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“Line@KAF” app and Call to Serve asks for website officially launch community service B y ANNE GEORGE
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“Line@KAF” gives live updates of the KAF lines and allows users to report out-of-stock items.
B y HANNAH JINKS The Dartmouth Staff
Known for its highvolume student traffic, King Arthur Flour Café is one of the most popular eateries on campus. Now there is a new workaround for students dissuaded by the long line. The Computational Social Affective Neuroscience and Digital Arts Leader ship and
Innovation labs partnered to create “Line@KAF,” an iOS app and website designed to optimize KAF consumers’ time. Over 600 people have downloaded the app thus far, and roughly 300 visit the website every day. Frustrated with KAF’s lengthy lines, Jin Hyun Cheong and Eshin Jolly — Ph.D. students in the psychological and brain
sciences department — conceived of the idea two years ago, according to Cheong. Jolly said they developed a simple prototype to estimate the line length at KAF and received funding from the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship and the COSAN and DALI labs. Ultimately, winning SEE KAF PAGE 5
Dartmouth community member s now have the opportunity to publicly record t h e i r vo l u n t e e r i n g h o u r s. Through the Call to Serve, a year-long initiative that asks the Dartmouth community to contribute a collective 250,000 hours of public service, the Alumni Council hopes to prove that universities can be at the heart of change. Participants can choose to volunteer at projects located near them and log their service hours through the Call to Serve website. By Feb. 28, a total of 18,084 hours were logged, with 59 percent of those hours attributed to students, 35 percent to alumni and six percent to faculty, staff and families. Vice president for alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82 credited trustee emeritus John Replogle ’88 with encouraging the College’s 250th anniversary c o m m i t t e e t o i n c o r p o r at e a service project into the celebration. Bascomb said that the Call to Lead campaign —
which aims to raise $3 billion in gifts and commitments from the Dartmouth community— “allowed [the Alumni Council] to establish what we want Dartmouth to be, but the Call to Serve reflects what we are on the world.” Center for Social Impact director Tracy Dustin-Eichler said that students have been log ging their mentoring programs, unpaid off-term internships and Social Impact Practicums — which tie community-based projects with certain classes — as part of their Call to Serve hours. “We educate Dartmouth students about how to be transformative leaders and how to address social issues t h ro u g h vo l u n t e e r i s m , ” Dustin-Eichler said. “It is exciting for us to contextualize the work our students are doing within a broader emphasis and focus on social impact work across the community. They are one piece within a strong and SEE CALL TO SERVE PAGE 3
House bill proposes Hanover hopes to transfer 200 end to death penalty acres of land back to Lebanon B y ANDREW CULVER The Dartmouth Staff
The state legislature will vote soon on a bill that would repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire. The legislature previously voted last year to pass an identical measure, which was vetoed by Republican governor Chris Sununu. House Bill 455 would change the state’s punishment for capital murder from death to life imprisonment without
parole. Under current New Hampshire law, the death penalty can be applied in cases of the killing of an onduty law enforcement officer; murder for hire; murder associated with felonious sexual assault, certain drug offenses or home invasion; and murder committed by an individual already serving a life sentence without parole. New Hampshire currently has one individual on death SEE DEATH PENALTY PAGE 2
B y GRAYCE GIBBS
The Dartmouth Staff
After over 30 years of caring for 200 acres of land under trail, pond and conservation easements in the City of Lebanon, the town of Hanover is hoping to move away from its management of the acreage. In a Feb. 14 presentation to the Lebanon Conservation Commission, Hanover Trails Committee chair Bill Mlacak wrote that Hanover hopes to transfer the trail and
conservation easements that it owns in Lebanon — which specify the usage of the land and are separate from ownership of the land itself — back to Lebanon. AccordingtoMarkGoodwin, city staff representative for the Lebanon Conservation Commission, Lebanon is not interested in taking over those easements, so the Hanover Trails Committee must find another interested entity, likely a conservation organization such as the Society for the Protection
of New Hampshire Forests or the Upper Valley Land Trust. In 1987, Dartmouth wanted a portion of Indian Ridge — the land under easement — to build the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The town of Hanover, the landowner at the time, traded ownership of the land to Dartmouth in return for land that the College owned in Sachem Village, but retained the right to use and take care of the land through an easement. SEE LAND PAGE 5
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Advance Transit may see route change State legislature will vote to end death penalty Vehicles office and several nonprofits organizations. The Dartmouth Staff AT’s free public transportation Bus riders who use the Advance service in the Upper Valley has Transit Orange line may see a become increasing popular in change to their route as soon as the the last few years, according non-profit agency decides whether to Chesnut. The addition of or not to discontinue its service affordable housing complexes to the Gilman Office Center on and new businesses in White Holiday Drive in White River River Junction have made the Junction. Orange line connecting Hanover The fate of the Gilman bus kiosk and Vermont one of the fastestis contingent upon a grant proposal growing, he said. to add a new bus to the Orange “ D o w n t o w n W h i t e R i ve r Line, according Ju n c t i o n h a s to Advance become quite T r a n s i t “The ridership has b u s y, ” he e x e c u t i v e grown on the route added. d i re c t o r Va n E ve r y C h e s nu t . AT to the point that it’s five years AT will submit its just really hard for the compiles a grant proposal bus driver to keep the rr ee cpoomr tm et nh da st this spring. C h e s n u t existing schedule.” actions on said the line how to make has become its routes too busy to stay -VAN CHESTNUT, more efficient o n s ch e d u l e, ADVANCE TRANSIT a c c o rd i n g t o and either Chesnut. This t h e G i l m a n EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR year’s re port spur must be recommended discontinued the closing of or another bus the Gilman added to meet stop unless demand. another bus “The ridership has grown on could be added to the route the route to the point that it’s just through a Vermont Department really hard for the bus driver to of Transportation grant, Chesnut keep the existing schedule,” he said. said. The funds from the grant would Located at the Gilman Office cover 80 percent of the $200,000 Center in White River Junction, yearly cost of a new bus line for the bus stop serves about five riders three years, according to Chesnut. per day according to Chesnut. Stops would increase along the Over two dozen businesses occupy Orange Line route in White space in Gilman, along with a River Junction during peak hours, Vermont Department of Motor although the Gilman kiosk would
