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Welch resigns from College NH concludes following plagiarism finding 2018 primaries

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H. Gilbert Welch resigned from the College on Thursday.

He was formerly a professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. In his resignation letter, Welch wrote that he feels he “can no longer participate in the research misconduct process against [him]” as he fears that his participation “only serves to validate” the misconduct allegations,

reported in the Valley News and the science news outlet STAT. A College investigation over the summer found that Welch committed plagiarism in a widely-cited 2016 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

TDI professor Samir Soneji and University of California, Los Angeles community health sciences professor Hiram Beltran-Sanchez had alleged that in the highly-cited article on mammograms, Welch used their data on over-diagnosing

tumors in breast cancer screening without providing them with due credit.

Welch’s resignation letter stated his refusal to amend the paper to identify Soneji as the “first author.”

“Much as I have enjoyed working at Dartmouth, I am not willing to falsely attest to anything simply to stay here,” Welch wrote in the letter.

This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

B y WALLY JOE COOK The Dartmouth Staff

OnTuesday,NewHampshire held its 2018 primaries for its Congressional, gubernatorial and local elections. As Democrats face an uphill battle to take back the House, they seek to hold their current ground in the upcoming general election.

History will almost certainly be made in New Hampshire’s first Congressional district come November. Chris Pappas, who won the Democratic nomination with 42.2 percent

of the vote, would be the state’s first openly gay congressman and Eddie Edwards, who won the Republican primary with 48 percent of the vote, would be its first African-American congressman.

In New Hampshire’s second district, which contains the College, Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ran unopposed to secure the Democratic nomination.

On the Republican side, Steven Negron barely edged out his competitors in a close race, SEE PRIMARIES PAGE 2

Laura Ray appointed as new Thayer interim dean B y GIGI GRIGORIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Last month, the College announced that e n g i n e e r i n g p ro f e s s o r Laura Ray was appointed interim dean of the Thayer School of Engineering, a position that she will assume on Oct. 29. She will serve as dean through June 2019 or until a new dean is appointed.

Ray follows the 13-year tenure of Joseph Helble, who will become provost of the College at the end of October.

Since she began working at Thayer in 1996, Ray’s research has focused on system dynamics, controls and robotics. According to Ray, her work at the College has helped develop the “niche area” of polar robotics, which she finds to

be an “interesting area both because of how robotics can support scientists [in polar regions] and carry scientists’ instruments and also because of the challenges in extreme environments.” Ray said that she also contributes to biomedical device research and computer vision for robots.

“She’s one of the only people doing robotics in those sorts of [polar]

Women’s vote confers wide-ranging benefits

B y MARIA HARRAST The Dartmouth Staff

Wo m e n ’s suffrage accomplished far more than simply giving women the right to vote, according to a new working paper.

In “Who Benefitted From Women’s Suffrage?” published in August, three economists — the College’s Na’ama Shenhav, Bucknell University’s Esra

environments,” said Joshua Elliott, a fourth-year Ph.D. student who works with Ray. Ray has co-founded t w o c o m p a n i e s, S o u n d Innovations and Clarisond, and holds several patents that stem from her research at Thayer.

In addition to her research projects, Ray has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate engineering classes during her 22-year tenure

at Dartmouth, including ENGS 89, “Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation” and ENGS 90, “Engineering Design Methodology and Project Completion,” the two-term capstone design cour se required for all bachelor of engineering students. “[Ray is] the SEE DEAN PAGE 2

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Kose and Southern Methodist University’s Elira Kuka — found that economically disadvantaged children benefited significantly after women gained the right to vote.

The researchers found that women’s suffrage increased ch i l d re n’s “ e d u c at i o n a l attainment,” which includes how long they stayed in school and MICHAEL LIN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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Students enjoy delicious catered food as they prepare to wrap up the first week of classes.

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Study finds effects of arsenic exposure Helble to continue as dean through October B y LEX KANG

The Dartmouth Staff

New Hampshire residents using private wells, especially households with pregnant women or infants, should be attentive to the possibility of arsenic contamination. On Aug. 22, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine published their findings on the effect of arsenic exposure on infants’ gut microbiomes, the microbes and bacteria occupying the gut. The study found that infants’ gut microbiomes shift after arsenic exposure, leading to potential health risks.

Epidemiology professor and the study’s lead author Anne Hoen said that the decision to investigate the effects of arsenic was partially inspired by preceding studies in the field that reported mice having changes in their gut microbiomes after ingesting drinking water contaminated by arsenic, a substance “known to be a powerful anti-microbial substance.”

New Hampshire also has “a known problem with arsenic-contaminated drinking water” because arsenic occurs naturally in the soil and the state has a significant population of people that use private, unregulated well systems, Hoen added.

Geisel pediatrics and epidemiology professor and study co-author Juliette Madan added that because arsenic releases antibiotics that kill microbes, the research team was “interested in understanding how arsenic related to gut microbiome composition in this vulnerable population [of] developing babies and how that might relate to [their] health outcomes for the long term.”

After years of analyzing the data collected from infants enrolled in the New Hampshire birth cohort, Madan noted that the study, which examined both the infants’ urine to check for the level of arsenic exposure and stool samples to check for gut microbiome composition and condition, showed that infants exposed to arsenic, even very trace amounts, had different gut microbiome compositions than infants who were not.

“Arsenic kills microbes,” Madan said. “[Arsenic] has been used as an antibiotic in the past, even at low levels. And what we found was that babies that have arsenic exposure in their water in New Hampshire have an overall gut microbiome community that looks different from babies who do not have arsenic exposure.”

Hoen added there is a difference between babies who were formulafed and babies who were breastfed.

