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Domino’s Pizza plans location in Hanover

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

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The owner of the West Lebanon Domino’s pizza franchise has filed an application for a building permit to open a new Domino’s pizza restaurant in Hanover. The proposed location is 73 South Main Street, behind the Irving Gas station.

The application was filed by Keith Ellis, who owns multiple Domino’s franchises, including the West Lebanon location that currently serves Hanover.

The town approved a zoning permit for the new location on Jan. 18, declaring that the location is suitable for use as a Domino’s franchise, but it has not

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yet issued a building permit so that renovations to the site can begin.

Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said in an email that she was aware of the plans to build a Domino’s in Hanover, but had no further information. Hanover building inspector Ryan Borkowski confirmed in an email that a permit application has been submitted for the Domino’s location.

Travis Hunt, manager at the West Lebanon Domino’s, said in an interview that while he is aware of the plans to open the new location, he does not yet have an official statement because the building permit has not yet been approved. He is not sure when the new store will open.

By SUSIE LEE AND ALEXANDRA LIMB

As campus becomes more and more like the ice planet Hoth, Star War s-themed events will dominate Winter Carnival, which is titled “Snow Wars: May The Frost Be With You.” New and old activities will include an official snow sculpture — back from a three year hiatus — and classics such

as the human dogsled race, ice sculpture contest, polar bear plunge and 99-cent ski day.

Associate director of student involvement David Pack said that preparation for Winter Carnival has been going on since last year, led by three student chairs and a general council of 20 other students.

Winter Carnival officially begins on Thursday evening with an opening celebration at Collis Common Ground

By HARRISON ARONOFF The Dartmouth

In a Jan. 10 blog post, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education downgraded Dartmouth’s speech code rating from “yellow light” to “red light.” In an email statement, Samantha Harris, vice president of policy research at FIRE, attributed the downgrade to the College’s Acceptable

and Prog ramming Board Coffeehouse Concert in One Wheelock.

The big festivities will kick off Friday with the Dartmouth Car nival ski races at the Dartmouth Skiway and the annual polar bear plunge at Occom Pond. Friday evening is also the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games, which students can watch SEE CARNIVAL PAGE 3

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Use Policy, which she said “bans broad categories of speech, a great deal of which would be entitled to First Amendment protection at a public university.”

FIRE is a nonprofit group focused on protecting civil liberties on college campuses.

According to FIRE’s website, a “red light” institution has at least one clearly and SEE RATING PAGE 3

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Students are in the process of building a snow sculpture.

Students complete historic Alaskan climb

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Four students ascending Mount Xanadu in Alaska last July over the course of a month.

Last July, four Dartmouth students made a historic first ascent of Mount Xanadu’s western wall in the Arrigetch Peaks region of Alaska. It took David Bain ’17, Billy Braasch Gr’19, Gabriel Boning ’18 and Zebediah Engberg A&S’11 A&S’14 nearly one month to scale the approximately 1,600-foot wall, but they will remember the

experience for a lifetime, Boning said.

The first person to ascend Xanadu was Jon Krakauer, the author of “Into the Wild,” who made the climb in 1974 through the lower west face of the mountain’s ridge. Until last summer, the peak had remained virtually untouched.

The route that the students climbed consisted of 14 sections, many of SEE XANADU PAGE 5

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Students react to new College logo

logo, which features a pine tree set viewpoint of ‘educating the inside a large “S.” savage,’” she said.

The Dartmouth Caroline Smith ’21 said she was As for the design of the new The College’s new visual identity, also displeased when the D-Pine logo, Kesler thinks that the outcry including a redesigned logo and a was revealed. While she does not from the community has been new communications framework, have a problem with the design slightly overblown. has sparked impassioned responses itself, she said that the new logo “I don’t know why people are from students and alumni since its appears too modern for a school freaking out,” she said. “Maybe it release on Jan. that has been could have been better, but at the 21. around for such same time, it’s not ugly, it looks “We are built on Hundreds long time. fine.” traditional values, and a “ We of Dartmouth are built She added that the change from c o m m u n i t y some of that has to on traditional the original seal was long overdue member s, in change as the times values, and some and reflects the College’s need to comments on of that has to “be a little more critical of the a variety of change, but the classic change as the image we’re putting out there.”

Facebook posts and traditional look times change, According to vice president for and in person the classic communications Justin Anderson, of the logo should not but across campus, and traditional the discourse that developed over have given their change.” l o o k o f t h e the new logo was to be expected. feedback about logo should not “It’s particularly difficult when the changes — ch a n g e, ” s h e you’re dealing with a place like often negative, -CAROLINE SMITH ’21 said.

Dartmouth that has been around though in some Some students, for over 250 years, and people cases positive. h o w e v e r , are understandably emotionally The “D-Pine,” appreciate the attached to different icons and a new logo change. Rachel symbols,” he said. featuring K e s l e r ’ 1 9 Because of this, the College’s a modern said that the re-branding committee focused on interpretation of the iconic Lone traditional crest was problematic in devising a central communications Pine set into a large “D,” has its portrayal strategy that would received a number of negative o f N a t i v e “It’s particularly back up the new re a c ti o n s, w i t h c o mm enter s A m e r i c a n s visual identity. comparing it to a startup logo. and needed difficult when you’re “Any [design] Survey website College Pulse t o b e dealing with a place choice was going conducted a survey on student r e p l a c e d . to have people that like Dartmouth that re a c t i o n s t o t h e n e w l o g o, T h e c r e s t loved it and people comparing the new D-Pine and f e a t u r e s has been around that disliked it,” wordmark to the old College two Native for over 250 years, Anderson said. crest and wordmark. Of the 812 A m e r i c a n s “What you need respondents at press time, 51.7 being guided and people are … is a strategy percent “strongly disliked” the new t o w a rd a n understandably that drives the logo, while 26.8 percent “somewhat education by design choices emotionally attached disliked” it. Only 10.5 percent a holy light that people can “somewhat” or “strongly” liked the as reference to different icons and respect.” new logo. In contrast, 84.3 percent t o t h e symbols.”

