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Jeb Bush spoke to a crowd of students and community memebers on a local campaign stop.

A crowd of about 150 people flocked to the Hanover Inn to see Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speak about his experience as a leader and his goals of cutting back the government, reducing the national debt and his position within the Republican Party.

The majority of people in the crowd were Upper Valley residents.

Bush said that Republicans must pick someone who can both

beat the Democratic candidate and lead the country. He said that his experiences as governor of Florida and his ability to make “tough decisions” and “solve problems” makes him the best candidate. He cited his time as the governor of Florida, where he cut taxes by $19 billion, created 1.3 million jobs, took on public unions and reduced government workforce by 11 percent as proof of his capability to lead the United States.

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GLC bans display of Indian head in Greek houses

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

On Monday night, the Greek Leadership Council passed two changes to their code of standards and greater bylaws, explicitly banning Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head . While the council’s code of standards had previously forbidden houses from engaging

in acts of cultural appropriation, the new rule explicitly mentions displaying the Dartmouth Indian head as a violation.

Parties who see the Dartmouth Indian on display at a Greek house, or those who otherwise feel Greek houses are engaging in cultural appropriation, can make a complaint to the Greek accountability board. Houses found in violation of the new rule by the Greek

New student app to offer food delivery

By MEGAN CLYNE

The Dartmouth Staff

FluxExpress — a new online food ordering pilot program founded by Thomas Cecil ’17 and Ian Bateman ’18 — will launch in the next ten days. Currently, the site will allow students to order online from nine restaurants. In the spring, the two hope to allow students to use DBA to purchase food from off-campus restaurants, Cecil and Bateman said.

Currently, anyone with a valid Dartmouth email address will be able to place online delivery or

pickup orders from Boloco, C&A Pizza, Everything But Anchovies, Jewel of India, Orient, Thai Orchid and Tuk Tuk Thai, as well as pickup orders from Base Camp Café and Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery, Cecil and Bateman said.

All the restaurants the pilot provides delivery services for already deliver. Credit cards, debit cards and cash are the current methods of payment, Bateman said.

When you place an order through the website, you can

accountability board will be required to pay a fine, the monies of which will be given to an organization or event agreed upon by the GLC and offended party or individual.

The new rules apply to organizational, public displays of the Dartmouth Indian head, Greek board of accountability chair Taylor Watson ‘16 said, not to individuals who choose to display the symbol.

The change was passed in part as a response to the display last term of a pong table stolen from Theta Delta Chi fraternity displaying the Dartmouth Indian head, Watson said. Other groups had also expressed complaints about Greek houses displaying the symbol, he said.

This article will be updated as more content becomes available.

Q&A with physics professor Yorke Brown

By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

Visiting associate professor Yorke Brown, who teaches two physics classes taken predominantly by pre-health students, has a different style of teaching than most other professors. Brown, who moved to Hanover in 1993, began teaching Physics 3 in the summer of 2003. The Dartmouth sat down with Brown to talk about his unique classroom methods and philosophy on education.

YB: It’s a challenge that makes you make you reconsider what you’re thinking. It makes you reconsider how you communicate. It enforces a kind of constant intellectual and personal growth. And of course that’s the same thing that I’m trying to get the students to do — is to use this opportunity that they have here for their own personal growth and not just for gathering credentials and getting themselves set up for some kind of career or four years of extended adolescence. So, that’s really the attraction.

Why do you enjoy teaching?

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Members of Brown University Students for Justice in Palestine group protested a lecture organized by the Brown RISD Hillel last Thursday, The Brown Daily Herald reported.

The lecture was a conversation between actor Michael Douglas and politician Natan Sharansky, who is also the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. The protesters deemed the Israeligovernment funded lecture as “propaganda” and called out Sharansky for “anti-Palestinian, anti-African racism.”

Researchers at Columbia University have found that a section of the hippocampus, a part of the brain crucial to memory formation, may be related to the production of the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The scientists found this connection when their study of genetcally engineered mice brains revealed a reduced production of impulse-controlling inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.

The Cornell Board of Trustees officially approved a plan to open a new business school next year, The Cornell Daily Sun reported. The new business school will be comprised of three of the university’s current schools: the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Each section of the newly merged schools will be run by a dean who will set academic plans and admissons standards. Students, faculty and alumni alike have criticized the merger.

Harvard University has formed a committee of students and professors whose goal is to monitor and rethink the school’s Title IX policies on an ongoing basis, The Harvard Crimson reported. This decision comes in response to continued scrutiny over Harvard’s Title IX policies and procedures, including a group of professors’ open letter published in the Boston Globe criticizing the university’s history with sexual misconduct cases and a federal government investigation into the university’s compliance with Title IX.

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App hopes to allow DBA off-campus FROM DDS PAGE 1

specify the location and when you want to receive it, he said. In addition, all first-time users will receive ten percent off their initial purchases.

Currently, Base Camp, Jewel of India, Lou’s, Orient, Thai Orchid and Tuk Tuk Thai do not offer online ordering.

Cecil and Bateman are both members of the men’s heavyweight crew team and started working together on the program this past November after attending a Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network meeting.

They wanted to build something that they had full authority over, Cecil said.

