The Dartmouth 07/28/17

VOL. CLXXIV NO.98

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On June 25, CNBC aired a documentary featuring two recent Dartmouth graduates.

“A Billionaire’s Bet: The Best & Brightest” followed 110 students from around the world as they participated in the Schwarzman Scholars

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program at Tsinghua University.

Jordyn Turner ’16 was one of the documentary’s featured students. She and Jake Gaba ’16 were included in the first class of Schwarzman Scholars, pursuing a Masters in Global Affairs through the program.

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Last Tuesday, Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) signed HB 640, a marijuana decriminalization bill that will reduce penalties for marijuana possession. The new law, which will take effect on August 18, diminishes the penalty for possessing three quarters of an ounce or less of marijuana from a criminal misdemeanor to a fineable civil violation. The bill passed on March 8 with a vote of 318-36 in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Julia Griffin, Hanover’s Town Manager, cites censure from police chiefs and public safety agents as a reason to oppose the bill. The main opposition towards this policy change is that it may lead to an increase in the use of marijuana and other drugs, she said.

“In general, municipalities and state departments are not eager to see the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana because of the belief that marijuana is a gateway drug and can lead to heavier usage

of other drugs,” Griffin said.

Pa t r i c k M u r p hy, t h e director of research and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, observed a similar trend after the initial decriminalization of marijuana in California.

“By all accounts, use went up,” Murphy said.

H e a d d e d t h at wh i l e the total consumption of marijuana increased, research is unclear on the law’s impact on individual consumption of marijuana.

Murphy additionally said he observed a decrease in incarceration rates following the policy change. Jason S o r e n s, a p ro f e s s o r o f government at Dartmouth, said he expects an analogous outcome in New Hampshire.

“Because the smell of marijuana alone will no longer be probable cause for search, arrests for other drug-related offenses should also abate,” Sorens said.

He further predicted a decline in state expenditures

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Charles Wheelan ’88 is a senior lecturer in public policy at the College. He is the founder of The Centrist Project, which supports centrist policies and independent candidates, and is the author of “Naked Economics.” This summer he is teaching a class titled “Economics of Public Policymaking.” In May, Wheelan returned from his

most recent sabbatical, during which he traveled with his family for nine months around six continents.

So you just came back from a whirlwind of traveling during your sabbatical. How many different countries would you say you visited?

CW: We left around September 1. The five of us included my wife, my two daughters who are 18 and 16 and my son who is 13.

They all had birthdays while we were traveling. We went to six continents in nine months.

How many countries did you visit and why did you choose them?

CW: I haven’t added it up yet, but we probably visited around 25 countries. The trip was born back in 1988 when my wife and I graduated. We weren’t married at the time, but we took a gap year after Dartmouth to travel for almost the exact same

amount of time … So we had always wanted to do the same thing with our kids, and this was the only time we could do it since my oldest daughter is leaving for college.

Once we decided to do the trip, we just looked at the places we thought were interesting.

We hadn’t spent much in South America so we went down the west coast there. We wanted to do some scuba diving so we went to Australia. We wanted to go to some countries that

we weren’t able to visit the first time we traveled, such as Vietnam and Myanmar.

Was it a rigid itinerary?

CW: The parameters were fairly fluid … If we wanted to stay longer or shorter at some place, we could do that. We only had our travel planned a couple of weeks ahead of time win terms of flights, and lodging was booked four or five days ahead of time, with SEE Q&A PAGE 5

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Documentary features inaugural New Hampshire decriminalizes cannabis class of Schwarzman scholars the use, cultivation, and possession of recreational marijuana. Sorens said the legalization will increase due to fewer law enforcements.

The decriminalization policy is state revenues for Massachusetts expected to increase demand for and Maine. He added that New marijuana, in part due to a shift Hampshire lawmakers may be away from alcohol usage. This concerned by the potential loss substitution may result in a slight of revenue if they don’t vote for revenue loss for the state of New legalization.

Hampshire, but an increase in the However, though the trend across price of marijuana both on and off states has been towards legalization, the black market. Sorens explains no state has yet to do so through that decriminalization will not have the legislative process. Because a negative effect on the demand for New Hampshire does not have a citizen’s ballot marijuana on the initiative, it black market. is unlikely “If lawmakers “If legalization means that the state wanted to remove a lot of people who will legalize the black market, currently consume marijuana decriminalization in the next d o e s n o t h e l p alcohol transition to couple of with that — only marijuana, we might years, Sorens legalization will,” be doing better for said.

Sorens said.

Last H o w e v e r , society.” month in Mur phy sees Vermont, the a potential House voted p o s i t i ve e f f e c t -PATRICK MURPHY, against a from substituting DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH leg alization marijuana for AND SENIOR FELLOW bill after it alcohol. passed in the “If legalization AT THE PUBLIC POLICY Assembly means a lot of INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA and Senate. people who Governor c u r r e n t l y Phil Scott sent consume alcohol the bill back transition to marijuana, we might be doing to legislators to request stronger better for society,” Murphy said, protections against impaired regarding the lower risk level of driving and underage access to marijuana to alcohol consumption. marijuana. Murphy believes that He notes that if legalization results Vermont has high incentive to in a combination of alcohol and legalize. marijuana usage, there could be a “On a population basis, Vermont is the largest marijuana consuming net loss to society.

T h e l o n g - r u n p o l i t i c a l state in the nation, and has a ramifications of the policy change strong desire to work towards are still uncertain, Sorens said. legalization,” Murphy said.

Historically, Republicans such as Whether or not legalization Sununu have been nearly as likely of marijuana is in the future, the as Democrats to pass marijuana most important responsibility is decriminalization bills in New working towards efficient regulative Hampshire; however, legalization measures, particularly because bills tend to be opposed by there are have been no definitive Republicans in the Senate. Both studies on the ramifications of Murphy and Sorens said that marijuana usage, Murphy said. decriminalization does seem to be M u r p h y r e c o g n i z e s t h e tied with legalization in the long run challenges in regulation after and that recreational legalization of legalization. marijuana will happen eventually. “Locally, we find conflicting “There’s a roughly 2-1 support viewpoints between political parties for legalization and regulation of about taxation and g rowing marijuana in New Hampshire,” m a r i j u a n a f o r r e c r e a t i o n a l purposes,” he said of California’s Sorens said.

Marijuana was legalized in state wide public referendum.

Massachusetts and Maine through t h e M a r i j u a n a L e g a l i z at i o n Zachar y Benjamin and Nalini Initiative, a process commissioning Ramanathan contributed reporting.

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According to Kathy Liu, one of the show’s producers, Schwarzman came up with the idea to create an educational and influential global program following Tsinghua University’s request to aid a future study abroad program for its hundred-year anniversary. The university approached Schwarzman due to his past involvement and position on the board for the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.

“However, he decided he didn’t want to do something simple, but rather go big,” Liu said. “He wanted to create this scholarship program, almost like a school, taking cues from the Rhodes Scholarship program.”

Schwarzman’s idea turned into the Schwarzman Scholars and spurred the development of Schwarzman College on Tsinghua University’s campus.

