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On Jan. 21, the day after Donald Trump took office as the 45th president of the United States, at least 50 Dartmouth students carpooled nearly eight hours to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Women’s March on Washington. The march was one of several organized around the nation to demonstrate for women’s rights and protest Trump’s presidency. The D.C. march alone brought in over 2 million demonstrators; worldwide, the marches
Protestors congregate in Washington, D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington.
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College to finalize heating and energy proposals
By PETER CHARALAMBOUS The Dartmouth
The College is finalizing proposals to convert to a hot water heating system and biomass energy system from the current oil system and steam distribution system. These proposed changes would upgrade the College’s steam distribution system and cogeneration plant to increase both efficiency and sustainability, said Frank Roberts, associate vice president of facilities operations and management. Currently, electricity and heat on
campus originate from the College’s cogeneration plant. The plant produces steam by burning No. 6 oil, driving a turbine that produces electricity, Roberts said. The remainder of the steam is used to heat buildings. The majority of older buildings on campus rely on this method for heat while newer or renovated buildings use hot water or a mixture of water and steam. The cogeneration plant burns 3.8 million gallons of environmentally harmful No. 6 oil per year. While economically efficient, the use of this
oil gives Dartmouth the largest carbon footprint per student in the Ivy League. Furthermore, the College’s steam distribution system is aging and will soon require repairs or replacement, Roberts said. Many steam lines, such as the line that runs under the south side of the Green, lack proper insulation and lose energy during transportation. Twenty percent of lines have not been replaced in 65 to 75 years. In order to examine ways to possibly improve the system, the College began an analysis of the efficiency of a biomass
Study links cancer care and insurance status
By JOYCE LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
A study investigating the effect of health insurance status on cancer care in different communities was released this past November in the publication “Cancer,” a peer-reviewed oncology journal. Among the authors of the study is Sandra Wong, interim Norris Cotton Cancer Center service line director and vice president and chair of surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
The study found that disadvantaged communities saw greater benefits from health insurance than more advantaged communities. However, insured patients from more advantaged communities generally received better cancer care than insured patients in disadvantaged communities. There was a correlation between a community’s advantage level and the outcome of cancer care, such as the survival rate, and SEE STUDY PAGE 5
and hot water system alternative in November 2015. The analysis cost the College $550,000, Roberts said, but the results have not been finalized. FO&M is also working with the Dartmouth Sustainability Project and outside consultants to determine the feasibility of the transition. “We have to spend money and upgrade the infrastructure for the steam distribution system,” Roberts said. “If you take that money, invest it in a new hot SEE ENERGY PAGE 2
CAREFREE CONCERTS AT COLLIS
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Faculty performed for Collis Caberet on Thursday in One Wheelock.
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Demonstrators at the University of California, Berkeley set fire to and threw objects at buildings to protest a speech by right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos on Wednesday night, according to The New York Times. The university announced the cancellation of his speech around 6 p.m., and the campus was placed on lockdown until 11 p.m. President Donald Trump denounced the cancellation on Twitter Thursday. He threatened to take away the university’s federal funds for infringing on the right to free speech and for practicing violence on “innocent people with a different point of view.” Gavin Newsom, lieutenant governor of California, tweeted in response that he was “appalled” at Trump’s apparent threat. Dan Mogulof, spokesperson for the university, said that the violence was mostly a result of outsiders infiltrating a peaceful protest. The Berkeley campus police described the event as “major protest attacks.” Yiannopoulos wrote on Facebook that he had been evacuated from campus after “violent left-wing protestors tore down barricades, lit fires, threw rocks and Roman candles at the windows and breached the ground floor of the building.” Yiannopoulos has called feminism “cancer” and has been banned from Twitter for inciting a series of racist tweets against actress Leslie Jones. Trump, who has previously voiced support for Israel, switched positions Thursday, warning Israel to hold off on constructing new settlements, as reported by the Washington Post. The White House said in a statement that they were not consulted on Israel’s announcement of 5,500 new settlement housing units. The statement added that although Trump has not taken an official position on the issue, he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can discuss the issue when they meet on Feb. 15 at the White House. Israel faced criticisms for the settlements from former President Barack Obama’s administration, who viewed settlement constructions as harmful to negotiating a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. Before his inauguration, Trump had been a vocal supporter of Israel and criticized the Obama administration for not blocking a United Nations resolution condemning settlements. Under Trump’s leadership, reference to a two-party solution was removed from the Republican Party platform. An unnamed Trump administration official told the Jerusalem Post that “the United States remains committed to advancing a comprehensive final-status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that results in two states living side-by-side in peace and security.”
