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The reconstruction of Morton Hall dormitory following last fall’s fire is expected to finish this summer, according to associate dean of residential life Michael Wooten. The building will house 84 students and assistant director of residential education for East Wheelock Josiah Proietti this fall. Construction began soon after the Oct. 1 fire caused by an unattended hibachi-style grill on the roof that left the building uninhabitable.

Original plans to restore Morton expanded to include redesigning the building, which was originally constructed in

Following a fire last October, construction on Morton Hall is expected to conclude this summer.

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NH proposition aims to tighten voting requirements

By DEBORA HYEMIN HAN The Dartmouth Staff

The waves of purported voter fraud that swept the U.S. during this past voting season have spurred in the proposition of Senate Bill 3 the New Hampshire Legislature by state Republicans — a measure that some have claimed threatens student voting in future elections by changing definitions of residency within the state.

According to District 19 NH Sen.

Regina Birdsell, the main sponsor of the bill, SB 3 is a trust-but-verify law that seeks to tighten the definition of domicile, or a person’s place of residence, to maintain integrity in the state’s voting systems. Voting in New Hampshire was thrust into the national spotlight last November when President Donald Trump’s campaign claimed that busloads of people came from Massachusetts to vote in the 2016 presidential election. While both Republicans and Democrats in New Hampshire

agree that such claims are not grounded in truth, Birdsell and other Republican state leaders have said that the perception of voter fraud has caused concern among their constituents.

If SB 3 is passed, Birdsell says voters will experience no difference in voting procedures in comparison to the past — people will still be allowed to vote with same-day registration, a measure that 13 states and the District of Columbia have instituted as of November 2016.

College announces sustainability goals

By REBECCA FLOWERS The Dartmouth

On Earth Day, April 22, the Sustainability Task Force, which was created by College President Phil Hanlon a year earlier, published its inaugural report, “Our Green Future: The Sustainability Road Map For Dartmouth,” which aims to guide the College toward a more sustainable use of energy, waste, water, food, transportation and landscaping.

Votes will not default to provisional ones if people fail to present proof of domicile in New Hampshire, as the state requires the results of a vote to be released that same day. However, if voters do not have sufficient proof of domicile for same-day registration — such as a signed lease or utility bills — they will be asked to mail proof within 10 days of voting and will no longer have the option of utilizing domicile affidavits to verify SEE VOTING PAGE 2

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According to environmental science professor Andrew Friedland, the report intends to set “larger scale principles and objectives” instead of specific recommendations. The report states that in the future, the Sustainability Office will put out an annual progress report.

In seven meetings over the course of the last year, the task force — which included undergraduates, graduate TIFFANY ZHAI /THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Students kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

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New Hampshire proposition aims to target voting fraud FROM VOTING PAGE 1

their residency. If people do not send in the required information within this period of time, the supervisor of the checklist will be tasked with verifying the residency of the voter by going through public municipal records, having someone go directly to the address listed on the voter registration or by working with the NH Secretary of State to send a verification letter. Charges will only be brought if people “wrongfully or purposefully” claim domicile in New Hampshire in order to vote, Birdsell said.

District 12 NH Rep. Sharon Nordgren and other Democrats, however, disagree about the effects that the bill will have on voting, especially for students. Nordgren believes the bill is an effort to dissuade college students from voting because most students, especially at the College and the University of New Hampshire, tend to vote Democratic. She said that SB 3, as it stands today, is “confusing” and difficult to understand, and that students who do not present sufficient evidence of domicile will have to fill out a form that has been described as “complicated.” Nordgren said although this is not the state’s first attempt to impose voting restrictions, this is the first time in over a decade that New Hampshire has a Republican governor in Chris Sununu, whose governorship has given Republicans a chance to implement such a bill. She said the voter turnout for the past presidential election was so large that she feels Republicans want to do something “drastic” to prevent the left from swinging the next vote.

In the 2016 presidential election, the race between Trump and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was tight — Clinton won the state’s four electoral votes by 2,736 votes, according to the New York Times.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said she also sees SB 3 as an effort by Republicans to prevent students from voting because they think students vote the “wrong way,” adding that from the town’s perspective, the bill is “completely” and “fundamentally unnecessary.”

She said she personally helped students register to vote many times, and that she has never seen abnormalities that would suggest that non-domiciled people are attempting to vote in local elections. She said that to create

and support a bill based on “an Hampshire if they want to vote untruth in terms of the level of here. illegal voter registration activity” “I wouldn’t particularly feel is shameful and makes the process comfortable having a student of voting even more complicated population that generally tends than it already is. to vote liberal and only lives in a “The process that the state’s place for four years to affect local c u r r e n t elections or even legislations national elections,” have created is he said. so cumbersome “My big concern He added that and lengthy if it was the other … is that this is for election way around, and v o l u n t e e r s really going to it was a generally and voters to impact us with conservative participate in student body, he that I think in being able to would feel the same a n d o f i t s e l f encourage a new way. [the bill] will President of generation of have a chilling the Dartmouth effect on voter volunteers to College Democrats r e g i s t r a t i o n work, come in and Charlie Blatt ’18, participation who testified in the in our elections help us run these first hearing of the i n N e w elections.” bill on the New Hampshire,” Hampshire House Griffin said. floor on April 18, D i s t r i c t 9 -BETSY MCCLAIN, said she believes NH Sen. Andy HANOVER DIRECTOR students at the Sanborn, who is College “absolutely also a sponsor of OF ADMINSTRATIVE have the right to SB 3, disagreed SERVICES vote in the state of that New New Hampshire,” Hampshire’s saying that she sees voting law is already restrictive, herself “just as much a citizen of calling it one of the most “lax” in New Hampshire as anywhere else the country with “pragmatically no in the world.” She said because restriction.” Furthermore, he said she will have gone to school in that in the past, over 500 recounts New Hampshire for four years, is of votes show very close races and employed here, uses state services that “literally dozens of votes have and spends the majority of the been decided by under five votes.” year in New Hampshire, she has Thus, when there are people the right to vote in the state’s who do vote in New Hampshire elections. She also believes the bill elections who are not domiciled will in fact dissuade students from in New Hampshire, it dilutes the voting, calling the new domicile votes of those who have a “vested efforts “ambiguous.” interest” in the state regarding “[Students are] not going to schools, taxes, regulations and representation, he said.

