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Over 100 people gathered to protest the resignation of U.S attorney general Jeff Sessions.

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As the sun set on Nov. 8, two American flags could be seen above a crowd gathered at the corner of Main Street and East Wheelock Street for a protest called “Nobody Is Above the Law — Mueller Protection Rapid Response.” Over 100 protestors assembled at 5 p.m. to oppose the forced

resignation of U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions and the subsequent appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. Whitaker is expected to oversee special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The attendees held signs reading “Innocence need not fear,” “No one is above the law” and “Protect the

Mueller investigation.”

They shouted “Hands off Mueller,” “Whitaker must recuse” and “The press is not the enemy,” among other chants. The last was in response to President Trump’s recent attack on CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, accordingtoNewHampshire state representative Mary SEE PROTEST PAGE 3

On Monday, White River Junction witnessed an addition to its culinary diversity. Phnom Penh, the Cambodian restaurant that has been operating at 1 High Street, Lebanon for a year, opened a new location at 7 North Main Street in White River Junction. The restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Saturday.

Phnom Penh owners Sarin Tin and Lay Yi started their business in 2015 as a food truck that sold traditional Vietnamese sandwiches and rolls at the Hanover farmers’ market. At the time, Phnom Penh was fairly popular among Dartmouth students, according to Tin. “When we had a truck [in] the Hanover [farmers’ market], we had a lot of students,” Tin said. “A lot of students knew about it. I think now a lot of students [don’t] know [about us] because we never go there [anymore].”

Later in 2015, the food truck began to travel between the Lebanon farmers’ market and Hanover farmers’ market, serving Lebanon at lunch time and Hanover at dinner time. In 2017, after Phnom Penh had

earned sufficient revenue, Tin and Yi opened a permanent restaurant in Lebanon and stopped their food truck service at the two farmers’ markets, Tin said.

About 40 people came to Monday’s opening in White River Junction, according to Tin. For the first three days, the restaurant saw a boost in the number of patrons, he said.

“It was busy,” he said. “We have a lot of new customers over there, plus the old customers.”

Tin said that Phnom Penh’s new location has added appetizers, desserts and lunch specials to the menu.

The restaurant will consider delivering if it has enough employees, Tin added. The new location currently has eight employees.

Tin said he decided to open a second location in White River Junction partly because of the demolition of the Lebanon building, adding that the Lebanon business will close when the building is taken down next year.

Until then, both businesses will continue to operate.

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The Pitch sees 10 Q&A with Collis’s Ben Robbins applicants present B y JENNIE RHODES The Dartmouth Staff

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On Nov. 1, individuals from across campus gathered in Collis Common Ground to hear business ideas from students, faculty and staff in The Pitch, an entrepreneurship competition hosted by the DALI Lab and the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship. Three teams of students won prizes to support their

entrepreneurship at the College.

Any member of the Dartmouth community can apply to participate in The Pitch. This year, 10 applicants were selected to present their ideas to an audience and a panel of judges comprised of two students selected by DALI and two students selected by the Magnuson Center. DALI director Tim Tregubov said

Ben Robbins is a beloved Dartmouth Dining Services employee at Collis Cafe.

Best known for working at the pasta station, Robbins has also been working at the stir-fry station this term.

The 26-year-old grew up in Canaan, New Hampshire, but now resides in Hartford, Vermont. After working at Collis Cafe for six years, this will be his last term working for DDS.

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How did you start working

with DDS? BR: My mom was working here, and I thought it would be cool to work at Collis with her. I got a full-time job after a year or two here and have been full-time ever since. I started in 2012. I’ve been here for a long time, but not as long as other people have.

What is your favorite part about working in Collis?

BR: I love cooking, but, on top of that, I love all the interaction with students and building relationships with them. That has probably been the biggest

motivator to stay.

You are well known for being friends with many students on campus. Was that always your goal when you started working at Collis?

BR: I grew up with my mom telling me I had Asperger’s syndrome. I also went to a school with only 40 people from preschool to 12th grade. I feel like my social skills have developed a lot more through working at Collis. You guys are forced to SEE Q&A PAGE 5

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Court confirmation Study looks at giraffe populations polarized public trust B y Emily sun The Dartmouth

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Jin Woo Kim, a postdoctoral researcherinDartmouth’sQuantitative Social Science department, pounced on an opportunity for discovery in then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

His study revealed that, among other findings, Kavanaugh’s confirmation caused polarization in public trust of the Supreme Court, an especially important discovery in the contentious months leading up to the midterms.

The analysis was published in the Washington Post on Oct. 31.

Kim found that the starkest polarization happened among women.

“The confirmation increased Republican women’s intention to vote for the Republican Party by six percentage points, while pushing independent women to the Democratic side by 12 points,” Kim wrote in his article. “Meanwhile, men’s choices were left unchanged by the Senate vote.”

Kim arrived at this conclusion by polling American voters before and after Kavanaugh’s official confirmation, allowing him to observe how the “informational shock” of the event influenced, or did not influence, voters’ partisan preferences.

Kim said he did not realize until after the Kavanaugh hearings that he wanted to conduct research on the public’s reaction. He added that Christine Blasey Ford’s compelling testimony drew him in, piquing his interest in the implications of the event.

“I spent the day, like many others, just watching [the Kavanaugh hearing], and I couldn’t do anything else — it was so emotional,” Kim recalled.

