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While some presidential candidates who have swung by the Upper Valley speak to large halls, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) talked in the packed Salt Hill Pub Friday afternoon as staff served food and drinks around him and some patrons of the bar continued to watch a game on television. “There have been lots of things said about me over time,” Christie said. “The fact that I don’t make an impression was never one of them.” At least a couple of hundred people jammed inside Salt Hill for the Republican presidential candidate’s remarks and
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At a solemn Friday night ceremony at the College’s Memorial Field, a 12th plaque was added to celebrate the achievements and sacrifices of Dartmouthassociated veterans in the recent wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Dartmouth will celebrate Veterans Day until Wednesday, including a banquet, flag raising ceremony and ball. “Dartmouth really focuses students’ attention on Veterans Day,” Chase Gilmore ’16, a member of Dartmouth’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, said.
“It makes a whole week out of it instead of just celebrating Veterans Day on the day itself.” Veterans Day observances commenced at the College with a dedication of a new plaque at the Veterans Memorial at Memorial Field on Nov. 6, according to the College’s website.
The Veterans Memorial consists of a series of plaques set up to honor alumni who served in each American overseas conflict since the first World War. The earliest plaque — honoring World War I veterans — was placed by alumni who had fought in the Civil War. Since then, 11 plaques have been placed to
honor the military service of anyone affiliated with Dartmouth in subsequent conflicts. A sculpture was also dedicated by a group of alumni from Sphinx senior society to honor Dartmouth alumni who served in the armed services. SEE VETERANS PAGE 2
Bored at Baker founder DHMC presents plan to shuts the site down open a palliative care center
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In a short blog post, Bored at Baker founder Jonathan Pappas — known online as Jae Daemon — announced that the anonymous social forum will no longer be available at Dartmouth. Pappas runs a number of similar sites through BoredAt, Inc. Pappas will consider relaunching Bored at Baker in 2016, he wrote in the Oct. 30 blog post. Pappas’s rationale for shut-
tering Bored at Baker focused on its time-consuming nature. All other BoredAt websites, such as those at Columbia University and Carleton College, will continue to be active. Since late 2006, Bored at Baker has provided an online space for Dartmouth students to post and interact anonymously. Pappas originally launched Bored at Butler — named for the main library at Columbia — as an undergraduSEE BORED AT BAKER PAGE 5
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center presented a revised plan for its proposed palliative care center to the Lebanon City planning board on Oct. 26. The proposal received generally positive feedback from the planning board, planning board members said. The plan, which has been in discussion for several months, would call for DHMC to build a freestanding palliative care facility to take care of terminally ill patients, DHMC media
relations manager Michael Barwell said. The proposed center would be located in a wooded area on the DHMC property — away from the critical care units where palliative care patients would normally end up — so as to promote a relaxing atmosphere for patients and their families, Barwell said. At first, it would have 12 beds, and that number could expand to 18 over time, he said. DHMC has not submitted a formal SEE PALLIATIVE PAGE 5
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Darren Sumter — a United States Military Academy graduate and AH-64 Apache helicopter pilot during the First Gulf War — said Veterans Day has a national impact, particularly for the veterans it honors. “Veterans Day is just a good thing,” he said. Following the dedication of new plaques at Memorial Field, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni and the Rockefeller Center hosted the College’s fourth annual Veterans Banquet at Collis Common Ground. The purpose of the military-style banquet is to foster relationships among military veterans and Dartmouth students, faculty, alumni and staff. Author, attorney and activist Kathy Roth-Douquet spoke at the banquet on Nov. 7. Roth-Douquet, the co-author of “AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from the Military Service — and How It Hurts Our Country” and “How Free People Move Mountains,” has been a Democratic activist and government official at the White House and federal Defense Department. Roth-Douquet is also chief executive officer of Blue Star Families, an organization that provides support to military families. During this event, DUSA presented Rand Beers ’64 with the third annual James Wright Award for Distinguished Service, named for former College President James Wright. Beers served as an officer and commander in the Marine
Corps during the Vietnam War before serving as President Barack Obama’s deputy assistant for homeland security, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, director of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the department and assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs. The 240th Marine Corps Birthday Ball was held at the Hanover
“There is a strong respect for veterans here.” - chase gilmore '16, a member of dartmouth’s reserve officers’ training corps Inn on Sunday to honor the U.S. Marine Corps’ foundation in 1775. Master Gunnery Sergeant Warren Coughlin — a veteran of both Gulf Wars, the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan — was the guest of honor. Proceeds from the ball went to the Semper Fi Fund and Project VetCare, two organizations dedicated to supporting veterans and their families. Project VetCare will host its annual Veterans’ Symposium at Hanover High School on Monday and Tuesday. The symposium brings veterans into contact with high school students and community members who can learn about war experiences first-hand.