Schwarzman College provides students with the opportunity to obtain a Master’s of Global Affairs, aiming to harness talented academic and professional leadership in China’s expanding role in the world.

Liu also cited the disparity between the large number of Chinese students studying abroad in the United States and American students studying in China as a reason for the program’s development.

Schwarzman aimed to minimize this gap, as well as educate and connect future leaders with a knowledgeable background in Chinese affairs.

The reason for the original documentary was interest in the first year of a program “that was being called the ‘Rhodes of the 21st century,’” Liu said. The scholarship program was meant to unite the best and brightest individuals from around the world to learn together. Their courses, which are taught in English, concentrate on public policy, international studies, economics and business.

“The reason we featured [Turner] was because I was very impressed with how engaged she was in the program,” Liu said. “She knew exactly what she wanted and where she was headed.”

There is a hopeful expectation that the relationships built through the Schwarzman Scholars program will have long-lasting geopolitical implications.

“The main values of the program emphasized hearing different perspectives, which was really interesting,” Gaba said. He also added that the experience mirrored a survey of global affairs.

Looking for unique applicants, Schwarzman Scholars director of global admissions Rob Garris said that the program’s admissions process considers individuals who have demonstrated the willingness and capacity to take initiative and drive success within their

own cultures.

Dartmouth, he applied his Dartmouth “It’s an admissions process that studies and coded for Microsoft. Gaba is recognizes that leadership skills are experienced in front of the camera, as he going to be very different from Japan competed on NBC’s “American Ninja to Singapore to India to the U.K. to the Warrior.” Additionally, he co-founded U.S,” Garris said.

Symbiotic Studios, a video production The Schwarzman Scholars program company with over one million views on brings together students who are YouTube. He has filmed virtual-reality interested in a vast array of fields, videos for NASA, Kickstarter videos for including business and economics, local entrepreneurs and a viral video international policy, diplomacy, public of himself dancing across China that policy, arts and sciences. appeared on Good Morning America, Garris added that he was originally Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. drawn to the scholarship program Additionally, the Schwarzman because it “helped universities focus Scholars traveled throughout China on their resources on solving real world trips led by faculty, fellow students and problems, and created mechanisms local guides. Through these immersive for very talented programs, the young people “The reason we scholars met to get a good gover nment, featured Jordyn was education at no business and because I was very cost.” social leaders.

During its first impressed with how The organized year, the program excursions had 110 scholars engaged she was in were called from 31 different the program. She “Deep Dives,” countries. Fortyentailed knew exactly what she and five percent of meetings with the scholars were wanted and where she local government from the United was headed.” of ficials and States, 20 percent business leaders were from China in addition to and the final -KATHY LIU, “A exploratory 35 percent was travel.

BILLIONAIRE’S BET” comprised of “Life students from the PRODUCER at Schwarzman rest of the world.

College was an “We feel like adventure,” Gaba there is a lot of work to be done, said. “We once we went to Hong Kong particularly in important geographies on a scholar-led Deep Dive, where we that are geopolitically important in met with the incoming Chief Executive terms of China’s relationship with the of Hong Kong, the first Chief Executive rest of the world,” Garris said. “These of Hong Kong which is similar to include places like Japan, Korea, Russia their president and several prominent and India, which are key from the business CEOs. We had different travel perspective of how China connects out experiences like that, meeting people to the rest of the world and have been with very interesting perspectives.” underrepresented in the first few classes Addressing the program’s purpose, [of Schwarzman Scholars].”

Garris said that it is dually focused on Furthermore, these skills are the individual scholar and his or her emphasized both inside and outside capacity to serve as an intermediary of the classroom. Through the school’s between China and the rest of the curriculum, students attend class four world. days a week, split into quarters, or “They’re not just a collection of modules, similar to Dartmouth. Gaba successful and talented individuals, described the modules as two hour daily but also a network with the shared periods for four days a week; the students responsibility to be sure that on all did not have class on Friday and were fronts cultural, political, business and encouraged to explore Beijing or travel nonprofit,” Garris said. “China has outside of the city. open and strong relationships with “It was a combination of classroom all parts of the world.” [learning] and guest lectures, with us Hehighlightedthatintoday’sglobal having the freedom to travel and do cool environment, younger individuals see things on the weekends,” Gaba said. the value of deeper relationships and Gaba’s concentration in the Master’s cultural understanding. program centered around Chinese “The most rewarding part of public policy, studying different issues the program was definitely getting in international relations, global to meet all of the other scholars,” economics, business and public policy. Gaba said. “After doing this, the At Dartmouth, Gaba studied computer world seems a lot smaller. I am more science and digital arts. He was also the connected to people all over the world musical director for Dartmouth’s Sing [and] feel much more like a global Dynasty a cappella group. Outside of citizen after this program.”

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GUEST COLUMNIST RACHNA SHAH ’21

Voices Crying Out

Our intellectual growth depends upon our tolerance for diverse opinions.

As an incoming freshman, I do not know much about the campus, but I do know why I chose Dartmouth. The College cultivates learning in both the arts and the sciences, but above all, it embraces community. Dartmouth alumni, faculty and current students alike are eager to share their experiences here. As I wait to join my Dartmouth peers this upcoming fall, I hope to find the following statement to be true: “At Dartmouth, differences are embraced and ideas are challenged.” Yet at Dartmouth, like at many other colleges across the nation, the right to freedom of expression is under debate. As a fundamental right and a pillar for democracy, why is it an issue of such controversy?

It is no secret that today’s political landscape is polarized. One does not have to look beyond the echo chambers of our Facebook feeds and our daily newsletters to see how ideologies influence facts. America’s political parties are increasingly partisan. This is dangerous because our political divisions are no longer constrained only to our personal beliefs, but are now affecting our daily lives. A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that marrying or living near someone with a different political ideology causes discomfort to 23 percent of liberals and 30 percent of conservatives. Political polarization is accelerating our transformation into a society where compromise is impossible.

One of the biggest dilemmas revolves around the First Amendment – specifically, the freedom of speech and expression. While certain kinds of speech, like pornography, slander, classified information and hate speech, are not legally protected, the First Amendment gives us the right to hold and express our opinions without censorship or fear of retaliation. This is one of our most fundamental American liberties, and it should not be the bedrock for so much political conflict.

The 1963 case of Edwards v. South Carolina ruled that the First Amendment supported the right of peaceful segregation protesters to march in front of a state house. In the earlier 1949 Terminiello v. Chicago trial, the Supreme Court overturned the arrest of Father Arthur Terminiello, who had criticized various political and racial groups in a Chicago auditorium. The Court expressed that “a function of free speech under our system is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are or even stirs people to anger.”

