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Hanover experienced a calmer Homecoming weekend than usual.

This year’s Homecoming weekend saw only one arrest and fewer Good Sam calls than previous years.

Following the town of Hanover’s concerns about bonfire safety, new security measures were put in place this year, including building

a shorter fire, placing multiple fences around it and restricting members of the Class of 2022 to only walking one lap around the fire.

“I think [the fire] was almost picture perfect,” said Keysi Montás, interim director of the Department of Safety and Security.

Similarly, Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said the event was “perfect” with no students attempting to

Kuster discusses her political roots B y wally joe cook The Dartmouth Staff

When asked about her campaign’s theme, Rep. Annie McLane Kuster ’78 (D-NH) said, “We care about everybody.” If Kuster looked out the window, she would have seen that a lot of people also care about her. Just outside of the interview room, over 200 students were lined up to listen to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kuster speak at a Get Out

the Vote rally on Oct. 28.

On Sept. 11, Kuster won the Democratic primary election to represent New Hampshire’s second congressional district uncontested. She will face off against Republican State Rep. Steve Negron and Libertarian candidate Justin O’Donnell on Nov. 6 for New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District’s seat in the House SEE PROFILE PAGE 2

touch the fire.

Hanover police chief Charlie Dennis echoed Griffin and Montás, saying that he thought this year’s bonfire “went very well.”

“Many of the changes were made with a focus on having a safer evening,” Board of Trustees secretary Laura Hercod said.

“We were encouraged to do that by the town and the town felt the evening was a success, SEE HOMECOMING PAGE 5

Every year toward the end of fall term, the Lone Pine becomes the Giving Tree. Dartmouth’s annual fundraising campaign to support the Granite United Way began on Oct. 23 and aims to raise $290,000 by the end of the calendar year.

Dartmouth is the largest contributor to the campaign in the Upper Valley and the third largest in New Hampshire.

Dartmouth employees’ contributions to United Way are distributed out to dozens of aid organizations in New Hampshire and Ver mont.

These donations go toward supporting “initiatives and p ro g r a m s t h at fo c u s o n Education, Income, and Health,” according to Granite United Way’s website.

“If you sit inside the Dartmouth bubble, it’s easy to miss how much need there is in this region and in this area,” said Rick Mills, the College’s executive vice president and

chair of the campaign’s steering committee. “Those organizations are all doing real work where they’re meeting real need, and this is a chance to help contribute to that.”

Last year, the fundraising campaign had to be extended after it failed to meet its $300,000 goal. By the Dec. 15, 2017 deadline, roughly $285,000 had been raised.

In addition to the fundraising, Mills said there is “another softer goal of i n c re a s i n g p a r t i c i p at i o n and engagement in ways people feel they can engage,” including volunteering.

“Some folks in our community might not be in a position to make a financial contribution, but they still could engage and do volunteer work,” Mills said.

He noted that the College grants its employees one paid day off per year for volunteering at a United Way-supported organization.

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Water flushing discolors water

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Ashley Lewis ’22, a North Fayerweather Hall resident, was showering when she noticed a disturbing color change in the water.

“I stepped in the shower one afternoon and I looked at my hair as I was combing it, and there was a slight brown run-off,” Lewis said.

“I could not tell if it was due to my hair or the water itself.

I just assumed the problem was a New Hampshire thing, like in other countries water has different scents and

hues. I trusted that whatever Dartmouth was doing was safe.”

Many students may have noticed water discoloration in their dorms over the past week as a result of the town of Hanover’s biannual water flushing. From Oct. 17 through Oct. 24, the town’s water lines were being flushed in order to keep the water supply clean, clearing the pipes of natural sediment build-up.

“We do flushing two times a year — it’s a spring and a fall activity — and it’s a common practice in [al]

most every town I know,” Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said.

Hanover’s water comes f ro m t h r e e r e s e r vo i r s : the Fletcher and Parker Reservoirs, located in the Camp Brook watershed near Grasse Road, and the Jack Nelson Reservoir, which collects water from the Mink Brook watershed and contains sediments like iron and manganese, according to Griffin.

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Kuster encourages student voting “I had a really great professor, Dane Meadows, who had written a book called, ‘Small is Beautiful,’” of Representatives.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Kuster said. “Earth Day [first] a website which forecasts elections, happened when I was in junior high Kuster has a 99.7 percent chance of school so it was all pretty new.”

When Kuster graduated, she winning the seat. College Republicans vice president Daniel Bring ’21, who moved to Washington, D.C. to supports Negron, said he likewise continue working for McCloskey.

After a few years as his legislative expects Kuster to win the election.

In 1974, Kuster enrolled at director, Kuster attended Georgetown Dartmouth as a member of the third Law School and, in 1984, she class to accept women. Thirty-eight returned to New Hampshire, where years later, in 2012, she entered she practiced law for 25 years. Kuster Congress as a part of the nation’s first was also a lobbyist from 1989 to 2009. all-female Congressional delegation She re-entered politics by working on the John Kerry presidential campaign in history.