According to her, arsenic’s effects

on the babies’ gut microbiomes that the research team wishes to remained with formula-fed babies but investigate the impacts of exposure not in exclusively breastfed babies, as to other common environmental arsenic does not contaminate breast contaminants while considering milk regardless of the mother’s complicating factors such as diet, as arsenic exposure. well as following up on the health of However, Geisel epidemiology this study’s babies in their childhood. professor and study co-author “We’re following the babies [that Modupe Coker added that despite we studied] to look at their early the findings of the study, it can not health outcomes, so whether they’re be concluded that breastfeeding diagnosed with an allergy, or asthma, is inherently safer or superior to or ear infections, or respiratory using formula because there are still infections,” Hoen said. “We’ll be many factors that have not yet been looking [at how the] gut microbiome explored. composition, shortly “ [ T h e “The takeaway [is] after birth, is study isn’t associated with risk that we generally showing that] for those different automatically, need to start paying health outcomes.” fo r mu l a - f e d attention to the Hoen noted that children will do one of the limitations worse,” Coker environment and of the study is that said. “That’s how it impacts the the mothers enrolled not true. What in the cohort were health of humans.” we’re saying generally healthy is that maybe and gave birth to the b o d y -MODUPE COKER, similarly healthy compensates babies, meaning that [ f o r ] s o m e EPIDEMIOLOGY the study is unlikely to things, maybe PROFESSOR AND STUDY yield findings on rarer a child is health conditions.

CO-AUTHOR exposed [to Madan said that arsenic], but the results of the they have study indicated the a stronger importance of New i m m u n e Hampshire residents system.” with private wells Though having their wells the differences tested annually and in the gut after pregnancy and microbiomes childbirth, especially of infants exposed to arsenic were because both environmental toxins not explicitly characterized as good or and nutrients found in wells can bad, Madan said that the differences change over time. could be a cause of health concern as “The recommendation is to they have “the potential for causing test your well once a year … so risk of disease,” particularly in that you know [if] there’s been infants. any change in bacteria [or toxins] “When babies are born, they in the well,” Madan said. “[With] don’t have really many microbes that information, you can set your in and on their body,” Madan said. filters to address those exposures.

“They’re acquiring microbes over the Unfortunately, in New Hampshire, first year of life. Those microbes are wells are not regulated, so it’s up responsible for a large proportion of to the homeowners to address that innate and adaptive immune training potential environmental risk.” that relates to allergy risk, infection According to Coker, the study’s risk, cancer risks for autoimmune conclusions should also lead the disease risk, obesity risk — you name public to draw more widespread it.” awareness about environment and Madan added that the study’s health rather than solely about conclusions may have implications in drinking water. broader contexts. For example, there “The takeaway [is] that we could be a potential connection to generally need to start paying cancer in adults, the EPA’s guidelines attention to the environment and for acceptable arsenic levels may be how it impacts the health of too liberal to fully prevent detrimental humans,” Coker said. “As a group, health effects on individuals exposed we need to pay attention to how [the to the toxin, and developing countries environment] impacts [health] in have even higher arsenic exposure infancy and [has] long term outcomes rates, she said. at any point in life. It’s something that For the future, Hoen said we as the public need to pay attention

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quintessential Dartmouth and Thayer faculty member — a teacher, a scholar and an entrepreneur,” Helble said.

“She’s a good decision-maker, a clear communicator and a wellrespected senior faculty member.”

Elliott added that he thinks Ray’s “serious and focused” personality will make her a successful leader of Thayer.

Helble noted that he will remain as dean through the end of October in order to oversee the design phase of the new Thayer expansion. Ray will then take over as dean as the project moves into the stages of permitting and authorization for construction, he said.

Thayer’s $200 million donorfunded expansion includes the construction of a new building to promote interdisciplinar y research that integrates Thayer, the department of computer science and the Magnuson Family Center for Entrepreneurship.

The building will also allow for eventual increases in engineering and computer science faculty. The new building will be located near the existing Thayer buildings, Cummings Hall and the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center.

Construction is expected to begin in early 2019 as soon as permits for the project are approved by the town of Hanover.

“[Ray] will play an integral role in managing and overseeing the groundbreaking of the project,” Helble said.

Ray said that, in addition to managing this project as the interim dean of Thayer, she hopes to “prepare for new leadership to come in and be able to start right away.”

A search advisory committee was assembled this summer in order to find the next dean, Thayer senior director of communications Eun Lee Koh said.

Led by emerging technologies professor Eric Fossum, the group will work to identify and interview qualified candidates for the position, Helble said.

Though the search is still in its early stages, the committee has met with a team from the search firm Isaacson, Miller, Koh said. The firm is now meeting with Thayer community members, including faculty and staff, to identify important qualities for the next dean of the school, she added.

Helble said he hopes that the next Thayer dean will have “a strong and fundamental belief in the opportunity that offering engineering in concert with a broader liberal arts education p rov i d e s ” f o r s t u d e n t s. H e also noted that commitment to interdisciplinar y research and entrepreneurial activity are important values for the position.

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Disadvantaged children benefited from women’s suffrage FROM WOMEN’S VOTE PAGE 1

their literacy levels, as well as their future incomes. Specifically, black people and Southern white people born around the time women gained the right to vote considered the least advantaged groups of that era by the researchers benefited the most from the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

By digitizing records of “city-level school enrollment” and schoolspending data, the researchers determined that black students gained almost a year of education, while white students increased their schooling by only 0.10 years.

However, white children in the South saw an increase of 0.96 years in school.

Shenhav said that inspiration for the study came from recent findings that women in developing nations are more likely than men to focus spending on children.

“This study was inspired by this growing literature — that’s primarily in developing countries — that shows that giving more power to women [and] giving more money to women tends to increase investments to kids in the household,” Shenhav said.

“For example, in India, we see that when you elect female politicians,

you increase education outcomes preferences. for kids. The question was [whether] “Being able to vote really increased this appl[ies] to a developed country, the civic engagement of women specifically the United States.” in society,” Bishop said. “Before Her research the suffrage supported that movement, you “This study was economically had a lot of women underprivileged inspired by this very passionate c h i l d r e n ’ s growing literature in politics and greater access not being able t o e d u c a t i o n — that’s primarily in to get involved. in the United developing countries With the opening States was largely of suffrage for — that shows that a result of greater women across the school-focused giving more power United States and spending after to women [and] parts of Europe as women gained well, you have a t h e r i g h t t o giving more money great push to get vote, especially to women tends to involved.” in “lowerincrease investments aOd vt ahne rc e mm eanj ot rs educated, more racially-diverse to kids in the during the period, cities.” including the household.”