On Veterans Day this Wednesday, the Dartmouth ROTC will raise the campus flag on the Dartmouth Green in a full Reveille Ceremony. The ceremony is a way to honor the veterans who have come before and is an event in which College administrators, professors, students and former military personnel alike are deeply involved, Gilmore said. Later that morning, there will be a Veterans Day Remembrance Breakfast honoring Dartmouthaffiliated veterans at the Hanover Inn hosted by College chief human resources officer Scot Bemis. The final commemoration will be the Veterans Day Retreat and Drill Ceremony on Wednesday. In late afternoon, the Baker Bells will begin playing the Hymns of Services, and the Dartmouth ROTC will lower the campus flag on the green. Jonathan Griffith ’15 — the tactical intelligence officer at the Rhode Island National Guard — said that many people do not realize the strong veteran presence at Dartmouth. According to Griffith, Veterans Day is one of the few times a year when the campus comes together to honor veterans. Connecting with veterans can be important for students who might not otherwise get to interact with such individuals, Griffith said. Dartmouth does a good job of celebrating Veterans Day, honoring veterans and recruiting veterans to come to Dartmouth as students, Gilmore said. Few colleges make such a major effort to do so, he said. “There is a strong respect for veterans here,” Gilmore said.
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Christie talks about drug addiction, climate change and other issues
the whole life,” rather than just for unborn children. Hill for the Republican presidential “We’ve got to be pro-life for the candidate’s remarks and a town 16-year-old girl on the floor of the hall-style meeting. county lock-up,” he said. Christie fielded questions from Christie fielded numerous quesstudents and community members tions on foreign affairs. Several on the economy, national deficit, audience members asked about his entitlement spending, finance stance on combating the Islamic industry regulation, renewable State, also known as ISIS, and energy and other topics, but focused Chinese incursions into the South his own remarks on addiction and China Sea. how it can be treated. Christie advocated aggressive “I think he’s very candid, diplomacy, utilizing positioning whether you agree with him or of naval forces around the South not,” Andrew Wolff ’18 said. China Sea to deter China from Wolff — who has not decided if erecting artificial islands to hinder he will support Christie or Gov. John foreign trade and instituting an Kasich (R-Ohio) — said Christie’s absolute no-fly zone over Syria that work with teachers’ unions in New would apply to forces of the RusJersey was a major achievement. sian Federation, Syrian forces of “I like him, I think, a lot more all factions and any other aircraft. than other people do,” Wolff said. “Don’t do a preemptive attack, “I’m a little disi t ’s w r o n g, ” appointed that Christie said. he’s not polling “Drug and alcohol “Warn them: ‘I better.” don’t want conaddiction is a Christie beflict, but if you disease, not a gan the event bring it, I’ll reby discussing moral failing, and spond.’ That’s his experiences we have to give how you bring at Daytop Vilorder back to lage — a reha- people the tools the world, not bilitation center they need to treat by being the in Mendham, world’s policetheir disease and New Jersey — man, but by saywhere he was a bring value back to ing, ‘Here are board member. their lives.” the parameters Christie told of acceptable the story of a and unaccept17-year-old boy - r e p u b l i c a n able conduct who was given with the UnitP r es i d e n t i a l an ultimatum by ed States,’” he a judge — treat- c a n d i dat e c h r i s said. ment at Daytop c h r i st i e An auVillage or state dience member prison. asked Christie “Drug and if he believed alcohol addiction is a disease, not that American imperialism had a moral failing, and we have to give led to the rise of the Islamic State. people the tools they need to treat American imperialism — which their disease and bring value back Christie dismissed as a “good to their lives,” Christie said. college phrase” — was not a key The boy graduated from Day- component of the Islamic State’s top’s high school program, then rise, which he suggested was instead Rutgers University and encoun- prompted by Islamic militancy. tered Christie again while a law “I think what the rise of ISIS is student, at which point Christie tied to is radical Islam and the desire — then a United States Attorney of ISIS to impose upon everyone — offered him a summer intern- in the world not only their religion ship. Later, the boy started his own but their interpretation of their law firm in New York, focusing on religion, which I believe is perverse criminal