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Dickey Center organizes YALI trip

By HYE YOUNG KIM The Dartmouth

This winter break, the Dickey Center for International Understanding organized a trip to Ghana and

Nigeria as part of their involvement in the Young African Leaders Initiative, a State Department-led program. The trip was designed to reconnect with YALI alumni who had previously attended

programs at the College and to conduct a workshop for the Nigerian social enterprise Inspire Africa, which was co-founded by Cynthia Ndubuisi, a 2015 Dartmouth Mandela SEE YALI PAGE 3

For the past seven years, environmental studies professor Terry Osborne has taught many of his classes with an emphasis on what he calls “community-based learning” — getting his students out of the classroom and working on projects for nonprofit organizations in the Upper Valley community to apply their knowledge in practice.

“What I have learned from the past is that it absolutely amplifies and intensifies learning of the students,” Osborne said.

When the Social Impact Practicum initiative kicked off in the winter of 2017, Osborne’s classes fit right in with the goals of the program.

Organized by the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, formerly known as the Center for Service, the SIP initiative serves as a direct response to College President Phil Hanlon’s call for greater experiential learning, said the center’s associate director of academic and service engagement Ashley Doolittle.

“Our center does community-

driven experiential learning, which means that all of the programs in our portfolio of work come from explicit needs from community partners and organizations locally and around the country,” Doolittle said.

To bring this concept into classrooms, professors can choose to incorporate a social impact practicum into their courses, in which students work on projects for community organizations in the Upper Valley, according to Doolittle.

This term, 11 courses have SIPs, with subjects ranging from engineering to film studies to speech.

“Faculty have an ability to seamlessly integrate [SIPs] into their existing courses so that students can apply the skills and content of what they are learning in that course for the need of a community partner,” Doolittle said.

Though Osborne has been teaching his environmental studies courses with an experiential component long before they were called SIPs, SEE SIPS PAGE 3

College pilots Study measures arsenic drug safety course contamination in wells

By LEX KANG

The Dartmouth

As the United States struggles with an opioid abuse crisis, New Hampshire has faced unusually high rates of drug abuse. In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 39 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people in the Granite State, the thirdhighest rate in the nation.

In response, the Student Wellness Center and Dick’s

House are working together this term to promote a new preventive education program for Dartmouth students. The Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention program, available online through the Student Wellness Center’s Alcohol and Other Drug Resources web page, is an interactive educational p r o g r a m c r e a t e d by EVERFI, the same service that provides matriculating SEE DRUGS PAGE 2

By RACHEL PAKIANATHAN The Dartmouth

Re s e a r c h e r s i n t h e Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program have found that one out of every five private wells in New Hampshire has a high probability of having dangerous levels of arsenic.

As a result, they have been working to raise awareness about arsenic poisoning t h ro u g h w e b s i t e s a n d community well testing events

across New Hampshire in conjunction with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.

Arsenic in ground water exists at higher concentrations in the southeast portion of the state, according to Stephen Roy, manager of the Groundwater Permitting technical group at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.

Several public wells h ave re c o rd e d a r s e n i c contamination levels as high

as 50 parts per billion, five times the state’s limit of 10 ppb, in accordance with EPA guidelines.

Arsenic poisoning can cause vomiting, increased risk of cancer and, in extreme cases, death, according to the World Health Organization.

“The problem is for well water and private water sources that aren’t regulated,” Director of Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program Bruce Stanton said.

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QBS offers new degree Course addresses prescription drugs the basic models you use start to fall apart and you need a broader The Dartmouth and specialized training in analysis The Program in Quantitative of big data.”

