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Hanover builds new fence to curb jaywalking

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Tuck ’15s see high job placement

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Pedestrians now have to walk to designated crosswalks in order to cross the street.

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In response to complaints about jaywalking – a common sight at the College – the town of Hanover erected a fence in front of the Collis Center over the winter interim to divert pedestrians towards approved crosswalk, according to Hanover town manager

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She noted that the number of people jaywalking between Collis and the Green has worried the town, given the amount of vehicular traffic in the area.

“We had enough near misses with pedestrians versus cars,” she said.

Plans to build the fence began last spring, GrifSEE FENCE PAGE 3

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Q&A with Linda Fowler on the NH primary

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Julia Griffin.

The fence, made of unfinished split rails, runs along the sidewalk in front of Collis and Robinson Hall, between the two approved crosswalks connecting the buildings with the Green.

“The fence is designed to now really force pedestrians to cross at the two safe crossing locations,” Griffin said.

Tuck School of Business’s class of 2015 recruitment numbers revealed that 99 percent of students received job offers, up from last year’s 98 percent. These numbers are based on the 85 percent of the class that was looking for jobs three months after graduation. Ninetyfive percent of students seeking jobs accepted those offers.

The three largest industries in which members of the graduating class accepted jobs were consulting, with 34 percent placement; financial services, with 24 percent; and technology, with 18 percent.

Director of career development Jonathan Masland said that consulting is the most popular field because it provides students with a skill set that can work with diverse companies, adding that it is also interesting work and pays well.

He said that this level of employment is the highest he has seen in his 11 years at Tuck and is the best among all of the top MBA programs.

“I think it demonstrates how competent and strong the class we bring in is along with the

strengths of the ties we have with companies that hire our students are,” Masland said.

Out of the entire class, 18 percent went to three firms: McKinsey & Co., Bain Capital and the Boston Consulting Group.

Ninety-two percent of the jobs are based in the United States.

The median base salary increased eight percent, to $125,000 from $116,000 last year. The average signing bonus was $28,630, slightly down from last year’s $28,712 average bonus.

The highest salary received by a student was $170,000 and the lowest was $63,466.

One hundred percent of the Tuck class of 2016 seeking internships found one and the average monthly salary for an internship was $8,482.

He added that the numbers reflect the success of the career development office in bringing together the different resources of the office, such as Tuck’s alumni network.

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Next month kicks off the New Hampshire primary and presidential candidates will make their way to the state.

The Dartmouth sat down with Government professor Linda Fowler, who broke down the importance of the primaries and explain their long-standing relationship to Dartmouth.

The New Hampshire primary gets a lot of attention for being the first primary. Why is that particularly significant?

LF: The reason why the media pays so much attention to the primary is that it is the first time voters actually have to make a choice. The caucuses in Iowa, which come first, are interesting, but caucuses only get a couple thousand participants and they are heavily dominated by activists. New Hampshire is different — because of tradition and the importance of the primary, turnout is very high here. It can get to over 50 percent when both parties are having primaries. Compare that with say 12 percent in South Carolina, which will be the next primary. So, it’s a

real benchmark for how the voters are looking at candidates and it’s become increasingly important because nobody trusts the polls right now. The response rate to telephone polls and email polls is down around 10 percent — it’s a dirty little secret about candidate surveys right now. Many of the firms that are surveying voters are using inadequate screens, so they don’t have a really good handle on which voters who say they’re going to vote in the primary actually are going to do it. That’s a big factor for somebody like Donald Trump.

People say they are going to

vote for him in the primaries, but a high percent of them are people who don’t have a history of voting in primaries.

We don’t know whether somebody like Trump is going to get non-voters to show up at the polls, or whether they’re just having fun with the poll person and they’re not going to show up. So, New Hampshire is a reality check on whether the polls are really tapping into voters, and that’s why the press pays more attention to it. And because the press is here, the candidates come.

In this primary particularly, because Trump has sucked

most of the air out of the campaign, the group of candidates that look like they’re vying for the nod of less alienated, less conservative Republicans is Jeb Bush, John Kasich, maybe Marco Rubio and Chris Christie. They’re all focusing heavily on New Hampshire because one of them is hoping they’ll break out as the person who’s the “non-Trump, non-Cruz” candidate and turn this into a three-way race, and donors are looking hard at that. On the Democratic side, if Hillary Clinton ends up beating back a SEE PRIMARY PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing The Ithaca Voice reported that police are currently investigating several cases of graffiti on and around Cornell University’s campus. “Cornell won’t save you” was written in red paint at Baker War Memorial Flagpole and at a bus stop by Risley Hall. A black hammer and sickle were found painted on a statue of Andrew Dickson White — the university’s first president ­— and red symbols were on Goldwin Smith Hall pillars behind the statue. More graffiti on Sigma Pi fraternity read “kill your rapist” and depicts a guillotine where “off with your heads” is written. The Cornell daily crime log indicates that graffiti was also found on the east door of Milstein Hall, causing $1,500 worth of damage. Officer Jamie Williamson wrote in an email that the crimes are being investigated as separate incidents, but there is a possibility they are linked.

