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Former Kosovo president serves as Montgomery Fellow
Lovejoy brings Stanley Cup to campus By LAUREN BUDD The Dartmouth Staff
performance or a lecture.” Jahjaga said it was an honor to be invited to spend time at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow. She said that while she is here, she is trying to maximize her time to meet with the Dartmouth community, including professors and graduate and undergraduate students. Milich said that the program’s longer term engage-
Ben Lovejoy ’06 spent two years at the Thompson Arena as a standout Big Green defenseman after transferring from Boston College. When he returned to Thompson on Monday, however, he had the Stanley Cup in tow, as the first New Hampshire native to win the cup. At a press conference on Monday at the arena, Lovejoy, a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, notethat each player on the winning team gets a turn to tour with the Cup. In June, the Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks in a 4-2 series to win their fourth Stanley Cup. He described planning each day with the Cup as akin to planning a wedding in the level of detail and complexity. “I’ve been planning this day in my head for the past nine years,” Lovejoy said, referring to the nine years he’s spent playing in the National Hockey League. The Cup, which is estimated to be worth $650,000, is accompanied by a security detail of two bodyguards from the Hockey Hall of Fame in North Dakota during its tour. “The only rule is, if you didn’t win it, you can’t lift it over your head,” Lovejoy said. Though many players describe the moment of winning the Stanley Cup as a blur, Lovejoy said he vividly recalls the entire experience. “I’ve been married, I’ve had two kids, [winning] was better,” he said.
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Former Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga is serving as a Montgomery Fellow this summer.
By KELSEY FLOWER The Dartmouth Staff
Former president of the Republic of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo’s first female president and active advocate for women’s rights, is serving as this term’s Montgomery Fellow. Jahjaga finished her term as president in April of 2016, after serving in office since April of 2011. The Montgomery Fellow
Program has hosted 240 fellows at the College since 1977, according to Montgomery Fellows program director Klaus Milich. “The Montgomery Fellows Program is one of the most distinguished long term fellowship programs we have,” Milich said. “We have our fellows here for an entire term so that they really can engage with the students and with the faculty over a long period of time, instead of coming for a
RPI launches sophomore summer-inspired ‘Summer Arch’ By EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff
The Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, located in Troy, N.Y., has decided to adopt an academic schedule much like the College’s D-Plan that will include a summer term similar to sophomore summer at Dartmouth. Starting in 2017, the new schedule, known as the “Summer Arch,” will be optional for the rising juniors of the Class of 2019 and will be mandatory by the time the Class of 2021 arrives on campus, said Linda Schadler, engineering professor and vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at RPI. The school announced Summer Arch in September.
Schadler, who is one of the main drivers behind RPI’s new plan and who has a son at Dartmouth, said the initiative intends to enrich the undergraduate experience by encouraging students to pursue career-related opportunities earlier than they might have with the previous schedule. She said that by having a year-round schedule, students will be able to more easily pursue their interests, whether those be industryrelated or academic. “We really hope that students will explore their passions early on and see what works for them during their away term,” Schadler said. She added that the initiative was introduced by the administration, but students are playing a large role in implementing it since the schedule
is being put into effect in stages. By 2021, the Summer Arch will be mandatory for all students except those who are otherwise granted permission. These exceptions would include some varsity athletes, Schadler said. Associate dean for undergraduate studies and engineering professor Kurt Anderson thinks the efficacy of the plan will depend on how well the university implements the program. While he supports the opportunity to allow students to undertake paid co-op internships, unpaid internships and international programs, he worries about the options that will actually be available during away terms. He said that he especially worries for students SEE RPI PAGE 2
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Vermont Supreme Court Judge David Howard dismissed one of the first cases under the state’s newly enacted “revenge porn” law, claiming that the law is unconstitutional on free speech grounds, VT Digger reported. Nude photos of a woman from Bennington County were posted on Facebook without her consent, after she had privately sent them to her former boyfriend, by his new girlfriend. The new girlfriend was then charged with violating the new revenge porn statute and her lawyer filed to dismiss the charges, a request met by the judge. The bill was controversial in Vermont, with advocates of victims’ rights arguing it was necessary for protection against exploitation and supporters of civil liberties arguing that it violated rights to free speech. It was eventually passed, with a penalty of up to two years in prison and a $2,000 dollar fine. New Hampshire’s judicial and executive branches are in conflict over whether the state holds the right to send mental health records to the federal gun background checks system. Currently, people who have been committed to a mental health institution are not permitted to buy guns, however New Hampshire does not submit these records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Attorney General Joe Foster and Gov. Maggie Hassan are pushing to send these records but the court system has denied this request, The Valley News reported. The Attorney General’s office is currently considering how to move forward. Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte is currently 10 points behind her Democratic rival, Gov. Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire’s highly competitive Senate race, according to a new poll from WBUR. The poll, conducted between July 19 and August 1, which reached 609 likely New Hampshire voters, shows 50 percent of voters claim they would vote for Hassan were the election held today, while 40 percent would vote for Ayotte. Republicans can only afford to lose three seats in the Senate if they wish to maintain the majority, The Washington Post reported. The results of the poll echo national trends of Hillary Clinton’s rising lead
over Donald Trump in the presidential race. A spokesperson for Hassan’s campaign suggested that Ayotte’s decision to endorse Trump for president hurt her standing with New Hampshire voters.
