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Bill Clinton speaks to 700 at the College
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Former president BIll Clinton speaks about Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Students pursue pre-professional interests over break By ZACHARY BENJAMIN
OPINION
Former President Bill Clinton, husband to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, spoke to an audience of 700 Dartmouth and Upper Valley community members yesterday evening in the Hopkins Center’s Alumni Hall. Many of the audience members watched his speech in an overflow room in the Hanover Inn. Clinton was preceded by a performance by the Dartmouth Aires; speeches by Austin Boral ’16, a New Hampshire Hillary fellow and Clinton campaign team leader at Dartmouth, and Ross Svenson, organizer of Hillary for New
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This past Thanksgiving, many Dartmouth students were left wondering what to do with themselves during the five long weeks of winter break. Several students chose to spend some of that time participating in the December break opportunities program, run by the Center for Professional Development. The CPD has been offering pre-professional interim oppor-
tunities for several years, associate director for advising Leslie Kingsley said, but the structure of the program was changed in December 2014. Previously, the program had been aimed at upperclass students, and required students to physically come into the CPD’s office to sign up for job shadows or projects. Under the new system, Kingsley said that students can sign up for break opportunities through Dartboard rather than in-person, making it easier for
them to find potential hosts. This also gives students who are off campus during the fall term a more fair chance to find job shadows or projects through the program, she said. She noted that this system collecting data on outcomes, satisfaction and student performance easier. The program also has been changed to allow parents of Dartmouth students to host job shadows or longer-term projects, she said. Previously
the program had limited host positions only to Dartmouth alumni. In addition, the program has been redesigned to have a greater focus on first-years and sophomores, she said. Priority registration is given to students in the CPD’s professional development accelerator program, a two-year program piloted in the 2014-2015 school year for incoming students to begin preparing for their professional lives early in their college careers.
After that, first-years have priority access, then sophomores, then juniors and finally seniors. “We see an extreme importance of involving our first-year students really from day one,” she said. Brenda Miao ’19, who participated in a short-term project with the biotechnology company Celgene, said that she learned about December break opportunities on Dartboard, SEE CPD PAGE 2
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Warm weather contributes to Hanover’s deer problem
By KATIE RAFTER
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With the warmer temperatures and lack of snow this winter, Hanover residents have been saying “oh, deer.” Higher temperatures have kept deer in the area active longer, as more falllike weather continued into the end of 2015. Hanover town officials are currently waiting to deter mine to what extent new hunting
regulations addressed the problem of an increasing deer population in the Upper Valley over the past few years. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said that while there has always been a number of deer in the rural areas of Hanover, the deer problem has gotten worse in the in-town areas over the last few years. Barbara McIlroy, a member of the Hanover Conser-
vation Commission’s biodiversity committee, echoed this sentiment. She said that increasing deer markers have been found more than six miles from the center of town. McIlroy said the Hanover Conservation Comission held a well-attended meeting in September 2014 about deer management and forest health, with outside experts invited to speak. “The most basic takeaway
is that we need help from hunters, and they need to be taking doe in order to bring the deer population down to a reasonable level,” she said. Griffin said the town is working together with New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and the College to open large tracts of land near downtown Hanover that are owned by Dartmouth and the town to hunters, increasing their access to the deer population.
“Those are areas of land that were previously posted no hunting, but in the last three years we opened them up to hunters,” she said. During the hunting season, Griffin said Hanover hunters increased their deer intake from around 85 to 90 deer taken in 2013 to over 145 in 2014. She added that the town is still waiting for New Hampshire Fish and SEE DEER PAGE 5
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Brown University students attended the annual Holiday Midnight Organ Concert in Sayles Hall at the end of their last semester. Students took a break from studying to listen to a capella groups who performed pieces ranging from traditional hymns to comical renditions. However, this was no ordinary concert — students cozied up in blankets and pajamas instead of sitting in chairs, while glitter, Twinkies and other objects were thrown into the audience. Cornell University seeks to establish a new College of Business to be launched at the start of the next academic year. It will consist of programs from the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. It will include 145 research faculty members and 2,900 undergraduate, professional and graduate students. Although Cornell seeks to unify its business programs, the schools will not change operations and each school will still maintain its unique identity, according to provost Michael Kotlikoff. Last week, Columbia University released the names of the 23 members of the Class of 2016 soon to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. According to BWOG, an independent student-run campus news organization, these students make up two percent of the ten percent of the senior class who will be inducted into the national honor society. A faculty committee of Phi Beta Kappa members chose these students based on the “breadth, depth and rigor of their academic programs” in addition to faculty recommendations.
