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Jeremy DeSilva discusses ground-breaking research

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Jeremy DeSilva’s research focuses on locomotion of apes and early human ancestors.

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Jeremy DeSilva is an accidental anthropologist. The anthropology professor never planned to pursue a career in the ﬁeld, and never took a single anthropology course in his undergraduate years at Cornell University. After ﬁve years in science education at the Boston Museum of Science, DeSilva became interested in

human evolution and went on to pursue his doctorate at the University of Michigan, specializing in the locomotion of the ﬁrst apes and early human ancestors. DeSilva is fascinated by the way fossils can help us understand the past and change the way we view our present human experiences. He primarily studies the human foot and ankle, and his research has helped us understand the origins and evolution of upright

walking in the human lineage. He has studied wild chimpanzees in Uganda and Kenya, investigated early human fossils in South Africa and plans to bring his worldwide travel experiences and love of teaching to Dartmouth. The Dartmouth sat down with DeSilva to discuss his passion for paleoanthropology, his current research focuses and the unifying similarities of SEE Q&A PAGE 5

Wicked Awesome BBQ food truck arrives

By SEAMUS WALSH The Dartmouth

A new food truck has arrived on Dartmouth’s campus. The Wicked Awesome BBQ truck started visiting campus in June and will continue to operate Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. either outside the Collis Center, the Hopkins Center or the Green through October. The truck sells classic barbecue foods like pulled pork, coleslaw and pulled chicken sandwiches. No stranger to the

The Institute for CrossDisciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth will host its first event this weekend, a conference titled “The Sciences, The Humanities, The Future.” At the conference, organized by ICE director Marcelo Gleiser, scientists and humanists will tackle what Gleiser calls “big questions,” topics ranging from the existence of free will to the possibility that human beings are alone in the universe. Speakers will conclude by discussing the importance of these types of interdisciplinary conversations. Despite the broad themes that the lectures will explore, Gleiser said that the conference was made with the public in mind. “It’s not like I’ll be talking in some philosophical language that no one un-

derstands,” Gleiser said. All of the conference speakers chosen by Gleiser are prominent academics in their fields, he said. Among the nine scholars speaking this weekend are Dartmouth philosophy professor Adina Roskies and Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd, both of whom are members of ICE’s steering board. Gleiser said he expects full attendance on both days of the conference, noting that 170 people have already registered. He urged Dartmouth students who are not yet registered to attend the conference in order to further develop a cross-disciplinary mode of thinking. “I hope that everybody will come to listen to these people because they are some of the best in their fields,” Gleiser said, noting SEE ICE PAGE 2

CITIZENS REJOICE FOR FREE BURRITOS

Dartmouth campus, Wicked Awesome BBQ occasionally operated a barbecue stand in the Tuck School of Business and on the Green over the last six years. The owner and chef, David Mcinnis, started the business in 2010 after working in restaurants for over 20 years. He said “a couple decades ago” he won three Best Clam Chowder of Boston awards. Mcinnis started the business with only a smoker and a tent, setting up shop in public spaces, like the Green, and SEE BBQ PAGE 2

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catering events of up to 650 people. After a year, in 2011, he hung up the tent and started operating a takeout and catering business about ten miles from campus in East Thetford, Vermont. Last year Mcinnis expanded again, this time acquiring a food truck. His wife operates it at Dartmouth on Thursdays and Fridays during the lunch rush while he mans the takeout joint in Vermont. The most popular items sold on campus are the pulled pork and chicken sandwiches. “Probably because they are easy to eat on the go,” Mcinnis noted. When asked how he makes his sauce, Mcinnis said he blends together a couple of commercial sauces and then “adds a few of my own ingredients.” But when asked for the recipe, he smirked. “You’re not getting that one out of me!” he said. Mcinnis said the two days at Dart-