Anderson did of respondents “somewhat” or institution’s not specify whether “strongly” liked the old logo, while f o u n d i n g or not the seal’s only 6.7 percent “somewhat” or p u r p o s e , -JUSTIN ANDERSON, racial undertones “strongly” disliked it. which many played a role in A week and a half after its Dartmouth VICE PRESIDENT FOR the re-branding, debut, the D-Pine continues to be s t u d e n t s , COMMUNICATIONS saying that the hotly debated on campus. Sophie i n c l u d i n g logo change was Huang ’21 said that she and her Kesler, found necessary simply friends have discussed the new racist. As a because the logo extensively since it was first r e s u l t , t o College needed a revealed.

Ke s l e r t h e versatile, resizable “I think it looks kind of tacky,” re-branding logo that could said Huang, noting that she does not represents the “idea that maybe function easily across all media. think the D-Pine looks like a proper we’re moving away from those Furthermore, while he said that Ivy League logo and that it seems more archaic ideas and being community members contributed like a step down from the original able to look at this school as a to the new communications crest. She added that it looks like a place that’s welcoming to all but framework, he did not specify knockoff of the Stanford University not necessarily from the racist whether or not they were shown the logo before its debut to solicit feedback. He added that the CORRECTIONS College’s traditional crest will continue to be used, albeit in a We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, diminished capacity. please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

Despite the polarized reaction to the new logo from students and alumni, Anderson noted that his Correction Appended (Feb. 1, 2018): team has already received many compliments on the design.

An earlier version of the Feb. 1 article “Game designer Mary Flanagan “We’re seeing a lot of people speaks at World Economic Forum” erroneously referred to Tiltfactor’s who have taken a liking to it right next game release as “Visitor of Lackwood Grove.” The game is titled away,” he said.

“Visitor in Blackwood Grove.”

By JOHN FULTON

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Voting bill introduced in New Hampshire House

By NICOLAS BERLINSKI The Dartmouth

The New Hampshire House is considering a bill that would eliminate a statute allowing out of state students to automatically be considered residents of the state for voting purposes. A public hearing for the bill, House Bill 1543, was held last week.

The current provision states that students living in New Hampshire can claim domicile for voting purposes while attending an “institution of learning.” HB 1543, which was originally introduced in November 2017, proposes to eliminate the specific provision that students can claim residency in order to register to vote, instead requiring out of state students to register to vote beforehand through the town clerk’s office with proof of domicile, citizenship and age.

A similar bill, Senate Bill 3, changed proof of residency requirements for same-day voters after it passed into law last June. The law required voters without a New Hampshire driver’s liscence to submit a form to the town clerk in advance. If voters failed to provide proof of residence within the 10 days following the form’s submission, they risked a $5,000 penalty and a year in jail. A judge blocked the portion of the law imposing penalties in September 2017 after the New Hampshire Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters sued based on constitutionality.

In its text, the proposed bill states that “Student status is a neutral factor in determining domicile for voting purposes, and the mere presence of a student at the place where an institution of learning is situated is not sufficient to entitle the student to vote there.”

Allegations of voter fraud in New Hampshire by out of state voters motivated the bill, said Republican Rep. Brian Stone, the bill’s sponsor.

He said he hopes the bill can remove any doubt over illegitimate votes and added that the bill is far from being passed and is still being revised.

“There has been a lot of inferential data that some have taken to show the potential that voter fraud may exist near our college communities,” he said. “Whether this is true or not, the belief remains.”

However, the bill’s motive has more to do with preventing college students, who tend to vote for Democrats, from voting, said president of Dartmouth College Democrats Jennifer West ’20 and Dartmouth College Democrats club member Michael Parsons ’20.

Stone said that the bill does not bar students from voting in the state but makes students go through the normal domicile claim process. The

bill is being amended and revised to clarify that an out-of-state New Hampshire student may still lawfully claim domicile in the state if they meet the requirements of the current provisions, he said.

HB 1543 echoes other bills from this year, primarily led by the New Hampshire’s Republican party, to increase voter registration requirements. A recent analysis by the Brennan Center of Justice at the New York University School of Law stated that “New Hampshire is responsible for an outsize share of the restrictive legislation introduced this year.”

New Hampshire’s effort to tighten voter registration began when the White House’s newly created Election Integrity Commission applied pressure to the state last September, alleging that the state’s vote in the 2016 presidential election had been heavily influence by voter fraud. The commission’s report raised suspicions about 6,540 voters that had registered to vote on election day, some of whom were Dartmouth students.

Vice president of the Dartmouth College Republicans Abraham Herrera ’18 is a proponent of the bill, as he believes it prioritizes those who consider New Hampshire the home and claim residence there and not elsewhere.

“When [as a student] you come to [New Hampshire] and you spend four years, you’re able to impact the policy that affects everyday lives for those people who are living here for a much longer period than you will spend,” he said.

It is fair to require those who want to vote to claim residency in the state, Herrera said.

