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Hanover DALI, DEN host The Pitch primary results vary from state’s By CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth Staff
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The Feb. 9 New Hampshire primaries saw Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump claim decisive victories in their respective Democratic and Republican contests. However, the statewide results were not reflected in Hanover. In Hanover and surrounding towns, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich received the most votes in the Republican primary. At the same time, in the Democratic primary, Sanders’ margin of victory over Hillary Clinton was smaller in Hanover than it was statewide. Sanders won with 2,286 votes to Clinton’s 2,005 in Hanover. Statewide, Sanders swept Clinton with 60.4 percent to her 38 percent. In Hanover, Kasich had his largest lead of any New Hampshire town, taking 688 votes. Sen. Marco Rubio followed with 296 votes, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took third with 211, while Trump trailed in fourth with 175. Hanover was the only town in the state where Trump did not finish in first or second place. Government professor Joseph Bafumi noted that lesseducated, blue-collar voters favored Trump while more educated Republicans and moderate Republicans favored Kasich. Bafumi described Hanover Republicans as more moderate and more educated that the rest of the state, pushing them towards Kasich. “They’re Ivy League students, Ivy League faculty and Ivy League alumni,” Bafumi said. Bafumi linked Trump’s lack of support in Hanover to the lack of blue collar voters in Hanover concerned about issues that Trump frequently talks about, such as the trade deficit SEE PRIMARY PAGE 3
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Last night, Dartmouth’s very own shark-tank style, entrepreneurial show, The Pitch, was held at Loew Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. The event attracted dozens of audience members as 20 groups pitched their start-up ideas to a panel of six judges. Out of the 20 participating groups, four winning groups were selected: FoodShare, Lodestone Biomedical, Heartstring
and PukePocket. Audience members were given ballots before the event began, and throughout the event they marked their three favorites. After a 40-minute pitching session, a 20-minute intermission followed, during which the judges decided the winners and the audience’s votes were tallied. Winning teams will receive funding from the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center to further develop their projects, which along with
Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab, sponsored the event. FoodShare, which earned first place, will receive $3,000. They developed an app that transforms restaurants into social enterprises — every time a user dines at one of the FoodShare-partnered restaurants, FoodShare donates a meal to someone in need. Users must first take a photo of their meal and are also prompted SEE PITCH PAGE 5
Master’s of public health degree to be offered online By ERIN LEE
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Twenty groups presented innovative ideas in less than two minutes as part of The Pitch.
In August, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice will launch its online master of public health program for the first time. In addition to online lectures and projects, the two-year program will also include six short residential periods where students convene on campus to meet each other and their professors, TDI academic director for education Alice
Andrews said. The online program will be similar to the one-year residential MPH program currently offered, and both programs are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. “It’s the same program with a different delivery method,” Andrews said. TDI director Elliott Fisher said the MPH programs aim to provide students with the tools to understand how healthcare systems work and eventually
create change. Dartmouth’s programs specifically focus on healthcare delivery, in addition to quantitative methods, epidemiology and statistics. “We want to develop the skills required to make a difference, with sufficient depth and rigor so that they can go back to their systems and improve them,” he said. The online program will admit 20 to 25 students in its inaugural class, though future classes could have as many as 50 students, Andrews said.
“We want to start small so we can learn as we go,” she said. “It’s a good sized cohort for people to learn from each other.” In 2015, 40 student earned an MPH degree from the College through the one-year residential program currently being offered. Fisher added that the number of applications to the online MPH program have been better than expected so far. The online MPH is primar-
ily targeted to working health professionals who may not live in the area or be able to take time off from their job to attend the residential program, Fisher said. Applicants to the online program are expected to have five to 10 years of work experience, Andrews said. So far, applicants have been from a range of backgrounds, including public policy, private health consulting firms, cliniSEE MPH PAGE 2
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Harvard University: Activists from Harvard Law School have been occupying a student center for the past week, The Harvard Crimson reported. The occupation is an effort to create a space for minority students, pushing the administration to address issues of racial diversity and inclusion on campus. The occupiers are holding discussions on diversity and activism during the day and sleeping in the hall at night. They have recently been joined by students from Yale Law School and Occidental College. Princeton University: Following the repeal of a grade deflation policy, the average GPA for the fall 2015 semester at Princeton rose to 3.40, The Daily Princetonian reported. The grade deflation policy, which was repealed in fall 2014, prohibited any department from allocating A grades to more than 35 percent of students. Since the 2013-2014 academic year, the average GPA at Princeton has risen by nearly 0.7 points. University of Pennsylvania: Caitlyn Jenner visited the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The retired Olympic decathlete and television personality discussed her career and her lifelong struggles with gender dysphoria. The highly-anticipated event was moderated by Penn alumnus Buzz Bissinger, who first published Jenner’s announcement of her female identity in his Vanity Fair article “Call Me Caitlyn.” Yale University: Amid plans to open two new residential colleges in the fall of 2017 and increase the student population by 15 percent by 2020, faculty members expressed concern that there will not be enough professors and resources to teach the increased number of students, The Yale Daily News reported. A report from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate showed that the university is not planning large-scale changes to the current academic structures in order to accommodate the larger student body.
