Dartmouth to often told that I wouldn’t be able to get intern abroad on two separate of terms; funding; that I should look into other spring and summer. countries or just try to stay in the U.S. during my of term. Receiving the funding was not easy as I had to go through multiple faculty What they didn’t know was that I’m members, departments, and even deans a stubborn motherfucker who doesn’t in order to get help in making these like to hear the word no. In the end I dreams come through. Before matric- was able to pursue and gain funding ulating to Dartmouth, I knew that I from the CPD and the President’s wanted to travel abroad, and doing so on ofce. Once I secured funding for my own budget was impossible due to Paris, I was then motivated to fnd an my fnancial standings. I was privileged internship for the summer, with fund- enough to attend the Paris FSP during ing as well. I was able to secure money my sophomore year through help from through the Dickey Center for an family members, the fnancial aid international internship, and found my department, and working a multitude way to an internship with a sustainable of jobs beforehand, but I still thirsted development foundation in Marrakech, for more opportunities. Due to being on Morocco.
Moral of the story is this: Dartmouth has money. It is simply up to you to fnd and pursue it. Go to your dean; talk to as many faculty members possible, because there are tons of hidden pockets of money waiting for you to grab it. With deter- mination, perseverance, and patience, it is possible to secure a bag and travel on Dartmouth’s dime. Do NOT let anyone try you and act like you can’t do whatever you set your mind to because there is no greater feeling than proving anyone who has doubted you wrong and living your best life.
21 DARTMOUTH’s Direct Investments by Saidah
BECTON DICKINSON AND CO FORD MOTOR 3M CO GAMESTOP CORP CL A NEW American medical technology com- • produces products w/ prison labor • GAP INC/THE pany that manufactures and sells medical GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY devices, instrument systems and reagents. ABBVIE INC GENUINE PARTS CO Pharmaceutical Company. Tax evasion HARTSFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GR • BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY B NEW in 2011...Irish subsidiaries used tax laws HASBRO INC in Ireland but operates with cash fow in • holding company owning subsidiaries HERSHEY CO/THE Bermuda... sketchy engaged in a number of diverse business HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC activities. HOST HOTELS & RESORTS ACCENTURE PLC HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC BLACKROCK INC • multinational management consulting, ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC technology services, and outsourcing company. • owns over 1 million shares of CCA & jm smucker co/the GEO combined JOHNSON&JOHNSON AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS BRAZIL S A ADR KINDER MORGAN INC/DELAWARE • international corporation whose principal KLA-TENCOR CORP business is selling gases and chemicals for • Brazil-based company engaged in the L BRANDS INC industrial uses. telecommunications sector M&T BANK CORP MACY’S INC ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITY BRINKER INTERNATIONAL MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP • investment company • owns, develops, operates and franchises the Chili’s Grill & Bar (Chili’s) MARATHON PETROLEUM CORP MCDONALDS CORP AMBEV SA ADR and Maggiano’s Little Italy (Maggiano’s) restaurant brands. MCGRAW HILL FINANCIAL INC • Brazilian Beverage Company. It was MCKESSONCORP created on 1999, with the merger of two BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO MERCK & CO INC breweries, Brahma and Antarctica. Merger was METLIFE INC engaged in the discovery, develop- approved by the Brazilian Board of Directors of • MICROSOFT CORP ment, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, Economic Defense (CADE) on 2000. MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC distribution and sale of biopharmaceutical NEXTERA ENERGY INC products on a global basis AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC NISOURCE INC owns over 1 million shares of CCA & NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP • CALAWAT GOLF GEO combined... private prison groups... NORTHERN TRUST CORP beneftting from border crisis • together with its subsidiaries, designs, OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP manufactures and sells golf clubs (drivers, OMNICOM GROUP INC ANALOG DEVICES INC fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges and ONEOK PARTNERS LP putters) and golf balls, and also sells golf American multinational semiconductor PACCAR INC • accessories (such as golf bags, golf gloves, company specializing in data conversion and PEPSICO CORP headwear, towels, umbrellas and travel signal conditioning technology PFIZER INC gear) under the Callaway Golf and Odyssey PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE