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State marijuana bill Bray gives talk on Antifa progresses to Senate

By WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth

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On Tuesday, Jan. 9, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana.

If passed into law, the bill, sponsored by two Republicans and two Libertarians, would legalize the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana by people 21 years of age or older. Additionally, the bill would authorize the licensing of marijuana wholesale, retail, cultivation and testing facilities and would also tax marijuana sales.

For the bill to pass into law, it also needs to be approved by the New Hampshire Senate. Additionally,

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Gov. Chris Sununu would need to either sign the bill within five days or allow it to pass without his signature.

Benjamin Vihstadt ’16 , Sununu’s press secretary, wrote in an email statement that Sununu is opposed to legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

“My administration has supported commonsense refor ms to decriminalize marijuana use and expand av a i l a b i l i t y o f m e d i c a l marijuana,” Sununu said in a written statement through Vihstadt. “The reality remains that New Hampshire is in the SEE MARIJUANA PAGE 3

By MIKA JEHOON LEE

On Jan. 2, Marc and Patty Milowsky sold Jesse’s Steak, Seafood & Tavern and Molly’s Restaurant to Anthony Barnett, director of operations at Blue Sky Restaurant Group, and his wife, Erin Barnett, according to Marc Milowsky. Blue Sky Restaurant Group is the umbrella entity under which Jesse’s and Molly’s

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History professor Mark Bray gave a presentation on anti-fascism Thursday in Dartmouth Hall.

By EILEEN BRADY The Dartmouth Staff

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both operate.

Marc Milowsky said he and Anthony Barnett began discussing the sale of Jesse’s and Molly’s two years ago.

Marc Milowsky said he had intended to sell the two Hanover restaurants and retire, while Anthony Barnett had expressed interest in purchasing them.

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Anti-fascism scholar and College history professor Mark Bray g ave a p r e s e n t a t i o n yesterday called “Antifa: The History and Politics of Anti-Fascism.” Bray has been a central voice in the debate over the employment of violence by anti-fascist groups, authoring national bestseller “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook” and speaking out in the media. Sponsored

by Dartmouth’s Leslie Center for the Humanities, the lecture took place in

Dartmouth Hall and had an attendance of 70 to 80 people, according to Leslie Center director and Italian professor Graziella Parati.

During his lecture, Bray defined Antifa as existing at the intersection of two considerations: “a pan-radical left politics of social-revolutionary self-defense against the far-right,” working to unify the left in an effort to oppose the common enemy of fascism and “a politics of direct action.” He said that rather than relying on the state or groups such as the police or the

courts to stop the farright, movements against fascism must organize through grassroots.

Bray then described the history of Antifa, the origins of many symbols associated with the movement and different branches of the movement around the world.

Overall, according to Bray’s lecture, there has been a reluctance to talk about the antifascist movement around the world. He added that his book is the first transnational history of SEE ANTIFA PAGE 5

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Rauner Library will add SpeakOut collection in 2019

By CHARLES CHEN The Dartmouth

SpeakOut, an oral history project on past LGBTQIA+ students at the College, will be added to Rauner Library’s Special Collections in early 2019. T he project was announced last November a n d i s a c o l l a b o r at i o n

between the library, the history department and the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association.

T h e n e w p ro j e c t i s dedicated to recording and preserving the experiences of LGBTQIA+ alumni while they were at the College.

Starting this upcoming

spring, student volunteers will be trained to conduct interviews with LGBTQIA+ alumni; the recordings of these interviews will become a part of Rauner’s oral history program.

“We have an opportunity to focus on communities and stories in the history of Dartmouth that might not

have been well-documented in the past,” said Caitlin Birch , the digital collections and oral history archivist at Rauner who oversees the oral history program. “It is an opportunity to focus on voices that haven’t been heard — stories that haven’t been told.”

Over the next three years,

Birch said she plans on training 30 students who she hopes will go on to conduct around 150 interviews by the conclusion of the project.

Currently, the project has funding for the next three years, according to Birch.

SpeakOut is the SEE SPEAKOUT PAGE 2

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College librarian publishes crossword Rauner to add history project SpeakOut

By GIGI GRIGORIAN The Dartmouth

College digital humanities and English librarian Laura Braunstein published her first crossword puzzle for The New York Times last December.

“For everybody who starts out, The New York Times is the gold standard,” Braunstein said. “I think everybody has that ambition [to be published in the New York Times], but if I had never gotten a puzzle there, I would’ve still been just as proud of what I accomplished.”

To construct this crossword puzzle, Braunstein worked with Erik Agard, another crossword constructor and former teenage crossword-solving prodigy. “[Agard] had really liked my work and the first few [crosswords] that I had published,” Braunstein said. “He had an idea he was playing with, and he invited me to work with him on it.”

The pair sent their finished puzzle to The New York Times in July 2017, and it was published on Dec. 10, 2017.