Parsons, however, testified against the bill in last week’s public hearing after feeling heavily disenfranchised by the new proposed requirement for voting in New Hampshire.

“Whenever I fill up my car with gas, I pay state taxes, my money is going directly into the New Hampshire state budget,” he said. “I live here the majority of the year, I put almost all my money into the local economy, I’m involved with the local community, we all are. Therefore, I think I should have the right to vote.”

West added that students have a stake in local policy simply by living in the state.

“I think it is hard for someone to tell me that I shouldn’t be able to vote on issues like Article 9, which was a housing ordinance [from last spring] that would literally determine student housing,” West said. “So to say that we can’t vote on issues that directly affect us seems really silly to me.”

Parson said he believes that this is a non-partisan issue and that politicians should encourage greater participation in the state’s politics.

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substantially restrictive policy to freedom of speech, a “yellow light” institution has policies that restrict or could be used to restrict freedom of speech and a “green light” institution does not seriously imperil freedom of speech.

The College was a green light institution until it approved a bias reporting policy in 2015 that broadly defined a bias-related incident as a “behavior which constitutes an expression of hostility against the person or property of another.”

After FIRE reclassified the College as a red light institution last month, Dartmouth joined Harvard University and Princeton University as the only members of the Ivy League with a red light rating.

The Acceptable Use Policy, posted on both Information Technology Services’s website and the College’s undergraduate admissions blog, states that users of the College’s IT resources cannot “post or transmit content that is harmful, offensive, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, defamatory, hateful or otherwise discriminatory, false and misleading, incites an illegal act, or is otherwise in breach of your obligations to any person or contrary to any applicable laws and regulations.”

Harris wrote that she came across Dartmouth’s Acceptable Use Policy during her annual search for college codes that violate a student

or faculty member’s right to freedom of speech or due process.

“We usually base our analysis of the actual codes of the schools, so a lot of times we look at the policies themselves,” FIRE communications coordinator Bill Rickards said. “If there are big cases we find out about it ourselves, and sometimes students call in [with tips].”

In response to FIRE’s criticism of the College’s Acceptable Use Policy, Mitchel Davis, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, said that “[the policy] definitely has to be looked at … and possibly changed.”

Davis, who said he was not familiar with the Acceptable Use Policy until The Dartmouth brought FIRE’s post to his attention, said that it was written by former administrators and attorneys before his appointment to the College in spring 2017. Davis added that he does not know the year of the Acceptable Use Policy’s implementation.

Davis said he is meeting with College executive vice president Rick Mills and other members of the administration today to review the Acceptable Use Policy. He added that he cannot provide any more information about the Acceptable Use Policy until a later date.

Associate chief information officer Alan Cattier and ITS assistant director Ellen Young declined to comment on the Acceptable Use Policy.

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together at the Hopkins Center for the arts while enjoying hot cocoa and cookies.

On Saturday, students will be out on the Green building ice sculptures, which will be judged in the afternoon. Pack said he is looking forward to the variety of sculptures that will be created and that he believes the Star Wars theme will provide a lot of opportunities for students to be creative in the ice carving.

The traditional human dogsled race on the Green has been modified to allow participants to run as many qualifiers as they would like, Pack said. Once everyone has competed in the preliminary rounds, the top eight teams will go head to head in a final race, he added.

A new addition to Winter Carnival is the costume parade and

contest that will take place after the dog sled races. Participants will include students, faculty and community members, wearing “Snow Wars”-themed costumes.

The contest will be judged in different categories, such as best group costume or most creative costume, with an opportunity to win prizes.

Winter Carnival will also feature a large snow sculpture on the Green. The last official Winter Carnival-sponsored sculpture was made in 2015, Pack said.

T h i s ye a r ’s s c u l p t u r e i s organized by Zoe Dinneen ’18 and will feature a Darth Vader helmet. After speaking with alumni who encouraged her to continue the snow sculpture tradition, Dinneen was excited to “rethink the tradition and bring art back into it,” she said. The sculpture is funded by the Class of 1969 according to Dinneen.

A main team of Dinneen and four other students are spearheading the construction of the snow sculpture, but all students are welcome to help in its construction, Dinneen said, adding that there have already been around 40 student volunteers.

According to Dinneen, the group is working every day until next Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This weekend, there will be a “building bash” party where students can come help build the snow sculpture, she said.

Students can also buy Winter Carnival t-shirts and posters in Collis throughout next week.

This year’s poster design winner is Regina Yan ’19, and the t-shirt design winners are Yan and Raphael Hviding ’18. The poster features a “Dartmouth Vader” and other “quirky little things that would make it Dartmouth themed,” Yan said.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW MAGANN ’21

A Vote for the Future

Against Freedom

Students and faculty deserve a say on any enrollment increase.

The Dartmouth that students enter in half a decade may look very different from the College we know today. Last fall, the College’s leadership announced the creation of a task force to consider increasing the number of undergraduates on the campus by as much as 25 percent, or roughly 1,000 students.

The task force’s final proposal is due in mid-March. If implemented, such a change would represent a shift at the College that would likely necessitate large-scale faculty hiring, massive building initiatives and a fundamental change in campus culture. Both proponents and opponents of the proposal deserve a chance to weigh in before any final decisions are made.