L brand names APPLE INC PLAINS GP HOLDINGS LP PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP I • tech company; too many lawsuits!!! CELGENE CORP PPG INDUSTRIES INC • global biopharmaceutical company PROCTER & GAMBLE CO/THE ARTHUR J GALLAGHER & CO engaged in the discovery, development and PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC • Global Brokerage for Commercial Insur- commercialization of therapies designed QUALCOMM INC ance, Employee Benefts and Risk Management to treat cancer and immune-infammatory SCHLUMBERGER Solutions related diseases SEMPRA ENERGY SIMON PROPERTY GROUP INC AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC CENOVUS ENERGY INC SNAP-ON INC • American provider of business • Canadian integrated oil company SPECTRA ENERGY PARTNERS LP outsourcing solutions. It is also a provider of SYMANTEC CORP computing services to automobile and heavy CHEVRON CORP T ROWE PRICE GROUP INC equipment dealers CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORP TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC CINEMARK HOLDINGS INC TIFFANY & CO AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC CME GROUP INC TIME WARNER CABLE INC • traded real estate investment trust CMS ENERGY CORP TIME WARNER INC COCA-COLA CO/THE TRAVELERS COS INC/THE BANCO SANTANDER BRA ADRF COMCAST CORP TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP Brazil-based bank;Bank operates as a multiple CONOCOPHILLIPS UNION PACIFIC CORP service bank through three business segments: COSAN LIMITED UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC Commercial Bank, Global Wholesale Bank and COSTCO WHSL CORP NEW UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP Asset Management and Insurance. CST BRANDS US BANCORP CULLEN/FROST BANKERS INC US BANCORP DEL NEW BAXTER INTERNATIONAL DCP MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP US ECOLOGY INC • American health care company; primarily DOLLAR TREE INC VAIL RESORTS INC focuses on products to treat hemophilia, kidney DOMINION RESOURCES INC/VA VALERO ENERGY disease, immune disorders and other chronic DTE ENERGY CO VALIDUS HOLDINGS LTD COM SHS and acute medical conditions DUNKIN’ BRANDS GROUP INC VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC EDISON INTERNATIONAL VF CORP BB&T CORP EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO WELLS FARGO & CO WESTERN GAS EQUITY PARTNERS LP • one of the largest fnancial services EMC CORP MASS WESTERN GAS PARTNERS LP holding companies in the U.S. EMERSON ELECTRIC CO ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNER WILLIAMS COS INC/THE EXXON MOBIL CORP WILLIAMS PARTNERS LP FASTENAL CO WILLIAMS-SONOMA INC FIDELITY NATIONAL INFORMATION XCEL ENERGY INC XILINX INC YUM! BRANDS INC 22 Divest DARTMOUTH
by Noah Cramer '16
Investment is a powerful statement.
Investment says, “Tis is a company to which I can, in good consciousness, lend my money.” Investment says, “I support what this company does enough to fnance them doing it.” Investment says, “Tis is a company I would like to see succeed. If they succeed, I will make money. If they fail, I will lose money.”
Unfortunately (but perhaps unsurprisingly), industry exacts most of this destruction Dartmouth has chosen to invest its massive with impunity. It has used its massive endowment in a number of companies that fnancial and political clout to distribute cannot succeed if we desire a just and secure junk science, to infuence politicians, future. and to block meaningful government regulation. Among the worst of these investments are approximately 30 companies that specialize If investment is a powerful statement, so in the extraction, refnement, and distribu- is divestment (ceasing to invest in a com- tion of fossil fuels. Te fossil fuel industry pany). Fossil fuel divestment movements is to blame for environmental destruction are taking place at colleges, local and across the world, and much of this de- state governments, religious institutions, struction afects the most marginalized and non-profts across the country. Such communities. Communities near fossil fuel institutions are the dictators of public extraction sites disproportionately experi- morality, the providers of public goods, ence cancer and other ailments related to the and the protectors of our collective extraction process. Inner-city communities future. Tese institutions have the ability are most afected by air pollution. Global to revoke the moral license of oil, gas, warming threatens the survival of society and coal companies – the power to tell as we know it, and it is already taking its policymakers to quit kowtowing to the heaviest toll in many of the world’s poorest interests of big oil and start and start and most oppressed places. Te fossil fuel acting in the public interest. Tobacco corporations once bore heavy infuence 23 on Capitol Hill. Today, the idea of a senator beholden to big tobacco is absurd. Te goal of the divestment movement is to make the idea of a senator beholden to big oil just as unthinkable.