Student Assembly vice president Nicole Knape ’19 said she watched the shock waves of Kavanaugh’s hearing confirmation play out on Dartmouth’s campus. She and SA president Monik Walters ’19 sent out an email to the student body at the time of the hearings declaring their firm commitment to sexual assault prevention.

“As representatives of the school, we really want people to feel supported,” Knape said. “I think our biggest fear was that the case going on was going to prevent people from coming forward about their sexual assaults and prevent anyone who was wavering about reporting just because they saw the backlash one woman got from

reporting her sexual assault.”

Having realized the potential for valuable research in an event that related to sexual assault, executive power and public opinion, Kim quickly developed a study using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to compare people’s voting preferences and trust in the Supreme Court.

“I knew it was going to be an informational shock in different ways,” Kim said. “It’s going to be very satisfying victory for one group and the opposite for another. I wanted to see how people responded to that.”

Kim says he expected to find polarization either along party or gender lines, but he was not sure which would override the other.

QSS professor Michael Herron lauded Kim for his experimental design which managed to balance control and relevance to an external event, a feat that he said few political science experiments are able to claim.

“You might think of the Kavanaugh hearings as a natural experiment,” Herron said. “It wasn’t planned or completely randomized either.”

Because Kim’s study polled voters before and after the official confirmation, Herron called the timing of the study “particularly fortuitous.”

Kim said that his study will serve as evidence for a period of partisan gridlock in U.S. Brendan Nyhan, Kim’s postdoctoral supervisor who has since moved the University of Michigan, also wrote about permeation of partisanship into what has been long regarded as the “umpire” for American politics.

“Increased ideological and partisan divisions and pressure from the #MeToo movement could dent the court’s image, especially since the coalition backing the prospective new justice has such narrow support,” Nyhan wrote in an article for The Monkey Cage, a column of The Washington Post.

Back on campus, the executives of student council put politics aside to address the emotional effects of Kavanaugh’s confirmation on sexual assault survivors. Knape made her message unmistakable.

“What’s important is that on campus no matter where political opinions lie, hands down, regardless of results Kavanaugh case, we support survivors,” Knape said. “I wouldn’t treat people with other political views differently, and I would try to understand them so that I can be a voice for them in the issue.”

As a child, Michael Brown, a Dartmouth graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology, dreamed of becoming an animal.

“I realized pretty early on that that’s not really a possibility,” Brown said.

“But the next best thing was to study them. There’s never been anything else I wanted to do.”

Over the course of the past four years, Brown has been researching population dynamics of giraffes in Uganda’s Murchison National Park by studying factors like available diets, plant communities and giraffe movement to food. He does this partially by using GPS and satellite imagery to track the habitats where giraffes currently are in order to find out what resources giraffes need to thrive.

“I can pull this up on my computer in Hanover and see exactly where these giraffes are, which is remarkable,” Brown said.

Brown’s project also performs individual-based photographic surveys to photograph the giraffe as each has unique spot patterns. These photos helped provide “some of the first accurate population estimates, where [the giraffes] go, who they associate with, effects of survival, things like that,” he said. This information is also given to the Ugandan Wildlife Authority as a part of the project’s outreach efforts, which Brown hopes to help develop a national conservation strategy for giraffes. “[Brown has] been really interested all along in conservation and using science to try to inform conservation,” biology professor Celia Chen ’78

GR’94, said. “That’s why he has questions related to spatial ecology and where animals move.”

The specific type of giraffe in Murchison National Park that Brown researches are the Rothschild’s or Nubian giraffes. Uganda holds some of the largest populations of this endangered species of giraffes, Brown noted.

“Over the last five, six decades, Uganda has undergone a period of dramatic civil change, and that’s had what we think are some incredible cascading effects on the ecology of the system,” he said.

Giraffe populations have declined slightly in the African continent, but this is not the case over the last two decades in Uganda, Brown added.

“We’ve seen giraffe populations go from big to small and now they’re rebounding again in a rather remarkable way,” Brown said. “That sort of sets a foundation for our research, looking at why the population is growing the way it is and what some of the factors are in the ecology and the system that lead to those changes.

Brown originally started by studying zebras in Kenya for around four years prior to his time at Dartmouth. After environmental sciences professor Doug Bolger and the Giraffe Conservation Foundation teamed up to offer Brown a position to research a then unstudied population of giraffes, Brown decided to switch his subject of study.

“Working in those places is not easy at all,” Chen said. “You have to be incredibly resourceful and flexible all the time. You have to solve problems that come up in a moment’s notice. You have very few resources around you.”

It was an opportunity to use the

skills he had learned with the zebra studies to make some meaningful impacts in giraffe conservation, Brown said.

Kang-Chun Cheng ’17 found herself helping Brown with data analysis on his project, which she said was “pretty mundane work” but “a really good experience” that taught her more than she had originally anticipated. “[Brown] has basically taken photos of every single giraffe in Uganda, which is really cool,” Cheng said. “The idea is that we use pattern recognition software that he developed with another Dartmouth professor to use photographs of the giraffes to visually match incoming databases with existing individuals that they knew of.”

Brown originally did most of the work by himself, which shows how passionate he is about his area of research, according to Cheng.

“He’s an ecologist who really wants to use his science to benefit wildlife and conservation,” Chen said. “That’s kind of how I think of him and who he is.

He’s an outdoor person and he’s very comfortable living in remote places because he spent a lot of time even prior to coming to Dartmouth working in Africa. That’s pretty special.”

Brown noted that his motivation behind his study is to understand the meanings of complicated ecosystems in order to work with locals to translate them into conservation strategies that implement action.