Princeton University is beginning to examine Woodrow Wilson’s legacy, NJ.com reports. In December, the university announced that the Board of Trustees formed a special subcommittee made up of 10 of their members and chaired by university alum Brent Henry. The committee will investigate allegations that the former university president and namesake of two of Princeton’s schools had racist values. The committee was formed in response to recent protests on campus in November, during which members and supporters of the student organization the Black Justice League stormed university president Christopher Eisgruber’s office. The university also launched a website to receive community input on Wilson’s history. In addition to seeking input from people affiliated with the university, the committee plans to gather information on Wilson from scholars and biographers who specialize in the former president’s history and will post that to the site.

The Ivy League’s new concussion public service announcement will make its national television debut this Saturday as part of the FS1 broadcast of the Princeton University basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania, Ivy League Sports reported. The 30-second piece features student-athletes from all eight Ivy League schools emphasizing the importance of reporting symptoms that could indicate a concussion. Since 2010, the Ivy League has assumed a strong role in concussion research, prevention and education in college athletics. The League has adopted recommendations across the sports of football, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse and men’s and women’s soccer to limit concussive and sub-concussive hits while placing an emphasis on education. Since 2012, the League has been working in partnership with the Big Ten Conference and the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation on a research collaboration to study the effects of head injuries in sports.

This public service announcement brings home the point that education remains a key component of mitigating the potential short- and long-term ramifications of repetitive brain trauma.

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Median 2015 Tuck salary increases a sense of security. He cited Tuck’s 100 percent internship placement as Masland said there will be earlier a reason for attending Tuck. and more access to career services Giuliana Vetrano Tu’16 said for students, even before they arrive she was not as focused on recruitat Tuck. For example, a group of 50 ment numbers. She thought that incoming Tuck the schools she students travwas applying elled to the Bay “I definitely viewed to would be caArea over the business school as pable of providsummer to look ing job support, at energy related an investment in my and also noted businesses. career and I wanted a that her interests He also said not in a school that was going were there will be niche field that more resources to give me all the career would be difin regards to cato find opopportunities I could ficult reer exploration portunities in. and self-evalua- possibly want.”

S h e tion. said one of her T h e Tu c k favorite services Career Devel- -SHARON DAUSON Tu ’16 offered by Tuck opment Office has been comwill be partnerpany briefings, ing with a group which involve of students and recruiting comdeans to help panies coming to further design career services, he campus and presenting to students added. in their first term.

Tuck Student Board president Vetrano said a potential improveOmar Abdelsamad Tu’16 said ment for career services could be recruitment numbers for business helping students find out what work schools were a major factor in his they want to do. decision-making process in applying Sharon Dauson Tu’16 said reto schools as high numbers gave him cruitment numbers along with the FROM TUCK PAGE 1

firms students received offers from were her primary consideration when she was applying to business schools.

“I definitely viewed business school as an investment in my career and I wanted a school that was going to give me all the career opportunities I could possibly want,” Dauson said.

Compared to Dartmouth undergraduate on-campus recruiting, Dauson said that Tuck on-campus recruiting was more hands on. If recruiting does not work out, Tuck will assign you a helper in finding a job through other venues, she said.

These helpers will make sure students have the internship or job they want by the end of their two years there.

Dauson said that the buddy system added this year — where a first-year can get assigned to a second-year student working in the field that first-year is interested in — is helpful to students because the second-year has gone through the same process.

Harvard Business School reported a median base salary of $130,000 for the class of 2015, $14,000 higher than Tuck’s class.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business reported that 98.4 percent of students seeking jobs received offers, 0.6 percent lower than Tuck’s class.

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Fence part of a number of plans to increase pedestrian safety FROM FENCE PAGE 1

fin said, after the town received numerous complaints about jaywalkers. In fact, most of the complaints the town receives are about jaywalkers, she said. Both Griffin and Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said that many drivers have called in about jaywalkers in the area.

Since 2010, there have been four accidents in front of Collis, one of which involved a pedestrian, Dennis said. A pedestrian passed in front of a stationary SUV while jaywalking and walked into the path of an oncoming motorcycle, forcing the driver to lay down the bike in order to avoid a collision.

The Hanover Police Department surveyed the area on July 27 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. and counted 143 jaywalkers over the course of the hour, Dennis said. The department performed another survey on Sept. 15, again between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. This time, they counted 313 jaywalkers.

In addition to building the fence, the town of Hanover has changed the traffic signals at the corners of Collis and the Green on Wheelock Street, Griffin said.

Previously, pedestrians attempting to cross between Collis and the Green had to wait for a full traffic cycle to receive a “walk” signal. Now, pedestrians at those corners will immediately receive a “walk” signal upon pushing the crosswalk button, she said, which will hopefully lessen the urge to

jaywalk.