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Online program to admit 20 to 25 Hanover voters wealthy, educated FROM MPH PAGE 1
cal practice, medical residency and hospital data analytics, she said. Ultimately, the one-year residential MPH program will most likely appeal more to recent college graduates, and the two-year online program will primarily attract working professionals, Fisher said. In the future, TDI may develop a five-year MPH program for undergraduates, he added. Fisher said planning for the online program began about a year ago. Dartmouth was the first school to offer a one-year MPH program, and since then the market has changed — more MPH programs are now offered online, he said. After TDI’s master of health care delivery science program, an online-residential hybrid started in 2011, proved to be successful, the door opened for additional online initiatives, he said. “We realized we can deliver really good online learning when you combine it with brief residential periods,” Fisher said. “Students got the same kind of close, personal experience Dartmouth students expect from Dartmouth.” Between residential periods, students in the online MPH program will have about 15 hours of work per
week, involving both synchronous sessions — where all members are online at the same time — and asynchronous work, Andrews said. Students can attend web-based lectures from faculty members in real time, in addition to posting on discussion boards and blogs and working in virtual study groups, she said. TDI and Geisel School of Medicine professor Paul Batalden will lead a course for the online MPH program currently titled “Systems and Services.” The course is based on the idea that healthcare services involve two parties: the professional and the beneficiary, he said. The class will explore how that relationship relates to relevant healthcare policy, payment, ethics and science and how to redesign and improve systems, he said. Batalden said he has been working on the coursework for the online MPH program for about a month. He is focusing on adapting the material already taught in the residential MPH program to the online format and adjusting it for the diversity of the students he will be teaching. Students will be able to watch lectures, write responses and answer focus questions in this class. “It’s a fun challenge to try to put
the learning together in a way that makes for a great learning experience and takes full advantage of the technology,” he said. Online platforms offer the ability to customize learning to the student’s schedule and specific areas of interest, Batalden said. TDI and Geisel psychiatry professor William Nelson, who will also teach a course in the online MPH program, said he wants to get to know the students as well as relate the content to their own healthcare experiences and the systems they are involved with. His area of specialty is healthcare ethics, and he is planning on teaching a short segment of the program in addition to consulting with other faculty members to integrate ethics into their own courses. “Ethics is the foundation for the delivery of effective, efficient, safe, patient-centered healthcare,” he said. Fisher said he is excited that the online MPH program can include people already working in health care, in addition to students recently out of college. “We can reach people working on the front lines, while bringing in the next generation of people to lead,” he said.
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and illegal immigration. He added that Hanover’s economy and job market has never been rooted in manufacturing, in contrast to places with large amounts of blue-collar, lower-educated Republicans whose livelihoods are deeply connected to the industry. “They’ve seen jobs go abroad, they feel it personally in their lives, they hear Donald Trump telling them about it and they like what they hear,” Bafumi said. Government professor Brendan Nyhan attributed Kasich’s relative success to his appeal to independents and moderate Republicans in Hanover. “Hanover skews liberal so its not surprising that Kasich would do better here,” Nyhan said. Bafumi said that for moderate Republicans the choice was “almost a process of elimination.” “No, not Christie because of Bridgegate. No, not Jeb Bush because he hasn’t gained any traction, people are tired of the Bush dynasty and he doesn’t have the communication skills. Not Rubio because he faltered in the debate. So who’s left?” Bafumi said. “Well, here’s this guys who’s electable, he’s the governor of Ohio and he’s got more moderate positions.” Kasich also invested more resources in New Hampshire, and Hanover specifically, than other candidates. Kasich spoke at the Dartmouth campus twice and held 106 town hall campaign events in the state. The Kasich campaign additionally had the largest student presence of any Republican candidate whereas Trump neither had a Dartmouth student group’s endorsement nor visited the Hanover area during the campaign. The closer margin in the Democratic contest was attributed potentially to Hanover’s “unusually wealthy” demographic makeup, Nyhan said. Those with an annual income of $200,000 were one of the few demographic groups statewide who favored Clinton over Sanders in the New Hampshire primary, according to CNN exit polls. Nyhan offered a potential explanation for Clinton’s support among the wealthy. “Sanders is saying the American economy isn’t working very well for people, and that’s true on average, but it’s less true for high-income Americans,” Nyhan said. Nyhan also offered alternative explanations for why Clinton might do well in a college town while at the same time noting that exact data was unavailable regarding student turnout in Hanover. “It might suggest the rest of Hanover [aside from the College] is even more pro-Hillary or it might suggest Dartmouth students were more divided than other people their age on the Bernie versus Hillary question,” Nyhan said. In the primary, Sanders generally benefitted from very strong support
