The Dartmouth 10/22/2021

VOL. CLXXVIII NO. 21

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2021

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

344 bids extended to new fraternity Business owners adapt to members, IFC withholds house- continuing labor shortage by-house breakdown

BY EMILY FAGELL The Dartmouth

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Interfraternity Council president Daniel Gold ’22 declined to share figures, saying there was no “benefit.”

BY ELiZA DURBIN The Dartmouth

The first in-person fraternity rush since the onset of COVID-19 concluded this past weekend, with fraternities extending a total of 344 bids, according to interim Office of Greek Life director and associate dean of residential life Mike Wooten.

Interfraternity Council president Daniel Gold ’22 declined to share a house-by-house breakdown of bid numbers.

Gold said that he believes rush between the different fraternities can be viewed as “very competitive” from those outside of Greek Life, when in reality, the fraternities are “all one

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fraternity community.”

“I don’t see any benefit to sharing these numbers,” Gold said. “In the past, I have seen it first hand on this campus how — when these numbers go out, there are houses that have particularly small or particularly large rush classes — people tend to label them as good or bad and it’s a conversation that starts spreading around campus.”

Gold said his decision to withhold the bid numbers was a “thought-out” process, noting that he had the support of the fraternity presidents and the Office of Greek Life.

Wooten declined to comment other than providing the topline number of bids. He is heading the

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office temporarily after the summer departures of former director Brian Joyce and former program coordinator Jessica Barloga left the office without permanent leadership.

Despite Gold’s decision, some fraternity presidents and rush chairs provided The Dartmouth with the number of bids they offered this rush cycle. According to their respective presidents or rush chairs, 31 bids have been extended at Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, 37 bids at Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, nine at Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, 15 bids at Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, 26 bids at Sigma Nu fraternity and 34 bids at

Hanover joined the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire on Oct 1. The coalition, which includes 12 other municipalities and Cheshire County, aims to help member governments pool their resources to transition to more renewable forms of electricity.

Previously, Hanover residents purchased energy largely from Liberty — a regulated energy utility vendor — according to Hanover town manager Julia Griffin.

Griffin said that joining the CPCNH is a step toward the community-wide commitment to 100% renewable electricity by 2030.

“We knew that to meet that goal, we needed to create a town-wide aggregation [system] and get the state statute changed to enable towns to buy [energy] on behalf of our retail customers,” Griffin said. “The best aggregation would happen if we pulled multiple communities together — it gives us more clout.”

Griffin said that Hanover has made small strides toward renewable energy, including installing a new solar array which will provide some 92% of the three megawatts used by the town’s public infrastructure. The CPCNH will help shift the entire town’s 115 megawatts electric consumption toward green energy over time, according to Griffin.

The coalition allows municipalities to negotiate and purchase electricity from utility companies collectively on residents’ behalf, according to Lebanon assistant mayor Clifton Below, and aims to help communities lower consumer electricity prices and afford more green energy options.

Below said that the 14 member towns and cities of the CPCNH constitute 211,000 residents — about

15% of the state population. The coalition includes Nashua, the state’s second largest city with nearly 90,000 residents.

The CPCNH will facilitate c o l l a b o r at i o n b e t we e n l o c a l governments, existing utility companies like Liberty and state regulators, according to energy consultant Henry Herndon. Currently 60% to 70% of the electricity in New England comes from natural gas, Herndon said, while the rest is from a mix of renewable energy and nuclear power.

Herndon also noted that the CPCNH could utilize cash gains over time to develop a local energy economy. He added that local energy economies, which produce power closer to home, can reduce costs associated with interstate grid transmission and the wider, wholesale market.

Below built on Herndon’s image of how the CPCNH will operate, explaining that the coalition, made up of state governments, will become similar to “a power supply agency.”

At first, he said it will work with vendors and competitive suppliers to supply energy. Over time, however, the CPCNH will become a “load serving entity” able to contract with local renewable resources.

“It is for communities, by communities,” Below said.

History of the CPCNH The story of the CPCNH goes back decades, according to Below.

He said that in the early 1990s, New Hampshire was heading toward some of the highest electric rates in the nation. In response, Below said that he spearheaded legislation in 1996 to address the problem as a member of the New Hampshire state legislature.

The 1996 legislation, RSA 53E, was the first municipal power aggregation legislation in the country,

Many Hanover businesses have been struck by the pandemic-driven labor shortage, reporting extended wait times, reduced operating hours and longer shifts for employees.

Dirt Cowboy Cafe has gone from having 14 full-time employees before the pandemic to relying on mostly part-time employees this fall — who in aggregate are the equivalent of roughly six full-time workers, according to owner Thomas Guerra.

Likewise, Boloco general manager Ashley Widmer said the restaurant currently employs 20 to 25 people, compared to 35 or 40 over the summer.

And John Haas — whose wife, Melissa Haas, owns local business Lemon Tree — said the boutique currently has three full-time and two part-time employees, compared to four full-time and “at least two to four” part-time workers before the pandemic.

“There were many times [prior to the pandemic] we weren’t fully staffed, but [Lemon Tree] was maybe down one or two part-timers at most,” Haas said. “We’ve never been this low ever.

We could easily use five employees right now.”

Many business owners and managers have attributed the shortage to COVID-19 related health concerns, the continued impacts of expanded unemployment benefits — which expired in September — or an overall shift in the labor pool away from restaurant and retail industries.

“I think that some people got quite a bit of money through the government relief,” Guerra said.

“With COVID still around, I think there’s quite a few people probably who just say, ‘You know what? I don’t need to work right now, so I’m just going to sit on the sidelines until things clear up a little bit more.’”

Guerra added that COVID-19 provided a “reset” for restaurant workers — many of whom have come to the conclusion over the course of the pandemic that they may be better served by pursuing opportunities away from food service, which he said “doesn’t have the greatest reputation.”.

In response to the shortage, many businesses have reduced hours or closed for certain days of the week altogether. Widmer said that Boloco is currently closed on Sundays and is operating with shortened hours. Dirt Cowboy recently decided to close on Sundays and Wednesdays, resulting in unaware customers “dropping by [and] pulling on the door,” Guerra said.

For Guerra, however, the most profound effect of the labor shortage has been the “stress” of staying afloat.

“I would say that the biggest impact [on] me is just the stress,” he said. “Just the idea that if it gets any worse, what am I going to do, and will it get to the point where I begin to start having problems? [I have] almost 30 years of my life invested into this location here.”

In response to the labor shortage, workers have stepped up to work overtime, and owners and managers have increased their own working hours, Widmer said.

“We’ve tried to be good to the employees and not put the burden on

them,” Haas said. “It’s my wife and I coming in and working way more hours. I have [another] job, so I’ve been using all my vacation time for my job to come in and help work with the store like I’m doing today. We’ve had to fill in the gaps, but it’s getting difficult because we work seven days a week, essentially.”

Likewise, Guerra said he is currently devoting his “life” to keeping Dirt Cowboy open.

“I did 80 hours myself [last week],” he said. “There’s no time for anything.

I’ve got a kayak strapped to my roof — I haven’t been able to put it in the water. I’ve got an electric skateboard — I haven’t been able to get on that.

And I play classical guitar — I haven’t touched a guitar in six weeks, or something like that. So my life is just trying to keep this place operating.”

Although Still North Books and Bar owner Allie Levy ’11 noted that her business is not short-staffed and has “extra people,” she said the bookstore has been impacted by the changed schedules of other shops. According to Levy, the cafe has been flooded with customers since other coffee shops — such as Starbucks and Dirt Cowboy — have reduced their hours.

“Our cafe specifically is doing volume that’s much higher than I would’ve anticipated because there [are] fewer options open as consistently as we are,” she said. “This increase in demand because other places are not fully open is definitely wearing on the team.”

