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The United States Agriculture Department spends 99 percent of its budget on the “junk food diet” — mostly agricultural subsidies that will eventually result in the production of unhealthy food — even as it establishes guidelines for a healthy diet, Ricardo Salvador, director of the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said at a talk on food sustainability yesterday.

Dartmouth concluded its Food Day celebrations yester-

Ricardo Salvador gave a talk on the importance of food stustainability as a part of Food Day programming.

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Sanders receives endorsement of local union 560

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Dartmouth’s branch of the Service Employees International Union endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.) for the United States presidency last week.

SEIU Local 560 unanimously backed Sanders at its monthly meeting, throwing the support of more than 500 members behind the Democratic presidential contender, union trustee Peter Marsh said.

“There is no better candidate for organized labor to back then Bernie Sanders,” Marsh said. “He is everything that labor says they are.

[Sanders], quite frankly, is the most honest politician in Washington.”

Marsh — who personally supports Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) for the presidency — said that the union’s decision was partly based upon work the organization has done with Sanders in the past.

“When we’ve reached out for help and advice, [Sanders] has always

at least verbally endorsed what we need to have, and many times he has come right to the College and stood with us, so it’s really a no-brainer,” he said.

Since Sanders represents neighboring Vermont, many of Local 560’s members are his constituents, Marsh said.

Government professor Brendan Nyhan said Local 560’s endorsement of Sanders is consistent with the senator’s base of support in northern New England, especially

Redesigned classroom supports active learning B y ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth

This fall, professors at Dartmouth have access to a newly redesigned classroom focused on promoting student engagement, offering flexible seating arrangements and multiple projectors.

The classroom, located in Carson 61, is designed around the concept of “active learning,” director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement

amongst educated liberal voters and union members.

“I expect Sanders to do well in Hanover,” Nyhan said. “This is the kind of area where there are a lot of liberal Democrats.”

Sanders could be competitive with Democratic frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, although he is unlikely to win the SEE UNION PAGE 2

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of Learning Lisa Baldez said . Active learning refers to classroom formats that try to directly engage students with the material during class time, as opposed to having them passively listen to a lecture. Examples include both active discussions and time for students to work on problems in class.

Renovated for the fall term, the classroom is focused on flexibility.

Modeled after three existing rooms SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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Master tango dancers and teachers taught an open class.

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DAily debriefing A team of researchers led by Stanford University professor Yi Cui and Dartmouth engineering professor Fiona Li has constructed a battery whose internal magnetic fluid can be moved and redirected when a magnetic field is applied, Phys.org reported. The key to their design is the composition of the catholyte, a mixture of lithium polysulfide and magnetic iron oxide particles. Moving the materials in such a way would be useful for flow batteries, which are being researched as large-scale energy storage devices for power grids and whose goal is to move active molecules so that they are closer to the current collector and used in greater amounts, and thus result in a battery with a higher energy density.

Dartmouth SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute named Geisel School of Medicine surgery professor Richard Barth the first person to receive the SYNERGY Clinician-Entrepreneur Fellowship, Geisel announced. With this fellowship, Dr. Barth will be able to examine the commercial potential of a system designed to improve different types of breast cancer surgery. Barth is working with departments such as radiology and pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel and the Thayer School of Engineering to increase the accuracy of surgery for breast cancer. Geisel medical professor Aaron Kaplan developed the fellowship, and its goals are to foster entrepreneurial skills among clinical faculty members, invent with specific patient care needs in mind and support institutional processes that encourage commercialization of the ideas of faculty.

Researchers at the College and Disney Research have created a new way to display full-color images, which utilizes two black patterns printed on transparencies that are then affixed to two sides of a prism, EurekAlert reported. The new device projects full-color images from white light, with just two grey-scale masks. The source of color is the decomposition of the wavelength components of white light by the prism through the process of dispersion. This device has the capability to not only improve visual displays in the future, but also teach the physics of dispersion to children for educational purposes.

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Majority of union supports Sanders FROM UNION PAGE 1

Democratic nomination, Nyhan said.

