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Great Profs: Dr. James LaBelle Infinity War William G. Jelsma Associate Editor

Editor’s Note: The Review interviewed Professor James LaBelle, Department Chair of Physics and Astronomy.

Professor LaBelle’s Physics 13 and 14 classes are well liked by many students of all majors. In addition, he teaches several intermediate level Physics classes and a writing seminar on the Arctic. His research focuses on high frequency radio emissions from the aurora borealis.

The Dartmouth Review (TDR): How did you come to teach at Dartmouth?

What appealed to you about Dartmouth at the time and has it lived up to those expectations?

James LaBelle (JL): In academia you don’t really get to pick your location. In my Ph.D. I specialized in upper atmospheric space physics,

and there are only thirty or forty universities across the U.S. that do research in my field. Each one only hires every ten years or so, and there’s a limited amount of time in your career where you’re at the right experience level to apply for a professorship. So, when your training is at the point where you can apply, you tend to apply everywhere you think you might be able to get a position. I feel very fortunate because I feel like Dartmouth was a particularly good match for me, both for the teaching and the research that I do. But it was definitely a stroke of luck in a way.

TDR: When you were younger, did you ever envision yourself becoming a professor one day?

JL: Not when I was very young, but by the time I was a freshman in college I

had a pretty good idea that I wanted to be a professor. I went to Stanford for undergrad, which was an environment kind of like Dartmouth, and I loved being in that environment.

I basically decided that I never wanted to leave college!

Also, my freshman year I got invited to dinner at a professor’s house, Professor Alan Cox, a famous geophysicist. He told us about all of the places he had been and work he had done and that really interested me. When I had the opportunity to go into geophysics, I thought back to talking to him, and I knew that was really what I wanted to do.

TDR: What has been your favorite teaching moment in your time at Dartmouth?

JL: That’s a tough one,

I haven’t really thought about that before. There are a number of the demos that are a lot of fun to do, of course. I guess my favorite moment would be in Physics 14, when I do an Einstein lecture on relativity. I purposefully time my haircut when I know the end of 14 is coming up and I let it get more and more unruly. You notice that can of hair spray over there? I use a ton of hair spray and my hair stands out straight on end, I put a fake mustache on, and then I go in and give a lecture on Einstein’s theory of relativity. That’s probably my favorite teaching moment, I like that lecture a lot also. It’s fun to go in looking like Einstein since I have enough hair I can almost pull it off.

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Editor’s Note: The following review contains massive spoilers of Avengers: Infinity War. In the Western film canon, few films can compete with Marvel’s new offering of The Avengers: Infinity War. Featuring over 20 characters, the movie could have lost track of its focus very easily. Surprisingly, it did not; rather the film provoked an atavistic sensation, the likes which is rarely seen in films these days. Although some will consider it blasphemous to compare the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the works of Homer, the movie nonetheless has similar Homeric elements that cannot be ignored. The plethora of characters in

Infinity War is reminiscent of the amount of characters in The Iliad. Moreover, the audience fully knows what the characters will do and how they will do it, lacking ambiguity, and therefore lacking humanity. Captain America will always try to be righteous, Spider-Man will always try to defend Aunt May while using a youthful sense of humor; there are certain non-negotiables for the superheroes.

In a particularly impressive fashion, Infinity War keeps characters separate with the use of an excellent score and good pacing to keep different parts of the action distinct. Both techniques helped maintain clarity in the midst of action and character separation despite such a large ensemble of heroes.

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BLACK THOUGHTS MATTER

ADMINS ATTACK HOVEY MURALS

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION...SAD!

Editor-in-Chief Webb Harrington examines the ramifications of disgrading minority dissenters.

The administration continues its assault on all aspects of Old Dartmouth.

One of The Review’s contributors examines affirmative action and its problems.

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Black Thoughts Matter “This is your last chance. After this there tween the first 250 years of black slavery in is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the America, ending in 1865, which was clearly story ends. You wake up in your bed and be- not a choice, and the 150 years since then. lieve whatever you want to. You take the red Until the 1960s, Jim Crow, segregation, and pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you widespread discrimination made it incredhow deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all ibly difficult to rise up as a black person in I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”

America. That period of American history -Morpheus to Neo in the Matrix is over. Today, lawsuits over discrimination This week many have asked whether against Asians, whites, males, and conserKanye West has gone insane. Has the cre- vatives have gained both prominence and ator of such social commentaries as “Gold momentum at places like Harvard and Big Digger” and “No Church in the Tech. Affirmative action faces Wild” gone off the deep huge amounts of hatred end? No. Kanye has just on college campuses, kept on commenting, and racial affirmative but his traditional auaction is being dropped dience doesn’t like what in favor of students who he is saying. Kanye West are the “first generation has taken the Red Pill, to go to college.” and the Matrix falls to Kanye West goes on nothing around him. to describe what he The Truth is out. means by the last 150 In his famous work years of slavery. He The Republic, Plato breaks it down into two wrote about the allegodifferent parts. Firstly, ry of the cave. In this he says that black peostory, many people are ple in America have chained in a cave, unimprisoned their minds B. Webb Harrington able to look but in a by creating social norms single direction, towards a flat wall. While that are policed to the extreme. A recent chained there, the people could only see NPR article titled What the Kanye West shadows, but because it was all they could Controversy can Teach us about Black Votsee, they assumed that those shadows were ers agrees with this sentiment, citing that reality. In Plato’s version, the Philosopher black people are more likely to say that represented the man who could free him- they vote for democrats when asked by a self from his chains and was soon forced black pollster than a white one. Kanye deout into the light beyond the cave. The scribes his alternative as “free thought,” light blinded him and frightened him, but saying that “you can’t tell me nothin’.” In eventually his eyes grew accustomed to the this way Kanye West is trying to free his felsun and he could behold the real world for low man. Kanye has left Plato’s cave; he is the first time. When the philosopher went a free thinker and a free man. Kanye West back to his fellows in the cave, they refused specifically says that black people need to to join him and threatened him with death forgive white people for slavery. This is a if he tried to force them into the light. This radical idea to say the least, but one that story is too frequently the reality of man- is closely tied to the Christian ideal of forkind, though often-times it is the artists giveness for all loving both your neighbor who lead people first to the light of the and your enemy.

Truth, whereas the philosophers only join The second imprisonment that Kanye them later after reason follows where feel- West sees is chains that restrain your belief ings lead. Too often when the new Truth in yourself. He describes how his daughis revealed, the old vanguards who created ter was told at school by a white teacher the old false ideology fight back, whether it that she was black, and he asks, “what be to kill Socrates, Jesus, or MLK. does it mean to be black in America if a Today, Kanye West is the Artist who is white teacher tells her that she’s black?” He trying to interpret and explain his feel- goes on to ask people to not hold themings and is having great difficulty doing selves back. In America today, if someone so. First, he tweeted out a photo of himself works hard for success, they will achieve wearing a Make America Great Again hat, it. The left-leaning Brookings Institute something that takes courage for a celebri- noted that only 2% of people that followed ty such as himself. Then, most controver- three simple rules live in poverty in the sially, Kanye did an interview with TMZ United States and most have joined the that can only be described as a sermon. As middle class: graduate high school, get a Kanye struggles to find the words to ex- job, and wait until 21 to get married and plain what he, the Archetypal Artist, feels, have children. Kanye has been successhe makes some mishaps. Most precarious- ful, now he wants others to stop holding ly, he said, “When you hear about slavery themselves back because they believe they for 400 years…for 400 years? That sounds can’t make it in America. They are wrong. like a choice.” However, this quote is deeply As the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest removed from context. I would first like to Henley declares, “I am the master of my encourage everyone to watch the full inter- fate.” Kanye is asking people to think for view and decide for themselves what they themselves; Kanye is asking that people think that Kanye is trying to say. I will pro- free themselves, grab hold of their destiny, vide my interpretation here. I believe that and make it into what they want it to be. I he is saying that there is a distinction be- hope they do.