They ultimately decided to create this pilot program because they felt that while Dartmouth Dining Services provides a wide variety of food options for students, they wanted to increase choices for students, Cecil said.

“It was the most realistic and immediately beneficial thing we could do,” Cecil said.

Jeremy Lewin ’19 said that he thinks the program will help increase food choices on campus.

“There is certainly a dearth of different food options around here so any tool that helps Dartmouth students maximize the options that do exist is definitely a welcome innovation,” Lewin said.

Cecil is in charge of handling meetings with DDS and collaborating with them on product develop-

ment. Bateman has concentrated on developing the coding software for the site, he said.

In addition to allowing DBA as a payment, Cecil and Bateman also want to provide a more accurate estimated delivery time and a feature that enables restaurants to update customers when they are nearby next term.

Cecil added that students probably will not be able to use meal swipes off-campus and DDS will largely be responsible for determining whether this change will take place.

Students expressed excitement about possibility of using DBA at off-campus restaurants.

“I’m very excited,” Caleb Smith ’19 said. “It opens up so many options that we didn’t have access to before. I can’t wait.”

Both Rachel Martin ’19 and Thuy-Vy Nguyen ’19 said they will use the program for delivery and eventually for DBA as payment when it launches.

Bateman and Cecil’s biggest obstacle was creating a website that updated all restaurant services in real time, Bateman said. They have been doing several local tests on the program.

Cecil said that committing to one idea and proceeding with it was an obstacle. Finding a good partner like Bateman who was willing to commit as much time as Cecil was also a challenge.

“You can’t do it by yourself,” Cecil

said.

Cecil and Bateman are enthusiastic about the future of the program.

“This is our version one,” he said.

“We have big goals for version two.”

In the future, Cecil and Bateman want the program to provide delivery for restaurants like Base Camp Café and Lou’s that do not currently offer that option and optimize delivery for around-the-clock ordering.

They also want to expand their affiliation to all restaurants in Hanover and some in Lebanon, and offer people the ability to search for menu items from all restaurants.

Bateman said that he hopes to be able to offer loyalty programs, in which ordering from a particular restaurant with frequency will result in discounts.

The restaurants are looking forward to the program and have been supportive and responsive in the process, Bateman said.

“They’re really excited,” he said.

“This is a good thing for them, they’re looking forward to increasing traffic.”

Base Camp Café owner Bhola Pandey said his restaurant is eager to participate in the program and grateful that students are looking for ways to support local businesses.

Cecil said his hope is that students continues to use the program after he graduates.

“I hope the program contributes greatly to student life after we graduate and has a lasting impact on the College,” Cecil said.

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CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

In the Feb. 1 edition of The Dartmouth, a photo ran under the title “Friday Night Rock.” The photo was in fact of Neo-Soul Lounge hosted by the Men of Color Alliance, co-sponsored by Collis After Dark.

In the Feb.2 article, “Rajput ’14 and Carlin ’15 design award winning app,” Carlin was misidentified as a student at Boston University School of Public Health. Carlin, in fact, works at the university. She focuses on user development and media relations for her work on the app, not her work at the university.

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Hendrik Hertzberg and government professor Brendan Nyhan discuss the Iowa caucus in Filene Auditorium.

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Women’s tennis splits two matches Bush talks experience, Republican party FROM TENNIS PAGE 8

final score of 7-6 (7-0), and finishing off the match at 1-6, 6-4.

The next day, the men’s team followed the victory at Drake with another clutch win against Tulane, finishing 1-2 in doubles and 4-2 in singles once again. The Dartmouth pairs of Sakinis and Tannenbaum and Wall and Fliegner both fell with final scores of 4-6 . Glasnovic and Schmidt rebounded from their loss at Drake to win 6-2. In order to take the win, the Big Green had to finish at least 4-2 or better in singles.

Fliegner, Wall and Schmidt all secured straight set victories, winning with respective final scores of 6-3, 6-4; 6-1, 6-0 and 7-5, 6-2. However, both Sakinis and Riccardi fell to ranked players, as Sakinis lost to the top ranked player in college tennis, Dominik Koepfer, 2-6, 4-6 and Riccardi lost to No. 63 Constantin Schmitz 3-6, 1-6. The match thus once again came down to Tannenbaum who dug deep to win 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.

The team commended Tannenbaum’s performances in high pressure situations.

“Tannenbaum did a fantastic job of maintaining his composure to close those two matches out and

the team supported him brilliantly,” Wall said. “Credit to Tannenbaum believing in himself under pressure.

To play the aggressive tennis he did in those third sets was an outstanding performance.”

Emboldening the players with confidence, the two wins over Drake and Tulane have made the team excited about what it can accomplish

this year.

“Those two wins say that this team can be as good as it wants to be,” Wall said. “With these two results under our belt, we’ll be fearing no opponent.”

On Feb. 5, the men’s team will travel to North Carolina State University to play its first road match of 2016.

ZADIE SMITH SPEAKS TO STUDENTS

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Author Zadie Smith spoke to students about her work and her influences.

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Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump’s leadership experience. He argued that Cruz and Rubio only sponsored two bills that passed into law as senators and criticized Trump, saying “it’s all about him.”