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CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. Correction: The following corrections are for the Jan. 8 article, "What's in a name?" which was originally published in the Mirror. The original version of this article incorrectly stated that the internship Julia Pomerantz '16 discussed was during her junior summer; it was in her junior winter. The original version of this article did not specify the time during which Soyeun Yang '16 was searching for internships in retail; it was during her junior year. The original version of this article also incorrectly stated that Yang had described employers looking for students with refined technical schools; the phrase has been amended to technical skills. The original version of this article also included an incorrect paraphrase of Yang’s quote about the characteristics of the job application process; the paraphrase has been amended. Correction: A Jan. 12 article on the opening of the Skinny Pancake restaurant mistated the percentage to which its food and ingredients are locally sourced. The article stated it was 77.1 percent, when in fact it is actually 71.1 percent.
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though she did not remember who first mentioned them to her. The application process entailed emailing the alumnus who offered the job shadow and providing her resume and a phone interview, she said. Ultimately she was one of three students chosen to participate in the program. Cara Van Uden ’19, who also participated in the short-term project with Celgene, echoed Miao’s comments about the application process. She said that she was impressed that the application process was so quick, and at the collaboration between Celgene and the CPD in organizing and offering the opportunity. While on the project, the students worked in three main areas. The first was to interview current employees about their motivation, engagement and how they would like the atmosphere to be improved, Miao said. The second was to create a video for the company, and the third was to decorate a wall in memory of cancer patients whom Celgene treated. Van Uden said her favorite part of the program was a “lunch and learn” session the program’s coordinator organized between the different departments at the company. The employees at the lunch gave her insight and advice about their experiences at the company
and about careers in general, she said. The program offers two main types of opportunities: job shadows and short-term projects, Kingsley said. Job shadows are shorter term, often lasting around one to three days, and are designed to give students an overview of the career and show them a day in the life of a professional in the field. Some alumni might sponsor a single student for their job shadow, while others might host multiple students — the program is designed to offer alumni and parents flexibility in how they choose to organize their shadows, she said. Short-term projects are longer than job shadows, typically lasting for around three weeks. The break is not long enough to offer students full-scale internships, Kingsley said, so the shortterm projects serve as a sort of compromise — providing more depth than a job shadow while still fitting in the time constraints of winter break. Students on a short-term project might engage in research or marketing, Kingsley said. While the CPD is still in the process of collecting responses from students and hosts who participated in the December break opportunities this year, Kingsley said that she has heard several students express enthusiasm for the short-term projects. She estimates that roughly 60 percent of the opportunities offered this break were job shadows,
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while the remaining 40 percent were short-term projects. Kingsley said that the number of students who participated in the program was not available as of press time. One of the goals of the program was to encourage students to learn how to properly communicate with professionals and to demonstrate the importance of following up and following through, Kingsley said. Most of the complaints the CPD has received about the program have been from alumni who complained about students who did not properly follow up about their job shadows, she said. In the future, the CPD will place a greater emphasis on the importance of proper communication. Overall, feedback on the program has been positive, Kingsley said. Students have almost unanimously said they would recommend the program, she said. Miao said her time at Celgene allowed her to gain exposure to biotechnology, reflecting positively on her experience. “I’ve learned a lot about the biotech company and also just the industry in general,” Miao said. “I got to meet a lot of very inspirational, innovative people in the field. It was a really good experience.”
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Hampshire; and an introduction by New Hampshire Sen. David Pierce (D-Lebanon). Boral said that Clinton’s visit was exciting because it comes so close to the February primary. “When Hillary visited back in November, the primary seemed far away and students had six weeks of break coming up, but with Bill Clinton, there’s a sense of excitement, like we’re racing to the finish line,” Boral said. He added that a significant presence like Clinton would galvanize students into thinking about voting and supporting a specific candidate. Julie McClain, the New Hampshire press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, said that the event was an opportunity for potential voters to learn more about the presidential candidate from a perspective different from previous endorsers. “President Clinton would provide perspective and support for her personal strengths not only as her husband, but also as a former president who knows the job better than anyone else,” she said. In his speech at the event, Clinton said his role in his wife’s 2016 campaign was of a proud husband and an impressed former president. Clinton expressed the need to embrace change and alleviate the American public’s anxieties, referring to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address the night before. Clinton said that the coming election had to answer essential questions for the American public and address the economic, domestic and foreign policy concerns that have emerged over the past two presidencies. “The first question of this election is what economic policy is most likely to return [our economy] to broadbase prosperity?” Clinton said. “The second question we must ask is what social policy is more likely to bring us together when it looks more like we’re bent on breaking up into communities that resent each other?” Clinton noted both police brutality against African-Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement as well as the stigma against Muslim-Americans in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. He related an article he had read about a Muslim man who had stood down armed burglars in a store where he was employed. “[That man] is far more representative of Muslims in America than those shooters in San Bernardino,” Clinton said to applause from the audience.
