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and humorous personality

in their family home’s backyard or watching Marvel movies together.

Upon frst meeting Balara in the fall of 2020 his freshman year, McCorkle said he could tell that Balara “really cared about people in a way that wasn’t really vocal.”

“It was more so a feeling that you had,” McCorkle said. While Balara was introverted and a man of few words, the words he did say were always meaningful, McCorkle added.

Teammate and friend Nicholas Schwitzgebel ’24 said that before team meetings, members of the football team had to say 10 words. Balara always responded humorously by saying the literal phrase “10 words,” Schwitzgebel recalled.

Teammate and friend Nic Sani ’24 said Balara’s sense of humor always made him laugh.

“There were times when I couldn’t even breathe from laughing so hard, [where I felt] just pure joy and happiness,” Sani said. “[He] always put a smile on my face.”

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To his friends and family, Joshua Balara ’24 was a “gentle teddy bear” who always strove to uplift those around him, according to his Dartmouth football teammate and friend Tevita Moimoi Jr. ’24.

“You know when you hug someone and someone releases frst,” Moimoi Jr. said. You would have to be the one to do so [with Josh], or else you would just be hugging each other for a really long time ... [That is] the best way to describe Josh.”

Balara died at 21-years-old in his home in Trucksville, Pennsylvania surrounded by friends and family, according to his obituary in the Times Leader. A hardworking and

compassionate player on the Dartmouth football team, Balara was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer in early July 2022. He is survived by his parents Gregory and Evelyne Balara and siblings Brendan and Rebecca Balara.

According to his obituary, Balara studied engineering and environmental studies at Dartmouth, played as an offensive lineman on the Varsity football team — which won the Ivy League Championship in 2021 — and belonged to the Gamma Delta Chi fraternity. Teammate and friend Gannon McCorkle ’24 said Balara was an avid builder of Lego sets, a rock music afcionado and a foodie.

Brendan Balara said his brother was his best friend, adding that they bonded over their many shared interests — whether that was playing lacrosse

McCorkle said that Balara brought a “certain energy” and “aura” to the team which “everyone really gravitated towards.” Balara had an ability to shine and light up a room — he was “the kind of guy that everyone wanted to be around,” Brendan Balara said. Dartmouth football assistant coach for the ofensive line Keith Clark said he knew Balara for nearly fve years, having recruited Balara to Dartmouth while he was in high school.

“There was no fner young man we could recruit from a character standpoint,” he said. “[Josh was] intelligent, gifted athletically and very dedicated to his sport.”

Clark added that Josh’s impact on others was made evident by the number

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Remains of 15 Native American individuals discovered in College’s collections

BY The Dartmouth Senior Staff

This article was originally published on March 28, 2023.

Following a series of internal reinventories, the College announced on Tuesday that the Hood Museum of Art and the anthropology department discovered the skeletal remains of 15 Native American individuals in their collections.

Two osteological reviews by College staf, as well as an ongoing, external audit by forensic anthropologists and archeologists, uncovered “the skeletal remains of 15 individuals identifed as Native American,” the statement wrote, adding that 100 bones without a Hood Museum accession number, or catalog number, were fagged as “potentially problematic.” According to anthropology records, some of the discovered bones were a part of human osteology teaching labs as recently as fall 2022.

A number of faws in the College’s catalog and inventory system revealed that human remains in Dartmouth’s collections — which were initially believed to be of non-Native origin — were indeed Native American.

The College wrote that it is “actively pursuing” repatriation as dictated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, a federal law that mandates the return of sacred objects, human remains and other objects of cultural patrimony to federally-recognized tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. .

“On behalf of Dartmouth, I sincerely apologize to our entire community,” President Philip J. Hanlon wrote in the College’s statement. Hanlon also wrote that the College will be taking steps to ofer support to those afected by the discoveries.

“In great sympathy with all of the

pain that Indian Country is enduring, we at Dartmouth pledge to take careful and meaningful action to address our situation and consult with the communities most directly impacted,” Hanlon wrote. “Dartmouth is dedicated to righting these heartbreaking wrongs.”

Dartmouth completed its first inventory of Native American holdings in 1995, after the 1990 enactment of NAGPRA. Since Dartmouth’s initial inventory, the College has repatriated remains to Native and Indigenous groups on four separate occasions, the announcement stated.

In 2018, after becoming the College’s NAGPRA officer, Hood Museum curator of Indigenous art Jami Powell began requesting a re-inventory of Dartmouth’s Native American archives. Powell wrote in the College’s statement that some institutions’ frst inventories after the passage of NAGPRA had been prone to errors.

“From my experience at other institutions, I knew that the initial inventories done in the 1990s, when NAGPRA was frst passed, were often rushed by necessity and conducted by staff who had numerous other responsibilities in terms of collections management and care,” Powell wrote.

Following delays related to renovations and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hood completed its re-inventory in early 2021, according to the College’s statement.

In the summer of 2021, the anthropology department also began conducting a re-inventory of its own, which led to the fagging of several bones with “ambiguous labeling and appearance,” according to the College’s statement. Some of those remains possessed accession numbers that did not correspond to any system used by the anthropology department.

When the anthropology department

BY Charlotte Hampton

This article was originally published on March 30, 2023.

Every Christmas, Joshua White toiled over his beloved chocolate and peanut butter treats — affectionately known as “Joshy Balls” — to distribute to his friends and family, White’s cousin Loren Hudson recalled. As White spent hours on the dessert, Hudson, Hudson’s daughters and countless other loved ones eagerly anticipated his famous treat.

White loved to cook, and his hours in the kitchen were an expression of love for those around him, Hudson said.

“He made 400 to 1,000 [Joshy Balls],” Hudson said. “He had so many friends. He wanted to give everybody 10 to 20 of these. He didn’t want to give me just 10 or 20 — I’ve got a bunch of kids. So, it was 10 for Ava, 10 for Violet, 10 for Olive, 10 for Bri [and] 10 for me.”

Joshua White, an IT support analyst at the Tuck School of Business from York, ME, died on March 15 following a battle with a rare form of stomach cancer, according to his obituary in the Valley News. He was 35 years old. After earning a degree in information technology from York Community College, White began work as an information technology support analyst at the Geisel School of Medicine in 2011. After five years at Geisel, he relocated to Tuck Business School, where he worked as a support analyst alongside Hudson.

Hudson said that White’s interest in cooking sprouted from his profound creativity and keen problem-solving mindset. White applied these skills to all areas of his life, from playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons to his work in IT support, Hudson added.

“He was a masterful cook,” Hudson said. “If there’s a recipe, [IT workers] can follow it. It’s one of the reasons we’re good at technology. Give me a 300-page… article, and I can read it and implement it … That works out with cooking as well.”

White’s fondness for cooking dated back to his high school and college days, when he worked for Ruby’s Wood Grill in York. According to restaurant owner Carle Brown, White worked for the restaurant for around seven years and eventually became a cook. He was incredibly talented at making pizza and “did whatever we needed him to do,” Brown said.

“[He was] the best type of employee you could hope to have, and just a great guy too,” Brown said. “[Josh was] always in a good mood…, always ready to go when he got here and always had a lot of ideas. He was obviously very smart and a joy to have around.”

