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Gordon Co-op hosts annual meeting MacDonald ’83 confirmed as NH attorney general

By ALEX FREDMAN

The Dartmouth Staff

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Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1983, Gordon MacDonald ’83 has had his share of experience in law and politics. Those opportunities, he said, are due in no small part to the connections he built as a member of the Dartmouth community.

Raised in Hanover, MacDonald likely seemed like any other student at the College while he was an undergraduate — he swam, coached the local swim team, majored in government and belonged to Phi Delta Alpha fraternity.

His senior year, a friend told him about a position opening on the staff of then U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey from New Hampshire. Taking that job set him on a career path which will ultimately lead him to the state capital in Concord on April 13, where he will be sworn in as New Hampshire’s 30th attorney general.

MacDonald, a Manchester-based attorney at the law firm Nixon Peabody LLP since 2002, was unanimously confirmed for the position by the fivemember state Executive Council on Wednesday.

Nominated by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, MacDonald, a Republican, will replace current attorney general Joseph Foster, a Democrat. The governor’s office announced the nomination on March 21.

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The Hanover Cooperative Consumers Society held its annual member meeting in White River Junction.

By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff

The Hanover Cooperative Consumers Society, which own the Co-op Food Stores, attempted to increase its member engagement at its annual member meeting this past Saturday. Over 75 members were in attendance at the LISTEN Center in White River Junction, Co-op member services and outreach director Amanda Charland said.

Eric Lemieux wins Special Olympics medal

By MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

When Dartmouth Dining Services employee Eric Lemieux was not at work last winter, he trained six days a week to prepare for three different s n ow s h o e i n g eve n t s in the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter

Games in Austria. After 12 days of competition in the Games, the worldclass athlete returned to the College on March 30 with a bronze medal, a sixth place ribbon and a participation ribbon.

Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities. It organizes

the Special Olympics World Games, which take place every two years and alternate between summer and winter games. According to the 2017 World Winter Games’ website, this year 2,700 athletes from 107 nations competed in nine different SEE LEMIEUX PAGE 2

This year was the first time the meeting was held at the center, which is the site of the LISTEN Community Service Dinner Hall. She added that the member turnout was relatively low compared to previous years, but that it was higher than expected due to the snowstorm that weekend.

T he LISTEN Center was chosen as a venue after it recently received nearly $30,000 in donations from the Pennies for Change program,

Charland said. Pennies for Change encouraged Coop shoppers to round their purchases up to the nearest dollar, resulting in the difference being donated in pennies to Listen community services, which supports Upper Valley residents in need.

With this money, LISTEN was able to hold an additional free community dinner per week, Charland said. They SEE CO-OP PAGE 5

Third annual ‘3 Day Startup’ kicks off

By KRISTINE JIWOO AHN The Dartmouth Staff

To d a y, t h e D a r t m o u t h Entrepreneurial Network will kickoff this year’s “3 Day Startup,” a 72-hour hands-on entrepreneurial workshop for students to create, share and develop their ideas. The program was created by MBA students at the University of Texas in 2008 to provide a space for students to develop their entrepreneurial skills and has since

expanded to 30 countries and 150 schools.

This year is DEN’s third year hosting the program, said Eileen O’Toole, DEN program manager.

Throughout the three days, teams of participants will brainstorm ideas, generate business models and pitch their ideas under the guidance of entrepreneurs and investors from the 3 Day Startup staff, according to 3DS SEE DEN PAGE 5

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Chemistry lab creates smart material Eric Lemieux returns from Austria with medal in solutions that could alter extensively within the scientific the molecular structure of the community. While the research hydrogel. Outside of the solution, currently remains small in scale Chemistry professor Chenfeng the rotaxanes’ rings are in a and applicability, Lin and Wang Ke’s lab, the Ke Functional “shuttling state” along the central said they have large aspirations. Lin Materials Group, recently created cable, meaning they are freely specifically noted that they hope to a 3D-printed smart material that flowing along the different cables of use their smart material to innovate can support up to the molecule. in preexisting technologies.

15 times its own Once i n “All the robots we have are made “Our dream is to make s o l u t i o n , of metal and electricity,” Lin said. weight.

At the head a soft robot using our however, the “Our dream is to make a soft robot of the project r o t a x a n e s ’ using our soft material.” soft material.” are Ke and firstr i n g s l a t c h Wang then said that such ye a r g r a d u at e t o g e t h e r , advancement will take many s t u d e n t s , -QIANMING LIN, FIRSTe n t e r i n g a years and will require that they do Qianming Lin “ s t a t i o n a r y, more fundamental research into and Hao-yi Wang. YEAR CHEMISTRY rigid state,” controlling the molecular motions The group began GRADUATE STUDENT Wang said. and networks to better integrate research this last T o more complex 3D structures. After September into s c a l e t h e all, they said, going from creating the manipulation innovation up a cube to designing a human-like of a gelatin-like in size, Lin hand is a difficult task. material called hydrogel through explained that his group has Engineering student Connor 3D printing and immersion in used 3D printing to go from the Haines ’20 said he is excited by the solutions. This past March, they molecular level to the macroscopic possibilities that could result from published their findings in the level — a significant the research Angewandte Chemie International upgrade. The group Ke, Lin and Edition. first printed a lattice- “Imagine a human Wa n g a r e Lin explained that the lab’s like 3D structure lifting a car.” conducting. research stems from their ability m a d e f r o m t h e “ I f to manipulate at a molecular level. hydrogel polymer they can Specifically, they have capitalized about the size of a -QIANMING LIN, FIRSTachieve their on the recent advent of molecular cookie from the Class end goal, YEAR CHEMISTRY machines, nanoscale molecules of ’53 Commons. that could made to do focused work like lifting In its rigid state GRADATE STUDENT have huge objects. The molecular machine of i n s o l u t i o n , t h e significance,” interest for Ke’s group is rotaxane, polymer was able to Haines said. a dumbbell-shaped molecule that lift a dime, the weight “There’s appears similar to a cable with of which is 15 times definitely multiple rings along its central that of the hydrogel. a lot of cable.