Those attempting to cross to other corners at the intersection will still have to wait for the full traffic cycle, she said.

The fence is not the only safety measure the town has taken in response to jaywalking incidents.

Two summers ago, the town built in a median “refuge island” for the crosswalk on Wheelock Street between the Green and the Hopkins Center, Griffin said. Since constructing the median jaywalking in the area has gone down, she said.

The town next plans to target the corner of the Green connecting with the Hood Museum for the Arts, Griffin said. They will probably build a “bump-out” by pouring concrete to form a curb that will jut out into the travel lane, she said, delineating a natural crossing point on the south side of the Green.

“When people see crosswalks that invite them to cross at a location because of physical improvements you’ve made, they really do work,” she said. “People do follow crosswalks that invite them to cross.”

Thomas Wang ’16 said that he has no strong feelings about the fence and has not been affected by its presence.

Jarely Lopez ’19 said she opposes the construction of the fence.

She does not see jaywalking as a problem on campus. Lopez noted that she has jaywalked in the past without consequence.

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Alex Magnuson ’19 said that he does not support the fence. He said traffic in the area is slow enough that jaywalking is not a significant safety issue. He added that jaywalking on campus is common, though he was not sure he would describe it as a “problem.”

Ying Lin ’16 expressed doubts that the fence would necessarily curb jaywalking. She said she has seen people jaywalking at the intersection now that the fence is blocking the road. Many of her friends have complained about the fence, she said.

Some of the students interviewed were also critical of the fence’s aesthetics.

While she had not previously thought about it, Lopez said the fence was “pretty ugly looking.”

“It could be worse,” Magnuson said. “They could have made it chain-link.”

Lin said the fence would look better painted.

The split rail was chosen because it was inexpensive and rustic, Griffin said. While the town had previously discussed matching the fence more closely with Collis, possibly matching the Senior Fence across the street, the College declined to do so, Griffin said.

The town might overhaul the fence in the future if the College decides to move ahead with plans to renovate the porch of Collis, Griffin said.

While there have only been a handful of accidents, Dennis characterized the fence’s construction as a proactive measure to prevent further accidents before they occur.

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statistics you’d think ‘wow, there’s four accidents in the last five-plus years, why are we doing that?’” he said. “It’s so that we don’t have to deal with the aftermath of me going and knocking on someone’s door or making a phone call that someone’s lost their life and the driver of the vehicle has to live with that for the rest of their lives.”

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Staff Columnist William Peters ’15

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Shameful State of the Nation

The Desi Dichotomy

The support GOP candidates receive on the far right is indicative of a terrifying trend in American public opinion.

When Donald J. Trump announced that he would be running for president in June, I thought, “Well, this should be amusing.” I figured he’d join the rest of the anti-tax, anti-abortion, anti-regulatory, anti-immigration and other anti efforts in the run to the extreme right. In a presidential field that began with more than a dozen hopefuls, distinguishing one’s self has been paramount. Trump has done just that.

Garnering support from conservatives, he has enjoyed a consistent lead over the other GOP candidates. This support is concerning.

While candidates like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum primarily rage on about Evangelical philosophies opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, Trump has targeted the hearts and minds of voters with rhetoric that plays to tunes of fear and hatred. From promising to build a wall across the Mexican border, to promising to deport Syrian refugees, to calling for an unconstitutional ban on Muslims entering the country and expressing a desire for Muslims to register in a database and carry special identification, Trump has become the standard bearer for right-wing bigotry in American politics. What is terrifying about this is not that Trump is campaigning to sit in the Oval Office, but rather that he is dominating the GOP race with as high as 35 percent of the support from Republican voters.

In contrast with Democratic candidates and voters, Republicans are running on platforms that marginalize immigrants and minorities, blindly propose harsh military force in the Middle East and promote policies that would let banks and big businesses run wild. They have established themselves as the candidates that will defend America against terrorism, immigrants and China, while offering vague or undetailed plans for the economy, national security or replacing the Affordable Health Care Act and no, a wall on the southern border, bombing the hell out of ISIS, and simplifying the tax code are not detailed plans.

Trump is at the forefront of it all. Bold, unapologetic and unyielding, the real estate mogul and reality television star has not only deflected criticism, but has gone on the offensive — even launching ad homenim attacks at his fellow Republicans. Most notably, he tweeted that Carly Fiorina was too ugly to be elected president.

While he has received plenty of scorn — particularly from women — for the often crude and off-the-cuff comments he makes, his lead in the polls remains consistent. His position in the polls reflects the voters’ favor, their desires and their preference for a candidate who is not afraid to speak candidly and consistently with rhetoric that advocates for isolationism, brute force and racism. The truth about Trump’s campaign is not simply that he is being honest, but that so many voters hold those views in high enough regard to support him. Reinforcing this interpretation of conservative polls is Senator Ted Cruz, coming in at second place with 19.5 percent. Simply put, we have a large section of the electorate that is scared, angry, ignorant and bigoted — and we should be ashamed.