Biomedical Sciences is unveiling a The College is late to the game new master’s of science program when it comes to having a data for the 2018-19 academic year. science master’s program, Jones The program, which will offer two said. However, the College is different concentrations in health “one of only a handful, including data and epidemiology, intends to Harvard [University], that has accept 12 students for the first year. a program offering focusing on According to QBS operations biomedical or health data science,” assistant Shaniqua Jones, the she said. program “aims to provide the core QBS programs have been in skill sets that a data scientist will high demand in recent years. Jones need.” said these trends in biomedical Q u a n t i t a t i v e b i o m e d i c a l data science drove the program’s science is an c r e a t i o n . interdisciplinary “The idea behind a Similarly, Giffin study that said that while i n c o r p o r a t e s QBS degree is that recruiting, b i o s t a t i s t i c s , you come out of it the school biomathematics encountered a n d with a skill set that many students e p i d e m i o l o g y. is broadly applicable who inquired T h e p ro g r a m to those three about an at the College epidemiology currently only disciplines.” program. offers a handful Ellen Nutter, of students a a f o u r t h - ye a r Ph.D. program, -CHRISTIAAN REES, Ph.D. candidate the result of a M.D.-PH.D. CANDIDATE in the QBS partnership p r o g r a m , between the explained G e i s e l S ch o o l that she was of Medicine interested in the and the School College program of Graduate and Advanced because she “wanted to be able to Studies, with faculty from multiple be able to ask and answer a variety departments. of questions, and a lot of Ph.D. While the Ph.D. students usually programs felt a little too narrow move on to academia, incoming for my personal preferences.” master’s students will likely work The idea for having a QBS in business, such as the insurance, master’s program began in the pharmaceutical and technology fall of 2016, but the real work on industries, according to current creating the program for the 2018QBS students. The program plans 19 school year did not begin until to increase its enrollment to a this past March. The program went maximum of 40 students in coming up for approval in June and will be years. supported by existing programs, Kristine Giffin A&S’10 Med’10, Jones said. the curriculum director for the Fo l l ow i n g t h e D a r t m o u t h Ph.D. and master’s programs, said undergraduate model, the program that the health data concentration will also offer the opportunity for has a stronger focus on industry and students to have internships over modeling whereas the epidemiology the summer by postponing their concentration emphasizes theory capstone projects. Nutter describes and application. The master’s this as “a real strength of the degree program will provide an program.” avenue for students who want to Nutter and Rees said they are get into the workforce faster or excited for the program. The new who are interested in academia. master’s programs means that “The idea behind a QBS degree there will be more class offerings is that you come out of it with a in coming years available for Ph.D. skill set that is broadly applicable students, some of which have to those three disciplines,” said already been tested. fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. candidate “We’re all very excited for Christiaan Rees. “It’s becoming the start of these two programs, increasingly true that there are and I think they’re going to be large data repositories, and when great additions to the Dartmouth you gather data together, a lot of graduate community,” Giffin said.

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available to all students. The project is far from its final stages, first-years with education on alcohol and the Student Wellness Center safety. Lead BASICS counselor Brian is looking for feedback on the site’s Bowden said that the structure of popularity, accessibility and efficacy. the new program is similar to the Student knowledge assessments pre-matriculation education course. at the beginning and end of the “It’s to help [students] increase program will measure how much their knowledge of how to legally safety knowledge a student gains use prescriptions,” Bowden said. “It and retains through the program, talks about stimulants, depressants Barthelemes said, adding that the Student Wellness Center is and opiates … in good detail.”

But neither Bowden nor Student working on creating an evaluation survey for students Wellness Center to provide feedback director Caitlin “We like to take after they complete Barthelmes the program. h a d s t r o n g a preventive lens Barthelmes concerns about towards a variety of said that beyond prescription an informational d r u g m i s u s e health subjects, and section on drugs, at Dartmouth, prescription drug the program also despite the misuse is one of promotes healthy College’s b e h av i o r s a n d location in a those subjects.” attitudes toward high-risk area. drugs. “ We d o n’t “Not only is [the have that many -CAITLIN BARTHELMES, program] helpful in o t h e r d r u g s STUDENT WELLNESS preventing misuse, being used CENTER DIRECTOR but it’s also a tool [on campus],” for Dartmouth Bowden said.

“Prescription drug use is fairly low students to prepare for adulthood,” as far as self-reported usage [goes].” Barthelmes said. “It walks you Barthelmes emphasized that through [how to] look at a medication maintaining a low rate of prescription label … so you can feel familiar with drug misuse on campus requires the substance you’re about to put in your body, [increasing] people’s extra preventive care.

“We like to take a preventive lens comfort and knowledge about what towards a variety of health subjects, they’re going to use.” and prescription drug misuse is one According to Barthelmes, the program also details the procedure of those subjects,” she said.

Though other EVERFI programs for bystander intervention. Learning on alcohol and sexual assault are how to identify signs of potential mandatory for entering first-years, drug misuse in friends and peers is the prescription drug program one of the most important parts of is currently in a trial phase and the program, as well as one of its FROM DRUGS PAGE 1

most applicable parts to Dartmouth, she said.

To successfully test the program on Dartmouth students, the Student Wellness Center made the program accessible to all students on campus and partnered with Dick’s House to promote the program. “ [ B ow d e n ] c re at e d s o m e [information] cards for [Dick’s House providers] that we could consider handing out to students when we prescribe drugs,” said director of Dick’s House clinical medical services and staff physician Ann Bracken Med’89.

She added that Dick’s House’s pharmacy was cooperating with clinical medical services to specifically target students in possession of prescription drugs.

Dick’s House’s other area of interest is how this program will affect drug use on campus, Bracken said. Drug misuse is not a strong concern at Dick’s House, she said, but many students have prescriptions for stimulants for various medical conditions, so she recognizes the possibility of drug misuse and believes preventive care is a good idea.

“It’s not that common for students to come [to us] saying, ‘I have a problem [where I have to] refuse to give medication to somebody,’” she said. “But people can go to counseling … or to us, worried about their own drug use or their friend’s drug use.”

After evaluating student responses to the program at the end of the winter term, Barthelmes said that the Student Wellness Center hopes to make necessary adjustments to improve the program for spring term.