According to Hudson, White loved working at Dartmouth and was an extremely dedicated employee who “didn’t complain.” In the time that other workers on his team did five technology repairs, White would complete 70, Hudson added.

“He would show up at 7 a.m. every morning — work started at 8 [a.m.],” Hudson said. “He’d be sitting and ready, and he’d open the desk — for years. When he left, it was 5:30 p.m. He only had to work until 5 [p.m.], but he’d always stay 30 minutes late for a student that was looking for help.”

White’s eagerness to help others began at a young age, according to White’s mother Monica White. Growing up, White spent his childhood watching his mother tend to their garden, where he earned the nickname “Joshy Bug” — a nod to his habit of pointing out different insects. The nickname eventually embarrassed White in adolescence, his mother recounted.

She added that White maintained a positive attitude even in bad times.

“[Josh was] always happy [and] never complained when he was sick,” Monica White said. “He could have a fever and you would never know it. [I] almost think he was a saint, if you believe in that type of stuff. He never ever demanded anything.”

Beyond his family, White held a special love for gaming — including Dungeons and Dragons, Nintendo and card games.

“[You] couldn’t beat him,” Hudson said. “But he was always very humble about it. It didn’t matter if Josh had never seen the game. He looked through the rules and then they’d play, and nine out of ten times he would win… He just could think so many steps ahead.”

Prior to and during his cancer diagnosis, White raised money for children’s cancer research by entering gaming competitions such as Extra Life, in which he gamed for 24-hours straight.

White’s father Patrick White added that gaming was his son’s way of connecting with the outside world. He and his son shared a love of quiet and solitude, he added.

“Everyone loved him,” he said. “I never saw him have a problem with anyone.”

White’s dedication and positive mindset persisted even as he battled cancer. He rarely took pain-relieving medications and there was “no crying,” Hudson said.

Even when Hudson encouraged White to spend his last days living out lifelong dreams, White kept saving money and “giving half of his paycheck to his future,” Hudson said. White dreamed of getting a mango-colored Dodge Charger with all-wheel drive — “because it’s practical,” Hudson added.

“I was just like, ‘you’re insane dude,’” Hudson said. “‘You should just take your time and go to Japan.’”

Hudson said he lived with White in a house they built together. White always prioritized the family and maintained a close relationship with Hudson’s children and wife, Hudson added.

A celebration of life for White will be held at noon on May 7 at 4313 Quechee Main Street, White River Junction, VT.

‘He just cared for everybody’: Josh Balara ’24 remembered for his warmth

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‘Always in a good mood’: Joshua White remembered for his dedication and kindness

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College announces the appointment of three new trustees

BY Zoe Olson

The Dartmouth Staff

This article was originally published on March 30, 2023.

The College announced on March 8 that David McKenna ’89, Shonda Rhimes ’91 and Todd Sisitsky ’93 have been elected to the Board of Trustees. They will begin their four-year terms on July 1, replacing Daniel Black ’82, Beth Cogan Fascitelli ’80, Caroline Kerr ’05 and Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Tu’88.

Chair of the board Liz Lempres ’83 Th’84 wrote in an email statement that each of the new trustees brings “unique insight and exceptional judgment” to the board based on their professional experience and prior work with Dartmouth.

Rhimes, an award-winning producer and screenwriter, is the founder of television production company Shondaland. Sisitsky is the president of TPG — a leading alternative asset management firm — and comanages its healthcare investments in the U.S. and Europe. McKenna served as a managing partner and executive committee member at Advent International, a private equity firm, until his retirement last year.

Two of the new board members have served in various alumni positions at the College. McKenna has been a cochair of the Presidential Commission on Financial Aid since May 2020, while Sisitsky currently chairs the Board of Advisors for the Geisel School of Medicine. Sisitsky also helped launch the Innovations Accelerator for Cancer to fund cancer research at Dartmouth in October 2020.

Lempres said that the board’s main goal for the upcoming year is to assist

President-elect Sian Beilock — who will assume her role on July 1 — as she transitions into the presidency and identifies her priorities. In addition, Lempres said the board plans to maintain its focus on “pressing initiatives already underway,” such as mental health, housing and inclusivity.

In an email statement, Dean of the College Scott Brown wrote that he “looks forward” to welcoming and working with the new board members.

“They are extraordinary leaders in their own fields,” Brown wrote. “We are grateful for their deep commitment to Dartmouth and confident their diverse set of experiences will provide substantive and wise guidance for the College.”

Dartmouth Student Government President David Millman ’23 said that he appreciates the variety of expertise presented by the new trustees.

“I think it’s a really good trio that’s coming on,” Millman said. “You have someone who worked on financial aid, and then someone who’s from more of a creative side and then someone who’s more on the medical side.”

Lempres added that the board’s Governance and Nominations Committee reviews dozens of candidates each year before making their recommendations. According to Lempres, most candidates are identified through work they have done with Dartmouth in other capacities.

“Individuals are recommended through a number of sources, including current and former trustees, other alumni, Dartmouth faculty and administrators and sometimes by people outside of the College,” Lempres wrote. “Many are already involved with Dartmouth through Advisory Boards, the Alumni Council, Class Leadership or special initiatives.”

As an incoming member of the board, McKenna said that financial aid remains a priority for him. He added that the College has made “great progress” in eliminating loans from financial aid packages and adopting need-blind admissions for international students. McKenna said he hopes to “continue to work on that front.”

“[Dartmouth] is a really remarkable philanthropic endeavor when you step back,” McKenna said. “The whole thing is just perpetuated by generosity. Building on that spirit would be something I’d very much like to participate in.”

The DSG currently communicates with the board through a group of graduate and undergraduate student liaisons to the Student Experience Committee, Millman said. He added that he would like to see greater student involvement with the board.

“In order to accurately make informed decisions on campus policies, it makes sense to have the student perspective, and I’m in favor of any policy that increases student voices to the board of trustees,” Millman said.

According to Lempres, the new trustees are currently going through the onboarding process. They will be working with the board to determine the committee placements that best allow them “to apply their experience and expertise,” Lempres added. McKenna said he was “excited” about helping people see Dartmouth as “a place of discovery.”

“I’ve been out in the world, and I’ve seen a lot of organizations,” McKenna said. “I’ve seen things go well, and I’ve seen things not go so well. And I can tell you that when groups of people help each other and respect each other with optimism about their work and the future, beautiful things happen.”

College trial reinstates 24-hour residence hall access for spring term

BY Emily Fagell

This article was originally published on March 28, 2023.

This spring, all undergraduate students living in campus housing can access all residence halls 24 hours a day using their Dartmouth IDs, according to Dartmouth Student Government president David Millman ’23. Previously, students could no longer access residence halls outside their own house community after midnight. Universal residence hall access will last until the end of the spring term, when the College will reevaluate the policy, according to Millman.

Residential Operations and Student Affairs began in the fall of 2022. Millman said he initially faced some “pushback” from administrators, who worried universal residence hall access could “unduly burden the custodial staff.” Administrators also claimed that previous DSG representatives had supported the restrictions — a notable point of contention after the 2019 decision, Millman said. Students responded generally positively to the change, noting that universal access could improve student safety and convenience.

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of people from both his hometown and the College present at his memorial service.

“Josh was an exceptional teammate, and that was demonstrated by the number of teammates that few or drove to his wake and funeral services all over the country to honor him,” Clark said.