The puzzle’s theme was “Full-Body Cast” and focused on body parts that are hidden in the names of movie stars.

Braunstein’s experiences with crosswords began when she was a child when she would work on them with her grandfather, a Moldovan immigrant to the U.S. who used these puzzles as a means of learning English. It was not until 2016 that she started to construct the puzzles herself, she said.

While beginning her foray into the field of crosswords, she worked with Andrew Kingsley ’16, who constructed crosswords for The Dartmouth and made his debut in The New York Times in April 2016.

When Braunstein noticed Kingsley constructing one of his own puzzles in the library reference room, the pair began to discuss their shared interest and past work with crosswords.

In July 2016, Braunstein sent Kingsley her first crossword. As an already published constructor, Kingsley said he offered Braunstein advice and recommendations for her puzzle.

Before her success with The New York Times, Braunstein had her puzzles published by independent publishers and puzzle blogs like the American Values Club. She recently had a second crossword puzzle accepted to The New York Times, which will be published in the coming months, she said.

Kingsley said he is impressed by Braunstein’s “very, very swift rise” in the world of crossword puzzle construction.

“The fact that someone goes from having no idea [about] what she’s really doing in 2016 to getting a puzzle published a year and a half later, especially a Sunday puzzle, is unheard of,” he said.

While Sunday puzzles are of average difficulty for puzzles in The New York Times, they are large, with dimensions of 21-by-21 squares. The other days’ puzzles are only 15-by-15 squares.

“Usually it takes people a long time to get their sea legs, but [Braunstein is] just a powerful constructor,” Kingsley said.

Although she only began constructing crosswords within the past few years, Braunstein has already developed a systematic process for each puzzle’s creation. According to her, she always begins with finding a theme for the puzzle, which can be a

joke or a play on words.

Braunstein added that she then thinks about the words that fit her theme and which will be the solutions of her puzzle. With this information, Braunstein uses software to fit her words into a symmetrical grid.

The software also gives suggestions for shorter, filler words that can be incorporated into the puzzle, she said.

After the grid is completed, Braunstein turns her attention to writing the clues for her solution words.

One of her puzzles was inspired by headlines in the news about European Union trade policy, she said. The solutions of this puzzle were words in which an “E” could be traded with a “U” — or vice versa — to make another word.

While some crosswords are designed for the sake of a fun challenge, others can have a political or social message, according to Braunstein, raising money for specific causes.

For an example, Nate Cardin ’05 is working on a crossword book that will be published this March.

The proceeds from its sales will go toward charities that focus on issues that affect LGBTQ individuals.

According to Cardin, who invited LGBTQ crossword constructors to make puzzles for the project, most of the puzzles will center around LGBTQ topics.

“The crossword community is, not exclusively, but by and large, just straight white [men],” he said. “Like with anything else, there is a real benefit to diversifying the crossword community.”

Kingsley is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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current students with alumni, giving students a chance to learn brainchild of DGALA president history firsthand and make a Brendan Connell Jr. ’87, the connection with the College’s past. managing director and counsel for “ It s truck me, talk i n g to administration at the Guggenheim students, that many did not Museum in New York City. Connell know important parts of the has been working for the past [ L G B TQ I A + ] c o m m u n i t y ’s several years with the College to history in Hanover,” Connell said. make SpeakOut a reality.

The interviews will also be Connell said he was fir st available for student research. inspired to pursue SpeakOut after Hugh Mac Neill ’20 is the lead several DGALA members who undergraduate interviewer for the graduated in 1950 passed away. program.

“It made me realize what a “ I ’ m re a l l y i n t e re s t e d i n shame it was creating an that we didn’t “It’s really important intergenerational have a record connection of t h e i r that the College between the experiences includes the full queer community on campus,” here now and the diversity of its he said. queer community C o n n e l l community in its from 20, 30 or d e c i d e d t o celebrations.”

40 years ago,” pursue an he said. “I oral project think for ming when he came -CAITLIN BIRCH, DIGITAL meaningful upon the connections with COLLECTIONS AND ORAL Dartmouth alumni who have V i e t n a m HISTORY ARCHIVIST important lessons Project, and messages can another one be really valuable of Rauner’s for students on oral history campus.” projects that SpeakOut is an documented official part of experiences of the College’s the College’s 250th Anniversary community member s during celebration — a small symbol, the Vietnam era. In addition but a symbol nevertheless, of how to providing a record of the the College has come to accept ex p e r i e n c e s o f LG B TQ I A + minorities, Birch said. alumni, telling their stories will “It’s really important that provide closure for many whose the College includes the full experience at Dartmouth may have diversity of its community in been far from idyllic, he said. its celebrations,” Birch said. “It “[The prog ram] gives the communicates that we are a place subjects the opportunity to tell for everyone, that the future of their story in their own words, and Dartmouth is an inclusive future.” you don’t get that with other forms SpeakOut’s first interviews are of record keeping,” Birch said. slated to become publicly available The program will also connect in January 2019.