Current opinion polling shows Sanders ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire and his home state of Vermont and slightly behind her in Iowa. A survey conducted by CBS News and the polling organization YouGov between Oct. 15 and Oct. 22 found Sanders leading Clinton in New Hampshire with 54 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 39 percent.

Other recent polls have shown Clinton and Sanders juggling the lead in New Hampshire between them, although Sanders has led in four of seven polls published in October.

Union members have attended events hosted by the College Democrats in the past, College Democrats president Maddie Cooper ’16 said. When the group hosted Sanders during the 2014 election cycle, many Dartmouth staff — including numerous union members — attended the event, she said.

While the College Democrats will not endorse a primary candidate, Cooper said Local 560’s endorsement of Sanders demonstrated the high level of enthusiasm for the election at the College.

“I think it’s really wonderful when Dartmouth gets excited about elections, and I’m really excited about the possibilities of Dartmouth students, faculty and

staff coming together in this upcoming election cycle, possibly even to a greater extent than we’ve seen in the past,” she said.

There was little debate over whether or not Local 560 would endorse Sanders, Marsh said. The union is primarily compromised of workers at the Hanover Inn, Safety and Security, Facilities Operations and Management and the Dartmouth Dining Service, many of whom live in Vermont and have supported Sanders in previous elections, he said.

Roughly 10 to 12 percent of union members attend monthly meetings, Marsh said.

“We’re a labor union — we are as pure a democracy as happens,” he said. “Everything that happens in our union, in our specific local, is taken by a majority vote of those present.”

Although Marsh was not himself present at the vote, he said the union made the best decision possible and hopes the endorsement will give Sanders a boost in the Upper Valley.

“I think it was the right move by the union,” Marsh said. “I think that [Sanders and the union] have the same philosophy overall. I know there are individuals within the union who might have different ideas — much like my own — but I think it makes perfect sense.”

While local unions are fairly likely to support Sanders, larger unions and national unions may support Clinton, the national

frontrunner, Nyhan said.

“It’s likely that more unions will endorse Clinton, especially as you move up the ladder in the organizational hierarchy,” he said.

“Local chapters perhaps will endorse Sanders, but as you get to the national level, I’d expect union leaders to fall in line behind the likely nominee, and that’s very likely to be Hillary Clinton.”

Nyhan said the endorsement could help Sanders in the Upper Valley, and the stronger Sanders polls, the more he could be able to influence Clinton’s policy positions. This could help set the tone for both the general election and, if Clinton is elected, her presidency.

Clinton is leading Sanders heavily in recent national opinion polls, with one recent Morning Consult poll showing her ahead of Sanders with 56 percent of the vote to his 24 percent.

The union was first organized in the 1960s following pay discrepancies at Dartmouth, Marsh said. It has been led for the past 28 years by Earl Sweet, who created a regional council of public workers and service unions in northern New England to discuss labor matters, he said.

Sweet could not be reached for comment for this article.

College labor relations director Nancy McCann declined to comment for this article. She wrote in an email that Dartmouth does not have any influence over the union’s political choices.

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Community members attended a presentation in the Hood Museum of Art Auditorium.

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Salvado criticizes farming subsidies, farm working conditions

what he believed was a just price for food. day with Salvador’s presentation, “If you believe that healthful titled “The Only Viable Future,” food is a right for everyone, then during which he advocated for you would want to ensure that evremoving $11 eryone has adebillion in these quate economic annual govern- “If you believe that opportunity to ment subsidies healthful food is a right benefit from the for crops such healthful food as soybeans and for everyone, then you supply,” he said. corns. would want to ensure Reed The lecture said the DDS that everyone has marked the criteria for susend of Food adequate economic tainability inD a y e v e n t s , opportunity to benefit cluded whether a month that food was locally included visits from the healthful food or regionally to local Upper supply.” sourced. Reed Valley farms, a also noted that celebration at finding availthe Dartmouth -RICARDO SALVADO, able local inOrganic Farm, DIRECTOR OF THE FOOD gredients was a screening of more difficult “Food Chains” AND ENVIRONMENT for a large din— a documen- PROGRAM AT THE UNION ing hall like ’53 tary on the food OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS C om m on s as industry — and opposed to the a “Harvest DinC o l l i s C a f e, ner” at the Class which can afof 1953 Comford local ingremons with food from local vendors. dients due to its smaller size.