“There’s lots of really cool animals out there and lots of really cool ecosystems to work in,” Brown said.

“As we progress to make plans for life beyond Dartmouth, who knows? I’m excited for the possibilities.”

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The Pitch allows audience questions Over 100 people join protest on the Green FROM PITCH PAGE 1

that in the past, 20 applicants have been accepted.

The participants were each given two minutes to pitch their idea. Each group then had to field one question from the judges and one from the audience. In the past, judges and audience members did not have the opportunity to ask questions.

According to Tregubov, this new component of the competition provided the judges with muchneeded clarity on the various pitches.

Another recent change is the number of Pitch events per year. In the past, The Pitch took place each term, although last year it was only offered once. This year, it will take place again in late winter.

“It’s been fun seeing the event evolve,” Tregubov said. “This time I think we’ve stumbled on something cool.”

He added that the quality of the proposals has increased as a result of the changes made this term.

“Generally, every year, the pitches and ideas get better and better just as the overall entrepreneurial spirit grows on campus,” Tregubov said.

Ultimately, there were three winners, each receiving a different prize: the DALI Prize, the Magnuson Prize and the Audience Vote.

The DALI Prize provides the winner with a term of collaboration with DALI Lab for free. Normally, DALI charges around $8,000 for such collaboration. DALI Lab provides the winner with a team of student developers and designers who will build a prototype of the product.

The winner of the DALI Prize this term was Zirui Hao ’22, whose team also included Adam McQuilkin ’22 and Ziyi Yue ’22.

Hao’s project aims to streamline the course planning process for Dartmouth students. His team is developing an algorithm that will allow students to input the courses that they would like to take and then generate possible course schedules, factoring in time slots, prerequisites and major and distributive requirements.

“All those minute details are handled by the algorithm, and then it generates possible plans that you could follow,” Hao said. “So basically all the user has to do is specify what they want, and then this planning assistant will give them that by doing the actual dirty work of making sure everything fits.”

Hao said he plans to use the support from DALI to develop his algorithm.

“We have a graphic designer and we have a web developer, but typically a project of that scale would involve a lot more time if you only had three people,” he said. “A DALI

team will make it a lot quicker.” profile will receive discounts to use at Similarly to Tregubov, Hao local small businesses, Goldman said. also noted that he thinks the As students use the app, businesses entrepreneurial culture at Dartmouth will be able to learn more about is growing. their client base. He added that the “If you have the slightest idea app will attract more students to that you want to do something … participating businesses and increase then you should go for it because their sales. there [are] so many resources like Goldman said he thinks the app The Pitch,” he said. will be of particular importance The Magnuson Prize provides to Dartmouth, adding that it the winner with a $1,000 cash prize may prevent failures like that of and startup support. Additionally, Everything But Anchovies or the it gets teams into the “pipeline” Dartmouth Bookstore. of Magnuson Center prizes and “Unfortunately, in Hanover funding sources, according to certain small businesses have Tregubov. struggled,” he said. “[Everything Caroline Leone Tu’19, whose But Anchovies] failed to compete team also includes Marina Chiesa with Domino’s. We’re now seeing Tu’19, won the Magnuson Prize for the Dartmouth Bookstore [failing] her startup Corleone. to compete with Amazon and “Corleone is a digital native dance other online booksellers, so this is apparel brand,” Leone said. “We an issue that we’re really passionate manufacture and produce dance about and also something that is apparel and accessories, focusing particularly relevant.” on sustainable sourcing and ethical Goldman said he plans to use production.” his funding and support from the Leone plans to partner with dance Magnuson Center to reach three studios and give back a percentage milestones he and Blankemeier have of profits to help young and aspiring established. dancers and dance studios, which are “The most important [milestone often very underfunded, she said. is] developing a prototype app for She said that she plans to use the business, and then selecting an the funding and support from the appropriate model for sales analytics Magnuson Center to develop leotard and predictability and [also devising] and apparel prototypes and start a model for executing transactions building Corleone’s website. through the app,” he said.

Leone also noted that Dartmouth Annie Ren, program manager has provided her with crucial for startup support at the Magnuson support in pursuing her idea. She is Center, noted that she hopes to currently working with individuals continue to support students whose from the Magnuson Center, the business plans were not selected as Thayer School of Engineering and winners in The Pitch. the Tuck School of Business to build “Anyone at any level ... can her business. participate,” Ren said. “The whole “I think it’s idea is that you w o r t h n o t i n g “I love the different can start with that the company The Pitch … once was really born ideas that are coming you’re done with at Tuck and at across campus and that, we hope that Dartmouth, you will follow the different people and in the last through with our t h re e m o n t h s from their different other avenues for I ’v e r e c e i v e d backgrounds who starting up.” incredible support For Ren, one f r o m a c r o s s contribute ideas.” goal for The Pitch the Dartmouth is to increase community,” she awareness of -ANNIE REN, PROGRAM said. entrepreneurship The Audience MANAGER FOR STARTUP on campus.

Vo t e p r i z e , SUPPORT AT THE “I love the which audience different ideas that m e m b e r s MAGNUSON CENTER are coming across voted on with campus and the text messages, different people provides the winner with $1,000 from their different backgrounds and support from the Magnuson who contribute ideas,” she said.

Center.

Additionally, Ren said she hopes The Audience Vote went to Max The Pitch attracts an increasingly Goldman ’20, whose team also diverse group of participants in the includes Ryan Blankemeier ’20. future.