“Imagine a applicability, Wang said that during their human lifting a car,” and I think, if research, they immersed hydrogel, Lin said. they are able to do what they want which contains these rotaxanes, Their research has been covered to do, a lot of doors will open.”

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was thrilled to participate in the Olympics. sports including speed skating, “It’s the Olympics, and [Lemieux] had a ton of adrenaline going and snowshoeing and alpine skiing.

Lemieux said he has always been he knows how much support he a hiker, so becoming a snowshoer had back home in Vermont and was a natural transition because in New Hampshire,” Lee said. “I there are many similarities between don’t think you can fault someone hiking and snowshoeing. In New for giving their best and having a spectacular H a m p s h i r e, time.”

Lemieux The evening of trained as a “We’d ask him about March 27, more m e m b e r o f how everything was 50 people the Claremont going, and he never fed than from Claremont, Cool Cats, where Lemieux a S p e c i a l that crazy information lives, gathered O l y m p i c s to us, which was cool in Broad Street program that Park to welcome offers training to hear about it from him home. He in a variety his mom, and I realized was also invited to of sports. that he was really the office of New Lemieux q u a l i f i e d humble throughout the Hampshire Gov. C h r i s S u nu nu for the 2017 process.”

We d n e s d a y Games by morning for winning gold medaling at the m e d a l s i n -ADAM PHILIE ’17 2017 Games. the 50-meter, Associate 100-meter director of DDS and 4x100Don Reed said meter relay that the entire snowshoe races at the NH State Winter DDS staff is incredibly proud of Games held at the Dartmouth Lemieux’s accomplishments at the 2017 Games and his dedication to Skiway.

At the 2017 Games, Lemieux snowshoeing. placed third in the final division Lemieux’s friend Adam Philie of the 4x100m snowshoe relay ’17 said that he was especially and sixth in the final division inspired by Lemieux’s humility. of the 100m snowshoe race. “We’d ask him about how He was disqualified in the final everything was going, and he never division of the 200-meter snowshoe fed that crazy information to us, race because his record was which was cool to hear about it approximately 21 percent faster from his mom, and I realized that than that of the snowshoer that he was really humble throughout finished last place in the division, the process,” Philie said.

Lemieux said. According to the In addition to his snowshoeing Special Olympics’ website, the success at the Games, Lemieux said organization has historically that he enjoyed the food in Austria sug gested that the variance as well as traveling with his family between the highest and the in Germany after the competition. lowest scores in each division not Lemieux added that he is now differ by more than 15 percent training four to five times a week for the establishment of equitable to prepare for swimming events in the state summer games in June. divisions.

Lemieux’s mother Beth Lemieux In 2014, he participated in and said that she understands why the medaled in a national competition 15 percent guideline is in place for the aquatics event in Princeton, because some athletes deliberately New Jersey. If Lemieux medals, he downplay their abilities to be will compete in the National 2019 placed in a lower division’s final. Summer Games.

She added that the sunny weather, Lemieux said that his goal is to firm snow and a large crowd on always be courageous. He said that the day of the final division of the the motto of Special Olympics is 200m race motivated her son to also the motto of his life: “Let me run his heart out. Lemieux’s friend win, but if I cannot win, let me be Cam Lee ’16 said that Lemieux brave in the attempt.”

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Gordon MacDonald ’83 will be next state attorney general FROM ATTORNEY PAGE 1

New Hampshire is one of only five states in which the attorney general is nominated by the governor. In most states, attorneys general are directly elected by popular vote. Like most states, however, the New Hampshire attorney general serve four-year terms. This means MacDonald’s tenure will outlast Sununu’s current term, which lasts until 2019.

When he takes office, MacDonald will not be the only current attorney general to have graduated from Dartmouth. He joins Josh Stein ’88 from North Carolina and George Jepsen ’76 from Connecticut, both Democrats. “[MacDonald] joins a long list of Dartmouth alumni who have chosen to dedicate their time and talents to public service,” vice president for alumni relations Martha Johnson Beattie ’76 wrote in an email statement. “It is inspiring to see countless leaders across the country and at all levels of government using the leadership skills they developed at Dartmouth to work for the greater good of our country.”

MacDonald said Dartmouth’s alumni network and reputation opens many doors for its graduates.

“Graduates at Dartmouth have rates. The case resulted in a extraordinary opportunities,” preliminary injunction against the MacDonald said. “And I would state Commissioner of Health and just encourage any young person Human Services. to explore those. One may not go In 2014, he helped a group completely down the path of an of New Hampshire hospitals open door, but settle Medicaid at least explore reimbursement “My immediate it.” disputes with the As attorney priority is to give state. g e n e r a l , MacDonald has my full focus to the MacDonald will also represented lead the New opioid public health the pharmaceutical H a m p s h i r e crisis facing New company Purdue Department of P h a r m a , wh i ch Justice, making Hampshire and really manufactures the him the top law bringing a fresh set opioid painkiller enforcement OxyContin. That of eyes and a fresh official and company was prosecutor in set of ears to that i nve s t i g at e d by the state. the state in 2015 problem.”

W h i l e when concer ns working as a were raised that p a r t n e r f o r -GORDON MACDONALD it was dishonestly Nixon Peabody, marketing opioids, ’83, NEW HAMPSHIRE h o w e ve r, according to the M a c D o n a l d ATTORNEY GENERAL Concord Monitor. has often That investigation represented has since been put clients in disputes with the state. on hold by the state Supreme Court.