“I was very proud,” Kuster said. in 2004. Then, in 2006, she met a “New Hampshire has really led the senator whom she thought could be way for women candidates and it president.

“I was the second person to join was very exciting to the Barack be part of the first Obama all-female delegation “New Hampshire has campaign,” in the history of the really led the way for Kuster country.” said. “I Kuster said that women candidates.” met him in her mother, Susan December McLane, who served -REP. ANNIE MCLANE of 2006 in the New Hampshire and soon House and Senate KUSTER (D-NH) I started for a combined 25 working years, helped pave on the the way for her campaign political career. As a in January politician, McLane of 2007, was a founder of the Women’s Campaign Fund and the when it was just getting started.”

Kuster added that she remembers National Women’s Political Caucus, organizations that encourage women her time working on the Obama campaign fondly. to run for office.

“I said to the president, ‘I was on “I think young women and girls can grow up in New Hampshire and board before Michelle [Obama] was know that there’s a place for them in on board,’ and he said, ‘I think you’re positions of influence and in elected right,’” she said.

After joining Congress in 2012, office,” Kuster said. “I think it’s very Kuster said she worked to find empowering.”

McLane was first elected to bipartisan solutions in the Republicanthe New Hampshire House of controlled House. However, she Representatives when Kuster was 12 explained that the dynamic in years old, which Kuster said inspired Washington, D.C. changed with her own interest in government. At President Trump’s election in 2016.

“Congress was quite a bit more 16, Kuster first got involved in politics working for Rep. Pete McCloskey’s congenial the first four years when 1972 presidential campaign for the Barack Obama was president,” she Republican nomination. McCloskey said. “What’s been hard in the last two was challenging incumbent President years is that the polarization has been Richard Nixon on an anti-war platform. exacerbated by President Trump’s “It was part of a series of events rhetoric. He makes no effort to bring that led to his resignation,” Kuster people together in terms of working said. “It definitely gave me the with Congress.”

Kuster said that although she sense that getting involved makes a still works hard to find bipartisan difference.”

At Dartmouth, Kuster majored in solutions, Trump’s behavior has environmental policy studies, which created new challenges.

“We have been successful passing she said matched with her work for McCloskey, who sponsored the Clean bipartisan legislation and getting it Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the to his desk to sign into law, but it’s National Environmental Policy Act. been in spite of him, not because of FROM PROFILE PAGE 1

him,” she said. “He’s very erratic and unpredictable. That’s contrary to an environment of creating relationships and building confidence and trusting one another and working together.”

Kuster cited two bipartisan agreements, a bill that established a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and a farm bill, where Trump “weighed in and blew up the compromise.” She added that bipartisan legislation is important to combat the opioid epidemic, which she said many people identify as the greatest issue in New Hampshire.

“New Hampshire is at the epicenter of a perfect storm of not enough treatment, access to treatment and high rate of opioid prescription,” Kuster said. “New Hampshire has bold ideas and innovative solutions that will help us out of the crisis and help the rest of the country out of the crisis.”

Jared Cape ’21, who interned for Kuster this summer, spoke highly of his experience with her.

“Congresswoman Kuster is by far the best possible representative for our district,” Cape said. “She is one of the most authentic, kind, caring and lovable people you will ever meet.”

He also praised Kuster for her bipartisan efforts to deal with the opioid crisis and sexual assault.

Kuster also discussed the importance of voting in New Hampshire. According to FiveThirtyEight, an individual vote from New Hampshire had a greater chance of determining the 2016 presidential election than a vote in any other state.

“Maggie Hassan won a seat in the U.S. Senate by just 1,000 votes out of the 700,000 votes cast in 2016,” she said. “Every single one of those 1,000 votes that she won by were right here on the Dartmouth campus.”

Kuster added that Hassan’s election had major policy implications.

“She was essentially the deciding vote on protecting the Affordable Care Act,” Kuster said. “I think 32 million people would have lost their health insurance if she hadn’t been there.”

Kuster also emphasized the importance of Dartmouth students voting on Nov. 6.

“This is very important for Dartmouth students to understand: you can vote in this election,” she said.

“Don’t be intimidated if you don’t know all of the names on the ballot.

Don’t think of it as an exam — it’s not an exam. It’s a civic duty to participate in your own government.”

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Kuster seeks re-election in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District.

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CORRECTIONS Correction appended (Nov. 1, 2018): The article titled “Dartmouth community gathers to remember victims and mourn anti-Semitic attack” has been updated to clarify that while Rose Mallinger lived through the Holocaust, she was not a “survivor” in the traditional interpretation of the word, as she had not lived in any of the areas where the Holocaust had taken place.

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Students enjoyed fall foliage along Tuck Drive as Week Eight came to a close.