He also said that he had a firm conservative standing, adding that Cruz and Rubio expanded Medicaid while he did not.

“Leadership is about having a servant’s heart and a backbone to stand on what’s right,” Bush said. “That’s what we need in America today — we don’t need another talker!”

Bush said that he would reduce the size of the government and criticized its inefficiencies. He said he would reform the overly complicated and overreaching policies that hurt small businesses as well as reform financial regulations.

He said that he will regulate government spending better through “simplicity and transparency.” Bush added that his financial regulatory architecture would have fewer entities, focus on capital adequacy, raise capital requirements and restrict the consumer protection bureau, which he said “stifles the ability for credit to be allocated to the next generation.”

Bush also emphasized that his approach to economic policies would be to stop restricting businesses and the economy.

“If you could expand economy by businesses investing in the community, the multiplier effect is far better than taxing them, regulating them and shrinking the economy,” he said. “It creates more prosperity for more people.”

When one of the attendees expressed his concerns about government debt, Bush said he would curb national debt in a variety of ways. Bush said he would grow the economy at a faster rate so that he could lessen the demand on the government, brought on by programs such as social security or food stamps, reform entitlements such as Obamacare, and raise the floor for low-income beneficiaries. He added that he would suppress income benefits for high-income individuals and work against lifetime employment for government workers. Bush also said that he would decrease the national debt by giving power back to the states, which he said would save several hundred dollars because states would not be constrained by the federal government.

When asked about the influence of “big money” on politics, Bush said the answer to corrupt money is “transparency and accountability.” With transparency of campaign donations, including the amount of money donated and the name of donors, the need for limiting maximum campaign donations will disappear and campaigns will be

able to overcome the control of super PACs, he said.

Another attendee voiced her concerns about healthcare. Bush criticized Obamacare and said he would replace it with an insurance plan that would deal with highly costly treatment.

He also addressed the difficulties of young students and said he would alleviate their burden by eliminating the student loan program and challenging colleges to lower costs.

Bush also emphasized the fact that he is the only Republican presidential candidate who believes in climate change. He noted that people are partially responsible for climate change.

While he said “we have a responsibility to be guardians of the planet,” he emphasized the need to find the proper balance between conserving the environment while not limiting economic opportunities.

After an audience member raised concern about the Republican party drifting too far right, Bush said that he is a moderate Republican, adding that he would find a common ground between both sides of controversial social issues.

Attendee Jimmy McColgan ’19 said he was excited to hear the opinions of a candidate who was “conservative but not too far to the right.”

On the issue of domestic terrorism, Bush said that he would tighten visa and immigration programs and prevent radicalization by subjecting people who travel frequently to Middle East to additional screenings before they are allowed to re-enter the country.

He added that passing security bills such as the Patriot Act would allow the government to act on domestic terrorism before it happens.

When asked for his thoughts on the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries reached last October — Bush said he had not read it yet. He added that he is supportive of treaties that open trade with other countries as long as there are methods to protect the U.S. from unfair trades. He also wanted to signal to Asian countries that the United States is not stepping down, and that such a partnership is necessary to alleviate Asia from Chinese control.

He ended the event by affirming his pro-life stance, saying he believes, “life is a gift from God.” Charles Springer ’17, president of College Republicans, said that he was excited to have “any candidate of the Republican Party here [at the College].”

After the event, Vermont-native Angela Kohanski, an undecided Republican, said she applauded Bush for being the only one with a plan and strongly favored his economic policies as it would create more jobs.

The event was affiliated with neither the College nor the College Republicans.

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Opinion Asks

Power and Powerlessness

Will you support the party with which you identify regardless of who wins the nomination? Why or why not?

I would support the Democratic party even if a banana won the nomination. Bananas can’t build walls around countries, deny the existence of climate change, be blatantly racist, flagrantly pro-gun or actively strive to deprive women of

“I would support the Democratic party even if a banana won the nomination. Bananas can’t build walls around countries, deny the existence of climate change or be blatantly racist.”

pragmatism for rhetoric that plays well in the primaries. Donald Trump, of course, is a constant threat. All in all, the bias in primaries towards the most extreme candidates has been amplified by popular, radical candidates. To bring this back to the initial question, I think that most moderates see a sensible, capable candidate as preferable to extremism of any brand. That question is particularly salient for moderate Republicans, considering the strength of Cruz and Trump in the polls. If either Cruz or Trump win the nomination, then my vote will not be for the Republican party. In a election cycle that’s been dominated by everything but, mine will be a vote for moderation.

-Steven Chun ’19

their specific rights as women and their general rights as human beings. This is not to mention that a banana would probably pick a better running mate than Sarah Palin. Hold on, you say.

Reaching back all the way to 2008 isn’t fair. You’re right. Neither would labeling all Republicans as crazy be fair. But examining the individual histories of the two Republican frontrunners, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, and recognizing that what they preach is ignorance, intolerance and insanity? Completely fair.

-Ben Szuhaj ’19 Absolutely not. I think this is something that resonates with moderates of both parties. Both the center left and center right are under attack by polarizing forces. To be frank, Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz are two sides of the same coin. Both hold stubbornness and resistance to change as their strongest values­— Sanders has spent nearly all 74 years of his life promoting the same set of radical reforms and Cruz managed to engineer a government shutdown through his dogmatic adherence to his beliefs. Both eschew

Yes. I’m a Democrat and whoever the potential Republican nominee is (most likely Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz or Donald Trump) has no business running our country. I’d rather move to Canada than see one of those three become president.