Clinton also discussed Hillary Clinton’s plans for the economy, infrastructure, college tuition and gun control. He noted the need for security checks for gun purchases, recalling the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. “I get it, I get hunting and sports shooting, and people living a long way from police and law enforcement who want to keep guns in their homes to feel safe,” Clinton said. “But this has nothing to do with that.” Clinton noted that the president elected this year would potentially be responsible for one to three appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court. When the audience reacted visibly to his statement, Clinton urged, “The stakes are high.” He said that he believes Hillary Clinton has the best economic policy that was most likely to create jobs, support small businesses, increase minimum wage and profit sharing, and encourage more women to enter the workforce. Clinton emphasized the last point, noting that unlike under his own presidency, the United States is currently not among the top 20 countries in the world for women in the workplace. This emphasis falls in line with Hillary Clinton’s own focus on gender equality in her campaign. He stated that Hillary Clinton would push to make college more affordable, with free community college and skills training, so as to alleviate pressure from the middle and lower classes. The range of Hillary Clinton’s economic policies, Clinton said, helped make it the best out of any other candidate’s, citing significant support from individuals like Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist, Barney Frank, co-sponsor of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-O.H.). Clinton said that opium and heroin drug addiction in New Hampshire and Vermont should be a top priority for both the Republican and Democratic parties. Calling it a public health problem, Clinton appealed to College students in the audience to make smart decisions. Clinton pointed to Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments, from her time as a staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund to her term as Obama’s Secretary of State. In his recount of her career, Clinton continuously repeated that Hillary Clinton was always making something good happen, even when she had “not been elected to anything.” Calling her the best changemaker he had ever known, both
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A packed Alumni Hall meant many watched BIll Clinton's address from an overflow room in the Hanover Inn.
publicly and privately, Clinton said, “Everything she has ever touched, she has made better.” Junghye Kim ’19, a Clinton campaign fellow who volunteered at the event, said that the speech effectively balanced policy outlines and personal stories to make both logical and emotional appeals. “If I was an undecided voter, [the speech] would be incredibly effective because it lays out her policies and her career in a way that makes you think of how much she could do as president, considering her accomplishments,” Kim said. Prior to the start of the event, a man named Randy Leavitts from South Royalton, Vermont protested outside of the Hopkins Center. Leavitts, dressed in a Superman costume, was holding a sign that read, “Bernie Sanders is my hero.” Leavitts said that the protest was a humourous way to make his point, and that he had protested at a political rally for Donald Trump in Burlington, Massachusetts in a similar fashion. “It’s more of an agreement with Sanders than a disagreement with Clinton,” Leavitts said, “Being from Vermont, I watched him for years and his messages are the same. I feel that Clinton is
very susceptible to change on her platform based on her polls, and Bernie is not. You can watch him
for 25, 30 years and he’s saying the same thing, and it’s starting to resonate.”
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STAFF COLUMNIST CAROLINE HSU ’18
STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18
Why We Shouldn’t Call Her “Hillary”
The Death of Peaceful Protests?
We shouldn’t be on a first-name basis with a potential president.
As Americans, we should condemn the situation in Oregon.
