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One Wheelock followed the Feb. 14 theme by hosting a Valentine’s Day trivia for students.

Carrie Brennan ’88 will head Thetford Academy B y GRAYCE GIBBS

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Fifteen years after starting a charter high school in Tucson, Arizona, Carrie Brennan ’88 is returning to the Upper Valley as head of school at Thetford Academy, an independent 7-12 school in Thetford, Vermont.

“I think that Thetford is unique,” Brennan said. “It’s

got a lot of a resources, a beautiful campus, a really rich history. It’s got a lot to work with. It has a relatively new gym and theater, an environmental education program and it’s got this huge campus, right next to a state park. I think it’s a great environment to learn in.”

Brennan, currently executive director of the CITY Center for

Collaborative Learning, will leave her current position at the end of the school year and begin working at Thetford Academy on July 1.

“I am absolutely thrilled that Carrie will lead Thetford Academy,” wrote president of the Thetford Academy Board of Trustees and SEE THETFORD PAGE 2

TuckLAB teaches students business skills B y ANDREW CULVER The Dartmouth Staff

In its inaugural term this winter, TuckLAB provides students the chance to fulfill their entrepreneurial aspirations, according to TuckLAB participant Sam Seifert ’20. The six-week program grants students hands-on experience to lear n entrepreneurial skills from professors in the Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering.

Created by director of the

Dartmouth student was arrested for intoxication and two non-Dartmouth students were arrested for parking violations outside of Leverone Field House.

Director of student involvement Anna Hall wrote in an email statement that this year’s Winter Carnival saw high participation from students. She wrote that approximately 600 students participated in the Polar Bear Swim and 23 teams competed in the annual Winter Carnival ice sculpture contest.

“Despite some concerns last week because of challenging and changing weather conditions, all events were able to be held,” Hall wrote.

According to Wagner, the ice sculptures were moved from the Green to the sidewalk in front of McNutt and Robinson Halls to

Warm weather greeted the College as it celebrated Winter Carnival over the weekend. Three arrests were made over Winter Carnival, according to Hanover Police lieutenant Scott Rathburn. Rathburn said that these incidents were “not out of the realm of ordinary.” Last year, Hanover Police also made three arrests over Winter Carnival.

T h i s ye a r ’s Wi n t e r Carnival, titled “Ice Age: 250 Years of Winter” and coinciding with the College’s 250th anniversary, was considered “one of the least wintery Winter Carnivals” in Dartmouth history, according to Winter Carnival Council co-chair Colton Wagner ’21.

According to Rathburn, between Thursday evening at 5 p.m. and Sunday morning at 9 a.m., one SEE WINTER CARNIVAL PAGE 3

PARKHURST IN WINTER

Magnuson Center Jamie Coughlin, Jeffrey Crowe ’78, deputy dean of Tuck Punam Keller, Rick Magnuson ’79 and Tuck dean Matthew Slaughter, the program is a collaboration between Tuck and the Magnuson Center to provide students with essential business skills and an understanding of the entrepreneurial process.

“The main impetus for the TuckLAB program was to enable SEE TUCKLAB PAGE 5

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The recent snow storm has once again blanketed campus buildings in white.

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DAily debriefing The leaders of more than 110 higher education institutions — including Dartmouth — met in the New York offices of billionaire and former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg last week, discussing how to recruit and graduate more talented and low-income students, according to the Valley News. The alliance of universities, which calls itself the American Talent Initiative and was founded in 2016, aims to add 50,000 low-income students to universities with high graduation rates by 2025. Schools participating in this initiative to make education more accessible include small liberal arts schools such as Allegheny College, as well as schools belonging to the University of California system. To be eligible to participate, schools must have at least 500 enrolled students and six-year graduation rates of at least 70 percent. The American Talent Initiative claims that from 2015 to 2017, there was a three percent increase in the enrollment of students qualifying for Pell Grants at schools participating in this initiative. According to federal data, around 69 percent of recipients for the Pell Grant — which is worth $6,095 a year — come from households that have an annual income of $30,000 or less. The American Talent Initiative is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Aides claim that Bloomberg has donated $4.7 million to the group since its launching.

The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build a wall along the U.S. southwestern border, according to The New York Times. The announcement was made despite Trump’s agreement to sign a bipartisan spending package that would not finance the wall.