Holekamp family director of strength and conditioning Spencer Brown wrote that Josh supported his teammates this past fall during football season in the midst of his cancer battle.

“My favorite memory of Josh will be of him on the sidelines this past season,” Brown wrote. “He was always smiling. His teammates were always excited and happy to be around him.”

While fighting cancer, Brendan Balara said his brother’s “courage and maturity throughout the whole situation really [shined]through.”

“He never lost the qualities that made him him,” Brendan Balara said. “[He was a] kind, unselfsh warrior.”

On the day he died, Balara got blood on the front of the gown from a nosebleed, according to Brendan Balara. Their father joked that his son had to change into a clean shirt before the nurse arrived, since it looked like he had gotten into a fght.

Brendan Balara recalled how his brother replied: “You should have seen the other guy.”

After Balara’s cancer diagnosis — and before starting football pre-season camp in August 2022 — Ross Parrish ’24 and other players closest to Balara — including Schwitzgebel, McCorkle, Sani and others — shaved their heads in solidarity.

“I could tell it meant a lot to him, so it was good to show him our support,” Parrish said. “It was a cool moment of togetherness to show him that we’re here with [him], and [say], ‘We’re doing everything we can to support you, even though we can’t necessarily be with you right now.’ We just wanted to remind him that we were thinking of him.”

Schwitzgebel said he frst met Balara on their ofcial visits to Dartmouth when they were seniors in high school, and as their friendship developed, their families grew close as well. Whenever their families traveled to Dartmouth to watch the team’s home games, they would eat breakfast at The 4 Aces Diner in West Lebanon together.

always put it all out there. He was the perfect picture of what a good teammate is.”

Former Dartmouth offensive lineman and current student coach James McCarthy ’23 experienced Balara’s kindness frst-hand at the Class of 1953 Commons, where Balara spent much of his time.

“He loved Foco, and he loved making sure nobody would sit alone,” McCarthy said. “It really didn’t matter who it was. He was very quiet, but he loved to talk to people and make you feel better, [and] make you feel like you had somebody there to listen. He just cared for everybody.”

McCarthy said the football team is currently deciding how to best honor Balara. To start, Balara’s jersey number, 76, will go unworn this upcoming football season, McCarthy said.

On March 22, a Mass of Christian Burial was held at St. Therese’s Church, followed by interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery, according to Balara’s obituary.

Unrestricted access was last permitted in 2019 but was curtailed by the College after a series of racial bias and vandalism incidents during the 2018-2019 school year, the email wrote. Students responded with sharp backlash to the initial restrictions, with more than 2,900 individuals — around two-thirds of the student body — signing a petition in opposition, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth.

Ultimately, administrators agreed to open up residence halls as a pilot program this spring, with its continuation contingent on students’ respect for living spaces.

“We are always looking for ways to connect and support our students and have worked closely with DSG in thinking about ways to do so,” Dean of the College Scott Brown wrote in an emailed statement. “We are hoping to see this pilot as a way to welcome students in other spaces, and that students hold each other accountable for respecting those spaces and the people who work and live in them.”

Daniel Lin ’23, an undergraduate advisor in McLaughlin Hall, said 24hour access — which he had prior to this term’s policy change due to his role as a UGA — has helped with “practical things” like taking shortcuts through buildings to avoid the cold during the winter or using the restroom. He added that he did not understand the College’s initial motivation to restrict residence hall access in 2019.

“Honestly, it didn’t make a lot of sense to me because if someone wanted to be racist, they could do that anywhere and they don’t really need … card access to do it,” Lin said.

Ben Barris ’25 said he agreed that universal access could help with day-today inconveniences, such as spending time with friends late at night.

“Last term, for instance, I would go out or whatever and then go to my friend’s dorm super late, 1 or 2 or 3 [a.m.],” Barris said. “It was very inconvenient, especially during the cold, to be like, ‘Yo, let me in.’”

Barris added that he does not think the policy will impact cleanliness in residence halls, noting that students already could access other buildings using a friend’s ID or by waiting for the door to open.

“He was one of my best buddies,” Schwitzgebel said. “From the greater aspect of the team, we’re losing easily the best teammate possible. He never complained, always showed up and

External reviewers still assessing the extent of Native American remains in Dartmouth’s collection

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release. The College wrote, however, that departments distributed ancestral remains between one another “often with little or no documentation of their movements” until the 1980s. The Hood Museum took possession of much of those undocumented collections upon its 1985 opening, according to the press release.

The remains which have so far been uncovered, as well as those which have not been positively identifed as Native American, have been transported of campus and are being held in storage, according to the Hood Museum.

As part of its eforts, the College announced in its statement that it will be establishing a task force helmed by Provost David Kotz “to address institution-wide issues beyond NAGPRA, including the handling and

repatriation of ancestral remains.”

The fndings have also prompted the College to reevaluate its current teaching collection, according to the press release. The anthropology department will be suspending the teaching of osteology courses “for the foreseeable future.” In the meantime, the College wrote that it plans to build a collection which adheres to legal and ethical standards.

Administration has not yet announced a timeline for the creation of the task force, nor the completion of its collections. The College’s announcement follows those of other institutions such as Harvard University and the University of North Dakota, who announced last year that their institutions held the remains of Native Americans.

A fund was made in Balara’s honor to institute a yearly scholarship at his high school, according to Balara’s obituary. The award will be given to one football player who exemplifes the same qualities as Balara. shared the fagged remains’ accession numbers with ofcials at the Hood Museum, it became clear “that many of the marked bones were Native American ancestral remains,” the College wrote. External reviewers are still determining the extent of the Native American remains in Dartmouth’s collections, as well as any “cultural afliation and other identifying factors,” according to the College’s press release. Additionally, museum stafers are looking for any related historical records. The College’s reviews of its collections have so far been unsuccessful in determining when or how the anthropology department or the Hood Museum came into possession of the remains, according to the College press

Millman said the pilot policy responds to continued student support for universal residence hall access — noting that a “large majority” of students said 24-hour access would be “extremely helpful to campus” in the DSG Student Issue Survey Report sent in November 2022.

Millman added that his commitment to the cause was largely sparked by a personal experience with the former restrictions, in which he was unable to help a friend in need.

“We were using a [Good Samaritan call] on someone, and they ran into their residence hall, and it was past 12 [a.m.] so we couldn’t get in,” Millman said. “If Dartmouth wants to facilitate a community of care, part of that care has to be open access to support our peers … Having dorm access restricted … just didn’t feel like it was the best policy for the safety of students.”

Under the revised policy, Millman said the College will still restrict access during Green Key weekend and the weekend of May 6, when spring activities such as Pigstick and Mudpit — annual parties where a pig is roasted at Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and students play in a mud pit in the Bones Gate fraternity’s backyard, respectively — typically occur. He added that universal access will also be limited to students enrolled in classes and living in on-campus housing. The revised policy will not permit access to Greek houses, he said.

According to Millman, discussions between DSG, Residential Life,

Ali Bauer ’25, a UGA in Brown Hall, said she thinks the policy will have both positive and negative impacts. While Bauer said she recognized that universal access may increase traffic and vandalism in residence halls, especially in “hotspots” such as Massachusetts Hall, she said issues will largely depend on advertisement — noting that students may not even realize they have universal access.