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CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. The July 28 article, “Patton’s resignation, alleged misconduct divides community,” incorrectly stated that Jaclyn Leto ’16 said that players were sent a press release at 9 p.m. the day before the results of the investigation were announced at 9 a.m. In fact, the players were sent an email informing them of a 9 a.m. conference call. This has since been corrected. The July 28 article, “Center for Service withdraws as sponsor from some groups,” stated that the Center for Service would withdraw as an intermediary from all 17 of the student organizations it oversees. In fact, the center will no longer sponsor many, but not all, of the groups at some point in the fall. The details of who the center will continue to be sponsor have also been added to the article. Loren Miller did not decline to comment on the funds of each group and the changes, but rather did not have the numbers immediately available to her. This article has been corrected to include information on the funds used by student groups. The original title for this article “Center for Service reorganizes, sees cuts” implied the center itself had seen cuts to its funding which is incorrect. The corrected title better reflects the situation.
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RPI program to launch in 2017 FROM RPI PAGE 1
who do not compete with the top of the class, noting that those in the bottom third of the class might have issues finding co-ops and internships worth their time. He added that his biggest concern is that the Summer Arch could be a burden for students. “My greatest worry is if it is implemented poorly, it could become a detriment rather than a benefit to the school,” Anderson said. Anderson also expressed concern over the shortened length of the Summer Arch compared to a normal semester at RPI. Unlike Dartmouth’s quarter system, RPI’s Summer Arch will continue to be a semester system. Anderson said that having 12-week, rather than 14-week courses would be like “fitting 10 pounds into an eight pound bag.” Christina Paolicelli, a rising senior at RPI majoring in electrical engineering, said that her opposition of the Summer Arch partly stems from her experience of being able to graduate in three years instead of four, which she thinks will be harder for students if they are required to complete
work experience during their away term. RPI, unlike Dartmouth, still accepts AP credits, allowing many students to graduate early, if they so choose. “I’m graduating in three years and I don’t think that would have
“My greatest worry is if it is implemented poorly, it could become a detriment rather than a benefit to the school.” - KURT ANDERSON, RPI ASSOCIATE DEAN
been possible at all if I had done some sort of co-op or internship in the middle of the year,” she said. Anderson expressed a similar sentiment, saying that the career opportunities that the Summer Arch provide were already all available to hard-working students. Anderson said that these students have always been able to seek
internship or co-op opportunities, which he said could be the “most valuable” part of the undergraduate experience. Anderson said he does not think the new schedule should be required or imposed on students, especially as he looks at colleges with his son and wife. “If a school were to tell my son or my wife and I that there was some sort of necessary requirement, we would immediately cross that school off,” Anderson said. “There are so many good programs out there without those requirements.” Paolicelli said that the student body is largely upset with the new program, though she and most of her friends will have graduated by the time that it is put in place. “I haven’t really heard any positive opinion on it,” she said. She said that the student body has not been satisfied with the administration lately, though she added that the board and the administration have been willing to discuss concerns regarding the Summer Arch with various students and student groups. “Most people I know are just happy they aren’t being grandfathered into the program,” Paolicelli said.