It appears that the GOP is once again working with candidates that seem unlikely to wih the presidency. In 2012, Mitt Romney was always the clear frontrunner for the nomination. Not because he was a populist or because he used bold language, but because he had a respectable resume as a business candidate.

This time it seems that everyone who gets a chance to talk about any national issues during debates or events seems to either want to start a war, shut the doors or turn America into the Fourth Reich. I’m not a fan of Hillary Clinton’s populist positions, and it does not seem realistic to believe Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist senator from Vermont, will win a general election. But at least neither of them are talking about violating the Constitution or closing the door on refugees and Muslims. Not that winning the presidency would make achieving such things easy. We still have a Congress to hold the executive branch in check or at least we hope we do.

American voters have eleven months to take a good look at the candidates and decide who they want in office next January. If their answer is that they want to see a president that shuts the door on migrants and refugees, hates gays and Muslims and thinks that they can muscle the world into submission, then it would seem that we have a dark future ahead of us as a country.

If you wake up in the morning and see Trump in the news and think to yourself, “I hope he’s president,” then you have taken every liberty this country offers for granted.

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An inside look into the Indian-American identity.

“I think I want to intern for Preet Bharara.” I had taken the wrong flight. India has western As soon as I uttered this seemingly harm- ized and modernized to such an extent that my less statement at a dinner party back home neighborhood in Delhi had a Starbucks before in New York, the collective jaw of the dinner my gentrified neighborhood in New York was table dropped. granted the privilege. But this modernization “Do you mean the United States Attorney is not solely limited to coffee options. for Manhattan who seems to only be interested India’s economy is booming and there in persecuting Indians?” might be a chance of reversing the brain drain.

In response, I stated that only the first part But what happens when that generation of of that assumption was correct. Bharara is the Indian-Americans returns to a country that U.S. attorney in Manhatis barely recognizable? tan, featured on the cover There will be a major of TIME magazine for “India has westernized discrepancy between his “crusade” against the and modernized to their expectation of four largest banks in the India and the reality of such an extent that United States and nearly India. my neighborhood in a hundred executives.

Living in the He is also the Indian- Delhi had a Starbucks United States, many American prosecutor first-generation immibehind the infamous before my gentrified grants, especially from Devyani Khobragade neighborhood in New Asia, try to preserve as case that escalated domuch of their cultural York was granted the mestic tensions between heritage as possible. We his native India and the privilege.” celebrate when India United States. defeats Pakistan in the Despite his achieveCricket World Cup ments as the U.S. Attor- -Hansa sharma despite not knowing an ney in Manhattan and the iota about cricket, we fact that he was strongly enter lotteries to catch considered for the position of U.S. Attorney a glimpse of the charismatic Prime Minister General, why does the Indian-American com- Narendra Modi and we gleam with pride when munity not admire Bharara? we see an Indian girl, Mindy Kaling ’01, on Admittedly, there is a strong minority who primetime television. admires his bravado in tackling the fat cats Is there a logic to our deeply buried paof Wall Street, but the majority of Indian- triotism when those Indian values we take Americans refer to him as a sell-out or a coconut pride in cease to exist in a rapidly globalizing for being too white-washed and going against country obsessed with everything American? his own people.

By choosing to cling to values that now seem Bharara is not, however, the only Indian- like a relic of a 1990s Bollywood film, are American public figure who has been criticized Indian-Americans effectively destroying the for appearing too white-washed. Two other possibility of carving their niche in the context interesting examples are Louisiana Governor of the American dream?

Bobby Jindal, a former presidential candidate, This is even more problematic for secondand South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. generation immigrants who are confronted They have been ridiculed not only for with the impossibility of reconciling their their Western first names, but also for their parents’ antiquated values brought over personal decisions to convert to Christianity, from India, alongside their mango pickle and which many saw as publicity stunts to appeal Ganesha statue, with their assimilation into to Republican voters in their Southern states. American society. As newly appointed CEO Although Indian-Americans have the of Google, Sundar Pichai, continues to play highest median household incomes and edu- cricket in India, this dichotomy clearly persists. cation levels of minority groups in America, No immigrant group will be able to reconthey have been grossly underrepresented and cile both parts of their cultural identity without misrepresented in the public sphere. reaching a level of comfort with the value sys Names like Bobby and Nikki look better on tem of their hyphenated home nation. This is American ballots than Piyush and Nimrata, the impossible if the current immigrant generation given names of Jindal and Haley, respectively. remains insensitive to the changes rocking the Ultimately, is it worth having a minority foundations of the Indian belief system. This representative if all they are running on is their reconciliation is made more complex by the success in compartmentalizing their Indian recent cultural appropriation of Indian staples and American identities rather than integrat- such as yoga and mango lassi. ing them into a cohesive Indian-American Above all, it is important for any immiperspective? grant generation to embrace its individuality The answer is not as black-and-white as it before deriding public figures for disgracing may seem. Indian-American identity, like other a culture that no longer exists. As Mindy Kahyphenated identities, suffers from a classic case ling ‘01 concisely describes her success: “I’m of generation gap. Due to the tech boom in an Indian woman who has her own network the 1990s, there was a significant brain drain show.” Indian-Americans can only reinvent from India to the U.S. Computer engineers themselves if they continue cultivating their are jokingly referred to as India’s best exports. individuality like Kaling. India has moved on, When I visited Delhi this summer, I thought so should we.