defense work. and violent,” he said. “This was a young man who was Christie criticized the foreign near death, whose parents had no policy of President Barack Obama hope. He was ready to go to state and Secretary of State John Kerry. prison rather than be treated,” Their policies — particularly in Christie said. “When I looked in relation to Russia, Cuba and Cahis eyes, there was no life in his nadian tar sands oil — were poorly eyes — heroin had drained the life conducted and sometimes harmed from him. Because he went and got American interests, Christie said. treatment and took it seriously, and The United States was lucky to there were people who cared about avoid a Kerry presidency in 2004, him and loved him, he reclaimed Christie quipped. his life.” “This president thinks that inac Christie said he is “pro-life for tion is always the preferable course FROM CHRISTIE PAGE 1
regarding foreign policy, and I think it isn’t and it shouldn’t be,” he said. Christie — who, along with former Gov. George Pataki (R-N.Y.), is one of two Republican presidential candidate to accept that climate change is anthropogenic — spoke about the need for increased investment in renewable energy resources on a national scale. Greater reliance on nuclear energy — which provides 53 percent of New Jersey’s energy supply — is key to a successful energy policy, Christie said. Drilling for more natural gas and oil is also important, as is localized, state-by-state renewable energy development, he said. Christie called for reductions in entitlement spending to allow for funding for other projects, including NASA. “There’s gonna be no free lunch in a Christie administration,” he said. “I’m coming in with $19 trillion in debt and a credit card that’s already more than maxed out, and we can’t keep putting money on it.” Matt Zubrow ’14 asked Christie about the Volcker Rule — a measure that bans banks trading on their own assets utilizing proprietary information — and its potential impact on financial issues, while Wolff asked about the regulatory impacts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Christie said he favored market solutions in both instances, but praised the regulatory framework
of Dodd-Frank for large, national banks. He said it should not apply to smaller banks. Christie said, however, that he would like to see bankers responsible for the 2008 financial crash prosecuted and that under the current financial system it is “hard to argue” the American economy is not rigged to favor the wealthy. Christie advocated for increased cooperation between Congress and the executive branch to reduce gridlock and promised to work closely with the House Democratic leader and other opposition members of Congress if elected. Additionally, reforms to “slow down the revolving door” between government and lobbyists must be put in place, he said. Christie also endorsed term limits for all members of Congress — six terms the maximum for the House and two for the Senate. Although he supports allowing individuals and organizations to give as much money as they would like to any candidate, Christie said he wants all donations to be publicly disclosed within a 24-hour period. “I should be responsible for every nickel that’s spent on my behalf,” he said. Christie was introduced by Republican Party of New Hampshire Area 1 vice chair Vicki Schwaegler. Christie previously spoke in Hanover in 2011 to endorse former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) for president, she said. Christie also received encour-
agement from the audience during the question and answer session. One community member noted he “had no idea there were this many Republicans in Hanover,” referencing the hundreds of people who turned out to hear Christie speak. Another encouraged Christie to keep working to win the nomination despite his current low polling numbers. “I know you’re a fighter, and it’s so discouraging to watch that last what-they-called-a-debate and watch the media twist things,” the community member said. Saaheb Sidana ’16 said that he enjoyed Christie’s talk on addiction. “I don’t really know much about him or his political views, but I thought he was a very charismatic and a very strong speaker,” Sidana said. Sidana will probably not support Christie but hopes to attend talks by several candidates before making up his mind. “Because they’re happening and they’re not too far away, it’s very convenient for a college student to go down the street and hear a presidential candidate speak,” he said. A recent WBUR poll conducted between Oct. 29 and Nov. 1 put Christie support at 7 percent in New Hampshire, behind Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Kasich, tied with former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.). Previously in this campaign, he has been polling between 3 and 6 percent.
