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Uber comes to the Upper Valley Community

By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth Staff

Getting around Hanover and the Upper Valley will now be easier for students and residents, as several new transportation services, including Uber, have recently arrived in town.

Uber has been operating in the Upper Valley area, including Hanover, for about a month now, Uber driver Dennis Adams Sr. said.

Adams said he has been working for Uber since they opened up in Burlington, Vermont in August last year.

He added that he had to drive 90 miles from White River

Junction, where he lives, to Burlington to find calls, as Uber did not service White River Junction.

However, three weeks ago, he was in his home when he received an Uber notification at 1:30 a.m. from a gentleman in Woodstock, Vermont looking for a ride to the Woodstock Inn. Adams then drove the man half a mile for a $3 fare and has been getting calls around White River Junction and Hanover ever since.

Adams said that he has been getting more and more calls every week as the word spreads that Uber is now available.

He added that the number of drivers has also gradually

increased.

“We started off with three drivers,” Adams said. “We now have eight or nine and expect to have more as business grows and the word gets out about us.”

Fellow Uber driver Joy Tyo of Lebanon, New Hampshire, who also started working for Uber in the Upper Valley three weeks ago, said that she has served Dartmouth students seven times already, including two upperclassmen students who told her that “it was nice to be able to leave the Hanover bubble.”

She added that downtown

discusses “sanctuary city” designation

By AMANDA ZHOU

The Dartmouth Staff

On Feb. 22, students and members of the Hanover community gathered on the Green for a candlelight demonstration regarding the recent executive order restricting immigration and actions against undocumented people by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Following the demonstration, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis and the Upper Valley Coalition for Immigrants and Refugees led a community meeting in St. Thomas Parish Hall on the prospect of making Hanover a “sanctuary city.”

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T he Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $797,000 grant for a team of researchers to look at public opinion relating to environmental policy in the Great Bay watershed on the New Hampshire

coast. The grant went to five researchers, including Dartmouth environmental studies professor Richard Howarth and biolog y professor Celia Chen.

The research project will examine what trade-offs the public is willing to make for higher water quality in the SEE GRANT PAGE 2

Governance agreement signed

By PETER CHARALAMBOUS The Dartmouth Staff

A governance agreement between the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine signed Feb. 3 has established measures to ensure that funds donated to the NCCC will be used in accordance with donor intent.

“We have in place all of the

mechanisms to ensure that the donors intentions are followed,” Dr. Christopher Amos, the interim director of the NCCC and Geisel chair of biomedical data science said.

This announcement follows months of controversy surrounding the NCCC, which began when Mark Israel, the longtime director of the NCCC, stepped down from his position last September.

Israel later filed a lawsuit

alleging he was forced out of his job because he objected to the diversion of $6 million raised for research to instead fund operating expenses. Israel claimed that $1.6 million of those funds were raised through the Prouty, an annual fundraiser for the NCCC. Controversy continued when Thomas Donovan, director of the charitable trusts unit in the New Hampshire SEE NORRIS COTTON PAGE 2

LoveYourBrain offers rehabilitative yoga in Lebanon

By PAULOMI RAO

The Dartmouth Staff

LoveYourBrain, a non-profit organization created to help those suffering from brain injury, was founded in 2012 by professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce after he sustained a traumatic brain injury while training for the 2010 Vancouver

Winter Olympics. One of the healing modalities that helped him was meditation.

As a result, Kevin Pearce and his brother Adam Pearce created the LoveYourBrain Foundation to help people lead lifestyles conducive to healthy brains through yoga, meditation and mindfulness, according to the foundation’s website. The

program offers yoga classes in studios in eight states, including Lebanon’s Mighty Yoga studio.

The foundation also hosts retreats and educational talks.

According to Adam’s wife Kyla Pearce, who is a graduate of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s master’s of public SEE YOGA PAGE 3

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LoveYourBrain partners with the Mighty Yoga studio in Lebanon.

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Great Bay area.

“It’s about how we strike the right balance between economic values and environmental values,” Howarth said.

The principal investigators for the project are Howarth and former Thayer School of Engineering professor Mark Borsuk, now at Duke University. The project also includes former environmental studies postdoctoral candidate Georgia Mavrommati, now at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Plymouth State University environmental science professor Shannon Rogers ’04, who works with Chen at the Geisel School of Medicine’s Toxic Metals Superfund project.

The project will examine the watershed using both physical and social science. The physical science aspects of the project includes analysis of how the flow and quality of water in streams is af fected by land use and management. The researchers will also rely on biophysical monitoring, which involves using biological indicators to predict how much changes in water quality affect people.

T he water quality in the water shed has already been affected by excessive levels of certain chemicals such as nitrogen.

One main source of nitrogen pollution is from wastewater treatment facilities. “Non-point source” pollution, like stormwater run-off from fertilized lawns, is also significant but can be harder to track. About 30 percent of the nitrogen pollution comes from air pollution.