She added that 24-hour access could be useful during extreme cold or a mental health crisis.

“If someone calls and is like, ‘I need help now,’ the friend or whoever is called, no matter what house they’re in, can just go [with] 24-hour access,” Bauer said. “[Without] 24-hour access, it could be really challenging for somebody who needs help to walk downstairs and unlock someone or find someone.”

Millman said he expects the pilot program to be successful, explaining that he only anticipates two extra hours of foot traffic per night — from midnight to 2 a.m.

“Maybe it becomes something where we have to reevaluate it, but I think it’s also just an opportunity for us to really take a step back and appreciate our custodial staff and the people that keep campus running,” he said. “I think it will be successful, but I do think every student has a role to play in making sure that it’s a success.”

Representatives from Residential Life and Residential Operations did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.

‘He never lost the qualities that made him him’: Balara remembered as a kind friend and teammate

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Democrats must adjust messaging on their environmental policies to win moderate Republican votes in 2024.

This column was originally published on March 28, 2023

Winning the votes of environmentally-conscious Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters would be a huge boost for Democrats in 2024. According to the Climate Center in 2020, 68% of all Republicans between the ages of 18 and 54 report climate change as an important factor in casting their vote — a camp large enough to bolster the Democrat’s support base in the upcoming election. But securing that cohort’s vote will require Democrats to adjust their party’s messaging around climate change policies — specifcally, the party should assuage Republican concerns surrounding any potential negative economic impacts of environmental eforts and the issue’s politicization. To do so, they must emphasize the popularity of President Biden’s climate policies among non-Democrats, as well as their economic benefts — particularly the benefts they could bring to blue-collar workers.

Persuading Republican-leaning independents and moderate Republicans to vote for Democrats is well within the Democratic Party’s ability in 2024 should he choose to run again. A third of Republicans are pessimistic about the future of the GOP, making moderate Republican votes ripe for the taking. However, these voters worry about economic impacts and have a distaste for Democratic or leftist labels on environmental policies. Democrats seeking to leverage environmental policies must clearly integrate those concerns into their platforms.

To begin, Democratic campaigns should stress Biden’s climate policies are not centered around the interests of solely left-leaning Americans but instead respond to the majority of Americans’ concerns, including Republicans. Environmental issues are a topic of high concern and priority for the majority of Americans, as two thirds of Americans view climate change as an emergency. Nearly two-thirds of Republican and Republican-leaning voters and the vast majority of moderate Republicans think the United States needs to prioritize developing renewable energy over expanding fossil fuels, according to a survey from 2019. A little less than two-thirds of moderate Republicans support setting strict carbon dioxide emission limits on existing coal-fred power plants.

Building on that, Democrats must disprove the idea that their policies are a mechanism for pushing through some sort of nefarious leftist agenda. Democrats certainly have their work cut out for them. For decades, right-wing media outlets like Fox News have declared global warming a “climate hoax” used by Democrats to enact supposedly oppressive and restrictive economic policies.

For example, Republican politicians and conservative commentators pushed a narrative earlier this year that Democrats were out to remove gas stoves from restaurants and people’s homes. Following reports that gas stove pollutants harmed the environment and human health, particularly that of children, many conservatives whipped themselves into a frenzy. Twenty Republicancontrolled state legislatures even passed laws preemptively outlawing bans on gas stoves. Texas Representative Ronny Jackson tweeted “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE

IT!!” On Fox News, Tucker Carlson said Democrats wanted to ban gas stoves because, “banning things other people like and enjoy is the purest expression of power. When you can snatch someone’s pleasure away, you feel like God.” In reality, the Biden administration has explicitly declared that it has no intention of banning gas stoves, and only local governments have taken action to regulate gas appliances in new construction.

Moreover, many Republicans are hostile to a perception of “wokeism” on the left and oppose redistributing resources to historically marginalized communities. As a result, some pro-environment Republicans view Biden and other Democrats’

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environmental justice initiatives as unfair policies that prioritize certain races over others instead of prioritizing locations with the most severe environmental damage. Democrats’ environmental messaging can dodge accusations of pursuing a leftist agenda by highlighting the popularity and widespread benefts of Biden’s individual climate policies, as well as by assuring voters that consumer choice won’t be forcefully taken from them.

To spotlight Biden’s environmental policies as benefting the average American, Democrats should call attention to his fruitful solar panel policies. Solar panels are very popular, with 86% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters and 93% of moderate Republicans supporting an increase in the number of solar panel farms in 2019. The poll’s results show Biden’s environmental policies do refect the average American’s political values. The Biden administration’s eforts are on track to triple the amount of domestic solar panel manufacturing by 2024, decreasing reliance on China’s solar panel technology and creating American jobs. Both of these are priorities for many Republicans. Biden’s solar panel policies will also lead to over a billion dollars in savings on energy bills across six states via a new pilot program, which Democrats can advertise as his successful work to decrease bills for the average American.

The right messaging can convince more Republicans that environmental policies help the economy. According to a 2020 survey analysis by Resources for the Future, 52% of Republicans think policies to reduce global warming do not harm the U.S. economy, and 82% of Republicans think the U.S. government doing more to reduce global warming would not impact their chances of working a good-paying job. These statistics show Republicans are open to be persuaded of the economic benefts of environmental policies.

Furthermore, companies are building new steel mills, battery plants and electric vehicle factories — all under Biden’s environmental policies. New clean energy jobs, like solar and wind energy technicians, are also being created. Biden’s Infation Reduction Act is expected to create over half a million jobs, most of which are in blue-collar industries. Moreover, Biden’s American Jobs Plan — part of his Build Back Better program — is expected to create more than a million green jobs per year. The majority of those jobs will be high-paying and will not require college degrees. The law has spurred jobs across the economy in sectors as broad as construction, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and healthcare.

Most importantly, Democratic messaging surrounding these new jobs should focus on testimonies from new green workers, instead of entrusting bureaucrats to trumpet information on Biden’s climate policy successes. Recently, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg earned criticism for wearing dress shoes while visiting the train derailment site in East Palestine, drawing a sharp contrast between the secretary and the muddy working boots of the workers surrounding him. Democrats’ increasing association as the party of coastal elites, white-collar workers and college degree-holders alienates the rural and blue-collar voters who make up much of the Republican base. Relying on highly-educated bureaucrats or wealthy coastal elite politicians to spread Democratic messaging does not help the image of a party whose leadership already appears out of touch to many blue-collar workers.

As the March 24 deadline for professors to input winter grades rolled around last week, students checked DartHub with anticipation to see how they performed in their courses. But even as students received letter grades denoting their overall performance in their classes, not all of them had access to the fnal papers and examinations that supposedly fnalized the marks on their transcript.

Unfortunately, this was nothing out of the ordinary. Collectively, the members of this editorial board have written lengthy essays which were never seen again once submitted and have agonized over exam questions without ever learning what the correct answers were. On occasion, we have been shocked by a grade that was lower than anticipated, and other times we have had our requests for feedback on our fnal assignments go unfulflled or outright denied — and we know we are not alone.

