tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67404591002739213742024-02-06T22:23:35.331-05:00Cally! and the Big Greenfeel free to contact me: callista [dot] womick [at] dartmouth [dot] eduCallista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-23082900735460952952015-04-17T08:00:00.000-04:002015-05-07T17:19:29.941-04:00Letter to a Man I Do Not KnowDear Sir,<br />
<br />
I think of you every single day, and I
often wonder whether you think of me. About a week after we met, I was
in my living room with one of my best friends, listening to music.
Drinking tea. Michael Jackson came on. (cue <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrWNbjw3RA;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrWNbjw3RA;</a> play from 0:13-1:03).<br />
<br />
And
I really tried to play it cool. But that’s one of my favorite songs.
Shaun looked at me: Did I want him to change it? And I wept. In that
moment, I was angrier with you than I was before or have been since. You
fucked up the song, man!<br />
<br />
There were still newspapers taped over the
dining room windows — triple-layered, so that even at night my
silhouette couldn’t be seen from outside. I told Shaun not to change the
song, and laughed … and wept … and made him feel really uncomfortable. I
felt crazy, and I was acting crazy, and I knew it, and I couldn’t help
it.<br />
<br />
But at least I had people with me. The neighbors who
ran from their homes when they heard me screaming. Especially Sam, who
came out in her bathrobe to make sure it wasn’t only men who came to
help. My partner, who sprinted the two blocks from our house. Hanover
Police. Lebanon Police. A full set of EMTs. All within minutes. And you
were … alone, in your car, somewhere. How did it feel?<br />
<br />
In
the weeks after, I obsessively locked the doors. I couldn’t sleep with
the (second story) window open, no matter how hot and stuffy my room
was. I couldn’t even piss alone. Every moment, everywhere, I feared
that you would Come Back. That you would Try Again. Every man who looked
remotely like you sent me into a panic.<br />
<br />
But at least I had people I
could talk to. The ER nurses, who laughed awkwardly at my fucked-up
jokes. Detective Norris, who filmed an on-scene reenactment the very
next day. Deans, shrinks, cops, and cops, and cops, and a slew of
Facebook friends. My partner, who never tried to get me to stop crying
and who put his fingers in his ears when he accompanied me to the
bathroom so that I could piss with some shred of dignity intact.<br />
<br />
What
about you? Did you have anyone you could confide in? I imagine you felt
similar fears, for a while. Would someone recognize you from the police
sketch? Would the next knock on your door be law enforcement? Were you
crazy?<br />
<br />
I have so many questions. Like … did you know me?
Or was it totally random? How long had you been planning it? Had you
done anything like that before? Was it what you expected? What did you
expect? What did you want to do to me? Were you nervous, or scared, or
excited? Were you looking forward to it? Did you go to work that day, or
visit your mom, or anything? What about the day after? How often do you
think about it? How did you feel when you saw the news report? Do you
regret it? Do you make jokes about it? (‘Cause, like, I do.) Where did
you get the stun gun? I’ve imagined you shopping around online,
optimizing for price and performance value. Do you still have it? Do
you still have the clothes that you were wearing? Mine are in an
evidence bag somewhere, probably forever … and those were my favorite
jeans. My mom replaced them, though. Exact same kind. So it's cool.<br />
<br />
I’m comfortable
being home alone again, and pissing has long since ceased to be a
social activity. I can even walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood
after dark. And “Smooth Criminal” is still one of my favorite songs.<br />
<br />
What I’m trying to tell you is: I’m okay. Are you?<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Callista WomickCallista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-64893815688754969692014-05-27T14:52:00.000-04:002014-06-04T14:59:27.025-04:00The Dartmouth: Hop Garage exhibit will showcase artwork inspired by bodiesShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2014/05/27/arts/hop-garage-exhibit-will-showcase-artwork-inspired-by-bodies" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>:<br />
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Tomorrow evening, BARE, “an open gallery art show with nothing to hide,”
will open, featuring sculptures, videos and works of other artistic
media that explore different aspects of the human body.
<br />
<br />
A major in studio art, organizer Callista Womick ’13 said her
inspiration for the exhibit came from a project that she had worked on
as a senior in a sculpture class.
<br />
<br />
“I made an iron cast of my own vagina, and it was a really affirming
experience,” she said. “After that, I reached out to a number of
different groups on campus about how maybe I could create an opportunity
for other people to explore their own bodies in their own or similar
ways.”
<br />
<br />
Womick had previously worked with the <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cgse/" target="_blank">Center for Gender and Student Engagement</a>, which is sponsoring the exhibit, to develop a <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cgse/resources/pprcreport.pdf" target="_blank">pregnancy support program</a> for undergraduate students. In addition to offering her
advice and administrative assistance for the BARE project, the center
hosted a series of “making sessions” at its Choate Road offices last
week, giving visitors the space, time and materials, including plaster
for body casts, necessary to create work for the exhibit.
<br />
<br />
Between the sessions and Womick’s calls for art over Facebook and
over email, she said she has received “a couple dozen” submissions,
spanning different media.
<br />
<br />
“We have a sound piece, a video of a performance, photo, painting, sculpture,” she said. “It’s a really eclectic show.”
<br />
<br />
Although making work for the exhibit required no prior artistic
experience, many who have contributed identify as artists. Samantha
Freese, a private school teacher from Canaan who plans to become a
full-time artist, said she will display a work called “Dressed to Form,”
a portrait of a woman measuring her waist in a mirror, her body
“obstructed from the viewer by a dress form.”
<br />
<br />
Often turning to the human form to explore either issues she
struggles with or those faced by the world at large, Freese said that
this piece “shows the struggle that nearly every woman faces to fit into
what society has deemed the perfect body.”
<br />
<br />
“When I created this piece, I was feeling a little insecure —
earlier in the day I was getting dressed, and none of my clothes fit me
the way I wanted them to,” she said.
<br />
<br />
That day, Freese decided to face her insecurities by eschewing
clothing altogether. She said she realized that her inhibitions would
likely strike a chord with many women.
<br />
<br />
Ruth Cserr ’88, a landscape artist, also drew on themes relating to
the female body. Taking four separate studies of a single photograph and
mounting them on handmade paper, she created “Bare Knuckle Studies May
2014,” a piece that she said considers the parts of a woman’s flesh that
are conventionally forbidden from public view.
<br />
<br />
“I was thinking about things like how nipples are always X-rated on
women, and yet they can go out in public on men, and I was also thinking
very much about how women’s bodies are so completely objectified —
often, not always — but then they are policed,” she said. “So we say,
‘Oh, this nude body is so sexy and sensual, but you can’t show it.’”
<br />
<br />
What Cserr did, then, was take multiple images of the same female
torso and combine them to create a pattern. The result, she said, took
on a decorative quality, reminding her of a William Morris print.
<br />
<br />
“I was interested in the body as an ornament, and just playing with
it and putting something out there that you weren’t supposed to put out
there,” Cserr said. “This pattern of body bits becomes itself a
different kind of ornament.”
<br />
<br />
Ezra Teboul, a student in Dartmouth’s digital musics program,
created a piece from the noise that Pop Rocks make in people’s mouths.
<br />
<br />
In his art, he said, he works off of common concepts and methods.
<br />
<br />
“Starting with a term as ubiquitous as ‘pop rock,’ I immediately
thought it would be interesting and fun to get a few people to use the
candy as an instrument,” he said.
<br />
<br />
Ultimately, Womick said she hopes the exhibit fosters compelling conversation.
<br />
<br />
“I think we have a diversity of work, and some are quite
provocative, so I hope that people who visit the show will come away
asking questions of themselves and of one another,” Womick said. “It
wouldn’t be a good show if that didn’t happen.”