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WEEK IN REVIEW RAUNER HIRES STUDENT FELLOWS TO STUDY MARGINALIZED GROUPS This summer, the Rauner Special Collections Library will hire three Dartmouth students to spend their off term researching historical documents that will shed light on the untold stories of past Dartmouth college minorities.

Also, two or three students will be chosen as interns to help faculty who are interested in researching and understanding Dartmouth’s history. In addition, the College will hire institutional research specialist, who will then hire the archival research interns.

According to the founders of this initiative, by confronting and learning from the past 250 years of history through extensive research, the Dartmouth community will be more well-equipped to improve the treatment of minority groups on campus. The history of the College, as we know it, has been dominated and controlled by one group and this needs to change. By looking at the true, shockingly ugly history rather than the clean version that everybody likes to tell, we will finally be able to free the voices of marginalized communities.

Not only will this project uncover the long-lost stories of historically victimized communities and empower them, but it will also help the fellows develop invaluable practical skills of conducting research with primary sources.

Having gained the hands-on experience of historical research, students will then culminate their fellowship by presenting their findings to the larger audience. They will have the opportunity to present in whichever format they prefer, whether it’s a paper, film or even an opera of the stories they illuminate. Afterward, their findings and presentation materials will be posted on the library website so that all students and faculty will have access to these sources. Faculty from humanities, social sciences, and even STEM are eager to get involved with the project, facilitate the learning process and use the research findings in their classes.

Other universities have done similar projects as well.

However, Dartmouth is unique in that it hires student researchers rather than professional historians to conduct studies and integrate new knowledge into classrooms. Fellowship applications are already available and librarians will hire fellows on a rolling basis to start working in the beginning on July 1st.

According to the head of the Rauner Library, now is the time to confront the ugly past, acknowledge our mistakes and expose the stories that have never been told because nobody thought that they were important. Learning lessons from the past mistakes will help Dartmouth do the

rights things in the future and positively shape the future.

He especially emphasizes the College’s “dirty secret” – its relationship with the African American community in the 1800s by pointing out that slaves built this campus. Though the author of this claim clearly has a kind intention to empathize with the marginalized groups at Dartmouth, this assertion is factually inaccurate - out of 167 buildings on campus, 159 were built after 1865, which means that slaves could not have built them.

AFRO/BLACK FSP INTRODUCED THIS SUMMER This summer, Dartmouth is proud to offer a new and exciting Foreign Study Program: Afro/Black Paris: The African Diaspora and the City of Light. The program, led by the African and African American Studies Program (AAAS) will be sending 18 students to Paris to study the African diaspora’s legacy in France, and the consequent social and cultural impact left by African descendants. As such, the program consists of three courses taught in English on slavery and colonialism, the literary contributions of French writers of African descent, and, lastly, students will examine the Afro/Black American experience in comparison to that of the Afro/Black French people. The program will be centered at Reid Hall, one of Paris’s celebrated 18th-century university campuses owned and operated

by Columbia University. The FSP will be led by professors Trica Keaton, Françoise Vergés and by curator Laurella Rinçon.

In their exploration of the African Diaspora, students will immerse themselves in Afro-French culture, for, according to the program description, “Nowhere has a metropolis in mainland Europe been so historically and socially transformed by a fascinating diversity of people from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.” In the exploration of this reality, students will participate in workshops and will even venture outside of Paris on a series of field trips. Such excursions will range from the city Nantes, which once held France’s second largest slave port, to a medieval village and chateau in the Dordogne region.

The new program provides a welcome addition to Dartmouth’s Paris FSPs, allowing students to see and explore the City of Light and French culture through another lens. Currently, the AAAS department intends on holding the FSP every other summer due to the challenges of coordinating the program, but also encourages students to journey to Accra, Ghana on the department’s other FSP. The Review wishes that the

inaugural group of students on this program have an enjoyable and enlightening time studying and making the most of one of Europe’s great cities.

DARTMOUTH ANNOUNCES ‘CALL TO LEAD’ CAPITAL CAMPAIGN President Hanlon recently announced the launch of “The Call to Lead,” a $3 billion capital campaign to improve various aspects of Dartmouth. To date, over half of the campaign goal has been reached, with more than $1.6 billion raised by over 78,000 contributors. The campaign website cites three central goals that it hopes to accomplish with all of the money raised: the improvement of Dartmouth’s “distinctive educational model,” the pursuit of “discoveries that benefit humankind,” and the continued production of “wise leaders.”

To accomplish those three main goals, Dartmouth announced eight concrete strategic initiatives. The focal points for improvement listed on the website were the general educational model ($512 million), the Tuck School of Business along with engineering studies ($496 million), the arts ($125 million), combating global problems facing humanity ($455 million), a nationally acclaimed graduate school ($50 million), residential life ($285 million), student leadership development ($148.7 million), and financial aid ($500 million). All of these stated initiatives total to $2,571,700,000, with no explanation of where the final $428.3 million would be directed. Perhaps the campaign target was conveniently rounded up to nearest billion, or maybe the college simply expects to go well beyond its listed budget proposals.

Going forward, the capital campaign will warrant much further investigation and examination. The Review sincerely hopes all students at Dartmouth are paying attention to the announcement of these sweeping changes and considering what they mean for the future of the College.

COLLEGE REALLOCATES $17 MILLION TO ACADEMIC DEPARMENTS In addition to the $3 billion promised for the Call to Lead, the College plans to reallocate $17 million in funds to academic departments. The administration is fulfilling a promise made in 2016 to move these funds away from non-academic divisions of the College. In the most recent fiscal year, budget reductions came in at around 62 per-

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cent, falling short of the 67 percent goal. In an interview with The Dartmouth, the College’s Executive Vice President Rick Mills and Chief Financial Officer Mike Wagner stated that cuts have already started this year and will last for the next four years.

These funds will go towards renovating Dana Hall, renewing buildings in general and increasing faculty pay.

Moving funds towards increasing faculty pay became especially important as notable professors Brendan Nyhan and Hany Farid announced their plans to leave their current positions at Dartmouth. Mills claimed that many cuts will be achieved through staff restructuring. Though the College has not admitted to retrenching employees of non-academic divisions, Mills and Wagner admitted that layoffs are expected in the future. As harder decisions are made, the coming years are supposed to be much more trying.

Many will see these challenges as necessary, however; the College is currently one of the worst Ivy League institutions when it comes to paying faculty and providing benefits. Cornell University and Brown University are the only Ivy League schools to pay professors less on average than Dartmouth. Hopefully, these cuts can slow the declining status and quality of the College as an academic institution.

KANYE WEST TAKES THE RED PILL On the morning of April 21, esteemed rapper and public figure Kanye West did something that nobody expected. To his 28.2 Million Twitter followers, he sent out the provocative tweet, “I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” kicking off a wave of controversial political commentary. The subject of his message, Director of Communications for Turning Point USA Candice Owens, is an outspoken black conservative and owner of the YouTube channel Red Pill Black, where she comments extensively on the role of race in politics. Echoing her ideology, Kanye later tweeted, “self victimization is a disease,” prompting more widespread liberal outcry and taking media headlines by storm.

The controversy was stirred even further when later that week, West said publicly: “You don’t have to agree with Trump, but the mob can’t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.” He soon later sent out a picture of himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat captioned “we got love,” revealing himself as a Trump supporter and drawing outbursts of hatred from his left-leaning fanbase. In the midst of the entire backlash, popular artist Chance the Rapper responded to the controversy with the tweet, “Black people don’t have to be Democrats,” redirecting some of the heat onto himself in spite of the vast political differences between the two icons.