Without easy access to the feedback on our cumulative assignments, it is easy for students to be confused and frustrated by the overall grade they received, and it is difcult for students to learn from their fnals. Above all else, Dartmouth is a place to learn, and the College must take steps to ensure that its students are able to walk away from their courses with as comprehensive an understanding of the material as possible. That is just not possible when the assignments we work hardest on efectively disappear. We ask the College to mandate that undergraduate professors return graded fnal papers and examinations to students with corrections and comments on or before the designated deadline for fnal grades.

In PSYC 01: “Introductory Psychology,” students learn that the brain retains information best when it makes an error –– not when it does something right. This is why certain study strategies, like copying or rewriting notes, are inefective: They don’t test the brain’s understanding, and as a consequence, the brain does not take note when it makes a mistake. Conversely, strategies that involve information retrieval, such as fash cards, are more challenging, and thus, more efective. Like fash cards, examinations and graded papers challenge students to retrieve the information they have learned, and give students the chance to learn from their errors. In theory, fnal examinations should be the ultimate pedagogical tool to ensure that students retain the information they spent the last ten weeks learning. But if many students never see the errors they make, how can they learn from them?

Professors are meticulous and deliberate in the

way they design their courses. They spend hours preparing lectures, writing exams, curating readings and designing assignments that best test their students’ understanding of the material. So it strikes us as odd that they would deprive their students of this fnal learning opportunity. Why have students sit for a stressful exam or write a long fnal paper, only to never tell them how they did?

This is not to say that no professors return fnal grades with corrections. Many professors return exams and essays with corrections and feedback in a timely manner, without any prompting. On the other hand, some professors do not ofer opportunities for students to view their fnals with corrections at all. Others say they will give back graded fnals with corrections but put the responsibility on students to request to see their grades and corrections themselves. Some will only allow students to see test results in person, which can pose logistical difculties for students who leave campus before their exams are graded. The lack of consistency between each professor and course is frustrating, to say the least. Although putting the responsibility to request corrections on students may take some load of professors, the burden should not be on students to fght for feedback — and this should no longer be the norm. A guarantee that professors will return grades would not only help more students to learn from the feedback, but it would also hold professors accountable for grading fnal exams fairly and accurately.

We understand that a mandate requiring professors to return fnal exam feedback may seem to place additional strain on them, but if professors are already spending time reading and grading all fnal exams thoroughly, then it should not add signifcantly more time to return those comments or notes to students. And if professors are worried about providing feedback for the volume of papers or exams they must grade, then that may be a sign to professors that they should only be assigning work they feel capable of assessing attentively and returning in a timely manner.

The College espouses a “culture of collaboration” between students and faculty in its own mission statement; but when students are kept in the dark about their fnal performance, the College is failing to deliver on its promise. Feedback is an indispensable pedagogical tool, and it is time the College treated it as such.

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Before the Curtain: Arts on Campus Week 1

BY ALEXANDRA SURPRENANT

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

This article was originally published on March 30, 2023.

Wednesday, March 29

The Hood Museum of Art will ofer a public opening to their new exhibit “Historical Imaginary” between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by Michael Hartman, the Jonathan Little Cohen associate curator of American Art, and the exhibition is centered around an unfnished study for Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” It is supplemented by historical and contemporary artworks from the Hood’s museum collection. According to the museum’s website, “Historical Imaginary” explores how “artworks have shaped … our perception of our shared, complex, and sometimes violent history to build a more equitable future.”

Thursday, March 30

At the Loew Auditorium at 7 p.m., The Hopkins Center for the Arts will screen Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s flm “Everything

Everywhere All at Once” (2022). The flm recently won 7 awards at the 2023 Oscars, including best picture and best director. It stars Michelle Yeoh as the owner of a laundromat who gets swept into a multidimensional world involving a “nihilistic bagel” that threatens the universe. In collaboration with the Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective, the Loew Auditorium invites students and others to view the flm as part of the Asian Diaspora On Screen series. The series runs on Thursday

evenings at 7 p.m. throughout the spring term, highlighting flms that showcase Asian migration around the world.

DAASC members Deborah Jung ’24 and Jessi Yu ’25 will introduce the flm. Tickets are available at the box ofce, but may be sold out. Prior to the viewing, free drinks, bagels and hot dogs — as well as a “paint-your-own-pet-rock station” — will be provided at a preshow party in the Nearburg Forum in the atrium of the Black Family Visual Arts Center between 6 and 7 p.m.

Friday, March 31

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will screen Oliver Hermanus’s 2022 flm “Living” at the Loew Auditorium at 7 p.m.. The flm is based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 flm, “Ikiru” and adapted by Nobel prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. “Living” follows a British public works bureaucrat, played by actor Bill Nighy, who searches for meaning after he receives a terminal diagnosis. Nighy was nominated for best lead actor at the 2023 Oscars. Tickets are $8 and available at the box ofce.

At Sawtooth Kitchen, local band The Connipton Fits will play at 10 p.m, and doors will open at 9 p.m. A cover band based in Lebanon, The Connipton Fits play everything from popular 1980s alternative songs to 1990s and current pop song selections. Tickets are $12 and are available on Sawtooth’s website.

Saturday, April 1

At 4 p.m., Sawtooth Kitchen will host Tommy Crawford, an “engaging songwriter and a talented multiinstrumentalist.” Crawford, who lives in White River Junction, plays both original music and traditional folk songs.

He will perform again at Sawtooth on April 8, 22 and 29. Tickets are free and are available on Sawtooth’s website. At 9 p.m. at Sawtooth Kitchen, local indie-rock band The Pilgrims will celebrate their 10th birthday alongside “alt-country” band the Western Terrestrials and singer Jake

McKelvie. Though he is performing as a solo singer at Sawtooth, he also sometimes performs alongside his band, The Countertops. Tickets are $5 and are available on Sawtooth’s website.

Tuesday, April 4 At 7 p.m., Sawtooth Kitchen will

ELAINE PU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF host an event called “Tuesday Jukebox” with local jazz vocalist Grace Wallace accompanied by Route Five Jive. Wallace is a pianist, fautist and jazz vocalist from England, though she is now based in the Upper Valley. Tickets are described as “pay what you like” and are available on Sawtooth’s website.

Review: ‘Daisy Jones and The Six’ transports its viewers back in time, with phenomenal casting and original music

her free spirit. Camilla is always put together, as she transforms from girlfriend, to wife, to mother, with her style evolving with each role she fulfills. Even Billy’s costuming, in his boring denim and leather, proves that he is the face of masculinity and strength, the head of the band and the captain of the ship. Amazon Prime’s large budget is clear in the costuming: the characters are dressed to the nines, and it serves the story well.

“Aurora” — the soundtrack of the show — has already dominated my spotify “On Repeat” playlist, with songs like “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)” and “The River” being my favorites. “Look at Us Know (Honeycomb)” may come across as a love song, but the lyrics strongly emulate the trajectory of the band. Lyrics like “we could make a good thing bad” and “this thing we’ve been doin’ ain’t working out, why can’t you just admit it to me?” foreshadow their tumultuous rise to fame — getting everything they had ever wanted — and the subsequent unsustainability of their relationships. The lyrics are meaningful and interesting on the first go-round, but show interesting depth upon a second listen.

BY ELeanor schifino

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

My review for the TV adaptation of “Daisy Jones and The Six” must begin with an important caveat: I have not read the book. And while I know you may think it a great sin for me to write this review, what I lack in book background knowledge I promise I make up for with a healthy appreciation for Fleetwood Mac, Free People and messy relationships. Additionally, my review will judge the show based on its merit alone without comparing it to its beloved predecessor.

