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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017
Town to vote on ‘student residence’ zoning status
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Winter Carnival sees new events By FRANCES COHEN
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, which is now derecognized, may be affected by the vote.
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Members of the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment postponed voting on proposed changes to the zoning laws governing student residences at Tuesday’s town meeting. The proposed changes, which could affect the derecognized Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha
Delta fraternities, would require student residences, such as fraternities, to be recognized and operated in compliance with the rules of the College. As it stands now, the ordinance states that student residences must be “operated in conjunction with another institutional use,” not the College specifically. The vote will take place on March 7.
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Professor Eric Fossum wins award By PETER CHARALAMBOUS The Dartmouth Staff
Nearly 200 million Americans carry Thayer School of Engineering professor Eric Fossum’s groundbreaking invention in their pockets or bags. Whenever they snap a photo, they utilize a technology that Fossum pioneered more than 20 years ago while working at NASA. That invention, the CMOS image sensor, has allowed engineers to
document interplanetary travel, doctors to conduct revolutionary surgeries and everyday people to share their lives through photos. Fossum was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the most prestigious award in the engineering, for his work developing this technology. “I thought it was a prank call,” said Fossum, as he described learning on Jan. 24 SEE FOSSUM PAGE 3
If the changes were to go into effect, fraternities that are currently zoned as student residences could lose this status if they were to be derecognized by the College. Under current College policy, students are already prohibited from living in unrecognized Greek houses, though this is not explicitly prohibited SEE ZONING PAGE 2
This year’s Winter Carnival, called “Dartmouth College of Icecraft and Blizzardry: A Magical Winter Car nival,” is packed with Harry Potterthemed events. In addition to the traditional events such as the polar bear plunge, the human dogsled race, the ice sculpture contest and the 99-cent ski day, this year will also feature some new additions. The polar bear plunge and ice sculpture contest will kick off the weekend on Friday afternoon, followed by the human dog sled race and 99-cent ski day on Saturday. Similar to the past few years, there will be an opening celebration on Thursday featuring remarks from Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, the ski team skiing around the Green and an a capella show with the Subtleties. For the first time this year, there will be an opening celebration following the ceremony, Winter Carnival Council chair Audrey Scott ’19 said.
The opening celebration will be held in Collis Common Ground and will feature Harry Potter-themed treats such as “golden snitch pops,” “butter beer” and “potions,” Scott said. Many of the other events will also tie into the Harry Potter theme, including an exhibition in Rauner Special Collections Library that will mimic the forbidden section of the Hogwarts library and an arts and crafts wand making projecton Saturday, Winter Car nival Council chair Eric Chen ’17 said. H a r r y Po t t e r- t h e m e d posters, designed by Helena Eitel ’17, as well as long-sleeve t-shirts, designed by Alexis Wallace ’17, are being sold in Collis through Saturday. Another new addition to this year’s Winter Carnival is an ice skating rink on the Green — weather permitting — which will be used for activities organized for the house communities. These may include broom ball or SEE WINTER CARNIVAL PAGE 2
Q&A with professor of medicine H. Gilbert Welch
By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff
H. Gilbert Welch is an academic physician and cancer researcher at the College. He is a professor of medicine at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and an internist at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He focuses on studying issues in early detection efforts for cancer, including over-testing and
the harmful effects of false positives, and is the author of three books on the subject. Welch also teaches an undergraduate course every spring called Public Policy 26, “Health Policy and Clinical Practice.” What made you decide to study medicine? HGW: I was an ambulance attendant, EMT, in college. I was very interested in emergency care and saving lives, stuff like that. I also
liked science, and I thought it would be really fun to learn about the biology of the human body, the biology of yourself. Those were my motivations that drew me to medical school. I didn’t know that I ultimately wanted to be a member of medical school faculty. My father was a faculty member at the University of Colorado. I didn’t know I would be involved in research because SEE WELCH PAGE 5
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Winter Carnival kicks off Friday announced on Jan. 13 it would not be focusing efforts or funding ice-skating times designated for on the snow sculpture. particular houses. Due to town permit restrictions Manager of Conferences and and limited time, the dragonEvents Jim Alberghini was involved shaped sculpture had to be under in the construction of the ice rink four feet in height. Additionally, and said he hopes to keep the rink the limited snow was another open through next week. There obstacle the team had to work will be open hours for anyone to around, the organizers said. come and skate. H a n o v e r However, the community warmer weather “We are going to member Bill certainly poses have to see how the Yo u n g, a l o n g concerns about with several next three or four the opening other community o f t h e r i n k , days go.” members and Alberghini said. alumni, and Mike “We are going Gonnerman ’65, to have to see -JIM ALBERGHINI, volunteered to h ow t h e n ex t MANAGER OF aid in the funding t h re e o r fo u r and snow CONFERENCES AND days go,” he said. collection efforts. T h i s ye a r ’s EVENTS The volunteers snow sculpture brought the was built on s n ow i n f ro m the Green by the Campion a group of Skating Rink, the students, alumni organizers said. and faculty on a Yo u n g h a s volunteer basis. helped build the The project was snow sculpture spearheaded for the past 30 years and was happy by a g roup of students, led to be able to help carry on the and org anized by Mercedes tradition this year, he said. After de Guardiola ’17, and alumni hearing that de Guardiola would passionate about the College’s be leading construction, he got in Wi n t e r C a r n i va l t r a d i t i o n s. contact with her, Young added. The Winter Carnival Council Young, who knows people FROM WINTER CARNIVAL PAGE 1
involved in trucking, said he was able to help transport the snow that de Guardiola had secured from the skating rink. There were also numerous other options for getting the snow, including making artificial snow, transporting it from the Dartmouth Skiway or waiting for the snow to fall. Gregory Partridge ’16 found out about the project through Cabin and Trail and said he was happy to help carry on the tradition. Partridge said he organized the undertaking with a few other student, and then 20 to 30 additional students assisted in the building process for varying amounts of time. The volunteer crew also encouraged passersby to join in, which proved to be more effective than the initial emails sent out requesting help, Partridge said. In terms of Collis’ decision to not officially fund the sculpture this year due to lack of student interest and snow, Partridge said he thinks the number of volunteers successfully demonstrated a high level of interest. “They cited lack of student interest as one of the reasons, and I think we definitely proved them wrong,” Partridge said. After a total of about 10 hours of work on the construction, the completed dragon sculpture is now displayed on the Green.