Dartmouth has a major role to play. With a wealthy and well-connected alumni network, a visible space in the public eye, and a special place in the American narrative, when Dartmouth speaks, people listen. Te goal of Divest Dartmouth is to get Dart- mouth to start speaking up. If you are interested in joining the fossil fuel divestment movement, blitz
24 Refections on RealTalk
by Yomalis Rosario
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (1955)
I know that some of us kept this quote in mind and used it like armor against the backlash that hit us hard after the For the next couple of days, I couldn’t go Dimensions protest. It was like opening anywhere by myself. I walked around hy- wounds. For me, it was already picking peraware of my surroundings and stayed at the scabs as soon as I walked out of away from crowds. I lowered my eyes 53’ Commons. When I rushed in with when people who used to greet me acted the group after hesitating, I stayed by the as if they did not see me. As a UGA, I was entrance. Overwhelmed, fearful, and al- worried about my relationship with my ready feeling shame, I was one of the frst residents. I was afraid to go to class and to leave the scene of the protest and left kept pushing through persistent anxiety. the rest behind. Outside, I ripped my the poster I was carrying and through it in the I cried a lot. But I continued to support trash after seeing the Safety & Security the protest. I was beginning to understand vehicles were arriving. After spending that the system works so that I have to some time outside, discussing what was risk my own safety and sense of security in happening with a fellow protester and one order to force those in power to listen. of the Dimensions performers, I found the Many of us were struggling through the rest of the group at our regular meeting violence of anonymous threats. We tried place. Many of them were celebrating. A to afrm ourselves and be present for each few didn’t say a word, and some were dis- other while still pushing the administra- cussing how it went and already refecting tion to take action. Even though I received on what happened but I don’t remember several supportive messages (which I what they said. I left and went to my room appreciated so much that I kept track of to hide and cry and invited friends over them in a Word document), I continued to keep my company. I think what I was to be consumed by anxiety and was being most feeling was fear. I sobbed as if I were made more vulnerable than I already had regurgitating all of the anxiety and anger I been on a campus like this one. Many of had been swallowing. us were on edge due to the threats that were being anonymously published online, but I think we were also fghting the shame that everyone wanted us to feel.
25 Eventually, arguments between individuals in the group were added to the mix. We became quick to attack each other instead of being openly critical of how the group I used a lot of energy to remind myself functions and acknowledging the context that the protest was justifed. I got tired of of what we were each struggling through. people saying, “Agree with that they did, In response to the Dartmouth nationalism just not with how they did it.” “I support that got thrown in our faces everyday— the protest, but the venue and the way they how could we so rudely interrupt the joy of did it is debatable.” I could almost feel ev- Dimensions?—we became ultra-defensive ery dismissal of the protest on my body. I of the protest as if it were a prime example could feel the tension that spread through of public resistance. I pretended that I was campus on my hands, on my chest, in my giving all of my devotion to RealTalk in stomach. the name of collective resistance when real- While we were being invalidated, I gave ly I was just looking for some space to heal. myself to RealTalk in all my desperation. Our almost daily meetings turned into a In that regard, RealTalk failed us. way for me to remind myself that resis- We needed healing. We needed to create a tance was necessary, that we were making collective that would work to hold itself to- the difcult choice of sacrifcing ourselves gether against everything that was working and that this was supposed to hurt. I sat to break us down. We can’t deny that we through meetings that lasted up to four let the threats do their work. We did not hours. I didn’t get enough sleep. I couldn’t work consciously enough to combat the get my work done for classes. Once I yelled backlash. I know that with the power dy- in response to someone’s critique and burst namics at play that will never be easy to do, into tears of frustration when I was told that we do not hold the blame for all of the to be quiet because I wasn’t helping and sufering and historical oppression we carry had apparently interrupted their “civil” and face in our own bodies and everyday discourse. While I reserve my right to interactions. Still, as change agents, we express myself as I please, I know that that cannot let each other deepen our wounds moment also reveals my state of exhaus- and march in pieces when we already have tion and fear. various systems that have been established to destroy us. We cannot be complicit in our own destruction.
