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Physics professor College admits 7.9 percent of Marcelo Gleiser wins applicants for the Class of 2023 Templeton Prize B y RACHEL PAKIANATHAN The Dartmouth Staff

Physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser describes his work as “flirting with the mysterious.” On March 19, Gleiser was named the 2019 winner of the Templeton Prize, an award that recognizes an individual who, in the view of a panel of external judges, has made an “exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.” The prize carries a monetary award of

£1.1 million, which is around $1.4 million.

The Templeton Prize was established in 1972 by philanthropistSirJohnTempleton with the aim of identifying “outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality,” according to the Templeton Prize website.

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Legislature weighs minimum wage hike B y ANDREW CULVER The Dartmouth Staff

Both houses of the New Hampshire legislature have passed separate bills establishing a state minimum wage of $12 an hour by 2022.

New Hampshire’s minimum wage defers to the federal standard of $7.25 an hour.

This makes New Hampshire the only state in New England with a minimum wage under $10.

Both bills outline

incremental increases in the minimum wage over time.

House Bill 186 establishes a three-year plan, increasing the minimum wage to $9.50 in 2020, $10.75 in 2021, and ultimately $12 in 2022.

Senate Bill 10 moves to a $10 minimum wage in 2020 and an $11 or $12 wage depending on offered paid sick days in 2022.

The bills passed their respective houses on party SEE WAGE PAGE 2

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The College’s acceptance rate decreased 0.8 percent from last year’s 8.7 percent.

B y WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth offered acceptance to 7.9 percent of applicants for the Class of 2023 — a historic low and 0.8 percent decrease from last year — marking the third consecutive year that the College’s acceptance rate has decreased. This year also saw the highest number of applicants in the College’s history, 23,650, which is a 7.3 percent increase from last year. Fifty-one percent of the admitted U.S. citizens are people of color.

A record 16 percent of the admitted class of 1,876 prospective students are first generation college students,

and about 40 percent come from low or middle-income families. The Office of Admissions defines a low or middle-class household as a household with less than $200,000 in annual income, according to vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid Lee Coffin. Ninety-two of the accepted students matched with Dartmouth through QuestBridge, a program that helps low-income students find post-secondary educational opportunities.

“We were deliberately f o c u s i n g t h i s c yc l e o n socioeconomic diversity as a way of syncing up with the capital campaign and its commitment to broader

access,” Coffin said.

Seventeen percent of admitted students are projected to qualify for Pell Grants and 48 percent to date will receive scholarships from Dartmouth. The average scholarship was greater than $53,000, which is a record high.

Nine percent of accepted U.S. citizens are legacies, and 49 different faith traditions are represented among the accepted students.

All 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, Guam and Washington D.C. are represented in the admitted students pool.

Nineteen percent of all accepted students are from SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 3

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Students travel south to participate in hurricane relief efforts Allen House’s program, named “Place, Story, and Inequality in New The Dartmouth Staff Orleans,” brought 10 students to the In a collaboration between the Lower Ninth Ward of the Louisiana Dartmouth Center for Social Impact city. Their program focused on and the Office of Residential Life, how this underserved area did not Allen House and East Wheelock receive proper aid after Hurricane House each took students on Katrina in 2005. trips to aid hurricane recovery in Partnering with Lowernine, a underserved areas as part of an non-profit organization dedicated alternative spring break initiative. to restoring houses poorly fixed The Allen House trip to New after the hurricane, students aided Orleans and East Wheelock trip re-construction efforts that assisted to Puerto Rico were culminations those who owned homes in the of a term-long learning initiative Lower Ninth Ward damaged by the that combined hurricane. John a c a d e m i c Cho ’22, one of p r o g r a m m i n g “I think it can be really the 10 students on campus with easy at a place like on the trip, an off-campus thought that his service learning Dartmouth to get lost experience was a s p e c t . T h e in your understanding enriched by the DCSI pioneered thoughtfulness of what you can these efforts for Dartmouth alternative break intellectualize and s t u d e n t s trips by reaching forget the actual exercised when out to house interacting with c o m m u n i t i e s importance of the community. a n d t a i l o r i n g showing up with your “Everyone was t r i p s t o e a ch ve r y re f l e c t i ve physical body to do H o u s e ’ s on the impact of i n t e r e s t s , real work for people our service,” Cho t a k i n g i n t o in need.” said. “And I was consideration kind of surprised p r a c t i c a l by h o w mu c h c o n c e r n s l i k e -LAUREN OLIVER, ALLEN everyone cared budgets and about … whether HOUSE ASSISTANT partnerships. that impact was “I t h i n k DIRECTOR OF ethical and what [the students] RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION we were doing learned a in a community lot about the like New Orleans importance of showing up,” from a privileged institution like Allen House assistant director of Dartmouth.” residential education Lauren Oliver The workshops, which were part said after traveling to New Orleans of the term-long learning initiative with the Allen House group. “I that preceded the trips, were crafted think it can be really easy at a so that students had a complete place like Dartmouth to get lost in understanding of the situation your understanding of what you they were attempting to mitigate, can intellectualize and forget the according to Allen House professor actual importance of showing up Janice McCabe. Postdoctoral with your physical body to do real geography fellow Garrett Nelson work for people in need.” taught one of these workshops,

