The Dartmouth 07/09/2021

VOL. CLXXVIII NO. 8

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021

Divide between students, town will come under focus at July 13 Hanover Town Meeting

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Under new NCAA policy, Dartmouth student-athletes can now earn payment

BY THOMAS BROWN The Dartmouth Staff

On July 1, the NCAA adopted a new policy that will allow almost half a million student-athletes across the on their name, image or likeness. On rules to allow student-athletes to participate in NIL activities. New opportunities for student-athletes, who would have previously been in

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The annual Hanover Town Meeting will be held in the Dewey Field Lot on Tuesday, July 13 from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., following a two-month delay due to the pandemic. This is the second consecutive year that both parts of the the business meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. — have been delayed from May until July and held outdoors.

According to town clerk Betsy McClain, the majority of votes were cast via absentee ballots at last year’s meeting, but this year, the town is expecting more in-person voting because of relaxed public health restrictions. She added that she hopes that Hanover’s high vaccination rate will make town residents

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more comfortable to come outdoors and vote.

McClain noted that Dartmouth students are eligible to vote at the town meeting if they have previously registered to vote in Hanover; students are eligible to register to vote if they can prove they live in Hanover, are American citizens and are at least 18 years old. Same-day voter registration will be available to

cover issues ranging from the town budget and a plan for electricity aggregation to state redistricting following the 2020 census. According to town manager

Article One: election of town

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meeting, but voters must be registered by 7 p.m. if they wish to cast a ballot on town ordinances at the business meeting.

Article One focuses on the election

change in the history of the NCAA, and the landscape is shifting on a daily basis,” Roby said. “The combination of NIL and the Alston decision by the Supreme Court has created a brand new day with respect to collegiate athletics.”

While the new policy that the NCAA implemented is consistent with fe d e r al gu i d e l i n e s, t h e organization emphasized that the change only represents an interim solution. According to the new policy, student-athletes must engage in NIL activities that are consistent with the state laws that apply to their university. According to Roby, New Hampshire “has yet to pass any laws with respect to NIL” and he is not aware of any legislation under consideration that would limit what opportunities student-athletes can engage in.

Football linebacker Jalen Mackie ’22 said the policy change was “long overdue,” noting that the change will allow lower-division athletes who have had to take on multiple jobs to support themselves will now be able to better focus on their academic and athletic priorities.

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officer elections, zoning ordinances and the town manager plan. During the business meeting, residents will vote on the remaining sixteen articles, which

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trustee, one Trustee of Trust Funds and Trustee of Trust Funds Judson Pierson Jr. are running for re-election unopposed, the Selectboard election is contested between three candidates: incumbents SEE TOWN MEETING PAGE 2

First-Year Trips to return with two large sections, more options The Dartmouth Staff

THE COMPASSION CONVERSATION

elections and administrative changes, as well as zoning ordinances, be voted on

period, town residents will vote on the

BY LAUREN ADLER

OPINION

to maintain their amateur status, include sponsorships, brand deals and endorsements.

“We’re in favor and supportive of NIL,” interim athletics and recreation director Peter Roby ’79 said. “We have no issue with students being able to monetize their name, image and likeness like any student at Dartmouth can.”

The policy change follows a Supreme Court case, National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, decided on June 21, that found the NCAA violated antitrust laws by prohibiting athletes from receiving “ n o n - c a s h e d u c at i o n - re l at e d

After a year of nontraditional orientation activities, Dartmouth First-Year Trips will return to more regular outdoor programming this fall to welcome the Class of 2025 to Hanover. Though much of this year’s programming will remain similar to past years , the Trips directorate has implemented activities and scheduling changes that they believe will make the Trips experience more accessible for incoming students.

While in 2019, first-year students were split into 10 different Trips sections, this year, there will be only two — one taking place from Sept.

2-7 and the other from Sept. 3-8 — in order to “create more consistency in experience,” according to Trips director Kellen Appleton ’20.

According to Appleton, in past years, earlier Trips sections were made up of students from the Northeast region who would return home between the end of their trip and the start of orientation.

Appleton said that the new schedule will enable incoming students to have a more uniform Trips experience that is more reflective of the Dartmouth community as a whole with students from all around the world being welcomed to campus together.

“Depending on what section of Trips you went on, you could have a fairly strongly different experience as first-year students, depending on what the makeup of your section was, whether you were returning home, how that was integrating you into the rest of the Dartmouth community, how that makes you feel a sense of belonging,” Appleton said. “The new plan this year is such that when every incoming student comes to campus, they will move in, and they won’t have to do

those sorts of things like traveling back and forth from campus to their houses — and make sure that Trips happens after other pre-orientation programs are complete so that those students can participate fully in Trips along with the rest of the student body.”

The scheduling change has also prompted directorate members to rethink some traditional aspects of Trips, such as the first night spent in Hanover and the last night spent at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. With only about 15 volunteers in each of these locations, crew captains are considering how to provide the best possible Trips experience to hundreds of students at once.

“We are still trying to finalize — or really just begin thinking about and finalizing — what a lot of the parts of the experience for incoming students will look like, and we’re exploring different options [to] come up with what the Hanover experience will look like,” said Hanover Croo captain Brandon Zhou ’22. “But I think the one thing that we’re always consciously thinking about as we’re approaching this is, how are we able to provide a meaningful and substantial experience, and one that fulfills the values and the missions and the goals of the First Year Trips program.”

Lodge Croo captain Alisya Reza ’22 said that she views the night students spend at the Lodge as an opportunity to “set the tone for that transition from the outdoors back to campus” in order to “make sure that tripees feel welcome” on their return.

“I would say the huge challenge this year, and something that Lodge Croo really wants to uphold, is how care?” she said. “[But] it also just presents us with a new opportunity SEE TRIPS PAGE 6

Henrich said that she has had to pass up product endorsement opportunities to maintain her collegiate eligibility.

In the week since the NIL policy was changed, several Dartmouth students have been pursued by companies to strike a deal. Associate athletic director for compliance Chelsea L. Goss said that she has been contacted by two current student-athletes about deals they have been approached with. Mackie said that he has been approached by “a couple companies” in his hometown of Miramar, Florida about potential endorsements.