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Town to reexamine zoning ordinances FROM ZONING PAGE 1
under zoning laws. Last February, the College derecognized the Dartmouth SAE chapter, following suspension from their national organization for violation of hazing policies. Following their derecognition, SAE filed an appeal with the town to continue to be considered a student residence, arguing that they should be grandfathered in under previous zoning ordinances. The zoning board granted their appeal at the time, as the College failed to present any evidence against SAE’s claims. However, the College later requested a rehearing where it disputed SAE’s claims. As a result, the zoning board reversed their decision and SAE lost their status as a student residence. The organization is currently appealing the decision in court. As part of their appeal, SAE has attempted to claim that the organization itself could serve as an “institution,” thus granting SAE student residence status. If the proposed changes to the zoning laws were to pass, SAE would not be able to make this argument, as student residences would have to be affiliated specifically with the College. Their use would only be permitted within the institutional district, which has been specifically zoned for use by institutions such as the College and local high schools. At the meeting, director of planning, zoning and codes Robert Houseman said the proposed changes were prompted by a request for clarification by the zoning board. According to the Valley News, planning board chairwoman Judith Esmay said that the “institution” referred to in the original law’s text is Dartmouth College, and that the town wants to clarify this in the ordinance. In the same article, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said that it would make sense for the zoning board to conclude that student residences, regardless of whether they are on Dartmouth property, should be linked to the College specifically. During the meeting, Jeremy Katz ’95, trustee of the New Hampshire Alpha SAE Trust, disag reed with the notion that Dartmouth College was the institution that was being referenced to in the original ordinance, stating that there was no factual evidence to back that claim. Addressing the amendments, Katz went on to enumerate ways the changes would violate principles set forth by the town’s Master Plan adopted in 2003. He also suggested legal challenges that come with adopting the changes, saying that
they would grant the College too much power to impose restrictions on landowners, restrictions that the town of Hanover itself cannot currently impose. Finally, he indicated that an unintended consequence of the amendments could be students’ need to find alternate housing that traverses further away from campus proximity and deeper into residential or rural areas of Hanover, affecting current landowners. “These landowners have interests as well, and a lot of their interest revolves around not having the next student flophouse, underground fraternity, secret society, team hangout or meeting house crop up next to where they are raising their young children or visiting their elderly parents,” he said during the meeting. The question of student housing was mentioned in another context during the meeting by alumni adviser and director of Theta Delta Chi fraternity Geoff Colla ’04, who opposed giving Dartmouth a “monopoly” over student housing by according it power to recognize or not recognize certain entities. Colla said that the changes would prevent his organization from acting as they have been “for over 100 years” and affect future rent streams. “We, as an organization, feel like this is a very unfair infringement on our economic rights as landowners in the town,” he said during the meeting. In addition, he said that the fundamental problem with the ordinance is that it allows a “private party to determine for another private party what they can or cannot do on their property.” Similarly, Joseph Asch ’79 said during the meeting the amendment gave Dartmouth “unfettered power” over other entities in the institutional district, and that Dartmouth “covets properties on frat row,” which is a conflict of interest in this matter. Asch runs the website Dartblog, which comments on various aspects of the College. Colla believes that this issue should ultimately be decided between the College and the fraternities. The fraternities are currently taking legal measures to try and maintain their zoning statuses, allowing members to continue living in their houses despite lacking College recognition. “This is a fight that the town should not be taking,” he said during the meeting. “The town should be letting Dartmouth and fraternities fight this fight, and it’s costing taxpayers and it’s wasting all of our time.”
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Thayer professor Eric Fossum recognized for photo technology FROM FOSSUM PAGE 1
that he received the award. “I was just standing outside of my office when I got it. It was like many calls you get in New Hampshire from pollsters and what not.” Instead of speaking to a pollster, Fossum was connected to John Browne, the former chief executive officer of British Petroleum, he said. Browne informed Fossum that he, along with three other scientists, had been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for their work pioneering digital imaging sensors. “I was pretty astonished,” Fossum said. “It’s a gigantic honor.” The award recognized Fossum’s inventionof boththeCMOSactivepixel image sensor as well as the “camera-ona-chip” CMOS image sensor, he said. George Smith, Nobukazu Teranishi and Michael Tompsett also contributed groundbreaking innovations to the development of digital imaging sensors. Together, they share the honor, as well as the £1 million reward, of the Queen Elizabeth Prize. Fossum said he will travel to London, England to receive the award from Queen Elizabeth in the coming months. “There is sort of a ladder of awards, and you’re always thinking about the next rung of the ladder,” Fossum said. “All of a sudden, you leap frog to the top
rung, it gives you a kind of existential crisis.” Fossum began climbing that ladder at a young age. While a teenager, he spent his Saturdays in the Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon, Connecticut. At 16, he started working for Calpurnia Associates as a systems analyst and programmer, where he gained more experience programming, he said. After graduating high school, Fossum continued his education at Trinity College in Connecticut. While he originally planned to study computer science, he said he quickly realized that his skill level already exceeded the classes offered at Trinity. He instead studied engineering and physics while also working part time at his old job at Calpurnia Associates to help pay for his education. After graduation, he studied at Yale University to receive a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering and applied science. Fossum moved to Columbia University in 1984 to become an adjunct professor in their electrical engineering department. He worked at Columbia for six years while also spending his summers working for Hughes Aircraft Company Missile Systems Group through the Howard Hughes Graduate Fellowship. He decided to move to California in 1990 to work as an assistant technical section