Levy added that Still North Books and Bar has had to take more aggressive hiring measures.

“We have been able to hire, but we have felt the effects of the labor shortage,” Levy said. “We’ve seen way fewer applicants than we’ve seen in the past, and we’ve also had to act incredibly quickly on applicants that we are getting to make sure that they don’t receive another offer in the meantime.”

Levy explained that she has offered many employees jobs “on the spot” instead of waiting in order to ensure she could fill positions. She said her business has been “extraordinarily lucky” that everyone she has hired in this manner is “very much somebody that [she] would want on [their] team regardless.”

Other businesses are also adjusting hiring and employment practices in order to attract more employees.

According to Widmer, Boloco has raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Guerra added that he is focusing on workplace culture, in addition to pay.

“I’m paying as much as I can,” Guerra said. “I try to create a work environment where it’s not a place that says, ‘No, we[’ve] got to open.’

I could probably open on Sundays, but that would stretch my staff more than they’d be comfortable being stretched… [I want] to make sure that the work environment itself stays nice, that it’s a job that people enjoy.”

Many businesses said they are still looking to hire, but Haas noted that labor is a constant problem in the Upper Valley.

“Unemployment in the Upper Valley has always been very, very low,” Haas said. “It has never been easy to get people to come. It just has become exceptionally difficult right now.”

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Below said. The legislation allowed municipalities to sponsor the supply of electricity to customers. The main issue with the 1996 legislation was that it worked on an opt-in basis, which made innovative community power aggregation programs difficult to launch. The law was updated in 2019 to make the program opt-out,

according to Below.

Hanover sustainability manager April Salas said that a town greenenergy program that operated under the opt-in 1996 legislation had only amassed 10% of the town’s population to participate at its height. Salas said SEE CPCNHP PAGE 2

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THE DARTMOUTH NEWS

Dartmouth women make history “The boys are buzzing”: inwith $379 million donation person rush gets high marks

BY ARI ROJAS

The Dartmouth

As part of the College’s Call to Lead campaign, an unprecedented 103 women each donated gifts upwards of $1 million, totaling $379 million in campaign commitments and another $61 million in bequest expectancies.

According to Centennial Circle member Peggy Epstein ’79, Dartmouth’s previous campaign — the 2002 Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience — only saw a total of four women alumnae donate at least $1 million.

The Centennial Circle — the first fundraising society created specifically for Dartmouth alumnae — played a major role in coordinating the philanthropic achievement, Epstein said. According to its website, the group was founded in 2014 to celebrate the Dartmouth College Fund’s 100th anniversary by recruiting 100 alumnae to join the society. Each alumna must make a contribution of at least $100,000 to the Dartmouth College Fund or the annual fund of Dartmouth’s professional school in order to gain membership. Today, The Centennial Circle has 285 members, nearly tripling its initial goal.

Dean of faculty of the arts and sciences Elizabeth Smith attributed the rise in female-led donations to Dartmouth’s “dedicated” alumnae base.

Although a record number of the donations exceeded $1 million, another Centennial Circle member, Ashley Shackelton ’05, said women of any giving capacity were encouraged to chip in. The College plans to engrave the names of donors on Dartmouth Hall’s wall, Epstein added.

“Any amount of money — anywhere from $5 to $5 million — would get you your name on the wall of Dartmouth Hall,” Shackleton said. “It’s something that we wanted to feel accessible for all women. We wanted them to feel that this special place on campus could become theirs, in a way.”

As of Oct. 21, Dartmouth Hall is set to have the names of 2,719 donors — out of a goal of 3,000 — on its wall.

Epstein said the Centennial Circle was able to harness alumnae’s donating power by simply asking for contributions. “[The Centennial Circle] asked,” Epstein said. “I don’t think in the past anyone’s ever thought to say to women, ‘Would you be willing to

step up at this kind of level?’”

Epstein added that the Call to Lead campaign has featured greater female representation than past College campaigns, with representation on the executive committee being “very balanced male to female.” In 1988, Epstein served as the only woman on the Will to Excel campaign’s executive committee.

“I think having women in active leadership roles this time around has made a huge difference,” she added.

Epstein said the Call to Lead campaign’s personal approach to female donors makes it stand out from other campaigns. She noted that to incentivize alumnae to join, the Centennial Circle coordinated social events limited to members of the group.

“What made Centennial Circle work was that we offered [alumnae] the opportunity to be part of this community,” Epstein said. “[Alumnae] felt not only excited to support financially, but [they] felt [they] were getting to have fun in return, as well.”

Shackleton said she hopes to extend this sisterhood to current female-identifying students at Dartmouth and hopes they too will donate to Dartmouth Hall and “make their mark on history.”

New Power Coalition will help Hanover realize its goal of achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2030

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Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

The 344 bids offered this fall marks an increase from the 316 bids offered last winter. From the houses that provided their bid numbers, Alpha Chi, Beta, TDX and Tri-Kap saw an increase in their rush class size compared to last year, and Sig Nu and GDX saw a decrease. Tri-Kap, which extended six bids last year, saw the largest increase of nine additional members. GDX, which extended 33 bids last year, saw the largest decrease in class size by 24 members.

The presidents of Bones Gate, Chi Gamma Epsilon, Chi Heorot, Phi Delta Alpha, Psi Upsilon and Zeta Psi fraternities declined to comment or did not respond to emailed requests to provide their rush numbers by press time.

According to Gold, this year’s rush cycle was affected by COVID-19 safety protocols and the inability to gather in social spaces last spring term.

“Normally, rush starts in the spring of freshman year … and it goes until normally week three [of sophomore fall],” Gold said. “But because there was no real rush process last spring, we had to move shakeout back to week five to give chapters and [potential new members] more time to get to meet each other.”

However, Gold said he expects that the rush process will return to normal in 2022.

Fraternity presidents and rush chairs said they noted extra excitement among potential new members in the Class of 2024, many of whom missed out on first-year social activities.

Alpha Chi rush chair Brendan Flewelling ’23 said he was excited to be a part of his first in-person rush. He added that he participated in virtual rush last year by “hopping on Zoom calls with brothers,” and did not think it was as “rewarding or fun as in person.”

Drew Barry ’24, a new member of Alpha Chi who rushed this fall, described this year’s rush process as “stressful.”

“The first five weeks were pretty stressful just with not really knowing any of the houses beforehand” Barry said. “It was a lot of work and a lot of time trying to meet brothers from all the different houses.”

Clark Gilmore ’24 said he had a different rush experience as a member of Dartmouth’s varsity baseball team.

Gilmore, who was extended a bid at Heorot this fall, described rush as “a one day thing, really.” According to Gilmore, “nearly every” ’24 on the baseball team received a bid from Heorot this fall.

“As part of the baseball team, I spent a lot of my time there during the year, and I got to know a lot of the brothers,” Gilmore said. “So when it came time for rush, all I really did [was] go to shakeout, see a ton of guys I already knew … and now, I guess I’m in.”

TDX president Jack Schifino ’22 said he is excited about the first inperson rush class since the pandemic.

“I love the ’24s,” Schifino said. “I’m really excited about our class this year, so I was definitely really happy to be a part of that, and excited for these guys to finally be able to join the fraternity after all the stuff [they] went through with COVID-19.”

Alex Hughes ’23, one of Beta’s rush chairs, said Beta’s higher rush numbers were due to the distinctive nature of the class.

“We thought that when we got down to the people that shook out — when we got to those last 36 — we thought that each one brought something specific and unique to the class,” Hughes said.

Zahni Khin ’23, another Beta rush chair, said they got a “sick” rush class.

“The boys are buzzing,” Khin said. “It is electric in here, dude.”

Sororities, GIGC extend over 300 bids

BY JAMES QUIRK The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on October 20, 2021.

Major electricity users like Dartmouth will decide the efficacy of the CPCNH in Hanover.