L a u r e n settlement house Bishop ’19, who movement that conducted an -NA’AMA SHENHAV, was spearheaded independent Jane Adams ECONOMICS PROFESSOR by r e s e a r c h in Chicago, also project on early contributed to suffragette disadvantaged actions in World children’s War I, agreed i n c r e a s e d that women’s newfound political schooling, according to history power led to changes in policy more professor Annelise Orleck, who was oriented toward women’s spending not involved in the research.

“Women who worked in the settlement houses recognized that a lot of kids in poor immigrant communities in this country were going to work rather than school because they had to support their families,” Orleck said. “There was a real push, a collaboration, I’d say, between middle-class women, the first-generation of college-educated women … and working-class women who became involved in the suffrage movement in its last years.”

Shenhav and her team’s study showed that certain groups of children’s eventual incomes increased in light of women’s newfound political empowerment as well.

Southern white students saw their salaries grow by 34 percent, while blacks experienced an insignificant change. The discrepancy in income between the two economically underprivileged groups could be due to “lower returns to skill in the labor market or were exposed to lower quality of education, particularly in the segregated South,” the researchers wrote.

The economists concluded that women exercised their voting powers to invest in certain demographictargeted policies on which men had not previously focused their attention.

“It was really interesting to find that we see larger increases in education in areas that were more disadvantaged and more diverse,” Shenhav said. “I think [this finding] is really different than what people have found in other contexts. It says that women’s voting is unique, and those preferences for redistribution or spending on education are perhaps stronger than some of the other forces that might be at play.”

Women continue to enact change in significant ways today, Orleck said.

From the #MeToo movement, to Chicago hotel workers’ “Hands Off Pants On” law that mandates zero tolerance for harassment and assault, to McDonald’s workers’ nationwide strikes protesting sexual harassment, Orleck said that women have been crucial for addressing many issues and policies in today’s society.

“There have been studies in the last few years that have shown that one of the best anti-poverty strategies is actually cash in the hands of mothers because they tend to spend it on food and education and shelter for their children above anything else,” Orleck said. “That’s not a generalization — that’s a fact, and it’s just another area in which women and mothers are affecting public policy in profound ways.”

CAMPUS IS FILLED WITH THE SOUND OF CONSTRUCTION

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As the fall term has kicked off, students have noticed the numerous construction sites on campus.

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All The Rom-Coms I’ve Loved

Class Of The Hour

The joy of fantasy shouldn’t conceal questions of representation.

“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” is corny but good — a throwback to “Sixteen Candles” or “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” unlike what its misleadingly poetic title might suggest. Most of the online hype praises the film for including an Asian female lead while still remaining accessible to other audiences. It delves into high school issues to which other girls can relate — popularity or lack thereof, embarrassing gossip, complicated family situations, teen angst.

Still, racial identity is a present theme, both explicitly and implicitly. Lara Jean, the film’s lead, questions her dad’s ability to make Korean food. And the way Lara Jean interacts with other white characters often carries a racial undertone.

Both boys and girls refer to her as innocent and cute, two monikers stereotypically applied to Asian women. Her dedication to her studies, emotional distance and insistence upon keeping a contract for her fake relationship walk the line between relatability and reductive caricatures.

Even her alienation seems racially charged, as she and other people of color in the film (such as the gay, African-American boy she kissed in middle school) are portrayed as being lower on the social ladder.

All in all, the show has generally been praised by empowering Asian women. Yes, an Asian woman of color can be the lead in a broadly relatable romantic comedy. Yes, an Asian woman — or outcast of any sort — can be the object of desire. But the two male leads in this love triangle are white men. Not only that, but they are two white men straight from the two most popularized desirable male stereotypes — the all-American jock and the frail, sensitive softboy who probably listens to Mac Demarco on his Crosley record player. On the one hand, “To All the Boys” sends the message that women of color and women that fit in can retain their oddities and still coexist with (and even please) the mainstream. On the other hand, it perpetuates the idea that a woman of color’s fantasy is and should be appealing to cisheteronormative white men.

This model isn’t new. You see it in “Full Metal Jacket.” You see it in “The Quiet American.”

You even see it in “The World of Suzie Wong.”

In these “historically important” American movies, an Asian woman with relatively low social power desires an American man with

high social standing — a GI, a diplomat, or a wealthy traveler. “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” which at least problematizes some of these power imbalances and demonstrates the female lead’s agency, nonetheless replicates this unsettling model of race and gender relations at the high school level.

While on the one hand “To All the Boys” is a replication of racial archetypes in older films, it’s also a replication of rom-com cliches.

More specifically, it extends rom-com cliches by adding a racial element to the outcast girl archetype in the lead role. This archetype is best described by Molly Ringwald in — well, in mostly all of her roles — but particularly in “Pretty in Pink.” With few friends but a slightly creepy Duckie, vintage outfits made from scrap fabrics, and “A-side” female cliques picking on her constantly, the character Andie is made to look like a loser. Lara Jean is similarly lonely save for a goth sidekick and sad boy pal, gets a snide comment from a popular girl about her vintage boots and even has a similarly quirky and androgynous nickname (Largie). But what makes this loser role unique to the rom-com genre is not the overtly loser qualities, but the ask for the audience to suspend disbelief. Aside from the actress’s rather conventional beauty, the character attracts the attention of one of the most popular guys in school. Similarly, Lara Jean attracts the star lacrosse player and, once she literally lets her hair down, attracts stares from multiple people meant to suggest her beauty.

For many young girls who feel like outcasts, a hairstyle change is not always enough for social acceptance. Yet why is acceptance something to aspire to? These narratives allow the viewers to experience a fantasy of normalcy, and how life might feel much easier that way. Such narratives delicately balance creating lighthearted fantasies and encouraging shame for difference, racial or otherwise.