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be less active during midday. If AT is not awarded the grant, Chesnut said the Agency would be considering closing the Gilman kiosk. Bus riders wanting to use the service to get to the office center would have to walk a quarter of a mile to another stop on Sykes Mountain Avenue. The walking route does not have a sidewalk, according Chesnut. Gilman Office Center tenants like Green Mountain Child Care executive director Sharon MillerDobroski hope AT finds a way to keep the bus kiosk in operation. Miller-Dobroski said parents who use the bus to drop off their children at the center would face a safety and logistics issue if the service was discontinued. “I don’t know how those parents would be able to drop off their kids safely and get back to work,” she said. “They really rely on the buses.” Recent announcements of new tenants at the Gilman Office Center may also mean an increase in ridership. The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society will move its administrative offices to the office center in June, while the Hartford American Legion Post 26 plans to open a new member’s lounge and café in the coming weeks. Allan Reetz, spokesperson fo r t h e H a n ove r C o n s u m e r Cooperative Society, said that although the society knew about the possible closing in advance of its decision to move, the bus stop was still an important part of the office center’s appeal. “I am really hopeful that something can be done to maintain that stop,” he said.
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The Orange line of the Advance Transit may discontinue its stop at the Gilman Office Center in White River Junction.
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Rep. Dave Testerman (R-Merrimack) said. Testerman also noted that there is a row for the murder of a police officer, but the bill is a “go forward” law, high bar for serving the death penalty according to Rep. David Meuse in New Hampshire. “New Hampshire is very judicious (D-Rockingham), meaning that the current inmate could still be executed in its use of the death penalty,” he said. “It is only used in the most heinous of if the new law passes. The bill was approved by 11-6 in cases.” Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator the criminal justice and public safety committee with an ought to pass and New Hampshire attorney general, recommendation, according to Meuse, was the lead prosecutor against the state’s only death row inmate, Michael who is a member of the committee. While the bill has a near-even Addison. Ayotte testified against the split of Democratic and Republican bill before the criminal justice and sponsors and has garnered widespread public safety committee and similarly bipartisan support, there is still strong argued that without the death penalty, criminals who had already committed debate over the measure. Proponents of the bill see the death crimes worthy of a life sentence would penalty as an antiquated and ineffective face no deterrent from committing further crimes, as was the case when form of punishment. “The death penalty is really the only Addison killed Manchester police law we have in New Hampshire where officer Michael Briggs in 2006. In the committee hearing, around the sole focus is on retribution,” Meuse said. “The focus is not on rehabilitation, five people testified against the bill it’s not about public safety, it’s not really while nearly 50 testified in favor of the about justice or deterrent of crime. measure, Meuse said. However, Testerman noted that It’s basically a government form of the testimonies may not reflect the revenge.” nuances of capital Rep. Mary punishment in New Jane Mulligan Hampshire because ( D - G r a f t o n ) “The question will many people who said that the be whether or testified were from bill contains a states where the death moral hypocrisy not the governor penalty “is maybe “to kill someone will veto it, and I not as judiciously because they suspect he will.” used” as it is in New killed someone.” Hampshire. “As Mahatma “I just think that Gandhi said, ‘An -DAVE TESTERMAN, the death penalty eye for an eye is something we will make the NEW HAMPSHIRE world go blind,’” STATE REPRESENTATIVE need to have in our books,” Testerman Mulligan said. said. “We need to be T h o s e supporting the measure also looked very judicious about it, and I think we to the practical issues associated with are.” Testerman also called out proan execution in New Hampshire. In addition to not having a death abortion legislators who oppose the chamber in the state, constructing death penalty as “willing to take the the facilities needed to carry out an life of an innocent but not a convicted execution in New Hampshire would person.” Despite their differences in opinion, cost around 1.7 million dollars, Meuse said. According to Mulligan, this Meuse, Mulligan and Testerman financial burden would be borne by agreed that HB 455 would likely pass the House and move onto the New Hampshire taxpayers. Mulligan also said that there is no Senate, where it is also likely to pass. evidence that the death penalty deters If confirmed by the Senate, the bill would then go to Sununu’s desk. anyone from committing a crime. “The question will be whether or “There is data that suggests the murder rate went down in North not the governor will veto it, and I Carolina after [the state] stopped ... suspect he will,” Testerman said. A vote of two-thirds of the using the death penalty,” she said. However, those opposing the legislators in each house is required measure view the death penalty as a to override the expected veto. “I don’t believe [the legislature] necessary instrument to deter those already serving life sentences without can override the veto when it comes parole from committing further crimes. back to the House and Senate,” “If you have a person in jail with Testerman said. However, Meuse said he was life without parole, that person could kill somebody else in the jail, another “cautiously optimistic” there would prisoner or a guard, and not have it any be enough votes to override the veto worse than they did the day before,” after the 2018 elections. FROM DEATH PENALTY PAGE 1
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Call to Serve encourages community to volunteer FROM CALL TO SERVE PAGE 1
