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State makes progress toward paid family leave B y KYLE MULLINS

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The New Hampshire Senate has taken a major step toward paid family and medical leave in New Hampshire. The Granite Caregiving Act, a major priority of the new Democratic majority, passed

on a party-line vote last week.

The bill, symbolically called Senate Bill 1, would establish a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program funded by a tax on employers.

SB 1 earned support from all 13 present Democratic senators, while all 10 Republicansenatorsopposed

it. Should the bill also pass the Democrat-controlled House, Republican Governor Chris Sununu has promised to veto it.

The plan offers 12 weeks of leave at 60 percent pay to all employees in the state.

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Student Assembly has put forth a proposal to refor m Dartmouth’s response to bias incidents, following backlash sur rounding the College’s handling of a series of racist and sexually explicit emails sent to Dartmouth community members and campus. In a resolution emailed to campus on Feb. 14, Student Assembly called for the College to implement a more efficient and transparent system for responding to bias incidents, and SA leadership met with administrators on Feb. 20 to discuss the system for reporting bias incidents.

“An insufficient reaction has been made by the administration, Residential Life and the Department of Safety and Security to further prevent intolerant individuals from acting against the wellbeing and unity of the Dartmouth community,” the resolution read. “The college will prioritize investigating these harmful actions by instituting a more effective response system in order to offer resolution within

two weeks of the first report and a network of care to support students by informing them of the progress of the on-going investigations and offering further assistance.”

“We wanted students to really know that we had their backs,” Student Assembly vice president Nicole Knape ’19 said. “We wanted to start working with the administration immediately and be able to construct something that could improve the process of reporting bias on this campus.”

Student Assembly president Monik Walters ’19 said that she first informed President Phil Hanlon of one of the racist emails on Dec. 10, and that Hanlon advised the recipient to talk with Safety and Security.

“There was a lack of judicial action made apparent to [the recipients],” she added.

Walters said she believes that the IT department sent an email addressing the issue on Feb. 11 because Student Assembly held a meeting on the topic that morning.

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Students win Irving Wong named president-elect of Institute grant Society of University Surgeons

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As the only undergraduates in a pool of 36 applicants, Bill Cui ’21 and Harish Tekriwal ’21 outcompeted faculty members and researchers to win a $5,700 grant from the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, which gave out nine inaugural grants last week.

The Institute’s grant will last through the calendar year.

Cui and Tekriwal will use their grant money to study an economic concept called demand response, in which energy markets incentivize consumers to lower their demand during peak hours of energy consumption, and reduce costs of energy usage. According to the students, demand response is an untapped resource that could be crucial to New Hampshire in particular.

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On Feb. 13, Geisel School of Medicine chair and professor of surgery Sandra Wong was announced as the presidentelect of the Society of University Surgeons.

Wong was previously named the surgery chair at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in August 2015. She is also a professor of The Dartmouth Institute and is currently completing a three-

year term as the SUS treasurer.

The SUS is an organization comprised of academic surgeons interested in advancing their careers. The group has two representatives on the American Board of Surgery, the body that oversees the training and certification of surgeons in the country.

Wong said that the SUS “really kind of stands behinds leadership and leadership training.”

Currently, the group is furthering several initiatives

dedicated to advancing members’ careers, including a partnership with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a mid-career leadership workshop and other partnerships that ensure there are leadership opportunities for those who are underrepresented in medicine.

Wong said she plans to continue these initiatives and add her own ideas to the mix in the year-long process of refining SEE WONG PAGE 5

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to take leave for the birth or adoption of a child, to take care of a sick family member, or for personal health.

All employers would be required to participate unless they could demonstrate that they offer a plan equivalent or superior to the one provided by the state. The program would be funded by a 0.5 percent tax on wages, which could be deducted from employees’ wages or paid for directly by the employer.

State senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua), a cosponsor of the bill, said that “many, many states are looking at how to [set up a paid leave insurance program].”

“The pressures on people and the pressures on families are so intense that we think you shouldn’t have to choose between your job and your family,” Rosenwald said.

State senator Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro), who voted against the bill, said that “there’s broad support for the idea of paid family leave in New Hampshire,” but there is debate over “the best way to do it.”

Bradley said he supports a competing proposal from Governor Sununu that would partner with Vermont to create an insurance pool of both states’ government employees.

Other employers and employees in both states could opt-in to the proposal, which would be managed by private insurance companies.

Rosenwald said that the governor “hasn’t really put out a plan yet.” “[Sununu has] talked about an idea.

Nobody has seen a plan,” she said.

“He’s talking about a joint state pool of 18,000 people,” which Rosenwald does not believe would be large enough to make the plan competitive.