“If one person votes who is not eligible, it eliminates a vote of someone who was eligible,” Sanborn said. “So the concern about disenfranchising — both sides of this argument become very real for all of us.”

Vice president of the Dartmouth College Republicans Abraham Herrera ’18 agreed that he would not want students, regardless of their party affiliation, to vote in the state elections if they do not have a vested interest in the state.

He said that SB 3 is “common sense refor m” to make sure that the residents who do vote are actually residents, and that people who want to participate in the democratic political process should establish residency in New

understand what their rights are and they’re not going to register to vote,” Blatt said. “And that really scares me because I think this effort in the first place is based on the false premise that there’s voter fraud that’s happening in New Hampshire, and that the voter fraud that’s happening in New Hampshire is coming from this idea [that] people are taking advantage of the domicile regulation, which is simply not happening.”

While this may be the case from the students’ perspective, Hanover director of administrative services Betsy McClain said practically speaking, students at the College are very “lucky” that the Office of Residential Life and the town of Hanover have a close relationship that allows ORL to confir m students’ residencies immediately, even if students do not have the necessary documents. She noted this will not change even if SB 3 is enacted. However, she said students who live off campus and are not under the jurisdiction of ORL will not be able to rely on the College for domicile verification.

McClain, however, pointed to the larger implications that the bill has on voting volunteers and increased responsibilities of the supervisor of the checklist. She says that New Hampshire state law has gotten “increasingly onerous” with the voter identification regulations, such as requiring that volunteers take pictures of people who do not show voter ID, and that this bill will be an “additional burden” imposed on local election officials, most of whom are volunteers. She said the list of requirements that need to be

checked to ensure voter integrity will complicate and confuse the process, which could discourage election volunteering.

“My big concern … is that this is really going to impact us with being able to encourage a new generation of volunteers to work, come in and help us run these elections,” she said.

The New Hampshire legislature consists of 24 members of the Senate and 400 Representatives in the House of Representatives. Bills can only be drafted by members of these bodies and follow slightly varying procedures depending on the body to which the sponsor of the bill belongs. However, both bodies have standing committees that hear the proposed bills initially, and all bills must go through public hearings as well.

Members of the bodies may begin acting on the bill as quickly as the day after reports from the committee hearings appear in the House calendar. There is a second reading of the bill on the floor of the House or Senate, during which members engage in debate and make amendments.

Once the bill has passed within its original body of legislature, it goes through the other body with similar procedures.

SB 3 was passed in the Senate with amendments and was heard in the House on April 18 by the Election Law Committee but has not yet been able to be voted on as of press time, Nordgren said.

Before the bill is sent to Sununu through the New Hampshire Secretary of State for approval, it must be passed in exactly the same form in both the House and the Senate.

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students, faculty and staff from across campus — met to sketch out their ideas for each section of the report, such as energy and water, according to Friedland and director of sustainability Rosi Kerr ’97.

Friedland and Kerr were the appointed co-chairs of the task force. Before each meeting, the cochairs drafted recommendations for each topic based on previous work that had been done by other committees around campus, such as the energy team in campus services, Kerr said. It was a “straw-man starting place for the conversation” or a starting place for members of the task force, she added.

Kerr said that during every meeting, task force members would move around the room and add their comments on big sheets of paper on the wall. In addition, throughout the process, the task force consulted and asked for input from various members of the community — from students to Hanover citizens — who were working on making sustainable changes to the town itself, executive director of the Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business and task force member April Salas said.

Out of these discussions, the co-chairs then wrote up and circulated drafts of each sections by email. Once the full report was assembled, the draft was circulated several more times to members of

the task force.

“From my perspective, the process was fairly collaborative,” Kerr said. “There was a balance between collaboration and not putting too much work on people who already had full plates.”

The most specific recommendations were in the areas about which the College is already knowledgeable, Kerr said. For an example, the recommendations regarding Dartmouth’s energy use include the proposal to obtain 50 percent of campus energy from renewable sources by 2025 and 100 percent by 2050. Similarly, Hanover has an upcoming vote to commit to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

The report’s waste recommendations included reducing the total amount of waste produced and increasing the amount of waste that is recycled.

The recommendations around the sustainability of food at Dartmouth included summarizing the “environmental, social and economic impacts of our food system” into a report by 2019.

Since the task force was less knowledgeable about the College’s food system than its energy system, the latter of which has been studied for years by various committees, it was unable to be as specific in recommendations. Reforming the College’s food system is a difficult problem to address, Kerr said, because students pay for food and thus have expectations.

“People care about food,” Kerr said. “If you take tomatoes out of

the salad bar because they’re not sustainable in January, everyone gets very upset.”

The recommendations for water use were similar to those for food use and emphasized the need to assess the impacts of reducing water use and improving water efficiency. The report also set the goal of establishing an annual water report by 2018 that would detail consumption patterns and identify areas of improvement.

In terms of transportation, the report recommended that the College begin tracking air travel and develop a sustainability standard for vehicles owned by the College.