<br />
<br />
Submissions will be accepted until the Hop Garage runs out of room, Womick said. The show will be on display until June 9.</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-86992329637544705852014-05-24T14:25:00.000-04:002019-10-07T18:42:42.343-04:00Interview with Georgi Klissurski '14*** Edit: Content removed at the request of the narrator. Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-1772758585291621322014-04-20T17:51:00.000-04:002014-04-20T18:59:31.880-04:00Edible Book Festival: BooklavaShared from <a href="http://dartmouth.spoonuniversity.com/2014/04/17/dartmouth-celebrates-international-edible-book-day/" target="_blank">Dartmouth Spoon</a>:<br />
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Berry Main Street was filled with delicious (and some questionable) treats Monday evening as the <a href="http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=28707#.U1A8Nq1kHO4">Dartmouth College Library</a> participated in the <a href="http://www.books2eat.com/">International Edible Book Festival</a>
for the first time in Dartmouth’s history. Also known as Edible Book
Day, the festival has been celebrated since 2000 all over the world.
Despite being first-timers, Dartmouth’s participants rose to the
challenge, turning out a large variety of punny, mouthwatering culinary
artwork based on famous novels.<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/121138807@N06/13907660105" title="DSC_0165 by Dartmouth Spoon, on Flickr"></a></blockquote>
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Walking down a set-up of fold-out tables, students and faculty alike
ooh-ed, ahh-ed and lol-ed at Robert Frosting’s “The Rocky Road Not
Taken”<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (accompanied by an equally creative poem); a terrifying, bloody “</span>Killer Angel Food Cake”<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> based on Michael Shaara’s historical novel </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Killer Angels</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,
which depicted a marzipan hand and knife projecting out of the center
of a scrumptious-looking angel food cake; and, finally, “Booklava,” a
chocolate-bound baklava, which won the title of Most Creative for paying
homage to the festival’s inspiration: the book.</span> </blockquote>
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Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-69238026818147692232014-04-16T07:24:00.000-04:002014-04-20T19:19:49.495-04:00"spring"It snowed today. It actually snowed today.<br />
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Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-82153523958479755402014-04-02T21:22:00.000-04:002014-08-20T21:24:00.858-04:00Modeling for Juliette BelmonteI spent several weeks this spring modeling for a small group of local artists at the studio of painter Juliette Belmonte. Here's Juliette's piece:<br />
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I connected with Juliette through the <a href="http://lists.valley.net/lists/info/uppervalley" target="_blank">Upper Valley listeserv,</a> which is terrific for connecting with all kinds of local people about all kinds of things. Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-13856569082929345862014-03-27T20:00:00.003-04:002014-03-27T20:00:57.091-04:00Dartmouth Wants to Make It Clear They're Taking Sexual Assault SeriouslyIn a recent press release <a href="http://jezebel.com/dartmouth-wants-to-make-it-clear-theyre-taking-sexual-1553069458" target="_blank">sent to Jezebel</a>, Dartmouth characterizes sexual assault as "high-risk behavior" alongside drinking and hazing. Alright then. Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-7958342813828249832014-02-28T21:04:00.000-05:002014-05-19T10:48:04.175-04:00On b@b, again<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span class="cell">“<a href="https://boredatbaker.com/post/3820980" target="_blank">Post #3820980</a>: B@B has been used as a
primary means by people to harass, threaten, mock, and demean students and
organizations at this school anonymously. I seriously want the fans of this
site to defend b@b in light of all the shit this site has caused for the
school. Feb 8, 2014 @ 6:22pm”</span></blockquote>
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<span class="cell">Okay.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">I began using <a href="https://boredatbaker.com/" target="_blank">BoredatBaker</a> at 11:46am on September 23, 2010.
That’s the timestamp of my first post, anyway. Two years later, my senior
seminar work was digital performance art on B@B. The next year, as a <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/consultants/index.html" target="_blank">Dean’s Office Student Consultant</a>, I used the site to advise students and refer them to
campus resources. Throughout, B@B has allowed me to express myself anonymously.
</span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">The site itself is a free service provided for anyone with an
@Dartmouth.edu address, funded out-of-pocket by its owner and administrator
“Jae Daemon.” In a recent <a href="http://biggreensmallthings.tumblr.com/image/79737151134" target="_blank">message to the community</a>, Jae wrote, “I am providing
this place for you as a safe haven where you can talk about anything and
everything, honestly, without fear of judgment.” </span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">Bored@Baker provides a <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kiesler/publications/2013/why-people-seek-anonymity-internet-policy-design.pdf" target="_blank">valuable service</a> to our community by
allowing people across all social groups and backgrounds to come together on
relatively equal footing. With anonymity, age, sex, gender, sexuality, race,
ethnic<span style="font-size: small;">ity, nationality, socioeconomic status, and the myriad other visual cues
we use on a daily basis to categorize people and decide how much to respect
them are stripped away. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Times;">We are able to experience thoughts and opinions perhaps unrepresented
within our own friend groups shared by people we otherwise may have never met.</span></span><style>
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<span class="cell">Anonymity also allows us the freedom to experiment with
aspects of our identities. It allows us to seek advice about tough issues we may not want to discuss
in person—sexual violence, mental health, eating disorders, drug addiction,
academic trouble, parental conflicts, and money problems. I’ve seen all these
and many more in my time on the site, and the community has consistently <a href="http://biggreensmallthings.tumblr.com/tagged/b%40b" target="_blank">proven itself a tremendous source of support</a>.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">That said, there are those who abuse the service. People can
be...horrible. I don't have to enumerate those things. We all know. Probably a
good many of us have been targets, too. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">For those reasons, there are <a href="http://biggreenmicroaggressions.tumblr.com/goals" target="_blank">those who have called upon the College to take action against the site</a>. I, too, am sometimes overwhelmingly
disgusted with the depths of human depravity that B@B shows us in our peers, but
it is important to remember that the abuses of a minority do not represent the
standards of the B@B community and are in direct opposition to the goals of the
site. </span></div>
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<span class="cell">It is also worth noting that on the <a href="https://boredat.com/" target="_blank">Global Board</a>—a B@ page accessible to anyone with a .edu e-mail address—users from
schools with their own B@ pages frequently comment on the uniquely abusive nature
of Bored@Baker. Regarding the recent post targeting a first year student, a
user from </span>Carleton <a href="https://boredat.com/global/post/3819762" target="_blank">remarked</a>,<span class="cell"> “</span>I can't imagine
something like that happening on our board.” The absence of the problems for
which our board often finds itself in the spotlight from other schools’ boards
suggests that B@B is showing us something particular to our community. <br />
<br />
<span class="cell">There is currently a team of 12 student <a href="http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2012/09/welcome-back-bb-i-missed-you.html" target="_blank">moderators</a> who work
tirelessly to remove posts that violate the <a href="https://boredatbaker.com/terms" target="_blank">Terms of Service</a>. Neither Bored@Baker
nor the vast majority of its users want to be associated with the kind of <a href="http://shitdartmouthsays.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">abuse that bigots and bullies sometimes post</a>. That's just not what Bored@Baker is
about. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">Unfortunately, there will probably always be people who will
violate the standards set forth by the site and the community at large, but
denouncing Bored@Baker for the actions of those individuals disregards the
tremendous amount of thought, time, and effort that has gone into building and
continually improving the site and threatens to take away from the majority
something that is a source of support, enjoyment, and community, simply because
a few people will abuse the system. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">For the site's part, there needs to be a faster and more
forceful way to address some of the problems that arise. We are well aware of
this and continually discussing our options. Not too long ago, the threshold
for removing posts was lowered so that moderators can remove posts more
quickly. It's an improvement, and not the last that we hope to see in the
moderation system. </span><br />
<br />
<span class="cell">For the parts of students, staff, and faculty who may be
concerned about the Bored@Baker atmosphere, I would encourage you to look at it
for yourselves. Take a look at the <a href="https://boredatbaker.com/zeitgeist" target="_blank">Zeitgeist</a>. Read the top posts from today,
<a href="https://boredatbaker.com/weeks_best" target="_blank">this week</a>, <a href="https://boredatbaker.com/all_time_best" target="_blank">all time</a>. Look at how the Bored@Baker community—our community—responds
to abuse. Perhaps consider making a few posts yourself to add to the positive
and supportive atmosphere that the majority of us try to foster. The more
voices like that, the more irrelevant those that espouse hatred and violence.