Bradley said that a voluntary program would be better than a mandatory one.

“By virtue of [SB 1] being mandatory, the government is deciding what benefits employees value most,” Bradley said. “They’re deciding that family leave is something above increased wages, above better healthcare benefits, above dental benefits, above, maybe, more sick time, maybe the ability to work from home, flex time, any number of things that employees and the employers traditionally negotiate.”

He added that he believes the combined state employees of Vermont and New Hampshire would be a “critical mass” that could entice insurance companies to submit competitive bids.

Rosenwald said that SB 1 is similar to a bill that passed three times under a Republican-controlled House last year, but that it takes into account criticism that bill received from Governor Sununu and Senate Republicans.

“There’s an option for the state to see if a private company can do some of the administrative and adjudicative work more efficiently [and at less cost] than the state,” which Rosenwald said was in response to a lack of public-private cooperation in the last bill.

She also said that the last bill had been criticized for being voluntary, so SB 1 is now mandatory. However, “this year, the complaint is that [SB 1] should be voluntary.”

Bradley also criticized the employer tax used to pay for the plan, calling it an income tax on employees.

State senator Martha Hennessey ’76 (D-Hanover), a cosponsor of SB 1, said that calling the employer tax an income tax is misleading. “They positively know [that] is a way to try

to get people all worried about it,” she said.

Hennessey characterized the plan as similar to the unemployment insurance system that employers currently pay into.

“It seems to us that [paid family and medical leave] should also be something that employers pay into so that their employees — when they’re unemployed, just for short periods of time, because of family crises — [are] able to spend time with their families,” Hennessey said.

“It’s not a tax, it’s an insurance,” she said, adding that paid leave is something “constituents are clamoring for.”

If the bill were to pass, Dartmouth — which currently offers birth mothers eight weeks of paid leave and spouses or partners two weeks of paid leave — would likely have to change its policies to align with SB 1. The Office of Human Resources declined to comment on the bill until it has been “signed into law.”

Dartmouth Democrats president Gigi Gunderson ’21 said that paid family leave was a major issue in the midterm elections last November in New Hampshire even though it isn’t “one of the sexier political issues.”

She added that paid family leave is “a really important step forward to supporting more families in the workplace and, by extension then, more women in the workplace.”

College Republicans vice president Daniel Bring ’21, however, prefers the governor’s proposal, calling it “a sound solution that comes without levying payroll taxes that hurt employers and employees alike.”

“SB 1’s plan, as it stands, can have immediate and damaging consequences on the economy of debtladen New Hampshire,” he added.

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“This project is really relevant to the local, geographic and economic conditions here in New Hampshire,” Cui said. “It’s a really cold state, and during the winter we have a really high demand of energy, especially electricity. A lot of times, two things can happen. One, the price gets really high, which nobody wants. Second, sometimes we can get blackouts when the demand gets too high. People will almost always suffer.”

Cui and Tekriwal’s interest in energy was fostered by their summer internships at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last year, which they attained through the First-Year Fellows program. Using their backgrounds in economics and quantitative social sciences, both students said that they found energy to be an exciting, interdisciplinary field.

“I think I’ve had a continued interest in energy because it’s an incredibly complicated market,” Tekriwal said. “I know it’s going to be really [important for] the future, trying to figure out how to deal with our country’s energy needs.

It’s something that’s intellectually stimulating, something that’s really cool to be talking about right now.”

Stephen Doig ’82, who serves as the Irving Institute’s managing director of research, has been heavily involved in the Institute’s grants and outreach in the last year. Doig

emphasized the Institute’s goal to encourage interdisciplinary work within the field of energy. When choosing the recipients of the grants, Doig said that the fact that Cui and Tekriwal are undergraduate students gave them an edge by diversifying the pool of applicants.

“We were purposeful in the very broad net that we casted,” Doig said.

“We really wanted to see what could come out from different parts of Dartmouth and understand where people’s interest was … [Cui and Tekriwal are] working in an area that’s super important because if they can figure how to educate the people who run the power system in New Hampshire on how to use demand response, they can actually have a beneficial impact on all consumers.”

Cui and Tekriwal said they were thrilled to find out that they received all the funding they asked for in their initial proposal. In the upcoming spring and summer terms, once Cui returns from a study abroad program, they will begin to collect data from energy markets in the Upper Valley and reach out to local energy companies and regulators.

Tekriwal said they plan on looking at energy generators in the Upper Valley and meeting with people from the regional electricity provider ISO New England to discuss demand response.

The students have an opportunity to change energy consumption at Dartmouth, which is the largest

employer in the state of New Hampshire and consequently a large consumer of energy.