mouth provide about 10 percent of his business’s weekly revenue. Although Hanover is small, he said that he observed that there is a large concentration of customers, ideal for a food truck. Mcinnis said the market could support more mobile food vendors, as long as vendors priced items with students’ budgets in mind. Local regulations, however, have posed some problems for food trucks. To comply with Hanover’s parking laws food trucks must be moved every couple hours. Moving the truck proves difficult when oil is boiling and a line is waiting in front of the truck. In the winter Mcinnis said he plans on petitioning Hanover city council to adapt its laws to accommodate mobile vendors. Other Dartmouth food trucks include TheBox, which serves locallysourced Mediterranean cusine and Phnom Penh Sandwich Station, which serves Cambodian food.

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ICE will feature diverse set of speakers FROM ICE PAGE 1

that one of the speakers, MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Goldstein, also recently won the National Humanities Medal. The idea for ICE stemmed from Gleiser’s work as a theoretical physicist, in which fundamental research questions regarding the origin of the universe and the origin of life transcend purely mathematical equations and data. He said that there has long been a preconceived notion in academia that the sciences and the humanities are mutually exclusive. “The point of ICE is to actually change the way people think about this [preconception] and to try to show that there are actually different aspects of how we understand the world,” Gleiser said. “You need a scientific perspective and a humanistic perspective to deal with the same problem.” After the conference, ICE will continue to exist as a forum in which scholars from both the

sciences and the humanities can interact, Gleiser said. Modeled after the Montgomery Fellows — a Dartmouth program that brings scholars to campus to build on the College’s academics — Gleiser intends for ICE to host academics who will give public lectures and interact with students and faculty over the course of several weeks in residence. The ICE program was launched in July, with a three-part lecture series focused on zeroth-order logic, From Epistemology to Information, delivered by physics Ph.D. student Damian Sowinski the following month. Last week, current fellow in-residence, Wesleyan University religion professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein, gave ICE’s second lecture, focused on pantheism, Gleiser added. All ICE lectures are videotaped and archived on ICE’s official website, Gleiser said. The website will also livestream both days of the conference. On Oct. 6, Gleiser will moder-

ate the first of nine public dialogues hosted by ICE. The event will revolve around the mystery of consciousness, he said. ICE will begin offering online courses during the winter term, Gleiser added. A course titled Question Reality will be taught by Gleiser himself and will look at the intersection of science, philosophy and religion. A second class, taught by a Dartmouth psychology professor, will examine the nature of free will, Gleiser said. ICE operates using a $3.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Ultimately, Gleiser said he hopes the institute will become a permanent establishment on campus, similar to the Leslie Center of the Humanities and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The conference, set to take place in Filene Auditorium, is open to the public and will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and conclude at 3:30 p.m. the following day.

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STAFF COLUMNISTBEN SZUHAJ ’19

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Social Media: A Performance

A Dangerous Protest

In pursuit of “likes,” we must not forget what makes us human.

In his recent “Make Happy” tour, comedy prodigy Bo Burnham, whose inventive songs often provide commentary on social issues, took a moment to seriously address the audience. Burnham argued, with an impressive degree of awareness and charm, that we are all constantly performing. Social media, he asserted before transitioning back into the show, is the market’s solution to the underlying need we all feel to preform for an audience. It’s a compelling argument, especially when you consider that Facebook alone hosts 4 percent of all the photos ever taken. The desire to capture moments is no longer the only motivation to take photos. Now we must display those moments — our best moments — for all to see, for everyone else to “remember.” We lay in bed at night and count the likes our posts have garnered. We read posts about issues we don’t know much about, shared by people who may or may not know slightly more than us. We scroll through our newsfeed and see beautiful, Instagram-ﬁltered images of people doing cool, exciting things. Everyone is constantly performing for everyone else: “Look at me! Look at this cool place I visited! Look at this video I like!” And we respond with likes. “Likes” are the applause. They excite and commend, and then they pitter oﬀ. They disappear. So we post again, in search of applause, like a performer. Like Burnham. That is not to say social media is bad. I, for one, am very active on social media, and I do not suggest quitting. Social media can be a powerful tool for spreading ideas, mobilizing action and connecting with distant friends and relatives. Even the scenario I just described is not without its redeeming qualities. Performing for an audience can help you develop a sense of self. Social media can, if used properly, boost your self-esteem. Likes, frivolous as they may appear, can be a powerful signaling tool for social acceptance. Applause, I imagine, would be a metric equally as ludicrous to you if you grew up in a society where applause did not exist. I am not here to critique social media for making us self-indulgent zombies trapped inside electronic echo-chambers with a few thousand of our closest friends. I am here to argue that the biggest downfall of social media — representative of our cultural in general — is that it paints an unrealistically optimistic portrait of life. Typically, millennials are thought of as arrogant, self-absorbed social media enthusiasts, so it may be hard to imagine them feeling bad about themselves. How could they, when they’ve