Food Day is led by Dartmouth Salvador’s lecture — which had Dining Services, but planning also an audience of between 40 and involved a group of students and 50 — touched on a broad range faculty. of topics, including environmental For the past science, histot w o y e a r s , “Farm laborers ry, politics and DDS dietitian economics. SalB e t h Ro s e n - have no guarantees vador argued b e r g e r a n d to protect their that the United Dick’s House States’ current occupational safety. nutritionist KC agricultural sysWr i g h t h ave They can be sprayed tem has warped been respon- with toxic pesticides. priorities that sible for most lead to adverse of the planning There’s an exemption health effects for Food Day from labor regulations for consumers, events, DDS asthat allows children of as well as an unsociate director due economic Don Reed said. farm workers as young advantage for Dartmouth as 12 to work, when farmers of large has scored very monocrops like highly for mea- school is otherwise soybeans and sures of food mandatory for corn. sustainability “ I n children that young.

— for example, the monocrop the Sierra Club For farm workers, system, no matranked Dart- there’s no such ter what goes mouth as the wrong, the college with the things as overtime federal governmost sustain- pay, workmen’s ment will keep able food pracyo u i n bu s i [compensation], tices, though ness,” he said. t h e C o l l e g e retirement benefits or I n earns a 69th- medical benefits.” p a r t i c u l a r, place ranking in Salvador critioverall sustaincized the fact ability. that subsidies -RICARDO SALVADO In interoften flow to views, Reed and the large-scale Salvador said agriculture inthat sustainable food practices dustry. could increase the price of food “It is the single most distorted on campus. Nonetheless, Salvador system in market economics,” he stressed the importance of paying said. “These are large corporate FROM FOOD PAGE 1

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Students enjoyed locally-sourced food at the Class of 1953 Commons’ “Harvest Dinner” last week.

farmers. They’re the business most capable of sustaining themselves in a natural market, and we’re subsidizing them.”

Instead, Salvador proposed increased federal support for growing fruits and vegetables, which he said would only cost $90 million.

Today, he said, just 0.45 percent of agricultural subsidies fund production of fruits and vegetables.

In addition, Salvador highlighted the current mistreatment of people who are part of the food production process, particularly farm workers.

“Farm laborers have no guarantees to protect their occupational safety,” he said. “They can be sprayed with toxic pesticides.

There’s an exemption from labor regulations that allows children of farm workers as young as 12 to work, when school is otherwise

mandatory for children that young.

For farm workers, there’s no such things as overtime pay, workmen’s [compensation], retirement benefits or medical benefits,” he said.

Salvador is also working on a campaign for the Union of Concerned Scientists called Plate of a Nation. The campaign, which has Salvador working alongside figures such as former New York Times food writer Mark Bittman, is meant to raise awareness about the importance of a just and environmentally-friendly food system.

As a practical matter, Salvador advocated executive presidential action to circumvent Congress to implement what he viewed as a fairer and more sustainable food system.

Salvador was invited to campus by environmental studies professor Anne Kapuscinski, who served

on the Food Day planning group.

Kapuscinski first met Salvador while serving in her current position on the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, she said.

Salvador first visited Dartmouth to speak to “Environment and Society,” a course that Kapuscinski was teaching.

Salvador’s lecture was also part of a speaker series run by the environmental studies program called the Sustainability Solutions Cafe, which is in its fourth year. The Cafe first arose out of an interest by students and faculty to hear about innovative solutions for achieving sustainability, Kapucinski. This year’s events focus on solutions to climate change.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a policy organization that bases its policy recommendations on scientific analysis.

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Staff Columnist ZIQIN YUAN ’18

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19

Big Uses for Big Business

Staying Above the Fray

The government should cooperate with the private sector to fund projects.

Facebook, in partnership with five other companies, has recently been sponsoring free and low-cost internet service to people in areas around the world without it, particularly regions of India. The project hopes to expand internet access in these under-served communities by bringing together people who “believe in the power of a connected world.”