On Thursday night, shortly after the White House’s announcement, the Senate voted 83 to 16 to advance the spending package. The anticipated final passage of the package by the House would avoid a second federal government shutdown. The government had already experienced a 35day shutdown earlier this year due to similar disagreements over spending and the financing of a border wall. Democrats and some Republicans have condemned Trump’s move. Seven Senate Democrats have already introduced legislation intending to block Trump from diverting money from disaster relief to the construction of a wall. Some House Democrats have begun endorsing a joint resolution to nullify a national emergency declaration. The New York Times reported that according to legal experts, Trump may be able to come up with arguments supporting a declaration of a national emergency, but that this would “almost surely” prompt a challenge from critics saying the president is “usurping” two centuries of congressional control over federal government spending. Legal challenges could ultimately lead to a Supreme Court confrontation.

On Tuesday, 20-year-old Newport resident Nikolas Kemp pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree assault and theft of a motor vehicle, according to the Valley News. Kemp allegedly choked his girlfriend during a heated argument and drove away in her car with another passenger. After the alleged car theft, police issued a be-on-the-lookout alert for the vehicle. Kemp was found in Windsor after a pursuit by the Cornish police, according to authorities. Hartford police identified the passenger in Kemp’s car as Nickolas Kempton, a Manchester resident who is also facing a larceny charge for stealing cash from a gas station in White River Junction.

Amazon abandoned its plans to construct a corporate headquarters with at least 25,000 new jobs in New York City, following opposition from local lawmakers and unions, according to The New York Times. Those opposing the new campus objected to the almost $3 billion promised to Amazon in state and local government incentives. The proposed headquarters garnered support from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, but saw criticism from opponents like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “There are a number of folks on the ground who oppose our presence,” Amazon spokeswoman Jodi Seith said. “We don’t think there’s a path forward in terms of working with them over the long term.” In the company’s statement released on Thursday afternoon, it said that it did not intend to reopen its search for a second headquarters, but would continue with its existing plans in Virginia.

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Alumna to lead Upper Valley school at the school for 11 years before deciding, along with colleagues philosophy professor Ann Bumpus Brett Goble and Eve Rifkin, to start in a press release. “Her record of a more progressive high school accomplishment and commitment located in a more diverse part of to academic excellence, inclusivity, town. community eng agement and “ We w a n t e d t o t a k e t h e collaborative leadership builds philosophy that we had in our perfectly upon the historic and classrooms and build a school distinctive values specifically of TA that draw around those so many of us to “We wanted to concepts,” the school.” take the philosophy Brennan said.

One aspect Their school, o f T h e t f o r d that we had in our City High A c a d e my t h at classrooms and build S c h o o l , h a s drew Brennan to into a a school specifically expanded the school is its charter district, connection to the around those CITY Center local community. concepts.” for Collaborative Brennan said that Learning, with moving back two middle t o t h e U p p e r -CARRIE BRENNAN ’88, schools in Valley to work addition to City EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR at Thetford High School.

A c a d e m y OF THE CITY CENTER According to f e e l s l i k e a FOR COLLABORATIVE Goble, the three “homecoming.” schools focus A f t e r LEARNING on project and graduating from place-based Dartmouth in learning drawing 1988 with a upon local issues Bachelor of Arts and resources to in history and make lear ning women’s studies, m o re re l eva n t Brennan spent two years living in and meaningful.

Thetford and working at Hanover In 2015, after serving as High School. In 1992, she moved to principal of City High School for Tucson to help found and teach at 12 years, Brennan began working the Catalina Foothills High School. as the executive director of the Brennan said that she stayed CITY Center.

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“It’s great working with her,” said Gillian Wettstein, director of finance and human resources at the CITY Center. “She’s a very dynamic and charismatic leader.

She also has a good handle of the big pictures as well as having a very human aspect to her approach. She can do all the business side of it as well as keeping in mind the human aspects of a large organization.”

According to Brennan, as executive director she helped the organization go through an evolution, bringing on two middle schools and doubling in size in terms of student population, staff and budget. The organization enacted a new strategic plan with a new mission and vision. Brennan also worked on a major facility renovation campaign.

“I’ve been really appreciative to have found my life’s work with Carrie and Eve,” Goble said.

“It’s going to be a big loss for me personally and our organization.

Carrie’s really been a mentor for me and I’ve learned a lot working with her. It hasn’t quite sunk in what it’s going to be like without Carrie here. We’re really going to miss her.”

The CITY Center has not yet found a replacement for Brennan. According to Goble, they are getting together a search committee and are planning to hire an interim executive director for the next year before making longer term decisions.