so clearly had a fantastic time vacationing in the Bahamas? But that’s just it. What you see are the best moments, which have been carefully crafted for an audience. Perhaps that is why we are so fascinated when celebrities go on Twitter rants, á la Kanye West, or have a public meltdown, á la Charlie Sheen. These rants feel unscripted. Even if they are carefully calculated, they appear spontaneous. They feel genuine, so we like them. In general, users construct social media personas, purposefully curating images and text for an audience. Most often, users aim to garner likes by stunning, seducing, provoking laughter and so on. That, alone, is harmless. But, we forget that other people have off-days. They mess up. They wake up tired in the morning. They are not always visiting fantastic places. We internalize these polished lives. Despite the fact that we could never be so perfect, we mustn’t feel bad for ourselves. One of the biggest emotional absences in modern American culture is that of self-pity. We are simply not allowed to feel sorry for ourselves. It’s bad for productivity. If we do feel bad, we self-medicate. We immerse ourselves in the pretty lives of celebrities. We either worship those higher than us on the social ladder or thumb our noses at those further down. This dynamic is inherently devoid of empathy. Empathy arises when we experience the emotions of others. It does not result from celebrity worship. Nor does it truly result when we scroll past the image of a bloodied Syrian child embedded in a newsfeed dominated by kitten videos and selfies. That image, like the articles decrying Donald Trump or tweets about Crooked Hillary, is information to be consumed. It says, “there is a war going on in Syria. You should care.” And yet we continue to scroll. Maybe we give it a like in passing. In order to truly care, we must learn to pity ourselves, so that we can pity others. In order to do that, we need more of what social media can never give us: a recognition that moments of quiet, prosaic non-goodness, like being hungry in a class before lunch, or waking up with a cold, or feeling bad about yourself because of the way your body looks — those are things that many people have and will experience. I have found that recognition in books. Some people find it in music, video or dance. Whatever the mechanism, we must remain cognizant that social media will never be able to give us that recognition. We must remain aware of the grand act. We must not lose our humanity.

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Voting for a third party candidate out of frustration is self-defeating. Election Day is fast approaching. Between the campaigns to register — you really should, it isn’t hard — and the endless speculation over every interruption, fact check and sniffle from Monday’s debate, it seems like the presidential race is all that is on anyone’s mind at the moment. In getting to this point, several people’s preferred candidates on either side have been knocked out of the race. Many progressive, generally younger Democrats bemoan the end of Bernie Sanders’ quixotic attempt at the presidency, and scores of moderate Republicans have expressed uneasiness over having Donald Trump — a man for whom “problematic” is an understatement — represent their party. Because of the numerous real or perceived flaws in both of the candidates, many of which have been reinforced through specific media coverage, the narrative for this election for many Americans has become about choosing between the lesser of two evils. In response to this seemingly bleak electoral field, third party candidates have begun to pick up steam in the last few weeks. Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party have picked up enough momentum to the point that they can no longer be ignored or dismissed. According to a recent poll conducted by Reuters, Johnson commands 7 percent of the electorate and 18 percent of independent voters, while Stein holds 2 percent of the general electorate and 6 percent of independent voters. While this doesn’t seem to indicate that either of them will be sitting in the Oval Office any time soon, these numbers are incredibly significant: three of the last four presidential elections were decided by less than 4 percent. Despite the frustration many voters may feel over the current major party candidates, voting for one of these candidates out of disdain or protest isn’t only wrong — it’s potentially dangerous. Every four years, candidates and news outlets alike often report that the current election is the most important, pivotal election in history. Yet this particular one does feel especially historic. With the plethora of issues at home and around the world, now more than ever we need a leader in whom we can be confident. In an age when every