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which focused on how geography affects the development of cities.

“Especially in the case of Katrina, where the students would be actually living in and working with some of these neighborhoods, thinking about how ... all of those parts came together was really important,” Nelson said. “I’m glad that the alternative spring break wasn’t just kind of parachuting down into New Orleans without spending a lot of time really thinking about its local context, its history, in advance.”

While in New Orleans, students toured the city, ate dinner with people who recounted their experiences with Hur ricane K atrina and engaged with the executive director of Lowernine, Laura Paul, as well as other volunteers and community members who were involved with the non-profit’s efforts.

According to McCabe, who participated in the trip, “Our most meaningful conversations weren’t just in the formal parts of programming, but the quiet moments of holding boards, waiting for someone to hammer them in.”

“I hope the trip continues so we can have a sustainable, ethical partnership with [Lowernine],” trip participant Megan Ungerman ’21 said.

East Wheelock House’s trip, named “The Politics of Recovery in San Juan,” similarly called on participants to think critically about how the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico in 2017, played out on the island.

Five students worked with the restaurant-farm El Departamento de la Comida in San Juan to both assist local farms and help create a system that caught rainwater to irrigate crops more efficiently.

“What struck me the most was how much life we packed into each day and how long the days felt,” assistant director of residential education for East Wheelock House Josiah Proietti said. “I think ideally, each House would do something because I think we’re at our best when we’re serving others.”

Not only did students contribute

their physical labor to the cause of Puerto Rico, one of their workshops recovery, but many also had the focused on the ongoing economic opportunity to offer up original crisis and relief efforts in the ideas, East after math of Wheelock House Hurricane Professor and “I’m glad that the M a r i a , trip participant alternative spring according Sergi Elizalde break wasn’t just kind tPor o fEe sl is zoar l doef. said.

“I was very, of parachuting down Spanish and very proud of into New Orleans Portuguese the students,” I s r a e l Reye s E l i z a l d e s a i d without spending a lot taught students r e g a r d i n g of time really thinking about the the students’ politics involved about its local context, with the island’s collaboration w i t h o t h e r s its history, in advance.” recovery. who were “I think working at El what came Departamento -GARRETT NELSON, across was that de la Comida. POSTDOCTORAL the students “ T h e r e ’ s were really GEOGRAPHY FELLOW this sense of sensitive to the community that complexity of I hadn’t seen the issues,” anywhere else.”

Reyes said. “I felt like they were Before the students went to ready to listen to Puerto Ricans.”

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lines, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans opposing.

Some Democrats said they viewed the bills as necessary in order to keep New Hampshire’s lower paid workers out of poverty.

“New Hampshire is one of the wealthiest states in the country and our minimum wage should reflect that,” said Rep. Garrett Muscatel ’20 (D-Hanover).

Supporters of both bills viewed the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 as unacceptably low.

“You cannot live on the minimum wage anywhere in New Hampshire,” s a i d S e n . C i n dy Ro s e n w a l d (D-Hillsborough).

Sen. To m Sherman (D-Rockingham) echoed Rosenwald saying that it is impossible to support yourself, much less a family, on the current minimum wage.

Rosenwald added that the low minimum wage contributes to reliance on public assistance programs and benefits — the costs of which ultimately fall to the state taxpayer. In New Hampshire, the “final stop” for public assistance lies with cities and towns, meaning property taxpayers have to “ante up to provide assistance to our poorest people,” Ronsenwald said.

The employers currently paying minimum wage in New Hampshire are primarily big box stores and fast food chains, said Rep. Linda Tanner (D-Sullivan).

