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With a strong second-half rally, men’s soccer beat Yale 4-1.
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The Big Green outshot Yale 14-3 in Saturday’s game at Burnham Field. SEE PAGE SW3.
FOOTBALL: Dartmouth defeats Yale 38-31, now 2-0 in the Ivy League. SEE PAGE SW2
Amid an ongoing Title IX investigation, Dartmouth is one of several colleges preparing to launch campus climate surveys — questionnaires that aim to gauge the incidence and perceptions of sexual violence, from feelings of safety on campus to experience with specific types of assault. Such a survey will likely form part of Dartmouth’s Title IX resolution, Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault mini-grant coordinator John Damianos ’16 said. After a 15-month investigation of Yale University concluded in June 2012, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and Yale agreed that the university would conduct annual assessments of campus climate and report to the OCR through May 2014. At Dartmouth, calls for such a survey have been included in the Committee on Student Safety and Accountability’s 2013 report and the student-authored “Freedom Budget,” published SEE CLIMATE PAGE 5
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Sixty student leaders of clubs, sports teams and Greek organizations discussed sexual violence on campus in Collis Common Ground on Saturday as part of Student Assembly’s “It’s On Us” campaign. The campaign, a White House initiative to provide federal support for student-led prevention and awareness efforts, required its partner organizations on each campus — in Dartmouth’s case, Student Assembly — to host
a roundtable attended by a range of student groups. Student body president Casey Dennis ’15 said a mobilized group of diverse student leaders can change how campus thinks, talks and acts regarding sexual assault. He added that while “It’s on Us” is a national initiative, the Assembly is tailoring it to Dartmouth’s campus. Student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16 said the event, which was closed to press, highlighted the urgency of stepping up SEE ASSAULT PAGE 3
Faculty spending leans Democratic B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN
Midterm elections are looming, and Dartmouth employees and affiliates have donated more than $66,000 to political campaigns in the 2013-14 election cycle. U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ’78, D-N.H., and the National Republican Senatorial Committee were the largest recipients, each collecting $20,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, an organization dedicated to exposing money’s influence in Congress. Of the around $66,000 donated, about $35,000 went to individual candi-
dates, $30,000 to political parties and $1,200 to groups or individuals working independently of candidates and their committees. Other top recipients include Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Suzanne Patrick, a Virginia Democrat running for the House of Representatives, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Shaughnessy Naughton, a Pennsylvania Democrat running for the House. The Center for Responsive Politics notes on its website that the Dartmouth Medical School donations comprised $4,000 out of the total by Dartmouth employees and affiliates, and all
went toward the Democratic Party. Overall, 63 percent went to the Democratic candidates or committees, while 33 percent went to Republicans. In the last 15 years, 73 percent of total professor donations went to Democrats and 12 percent to Republicans. The Republican Party, however, receives about $250 more per donation than the Democratic Party. Donations from academic bodies almost always support the Democratic Party, Center for Responsive SEE DONATIONS PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing LOCAL NEWS U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy visited St. Albans Bay State Park Friday to announce a $67,000 federal grant to support Vermont’s efforts to clean up Lake Champlain, which saw toxic algae blooms over the summer, Vermont Public Radio reported Friday. Executive director of the Lake Champlain Committee Laurie Fisher suggested the EPA issue more regulatory controls and institute new drinking water standards. Others brought attention to issues such as farm runoff, which is responsible for much of Vermont’s lake pollution. One discussion topic was Vermont’s total maximum daily load program, which would limit runoff into the river, which the state has worked to refine since the EPA deemed its previous program unsatisfactory. The New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority launched a new promotional website for its passenger rail projects, weeks before a $3.7 million state study that evaluates the feasibility of rail service between Concord and Boston, The Concord Monitor reported Saturday. While Thomas Mahon, chairman of Rail Transit Authority, said that the goal of the online campaign is to create a forum for discussion, the website has also drawn criticism. Executive Councilor Chris Sununu denounced the website launch as an effort to build support for the project before the study is even released. Though many aspects of the proposed rail service are still being studied, the website offers an early look at some of the data from the study, including projected ridership. When released, the report will note the locations of future stations, as well as provide data on funding.
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Students visit in Native American fly-in B y NICK VERNICE
More than 60 prospective students arrived at the College Sunday as part of the Native American fly-in, one of three Dartmouth Bound programs. Participants will spend three days on campus, visiting classes, learning about Dartmouth’s Native American studies program and attending panel discussions about being Native American at the College. Students will also learn how to construct a persuasive and comprehensive college application, in part through looking at past Dartmouth applications. The fly-in program strives to give participants an understanding of the College’s history with Native American communities and help students determine whether Dartmouth is a place where they will feel comfortable for four years, said Steven Abbott, the Native outreach coordinator and associate director of admissions. Of the around 50 students who participated in the program last year, more than half enrolled at Dartmouth.