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that the opt-out based 2019 legislation will naturally encourage far higher participation rates in community power aggregation.

According to Below, the journey toward community power aggregation hit an obstacle in January 2021. The New Hampshire House floated HB 315, a bill that would have “completely gutted” the 2019 law and made optout community power aggregation nearly “impossible.” Below said energy utilities like Eversource, which provides 70% of electricity in New Hampshire, were proponents of the bill.

Below added that ultimately, he worked alongside Herndon, House energy committee chairman Rep. Michael Vose and Eversource to come to a compromise that would allow municipalities to use opt-out community power aggregation. The revised bill was passed on Sept. 7 and will go into effect on Oct. 25.

Dartmouth and the CPCNH Hanover’s residential electricity use is a “drop in the bucket” compared to

large Hanover energy consumers like Dartmouth, Hypertherm, the Co-op supermarkets and the Army Corps of Engineers, according to Griffin.

She said that these large consumers currently buy electricity on the wholesale market through third-party brokers.

Griffin said that a main goal for Hanover is to encourage these large consumers to sign 15–20 year power purchase agreements that lock them into competitive pricing for 100% green power. In the future, Griffin said, the CPCNH could help execute such power agreements for large consumers like Dartmouth.

T he College’s director of sustainability Rosi Kerr said that Dartmouth consumes 65,000 megawatt-hours per year, and that the College is a “supportive partner” — with the sustainability office meeting regularly with Salas, Below, Griffin and other Dartmouth administrators to discuss energy use.

Salas said that Dartmouth has not yet had to make a decision about its involvement in the CPCNH, but said that the College is “very supportive” of the CPCNH.

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The future of the CPCNH Engineering professor Amro Farid, who serves as a technical advisor to the CPCNH, said that relevant changes to the energy landscape require a “push” on physical, economic and political fronts. He added that the CPCNH, which consists of volunteers and town governments, does not have the “armies” of electric power professionals available to electric power utilities.

Though an upward battle, Herndon said that the CPCNH provides a “huge opportunity” for municipalities to move forward on clean energy and it is designed to grow and welcome new municipal members over time.

“We hope it will expand beyond the initial fourteen,” Herndon said.

The Town of Hanover has given residents updates regarding the CPCNH through multiple public meetings, Griffin said. She added that the town will provide residents and businesses information on pricing in 2022.

“Collaborations and coalitions require time,” she said. “We don’t want any communities to be rushed into it.”

In the first in-person rush since 2020, both sororities and gender-inclusive Greek houses experienced a significant increase in rush participation. The Greek houses have also welcomed more new members into their houses compared to previous years.

According to Inter-Sorority Council president Molly Katarincic ’22, 308 bids were extended to those who participated in the sorority rush process. The number is a sizable increase from the 237 bids extended during the fall of 2019, the 239 bids extended during the fall of 2018 and the 284 bids extended during the fall and winter terms of the virtual 20202021 academic school year combined.

Alpha Phi sorority extended 43 bids, Alpha Xi Delta sorority extended 48, Chi Delta sorority extended 46, Kappa Delta sorority extended 38, Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority extended 43, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority extended 48 and Sigma Delta sorority extended 44, according to Katarincic. Five and three students were admitted to A Phi and AXiD through the houses’ continuous open bidding process, respectively. KD’s continuous open bidding process is ongoing.

All sororities that participated in the ISC process welcomed more new members this fall than they did in the fall of 2019 or the fall and winter terms of the 2020-2021 school year combined.

Epsilon Kappa Theta, the smallest sorority, did not participate in the traditional rush process this year after being required to in 2018, EKT president Laurel Semprebon ’22 said.

The house is conducting continuous open bidding and has so far accepted seven new members.

After two terms of virtual rush, sororities finally returned to the standard procedure of hosting rush in person. Between the Class of 2023 and the Class of 2024, a total of 417 students registered for rush this year, according to Katarincic — a 12% increase from the 372 students who registered to rush in the fall of 2019.

According to Katarincic, of the 417 students who rushed, 308 were offered bids, a retention rate of about 73.9%.

Katarincic said that this retention rate is comparable to last year’s. It is an increase from the 63.7% who received bids in 2019 and the 62.2% who received bids in 2018. Similarly, the withdrawal of 109 people this fall

is less than the 124 who withdrew in 2019 and the 139 who withdrew in 2018.

Sigma Delt president Sophie Kwon ’22 attributed this rush season’s success to the return to a physical setting.

“We had a chance to showcase the energy and nature of the house in a way that doesn’t come across over Zoom,” Kwon said.

Similarly, Chi Delt president Yuna Kim ’22 noted that returning to the physical house allowed Chi Delt to have “a more fun and organic” experience while rushing.

“While masks were involved, they didn’t really change anything. We were able to bring back a lot of the functional aspects of pre-pandemic rush,” Kim shared.

Gender-Inclusive Greek Spaces 33 bids were extended by Phi Tau coed fraternity and Alpha Theta coed fraternity, two of the College’s gender-inclusive Greek houses. Both Phi Tau president Kai Frey ’22 and Alpha Theta president Mara Kotz ’22 said that their houses extended more bids this year than in recent years.

Kotz noted that interest in GIGC houses on campus is growing. Alpha Theta and Phi Tau offered “rolling rush” in which potential new members could sign a rush book — free of registration dues — to demonstrate interest in the house. The non-binding agreement allows students to be considered for participation while simultaneously leaving their options open, Kotz said.

This fall, Alpha Theta has extended 23 bids and has welcomed nine new members so far, Kotz said. This term’s results so far demonstrate an increase in participation from the virtual rush seasons, in which “over the three terms, nine or ten people sank their bids,” she added.

Similarly, according to Frey, the return to an in-person rush process has “blown [Phi Tau] away.” They said that the Phi Tau welcomed two new members during each virtual term, but since the return to campus, ten people have signed the rush book, “more than in the virtual terms and the past couple of years.”

Frey said that Phi Tau has been a relatively small house since 2012, “staying around 20 people.” Yet, Frey added, if every signature the house has received this fall results in a new member, they will already have 20 members.

GIGC chair Tanvir Islam ’22 and The Tabard president Jason Carpio ’22 did not respond to requests for comments by press time.

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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

Verbum Ultimum: They Aren’t Bringing Their Best

The College Republicans’ choice of speakers this weekend is contrary to the group’s commitment to productive discourse and signals they have learned nothing from the mistakes of past leadership.

On Oct. 11, WMUR broke the news that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. the Dartmouth College Republicans would Capitol, where he condemned Republicans be inviting first-term U.S. Rep. Madison in Congress for “hiding and not fighting.”

Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from Hours later, the Capitol was overrun by the North Carolina, to sit on a panel titled very mob Cawthorn was speaking to, having “The Future of the Republican Party” on been spurred by rhetoric like his and thenOct. 24, this Sunday. Cawthorn will attend President Donald Trump’s. Since then, he alongside NH-1 congressional candidate has warned that there may be “bloodshed” and former Trump administration assistant over future elections that are “rigged” while press secretary Karoline Leavitt and former at the same time minimizing his role in the Trump campaign strategist Alex Bruesewitz. events of Jan. 6. Unlike the average American This is the first major in-person event citizen, his words carry great political weight hosted by the College Republicans since and inspire real-world consequences. His February 2020, when dishonesty and apparent the group’s leadership By inviting Cawthorn willingness to entertain resigned en masse after if his party loses . . . t h e [ C o l l e g e violence falsely claiming that an an election should be event featuring then- Republicans] appear disqualifying for any Senate candidate Corky to have reverted to the reasonable conservative Messner was canceled group. same thoughtless and campus due to “a possible violent

Ultimately, if response by left-wing sensational tactics that this is the person that the campus activists.” In initially led to their College Republicans wish reality, the decision was bring to campus and relative disappearance to made because the club promote as the future of failed to procure security from campus life. their party, that is their for the event in what the prerogative. The majority group’s former leadership of this Editorial Board later admitted in an op-ed was “poor planning opposes any attempts by the College or other and a lack of foresight.” actors to prevent Cawthorn from speaking.