26 when movements die
we sprinkle our ashes on each other we pack in all the empty bellies – we broken hungry some of us get bitten bread some take leaves and carry scraps of bark in our cheeks
we resist. we starve. we resist. we starve.
we feed each other in ways that make us vomit the bread that was never ours
we throw up to the fames
we sprinkle our ashes on each other and forget the silence of fre consuming these bits of trees that trick me eating when it’s the fames that are growing
we share vomit to save the holes in our cheeks we trick ourselves whole we pain we protest we throw blocks of dissent to the walls that never protected us
but we more than cement facing bricks, we more movement than concrete fying. we are all exposed roots and fre movement because we move within
I wrote this poem when I starting refecting on how what we were doing to each other. I will never deny the signifcance of RealTalk, how it built from the work of Occupy Dartmouth and gave the writers of the Freedom Budget and the current Action Collective more to build from. I think those of us who witnessed the peak and fall of RealTalk and continue to refect on how it failed us have been careful with how we approach building and sustaining a movement at Dartmouth. 27 We are more thoughtful about the frequency and length of meetings. I have seen us become more disciplined. I have seen us prioritize conversations about how we’ll support each other after an action. I have learned that there’s a reason we do this collectively—so that there are no martyrs. We need to be able to sustain a resistance movement even when some of us have to step out and rest. We need to keep fueling each other with care and courage to keep our strength and power intact. In a movement for transformative justice, we can’t leave anyone behind. In addition to fghting to change, we have the duty to save each other from the mechanisms that have always tried to pull apart.
poem for mayowa
when these buildings make your skin run when these narrow doors and monochrome walls make your skin move for more touch when these rules don’t like how you touch don’t like how you remember don’t like how your hurt so they put you to work: try to ft through the door, paint the walls more monochrome, and they leave extra paint for you to wipe your face. and your skin runs and your love runs not from you but from the way they try to make you wall paint and hungry for what is yours
when your skin resists when it feels itself when it runs from silence to whisper poems to yourself, remember that your skin does not run from you
it rips and leaves your bones and roaring oceans in your throat so that you chase it 28 Call to Action Workshops
by Elise
Te goal of the Call to Action workshops is to take some of the emotional labor of educating and engaging our peers of the backs of PoC. Led by white folks and people of color who express interest (i.e., “I want to lead one,” not “will you do this work for me?”), the workshops aim to bring more Dartmouth students into action. We hope people leave the workshops motivated to act: what representatives can I call, what organizations can I give my time and money to? What friends in my circle can I engage?
WHITE FOLKS, CALL OUT OTHER WHITE FOLKS!
Do it in frat basements, in dining halls, in classrooms. Amplify the voices of your friends of color and remain vigilant of the injustices at/ of the institution. Tis is our burden to shoulder, these are people who sometimes won’t listen to anyone else.
I’m not going to say much more because this guide isn’t for us. Hold your friends close. Question your whiteness, it’s a category constructed like any other; weaponize your whiteness, it’s more powerful than you know. Let’s put in the work.
29 Cultural Appropriation 101 by Cynthia
A Brief Defnition of Cultural Appropriation Cultural appropriation occurs when a group (typically a more powerful group) adopts aspects of another group’s culture.
One reason cultural appropriation can be bad is that sometimes, it has the power to make people stereotype the original culture, or make them see a version of it that is mostly invented by people who are not from that culture, and, therefore, not actually true. It can cause people to see the original culture as “strange” and “exotic,” because, they only see this culture through the eyes of people from their own culture. Tis usually happens when a very powerful culture takes things from a less powerful one, and stereotypes them or creates their own idea about them, which erases people’s idea of the original culture.
Another reason it can be bad, is that outsiders can treat rituals and history that have a strong meaning to the original culture lightheartedly or “all in good fun.” Ten, the ritual or history is treated in a way that is disrespectful and ofensive to people in that culture.
Cultural appropriation damages cultures when a dominant culture takes things from another culture without understanding them, or uses them in ways other than its original use, and replaces the dominant culture’s idea of what the other culture is like.
To avoid this:
• Make sure that when you study other cultures, you are careful to study from original sources, from people in that culture. Don’t study by using writing about that culture that is written by outsiders. Often, it is biased and racist.