People often refer to presidential candidate doesn’t seem to have a problem with her supHillary Clinton as simply “Hillary.” Whereas porters being “Ready for Hillary.” Perhaps this her male counterparts are rarely, if ever, iden- is all part of her campaign’s charm offensive, tified by their first names. How often do you an attempt to cast their candidate as more hear people say “Ted” instead of “Ted Cruz,” personable and down-to-earth. or “Jeb” instead of “Jeb Bush?” Apparently, The fact that we call her “Hillary” is not Americans know Hillary Clinton well enough the root cause of a problem. Instead, it’s the to be on a first name basis with her. symptom. Women in power are constantly Some might see this idiosyncrasy as a trifling, labelled as “bossy” or “aggressive.” On the unimportant matter. In reality, it’s a problem other hand, men in power are spared such that must be addressed. It is not a coincidence adjectives. that the only candidate we are on a first name Clinton has taken pains to build her cambasis with just happens to paign upon her friendlibe a woman. This subtle “Not calling Hillary ness and approachability. sexism is problematic on If she appears distant or Clinton by either her cold, potential supporters a number of levels. Calling Clinton by last name or her full will not vote for her. This her first name serves as a is not a concern for her constant reminder that she name denies her the male counterparts. They is, indeed, a woman. She respect she deserves.” can command authority does not fit the “mold” without being written off of the typical president as too aggressive or hoswho has always been tile. This double-standard male. Whereas “Clinton” is so ingrained in the very is ambiguous in terms of fabric of society that, in gender, “Hillary” is overorder to have a shot at whelmingly perceived as a female name. The winning the election, Clinton must pander to public cannot look at Clinton as just another it. presidential candidate — she is a female presi- Some might justify calling Clinton “Hilldential candidate. ary” as merely a way to differentiate between Not calling Clinton by either her last name her and her husband, former president Bill or her full name denies her the respect she Clinton. If this were the case, why do we not deserves. Calling someone by their first name call presidential candidate Jeb Bush by his first implies an informal familiarity. Understand- name? After all, his brother, George W. Bush, ably, we shouldn’t be calling someone who and father, George H.W. Bush, are both former is running for the most powerful position in presidents, and his campaign slogan is “Jeb!” America by their first name. Given her many Nonetheless, most media outlets refer to him political accomplishments and achievements, by his full name or his last name. Clinton deserves to be called by her full or last While this discrepancy may seem insignifiname. cant to most, it is worth addressing because I, too, am guilty of referring to Clinton as of its greater societal implications. Although just “Hillary.” I don’t believe that people are we are making strides in eradicating gender purposefully being condescending towards inequality, situations like these set us back. This Clinton. In fact, even the presidential candidate is not something that can be fixed with the 2016 has embraced the abbreviation, signing off presidential election alone. However, bringing on various Tweets as “H” or “Hillary.” And attention to gender equality might improve the who can forget her campaign slogan? Clinton prospects of women looking ahead to 2020.
On January 2, self-proclaimed “militia- the offense.” Regardless of whether or not men” took over the federally-owned Mal- the resentencing of the Hammonds was heur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. just, protests against it should have been The cause of this federal property takeover peaceful. Although many protestors have can be traced back to the imprisonment employed peaceful means, a small subset of two cattlemen for arson, father and son of extremists hijacked the initiative. — Dwight Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son The Hammonds’ unusual resentencing enraged many and culminated in the armed Steve, 46. Despite having no connection to the anti-government group, led by the Bundys, Hammonds, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the taking over the wildlife refuge in Oregon. leaders of the “militiamen,” traveled from The group not only condemns the HamNevada to Oregon to lead the takeover of the monds’ imprisonment, but also protests wildlife refuge in protest of the Hammonds’ their conviction under the Antiterrorism resentencing. However, instead of refer- and Effective Death Penalty Act. They feel ring to them as “militiamen,” a term that it inaccurately portrays the Hammonds as for many evokes the earliest fighters in the terrorists. American Revolution, the American public The federal government has been quick to respond due to should call a spade, its experience with a spade. The Bundys “If the armed men were right-wing militant are anti-government g roups in Waco insurgents who are African-American, they and Ruby Ridge under mining the would be called thugs. If in the 1990s, the concept of peaceful they were Muslim, they federal government and legal protest. has not been quick The Hammonds would be called terrorists. to respond. The were arrested for Hammonds have ignoring a burn ban The showdown between clearly stated that and setting fire to the armed protestors they do not support federal territory near the occupation of their ranch in Or- and the government the wildlife refuge egon. According to illuminates a tremendous or the anti-govthe Hammonds, the ernment “militia” fires were meant to hypocrisy. We label violent movement. Despite control invasive spe- groups based on the this, the “militia” cies. is demanding that Many have been race or religion of their the federally-owned quick to dismiss this members. ” land around the explanation, accuswildlife refuge be ing the Hammonds free for public use. of trying to cover up deer poaching instead. The episode If the armed men were African-Amerconcluded with the arrest of the Hammonds ican, they would be called thugs. If they were Muslim, they would be called terrorfor alleged arson. The Hammonds’ case stoked anti-gov- ists. The showdown between the armed ernment sentiment, as the father and son protestors and the government illuminates were recently re-sentenced under a 1996 a tremendous hypocrisy. We label violent law, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death groups based on the race or religion of their Penalty Act. Initially, Dwight Hammond members. Additionally, the occupation has served three months in prison, and Steve exposed the government’s fear of antagonizHammond a full year. Under the 1996 stat- ing right-wing groups. Our nation’s leaders ute, the Hammonds have had their jail time have given such extremists carte blanche. extended. Both face an additional five years They can act with impunity. If the armed men were African-American or Muslim, the behind bars, minus time already served. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death government would have mustered all of its Penalty Act requires a five-year minimum strength to crush the opposition. sentence for arson on federal land, stating: Ryan Bundy explained the militant’s “Whoever maliciously damages or destroys demands in a phone interview with The [...] by means of fire [...] any [...] real Oregonian. He then went on to say, “The property [...] owned or possessed by [...] the best possible outcome is that the ranchers United States [...] shall be imprisoned for that have been kicked out of the area [...] not less than five years.” The original federal will come back and reclaim their land, and case concluded with the judge shying away the wildlife refuge will be shut down forever from the five-year minimum, arguing that it and the federal government will relinquish was too harsh. Instead, the judge sentenced such control.” Dwight Hammond to three months and It seems that the militants are bent on staying at the wildlife refuge for weeks to Steve Hammond to one year in prison. The federal government appealed the come, or at least until the government recase, and in October 2015, the 9th U.S. sponds to their demands. The brash actions Circuit Court of Appeals returned a ruling: by this band of armed “protesters” under“Given the seriousness of arson, a five-year mine the legitimacy of peaceful groups with sentence is not grossly disproportionate to grievances against Washington.