For the College’s landscape and ecology, the report recommended improving water quality and developing a “green landscape” standard on campus to reduce the use of harmful chemicals.

In addition to recommendations for the College’s operations, the report also proposed using the campus as a “living lab,” and involving students in the progress toward making campus more sustainable. The task force itself is an example since it includes eight undergraduates as members. The report proposes to continue this process in future reports.

“Students can be involved in that process and have an opportunity while they’re here at Dartmouth to have the experience of grappling with something that’s complicated and a multi-faceted challenge and coming up with a creative, innovative solution,”

Kerr said.

The task force also wants the College to match its fellow institutions in sustainability. The beginning of the report compares the College to institutions such as Stanford University, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all of which have g reenhouse g as, waste and water commitments, in addition to public sustainability plans. While the task force follows in these universities’ footsteps, Salas emphasized it compared the College to its peer institutions “as sort of a point of measure,” but that it will generate its own unique solutions.

“We wanted it to be relative to our geography, our energy system in the Upper Valley,” Salas said. “A system that worked in California isn’t necessarily going to work in New Hampshire.”

The College has had a long history with sustainability, both Friedland and Kerr said. In addition to an academic focus on sustainability, the College had one of the first recycling programs in the ’80s, according to Kerr.

For Friedland, who arrived at the College in 1987, the journey toward sustainability has been ongoing.

“One of the first committees I joined … was called ‘the energy council’ at the time, and we would look at graphs drawn by hand because people weren’t widely using spreadsheets and computers in 1987,” Friedland said.

One of the graphs he

remembered best was the oil usage graph, which showed a spike in No. 6 oil use.

“Then, [five or seven years ago] we peaked on our oil demand, and we started dropping on our oil demand, so now we use ‘a mere’ 3.5 million gallons of No. 6 oil a year,” he said.

Friedland described No. 6 oil as the “dregs” of crude petroleum, which contains metals like lead, arsenic and mercury, and its combustion leads to particle emission. Friedland noted that “all oil is dirt, but [No. 6] is the dirtiest.”

Therefore, he feels passionately about the report’s recommendation to transfer to renewable energy, a huge step away from No. 6 oil.

Student in the ecology, evolution, ecosystems and society graduate program and a member of the task force Flora Krivak-Tetley ’02 GR’18, remembers sustainability efforts she participated in as an undergraduate that were less successful. “[In 2001,] I was part of a group of students who wrote up a sustainability proposal that focused a little less on energy and more on waste systems and … unfortunately, like many earlier efforts, that didn’t end up going anywhere,” Krivak-Tetley said.

However, she believes this report will be much more successful. She attributes this difference in part to the change in the general climate of educational institutions around the country since she was an undergraduate.

“I don’t think that there were many universities that had started making efforts to make these kinds of changes,” Krivak-Tetley said.

She also said that efforts toward sustainability in the early 2000s were much less financially viable than they are today. She said the most important change is Hanlon’s support of the report.

“To make any changes at a large scale in an institution, there needs to be support at a high level,” she said.

Through a campus-wide email, Hanlon endorsed the report publicly, and the task force hopes to keep the College accountable and transparent. The Sustainability Office will publish an annual Sustainability Action Report on the College’s progress, which will be undertaken by a variety of administrations around campus.

However, members of the task force continue to emphasize undergraduate involvement.

“I’m really very passionate about the idea of figuring out how we can tackle these things here so that you guys can go out and tackle them in the world,” Kerr said.

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Our Big Green World

Real Talk

Our experiences of this place start with each other.

Dartmouth is a strange place. We could politely call the College “unique” or “exceptional,” but positive connotations would discourage any self-reflection on the strangeness of the place we inhabit. It should be obvious to anyone in the Dartmouth community that students, faculty and alumni have a special intimacy with the College rarely seen outside our borders.

It is not unheard of for universities to be self-obsessed microcosms. Social myopia is especially common among the elite universities in Dartmouth’s sphere. Still, Dartmouth’s distinct culture and identity make reflecting on what is so enrapturing about this place worthwhile.

While we are here, and for many students long after, Dartmouth is a ubiquitous and near-inescapable force in our lives. Even when we exit Dartmouth and its various exclaves around the world, we still carry that fabled granite wherever we go. For some, the quirks and qualities received here are empowering and treasured. For others, the granite is a weight that can’t be unloaded, a scar from unforgettable days.

We can lament the “Dartmouth bubble” or question any particular facet of our little green universe, but the reality is that due to geography, history and size, the deep impact of the College on its students is inevitable. We as a community owe it to ourselves and each other to ensure that the influence this place has on us is as positive and constructive as possible.

From my very anecdotal experience, the two most common sentiments expressed by students criticizing Dartmouth are of exclusion and regret. This makes complete sense. College students are at the apex of their social lives, so a “fear of missing out” and social anxiety should be expected among any group of adults.

What strikes me about Dartmouth students, however, is the frequent expressions of a lost sense of belonging, a kind of “Dartmouth Dream” wherein every undergraduate finds a home at the College he or she will forever cherish. This would seem ludicrous did a plurality of students not express fervent love for the communities they’ve found here.

Regret is an even more common confession.

We wonder how to “do Dartmouth right,” and those discussions often well up when people feel unsatisfied not only with their success here but also in their sense of place on campus, or lack thereof. Perhaps the idea that mere memories of Dartmouth should elicit complete ecstasy indicates a more pressing need to belong in this place than other universities may demand.

It’s incumbent that I mention the correlation between belonging and identity, whether that manifests in terms of class, race, gender, sexuality or some other facet of identity. A lost sense of connection can and does come from every intersection thereof. We’re all trying to make the most of this place, and regardless of who we are or how we carry ourselves, we will all benefit if we work to make the Dartmouth experience as positive and uplifting as it can be for as many people as possible.