broad vibrant community that is making change every day.” Dustin-Eichler added that service is happening outside the Center for Social Impact through house communities, athletic teams, Greek life and organizations and encourages them to begin working with the Alumni Council. The Call to Serve initiative is an expansion upon the annual Alumni Day of Service, which has been an attempt to encourage alumni, as well as their friends and families, to volunteer for communities and strengthen the alumni network, according to Alumni Leadership Office associate director Meaghan Ramsden. This year, the Alumni Day of Service will be on May 4 and will feature up to 50 projects around the country. Alumni Leadership Office coordinator Amberlee Barbagallo, who is organizing these projects, added that part of the projects’ appeal to alumni is that they can be a low-pressure way of networking. “It is a great way for people who aren’t involved in [the alumni association] in more traditional ways to say, ‘I heard about this project and some people from my college are going to be there. I can’t really give a lot of money
and can’t dedicate a ton of time to being on committees and boards, but I can spend four hours cleaning up a park,’” Barbagallo said. The initiative is being advertised in class newsletters, and associate director of Class Activities Angela Stafford ’91 said that alumni are excited to showcase the impact they have already made. “The Dartmouth community tends to be active in service anyway, so I think this is a way to feature and highlight how we contribute,” Stafford said. “Dartmouth alumni in particular tend to be competitive. I think the way they can log their hours and for everyone to see where they fit is appealing to their competitive nature.” By the end of the year, both Bascomb and Alumni Relations deputy director Victoria Gonin s a i d t h ey h o p e t h e we b s i t e will reflect the concrete ways Dartmouth alumni have worked to improve society. “We want all the states to turn dark green,” Bascomb said. “Currently, we only have one country outside the United States participating in the initiative — Tanzania — so it would be great to have international activity as well. Let’s turn all the countries green.”
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This winter term has been characterized by cold weather and short days.
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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MARIANA PEÑALOZA ’22
VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD
Mr. Trump, You’re Wrong
The Potency of Protest
This is an international emergency.
Dartmouth must allow for all forms of discourse if it is to better itself.
It’s been two weeks since U.S. President that he believes humans can, in fact, be illegal. Trump felt the need to declare that his Walls work in Israel, he said, ignoring that the signature border wall’s construction qualified people of Palestine are victims of apartheid. as a national emergency. Anger still consumes Even when isolated incidents of immigrants me. He lives under a veil of ignorance, which killing are touted, people care only because he is never forced to take off. His ignorance is those who died were white and a wall seems a privilege that goes unchecked, and it’s one far more plausible than gun control legislation. that many don’t have. I know I don’t. Undocumented immigrants are ostensibly I’m not just Mariana Peñaloza. I don’t have an “invasion of people,” coming to escape the luxury of expressing ignorance because inhumane conditions the United States created many of my peers just see me as an amalgam of that no human being should be subjected to. my communities. I carry They’re seeking a liveable the weight and represent world, but President Latinx, womxn and poor “They’re seeking a Trump maliciously wants communities, and I can’t liveable world, but to build a wall around it. give people excuses to The United President Trump call us ignorant. So yes, S t at e s i s g u i l t y o f I’m not the President of maliciously wants to recrimination. Its the United States. I don’t build a wall around it.” leaders call immigrants represent the entire United “bad hombres” and States population, but the “murderers.” How long actions of Donald Trump is the government going to don’t either. His position removes him from feed people the lie that the U.S. is the “good guy” having to understand the cruelty behind his and “savior”? Considering the recent actions words and actions. of federal law enforcement at the nation’s I remember the first time I saw a dead body. southwest border, I would hesitate to call these I remember the second time just as clearly. actions anything short of evil. The government They were in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, prosecutes and convicts immigrants, often Honduras, respectively. I was visiting my sister, circumventing international law. The United who was stationed there for two years working Nations’ 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status for the U.S. Air Force. It was one of my last of Refugees explicitly states the right to not be chances to see my sister in person before she expelled and the right to not be punished for would be deployed to Turkey, after which I coming into any host country. As the architect wouldn’t see her for a year. When I visited of the treaty, it is the nation’s duty to abide by Honduras, I saw years of U.S. intervention and it. imperialism manifest as death and violence that On Nov. 25, 2018, U.S. Border Patrol agents people rightfully want to escape. I saw that in used tear gas at the border against people the men who died — whose stories I have no desperate for a chance at a safe life. Jakelin Caal right to tell. But every time someone mentions Maquin, a 7-year-old migrant from Guatemala, the border wall, I can’t help but think about died in Border Patrol custody after allegedly not their blood and their faces. I wonder about receiving immediate medical assistance. There the other people risking their life to endure is no excuse for decimating immigrants. How is a dangerous journey for a mere opportunity it, then, that the President of the United States that’ll be taken away from them at the border can embrace nativism without consequence? when this government deems them unworthy. How can he stand behind the gates of the White Anger is the only proper response. House — built by slaves and on the land of President Trump’s national emergency indigenous peoples, guarded by Secret Service declaration followed a sycophantic speech and privilege — and call “illegal” immigration aimed toward the People’s Republic of China a national crisis? Immigrants looking for a new and its leader, President Xi Jinping. He chose home is not a national crisis. Building a wall to his words strategically, reminding his audience stop them is an international one.