In the guest column, the College However, Cawthorn’s record should speak for Republicans’ former leadership apologized itself. By inviting him as a representative to for fostering a “purely oppositional” speak about the “future of the Republican organization that under their leadership, they Party,” the College Republicans appear to wrote, had become dedicated to provoking be voicing their approval of his twisted and the “radical left” and “owning the libs” rather authoritarian vision. than promoting productive discourse. With The other panelists aren’t much better. their resignation, they added, they aimed to Leavitt, like Cawthorn, has called for audits “break the cycle… of increasingly hostile and of the election and spread lies about fraud. alienating provocations and interactions” and Bruesewitz has also endorsed claims of hoped that “a more respectful and engaged election fraud, threatening the day before College Republicans would emerge.” the Jan. 6 insurrection to fund efforts to oust Their hopes seem to have been in vain. any congressional Republicans unopposed to By inviting Cawthorn a year and a half later, Biden’s inauguration and helping lead the the group appears to have reverted to the conspiratorial “#StopTheSteal” effort. same thoughtless and sensational tactics that If these panelists are truly the future of initially led to their relative disappearance the Republican Party, as the banners posted from campus life. around campus by the College Republicans The invitation of speakers such as would have community members believe, Cawthorn, a man who routinely attacks then that future is a bleak one for productive experts and organizations that seek truth discourse and the perseverance of truth.

— the news media, the Centers for Disease Each of these politicians and political actors Control and Prevention, nonpartisan election has endorsed harmful conspiracies and lied administrators — and who unabashedly uses to the public, unaware of or unbothered by deception, lies, and racial dog-whistles for the consequences. They are not fair-minded his own political gain, is counterproductive purveyors of conservative values. They are to the College Republicans’ claimed goal not thoughtful innovators who can help solve of promoting open discourse. During his society’s problems. A college campus should campaign, the congressman habitually and be a place for open discourse, and bringing brazenly lied about his background to appeal politicians from both sides of the aisle is to voters — in one campaign ad going so far conducive to that goal. However, bringing as to lie about the details of the car accident politicians who reject facts for political gain that left him paralyzed. His campaign website is irresponsible and contradictory to that also attacked New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, goal. who is Black, for supposedly wanting to “ruin” Once again, none of this is to say that the white men. What’s more, Cawthorn has faced College Republicans should not have the right several accusations of sexual misconduct to invite whomever they please. Every student from former classmates — allegations backed organization should, within reason, enjoy full by a letter signed by over 150 of Cawthorn’s autonomy in deciding what kind of discourse former peers at Patrick Henry College. they want to bring to campus, free of any As a congressman, Cawthorn has intervention from the College or any threat continued his pattern of dishonesty and of violence. However, the speakers a group misconduct. Though his lies span many brings to campus reflect on that group. If the issue areas, from vaccine misinformation College Republicans really wish to engage to transphobia, perhaps his most damaging in levelheaded discourse about the future of statements target democracy itself. In the the party, we urge them to pick speakers who months and weeks following the November at least make a habit of telling the truth.

2020 election, he promoted the baseless and The editorial board consists of opinion staff absurd idea that the election was “stolen.” columnists, the opinion editors, the executive editors Cawthorn was present at the rally that and the editor-in-chief.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST JEREMY GART ‘25

The Cohesion Enigma

The Class of 2025 may have less in common with each other than any freshman class in Dartmouth’s history — and yet, it’s up to us to restore normalcy to the College.

This article was originally published on October 21, 2021.

I love the Choates.

The residents have tremendous personality and enjoy a fantastic location, and strangely, we’ve even become a social hub for frat-banned freshmen.

Sure, our dorms might be the size of prison cells, but what we lack in shower cleanliness, we make up for in giant spiders and broken washing machines.

There is, however, one strange dynamic about my dorm: The students living in it simply don’t have that much in common.

Some members of my floor are athletes, forced to limp through an extremely awkward recruitment process during the pandemic. Others have just endured a senior year hosted almost exclusively through Zoom, while still others have contracted COVID-19, or had family members contract the disease. While one student might’ve had a glorious, post-pandemic senior year, their roommate might’ve suffered a year chock-full of jittery frustration. Then, of course, there are the gap year kids. For me, my year of adventures was incredible, but it was also virtually incomparable to the experiences of any other gap year student. Some people worked on farms in Hawaii, others went club-hopping in Europe and many completed fascinating internships at a wide variety of top-notch companies.

We’ve all had noteworthy years, but here arises the problem: Never before has a class taken such different paths to reach the same destination. Beyond our identity as Dartmouth freshmen, the Class of 2025 has virtually nothing in common with each other. We may have the majority of our college experience unaffected by COVID-19, but the brunt of the virus’s social impact landed on our heads in vastly different ways. While the Class of 2024 was able to commiserate together over awkward Zoom icebreakers and dysfunctional quarantines, we all had to battle through the struggles presented to us by the virus without the support of each other. Not only did COVID-19 deeply alter our senior year, but it fundamentally changed our personal lives in a litany of different ways. Now that we’re all on campus together, we’re beginning to mesh — but our varied reactions to the events of the past 18 months have made forging class unity notably harder.

Of course, we’re also an incredibly privileged class, at least compared to those at other schools or in other grades. We may have had to sacrifice a normal high school experience, but most young adults would gladly trade in a mediocre senior year for the chance to live the glorious college life we’ve all dreamed of. Even in the wake of annoyingly long lines at Foco and a still-lingering indoor mask mandate, we’re living the lives of normal college freshmen. We can fall asleep in class, lose a shoe in a frat basement, and join eight clubs for no particular reason. We can enjoy the in-person presence of our classmates and bask in the beautiful, fully-open campus we now call home. Life is, generally, pretty good.

However, Dartmouth is also sprinting headlong into a looming problem. The last class able to experience the College in its entirety, the Class of 2021, has already graduated. Our current seniors were unable to experience sophomore Summer, and lost over a year to brutal restrictions. The Class of 2023 had their freshman year abruptly severed

by COVID-19’s original outbreak back in March 2020, and are only now experiencing a full year of residence at Dartmouth. And the Class of 2024, well, where to even begin. Regardless of how it’s broken down, the shock waves of COVID-19 have radiated through all three of the other classes in the undergraduate student body. In short, every other class has had their definition of the normal

Dartmouth experience warped by the pandemic — they either don’t have memories of a prepandemic Dartmouth, or if they do, those treasured experiences lie years in the past. As the first class to enter Dartmouth following the loosening of almost all pandemic-era restrictions, it’s up to us to bring back normalcy to Dartmouth. However, we also won’t be able to fully complete this task without the help of the Class of 2022. The seniors may have had their Dartmouth experiences severely altered by COVID-19, but they’re also the only class to have experienced a full, pre-pandemic year on campus.

While the ’22s bear the responsibility to pass down their experiences and traditions to the next set of students, this isn’t possible without the receptive participation of the Class of 2025. After all, we will likely be the first class with the opportunity to experience every aspect of the Dartmouth education in four years. If we don’t live our freshman year to its fullest, Dartmouth may not be able to fully weather the storm of the pandemic, and maintain the incredibly rich culture it has fostered for so many years.