from young voters, winning 82 percent of voters ages 18 to 24, according to a CNN exit poll. However, despite the fact that the Sanders student campaign group had the greatest number of volunteers and the largest presence on Dartmouth’s campus, not all Dartmouth students ultimately vote in New Hampshire. Andrew Smith, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire who focuses on the New Hampshire primary, said that since most Dartmouth students are not from New Hampshire, they were more likely to be voting out-of-state. However, Dartmouth students were able to register as a New Hampshire voter on the day of the election with any piece of photo identification — including a Dartmouth ID. Smith added that the relatively small student population in Hanover also served to mitigate the effect of potential student support for Sanders. In contrast, Smith noted how student support for Sanders had a much greater impact in the University of New Hampshire’s town of Durham. The University has a much larger population of 15,000 students and a much greater proportion of students residents in New Hampshire who can vote in the primary. The town of Durham saw record primary turnout, with 2,100 same-day registrants who were primarily college students. Sanders won 70 percent of the vote. In recent history, Hanover has backed more moderate candidates in the Republican primary. In both the 2000 and 2008 Republican primaries, Hanover voters overwhelmingly supported the relatively moderate John McCain, giving him a larger margin of victory than he had in the rest of the state. Kasich’s success in Hanover also had more direct links to the success of former Utah governor Jon Huntsman in Hanover in the 2012 primary, who garnered the most votes in the town despite coming in third statewide. “Jon Huntsman was the John Kasich of 2012,” Smith said. “He ran the same kind of campaign and had the same people running his campaign. Same strategy, same people, same organizational [methods], same result.” Kasich employed multiple Huntsman advisors in his own campaign, including John Weaver, who served as a senior campaign advisor to both campaigns. However, there is not a recent historical pattern of Hanover supporting the leading moderate Democratic candidate to a greater degree than the rest of the state. In the previous three contested Democratic primaries in 2000, 2004 and 2008, Hanover overwhelmingly gave the most votes to the relatively liberal candidates even though their more moderate opponents won the state as a whole.
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STAFF COLUMNIST CAROLINE HSU ’18
STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ’18
Gluten-Free Isn’t the Answer
Misguided Foreign Policy
We should think twice before going gluten-free.
GOP candidates’ strategies for the Middle East are bound to fail.
Nowadays, the term “gluten-free” is calories. Bottom line — you could just thrown around all the time. Health gurus cut junk foods out of your diet, without swear that a gluten-free diet is the key to a foregoing gluten altogether. long and healthy life and “foodies” avoid Gluten-free diets, often more concerngluten-heavy foods at all costs. Huge cor- ingly, contribute to unhealthy eating. Many, porations have been milking this trend and illogically, associate “gluten-free” with capitalizing on the opportunity to boost “healthy.” Indeed, some people feel bettheir profits. Since 2008, General Mills ter eating gluten-free donuts than regular has added 600 gluten-free products to its ones. Yet, many gluten-free junk foods are inventory. Clearly, companies like General just as unhealthy and fattening as regular Mills are catering to a growing market. junk foods. Overall, most people lack a Over the past four years, sales of gluten- thorough knowledge of nutrition and the free foods in the United effects of certain foods States have increased on our bodies. from $11.5 billion to “Bottom line — you Whole grains, more than $23 billion. that are good sources could just cut junk Although some peominerals, proteins foods out of your diet, of ple avoid gluten because and fiber, also contain they suffer from celiac without foregoing gluten. As a result, addisease, many others gluten altogether.” herents of a gluten-free adhere to a gluten-free diet steer clear of whole diet just because it is grains and miss out on “healthier.” While it’s their health benefits. tempting to jump on the gluten-free band- Worse yet, studies have shown gluten-free wagon, completely eliminating this mixture diets to be lacking in fiber, iron, folate, of proteins from our diet will have few, if niacin, thiamine, calcium, vitamin B12, any, benefits for most of us. In fact, taking phosphorus and zinc. Many gluten-free such a drastic approach could actually be pancake mixes and pastas contain sigdetrimental. nificantly less fiber and protein, and more What exactly is gluten? Composed of sodium. In this way, following a gluten-free two storage proteins gliadin and glutenin, diet could actually do more harm than gluten is found in many grains, such as good. wheat and barley, and gives dough its elasRecently, a movement has formed to tic texture. Gluten essentially helps foods counter the gluten-free fad. “Bread Face retain their shapes. Blog” is just one of many examples. The People who follow a strict gluten-free diet web page features an anonymous woman claim to feel healthier and more energetic who smushes her face into loaves of bread, overall. In addition, many believe that making her love for gluten comically clear. a gluten-free diet promotes weight loss. Science has also backed the silly blog However, this is largely a misconception. postings, as many health experts are now Many junk foods — cookies, cupcakes, warning people to avoid a gluten-free diet. candy, cake — contain gluten. Of course, While I won’t be smushing my face into cutting these foods out of our diet will bread or starting my own blog anytime result in weight loss. Contrary to popular soon, I will continue to enjoy my bread thought, gluten isn’t to blame for weight and whole grains. I encourage everyone gain. It just so happens that many foods to do the same and think twice before containing gluten are also high in fat and committing to a gluten-free diet.