Each term brings new changes to campus. violence and an excessive drinking culture The Greek Leadership Council’s first-year dominate campus conversation, while issues Greek house ban is now in its sixth year, a of race, class and inclusion challenge the policy implemented after significant student very integrity of the community. These are pressure. Dartmouth Dining Services’ not new challenges, but they frequently Green2Go program, another student led adopt new faces. initiative for sustainable to-go containers, Yet integral to this discourse was not has now expanded to multiple dining only concerted, diligent and sanctioned location on campus, Collis Café, rumored efforts on behalf of students. Change to be the next target in the spring. After at the College, and indeed throughout settling a lawsuit from two-time Paralympic the world, has often demanded disquiet, alpine skier Staci Mannella ’18, the College civil disobedience and indeed protests. will now implement the Mannella Protocol, Dartmouth would be wont to remember meant to create a more inclusive community that there is always such a thing as good for disabled students. And recently, the trouble. Student Assembly’s resolution challenging Arguably, the College recently exited the College to create a safe environment a period of serious student protest; the free from racist attacks and bigotry elicited Dartmouth Dimensions protests in 2013 action and endorsement from senior elicited a massive community wide discourse administrators. involving both the A group of Board of Trustees and “Change at the entrepreneurial students senior administrators. even recently created an College, and indeed The 2015 solidarity app that helps estimate throughout the vigil turned protest in the wait line at the Baker Berry Library resulted Librar y King Arthur world, has often in national headlines Flour. These problems demanded disquiet, and death threats being and their present solutions at protestors. civil disobedience and hurled compile to portray a Dartmouth is not a dynamic place with the indeed protests.” place immune to major constant potential for upheavals; quite the change. contrary. There is something to be said for In the past several years, in fact, the the many individuals — students, staff, College has experienced controversies faculty — who work to make Dartmouth and protests surrounding flag-burning and a functioning, advancing community every patriotism, the safety of undocumented day. Efforts large and small, by students students on campus, academic research on and administrators, should not be forgotten anarchist groups, the themes of fraternity when engaging with the myriad faults one and sorority parties, the persistence might point out on campus. of sexual violence at all levels of the Debates about life at the College are community, dining options for religious often seemingly reduced to assertions that students, the tenure of faculty of color it is either a place beyond reproach or a at the College, and many, many more campus unworthy of existing. Yet the most incidents that rocked campus and even honest and long-standing advances at the caught national headlines. College have come from those who loved Students especially should address these it and saw its many flaws in stark relief. problems and controversies in a myriad of Is Dartmouth a place prone to stasis? ways — chief among them public discourse. While this is almost certainly true, a brief Yet, while naturally the editorial board overview of the College’s history reveals a finds public discourse and the voicing of surprising malleability for a place that so opinions to be a productive venture, it is prides itself on tradition. In the past several far from the only means by which students decades especially, the College shifted as can or should express themselves. Protest campus was opened to a wider, brighter and civil disobedience have been important array of voices and backgrounds. means by which community-members have There are perennial scourges; the improved the College before. Hopefully, the College remains an elite bastion with all the potency and effectiveness of these means of unfortunate trappings that entails. Still, the change will not be lost on future Dartmouth issues of pomp, classism and waste often communities. attributed to Ivy League universities have Integral to each of these controversies been shown to be surmountable — even if are also questions of belonging and only temporarily. excellence. Who belongs on this campus? These many adjustments and amendments What is the best part of the Dartmouth made throughout the College’s history community? What is Dartmouth now, what only occurred, however, because students does it expect from itself and what does it made their voices known. Dartmouth only aspire to become? These questions have changed when it was demanded to. As been answered in the past by the myriad community members survey campus today, actions of concerned students, faculty and this fact is imperative to remember. staff. Issues of inclusion and learning will The Dartmouth community remains arise again at Dartmouth. Will the next mired with many challenges. Sexual generation rise to occasion?