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New Hampshire primary has long connection to Dartmouth FROM PRIMARY PAGE 1

challenge from Bernie Sanders, that will very much set her up for the rest of the race. Sanders is hoping to do well with a grassroots operation in New Hampshire and in Iowa and he has a good chance at both states.

Clinton is likely to win many of the southern primaries on March 1, so Sanders needs a good showing in New Hampshire in order to survive until the big middle Midwestern and Northern states start to kick in later in the season. But if she beats him here and in Iowa — and worse for him if she really beats him — then he’s not going to have enough momentum to survive the March 1 contest and she’s likely to do well. So, the New Hampshire primary is generally important and this one in particular is important for both parties.

What is the historical relationship between Dartmouth and the New Hampshire primary?

LF: I think there are three things that make a connection. The first thing is that Dartmouth students have been major sources of volunteer activity for candidates in both parties. The first time it was really a factor was in the 1968 Democratic primary, where Lyndon Johnson was not on the ballot. He had made the decision that as

an incumbent president he shouldn’t have to compete in primaries and in the end, because of the anti-war opposition to the conflict in Vietnam, a senator named Eugene McCarthy emerged to challenge Johnson. The students were very involved in that effort. They had a slogan, “Be clean for Gene,” meaning that you shouldn’t go around looking scruffy and like a hippy when you were knocking on doors of the good people of New Hampshire.

McCarthy got 40 percent of the vote.

He didn’t win, but the strong showing was such a surprise to everybody. It was a marker for the growing opposition to the war and that Johnson was not going to get the nomination by acclimation, he was going to have to fight for it. That was a very, very powerful memory for students who were at Dartmouth at the time. The second student connection is that a substantial number of students, often when they’re making inquiries about whether they want to apply to Dartmouth, cite the fact that the primary is happening and that they’re very interested in politics. They are attracted by the excitement that the primary generates on campus and that the candidates are coming. The third connection is that Dartmouth, for many years, has hosted major debates and public events. The first televised debate may have been 1988 and the

University of New Hampshire hosed the debate for one of the parties and Dartmouth hosted the debate for the other party. We did debates in 1996, big ones for both parties in 2000 and then others in 2004 and 2008.

There has been a sense that, often times, networks have approached Dartmouth because of its beautiful campus and said “we’d like to host a debate on your campus if you’ll work with us,” and we have.

For students who come into Dartmouth interested in politics, would you say that working for campaigns is the most typical route to follow?

LF: That is exactly what they do.

The College Democrats and College Republicans usually collaborate to sponsor some student debates, where students will make the case for why their candidate should be the victor, as opposed to the opposing party’s candidate, but that will be more important in the fall. The College Democrats and College Republicans, because there isn’t consensus yet on who each party’s nominee should be, you’re seeing student activism much more directed to individually signing up for individual candidates, but the student political organizations have more of a role to play in the fall.

In addition to volunteering, what is the role that Dartmouth students typically play in the primary? How significant is the vote of a Dartmouth student?

In the past, how much have Dartmouth students voted in primaries?

LF: The turnout among students generally is not great, but the young people who do vote increasingly are voting Democrat. This is why Republicans in the state are so eager to make it more difficult for students to vote in New Hampshire elections.

It’s less of an issue in the primary. In part, Republicans are not coming up to Hanover as much as the Democrats are because they don’t think the payoff in terms of voters has been very high. But the student vote generally is important in the general election.

And by student vote, I mean the students at Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire, Keene State College and Plymouth State University. New Hampshire is going to have a very hard fought governors race and a very hard fought senators race, and the student vote, generally of which Dartmouth is a part, will be very, very important.

How can students vote in primary? Do they have to be registered with one of the two parties to vote?

LF: There are two things here, the first

has to do with eligibility for students.

When the Republicans have been in the majority recently in the state legislature, they have tried to make it more difficult for students to vote by requiring a photo ID and circulating information that unless you’ve registered your car and have a New Hampshire drivers license, that you can’t vote in this state. That’s actually false. You do have to have a photo ID, but students are considered residents if they are on campus full-time. Partly the decision of the town has been very strong to make it as easy as possible for students to vote. Now, the time to register in a party is by late October, but New Hampshire still has sameday registration. So if students didn’t register in the fall, they can register on election day on Feb. 9. They then have a choice of registering for either party’s primary. A student who has registered as an independent has the option of saying “I’m registered as an independent, but for the purposes of today, I want to be a Republican.”