Free speech does not only extend to the ideas we agree with, but also to philosophies, values and facts we find altogether unpleasant. We must let people decide for themselves which ideas to believe,

regardless of their popularity and convenience. In the words of English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

On college campuses, speakers perceived as controversial are often banned. However, “unsafe” is not the same as “uncomfortable,” as Foundation for Individual Rights in Education President Greg Lukianoff said in an interview with NPR. College President Phil Hanlon announced in the spring of 2016, “Freedom to dissent lies at the heart of freedom of expression.” But the demotion of free speech is not always limited to protests and rallies – it also happens in our classrooms. Students from across the political spectrum often feel uneasy about sharing views different from those of their professors and classmates. A different opinion is seen by some as offensive and discomforting rather than as a reasonable position with a strong intellectual basis. Voices not echoing the majority opinion are often not heard in the same way. This leads to a bias in favor of certain agendas and platforms. As a result, our critical thinking risks being obscured by the unanimity of groupthink.

The spirit of academia is to have our opinions tested by people who do not always agree with us. No singular opinion is correct, but in today’s largely intolerant environment, we seem to have forgotten that. Students do not feel open to sharing their personal thoughts with their peers and professors because they fear retaliation and social exclusion. However, bridging our gaps and reconciling our divides is impossible if we are not open to a diversity of viewpoints.

There are undoubtedly individuals with whom we disagree, but it is unwise to remove them completely from our lives. How can we foster intellectual growth without acknowledging dissenting opinions? It is our collective responsibility to engage in honest and difficult conversations.

Tolerance can only develop from within ourselves.

Picking and choosing what constitutes acceptable free speech is a hypocritical, slippery slope. We should let people speak their minds, and I say that not as a Democrat or a Republican, but as an American defending the First Amendment.

Shah is a member of the incoming Class of 2021, the Dartmouth Open Campus Coalition and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Student Network.

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STAFF COLUMNIST JOSEPH REGAN ’19

Reevaluating Leadership

Not everyone is a leader, nor need they be to be employable.

Leadership and competence are the two those for whom the appellation was the sole extent qualities prestigious institutions prioritize in of their leadership. The problem is that, just like their selection of applicants — be it a premier conviviality, leadership cannot be demonstrated university, an important organization or a major by a title; it can only be demonstrated by action. employer. While leadership is valuable and For example, you may be able to rally competence indispensable, so too is the often coworkers to your cause because you are overlooked quality of conviviality. extremely capable, because you are an excellent Competence comes in many forms. leader or because you facilitate collaboration Conviviality could be reframed as “the capability smoothly. The latter is just as important as of effective communication.” The distinction is the former two. Conviviality should not be so that being a convivial communicator is not only discounted in the application processes. about communicating “well.” The convivial Interviews, one could argue, are where communicators’ approachable nature will conviviality is assessed. This would be acceptable likely help them communicate comfortably were it not for the order of assessment. An and successfully, but they are also individuals interview is extended after certain degrees of with whom collaboration is as enjoyable as it competence or leadership have already been is effective. The word describes, in essence, the reached. When employers or recruiters do so, pleasantness of communication. It is generally they relegate conviviality, the quality that will difficult to demonstrate conviviality in a job or cause one to actually enjoy work with others, to graduate school application, but the effort should second place. be made. And on the other end, an applicant’s The world in which most businesses “leadership skill” should not operate cares nothing for take the precedence it does. “Leadership is secondary conviviality. Other fields The West has an to competence and may not be as cutthroat, but unhealthy obsession with they still depend on results conviviality in the leadership, one that is to stay afloat. Those whose workplace. Those detectable in literature and work generates results are manifested in the sections who aspire to lead are led by those who have that divide applications wonderful additions to already done so and been and resumes. Consider the a work environment, rewarded with a promotion. council of Greek nobles but aspiring to lead is Thus, the most important in “The Iliad,” which not the same thing as qualities to success are not meets repeatedly with leading, nor can it really the qualities elite institutions Agamemnon, its ostensible determine performance.” first assess. leader, to engineer the

Leadership is sacking of Troy. Achilles secondary to competence is an excellent leader, although prone to fits of and conviviality in the workplace. Those who rage and pouting; Agamemnon is an excellent aspire to lead are wonderful additions to a leader, although a megalomaniac; Odysseus, work environment, but aspiring to lead is not too, is an excellent leader, though not as assertive the same thing as leading, nor can it really as someone incubated in the West’s genius and determine performance. It is impossible for leadership cult would like him to be. These three everyone to fulfill their desire to lead without remarkable leaders are not superior to those dividing the work environment into many smaller they lead; they are simply performing a different fiefdoms. A clearly demarcated and organized function. structure makes sense, but having countless The fleets of triremes that carried the Greek administrative departments and subgroups army and the interlocked shields of the hoplite devoid of justification, other than the inflation phalanx both required sharp competence, and of egos, is fatuous. could not function without excellent teamwork. All levels of an organization have tasks to be Competence was a must. Conviviality was completed. The two means of impressing an grease to the oars or bent knees in formation, employer are to work well and be a pleasure to and leadership was the catalyst that elevated a work with. Neither of these is mutually exclusive unified whole to something greater than its parts. with leadership. Perhaps taking initiative is what At the time “The Iliad” was set, individuals’ is actually sought after. If this is so, it is a mistake bodily strength or the impression they made upon to conflate initiative with leadership — not only others likely comprised the modern equivalent because of how difficult it is to ascertain true of an “application,” with its typical accolades leadership ability, but also because initiative and recommendations. Most of us are no longer is really nothing other than the result of the assessed on our physical capabilities, but the way unrelenting application of competence. we interact with others still matters. No one applies Being a joy to work with is not just a preferable to be an Achilles, Agamemnon or Odysseus. clichéd description of an applicant or current Leadership is not a box to be checked off. It is employee. To be convivial is to naturally foster earned. Why, then, do positions of leadership esprit de corp. Leadership is, paradoxically, only receive so much more emphasis than conviviality, valuable if there are people willing to be led. when their sheer abundance has relegated them Employers would do well to seek conviviality to largely superfluous roles of empty authority? alongside leadership. Both qualities are valuable; Competence is measurable, or can at least be both are symbiotic. It is foolish to focus so keenly closely approximated by grades and test scores. Yet on a quality which loses value in abundance. One a list of leadership positions can easily be a list of can have too many “leaders” organizing an event achievements devoid of real substance. On paper but one cannot have too much conviviality at a it is impossible to distinguish between leaders and party.

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some exceptions. When we flew from one continent to another, we had reservations in advance. We met some people along the way, those were fixed.

But there was still a lot of fluidity.

Any highlights from the trip?

CW: One was certainly Colombia.

It was the first place we went.

Colombia, for most of my adult life, was essentially a failed state and not a place you would go to … The great thing is that Colombia has wrestled itself back from the precipice … It’s a just cool place to visit. You’ve got the Caribbean exposure, the coffee country, the Amazon, the mountains and the great cities. It was the first place we went to, which meant the travel plan was working, we were happy, the budget worked and the dynamics were good … India was also really fun because we’ve been there many times before, and it’s always fun to go back. We stayed with friends in Mumbai, people we’ve known from Chicago, and being in their home was really fun after traveling for a long time.

Were there any unexpected mishaps along the way?