action of the president is scrutinized and narrativized for America and the world, the person who we put in the White House will play a massive role in establishing the tone of discourse over the next four years and the way America is perceived around the world. By voting for third party candidates such as Johnson or Stein out of a sense of disillusionment or disenfranchisement, voters are just doing more to disenfranchise themselves. They renounce the ability and right to help control that national narrative. Many people may think that all they have are two bad choices, but, in our modern electoral landscape, voting outside of those “bad choices” means you no longer get to choose at all. If someone wants to vote for Johnson or Stein because they truly feel that they are the candidate who would represent us best for the next four to eight years, then more power to them. However, the ideas of “Bernie or Bust” on the left and “Never Trump” on the right, while constructive as part of the discourse on how we should hold elections, are dangerous when they enter the voting booth. As cynical as it may seem, this is the electoral system that we have in place. The last successful third party presidential candidate was Abraham Lincoln, and that is only because he ran his reelection campaign during the Civil War under the “Union Party,” a combination of Republicans and Democrats interested in keeping the Union together. There is a very important conversation to be had about how we structure our electoral system. From the arcane Electoral College to the institutional and monetary favoritism that is aﬀorded to the two major parties, we need to take a long hard look at American elections. However, six weeks before Election Day is not the time to have that conversation. Right now, voters need to focus on the direction they want to steer their country. The protest of voting for a third party candidate is an incredibly ironic one because through your protest, you lose the chance to be heard. A choice between two “bad” candidates is still a choice. Don’t give it up. The editorial board consists of the editorial chair, the opinion editors and the opinion staﬀ.

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the human species. What initially sparked your interest in anthropology? JD: I’d been at the [Boston Museum of Science] for a couple of years and my boss approached me about updating an exhibit on human evolution. I knew nothing about the subject and she simply said, go learn about it. So I went and bought this book, “Extinct Humans” by Ian Tattersall, and I became obsessed with these skeletons, with the life they had, and how it affects who we are today. I was hooked. Eventually, my boss said you’ve got to go to grad school for this, so I did. A lot of times students will come to me in a panic, changing majors and saying, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” Often you think there is this one path you are supposed to take, but that path can be disrupted. I think those disruptions can be really healthy and can actually send you on a new path of discovery. How did you choose to focus your research in your Ph.D. and beyond? JD: I was doing a lot of my work in Eastern Africa, mostly in Uganda and Kenya studying chimpanzees and how they climb trees and how they use their feet and ankles. I was just ﬁnishing my dissertation in 2008, on a group called Australopithecus.

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. At the same time, in South Africa, a researcher named Lee Berger had made this amazing discovery on a new type of Australopithecus that had a foot. He was trying to find someone who had recently done their dissertation on Australopithecines, that he could contact. He contacted me, and I jumped at the opportunity. It was this wonderful moment of being in a science that is constantly changing, where new discoveries really do alter our view of how the world works. How has this research changed the way you view the world and how others view the world? Why does it matter? JD: For me, as a researcher, it’s humbling that fossils like this with anatomies I never would have expected were right under our nose the whole time. These fossils weren’t found in some obscure area. They were found in the same region that has been studied for the past 80 years. We now have two species that are entirely different than we would have expected. In terms of what it means for the whole world, it shows humans everywhere that we are part of this incredible story, a very lengthy story in terms of time and that there were all these different kinds of humans that used to live. Yet here we are as the last remaining species. Sometimes we emphasize our differences with each other, but to me, the more important thing is our similari-

ties. Yes, we have such rich cultural diversity around the world and we can appreciate the variation, but we are a single species, one species united through evolutionary processes, united through time. We are actually not that diﬀerent from one another.