CORRECTIONS Correction Appended (Jan. 18, 2018): The Jan. 17 article “Presidential candidate John Delaney visits Dartmouth” has been updated to clarify the sources of Delaney’s campaign funding.

Correction Appended (Jan. 18, 2018): The Jan. 17 article “Bump: Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez ’19, a journey” has been updated to more accurately reflect Garcia-Gonzalez’s position in CoFIRED. Correction Appended (Jan. 18, 2018): The Jan. 17 article “DNA For Sale?” has been updated to more accurately reflect Donovan’s title.

COURTESY OF LAURA BRAUNSTEIN

College librarian Laura Braunstein published her first crossword puzzle for The New York Times Dec. 10, 2017.

Correction Appended (Jan. 18, 2018): The Jan. 18 article “Dartmouth communicating with Stanford regarding drugging incident investigation” was updated to correct an error in Allen’s statement.

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Restaurants under new ownership Marijuana legalization bill moves to Senate FROM RESTAURANTS PAGE 1

Jennifer Packard, director of corporate relations and human resources at Blue Sky, said the ownership change has been a smooth transition. “[The sale] was a natural progression for us from a corporate side because it wasn’t someone new coming from the outside,” Packard said. “[Anthony Barnett] has been here for a very long time and he understands our culture, philosophy, what the restaurants stand for and what we are trying to accomplish.”

Marc Milowsky added that since joining Blue Sky in 2008, Anthony Barnett has helped to develop the culture of the two restaurants.

Anthony Barnett started with Blue Sky as the kitchen manager at Molly’s before being promoted to general manager at Jesse’s. He eventually became the director of operations for both restaurants, according to Marc Milowsky. “[My wife and I] decided that if we did sell the restaurants, we wanted to perpetuate what we have done over the past 42 years and we didn’t want to sell it to somebody who really knew nothing about our team members, our philosophy and our commitment to the community,” Marc Milowsky said.

“We wanted someone who had some history with all of that, and [Anthony Barnett] was actively thinking about doing something

on his own so the timing was right the new owners to preserve — the for both of us.” connection to Dartmouth and the Despite the sale, Marc Milowsky Hanover community.” said he will retain ownership of the On the other hand, John Rossi restaurants’ real estate. He added ’20, who usually dines at Molly’s that he and his wife are open to once a term, said he would be give the Barnetts any advice for interested in seeing the new owners managing the restaurants if need add new dishes to the menu. be.

“I would say that the new owners “[Anthony Barnett] knows that should not change the physical he and I are really close,” Marc menu — they are like album Milowsky covers so they are said. “At this really cool,” Rossi “I would say that point, we have said. “Regarding a ve r y g o o d the new owners the food items r e l a t i o n s h i p, should not change that go on the and we are both menu, they could interested in the physical menu — explore a little bit the success of they are like album and try some new the businesses recipes.” covers so they are and making Packard said she sure there is really cool.” does not expect as little change the Barnetts as possible in to implement ter ms of the -JOHN ROSSI ’20 any changes to relationship the corporate with the structure nor community.” t h e d ay - t o - d ay James Hur operations of the ’18, who has dined at Molly’s at two restaurants. She added that least three times every term since the managers, chefs and the staff his freshman fall, said he hopes members are all unaffected. the new owners will maintain “What we do that Jesse’s is the special atmosphere of the what we’ve done for 41 years and restaurant. what we do at Molly’s is what “When I go to Molly’s, I feel we’ve always done, so there is no like I am part of a tradition — I intent to really change anything,” could see the history of Dartmouth Packard said. “Jesse’s and Molly’s at Molly’s through its various are institutions in the Upper Valley scoreboards and posters,” Hur — we have no intention to change said. “That is something I want that in any way.”

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Jesse’s and Molly’s, two Upper Valley restaurants, are now owned by Anthony and Erin Barnett.

“We haven’t really even started thinking about this yet in terms of midst of a drug crisis, and now is not local retailers that might be selling the time for recreational legalization.” marijuana,” Griffin said. “It doesn’t Medical marijuana use, however, make much sense to worry about has been legal in New Hampshire something and figure out how you’re going to respond to it until you know since 2013.

According to Dale Gieringer, a the implementation details.” board member of the California However, Griffin added that National Organization for the the statewide response to legalized Reform of Marijuana Legalization, marijuana could be similar to the an advocacy group for marijuana response to the sale of medical legalization, Sununu’s opposition to marijuana. In that instance, many recreational marijuana is unfounded. communities voiced to the state that “Marijuana is definitively they did not want medical marijuana safer than other illegal drugs, and retailers in their towns, she said. decriminalizing or legalizing it has no “The state responded to the adverse effects on the rest of society,” public’s concern by limiting the number of locations where licenses Gieringer said.