“Daisy Jones and The Six” is successful in countless ways, but its greatest strength began at its inception: its casting. The cast makes this show. At first, I was uncertain if the actors, who have limited musical backgrounds, could accurately portray a band who was renowned worldwide for their talent. However, the cast was committed to the show’s success: during the COVID-19 lockdown, many

practiced their instruments and hired music tutors. The actors’ dedication to learning new instruments elevated their performances on the show.

Actress Riley Keough embodies the hippie energy of the character and protagonist Daisy Jones. Keough artfully adds depth to Daisy’s character by juxtaposing her carefree attitude with a desperate desire to belong. She also has fantastic chemistry with love interest Billy Dunne, played by Sam Claflin. Their relationship is toxic, and there isn’t much to like about Billy other than his gorgeous looks and perfect wife. His wife, Camilla Dunne, is played by Camilla Morrone.

While Morrone may have had a limited discography prior to this show, she played her character with impressive vulnerability and care. Her gentle attitude is contrasted by her ferocious loyalty, and her storyline was rich and complex, making her the most interesting character in the entire show.

I am a Camilla Dunne supporter until the day I die. Camilla’s strength as a

character causes a problem to the plot: Billy and Daisy, the two main characters who are meant to be the prominent love interests, weren’t that likable in comparison. They were selfish with their love, and I never cheered for them to be together. As Daisy and Billy were an unlikeable pair, the show often felt too focused on their relationship, rather than the music or the band. I felt that more focus should have been on the band: their rise to fame, their recording process, their tour, etc., rather than the relationship between the two lead singers. I am not calling for a total omission of Daisy and Billy’s love, but as the series is limited in nature, attention should have been paid to other aspects more equally. The strength of the casting does not end with the love triangle. Other members of “The Six” came to life in the hands of these actors. Suki Waterhouse portrayed Karen Siko as a cool, charismatic woman who accidentally fell in love. I could feel her fear of commitment, her refusal

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to settle for mediocrity in her life, and her love for the band all in a single look of sorrow during the final episode. Both Josh Whitehouse, playing Eddie Roundtree, and Will Harrison, playing Graham Dunne, also portrayed interesting characters who showed their emotional depth upon their upsetting decision to leave the band. Lastly, Sebastian Chacon added the much needed character of Warren Rojas, who never experienced the same trauma as his band members. He just lived for the music, and there was something so pure in him. It made it all the more painful, to see that hope leave him, when the band decided to split up. Each actor enhanced the complexity and depth of relationships between the characters in “The Six.”

Throughout the entire show, each character is dressed phenomenally in period appropriate clothing. Daisy’s looser, bright clothing — tropical caftans in Greece, shiny gold capes on stage, bright red hair in loose waves, embodies hippie chic and reflects

Both Keough and Claflin recorded their own parts, creating beautiful songs with limited experience, once again showing the cast’s dedication to performing their respective roles. It is no surprise that “Aurora ‘’ is so phenomenal — it was written by legends of the music industry, including my personal favorites Marcus Mumford and Phoebe Bridgers. The music is transportational, taking the listener into the 70s with prominent instrumentation and Fleetwood Macesque lyrics. Fans are already begging for a tour, and I would be first in line to buy tickets.

“Daisy Jones and The Six” stands on its own. While I am sure reading the book may enhance the viewing experience, I found myself falling in love with the show’s characters on their own. I cheered for their successes, and I felt heartbreak at their failures. While the limited series left something to be desired — I could have used a further look into both Daisy and Billy’s struggle with addiction — it was a phenomenal watch that kept me engaged at every second. The show ended exactly where it should have, and while I am sad there is no second season, the finality of the show is part of what makes it so strong.

The Look Ahead: Week 1

BY ALLISON ODHE The Dartmouth Staff

Friday, March 31

The softball team is hoping to continue their winning streak as they travel to New York City to play against Columbia University at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The softball team hosted the University of Pennsylvania this past weekend in their frst Ivy League conference series and swept, starting their conference season 3-0. These big wins came from a huge performance at the plate by Alaana Panu ’25, who hit two walk-ofs during the weekend,building upon the team’s momentum.

Saturday, April 1

The men’s lacrosse team will push a win at their game against Cornell University this weekend in Ithaca, New York, whichstarts at 12 p.m. . Men’s lacrosse (6-1) had a huge win over the weekend against Harvard University, marking their frst Ivy League Conference win since 2015. Dartmouth made it to overtime, when Colin McGill ’25 scored the winning goal to end the game with a

BY WILL DEHMEL

Until he steps out the door, there are few ways to predict what color hat he’ll be wearing.

While it was pink on Friday, March 11 — salmon, his brother insists — today, it might be orange. Your guess is as good as mine.

For Larry Lawrence ’80, who was honored March 11 as a member of the 2023 Class of Legends of Ivy League Basketball, wearing many hats is more than just an expression.

The many diferent hats, which promote the Black Heart Foundation, signify just one of Lawrence’s many endeavors of the hardwood court. Started in 2000, the UK- and US-registered charity helps support students that grew up similarly to Lawrence, he explained.

“It helps provide kids going from high school to college with funding to be able to go to school,” Lawrence said. “Be it a club, transportation — whatever that kid may need to be at the next level.”

So far, the foundation — of which Lawrence is a trustee — has endowed more than 500 students. The goal, Lawrence said, is to “try to get to 1,000 — and after that, to 5,000.”

Lawrence’s charity explains why for him, this honor is bigger than basketball.

“It’s a tremendous honor, of course, to be recognized as someone very unique in the history of the Ivy League and Dartmouth

score of 10-9.

Women’s lacrosse is looking to break their 0-2 conference record streak when they play Harvard at Scully-Fahey Field at 2 p.m., following their loss to Boston College earlier this week.

This weekend, men’s and women’s track will travel to Storrs, Connecticut to compete in the University of Connecticut’s Dog Fight. The teams had a busy spring break, starting their outdoor season with many impressive performances. Notably, Jake Dalton ’23 broke the 32-year-old hammer throw school record with a throw of 64.78 m at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational at the University of Miami.

The women’s rowing team will travel to Camden, New Jersey, to compete in their frst race of the season at the Doc Hosea Invitational on the Cooper River.

The men’s heavyweight rowing team will also compete in their frst race against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the College of the Holy Cross in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hoping to continue their success streak, the sailing team travels to

Providence, Rhode Island, to race in the Dellenbaugh Team Race at Brown University. Lastweekend, the sailing team dominated their races, fnishingfrst at the Admiral Moore Open Team Race –– its frst interconference, team race regatta victory since 2017. The team earned second place in the Jen Harris Team Race and fnished the Harvard Team Race regattas in fourth place. Both the women’s and men’s tennis teams will compete against Harvard this weekend in their opening Ivy League Conference play. The Women’s team (48) will travel to Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and compete at 2 p.m.

The Men’s team (10-8) will host Harvard at home.

Men’s golf will face of against Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, following their seventh place fnish in a feld of 17 programs at the Battle at Rum Pointe event in Berlin, Maryland.

Sunday, April 2

Sailing will continue with day two of the Dellenbaugh Team Race hosted by Brown.