The social science aspects of the project include deliberative multi-criteria analysis, which is an alternative research method economists use to assign the environment monetary values.

Instead of relying on individual surveys, which can be biased, the researchers use groups of people to gauge public opinion. Workshop participants reach a consensus on what they want in environmental policy after listening to evidence presented by experts.

Part of the Great Bay research will look at differences between the results of the surveys and deliberative multi-criteria analysis

workshops.

“Society has to make decisions about how to commit resources for environmental protection, and those decisions have to be infor med by science and by people’s considered values at the community level about what’s important,” Howarth said.

The project involves researchers from at least four different schools.

Howarth said that collaboration between multiple schools can be a necessity for interdisciplinary projects and that Dartmouth is particularly good at crossschool interdisciplinary work.

Dartmouth’s small size also means that researchers often have to reach out across departments to get things done, he added.

Even though the research involves scholars at multiple schools, the project still remains Dartmouth-centric.

On a practical level, most of the potential changes in environmental policy that would be discussed in the workshops concern land use in the Great Bay area. For instance, researchers must determine if a real estate development be allowed under local zoning and planning laws, taking into account the environmental impact. However, federal and state governments are also involved with environmental policy.

In fact, a majority of funding that the environmental studies programs receives comes from the federal government, Howarth said.

The EPA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service are all federal organizations that help fund environmental research at Dartmouth.

However, not all the money in a grant award directly funds the research. Howarth estimated that 60 cents for every dollar spent directly on research will go to the College to support facilities and other costs.

Once the award has been divided amongst the five recipients and a portion of the money has gone to those indirect costs, part of Rogers’ funding also goes toward the tuition of graduate students with whom she works.

“It’s amazing how fast a grant gets eaten up,” Rogers said.

T h e i d e a fo r t h e p ro j e c t first came up at a meeting with

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researchers from the University of New Hampshire.

Howarth then considered how the project might fit with the existing mission of the EPA and its programs.

“What’s particularly interesting to them [the EPA] is developing a framework and a toolkit that can be applied to thinking through the value of environmental policies,” Howarth said.

The EPA had a request for research proposals relating to small streams and tributaries, Rogers said.

A proposal by Dartmouth researchers for their specific project was written in December 2015 with the help of Mavrommati, then a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth who had conducted her own citizen workshops regarding the Upper Merrimack River. The researchers were told they received the grant award this past summer.

Since then, Rogers has already started doing background research on issues with water quality in the Great Bay with assistance from graduate students at the University of New Hampshire. The workshops will probably take place next fall, followed by a large household survey.

Chen was unavailable for comment due to leading a Foreign Study Program.

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Attorney General’s Office, mailed the NCCC a letter concerning the use of charitable funds in late January.

Donovan ultimately concluded that Dartmouth-Hitchcock did not break the law by diverting the 2015 Prouty funds.

In the after math of these controversies, NCCC created a governing agreement to ensure that donated funds would be properly allocated according to donor intent.

While the policy itself has not been publicly released, a recent op-ed in the Valley News as well as interviews with administrators indicate the purpose of the agreement.

With the new agreement in place, donated funds will be placed in restricted accounts that can only be used for supportive patient services, research, development of new cancer therapy, education or recruitment of new faculty, Amos said. Furthermore, the director of the NCCC will report to the chief executive officer of DHMC as well as the dean of Geisel regarding the use of donations. “[The agreement] gives comfort to our generous community to say ‘our funds are now protected and will be

used exactly as we state they will,’” said Shelley Gilbert, the chairwoman of the Lebanon Friends of NCCC board of directors.

This assurance that funds will be used according to donor intent is especially pertinent to the Upper Valley community because of its involvement in the Prouty. Last year’s fundraiser raised $3 million for cancer research.

The Prouty is a charity event that occurs every summer and consists of runs, bike rides, walks and sports events.

Dartmouth’s student body plays a major role in fundraising, with Greek organizations raising around $110,000 each year.

“For us, it’s really about helping our community,” said Jase Davis ’18 of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, which has been one of the leading Greek houses in the fundraising efforts.

Administration from the NCCC as well as the Friends of the NCCC hope that the recent measures will prevent the misuse of any funds raised by the NCCC during the Prouty or through other donations.

“The donors can now be confident in knowing that that will happen because it is a written agreement,” Gilbert said.

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Rehabilitation organization focuses on therapeutic yoga FROM YOGA PAGE 1

health program and a current doctoral candidate at Dartmouth, As a trained yoga instructor, Kyla Pearce developed the yoga curriculum for LoveYourBrain and worked with a researcher at Dartmouth to finalize the methodological design. When the researcher left Dartmouth, Pearce began to work with professor of psychiatry and director of pediatric neuropsychological services at the Geisel School of Medicine Jonathan Lichtenstein. His experience with concussionsandstudydesignhelpedhim assist with analysis and interpretation of LoveYourBrain’s initial two-month implementation program.

