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VOL. CLXXVI NO. 133

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

It’s Election Day in New Hampshire

Dartmouth set to play key role in first-in-the-nation primary

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From left to right: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former vice president Joe Biden and former South Bend, IN mayor Pete Buttigieg campaign in the Upper Valley.

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Dartmouth sees late Buttigieg, Sanders statistically tied visits from candidates among students voting in primary

B y MARCO ALLEN AND ANDREW SASSER The Dartmouth

This past weekend, campus buzzed with energy not only from Winter Carnival festivities, but also because of several visits from presidential candidates leading up to the New Hampshire primary.

Former South Bend, IN mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke at separate events in the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Saturday, while entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held events on Sunday at the Top and the Hop and the Hanover Inn, respectively.

Climate change was a major topic for Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Sanders, with all three in agreement that the government needs to shift the economy away from fossil fuels. Buttigieg said that his administration would create a carbon tax rebate system to shift the economy to a carbon neutral system, while Sanders pointed to the Green New Deal

as a means to shift the economy away from fossil fuels “as fast as possible.”

“The dividend part is important so we’re not sucking money out of the economy,” Buttigieg said when discussing the merits of a carbon tax.

“However, these price signals across the economy have to change, or else we’ll be pushing the economy on a string,” Klobuchar emphasized the importance of putting a price on carbon, adding that she would push for the United States to re-enter the Paris Agreement, bring back the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and gas mileage standards, and create “sweeping legislation to put a price on carbon and energy efficiency.”

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Hanover, Upper Valley tend to vote for liberal candidates in primaries B y JACOB STRIER

The Dartmouth Staff

Fo r t h e p a s t t h r e e decades, voters in Hanover and Grafton County have consistently cast their ballots for progressive candidates, a pattern that may continue when local voters participate i n t o d a y ’s D e m o c r a t i c primary election.

The over 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students at the College comprise a significant portion of Hanover — and the greater Upper Valley — electorate, a fact which is best exemplified by the constant cycle of 2020 hopefuls visiting campus over the last year.

In 2016, Sen. Ber nie Sanders (I-VT) beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton statewide by over 50,000 votes. In Hanover, Sander s received 2,286

votes, versus Clinton’s 2,005.

According to government p r o f e s s o r D e a n L a c y, Sanders’ notable success in 2016 can be attributed to his widespread name recognition in the area.

Lacy said that the voters in the section of New Hampshire which borders t h e C o n n e c t i c u t R i ve r, especially Hanover and nearby towns, tend to vote for more progressive candidates than voters downstate.

A c c o r d i n g t o L a c y, downstate New Hampshire voters in Boston’s outer suburbs swing farther right than voters in the Hanover area.

“There is a sense that a lot of the downstate population are Massachusetts tax emigrants, meaning they have moved out of the

B y WILLIAM CHEN AND AARON LEE

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Wi t h v o t e r s i n N e w Hampshire heading to the polls today for the first-in-thenation presidential primary, Dartmouth students are closely divided in their preferred candidates, according to a poll conducted by The Dartmouth this past weekend.

In the poll, students were asked about the presidential primary, engaging in the upcoming election and the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. The key results are presented below.

Buttigieg and Sanders neck-and-neck in New Hampshire Former South Bend, IN mayor Pete Buttigieg leads in support among Dartmouth students who indicated they plan to vote in today’s Democratic primary, with 33 percent choosing him as their first-choice candidate.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is close behind, with 31 percent of students indicating he is their first choice. Other candidates who are also receiving some level of support include Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 13 percent, Andrew Yang with 7 percent, former vice president Joe Biden with 6 percent, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) with four percent and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) with two

percent. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and Tom Steyer received no measurable support.

Among students planning to vote for Sanders in the New Hampshire primary, 73 percent describe themselves as “very liberal,” while 80 percent of Buttigieg voters identify as “centrist” or “left-leaning.”

Fifty-eight percent of students plan to vote in today’s Democratic primary, while another 2 percent plan to vote in the Republican primary.

Twenty percent of students indicated that they plan to vote in another Democratic caucus/ primary, 3 percent indicated they plan to vote in another Republican caucus/primary and 17 percent indicated that they do not plan to vote in a caucus/primary.

Among Democratic voters’ second-choice candidates, Warren was the most popular, with over 22 percent indicating that she would be their secondchoice candidate. Warren is followed by Biden with 17 percent, Klobuchar with 15 percent, Sanders with 14 percent and Yang with 12 percent.

The most common secondchoice candidates for students who selected Buttigieg as their first choice were Biden with 37 percent and Klobuchar with 20 percent. On the other hand, the most common secondchoice candidate for students

indicating Sanders as their first choice was Warren with 58 percent.

Trump leads Republican field in NH In the Republican primary field, Trump leads by a clear margin. Among Dartmouth students who indicated that they planned to vote in today’s Republican primary, 86 percent indicated that Trump was their first choice candidate. Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld received the support of the remaining 14 percent.

Republican voters were more certain in their support for a candidate, with over 60 percent indicating that they did not have a second-choice candidate — while only six percent of Democratic voters indicated the same.

For Dartmouth students voting in other Republican caucuses/primaries, all indicated that Trump was their first-choice candidate.

More on the primary Eighty-five percent of students indicated that their support for their first-choice candidate was very or somewhat strong, while 15 percent characterized their support as somewhat or very weak. While 44 percent of students indicated that it was unlikely that they could still be persuaded to support another candidate, 43 SEE POLL PAGE 5

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Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders lead among students who plan to vote in today’s primary.

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Town, Dartmouth coordinate in preparations for student voting B y AMBER BHUTTA The Dartmouth Staff

T he town of Hanover has coordinated with the College to facilitate voter registration in preparation for today’s presidential primary election.

