The Dartmouth 10/4/2016

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Sororities extend 294 bids this fall

By FRANCES COHEN The Dartmouth

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This past week, 345 women participated in fall term recruitment for Panhellenic sororities, which ended Oct. 1. The eight sororities extended a total of 294 bids, according to the Office of Greek Life.

Forty-three women accepted bids at Alpha Phi sorority, 39 at Alpha Xi Delta sorority, 42 at Chi Delta sorority, 17 at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, 22 at Kappa Delta sorority, 44 at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, 45 at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and 42 at Sigma Delta sorority. This year, 85 percent of the women who registered for

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Lisa Hogarty, who has served as the vice president of campus planning and facilities for the past two years, will leave the College next week for Boston Children’s Hospital. The hospital, which is currently undergoing a $1 billion expansion plan, will put Hogarty in the role of senior vice president of real estate development.

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recruitment ultimately accepted bids, a 6 percentage point increase from last year’s 79 percent.

In comparison to last year’s figures, four more women accepted bids from A Phi, two more at Chi Delt and one more at KDE. AXiD saw no change in the number of bids accepted from last year to this year.

For the first time this year, Sigma Delt adopted a shakeout process after a unanimous vote amongst house members. After attending open houses at Sigma Delt, potential new members expressed interest in receiving a bid by “shaking out” — expressing SEE RUSH PAGE 3

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Students study in House Center A on Monday afternoon.

Assembly Senate elected

By ALEX FREDMAN The Dartmouth

Hogarty said that while leaving Dartmouth and her coworkers will be hard, her new job at the hospital was “too good of an opportunity” for her and her family to turn down. Still, she maintained that the decision was very difficult because of the close relationship she has established with her team.

In her time at the College, SEE HOGARTY PAGE 2

On Sunday, students chose classmates in their house communities to serve as grade-level representatives in the newlyformed Student Assembly Senate. Each house community elected four representatives, with one student elected per grade level. Twenty-four students were selected out of 33 candidates. In total, 794 ballots were cast.

The Allen House representatives are Eric Chen ’17 , Jeff Fastow ’18, Isabelle Leonaitis ’19 and Kojo Edzie ’20. East

Wheelock House elected Blair Duncan Jr. ’17 , Josue Guerrero ’18, Mark Dominguez ’19 and Iris Wang ’20. The North Park House representatives are Foster Song ’17, Warren Schorr ’18, Matthew Giegerich ’19 and Luke Cuomo ’20. School House chose Austin Welch ’17, Jordan McDuffie ’20 and two write-in candidates for the ’18 and ’19 positions.

South House elected Kush Desai ’17, John Glance ’18, Margaret Jones ’19 and Jamie J. Park ’20. The West House representatives are John R. Lewis III ’17 , Anabel Moreno-Mendez ’19, Timothy Holman ’20

and a write-in candidate for the Class of 2018.

Students voted on the Dartmouth Pulse website from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Pulse is a survey platform launched this term by Terren Klein ’17. Students had the option of selecting a listed name or writing in a name.

Certain races were more competitive than others. School House, for example, had eight firstyears, but only one upperclassman, run for office.

Three houses — North Park, South and West — each had four students in SEE SA PAGE 5

Dartmouth Dining Services rolls out new food truck

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Hogarty to leave College next week

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Late night is going mobile.

Dartmouth Dining Services will debut a food truck in the next two weeks, a project initiated as part of the College’s transition to the new house community. The new DDS Food Truck will begin serving late night foods Monday

through Thursday from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. as soon as DDS acquires the necessary licenses.

Menu items include a variety of sliders, fries, brownies, churros and cheese fritters. In contrast to other food trucks in town, the DDS food truck will accept payments of DBA, meal swipes or credit card.

Donald Reed, the associate

director of dining services, said that the truck will be a mobile kitchen intended to serve as the food hub for each of the housing communities.

“The house communities planners wanted to include a food service element,” he said.

“Setting this up for each of the houses would have been difficult. It was suggested that

[DDS] consider a food truck for this option.”

DDS planned and developed the truck after speaking with several other colleges and universities that are currently operating food trucks on campus, such as the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts.