Her triumphant declaration that she had “always fantasized about falling in love in a field” as she kisses Peter on the stadium turf is self-explanatory; it is a fantasy. Romantic comedies are enjoyable precisely because they play not to our deepest desires, but perhaps to their simplest desires. This particular subset of romantic comedies markets to an audience of SEE CHIN PAGE 6

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The Class of 2022 is uniquely well positioned as it joins the community.

It is easy to argue that for a college approaching its 250th anniversary, the arrival of a new class of students gracing the Green is a humdrum affair in Dartmouth’s very long history. True to Dartmouth’s jolly stereotype, however, the Class of 2022 was welcomed to campus with the same energy, flair and Cascada Best Hits™ tracks that many classes past were introduced to themselves. While so many aspects of a freshman’s first few weeks at the College are painstakingly rehearsed and prepared, the festivities were not unfounded. There truly is cause for optimism at the College today, and the Class of 2022 is in a unique position to take advantage of it.

The campus that the Class of 2022 has arrived on is the envy of students and professors around the world. Some of Dartmouth’s long-term denizens tend to forget how good many students and faculty have it here. To be fair, anyone may be forgiven for such a lapse when there is so much obviously wrong at the College. The myopia of elite academia also dims spirits, with many questioning why they aren’t outdoing peers at Cambridge, Providence or Palo Alto.

This is not, however, a school on the brink of shuttering its doors. To the contrary, the College’s recently posted investment results for fiscal year 2018 show a 12.2 percent gain in the College’s endowment fund, leading to a record value of $5.5 billion. This is nearly double the median annual return nationally, a figure of 7.4 percent. Insofar as faculty designated growing the endowment as one of the Hanlon administration’s top priorities, current trends suggest that chief investment officer Alice Ruth and others have delivered.

Many of the issues that beleaguered the College at the beginning of the Hanlon administration have also seen progress.

In the highly competitive market for toptier faculty, especially faculty of color, the College has been willing to step up its game by investing in higher professor salaries and conducting multiple search groups that have brought several scholars to campus in a relatively short time. It is yet to be seen whether any of these professors will receive tenure or have their scholarship recognized, yet early efforts undeniably give some cause for hope.

Social life on campus has also seen improvement in terms of both options and safety. The Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative will be more a fact of life for the Class of 2022 than a draconian policy cast from on high, as many in previous classes saw it. Such is the same for Dartmouth’s still nascent house system, which has seated its first house senate in the Student Assembly.

At best, these policies create a safer and more inclusive campus. At worst, they are well-meaning but useless efforts. The College is trying to improve campus climate and foster community, however, and should be commended for such.

Greek life, a perennial issue at the College, has reformed and jettisoned

many of its former policies and members.

Although alternative social spaces proliferate on campus, Greek life remains the unquestionable center of social life at the College. It’s a system that has proved adaptable to the higher standards set against it, a fact that has hopefully benefitted the entire campus climate.

It may even be argued that the sobering results of January’s campus climate survey on sexual misconduct as well as recent internal investigations that unearthed the sexual misconduct, of three professors in the department of psychological and brain sciences, may be commendable for the College. The same could be said for the recent resignation of Geisel professor Dr. H. Gilbert Welch following an investigation into plagirism.

That the College is uprooting its weeds should not be decried. Bad press aside, it will benefit the entire Dartmouth community in the long run to eliminate any cultural rot or institutional malfeasance on campus, regardless of whether it is conducted by students, faculty, staff or administrators.

Integral to this progress has been the earnest activism and enduring work of many students in classes past. The Class of 2022 will be the beneficiaries of student activists who demanded policies and engagement that prompted action and change on campus.

Many of the resources available to the Class of 2022 to handle issues of mental health, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, academic support and so much more are the direct result of students crying out for change and laboring to implement it. It is a process that has happened countless times at the College now, one that the Class of 2022 will no doubt continue themselves.

Many of the threats and anxieties at the College today are shared by other institutions in academia, especially those considered part of the same elite tier as Dartmouth. That the College responds to most, though deplorably not all, issues on campus and in the wider Dartmouth community with sincere effort shows why progress has been made here while issues of acessibility, diversity, sexual violence and academic achievement cause real crises at other institutions.

Dartmouth is and has been a deeply problematic institution for a long time.

This is again not something unique to the College; the entire Ivy League, and indeed most American institutions, have had necessary self-reckonings many times over.

The Class of 2022, however, is in a unique position to impact this school. Standing to benefit from a campus wealthier and better resourced than ever before at a time of great change and innovation, much is expected of this class in this special moment at the College. Hopefully they, like classes before, will depart from a campus better than that to which they arrived, a direct result of the actions of those who loved it.

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Dartmouth students win primaries

under Sununu which make it more “It would be really cool to see difficult for out-of-state college a new face fill in for Shea Porter,” securing 26.1 percent of the vote. students to vote in New Hampshire. Brautigam said. He added that he Candidates Stewart Levenson and Presidentof DartmouthDemocrats would like to see more young voices Lynne Blankenbeker earned 25.2 Max Brautigam ’20 believes Kelly has represented in Congress. percent and 22.9 percent respectively. a “solid chance” at defeating Sununu, Bring said that the open seat has Molly Kelly, a progressive who the incumbent. led to infighting among Republican has never run for “We’re candidates because there is a very national office “I was happy to see really riding a high chance of it being a Republican before, won the the great turnout. I’m blue wave here,” pickup. The district voted for Democratic Brautigam said. President Donald Trump in the 2016 p r i m a r y f o r ready to get to work “There’s a lot election. governor over for the general.” of momentum Citing attacks between the Steve Marchand, t h a t w e ’ v e Edwards and Sanborn campaigns securing 65.7 built and we’re as an example, he warned that “it percent of the -GARRETT MUSCATEL ’20, looking forward could weaken their positions going vote. Governor t o b u i l d i n g into the general elections.”

DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Chris Sununu that even more The primary has also been ran unopposed TO REPRESENT HANOVER as we go into contentious one for Democrats, with and will be the IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE November.”

Sullivan and Pappas exchanging Re publican critical words through their mailing n o m i n e e i n HOUSE OF REPRESENTAS h a r i n g letters. One of Sullivan’s letters drew November.

TIVES B r a u t i g a m ’ s particular attention for saying that T w o s e n t i m e n t s , Pappas had “no real backbone.”

Dartmouth Moyer added “Suggesting that a gay man is weak students also won that Republicans or spineless is among the nastiest their primaries did not want to attacks I’ve seen in any primary to represent face Kelly and and no New Hampshire Democrat, Hanover in the w o u l d h a v e especially those of us who fought New Hampshire r at h e r f a c e d for marriage equality, transgender House of Representatives. In Marchand in the general election. equality and a conversion therapy November, Baronet “Webb” “They’ve been much more critical ban, should stand for these smears,” Harrington ’20 will be Hanover’s of her than they have been of her State Senator David Watters said, Republican nominee and Garrett opponent,” he said. according to WMUR9.

Muscatel ’20 its Democratic nominee.

Moyer also said Kelly’s campaign Additionally, the primary saw “I was happy to see the great fundraising could be a reason for New an increase in voter registration in turnout,” Muscatel said. “I’m ready Hampshire residents to support her Hanover. Under current legislation, to get to work for the general.” in November. the upcoming Many candidates in the primary “[Kelly] general election race also once held local legislative is the only “I would like to see will be the last in positions, such as Kelly who served candidate from voter registration which previously as a state senator for ten years before day one of this unregistered outincrease. It’s a great running for governor. campaign who of-state students “She is very concerned with many has not taken opportunity to have can vote. of the policies that Governor Sununu a ny m o n ey “I would love your voice heard and is pushing in New Hampshire,” Chris from corporate to see voter Moyer, the communications director contributions,” look out for yourself registration for the Kelly campaign, said. “A lot of Moyer said. “I while you’re at increase,” them are very similar to what Donald think people Brautigam said.

Trump is doing at the national level.” a re exc i t e d college.” “ I t ’s a g r e a t Some policies he mentioned Kelly that [Kelly] is opportunity to took issue with were “tax breaks for not going to have your voice -MAX BRAUTIGAM the wealthy” and “school vouchers.” be beholden heard and look out According to Moyer, Kelly also plans to any special ’20, PRESIDENT OF for yourself while to repeal a bill signed by Sununu that interests.”

DARTMOUTH DEMOCRATS you’re at college.” eliminated the requirement for a V i c e According to permit to carry a concealed weapon. president of Brautigam, Additionally, he said Kelly supports D a r t m o u t h the Of fice of universal background checks, sharing C o l l e g e Residential Life information about background Republicans helped students checks with surrounding states and Daniel Bring register to vote keeping guns out of the hands of ’21 was less o n Tu e s d a y ’s minors and domestic abusers. convinced election. He added “When [Kelly] was a mom with o f K e l l y ’ s that Dartmouth four children, she never worried chances.

Democrats will host voter registration about their safety and now, as a “I’m very confident that Governor events before the general elections. grandmother with seven children, Sununu will be elected to a second “Our big job is to make sure people she worries every single day,” Moyer term,” Bring said. “He’s one of know that they can vote,” he said. “If said. the most popular governors in the you’re a Dartmouth student who’s Kelly is also focused on the issue nation.” over 18 and a U.S. citizen, then you of voter suppression.

With the primaries over, the can vote in the upcoming general “She has been a staunch supporter parties have turned their attention election.” of expanding the ability of people to to the general election. Among the Bring added that the law will likely vote,” Moyer said. races, New Hampshire’s first district “contribute to a small swing in favor He explained that, as governor, has drawn particular interest as Rep. of Republicans.”

Kelly would attempt to repeal Carol Shea Porter is stepping down The general elections will be held HB1264 and SB3, two bills passed after this term, leaving a vacant seat. on Nov 6.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS

TODAY

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

“Employer Connections Fair,” sponsored by the Center for Professional Development, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Telluride film: “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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

Concert: Fallapalooza feat. FRENSHIP, sponsored by Programming Board and Student Involvement, Gold Coast Lawn

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

Public Astronomical Observing, sponsored by the physics and astronomy department, Shattuck Observatory

TOMORROW

12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Open House at The Dartmouth, 216 Robinson Hall

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Football: Big Green v. Georgetown Hoyas, Memorial Field

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

Telluride film: “The Front Runner,” sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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girls who sometimes feel like outcasts. Instead of sending the message that it is okay to be different, they act as wishfulfillments and allow viewers to imagine what it would be like to be accepted by mainstream society — represented by the metonym of all-American lacrosse player, Peter. Not only does this seem to be a wish-fulfillment of social belonging, but also one of racial belonging. But as David Eng and

note in “Racial Melancholia,” assimilation is unattainable despite (or because of) the ambivalence with which it is met.

Sometimes, these seemingly uncomplicated narratives are fun to enjoy. But it is important to not let a fantasy of representation obscure the difference between progress and perpetuation, and to both enjoy and critique the ways in which representation occurs.

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Seven films to be featured in Telluride at Dartmouth’s 33rd year B y SAVANNAH MILLER The Dartmouth Staff

Starting this Friday, the Hopkins Center for the Arts will screen seven films featured at the annual Telluride Film Festival, beginning with “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and ending on Sept. 20 with “Free Solo.”

Former Hop director of film Bill Pence founded the Telluride Film Festival in 1974. For the last 33 years, the connection between the festival and Dartmouth College has resulted in an enduring week-long event.

Johanna Evans, Hop film programming and operations manager believes part of the appeal of the festival comes from its accessibility.

“This festival is very special in the sense that it’s not about the glam and the glitter,” she said. “It’s really just about movie lovers coming together to celebrate really unique, excellent films.”