“My help comes in with a broader conceptualization of how this fits into a rubric of traumatic brain injury recovery and how it adds to preexisting literature base and research design,” Lichtenstein said.

Lichtenstein noted that one of the most important aspects of the study was finding alternative methods for making appreciable change so people can feel and function better after an injury.

Moving forward, Lichtenstein hopes the study will develop a protocol to help reach out to people outside of the community, specifically those in rehabilitation hospitals. He noted that help frequently does not reach patients

until their injury is in a chronic stage but hopes yoga can soon be initiated early on in recovery.

“We’ve known for a long time that with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury, you need to start rehab immediately, but what’s different for mild traumatic brain injury or concussion is that people originally [think] you should rest instead of rehab,” Lichtenstein added. “But more of modern research is leaning now to be more active when you recovery …

I think this could play a role into that.”

Kyla Pearce worked with researchers at The Dartmouth Institute to study the effectiveness of LoveYourBrain’s program.

Researchers initially questioned whether it was feasible for people to frequently attend the River Valley Club’s wellness yoga classes. However, there was a high attendance rate among participants, who also rated the program highly.

Kyla Pearce was also interested in how to assess the quality of life reported by those affected by brain injuries.

LoveYourBrain analyzed feedback from participants before and after yoga intervention and found overall participants reported that their quality of life increased. After the yoga class, participants wanted to continue to talk and connect with one another, so Kyla Pearce and her team developed

more opportunities for relationship development.

“It’s been incredible to see that it is in a lot of ways really building a community,” Pearce said. “One thing that was really shocking is that there were people who said they had never met another person with a traumatic brain injury, even if they had been living with their own for multiple years.”

With the added discussion component, Pearce and her team have found people use the classes as an opportunity to mentor each other, share resources and be advocates for each other’s healing.

“There is a lot of empowerment by creating a space for people to be able to be each other’s teachers and support system instead of having it come from a clinician,” Pearce said. “It’s been incredibly powerful.”

Pearce noted that a factor that makes the LoveYourBrain organization innovative is its community and location emphasis. Pearce and other organizers from LoveYourBrain were interested in having a community based program that supported community reintegration, which is why they did not center the yoga program at a clinical facility such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Some of the large-scale issues they found with patients suffering from a traumatic brain injury were feelings of isolation and disconnect

from their communities.

Director of student writing support for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric Stephanie Boone, another participant, recently completed the six-week series.

After suffering from a fall in May 2013, Boone felt isolated from her career at Dartmouth, where she previously worked as an English professor.

Boone described her experience as “extremely medicalized” and said she did not initially think to join a yoga program due to previous uninteresting experiences.

“One of the greatest challenges in recovery is the sense of isolation that accrues when you are injured, can’t return to work or have been immobilized,” Boone said. “A fear of falling, your balances are off, your cognitive processes are slower, memory is problematic, speech may be an issue … you are different.”

At Lebanon’s Mighty Yoga studio, Boone found a new sense of community and rebuilt her life following her incident.

“I’m getting stronger, balance is better, I’m more toned, and the mind is, it’s like I’m coming out of a fog,” Boone said.

Boone noted that a primary benefit of yoga is its ability to bring together the mind and body.

Kyla Pearce believes that the LoveYourBrain guided mediation style can also be effective for college individuals who might be dealing with various levels of concussion from sport related injuries or overall mental stress.

“There is certainly a lot of scientific evidence showing that yoga, meditation and breath work [have] physiological evidence in terms of reducing stress and helping with sleep,” Pearce said.

The next few years are crucial to LoveYourBrain’s development.

The foundation seeks to have a yoga program in all 50 states, with the goal of expanding from its current seven locations to at least 25 states by 2019.

The team is focusing on opening programs near the United States’ top 10 rehabilitation facilities.

In addition to geographic expansion, Kyla Pearce added that she looks forward to developing aspects of the program that participants find most effective and continuing to bolster positive impact.

“My hope is that yoga will eventually be considered mainstream, a healing therapeutic technique that insurance covers and [won’t be] seen as complementary and alternative medicine anymore,” Pearce said. “It’s all about shifting the public perception in our culture of what is effective ... there should be just as much access as other therapeutic techniques.”

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The Importance of Perspective Ode on a Rejected Application Our generation would benefit from a sense of historical perspective.

A rejected application doesn’t have to end in feelings of inadequacy.