The abuse that happens shows us that there are individuals among us all too
willing to hurt others; far more important is how we as a community respond. </span></div>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-11636668199198482812014-02-18T20:58:00.000-05:002014-04-22T23:48:55.878-04:00The Dartmouth: Students back tougher policyShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2014/02/18/news/students-back-tougher-policy" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Replacing Dartmouth’s current sexual misconduct policy with a
zero-tolerance policy for students found responsible for sexual assault
has recently gathered momentum on the <a href="http://www.improvedartmouth.com/" target="_blank">Improve Dartmouth online forum</a>.
Since a <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2014/02/11/news/at-gathering-students-condemn-threatening-post" target="_blank">Feb. 10 gathering on the Green</a>, when students met in support
after a male student <a href="http://jezebel.com/dartmouth-student-encourages-rape-of-classmate-on-anony-1518380538" target="_blank">threatened a female member of the Class of 2017 on Bored at Baker</a>, discussion surrounding the policy has grown.
<br />
<br />
Under the zero-tolerance policy students found guilty of rape would
be separated from the College. The suggestion, <a href="http://www.improvedartmouth.com/a/dtd/Adopt-a-Zero-Tolerance-Policy-for-Sexual-Assault/37951-25255" target="_blank">proposed on Jan. 23 by Cally Womick ’13</a>, is Improve Dartmouth’s highest voted submission.
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~uja/sexual_harassment_discrimination_misconduct_policies.pdf" target="_blank">Dartmouth’s current policy</a> states that students are prohibited from
engaging in any kind of sexual misconduct, which refers to any form of
sex-based discrimination, harassment or nonconsensual sexual contact.
Sanctions can be as severe as permanent separation from the College,
though Dartmouth is not currently required to separate students who are
found responsible for rape, according to the student handbook.
<br />
<br />
Expelling offenders will decrease the cases of sexual assault and
increase community safety, Student Assembly president Adrian Ferrari ’14
said.
<br />
<br />
Chair of the <a href="https://dartmouthspcsa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault</a> Will
Scheiman ’14 clarified that any zero-tolerance policy would apply only
to cases of rape and not for other cases of sexual misconduct.
<br />
<br />
“Once an outcome is decided and the [<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~uja/cos.html" target="_blank">Committee on Standards</a>] process
finds someone responsible of rape, that person no longer has a place in
the Dartmouth community, now or ever,” Scheiman said in an email.
<br />
<br />
As of Sunday night, the post had received 1,401 unique page views on
Improve Dartmouth, said Alison Polton-Simon ’14, who analyzes the
website’s traffic. The majority of activity related to the post occurred
on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12, the days immediately following the student
gathering.
<br />
<br />
As of press time, the post had 921 up-votes and 24 down-votes, for
an overall feedback score of 897 on Improve Dartmouth, which is a
crowd-sourcing website for ideas launched by student group Dartmouth
Roots last month.
<br />
<br />
The website team provides biweekly reports to College President Phil
Hanlon on site activity, including visitor demographics, popular ideas
and actions resulting from the ideas, co-moderator Esteban Castano ’14
said. The group submitted its most recent biweekly report, which
included the zero-tolerance policy proposal, to Hanlon last Tuesday,
said co-moderator Gillian O’Connell ’15.
<br />
<br />
In July 2013, SPCSA recommended specifying in the <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deancoll/student-handbook/" target="_blank">student handbook</a>
that students found responsible for non-consensual sexual penetration be
expelled.
<br />
<br />
The current COS policy states that students found responsible for
engaging in actual or attempted penetration without consent or for
repeated sexual misconduct could face permanent separation. Not all
students found guilty of rape, however, are expelled, Scheiman said in
an email.
<br />
<br />
The proposed policy would mandate expulsion in cases of rape.
<br />
<br />
The current policy’s breadth makes it unlikely that Dartmouth would
feel confident enough in its legal standing to expel a student who
violated the policy in any way, former head of the Center for Gender and
Student Engagement professor Giavanna Munafo said.
<br />
<br />
“When somebody’s found responsible for being a predatory rapist, I
think that’s the kind of incident that the person wouldn’t be allowed to
return to campus,” she added.
<br />
<br />
Munafo said discussion of a zero-tolerance policy has become more
prominent due to <a href="http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2013/07/23/title-ix-investigation-launched-at-dartmouth/" target="_blank">the Title IX investigation</a> and <a href="http://www.dartmouthchange.org/" target="_blank">alumni activism</a>.
<br />
<br />
Discussion on Improve Dartmouth included a suggestion for a
negotiable expulsion policy that would protect a survivor from unwanted
legal proceedings that could arise if expelled students decided to
pursue defamation charges.
<br />
<br />
Matthew McFarland ’16 noted that implementing a zero-tolerance
policy requires there to be no doubt that the individual committed the
offense.
<br />
<br />
This addresses Dartmouth’s use of a “preponderance of the evidence”
standard, which states that a person is responsible for an offense if
the Committee on Standards finds that it is more likely for the
violation to have occurred than not.
<br />
<br />
Concerns regarding the preponderance of the evidence are important,
Munafo said. Alternative decision-making standards and motivations of
the current policy should be discussed, she said.
<br />
<br />
One problem with a zero-tolerance policy is the lack of control it
grants the survivor, Scheiman said in an email, adding that he believes
all survivors should have control with regard to reporting and the COS
process. Yet because some survivors choose not to go through the COS
process out of fear that their perpetrator will not be removed from
campus, the policy may have a positive impact, he said.
<br />
<br />
Students have raised similar questions at peer institutions.
<br />
<br />
Over the past decade, Yale University has faced several
investigations into its handling of sexual assault cases. In the first
half of 2013, six Yale students were found guilty of non-consensual sex.
None were expelled and just one was suspended, sparking national
outrage.
<br />
<br />
Harvard University’s policy has also been strongly criticized, The
Huffington Post and The Crimson reported in partnership. At Harvard,
penalties for sexual harassment depend on the nature of the offense and
range from reprimand to dismissal.
<br />
<br />
Unlike many American universities, including Dartmouth, Harvard does
not have an affirmative consent policy. Affirmative consent defines
sexual assault as occurring in the absence of enthusiastic verbal or
physical consent. It must not be given as a result of physical coercion
or threat of bodily harm.
<br />
<br />
Dartmouth’s sexual misconduct policy, in contrast, states that “one
should presume that there is no consent in the absence of a clear
positive indication of consent. Likewise, non-consent or lack of consent
may also be communicated in a variety of ways both verbal and
nonverbal.”
<br />
<br />
Harvard and Princeton are currently the only Ivy League schools without the preponderance standard.
<br />
<br />
In April, students at Swarthmore College filed a Clery Act complaint
against their school, alleging that administrators did not support
those who reported sexual harassment.
<br />
<br />
Swarthmore is reviewing its sexual misconduct policy and currently
has an interim sexual assault and harassment policy, which places all
responsibility for investigating and taking appropriate action on
Swarthmore, not the complainant.
</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-51839973154077900852014-02-17T17:04:00.000-05:002014-04-22T17:08:37.882-04:00The Dartmouth: Bored at Baker users report positive cultureShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2014/02/17/news/bored-at-baker-users-report-positive-culture" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
When the Jan. 10 post targeting a female member of the Class of 2017 was
published on Bored at Baker, site moderator Blaine Ponto ’14 said it
was removed so quickly after being reported by other users that she
herself never saw it, despite being a frequent user of the site. If it
had stayed up, however, the number of users who clicked “disagree” and
“newsworthy” would have made it clear that the Bored at Baker community
disapproved.
<br />
<br />Since the post became public after its target wrote about it on the
Class of 2017 Facebook page, Bored at Baker has been thrust into the
spotlight, with many students decrying the sexist, racist, homophobic
and overall offensive nature of some of its content. Last spring,
students who protested the Dimensions show for accepted students were
targeted by anonymous rape and death threats posted on Bored at Baker.