-Daniel Fishbein ’19 For me, one of the most important issues in this election is who — and in particular what party — will get to appoint justices to the Supreme Court. The current Supreme Court has four liberal justices and four conservative justices, with one conservative-leaning swing voter. By the middle of our next president’s term, there will be four justices in their 80s. Even appointing just one or two new justices could lead to a dramatic shift in the court that could have long-lasting consequences. The Supreme Court will likely hear cases on abortion, gun control, LGBTQ rights and “One Person, One Vote” in the next few years and the makeup of the Supreme Court will decide the rights of many Americans. And, because justices almost always vote along party lines, the party of the next president, who will likely appoint a new justice or justices, matters.

-Jessica Lu ’18, Assistant Opinion Editor

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We as young people have to make our voices heard, no matter how daunting the issue.

Our voices matter. the responsibility they feel for a problem is The gravity of this realization shouldn’t equal to the power they have to solve it.” be lost on us: we are powerful as young When it comes to big problems, we as people. We can shape this world into young people oftentimes feel this responwhatever vision we carry for it. sibility most strongly. I know that I myself It’s sometimes hard, though, to embody feel this viscerally: I cannot accept the futures that scientists are this statement. How predicting for us under uncan our voices matW e ’ l l h a v e t h e checked climate change. ter in a world that is meant to silence resources to adapt I recognize the rights of them? How can we i n N e w Yo r k C i t y, my generation to live in a world that has at least as speak up about issues that matter to but Manila will be many opportunities as the our generation if we underwater. Climate one into which the generations before us were born. are told these very issues are too large, change will affect our What about power? too complex, too health, our economy It isn’t always obvious to see the ways in which systemic to handle?

I think about cli- and our society — and it power is exerted over us. In mate change all the will disproportionately particular, we don’t think about how the way certain time. Those who know me on campus affect communities institutions are structured know that this issue that are already on influences how empowered we feel. has defined my four years at Dartmouth, t h e f ro nt l i n e s o f Think about the D-Plan: particularly through socioeconomic, racial We’ve come to accept this quarterly structure as a my involvement with Divest Dartmouth. I a n d g e n d e r - b a s e d given, despite the fact that it has only been implemented see the ways in which injustices. for about forty years. And this problem will yet, the D-Plan affects us affect our futures: in ways that we may not hundreds of millions forcibly displaced due to sea level always be aware of. For example, most rise and natural resource conflict. The of us realize its impact on our ability to rise of vector-borne viruses such as Lyme maintain relationships. It’s hard to have a disease and Zika. We’ll have the resources relationship between two people at Dartto adapt in New York City, but Manila mouth who might not see each other for will be underwater. Climate change will the better part of a year.

Why should we care affect our health, our about systems of power? economy and our “When we realize that Institutio nal change is a society — and it will disproportionately we not only carry a core part of Dartmouth’s tradition . Our College affect communities responsibility to make has been shaped by a that are already on the front lines of so- this world better, but rich history of students us who wanted cioeconomic, racial that we are indeed itbefore to be better — from and gender-based capable of changing it, women who fought for the injustices.

T he reality of we become empowered inclusion of “daughters of Dartmouth” in the alma climate change is to forge ahead working mater, to students who very insistent. But it is complex and dif- on problems that may fought (and are still fighting) for the abolition of ficult and systemic — how can we solve seem too significant to the Indian head symbol to students who founded the a problem that is so challenge.”

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When we realize that we This question has not only carry a responsiguided my research bility to make this world this year as a senior better, but that we are infellow. I spend my deed capable of changing days agonizing over it and have come to realize how much our it, we become empowered to forge ahead ability to solve monumental problems is working on problems that may seem too rooted in the power we wield to shift society. significant to challenge. When we realize Do young people have power? I have we are powerful, we push ourselves to do been conducting interviews for my rethings that terrify us because we know they search, and asking my research subjects are important, and we grow. When we start — scientists, policy makers and activists noticing the structures that disempower us, working on climate change — this queswe can go about changing them to create tion. Of the many insightful answers, one the world we seek. sticks out: “People feel empowered when Our voices matter.

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Brown discusses teaching philosophy, ‘game of school’ FROM Q&A PAGE 1

Can you describe your pedagogical technique and the rationale behind it?

YB: That’s a very complicated question. It’s very easy to oversimplify or miss the point of what I attempt to do to. I do think I take a somewhat unusual approach, and there is implicit in this approach a critique of the orthodox approach to teaching and education. Through that critique, I do not mean to criticize any of my colleagues. The message is I don’t criticize what they do. That doesn’t mean I would adopt it.

The students are also different.

Every student is an individual person and has different needs, different expectations, and is susceptible to different approaches. I like to think, however, that I offer something that many students are hungry for. It’s also true that there’s a significant fraction of students who really resent what I do. They feel betrayed because they’ve learned to get value from the approach that they take and the approach that most professors take, and then I just pull the rug right out from under them. I’m very sympathetic to how they feel, but at the same time, I think they ought to land on their feet.