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CONTRIBUTING Columnist STEVEN CHUN ’19
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In Good Company
Humanistic Healing
Dartmouth students should not fear being alone in public. There are certain things you should not do alone. You do not ride a tandem bike alone. You cannot operate a swan boat by yourself. You do not, for example, have a wedding by yourself. But then the list quickly runs out. There are plenty of things we don’t do alone, often for no good reason. When was the last time you saw a movie by yourself ? Most people are perfectly happy watching re-watching “Love Actually” (2003) alone in their rooms, but few would dare go out to see a movie without friends. So you end up missing out on what would otherwise be a really enjoyable experience because God forbid people in public see you alone. The selfimposed stigma of being alone is absurd. In college, it is easy to find friends who want to share experiences with you. For the most part, this is great — but it is absolutely not necessary. As I have come to learn, too many times one person’s scheduling conflict or the lack of a group consensus has scuttled an otherwise amazing day. What many have forgotten — or maybe just never learned — is that riding solo can be just as fun as going out with friends. I get it — nearly everyone at Dartmouth seems like a type-A, Myers-Briggs ENFP, high functioning fun-addict. This does not, however, mean we would not enjoy alone time if we gave it the chance. In fact, there are two compelling reasons to try out what — to most people’s general discomfort — has been coined “masturdating.” (Don’t worry, that phrase will not appear anywhere else in this column.) The first is that we severely underestimate how much we will enjoy consuming some form of entertainment alone. A recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that although people typically predict that they will enjoy experiences less if they partake in them alone, this has to do more with how they believe strangers will perceive them and less with how much they genuinely enjoy something. The actual enjoyment of many activities, when done alone rather than with others, actually changes very little, if at all As a general rule, if you enjoy doing something with friends, you will also enjoy it alone — except for tandem
bicycles and weddings, of course. Certainly there are times where friends make for more fun, but most people severely overestimate the improvement. The second reason to try spending more time alone is that no one cares that you are not surrounded by friends, and if you realized that, you would likely enjoy yourself significantly more. Consider two scenarios. In the first, you see a movie alone in a crowded theater. In the second, the theater is completely empty except for yourself. Researchers found that people overwhelmingly prefer scenarios in which there is no one to observe them. The fact that the second is significantly more appealing is insane. It rests on the idea that a crowd of random people in a very dark room — approximately half of which are entirely focused on how badly they need to pee — are going to notice your isolation and expend the energy to make a judgment about how many friends you have. Think back to the last time you ate in FoCo — how many people were eating alone? I am certain that few would remember. No one cares when there’s mac and cheese to be had. The most severe symptom of our anxiety about being alone is a severe imbalance in the amount of time we spend by ourselves. We live our lives fast, and there’s nothing wrong with that — but no matter whether you are an extravert or an introvert, you need a solid amount of time spent to yourself. Studies have shown that adolescents who spend an intermediate amount of time alone are better adjusted than those on either extreme of the spectrum. Solitude and reflection are incredibly powerful tools. Living in the River Cluster has forced me to take a long, solitary walk at the end of most nights. It has become an essential part of my day, to the point where I tell my friends to go up ahead so I can walk alone. To enjoy yourself only in the company of others is a sad way to live. To all who suffer from alone-anxiety, I have one piece of advice — you must learn to better enjoy your own company, because ultimately you are the only person with whom you will spend your entire life.
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There is more to health care than the traditional STEM major track. It is common knowledge that medical schools — especially of the caliber to which Dartmouth students are likely applying — have incredibly low acceptance rates. Because of this difficultly, many pre-med students choose to major in STEM subjects, specifically biology. Your MCAT score is one of the biggest determining factors in medical school acceptance, however, and as reported on the Association of American Medical Colleges website, humanities majors actually have a higher average MCAT score than biological sciences majors — although, math and physical science majors have the highest average MCAT scores. Given these statistics, why do so many students lock themselves in the accursed, typical pre-med track? When looking at their plans for the next four years, first-year students must consider majors and extracurriculars outside of the traditional pre-med STEM fields. During Orientation week, ’19s were thrown academic offerings from all angles — economics, Russian literature, biochemistry, classics, mathematics. You name it, we got it. While access to so many opportunities and resources was helpful, I was put off by the attitude of some fellow pre-med aspirants — many of whom had planned out every single course of their D-Plan for the next 12 terms. When I mentioned that I planned on majoring in comparative literature, I was congratulated for making a smart choice in selecting an atypical premed major. A fellow first-year assured me that “non-science majors have it easier.” Although well-intentioned, this piece of advice made me feel uneasy more than anything else. Others on the pre-med track had refined their future trek to medical school into basic formulas and thought they possessed the cheat sheet to the decisions behind medical school acceptances. I know the road to medical school is long and rough. I was strongly considering applying for a highly coveted spot in an accelerated BS/MD program for the better part of my junior year of high school, but I decided against it when I visited Dartmouth the fall of my senior year. Like many other prospective students, I fell in love with the campus in all its peak-foliage glory and its promise of an undergraduate-centered liberal arts education. So, despite the College’s rich offerings of humanities courses and well-rounded student body, many medical school aspirants seem bent