<br />
<br />Users of the site, however, argue that Bored at Baker only receives
public scrutiny following posts that violate the site’s terms of
service, posts that they say are promptly removed.
<br />
<br />The site’s content is overseen by moderators, a group of dedicated
users that can remove posts that students say violate the site’s terms
of service. There are currently 12 moderators, three of whom must agree
to remove a post. The current moderator feature was introduced to the
site in May 2013.
<br />
<br />Aaron Pellowski ’15, who began using the site the summer before he
matriculated, said that in the week following the Jan. 10 threat, the
site’s most popular posts either denounced its author or expressed
sympathy for the target.
<br />
<br />“Everyone on Bored at Baker hates the people who post those things
because they’re unrepresentative of the people who use the site,”
Pellowski said. “Then everyone who doesn’t use the site jumps to the
unintelligent conclusion that that’s what the site is, when really
that’s the opposite.”
<br />
<br />Pellowski said that the Feb. 10 gathering on the Green in response
to the post allowed the Dartmouth community to come together, but it
only allowed two student leaders to speak. In contrast, he said, a
substantial and broader discussion took place on Bored at Baker.
<br />
<br />Other students argued that the problem is not the site itself but the way that Dartmouth students choose to use it.
<br />
<br />“The board without the students using it is a blank slate — it
doesn’t invite any particular type of content,” said Callista Womick
’13, who has had an account since 2011 and continues to use the site as
an alumna. “It’s really just a mirror of our own culture.”
<br />
<br />Frequent users contend that the majority of users are sincere and intelligent.
<br />
<br />Womick said she first made an account her sophomore year after
hearing that the site was “a haven for the worst people on campus,” a
claim that piqued her curiosity.
<br />
<br />“In addition to the horrible things posted, there’s a really strong
community who may not know each other in person, but they know each
other online and share jokes and support each other,” she said. “There
were upperclassmen users who I liked what they had to say, as well as
lot of really funny people, and it allowed me to explore a lot of my
thoughts and values and honed the way I communicate.”
<br />
<br />Derek VanBriesen ’17, who created an account last summer, said he
values the site because anonymity allows students to share their real
opinions.
<br />
<br />Bored at Baker also serves as a news source, VanBriesen said. Last
fall, he first learned of Theta Delta Chi fraternity’s suspension from
the site.
<br />
<br />Pellowski said that Bored at Baker is the only place on campus where
he has found authentic discourse about important issues, because
in-person conversations must remain polite.
<br />
<br />“There’s a huge amount of alternative experiences that would be
completely invisible to me if I never used Bored at Baker, like how
people view their fraternities, financial aid, classes and personal
lives, and a lot of that stuff gets shared on the site,” he said.
<br />
<br />He also said he was initially concerned before matriculating that
Dartmouth students would be incapable of intelligent discourse, but that
he was relieved when he found Bored at Baker and was able to converse
with users who think critically about the College.
<br />
<br />“It turns out that 95 percent of the people here are really pretty
stupid and shallow and basic and vapid,” he said, calling Bored at Baker
an “IV drip of realness” that keeps him sane.
<br />
<br />Other students have used the site to work through personal issues. A
male Ph.D. candidate at the College, who operates an account named
“Pinkie Pie,” said that Bored at Baker has helped him battle his
depression and feel connected to other people. He first joined the site
in early 2011 and created the Pinkie Pie account during the interim
between fall 2012 and winter 2013.
<br />
<br />Users are able to create personalities on the site, giving them
names and pictures. The Ph.D. candidate, who declined to reveal his
identity because he wanted to preserve his anonymity on the website,
said that Pinkie Pie has become her own entity, separate from himself,
whom he refers to as the writer. Bored at Baker, he said, is a place for
Pinkie Pie to express herself.
<br />
<br />“There’s really no other kind of site where I’d feel comfortable
with this kind of ... experiment,” the Ph.D. candidate said in an online
message. “I’m ‘hacking’ my own brain, toward trying to stabilize
myself. If the end result is something superficially like dissociative
identity disorder or schizophrenia, I’m not sure I really care. I’d
rather operate well with something like that than be depressed as much
as I have been in the past.”
<br />
<br />Reaching out for help on Bored at Baker is not uncommon, and many
users use the site to ask for advice or seek companionship, said Pinkie
Pie, the Ph.D. candidate’s online personality. She said that while it is
easy to abuse anonymity, people will more readily reach out for help
than they will in the real world.
<br />
<br />A male member of the Class of 2014, who wished to remain anonymous
because he did not want to be associated with the website, said that
when he used the website he would often send personal messages to users
who appeared to be going through tough times and offer to talk through
their problems with them.
<br />
<br />During the week, around 700 to 800 unique users log in per day, Pellowski said.
<br />
<br />Ponto said she would estimate that slightly more males use the site
than females, an inference based on interactions with users and
observation of their content. She added that a majority of users seem to
be sophomores, juniors and seniors, as freshmen are likely less aware
of the site.
<br />
<br />She said she believed that most content is generated by a relatively
small percentage of users, while the larger community provides feedback
by agreeing or disagreeing with posts.
<br />
<br />The Ph.D. candidate, writing as Pinkie Pie, said that the site’s users represent a wide variety of students.
<br />
<br />“[Bored at Baker] gets the shy, awkward, depressed, lonely, the
angry people who need to vent, the frustrated social justice warriors,
the desperately horny and the staunchly upbeat,” she said.
<br />
<br />The original Columbia University version of the site, Bored at
Butler, was created by a 2006 Columbia graduate named Jonathan Pappas,
who goes by the name Jae Daemon online. There are now “Bored at” sites
at Dartmouth, Harvard University, Princeton University, Carleton
College, New York University and other colleges, as well as a “global
board” connecting the sites.
<br />
<br />Dartmouth users have been able to infiltrate other schools’ sites
through various means, including via friends’ email accounts or asking
for access on the global board. Ponto said the Columbia site is “tamer”
than Dartmouth’s, while Pellowski noted that it is not used as much or
by as many people and the posts are less interesting.
<br />
<br />Users could not pinpoint exactly what about Dartmouth is different that makes the site more prone to offensive posts.
<br />
<br />Ponto said that during a conversation with another longtime user,
the other person said that Bored at Baker acts as an “equalizer” because
anonymity grants all users an equal voice.
<br />
<br />“We are so stratified at Dartmouth,” Ponto said. “All of these
people can come together on Bored at Baker, and the anonymity erases all
of these things.”
<br />
<br />Womick said that posts targeting students on Bored at Baker
reverberate around campus when students who do not use the site are
informed if they or a group they belong to is being discussed.
<br />
<br />“I don’t know how many students I’ve seen targeted in very hateful
and extreme ways,” she said. “I don’t know how one can walk around
campus and not know who was saying those things, or if you knew them, or
if they would be physically safe.”
<br />
<br />While offensive posts do appear on the site, the tone has changed,
users said. With the introduction of moderators in 2012, reported posts
are removed much more quickly than they had been in the past, Ponto
said. She added that there are continuing conversations about potential
changes to the website, including creating a permanent user ban or
modifying what types of posts should be removed.
<br />
<br />Students currently logging onto the site are confronted with a
message from Jae Daemon, which responds to the recent controversy by
stating that “great anonymity comes with great responsibility,” and
should not be abused. He said he will continue to post similar reminders
on a monthly basis.</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-51735616466380725082014-01-11T07:00:00.000-05:002014-04-22T21:07:07.322-04:00The Dartmouth: Workshop hides resources in plain sightShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2014/01/07/arts/behind-the-curtain-workshop-hides-resources-in-plain-sight" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
A secret hides in Baker Library’s basement, and you have probably never noticed it.
<br />
<br />No, it is not a three-headed dog you will need to lull to sleep or a
madwoman locked away, but Dartmouth’s full-service <a href="https://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/preservation/bookarts/" target="_blank">Book Arts Workshop</a>,
which allows students and community members to handcraft invitations,
birthday and holiday cards, flyers and even entire books. The workshop
offerings include printing presses dating from the 19th century to the
mid-20th century, a letterpress and bookbinding studio.