This is an impressive goal that improves the company’s image and increases its public support, but Facebook would not have started this initiative without expecting a large, future benefit.

As mentioned in an Oct. 25 New York Times article, Facebook has a clear incentive to provide better internet in rural India — the people who gain access to it will likely sign up for Facebook and WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned web service.

In light of Facebook’s example to build technological infrastructure for those who cannot afford it, the United States government should emphasize how development could benefit large companies. Government policy should provide incentives and rewards for companies to undertake projects with a public benefit, thereby enhancing both entities’ relations and influence.

Facebook’s case is just one example of how much private investment can accomplish.

The American government needs to tap in to corporate power and ensure that companies can recognize and accrue the benefits of philanthropic work. Rather than administering welfare largely through government programs and direct taxpayer contributions, the government could transform public investment and projects into opportunities for companies to generate advertisements and a new audience.

Some private projects already do this — many sports stadiums, such as the New York Mets’ Citi Field, bear the name of the corporate sponsor that funded the construction in exchange for advertising that is more or less permanent.

The publicity that comes with sponsorship of philanthropic or public-minded initiatives may make it financially attractive for companies to collaborate with the government.

A reputation for benevolence can be a valuable corporate asset. Companies have spent

hundreds of millions on charity for the sake of advertisement. In 1999, tobacco company Philip Morris spent $75 million on charitable donations and then another $100 million to advertise their generosity. This phenomenon even has a name — strategic philanthropy, the practice of tailoring charitable efforts to issues that provide direct benefits to the company and advance its business objectives.

Critics may note the conflict between philanthropy and self-interest — companies helping other groups to boost their own revenues do not sound very altruistic or charitable. The arrangement is pragmatic, however, and it is ultimately a win-win situation. In Facebook’s example, it benefits from additional users and thus higher revenue, while the rural villages they help gain complimentary internet and other services that facilitate upward mobility. And philanthropy in general is designed to give back to donors, providing them with personal satisfaction or a good conscience — excluding the cases where this deteriorates into sense of moral superiority.

Strategic philanthropy is simply a more frank acknowledgement of the reward system that guides all of our actions — when we give, we usually want to gain something in return.

Others may fear that greater corporate involvement will cause countries to become even more consumerist. In regions lacking electricity or consistent plumbing, however, upward mobility and quality goods and services are much more important considerations. In any event, many of the larger consumer brands have already saturated this country and many others. Consumerism and big business are facts of American life, but we have the opportunity to harness these trends for the public good.

Companies already spend billions each year in advertising. It is clear that they have the funds and are willing to spend them — as long as they see a potential return. The federal government should solicit corporate sponsorship on its projects. Just as Facebook is leading the push to provide internet service to countries throughout the world, other large companies could work to improve services in areas at home.

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In the Benghazi hearing, Hillary Clinton raised the bar for political decorum.

On Oct. 25, Republican representatives on the House Select Committee on Benghazi put former Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton through an 11-hour period of aggressive interrogation. The hearing once again scrutinized the Sept. 11, 2012 attack by Islamist militants on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of four American officials, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens — though the hearing seemed to uncover few new details. It has proven not only that the committee has dubious motives, but also that Clinton possesses the poise we should expect of a leader.

The hearing was more an unnecessarily hostile and politicized inquisition than an honest and unbiased call for truth. The panel’s seven Republicans sought to establish that Clinton had been intentionally negligent of her duty to protect the American diplomatic mission in Libya, making the Benghazi attack not just her responsibility, but in their eyes, directly her fault.

Beyond the plainly partisan divide in arguments, it was clear from the language, tone and facial expressions throughout the day that the hearing was mostly a showcase of the hatred between America’s two major political parties.

A CNN/ORG poll published the morning of the hearing found that most respondents — 72 percent — believed that the hearing was politically motivated. Remarks by two Republican lawmakers support that sentiment — House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) commented in a Sept. 30 interview that the select committee was helping drive down Clinton’s poll numbers.