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Winter Carnival debuts acorn hunt

originality and good reception among students, it will need more accommodate the warm weather. advertisement in the future to He added that the change in the increase its popularity.

Hall ice sculptures’ wrote that l o c a t i o n “Despite some the opening increased access concerns last week c e r e m o n y, for students which she said to appreciate because of challenging a highlight them. and changing weather was this y e a r, “Because the featured a series Green was so conditions, all events of events such slushy, we ended were able to be held,” as a welcome up having to speech by move [the ice Hall wrote. earth sciences sculptures] in professor f ro n t o f t h e -ANNA HALL, Meredith lawns,” Wagner Kelly and said. “It’s kind DIRECTOR OF STUDENT perfor mances of nice because INVOLVEMENT b y t h e t h ey l i n e u p Dartmouth along the central buildings and people could Chamber Orchestra and the Dog Day Players. use the sidewalk to see them all.”

Wagner added that a video One event new to this year’s Winter Carnival was the acorn showcasing Winter Carnivals from scavenger hunt. The Winter past to present was played at the Carnival Council hid plastic acorns opening ceremony. He said that the around campus and students who Winter Carnival Council wanted found them could redeem them for this year’s event to focus on the past prizes, including gift cards, Winter and to “encapsulate the idea of the Carnival merchandise and even a tradition of Winter Carnival more pair of Apple AirPods. Wagner so than other years just because it said that despite the activity’s is our 250th [anniversary] year.”

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST CHANTAL ELIAS ’22

VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

What’s Yours Is Mine?

Responding to Hatred

Fracket culture is indicative of a wider crisis of selfishness on campus.

We have reached the point in the winter term when the first-year class begins to question the ritual of fracket stealing. After many were exposed to Greek spaces in the latter part of fall term and with over half of winter term under the class’s belt, the shiny allure of Greek life is now fading — providing space for first-years to critically look at the traditions they have been participating in.

One such ritual is the stealing of jackets in response to the loss of one at fraternities. Just last week, a member of the Class of 2022 curated a long Facebook post calling on our year to be the class that abstains from the tradition. Surely, we are adhering to the experience of being a Dartmouth first-year — we are the fresh faces that come in with an outsider’s perspective and are appalled by the long-standing tradition of “acceptable” stealing. Despite the predictability of my class’s protest, it is not in vain that we desire to put an end to a highly questionable practice.

It is, as I argue, less about the jackets and more about the underlying principle of putting our own needs before others’.

For those unfamiliar with this ritual, a fracket is a jacket that one will wear to a fraternity during the colder months. At the beginning of the year, many first-years are advised by upperclassmen to purchase a cheap fracket, with the understanding that it most likely will be stolen at some point.

There are many informal agreements built into the world of frackets. First and most obviously, there is the shared view that Hanover winters are far too cold to walk outside without the proper warm layers. There is also an unspoken rule that if you cannot find your jacket in the clothing heap where you left it, you have licence to take another’s coat. Thus manifests a cycle of jacket loss, the stealing of a new one and a post on the class Facebook page to find said jacket with which, more likely than not, you will never be reunited. Simply put, Dartmouth is harvesting a jacket trading system — and it is cause for concern. A fundamental pillar of this economic network is the initiator, that is, the person who takes the first incorrect jacket of the night. The rationale for taking another jacket often ranges from intoxication to an honest mistake. To cultivate this strange practice of stealing, the required ingredients are: young people, alcohol, a cold climate, fraternities and a

certain level of affluence. The presence of these elements at other colleges means that, despite the absurdity of the fracket subculture, it is not unique to Dartmouth.

It is also evident that wealth has a role in the jacket trade. The likelihood of an expensive jacket (the brands Canada Goose or Artizia TNA being popular on campus) getting stolen is exponentially higher than a jacket purchased from Walmart. Students frequently debase their jackets to make them appear less expensive and attractive to ward off potential snatchers. One must ask, if such a wealth disparity did not exist on our campus, would the jacket ritual exist in the same way?

I was introduced to the fracket pandemic during the past Winter Carnival weekend. While leaving one fraternity for the next, my friends and I believed our jackets had been taken and began contemplating which jackets we would be taking instead. Facing this five-minute reality, I simply could not convince myself to take another jacket — I decided I would rather have walked home without one. This experience enabled me to understand the moral dilemma that is heavily ingrained in the fracket-taking world.

The act of taking another fracket comes with the understanding that someone else will be disadvantaged and may have to walk home cold.