<br />
<br />English professor Alexandra Halasz called the studio a “fabulous,
little-known” resource — one of Dartmouth’s most under-appreciated
spaces.
<br />
<br />“For those who are artists, the book workshop offers an array of
three-dimensional and sequential forms that take printmaking and other
practices in new directions,” she said. “I think what students value is
the disciplined creative practice, the hands-on experience and the
wonderful variety of books they see each other making.”
<br />
<br />Students can take workshop courses and use the facilities during
open studio hours without previous experience, instructor Sarah Smith
said. The workshop staff, which includes professional designers,
printers, binders and artists, answers questions and assists with
equipment.
<br />
<br />Studio art professor Louise Hamlin noted the significant connection between the workshop and the library itself.
<br />
<br />“It is a fabulous thing to be able to print books in the building that preserves them,” Hamlin said.
<br />
<br />In order for students to begin using the letterpress, they must
first attend an orientation session. Letterpress involves covering a
raised surface, such as an engraving of metal or wood type, with ink and
imprinting the image onto paper with a printing press, letterpress
instructor Robert Metzler said.
<br />
<br />Letterpress was the primary printing method for 500 years, until the
1950s, Metzler said. Recently, it has witnessed a revival in
popularity.
<br />
<br />“Letterpress has the unique quality of creating a distinct solid
color image impressed onto paper that no other process possesses,”
Metzler said.
<br />
<br />Smith said the sensory experience of engaging with letterpress products distinguishes them from other printed materials.
<br />
<br />“[It] has the smell of the ink and the feel of the slight impression of the type pressed into the paper,” she said.
<br />
<br />The workshop also offers short classes on bookbinding structures and
printing techniques, as well as field trips to visit local printers,
binders and artists, Smith said.
<br />
<br />Bookbinding instruction at the workshop varies from making
traditional sewn and glued books to less traditional origami-based
folded books, Metzler said. Halasz is currently teaching a course about
the history of the book that includes a typesetting exercise and allows
students to create a book in place of a final essay.
<br />
<br />Many students use the workshop and printing presses to make projects
that are both aesthetic and functional, Metzler said. Students
typically print and design invitations, cards, posters, poems and artist
books.
<br />
<br />Halasz said she has even seen students make knit books and books in the shape of a double helix or an altarpiece.
<br />
<br />Julie Skinner, a graduate student who frequents the workshop, said
she uses the presses to design her own unique sets of stationery.
Callista Womick ’13, who took Halasz’s class last year, said she is
currently working on a book with metal covers and locks along the fore
edge.
<br />
<br />While the workshop specializes in traditional methods of letterpress
and bookbinding, the studio space has been expanded to include some
digital capabilities. Smith said that many students have begun
experimenting with relief plates from computer-generated images and
type, using tools like Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, photocopy transfer and
laser cutting.
<br />
<br />“This creates a nice physical link across the centuries that complements the typical printmaking process,” Hamlin said.</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-46536351964173476202013-11-30T22:59:00.000-05:002014-04-22T23:01:12.395-04:00TBT: Photo by Dan RouthIn honor of my coming graduation from Dartmouth, a photo from my senior year of high school, shared from <a href="http://danrouthphotography.blogspot.com/2009/06/high-school-graduation-congratulations.html" target="_blank">Dan Routh Photography</a>: <br />
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<br />Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-28508554669992100662013-11-27T21:58:00.000-05:002014-04-22T22:31:18.372-04:00Oral History InterviewAt long last, the exclusive <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/" target="_blank">Oral History</a> interview with <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/transcripts/Womick_Callista_Interview.pdf" target="_blank">Callista Womick</a>! Wow! Rare!!! (Enjoy.)Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-24490718043381179682013-10-18T16:37:00.000-04:002014-04-25T10:17:57.340-04:00Sculpture 2Update from fall term:<br />
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<br />Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-36790429761772989442013-09-04T21:45:00.000-04:002014-04-22T21:46:40.968-04:00Bloomberg: Dartmouth Leader Tied to Animal House Vows Tolerance Amid Outcry Shared from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-04/dartmouth-leader-tied-to-animal-house-vows-tolerance-amid-outcry#p1" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>: <br />
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When Hanlon arrived on campus as a student in 1973, Dartmouth was
divided over a decision the year before to let women enroll in what was
for more than two centuries an all-male bastion. The most virulent
opponents were the fraternities, said Nicholas Syrett, who wrote “The
Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities.”<br />
<br />
Subtle
echoes of that opposition remain, said Callista Womick, a senior
studying art who said she was sexually assaulted by an upperclassman in
her freshman year. Students stamp their feet when singing the words
“lest the old traditions fail” from the Dartmouth alma mater song. Some
students refuse to stamp because they say it began as a protest against
admitting women.<br />
<br />
“Most students don’t even know why they’re doing it,” Womick said. </blockquote>
More through the link. Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-40774941785434276552013-08-28T21:00:00.000-04:002014-04-23T00:48:49.226-04:00yarnbomb totoros!There's a construction fence outside of the Fayerweathers...I improved it.<br />
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Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-84326831578830405742013-08-08T19:10:00.000-04:002014-04-21T09:02:42.349-04:00campus yarnbombingThe Dartmouth College Library Facebook page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151836324687806&set=a.95539852805.112215.53908207805&type=3&theater" target="_blank">featuring one of my recent yarnbombs</a>! <br />
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<br />Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-86721507120360551402013-07-31T07:15:00.000-04:002014-04-22T17:26:16.230-04:00The Dartmouth: Public art brings the museum to campus, enlivens outdoorsShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2013/07/30//public-art-brings-the-museum-to-campus-enlivens-outdoors" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>:<br />
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Enriching where we work, study and play, outdoor art exposes community
members to a range of artists and styles as they walk across campus.
From colorful graffiti-inspired yarn bombing to a melancholy stainless
steel spider, public art has piqued interest in the arts in an
accessible and affordable way. <br />
<br />With more than 14 works scattered across campus, students are
bound to come across a piece on their daily walking routes, even if they
do not pass through the Hood Museum's doors.<br />
<br />Perhaps the best known work of public art on campus is one of the
newest, "Crouching Spider," located in Maffei Arts Plaza outside the
Black Family Visual Arts Center. Created by Louise Bourgeois in 2003,
this piece is an ode to her mother, who died when Bourgeois was just
beginning her career as an artist. The piece is made of bronze,
stainless steel, silver nitrate and polished patina and is on loan from
the Bourgeois family estate for one year. <br />
<br />Studio art major Gabriel Barrios '15 said he appreciates how "the
gestures and the angles all work together to present something deeper
than what's visibly present." His Drawing 1 professor took the class to
see the spider and explained the symbolism behind the piece and the
connection to the artist's remembrance for her mother.<br />
<br />"It also represents the strength and power of a woman, rather
than just the woman," Barrio said. "It is a largely feminist, powerful
and personal piece which makes it even more amazing."<br />
<br />Hood director and chair of the public art committee, Michael
Taylor, has previously called Bourgeois's spider "the greatest piece of
public sculpture that's been made in the last 25 years."<br />
<br />Also located in the newly designed arts plaza are the "Dartmouth
Panels," five colorful aluminum rectangles attached to the facade of the
brick building across from the Visual Arts Center. This site-specific
work, created by Ellsworth Kelly, was dedicated on Sept. 14 in honor of
the center's opening ceremony.<br />
<br />But Dartmouth's public art pieces expand beyond this corner of
campus. Various abstract sculptures dot alcoves around Dartmouth,
including minimalist sculptor Richard Serra's "Two-Plate Prop," two
plates of Cor-Ten steel propped against each other and weighing a
staggering 2,600 pounds, and George Warren Rickey's "Two Lines Oblique
Down, Variation VI," five stainless-steel components welded into a "Y"
that play with reflective surfaces. Both pieces are located in an alcove
inside the Hopkins Center.<br />
<br />Toward the north end of campus, Charles Perry's "D2D," a large
bronze sculpture resembling an organic compound, stands in front of
Fairchild. This is an appropriate choice, as the former
artist-in-residence was also a puzzle-maker and architect, fascinated
with the relationship between art and the natural sciences. <br />
<br />Also on the lawn in front of Fairchild is Beverly Pepper's 1977
"Thel," five pyramidal forms of Cor-Ten steel that sprout from the
grass. "Thel" is a part of Pepper's "Earthbound Sculptures," a series
that interacts with its natural environment.<br />
<br />Perhaps more notable to prospective students and their families
is Peter Irniq's "Inuksuk," which adorns the lawn of McNutt Hall.