The truck will make two

stops per night, among a total of seven stops: the Fayerweathers, House Centers A and B, Andres, Fahey Hall, the River Cluster and the McLaughlin Cluster.

Drew Walsh, the chef manager, will oversee the threeperson staff running the truck.

Current staff of the Courtyard SEE DDS PAGE 5

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DEN expands offerings to students Hogarty to take position at Boston hospital FROM HOGARTY PAGE 1

Hogarty helped launch the new house community system, a feat which she counts as one of her office’s greatest achievements. Hogarty also expanded the Hood Museum of Art and developed the Green to Blue plan for the west end of campus, which consists of improving access to the Connecticut River and increasing community space.

The primary job of Hogarty’s replacement in terms of the new house system will lie in creating a financial model and executing the system going forward, Hogarty said. Hogarty said she is certain the transition to her replacement will be “seamless.”

Hogarty has also worked to better sustainability initiatives through her position. She hopes that the College will ultimately move off of steam energy in favor of hot water energy, she said, an initiative that will allow Dartmouth to make use of renewable sources of energy. Hogarty also said

that she hopes the College will build new residence halls and community centers moving forward in addition to those already developed for the new house system.

Steven Moore, the current vice president of institutional projects, will take over Hogarty’s role while the Office of Campus Planning and Facility looks for a more permanent replacement. Moore began working at the College this past summer, and like Hogarty, reports to Rick Mills, the College’s executive vice president and chief financial officer. Because of his previous experience as an administrator at Babson College and Milton Academy, as well as his familiarity with Dartmouth after starting at the College this summer, Hogarty said she believes that Moore’s time as interim vice president of campus planning and facilities will be successful.

Hogarty came to the College from Harvard University in 2014. Her last day at the College will be Oct. 14.

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Over the past two years, DEN has expanded to accomodate student interest in different sectors.

By JULIAN NATHAN The Dartmouth

The DEN Innovation Center, a modern office building in the town of Hanover, opened in 2014.

According to DEN director Jamie Coughlin, it has since grown into a focal point for entrepreneurship at Dartmouth by organizing 135 events, engaging with over 3,000 participants and funding over 60 venture ideas.

Over the past two years, DEN has expanded to accommodate student interest by incorporating technology into entrepreneurial efforts.

To Coughlin, DEN’s purpose is to translate ideas into impact.

One of DEN’s current offerings for this term is DEN Student Circle, a series of meetings focused on entrepreneurship and collaboration held every Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. During Student Circle meetings, both undergraduate and graduate students gain hands-on experience with startups and receive feedback on venture ideas from established alumni entrepreneurs.

Coughlin emphasized the importance of this type of collaboration, saying that “anybody that has ever built an idea, a venture or a project knows that [doing so] takes a village.”

In the coming weeks, DEN’s programming will focus on expanding entrepreneurship at Dartmouth and Hanover.

As part of its speaker series, DEN will be hosting Langley Steinert Tu’91, co-founder and former chairman of TripAdvisor, as a guest speaker on Oct. 7 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Steinert, who now serves as CEO and founder of CarGurus — a website designed to help consumers shop for automobiles — will speak directly to students about his experiences coordinating the operations of the world’s largest online travel site.

This year, DEN will also offer an intensive, three-week course on building and launching entrepreneurial ventures titled “Introduction to Entrepreneurship.” These hour-long courses will be directly taught by Coughlin, who previously served as CEO of the Alpha Loft, previously known as ABI Innovation Hub, New Hampshire’s oldest business incubator. Previously, Coughlin led several different venture projects in industries including educational technology and online funding.

The center provides stipends to students who intern at existing startups and other ventures, as well as grants to fund market research and product development for stu-

dent projects. On Nov. 3, DEN will host its termly event called “The Pitch,” during which 20 competitors present their project ideas to a panel of judges. The top four submissions receive up to $3,000 to be used toward the design and development of new projects.

Aidan Folbe ’19 is the co-founder of GiftAMeal, the winning idea from last February’s Pitch competition. GiftAMeal is an app that facilitates donations to food banks by partnering with restaurants. When customers share pictures of their food using the mobile application, a meal is donated to a food bank by a partner restaurant.

Coughlin said this project is one of several that use mobile technology to address a communal problem, adding that “some of the most successful projects are often at [the] intersection of technology and social causes.”