Abbott said that the program’s popularity has grown, noting that more than 250 Native American students have applied each year. One of the defining and most attractive features is its strong emphasis on community, Abbott said. Prior to acceptance into the program, Amber Webb ’18 had never heard of Dartmouth. Webb found out about program through an email from the Cherokee Nation.
“It was a school built for Native Americans.” - MICAH DANIELS ’18 Webb said she is glad she applied and appreciates the community here. “I had never been particularly active with my tribe because I didn’t live in the center of our tribal affairs in my state, so it was really different for me to see a lot of people who identified as being Native,” she said. “Just having that sense of community from being
[Native American] was so special.” Micah Daniels ’18, who also participated in last year’s program, said that the emphasis on Dartmouth’s history as an institution committed to Native American education influenced his decision to apply to the College. Daniels said a campus tour highlighted the size of Dartmouth’s Native American population — the largest in the Ivy League — and its Native American studies program. “It was a school built for Native Americans,” she said. Upon reflecting on her experience, Daniels cites the open friendliness of other Native students as a comforting and promising sign of a collegiate society conducive to the inclusion and preservation of Native culture. “That’s what drew me here the most — just being able to have the community here and being able to feel as if it could be a second home,” she said. Two additional fly-in programs, one focusing on science, technology, engineering and math exploration, have brought prospective students to campus since July.
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A $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support the Lake Sunapee region’s waste management and safety education programs, The Valley News reported Sunday. The grant will expand waste collection programs for household chemical products and unused medication, as well as help raise awareness of safe disposal practices. The money will also hold chemical safety workshops for teachers and a public safety education program in partnership with the Greater Sullivan County Regional Prevention Network and the Upper Valley Substance Misuse Prevention Partnership, based at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. — Compiled by Jeffrey Lee
Corrections “Savage ’15 leads Big Green field hockey team on and off the field” (Oct. 8, 2014): The initial version of this article described Savage as the only player on the Dartmouth squad to have ever made first team all-Ivy. She is the only player to have made first team all-Ivy on the current squad, not in the team’s history. The online story has been revised to clarify this. We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.
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as a community to take responsibility for campus sexual assault. “A lot of us didn’t agree with what each other said, but we had such respect for each other that we were able to push ourselves and others to think in a different light,” he said. “This shows
“A lot of us didn’t agree with what each other said, but we had such respect for each other that we were able to push ourselves and others to think in a different light.” - FRANK CUNNINGHAM ’16, STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT what our student body is capable of.” Dennis said he was pleased by participation at Saturday’s meeting, particularly toward the end of the session, when participants discussed using leadership positions to shift campus attitudes. One student proposed that the
Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training be mandatory for leaders of all organizations on campus, Dennis said. A recent report on sexual violence by the Center for Disease Control Division of Violence Prevention identified bystander intervention training as a positive approach. Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault chair Sophia Pedlow ’15 said the event allowed student leaders to see each other as resources for change. The College has made some positive changes in the past few months, Pedlow said, citing the hiring of Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist in June. The roundtable discussion, however, could “refocus responsibility of tackling social problems onto student leaders,” Pedlow said. SPCSA member Victoria Nevel ’16 said she found the ideas and motivation the student leaders expressed both inspiring and informative. Dennis said he hoped attendees came away with a sense of ownership and understanding of campus sexual assault, as well potential concrete solutions. “This is a cultural movement in reframing the way we think about sexual assault,” he said.
Student body leaders from nearly 200 schools across the country have committed to carrying out the “It’s on Us” campaign on their campuses, according to a White House press release. By promoting four objectives — using campus climate surveys to diagnose the problem’s scope, improving institutional responses when a report
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“This is a cultural movement in reframing the way we think about sexual assault.” - CASEY DENNIS ’15, STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
is filed, engaging male students and improving enforcement of federal laws — the campaign aims to shift thinking about sexual assault from a one-on-one crime to a situation in which everyone has a role to play in creating a safe and supportive environment. “This is a tough subject to talk about,” Dennis said. “Sometimes we desensitize it.” Rebecca Asoulin contributed reporting.