After voting, they can go back to being an undeclared voter. One thing that students need to remember is that if they register to vote in the New Hampshire primary, they should not be voting in their own state’s primary.

That’s against the law.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and space.

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“Using C. Elegans to Understand Neural Cell Biology”, presented by Mark Hammarlund, PhD, Yale University, LSC 201

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“Low Dimensional Superfluidity,” by University of Vermont professor Adrian Del Maestro, Wilder 104

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“Ice Cuts,” Eric Aho will present and discuss his paintings of the northern winter landscape in the Hood Auditorium

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Recent Alumni Q&A: Max Samuels ’15 B y MADELINE KILLEN The Dartmouth

Max Samuels ’15 graduated from Dartmouth last year as a theater and Chinese double major. He is now attending a one-year master of arts program focused exclusively on classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

What’s a typical day at LAMDA? MS: On class days we have our acting classes, our voice classes, our movement classes, staged combat, phonetics, historical dance class, an Alexander technique sort of postural spinal alignment cours, all sorts of different fun things.

It’s all very practical and active and it’s not really classroom work. It’s more, “Let’s get up on our feet or lie down on the ground” work. We have rehearsal days, which meet twice a week, where we try to incorporate the stuff that we’re learning in the classroom with actual workshop productions. They’re not open to the public, but they’re small, cut-down versions of plays that we work on with a director and work towards a performance. We do two of those a term. As we move through the year, we have less class and more focus on our thesis presentations, which are devised, short pieces­— a response to a classical text — and then our Shakespeare production in our last term, which is open to the public. At the end of the course we return to the United States and have an industry showcase in New York and Los Angeles where we present a little taste of us as actors to the industry and hope to make connections through that.

Why Dartmouth? Did you look at conservatory programs when considering colleges?

MS: I did look at conservatory programs as I was gearing up towards the college application process, but shortly after visiting those places, I decided, “These places are great, but I don’t think they’d be great for me at my 18 or 17-year-old stage.” I didn’t think I was quite ready to give up on so many of my other academic interests. I wanted to stay open to the possibilities of different things happening, which is sort of a metaphor for the acting work that I’m now trying to do. I quickly decided after visiting some conservatories that I wanted to look more at some liberal arts sort of places and I decided on Dartmouth. I applied early decision. It was a no-brainer once I visited that this is where I want to be because I visited the theater department. It was the summer going into my senior year of high school and I remember it was just gorgeous.

I didn’t even do a formal admissions tour of Dartmouth, I did a theater tour. Doing that, I just felt like it was a department that really cared about and looked to nurture its students. I think an actor should have varied interests, and I think Dartmouth really cultivated those. I mean, I was a Chinese major.

So yes, I feel grateful every day here in my program that I had the Dartmouth experience. Dartmouth gave me the chance to focus on breadth, which I think is so important, and now I’m getting the chance to focus on depth, which is this classical acting thing. So I think having both those things in my toolkit will have prepared me really well for plunging into the industry.

What at Dartmouth most prepared you for LAMDA? MS: I knew about LAMDA because I’d been there before on the theater FSP in summer 2014. The theater FSP every summer goes to LAMDA and we do what’s called a short course. So the 10 Dartmouth students join another 30 or so students from all over the world, a lot of whom are still in undergrad but some are older and we get an eightweek taste of what British conservatory drama training is.

How have your thoughts on acting changed since graduation?

MS: My thoughts on acting have changed — it’s hard to describe how.

I think all of the things that I’m learning and doing are happening in very subtle ways that I don’t think I can really express or articulate. I guess one of the revelations I’ve had about acting is that it’s about being open to things happening and to not worry so much about doing. The word “acting” implies a very hands-on approach, but

really, I’ve started to discover that often taking a step back and letting things be and allowing space and time for things to develop in a scene is really the best way to go about acting. So that’s been a big thing.

How have your thoughts on what you want to do changed since graduation?

MS: I don’t think my thoughts on what I want to do have changed very much since graduating. I really do have my sights set on being a working actor, whatever that means. So you can define success in many different ways but if I can kind of consistently get work, interesting work, as an actor — thought-provoking work — I’ll be happy. So I think that goal has stayed constant.

So you said you want to be a working actor; can you speak more on that? What do you mean by “working actor”?

MS: I wish I knew. I would like to be able to support myself financially as an actor, with acting work, because it’s the thing I enjoy doing the most, and I’d like to get paid to do the thing I enjoy doing the most. So at the moment, I’m thinking I’d like to move to New York City and begin auditioning. I hope to audition for a wide range of projects and do types of work that challenge me and I hope to be able to get to collaborate with inspiring people. People

I worked with at Dartmouth, people who I’m now working with at school and, obviously, beyond.

What advice would you give to other arts students at Dartmouth?

