The Dartmouth Mirror 2/7/18

MIR ROR 2.7.2018

BUMP: AARON LIT '19, DIVER AND DESIGNER | 2

A LEGACY: THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM | 4-5

A SPOTLIGHT ON DARTMOUTH'S SPORTS RIVALRIES | 6 SAMANTHA BURACK/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Editors’ Note

Bump: Aaron Lit ’19, saving the ocean one blazer at a time STORY

MICHAEL LIN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

It’s February, and there’s a chill in the air. A chill that only blows every four years. February will be a month of competition, a month of rivalry and of victories. In light of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the Mirror investigates what is waiting at the end of the finish line: sweet, sweet victory. Because we are college students, some people may consider our victories smaller than those of others, but they are no less important. It’s a victory when you get up for your 9L every morning and don’t miss a single class during the term. It’s a victory when you don’t get golden-treed on Friday night; a victory when your flitz to that cute guy in your anthro class gets a rhyming response. You can define victory any way you want — the small victories count, too. We live in a culture that frowns upon excessive bragging (note the term, “self-call”), and one that romanticizes “taking L’s.” So what will be your victory? Of the day? Of the term? Of the year? Let the games begin.

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By Jacob Maguire

For many Dartmouth students, articles of clothing are items of practicality, convenience and self-expression. For Aaron Lit ’19, creator of a fashion line that promotes marine conservation, fashion is a means of environmental advocacy.

Lit, who is pursuing a double major in economics and mathematics, grew up in Hong Kong and intends to return there after he graduates from Dartmouth.

On campus he is a member of the Brovertones a capella group. He is also a Pagunucci Fellow at the Tuck School of Business. The program, a consulting project at Tuck, admits five undergraduate students each year and focuses on fundraising and marketing for a different nonprofit organization each year — this year’s is located in Lima, Peru. It is Lit’s off-campus endeavors, however, that could be considered most remarkable.

Lit is an avid scuba diver and his passion for observing oceanic ecosystems has led him to pursue several unique projects such as photography, authoring a book and the launch of a not-for-profit fashion line.

“A lot of the time, there’s a misconception that the ocean is a dark and empty place,” Lit said. “It’s really not — it’s super biodiverse, even more so than in terrestrial habitats. It became sort of my mission to raise awareness of the ocean’s biodiversity … for people who cannot witness it firsthand.”

Lit began scuba diving at the age of 10 with his father, a scuba diver with more than 40 years of experience, and grew to love it.

“Scuba diving is much more interesting and [intimate] than snorkeling,” Lit said. “You see a lot of sea life up close.”

At the age of 16, Lit took various photographs of undersea creatures in the Indo-Pacific Ocean for his book “Watercolour,” published in 2014 by the Aquatic

Life Conservation Fund, a marine garments were inspired by marine conservation foundation. life,” Lit said. “They act as catalysts “Writing and making the book for marine biodiversity, and I hope was difficult,” Lit said. to use my fashion line to raise After he photographed marine awareness.” animals while scuba diving, Lit From Lit’s perspective, fashion had to identify and classify all design provides a unique platform his findings. He subsequently to promote environmental causes. reached out to the Aquatic Life “In my view, the most effective Conservation Fund and met with way to raise awareness about a graphic designer willing to help the environment is not through publish the book. science, but through visuals,” Lit, in Lit said. “Objects consultation like clothing are w i t h o t h e r “It became sort [relatable] to D a r t m o u t h of my mission u s . Fa s h i o n i s students and exclusively human with help from mission to raise and is fundamental h i s f a s h i o n awareness of the to our identities.” d e s i g n e r ocean’s biodiversity o t hLite r encourages mother, started students a n o n p r o f i t ... for people who w h o a r e f a s h i o n l i n e, cannot witness it interested in social MiaMira, entrepreneurship t o p r o m o t e firsthand.” to take advantage m a r i n e of “untapped biodiversity resources.”

-AARON LIT ’19 a n d “Look for conservation. spaces and forms Prior to of media that initiating have been largely the project, untapped, from Lit had no fashion design to experience in toilet paper,” Lit fashion design, said. “Also, apply tailoring or your advocacy to social media what you are most outreach. passionate about.”