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Although last year’s NSA scandal has largely ment not only seeks private and personal faded from the news, the U.S. government’s information from these companies, but also strong-arming of technology companies that has erected significant legal barriers to prevent have million of users’ private information the companies from letting their users be has not ended. Last December, Facebook, aware that government agencies are collectMicrosoft and Google joined other technol- ing information on them is like something ogy companies in lobbying President Barack out of an Orwellian dystopian novel. Last Obama to reform government surveillance time I checked, my Facebook messages and practices. Last week, Twitter filed a lawsuit tweets are intended for my friends, not some against the U.S. government to further the government bureaucrat gathering data for coalition’s goal of increasing the amount of “my own protection.” information companies can provide to their While the media is quick to decry human users with regard to government information rights violations abroad or criticize foreign requests. governments, the same level of scrutiny does Right now, companies cannot legally not seem to apply to our own government. disclose to their customers when information There should be more scrutiny of chalabout them has been lenges facing the U.S. requested and hand- “Regardless of your political at home. The moded over to govern- affiliation or party, laws ern media has failed ment agencies. The restricting the disclosure of us by not providing Justice Department coverage of government surveillance on its broader recently has allowed this fight between the these companies to own civilians should raise a red U.S. government and express in very broad flag.” tech companies. terms the number of Twitter’s lawsuit government requests is a noble lawsuit if there ever was one. By for personal data (a range rather than actual filing this suit, Twitter is saying that it will number). The only rationale for trying to not settle for the travesty of transparency convolute solid numbers into a range is to which the Justice Department put forward undermine facts — facts that many Ameri- in January — part of a larger battle against cans would most likely find disturbing. the continual erosion of personal freedom Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s global legal policy and growth of large intrusive and malignant manager, wrote in a blog post several months government. Regardless of your political ago that “allowing Twitter, or any other affiliation or party, laws restricting the dissimilarly situated company, to only disclose closure of government surveillance on its national security requests within an overly own civilians should raise a red flag. This is broad range seriously undermines the objec- not something of the land of the free and tive of transparency.” These concerted efforts home of the brave, but more along the to prevent transparency, and Congress’s appar- lines of Stalinist Russia. Americans should ent inability to properly handle the situation, become more aware of movements such as is an embarrassment. Washington cares more “Reform Government Surveillance” and about re-election than solving actual problems note the tech industry’s unity in its fight like the thug-like treatment of tech companies against a gross invasion of privacy and free by federal agencies. expression. More pressure should now come Twitter’s lawsuit, filed last Tuesday, should from voters, the vast majority of whom use receive greater media attention and concern services provided by these companies each among Americans. The fact that the govern- day, this November.
Anyone in America connected to the Internet knowledge and infrastructure to treat the sick now knows about Ebola; media outlets have and contain the virus exists in high and middletracked the disease in the U.S. nonstop for the past income countries. However, over many years, few weeks. With this continued media attention, we have failed to make these things accessible to Ebola has been portrayed to the general public low-income people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra as easily infectious and deadly. But this focus on Leone.” We have the ethical responsibility to fight Ebola in the U.S. is completely disproportionate Ebola. to the amount of U.S. cases. But beyond pure altruism, we should help So far, there have been only two confirmed because it is in danger of becoming a pandemic cases of Ebola in the U.S. The most recent case that affects rest of the world, including highly was confirmed this Sunday. The patient, a nurse developed countries. This outbreak involves urban who had contact with the first Ebola patient in areas where public health is generally lower and America, is currently in stable condition, the population density is higher. Now that it has moved Guardian reported. This raises two points — into urban areas, Ebola also has a much larger one, that Ebola has not spread nearly as much in chance of spreading. With this in mind, it is in America as media outlets would have us believe, everyone’s interest to contain Ebola now in the and two, that Ebola is not countries it is affecting nearly as deadly as we most, before it spreads may think, especially “This outbreak involves urban out of control. when hospitals have areas where public health is How would we the resources to com- generally lower and population contain it? The most bat it. density is higher. Now that it has effective short-term So why are we so moved into urban areas, Ebola solution would be to worried about Ebola also has a much larger chance of provide them with in America? Media necessary resources. As spreading.” reports — especially a disease, Ebola does those from news outlets, not have to be fatal. Apboth reputable and not — play a large role in propriate and timely attention can considerably increasing knowledge of Ebola. But they also lower the fatality rate. However, as global health increase unreasonable worry about the disease expert Paul Farmer noted in The Washington here. We should instead move our attention away Post, some resources are simply insufficient. As from Ebola in America in favor of focusing on Farmer said, West Africa is short on gloves and the most heavily affected countries: Guinea, oral rehydration fluid, Liberia’s hospitals needs Sierra Leone and Liberia. This common-sense diesel fuel and health workers, clinics and hospitals approach, as health officials have been saying in are in short supply. recent days, would contain Ebola at its source. Building up infrastructure in urban centers — Some may argue that we shouldn’t worry to build better water supplies, sanitation services, about Ebola, a disease that has killed fewer than even working toilets — will best address the pov4,000 people in this outbreak, and should instead erty that allows Ebola to spread and will prevent focus on other, more deadly diseases — cancer, future outbreaks of Ebola and other diseases. AIDS, malaria. Some also argue that we shouldn’t As a matter of policy and ethics, we should not focus on faraway countries that we have little focus so much on Ebola in the U.S. The disease connection with when we could be fixing our is containable here, and excess attention on its own issues. For one, we should help fight it simply rare occurrence distracts attention from where because we have the knowledge to prevent it from it belongs — in the regions where it originates spreading. As World Bank president and former and the less developed countries it affects most College President Jim Yong Kim said, “The severely.