Is there a particular moment from your fieldwork that stands out in your memory or a discovery you made that is particularly salient? JD: It’s hard to find one. I feel so lucky to do the work I do. The first time I ever saw wild chimpanzee was breathtaking. To have your closest living relative sitting there next to you looking at you and you’re looking at it, was just awesome in all senses of the word. And then a couple weeks later, those same chimps took us down into a valley where we were attacked by killer bees, and that was awful. So I remember that very well! Nothing beats finding a fossil. This is something that died millions of years ago and when you find it, you’re the first one to set eyes on it and touch it after all that time. I really feel like the human fossils that I work with have these stories to tell, and we owe it to them to tell the stories. There is such an incredible gift that this ancient creature is giving us — its bones — and we can use its remains to reconstruct why we are the way we are today. The last story that sticks out in my mind is the first time I travelled

to South Africa to look at the new Homo Naledi fossils. I’d been in touch with the team that was finding them, and the team had found a little over a thousand fossils. I’ve become accustomed to going to Africa, budgeting a few weeks and spending a full day with a single fossil. I draw it, measure it, scan it, photograph it and do all the analysis that I can. I walked into the temporary research room where these fossils were being kept, and I was so overwhelmed, but in a great way. I was thinking, “How am I going to get this work done in the time I allotted?” But thank God that we have these fossils! I was in there alone with them, and it is hard not to get emotional when you have bones of your own kind. These aren’t elephants or giraffes, this is us — how we used to be or at least a very close relative of ours. It was a moment of taking a breath and soaking it all in. Then you get to work, and you become objective again and you dive in. So what are your current research focuses? JD: I’m wrapping up a number of projects. This has been a 10-year journey of studying the foot, ankle and leg of Australopithecus and other human ancestors, trying to figure out how we used to walk. I feel like I am finishing, and I’m feeling good about the research I’ve done. It’s time to compile it all. So my next project is to write a book. I want to write a

popular science book on bipedalism, and why we walk on two legs, because it’s actually really weird. There’s no other mammal that does it. So why do we do it? Who started doing it? Why do they do it? What have we learned about bipedalism variation? What brought you to Dartmouth? JD: I love the idea of a small school. I love the outdoors and the idea of a college out in the middle of nowhere. And everyone here is focused on this place and what is happening here. That can be a little insulating, but in some ways it’s wonderful that everyone is here focused on learning. I loved the emphasis this place had on teaching. I think my research beneﬁts from my teaching and my teaching beneﬁts from my research. The best questions my students ask in class are those that I don’t know the answer to. Sometimes that leads to research. And for me personally, it was about raising my family in a small New England town. I’ve only been here a year, and in some ways I feel like I’ve always been here. We’ve integrated and been welcomed into the community so wonderfully. It’s hard to imagine that this wasn’t always my life. This will be the next 30 years of my life, here doing this research, working with students and raising my family. This article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

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DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

“Discrete Kinetic Theory and Computation for Fluid Flows and Beyond,” Hudong Chen P.h.D., Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall

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“Don’t Think Twice” (2016), directed by and starring Mike Burbiglia, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“Bone Hill: The Concert,” featuring singer-songwriter Martha Redbone, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Revels North, a concert (for ages three and up) presented by Hanover Hopstop, Hopkins Center for the Arts

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“Captain Fantastic” (2016), directed by Matt Ross and starring Viggo Mortensen, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