Blankemeier and Goldman “My other hope is always that we proposed an app that will connect see an increase in women, in people small businesses on college campuses of color, [and] in the kind of diverse with students. Students who presentation of ideas that come from download the app and create a across campus,” she said.

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Jane Mulligan.

Mulligan said she attended the protest to show Trump that gatherings like Thursday’s are “only a tiny bit” of what he will face if he interferes with Mueller’s investigation.

The protest was one of hundreds organized by moveon.org and other progressive organizations to occur across the country on Thursday night.

The events were planned months ago, according to Hanover Democratic Party member Joe Montibello, and were triggered by Sessions’ firing and Whitaker’s appointment on Wednesday. Montibello said he helped organize the Hanover protest.

On Thursday morning, the New Hampshire Upper Valley Democrats Facebook page urged community members to join the protest.

“Donald Trump just crossed a red line, violating the independence of the investigation pursuing criminal charges in the Trump-Russia scandal and cover-up,” the Facebook page wrote. “Trump putting himself above the law is a threat to our democracy, and we’ve got to get Congress to stop him. We’re mobilizing immediately to demand accountability, because

Trump is not above the law.”

According to Montibello, the entire event came together very quickly.

“We literally heard from the national organization last night,” he said. “It basically all came together today. The whole [moveon.org] organization has been watching for these kinds of red lines. Trump is trying to basically put himself above the law by not allowing the investigation to go forward. It’s not normal for presidents to do that.”

Sisters Mary Jane Peabody, Linda Schmidt and Brenda Tirrell, who have named themselves the “perSISTERS,” traveled from different places in the Upper Valley to attend the protest, citing what they described as “a feeling that the nation is in crisis.”

“Trump’s whole administration lying and covering up — it’s corrupt,” Schmidt said. “It’s completely corrupt.”

Tirrell added that, in her opinion, the entire Republican Party is complicit.

While not many students attended the protest, astronomy Ph.D. students Christina Gilligan and Christopher Carroll attended to voice their concerns. “[I feel that] this is one of the biggest national events of my lifetime, so I definitely wanted to be out here to just show my displeasure with what’s happening,” Gilligan said.

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST CHANTAL ELIAS ’22

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Politics Are Emotional

One Week Later

Americans’ heightened emotions are necessary to restore political stability.

The line between politics and self-identity has long been blurred in America, and this past midterm election has highlighted this.

Politics are felt in every corner of the country, whether it is at the municipal, state or federal level. As such, the American political system has become intertwined with many citizens’ personal identities. Whether people wish to tune into politics or not, decisions made in the White House are inevitably going to affect their lives. As a consequence, there is a higher level of emotional energy directed into campaigning, political conversations and voting. This personal stake correlates with a higher level of ownership that I believe is good news for the future of American politics.

On Nov. 6, The New York Times published an article explaining the anxiety shared by both Republicans and Democrats on midterm Election Day. The consensus across over a dozen interviews was that American citizens “reported a kind of emotional pinballing about the verdict to come” with “faith and dread taking turns like kids on a diving board.” Almost half of the interviewees shared that they felt “anxious” about the upcoming elections. Is it a good thing that our stomachs flutter with anxiety when we turn on the TV to check the midterm polls?

Is it wise that anxiety, a physical response to a fight-or-flight scenario, is associated with the country’s political fate? I would argue yes.

Americans are bridging a massive gap that existed between citizens and their decisionmaking bodies for a large part of American history. When the president is favorably regarded by the majority of the American public, it is easy to take a back seat and let politics do its thing. But when presidents are widely looked upon unfavorably, it is easy for citizens to feel insignificant compared to the large, complex governmental apparatus that runs our country.

Time and time again, citizens have been left wondering, “What impact can I possibly make?” The personal ownership and emotional investment displayed during this midterm election season represents a shift from the complacent mindset that overwhelmed American politics in the Obama era. Many, in fact, regard one of Donald Trump’s greatest achievements to be the surge in American political involvement. Under Obama’s leadership there

was dissatisfaction, but nowhere near the level there is today. This large evolution in people’s attitudes, from disengagement to mobilization, is even noticeable over the three years, to this day, that Donald Trump has been in office. It is evident in the Standing Rock protests, which grew from 12 protesters to 800 in just two months, and in the shift from a once-Republican, now Democrat-held House of Representatives. The truth is that there should never be a gaping hole between those who hold office and those who they govern. In a true democracy, the power is in the hands of the citizens.

This is not to say that I am pleased with the current status of American politics. I was not pleased to see Parkland massacre survivor Aalayah Eastmond feeling “really anxious” in the lead up to the elections. However, I see the emotional response during this midterm election season as a necessary step to steer the country in the right direction. At Dartmouth alone, there is anger at the religious discrimination evidenced in Pittsburgh and there is immense frustration over the lack of gun restrictions evidenced in last Friday’s shooting near campus. These emotional grievances were certainly not lost with Dartmouth students at the polls on Tuesday. The immense adversity and suffering in the country have mobilized America to act — a sad, but truthful reality. Though many hate to admit it, frustration evokes response. The last few months have shown that anxiety, sadness and anger are going to be a necessary precedent for essential policies such as stricter gun laws and fairer immigration guidelines.

Americans now go to the polls because they care about the fate of their country, not solely because it is their civic duty. The days of low voter turnout are long gone as we see America become a politically charged nation, with the young and old alike brandishing “I Voted” stickers. This past Tuesday midterm voter turnout was the highest it has been since 1966. It is no longer an option for Americans to close their ears to today’s political news.

