The Dartmouth 10/20/17

VOL. CLXXIV NO.133

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Homecoming saw increased security measures

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This year’s Homecoming bonfire security saw a major change in security — a chainlink fence placed around the bonfire in addition to a water-filled plastic barrier and an increase in security guards.

According to interim director of Safety and Security Keysi Montás, this addition to security was catalyzed by a large increase in freshmen trying to touch the fire at last year’s Homecoming, which resulted in a portion of the fire being put out early. In 2016, an estimated 50 students tried to touch the fire, compared to three students caught doing so — although according to Safety and Security officials the number that attempted to touch the fire was

By HARRISON ARONOFF The Dartmouth

Dartmouth Information Technology Services has partnered with Vitalyst, a technolog y support company, to offer students, faculty and staff 24-hour support, starting this past Monday, according to Ellen

Young, assistant director of campus IT support.

According to Vitalyst senior account manager Daniel McLaughlin, the company received 14 calls as a result of this partnership on the first day of the program.

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An increased number of newly-recognized clubs through the Council of Student Organizations were related to science, technology, engineering and math during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Collis director of student involvement Anna Hall. Hall added that the rise in STEM-related clubs highlights an increase in student interest in new technology.

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Last month, earth sciences p o s t d o c t o r a l f e l l ow Yi n g C u i published a paper looking at carbon dioxide levels in the Eocene “super greenhouse” period, a time of extreme global warmth. The study found that Earth’s carbon dioxide content during hyperthermals 53

During this school year, five of the 18 new COSO-recognized organizations — Dartmouth Data Science Club, Dartmouth Machine Learning Club, Drone Club at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Quant Traders and Dartmouth Computational Mathematics Society, — are related to STEM fields. Crypto-Club, which focuses on blockchain technology, was also recognized

by COSO during this school year.

“I think [the increase in

STEM-related clubs] is just reflective of the work that students are interested in and the direction of the world in terms of the use of this technology,” Hall said.

Founders and members of some of these new clubs have witnessed interest in the new clubs displaced by not only students already involved in these fields but also students from nonSTEM backgrounds. James SEE CLUBS PAGE 3

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million years ago was at most 1,000 parts per million, half of what was previously thought. The findings could help provide insight into the dynamics of global warming.

Cui and her co-author Brian Schubert, a geosciences professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, described the creation of SEE CO2 PAGE 5

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Students socialize and relax on the Green on an unusually sunny day.

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likely larger — in 2014.

“Had the structure fallen down [last year], we could have had catastrophic consequences,” he said. “We tried to come up with a way that, in the event that something like that were to happen, we have a safety zone which would guarantee that there will be nobody within that area. And that’s how providing the safety zone came about.”

This year, a chainlink fence was erected 60 feet from the center of the fire, which was defined as the collapse zone.

According to Collis Center director of student involvement Anna Hall, the addition of a fence was a joint decision between Hanover Police Department and the Hanover Fire Department.

“We work with the town to ensure a safe event,” she said. “We wanted to work together to make sure what happened last year didn’t happen this year.”

Montás agreed, stating that safety is a collaborative effort between the town and the College. He said the greatest challenge during the bonfire is crowd control, because of the high volume of people, a portion of whom are running, and their proximity to a dangerous bonfire.

“We wanted to take every safety precaution that we could to guarantee that participants had a safe and enjoyable event,” he said, adding that he believes this year was one of the most successful and safe bonfires the College has seen.

Student Assembly president Ian Sullivan ’18 noted the importance of reducing the number of students who try to touch the fire.

“From a numbers perspective it was a great success in terms of the reduction in number of people that touched the fire,” Sullivan said.

According to Sullivan, the fence was a good solution to the problem.

“It would be terrible to have a tragic accident like what happened to [Texas A&M University],” he said, referencing the 12 student deaths after a bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M in 1999. “It would really sober a lot of the excitement and fun around Homecoming.”

To emphasize the importance of safety at the bonfire, Sullivan and Student Assembly vice president Matthew Ferguson ’18 sent a campuswide email regarding bonfire safety prior to Homecoming.

“We wanted, as student leaders, to send a message reiterating that safety has to be of the utmost importance for students at homecoming,” Sullivan said.

Ferguson recognized the fact that some students were surprised by the addition of a fence to the bonfire this year.

“I think that obviously some students are bummed out to see the fence there, but I think personally I would rather have a couple of people argue about that than have someone get hurt,” he said. “It’s thousands of people yelling ‘worst class ever’ until somebody goes and does something destructive.”

Sullivan echoed this sentiment.

“I think it was obviously different with the fence being there, but I think everyone had a great time still,” Sullivan said. “And, it was overall safer.”