From our comfortable perches atop the This is not to say that such responses were 21st century morals that have become our unavoidable or necessary. It is good that we societal bread and butter, it is tempting can look back on such terrible events of the to look at people from the past and judge past and see how we as a society faltered. them harshly for their actions. In order to However, we must not consider ourselves satisfy modern standards of inclusivity and so enlightened and morally upright that tolerance, we whitewash our own history we can rewrite history to our convenience. by denouncing former icons as racists The moment we consider ourselves above and bigots. Past moments of reactionary the past is the moment that we refuse to hysteria have become periods of shame learn from it, because in doing so, we worthy of derision. Too easily do we look blind ourselves to the reality of what was back upon these supposed fools of yore, happening when these events unfolded. wagging our fingers at their ignorance, Are we not prone to the same mistakes smug in our belief that we are above such as our ancestors? Just as people in the past nonsense. believed in falsehoods and perpetuated Those of us that choose to do so would violent behavior, current generations do well to take a long look in the mirror, eng age in similarly self-destructive because the truth is actions. We are not that we are no better “We might know more immune to the same than the very people we sort of hypocrisy that mock. People in the past than our predecessors was common in olden faced the same anxieties and have access to times, nor are we any less that we do today, and gullible. Those who lived certainly were no more more resources ... but in past eras had to make stupid than we. Without it does not make us do with what they knew, the benefits of modern and we cannot fault them living or technolog y, morally superior, and for making the most of let alone exposure to we must at once dispel their limitations. There alternative ideas, people is no reason to revile from the 18th and 19th the dangerous notion figures from our history centuries can hardly be that we are.” as morally bankrupt or blamed for believing irredeemably evil when in things that would be our present already has considered backward today. plenty of self-reflection to do.

Yet we still insist upon judging them We mustn’t try to rewrite our history in the with 21st century standards, forgetting name of some misbegotten scheme to sanitize all sense of perspective in the process. it, nor should we unfairly denounce the figures Ours is a generation that judges George of the past based on some arbitrary moral quirk.

Washington for owning slaves, ignoring We must instead judge figures of the past for the the ideals so prevalent in the 1780s when legacies they have built — and destroyed — and Washington’s own beliefs — and indeed, what they inspire us to accomplish today. But his freeing of those very slaves after his most of all, we must never believe ourselves death — were considered wildly radical superior to them based on our morals alone. and progressive. Ours is a generation that We must instead accept that we are every bit is quick to condemn the atomic bombings as human and fallible as they were. of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, conveniently We might know more than our predecessors forgetting how little we knew of the horrors and have access to more resources. We might of nuclear fallout at the time or how much expect higher standards from ourselves and both the Allies and Japanese civilians stood thus be better prepared to avoid repeating to lose from a mainland invasion of Japan. past mistakes. But it does not make us morally Hindsight might be 20/20, as the saying superior, and we must at once dispel the goes, but in this case, it is laughably blind. dangerous notion that we are.

The email comes back. It’s another “no.” aside, be viewed as an impersonal numbers Inboxes fill up with them, from clubs, from game, but others may take the hits hard, jobs, from professors. Many jobs won’t even seeing each email with a “we regret to bother to tell you that you haven’t made the inform you that we’ve gone with another cut, either — a denial through the attrition candidate” as a slight against their character of time. Dartmouth’s social life is similar, and accomplishments. All of this, of course, with hoops to jump through to get through is in large part a result of placing a group of the doors of a manse on Webster or a crypt highly successful and motivated individuals on Wheelock. together in a contained environment in which For most Dartmouth students, rejection they must compete against each other for a can become commonplace. First-Year Trips, select few spots. admissions tour guides, internships, entryThe adjustment period immediately upon level jobs, RWIT, First-Year Fellows — line entering Dartmouth is probably the most after line, rank upon rank of emails that all extreme example of “application shock,” but tell the same story: “No.” But for many of us, it’s not the only one. Professional recruiting that feeling is all too new. The College accepts is another. This fall alone, 9,654 students just 10 percent of applicants, making it among submitted applications for 193 available the most selective educational institutions positions. That results in a very, very high worldwide. Those accepted typically excelled rejection rate, and it is not hard to take the in high school. They maintained high GPAs, lack of an offer personally, even if that feeling got near-perfect SAT scores, led clubs, played goes against a student’s better judgement. sports and built up résumés stacked with But the process of submitting oneself to community service and summer experiences. examination — and following rejection — And when it came time for college is not simply an academic and vocational applications, we all got p ro c e s s. I t ’s a l s o a in, and that was that. “Whether it’s the social one. There is an Application season was inherently hypocritical failure to get a over, and it was time to start element to any argument enjoying the collegiate leadership post in a against an exclusive l i f e : b e t t e r c l a s s e s, process at an inherently club or the lack of a independence, new clubs exclusive institution — and opportunities. Except bid at a Greek house, which Dartmouth is. that isn’t how it works. social life whether it’s a rejection Dartmouth’s Instead of being a reprieve may be more inclusive from applications, a well- from a job at the than the social scenes in earned respite, life at Rockefeller Center or the cities and towns we will Dartmouth can feel like occupy after graduation, endless applying — and, an outbox filled with and attempts by the Greek as often as not, those internship applications system and other social applications are met with groups to become more and an inbox filled with inclusive have seen some rejection.