on the conventional pre-med route, on operating within the system rather than pursuing an area of interest to which they may never have access beyond Dartmouth. I fear that liberal arts premed students have become so focused on our postgraduate prospects that we are neglecting to focus on our present education. Moreover, maybe medical school applications are in need of reform. Whatever may be the case, one thing is for sure — our undergraduate education should not just be used as a stepping-stone to the next best thing, especially when it costs nearly $70,000 each year. Medical school is not the be-all and end-all of health care. It is important to provide our future physicians with specialized training to save their patients’ lives — but, it is even more important for them to understand the value of a life before they proceed to save it. While working for an arts-in-education nonprofit in New York, I had the privilege of observing arts therapists in action. I witnessed firsthand their tremendous patience and flexibility in healing through creative expression. Healers, including physicians, should not limit their training solely to the development of their scientific skill set. I am not saying that I would let someone who is unsure about anatomy and physiology to operate on a patient. It is crucial to reinforce competence and excellency in medical subjects, but future physicians should be encouraged to go beyond STEM fields — especially as undergraduates, when they are not confined by the burden of specialization and have the freedom to explore, engage and excel in any field of their choosing. Examining what it means to be human can only help in treating humans. In high-stake professions like medicine, empathy can be a powerful tool in aligning body with spirit. That is not to say that all students fail to grasp the value of a liberal arts education. Most of the seniors with whom I am acquainted who are applying or have already been accepted into medical school are impressively well-rounded in their interests. They are linguistics majors or pursue extracurriculars that combine public policy and health care through the Rockefeller Center. First-years and other aspiring pre-meds should follow their cue and attempt to pursue academic experiences that transcend the run-of-the-mill biology major so common to the pre-med track.
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Fewer use Bored at Baker, DHMC proposes palliative care center as some favor Yik Yak FROM PALLIATIVE PAGE 1
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ate at the University and continued to expand BoredAt to other colleges and universities after graduating. At Dartmouth, the website maintained a large following prior to its declining usage in recent years. Of 21 students interviewed by The Dartmouth, four students said that they have used Bored at Baker before, but have not been using it for an extended period of time. Nine students said they have heard about the website, but never used it. Eight did not know what the website was. Some students engaged with Bored at Baker for a specific reason while others said they have made an account and never used it. “I’ve known about Bored at Baker, but I only went on it once because I heard that [Sigma Delta sorority] was hacked, and that the hacker was on the website,” Jingya Qiu ’16 said. “Yik Yak seems different from Bored at Baker because mean things just get shut down on Yik Yak.” Cameron White ’19 said he learned about Bored at Baker from his Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips leader. He made an account but has not utilized the account since. The site’s content was overseen by a group of moderators — consisting of active users of the site — who had the power to remove posts that were deemed offensive. Aaron Pellowski ’15, a former Bored at Baker moderator, said that while Pappas is a “passionate guy” and a “man with a vision,” Pappas also has a career and BoredAt is a side project that consumes his time. “Bored at Baker is one of the more active sites and one of the more controversial sites. It’s possible that he’s just had a lot of work, but it’s also possible that Bored at Baker ceased to be any good,” Pellowski said. “He has shut down a site before in reaction to things that have been posted, and he is very personally concerned about making sure that Bored at Baker is a versatile platform for sustaining a certain kind of community.” Bored at Baker saw several controversial events in the past few years related to the offensive nature of some of the content posted. When members of Real Talk — a social justice group at Dartmouth — protested homophobia, sexual assault and racism during the 2013 Dimensions of Dartmouth program, several users posted rape and death threats against the students who protested. In winter 2014, a user posted a guide on how to rape a specific member of the Class of 2017. “Anonymity has a double-edged
sword effect in that anonymity permits people to speak freely and authentically and without having what they say measured against their identity,” Pellowski said. “And of course, the other edge to that sword is that when you are not held accountable for what you say, not only is the incentive to lie removed, you are motivated to be truthful, regardless of the consequence.” Former moderator Blaine Ponto ’14 said that these kinds of conflicts led to polarizing opinions that began to dominate the board. The group of people who disliked the content on the board clashed with the group of people who disliked what they saw as the policing of free speech, and both groups were very vocal about their opinions. “The extreme groups basically shut out a lot of the other content and conversations that were going on because people without an opinion on the issue — or people who didn’t have a polarizing opinion — could not connect as well,” she said. The people with extreme views on free speech focused mainly on their own debate until Bored at Baker’s usage began to decline, with those who were uninterested in the ongoing debate leaving, Ponto said. “People just got tired of posting, so the website was left to just the extremist trolls,” she said. “When curious or moderate people would log on, they would just see posts from the trolls.” All 21 students interviewed said they know about the anonymous social media sharing app Yik Yak, a competitor to Bored at Baker in the past two years. Of those students, 10 said that they have an account and read the app’s main feed anywhere from multiple times a day to once a month. “I don’t have a Yik Yak account, but I read it on my friend’s phone,” Alexa Escalona ’18 said. That Yik Yak, which launched in 2013, effectively replaced Bored at Baker as an anonymous outlet could be one of the several reasons that the website did not regain the popularity it enjoyed a few years ago, Ponto said. “I knew a lot of people who used Bored at Baker to get help and get support and talk to people about things they cared about but couldn’t really talk about in real life,” she said. “Now that there’s a more commonly used forum for it with a much stricter form of community policing, there was never enough need for Bored at Baker to get popular resurgence.” Pappas did not respond to requests seeking comment. Pellowski is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.