Ben Shapiro ’21 said that, despite the changes, he believes Homecoming was an excellent event.

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The College erected a chain-link fence 60 feet from the Homecoming bonfire.

“There was lots of spirit, and it was a great way to open the year for us, and I thought it was cool that the people of Hanover were there,” he said.

Shapiro added that the fence was a surprising addition and made security seem more visible to him than he thought it would be.

“I thought that because they put up the fence [Hanover Police] seemed more concentrated — I thought there were a lot [of officers],” Shapiro said.

“They didn’t make me feel unsafe, and I appreciated their presence.”

Although students refer to touching the fire as a tradition at Dartmouth, Hall emphasized that touching the fire should not be considered a tradition.

“Dartmouth Night is a tradition — the bonfire is a tradition,” Hall said.

“The first-year class being involved is a tradition, but touching the fire is not.”

During Dartmouth Night, which also featured a parade and a speech from College President Phil Hanlon, a group of students held a demonstration during Hanlon’s address and the bonfire. The students protested the College’s “failure to establish concrete protocol ... to protect undocumented students and staff from the threat of deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” accorded to a statement released on Oct. 10 by the Inter-Community Council.

Students also posted 500 flyers around campus before Homecoming listing demands and highlighting grievances.

The Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and Dreamers released a letter on Sept. 5, after President Donald Trump announced the ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, asking the College to take certain steps to protect undocumented students and community members.

Demands included a commitment that Safety and Security and the College would not cooperate with ICE in detaining students, full financial aid for undocumented students and funds to cover legal fees. The Homecoming demonstration followed up on these demands and expressed the students’ dissatisfaction with Hanlon’s “inadequate responses,” according to the ICC statement.

In his response to the Sept. 5 letter, Hanlon wrote that the College “will do everything in [its] power, within the bounds of the law” to support affected students. Hanlon had reaffirmed the College’s support for undocumented students in a Nov. 18, 2016 campuswide email, but did not declare the College a sanctuary campus.

“The emphasis Hanlon places on the law offers no concrete protections for undocumented students because deporting students, rescinding DACa, and reporting the status of undocumented [students] to ICE are all ‘within the bounds of the law,’” the ICC statement read.

analysts each specialize in over 120 applications. McLaughlin added the low volume of callers to the that these analysts also serve over 400 program’s “soft launch,” meaning companies, including 25 colleges. that not many knew about the Davis had a relationship with the company back when he was chief program when it first started.

Vice president of ITS and chief information officer of Bowdoin information officer Mitchel Davis, College, which also has a partnership who spearheaded the partnership, with Vitalyst. said students, faculty and staff were The partnership with the company “really not officially rk e d we l l ” notified about “2 a.m. in the morning wo at Bowdoin the expansion because there b e c a u s e h e is not an abnormal was a demand plans to “ramp time for a student to for technology [the program] support among u p s l o w l y. ” need help in Word or students, faculty Yo u n g s a i d Excel.” and staff at night that the slower when Bowdoin’s launch was to regular analysts address a few -MITCHEL DAVIS, VICE were not “minor issues.” PRESIDENT OF ITS AND available, Davis Davis said said. he interviewed CHIEF INFORMATION “2 a.m. in the m u l t i p l e OFFICER morning is not an community abnormal time members and for a student to found there was high demand for not only more need help in Word or Excel,” Davis technology support in general, but said.

Vitalyst also has a lot of technical specifically 24-hour support.

The change came in part due to expertise in which Bowdoin’s the needs of Dartmouth-affiliates at analysts weren’t necessarily trained, such as certain applications like odd hours of the day, Young said.

“The reason we went 24/7 is Apple iCloud, Google Docs and because things come up,” she said. IBM Notes, Davis said.

“There isn’t a huge demand for In addition to the increased 24/7 support, but when someone expertise, Davis said partnering with is working on something and needs Vitalyst was also more economical help, they need help … if you than hiring five new employees to offer 24-hour have a grant support. that’s due at 8 “There isn’t a huge While Vitalyst a.m. tomorrow cannot fix a morning, and demand for 24/7 hardware or you can’t get a support, but when connection file saved in a someone is working p r o b l e m , PDF, [Vitalyst] McLaughlin will be able to on something and said the company help you with needs help, they need has worked that.” “extensively with Davis will help...”

ITS, so it has receive periodic to] all of reports from -ELLEN YOUNG, ASSISTANT [access your knowledge Vitalyst about bases to provide w h e n a n d DIRECTOR OF ITS the same level why students, of support as the faculty and staff call the company. With that ITS Help Desk.”