“We want to investigate how we, Dartmouth as an institution, will be able to utilize these programs for lowering our operational costs and our environmental impact,” Cui said.

Throughout the course of their project, Cui and Tekriwal will work closely with locals, experts from FERC and faculty members. Doig said he has already arranged to meet with the students on a quarterly basis so that he can be updated on a project that carries great potential.

“With [Cui and Tekriwal], I’m really excited to see the results of their work,” Doig said. “I’m bullish that what they’re going to come up with will not only be super interesting, but [also] quite relevant to the state of New Hampshire.”

Aware of the importance of their project, Cui and Tekriwal said they are ready to apply their prior knowledge about energy and are optimistic about the results of their study.

“I think one of the things [Tekriwal] and I have in agreement is, ‘Let’s just not screw this up,’” Cui said. “On top of that, we’ll definitely do our best to see what we can achieve. It’s an interesting topic and I really believe it will have an impact on our Dartmouth community and New Hampshire in general. I can’t wait to see where it takes us.”

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CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST CHANTAL ELIAS ’22

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Reprieve from U.S. Dominance

This Is Your Campus

Trump’s nationalist policy has the international community jumping for joy.

The Dartmouth community has yet to value and support minority identities.

As a loather of the current President of the United States, I was surprised by my ability to find merit in one of Donald Trump’s main policies.

While pondering the consequences of American dominance (a favorite activity of mine), I realized that, in a twisted sense, “Making America Great Again” is the answer to my prayers. I am an advocate for the reduction of power of nationstates and the growth of pan-global institutions. I believe that the dominance of one nation should be a fixture of the past and the remains of an old world order.

At his State of the Union address, President Trump reiterated his commitment to “Make America Great Again,” a slogan that has remained steadfast throughout both his campaign and presidency thus far. His MAGA cries have driven away many Americans, with their calls for nationalism over international cooperation and the strengthening of a state sealed in by high barriers to entry, both literally and metaphorically.

Despite the troubling nature of this nationalism, enveloped in this dogma is the hint of an America that is less involved abroad in countries’ domestic issues. Since the nation’s shift to an interventionist strategy after World War I, Americans have taken it upon themselves to be the defenders of democratic government and values around the world. Such an understanding has led to extensive American influence in foreign elections, development efforts and a continuous global U.S. military presence. It has been the general understanding that if the U.S. does not step in, who will?

The answer to this question really should be the United Nations. In the wake of World War II, country leaders identified a gaping hole in the maintenance of international peace. The founding of a global institution tasked with the sole goal of keeping the peace was intended to reduce inter-state conflict and to mediate hostility by replacing violence with diplomatic discussions.

It is evident, though, in hindsight, that the U.N. founding framework is far too constraining.

Unless a country grants the U.N. access into their country, the international body can have little influence on scaling down violence and restoring peace. To compensate for the shortfalls of the U.N., the United States has utilized its independent nationhood and ready access into foreign countries to establish itself as the

Dartmouth hails its diversity as an element for many to trade in their individuality for the that enriches its educational environment, ways of the collective. calling it “one of [its] great natural resources.”

The praise that Dartmouth gives to diversity The offices, initiatives and programs dedicated and the lip service it pays to prizing individual to promoting diversity on campus are flashed lived experiences is incongruous with the funnel across marketing and outreach platforms, meant that the campus culture pressures students to to demonstrate Dartmouth’s commitment to fall into. The reality is that being diverse is diversity and praise the impact they’ve had on vastly different from valuing diversity — which students. At first glance, the demographics of the requires the resources to sufficiently support student body and the institution’s diversity efforts marginalized communities, the eradication of do appear praiseworthy; viewed more closely, a pervasive culture of white male entitlement, though, it is difficult to ignore the unsettling a revolution in the mainstream social scene, nature of the language used to describe this greater representation in the faculty and higher diversity. administration, the evolution of the dominant This language reflects an institutional climate student narrative to be more inclusive and that uses the presence of underrepresented flexible — the list goes on. minorities in the community as accessories to Today’s Dartmouth community is embellish and glamorize this campus. When contributing toward making the great strides taken in context, calling diversity a “great necessary to revolutionize what it means to natural resource” at Dartmouth objectifies belong here, just as past Dartmouth communities the individuals whose have done. But creating very identities create that the Dartmouth that its diversity. To devalue on “But creating the community dreams of an institutional level the Dartmouth that its takes time — and in the very identities that create meantime, while the students community dreams of the diversity Dartmouth of today are here, they must praises is to send a message takes time — and in individually cultivate a to the overall community sense of grounding in their the meantime, while that diversity is little more identities as they navigate than a checkbox to check. the students of today this place.