MS: I’d say don’t look for the right way to do whatever art you’re trying to do.

Obviously, I can only really speak for

theater, but don’t feel like you’ve got to do things right. Instead just do things and they’ll be wrong a lot of the time, and you’ll fail a lot of the time but through that you’ll get closer to what is right. Alleviate the pressure of having to do things right. There are no grades in art.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Max Samuels ’15 in the spring production of “Merrily We Roll Along.”

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SPORTS RIDING THE PINE

WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT

RTP is back. To our fans, we love you. For those of you who don’t know us, buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

We expected this term to be nothing but a mere victory lap. When we got off the Dartmouth coach with three suitcases and not a single friend to greet us, the harsh reality of our situation slapped us full in the face. We were nothing. We were lower than scum.

Now one measly week into the New Year, we find ourselves resorting to the most extreme of all measures, the so-called “nuclear option.” To make friends, write a sports column. It is simply science. We promised each other we would never do this again. It was a promise that we had every intention of keeping. In the profound loneliness and stark forbidding beauty of a New Hampshire winter, however, a man’s word is as fragile as his ego.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s great to be back.

Just like Michael Jordan’s brief stint with the Wizards, no one wanted this to happen. No one, that is, except for us. When you get addicted to the buzz of the limelight, you simply can’t spend more than a few terms starved of the public’s adoration. Especially not at a time like this. Especially not during our very own senior winter.

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We are Hank and Fish, the most popular sports columnists that the College has ever seen. We had a zero dollar idea and stretched it to a billion dollars of net worth. We hiked the 50 twice. We went to Zimbabwe once. And we enjoyed going to Zimbabwe zero times.

Riding the Pine is considered by many to be our finest work. It is a sports column that is epic in scope, profound in its emotional depth and completely devoid of any sports analysis. In other words, it’s the perfect storm.

As most of our readers know, the Golden State Warriors have taken the

basketball world by storm this year, riding the hottest start in NBA history to a 33-2 record as the season approaches its midpoint. Relying on the disrespectful gimmickry of small ball, the Warriors have made a mockery of the sport that Hank and Fish hold dear.

In many ways, we are similar to the Golden State Warriors. Both paragons of excellence in our fields, but both fated to be struck down by crippling weaknesses hiding barely submerged beneath a glistening surface. Take it from those who know better, all that glitters is not gold.

The Warriors are ridden with flaws that only perceptive and honest analysts like ourselves seem to have any desire to expose. When we saw interim head coach Luke Walton give head coach Steve Kerr the Kylo Ren treatment, we knew trouble was coming from a mile away.

The entirety of the Warriors success is predicated on Steph Curry. In the 33 games that the Warriors have played with Curry, they have gone an astounding 32-1. However, in their two games without Curry, who has been plagued

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by a recent shin injury, the Warriors are a pedestrian 1-1. Unfortunately for fans of the blue and yellow, Curry’s physical fragility is matched only by the emotional turbulence clearly bubbling beneath his placid exterior.

The Warriors desire to make history has clearly taxed their biggest star early in the season and we can’t see Curry sustaining his health and level of play long enough for Golden State to repeat its title.

Another potential flaw for the Warriors is their wavering man in the middle, Andrew Bogut. Bogut’s on-court energy once brought the Warriors wins and accolades from adoring analysts. However, Bogut has now gone full Hollywood. He seems to care more about his Instagram than he does getting to the foul line. His diva attitude may work in the regular season, but come playoff time, he is an Odell Beckham Jr. waiting to happen.

Despite their obvious shortcomings, the Warriors may still have one ace in the hole: the sleek and graceful shooting guard Klay Thompson. Arguably a better shooter than Curry, Thompson is averaging 20.9 points per game on

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46.6 percent shooting from the floor.

Yet for some reason, you hear less about Thompson from the mainstream sports media than you do about Peyton Manning’s alleged use of HGH. The Warriors are a great regular season team, but they’ll come up short at the end.

Our dark horse pick to take the title?

The Miami Heat. Playing without the burden of the King’s crown, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade have returned to form, bringing a breath of fresh air to South Beach.

Clearly, our predictive skills are just as rusty as our column-writing ones.

As the first Riding the Pine of 2016 comes to an end, our minds cannot help but reach back to the poignant words of acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, who once said, “If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.”

If Murakami’s words ring true, writing this column for the rest of the term will be like digging a small hole.

Or perhaps more aptly, digging our own graves.

Men’s basketball scores season high 85 points in loss to Fairfield B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s basketball team totaled a season high of 85 points in an explosive affair featuring uninhibited shot-taking and swift possession changes that contributed to more scoring opportunities for both teams.

Despite trading buckets with host Fairfield University for most of the game, the Big Green (4-8) could not hold off the Stags’ (7-6) three-point barrage and failed to maintain the brief lead it took in the second half, losing by a score of 97-85. Dartmouth could not force nearly enough stops on the defensive end, yielding 97 points to the Stags — the most an opponent has scored since 2011.

