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to causing Morton fire

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Melanie Benson Taylor will be the new House professor for North Park House.

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Earlier this month, the College announced that Native American studies professor Melanie Benson Taylor will serve as the North Park House professor beginning in the winter term. She will replace Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, who in turn replaced biology professor Ryan Calsbeek after he stepped down from the position earlier this term. Taylor, who serves as chair of her department, specializes in Native American literature

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and will teach a course on the subject this spring. She earned her doctorate and masters degree from Boston University and completed her bachelor’s degree at Smith College. Together with her husband Alan Taylor, who serves as a lecturer in writing, and their two-year old son, she will move into a home on North Park street next month to be closer to her students.

Last night, the Rockefeller Center hosted a panel called “Finally It’s Over: The 2016 Election and Its Aftermath,” in which panelists discussed the presidential, state and congressional election results and voter demographic trends.

Rockefeller Center As-

sociate Director Ron Shaiko moderated the discussion between government professors Brendan Nyhan and Dean Lacy.

The panel was divided into three parts, with Nyhan discussing the presidential race, Lacy discussing the conSEE ELECTION PAGE 3

MT: I think what really attracted me was the idea that there was this great opportunity in the social and the intellectual life at Dartmouth to do something that was really organic and I think driven not in a top-down fashion. I think there’s potential for students to really dictate and engineer what a really cohesive, inclusive campus community could look like. So I really got excited about being able to participate in that and to find ways to really just be an SEE HOUSE PAGE 2

Sebastian Lim and Daniel Ro admitted to causing the Oct. 1 fire in Morton Hall in an online petition on the Care2 petition site. In the letter, titled “Change Our Lives,” Ro and Lim apologized for their actions and asked people to sign the petition in support as the two have been expelled from the College for posing “a threat to the community at large.”

In the letter, Ro and Lim described their actions as a mistake and said that the College’s emails to campus did not fully capture the details of the events leading up to the fire.

The two welcomed students to reach out to them for further details, noting that students “should not rely on the rumors.”

The two wrote that they do not believe they pose a continuing threat to the community.

“While we made a mistake that could have potentially injured people, it was just that — a mistake. We implore you to take a minute to consider what occurred,” Lim and Ro wrote.

As of press time, 160 people have signed the petition which is addressed to the Dartmouth Community and targeted to Vice Provost of Student Affairs Inge-Lise Ameer. Seventeen people have commented on the petition in support of Lim and Ro. The supporters wrote about the character of the two former students, with many noting that he had made an honest mistake and should be given a second chance.

The four-alarm fire in Morton Hall was caused by a charcoal grill left unattended on the roof of the building, according to a press release from the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal. The hibachi-style grill was placed on a flat section of the roof outside of a dormitory window.

Morton Hall is currently uninhabitable as a result of extensive smoke and water damage caused by the fire.

College celebrates Veteran’s Day

By JULIAN NATHAN The Dartmouth

Veterans, students and community members will gather tonight to celebrate the annual Veteran’s Banquet in the Hanover Inn. The event, which will recognize influential veterans in the Dartmouth community, is part of the College’s Veteran’s Day programming this week.

At the banquet — which will be open and free to all

students — Winnie Huang ’92 , the president of the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni, will present the James Wright Award to James Geiling, a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine.

The award is presented to a Dartmouth community member who has exemplified “our ideals of service, college and country,” Huang said.

Geiling is a retired United States Army Colonel and was a coordinator of first respond-

ers at the Pentagon on 9/11.

Dan Hampton, a postgraduate master of arts in liberal studies student who attended the Navy Top Gun School and USAF Fighter Weapons School, will deliver the banquet’s keynote speech.

Hampton, a bestselling author whose work has been published in six different languages, is currently the CEO of MVI International, SEE VETERANS PAGE 3

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Seniors mostly enter finance, consulting

for not addressing a wide range of needs,” Wilson said. “We don’t want to turn away an employer who wants Last week marked the deadline to recruit Dartmouth students and the for members of the Class of 2017 majority of employers who approach to accept jobs through corporate us are in finance, consulting and now recruiting. This deadline follows two tech.”

However, Wilson noted that cycles of recruiting this fall, and if past trends hold true, most of the class will the CPD provides many resources go on to finance and consulting roles. for students who have interests in According to the Center for Pro- other areas. According to Wilson, fessional Development’s Cap and in addition to over 6,000 job postGown Survey, which is a career survey ings on DartBoard, the CPD helps administered by the CPD every June, students find jobs on Capitol Hill or at nonprofit orover 50 percent ganizations. The of the Class of CPD also funds 2016 works in “If students don’t immersion trips finance or con- come in, they rarely cities around sulting, which hear about [the CPD’s to the country, brings are fields that guests speakers typically re- resources.” from various fields cruit through and has impleon-campus mented programs recruiting. A - MONICA WILSON, facilitate students’ majority of CPD SENIOR ASSOCIATE job search across surveyed seDIRECTOR different indusniors haved tries. An example work in these of one of these two industries post-graduation for the last four years. programs is Dartmouth Circles, an Statistics from the survey also online networking platform that show that the technology sector is promotes conversations between increasingly becoming a popular students and employers.

This year, the CPD has implecareer path. Thirteen percent of respondents from the Class of 2016 mented changes in its recruiting are working in technology, compared process to fit the needs of more to 12 percent of graduates in 2015, students, according to Wilson.

For students seeking internships 6 percent in 2014 and 4 percent in during their junior summer, the 2013.

Other colleges are seeing similar CPD now allows employers to recruit trends. The University of Pennsyl- sophomores during their sophomore vania witnessed a 6 percent increase summer or junior fall as opposed to in the number of graduates working only during their junior winter. As a in technology from 2013 to 2016. At result, a smaller number of employHarvard College, the technology and ers will be on campus this winter. engineering industries attracted 20 Wilson explained that a large absence percent of its seniors this year, which of sophomores during their winter term was the main reason behind has risen from 13 percent in 2013.