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Increasing risk of Lyme disease blamed on deer
doe, after which firearm hunters can only hunt bucks. Game to publish the numbers for Town officials attribute the 2015, after hunting season ended increasing risk of Lyme disease in the area to the increasing number in the middle of December. The unofficial numbers for 2015 of deer. show a four percent decrease in McIlroy said that New Hampthe number of deer taken in New shire is one of the states with the Hampshire compared to 2014. The highest rates for Lyme disease per total dropped from 11,396 in 2014 100,000 people according to the to 10,912 in 2015. The total deer Center for Disease Control and count in New Hampshire stands Prevention. According to the New Hamparound 85,000. Griffin said while the high shire Department of Health and number of deer poses problems Human Services, Lyme disease is all year, the issues are especially transmitted through the bite of prominent during the spring and the black-legged tick, commonly summer when deer eat residents’ referred to as the deer tick, because plants and have access to more deer are their main reproductive host. areas. “When things are blooming, Biologist for Mosquito Squad, a they’re busy munching,” she said. company specializing in mosquito Griffin said in the winter the and tick control, Eugene Murphy deer tend to settle down in “deer said that an increase in deer can be linked y a r d s ” where they “The challenge is to locate w i t h a n increase are most c o m f o r t - hunters willing to concentrate in occurable. With on taking doe, find land rences of Lyme disthe increase i n d e e r, owners who will welcome ease. s h e s a i d , hunting and find some way to “They these “deer ease up on state rules about ap rr ei m at hr ye yards” are c a r r i e r, ” i n c r e a s - taking doe." he said. ingly the “After the b ac k yard s juvenile of peoples’ -BARBARA MCILROY, tick latchh o m e s i n HANOVER CONSERVATION es on [to downtown the deer], n e i g h b o r- COMMISSION BIODIVERSITY contracts hoods re- COMMITTEE MEMBER the discently. ease and Griffin moves on said that the to the fimajority of nal stages, Hanover t h ey a re residents able to atsupport the tach to a approach to allow more hunting. There is, human.” however, a small minority who Murphy said if there is an overoppose hunting in general. She population of deer, there will be noted that the majority of the less resources for deer in terms of town supports expanded hunting water and food, which is when they because of ongoing struggles with start coming into more contact with humans. the deer population in the area. McIlroy said after their 2014 “They are seeking out more meeting, it seemed that both the room and more resources than are public and hunters understand available in their habitats,” he said. that the deer population is beyond Murphy said the risk comes from humans not taking precauwhere it should be. “The challenge is to locate tions to prevent ticks when they hunters willing to concentrate on are in residential areas, because taking doe, find land owners who they do not see the need. will welcome hunting and find “When you go hiking or do some way to ease up on state rules outdoor activities, typically humans take necessary precautions about taking doe,” she said. There are currently strict like tucking their pants into their regulations on hunting doe in socks, and wearing long sleeves, New Hampshire, McIlroy said. but when people are at home and There are only three days at the more deer are around, that’s when beginning of the season to hunt the risk increases,” he said.