Evan Boudreaux ’19 continued an excellent freshman season in adding 18 points, doing all of his work inside the three-point line and mainly on drives to the basket. Forward Connor Boehm ’16 enjoyed his best offensive game of the year, leading all scorers on the floor with 24 after jumping out with 15 in the first half. The senior added seven rebounds to his ledger — tied for the most by the Big Green — as well as the most offensive rebounds among all players.

“I thought [Boehm] was very aggressive,” head coach Paul Cormier said.

“He hasn’t been as aggressive as that offensively in some time. Aggressive isn’t

just taking more shots, aggressiveness is posting up hard, feeling for the ball low, [using] his post moves.”

Perhaps the most pivotal aspect in the game was the three-point shooting

by Fairfield. Coming into Monday’s matchup, the Big Green knew the threepoint shot represented a hallmark of its opponent’s offense. Prior to the game, the Stags had a season three-point attempt rate of .429. Nevertheless, even the three-point onslaught that unfolded in the first half seemed astounding.

“Our goal coming into the game was to slow them down and not play to their tempo,” Boehm said about defending the opponent. “Unfortunately, they got out and they were hitting their three.

What we talked about during the game was to run them off the three-point line.

We’ll let them drive in the paint.”

In the second half, Fairfield’s threepoint attempts slightly dissipated, as the home side took just eight three’s — four fewer than Dartmouth’s total attempts in the same span — but still ultimately finished the game shooting .400 from outside the arc.

Moreover, the Stags’ three-point stroke often dictated the course of the game in terms of its closeness. Whereas cold stretches by Fairfield from threepoint range allowed Dartmouth some room to creep back, once the Stags regained their outside touch they restored their lead as well.

As part of this offensive strategy, Fairfield also instilled a rapid tempo in the game.

“It’s not so much just the three point shooting,” Cormier said. “It’s the tempo that they want to play. They want to play very fast. They’re very athletic. They’ve got a lot of good perimeter shooters.”

Despite falling behind by doubledigits five minutes into the first half, a strong rebounding effort — especially in the first half — marked one of the key reasons Dartmouth forced a closer game.

Furthermore, generating several second chance opportunities was a crucial outgrowth of Big Green dominance on the boards. Fourteen minutes into the night, Dartmouth had already collected nine offensive rebounds. In the possessions immediately following, the team scored 12 easy points.

Such success with offensive rebounds continued into the second half, as by the end of the night the Big Green led their opponents in that category 16-7.

In total, Dartmouth out-rebounded Fairfield 39-27 — almost the same rebound differential after the first 20 minutes of play.

For Cormier, this advantage did not necessarily translate to stronger control of the game. “[At] some times the offensive rebounding was good.” Cormier said.

“But a lot of that has to do with the

fact that they’re getting out. They’re not sending many people to the defensive boards. They’re getting out because they want to score in a hurry. I was pleased with the rebounding [and] the aggressiveness, but we did get caught in allowing them to get some easy baskets in transition.”

As Fairfield attempted to distance itself in the second half, Dartmouth hardly let up, cutting the margin down to one point on several occasions. Finally, a layup by Boehm just over 12 minutes into the second half gave the Big Green its first lead since the first basket of the game. That make came amid a hot streak for Boehm, who converted his shots on his third consecutive possession.

“We always play hard, game in and game out, that’s definitely part of it,” guard Miles Wright ’18 said about the effort to remain competitive on the scoreboard with Fairfield. “But playing hard isn’t always enough to get you the amount of wins that you need. I think that a lot of people stepped up. Connor Boehm, he really stepped up and had a great game. His intensity and leadership throughout the game kind of inspired others to play harder than they normally would.”

Yet within seconds, the Stags countered back to regain an advantage and a Johnson three-pointer permanently returned a multi-possession lead as the final field goal in a seven-point run for

Fairfield. Over a five minute stretch as the game wound down, Fairfield went on a 17-7 run that extended its lead to 14 — the largest of the game — and effectively put the game to bed.

“When it gets to be five minutes left in the game, you have to decide, ‘are we going to lose by eight, because we’re just trading baskets, or are we going to try to press them and see if we can create some turnovers?” Cormier said.

“We went after them and did get some turnovers, but we sped up the tempo a little bit and that’s more into what they want to do and we weren’t able to close the [scoring] gap.”

Boehm noted the uniqueness in facing the offensive style that Fairfield employed.

“I don’t think we’ve [ever] played a team quite with this strategy that they had,” Boehm said. “A lot of the teams we play especially in the Ivy League are more conventional in their offenses.

They’re going to work the shot clock down to get a good shot, run through their numerous offensive sets. [Fairfield] was different in the way that, if they have an open shot, no matter what it is, they’re going to take it. So I can’t say we have played a team [like that] probably in my four years.”

The Big Green will open Ivy play this Saturday against Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. at 2 p.m.

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