GiftAMeal subsequently received additional funding from Capital Innovators, a venture capital firm with over 70 portfolio companies.

Coughlin said that student interest in DEN has expanded this past year. The number of freshmen applicants to DEN In Residence, the DEN’s Living Learning Community, has doubled to over 50 students.

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Lisa Hogarty will leave the College for Boston Children’s Hospital next week.

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Sigma Delt, EKT use shakeout for rush FROM RUSH PAGE 1

interest in joining the sorority — with the current members. Sigma Delt was thus no longer directly involved in the formal Panhellenic recruitment process. Because the shakeout process is not binding, women were able to participate in both formal recruitment and Sigma Delt’s process.

EKT adopted the shakeout process in the fall of 2014 and continued the same procedures this year.

The remaining sororities participate in formal recruitment, which is a week-long process. Students attend parties at each sorority throughout multiple rounds, ranking their top

choices after each of the first two rounds. The women are then called back by specific houses, at which they attend more parties. The process ends with bid night, when bids are extended by each house.

In the spring of 2014, Panhell announced a new policy that would guarantee each participant at least a set number of callbacks after round two. This year, this policy was not in place. Toward the beginning of this year’s recruitment process, the Greek Leadership Council sent out a campus-wide email to officially announce its policy that no Greek houses may consider ability to pay for dues when extending bids.

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STAFF COLUMNIST DOROTHY QU ’19

STAFF COLUMNIST MERCEDES DE GUARDIOLA ’17

Take Note

Teaching Thinking

We should rethink the conventional wisdom about note-taking.

This past spring term, I watched someone Don’t be embarrassed if you feel like you write an article for Ivy Beat titled “How to have to scroll through The New York Times Take Notes in College — By a Dartmouth or check out the newest Google doodle if Sophomore” in front of me, in our Govern- that’s going to keep you awake. ment 6 course. The second tip, “do not use Third, I’m also not going to tell you to a computer in class,” was probably chosen avoid writing down exactly what the profesbecause computer users more easily suc- sor is saying. If the material is dense, it could cumb to distractions, mindlessly scribe the be difficult to follow the lecture. Wandering lectures word-for-word and are a detriment thoughts, even if they’re about the material, to their fellow students. I’m certain that at can cause you to miss an important point. least one of your professors have hit you This is not to say that lectures are a time to with the statistical studies that show how train to be a stenographer. But, just because supposedly impossible it is to pay attention an important folly of computer-users is the in class while your peer is messaging their tendency to just type and not understand mother — which, in the grand scheme of does not mean that typing too much is computer activities, is far from the worst always bad. you can do online in class.

Fourth, you’re not restrained to use only I’m not nosier than one medium of notethe average person, but taking. Diagrams and I struggled to ignore the “By taking notes other creative ways of rapid tip-tapping of her incorrectly, you jotting down information fingers as they detailed on paper cannot really be exactly how a student squander your recreated quickly enough should “outline their education and cause on a computer. I would notebook,” and I am say that the greatest danafraid that my curiosity your peers to squander ger to taking notes is not and frustration got the theirs. The technology technology, but rather a best of me. I don’t regret monotonous, unchangthat we Dartmouth investigating, because I ing routine. When writassure you that I could students have is a gift.” ing, you can change the never make up somestyle of organization, the thing this ironic. pens you use, your handI don’t know if she writing, the notebook ever posted that piece online. I’m not sure and even how you position yourself. When the website even exists. But I am confident typing, however, I find that most people tend that this happened by the hand of some to slump over and fix their sad, unblinking higher being so I could write an op-ed eyes onto a Word document filled with text about it. This is my best account on how in a far too small and boring — think Arial, to maximize material absorption — with Calibri or Times New Roman — font. technology — and minimize the casualties, That is the true folly of computer users: otherwise known as your classmates’ grades not changing note-taking up enough. If and performance. you do, then not only will your brain thank First, you should find a suitable nest for you, but your classmates will, too. yourself. If possible, try to stay in the back By taking notes incorrectly, you squander if you think you will probably stray into your education and cause your peers to your free food or “meme” GroupMe or if squander theirs. The technology that we you know you type loudly, especially if your Dartmouth students have is a gift. We’re professor has a soft voice. one of the most technologically connected Second, I’m not going to tell you to not and savvy schools in America, and that is distract yourself. College students have an a great power — and, with great power unfortunate habit of sleeping far too little. comes great battery life.