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Current Hood exhibits showcase contemporary art and themes By MARGOT BYRNE The Dartmouth Staff
The Hood Museum of Art’s final exhibitions before its March close for renovation reflect the Hood’s future vision. The museum’s most recent exhibitions include the series “Ice Cuts” by Vermont-based artist Eric Aho, the mixed-media African exhibit “Inventory: New Works and Conversations Around African Art” and “Points of View,” which is curated by two Dartmouth professors, senior curator of collections Katherine Hart said. The Hood will also present an installation on last year’s Nepal earthquake, featuring photographs by Jim Nachtwey and Kevin Brubriski, as part of the three-day summit on Nepal sponsored by the Dickey Center for international understanding, Hart said. “The Hood’s goal is to engage with contemporary art as a leader rather than a follower,” Hood Museum director John Stomberg said. Innovative contemporary shows such as “Ice Cuts” and “Inventory” promote the museum’s ultimate vision, Stomberg said. “Ice Cuts”, inspired by a hole cut in the ice in front of a sauna, largely focuses on contrast, Hart said. Aho reiterates the series’ central motif — the ice cut — in an effort to explore other aspects of composition such as color, texture and positioning. As a result, each painting remains distinctive yet continuous, Hart said. “[Aho’s show] is unusual in that it is so abstract and has become increasingly abstract in many ways,” Hart said. Aho’s collection signifies a “push and pull between abstraction and representation,” which highlights the Hood’s curatorial practice as a whole, Stomberg said. “[Ice Cuts] is an incredibly outward-looking show,” Stomberg said. “It is a show that any major museum could and should be doing right now.” “Inventory,” which contains 31 works ranging from paintings to ceramics to photographs, showcases modern and contemporary African art from the 1960s to the present, Hart said. “Inventory” displays works acquired within the last two-and-a-half years, and seeks to present a more “holistic” view of the arts of Africa, curator of African art Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi said. This show indicates the progressive direction in which the Hood’s African art collection will go after the museum’s expansion, Nzewi said. Nzewi wants to obtain more contemporary and modern African works so that the Hood can more actively “engage in current discourses in academia.” At the same time he intends to remain faithful to
traditional African art and objects, Nzewi said. “This exhibition, in its more contemporary focus, dovetails the museum’s goals of expansion and thinking towards the future,” Hood curatorial intern Sarah Lund ’16 said. “Inventory” features the notable piece “V12 Laraki” (2013) by artist Eric Van Hove: a replica of a Mercedes Benz engine reassembled with unconventional materials, including leather and precious metals. Nzewi said that this work combines the custom of craftsmanship in North Africa with the industrialization of the West. “This exemplifies the hybridity and cultural dialogue that is central to [Inventory],” Nzewi said. Very few American institutions have access to art from all of the regions in Africa, and it is “distinctive and unusual” that the Hood has such an expansive African collection, Stomberg said. “Inventory” provides a forum to finally “show it off,” Stomberg said. The Hood’s expansion, which will begin this March, will create
five new gallery spaces to display the museum’s rich repertoire of both traditional and contemporary art, Stomberg said. It will also create auxiliary object-study rooms so that students can more intimately interact with the works they are studying. The renovations will construct a large vestibule entryway featuring prominent glass doors — one of which will lead into the museum, and the other of which will lead into three additional fully-digitized classroom spaces, exhibitions designer Patrick Dunfey said. “Learning is the biggest part of our daily lives here at Dartmouth,” Dunfey said. “These centers will help to bring teaching [through] interacting with art more to the forefront.” Philosophy professor John Kulvicki said that he regularly brings his students to the Hood as a way to supplement their in-class curriculum. This term, his course “Philosophy and the Arts” considers more conceptually the role that arts and aesthetics play in society, Kulvicki said.
“I want my students to become comfortable visiting museums and engaging with physical art so that they can connect it with the more abstract theories and discussions in the classroom,” Kulvicki said. Samantha Abreu ’16, an art history major, said she finds this type of engagement with the Hood’s pieces to be a uniquely valuable experience. “Actually seeing [the art] gives you something tangible,” Abreu said. “It provides you with real-life references to works that you otherwise just see on screen.” Dunfey said that he hopes that the renovations will ultimately allow the museum to become a more accessible and interactive space for everyone on campus. Art history professor Joy Kenseth, who is teaching “Introduction to the History of Art II,” said she almost always curates an exhibition at the Hood in conjunction with the course. She said she appreciates physical interaction with art as a way to present the works in their most “unmediated” form, Kenseth said.
“It makes all the difference in the world,” Kenseth said. “Nothing can replace firsthand experience with art. Teaching in the museum is like teaching in Florence and Rome.” Kenseth, along with art history professor Mary Coffey, curated “Points of View” which pairs together seemingly disparate works and portrays them side-by-side. These pairs consist of an early modern piece and a pre-1900 piece such as pop art by Andy Warhol juxtaposed with an engraving by Dutch artist Hendrik Golzius, Kenseth said. For their final assignment, students in their co-taught art history course must analyze the relationships between the pairs, Kenseth said. Stomberg said that he aims to make the Hood a place for both “casual and formal” encounters with art. “If I could I wouldn’t even call it a museum anymore,” Stomberg said. “We need a word that translates into ‘locus of activity and engagement.’” The Hood will officially close for renovations on March 13.