Representative Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) even admitted that the committee was “designed to go after” Clinton. Earlier this week, committee member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told NBC’s Meet The Press that the committee had no purpose for existing “apart from damaging Hillary Clinton.”

The committee that is actively trying to blemish Clinton’s reputation could not pick a more opportune time to schedule a hearing than the height of the presidential primary campaign. The Benghazi committee is clearly a political tool for Republicans, and a pretty effective one at that.

Yet it would be unfair to let the committee’s questionable purpose discredit its accomplishments. Its partisan hostility notwithstanding, the hearing did reveal some inconsistencies in

Clinton’s account of events, and panel members may have scored legitimate political points. Their questioning turned to a conversation that took place between Clinton and a senior Egyptian minister in which she said the attack was premeditated and carried out by a known group.

She said something similar to Egypt’s then-Prime Minister Hesham Kandil the day after the attack and allegedly sent an email to her family stating that “two officers were killed today in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group.” That information conflicts with the Obama administration’s initial theory in Sept. 2012 that the attack was spontaneous.

Clinton countered that the first few days after the attack were chaotic and muddied by conflicting reports. But whether or not Clinton fully disclosed what she knew about the attack’s perpetrators and their motives to the American public immediately following the attack provides no evidence that Clinton purposefully neglected security beforehand. The panel thought otherwise. Representative Susan Brooks (R-Ind.), in particular, was passionate and adamant in her accusations that Clinton did not offer Ambassador Stevens sufficient means to communicate with her and that Clinton did not care enough about the mission in Libya in 2012. Clinton stood her ground, explaining that she had delegated security tasks and communications from Stevens to her security experts and had used methods of communication beyond email.

Regardless of how persuasive her answers are, there is one thing I have to grant to Clinton — the composure and authority she maintained throughout the grueling session. She faced some hard accusations and even some rude ones.

Representative Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) suggested that Clinton was not taking the hearing seriously because she was reading notes from her staff, even though he likewise was reading while she answered. I cannot attest to the extent of her innocence, but I can admire her for preparing well and delivering sharp answers. While Clinton did not meet a standard of perfection — she has made mistakes — she has proven her resilience, intelligence and strength in the face of adversity.

Even if she does not win the Democratic primary or the general election, the behavior and attitude Clinton exhibited in the hearing are what we should demand from all of our politicians.

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Professors experiment with renovated classroom into groups to work on programming exercises and problem sets.

They also used the new projector system during a guest presentation, beaming a complex graph onto each of the six projectors so that students could read it more easily.

Herron and Hanlon did not

“For faculty who are looking to have teams and groups break out and work on activities, we think its a darn good room.”

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Renovations were made to Carson 61 to promote “active learning.”

learning began three or four years ago, associate chief information in the Life Sciences Center, it officer for academic and client contains lightweight furniture services Alan Cattier said. Plans equipped with wheels, allowing to renovate Carson 61 began this tables and chairs to be easily moved past February, while construction and reorganized. All four walls are began during the summer and lined with whiteboards for group finished in late September, he said. discussions. In addition, there are Five classes are currently being seven projectors in the room, six taught in Carson 61. While proof which allow students to connect fessors have varied in how much their own laptops to wirelessly they use the technology features in project their screens. Content the room, all of them have taken can be shared from one screen to advantage of it to at least some another, allowdegree, Cattier ing for greater said.

“I’m confident in collaboration.

Chair Traditional saying [classes have] of the quanclassrooms with titative social fixed or bulky gone better than science proseating limit the they would in a gram and govpotential for acer nment protive lear ning, regular room.” fessor Michael forcing profesHer ron, who sor s to work -michael herron, teaches the around the quantitative space, Baldez chair of the social science said. For ex- quantitative social course “Sports ample, in a traAnalytics” with ditional lecture science program College Presihall with stadi- and government dent Phil Hanum-style seat- professor lon, said that he ing, she said it liked the room is inconvenient and its capabilifor students to ties. In particuface each other during discussions. lar, he appreciated the flexibility In contrast, the flexible furniture of the furniture, which makes it in Carson 61 allows professors to easier for him to break the class into set up the classroom however they groups and walk around the room. wish, giving them increased versa- He and Hanlon take advantage of tility in designing their classes. this each Friday, when they answer Discussions about renovating general questions using the main classrooms to better support active projector and then split the class FROM CLASSROOM PAGE 1

specifically design their course around the classroom, but Herron felt that it has complemented the course’s structure, particularly the Friday lab sessions.