As America exits the midterm election season, it is paramount that citizens continue to invest their emotions and identities into the political system. People cannot be ashamed of their tears or anxiety, and we must all acknowledge that without action, our tears will continue to fall.

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Last Friday’s shooting served as a jarring reminder and a call to action.

Last Friday, Nov. 2, the Dartmouth campus one of the least restrictive gun laws in the received a shelter advisory after a drive-by country — following the Parkland shooting shooting on the intersection of School and this past February, New Hampshire blocked West Wheelock Streets injured a 19-year- a gun control bill that would have prohibited old male non-Dartmouth student. Until those under 21 years old from buying guns the shelter advisory was lifted, the entire and banned bump stocks. Current laws do community sheltered in place, sending flurries not require a license or permit to possess or of texts and GroupMe messages to check on purchase a gun. In 2017, the state repealed its friends and family and seek more information. concealed carry law, which required people to Many students spent much of the have a license in order to carry a concealed lockdown listening to the Upper Valley gun. New Hampshire has been loosening Area Police and Fire radio stream to stay up its gun laws while thousands are dying current with the situation. Officers relayed at home and across the country. reports that gunshots were heard at multiple “It could never happen in Hanover” no locations around campus, and that students longer applies (and never did) — where in a practice room in the Hopkins Center we exist in relation to our surroundings for the Arts were afraid that matters. The Dartmouth the gunman was attempting is not immune “People are primed, community to enter. Those listening to the tragedies happening eventually found out that at this point, to see every day. Gun violence in the police said they had no the headlines before America is an epidemic. reason to believe that more This country has one of the than one gunshot was fired they even appear — highest rates of death by near campus, and that the it’s no wonder that firearms in the developed person trying to enter the world. It’s easy to feel safe practice room was actually Dartmouth students and protected in Hanover, reacted to the a custodian. so it’s natural to be left T h e b r o a d c a s t e d situation with such scared and confused once stream, which at one point the shield most thought they approximated that over fear.” were enveloped by burst.

21,000 listeners were tuned Now that the Dartmouth in, now poses a doublecommunity has experienced edged question for campus security. While the kind of fear brought on by gun the system fed the natural human urge to violence, every one of its members has the stay in the know during a fearful situation, responsibility to advocate for change. Last it also fed the spread of misinformation and Friday’s shooting became national news blew campus’s collective sense of panic out because of Dartmouth’s status and privilege; of proportion before any accounts could be but in underprivileged communities across confirmed. the country — and close to the College — It is, however, understandable why the prevalence of gun violence often goes students reacted with such strong emotions unreported. following such a tumultuous and deadly year.

For many students, life at Dartmouth In 2018, there have been almost as many mass resumed as normal when this week began. shootings as there have been days. Just two But it’s important to be aware that this event weeks ago, yet another mass affected people in different shooting made headlines ways. The shooting last “‘It could never when 11 Jewish congregants Friday may have been a were killed in a Pittsburgh happen in Hanover’ terrifying wake-up call for synagogue. Less than two no longer and never those who never thought weeks after the Pittsburgh this could happen here. For synagogue shooting, yet did apply — where others, it may have been a another mass shooting made we exist in relation triggering and traumatic headlines when a gunman This might to our surroundings experience. killed 12 people in a bar in have been just another Thousand Oaks, California matters.” shooting for those who are on Wednesday night. People so exposed and maybe even are primed, at this point, to desensitized to gun violence see the headlines before they even appear at home. Regardless, Dartmouth students, — it’s no wonder that Dartmouth students faculty, administrators and anyone who reacted to the situation with such fear. calls this place home have the responsibility There are students on this campus from to take care of one another and prevent Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in this from happening in our community Parkland, Florida who have now experienced and communities across the nation. No gun violence twice in a single year. The gun American is unaffected by gun violence. control debate is a major national issue that From Dartmouth’s place of privilege, we all has always impacted Americans’ livelihood have the responsibility to use our voices and and safety — but now it’s hit close to home. influence to take action.

Dartmouth may feel like a bubble, but last Friday’s shooting should remind students The editorial board consists of opinion staff that they are not protected and disconnected columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors from the outside world. New Hampshire has and the editor-in-chief.

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Phnom Penh will move Collis favorite works his last term to White River Junction FROM Q&A PAGE 1

Tin and Yi. “They are both very dedicated folks Tin noted that establishing his [and they] run a very successful business business in White River Junction will in Lebanon,” he said. “We’re thrilled help Phnom Penh thrive because of to work with them, to introduce their business, their cuisine and their culture the strategic location.

“It’s cheaper rent, and I think the to downtown White River Junction.” He food industry is growing so far over emphasized the diversity of the White there,” he said, adding that Phnom River Junction community.

B e n Penh will bring a Townsend, a different style of “It is right at the customer who food for the local heart of downtown first started eating community. at Phnom Penh P h n o m White River Junction. when it was still Penh’s restaurant One of the popular a food truck, said building in White he likes Phnom River Junction selling points in White Penh because it used to house River Junction is serves authentic Polka Dot diner, Vietnamese which closed four its walkability. And cuisine. years ago. The walk-in traffic for “For a building, which Phnom Penh will be long time, I’ve has been empty been a big fan since 2014, was tremendous.” of banh mi, the bought and Vietnamese or refurbished Southeast Asianby Execusuite, -TIM SIDORE, style sandwiches,” a p r o p e r t y LEDGEWORKS GENERAL Townsend said. company owned MANAGER “It’s really the only

by Mike Davidson place in this area ’85. According that somewhat to Tim Sidore, general manager of Ledgeworks, which does traditional banh mi.”