To d a y, L i t Ultimately, Lit designs most of hopes that his the gar ments book and fashion and articles of clothing, such as line will lead students to be more dresses and loose jackets. Students cognizant of the environmental at Dartmouth have provided impacts of daily actions. He him with advice about trends in suggested that students make American fashion, while a student small changes in their lives, at Imperial College London, such as swapping out plastic Valerie Cornet, runs the project’s bags for reusable totes at the Instagram account, @miamira. grocery store, in order to be more fashion. environmentally friendly.

Lit’s experiences exploring “Small choices in our lives u n d e r s e a e c o s y s t e m s a n d matter,” Lit said. “We often photographs of marine organisms p r i o r i t i ze c o nve n i e n c e ove r have strongly inf luenced his sustainability, and by adjusting designs. those choices, we can better “These fashion designs and conserve the environment.”

CORRECTIONS 2.7.18 VOL. CLXXIV NO. 176 MIRROR EDITORS MARIE-CAPUCINE PINEAUVALENCIENNE CAROLYN ZHOU EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RAY LU PUBLISHER PHILIP RASANSKY EXECUTIVE EDITOR ERIN LEE PHOTO EDITORS TIFFANY ZHAI MICHAEL LIN

We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth. com for corrections.

Correction Appended (Feb. 6, 2018): An earlier version of the Feb. 6 article “College receives 22,005 total applications for Class of 2022” misspelled Ali Safieddine’s name. The article has been updated to correct this error.

Correction Appended (Feb. 6, 2018): The original version of the Feb. 5 article “Meet Team Dartmouth” stated that the total of 14 Dartmouth representatives at the 2018 Winter Olympics was the largest number of Big Green participants at any Olympic Games. In fact, 14 Dartmouth-affiliated athletes also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. However, alpine skier Tricia Mangan ’19 was added to the U.S. Olympic Team roster on Tuesday, increasing the 2018 total of Dartmouth athletes and coaches to 15. The article has been updated to reflect the change.

Athletics: A Workout for the Mind STORY

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By Amanda Chen

We admire athletes for their their capabilities at that point in physical strength, grace and agility, time. but what we often overlook is the For Cally Braun ’18, who was mental strength that is reqired a member of Dartmouth’s Nordic from athletes under high pressure ski team during her freshman, situations. sophomore and junior years, a Mark Hiatt, sports psychologist recurring rib injury became a f o r t h e D a r t m o u t h P e a k source of difficulty.

Perfor mance prog ram, helps “It was really frustrating athletes develop because I would psychological try to do things strategies to use “I love [working sometimes and during practice with sports] just start crying and competition. because they because it would The strategies start hurting,” she i n c l u d e t a s k - all present such said. “I would also f o c u s e d interesting be so mad that I attention, mental was having trouble awareness and psychological breathing or p e r f o r m a n c e demands on doing such simple reflection. movements. athletes.”

Strategies are Because it wasn’t also tailored to a very visible team mentalities, -MARK HIATT, i n j u r y, i t w a s facilitating hard to describe d i s c u s s i o n , DP2 SPORTS to people what connection and PSYCHOLOGIST was happening.” communication.

To cope with W h i l e her injury, Braun many of these concentrated on strategies can be the next steps in applied broadly across athletics, her recovery: working with the Hiatt noted that each sport needs College’s trainers. Retrospectively, strategies specific to each sport’s Braun recognized that downplaying demands. For example, with sports the injur y helped her move like soccer or lacrosse that require forward. constant movement, a specific “For any athlete getting injured type of attention is needed. On is kind of hard, because there’s the the other hand, golf requires a potential for it to really impact separate strategy because the something that you’ve put a lot of athlete is focused on one task. work into,” Braun said. “I think “I love [working with sports] part of not wanting to make a because they all present such big deal out of [the injury] was interesting psychological demands because [I] didn’t really want on athletes,” Hiatt said. to acknowledge that it could Mental strategies are also potentially affect [my] season, so necessary when dealing with almost to yourself you play it down setbacks such as injuries, resulting like it’s going to be fine, which often not only in physical pain helped [me] get through it.” but also In addition subsequent “... getting injured is to the pressures m e n t a l kind of hard, because in their sport, frustration.