Goss noted that although Dartmouth athletics has sent out information and resources pertaining to the NIL policy change

opportunities.

“Our role is to be as helpful in terms of information as we can be,” Roby said.

Roby and Goss noted that more time will be needed to understand the full extent to which the NIL policy change will impact collegiate athletics. According to Roby, the change will “certainly” have an impact on athletic recruitment, and Dartmouth may have to further compete with schools that can better leverage their local and national popularity.

“Some [student-athletes] may decide that they can leverage their name, image and likeness better elsewhere than School X or School Y,” he said. “As much as the NCAA is hoping that it won’t turn into a recruiting advantage, it’s naive to think that it’s not going to be [the case] for schools that can create a lot of exposure for students.”

Mackie sees potential endorsements for Dartmouth sports coming mainly from “local businesses” due to lower “notoriety around the country.”

Football running back Zack Bair ’22 agreed, saying that the NIL policy change “probably won’t have huge nationally recognizable team.

While Goss noted that national recognition for Dartmouth athletics is not in the “same ballpark” as that of large state schools, she said that athletes participating in less nationally popular, niche sports, such “[Dartmouth has] a lot of people that are participating on national teams or junior national teams or going to the Olympics, so I’m excited to see what some of our more obscure sports athletes are able to do entrepreneurship-wise,” she said.

Mackie and Henrich see room for improvement on how the NCAA compensates its athletes. Henrich, who has trained with the U.S. Women’s National Team, was unable to receive payment as an athlete in order to preserve her collegiate eligibility.

“We have a couple student-athletes who are going to be representing their country on the world stage, and the fact that they can’t be paid for doing so — even though they’re going to the Olympics — seems pretty absurd to me,” Henrich said.

The topic of ‘pay for play,’ in which student-athletes receive direct compensation for their athletic commitments, remains controversial within the collegiate athletics community. Henrich said that while she believes the NIL policy change is a step in “the right direction,” the NCAA still makes “gargantuan profits” off of student-athletes putting their physical and mental health on the line. For example, the NCAA collects $1.1 billion annually from the March Madness basketball tournament. Roby said that his “concern” about ‘pay for play’ is that education student-athletes receive for playing their sport, which can amount to “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

Mackie remains optimistic, however, for continued change.

“I think this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of what student-athletes are allowed to accomplish,” he said.

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THE DARTMOUTH NEWS

College’s new master plan eyes more housing, bike paths

BY Anais Zhang

The Dartmouth Staff

preserve and adapt open green spaces on campus, to create improved bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and

On July 8, the College released a document that establishes a foundation entirely powered by renewable sources for housing and transportation by 2050.

Vice president of campus services expansion, sustainability improvements, and other changes and institutional projects Josh Keniston and renovations to campus over the said that plan doesn’t “necessarily” next three decades.

In the framework, the College project; instead, the plan provides lays out a series of campus and a framework that looks at the “big regional proposals to establish six picture.”

According to Keniston, the Board interconnected nodes and campus of Trustees and precincts — College President such as central “My hope is more Phil Hanlon campus, the came together Organic Farm, student housing on in 2019 to begin D a r t m o u t h - campus to free up the the process of Hitchcock drafting a new Medical Center strategic campus south of main be used as workforce plan — the last campus, and the housing for local plan was adopted Thayer School in 2002. Over the workers.” past few years, — on the six he added, the mile corridor that College gathered stretches from the perspectives from Organic Far m TOWN MANAGER over 2,500 faculty, to the DHMC. students and Additionally, the framework will open up the possibility Hanover residents to craft a framework for the creation of upwards of 1,500 that will serve as a template for future new undergraduate housing units ideas for campus revitalization.

Director of campus planning and 680 new graduate student, Joanna Whitcomb said that the process well as renovations to existing dorms. initially included “soliciting proposals Furthermore, the campus framework also details the College’s plan to surveys to various stakeholder groups.

Whitcomb also met with the planning and zoning committees and town managers of Lebanon, Hartford, Norwich, and Hanover. Hanover

community members were invited to “take a look at drawing boards of concepts and to provide input” as part of a “comprehensive community listening component” of the planning process.

Whitcomb added that she developed a monopoly game of campus during Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary,which she played with graduate students and alumni. She said this allowed players to envision the campus with new buildings.

In addition, Whitcomb sought out the perspectives of undergraduate students.

“We did a big poster session soliciting feedback with sticky notes on posters in Baker-Berry library,” Whitcomb said. “We really tried to hear from the community as to what they’d like to see, as we look to the future of Dartmouth.”

According to Whitcomb, the planning process was mostly completed

by March of 2020. However, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plan’s release was postponed and it was later re-examined to ensure that it had addressed “resilience and kind of the challenges that come with a pandemic,” Whitcomb said.

Recently, at a June Board of Trustees meeting, the Board of

Trustees approved the next planning phase to continue to look at options for renovating current undergraduate housing.

“A big part of the work that’s happening this summer is to look at what needs to be done in various buildings and how long it will take since there are some buildings that need more work than others,” Keniston said.

Along with developing new housing, the plan seeks to improve the system of public transportation within the Upper Valley. According to Keniston, Dartmouth’s current graduate housing project occuring on Mt. Support Road near DHMC will have a shuttle service connecting it to downtown Hanover.

Hanover planning and zoning director Robert Houseman said that there may be challenges with expanding the public transit system.

“Growing it beyond its current driving employees and staff,” he noted. He emphasized his belief that Hanover’s “community core can best be served by foot” and improved infrastructure for walking.

workforce housing close to campus would contribute to a more developed public transportation system.

“My hope is more student housing housing, to be used as workforce

said. “And the more you build up your in-town workforce housing, the easier it is to provide a robust public transportation system.”

Furthermore, the College is seeking to achieve its sustainability goals of using cleaner energy sources — such as solar power — to power campus.