ITS’s support schedule has information, Davis hopes to reevaluate and perhaps offer more not changed. Between 7:30 a.m. support opportunities for technology and 5:30 p.m., students can seek support, potentially by opening a technology support by walking student-run technology help desk into the ITS Help Center, sending during the hours when students are an email, chatting with an ITS support analyst online or calling most likely to call Vitalyst.

According to McLaughlin, the ITS hotline, according to the firm has 200-plus analysts on Young. However, after 5:30 p.m. all standby at any given moment. These questions will be routed to Vitalyst.

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STEM clubs see uptick in popularity

these clubs tend to be more about applied science and math than in past Detweiler ’18 , founder of Crypto-Club, years. noted that 30 people came to its last club “It seems like a lot of this technology is permeating through a lot of different meeting.

“I was surprised by how many people parts of society,” Hall said. came from different majors, all around Hall also said the interest in applied math and technology here at campus,” Detweiler said.

Chris Kymn ’18, who is a member Dartmouth may reflect a pattern in the of the Data Science Club, also expressed greater world. his excitement that so many members “I think [this increase in interest] just reflects what is happening in the were interested.

“There is actually a pretty wide world,” Hall said. “I know that especially variety of backgrounds right now,” computer science fields, what I’ve heard Kymn said. “Some people are computer from students is that that’s an area that’s science majors, from seniors who currently undergoing a lot of changes have done internships before, to and growing, and there seems to be sophomores who have experience in this interest.” quantitative finance, to freshman who Like Hall, Detweiler said he have absolutely no experience, which is believes that the changes we see in technology are just the beginning. really exciting.”

Rather than aiming to create a space “[Increase in interest] is a big only for those already experienced in hint as to what’s going on in the the field, both Kymn and Detweiler outside world,” he said. “We’re on said that their clubs hope to expand a cusp of something big, I think.”

Detweiler knowledge and interest further explained across campus.

“I think [this that with the specific “We’re mostly technology of looking for not what increase in blockchain central kinds of things do interest] just to Cr ypto-Club, certain people want the new technology to do, but what kinds reflects what is is likely to change of things would make happening in the the structures of this more accessible to world.” many industries as the larger Dartmouth we know them. community, and just more useful for -ANNA HALL, COLLIS “Bitcoin is one of the first uses everyone, even if of blockchain, and you’re not a computer CENTER DIRECTOR we’re seeing it shoot science major or a OF STUDENT up in value and math major,” Kymn INVOLVEMENT we’re seeing it used said. around the world, Detweiler shared a not only for illegal similar motive.

“I had been really excited by the things like some people paint it out technology, and I decided to share my to be,” Detweiler said. “It’s going to excitement,” Detweiler said. “The real change how companies raise equity, point of Crypto[-Club] is to discuss it’s going to change how energy what’s going on with innovations in travels throughout our country, the field and to bring everyone up to it’s going to change how rides are speed in terms of what’s is happening. shared between riders and drivers.

I think a lot is going on right now [with I think it’s going to change how a technology], and that might be one lot of current industries operate.” of the reasons you’re seeing a lot of Dartmouth has a history of involvement in cutting-edge technology-oriented companies.”

In the case of Crypto-Club, technology. The computer language Detweiler said he hopes the club can BASIC was originally developed allow a space for the birth of new ideas. on the Dartmouth campus. In “The point of the club is to 1956, Dartmouth hosted the familiarize everybody with this concept first ever conference for artificial and maybe allow some ideas to grow out intelligence. Detweiler hopes clubs of it, and people can be the innovators,” like his own can play a role in continuing to encourage innovation he said.

Kymn said the Data Science in these fields.

Club also hopes to provide hands-on “I wanted to create this club to create a forum to discuss ideas experiences. “[The Data Science Club exists] to related to blockchain,” Detweiler just give people an opportunity in data said. “If this becomes huge, then science without having to take classes Dartmouth can say, you know in the computer science department or what, we hosted students who could have prior experience from internships,” discuss these ideas, and they came up with some innovations that Kymn said.

Hall said that she has noticed that changed the world.”

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Gender-Inclusive Scouts

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America’s Scouts can help deconstruct the gender binary.

Discrimination is a learned behavior. Nobody is born with notions of the superiority of one group over another, nor would we even perceive much of a difference between people if these dissimilarities were not taught to us. But from an early age, we are segregated by sex, whether by direct grouping or by internalized societal pressures, so we grow up learning not to cross imaginary lines. The divide between the sexes is enormous and older than the human historical record. It’s high time the gap was filled, and what better place to start than the minds of America’s children?