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Water flushing clears Hanover pipes Group of freshmen run 122 laps outside fence Lewis said she did not see the Vox notice, citing the inundation sections of pipes to force out any of emails as a deterrent to read possible contaminants so the water the fine print of the e-mail. is as sediment and mineral-free as Typically, waiting around an possible, Griffin said, adding that hour and letting the water run flushing also occurs in fire hydrants for a bit cleans out faucets and so that the pressure is as high as gets rid of the discoloration. The possible. discolored water should not be Griffin also noted that the town consumed, but after the hue clears likes to notify its residents of the it is safe to use. schedule before the flushing begins “I went to boarding school in New through its e-news service, website Hampshire and The and sometimes Valley News “I was going to take a the sink water n e w s p a p e r shower before my 10 became brown so residents for an hour or will be aware [class period] and the so there too,” t o n o t r u n water came out dark Billy Hobbs dishwashers ’22 said. “I just brown.

It was definitely or do laundry waited a little o n t h e d ay unexpected.” and it was back their water is to normal and I being flushed, wasn’t scared to j u s t a s a -MADELEINE SCHAFFER ’22 use it.” precaution for possible In South sediment Faye r we at h e r H a l l , I s a b e l l e staining.

Kocher ’22, who did not know of The College informed students the flushing schedule, attempted to of the water flushing schedule wash her hands in the bathroom when the town forwarded the and fill up her water bottle at the information. On Oct. 17, Robin basement water filler and was met Guay, facilities work process with orange-tinted water. manager for Facilities Operations “I was worried, but the janitor and Management, sent out an in my building explained that it just announcement in the Vox News wasn’t drinkable at the moment e m a i l b e c a u s e “ D a r t m o u t h and I just went back later,” Kocher considers [Vox] the effective said. system for getting news out,” Guay Little Hall resident Jonah Kahl said. ’22 said he did not notice any Residential Operations also discoloration in his water and did posted notices in laundry rooms, not read the Vox announcement. according to Guay.

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should have been notified more directly about the potential water changes, noting that informing undergraduate advisors and asking them to warn their residents would likely have been more effective in spreading the news.

When Madeleine Schaffer ’22 noticed a difference in the water, she notified her UGA who, at the time, was also unaware of the flushing.

“I was going to take a shower before my 10 [class period] and the water came out dark brown,” Schaffer said. “It was definitely unexpected.”

Schaffer’s UGA told her to call Safety and Security or another de partment on campus that could possibly assist because both thought there was an issue with the water, she said.

Cadyn Davis ’21, who is a UGA for the first and second floors of North Fayerweather Hall, said she had two of her residents approach her with worries about the water.

“I didn’t know about [the water flushing], but I don’t think that was the College’s fault,” Davis said. “I was concerned, but then I went into the bathroom and tested the sinks and they started to run clear and the toilets were fixed later that day, so it was all fine.”

Lauren Pinchuk ’21 said she believes the College should make clearer announcements about events like the water flushing that could concern students.

“I usually skip over [Vox News emails],” Pinchuk said. “Putting up signs in bathroom stalls or posters

PUMPED UP FOR HALLOWEEN

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Students celebrated Halloween by painting pumpkins.

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too.”

Montás said he was pleased with the level of maturity shown by the students.

“I am very happy our bonfire is living to see another year,” he added.

Engineering professor Douglas Van Citters ’99 Th’03’06, who was chair of the working group that made the changes to the bonfire this year, wrote in an email that he was glad everyone involved “demonstrated that we can come together as a community and work with the town to put on a safe and meaningful evening.”

Van Citters also wrote that the new fire collapsed perfectly in on itself, “exactly as designed.”

Good Sam calls also decreased from previous years, according to Montás.

“Good Sams are good, but if people are not calling in Good Sams because they are not intoxicated, that is even better,” he said.

Similarly, Dennis said that calls to the Hanover Police Department decreased relative to previous years.

Hanover police received one phone call early Saturday morning about an intoxicated person, but that was the only arrest of Homecoming weekend.

“The safety measures the College put in place to help curb some of the behavior that wasn’t acceptable worked well,” Dennis said. “I think it went very well from a public safety perspective.”

Montás said that while representatives from the College have not yet done a full debrief of the weekend, he does not anticipate

any major changes being required for next year’s bonfire.

Griffin noted that the bonfire will be able to continue in future years, citing changes in traffic flow in Hanover as the only change anticipated for next year.

Hercod added that the goal for next year will be to “keep as much of the tradition as possible, but evolve where we need to.”

“I know there was disappointment about not being able to run the laps and I understand that, but I also think it was the old way — and no bonfire — or the new way and the continuation of the bonfire,” Hercod said.

Gab Smith ’22 said that while she was glad the fire got to happen at all, she wished she and her classmates had been able to run laps around the fire. “[There was an] initial sense of awe seeing the fire and approaching it,” Alana McClements ’22 said.

McClements noted, however, that this initial excitement quickly wore off as students walked, as opposed to ran, around the fire.

Jacob Dell ’22 and three friends completed 122 laps around the bonfire by running outside the fenced area.

“We decieded that we would find a way to make the tradition happen, even if it wasn’t in the way that it typically occurs,” Dell said, adding that running all 122 laps took over two hours.