Why are we here? What is it we’re trying to accomplish? What’s a liberal education all about? A lot of people think of it is as a preparation for your career. You need knowledge and skills to be able to function in society. And that’s certainly a value of education, but that’s not the main purpose of the four years that you spend here at Dartmouth in my view. Education is life itself. That’s a very deep statement. It gets to the idea that humans are learning machines. One of the things that makes us human is the way in which we learn. Sure, rats can learn how navigate a maze, and that’s learning, but people learn intentionally.

They need to learn things not just in order to be able to navigate the maze — and trust me, life is a maze — but they need to learn how to how to enhance their their emotional lives and their spiritual lives.

They need to learn how to grow to become fully formed human beings, and that’s a never-ending process.

So, my overarching goal is to give the students the opportunity to have the experience of taking education as a motivation for living, not just something they have to do.

My deal is that I don’t want your experience in my class to be just more school, so I try to take away all the trappings of school. I can’t take them all away. We live within constraints.

I assume you still grade?

YB: We have grades. Grade toxicity is a great impediment to what I try to

do. They’ve learned how to get good grades. All of you here are valedictorians of your high school classes and leaders of the student assembly and so forth. You’ve figured out how to get good grades, and I take that away from you deliberately, to get you to think in a different way. Getting the grade is not the objective. I tell students if you’ll follow me and embrace this concept of what I’m trying to do, the grade will follow. But that’s really hard to believe.

Are your classes themselves structured differently? Do you lecture? Are they discussion based? If I were to walk in today, would I detect a difference?

YB: To me, it’s not about technique.

The real thing is what is the attitude you bring to class.

Maybe I should talk about the game of school a little bit. I think that many of you have learned to view school as a game. I don’t mean that in derogatory sense. You ask, “What’s the objective, what are the rules, and how do you optimize the outcome?”

You learn pretty quickly how to play that game. You learn that if you write the papers, read the books and do what your teachers expect of you, then you’ll do well. The teachers, with all the best intentions, say, “I have to get my students to do the things that are good for them.” The students, in high school and elementary school, are somewhat rebellious, and don’t want to do what they’re told. There is this tension between trying to get the kids to do what they’re supposed to do and the kids wanting to do other things. A lot of the things that they’re asked to do are tedious. They’re not fun. The successful students are the ones who figure out, “All I have to do is do these chores, and I’ll get the reward.” That’s the game. It has certain deficiencies. What I’m trying to do is undo the game. I tell the students to put the game aside, and instead seek the thing of value. What do you want to get out of this course? It’s not the same for everybody.

It’s not about the technique. It’s about the relationships. If I can do that, the students will find find the value. They will do the work. They will engage in that process of learning.

Because I can’t teach. I can’t tell you what you need to know. I can’t give you exercises. I can’t provide for you an experience. You have to provide the experience for yourself, and that comes from us having a relationship.

You can’t teach, but the great thing about humans is that they can learn.

You will learn anything that you need to learn in order to survive. Physical survival, emotional survival, spiritual survival. How do you survive as a human being? How do you maintain and enhance your humanity? You learn anything you need to know to do that.

Where do you get the motivation to do

that? From relationships. And that’s what I try to do.

Are students tested on the material that you address in class or on material covered outside of class?

YB: The only way you ever learn is by testing yourself. You have to challenge your understanding. They’re not quizzed. Students quiz themselves on anything and everything.

The quiz is not a test in the sense of, “Here’s a question. Can you answer this question? If you get the answer right, you get a point.” It’s, “Here’s a question on something we haven’t talked about. It’s not in the book. It’s completely new.” I don’t too much of that because I can only go so far before I have a rebellion on my hands. But that’s the idea. I ask the student to ask, “What is the question trying to teach me?” Often they work together.

Sometimes, I’ll do a demonstration and ask them to analyze it.

So there’s not one right answer?

YB: Well, it’s physics, so if the answer

is 27 joules, the answer is 27 joules.

However, my issue is not can you get the right answer. It’s how did you get there. And not only that, it’s how did you use this question to help you construct your understanding of the theory.

What do you think is the importance of learning physics, particularly for students who are pre-health? What way of approaching the world or skill sets do you think it provides?

YB: One of the great things about physics is that it’s very demanding. There’s no wiggle room about whether you’re right. The habits of thoughts associated with that very demanding kind of thinking are absolutely invaluable no matter what you do.It’s those habits of thought and the ability to face this very daunting intellectual challenge that is extremely valuable. The ability to think clearly and distinguish between what you understand and don’t understand is invaluable. If you can’t say, “I don’t know,” you’re never going to learn anything.

Can you fake with physics if you have to get a precise answer?

YB: Sure. All you have to do is guess what the right formula is to use here. This carries over into people’s professional lives. Doctors come through this very demanding system that always insists you have to be right all the time. You can never make mistakes. Well sure, I don’t want my doctors to make mistakes. But that’s what school is for. While you’re here, you can make mistakes. And you shouldn’t be criticized for making mistakes.