Penn and Harvard are also known this timeline shift.

Meanwhile, the CPD is also planto churn out financial analysts and consultants. However, unlike Dart- ning a program called, “Is Recruiting mouth, no more than 50 percent of For Me?” through which sophomores its graduates have worked in finance and first-years can learn more about and consulting consistently over the the recruiting process and whether their interests align with the types last few years.

Seung Wook Kim ’15, who will of employers that often recruit on graduate from the College after this campus.

Wilson also emphasized the imterm, believes that the CPD does not provide enough resources for students portance of students meeting with not interested in finance or consulting. CPD advisors especially if they are “[The CPD] could get companies unsure about their career interests.

“If students don’t come in and from more industries other than finance or consulting to be listed on meet with their advisors, they rarely hear about [the CPD’s resources],” DartBoard,” Kim said.

CPD Senior Associate Director Wilson said, “Searching on your Monica Wilson said other students own can be difficult and intimidating especially if you are not really sure have raised similar concerns.

“We routinely have been criticized what you want to pursue.”

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North Park gets new House professor FROM HOUSE PAGE 1

instigator for bringing together not just students but faculty and staff around issues that we’re all interested in and that we care about.

What would you say then that you hope to accomplish as House professor? What are your thoughts on the role House professors should be playing in residential life?

MT: What I hope to accomplish would be creating a space where students feel comfortable and excited to come together and talk about what’s happening in their classrooms and in the campus community, and of course right now in the nation and around the globe. I think college campuses are such unique environments where there’s really this microcosm of backgrounds and regions and demographics. It kind of looks like the House professors are sort of at the top of this hierarchy in some ways on this new residential organizational chart. But in truth, I think the House professor should really just be one member among many in a community.

And I’m really thinking of it as just a different way of organizing community at Dartmouth. So I would see myself stepping in to the role of being a host, really. Opening up our home to students and faculty and staff to come together, watch debates and things. I’m already thinking ahead to the next presidential season.

How has your own residential life background from college helped shape some of these goals and visions?

MT: I went to Smith College, which is a private women’s college in western Massachusetts, which on the surface of things is very different from Dartmouth.

But at the same time, it shares a lot of the same feature. It’s a small, liberal arts institution in a relatively quiet, rural environment. So there, the residential life is really structured around a housing system. And there was no Greek system, of course, to compete with there, so the housing system was the very center, the nexus of social and intellectual life.

And that, for me, was an just amazing experience. It meant a really coherent environment to think, to do work and to build friendships and relationships.

One of my favorite professors from Smith actually just came to visit me at Dartmouth and have lunch s couple weeks ago. These are relationships that have been ongoing, and they were really cemented in that kind of an atmosphere.

So I think one of the things that’s central to Dartmouth social life right now is the Greek system.

How do you think the two institutions — the new housing system and Greek life — are going to

coexist at Dartmouth?

MT: I see them not as competing but really as being complementary. I think they can offer different kinds of enrichment and avenues for creating relationships and networking and really building community. And again, what that will look like in the housing system I think will vary depending on the year and the house community and the individuals that are involved in building that. So I assume it’s the same in Greek system as well — you know, the houses and each group really changes according to who’s involved in creating the fabric of that community. I really just think that what the housing system is doing is it’s providing more spaces.

Obviously it’s still early, but where do you envision the House system moving in the next few years? What changes do you anticipate might occur?

MT: That’s another really good question, and I think one that probably no one can and should answer right now, because I think it should be driven entirely by the experimentation of these first terms and years.

As you know, there’s been a lot of dialogue both at Dartmouth and nationally about the idea of safe spaces in the recent months and years. What are your thoughts on

this concept and how it might tie in to residential life, or your role as House professor?

MT: I think that is an essential piece of any community. Despite Dartmouth’s apparent small, intimate size, it can be a very big, intimidating place, particularly for students from underrepresented backgrounds, but really any student could find being in such a large, diverse community a little destabilizing. I think it’s so important particularly on college campuses to be providing those kinds of safe, welcoming, nurturing kinds of spaces for growth and development to happen. I’m deliberately using very vague, neutral language because I think this doesn’t simply apply to traditionally vulnerable groups. That, of course, is of primary importance, but I operate under assumption that really anyone can be in need of a safe space at some point or another. It should be and is sometimes an alienating and unsettling experience to move through the process of growing and adapting and having your beliefs challenged. And sometimes it can be a hurtful process for those who find themselves questioning their place in the world or their value or their identity. So as much as we can embolden and empower students to feel strong in their quest to navigate those challenges, I think we’ll have done a service.

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

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Events to include banquet at Inn Panel titled ‘Finally it’s over’ focuses on election will be fired to celebrate veterans’ contributions and sacrifices.

Several other events related to a private company specializing in counterterrorism and high value veterans have occurred throughout this week, and more are scheduled asset protection.

Toward the conclusion of the for the weekend, Veterans Recognibanquet, DUSA will also support tion Committee chair Sara Campbell said. a silent auction Ye s for its “Toys for terday eveTots” program, “Dartmouth has a ning, veterans which coordi- long history of military took to the ice nates toy doservice.” at Thompson nation efforts Arena as part from veterans to of the third anchildren in the -WINNIE HUANG ’92, nual TuckVets Upper Valley PRESIDENT OF THE v. IceVets Sled area.

H a m p t o n DARTMOUTH UNIFORMED Hockey game.