CW: My daughter got a flesh eating parasite in the Amazon. She was bit by a sand fly that transmits the parasite. It took a long time to figure out what it was because it manifested itself as just a small open sore, and by the time it appeared we were already out of the Amazon. If we had gone to a doctor there, they probably would have recognized it immediately, but instead we went to New Zealand, where nobody had ever seen it, and then we went to Australia, where they hadn’t seen it, then we went to Vietnam. So, we had about five doctors before somebody actually figured out what it was, because it is a classic disease that afflicts millions of people in poor countries and almost nobody in rich countries. So if you go to a doctor in a rich country, they just haven’t seen it. She ultimately had to go to Germany for treatment.

Has it been hard to transition back to life in the United States?

CW: In some ways, teaching this summer is great because it just pushed me right back into my routine. Since I taught last summer, which was the last time this class would be taught, I immediately got back up to speed.

Hanover has not changed a whole lot, so that part is good. It took us a while to get back into our house because we’d rented it out to my in-laws until the end of the school year, and there were so many snow days that they were in the house for another two weeks after we arrived home. It was very disorienting to be renting a condo in your home town while other people were living at your house, but for the most part it’s

been quite easy to slide back.

Do you have any plans to do another trip around the world?

CW: I did it in 1988. I did it in 2016.

It’s hard to imagine doing it again.

It’s a lot of money. It’s a lot of time and lot of planning … Maybe in our retirement, we’ll do it again, but there are no plans at present.

Any places you feel like you missed?

CW: Tons. We didn’t go to China.

We didn’t go to Russia or much of Africa and the east coast of South America. It’s amazing how in any given continent, you have to miss all these countries, and in any given country, you have to miss all these places that are quite cool, and in any given city, you have to make miss all these places that you read about. Nine months sounds like a long time, but there was only a small proportion of things that we got to do that we would have liked to do with more time.

Earlier in your career you worked for The Economist and also as a speech writer. What got you initially interested in writing?

CW: The first thing I did was go to Chicago to work for a law firm to make the money to travel around the world. While I was traveling around the world I wrote articles for the Valley News. I happened to write about whatever I found was interesting.

I was like an old fashioned foreign correspondent before the Internet, so I’d find things, write the articles longhand and mail them with a roll of film back to White River Junction, which would take two weeks. But I had a pretty good eye for news, so when we were in Hong Kong, I wrote about the Hong Kong hand-over from the British back to China. When we were in Singapore, I wrote about death penalty for drug trafficking … What became apparent to me was that these are the things that interested me, and when we got back from traveling, I had some clips … and at that point I realized I was interested in what we would now describe as public policy.

Any differences or similarities from when you went to Dartmouth and the College today?

CW: In many good ways, the campus still has the feel of Dartmouth. There are still the relationships between professors and students and small classes. People selected Dartmouth because they’re excited about New Hampshire and the foreign study programs. At the same time, it’s clearly a more diverse place. It was relatively international when I was here. We were way ahead of our time in terms of foreign study programs. So I think all the changes have been good and I don’t think anything that we

loved in our time has been sacrificed.

Many of the controversies, however, are quite similar. I was here during the whole shanty incident when shanties were built to protest apartheid and people from the Dartmouth Review drove over them in a flatbed truck.

Until the protest at the Dimensions show, that was the incident where classes were canceled because of campus unrest. So the grievances are still very familiar … Back then some of the protests weren’t as effective at persuading people as they might have been, and I would say that is still the case. We have legitimate things we have to work on, and we’re probably not working through them as well as we should.

You’ve written some books such as “Naked Statistics,” “Naked Economics” and “Naked Money.” What goes into the process of finding a topic to start writing about?

CW: After I got my Ph.D when I was working at The Economist, I got the idea for “Naked Economics.” I was actually trying to write a book on the gambling industry and I was going nowhere, but I was teaching a class at Medill for journalists. I called my agent and said, “Look, I need a book on economics that will be interesting to journalists that will be relevant,

accessible and not too much math.”

There’s this long pause and she said, “I don’t think it exists but you’re going to write it and we’re going to call it economics for poets.” … During the writing process, usually I do relatively little until I approach the deadline and then I do quite a bit, a lot like the typical Dartmouth student, only it’s a 400-page project instead of a nine-page paper … Deadlines are a very powerful motivator at any age.

What inspired you specifically to devote effort towards the Centrist Project in 2013, and what are the current goals going into the 2018 midterms?

CW: It grew out of this book, “The Centrist Manifesto,” and the idea was to create a third party of the center.

The Centrist Project was founded to advance that goal, but it turned out fairly quickly that a third party just was not viable, in part because people really don’t like political parties. We pivoted in terms of strategy and said “OK, we’ll keep the centrist policies, but we will support independents whose views are consistent with this set of centrist principles.” The big strategy is to focus on independents for the U.S. Senate. If we can get three or four centrist independents to win … you could easily have a situation where it’s 48 Republicans,

three centrist independents and 49 Democrats. Then those three become the Anthony Kennedy of the Senate … Nothing could get done without them being the swing votes, and they could float ideas that neither party was willing to touch. The idea is this it’s kind of an elegant hack to the system … Meanwhile we’re starting to support independent state legislatures. In particular, we’re focusing on Colorado’s legislature, which looks like Congress in that it’s very closely divided.

Any comments on the current politics of today?

CW: As someone who teaches public policy, our current discourse is very disparaging … I don’t think there’s a right answer to a lot of these things … I do think that there is a right way to talk about them and to appreciate the real trade-offs, and unfortunately that’s not the way we’re discussing them. The health care system needs to be fixed. The Affordable Care Act was arguably an improvement on the status quo, but it’s not perfect. The discussion we’ve been having has not been, “How do we fix the Affordable Care Act?” And that, unfortunately, is the discussion we need to have.

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

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Q&A: Rory Gawler ’05 Q&A

By Paulomi Rao

Rory Gawler ’05 found his passion for the outdoors during orientation weekend of his freshman year at Dartmouth. As the current assistant director of outdoor programs, Gawler has found working with students the most important part of his job, and Robinson Hall to be a symbol on campus for community and family.

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Congratulations on making it past the halfway point of the term! With parents arriving on campus this weekend, we decided it would be most relevant to have the theme of the Mirror reflect Dartmouth’s families and the many people who support us during our time at college. Leaving for college is often associated with saying goodbye to friends and family who have supported us our entire lives, but it also means a series of new beginnings, including new friends, new teachers and any other relationships that might emerge in the four years spent at Dartmouth.

For this week’s cover, we decided to use a manuscript of a letter from Samuel Occum’s cousin, Sobuck, requesting that his son, Enoch, be allowed to come home as soon as possible. With family members coming up this weekend, students can recall the same kind of love and longing that exists between students and family members centuries later. However, coming to college also marks the beginning of the inevitable transition we all have towards adulthood — a time when we make our own decisions and create our own families. Some of us drift to new locations, some of us stay rooted in the same place. Wherever we decide to go, family is a concept that stays with us despite constantly changing. This issue aims to reflect this change and explore how the community members around Dartmouth define the word “family.”