On April 29, Kanye met with Candace Owens personally, and the next day he tweeted out to the world, “we’re moving away from infiltrating the youth and using them as a tool to create a cult following based off of a desire to fit in – people have their voice.” He soon later appeared on TMZ Live with Owens, where he presented controversial opinions on slavery and emphasized the importance of free thought.

In spite of his recent commentary, it is still tough to determine where exactly Kanye falls on the political spectrum.

In the midst of his conservative remarks, West concurrently called Emma González, a survivor of the Parkland shooting and a leader of the March for Our Lives movement, his “hero.” However, just a few days earlier, he argued that “Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed,” so his stance on gun control seems to be somewhat confused at the least. Regardless, it seems fair to say that Kanye does not fully conform to any concrete political ideology, and so efforts by partisans to claim him are fruitless. The more considerable outcome seems to be the cultural change that Kanye has ignited, and with the way things have progressed, there will be many more surprises to come.

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TDR: For someone such as myself who wasn’t always a natural at STEM subjects, your teaching style was one of the clearest I’ve ever seen. How did you develop the way you teach today?

JL: First off, I would argue that virtually no one is a natural STEM thinker. There’s a reason that physics didn’t get developed until Newton’s time, because I think none of us naturally think the way you have to think in order to do physics. So, I don’t think you’re alone at all on that, and I think that’s a really natural thing. You have to train yourself to think differently to do physics. To go back to your main question though, I’ve always tried to be very clear and organized in my lectures. But a big change in my teaching methods came when I read this book Peer Instruction by Eric Mazur.

Since then I’ve tried to make my teaching more interactive by breaking up one hour-long lecture into several ten-minute lectures broken up by questions that I ask the class to answer.

TDR: You have been at Dartmouth since 1989. How has Dartmouth changed since you first came here?

JL: There have definitely been some changes. We talked earlier about instruction, and this book by Mazur really changed Physics instruction a lot. Now we’re seeing a shift towards studio physics, where you do a lot of laboratory in the lecture.

At Dartmouth specifically there have been a few changes.

Graduate education has definitely gained in stature. That was a process that was ongoing even before I came here, and there has been a steady increase in the prominence of the graduate schools and the research done here. I wouldn’t say there has been any dramatic changes, but more of a steady shift towards Dartmouth focusing on research in addition to teaching.

TDR: How did your fellowship working in Germany at the Max Planck Institute compare to your time at Dartmouth?

JL: They’ve really been quite different, since those fellowships were more research-based and I didn’t teach any students.

The Max Planck Institute is funded by the German federal government and focuses entirely on research, so it’s not very comparable to Dartmouth.

TDR: How many students in Mr. Jelsma is a junior at the College and an Associate Editor at The Dartmouth Review.

your Physics 14 class go on to become Physics majors or Engineering majors? Do you get very many students in non-STEM majors?

JL: We take a survey of all the students in Physics 13 and Physics 14 at the beginning of each class. From the responses to that, we usually see that about 80% of students plan to be Engineering majors while about 20% want to be other science majors.

Probably about 5% want to major in Physics, and there are only a few non-STEM majors in each class.

TDR: There are so many stu-

I think from a service standpoint teaching is more satisfying, and I really enjoy interacting with the students. But I think that solely teaching would get boring after a long time if Physics 13 and 14 were all I was teaching. I think it’s essential to do both research and teaching and that you need to do both to feel complete as a professor.

TDR: How do you balance your research and the classes you teach? You spend a tremendous amount of time interacting with students in office hours, but you also run a space physics lab studying the aurora borealis.

“My research is somewhat esoteric since I work on high frequency radio emissions for the aurora borealis and trying to figure out what causes them .” dents, such as myself, who go on from early Physics classes into the Engineering major. How is the relationship between the Physics department and the Engineering department?

JL: We’ve got a very good relationship with the Engineering department! They do have some influence on the material that is in Physics 13 and 14 because engineers have to be ABET accredited. We cooperate with them to make sure that 13 and 14 meet the criteria that the ABET organization desires, but it only has a slight effect on the material presented.

TDR: If you could go back would you focus on one of the humanities in addition to physics?

JL: When I went to college, most schools had just gotten rid of their distributive requirements in the 60s. So, I didn’t have to take a lot of classes outside of physics. I took some standard ones like Psych 1, Econ 1, so on and so forth. I have a natural curiosity for a lot of subjects, so I do a lot of reading on my own. I don’t feel any regrets for the courses I took in college.

TDR: If you could only do one, would you rather have focused on research or teaching?

JL: My research is somewhat esoteric since I work on high frequency radio emissions for the aurora borealis and trying to figure out what causes them.

For scientific research, you have to find a niche that no one else is doing at the time. When I was at Stanford, I worked at a lab that was researching low frequency radio emissions, but there was no one else doing high frequency when I started at Dartmouth.

It is somewhat esoteric and if it was all I was doing I don’t think research would be very satisfying.

JL: It’s very hard to do research while teaching classes, especially while teaching Physics 13 and 14. Generally while I am teaching classes I only do what I have to keep my research moving forward. I have a staff of graduate students and others who help me with research, so they can pretty much keep the lights on while I am teaching classes. Fortunately, there is a lot of time outside of classes. If you teach three courses a year, you are teaching for thirty weeks per year, which leaves twenty-two weeks for research.

TDR: How often do you trav-

DR JAMES LABELLE Physics professor nearing 30 years at Dartmouth questions, so you have to go up and change the antenna array to measure direction or polarization or whatever you might want to measure. These days you can do a lot of stuff remotely, and there is a person up there to help at most of these sites so there is a little less need for travel.

On the rockets it’s a little bit of a different story. We have a little less control over the schedule

“One thing about science is that you often don’t know what research is important or not until some time has passed, so even though our research hasn’t gotten on the front page of the New York Times, it could still turn out to be important. We’ll really only find out how significant a discovery is as time goes on.” el to the Arctic/Antarctic area for rocket launches or to look at ground stations? How long does it take to set up a ground station or prepare a rocket launch?

When do you decide to do a rocket launch?

JL: Over the years, we’ve had anywhere from three or four to a dozen ground stations in the Artic or the Antarctic. I go to the Arctic typically one or two weeks per year – not very much and I’d like it to be more. Generally, the purpose of field work trips like that is to adjust and maintain the experiments since you’re constantly trying to answer new questions that come up over the course of research. When you do an experiment and get an answer to one question, it brings up other

than we do with ground-based stuff since we have to depend on NASA for rocket launches. We make a consortium with other universities and apply to do a rocket experiment. Typically, we launch a rocket every two or three years but it’s a bit uneven.

For example, we’re doing two launches this year, but it might be four ydears before we do another one. We have to negotiate with NASA since they handle all the logistics, the rocket propulsion, and getting the data back from the rocket. Typically, we just have to build the instruments that are the rocket’s payload and find a time for launch that works with their resources and with our timetable.

TDR: What is the most interesting thing you’ve discovered in

your research?

JL: We’ve discovered new types of radio emission from our own atmosphere that we didn’t know about before.

We’ve also found out some new information about a very powerful type of radiation that is emitted from all magnetized planets. Until the 1970s, people didn’t know that the Earth emitted this type of radiation, but we could see it from other magnetized planets such as Jupiter. Now we’ve discovered that we actually can see it from the surface of the Earth, although it’s a little controversial still. I think there’s some mechanism by which some small amount of it actually comes back and can be picked up by our sensors. If that turns out to be confirmed, that will be a noteworthy result.

And we made a number of more technical contributions having to do with the structure of a number of these radio emissions. This is important because a lot of other planets emit the same types of radiation as the Earth does, so if we can understand that radiation here on Earth, we can apply that knowledge to better understand it from other far-away sources.