“I’m confident in saying they’ve gone better than they would have in a regular room,” he said.

While he appreciates the flexibility the room provides for the “Sports Analytics” class, Herron

is not sure that all of his classes would benefit from it the same way.

He cited his game theory course as an example of a class where students mainly work individually on problem sets and where group discussions might be of limited help.

History professor Udi Greenberg, who teaches the course “World War II: Ideology, Experience, Legacy,” said his main draw to the room was how easy it was to rearrange the furniture to switch between discussions and lectures.

In previous years, he has been forced to book multiple classrooms to allow for both, but the new classroom lets him arrange seats in both rows and groups, he said.

“The history department has always been big on combining lecture with discussion,” he added.

“We do not have classes that are lecture only.”

Despite the room’s new technology capabilities, Greenberg did not change his lesson plans to accommodate the room. This was in part because he had limited time to see the room before classes began, and also in part because he cannot guarantee he will be in the room again during future terms. If there were more spaces like it on campus, Greenberg would be interested in integrating the projectors into his lessons, he said.

There are currently no explicit plans to renovate other rooms.

Right now, Carson 61 is in an “incubatory period,” Cattier said.

Over the next year, the College will look at how professors respond to the room and if there are other innovations they can implement.

“We’re looking to get people a vision of what classrooms can be,” he said.

“We’re looking to get people a vision of what classrooms can be.”

-alan cattier, associate chief information officer for academic and client services Despite this, Baldez predicts that faculty members will begin to demand more classrooms like Carson 61 as they learn more about it. When her colleagues in the government department first saw the room, they were “giddy” and immediately began planning how they could structure lessons around it, she said.

“For faculty who are looking to have teams and groups break out and work on activities, we think its a darn good room,” Cattier said.

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Author Salman Rushdie spoke at several creative writing classes in addition to his large lecture, “Wonder Tales.”

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 2015

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m.

Physics and astronomy space plasma seminar with Dr. Aaron Breneman of the University of Minnesota, Wilder 111

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“The Real Deal: A Conversation with Former Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman,” Moore Building, Filene Auditorium

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Italian rap music performance by up-and-coming artist Amir Isaaa, McLaughlin Cluster, Occom Commons

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“Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients,” book lecture with author Jeremy Smith, Haldeman Center, Room 41

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Salman Rushdie discusses magical realism and storytelling

B y Haley Gordon The Dartmouth Staff

On Monday afternoon, the line to the Spaulding Auditorium stretched nearly to the Hopkins Center doors as droves of people waited to enter.

After the auditorium filled and the audience members took their seats, College President Phil Hanlon took the stage to introduce and welcome acclaimed author Salman Rushdie.

This was Rushdie’s first time speaking at the College, and the writer presented a lecture titled “Wonder Tales,” which dealt with the origin of literature in oral traditions and story-telling and traced the linear progression of stories in terms of authorial presentations and changes in reader preferences. The presentation engaged with fables and folktales from around the globe and their relevance to a modern world.

Born in then-Bombay, now Mumbai, Rushdie began by regaling the audience with examples of the stories that populated his earliest years, stories with roots in India and in England.

Some of the stories were religious in certain contexts but secular in his understanding, while others included moral and amoral stories, animal fables and fairytales. Rushdie delved into the magic of stories told in childhood and how they become like possessions owned and cared for by a child.

Rushdie spent much of the time discussing modern readers’ obsession with non-fiction and what he called the false equation of finding inherent truths in the genre, rather than the potential of uncovering truths within the guise of fiction.

This idea attracted audience member Veri di Suvero ‘16.

“What struck me most was the idea of truth from lies in magical realism and in the everyday, and the idea of ordinary magic and how the opposites of those two different things really create this beautiful prose and way of reading that is both enjoyable and makes you learn,” di Suvero said.