The race for the 2016 Republican presicertainly understands foreign affairs more dential nomination is reaching a fever pitch than Trump. He serves on the Senate with March looming right around the corSelect Committee on Intelligence and the ner. Donald Trump won the Nevada caucus Committee on Foreign Relations, which two days ago and leads the GOP primary “holds jurisdiction over all diplomatic delegate count, although establishment nominations” and helps “shape foreign support is beginning to coalesce around policy of broad significance, in matters Marco Rubio . Former of war and peace and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush “Specifically, the international relations has dropped out while .” Nevertheless, Rubio is GOP presidential Sen. Ted Cruz is still in still a first term senator. the race. The candidates’ candidates advocate He believes America’s vague policies on a whole for the repetition national security apparange of issues have ratus and foreign policy warranted criticism on of uninformed, needs to be much more many fronts. Republican jingoistic and muscular. He wants to foreign policy stances in implement a more conparticular have revealed unilateral national frontational, unilateral the candidates’ delu- security and Middle and interventionist forsional world views and East policies that eign policy, which shows national security stances. that he has failed to learn Specifically, the GOP have failed in the from past GOP-backed presidential candidates past and sowed the policies. advocate for the repSimilar to Ruetition of uninformed, seeds of present day bio, Cruz, the firstjingoistic and unilateral instability.” term Texas senator, is national security and reasonably infor med Middle East policies that on matters of national have failed in the past and sowed the seeds security and Middle East policy. With of present day instability. regard to fighting ISIS, Cruz offers a Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, reasonable policy of special operations has not released a single white paper or troops directing targeted airstrikes in Syria issues page on his website on national seand Iraq. However, during the December curity or the Middle East. Just as bad, he 2015 GOP debate in Iowa, Cruz claimed has not established any coherent platform that if elected president, the U.S. “[would] on counterterrorism, national security or utterly destroy [ISIS]” and “carpet bomb Middle East policy in interviews. Trump them into oblivion .” This indiscriminate often claims that he will bring in the world’s bombing of possible civilian areas violates experts on foreign policy when he is in international law. By condoning this act, the White House. However, the president Washington would forfeit its moral high serves as both commander-in-chief and ground over Russia, which is accused of inchief diplomat and cannot solely rely on discriminately bombing Bashar al-Assad’s others to make important foreign policy enemies in Syria. Overall, carpet bombing decisions. The fact that Trump has not ISIS isn’t the answer. Instead, the U.S. articulated a credible position on Middle will make more enemies by radicalizing East and security policy (except that he Arabs who currently have nothing to do will somehow destroy with ISIS. Unnecessary ISIS) should frighten acts of force will only “To achieve peace in destabilize the Middle everyone. In a recent column, the Middle East and East further and harm Duke University profesAmerica’s national sesor of political science a safe homeland, curity. Peter Feaver asserted that the U.S. cannot To a c h i e v e Trump’s national secupeace in the Middle act impulsively, as rity policy would look like East and a safe homea high school Model UN. GOP candidates land, the U.S. cannot In addition, he accused recommend.” act impulsively, as GOP Trump of failing to “talk candidates recommend. responsibly or learnedly The U.S. can best serve about national security .” Trump has also its interests and the Middle East by buildmanaged to insult the entire Arab-Muslim ing coalitions. In order to deal with the world through his anti-Muslim rhetoric, most pressing security issues in the Middle severely undermining America’s coaliEast, Arab nations must lead the way and tional relationships with Arab nations that be brought in as partners in a coalition. are fighting ISIS. If Trump is elected in Ignorance, indiscriminate force and uniNovember, the most powerful man in the lateral military action will perpetuate the world will essentially be uninformed on problems currently facing the U.S. and the the complex issues facing the Middle East Middle East. Certainly, a Trump, Rubio and the United States regarding security, or Cruz presidency will compromise our stability and counterterrorism. relations with the Arab world and, as a Rubio, a first term senator from Florida, result, jeopardize our national security.