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SPORTS RIDING THE PINE
One week into Riding the Pine’s return, the reaction from our fan base has been muted to say the least. Our initial plan to recapture the hearts of campus was simply to stick with our sophomore summer shtick: mildly offensive jokes mixed with nonsensical sports analysis and moments of stunning vulnerability. But the game has changed. Our readers are getting older. We’re getting older, too. Now that the old gimmicks don’t work anymore, we’re forced to turn for inspiration to two cultural behemoths in the news this week: the recently deceased David Bowie and the recently recaptured Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Our content from now on will be as ethereal and omnisexual as Bowie’s finest works but mixed with Chapo’s trademark business acumen and nononsense attitude. Such a recipe for success will surely produce a sports blog more addictive than even El Chapo’s grade-A product. After tuning in to President Barack
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reaches your hands, hopefully we will be halfway to the maximum security prison housing El Chapo, ready to bust him out with our newfound windfall. In the meantime, we’re just sitting around campus killing time, embracing our bohemian side by auditioning for “Legally Drew! The Drewsical.” By some cruel twist of fate, we’ve been sucked into the soulless corporate machine that is The Drewsical and we can hardly imagine a path out of this student-run musical hellscape. Only if Casual Thursday’s racially insensitive sketch comedy takes off will Drew Zwetchkenbaum ’16’s corporate overlords let us off the hook so that we can return full-time to writing. Since we — very conveniently — left ourselves only about 200 words in this article to discuss sports, we’re going to use the precious space we have left to drop a few mortal locks for you Powerball losers to try to make some money in this weekend’s divisional playoff games. New England Patriots over Kansas City Chiefs Tom Brady recently said in an interview that he’s never had coffee in his life, that he’s simply “just never tried
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duction in the night emanated from the charity stripe: the Big Green made 28 of 35 free throw attempts. Though 12 of those tries came in the final 2:40 of the game — including several due to intentional fouls by the visitors — the broader significance was the ability to draw contact on drives to and post-ups at the rim. In turn, this forced Canisius players into foul trouble, stripping a team ripe with big men of some of its valuable interior strength. A sharp touch from the field — demonstrated by an in-game season high field goal percentage of .535 — also fueled the Dartmouth offense that scored its second-highest scoring total of the season. Such a precise touch, however, should not give the impression of excessive shot-taking near the rim in place of lower-percentage, higher-reward shots on the perimeter. The Big Green made six three-pointers, and in shooting .462 from long range, far exceeded their three-point percentage entering the game of .345. Accordingly, the next three top scorers for Dartmouth on Tuesday — Miles Wright ’18 with 14 points, Kevin Crescenzi ’16 with 13, and Connor Boehm ’16 with 11 — all posted shooting percentages better than 50 percent. Crecsenzi specifically displayed utmost efficiency, needing a mere 17 minutes
of action — well below his season average and only seventh most on the team for the night — to go 2-3 from three-point land and 3-4 from the foul line to net his 13 total points. While the rebounding stats won’t really show it, Boehm played a fundamental role on the boards for the team. In an excellent job of boxing out and constantly battling for the ball underneath the rim, Boehm spearheaded the effort of cutting into Canisius’s dominance on the glass. “I relish that role,” Boehm said about jostling in the paint for rebound control. “I’m not the longest guy or jump the highest, but if you tell me to go push somebody out of bounds, I like that, I can do that. So that’s what coach told me at halftime, he says, ‘I don’t care if you get another rebound for the rest of the half, I don’t want [them] getting another one.’ And I embraced that role.” That mentality of greater attention to rebounding was quickly thrown into relief in the early stages of the game — defined by dominance on the boards by Canisius. The visitors scored on each of their first three possessions of the game, all of which came on second chance points, in addition to grabbing six offensive rebounds in just over the first two minutes of play. Towering 6’11” center Kevin Bleeker led the
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it.”No further explanation needed. Arizona Cardinals over Green Bay Packers Due to their sexagenarian head coach Bruce Arians and his wily old-timey ways, coupled with the astonishing late career resurgence of NFL journeyman Carson Palmer, the Cardinals have quietly enjoyed a dominant regular season that has seen them emerge as the Las Vegas favorites to win the Super Bowl. Although the Packers managed to squeak out a victory over a decent Washington Redskins team and Kirk “You Like That” Cousins, Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers have surely not forgotten about the week 16 38-8 beatdown they suffered at the hands of the Cardinals. We’re putting it all on red. Pittsburgh Steelers over Denver Broncos Peyton Manning is a complete and utter joke. If the 6’7” Brock Osweiler were starting this game, we would bet our entire Powerball winnings on the Broncos blanking the black and gold. However, now that Manning’s HGH supply has been sniffed out, he is vulnerable to being beheaded by the blitzkrieg