The College and its task force should not cherry-pick Dartmouth community members who they want to have a say in the proposal, nor should they collect feedback that is not publicly shared. Instead, to solicit comprehensive input on the proposal from all affected parties, the College should hold referendums for students, faculty and possibly even staff that would take place in the weeks following the release of the task force’s final proposal. The implications of this issue stretch too far into the College’s future to all for anything less than a full, transparent gathering and consideration of opinions from all of those who may be affected. If the College does not itself facilitate these referendums, then the arts and sciences faculty should bring its own vote during its termly meeting. Students should also host their own vote, and the results of both should be made available to the Board of Trustees and relevant College administrators.

The College has solicited the views of some of its students and faculty, but a larger survey is needed. Giving students, faculty and alumni more opportunities to weigh in would be both a strong show of faith on the part of the College’s administration and a necessary step before such a significant change. While the College has made some efforts to solicit opinions — most notably requesting community input on Dec. 4, 2017 (results have yet to be publicly released) — more is needed. A quality proposal from

the task force would likely generate more public support, with those already interested in potential opportunities from expansion expressing that view even more loudly at the ballot box. Conversely, those who value Dartmouth’s small size should have the chance to make their case, again through their ballots. Without at least a modicum of popular approval from within the community, the proposed expansion will surely be resisted.

We do not necessarily recommend that any student vote be binding. Students understand certain elements of Dartmouth life more than administrators or faculty; as such, all student voices deserve the opportunity to be heard before this proposal moves forward. However, students are on campus for only a few years; administrators and faculty bring different views to the table and may have a better longer-term perspective. Yet the perspective of current students is still invaluable. If the College does not take student voices into account before it substantially increases its undergraduate population, it will do a disservice not only to its current students but also to the goal of creating a better Dartmouth in the long term. A student vote, if instituted either by the College or by an outside body, would likely see high turnout and encourage passionate debate between students on all sides of the issue. The result of such a vote would be of immense value to the trustees and administrators as they consider the task force’s proposal.

A faculty vote, in contrast, could be made binding, due to the faculty’s longer stay at the College and the necessity of their support if the College is to function properly. Some faculty members have studied the expansion closely. Some professors could believe that an enrollment increase would bring valuable new resources to the College, while others might fear that it would de-emphasize undergraduate teaching and engage Dartmouth in an academic arms race against its Ivy League peers. All these perspectives should be heard in debates open to all community members, and faculty should FROM VERBUM ULTIMUM PAGE 6

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Illiberalism on the left empowers the alt-right.

Who hasn’t heard of the campus left, those illiberals who shut down speakers, protest Halloween costumes for allegedly being oppressive and cast offensive speech as “discursive violence”? Countless writers have covered the movement, some in a critical light. After all, the current trends in campus activism can border on the surreal. But is it really so bad? For all their authoritarian rhetoric, campus movements have a noble goal in targeting discrimination.

Besides, right-wing illiberalism just elected a president. Isn’t the alt-right a greater threat to liberal values than some fringe campus movements?

Let’s first define our terms. When I refer to liberalism, I don’t mean left-of-center politics. I mean liberalism as the value set of a liberal democracy. Liberalism champions freedoms of expression, worship and association. Political liberalism rests on the premise that a state cannot decide which beliefs are correct and instead should create a framework in which all can believe as they wish. America was founded with liberal values in mind, and most of the political mainstream supports liberal principles.

We find illiberals outside the mainstream.

America’s most prominent opponents of liberalism are actually President Donald Trump and his followers. The alt-right has little sympathy for liberalism, as shown by Trump’s threats to tighten libel laws in order to target the news media or his campaign trail promise to consider shutting certain mosques down. Trump’s movement pays lip service to liberalism, but it shows few qualms about restricting the rights of those it dislikes.

For all of Trump’s concerning antics, though, the far left hasn’t gone away. It came to national prominence in 2015, after student protests at Yale University over offensive Halloween costumes blossomed into a wider campus movement. This movement had some positive aspects: It uncovered long-simmering racial issues and forced America’s colleges to acknowledge the injustice within their campuses. But the movement went too far. At Yale, protesters demanded the firing of a professor who defended the right of students to wear “offensive” costumes. This was not a professor who held racist views, nor even one who wore an offensive costume. This was a professor who dared suggest that, yes, the right to free expression applies even to offensive expression. Her belief in that simple liberal value made her a target, and by the end of the school year, she and her husband had both resigned from their positions as faculty-in-residence. This was no victory for racial justice. Rather, this was silencing.

The parallels with the alt-right are clear. Trump supports freedom — except, of course, when Muslim Americans or the media use that freedom to criticize him.

The college protestors wanted everyone’s voice to be heard — except, of course, the voices they disagreed with. Opposing views, in the students’ minds, were not sides in an

argument, but enemies to be eliminated.

While smaller than the alt-right, the campus left still poses a threat. For one, because the campus left’s ideology propagates at universities, it has a disproportionate impact on the future leaders of society during their formative years. It also threatens the social progress it supposedly champions. The liberal project entails fighting identity-based discrimination, but by infusing social justice with illiberalism, the far left toxifies the subject. Consider the Black Lives Matter movement. We’ve all heard about the shootings of unarmed black men by police.

No one can watch that video of an officer repeatedly shooting Walter Scott in the back and not see injustice. Yet Black Lives Matter is controversial, largely because the movement has accepted the presence of more radical thought. This past September, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters at the College of William & Mary shouted down a speaker from the American Civil Liberties Union because they opposed the ACLU’s defense of free expression, arguing that universal free speech advantages white supremacists. This sort of illiberalism alienates those who would otherwise side with racial justice. By rejecting liberalism, the campus left damages the cause of equal rights and isolates many potential supporters.