Louwill attend an SERVICE ALUMNI isa Howard, a upcoming cofboard director feehouse in and treasurer at which he will discuss his perspectives and expe- Ice Vets Adaptive Sports, said the riences with students. Rockefeller Tuck School of Business sponsored Center program officer Joanne the game to raise money for proNeedham, who planned the event, grams that support veterans. The explained that it might be particu- IceVets hockey team, comprised larly interesting for students to learn completely of veterans, provides vetabout what Hampton has accom- erans with a sense of camaraderie, Howard said. She added that the plished since leaving the military.

Today, veterans will also gather success of this program has allowed on the Green for a Veterans Day adaptive sports to work closely with Retreat and Drill Ceremony, led the Veterans Association Hospital by the Dartmouth ROTC. At the in White River Junction, Vermont. ceremony, the Baker Bell Tower will This game was part of a larger ice play Service Hymns, and a cannon hockey season specifically for vetFROM VETERANS PAGE 1

erans, which began this September and will run through April.

Yesterday, Tuck student combat veterans also visited Hanover High School to discuss their experiences in question and answer sessions.

This weekend, veterans will have free access to all Dartmouth athletic events. Programming will culminate this Sunday with a 241st Marine Corps Birthday Ball.

According to Campbell, the amount of programming scheduled for this year is consistent with the amount of programming scheduled for previous years.

“Dartmouth has a long history of military service,” Huang said.

She added that the College has recently increased its outreach efforts to veterans by becoming a University Partner of the Posse Foundation.

“Dartmouth’s partnership with the Posse Foundation guarantees that 10 outstanding veterans will be admitted as first-year students to Dartmouth each year,” she said.

The 10 veterans admitted through this program do not affect the College’s admissions policy toward other veteran candidates.

Huang said Dartmouth also reaches out to veterans through efforts at Tuck and at Geisel’s Masters in Public Health program.

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gressional races and Shaiko discussing state races.

Nyhan noted that Hillary Clinton won among minorities and won among college-educated whites by 14 points, whereas Donald Trump won amongst whites without college degrees by 10 points. Whites without college degrees constitute a larger portion of the population than whites with college degrees.

While almost all of the polls heading into the election favored Clinton, Nyhan said the traditional models were more accurate. Those models,based on the state of the economy in the second quarter of 2016 and presidential approval ratings, both favored Trump.

“This year’s presidential polls were somewhat off, but they were not very different from what was expected so the panic and chaos about the polling errors is overstated,” he said.

Nyhan noted that this election moved away from the traditional divide between liberals and conservatives to a divide between the establishment and anti-establishment forces.

When asked about how tight the presidential race really was, all panelists agreed that if only one in 100 Trump supporters switched sides to support Clinton, she would have flipped key states like Virginia and Michigan and won the Electoral College.

Nyhan said Trump sparked a surge in Republican support in the upperMidwest states, which tended to vote

for Democratic candidates in past presidential elections.

Lacy noted the decrease in the amount of Democratic votes this election. In 2008, President Barack Obama had 69 million votes and Mitt Romney had 61 million, whereas Clinton and Trump both had 60 million votes this year.

He then attributed the disappearance of nine million Democratic votes from 2008 to 2016 to her lackluster performance with African-Americans and middle-aged women, the latter of which was a demographic Clinton was expected to easily win.

Ultimately, the panelists pointed to working-class whites as being the key demographic in this election.

“Working-class whites went from being an essential part of the Democratic party to being forgotten and then to being forgotten by the Republican party, so they turned to a Donald Trump candidacy,” Shaiko said.

Lacy added that the rise of white working-class voters points to an increasing trend of populism throughout the United States and the rest of the world. He pointed to Brexit as an example, which he said indicated a growing tide against globalization and multiculturalism.

The panelists also added that they expect Trump to act more presidentially as a right-wing conservative, saying that he will most likely enact tax cuts, overturn Obamacare, and change immigration policies in his first 100 days

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The Aftermath

Three Days Later

How to cope with a Trump presidency.

I’m writing this article on Wednesday, we avoid becoming bogged down by the Nov. 9, and let me just say that I don’t want ever-increasing levels of hate that have to write it. I’m tired, bitter. Part of me is characterized this election, then we can deeply saddened that I must pen these words. focus our efforts on helping those among us Another part of me is stunned. Another who are affected most. That is the first step. part frightened. Another numb. But this The next is to educate ourselves, to make isn’t about me — this is about an election our voices heard, to protest peacefully and result that would have been the punch line communicate our viewpoints clearly. During of a joke just six months ago. This is about this process, we must not surrender to hatred coping with a result that is at best surprising or to fear. Those are the forces of Trump. and at worst terrifying, depending on who They corrupt and exploit. Hold onto love. you ask. This is about President-elect Donald I want to talk about Trump supportTrump, and how we should respond. ers. They are people. They have hopes Firstly, I want to say that you are loved. and dreams and families and interests and No matter who you are, there is someone out opinions, and there are a lot of them. I there who loves you. Trump’s election makes can’t believe I actually have to say this, but it painfully clear that hate still abounds. they are not Nazis. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan Racism, sexism, xenohas endorsed Trump, and phobia, homophobia, yes, Trump himself has bigotry — all the things “We must not turn spewed a whole litany Trump embodies — perbigoted, harmful lies, our back on America, of sist in our country. But but that does not mean hate is not antithetical to even if we feel it has all Trump supports are love; it does not negate turned its back on white supremacists. Many love but, rather, love of them — the vast majorexists alongside it. It is us.” ity, in fact — are regular a disease and a weapon. people. We should not A cunning sociopath has assume that the very few, used it to seize the highest office in the land very bad individuals in their group represent — but please, no matter how frightened or all of them. In essence, we should not do lonely or angry or scared his mind-bogglingly what Trump does. irresponsible platform of hate has made you So I return to my fundamental plea: Do feel, do not forget that you are loved. not let hatred win. If it must have Nov. 8, “Love Trumps Hate.” This is a key mes- 2016, then so be it. But do not concede sage from former Democratic presidential the next four years to hatred. Bitterness candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign that does nothing but fester. It will not change holds true despite the outcome of this elec- America; it will only change you. The best tion. In fact, it holds true now more than thing we can do in the coming days is be ever. In the cold shadow of this monumental available, compassionate and honest. We election, do not recoil. Do not resign yourself must believe that the progress America has to hatred. Your country needs your love. It made over the last 50 years will not come needs your strength and your vulnerability, undone as easily as we might fear. Change paradoxical as that may seem. Your country is hard. It takes time. Just because the White needs your love to heal, and even if you do House has fallen into the tiny hands of an not think your love has been earned, try to alleged rapist does not mean there aren’t give it nonetheless. responsible, qualifi ed politicians in our Support your friends and family. Be government ready to stand up and fight the conscious of the fact that, while most of tide that seeks to rollback progress. We must us have something to lose, some of us have support them. We must not turn our back more to lose than others. Tragedy breeds on America, even if we feel it has turned compassion if we cope with it correctly. If its back on us.