Griffin said that running around the fire may have been a part of the Homecoming tradition, but it was not “a safe part of the tradition.”

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An issue as existential as climate change must be one-sided.

With the United States’ midterm elections looming, the push to “get out the vote” is in full-swing. As it should be — only 61 percent of registered voters went to the polls in 2016. Perhaps even more surprising is that 2016 set the record for voter turnout in a presidential election. If we take a closer look at the 137.5 million voters who actually, well, voted, we see something else surprising: close to 90 percent of people reported they would vote along party lines. This tribalistic divide in the American civic body mirrors the partisan divide in Congress, where party unity voting has increased from sixty percent in the early 1970s to 90 percent in 2017.

To most, these statistics make sense: many of us have an intuitive sense of the deepening schism separating the two ends of the American political spectrum. In some ways, this bifurcation makes sense: politicians have risen to power on the backs of party loyalists. Media outlets have followed suit and set out to capture certain concentrated audiences, tailoring content to fit the wants of an archetypal viewer, be they a coal miner from West Virginia or a hairdresser from the Bronx.

In some ways, this behavior is difficult to criticize — at least insofar as it is the seemingly natural result of a neoliberal paradigm, one that puts the accumulation of capital above all else. This paradigm has led to increasing deregulation and economic growth; it also led to the 2008 financial crisis, and, perhaps less obviously, to the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

Why institute a carbon tax when you suspect other countries won’t follow suit? Rational economic behavior in a short-term model dictates renege — break the Paris Accord. But if one expands their perspective, and thinks a little bigger — about say, the survival of our species — then a political philosophy that embraces the collective challenge of climate change begins to make sense. We all benefit from action. We all suffer from inaction.

But maybe you don’t “believe” in climate change, or maybe you know it’s happening but don’t think it’s a big deal. If that’s the case, then at least one can start somewhere: All parties agree the Earth is getting hotter. It is getting hotter at a rate that far exceeds that of any natural process.

Humans are making the Earth hotter, and we are doing that mainly through the release of greenhouse gasses. As emissions increase in concentration, they more effectively trap heat

that would otherwise reflect off the surface of the Earth and back into space.

So at least we can agree on that. These are facts (thank goodness!). But maybe you don’t see any reason to get worked up over the two degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures that was decided upon in the Paris Agreement to be the maximum allowable temperature increase due to carbon emissions. Perhaps you don’t mind that at the current rate of carbon emissions, global temperatures are already set to rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040. It’s conceivable that you don’t care that failing to reduce carbon emissions will lead to an increase in violent storms, droughts and wildfires, as well as extinction of a vast array of planet and animal species, and the ensured annihilation of the polar ice caps.

If that doesn’t faze you, let me point out how complex and nefarious the issue of climate change really is. The Earth is a complicated, interconnected system. A change to one part of the system often affects many other parts in unforeseen and dramatic ways. For example, shrinking polar ice caps are not only causing a rise in sea levels, they are also accelerating the rate at which the Earth is heating up. That is because ice, a white surface, has a much higher albedo (otherwise known as reflectivity) than sea water.

It is essentially the difference between wearing a black t-shirt or a white t-shirt on a hot day, and it means that the polar ice caps are melting and the oceans are rising (and will continue to rise) at an accelerating rate.

Even if we keep global warming capped at a two-degree Celsius increase by 2100 — a rate we are already outstripping — we can expect a sea rise between one and two meters by the end of the century. And while a meter or two might not sound bad, consider that over 40 percent of the world’s population lives in coastal areas — areas that will soon be underwater. Yes, steps can be taken to protect certain coastal areas. Manhattan, for instance, will be protected at all costs. But the vast majority of coastal villages, towns and cities will disappear. And that is only the result of the minimum rise of one to two meters. In reality, it will very likely be much, much worse. As I mentioned before, the loss of ice creates a positive feedback loop. Even if we stopped emitting carbon altogether, global sea levels would still go up. Ice SEE SZUHAJ PAGE 6

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Hard fought rights will be lost without use.

For most of the nation’s history, it was rare to see a Dartmouth student in the electorate. Even in times, when the compositions of both the College and electorate were dominated by white, male landowners, voting was a right unavailable to those under the age of 21. This changed with the 26th Amendment in the wake of the Vietnam War, during which many Americans protested the civic injustice in people without say in the political system being drafted to fight in a war they could not stop.

Only a few years prior, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to ensure the enfranchisement of minority populations across the United States, especially in the ostensibly desegregated South. The women’s suffrage movement of the late nineteenth century heralded the 19th Amendment and female vote in 1920.

Indeed, one may interpret the moral arc of American history as a struggle of continued enfranchisement; many of the nation’s most seminal Amendments, including the 19th, 15th, 14th and 13th, were products of concerted efforts to expand the electorate and ensure political equality. Voting is a historical rarity, right and privilege that hundreds of millions in the U.S. now have access to. While it is the right of every citizen to decline from voting, it is almost unquestionably in each citizen’s civic duty to cast a ballot.