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Kathrin Lawlor, the program’s community engagement coordinator, said that approximately 46 percent of New Hampshire residents access their water from private wells. The researchers used data from the U.S. Geological Survey to determine the high proportion of contaminated wells, she said.

Stanton said arsenic naturally occurs in certain types of bedrock that underlie the state of New Hampshire.

In addition to conducting research, the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program has been holding community welltesting events. Lawlor said that engagement efforts have increased the number of wells tested but have not necessarily increased treatment due to barriers such as convenience and cost. While 74 percent of people

understood their lab results, only 64 percent understood what to do, she said.

“One of the things we’re doing is working with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to make the public more aware of the problem, especially private well owners,” Stanton said.

As a result, the College and state organizations both have websites designed to increase education about arsenic, called “Arsenic and You” and “Be Well Informed.” The latter of which includes a tool allowing people to enter well test results and receive customized treatment options.

Treatment can include filtering well water, buying a reverse osmosis machine or only drinking bottled water.

“A lot of people mean to test their wells but they never get around to testing their wells,” Lawlor said. “We discovered you really need extensive

communication and then a testing event, and that seems to raise people’s overall testing of their wells.”

Stanton encourages anyone with a private well to test frequently for contaminants, which can also include bacteria, radon and even uranium.

“It’s tough sometimes to convince people that arsenic — something that’s odorless, colorless and tasteless — is having an adverse health effect,” he said.

H e a d d e d t h at a l t h o u g h certain areas are prone to higher concentrations of arsenic in ground water, wells have been found all over the state that contain drinking water with high levels of arsenic.

The EPA maximum contaminant level does not necessarily indicate a safe level of exposure, said Paul Susca, who works in the New Hampshire Environmental Services’ Drinking Water Source Protection Program.

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Dickey trip meets with YALI fellows SIPS courses focus on community impact FROM YALI PAGE 1

Washington Fellow.

“This was one of the first times we got over there and had the opportunity to meet up with a number of our fellow alumni,” said Thomas Candon, associate managing director at the Dickey Center and YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship administrative director.

The College’s involvement in YALI is centered around the Mandela Washington Fellowship, which sends YALI fellows to universities across the United States to study either business and entrepreneurship, civic leadership or public service over the summer.

Participants go through a highly selective process to ear n the fellowship, with a one percent acceptance rate. At Dartmouth, fellows attend six weeks of curriculum on design-driven entrepreneurship. The College has hosted 25 fellows from across Africa every summer since 2014.

During his stay in Ghana, Candon met up with the four Ghanan Mandela Washington Fellows and visited the startup companies they have established.

He also visited the YALI Regional Leadership Center in West Africa to meet with representatives from all four leadership centers on the continent.

Candon said that throughout the trip, he was able to strengthen ties between the College and the Mandela Washington Fellows, who have hosted more than 15 Dartmouth students.

The second leg of the trip was to Nigeria, where Amy Newcomb, senior program officer at the Dickey Center and MWF academic director, oversaw a “Train-theTrainers” workshop, a joint project with the U.S. Consulate in Lagos and Ndubuisi’s social enterprise

Inspire Africa. The workshop consisted of a six-day humancentered design program facilitated

by Robert Halvorsen Th’17 and Ashley Manning ’17. Following the design thinking training, deputy director of outdoor programs Brian Kunz A&S’00 and Outdoor Programs Office teambuilding director Lindsay Putnam also facilitated various team-building exercises.

“The idea was to give them a taste of what this human-centered design process looks like and how it can benefit entrepreneurship efforts, but also to teach them exercises that they could then facilitate and integrate into the Inspire Africa curriculum going forward,” Newcomb said.

O n e o f N d u bu i s i ’s g o a l s in creating Inspire Africa was to create a cohort of trainers that would help other young African entrepreneurs receive opportunities and resources, said Halvorsen, who helped lead the workshop. Ndubuisi reached out to Newcomb and incorporated Dartmouth’s YALI curriculum model into the workshop.

Although Halvorsen had worked as a teaching assistant during the 2015 Mandela Washington Fellowship curriculum hosted on campus, facilitating an entire workshop was a completely different challenge.

“The best way to learn design thinking is by doing it,” Halvorsen said. “So rather than just sit them in a classroom and talk at them, we gave them a design challenge that we wanted them to tackle.”

H a l vo r s e n a n d M a n n i n g challenged the participants to “solve youth unemployment in Africa.” The participants applied design thinking processes by interviewing young people, figuring out their needs, defining a persona to design for and developing

solutions and prototyping. They also introduced tools like empathy mapping and mind mapping that the trainers would be able to pass on to their trainees in the future.

“Our goal was to step them through the entire design process from start to finish, so they get exposed to it,” Halvorsen said.

“We gave them smaller actionable exercises that they can bring wherever they go.”