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Correction Appended (Feb. 2, 2017): The article “Pazzi Lazzi bringing age-old Italian comedy to Collis tonight” incorrectly stated that the event was sponsored by the French and Italian department. The Office of the Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities sponsored the event.
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water system, convert your buildings to hot water, as well as change over to biomass as a renewable resource and get off [No. 6 oil], there are labor savings, other operation savings and fuel savings.” The use of a hot water system could increase the efficiency of the College’s heating system by 20 percent, he added. While the Life Sciences Center is three times larger than the currently unused Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory, it uses 10 times less energy because it uses a hot water system
instead of a steam system, Roberts said. Member of Divest Dartmouth Ches Gundrum ’17 said that the benefits of transitioning to a more environmentally conscious system goes beyond reducing costs. “If the College were to divest, they would immediately send a statement that this college cares about its students, its future students and future students beyond that,” she said. While this proposal is nearly complete, the entire process is still in very early stages, Diana Lawrence, spokesperson for the College, wrote
in an email statement. Estimated costs for the hot water system alone could total more than $100 million, and the combined cost of converting to a biomass and hot water system could range from $250 to $300 million, according to Roberts. “The expected return [on the transition] is highly variable based on assumptions about the timing of the implementation of the project,” Lawrence wrote. “It requires a thorough analysis, as the choice to invest in this project will need to be prioritized with other Dartmouth initiatives requiring investment.”
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Underground steam tunnels distribute steam across campus to heat buildings.
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Students travel to Washington, D.C. for Women’s March FROM MARCH PAGE 1
drew over four million. The 2016 U.S. presidential election was unsettling for D.C. native Jennifer West ’20, who, as someone who worked for former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party, felt at a loss. “I was so close to where everything was happening but feeling like I was powerless and that the values that were being represented in the transition were not mine,” she said. West said that she respects the peaceful transfer of power but disag rees with the new administration’s policies, especially the threat to Planned Parenthood. In response to these policies, West decided to organize a group of seven students to attend the march in D.C. Diana Quezada ’20 was supposed to travel to the march with West’s group, but the other members left too early for her to make the trip with them. She ended up riding to D.C. with postdoctoral student Carissa Aoki GR’16 , who rented a 12-person van for the trip and advertised seats on the Upper Valley Facebook page. West said that the march was a
way to channel her discontent with the new administration in a way that did not seek to delegitimize the presidency. She noted that it is important for people to understand why the march took place, since many people do not believe that Trump’s presidency has had a significant impact on women. She referenced a tweet that circulated the day after the march, which read, “Rights that have been taken away from women since Trump has been inaugurated” next to a blank Google document. “I think it’s much more than what rights have we actually taken away,” she said. “It’s that the administration had indicated on the campaign trail that they were going to put in place policies that would be really harmful to our goals and values.” Quezada said that it is important that there is a lot of resistance happening right now. She feels like there is not enough opposition on campus, which is one of the reasons why she decided to attend the march. Her other reason was to make up for the lack of diversity in events like the march, she said. “I feel like me being there, rather than just saying ‘We need more people of color here, we need more intersectionality here’ is me
actually taking action,” she said. West held that the crowd itself was less diverse than the organizers had anticipated. However, Aoki said that adding PalestinianAmerican activist Linda Sarsour, civil rights activist Tamika Mallory and human rights activist Carmen Perez as co-organizers helped to make the march more inclusive. Further more, West and Aoki agreed that many of the speakers were either women of color or from underrepresented backgrounds and tackled issues ranging from police brutality and LGBTQIA rights to Islamophobia. Aoki thought that it was clear that a lot of the marchers were there supporting an intersectional platform. West said that her favorite speaker was Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who was Illinois’s first Asian-American woman elected to Congress and the first disabled woman elected to the House of Representatives. A o k i m e n t i o n e d t h at s h e marched in D.C. with a group called “500 Women Scientists,” which had organized a meeting place for scientists and supporters of science from all around the country to march together. She also ran into several people from Dartmouth, including biology