It’s not hard to take stony silence, the sense successes, but many will rejection personally. It’s still feel personally hurt not hard to ask yourself of failure, of inferiority, as a result of the process. what more you could can build.”

The emotional toll can have done, how you could be significant, and it have worked harder, been is the responsibility of better. Did I not get into the foreign study both organizations — social, academic, program because of my GPA? Was it a extracurricular — and students themselves lackluster letter of recommendation? Am I to remember that rejection is not a reflection a bad person? It’s dramatic, comical even, of personal worth. but this sort of thought process can grow and At this College upon a hill, we are given a fester, potentially solidifying into a mindset unique opportunity to better ourselves, learn, of inferiority. Whether it’s the failure to get and take up new experiences. The reality of a leadership post in a club or the lack of a a selective institution is that many of those bid at a Greek house, whether it’s a rejection opportunities are only available through from a job at in New York City or an outbox applications. Many of those applications will filled with internship applications and an result in rejection, but that doesn’t mean we inbox filled with stony silence, the sense of shouldn’t apply. Instead, apply even more. failure, of inferiority, can build.

Apply to clubs, to jobs, to FSPs, to anything And why wouldn’t students feel like they’d and everything that catches your interest — failed? When a friend gets a spot as a First- and when rejections come in, as they may, do Year Trips leader, but you are rejected, when not interpret it as a slight against your person you apply twice to the same foreign study or an indictment of your worth, but instead as program and don’t get in, how can feelings an opportunity for growth and future success. of competancy and competance survive?

And guess what? You’re going to get plenty We must all remember that rejection does of acceptances, too. not indicate a lack of personal worth.

The loss of personal worth that comes The editorial board consists of the opinion staff, along with rejection for many students can the opinion editor, both executive editors and the be crushing. For some, rejection can be put editor-in-chief.

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Town hosts ‘sanctuary city’ meeting Transportation services face Uber competition status, she said during the meeting.

County sheriff departments, on the Co-founder of the Upper other hand, do deal with civil law Valley Coalition for Immigrants and immigration. and Refugees Kasia Kready ’17 Griffin said she recently read gave introductions and shared a document that outlines the her motivations for the meeting. difference between what cities and She said the idea came out of a counties are each permitted to do brainstorming session on how to in relation to immigration law. help students who are worried “Bottom line, they may be we don’t have a role as affected by actions “Bottom line, we a local community,” o f t h e Tr u m p she said during the don’t have a role administration. meeting.

Griffin said that [in immigration Griffin said while she had been law] as a local during the meeting a p p ro a ch e d by that even if federal law many member s community.” changed so that local of the community communities have a asking about role in immigration -JULIA GRIFFIN, the possibility law, Hanover does of H a n o v e r HANOVER TOWN not have the resources becoming a MANAGER to become involved. s a n c t u a r y c i t y, She emphasized that which would make Hanover has a small the town more police department open to refugees and is “down one position” and and immigrants such as by not has been down up to six positions using municipal funds to enforce over the last two years. national immigration laws, and Should Trump follow through in that she understood its ethical denying funding to sanctuary cities, importance, she was still concerned Griffin said during the meeting about taking formal action. During that the town would be largely the meeting, she said she was unaffected since it already receives worried that taking formal action to very limited federal funding, become a sanctuary city may “[put] which is only used for emergency a target on back of community equipment. and the students who could be However, she said that the subjected to discrimination under College may have a “real risk” as Trump’s approach to refugees and a research institution attempting to immigration.” obtain federal money even though The Hanover police department such an action would likely be can only enforce criminal law and overturned. does not inquire about immigration Griffin said that Hanover is FROM SANCTUARY PAGE 1

essentially already a sanctuary community. If a student is arrested for underage alcohol consumption, it is a violation level offense, meaning it will not affect that individual’s immigration status.

She said that she alerted the county government that there was a concerned group regarding recent events to let them know they should be prepared to have a conversation about their role concerning immigration.

“Clearly, the role of county sheriff ’s departments is more pivotal, by all means, than the role of local government when it comes to immigration enforcement or support,” she said.

In response to a question on whether sanctuary counties exist, Griffin said that there are counties in the countr y which adopt sanctuary policies by not becoming an extension of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, but there are also counties which do act as an extension of ICE. She explained that Hanover lies in a liberal pocket of Grafton County, and that she had reached out to county attorney Lara Saffo to let Saffo know that members of the Hanover community were concerned about the county’s approach towards immigration.

She said that this outreach was only intended to be the start of a conversation.

Grif fin also clarified that since the College is on private property, should ICE want to arrest someone, they would need a warrant.

She took a few more questions before ceding the stage to Dennis, who reemphasized Hanover Police’s small size and uninvolvement with federal civil law. He also clarified that Hanover only has a holding facility, rather than an actual jail.

If an individual is taken into police custody, Hanover Police will not inquire about the individual’s immigration status, though his or her fingerprints will go to the state and the FBI database.