According to town clerk Betsy M c C l a i n , t h e t ow n ch e c k l i s t s u p e r v i s o r s c o o rd i n at e d w i t h Student Assembly to organize two voter registration drives during the current academic year.

“The extent that we can make it as easy as possible to register to vote in advance of Election Day — that just makes the voting day experience more streamlined and perhaps a little less time-consuming for everybody,” McClain said.

Voting will take place in the Hanover High School gymnasium from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Those who have not registered to vote yet but plan to vote in the primary will have the option to register on-site at the polling station. For students who live off-campus and want to register to vote on election day, McClain said that domicile affidavits will be made available at the polling station if those students do not have some form of proof of residency.

“You will not be turned away to register to vote if you have nothing on your person that proves your Hanover domicile,” McClain said.

Undergraduate housing associate director Elicia Rowan wrote in an email statement that the Office of Residential Life will have representatives at Hanover High School from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to verify students’ residency for those who plan to register to vote on the day of the primary. This includes students who live in privately owned Greek houses.

“Everything our office is doing this year is no different than any other primary or general election,” Rowan wrote.

Students who plan to register to vote on election day can also request

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The town of Hanover has worked with College officials to prepare for today’s election.

a proof of residency letter from the ORL in advance to avoid having to wait for domicile verification on the day of the election.

As McClain also explained, preparations for the upcoming primaries are similar to the midterm general elections in 2018. The town does not have to comply with the requirements of the controversial SB 3, a law passed in 2018 that altered the definition of a legal resident of New Hampshire, adding new requirements to vote in state.

According to McClain, the law is currently enjoined and is being challenged in court.

“We are thankful that we no longer

have to follow those procedures to the extent that the bill being enjoined has made our preparations more straightforward,” McClain said.

Eric Lee ’23 said that he registered to vote during one of the voter registration drives organized by Student Assembly, a process that he found “very simple.” Lee added that he currently plans to vote for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) in the Democratic primary.

“On the issues that matter to me more, I agree with her, even if there’s other candidates where it’s like, ‘I agree with more of their issues that are less important to me,’” Lee said.

“With Tulsi, I enjoy the overarching

narrative that it’s time to seriously rethink what we’re doing on the world stage, especially our foreign policy. I like that she hasn’t leaned into the culture the way that other candidates like [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren have.”

Blake McGill ’22, who hails from Pennsylvania, said that she plans to vote in her home-state with an absentee ballot.

“I’m from Pennsylvania, and I’m a little bit more invested in local politics there,” McGill said. “It’s still a swing state, and I just don’t feel as invested in New Hampshire politics because I haven’t been here long enough.”

McGill is a registered Republican,

and because Pennsylvania has closed primaries she plans to vote in the Republican primary for “somebody who is not Donald Trump,” though she has not yet decided on her candidate of choice. She added that in the November’s general election, she plans to vote for the Democratic candidate.

“Though I feel abandoned by the Republican Party, I don’t feel like I’m a Democrat,” McGill said. “My mentality is kind of that I’m going to vote in the Republican primary and make my voice heard in that way.”

Blake McGill is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

Over the years, Dartmouth has played a unique role in primary B y SOLEIL GAYLORD The Dartmouth Staff

Students and Dartmouth community members will flock to the polls today, hoping to play their part in what is shaping up to be a historic presidential primary. While the College’s role in the New Hampshire primary varies from past years, the unique circumstances surrounding the primary and role of students in Democratic politics makes this year’s primary particularly consequential.

This year’s primary comes with particular weight following a failed presidential impeachment trial, a closely watched and contested c a u c u s e s, a n d t h e c o n f u s i o n surrounding New Hampshire House Bill 1264.

That 2018 law — which altered the definition of “residence” — has added to the historic precedence of this primary election by muddling the terms upon which students can register to vote in the state. The specific impacts of the law still appear to be unknown.

Dartmouth College Democrats executive director Michael Parsons ’20 spoke about the role of the new voting law in the upcoming primary election.

“It is tough to say exactly how it has affected voting because the secretary of state’s office refuses to comment and offer an explanation of the effects of the bill,” Parsons said. “It really only changes one or two words, but this bill was designed to create mass confusion and mass misinformation about a student’s right to vote in New Hampshire.”

Parsons said that while the bill does not actually change the ability of students to vote, it may deter students from voting.

“In a way, it has been somewhat successful, and that’s what we need to push back against, because students must retain the right to vote in New Hampshire,” Parsons said. “If a student has a midterm the next day, they aren’t going to spend time trying to figure out how to vote.”

Furthermore, the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3 may have heightened the stakes and pressure of this year’s primary. Due to inconsistencies in voting data, Iowa’s official results were released days past the conclusion of the caucuses. Campaign staff and Democratic Party officials have questioned the robustness of the state’s caucus results.

Robert Coates, assistant director of the Rockefeller Center, said that

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Given its location in New Hampshire, Dartmouth has always played an important role in presidential primary elections.

events surrounding the Iowa caucuses may increase the importance of New Hampshire’s election.

“There was no real political bounce, because it was so muddled,” Coates said. “New Hampshire might have an outsized role.”

Par s on s als o s p ok e to th e importance of student participation in the primary.

“This primary is rather important given the circumstances of HB 1264, and the mystery surrounding those voting bills,” Parsons said.

“Dartmouth students play a critical role.”

Holly Shulman, senior communications advisor of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, concurred with Parsons, noting that students will play a major role in this year’s primary.

“Students across the state are doing a lot, because they know how much is at stake in this current election from climate change, to making health

care more affordable, to protecting a woman’s right to choose,” Shulman said.

Shulman added that despite recently changed voting laws, she is still hopeful that young people will show up to vote.

“We hope that young people will get the information they need and get out to vote,” Shulman said.