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Where do we go from here?

This election was about race. This election was about gender. This election was about sexuality.

This election was about religion. This election was about inequality.

It does not matter how many boastful Donald Trump supporters or conciliatory Trump detractors say otherwise. These facts cannot be ignored. In the wake of what has been almost universally described as the largest political upset in our country’s history, many of us are looking around and asking the same question: what do we do now? How do we deal with this? How do we go about our everyday lives — going to class, work, practice, club meetings, job interviews, Foco — knowing what we now know? How are we supposed to function with the knowledge that so many people in our country are at the very least apathetic enough about issues of race, gender, sexuality, religion and inequality to elect someone like Trump to the highest office in the land?

People have spent the last 48 hours arguing that this wasn’t what the election was really about. Instead, they claim that it was about rejecting the system, or about the unlikability former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is. However, we challenge you to tell that to two Muslim women who were attacked on their college campuses on Wednesday. We challenge you to tell that to Jose Antonio Vargas, a gay Filipino journalist and immigration activist, who has received countless threats online from empowered Trump supporters. We challenge you to say that to every person of color, every LGBTQIA+ person, every non-Christian, every immigrant, every differently abled person and every woman who had to wake up on Wednesday knowing that they lived in a country whose president-elect has specifically targeted, harassed, demonized and oppressed them. Support for Trump does not mean that you wholeheartedly support the oppression of all of these peoples — but it cannot be denied that supporting him means that you are at the very least indifferent to their oppression.

The other question we have been asking ourselves, as we try to go through our usual routine in a numb stupor, is: how could this happen?

From polls and even the atmosphere on campus, on social media and other platforms, it seemed so certain that Clinton was going to win. That was a given. We had already moved on to the after. How were Trump supporters going to deal with his loss? Would the country rally behind her after this venomous election? Would the GOP implode after this crushing defeat? We had to assume she was going to win. To many of us, the alternative was insane. It was a reality that only belonged in speculative Vox articles, bits on late-night talk shows or episodes of satirical television shows like “Veep” or “Black Mirror.”

How could it be any other way? All the people in our classes, everyone we hung out with, every celebrity we followed on Instagram and almost everyone on our newsfeed was sure she would win. Even Nate Silver said so.

We all built little echo chambers for ourselves that were so small and isolated and perfect that we couldn’t hear the mob yelling right outside, and the reality is that mob is almost completely white. They didn’t elect a racist, sexist, xenopho-

bic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, ableist sexual predator because they are evil, or because they want to see their own country burn to the ground.

Nobody is sitting in their lair and laughing maniacally at what they have wrought. Or at least we hope not. They elected Trump out of fear of losing their dominant place in a changing world. Inch by inch, through hard work and sacrifice and blood, marginalized groups have been demanding the country that for so long had so little regard for their well-being start to work for them too. Power, to Trump supporters, is a zero-sum game. If someone else is being given more power, it must mean that some of what is theirs is being taken away.

These are people who are afraid: a man who is afraid that marriage no longer means what he thought it means; a woman who is afraid that her daughter might go off to college and end up sitting next to a Muslim who surely wants nothing more than to see her stoned in the street; a man who is afraid of being forgotten because the movies, television shows and comics that he has always used to escape his life no longer star people who look and think like him. These are the people who wanted a Trump presidency.

This election, in many ways, has been about fear: The fear held deeply by Trump supporters and now the fear held by those who oppose him.

We need to acknowledge that fear. Only when we acknowledge the hatred that keeps us divided can we move forward in a meaningful way. bell hooks describes this culture of fear in “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.”

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity,” hooks writes.

“Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

How are we, the people on this campus and beyond who never thought this could happen, to reconcile the world we thought we lived in with one in which Trump won 279 electoral votes? We have to start by stepping out of the echo chambers we have built for ourselves.

More than anything, this election has shown us a more accurate picture of America than any of the Uproxx videos or Odyssey essays in our newsfeeds. We have to begin to inhabit a world in which we are aware that people either support or are complacent about the normalization of violence against marginalized groups. Only by shedding our arrogant, privileged, elitist illusion can we look this problem in its ugly, wretched face and begin to combat the structures that support it.

We absolutely do not need to accept a world in which the thoughts, speech and actions espoused by people like Trump are normal. We do not need to respect people’s opinions, beliefs and actions when those opinions, beliefs and actions do not respect our identities. We do need to realize, however, that this is the world we live in. It always has been. Only then can we work, shout, march, fight, give it every little thing we’ve got and then some to make that world a little bit better.