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in February. The “Freedom Budget” asked for “continuous external reviews” of the College focusing on racism, classism, ableism and heterosexism. After “Freedom Budget” proponents staged a sit-in of College President Phil Hanlon’s office last April, former Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson signed an agreement stating that, among other things, the College would conduct such a survey and release its results by 2016. Though a fall launch date was discussed, administrators expressed a desire to delay the survey until the release of the Title IX report and the arrival of provost Carolyn Dever, under whose authority the survey would likely fall. Pressure to release such surveys is increasing, as 84 schools nationally are under investigation for potential violations of Title IX. The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault released its first report, titled “Not Alone,” in April, which called for colleges to conduct campus climate surveys to help administrators understand and address issues surrounding sexual assault. “The first step in solving a problem is to name it and know the extent of it – and a campus climate survey is the best way to do that,” the report states. Damianos said he believes the survey will collect accurate information on student experiences and perceptions, with less underreporting than what is included in the annual campus crime report federally mandated by the Clery Act. “I think that campus climate surveys are very effective tools in data collection because of the small proportion of survivors who actually go forward to issue formal complaints,” he said. Damianos said the survey should help administrators understand whether higher numbers on the annual security and fire safety report arise from a greater incidence of assault or increased comfort with reporting. Mentors Against Violence director Katie Wheeler ’15 agreed that the surveys are an effective tool, highlighting their ability to measure campus perceptions about sexual violence. This information has been absent from past data, she said. “Perhaps the numbers about sexual assault perpetration on this campus will exceed what the Clery numbers have been, but I think what’s important right now is to assess how students perceive the Dartmouth community and their attitudes toward sexual violence,”
she said. Wheeler added that MAV is conducting its own surveys on the topic, asking students questions about whether they would report a friend who had committed an assault, how they would define sexual assault and their views of campus gender dynamics. Student body president Casey Dennis ’15 said Student Assembly will conduct its own survey, asking not about student experiences but rather on what issues they would like to see addressed. The survey will collect feedback on the Assembly’s mental health and sexual assault initiatives and will help chart the course for winter term. “We respond differently to administrative questions than ques-
“The first step in solving a problem is to name it and know the extent of it — and a campus climate survey is the best way to do that.” - “Not Alone,” A report released by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault
tions posed by student leaders,” Dennis said. Campus climate surveys have been launched at other academic institutions. The White House selected Rutgers University to pilot the Department of Justice’s model campus climate survey, which it will conduct online from Oct. 27 through Nov. 5, The Daily Targum reported. At the University of California at Berkeley, administrators and student leaders are brainstorming and implementing programming based on the results of a University of California system-wide survey that received over 104,000 responses. The survey was online from November 2012 to May 2013, and results were announced last March. Senior Meg Perret, an intern at the university’s Gender Equity Resource Center and a member of the student government’s Sexual Assault Commission, said underreporting remained an issue. Just 4 percent of students said that they had been assaulted, a number Perret said was out of line with national statistics, her own experiences on campus and those of her
peers. One in four students reported feeling uncomfortable at the University of California, with higher numbers for women, minorities and LGBT-identifying students. Perret said that people who live with multiple marginalized identities reported facing greater violence and exclusion, noting the importance of intersectionality when looking at the data. “Numbers help lend credibility to the things that we’ve been saying on our campus,” she said. “But its not like this is a surprise to any of us who live with marginalized identities.” Future surveys should better explain the various forms that sexual assault can take, state that students do not need to have brought a formal complaint to respond that they had been assaulted and place a greater emphasis on anonymity, she said. Damianos agreed that the surveys need to be clear to define terms like sexual assault, sexual violence, rape and consent, noting that Dartmouth students interviewed by an SPCSA mini-grant recipient found the wording of White House-recommended survey questions unclear. The University of Virginia will launch a survey this February, inspired by the White House recommendations, junior Sara Surface said. Surface, who co-chairs the university’s Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, said UVA students have not been particularly vocal about sexual assault. “I think the climate survey gives the university a good way for people to anonymously say what’s going on on campus without them having to publicly talk about it or get involved,” she said. University of Virginia senior Will Cadigan, Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition co-chair and former vice president of the all-male sexual assault prevention group One in Four, said he thinks the survey will prompt action. Asking students about their experiences with sexual assault can reduce underreporting and get past the “tip of the iceberg,” he said, which can then inspire change. “I think it’s effective and incredibly important,” Cadigan said. “No one really knows the scope of the problem.” Perret said that while Berkeley’s survey was imperfect and faced underreporting, campus climate surveys are an important tool and can be helpful across campuses. “It makes administrators face the truth of what we’ve been telling them for decades,” she said. Wheeler is a former member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.