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FoodShare application takes first place, $3,000 at The Pitch FROM PITCH PAGE 1
with the option to recommend that restaurant to their friends or share their experience on social media to donate an additional meal. FoodShare co-founder and COO Aidan Folbe ’19 said he and his team are excited to bring FoodShare to Hanover. Folbe co-founded FoodShare with Andrew Glantz, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis where the two launched the program in October. “We really think that, with the small, tight-knit community around here and the students, we can definitely make a difference,” Folbe said. “We can start feeding people who need to get fed and help those in need.” FoodShare will use the funding from DEN to develop an Android version of the app that will expand the scope of the project, Folbe said. He said they will also use the money to do more marketing and improve their website. Second place Lodestone Biomedical, which will receive $2,000, has designed a product called Iron-Wand that is capable of detecting iron deficiencies in a fast and simple way. Co-founder and CEO Lidia Valdés ’14 Th’15 said she and her team are now looking to 3D-print the clinical device and get market feedback.
Third place and $1,000 went to Heartstring an app that adds soundtracks to videos and pictures, creating music specifically for social media. The people’s choice award went to PukePocket, which designed an innovative pouch for vomiting patients on ambulances. PukePocket also won $2,000. In addition to the funding from DEN, DALI will also offer design and development help to the winning projects. “They’re eligible to have a DALI team work on their project and develop a prototype,” DALI Lab executive director Lorie Loeb said. Tim Tregubov, technical director and co-founder of DALI, said that winning teams are offered at least one term with a DALI team, consisting of designers and developers, to help with their project. Loeb said that non-winning groups may also apply for support from the DALI Lab. In the past, winning groups have gone on to form companies with the money they received from The Pitch. However, Loeb said that some projects fall apart. “Entrepreneurship takes a lot of tries,” she said. “Here’s a chance for people to try it.”
She said that some participate in The Pitch more than once, and each time, pitches only get better. The Pitch was started in spring of 2014, with next term marking its second-year anniversary. The Pitch has improved in terms of publicity, Loeb said, adding that this term there has been a more diverse pool of applicants. She also said that there are more Tuck School of Business students this term compared to previous terms. Loeb said that the participants usually include a balance of faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students from Tuck, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Geisel School of Medicine who participate. Director of entrepreneurship at the College and DEN director Jamie Coughlin said the motivation behind the creation of The Pitch was to create a venue of ideas in which students, faculty and staff could have an opportunity to take an idea and present it to the audience. He said that this allowed people to practice how to articulate a vision, receive resources for venture and software development from DEN and DALI, respectively. Tregubov said that participating in The Pitch is a learning experience for every group.
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“Even for the teams that don’t win, there’s a lot of value in just putting yourself out there, getting up in front of an audience and talking about your idea,” Tregubov said. Participants have two minutes to pitch their idea to judges and the audience. The two-minute model of The Pitch can be a learning experience, Coughlin said, because it allows participants to gain experience in synthesizing ideas and translating them in ways the audience can understand in a short time frame. Loeb said that DALI desires to foster an atmosphere of creativity around campus, and have people see themselves as “idea people.” Coughlin said that The Pitch gives people full exposure to a spectrum of ideas, industries and environments. “Entrepreneurship is about a mindset, a way of thinking that applies to all different settings and environments,” Coughlin said. The amount of energy at the event is contagious and inspiring, Tregubov said. He added that there is a great synergy in the collaboration between DALI and DEN when it comes to The Pitch. Prior to the event every term, both DALI and DEN provide preparation support for participating groups. DALI has open lab hours every Monday night
and DEN holds a pitching workshop and clinic. “Whenever you’re talking about an idea, the important part is the story,” Tregubov said. He said that wrapping the problem in the form of a story is more effective than just describing the problem or showing the product. This term, 47 groups applied to The Pitch, which takes place fall, winter and spring terms. Groups may begin applying a month before the actual event. Videos of past pitches are posted on YouTube. Audience members commented on how concrete this terms pitches were. Deven Orie ’19 said that the pitches from the fall were much more conceptual, while people this term had already built an actual product. Aditi Phatak Gr’17 agreed and said she thought all the pitches were well prepared with good ideas and real business models. “They came with existing infrastructure, which was great to see,” Phatak said. “I really liked that they were so well-thought-out.” Many of the start-ups presented today have the potential to succeed in the marketplace, Ebenezer Bulcha ’19 said. “The competition is definitely on the rise,” he said. “I can’t wait to pitch my own idea come spring.”