Since the early 1900s, scouting programs have been teaching generations of children responsibility, leadership, community service and independence. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts alike work toward badges that reward them for adequacy in areas ranging from first aid to physical fitness, but the two groups of scouts were established on vastly different principles. Boy Scouts was founded to create new generations of the ideal 20th century American man, a figurehead that is traveling toward extinction in socially progressive communities as people continue to take a critical eye to gender norms. Conversely, Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low organized her scouts in recognition of the need of young girls growing up in the tumultuous era before women’s suffrage to develop into powerful and independent women able to sustain the war on gender inequity. Girl Scouts was established as an alternative social space where girls didn’t have to be the girls society told them to be.

Today, the two scouting groups have much in common, including overlapping badges and curricula focused on adventure, life skills and community service. All in all, the two groups aren’t really so different. So when the Boy Scouts of America announced on Oct. 11 that they would be allowing girls to join the Cub Scout ranks, it seemed like a decision that was not only logical, but in accord with the BSA’s current social trajectory. After finally lifting their ban on openly gay scouts in 2013, openly gay troop leaders in 2015 and transgender boys this past January, the BSA made a seemingly appropriate next step by allowing girls to partake in the program.

Rather than trying to sabotage the ranks of Girl Scouts to compensate for its own sagging membership, BSA is simply offering an alternative

scouting option to families who are inconvenienced by the current gendered system, either because of transportation conflicts or because their children don’t feel comfortable in a single-gendered setting.

The girls and boys of this generation of scouts are being presented with an astounding opportunity to learn from one another and challenge the traditional separation of the sexes. Although the first new Cub Scout dens will remain gendersegregated, this shift in the BSA is an important step toward gender-inclusivity, which might one day mean that all children — whether they identify as boys, girls, non-binary persons or anything else on the expansive spectrum of gender — can associate in a group setting that crosses all the imaginary lines past generations have drawn for themselves.

This does not mean that the Girl Scouts ought to be forsaken. BSA might benefit from combining forces with its sister organization to incorporate into its own program badges already a part of the Girl Scouts’ curriculum that focus on social skills, introspection and other attributes essential to workplace settings that are focused ever more heavily on teamwork and social networking. By adopting some of the more traditionally feminine badges awarded by the Girl Scouts, such as those for babysitting and cooking, the new and improved Boy Scouts would offer their members a space to explore interests that do not align with traditional gender norms. One central organization of scouting created from the combined forces of Boy and Girl Scouts could better itself by encompassing the principles of both groups and adding “a commitment to striking down the gender-binary system” to its collective motto.

We should honor the vision of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America by preparing our young men for their futures in a world that is realistically changing faster than the old traditions can withstand. We should take a note from the founder of the Girl Scouts who saw scouting as an opportunity for social defiance in the name of progression. We should give every child, regardless of gender, the same opportunity to live free of bias. Instead of supporting a history of sexism, homophobia and traditionalism, the new scouts of America would raise each generation to come on the good old value that all people are created equal.

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Dartmouth Dining Services can better prioritize student interests.

Dartmouth should serve its students’ interests. The College needs to take in some revenue to survive, but it should not do so on the backs of its students. Dartmouth Dining Services would be a better business, and students would be happier and better off, if dining options at Dartmouth were made more competitive, if student meal plan requirements were relaxed or abandoned and if declining balance account funds could be spent at offcampus eateries.

Monopolies succeed at the expense of consumers. Adam Smith wrote in “The Wealth of Nations” that more options in a marketplace benefits the consumer and “must tend to make the retailers both sell cheaper and buy dearer, than if the whole trade was monopolized.” DDS functions as a monopoly: With the exception of the meal swipe-free King Arthur Flour Café in Baker Library, the entire campus is reliant on DDS. What’s more, DDS, through its partnership with the College, forces students to buy mandated dining plans even if they live off-campus or in College-owned apartments. DDS is free to charge exorbitant prices for food, knowing that students will be forced to buy it anyway and that those who would otherwise choose to prepare their own food will have no financially viable option to do so. Since DDS is a private company, it is impossible to know how much money is made from these processes.

Though Hanover is not known for low food costs, DDS prices frequently rise above what seems reasonable. A pack of four Udi’s gluten free baked goods can be bought for $7 in a grocery store, but DDS’s Novack Cafe sells just one of the four pre-packaged muffins included for $3.55. A bottled Odwalla smoothie sells at DDS for $4.75, but that same bottle costs just $2.94 from other retailers. A bottle of Honest Tea can be bought for $1.29 or less, but at Dartmouth, the drink costs $3.50. The list goes on. This price gouging has detrimental effects on all Dartmouth students, but those who are less well off are particularly hard-hit.

Less able to go into Hanover to eat or buy food, students can struggle to eat healthily when fresh fruit and vegetables begin to eat up their meal plans, either through expensive, swipe-heavy plans that prioritize the Class of 1953 Commons or through DBA costs at other eateries. DDS’ prices, then, may further cement class divides at a college that should seek to overcome them.