In that moment of deliberating which jacket will replace our own, we are prioritizing our shortterm self-interests and partaking in stealing — an action that, in any other environment, would be considered wrong. This illegal practice, I believe, does not have a place on our campus.

Overhauling this Dartmouth status quo is not an easy feat. At a practical level, fraternities should allocate more space for jackets to be stored, perhaps with hooks to hang them up rather than having to shove them in a corner.

Secondly, each frat attendee should put a label on their jackets to avoid the common mistake of taking someone else’s identical black Patagoniaesque coat. The latter part of the initiative, but arguably more important aspect, is to address the underlying culture of disrespect for one another and our belongings, a reality that frequently manifests itself into the ritual of fracket trade.

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Dartmouth’s tolerance of racism enables violence in its community.

The sense of disgust in one’s mouth is palpable is dangerous because it enables far more when reading the racist anonymous messages serious offenses. By accepting a culture that sent to students and faculty members over the tolerates racist behavior on the macro level, past few months. Thus far, at least 18 students Dartmouth allows more extreme offenders and three faculty members have been targeted by room to germinate and eventually violate in the racist and sexually explicit messages — that two community. of those students had been physically targeted One of the worst things the administration with slurs put on their doors only makes the could do in response to these horrible actions matter more disturbing. That most of the targets would be to hastily cobble together an initiative appeared to be Asian, and that this fact played a ostensibly meant to combat racism at the College, role in the bigoted mocking, likely built without a firm present in the messages is to address “[T]here is little doubt infrastructure even more loathsome. the problem. Stating The vile nature of these that these racist emails “Mission Accomplished” messages is only rivaled by came from within the at the outset is a trap that the the cowardice. Though the community cannot afford messages were sent from campus community. to gamble on; the safety and four separate accounts, it That reality should security of students hangs is unclear whether they in the balance. give significant pause were all sent by one person Another poor or a coordinated group. to all who presumed course of action would Regardless, there is little Dartmouth’s liberal be to act as if these doubt that these racist incidents never happened emails came from within veneer to be genuine.” or were simply isolated the campus community. occurrences, an unseemly That reality should give significant pause to all set of circumstances that will pass at the end who presumed Dartmouth’s liberal veneer to be of the College’s current investigation. Only a genuine. concerted, deliberate and thoughtful grappling Though this series of hateful messages is with both the eventually found perpetrators particularly disturbing, racist incidents and a as well as the culture that enabled them will culture of indifference toward malice have been ultimately ameliorate the situation at Dartmouth. commonplace in Dartmouth’s recent history.

Perhaps the perpetrator has no goal other This is a campus that currently tolerates the than sick pleasure or spite. More likely, cowardly relatively common tattooing of racial caricatures attacks like these are demonstrative of wellon people in the name of school spirit and treaded, tired tactics always used for one sinister tradition. For those who do not wish to imprint goal: terror. They are meant to cow students away the Dartmouth Indian Head onto their skin, from participation in the broader Dartmouth fear not; “traditional” paraphernalia ranging community. Their purpose is to instill fear, from clothing to figurines to posters and art are paranoia and resentment in their targets. The commonplace in Greek houses, dorm rooms Dartmouth community — students, faculty, and study areas. alumni, administrators, concerned friends and In the aftermath of a pong table featuring family — cannot tolerate such vicious attacks in the Dartmouth Indian Head being stolen the slightest. from Theta Delta Chi fraternity in 2016, fliers As a community, it is imperative that encouraging students to Dartmouth does not “Celebrate Columbus Day “Second to the trial allow this event to pass all year” littered campus. unaddressed. It will take Native American students and expulsion of more than a forceful show were subsequently harassed the perpetrator, the of solidarity with the and stalked in the following targeted victims to refute best thing that the weeks. After the Freedom these attacks. Many of Budget protests of 2014, Dartmouth community the attacked students and students received death could do to challenge professors have preferred threats, racist epithets and to remain anonymous sexually explicit threats of this individual is to given the intimate nature violence. Both incidents show that their tactics of the attacks. That reality draw parallels to the present is all the more reason why will not work here.” by having featured vicious students must be supportive cyber-attacks through the of each other in uncertain anonymous, now defunct, chat sites Bored@ times. Second to the trial and expulsion of the Baker and YikYak. perpetrator, the best thing that the Dartmouth This is also a campus that has witnessed community could do to challenge this individual, national headline-breaking parties made famous or group of individuals, is to show that their for their racist themes. Widely advertised tactics will not work here. A consensus of kinship and attended parties with themes including and mutual respect is necessary to make clear the gang-inspired “Bloods and Crips,” and that bigotry and racism are not welcome on this Latin-appropriative “Phiesta” have all graced campus. In these moments, silence is approval.