There’s much that could be done to improve Dartmouth. The administration can play its part by enabling more fulfilling experiences in the community, led by students. I concede that maybe the housing system can help accomplish this, though I’d think bringing more of the world to Hanover and creating greater avenues for students to roam “the girdled Earth” would be a more effective approach. Often people do not thrive here simply because their talents and interests are not satisfied by what is available on campus. Fulfilling that basic need would go a long way in improving the student experience.

Ultimately, the onus of bettering Dartmouth’s culture and community falls on the students who make it. We have the greatest ability to shape the College — just as it shapes us. To ensure that the experiences that flow from campus are reflective of the potential of this place, we must examine our culture and community. Do we properly support and interact with people of different identities and persuasions, are we caring for each other’s mental health and has campus truly internalized the idea that there is no one way to “do Dartmouth”?

This is the basic respect we owe each other for personal growth and the benefit of the community at large. We’re all leaving this place with granite minds, but whether that’s a blessing or a burden is ours to decide.

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Convenient political discourse must give way to uncomfortable debate.

Among the countless animal videos, choosing between left and right, between fashion ads and memes in my Facebook feed, Democratic and Republican platforms or I noticed one striking trend: a massive amount between liberal and conservative values. of political content. Then I noticed another: Life would be a lot easier if that were the Throughout the hour or so I spent scrolling case. Unfortunately, Trump’s unprecedented through my feed, every political status or background, numerous policy U-turns and shared article represented views that I already unusual manner of communicating with the agreed with.

American public, with Congress and with Many of us claim to be politically conscious. foreign leaders push him far out of the norms We talk a lot, we share a lot and we read a of a U.S. president. He throws everyone off, lot of headlines. We believe ourselves to be because in an ironically Trump-esque fashion, well-informed, aware of our political reality our national discourse has become centered and open to dialogue. The problem is that not on different sets of values but on one man the dialogue we engage in is not the kind of and whether we support or condemn him. dialogue we firmly profess as the solution to When the president elected by the American our political divide. Our right is xenophobic, political conversations “We either continue sexist, racist and radically have become nothing the inclusion to have conversations against more than just that of any minority group — conversations. We only with those whose that threatens his vision e m b r a c e d i s c o u r s e, opinions already of a gun-carrying, antibut only because the abortion, purely white discourse we engage in align with ours, or America, we inevitably no longer involves real we pledge to remain have to ask ourselves if debate. attempting to debate uninvolved in politics.” by Our political those who support him, c o nv e r s a t i o n s h av e we do not inadvertently become ego boosters, ways to feel good about give legitimacy to his doctrine. ourselves for glancing at the same headlines, Upon reaching that obstacle, many of us for unanimously agreeing that President seek the two easiest paths. We either continue Donald Trump’s actions and statements are to have conversations only with those whose atrocious and for validating our own sense opinions already align with ours, or we pledge of moral superiority. We share dozens of to remain uninvolved in politics. Both of those Facebook posts condemning the president’s paths belong only to those with the highest administration and those who voted it into form of privilege. Not feeling the immediacy power. We fill our laptop covers with pro- to act or the instinct to fight means that we choice stickers and go-green quotes, and we go have enough of a cushion, not to fear the to sleep every night feeling righteously proud impact of this administration or similar ones of ourselves for being educated and engaged to come. citizens.

At Dartmouth, it may be easy to ignore Granted, we are vaguely conscious that our the striking difference between our own “slacktivism” does not do much more than sociopolitical standing and that of millions alter our own image and social standing. Most of Americans who genuinely do have reason of us agree that if we want anything to change, to fear. However, that kind of inaction is not we need to actually show up to voting booths. just immoral but will also inevitably reduce The Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute our bubble of privilege until we find ourselves of Politics survey of “Young Americans in the same position of fear and discomfort.

Toward Politics and Public Service of Young To deal with polarization — and with Americans,” released on April 25 found that the underlying moral divide — we have to of the 2,654 Americans aged 18 to 29 who understand phenomena social psychologist were polled, 74 percent ranked voting as the Robb Willer spent years of research analyzing: best method for producing change. However, Both political sides prioritize certain values only half of Millennials punched a ballot in over others. The left tends to care about the 2016 election. equality, fairness, care and protection, Admitting to our own hypocrisy is while the right tends to think in terms of imperative, and it needs to happen in two ways. loyalty, patriotism, respect for authority and First, we need to show up to vote. Telling our spiritual — often religious — purity. Willer friends what candidate or party we support suggests that the key to having better political does nothing if we do not also tell our country. conversations is moral reframing: taking the Second, we need to realize that our voices can other side’s deeply held moral compass into be powerful, but only if we use them to have consideration and shaping one’s arguments difficult conversations, not easy, self-affirming in terms of their values. Someone is much ones. more likely to agree with you or to consider However, in the Trump era, having those having a profound conversation if she knows difficult conversations is not a simple proposal. that her moral framework can remain intact.

We have reached a moral impasse in our It will not be easy, but we need to stop ability to draw a line between what it means rehashing our own political act and talking to be open to discourse and what it means only for our own ears. We have to go to validate ethically perverse, hurtful and further, think smarter and converse more dangerous attitudes. empathetically. Only then can our voices be Our dialogue is no longer a question of real weapons and not just echoes.

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Morton to be rebuilt FROM MORTON PAGE 1

the 1980s. The College’s Board of Trustees approved the renovation on March 3, according to the campus services website.