Yet the worst impact of the campus left isn’t the harm it has done to the fight against injustice. It isn’t the professors forced to resign, nor the silenced discussions. Rather, it is the fuel that it provides to the alt-right.

As of press time, a cursory search through Trump’s tweets, including retweets, reveals 18 mentions of the term “politically correct,” five of “PC” and three of “political correctness” — and that’s just since the start of his presidential campaign. Socalled “social justice warriors” make the perfect bogeymen for the alt-right. While Trump’s movement often dismisses free expression for its opponents, it casts itself as a defender of free speech on campus.

The alt-right doesn’t do that out of any devotion to liberalism, instead co-opting the issue to gain legitimacy by demonizing its foes. This job is made easy by campus left’s violation of civil liberties, which provides propaganda to the alt-right. In the end, it seems that some progressive enemies of the alt-right stand for similar regressive policies.

Of course, we ought to criticize both extremes. The alt-right influences our current president, and its associations with white nationalism make it particularly dangerous. Yet in our critique of the altright, we cannot ignore the campus left.

Though the movement is less influential than the alt-right, illiberals on campus have become a national political issue, provoking concern among both liberals and conservatives. By rejecting liberalism, activists do more than just threaten civil liberties and undermine social justice; they also feed into the propaganda machine of the alt-right.

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Students carve out route ascending Mount Xanadu in Alaska Braasch and Engberg said. What took the most time was identifying which were highly technical. The calorie-dense foods that wouldn’t team named the route “Golden weigh the group down during the Petals” and received a personal climb, Engberg explained. After congratulations from Krakauer on calculating the calories per gram Instagram. in various food items in a Microsoft The inspiration behind climbing Excel spreadsheet, they eventually Xanadu, Braasch said, was to decided to include pasta, grains, honor late student Christopher cheese, nuts and chocolates in their Vale ’18, a close friend of theirs food packs. Factoring in the weight who unexpectedly passed away in of their climbing gear, each of the September 2016 while climbing in four men carried about 85 pounds Yosemite National Park. on their backs.

“I felt like [Vale] was somebody Then, to get to Xanadu, the who dreamed big and made these group took a series of flights before types of things happen … climbing arriving in Gates of the Arctic Xanadu felt like a meaningful way to National Park and Preserve, landing honor his legacy,” Braasch said. on a lake 20 miles away from the Engberg echoed this sentiment. base of the mountain, where they “This trip intended to camp, grew around “[Braasch] took a said Braasch. [ Va l e ’s ] “ I t w a s s o r t memory and it big pendulum swing o f a Ru s s i a n became a trip across the face of the doll airplane in celebration experience,” wall. He didn’t hit of Chris,” he Braasch said, anything, but it could said. referring to the T h e t r i p have been bad if the progressively was funded smaller planes partially by circumstances were the four climbers the Dartmouth different.” boarded at each Outing Club’s leg of their trip.

C h r i s Va l e T h e h i k e t o E x p e d i t i o n -ZEBEDIAH ENGBERG the base of Fund and by A&S’11 the mountain the Coppconsisted of Dash Inspire around 16 miles Award from and 5,000 feet of the American Alpine Club. elevation gain.

The first step of the journey Braasch recalled that when the started in Hanover, where the group group arrived at the mountain’s base, meticulously planned their itinerary they communicated with his wife via and the foods they would take, satellite messenger and learned that FROM XANADU PAGE 1

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The students each carried about 85 pounds of gear on their 16 mile hike to the base of the mountain.

weather forecasts called for three days of rainfall. As a result, the group was forced to delay their ascent for an entire week, he said.

“Weather is actually a major reason why no one has ever climbed this wall before,” Braasch added.

After climbing at a fast pace for six days, the group had to pause once again because of rain, according to Engberg. However, the most difficult part of their trip came when Braasch

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The four students planned the trip to honor late student Christopher Vale ’18, who passed away in September 2016.

made an error while attempting a of Xanadu’s rock wall. Its steepness technical climbing maneuver and and number of footholds rendered it took an unexpected fall, or “whipper,” “right in our wheelhouse,” Braasch he said. said. “[Braasch] took a big pendulum Boning agreed that Xanadu’s swing across the face of the wall,” western wall was of especially high Engberg said. quality.

“He didn’t hit “I felt like [Christopher “Since it’s rock anything, but Vale ’18] was that no one’s ever it could have touched before, been bad if the somebody who we didn’t know circumstances dreamed big and made whether it was were different.” going to be solid The group these types of things or break off … it e n c o u n t e re d happen ... climbing turned out to be an unexpected Xanadu felt like a pretty solid rock challenge when and had a really they realized meaningful way to good movement that they didn’t honor his legacy.” to it,” he said. bring enough Braasch said that dinners to last some sections of them the whole -BILLY BRAASCH GR’19 the wall, including trip, according its first 60 feet, to Braasch. As were especially a result, they difficult to climb avoided eating lunch and ate half- with the weight of their gear on dinners for a few days, he said. their backs. However, he enjoyed the Engberg also identified their food opportunity to challenge himself. shortage as one of the hardest parts “In a way, that’s what we [went] of the climb. there for,” he said.

“By the end of the trip we were Though the four men have already all fairly hungry,” he said. made history in Alaska, they intend However, Braasch noted that not to continue pushing their limits all of the surprises that sprung up as climbers in the future. Boning during the trip were negative. During said that he will take advantage of their climb, they ran into professional climbing opportunities in Seattle, Catalan alpinist Sílvia Vidal, who was where he will live after graduating attempting an ascent of Xanadu’s from the College this spring. Engberg western wall entirely on her own. hopes to climb unexplored areas of “We were doing something that Yukon, Canada. Braasch, however, was otherworldly to us, and to see wants nothing more than to relive her doing the same thing alone was his experiences in Xanadu and its so cool and inspiring, Braasch said. surrounding areas.