manager for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. However, JPL was having trouble creating a camera that could function in space, according to Dartmouth News. Fossum’s experience with charge-coupled devices made him a perfect candidate to create a solution, he said. CCDs were too bulky, damageprone and inefficient for use in space, so Fossum worked to create an alternative technology. His breakthrough came when he invented the CMOS image sensor. By integrating all the technology needed for the CMOS sensor on one chip, Fossum created a camera that could endure the conditions of space, according to Dartmouth News. Then, Fossum worked to further develop this technology and transfer it to commercial markets. The commercialization of the CMOS sensor lagged in its early stages, with only a few Japanese companies applying it to the production of camcorders and other products, so Fossum decided to create his own company, Photobit, in 1995. He led this company until 2001 when he sold it to Micron Technology. After selling Photobit, Fossum began his retirement by moving to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire; however, he was asked by a few coworkers in 2005 to help reform
Siimpel Corporation, a company that worked on autofocus technology on cameras, he said. He said he served as chairman and CEO of Siimpel by helping the company become relevant in the technology market. In 2007, Fossum left Siimpel and retired again. Fossum partially unretired again in 2008 by serving as a consultant for Samsung. He traveled to Samsung’s headquarters in South Korea for one week every month to advise engineers about camera technology, he said. In 2010, Fossum said he decided to fully unretire and begin work as a professor, contacting Thayer Dean Joseph Helble to inquire about a position at Thayer. While he was originally expecting to teach one course and mentor a few graduate students, Fossum quickly took on many roles at Thayer, he said. He currently teaches four different courses at the College and mentors students. He serves as the associate provost for entrepreneurship and technology transfer and leads Thayer’s Ph.D. Innovation Program. “He oversees our Ph.D. innovation program, which is a program to help engineering Ph.D. students develop the skills and the knowledge to be technology entrepreneurs,” Helble said. “This was the first program of its kind in the country. To have a scholar, entrepreneur, innovator and teacher like Eric Fossum is just a tremendous opportunity for those Ph.D. students.” Fossum is also continuing his research in digital imaging. He is focusing on Quanta image sensors which counts individual photons when each encounters the chip, he said. “Where it leads right now is unclear,
but two of my Ph.D. students are spinning off a company with me,” Fossum said. “We’ll see where that goes.” Apart from working at Thayer, Fossum also spends time working with the local community. He works with Camp Invention, a summer program that introduces elementary school students with inventors like Fossum to encourage a sense of innovation and entrepreneurship. He also plans to donate a large portion of the prize money from the Queen Elizabeth Prize to charity, he said. “I admire that the same person who has been distinguished with this great pride is also a person who supports summer camps for young children who are interested in invention,” Provost Carolyn Dever said. “To me, that’s the mark of a true educator.” Fossum plans to stay at Dartmouth and continue educating the next generation of problem solvers, he said. “One of the aims of the Queen Elizabeth prize is to encourage young people to go into engineering as a field, and I think it’s really important because engineering is a very creative field, many people don’t realize that,” Fossum said. To those future engineers, Fossum offers some advice: “Always to do something you really enjoy and you feel is worthwhile. Aim high and don’t give up.” However, while Fossum has achieved one of the most coveted awards within engineering, he joked that there is something he still lacks. “I still don’t have a parking spot, so clearly I haven’t quite made it yet,” he quipped.
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H. Gilbert Welch discusses his research on over-testing because it wasn’t all about patients’ anywhere anyway. You don’t need needs. The current system has some any fences, but unfortunately our I thought I would be involved in very powerful influence over how early detection efforts are really political research and medicine. much medical care people get. We good at finding turtles. However, have long been concerned about doctors can’t separate turtles from W hat made you come to people not getting enough medical rabbits, and they treat everybody, Dartmouth? care, and in more recent years we which creates har mful early HGW: I have been at Dartmouth realized we have to worry about detection results. Breast, prostate since 1990. I came and started the other side of the equation and thyroid are all glands that have as an employee at the [Veteran where people are getting too cellular abnormality in them. If we Affairs division] much medical care. look really hard, we start finding in White River Some people are that abnormality. “We have long Junction, where not getting enough, I w o rk e d f o r been concerned but some people are What have been the effects 20 years. I was about people not getting too much, of this early screening issue also involved in and it is not good in specific cases and for research at the getting enough for their health. the medical community in forerunner of medical care, and general? The Dartmouth W h a t i s yo u r HGW: The poster child for the in more recent Institute. I came r e s e a r c h problem is South Korea. 15 here to work with years we realized r e g a r d i n g years ago, doctors started doing TDI founder Jack we have to medical testing ultrasound screening for thyroid Wennberg, who about? cancer. Then 15 years later, there put Dartmouth worry about the HGW: My role in was a 15-fold increase in the on the map for other side of the research has been incidence of thyroid cancer. Some medicine. dealing with this people say that is an epidemic of equation where He started The a s s u m p t i o n t h at disease. But, the death rate from Dartmouth Atlas people are getting sooner is always thyroid cancer is totally stable. It of Healthcare by too much medical better. This is a doesn’t look like an epidemic of doing analyses of v e r y p o w e r f u l disease — it looks to me like an the epidemiology care.” a s s u m p t i o n epidemic of diagnosis. In fact, of the practice i n h e a l t h c a r e , the thyroid gland is known to of medical p a r t i c u l a rl y f o r harbor lots of small cancers, and care, how it is feared diseases like yet pathologists also recognized practiced in cancer, because we that thyroid cancer was also an different places think that the best extremely rare form of cancer. and how it has way to deal with it You have all this reservoir of evolved over time. Epidemiology is to look for it early. abnormalities that could be called is all about patterns in health that It seems to make so much sense cancer, but most of them could vary across geography and across on the face of it, but it is not right. never go on to cause death. The time. He made observations that At least, it is not always right. The end result is if you start looking what was a