As the 2018 midterm elections near, questions of enfranchisement again dominate national conversation. While this discussion is wont to occur on the eve of any major election, the 2018 midterms have seen a special focus on voting rights from both sides of the aisle.

In 2017, the Trump Administration announced the creation of a “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,” a group meant to combat voter fraud and other malfeasance many conservatives perceived in the electoral system. The administration stated that the group is meant to target “fraudulent voter registrations and fraudulent voting,” claims that many liberals cried were coded language used to justify voter suppression.

Republican efforts across the country emulate this trend. In Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi and Wisconsin, voter I.D. laws have been attacked as partisan and racist attempts at voter suppression.

The decommissioning of polling places to otherwise unserved populations and increased purging of voter registration rolls in recent years have caused concern that the electoral system is being cheated.

Dartmouth students are familiar with such fights, the New Hampshire State Assembly having waged a now two year-long legislative and legal campaign to stop out-of-state college students from voting in New Hampshire. While there are valid arguments about the logic and validity of out-ofstate students voting away from home, many note the naked partisanship of recent legislation.

Democrats and liberal aligned groups have conversely touted the expansion of voting as integral to both the health of the country and as a keystone electoral strategy. Students who have been approached by the Dartmouth Democrats’ should know this fact well.

Regardless of political affiliation, concerns over the integrity of American democracy are warranted in this fraught time. Acrimonious,

crass and violent language stains public discourse, most notably emanating from the Oval Office.

Discourse on how polarized and uncompromising Americans have become of the opposing political tribe are ubiquitous in the mainstream media and well-modeled online.

It’s inaccurate to think that the result of the 2018 midterms will herald the end of the republic, regardless of the results. Given the dangerous moment the nation is in, however, it should be clear that this election is pivotal in determining the trajectory of America for the foreseeable future and possibly long after. Eligible students cannot sit on the sidelines when this moment demands every American’s voice be heard.

Political operators in democracies have always relied on confusion, coercion and misinformation to deter populations from voting. In many parts of the country, these tactics are often fervently employed to disenfranchise demographics perceived as unfriendly to the opposition’s agenda.

Arguments that individual votes don’t matter in elections are also unacceptable, and voters who believe so enable a self-fulfilling prophecy. The only eligible citizens in a liberal democracy to whom elected officials are accountable are those vote. Much of the dissimilarities between the public and electorate opinion’s can be attributed to voter abstinence. Analyses have shown that if voter turnout were at or near 100 percent, politicians would be required to deliver more nuanced and geographically diverse campaigns, while discourse on issues as diverse as abortion, criminal justice, environmentalism, healthcare and public education would be wildly different.

Younger Americans stand to have a particularly outsized effect should they turn out in higher numbers for the midterms. Although millennials now comprise the largest generational group in the United States, Americans 35 and younger are far less likely to cast a ballot than their elders. It is then alarming to see the electorate deprived of the unique political insights and incentives that motivate younger voters.

The pressures of student loan debt, concerns about the impacts of climate change, and policy questions addressing an increasingly diverse, digitized and metropolitan country are disproportionately the concerns of younger Americans. None of these issues, as well as countless more, are likely to be addressed unless politicians are accountable to younger voters. For this to change, young people must vote.

Dartmouth students are well-positioned in the country to make their voices heard. Many students have wandered the girdled earth to find themselves at the College. While it remains an option for students to make their voice heard in New Hampshire this year, all eligible Dartmouth students must vote wherever they can.

It is the duty of informed citizens to engage with the political system, not only despite its faults but because of them. No matter how appealing political apathy may seem, no matter how infuriating the country’s often broken and bitter politics may be, now is not the time to disengage.

The health and longevity of the country’s hardfought liberal democracy depends on an engaged electorate. Hopefully, this chapter in the nation’s history again ends with an expanded electorate and a more perfect union.

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United Way campaign aims to raise $290,000

they want to be supportive but they have a hard time writing a big check M i m i S i m p s o n , exe c u t i ve at one time,” Simpson said.

Katie Kent, area director director in the president’s division and a member of the steering of Granite United Way for the committee, said utilization of Upper Valley, said that in addition to Dartmouth, the paid day U n i t e d Wa y off had grown “If you sit inside the has secured from 54 to 158 corporate employees over Dartmouth bubble, partnerships the past two it’s easy to miss how with companies years. in the region, “ W e ’ r e much need there is in including h o p i n g t o this region and in this Dartmouthelevate the area.”

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T h e EXECUTIVE VICE Thanks in part campaign will PRESIDENT to this support, p r o m o t e she said, 48 charitable organizations giving through in the Upper a number Valley received of different funding last channels.

Several College departments year from Granite United Way. “Donations go to fund the have designated coordinators for bigger, well-known agencies like the campaign.