Traditions are the lifeblood of this school. Little stands more iconic in the minds of Dartmouth alumni than the roaring Homecoming bonfire, flairclad First-Year trip leaders, first-snowfall snowball fights, and countless other unique, quintessentially Dartmouth traditions. If we aren’t able to continue these hilarious, wacky, beautiful rituals, then the Dartmouth experience will simply not remain the same. So, the responsibility falls to us. The Class of 2025 has an incredible opportunity ahead: We alone can restore true normalcy to one of the greatest colleges in the nation. As long as we pay careful attention to what the College was like before the pandemic, including the conservation of institutional knowledge contained in the senior class, we can bring back the old Dartmouth. Sure, us freshmen may be culturally and experientially divided, but if there ever was a class capable of reigniting the spark of our college, it’s us. The hardship we’ve encountered over the past year and a half has made us more determined than any class before us to sink our teeth into everything that Dartmouth has to offer. Yes, we’re incredibly varied in our backgrounds, but that just makes us even more diverse, with more perspectives to offer and more life to bring to Hanover. Dartmouth’s strength lies in its community – and for the exact same reasons that our class is so divided, we have the potential for the greatest unity this school has ever seen.

There’s one memory that has been stuck in my mind since I’ve begun college. Over a year ago, when I’d first been admitted to Dartmouth, I quickly slapped a bumper sticker onto the back of my car.

The next day, after pulling into the parking lot at my favorite lunch spot, I noticed a woman briskly walking towards my window. With bright eyes, the woman peered into my car and cheered, “Go Big Green!” She was, predictably, a Dartmouth alumnus, and the first of many people to approach me solely thanks to the green “D” on my bumper.

Before departing, the woman hesitated. Looking me straight in the eye, she stated, “just remember — it is a staggering gift to be a part of the Dartmouth community.”

And of course, she’s right. Just like any other student to attend this college, members of the Class of 2025 have been given a staggering gift. We have the potential to be one of the most impactful classes that Dartmouth has ever seen. All it takes is careful fostering of the freshman community, deliberate focus on the Class of 2022’s college experience, and a dedication to bringing back the vibrance, quirkiness, diversity and excellence that this college is so well known for.

And, well, a bumper sticker or two can’t hurt.

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Spotlight: Maeve McBride ’20 explores disabilities through art

BY GIANNA TOTANI The Dartmouth

This article was originally published on October 21, 2021.

On Oct. 20, the Hood Museum of Art hosted recent graduate and for mer Conroy Intern, Maeve McBride ’20 for the latest installation of the museum’s “Virtual Space for Dialogue” series. During the talk, McBride discussed her curated collection, “Images of Disability,” which examines how artists with and without disabilities have approached the subject. Featuring pieces from as far back as 1790, the aim of McBride’s collection is to promote conversations about agency, labeling and representation, according to the event’s promotional materials.

M c B r i d e, w h o g r a d u a t e d from Dartmouth with a major in anthropology and a minor in religion, is currently a first-year law student at the George Washington Law School and said during her talk that she hopes to one day advocate for children with disabilities in public schools. McBride added that she created her exhibit, titled “Images of Disability,” to spark questions in observers’ minds about how they view disabled people and how disabled people view the world.

Specifically, she wanted to initiate thoughts about how Dartmouth students do or do not see disabled people on campus.

As an undergraduate, McBride co-founded Access Dartmouth, an organization devoted to accessibility, advocacy and activism on campus.

As a mentorship organization, Access Dartmouth helps ease the transition to Dartmouth for incoming students with disabilities.

The organization’s goal, according to its website, is to create a more supportive environment on campus by forming a strong community of disabled students and enacting structural change.

“I was working with Access Dartmouth at the time, and we were really starting to create a campus conversation about disability, and

when I realized that the Hood had never done an exhibition on disability, I thought it would be really interesting to look at the collection of works at the Hood that touch on the issue,” McBride said.

During the “Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk” webinar, McBride gave a presentation in which she discussed her curation process and the motivations behind her focus on disability. She also presented a few of the pieces on display in the exhibit.

After McBride’s presentation, associate curator of education at the Hood Neely McNulty led a question and answer session.

Amelia Kahl ’01, curator of academic programming at the Hood, described McBride as very creative, even when the pandemic took hold part-way through her internship and continued through her senior year. “[She is] thoughtful and steadfast, with the strength of her convictions to really have an impact on student life here at Dartmouth,” Kahl said.

McNulty noted that McBride was personally invested in the theme of her exhibit and determined to see it through. “ W h e n i n t e r n s h av e t h e opportunity to curate an exhibition, often students choose a theme or focus for their exhibition that is somehow personally meaningful to them,” McNulty said. “And in the case of Maeve, thinking about disability, and working on this theme and how it is represented in the Hood’s collection was really something she knew she wanted to work on from the first day she started working with us at the Hood.”

Intern exhibits are typically exclusively curated from the about 65,000 pieces that the Hood already owns. However, very few of those pieces touch directly on the idea of disability.

“The struggle with curating this [exhibit] was that the disability community is incredibly varied,” McBride said. “There are so many types of disabilities that it’s hard to talk about the disability community in a broad swath. There are so many different people with so many varied

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experiences that I worked hard to try to walk that line between [being] inclusive of everyone and also creating a focused exhibit without speaking for people.”

The “Images of Disability” collection contains pieces that depict disability and also pieces by artists that have disabilities themselves.

“I wanted as much as possible to include perspectives of disabled people and not just perspectives from able-bodied people looking at disabled people,” said McBride.

McBride said her favorite piece and the focal point of the pamphlet for “Images of Disability” is Kwabla and Yaovi Ahotor, a piece by South African artist Mikhael Subotzky depicting two blind men on a beach with an ominous storm looming in the background. McBride noted that it is a fairly small image in person, but draws attention because it seems as though both men are looking directly into the camera. She said the piece also offers a look into how people see or don’t see the blind.

“I primarily chose it because it was

so visually impactful,” said McBride.

The exhibit also features a sketch by José Clemente Orozco called Study of Hand for Modern Migration of the Spirit for the Epic of American Civilization.

Orozco, who lost his left hand in a factory accident while making fireworks, made many such sketches in preparation for painting the Epic of American Civilization in Baker Library While it is unclear whether Orozco’s accident influenced his focus on hands, according to McBride the piece offers a look at how disabled artists see the object of their disability.

“One of the main messages of the show is that disability is not monolithic,” Kahl said. “There are many different ways that artists are viewing themselves, and the art they produce is talking about or sharing different ideas of disability so that multiplicity of disability is a really important theme of the show.”

McBride’s first time working in a museum setting was during her time as Conroy Intern. She said she had

always loved going to museums, but had never taken an art history course.

McBride had experience writing about cultural objects while completing her anthropology major, yet she was inexperienced when it came to writing about art.

“Anthropology is all about the objects that we live with, and an art museum is a very different context,” McBride said. “It was really fun and also challenging sometimes to sort of shift my mindset.”

McBride noted that art is a way for her to question the world around her.

“Walking into a museum gives me an opportunity to think deeply about what the artist is thinking, why they’re doing what they’re doing, how that interacts with a broader social-cultural experience,” McBride said.

“Images of Disability” will be on display in the Gutman Gallery in the Hood through Dec. 23. A recording of the “Virtual Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk” will be available on the Hood’s YouTube channel.

Review: Shang-Chi a fresh take for the Marvel Cinematic Universe

BY JESSICA LI

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on October 21, 2021.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” introduces Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), the titular character, as the newest superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Released in theaters on Sept.

3, Shang-Chi is the first Marvel movie to feature a predominantly Asian cast, have characters with Chinese names and incorporate Mandarin dialogue.

The movie weaves classic Marvel action scenes with themes of love and family to create a film that is simultaneously fun and exciting but has the depth of a well-written story.

The movie opens with an introduction to the mythology of the Ten Rings and the mystical village of Ta Lo. While trying to conquer Ta Lo, Shang-Chi’s father, Wenwu (Tony Leung), meets Ying Li (Fala Chen) and falls in love with her. However, the people of Ta Lo refuse to let him into the village, fearing conquest by Wenwu.