In addition to their key role in state politics, Dartmouth students have a unique ability to experience politics up-close, according to Coates.

Between multiple candidate visits, debates that have historically occurred on campus, and the ease with which students can access campaign organizations in the area, Coates said that there is a wealth of political experience and activism to be gained.

“Dartmouth students have an opportunity to spectate or participate, and I think that they do both,” Coates said.

Because of the structure of

Dartmouth’s term system and the political importance of the Upper Valley area, Coates said that students can gain hands-on skills with local organizers.

“Students are often involved directly in the field organizations in New Hampshire, especially during their leave terms,” Coates said.

Coates added that the state’s precedence in the political arena only adds to the credentials of students who participate in local campaign work.

“New Hampshire is unique in its intensity, breadth and depth,” Coates said. “Given the small state size, there is an extra intensity to the political infrastructure, and campaigns are quite available and always looking for volunteers. They always need a ground campaign, like get out the vote, which requires young, energetic volunteers.”

While Dartmouth arguably has had an outsized role in the primary process, a most notable difference from past

years is the lack of a televised debate or town hall in Hanover. In 2007, the College partnered with MSNBC, New England Cable News, the Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party to host a Democratic presidential candidates debate in Spaulding Auditorium. In 2011, the College hosted a Republican presidential debate with Bloomberg TV and the Washington Post, and in 2016, the Tuck School of Business and the Rockefeller Center hosted the America’s Economic Future forum series which featured a variety of candidates including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The College also played host to a broadcast of Morning Joe that year, and multiple candidates visited Hanover prior to the primary.

But despite the lack of major televised events, every major candidate has hosted an event in Hanover — some on multiple occasions.

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Students, locals weigh in on election and trust in political system B y Lauren ADLER

The Dartmouth Staff

After the disorganization of the Iowa Democratic caucuses last week — with the Associated Press announcing that they were unable to declare a winner — the eyes of the nation are now focused on the New Hampshire primary. Although New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D) has predicted that a record 420,000 people will show up to the polls today, many voters have said that they are beginning to lose faith in the political system. Ahead of today’s election, The Dartmouth took to the streets of Hanover to gauge people’s faith in the electoral system.

“I haven’t felt good about the system at-large since the year 2000,” said Hanover resident Jessie Papatolicas. “I especially don’t think that now, with all the cyberwarfare, is the right time to be introducing new technology. I think that we should try to master and utilize the systems that we have in place without changing things up technologically.”

Papatolicas was referring to an application developed by tech company Shadow Inc. that was used to tabulate the results of the

Iowa Democratic caucus. The app delayed election results for days, causing mass confusion amid a tight race between former South Bend, IN mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Papatolicas and others said that they also had concerns about the caucus system in general.

“The thing about Iowa is that it definitely decreased everyone’s faith in the system, and people are seizing on the uncertainty — especially the candidates, like Bernie claiming he won and Buttigieg claiming he won,” said Olivia Gresham ’22. “I think that makes people really wary going into the next few rounds [of the election], like if these parts are going to be a mess like the other. That seizing on doubt — it’s definitely made it more divided.”

The disorderly collection of data by the Iowa Democratic Party following the caucus has also sparked several conspiracy theories about the Democratic Party’s alleged attempts to manipulate the election in favor of certain candidates. President Donald Trump, his sons and multiple campaign staffers contributed to the promulgation of the theory by tweeting “#RiggedElection” and

claiming that the results were being rigged against Sanders.

Gresham, who hails from New York but will be voting in New Hampshire, said she believes that Trump’s strateg y mir ror s the political climate of the last election.

“What happened in 2016 after Bernie lost the nomination was a lot of his supporters claimed conspiracy and a lot of Bernie voters didn’t turn out and vote for [former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton], and it’s among the reasons why the election went the way it did,” Gresham said.

Griffin Kozlow ’23, who will be voting in his home state of Michigan, said that the American political system is not inherently flawed, but that he doubted this belief during the last election.

“I haven’t lost faith in the election system of America,” he said. “I lost faith in it in 2016, but I don’t think my faith is lost in it for 2020 … even though the [2016] election was unprecedented and we’ve never seen anything like that, it doesn’t mean that every future election is going to be like that.”

Some voters, though, are less optimistic. Eric Sailer ’60 of Lyme said that he believes that the nation

at-large should pay attention to the New Hampshire primaries “because we know what we’re doing,” but is not convinced that the American political system will decide on a candidate capable of beating Trump.

“We have to get rid of Trump — four more years of Trump and the United States will never be the same again,” he said.

However, Sailer added that there was “too much corruption and outside money” for someone like Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sailer’s candidate of choice, to win the election.

In contrast to other interviewees, Thomas Knight ’22 of Cooperstown, NY, said that the confusion surrounding the caucus results may have been a boon for candidates who may not have performed as well as they expected to. Because news of the results was delayed by what he called the “fog of war” coming out of Iowa, candidates who underperformed arrived in New Hampshire on more solid footing than they otherwise might have, Knight said.

Knight said that he is concerned about swing counties like Otsego County in New York, which he calls home. Otsego County — like many

other purple counties across the country — voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but voted for Trump in 2016.

“The Democrats [in Iowa] were attempting to construct a sort of a digital edge leading into 2020, especially with the machinery that Trump’s been building,” Knight said.

“That being said … I believe that these counties and these states that flipped are what’s really going to decide 2020.

A lot of the data backs that up, that essentially in the electoral calculus [Democrats] need to win them back.”

Although voters like Sailer and Papatolicas said they have lost confidence in the electoral system, not everyone shares that sentiment. For mer Dartmouth College Democrats president Jennifer West ’20 said that she thinks people are just as eager to participate in the election now as they were before the Iowa caucuses debacle.

