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Howe library plans ahead

By LAUREN BUDD

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The town of Hanover’s Howe Library is in the process of developing its strategic plan for the next five years, library director Mary White said.

White said that for many years, the Howe Library tries to meet

community desires when developing its strategic plans. The current plan runs through the early fiscal year of 2017.

The first step in this process was to have staff meetings with an experienced consultant, White said. She added that the library is currently in the second step of develop-

ing their strategic plan, which involves implementing a community survey in order to gain insights from the public regarding “what we do well, what we could do better, what their dream library would look like and what they would like SEE HOWE PAGE 2

From Feb. 18 to Feb. 20, Dartmouth will host the 2016 Leila and Melville Straus 1960 Family Symposium focused on the rebuilding efforts and response to the April 2015 and May 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake and the 7.3-magnitude earthquakes both devastated Nepal, creating a humanitarian crisis where over 8,000 people were killed and over two million people were displaced.

The three-day summit will feature a photographic exhibition, panel discussions, film screenings, a keynote address

by Swarnim Waglé, for mer member of Nepal’s National Planning Commission and a townhall discussion with Waglé and Mahendra Shrestha, chief of policy for the Nepali Health Ministry’s Planning and International Cooperation Division.

The event, hosted by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, will include experts in technology, medicine, anthropology and arts in addition to members of the Nepali

government.

Since the Straus Symposium is an annual event centered on the analysis of current global issues, main organizer of the event and Dickey Center program manager of human development initiatives Kenneth Bauer said that he wanted to take advantage of its focus to host this summit.

Dartmouth also has a “strong history of response to natural disaster in the recent past,” anthropology professor Sienna Craig said.

Bauer said that the College has been involved in humanitarian efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and in Kosovo following the civil war. He noted a theme of Dartmouth involvement in post-conflict resolution, global health, human development and rebuilding efforts.

The idea of the summit comes from recognizing our “common humanity,“ Bauer said. Following the earthquake, there was a strong response on campus among SEE NEPAL PAGE 5

Q&A: Sydney Finkelstein talks ‘superbosses’

By CARTER BRACE

The Dartmouth Staff

Sydney Finkelstein, management professor at the Tuck School of Business, has a longstanding interest in what makes exceptional leaders.

His new book released this month, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent” (2016), looks at the different traits of “superbosses,” people who have had great success in managing talent and transformed entire industries.

The Dartmouth conducted an interview with Finkelstein discussing his research and his book.

Your book is about “superbosses?” What sparked your interest in the subject?

SF: I’m a foodie and I’ve always followed the restaurant business. And at a restaurant in Berkeley called Chez Panisse that’s very famous, the restaurateur there is Alice Waters. And I happened to notice just by being alert to that industry that there were so many people that had come out of that restaurant who had opened restaurants themselves or foodie establishments and it seemed like she had a gigantic impact in that industry. I thought, “Well that’s kind of a cool thing, lets see if that’s

true anywhere else.” I looked at one industry after another. So it was more seeing something that was interesting to me and wanting to see how common that pattern is and understand what’s behind it.

So what was your research method for looking at these different industries?

SF: Some of these industries have a lot of data. The NFL is a good example, there’s data on coaches and assistant coaches and who worked for whom and all the rest, so I was able to get that quite easily. Other industries require all kinds of other resources, the

primary one was interviews. I ended up interviewing literally hundreds of people to try to understand who were the superbosses and what they did that was different than any other boss. And along the way, and it was a very long process, I had many research assistants, including many Dartmouth and Tuck students.

How long did that take in total?

SF: From when I first got the idea to now that the book is out, it’s actually 10 years.

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DAILY DEBRIEFING The Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard Dental School instructor Dolrudee Jumlongras sparked anger from citizens in Thailand. Allegedly, Jumlongras did not pay back the scholarship loan debts that she borrowed from a Thai university. She had originally agreed to work at Mahidol University in Thailand in order to repay the loan, but by remaining at Harvard, the Thai university believes she is neglecting the deal.

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory researchers acquired a grant that allows them to use the country’s fastest supercomputer for 80 million processor hours, The Daily Princetonian reported. They plan to administer simulations for a project involving high-energy-density plasmas.

The supercomputer is essential for understanding plasma activity, which could then help researchers discover how the earth interacts with plasma. An astrophysical sciences professor and a geology professor won 47 and 80 million processor hours respectively.

Nutrition science will be offered as a major option next September at the University of Pennsylvania, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The program is was previously only available as a minor. Now students will be able to major in nutrition as a second major in addition to students’ primary majors. The School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences worked together to create the new crossschool program. It will be advantageous to those interested in pursuing nutrition, medicine or nursing.

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Howe Library works on five-year plan FROM HOWE PAGE 1

to see for the Howe five years from now.”

After the survey data is collected, White said there will be a series of focus group meetings with groups such as parents, families, community leaders, other area librarians and teenagers to help solidify the five-year vision for the library.

This summer, all the information will be processed and a plan with eight to ten goals will be developed to be implemented in the fall, she said.

White said that the Howe is distinct from other libraries in that it receives generous financial support from Hanover citizens via tax dollars. She said that on top of that, the private 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Howe Library Corporation, raises significant funds during an annual event and fundraising appeal. Money raised helps fund library materials, programs for all ages and other library enhancements such as technology and furniture.

“The strong partnership between the town and the corporation and the generosity of both those pieces, I think, is what makes

Howe exceptional in the area,” White said.

