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Students vie for legislative seats
BY Alex Fredman
The Dartmouth Staff
Baronet “Webb” Harrington ’20 and Garrett Muscatel ’20 have a number of things in common: both are economics majors, members of the Dartmouth Class of 2020, have long-standing interests in politics and have interned in the U.S. Congress. When it comes to political ideology, however, their differences stand out—and this fall, Hanover voters will have the chance to choose between them. Harrington, a Republican,
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and Muscatel, a Democrat, are both running this fall to represent the town of Hanover in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The district — Grafton County 12 — has four representatives in the state House, all of whom are Democrats. Five people in total have filed to run for the 2019-20 term; the other three individuals who filed are incumbents. The New Hampshire State House, currently controlled SEE HOUSE PAGE 3
College offers cots in Sarner to escape heat BY Zachary Benjamin
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
As temperatures reached the mid-90s this past week, students have struggled to escape the heat. While the night usually brings a reprieve from the heat for students, the recent heat wave stayed strong past sunset, creating issues for students trying to sleep in non-air conditioned dorms and forcing the College to offer alternative options.
Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto ’01 emailed students on Tuesday that cots would be available in Sarner Underground for them to sleep on overnight on a firstcome, first-served basis for the next three days. The space would be quiet and non-private, Agosto wrote, and students would be expected to leave first thing in SEE COTS PAGE 3
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Community gathers to protest immigration policy
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Protestors joined on the Green to voice thier opposition to current immigration policy.
BY DEBORA HYEMIN HAn The Dartmouth Staff
Joining protestors across the country on Saturday, a crowd of approximately 700 Upper Valley community members gathered on the Greentodemonstrateagainst the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which haveresultedintheseparation and detention of families at the U.S. border. The Hanover protest, organized by Democrats of the Town of Hanover and sponsored by the Dartmouth College Democrats, was a part of
the nationwide “Families Belong Together” protests organized by MoveOn, the American Civil Liberties Union and Women’s March, among other groups. The nationwide protests come two months after the Trump administration a n n o u n c e d a “ z e ro tolerance” policy that aims for a 100 percent prosecution rate for those who enter the U.S. illegally at the U.S.Mexican border. As a result of the policy, families have been separated — adults have been sent directly to federal court while children have been sent to shelters
overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. To date, the policy has resulted in more than 2,500 undocumented children being separated from their parents. While President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 20 that reversed the family separation policy, only six children have been reunited with their parents so far. According to chair of the Democrats of the Town of Hanover Deborah Nelson, she and New Hampshire SEE PROTEST PAGE 2
EPA blasting and draining inactive copper mines BY Eliza JAne Schaeffer The Dartmouth Staff
The Elizabeth Mine, an inactive copper mine in South Strafford illegally frequented by Dartmouth students for swimming and cliff-diving, is now undergoing blasting
and draining. The mines were named an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in 2001, according to site project manager Ed Hathaway. This label, usually granted to areas which both pose a risk to nearby human and wildlife
populations and are also too costly for local parties to clean, makes a site eligible for federal funding, Hathaway explained. T he Elizabeth Mine is part of a larger series of three mines along the Orange County copper belt.
The other two mines — Ely Mine and Pike Hill Mine — are also under investigation by the EPA, but because the Elizabeth Mine is the largest and most well-known location, it is the agency’s top priority, Hathaway said. The danger posed by the
mine is two-fold. “The primary threat is to the aquatic environment,” Hathaway said, explaining that the “leaching acid and white metal copper” can be highly damaging to nearby SEE COPPER PAGE 5
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Mine blasted, drained
there staked out on a regular basis because [now that] we have streams and wildlife. drained it ... if anyone jumps off the The water, though toxic to cliff, they will be fatally injured,” wildlife, is not harmful to humans Hathaway said. “There are only a who have been briefly exposed, few feet of water in the bottom of Hathaway said. Rather, when it [the lake] right now.” comes to students and other thrillThough the Elizabeth Mine’s seekers, the main safety threat is lake is no longer accessible, there the relative instability of the rock are still other swimming locations structures surrounding what EPA for Dartmouth students and Upper officials call the “south open cut.” Valley residents to visit during the “We had locations there where hot summer months. people have gone in and [walked “There are plenty of other around] and then come back, and places to swim that are wonderful, then there’s 40 feet of rock [sliding] beautiful [and] safer,” assistant off the side of a cliff, burying the director of outdoor programs Rory location,” he said. Gawler ’05 said. T h i s S p e c i f i c a l l y, p ro bl e m G a w l e r has been recommended “There are plenty of exacerbated the Connecticut by b l a s t i n g other places to swim River swim dock at t h e s i t e, that are wonderful, i n H a n o v e r, which was which is staff ed c o n t r a c t e d beautiful [and] safer.” with lifeguards. out to Maine Fo r s t u d e n t s Drilling and with access to -ASSISTANT HEAD OF Blasting. a car, Gawler “They drill OUTDOOR PROGRAMS recommended h o l e s a n d RORY GAWLER ’05 swimming in they fill them parts of the White with blasting River near West powder and Hartford where they blast there are a few the rock,” “rocky outcrops.” Hathaway He also pointed explained. to the Baker According to Hathaway, though River, Mink Brook and Franconia the EPA has actively discouraged Falls, where there are “natural visits to the site since it was named water [slides].” a priority in 2001, trespassing “There is no reason to go continues to be a problem. [swim] somewhere that has safety “We currently have a sheriff hazards,” Gawler said. FROM COPPER PAGE 1