professor Celia Chen and recent graduate student Julia BradleyCook ADV’14. She noted that attending the march was an essential first step to keeping pressure on the president, whom she felt had demonstrated a disrespect for women and a lack of empathy for the experiences of immigrants and people of color. Aoki also said she was appalled by the p res i d en t’s “ lack o f understanding of the fundamental principles of democracy.” “I always thought that our democratic institutions were more or less immune to the rise of autocracy or kleptocracy, but now that I see that they’re less immune than I thought,” she said. Going forward, Aoki hopes that Dartmouth continues to stand up against the president’s new immigration order. College President Phil Hanlon and Provost Carolyn Dever sent a campus-wide email on Sunday advising students affected by the seven-nation travel ban to avoid all international travel. Quezada said that she would like to see more support from the College for inter-community talks and off campus events. She noted that her other friends’ institutions provided them with charter buses
to get to D.C., while the College did not offer students transportation to or from the march. “I would like to see the school taking more action towards organizing on campus, and if not, allowing students to go elsewhere to do so,” she said. But Quezada maintained that attending the march is only half of the battle. She said that the followup is even more important and that she is concerned that people will be content with getting likes on their videos and pictures on Instagram. West agreed that it is important for the Dartmouth community to stay active. She is a member of the College Democrats, which writes letters, calls senators and brings speakers to campus. West believes that it is also important for people to follow the news and pay attention to legislation and executive orders, as her biggest concern is the idea of “alternative facts.” West also stated that she would like to get the campus more involved in the next couple of elections. “New Hampshire is a crucial swing state,” she said. “If we are serious about trying to swing the House and the Senate in 2018, New Hampshire is going to be important for that.”
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More than 2 million demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21.
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GUEST COLUMNIST ISAAC GREEN ’17
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Israel is Not Above Reproach
Principled Defiance
Jews must support Muslims and take responsibility for Israel’s failings. Josh Kauderer ’19’s Jan. 27 guest column — published on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the very day that President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented executive order targeting Muslim refugees and immigrants — trades on the tired argument that criticism of Israel amounts to anti-Semitism and suggests that Jewish people are the religious group that most needs defending in today’s society. Kauderer so confuses and dilutes the meaning of anti-Semitism and what Jewish values ought to stand for that I struggle to decide where to spend my 800 words setting the record straight. However, two salient points stand out to me as most important. First, Israel’s status as a Jewish state cannot exempt it from criticism. In fact, it is my Judaism and the values my culture and religion have instilled in me that compels me to criticize a state that consistently fails to live up to the values upon which she was founded. Second, I must point out the irony that even on Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the face of a bigoted nationalistic president indirectly condemning a group of people to death based on their religion, denying them the sanctuary that so many European Jews were denied 70 years ago, Kauderer chose to focus on the isolated and relatively unthreatening antiSemitism that he sees in the world rather than confronting the Islamophobia that so parallels the forces leading to our own historical suffering. I begin with the simple assertion that to criticize Israel does not make me anti-Semitic. Kauderer suggests that the same impulse is behind isolated incidents of neo-Nazi sentiment and the U.N. Security Council’s resolution condemning settlement building in the West Bank. He even went as far as to label that the actions of the U.N. represent an “effort to delegitimize the broader idea of a Jewish nation-state.” But we must be allowed to criticize the actions of a government without that criticism implying that we believe the country represented by that government should cease to exist. The true story about the settlement building in the West Bank is that its continuation represents a concerted effort by a conservative faction of the Israeli populace to ensure that a two state solution never comes to be. As settlements continue to be built, Palestinian lives and families are uprooted, the possibility of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank is squeezed out and we are moved further and further from peace. The U.N. certainly holds Israel to a higher standard than they do other nations in the Middle East, but the U.N. also