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The value of higher education cannot be measured merely by numbers.

High school seniors are entering an exciting times in their lives, one most of us have probably blocked from our memories — applying to colleges.

To keep themselves relevant in the age of dying news media, many news outlets have gone into the business of creating the “Ultimate Guide to Colleges That You Will Ever Find Anywhere.” In the past few weeks, we’ve seen top college rankings from U.S. News & World Report, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and even Playboy. If you’re really interested in the topic, there are lists for anything and everything: top colleges for international students, top colleges by major and top colleges for partying — where, thankfully for our administration, Dartmouth is not in the top 10.

In looking through these rankings, I am struck by their emphasis on numbers.

We’re always looking and evaluating and judging based on the numbers — average salary after graduation, number of majors offered, class size and more.

Colleges are certainly just as compliant in this reliance on numbers, though there would never be enough space to capture the entire essence of a high school senior on one page, applicants are reduced to simple statistics, little more than a jumble of SAT and AP scores. Many schools want to boast about how exclusive they are, as if the number of students rejected somehow correlates to the quality of the education they can offer.

This isn’t to say that one should never judge colleges based on numbers. At a time when the student loan debt crisis is only getting worse, families should examine the amount of financial aid available and the type of salaries students get after graduation.

Students may also want to consider the size of the faculty and school they want to go to.

With the price of college rising unsustainably, the question is now how to really judge the value of higher education. But, in my time at Dartmouth, I’ve become increasingly concerned by the growing reliance on numbers to judge the worth of an education. With no true qualifier at hand to study the undergraduate mind, we’ve turned to reductionist numbers that can no longer reflect our experiences as students.

Grade inflation stands out as a particularly important and widespread problem with no easy fix. Potential employers, parents and the institutions themselves use grades to easily judge their students, even though such evaluations only have as much power as we choose to give them. At the end of the day, are grades a measure of how well one student did compared to peers? That certainly isn’t true at Dartmouth. Should we choose to adopt a grade scale quota? What do professors do if all students do equally well?

Are grades indicators of how much one knows the course material? Perhaps, but that doesn’t account for the nuances of learning.

It’s entirely possible to gain a good grade

just by spewing out information and forgetting it a day later, and equally possible to fail even if one grew immensely as a person and learned new and valuable skills.

Another favorite number colleges brag about lately is the median salary earned by alumni after graduation. However, for Dartmouth, the high percentage of alumni going on to high-paying finance and consulting jobs skews the numbers. This distracts us from discussing whether or not Dartmouth students are going on to meaningful jobs and affecting change in the world. On campus, one of the frequent complaints among students is that the Center for Professional Development really only provides resources for those looking to go into finance or consulting — and I can personally attest to this as a senior going through the job struggle.

No institute of higher education, especially liberal arts institutions such as Dartmouth, should be in the business of churning out students to fit one particular mold. Rather, Dartmouth should focus on ensuring that its students go on to be leaders in every field, regardless of pay. It’s foolish to say that salaries are the only indicator of a job’s value. For example, America is currently facing a teaching crisis because of low pay rates and high turnovers, even though teaching directly affects our future generations and will decide whether America will continue to be a global superpower.

Students considering the nonprofit sector alternative corporate routes should be given just as much support as those considering finance. It is in Dartmouth’s interest to give its students the best start possible, Even if they don’t contribute to the lauded median salary. Quit focusing so much on what median salaries will be; rather, look at whether the College prepares its students for any type of job, and what its alumni go on to do.

Ultimately, the numbers discussion leads to a large question: what is the value of a higher education? Fundamentally, the value of going to college, especially one like Dartmouth, is to learn how to think critically. That value cannot be shown by numbers alone. This value has never been more true than it is today, when there is a growing concern over increasing job automation. The ability to think critically is the most important factor that will distinguish Dartmouth graduates in the future.