Simpson noted that many of the Upper Valley Haven, but also different Dartmouth departments smaller organizations that people and organizations try to raise may not know much about,” Kent funds in “unique” ways, including said, citing the Second Wind raffles and contests. The role Foundation, the Springfield Family Center and of the steering Valley Court c o m m i t t e e “We’re hoping to Diversion is “to help P ro g r a m s a s people behind elevate the volunteer examples of the the scenes to profile of the latter. make sure they institution.”

S h e have what they added that need,” she said. organizations “We’re not of all sizes doing it as a -MIMI SIMPSON, “are crucial top-down, for a healthy m o n o l i t h i c EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR community.” campaign,” IN THE PRESIDENT’S “ S o Mills said. i t ’s n o t j u s t “The way the DIVISION the big ones, campaign rolls they all kind of out at [the] play off each Tuck [Business other and all School] might serve a special be a little purpose in the different than the way the campaign rolls out at community,” Kent said.

Valley Court Diversion Programs [the] Geisel [School of Medicine], so each of them can do in their is a 501(c)(3) organization that aims to help residents of Windsor area what works for their area.”

Simpson noted the uniqueness County, Vermont, and portions of of the athletics department’s Grafton County, New Hampshire access restorative justice programs, approach to United Way. “They give a dollar for every according to its website. Valley adult ticket sold during the first C o u r t D i v e r s i o n P r o g r a m s game of the year to the campaign,” executive director Ellen Wicklum emphasized the importance of she said.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, D a r t m o u t h United Way’s support for the employees can sign up to donate organization.

“United Way has been a real through payroll deductions, splitting a large donation up among friend to us over the years,” Wicklum said. “We have gotten multiple pay periods.

“We find that ... this is a big money from them every year for incentive for [employees] because a while.”

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SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF COLLIS MEATBALLS

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The Collis Center for Student Life saw a sunny day amidst Hanover traffic.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

HOMECOMING 2218

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018

WINSTON CHEN ’22

TODAY

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Public Talk: “Bumps on the Road to Diversity,” with Keira Loughran and theater professor Monica Ndounou, sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Top of the Hop

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Men’s Hockey: Big Green v. Princeton Tigers, Thompson Arena

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Film: “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” directed by Desiree Akhavan, sponsored by the the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball: Big Green v. Yale Bulldogs, Leede Arena

7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.

Film: “The Animation Show of Shows,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Play: “Eclipsed,” written by Danai Gurira, sponsored by the theater department, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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takes a long time to melt, and the temperature increase that would guarantee at least a meter of sea level rise by 2100 would also commit us to an additional six—yes six—meters in the decades to follow. Let that sink in for a second. Six meters. The entire state of Florida, for comparison, is on average just six feet above sea level.

If any of these grim predictions are infuriating, upsetting, or scary — good. They should be. Climate change is a very, very big problem that will require a very big, very concerted global effort to be solved. But for that coalition to form, politicians need to begin to view climate change not as a partisan issue, but as an everybody issue. Climate change requires a coordinated global response much like the one that opposed the rise of Nazi Germany. Sadly, that response only formed once the biggest nations involved realized what they stood to lose if they remained on the sidelines. So, with that in mind, I’d like to point out that climate change is as much an economic problem as it is a scientific one. A best-case scenario of one to two meters of sea level rise would mean a GDP reduction of up to eight percent for upper income countries like the United States. That reduction would cause a ripple effect through the US economy, snuffing out business and government programs alike. And that’s only from the best-case scenario involving one consequence of climate change: sea level rise. It does not consider the increasingly

frequent food and water shortages, the damage from natural disasters, the displaced peoples — among other consequences.

Put another way: climate change is not only the most salient threat to the long-term survival of our species, it is also the most pressing not-quite-short-enough-yet-to-make-us-carethreat to our stability, comfort and ability to lead regular, fulfilling lives.

I want to end this article by acknowledging that stating that climate change isn’t fun. For many, it is a depression and fear-inducing abstract boogeyman against which we can do little to act. In some ways, that notion is true — there is very little that you and I can do to combat climate change. There are things we can do to limit the waste we produce, to keep our neighborhoods clean, to reduce our personal carbon footprint. But the sad reality is, like with money, the clear majority of carbon is “owned” and emitted by a minority of people. Seventy-one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from just 100 companies. Unsurprisingly, for a long time these companies have avoided paying what many economists consider a fair price per ton for damages inflicted from the carbon they emit. That is something we can change. We may not have a direct say in the daily operations of the companies driving climate change, but in less than a week we can and should play a significant part in electing the people who serve to regulate them.

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Music resident Mamadou Diabaté connects language to music B y MIA NELSON The Dartmouth

West African musician and music department resident Mamadou Diabaté tells the students in his Music 17.06 course “The LanguageMusic Connection” the origin story of the balafon, which is a wooden West African instrument similar to a xylophone. Diabaté said that the balafon was not created, but rather gifted. Legend has it that a man walked up to a bush and began conferring with spirits, who then gave the man the balafon and taught him how to play. Each time Diabaté plays the balafon, he commences with a few notes in homage to the ancestors and spirits who allow for his knowledge of the instrument. Music is integrally tied to the myth-history and cultural heritage of the Sambla people, a small West African grouping in Burkina Faso that is in possession of an endangered language and of which Diabaté is a member.