The residence hall, which had 67 beds and no elevator before the fire, will now have 84 beds and an elevator in the area that was previously a center stairwell, as well as common spaces on each floor and temperature controls in every room. By eliminating Morton’s former suite-style floor plan in favor of a layout of singles, singles with private baths and doubles, the College will house 17 additional students in Morton compared to the prior design. Morton will have more single rooms than before and the same number of singles with private baths, Wooten said.

The common spaces will accommodate approximately 25 students and will be used for FirstYear Residential Experience meetings between undergraduate advisors and their residents as well as for resident studying.

The mechanical, electrical and fire protection systems and elevator shaft construction will continue this week, according to the campus services website.

Both Proietti and Wooten were involved in designing Morton, and both cited creating space for programming as a priority.

Wooten is optimistic about the expected results of the newly renovated Morton Hall. He said the mix of singles and double rooms will better suit student preferences and the common spaces will be conducive to a community atmosphere. Overall, it will be a “nicer space than it was before,” Wooten said.

East Wheelock house professor Sergi Elizalde sees the construction daily from his residence’s living room window. While he said the noise of a construction site is not ideal, Elizalde was impressed with the speed and progress of the project.

“I don’t think it could be done any faster,” Elizalde said.

Students can choose to live in Morton during the fall term room draw.

Following the fire, Morton’s 67 residents and Proietti were displaced following the fire.

The College compensated all students who sought reuimbursement for the cost of their damaged belongings and relocated them to new rooms.

Former UGA of Morton’s first and second floors Taringana Guranungo ’18 and UGA of Morton third and fourth floors Issa Sylla ’17 both said they received compensation for their damaged items. Morton fourth floor resident Lillian Zhao ’19 and third floor resident Ellen Smalley ’19 both said they were initially told they would need insurance to cover the damages.

The College’s dearth of housing accommodations caused some Morton

residents to be placed in “creative” situations and “non-traditional beds” after the fire, Wooten said. Some students were housed in converted lounges or other residences on campus typically used for graduate students or new faculty members. Some of the displaced students are still residing in these spaces.

Proietti said that Morton’s vacancy made the East Wheelock community quieter and negatively impacted revenue at the East Wheelock snack bar.

Elizalde said the dispersal of the former Morton Hall residents across campus slightly decreased participation in house events.

After the fire, Guranungo and Sylla lived in a converted McCulloch Hall lounge for the remainder of the fall term. Guranungo then moved to North Fayerweather Hall to serve as a UGA there for the winter and spring terms.

Sylla became a UGA for Fahey Hall.

Guranungo said he stopped thinking about the fire during winter term and does not resent the students who started the fire.

“As for me, it’s kind of a thing of the past, at this point,” Guranungo said.

“And even some of my residents, they forgot about it. Some of them were off last term, and when they came back, it was like it didn’t really happen. For some, maybe it’s different.”

Zhao said that the initial effects of the fire caused a “major disruption academically,” but now tells the story of the fire as a unique experience.

“At this point, it’s kind of one of those stories you tell and people say, ‘Wow, that’s really wild,’” Zhao said.

Sylla said although moving multiple times in his senior year was difficult, the Morton fire does not still impact him. Sylla also mentioned he is thankful that all Morton Hall residents were safe and that most material possessions lost were replaceable.

“I wouldn’t put [the fire] down as one of the major things that impacted my senior year because I’m just very grateful nobody was hurt, and the things that we lost were, more or less, replaceable,” Sylla said.

Sylla also said that while some of the initial housing conditions were “unfavorable” for some residents after the fire, such as living in the basement of French Hall, most of his former residents moved to “better” accommodations than than their initial housing.

Guranungo’s main concern is whether the construction will be finished by the fall.

If assigned to be a Morton UGA next year, Guranungo said he had no reservations about moving back into the building because it would be a new and renovated space. Proietti, who will be moving back into Morton Hall upon the completion of the renovation, voiced similar sentiments.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Dartmouth Town Hall with Board of Trustees Chair Bill Helman ’80, Cook Auditorium, Tuck School of Business

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Poetry Reading: “Poetics of Politics - Politics of Poetics,” with Enrique Martinez Celaya and José Kozer, Wren Room, Sanborn Library

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Seminar: “Things You Should Know That Aren’t Taught in College,” with engineering professor Chris Polashenski, Brace Commons, East Wheelock

TOMORROW

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Lecture: “Our Civic Responsibility: Reflecting on the People’s Climate March,” with Alex Sclafani ’18 and Madison Sabol ’18, Moore Hall B03

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Lecture: “Genius and (Emotional) Intelligence,” with history professor Darrin McMahon, House Center B

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

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Alumnus Q&A: Malcolm Freberg ’09 Review:‘Tickling Giants’

By ELISE HIGGINS

The Dartmouth Staff

Malcolm Freberg ’09 recently finished competing on “Survivor” for the third time. As a strategic, social and physical threat, Freberg was one of the show’s most popular players and was therefore brought back to play on “Survivor”: Philippines,” “Survivor: Caramoan” and “Survivor: Game Changers,” debuting on “Survivor: Philippines.”

What inspired you to go out for “Survivor”?

MF: “Survivor” started back when I was 14 years old. I came from a really strict family, and we weren’t allowed to watch TV growing up so “Survivor” starts as the only show I grew up with, and it was a dream since I was a teenager. I was at Dartmouth actually the first time I applied. I made a tape in our dorm room, sent it in and I got a callback from them. I think I was in class or something when the call came through, and it was from a blocked number, and I immediately knew who it was and probably freaked out and left class, and the professor got mad at me.

That didn’t end up working out, but I was kept in the system, and I applied two more times before it actually worked out.

How would you say your first experience on “Survivor” was compared to your other two?