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Dartmouth-Kosovo ties are strong FROM KOSOVO PAGE 1
ment is part of the core mission of the program. The other aspect of the mission is that life is larger than academia itself, as academia proves its own value only in the real world, Milich said. The Montgomery Fellows Program invites people from a variety of different fields, including politics, journalism, the arts and performing arts, healthcare and social work, so that students do not only get an insight into those fields, but also get information on the most distinguished people who have had an impact in their fields. Past fellows have included former United States President Gerald Ford in 1986, Yo-Yo Ma in 2001, Toni Morrison in 1982 and 1986, J. William Fulbright in 1979 and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in 1983. All the fellows stay at the College for a Dartmouth term. During her time at the College, Jahjaga is trying to explore more ways to expand relationships between Kosovo’s institutions, especially the University of Pristina in Kosovo’s capital city Pristina, and Dartmouth. For two years, a program between Kosovo and Dartmouth called the Transformational Leadership Program has allowed 13 Dartmouth professors to teach in Kosovo and many students and professors from Kosovo to come to the College. “I am very much looking forward to how we can expand so that we can learn more from Dartmouth, and enable students and professors of Dartmouth to learn more about Kosovo,” Jahjaga said. Milich echoed Jahjaga’s interest in engaging with students. “We were very fortunate with President Jahjaga because she said to me from the very beginning that she would be delighted to get involved with the students to learn about their perspectives, to have discussions with them, to interact with them,” Milich said. He said that in addition to learning about Kosovo, Europe and the wars in the Balkans, because Jahjaga is very warm-hearted and approachable, students have a wonderful experience meeting her on a more human level. “It is really a delight on a very personal level to have her here,” he said. Since being here, Jahjaga has hosted the Young African Leaders Initiative fellows at the Montgomery house and a luncheon for graduate students, visited several classes and given a public lecture titled “Women’s Empowerment – Women’s Leadership” on July 14. During the lecture, Jahjaga
focused on the difficulties and hardships women have faced in Kosovo, particularly during the wars in her country during the 1990s. She discussed tangible initiatives her administration did to help these women, such as meeting sexual assault survivors and creating a commission to offer them support, and her less tangible stated mission to blaze a trail to help other women create impact on the world through leading by example and having an impact herself.
“When investing in women, you don’t only invest in an individual. You invest in a family, you invest in the child and you invest in the future of the country.” -ATIFETE JAHJAGA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF KOSOVO “I found her discussion of the campaign to take skirts of survivors and skirts donated by supporters of the movement and display them in a large stadium to be incredibly powerful, and a message about how women can help each other to speak out against hideous human rights violations,” Charlotte Blatt ’18 , who attended the lecture, said. Blatt is currently studying humanitarian intervention in Kosovo in one of her government classes. Jahjaga believes that investing in women and younger generations is the key to advancement in every society. She said that this has been one of her main focuses since before she became president and will continue to be one of her main focuses now that she has finished her mandate. “When investing in women, you don’t only invest in an individual. You invest in a family, you invest in the child, and you invest in the future of the country,” she said. Jahjaga said that this investment should not only include education but also economic empowerment, political participation and opening up every field to women in every country. “I will try to use all of the moral authority I have inside and outside my country to advance the role of women,” she said. “I will not spare myself even a second to give everything possible so that young women, not only in Kosovo but elsewhere, will not have to go through what I have gone through or the generation before me.” Kosovo and Dartmouth have
a long history of collaboration beyond Jahjaga’s term as a Montgomery Fellow. Former dean of the Geisel School of Medicine James Strickler ’50 received the Mother Teresa humanitarian medal in 2012 for his work in Kosovo, which he said a number of his colleagues contributed to as well. Strickler and his team have done several projects in Kosovo over the years, including working to improve primary care and establishing a student exchange between Geisel and the University of Pristina’s medical school. About 30 students have gone back and forth each way since 2000, right after the wars ended. There are now exchanges involving faculty and students from all parts of Dartmouth, including the College, the Tuck School of Business and Geisel. Strickler initially became involved in Kosovo during the wars in the 1990s, when he was the chair of the executive committee of the International Rescue Committee, an international humanitarian aid organization. He visited Kosovar refugees several times during and after the war doing work on IRC programs. He then got a Dartmouth team involved with rebuilding Kosovo’s health education programs and medical education. Strickler was also a founding trustee for a foundation with the mission to improve the health of women in children in Kosovo called Action for Mothers and Children in 2008. Jahjaga has been supportive of the foundation and has helped to build and raise money for it both in Kosovo and the United States, he said. Milich cited several reasons for why Kosovo has played a central role as a country in the past and will continue to do so in the future, including its place in the heart of the Balkans, the current politics around its hope for integration into the European Union and its potential major role as a mediator between the Islamic world and so-called Western world due to its high Muslim population. Strickler said that he thinks that Dartmouth can have a tremendous impact over time by nurturing a relationship with Kosovo. “What we’re trying to do is help them build leadership and as a component of that, to help them develop women leaders,” he said. Jahjaga’s final message to students at the College was addressed to young leaders. She told students to believe in themselves, their abilities and their capacities, and to invest in them. “The rest of the world, we need you,” she said. “We need young, intelligent, open-minded leaders.”
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
STAFF COLUMNIST ANMOL GHAVRI ‘18
No Longer Ailing Fox News
Every Man His Own Anchor
Roger Ailes cheapened conservatism in his time at Fox News.