After the event, Dennis said that he did not see the College administration’s stance against the executive order as something that would change its relationship with Hanover Police.

Member of Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers Rosa Mendoza ’20 said she thought the community meeting was organized and she liked the question and answer portions. However, she said she was disappointed no formal action was taken to become a sanctuary city, although she understood the reasoning behind the decision.

Sunpreet Singh contributed reporting.

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Lebanon has been a hotspot for Uber so far, and that she has also transported a lot of graduate students to and from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Both Adams and Tyo said that they thought that Dartmouth students will find Uber useful for going shopping in the evenings and on weekends, as well as for making sure they have safe rides back to their dorms and apartments. Still, they both said that they have been getting more business from graduate students who have to go between DHMC and campus, rather than undergraduates.

Adams added that the Uber service is not 24/7 right now, because Uber is a part-time job for most drivers.

However, he thinks the company will ultimately displace taxis and other transportation services in the Upper Valley because Uber drivers work as independent contractors and not employees, meaning that Uber does not have to maintain a fleet of cars or be open 24/7 like taxi services have to.

Uber drivers make most of their money from their fares, since Uber takes about a 20 percent commission on each ride, while taxi drivers make most of their money from tips, because the taxi fare goes to the taxi company, Adams said.

He added that Uber often has more competitive prices than taxi companies because Uber drivers use their own cars, whereas taxi companies have to pay for their cars, insurance, wages and other expenses.

Tyo said that many employees traveling to and from Hanover prefer to use taxis because they don’t want to park in Hanover, but they get frustrated waiting for taxis that can take hours to show up, if they do show up.

“Eventually Uber will take over any taxi service because it has an app that can be utilized by anyone anywhere,” Tyo said.

Robert Revells, the owner of local taxi company Big Yellow Taxi, bought the company two years ago. In total, it has been in business for over 20 years now, he said.

He said that he thinks the rise of Uber and transportation startups will hurt his business because of how much more he has to spend than them to stay in business.

“I personally don’t like Uber because they get away with things we are not allowed to,” he said. “I have to permit my drivers through local inspections and pay half a million on liability insurance, when Uber just has to pay for regular car insurance and pass regular state car inspections.”

Revells added that 20 to 30 percent of his business comes from the College,

but that moving students from place to place has never been a big part of the business. He said that most of his business with the College is transporting people coming to visit the College, along with people traveling to places like hospitals and airports.

“I can’t stop them from coming in, but a lot of my business is regular customers so I have that to fall back on,” Revells said.

Along with Uber, other new transportation startups in the Upper Valley include Currier’s Courier and D.A.S.H. In an interview, D.A.S.H. managing partner Elizabeth Barron-Oakes said that she started her business with two other managing partners on Jan. 30 of this year to provide transportation within the Upper Valley and to regional airports.

D.A.S.H. has received a lot of business through the Hanover Inn and currently has a contract with a Dartmouth student to provide transportation for travel to and from a tutoring job, Barron-Oakes said.

“A department in the College reached out to us, and we agreed that we are their company for the remainder of the student’s tutoring tenure,” she said.

Barron-Oakes added that the business has not otherwise had a lot of contact with students aside from transport back and forth to the airport.

She said that three students are repeat customers for travel between the airports, train stations and their dorms, and that the Tuck School of Business also uses D.A.S.H.’s services regularly.

She said that while students currently do not use D.A.S.H. to do things like go to the grocery store or make a shopping trip, D.A.S.H. offers a discount on Dartmouth student and faculty rides to the Manchester Boston International airport.

Barron-Oakes also said that she thinks that Uber and the existing taxi companies will likely control student transportation, but that they lack the personal touch that D.A.S.H. provides.

Currier’s Courier came about in January in Newport, New Hampshire in response to drinking and driving accidents, owner Alec Currier said.

So far, the business has one van and has been transporting patients for the White River Junction VA Medical Center and serving local clientele in Newport, he said.

Currier added that he is currently working on acquiring two more vans and hopefully growing to serve Dartmouth by the end of this year.

“I would love to expand into Hanover and Dartmouth College, especially to help students get back to their dorms safely from fraternities and parties,” he said.

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Panel: “Media and Resistance in the Age of Digital Surveillance,” Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

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Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra to play Brahms this Saturday

By JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

After playing Lud wig van Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” last spring, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will be perfor ming and paying tribute to the famed composer with a piece created by another beloved composer Johannes Brahms. As part of its winter concert this Saturday, DSO will play Brahms’ “Symphony No. 1,” which is often referred to as “Beethoven’s Tenth” because of its similarities to Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9.” The other piece, Jean Sibelius’ “Violin Concerto,” also comes from the late Romantic era and will feature Orestis Lykouropoulos ’17 on violin.