Kara Nicole Polito, a frequent visitor manages Execusuite commercial and residential properties in White River to Phnom Penh at its Lebanon location, Junction and Lebanon, Phnom Penh said she enjoyed the affordable prices at has an “extremely successful” location. Phnom Penh.

“For the portion and quality, I think “It is right at the heart of downtown White River Junction,” Sidore said. [the food] is very reasonably priced,” “One of the popular selling points in Polito said. “[It is] even cheaper than White River Junction is its walkability. [what] I would’ve expected. I probably And walk-in traffic for Phnom Penh will would pay more.”

Although Polito has not yet visited be tremendous.”

According to Sidore, the location’s the restaurant’s new location in White refurbishment remodeled the interior River Junction, she said she has high and exterior of the building. Specific expectations for it.

“I think that it’s going to be a really changes included upgrading the electrical plumbing, renewing the cool atmosphere to hang out with my friends at, and also dining area, get good food,” she expanding the “I think that it’s going said. bathrooms, to be a really cool Sidore said he painting the is confident that exterior and atmosphere to hang Phnom Penh will u p d a t i n g our with my friends be successful at its all kitchen at, and also get good new location. equipment. “[Tin and Yi] “We want to food.” ha[ve] created a bring new life war m, inviting to the historic atmosphere, downtown,” he -KARA NICOLE POLITIO, and the food is said.

FREQUENT PHNOM PENH excellent,” he said.

D av i d s o n “We’re thrilled wrote in an CUSTOMER to see so many email statement members of the that Execusuite local community is “proud to have patronizing Tin’s repurposed this restaurant and iconic structure, which was at risk of being lost.” He enjoying the location.”

Sidore added that he anticipates hopes students will visit downtown White River Junction to “enjoy its that the restaurant will become “a diverse culinary and cultural offerings,” permanent, successful fixture in the revitalized downtown White River he wrote.

Sidore said he enjoyed working with Junction community.”

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come see us everyday, which means I can say, “Hi! How are you?” and try a different greeting the next day if I don’t get a response the first time. I’ve realized if I say certain greetings, people will come back tomorrow and say hi to me. It has gotten a lot easier.

Where are you going when you leave your DDS job?

BR: I am going to Cravin’s Country Market and Deli at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. I’m going to be a manager there. The owner is my pastor’s son-in-law, and he was looking for a third manager. He said I was the person he wanted with the integrity level he was looking for — all he needed to do was train me on how to use money. This new job is all about change and going outside my comfort zone.

What would your Collis stir-fry and pasta orders be?

BR: It is a lot easier to order as a worker. My pasta is easier, since that is just chicken broccoli alfredo.

You just toss it all together and leave with the food because it is free for employees. As a student, it is harder to order the same meal because you

have to order chicken separately, BR: I like to play video games. weigh broccoli separately and My best friend also does. She isn’t then order the pasta. For stir- good at cooking, so I cook and then fry, I recommend the Steven’s we play. I also spend a lot of time special, which is the teriyaki and at church, since I’m in charge of orange sauces with the sweet and sound. I’m trying to learn all the smoky spice instruments so I c o m b i n at i o n . can play them.

It is definitely “I love cooking, but, the b e s t on top of that, I love What do you combination hope students all the interaction we have. remember about you and with students and Do you have take away building relationships any Collis from your time with them. That has hacks? here?

B R : T h e r e probably been the BR: Just that are two hacks it’s all about that are older biggest motivator to that family and more well stay.” experience known hacks. and the One is crispy relationships. stir fry or pasta, -BEN ROBBINS, I’m hoping but it’s killing DARTMOUTH DINING that there will the pans. The still be that at other one was SERVICES EMPLOYEE Collis after I if you brought leave. Plus, I’ve spinach in a already been large cup to the told by a bunch smoothie line, of people that you would get I have to come your smoothie back and visit in that large cup. But now it just all the time. goes in the small cup.

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

Student Spotlight: Aaron Lit ’19 makes a difference with fashion original European fabrics that are biodegradable.

The Dartmouth “MiaMira is about finding Aaron Lit ’19, a math modified different channels of highlighting with economics student from Hong a n d s h o w c a s i n g m a r i n e Kong, has a mission to smooth out biodiversity,” Lit explained. any wrinkles in your preconceived The name MiaMira refers to notions of fashion while also saving a specific genus of Lit’s favorite marine life. He intends to do this creature: the sea slug. through his social project MiaMira. “The way [Lit] designs is Lit’s love and passion for the really remarkable … He’s truly ocean cannot d e d i c at e d t o be denied. He “Everyone makes MiaMira,” said f i r s t b e c a m e Rayan Kabaha i n t e res t e d i n fashion conscious ’22, a student the ocean at choices, even though who works with the age of 4 Lit on MiaMira. when he started sometimes we’re not “I feel like his snorkeling. This aware of it. But we’re uniqueness as a g r e w i n t o a all involved in fashion designer is what larger passion at sets MiaMira age 10 when he and self-image.” apart.” took up scuba Lit often gets diving, enjoying a s k e d , “ W hy t h e s m a l l e r -AARON LIT ’19 f a s h i o n ? ” I n animals of the response, he has ocean reef that people do not three answers for why his trendy, usually talk about, as opposed to vibrant clothes spread awareness the “Nemos and the Dorys.” about conservation for both the Lit takes the photos from people who wear and see them. his expeditions and turns them “Number one, it’s pervasive,” into designs for his visually he said. “Everyone makes fashionstimulating fashion line, MiaMira. conscious choices, even though Each garment from the line is sometimes we’re not aware of it. handmade in Hong Kong with But we’re all involved in fashion

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PHOTO COURTESY OF AARON LIT

Aaron Lit’s interest in marine life and fashion has culminated into his social project and fashion line MiaMira.

and self-image.”