On July 21, Roger Ailes resigned as chairman of Fox News, Fox Business and Fox television stations. This should have captured more of the news cycle than it did. That Ailes is stepping away from the network that he shaped in all ways — macro and micro — is one of the single best things to happen to America in generations. This is not hyperbole. In its 20 years of existence, through its coarseness and outright hostility to anyone who does not share Ailes’ worldview, Fox News has cheapened American political discourse, delegitimized the profession of journalism and done incalculable harm to American democracy. Perhaps if asked, Ailes would state that Fox News provided a voice for conservatism, long ignored by the legitimate media. But this very notion is ridiculous; at the time of Fox News’ founding in 1996, conservatives were represented in the news media through the National Review, The Weekly Standard, the punditry of George Will and William Safire and the nation’s number one rated radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show. Fox was not a lone conservative voice in the wilderness. Instead, it was talk radio on steroids. It was a disseminator of slander, misinformation and crackpot conspiracy theories, none of which were too extreme or too ridiculous. That Saddam Hussein had collaborated with al-Qaeda in planning the terror attacks of 9/11. That Iraq was maintaining weapons of mass destruction. That John Kerry, a man who bravely served his country in Vietnam, was a coward. That Barack Obama was educated in a radical Islamic madrassa. That Obama was a racist with a deep-seeded hatred of whites. That the government, as part of the Affordable Care Act, would euthanize elderly Americans. That transgender men and women are child molesters. There are hundreds of other examples that could be listed here, each one a product of Ailes’ vision of conservatism, each an encapsulation of his anger, sexism, homophobia and racial bigotry. Sadly, millions of Americans thus tuned in and accepted one man’s hateful vision of America wholesale. The deepest tragedy is what became of the Republican Party. As a young boy growing up in the 1980s, I have vivid memories of the positive, can-
do conservatism of Ronald Reagan. The confidence and ambition of Reagan has been replaced with the narcissism and fatalistic doom and gloom of Donald Trump. Many Republicans, instead of engaging in intelligent debate, seem determined to out-Fox each other, as evinced by former Representative Todd Akin’s comments regarding “legitimate rape” or Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s remarks that drug dealers named “Shifty” and “D-Money” were coming to Maine to score dope and impregnate white women. What may be even worse is that much of Fox’s mostly conservative viewership have been shown to believe things that are flat-out false. A study conducted by the University of Maryland revealed that a significant majority of Fox News viewers believed Saddam Hussein was allied with al-Qaeda, despite this never being the case. A Stanford University study determined that Fox viewers were more likely than any other network’s viewership to reject the science behind global warming. Perhaps most damning was a 2011 study that determined that Fox viewers were less informed than those who watched no news. Democracy can only thrive through compromise, intelligent debate and an established consensus on the facts of any given issue. It cannot survive without an informed public, and it cannot survive when a significant number of our elected officials refuse to accept mathematics, science or reality. This is the current reactionary state of the Republican Party, a once proud and honorable political party that has gone from nominating a man who always insisted America’s best days were ahead to making an outright fascist its standard-bearer. Ailes deserves significant credit for making it happen. This may be the true irony of Ailes’ career. He may have wanted to enhance conservatism, but decimated it instead, along with political discourse itself. At 76, he will not have to live much longer with the consequences of his actions, but many of us will. He has made his mark on America, and left the rest of us a lot worse off for it. -W. Richard Benash Hanover, New Hampshire
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The 24/7 news cycle emphasizes sensationalism over objectivity.