For first-term students, the requirement to enroll in the 20-swipe plan or the broadly similar 160-swipe per term plan creates access to plenty of food, but at a high cost that reduces free choice and agency and ostensibly benefits DDS’ bottom line. Both plans cost $2,230, making them among the most expensive meal plans. Since ’53 Commons — the only campus eatery in which meal swipes are redeemable directly, rather than as DBA equivalents — makes food in bulk rather than as individually prepared dishes, DDS is able to reduce its labor costs. Requiring first-years to be on these two meal plans may result in wider profit margins, but it dramatically reduces student choice, particularly for low-income students, since

meal swipes have far less bang-for-their-buck at any other dining location.

Lines are growing appallingly long at DDS locations. It is now not uncommon to see students lined up almost to McNutt Hall from the doors of ’53 Commons. The overcrowded Collis Cafe remains all but unnavigable during peak hours. During dinner and lunch times, the Courtyard Cafe suffers from lines that can take up to 40 minutes — and there seems to have been no reduction in wait time after the cafe changed its food selections this year.

Though some may argue that these problems were caused by the oversized Class of 2021, lines were nearly as long before their arrival.

These issues may only worsen as the College considers adding as many as 1,000 new students.

There are many options that would make DDS into a far better dining service. One critical change is quite straightforward: Under mining the imposed monopoly.

Many colleges and universities — including Harvard University, New York University and Pennsylvania State University — allow off-campus businesses to accept their meal plans’ equivalents of DBA, while others — like the University of Pennsylvania — provide off-campus discounts. Yale University allows students to use multiple meal swipes during the same period — that is, a student can use two swipes during lunch, rather than just one. Dartmouth should follow suit. Business in Hanover would likely jump at the chance for increased revenue from hungry students no longer worried about spending cash offcampus. An additional dining hall or local, third-party vendor stands in both new and existing facilities could help ameliorate these issues.

Dartmouth should strongly reconsider the requirement that students purchase on-campus meal plans. The policy curtails individual choice of a student body with diverse dietary needs and preferences. The College has constructed kitchens in almost all dormitories. If students wish to cook their meals outside the auspices of the College, they should be free to do so. If first-years are still required to enroll in a meal plan, the fall term requirement that they join the 20-mealswipe-per-week or 160-swipe-per-term plans should be revisted. In addition, smaller-scale meal plans should be offered to all students.

Finally, if alternatives to DDS exist — ones that are more cost-effective, less interested in gouging prices and more amenable to competition — they should be allowed to come to Dartmouth, either as a replacement to DDS or as a competitor.

Dartmouth can do better for its students, either by introducing a new food service provider or by creating a more competitive dining system at the College. Allowing off-campus businesses to accept DBA and removing meal plan requirements could greatly benefit all students.

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Research finds lower Eocene CO2 levels than previously thought FROM CO2 PAGE 1

new carbon dioxide proxy used on sediment samples from the Eocene period in the paper, which was published in the academic journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Cui said there are limited locations where sediment samples dating back to the Eocene period may be found, including the Wyoming Bighorn Basin and the northern Gonjo Basin in China.

She added that carbon dioxide estimates using ocean chemistry have been made in the past, but a unique challenge of her research was finding the terrestrial locations where testing could be done.

“The interesting part is studying these terrestrial sections can give us additional insights into how the hydroclimate would respond to climate change, which is one of the concerns of future climate change studies,” Cui said. “Because all human beings live on land, it is important to predict how the climate on land will change in response to changes in CO2 levels and changes in temperature and the hydroclimate. This is what we can learn by looking at these terrestrial sections in addition to using them as an archive to study

the past CO2 level.”

Schubert said that researchers have wanted to study carbon fractionation of C3 land plants for many years and that C3 plants, including trees, herbs and shrubs, show a correlation between increased CO2 and carbon fractionation. He added that he and Cui took a new approach to explain the correlation between carbon fractionation and the CO2 content in Earth’s atmosphere.

When Cui and Schubert were studying the two terrestrial sections for sediments, they looked for changes in the amount of carbon in dead plant remains as a function of rising CO2 levels during the Eocene period. This method relies on measuring CO2 isotopes in the sediment deposits to determine the related CO2 content in the atmosphere, Schubert said. “ M y P h . D. t r a i n i n g w a s about climate models as well as correlating terrestrial to marine sections and evaluating these areas using proxies for past CO2 reconstruction,” Cui said. “A natural continuation of my Ph.D. research was thinking about the proxies out there we can use to reconstruct the CO2 across each of these hyperthermal events.”