Michelle Rutter, government would be issued,” Griffin said. relations manager at the National According to Griffin, in the Cannabis Industry Association, an case of medical marijuana, towns cannot ban facilities, organization but the state can t h a t “The reality remains re g u l at e w h e re represents that New Hampshire dispensaries and the interests farms are placed. of cannabis- is in the midst of She explained that r e l a t e d a drug crisis, and the state responded businesses, to towns’ concerns c o n c u r r e d now is not the time by only allowing w i t h for recreational four medical Gieringer’s marijuana facilities conclusions. legalization.” to operate in the She said that state. Griffin expects l e g a l i z i n g -CHRIS SUNUNU, NEW a similar response marijuana by communities in m a y h e l p HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR New Hampshire if c o m b a t marijuana were to the opioid be legalized. With epidemic. regards to Hanover From 1999 specifically, Griffin to 2013, is unsure of how the states where medical marijuana was legal recorded town would respond.

25 percent fewer deaths and, in 2014, “Time with tell whether there will 23 percent fewer hospitalizations be a movement in the community from opioid painkillers than states to ban marijuana sales, but I’m not hearing people talk about that right where it was illegal, she said.

Rutter also cited research from now,” Griffin said.

2017, showing that legalizing medical While Griffin is unsure how marijuana across all states in 2014 Hanover would respond to could have saved $1 billion in legalization, she is confident people would not want dispensaries near Medicaid costs.

Gieringer emphasized the idea schools or public parks. Additionally, that legalizing marijuana could also she anticipates there may be a movement to ban smoking marijuana have economic benefits.

“You’re basically trying to in public. Griffin has also heard little eliminate an illicit market and support for legalization. replace it with a legal market, legal According to Rutter, operating jobs and legal taxes,” Gieringer said. a marijuana dispensary can be “In California, we’re anticipating up dangerous. to 100,000 legal jobs in the industry “This is obviously a huge public and up to one billion dollars in tax safety problem,” Rutter said.

She fears that because the revenue.”

According to Rutter, marijuana marijuana industry is a cash business, legalization can promote innovation dispensaries may become targets for and job growth and could benefit the theft.

However, Griffin is not focusing on real estate market.

Hanover town manager Julia the effects of marijuana legalization Griffin said that if the bill was at the moment. passed, there could be a movement “It’s probably just the beginning for a marijuana dispensary in of a fairly long period of back and Hanover, but it is too early to know forth,” Griffin said of the legislative process. for sure.

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STAFF COLUMNIST WILLIAM SANDLUND ‘18

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Nonsense Endings

Raise the Bar

Creating meaning from college’s end.

One recent evening I wandered around a fraternity, stupefied, as a small human tragedy unfolded. Familiar faces flashed before my eyes.

I wasn’t in the condition to make small talk, and neither were they. We were conducting the social whittling away that is endemic to modern existence. This process takes on added significance during the winter of one’s final year at Dartmouth.

British anthropologist Robin Dunbar first posited in the 1990s that human beings possess the mental faculties to achieve about 150 meaningful relationships. He based his argument on the observation that primates with bigger brains have larger social groups.

While this number is by no means definitive, a recent study also by Dunbar analyzing call data supports the idea of an upper limit on the number of meaningful relationships a human can maintain. Whether or not our brains are really equipped for the social environment in which we now live is up for debate. More than half of the world’s population live in cities, yet our species started out as small bands of hunter-gatherers. Does that shift in how we live affect how we perceive our relationships with other people?

The idea that we can only maintain so many meaningful relationships is hardly surprising.

We have all lost friends and built new ones.

Some friends drift into and out of our orbit.

Others drop off completely, never to appear in our social constellation again. Most people were never in our field of gravity in the first place. They had their own lives and losses.

It can be tempting to impose a Newtonian understanding of these social mechanics onto our lives, but there is a randomness we choose to ignore for the simple reason that it is impossible to comprehend. What we should do instead is appreciate it. For example, I spent freshman year saying “hello” to a person I did not know. Whenever we crossed paths, we would just smile and raise a hand in greeting.

We both thought it was pretty funny, until one day he said “hi” to me when I was looking the other way. I turned to see his retreating figure, stooped under spring rain. The next time we crossed paths, his eyes were locked ahead, determined never to be made a fool of again.

What a small death that was — never mourned, never acknowledged. What if on that fateful day I turned back in time?

Could we be friends now? Or would that infinitesimal connection between our two souls have frayed some other way? Did that loss lead us, however indirectly, into some other meaningful relationship? These are questions without answers, meant only to demonstrate how random our individual social structures can be.

What seems to happen toward the end of Dartmouth is a narrowing and deepening of relationships. This retreat and retrenchment offers a refuge from the doubt and uncertainty of a social universe defined by amorphous chance rather than linear meaning. So we redraw the battle lines, sighing relief as we shed superfluous friends and hold onto the ones that remain. It makes everything easier.