“For the most part, small businesses pay their employees more than [minimum wage] because they value their employees,” she said.

Ta n n e r a d d e d t h a t s i n c e individuals making minimum wage often rely on state benefits, SEE WAGE PAGE 5

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Baker Tower rises high in the spring sky.

Acceptance rate decreases for third year in a row FROM ADMISSIONS PAGE 1

New England, 13 percent are from “rural America,” and 41 percent are from southern or western United States. The five states with the highest number of admitted students were, in order, California, New York, Massachusetts, Florida and Texas.

Twelve percent of all admitted students are citizens of a foreign country. Sixty-nine countries are represented, with the highest

numbers of accepted applicants being from the United Kingdom, China, Canada, Brazil and India in decreasing order. Of the 69 countries, applicants of 63 have been offered financial aid.

The admitted students of the Class of 2023 also had a mean SAT score of 1501 of 1600, the highest ever.

A full story will be published in the near future with more information.

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Muse-en-scene: A Crisis of Desire

Breaking the taboo on sexual health requires more than open discussions.

I began the year writing a manuscript about and bureaucracy increases desire while many are desire but quickly realized that words fall short left without proper education about safer sex. of experience. One weekend away from the Sex education often uses positive language opening of the installation, “Dora’s Room: to advocate safe sex, and by nature is a sterile Digital Dreams,” at the Hopkins Center for the presentation of sexuality. The classroom setting Performing Arts, I started to think about the in which sexual education courses take place, as practical implications of desire. People want to well as the neutral tone of national regulation, experience sex — not talk about it. Most adults leaves out the more complicated and often remember having “the talk” with their parents ugly emotional side through which decisions when they were teenagers or having to sit through that affect the body occur. Dartmouth College a sexual education course; these conversations offers free condoms in various places on campus, were probably more uncomfortable than they including at the Student Wellness Center, Dick’s were helpful. Given the national institutions House, sexual health events, vending machines that seem to oppose embracing sexuality and and residence hall bulletin boards. But what a collective desire to do just that, talking about the back of a condom wrapper, safer sex poster it is more important than ever. This means or instructional pamphlet will not tell you are that taking control of the many reasons why it may our own sexual health “While there are be tempting to not use one. (both physical and mental) At most, a pamphlet might requires not just paying biological and warn you of the dangers of attention in health class, scientific explanations coercion or being inebriated but also looking to media while having intercourse, that acknowledges the for what happens to but rarely will it warn you aesthetic element to our our bodies, there are how intoxicating love can be. bodies. While there are emotional reasons for Even if it did, a how-to guide biological and scientific cannot fully capture the desire explanations for what why these scientifc to please a romantic interest happens to our bodies, occurences are — or even one’s own desire there are emotional to be physically intimate with reasons for why these allowed to happen.” someone. scientific occurrences are Discourses that ask more allowed to happen. questions than they answer add There is an extreme tension between the to sexual education the difficulty of knowing the societal desire to engage in sexuality and the right answers. To understand one’s own sexual structures prohibiting sexual expression. We being, it can help to look towards affective see the desire to engage in sex through the mediums that allow oneself to contemplate their use of “dating” applications, the resulting acts of desire in a philosophical or imaginative engagement in casual sex and the popularity context rather than one of practicality. Gaspar of sex educators on social media websites. We Noé’s film “Love,”for instance, allows the viewer see regulation take place through the banning to confront both the beauty and the ugliness of sexual content on Instagram, Tumblr and of infatuation. A young woman experiences Facebook (going as far as banning conversation multiple sexual encounters with ambivalence, on sexual preference), as well as national policy her trepidation and desire intertwined with her changes. A recent directive, known as the global infatuation with a young man. I set out to watch gag order, requires that organizations outside this film for my installation to understand what of the United States receiving national funding a visual medium could express that my own pledge not to perform or advocate abortion in words could not. The enveloping red tones of sexual or reproductive health care programs. In the film, the music that lingers following an response, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) wrote in intense emotional encounter between the two a startement to Newsweek: “This administration’s lovers and the camera hovering on the young obsession with attacking women’s reproductive woman’s face puts conversation about safer sex health is egregious and dangerous …Trump into the context of intoxicating love. Putting administration’s actions threaten access to critical facts and words about the outside reality of sex services that prevent maternal deaths, treat HIV alongside the effect of provoking images allows and Zika and provide communities with lifesaving one to understand the environmental factors health care.” The dissonance between the public that affect their sexual actions.