Inusuk, which describes the structure of the stones in a piled
formation, literally translates to "likeness of a person," traditionally
a beacon for native travelers living in Canada's northernmost regions.
The sculpture was crafted by hand specifically for the College, and the
stones comprising the sculpture were selected from a field in Haverfill.<br />
<br />No longer on view is the Moskow Linn Architects' "Ice Chimes,"
which provided a soundtrack during Hanover's icy winter. Formerly
located in front of the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, the 20-foot
fall piece functioned as a weather-responsive musical sculpture that
chimed when it collected ice and snow. <br />
<br />Taylor said the Hood was "thrilled" to exhibit the sculpture last winter.<br />
<br />"One of the goals of the Year of the Arts is to bring art to
different parts of the campus, and Ice Chimes,' with its blend of
architecture, art, engineering, music, and science seemed like the
perfect work to install outside the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center,"
he said.<br />
<br />Students have recently installed their own smaller, whimsical
pieces of public art on campus and in the Upper Valley. Last spring,
Cally Womick '13 received a grant through the College's Year of the Arts
to fund her yarn bombing public artwork. <br />
<br />Yarn bombing, which is also known as graffiti knitting or
guerilla knitting, is a type of street art that uses colorful yarn
rather than paint or chalk to cover spaces in a community.<br />
<br />Womick said she was attracted to the idea because of the "intervention" of the art into student's daily life.<br />
<br />"They serve to make the space more beautiful and engage the
people in a different way and make people just feel happy," she said.
"We have lots of really intelligent, creative people and I think most of
us have a sense of humor and like to have fun, and I'd love to have
more art that reflects that."<br />
<br />A review of public art at Dartmouth would not be complete without
George Lundeen's statue of Robert Frost near the BEMA. Created in 1996,
the statue has been featured on countless admissions booklets and
informational websites.<br />
<br />The work, which captures Frost as he writes "Mending Wall," is
often featured on students' personal Dartmouth bucket-lists as a place
to visit before they graduate.<br />
<br />Public art brings the fine arts into daily life. Not only have
these various works served to beautify campus, they have helped foster a
community appreciation for the arts.</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-13378617994185487862013-07-12T11:34:00.000-04:002014-06-05T11:59:22.343-04:00Interview with Sharang Biswas '12Excerpt from my May 12 interview with <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/transcripts/BiswasInterviewEdited.pdf" target="_blank">Sharang Biswas '12</a>:<br />
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<b>Callista Womick: </b>Is there anything we haven’t talked about yet or that I haven’t asked you that you’d like to cover?</blockquote>
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<b>Sharang Biswas: </b>I had a positive experience at Dartmouth. I don’t think everyone else does. I was listening a few days ago after the Stonewall Lecture. One girl was talking about how after she was part of <a href="http://www.vnews.com/news/schools/5828916-95/protest-sparks-anonymous-threats-at-dartmouth" target="_blank">the protest</a>, everyone was treating her so badly she had to go to mental health issues—or, I mean counseling. It was terrible to think this one woman is having such a terrible experience at Dartmouth. It was horrible. </blockquote>
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One of <a href="http://www.allingoodfun.net/about" target="_blank">Talene [Monahon]'s pieces</a>—one of the women she interpreted said, “More telling about Dartmouth is the reaction that these protests got.” And I’m, like, “Yeah.” Like, I disagreed with the protests. I did not think they way they happened was the right way to happen. I do believe that they have a right to protest, and I do believe the issues they were bringing up were very important. So, while I believe I didn’t like the way they did the Dimensions protests, I still think they had a right to do so. </blockquote>
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And the backlash they’ve been getting is terrible. And I think if Judicial Affairs does something—because they might have broken some Judicial Affairs stuff, maybe—I think it’s totally between them and Judicial Affairs. It doesn’t involve anyone else. Just like any other person who breaks any other rule at Dartmouth. I don’t think the campus has a right to know what happens to these students. It’s their business. I don’t think they should be excessively punished because if they did break any rule, it’s not something heinous because they went into a function kind of thing. Like, that’s not a heinous rule they broke. </blockquote>
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I think the issues they brought up are very important. But the telling thing was that a lot of people got really angry at them and gave all these death threats. And some people were, like, “Oh, yeah, but everyone gets death threats.” But that doesn’t make it okay. If I were to receive death threats, I wouldn’t think, <i>Oh, I’m fine with it.</i> I would be very upset about it. And so that one was very—the woman she was channeling during that piece was very—I think that was good. Like, more telling is the reaction people got. </blockquote>
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<hr />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Elibrary/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/" target="_blank">Dartmouth Community and Dartmouth’s World</a> is an ongoing oral history
project that launched in 2012. The project’s goal is to document the
changing nature of the Dartmouth community in the second half of the
twentieth century with an emphasis on the concept of the insider and
outsider and how those roles and perceptions change for various
constituencies over time. Narrators will include members of the
Dartmouth community from 1945 to the present, representing a broad
spectrum of voices and perspectives.</i></span></blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-88518081837649681302013-06-21T20:46:00.000-04:002014-04-22T16:49:25.492-04:00The Dartmouth: Bored at Baker stirs controversyShared from <a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2013/06/21//bored-at-baker-stirs-controversy" target="_blank">The Dartmouth</a>:<br />
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In the midst of national controversy about privacy and government
surveillance, Bored at Baker users' anonymity has been called into
question following the revelation that the author of the June 5
Commencement bomb threat was a Dartmouth student. Although campus has
yet to receive further information about the investigation of the
threat, the finding has spurred many students to reflect on the values
of anonymity, security and Bored at Baker's impact on campus.<br />
<br />
The threat, which Safety and Security reported to campus the day
it was posted, warned that "dirty bombs" would explode if Real Talk
Dartmouth members protested at Commencement. At the time, Safety and
Security wrote that it was acting out of caution and had "reason to
believe the threat is not credible."<br />
<br />
Callista Womick '13, who described herself as a casual user of
Bored at Baker, said that few people on campus were worried, especially
because the author of the post quickly wrote a reply to say the threat
was not serious. While some students who did not use the site were
"freaked out," Womick said that most were aware of the often exaggerated
nature of Bored at Baker posts.</blockquote>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-44303897590695603902013-06-18T11:19:00.000-04:002014-06-05T11:59:36.971-04:00Interview with Richard Asala '13Excerpt from my April 18 interview with <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/transcripts/Asala_Richard_Interview.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Asala '13</a>:<br />
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<b>Callista Womick: </b>Ok, so, big question: How do you think being at Dartmouth has changed you?</blockquote>
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<b>Richard Asala: </b>I think—and sometimes I find it difficult to admit it to myself—but I think being at Dartmouth has taught me to be less idealistic than I am—than I was, let’s<br />
put it that way. Because I just, I don’t know—my experiences here have shown me how being practical about some things gets things done. Something like networking, something like getting contacts, having people push you in the business world, for example. That showed me that—I mean, you can sit down and say that everything has to be fair, you have to do this this way and you have to do everything by merit, and all that, but then if no one else works in that same way, you wouldn’t get what you want. And you need to, you know, get what you want ‘cause that’s what’s important— that’s the bottom line in most cases.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Elibrary/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/" target="_blank">Dartmouth Community and Dartmouth’s World</a> is an ongoing oral history
project that launched in 2012. The project’s goal is to document the
changing nature of the Dartmouth community in the second half of the
twentieth century with an emphasis on the concept of the insider and
outsider and how those roles and perceptions change for various
constituencies over time. Narrators will include members of the
Dartmouth community from 1945 to the present, representing a broad
spectrum of voices and perspectives.</i></span>Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-42208893548002135642013-06-17T13:42:00.000-04:002014-06-05T12:00:02.317-04:00Interview with Karen Afre '12<span style="font-size: small;">Excerpt from my April 17 interview with <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/transcripts/Afre_Karen_Interview.pdf" target="_blank">Karen Afre '12</a>:</span><br />
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<b>Callista Womick: </b>What would you say makes a difference being woman on<br />
