The Dartmouth 9/18/18

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VOL. CLXXV NO.63

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

College hosts young African leaders

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B y ANNA WILINSKY The Dartmouth

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The College has submitted its west end expansion plans to the town of Hanover for review.

OPINION

CHUN: THE PROBLEM WITH ‘PROBLEMATIC’ PAGE 4

MALBREAUX: ACHIEVEMENT OVER AGENCY? PAGE 4

ARTS

THE HOOD DOWNTOWN CLOSES DOORS IN ANTICIPATION OF REOPENING PAGE 7

Town to review expansion B y Alec Rossi The Dartmouth

Pending approval from the town of Hanover, Dartmouth’s west end construction may begin as soon as the new year. Last week, the College submitted plans to the town of Hanover for its $200 million expansion

Hanover gets extra hunting permits

B y Abby Mihaly

The Dartmouth Staff

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p ro j e c t o n t h e we s t end of campus. While construction has not yet begun, a public hearing will be held on Oct. 2 to review the College’s proposal. The expansion project includes the construction of a new building that will house both the computer science department and

Deer sightings in Hanover may not occur as frequently this year. On Aug. 29, the town of Hanover administered an additional 100 deer hunting permits for use this season. Each additional permit allows a hunter to harvest two extra deer from the town’s Deer Management Area, Hanover senior planner Vicki Smith said.

According to Smith, the population of deer in Hanover causes problems like decreases in plant regeneration, overbrowsing and damage to residents’ gardens and landscaping. S h e a d d e d t h at d e e r overpopulation has also contributed to deer-related vehicle accidents and high levels of Lyme disease, a sickness transmitted through parasitic deer ticks. SEE DEER PAGE 2

the Thayer School of Engineering, restoration of Tu c k Drive, construction of a parking garage and installation of traffic lights or signs at the crossing of West Wheelock and West Street. Vi c e p re s i d e n t o f planning, design and SEE EXPANSION PAGE 5

Dartmouth hosted 25 young African leaders over the summer through its partnership with the Young African Leaders Initiative’s Mandela Washington Fellowship. The Mandela Washington Fellowship has been YALI’s highly competitive flagship program since its inception in 2014. Young leaders are given the opportunity to study, build skills and engage in professional development for six weeks at American colleges and universities. Seven hundred applicants are chosen for the fellowship each year, often from a pool of up to 60,000 applicants. The program is run by the U.S. State Department, which sends the fellows to 28 university partners each summer. This past summer was the College’s fifth year hosting young African leaders with the Mandela Washington Fellowship. The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding has coordinated the program for the past five years, in which 125 leaders from 38 different African countries have come to Hanover to hone

their leadership skills since 2014. This year’s fellows represented 20 different countries across subSaharan Africa. This year marked the beginning of the Tuck School of Business’s involvement in the fellowship program. This summer, the program’s six leadership seminars, originally hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, were instead designed by Tuck’s associate director of intercultural leadership Vincent Mack and members of Tuck’s faculty. The sessions focused on intercultural conflict, Africa’s value and potential and practical leadership skills such as communication, negotiation and entrepreneurship. The leadership seminars inspired many fellows to re-adapt their leadership endeavors in their home countries. “I will definitely redesign my business model and focus more on a business that promotes community engagement,” said Clara Silva, a fellow who plans and SEE FELLOWSHIP PAGE 3

Douthat talks about caricatures

B y Anindu Rentala The Dartmouth

“Imagine that an alien from Mars arrives and you can communicate [with] them, inform them, discuss politics with them only through movies.” Ross Douthat, a conservative voice for The New York Times and film critic for the National Review, posited the scenario to begin his speech to a room full of students, faculty and local residents on Monday afternoon. Douthat’s speech, titled “What the Movies teach us about American Politics,” suggested that the U.S. is experiencing

a clash of visions and values, apparent in polarization of parties, elites, and even genders. To caricature Republican values, Douthat suggested that audience members watch “Forrest Gump” — the 1995 Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. “It’s a movie about a man from the South, with a low IQ and a distinctive manner of speaking, who radiates American decency and transcends IQ and book learning,” Douthat said. In Douthat’s reading of Forrest Gump as a caricatured Republican movie, the

main character’s childhood sweetheart Jenny’s course of action represents the liberal counterculture, wherein she abused drugs, possibly contracted a sexually transmitted disease and suffered an abusive relationship. Fo r u n d e r s t a n d i n g Democrats, again qualified as caricatured, Douthat suggested “The Shape of Water” — the 2018 Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Music Score. “A coalition of marginalized minorities unites against the SEE DOUTHAT PAGE 2


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