We occasionally venture beyond our network of trenches but only to enliven our existence.

A nice lunch with a former close friend. An earnest talk with an acquaintance in the midst of a party’s mayhem. The open uncertainty of freshman fall has been replaced by a cloistered certainty.

I think I know why we do this. As we draw toward the end of some significant period of our lives, we begin to hunger for an ending. We start to crave closure more than we normally do. Part of this impulse involves convincing ourselves that the events of the past happened for a reason. The friendships we made were meant to be. These were our people, and the thought that we could easily have had some meaningful bond with one of those “Greek and greet” friends is scary. Besides, we’re probably never going to see most of these people again — why bother thinking about it? So we tell ourselves, “If we were going to be friends, it would have happened by now.”

No one tells us how easy it is to think like this.

It’s tempting to prune those connections until we are left with a neat map of relationships won rather than lost. Our lives make more sense to ourselves this way. With those snips, we can forget that randomness and possibility go hand in hand. It gives us the sense of an ending, but it’s just that — a sense.

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BarHop — or a campus bar — should be a permanent feature at the College.

BarHop, a College-sponsored program that provided students with weekly social events at the Hopkins Center for the Arts from February 2014 through May 2017, was suspended indefinitely last November. The program, which utilized three rooms of the Hopkins Garage to offer an arts and crafts space, host regular performances from student bands or groups and provide a dance clublike area, also served alcohol to students of legal drinking age free of charge. The hiatus, brought on due to staffing and space issues, according to an email statement from Joshua Kol ’93, director of student performance programs at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, has closed down one of few successful alternative social spaces at the College.

To many students, BarHop represented a welcoming social space outside of Greek organizations. Bringing BarHop — or a similar program — back to campus would be a positive move. Ideally, student leaders and College staff could work together to organize this program, through alumni or student donations or College funds. Administrators who claim commitment to developing alternative social spaces would be well advised to give BarHop a second look.

College administrators — and many students — have long struggled with Dartmouth’s social focus on the Greek system, in which cultural norms and social pressures can be harmful and exclusivist, arguably contributing to excessive alcohol consumption and sexual misconduct.

More tangibly, the campus’ geographic isolation significantly curtails students’ social landscape; with limited options for socializing in town, a large portion of student activities at Dartmouth are frequently confined to Greek spaces.

The administration has responded with initiatives like Moving Dartmouth Forward, which includes a hard alcohol ban and a restructuring of Dartmouth’s housing system to establish community-based living. The new house communities have been moderately successful in attracting students to participate in events, but the effort may still be perceived as a paternalistic and top-down construct imposed upon the student body, potentially harming its credibility to students.

The creation of social spaces that provide students with an inclusive, appealing and safer alternative needs to be a ground-up, student-driven effort.

For such an endeavor to succeed, it ought to be based upon a better understanding of students’ needs and social dynamics.

Students themselves bear some of the responsibility for Dartmouth’s failure to create appealing alternative social spaces. Surely the administration can do more to ensure sufficient funding, advice and support for students looking to bring ideas and projects to fruition, but students also need to be open to the College’s support.

Relative to students at schools with stricter policies, larger enrollments and thinner pockets, students who are passionate and inspired to take initiative at Dartmouth may find that their goals are potentially achievable. Significant time commitments and the stress of a typical course load are not always easy to bypass, but student-led change is and has been possible.

If logistical hurdles represent the primary obstacle to reopening BarHop, Dartmouth could instead sponsor a new campus bar in its own dedicated space that would allow students to experience a similar atmosphere. Campus bars

function at institutions like Brown University, the University of Chicago, Rice University and many other schools. At Dartmouth, student participation and leadership at the planning level could create a sense of ownership in that space while well-orchestrated, student-led supervision could create a safe atmosphere for students to drink responsibly. Bartenders could undergo training with Sexual Assault Peer Advisors and Movement Against Violence models, which would provide comfort for those who have either experienced sexual harassment or fear being subjected to it.

As an incentive to attract students, the College could also consider lifting the hard alcohol ban solely for that campus bar space — or for BarHop — giving students the option to consume mixed drinks while implementing safeguards like limits on the number of drinks per student.

Support for a campus bar is high. According to a survey of around 700 undergraduates conducted from Jan. 16 to Jan. 18 by College Pulse for The Dartmouth, as of press time, 48 percent of respondents from the Class of 2018 attended BarHop at least occasionally. Eighty percent of respondents from the Class of 2018 said they would be likely or extremely likely to attend BarHop if the program were to return, and 91 percent said they would support a campus bar. Ninety-four percent of respondents from the Class of 2019 would also support a bar, as would roughly 83 percent of all students surveyed.

Members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 were less likely to have heard of BarHop, but large majorities of each supported the idea of a campus bar. Currently, 57 percent of students surveyed claim they sometimes or often consume alcohol at off-campus venues.