• Make sure that when you study other cultures, you invest the time to learn about the culture. Don’t just learn one thing or a few things, and decide that you “know about the culture.” Cultures are complex. If you think a small study can tell you everything there is to know about that culture, you are essentially disregarding the complexities of that culture.
• Remember that the things you learn about other cultures from TV, school, etc. are usually stereotypes. When you start to learn about a culture seriously, ignore the things that you “think you know,” and learn directly from that culture.
30 A Year of Mourning (2016 - 2017 ) by Gabrielle Bozarth
It’s my senior year of college, and I am in intellectual mourning. Since 2002, over thirty faculty of color have departed from this institution, and moved on to better places. Tis past spring, the Dartmouth Action Collective held a funeral to honor this loss, and the death of our educations. From this I am grieving, and for this I mourn.
I came to Dartmouth enthralled with the subject are always white – it does the promise of “home,” “community,” not make the research objective, more and the Ivory Tower. Little did I know, removed, or refned in academia, but that Dartmouth’s foundation was laid capitalizes on a binary of otherness where on the backs of people that look like Blackness and non-whiteness are always me; that “home” was a graveyard of subject and whiteness the observer. Black intellectualism; that “communi- ty” did not include professors, staf, or I am in mourning. For the times students like me – but did depend on my freshman year, when I had three our labor and subsequent exhaustion. professors of color in two terms, and they weren’t the same people. I am in We contribute our best ideas and ener- mourning. For the times I was told that gy, but it only serves to churn the mill: I could succeed, by someone who knew to reproduce wealth and whiteness. And exactly what it meant to be churning the when we begin to question the output, wheel. I am in mourning. For the wealth divert our energy, or even simply fnd of knowledge and experience that this ourselves exhausted, we’re rotated out. institution pushed out. I am in mourning. Replaced with new bodies, numbers, For my Ivy League education, that was supposed to help me change the world, Faculty of color experiences this to a but instead only made me a slave to the heightened degree; not only does their reproduction of all that has called me academic research depend on success- other. fully churning this wheel, but their live- lihoods as well. And when/if they fail to meet Dartmouth’s statute of productivi- ty and are cycled out, we all lose.
My undergraduate teaching has sufered under the instruction of a homogenous group of white people. Tere is only so much you can learn from someone with the same life experiences of whiteness, wealth, ability and heteronormativity – regardless of the subject. A subject is not unbiased when those teaching
31 Here lies our education.
32 Black Intellectual Lives Matter by Professor Derrick White
Before responding to the disappointing news about my tenure case, let me say thank you for all of the supportive calls, emails, and texts from my colleagues in History and in AAAS, as well as the friends that I have made in my short time here at Dartmouth. Tese notes have been a positive reminder that this rejection comes from a small, but infuential part of the Dartmouth College community.
Before responding to the disappointing Te circumstance has reminded me of news about my tenure case, let me say Mari Evans poem “Speak the Truth to thank you for all of the supportive calls, the People (1970).” She writes: emails, and texts from my colleagues in History and in AAAS, as well as the Speak the truth to the People friends that I have made in my short Talk sense to the people time here at Dartmouth. Tese notes Free them with reason have been a positive reminder that this Free them with honesty rejection comes from a small, but infu- Free the people with Love and Courage ential part of the Dartmouth College and Care for their Being community. Speak the truth to the people I am disappointed, but I am not neces- It is not necessary to green the heart sarily surprised. I was hopeful, (perhaps Only to the identify the enemy naively) that Dartmouth was ready to It is not necessary to blow the mind transform its history regarding Black fac- Only to free the mind ulty and diversity. Tis decision is a step To identify the enemy is to free the mind in the wrong direction. My refections A free mind has no need to scream on the situation led me to revisit Vincent A free mind is ready for other things Harding’s “Te Vocation of the Black Scholar.” Tis essay has functioned as a “A free mind has no need to scream” says North Star while I have navigated the so much about my temperament. academy. Harding writes that, “the walls the academy are, on the whole, mere- I realized that in accepting a position ly more tastefully, delicately wrought here at Dartmouth I was taking a calcu- extensions of the walls of government, lated risk. In this elite space the stakes industry, and the military. . . .” Tus, are high. Dartmouth and other elite I understand the broader implications, institutions