Dartmouth Film Society director Jordyn Fitch ’20 attended the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado this year as a part of its Student Symposium and said she believes another major appeal of the festival is how early some of the film screenings are compared to the films’ release dates.

“It’s cool to be able to tell your friends you saw movies before everyone

else did,” Fitch said.

This year, the festival is kicking off with “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”.

The film features Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel, the real-life struggling author who turned to forgery as a means to keep afloat. Based on Israel’s memoir, the drama shows how the struggling writer began to make a living selling forged letters by deceased playwrights and novelists.

Despite being a drama, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” does not take itself too seriously, Evans said. “[McCarthy] is great in it. It’s a really entertaining, salacious, fun film,” she said. “It’s not a dark drama. It’s more of a light-hearted, quirky film.”

“The Front Runner” screens on Sept.15 and features Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart, the 1988 presidential candidate who had his campaign derailed by tabloid allegations of an affair with Donna Rice.

“I think it’s an interesting political moment for this film,” Evans said.

“It’s really asking this question of if we should judge a politician for his political life, and it just lets that question hang.”

On Sept. 16, “The Favourite,” featuring Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, will depict the two women’s battle to become the favorite courtier

of Queen Anne, played by Olivia they are both beautiful. Fitch recalled Colman. the film being extremely buzzworthy “If you like movies in general, I during the festival in Colorado. would say go and “That see it,” Fitch said. was one that “It’s a Norweigan spin everyone was “The acting in it is phenomenal.” on the ‘Ugly Duckling’ talking about at T h e n e x t fairy tale. You’re not the festival,” she three movies in said. the Telluride going to see anything It is also sequence are else like it at the a film that Evans foreign language is excited for those festival this year. f i l m s, wh i ch in the Dartmouth Evans believes community to will provide an - JOHANNA EVANS, experience. eye-opening “It’s a and pleasantly PROGRAMMING AND Norwegian spin u n u s u a l OPERATIONS MANAGER on the ‘Ugly experience fairy FOR THE HOPKINS CENTER Duckling’ for American tale,” Evans said.

FOR THE ARTS moviegoers.

“You’re not going “A lot of films to see anything in the U.S. are else like it at the trying to appeal to either a mainstream festival this year. It’s a love story. It’s a Hollywood audience or an arthouse really out-there, special kind of film.” kind of audience,” Evans said.

“Girl,” a Belgium fill, will screen “Foreign films don’t fit quite as neatly on September 18. “Girl” follows into those buckets.”

Lara, a transgender teenager who is “Border,” showing on Sept. 17, attempting to train to be a ballerina kicks off this series of foreign language while simultaneously undergoing a films. The Swedish movie tells the story medical transition. of Tina, a troll-like customs officer “A lot of [the film] is about trying with a special ability to sense guilt. to balance all the different parts of “Border” focuses on her relationship yourself and seeing how far you can with a similar man who believes that go without making compromises,”

Evans said.

On Sept. 19, viewers can see the Italian foreign language film “Dogman.” The plot centers around Marcello, a dog groomer who dabbles in cocaine sales and leads a well-tempered life. This equilibrium is disrupted when Marcello is forced into assisting a robbery. Lead actor Marcello Fonte received the Cannes Best Actor Award for his role in the film.

This year, Telluride at Dartmouth is featuring seven films as opposed to the traditional six. The seventh bonus film is “Free Solo,” screening on Sept.

20. The documentary is about Alex Honnold, a climber who is known for “free solo climbing,” or climbing without any ropes. Because of his love of climbing and desire for a challenge, Honnold attempts to scale El Capitan in Yosemite — a 3,000-foot wall — without any protection. The film will be a taste of what is to come during Mountainfilm on Tour, a screening of a series of short films centered around the idea of adventure, at the Hopkins Center.

Ultimately, Evans said that the festival experience is a way for viewers to surrender themselves to film.

“You don’t know how you’ll feel [at the festival], and that’s a great way to experience film,” she said.

Review: ‘I Can’t Date Jesus’ is a hilarious, thoughtful introspection B y jordan mcdonald The Dartmouth Staff

Hilarious, thoughtful and unwavering, pop culture critic Michael Arceneaux’s memoir “I Can’t Date Jesus” tackles the awkward and sometimes painful realities of growing up over the course of 17 essays.

A New York Times bestseller and Arceneaux’s first book, “I Can’t Date Jesus,” explores sexuality, race, religion, love and work with remarkable buoyance. With a writing style that has been likened to Samantha Irby and David Sedaris, Arceneaux articulates his experiences and opinions with masterful innuendo and shadiness. Yet it is this very expressive act that differentiates him from the rest. As he reflects on his life as a gay black man, it is also his identities as a writer, a former Catholic and a Southerner that rise to the forefront of Arceneaux’s work.

In conversation, first and foremost, with himself, “I Can’t Date Jesus” affirms Arceneaux’s individuality while honoring the communities he holds dear and the personality that fuels his fire for life.

Having fir st encountered Arceneaux on Twitter, I gravitated toward his cultural commentary in part due to the unrelenting sense of humor that accompanies his critical

voice. For years, his writing has alcoholism and the sounds of the brought clarity and consistency to my South help inform the unique world timeline. His critiques of the nature from which he sprang. Compelling of celebrity and pop culture are and thoughtful, his commitment doused with tactful sarcasm, political to self-articulation and integrity awareness and occasional sass. ultimately act as a challenge to Whether the book focused on Nicki the harsh social terrain he’s had to Minaj or Donald Trump, Arceneaux traverse over the years. manages to find the pulse of the With geographic and cultural moment and s p e c i f i c i t y, explain it on his Arceneaux “Embodying own terms. A fan pushes back of his craft, I pre- Arceneaux’s infamous against popular ordered “I Can’t candor and wit, “I representations Thank Jesus” in of the black good faith when Can’t Date Jesus,” American the book was carries his spirit into experience in the announced. I’m States, the memoir realm and, United happy to say that particularly it was well worth in effect, turns the where religion the wait. critic in on himself for and region are Embodying concerned.