The Sambla language is an entirely oral tradition, wherein notes played on the balafon are actually words — the language is inexorably linked to the instrument. Linguistics professor Laura McPherson, who co-teaches the course with Diabaté, has spent five years attempting to create a dictionary and grammatical understanding of Sambla before the language disappears entirely. Because Sambla is a completely oral tradition, McPherson said her work would be the first grammatical dictionary of the language. Through her research, she also encountered the musical tradition of the balafon.

“The language is also the music,” she said, “A series of notes on the balafon can be equivocated to a word.”

A cross-listed course between the linguistic and music departments was natural, as McPherson said, “music and language is inseparable.”

The class huddles around five huge balafons and plays notes while Diabaté calls out sambla words. They are learning a language by learning how to play an instrument.

Gabriel Zuckerberg ’20 said that this is the perfect class for him, as he is seeking majors in linguistics, neuroscience and music. Beyond his confluence of interests inherent in the class, Zuckerberg said he appreciates that the class is hands-on and activity based.

“Any musical tradition deserves to be understood in a human way,” he said.

Zuckerberg and his classmates have a palpable eagerness to engage with Diabaté –– many even came early to class to play on the balafon.

Diabaté said that he is “happy the students ... want to understand, they want to learn.”

The musical tradition of the Sambla people is a relatively unknown subject in the United States. Diabaté said that this class is the first time Sambla music has been taught in an American university.

Diabaté, who said he appreciates Dartmouth’s interest in the music and is eager to engage even more with the music department on campus, added that he was proud that he will not only perform at the College but also teach a class. According to

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Mamadou Diabaté is the fall term’s music department resident whose performance will feature the West African balafon.

Diabate, a general trend in American universities is that “music from Africa can come and perform, but not teach.”

Diabaté’s class adds diversity to the music offerings at Dartmouth.

Zuckerberg, who is pursuing his own research with the Stamps Scholars Program preserving the liturgical and folk history of a disappearing and ancient Balkan Jewish community, said he believes that diversity in musical teaching is integral.

“Working with [Diabaté] and the other guests the class brings in helps us break down any thought we have of music having universals,” he said.

Through this active engagement with a tradition not in the western canon, Zuckerberg believes the class is learning that “music and language are beautifully diverse.” Zuckerberg also praised the class for allowing students to actually play Sambla instruments.

“Music teaching in the West says we can learn other musical cultures without actively experiencing their music in person and developing an intuition,” he said.

McPherson said that music and language are closely linked in many cultures, and that both use pitch and rhythm; however, Sambla is the “perfect case study to show how

tightly [music and language] can be connected.” McPherson hopes that in exposing a group of students to the balafon, the Sambla language can be preserved.

“It’s like safekeeping it,” McPherson said.

T hose in the Dartmouth community eager to learn more about the connection between the Sambla language and the balafon, as well as experience West African musical traditions, may come to Spaulding Auditorium on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. Diabaté will be playing a plethora of percussion instruments along with his band Percussion Mania.

Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend

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“Eclipsed”

“The Miseducation of Cameron Post”

“Fall Fling 2018”

Friday - Sunday, 8 p.m. at Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center for the Arts An award-winning play written by “Black Panther” actress and ZimbabweanAmerican Danai Gurira, “Eclipsed” tells the story of the captured “wives” of a Liberian rebel officer toward the end of the Second Liberian Civil War. The play follows them as they create a fragile sisterhood and fight for control, power and agency over their own lives. Both haunting and surprsingly funny, the play is directed by visiting director Miranda Haymon. A post-performance discussion will follow the production on Friday.

-Joyce Lee

Saturday, 7 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center

Saturday, 8 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth, this quietly powerful indie features Chloe Grace Moretz as its titular character, a high school student who gets sent to a gay conversion camp after getting caught making out with her best friend. Despite the bigotry present from the adult figures at the camp, Cameron finds two like-minded friends who remain determined to stay true to their identities. Despite its premise, the film finds warmth and empathy through the acceptance found in the bond these three friends share.

-Joyce Lee

The Dartmouth Subtleties presents their fall show “Fall Fling” on Saturday, featuring their own diverse repertoire of singers and other performance groups and artists from around campus. The Subtleties is an all-female a cappella group who have been a presence on campus since 1998. “Fall Fling” will feature hit songs by artists such as Rhianna, Bon Iver, lady Gaga, and more, as well as music from the largest term concert in six years, the Subtleties’ 2016 “Winter Whingding.”

-Joyce Lee

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TODAY’S TODAY’S LINEUP LINEUP

MEN’S HOCKEY VS PRINCETON 7 P.M.

Dartmouth hockey anticipates Princeton “tennis ball game”

By ADDISON DICK

the season, as Harvard University went five for seven on the power play last Saturday.