Wenwu’s possession of the coveted ten rings grant him immortality and mystic powers — elemental control, super strength and telekinetic abilities, the usual Marvel fare — that make him near undefeatable in battle. As an act of good faith to the villagers, and in his quest to be with Ying Li, Wenwu gives up his ten rings to be with her. After mutual sacrifice, Wenwu and Ying Li marry.

However, the renunciation of the ten rings becomes regrettable for Wenwu when Ying Li is brutally murdered and he no longer has the power to protect his family. This horrific event turns Wenwu into a hateful man, who then pushes Shang-Chi to become an assassin and neglects his daughter, Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing (Meng’er Zhang). Both siblings eventually escape from Wenwu and find roots elsewhere: Shang-Chi in San Francisco and Xialing in Macau.

Throughout the movie, evil spirits convince Wenwu that he can bring Ying Li back from the dead. He embarks on a quest to free her soul from

imprisonment in Ta Lo, resorting to any means necessary to find her, including destroying the entire village. One of the film’s most important choices is that the love story does not involve the titular character, but the villain instead, a choice that humanizes Wenwu. As unlikeable as Wenwu is for the pain and suffering he inflicts on Shang-Chi and Xialing, you can’t help but afford him some sympathy, knowing that he too is in extreme pain following Ying Li’s death.

Beyond the love story of Wenwu and Ying Li, the movie tells a tale of the complex familial relationship between Wenwu and his children. At the beginning of the movie, Shang-Chi and Xialing are estranged siblings, and both of them hate their father. However, when Wenwu, Shang-Chi and Xialing reconnect, they are forced to confront their deep-seated issues. This complex relationship with their parents, marked by generational trauma, presents a relatable challenge for some Asian American youth, especially those who are the children of immigrants.

In the end, despite all that has happened between them, Shang-Chi, Xialing and Wenwu remain connected by unconditional love. Shang-Chi refuses to abandon Xialing again, even if doing so could lead to more consequences, and Wenwu finally proves his love to his children by sacrificing his life to save Shang-Chi. Shang-Chi and Xialing never explicitly forgive Wenwu, but they also aren’t expected to do so. They can love their father and still be hurt by his actions — these emotions are allowed to coexist. Shang-Chi presents a realistic and nuanced depiction of family, intertwined with traditional Chinese values that prioritize family bonds.

Though Shang-Chi’s emotional familial journey was fantastic, I couldn’t help but feel this theme was the most interesting part of his character. I found myself far more enthralled by Wenwu and Xialing. Wenwu’s tortured past and unrelenting love for Ying Li adds so many layers to his character. Xialing’s sarcasm, wit and perseverance make her the likeable underdog. In the same

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way that Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) overshadowed Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) in “Black Widow,” I felt as though Xialing overshadowed Shang-Chi. I was stunned by Zhang’s performance as Xialing, and I was shocked to find out that this is her debut film.

As for other underdeveloped characters, I felt that Awkwafina’s role of Katy Chen, Shang-Chi’s best friend, is another example of the actress being typecast as the comedic relief. Although Awkwafina has proven that she can portray different characters in films such as “The Farewell,” she is consistently cast as essentially the same person, and Katy is no different. Once the audience is re-introduced to Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) –– from Iron Man 3 –– as the comedic relief in the second half of the film, Katy is finally allowed to have some dimension. We see a glimpse of her desires and struggles to overcome her fear of failure, but there is still so much more untapped potential.

Despite some weaknesses in character

development, the film’s world-building was phenomenal. The land of Ta Lo is beautiful, but it is even more stunning knowing its integration of real Chinese mythology. The people there practice tai chi and are spiritually connected to the five Chinese elements of wood, fire, water, earth and metal — not the four Western elements. The animals in Ta Lo also derive from Chinese mythology: Trevor Slattery’s furry pet, Morris, is a hundun. In terms of some other mythological creatures, there are the fenghuang (phoenixes), huli jing (ninetailed foxes), qilin (creatures with horns and dragon-like features) and shishi (guardian lions). Most importantly, the dragon that protects Ta Lo is clearly Chinese: It lives underwater, and its physical appearance resembles that of a snake. It does not breathe fire or have wings, and it slithers through the air instead of flying.

The fight scenes were, in typical Marvel fashion, extraordinary. The first main action sequence takes place on a bus in San Francisco as Shang-

Chi fights his father’s henchmen, and it incorporates all of the explosions and quick hand-to-hand combat of a classic Marvel movie. However, in the later action sequences in Ta Lo, the fight choreography evolves and becomes more similar to that of East Asian martial arts. The choreography resembles fight scenes from popular kung fu movies from the 1970s, such as those featuring Bruce Lee. “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” brings together the elements of a typical superhero movie — exciting action scenes and a protagonist with something to prove — and adds depth by layering themes that an audience can connect with, regardless of superhero status. Moreover, while it’s not a movie just for the Asian American audience, it speaks uniquely to them, and that duality in itself is significant. The film sets up an exciting look at the future of Marvel: one that is culturally aware and adds a depth to stories beyond just the action scenes.

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Dartmouth takes home Granite Bowl in 38-21 victory

BY WILL ENNIS

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on October 18, 2021.

In this year’s rendition of the Granite Bowl, the interNew Hampshire football rivalry between Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire, the Big Green faced off against the Wildcats on Saturday in Durham.

The game was a high-scoring affair with explosive plays throughout from both offenses, but the Big Green was able to walk away with a comfortable 38-21 victory, remaining perfect on the year at 5-0.

Dartmouth now sits tied atop the Ivy League standings with Princeton and Harvard, with all three teams at 5-0. This is the first time since 1968 that the Ivy League has had three 5-0 teams and the first time any FCS conference has featured three 5-0 teams since 2009.

Standout running back Zack Bair ’22 did not suit up for this game, dealing with a nonCOVID-19 illness. Coming into this matchup, Bair was the Big Green’s second leading rusher both in yards and carries, behind only Nick Howard ’23, so his absence left a big hole in the Dartmouth offense. Or, at least theoretically, it should have.

Although missing Bair, the Big Green’s rushing attack gashed the Wildcats on Saturday, to the tune of 263 yards and three scores as a team. Howard provided much of that production from his quarterback spot, putting up 96 yards and three scores on 18 carries. By the end of this game, Howard had amassed nine rushing touchdowns on the season, far and away a team-leading mark.

New Hampshire head coach Sean McDonnell pointed to the rushing attack as a key to

Dartmouth’s victory.

“Watching the game from the sideline, they played downhill on us the whole game,” he said.

“They ran the ball extremely well, whether it was the running backs … or the quarterback, 17, Howard, they had a really strong, physical presence.”

Dartmouth’s strength in that phase was responsible for the game’s first two scores. The Big Green drove down the field on the opening possession to set up Howard for a six-yard touchdown.

After the Dartmouth defense stuffed the ensuing Wildcat possession on 4th-and-goal on its own goal line, the offense went to work once again, moving 99 yards down the field and capping off the drive with a second six-yard touchdown run from Howard. 140, Dartmouth, early in the second quarter.

“We just felt really good about our game plan that our coaches put together,” Howard said. “And we knew that if we just did our jobs, we’d be able to have some success.”

That gameplan, accounting for Bair’s absence, heavily incorporated Noah Roper ’23 into the rushing attack, marking the first time this season he has had more than six touches. Roper took over the lead back role in this game, picking up 108 yards on 16 carries while adding 15 more yards through the air on two receptions.

“We’ve known that he’s super, super talented and is able to perform like that, but just hasn’t gotten the number of touches to be able to show it,” Howard said.

“And he finally did this week, and I think it was really good for him, his confidence, and just his development and growth as a player to finally be able to showcase what he can do. We all believed in him, and he proved us right.”

Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 praised Roper’s work ethic and preparedness to step into

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more of a featured role in this game.