Dartmouth’s social scene within the past six years.

The editorial board consists of opinion staff columnists, The tacit endorsement that the community’s the opinion editors, both executive editors and the editorcollective tolerance of these actions indicates in-chief.

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TuckLAB gives handson business experience

“meaningful” careers, TuckLAB provides students with the skill students to pursue their passion in to be effective in their first job any field that they chose,” Keller without attending more school after graduation, Keller said. However, said.

The program consists of two she also stressed that TuckLAB is not sections: Core and Applied Business just about careers. The program will and Learning and Entrepreneurship, make participants more effective or ABLE. The Core section focuses team players through learning to on essential business skills while give and get constructive feedback, ABLE seeks to apply these skills become better listeners, and reduce in an entrepreneurial setting conscious and subconscious biases, to provide students with real she said.

“I’ve been looking for more world applications of the startup mentality. With classes and tangible items to put along with activities focused around skills my liberal arts education,” Seiftert such as idea pitching and product said, adding that the program development, the program builds seemed like a way to build skills up to a Shark Tank-like pitch where and potentially end up with a new students present their business ideas business idea.

Seifert was a part of the initial in teams.

“One of the hallmarks of the team working on “The Late Night TuckLAB program is that each Bite” along with fellow TuckLAB individual presents an idea and participant Carlos Polanco ’21 to every week the number of ideas create a late night food truck open that go forward is reduced,” Keller from 10 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. The said. However, the individuals and late-night food option would be an alternative to the teams whose limited choices ideas are not “The main impetus for on campus in selected then the TuckLAB program addition to being join a new team for the was to enable students mobile and able next week. to pursue their passion to go where the students are late Wi t h t h e at night, he said. f i n a l p i t c h in any field that they S u n a i n a c o m i n g u p chose.”

Sekaran ’22 and this weekend, her taeam have the program also advanced to started with - PUNAM ANAND KELLER, the final round.

17 pitch ideas DEPUTY DEAN OF TUCK “The origins wh i ch h ave of the project now been kind of started trimmed when I was in eighth grade, down to a final five, Seifert said.

This narrowing process very much but I didn’t do anything from mirrors the real entrepreneurial it since then,” said Sekaran.

During eighth grade, Sekaran was world, Keller added.

“It’s important to learn how to concerned by the sexual assault work with other funded programs of women in developing nations and projects while you continue and saw education as a path to working on your own idea,” she empowerment.

“What is hindering these women said.

Students were selected for the from seeking an education, what program on a first come first serve are they doing instead?” she asked basis while ensuring that the class of herself. Sekaran soon discovered students was diverse and reflective that the miles of walking required of the student community, she said. to access water were prohibiting Given that the program is in women from attending school and its first term, Keller noted that set out to design a product to ease this winter’s group will play an this burden.

While in eight grade their final important role as data for how to improve the TuckLAB program in product was not feasible, “now, looking at it with a little more the future.

“We wanted to pick a diverse technical ability we came up with group of students not only to something better,” she added.

Sekaran and her team have meet objectives of diversity and inclusivity,” she said, but so they designed a rolling barrel to help could see what aspects of the women gather water, hopefully program were working for who empowering more women to seek and how they could “modify and an education.

The winner of the weekend’s innovate” for the students who final pitch will win a prize, although needed something different.

In a world where graduate Sekaran said it is “really unclear” degrees are often needed for what exactly the prize is.

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apply to all our material possessions. We must try to think more about our peers and the ramifications of taking another’s jacket, rather than finding a solution to satisfy our immediate needs.

If someone posts on the class Facebook page to re-locate their coat and publicizes the jacket they took in exchange, we must be courteous and offer their coat back. We can be a cohesive community without the sharing of our belongings.

In fact, we can grow into a much tighter-knit campus if we build a culture of mutual respect.

It is, of course, hypocritical for me to judge those who partake in the fracket trading system. I could easily have been another “stealer,” had my fracket not turned up on Friday night. The student body is populated with people who, I am confident, share a similar view to me. We do not agree with the theft of frackets, but we will partake in this ritual by buying a cheaper jacket and potentially taking one to replace our stolen coat. To change the cycle of “fracket” stealing, we must make a concerted effort to abstain from its practice and encourage others to do the same.