In 2012, he represented 10 In a recent public hearing, large New Hampshire hospitals, MacDonald promised to address including Dartmouth-Hitchcock New Hampshire’s opioid crisis Medical Center, who accused the with his “full focus” and to recuse state of violating the Medicaid himself when conflicts of interest Act by reducing reimbursement arise due to his prior work in

private practice, according to the Associated Press. He said he hopes to gives particular focus to the opioid epidemic ravaging the state.

“My immediate priority is to give my full focus to the opioid public health crisis facing New Hampshire and really bringing a fresh set of eyes and a fresh set of ears to that problem,” MacDonald said.

MacDonald added that the state’s drug prosecution unit and drug task force both fall under the attorney general’s preview. He said he plans to work with local county officials and federal authorities in addressing the crisis.

This will not be the first time MacDonald has worked in a public role. He is currently chair of the New Hampshire Board of Bar Examiners and is on the board of trustees for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

MacDonald has also served on the U.S. District Court Federal Court Advisory Committee and Local Rules Subcommittee.

MacDonald has also been a prominent figure in New Hampshire Republican politics throughout his career. After working as Sen. Humphrey’s chief of staff and legislative director, MacDonald once served as legal counsel for the New Hampshire Republican state committee. Last year, MacDonald was a campaign co-chair man and delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention for Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, according to WMUR News.

Since his nomination,

MacDonald has received widespread praise from New Hampshire public officials. The governor’s offi cial press release announcing the nomination cited plaudits from former state Supreme Court Justice Chuck Douglas, a Republican, and former state Chief Justice John Broderick, a Democrat.

The state Executive Council that unanimously confirmed Macdonald includes two Democrats out of its five members.

MacDonald’s nomination comes at a time when Republicans have been making significant gains in state attorney general offices, which have traditionally been dominated

by Democrats. MacDonald will be one of 29 Republican state and territorial attorneys general, the most in U.S. history. In 2000, there were only 12 Republican attorneys general in the country, according to Reuters.

With MacDonald in office, New Hampshire becomes the only state in New England with a Republican attorney general, though four out of the six states currently have Republican governors.

But MacDonald said that partisanship does not have a place in the job he is about to start.

“This is not a political office,” MacDonald said. “This is an office where I’m representing the interests of the state of New Hampshire.

I’ve always tried to conduct my practice with just a degree of civility and respect for the other side and professionalism, which are hallmarks of the small New Hampshire bar.”

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW BROWN ’19

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Hanlon’s Lack of Vision

Resurrect the Liberal Arts

The College’s administration lacks any real vision for the College.

The end of this spring term will mark the first year of Moving Dartmouth Forward’s full implementation on campus. Despite the establishment of flagship policies such as the budding housing system and the hard alcohol ban, students seem to have adapted when MDF affects us and forgotten its existence when it does not.

This is a strange outcome for a program so aggressively advocated by the administration and controversial among the student body. One might be tempted to credit how young many aspects of the program are for MDF’s decreased campus impact. In the case of the housing system and the growth of graduate research, this may be correct.

However, the main problem with MDF is not its novelty but rather the policies themselves.

Even a cursory reading of The President’s Plan announced by Phil Hanlon in January 2015 shows that MDF is surprisingly light on concrete action and policy steps. A more in-depth review reveals that even the most radical plans in MDF, such as the hard-alcohol ban and the housing system, are largely copied from other universities. As the flagship proposal of the current administration, this shows a lack of scope and ambition in what the College believes itself to be capable of. Despite its many laudable goals, MDF is a fundamentally reactionary and regulatory initiative on the part of the administration.

The initiative includes important and necessary policies, such as our addition to the Posse Veteran Program and participation in the Aspen Institute’s Franklin Project. Such efforts, however, are neither the focus of MDF nor Dartmouth’s own programs.

We should not commend ourselves for joining efforts that should already be expected of the College.

My goal is not to challenge the notion that Dartmouth should commit itself to a diverse and inclusive campus nor to imply that our school shouldn’t strive for academic excellence around the clock. Rather, I question why these very admirable aims are not the de facto standard that the administration upholds while is focusing its energy on expanding Dartmouth’s potential.

I’m also extremely skeptical as to what degree we are actually succeeding at the pledges to diversity, inclusion and academic rigor outlined in the MDF plan. The College continues to fail both in recruiting and retaining its faculty of color. Student angst around issues of diversity

runs high, and many angry alumni are alarmed by the College’s drop in academic rankings and downward trend in number of applicants.

The MDF external review panel’s own report shows that the College has made little progress in combatting issues of high-risk drinking on our campus, though it also notes that it may be too early to judge MDF’s impact on drinking and sexual assault. This finding would be fine, were these not the two issues that MDF addresses with action in any meaningful way.

Vague commitments to diversity and inclusion stand where concrete policy proposals should be.

Calls for increased academic rigor and raising standards around the College are not replacements for serious and innovative measures for improving academic achievement. It is common sense for an institution to want to curb delinquency and brutality like high-risk drinking and sexual violence. I might disagree with the ham-fisted and unoriginal approaches that the President’s office has taken in combatting these issues, but its interest in resolving them is obvious. What I can’t fathom is the idea that the administration would be so preoccupied with these measures that it loses sight of its mission of progressing Dartmouth.

If Hanlon truly wants to move Dartmouth forward, he must present a clear and compelling vision for what the College can be. The administrationmustoutlineconcretecommitments of resources and support if it wishes to court and retain faculty of color. We must expand outreach and investment in student resources to bring more brilliant individuals from eclectic backgrounds to Hanover. Personally, I would love to see Dartmouth explore its underestimated potential in fields like the fine arts, engineering and interdisciplinary studies.