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Carlson said in an email interview that the prize has been awarded to humanitarians, religious leaders, philosophers, theologians and scientists.

Previous recipients of the award include Mother Teresa, Jean Vanier, Desmond Tutu and the 14th Dalai Lama.

“As a physicist and public intellectual, Marcelo Gleiser joins the company of previous scientist-laureates such as Paul Davies, Freeman Dyson and Martin Rees,” Carlson added.

Gleiser said he was humbled and honored to be the 2019 laureate and join the roster of Templeton Prize winners.

“I knew I was nominated, but from being nominated to actually winning is a very big difference,” he said. “I was essentially stunned when I got the news by phone call. I just couldn’t believe that it actually happened.”

Gleiser describes his work as bringing a human perspective to science.

“I look at science in the much broader context of how it fits in the big narrative of who we are as human beings in the universe, which is full of mystery,” he said. “A lot of my colleagues will dismiss this … but perhaps because of my own personality and the person I am, I really look at [science] as another way to engage spiritually with a world that is much bigger than we are.”

In addition to his work as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Gleiser has written five books in English and nine in Portuguese. In 2007, he co-founded NPR’s “13.7: Cosmos and Culture” blog with astrophysicist Adam Frank, which recently moved to Orbiter Magazine under the new name “13.8.” Brazil’s largest daily newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, has featured more than 900 weekly columns written by Gleiser. At Dartmouth, Gleiser founded the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement, which strives to facilitate open dialogue between the sciences and humanities.

According to Carlson, the nomination process for the prize typically ends in July of the previous year. After an internal review process, a panel of external judges receives the candidates’ dossiers in early October. The following month, the judges independently submit ballots to select the winner.

Evan Thompson, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia who wrote an endorsement letter for Gleiser during the nomination process, said that Gleiser’s message about the connection between science and spirituality is needed in the world today. “[Gleiser] represents a different way of thinking about science in relationship to the human spirit and the natural world that’s positive and life-affirming,” Thompson said. “I

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Gleiser joins a long list of winners including Desmond Tutu and Mother Teresa.

think that’s a sensibility that’s common to many scientists, but [Gleiser] is just a very powerful exponent and articulator of that.”

He added that Gleiser — the first Latin-American individual to be awarded the Templeton Prize — has a unique international reach. “[Gleiser] is Brazilian, he’s based in the United States … [and] his background in terms of his family is Jewish, so he kind of embodies a whole range of international elements,” Thompson said. “He pulls together these different cultural elements in a way that really bridges different constituencies and communities internationally.”

Psychological and brain sciences professor Peter Tse, who serves as a steering board member for ICE, said he also sees Gleiser’s humility and rejection of dogmatism as the way forward.

“I think he’s also deserving of the prize for his emphasis on what we don’t know, [and] also for his emphasis on the limits of the human capacity to know,” Tse said. “Rather than despair at that, we should accept it and continue our quest to expand the island of knowledge.”

Tse contrasted Gleiser’s viewpoints with those of famous atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

“We need fewer fundamentalists in the world because that’s just the path to conflict and ultimately war,” he said.

“We need more people who are open, humble and open to discussion.”

Since the award was announced, Gleiser said he has received 20 to 30 invitations to speak at conferences around the world.

“It shows you the impact of the prize and the importance of this message and that people are wanting to hear it,” he said.

Gleiser will receive the award on May 29 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He noted that he has been trying to organize a way for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra to perform at the event.

“It’s a really beautiful ceremony, so it would be really awesome if, on the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth, the DSO could perform at the Met as their professor wins a prize,” Gleiser said.

“It’s a very symbolic thing, and I hope it works.”

Republican lawmakers. Bradley said that increasing the minimum wage New Hampshire taxpayers are would “accelerate” automation and essentially subsidizing big box stores force out lower-paying and entryby allowing them to pay low wages level jobs.

“People get confused that a in the state.

A group of Democrats introduced minimum wage means a livable a floor amendment seeking to wage, and it does not,” Flanagan add two more incremental wage said.