“I would question the premise that people are losing faith in the system,” West said. “I think that the Iowa caucus is very different from the New Hampshire primary, and I think that people are just as excited, and even more so now that they have the opportunity to get to vote.”

In Hanover, candidates talk education policy, taking on Donald Trump

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Andrew Yang visited campus this weekend.

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in convincing other countries to work together on climate change.

“We can do all the right things tomorrow, and if the rest of the world is not, we’ll remain in very bad shape,” Sanders said. “My job as President of the United States would be to speak to the countries all over the world and make the case that has to be made that we should pool our resources to fight our common enemy: climate change.”

All of the candidates emphasized “electability” and their ability to defeat President Donald Trump.

Claiming to have both the traits needed to be electable as well as governing ability, Buttigieg said that voters did not need to choose between “governing well” and winning an election in voting for him. Buttigieg also emphasized his electability by saying that the eventual nominee should focused on winning the voters Trump successfully courted in 2016.

“I would argue that this would be a good moment for us to have a nominee who actually comes from the kind of industrial and Midwestern community that he targeted so effectively and then turned his back on,” Buttigieg said.

In making her electability argument,

Klobuchar emphasized her Midwestern roots. Citing the recent impeachment of Trump, she called on voters to be “the jurors in this election,” adding that this election would be a “decency check” on the presidency. Klobuchar also cited conversations with several voters, her opposition to socialism and ability to win in a battleground state as examples of her bipartisan appeal, noting that “the heart of America is so much bigger than just the guy in the White House.”

In contrast, Sanders emphasized the grassroots nature of his campaign as proof of his ability to defeat Trump. He added that his campaign has received more individual donations than any candidate in US history. Sanders cited his ability to build a coalition that Trump and “the one percent” could not divide.

“He’s trying to divide us, so we are going to bring people together,” Sanders said. “Black and white and Latino and Native American and Asian American, gay and straight — we are going to rally around an agenda that works for all of us, not just the one percent.”

Focusing less on coalition-building and more on data, Yang focused on the economy when selling his pitch to

Hanover voters.

“The numbers tell a clear story as to why Donald Trump won — we eliminated four million manufacturing jobs,” Yang said when discussing the states that Trump won in 2016.

Yang also drew attention to more systemic issues that led to the rise of Trump, noting rising rates of depression and suicide. He said that he hopes that his candidacy can help people realize the economy should work to improve the lives of Americans.

“We don’t exist to serve the economy, the economy exists to serve us,” Yang said.

Speaking in a college town, each candidate emphasized their approach to education policy.

Buttigieg spoke about the importance of public education broadly.

“We are for our teachers and supporting public education, with a secretary of education who actually believes in public education,” Buttigieg said.

Sanders emphasized the importance of making higher education available to all Americans, regardless of their ability to pay, and promoted his proposal to cancel all outstanding student loan debt. Defending his policies against criticism, Sanders called out the

expectations about higher education in America.

“It is not a radical idea to say that everybody in America who has the ability and the desire should be able to get a higher education college or trade school regardless of the income of his or her family,” Sanders said. “That is not a radical proposition.”

Klobuchar presented a differing view from Sanders, hoping to expand existing programs, noting that America’s education system should work with its economy. One of her proposals included expanding the eligibility of Pell Grant recipients. Advocating for a expansion of higher education but pushing against the promises of Sanders, Klobuchar emphasized the importance of investing in primary education and making one and twoyear degrees free. She added that it was important to recognize that “there are many paths to success in this country” outside of higher education.

Yang also stressed the importance of a new approach to education that differed from the pipeline to corporate jobs that typically exists on elite college campuses.

“If we have all of our intellectual capital heading to Wall Street or Big Tech or consulting, then we are just going to end up making the machine work better, but that machine isn’t working for many families here in New Hampshire and across the country,” Yang said.

Yang spoke directly to Dartmouth students, adding that he wants to create paths for them to promote progress in the country. He also expressed skepticism regarding educational retraining programs for technical education, instead citing a need for redistributive programs such as his universal basic income proposal.

Candidates differed sharply on their pitches about why they are the most qualified to be president.

Buttigieg said that his time as a mayor of a small town helped him understand the issues Americans are going through. Buttigieg also noted that the Democratic Party has historically won the presidency with candidates who were “new to Washington.”

“Washington can’t even hear us feel the experiences that we are living through,” Buttigieg said. “That’s why I’m here to carry your voices to Washington to bring solutions.”

Sanders also attempted to portray

himself as an outsider by referring to the people who donated for him, and distanced himself from other candidates who have accepted donations from large companies. Sanders said that most of his donors are teachers and from working families.

“If you think that people getting moneyfromtheCEOsof drugcompanies are going to attack all the greed and corruption of the pharmaceutical industry, you’re mistaken,” Sanders said. “Our campaign is a campaign of the working families of this country; it is by the working families, it is for the working families.”

Yang described Washington, D.C. as a “town of followers not leaders” and that he is hoping to lead by bringing new voices and ideas from other areas of the country.

“Rather than drain the swamp, I want to distribute it,” Yang said, citing his plan to spread bureaucratic work across the country.

Yang said that he planned to set term limits for both Congress and justices, as well as for public funding of elections. He also noted the need to “override the lobbyists that have completely taken over our government, and drew attention to his business experience with Venture for America as an example of how he could lead the country.

Meanwhile, Klobuchar cited her experience with Trump’s impeachment and on Capitol Hill to demonstrate how she would beat Trump in the general election.

The candidates’ rallies attracted many students and residents from Hanover and other nearby towns. Some rallies — such as those for Buttigieg and Sanders — were over capacity and had to turn people away.

Rohan Menezes ’23, a Sanders volunteer, said that the crowd size exceeded expectations.

“There were well over 500 people there,” Menezes said. “The main room was full, the overflow room was full — we even had people waiting outside.”