This is, after all, still a are here, they must Self development at campus that has sparked Dartmouth takes as many national outrage through individually cultivate a forms as there are individuals its denials of tenure to sense of grounding in who walk through this prominent, well-regarded campus. For minorities, their identities as they faculty of color; that still being confronted with harbors individuals who navigate this place.” overbearing social pressures target students and faculty in an environment that with racist digital and devalues minority identities physical messages; where conservatives can all too often create feelings of jadedness invite individuals such as Dinesh D’Souza and isolation that develop into self-damaging ’83 who spread hateful and intolerant ideas; attitudes and behaviors. Some may decide that where underrepresented minorities are still becoming the narrative is easier than developing marginalized from the mainstream social scene. their own, and some may thwart the narrative It is clear that members of the Dartmouth to find their own sense of value in their identity. community have not been kind to each other.

Valuing minority identities at Dartmouth While issues of this nature are pervasive at requires reframing the way that belonging many higher education institutions, they are is defined. To belong is to create space for particularly exacerbated at Dartmouth. Not ownership — and the presence of minorities only does the College still carry the undertone on campus has created new communities of a legacy of white male entitlement, it exists in over time that are more inclusive and diverse. a location that makes it improbable to diversify As the College develops to become a better the employees who allow this very campus to version of itself, the Dartmouth community operate. The dominant student narrative is has a responsibility to think critically as current incredibly rigid, placing status on labels that spaces evolve and new spaces are created to are deeply intertwined with white, upper class consider minority voices and their incredible values and creating intense social pressures to contributions. follow specific paths to succeed or even to just To minorities: you belong here. You have the be “relevant.” power to decide that you own your Dartmouth Coming to Dartmouth forces minorities to experience. Without your very presence to think critically about their identities. Existing challenge the normative standards, Dartmouth with a non-Dartmouth-normative identity would never have been able to grow as an on this campus creates no other option but institution. You’ve started valuable conversations to juxtapose the realities of one’s life with the that will affect the course of Dartmouth’s realities of the dominating narrative. What was future, and the communities you’ve joined have once an everyday reality for some students — positively benefited from the lived experience what they wear, what they eat, how they speak, that you contribute. This is your campus. what they’re interested in, how they spend their time — can all too easily feel alien or unwanted. The editorial board consists of opinion staff In a space where the collective consciousness columnists, the opinion editors, both executive editors and can be all-consuming, it can often feel far easier the editor-in-chief.

champion of peace. For this, people should be thankful. American service has been fundamental in maintaining relative world harmony since the mid-20th century. It is not the past I am interested in criticizing, but rather the current world order and how the future of world peacekeeping should be guided. The reality is that, along with the meritorious traits of American foreign missions, oodles of problems have been created in the recipient nations as a result.

U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria, Philippines, Kosovo, Somalia, the majority of Latin American nations, Yemen and Iraq (to name just a few) has been crippling for nations that want to have agency over the running of their country. More often than not, the initial American participation is not the issue, but rather its prolonged presence. The 1975 Operation Condor is one of the best examples of American involvement gone awry. In pursuit of democratic hegemony, the U.S. implemented a policy of suppression to political opponents in South America in order to eradicate the threat of Communism. It is estimated that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Operation Condor. One must ask, if America had not gotten involved, would the death count have been so high? Is American participation abroad causing more problems than it is solving? Of course, I am not proposing that the international community remain silent when confronted with violence.

Rather, I am suggesting that the United Nations be the body that intervenes, not the U.S. — a country that has its own agenda and a host of complex international relations to manage.

It is not a stretch to hypothesize that nations with a history of U.S. presence are jumping for joy at the prospect that the U.S. may be scaling back its foreign involvement. Certainly, it is almost impossible to imagine a world in which America is not the leader and biggest stakeholder in every conflict. But there is a fundamental problem with the United States taking on the role of the United Nations. It creates an unfair global power balance, puts a strain on U.S. resources and creates a host of problems in the recipient nations. If anything, continuous foreign intervention has been one of the biggest perpetrators of international dislike for this country.

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SA proposes reforms to College Sandra Wong response to bias incidents recognized for leadership this, but when I heard this incident, it sounded normal for me because I’ve “They didn’t feel like SNS or IT heard about a lot of these incidents were updating them adequately,” on campus,” Walters said. “For me Knape said. “They would receive it’s indicative of an undertone that automated responses saying that may be inherent in the institution their case waws under review. and its history.”