The Howe Library is considered a small library in the national context, serving a population of 11,260, which includes Dartmouth students, White said, but is relatively large for the Upper Valley.

The building itself is 30,000 square feet and contains over 100,000 items in its collection, she said.

The Howe Library, established in Hanover in 1899 by Emily Howe, was fully funded by the Howe Library corporation until the mid-1970s.

White said that Dartmouth students often come to the Howe for a change of venue and to ensure that they won’t be distracted, and that the library collaborates with Dartmouth frequently. Any Dartmouth student can receive a free library card from the Howe, as they are considered residents of Hanover, she said, and the Howe goes to Baker-Berry Library every September to offer cards to new students. In the past, Baker-Berry librarians have served on the board of the Howe Library, she added.

White said she was trying not to make a judgment on what she hopes to see come out of the five-year plan until they have col-

lected data from the community.

As of now, over 450 people have completed the survey, and they expect anywhere from 100 to 150 more responses by the beginning of March.

“I am seeing things very differently from what I thought I might see,” White said. “So that to me has been very enlightening and explains why one should do the survey, because we should do what our community wants, and I should stress that our community is not just Hanover. Everyone in the area is welcome to use the Howe Library.”

Lizann Peyton, an organization development consultant working with the Howe to develop their plan, said she has worked with the Howe and the Norwich Public Library, as well as other Upper Valley nonprofit organizations.

Peyton said her role is to advise library workers on the public input process, help gauge the changing needs of the community and create a container for discussions for people to explore big ideas and distill them into tangible solutions.

With the Howe Library, Peyton

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Students involved in aid for Nepal FROM NEPAL PAGE 1

Nepali students who raised money and awareness of the issue, which other members of the Dartmouth community tried to “foster and nurture,” he said.

This student aid initiative from Nepali students and other members of the Dartmouth community eventually coalesced into Dartmouth for Nepal, Craig said.

Dartmouth for Nepal is raising $10,000 for relief efforts and, according to its website, has built 34 shelters, conducted six health camps for more than 500 people and delivered supplies to 150 families across two villages.

Dartmouth for Nepal member and Dickey Center human development fellow Kripa Dongol ’16 said that she personally conducted relief work in Nepal immediately following the earthquakes — including helicopter emergency evacuations, construction of temporary shelters and working at health camps. She said she also recently went back to Nepal to do research for her thesis geography on the vulnerability of

mountain communities in situa- Nepal’s medically underserviced and vulnerable populations,” tions like earthquakes.

Other campus earthquake relief Shrestha said.

Inspired by these grassroots efefforts include Aasha for Nepal, which is a nonforts and ongoprofit organiza- “The goal of Aasha ing discussions, Craig said, tion co-founded Bauer thought

by Dartmouth- for Nepal is to curtail H i t c h c o c k preventable suffering that Dartmouth Medical Cencould be a place ter doctor Dan- in Nepal that has to bring together stakeholders iel Albert and been bred by a lack with different Shreya Shresof access to quality perspectives on tha Med’16. the meanings of S h r e s t h a , healthcare for Nepal’s who was born earthquakes medically underserviced the and raised in and their politiNepal, said that and vulnerable cal, economic and social imshe saw rampopulations.” plications. pant suffering Bauthroughout the er said that country while - SHREYA SHRESTHA MED g r o w i n g u p, he wanted to which motivat- ’16 make the sumed her to help mit a multidisciplinary event. in whatever capacity she could.

The weekend’s events take a “big “The goal of Aasha for Nepal is tent approach to a big problem,” to curtail preventable suffering in joining people from across disciNepal that has been bred by a lack plines to think of ways to keep the of access to quality healthcare for attention of the world on Nepal so that rebuilding can really occur.

Craig said that the summit is especially relevant now because Nepal just officially created a plan for reconstruction after a number of months, delayed in part by political tensions between India and Nepal.

“We are finding ourselves hosting this event at a point of human and political policy transitions in Nepal,” Craig emphasized.

Dongol said that because the earthquakes were so recent, there has been little academic scholarly work on them. This summit will be a “springboard” for intellectual and policy discussions on this issue, she said.

Craig and her colleagues, who are on the “Narrating Disaster: Causality and Responses to the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal” panel, will be presenting their preliminary research findings at the summit, Craig said.

The project, called “Narrating Disaster,” is a collaboration between anthropologists and linguists who are working with community researchers in Nepal to record and interpret the stories of people who have lived through these events, she said.

“Social Media and Social Entrepreneurship in Response to the Earthquakes” panelist Max von Hippel ’19 said that he will be discussing the common mistakes that people make in attempting to create social media platforms to help the people “on the ground” respond to crises.

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STAFF COLUMNIST IOANA SOLOMON ’19

STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19

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Campaign finance reform should be a top priority for voters.

Campaign finance reform has been hotly contested this election season. Perhaps this issue has been widely discussed in previous election cycles, and I, as a young person, was not aware of it. Bernie Sanders’ promise of a political revolution relies heavily on this criticism. He consistently denounces our current political system as being corrupt and proudly touts the fact that the majority of his donations come from “average Americans.”

Sanders has created a very distinct correlation in the minds of his voters between the origins of political contributions and a candidate’s integrity.

Hillary Clinton, who, not long ago was thought to be almost guaranteed the Democratic nomination, has seemingly lost support because of the contributions she has received from Wall Street.

Throughout this election season, it seems that voters have been less concerned with candidates’ foreign policy knowledge, political expertise or the feasibility of their promised reforms. Instead, they have focused on rough sketches of candidates’ characters. Indeed, perhaps the most common question among voters has been: Where is the money coming from?