Student attendance differed significantly from event to event. The Buttigieg and Yang events consisted of mostly Dartmouth students, while the Klobuchar event had a higher proportion of community members attending. Menezes said that the Sanders rally had a roughly even split between students and other community members.

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State voting law awaits lawsuit verdict, no direct effect on primary

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Changes to state voting laws in recent years have led to a complicated and drawn-out legal battle.

B y COALTER PALMER The Dartmouth

Two Dartmouth students are awaiting a decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court on their ACLU-backed voting rights case against New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D) and NH Attor ney General Gordon MacDonald (R) regarding New Hampshire House Bill 1264. The bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu (R) in March, modified the definition of a New Hampshire “resident” and “residency.”

HB 1264’s passing spurred widespread confusion about the implications of the bill on student voting eligibility. Before HB 1264 went into effect in July 2019, a resident was defined by New Hampshire law as anyone who made the state their “principal place of physical presence for the indefinite future to the exclusion of all others.” While

many out-of-state students did not qualify for residency under this law due to the indefinite nature of their stay in the state, they were still eligible to vote as individuals domiciled in New Hampshire.

In striking the words “for the indefinite future” from the law, HB 1264 effectively merged the definition of “domicile” with the definition of “residence.”

Critics have argued that the bill would create financial and logistical hurdles to voting for students and others who fell under the previous definition of domiciled and who, upon establishing residence by registering to vote, would now be required to take certain actions as residents of the state.

For students, these required actions would include having to register their vehicle in New Hampshire and obtain a state driver’s license if they drive in the state. Supporters of the bill claimed that the bill would increase election security in the state.

In February 2019, several months before the bill was set to go into effect, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Caroline Casey ’21 and Maggie Flaherty ’21, arguing that the requirement that drivers register their vehicles and obtain a state driver’s license within 60 days of registering to vote violated the federal constitution on four different counts.

After denying a motion by the state to dismiss the suit, the U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire decided to set the case on an expedited schedule to aim for a resolution before this year’s primary, according to a motion for expedited briefing later submitted to the New Hampshire Supreme Court by Henry Klementowicz, the ACLU lawyer representing Casey and Flaherty.

According to the motion, the District Court, deeming five of the questions raised by the suit to be outside of its jurisdiction, opted to certify them to be answered by the New Hampshire

Supreme Court.

“We’re at a point in the case where the New Hampshire Supreme Court has to tell us what exactly the bill means,” Flaherty said. “There has been significant confusion of what the requirements of HB 1264 are. So we’re waiting on the New Hampshire Supreme Court to tell us that.”

According to Klementowicz, the Supreme Court accepted his motion for expedited briefing and, after hearing oral arguments on March 10, will offer its opinion on the dispute between the ACLU and the state over what the effect of HB 1264 is.

“The state says that if you register to vote in New Hampshire you have 60 days within establishing residency to get a New Hampshire driver’s license if you drive in the state,” Klementowicz said. “Our view is that’s not what the law says, and we’ll be at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on March 10 to find out thereafter what the court thinks.

But even if I’m wrong and the state is right, what we’re talking about is a motor vehicle ticket for failing to update a driver’s license, your ballot isn’t invalidated, it’s not voter fraud— and I think that’s important for people to know.”

Flaherty and Klementowicz both emphasized that HB 1264 does not affect student voting eligibility, and that students are not required to present a New Hampshire driver’s license at the polls.

“There specifically is a state statute that says that college students who meet the state definition of domicile are allowed to vote in New Hampshire, and that’s unchanged by [HB] 1264,” Klementowicz said. “It’s absolutely important for people to know that they can vote. If you are over 18, a U.S. citizen and you live in New Hampshire, you can vote.”

Caroline Casey is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

Residents along Connecticut River tend to support progressive policies FROM PAST PRIMARIES PAGE 1

Boston area to New Hampshire for no sales or income tax — they tend to be more conservative,” Lacy said.

L a c y s a i d t h at o u t s i d e o f Hanover, towns along and near the Connecticut River have experienced job loss and suffered from the opioid epidemic, leading them to vote for candidates who are more willing to depart significantly from the status quo, whether it be a progressive like Sanders or an outsider like Trump.

“Places like Claremont have more in common with Midwestern Rust Belt cities than with Boston,” he said.

“Sanders’ message of protectionism — not only of wages, but also of the environment — carries well up and down the Connecticut River.”

In addition to Sanders’ progressive appeal to those seeking job opportunities and reinvigorated local growth, Lacy said that Sanders may have appealed to Dartmouth students in past elections because of his consistent rhetoric.

“Younger and first-time voters see Sanders as someone who has been

consistently on-message for 20 to 30 years,” Lacy said. “They see him as genuine and not as a pandering politician.”

New Hampshire state senator Martha Hennessey (D-Hanover), who has endorsed former South Bend, IN mayor Pete Buttigieg, said she would not be surprised if Sanders won again in her district –– which encompasses Hanover and runs alongside New Hampshire’s border with Vermont.

Hennessey said that she thinks Tuesday’s primary will be more competitive in Hanover than it may have been in the past.

Lacy said that Sanders’ campaign infrastructure from his 2016 run has made it easier for him to galvanize financial and political support in New Hampshire this year, and Lacy predicts he will win again.

Lacy said that though progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) may also benefit from name recognition in the 2020 primary, hers will be less than Sanders’ for two reasons.

First, Sanders benefits from having run in the last presidential primary.

Second, Warren’s home state borders southern New Hampshire regions, which Lacy said are populated by white-collar workers less likely to choose Warren’s progressive platform.

Looking back in time to 2008 and earlier, similar patterns emerge in Hanover’s electoral history. In 2008, when Obama won in Grafton County but lost the state to the more moderate Hillary Clinton, it may also have been because of Grafton County’s tendency to swing farther left, Lacy said.