At the end of the day, each one of us has had our shares of happy and sad experiences at college, when we wanted to turn to our families for a shoulder to cry on, a hearty laugh or just some good old-fashioned advice. We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the halfway point of sophomore summer than taking time to reflect on the people who got us here. Enjoy!

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you can go to a physical place and, without having to make plans, you can drop in and see people there that you know and can hang out with. It’s a low key, spontaneous drop in kind of atmosphere. I suspect that’s what makes a lot of the sororities and fraternities successful, and I think it’s what makes the outing club and Ravine Lodge so successful — just being able to swing into Robinson and hang out for ten minutes just because I had the time.

wholesome thing to do. There are some students, the lifers, who go to class, do the DOC, and that’s it. They are here every day, and I see them and I know them all.

There are a lot of students who come to do a couple things but have other stuff going on, and there are students who will do one outing club trip in their whole lives, and that’s fine too. We do a lot of talking about being inclusive and welcoming here in the outing club, and I think the students work hard to make it happen. There’s also value to being an organization that has quirks and inside jokes, that has culture and all of those things. While they are trying really hard to be inclusive, those things can seem not welcoming. But the club is trying really hard to find a balance between those things. For my peers, the ones that I had the most meaningful relationships with were all part of the outing club.

When they came, we did a bunch of outing club type stuff together, we had a great time, and then they went home. And I think we would all consider that as feeling like a family.

As an ’05, what did the term “Dartmouth family” mean to you?

RG: One of the most interesting Robinson is such a special things about graduating in ’05 was place on campus for many that I showed up for First-Year Trips students. What does it mean when September 11 happened, to you? and I think that was a wake up call RG: That’s a lot of the reason why I have an office right off the hallway, for the whole which connects me country and the with students. It’s world. For us, it “We do a lot of logistically and talking about was a bit of a conveniently very transition point being inclusive and useful, and working in our lives, and welcoming here in with students is what a little bit of the outing club, and gets me out of bed “seize the day.” I think the students in the morning. It We are all the work hard to make the best part of my protagonists in job and [I just love] our own stories, it happen.” the students in the What’s one of your favorite but it did seem experiences with the DOC? outing club. like our class RG: I think one of the neatest things really did seize the day and take leadership roles in Are there specific outdoor I got to do with the outing club was a lot of things and were particularly events in the DOC that are build a cabin: the Class of ’66 Lodge. active, especially in the outing club. geared towards community I spent a lot of time out there, and the experience of building the cabin building?

RG: I think that all of the events was amazing — doing something Why Dartmouth?

RG: I came here because of the are about social ties and about with my hands, building something [Dartmouth Outing Club]. I’m community building. I think beautiful that will last and people from Toronto and I was bored outdoor activity is a medium upon will appreciate, but for me, that to tears in the city, but I went to which we build relationships, and I was never the best part. The best summer camp in the summers. happen to think it’s one of the better part was being with a group of When it became clear that I could go ones. It’s hard to build meaningful people who were working hard to accomplish to school here, I was very excited. I relationships doing a common showed up during orientation week something passive, goal. And I and bought a lifetime membership like watching a movie “If I had to pick think that kind for the outing club. Interestingly together or watching what the purpose of life was, it of experience TV together, and enough, I did not actually find builds a type of my place in the outing club until I think it’s really would be building relationship that freshman spring. [But] at some damaging to build relationships with point, I went on a hike with Cabin social relationships people, and the DOC you just can’t get any other way, and Trail and went to a woodsmen’s t h r o u g h b i n g e is one of the best and I think that’s meet, and realized that was my drinking. But I think ways to do it.” why people value it is really excellent, home there. team sports, healthy and p ro j e c t s, a n d And your experience with awesome to build why, when you those relationships community in the DOC? RG: For me, I didn’t particularly doing wholesome outdoor activity, are at a work place, working with a enjoy hiking, but I enjoyed canoeing. building life, leadership and team is important. Because working At that time, the Canoe Club did confidence skills and building those as a team towards a common goals is hardwired into our genetics, a lot of white water kayaking, so social bonds between each other that’s what we should be doing, initially I didn’t know my place.

I eventually sort of figured out Many of the programs at the and it feels very satisfying and that Cabin and Trail was more DOC are student-led, do you important. Those types of bonds than just hiking — it was cabin feel like this makes the DOC and memories, you just can’t get any other way. If I had to pick what maintenance, trail work, camping unique? and the woodsmen’s team, which RG: I think the outing club has been the purpose of life was, it would be were really fun aspects of [Cabin a huge community for people, and building relationships with people, and Trail]. The thing that really I often refer to it as the core of the and the DOC is one of the best hooked me was the community. I alternative social scene on campus. ways to do it. found some friends just hanging out I think other than the Greek system, in Robinson [Hall], eating lunch in it is the most significant community This interview has been edited and Room 13, and just knowing that on campus, and it’s a healthy and condensed for clarity and length.

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A look into the families of the greater Hanover community Story

By Rebecca Flowers

Hanover, New Hampshire is school student’s position, you might home to 11,260 people, according to think it’s sort of cool to hang out the 2010 census. Dartmouth students with slightly older students across the make up a good portion, with 20 to street on the Dartmouth campus,” 24 year-olds occupying 25.5 percent Griffin said. of the population, according to the Many Hanover residents are also census. The next biggest percentages fans of Dartmouth sports teams, and of the population, however, are 15 they attend everything from women’s to 19 year-olds at 16.9 percent and volleyball to men’s basketball, 50 to 54 year-olds at 5.2 percent. according to Griffin. When Griffin In addition, 57.6 percent of the was raising her daughters, they households in Hanover belong to were “big Dartmouth women’s families. In other words, Hanover basketball fans and also Dartmouth families have a large stake in the women’s volleyball [fans], because Hanover experience. Living in a [her daughter] played volleyball.” college town, they are inextricably The College also attracts world class professionals, from atheletes to linked to Dartmouth.

Hanover town manager Julia artists, providing an abundance of Griffin first came to Hanover in opportunities for local high school 1996, from a previous position as city students. Both of her daughters manager in Concord to raise her now were rowers in high school, and 28- and 21 year-old children. One were taught by former rowers on of her main reasons for moving to the U.S. National Team.

“How Hanover was the cool is it that school system. the coaches Hanover High in rural School, which “The time when you Hanover, New was established tend to know the most H a m p s h i r e in 1888, was are Olympiclisted as one of people as a family in c a l i b e r America’s Best the community is when rowers?”

High Schools by Businessweek in your kids are in school.” Griffin said.

Many 2009.

Dartmouth “A s a - JULIA GRIFFIN, HANOVER students are parent, often also very your number TOWN MANAGER active in the one priority is c o m m u n i t y. finding a high Griffin said quality public that she has school system seen them as coaches and art for your children,” Griffin said.

Pattie Fried, who co-owns the teachers. Fried echoed a similar local staple Lou’s with her husband, sentiment, noting that they have has lived in Hanover for 25 years. tended her garden, helped her move Even after their initial purchase of and babysat for her.