application to begin construction for the center, Lebanon associate planner Margaret HowardHeretakis said. Instead, they have been speaking with the city planning board in a series of “conceptual reviews” — a slate of non-binding discussions designed to garner feedback about the proposed plan before it is submitted officially. Planning board members said that the main concerns raised related to zoning. Previously, DHMC had planned to build the center in a different location, Howard-Heretakis said. That site, however, was not located in an area previously zoned for the medical center — in order to use it, the hospital would need to gain approval to rezone the site for the medical center’s use. As a result, the hospital chose to relocate the proposed site to an area located on DHMC property. Noting that she was speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the planning board, Lebanon city council liaison to the city planning board Suzanne Prentiss said that she was glad that DHMC had chosen to relocate the property. While she supports the center as an individual, Prentiss also said she sees the need to balance her views with concerns about preserving Lebanon’s natural beauty. Elizabeth Celtrick, Lewis Greenstein, Earl Jette and Carl Porter — four members of the city planning board — declined requests to provide their opinion on the new center, saying that
they could not do so before an official application is submitted and a vote is taken. They pointed to audio transcripts of the Oct. 26 meeting, available on the planning board’s website, as publicly available indications of their thoughts on the project. Four additional planning board members did not return request for comment. Porter did say that he plans to inspect the proposed building site in person before the winter to ensure construction is feasible on the site. Palliative care is a practice designed to help patients who are generally in the end stages of their lives. These patients often experience pain from their illnesses or have to undergo rigorous and possibly debilitating treatment, Barwell said. “The whole point of palliative care is ... helping patients and their families to focus on what is really important to them,” he said. “So how do you help them relate to family and friends, how do you help them make the best use of the time that is available.” Treatment in palliative care centers can involve care from doctors, nurses and social workers, Barwell said. It can also involve bringing in therapists, playing relaxing music or having massage therapies for patients. The main goal is to help patients be comfortable in their final days, he said. The next step for DHMC would be to submit an official application to the planning department’s office, Howard-Heretakis said. This would begin the process of staff
review, in which various departments — including planning, public works and the fire department — review the proposed application to make sure it complies with regulations. T he planning de partment would then reach back to the applicants to discuss any potential issues and to allow the applicants the chance to revise and resubmit their application, Howard-Heretakis said. After that, the planning department would create a memorandum for the planning board to outline what is being proposed and discuss any potential issues the board should be aware of, she said. The hospital will subsequently hold a public hearing for the planning board to review the application, during which citizens could raise possible objections at this time, Howard-Heretakis said. Then the planning board would then choose whether or not to approve the potential plan. They can also give a conditional approval if there are outstanding items to be resolved, Howard-Heretakis said. Following approval and resolution of other outstanding issues — for example, at the state-level — DHMC could seek approval for a building permit and begin construction. It is not unusual for projects to take several years to be completed, Howard-Heretakis said. There is a deadline each month to submit applications to the planning board. This month’s deadline is Nov. 9, Howard-Heretakis said. Barbara Olachea contributed reporting.