You shouldn’t have some lifelong label attached to you, like a grade, because you made a mistake. A mistake is a learning experience. Make your mistakes now. I’m trying to break down those barriers through a trusting and caring relationship so that you can flourish, seek the value, eschew the game, confront your ignorance, be brave, be bold and grow us a human being. That’s what it’s all about.

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

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Students participate in weekly pub trivia competitions held in One Wheelock.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m.

“Are Surveys and Polls Passé? Finding Our Way Along the New Big Frontier,” seminar with Michael Link, Silsby 119

3:00 p.m.

“Conservation after Conflict in Pakistan: A Model for Collaborative Archaeology,” presented by Dr. Luca Oliveri, Haldeman 41

7:00 p.m.

Performance by Sarah Chang, featuring works by Bartok and Brahms, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW 3:00 p.m.

“Sonic Landscape Listening Room Discography,” 45 minute diffusion sessions of field recordings from global environments, Rollins Chapel

4:00 p.m.

“Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons,” Marissa Giustina, University of Vienna, Wilder 102

7:00 p.m.

“The Winter’s Tale,” by Shakespeare, Loew Auditorium, simulcast in HD Black Family Visual Arts Center

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New play ‘Mad Love’ inspired by Dartmouth dating culture

By KATHERINE SCHREIBER The Dartmouth Staff

On Saturday the new play “Mad Love” (2016) premiered at the Barrette Center for the Arts, Northern Stage’s new theater in White River Junction, Vermont. Written by Marisa Smith and directed by Maggie Burrows, the comedy follows the lives and romantic pursuits of four young adults living in New York City.

The comedy follows Sloane Hudson, a young Dartmouth graduate who has decided to take control of her life after a traumatic incident in a college fraternity. Sloane, who has given up on love and marriage, decides that she wants to have a baby through artificial insemination instead of settling down. However, when she asks Brandon, the man she is casually dating, to be her sperm donor, she finds that he has a different attitude towards love and romance.

The plot thickens after a Ukrainian hooker arrives at the apartment that Brandon shares with his brother Doug, who suffered minor brain damage after jumping out the window of his college fraternity. When the brothers discover that they might be in possession of a valuable baseball card, things get even more complicated.

Smith, a playwright who grew up in Hanover and attended Dartmouth for two terms, said that she drew inspiration for the play from the College. Smith said she learned more about the college’s social scene from Dartmouth students interning at the publishing company that she runs with her husband.

“I felt I had a real sense of Dartmouth, but as I talked to my interns I felt that there had been subtle changes in social culture,” Smith said. “I had been unaware of [these changes] over the past twenty years or so.”

These changes included the rise of a culture of meaningless sex and wild partying, Smith said. After talking to her interns, Smith decided to interview women in a Dartmouth sorority about their experiences with Dartmouth’s social scene, a project which eventually inspired “Mad Love.”

There are several other Dartmouth references throughout the play including the character Doug, who was inspired by the “defenestrator,” a D’04, who allegedly jumped out of a window of Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity.

Smith said that she tends to draw her inspiration from a wide range of sources, both conscious and subconscious. Katarina, the Ukrainian hooker, was drawn from a ten-minute play that she had written previously.

“Playwriting is not a linear process, at least for me,” Smith said. “It’s kind of like making a quilt.”

“Mad Love” first came to Northern Stage in Jan. 2014, when it was read at the New Works Now festival at the Briggs Opera House. Over the summer Northern Stage artistic director Carol Dunne contacted director Maggie Burrows, who had directed “The Fox on the Fairway” (2010) at Northern Stage in 2014, about directing “Mad Love.”

Smith worked closely with the director and the cast throughout the

COURTESY OF ROB STRONG

Alex Trow and Laurel Casillo star in Marisa Smith’s “Mad Love,” at the Barrette Center for the Arts for the next two weeks.

production process, Smith said.

“The director-playwright relationship can be kind of fraught sometimes,” Smith said. “But I’ve had a honeymoon, perfect relationship with the director.”

Burrows, the director of “Mad Love,” said that directing a new play was an exciting challenge.

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Laurel Casillo, Daniel Patrick Smith and Alex Trow perform a scene from “Mad Love” during a dress rehearsal.

“It’s a slightly different dynamic, where the script isn’t fixed,” she said.

“You’re trying to listen to the play and let it whisper to you what it wants to do.”

Actress Alex Trow, who plays Sloane, also said that she enjoyed the challenge of working on a new play.

“When you work on an old play it’s definitely set in stone,” Trow said.

“You have to work your way around the obstacles that are there. In this play the obstacles change every day, and you have to adapt to them, which is really fun.”

Although the play is comedic, it also deals with serious issues such as sexual violence and the darker aspects of college party cultures.

Smith said that it is challenging to create a comedy that is humorous but still respectful.

“It’s a delicate balance,” Smith said. “You have to be careful of how things land.”

Burrows said that the real issues in the play added to the depth of script, and that she tried to respect the characters and their emotional states while still keeping the play funny.

“It’s a comedy, but it’s not just a fart, slamming-door, lots of jokes comedy,” she said. “It’s about real people, and to me that was really important.”

The play examines hookup culture and the implications of sex without love. After Sloane’s traumatic experience in the basement of a Cornell fraternity, she decides that she wants to keep dating and having sex, but without the burden of emotions or attachment.