Lou’s, the Frieds did not make the “When our son went off to decision to move to Hanover until college, I had nobody to help me schlep stuff in the garden, and so their son started school.

“When our son was starting I would put a temporary job ad in school, we were worried about the student employment and just had school system where we were living,” some amazing luck,” Fried said. “It’s Fried said. “It was all for the school.” been really wonderful that way.”

According to Griffin, high school Fried also said that she appreciates students also have the option of the “beautiful diversity” that comes taking courses at the College with the College, which inspired for free. Her children both took their family to take in an exchange anthropology courses at the College student from Korea while their son their senior year. The high school was in Korea. After a car ran over often serves to connect many families the student’s foot and Fried cared to the larger Dartmouth community. for her, the student’s family in Korea “The time when you tend to know were very grateful. They later nursed the most people as a family in the Fried’s son through an illness. community is when your kids are in “It would have been a disaster for him if they hadn’t been here,” school,” Griffin said.

Griffin also said that high Fried said. “If we didn’t have these schoolers like to spend time on international students coming from Dartmouth’s campus, from studying all over the world, how lucky were at Baker-Berry Library to eating at we that her parents were able to jump in and help?” the Collis Center.

“I’m not sure that the Dartmouth Griffin also describes living students always appreciate having near the College as “intellectually high school students in their midst, stimulating.” but if you put yourself in a local high “As a family [in Hanover], you

[end up] never trying to figure out late noise, trash on the sidewalks or 1769. At first, the town and what you’re going to do that’s fun multiple cars taking up the parking the College were separated but and interesting on a weekend or lot, Griffin said that neighbors will farmers with cows brought the say, “‘Gosh, I love them, bless their two communities together. Since after school,” she said.

She said that she also appreciates heart, but they’re a pain to live next then, their relationship has become more complex. Mitchell said that Hanover’s proximity to large cities to because they’re slobs.’”

A n o t h e r one of the main differences is the such as Boston, p r o b l e m number of cars in Hanover. In Montreal and r e s i d e n t s the 1950s, people began to use New York, in s o m e t i m e s cars much more instead of bikes, case families “It’s important for us experience is the and the town had to limit parking ever do face ever-expanding spaces, installing parking meters that boredom. to maintain a good college campus. and giving out parking passes. In This has been relationship with Director of the the next few decades, young boys the case since the town, both with D a r t m o u t h started to come up for summer Mitchell’s Re a l E s t a t e camp, and women came up on big c h i l d h o o d , Hanover government O f f i c e E l l e n weekends like Green Key. Activity and s h e and the community at Ar nold helps in the town really started to pick remembers m a n a g e t h i s up when the College expanded a t t e n d i n g large.” issue. When the to include women in its student lectures and plays at - ELLEN ARNOLD, DIRECTOR College begins population in the 1970s, Mitchell b u i l d i n g o n said.

Dartmouth land, especially Since then, the population of H a l l a n d OF THE DARTMOUTH REAL on the outskirts, Hanover has expanded even more, t h e f o r m e r ESTATE OFFICE t h e o f f i c e but Mitchell does not believe that Webster Hall, often receives this changes the character of the which is now complaints from residents, Arnold town. called Rauner.

“Hanover’s always been a “Robert Frost would come to read said.

“It’s important for us to maintain vibrant town,” she said. poetry,” she said.

Biological sciences professor a good relationship with the town, Mitchell also believes that the Mark McPeek also said that his both with Hanover government and “town gown” relationship is less family is full of people who love the community at large,” Arnold troubled than most. the outdoors, including the physical said. “So we try to be a good “Compared to other towns that we read about or that we’ve lived landscape and activities available in neighbor.”

However, looking back on in — my husband worked for IBM the area.

Both Griffin and Fried mentioned the history of the town and the for 20 years, so we’ve been in six Hanover’s high level of safety. As College, they have often evolved different communities on the east another factor, Fried said that this simultaneously and synergistically. coast — I think they’ve worked very was especially important when her They have been intertwined well here together,” she said. “I’m daughter was young because she since the College’s inception in very, very pleased to see that.” would often run away.

“It’s one of the scariest things ever, and we’ve been in some places where it’s been a nightmare, but here, Mary at Mainstreet Kitchens knows [her] and Rosy at Traditionally Trendy knows [her], so she kind of grew up with that as her community and her safety net,” Fried said.

The College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center also employ a large portion of the town, which results in a generally positive attitude towards the institutions, Griffin said.

Mitchell describes the relationship between the College and Hanover as a “town gown” relationship, a term used to refer to college towns.

This relationship is ultimately not without its roadblocks.

“Lou’s is a really good example of where town and gown mesh,” Fried said.

Lou’s often has a larger influx of college students on the weekend and a large number of families during the week. Fried said that one reason for this is that the local families know the college students come in on the weekend, and try to avoid it for that reason. According to Griffin said that residents mainly PAULOMI RAO/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF have problems with students when they are neighbors. Whether it is Fresh vegetables from local farms are sold on the Green every Wednesday.

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Students find places for belonging and community

By Elise Higgins STORY

shared community, and we consider the Roth Center our home because we can just sit there and do anything.

They’re people that I can always talk to and have that one thing in common with that bonds us together.

Spring Yu ’19 is a studio art major. She joined Street Soul her freshman fall and has become increasingly involved in the group. In addition to hip-hop, Yu has always taken ballet classes at Dartmouth, as well as classes hosted by Street Soul and Sugarplum.

COURTESY OF SYDNEY ZHOU

Students of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra can bond over their love for playing music.

Going away to college is many students’ first experience away from their families for an extended period of time, which can often lead to a difficult transition. Many students look to join various groups and communities on campus. These groups can range from friends to more structured organizations, such as cultural houses, sports teams or performance groups. By becoming a member of a particular community on campus, students can feel as if they have found their new home away from home. The Dartmouth asked seven students about their thoughts on family and communities at Dartmouth.

Simrit Singh ’19 is an cconomics and Asian and Middle Eastern studies major.

During the fall of 2016, she went on the Chinese language LSA+ to Beijing. Singh said she plans to continue studying Chinese.

What was it like adjusting to campus without close family members nearby?

SS: It was weird at first. I’m really close to my family and I call them every single day. My family is super important to me, so finding families here on campus was something I had to do as well.

What makes the your LSA+ group like a family?

SS: I didn’t expect my study abroad to be so close, but it’s definitely like a family [when] we get together.

Everyone has their own role and their own voice that they bring to the group.

India Perdue ’19 is a member of the Christian Union. This summer, she is involved with the Summer Christian Fellowship, where different Christian groups come together.

What is the main goal of the Dartmouth Christian

Fellowship this summer?

IP: One of our main goals of the summer is to facilitate unity between the groups. I think there’s beauty in having different groups with a different focus, but it’s also cool to come together as one.

What makes the Christian Fellowships like a family?

IP: Christianity has a lot of rhetoric around being brothers and sisters to each other ... There’s this deep investment in each other and deep value for each other.

Sydney Zhou ’19 plays the bassoon for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra.

She take music lessons in addition to her coursework as an engineering science major.