Sarner serves as sleeping quarters FROM COTS PAGE 1
the morning. This is the first time since 2011 that the College has offered cots for students to sleep on in response to extreme heat. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Agosto confirmed that students have taken advantage of the cots in Sarner, though she clarified in a later email statement that only a few have done so. Dartmouth does not normally offer alternative sleeping spaces because temperatures are usually lower during the evening, but in response to heat advisories this week, the College felt it was necessary to take precautions, she said. The decision was made as a group by officials from various offices, Agosto said, and ultimately went to the Dean of the College and facilities officials for approval. Kathryn Lively, who assumed office as interim Dean of the College on July 1 from outgoing dean Rebecca Biron, said that she was unable to attend the officials’ meeting, as she had just returned to campus from a research trip, but that she told Agosto she would support any decision that was made. Agosto said that both Biron and Lively were informed of the decision. Biron, who is currently traveling, did not return a request for comment by press time. Agosto also wrote in her email that the Collis Center and the House Centers, which normally close at 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. during the week, respectively, would be open 24/7 during the week for students to cool down. These spaces remained open primarily to keep students cool should they wish to study during the night, Agosto said in the interview. “While we weren’t encouraging sleeping in those spaces, if a student fell asleep at a table, we weren’t necessarily going to wake them up and move them,” she said. No on-campus residence halls open to students have central air conditioning during the summer,
according to Frank Roberts, associate vice president of facilities and operation management. Alphi Phi sorority’s house, Kappa Delta sorority’s house and the Triangle House are the only College-owned, on-campus housing options open to students that offer air conditioning, he said. The Office of Residential Life prohibits students without medical conditions who live in residence halls or College-owned Greek houses from installing their own air conditioners for safety reasons. “Not all of our buildings have A.C., and so having only some of our students getting access to A.C. and others not certainly isn’t equitable,” Agosto said. “Making spaces available that any student could access, at this point, seemed like a fair option.” Roberts noted that air-conditioned dorms have historically been offered to camps and conferences hosted at Dartmouth during the summer. “I wasn’t around when the decision was made [to install air conditioning] for the East Wheelock Cluster … but I know there was discussion of, if you want to recruit some of the exec ed[ucation] programs and other camps and conferences to Dartmouth in the summer, you need to be able to provide air conditioning to compete,” Roberts said. Even as the College works to keep students cool, various facilities have attempted to lower their energy usage this week in response to peak electricity demand levels in New England. An email Roberts sent to campus on Monday noted that New England could potentially reach a new peak energy demand for the year on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday. Because the College’s electricity rate for the year is determined in part based on its energy usage during peak demand, Roberts asked for students, faculty and staff to reduce their energy usage on those days by doing things such as turning off lights and unplugging appliances while they were not in use. Roberts’s email also noted that
FO&M workers would be reducing electrical usage in “non-critical” central systems. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Roberts cited the Alumni Gymnasium and Florin Varsity House as examples of noncritical systems, noting that FO&M had turned off the chiller for those buildings during potential peak demand days. “People in the gym in Florin are gonna be uncomfortable for a bit,” he said. “As soon as we think the peak is over, we will turn [the chiller] back on.” Other areas, such as research laboratories, data centers and the Hood Museum, were not impacted by the conservation efforts, Roberts said. Another way the College is working to reduce its electrical demand on peak energy days is by cogenerating more of its own electricity, rather than buying it from the electrical utility. Burning fuel generates steam, some of which the College then sends through a turbine to cogenerate electricity and the rest of which is distributed to campus to heat buildings. On some hot days, the College cannot use all of the steam it would normally distribute, so it uses that steam to instead cogenerate electricity, which ends up being cheaper than buying it from the utility, Roberts said. In an email to The Dartmouth following his interview, Roberts estimated that power-saving efforts on Tuesday saved 4.5 megawatts of electrical demand, which would represent a $400,000 savings over the next year should Tuesday end up being the peak demand day for New England. Prior to reduction efforts, the College’s demand was slightly over 11 megawatts, Roberts wrote. The College typically spends about $800,000 per year on electrical demand charges, Roberts said. Roberts said that the drive to reduce energy demand and the decision to offer cots in Sarner were not related, save for the fact that both were ultimately because of the heat.
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The College began setting up cots on Tuesday in Sarner to help students escape the summer heat wave.