One thing about science is that you often don’t know what research is important or not until some time has passed, so even though our research hasn’t gotten on the front page of the New York Times, it could still turn out to be important. We’ll really only find out how significant a discovery is as time goes on.

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SPOILER ALERT: Infinity War B. Webb Harrington Alexander Rauda

Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor

Editor’s Note: This review contains massive spoilers.

Marvel maintained this separation particularly well given the wide-ranging motivations, from the developing Wanda-Vision love story to the sanctimonious heroism of Dr. Strange. In addition to keeping characters well separated in the mind of the audience, the movie also accomplished the impressive task of maintaining separation between the powers of each of the Infinity Stones. The movie does not seek to make a political statement, although Freudian constructions will be discussed later, but rather it seeks to entertain, at a seemingly primeval level. Many in the film community will no doubt chastise Marvel for eliminating the depth that films such as Logan provide, but nonetheless, the critics forget that in more ambitious terms, Infinity War is not a movie.

It is not a film. It is rather a culmination of pop cultural elements to form a spectacle, an event. Infinity War is a film in the sense that it is a synthesis of sound and image contained on a screen, but it is not a film in the same way that Citizen Kane is. Rather, it assumes that the audience has seen some of the previous movies; it all leads up to this, until it doesn’t.

The movie prides itself on raising the stakes one last time. While in previous offerings, planet Earth was at stake, in Infinity War, half of all life is at stake. All the life in the universe, or at least half of it, is unquantifiable, impossible to portray on screen. Ergo, the film wonderfully switches the focus from the victims of the violence, and even one step further from the heroes, to the villain himself. This focus on the villain, however is also an avenue for an unsatisfactory background.

While Thanos is by far one of the most complex villains in recent Marvel movies, he still lacks a sufficient backstory, albeit the one that is presented is not necessarily weak.

When, near the end of the film, Thanos explains his motives for attempting to destroy half of all life in the universe, the near-environmentalist explanation creates a powerful eureka moment for the audience.

Despite the good use of time to illuminate a relatively complex character however, Thanos’ backstory was nearly entirely explained in the latter half of the movie, leaving room for development in the first half.

However, one can only assume that Marvel will develop him in a future film, either in a standalone sequel or in the next installment of the Avengers. The latter would be the most effective way of going about this, as a standalone film would remove a lot of the mystery that Thanos has and Mr. Harrington is a sophmore at the College and Editor-in-Chief at The Dartmouth Review. Mr Rauda is a freshman at the College and an Associate Editor at The Dartmouth Review.

would eventually neuter his seemingly unstoppable nature. A compromise would be to analyze and develop his philosophy rather than just his character in the subsequent installment of the film series.

The film has major downfalls mainly from a film language perspective. Interesting editing techniques were lacking throughout, settling for plainly showing what is happening. A variation on how things are happening can prevent superhero fatigue, as the audience is introduced to new ways of digesting superhero action and ultimately superhero films. The script presented serious errors in dialogue, ranging from stale jokes to kitsch melodramatic filler. While nobody expects the dialogue in a Marvel film to be in iambic pentameter, it would not hurt to have script doctors cut the filler or add more developed lines of dialogue. Hearing Bruce Banner say “Hulk, you got to help me buddy” for the fifth time is Chinese water torture on the ears. Hearing Peter

mies still breach the tower; T’Challa’s military strategy makes General Ulysses S. Grant’s assault on Cold Harbor seem like Alexander the Great’s victory at Gaugamela.

While the change in scenery, from another generic city to the savannahs and jungles of Africa is a much-needed change, Marvel nonetheless has an uncreative vision of what a battlefield is. The movie could have benefitted from Captain America or Okoye (T’Challa’s head of security) leading the fight, instead of wasting them fighting inconsequential monsters. Perhaps the only good military tactic that anyone uses in the entire film is when War Machine (Don Cheadle), drops Napalm near the force field. Given that he and Falcon have aerial overview, and military experience, there is no excuse for such a horribly executed battle plan.

From a writing perspective, Infinity War also makes substantial mistakes, where characters do things that are uncharacteristically

“From a writing perspective, Infinity War also makes substantial mistakes, where characters do things that are uncharacteristically stupid.”

Dinklage’s new character referred to as a “dwarf,” but then appearing to be at least fifteen feet tall fell flat on the audience, not evoking a single laugh in the theater. This episode seemed to be made worse by mistakes made in the continuity of perspective, falling far short of high expectations from films such as The Lord of the Rings and Elf. In the sound department, the film shows a blatant disregard for acoustics and perspective.

For example, in a scene where Iron Man and Spider-Man bicker about being in a spaceship, they speak as if they were in a living room, within proximity to a minor villain. In another scene, Thor and Dinklage’s character have a room-level conversation across the distance of a dwarf star. Not only is this distracting to the audience, failing to convey a sense of scale, but it could have easily been fixed in post-production. While the special effects were impressive, especially with regards to Thanos’s motion-capture, some of the interactions between real objects and computer-generated objects leave room for improvement.

In one scene where Thanos throws a character into a glass case, it looked as if he threw a blurred-out mannequin. While the scenes in Wakanda make sense from a plot perspective, from an action perspective they defy even the most basic of logic. While initially, T’Challa and his army try to defend Wakanda from the hordes of enemies, they then charge wantonly against the enemies. Although they have ranged energy weapons, why would they ever renounce their higher ground? Not only do they charge down a hill, but they cross a river, which makes retreat insanely difficult. Furthermore, T’Challa declares that if the hordes outflank them, then they would easily reach Vision who is in a tower. Therefore, he decides to open the wall to distract the enemies. However, the ene-

stupid, such as Thanos teleporting to the base of a large mountain, and then climbing it or Starlord losing control to his emotions at great cost.

Perhaps least forgivably to avid fans, the film frequently forgets the personality and motivations of characters that have been well-developed in their respective franchises. For instance in the very first scene of the movie, it makes no sense that Heimdall would transport the Hulk back to Earth, rather than attempting to save his king, Thor. Additionally, the self-sacrifice of Loki, uncharacteristic perfection of Gamora, and forgetfulness of Thor towards his now dead people sharply contrasts with what is portrayed in Thor, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Furthermore, the substantial powers afforded by the Infinity Gauntlet raises some serious questions. If Thanos hopes to kill half of all life in the universe, does this include the flora and bacteria in the universe? What about the collapse of ecosystems?

If Thanos’s motivation was that his species faced extinction, why did Thanos not bring back his civilization? Why does Thanos not make all the species in the universe smarter?

The Pandora’s Box of the Infinity Gauntlet is to an extent, self-defeating. The cinematic language is not, however, the only disappointing feature of Infinity War, as the film has some serious ideological downfalls, more that cannot be excused by saying ‘it’s just a superhero movie.’ Some downfalls are due to factors that are subliminally political, factors that very well affect the reality we live in, and therefore affect the fantasies that we watch.

Although at a glance the film is not as politically obnoxious as say Black Panther, the film dissolves into a sequence of paranoias upon further examination. The first and most obvious of these are the endless masses of creatures that are trying to pene-

INFINITY WAR A True American Masterpiece trate Wakanda’s wall (sorry, “forcefield”). Marvel’s insane proposition is that these creatures are supposed to fulfill the audience’s requirement for blood, but in fact showcase a much deeper paranoia. Many in the audience saw substantial parallels between these creatures and Muslim refugees entering Europe. These audience members point to the loss of life and limb that the creatures suffer while trying to enter the pristine lands of Wakandan paradise.

In addition to such hidden political messages, Infinity War also pushed many, far less subtle propositions.