often end the term not knowing where she falls the political specPolitics money-in-politics reporter trum. Another benefit to hiding ones Russ Choma wrote in an email. “Most of the money from the political views from the general [academic] sector has gone to public is that when Fowler talks Democrats, with the standouts to reporters, she can say what she being the money affiliated with thinks as a political scientist and for-profit education, which goes information will not be taken as very distinctly to the right,” Choma her own political views. Fowler also notes that there is wrote. Donations from individu- a general reluctance among staff to share their als in the acapolitical bedemic field have “Most of the money liefs with the increased over public, due to the years, in line from the [academic] a fear of bewith an overall sector has gone to ing labeled as increase, Choma Democrats, with the “a Commie noted. Pinko Lib College Dem- standouts beging the eral,” noting ocrats president money affilated with that academSpencer Blair ’17 ics have been wrote in an email for-profit education, t a rg e t e d by that he has no which goes very issue with profesdistinctly to the right.” right-leaning talk radio and sors donating, as political comlong as it does mentators. not affect their - RUSS CHOMA, Dartteaching. mouth policy Gover nment MOney-in-politics prohibits the professor Linda reporter for the Fowler ag reed center for responsive C o l l e g e a s an institution with Blair, saying from supportthat professors politics ing candidates should allow stuor political dents to make up parties and their own minds has a set of when it comes to guidelines political beliefs. sur rounding “They don’t political activwant to make students think that they should ity at the College. have to be careful about what they Representatives of the College say in class or how they write their Libertarians declined to comment and representatives of the College paper,” Fowler said. Fowler said that she personally Republicans did not respond to makes a large effort to show as requests. little political bias as possible while Blair is a member of The Dartmouth teaching, noting that her students opinion staff. FROM DONATIONS PAGE 1
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Adel ’84 makes art with talent, humor Distrust spouses, neighbors in ‘Gone Girl’
B y hallie huffaker The Dartmouth Staff
Daniel Adel ’84 is known for his stunning portraitures and hilariously accurate caricatures. Adel has exhibited his work in New York for decades as well as painted portraits of CEOs, university presidents and well-known judges. His illustrations have been featured in the New Yorker and the New York Times, and he drew the Time Magazine cover designating George W. Bush “Person of the Year” in 2004. Adel currently lives and works in Provence, France.
Did you know growing up that you wanted to make illustrations? DA: I’ve been interested in illustration for a pretty long time. When I was a little kid, I used to be obsessed with Al Hirschfeld, who was an illustrator for the New York Times. He did illustrations for the theater section for probably somewhere around 70 or 80 years (he lived to be almost 100, and for most of his life he was illustrating, primarily for the New York Times). He did these fantastic, incredible, intricate drawings where he would hide the name Nina in the drawings. He would write a number next to his name, and that was the number of Ninas, and so all across America people would spend hours looking for all the Ninas. I also grew up in kind of Norman Rockwell country (not where he ended up later in his life, but there was a period of his life where he lived in Westchester), so Norman Rockwell was kind of a patron saint when I was growing up. He was known as the greatest illustrator of the century, and there was a painting of his in my high school, which was hanging in the library, so he was always there
in the back of my mind as a model of what we call a commercial artist, but for me he was someone who published his work so that everybody saw it instead of hanging on a wall somewhere.