Perhaps I am just another young hopeful desiring a change to this age-old campus phenomenon. Nevertheless, I see merit in confronting its existence and using the current Class of 2022’s protest and passion to advance the proposed steps toward reform. There is certainly a group of freshmen who are determined to end the cycle of jacket theft. The entitled attitude associated with the fracket tradition is not synonymous with the Class of 2022 — a group that has broken records for diversity measured by a wider range of socioeconomic and racial demographics. Surely, a custom that reeks of affluence and selfishness cannot exist within such a diverse group of people.

Traditions have a place on Dartmouth’s campus, but practices like “fracket-taking” should not. The disadvantaging of a peer is not a practice we should be proud of, and one that I am confident is not emblematic of the greater community. No matter how you spin the fracket ritual, at its core, it is stealing. I am hopeful that in the coming years, new students will be tasked with buying just one winter jacket.

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This year’s Oscar-nominated shorts have surprising depth B y JOYCE LEE

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Last Saturday, I went to watch the Hopkins Center’s screening of the collection of Oscar-nominated live-action short films without a clue of what I was getting into. I hadn’t looked up any of the films before my viewing, and in my innocence, I assumed that the brevity of the shorts meant they would toe the line between light-hearted and meaningful. They would not be too dark or bleak, I assured myself, before the lights went dim and the title card for the first short appeared on the screen.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Madre” is a compact film that takes place within a single room with a handful of actors, two of whom are only featured as disembodied voices over the phone. The tension mounts as a young mother (Marta Nieto) receives an unexpected call from her son, which devolves from an airy check-in into a frantic conversation as the mother realizes her 6-yearold son is alone on an unknown beach. The use of a long tracking shot with minimal cuts creates the nervous, hovering tone of the

entire short, and the two shots of a solitary beach that bookend the film become haunting as the viewer realizes the implications. There’s not quite enough substance to the plot for it to be completely fulfilling, but it’s an excellent work of nifty filmmaking and would be fantastic as the beginning of a harrowing feature-length film.

A few minutes into Vincent Lambe’s “Detainment,” a single shot of a small toddler watching a pair of raucous young boys in the middle of Liverpool Shopping Center was a dead giveaway for the remaining contents of the short.

Based on the real-life murder of a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, by two 10-year-olds in 1993, the short centers around a series of police interviews with Robert Thompson (Leon Hughes) and Jon Venebles (Ely Solan), the boys who would become the youngest convicted murderers in British history. Interspersed with flashbacks of the abduction, the conversations peel away at the crime to reveal a grim look at the motivations behind it and how the perpetrators could have committed it at their age. The film has some of the best performances of the shorts; the

director is able to coax compelling and truly gut-wrenching reactions from his young actors. Yet the film soon becomes plodding and unable to fully dive into the nature of the crime, indicating that this is a topic perhaps best left for a longer film.

The only U.S.-based short included in this collection is Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s “Skin.”

Following a family of skinheads, the film initially zeroes in on the affectionate relationship between a father (Jonathan Tucker) and his young son. The first half of the film provides harrowing jolts as these moments of affection are tied to acts of appalling violence and whitepower bigotry, but the short reverses course with a curious second act that includes a transformation verging on the surreal. The ending provides a shocking conclusion that circles back to the beginning, but the abruptly strange nature of the second half of the short makes it feel like it takes place in an alternate reality.

It depletes some of the impact of the film, but it remains a complex and intriguing look at the impact of racism on not only the present, but among children as well.

Marianne Farley’s “Marguerite”

is perhaps the most tender film out of this bunch. It’s about an old woman, the titular Marguerite (Béatrice Picard), and her caretaker (Sandrine Bisson) and the unexpected bond that emerges between them. The film is slow, tracing the beleaguered details of a solitary life that requires constant care and help. One might watch this short with bated breath, as I did, in anticipation of the hurt Marguerite would feel once her desire for companionship and a break from the isolation she feels is inevitably betrayed by her compassionate nurse. But the film doesn’t go there — it remains optimistic about the capacity for kindness and empathy, drawing on an organic bond that isn’t based so much on pity as it is on a kindred spirit.