“This is CNN breaking news.” the falsely accused. All this resulted from As someone who keeps CNN constantly CNN’s mad dash to be the first to break playing in my room, I am always exposed the story. NBC’s Brian Williams lied about to its 24/7 focus on sensationally breaking his experiences in Iraq, another desperate a story as quickly as possible. This leads sensationalization of real life in the name to a de-emphasis on traditional values of of the 24-hour news cycle. The failure verification, objectivity and quality of of networks like CNN, Fox and MSNBC interpretation. In this style of reporting, to separate opinion from objective news the details of a story are typically still analysis originates from their focus on emerging, and there is tremendous room entertaining and pandering to their audifor misreporting. ences rather than fulfilling their duty to The 24/7 news cycle has changed the reliably and accurately educate the public political, economic, cultural and social on current affairs. fabric of society. With the existence of cable A news media company’s culture and television and online mepolitical views tremendia, the reporting of news dously influences how it now occurs in real time. “The media reports the news. PartiNews media companies san anchors, producers increasingly spend vast amounts of and editors attract likeenergy and resources in misinforms and minded staff. This staff, capturing the attention in tur n, have similar panders to us, with of audiences and adverworld-views and thus tisers around the clock. modern cable news tend to provide one-sided Through international analysis. Many feign often failing to anchors and the use of balance by bringing on social media such as Twit- separate news from high-profile guests and ter and Facebook, news opinion, sensational political opposition. In companies in the modern actuality, networks do so era break developing sto- stories and for entertainment valries as they happen. This entertainment.” ue, as programs dismiss contrasts with the daymany of these guests, to-day or week-to-week using them as an example pace of the news cycle in previous years. of the “unreasonable” other side. Yet despite this increased news exposure, The silver lining is that the public is the media increasingly misinforms and perfectly capable of interpreting the signifipanders to us, with modern cable news often cance and validity of subjective stories for failing to separate news from opinion, sen- themselves. When a story involves political sational stories and entertainment. This is opinions, the public can come to its own the central paradox of 24/7 cable news. By conclusions. In subjective circumstances emphasizing reporting speed, sensational- with no single correct interpretation, this ism and entertainment self-interpretation alover objectivity, fact- “Crime, terrorism, lows for a more balanced checking and quality, view of the situation. news networks such as natural disasters, public Yet when a news story CNN, Fox News and policy and economic accuses someone of a MSNBC largely fail to the accused are news leave little room crime, report in an unbiased or found guilty and punproductive manner. ished in the court of for subjectivity, selfA lack of verificaopinion before interpretation and one- public tion, contextualization ever being convicted in and depth combined sided opinions of the a court of law. Crime, with an emphasis on atterrorism, natural direporter.” tracting viewers and adsasters, public policy vertisers by any means and economic news necessary leads to misreporting. The leave little room for subjectivity, selfpressure to break the news faster than interpretation and one-sided opinions of others do incentivizes speed over accuracy the reporter. in reporting. There seems to be little opWhen it comes to breaking stories and portunity to wait to verify claims before stating facts, placing unverified and sensadisseminating them. Rather, the facts are tional stories into the public arena for the verified — and corrected — as the story de- self-benefit of a news organization is irrevelops. Combined with anchors’ tendency sponsible. The details of a terrorist attack, to express their political opinions implicitly the downing of an airliner, public policy and explicitly, this leads to dramatized and views of political candidates, economic inaccurate reporting. news and natural disasters — these must For example, CNN’s reporting of the be thoroughly fact-checked and presented Boston marathon bombing was riddled with in an objective manner. News organizations preemptive and sensational conclusions. can try to entertain us, but they exist primarThe bombers were originally misidenti- ily to keep us accurately informed. It is time fied, which both misinformed the public again to separate opinion, sensationalism and negatively affected the reputations of and entertainment from the news.
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Alumnus, N.H. native, brings home trophy on statewide tour FROM LOVEJOY PAGE 1
Though the Penguins won the cup on June 12, names won’t be engraved until September, giving each player time for a victory tour such as this one, as well as other public appearances. Lovejoy said he usually skates at Dartmouth during the off-season, however, because the arena is closed this summer, he puts in practice hours in Hocksett, which he said is about an hour’s drive from his home in Enfield. “To reach the NHL, I didn’t out-talent or out-skill anyone, I out-worked them,” he said.
Lovejoy left the Penguins at the end of the season, signing with the New Jersey Devils in July. En route to the Stanley Cup victory, Lovejoy played in all 24 post-season games for the Penguins. Current members of the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams got to meet Lovejoy and pose for pictures with the cup. Morgan Turner ’18 , a member of the women’s ice hockey team, said that it was “amazing how much [Lovejoy] loves this school and area.” “He is a class act and it showed in his actions this past week,” she said.