It felt impersonal to them, so Joelle Park ’19, a YouTuber with [Waters] and I want to work with over 6,000 followers, used social the administration to come up with media to discuss the issue. a more personal, more supportive “This has been going on for network that is s e v e r a l initiated once a m o n t h s “I think there were student reports now and it some people who were has affected bias.”

S h e s a i d completely outraged by people who she thinks the I know website is poorly this, but when I heard personally built and does this incident, it sounded a n d re a l l y not give students care about normal for me because information and I want about how the I’ve heard about a lot you to investig ations of these incidents on be aware are conducted. that this is In the meeting, campus.” happening,” they ag reed Park said in on changes an Instagram -MONIK WALTERS ’19, including story. “If you u p d ati n g t h e STUDENT ASSEMBLY see or know w e b s i t e a n d PRESIDENT anyone who coming up is doing this, with a support please just network to reach out to people and make them stop.” make sure they are okay.

In an interview with The “We pointed out many flaws that Dartmouth, Park said that she first they do have in their bias reporting became aware of the emails when process,” Knape said. “They did her friend received one over winter recognize that they could iron some break. of these details out with us, which “Being someone that often we are going to be doing this week.” endorses Dartmouth and often tries Walters said that they will publish to give people an inside look at my an action plan on Friday. She also personal experience at Dartmouth, I discussed the campus climate felt obligated in a way to share about surrounding the emails. the totality of the experience,” she “I think there were some people said. “I felt like it was something who were completely outraged by that people needed to be aware was FROM EMAILS PAGE 1

happening on campus.”

Park said that email recipients reached out to her after she posted her Instagram story to talk about the issue. She said that some of them contacted the administration about the emails.

“It felt like the administration hadn’t done anything,” Park added.

“I get that there are definitely barriers to the administration doing things, but I felt like it was getting pandered off to whoever. People would refer you to the next person or the next office and everyone is sitting there unsure what to do next, which led to a lot of inaction.”

Park added that the College should confront the issue of the emails by taking action similarly to how it has in the past. She cited the College’s handling of a graffiti incident at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority as an example.

“I’d like to see something material out of this,” she said. “It is completely absurd for someone to feel unsafe and like they’re being targeted and watched on campus, just waiting for another creepy anonymous email to slide in their Blitz.”

Pa r k a l s o d i s c u s s e d t h e administration’s reaction to the emails.

“I think the bigger issue almost is the administration’s reaction. I think the administration has a really good opportunity to really start to enforce the type of Dartmouth that they would like to see, which is one that’s inclusive and safe for people,” she said. “If the administration were to just stand silent and let this happen, I think for sure that means we have a way bigger issue.”

clinical responsibilities of being a surgeon with the administrative her ideas serving as president-elect responsibilities of being a chair and the educational responsibilities of being a before she becomes president.

Wong added that her initial reaction research mentor,” Trooboff said. “And I can think of very few people that to her appointment was excitement.

“I was really honored to get that I’ve come across in my experience as position and I think it’s one of those a medical student and now surgical things that I will use the platform to trainee, who have been able to balance hopefully advance the Society and those three goals.”

He said other surgical he frequently leaders,” she said.

“I will use the platf orm tells prospective Additionally, s t u d e n t s Wong described to hopefully advance about Wong’s her two roles as the Society and other commitment, “synergistic.” her after-hours She noted that surgical leaders.” meetings and her new position late-night email will be a great -SANDRA WONG, GEISEL responses, in opportunity for order to persuade t h e D H M C SCHOOL OF MEDICINE them to attend in ter ms of PROFESSOR OF SURGERY Geisel. connections and Geisel exposure.

Many of her colleagues similarly surgery professor Joga Ivatury credited emphasized her unique leadership style Wong with his opportunity to do a that made her well-suited to serve in visiting professorship at the University of Michigan, which is rare for someone both positions.

General surgery resident Spencer at this point in his career, according to Trooboff arrived at Dartmouth Ivatury.

“She is around the same alwayssponsoring time as Wong “Her efforts in building one of our junior and worked faculty,” he said. with her on a clinical programs, “Her leadership study published research efforts and style is both in the Journal hands on and as o f S u r g i c a l educational programs a sponsor.”

Oncolog y in convey her values of Ivatury D e c e m b e r hard work and dataadded that 2018. From the Wong’s election is operating room driven decisions.” “well-deserved.” to research “Her mentorship, he -PHILIP GOODNEY, THE efforts in building described Wong clinical programs, as “invaluable,” DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE research efforts “engaged” and PROFESSOR and educational a “tremendous programs convey asset” to her values of hard work and data-driven Dartmouth.