So, as high school seniors begin to apply to colleges, why don’t news outlets publish lists of recent graduates’ most interesting accomplishments rather than talking about how many students with outrageously high scores applied. Why not discuss how each school challenges its students to think, how it teaches students to become leaders as the world faces more and more problems every day? If schools can teach students to think critically, and, in the process, send them off to high paying jobs, that is completely fine. But first, let’s start looking at whether colleges really challenge their students to think — and if they don’t, what we can do to fix it.

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Food truck to operate late night hours, will take DBA and swipes FROM DDS PAGE 1

DDS hopes to position the truck the in the midst of student life as much Café will operate the truck ­— the grill as possible by stationing the truck at will close earlier each night to accom- sporting events or catering for student modate the new truck’s schedule. groups.

Walsh said the truck plans to dif- Walsh said that student input will ferentiate itself by its simple yet distinct be a huge consideration in the truck’s options. The truck will not offer other planned activity. food trucks’ niche menus or the same “I want to hear from everybody what options as Collis Late Night or the snack works,” he said. “We could run contests bars. and special events, for example, submit In addition to its regular menu, your favorite recipe the truck will and we’ll serve it as serve weekly “I want to hear from a special.” specials often everybody what works.

While the confeaturing lofined kitchen incally sourced We could run contests creases the chance and seasonal and special events.” of cross-contamiingredients nation and makes and variait challenging to tions on clas- -ANDREW WALSH, DDS carry gluten-free sics such as TRUCK CHEF MANAGER products, the truck grilled cheese will strive to have and fried at least a couple of chicken. vegan options at all “ We ’ l l times. also change Walsh’s favorite the menu periodically, maybe once a item on the menu is the Syrniki, or term,” Walsh said. “There will always Russian cheese fritters, which he first be something a little bit different.” tried at a bed and breakfast in New Walsh said that they are planning York while on a trip with his wife. to experiment with social media, such “It was run by a really sweet old as Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat to Russian lady who made these little promote daily specials and to announce cheese pancakes and served them with unexpected changes in location. DDS is fresh jam on top,” he said. “We fell in in the process of gathering a marketing love with them — I’m very excited to team of student employees to manage serve them up deep fried at our food their social media presence. truck.”

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The Dartmouth Dining Services food truck will begin making its rounds of campus in the next two weeks.

Assembly restructured due to concerns over past corruption FROM SA PAGE 1

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Students wrote campaign messages in chalk outside South House.

total run for office.

Under the new system, all Assembly spending, proposals and reports will go through the Senate.

Most measures will be approved by a simple majority vote while more serious matters, such as the budget, will require a two-thirds majority.

Representatives can form committees in order to address specialized topics. The newly-elected Senate will begin meeting this week and will meet every seven to 10 days.

“The whole idea is to take power away from the positions of the president and the vice-president … and give it to this representative body,” Student Assembly President Nick Harrington ’17 said.

In past years, the student body only directly elected the president and vice president; the president and vice president then personally appointed members of the Assembly and exercised direct control over decision making.

The new Senate is the brainchild of Harrington and Vice President Sally Portman ’17. The two ran for office last spring on a platform of reform with a promise to overhaul a system they said was corrupt.

“We thought [the old system]

lent itself to all sorts of patronage and nepotism,” Harrington said.

In 2014, the Undergraduate Finance Committee sanctioned the Assembly for spending $1,876 on customized Patagonia sweaters for its executive members, among other instances of misusing funds.

“We wanted to create a Student Assembly that was more transparent, democratic and inclusive,” Portman said.

She added that democratizing the Assembly will bring in broader perspectives and more accountability.

Harrington said that it is possible for future presidents to undo the changes, but if successful this year, the Senate will become a permanent fixture in the Assembly.

Students who are interested in participating in the Assembly but are not elected members can become associate representatives.

These members will not have voting power, but will participate in committees and planning policy proposals, Harrington said.

“Any student who is willing to put their name on a ballot must either care enough about this community or be curious enough about Student Assembly that I ultimately believe they should be part of Student As-

sembly,” he said.

Campaigning began at 11:59 p.m. last Wednesday night. Several first-year candidates posted videos and advertisements on the Class of 2020 Facebook page. Sixteen first-year students submitted applications, more than any other class.

Initially, Harrington did not intend for first-years to be a part of the Senate. However, he decided that he wanted first-years to have a role in the Senate because they are the “hungriest” group of students to get involved on campus.