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Two students run for House seats OPO director appointed the community where they are from,” issue, because you have to make sure Harrington said. that you’re not taking away any college by Republicans, has a total of 400 For Muscatel, Dartmouth students student’s voting rights,” Harrington members, making it by far the largest are a significant part of that community said. “Where exactly the balance falls state legislative body in the United and therefore deserve a representative on that, I’m not completely certain yet.” States. Members are elected from who embodies their political beliefs. If Harrington or Muscatel win in 204 districts, which receive a number “Dartmouth students make up the fall, it will not be the first time in of representatives proportional to about half of the district,” Muscatel recent years that a Dartmouth student population. said. “And so I thought to myself...[that] has been elected to local office. Known as a “citizen legislature” there should be a Dartmouth student in In 2008, Vanessa Sievers ’10 was because of its paucity of professional Concord to represent student voices.” elected Grafton County treasurer, staff and $100-a-year salary for Originally from California, an event that sparked national media members, the state House requires that Muscatel’s political experience includes coverage. After Sievers missed three members are at v o l u n t e e r i n g meetings in a row, the Grafton County least 18 years old for President Executive Committee voted on a 6-1 “I think it’s time for me and have been O b a m a ’ s margin calling on her to resign. Sievers “domiciled” in to give back to [the] r e e l e c t i o n apologized to the committee but served the state for at community that I’ve campaign in out the remainder of her term. least two years. 2012, interning In 2014, Michael Wopinski ’15 was Candidates must spent so much time for U . S . elected Grafton County register of pay a $2 fee in.” Representative probate after a successful day-of writeor provide five Julia Brownley (D- in campaign led by fellow members primary petitions, CA) and working of Alpha Delta fraternity. Wopinski, each of which -BARONET “WEBB” as a fellow for who did not vote for himself, won the requires one HARRINGTON, ‘20 Hillary Clinton’s election with 20 votes out of 95 cast, signature, to file 2016 presidential defeating other write-ins including REPUBLICAN GRAFTON for election. campaign. At College President Phil Hanlon and Harrington COUNTY-12 HOUSE D a r t m o u t h , “Keggy the Kegger.” At the time, said that his Muscatel majors Hanover town manager Julia Griffin CANDIDATE decision to run in government told The Dartmouth that the position stems from his six and economics is a “largely ceremonial” role. years of living in and is a member Government professor Linda New Hampshire of the Dartmouth Fowler said that while local residents and his appreciation for the way the College Democrats. are prone to skepticism toward student state has embraced him. “I know how and what I can do candidates, students who run a serious “I think it’s time for me to give back to combat the Trump administration, campaign could overcome the “bad to [the] community that I’ve spent so and I’d like to bring that experience to vibe” left by past experiences. much time in,” Harrington said. New Hampshire,” Muscatel said. “[If someone] is willing to go into While attending high school at In terms of issues, Muscatel cited the community and meet people and Phillips Exeter Academy, Harrington two issues as key for his platform: make the effort to meet non-students, was a member of the Republican Club immigration and voting rights for then I think [having a student represent and later took a term off to intern for college students. Hanover] is just U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC). At Muscatel said fine,” Fowler said. Dartmouth, Harrington is a double that he recently “I know how and Fowler, major in economics and computer spoke at and what I can do to who has taught science and is currently co-editor- helped organize Muscatel in one in-chief of the conservative campus a rally on the combat the Trump of her classes, publication The Dartmouth Review. Green, planned administrationm and characterized Harrington said that his platform by the Hanover Hanover as a I’d like to bring that consists of four issues: bringing the tech Town Democrats “safe Democratic sector to New Hampshire and Hanover, and Dartmouth experince to New seat” and said legalizing marijuana, increasing state C o l l e g e Hampshire.” that Muscatel has funding for charter schools and a Democrats, to a good chance of continuing commitment to low taxes protest the Trump being elected if he and an expanding economy. administration’s - GARRETT MUSCATEL ’20, makes it past the “I think that my policies are pretty i m m i g r a t i o n primary. DEMOCRATIC GRAFTON common-sense,” Harrington said. policies. “From “Everybody agrees with low taxes [and] Re g a r d i n g COUNTY-12 HOUSE what I can tell everybody agrees with increasing the voting rights, CANDIDATE listening to some number of jobs.” Muscatel said of the more If elected in November, Harrington h e o p p o s e s senior Democrats said that he does not think it would be recent actions — in the town, they necessary to resign from his position including Senate Bill 3 and House Bill seem to think he would be a very good at the Review, noting that many state 1264 — taken by the state government legislator, that he works hard, he’s legislators have second jobs as well. to limit out-of-state college students reliable,” Fowler said. He added, however, that he would be from voting in New Hampshire. He Yet Fowler also praised Harrington’s careful to separate his political activities noted that he is a party in pending candidacy, noting that often Democrats from his work at the Review. litigation challenging the legality of in the area are often elected with no Harrington and Muscatel are SB 3. opposition. acquaintances from overlapping Harrington took a measured “We have so many uncontested experiences on campus, including an approach to the issue, saying that while elections in this country, that anybody, economics course they took together college students should have their in my view, who puts himself or herself during their freshman year. Both spoke voting rights protected, he understands forward is doing a good thing,” she said. well of the other’s decision to run. the concerns of voters who have longer New Hampshire’s primary election “I think it’s a really positive thing roots in the state. this year falls on Sept.11, and the when people are trying to represent “It’s very dangerous to approach this general election is on Nov. 6. FROM HOUSE PAGE 1
By Abby Ridsdill-Smith The Dartmouth