Softball will play Columbia University in their third and fnal game of the series at 12:30 p.m.

The baseball team (1-16) will host UPenn at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, New Hampshire, this weekend in hopes to break their conference losing streak (0-3). They

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were not as successful in their opening Ivy League conference series against Princeton University. Their games are at11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Monday, April 3 Baseball will play UPenn in their third and fnal game of the series at 12 p.m.

College,” Lawrence said. “But the more important thing — the more impactful thing for me — was just reconnecting, seeing again all of my teammates and so many people from years past that I hadn’t seen in a very long time.”

His younger brother, Leonard Lawrence, shared similar thoughts.

“It’s more important to us than it is to him,” Leonard Lawrence said. “Because for him this is great, and he really appreciates it, but his work is not done. He has a lot more work to do in his mind.”

Growing up, Lawrence was far from the Ivy League arena and a high-paying career in fnance.

The brother of eleven siblings, Lawrence grew up in the small city of Macon, Georgia. For his already poor parents, raising that many kids was certainly a challenge, Lawrence said.

“My dad stopped school in third grade — my mom stopped in fourth grade,” Lawrence said. “But they found, somehow, some way to cobble together enough money and enough will to put twelve kids through college.”

It was 1975, and Lawrence, having just graduated high school at the budding age of sixteen, picked up a call from the house phone. On the other end, Dartmouth basketball head coach Gary Walters answered.

“Coach called me, spoke to me, spoke to my mom,” Lawrence said. “. . . all I wanted to do was play basketball. I was fortunate because my parents were intelligent enough

to make us have good grades.”

Dartmouth was the only application Lawrence flled out. Months later, Lawrence ofcially became a member of the College’s Class of 1980.

Standing at 6’4”, Lawrence went on to have a standout career as a Dartmouth forward, becoming one of only two Dartmouth men’s basketball players to be named Ivy League Player of the Year. He did that in the 1980-1981 season while averaging 21.8 points and 8.7 rebounds, simultaneously earning AP All-America honorable mention and team MVP honors.

Lawrence had also been named team MVP two seasons prior, as a junior, when he led the team in scoring and rebounding to fnd himself on the All-Ivy League First Team. Lawrence would miss the next season due to a broken foot, though he was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the eighth round of the NBA Draft during the same season. Lawrence forwent that opportunity, though, returning in the 1980-1981 season due to injury eligibility rules and a desire to once more represent the Big Green.

After graduation, Lawrence would finally fulfill his dream of playing professional basketball — just not in the NBA.

Lawrence’s 20-year professional stint included four years in the now-former Continental Basketball Association and then 16 years in France.

“It was great because initially, as you can imagine, I did not go to Dartmouth to become a professional basketball player,”

Lawrence said. “I went there because it was a great school. But I grew, I got older and I got a lot better, and I had an opportunity.”

LJ Lawrence and his sister Alyssa Lawrence were born a year apart in France to Lawrence and his wife Arlene Lawrence.

For Alyssa Lawrence and LJ Lawrence, who moved to the States when they were fve and six, respectively, Lawrence was — and still is — a phenomenal father fgure.

“He was nothing but loving, and it was always fun to be around him and always fun to be with him,” LJ Lawrence said. “He was always stern with me … but always from a ‘I want things to be good, so I’m going to be hard on you because I know you can do better, and I know you can excel.’”

Upon returning to the United States, Lawrence quickly pivoted into a successful career in fnance, and he now serves as managing director of sales for Loop Capital.

If you happened to fall down in front of the Lawrence family, their frst instinct would be to help you.

It’s how Lawrence and Leonard Lawrence were raised, and how Lawrence then raised his own children.

“If there was someone that needed a meal, and you had lunch, share your lunch with them,” Leonard Lawrence said of the philosophy his parents instilled in him and Lawrence. “If you had someone who needed a buck or two, and you had fve, maybe you’d give them two — so that you didn’t give them all of the things, but you gave them just enough to help them along.”

So it makes perfect sense that aside from

his fnance job, Lawrence remains actively involved with the Black Heart Foundation. Even in France, Lawrence took time out of his busy schedule to found “Les Enfants de la Terre” — translated, in English, to “Children of the Earth” — a charity that helps orphaned youths across France. He also formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship in New York which helps teach entrepreneurship to anyone ranging from middle schoolers to adults.This year, having fnished sixth in Ivy League play with an overall 10-18 record this season, The Big Green men’s basketball team could use a helping hand.

“Coach reached out, and I was able to speak to current players as well as some young alums, and I talked to them about my journey,” Lawrence said. “And then afterwards, [I] just try to be a mentor and try to be something that’s a service to them.

Still, Lawrence remains confident that the eforts of head coach David McLaughlin, who just wrapped up his seventh year at the helm of the team, are working.

In discussing Larry’s award, Leonard Lawrence said this: “While this is something he really appreciates and he understands the importance of, it’s not something that he belabors; he just simply says ‘Thank you, what’s next?’ Because there’s always somebody — something, some event — that he can infuence positively.”

For Lawrence, that something, for now, is Dartmouth basketball.

‘We’re all better when we help each other’: United by basketball, the Lawrence family makes it their mission to give

The Dartmouth Staff

MIRROR

Reflection: There is Always Regrowth

By Selin Hos STORY

This article was originally published on Mar. 29, 2023.

As with the beginning of every Dartmouth term, campus now teems with laughter and hugs as students reunite with one another after weeks or even months of separation. But I’ve found that the beginning of spring feels diferent from the other terms. Though spring break is relatively short, it feels like the student body comes back with a resurgence of energy and vicarious excitement.

There are times when I wonder if that’s because of the re-emergence of the sun, or if it results from some time spent away from the hustle of schoolwork. But I can’t help but feel as though it stems from something inherent about springtime. Spring just brings an air of revival,— a renaissance— from the dredges of the winter.

I remember a moment during this past winter whenin which I awoke and gazed out my window towards a host of trees all freshly blanketed in white from a storm the night before. The trees themselves looked so brittle carrying the burden of the recent snowfall, as though a strong gust of wind would blow them over, snapping them in half at any second. I wondered then if I, too, looked as fragile as the trees.

At times, this past year was rough for me. I struggled to navigate loss and school and all of the change that accompanies growing older. After my dad passed away suddenly and unexpectedly overnight during the fall term, I spent a lot of time trying to understand what that meant for me and my life moving forward. A lot of my days in the immediate aftermath were spent reverting back to the basics, taking my days one day at a time, my breaths one after the other.

There’s something so vividly existential about loss — especially when it strikes you unexpectedly. Every death that impacts you is a subtle call to action, one that demands that you take a look at your own

life and ensure that you are doing your best to live it with meaning. It’s a jolt in which you realize the privilege of living.

I think we often feel overwhelmed with life. I understand how it feels to drown amidst all of the various responsibilities. Even in the midst of this giant change in my life, I continued to feel all of the normal pressures of being a twenty-year old Dartmouth student. I fussed over my assignments and complained about the cold and had weeks of back-to-back scheduled meals and social events. And I felt, and to an extent still feel, a huge amount of cognitive dissonance while going about my days.