attack of Mike Tomlin’s Iron Curtain. Carolina Panthers over Seattle Seahawks Cam Newton is a chef. Under the tutelage of “Riverboat” Ron Rivera, the Panthers dominated the NFL this season, riding a 14-0 start before falling to the Atlanta Falcons in a meaningless late season game. The Seahawks crawled into the divisional round of the playoffs with their tail between their legs after Blair Walsh shanked a go-ahead chip shot to hand Seattle the win. Their well of luck has surely run out by this point, and in this year of the dab, there is no more fitting champion than Cam Newton. We like to close every edition of Riding the Pine with a grim acknowledgment of our own mortality. After the mania of our introductory paragraphs, somehow each conclusion is nothing more than a tragic admission that someday, even the fabulously rich writers behind this column will end up six feet under. With that in mind, we want to close our column with a tribute to Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke. RIP DB. We’ll see you on the other side.
effort with three of them, eventually compelling Cormier to insert more size into the lineup. While the Dartmouth defense managed to force more stops, the Golden Griffins accumulated an overpowering edge on the boards by halftime. On top of outrebounding the home side 20-13, leading 12-4 in offensive rebounds, and creating 10 second chance points, Canisius saw more than half of its point total — 16 of 31 — come inside the paint during the first 20 minutes. After finding itself in a five-point hole eight minutes into the game, the Big Green quickly rattled off a 7-0 run to briefly snatch a lead before Canisius capitalized on its post play dominance once again in rebuilding a comfortable edge. Yet all it took was the few remaining minutes in the half for Dartmouth’s Cresscenzi to heat up from deep, converting two three’s down the stretch. The last of those long balls granted Dartmouth a 33-31 lead that it would hold entering the break, despite having only possessed an edge for 2:23 of the total 20 minutes. In one of the most crucial developments of the contest, that momentum heading into halftime transferred to and even grew in the second half. Unyielding on defense to the point of forcing Canisius into four turnovers in the first four minutes of the new half,
Dartmouth jumped out with an 8-0 run to generate a 41-31 lead — the largest of the game at that point for either side. “What really did it for us was going into the first timeout [of the second half], they hadn’t scored a point yet,” Boehm said. “We were playing excellent team defense. That’s something we’ve been working on all week since Harvard — talking, helping each other out. It’s not you against your man on defense, it’s all five [involved].” No instance grew that advantage more than self-inflicted damage by Canisius. Nearing the eight-minute mark, forward Jermaine Crumpton received a technical foul for a verbal altercation with the officials, and then another when he continued his complaints, resulting in his ejection from the game. Boudreaux made all four of the gifted technical foul free throws, bolstering a 62-47 lead — the largest point spread of the evening. “A lot of it came down to knocking down free throws, just staying calm,” Boudreaux said. “There was a stretch where it got a little wild, [but] we settled down and were able to pull it out.” Dartmouth will resume play later this week, when it welcomes a highscoring Division III school in Pine Manor College to Leede Arena at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Big Green basketball exacts revenge on Canisius, winning 80-69 The Dartmouth Staff
Trailing for the majority of the first half and suffering from an overwhelming interior presence posed by its opponent, Dartmouth looked to be in trouble early on last Tuesday night against Canisius College. Nevertheless, a strong finish to the opening half produced a small lead, which was quickly expanded in the second period as the Big Green (5-9 overall, 0-1 Ivy) decisively took control. Ultimately the Big Green knocked off the visiting Golden Griffins (7-10 overall, 2-4 MAAC) by a count of 80-69. Wrapping up its second-to-last nonconference game on its home Leede Arena floor, Dartmouth also snapped a three-game losing skid in the process. Four different Big Green players finished with double-digit scoring — a testament to the offensive balance coaches and players alike identify as central to success. “That was a solid Ivy League-type team,” head coach Paul Cormier said. “We have to use [this game] as a platform now, that this is us, this is our identity.” Rookie phenom Evan Boudreaux ’19 paved the way with 19 points off 10-12 shooting from the line. Moreover, much of the point pro-