Lit’s second reason was that fashion makes marine life more relatable. He explained the difficulties of imagining the pattern of a sea-slug onto clothes without first seeing it on someone else. “ I t ’ s p h y s i o l o g i c a l l y o r

PHOTO COURTESY OF AARON LIT

Aaron Lit’s fashion designs are not only inspired by his interest in marine life but also seek to promote conservation.

cognitively easier to recognize noticed is that [Lit] is always able beauty and elegance on the human to influence people in the best way, form,” he said. to achieve their dreams and major Lit’s third point is that fashion is goals,” Machado said. visually impactful.

Last year, MiaMira raised enough “If you see a good piece of money to sponsor 50 children from fashion, it’s going to stick in your Hong Kong to participate in an mind,” he said. “The garments I’m educational boat trip with the Hong designing are supposed to act as Kong Aquatic Life Conservation visual catalysts … they’re a form of Fund. Being able to give back to the social art to raise c o m m u n i t y awareness.” like this is very B e y o n d “The garments important to being a fashion I’m designing are Lit and one line promoting of the reasons c o n s e r v a t i o n , supposed to act as why he is such M i a M i r a h a s visual catalysts … a role model to a s e c o n d a r y Kabaha. they’re a form of m i s s i o n o f “Working bringing attention social art to raise alongside him to consumerism. awareness.” every day, I “ M a r i n e am inspired to ecosystems suffer push myself to the [brunt] of -AARON LIT ’19 actively pursue u n c o n s c i o u s opportunities consumerism — t o m a k e a whether it’s single-use plastics, difference in the world,” Kabaha u n s u s t a i n a b l e f i s h i n g [ o r ] said. unsustainable sea foods — and I Lit sees the future of MiaMira think that as consumers, we’re so being college-aged students, and detached from that world that we uses social media and his website as don’t feel affected by the choices a way to attract people who come for we’re making in our everyday lives,” the aesthetics and leave advocating Lit said. conservation. He explained his Lit has taken MiaMira to various fashion as a way to “create bridges competitions, but the one that between marine life and the human kick-started his social project was experience through aesthetics and the U.N. Youth Assembly, where elegance and beauty.” he competed for, and won, the “[Lit] captures more than details Resolution Project Social Venture and colors; he is able to capture Award. the personality of each and every It was at this assembly where Lit animal,” Machado said. met Susana Sakamoto Machado, Through a network of friends, a Youth Assembly ambassador Lit has MiaMira represented in from Brazil and a student at São multiple universities around the Paolo State University. Since then, world, including in the U.K. and both have supported each other’s Australia. MiaMira designs are projects. unique and purposeful, with a dual “I’ve been following [Lit]’s work mission to help conservationists and from the beginning ... and what I fashion-enthusiasts alike.

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SPORTS ONE ONE ON

with Jennifer Costa ’21

By JUSTIN KRAMER The Dartmouth Staff

Jennifer Costa ’21 left Connecticut a hero on Saturday night, netting the game-winning goal against Quinnipiac University with just over one minute remaining in overtime.

The clinching goal was the first of the forward’s career and gave the Big Green an unlikely first win of the young season against a premier hockey school on the road. I sat down with Costa to discuss her clutch score at Quinnipiac and her 16-year hockey career leading up to that point.

What did it feel like to score your first official collegiate career goal in such an important moment?

JC: It was amazing. On my high school team and on my club team I was always a goal scorer, and then I came here, and my freshman year, I didn’t get any goals. But I worked so hard, and it was really frustrating to always hit the post, or it just didn’t go in, just didn’t get that bounce. In a way, it felt like all of my work from last year and all of my work so far and over the summer paid off with that goal. That was such an important game. When I scored, I actually started crying, which is so embarrassing, but I was just so happy that my work was paying off and also that we worked our butts off that game.

What was going through your mind in overtime before you netted the winning blow against Quinnipiac?

JC: “Keep the legs moving.” We had just played Princeton University the night before, so our legs were really dead, but I try to remind myself and my teammates that we have so much more in the tank left than what we actually think. At that point, it’s overtime, it’s the last game of the weekend, we don’t really have anything to save it for, so we use all that energy. I think that we were all really tired, but we were all so focused; I have never seen us like that before where we had this one goal in mind, and there was no way we were going to lose that game. It was already decided that we were not losing or even tying.

How do you see the momentum from Saturday’s game carrying the team forward?

JC: To have our first win against

Quinnipiac, such a talented team that never loses, I think that’s huge motivation because then we say to ourselves, “Okay, if we can beat a team that’s top 10, we should be able to beat some of these teams in our division.”

This isn’t to say that it’s going to be easy because we’re going to have to put in the work, but we know if we put in the work how great of a team we can be, so we know our potential.

This is only after our fifth game, so it’s really early in the season. I think that win motivates us to believe we’re a good program, and we’re going to keep moving forward if we keep showing up.

Can you elaborate more on some of your favorite parts of playing hockey?