A r c e n e a u x ’ s introspection.

To o o f t e n , infamous candor regionalism, and wit, “I Can’t p e r s o n a l Date Jesus,” carries his spirit into the experience and cultural distinctions memoir realm and, in effect, turns the get lost in narratives of black and critic in on himself for introspection. LGBTQIA+ communities, erased in As Arceneaux narrates snapshots favor of overwrought generalizations from his life, the world as he sees that obscure the humanity of it opens up. Throughout the book, marginalized people. Resisting this Arceneaux reflects on the people and narrative trap, “I Can’t Date Jesus” places that made him. The city of offers a nuanced and textured Houston, Texas and his working-class perspective on Arceneaux’s own black black family are rightfully situated identity. His family is black, Creole, as the primary influences in his life. Catholic and Southern, and this is a His Catholic upbringing, his father’s world he must reflect, as it is the only

one he knows.

Navigating childhood trauma, anxiety and the various setbacks that befall young creatives, Arceneaux remains steadfast in his pursuit to tell the story he wished he’d had when he was younger. Thus, he does not engage in the kind of cultural translation work that typically populates essay collections and memoirs. He is not interested in making others fluent; instead, he riddles the book with references and perspectives that service his truth. If you know what he’s talking about, then you know. If you don’t, you can Google it.

For a collection with 17 essays, “I Can’t Date Jesus” flows effortlessly.

The emotional weight and comedic energy of Arceneaux’s storytelling fluctuates naturally from essay to essay. My personal favorites in the collection were “My Lord and Gyrator” and “Itchy and Stratchy.”

“My Lord and Gyrator” explains Arceneaux’s love for none other than the world’s most famous Houstonian, Beyoncé Knowles. A self-described “stan” and original member of the BeyHive, he does not shy away from honoring the singer, whom he reverently refers to as his “lord and gyrator.” For Arceneaux, Beyoncé is more than mere celebrity. As he points out, the two share Houston roots and Louisiana Creole ancestry, but most

importantly, they have history. A self-proclaimed fan since the release of Destiny’s Child’s first music video, Arceneaux has grown up alongside the evolution of Beyoncé’s career.

For him, she is both untouchable and entirely familiar.

“She is the beginning, end, and body roll to me,” he writes.

In “Itchy and Stratchy,” Arceneaux shares his wild experience of catching bed bugs after a bad hookup. He reveals what it feels like to be scarred both emotionally and physically — tragically, he sustains bug bites from the encounter. In this essay, Arceneaux’s range is undeniable.

Though his comedic chops are on display, it is his capacity for tenderness that is particularly notable as he thinks through his relationship to sex, love and intimacy.

Though the book covers a wide range of topics and journeys in Arceneaux’s life, “I Can’t Date Jesus” is arguably best described as a book about what it means to have faith in oneself. Whether he is confronted with homophobia, racism, student debt or even bed bugs, Arceneaux’s conviction to follow his dreams and surpass his haters is one of the book’s major takeaways. His confidence is infectious.

“I do believe in God, but more than anything, I believe in me,” Arceneaux writes.

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with Callie Brownson

By JUSTIN KRAMER The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth Football made a landmark signing on Tuesday, hiring Callie Brownson to assume the role of offensive quality control coach.

Brownson will be the first full-time female coach in Division I football after demonstrating her extensive playing and coaching skills and a fierce passion for the game. Prior to securing the full-time position, Brownson had been assisting the team throughout a two-week internship in Hanover during the preseason under invite from head football coach Buddy Teevens ’79. Teevens recruited her and Chenell “Soho” Tillman-Brooks for the internship out of the Manning Passing Academy, where they served as two of 16 women at the first women’s clinic.

Brownson has extensive experience both on and off the field. She was an assistant coach at her alma mater, Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, Virginia, for three seasons and worked as a college and professional scouting intern for the New York Jets this past summer. Despite being denied a spot on her high school football team, Brownson starred as a five-time team captain and four-time All-American for the D.C. Divas of the Women’s Football Alliance from 2010-17. Over that time frame, Brownson won two gold medals with Team U.S.A. women’s football and got her bachelor’s degree in sports management from George Mason University in 2015.

Can you describe the process of how you got the position as the offensive quality control coach?

CB: I met Coach Teevens down in Louisiana. I was asked to come and work the first ever Manning Passing Academy for women and girls, so me and a bunch of other women who have a background playing and coaching in football got together, went down there and didn’t really know what to expect.

We just went down and met Coach Teevens the first day and he was really energetic and really excited that women were involved in the game at that level and capacity. We met, made a great connection, and I told him that I really wanted to work in football. I had done an internship with the New York Jets, and I wanted to continue pursuing a full time career in football. We got back in touch about a week or so after the camp, and

he threw the idea of an internship at me.

I said, ‘Absolutely, I’ll do whatever I can to get there,’ came up for the internship in preseason and just engulfed myself, and I’m really thankful to Teevens for creating an open environment for me to come in, and he really facilitated a full experience. I was immersed into every facet of the game — the operations side, the coaching side, the breakdown side. I got to learn a lot from the coaches, and then he surprised me and offered me the position to stay on full time.

WhatattractedyoutoDartmouth?

CB: Other than getting to know him, I really bought into Coach Teevens as a person, and you translate that to how they are as a coach. On top of that, the common knowledge of Dartmouth and their stance on being progressive and forward-thinking and being open to being innovative was very appealing to me as well. In my mind, to take that leap toward furthering my career, a place like this with a coach like that seemed like the best possible situation.

How has it been gelling with the rest of the coaching staff in your short time here so far?

CB: It’s been phenomenal. I remember my first day coming in for the internship and getting to meet everybody, and everybody was really excited. They’ve been awesome. I came in at a pretty difficult time. A lot of people who are hired to be in my position come in during the spring for spring ball and get to gel, mesh, see how these coaches like things and how the system works. I came in right off the jump. The team was in full go in training camp, and now I’m here for week one of the regular season for my full time position. A lot people would be at a disadvantage with that timeframe. I’m not because of the staff; they’ve been phenomenal and have been teaching me a lot and coaching me through some stuff so that I can do my best job. That’s definitely something I’m really grateful for.