Some may argue that Dartmouth was so socially and academically backward before MDF that the administration had to focus its attention on addressing the issues that have given the College waves of bad press over the last decade. If we are going to be raising standards, however, we must raise them to a standard well above where MDF places them. A radical vision and assertive leadership are necessary to fix the problems that ail the College and propel Dartmouth toward the inclusive, rigorous and engaging campus it has the potential to be. But with our current administration, I’m underwhelmed by our prospects of achieving such a vision.

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Dartmouth must return to its roots as a liberal arts college if it is to succeed.

Unlike its Ivy League peers, Dartmouth is not situated in the great northeastern cities or suburbs. Yet, it is in this setting that we can best embody the spirit of those who have come before us: that of a small liberal arts college, with an undergraduate focus, where faculty and students work closely together and where learning is pursued for its own sake.

It is time for administrators and students alike to focus on the undergraduate liberal arts, not on graduate programs or a research-first focus. We need a return to what Dartmouth does best, and that is the simple act of being a college. First and foremost, we are an institution of the liberal arts and sciences, designed not for professional education or mass research output but to transform students into rounded citizens with a wide breadth of knowledge and a boundless curiosity that shall continue throughout our lives.

Dartmouth’s students are less happy with the College today than they have been at any point in the recent past. In 2010, the year before former College President Jim Yong Kim took over in Parkhurst, 55 percent of graduating seniors said they were “very satisfied” with Dartmouth while 40 percent were “generally satisfied.” Last year’s survey found the former number at 38 percent, the latter at 49. Indeed, senior satisfaction has dropped with each biennial senior survey since 2010. Between 2004 and 2010, the number of graduating seniors who would “definitely” recommend Dartmouth to high schoolers clocked in between 59 and 64 percent. Last year, that figure stood at just 44 percent. While satisfaction with academic experiences remains high, small declines since 2010 are still visible.

Just 31 percent of the Class of 2016 contributed to the senior class gift last spring, down from 61 percent for the Class of 2015, 80 percent for the Class of 2012 and 99 percent for the Class of 2010.

It is not just Dartmouth’s newest alumni who are expressing disappointment in the College’s direction. Dartmouth’s application numbers have dropped over the past halfdecade, not precipitously but nonetheless highly telling. Last week, the College selected students for the Class of 2021 out of a pool of 20,034 applicants. This is a far cry from the 23,109 applicants for the Class of 2016, a peak for the College. Applications to the Class of 2018 represented a low point, at 19,297, before slight increases the following two years, then another decrease this year.

This comes while our Ivy League peers have seen their application numbers soar. Cornell University, for instance, had 37,812 apply for its Class of 2016 and 47,038 apply for its Class of 2021. The University of Pennsylvania saw an increase from 31,216 applications to 40,413 over the same period.

The Dartmouth’s own 2016 senior survey shows that students, at least, have found the culprit for the worsening of the Dartmouth experience: the College’s administration.

More than 77 percent of the Class of 2016 had an unfavorable view of the College’s administrators as a whole, and 60 percent viewed College President Phil Hanlon

unfavorably. Today, as Dartmouth increases its non-academic staff size and develops an energy institute backed by big oil as well as a new graduate school, appears clear that the College is attempting to play a game of “big university” alongside its Ivy League peers.

Instead, the College should focus on being an undergraduate-first institution where the liberal arts and sciences are held in high esteem.

Dartmouth will not win an arms race with Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. Nor do its students wish to fight that battle. We prefer a future as the premier liberal arts college in America and the world. We wish to be a place where undergraduate education is held sacrosanct and where those who want a strong community, high rates of faculty interaction and the breadth of true, classical study in the liberal arts and sciences can find their academic haven. Becoming “Dartmouth University” is antithetical to the values for which Dartmouth has long stood and will ultimately harm not only the College’s students but also its reputation both nationally and internationally.

We need an administration that will do better by this school, focusing on making Dartmouth the best version of itself.

If Dartmouth is the best in its category — the most well-financed and resourcerich liberal arts college with the best faculty — then applicants will respond, selecting an undergraduate-focused institution over those that put their doctoral candidates and professional schools first. We should compare ourselves to liberal arts colleges in the same breath as other Ivy League schools, and we should aspire to be the true home of liberal arts within the Ancient Eight.

Let us return our focus to the Dartmouth we love: the College on the Hill, the small school beloved by its alumni, the epitome, as former President Dwight Eisenhower said, of “what a college is supposed to look like.” The liberal arts are not merely a way for our graduates to appear more rounded on job applications.

Those who are looking for business majors or other pre-professional programs may go elsewhere. The liberal arts represent a different style of learning, one based upon creating a lifelong love of knowledge. It is, in the final sense, about the education of strong citizens.

The College should put money into recruiting top-tier teaching faculty, pay them competitive salaries and allow them to refocus on mentoring undergraduates. If Dartmouth takes these critical steps, it can again embody its one-time promise. As Daniel Webster famously told the United States Supreme Court: “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.” But until then, students accepted into the Class of 2021 should examine their priorities. If they want a pure research university, there are many schools that fulfill that role, while those who want a pure liberal arts college should vocalize that desire.

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Co-op holds annual member meeting in White River Junction that was not as strong in previous years, Co-op director of public also purchased an additional truck relations Allan Reetz said. He said to transport baked goods, whole the discussion about the Co-op grains and other healthy foods to the response to its loss in fiscal year 2016 White River Junction Veteran Affairs was gratifying. medical center “Even and LISTEN when business c o m m u n i t y “Even when business got got tight and centers, among tight and we suffered a we suffered a other locations. we didn’t loss, we didn’t lay anyone loss, The Colay anyone off op also gave off who had to work to who had to work a d d i t i o n a l make ends meet.” to make ends d o n ati o n s to meet,” Reetz Willing Hands, said. “We aren’t a charitable food -ALLAN REETZ, CO-OP a typical chain organization store that has that collects and DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC the latitude to delivers fresh RELATIONS make different food, and the decisions, but Upper Valley we worked hard, Haven, which helps people struggling and we were proud of it at the with poverty, Charland said. meeting.”