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Students participated in the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows program.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 8:00 a.m. “Project VetCare Annual Veteran’s Symposium,” all-day event, Hanover High School
4:00 p.m. “Killing the King: 20 Year’s Rabin’s Murder,” lecture, Moore Building, Filene Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “An Evening with Jake Shimabukuro,” music performance, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
TOMORROW 3:45 p.m. “A Conversation with Secretary Hillary Clinton,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “Armadillo” (2010), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer” (2013), film screening with director Maxim Pozdorovkin, Rockefeller Center, Room 003
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Q&A: Artist Daniele Genadry ’02
through and in relation to time, both in terms of personal memory and a The Dartmouth Senior Staff larger historical context. Rome has a Travel has always played a large part very interesting relationship to time in artist Daniele Genadry’s ’02 life in the sense that when you’re there and work. During her time at the and wandering around, there is a College, she spent a year in Italy very visual connection to time, as between studying studio art and you see the architecture and relics math. Since that time, she has lived of ancient history alongside the in Rome, Beicontemporary. rut and London It feels very and has had her “It feels very fluid fluid in relawork displayed in in relation to time, tion to time, exhibitions from and I think and I think that Amsterdam to that experiexperience is what Greece. ence is what I was interested I was interested in What was your in painting — time at Dart- painting—how places how places mouth like? hold multiple hold multiple times DG: My time at times at once. at once. A lot of my Dartmouth was A lot of my good — I loved work has to do with work has to do the surrounding moving between with moving landscape and bebetween places ing in a relatively places as well, not just as well, not just small, stimulating physically, but the idea physically, but environment. It idea of of thinking about one the was also great to thinking about go on one of the place from another one place from study abroad pro- and the distance another and grams in Florence the distance inmy sophomore involved in that.” volved in that. year, and I kept I’d be in New returning to Italy York thinking -Artist Daniele after that — doing about specific an internship my Genadry ’02 landscapes in junior year and Lebanon or moving to Rome Italy and tryafter my senior year. While in Ha- ing to access them from a different nover, I was involved in the studio space. art department and the Italian department, and I am still in touch How do you decide what media with professors, now friends, from to do a piece in? What is your both. So it felt pretty nurturing, and process of making a piece like? I still return relatively often to visit. DG: My work usually starts from an image or a couple of images that I Did your interest in art develop collect. In the case of Rome it was before Dartmouth? a lot of found images or snapshots DG: It came from when I was I took, and my way of working with younger. I took some Saturday them is to initially try to create my art classes as a kid and drew and own experience with the actual painted a lot on my own. I didn’t image. So, switching media for me take it super seriously until I got to is a way of translating the image in Dartmouth, where I took a great order to get to know it better and “Drawing I” class freshman year see the different aspects of it. I tend and really connected with a couple to start with a photograph and then of the professors, so I wanted to usually draw or screen print it or keep taking more classes. reproduce it in another medium, and then eventually play with color, You’ve spent a lot of time in paint and different kinds of filters. Italy, and many of your more The media shifts inform the thinkrecent pieces are inspired by ing and then the thinking essentially Italy. What sort of role does informs the final medium. So I Italy play in your art and de- might start out with an image of a velopment as an artist? mountain and after drawing it and DG: I was in Rome on a fellowship printing it for a while, decide that at the British Academy for most of it makes most sense as a oversized 2013 to 2014. That informed a lot painting that allows someone to get of recent work, as I was living and absorbed into the picture, the way researching there. I had also moved you feel in front of a real landscape, to Rome right after I graduated from and so that will be what I end up Dartmouth. So it is a place I keep with as the final piece. going back to, through college and right after and now more profes- What was it like to go from besionally. A lot of my work has to do ing a student to being an artist? with place and trying to perceive it What was that experience like?
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DG: It’s funny. It was a combination of almost random decisions, like things that happen that lead you one place, and at the same time, it felt quite focused. I wasn’t really sure what the trajectory would look like, but I knew it required a certain kind of persistence and energy. I didn’t know at Dartmouth that I would eventually want to go to New York and set up a studio and work as an artist, but when I graduated I did know that I wanted to keep making work and traveling. The traveling part really informed my work. So after graduating, I moved to Rome for about a year and then looked for other residencies. And then I applied for a Reynolds Fellowship which helped me go to Beirut for a year and work there. While I was in Beirut, I thought it was a good time to go to grad school because at that point I needed a little bit more
structure. So I always looked for ing with. A lot of the great things ways to keep painting, but I didn’t that have happened to me have come through always have a people at my clear idea of “The media shifts l eve l , l at e r a l where I would connections, be specifically. inform the thinking if that makes The transition and then the thinking sense. And that took a while. community is It was sort of essentially informs the also what will grey. But as I final medium.” support and kept doing more feed you in an residencies and important way, working, more -Artist Daniele once you are not opportunities Genadry ’02 in a university started presentor other instituing themselves. tion. And also to What advice would you give have a lot of persistence and to be students who want to pursue creative in terms of finding ways to keep making work. And to make a career as artists? DG: To really put energy into de- sure you are enjoying the process. veloping your community of artists and friends, because in the end, your This interview has been edited for peers are who you end up work- clarity and length.