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The Aftermath

Three Days Later

How to cope with a Trump presidency.

I’m writing this article on Wednesday, we avoid becoming bogged down by the Nov. 9, and let me just say that I don’t want ever-increasing levels of hate that have to write it. I’m tired, bitter. Part of me is characterized this election, then we can deeply saddened that I must pen these words. focus our efforts on helping those among us Another part of me is stunned. Another who are affected most. That is the first step. part frightened. Another numb. But this The next is to educate ourselves, to make isn’t about me — this is about an election our voices heard, to protest peacefully and result that would have been the punch line communicate our viewpoints clearly. During of a joke just six months ago. This is about this process, we must not surrender to hatred coping with a result that is at best surprising or to fear. Those are the forces of Trump. and at worst terrifying, depending on who They corrupt and exploit. Hold onto love. you ask. This is about President-elect Donald I want to talk about Trump supportTrump, and how we should respond. ers. They are people. They have hopes Firstly, I want to say that you are loved. and dreams and families and interests and No matter who you are, there is someone out opinions, and there are a lot of them. I there who loves you. Trump’s election makes can’t believe I actually have to say this, but it painfully clear that hate still abounds. they are not Nazis. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan Racism, sexism, xenohas endorsed Trump, and phobia, homophobia, yes, Trump himself has bigotry — all the things “We must not turn spewed a whole litany Trump embodies — perbigoted, harmful lies, our back on America, of sist in our country. But but that does not mean hate is not antithetical to even if we feel it has all Trump supports are love; it does not negate turned its back on white supremacists. Many love but, rather, love of them — the vast majorexists alongside it. It is us.” ity, in fact — are regular a disease and a weapon. people. We should not A cunning sociopath has assume that the very few, used it to seize the highest office in the land very bad individuals in their group represent — but please, no matter how frightened or all of them. In essence, we should not do lonely or angry or scared his mind-bogglingly what Trump does. irresponsible platform of hate has made you So I return to my fundamental plea: Do feel, do not forget that you are loved. not let hatred win. If it must have Nov. 8, “Love Trumps Hate.” This is a key mes- 2016, then so be it. But do not concede sage from former Democratic presidential the next four years to hatred. Bitterness candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign that does nothing but fester. It will not change holds true despite the outcome of this elec- America; it will only change you. The best tion. In fact, it holds true now more than thing we can do in the coming days is be ever. In the cold shadow of this monumental available, compassionate and honest. We election, do not recoil. Do not resign yourself must believe that the progress America has to hatred. Your country needs your love. It made over the last 50 years will not come needs your strength and your vulnerability, undone as easily as we might fear. Change paradoxical as that may seem. Your country is hard. It takes time. Just because the White needs your love to heal, and even if you do House has fallen into the tiny hands of an not think your love has been earned, try to alleged rapist does not mean there aren’t give it nonetheless. responsible, qualifi ed politicians in our Support your friends and family. Be government ready to stand up and fight the conscious of the fact that, while most of tide that seeks to rollback progress. We must us have something to lose, some of us have support them. We must not turn our back more to lose than others. Tragedy breeds on America, even if we feel it has turned compassion if we cope with it correctly. If its back on us.

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Where do we go from here?

This election was about race. This election was about gender. This election was about sexuality.

This election was about religion. This election was about inequality.

It does not matter how many boastful Donald Trump supporters or conciliatory Trump detractors say otherwise. These facts cannot be ignored. In the wake of what has been almost universally described as the largest political upset in our country’s history, many of us are looking around and asking the same question: what do we do now? How do we deal with this? How do we go about our everyday lives — going to class, work, practice, club meetings, job interviews, Foco — knowing what we now know? How are we supposed to function with the knowledge that so many people in our country are at the very least apathetic enough about issues of race, gender, sexuality, religion and inequality to elect someone like Trump to the highest office in the land?

People have spent the last 48 hours arguing that this wasn’t what the election was really about. Instead, they claim that it was about rejecting the system, or about the unlikability former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is. However, we challenge you to tell that to two Muslim women who were attacked on their college campuses on Wednesday. We challenge you to tell that to Jose Antonio Vargas, a gay Filipino journalist and immigration activist, who has received countless threats online from empowered Trump supporters. We challenge you to say that to every person of color, every LGBTQIA+ person, every non-Christian, every immigrant, every differently abled person and every woman who had to wake up on Wednesday knowing that they lived in a country whose president-elect has specifically targeted, harassed, demonized and oppressed them. Support for Trump does not mean that you wholeheartedly support the oppression of all of these peoples — but it cannot be denied that supporting him means that you are at the very least indifferent to their oppression.

The other question we have been asking ourselves, as we try to go through our usual routine in a numb stupor, is: how could this happen?

From polls and even the atmosphere on campus, on social media and other platforms, it seemed so certain that Clinton was going to win. That was a given. We had already moved on to the after. How were Trump supporters going to deal with his loss? Would the country rally behind her after this venomous election? Would the GOP implode after this crushing defeat? We had to assume she was going to win. To many of us, the alternative was insane. It was a reality that only belonged in speculative Vox articles, bits on late-night talk shows or episodes of satirical television shows like “Veep” or “Black Mirror.”

How could it be any other way? All the people in our classes, everyone we hung out with, every celebrity we followed on Instagram and almost everyone on our newsfeed was sure she would win. Even Nate Silver said so.

We all built little echo chambers for ourselves that were so small and isolated and perfect that we couldn’t hear the mob yelling right outside, and the reality is that mob is almost completely white. They didn’t elect a racist, sexist, xenopho-

bic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, ableist sexual predator because they are evil, or because they want to see their own country burn to the ground.