homogeneous and truth is whenever we look for early for thyroid cancer, you find a white middle-class place [New forms of disease, lot of thyroid cancer, Hampshire] had wildly different we find a lot more you scare a lot of “The truth is medical care across towns. I did than we would people, take out a lot my fellowship at the University of e v e r e x p e c t . whenever we of thyroids, people Washington, and my adviser told I r o n i c a l l y , look for early need lifelong thyroid me they were looking for someone because of our replacement and you at Dartmouth, so I applied and interest in early forms of disease, don’t change their have stayed since. cancer detection, we find a lot death rate. You are wh e re I h ave then treating them more than we H o w h a v e y o u s e e n focused a lot of unnecessarily, which Dartmouth’s role in medicine my energy, there would ever happened in South change over time? is an incredible expect.” Korea. HGW: Over the course of my h e t e r o g e n e i t y More important 27 years here, the stature of the in what we call broadly, there is a lot ideas coming from Dartmouth cancer. of interest right now — counter cultural ideas — has That brings me to the barnyard in the biotechnology community gained a lot of traction. There are pen of cancers, which is a way in testing people. Whether it’s a lot of people elsewhere in the to think about the heterogeneity biomarkers, immunosignatures, country that look to Dartmouth to of cancer. The barnyard pen has liquid biopsies, nanositiology, they help explicate some of the unusual three animals: the birds, the rabbits got all these various technologies features of medical care that we can and the turtles — the goal of early to test people, to try to predict or create demand for. Dartmouth has detection is to catch those animals find early forms of disease. And I offered counters to the whole idea early and fence them in. The bird think everyone needs to understand that if you build more hospitals, can’t be fenced. It has already that that is a double edged sword, more people will come, and more flown away — they represent the that we all harbor abnormalities people will then be treated. The fastest growing and most aggressive and increasingly our tests are able phenomenon is that “if you build cancers that have already spread. to find those abnormalities. That it, they will come,” where you build Screening won’t help the bird; does not tell us what to do and more hospitals and more people they are already missed and out creates a cycle of increasing anxiety are in the hospitals. of there. The rabbits are hopping and intervention that can harm If you start looking for early around. You can catch them if you patients. This is a general thing forms of disease, you are going to build the fence early. Detection we all need to inoculate ourselves find a lot, more than you would has the potential to benefit slow on. There’s this idea that you can expect. These are somewhat growing cancers — the turtles test yourself to help, and we need revolutionary ideas in medicine are the cancers that aren’t going to recognize first that over-testing FROM WELCH PAGE 1
may distract us from things that are more important and can start a chain of events that we wished had never started.
patient does better, their survival rate is higher, and they are less likely to have metastatic disease. They think that is great, but it is only because you told everyone they have thyroid cancer. If you told everyone they had cancer, survival rates would go through the roof, but that doesn’t mean you’re helping anyone. That is misleading because it is hard for people to wrap their head around. The problem is the measure because it can be biased by the addition of cases that are never going to matter.
What impact has your research had on medical practices and screening procedures and perceptions regarding early screening? HGW: We are getting to be more balanced now. More and more physicians — and an increasing portion of the public — understand that this is not as simple as it seems, that it is not always the right thing to do, looking hard for things to What is your class, Public be wrong. It Policy 26, can be a recipe “Health Policy f o r t u r n i n g “A big part of it is to and Clinical p e o p l e i n t o question underlying Practice,” all patients about? unnecessarily. assumptions, since HGW: My class This is kind you are willing to is a 10, and it of a new idea. is offered in the ask, ‘Is that central It started spring, and I have with the best belief, is that been teaching it of intentions really right?’ and for 7 years to cross where we said, the boundaries “Wow, people it requires a bit of b e t we e n h e a l t h h ave r e a l l y healthy skepticism.” care and public bad diseases policy. It is open and bad to everybody, and things happen every year it is and the way about a quarter to deal with freshmen, quarter it is to look sophomores, for early forms e t c . H o n e s t l y, of disease.” sometimes the We d i d n ’ t freshmen do better anticipate that there are more than the seniors. forms than expected of those In the course we stress statistics diseases. The first thing is that and analyzing data because everybody needs to have a more everyone needs to be able to healthy skepticism about the value understand numbers, i.e. what of testing. For too long we think is big, what is small, what is that we can decide later what we being affected, what is this really do after getting tested, but instead measuring and what do I want to we need to decide upfront whether know. The course is really about you want to do this testing. Once critical thinking in the context you have an abnormal test result, of health care. The goals are to you are set back, which happens so understand policy context and much since we use so much testing. population perspective, develop A lot of people are beginning to skills such as management and recognize that abnormalities occur quantitative analysis and to due to increased testing, and that evaluate info and thinking about may start affecting both patients’ what the measures of something and physicians’ feelings about how really are. much to test people and how to be A big part of it is to question tested. I don’t think a law about underlying assumptions, since you this is necessary, but I think that are willing to ask, “Is that central direct to consumer advertising of belief, is that really right?” and it this stuff simply promotes its use requires a bit of healthy skepticism. and invariably over-promises and Some students have told me that oversimplifies the full effects of the first two weeks of the class what can happen. This is a very is a boot camp, and it is really important point, that the use of focused on interpreting graphs these tests is typically associated and then playing with numbers in with very misleading feedback. a spreadsheet to do simple things Going back to South Korea with it. This is the groundwork that — the minute you look hard for allows us to go forward in the rest thyroid cancer, there appears to be of the class to analyze different more out there, and you get a sense models and assess clinical practices of epidemic. This feeds back to get based on data using simple algebra. people to test more and not look and see that there’s more to cancer. This interview has been edited and Now the typical thyroid cancer condensed for clarity and length.