The theme for this year’s meeting, One of the reasons for the 2016 “A Seat at the Table,” aimed to loss were 24 member discount days increase member engagement that the Co-op held in which prices and transparency, Hanover Co- for members were cut by 10 percent, op general manager Ed Fox said. which cost the Co-op nearly half a Members were able to learn about million dollars, according to Reetz. the Co-op at 16 tables and multiple Last fiscal year, the Co-op panels hosted by Co-op staff from reported an additional $118,000 different departments. loss due to delayed renovations of There was a greater flow of the Hanover Co-op in July 2015, information and ideas through staff, which drastically reduced sales and board and member conversations resulted in the first forecasted loss FROM CO-OP PAGE 1

in years, Co-op board president board activities and financial information of the Co-op, Reetz Anthony Roisman ’60 said.

According to Roisman, the Co-op said. Last year, the elected board also faced increasing competition from consisted of several candidates who others stores, such as Price Chopper were part of the Facebook group.

Roisman said the purpose of this and Hannaford Supermarket, which reduced expected sales increases. year’s meeting was to make it more member-interactive H oweve r, a n to address some increase in sales “We aren’t a typical of the concerns in November brought up by the and December chain store that has Facebook group and 2016, as well as the latitude to make board members. measures that “ G e n e r a l the Co-op took to different decisions, but manager Fox has reduce expenses we worked hard, and made increasing without cutting we were proud of it at m e m b e r salaries and jobs, engagement his dramatically cut the meeting.” number one priority the expected and hopes that the loss. staff and board will The Co-op -ALLAN REETZ, CO-OP have more contact also posted sales DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC with members,” that were better RELATIONS Ro i s m a n s a i d . than expected “This is to learn this past January and February, even though they are what our members like and don’t not big grocery-shopping months, like, and what they want to see and Roisman said. He added that the sales don’t want to see, because the Co-op of the Hanover store exceed what is ultimately owned by its members.”

According to Fox, the Co-op they were before the renovations in began working to improve its 2015 began.

The Co-op also holds its annual member transparency by publishing board elections in April. Last year, a more detailed financial reports this Facebook group called “Concerned past February and outlining its future About the Co-op” demanded plans.

Vermont Lieutenant Governor increased transparency regarding

David Zuckerman , an organic farmer and small business owner, was the keynote speaker at this year’s meeting and discussed his personal experience with farming and issues related to food, farming, business and democracy. Reetz said that he thought Zuckerman related to the audience well because he is a farmer who understands issues related to agriculture and a rural economy.

This year’s annual Allen and Nan King award went to Carolyn and Milton Frye of Norwich for their work with Willing Hands, which received a $500 donation from the Co-op per request of the Fryes, Charland said.

In past meetings, while the same management and staff were present, they were more formal meetings with speeches and presentations, Roisman said. This year, effort was focused on making the meeting more like a celebration and to create more of a dialogue with members, he added.

Roisman said that there were more opportunities for conversations and questions to be asked by members during financial presentations.

Reetz echoed Roisman, saying that he thought that the event was a productive exchange of ideas that will help the Co-op grow and expand its member transparency and engagement.

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program manager Ellyson Glance.

Participants come in with different skill sets and levels of experience in entrepreneurship. O’Toole said that participants do not need a concrete idea, adding that ideas change and evolve throughout the weekend through feedback and insight. She said the best asset students can have is an open mind.

“An idea is great to have, but an idea in and of itself is not the only important thing,” she said. “Students just need to have an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow over the course of the weekend.”

Glance emphasized the importance of teamwork and collaboration in the program and the field of entrepreneurship.

“You can’t really do it alone, and no one really does it alone,” Glance said. “The team is often the most important aspect for investors — ideas can change, but you want a team that is coachable. The program provides a really collaborative space and environment where people can exchange ideas and learn a lot from each other.”

3 Day Startup is much more handson, in-depth and experiential than many other DEN-sponsored events, O’Toole said. The program also provides one-on-one mentorship and

guidance lessons with business leaders that most other events do not offer.

Nathan Yu ’19, who will be participating in this year’s program, said he is looking forward to applying his skill-set and startup knowledge through a hands-on experience.

In previous years, some teams have developed their ideas further to participate in “The Pitch,” a termly “Shark Tank” style entrepreneurial competition hosted by DEN and the Digital Arts, Leadership and

Innovation Lab. While not all ideas will progress to a formal pitch, participants will still gain general startup business knowledge and a vast network of entrepreneurs and past 3 Day Startup participants, Glance said.

“There are different definitions of success in entrepreneurship,” Glance said. “Success at the end of the weekend is when you’ve learned a lot that you can apply to this idea or other ideas in the future.”

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Students learn how to salsa in Sarner Underground.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Lecture: “A Refugee’s Journey of Courage and Hope,” with Sara Mardini, Oopik Auditorium, Life Sciences Center

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

Film Special: “International Ocean Film Tour,” Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Dance Performance: “The Blues Project,” Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW

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

“I Am Not Your Negro,” a film by Raoul Peck, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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

“Fire at Sea,” a film by Gianfranco Rosi, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

RELEASE DATE– Friday, April 7, 2017

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Michelle Dorrance and Toshi Reagon talk activism and culture

By SOPHIA SIU

The Dartmouth Staff

For Michelle Dorrance and Toshi Reagon, activism and the homage paid to the cultural history of an art form are both intrinsically ingrained in performance. In an artist talk cosponsored by the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth and Hop Outreach, the two visiting artists discussed the responsibilities of being “cultural tradition bearers” and the importance of “activating” not only through the medium of art but in all aspects of life.