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Martha Redbone to perform ‘Bone Hill: the Concert’ tonight By VICTOR WU The Dartmouth

“How sweet I roam’d from field to field and tasted all the summer’s pride,” Independent Music Award winner Martha Redbone croons in her third studio album “The Garden of Love.” The album sets the words of 19th-century poet William Blake to Appalachian folk music. It’s an odd combination, but somehow it works. Her album sounds contemporary and modern yet nostalgic. Of course, Redbone is not foreign to combining different cultures, time periods and places — she grew up in the Appalachians and has African-American,

Cherokee and European ancestry. Tonight, she will perform “Bone Hill: the Concert,” written by herself, Aaron Whitby and Roberta Uno, at the Hopkins Center. The concert describes a woman’s journey to her homeland in Black Mountain as she reunites and reclaims her roots — a story inspired by her own Appalachian upbringing. “No one really knows much about Appalachia except for that there is coal mining,” Redbone said. “You don’t hear about families of people of color or multiracial ones. In fact, [Appalachia] is a melting pot of different cultures of people who came for coal mining.”

Redbone said that language, and particularly the fusion of written language and song, allows her to explore her roots. “My music has been affected geographically as well as culturally. When I was a kid there was just one pop radio station. So we played our own music,” she said. “We played everything — country music, rock music, R&B music, that one pop radio station and on Sundays we would play gospel music.” Redbone said that she has always known that music was her calling. “Music is everywhere. It’s something that’s a part of everyone’s life. Having a career as an artist in any

of the arts is something you feel you have to do,” she said. “It’s not so much earning a living from it, but working on a craft that keeps calling you.” Yesterday, Redbone visited two classes on campus and gave a reading in a women, gender and sexualities studies course called “Sex, Gender and Society” about race and gender. Professor Francine A’Ness, who teaches the course, said that the Hop match class syllabi with visiting artists, and Redbone’s art ties in perfectly with the course’s theme of intersectional feminism. Gustavo Silva ’20, a student in the class, found Redbone’s visit to be an

elucidating experience that excited him for the show. Redbone hopes that her show will be an opportunity for Dartmouth students to glean new knowledge about people from different places and cultures. “The Bone Hill concert is a reading. It’s about a family life in the mountains,” she said. “I hope it will be a kind of history lesson.” Following her performance at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium, Redbone will hold a post-performance discussion. Tickets, available on the Hopkins Center website, are $17 for Dartmouth students and $25 for community members.

COURTESY OF MARTHA REDBONE

Martha Redbone, who is performing at the Hop in “Bone Hill: the Concert” tonight, draws musical inspiration from her African-American, Cherokee and Appalachian roots.

This month’s music recap: Jepsen, Gaga, Sia and more By LONG DO

The Dartmouth

“Store,” Carly Rae Jepsen, “Emotion Side B” Jepsen is mainly known for her 2011 hit “Call Me Maybe,” but the Canadian pop star has consistently put out great pop music since. Her latest release, “Emotion: Side B,” is no exception. Amidst this set of wellproduced 80s-style pop tracks, “Store” stands out as the song with the most replay value. “Store” opens with the Jepsen style we love but expect — sweet vocals and carefully chosen electronic sounds. But just when listeners are about to lose patience, the soft background suddenly switches to a throbbing burst of staccato beat. Coupled with Jepsen’s unfailingly catchy hook, the song offers one of this year’s best choruses. Going to a store may not be a familiar excuse to escape your exlover, but her genuine delivery makes the whole story brilliantly adorable. Once again, Jepsen and her team

prove to be among the finest in the industry. They know how to handle post-relationship reservations without melodrama and how to turn a breakup song into a shopping anthem. Rating: 4.5/5 “Perfect Illusion,” Lady Gaga, “Joanne”