Concerns about campaign finance have come to the forefront as super PACs increasingly play into American political elections. A few people, hailing from the highest income brackets, the most powerful interest groups and the most prominent corporations, buy political clout. Super PACS rose to power in the American political landscape beginning in 2010 with the landmark Citizens United case.

Few other cases in American history have received a more hostile response. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion argued, “Prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.”

According to the ruling, the First Amendment does not distinguish between media and other corporations. Because the First Amendment protects “associations” of individuals just as it protects individuals and because it cannot discriminate based on the identity of the speaker, corporations are entitled to protections of free speech. According to the justices, giving money to

a campaign is tantamount to speaking in support of it. As a result, restricting donations to political campaigns limits free speech, even if those donations come from huge corporations and PACs. President Barack Obama, along with other public officials and constitutional law experts, has tirelessly expressed his distaste for the Court’s ruling. A few days ago in Illinois, the president passionately asserted, “A handful of families and hidden interests shouldn’t be able to bankroll elections in the greatest democracy on Earth.”

I believe the Citizens United ruling has contributed to political apathy among Americans. The larger the stake interest groups and corporations have in elections, the less power is left to average Americans. When a candidate can easily receive millions of dollars for aligning their platform with the interests of few, powerful entities, the deck is stacked against common citizens. To some, it seems pointless to do what is within their means whether that be showing up to the polls or contributing $100 dollars. Unfortunately, such tokens of support appear to mean little in the face of massive corporate bankrolls. In essence, low voter turnout might be a symptom of our flawed campaign finance system.

However, there might be an opportunity for monumental change in the coming years.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death may allow for the reversal of decisions like Citizens United. With the vacancy left by Scalia and three more justices around or over the age of 80, the president and representatives we elect have a great deal of power. Those we elect to office this election cycle could drastically change the political composition of the Supreme Court.

While the current political system including campaign finance make many feel that their voices are muted, if we care about issues like campaign finance reform, abortion, affirmative action, climate change and gun rights, then now is the time to get involved. Now is the time to speak out and make sure we elect people who represent our opinions. The ideological makeup of the Supreme Court might change very soon, and this is a perfect time to make our voices as loud as possible.

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Greater engagement by musicians in politics could be good.

While much of the Grammy Awards con- builds on rap politics of the past, sampling sists of music mashups, cheesy acceptance voiceovers from Tupac. speeches and minor upsets, something else At the Grammys, his performance turned came to the fore this year — politics. Both many heads as band members played inbig winners at this year’s ceremony, Taylor carcerated African Americans. Later in the Swift and Kendrick Lamar, have become performance, he included a tribute to African political figures in the public eye. But, they’re dance. not alone. Through their performances and Lamar also acts as a policy advocate, visitspeeches, pop musicians have become in- ing the president to talk about the Black Lives creasingly engaged in politics. In some ways, Matter movement and the mass incarceramusicians have become pop culture activists. tion of African Americans. Lamar already While the politicization of music might be engages youth through his pop politics, but conducive to highlighting important issues, he takes his activism a step further through there is a catch. At times, the intersection interactions with policymakers. of music and politics oversimplifies the big Swift engages young people in similar picture and discourages ways. She has built an deep thought about cur- “Either way, the image on “girl power” rent events. and women supporting Musicians are hailed intersection of music other women. Swift as idols or icons in many and politics is crucial is also an active phiways. Americans, espelanthropist, topping because it raises cially young people, turn DoSomething.org’s, a to their favorite artists as awareness about social non-profit with the aim a way of expressing their issues. Nevertheless, of motivating youth, personalities. They also “Top 20 Celebs Gone look to musicians for fash- pop stars are artists Good” list. However, ion trends in magazines. and ultimately, her simplified brand of Younger musicians are feminism is an example businesspeople. pressured to act as role of how pop politics models for kids, encour- Oversimplification and can be shallow. At the aging them to study hard marketing might stand Grammy she said, “As and engage in healthy, the first woman to win risk-free lifestyles. Since in the way of clear album of the year at the people look up to musi- political education.”

Grammys twice, I want cians in many aspects of to say to all the young their lives, it seems only women out there: there natural that they’ve now become political are going to be people along the way who signifiers. will try to undercut your success.” While such Musicians have become more than artists a remark could be interpreted as a feminist or entertainers alone, they’ve become people statement, Swift seems to be simply calling who fight for common causes and even visit out Kanye West, the rapper who famously the White House (as Kendrick Lamar did in interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2015). Many worry about political apathy 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. among teenagers and young adults. So if Swift has been widely criticized for advo‘trendy’ people, like Grammy Award win- cating feminism only when it is convenient ners, can say a little something about social for her and ignoring intersectionality. The issues alongside their music, then perhaps women featured in her video “Bad Blood” (in they’re combating this apathy. Maybe they’re which Lamar happens to be one of the few promoting healthy political engagement. As people of color), are predominantly Caucaa society, we could better understand issues sian women who are thin and tall. Swift did like racial injustice and women’s rights, or not even identify as a feminist until recently. at the very least, we should increase interest She has neglected the historical context of in such issues. feminism, at first refusing to identify as a Kendrick Lamar, through his visits to the feminist because she thought it was about White House and song lyrics about police “guys versus girls.” While Swift may be brutality and racial injustice, has become encouraging women to support each other one of the most prominent entertainment now, her inattention to detail have misled activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. people about important issues.