Nobody is sitting in their lair and laughing maniacally at what they have wrought. Or at least we hope not. They elected Trump out of fear of losing their dominant place in a changing world. Inch by inch, through hard work and sacrifice and blood, marginalized groups have been demanding the country that for so long had so little regard for their well-being start to work for them too. Power, to Trump supporters, is a zero-sum game. If someone else is being given more power, it must mean that some of what is theirs is being taken away.

These are people who are afraid: a man who is afraid that marriage no longer means what he thought it means; a woman who is afraid that her daughter might go off to college and end up sitting next to a Muslim who surely wants nothing more than to see her stoned in the street; a man who is afraid of being forgotten because the movies, television shows and comics that he has always used to escape his life no longer star people who look and think like him. These are the people who wanted a Trump presidency.

This election, in many ways, has been about fear: The fear held deeply by Trump supporters and now the fear held by those who oppose him.

We need to acknowledge that fear. Only when we acknowledge the hatred that keeps us divided can we move forward in a meaningful way. bell hooks describes this culture of fear in “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.”

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity,” hooks writes.

“Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

How are we, the people on this campus and beyond who never thought this could happen, to reconcile the world we thought we lived in with one in which Trump won 279 electoral votes? We have to start by stepping out of the echo chambers we have built for ourselves.

More than anything, this election has shown us a more accurate picture of America than any of the Uproxx videos or Odyssey essays in our newsfeeds. We have to begin to inhabit a world in which we are aware that people either support or are complacent about the normalization of violence against marginalized groups. Only by shedding our arrogant, privileged, elitist illusion can we look this problem in its ugly, wretched face and begin to combat the structures that support it.

We absolutely do not need to accept a world in which the thoughts, speech and actions espoused by people like Trump are normal. We do not need to respect people’s opinions, beliefs and actions when those opinions, beliefs and actions do not respect our identities. We do need to realize, however, that this is the world we live in. It always has been. Only then can we work, shout, march, fight, give it every little thing we’ve got and then some to make that world a little bit better.

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Hanover voter turnout sees variation throughout the years

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Estimates of voter turnout in Hanover, New Hampshire point to the 2016 election as having the second highest voter participation in the town over the last five elections. Among citizens 18 years old or older, an estimated 88 percent of Hanover residents voted in this past Tuesday’s presidential

election. That represented an increase over the prior election in which there was an 83.2 turnout.

The high point for turnout during this five-election span occurred in 2008, when 88.8 percent of Hanover residents participated in the presidential election.

Total votes cast for presidential candidates, the numerator in the turnout calculation, came from New Hampshire Public Radio

Election Stats data. Citizen voting age population, the denominator in turnout, came from U.S. Census data for the minor civil division for Hanover. CVAP was not available at each specific year in which an election took place. Instead, the CVAP totals were taken from five year estimates. These five year estimates were chosen to contain the election year, and thus correspond to it.

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Veterans Day Retreat and Drill Ceremony, conducted by the Dartmouth ROTC, Dartmouth Green

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“Circle Mirror Transformation,” written by Annie Baker, directed by Liza Couser ’17, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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“Eight Days a Week” (2016), a Beatles documentary directed by Ron Howard, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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“Intimate Apparel,” written by Lynn Nottage, directed by Tazewell Thompson, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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“Fall Fling: An A Cappella Showcase,” hosted by The Sing Dynasty, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts RELEASE DATE– Friday, November 11, 2016

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The Villiers Quartet to perform with Sally Pinkas Saturday

By BETTY KIM

The Dartmouth

This Saturday, the Villiers Quartet and music professor Sally Pinkas will bring the sounds of Britain across the centuries to Rollins Chapel in a four-piece program.

The Villiers Quartet, a renowned London-based string quartet, became the quartet-in-residence at Oxford University after winning the Radcliffe Chamber Music Competition in 2015. Cellist Nick Stringfellow described their residency as a formative part of the quartet.

“Until you have something that brings things together and gives you an identity, it’s quite hard to go forward as a quartet,” Stringfellow said.

Saturday’s program features three English pieces that span three different time periods. Robert Saxton, a composer and professor of composition at Oxford University wrote “Fantasia for String Quartet” in 1993.

The group will play Saxton’s piece and the 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell’s “Fantasias,” which Saxton’s piece finds inspiration from.

“It’s kind of combining the old world and the new world together, and seeing how that music can be transformed,” violist Carmen Flores ’00 said.

The quartet will also collaborate with Pinkas to play Frank Bridge’s “Piano Quintet in D minor.” Completed in 1912, the piece strikes a stylistic medium between the Purcell and the Saxton, romantic in its emotive qualities yet conservative in its stylistic tendencies. Commenting on the singular style of British music, the musicians agreed that England’s cultural traditions and practices reveal themselves in each composition.

“You’ve got to understand the English psyche to be able to understand it; there is a certain reserve to it,” first violinist James Dickinson said. “It’s from that sort of time where people weren’t so extroverted about their emotions.”

The quartet has visited several Dartmouth classes this week, including “Global Sounds,” “Music of Today” and “Nineteenth-Century Music.” In addition to performing pieces from Saturday’s program as well as standard British repertoire relevant to each class, the musicians also

discussed British society’s reaction to with a pianist feels like an exchange D.H. Lawrence’s erotic novel “Lady between two entities rather than five.