According to Griffin, Dartmouth has begun installing solar panels on campus rooftops and has looked “in detail” at the potential for a “very large” ground mounted solar array on College property located near College is “looking very seriously” at replacing their number six fuel oil plant and reducing the College’s reliance on biomass. believes it will take some time for news of the strategic master plan to “trickle up” through the community, she said the framework addresses the major concerns of Hanover residents as it relates to the future of open green space in close proximity to campus.

“It was very clear that the town hoped for some sort of a landscaped said. “What was really important to [residents] is that if the College chose to move away from a golf course towards more active use of that land for college buildings, that there would be Pine Park, which the community loves and uses regularly.”

COVID-19 Task Force to be disbanded, Hanlon announces

BY THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

This article was originally published on July 6, 2021.

The COVID-19 Task Force will be disbanded this month as the College continues its return to normal operations, College President Phil Hanlon announced today in an email to campus.

As of July 6, the group — announced on March 2, 2020 when tested positive for COVID-19 — will no longer be asked to review or make decisions on campus operations pertaining to the pandemic. Instead, Hanlon wrote, each division of campus will be responsible for making its own determinations on an individual basis. “ N ow, fo l l ow i n g t h e ve r y welcome announcement of reduced COVID-19 restrictions for the summer term, and with planning for fall well underway, we are ready to return to our normal decisionmaking processes,” Hanlon wrote.

Hanlon added that decisions related to all remaining campus-wide restrictions — which are “expected to be lifted by late August” — will be

and executive vice president. Regular surveillance testing will continue into the fall, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an emailed statement.

COVID-19 Task Force co-chair Josh Keniston wrote in an emailed statement that leading the group had been “one of the outstanding challenges of my professional career.”

“So much about the last 16-months has been unprecedented, and it something out, a new challenge would emerge,” he wrote. “I am very encouraged by the current state of our campus, regional, and national responses and am hopeful that we are on more solid ground at this point.”

Additionally, the Dartmouth COVID-19 dashboard will be updated twice a week rather than daily, Hanlon wrote. will take place Aug. 1, and added that in the event of an outbreak on campus, the dashboard would return to daily updates.

Hanlon also wrote that the College will continue to monitor the health situation, restoring parts of the task force if necessary.

As of Tuesday evening, 87% of the

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on-campus population and 74% of the total Dartmouth community —

— have been vaccinated, according to the dashboard. There have been no active cases of COVID-19 during the

weeks of June 27 or July 4, and one in isolation.

Zoning, town manager system will face the voters on Tuesday FROM TOWN MEETING PAGE 1

Nancy Carter and Joanna Whitcomb ’23.

Millman’s campaign has centered on student issues like housing and student representation in town governance, many of which have come under deeper scrutiny over the past year.

“The goal of my campaign is to be able to bridge this divide between what we’ve seen has been made during the pandemic as two separate communities, the student body and the town of Hanover,” said Millman.

Though she shares Millman’s focus on Hanover’s housing shortage, Carter emphasized her previous Selectboard experience in her campaign — she is currently running for her third three-year term, making her the most experienced of the candidates.

“Running a town is not very glamorous,” she said. “But if you talk to a Dartmouth student who’s trying to make her way between buildings and has to go through the town streets and slips and slides in the winter, it really is a big deal whether or not the sidewalk is clear. I bring a good perspective in terms of how many years it takes to have both the understanding and the patience for these issues, both large and small, in town governance.”

Whitcomb said that her campaign has of the Hanover community.

“My signature campaign platform is to make sure that the town and the College create and support a great community, both to work, play, and study — to be a student [or] to be a resident,” she said. “I think it’s important that we realize that we are a town and [a] community, and that we need to work

together to keep it as special as it is. So to me, my platform is to make sure that we’re doing the right thing for all.”

Articles Two, Three and Four focus on amendments to the Hanover Zoning Ordinance. Article Four, which would include a number of people (not related by blood or marriage or adoption) not to exceed two adult persons per bedroom occupying a single dwelling unit,” per the warrant for the Town Meeting, has proven particularly divisive between students and full-time residents. The Hanover Planning Board voted to recommend that the Town Meeting disapprove Article Four and retain the allows for only three unrelated adults per residence.

Whitcomb said that Article Four, which has become a key point in the Selectboard election, is “a very bad article” because it would “change the character of all our residential properties in the town.”

“We need to take on housing and affordability and availability as a amendment does not address that,” she said.

Similarly, Carter is opposed to Article Four because she is “not in favor of any changes that will have an impact on our current Hanover ordinance,” citing issues like overcrowded student housing and Hanover’s lack of parking

density of parking in our residential neighborhoods that has an even greater impact,” Carter said. “I really wish that we had better mass transit, that our mass transit operated into the night, that it operated into the weekends — I think that that’s a real shortcoming, and I think that that’s one of the things that Hanover and the College ought to start talking about.”

Millman, however, favors the adoption of Article Four, calling the current family ordinance an “archaic

no on the article, which was proposed by a petition started by Kevin Berghuis ’23, this responsibility would fall to the Selectboard. The Selectboard voted unanimously to recommend that the Town Meeting vote “yes” on Article Five, and Millman also supports the continuation of the town manager position. Berghuis, a senior editor of The Dartmouth Review, did not respond to

complicated, because our world becomes more complex and complicated,” she said. “There was a recognition that you need someone who’s a trained municipal manager — not necessarily just an

clarify via email that the article “is not a Dartmouth Review initiative.”

targeting students.”

“Not expanding [housing] capacity is a recipe for disaster,” he said. “When

perhaps a lack of understanding of the role of a town manager, not of this particular camp manager, but a town manager,” noting that the town

launch Hanover Community Power, an initiative to pool Hanover’s electricity spending with other participating communities in the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire. In turn, the CPCNH would contract with suppliers to provide more climatefriendly electricity, including completely

housing in the Upper Valley, you look at the recent housing lottery with [128] students still on the waitlist, with those accepting the lottery with the incentive to come into the rental housing market. Not having any plans for that is an oversight by the College and the town.”

Article Two would expand the unions, foster care families and other “custodial relationships,” while also explicitly excluding groups of more than three college students that are not related by blood or marriage. Article Three would amend the zoning map to include the duplex at 59 and 61 Lyme district.

operations and defers to the Selectboard for all policy-related matters.