MF: Experience plays a huge factor in these things, like a rookie in any sport versus a veteran. I was more calm, cool and collected after the first time It’s just so damn exciting — like you dream about doing something for that long and you finally get your chance. The first day when you get to the beach, everyone is very serious and trying to make sure that they make the right alliances and get in with the right people, and I was just laughing like a giddy schoolgirl the entire time. So one of the coolest parts is the excitement of the first couple days — it’s definitely one of the best parts for a lifelong fan.

Did you notice a difference when you were brought back, particularly between playing with mostly rookies, half rookies and half returning members and then all returning members?

MF: On my first season there were returning people, so I’ve never not played with somebody who has played before. And what you pick up on really quickly is that they have a huge advantage because they know the ins and outs of the game. There’s a lot of subtle stuff you never see on television like knowing how to interact with producers, how to take hints and how it’s gonna feel at the beach that the new people just don’t know so there’s actually a massive advantage once you’ve done it once before. And, personal opinion, any season where

they mix new people and veterans, the veterans have just an overwhelming advantage it’s not even fair.

Coming back for this season, you said you were a “game changer” because of your introduction of the “live” tribal council. Can you talk about how you’ve seen that introduction influence and shift the game?

MF: For over a decade really, when you get to tribal council, usually it’s a done deal. Everyone knows for the most part what the result is gonna be, minus someone pulling out a surprise immunity idol. I came up with these things before I even got out there, like what are some things that make sense that no one has ever tried before? For me, if you have an advantage like an immunity idol, just pulling it out to get rid of some votes didn’t seem like the best leverage of it. And there’s a way to force the time if you have everybody sitting there about to vote — you can really screw with people by throwing a wrench in the plans before you actually go vote. So I thought up the idea of pulling out idols at tribal council before I ever got out there. And ever since then, especially because they now gave us this moniker of “game changer,” I get asked the question.

How did it feel to be voted out due to a new twist this season where you were not voted out by your own tribe but by another tribe?

Does it make you feel more or less settled?

MF: It was a bit of a rollercoaster in the moment. I was crushed, and they did me a favor not showing how hard I was crying afterward in the final words. It goes back to the same thing: as a lifelong fan of the show, I always wanted to do it, and three was sort of a soft limit for how many chances you get at it. So in my head, it had already been like this is gonna be the last time, and then for it to end like that out of nowhere on some nonsense was really, really hard to swallow in the moment. By the next day, I was 100 percent fine because the first times I can look back on three or four different things that I did wrong that cost me the win toward the end of the game. This time, I don’t know what the hell you wanted me to do so I don’t lose sleep over it. Because I know that there are things I could have changed in the other seasons. They stick with me in the nightmares much more so than last season because that’s just bad luck.

As both a fan and a player, how do you appreciate the different aspects of the game?

MF: It’s hard because as someone who has loved it from the beginning, I just want to put 20 people out there — no twists, no changes. I want really basic challenges, and I want to learn about the people more so than having to keep up with a new twist every 10 minutes which is a lot of what this current season

is. I’m not trying to be critical — I understand why they do that because they have to keep it exciting for casual fans of the show, which is why the show gets to keep going for 17 years.

So I understand and appreciate it, but I’m definitely a purist at heart. I would love it if one time they just did it like it was the first season, no twists, no nothing. Just let the contestant figure it out for themselves and really make it more character driven. But that’s not plausible in modern television, I don’t think.

As someone who has come back and played three times, do you think it’s better to win once and be done with it or to keep going despite not winning and gain a reputation as a really good player?

MF: If I had won that first time, I wouldn’t have come back for back-toback seasons. The only reason they brought me back was because I lost. It’s hard to say if I had won, if I would have come back for this season. It would be really tough because the more distance you get from it, the more you want to go back and do it. You get the chance to do it once and someone says, “Hey we love you, can you come do it again?”

— that’s not an easy thing to say “no” to. People do it all the time, but often they say “no” for real life reasons. It’s very rare that someone isn’t interested in playing again.

What are you doing now that you’re not on “Survivor”?

MF: I work as a freelance journalist.

I do food, drink and travel writing for digital outlets. I’m in [Los Angeles, California] at the moment for a gig, I’ll be in South America for several months, then Africa all summer traveling for work.

Do you have any advice for aspiring players?

MF: My go-to advice for people trying to apply is don’t go to casting calls: make your own tape and send it in. That way you can practice it and get it just like you want it. At a casting call, you have one shot to impress people and if you flub it, it’s over. You can always re-record yourself. And remember that they don’t care if you’re the greatest Navy SEAL or all-American football player or expert tribal man; they put pageant queens out there all the time.

All that matters is that you’re great on television. When you’re making your tape, you have to talk about why you would be good in the wilderness, but much more important than that is convincing a casting department that you would be entertaining television.

As for how to play the game, it’s very open-ended. But if you’re a fan of the show, and you get the chance to go out there, take the time to enjoy it.

This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

By SEBASTIAN WURZRAINER The Dartmouth Staff

In 2011, shortly after the resignation of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian surgeon Bassem Youssef created a satirical web series in an attempt to heal his country through comedy. Shortly thereafter he transitioned to TV and hosted “AlBernameg,” a news satire show that was modeled after “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and ran for three seasons.

The Egyptian government, led by then-recently elected Mohamed Morsi, issued a warrant for Youssef ’s arrest in 2013, accusing him of mocking Morsi and Islam.

Many Egyptians were thrilled when Morsi was removed from office by then Egyptian defense minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, yet that didn’t stop Youssef from satirizing the popular general on his show. And soon the most popular comedian in Egypt became one of its most controversial figures. Citizens that venerated Sisi, despite his authoritarian impulses, demanded that Youssef be taken off the air. Further pressure from the government led to the cancellation of “Al-Bernameg,” leading Youssef to flee to America. The story, as told in the new documentary “Tickling Giants,” is inspirational but also sad. Nonetheless, I think it contains an extraordinarily valuable message: Satire and comedy will always be a necessary and powerful way to deal with trauma and hold people in power accountable.