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New app monitors KAF Hanover to transfer land to Lebanon lines and inventory FROM LAND PAGE 1
“We’ve stuck with [Line@KAF] ever since it first came to the DALI a prize at the 2018 Dartmouth lab,” Lee said. “We’re here to help Hackathon inspired the pair to people develop their ideas because we have the resources for that.” further develop their prototype Jolly said students working at “We started building different prototypes and continuously DALI assisted with the mobile app’s developing new methods,” Cheong development, design and aesthetics. “We had a core idea about how said. “It took months to find the most we wanted to solve this problem and accurate [method].” After winning the Hackathon, the skill set we were bringing,” Jolly said. “Ultimately, Cheong and played a large Jolly initiated “We put a sign up that they role in creating c o n t a c t and launching the with DALI, said we were out of app.” a c c o r d i n g chai [tea] and almond The app’s main t o s o f t w a re features include d e v e l o p e r s milk and the app’s Jane Lee ’19 inventory was updated the current line length at KAF’s a n d Te d d y almost immediately. two windows — Ni ’19 . Lee including whether added that she People seem to really Wi n d o w 2 i s and Ni were care about the app.” open — hour-byimmediately hour line length interested in predictions and helping with -NITHIYA KASARLA ’22, a drink and food t h e p ro j e c t KING ARTHUR FLOUR inventory. Users when Line@ can report items K A F w a s CAFÉ EMPLOYEE that are out of pitched to stock and issue DALI. Team members underwent a their feedback through the app. Lee and Ni both said Line@KAF long process installing the cameras in KAF and collecting data for their has received lots of feedback since neural network — a type of machine it was published on Apple’s App learning — and their line-length Store. Most prominently, students have suggested the app send push prediction model. “Half the time spent developing notifications when the line length dips the app was spent on the installation below a certain number, according of the camera,” Ni said. “There’s no to Lee. She added that people have also expressed formal process a desire for an for it, so we “We had a core Android version had to find idea about how we of the mobile app. out [whom] In the future, the t o c o n t a c t wanted to solve this DALI team hopes [to] work out problem and the to implement logistics.” the Dartmouth T h e skill set we were community’s i n s t a l l e d bringing.” suggestions, Lee cameras, said. wh i ch t a k e Bando-Hess pictures every -ESHIN JOLLY, added that the two seconds, PSYCHOLOGICAL height of KAF’s link to a ceiling limits the Raspberry Pi, AND BRAIN SCIENCES camera’s ability according to DEPARTMENT PH.D. to register a line team member STUDENT length beyond 15 A n d e r s people. He said he Bando-Hess hopes future team ’19. A server then deciphers the photos using a members may forge solutions to this complex neural network. Cheong issue. KAF employee Nithya Kasarla ’22 noted that the photos are wiped immediately after the server extracts said that while she has not noticed data from them in order to uphold significant changes in activity since Line@KAF’s release, other KAF students’ privacy. Ni added that after the team employees and consumers are thrilled set up the cameras, they collected for the future of the app. “We put a sign up that said we were data for a year to reliably predict line lengths. DALI’s line-length out of chai [tea] and almond milk prediction algorithm analyzes new and the app’s inventory was updated data from the KAF cameras every almost immediately,” Kasarla said. two weeks and adjusts the model to “People seem to really care about the app.” reflect those numbers. FROM KAF PAGE 1
Though Hanover has cared for the land since 1987, the town’s Conservation Commission — responsible for conservation and trail easements — would now prefer to focus within Hanover’s town limits, according to the Hanover Trails Committee proposal. The land rights that Hanover wants to transfer to Lebanon are adjacent to conservation lands managed by the Lebanon Conservation Commission. Transferring the easements to Lebanon would allow for “coherent, rather than fragmented management,” which is preferred “from both the natural-resource and administrative standpoints,” according to Hanover’s proposal. However, Goodwin explained that for the past decade, Lebanon has moved away from owning the easements on its conservation properties. He said that Lebanon’s stance to not take the Indian Ridge easement is based more on its policy than the merits of the property. Holding both the property rights and the easement means that “you would not be able to protect the property from yourself,” Goodwin said. “There would be no thirdparty oversight, so if the Lebanon Conservation Commission held the easement on property that they own
and they weren’t holding up the terms New Hampshire Forests feels like the of that easement, there is the potential starting point because [Lebanon owns] that no one would call them out,” he the property that abuts Indian Ridge ... said. “There’s no one watching.” and the easement is held by the Society Since Lebanon does not want to for the Protection of New Hampshire take over management of the land, Forests, so it could almost be viewed a third party as an expansion,” will likely take Goodwin said. “Because we are a over. He added that “I don’t trails alliance, our only the Upper Valley think anyone Land Trust is another role in this would be is taking organization that over those to potentially hold could take over the e a s e m e n t s the trail corridor land. yet,” Upper Hirshcler noted Valley Trails easements, which that the land includes A l l i a n c e are different from both conservation executive easements and trail the conservation director easements. Though R u s s e l l easements.” the majority of land Hirshcler is under conservation said. “There easements, which are are a couple -RUSSELL HIRSHCLER, generally held by of l a n d UPPER VALLEY TRAILS land conservation conservation organizations, there ALLIANCE EXECUTIVE organizations are a series of trail in the region DIRECTOR corridor easements that could be in the area, which the approached Upper Valley Trails to be asked to take them on, but I Alliance could take. don’t think there have been any formal “Because we are a trails alliance, discussions.” our only role in this would be to Goodwin said that the Society for potentially hold the trail corridor the Protection of New Hampshire easements, which are different from Forests is a possibility. the conservation easements,” Hirshcler “The Society for the Protection of said.