“The reason the town manager plan was created in New Hampshire was that as towns grew and their operations became more complex, elements of managing an organization of this size just over time become more

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professionally trained town employee, oversees the day-to-day operations of Hanover. Should the Town meeting vote

said that Hanover pledged in 2017 to transition to 100% green energy by 2030, so membership in the CPCNH would be “a pretty exciting opportunity for the community.” The Selectboard voted unanimously to recommend that the town approve the measure at the Town Meeting.

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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021

SENIOR STAFF COLUMNIST NATALIE DOKKEN ’23

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STAFF COLUMNIST KATHERINE ARRINGTON ’24

The Compassion Conversation

Following a year defined by isolation and loss, Dartmouth must implement compassion-based instructional and bureaucratic policies.

This past academic year, Dartmouth students withdraw from a course, despite feeling empty and have endured an unprecedented period of ashamed by how sick I had become, despite my hardship and loss. Alongside the pandemic, which entire world feeling like it was crumbling around forced many students to go through the academic me, I knew something would be okay. year relatively isolated from campus and their Although I am immensely grateful for my peers, students faced the loss of four of their professors’ compassion, I am also angered that peers — three of which were the result of suicide, extensions during times of crisis can be denied. according to reporting from The Dartmouth and These two professors granted me extensions not the Boston Globe. These losses spurred outrage because they had to, but out of their own good among students over the lackluster nature of will. What this means is that struggling students Dartmouth’s mental health infrastructure, which must not merely divulge intimate details about many have blamed for creating an environment their personal lives to be granted extensions, but that does not adequately support students who also that such vulnerability may also be fruitless.

For example, I told my professors everything — are experiencing a mental health crisis.

As someone who has struggled with their about how sick I had become, that I was trying my mental health during my time at Dartmouth, I best, that I wished I had the ability to put in more am intimately familiar with the inadequacy of effort than I was — and yet, I had a professor deny Dartmouth’s mental health infrastructure. During me an extension; I had to withdraw from their this past fall, I was forced to withdraw from a course during week 9 or risk failing as a result.

While it is easy to course due to a depressive say that this is just how the episode and a string of intense panic attacks. My There are many other world works and maybe professor initially denied me students like me who, some people just aren’t made to be at an institution like an extension, and by the end of the process, the College when they reached out Dartmouth, it is important had demanded access to for a lifeline — whether to consider the implications these statements. You my private medical records, that be a withdrawal of are insinuating that because asked me to write a formal statement explaining the f ro m a c l a s s , t h e students are humans, circumstances that caused me option to take the non- because we dare to get sick and be anything other than to miss the course withdrawal deadline and forced me to recording option for perfect, we don’t belong attend numerous meetings a class or even just a here. At its core, it is an and compassionless with my dean. The entire deadline extension — ableist argument. I am not process was unsympathetic to the fragile mental state were left to navigate suggesting that professors and I was in. As someone who through unnecessary administration should throw order and accountability couldn’t even muster the energy to leave my bed, eat and cumbersome red to the wayside; rather, I am suggesting that they or shower, asking me to do tape. need to implement nuanced so much while still trying to policies that take into account keep up with my remaining students’ humanity. While classes was a ridiculous and Dartmouth is an academically rigorous institution, compassionless expectation.

From start to finish, the withdrawal process left that does not give it the right to be utterly me feeling powerless and humiliated; it was akin to compassionless. kicking me while I was already down, just to make Increasing the flexibility of academic policies sure I knew that any mercy afforded me by the throughout the term, simplifying institutional College was an exception that I should be grateful processes such as the withdrawal process, and for. Unfortunately, I am also aware that this was emphasizing the importance of compassionate not just a one-off incident. Rather, it is indicative of extension and late policies are all important a much larger problem with Dartmouth’s mental steps towards improving Dartmouth’s mental health infrastructure: it’s inflexible and heartless health infrastructure. Additionally, these changes are not difficult to implement. Simply increase instructional and bureaucratic policies.

There are many other students like me who, the window of time in which students can elect when they reached out for a lifeline —whether the NRO and withdraw from courses, augment that be a withdrawal from a class, the option to institutional processes to accommodate the take the non-recording option for a class or even ability of the student at the time and explain to just a deadline extension — were left to navigate professors what compassionate teaching looks like through unnecessary and cumbersome red tape. and emphasize why it is important.

For example, the Valley News reported that If this past year should have taught us anything, Elizabeth Reimer ’24, one of the students who it is that Dartmouth has a responsibility to make died by suicide, had reached out in May for an sure it has policies in place that account for when extension of the NRO deadline following a mental students are enduring hardships such as mental health crisis that required hospitalization. She was health crises. While it may be convenient to think denied an extension due to the College’s inflexible of us as robots who churn out assignments, projects NRO deadline mere hours before she took her and papers, we are, in fact, human. Sometimes life. While I cannot speculate on the relationship we get sick, we lose someone we love or we get between the decision to deny her an extension and hurt. All of these things are normal parts of the her decision to take her own life, the mere fact that human experience, and yet, the College’s rigid, she was denied an extension does demonstrate one-size-fits-all policies make students feel like the cruelty of Dartmouth’s policies. What harm they are not normal; they make us feel guilty for does providing a student who was documented as being human. experiencing a mental health crisis with an NRO As College President Phil Hanlon stated in deadline extension inflict? When students reveal his email to campus on May 21, “one of the they are struggling, flexible policies and deadlines hallmarks of our small, close-knit community can serve as important lifelines that give students is our capacity to care for one another.” If the who feel like they don’t have control over anything administration really believes this is true, then it is time for Dartmouth to put its money where its a sense of control over something.

When I was at my lowest, having two professors mouth is and demonstrate a willingness to care who gave me the time and space to heal, who for its students’ mental wellbeing. Recognizing allotted me as many extensions as I needed students’ humanity by creating compassionand who checked in to make sure I was doing oriented policies that take into account student’s okay meant the world to me. Despite having to circumstances is a great place to start.

Unrighteous Religion

Religious freedom cannot keep being misconstrued to justify discrimination.