Just as I am not in the habit of reviewing TV shows, I am also not in the habit of reviewing documentaries.

However, Youssef, who I discovered through his appearances on “The Daily Show,” fascinates me, and I wanted to learn more. “Tickling Giants” served that goal well as an extremely comprehensive look at Youssef ’s impact on Egyptian political discourse. Youssef has been called by many the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” and this is a label that he seems to intentionally propagate. He openly admits to Stewart’s influence on his satire, and one of the most touching moments in “Tickling Giants” is when Youssef finally gets a chance to meet Stewart in person. While he is a guest on “The Daily Show,” he acts like a child in a candy store.

Although Stewart and Youssef may have much in common, “Tickling Giants” highlights how different their societal roles were due to the political environments they respectively commented on. Stewart satirized America by questioning its superiority complex embodied by the notion that America is “the greatest country in the world.” He seemed to ask, “if we’re so great, then why does our society still have so many problems?” That being said, America has remained relatively stable in a way that cannot be said for Egypt.

I think that far too often we see conflict in the Middle East through something of a keyhole. We forget

far too easily that actual people are involved in events like the Arab Spring.

“Tickling Giants” is most admirable when it tries to capture the humanity in the middle of the chaos. The first five minutes follow Youssef as he interviews protestors. It is a harrowing sequence but deeply necessary. At one point, Youssef comments that living in Egypt is like living through 9/11 every day. He and his writers wonder if there is value in their work — is it inappropriate to make jokes in the midst of all this suffering? But “Tickling Giants” reaffirms the belief that in the midst of suffering, jokes are most needed. Comedy heals, but it also clarifies. Using satire as a tool, Youssef is able to step back and thoughtfully analyze the confusion that surrounds him.

What I appreciate most about “Tickling Giants,” though, is the way it demonstrates Youssef ’s impact on the people of Egypt. We regularly cut to citizens watching “Al-Bernameg” on the street or in bars, everyone laughing.

But we also see public response turn ugly when Youssef insists on calling out Eygpt’s current President Sisi for his dictatorial nature. Sisi’s supporters insist that it’s time for the joke to end, but Youssef asserts that comedy should never stop holding people’s feet to the fire. We cannot simply ignore the faults of certain individuals because we happen to support them — a lesson that is shockingly relevant right now in this country.

By and large, “Tickling Giants” is exceptionally well-made. Director Sara Taksler has been tasked with an undeniably challenging balancing act: she must combine Youssef ’s offbeat sense of humor with a complex narrative that is still unfolding. The first 20 minutes are admittedly a bit jarring — it’s clear that the film didn’t entirely know how to immerse the audience in its narrative. The inclusion of brief comedic animated segments helps to lighten the mood, but I wish that the documentary had been a little bit funnier. I understand that the subject matter is often serious and requires a certain amount of gravitas, but I think more humor would have also reinforced the central theme. When faced with fear, uncertainty and pain, you can either lower your head or pick yourself up and crack a joke.

Sadly, the documentary doesn’t really chronicle Youssef ’s life after his move to America, which is a shame because his recent 10-episode digital series “Democracy Handbook” is hysterical and insightful in the way only he can be. Rather unsurprisingly, the funniest episode is about President Donald Trump prior to his election. It makes some amusing yet apt comparisons between Trump and Middle Eastern dictators. Now that Trump is in office, I have no doubt Youssef will continue to find ways to poke fun. I find comfort in the knowledge that Youssef is still tickling giants.

Rating: 8/10

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Dartmouth’s traditional songs reveal a complex history Much like contemporary pop songs, the pieces were musically simple, The Dartmouth Staff relatable and easy to sing. In short, “Lest the old traditions fail.” they were “catchy.”

This is a catchphrase from the alma “They have a tune that people can mater that Dartmouth students remember, and all of them are nice hear in several different contexts. In tunes,” Culpepper said. “They’re many ways, it exemplifies the nature not ultra modern or rhythmically of Ivy League prestige: when we intricate, not over-arranged and speak fondly of tradition, it usually pretty straightforward. It’s just nice has to do with a harkening back to music to listen to, to sing, to play. the “golden age” with a tinge of Because of that, we’ll probably keep sentimentality. playing them forever, I hope.”

Traditional Dartmouth songs, The alma mater, for example, is a besides the alma mater and good tune, according to Culpepper, “Twilight Song,” aren’t very because it’s easy to sing, sounds well known among students, good both sung and performed so this might be difficult to put by a band and has meaningful in perspective. Of course, this lyrics. This is why, he said, it stuck applies mostly to current students throughout the years despite some — they are still meaningful to challenges. For example, during the many alumni who sing them at inclusivity debate that arose after reunions. Even among current the introduction of coeducation, students, there are exceptions: the song was so well-liked, it student performance groups like persisted despite the controversy the Dartmouth College Glee Club, — instead of abandoning the piece, the Dartmouth College Wind “daughters” was added despite its Ensemble and various a cappella lyrical and musical complication. groups perform traditionals.