English professor Catherine Tudish noticed that the students were drawn to Rushdie’s emphasis on imagination.

“I think [the students] were particularly interested in his concept of magic realism, which he very much clarified… emphasizing that it’s two things — it’s both magic and realism, and if you don’t have realism to base it on the magic [won’t] work so well.”

To conclude the event, Rushdie stayed for a moderated discussion with microphones set up in the aisles.

Queues formed with audience members eager to participate.

Tudish said that Rushdie’s careful attention to each question impressed her greatly.

“There were opportunities for him to be sort of funny and to give a short funny answer, and sometimes he did that initially but then he really grew into the question,” Tudish said. “You could see that he was taking an inter-

est in every question and had a great respect for the question, both in this larger venue and also in the smaller.”

English professor Thomas O’Malley was also impressed with Rushdie’s demeanor on stage.

“It was so refreshing to see someone who took on all the questions by student and adult alike with such generosity and attentiveness,” O’Malley said.

Earlier in the afternoon, Rushdie met with creative writing students in a more intimate setting. Rushdie entertained questions from students, discussing the practicalities of writing as well as his own experiences, Tudish said.

During both lectures and the discussion, Rushdie touched on his methods of writing and gave advice similar to that which professors often try to impart on their students, she said.

“I think it was very good for them to hear it from somebody who is as accomplished and distinguished a person as Rushdie,” Tudish said.

O’Malley also touched on the similarities between what Rushdie said and what writing professors will often tell their students, noting how hearing the words come straight from Rishdie might have been an eye-opening experience for some.

Professors, he said, will frequently work with students for an extended period of time, often collaborating multiple times as a student goes from an introductory to an intermediate level.

Professors and students can develop strong relationships that become “if not maternal or paternal, then therapeutic sometimes,” O’Malley said.

“They see us a certain way, so… when we say something there’s a certain combativeness, which is healthy, too, to writing and teaching,” he said.

“But then when you have an accomplished author who says the exact same thing, suddenly it’s ‘Oh okay, it is valid now,’ and that means something.”

Rushdie, for example, criticized the maxim “Write what you know,” saying that an author should write what he knows if, and only if, what he knows is actually interesting. Rushdie called for younger writers to make use of their imaginations, to pull from the stories that enthralled them in childhood and to write first and foremost for themselves.

In one of his earlier meetings with students, Tudish described how Rushdie touched on the tradition of oral storytelling and its discursive nature, which she thought he carried nicely into his own lecture.

“In the oral tradition it was very important for the storyteller to find a way to keep people in their seats, and people responded well to that,” she said. “So not just telling a single story with a beginning, middle and end, but playing off that discursive nature going from one topic to another and weaving back in. And I felt he did exactly that in the talk.”

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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie gave a talk to select creative writing classes in addition to a speech in Spaulding Auditorum.

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DARTMOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS Complete Guidelines & Applications online: hop.dartmouth.edu (hover over Students link)

The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,800 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

DEADLINE: Thursday, November 12, 2015 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 or via email to Sherry.L.Fiore@dartmouth.edu.

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SPORTS

TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 2015

TUESDAY LINEUP

MEN’S SOCCER at NEW HAMPSHIRE 7 PM

Men’s hockey closes out preseason with blowout win

B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s ice hockey team finished up its preseason last weekend with a crushing 7-0 victory over the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers, ushering in its season with a strong start. The Big Green will play Harvard University in its home opener this Saturday followed by a second match on Sunday. Though early in the season, the back-to-back games will be critical for the Big Green, as the Crimson was picked to finish third by the media and first by the coaches in the ECAC preseason polls. By comparison, the College was picked to finish seventh and ninth by the media and coaches, respectively. While it is sure to be a difficult game, there are also few better ways to go into a game of that importance than on the success of a seven-goal shutout.

The Big Green attack, amassing 11 goals in just two preseason games — the first against the United States National Development U-18 team — has wasted no time in replacing the eight graduated seniors, four of whom were critical forwards. Three freshmen — Alex Jasiek ’19, Karan Toor ’19 and Kevan Kilistoff ’19 — scored goals in preseason games while sophomore Corey Kalk ’18 picked up three of his own, one unassisted. Regarding the seven-goal game on Saturday against UPEI, captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 said the team was looking for strong fundamentals on the attack.