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Give Us the Young Guns
The New, Old Liberalism
The Democrats’ mistake in 2016 came in putting forward old candidates. The 2016 election was unprecedented. The fact that I can say “Donald Trump is the President of the United States” without being asked what I’ve been smoking is something that would have been nearly inconceivable four years ago — or one year ago. But the Democrats lost. They lost an election that very easily could have been theirs and are now faced with being the minority in the House, Senate, Executive Branch and soon the Supreme Court. Understandably, much Democratic soul-searching has occurred in recent months. Many feel a need to determine where the party failed during the 2016 cycle, and many different explanations have been floated. However, I believe it comes down to a relatively simple fact: the Democrats ran too many candidates who were old and, generally speaking, lacked charisma and a dynamic campaign presence. The first televised Democratic debate of the 2016 cycle featured five candidates: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chaffee. The average age amongst these contenders is 66.2 years. If O’Malley is removed from the equation, there would not have been a single candidate on stage under 65 years of age. After O’Malley, Webb and Chaffee ended their campaigns, the Democrats were left with a 75-year-old self-proclaimed democratic socialist unsupported by the national committee and a former secretary of state who had more baggage than the Dartmouth Coach on the last day of term. It was a lose-lose. Sure, Sanders was popular among young people, but this is America — the Democratic elite would never support a socialist. The Democrats should have instead pressured many young, but qualified, Democrats to enter the race. Take New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, for example. A senator from New York, she is a Dartmouth-educated woman aged 50. Could she have run? She was reelected to the Senate in 2012 with 72 percent of the vote, notably winning the rural, white upstate counties as well as New York’s urban areas. Pair her with someone like Minnesota Senator Al Franken, and you suddenly have a ticket that has everything Clinton lacked. Could Democrats have been with her?
Or how about New Jersey Senator Cory Booker? At only 47 years old, the Yale-educated former Mayor of Newark, New Jersey is dynamic and popular. Unlike Clinton, who was often criticized for lacking a personality, Booker is noted for his personable demeanor and has had an ongoing satirical feud with comedian Conan O’Brien. He is a young, successful, AfricanAmerican male — could he not have appealed to a greater number of voters than Clinton? Julian Castro is another candidate the Democrats could have nominated. Castro is a 42-year-old Harvard University graduate who served as Mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014 and later as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under former President Barack Obama. Castro is noted for his personality and late night talk show appearances. His brother, Joaquín, boasts the same academic credentials and serves in the House of Representatives. To some degree, it is understandable that the Democrats did not field these candidates. They’re young — and while that’s part of the point — it isn’t a selling point for some. But nonetheless, it was a foolish decision. The Republicans ran their youngbloods — Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz — albeit unsuccessfully, helping set up the future of the party. Running for office and participating in the televised debates increases name recognition and by running 17 candidates — compared to the Democrats’ five — the Republicans allowed themselves to build a future. “Little” Marco Rubio is now a household name. The same goes for Cruz. The “Trump Train” was hard to stop, and although someone like Booker may have still been unsuccessful in 2016, the Democrats could have, by nominating him, greatly increased his name recognition. That only five candidates — four quite old — ran was the Democrats’ greatest mistake this election cycle. Unless it’s in the party’s charter that one must be a member of the AARP to be nominated for president, the lack of young character truly hurt the Democrats in 2016. While they should start grooming these young stars for the 2020 campaign, they made the mistake of not exposing them to the mainstream during the debates and this caution, ultimately, will hurt the party moving forward.
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It’s time for classical liberals to take back the Democratic Party. This past weekend, students at the University that in order to be consistent with our support of California, Berkeley protested “alt-right” of personal liberty, we need to assure that the journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned talk. government does not violate our freedoms, What began as peaceful demonstrations quickly either. became violent protests. A group of people Liberals believe in free markets. Liberals — who may have been students — set fire to emphasize economic freedom and capitalism buildings, allegedly attacked Yiannopoulos’ that is derived from free markets, free trade and supporters and advocated far-left ideas that private property. This means that most forms contradict the tenets of our democracy. of economic regulations and intervention Of course, not all of the protesters engaged are unnecessary and unwanted in a truly in this violent behavior. In fact, not all of the liberal society. This also means that socialism protesters were even considered to be left on and communism — along with fascism and the political spectrum. corporatism — are opposed for their belief in But these people are playing a dangerous state control of markets. But, being liberals, we game. They’re detracting from the legitimacy support the rights of all those who disagree to of true liberalism and unconsciously tying an voice their opinions. unwanted and repressive ideology to actual Liberals believe in the value of ideology liberals around the nation. over emotion. We fight conflicting beliefs I consider myself a classical liberal. I don’t with sound arguments based on ideology, not agree with the direction of modern liberalism. our feelings. We fight racism with values, not Still, modern liberalism — leftism, perhaps safe spaces; we fight offensive speech with — is expanding while classical liberalism is reasonable counterarguments, not requests to contracting at a frightening pace. cancel class or postpone exams. But leftism lost the 2016 election. Leftism Therefore, we believe in rational, respectful has futilely opposed discussion. If we don’t increasing racism, failed agree on an issue, I’d to win gubernatorial and “Liberals believe in hope that we could talk local elections around all but unconditional about it; perhaps you’d the country and will face even convince me of your freedom of speech. more ideological danger if argument. But I’d hope President Donald Trump’s People cannot that you wouldn’t just call Supreme Court nominee, lose this right, no me a racist or a sexist or Judge Neil Gorsuch, is immoral because we have matter the degree of confirmed to the bench. differences in opinion — That’s why it’s even disagreement or the and I’d hope that you’d more important to return open your mind enough divergence from the to sensible liberalism, to to consider my point-ofactual liberal ideologies mainstream.” view without hinging on and philosophies — emotions and feelings. instead of raw emotions Liberals believe in the value of respect. We — that appeal to average Americans. respect people with different beliefs; we don’t This, I believe, is real liberalism. label them, sort them into groups or attack Liberals believe in all but unconditional them during protests. We can resolve issues freedom of speech. People cannot lose this without fighting; we can reach compromises right, no matter the degree of disagreement without threatening. We can have respectful or the divergence from the mainstream. discussions; we can present our argument Liberals believe in freedom of religion. respectfully. Can the modern left honestly say While liberals believe that everyone has the they do the same? right to practice his or her own religion, we also Liberals believe in the value of facts. believe that people cannot force their religion Alternative facts don’t exist. As one old saying upon others, whether it be through holy wars goes, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” or legislation. Present your argument with data, with statistics; Liberals believe in personal freedom. forgo the emotional appeals or ad hominem Liberals believe that a woman has the absolute attacks. Through its efforts to be opposed to right to control her body — but that other reactionary forces on the right, the left has in people also have the right to believe in and turn become this reactionary group that rarely advocate for a right to life. Liberals believe present arguments with facts and instead relies that a person has the right to love anyone, on personal narrative and emotions to win but that other people’s religious objections are debates. That’s not how you appeal to people. legitimate as well. To resolve these dichotomies, Don’t become like the new American liberals believe that as long as no side forces right, either, espousing “alternative facts” and their beliefs upon another, society will remain denying any form of scientific data or sound free. evidence. That’s every bit as bad. That means that a baker does not need to These are only some of the many beliefs serve a gay couple, although he might lose that classical liberals hold. These ideologies will business because of it. That means that a doctor win local, state and national political positions should not be forced to perform an abortion, back. These ideologies will present the best although she might lose patients because of it. defense against the violent populism that the Liberals believe in limited government 2016 election revealed. These ideologies will — a central disagreement between classical push the Democratic Party forward and save liberalism and modern leftism. We believe the party from a dangerous, broken leftism.