Today, the football team still According to sings it on the Max Culpepper ’53, field after their former director of “[The traditionals] home games. the wind ensemble have a tune T h e and the Dartmouth traditional College Marching that people can songs’ initial Band, most of these remember ... They’re success and the traditional school strong sense not ultra modern songs were written of nostalgia at the end of the or rhythmically conveyed has 19th century or intricate, not overmuch to do the beginning of with writing the 20th century. arranged and pretty in the style Naturally, they tend straightforward.” of the time, to reflect the lifestyle according to of Dartmouth the glee club’s students at the time, -MAX CULPEPPER ’53, director Louis who were all men. FORMER DIRECTOR Burkot. The For this reason, traditionals many of the songs OF THE DARTMOUTH were written have to do with COLLEGE WIND at the time brotherly bonding, that romantic sports, school spirit ENSEMBLE AND THE music was and drinking.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE traditionally Most of the songs MARCHING BAND s t r o n g , reflect a very positive especially as attitude about the influenced by experience of male the classical students at the College. They are tradition. For those unfamiliar with high-spirited, sometimes with classical music, think large-scale, totally irreverent lyrics. Others are harmonically rich pieces, often a bit more serious, looking back on incidental music composed with the past with a sentimental light. dramatic stories in mind.

The sounds behind the songs, “It’s hard to recreate that in this too, reflect that sentimentality era because the music of our time and cater well to the occasions on is not like that,” Burkot said. “It’s which the songs were performed. much more flamboyant and bold,

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and a lot of it is electronically produced. [The traditionals] are such simple songs that it’s very hard to recreate that feeling, because today’s music doesn’t really feel that way.”

According to both Burkot and Culpepper, the era of writing traditional songs has fallen out of fashion and probably will not return again. The reason they’re traditional, after all, is because they’re old, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing that students no longer feel the same way about the songs as they did before, Culpepper said.

It’s difficult to imagine a student of today writing in that style of familiar, somewhat cheesy poetic language, much less setting the work to music. Burkot noted that when the wind ensemble performs on tour, audience members always chuckle at the line about the “granite of New Hampshire,” for example.

Burkot said there might be a possibility that the traditional songs might come back into fashion, but only if they were written in a different and more modern style.

He suggested something like a Dartmouth rap or a “Hamiltonesque” song would make the students of today feel like they want to sing it over and over again the same way the students of Old Dartmouth did.

Now, it is only in the context of intentional nostalgic sentimentality that the students sing the songs — situations of elevated emotions like the annual Homecoming ceremonies, Burkot said. Singing them in those contexts, students feel them deeply, but this only happens in specific moments in which the school is trying to create a sense of fellowship and friendship among students, faculty, alumni and administration.

“I was struck when I first came [to Dartmouth] how much care the students were willing to put into singing these songs,” Burkot said. “Now I don’t quite see the same unfaltering devotion to the songs as most important musical experiences at Dartmouth, but I would say they’re very important to the students to associate certain scenes and memories with them.”

Burkot believes this is partly attributed to the fact that students are “busier and busier than they’ve ever been” due to the increasing

demands of the world, as rising predominately voted against expectations that they are expected including women in it. to fulfill as world leaders prohibit Other songs, like the “Twilight students from finding time to relax Song,” were changed to include and relish the broader college the female students of Dartmouth. experience.

In the lines that only included Culpepper noticed a similar “brothers,” students spontaneously change, saying, “our student body began to sing “sisters” with it as well. has a different attitude, probably It was musically bizarre because a more professional and maybe the change added two syllables more serious attitude” than in years to a refrain of verse in iambic past. Culpepper also attributes the pentameter. But this awkwardness decline in interest of the songs to a may have served its own purpose decline in interest in football.

— it was “sung in a defiant way,” In 1985, Culpepper’s first year Burkot said. The next time printed of teaching, the marching band arrangements came out, they had a whopping 120 members. included “sisters” in print.

Both the section in the bleachers Other songs have fallen out where the band sat and the section of favor completely and are where the freshmen sat overflowed generally no longer sung. Burkot with students, he said. As football cited one change that he agreed became less and less important to wholeheartedly with: the school’s students over the years, however, the derecognition of the song “Eleazar attendance at the games markedly Wheelock,” the song that adorns diminished, he the walls of said. the “Hovey A n o t h e r “[The traditionals] murals,” a characteristic are such simple songs c o n t rove r s i a l typical of many depiction of that it’s very hard to traditional e a rl y N a t i ve D a r t m o u t h recreate that feeling American songs that has because today’s music life and resulted in the colonization. decline of their doesn’t really feel that Some popularity is way.” alumni, Burkot their political said, hoped incorrectness. the glee club During the -LOUIS BURKOT, would sing it c o e d u c a t i o n DARTMOUTH COLLEGE again. He also d e b a t e speculated that regarding the GLEE CLUB DIRECTOR some alumni a l m a m a t e r, probably sing some male that song in the alumni objected to hearing the privacy of their own reunions. tune being sung in the soprano However, alumni during glee club voice alone. Therefore, the melody alumni reunions only sing the was split between the voice parts official songs.

— ”Dear old Dartmouth, give a Despite a complicated rouse!” was sung by the women, history that is still unfolding, and “for the College on the hill” the traditional songs in context was sung in an abruptly deeper, reflect a humanistic truth about melodically disjunct manner by the Dartmouth: the continual change in men. In order to accommodate that, how generations develop, maintain the arranger made the other vocal and express their perspective on parts sing the melody very thickly, our traditions. During reunions and as a result, the arrangement and Commencement, the different became cumbersome. It was only generations sing the version of later that a student, Zach Vaughan the alma mater that they know, ’05, insisted on arranging a version resulting in a temporary dissonance with the melody in the soprano line until everyone syncs up again. At that became the version we know Commencement in a few weeks, the today. graduating class, alumni, visitors, Interestingly, women initially relatives and faculty might all barely voiced their concern about sing differently. And in the future, the alma mater being changed, and Burkot said, there will probably those who voiced their concern more versions down the line.