Lamar’s politics work because his political Maybe musicians are trying to build their message is nuanced, informed and acces- fanbase through politics. The opposite could sible. Lamar frequently references history, also be true. Musicians might be trying to literature and other rappers in his songs, rally political followers through their musiconnecting modern issues like Black Lives cal popularity. Either way, the intersection Matter to a larger context. The song “King of music and politics is crucial because it Kunta” is a reference to Kunta Kinte in the raises awareness about social issues. Nevernovel “Roots: The Saga of an American theless, pop stars are artists and ultimately, Family” (1976). In his song “Complexion,” businesspeople. Oversimplification and Lamar asserts, “All my Solomon up north, 12 marketing might stand in the way of clear years a slave.” He is referencing the enslaved political education. While looking to pop Solomun Northup and his narrative, “Twelve stars may help young people begin to think Years a Slave (1853).” In addition, Lamar about politics, it is only the first step.

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Finkelstein says superbosses are always on the lookout for talent FROM Q&A PAGE 1

Those hundreds of people you interviewed, were they just the leaders themselves or people who worked with them?

SF: I would say some of them were protégées, some were superbosses,but most were former employees or current employees, and they were the people I wanted to talk with about what the superboss did and how the superboss acted.

What did you find distinguishes these superbosses?

SF: I would highlight a couple of things. First, they are people who do things in different, unusual ways.

They are always on the lookout for talent. If they see somebody that they think is really a great talent, they will often create a job for that person. It’s extremely unusual in the world of HR where you usually go through the dull recruiting process.

They look for diamonds in the rough when it comes to talent. They look to other sources of talent than what most people look at. So George Lucas, early on, was hiring Ph.D.’s in physics and all kinds of other areas to help make some of the original technology that he wanted to create to make the original Star Wars. Bill Walsh, the former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, a big superboss in the NFL, was the first one to tap the talent pool of African-American

assistant coaches. And he actually created an internship, if you will, for promising African-American athletes and young coaches to help develop them further. And I think he’s one of the major reasons why there are today African-American head coaches in the NFL. So looking for talent in what are not your typical places historically.

They resurrected the apprenticeship model, which is pretty much how everyone was trained for centuries. Somewhere along the line, apprenticeships stopped and I think a big reason is because of higher education. I think people thought when you come out of universities, you are trained to do what you need to do. The reality is very, very few people are. And that’s why more and more companies are recognizing this. This is true in law, this is true in consulting, this is true in finance.

Superbosses help to train you, to teach you, to develop you, so that you become much more valuable to them and of course to yourselves as well.

Were there any findings that particularly surprised you?

SF: Definitely. For example, superbosses do a lot of counter-intuitive things. When it comes to say, delegation, many people think about bosses as big delegators or micromanagers.

What superbosses realize is that delegation and micromanaging is not one continuum. You can be a big

delegator and a little delegator, you can be a big micromanager and you can be a marginal micromanager.

And if you recognize that, its now possible for a manager to adopt a style that says, “I’m going to be a big delegator. I’m going to give big opportunities and responsibilities to people. At the same time, I’m not just going to forget about them, I’m also going to be occasionally, if not a micromanager, certainly someone who rolls up their sleeves and works together with my team members, with my protégées.”

What’s particularly relevant for your audience of students at Dartmouth, is that early on in your career, its really difficult to learn and to have big opportunities. This approach that the superbosses take does exactly that. If they see someone with that potential talent, they’ll give them that big opportunity of a challenging job but they are also going to teach you and they’re going show up unannounced at your door or your cubicle and spend an hour or two with you digging into every fine-tooth part of the project you’re working on. Not only to see how you’re doing, but more to challenge you, to push you a little further, and to teach you at the same time.

That’s the way to really accelerate your learning and training once you get a job. For that reason, for so many younger people, when they hear about superbosses or when I started teaching about them at Tuck, the first question they ask

Summit brings leaders together the challenges in Nepal from these experts coming to the summit, so Von Hippel created an ap- he can continue to help build tools plication, Chetawani, which cur- and technological solutions to these rently has over 8,000 downloads, problems. to provide “Pubaccess to the lic Health Rec o m mu n i t y - “If I can’t go to Nepal, sponses to the driven Open at least I get to bring Earthquakes” S t re e t M a p panelist Shresemergency re- a lot of Nepal to tha said that sponse map of campus” the summit will affected areas bring awarein Nepal as ness, publicity well as links to - KENNETH BAUER, DICKEY and visibility to a small variety CENTER PROGRAM the issues still of emergency going on in Neresources pro- MANAGER OF HUMAN pal. Although it vided by third DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES has almost been party organia year since the zations, he e a r t h q u a k e s, said. people are still Von Hipsuffering and pel said that the need for his app was aid and relief successful beis still present, cause it turned the ideas and needs she added. of the people in Nepal into reality. During the panel, Shrestha said He said that he is excited for the she will give people an overview opportunity to learn more about of what Aasha for Nepal has done FROM NEPAL PAGE 1

in terms of how much they have spent, where donors’ funds have gone and where they are headed as an organization.

Shrestha said that the summit as whole is a great forum for the exchange of ideas on the response to the earthquakes “in a more coordinated and impactful manner.”

She is excited to meet leaders in earthquake relief efforts, noting that her organization potentially can “leverage [these connections] going forward to reach places that we have not been able to reach yet in Nepal.”

Bauer said that the summit will also bring many Nepali people from across the country to the College.