Similarly, the Outdoor Programs Office conducted exercises to build a team that would work together after the workshop, but also left the trainers with a set of exercises they could use in the future. The feedback from both Ndubuisi and the U.S. Consulate was very positive, Newcomb said.

The workshop, which Newcomb d e s c r i b e s a s a “ m i n i - YA L I experience,” was similar to other professional exchanges promoted by the Dickey Center, in which the Dartmouth YALI model is shared and reproduced in various parts of Africa. In 2016, Dartmouth and the YALI East Africa Regional Leadership Center cooperated on a year-and-a-half project to improve the center’s business and entrepreneurship program. “[T he center now has] a team of really wonderful African trainers teaching, using the core content that our YALI fellows get to experience when they’re here, which is fantastic,” Newcomb said.

According to Candon, the Dickey Center looks forward to continuing their involvement in YALI but are concerned about funding cuts to the Mandela Washington Fellowship by the federal government. Due to budget cuts, the program offered only 700 fellowships this year, while last year it said it would accept up to 1,000 fellows. Funding for next year’s program has not yet been announced.

COURTSEY OF VICTOR AGAGECHE

Members of the Dickey Center for International Understanding met with former YALI fellows over winter break.

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he said that the center’s management of having other people promote their of the program has eased the organizations, which he said helps the logistical commitment for professors community partners feel validated. and has helped prevent community “The organizations have said how partners from being overwhelmed valuable it is to see themselves from by an unorganized volume of a different perspective, because they Dartmouth projects. rarely get that opportunity,” Osborne In Osborne’s first-year seminar said. class, Environmental Studies 7.04, According to Doolittle, over 600 “COVER Stories,” students partner students have now participated with COVER Home Repair, a in 36 distinct SIP courses across volunteer home repair organization 18 disciplines, with 35 matched based in White River Junction, to community partners and 65 learn about the intersection between completed projects. social service and environmentalism.

“All of the faculty in year one After meeting with staff and going to have chosen to do it again in year work sites, students complete video two, and many have added a second projects for COVER that are then course, which I think is indicative of published on the organization’s web their feeling like it is valuable to the page. students involved and to their work L i k e w i s e , i n O s b o r n e ’s as well,” Doolittle said. ecopsychology class, Environmental Sociology professor Kimberly Studies 7.03, “Ecopsychology,” also Rogers is teaching two courses a first-year seminar, students work this term, Sociology 11, “Research with a variety Methods” of ecologically- “That human and Sociology f o c u s e d connection with 65, “Social community Psychology of partners and those people out in I n e q u a l i t y, ” develop video the community is an both of which projects. include SIPs. “That human incredibly powerful

“I find connection with experience.” that it’s a lot more those people engaging and out in the helps students community is -TERRY OSBORNE, hit the ground an incredibly ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES running a lot p o w e r f u l more quickly,” e x p e r i e n c e , ” PROFESSOR Rogers said.

Osborne said.

S h e Ethan Smith ’20 took Osborne’s said that students in her classes take ecopsychology class last winter and research questions about inequality worked on a promotional film for from Upper Valley community the Upper Valley Land Trust, a partners and work in groups to Hanover-based land conservation develop research designs and collect organization. data. This, she added, fulfills a real “The social impact part of the need for community organizations course — ­ working with the Land that may not have the skills necessary Trust — kind of introduced a real- to complete the research they need world learning to the course that I to answer their questions. don’t think would have been present This work not only helps in a regular lecture course,” Smith her students better understand said. sociological research, but also helps Smith said he was drawn to the them see how it can be actively fact that the class included both a applied outside of the classroom, volunteer and an environmental Rogers said. component, and he enjoyed how the “The students tell me that it was class allowed students to apply their a really refreshing change of pace knowledge in practice. He has since for them to be doing something that recommended the class to several had broader impacts for the local other students. community,” she said.

“I think not only working in a To Doolittle, these mutual class that has a social impact but benefits to students and the broader just working in a class that has a community fulfill the ultimate goals connection to the outside world is of the SIP program. super interesting to me,” Smith said.

“Doing community-driven Osborne said that from the experiential learning is of great value perspective of the community to the surrounding Upper Valley, to partners, his students’ projects have the students, often to the faculty as been helpful not only for the work well — that’s what we strive for,” she done, but also from the added value said.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW MAGANN ’21

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This Land of Mine

Time’s Up for Dartmouth

President Donald Trump should not be allowed to minimize public land.

We must eliminate sexual misconduct on campus from the bottom up.

This past December, I spent some time with the Dartmouth Outing Club in Big Bend National Park, out in West Texas along the Mexican border. We hiked through dry washes and over plateaus and camped out along bluffs by the Rio Grande. Driving out on the morning of the last day, I saw the sky flare up red along the horizon, a stark beauty against the desert.

While driving on the I-20, my phone lit up. President Donald Trump had signed an executive order removing huge swathes of two National Monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, from protection.

He called it a blow to those who “think that the natural resources of Utah should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington.”