Portman said that the relatively short 10 week terms and complications with Senate members’ D-Plans pose an institutionalized challenge to implementing the system.

She added, however, that the new house communities has helped the Assembly implement the senate system.”

Austin Welch ’17, a newlyelected representative from School House who also serves as chair of the Greek Leadership Council, said that he wants to work with the Greek system and the new Assembly in order to improve the inclusivity of social spaces on campus.

“I am very encouraged by the opportunities that the new housing system presents,” he said.

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The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,300 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund

The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,900 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund

Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines

Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

DEADLINE: Thursday, November 10, 2016 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, 4 Currier Suite 303, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 10, 2016 or via email to patricia.moffitt@dartmouth.edu.

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Four students have found an alternative use for the climbing gym: silks.

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Despite lack of support, students continue to aerial silk

By KRIPA SHRESTHA The Dartmouth

When Cindy Li ’18 entered Dartmouth as a freshman, she was not ready to give up her high school hobby of aerial silks — so she set out to find others who were interested in the obscure mix of acrobatics and dance. Her search led her to a 2006 article in The Dartmouth about a now-defunct circus club called the Northern Lights, and from there, she was able to track down their last remaining member: Haley Reicher ’17. Since then, their group of aerial silk enthusiasts has grown to include Claire Apuan ’18 and Charlotte Nutt ’19. The Dartmouth climbing gym is home to this niche activity, which Apuan explained involves hanging a silk curtain from the ceiling on a special rigging device, but may not be the group’s first choice for a location.

“We have to work around the schedule of the climbing gym and can’t have the silks rigged all the time,” Reicher said. “So every time we gather, we have to get in harnesses and climb one of the ropes with the silks to rig them up, and then do that in reverse to bring them down.”

Apuan, who is a climber, usually rigs the silks when they practice.

The group is willing to deal with these inconveniences because they are not officially recognized by the College — but not for lack of trying.

“My sophomore fall, I actually tried to create an aerial arts club, but Collis didn’t approve it. They sent me to Risk Management, who were being really difficult and didn’t approve of it,” Li said. “So then I just gave up.”

The group’s inability to become a recognized group has resulted in some challenges. One such challenge is a lack of funding; Reicher said that she purchased silks and other necessary equipment — including a figure-8 hook, a rotating piece and two locking carabiners — online herself, and then put the equipment together to make a full aerial silk kit.

All of the girls except for Apuan had backgrounds in aerial silks prior to coming to Dartmouth. Reicher started aerial silks her sophomore year of high school at a circus studio in her hometown of Oakland, California.

A friend from Nutt’s boarding school introduced her to silks. Li started doing silks her junior year of high school. Li

convinced Apuan to join the group their sophomore spring because of Apuan’s involvement with the climbing gym.

The lack of recognition means that the group cannot publicly perform or openly advertise for new members. Li noted the difficulty in obtaining the College’s approval for a public performance.

“They think it’s dangerous to do silks,” Nutt said. “But I don’t think it’s dangerous; I’ve been doing it for three years now and I have never come close to injuring myself.”

However, the four group members expressed interest in getting others involved and possibly having a performance.

“I would love to do a performance on the Green sometime, maybe in the springtime when it’s beautiful outside,” Nutt said.

If the group were to do a performance outside, they would have a lot of preparation to do. It is difficult to find a place to rig silks that is also conducive as a performance space, Reicher said, and aerial silks require a high level of fitness and choreography. Apuan said that most routines are performed to pop music, but finding a song with a beat

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Haley Reicher ’17 uses the climbing gym in innovative ways.

that works well with aerial silks can be challenging.

“It’s physically hard, and if you’re moving fast, it can be really exhausting,” Nutt said. “So you want a song with a slow beat and one that also changes speeds a little bit so you can fall into a drop or go slow if you want to.”

However, because the group is currently not recognized — Apuan calls them “casual” and “underground” — the pressure is off in regards to choreography and song choices.

“We don’t really perform here, we rig silks and do that for fun. We work

on different climbs and different drops where you open yourself up in different ways and fall on purpose,” Reicher said.

“It’s fun to do freestyle movement to music.”

They remain optimistic about the future of aerial silks at Dartmouth, despite the lack of recognition.