Timothy Burdick ’89 MED’01 has been named as the new director of the Outdoor Programs Office at Dartmouth College. Burdick will assume the role on August 1, replacing OPO acting director and associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey. Burdick is the first permanent appointment to this role since Dan Nelson retired in November 2017. According to an email sent to the Dartmouth Outing Club liserv by Eric Ramsey on June 27, Burdick has held a variety of positions since graduating Dartmouth in 1989. Immediately upon graduation, he taught “science, photography and outdoor education” to middle and high school students. After graduating from the Giesel School of Medicine in 2002, he worked for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, leading a group of primary and urgent care providers, Ramsey’s announcement said. Burdick was involved with Cabin and Trail and Ledyard Canoe Club as an undergraduate. He taught kayaking and rock climbing classes, lead trips to local crags and volunteered for the freshman trips program. He also served as the DOC student safety director and was responsible for “management and safety training across the entire DOC.” Ramsey further elaborated on Burdick’s experience with the DOC, mentioning Burdick’s roles as a member of the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club, a rock climbing instructor and an ice climbing trip leader. Burdick said his experiences with the DOC have inspired a life-long interest
in rock climbing, biking, running, hiking, boating and fly fishing. He now explores these interests through his commitment to the Wilderness Medical Society, an organization focused on supporting research related to wilderness medicine, and his active role with “Stowe Mountain Rescue,” a government-affiliated search and rescue team in Vermont . As director, Burdick aims “to integrate outdoor programs more strongly with the academic side of Dartmouth College.” He believes OPO can and should “be a common space” where students, academics and DOC members can discuss issues surrounding “outdoor or wilderness themes.” He sees these interactions as beneficial to both parties. According to Burdick, this idea is “very much in line with President Hanlon’s Call To Lead initiative where we can look at these intersections between parts of the campus.” The search committee tasked with determining the next OPO director was impressed by Burdick’s experience with the outdoors, experiential education, risk management and wilderness education. Students involved in the DOC also played a part in the selection process, as they were able to meet candidates when they visited campus. Assistant director of outdoor programs Rory Gawler added that Burdick is a “very experienced outdoorsman” with great technical ability “in a number of different activities.” Gawler also noted that since Burdick was involved with the DOC at Dartmouth, he has a clear understanding of the importance of student leadership in the DOC.
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STAFF COLUMNIST JOSEPH REGAN ‘19
A Lucid Tradition
Students should not let this old ceremony die out One Dartmouth tradition looms large on the purpose of Homecoming is to demonstrate campus at the beginning of each academic year: the pride Dartmouth students and alumni have the bonfire. My first year at Dartmouth, it stood for their college. Instead of more regulation, there 35 feet tall and had a wooden “19” at its peak. should be alternative ceremonies that involve less My class marched around campus that evening risk. Something as simple as adding pageantry to as friends poured out of dorms to join the excited the event could be all that is necessary to focus torrent heading to the Green. We were energized students’ energy productively. by the ecstatic cries of older sons and daughters It is worth noting that no serious injury or death of Dartmouth. Two of the people I ran around has occurred since the inception of the bonfire in the flames with are best friends I have been lucky 1888. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin has enough to make. The night was unforgettable. stated that her concerns are, “not so much about As a rising senior, I am worried that incoming the bonfire itself — it’s about some of the student freshmen may not have the same unforgettable behavior that occurs at the bonfire.” She makes experience because the bonfire tradition may no the reasonable claim that any possibility for the longer exist. loss of life is unacceptable. But by that logic, the The Town of Hanover annual fireworks displays has stated that it will not should be a much bigger issue a permit for the “As a rising senior, I concern for Hanover’s bonfire if safety concerns am worried that the town managers. are not addressed. I find this Put into disheartening, considering incoming freshmen perspective, the Fourth the safety measures which may not have the of July is a much more have been taken in the past. dangerous celebration. same unforgettable Every fall term, the bonfire Every year, millions of has been guarded by a 33 experience because rockets are shot into to 35 person security detail, the bonfire tradition the sky and explode chain-link fences and road over enormous crowds may no longer exist.” blocks. Emails have been sent across the country. New out to campus in order to Hampshire has, since enumerate the many dangers 2011, steadily relaxed its of Homecoming. It is true that Dartmouth restriction on the use of the more dangerous students are passionate, and Homecoming “firecrackers” and “reloadable mortars.” It is also heightens this to a fever pitch, which can cause legal to use private fireworks in Hanover. While risky behavior. But redesigning the bonfire the bonfire has not seriously injured anyone in should focus on how to channel that passion the past 140 years, there were eight deaths and into something good rather than try to regulate 12,900 injuries nationwide due to Fourth of July students as if they are statistics in a risk analysis celebrations in 2017. If Griffin is worried about model. loss of life, her main concern should not be a In “Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization,” tradition whose safety track record is spotless. published in the most recent issue of the Harvard The purpose of the Homecoming bonfire is Business Review, Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. to create an unforgettable experience, to make Thakor argue that “overarching values and goals new memories for new students all on the same become empty words” when an organization does awe-inspiring night. Dartmouth students are not authentically engage with individuals. Quinn not as self-destructive as the avalanche of rules and Thakor refer to company managers who fall suggests. The working group should capitalize into a vicious cycle of responding to problems on a chance to make the bonfire safer while also with increased regulation. They recommend finding a way to accommodate the demonstrated that a company find common ground and desire of students for something more than a run inspire people to work together. In the case of around the flames. the bonfire and other traditions at Dartmouth, The bonfire is one of the truly quintessential the problem is risky behavior, and the solution Dartmouth traditions. It is every member of always seems be more regulation. Thus, the the Dartmouth community’s duty to voice their working group that the College has assembled opinion, whatever it is, so that we do not lose to address this issue should pursue a solution that something so great due to superfluous concerns works with students, not against them. After all, and weak criticisms.