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STAFF COLUMNIST JINSUNG BACH ’17
GUEST COLUMNIST TYLER BAUM ’20
The Union Forever
Trump’s Excellent Decision
A discussion on secessionist movements in the United States. Like most Americans, I consider any question about seceding from the Union forever settled at Appomattox, Virginia in 1865. In my mind, the Civil War sanctified the United States as an indestructible union, one nation bound by the principles set by the Founding Fathers long ago. The fact that so many American lives were lost in the name of this ideal is a humbling one and is to this day a reminder of what we stand to lose should our Union ever be so questioned again. One can imagine my surprise, then, to learn that secessionist movements are gaining traction once again all across America. From the Texas Nationalist Movement to the Second Vermont Republic, it seems that a surprising number of people nowadays are reconsidering their ties to the United States. Even my home state of California has recently dabbled with the concept of secession, using the “Calexit” campaign as a means of expressing its dissatisfaction with the President Donald Trump’s administration. As one might have already gathered, I regard secession from the United States with utmost revulsion. But as some have pointed out, this seems to be a contradiction. How can I treat state secession with such disdain when the United States itself was born from secession? It seems difficult to reconcile my misgivings with the fact that secession is practically an American tradition. To that end, let us examine the American Revolution. Here our separation from Great Britain was marked by three particular characteristics: a desire for independence, a willingness to fight for independence against those that would contest it and an ability to maintain independence thereafter. The Thirteen Colonies declared their independence knowing full well that they stood to lose everything, from their economies to their livelihoods to the revolutionaries’ very lives. In doing so in spite of that, they fulfilled the first characteristic. The establishment of a Continental Army to fight the British demonstrated a will to fight, thus fulfilling the second. And subsequently a long war for independence was fought and won, thus fulfilling the third. It is on these characteristics that I base my criteria for justifying secession. Similar arguments could be made for the countries of the former Soviet Union and their independence from Moscow, as well as India and its independence from the British Empire. Even if their respective fulfillments of the second and third criteria did not end in bloodshed, their resilience and willingness to make sacrifices on behalf of independence constitute a “fight” for independence nonetheless. Mohandas Gandhi’s nonviolent protests provide a superb example. By this framework, the Confederacy was not a justified secession. Though it expressed both a desire and a willingness to fight for independence, it ultimately lost and failed to fulfill the third criterion. All moral and legal questions aside, in losing the Civil War, the Confederacy proved once and for all that it was incapable of protecting its own citizens. Thus, Confederate secession was rendered invalid, unable to sustain an independence that could hope to last.
It is because of this framework I have outlined that I regard modern state secessionist movements as so unjustified. There is little reason to believe that even the first of these criteria is fulfilled because such movements remain extremist fringes even by the standards of American politics. It takes little to point out to modern-day secessionists that they stand to lose far more than they stand to gain from independence. There is no doubt in my mind that if one were to point out to left-wing California secessionists that they stood a very real chance of losing everything they held dear — from Hollywood to Starbucks lattes to the very water that produces their vegan foodstuffs — they would reconsider in a heartbeat. Even if we were to assume fulfillment of the first characteristic, a desire for independence, fulfillment of the second and third criteria are almost impossible in this day and age. Interstate economies are highly interconnected and to sever oneself from them is to destroy one’s own economic future. Ideologically, there is no just cause to separate from a government in which states are already given much latitude to self-govern and in which they are given ample opportunity to influence the nation at large. Moreover, whether secessionists would care to admit it or not, the politics of their own states are inevitably and irreversibly tied to those of the other 49. United or not, theirs is a shared fate from which they cannot pull away. They may either join in an attempt to forge a better future, or they may all go their separate ways and perish one by one. Most importantly, there are far better ways than secession for states to get what they want. The beauty of a democracy like ours is that there is endless possibility for positive change so long as one has a voice to speak. With the liberties and powers granted to both the states and to individuals by Constitutional law, the door remains wide open for grievances to be addressed. Even in times like these, when many hold legitimate concerns about our federal government, there is hardly any need to turn to secession to be heard. On a more sentimental note, it strikes me as extremely saddening that so many people may no longer be willingly calling themselves American. It renders meaningless the sacrifices of those who have fought, bled and died in service to the United States. It flies in the face of those who marched in the name of freedom, from Seneca Falls, New York to Selma, Alabama. The wide disillusionment with America’s vision is what troubles me most, and it is this discontent that must be addressed regardless of the outcome of secessionist agendas. But in the end, perhaps the greatest barrier to secession will be people like myself. Among us there remain people who still believe in a sacrosanct Union, who take former President Abraham Lincoln’s words to heart about a government of the people, by the people and for the people that shall not perish from the Earth. To that end I do not believe any sacrifice too great, nor my own life too sweet, to defend the Union to my very last breath. Can secessionists truly say the same of their own ideals?
Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a victory for Americans. Donald Trump is now the 45th president goods, and the TPP would imperil this. of the United States, inaugurated amidst The success of farmers — a large portion considerable controversy and resistance. As of American families — would be at risk, the first 100 days of his presidency progress, I especially in trade with protectionist nations. will personally continue to follow fervently and Furthermore, the steel industry would be break down each of his decisions. To begin directly threatened as the TPP would allow with, let’s discuss trade. foreign countries to lower tariffs on foreign cars Free trade is inherently good. When another while increasing tariffs on U.S.-manufactured nation has a comparative advantage over the cars sold in foreign markets. United States in producing a good or providing Despite the seemingly protectionist stance a service, it is in our best interest to trade with taken by the Trump administration, I am it. The same ideal applies on an interstate level. optimistic that fair free trade deals will be For example, Nebraska produces corn to trade pursued under U.S. trade representative with California for its grapes. The U.S. produces nominee Robert Lighthizer and stronger steel in cities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and negotiations will take place with our foreign trades with the Japanese for cars made in their counterparts. As Trump stated in late 2015, homeland. The laissez-faire idea of free trade “I am all for free trade, but it’s got to be fair.” and a capitalistic marketplace encouraging Rather than continuing to function under competition are healthy and advantageous to the faulty multilateral trade deals currently in all interests. place, the Trump administration has pledged On free trade, Trump signed an executive to produce “fair bilateral trade deals.” order four days into his presidency that may But as a traditional, free market-supporting seem to be in conflict with conservative, I do have the fiscally conservative c o n c e r n s re g a rd i n g and classically liberal ideals “The Trump Trump’s pick for trade stumped in the previous administration must representative. Lighthizer paragraph. The executive has had protectionist order officially withdrew renegotiate trade deals leanings in the past, despite the U.S. from the Trans- and explore options working in the Reagan Pacific Partnership, a administration as deputy that would instill trade agreement drafted trade representative. He in 2015 with 11 Pacific Rim economic growth also previously praised the nations. However, there are and job creation in success of protectionism a plethora of issues with in guarding American the TPP, which I view as the U.S. Opposing i n d u s t r y f ro m t h e a poorly negotiated deal the TPP is supporting powerhouses of European that is unfair to American mercantilism in the 18th American freedom workers. century. In a 2011 op One of the largest issues and free enterprise, ed discussing Trump’s with this trade deal is the and I appluad Trump’s failed 2012 presidential opportunity for member bid, Lighthizer posed nations to manipulate decision to formally questions to fellow their currencies due to the withdraw the U.S. conservatives such as, TPP’s poorly written global “how does allowing China trade rules. Currency from this awfully to constantly rig trade manipulation by countries negotiated trade in its favor advance the in the TPP has already deal... ” core conservative goal allowed many U.S. jobs to of making markets more move overseas as foreign efficient?” governments impose taxes on U.S. exports while I am open-minded toward Lighthizer’s shipping cheap goods into the U.S. According outlook on trade, and I will closely observe his to the Economic Policy Institute, 2,025,800 actions as trade representative with fervent total jobs were lost due to a $177.9 billion U.S. hopes and optimism that Americans will trade trade deficit with TPP countries in 2015, largely under fairer, less regulated deals during the due to currency manipulation. The U.S. trade Trump administration’s time in Washington. deficit with TPP countries directly harms the The Trump administration must renegotiate total employment in trade industries. trade deals and explore options that would instill In simpler terms, the U.S. must renegotiate economic growth and job creation in the U.S. lackluster deals such as the TPP to ensure we Opposing the TPP is supporting American have a say in the global trade agreements, rather freedom and free enterprise, and I applaud than large, international trade commissions Trump’s decision to formally withdraw the making decisions that we do not have an U.S. from this awfully negotiated trade deal opportunity to veto. The TPP’s global trade that would be unfair and detrimental to the rules leaves an open door for nations to continue average American. currency manipulation. The TPP would even restrict free trade in The Dartmouth welcomes guest columns. We request its truest meaning. 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Christian a cappella group X.ado to host Winter WhingDing By KYLEE SIBILIA
The Dartmouth Staff
Each year, Winter WhingDing brings an element of musical excellence to a Winter Carnival that is already filled with entertainment. One of three major a cappella performances held each year, this year’s Winter WhingDing is hosted by X.ado, a coed Christian a cappella group. Hosting responsibilities for Winter WhingDing — and its fall and spring counterparts — rotate through all of the a cappella groups on campus, and this year it is X.ado’s turn to take center stage. In addition to performing as an a cappella group, X.ado is also a ministry on campus and is known for singing songs from a variety of genres, including gospel, contemporary pop, Christian rock and traditional hymns. Tyné Freeman ’17, a member of
X.ado, said that the group utilizes a range of music in order to put forth messages of love and acceptance. “Our repertoire is diverse in that there is a pretty good mixture of genres, artists and messages, but there is an overarching theme of encouragement and hope,” Freeman said. “I think we always come back to that central fact that we sing for Christ, and we sing to encourage people and uplift people.” X.ado will carry this message of encouragement and hope through its performance at Winter WhingDing, whose tagline is #WhisperedAndShouted. The show centers on the concept of allowing members of the Dartmouth community to share their stories with their peers. Members of X.ado have been interviewing students for the past few weeks, asking them to “tell their
story” and recording their responses. These clips will be incorporated into X.ado’s performance. Christian Williams ’19, also in X.ado, explained that the group’s goal is to create a show that embraces multiple perspectives. “[The theme for the show] was kind of a response to the general climate right now in terms of everything that’s going on,” Williams said. “We’re not necessarily trying to take a side — it’s more of us just trying to be like ‘Hey, this is a tumultuous time right now, so we are here to hear your voices, and we should all be listening to each other a little bit better.’” The group has further extended this goal of expressing new voices in their performance by collaborating with several other groups for the show. Michael Sun ’19, a spoken word poet and member of Soul Scribes, will be
performing, along with Street Soul, a student hip-hop dance group, and the Rockapellas, an all-female a cappella group. X.ado member Skye Herrick ’17 pointed out that the collaborations with these groups will bring a variety of perspectives to the show. “We have a good relationship with the Rockapellas,” Herrick said. “They also have a very strong mission, but it’s definitely very different from our own, so we were excited to get a diversity of voices.” In addition to being a celebration of the range of perspectives on Dartmouth’s campus, Winter WhingDing also marks a milestone for X.ado by giving the group a chance to display its musical talent. “I’m a senior in the group now, and of all the different iterations of X.ado that I’ve been in, I’m so excited that
this is the group of people that I get to do this show with,” Herrick said. “We have great energy, and we have some amazing singers in the group right now. I think it’s going to be really encouraging and [will] prompt people to think, but it’s also just going to be really fun.” From displaying their talent to sharing new voices, the members of X.ado are passionate about their show, and this engagement with the music will undoubtedly make an impression on the audience during the performance at Winter WhingDing. “Whether you’re yelling at the top of your lungs or speaking really quietly, what you’re saying matters,” Freeman said. “Someone is listening.” X.ado and the other featured groups will perform at Winter WhingDing this Saturday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.