created Israel and with every passing day Israel deserves less and less the title of true democracy. It is admirable that, as Kauderer points out, Israel is the “only country in the Middle East that provides equal rights … to both LGBTIQ citizens and women,” but that does not relieve her of the obligation to afford equal rights to all those living in her borders. A society that forcibly relocates one religious or ethnic group from its homeland to accommodate the expansion of another — as often happens when a settlement is established or expanded — is deserving of rebuke. I affirm Israel’s right to exist and because of my concern for it, I criticize several of its policies. To me, the truly disturbing problem is that so many American Jews like Kauderer seem to feel no obligation to ensure that the oft repeated motto “Never Again” is extended to all those whose lives are at risk from extremism, violence and bigotry. It’s as if in the face of a massive and spreading forest fire we are pouring the majority of our resources into squashing the last embers of a fire that was contained a long time ago. Kauderer suggests that we must be vigilant of religious persecution in Trump’s America, and amazingly does so without ever mentioning the religious group that is being scapegoated more and more and systematically targeted nationwide and worldwide: Muslims. The president of the United States just established a religious test for immigrants entering the United States. I — as a Jew and an American — am outraged. I will stand against bigotry in any form because that is what my Jewish heritage demands of me, and I call upon all of my Jewish peers to do the same. The parallels between the evils directed against Jews in Nazi Germany and those that are beginning to be directed against Muslims in our country cannot go unnoticed to anyone who has learned as much about Jewish history as Kauderer no doubt has. Our Jewish heritage demands that we lend our power and position to our Muslim brothers and sisters who are also the victims of violent hate crimes in this country and appear to be in increasing danger in Trump’s America. To fail to even mention their plight at a time like this is utterly irresponsible. Green is a former member of The Dartmouth Staff. The Dartmouth welcomes guest columns. We request that guest columns be the original work of the submitter. Submissions may be sent to both opinion@thedartmouth. com and editor@thedartmouth.com. Submissions will receive a response within three business days.
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Government officials owe their loyalty to the people, not the president. “Isn’t it dreadful? Here we are, two officers facts, not conjecture. They included messages of the German General Staff, discussing how about atmospheric carbon levels, ocean acidity best to murder our commander-in-chief,” and pollution — all areas that stand to be said Henning von Tresckow, a major general ignored by Trump’s climate change-denying in the Wehrmacht, as he plotted with his administration. fellows to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This will Thereafter, “alt” Twitter accounts not be a comparison of President Donald dedicated to promoting scientific facts were Trump to the forces von Tresckow and his set up by people who stated they are employees contemporaries faced when they defied their of agencies like the EPA. With names like government, their orders and their training as @ActualEPAFacts, these accounts now soldiers in an effort to bring about the end of have almost four million followers between Nazism. This is, however, a laudable example them. These actions by civil servants and of the morality of government employees who government-employed scientists — doing stood up for their country even when it meant the jobs for which they were hired — are in working against their leader. the best tradition of American democracy, Earlier this week, Trump fired acting representing a principled stand against a attorney general Sally Yates in an action president and administration with a loose reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s “Saturday relationship to the truth and an inability to Night Massacre.” What was Yates’ crime? rid itself of conflicts of interest or ethical She put her morality, her conception of the malfeasance. our Constitution and her principles of good At the Department of State, U.S. Foreign government over her allegiance to a man who Service officials and departmental civil is our president. She put country ahead of servants began circulating a dissent cable — an personality, democracy ahead of a strongman. established practice where employees believe a Trump’s administration government policy may issued a statement that be destructive, unlawful said Yates “betrayed the or harmful — over last Department of Justice” weekend that now bears by refusing to defend over 1,000 signatures. the law and that she White House Press was “weak on borders Secretary Sean Spicer and very weak on illegal responded by calling on immigration.” Trump’s government employees statement is dangerous who disagreed with to American ideals and Trump to resign, saying democracy. Our public they “should either get servants do not serve with the program or the president or any they can go,” evidently cult of personality. They forgetting that civil RACHEL LINCOLN/THE DARTMOUTH serve the American servants are not political people,through the devices of law, fact and appointees and are engaged by the American the Constitution. And these are real facts here. people to manage and enforce law responsibly At her confirmation hearing in January and to ensure its consistency and validity. 