For instance, the film made sure to keep men and women segregated during most fights, maintaining the long sexist tradition of avoiding imagery of men hitting women. It is worth pointing out that about 40% of domestic violence is perpetrated by women against men, so this avoidance is likely due to Marvel trying to avoid shocking representations rather than trying to prevent the normalization of such violence, as some might claim. Furthermore, the film drastically undermines the powers of the female characters by doing so. Interestingly, Marvel also avoided connecting Thanos with the none-to-subtle environmentalist comparison. After all, the reference to the difficulty of finite resources supporting an ever-growing population, which eventually leads to extinction-level events is very much in line with typical thinking on the environmentalist left. Even if Thanos never once referred to “climate change” or offered up lamentations about the death of “Mother Earth,” his strong tree-hugging tendencies remain obvious. As a final point, and perhaps a dog-bone to the more conservative side of the spectrum, the last standing major heroes at the end of the film also represent the most conservative heroes in the franchise. Captain America stands in for the nationalist wing of the conservative movement; Thor represents the socially conservative end of the spectrum; and Iron Man plays the fiscally conservative capitalist part of the movement. While some other heroes survive, including the Hulk and Black Widow, they have not had their own movies in the film franchise are primarily function as side-characters. On the horizon of the sequel, anyone without strong social justice tendencies should beware, the final image in the after-credits scene is of Captain Marvel’s logo. After the new Carol Danvers takeover of Captain Marvel in 2012, the character is widely considered to be one of the most far left characters in Marvel Comics.

There are many reasons as to why the inclusion of Captain Marvel is pure audience-pandering. The first of these reasons is that Marvel wants to create excitement (which is currently non-existent) for the new Captain Marvel movie that will be released before the second installment of Infinity War. Not only does it ride the coattails of movies such as Wonder Woman, but with so many characters already in the film, it truly makes you wonder what Marvel’s motivations are for the inclusion of Captain Marvel. Why not develop Black Widow, or even Hawkeye; perhaps making them more important in the process? Why is Captain Marvel even a viable solution even within the context of the film?

If Thanos killed half of all life in the universe, then how in the world does Nick Fury know for a fact that Captain Marvel did not wither away like other superheroes did? Considering that even Spider-Man, whom even non-Marvel fans know he did not die permanently, got the axe, one can only assume that the Deus Ex Machina of Captain Marvel is purely economical and not artistic in nature. It is become evident in films such as The Post, that such pandering is a symptom for post-Election anxieties among the left. The complaint is not that Captain Marvel is a female identifying character, but rather that she is being used to appeal to customers, in essence making her the object of attraction, and not ironically, progress. Additionally, the nature of Captain Marvel coming in at the last minute to save the day will likely remove the need for the dramatic character development that seemed foreshadowed throughout the movie. In particular, the last several movies have focused on building up the power of Thor to a point where he could actually compete with Thanos. This movie included a scene where Tony Stark was forced to watch his fellow heroes, including protégé Peter Parker, disintegrate to nothingness. The most prominent actor in the franchise, Robert Downey Jr. admirably portrayed a subtle but dramatic hurt that destroyed his structure that he built up. The set-up for Iron Man to become the hero that stops Thanos may prove for not, simply because of Marvel’s need to have Captain Marvel lead the rescue of the franchise. Whether this proves successful remains to be seen.

In the end reviews typically choose one score to summarize all of the merits and demerits of a film.

We have chosen an A- (B median) as the culminating description of Avengers: Infinity War.

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THE HOVEY MURALS Image Courtesy of the Hood Museum

Eashwar N. Sivarajan

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Last week, Dartmouth College convened a study group to decide the future of the “Hovey Murals.” The murals, wellknown for their controversial depictions of the founding of the College and Native Americans, are located in a closed room in the basement of Class of 1953 Commons. The group is scheduled to report back to Interim Provost David Kotz on their findings about the murals by the end of the term. Some have speculated that the study group will intend to either open them to all of campus or close them permanently.

The man behind the story of

Dartmouth College. Its depiction of the Indians as a friendly people and its idealization of Dartmouth’s infamous drinking might have been what led the College to eventually de-recognize it as an official song. However, students of Old Dartmouth continued to sing it in tribute to Hovey for years after. In fact, Walter Humphrey (Class of 1914), with the backing of President Hopkins, painted a series of murals based on the song in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall, now Class of 1953 Commons.

Completed in 1938, the murals were in response to José Clemente Orozco’s The Epic of American Civilization,

“The man behind the story of the murals was Richard Hovey, a loyal son of Dartmouth. A member of the Class of 1885, he is best remembered for penning the College’s school song, Men of Dartmouth.” the murals was Richard Hovey, a loyal son of Dartmouth. A member of the Class of 1885, he is best remembered for penning the College’s school song, Men of Dartmouth. In addition to his magnum opus, Mr. Hovey wrote a lesser known song, a mythical account of Dartmouth’s founding. Titled “Eleazor Wheelock,” the song tells the story of Wheelock’s move to New Hampshire to educate the Natives and found Mr. Sivarajan is a freshman at the College and an Associate Editor at The Dartmouth Review.

which still adorns the walls of the basement of Baker-Berry library. Orozco’s murals were condemned by alumni for being too critical of the College by alumni since it focused on the harmful impact of European colonists on North America. Humphrey’s murals, now the controversial “Hovey Murals”, depict Wheelock as a jolly old man who loved drinking, and the Native Indians as primitive, but amiable people. In the early 1970s, around the time the College banned the use of the Indian logo, they boarded up the

Hovey Murals and prohibited the public from viewing it without prior permission.

Orozco’s murals, which were always thought to be antithetical to Dartmouth’s values, continues to occupy a prominent position in Dartmouth’s signature building.

The study group will now deliberate on these historic murals and decide their fate.

The study group’s members are: Co-chairs Juliette Bianco ‘94, deputy director of the Hood Museum, and Bruce Duthu ‘80, professor of Native American studies; Kianna Mist Burke ‘12, GRAD ‘19, interim director of the Native American Program; Michelle Clarke, associate professor of government; Mary Coffey, associate professor of art history; Brooke Hadley ‘18, a member of Native Americans at Dartmouth, a student group; Jennie Harlan ‘20, Native Americans at Dartmouth; Nick Reo, assistant professor of Native American and environmental studies; and Anna Tsouhlarakis ‘99, Native American Visiting Council. Hopefully, this group will have a productive and balanced discussion on the subject and possesses the sufficient diversity of opinion to do so. Many here at The Dartmouth Review wish that it was surprising that the Administration appointed such a biased and one-sided group of faculty, administrators, and students to the study group, but unfortunately it is not. Instead of appointing a balanced group of Dartmouth students to analyze the situation from the perspective of reason, tradition, and kindness, the Administration only appointed students closely connected to the Native Americans at Dartmouth, like Jennie Harlan who was recently selected to be the club Secretary.

It is troubling that we are even having this conversation.

For a College that takes pride in its traditions, Dartmouth is surprisingly willing to hide its past to pacify the social justice warriors. The Hovey Murals are more than just paintings, they are a symbol of Old Dartmouth. Humphrey painted

them to celebrate the College’s storied past and their existence immortalizes a simpler time when the men of Dartmouth were allowed to remain, boys, unburdened by the complexities of the past. But above all else, the murals must not be

thing?

This is not to say, however, that everything that led to the founding of Dartmouth College was necessary or even justified. In fact, I am sure that most people would agree that Rev. Wheelock was a flawed

“It is troubling that we are even having this conversation. For a College that takes pride in its traditions, Dartmouth is surprisingly willing to hide its past to pacify the social justice warriors.” locked up in a dingy basement out of respect for the Hovey and Humphrey, true sons of the College. Since they remembered Dartmouth till the day they died, isn’t it time Dartmouth reciprocated that loyalty? However, if the last five years are any indication, loyalty means nothing to Phil Hanlon and his staff.