College athletes C h r o n i c there’s the potential must employ i n j u r i e s for it to really impact mental strategies such as to balance concussions something that you’ve t h e i r a t h l e t i c a n d b a c k put a lot of work obligations injuries can with academics into.” especially and other p o s e commitments. challenges -CALLY BRAUN ’18 Such strategies because often mean of the scheduling uncertain activities, working n at u re o f efficiently and the recovery dealing with the plan for many transitions t h o s e from academics, types of to practice, injuries. According to Hiatt, key to other activities they have strategies include an emphasis throughout the day. on productive thinking about For Kathleen Mulligan ’21, a the injury, acknowledgment of member of the women’s rugby frustration and an acceptance of team, developing a specific mindset

about focusing and being “in the with many different emotions, such moment” allows her to reduce as anger or anxiety. stress and accomplish her goals “The reality is you can still do very well even if you’re not to the best of her ability.

“Regardless of what was going confident, and what it comes down on academically or at home or to is paying attention to the task in anything else I did outside at hand,” Hiatt said. “[Our goal] of [sports], it was really just is that athletes can allow all the focusing on what I was there to emotions to be there and still direct do,” Mulligan said. “I was at their focus to the performance. that practice or at that game and While confidence is important, thinking about something else we try to acknowledge it as just a wasn’t going to give me time to feeling, and you can still perform do it and wasn’t conducive to well and do well with a lot of different feelings.” performing my best.”

M o re ove r, i n Confidence terms of longis also a key “The reality is you term mental component of strength, Braun d e ve l o p i n g a can still do very well recognizes that m i n d s e t t h a t even if you’re not while “powering can withstand through” does t h e p re s s u re s confident, and what help with coping o f a t h l e t i c s . it comes down to is during periods For Mulligan, paying attention to of high stress, balancing such periods c o n f i d e n c e the task at hand.” also necessitate and humility breaks. Her is important, experience because while balancing c o n f i d e n c e -MARK HIATT, DP2 academic work helps during SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST and activities as a competition, pre-med student h u m i l i t y and athletic motivates her obligations to continue helped her working hard.

H i a t t n o t e s t h a t l a c k i n g realize that while accomplishing confidence is not as consequential m a n y t h i n g s i s p o s s i b l e , as athletes might believe. The goal accomplishing everything might is to perform well even in situations not be.

“You have to figure out where your line is and sometimes you might be able to do close to everything,” Braun said. “But after that, you need to take a break, which is hard at Dartmouth because things go so fast that you don’t really have any time to pause.”

The mental skills gained from balancing sports and school can further a student-athlete’s career in athletics, as well as other parts of their lives.

“The athletes here are smart, hard-working, dedicated, determined, and [these traits] allow them to be focused and engaged to perform at that high level [under] a tremendous amount of pressure,” Hiatt said.

Outside of athletics, skills g ained from sports, such as managing one’s concentration, emotions and working in groups, can be applied to any career.

Mulligan notes that strategies that she developed through sports has helped her mental health by alleviating stress. Furthermore, she attributes her ability to work hard and do her best as a skill she first learned from sports.

“I think that for me it’s really comforting to know that whatever I pursue, I am giving my best,” Mulligan said. “Even if something doesn’t [go my way] … it eases my mind to know that I’ve still tried my best.”

COURTESY OF MARK HIATT

Sports psychologist for Dartmouth Peak Performance Mark Hiatt works with students on building mental toughness.

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A Legacy: the Dar STORY

At this point, many have heard Charles Proctor ’00 ran the first the statistics: including the 2018 slalom race ever organized under contingent of athletes, Dartmouth internationally accepted rules in athletes will have earned nearly 150 1928, and in 1933 the National Ski spots on Winter Olympics teams. Association approved of the first ever Athletes from Dartmouth have National Downhill race, which was competed in every Winter Olympic held on Mt. Moosilauke. As collegiate Games since the launch of the ski racing increased in popularity modern games in 1924. This year, and participation, athletes from 14 athletes with ties to Dartmouth Dartmouth consistently placed in the will compete in the 2018 Winter top spots of their events. Particularly Olympics and one in the Paralympics. during the 1930s and 1940s under The College’s consistent role as a the guidance of Walter Prager, the powerhouse in skiing has been well- team’s success was unprecedented. documented, but lesser known is However, Prager left Dartmouth the history of the sport’s meteoric in the ’40s to be the head ski instructor rise at Dartmouth, which ultimately for the 10th Mountain Division, led to a culture the mountain of excellency "This program has warfare unit and pride that of the U.S. been around for over continues to A r m y. T h e m a k e i t s e l f a hundred years and 10th Mountain known with has been instrumental Division was the consistent formed in 1943 domination of in ... a lot of different for combat in winter sports aspects of the sport."