2015, Sen. Jeff Sessions — now Trump’s All of these people — principled political nominee for attorney general — asked Yates if appointees like Yates to civil servants the attorney general or deputy attorney general and diplomats eager to do their jobs and should say no to a president “if the views the defend this country — are enforcers of the president wants to execute are unlawful.” American tradition of democracy and civil Yates’ reply is illuminating: “Senator, I believe service. Both elected officials and members the attorney general or the deputy attorney of both the civil service and the president’s general has an obligation to follow the law and own team must put their conception of the Constitution and to give their independent reality, their belief in the rule of law and, legal advice to the president.” She did exactly first and foremost, their allegiance to our that on Monday night. She said she would put country and its ideals above any personal the law and the Constitution first — then she loyalty they have. did. We are not, in any presidency, that But Yates was not alone. Many in our president’s version of America. Instead, we civil service have rejected or questioned the are the voices of diversity and individuality president’s orders. The Badlands National that united almost two and a half centuries ago Park’s Twitter account incident is perhaps at Lexington and Concord as an alliance of the most discussed. Shortly after Trump farmers and cobblers, mothers and daughters, administration officials ordered the National blacksmiths and teachers, doctors and Park Service to suspend its social media merchants; an alliance which lives on today activity and just before the administration as the United States of America. We are a ordered the Environmental Protection nation of ideals, not a nation led by a cult of Agency and the Department of Agriculture personality. Our civil servants and our elected not to communicate with the press or public and appointed officials owe their allegiance — preventing the agencies from publishing only to the Constitution and to the American scientific findings, a primary function of both people. agencies — the Badlands account began to The editorial board consists of the opinion staff, tweet scientific facts into the “Twitter-verse.” the opinion editor, both executive editors and the editorAnd make no mistake: these were scientific in-chief.
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Cancer study examines effect of insurance status
very concretely in a specific disease. Wong’s study ultimately emphasized while health insurance appeared the importance of community to lessen this relationship, it did — individuals in a disadvantaged not fully eliminate the impact of community are more likely to face social determinants of health that negative outcomes than those in less exist in a patient’s surrounding disadvantaged communities, even if they have insurance, he said. environment. “I think it is important to point “The question that came from [the study] was why the effect was out that the community level issues different,” Wong said. “[The study] are very important, and I suspect also really highlights the disparity that people on both sides of the inherent in things that affect your argument could see two different environment besides medical arguments here,” Welch said. “A conservative person might argue care.” Wong said that before the about jobs, while a liberal person study, she and her team had no would talk about insurance. The truth is that idea that the both are right. It political climate “The results of my is important that surrounding people have jobs, h e a l t h study showed the have meaning and i n s u r a n c e need to make sure have healthcare — would change that communities it’s all important to after the results their health.” were released. are provided for The Dartmouth D u r i n g h i s and that providing Institute professor campaign for of economics Ellen p r e s i d e n c y, national Meara said that the P r e s i d e n t programs is significant feature Donald Trump necessary.” of the study was the emphasized contrast between that he would disadvantaged r e p e a l t h e - SANDRA WONG, and advantaged A f f o r d a b l e INTERIM NORRIS counties and the Care Act after COTTON CANCER social determinants. assuming office. CENTER SERVICE LINE She said that Trump has since DIRECTOR AND VICE individuals under been criticized PRESIDENT AND CHAIR Medicaid were f o r p u s h i n g OF SURGERY AT DHMC usually the poorest for the act’s group and that they repeal without were even more providing a disadvantaged than the uninsured. suitable replacement. “In the current debate, I would “The interpretation of the findings have definitely changed read [the study results] as saying if due to the change in the political we lose coverage due to repeal of climate,” Wong said. “One of the the Affordable Care Act without things we were interested in looking other coverage, it’ll have a big at had a lot to do with analyzing impact on these disadvantaged the impact of the Affordable Care areas,” Meara said. Wong said that the study looked Act. We were doing an evaluation of [the act], rather than looking at insurance coverage on a national at implications of not having it.” level in a variety of settings, which Wong said that the study looked made their study unique from other into the emphasis of the Affordable studies that looked at insurance Care Act on the outcome of cancer expansion on cancer care. A care as well as the community level similar study by Massachusetts programs that improved health. General Hospital surgeon John She said that there was a question