are at the cutting edge of ideas, and ideologies that undergird the defning/shaping reality as the supreme decision. source(s) of legitimacy in Western thought and civilization or what J.G.A. Several colleagues have mentioned that Pocock calls the “paradigms of power they are shocked by the decision; asking and authority.” We should remember “How and why did this happen?” Some that the Dunning School of Reconstruc- have noted, what Annelise so eloquently tion, which legitimated Jim Crow laws, stated, my “equanimity and resilience.” emerged from Columbia and the broken windows policing policy that has fueled 33 I am a product of the utopian, but incom - plete, intellectual moment that was the the recent rise in mass incarceration was original thrust of Black Studies. Activists, a product of Harvard scholars. writers, singers, and scholars had the audacity to declare that Black is beautiful, Many people have paid an exorbitant worthy of study, and deserving of life. (It price for the ideas of America’s best is no coincidence that #Blacklivesmatters and brightest. Tus the failure to “meet echoes many of these same themes in the the standards for tenure” is about face of modern policing.) Moreover, Black more than my individual case, but Studies identifed that ostensibly “uni - rather larger questions about ideas of versal” standards was synonymous with Blackness in a space where traditional Whiteness or at least anti-Blackness. My defnitions of excellence have often work on the Institute of the Black World meant anti-Blackness. Te personal, and on Black college football does not political, and professional efects on presume defciency or pathology, but rath - people trying reconcile these tensions er seeks to understand how these black is evidenced by the stories of Black and institutions organized and conceptualize Brown scholarly bodies (student, staf, their critique of “standards.” and professorial) churned up by Dart- mouth and other elite spaces. A source Despite knowing the history and the of Dartmouth’s legitimacy is tied to its ideologies at work, I still believe that ability to reproduce simultaneously the Dartmouth is an important space from ideologies of power and to delegitimate which to launch a Black Studies critique. criticism. Tus, I see that behind the Te College’s 1968 McLane Report notes phrase, “standards for tenure,” was an “Te black student at Dartmouth does unspoken ideology in which the study not want to be treated as ‘just another stu - of Blackness is relegated to deprivation, dent.’ As a black student he has particular disadvantage, and social pathology. My interests and needs which he feels warrant work is not this. consideration.”
34 Te call for black particularity exposes Undocumented at DARTMOUTH the falseness of a universal Dartmouth experience. Te claims made by students by Oscar Cornejo '17 in 1968 and my counterclaim against the “standards for tenure” are rooted in an understanding that these supposedly Welcome to Dartmouth! universal claims are rooted in a larger epistemology. Whether you are an undocumented student or ally to the community, you When you as colleagues ask why? I am are entering the college at a time of great reminded of Charles Mills’ claim that uncertainty, but during which your racism was not a “deviation from ostensi- presence is greatly needed. Te growing bly raceless ideas, but rather a central network of undocumented students shaping constituent of those ideals.” My at Dartmouth which you are joining work on and in support of Black History have created a legacy of resilience and and Black Studies refects an epistemo- hope, bringing awareness and creat- logical alternative. Tis work will never ing resources designed to allow you to meet the “universal” standard, because thrive during your time at Dartmouth, at its best it is designed to expose the regardless of your legal status. Students systemic functioning of these standards holding an undocumented status face that structure massive racial, gender, various challenges that can afect their and class inequality. One can speculate mental, emotional, and spiritual health. that an unspoken reason for my tenure Tis can be triggered by fnancial issues, denial is a recognition of Te Challenge fear for one’s safety or that of their of Blackness. family, or an absence of belonging in their community, among many other My work in Black History and Black factors. To counteract these feelings, it is Studies understands this, thus I “have no important to cultivate a sense of identity need to scream.” while also acknowledging possible dif- culties and being prepared to face them — in order to improve student success. As an undocumented student at Derrick White Dartmouth, you are representing resis- Visiting Associate Professor tance, resilience and willingness to defy Department of History the status quo that xenophobic, nativist Dartmouth College and anti-immigrant groups/people im- pose onto the undocumented immigrant narrative.
Note:
Te following information is not a complete guide for undocumented students.
Contact
Marcia Calloway (Associate Director of OVIS/Advisor to International Un- dergraduate Students)
Susan Ellison (Director of OVIS) at (603) 646-3474.
All conversations are kept confdential. 35