According to Cui’s paper, hyperthermal events are “multiple s h o r t - l i ve d g l o b a l w a r m i n g events.”

Currently, there are at least seven proxies that exist, but each are somewhat limited in their material, Cui said, adding that ocean proxies using boron require some knowledge about the ocean climate such as pH. She noted that proxies which rely on counting stomata in leaf prints are unreliable due to the difficulty associated with dating them.

Cui added that the proxy used in for her research is limited to areas in which sediments are preserve, but it is supported by the strong correlation between carbon fractionation and CO2 content in the atmosphere. Other proxies before have shown lower resolution of the carbon content in this timescale, Cui said.

“It is always useful to have another tool in the tool kit. [Cui and Schubert] created another CO2 proxy,” said Dana Royer, an earth and environmental sciences professor at Wesleyan University.

“This new proxy can be used any time in Earth’s history when there were land plants. There’s potential there to study CO2 change to a little over 400 million years ago.”

Cui said that their results show period was very high, or that there an upper limit of 1,000 parts per are other greenhouse gases such as million CO2 in the atmosphere methane that amplify the global before hyperthermal events, which warming effect. is contradictory

There to model are no ways to s i m u l a t i o n s “The CO2 content of determine what suggesting peak our atmosphere is these other CO2 as high gases might be, projected to rise to as 2,000 parts Schubert said, p e r m i l l i o n . three times higher but the scientific Current levels than what it is today community still of CO2 are considers the a r o u n d 4 0 0 ... We’re kind of going issue important. parts p e r into unprecedented

“The million. Cui CO2 content of human history.” added that this our atmosphere new idea about is projected to lower peak CO2 -BRIAN SCHUBERT, rise to three suggests other times higher p r o p e r t i e s GEOSCIENCES PROFESSOR than what it or o t h e r AT THE UNIVERSITY OF i s t o d a y, ” greenhouse Schubert said.

LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE “We don’t truly gases might have played have anything a m o r e younger than important role 55 million years in maintaining to show what the Eocene a doubling of climate.

CO2 in our In regards to why Earth’s atmosphere looks like. Everything t e m p e r at u re re m a i n e d h i g h before then has been considered to regardless of lower-than-expected be a low CO2 world, lower than carbon content, Cui described two what the levels are today. We’re potential answers: that the climate kind of going into unprecedented sensitivity during the Eocene human history.”

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

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3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Colloquium: “Quantum Matter Without Quasiparticles: Strange Metals and Black Holes,” with Harvard University professor Subir Sachdev, Wilder 104

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

Film: “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” directed by Bill Morrison, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

TOMORROW

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

Film: “Step,” directed by Amanda Lipitz, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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

Performance: “Music, She Wrote...” selections by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

SUNDAY

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

Film: “Batería,” directed by Damián Sainz, Filene Auditorium

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

National Theater Live: screening of “Yerma,” directed by Simon Stone, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017

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‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’ at Loew Auditorium tonight

By SAVANNAH MILLER The Dartmouth

Tonight the Hopkins Center for the Arts will show “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” a documentary about a Canadian town in the Yukon region that became a hotspot during the Klondike Gold Rush. Additionally, Dawson City rose to fame within the film industry in 1978 when old prints and reels were discovered. Directed by Bill Morrison, “Dawson City: Frozen Time” delves into the rich history of this forgotten town.

The documentary recalls the origins of the Canadian town. Before the late 19th century, indigenous peoples lived on the land now called Dawson City, using the space for cultivating crops, fishing and hunting moose. However, between 1896 and 1898, Dawson City became the center of the gold rush, and the indigenous population was pushed out to make room for over 40,000 panhandlers seeking fortune. When the rush ended, the influx of newcomers ended too.

The residents fled, and Dawson City experienced a population reduction to 1,000 by the 1940s. An accidental discovery by a construction crew in 1978 put the small town back on the map, after a different kind of gold mine was discovered.

About 500 nitrate films were found hidden in a swimming pool in Dawson City, preserved by the permafrost characteristic of the Yukon. The films are all silent films or newsreels forgotten or considered lost, and the documentary draws from these reels for the bulk of the piece. The found footage is pieced together and supplemented by interviews, historical footage and photographs from the city, combining to make a statement about

history and the art it leaves behind.

Alex Somers created the score, an artist most known for his work as a coproducer, mixer and sound engineer with Sigur Rós.

Tonight’s event will feature a post-show discussion with film studies professor Mark Williams and Morrison, the director of the piece, who previously screened his film “The Great Flood” on campus in 2013.

“It made so much sense to bring [Morrison] to campus this term,” Williams said. “He’s such a gifted filmmaker and so expressive in ways that we don’t always remember are ways to be expressive that its perfect for my ‘Introduction to Film’ course.”