JC: I love it. I love how fast it is. I don’t consider myself to be a super skilled player — I’m fast, and I just love going into the corner, beating someone to the puck and trying to get it to one of my teammates, so that they can do something with it, and then I’ll get open. You have forward movement, backward, lateral, you need to be fast, you need to have endurance.

There are all these different aspects of athleticism in hockey and I think that’s great. Something is different about hockey from other teams I played for. I did soccer and track and field in high school, so I was a tri-athlete.

I don’t know if it’s because we spend so much time together or our season is so long, but the hockey team culture is just different. We’re really close which is nice.

How, if at all, did high school soccer and track help you improve as a hockey player?

JC: For track, I ran the 400 meter sprint, so that takes 61 seconds. In a hockey game, an ideal shift is about 35 to 45 seconds, so I think that was pretty good training. When you’re out on the ice, you’re sprinting as hard as you can, you get off, you reload and then you go back out. Soccer gave me the endurance I needed because I played defense in soccer, but I would play the entire 90 minutes of the game and just not come off. I think playing defense in soccer helps me figure out certain weaknesses in defense in hockey because in hockey I’m a forward, so I can use that knowledge. The biggest part has to be how to be a team player

and what it means to rely on your teammate, to trust your teammate, and what it means to be a leader. Being captain of track or hockey, people look up to you, so you have to put on the right role.

Can you talk about your background in ice hockey through high school?

JC: I started playing when I was four.

I used to figure skate because my mom made me, and I hated it. I don’t even think I did for a year. I saw a hockey practice on afterwards, and it was all boys. In the car, I remember I asked my dad if I could play hockey, and he said, “That’s for boys.” I said, “I want to do it, too bad,” and he laughed.

When I was little, I was always tough, short and chubby. I played boys hockey growing up from when I was four until when I was 15. It was nice because I always had more or less the same group of guys because of the small town. They became my family which is awesome. I played boys club hockey all the way until 15 or so, and then I switched over to club hockey for girls.

There isn’t really anything in Rhode Island, so I had to go to Foxborough, Massachusetts, and I played for the Massachusetts Spitfires, a girls’ club.

I went to Smithfield High School, my public high school, for two years, and I did not want to go to prep school at all. I didn’t play for my high school my freshman year because they didn’t even have a team — it was like a club.

My sophomore year, I played for the high school and it was horrible. I had a great time, but people couldn’t skate forward, so I realized I have really big dreams for myself and where I want my career to go. Then I went to Milton Academy. I repeated my sophomore year, and I got an all-league award out of all the teams, and I got it my junior and senior years. Coming in as a sophomore to that program had a big impact and made me realize I could go somewhere with this.

Last year you were named the team’s rookie of the year. What did that honor mean to you?

JC: That meant a lot, it really did.

It means a lot to me because I care about what my team thinks. It’s nice to be recognized that you are working so hard, and last year for me, honestly I played a lot, but I struggled mentally because I wasn’t scoring. It really got to me at certain times and it was frustrating: “I’m working so hard, and I’m not getting any of these bounces.”

I have to work so hard to actually get a goal, and for a long time, I was upset because I thought my value to the

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team depended on how many goals I scored, and I didn’t score any goals.

I felt like, at times, I was hurting the team more than anything even though I was working really hard and trying to make stuff happen. It just wasn’t there.

That honestly affected my confidence outside of hockey as well. To know that my team and my coaches cared more about my work ethic and resilience meant a lot to me, and that you could see it was important.

How has your experience so far at Dartmouth prepared you take up perhaps a bigger role this year?

JC: My first year I learned that if I base my value on how many goals I score and my confidence on that, I’m not going to be the player I want to be at all. I felt last year that in parts of the season, I was a completely different player than what I was in high school, and I was actually worse. I think that all came from my mental game from telling myself, “You’re not scoring.

You probably can’t play at this level.

Take shorter shifts, get off the ice so that other people can get on.” Coming into this year as a sophomore, having that confidence is really important, and I can’t seem weak, especially to the freshmen because I don’t want them to feel that way, and I want them to come in and help us be a winning program right away.

What was your training regimen like over this summer?

JC: I’m from Rhode Island, and there’s not a lot of good hockey in Rhode Island, but I have a personal trainer and have had the same one since I was 12. I work out with him

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four days per week. On the weekends, usually Saturday, I would go to the track and do some kind of running workout. For skating, Monday nights I would drive up to Boston University which is like an hour and a half, and it was really late from 8 to 10 at night. I would do a skills section with all girls.

We have two boys sessions, one on Monday and one Wednesday, and there are not as many boys as girls. I started going to the men’s sessions on Wednesday nights at BU as well, and I would just play in summer leagues on Friday nights and those were in Duxbury, Massachusetts so that was another hour-long drive for me. I try to skate three or four nights a week, and work out four times.

What hopes do you have for the women’s ice hockey team in the coming year?

JC: Huge hopes. I’ve been smiling since the Quinnipiac game, and I’m so excited to go to practice today. I want us to believe in ourselves as a program because our program doesn’t have a great history of winning. We won three or four games last year, so I want to really believe that we can win and that we are a good program when we show up and when we put the work in. I want us to always put the work in if we’re on the ice, if we’re in the weight room, if we’re cooling down or if we’re stretching. That is a conceptual thing I want us to get at.

It would be awesome if we can get a win streak from here on out because looking at our schedule we have the potential to win the next six games.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

COURTESY OF JENNIFER COSTA ’21

Jennifer Costa ’21 scored the game-winning goal against Quinnipiac.