How did you first fall in love with football and get into it when you were younger?

CB: My dad is a sports guy, and he went to the University of Miami, so growing up, we watched Hurricanes football back in the ’90s in the Larry Coker days when they were the team to beat. I grew up always loving football.

I wanted to play when I was younger.

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I got to play when I was about 10 or 11, and I tried to play again in high school and got the “no.” That was back in a time when women playing football was really unheard of, and it just didn’t happen. When I got out of high school and went into college was when I heard about the women’s game, and to me, it was this surreal second chance to be able to play a sport that I was so passionate about anyways as a fan, and I was always kind of athletic.

That’s when I got hooked up with the women’s professional team. I was 19, and that took my love and passion for the game to another level and opened the doors that got me here.

Have you found it different to coach men having played with women for most of your career?

CB: It’s the little things that you deal with in interactions, how you communicate and so forth, but nothing too significant. I think the great thing about a sport like football is that it is kind of a universal language, and when you’re talking football to a guy or a girl, you’re talking football. I’ve never really seen this huge difference in the two.

The passion is there, the want and the will to be there is there and how you coach is individual to yourself anyways.

I’ve never really seen a big difference between the men and the women.

Can you describe what your experience was like while playing for the D.C. Divas from 2010-17?

CB: I was very young, I was in college and I had played competitive softball in high school, so I wanted to play competitive sports again. I wanted to still be involved. I heard about the team, went and tried out and the rest was a crazy whirlwind — it flew by.

It’s a phenomenal organization in the women’s football world and a lot of people don’t know a whole lot about the women’s football world, but the team in D.C. is one of the most prestigious programs. It revamped my love for the game in being able to play at a high level surrounded by a family of people, and it was great. As a part of it, we won two national championships, and I got linked up with Team U.S.A. and was able to play overseas twice. In that gap of time, my football knowledge and experience increased substantially.

What does it mean to you to be the first full-time female Division I football coach?

CB: Don’t get me wrong: it’s a really cool thing. It’s something I’m really honored to have, but I don’t like to have the mentality of “the first this.” To me, it’s not a trophy. I like to word it, “the first of many.” It’s not a decoration. It’s not a trophy for me. I’m very happy to have the opportunity, and hopefully, this sets an example for other colleges to follow behind it.

When did you figure out you wanted to move into football coaching, and what is your coaching background?

CB: In my time playing with the Divas, I got linked up at my high school alma mater actually. To be honest, at that time, being a female coach in football, unless you’re coaching at the women’s level was unheard of, so I never really thought about it. It wasn’t until that conversation that I said I would love to.

I love the X’s and O’s of football. I love the schematics and the technicalities of it. To me, it’s kind of cool to look back on because it was this whole evolution in my mindset: “Can women really coach guys?” And it wasn’t “can they?”

You just didn’t think about it because I knew that women were capable, and we had the football knowledge.

For me it was unheard of then. That was a launch; I owe the head coach a lot for that, for saying something and flipping that mindset for me.

You mentioned in high school you weren’t able to play football.

Today, what motivates you to stay in the football business after that challenge and others?

CB: Of course it’s been hard to be a female in football — it’s a masculinedominated sport. What’s motivated me is the people who do say “no” because as far as I was concerned, I was given a propulsion board to get started in this from that high school coach. This is important to do because it changes the culture, it changes the dialogue, it changes the conversation. The fact of the matter is there’s absolutely no reason why women can’t be involved in football. There’s no doubt in my mind that the culture has to change, the conversation has to change. As many times as I’ve been said “no” to, I’m the kind of person who is going to turn it around and show you why the answer should be “yes.” You just have to keep banging on the door until somebody answers it, and that’s the struggle of being a female in the football world; you’re going to be told no, there are going to be some locked doors, but you have to be the best version of yourself when that door does open.

You mentioned earlier that you worked with the New York Jets. How was your experience working for them as a college and professional scouting intern?

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CB: That was pretty awesome. I was there for about six and a half weeks of training camp and my daily tasks were to assist all of the scouts, college and pro side. I owe them a ton because a lot of the knowledge that I got for the scouting part, for the film breakdown part really came from there. They were very hands on. They could have taken that internship as a way to say, “Here’s some busy work,” or “Go get us coffee” — it was the complete opposite. It was, “Here’s some tasks. We’re going to teach you how we do it at the pro level, and then go have some fun with it.” It felt like a year, two years worth of a curriculum. It really transformed me in a different facet of football and having a football mind in a way that I didn’t even think existed.

Have you gotten to meet the team a lot yet? If so, how has that been?

CB: The players have been great.

The first day that we got here for the internship, every single one we would walk by would introduce themselves.

They knew we were coming. They were very welcoming, and never once did I get a negative or judgemental vibe. They were all just very curious. “What’s your background? How did you get started in football?” For them it was a curiosity thing not a doubt thing, and that was great. We got to tell our stories, and then we got to hear their stories. They’ve been huge proponents for continuing this whole experience, and I think that it speaks volumes for Dartmouth football, it speaks volumes for the students that Dartmouth brings in for how great they were when we showed up.

What will be your specific role over the season as offensive quality control coach?

CB: I’m basically a support coach. I can’t do any of the on-field stuff because NCAA rules prohibit that, but I can help with the film breakdown in a data sense.

I can help with a lot of those things to support the coaches for their on-field activities. I can set up drills and I can do all of that stuff.

What are your hopes for the team in the coming season?

CB: Well, we’re going to win the Ivy League Championship, obviously.

There’s no doubt in my mind about that. We’re going to win the Ivy. This is a great team to get it done, a great coaching staff to get it done. The feel, the vibe, the motivation and the passion to get it done is here, so there’s no doubt in my mind.

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