This past June, the Supreme Court handed its latest victory to religious interests in the case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the most recent in a series of rulings expanding the scope of freedom of religion under the First Amendment. The Court unanimously sided with Catholic Social Services, an organization that did not recognize marriages between samesex partners and refused to certify them as foster parents, allowing the organization to retain their place as an official foster service provider for Philadelphia. The case is yet another in the trend of organizations, corporations, and individuals using religious liberty to justify discrimination — over the past decade, an unprecedented series of ‘wins’ for religious freedom have threatened some protections against employment discrimination, allowed the refusal of service to LGBTQ+ people and weakened access to reproductive healthcare.

We as a society must more specifically define what religious freedom is and is not and combat its use to harm marginalized communities.

Freedom of religion is, of course, an important right, but rights are limited for a reason. In this case, it is clear that CSS was engaging in discriminatory behavior. It is not even a requirement that one be married in order to be a foster parent, according to the non-profit Pennsylvania State Resource Family Association, so why should being a part of a nontraditional marriage be considered a barrier? Furthermore, CSS’s discriminatory policy, far from being merely a stand on principles, directly harms LGBTQ+ foster children. They are already overrepresented in the foster care system, and evidence has shown success in placing these youth in LGBTQ+ homes. CSS’s barring of gay and lesbian couples not only discriminates against them and diminishes the amount of welcoming homes available to at-risk youth, it also perpetuates future discrimination and stigma against queer individuals, deeming them unworthy of raising children, a role which many hold fundamental.

Religious freedom has been weaponized to support discrimination by actors other than the Supreme Court. The Trump administration issued several new Health and Human Services regulations that supplemented alreadyexisting religious exemptions for healthcare professionals while repealing some Obamaera protections for women and LGBTQ+ patients. These rules limited patient access to healthcare and information related to abortion, sterilization, and gender-transition surgery. In another example, the Catholic hospital Dignity Health refused to provide a hysterectomy to a transgender patient — citing religious reasons — despite allowing the procedure for cisgender patients. In addition, due to the fact that a majority of Catholic hospitals are not transparently Catholic, according to a report from the Center for American Progress, women often do not find out that they cannot receive services such as a tubal ligation until they are already in labor or an abortion unless they are having life-threatening pregnancy complications. Religious beliefs should not take precedence over peoples’ health and wellbeing.

Freedom of religion has also been co-opted by corporations as a means to limit the rights of their employees. In 2014, the Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby upheld corporations’ ability to use the First Amendment to justify their refusal to provide otherwise legally mandated contraceptive health care to their employees. The religious rights of a for-profit corporation were and are deemed more important than the worker rights of actual people. In addition, in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Beru, the Supreme Court barred claims of employment

discrimination by former Catholic school teachers because, the Court found, they counted as “ministers” and the church had large leeway to fire them. These teachers were alleging age- and medical-based discrimination, but because of a “ministerial exemption” that the Court applies to discrimination law, these claims weren’t even heard on their merits. The ruling’s result is that employees in roles even vaguely related to religion forego protections against discrimination based on arbitrary, nonreligious reasons, so long as the discrimination comes from a religious institution. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated in her dissent, the decision allowed religious groups to “discriminate widely and with impunity for reasons wholly divorced from religious beliefs.”

In all of these cases, under the guise of religious freedom, conservative Christians have furthered their own interests at the expense of traditionally marginalized groups including women, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. However, we can stop this misuse of religious liberty. A place to start comes in the form of the “Do No Harm Act.” Introduced in the House of Representatives on Feb. 25, the act would clarify the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, an earlier piece of legislation that was passed with bipartisan support to protect religious rights, but that has since been reinterpreted and expanded to allow discrimination, such as in the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case. The “Do No Harm Act” would outlaw exemptions to civil rights legislation that would result in harm to third-party, often vulnerable groups of people, restoring a narrower interpretation of the RFRA that protects religious freedom without allowing it to warrant discrimination.

A few smaller pieces of policy change can also help combat this religiously justified discrimination. For one, hospitals should be required to list the services that they do not provide because of religious reasons in an accessible place. Legislation that would close the loophole allowing for-profit corporations to subvert anti-discrimination laws for religious reasons is also necessary. In addition, the Equality Act — another piece of anti-discrimination legislation that passed the House of Representatives in February — would provide a framework of protections for LGBTQ+ people in areas including employment, housing, loan applications and education.

Resolving religious freedom with antidiscrimination protections also doesn’t have to entail a protracted legal battle ending in a Supreme Court case — a more collaborative approach can prevail. Local interfaith councils and task forces have proved to be successful avenues for communication between government and religious groups.

These allow the two to work together at a local level, listening to one another, and allowing inclusive conversations coming from a variety of different beliefs. They also create opportunities for Christians to communicate better with non-Christians and find common ground.

I am a strong proponent of freedom of religion in that I believe every individual should be able to believe what they want to and practice religion how they see fit. However, this country’s ever-expanding definition of religious liberty has grown to the point where it allows one person or group’s beliefs to constrain others’ rights — and that is indefensible. Religious freedom isn’t a free pass to inflict harm on others. We must properly manage all our rights and liberties, allowing religious freedom and equal treatment to exist in harmony without the former strangling the latter.

STAFF COLUMNIST KAMI ARABIAN ’23

Impasse in the Articles

A contradiction in the U.N. charter has hindered the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes — Tigray may become the latest example.

Since November of last year, the Ethiopian military has been at odds with insurgent forces in the country’s northernmost state of Tigray. Stirred by an increasing sense of ethnic nationalism, the current fighting has led many to call for the state’s independence. While the state is functionally independent as is, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has declared its willingness to formally and permanently part with Ethiopia if the violence continues. However, whether the world will accept an independent Tigray is a difficult question to answer. Self-determination has consistently been the subject of controversy in international relations, especially because the United Nations charter does not contain any clear and certain guidance on the topic. In one section, it claims to support the “selfdetermination of peoples,” and presumably the right of people to become independent — while in another, pouring cold water on any sort of secession, forbidding infringements “against the territorial integrity … of any state.” These respective articles have been used in the past to justify both pro- and anti-independence viewpoints, leaving conflicts with no clear path to peace. The U.N. Charter must be updated to resolve this contradiction once and for all.