Mullen , among others, looked at about the relationship between how healthcare coverage impacted quality of insurance coverage and cancer treatment since the state reformed its healthcare system where a person lives. The Dartmouth Institute for in 2006. She said that while the Health Policy and Clinical Practice circumstances of the studies were professor of medicine H. Gilbert different — national versus state — Welch said that Wong’s study is healthcare coverage increased and the first that he has seen that asks improved access to treatments for about the effects of community cancer and the treatments themselves. “The results of my study showed the influences on a disease. He said that there has been knowledge that need to make sure that communities social determinants are important are provided for and that providing to health, but that the study showed national programs is necessary,” how this knowledge is being implied Wong said. FROM STUDY PAGE 1
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When Two Worlds Meet: East Asian Experiences in the West and at Dartmouth, curated by Hannah Chung, Rauner Special Collections Library
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Student Spotlight: country singer Sara Lindquist ’18 By EMMA GUO The Dartmouth
Sara Lindquist ’18 first discovered her love for singing after joining a community girls’ choir. While the group sang, dance and acted, Lindquist realized that she enjoyed the singing component most, especially the storytelling aspect of it. “The most captivating thing about singing is to be able to take a song and be able to fully connect with the song and your audience by sharing that song,” Lindquist said. She continued to participate in the choir throughout high school, when her choir director connected to a local businessman in the recording business. This contact gave Lindquist the opportunity to travel to Nashville, Tennessee to record covers. In her senior year of high school, she began recording her six-track EP, “It’s a Good Day for a Good Day.” It was released in 2015 on Spotify and iTunes after two series of recording sessions. While she said studio work can be strenuous and often trying, Lindquist found the experience incredibly rewarding and exciting. Spending the entire day in the studio, Lindquist said that her favorite and most challenging part of recording was improving with each take. To decide which songs would be featured on her EP, Lindquist went through a long process of song selection, choosing from many pieces of original music that the studio owned. “I got to listen to the lyrics and take the time to sit with them and see if they were genuine to who I
am,” Lindquist said. Lindquist said that the goal of her music is to embody positive and upbeat attitudes about life, with an emphasis on girl power as well. Lindquist’s favorite song on her EP is “I’m There” because of the message it sends to the audience. “I love the story that it tells,” Lindquist said. “[‘I’m There’] has a really positive message about being involved in your relationship and going through your life.” At the College, Lindquist is a member of the all-female a cappella group the Dartmouth Decibelles, as well as the varsity volleyball team.
Although her schedule is packed, Lindquist said that she likes having a full schedule. Through the volleyball team, she is able to be competitive in sports, and through her involvement with the Decibelles, she is able to express herself with her musical side. “It’s really made my Dartmouth experience really full and dynamic,” Lindquist said. Gilad Doron, head coach of the volleyball team, noted how Lindquist has frequently brought the Decibelles to volleyball games to sing the national anthem. “It’s great that she is able to do all these things and still maintain a very
high level of playing [volleyball],” Doron said. Though her schedule is hectic, Lindquist is fully committed to each activity she is involved in. Stephanie Everett ’19, a fellow member of the Decibelles, said that although Lindquist does not read music, she learns her parts quickly and with
ease. She also that the “ We ’ r e a l l p r e t t y said Decibelles obsessed with her … often listen Lindquist’s she’s just such a warm to album. person and has a great “We’re all pretty personality, and it o b s e s s e d really translates into with her … s h e’s j u s t her music.” such a warm person and has a great -STEPHANIE EVERETT ’19 personality, and it really translates into her music,” Everett said. Lindquist’s personality and values shine through in other venues as well. “I really look up to her and she’s just a really kind, warm person,” said Morgan Waterman ’18, a former Dartmouth teammate who also met Lindquist in high school through a summer camp. On the court, Doron said that Lindquist serves as a source of motivation for the team. “She has a very positive and accepting personality which makes the other players feel very comfortable,” Doron said. After g raduation, Lindquist intends to pursue music in some form. While she has other passions and academic pursuits, Lindquist stated that her love of music and the power it has as a means of selfexpression and connection with others is something she does not want to give up. “I definitely want to pursue music in some way, whether it be moving COURTESY OF SARA LINDQUIST to Nashville for a few years or doing studio work for a bit,” Lindquist said. Sara Lindquist ’18 began recording her six-track EP, “It’s A Good Day for a Good Day” during her senior year of high school.