Nancy O’Brien, program Manager for GRID, explained that Reagon has worked with GRID in the past, and in 2015 she spoke during the GRID event, “The I in We: What It Means to Be in Congregation.”

“It was a wonderful mix of her singing and her talking about how you can get a community together through the use of music,” O’Brien said.

Both acclaimed artists in their respective disciplines, Dorrance and Reagon are collaborating in an innovative celebration of tap dance and the blues in “The Blues Project,” showing at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8.

“The music here is not just meant as a backdrop for the dance,” programming director for the Hop Margaret Lawrence said. “They are truly equals here. They just bring on

this joyful forceful music and rhythm together, and they literally tear the roof off the house. It’s just amazing.”

Francine A’Ness, assistant dean of undergraduate students and a lecturer in the women, gender and sexuality studies department, moderated the talk and began by asking the two artists to describe how each of them came to their respective art forms.

Dorrance, whose mother was a ballet dancer, was first exposed to tap dance at her mother’s ballet school and fell in love with it immediately. She learned under a teacher who valued bringing his students into the tap dance community and introduced them to as many tap masters as possible.

When Dorrance attended college at New York University, she was able to immerse herself in the prominent tap community there.

“I came up during a really incredible time for tap dance,” Dorrance noted.

At NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Dorrance created her own major in which she studied democracy as an ideology in American thought with a further focus on concepts of race.

According to a Hop press release, Dorrance went on to perform with STOMP, Savion Glover, Manhattan Tap and Jason Samuels Smith, among others. She founded her own dance company, Dorrance Dance, in 2011, which will be dancing in “The Blues Project.” She is a 2015 MacArthur

fellow and dances, teaches and choreographs.

“What is unique about Dorrance is that she has really pushed tap dance to a whole set of new creative realms,” Lawrence said. “She’s an innovator. She’s constantly moving the boundaries of tap in all directions.”

Like Dorrance, Reagon also came from a family that was deeply involved in the arts. Her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, was the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, an internationally acclaimed African American women’s a cappella ensemble rooted in the empowerment and celebration of African American history and culture.

Reagon described herself as coming from people who “thought it was weird to call [singing] an art form.” Song was omnipresent during her childhood, working itself into the mundane in the shape of prayers, children’s games and work songs.

“To be black in America is to always be challenging a system that tries to destroy you,” Reagon said.

As a response to that system, Reagon said African Americans chose music and song to “activate” the situations they were in.

Reagon started her own career in the music industry with an internship with a music producer and since then, has been a singer-songwriter for nearly 30 years. Her style can be described as a combination of rock, blues, R&B, folk, spirituals and funk. Although

Reagon is very much so her own artist, Lawrence credits the singer for having taken the social activist messages of her artistic lineage and introducing it to a new generation.

Sharing a devotion to celebrating the histories of each of their art forms, both artists have been referred to as “cultural tradition bearers” by others in their fields. During the talk, each discussed the meaning the term contained for them, as well as how they manage to simultaneously pay homage to the past while creating new innovative works.

Reagon’s interest in the cultural history of her art sparked when she was exposed to different types of music at music festivals she attended with her mother. According to Reagon, her mom told her: “Ask yourself how long you’ll have to sing to be able to say what you want to say.”

Reagon explained that by vocalizing the truth, one begins to cultivate an understanding of his or her personal history as well as the history and cultural significance of the art form.

“To understand myself, I just wanted to have an understanding of why something existed in the first place,” Reagon said. “For black people, we’re just trying to be human, to survive, so have a place so we can take on what’s happening to us in this country.”

For Dorrance, celebrating the history of tap dance is especially important because historically, tap has

not been respected as a dance form academically or institutionally. She describes tap dance as a manifestation of the blending of a variety of cultures inside an art form, but unfortunately, much of the cultural tradition and history of tap was lost.

Dorrance explained that the cultural history of tap dance is one of communication and of survival.

She described tap as resistance in its purist form, an expression of spirit, hardship and joy.

One term frequently mentioned throughout the duration of the talk was Reagon’s call “to activate,” which relates to the need for America to reconcile with its history as a country founded on slavery, brutality, racism and the murder of indigenous peoples in order to move forward and address the political problems of the present.

Reagon urged the audience to stop wasting time and to start “activating” — to begin to challenge the current state of the government, specifically the existence of a Donald Trump presidency. She noted that it is the responsibility of the older generations to ensure that the youth who understand that the current sociopolitical system will not work for them and are trying to tear this system down will not have to start their journey under the governance of a “murderer.”

“You must activate from your genius,” Reagon said You must spend all your currency now.”

New Hood Downtown exhibit illuminates data visualization

By ARUNAV JAIN The Dartmouth

Spring term often spearheads change at Dartmouth: warmer winds, lush green trees and a walkable Green. While most of these changes have yet to be observed this year, one transformation has been promptly executed: the Hood Downtown at 53 Main Street now showcases the work of a new artist for the Hanover community to enjoy.

Third in a series of international artists, German artist Ingo Günther’s ongoing project “World Processor” is currently featured in the exhibition space and will remain on display until May 28.

The exhibit is an installation composed of illuminated globes, each serving as a visual representation of different quantitative data. While the Hood Downtown only displays 50 globes, Günther’s actual collection currently contains just under 400 globes.

The word “currently” is key here, since even that tally does not do justice to the sheer breadth of Günther’s ambitious project. Having formally begun the project in 1989, Günther

has made around 1,000 globes to date, some of which have even been destroyed.

