The Dartmouth 05/09/2019

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VOL. CLXXVI NO. 34

SUNNY HIGH 63 LOW 44

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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019

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Hillary Clinton speaks on Iran, Students sign petition calling for end of Mueller investigation more practice rooms B y Debora Cobon The Dartmouth

Frustrated by the limited availability of practice spaces, student musicians are planning to send a petition to the administration of the Hopkins Center for the Arts asking for the installation of more practice rooms for students early next week as part of upcoming renovation plans. The petition currently has over 175 signatures from current and former students who are a part of student performance

groups and ensembles. According to the petition, the greatest issues of concern are the limited number of practice spaces available per student and the current inefficient use of some spaces. Only six practice rooms stay unlocked for student use, yet the student groups that require these spaces — including the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Dartmouth College Glee Club, Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, Dartmouth SEE PRACTICE PAGE 5

College Democrats join DCCC boycott B y Rebecca nicol The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth College Democrats have joined over 70 other College Democrats chapters to boycott the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over its new policy blacklisting firms which work with challengers to incumbent Democratic representatives. The DCCC, an organization that works to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives,

announced that it will not work with “an opponent of a sitting Member of the House Democratic Caucus.” Since the policy announcement, members of the Democratic Party have been split between the benefits of protecting incumbents — arguably one of the main goals of the Committee — or offering voters the option of voting for different, often more progressive candidates during SEE DCCC PAGE 3

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Clinton spoke with Montgomery Fellow Jake Sullivan and Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin.

B y LOrraine liu The Dartmouth Staff

With around 900 people packed into Spaulding Auditorium yesterday and latecomers turned away for a lack of remaining seats, the Dartmouth community took part in a conversation with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and two of her former aides. The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee addressed the Iran nuclear deal, the 2016 election, impeaching President Donald Trump and empowering women in public service. Delivering this year’s Obenshain Family Great Issues Lecture, Clinton shared the stage with former State Department director of Policy Planning

Jake Sullivan and John Sloane Dickey Center for International Understanding director Daniel Benjamin, who invited her to campus. Prior to the lecture, the Dickey Center staff members collected questions from attendees to ask Clinton, which primarily drove the discussion. To begin the talk, Sullivan asked Clinton to address recent news about Iran stepping back from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — which forms the basis of the Iran nuclear deal — and U.S. military engagement in the region. Clinton criticized Iran’s movement away from the deal and the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of it last year. “My argument has always been to put a lid on the nuclear

program, then deal with all the other problems that Iran causes in the region and around the world,” Clinton said. Clinton said that the current administration may harbor intentions to provoke Iran and stressed the danger of miscalculation on either side of the conflict. “I worry greatly that, number one, there is some desire on the part of this administration to provoke something,” Clinton said. “I don’t think we can, unfortunately, rule that out.” In regards to special counsel Robert Mueller ’s recently-released Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 SEE CLINTON PAGE 3


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