Orchestra director and conductor Filippo Ciabatti said that Lykouropoulos had been chosen from a competitive audition process that took place in June last year. In his audition, Lykouropoulos had played “Violin Concerto,” which Ciabatti said was one of the greatest milestones in the literature of violin and orchestra music.

Lykouropoulos said that he had chosen to audition with the piece because he knew it fairly well and because it was one of his favorite pieces. He said that he had been able to work through technical difficulties through the audition process and was now working on playing with the orchestra.

“This is the first time I played who was born six years after first movement to a final movement with an orchestra so that’s a whole Beethoven died, took over 20 that recalls Beethoven’s Ninth in different set up and challenge to years to publish his own symphony its optimistic tone, especially in learn,” Lykouropoulos said. “I’ve because he felt the weight of regards to mankind.

“In this complicated time been lucky to go to rehearsals since Beethoven’s work. week four or five [of the term], “All of these pieces are important we’re living in right now, I think which is unusual. Typically, soloists for the development of the group,” that art like this symphony can bring such a powerful message of get two or three rehearsals with the Ciabatti said. profound optimism, that orchestra before the actual performance. I’ve learned a “In this complicated time we’re human beings can really live together and bring good to lot in the process.”

Ciabatti s a i d living in right now, I think that this world,” Ciabatti said.

Lykouropoulos was a very art like this symphony can “That stands as a modern that can arrive committed student of the bring such a powerful message message to all of the students and orchestra who collaborated with both Ciabatti and of profound optimism, that [people] in the Dartmouth Dartmouth music professor human beings can really live community as well as the people around the world.”

Miki-Sophia Cloud in Bryan Shin ’20, a violin preparation for the concert. together and bring good to player in the second violin Lykouropoulos said that this world.” section of the orchestra, said he has been a member that the Brahms piece is a of the orchestra since his large work with many parts, freshman fall term, where -FILIPPO CIABATTI, DARTMOUTH and that the orchestra did he joined as a member SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA not have enough Dartmouth of the first violin section. players to fill all of them. He Lykouropoulos was also the CONDUCTOR said that a fourth or fifth of assistant concertmaster in his the orchestra was hired to junior year and senior year fill those parts. fall term. “ T h i s t e r m , we ’ve “Being in DSO has been been missing half of our a wonderful experience, orchestra, so the music both in terms of my musical education [and in] meeting At the time Brahms’ piece never quite sounds right [during wonderful people and community was written, Ciabatti notes that rehearsals],” he said. “It’s been members and professional staff,” it was considered very innovative hard to rehearse since we need to Lykouropoulos said. because of its complex structure rely on other sections, but it will be Ciabatti said that he felt it that resembled a piece by Johann better when the professionals come was appropriate to pair Sibelius’ Sebastian Bach and also its in.”

Shin said that this was his first concerto with another classical theatrical effects, which resembled milestone in the symphony, the Beethoven’s work. He said the piece time playing with professional Brahms work. He said that Brahms, moves from a dark and dramatic musicians, who are Hanover locals.

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Orestis Lykouropoulos ’17 will be performing as a soloist in Jean Silebius’ “Violin Concerto.”

He said that in playing with them, he was able to feel a connection to Hanover.

“I think generally, the orchestra sounds better when the professionals come in because they can help guide us [during rehearsal],” Shin said.

Shin said that because Sibelius’ concerto is very different from Brahms’ symphony, the two works provided an interesting contrast.

“Brahms’ [piece] is a really big royal, majestic symphony with fanfare, but Sibelius wrote this icy, cold and eerie piece that makes you feel anxious,” Shin said. “It’s a great piece selection to bring them together.”

Ciabatti said that he wanted to stress that while most people assume classical music is something that belongs to a certain etiquette, music speaks to everyone, especially young people.

“We don’t care about how you dress or if you follow the old etiquette of the classical music concert,” Ciabatti said. “We care about sharing the music and the profound message that the music carries to the young generation.

I would encourage people to not think of this as an old ritual, but as live and modern, and now more than ever a part of the culture and heritage that great people left [us].”

The DSO’s winter concert will be held in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. There will be a pre-show talk in Faulkner Recital Hall at 7 p.m.

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The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will play Johannes Brahms’ “Symphony No. 1.”

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017

SPORTS ONE ON ONE

with Abbey D’Agostino

By DANIELLE OKONTA The Dartmouth Staff

In her final days at Dartmouth, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 was known on campus as the most decorated Ivy League athlete ever. In 2013, she became the first Ivy League athlete to win an NCAA Cross Country National Championship, going on to win six more NCAA titles by the time she graduated.

During a qualifying heat for the 5000-meter run in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, New Zealander Nikki Hamblin tripped, clipping D’Agostino, and causing both to fall to the ground. Rather than immediately continuing the race, D’Agostino first helped up Hamblin and encouraged her to continue. Despite tearing both her ACL and meniscus in the incident, D’Agostino still managed to finish the race.