Chatterley’s Lover.”The soundtrack “Especially in a lovely hall like of BBC One’s film version of the Spaulding, you can really hear each novel released in 2015 featured the other and things evolve; it’s great, quartet. it’s one of the great things about Dickinson noted that Edwardian chamber music,” Stringfellow said. culture, class divisions and a sense of Flores, who has maintained her reserve defined the social context of connections with Dartmouth through the novel. programs such as the music FSP, Pinkas met said that she t h e V i l l i e r s “We’re here to make great had a very Quartet during expemusic, and we want to positive the foreign study rience studyprogram for mu- share that with everybody ing music at sic in London because [it] can really lift Dartmouth, in 2014 when noting the Flores, a Dart- people up.” supportive mouth alumna, environment invited Pinkas to and profes-CARMEN FLORES ’00, play with them. sors. She addShe proposed VILLIERS QUARTET VIOLIST ed that she having the quarlearned from tet at Dartmouth her peers in for a week-long residency immedi- the department and in the Dartmouth ately after coming back from the FSP. Symphony Orchestra.

Pinkas said she appreciated the The performance coincides with musicality of each musician and the important milestones for the pergroup as a whole. formers; it will be an anniversary The Villiers Quartet also ex- concert of sorts for the members pressed their appreciation of working of the Villiers Quartet, who played with Pinkas, commenting that playing together for the first time six years

ago this week.

The concert will also inaugurate the new Petrof grand piano that will be housed in Rollins Chapel. The piano was a gift to the music department by Selma Bornstein, who was married to renowned neurologist and Dartmouth alumnus Murray Bornstein ’39 until his death in 1995, and continues to donate to the College in the family’s name.

“Unlike a Steinway, which tends to [have] a full sound, European instruments tend to be delicate but also powerful [and] more clear,” Pinkas said. “I think for the acoustic of Rollins, it’s going to be phenomenal.”

The Villiers Quartet emphasized the significance of making music for people in light of current events as an additional mission of their performance.

“It’s a very special moment, especially with what’s going on now in the world and today with the election,” Flores said. “We’re here to make great music, and we want to share that with everybody because [it] can really lift people up.”

The Villiers Quartet featuring Pinkas will perform in Rollins Chapel on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.

The Sing Dynasty headlines Fall Fling, features the Cords

By ZACH CHERIAN The Dartmouth

The Sing Dynasty, a coed a cappella group, will perform in the biggest Dartmouth show of their a cappella careers this upcoming Saturday.

Each a cappella group only hosts Fall Fling once every four years. Sings’ music director Julie Solomon ’17 said the show is one of the high points of any singer’s a cappella career.

“Fall Fling is part of what I think

they call the ‘-ing’ rotations schedule,” Solomon said, referring to the three major singing events of the year: Fall Fling, Winter Wingding and Spring Sing.

While all members are excited for the show, it is an especially sentimental moment for the seniors in the group.

Head of choreography Haley Reicher ’17 said she felt excited for the show as it is an opportunity to showcase the growth of the group over her three years in the Sings.

Allison Chou ’17 said that the group has become much more technically advanced in her three years since joining.

“Musically, we’re leaps and bounds ahead of where we were four years ago,” Chou said.

The show will prominently feature seven “Eaglets,” the first-year members of the group. One Eaglet, Raphael Preston ’20, will close the show with a solo.

Parker Banks ’20 expressed excite-

ment for the show, noting that the scale was somewhat intimidating.

Dorothy Qu ’19 commented on the work put into the show, noting she was especially excited to “see all the Eaglets grow up” over the course of the term.

Solomon said that Fall Fling’s venue — the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium — is a completely distinct venue for performing than other spaces the group performs in.

“There’s microphones, there’s going to be lighting,” Solomon said.

“We’re not used to performing with mics, so that’s going to be a big difference.”

The group is looking forward to the “higher production value” of Spaulding, Solomon said.

“It’s always fun to be able to perform on a stage that’s not a frat,” Reicher added.

The Sings will be joined onstage by the all male a cappella group, the Dartmouth Cords. The Cords will perform six pieces between the first and second halves of the Sings’ show.

The Cords were set to perform for Spring Sing last year, but the timing became unfeasible because of the show’s early date in the term, Solomon said.

In preparation for the show, the Sings expanded their rehearsal schedule and many members increased their individual practice time as well.

“We want to be at our best for this,” Banks said.

The group’s set includes songs by artists ranging from Simon and Garfunkel to Usher, allowing the group to showcase their vocal diversity.

“I’m excited to showcase a wide array of soloists,” Chou said. “I think it’s a really great example of all of the different types of voices that the Sings have.”

Fall Fling is this Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $3 for students.

Dorothy Qu is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016

SPORTS The End of a Legacy From the very inception of NARP Meets World, it’s been a constant war of attrition between the editors of this paper and myself. Each week I bang my head against the wall in hopes of a semientertaining joke finding its way in the paper. Most of the time, it’s an incontrovertible strikeout. The only funny thing is how pathetic the column is. But every now and then, I am able to produce a witty joke that manages to get a small chuckle. These moments are exactly what I live for. You guys, my

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readers, are the only reason why I continue writing this nonsense of a column every week. I live for the fans, die for the fans.

Even though my heart solely desires to create creative content for my fans, the Man at the top is trying to keep me down. Each week it’s the same haunting complaint: “Write about sports in your column.” And my response is always the same: “Nah.” Let me know if this is just a me thing or a them thing, but I just can’t fathom why I am expected to write about sports in a sports column. Sports in a sports section? That’s ludicrous.

But as I am backed into a corner by my editors, forced to consider the unbearable reality of distorting the focus of this column to that of sports. I cannot help but look over my shoulder at the progress I have made thus far. In this depressing and desolate time, where it is just myself, a lowly NARP, versus the world out there, all that comes to mind are the echoing words of DJ Khaled: “They don’t want you to win.” I should have known from the start that this fool’s paradise was too good to be true.