Williams became familiar with Morrison through the Media Ecology Project, a program dedicated to preserving public memory in the form of historical films, and the Orphan Film Symposium, a project organized

by New York University professor Dan Streible, Williams said. Williams and Sydney Stowe, acting director of film at the Hop, are both extremely excited to have the director back on campus.

“We are very excited to host production designer, filmmaker and archivist [Morrison] here this weekend,” Stowe said. “[Morrison] has been a guest of the Hopkins Center several times over the years with his earlier film and with acclaimed musicians like the Kronos Quartet.”

According to Stowe, students will also have the opportunity to participate in a master class with Morrison today at 11:30 a.m. The master class has open sign-ups, offers lunch and the opportunity for students to interact with and as questions of the guest director, film and media studies department administrator Cheryl Coutermarsh said in an email.

Morrison shared his excitement about showcasing a piece to students about a town he believes represents America and her plights with industrialization in the 20th century.

“As the indigenous people were pushed out, the workers came in, and then they got pushed out by corporations with mechanized ways of harvesting gold,” Morrison said.

“It became a factory town, and that was sort of the fall of it.”

While exploring the found footage of Dawson City, Morrison said he found many clips from newsreels people did not know existed, including footage from the controversial “Black Sox” World Series in 1919, coverage of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado in 1914 and scenes of minor workers protesting the conditions imposed on them by John D. Rockefeller, the chief owner. “[The Dawson City collection] is a very concrete history,” Morrison said. “[Students] will have their minds blown. It’s an incredible film.”

He also cited the film’s return to the earlier days of cinema as a major appeal of the piece.

“It’s mostly told with titles in the silent film tradition,” Morrison said.

“I think it’s almost trance-inducing.”

Williams believes “Dawson City” is a movie from which students and viewers can learn about film history.

“Everyone can learn about the fragility of cultural production and what’s so powerful about remembering the past,” he said. “A lot of people can’t imagine film history as anything but ubiquitous and eternal, and both of those things are wrong.”

As director of the Media Ecology Project at Dartmouth, Williams aims to connect film archives and expand them with moving images related

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Many of the films discovered in Dawson City in 1978 were silent black and white films.

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“Dawson City: Frozen Time” depicts how the gold rush changed the community.

to the history of filmography and orphan films, movies or reels that have faded from cultural relevancy or awareness. Often, their owners are either unknown or so untraceable that the film is under no copyright.

He hopes students will garner a new appreciation for these kinds of films after viewing “Dawson City.” “ T h e s e a re f u n d a m e n t a l documents of public memory, and we argue with them,” Williams said.

“We should question public memory.

That should be part of what makes

us human beings.”

Morrison said because the piece includes a comprehensive history of these “documents” and the town that hid them, it offers an experience unavailable anywhere else.

“It tells this patchwork of a story of the 20th century in film clips,” Morrison said. “You’re not going to see anything like it anywhere else.”

“Dawson City: Frozen Time” is playing in the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center tonight at 7 p.m.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017

TODAY’S LINEUP

SPORTS ONE ON ONE

with Kyran McKinney-Crudden ’18

By MAYA MOTEN The Dartmouth

Dartmouth tri-captain Kyran McKinney-Crudden ’18 has become a defensive leader in his senior season.

His 36 tackles rank third on the team, and his goal-line interception last week denied Sacred Heart University the chance for a go-ahead score.

Ahead of Saturday’s showdown with undefeated Columbia University, The Dartmouth sat down with the nickelback to discuss his senior season.

What made you decide to come to Dartmouth?

KMC: I decided on Dartmouth for a combination of academics and athletics. I always planned on playing college football. Dartmouth gave me the best opportunity to pursue both at the highest level.

What was the transition from high school football like?

KMC: There were a lot of learning curves I dealt with when I got to college athletics. The time commitment is significantly larger, the players are bigger and faster and the mental part of the game is much more important as well.

Freshman fall is probably the hardest term for most Dartmouth football players. Or the first winter for the guys from the South.

As both an engineer and a football player, how do you manage to handle both time commitments?

KMC: Choosing my classes is the hardest part about being an engineer and a football player. I typically load up my lab classes in the winter because we only have lift in the morning and the rest of the day free. However, fall term is kind of a roller coaster with classes and football.

How do you set your goals for the season?

KMC: The goal every year is the same — win an Ivy League Championship.

The weekday Roundup

Compiled by EVAN MORGAN & CHRIS SHIM

SAILING The Big Green hosted and placed second in the Captain Hurst Bowl over the weekend, while a second Dartmouth contingent took third in Yale University’s Yale Women’s regatta.