In “World Processor,” Günther interprets data from a variety of sources, including the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. One globe, for example, puts one of the central indicators in the UN’s Human Development Index to creative use.

Aptly titled “Life Expectancy,” Günther synthesizes national, regional and global life expectancy figures, imaginatively playing around with the numbers on the globe.

“Life Expectancy” is only one example — many of the globes manifest broad, complex data in inventive yet accurate ways. A focal aim of the exhibition therefore appears to be to represent information that is convenient to comprehend visually but difficult to grasp in the form of numbers, charts and graphs.

While this attribute of the installation connects to the Hood’s mission as a teaching museum, Günther’s work and the goals of Hood Downtown have a deeper connection according to Katherine Hart and Juliette Bianco, co-curators of the

exhibition. Hart noted that Günther’s globes allowed for data visualization that was “consumable.”

“He plays around a lot with our sense of what a normal map means — relationships between nations and countries — he undoes that a bit,” Hart said. “He is able to play around with the idea of what a globe represents.”

The somewhat provocative nature of Günther’s manipulation of data, or more specifically the way he projects that onto a globe, has already attracted academic interest.

Dartmouth environmental studies visiting professor Terry Tempest Williams brought her class “Writing Our Way Home: The Writing that Sustains Us” to the exhibition for a workshop, during which a few of her students challenged the ways in which Günther had chosen to represent data.

“I think our intention was that [the globes] intersect so many different types of subjects that we see connected to our curriculum,” Hart said. “We thought a number of people would come in and engage with them and not just be neutral about them.”

Bianco echoed Hart’s thoughts regarding the importance of the artworks’ propensity to make the

audience question their validity, limits of statistics,” Bozarth said. drawing a connection between art and The interrogative quality of “World debate.

Processor,” however, is not limited to “Part of teaching is dialogue and Günther’s maneuvering of objective connecting with ideas that may be data to invoke unique, subjective different — connecting to something responses from viewers. It extends you might have to question the thought about or “Visualizing data is an significance of the might not have globe itself as a thought about important tool as we Western symbol it.” Bianco said. try to communicate of control and “And we thought dominance. information and this work in “There is a sort particular would this exhibit showed of conversation be a great tool me how art often about what the for dialogue on globe symbolizes any myriad of is the best visual and how it is and topics across the communicator...” has been used as a curriculum.” symbol of power T h e and control.” e x h i b i t i o n ’ s -GABRIELLE BOZARTH ’17 Bianco said. amalgam of “How does the statistics and art exhibition then was a highlight either subvert for Gabrielle and/or reinforce Bozarth ’17, who appreciated the this symbol and that power?” communicative aspects of the work.

Günther’s initiative to explore “Visualizing data is an important the objectivity we naturally associate tool as we try to communicate with data and figures through information and this exhibit showed “World Processor” is undoubtedly me how art often is the best visual constructive, and in today’s world, an communicator, and challenges the even more pertinent one.

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FRIDAY LINEUP

SOFTBALL VS CORNELL 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.

Men’s and women’s rowers step off the ergs and onto the water

By EVAN MORGAN and CHRIS SHIM The Dartmouth Senior Staff

At its most basic level, rowing is about suffering. The best crew, more often than not, is the crew that can suffer the most and still produce winning times. After three months of pounding away at the ergometers in the winter, the Big Green crews have finally moved from the gym to the water.

Throughout the winter, a sheet of ice over the Connecticut River kept the teams indoors. Winter training sessions can be grueling, stretching to interval lengths of 3x30 minutes.

“It’s probably the hardest season,” men’s heavyweight captain Spencer Furey ’17 said. “You can pound away at the erg more than you can when you’re on the water.”

But machines cannot capture the intricacies of putting an oar in the water. To simulate the technical aspects of the stroke, Dartmouth’s rowers work on indoor tanks where the port and starboard rowers sit together in mock boats and the coaches can work with each group.

When the men’s and women’s

rowing teams first got on the water during their spring break trip in Clemson, South Carolina, the first item of business was to shake off the winter rust. This meant relearning the skillful aspects of the stroke.

“It’s like riding a bike. It comes back pretty quickly, but there’s definitely an adjustment phase after being on the machines for three months,” Furey said.

The teams spent 10 weeks in Clemson working aggressively, training between two and three hours at a time.

“We were able to get a lot of quality meters in there,” men’s lightweight rowing head coach Sean Healey said.

“One of the keys of a training trip like that is keeping the quality high.”

In the fall, the crew teams compete in head-style racing over a sixkilometer course. To prepare, the teams focus on aerobic fitness.

Spring racing, by contrast, is about anaerobic fitness. In the spring, crews race sprints over a two-km course.

Unlike head races, sprints start from a dead stop, giving an advantage to explosive teams that can start quickly.

After hitting the ergs hard in the winter, the teams head into the spring

The weekday Roundup

Compiled by EVAN MORGAN & CHRIS SHIM

EQUESTRIAN On Sunday, Morton Farm saw its last Intercollegiate Horse Show Association action of the season when the equestrian team hosted the Zone 1, Region 2 Championship show. Five of the Big Green’s 10 competitors earned top-two finishes and moved on to zones.

Four Dartmouth riders, Meg Rauner ’17, Sarah Cohen ’18, Cristiana Salvatori ’17 and Erin McCarthy-Keeler ’19, vied for top honors in novice fences. Rauner ended the day as champion and will ride again at zones this Saturday.

Storey Dyer Kloman ’17 and McCarthy-Keeler represented Dartmouth in novice fences.

Kloman was the reserve champion, booking herself a ticket to zones.

Claire Bick ’18 , the only Dartmouth rider competing in intermediate flat, was reserve champion.

Sophie Lenihan ’20 entered the show as one of two riders from Zone 1, Region 2 to qualify for regionals in open fences, meaning she was guaranteed a spot in zones. With the pressure off, Lenihan took first place in the event.