However, the appeal of a campus bar goes well beyond the alcohol it serves. Many students choose not to drink and those not of legal age would be unable to do so at the venue, but a bar atmosphere and social events like trivia or musical performances could still draw their participation.

A dedicated and primarily student-staffed bar space could be a social draw for many and a boon to Dartmouth’s campus culture.

If the administration intends to make students safer, happier and freer from social norms or pressures, it needs to act not as a coercive, interdictory force but rather as a permissive agent for positive social change. Administrators should opt to encourage good behavior rather than ban what they consider risky or harmful. A campus bar could offer students a more inclusive — and hopefully safer — alternative to existing spaces.

BarHop was a viable option. The program was popular with students and was regularly attended — lines stretched out the door on many nights.

Collis After Dark, Microbrew Mondays and Friday Night Rock also promote healthy social alternatives by and for Dartmouth students. The College should continue to fund and encourage these programs and consider a permanent location and status for BarHop or an equivalent establishment. Students need new choices, and an administration that has been skeptical of existing social spaces would be well advised to promote and fund such student-led and staffed initiatives.

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Bray’s anti-fascism talk discusses movement’s history and politics first actions taken against fascist groups if violent acts are believed postwar anti-fascism written in to be imminent.

English.

Bray has come under fire for “There have been books written his views on anti-fascist violence in English especially about the in the past, making an appearance situation in Britain and a few on “Meet the Press” during which studies about other places, but he appeared to defend Antifa’s in a post-war violent tactics. context there’s This appearance “If you look at the a reluctance to p ro m p t e d t h e talk about a history of anti-fascist College to issue a transnational movements, when statement saying m ove m e n t , ” that Bray’s views B r a y s a i d . they’ve risen and “do not represent “T hat’s one fallen, it’s almost the views of of the main Dartmouth.” always been in contributions After the lecture, I aim to make response to the farBray fielded w i t h t h i s right organizing.” questions from book.” the audience Regarding on topics such t h e u s e o f -MARK BRAY, ANTIas gender in v i o l e n c e by the anti-fascist FASCIST SCHOLAR AND anti-fascist movement, groups, Bray HISTORY PROFESSOR media coverage said in his of the movement l e c t u re t h at and the current anti-fascists administration’s see their relationship endeavors as with fascist activities of and anti-fascist self-defense. movements.

“If you look at the history of In response to a question about anti-fascist movements, when fascism in the government today, they’ve risen and fallen, it’s almost Bray said that while he does always been in response to the far- not think that President Donald right organizing,” Bray said.

Trump is a fascist, he believes He added that within the anti- that Trump’s words and actions fascist movement, however, there have empowered those with white are two primary understandings supremacist tendencies. of self-defense — a more Parati, who taught French straightforward rebuttal and and Italian in Translation 35.02, a “pre-emptive self-defense” “Fascisms,” said that she was understanding, which allows for very pleased with the wide array FROM ANTIFA PAGE 1

of historical evidence that Bray presented during his lecture.

The Leslie Center, which Parati described as “an intellectual home for everyone interested in the humanities,” chose to sponsor this lecture because of the topic’s historical relevance.

“History is part of the humanities because history creates narratives about specific moments in time,” Parati said. “We are all in favor of tearing down the barriers that separate the humanities from social sciences and other disciplines.”

Sydney Paluch, a student in the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies program, said she attended the lecture to learn more about far-left politics “straight from the source.”

She added that she was pleased with the accessible way in which Bray presented the information.

“I think [Antifa] is an issue that we don’t have a very good grasp on in our modern media,” Paluch said. “That’s not saying anything against the media. It’s just a very nuanced subject that I think as people in academia, we should have a good grasp on.”

Bray, a historian on human rights, terrorism and political radicalism in modern Europe, is serving as a lecturer in history at the College this year after being a visiting scholar during the 20162017 academic year. According to Bray, his change in title reflects the fact that he is now teaching courses at the College. He plans to focus his scholarship next on questions of human rights terrorism around the turn of the 20th century.

PUBLICATIONS ON DISPLAY

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College publications displayed their work in Baker-Berry Library on Thursday.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Art Exhibit: “The Zen of Watercolor,” with art teachers Rosalie desGroseilliers and Patti Warren, 7 Lebanon Street, Suite 107

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Sing-Ins in honor of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. with the Dartmouth Rockapellas, Tyné Angela Freeman ’17 and folk singer Ron Israel, Paddock Music Library

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

Documentary: “Faces Places,” directed by Agnès Varda, Loew Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Conference: “The 50%: The Changing Arc of Womxn’s Rights” focusing on the intersectional and reciprocal impacts of gender violence, business policy and racial conflict on womxn’s health in the U.S. and abroad, Oopik Auditorium, Life Sciences Center

5:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Film: “All the Money in the World,” directed by Ridley Scott, Loew Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018

Riyaaz Qawwali to perform tonight

By LAUREN SEGAL The Dartmouth

Acclaimed ensemble Riyaaz Qawwali will grace the stage of Spaulding Auditorium tonight for a performance that will weave together ancient Islamic tradition and modern South Asian culture.