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‘Lights Out’ (2016): a study in contemporary American horror By DIEGO MORENO The Dartmouth Staff
What was the last good horror film you saw? Furthermore, what constitutes a good horror film? Did it scare you out of your seat? Were you up all night anxious of every movement in the dark? Did you need to constantly reaffirm to yourself that it was all just a movie? To be sure, horror as a genre is as heterogeneous as any in terms of both narrative sub-genres as well as aesthetic compositions. This makes it difficult to judge objectively what is “good” and what is not because such a diverse genre allows for distinctive tastes within the genre to develop. Despite this, horror seems to be one of the few genres (along with big-budget action movies and romantic comedies) that has established a formulaic approach to making profitable films. This formula has only emerged within the past 15 to 20 years, but has developed to the point that almost every American horror film
now uses it. Exemplified by “Lights Out” (2016), the formula is fairly simple. First, start with a low budget. This allows for films to position themselves easily for a high return on investment. “Lights Out,” for example, cost under $5 million to make and has raked in over $60 million at the box office since its release. To achieve a low budget, contemporary horror filmmakers employ actors with less experience and name recognition whom they can pay smaller salaries. This can work extremely well in films that play up the “real” aesthetic (i.e. “Paranormal Activity”, “The Blair Witch Project”) but in films like “Lights Out,” which follows the story of a deadly ghost that haunts a broken family from the shadows, it can expose subpar acting. Teresa Palmer, who plays an estranged daughter, and Gabriel Bateman, her younger brother in the film, both turn in unconvincing performances. Likewise, Alexander DiPersia, who plays Palmer’s love interest, also tops out at average at
best. Maria Bello, on the other hand, shines in an otherwise less than exemplary cast. Her character, Sophie, is the one who allows the ghost, Diana, an old “friend” from her childhood days at a mental asylum, to antagonize her family. Bello captures the warped perspective of an aged matriarch going off the deep end rivaling the stunning work of Essie Davis in “The Babadook” (2015). The sense of psychosis plays through strikingly well in her performance. The low budget also has aesthetic consequences on the film. One way this manifests itself is through the use of lighting — or lack thereof. The current trend tends to be away from well-lit spaces, using darkness and even sometimes blackness instead. This cuts down lighting costs and can work extremely well when used properly, as in “The Descent.” Similarly, the lighting choices play well in this film. Director David F. Sandberg presents the thematic concept of the dark as a place for evil but fails to produce much more than
jump scares. “Lights Out” follows the contemporary horror formula to a tee and as a result, the mainstream public has widely regarded it as an example of a “good” horror film. The worry, however, is that the current bubble in low- and microbudget American horror leaves us with films that sacrifice important aspects of cinema like acting, set design and concept and replaces them with the artifice of the jump scare. My biggest issue with this film, and with the status of contemporary American horror as a whole, is the blatant lack of originality. “Lights Out” plays through a story that has been told a million times and did nothing unique or innovative within the field. Yes, it utilizes tropes of the genre, but the uninspired production somewhat waters down the effectiveness. I couldn’t help but think to myself that the slasher film series “Friday the 13th,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Halloween” each respectively produced
a more innovative, compelling and creative product throughout volumes of films while essentially relying on a formulaic approach. Those films did not skimp on their budgets to ensure a return on investment, but rather they invested in hopes of creating a unique and immersive product that would continually draw audiences back. Limiting economic parameters are at the root of this problem in contemporary horror films. Low budget products are the new norm and as the norm, these productions also bring a new set of standards for horror. I don’t mean to accuse “Lights Out” of being a bad film only to question what makes it “good” within the context of the paradigm of contemporary American horror. The film provides a lot of jump scares and a few genuinely creepy scenes. A tight running time of just over 80 minutes also keeps the pace fast and the audience engaged. Rating: 5/10
Students travel off campus for musical festivals and concerts By KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Even though sophomores are busy taking classes, working or doing research in Hanover, some are still partaking in the excitement of music festivals and concerts that celebrate their favorite artists. This past weekend, several students traveled to Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal to attend Osheaga, a three-day music and arts festival that began in 2006. Beginning on Friday, Osheaga boasted more than 50 international artists performing on six stages. Heidi Ahn ’18 attended the festival with her friends because she knew it would be a fun and new experience during her sophomore summer. Now in its 11th year, Osheaga is considered to be Canada’s premier music festival, attracting a total of 135,000 people last year. Megan Batangan ’18 and Brooke Hadley ’18 spent last Saturday at Osheaga, where they saw Lana Del Rey perform. Before the concert, Batangan did not know too much about Del Rey but now considers herself a fan after experiencing the ambiance of the crowd. In addition to music, Osheaga also offered food trucks, games, craft booths and art pieces. Batangan said booths gave free makeovers and haircuts and the Parc had murals and statues. One sculpture, she noted, depicting the late David Bowie, was popular among the attendees. While Haim, Death Cab for Cutie and Lana Del Rey performed at Osheaga on Saturday, Coldplay took to the Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. for the continuation of their “A Head Full of Dreams” tour with Alessia Cara and
Foxes. As a longtime fan, Alex Vasquez ‘18 said the concert was particularly memorable. Vasquez has followed the group’s musical development since sixth grade. While many artists save the confetti and fireworks for the last song, Coldplay’s concert featured an “overthe-top” performance of every song, Vasques said. She also noted the concert’s use of high tech Xylobands, wristbands that emit lights that sync with the frequencies of the songs performed. On Wednesday, Hadley traveled with a group of friends to the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Mass. for G-Eazy and Logic’s tour “The Endless Summer.” Both artists were keen on returning to their roots, Hadley noted. During their respective sets, Logic reminisced about supporting his favorite rappers like those in the crowd. G-Eazy spoke about opening for hip-hop artist Lil Wayne before becoming the main headlining performer for a crowd of 15,000 fans himself. Logic performed hit songs such as “Alright” (2014) and “Young Jesus” (2015), freestyle-rapped to an informal beat he created on stage and teased several songs from his upcoming third album. Likewise, G-Eazy performed songs from his second album “These Things Happen” (2014) to his most recent album “When It’s Dark Out” (2015). In the middle of his set, G-Eazy brought out singer Marc E. Bassy to sing “Some Kind of Drug” (2015) and “You and Me” (2016). To close the concert, G-Eazy performed what has become arguably his biggest hit to date, “Me, Myself & I” (2015).