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Three alumni state Supreme Court Justices talk about their roles on Wednesday afternoon.
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Kimi Maeda’s “Bend” performance took place on Wednesday.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 4:00 p.m.
Q&A with presidential speechwriters Don Baer (President Bill Clinton) and Clark Judge (President Ronald Reagan), Carson L01
4:30 p.m.
“State Capacity and the Rule of Law in Central America,” former Second Costa Rica Vice President Kevin Casas-Zamora, Room 041, Haldeman Center
6:00 p.m.
“V-Feb: Men in Feminism Panel,” featuring male faculty and students as panelists, First Floor Lounge, Fahey Hall
TOMORROW 8:00 a.m.
“Refugee Crisis: Ensuring Healthy Resettlement and Health Security,” U.S. Public Health Service Captain Martin Cetron, Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
7:00 p.m.
Women’s Basketball, Dartmouth v. Brown University, Leede Arena
8:00 p.m.
“Chicago: The Musical,” theater department MainStage production, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center
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Chicago-based band the Shades to perform Saturday night By SOPHIA SIU The Dartmouth
The Shades will be performing in Brews & Bands on Saturday, Feb. 27, for its first college show of the year. This concert will kick off a tour that includes six more shows in colleges across New England through the beginning of April. Prior to the Shades’ formation in 2012, brothers and band members Phil and Mark Jacobson had met Andrew DeMuro at the University of Miami in 2008. Mark Jacobson and DeMuro lived on the same freshman floor and bonded over a mutual fondness for singing in their dorm rooms, DeMuro said. According to the band’s biography, DeMuro also sang with Mark’s older brother, Phil Jacobson, in the university’s top jazz vocal ensemble. The Jacobson brothers returned to their hometown, Chicago, after graduation, and DeMuro soon joined them after being placed there by Teach For America. While performing in bars in Chicago, DeMuro would occasionally invite the Jacobson brothers to sing with him, and it did not take long before
the Jacobsons and DeMuro decided to come together and form the Shades. As a band that performs at venues ranging from bars to summer festivals, the Shades play a mix of covers and original pieces, Mark Jacobson said. “If we’re playing in a bar we tend to play a lot of pop covers and songs people know,” he said. “I like to tell people that we play everything from Beatles to Bieber, but we like to perform in more intimate venues with stripped down acoustic sets, and we’ll throw in more folk-type tunes in those.” DeMuro pointed out that the band does not like to put limits or labels on its music, noting that their original music is inspired by an eclectic range of music and artists. Mark Jacobson said, “It’s the same as with covers. Whatever we’re feeling at the time bleeds into what we try to write.” Phil Jacobson cited Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Bay, and Brandi Carlile as recent influences on the band’s music, as the band members spend time listening to their music last summer not just at home but also in their cars and on their phones. Daniel Shanker ’16, a member of
student band Half the City which will music to R&B to Motown,” DeMuro be opening for the Shades on Saturday, explained. said that the Shades have a compelling The Shades’ use of the three-part acoustic and harmony-driven sound. harmony allows them to bring a fresh “I also like that you can tell that sound to songs from older generations they’re having fun with what they do,” and appeal to a wide range of audiShanker said. ences. The band members pride them“When it comes down to playing selves on their acoustic, we unique use of “What’s interesting about have a little a three-part bit of freeharmony and us is that we all sing, and dom, but we their ability to usually we all sing at the also are pretty incorporate exposed all the three-part same time in a three-part the time. I harmony into harmony, so any tune think that’s songs from a catches where we can fit something what wide range of people’s atlike that in and put our spin tention,” Phil genres. “ W h at ’s on it, we do.” Jacobson interesting said. “When about us is we’re playthat we all -ANDREW DEMURO, MEMBER ing with two s i n g, a n d guitars and OF THE SHADES usually we three voices, all sing at the it’s just very same time in exposed and a three-part harmony, so any tune we’re putting it all out there.” where we can fit something like that in The use of three-part harmony and put our spin on it, we do. That’s has been a fixture in the Shades’ peranything from folk music to rock formances since the formation of the