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by Dartmouth II . Over the athletes today. course of the Dartmouth -CAMI THOMPSON war, a total has been an GRAVES, DARTMOUTH of 119 male innovator s k i e r s f ro m i n t h e s k i DIRECTOR OF SKIING AND Dartmouth industry from WOMEN'S NORDIC SKI served in the its inception.

10th Mountain HEAD COACH Dartmouth’s Division. amour of In 1945, the skiing started division fought in 1909, when many fierce the Dartmouth battles in the Outing Club was founded. The first mountains of Italy. intercollegiate skiing competition was After the war, Prager designed held in 1914 between Dartmouth and oversaw the building of the and McGill University in Montreal. Dartmouth Skiway, which opened The late Dartmouth physics professor in 1957. Located just 20 minutes

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Members of the Dartmouth ski team of 1944-1945, which had unprecendented success in the '30s and '40s.

north of Dartmouth, the Skiway’s accessibility provides Dartmouth’s athletes with a place to practice, as well as average students with a place to participate in recreational skiing and snowboarding.

In addition to the Skiway, Dartmouth also used to have an 85-foot-tall ski jump located on what is now the Hanover Country Club’s golf course, as well as a strong collegiate ski jumping

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Women's alpine skier Kristen Wilson '88 tackles an alpine course.

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team. Unfortunately, in 1993, “I’m actually involved with U.S. Skiing now, following the 1980 decision by the and it’s almost a joke that there are so many NCAA Skiing Rules Committee Dartmouth people involved.” to eliminate collegiate ski jumping Dartmouth’s rich ski history has been the from competition, the jump was torn subject of many public features, including down. the 2010 book “Passion for Skiing,” as well as In the latter half of the 20th its 2013 documentary adaptation, “Passion century, Dartmouth has also had for Snow." But the most influential impact a significant of the Dartmouth impact on ski legacy comes in "We've always had a Paralympic the form of today’s skiing. Joe legacy of ski racing and Dartmouth ski team, Walsh ’84, of being trendsetters which has ranked high a visionin collegiate skiing. i m p a i r e d and innovators and Alexa Dlouhy Paralympic always having a really ’19, a member of the Nordic skier, women’s alpine team, strong ski team." is now the said that Dartmouth’s managing legacy of excellence director of the -ALEXA DLOUHY '19 and innovation in Paralympics the ski industry is division of the one thing that draws U.S. Olympic prospective skiers to Committee. the program. “ We ’ v e a l w a y s C a m i had a legacy of ski Thompson racing and of being Graves, trendsetters and Dartmouth’s innovators and always director of having a really strong skiing as well ski team,” Dlouhy as the head coach of the College’s women’s said. “So I think that’s something that attracts Nordic ski team , spoke to the people to the team.”

The other major factor that allows influence of Dartmouth graduates Dartmouth to consistently attract some of in the ski industry today.

“This program has been around the top skiers in the country is the unique for over a hundred years and has balance it provides between athletic and been instrumental in people who go academic culture.

“In my view it is the school and team that into snowmaking, or people running ski areas, or starting ski areas, you has the best combination of academics and know, a lot of different aspects of skiing,” Dlouhy said.

With rigorous training regimens, intense the sport,” Thompson Graves said.

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academic workloads and a great deal of relationship between members of travel, Dartmouth skiers have some of the the four teams is so important to their most demanding schedules of anyone at the collective success.

“I think it’s important that we College, especially in the winter. However, as Foreste Peterson ’18, another member at least get to know each other and of the women’s alpine team, attested, have some idea of what’s going these athletes’ busy lives does not affect the on at the other venue when we’re determination with which they approach competing,” Thompson Graves said.

“Last weekend we everything they do. were more or less “When I’m on "The culture at the same area, the ski hill, I know I Dartmouth is so much in which doesn’t don’t have a ton of always happen, time to get training more conducive to so we had a team runs in, which makes skiers and what we're meeting at the end me want to make trying to do with the of the first day every turn and run of competition. count that much Olympics and our We could share more,” Peterson said. training." stories of what “Whereas when I’m had happened in the library, I don’t during the have that much time day, and each also, so you’ve got discipline could to make everything -LOGAN SANKEY '20 sort of help get count a little bit other disciplines more.” fired up.”