Although the group is now internationally known, Riyaaz Qawwali emerged at a college campus. In 2006, a group of classically-trained South AsianAmerican students at the University of Texas found common ground when they began to explore the confluence of Sufi custom and contemporary thought together.

Today, the group has gained popularity with performances at numerous festivals, including the 2015 GlobalFEST. Qawwali, a devotional music that closely parallels the culture of gospel music in the United States, is an art deeply rooted in the Sufi culture of South Asia.

The lively rhythm, animated melodic patterns and addictive beats have caught the attention of international audiences in recent decades, largely due to Riyaaz Qawwali’s passion for merging the traditional and the modern. The ensemble incorporates dynamic lyrical and melodic improvisation with instruments including the cajone, dholak, harmonium, tabia, tambourine and violin to celebrate South Asian culture through the transcendental medium of music.

Music and Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Theodore Levin said that the spirit of Riyaaz Qawwali will bring the Sufi texts to life and deliver a passion for performing that will translate to the audience.

“The musical style of qawwali is unique both in the whole panorama of world music and certainly in what the Hopkins Center [for the Arts]

presents,” he said. “The uniqueness comes from the energy of the music and from the passion conveyed by the performers and the texts.”

The word “qawwali” comes from “qual,” the Arabic word for “utterance,” which is often interpreted to mean the “utterance of god or of truth.” Riyaaz Qawwali, however, takes this traditional definition and recontextualizes it in the present. Artistic director of the ensemble Sonny Mehta believes that the transcendental nature of qawwali is intrinsic.

“Our lyrics are rooted in love, being intoxicated by love and the search of truth,” he said. “The poetry that we sing can be up to a thousand years old to as recent as today. But the themes are consistent. They are love, longing, the separation of love, being intoxicated by love.”

Riyaaz Qawwali perfor ms with the intention of unearthing commonality between the Sufi tradition of qawwali and issues of race, immigration and religion that hold their own connotations in the politics of today. With distinct roots in the Sufi concepts of love and longing, the ensemble seeks to ground the poems of old by performing them in conjunction with modern poetry that reflects contemporary thought.

“We present art that’s not just traditional and unplugged but is in tune with society and the times of today,” Mehta said. “We try to tie together what was said in these texts a thousand years ago to their relevance for an audience member at Dartmouth in 2018.”

Mehta explains that the ensemble celebrates diversity on three different levels: a musical level, a thematic level and a personal level. Musically, Riyaaz Qawwali incorporates musical components that are not singular to qawwali, such as electronic music. On a thematic level, the symbiosis of tradition

and modern issues calls attention to South Asian culture. The members themselves are of diverse religious backgrounds — Christian, Hindi, Muslim and Sikh — which only amplifies the group’s ability to destroy the walls that diversity can, at times, engender.

“Diversity is very much in the tradition of qawwali because the Sufi order from which it emerged was very open to other religions,” Levin said. “What Riyaaz Qawwali is doing is in a spirit and a tradition that goes back 700 years.”

In addition to the focus on diversity, the experience of qawwali is also deeply personal and often inspires self-reflection.

“The thing about qawwali is that it’s an intensely individual experience of spirituality that is unpredictable,” Levin said. “That’s partly why it’s become so popular ... it has an element of unpredictability, and you don’t know how it’s going to affect you. The point is to keep yourself open to the unpredictability.”

Riyaaz Qawwali has hosted several classes and discussions in order to engage students before the performance and develop a dialogue that extends beyond the stage. Members of the group used these opportunities to discuss the relationship between sound and body, the energy created in performance and how qawwali fits into a modern context.

Tonight’s perfor mance will offer an exploration of traditional concepts in a modern framework and foster an environment for personal reflection.

“We think it’s important that a student attend not only to experience great music but also to understand aspects of qawwali that are less explored, like the lyrics and the philosophy behind the poetry,” Mehta said.

Riyaaz Qawwali will perform in Spaulding at 8 p.m. tonight.

COURTESY OF RIYAAZ QAWWALI

The classically-trained members of Riyaaz Qawwali met as students at the University of Texas.

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SPORTS The weekDAY Roundup

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018

TODAY’S LINEUP

W HOCKEY VS ST. LAWRENCE 6 P.M.

Track & Field

Compiled by Samantha Hussey, Evan morgan and SABA NEJAD

Hockey

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Men’s and women’s track and field dominated last weekend’s competition against Brown University, the Univeristy of Maine and the University of Vermont, finishing first.

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Despite scoring the first goal of the game against Princeton University last weekend, the Big Green fell to the Tigers 6-3.