It is no coincidence that most of the people on the “study group” are part of the Native American community at Dartmouth. Apparently, the College believes that if art is offensive, then it must be shut down, regardless of how historic it may be. If these cultural Marxists ran the world, The Creation of Adam would be painted over for its lack of female representation, the Mona Lisa would be destroyed because its unrealistic smile is not representative of all women, and van Gogh’s The Starry Night would be burned for being offensive to the blind.

What about the murals do people find offensive? The fact that some of the Native Americans depicted were half-naked? The depiction of Wheelock as an old man who loved to drink? Or worst of all, that Eleazor Wheelock tried to spread Christianity to the heathens? The half-nude Indians would not be offensive if it wasn’t accurate, and it is an open secret that much of the Dartmouth community drinks copious amounts of alcohol.

And is proselytization, education of the unenlightened in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the cornerstone of Western civilization, such a terrible

man, like every person born in the last two thousand years.

When did we stop celebrating the greatness of imperfect men? Perhaps the most famous alumnus of the College, Daniel Webster, was one such man.

Sen. Webster is best known at the College for his defense of the Alma Mater in the Dartmouth College v. Woodward Supreme Court case. In that case, he vociferously and successfully defended Dartmouth from being made into a public institution by the New Hampshire state government. He is also known for the Webster-Hayne debate, an argument that moved from a debate on tariffs to one on the very nature of the Union.

Hayne believed that every state had the right to secede from the Union. Webster’s “Second Reply” to Hayne is one of the most famous speeches ever delievered on the floor of the Senate. However, although a vocal abolitionist, Webster was integral to the infamous Compromise of 1850 and believed that legislation stopping the spread of slavery was unnecessary. While his role in the Compromise of 1850 makes him a controversial figure, the College, in its current form, would not exist without him.

In conclusion, Humphrey’s murals are a mildly inaccurate, but humorous take on Dartmouth’s past, a past we should be proud of. The murals need to be opened to the public because we can’t move forward by ignoring the past. Yes, the Hovey Murals are bawdy and offensive, and yet there are those who love them.

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The Failure of the Welfare State

Alexander Rauda

Associate Editor

The expansion of the welfare state during the 20th century prompted an expansion of the federal government. The New Deal and the Great Society forever changed the relationship between federal and state governments. These phenomena were not unique to the United States, as countries around the world expanded their welfare states.

While some of these programs help people and healed some of the generational socio-economic divides, the United States spends an exorbitant amount for welfare programs. The solutions are to reinvigorate American work and family values, establish work requirements, and to keep the government’s hands off the free market. All of these were presented by Robert Doar, a Morgride Fellow in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), in “Who Won the War on Poverty: A Fifty-Year Reflection on the Great Society” on April 23, 2018.

mentions the state must promote the institution of the family, and therefore must promote the institution of marriage. From 1960 to 2011, the number of people 18 or over married dropped from 75% to 50%. Moreover, the number of children born out of wedlock has also increased. Based on data alone, children raised in a single-parent household tend to do worse in school and ultimately in life. Not all single-parents are incompetent, but based on the numbers alone, single-parent children start with a massive disadvantage. Only by promoting the institution of marriage can the state prevent people from being disposed towards welfare programs. Doar mentions that the social importance of work has fallen in recent years. The economy goes together with these classic American values that have slowly withered away due to the ever-increasing trend of apathy.

Currently 9.5 million work-able people on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) report no earnings. Through the

“To quote Barry Goldwater: ‘If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.”

Doar worked as commissioner of New York City’s Human Resources Administration under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, where “he oversaw a 25% reduction in the city’s welfare caseload.” The number of welfare recipients in New York City went down from 1.1 million in 1995, to 356,350 in 2016. Given Doar’s experience in New York City, he postulates that it is possible to reduce the amount of people on welfare. Before discussing actual welfare changes, Doar wonderfully mentions the cultural problems that must first be addressed to solve the issue. Firstly, Doar Mr. Rauda is a freshman at the College and Associate Editor at The Dartmouth Review.

work requirements, the amount of jobless work-able people would decrease. When they finally have a job, they will no longer rely on SNAP; thereby reducing the amount of people receiving aid.

The central kernel to job-based welfare is intuitively the labor force participation. Doar mentioned the shifting demographics in labor force participation from 1980 to 2010. In the age bracket 25-34, the number of women in the labor force has increased from 64.1 percent to 74.9 percent, while the number of men in the labor force has decreased from 94.2 percent to 88.6 percent. Although the increase in female labor force participation is not necessarily a negative, the decrease in working young males is. Therefore, Doar

claimed, work requirements must be added preferably at a local level. The first of these work requirements is to define what an “allowable activity” is when applying for work-based welfare. Then the numbers of hours required should be strictly enforced, along with “consequences for non-compliance.” Next, and most importantly, is defining success. When does the state stop giving welfare checks? How should the state define success? Until these questions are not answered, the endless cycle of underachieving will not be resolved. Without an end goal insight both the government and the recipients conform, preventing future prosperity.

The fact that fewer people are on welfare should be celebrated not shunned. The decrease of recipients does not mean that there will be an increase in inequality.

The common misconception is that inequality is correlated to poverty, is simply not true. Doar claimed that this are two different aspects and are very separate from each other. Moreover, Doar also provided his stance on liberal concerns such as gentrification

and minimum wage laws. Doar declared gentrification is not a net-negative, as it diversifies the socio-economic making up of cities, decreases crime, and provides better opportunities for people of a low economic background.

Ergo, Doar argued that free-market integration is more effective than government integration.

People focus on the negatives of gentrification but completely ignore how it helps the community; members of all backgrounds now have an equal playing field. Doar also addressed the consternation on displacement of poor people; there is no abnormal rate of displacement. On the topic of minimum wage, Doar came to the consensus that while minimum wage laws are not necessarily a bad thing, a $15 wage is simply ludicrous. Not only would businesses start by firing the poorest of workers, they would then implement hour limits to deny workers benefits. Therefore, a federal minimum wage would be disastrous and such policies should be left for local governments to decide.

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welfare state might have seemed reasonable after the Great Depression. However, after the failures of the Great Society, the welfare state has shown signs of irrelevancy.

What Doar and other conservatives ask is not for an immediate elimination of all welfare; hoping that all poor people die. That is a construction by those on the left that seek to destroy any sort of evidence-based policies, free-market ideas, and fundamentally individualism. To quote Barry Goldwater: “If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.” By making sure that people return to the workforce, the need for welfare will naturally go down. Ultimately these economic issues go together with social issues. There cannot be a motivated workforce without promoting strong families. In times of great need, the government can provide welfare to its citizens; those times are few and far in between, which is not currently the case. The welfare state must be slowly disbanded before it causes a neutering of the American nation.

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The Whip of Affirmative Action Demosthenes Valentine

Contributor Editor’s Note: This article represents the views of the author and not necessarily the views of The Dartmouth Review Why does the College exist? Is it merely to invest in people and hope that each student generates a net economic profit? Or does it have a more important role, a role in grooming the best of the younger generation for success in Western society? I, like many others, believe it to be the latter. If Dartmouth’s administration wants to maximize the impact it has on the world, it needs to end the preferential racial treatment, disguised as affirmative action, extended to people who would otherwise not be here.

First, let us first dispel of the notion that President Hanlon cares about ethnic diversity. Every single one of Dartmouth’s administrative departments is more than 87% white. For all his talk of “inclusivity and diversity,” President Hanlon’s administrative staff is less than 13% non-white. Unlike members of the faculty, staff of the administration are not required to be highly qualified, which means that Hanlon chose to appoint mostly white people, an act that exemplifies the kind of hypocrisy we have come to expect from the administration. And what of the faculty, whose diversity Hanlon Mr. Valentine is a student at the College and a contributor to the Dartmouth Review.

said was “paramount to our academic success?” In 2013, a little over 85 % of the tenured faculty were white. Now, after five years of Hanlon’s supposed-efforts, that number has dropped to a meager 84%, a change of a whopping 1%!