The four climbers were also “I feel like I have a special pleasantly surprised by the quality connection to the Arrigetch,” he said.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Lecture: “Exploring and Understanding Limits of Physical Systems,” with Massachusetts Institute of Technology postdoctoral associate Bo Zhu, Kemeny Hall 007

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Lecture: “What’s Up With White People? A Field Guide for the Perplexed,” with Temple University professor Matt Wray, Carson Hall L01

7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Film: “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” directed by Dan Gilroy ’81, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW

4:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Film: “Ex Libris: The New York Public Library,” directed by Frederick Wiseman, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Film: “Molly’s Game,” directed by Aaron Sorkin, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

SUNDAY

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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Editorial: For a vote on enrollment FROM VERBUM ULTIMUM PAGE 4

join students in openly weighing in on this issue. Some faculty members have already expressed views on the issue publicly, and a October 2017 The Dartmouth survey considered student views on expansion.

If the College chooses not to hold referendums, students and faculty could take matters into their own hands. Student referendums on major administrative issues are uncommon, but not unheard of. Last year, students at the University of Mississippi voted on the school’s branding strategy, and University of Massachusetts students voted on funding sources for a proposed $50 million expansion.

At Dartmouth, student groups like Student Assembly or Palaeopitus Senior Society could organize a vote. Although turnout for Assembly elections is typically below 50 percent, passions on both sides of the expansion question could fuel a stronger showing, particularly if the vote followed on the heels of an exhaustive public debate on the merits of the proposal. The results could be brought before the Board of Trustees, College President Phil Hanlon and dean of the faculty Elizabeth Smith, among others.

For faculty, holding a vote on the matter would be even easier. A vote

could be taken at the termly meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences and the Thayer School of Engineering, the two schools that serve largely undergraduate students. The faculty’s ability to hold non-binding votes of no confidence in administrators is an important example of the its power to hold the administration in check that has been used in the past, notably in the case of the Committee of Chairs’s vote of no confidence in former dean of the faculty Michael Gazzaniga ’61 in 2004. Faculty at Dartmouth’s peer institutions have held similar votes.

Dartmouth is not alone in considering student body expansions.

Princeton University and Yale University have both begun the process of expanding their own undergraduate populations. The College should be careful not to repeat the mistakes of Yale, where administrators have been heavily criticized for failing to consider student and faculty views. One Yale Daily News columnist wrote that “Yale President Richard Levin and the university administration have never really cared what students thought,” while Yale professors have been extensively quoted in the paper questioning the 800-student growth spurt. Princeton’s substantially smaller expansion — of just 500 students —

has been less controversial, but has still attracted criticism.

Students and faculty are closely in tune with many of the needs of the College — often in ways administrators are not. Students understand that many campus resources are already stretched to their breaking point. Faculty understand their own research needs and appreciate how those could be changed by a student body expansion.

Both faculty and students understand the College’s strength in the liberal arts and undergraduate teaching.

This is not to say that administrators do not also have valuable viewpoints, but rather that they must reach beyond their own offices and solicit widespread community input before they finalize any plan for student body expansion. The College needs as many perspectives as it can get on this issue of critical import, and it should aggressively solicit those views. All students and faculty, not just a chosen few, should have the chance to weigh in. A good proposal will be rewarded at the ballot box. A poor one will not be.

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

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Semifinalists to take stage tonight for Dartmouth Idol

By HABIB SABET The Dartmouth

Some of Dartmouth’s most talented singers will participate in Dartmouth Idol’s semifinals tonight at Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The competition provides singers from the student body the opportunity to showcase their vocal skills and compete for cash prizes and the chance to record and produce a demo. Although tonight’s event has judges who will provide commentary on the performances, the finalists will be determined by the spectators, who will be able to electronically vote for their preferred singer.

Walter Cunningham, director and founder of Dartmouth Idol, said that there was strong talent among this year’s competitors.

“This year was our largest audition group,” Cunningham said. “Every year the competition is stiff, and this year it’s no different.

There have been years where I could kind of predict who I thought was going to make it [to the finals], and for the last few years that has not been the case.”

Participating students come from a wide array of musical backgrounds. Semifinalist Olateju Oyeleye ’20, a member of the Dartmouth Aires, said that while many semifinalists participate in a cappella groups on campus, there are also students who pursue other musical interests in groups such as the Dartmouth College Glee Club and the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir.

This will be Oyeleye’s first time participating in Dartmouth Idol.

He said he decided to audition after past participants urged him to enter the competition.

“I really just like to sing,” he said. “I try to take any opportunity to sing, and I just thought it would be fun.”

While Oyeleye has primarily performed in a group setting, he said he hopes that his experience with the Aires will give him some confidence in front of the full crowd at Spaulding.

“The freshmen a cappella showcase at the beginning of the year is actually in Spaulding, which [seats] almost 1,000 [people],” he said. “It should be less nerveracking because I’ve sung in the

environment before.”

Victoria Campbell ’18, a member of another a cappella group, the Subtleties, decided to join the competition for the first time this year to try a solo performance.

“I’ve been in an a cappella group for four years and have done the whole group performance thing, which has been an amazing experience that I wouldn’t change for the world,” Campbell said.