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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Men’s Basketball: Big Green v. Princeton Tigers, Leede Arena
7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Film Special: “A Private War,” directed by Matthew Heineman ’05, sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Play: “Into the Woods,” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, sponsored by the theater department, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater
TOMORROW 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Performance: Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra, sponsored by the music department, Common Ground, Collis Center
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Women’s Lacrosse: Big Green v. Brown Bears, Scully-Fahey Field
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Film: “BlacKkKlansman,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
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Dartmouth Idol creates a space for collaborative student talent
we’re doing group numbers together, [we’re] working to put on a show The Dartmouth that shows off to Dartmouth and the Six of the 22 Dartmouth Idol greater Hanover and Upper Valley semi-finalists have advanced to the community,” said Alice Bennett ’20, Dartmouth Idol finals, which will be a member of the Dartmouth Sings. held on Friday, March 1 at 8 p.m. in “There should be healthy Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins competition in terms of growing, but Center for the Arts. This unique there shouldn’t be competition in terms opportunity of tearing people allows students “Dartmouth Idol is a down. Singing to compete and creating and showcase fantastic way to show music should be their abilities. off the ability that a collective effort; A d d i t i o n a l l y, Dartmouth has to put it should be about the audience is bringing art to responsible for on a show that is not the world and voting on the only spectacular, but blessing people’s winner, making lives,” added the production also diverse.” Nashe Mutenda even more ’20. Mutenda, entertaining. the newly elected -NOAH DRAZEN ‘20 While these president of the high stakes allow Dodecaphonics, for a strong level also sings and of competition, every semi-finalist that plays the violin for the Barbary Coast was available for interview all shared Ensemble. one thing in common (besides, of This team effort and collective course, a love for music): camaraderie. talent did not go unnoticed by Walt In each interview, the contestants Cunningham, the director and founder talked about how Dartmouth Idol of Dartmouth Idol. is, above all else, a group production, “We all produce this great event something that they are excited to share and the focus is to unite people … to together. work collaboratively and as a team. “I don’t even think of it as a The students and the finalists are all competition, but as six people working in awe of one another. And so, I watch together. We’re doing duets together, them watching each other practice,
B y Veronica Winham
and you can just see their eyes light up with excitement at the other person’s ability,” Cunningham said. Bennett and Mutenda, two of six finalists, will be competing alongside Torrance Johnson ’19, Noah Drazen ’20, Raleigh Nesbitt ’19, and Caitlin Wanic ’21. The show will feature solos, duets and group performances, along with dancers and a live band, composed of more students than have been involved in previous years. This depth allows for more variety in the types of performances that will be seen on Friday night. “These students navigate what is almost impossible, putting together this crazy show in three weeks … we’re doing some of the biggest hits that are out right now. I’m excited that Dartmouth Idol is on the pulse of what’s happening in pop culture,” said Cunningham, adding that while he didn’t want to give too much away, the show will feature a song that was performed at last weekends’ Oscars. In addition to contemporary songs, Dartmouth Idol will also exhibit a variety of genres. For instance, Mutenda will be performing a version of Ella Fitzgerald’s “Summertime” in the style of Fantasia Barrino, the winner of the third season of American Idol. “[Fitzgerald and Barrino’s] versions of ‘Summertime’ [are] just so beautiful, and they just pay so much respect to the
history of black music and black jazz, involved in the show and behind the and I feel so lucky that I get to do that scenes, Dartmouth Idol provides relief through Dartmouth Idol,” Mutenda to its audience members during week nine of winter quarter. said. “I think Idol is important because The diversity in mediums — genres of music — as well as opportunities it gives students an opportunity to for students to assist, if not perform, do something other than school, and are reasons why Dartmouth Idol is [it’s] another thing for students to look consistently such a popular event on forward to and motivate them through the term,” said campus. Wanic. Wanic is “ I t b r i n g s “Singing and creating a member of the people together music should be a Dodecaphonics and it also and will be exposes you to collective effort; perfor ming a parts of campus it should be about duet with Drazen. and people on T h e c a m p u s t h at bringing art to the Dartmouth Idol you wouldn’t world and blessing finals will allow necessarily have people’s lives.” the audience to the opportunity determine the to see and listen winner, but more to,” Bennett said. -NASHE MUTENDA ‘20 importantly Drazen, one eng age in a of the finalists, collaborative, expressed that he is excited to show the Dartmouth supportive performance that does community the level of vocal talent not happen often, if at all, at similar college venues. present at Dartmouth. Drazen summarized this idea best: “We’re at such a small school for us to have so many great singers. At “Dartmouth Idol is a fantastic way to just over 4,000 [students], that’s pretty show off the ability that Dartmouth unbelievable,” said Drazen. Drazen is has to put on a show that is not only a musician in the band Shark and also spectacular, but also diverse,” Drazen performs with the Dartmouth Aires, said. “I don’t know of really any other like his father used to when he attended school that does something like this and has done it for so long; it’s a tradition Dartmouth. In addition to having so much talent now.”