To begin, Article 1.2 of the U.N. Charter establishes its mission to “develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.”

This particular clause seems to support the notion that citizens are entitled to determine their own allegiance — an idea that can be traced to

political philosophies espousing “the consent of the governed.” In Tigray, the TPLF has already laid the groundwork for a national divorce and shift of allegiances, preparing the optimal economic, political, and social conditions for the region’s eventual departure. If the people of Tigray voted for the formation of their own state in a free and fair referendum, would it not be reasonable to expect the members of the U.N. to support this decision?

But history shows this answer is not always a clearcut “yes.”

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the former Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo conducted a referendum that resulted in about 99 percent of voting Kosovars favoring independence — though the vote was boycotted by the Serbian minority. Since Kosovo officially declared independence from Serbia in 2008, 97 member-states of the U.N. — among them, 26 of the 30 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — have established diplomatic ties with the newborn republic. Citing Article 1.2, many of these nations, including the United States, have offered security assistance to Kosovo. In fact, the U.S. provides more foreign aid to Kosovo than any other Balkan nation, on top of its numerous troop deployments guaranteeing Kosovo’s security. In this instance, then, the answer was “yes” — but only in the eyes of certain states, with world powers such as China and Russia still refusing to recognize Kosovo.

The Republic of Artsakh, on the other hand, has not been so lucky; the opponents of its independence cite another article of the U.N. Charter in an

attempt to justify their view. Despite citizens voting in referendum to part from Azerbaijan — earning 99.89 percent of the vote with 82.2 percent of eligible voters turning out — the international community has largely ignored its declaration due to pressure from Azerbaijan’s closest ally, Turkey.

Together, these nations justified suppressing calls for independence with another article in the charter: Article 2.4, which states, “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” So is the Republic of Artsakh a noble and justified attempt for self determination — or a violation of the integrity of Azerbaijan? The answers the international community has settled on are largely motivated by geopolitics and the need to placate NATO-partner Turkey, not any set of moral principles.

Evidently, Articles 1.2 and 2.4 are mutually incompatible. By definition, a declaration of independence is bound to alter an existing state’s territorial boundaries to a certain extent. Therefore, the U.N. should amend its charter by establishing a “supremacy clause” — a commonly held standard for which of the two articles will be prioritized in the event of conflict. Ideally, the supremacy clause would favor self-determination because it is much more democratic than its alternative. Selfdetermination allows the people to decide their own fate by rejecting any colonial occupation that

they deem to be illegitimate.

The consistent application of this standard is key. In the past, the selective application of the articles has led to many unfair situations, as states guide their decisions with ulterior motives instead of moral principles. When given the choice to support or oppose self-determination — a decision that, according to the current U.N. Charter, has no wrong answer — states have aligned with their own interests, ignoring those of the people in question. Hopefully, a commitment to unequivocally respecting the right to self-determination will lead to more equitable outcomes.

As citizens across the world grapple with the legacy of imperialism — their countries fragmented into particularistic sects, clans, and ethnic groups forced to live under the same flag, to obey the same leader and to root for the same soccer team — it is probable that we will witness many more independence movements within our lifetimes. In order to strengthen our diplomatic toolbox and promote conflict resolution in Tigray, as well as to prevent future conflicts before they even start, it is essential that the U.N. clarify its prerequisites for statehood. Without change, legitimate calls for independence and self-determination will remain at the mercy of global politics and self-interested world leaders; the peoples of Kosovo, Artsakh and perhaps Tigray will be left behind in recognitionpurgatory, with no viable pathway to independence.

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Nugget Theaters reopen, pandemic restrictions remain in place

BY PIERCE WILSON The Dartmouth Staff

On June 18, downtown Hanover’s Nugget Theaters reopened for inperson screenings, showing three movies each day on weekends. The theater reopened with COVID-19 restrictions and protections in place. These include plexiglass partitions in the ticketing area, required masks for patrons when not enjoying concessions, 50% occupancy limits in each theater, extra cleaning and sanitization, assigned seating for patrons and a brand new $800,000 HVAC system.

According to Hanover Improvement Society general manager Jeff Graham, the HIS — which operates the Nugget — decided to close the theatre down last spring when the COVID-19 pandemic first began. Though they tried to re-open in July 2020, the theater saw very little attendance.

“We tried it for a couple of weeks last summer,” said Graham.

“Nobody was interested in coming to the movies, and it’s an expensive building to operate, so it just was not worth it. We finally just said, ‘You know what, let’s shut her down, see how things go and reevaluate month by month.’”

Graham said that after consulting local health officials and medical experts from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the improvement society decided that it was safe to reopen this summer given all of the new COVID-19 precautions they have implemented. He also emphasized how helpful the new HVAC system will be in reducing potential transmission because it is “state-of-the-art” and does “an incredible job” of circulating air out of all four theaters. He explained that the improvement society talks about these restrictions

and protections almost daily and will continue to make decisions about them on a monthly basis.

“I would say these [precautions] will be in play definitely through [July],” Graham said. “I’ll be reaching out to our health experts that we rely on and get their input to see what they think. Other theaters across the state are wide open, but we’re not feeling that comfortable yet.”

From summer 2020 through spring 2021, the Nugget offered free popcorn — with encouraged donations — every Friday. Graham said that this was an effort to “keep the Nugget in everybody’s mind,” and to help keep the theater open during a financially difficult time.

Graham said that the Nugget received “incredible” support from community members through donations, noting that on some days, proceeds exceeded $1,000.

“The Nugget’s been around since 1916, and it’s an incredible asset to the Main Street community that we don’t want people to lose track of,” Graham said.

Rothschild Toussaint ’23 — who is looking forward to seeing “Space Jam 2” at the Nugget this summer — said that he visited the theater and made a donation in October 2020.

A l t h o u g h s eve r a l H a n ove r businesses — including the Nugget’s neighbor, Morano Gelato — closed as a result of the pandemic, Graham said that the Nugget “is a little different in that [it is] a movie theater and everybody loves to go to the movies.” Outside of the Nugget and the College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, the nearest movie theater to Hanover is the Entertainment Cinema in Lebanon.