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STAFF COLUMNIST TYLER MALBREAUX ’20
A Case for the Humanities The humanities has so much to offer that science cannot
Anyone studying a humanities subject computer scientists who work in their respective has heard this at least once since declaring field. their major: that STEM majors (science, The other obfuscation is that humanities technology, engineering and mathematics) majors make as much money as their STEM get paid more. Firms ranging from investment counterparts in the long-run. This is partly banks to technology giants need people who because humanities majors are more likely to can analyze large chunks of data. In terms of pursue advanced degrees, such as a Master’s career placement, future earnings, and, to an degree, whereas STEM majors do not extent, prestige, a degree in the humanities necessarily need one. However, this applies seems to lose the argument over utility and mostly to students who go to selective, small applicability every time. But it does not have liberal arts schools. Students at these schools to be seen this way. In fact, the myth of STEM are more likely to major in the humanities superiority was not always so. and attend graduate school. Students at less Economists have long known that technology selective state schools, on the other hand, and innovation are precursors to economic are more likely to do pre-professional majors growth. A classical education, that focused on — business, nursing, education — and skip bulwarks of Western canon, was the standard graduate school. Therefore, they do not always for much of the 19th century. The 20th century enjoy the benefits of higher earnings. d aw n e d a n e w e r a . Thus, while The German-modeled STEM fields are not as research university, with “The only way the great as contemporary an emphasis on tenured- humanities will be rhetoric suggests, the professors who published humanities are not able seen favorably is by their work, was being to “beat” STEM in the implemented at American replacing job prospects job market. This is why colleges as early as the the argument for the with another metric 1960s. This is the model humanities is dead prima that exists today, and that measures facie to lawmakers and research univer sities college officials nationwide. something more continue to top the college The only way meaningful.” rankings charts. the humanities will be seen The difference between favorably is by replacing then and now is that, in job prospects with another the research university, humanities and metric that measures something more STEM subjects used to be able to coexist. The meaningful. Of course, there are the obvious emphasis on STEM is recent. In fact, there are ones that most have heard before: that the no known instances of “science, technology, humanities teach one to craft an argument, engineering and mathematics” being used as closely analyze text and, as the trite expression an acronym until 2005, when the word was goes, to “think critically.” These skills can be used in the name of newly founded STEM abstracted into the real world and used in a host Congressional Caucus. of industries outside of STEM-centered ones. Since then, talk about STEM’s importance But there is one thing that’s missing, one thing has been front-and-center in education policy so central to the humanities/STEM dichotomy discourse. Unfortunately, much of the rhetoric that one would be remiss to not mention it. And promoting STEM has amounted to a devaluing that is the question of intangible value, void of of the humanities by dollar signs and surpluses. lawmakers. Sometimes In other words, how can “Humanities is about it amounts to an all-out the humanities add value assault. As then-Senator more than mere to people’s lives? Marco Rubio put it in Humanities is reading or writing. a 2015 stump speech, about more than mere “We need more welders It’s about being in reading or writing. It’s and less philosophers.” conversation with a about being in conversation Some universities have with a philosopher, author re s p o n d e d i n k i n d . philosopher, author or or playwright. It means The most high-profile playwright.” reading and re-reading, example is the University posing questions and of Wisconsin at Stevens offering up interpretations. Point, which has proposed These writers, the ones removing 13 humanities studied in school, wrote degrees and replacing them with studies that down their deepest thoughts after much have “clear career pathways.” introspection and deliberation, in a very All this talk about STEM obscures two intimate process of literally writing out their realities. First, STEM subfields are not feelings. The humanities offers a way to uniformly desirable in the job market. understand those feelings. Computer science majors, for instance, are It is hyperbolic to say that learning Aristotle’s more likely to fare well in their job searches concept of eudaimonia can lead one to a than those who study other sciences. Demand meaningful life, or that studying James Baldwin for computer science majors is expected to can teach one everything there is to know grow by 73 percent by 2024, compared to about navigating sexual and racial identities. three percent growth in the physical and life In order to accomplish that, today’s students sciences. But only 13 percent of life scientists must engage in the same process of reading, and 17 percent of physical scientists work writing, re-reading and re-thinking as those within their field of study after college, before them. And that is a lifetime’s work that compared to the more than 50 percent of only the humanities can prepare students for.