And here I am, at wit’s end,

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WITH RACQUEL LYN ’20

BY JONATHAN KATZMAN

In her first term at Dartmouth, Racquel Lyn ’20 has already made her mark on the women’s tennis team. At the Tribe Invitational in September, Lyn won two singles matches before pairing up with Taylor Ng ’17 and winning their doubles match during the Bulldog Invitational early in October. Without Kristina Mathis ’18, who did not play this term, Lyn stepped up and served as Ng’s doubles partner at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championship from Oct. 21 to 24. In their quarterfinal matches the duo defeated both the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University 8-7 and 8-7. In the semifinals, Syracuse University defeated the pair, 2-6, 6-7.

Hanover, New Hampshire is hardly the ideal tennis environment. Given the fact that you were ranked top-70 in the country coming out of high school and likely had your choice of colleges at which you could pursue tennis, why did you choose Dartmouth?

RL: I ultimately was considering all of the Ivies. I wanted to go to a school where I could have a great balance between

academics and tennis. Dartmouth was actually not very high on the list until I visited the campus for the first time.

I loved the sense of community I felt when I was here and that everyone really supported each other. I also loved the women on the team and Bob Dallis seemed like a great coach. Following my visit, Dartmouth was the only school I was thinking about!

Your college career is off to a solid start. What has this done to your confidence so far, and what do you think has allowed you to maintain such a high level of play?

RL: It has been a very great start to my first season. I feel more and more confident after each practice, and know that I am getting better every day. I think that the support of the team and both Dallis and assistant coach Dave Jones has helped me stay focused and determined. Being surrounded by a group of girls that work hard both on and off the court has really inspired me.

What do you consider the strengths of your game? Do you believe that you will have to make

contemplating the future trajectory of NMW. I see myself with two options at hand: comply with the Man’s “requests” or continue on my journey of providing quality entertainment for my fans. Unfortunately, both options ultimately end up with the inevitable termination of this column. Complying with the editors means that I have to discard the very roots of NARP Meets World, a sports column that was supposed to be about anything but sports. But if I dare to continue on my current path, there is no doubt that the editors will bring this column to an abrupt end. It’s an apocalyptic lose-lose scenario that ultimately ends up with all that I stand for being taken away.

Yet in the midst of all this uncertainty and apprehension, I cannot help but laugh at the requests of the higher powers of The Dartmouth. As I am strongarmed into complying with this flagrant censorship, now it’s time to activate my trap card. My friends, contrary to popular belief, I am not that big of an idiot. I foresaw this exact scenario the very moment I created this column. Open your eyes folks! My editors want me

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to write about sports, but in their legalistic quest to uphold the integrity of the sports section’s content, they’ve completely overlooked the best game ever to be played...this column!

You see, the very essence of this column is a game of tug-of-war with the editors. How far can I push the egregiousness of the content in this column, and how long will it take for my editors to stop me from doing it. My editors want me to talk about sports, yet I’ve been playing an epic game with them this whole time.

And now, as week nine rolls into full speed, we are left wondering what we should do with our pathetic lives. Where shall we all look to for refuge from the harsh demands of Dartmouth? Where shall we find our weekly source of unique and creative content that is surely bound to make us laugh?

But most importantly, what are we now going to use as firewood for the harsh winter of Hanover if not this column? These are the questions that keep me up at night, and they should be worrying you too.

For many of you, I know just

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how sentimental this column has grown to be. Alas, NMW has grown to be a very memorable part of my own Dartmouth experience. But my friends, I ask you to stay strong in the face of the tyrannical leaders of The Dartmouth until NARP Meets World makes its comeback.

For comfort, I would like to share with you a favorite bible verse of mine.

“The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” -Isaiah 40:8 Before you quickly label me as a heathen and cast me off as a social pariah, let me preface by saying that I am not God. But in some sense, I have become some sort of savior to you all in the midst of the brutal academic rigor we willingly pay 60 grand a year for, providing a refreshing sequence of jokes that are sure to take your minds off work for a few moments.

And as this column comes to an end, I ask that you do not forget the wisdom I have shared with you the past five weeks. Nothing gold can stay, but forgetting this column is simply cray.

Just kidding. I still have one column next. Got ’em boys!

any adjustments at the beginning of your college career?

RL: The strengths of my game would probably be my groundstrokes, in particular my backhand. It is my favorite stroke in tennis and know I can use it as a major weapon against my opponents. I have made adjustments to my serve which has improved greatly since coming to college. I have also worked on finishing points at the net in singles and doubles.

How have your coaches been helpful so far?

RL: They have been amazing, and I truly believe that we have the best coaches at Dartmouth. They have not only helped me on the court but in the classroom. I think they understand what it takes to be a student-athlete at Dartmouth and support all of our decisions. I could not imagine having any other coaches for college tennis.

What are the overarching goals for the team this season? Do the goals for the fall season contrast with those for the spring as the matches are all team-focused?

RL: The goals for the season are to give our best effort in everything we do whether it is in a match, at our lifts or in practice. Ultimately, our coaches tell us all the time that they have no expectations for us before matches. They

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Racquel Lyn ’20 qualified for the semifinal round of the ITA Regional Championship.

just want us to compete hard and “play Green.” I think the goals ultimately stay the same and that we all want to play and represent Dartmouth in the best way we can.

What has been the key to the success of your doubles partnership with Ng thus far? Given that she and Mathis played well together last spring, how do you see the doubles lineup shaping up when team matches begin?

RL: From the beginning, Taylor and I have had a great relationship and strong chemistry. She has been like a big sister

to me, and I think we really understand each other’s games and styles. She pushes me to go for my shots and to be especially brave when we are playing, especially on tight points. Honestly, it’s all up to Dallis to decide on partnerships.

Obviously, Ng is a great partner and I love playing with her, but I would also like the opportunity to play with other people on the team. I’m just happy to be playing for the Big Green!

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

Racquel Lyn is a member of The Dartmouth staff.