One of the most profound realizations

I’ve come to throughout all of this is that the ways we spend our days are how we ultimately spend our lives. Our lives are not solely defned by the extremes with which we tend to defne them. My life is not just my supposed achievements or failures. It is not made up of just my individual moments, like the day I got into Dartmouth or the moment I found out about my dDad’s passing. Instead, my life is determined by my individual actions, and currently it is defned by the time I spend in both my classes and extracurriculars as well as all of the time that I spend with my friends. Our lives are ultimately a compilation of those small moments, and the love that we give and receive within them.

Because when all is said and done, the love that you have shown and the ways you have impacted other people is all that matters. It is one of the only things in this world that we have control over — our love is our legacy. It is one of the only things that will transcend your own existence.

I’ve learned that things happen in this world that are well beyond your own control. One day, a natural disaster hits your hometown, and a few weeks later, your dad dies. Often you’re left wondering, “Well, what’s next?”

Some of these things are inevitable. If you haven’t been tested yet, I can assure that you will in some way or another. But just as those trees in the winter, with their brittle branches and stubby trunks, can hold the weight of all the snow stacked upon them, we too can do the same. We are doing the same — every single day of our lives.

Despite it all, we exist. We laugh, we cry and we think. We continue on living as we do. The snow melts of the trees and the leaves grow back once more and the cycle continues year after year. But resilience propels it all forward.

During spring break my friends and I went to Hawaii to visit our friend Adam Tobeck’s family. On the two hour car ride back from the Kona International

Airport, his mom gestured towards the cooled lava fow on the side of the road and explained the process of a volcanic eruption. During an eruption, huge swaths of land are covered in lava, which then cools into a solid layer of rock.

“What’s important, however, is that there is always regrowth,” she said.

“When you really think about it, it’s almost a miracle the way the smallest sprouts are able to grow through the solid layer of lava.”

It just so happens that life is resilient. There will always, — always, — be regrowth. And, ultimately, I think it is this resilience that is the true embodiment of the springtime, the undercurrent of vitality that we all subconsciously feel as we bask underneath the sun.

A Historic Run for the Ivy League

By Grace Beilstein STORY

This article was originially published on March 23, 2023.

As the Princeton Tigers advanced last week into the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA March Madness tournament, members and fans of the Ivy League watched anxiously to see how far our league champs could take their run. A miraculous two-game tournament run, beginning with a shocking upset over two-seed Arizona, catapulted the men’s team into a national phenomenon, even in a year with so many other upsets. Yet, despite an unfortunate exit last Friday to three-seed Creighton University in the Sweet 16, the unexpectedness of Princeton’s success seems rooted in something more than their status as a 15-seed in the tournament.

The level of surprise Princeton’s performance garnered may be a refection of how students on Ivy League campuses — from Dartmouth to Princeton — see their own sports teams. On the surface, it seems there

is a general lack of interest in athletics, at least in comparison to the emphasis placed on academics.

“I don’t feel like there’s often a huge culture around sports,” Princeton student Tanner McNamara ’26 said. “The typical student is too busy dealing with all their own extracurriculars to go spend a couple hours watching someone else’s.”

Yet, this tournament has captivated many of his friends’ interests, particularly those who usually steer clear of sporting events. With thrilling major upsets seemingly occurring every hour, the possibility of one’s college embarking on a Cinderella run often makes many otherwise indiferent students interested in March Madness.

“Most of my friends are mainly excited by the novelty of our team making it so far,” McNamara added.

But why is it so surprising that our league champions have had success on the national stage? The venue of March Madness aligns, partially, with

what the Ivy League seems to attract:

top competitors, academically and athletically, who have proved they are capable of performing under pressure.

Yet, those both inside and outside the Ivy League have been stunned by Princeton’s success. Although neither of Dartmouth’s basketball teams made an appearance at this year’s Ivy Madness — the league championship that determines bids to the greater NCAA tournament — students from Dartmouth feel a certain solidarity with the Tigers’ run in the tournament.

“I just want them to keep representing the Ivies strong and doing their thing,” Paul Hudson ’23, member of the Dartmouth varsity basketball team, said prior to Princeton’s loss on Friday.

March Madness is a one-of-a-kind athletic PR opportunity for any collegiate sports program, one that Princeton has capitalized on. Princeton students such as Nolan Musslewhite ’25 marveled at the widespread news coverage of Princeton’s run.

“Reading all the coverage on it, it’s this stereotype of the ‘nerds strike back’ almost,” he said. “But I do think it’s been good for Ivy League athletics in general.”

Emerson Tiwang ’25, another Princeton student who traveled to Louisville to watch last Friday’s 11-point loss against Creighton, added that he thinks Ivy league sports are underrated.

“People don’t give enough appreciation to the Ivy League … our professors don’t play, so you still have to get your work done,” he said. “And you also have to perform at a world-class level. We send kids to the NCAA championship every year in sports like soccer, rowing and fencing.”

For busy college students, it may take the success of one’s college on a stage like March Madness to make some of us pay attention to our school’s athletic excellence. But if it takes success on the national level for students to take interest in a popular sport such as basketball, what might it take for less conventional or publicized sports?

And it is this resilience that my friends and I have decided to celebrate this spring. We’ve christened this spring “Silly Spring” in an efort to spend more time living with intention. We’ve proposed a spring of lightheartedness — a spring in which we spend our time enjoying the small moments that comprise our lives and leaning into the joy, rather than the despair, of inevitable change.

So I propose a Silly Spring for us all, one with more time spent under the newfound sun and with those that we love. Cheers to a spring of living with intention, of laughter and doing what we truly wish to do. Here’s to a spring of treasuring the little moments—one spent blooming and learning to appreciate resilience in all of its forms.

Here at Dartmouth in the fall, the women’s rugby team pushed for more recognition of their dominant success on the national level, as they campaigned for more student body attendance at their NCAA Division I Championship match against Harvard. Although they have been a perennial force in women’s collegiate rugby for years, they have yet to draw the attention they deserve.

“I think it’s [because of] a combination of discrepancies between men’s and women’s sports and their coverage in the world,” Hannah Maccarone ’26, a member of Dartmouth women’s rugby said. “[Rugby] is also defnitely a less well-known sport. People want to watch sports they played in high school, that they watch with their family.”

Although there is still work to be done to generate more recognition for programs such as women’s rugby, on a broader scale, the success of Dartmouth, Princeton and the other Ivy teams are not mutually exclusive. If anything, a more competitive Ivy League gives all of our teams chances to model their athleticism and competitiveness on the national stage, attracting progressively better recruits.

Whether we like it or not, there’s a certain link between enthusiasm for our athletics and a recognizable, beyondour-campus pride. For many student supporters, a rocky start to a Big Green team’s season can create an almost complete lack of interest — and with the fewest undergraduates by number, each of us plays an even greater role in the atmosphere at sporting events. Although upperclassmen like Hudson recognize that Dartmouth can appear to be an “overlooked Ivy” due to its small size and remoteness of location, he emphasizes that we have something to learn and emulate from our peer institutions.

“I hope one day we could have an athletic culture more like Princeton [right now],” Hudson said.

The Ivies may well be entering an era of more serious athletic consideration, certainly in men’s basketball. As we watch Princeton’s success this year from Hanover, I see a more sweeping movement of recognition of the athletic success of the Ivy League. And in that, Dartmouth should not be overlooked.

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