“If I can’t go to Nepal, at least I get to bring a lot of Nepal to campus,” Bauer added.

In addition to the Dickey Center, which oversees the Straus 1960 Family Symposium, the anthropology department, Asian and Middle Eastern studies program, linguistics program, the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty are contributing to the summit.

is, “How do I find them? I want to work for a superboss.” And it gives you an indication that people are recognizing “here is the type of boss that can actually help me get better and create the kind of opportunities that will turbocharge my career.”

Are the characteristics of the superbosses innate, or can they be learned?

SF: It turns out that every single part of what a superboss does is completely learnable and teachable.

It’s just taking on a mindset that wherever you’re going, you’re always looking to meet people and think about people as potential partners or employees or team members.

That’s really important and very encouraging because managers want to be more superboss-like, if you will, and people want to work for superbosses.

Is there any further research you’re thinking of doing relating to superbosses?

SF: Obviously, in this long research project I’ve done a lot of things on this topic but I think I’m going to continue to work on this because it’s really important for any organization to do well but also really important for people thinking about how to manage their own careers. So I’m interested in the career aspect even more, and I’m definitely interested in the global side of this. I’d like to

do more research on global superbosses and how they differ from most of the American examples I use. I did identify several in Europe but I didn’t spend much time looking at China, India or Brazil.

Are there ways in which Dartmouth or the Tuck School of Business has helped to facilitate your research?

SF: Certainly, by having great students that are interested in this project. As I said before, there have been a lot of research assistants that have worked for me going back four, five, six, seven, even eight years. Of course, financial support for research is a big deal, you can’t just do all this by yourself.

And Dartmouth and Tuck have been very generous in support of research. I think having the type of intellectual climate that both faculty and students together create is a big thing that we should never underestimate. There are a lot of curious people around and there are a lot of people interested in ideas, whether, in my case, its people and organization, or in other cases its physical sciences or the arts. We live in this little place up in New Hampshire where there are lots of people who have this curiosity and that’s a great environment to be doing work like this.

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

Howe Library long connected with College FROM HOWE PAGE2

said she has worked with the staff to evaluate how libraries are evolving and how to shape the Howe into a community hub rather than simply a place for books and programming.

“It is in many ways a community café environment, a gathering place for a variety of reasons,” Peyton said.

Peyton emphasized that the library has been part of an extended community within the overall region, not just the town of Hanover, and serves as a valuable and in-demand meeting space for a variety of groups.

The last time Peyton worked with the Howe Library was 10 years ago, at a time when the focus was on expanding the facilities to accommodate more spaces for study and programming. Ten years ago also marked a shift to a new age of technology for libraries, she

said.

“They’ve done a fantastic job of building a very rich online presence and making more kinds of technology available to use in the library,” she said.

Howe’s department head of adult services Joanne Blais said that she also envisioned the library as a gathering place for all sorts of people.

“It’s easier to work from home, and yet, because it’s so easy to work from home, there’s a greater need for a place for people to gather,” she said. “I don’t see that people are reading less, I don’t even see that people are going to abandon physical books.”

Blais also emphasized the importance of a library having a broad collection and a knowledgeable staff to help foster a knowledgeable community.

“The library’s as good as it is because the community expects it,” she said.

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“Does Nonrandom Participation in Experiments Matter?,” Stony Brook University professor Jason Barabas, Silsby 119

1:00 p.m.

“Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter,” George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, Room 003, Rockefeller Center

4:30 p.m.

“Inspiring Stories from Women in Leadership,” featuring speakers from a variety of sectors, Room 003, Rockefeller Center

TOMORROW All day

“A Dialogue on Earthquake Representations,” NEPAL Summit at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art

3:30 p.m.

“Solar Flares: Explosive Plasma Physics,” Rice University professor Stephen Bradshaw, Wilder 104

7:00 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey, Dartmouth v. Colgate University, Thompson Arena Rink

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Theater department’s production of ‘Chicago’ to open Friday

By MADELINE KILLEN The Dartmouth

We might be able to blame the theater department for the wind chill over Winter Carnival weekend. While the rest of campus was human dogsled racing and taking a stab at ice sculpting, the cast and crew of this term’s main stage production were working hard to bring the Windy City to Hanover. For the next two weekends, students will be staging “Chicago” (1975), the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.

The massive scale and appeal of the iconic musical both challenged and excited the cast and crew. The scale of musicals makes them more difficult to create and call than straight plays, according to technical director Scott Silver.

Robert Leverett ’16, who plays the male lead Billy Flynn, said that he is most looking forward to and most nervous about the spectacle and production value of the show.

“It’s more things to worry about — like am I going to be able to hit this note tonight,” Leverett said.

“It’s using different muscles than other shows.”

Leverett is a theater major but has never been formally trained in singing or dancing, and expressed anxiety about these aspects of “Chicago.” However, stage manager Kyla Mermejo-Varga ’17 is not worried about his performance.

“The other night, I was watch-

ing [Leverett] do a number, and for the first time in the process, I wasn’t consciously aware that I was watching [Leverett],” she said. “It was just crazy.”

His co-stars Veronica Burt ’16 and Carina Conti ’16, playing Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart respectively, do not share this nervousness as both are involved in dance groups on campus. Burt, a member of Sugarplum, is excited for the opportunity to combine her love of dance and theater, especially in a show that emphasizes dance numbers, Burt said.

“I actually got into theater through dance,” Burt said. “It’s really rare for me to be able to use my dance ability with my theater training.”