JF: It was particularly hard at first because the high holidays fell during orientation, which were always holidays I spent with my family and friends, but that’s when I took the opportunity to first go to Hillel. I found a welcoming community with open arms.

What was it like to find people who you were able to connect to?

JF: I connected with them because we shared such a similar background. It’s nice to sort of have that community and I love telling that to any prospective students who are joining.

What makes the group you’re part of like a family?

JF: We’re definitely a family because we all have that shared culture, that

What was it like to find people who you were able to connect to?

SY: Our old director was a really great mentor for dance specifically, but also with life. Also, a lot of the ’19s ended up being able to jive really well with their personalities and at practice together.

What makes the group you’re part of like a family?

SY: We’re trying to communicate a lot between members and have a lot of transparency, and I think that really helps the whole dynamic, not having a hierarchy. Everyone gets input and that way it’s a little more cohesive. I feel like people can put in input and feel like it’s being heard.

Todd Huang ’19 is majoring in geography and biochemistry. He is a member of Asian/American Students for Action as well as the Asian and Asian American Living Learning Community.

What was it like adjusting to campus without close family members nearby?

TH: It felt kind of freeing I took a gap year so I was away from my family

for a year already, so it wasn’t a huge deal when I got here.

What was it like to find people you were able to connect to?

TH: I didn’t adjust completely freshman fall. Everyone is shifting friends and groups, and it wasn’t until winter that I found [Asian/ American Students for Action and the Asian and Asian American LLC]. It’s just a very comforting feeling to be around people of similar backg rounds and experiences, both cultural and spiritual sense.

Samantha Bozoian ’19 is a member of the women’s volleyball team and a French major on campus.

What was it like adjusting to campus without close family members nearby?

SB: It was weird but it was also kind of like I had a new family right when I got here because I had someone to eat with all the time, I had someone to hang out with, people were going to the same things as me ... I did get homesick, don’t get me wrong, but having a team and having that other aspect of family made it so much easier to adjust.

What makes the group you’re part of like a family?

SB: I think as you go through the years, you just feel more and more like family. You’re always there for each other, if you need anything, say something and they’ll be there.

These interviews have been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

What was it like adjusting to campus without close family members nearby?

SZ: It wasn’t that hard initially, but as the term went on, and I didn’t have lots of friends yet, and with my parents being miles and miles away, it was kind of hard. It’s nice to talk to them over the phone, but it’s not the same as having them in real life.

What was it like to find people who you were able to connect to?

SZ: You really are like a family. Not only do you spend so much time together each week, you also go on hikes, you have other social events.

It’s just having people there to do stuff with.

Julia Feinstein ’19 is majoring in biology and classical languages and literatures. She joined Hillel freshman fall and has served as various roles, including communications coordinator and vice president of programming. This summer, she is the president of Hillel.

What was it like adjusting to campus without close family members nearby?

COURTESY OF JULIA FEINSTEIN

Hillel is a space where students of the Jewish faith and culture can find community.

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Frost & Dodd Student Play Festival to showcase original student plays this weekend first occurred to her while working in New York.

The Dartmouth “I’ll often just start writing This weekend, the Frost & Dodd random scenes, and then it’ll Student Play Festival will showcase come together into an actual the hard work and creative story,” McGuinness said. “I never prowess of three Dartmouth usually plan out the entire story as undergraduates who have each a whole.” produced an original one-act play. The festival offers students Two of these works, “Everything many ways to participate outside Falls Apart” by Jordyn Fitch ’20 and of writing. Armando Ortiz Jr. “The Making of the Making of the ’19 is working in costume design, Moon Landing” by Elise Wien ’17 which he said presents an especially , will be presented to audiences as exciting challenge. staged readings while “If It Isn’t “It’s more difficult because you You” by Tess McGuinness ’18 will don’t have inspiration to draw be performed as a full production. from, and you’re like the pioneer The Frost & in terms of the Dodd Student p l a y, ” O r t i z “I’ll often just start Play Festival said. represents the writing random scenes, O r t i z f i r s t c u l m i n a t i o n and then it’ll come became involved of months i n t h e at e r a s of hard work together into an actual a freshman a n d t i g h t story.” working on the competition, wardrobe crew bringing of productions together the -TESS MCGUINNESS ’19, like “Chicago” w i n n e r s o f WRITER OF “IF IT ISN’T and “Don Juan two separate Comes Back contests. The YOU” from the War.” Eleanor Frost His Theater 65 Playwriting class led him Contest, to the festival, won by which allowed McGuinness, him to work as is for full production shows, and the a costume designer for the first Ruth and Loring Dodd Playwriting time.

Contest, won by Fitch and Wien, “I think costume design in is for staged readings. general brings life into the play,” Wien will have her comedic Ortiz said. “Good costumes piece “The Making of the Making essentially bring emotion into of the Moon Landing” read this people’s hearts.” weekend. As a fiction writer, she For Wien, participation in the finds a surprising amount of process is extremely active. She humorous writing material in the noted that while writing a piece, real world, such as the question of she thinks about the script in a artmaking as a credited process. holistic sense rather than from “If you did the the perspective moon landing, “It’s been so fun of individual th at would be characters. being a part of the biggest The actors can u n c r e d i t e d this process and then help her p r o j e c t e v e r having people a lot develop her ideas done,” Wien said. throughout the M c G u i n n e s s more talented than process. also looks to the me, like the set “They start world around asking questions her for influence, department and the t h a t I h a d n’ t and said she drew lights department, previously inspiration for help me out.” thought about,” the first scene of Wien said. her full-length I n t e r m s o f production “If -TESS MCGUINNESS, the relationship I t I s n ’ t Yo u ” between the from spending WRITER OF “IF IT ISN’T playwright a Thanksgiving YOU” and the actors, holiday around directors and the piano with people working friends. The piece behind the scenes, deals with time McGuinness has and the temporal nature of found the collabortive process to relationships, broad concepts that be extremely enjoyable.

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“It’s been so much fun being work was performed as a full-length mentorship-centered environment of theater a part of this process and having p ro d u c t i o n . a p p e a l i n g. people a lot more talented than This year, her “It’s a really good me, like the set department and work will be opportunity for growth At oc c oWr di ie nn g, the lights department, help me read alo u d .

Wien’s senior to see your show put Samantha out,” McGuinness said.

L a z a r, t h e The Frost & Dodd Festival is thesis was also up.” dramaturge for unique in allowing students to presented as the production, bring an original piece to life, an a d r a m a t i c pushed her impressive feat — especially for reading, and -ELISE WIEN ’17, WRITER to refine and undergraduates. This process has she noted the OF “THE MAKING OF THE perfect her seemingly aided some participants d i f f e r e n c e work. in affirming their career choices between the MAKING OF THE MOON “It’s a n d d eve l o p i n g t h e i r s k i l l s. two types of LANDING” a really great McGuinness’ play will be her performance. opportunity for first full-length production, and “ I t h i n k growth to see she plans on continuing to pursue there’s a sort of finality to it your show put theater. up,” Wien said.