“But I wanted to branch out of that and do something a little out of my comfort zone.”

Like Oyeleye, Campbell said she hopes that her experience singing in front of crowds with her a cappella group will help her prepare for her performance in the semifinals.

“I’ve never been by myself in front of a large crowd,” she said.

“But [the Subtleties] have sung at things like Winter Whingding and the Orientation showcase, which were pretty big.”

The contestants have already demonstrated their abilities in an offstage audition round and were picked from a large pool of hopeful singers. For the audition,

each contestant chose a song to perform in front of a panel of judges and were asked to perform vocal exercises. Cunningham said the decision-making process is rigorous during the audition phase of the competition, with a variety of perspectives available to evaluate the contestants.

“We actually bring in a couple of singers [who] are usually graduates who have been a part of the Idol in the past,” Cunningham said. “Sometimes I’ll bring in a professional singer. It varies from year to year, but we always have other input to decide who goes on to the semifinals.”

This year’s judges are Courtney Davis ’09, Tara Joshi ’18, Bryan Robinson ’16 and Deby Xiadani ’15.

Campbell said her experience with the audition process was enjoyable despite her nerves going in. “[The audition] was good, and the judges were super kind in the room,” she said. “I auditioned with ‘Bluebird’ by Sarah Bareilles, and then he asked me to sing a line [from] ‘I Will Always Love you’

by Whitney Houston. [The line]

caught me off guard, but I suppose it went well.”

Both the semifinals and the finals will be hosted by Aaron Cheese ’18 and Harrison Perkins ’18.

“When the finals come around, it’s much more of a show, and we’ll be more involved,” Perkins said. “We have a theme, which the director chooses, and we’ll be making entrances and introductions and everything will conform to the theme. It’s much more of a show.”

Perkins hosted the show his freshman year and decided to return as a host for his final year at Dartmouth.

“I really enjoyed hosting my freshman year,” he said. “It was just such a unique experience that I hadn’t had before, and I haven’t really had the chance to do something like that again. Hosting the show was sort of out of my wheelhouse that I don’t get to do enough, and I started my career here with [Dartmouth Idol] so I’d like to bookend my time here with it.”

The semifinals of Dartmouth Idol will begin tonight at 8 p.m. in Spaulding.

‘Jabber’ will explore converging cultures and adolescence

By MELANIE PRAKASH The Dartmouth

Students and local community members are invited to participate in a conversation about culture and adolescence at the Geordie Productions’ presentation of “Jabber” at Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Sunday.

The play offers the audience an opportunity to explore the perspective of Fatima, an Egyptian Muslim teenager who moves to a new high school. In addition to the universal adolescent struggles of fitting in and claiming a social identity, Fatima also has to fight a label cast onto her: “Jabber,” a term others use to refer to her due to her decision to wear a hijab, a headscarf worn by Muslim women for religious purposes. Fatima must also learn how to overcome bullying, after finding a graffiti message that says “All Muslims must die.”

As an outcast, Fatima is only kept company by Jorah, a fellow student who also faces prejudice as the son of a convict. The two begin to fall in love amidst a battlefield of cultural and social stigma.

Mary Gaetz, the outreach and arts education coordinator for the Hop, coordinates the Hop School Matinee series, a program that works with schools in the Upper Valley to bring students to performances.

“Jabber” will be presented on [something] students are aware of, Monday to local students as part [but] it’s just not something they of the Hop’s school matinee series. get to interact with everyday,”Gaetz “Our school series is a way for said. outside schools to come in and Mariana Tayler, the actress who experience the Hopkins Center and portrays Fatima, said the plot was expand their world view, expand “a modern ‘Romeo and Juliet.’” She their knowledge and also to have a said that its common themes, despite really good time,” the portrayal she said. of uncommon “It’s really hard Gaetz said situations, is what the play’s unique to find an identity makes the play so take on culture when you’re kind of far reaching. and religion is “She is told, balancing different invaluable for the ‘Don’t go see this development of sets of values and bad boy because the perspectives trying to figure out he has some of Upper Valley issues,’” Tayler which ones that are s a i d . “ S h e ’s students. “ [ S t u d e n t s ] the ones that are still somewhat are getting their tempted, and important to you.” information from these two outcasts, outside sources,” for some type of G a e t z s a i d . -MARIANA TAYLER, reason, fall in love.

“They’re getting And they have information from ACTRESS to work through relatives that live their differences, in a big city, or they’re getting their values and being a teenager information from their parents but at that age and figuring out what they’re not having their kind of falling in love means and how far first-hand experience with these you are willing to go according to things, you know specifically with your values.” people who are Muslim in faith.”

Tayler said that while Fatima She said that a seemingly herself is Muslim, the idea of mundane cultural symbols, such struggling between cultures is as the hijab, might be noticeably common among many Americans absent in the Upper Valley. today, including herself. Tayler, “[Islam] is something that, in our who is the daughter of Colombian current political and world situation, immigrants, said that the complexity

of her own adjustment is in a who adhere to these types of different social context than the one backgrounds were also shaped by a her parents participated in. previous environment ... So how do “I was struggling between these they reconcile two ways of life into two worlds,” she one sort of unified said. “It’s really “The environment identity?” hard to find an Ta y l e r s a i d identity when you’re we’re in shapes that reactions to kind of balancing us, yet people different cultures different sets of can be rooted in values and trying who adhere to fear of differences to figure out which these types of and what they do ones are the ones not understand. backgrounds that are important She said she hopes were also shaped to you.” that audiences At Dartmouth, by a previous leave the play where students challenging come from diverse environment ... ” themselves to see backgrounds, this what prejudices search for identity -VANESSA SMILEY ’21 they may hold can be prevalent. subconsciously, Va n e s s a S m i l ey and how they affect ’21, a student who the treatment of grew up in China other people. despite not having an ethnically “If you ask questions and Chinese background, said she has you lear n more about [your experienced this phenomenon since assumptions], you discover that arriving in the U.S. and finding that often they’re not true,” she said. people expected her to understand Tayler will be joined onstage by American cultural references based Aris Tyros, who plays Jorah, and on her appearance.