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Protestors gather on Green “I grew up in a neighborhood where a lot of my friend’s parents had State Representative Sharon Nordgren numbers tattooed on their arms,” she conceived the idea to organize the said at the rally. “They were survivors of protest, noting that many people Auschwitz, living in what they thought want to join resistance efforts but may was a free land, and comfortable saying not know how to do so effectively. this could never happen again … One Saturday’s protest in Hanover attracted thing we thought would not happen is people across multiple age groups the legitimation of Nazis in the United from various counties near the New States. We have reached that point.” Hampshire-Vermont border. Orleck said in an interview “We knew we needed to do after the protest that the Trump something because it’s completely administration’s immigration policies, un-American to separate children despite having a precedent in the from their parents,” Nelson said in Obama administration’s deportation an interview after the protest. “And o f u n d o c u m e n t e d M ex i c a n if people don’t speak up about things immigrants, are different from like this, then we are complicit in them Obama’s policies because of their happening.” roots and accompanying rhetoric. She Nelson and other speakers at the said that the Trump family has a “long demonstration also spoke about the white supremacist history” that Trump effects of the Trump administration’s is drawing on, calling Trump’s father immigration policy on New Hampshire Fred Trump a white supremacist. and Vermont communities. Last week, “You know, Obama was called U.S.BorderPatrol the deportercheckpoints i n - ch i e f. H e on Interstate “This is going on here deported a lot 9 3 r e s u l t e d too, you know, people of people, but in arrests of it’s [the Trump – ICE agents – are undocumented administration’s] immigrants from boarding buses and entire package,” countries such as trains in White River she said. “It’s the Brazil, China and rhetoric, and it’s Junction. So that’s Ecuador. the separation H i s t o r y part of the story – we of children and professor need to think, then act irot ’su n dt ihnrgo u ug hp Annelise Orleck spoketothecrowd locally with our eyes people who’ve about dairy farm toward Washington, done nothing worker Alejandro wrong living in H e r n á n d e z - because there are this country … Ventura, who is really bad things and deporting being held at the them.” happening very close Strafford County, S h e N.H., detention to where we live and also said that the center in lieu work.” deportation of of an $8,000 immigrants is bond. She said different in this that the people -HISTORY PROFESSOR administration who create the because of ANNELISE ORLECK dairy products Trump’s efforts for which New to get rid of due Hampshire and Vermont are well- process for immigrants in their known are the ones who are being put deportation process — a proposal in jail. that has resulted in mass trials of “This is going on here too, you immigrants, which she says looks like know, people — ICE agents — are “mass trials in dictatorships.” boarding buses and trains in White At the protest, associate pastor at River Junction,” Orleck said in an the Church of Christ at Dartmouth interview after the protest. “So that’s College Rob Grabill spoke about part of the story — we need to think, the religious aspect of the Trump then act locally with our eyes toward administration’s rhetoric and its use in Washington, because there are really justifying exclusionary laws. Attorney bad things happening very close to General Jeff Sessions, for example, has where we live and work.” cited verses in Romans 13 that instruct Orleck also spoke to the crowd about readers to “obey the laws,” while the historical antecedents of the Trump White House press secretary Sarah administration’s policies, drawing Huckabee Sanders has said it is “very parallels between the separation biblical” to obey the law. Grabill said of families at the border and the that scripture has been “plucked out” separation of families during the era to justify certain actions that stand in of slavery, as well as the separation contrast to the Gospel’s broad message of Native American children from of caring for others. parents through the 20th century. She “It’s the job of Christians who also discussed how Trump’s actions follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ … to revitalize ideas that society collectively recognize that the Gospel says we have rejected as inhumane. to care for all people, we have to care FROM PROTEST PAGE 1
for the stranger, care for the orphan, care for the refugee, and that’s the broad warrant of scripture,” Grabill said in an interview after the protest. Adding to the contextualization of the Trump administration’s immigration policy in historical and religious contexts, executive director of the United Valley Interfaith Project Rod Wendt spoke about tangible things protesters could do after the rally, including voting in November for representatives who will oppose Trump’s policies at the state level. Membersof thecommunityrunning for positions in New Hampshire state government were introduced at the rally, including Garrett Muscatel ’20, who is running as State Representative for Grafton County District 12 in the New Hampshire State House of Representatives this November. Muscatel called for members of the rally to fight for issues in addition to family separation, such as threats to voting rights, the rights of women and members of the LGBT community and continuous mass shootings across the country. In an interview after the protest, Muscatel said the Trump administration’s policies contributed to his decision to run for the position. “I’ve seen great things that people can do to combat the oppressive ideals of certain administrations, and I want to get involved in the legislative front myself, especially [when it comes to] protecting students’ rights,” he said. Nelson said in the interview that given the “extraordinary efforts” to disenfranchise college students done by Republicans in the state of New Hampshire, efforts to bring awareness of voting will be crucial come November. In recent months, the state legislature has voted on multiple bills, such as House Bill 1264 and Senate Bill 372, that critics say would deter many college students from voting. Nordgren agreed that one of the goals that came out of Saturday’s rally will be to secure a Democratic majority in the State House. Nordgren also said after the rally that the protest allowed people who shared concerns about the country to come together — an aspect of gathering that Orleck emphasized in her remarks at the rally. She noted that protesters were participating in a “noble past,” much like musician Woody Guthrie and writer Grace Paley. Orleck said that she wanted to remind people how long movements like women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement took to achieve their goals. “It isn’t all about winning or losing,” she said. “It’s a good way to spend your life. It’s an important way to spend your life: struggling against injustice and inhumanity and cruelty and racism.” Julian Nathan contributed reporting.