I want to be perfectly clear: I am in no way saying that the faculty should be less white. I am simply highlighting the fact that the only thing stopping Hanlon’s disastrous policy proposals is his own executive incompetence. Let us now look at Dartmouth’s undergraduate student body, the beating heart of a failing institution. Since President Hanlon came to power in 2013, the least “diverse” class has been the class of 2018, which was 51.5% white, in stark contrast to both tenured faculty and administrative staff. While it would be easy to dismiss this disparity as one of Hanlon’s “Good for thee, but not for me” policies, there is far more to it than meets the eye.

In 1968, The Right Honourable J. Enoch Powell delivered the now-infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech before the British Parliament. In it, he prophesied that “... the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” At the time, this was considered an outrageous statement, and some would say it still is. However, any honest person who has been to college in the last fifty years knows that it contains an element of truth.

In 2015, Black Lives Matter took over Baker-Berry in what can only be described as an un-

civilized riot. Instead of telling them to stop acting like toddlers, then-Vice Provost Inge-Lise Ameer insulted conservatives for reasons that are still unclear. Even 30 years ago, in 1988, the College capitulated to the demands of African-American professor William Cole and suspended three members of The Dartmouth Review, one for six terms. Even earlier than that, in 1971, President Kemeny abolished the use of the Dartmouth Indian in an effort to placate the Native Americans at Dartmouth.

The same year as Mr. Powell’s speech, the Kerner Commission released its report on the 1967 Detroit riots. President Lyndon Johnson had asked them to figure out what caused the riots, and their “findings” were shocking, to say the least. The Commission blamed white people and their behavior around African-Americans for the riots, listing among the solutions increased welfare and what amounted to preferential treatment of blacks. Apparently, the Civil Rights Movement and the laws that resulted from it were not useful in the slightest. Interestingly enough, the rioters themselves, who were mostly African-American, were thought to be devoid of all blame. This laid the foundation for fifty years of white people being blamed for the problems of nonwhite communities. Even today, at Dartmouth and in colleges across the country, blacks are thought to be devoid of all agency and treated like children. And if you treat peo-

ple like three-year olds, it should come as no surprise when they act like babies, blaming other people for their shortcomings.

In the words of Thomas Sowell, “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” Now that ethnic minorities have come to expect certain privileges from the College, they essentially use the whip of affirmative action to beat dissidents into submission.

Hanlon’s capitulation to the African-American contingent on campus could simply be a manifestation of his “white guilt.” It might be that he feels that by doing everything he can to help black people, he would make up for what he views as the sins of his ancestors.

However, a more plausible explanation is that President Hanlon is merely a spineless pansy.

Given that he has caved to them in the past, it is not unreasonable to believe that Hanlon calls for a more diverse student body not because he believes it is better for Dartmouth, but because he fears the repercussions of ignoring the progressive mob. If this is indeed the case, then President Hanlon does Dartmouth and its alumni a great disservice. By compromising the integrity of a Dartmouth education, he stands against everything Wheelock wanted of this small college. By doing it to placate the masses, he disgraces the Wheelock Succession. By not standing up to the student body, he shirks his responsibility as President of the College.

But why do the hordes of liberals push for affirmative action?

Primarily, it is because they believe that racial diversity leads to diversity of thought, which is worth promoting. These progressives are well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided. Diversity of thought is not inherently worth anything. Even they would admit that one shouldn’t strive to admit a Holocaust denier or a member of the White Aryan Resistance to Dartmouth. I am not claiming that a person of color is comparable to a neo-Nazi, but we should ask ourselves if it is really in the College’s best interest to be associated with people whose ideas are solely determined by their race.

Another common argument made is that affirmative action is a humanitarian necessity.

Since most impoverished and crime-ridden communities are predominantly black, affirmative action helps alleviate poverty. I have to admit this is a compelling argument, although I think many on the left would dismiss this as a “white savior complex.” If fifty years of affirmative action hasn’t changed the culture enough to affect any reasonable change in black communities, maybe it is time we try something else. For instance, all Eleazor Wheelock needed to teach the Indians was a bible and five hundred gallons of rum. While that might not work with African-Americans, it couldn’t do less than affirmative action.

was the man who made the observatory’s construction possible. With his generous gift of $7,000, he helped front a project that would eventually be supported by the trustees as well to make an improvement to the school that was small in stature, but monumental in impact. The Observatory is one of the first major investments that The College would make in the sciences.

Historically, Shattuck is very significant amongst the community of astronomical research. The Observatory is the oldest scientific building on campus; born out of an explosion of interest in astronomy across the country and is one of three structures built during this time that still operates at the original plant.

The Shattuck Observatory is known to generations of Dartmouth men and women as a landmark on Campus. However, researchers have quietly collected meteorological data for the Smithsonian Institution since 1853. With few exceptions, data collection has continued up until today. The observatory is still a volunteer observation station for the National Weather Service.

THE SHATTUCK OBSERVATORY A gaze unto the stars In a recent event, the safety munity spoke out against this of the observatory had been atrocity, making it clear that threatened by a possible project the Observatory would not be to build a 750-bed dormitory compromised. in College Park. This project Today, the Observatory conthreatened the last “dark sky” tinues to operate and is partially location in central campus, run by student groups interestputting the long standing mete- ed in astronomy and meteorolorological records at risk. How- ogy. The observatory still has ever, in an act of courage and public viewing nights available defiance, the Dartmouth com- to students, faculty, alumni,

and anyone interested in astronomy. Public observation takes place in at the North Telescope in a building just beyond the main dome. To this day, people of all walks of life within the Dartmouth community and the Upper Valley area gather at Shattuck to see what Young and Dr. Shattuck had pursued over 150 years ago.

Patriarchy: Shattuck Observatory Phillip R. Swanson

Contributor Bellow the tree line of College Park sits one of The College’s most historic of buildings, the Shattuck Observatory, which has been a fixture in Hanover since it’s construction in 1854. This quaint building was designed by Lebanon native Ammi B. Young and G.J.F. Bryant, a famous architect in the Boston area. Young’s brother, Professor Ira Young ‘1828, was the mastermind behind the movement to build an observatory as he pressed the trustees of The College to acquire new equipment for astronomical equipment. With the construction of the observatory, a new age of science had dawned in Hanover. For the first time ever, Meteorology was offered as a course of study in the 18491850 academic year. Once the observatory was completed, it became a central place on campus not only to study the final frontier, but also to observe the weather patterns of New Hampshire.

Dr. George C. Shattuck ‘1803 Mr. Swanson is a student at the College and a contributor to the Dartmouth Review.

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Review Reviews: Veritas Forum

MOSHE GRAY The chosen lift for the chosen people

Phillip R. Swanson

Contributor

On Monday April 30th, the annual Veritas Forum took place in the Rockefeller Center here at the College. This year’s event, “The Price of Free Speech: A Conversation on Religious Liberty, Freedom, and Faith,” was sponsored by The Apologia, Dartmouth’s journal of Christian thought. The “forum” was really a conversation on the intersection of Mr. Swanson is a student at the College and a contributor to the Dartmouth Review.

free speech and faith between Michael Wear, former White House Faith Outreach Director under the Obama administration and Rabbi Moshe Gray the director of Dartmouth Chabad.

The event was moderated by Levi Roseman ’21.