It seems like you have a wide variety of styles in your work. DA: Yeah, for some reason I was always very attracted to the idea of having a career with a certain amount of variety in my studio practice. I know artists who have been much more focused on just one aspect of their career, and I have a lot of admiration for them, but maybe it’s a short-attention span issue. I feel like it’s always been an appealing aspect of my career that I can get involved in doing very serious work, but then someone will call me up to basically have a go at somebody, to do something in that lighter vein, which is always a pleasure. When you create a portrait, what’s the process? DA: Generally the process involves meeting with people, if possible, several times. Usually it’s hard to be in the same place at the same time for long enough to do lots of sittings from life, so the reality of portraiture is that it often involves taking copious photographs of the subject and even video now, so I do what I can to basically document the subject as extensively as I can while we’re together, because most of the painting will be done in the studio. Who are your influences? DA: It’s mostly the Dutch and Spanish Baroque that I really did not know about before I got to Dartmouth. They’re the big-hitters of the 17th century – Velasquez, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Caravaggio. The Baroque is still the
period I keep coming back to. There are several 19th-century artists, from traditional Western paintings and the beginning of Modernism — James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent. And then living in Lacoste, in Provence, has renewed my appreciation of Van Gogh. That’s kind of a natural one. You feel like you are living in Van Gogh paintings — you look at olive trees and cherry blossoms, and you immediately think of Van Gogh.
Do you have a favorite piece of your own work? DA: The first real portrait that I did, I did of my grandfather in the late 1980s. It’s still my favorite of all my work, I guess for obvious sentimental reasons, but that was also the first time that I really found my voice in portraiture. It was exhibited in New York at the National Academy, and it’s what launched my portrait career. I walked into the offices of Portraits, Inc., at the end of the exhibition with the painting under my arm and the intent of selling myself to them as a portrait painter. I actually didn’t know at the time that portrait painting still existed as a career. I found out at that show, and I was about to say, “Look, I’d really like to work with you all,” and they said, “Oh, you’ve got the letter.” It turns out I was contacting them at the same time that they were contacting me. It worked out very well. What makes your art “yours”? DA: I like to think that there’s at least a perceptible whiff of several of the artists whose work inspired me to become an artist, perhaps in a combination that’s unique to my work. This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Students played original music at an International Students Association event in Collis Common Ground on Friday evening.
(John Doe) a run for his money as the flat lined mastermind, is certainly worthy of The Dartmouth Staff a supporting actress Oscar nod. David Fincher’s famous works center The “Shadow of a Doubt” parallel is around the psychologically perverse, especially revealing. Hitchcock thought presenting the warpath left behind not that Middle America was an ideal setting by villains donning capes or masks, but for a thriller, where he’d uncover swine by those hiding among us. John Doe hidden behind picturesque suburban (“Se7en” (1995)), Tyler Durden (“Fight houses. Fincher presents an ominous Club” (1999)) and the Zodiac killer (“Zo- image of America’s heartland as well, diac” (2007)) are all highly calculating, employing a palette of faded blues and sadistic and nearly invisible murderers harsh whites to create a menacing, noir who nihilistically revel in the ensuing feel. This environment permits Amy’s chaos. Fincher’s “Gone Girl” (2014) actions; otherwise, to suspect a pregnant adds another volume to his oeuvre of housewife of crime seems criminal itself. highly successful thrillers, based off the Unlike “Se7en” or “Zodiac,” hit 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn, who which focus on an individual’s nearly also wrote the film’s screenplay. Flynn fantastical murder rampages, “Gone altered the ending to compel the book’s Girl” is more grounded, realistic and, fans to the theater. I haven’t read the ultimately, horrifying. What do the book, which left me blissfully unaware Johnsons do when they wave goodbye of comparisons and fully gripped by after the neighborhood cookout? If the film. “Fight Club” taught us anything, it’s that The film begins like an alien inva- everyone has a touch of crazy waiting sion movie — shots of an apple-pie to be unleashed. “Gone Girl” brings American town are overlayed by eerie, that drama into the home with chilling “Inception”-esque results. Worked on music. The wind “Unlike ‘Se7en’ or by the haunting rustles menacingly. realizations of a It is the fifth an- ‘Zodiac,’ which focus failing marriage, niversary of Nick on an individual’s Amy suffers a Jack (Ben Affleck) and Torrence (“The Amy Dunne’s nearly fantastical Shining” (1980)) (Rosamund Pike) murder rampages, breakdown. Marmarriage, and Nick ‘Gone Girl’ is more riage is her Overintends to divorce look Hotel. All his wife. When he grounded, realistic work (at home) and arrives home from and ultimately, no play makes Amy work, Amy is missa dull girl. ing, appearently horrifying.” With the U.S. dikidnapped. Nick is vorce rate hovering soon the police’s No. 1 suspect due to around 50 percent, Fincher’s messages this uncanny coincidence and mounting of marriage as compromise or as an but circumstantial evidence against