Last weekend, men’s hockey had two important home games against Quinnipiac University and Princeton University. The Big Green defeated Quinnipiac 4-3 but lost to Princeton 6-3. It was a disappointing end but an improvement from the Big Green’s 9-2 loss to the Tigers on Dec. 1.

Last Friday, Dartmouth and Quinnipiac were tied 2-2 after the first period and 3-3 after the second.

With less than 10 seconds left to play in the third period, Will Graber ’20 scored the go-ahead goal to lift the Big Green to victory.

Dartmouth looked for a thirdstraight win on Saturday against Princeton in front of a packed stadium. Matt Baker ’21 extended the tradition of a first-year scoring the first goal of the Princeton home game, getting the puck past the Tigers’ Ryan Ferland eight minutes into the first period and sending hundreds of tennis balls flying onto the rink. A first-year has scored the first goal of the Princeton home game in the past five years. However, the Tigers responded quickly and by the end of the first period, the score was tied at 2-2. In the second period, Princeton scored twice to take a 4-2 lead. The Tigers scored two more times in the last period,

though Tim Shoup ’18 scored one last goal for Dartmouth with less than two minutes left to end the game as a 6-3 loss for the Big Green.

Women’s ice hockey traveled to New York last weekend to face off against No. 6 Cornell University and No. 4 Colgate University, losing 2-0 and 4-1, respectively.

The first period of the game against the Big Red on Jan. 12 ended in a scoreless tie, before Cornell’s Maddie Mills scored a goal in the second and her teammate Kristin O’Neill added another goal in the third frame to cement the team’s victory over the Big Green. Christine Honor ’19 made a total of 29 saves for Dartmouth.

The next day, the Big Green faced Colgate in its fourth consecutive away game. Colgate scored twice in the first period, once in the second and once in the last period to take a 4-0 lead over Dartmouth. Alyssa Baker ’19 scored the only goal of the game for the Big Green with just over a minute left in the game.

Honor had another busy day in net, tallying 32 saves.

Dartmouth returns to action this weekend at home with a game against No. 10 St. Lawrence University tonight at 6 p.m. before facing No. 2 Clarkson University tomorrow.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams took home first at last weekend’s meet against Brown University, the University of Maine and the University of Vermont. While the women posted 175 points to best second-place finisher Brown (120), the men’s edition came down to the final event.

As the men took the line for the 4x400-meter relay, Maine had 128 points to Dartmouth’s 121.

But when the relay team of Amos Cariati ’18, Alec Eschholz ’19, Max Frye ’21 and Parker Johnson ’19 took home the event win and teams from Vermont and Brown failed to finish, the Big Green edged out an overall meet win, 130 to Maine’s 128.

Earlier in the meet, Donovan Spearman ’21 won the 60-meter dash in 6.82 seconds, the second fastest time in Dartmouth history. The Big Green swept the top five spots in the 60-meter hurdles with Eschholz winning in 8.27 seconds,

followed by Shawn Ohazuruike ’20, Johnson, Frye and Matthew Sindelar ’18. The Big Green did not win the 200-meter run but took the next five spots with MJ Freeman ’21 and Adam Couitt ’18 leading the way in second and third. On the field, Ethan Ruh ’20 won the shot put with a distance of 15.42 meters (50-07.25 feet).

On the women’s side, Dartmouth dominated the pole vault as Julia Valenti ’20 topped 3.85 meters and Big Green vaulters took the next four spots. Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 just edged out Brown’s Zion Lewis in the 60-meter dash, finishing in 7.47 seconds to win by one hundredth of a second. Her 5.91-meter long jump was also good enough to win the event. Dartmouth runners also finished first in the 60-meter hurdles, 400-meter, 1,000-meter and 3,000-meter runs.

Inside the track, Folasade Akinfe ’20 took second in the triple jump and Amelia Ali ’19 was second in the weight throw.

Men’s Basketball

Coming into the game against the University of Vermont on Jan. 10, the men’s basketball team was 3-1 at home and looking to break a two-game losing streak. Unfortunately, the Catamounts outshot the Big Green in the first half 43-30, which eventually propelled Vermont to a 91-78 victory. Guard Taylor Johnson ’18 led the team with 17 points, while Brendan Barry ’20, Will Emery ’20 and Chris Knight ’21 each contributed a respectable double digits.

Although walking away with a loss, it was the Big Green’s eighth-best shooting performance, in terms of field goal percentage, of the past 21 seasons.

A few days later, the men’s basketball team met Boston College away, wrapping up the Big Green’s non-conference play for the regular season. Prior to last Saturday’s game, the Eagles won 21 of the 29 meetings with the Big Green, and this year was no exception as the Eagles were again victorious with a 86-72 win. Ian Sistare ’20 led the team with 14 points, while Aaryn Rai ’21 added 11. Dartmouth has had four players record double figures in a single game five times this season but all resulted in losses. Hoping to avenge its 61-51 loss on Jan. 6, the Big Green will face Harvard University at home this Saturday at 7 p.m.