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Review: ‘Tag’ is an unexpectedly endearing comedy B y Christian williams
even tagged at his own father’s funeral. The story picks up as Hoagie Let me start off by saying that I Malloy (Ed Helms) gathers the gang thoroughly enjoyed “Tag.” It is an back together with news that their endearing comedy, smartly written friend Jerry Pierce (Jeremy Renner) and more than capable of making is getting married and wants to viewers laugh retire from the out loud. If for game. Jerry is “‘Tag’ is a testament nothing else, possibly the best viewers should that real life can be tag player in the b e e x c i t e d more absurd than world — he has about the starnever been “it.” studded cast, fiction.” They only have which included: three days and E d H e l m s , one last shot to Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Isla ruin Jerry’s perfect record, and this Fisher, Jake Johnson, Rashida Jones, time, they know exactly where he’ll Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress be and when he’ll be there. Working and Leslie Bibb. The ensemble together, they hope to finally take actually works very well together, with down the master. a chemistry reminiscent of Clooney’s The plot is incredibly simple, “Ocean’s” Trilogy. but well executed, which is rare “Tag” is a testament that real life for comedies. Written by Rob can be more absurd than fiction. McKittrick and Mark Seilen, Tag Based on a Wall Street Journal article is Jeff Tomsic’s feature-length written by Russell Adams, “Tag” directorial debut, and I am excited follows the true story of a group of to see what he will direct next. While male friends who have been playing he could have given more time and the same game of tag for 30 years. weight to the dramatic elements of Even though they are spread across the plot, comedy is all about timing, the country, for one month every and Tomsic allowed the comedy to year these men go to extreme lengths breathe, which made even mundane to rid themselves of the burden of moments funny. Also, unlike many being “it” before open season is over. modern comedy directors, Tomsic If they fail, they are shamed for the seems to understand visual comedy 11 months before the game begins and how there are things one can’t again. Extensive travel and elaborate pull off in anywhere else but film. disguises are standard — one was Instead of actors standing around The Dartmouth
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and improvising scenes, most of the it. All of the characters believe in effective member of the ensemble. humor is driven by the characters’ and adhere to the rules of the world Ed Helms plays a typical Ed efforts to accomplish their objective, and its plausibility, so we do, too. Helms character, but it’s nice to using the inherently active nature of Often, comedies fall apart because see Jon Hamm flexing his comedic the game and showcasing an inventive t h ey f e a t u r e chops ag ain. style for the action sequences. characters acting “In the end, this is a Jake Johnson did The style could be more refined, u n b e l i e v a b l y an admirable film about not wanting and sometimes Tomsic tries a bit too stupid under j o b a s t h e hard, but I still found myself caring n o r m a l o r to grow up because friend who lost more about the success of these tag c o n t r i v e d growing up means his way, while attempts than anything in the last circumstances. the understated few action films I’ve seen. Renner T h i s m o v i e saying goodbye to h u m o r — breaks down the all-out assaults like f e a t u r e d the people we love, especially from Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock in characters living Buress and that is a reality to Hannibal the Richie adaptations, and it is a up to their fullest — c re at es a fantastic appropriation because his potentials under which everyone can rich layering mental comments are silly, and his a ridiculously relate.” of comedy that actions are akin to that of a ninja s t u p i d keeps viewers or a “feral animal,” as Bob Callahan circumstance. smiling, if not (Jon Hamm) puts it. If you want to People can get extreme under trivial chuckling. Jeremy Renner is also be impressed, circumstances, beautifully antagonistic, and Isla walk in with the “The movie works and this film Fisher portrays the wife who is a knowledge that because it is aware of still manages little too into the game a little too Renner broke to capture that well. The cast plays off of each other both of his arms its own absurdity and feeling honestly. well, and it’s easy to believe that they within the first embraces it. All of the The absurdity could actually be the friends who f e w d ay s o f doesn’t make have been in a game like this for shooting and did characters believe in viewers want to years. They bring an earnestness to not wait for them and adhere to the rules roll their eyes this story, which really accentuates its to heal before because it’s not heart. In the end, this is a film about of the world and its filming the rest. cheap. However, not wanting to grow up because These scenes plausibility, so we do, when the movie growing up means saying goodbye pull off an epic too.” o c c a s i o n a l l y to the people we love, and that is a feel, which give goes for crude reality to which everyone can relate. the game gravity, humor, it feels “Tag” is important because it is a and Jerry’s conniving effectively a bit out of place. The characters true story, and it gives us hope that made him a supervillain. could have also been explored to a no matter how far away our friends The movie works because it is aware greater depth, but each was distinct go, we can always reach out and grab of its own absurdity and embraces and fleshed out enough to be an them.