campus from being a man, other than just the spaces? Although that’s a big part of it.</blockquote>
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<b>Karen Afre: </b>That’s definitely a big part of it. But, like, even looking at our professors, like, specific departments all have male professors. It was just very different for me being from an all-girl high school. I think maybe we had three male teachers. And so I wasn’t really used to learning from a male professor. And so I know it’s been really hard for a lot of my friends, too, majoring in the sciences or majoring in engineering not to have many female professors.</blockquote>
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And then even class dynamics. In a lot of the upper level science courses, it’s, like, maybe you’ll have two or three women in the class, and that’s pretty much it. </blockquote>
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<b>Womick: </b>Yeah.</blockquote>
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<b>Afre: </b> Yeah. So it’s just—it’s just been so different. So when I applied here, I didn’t know that Dartmouth had just gone co-ed—this is, like the forty—forty years of coeducation, so wehad a conference and that’s it. [Laughs.] Like, there’s nothing else on the student side. But I have that in the works. I’ve been speaking with a couple of other students, and I think we might be doing this panel in the fall, kind of like Dartmouth women through the decades.</blockquote>
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<b>Womick: </b>Oh, cool!</blockquote>
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<b>Afre: </b>Yeah. So I started the planning for that way too late, so it’s not realistic to do it this term, so I think we’re going to postpone it. We’ll see what happens. But I’m going off topic. [Laughs.]</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Womick: </b>No, this is good.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Afre: </b>No, no, no. What was the original question? Oh, yeah. So I was talking about professors and, like, class dynamics. Yeah. And so I didn’t know it had only been forty years. So it blew my mind when I actually sat down and thought about it. I remember<br />
wearing Dartmouth rugby gear. And one of our warm-up suits was sponsored by the Originals, the first class of Dartmouth women who played rugby. And then I saw the<br />
date on it, and I was, like, <i>Whoa! Like, that was so recent! </i>[Laughter.] </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But just, like, little things. Or even when older alums come back and they want to sing “The Men of Dartmouth” song, which is the alma mater. And, I remember, kind of like cringing at that and just being, like, “Wait, wait! What song are you talking about? ‘The Men of Dartmouth’ song?” And them just being, “Oh, no, we have women now. Let’s sing the Dartmouth song.”<br />
<br />
I would be curious to—I kind of wish I had—I mean, this statement’s not coming out right. Not that I wish that I’d gone to another school, but I wish I could know how it’s like going to another school that went co-ed a long, long time ago and not just forty years ago.</blockquote>
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<hr />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/" target="_blank">Dartmouth Community and Dartmouth’s World</a> is an ongoing oral history
project that launched in 2012. The project’s goal is to document the
changing nature of the Dartmouth community in the second half of the
twentieth century with an emphasis on the concept of the insider and
outsider and how those roles and perceptions change for various
constituencies over time. Narrators will include members of the
Dartmouth community from 1945 to the present, representing a broad
spectrum of voices and perspectives.</i></span>Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-16227231022255644522013-06-12T20:36:00.000-04:002013-06-12T20:52:44.457-04:00a few suggestionsMake the Seuss Room actually Seuss-esque. Right now it's
downright disappointingly dull.<br />
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Expand financial aid to cover PE classes, extra course fees
(for Studio Art materials, labs, and other classes), and text books. These are
all required aspects of academics and should be considered part of tuition. </div>
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Require all students to work at least 10 hours per week.
Some students have a far greater academic and social advantage because they
need not work. Other students are at a disadvantage because they must work.
Part-time campus jobs build responsibility and discipline, offer additional
learning experiences, and provide opportunities to work with Dartmouth faculty
and administrators. Let's level the playing field a little, at least time-wise,
and teach students greater responsibility and discipline in the process. </div>
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Do not make more than 15 hours of work-study per week part
of any student's financial aid package. While some students will undoubtedly
still choose to work more than this, they should not be institutionally required
to do so as it may come at a loss to their academics. </div>
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Reinstate family housing options for undergraduate students.
As is, undergraduates with families are forced to live off-campus, sometimes
quite far away. </div>
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Make diversity awareness education a standard part of the
first-year curriculum. Sex ed, too. Lots of people come here without much/any
experience with either.</div>
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Also include a course on Dartmouth history in the first-year
curriculum. It's important for people to understand the context of the
institution/community if they are to find their place within it and make it
their own.</div>
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If we're going to keep using the term "first-year,"
then make it second-year, third-year, and fourth-year, too. </div>
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Invest more resources in recruiting and retaining top-notch
mental health providers. It's institutionally embarrassing that it can take
weeks to get a non-emergency appointment with a counselor. </div>
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Stop requiring majors. They can be useful for suggested
courses of study but they can also be very limiting. </div>
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Institute residential colleges so that students have a
greater sense of community and continuity.</div>
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Assign a 24/7-accessible space on campus to student artistic
expression. It could be a mural wall or something more creative. Just keep it
uncensored and all-hours accessible. This campus needs a communal art outlet. </div>
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Do away with grades. At this level, they just inspire
greater stress in students. A pass/fail system coupled with more meaningful
individualized feedback would better serve the student body. </div>
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Encourage professors to allow students to demonstrate
mastery of course material in more interdisciplinary and individualized ways
than papers and exams. While useful as standardized assessment tools, papers
and exams do little to prepare students to tackle real-world problems; at best
they prepare students for the world of academia, which most of us don’t intend
to remain a part of after graduation. Project classes are both more engaging
and more applicable to life post-Dartmouth. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Do away with the exorbitant fee for transferring academic credits
from another institution. This is an unnecessary barrier to academic
exploration and it favors students from more affluent backgrounds.</div>
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Require professors and administrators to have a meal plan
with DDS to encourage them to engage more casually with their students. Perhaps
this would also lead to greater overall changes in the meal plan options. </div>
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Speaking of which: ideal meal plan situation: No student is
required to have a meal plan with DDS; the available options include termly
packages cheaper than $875; students may choose to put whatever amount of money
they wish into their dining account; all meal plans are all DBA (with no value
lost for people who still choose to eat at foco); DBA rolls over from term to
term and year to year. As is, DDS is an overpriced monopoly that all students
are required to support. </div>
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Re-evaluate the DSGHP exemption requirements. Many students
come here with health insurance perfectly suited for their needs but are
required to pay/take out loans for the expensive DSGHP because their plans are
found to be inadequate. </div>
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Adopt a zero-tolerance policy for students found responsible
for sexual assault. Expel them. </div>
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Create more gender-neutral restrooms, at least one per
building. The long-term goal should be that all restrooms are gender-neutral. </div>
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Make all ORL residential spaces gender-neutral. </div>
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Implement a more sensible room draw system. Surely there are
automated options on the market that could optimize happiness for all of
campus. MIT has a beautiful system. <<a href="http://housing.mit.edu/undergraduate/how_housing_assigned">http://housing.mit.edu/undergraduate/how_housing_assigned</a>></div>
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Make Banner course reviews publicly available. Seriously,
why hasn't this been done yet? </div>
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Either start seriously enforcing the drinking age
(stringently punishing those who violate it and derecognizing any groups and
organizations that facilitate it) or stop with the theatrics of doing so.