In order to consolidate the increases so that the minimum two bills, there wage would hit will likely be an $15 an hour by ag reement on 2024, but the “New Hampshire is wh i ch o f t h e a m e n d m e n t one of the wealthiest bills to move failed with forward with, b i p a r t i s a n states in the country or a committee opposition. and our minimum of conference S o m e wage should reflect to “iron out any Republicans said final differences” they viewed the that.” between the bills as having two bills. The potentially bill would then d a n g e r o u s -REP. GARRETT MUSCATEL have to pass the effects on New ’20 (D-HANOVER) legislature before Hampshire being sent to businesses and Gov. Chris Sununu (R), Rosenwald the economy.

Sen. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) said.

Sununu previously criticized said that the minimum wage increase comes as the legislature is pushing attempts to raise the minimum wage forward many other measures, such to $15 while running for reelection as a capital gains tax and a recent last year, but it is unclear whether paid family leave bill, that might he would issue a veto if one of the increase the financial burden on bills reaches his desk in the future.

Flanagan said that he does not employers. The combination of these measures amounts to a “big believe Democrats will have enough hit on the business community,” votes to override a potential veto from the governor.

Bradley said.

Dartmouth’s current minimum Re p.

Jack Flanagan (R-Hillsborough) also cited adverse wage for student employees is set impacts on the economy, saying at $7.75 an hour and would be that the increase in the minimum reviewed and addressed if the wage could “cause employers to lay legislation was approved, chief off workers or reduce their hours human resources officer Scot Bemis because they have a finite amount wrote in an email. Dartmouth currently employs less than 10 of money to pay for labor.”

Bradley and Flanagan also both people below the proposed 2020 noted the relatively low number of minimum wage of $9.50 set by HB New Hampshire citizens currently 186, although they currently receive more than the federal minimum. receiving a minimum wage.

“The demographic of people These employees’ wages would be affected by minimum wage is not a brought up to the new minimum significant number,” Flanagan said. wage with minimal impact on the The potential for minimum wage College, Bemis wrote.

Sununu’s office did not respond jobs to be replaced by automation as wages increase also concerned to requests for comment on the bills.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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TODAY

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Colloquium: “Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Magnetic Resonance,” lecture by Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, sponsored by the physics department, Wilder 104.

6:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Discussion: “From Stage to Screen: The Art of HD Broadcasts,” talk with by George Roulston and Julie Borchard-Young, Hopkins Center, Top of the Hop.

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Cinema: “Stratford Festival in HD: ‘Coriolanus,’” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium.

TOMORROW

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Workshop: “Rockefeller Center’s Excel Workshop,” sponsored by the Rockefeller Center, Carson 061.

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Cinema: “Met Opera in HD: ‘Die Walkure,’” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium.

7:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.

Performance: “Department of Music Senior Recital,” sponsored by the music department, Faulkner Recital Hall.

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Review: “The Umbrella Academy” is both fantastical and familiar are adults, as they attempt to stop job is making sure that humanity’s the apocalypse after Number Five illusion of free will is maintained The Dartmouth Staff returns from an unplanned trip to as they keep tabs on humanity’s “The Umbrella Academy” is the future and informs them that predestined timeline. It typically probably one of the most off-putting the world is going to end in a matter does so by sending assassins to kill shows on Netflix. It opens with a of days. specific people who threaten the scene at a pool in Russia, in which a While the main plot point sounds timeline without an explanation teenager spontaneously gives birth conventional — stopping the as to why their target is a threat. in the pool after giving a potential apocalypse is a pretty overplayed Hazel is one of the Commission’s suitor a peck on the cheek, setting plot point in superhero franchises top assassins, and he is sent with his the stage for the chaos that ensues. — the show is anything but. From partner Cha-Cha, played by Mary J. After 42 other women give birth fight scenes set to the song “Istanbul Blige, to kill Number Five to ensure spontaneously all on the same day, (Not Constantinople)” by They that the apocalypse occurs.