Review: ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ is entertaining, but its script falls short B y James Cronin The Dartmouth
“Alita: Battle Angel” is the latest in the line of big budget, young adult sci-fi films to not do well critically or commercially. Following in the footsteps of the “Divergent” and “Maze Runner” trilogies, I felt like “Alita” tried too hard to recreate the success of “The Hunger Games.” While it might have worked in 2012, I think that today’s audiences are bored of the generic “chosen one” teenaged protagonist who must fight to overthrow a dystopian government, all while having to deal with a ham-fisted romantic subplot that does nothing but drag the plot down. That being said, I did enjoy this movie. When I watch a movie, I usually go in with certain expectations. If it’s the latest “Transformers” movie, I’m going in just looking for mindless entertainment. If it’s a potential Oscar contender, I’m going to look at it from a more critical view. “Alita” falls into the former category, which makes it a much easier movie to review because all I have to do is ask myself, “Was I entertained?” For this
movie, the answer is … sometimes. are able to achieve nowadays with This movie is a very mixed bag. It special effects. This also includes has fantastic action unlike anything any scene where they show the I’ve ever seen before, beautiful CGI futuristic blood sport of motorball, and an interesting, fully realized which was a breathtaking visual sci-fi world teeming with life. In the spectacle. I found myself having moments where those aspects were a difficult time caring about any front and center, I was having an scene without action. absolute blast, staring at the movie The main reason for that is screen with my mouth agape, going the script, which was co-written “woah” in unison with everyone by James Cameron. Cameron has else in the theater. However, it also wanted to make this movie for over had some of the 20 years and, worst writing was “Filled with exposition, supposedly, I’ve ever seen in very passionate a movie, baited odd wording and about doing this a sequel way phrases and characters movie justice, too much and even going so had a terrible who don’t do much of far as giving r o m a n t i c anything, Cameron’s leading actress subplot, all of Salazar “a 600script would have which limited page document my enjoyment. completely ruined the of notes” on The action movie if the action the character. in this movie Sadly, however, i s e a s i l y t h e wasn’t so good.” I don’t think his best part of the script achieved film. In a world where basically that goal. Filled with exposition, everyone is a cyborg, and where odd wording, and phrases and the protagonist is a cyborg trained characters who don’t do much of specifically for fighting, the ultra- anything, Cameron’s script would fast, clean and calculated fight have completely ruined the movie scenes are something to behold if the action wasn’t so good. Also, and a testament to what filmmakers toward the end of the film, it felt as
if the writers were more interested in setting up a sequel than they were with wrapping up the movie’s story, which annoyed me, especially since there’s a good chance this movie won’t get a sequel because it hasn’t been doing so well commercially. This movie stars Rosa Salazar as the titular Alita, and it features C h r i s t o p h Wa l t z , Je n n i f e r Connelly and Mahershala Ali. The performances, like everything else in Alita, are a mixed bag, but a lot of that has to do with the script. Salazar and Waltz do a fantastic job; the father-daughter dynamic they had between them was palpable and helped to elevate moments that would have been weak otherwise. Mahershala Ali plays the “bad” guy in this movie, and he does a serviceable job — I mean, it’s Mahershala Ali, the guy is amazing in everything he’s in. But the reason I say “serviceable” is because, again, as a result of the weak script, I found that his character could have been played by literally anyone who could manage a mildly intimidating and mysterious presence. Jennifer Connelly also delivers a solid performance but, through no fault of her own, she didn’t really have
much to do, and I wasn’t sold on her flimsy character arc — she was just kind of there. This movie also stars Keean Johnson as Alita’s love interest, and any time he appeared on screen, there was a steep dip in quality. This might be unduly harsh, but it was as if the casting director just randomly chose the most bland, non-offensive Disney channel original movie reject they could find and told him to show up on set on the first day of shooting without even auditioning. Yes, the script shares responsibility for the awful romantic subplot and for the character’s generic lines, but his acting did not help. It’s very easy to take a fine movie and point out its flaws while forgetting to praise the things it does right. “Alita: Battle Angel” is a fine movie with some problems that still manages to have a lot of entertainment value. While the script might not have been the greatest, the action and CGI was, and I left the theater thoroughly satisfied with the eight dollars and two hours of my Saturday afternoon I spent watching this film, and I’d easily spend that again if this movie ever gets a sequel.