“Grafton County is an interesting mix of affluent liberal and middleclass liberal,” Lacy said, referring to th e well-ed u c ated , largely progressive voters who work at the College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and local financial services companies, and blue-collar liberals who look to progressive candidates like Sanders or Obama for opportunity.

In 2004, Lacy said for mer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) took the local win over former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) due to his

name recognition and progressive policies. However, Lacy said that the more moderate Kerry won New Hampshire due to his success downstate.

“When they vote Democratic [downstate], they tend to vote for more moderate candidates,” Lacy said.

In the upcoming elections, Lacy said moderate candidates, including former vice president Joe Biden, Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), may pick up traction downstate include.

In both 2000 and 1992, Lacy said that Hanover’s pick in the Democratic primaries tended to be higher-educated candidates, such as Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ) who appealed to those with graduate or medical degrees.

“Bill Bradley was the Princetoneducated candidate of people with professional and graduate degrees,” Lacy said regarding the 2000 election, in which Bradley won Hanover by a large margin, but lost to former vice president Al Gore in the statewide contest.

In 1992, former Sen. Paul Tsongas ’62 (D-MA) also had more name recognition than Clinton in the state, which contributed to his wins in Hanover, Grafton County and the state of New Hampshire.

“Tsongas was like Bill Bradley — what I could call the preferred candidate of the college-educated,” Lacy said.

H e n n e s s ey a l s o n o t e d t h e influence that relatively high levels of education in Hanover has had on its consistent history of electing candidates who appeal to the college-educated. She said residents with higher levels of education and exposure to various backgrounds may be more inclined to tune into progressive issues such as gerrymandering, low tax revenue and troubled school systems.

“For those in Hanover and Lyme, big issues like climate change, environmental differences — they are making decisions in a different category than some of the others,” Hennessey said. “But those issues are really prime in almost every town I go to.”

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Voters in Hanover and Grafton County have often preferred more liberal candidates in Democratic presidential primaries.

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Students have low opinion of Trump, result of impeachment trial FROM POLL PAGE 1

In terms of the U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial, most students disapproved of the way it was handled, with only 13 percent agreeing that a fair trial was conducted, while over 75 percent disagreed. Nineteen percent agreed with the Senate’s final decision to acquit Trump of all charges, while over 72 percent disagreed with this final verdict.

Despite Trump’s poor approval ratings among students, many still view his reelection prospects likely, with over 70 percent indicating that it is very or somewhat likely that he will win reelection this November.

percent indicated that it is still very or somewhat likely they could be persuaded to change their support.

While there has been concern that recent changes in New Hampshire’s voter registration laws would depress student voter registration, The Dartmouth’s poll found that 75 percent of Dartmouth students are very or somewhat clear about the eligibility requirements to vote while the other 25 percent indicated that they were still somewhat or very unclear about the requirements.

Among Dartmouth students who indicated that they were voting in another Democratic caucus/primary, Sanders overtook Buttigieg, with 35 percent of voters indicating he is currently their first choice. Buttigieg follows with 24 percent. Other candidates with support include Warren with 16 percent, Klobuchar with 13 percent, Yang with 5 percent, Bloomberg with 5 percent and Biden with 2 percent.

Students remain highly engaged in upcoming election Dartmouth students remain highly engaged in the upcoming presidential election. Over 91 percent indicated that they are very likely to vote in the election, while another 2 percent indicated that they are somewhat likely to. Seventy-four percent indicated that the election was a common topic of conversation among their friends.

Students disapprove of Trump and impeachment trial outcome Dartmouth students remain significantly opposed to Trump’s actions as president. When asked whether they approve or disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, only 15 percent approve, while 82 percent disapprove. Specifically regarding Trump’s actions in the Ukraine military aid controversy that led to his impeachment, 63 percent of students strongly agreed that his actions were inappropriate and wrong while another 20 percent somewhat agreed.

Methodology Notes: From Thursday, Feb. 6 to Sunday, Feb. 9, The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of Dartmouth students on their views about the upcoming primary election and other political issues. The survey was sent out to 4,692 students through their Dartmouth email addresses. Three-hundred-and-five responses were recorded, resulting in a 6.5 percent response rate. Using administrative data from the College’s Office of Institutional Research, responses were weighted by race/ ethnicity, gender, and graduation year.

Weighting was done through iterative poststratification (raking). Survey results have a margin of error +/- 5.4 percentage points.

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When asked how they would describe the state of American politics in one word, students generally gave negative answers.

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Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are the top second-choice candidates for students indicating they will vote for Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, respectively.

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Students indicate they strongly disagree with the outcome of the impeachment trial of President Trump.

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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS

Ceramics studio proves to be relaxing, welcoming environment

B y Maud mccole The Dartmouth

The ceramics studio provides access to materials, a team of professionals to guide students just starting out, and a space for students looking to get involved with arts on campus.

Sunlight streams in from wide windows on the far wall of the studio, falling on shelves lined with student-made ceramic vessels. The studio creates an atmosphere for students of any level to take a break from their work and de-stress by making something with their hands.

The ceramics studio is one of the three student workshops on campus dedicated to arts engagement. Located in the basement of the Hopkins Center, these workshops include the ceramics studio, jewelry studio and woodworking workshop.

To get involved, students can sign up on the spot and start working that day.

According to Jennifer Swanson, the director of the ceramics program, new students come into the studio almost every day. She said the workshop attracts a variety of students who seem to be interested in the general field of ceramics. At $12 a term, the risks to trying out the studio are low, and many students take advantage of this campus resource.

New students start by learning how to make a simple pinch pot before moving to the wheel. This way, Swanson explained, students can familiarize themselves with clay as a material before moving on to something more complex. Many students will go on to make vases and bowls on the wheel, but even creating something simple can be rewarding for those looking for a creative outlet for stress.