him. institution that leads two people to Like Natalee Holloway and Eliza- destroy each other will hit home for beth Smart, Amy is a blonde-haired, many viewers. Amy initially laments blue-eyed all-American sweetheart. feeling like something to be jettisoned A Harvard grad, she is adored in her off and a tool for sex, until she learns to neighborhood. While she obviously fight back — while Tyler Durden fights does not undergo the same traumatic The System and The Man, Amy fights experiences as Holloway or Smart, this Marriage. Just watch “Who’s Afraid of idealized wax doll silently enlists the Virginia Woolf ?” (1966) — five years media army. Fincher lampoons televised after the vows, the person lying next to culture, where newscasters transform you can become a stranger, an alien. the case into a reality television circus A recent New Yorker article about focused on image and sentimentality the novel compares marriage to an rather than evidence and truth. It’s the abduction, sapping a single woman of nation against Nick, and he’s down for her accomplishments and reducing her the count. to a child-bearing machine. Amy inverts Yet the nation is nothing compared this concept, abducting the lives of those to Amy, who is a Hitchcockian cocktail around her and reveling in their dismay of Uncle Charlie (“Shadow of a Doubt” like a modern Medea. (1943)), Madeleine Elster (“Vertigo” Fincher’s first female villain proves (1958)) and Norman Bates (“Psycho” comparable to The Joker or Alex De(1960)). She transforms herself repeat- Large (“A Clockwork Orange” (1971)). edly while “missing” to manipulate Fitting for the Halloween season,“Gone others, and she shares Bates’ robotically Girl” transports us into a world of mainnocent yet psychotically diabolical cabre and haunting when a tortured smile. Without divulging her multiple psyche becomes unmasked. jaw-dropping decisions, I’ll say she is the ne plus ultra of all femme fatales Rating: 10/10 of the film noir era — a true Fincher “Gone Girl” is playing at 4:00 p.m., 6:00 criminal. Pike, who gives Kevin Spacey p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Nugget.
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Wynton Marsalis and Workshop encourages social justice band play Hop concert
tures of jazz: improvisation. B y KOURTNEY KAWANO “People should pay attention to The Hopkins Center will cel- each section of the band,” Glasgo ebrate jazz’s classic and vibrant said. “But also pay attention to imsound on Monday evening when provisation, because it’s fully kind Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, of the whole point of jazz — not so a 15-man touring group featuring much what’s written, but what you nine-time Grammy Award-winner say in the moment. It’s one of our Wynton Marsalis, performs a concert gifts to the world.” When the troupe is not rehearsing at Spaulding Auditorium. While this is not the first time or performing, its members engage JLCO has graced Dartmouth’s stage, with those who are as much in love the pieces performed will differ from with jazz as they are, Goines said. previous performances. JLCO often “What has been so beautiful to changes its sets between concerts me about jazz is that it allows me to and venues, JLCO saxophonist and share my personality through music to people,” he said. “It’s a privilege clarinetist Victor Goines said. This concert will focus specifically to travel because everyday is an opon a repertoire of music by jazz portunity to learn and fellowship with icon Art Blakey, a famous drum- people from around the world.” mer who led the Jazz Messengers, Goines has played with JLCO for a traveling music group similar to more than 20 years but has a lifetime JLCO that once featured a young, experience of learning and performing with fellow up-and-coming New Orleans Marsalis. “What has been native Marsa Monday’s so beautiful to me lis, who was his perfor mance kindergarten will feature re- about jazz is that it classmate. c o r d i n g s b y allows me to share my “It’s Blakey such as special for me “Free For All” personality through to see someone a n d “A l o n g music.” who’s dedicated Came Betty,” a his life to jazz piece composed by Benny Gol- - Jazz at lincoln center music achieve his goals,” son. orchestra member Goines said. “It’s Released in great that he’s 1964, “Free for victor goines invited us to be All” features successful with Blakey’s rapid, drum-heavy style mixed with subtle, underlying piano him and celebrate jazz alongside tones and sudden, energetic saxo- him.” phone and trumpet accents. “Along While JLCO prepares for the Came Betty,” released on Blakey’s show, the group is simultaneously 1958 album “Moanin’,” is driven preparing for its upcoming Lincoln mainly by a repetitive and peaceful Center concert, “Roots of Ragtime,” saxophone and trumpet melody in- honoring Scott Joplin and other tercut with minimal but purposeful ragtime composers on Oct. 17-18. Jazz enthusiasts who did not drumming. Blakey had a significant influence purchase tickets to Monday’s peron jazz musicians as a player and an formance can watch the concert live ensemble leader, Barbary Coast Jazz via webcast next week. Ensemble director Don Glasgo said. Hop publicity coordinator Re “He was brilliant at getting young becca Bailey said the group, which musicians into his group to work with originally formed in 1988, is noted them for a few years,” Glasgo said. for its energy, creativity and precision. “They would go on to become much “[JLCO] is one of those few more professional and established.” professional big bands that can work In addition to hearing renditions consistently,” Bailey said. “It’s able to of Blakey’s music, audience members present a great breadth of incredible at Monday’s sold-out performance music that goes back to the early part will experience one of the key fea- of the century.”