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Animated short films cover a breadth of topics and styles
B y Andrew Kingsley The Dartmouth Staff
Inspired by the Telluride short film showcase last Saturday, I decided to compile my favorite animated short films available online and share them. “Fresh Guacamole” (2012) by PES Officially the shortest work nominated for an Academy Award at 101 seconds, “Fresh Guacamole” is the pinnacle of PES’ career as a stop motion animator — “Western Spaghetti” (2008) and “Submarine Sandwich” (2014) are two other favorites. PES transforms household objects into a veritable cooking show — Christmas lights become jalapenos, poker chips are tortilla chips, and grenades represent avocados. Each new ingredient dazzles, like Iron Chef but the secret ingredient is always imagination. The camera often holds on a new food, such as an old baseball (an onion), letting you savor the ingenuity. Like food porn for film buffs, “Fresh Guacamole” takes everyday bric-a-brac
and breathes new life into materials once destined for a yard sale.
“Cousin” (1999) by Adam Elliot Perhaps my favorite short film, “Cousin” is a work of quiet minimalism and tenderness, focused on the fading relationship of two young cousins, one of whom has cerebral palsy. The other does not and describes his cousin’s habits with sympathy and wonder. Elliot is a collector of idiosyncrasies and curates this micro-exhibit with such rich details as his cousin’s “Can’t Stop Dancin’” and “I Yodel for Jesus” shirts, his pet rock collection and how “he smells like licorice.” Besides the blinking and twitching of the figurines, there are seldom any movements on screen, yet Elliot conveys a world of emotion with his black and white, semi-grotesque idiom. I could have chosen Elliot’s “Uncle” (1996) or “Harvey Krumpet” (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short 2003), yet “Cousin” has been my sanctuary in times of stress. It contains a wisdom and tranquility, a love of detail throughout and a worldly hon-
esty in its final shot, both devastating objects. Instead of baseballs and pokyet genuinely human. A film about er chips, however, the short is made loss and nostalgia, “Cousin” perhaps entirely out of over 2,500 unique logos addresses our college complex, in and mascots. Downtown Los Angeles which friends are constantly ma- becomes even more commercialized, introduced by triculating into an aerial shot and graduating “A film about loss and of the hundreds from our lives. nostalgia, ‘Cousin’ of corporations Yet there is no dominating the moroseness or perhaps addresses cityscape. A katragedy, merely our college complex, leidoscopic exacceptance of plosion of innochapters closed. in which friends vation, “LogoraThose acquain- are constantly revels in t a n c e s we ’ve matriculating into and ma” its novelty and made, the ones shows how much p e r h a p s wh o graduating from our fun the filmmaksmell of Key- lives.” ers had in selectstone or sunk like ing these brands. a rock at the Polar Bear Plunge, may fade into memory, The zoo alone is a microcosm of yet Elliot reminds us how vital they this ingenious universe featuring the Lacoste alligators, the MGM lion and are to our scrapbook. the Republican elephant. Ronald Mc“Logorama” (2009) by H5/ Donald, of course, is the villain who François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy crashes his truck carrying biological weapons and then goes on a shooting and Ludovic Houplain spree across the city. Luckily, Mother Much like “Fresh Guacamole,” Nature prevails over this capitalistic “Logorama” creates a world out of carnage and sends an earthquake
to wash out the corporate madness, flooding all life in oil. Foul-mouthed and absurd, “Logorama” is a searing panorama of corporate dominion which lavishes in its vastness and rich detail. “Rejected” (2000) by Don Hertzfeldt If David Lynch and the writers of “Cyanide and Happiness” had a child, it would be Don Fertzfeldt, the surreal absurdist who animates stick figures. Created after he graduated film school, “Rejected” is a montage of cartoons deemed unfit for the Family Learning Channel. From kids shouting “I’m a consumer whore” to fluffy clouds bleeding out of their, well, you know, “Rejected” comes from that short-circuiting, corrupted region of the mind Walt Disney vowed never to access. Soon it devolves into an apocalyptic implosion, and Hertzfeldt kills the daylights out of these un-darlings. An entropic romp through the psyche of a madman, “Rejected” are the cartoons I wish Nickelodeon had played.
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“Don Juan Comes Back from War” was performed at the Hopkins Center with a cast of 12 actors playing 35 roles.