“It’s sort of very relaxing, and a lot of kids are trying to destress,” Swanson said. “You could sort of chat with your friend and pinch a vessel without, like, paying too much attention.”

For many students who frequent the studio, that’s what ceramics provide

— a way to take a break from busy schedules and learn a new skill in a low-stress environment. Victoria Quint ’22, one of the studio’s four student assistants, describes the studio as a place she uses to escape her academic stress.

“It’s a chance to just sit down and do something with your hands,” Quint said. “It’s rewarding in a very different way than, you know, turning in an essay.”

For Betty Kim ’20, another student assistant, doing ceramics has taught her skills that have helped her in other parts of her life at Dartmouth. She remembers feeling frustrated when her first pot didn’t turn out the way she’d hoped. Yet this frustration made the process feel rewarding, and she kept trying to improve. Kim said that ceramics has helped her handle difficult tasks outside of the studio.

“I wanted to challenge myself to like not get down on myself,” Kim said.

“The ceramics studio is a place where I learned how to mess up and like not be mad at myself about it.”

The students who frequent the studio come from a variety of artistic backgrounds. Quint said she learned how to make pottery in high school, and when she saw Dartmouth’s ceramics studio on her tour, she knew she wanted to get involved. She visited the studio regularly her freshman year and was hired as a studio assistant in the fall of 2019.

Kim didn’t discover ceramics until well into her junior year, when she was living in Hanover during an offterm and decided to attend one of the studio’s free introductory events.

Looking to challenge herself, she took a hand-building class that winter and, by the end of the term, she was ready to teach students herself. One of the things that kept bringing her back was the community she found at the studio.

“The people who work at the studio are like just really, really great people who will help you improve and, you know, just support you in whatever you want,” Kim said.

Students can pursue a variety of

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The ceramics studio allows students to pursue a variety of ceramics projects.

ceramics projects at the studio. While most are interested in producing functional objects — like bowls, vases and mugs — there are other options for those interested in making sculptural objects, for example.

Swanson mentioned that she has seen students make ceramic animals, including an elephant and an octopus.

She described one student who made a set of commemorative coasters with different instruments for her wind ensemble.

“We just try to give people basic instruction,” Swanson said. “But you know, we try to work with what their interests might be.”

Everything at the studio is handmade, including the glazes that go on students’ work before it enters the kiln.

Swanson came to Dartmouth in

2001 and has served as the studio’s director since 2004. When she started, the studio was located across the border in Vermont — ceramics joined the other student workshops in the Hop in 2016. Since moving to campus, Swanson said that she has seen a large increase in the number of students who frequent the studio. She said she believes that the studio’s more central location has made it more visible to students, encouraging them to get involved. Student work is displayed on shelving in the hallway for students and Hanover community members to admire.

The studio is open to undergraduates most afternoons and graduate students on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Classes are offered for all students of any level at an additional charge — currently, students can take an

Introduction to Hand Building and Decorative Techniques, Introduction to the Potter’s Wheel or attend walk-in Potter’s Wheel Refresher sessions on Friday afternoons.

Both Kim and Swanson said that — as is the case with the jewelry studio — many students come for the first time their senior year. They hope that first and second-year students will check out the studio early on, and that it will become a place they can go when they need a break.

“I think everyone should have some kind of place on campus where they’re doing something just for the act of doing it,” Kim said. “[The studio is] probably going to be the place I miss the most at Dartmouth.”

Betty Kim is a former member of The Dartmouth senior staff.

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Many students take advantage of the ceramics studio as a resource to learn a new skill in a low-stress environment.

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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION

GUEST COLUMNIST WILLIAM OWEN ’21

STAFF COLUMNIST RANIYAN ZAMAN ’22

Vote Boldly

Today at the polling booths, put the notion of electability to bed.

Flip to any news channel or open any newspaper or news site — or take a stroll across Dartmouth’s campus — and I doubt you’ll be able to last more than a few minutes without encountering the concept of “electability.” With the upcoming Democratic primary and New Hampshire’s today, voters want to pick whoever they think has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump come November. And while there are many bright, politically astute people on this campus and in this town who are wrestling with this concept and this decision today, I encourage them to fret not — because the concept of “electability” and everything it entails should be your last priority at the voting booth.

That’s in large part because electability is an amorphous concept that voters are notoriously bad at recognizing. Don’t take it personally — this is true across the board, and in no way, shape or form reflects how informed or up-to-speed a voter is.

The only thing that experts seem to agree on about electability is how terrible voters are at measuring it.

Patrick Murray, founding director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, confirmed this to NBC News, remarking how “electability is in the eye of the beholder.” Political scientist Jonathan Bernstein pointed out in a New York Times op-ed that “there’s simply no good way to know which candidate will do best in the general election” — and, he said, the same goes for the primaries. Not sure who the rest of America will vote for? Take it easy — neither does anyone else.

Even if unfounded, concerns about electability can still have real consequences on voters’ minds and decisions. In practice, fear about a candidate’s electability usually translates into voters supporting more moderate candidates, whom they view as more palatable and, perhaps, more capable of swinging middle-of-the-road voters torn between Trump and the Democratic nominee.

Now, we have no way of knowing for sure how voters will choose in the future, but we can observe and learn from how they have behaved in the past.

Trump’s greatest threat has not been candidates who were unwilling to take risks, but candidates who were willing to challenge the status quo. Just look at Bernie Sanders’ success in the Rust Belt in the 2016 Democratic primary — particularly his significant

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wins in Michigan and Wisconsin. Meanwhile, the last time Trump ran against a middle-of-the-road, moderate candidate — in the 2016 presidential race against Hillary Clinton — things didn’t go so well for that moderate candidate.