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Softball team looks to build upon successful past season By KAITLYN LEES
The Dartmouth Staff
As reigning Ivy League cochampions, softball looks to build on their success and raise the standard of excellence that has been set through strong play the past few seasons even higher. Last year, softball finished first in the Ivy League through regular season play but lost to Harvard University 4-6 and 1-4 in both games at the Ivy League Championship Series. With the loss, the Big Green became co-champions and Harvard moved on to compete in NCAA Regionals. Softball has also seen a coaching change, with the old head coach Shannon Doepking leaving for Syracuse University after a successful four-year stint in which she won Ivy League Coach of the Year twice and the team went 118-98. Hired in October, new head coach Jennifer Williams spent the past eight years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as head coach, compiling the most wins in program history. Predicted to finish fifth within the Ivy League in a 2018 preseason poll, Dartmouth rose above expectations and demonstrated that they are a force in Ivy League softball. The team had a 16-5 conference record and a 22-18 record overall. Current captains Morgan Martinelli ’19 (third base) and Taylor Ward ’19 (pitcher) were selected to First Team All-Ivy. Catcher Schae Nelson ’21 was
the 2018 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a First Team All-Ivy selection as well. Last year, out of all Ivy League first-years Nelson ranked first in runs, hits, RBIs, doubles, home runs and walks. Second baseman Micah Schroder ’20 and pitcher Heather Turner ’21 earned Second Team All-Ivy honors. However, this year’s team is not focusing on last year. Instead, they are staying committed to this year’s process and laying the groundwork to go even further. For one, both Nelson and Turner spoke to a change in team dynamic promoted by Williams that has created a very healthy, supportive environment and allows them to develop as people, students and athletes. “I think it’s been a g reat adjustment for our team. She allows us to be who we want to be and allows adjustments to be made,” Turner said. “It just feels like a completely different team. Everyone wants to be there and wants to compete.” The team has devoted one practice a week this pre-season to discuss the kind of culture they want to create. Themes have included resilience, identity and pride, trust, vulnerability and courage. Williams sees a positive team culture as essential to both personal development as well as having a direct impact on performance on the field. Six new talented first-years have contributed to the team’s new energy, as has the strong
COURTESY OF JOHN RISLEY
Catcher Schae Nelson ’21 won the 2018 Ivy League Rookie of the Year.
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Pitcher Heather Turner ’21 earned Second Team All-Ivy Honors last year and looks to have another strong season.
leadership of Martinelli and Ward. Additionally, the team has seen a change in strength training. “Our strength coaches this year really motivate us and focus on the right things that are going to improve our sport so we can be stronger but also faster and efficient,” remarked Nelson. Dartmouth traveled to C h a rl es to n , So u th C a ro l i n a this past weekend to start their challenging slate of pre-conference play over the next few weeks. The team had close losses to both Appalachian State (2-1) and the College of Charleston (7-6) and picked up wins against Charleston Southern (5-3) and Radford (7-0). The Big Green also lost a tough match-up 12-0 against Iowa State. “That was a great learning opportunity,” Williams said. “It wasn’t a fun game to play but we were able to learn a lot from it.” Madie Augusto ’22 was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week as well as Co-Rookie of the Week with Infielder Bryce West ’22 after a weekend of strong play. Two wins out of their first weekend of preconference play is a strong start for the Big Green, but Williams is focused on the future and staying true to their process. “I’m not looking at last weekend
and saying ‘well, we have two wins already,’” Williams said. “I’m looking at last weekend and saying ‘well, we did a good job getting a couple of wins’ but I hope the team walks away knowing that we need to continue pushing to be able to lock up some of those close games cause they absolutely have the talent to do it. We need them to believe they have that talent and then look for it and find it.” This weekend, the Big Green travels to Florida to play in the University of Central Florida Invite, Louisiana Tech University, UCF, University of Toledo, and No. 1 ranked Florida State. According to Williams, their focus will be on competing as a team instead of worrying about performing as individuals. Specifically, they have worked on hitting off faster pitching that they expect to see this weekend. Heather Turner ’21 said that the team motto this week is “compete, be confident and play our game.” “Playing our game” signifies the Big Green’s commitment to the process and focusing on what the team can control during games instead of worrying over external factors like umpires.While the team has already seen positive impacts of a more positive environment,
Williams looks forward to seeing this progress more throughout the rest of the season. “ T h e r e ’s a s t a n d a r d o f excellence that has existed in softball particularly with on-field work. I want to continue that standard of excellence on the field and I want to raise the standard of excellence off the field,” she said. A preseason poll predicts the Big Green will finish second in the Ivy League to Harvard this year. Despite last year’s success, the season-ending loss to Harvard has certainly created a motivating drive for the Big Green to come back this year and defeat them. On team goals for the season, Nelson stated, “Definitely, finish stronger. Harvard is going to be our number one competition this year that we want to defeat.” Columbia and Princeton will also be Ivy League competitors to look out for. Overall, softball looks poised and motivated for another strong season. Over spring break, softball will head to California to compete in the CSUN/Loyola Marymount Tournament. Ivy League play begins March 23 against Columbia University and Dartmouth’s first home game is March 30 against the University of Pennsylvania.