But the place I’d just left was not a place for “very distant bureaucrats;” it was a place for all Americans. As outdoor clothing brand Patagonia describes on its website’s homepage: “The President Stole Your Land.”

The politics of land and resources in the American west is intensely complex, with conservationists, ranchers, miners, developers and a few dozen other interests all vying for influence. Of course, our society needs resources; so much of the country’s land cannot be conserved. Because of this, a large portion of Western land is left available for resource extraction. Is it so radical to set aside some of the remainder for preservation?

Most Americans don’t think so: Support for national parks crosses party lines, and parks like Grand Canyon and Yellowstone have long been a source of national pride. Yet as Trump’s announcement shows, even wilderness preservation has recently become nationally contentious.

The anti-conservation movement does not represent the interests of most Americans.

Nevertheless, opponents of public lands have managed to insert their ideas into mainstream discourse. Trump’s announcement flowed with their rhetoric. The president phrased his removal of national monument status from large portions of two monuments, potentially opening them to development, as restoring

Last year, three professors of psychology and brain sciences were placed on paid leave amid investigations of sexual misconduct allegations.

The investigations are ongoing, and no findings have been disclosed but the initial allegations — which are not public — have been expanded upon anonymously by 15 current and former students and by two other academics, Jennifer Groh and Simine Vazire. These allegations came during a time of extreme upheaval across industries and society, with numerous powerful male figures coming under fire and facing professional, personal and, at times, legal repercussions for patterns and behaviors of sexual abuse, misconduct and assault.

For some, the allegations against the three psychology professors reinforce the painful reality that at Dartmouth, like many other institutions and organizations, sexual assault and misconduct are not uncommon. Dartmouth has among the most reported rapes on any campus in the country, ranking second nationally in 2014 with 42 reports.

This was followed with a dip to 17 in 2015 and a slight increase to 18 in 2016. And the problem goes well beyond rape. Last May, a burglary was reported at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and an obscene and misogynistic threat was written on the sorority’s property. More recently, a crowdsourced survey of sexual harassment in academia circulated since December includes at least three instances of alleged sexual impropriety at Dartmouth.

Many students believe that Dartmouth inadequately addresses sexual misconduct and assault. But it bears repeating: Dartmouth is not safe for many community members, and real changes are needed to curb sexual misconduct. The College can be at the forefront of assertive, reasonable and fair measures to reduce sexual harassment.

Reporting is one important step in addressing sexual assault and misconduct. Only around one-fifth of sexual assaults of female collegeaged students are reported to law enforcement; overall, more than 90 percent of sexual assaults on college campuses are not reported. Current reporting processes, as well as social stigma and the psychological toll of assault, makes reporting difficult for victims. Yet we cannot ignore that sexual violence is prevalent across a range of genders and sexualities. Over 46 percent of gay women, 74 percent of bisexual women, 43 percent of heterosexual women, 40 percent of gay men, 47 percent of bisexual men and 20 percent of heterosexual men report sexual violence in their lifetimes. In this climate, where most assaults, rapes and incidents of misconduct are not investigated, reporting is critical. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, we can hope reporting rates rise sharply as more survivors feel safe enough to identify perpetrators, a vital step in addressing sexual misconduct.

The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault’s 2017 recommendations provide a good framework. The committee hopes to increase participation rate for the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative from 64.5 percent of students to 75 percent and participation in Movement Against Violence training from 90 percent of Greek organization members to 100 percent. These goals can be met and furthered by mandating both trainings for all students.

Broader cultural initiatives will be critical to ending sexual violence at Dartmouth in the long term. Ultimately, no administrative policy

“the rights of this land to your [Utah’s] citizens.” Of course, he neglected to mention that every one of Utah’s citizens currently has a right to the national monuments.

The monuments are public land, and they belong to us all, Utahns included. Instead of restoring rights, eliminating protected land removes the right of current and future generations to experience the wilderness. A few individuals or corporations might gain resource rights over the land, but Trump’s announcement restricts access for the vast majority of Americans while threatening our natural environment. The president’s proclamation tramples on the common interest of America’s people in favor of a few special interests. No amount of rhetoric can hide that.

In today’s polarized environment, similar rhetoric is doing its best to make conservation a partisan issue. Far-right publication Breitbart’s article on the downsizing of the monuments was quick to mention “outcry from leftist environmentalist groups” in the wake of Trump’s announcement. By casting conservation as an issue of big government versus the people, some on the right attempt to make the anti-conservation movement seem like a logical extension of conservative principles. And frankly, it isn’t.

Understandably, conservatives may be more sensitive about government overreach than liberals. They may side with industry in particular instances where conservation conflicts with abundant resources, as in Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But think of former President Theodore Roosevelt, America’s great champion of conservation. He fought wars, hunted big game and pursued an aggressive foreign policy; he was no urban liberal.