Her selfless action received international praise, becoming a worldwide symbol of what the “Olympic spirit and the American spirit are all about,” in the words of Barack Obama.

D’Agostino, a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as an undergraduate, returned to campus on Monday to speak to FCA. How did it feel to be back on campus again?

AD: It was surreal. It will never ever feel the same now that we’re alumni, but we can expect the same things. Things I saw around campus were very familiar — students flaunting Canada Goose jackets, and athletes decked out in their athletic gear. There was a sense of comfort from being able to see the expected and familiar things. My friend Ari [Vailas ’14] ran on the Norwich trail yesterday. The run is called a “Double Norwich,” and it is considered tradition for distance runners on the team. Vailas and I were cracking up because it has not been that long since we graduated, and we almost missed some turns on the trail. We got

a little taste of all the different elements on campus.

After tearing your ACL and meniscus in Rio, how has the recovery been?

AD: I didn’t really have a lot of expectations because this kind of injury was uncharted territory for a distance runner. There wasn’t a certain regimen I was following, which meant that I had a lot more freedom, but it was also unfamiliar since most athletes are used to having some sort of regimen for this injury. I have learned a lot throughout my recovery. The fact that I was given approval to race as soon as I am ready is a blessing.

The only thing holding me back now is fitness. I am so grateful. I will just continue to take it one step at a time.

What do you enjoy most about competing at the professional level?

AD: I have always known that the desire to run goes beyond the physical aspect of it. After this past summer, I was able to get a little bit more clarity and understanding in my role to utilize this platform as an opportunity to reach people. Whether we like it or not, as professional athletes, we have public personas. We are in the public eye, and that can be used for bad or for good. I want to use that for good and talk to younger athletes about things that matter.

Because of the story that has been given, I feel like I have a launch tact to do that.

How did your faith play a role in your collegiate career and your professional career?

A D : I t w a s t h ro u g h m a ny experiences. It was a combination of various aspects of life that were not going the way that I expected, and my way of being just wasn’t working anymore. A lot of that realization was made clear because of the pressure I felt in running.

It led me to seek freedom and seek God, forgiveness, salvation and especially identity. More than anything, I wanted to have an identity outside of running, and I was able to do that. Now as a

professional athlete, I really can’t imagine conducting myself in my sport or finding motivation outside of my faith. It is the foundation and source of motivation, meaning and purpose. I rely on it in my training and in my recoveries from injuries.

It provides me stability through all the unexpected.

As you did in your interview in Rio, how do you share your strength in your faith with others while competing?

AD: While I’m competing, there aren’t many opportunities to share my faith. What happened in Rio was a unique opportunity for me to do so. I was given that chance to respond in an instinctual way which was a product of the Holy Spirit working in me. On a more typical basis, conducting yourself with integrity and doing it well can be such a witness to the gospel. If I’m in a race that isn’t going very well, I have the ability to push through and be resilient and be a witness to the gospel. My faith also affects the way I conduct myself when I win and articulate my elation and gratitude, but I also recognize that it’s not everything. Having that steadiness and exuding that character over time will make a difference.

If you could go back to being on

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the line on the Rio track, would you do anything different?

AD: I honestly do not regret anything. There are so many opportunities to learn, teach people to talk about values and things that matter. It also allowed to me grow personally by assessing the way I act through certain situations and relying on God through an after math that was pretty overwhelming. I think in regards to others people’s responses, that was just a chance for me to wrestle with God. I did get frustrated when I was called an “angel” or commended for my character in doing what I did.

That was a chance for me to really extend grace upon another person in a situation given the freedom to have their own opinion but also speak boldly about the Lord, even if it meant embarrassment, or if the other person disagreed or maybe rejected it. That was an opportunity for me to be in some ways persecuted for the sake of the gospel.

Have you used the media as a platfor m to preach t h e i m p o rt a n c e o f t h i s sportsmanship or about your faith?

AD: Sportsmanship is not so much the destination or something to achieve but rather a by-product of having a purpose that is beyond sports

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itself. When your identity is fixed in something steadfast or bigger than you — that is, God — we are reminded that in each person’s journey, sportsmanship, kindness and character come more naturally if you are given the opportunity to act selflessly. You know that your worst as a person is not based on how you perform. If something goes wrong, you have freedom to act in a manner that is not fear-based or necessary to protect yourself or your performance.

What did you enjoy most about being a studentathlete at Dartmouth?

AD : T here we re s o many awesome, crazy memories, including the little things like bus rides back from track meets.

It was so challenging to switch from academic mode to sports mode, but to do that alongside people who were doing it too was pretty nice. It was also pretty big because we are athletes that are non-scholarship. It was a choice to participate in our sport, and that was reflected in our ability to choose to be there every day and do well. I felt so blessed by the community that wanted that.

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

COURTESY OF ABBEY D’AGOSTINO

Olympian and alumna Abbey D’Agostino ’14 (third from left) returned to campus to speak to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes this past Monday.