The Dartmouth T h i s ski team also seeks collaboration to promote a team has a significant atmosphere of collaboration and support, despite the fact impact on the team’s success, that the men’s and women’s alpine and Peterson said.

“We’re a very close knit team, Nordic disciplines all practice separately and all have separate head coaches. In and we’re kind of just a big family,” intercollegiate racing, the combined Peterson said. “We all just push each results of all four disciplines determine other to be better.”

Many members of Dartmouth’s Dartmouth’s placement in carnivals and in the NCAA championships. It is for this Nordic team compete for the reason, Thompson Graves said, that a Dartmouth ski team for four years

COURTESY OF ALEXA DLOUHY

Alexa Dlouhy '19 is a member of the alpine ski team.

before going on to qualify for the Winter Olympics. However, on the alpine side, many of the athletes who have qualified for the Games compete for the U.S. Ski Team in the fall and winter, taking classes at Dartmouth only in the spring, as part of the

COURTESY OF ALEXA DLOUHY

The women's Dartmouth alpine ski team get together for a photo at camp in Colorado.

infamous “12-year plan.”

Logan Sankey ’20, a ski jumper for the U.S. Ski Team, is one athlete who has taken advantage of the flexibility of Dartmouth’s quarter system, enrolling in classes only in the spring and summer terms, and competing in competitions all over the world during the fall and winter terms.

When she’s not on campus, Sankey’s competition schedule is intense.

“I’m training seven times a week, two times a day, at least, and then mixed in there are some travel days to get to competitions and stuff,” Sankey said. “It’s a lot of work in a way that’s different from school. It’s a different kind of mental stimulation.”

Sankey said that there are many members of the U.S. Alpine Ski Team who are also currently enrolled at Dartmouth exclusively during the spring terms.

“We have a good crew of us who are in Park City in the summer and Dartmouth in the spring,” Sankey said. “That’s a really cool community to have when we do come back on campus, that there’s a lot of people I know from the ski team who can help me navigate which classes to take and how to do the 12-year plan and how to make the most out of your time on campus when it’s always really short.”

The flexibility Dartmouth gives its students to pursue a nontraditional academic path such as this one speaks to the willingness of the College to support even those athletes who might never score points for

Dartmouth itself. Sankey expressed her gratefulness for the College’s consistent support.

“The culture at Dartmouth is so much more conducive to skiers and what we’re trying to do with the Olympics and our training,” Sankey said. “It’s easy to work with the administration and figure out what you need to do to graduate and get all your credits and everything, whereas at other schools you would kind of be developing that program on your own.”

Thompson Graves also reiterated the Dartmouth ski team’s willingness to help athletes achieve goals outside the realm of collegiate skiing.

“We really encourage our athletes to think outside of just college skiing,” Thompson Graves said. “We encourage them to go for it and try to make the Olympic team or the national team, and we enable them to work towards goals outside of collegiate skiing when they’re a student and competing at Dartmouth.”

From a history of innovation, to a legacy of success, to a culture of collaboration, Dartmouth has proven that each and every skier who has earned a spot in the Winter Olympic Games did so with the support of a school that has contributed so heavily to the development of competitive skiing as a whole. From the freshmen taking their first steps at the Skiway in a beginner PE class, to the varsity athlete competing for a national title in Europe, many of us share the same common roots of Dartmouth skiing, with all the excellence and inspiration such a legacy entails.

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A Spotlight on Dartmouth’s Sports Rivalries STORY

By Vanessa Smiley

We often equate sports rivalries Yale rivalry through the perspective impenetrable community.

“This is a good, healthy rivalry,” Kramer said. “But I think we know with divide; they can create tension of the ingroup-outgroup construct. However, the community that Adams said. “There’ll be some that at the end of the day whichever between teams and incite conflict As the outgroup, the Yale team takes root in sports rivalries extends friendly making fun of each other team wins or loses, it’s going to be a among fans. But in the context of reminds Adams and his teammates beyond the sports teams; to also leading up to games, but it’s all in fun game to watch.” the Dartmouth community, divide that they are not merely baseball influence fans. good fun ... and there’s not harm In a world rife with conflicts, this seems to be a source of unity for the players, but baseball players for Justin Kramer ’21 tries to attend wanted towards anyone.” is precisely what we need: a stimulus athletes and fans alike.