Burt said that she feels Velma is a character she “should be playing” because the role has multiple dance numbers, Velma’s songs fit vocally in Burt’s range and her personality appeals to Burt.

“She’s outspoken, she’s sassy, she has a strong sense of self. She’s just a fiery character,” Burt said.

Mermejo-Varga and Burt both expressed their excitement over the range of people that a show as well known as “Chicago” attracts.

“There’s such a vast assortment of interests and majors. It’s just so many people from so many different departments that are all coming together,” Mermejo-Varga said.

“It’s just gorgeous.”

Burt noted that the cast’s breadth

of experiences and caliber were positive aspects of the show.

Silver echoed this statement, saying that his favorite part of any production is his interactions with the students.

Mer mejo-Varga specifically praised the two female leads, Burt and Conti.

“Their dancing is amazing, they’re both great singers, their acting is great too,” she said. “They’re incredible. I don’t know how they do it. I mean, I think my job is stressful.”

Mermejo-Varga is right to think her job as the show’s stage manager is stressful. The musical number “All That Jazz” alone contains 40 cues for which she is responsible, she said.

According to Silver, the lighting and projections are the most challenging components of “Chicago,” and much of the responsibility for this falls on its student stage manager, who calls all the cues from the booth on production nights.

“If you look at the whole production rehearsal process, from auditions all the way to the end, no one works harder than the stage manager,” Silver said. “It’s a very hard thing to put on a student, but Kyla has risen to the occasion.”

Mermejo-Varga said she is looking forward to seeing the show “all put together” and for her family to come see the production all the way from New Mexico.

While the production value of the show — which Mermejo-Varga

said she thinks attracts people that are not usually theater fans — is a challenge to its crew, the cast struggles more with the over-the-top script. Musicals are “inherently not realistic,” Burt said, which presents difficulty for the actors involved in them.

“You have to find the truth in that. You have to think it’s fine that you’re singing suddenly in this scene,” Burt said. “You’re navigating awkward period lines and songs and finding some sort of honesty.”

Leverett also noted the struggle that comes with giving an honest performance as an actor.

“It’s just been challenging to find an emotional and psychological truth that still reaches the level of the material,” Leverett said.

The students agreed that the unrealistic elements of the show have a modern-day mirror in reality television, and specifically hinted that the Kardashians may make a cameo in the musical. Burt said that the themes of the show “really work with today,” and Mermejo-Varga more explicitly stated that a major take-home theme of “Chicago” is to “stop making stupid people famous.”

“The show has a very complicated image of fame,” Leverett expanded. “To make an easy statement about figures who are seen as being famous for doing nothing would be reductive, and I think that the show really allows for a complicated look at people who are

famous for reasons other than the ideal.”

Burt says that this theme is “more relevant than ever.”

The students’ praise for each other and their similar views about acting may be due in part to their shared experience on the theater foreign study program this past summer in London. MermejoVarga, Burt, Conti and Leverett all attended the program together. Burt credits the FSP for their “similar way of thinking about theater,” and said that many of them are “going to try to make it [in the theater industry].”

Burt thinks that the massive scale of “Chicago” is a perfect symbolic ending to her and her co-stars’ theater careers at Dartmouth.

“We get to be the stars here in our final year and then we’re about to go slum it out in the real world,” Burt said. “But here’s this time where we get to work together and really try to hone everything that we’ve learned.”

This weekend’s performances will be Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Moore Theater. Next week’s performances will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets cost $5 for students and $10 to $15 for community members.

There will be a free presentation about the production of “Chicago” on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. and a post-show discussion with members of the creative team after the Feb. 26 performance.

Alumnus Q&A: Creative developer Preston Copley ’07

By SOPHIA SIU

The Dartmouth

Preston Copley ’07 graduated from Dartmouth with a history major. After graduation, Copley transitioned from performance to production, working for companies that produced reality television, shows off-Broadway and, eventually, for the Disney Theatrical Group. Copley is now the director of Creative Development for Jean Doumanian Productions in New York City.

Can you describe your role as director of Creative Development for Jean Doumanian?

PC: Jean Doumanian Productions is a smaller shop, but we do produce three different mediums: film, theater and television. My role is broken down into three different parts. Part of my job is to go out and search out theatrical properties that are already in existence, like off-West End in London or off-Broadway in New York, and evaluate if that show could be moved to a larger commercial venue, such as on West End or on Broadway, and if that show would be right for us, as

producers, to transfer that show to the larger commercial context. I also scout to see if a potential property might be fodder for another type of medium, like if a play might also be compelling for television or a film. The other scouting element is scouting for talent. I’m supposed to know who’s writing what and who’s performing well, and in the event that we do engage with a piece, in any of the various medium, I’ll be able to help and coalesce a team to best execution the vision of that piece.

The last aspect of what I do adds a dramaturgical element to my work.

Once we engage with a piece and begin to develop it, I will work with a creative team to make sure the story is being developed in the way that the team wants and to make sure that it aligns closely with the original intentions of the piece. It’s a bit editorial, a bit academic but also very fun.

What are some of the projects you’re currently working on as director of Creative Development?

PC: We’re in rehearsal right now for a play called “The Effect” by a British

playwright named Lucy Prebble. It was done in 2014 by the National Theatre of Great Britain and we are teaming up with the National Theatre in New York for their first ever off-Broadway commercial production. We’re doing it at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, and it’ll open in March. We have a movie that will come out this year, most likely in the spring or summer. It’s an adaptation of a play by a playwright named David Harrower, who also wrote the adaptation for the screen.