Lady Gaga returns to the music scene with “Perfect Illusion,” the lead single from her LP “Joanne,” set to be released in October. For this muchanticipated single, she has a dream team of producers, including Mark Ronson, the producer of “Uptown Funk,” BloodPop, the producer of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” and Tame Impala’s leadman, Kevin Parker. Yet “Perfect Illusion” is an unpolished combination of ideas. The song’s first few seconds are intriguing, but as soon as the chorus begins with “It wasn’t love,” listeners are left with repetitive lyrics and without an enjoyable melody. Here, the layers of electric guitar become thin and

immaterial, only to be overshadowed by Gaga’s weirdly intense vocals. The result is neither an epic rockinfluenced song nor a chart-friendly pop hit. The unexpected change in key does lift the song up, but a key change should never be the most memorable moment in one of her songs. Let’s hope that Gaga will deliver better material on “Joanne.” Rating: 3/5 “The Greatest,” Sia feat. Kendrick Lamar, “This Is Acting”

Ever since her acclaimed hit “Chandelier,” Sia has developed a habit of repeating the same line five times or more in her choruses. This summer, “Cheap Thrills” reassured us repeatedly that Sia doesn’t need money to have fun. She uses repetitive lyrics in her latest collaboration with Kendrick Lamar on “The Greatest.” The lyrics aim to be anthemic at the expense of depth. As for the music, anyone familiar with Sia need not

“Salt Song,” How to Dress Well, “Care”

cludes a tropical touch before darker electronic synths rise to the forefront. The song goes back and forth between moods, but these shifts never feel out of place. Its lyrics effectively deal with the “salty” pursuits of fleeting happiness: “But if happiness were safe, I wonder if I’d sing this song.” The track fades out a little before taking on its full force in the coda. The rush of instruments culminates in a crescendo of sound, pushing the vocals into the background. Though well-executed, this part seems excessive. The first five minutes alone are definitely sufficient to make “Salt Song” worth appreciating. Rating: 4.5/5

“Salt Song” from How to Dress Well’s latest record is a packed sixminute track. Morose cellos slowly open the track before the more fastpaced percussion kicks in, setting the tempo. Meanwhile, an ambient, soothing whistle accompanies Tom Krell’s falsetto. The second verse in-

Also check out: Angel Olsen’s “My Woman,” with its passionate pop punk “Shut Up Kiss Me,” the sweet and nostalgic “Never Be Mine” and the brutally honest yet dreamy “Intern.” Basically, check out every track from this amazing alternative rock LP.

check the credits to confirm that Greg Kurstin produced the song. Despite these two drawbacks, “The Greatest” still works as an empowering track. The reason might be Sia’s unique voice which adds texture to the lyrics. Maybe it’s the rap verse from Lamar, whose presence compliments to the uplifting mood. Sia’s talent at penning sustainable melodies should also be taken into account: “The Greatest” may not appeal to you straight away from the first listen, but you’re bound to love it after a few spins on the radio. Rating: 3.5/5

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Sailing team ranked third and seventh in Sailing World poll By ALEX LEIBOWITZ The Dartmouth

Following a strong campaign last season, which resulted in a 10th-place finish at the Inter Collegiate Sailing Association Gill Coed National Championship and a sixth place finish in the Sperry Women’s National Championship, the sailing team opened with a strong start to the year. Sailing World, an organization that ranks college sailing teams according to an open coaches poll, placed Dartmouth in the third spot for coed and seventh for women’s in its second week of fall rankings. The coed team earned 276 total points and is currently ranked below Yale University and Boston College. In the women’s rankings, Dartmouth earned 206 points. The U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Brown University and Boston College took the top three spots. The third and seventh-place rankings are an improvement for both sailing teams. Last week, 13 coaches participated in the poll, and both the coed and women’s teams placed eighth in the first week of rankings. This week, 17 coaches