Sir Reginald Might Be Giants, We first meet Hazel as he H a r g r e e v e s “While the main to a subplot that checks into a subpar motel with — a wealthy involves Number Cha-Cha. Immediately, they find plot point sounds British man Five surviving the that they have to share a room, whose butler conventional — apocalypse with a prompting Hazel to complain i s a t a l k i n g stopping the mannequin, the about the various aspects of his chimp and s h o w d e v o l v e s job at the Commission. All of whose “wife” apocalypse is a pretty into s u c h Hazel’s concerns seem mundane i s a r o b o t overplayed plot wonderful chaos at this point, as he mutters on — adopts that it becomes about the Commission cutting point in superhero seven of the overwhelming ly his dental insurance, making him children. Six franchises — the show surreal a n d carry around a heavy briefcase that of the seven is anything but.” i n c r e a s i n g l y contains a time machine and giving children difficult to find any them a room that smells like “cat have special plot points that piss.” Hazel, who is an ordinarypowers, ranging from those as resonate with a typical audience. looking, tall, fat white man, conventional as super-human That being said, I want to focus comes off initially as a boring guy strength to those as strange as the on Hazel, played who finds every ability to possess monsters from b y C a m e r o n “His softer features opportunity to other dimensions. Hargreeves B r i t t o n , a n complain about appear as he treats creates a team of “superheroes” a s s a s s i n w h o something, with the six who have special w o rk s f o r a n Agnes with only whatever it abilities, branding them as “The o r g a n i z a t i o n respect and adoration may be. He’s Umbrella Academy” and calling c a l l e d the disillusioned, them numbers instead of names. C o m m i s s i o n and realizes that he mediocre and Hargreeves neglects the “ordinary” that serves as finds little satisfaction whiny. The trope child, Number Seven, while training a n anchor that he seems to snd fullfillment in the rest of the children to become t o a b i z a r r e embody is aided the superheroes they become by the s h o w .

T h e his position at the by his dynamic end of the series.

C o m m i s s i o n Commission.” with his partner The children eventually grow is dedicated to Cha-Cha, a up and leave the house after being ensuring that the strong woman mistreated constantly by their events of the timeline of humanity who shuts him down when he father, only to reunite after learning remain intact (e.g. the assassination complains and is content with doing of his death. The series focuses on of John F. Kennedy, the end of her job well.

The Umbrella Academy when they the world, and so on). Its hardest Hazel, at first, seems to be an

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unextraordinary static character His complaints, originally trivialwhose only real purpose is to act seeming, suddenly become more as a foil for Cha-Cha. In the first and more sincere and well-founded couple episodes he appears in, all as he realizes his desire to escape he really does is find a donut shop his life at the Commission and move at which to spend his free time in out to the country with Agnes. between complaining and trying It is this transition in attitude to kill Number Five. I remained and perspective that makes Hazel’s unimpressed ch a r a c t e r a rc w i t h t h e w ay “His descent into one of the most his character surprising in the existential turmoil was written, show. His descent p r i m a r i l y leads him to ask into existential because he so important and tur moil leads heavily and him to ask o b v i o u s l y depressingly obvious important and embodied the questions, such as yet depressingly overplayed o b v i o u s ‘Why am I making “dude working questions, such for a large force myself miserable as: “Why am I who loves donuts working for a company making myself and complains miserable about nothing” that tretas me poorly’ working for t r o p e . Yo u and ‘What if I left my a company know the type treats me job, ran away with the that — think Chief p o o rl y ? ” a n d Wig gum from girl I love and lived a “What if I just “The Simpsons” quiet yet happy life’” left my job, ran but with a more away with the exciting job. girl I love and Midway into the season, Hazel lived a quiet yet happy life?” learns that killing Number Five Though he works as an assassin for will result in the end of the world. a fictitious company, the questions Upon realizing the consequences that Hazel entertains on his quest to of his mission, Hazel becomes self-discovery make him one of the increasing ly ske ptical of the most pleasantly relatable characters Commission. In the same vein, on the show.

Hazel also becomes increasingly Though Hazel may not be the vulnerable, slowly falling for the most interesting character of the donut shop owner, Agnes, played series, I think his disillusionment

by Sheila McCarthy, as he slips and ennui quietly resonate with into an existential crisis about all audience members. At some what he really wants to get out point, we’ve all been prompted to of the short remainder of his life. ask the questions that Hazel asks His softer features appear as he himself. Hazel’s inner conflicts treats Agnes with only respect and and relatively mundane story arc adoration and realizes that he finds provide the audience with the little satisfaction and fulfillment in relatable and grounding aspect that his position at the Commission. the rest of the chaotic show is missing.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS Nef and Ogden lead skiing to 4th place at NCAA Championships B y Caitlyn McGovern The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth ski team’s season came to an end with a fourth place finish at the NCAA Skiing Championships on March 9 at the Trapp Family Lodge and Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont.

This is one notch lower than the team’s overall third place finish last year behind first-place University of Denver and second-place University of Colorado.

Katharine Ogden ’21 took home the national champion title in the women’s 15k classical and Tanguy Nef ’20 won the men’s slalom.