“He’s just been a hardworking dude from the day we got him,” Teevens said. “Tough and physical, we’ve had other guys that have played in front of him, but this was his opportunity and he made a game for himself.”

The rest of the first half went smoothly for Dartmouth, particularly offensively, as the Big Green scored on each of its next three drives of the half, notching two field goals and one touchdown on a reception by Joe Kramer ’22. On the other side of the ball, the Big Green allowed only one score before the half on a 75-yard Wildcat touchdown run.

At halftime, the score sat at 24-7, Dartmouth.

Early on in the third quarter, the Big Green added to its lead when quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 found receiver Paxton Scott

’24 at midfield, streaking towards the right sideline. Scott caught the ball and accelerated down the sideline and then, spinning and juking his way through Wildcat tacklers, eventually found the end zone for a 52-yard touchdown.

The extra point went through and Dartmouth took a commanding 31-7 lead.

This play was indicative of a larger trend in this game: Dartmouth’s consistent, pounding, rushing attack opened up its passing game. Kyler finished the game with 325 yards through the air — a career-high — and two scores on an 18-for-23 passing line.

“Offensively, our guys were very, very clean in their execution,” Coach Teevens said. “[Kyler] was just on — his calls, adjustments, checks and throws.”

New Hampshire would not go away quietly, though. Following Scott’s big touchdown, the

Wildcats’ ensuing two drives saw them break the Big Green defense open for some chunk scoring plays: first a 53-yard touchdown run and second a 48-yard scoring reception, cutting the Dartmouth lead to 10 points, 31-21, before the start of the fourth quarter.

When the game came down to the wire, though, the Big Green defense held strong, forcing punts on New Hampshire’s final two possessions of the game. Add in one more insurance touchdown from Howard — his third six-yard touchdown run of the day — and Dartmouth walked away with a relatively comfortable win.

With this matchup in the rearview mirror, Dartmouth’s remaining schedule will consist entirely of conference play. The Big Green will next take the field in Hanover, facing off against the visiting 4-1 Columbia University Lions on Friday.

Reid Cashman steps up as men’s hockey head coach

BY Jason Norris

The Dartmouth Staff

As the fall draws to a close, the men’s ice hockey team will lace up their skates next weekend for their first regular season game in over a year. On Oct. 29, the Big Green will play its home opener at Thompson Arena against conference-rival No. 14 Harvard University. The next night, the Big Green will host the University of Connecticut.

For head coach Reid Cashman, this will be his first season leading the Big Green. Cashman was hired by Dartmouth in June 2020 after a two-season stint in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals. Cashman had a standout career with Quinnipiac University, finishing as an All-American and Hobey Baker Award Top-10 Finalist as a player in 2005 and helping the Bobcats reach two Frozen Fours as an assistant coach in 2013 and 2016.

After finishing the 2019-2020 season sixth in the Ivy League with a 13-14-4 overall record, the Big Green was picked to finish seventh in a preseason poll of Eastern College Athletic Conference coaches.

Sixteen months into his head coaching career, Cashman is excited to finally see his team take the ice with two tough matchups to begin their season.

“We’re looking forward to the home opener on the 29th, and then we’ll reload and do it the next night,” Cashman said.

Cashman and his squad — which returns 11 players from the 2019-20 roster — will have to be ready from the start of the season after being apart for over a year and now fielding new members.

“For our three returning classes that lost a season of college hockey, it’s exciting for them to have the ability to compete,” Cashman

said. “Our challenge is growth, development and finding a way to be better tomorrow than we were today and keep that mindset going for the next six months.”

The Big Green has not found success against Harvard in recent years, having lost the last five matchups against the Crimson — but forward Tyler Campbell ’23 is not deterred by starting their season against one of the best teams in the Ivy League.

“The team this year I’m looking forward to playing is Harvard, since they’ve had our number the past few years,” Campbell said, adding that the home game against Princeton is also likely to be “a favorite.”

After a successful campaign during his freshman season, Campbell is ready to compete again after a year off.

“There’s some rust I need to shake off, but I’ve played hockey my whole life, so it comes back real quick,” Campbell said. “I’m excited to see how this team can do with the new coaching staff. It’s a good group of guys and a knowledgeable staff who will bring a lot of detailedoriented structure.”

While the opportunity to compete will be satisfying, Cashman is also looking forward to watching his squad show out on the ice under strong senior leadership.

“That group of five seniors have done a tremendous job of leading and I’m really excited about our ability to compete each day,” Cashman said. “In our scrimmage against Harvard last week, the guys were selling out and blocking shots, and I love that foundation as we build this team.”

According to forward Sam Hesler ’22, the Big Green’s preseason has been full of energy and hard work. After being apart for so long, Hesler said that it has been great to be back together and spend time on the ice and in the

locker room with teammates.

Cashman agreed with Hesler, noting that one of the biggest things missing last year was team bonding — especially for new members who missed the integral opportunity to form relationships off the rink in the locker room.

“Our mantra this year is sort of that we have a lot of guys that work really hard and we have a lot of unselfishness on the team,” Hesler said. “There’s been a lot more hanging out with the guys this year than in the past. They added a

ping-pong table to our locker room, which has got the competitive juices flowing, and it’s a place where the guys go to unwind and hang out after practice.”

As one of the few seniors on the team, Hesler has been focusing on welcoming the underclassmen.

With such a young squad, leadership has become a point of emphasis for the Big Green.

“We’ve got 28 guys on the team, and more than half of them have not played a college game or even experienced what a normal year

at Dartmouth looks like,” Hesler said. “The biggest role we’ve had as seniors is not setting the standard on the ice, but helping guide them off the ice.”

Cashman is hopeful that the seniors’ high level of effort will rub off on the younger players beginning their collegiate careers.

“I’m definitely excited to see the nine newcomers get on the ice,” Cashman said. “With 28 players all trying to find their roles and get ice time, they’ll find their place in our lineup.”

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2021

THE DARTMOUTH MIRROR

What’s the Matter with Mold?

STORY

By Allison Burg

This article was originally published on October 20, 2021.

As a resident of frat ban-era Mid Faye, I have learned to deal with loud music until troubling hours of the morning, a common room with a singular chair and the “freshman plague” that has been floating around campus. And although my personal bathroom is a bit grimy, it certainly can be worse — at least I do not have mold. Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky.

On Oct. 8, the student body received an email from interim Dean of the College Scott Brown stating that mold was discovered in the HVAC units in the Andres and Zimmerman dorms, two undergraduate residence halls in the East Wheelock housing community.

Residents of the affected halls had to then make a decision of relocating to an area designated by the college or staying in their dorms, potentially being exposed to the mold growth.

There were mixed reactions. Zach Martel ’24, a resident of Zimmerman Hall, recalled that he had “slight emotional turmoil for like the first five minutes” after he received the email, but after realizing he had already been living there for a month, he rationalized that a few more days of exposure would not make much of a difference. He also noted that within his group of friends in his dorm, in classic Dartmouth fashion, the mold had become “more of a joke than actual concern.”

Nonetheless, not everyone had the privilege of being so nonchalant. Kate ’25, who requested that her last name

be withheld for medical privacy reasons, is immunocompromised and is also a resident of Zimmerman Hall. She decided to move out — due to feeling unsafe with the moldy conditions and having recurring migraines — and was relocated several times by Dartmouth, including to the Hanover Inn and a temporary dorm.

“I’ve lived in five different places in a span of two weeks, so… packing up all of my stuff to move each time and having to go back to East Wheelock to grab new stuff for the week — that’s been a little tough,” Kate said. “It’s really just complicated things with work, but most of my professors have been pretty understanding, especially because they informed professors about the situation.”

Furthermore, many students were unsure if they had reason to be worried, as there is an ongoing and persistent cold on campus, so many were uncertain as to whether their symptoms were due to mold or just the effects of living on a college campus.

