The Dartmouth 10/25/18

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018

VOL. CLXXV NO. 90

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Conservative Horowitz’s talk draws protesters

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By ANDREW CULVER The Dartmouth

Conservative commentator David Horowitz’s talk “Identity Politics and the Totalitarian Threat from the Left,” which he delivered Tuesday night to a crowd of over 50 people, drew protests inside and outside the event along with several police and campus security officers. Horowitz is a conservative writer and the founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative think tank whose self-declared mission is to NAINA BHALLA/THE DARTMOUTH

Protesters held up hand-made signs during conservative commentator David Horowitz’s talk on campus.

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OPINION

HOLZER: A POLITICAL SUPREME COURT PAGE 6

FISHBEIN: DON’T GET BURNED PAGE 6

LI SHEN: STICK IT TO THE MAN PAGE 7

SAKLAD: SPOOK SEASON PAGE 7

ARTS

REVIEW: ‘BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE’ FAILS TO LIVE UP TO ITS HYPE PAGE 8 FOLLOW US ON

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Research team to develop device to help trauma care

B y SAVANNAH ELLER The Dartmouth

For doctors treating trauma victims, diagnosing shock and internal bleeding early is essential. A team of researchers at Dartmouth are developing a novel device to help clinicians make quick decisions on the ground to determine the condition of their patients. Recently awarded the $3 million Precision Trauma Care Research

Award from the Department of Defense’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program, the researchers will investigate methods to diagnose internal injury and shock using a combination of advanced sensors and machine learning. “Our project is predicated on the idea that neither of these alone are actually succeeding, and that what we really need to do is combine state-of-the-art sensing with stateof-the-art artificial intelligence,” said medicine professor Norman

Paradis, director of research in the section of emergency medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and a lead researcher on the project. To bring these aspects together, the project team includes both doctors and researchers at DHMC, the Geisel School of Medicine and the Thayer School of Engineering. The joint team will investigate the creation of new, more effective sensing technology and develop a device that can be easily deployed

Fence to be built at Quechee Gorge Bridge B y LORRAINE LIU The Dartmouth

In a series of measures to prevent suicide at the Quechee Gorge Bridge in Vermont, a temporary fence is being constructed. Four days into construction, workers have finished putting up the supporting poles for the fence on the north side of the bridge, according to the Vermont Agency of Transportation project manager J.B.

in triage situations. The new device could be particularly effective in large-scale events with multiple patients in need of care, according to Paradis. The proposed device would then monitor the patient, setting off an alarm if signs of shock are detected. “You have a bunch of people who don’t look externally sick, but could be internally injured, so you’d put our system on,” he said. SEE TRAUMA PAGE 5

BUILDING BLOCKS

McCarthy. He said that the next stage of construction before tying the fence to the existing rail posts will be to set up the supporting poles on the south side of the bridge, which is expected to take three days. Upon its completion, the nine-foot-tall chain-link fence will be attached to the 200-foot-long bridge, covering the original four-foot-high pedestrian bridge railing. The design of the temporary chainNAINA BHALLA/THE DARTMOUTH

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As Homecoming approaches, the bonfire construction has already begun.


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