But he still recognized the importance of preserving America’s natural lands, what he called “the most glorious heritage a people ever received.” Imagine what would have become of the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake or countless other national treasures had Roosevelt not protected them.

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imposed from the top down will take root if students do not evaluate their own behaviors.

The current social system at the College creates an environment where sexual assault is possible, and even common, through unsafe behaviors like binge drinking and a hookup culture that can often blur the lines of consent. Some social groups have made strides in tackling sexual misconduct. The V-February program, which includes the “Vagina Monologues” and “Voices” performances, is a premier example of studentled cultural change aimed at combating sexual misconduct on campus, and we can hope that more attend this year’s performances — and yet more the next year. Even so, many organizations can still do more.

Students should actively boycott any organization, including Greek houses, that fails to take decisive action against members who have engaged in sexual misconduct. Producers who fired actor Kevin Spacey from the film “All the Money in the World” after he admitted to sexual contact with an underage man should serve as an example for campus organizations.

Criticism of the internal disciplinary systems at colleges and universities has come both from those claiming schools are not harsh enough on sexual predators and from those who argue that the rights of the accused to due process are being systematically violated. Both sides have compelling arguments. Colleges, themselves an involved party to any sexual misconduct allegations on their campuses, are not fit to be judge, jury and prosecutor. They are questionably fit to be arbiters of sexual misconduct allegations, yet necessity demands it of them. The College should work with legal experts and other schools to develop a system that will respect due process, potentially holding an avenue for cross-examination, and take a hard stand against sexual misconduct, with mandated expulsion for sexual assault or rape.

Bottom-up cultural change by students and more effective institutional measures are both necessary if Dartmouth is to substantially curtail — and eventually eliminate — sexual misconduct and assault in our community. Mandating DBI and MAV training for all students is a critical first step, and increased focus on anti-sexual violence by student groups will also be essential. Holding accountable social spaces that protect those who commit acts of sexual violence, through cultivated bottom-up change, will be pivotal if we are to change the College’s culture meaningfully. And administrators can support survivors — and be fair to the accused — through reforms of the College’s adjudication system.

In this moment when sexual harassment and assault are in the national spotlight, sunlight, as many have said, is the best disinfectant. With all lights trained on this issue, Dartmouth can set out to be a model for the country and tackle it head-on without fear or secrecy. We should be tough on sexual misconduct and tough on the causes of sexual misconduct. We should be fair and respect due process, a goal not incompatible with an effort to clean this campus of perpetrators and those who shield them. Together, we can make a better Dartmouth.

The editorial board consists of opinion staff columnists, the opinion editors, the associate opinion editor, both executive editors and the editor-in-chief.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Live demonstration of work by Haitian graffiti artist Jerry Rosembert Moïse, Baker Library, Main Hall

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

Film: “Faces Places,” directed by Agnès Varda, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

7:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.

Film: “Blade Runner 2049,” directed by Denis Villeneuve, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Performance: “The Dragon King,” performed by the Tanglewood Marionettes, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Magann: This Land of Mine FROM MAGANN PAGE 4

And despite the claims of some groups, national parks are not government overreach. The government is the only organization capable of conservation on a large scale. Private charities lack the funds to conserve land on the same scale as the federal government, and without public conservation land, we would lose our natural areas to development. If we want to preserve the American wilderness, as many clearly do, our government must play a role in protecting and administering public lands.

But what of those who stand to lose from land preservation?

What of a rancher who grazes his

cattle on a proposed monument or a mining company eager to extract mineral resources? Yes, these individuals may lose some profit. Yet they can still pursue their industries in the large majority of land still open to development.

And land preservation still benefits them — conservation has welldocumented economic benefits.

The National Park Service faced intense local opposition when creating Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, with Wyoming’s governor threatening to remove any federal official from the land.

But today, the area around Grand Teton benefits tremendously — in 2010, Teton Country made $18.9 million in sales tax alone, partly due to the park’s presence. Instead

of forcing insufferable restrictions, the creation of Grand Teton National Park boosted the local economy while allowing people to experience the area’s natural heritage.

America is fortunate to contain awe-inspiring natural landscapes.

Protecting that wilderness is in the best interest of all Americans.

Trump’s recent announcement may have cloaked itself in antiestablishment rhetoric, but at its core, it translates to the theft of public land from the American people.

A m e r i c a ’s n at u r a l b e a u t y belongs to us all, and every American should take pride in protecting our nation’s public lands.

