The Dartmouth 02/12/19

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VOL. CLXXV NO. 132

SNOWY

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2019

V-Feb focuses on “visibility” this year

A WORLD WITHOUT WALLS

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B y LORRAINE LIU

The Dartmouth Staff

OPINION

LEVY: TAKE YOUR TIME PAGE 4

OPINION ASKS PAGE 4

ARTS

REVIEW: ‘WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING’ IS A NOSTALGIC DEBUT NOVEL

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Dinesh D’Souza ’83 spoke last night at an event hosted by Young America’s Foundation.

Snow sculpture returns in a “mammoth” way B y Andrew Culver The Dartmouth Staff

Despite the war m weather, this year’s mammoth snow sculpture stands tall, bolstering the official Dartmouth tradition that has faded in recent years. “I think 2015 was the last year one officially occurred,”

Chris Cartwright ’21, who headed up this year’s sculpture build, said. Last year, the snow sculpture was not a Collegeorganized endeavor, but rather funded and built by a group of students and alumni. “We were very much working on our own,” said

Jimmy McHugh ’19, who helped to organize and build both this and last year’s sculpture. This year, the sculpture’s organizers worked more closely with Dartmouth officials, the Office of Student Life and alumni SEE SCULPTURE PAGE 2

Debuted at Dartmouth in 1998, the play “the Vagina Monologues” inspired and s t a r t e d t h e V- Fe b r u a r y campaign, stemming from the global V-Day movement that aims to promote gender equity and end gender-based violence. However, over its 21 years, the campaign has evolved to feature more events and reflect different initiatives. This year, V-Feb focuses on “visibility” as its theme to increase the campaign’s inclusiveness, according to cochair of the V-Feb committee Sara Cho ’20. Cho noted that the “V” in the 2019 V-Feb stands for “visibility” instead of “vagina” and “voices,” which were traditional interpretations of “V” in past years. She explained that the 2019 V-Feb committee decided to let “V” stand for “visibility” this year to “work towards intersectionality and inclusivity.” “[Using V to re present vaginas] is exclusive to transwomen and non-binary folks,”

Ch o w rote in an em ail statement. “It also perpetuates the misconception that sexual violence is an issue pertaining only to people with vaginas.” V-Feb started to incorporate two other major plays — “Upstaging Stereotypes” and “Voices” — in 2013 and 2014, respectively, to address other communities on campus, such as people who identify as gender nonconforming and womxn. “We started to include Upstaging Stereotypes to talk about masculinity, and Voices is also a response to the Vagina Monologues,” Cho noted. “[The plays are] a way for [us] to listen to more Dartmouth students’ experience.” Other than the three major plays, V-Feb also features dif ferent prog rams each year by collaborating with a wide range of different campus organizations and departments. This year, the V-Feb committee partnered with the Native American Prog ram and invited SEE VFEB PAGE 3

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REVIEW: ‘TANGERINE’ PARALLELS A RELATIONSHIP WITH A REVOLUTION PAGE 7

FILM THOUGHTS: WHAT IS THE ENDURING POWER OF THE CULT CLASSIC? PAGE 8 FOLLOW US ON

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DHMC to merge Researchers seek to create with GraniteOne self-charging pacemakers

B y Lucy Turnipseed The Dartmouth Staff

Two top health care organizations have announced a merger that aims to more effectively meet the health service needs of the state’s residents. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and GraniteOne Health — which consists of Catholic Medical Center, Huggins Hospital and Monadnock Community Hospital — have just

begun the lengthy process of combination. T he organizations announced that they signed a letter of intent — a non-binding agreement — on Jan. 24. The new combined nonprofit health care system will be named Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health GraniteOne and is expected to be finalized sometime in 2020, although the letter of intent states that “the combination will not take effect until and SEE MERGER PAGE 5

B y GRACe Lee The Dartmouth

The need for additional surger y to re place the batteries for implantable biomedical devices may soon be eliminated. Researchers at the Thayer School of Engineering and clinicians at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have been attempting to extend the lifetime of the batteries used

in such devices, and now they may have found a way for pacemakers and similar devices to be powered by a patient’s heartbeat. Pacemakers and aut o mated i mpl anta bl e cardioverter defibrillators are implanted under the skin in the chest to monitor and pace the heart rhythm. W h i l e t h ey e f f e c t i ve l y track heart movement, their battery life can be unpredictable or short,

according to Javier Banchs, a cardiologist at Baylor Scott & White Health . There are many risks and costs associated with the surgeries that patients need to receive every five to 10 years in order to replace the pacemaker or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillators, according to Thayer professor Zi Chen , one of the project’s principal investigators. SEE THAYER PAGE 3


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