Jeremy Comte’s “Fauve” follows two mischievous boys whose day at a construction site goes horrifically wrong. Within a 16-minute narrative, the film manages to trace the arc of a friendship that loses its innocence with a single misstep, and how this mistake shapes into a perverse coming-of-age story. This short was my favorite of the collection in its ability to achieve so much

despite the overall sparseness of the background, characters and plot. There are beautiful shots of a yawning cement landscape that isolates the two boys in what feels like a no-man’s land; what was once a playground for them becomes the scene of a nightmare. There is no help available for them, and the conclusion of the film centers on the teary face of one of the boys as he watches a wild fox who bounds away from him. It’s a haunting shot for all it implicates: in the midst of tragedy, children are often forced to grow up and understand for the first time that there is often no help available, that they are alone in a large and alien world.

I can’t tell you that I walked out of the theater with a smile on my face, but this year’s crop of shorts were still engrossing and innovative pieces of filmmaking, all of them asking compelling questions about the pain of fighting against what seems inevitable. May the best short win.

The Hopkins Center will show a screening of “Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action” at Loew Auditorium on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.

Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend

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If Beale Street Could Talk

Dartmouth College Glee Club

Bisbee ‘17

Friday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Saturday, 2 p.m. at Top of the Hop in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Sunday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”) presents his third featurelength movie “If Beale Street Could Talk,” a romantic drama capturing an intimately warm yet tragic tale of love in the face of hate. The film follows lovers Tish (Kiki Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James), soonto-be parents whose world is upturned when Fonny is falsely arrested for rape by a white police officer. Although the film takes place in Harlem in the 70s, “If Beale Street Could Talk” portrays the consequences of systemic racism in the American justice system, addressing issues that are still prevalent today. Despite the heaviness of the film’s subject, Jenkins’ portrayal of the characters’ happiness in the midst of their pain provides the film with a warmth that celebrates the beauty of black love.

- Florida Huff

The Dartmouth College Glee Club, a Hopkins Center choral ensemble consisting of 40 students, is performing excerpts from “Petite messe solennelle” (“Little solemn mass”), a choral piece by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, which the ensemble will be performing a full version of in May. The Glee Club performs music that spans five centuries and aim to include multiple subgenres of choral music in their repertoire, including operas, operettas and musicals. They have gone on both domestic and international tours, released multiple CDs of choral music and have also performed in Carnegie Hall. “Petite messe solennelle,” a new addition to the Glee Club’s ever-increasing repertoire, is known to be a joke from the composer, as it is a 90-minute, not-so-solemn piece.

- Lex Kang

“Bisbee ’17” uncovers an Arizona town’s violent and shameful banishment of 1,300 immigrant miners in 1917, capturing race relations and the impacts of a rapidly changing socioeconomic climate at the time. Director Rober Greene’s take on the incident is a fascinating and refreshing one — he asks the entire town, descendants of the marginalized miners, to recreate the historical incident and films the outcome.

Through Greene’s represenation of the painful historical moment, the audience is educated about the history of the town, which sheds light on conflicts that still exist today, but also forces the participating townspeople to take a critical look at their relationship with this history with their subjective memory, suppressed guilt and all.

- Lex Kang

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019

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ONE ON ONE

with James Holder

By HOLLAND EDMONDS The Dartmouth Staff

As soon as the last hand hit the pool wall on Feb. 1 to end their regular season, all members of the Dartmouth swimming and diving team immediately turned their attention to the real challenge: the Ivy League Championship. After a successful season for both teams, including the women’s first .500 season since 2013-14, expectations are high as the women head to Princeton on Feb. 20 and the men head to Brown on Feb. 27. In his third year as the head coach of the swimming and diving team, James Holder expects school records and top finishes from his swimmers. The Dartmouth sat down with Holder to discuss the team’s preparations for Ivies and the season so far.

Howhastheteam’sperformance thus far in the season compared to your expectations from the beginning of the season?

JH: I would say thus far, really well.

We’ve got a lot of young talent.

Some people have performed at a level that I had expected, and some people have overperformed, which has been really nice. I don’t think anyone has really underperformed, you know. I’m really pleased with the progress we’ve made this season, but not only that. This is only my third season, and we’ve definitely made progress throughout the last three seasons, and the best is yet to come with Ivy Championships next week for the women and in two weeks for the men. Our sport is weird in that obviously we compete throughout the year, but we are really looking to perform at our best at the end of the season. It’s not necessarily a game sport where your performance adds up to a lot of the games you have in the season. Obviously, you want to do well on dual meets, but swimming is a sport where the end of the season is a much bigger deal.

How has the team been preparing for the Ivy Championships?