Dartmouth. Team dinners may ever y athletic competition at Even in his role as a sports fan, that creates community without Logan Adams ’21, a member of foster emotional intimacy, training Dartmouth and believes that sports Kramer agrees that the rivalries are instigating conflict. Sports rivalries the baseball team, identified Yale may encourage teamwork and rivalries have brought him closer intense but friendly. at Dartmouth are one such stimulus.

University as “[the team’s] biggest collaboration, but the rivalry with to people he would have otherwise “If you’re at a Dartmouth game rival in the Ivy League.”Adams Yale creates a shared identity. hesitated to approach. and you see a Harvard [University] Kramer is a member of The Dartmouth suggests that the rivalry with Yale This is particularly visible in “I remember during the football fan you give them a little glare,” staff. thrives on uncertainty. sports that are more individualistic in season [the team] had some huge “We’re two of the oldest Ivy nature. Gilbert Jaeger ’21, a member comebacks,” Kramer said. “I was League teams of the baseball o f t h e m e n’s just walking program, so we’ve always had a lot tennis team, did outside high“I remember during of competition,” he said. “It’s been not specify any fiving random back and forth. They’ll win one year, one rival school the football season people that I we’ll win the next year.” bu t c o n s i d e r s [the team] had some didn’t know and It’s the “back-and-forth” nature C o l u m b i a we were all just of the games against Yale that paves University as the huge comebacks. I was super excited.” the way for uncertainty and keeps most “intense” T h e just walking outside the baseball athletes on the edge of adversary. high-fives and their seats — hearts pounding, heads “ T h e y a r e high-fiving random the shared reeling — because though they don’t a ver y strong people ...” excitement know who will win, they know with team and there are emotional abiding certainty that both teams is always a lot of manifestations have the potential to win. Just like tension during -JUSTIN KRAMER ’21 of a unity that that, a rivalry emerges. the match against transcends This rivalry, Adams explained, Columbia,” he c u l t u r a l looms over them during training. said. and ethnic “[The rivalry] definitely makes Despite this tension Jaeger observes differences; a unity based solely on you want to train and practice a that the rivalry inherent to any tennis people’s identification with one team whole lot harder,” Adams said. “So competition unifies his team despite and friendly rejection of another. if we know we have a weekend series the relatively individualistic nature In this manner, the Dartmouth fans ag ainst Yale, of the sport. coalesce into one giant ingroup, that whole week “It doesn’t matter however fleeting or imaginary it might that’s the only “[The rivalry] definitely if you play a team be. thing we have makes you want to m a t c h , e v e r y It is then no surprise that we our mindset player has a spot can discern Dartmouth fans from train and practice a on.” in the team,” he hundreds of meters away. As Kramer A d a m s whole lot harder. So said. “You [cheer] observed, at Dartmouth sporting b e l i eve s t h at your teammates games most are dressed in “Big Green t h e r i v a l r y if we know we have a [on], you play as colors.” with Yale has weekend series against a team.”

Green. The color of Dartmouth, strengthened Mikaela O’Brien and, more importantly, the medium bonds between Yale, that whole week ’21, an alpine by which fans showcase their team members that’s the only thing skier for the ski membership in the “Dartmouth in a way that team, expresses ingroup” and, by implication, a new n o a m o u n t we have our mindset a s i m i l a r community.

ISHAAN JAJODIA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF of practice or on.” sentiment. She Fortunately, sports rivalries at The tennis coach speaks to players during a cloudy day’s practice. group dinners cannot identify Dartmouth rarely border on feuds. ever can. one specific rival “ W e g e t -LOGAN ADAMS ’21 s c h o o l e i t h e r, close through claiming instead practices and that their rivalries whatever, but if you have these big “are pretty much [with] most schools rivalry games, that definitely brings in general.” you a whole lot closer with your But these rivalries, though general, teammates,” he said. nonetheless unify the team even Perhaps this phenomenon finds though the girls not only compete with its origins in the human need to each other for a spot on the competing belong. Social identity theory posits team but are also ranked individually that all of us, regardless of race or in the competitions themselves. culture, are predisposed since birth “We’re 12 girls on the team and to an ingroup-outgroup conception only six go to each carnival [NCAA of the world — we unwittingly seek races],”O’Brien said. “But even those out and assimilate into “ingroups” who don’t go to the carnivals are whose standards and values in turn always checking online results and shape us. Since we derive identity trying to see how many of the top from our ingroup, we tend to treat 10 spots we got.” outgroup members, or anyone not In her eyes, this brings the team in our ingroup, with a certain degree together and encourages them to of hostility. Yet, ingroups cannot exist cheer each other on. in the absence of outgroups, because Fo r Ja e g e r a n d O ’ B r i e n , the first step in identifying who we sports rivalries bridged the divide are is defining who we are not, so the between members of their own outgroup reinforces our membership. team, transforming a traditionally TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF We can look at the Dartmouth- i n d i v i d u a l i s t i c s p o r t i n t o a n Dartmouth Big Green faces off against Columbia University’s football team.