The competition began on March 6 with the women’s 5k and men’s 10k freestyle events. The Big Green ended the first day in sixth place with the women scoring 68 points and the men scoring 23 points for 91 points total, just one point behind fifth-place Denver and 51 points behind the University of Utah, which was in first place at the time. In the women’s 5k event, Ogden came through with a strong performance, narrowly missing the platform at fourth place but still earning a spot on the AllAmerica First Team with her showing.

Ogden started off the race behind the rest of the pack but was able to race to the finish in the final half of the course.

This remarkable finish found her just 6.2 seconds behind Utah’s first place finisher.

In the men’s 10k event, Gavin McEwen ’19 and Callan DeLine ’18 finished in 19th and 20th place, and Adam Glueck ’21 finished in 39th.

On day two, the Big Green relied on several stellar performances to narrowly edge out Utah for first place, accumulating 259 points to Utah’s 252.5.

“In the morning we were pretty confident, we were pretty relaxed — at least for the guys side — and then we went down and the Nordies had skied the day before and had a pretty good

result, but we knew we had to keep it up and so we went for it,” Nef said.

The Big Green’s men’s team ended the day with a total of 105 points for the alpine giant slalom and the women with 63 in the same event. At the top of the leaderboard was Nef, who won the men’s giant slalom title.

“The first run was pretty solid for the whole team, we were in pretty good standings, especially for the guys,” Nef said. “I think we really brought it to the next level on the second run because we knew we could do it.”

In regards to his own performance on the course, Nef had a strong second run, saying, “I was pretty confident with the line and the course and the snow and everything, and it was an incredible second run.”

His teammates James Ferri ’19 and Drew Duffy ’21 also had strong finishes, coming in third and fourth place respectively.

“My teammate was third and my other teammate was fourth so we won three and four which was incredible — even the coach had never seen that,” Nef said. “Funny enough, we woke up and we said, ‘Operation 1, 2, 3’ because the goal was the get 1, 2, 3. It was kind of a joke but also doable, and there was just one guy who got in between there.”

In the women’s race, Tricia Mangan ’19 pulled through with a third place finish, while Stephanie Currie ’20 came in 13th place and Alexa Dlouhy ’19 came in 20th place.

On March 8, the team was back on the slopes once again and the day’s events were focused on classical nordic skiing with the women’s 15k and men’s 20k races. The Big Green was unable to hold on to its position in first place, falling in the rankings to third place with 359 total points behind Utah at 426.5 and Colorado at 361. In the men’s 20k, DeLine finished in 17th, McEwen

finished in 33rd place and Glueck finished in 38th place.

The women’s team finished with 86 points for the day and the men’s team ended with 14 points. For the second year in a row, Ogden took home first place in the women’s 15k classical and dominated the event, crossing the finish line 23.4 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. With this performance, Ogden earned yet another spot on the All-America First Team.

“NCAAs is always a high-pressure event,” Ogden said in an email. “We spend our whole year training and leading up to it, so dealing with the expectations that I had set for myself and other people’s expectations is the

hardest part.”

Lauren Jortberg ’20 also had a strong performance in the event with a sixth place finish that earned her Ssecond Team honors.

“It was really good; it was a great race,” Jortberg said. “I slotted myself into the second pack, Katharine was in the lead pack of three girls, and then my pack was five or six girls. It was good and we just worked together.”

On the fourth and final day of competition, the Big Green ended its season with a fourth place finish at 447 points. The team fell to first place Utah at 530.5 points, second place Vermont at 476 points and third place Colorado at 455 points. However, the fifth place

team, Denver, finished far behind Dartmouth with a 38-point difference between the two. In the men’s slalom, Nef had a strong first run, leading his competitors in first place with a time of 47.99 seconds, while Ferri finished in twenty-fifth place with a time of 54.79 seconds. At the end of the second run, Ferri found his way to twenty-second place and Duffy finished in eighth place, while Nef fell to 27th after a difficult run.

In the first round of the women’s race, Mangan finished in seventeenth, Currie finished in ninth, and Dlouhy finished tied for tenth. At the end of the second run, Mangan finished sixteenth, Currie finished fourteenth, and Dlouhy finished eleventh.

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Dartmouth’s finish at the 2019 NCAA Skiing Championships out of 24 teams

Dartmouth skiers took first place overall in their events

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Dartmouth’s place after the second day of competition

Dartmouth skiiers were First-Team All Americans in the Men’s Giant Slalom

points behind 3rd place Colorado