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Dartmouth lacrosse hires Joe Conner Jr. to fix offensive woes
in raw offensive efficiency in 2018, trailing only Cornell University and powerhouse Duke University. To Last season, men’s lacrosse had put Conner’s success at Bucknell a disappointing campaign, finishing into perspective, the Big Green with a 2-11 record and zero wins were ranked 61st in raw offensive in Ivy League play or on the road. efficiency out of the 71 Division 1 The team struggled especially with NCAA lacrosse teams. offensive efficiency, scoring only 90 “Offensive efficiency has been goals throughout the entire season, a big priority in my coaching,” by far the lowest Conner said. amongst Ivy “At Bucknell, we “The possession to League teams. have consistently The University turnover ratio has been in the top of Pennsylvania been far too high five nationally in and Harvard fewest turnovers University, tied and that needs to and have typically for next fewest be limited. Having had one of the goals in the higher shooting more possesions conference, percentages in the s c o r e d 1 4 1 end in quality nation, which has g o a l s e a c h . shots rather than made us, from Consequently, an efficiency the Big Green unforced turnovers standpoint and s p o r t e d t h e is the biggest key to a raw offensive lowest shot standpoint, one of flipping the offensive percentage in the higher rated the Ivy League efficiency ratio.” offenses in the at 26.4 percent, country.” while averaging Conner’s move a 6.2 goal loss -ASSOCIATE HEAD from Bucknell will per game. To COACH JOE CONNER JR. open the door for address the the Big Green to team’s issues take a new look with offensive at offense. Rather production, Dartmouth hired Joe than playing a high-tempo offense Conner Jr. to serve as associate head that largely relies on man-up scoring, coach and offensive coordinator. Conner believes the Big Green A 2007 graduate of Mount St. can greatly Mary’s College, b e n e f i t f ro m where he played “Lacrosse is similar taking pride his senior season to football in that, in controlling as an attacker, the ball and rather than throwing Conner is being able to a n o f f e n s i v e the 80-yard bomb, consistently specialist who score in six on has coached the sometimes it’s better six, half-field last nine years to get first down after situations. a t B u c k n e l l first down, chew up “ I n U n i v e r s i t y. order to have Conner spent the clock and control success on the seven of those the game. It allows for field, what needs years as the top to be improved your defense to have assistant coach is the turnover and the last two a lot of energy when ratio,” Conner as the associate said. “The they play because head coach, possession to a n d C o n n e r they’re not worn out turnover ratio h e l p e d m o l d and overused.” has been far the Bucknell too high, and Bison into that needs to an of fensive- -ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH be limited. m i n d e d Having more JOE CONNER JR. machine. possessions end According to in quality shots analyticslacrosse.com, Conner’s rather than unforced turnovers is the team was ranked third in the nation biggest key to flipping the offensive
By JAKE PHILHOWER The Dartmouth Staff
efficiency ratio.” According to midfielder Chris Bacotti ’20, the team is excited about Conner’s vision for a remodeled offense. “I believe that he has a very good understanding of how an offense should be run and what
in that, rather than throwing the 80-yard bomb, sometimes it’s better to get first down after first down, chew up the clock and control the game,” Conner said. “It allows for your defense to have a lot of energy when they play because they’re not worn out and overused. Therefore,
a clear indication that the team has a passion and drive for success,” Bacotti said. “The team has been incredibly accountable ... the team is ready for a positive change, and we are doing whatever it takes in order for us to accomplish our team’s goals.”
COURTESY OF JOE CONNER
The Big Green hired Joe Conner from Bucknell University to serve as associate head coach and offensive coordinator.
it takes in order to be successful,” they’ll be able to be more aggressive Bacotti said. “His style of coaching and create more turnovers to get the and his offensive ball back.” strategies will be “The team has Conner also very beneficial to noted a desire been incredibly the team, and I to per petuate know he will be accountable ... the a growing a strong asset for focus on player team is ready for Dartmouth.” development Though his a positive change and high energy strategy mostly and we are doing preparation focuses on a m o n g s t improving the whatever it takes the player s. B i g G r e e n ’ s in order for us to A c c o rd i n g t o attack, Conner Bacotti, the team accomplish our team’s noted how was very upset i m p o r t a n t goals.” about how 2018 ball control regular season and of fensive campaign played efficiency are to -CHRIS BACOTTI ’20 out and has been improving the very focused on performance of improvement every player on the field, including since the season’s end. the defensemen. “Since the conclusion of the 2018 “Lacrosse is similar to football season, there has been nothing but
Bacotti and his teammates all echo a similar message, one that preaches individual and team development, as well as a sense of purpose and responsibility on and off the field. “Player development has been a point of emphasis for us going into this offseason, and will continue to be moving forward,” midfielder Liam O’Connell ’20 said. Not only does Conner want to resolve the Big Green’s offensive struggles, he is also very passionate about academics. Conner mentioned academic excellence as one reason his family is so excited about joining the Dartmouth community. “Because of our value of education as a family, we could not be more excited to join a community like Dartmouth College,” Conner said. “It’s quite exciting to be able to work with some of the brightest minds in the country.”