“I think this process has that happens

As the made me really interested in when [a play] producing television writing and is put on with the costumes and words of these students suggest, stuff like that, the realization of these plays producing and that’s different took a lot of hard work and an having control “I think costume from a reading,” impressive amount of creativity. over the project design in general Wien said. “I feel From the featured playwrights to as a whole,” like I’m more the costume designers, this festival M c G u i n n e s s brings life into the to change brings together students from said. play. Good costumes flexible things because across different years and with a Fo r Wi e n , people have to variety of skills and interests. t h e e n d o f essentially bring t h i s f e s t i v a l emotion into people’s memorize, so if The Frost & Dodd Student Play I want to change Festival will be performed Friday, will mark the hearts.” things last minute July 28 and Saturday, July 29 at 8 completion of it’s a little bit p.m. in the Bentley Theater. There three years of easier.” will be additional showings of the competing and -ARMANDO ORTIZ JR. D u r i n g h e r plays Sunday, July 30 at 5 p.m. and s u c c e e d i n g. freshman year, 8 p.m.

D u r i n g h e r ’19, COSTUME DESIGNER she acted in a sophomore and p r o d u c t i o n Wien is a former member of The j u n i o r ye a r s, Wien won the contest, and her and found the welcoming and Dartmouth Staff.

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Two actors converse in a scene from Elise Wien ’17’s play, “The Making of the Making of the Moon Landing.”

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Q&A with lightweight rower Henry Cawthorne ’19

By MAX ZHUANG

The Dartmouth Staff

Henry Cawthorne ’19 is a member of the lightweight rowing team. Being a student-athlete during sophomore summer lends itself to a unique experience, which Cawthorne discusses in this interview wit The Dartmouth.

What have you been doing during your sophomore summer?

HC: I’ve been hanging out with friends more and it’s been a good opportunity to know Dartmouth outside of my sport. It is a lot more relaxing and fun compared to the other terms, when being on the rowing team means we have to worry about cutting weight and not having as much leisure time.

What classes are you taking and what have you learned?

HC: Layups are not layups, man. I’m in Astro 1, Govt 50.04 “War and Peace” and English 48 “Critical Issues in Post Colonial Studies”. I’m currently a government major and I plan on minoring in English as well.

Where are you from and how does the summer in Hanover compare?

HC: It’s weird­ — it’s very different compared to where I’m

from. I’m originally from Britain, and summers in Doncaster in South Yorkshire are much more inclement and overcast. Being on, there’s no vacation time like how I’m used to having the summers.

It’s been a really fun term overall, but the workload is more than I expected it to be.

What’s difficult about cutting weight and what is it like not having to deal with that this term?

HC: It’s fantastic. I’ve been able to put on a lot more weight since the season has ended. In the spring, our boats have to average 155 pounds, and so I typically need to cut my weight down to 157 pounds. My mate, Jackson Witherspoon ’19, is naturally a bit lighter than me so he cuts down to 151 pounds. Cutting weight is not pleasant because you don’t really drink anything for 48 hours. I haven’t had to do that at all this summer. I’m at 170 pounds right now.

What have you done during your leisure time?

HC: A few weekends ago, I climbed Mount Cardigan with some friends, and it’s been a blast going on a couple more hikes and seeing the nature side of Dartmouth. I appreciate in the woods and outdoors. It gets

intense scaling the summit of a mountain and then having to climb down.

What’s been your best rowing memory at Dartmouth?

HC: This past spring we went to Sacramento, California for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship and we won bronze, which is like the nationals for collegiate rowing in the Varsity Lightweight Fours. It was cool achieving that level of recognition with my teammates and getting third in the nation.

Who (besides your parents) is the greatest influence in your life?

HC: My high school coach, since I was never thinking about going to America for college.

He saw a lot more potential in me than I saw in myself and he helped me with the application process. If it wasn’t for him, I’d be going to university in Britain, just hanging out.

What’s up with the poster with your face on it?

HC: I was nominated the Alfred E. Watson Trophy, which is presented each year to the most outstanding male athlete of the year. My coach nominated me for the trophy as the best athlete for the lightweight rowing team.

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Cawthorne, nominated for the Alfred E. Watson Trophy, is pictured in season.

Are you the best athlete on the team?

HC: Definitely not.

What objective value do you bring to the team?

HC: We have a standard two kilometer test for rowing and my time for that is six minutes and 14 seconds.

Any big life lessons or key takeaways from this summer?

HC: Layups are not layups.

I have also learned living in a

house with people that aren’t your family causes a lot of problems. Being a homeowner is difficult; we live in 29 South Park, which is the Fire and Skoal house. It’s great because my room is two or three times larger than any dorm I’ve had, so it’s nice to not have my existence confined. I love having barbecues and a garden. We have a pong table out there as well and we just hangout.

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

Dartmouth women’s rugby team represented at Can-Am

By CODY FUJII

The Dartmouth Staff

Five members of the Dartmouth women’s rugby team have been selected to compete in the Can-Am Series. The competition is a twogame series between the American and Canadian teams and will be held in Ottawa on the University of Ottawa campus from July 28 to August 7.

The competition helps develop younger players in Canada and the United States and exposes them to the pressure of playing on an international stage. The goal is to create a strong pool of athletes that can later compete on their

country’s international team.

Representing Dartmouth on the American team are Milla Anderson ’19, Kat Ramage ’19, Becca Jane Rosko ’20 and Lilly Durbin ’21.

They will play on Women’s Junior All-Americans, a team consisting of the best rugby players under 20 in the country.

“This will be my first time competing while wearing a USA jersey, and while I’m excited, there is definitely a lot more pressure,” Anderson said.

Unlike her other teammates on the American side, Anderson picked up rugby in college.

“I decided to start playing rugby because I had participated in sports

my whole life and didn’t want that to end after I stopped running track,” said Anderson. “Coming to rugby so late does put an additional pressure on me because there is still so much about the sport and game play that I have to learn.”

The American players anticipate a good challenge from the Canadian team.

“They’ll be a really tough opponent,” Durbin said. “They come up really fast on defense but can also attack. We’re going to have to come together fast because we only have five or six days as a team before we play them.”

Recruiting for the team is a lengthy process, with coaches

scouting out players across the country before sending invitations to special training camps.

“The coaches can go to games or watch film or hear from other coaches,” Durbin said. “They also see you at different tournaments with your high school or college team before camp selection.”

Athletes for the under-20 American team were selected based on their performance during a training camp in July. Around 50 women from high schools and colleges across the country were invited to participate in a training camp.

After a few days of training and learning strategy, players were

split into two teams and played scrimmage matches. After close evaluation, 22 players from the pool were selected to participate in the Can-Am tournament.

Incoming freshman Idia Ihensekhien ’21 will also represent Dartmouth but on the under-18 Canadian team.

Each team will have a few days of training before their first match.

The teams are given a few days to restrategize before facing off again.

The under-20 division teams play each other on August 3 and 7. The under-18 division teams play each other on August 1 and 5.

The tournament will be broadcasted by Rugby Canada.