band. “I would say that’s what started us out. We’d just be sitting around listening to a song or playing a song, and we’d all just innately jump in with harmony and just knew where to go. Just by listening with our ears, and that’s what drew us together into forming our group,” Mark Jacobson said. The band is currently in the midst of recording new songs for its debut album, which the trio plan on releasing later this year. “We’re going a little bit of a different route as far as recording this album — different than a lot of artists do, with the fact that we did some of it here in Chicago, and we have friends from around the country who have been adding in different parts,” Phil Jacobson said. Although the album will contain only six tracks, Phil Jacobson said that they still want it to take the listeners on a journey. “We really want it to be an experience from beginning to end. Even though it’s so short, we’re trying to create a bit of a journey through the album from song to song,” Phil Jacobson said. The Shades have played at a number of venues in Chicago including the House of Blues, Mayne Stage, Uncommon Ground and Cubby Bear, as well as a street festivals during the summers. The band currently has a residency at Elbo Room, a live music venue and lounge in Chicago, where they play the last Friday of every month. Despite the attention and energy required in recording its upcoming album, the Shades consider the college tour to be a valuable tool in developing its fan base. “Continuing to grow and build a fan base is an ongoing goal that we’re working on,” Phil Jacobson said.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
THURSDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
Men’s lacrosse focuses on team culture, drops season opener By MATT YUEN
The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s lacrosse team opened up the season with a narrow 10-8 loss to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, putting the Big Green at 0-1 and Sacred Heart at 2-1. The team grew holistically and as individual players during the preseason. In addition to 6 a.m. lifting sessions in the gym, the team also dedicated a significant amount of time to growing closer as a unit. The players took team-building off the field and out of the weight room as well, going on a leadership hike during the last week of January. “While we were in the woods, we really confronted our insecurities with ourselves, our teammates, the coaches, and the program as a whole,” Jase Davis ’18 said. “What we said is that we’re going to leave all of those insecurities behind. The only thing that’s going to exist in this
program is our trust in each other and our coaches.” While Dartmouth’s team prides itself on its unity and it’s ability to work together as a team, Griffin Miller ’19 said that Sacred Heart tends to rely on individual skill. “They’re similar to us, but they’re more selfish,” Griffin Miller ’19 said. “They’re more of an individual based team in that they attack from the individual players.” Miller added that the Big Green’s offensive strategy utilizes the “whole unit,” which holds strong on defense as well. “Teamwork is not a big focus for them as it is for us,” he added. Despite the growth in individual skills and the cohesiveness as a team, Dartmouth did not have the same game experience Sacred Heart had last weekend. Sacred Heart already had two games under its belt, while the Big Green was playing its first game. As expected, the Big Green still had a few cobwebs to shake off
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Hank and Fish are seeking dates, friends and a place for Jimmer Fredette.
RIDING THE PINE WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT
And this is always how it happens. It feels as if we laid our heads down to rest for just a single moment, and now we’re waking up eight weeks later. Is it really the eighth week of the term? Is today really the final Coffeehouse Concert of the term? Is “Legally Drew” finally almost upon us? While we still have these final boons to look forward to, it is hard to forget about the trials and travails of this morbid winter term. Shortly af-
ter our glimmering endorsement, Jeb Bush’s campaign burst into flames as the “sad Jeb” meme spiraled out of control and doomed his candidacy. Of course we prefer to imagine this as a correlation over causation situation, but also, of course, we know better than to believe it. Joe started the term wealthy, with three digits in his bank account. He now scarcely has enough to keep his Spotify Premium account active for another 30 days. After a rip-roaring start to
before the team could really start playing to its potential. “It was definitely a fight,” Will Randell ’19. “It was our first time out, so not all of the pieces fell together completely right. It was a bit sloppy at times, and there is definitely stuff we need to clean up. But our team fought together to the end, but that’s all we can really ask for in the first game.” The game started off pretty shaky for Dartmouth. Sacred Heart finished the first quarter 2-0 against the Big Green. “In the first quarter, we weren’t attacking as much, which is kind of our mindset,” Miller said. “Fight hard and finish fast. We always try to keep attacking, trying to finish as many plays as possible. In the first quarter, I don’t think we were following that as much as we could have.” It was only in the second quarter, when Cameron Lee ’16 scored the team’s first goal that the Big Green