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To My Fellow Floridians COLUMN

By Marley Peters

I n F l o r i d a , t h e “ Vo t i n g Restoration Amendment,” also known as “Amendment 4,” has successfully been put on the ballot for this coming November. This amendment restores voting rights to people with felony convictions, except for those convicted of murders or felony sexual offence.

Florida is currently one of four states in the entire country that permanently disenfranchises people who were convicted of felonies. This amendment would affect more than 1.5 million Floridians in a state that has a population of 20.5 million.

According to The Sentencing Project, 27 percent of the country’s disenfranchised population lives in Florida. In order for the amendment to pass, at least 60 percent of the vote must be in favor of restoration.

This is huge news and a step in the right direction, but it’s been a long time coming.

Florida is notoriously known for being behind the times in progressive legislation and policies.

In comparison, New Hampshire’s neighbors: Maine and Vermont, currently never rescind a person’s right to vote, whether incarcerated or not. In fact, Florida has been struggling with reinstatement of voter’s rights for a long time. In 2011, Gov. Rick Scott reversed the previous governor’s executive order restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions. That 2011 policy change requires all people

Through a massive non-partisan effort led by Floridians for a Fair Democracy, more than a million petition signatures have been gathered. This greatly surpassed t h e s t at e ’s 7 6 6 , 2 0 0 - s i g n at u re requirement, ensuring that the amendment would be included on the ballot in November 2018.

While Florida is a massive state, gathering all those petitions was hard work. Volunteers were hitting the pavement and paying attention to every last detail in order to create their desired outcome. I witnessed my own family members pull out petitions at restaurants to ask nearby patrons to sign up. Because of that level of dedication from thousands of people statewide, Florida has made a step forward.

Though this amendment could help tackle the issue of disenfranchisement, it is in response to something much bigger: mass incarceration. The United States makes up about 5 percent of the world’s population but 21 percent of the world’s incarcerated population.

Around 2.3 million people in the U.S. are currently locked up in jail or prison; that’s over a million more than the people currently living in the state of New Hampshire.

Through an even closer look we see that black and brown people disproportionately make up a COURTESY OF MARLEY PETERS large percent of the incarcerated population. Some prisons are with felonies to wait five or seven privatized corporations built for years, depending on the crime, after profit, making an absurd amount completing their sentence before of money. applying to regain voting rights. This We as a society and government application is are locking up s o a r d u o u s “The ‘Voting massive numbers and restrictive of people, and that few people Restoration after people have apply and are Amendment’ served their time approved. further their addresses a side effect we According to oppression by the Brennan of mass incarceration, disenfranchising Center for and silencing but it is a step in Ju s t i c e a t them. The Voting N e w Yo r k the right direction Restoration University Amendment to correcting some School of addresses a side L a w, o n l y of the many wrongs effect of mass around 300 but mass incarceration has incarceration, to 600 cases it is a step in the are approved created.” right direction to e v e r y y e a r, correcting some a stunning ly of the many low amount wrongs mass as over 20,000 incarceration has p e o p l e h ave created. To all my applied for fellow Floridians, reinstatement. our state has a Getting your long way to go but case to be get out and vote heard is just for the “Voting the first step Restoration and is not a Amendment” guaranteed this coming success. As of N ove m b e r. last Thursday, a Florida federal judge Donations, voting and even word ruled that the clemency board’s of mouth are some of the easiest current system is unconstitutional, and most immediate things we can writing that the process broke the do when we should be doing so much First and 14th Amendments. more.

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By Michael Lin