David Sklar, who plays Mr. E, a “I think the challenge is not guidance counselor at Fatima and so much how others will treat Jorah’s school. “Jabber” will began [inter national students], but at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets range how they are to synthesize two from $13 to $23. There will be a contradictory ways of life and two post-performance discussion with contradictory frames of reference,” the cast and crew.

Smiley said. “The environment we’re in shapes us, yet people Smiley is a member of The Dartmouth.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

TODAY’S LINEUP

SPORTS

MEN’S HOCKEY VS HARVARD 7:30 p.m.

Connor LaMastra ’21 astounds early in Big Green career

to make sacrifices and put in a lot of time and have a lot of respect for college athletes.”

Already more than halfway done LaMastra initially planned to with the 2017-2018 competitive attend Georgetown, because of swim season, Connor LaMastra his relationship with Holder. But ’21 has made a huge splash for the when Holder moved to Dartmouth men’s swimming and diving team. following the 2015-2016 season, With 10 wins in LaMastra’s sights various meets and “I have really quickly shifted to a school record the Big Green. learned to grow and for the men’s 200LaMastra said yard butterf ly, [understand] how the phenomenal L a M a s t r a h a s difficult it is to be an coaching staff, already made a the D-Plan and name for himself. athlete at the college his campus visit B u t i t w a s level.” convinced him to not always that attend. way. Swimming LaMastra and diving head -CONNOR LAMASTRA quickly settled c o a c h J a m i e ’21 in, making Holder noted his presence how he recruited known in LaMastra. his first collegiate meet against “I was in contact with [LaMastra] Boston College. Leading the at Georgetown [University],” said pack for Dartmouth against the Holder, who served as head coach Minutemen, LaMastra took home of the Hoyas until 2016. “When three individual wins and was I first got to Dartmouth, he was a instrumental in the team’s victory. little lower on the radar. Then he “At the Boston College meet had a really strong summer before I wasn’t thinking about myself his senior year, and I was able to or how I was performing at all,” bring him on.”

LaMastra said. “The Boston Although he has been swimming College meet was one of the most since he was four, LaMastra fun and supportive meets that I only joined the have ever been c o m p e t i t i v e “[The Boston College to. [It] is where swimming circuit the team finally meet] is where the when he entered came together; high school as team finally came and the freshman a freshman at together; and the class really felt Pace Academy in like they were Atlanta, Georgia. freshman class really contributing.”

His high school felt like they were LaMastra set career included his school record contributing.”

USA Swimming in the 200-yd S ch o l a s t i c A l l butterfly at the A m e r i c a n i n -CONNOR LAMASTRA Tate Ramsden 2017 and threeInvitational last time Georgia All- ’21 weekend.

State, as well as “Seeing a qualification to teammate break national-caliber races, including school records or pool records Next College Student Athlete provides a huge morale boost Nationals, Junior Nationals, USA during a meet,” co-captain Henry Swimming Futures and Winter Senkfor ’18 wrote in an email Nationals. statement. “Seeing that race helped When recruitment started, fire us up for the final relay that LaMastra knew he wanted to swim we were then able to win, which in college. propelled us to victory for the meet “When I started getting into it, as a whole.” swimming became a big part of my Senkfor also pointed out the life,” LaMastra said. “I have really fun and lively atmosphere that learned to grow and [understand] LaMastra brings to the pool deck, how difficult it is to be an athlete including his eclectic playlists. at the college level. I have learned “[LaMastra’s] been a great

By MAYA MOTEN

The Dartmouth Staff

influence for our team,” Senkfor wrote. “He comes in ready to work, loves to compete and brings a winning mentality every single day. He’s never afraid of a challenge and constantly tries to improve.

[LaMastra] sets the example for what everyone should strive to be like in both practice and meets.”

L a M a s t r a ’s p o s i t i v e a n d competitive inf luence on his teammates is something the coaches have noticed as well. As Holder continues to build the swimming and diving team throughout the next few years, he noted that LaMastra can be a key piece in helping him realize the vision of having a top-tier swim program.

“Thanks to a combination of an amazing coaching staff, a motivated freshman class and a more positive team attitude, the team has improved significantly

COURTESY OF CONNOR LAMASTRA

Connor LaMastra ’21 takes a deep breath on the starting block before a race.

more this year than anything I have ever seen,” Senkfor wrote. “I could not be more happy with how this

season has gone and could not be more excited to see what the future of the team has in store.”

22

42

32

consecutive points men’s tennis has won to start the regular season

days since men’s basketball won a game. They beat Bryant University on Dec. 22, 2017, but are 0-7 since

goals scored by women’s hockey, the fewest in the conference

10

7-3-1

14.2

point margin between skiing and first-place University of Vermont at the St. Michael’s Carnival

men’s hockey record in their last 11 games, the third-best mark in the conference over that stretch

points per game scored

by Cy Lippold ’19 as she led women’s basketball to a 10-7 start