And keep in mind Joe Biden’s dismal performance in Iowa. In last week’s caucus, the “highly electable” former vice president ended up finishing a distant fourth, to the shock of many who expected him to finish second, if not first.

For some, Biden’s poor showing was a sign to rush to another moderate’s campaign, but I’m not convinced that the best response to one moderate’s campaign flop is to pick another moderate, or an equally interchangeable candidate.

But if your reason for voting for a moderate is electability, I’d think again. I’m not persuaded that we have to settle for a candidate willing to receive donations from billionaires. Nor do I think that some of these donors deserve labels as innocuous as simply “billionaire”; take, for example, Pete Buttigieg’s fundraiser hosted by the former president of a company that made $45 million working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency responsible for family separation and immigrant children in cages at the border, as well as the deaths, suffering and sexual abuse of numerous undocumented immigrants.

Granted, Buttigieg’s campaign did move to cut ties with this host after the event got too much media scrutiny, but can’t we aim higher? Shouldn’t we value integrity and sincerity over any already-dubious notion of electability? Can we justify to ourselves voting for a candidate that by every indication will seek to return the U.S. to the conditions and circumstances that prompted Trump’s victory?

Because as far as I can see, there is no going back.

But there is moving forward.

When you vote today, I encourage you not to hold your nose, and certainly not to settle. Vote for the person who inspires you. Vote for the country you wish we were. Toss aside the fears you have about the rest of the American electorate or what can and can’t be passed through Congress when the time comes; after all, fear is what got us the President we now in the Oval Office. And it’s going to take courage and vision to prevent a repeat of these past four years. So today, vote boldly.

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A Missed Opportunity

The history department needs a more cohesive study-abroad curriculum.

After two or three years, Hanover can begin to feel small. No matter how honed your pong skills might be, we all crave a break eventually. To many, the idea of a Dartmouth foreign study program — the wildly different experience of going to school in another corner of the globe — is certainly attractive.

An FSP offers the chance to drop the label of ‘Dartmouth student’ and meld into the culture of another school. It’s a way to experience a different culture and society.

However, some Dartmouth programs do not live up to the immersion experience they advertise. In my experience, the history department’s London FSP — which advertises “London’s abundant resources in British, European, American or world history” as “the centerpiece of the program” — would have benefited from a revised curriculum.

At the end of my sophomore summer, with blisters from the Mink Brook rope swing still raw, eyes bleary from a few hours too many spent under the fluorescent lighting of 3FB, I looked forward to three months in the energetic and culturally eclectic city of London with anticipation.

I was particularly excited to research and study a subject of my own choosing, since the London program’s primary academic attraction is its independent-study project.

Participants in the program come up with a topic, do some initial research beforehand and then hit the ground running when the term begins. In theory, students can choose to study something they’re passionate about and, with an entire term to spend in London’s resource-rich libraries and museums, they’ll have no problem producing a well-researched and interesting final paper. My peers’ topics ranged from Royal Dutch Shell’s dealings in the Middle East to the history of LSD culture in Britain. I opted for the socioeconomic history of lawn tennis, and I was geeked up about it.

In theory, the project should have been the scholastic centerpiece of the term ; difficult, but ultimately rewarding. In practice, it took a back seat to the demands of two other courses, one which was clearly added to “immerse” us in another culture.

The curriculum includes three classes: the independent study; a history of London taught by a UK-based professor hired by Dartmouth; and a course of one’s choosing at University College London . The class about London made perfect sense; it gave us a deeper understanding of the city than could be gathered from just wandering around. The UCL course, on the other hand, felt like a poorly thought-out attempt to integrate us into a new social sphere — the length of the FSP means that Dartmouth students are only around for half of the course. Combined, both courses left me with little time to pursue my independent study.

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The tacit goal of the UCL course — at least as I saw it — was to give us the chance to explore a community different from Dartmouth, and to expose us to a wider body of students. But I was unable to befriend a single Brit. And before you go thinking I’m incapable of making friends — which you are definitely thinking — let me tell you that UCL is largely a commuter campus, so very few students live in on-campus housing.

The Dartmouth students were cloistered in our own apartments near campus, which were lovely, but my neighbor was a middleaged woman who enjoyed jigsaw puzzles and casting disapproving looks at me in the elevator. Given that none of the other students on my program became friends with any Brits, I’d say the experiment failed.

But if the goal was to load us up with superfluous work and leave us with no time for our independent study projects, the College succeeded spectacularly. My peers and I found ourselves swamped in work trying to put together papers that represented our only opportunity to earn a good grade in our UCL course. It wasn’t exactly conducive to intensive academic research on our independent projects.

Ultimately, I felt let down by the amount of time I did get to put into my independent project. I would have been served far better by an on-campus dorm and a pass/fail grade in a UCL course, both of which would have enabled me to immerse myself in London’s vibrant culture and dive into my independent research with the vigor I craved. As it was, my experience was spread too thin, and it meant that I didn’t get to appreciate any of the elements of the program that I had been loking forward to. Foreign study programs can be an incredible opportunity to pursue new interests, but only if they really give us the chance to do so.

William Owen is a member of the Class of 2021.

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DOMINIQUE MOBLEY ’22

TODAY 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Election: “New Hampshire Presidential Primary.” Hanover High School Gymnasium.

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Talk: “The Big One: The Fall of Rome and Contemporary Hate Groups,” with Curtis Dozier of Vassar College. Sponsored by the Classics Department, Rockefeller Center 002.

7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Film, “Parasite.” Sponsored by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center.

TOMORROW 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Exhibit: “The Ties that Bind: Slavery and Dartmouth.” Sponsored by the Dartmouth Library, Rauner Special Collections Library.

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Talk: “What Do School Photos Do?” Sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum.

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