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“This is the year that those / who swim the border’s undertow / and shiver in boxcars / are greeted with trumpets and drums.” So begins a stanza from Martin Espada’s poem “Imagine the Angels of Bread,” which imagines a future where persons who have been historically discriminated against and disadvantaged are rewarded. On Saturday afternoon, 30 students, parents and teachers participated in a Bentley Theater workshop that used Espada’s poem to launch conversations about campus climate. Led by Patricia Herrera ’96, Jose Joaquin Garcia and Jesse Myerson, the workshop, “This is the Year: Theater for Social Justice in the Hands of Students,” lasted an hour and a half and included a concluding performance motivated by participants’ discussions. Based in New York City, Herrera, Garcia and Myerson have created workshops and plays together for six years that use theater to discuss issues such as race and racism. Garcia kicked off Saturday’s workshop with stretches and verbal warm-up exercises. Myerson then performed a reading of Espada’s poem and asked participants to pinpoint the lines that most resonated with them. Garcia then asked participants to reflect on which social justice issues they considered most important to campus, prompting responses that included sexual assault, roles and opportunities for minority students and the Greek system. The group chose to focus on sexual assault for the remainder of the performance, discussing misconcep-
tions about consent and media portrayals of assault. For the remainder of the workshop, participants worked toward a final performance in the Courtyard Cafe. They hummed and sang “We Shall Overcome,” beat-boxed, stated myths about sexual assault and chose a culminating message: “You shouldn’t care because it happened to a friend, but because it happens.” They also chose a final question to pose to the audience — “How many of you know of a person who has been sexually assaulted?” The performance after the workshop drew an audience of two dozen people. Almost all the performers and audience members raised their hands to the final question, a visual reminder that sexual assault is a pressing campus concern. Participants debriefed in the black box theater after the performance. Many commented that it was the first time that they had participated in this type of theater exercise. As a send-off message, Garcia asked everyone to gather in a circle and hold hands. He encouraged students to not be afraid to talk about race, regardless of their skin color. The trio has many inspirations for its projects, but race and racism are the most common themes, Herrera said. The group recently created a musical titled “Reminiscence,” which is currently being rehearsed at the University of Richmond. “The trauma of slavery still remains — the violence that we have and lack of education and confidence of success has to do with that trauma of white owners
saying that these [people] are objects,” Herrera said. “It’s been ingrained for so long in our society — it has to have some sort of effect. It’s still lingering.” Myerson said the effects of slavery continue to pervade modern American society in violent ways, including mass incarceration, racist policing and degraded social and economic status of people of color. “Media portrayals tell the same myths about black people,” he said. “Irresponsibility, shiftlessness, bad family — when these myths arose, white folks were saying that the people who were doing all of the work were lazy and saying that the peoples who they were ripping apart of their family were bad.” Garcia, who chose Espada’s poem to launch discussions at the workshop, said he liked that the poem manages to be both inspiring and thought-provoking. “It imagines a better world with language that is completely accessible,” he said. “It is a call to arms, a call to be proactive.” Government professor Lisa Baldez, who organized the workshop, said that this was her first time performing guerrilla theater, a form of pop-up theater that often includes protest themes. She said she was nervous about performing at such an event, especially because she has two sons who are current Dartmouth students. Graduate student Ibrahim Khan said he enjoyed the length of the workshop and performance component. “In one hour, we created something we could actually perform,” he said. “It was effective and not too heavyhanded.”
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Workshop participants discussed campus issues like sexual assault and performed an original show.