The breeze did not cooperate at Mascoma Lake on Saturday, and racing was abandoned in the late afternoon. Sunday brought a southerly breeze that allowed for nine races in the A, B and C divisions. Chris Williford ’19 and Rebecca McElvain ’19 sailed to one win and one second-place finish to place third overall in the A division. In division B, the pairing of Duncan Williford ’18 and Paige Clarke ’20 notched five top-five finishes. In division C, Erik Weis ’18 and Eloise Burn ’21 sailed to one win and three second-place finishes. The Big Green’s 173

points trailed first-place Yale by 39.

The 18 teams at the Yale Women’s regatta raced in northerly and southerly breezes throughout Saturday, completing five races in the A and B divisions. The next day, an 8-to-15-mile-per-hour southerly allowed for eight more races in each division. Emma White ’19 and Peninah Benjamin ’20 sailed for Dartmouth in division A, earning a pair of wins and fourth place in the division. The Green and White took first in division B behind the strong sailing of Audrey Giblin ’20 and Sophia Diserio ’18. The pair won five races and finished second in three more, running away with first place in their division. Dartmouth finished the weekend in third place, just 12 points behind winner Coast Guard Academy.

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I normally set some smaller personal goals, but at the end of the day, the ring is what’s important.

How do you prepare yourself for games?

KMC: I have a playlist I listen to every game day. It starts slower with some R&B so I can focus and think about the game. Then, it picks up with some rap and even a rock song or two to get all the way in the zone.

How has becoming one of Dartmouth’s tri-captains this year changed your approach on the game?

KMC: It has been an amazing honor to be chosen as a leader among so many great guys. I don’t really change up who I am or what I do. I just be myself and have fun. I have some great teammates, so that’s pretty easy.

With major defensive leaders graduating last year, what has it been like stepping into that role?

KMC: We have a lot of guys that lead and make plays on defense as well as offense.

The team has made some amazing late game comebacks.

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Kyran McKinney-Crudden ’18 has 36 tackles for the Big Green this season.

How, as a captain, do you manage the emotion in the locker room going into the second half ? How do you help keep the team focused on the game?

KMC: Everyone feels the same when it gets down to crunch time: Do whatever it takes to win. We’ve had a lot of experience in those situations now, so no one panics.

Can you tell us about that critical interception last week against Sacred Heart? What was going through your mind?

KMC: It was a cool moment, but there was still a couple minutes left on the clock. The focus shifted pretty quickly to getting ready for the next series and

ending the game.

How is the team preparing itself togointothegameagainst Columbia this weekend?

KMC: We take every game as one week at a time. Our approach hasn’t changed, but we understand this is a big game.

What will you miss most about your time at Dartmouth?

KMC: The people. I have met some amazing people in my time here. I think that’s what made Dartmouth special to me.

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

MEN’S SOCCER No. 20 men’s soccer suffered a tough loss Tuesday night to No. 18 University of New Hampshire, 4-2, away at Wildcat Stadium in Durham, New Hampshire. The loss moves the Big Green to 8-3-1 on the season. Dartmouth got on the board first in the 37th minute with a header from Matt Danilack ’18 on an assist from Justin Donawa ’19. The Wildcats responded with

three unanswered goals, including two from forward Robin Schmidt.

Dawson McCartney ’21 scored on a shot from 10 yards out in the 85th minute to cut the lead in half, but UNH’s Jack Doherty responded four minutes later with what would be the last goal of the game. Chris Palacios ’21 spent the full 90 minutes in goal, recording one save. UNH’s goalkeeper

Andrew Pesci recorded three saves on the game. The Wildcats outshot Dartmouth 12-9, while both teams had two corner kicks and seven fouls each.

The Big Green will host Columbia University tomorrow at 7 p.m. The Big Green and the Lions are currently tied for the Ivy League lead, each with a 2-0-1 record in conference play.

field hockey Field hockey scored a victory Wednesday afternoon over the University of New Hampshire, 4-3, at home. UNH got off to a quick start when Bloem van den Brekel scored in the seventh minute. The game remained scoreless for the Big Green until Gemma Bautista ’19 tied the game with her first of two goals in

the game, and her fifth goal of the season. Morgan Philie ’18, who assisted Bautista on both goals, followed in the top of the 36th minute with her third goal of the season. After a UNH goal to tie the game, Katie Spanos ’20 and Bautista gave the Big Green the lead for good within the span of two minutes. Spanos and Bautista

are tied for the team lead with six goals each. Notably, the Wildcats outshot the Big Green 23-10, but goalkeeper Emily Wechsler ’18 recorded a full 70 minutes in goal, contributing nine saves and picking up her first win of the season. The Big Green return to action against Columbia University on Saturday at 12 p.m.