Bronwyn Bird ’24, who lives in Andres Hall and has a roommate who chose to move out, said that her friends in the dorm, as well as her roommates are coughing a lot, but she was unsure if it was symptoms from mold exposure or just “the cold that’s going around.” Martel also has a sore throat and expressed similar uncertainty.

Microbiology and immunology professor Robert Cramer, who researches mold in the context of human fungal infections, said that it is difficult to know whether students are symptomatic due to a cold or the mold, but the most

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common symptoms of mold are allergylike, including a runny nose and sore throat. However, he emphasized that the risk of infection is very low, noting “there is not a severe health risk unless you are immunocompromised — and, even then, a lot of these particular molds can’t grow at human body temperature, so the health risk is minimized.”

Cramer also said that there is mold in every dorm on campus due to the moisture in New England — it is just a matter of relative exposure.

Jessica Weil ’21, who is currently living off campus, asserted that mold is “a thing that happens pretty frequently,” recalling that her off-campus apartment had mold in it this past year. Thus, residents of

More Employees, Please STORY

By Hannah Shariff

This article was originally published on October 20, 2021.

Longer wait times, skyrocketing prices, more limited menu offerings — across the nation, this is the new reality for restaurant-goers. The entire food service industry is struggling with the lingering effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with issues such as labor shortages and supply chain disruption impacting the industry in numerous ways. In a survey conducted by Alignable with small and medium-sized business owners, 85% of restaurant owners said it was “very difficult” to find staff, and only 3% said they weren’t struggling to hire.

Big chains such as Starbucks and Burger King have also had difficulty finding workers; their attempts to woo potential employees include increasing wages, promising expanded benefits with more time off and even holding hiring parties for workers. Still, the jobs remain unclaimed.

Experts remain puzzled, especially since there are more job openings than people classified as unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Explanations range from workers choosing to remain out of work due to expanded unemployed benefits to workers deciding that the risk of infection isn’t worth the relatively low pay and work conditions. On top of the worker shortage is the supply chain disruption, where COVID-19 mitigation strategies have impacted the production of goods and services. The production issues have been exacerbated by the lack of workers available to help move goods across ports and warehouses — creating a cyclical conundrum that the nation has yet to escape.

Hanover and the greater Upper Valley have also been unable to escape the labor crisis. This summer saw many businesses closing during weekdays or reducing hours, with help wanted signs plastered across storefront windows.

Restaurants such as Murphy’s on the Green and Impasto, both owned by local businessman Nigel Leeming, had to reduce hours and even close on certain days during the summer — but recently, they have been able to regain their staff.

“We have a good reputation in the community, so we didn’t have to worry too much about attracting workers,” Leeming said. “The managers at Murphy’s and Impasto are great at what they do, so we’ve been able to run smoothly now.”

For Leeming, who has been running Murphy’s for thirty years, the pandemic was an unexpected roadblock — but not one that his business was unequipped to deal with.

“It helps that customers are starting to understand the labor shortage,” Leeming said. “And they’re also starting to understand which restaurants have been able to keep up and which haven’t.”

While some restaurants have been “keeping up,” others are still scrambling to make adjustments. The Hanover Starbucks — the only big chain on Main Street — is continuing to deal with staffing and supply issues.

Grace Connolly ’25, a Starbucks employee who used to work at her local Boston branch, said that the location i struggling to deal with customer flow.

According to Connolly, the store is closed on Sundays and Mondays for new hire training. On days when the store is open, it can be difficult for the few employees to manage all the orders.

“It’s still at the point where, sometimes, we have to shut off mobile orders because there’s just not enough staff there to make the drinks and prepare food,” Connolly said. “On days like Homecoming, we have to close early, because there were way more people coming in than we could handle.”

The store has also been dealing with shortages of inventory — such as syrups and cups — since the summer.

“Honestly, it’s mostly been nonessential things, but the day we run out of caramel drizzle is when I’ll start to worry,” she said. “People get particularly mad when we don’t have their caramel drizzle.”

Similar to Leeming’s observations, Connolly believes that customers are mostly sympathetic to the long wait times.

“Some people are still impatient or mad about what we don’t have, but it helps that they’re able to see that there are only two people at the bar working,” she said.

For many students, the most tangible impacts of the labor shortage are long lines at Dartmouth Dining Services locations. DDS has suffered from long lines in most of their locations and decreased menu offerings, especially during the late night period. With an influx of students on campus combined with exigent industry issues, the College’s dining services are struggling to keep up with demand.

DDS director Jon Plodzik said that DDS has had to work around decreased staff.

“We have a core group [of employees] that has still been here throughout the whole pandemic experience,” Plodzik said. “But as a natural progression, we’ve lost some folks along the way — people have retired, people have moved away, some people just stopped working because they felt like this was the time.

So we’ve had to pivot.”

While DDS still has 15-20 positions that need filling, in the past two months, they have received only two applications for positions, according to Plodzik.

Because of this, Plodzik and other internal staff members have been forced to work alongside operational staff.

“We have taken every person out of the office to help our core workers out,” Plodzik said. “Even our graphic designer works every day on the grill to help expedite that line. He’s joined by our catering coordinator. We brought people that do all our purchasing who historically may not have had a role in daily operations, and they serve the lines every day.”

Staff members have also been working up to twelve hours a day, with many working full-day shifts due to other workers calling out sick because of COVID-19 protocols. Plodzik himself

the impacted halls were surprised that Dartmouth had not found the mold sooner, especially because it is such a frequent issue.

“Given how many students are packing into every dorm. . . maybe they should be testing a bit more,” Bird said.

“It makes sense to test buildings for safety hazards.”

Despite this, the College has moved relatively fast in fixing and cleaning the HVAC units that were affected by the mold. In fact, at the time of interview, two of the three students that live in the affected dorms already had clean HVAC units. Interim associate dean of student affairs Marianne Thomson, who is starting her first year at the College,

stated that she was “impressed, being a relatively new member of the Dartmouth community,” at how quickly and head-on this situation was addressed.

From the Choates to the McLaughlin cluster, there is clearly a diversity of living conditions on campus. The mold outbreak in the Andres and Zimmerman dorms will certainly not be the last time there is an issue regarding residence halls at Dartmouth. So, as the HVAC units are repaired and the mold issue is cleared, students can return to worrying about other campus issues — the crazy Foco lines, the mysterious illness making its way across campus and the incoming freshman schmobs as the frat ban soon comes to a close.

hasn’t sat down to have dinner with his family in six weeks, he said.

And just like Starbucks, DDS has also been facing shortages in basic necessities.

“We needed more coffee mugs because the students keep taking our coffee mugs — by the way, please stop taking our coffee mugs,” Plodzik said.

“So we ordered new ones — in August.

And now they’re saying they might come in January sometime. But in the meantime, we have no coffee cups. So we’re going to buy white coffee cups that we don’t really want, just because it’s something they have right now.”

At other DDS locations, problems with food supply also run rampant. At Ramekin Cafe, their famed macaroni and cheese has been missing for two weeks, with supervisors unsure of when it will be available again. One student supervisor, Tanzil Mohamed ’23, said

this was a new problem for the cafe.

“There are aspects where we are kind of wrongly advertising our products because of supply chain issues,” Mohamed said. “We just can’t be as consistent with things like the GET ordering app, because we’re running out of stuff. So like someone might order a chicken noodle soup, for example, on the app. But we don’t actually have it, because we just weren’t able to order it or we only got one bag that day.”

Experts predict that both the supply chain and labor shortage crises will continue in tandem for the foreseeable future, warning that the situation will get worse before it returns to normal.

In the meantime, the food industry will continue to adapt to the day-to-day bumps in the road.

“Right now, it’s just a system full of missing pieces,” Plodzik said.

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