voted and based on the performances from this past weekend, the rankings shifted in the Big Green’s favor. Last week, the team split up and competed in different events across New England. Charlie Lalumiere ’17, Mia Steck ’17, Madeline Cooney ’17 and Patrick Floyd ’17 competed in the St. Mary’s Interconference at St. Mary’s, Maryland. The Big Green finished in first place, beating the U.S. Naval Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College. Head coach Justin Assad said the team was excited to get the win at St. Mary’s because there were numerous competitive teams from across the country who participated in that interconference regatta. Nate Greason ’17, Jack McGraw ’20, Noah Simmons ’20 and Kait Alvord ’20 sailed at the Chris Loder Trophy in Boston last Saturday and placed fourth out of 18 teams. Peninah Benjamin ’20, Peggy Kilvert ’18, Audrey Giblin ’20 and Sophia Diserio ’18 competed for the Amanda Trophy in Bristol, Rhode Island and placed sixth. Finally, members of the team also competed

for the Stedman Hood Trophy in Boston, where they placed eighth out of 19 teams. Assad noted how the team has evolved due to the addition of nine new freshmen, which is a relatively big incoming class for the sailing team. “We’re still working out the kinks with some of the first year students,” Assad said. “They’ve all got a long way to go, but we’ve definitely seen a lot of promise with many of them. There’s certainly a lot of raw talent there.” Rebecca McElvain ’19 said she is excited about the idea of competing with this year’s freshman class during the season and for the next few years. “There all very good and capable,” McElvain said. “I think that’s really going to help us in the future years here.” This week’s jump in the rankings also reflect the progress the team has already been making since the opening of the fall season. Earlier this month, the Big Green placed fourth at the 74th Pine Trophy and was unable to reclaim its title as a three-time defending champion.

Two weeks ago, the sailing team ﬁnished in second place in the Hatch Brown Trophy race, indicating how well the team has been able to adjust and grow with each week of competition. Assad is particularly impressed with how well the women’s team has been able to adjust considering the loss of former captain Sarah Williams ’16, who ended her career at Dartmouth with an All-NEISA Skipper honor. “We’ve got some new faces on the women side,” Assad said. “But the girls have been sailing really well, and we’re still putting the pieces together but were happy.” While contemplating last season’s successful run, Assad said that championships posed a challenge to the team as many sailors were competing at that event for the ﬁrst time. This year, he expects that their experiences will help them improve upon their previous performances. “I think a little bit of experience for this group of sailors will go a really long way,” Assad said. “Once you’ve been there, once you’ve seen what it’s like, that kind of helps calm

your nerves the next time we’re at the big games.” Last year, the sailing team ended the fall season toward the end of November when it competed in the Match Race National Championship. If this year ends similarly to last, the team will have a little under two months to prepare to compete at a championship level until the winter season begins. That means, the team also has a little under two months to improve upon its current rankings. Like all sports, that potential begins with the next competition. This weekend, the team will once again split up and compete in four regattas on Saturday and Sunday — the Danmark Trophy, the Hewitt Trophy, the Women’s Regis and a women’s Regatta at Cornell University. Assad said the Danmark Trophy race, which the Coast Guard is hosting, is a particularly important event this Saturday because it is the main race and attracts the best collegiate sailing talent. “We’ll see a lot of the top teams all competing together this weekend,” he said.

IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL PICKS: WEEK 3 “We’re going to turn this team around, 360 degrees.” -Jason Kidd

Mark Cui ’19

Sam Stockton ’19

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” -Mia Hamm

Ashley Dupuis ’19

Maxwell Kanefield ’19

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.” -Winston Bennett

“You play to win the game!” -Herm Edwards

“If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.” -Mike Ditka

Dartmouth v. Penn (9/30) Harvard v. Georgetown (9/30)

Dartmouth Harvard

Princeton v. Columbia (10/1)

Princeton

Cornell v. Colgate (10/1) Yale v. Lehigh (10/1)

Colgate Lehigh

Colgate Yale

Colgate Lehigh

Matt Yuen ’19