As of 2017, Wong had over decisions,” The Dartmouth Institute 150 peer-reviewed scientific studies, professor Philip Goodney said.

Goodney said he is certain that making her one of the most wellrespected health services researchers Wong will bring the same collaborative in academia, according to Trooboff. spirit and dedication to the SUS. “She does a very good job at guiding She accomplished these feats while deftly navigating the different medical her mentees and frankly, other faculty societies, maintaining important researchers around her towards offering relationships within the field and all something in the academic sphere that’s really value-adding for the larger the while teaching, he added.

“It’s very difficult to balance the surgical community,” Trooboff said.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019

DARTMOUTHEVENTS

TODAY All Day

Exhibit: #MeToo: Intersectionality, Hashtag Activism & Our Lives, featuring student projects from fall 2018, Berry West

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Art After Dark, Hood Museum of Art

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

Film: “3 Faces,” directed by Jafar Panahi, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Camden Conference: “Is This China’s Century?”, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, Auditorium H

TOMORROW

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Film: “On the Basis of Sex,” directed by Mimi Leder, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Performance: “Into the Woods,” originally by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, a theater department MainStage Production, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Moore Theater

8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

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on President Trump’s goal to scale back foreign involvement to construct a new framework of world peacekeeping. At the simplest level, no one knows who is in charge. The global consensus seems to be, however, that the dominant voice of peace should not be a nation but rather an international organization that is representative of the world’s voices. As the United Nations exists today, its mandate is not sufficient enough to replace the role of America. The U.N. principles should be rewritten to allow U.N. peacekeepers to enter a country without having to gain the government’s approval.

There must be a set of guidelines that outline when it is acceptable to enter a nation, what to do when a government

has gone rogue and the duration in which foreign entities should be involved in domestic affairs. More likely than not, if these changes are not made to the U.N., and Trump follows through with his policy, the world will be left without a voice to take charge of international affairs.

So while Trump sees his nationalist policy as an opportunity to make America stronger, I see it as a chance to reflect on the global power dynamics and to consider the future of international decision-making. As Trump seeks to prop up America by building internally, U.S. involvement on the international stage will take a hiatus. If tackled carefully, this may give us a chance to “Make the World Great Again.”

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John Keats’ poetry mixes lush lyricism with social commentary B y Courtney McKee The Dartmouth

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Tomorrow is the 198th anniversary of John Keats’ early death at age 25 from tuberculosis. Keats, one of the most prominent Romantic poets of the 19th century, wrote lyrical meditations on many themes, including nature, love, beauty and death, arguably the most famous of which are his odes “To Autumn,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale.” Criticized in its time for its frivolity, Keats’ poetry soon became widely recognized for its mastery of poetic forms, delicate evocations of the natural world and heartfelt representations of love and loss.

The quintessential Romantic poet, Keats displayed a profound receptivity to the hardships of the world. In his poem “Bright Star! Would I were as steadfast as thou art,” he wishes for permanence, to be a fixed point like a star in the night sky. In his poem “When I have fears that I may cease to be,” he worries prophetically that death will find him before he has

done all he wants to do. In “Ode to Keats’ oeuvre to include in a book a Nightingale,” he envies a songbird of Keats’ poetry, as part of a series of for its separation from the mournful books on nature poets from Faber and human world, “where youth grows Faber. The cover of the Keats edition pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.” In features his famous nightingale, aloft much of Keats’ poetry, he writes of a tree ripe with berries in a verdant a fanciful world of fair youths, myrtle landscape of swirling skies. The wreaths and babbling brooks; a bird doesn’t sing but rather turns world to replace backwards and our own, where “The power of Keats’ eyes something no one dies and in the distance the air is sweet poetry is not his with suspicion. In with the scent of descriptions of fair his introduction, lilacs. When first Motion writes maidens and the reading Keats’ that Keats was poetry at the winnowing wind, but “a dangerously tender age of his honest discourse subversive figure 16, I felt a certain — lower class, companionship about the inadequacy badly educated, with the suffering of the existing societal and the friend of poet, in his deep radicals,” a man m e l a n c h o l y, structures.” who garnered dissatisfaction criticism from at the state of the literary the world and sincere pleas to flee his establishment because of the lot. potentially inflammatory undertones But is that all we should take Keats of his work. for, a sensitive escapist with a penchant In my adolescent understanding for sonnets? Andrew Motion, poet of Keats as a troubled youth who laureate of the U.K. from 1999 to bemoaned the cruelty of the world, 2009, argues not. In 2016, Motion this new interpretation bothered me. selected poems and excerpts from Keats’ poetry was not political — it

was far from it. It was a dreamscape, swelled with images of sun-ripened berries and morning dew. He had created his own kingdom, existing outside of time or anything earthly, so how could his poetry encourage anything but dreams?