“We learned a lot,” Kilistoff “It’s nothing like I’ve ever says. “We did a lot of work this experienced before.”

That is how Kevan Kilistoff week on our penalty kill, so ’19, captain of the men’s hockey hopefully that will pay off this week.” team, described Gaudet agrees the “tennis “It’s nothing like I’ve that the penalty ball game” kill must improve, that will take ever experienced but he was happy place tonight. before.” with the team’s Students in the performance last crowd will follow weekend. a tradition that - KEVAN KILISTOFF ’19 “Our resilience has existed was great,” Gaudet f o r ove r t w o said. “We were decades and down a couple of toss tennis balls times in that game onto the ice after the team’s first goal of the game. by two goals. We continued to work While the initial goal will provide hard, to stay with our game plan excitement and entertainment, and found a way to score some big t e a m m e m b e r s a r e m a k i n g goals.”

Kilistoff hopes the offensive sure they stay focused on their priority: defeating rival Princeton performance in the game against University, the defending ECAC Harvard will carry over to this conference champion and current weekend.

“Scoring seven goals was huge top-20 team in the nation.

“They play really fast, and they for us,” Kilistoff said. “It adds a have two of the top players in lot of confidence to the team.”

Drew O’Connor ’22, who college hockey — [All-Americans Ryan Kuffner and Max Véronneau] finished his first collegiate game — they are a good challenge for us with three points, said he learned early in the season,” head coach a lot from the win.

It was a big game for our team,” Bob Gaudet ’81 said.

Gaudet, who is one win shy of O’Connor said. “It was a bit of an adjustment to his 400th career the speed of the win, believes game, but it was his team can be “It should be a a fun game and I successful if they good test for us, was glad we were play their style of but we’re looking able to get the hockey. win.”

“It’s not who forward to it. I think O’Connor w e p l a y, i t ’ s we just have to stick is excited for how we play,” his fir st home G a u d e t s a i d . to our game.” game against “It’s important P r in c et on . H e that we play our first heard about game. We know - DREW O’CONNOR ’22 the tennis ball we have to be on tradition when he our game to be decided to come successful against to Dartmouth, them.” and he attended Kilistoff says last year’s game the team needs with friends to to cut down on see the game in penalties and person. limit the Princeton power play.

“It was really cool to see,” “They’ve had a good power play against us in the past, so we O’Connor said. “It’s definitely have to try to stay out of the box,” something I’m looking forward to.

At the end of the day, it will still be Gaudet said.

Dartmouth struggled with the a tough game. We have to focus on penalty kill in its opening game of just playing Princeton and try to The Dartmouth Staff

put it in the back of our mind, but team receives during the game it will definitely be a fun game.” each year.

O’Connor will be one of “The energy in Thompson six freshman skaters looking to Arena is just fabulous,” Gaudet continue a new sort of tradition: said “It’s a great atmosphere and a freshman has scored the first the students are great.” goal of the tennis ball game, now Kilistoff loves the energy in known as “The Goal,” for the past the arena, but he knows he must five years. keep his teammates in check and Gaudet believes that his players focused on the task at hand. will have the right amount of “It’s always a fun game and a excitement tonight. packed building,” Kilistoff said. “ We h a v e “It’s pretty crazy. a g reat g roup “It always comes I know the players of guys on f e e l i t . E ve r y our team, and down to wok ethic. time the puck is there’s a level That’s kind of our almost about to of excitement go in for our first identity.

We are a for each and goal, there’s a lot e v e r y g a m e, ” team that works of anticipation O’Connor said. really hard.” and buildup. My “My hope is goal is to lead by that they’ll have example. It’s easy the same level - HOCKEY HEAD COACH to get emotional of excitement in this game t h e f o l l o w i n g BOB GAUDET ’81 because there’s night against a lot of people Quinnipiac and everybody’s University trying to get that because they have first goal.” an outstanding G a u d e t team also.” says avoiding Gaudet appreciates the support turnovers and staying out of the from the student body that the penalty box will be necessary for

the Big Green to defeat the Tigers.

“We have to make really good decisions with the hockey puck and not turn it over in key areas of the ice,” Gaudet said. “It always come down to work ethic. That’s kind of our identity. We are a team that works really hard. We’ve got to try to outwork this team.”

O’Connor says the team will have to focus on slowing down Princeton’s offense.

“It should be a good test for us, but we’re looking forward to it,” O’Connor said. “I think we just have to stick to our game.”

Kilistoff knows that defeating the defending conference champion Tigers will not be easy, but he believes the Big Green are up to challenge.

“They still have the majority of their players, so they’re going to be a good team,” Kilistoff said. “We definitely want to prove ourselves.

Being my last one, I’m going to make the most of it.”

The puck will drop against No. 19 Princeton at 7 p.m. tonight in Thompson Arena.

Dartmouth concludes the weekend with a matchup against No. 15 Quinnipiac at 7 p.m. on Saturday in Thompson Arena.

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Per tradition, fans throw tennis balls onto the ice after the first Dartmouth goal against Princeton University.