“She’s trying to organize her life in a way that doesn’t depend on any other people, and that means shutting off any emotions, any protection or care,” Trow said.

Although Sloane’s case might be extreme, Trow said that playing Sloane has made her realize how much dating and attitudes toward love have changed. Trow compared the romance in the play to the long courtship in the movie “Brooklyn” (2015), in which the characters go on dates and get engaged before having sex.

“We live in a world where that type of romance really doesn’t exist anymore,” Trow said.

Trow said that putting on a play that examines modern dating and love for a Northern Stage audience, generally comprised of older patrons, creates a unique opportunity.

“For people who have seen other versions of [modern dating], it is kind of surprising and heartbreaking,” Trow said. “There are more heartbreaks now because we have more partners now.”

Although there are dark moments in the play, the core of the show is essentially lighthearted. Trow said that the play’s comedic twist on love and heartbreak came as a relief.

“Sometimes the theater is so dark and so sad,” Trow said. “Sometimes it’s nice to have drama and tragedy that ends in a fuzzy place.”

The showing of “Mad Love” marked the first world premiere at the Barrette Center for the Arts.

The play opened on Jan. 27, and runs until Feb. 13.

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016

WEDNESDAY LINEUP

No athletic events scheduled

Shoot for It: With Alex Lee ’16 and John Beneville ’16

By ALEX LEE AND JOHN BENEVILLE

The Dartmouth Staff

The “Hack-a-Shaq” has become a widely employed strategy in basketball.

It involves identifying a member of the opposing team with a weak free throw percentage and purposefully fouling that player to send them to the free throw line. The ultimate hope is that the fouled player will miss the free throw and possession will go to the team that originally committed the foul.

Except for the last two minutes of a game, teams are able to do this at their discretion. However, some teams are taking the “Hack-a-Shaq” to more extreme lengths as the strategy becomes more accepted. The San Antonio Spurs recently fouled an inbounder before the ball was put into play. Matthew Dellavedova notoriously piggy-backed onto Andre Iguodala during a Golden State Warriors free throw.

Many coaches, players and analysts have complained that the “Hacka-Shaq” goes against the spirit of

basketball and have called for league commissioner Adam Silver to change the rules this off-season.

Today, we discuss what the NBA should do about the “Hack-a-Shaq.”

Alex’s Take: Making free throws is part of the game. No player who’s getting paid millions a year should shoot below 50 percent from the stripe. Honestly, it’s embarrassing that some of the kids in West Gym have a better free throw percentage than DeAndre Jordan and Dwight Howard.

While some claim that the “Hacka-Shaq” strategy takes away from the spirit of the game, I think NBA players not having the dedication to work on their free throws to get above a coin flip threshold takes away from the spirit of the game. I’m not asking for anyone to become Ray Allen automatic, but a basic free throw competence should be met. Your weakness as a team shouldn’t be the other team sending one of your own players for a chance at free points.

It’s embarrassing — the sight of Howard stepping up to the line with his

knees shivering like a little boy walking into the dentist’s office. (John tells me that he’s never been afraid of the dentist and has recommended I see Dr. Schinto.

I’ve promised him that I’ll consider it.)

However, these forced free throws add a psychological perspective to the game that keeps me watching. It’s a fascinating aspect of the game when the most dominant player on your team becomes its biggest liability. Whether we like it or not, this mind-play has become a part of basketball.

Don’t change the rules — just make your free throws!

John’s Take: I understand where Alex is coming from. “Free” throws should not be particularly challenging for professional basketball players.

Imagine that you’re Howard.

Your entire life your main activity has involved putting a ball in a basket. During the second half of your life, in fact, you’ve been paid to put the ball in the basket. Every time you get to the free throw line, you stand in exactly the same spot, exactly the same distance from the

basket, with exactly zero defenders in front of you.

Now picture this — you are so bad at your job, so bad at putting said ball in said hoop, that the other people in your profession have begun to give you two free shots, every 24 seconds, for entire quarters. You would think that by this point in your life and your career, with millions of dollars being paid to you every year, that more than 50 percent of these free throws would go in the basket. And so you can understand our frustration when this is not the case.

All of this aside, the question is whether or not the strategy of forcing poor free throw shooters to the foul line should be allowed. There’s no easy answer.

It’s absolutely true that this strategy slows the game down and makes for a much more boring sport to watch.

When the final 10 minutes of game play take over 60 minutes of real time it becomes an ugly, slow game. The fact that we’re discussing this is especially crazy because players have every incentive in the world to improve their free

throw shooting.

Players like Howard have their faults emphasized night after night, their teams suffer and so on. Surprisingly, Howard’s poor free throw shooting has been exploited for years, and it still hasn’t improved. It seems that some players, for unfathomable reasons, will never improve their free throw shooting.

Although I agree with Alex’s general sentiment, I disagree that the rules should continue to allow the “Hacka-Dwight” strategy. The strategy has slowed the game down, made it less interesting and has actually given players like Howard more attention.

How many close ups of him have we seen, standing at the line, grinning at the prospect of shooting two more free throws?