Dartmouth Idol semifinals in Spaulding this Saturday launched straight into the semifinals, scheduled for this Saturday, Feb. 4. Sammi Khangaonkar ’19 noted While American Idol may that the audition process was short have finished its historic run last and straightforward. year, Dartmouth Idol is still going “I sang if ‘I Ain’t Got You’ strong. Every year in February, by Alicia Keys and then the director just had aspiring singers from every class “There’s a lot of me try practicing the song in a few come to Spaulding Auditorium to try people who have different keys,” and impress the talents that they K h a n g a o n k a r said. audience with their talent. With don’t know they M a n y this, of course, had, and I never semifinalists may different comes a lucrative knew that I could hr eave asons for promise: the first wanting to get up prize winner will sing.” on stage and sing receive $500 and in front of what a two-song demo promises to be a deal. The first and -ROBERT MOORE ’20 big crowd. second runner-ups “I’ve been told are also awarded that it sells out,” Robert Moore ’20 cash rewards. All contestants have to audition said. offstage to make the first round A member of the Christian a cut. If they were chosen by the cappella group X.ado, Moore said panel of judges, the contestants are that he chose to audition so he
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could get extra practice outside of his singing group. “My music director for our group basically told me, ‘You should audition, it’s just good experience,’” Moore said. “He told me you get feedback [from the judges] and everything.” More personally, Moore said that he had only discovered his singing talents right before coming to Dartmouth and wanted to remind others that they too may have latent talents. “They ask you why you want to compete on Dartmouth Idol, and what I wrote down basically was that you don’t have to start out with a lot of experience to be able to sing,” Moore said. “There’s a lot of people who have talents that they don’t know they had, and I never knew that I could sing.” This year’s contestants come from a wide variety of singing backgrounds. While some, like Moore, are in a cappella groups, plenty are not.
“I don’t sing on campus or anything — I just got really tired of only singing in the shower and probably annoying my floormates, so I figured I needed another creative outlet,” said Khangaonkar, who will be singing “New York State of Mind” by Billy Joel. Moore will be singing the ’70s classic “American Pie” by folk-rock singer Don McLean. While he ultimately picked his own song, he noted that there is a larger, cohesive production that it fits into. “I choose three songs to submit ... the judges will build a program out of the songs that we send, and they pick one of our three songs,” Moore said. Brooke Bazarian ’20 will be perfor ming the jazz standard “Summertime” by George Gershwin but plans to give it her own touch with “an R&B-jazz rendition.” When asked if they were nervous about performing in front of a big audience this weekend, none of the contestants seemed too worried.
“I’ve been singing since I was really little,” Bazarian said. “[A large audience] doesn’t really bother me, to be honest. I think I’m just used to it at this point.” Although she has not recently sung in front of a large crowd, Khangaonkar noted her prior experience singing may help with nerves before the show. “I used to do a lot of musical theater as a kid, and then have done nothing in the last five or six years, so we’ll see if I get my stage nervousness back or not,” Khangaonkar said. Moore also seemed to be more excited than nervous about the large crowd. “I think it’s just going to be a lot of fun, and I’m going into it with the expectation of just going and doing it because of the fun experience,” Moore said. Dartmouth Idol semifinals will start at 8 p.m. The finals will be almost a month later, on Mar. 3. Tickets are $5 for students.
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SPORTS Tearing Up the Playbook Sam Stockton ’19 Super Bowl LI Edition: the New England Patriots versus the Atlanta Falcons as an exposé of today’s National Football League As I alluded to two weeks ago, the biggest struggle in writing about the NFL in this column is that I have to write the column before the games on Sunday are played. Given the circumstances for this Sunday’s game, I wrote this week’s Super Bowl Edition of Tearing Up the Playbook on Thursday, with about three days and two hours until kickoff. On my end, this means I have to write something that will apply to this game no matter what happens. With that in mind, consider the following: It is no secret that the NFL has changed a lot since its birth, or even since Super Bowl I back in 1967. The NFL in which Tom Brady plays is vastly different than the one in which Bart Starr, the first Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, played. Even football fans my age can point to trends that have risen and fallen in their time watching the league. Be it the wildcat, the read option, or the relationship between elite defenses and the 3-4, many trends have entered and exited the league in the past decade or so. In fact, success in the league is strongly tied to a team’s ability to adapt to new challenges. Successful NFL coaches stay successful in the NFL for one reason: they are willing to change. The fact of life in the NFL is that if you run a scheme successfully long enough, someone else will come up with a way to stop it. A couple of years ago, young quarterbacks like Robert Griffin III, Colin Kaepernick, Cam Newton and Russell Wilson took the league by storm and punished defenses with their extreme mobility. The