Rabbi Gray opened the discussion by asserting that, in his view, the issue of free speech is a dichotomy between rights and responsibilities. For example, nowhere in the constitution is the right to life guaranteed to citizens, but rather it is a responsibility of all citizens to not murder. Gray described the

issue as a “battlefield of rights” in which one’s rights must be compromised in order to ensure another’s. Furthermore, he highlighted the difficulty that legislators face when attempting to draw definitive lines between protected and unprotected speech in this battlefield of rights.

When factoring faith into the discussion, both Mr. Wear and Rabbi Gray acknowledged that religious institutions have been a major force in the ever-changing political landscape of our country. They also recognized that as our society questions

about the role of religion in policy, the religious’ freedom of speech is being threatened.

In recent decades, religion has positioned itself as a polarizing figure in politics, largely due its stances on hot button issues such as abortion. Rabbi Gray pointed out that the debate on abortion has shifted from debate about responsibilities to a debate about rights, thus further polarizing the issue. Gray also emphasized that while taking their stand on issues like abortion, it is important for religious organizations to showcase the positive aspects of their beliefs.

“I put the onus on the religious to show the non-religious other religions to better present the beauty of their religion” said Rabbi Gray.

Though it may be difficult to draw hard and fast lines between protected and unprotected speech, there was still much to take away from the forum in terms of addressing these deeply rooted issues. In many instances, the problem with legislating free speech and other issues effectively can be boiled down to one central idea: effective governance is only possible in the absence of government forcing ideals upon different groups.

“We need to be careful about seeking to advance an agenda on traditionalists, the religious, or other groups” said Wear.

One of the liveliest topics of conversation from the forum

was the tax-exempt status that religious institutions receive from the government. Churches, temples, mosques and other religious organizations receive 501C3 tax exempt status as a safeguard for religious freedom.

However, because of they are untaxed, religious organizations and leaders are not allowed to explicitly endorse candidates in elections.

“When [the Johnson Amendment] applies to churches I view it as the mirror side of the establishment clause in the separation of church and state” said Wear.

Under the Johnson Amendment, religious figures are unable to establish a consensus around a political candidate, just like politicians are not allowed to establish a consensus around a particular religion.

Those who oppose the Johnson amendment would argue that it is an infringement upon free speech, arguing that it is no different than organizations like Citizens United using money as a form of free speech. However, the key difference in the case of religious organizations is the balance between the state and the faith.

“The moment that religious institutions are taxed, the incentives and disincentives are in imbalance” said Wear.

Religion and government have a storied history of naturally becoming intertwined.

Review Reviews: Pride Rachel T. Gambee

Associate Editor

Thursday, May 5th, brought to a close the 12th annual Dartmouth Pride festivities. Pride is a campus-wide series of events meant to honor the LGBTQIA+ community on campus. It spanned two weeks this year, the third consecutive year in which the event has been so long.

The 2018 Pride theme was “queer and here.” It aimed to both reclaim the word “queer,” a slur traditionally used against the LGBT community and to incorporate the concept of intersectionality into the realm of LGBT issues on campus. As for Pride itself, the events that were planned as part of the celebration were both numerous and varied, from a workshop on “Voguing” to Lavender Graduation, an annual celebration to honor graduating queer students. As is tradition, there were several visible all marks of Pride throughout campus, namely the large LGBTQIA flag hung outside of the Collis Center and the rainbow lights that illuminated Ms. Gambee is a freshman at the College and is an Associate Editor at the Dartmouth Review.

Dartmouth Hall in the evenings.

The undisputed highlight of the pride festivities, however, was Transform, a part drag, part miscellaneous performance put on almost entirely by Dartmouth students. Per usual, this year’s performance was extremely well attended and enjoyed by all, including more than a few Review staffers. Transform was emceed by a New York City drag queen. As the only professional, non-Dartmouth performer, she was remarkably talented, captivating the audience with her acts. The Dartmouth students that performed - all non professional drag queens and kings - were, nevertheless, extremely impressive as well.

In addition to the main drag show, Transform also featured performances from the Rockapellas, one of Dartmouth’s all-female acapella groups, and two Dartmouth students who specialize in spoken word poetry. The Rockapellas sang a selection of Pride anthems including Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s “Same Love” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” The first of the two Dartmouth student poets performed two pieces of poetry, the one entitled “America is a Snake” which focused

PRIDE IN NYC So much of it, so much lovin’ on racial issues in the United States, and the other which was a ballad of female power in light of gender-based violence.

The second poet, a student of Latin American descent and a native speaker of Spanish, performed a piece on his struggle to explain his gender-nonconforming identity to his parents through the Spanish, a language in which every noun, including his own name, has a specific gender assignment.

Following Wednesday’s Transform show, the keynote address on Thursday was given by Antonio Castellanos. Mr. Castellanos is the creator of “Jotoria,” a parody of the popular Mexican game Loteria. His parody is designed to highlight the Latin American queer experience. The game aims to reclaim certain Spanish words used externally and internally to degrade the Latin queer community. “Joto” itself is one such

word, as a slur used to describe homosexual men. The name Jotoria, is an intended combination of “Joto” and “Loteria” as a part of this reclamation.

This event, which included a Joteria tournament following Mr. Castellanos’ description of the game, was intimate yet lively. It drew students from both Dartmouth’s Queer and Latinx communities, making it a fitting ending to Pride with a focus on intersectionality.

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THE LAST WORD GORDON HAFF’S

COMPILED BY ALEXANDER RAUDA

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

–Mother Teresa “As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”

-Nelson Mandela “The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.”

-Thomas Sowell “Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”

-Benjamin Disraeli “The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”

-Noam Chomsky “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”

-Ronald Reagan “Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.”

-Sam Houston

“We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol.

We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.”

-Ted Cruz “When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”

-Jean-Paul Sartre “The Top 1%!”

-Bernie Sanders

“Mexico is a moasic of different realities and beauties.”

-Enrique Pena Nieto

“Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God’s sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.”

-Ben Shapiro “You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

-Donald John Trump, 45th President of America

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.”

-Jerry Brown

“I mean when you think about it, real communism has never been tried. Communism can sill work, we just have to tax the rich more!”

-Overheard at FOCO

“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth.”

-Bill Clinton

“I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.”

-Newt Gringrich

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.

-James K. Polk

BARRETT’S MIXOLOGY

My Culture is Not Your Midterm Fix Ingredients

2oz Cabo Wabo Blanco Tequila 3 Dashes of Frank’s Red Hot 1 Wedge of Fair-Trade Certified, non-GMO Lime from Veracruz 1/2 oz Agvae Nectar A Bigly Sombrero

Place all ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake vigoursly but not violently, and strain into a cocktail glass. Throughout the entire process you must wear a sombrero hat, perferrable tilted at a 45 degree angle from your head, so that your’re not ‘technically’ appropriating it. *CANNOT BE MADE ON CINCO DE MAYO* You walk into yout favorite alternative social space, looking to allevaite the stress of your midterm week. After the collective gang-up of both your physics exams and your anthropolgy presentations you just want to relax. You walk up to the bartender and ask them for a firecracker. The bartender looks directly into your soul; he seems shaken, but not stirred at your inner-diablos. He asks you one question: “Are you a gringo?”

You reply: “No, my grandmother’s second cousin is one-fifth mexican.”

The bartender seems to doubt your latest Ancestry.com test but he serves you the drink anyways. You drink it in a single glup, order three more, and proceed to dance flamenco, completely unaware that it is a dance from Spain. As you dance, a mexican approaches you and asks why you are wearing a sombrero. His sombrero. You remember that you found it last year at a frat. You’re even more shocked that he remembers you. He looks you dead in the eyes; noticing your stupor and says: “Nevermind man, just keep it.”

You return to your dorm, but not before gulping seven tacos. You spend the next day on the toilet and think about how you don’t even like Mexican food anyways.

— A Bad Hombre

“Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.”

-Benito Juárez “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

-Karl Marx

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