“We really weren’t doing anything fancy,” Schierhorn said. “We were keeping things simple, getting pucks to the net. Our big body guys were working down low, and our small guys were getting in there, too.”

The team’s success against UPEI started right off the bat, as the Big Green notched three unanswered goals in the opening 10 minutes of action, leaving the Panthers in a hole they were ultimately unable to escape. Though the Big Green played well both offensively and defensively, the team struggled to avoid penalties, racking up seven penalties and 14 penalty minutes in the game — both higher totals than Dartmouth had seen last week against the U.S. National Development team. Even in this area, Dartmouth still managed to outclass the Panthers, who committed eight penalties and had a whopping 27 penalty minutes.

While a total evisceration of a Canadian Interuniversity Sport hockey team in the preseason never hurts, what that game can give to Dartmouth moving into the regular season and beyond is what matters — additional experience for an expanded game roster, a reintroduction to a very physical game, a period apiece for each of the Big Green goaltenders — James Kruger ’16, Charles Grant ’16 and Devin Buffalo ’18 — and the opportunity to work on both open-ice play and manadvantage situations. Regarding the latter, head coach Bob Gaudet took advantage of the opportunity to cycle in various players for the

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Dartmouth’s penalty kill seemed much improved against Prince Edward Island. The team did not allow a power play goal.

penalty kill, which put away all four UPEI power plays throughout the game.

The coaching staff, Gaudet said, is looking to put together two-man groups instead of four-player units, with eyes on six to eight forwards and “maybe all six defensemen,” though he emphasized that they are still uncertain as to what it will actually look like. With respect to what he’s looking for in his penalty killers, Gaudet named intelligence, work ethic, skating ability, courage

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

The Big Green attack has been quite strong in the preseason, tallying 11 total goals in the two games played thus far.

and the ability to win a face-off.

“Jack Barre [’16] came out off the face-off and went down, blocked the puck right on the flesh of his knee.

There’s no padding there. He’s just a real courageous guy. He’ll do that,” Gaudet said. “Carl Hesler [’18] is kind of a prototypical penalty killer where he’ll take a hit to get it out of the zone. Geoff Ferguson [’16]. Tim Shoup [’18]. There’s a level of kind of physical and mental toughness to actually block pucks and read where the puck is going next.”

Though the team did kill all the penalties on Saturday night, the U.S. Development team scored on three of its five power plays in its game last week. Whether the better penalty kill against UPEI was a product of a less potent opposing power play or a step in the right direction for Dartmouth’s special teams will only be answered as the season progresses.

With eyes on the power play, the Big Green actually did worse against UPEI, converting only two of four man-advantage opportunities.

One of these advantages lasted five straight minutes, after UPEI’s Craig MacLauchlan was given a major and a game misconduct for hitting from behind — a hit that left a Dartmouth freshman knocked out on the ice for moments before he retired to the locker room for the rest of the game.

To be fair to Dartmouth, Kilistoff ’s

third-period goal came riding the momentum of a power play after the team sent the puck out of their own zone, giving several forwards looks at the net before Kilistoff buried it.

While the pairings, lines and special teams are taking shape on the word of the coaches, the players are exercising their agency in the selections as well. With the departure of last season’s senior class emerges opportunities for new players and players who saw less playing time to earn positions on the ice and step into leadership roles.

“There’s a lot of opportunity,” Hartley said. “Guys that haven’t had big roles are determined to go and take them.”

Hartley added that these opportunities are bringing about a competitive spirit that is good for the team.

“The competition is bringing the best out of everybody,” he said. “I think there’s pressure on everyone to take those spots. I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all.”

Hartley himself has been making a case for the spot on the ice, having scored two goals in the two preseason games, a nod to his mobility as a defenseman. He and the other Big Green players will be fighting for a spot on the season opening roster against Harvard this Saturday in Thompson Arena at 7 p.m.