The opening poem of the collection is “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” in which Keats writes about reading George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s “The Odyssey.” His imagination is enlivened by the playwright’s reframing of a world with which he is already familiar, like he is reading about it for the first time. Motion’s choice of the opening poem was deliberate, preparing readers for a reframing of their own and showing the opportunity that the editor is given to create a new narrative out of existing parts.

Throughout the book, Keats’ more traditionally Romantic poems are interspersed with others less fantastical, exhibiting the breadth of the poet’s practice. Early in the book, Motion includes an excerpt from Keats’ epic poem “Endymion” that warns against power working on a narcissistic mind: “There are who

lord it o’er their fellow-men with most prevailing tinsel, who unpen with baaing vanities.” Later, there is a verse from “The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream, in which Keats emphasizes the need for common education, writing that “every man ... hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, and been well-nurtured in his mother tongue.”

Motion’s thoughtful selections prove that the power of Keats’ poetry is not his descriptions of fair maidens and the winnowing wind, but his honest discourse about the inadequacy of the existing societal structures. In that way, Keats’ work is startlingly subversive. In a world of increasing industrialism and political conservatism, Keats speaks of an instead, what the world should be.

Moreover, Motion reminds us that Keats’ poetry did not come out of a vacuum, but was in response to the environment in which he lived.

His poems, though embellished with metaphors and allusions to Classical mythology, speak to material truths, from class oppression to personal despondency. Beauty is truth, Keats wrote, truth beauty, and because of Motion’s careful selection, I believe I know what he meant by that.

Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend

+film

+film

+documentary

On the Basis of Sex

Mary Poppins Returns

Free Solo

Saturday, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Sunday, 4 p.m. at Loew Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Sunday, 4 p.m. at Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts

“On the Basis of Sex,” a biographical drama starring Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones, takes a more Hollywood approach in its portrayal of the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The film centers on a crucial moment in Ginsburg’s career, a case of gender discrimination against a man that Ginsburg utilizes to challenge the multitude of gender-based discriminatory laws in America. Although the film successfully articulates the importance of Ginburg’s achievements at the Supreme Court, it sometimes stumbles in its representation of a complex human figure, veering toward Hollywood dramatization. Jones’ peformance, however, adds a vivacity to the film that perfectly captures the enduring spirit of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

-Florida Huff

In “Mary Poppins Returns,” set in Depression-era London, Mary Poppins visits Jane and her brother Michael, the children she cared for in the original “Mary Poppins” film released in 1964, to bring joy and colorful, fun solutions to the problems Michael and his three children face. As the sequel to such a popular classic film, “Mary Poppins Returns” was released amid high expecations from the audience to be as captivating and imaginative as its predecessor. The film, with its highly accredited cast including Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Lin-Manuel Miranda, not to mention Emily Blunt, who plays the titular role, has seemingly succeeded in winning over the public’s hearts, as it is currently nominated for four Oscars, including Best Original Song and Best Score.

-Lex Kang

“Free Solo” is a thrilling documentary following climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold in the run-up to his groundbreaking ropeless climb of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite face in the heart of Yosemite. The film examines Honnold’s approach to climbing without ropes, a career which has led to the deaths of nearly every free soloist in history. “Free Solo” delves deep into Honnold as a person more so than as a climber, examining his personal relationships and his lifestyle, ultimately portraying a man who defies risks and lives for heightened mental stimulation. The film also examines the ethics of documentary film-making: How will the filmmakers live with themselves if the added pressure of their cameras causes Honnold to tumble to his death?

-Florida Huff

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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SPORTS

TODAY’S TODAY’S LINEUP LINEUP

W SQUASH VS AMHERST 6:30 P.M.

ONE ON ONE

with Bob Gaudet ’81

By ADDISON DICK

BG: A guy like Kevan Kilistoff ’19 represents the group really well.