S&S walk-throughs are a joke. The new UGA program is detrimental to the
residential dynamic. Take a hard stance one way or the other, preferably in
favor of non-enforcement. </div>
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Withdraw institutional support from Greek-letter
organizations, or at least single-sex ones. As is, and as has been, they
perpetuate unhealthy social dynamics, binge drinking, and antiquated ideas of
gender identity and interactivity. Letting them be independent would also allow them greater freedoms with regard to new member initiation, pledge terms, and whatnot. See, everyone wins. </div>
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Withdraw institutional support from senior societies. They
perpetuate a toxic culture of elitism and exclusivity.</div>
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Allow people of all gender identities to attend the Proud to
Be a Woman dinner. Yes, that includes men. Allyship, no? </div>
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Place readily distinguishable communal bicycles around
campus. Maybe fewer privately owned bicycles would be stolen. </div>
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Do away with the D-Plan. It affords some very exciting
academic, internship, transfer, &c. opportunities, but at a huge cost to
the cohesiveness and continuity of our community/communities. Not to mention
how difficult it is to master a subject in only ten weeks. Students would be
far better served academically if allowed to study things more deeply and
thoroughly. We need time to process and reflect. We don’t have that right now. It’s
unhealthy. The benefits of the D Plan are far outweighed by the costs. </div>
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If Collis can have compostable to-go containers and
silverware, then so can and should every DDS establishment. </div>
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Stop selling bottled water in campus dining facilities. It
may be lucrative, but it comes at a terrific environmental cost. </div>
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Make composting available in all College-owned buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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Make this a non-smoking campus, at least in public spaces. </div>
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Denounce rules imposed by sorority nationals which prohibit
chapters from hosting parties, keeping alcohol on the premises, and other such antiquated
and misogynistic things. </div>
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Do away with the minimum family contribution. Some families
just can’t pay it.</div>
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Create first-year trips that don’t actually involve the
outdoors all that much for students who don’t want and/or are unable to
participate in the current offerings. Neither the outdoors nor the standard
discomforts (not showering, strenuous activity, trail food, mortal peril) are
necessary for class bonding and expanded options would surely attract more
incoming students.</div>
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Implement a system through which individuals can easily create
and subscribe/unsubscribe from various campus listservs. Campus-Events is at
once too broad and too exclusive (individuals and academic departments may not use
it, for instance). </div>
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New mascot. It’s time we had one. </div>
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Fix the bells. Seriously they’ve been in a constant state of
broken for years. </div>
Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-21675763866570667102013-06-07T15:42:00.000-04:002014-04-20T18:59:45.843-04:00First Prize in Hand BookbindingShared from <a href="http://dartmouthpreservation.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-arts-prize-winners-for-2013.html" target="_blank">Preservation Services</a>:<br />
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The Book Arts Prize is a juried award given
every year in recognition of excellence in the creation of a hand printed and
bound book made in the Book Arts Studio by a Dartmouth College
undergraduate. The cash prizes are made
possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Library. The winners are:</div>
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<b>First Prize in Hand
Bookbinding</b></div>
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Callista Womick, ‘13</div>
<i>You Can’t Take It With
You</i></blockquote>
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<b>First Prize in
Letterpress Printing</b></div>
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Malika Khurana, ‘15</div>
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<i>Prayer</i></div>
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$150 award</div>
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<b>Honorable Mention in
Letterpress Printing </b></div>
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Julie Skinner, Grad</div>
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<i>Julie Skinner Manegold
2012-2013 Portfolio</i></div>
$75 award</blockquote>
Congrats to Malika, Julie, and those who won Community Excellence awards! Our work will be on display for one year in the Treasure Room
cases in Baker Library beginning Saturday, June 8. <br />
<br />
<i>You Can't Take It With You</i> in progress:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">hansewn binding | <span style="font-size: xx-small;">© Callista Womick 2013</span></td></tr>
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Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740459100273921374.post-45669007614230748492013-06-06T14:03:00.000-04:002014-06-05T12:00:20.303-04:00Interview with Damaris Altomerianos '13Excerpt from my April 6 interview with <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/transcripts/Altomerianos_Damaris_Interview.pdf" target="_blank">Damaris Altomerianos '13</a>:<br />
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<b>Callista Womick: </b>Do you think that the Dartmouth community is good at bringing people from all these different backgrounds together?</blockquote>
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<b>Damaris Altomerianos: </b>I think it—hmm. I think it brings people to this place, but I<br />
think it doesn’t do—I think we could do better. “We,” including students, could do better at making that a bigger part of everyone’s life. Like, meeting people from different backgrounds should be part of everyone’s life here. It’s really shocking to me how we can all go through our time here having just spent our time with such a small cross-section and not really branching out. That, like, defeats the purpose, right? </blockquote>
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Like, if we’re supposed to be able to really learn from each other and each other’s experiences and to be inspired by each other and to really push each other and challenge each other as peers here, you can’t get that when you’re only with people who are just like you. </blockquote>
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This is why I like the idea of sort of random assortment for a social system. I<br />
really would love to see us in a residential college system in a full way, very full way. In a way that requires,—so this sort of big vision is still entirely impractical in some ways. </blockquote>
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But imagine if we were to sort of just clear out our residential spaces, right?—and, like, take back all of these Greek houses. And so now there’s empty buildings, and now you can remodel them essentially, right? And it would be really nice if we could make them all the same size, to hold the same number of people, I mean, and, like, of the same, like, quality level, so it’s not like some people are living at really, really bad-quality housing versus good. So we’d even that out. </blockquote>
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And then wouldn’t it be really nice if each cluster, really, could be its own thing, randomly assigned, so that you can imagine, like—imagine the Choates, for example, right? Wouldn’t it be great if there could be people of all different years there, but keeping first-year students on the same floor, who—say, like, imagine Brown. Brown One could be first-year students. Brown Two can be sophomores. Brown Three—like—<br />
and you can make it like that, and people have the option of, you know, of co-ed floors or, like, single-sex floors, whatever you want—like, whatever. Make all the options<br />
available for each place, and people still have some choice in that. </blockquote>
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But each place also has a physical plant. So, like, pick any of these houses—Webster Ave, right? And so if any—pick one of those—could be connected to the Choates—like,<br />
connected not literally, but connected to the Choates—where, like people who live in the Choates would now have that whole physical plant to, like, cook together, eat dinners together, to have dance parties together, to play pong together, where you at least have a sense of space that you can call your own that is with people that were randomly assorted there. That, I think would be a great thing because you need to get people to meet other people in social settings and in living settings. I think it needs to be random to get there. I really do. </blockquote>
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And I really think that wouldn’t diminish sense of community. I really think people can find a community in that community. I don’t think people—like, people would argue, “But it wouldn’t be as close because they wouldn’t find as great as friends.” No, I think you would. And I think to a large degree, like—because of the counterfactuals [that are], like, fundamentally unobservable, you don’t know. Maybe you missed out on some of the best friends you could have had here because you didn’t branch out to other people, because you kept yourself in this small group that then rushed the same house, which then...—whatever. </blockquote>
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And so I wish that we could all have that sense of space, 'cause space is important. Physical plants really, really matter. And I think everyone here, regardless of paying this amount of dues or, like, getting into this place, should have a sense of space that they can call part of their own.</blockquote>
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<b>Womick: </b>Have you been able to find a space like that at Dartmouth that you feel is your own? </blockquote>
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<b>Altomerianos: </b>Hmmmm. Not like a physical plant, I would guess. I mean, obviously, like, the neutral ones. Like, “Collis and the Hop and the library.” But I’d say, like, not, like, a social—like a physical plant for the sole purpose of, like, a social body. I think that was upsetting. But I don’t even know how many people really feel that way, obviously, because not every place can actually be open and host events, so there’s that whole issue, too. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><i><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Elibrary/rauner/archives/oral_history/community/" target="_blank">Dartmouth Community and Dartmouth’s World</a> is an ongoing oral history
project that launched in 2012. The project’s goal is to document the
changing nature of the Dartmouth community in the second half of the
twentieth century with an emphasis on the concept of the insider and
outsider and how those roles and perceptions change for various
constituencies over time. Narrators will include members of the
Dartmouth community from 1945 to the present, representing a broad
spectrum of voices and perspectives.</i></span>Callista Womickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163435384992844741noreply@blogger.com0