The play was called “Blackbird.” Our movie has been titled “Una” and it stars a riveting Rooney Mara in the lead.

so just the time that one has to devote to all of their pursuits. I was a recruited athlete, so I felt that my first priority after academics was my responsibility to the team. Once I felt like I got in the groove there, I started testing the waters, performing in student stuff and eventually making it to the main-stage productions. Most of the members of that community, especially the students but also the professors, have remained friends until now.

Were you involved in theater while you were at Dartmouth?

How did your involvement in theater shaped the direction of your career path?

PC: The mandate of a liberal arts education, being all encompassing. I think it’s necessary to specialize eventually, but in terms of approaching any subject, I’ve found it beneficial to try to wear the hats in terms of the whole craft of theater making, from acting to the production side to tearing tickets and ushering — I’ve worked all of those jobs. I think the Dartmouth education puts a premium on getting that kind of diversity and interest, and that’s probably the thing that helped me the most. My achievements that I’ve had

PC: I was a recruited athlete at Dartmouth. I played football my four years at Dartmouth and captained the team my senior year, which is something I take a lot of pride in. At Dartmouth, I was a little more reticent, not because of the [theater] community being unwelcoming to an athlete, but more

What at Dartmouth prepared you the most for working in the theater/production industry?

so far has come from a willingness to do something in service of this larger idea of theater making, which I think was very much a philosophy of the Dartmouth theater education.

What personal goals do you have for your current role at Jean Doumanian Productions?

PC: Personal goals for me would be to shepherd really compelling artistic but commercial content into large theater spaces like Broadway and West End. Additionally, to put into development more provocative film-making and to personally endeavor to get some television on the air, which would be a new thing for me.

What advice would you give to theater/arts students at Dartmouth?

PC: If there are any students out there who don’t know if they want to try theater because it isn’t their major, you’ll find it to be a welcoming community.

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

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SPORTS

THURSDAY 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

First off, John and I would like to extend our best wishes to Chris Bosh, who currently may be facing another life threatening blood clot injury. Bosh, who is a two-time champion and an 11-time All Star, has been a class act since entering the NBA, and we hope that he will be back to health soon.

Thursday’s Feb. 18 trade deadline looms, and there has been significant speculation of a blockbuster dealing occurring. Due to the Golden State Warriors’ unprecedented success, some of the better teams in the league realize that a trade needs to happen in order to contend with the defending champions.

Some of the notable names include Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love, Carmelo Anthony, Al Horford, Hassan Whiteside and

Markieff Morris.

Today, we discuss who is most likely to be involved in a blockbuster trade on Thursday.

Alex’s Take: Dwight Howard is going to be traded on Thursday. I know that every trade season the name “Dwight Howard” seems to inevitably associated with the word “trade,” but this time it’s legit.

The past few weeks, there have been rumblings of the Houston Rockets potentially moving Howard. He has been the centerpiece of numerous trade rumors including deals for Whiteside or Jeff Teague and Al Horford. There have always been some rumors about the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks.

Howard has an early opt-out option which he can utilize at this season’s end, and I (apparently also the Rockets’ front office) fully expect him to exercise it if not traded.

The salary cap is set to explode this offseason, and it makes all the

financial sense in the world for Howard to get paid one last time via free agency.

Moreover, Dwight has expressed some discontent with his role on the Rockets. James Harden and Ty Lawson are two ball dominant guards who play lots of isolationstyle basketball. Howard has never been known for having the best temperament, and his body language and facial expression tell the entire story when he is not passed the ball on the block.

He expressed a similar sentiment before he left the Los Angeles Lakers in the summer of 2013, and I expect the Rockets to move him before he leaves them.

The biggest issue is his $22.4 million contract, but GMs have found plenty of ways to make it work. I expect that at least one team will find a solution.

Ultimately, Howard is still a premiere center in the league, and any team who trades for him will

immediately improve. There are significant incentives by all parties involved in these trade rumors to take, thus I expect Howard to don a new jersey on Thursday.

John’s Take: Howard being on the trading block is probably the least surprising thing in the entire world. We’ve written about him before, so I won’t elaborate too much on how this “superstar” center is underrated, has a poor work ethic, fails to gel well with teammates, lacks a competitive spirit, etc. Howard will most likely be traded both because it makes financial sense and because he has told the Rockets he’s not happy.

Some of the other names on the list are more interesting. Take Kevin Love for example. I actually don’t believe that Love will be traded, mainly because David Blatt, the coach that he didn’t get along with, has already been forced out. Additionally, Love is probably the Cleveland Cavaliers’ only hope

for any semblance of success in the playoffs. I don’t like the guy. I think many teams are similarly wary of his personality, and so the best spot for him the rest of the year will be Cleveland.

Carmelo Anthony is another player that could be traded, and there’s been buzz around the league that he could be exchanged for Love. I don’t think Love will be traded, nor do I think Carmelo Anthony will be traded. He has a similar stigma about him that makes teams think twice before signing him. On the New York Knicks, he has dominated the offensive side of the ball and hurt ball movement and team basketball. On the defensive side, Anthony has always been known as a lackluster defender that exerts very little effort.

I don’t think we’ll see very many surprises this week, but a team like the Knicks could decide to jump ship and finally end Anthony’s reign in New York.