He’s a two-year captain, which is The men’s hockey team takes pretty rare at this level. He was on Yale University and Brown elected captain by his peers as a University this Friday and Saturday junior. He’s just a fabulous leader. in its final two home games of Carl Hesler ’18 is another guy who the regular season. Saturday’s has done so much for our program game against Brown is the team’s and is a veteran player with a strong senior night, where the team’s six leadership ability. There’s Connor seniors will be honored for their Yau ’19, who’s back on the blue line contributions to the program. as a defenseman with Cameron Roth Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 sat ’19. Both are different players but down with the Dartmouth and good players and really good guys. looked back on the seniors’ trip They’re guys I can really lean on to the Eastern College Athletic in any situation and can trust with Conference tournament semifinals everything. Then there’s guys like in Lake Placid, N.Y. in 2016 Alex Jasiek ’19, who’s having an and their victory over defending excellent year for us scoring. He’s champion Denver University last done a really good job and is a season. Gaudet also reflected on the really skilled forward who gets to character of the senior class and the play on our power play and does a team’s goal to return to Lake Placid nice job for us. John Ernsting ’19 is a guy who’s had some nagging this postseason. injury troubles throughout his career What was your impression of but is starting to get healthy now, the senior class when they first and I hope he helps us down the stretch here because he’s a good arrived at Dartmouth?

BG: It’s a great group of guys. I was player and is a strong leader. All of looking forward to getting to know these guys, in their own way, add so much to our team in them, and terms of Killistoff’s that’s what’s leader ship h a p p e n e d “It’s a great group of and Hesler’s over the last guys. I was looking dependability and four years. forward to getting to Jasiek’s scoring It’s amazing ability and the how time flies know them, and that’s defensive ability of by. They’ve what’s happened over Yau and Roth and b e c o m e hopefully Ernsting, really good the last four years. It’s leaders and amazing how time flies n o w t h a t h e ’s healthy, will help good men by. They’ve become us do something who I’ve special down the e n j o y e d really good leaders stretch here. b e i n g and good men who around.

How do the These guys I’ve enjoyed being s e n i o rs s h o w g o f r o m around.” leadership being young and how have guys to being the younger guys who are -BOB GAUDET ’81, players on the such integral MEN’S HOCKEY COACH team responded parts of the to their team and leadership? then are relied upon. Post-graduation, they BG: I think they show leadership by are friends and alumni, and it’s example. For me as a coach, it’s great a neat transformation from these because these guys have a standard that they live up to every day, and young guys to grown men. the young players on the team look How has the class impacted the up to them. They show it in the program and what stands out classroom. We have a 3.4 or 3.5 GPA, about this class in particular? so there’s a standard off the ice in The Dartmouth Staff

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In the final home regular season game, the six seniors will be honored, including Cameron Roth ’19 (pictured above).

the classroom. There’s a standard in how they represent themselves without the jersey on when they’re on campus, and obviously in the weight room where development and work ethic is shown in how they get after it in terms of training. On the ice in practice and games, their work ethic and the example that they show on a daily basis and the standard that they reinforce and demand from their teammates by the way they go about day-to-day training and school, it’s a really great group of guys that I can really trust.

What were your expectations for the senior class four years ago, and have those expectations been met?

BG: The expectation is to compete year in and year out, day in and day out, and really work toward developing, and they’ve done that.

Our team is currently three points out of a home ice bye. We hope we can make up that ground in the next two weekends. The guys read a book over the summer, Legacy. In that book, there’s a lot of talk about leaving the jersey in a better place than when they got it. I know that they’ve done that each and every year the past four, and now in their last year, I know they will live up to that down the stretch here. They’re

really proud of Dartmouth. They love the school and they really want to represent it to the best of their abilities on and off the ice. I’m really proud of them.

In your mind, what are some of the greatest accomplishments for the seniors on the team?

BG: When we went out to Denver last season and beat the number one team in the country and defending national champions in their own building, it was a tremendous accomplishment. This group also made it to the ECAC championships in Lake Placid in 2016 after beating a really good Yale team in New Haven in the second round of the playoffs.

We beat Colgate in double-overtime in an epic series that year. We beat them and then went on to play Yale and beat them two straight games.

In the first game at Yale, Yau scored the game winner in overtime, and then we beat Yale the next night, and that propelled us to Lake Placid in the league’s final four. That’s my hope for these guys. Our goal is to get back there. We have another shot at it this year, and I know it would be very fitting. Those games were memorable for me and hopefully for the guys.

What would it mean for the

team and for the seniors to get back to Lake Placid this postseason?

BG: It would just be a great accomplishment. When we get back there this year, our goal will be to win it. That’s what we’ll be doing in the two remaining regular season weekends to give us that momentum going into the playoffs with the goal of making it to Lake Placid and winning that. I know we have the ability.

What are your expectations and hopes for this weekend’s games and the final four regular season games?

BG: We’re playing two really good teams. They are both very skilled and quick teams. Brown is currently tied with us, and Yale is four points ahead of us, so it’s a huge weekend for us when you have back-to-back Ivy League games. Our league is so strong, it’s the best Division I league in the country. You have to be at your best every game. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and my hope is that the students will come out and cheer the guys on. Hopefully, our seniors can end their regular season portion of their careers in style.

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