Barbary Coast’s Don Glasgo to direct his final Carnival concert By JOYCE LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
The “elevator music” conception of jazz is not the kind of music to be expected from the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble’s 41st Annual Winter Carnival Concert. Featuring visiting artists Joe Bowie, Steven Bernstein, Bahnamous Bowie and JT Lewis, the concert will feature big band interpretations of musical genres such as funk, R&B, jazz and the James Bond movie soundtrack. Barbary Coast director Don Glasgo said that the title of the concert reveals how the music played cannot necessarily be considered traditional jazz — he instead called it “all dance music.” “Old fashioned jazz is dance jazz, it’s all dance music,” he said. “In terms of the abstract side of jazz, there’s nothing we’re doing like that. [The music] is all groove based and high energy.” Bernstein said that the ensemble’s big band style is not traditional, but rather “big band plus.” He said that his and Joe Bowie’s musical styles are oriented toward funk and blues and that the music of the concert will be familiar melodies played in a big band style. “It’s not the jazz your grandparents used to listen to,” he said. There will be some continuity, however, in the instruments used to produce jazz music. Lewis will play drums, Bernstein will play trumpet and slide trumpet, Bahnamous Bowie
will play keyboards and Joe Bowie will play trombone and provide vocals for the Winter Carnival concert. The concert will also feature music from the soundtrack of James Bond films, including the songs “Dr. No” and “The Spy Who Loved Me.” “I had been doing film music for a while, and I realized what my next project should be,” Bernstein said. “I realized James Bond’s [film] music is probably music known by most people all over the world. I thought I would play that music since everyone knows it, but I would do my own take on it.” Bernstein said that he enjoys playing music that other people will enjoy listening to, and that he thought it was important for music to reach people. When Bernstein was younger, he saw Joe Bowie’s band, the legendary punkfunk-jazz group Defunkt, play in New York City, New York multiple times. Bernstein said that their performances made him realize that one must play music that listeners enjoy while also maintaining the jazz genre. Like Joe Bowie, Bernstein also serves as a bandleader for jazz bands such as the Millennial Territory Orchestra and Sex Mob. “What jazz originally was were songs everyone knew and what they called ‘jazzing it up,’” Bernstein said. “[Jazz musicians] played melodies people knew, and a lot of early jazz is from opera melodies, because in New Orleans, [Louisiana], there was a big
Italian population, and everyone knew the opera melodies. So they threw those into these jazz songs — [the genre has] always done that.” This is Bernstein’s third time in residence as a visiting artist in conjunction with programming under the Hopkins Center for the Arts and Joe Bowie’s fifth time in residence on campus. Bowie said working with students is always refreshing because they have not been influenced by other methods of learning music. He said that there is a lot of room for understanding and reception of new ideas. “One of the students heard me scatting and wanted to know how to scat things,” Joe Bowie said. “I told him ‘Sure,’ because he wanted to know, he wanted to understand it. That’s an unusual situation. These kids are hungry for something fresh.” Bernstein said that the students at Dartmouth are exceptionally smart, driven, motivated and open-minded people. “[Students] like having outside influences come in,” Bernstein said. “[People like] Joe and I are part of the rest of the world, and we travel. I might have different insights because I go out into the world, and we have to create our own living. It’s about learning to be an entrepreneur and think outside the box. Manifest your ideas, not just have them.” Bernstein and Joe Bowie will be
collaborating on stage for the first time since their first meeting in 1979, Glasgo said. After having seen each other perform for over 30 years, Glasgo said that a unified vision and the different approach for this concert is part of the two artists’ collaboration. This Friday’s concert will also be Glasgo’s last winter concert. This is his 39th year working as director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble. In the Upper Valley, Glasgo leads his own professional band, Sol Food, and is the founder and director of the educational program, JAZZology, through which he has also collaborated with Joe Bowie. Glasgo said that he hopes that his replacement will be able to continue a legacy of bringing in artists the way he
has for the past 39 years. Bernstein said that Glasgo is a very humble person, and that he has done something very unique for the College. “He’s brought the greatest living jazz musicians in history, something [some] music schools don’t even get to do,” Bernstein said. Joe Bowie said that Glasgo has infused the Upper Valley with culture through his programs and work as director of the jazz ensemble. “Glasgo is going to be a hard act to follow,” Bowie said. “He’s been bringing culture to this valley for 40 years. This man is going to be hard to replace.” Barbary Coast will be performing its Winter Carnival Concert on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.
COURTESY OF BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble will play in Spaulding Auditorium Friday at 8 p.m.