One of the best parts of the concert, Andie Conching ’18 said, was the integration of the lighting and stage design with multimedia video. “At several points, the panels on stage flashed images of landscapes from California and it appeared as though G-Eazy was superimposed on those images,” Conching said. “On the screens across the center, live footage of G-Eazy performing was mixed with clips of lightning and other designs for each song.” Hadley and Conching both agreed the concert was worth attending despite it being in the middle of a school week. For some, however, classes posed a problem when planning on attending off-campus concerts because of midterms or essays. Shinar Jain ’18 said she had to pass up two opportunities this term to see Fifth Harmony, one of her favorite musical groups, due to conflicting assignments and trouble arranging rides to the different venues in New England. To future sophomores, Batangan, Vasques and Ahn recommend attending off-campus concerts during the summer term. “We’re so acclimated to the Dartmouth bubble that it’s good to remind yourself of the real world out there,” Batangan said. Vasques said her experience was meaningful in light of speculation that Coldplay will break up after this tour. “There’s rumors that this is their last tour and that it was hard to get them to work together for this so it was the chance of a lifetime,” Vasques said. For Ahn, attending an off-campus music festival was a highlight of her term thus far. “There’s this expectation that sophomore summer is going to be a
great term and personally, the summer hasn’t really met my expectations,” Ahn said. “But going off-campus, visiting another country and doing something that’s a typical summer activity is really nice.” Although the term has reached
its busiest for students, there are still concerts and festivals to attend in New England. Next Wednesday, Drake will perform in Boston as part of his “Summer Sixteen Tour.” During the interim, Kanye West will also be performing in Boston for “The Saint Pablo Tour.”
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Home and Away: the questionable future of American football By VIKRAM BODAS and SAM FORSTNER The Dartmouth Staff
Each week Vikram Bodas ’18 and Sam Forstner ’18 will tackle a controversial issue in the sports world. Much like home field in baseball, each week one of the writers will take their stance first (“away”), allowing the other to respond with an argument of their own (“home”). This week they will be debating the viability of football and the question of whether our generation’s children will grow up playing the same game. The prevalence of concussions and other repeated head injuries in American football, as well as reported links to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy — a progressive disease that results in the degeneration of brain tissue — have called the future of the sport as it exists into question. Former players have filed numerous lawsuits against the NFL claiming memory loss, depression and other symptoms that the NFL allegedly knew about and made the conscious decision to bury. However, the league remains immensely popular among Americans and boasts the highest television ratings of any professional sport in the country. All this then begs the question: Will our kids grow up playing a version of football that resembles its current form? Vikram (Away): I can answer this question in one word: No. Due to the recent deaths of legendary players such as Junior Seau and Ken Stabler, CTE and the dangers of head injuries in football have entered the mainstream media. Youth sports are the lifeblood of the popularity of any sport and high levels of participation
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are vital. This increased media coverage on the dangers of football has already led to the inevitable decline in youth football. In light of these deaths coupled with advances in science within the field of brain sciences, even President Barack Obama said that if he had sons he would not let them play youth football. Sam (Home): First of all, despite the fact that I was rudely cropped out of the teaser photo in The D two weeks ago, I refuse to let my voice be silenced. I’d like to let the numbers speak for themselves — and speak they do. Fox drew an average of 26.9 million viewers during the 2015 season and ESPN’s Monday Night Football averaged an audience of 12.9 million. The 2015 Super Bowl alone drew 114.4 million viewers. As long as there is money to be made, the sport will survive. The league signed a $27 billion television deal with Fox, NBC and CBS, the three major networks, in 2011 that will last through 2022. Additionally, youth tackle football participation actually increased, from 1.216 million in 2014 to 1.23 million 6- to 12-year-olds in 2015, according to data from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. Vikram (Away): Let’s deal with that first sentence in your response. Clearly, our esteemed editors picked the better looking columnist to feature on the front page. That aside, your numbers are somewhat cherrypicked and misleading. The Sports & Fitness Industry Association also reported the number of kids between the ages of 8 and 16 playing youth football has dropped by 5.4 percent