Track and field sets records, sweeps podiums as it gears up for Heps

By CHRIS SHIM

The Dartmouth Staff

In its final tune up before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the track and field team received strong individual performances at the Boston University Valentine Invitational and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Gordon Kelly Invitational this past weekend. The Valentine Invitational took place on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12 to 13, at the BU Track and Tennis Center in Boston, while the Gordon Kelly Invitational took place on Saturday at the Johnson Athletic Center at MIT. Both the athletes and the coaching staff were pleased with how the meet went.

“Since this is the last competition before the [Ivy League] Heps, we as coaches wanted the last memory before the Heps to be a positive one,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick ’77 said. “When I talked to the team on Thursday, the word I emphasized was ‘opportunity.’ They certainly took advantage of it.”

Indeed, both the men’s and women’s teams gave stellar performances with many athletes recording new personal bests. Highlighting the action on the men’s side was a fifth-place finish in the men’s mile by Joey Chapin

’16, who completed the distance in 4 minutes and 0.27 seconds, just missing breaking the coveted 4-minute barrier.

Chapin’s time is the third fastest mile in Dartmouth history.

“My goal going in was definitely first and foremost to break 4 minutes,” Chapin said. “Realistically, this was my best chance to do it as everyone is trying to run fast at this meet. There were a couple of things that went wrong with the race, but if I had run it a little better tactically, I think I could have dipped.”

Nonetheless, Chapin was very pleased with the race.

“Finishing so close to breaking four flat is always frustrating, but I still came away with a full two-second PR and cannot be too upset with how the race went,” Chapin said.

Amos Cariati ’18 also performed well, taking fourth in the 500-meter with a final time of 1:03.98. According to Harwick, this was the first time Cariati broke 1:04 in the distance. Jules Hislop ’17 was 28th in the same event, at 1:06.90.

In the other track events, Dominic Carrese ’19 placed 20th in the 1000 (2:29.76), Brian Masterson ’16 placed 20th in the 3000 (8:13.63) and Mike Schlichting ’18 placed 21st in the 5000 (14:45.81).

The Big Green also received strong

performances at the MIT Gordon Kelly Invitational. The men swept the first four places in the 60-meter hurdles, with Alex Frye ’17 (8.28), Alec Eschholz ’19 (8.38), Parker Johnson ’19 (8.40) and Nico Robinson ’17 (8.57) finishing in the top. Three other Big Green hurdlers finished under 9.00, giving Dartmouth seven of the nine top finishers.

The men also swept the first three places in the pole vault, with Max Cosculluela ’17 (4.85 meters), Robinson (4.85) and Benjamin Ose ’19 (4.70) dominating the competition and placing first, second and third, respectively. Cosculluela and Robinson were separated because Cosculluela took fewer attempts to clear 4.85.

Colin Minor ’18 and Tim Brennan ’17 finished first and second in the men’s weight throw, with throws of 18.02 meters and 16.21, respectively.

Also winning their respective events were Victor Williams ’16 in the 60-meter dash in 7.12 and Corey Muggler ’17 in the triple jump (14.92 meters).

The women also received strong performances at the Valentine Invitational, highlighted by a school record and sixth-place finish by Jen Meech ’16 in the 400. She completed the distance in 53.97, which topped Catherine Brew ’87’s old record of 54.45. Meech also finished 13th in

the 200 with a 24.35. “[The women’s 400] record has been around for over 30 years,” women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze said. “It was exciting to see [it fall].”

Also with a strong performance on the women’s side was Bridget O’Neill ’18, who placed second in the 1000 in 2:47.74. O’Neill was ecstatic over her race.

“I was just hoping to run fast this past weekend and maybe get a [personal record],” O’Neill said. “There were a lot of fast girls in my heat, but I was able to hang on and run pretty well!”

In the 500, Aliyah Gallup ’17 placed fourth in 1:14.43 and Marissa Evans ’18 was eighth in 1:14.92. Abby Feeney ’17 placed 16th in the 60 hurdles in 8.95. In the mile, Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 was 27th in 4:52.66 and Grace Thompson ’19 won her section in 4:54.28, though the time put Thompson 30th overall.

At MIT, the women performed well, taking the first four spots in the 60 and the 200, the first three in the long jump and the first two in the high jump and pole vault. In the 60, Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 (7.76), Nicole DeBlasio ’19 (7.89), Anna Kikut ’16 (7.96), and Colleen McManus ’18 (8.07) took the first four spots; DeBlasio (25.76), Kikut

(25.81), Molly Shapiro ’16 (26.32) and McManus (26.93) took the first four in the 200; in the long jump, Kayla Gilding ’19 (5.39 meters), Allison Frantz ’18 (5.21) and Shapiro (5.20) finished 1-2-3; Whitehorn (1.72) and Maria Garman ’19 (1.69) took first and second in the high jump; and in the pole vault, Kaitlin McCallum ’16 (3.70) and Stephanie Brown ’16 (3.55) continued their 1-2 punch, finishing first and second there as well.

Riding off the plethora of strong performances this past weekend, the teams will look to begin tapering and make final tweaks to their execution before Heps, which will take place from Feb. 27 to 28 at Cornell University.

“Next week, I’ll sit down with each athlete and talk to the race they’re going to run at Heps, the last race that they ran, and some things that I saw and they can see on film,” FordCentonze said. “Other than that, [we’ll] just try to get them excited and ready to drive up to Cornell to compete.”

Harwick echoed similar sentiments about final preparations before Heps.

“This week coming up will be a hard training week for us,” Harwick said. “Once we get to the week of the Heps themselves, we’ll tell them to try to get ahead on their schoolwork and get a lot of rest.”