To cap off the day, Charlotte Johnstone ’17 won her walk trot class.

Notably absent from Sunday’s show was Olivia Champ ’19. In fall competition, Champ rode to the top of Zone 1, Region 2, finishing the year as the high point rider.

Though she qualified for regionals in open flat and open fences, her status as high point rider gave her an automatic berth to nationals, where she will compete in the Cacchione Cup. Any Big Green riders who finish top-two at zones will join Champ at nationals in Lexington, Kentucky from May 4 to 7.

with a high level of fitness. On the heavyweight team, Furey said, this leads to fierce competition at the beginning of the spring season.

“It’s a dogfight for seats,” Furey said.

“We have a lot of fit guys and really technical guys competing. That’s the vision of the program, with internal competition driving us forward.”

Rowing is a sport where numbers can describe a team’s success in its entirety. Consequently, all of Dartmouth’s coaches take a datadriven approach to training and racing.

“We have data all the way from five years back, and data going even further back from other squads,” Healey said.

“We can connect the dots and say, ‘Last year we were averaging 1:45, and this year we’re averaging 1:44.’

We can look back and see the progress physiologically.”

After a data-heavy three months on the machines, coaches have precise measures of where their teams are heading into the spring.

“We had a very solid indoor training season, lot of personal records on the ergometer, so that’s encouraging,” women’s head coach Linda Muri said.

In the fall, the women’s team

finished in 23rd in the championship race of the Head of the Charles, 12th at the Princeton Chase and fifth at the Foot of the Charles.

The heavyweight rowing team is coming off of a strong fall season, which saw them finish 11th in the Head of the Charles in October, a 10-spot improvement from the year before, and second at the Princeton Chase.

The heavyweight team’s performance in the fall was the best among the past five years.

Lightweight returns to the water with their “A” boat having placed 12th in the lightweight division of the Head of the Charles and 13th at the Princeton Chase.

Dartmouth’s women’s rowing team opened its spring season last weekend at the Doc Hosea Invitational in Camden, New Jersey, a meet that Muri emphasized as an important barometer for their season. The varsity eights finished fourth in the grand final, and the varsity fours won the petite final.

For the heavyweights, if this past weekend is any indication, the team has a bright season ahead. The team swept its races against Columbia University

and the College of the Holy Cross and are hungry for more.

This begins a month of constant racing, where Dartmouth will race Ivy League competitors as well as other northeast teams. For the women, the season culminates with the Ivy League Championships; for the men, the conference championship is the Eastern Sprints Regatta. For the women, a strong performance at the Ivy League championships can qualify them for the NCAA National Championships, while the men can qualify for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, where they can compete for a national championship.

“We’re operating on a week by week basis, and we’re preparing for the next race coming down the pipe,” Allen said. “If we keep getting better each week, we’ll be in a good spot.”

The women’s team and the heavyweight team will continue their seasons this weekend against Yale University in Derby, Connecticut, while the lightweight team will make its season debut this weekend against Princeton University and the University of Delaware at Princeton, New Jersey.

Baseball Dartmouth baseball had a busy week, splitting a doubleheader that was postponed due to rain at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, before losing to the College of the Holy Cross on Wednesday.

Against Penn at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, centerfielder Trevor Johnson ’20 turned in a stellar performance to lead the Big Green to a 9-5 victory in the first game.

Johnson went 3-for-5 in the leadoff spot, highlighted by a two-run home run in the top of the fourth inning.

Beau Sulser ’16, making his first start in a month, improved his perfect record to three wins and no losses.

Sulser conceded four runs on seven hits, striking out five without walking a batter over five innings of work.

Chris Burkholder ’17 was able to hold Penn to one run and preserve the lead for the remaining two innings. Leftfielder Matt Feinstein ’19 also went 3-for-4, scoring a run.

Dartmouth’s win ended the Quakers’ seven-game home win streak coming in to Monday’s day game.

In the nightcap, Dartmouth lost a nailbiter in extra innings, falling to Penn 7-6 in the 11th inning. With the same starting lineup as earlier in the day, the Big Green relied on Feinstein and Kyle Holbrook ’18 for their run production, since both went 2-for-5 with three RBIs. The Big Green began the game with two runs in the first, with Feinstein and Holbrook each contributing RBI singles. After Penn responded with five runs, Dartmouth tacked on four runs in the fifth, including a two-run single from Feinstein and a two-run double from Holbrook. Jack Fossand ’18 started for the Big Green, giving up five runs on eight hits over three and a third innings. Marc Bachman ’18 put in two innings of relief work, striking out one and walking one while giving up a run on two hits.

Patrick Peterson ’18 and Burkholder each pitched a scoreless inning and a third, handing the ball off to Jackson Bubala ’17. Bubala turned in two innings of good pitching until Penn’s Sean Phelan lined a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 11th

inning.

On Wednesday, Dartmouth fell to Holy Cross 5-2 at the New England Baseball Complex in Northborough, Massachusetts. Four different Holy Cross pitchers combined to keep Dartmouth scoreless through eight innings, until Holbrook hit a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth to prevent a shutout. The Crusaders burst out the gates against Sam Fichthorn ’18, scoring four runs on six hits in the first inning. Austen Michel ’20 went to the mound in the second inning, pitching three and two-thirds innings while giving up one run on three hits and striking out five. The remaining trio of Bachman, Clay Chatham ’18 and Tyler Fagler ’20 held Holy Cross scoreless for the remainder of the game, but the Big Green offense could not put together enough runs to overcome the deficit.

Johnson’s stellar week earned him Ivy League Rookie of the Week and Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honors. This is the second time Johnson garnered Rookie of the Week honors.