since 2008. Although television ratings currently remain strong, you cannot deny that with time more and more research will come out to suggest that playing football is something that human beings simply should not partake in. Putting on body armor and running into each other for the entertainment of others is barbaric. As our society and culture progresses, the types of activities that we accept as entertainment change. Sam (Home): Let me turn away from the quantitative side of things now and provide anecdotal evidence to prove my larger point. My little brother, a rising junior in high school, has played football his whole childhood. Last season, he sustained a concussion in a game, causing him to miss the season’s final two contests. In the week after the game, my brother replayed one film clip over and over again, showing anyone that would watch. It wasn’t one of his long runs, or one of the tackles he made on defense. It was his concussion. Over and over again, he’d press play and watch himself take a handoff, be wrapped up around the knees by one defender, and then have another opposing player launch himself headfirst, knocking my brother to the ground. I could barely watch the video without cringing and I know my mom certainly couldn’t, but my brother and his friends loved it. It’s the brutality of the sport that makes it like no other. For better or worse, NFL stadiums are today’s coliseums, the players today’s gladiators. And the mob is certainly still entertained. Vikram (Away): Oh Sam, I expect much more from you. Just be-
extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder this Thursday. What started in Oklahoma as a naturally formed group of superstars with Westbrook, Durant, James Harden and Serge Ibaka has dwindled down to just one angry, fashionable point god. A similar thing has happened in The Dartmouth’s newsroom as most of the full-year directorate is gone, and I’m still here. When the upstart, young and energetic Thunder made the 2012 NBA finals, the world thought it was seeing the rise of the next big thing. Instead, Harden left for Houston that off-season — and has made the NBA All-Star team every year since. Ibaka was traded to the Or-
lando Magic this past year, and KD decided to join the dark side of the force, becoming the NBA’s villain just as Lebron James’ favorability is starting to trend up. Some sort of crazy Kylo Ren/Anakin Skywalker analogy probably applies here. You figure it out. Russell is that one friend that you love shooting hoops with but is still strangely aggressive off the court. The kind of dude that opens the door at Halloween with an angry resting face that makes you think maybe the blood-splattered apron is more than just a costume. For years people have speculated about what Westy could accomplish on his own. There’s no question that this Thunder team is worse without
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Sam Forstner ’18 and Vikram Bodas ’18 face off in this week’s Home and Away.
cause a bunch of hormone-fortified kids from Nowheresville, Mich. thought that your brother’s highlight clip was “sick” does not justify the youth of this country continuing to play a violent sport. At some point, I have faith in parents stopping their kids from playing football. I do concede that the popularity of the sport in America is still overwhelming so I think, at the very least, the rules of football will be altered at least somewhat significantly in the near future. This could include removing helmets from the sports entirely to stop players using their heads as weapons. I’m not sure what changes can be made, but I am certain that the NFL will continue to make a significant effort to change so that the sport can at least survive in some
shape or form. Sam (Home): Vikram, I’m disappointed you’d treat my previous argument so reductively. But then again, how could someone from Greenwich, Conn. possibly hope to understand the sport that captivates working-class Americans every weekend from September to January? The collective memories of tossing a football with your dad in the yard on a crisp fall day have outweighed any criticism up to this point and they will continue to do so. Widespread evidence of head injuries? Football survives. Numerous allegations of domestic violence perpetrated by NFL players? Football survives. And I am confident that whatever comes next, the game of football will survive it, too.
Durant and Ibaka. What everyone is wondering is how bad will they really be? Are we talking 2014 Los Angeles Lakers or 2016 Lakers? The Portland Trailblazers showed us in the playoffs last year that we will never really know what will happen to a team when a superstar leaves. With the Thunder, we might be looking at an extension of the “Ewing Theory,” which postulates that sometimes teams play better without their best player. No matter how hard we tried to convince ourselves otherwise, Westbrook always played second fiddle to Durant — just ask Mark Cuban. This is a classic superherosidekick movie, and we all know the
way this ends. We’re at the part of the storyline where the superhero enters obscurity, and the sidekick takes over. There’s a new Batman in town, and newly-acquired, youngand-bouncy Victor Oladipo is ready to be Robin. Prediction: Clay Bennett’s new and improved Thunder finish in the same spot (third) this year that they did last year. I can already see the early season articles crucifying the “Slim Reaper’s” decision to go out West, but the Dubs still take it all. A team hasn’t been this good since the Monstars. Count the Thunder down but definitely not out. Russell is the big bad wolf coming to blow your straw house down. Watch out lil’ piggies.