“I’m hoping some ’20s will find out about silks and get interested in it because it’s something of a niche activity here,” Reicher said. “But I think it’s really fun, and I hope more people realize it’s something that happens here and get involved.”

Alumnus Q&A: Nate Seymour ’12 specializes as a colorist

By KAINA CHEN

The Dartmouth Staff

Nate Seymour ’12, who majored in studio arts with a focus in photography and minored in digital arts at Dartmouth, works as a colorist for television and film. A colorist’s job is to ensure that everything seen onscreen has the proper hue. Seymour has worked on projects spanning from commercials to short films. His work can be seen at nateseymour.com. Currently, he is working in the New York City office of The Mill, a production studio, as a “color-assist” assistant.

What does the job of a “colorist” entail?

NS: Any level of post-production goes through different types of work. We’ve got 3D people working on animation, 2D people working on compositing and adding in animation, designers and then the color department.

We adjust the colors, basically. The commercials are shot with a lot of color information for flexibility. Going through photography and Photoshop [at Dartmouth] were helpful. Prior to this, I didn’t even know color was its

own job — I thought it was covered by other types of post-production, not its own piece of the puzzle.

What does it mean to shoot a commercial with “a lot of color information?”

NS: It’s a format that’s specifically been designed using a camera sensor that can shoot more color information than any existing monitors can show.

It’s ahead of TV monitors in terms of color range, and [the colorists] pull it back into the visible range. We look at what tones there are, fitting the mood to the piece. It’s just a technical format that they do on purpose to keep us in work.

What’s a typical day in the office for you?

NS: Everything we do is on a computer in a windowless room because color work has to avoid glare from the lights.

In a typical day — well, we have a rotating schedule to cover long hours of the day. There’s four of us — we field requests from departments inside our own company and requests from clients outside of the company. Normally, a colorist can finish three or four 30-sec-

ond commercials in a day. We make sure the colorists and clients are happy with anything they need — rendering out files, making sure everything looks good, keeping clients happy. So that’s the day-to-day, and it’s always pretty chaotic. We focus in advertising, so it’s tight deadlines and high stakes, and it’s all very expensive — a lot of sort of reactive thinking and working to make sure everyone has what they need.

working on?

NS: We were mostly fixing things with stage lighting. If you’re looking at the stage, there are green and pink lights, which look normal from the audience.

But in film, if you cut from green to pink light, it’s very jarring. A lot of this film was matching and ensuring consistency. No one ever thinks much about digitally controlled color, but if it doesn’t look good, people will notice.

At the start of this conversation, you said you were at work until pretty late last night. What kept you up?

NS: The reason why I was up late is that we do some worldwide film. The specific project I was working on was an entire opera, so the length of the movie.

They had filmed a staged version, and the director is out in LA — he had to watch it remotely. He went into our LA office to watch our colorist finish their job at midnight, our time. After he was done I had to render the files, so they can get it shown on television

by Saturday.

What about the weekends – what are some of your interests when you’re not in the office?

NS: During the weekends, I’m typically working on my own projects. I like to go to the office. We get to use all of the fancy equipment at night and on the weekends, and [the company] expects us to learn how to do the job. I did just get back from a camping trip, though, a kind of photography camping trip.

I still do a lot of photography on the side from learning [at Dartmouth].

Big shout-out to [studio art professors] Brian Miller and Virginia Beahan.

Specifically, as a colorist, what aspects of the film were you

Are there any specific favorites you have when working on a project or stuff that you just dread?

NS: Well, on the whole, for anybody doing color — something that’s more of a commercial job typically wants something clean and normal. It’s challenging because you have to work within the constraints of the footage.

I think everybody appreciates a little bit of creative freedom, where you can work and control the emotion or change the tone of the piece.

All of that expensive equipment — do you get to bring your coffee to your desk?

NS: Yes. If we didn’t drink coffee the entire company would crumble.

Any advice to students trying to figure out post-graduation plans?

NS: Whatever you want to do, do a lot of it. Shoot films, shoot garbage films, just make as much as you can. It’s important not to get hung up on a single project as your masterpiece because it’s not. Show people how passionate you are about that thing you want to do, and don’t be afraid to work.

This article has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.