JH: Like I said, it’s been kind of a year-long preparation. We started working in September to really be performing at our best at the end of the year. The team has been working

really hard in and out of the pool with a lot of the training we have done.

This next week or two they’re really tapering off of what they’ve done in order to really rest their bodies and have them perform at their best. I would say that in practice we’re doing a little more practice racing and giving them more rest.

How often does the team practice in general and then leading up to Ivies?

JH: On a typical week, we have 10 training sessions. That’s double workouts on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with one workout on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Leading up to Ivies we’ll cut that back to more like six or seven practices, and at each practice there will also be less yardage and there will be a shift in intensity.

PHOTO BY TOM WEISHAAR

James Holder recently concluded successful regular seasons for the men and women’s swimming and diving teams.

200 free, 100 free, 50 free, and we’re What do you think have been going have some pretty solid relays some of the strengths and on the women’s side that’ll be better weaknesses for the men’s team than last year. I would say some areas this season? we don’t really JH: For the men, “I’m excited for both have any depth our strengths have are in the 400 IM. teams to perform been in the IM and Melanya Zaraska butterfly, and the well, and I think we ’19 is a strong 400 500 and 200 on have some talented IM’er, but she’s down. We’ve had really our only a couple of key swimmers that are 400 IM’er right injuries that have going to be able to now. Backstroke is hurt us, and one of an area where I’m our best distance break some records.” expecting people swimmers — for to step up on both lack of a better -JAMES HOLDER, teams as well. way to put it — he got himself MEN’S AND WOMEN’S Last season, cut from the team SWIMMING AND s e v e n (laughs). But we Dartmouth have a lot of DIVING COACH records were breastrokers on broken at the the team, especially in the freshman Ivies meet. Do you expect class on the men’s side, and I’m excited similar performances during to see how they perform at the end of the meet this year? the year. I think our sprinters should JH: It was actually nine records do pretty well too. broken throughout the year, but seven were at Ivies. I’m excited for both What have the strengths and teams to perform well, and I think weaknesses been for the we have some talented swimmers women? that are going to be able to break JH: On the women’s side, our some records. I’m expecting some strengths have been in the 500 on relay records on the women’s side to down. We have a strong freshman go down. I’m thinking the 800 free distance swimmer, who has been record is a possibility, and really all performing over expectations this the free relays and potentially the year, and that’s Sarah Minnigh ’22. medley. It all depends on how we The other strengths I would say are perform. Mia Leko ’22 has already

broken a record in the 200 fly this year.

I expect her to go faster than she did in the mid-season meet, so she could definitely break the record in the 500, the 200 free and the 200 fly. We have returners who broke records last year, so ideally the goal is for everyone to go faster. Ashley Post ’22 is also our fastest swimmer in the 200 free from this year, so she could break the record for the 200 free as well. Potentially the 100 free as well, so it could be a very exciting meet for all of us.

You swam at Princeton and graduated from there in 2000.

How does it feel to be returning to that pool for the Women’s Ivy Championship next week?

JH: It’s great. You know, Princeton will always hold a special place in my heart and I think their pool is great.

They’ve got an awesome facility to host our championship, and it’s a really good place for us to race.

Obviously, I know that place and I’m comfortable there, but it’s my job to try to beat them. We’re a few years away from that, I think, but we’re certainly making progress and I’m excited about competing against them and every other team in the league.

This is your third season coaching here at Dartmouth.

How do you think that the team has changed since you began coaching?

JH: I just think that there is just a

greater level of overall commitment to what we want to achieve as a team.

I think we have a much more positive culture than when I — you know, I’m trying not to get myself in trouble here with the other classes I’ve had — but I mean, for lack of a better way to say it, I don’t think we were as positive as we are now, and now we have greater confidence in our ability. There was a time when our team didn’t care about being as competitive as they do now, and I think they recognize now that working hard and positivity and believing in yourself can lead to good things. So, I don’t know, to me that feels like I’m going to get in trouble for that (laughs), but now I just think that we’re overall a more competitive, positive environment to be in.

What is your favorite moment from the season so far?

JH: Without a doubt it was the Cornell meet with the women. It was a super exciting meet. We went in thinking we could win that meet.

We knew it was going to be a tough meet, and we knew it was going to be tough competition, and it was just all out a team effort. And even though it was the women who won, the men were all there supporting them, and the men swam well in their own meet.

It was definitely exciting, and it came down to the last relay. Well, really it came down to the last swimmer. We were losing going into that last leg, and it was just a really special moment.