read-option seemed like the wave of the future; some people went as far as to wonder if the day of the traditional drop back quarterback (think Brady, either Manning brother or Drew Brees) had passed. Then, defensive coordinators began to instruct their defensive ends to crash on the quarterback, while inside linebackers scraped off blocks to take away the threat of the running back. Just like that, the read-option wasn’t so scary anymore. Super Bowl LI was not the most intriguing possible matchup. The Dallas Cowboys versus the New England Patriots would likely have had more national interest; the New York Giants versus the Patriots for a third time would have more storylines around it and perhaps more legacy implications for Brady and Bill Belichick. While Super Bowl LI may not be everything that you’re looking for off the field, it is a perfect representation of what great offensive and defensive football looks like in 2017. To keep it simple, I’ll focus on the matchup between the Falcons’ offense and the Patriots’ defense. Let’s start with Atlanta. The numbers are staggering, and when you watch them play, they look even better than what the statistics show. I don’t want to focus on individuals, but rather schemes, and Atlanta has a great one. The Falcons offense has been so successful this season because of its ability to exploit an opponent’s weaknesses through the air and on the ground out of the same formations. Defenses just don’t know what the Falcons are going to do, so they cannot put their best situational defenders on the field. Teams don’t know whether to use their best run or pass defenders at any given time, because the Falcons can run or pass effectively with the same players on the field. Through the air, the Falcons are masterful at manipulating defenders, flooding an opponent’s zone so that a team simply cannot cover them all. On the ground, the two-headed monster of Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman has been next to unstoppable. Now consider the Patriots defense. There is not a coach in the league as adept at adaptation as Belichick. He can and has gone back and forth from playing a 3-4 to a 4-3 up front. He will use a “one-gap” and “two-gap” scheme simultaneously. He will use a wide
receiver in the secondary. The reason the Patriots are so good defensively is quite similar to the reason the Falcons are so good offensively. New England can use the same personnel in different ways to accomplish different things. Safeties Patrick Chung and Devin McCourty, two of Belichick’s favorite pupils, exemplify this versatility. Both are capable of playing man-to-man coverage against a receiver, tight end or running back with relative ease. Both are excellent tacklers in space. Chung can step into the box and defend the run like a linebacker. McCourty can play “center field” as a pure, free safety or cover one-on-one like a corner. This versatility means that, like the Falcons, the Patriots can play equally effectively against the run and the pass with the same players on the field. Add into the mix nickel cornerback Logan Ryan, an excellent tackler and cover
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man himself, dominant linebacker Donta Hightower and a deep defensive line, and the Patriots D becomes very hard to stop. The name of the game in the NFL today is versatility. One player being used in multiple ways allows an offense to do more without tipping its hand, and a defense to stop the run and the pass without substituting. The Patriots and Falcons are archetypical examples of the NFL’s versatility craze, and it should not be seen as a coincidence that they are now meeting in the Super Bowl.
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Musing of the Week: This week, the NFL decided to deny press credentials and “radio row” access to the blog “Barstool Sports.” I personally am a fan of the site, or at least of a good amount of its content, but that’s not really the point. The NFL already has a reputation as the “No Fun League” thanks to an intolerance of
things like touchdown celebrations and non-conformist cleats. Even putting aside this reputation, love Barstool or hate it, it doesn’t make much sense for the NFL to anger a site that is undeniably popular amongst sports fans, particularly young men. At some point, I can only imagine that this kind of thing will catch up with the league. This story only becomes more interesting when you consider that Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee announced his retirement this week in order to join, you guessed it, Barstool. I don’t mean to assert that denying Barstool credentials will be the death of the NFL; that would be ridiculous. My point is this: right now, if I were heading the NFL, I would not do anything I thought might be turning away young fans — yet the NFL keeps doing it. At some point, events like these will only snowball and hurt the NFL’s overall success.
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breadsticks posted in 2017 by men’s tennis, currently 2-2
days since men’s basketball’s last victory. The team has not won in 2017 thus far.
men’s lacrosse ranking in the Ivy League preseason poll, released Feb. 2
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winning percentage of women’s hockey away from Thompson Arena
tiebreak record of undefeated women’s tennis through three matches this season
carnival wins by Dartmouth skiing, equaling last year’s total