Dartmouth Film Society executive Vania Ding ’23 has seen many films at the Nugget and

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The Nugget will likely remain 50% capacity for at least the rest of July.

said that she misses the experience of being in the theater. Ding said that she understands why the restrictions are in place and emphasized how the community on campus is different from the Hanover community at large.

“What we consider to be safe can be different for a lot of people, because we as a community are almost fully vaccinated at this point,” Ding said.

Toussaint also said that he supports the continued restrictions and that he doesn’t think he will mind wearing a mask in the theater.

“I feel that if a business wants to uphold any type of COVID rules, they should be able to,” he said.

“I think, as a customer, you know that you are buying their product or their service, and you should abide by the rules.”

Finn Hulse ’23 said that he grew up visiting the Nugget and is excited to return this summer, noting that he has had the same concession order — popcorn and a box of Dots — since childhood.

He added he is comfortable with visiting the movie theater as he is fully vaccinated, but he feels as though the 50% occupation limit at the Nugget may dull the moviegoing experience.

“I think there’s a certain joy i n b e i n g c r a m m e d t o g e t h e r, watching a premiere of a movie that everyone’s really enjoying and people are crying or laughing, so I feel like 50% might be a little low,” he said.

Toussaint echoed Hulse’s note about the social and artistic value of viewing movies in a theater and the unique experience that comes

from being surrounded by fellow movie-goers.

“I would say [the theater] is primarily a social event,” Toussaint said, “When I went to see ‘Avengers: Endgame’ for the first time, I couldn’t have imagined not seeing it on the big screen, because you need that crowd reaction.”

According to Graham, each weekend since the Nugget has opened, it has seen a “huge uptick” in attendance, and that he looks forward to what the rest of the summer might bring. “‘Black Widow’ is starting this week, and that’s gonna be huge because those movies have a cult following,” Graham said. “I’m very excited about what the fall is going to bring. I just think we’re going to be back and better than we were before.”

Preview: Big Red Machine to break barriers on genre-fluid album

BY ANNE JOHNAKIN The Dartmouth Staff

Big Red Machine, a duo composed of The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, is releasing its second album “How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?” on Aug. 27.

The album is the latest installment in a burst of creative energy and wideranging collaboration, sparked by the pandemic, from Dessner and Vernon.

Leading up to the album drop, they have released three singles that offer a glimpse into the experimental compilation.

For their most recent single, “Renegade,” Vernon and Desssner team up with a familiar partner: Taylor Swift. The three previously collaborated on Swift’s last two albums: “Folklore” and “Evermore,” which pair Swift’s songwriting abilities with the indie, weathered sound of Vernon and Dessner.

Swift fans and critics alike positively received this partnership. Now, eyes turn to the BRM album as it adds at least two more songs to this collaboration, the first of which diverges from their past work.

“Renegade” follows in the stylistic vein of the trio’s previous releases: Swift leads the vocals, and Vernon’s background voice adds texture. Swift and Dessner shine lyrically, just as they do on Swift’s own albums. But “Renegade” isn’t just another Taylor Swift song. It deals with a lover frustrated with their partner’s mental health struggles — the opposite point of view Swift has traditionally taken in her autobiographical songs. “Is it insensitive for me to say, get your shit together? / So I can love you / Is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything? / Or do you just not want to?”

The album’s visual aesthetics follow the theme of fragmented reminiscence. The cover is full of obscured images and bright colors, evocative of a college band’s experimental phase — a far cry from the quiet, lost-in-time forests of Swift’s “Folklore” and “Evermore.”

Collaborations with one of the world’s biggest artists will no doubt draw many listeners to the release, but this should not overshadow the other artists featured on the album.

The opening track, titled “Latter

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Days,” features Anaïs Mitchell and tells the story of a natural disaster.

Mitchell, who is best known for her concept album that birthed the Broadway musical “Hadestown,” is no stranger to singing tales of woe.

“Latter Days” opens with haunting whistles and vocals as Mitchell introduces the scene with a voice that sounds like warm milk: “You were stocking up before the storm / Stacked yourself against the odds / Talking back to an act of God.” The retrospective lyrics pair well with Vernon and Mitchell’s somber duet.

The song sets the tone for the rest of the album, which should include two other songs featuring Mitchell.

It would be unfair to say that this album shines because of its collaborations, though. The third released single, titled “The Ghost of Cincinnati,” proves the Vernon and Dessner duo can hold their own.

The song’s lyrics are a testament

to Cincinnati, a city the duo share a history with. In between lines pointing to specific Cincinnati locations, Dessner sings “I park at this spot and stare at the water / Try to remember I’m somebody’s father.”

An introspection that further marks the ownership of this album, these are Vernon and Dessner’s stories.

The song’s steady guitar strum is reminiscent of a swiftly moving river, adding to the overwhelmed yet tired atmosphere the lyrics create.

“I’m overspеnt / Overworked / Overlooked / I’m Over-the-Rhine,” Dessner croons throughout the song.

Dessner’s vocals are a welcome departure from BRM’s Vernonheavy first album. It should be interesting to hear whether or not this shift remains consistent through the rest of the album. Its folkiness pairs better with the tone of the album so far than Vernon’s declarative, newage voice.

In the three released songs, Vernon and Dessner have created an acoustic, atmospheric vault of stories — a mood which, if kept consistent with the rest of the forthcoming album, would move the group away from the electric sounds they experimented with in their 2018 self-titled debut album. The rest of the record is slated to have more collaborations in store, including Fleet Foxes and Sharon Van Etten, that suggest they are taking the album in an indie direction. However, features from Ilsey and Naeem, both artists who reside in the hip-hop realm, may offer different creative paths for the tracks.

Regardless of the genre the rest of the album will take, listeners should expect a strong album lyrically, focusing on past memories and showcasing stories different from those already told by Dessner and Vernon in other projects. Dessner’s

lyrics for “Brycie,” the 14th song on the album, will explore a deep love for his twin brother and follow the album’s thread addressing the struggles of mental health.