started on a bit of a roll. The team then proceeded to score more and more points, granting Dartmouth a 6-5 lead going into the fourth quarter. Randell, in his debut game, contributed to that lead with his first collegiate goal. “It was a really cool feeling to score a goal, but the best part about it is that the entire team believed that I could have done it before we stepped onto the field,” Randell said. “I just trusted that our game plan and our teammates would put me in a position to score.” The game unfortunately started to fall apart in the fourth quarter for the Big Green. Sacred Heart successfully shut down the Big Green’s comeback by regaining the lead and went on to double up its score in the final stanza, ending the game with 10 points to Dartmouth’s 8. “We were pretty sure we had them for a good amount of the game,” Davis said. “But we let them back in and eventually couldn’t
match their pace near the end. It’s a bit frustrating from a team perspective, but it’s a very good tool moving forward.” Although the loss against Sacred Heart was difficult to swallow, the team still maintains a positive attitude by viewing this game as a learning experience. Davis emphasized that though the team still has much room for growth, it has made a tremendous amount of progress. “We have come so far from Feb. 1 when our season started, we’ve come so far since the beginning of this school year, and we’ve come leaps and bounds further from where we are in this point last year as a team,” Davis said. “Those improvements — we cannot forget those. But that being said we cannot become complacent with the improvement we have made.” Next weekend, Dartmouth is set to play against the Air Force Academy and the University of Denver in Denver in the Faceoff Classic.
his college career, Hank entered the term on the precipice of achieving the elusive Phi Beta Kappa status. Now he has dropped a class and is the proud owner of a “C’s get degrees” mentality. Fortunately, we managed to channel all of our heartbreak and disappointment into a useful accomplishment whose memory will last us a lifetime. Yes, you may have guessed what it was. We hiked the Fifty for the fourth consecutive term. There have been a few other things this winter that have managed to put a smile on our face. The video revealing the colors of the College’s new residential houses. But even with the silver lining that is W-2 season, we have learned the most painful lesson adulthood can teach us: everyone is always trying to take a piece of the pie. As formal season approaches, the Riding the Pine boys have taken widely varying approaches to finding dates. Hank has gone with the tried and true method of taking his long-term girlfriend to formal. On the other hand, Fish is experimenting with a potentially more volatile strategy of sitting on the fourth level of the stacks and visibly playing Hearts against the computer with “Infinite Jest” open on his desk in hopes of intriguing fellow academics. So far, this plan has yielded little return, and it appears that Fish may be forced to
employ an even more dastardly tactic – taking Victor Anesu Muchatuta ’16 to formal just as “friends.” While things may seem dire, like wiggling worms, we think that we’ve found our way out of this predicament. With Hank’s W-2 windfall and Fish’s well-honed investors’ savvy, we’re going to beat the markets with a ballsy, pure arbitrage, alpha stockpicking strategy. Here’s our advice to our readers for free. Two words: buy Apple. This blue-chip stock has nowhere to go but up and somehow the morons on “Wall Street” are too distracted by Tim Cook flipping the government the bird to hear the good news. We envision, nay, we guarantee, you will double your net worth in the next six months if you heed our clarion call. To briefly detour into the world of sports for our contractually mandated 150 words, we’d like to pitch you a failsafe investment on the hardwood. If you’re a fantasy basketball player, or a general manager turning to two college idiots for advice, now is the last chance to scoop up Jimmer Fredette of the New York Knicks before the rest of the basketball community catches on. In Jimmer’s first game after getting called up from the D-League, he made a bang that resonated throughout the entire NBA. One shot attempted, one shot made and three points to his name. Jimmer Fredette is on the New
York Knicks for the next ten days, and he will not stop cooking. That is a Riding the Pine guarantee. The Knicks’ strategy of constantly having intriguing white players on their roster this year seems to have suckered us in yet again. Just after we started to think Kristaps Porzingis had jumped the shark, the squad picked up the electric MVP of the D-League All-Star Game to carry them home this season. If Fredette and Porzingis hang out together after practice, the Big Apple will never be the same. And for anyone who doubts Fredette’s inevitable meteoric rise, the boys at Riding the Pine have just one question for you. Is Jimmer Fredette really the fish you want to fry? By this point, you’ve probably realized that this whole article is a thinly veiled attempt to find Fish a formal date and Henry a new friend. If it achieves at least one of those goals, it will go down as a historic success. We’ll close by quoting our mentor, the man who has provided the light at the end of the tunnel for us this term. As Deepak Chopra once said, “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there is a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”