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Film: “The Opera House,” directed by Susan Froemke, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Film: “Marshall,” directed by Reginald Hudlin, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Malpaso brings contemporary Cuban dance to Dartmouth the capacity of contemporary artists in Cuba, we’re now finally The Dartmouth Staff starting to see some really strong The Malpaso Dance Company, a contemporary work coming out contemporary Cuban dance group of Cuba, and Malpaso is really at specializing in a diverse range the forefront of that movement,” of styles, performed Thursday Lawrence said. night at Moore Theater in the While at Dartmouth, Malpaso Hopkins Center for the Arts. also hosted a master class taught by The company performed pieces the group’s artistic director Osnel derived from European ballet Delgado. Lawrence said the Hop to modern North American to always aims to connect groups it traditional Afro-Cuban. Founded brings in to the student body and in 2012, the company has worked larger community. with prominent North American “Our mission is to ignite and choreographers including Aszure sustain a passion for the arts in the Barton and Ron K. Brown, whose Dartmouth community, by which works were performed at the show we mean the whole Dartmouth on Thursday. c o m m u n i t y, ” Margaret Lawrence said.

“It doesn’t L aw re n c e, “We never bring d i r e c t o r o f really matter if artists without doing programming at you’re doing [the additional activities the Hop, said she with them that are was interested in choreography] educational.” bringing Malpaso that correctly

The master class to Dartmouth was held Wednesday because of her because it’s fun.” evening at the Straus long relationship Dance Studio. w i t h Fe r n a n d o Dancers, ranging -CINDY LI ’18 Sáez, the executive from students director of the to community group, and her members, were interest in Cuban present to lear n culture. She added more about Malpaso that Malpaso and the members’ i s p a r t i c u l a rl y style of movement. interesting because only a limited Cindy Li ’18, a member of amount of contemporary dance student dance group Fusion, said has come out of Cuba in recent she learned about the class in an years, aside from classical ballet, email from the Hopkins Center due to a gap in international and became interested in attending communication. because it looked like fun. “[Because] of some personal A l t h o u g h D e l g a d o b e g a n relationships between North the class with seemingly simple Americans and Cuban artists and warmups, a few details and the some real investment in helping fluid style of movement were

By ELISE HIGGINS

COURTESY OF HOPKINS CENTER OF THE ARTS

“Ocaso,” performed at the Malpaso Dance Company’s show was a duet was choreographed by Osnel Delgado.

difficult to replicate for some.

However, that did not deter the attendees from enjoying the master class.

“You just follow what he does,” Li said. “It doesn’t really matter if you’re doing [the choreography] that correctly because it’s fun.”

While exact replication of the movements was not important, Delgado would sometimes help dancers into the correct position or tell them to breathe through the movements.

COURTESY OF ROB STRONG

Warmups at a master class offered by members of the Malpaso Dance Company required fluid movements.

Toward the end of the class, most of the dancers had grown more comfortable with the fluid style and were able to focus more on the execution of the moves rather than the steps of the choreography.

Some of the moves Delgado taught during the master class were included in the choreography perfor med on Thursday. The first piece, “Indomitable Waltz,” was choreographed by Barton. It incorporated bold yet incredibly fluid movements. The dancers moved seamlessly across the stage, often interacting with each other and doing partner work. The second piece, “Ocaso,” was a duet choreographed by Delgado with intimate movements between the male and female dancers. The final piece, “Why You Follow,” was choreographed by Brown and stood out for its distinct style, inspired by rhythmic movements and music and significantly different from the smoother choreography of the other two pieces.

Li said she appreciated the different pieces with their varying styles as well as the music. She added that even though one might not necessarily think to pair differing styles of music and choreography, such as hip movement with classical music, the movements worked together perfectly with the bold and constantly changing music.

After the show, Sáez and Delgado answered questions from the audience alongside Lawrence.

Sáez discussed the history of contemporary dance in Cuba,

which was strongly influenced by the movement style of American dancer and choreographer Martha G r a h a m . G r a h a m ’s d a n c e s include contraction movements that are also seen in Malpaso’s choreog raphy. Delgado, who spoke through Sáez as a translator, discussed his appreciation for the different choreographers that work with the group because he believes they challenge the dancers and ultimately make them better.

Prompted by a question from the audience, Delgado discussed the varying creation process for all the choreographers. Delgado said when he choreographs, he does not focus on telling a story as much as expressing his emotions and sharing himself with the audience. He added that he finds it very rewarding to find solutions to whatever inspired him to create the dance.

Although each piece was distinct from one another, the dancers were able to perform the choreography flawlessly. Lawrence said that while the dancers clearly have strong classical training, they are able to adapt to many different styles.

“Depending on the works that they are doing, they can really show another side of themselves,” Lawrence said. “They’re bringing this consistent kind of sensual movement style, this flawless training, and then they’re able to apply it to three very different kinds of physical vocabulary.”

The Malpaso Dance Company will perform its set again tonight at 8 p.m. at Moore Theater.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

SPORTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2018

TODAY’S LINEUP

MEN’S HOCKEY VS QUINNIPIAC 7 P.M.

First goal: the Dartmouth-Princeton tennis ball tradition

tennis ball delay penalties during his first seven years at the College.