The emotional vulnerability and maturity this album delivers so far is beyond Big Red Machine’s previous forays. Lyrics written before the pandemic, such as those in “Latter Days,” are sung with new care afterward. The testament to vulnerability and partnership, with themes of escape and loneliness expanded on through the album now hold new significance. “How there was no hiding place / So we called each other brothers / In the latter days, in the latter days.” Given the exploratory nature of the album’s aesthetic so far, listeners should expect the August release to contain songs that connect to themes of nostalgia and introspection but are not strictly bound to one genre.

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Dartmouth to sell commercial radio license for WFRD-FM

BY Ben Korkowski The Dartmouth Staff

On June 22, Dartmouth announced its decision to sell its commercial radio license for WFRD-FM, known

Although student listenership and involvement has largely transitioned to Dartmouth Broadcasting’s online format, the loss of Dartmouth’s commercial

non-Dartmouth community. According to Hall, the station records about 8,200 The station was started as an AM local listeners per week. channel in 1958, but in recent years, Across the country, general radio Dartmouth Broadcasting has seen listenership has been on the decline as less student interest in WFRD in other audio formats, such as streaming favor of WDCR, and podcasting, the organization’s have taken hold. online radio Financially, this station, according you are able to do lack of interest to interim advisor in radio has also for Dartmouth meant that WFRD Broadcasting AnnaHall.Shealso are able to showcase struggled to said that they have meet revenue reported decreased expectations, Hall revenues as a result said. With a lack of less favorable of revenue coming trends across the in, and keeping radio industry typical broadcast radio in mind FCC more generally. format.” guidelines that do The last studentnot allow a station hosted show ended in the spring. Per more than 30 days th e Co l l e g e ’s without notice or announcement, 180 days with FCC proceeds from the approval, Hall said that Dartmouth sale will be used to support Dartmouth administration saw “selling the license Broadcasting and WDCR. as an opportunity to support Dartmouth Dartmouth’s WFRD station has Broadcasting.” provided coverage to much of the Dartmouth Broadcasting transitioned Upper Valley with “a live morning in 2010 from just maintaining an AM show Monday through Friday and station to having an additional online then rock music and syndicated shows format under the name WDCR. the remainder of the day,” Hall said.

“On the online station, you are The 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. show is hosted able to do a lot more creative content,

by Chris Fazio, the station’s one full-time and students are able to showcase employee, who is also responsible for themselves more authentically without selling advertisements. Fazio directed a the restriction of a typical broadcast radio format,” former Dartmouth “We will miss Chris a lot,” general Broadcasting general manager Connor manager of Dartmouth Broadcasting Turner ’20 said.

Ray Crist ’22 said. “He has been Prior to this transition, student wonderful not only as a morning show involvement in WFRD had also waned host, but also as a mentor to students, due to challenges students faced with and a source of institutional knowledge regular involvement, unable to “commit and radio wisdom.” to daily radio shows because of varying

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were involved in WFRD, but also alumni commitments,” Hall said.

The situation of college radio is not colleges have sold their commercial and non-commercial licenses, leaving few that continue to operate commercial stations. One example Hall cited was Brown University, which sold its commercial radio station in 2017. She said that by fully digitizing operations, for digital listening and streaming.

From the perspective of those who have been involved in producing the radio, the announcement symbolizes a big change.

“I think WFRD meant a lot, to not only some of the current students who

going to be a big change for the radio because the station has had two channels over the last 45-plus years — so now, Crist said.

Turner said he felt similarly, noting that the station has given students the real-world broadcast experience they might not necessarily get through online radio.

“It’s just a shame that 99Rock is no longer going to be a part of Dartmouth radio, because I know being on the airwaves really does inspire people to get into this business, whether it be sticking with broadcasting or branching out to other things like podcasts or journalism,” he said.

The prospect of a sale, however, has always been in the back of many Dartmouth Broadcasting members’ heads.

“I think a lot of us knew deep down that this announcement was coming, as much as we didn’t want it to happen,” Turner said.

The recent announcement has also brought many of Dartmouth Broadcasting alumni back into the conversation. Hall said that they are hoping to continue to engage alumni in the broadcast industry to provide internship opportunities to current students. She added that some Dartmouth community members have even come forward since the announcement potentially interested in purchasing the license.

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to change some of the things in the past that haven’t worked well.

It’s a really good year to reflect on what we’ve always done and think about what new ways, what more accessible ways, we can do them in.”

Trips directorate has also designed several new types of trips, including programs like Frisbee that Appleton hopes will increase accessibility and comfort as well as provide “other ways that people can

engage with the outside besides just hiking to the top of the mountain.”

“Overall, we have to create new trips to have capacity for people, and if we’re doing that work to create new trips anyway, we might as well create new, fun, interesting types of trips that might appeal to more people,” she said. “We would like to offer a greater number and types of trips, including ones that can accommodate or appeal to folks who may not be as interested in traditional outdoor activities like hiking or canoeing or what have

you, especially with First-Year Trips being more integrated with the New Student Orientation schedule.”

This year’s volunteers have not yet learned which crews they will be on or which trips they will lead, but trip leader Aadhya Kocha ’22 said she is looking forward to showing incoming students the traditions that made her love Dartmouth as a first-year student.

“I feel like [over] the last year, a lot of that personality and goofiness that Dartmouth had went away, and I’m sure that’s been hard on

a lot of people,” she said. “Not a lot of people obviously know that — because it died when they were not a part of the College — so I want to try to bring that back, not only for the volunteers, but for the incoming students so they see why I initially loved Dartmouth.”

Now that they have experienced Trips as both a tripee and as a trip leader, Gus Guszkowski ’22, who is volunteering as a trip leader for the second time this year, said that they are excited to experience Trips where they know what to expect,

rather than “going into a totally new situation that I’d never experienced before.”

“I’m excited to finally get to go into this more or less knowing what to expect, which I think will help me focus on making it a really, really good experience for the ’25s rather than focusing on, oh God, what am I doing?” they said. “I think having the previous experience will help me overcome my nerves about the whole thing, and I’m really excited because I think that’s going to make me a better trip leader.”