These players have never been serious enough to improve the holes in their game, and extra time in the spotlight may actually disincentivize improvement. An alternative strategy: Make intentionally fouling players without the ball a technical foul so that we can play basketball again.

Men beat No. 32, 37, while women’s doubles team downs No. 1 pair

By MARK CUI

The Dartmouth Staff

On Jan. 23 and 24, the women’s tennis team kicked off the new year by splitting its first two matches.

The team fell to the No. 23 University of Kentucky 1-4 before dominating the University of San Francisco 4-1. On Jan. 30 and 31, the men’s tennis team continued its fantastic season by winning two nail-biters against No. 37 Drake University and No. 32 Tulane University with final team scores of 4-3 against both.

“It just reaffirms that our team is playing at a high level,” coach Bob Dallis of the women’s team said. “It doesn’t matter who we’re playing, we will compete very hard.”

On Jan. 23, the women’s team started 2016 at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kick-Off Weekend with a loss to Kentucky 1-4.

The team secured its lone point in doubles. The country’s No. 34 doubles team of Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 stole the day with an upset victory, defeating the top ranked tandem in the nation, Kentucky’s Mami Adachi and Aldila Sutjiadi, 6-4. Although Jac-

queline Crawford ’17 and Julienne Keong ’16 fell 1-6, Julia Schroeder ’18 and Katherine Yau ’16 secured the doubles point with a 6-3 victory.

Kentucky fared particularly well in singles, defeating Dartmouth 4-0.

The final two matches of Ng and Mathis both went into the third set before being suspended after Kentucky secured the necessary four points to win the match.

The next day, the women’s team rebounded with an impressive 4-1 victory over USF. The team once against secured the point in doubles, with the pair of Ng and Mathis and the pair of Crawford and Keong both taking wins with final respective scores of 6-3 and 6-1. The third doubles match of Schroeder and Yau was suspended after Dartmouth had already secured the necessary two doubles points. At the time, Schroeder and Yao lead USF’s Hanna Borjeson and Genevieve McCloskey 5-4 .

On the singles side, the team replicated its doubles lead, finishing singles 3-1. Although Ng fell to Andrea Ka in a hard-fought 3-6, 4-6, Yau, Mathis and Schroeder all recorded impressive straight set victories, with final scores of 6-2, 6-2; 6-1, 7-5 and 6-2, 6-1 .

The final two matches, played by Crawford and Allison Chuang ’19, were suspended after Dartmouth had already secured its victory.

Both had the lead at the time, with Crawford leading 6-2, 3-5, and Chuang leading 6-1, 4-4 .

In both games, the team secured victories in doubles, which had traditionally been a weaker part of the team. Yau described the key to the doubles’ success.

“In most doubles matches this weekend we were able to put good pressure on our opponents,” Yau said. “Being especially solid on your own service game helps a lot, and I think we were able to do that as well as bring a lot of energy.”

After securing the first-place title last year, the team hopes to replicate the same success.

“Being a senior, it is really cool to see how the team has grown each year even though we get new recruits and players graduate every year,” Yau said. “Last season definitely raised the bar for this season, so I am excited to see what’s to come. Competing against UNC at NCAAs and playing Kentucky really showed that we are a force to be reckoned with and that we are definitely ready to defend our

ground and win ECACs again as well as qualify for NCAAs again.”

Dallis emphasized the role of practices as crucial to the team’s success.

“To improve our game, we must use our time in practice as a way to prepare and to get better at competing,” Dallis said. “As far as winning or losing, the Ivy League title [and] getting to the NCAA tournament, all those things will take care of themselves.”

On Feb. 5 through 7, the women’s team will next be playing in the ECAC Winter Championship hosted at the Boss Tennis Center.

“Hosting ECACs is awesome, and it is always a fun and well organized tournament,” Yau said.

“The teams we play are tough, and it’s a good way to get a feel of what’s to come in the spring. We will definitely be working on a lot of point play to get ready for the matches.”

On the men’s side, the team impressively recorded wins against two top-40 teams, Drake and Tulane, improving their overall record to 5-1. “[They were] two of the best wins I’ve been a part of in my time on the team,” George Wall

’17 said. “Beating two teams of NCAA caliber over back-to-back days is not something I’m sure this program has done before.”

The team defeated Drake 4-3 at the Boss Tennis Center on Jan. 30, going 1-2 in doubles and 4-2 in singles. Both the Dartmouth doubles pairs of Roko Glasnovic ’19 and Max Schmidt ’17, and Dovydas Sakinis ’16 and Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 , fell in close matches, losing to their Drake counterparts 5-7 and 4-6. Max Fliegner ’18 and Wall secured the lone doubles win, defeating Drake’s Ben Clark and Ben Stride 6-2.

After dropping the doubles point to Drake, the Big Green would reclaim the lead in singles.

Ciro Riccardi ’18, Wall and Eddie Grabill ’19 secured wins at the second, fifth and sixth singles positions in straight sets, winning 6-2, 7-6 (5-0); 6-4, 6-1 and 6-3, 6-1, respectively. Close losses by Sakinis and Fliegner, with respective scores of 3-6, 6-7 (0-5) and 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, meant that the deciding point came down to Tannenbaum.

He responded to the challenge, grinding out the first point with a SEE TENNIS PAGE #