The Dartmouth Staff “But it’s gonna hurt us some Every year, the student body day,” he said. “I just want to make lines up outside of Thompson sure we’re not hurting our own Arena with tennis balls in hand, team.” waiting for the hockey game of the Sheehy said he was “stunned” year against Princeton University. when he first learned about the The tradition of throwing tennis tradition. balls onto the ice after the first Big “I don’t have anything against Green goal has been kept alive for it — I think it’s kind of silly, but I over two decades.. was 19 once,” he added.

Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81, When he first started working who is starting his 21st year for the athletics department, with the program, said that this he was asked if he wanted fans tradition began before he took his to be checked for tennis balls position at the College but after upon entering Thompson Arena. his time as an undergraduate and Sheehy decided against it as long men’s hockey goalie. as this tradition is well monitored.

Like many traditions, the tennis “We’re not hurting anyone, and ball shower has poorly-defined it becomes a part of who we are roots. According to Gaudet, the and that’s okay,” Sheehy said. origin actually lies with the Tigers. He encourages students to get During one contest, a single to the arena early to assure that Tiger fan threw a tennis ball at a they will be present when the first Dartmouth goalie after Princeton goal is scored to prevent students scored its first goal of the game. from throwing tennis balls on Later, Dartmouth fans retaliated subsequent goals. by bombarding the Tigers after The athletes, Gaudet and Dartmouth’s first goal, solidifying Sheehy have all asked fans to the Big Green tradition. restrain from throwing balls on T h ou gh f an s an d player s goals scored after the first one, enjoy the annual tennis ball given that this tradition often leads throw, referees are not similarly to a delay of game penalty that enthusiastic. could work against the Big Green.

Delay of game is a penalty in ice Cam Strong ’20, who scored hockey, resulting in the offending the goal that brought down the player spending rain of tennis balls two minutes in “I saw it more as last season against the penalty Princeton, said the b o x . T h o u g h just another goal, fan reaction gave unorthodox, the but it definitely his goal some extra d e l a y o f g a m e was special being meaning. penalty can be “I saw it more as imposed on fans as out on the ice and just another goal, well. Historically, celebrating it with but it was definitely Dartmouth is special being out n o t p e n a l i z e d my teammates.” on the ice and the first time the celebrating it with rink is showered -CAM STRONG ’20, my teammates,” with tennis balls Strong said. thanks to executive ON SCORING THE Princeton senior associate FIRST GOAL OF co-ca ptain Er ic athletics director, Ro b i n s o n f i n d s Brian Austin, who LAST YEAR’S GAME the tradition talks to the referee AGAINST PRINCETON entertaining too. before the game “[The tradition UNIVERSITY to infor m them is] pretty cool of the tradition. especially since However, if the Princeton doesn’t game is delayed have any similar after the second or third goal, the traditions,” Robinson said. “It’s Big Green is often penalized. definitely something we look Athletics director Harry Sheehy forward to each year, as the game considers it a miracle that the Big is usually pretty packed and always Green has not given up a goal on has high energy.”

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SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Per tradition, fans throw tennis balls onto the ice after the first Dartmouth goal against Princeton University.

Official disapproval of the tradition has not deterred Big Green fans from participating throughout the years. In 1994, The New York Times covered the Dartmouth-Princeton game, reporting that fans threw not only tennis balls but also fruit. Officials stopped play, sent both teams to their locker rooms and forced the Big Green and the Tigers to play the six remaining minutes of the first period and 20 of the second without stoppage. That game ended with 20 penalties, 10 for each team, and a Princeton victory.

In 2004, fans were asked to refrain from throwing tennis balls on the ice, due to stricter rules under the Eastern College Athletic Conference, there would be no warning after the first offense.

Gaudet and his players asked fans not to throw anything on the ice.

Before the game, fliers were placed on each of the 4,500 seats in the arena. However, when the Big Green scored its first goal, tennis balls filled the air. Dartmouth

received a two-minute delay-of- not comply. This time, it actually game penalty. worked. He said his desire for giving Later in the g ame, Hugh the team an equal opportunity Jessiman ’06 scored to compete for a goal for the Big ECAC and national G re e n , t y i n g t h e “I don’t have championships as score at 2-2. The fans anything against the reason behind celebrated the second his letter. The Big goal with more tennis [the tradition] Green swept the balls, resulting in — I think it’s best-of-three series another Big Green n two games, kind of silly, but imoving p e n a l t y, o n e l e s s on to face player on the ice for I was 19 once.”

Colgate University two more minutes in the following and eventually a 2-2 round.

-HARRY SHEEHY, tie.

The last time Even tennis-ball- ATHLETICS the Big Green faced crazed fans, however, Princeton was on DIRECTOR can occasionally see Dec. 1 at Princeton, re a s o n . I n 2 0 1 5 , when Dartmouth Sheehy sent out a lost 9-2. letter to the student “Given our body asking it to long rivalry with refrain from throwing Princeton and how tennis balls because the last game went, it was an ECAC playoff game. we’re definitely all looking forward He even threatened revoking to this next game and have been students’ free admission to future very focused all week at practice,” ECAC playoff games if they did Strong said.