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Rideshare aims to reduce traffic N.H. government

creates new sexual assault position

By ANNIE MA

The Dartmouth Staff

of their employees carpool to work everyday, Upper Valley Rideshare marketing and program manager Susan Berry said.

The goal is to decrease the number of cars on Route 120 during rush hour, Berry said, which should consequently decrease the amount of standstill traffic occurring during peak travel times. Route 120 runs in front of the Hanover

A new position in the New Hampshire Department of Justice has been created to assist colleges and universities located in the state to respond to sexual violence on campuses. The position is currently temporary and funded through June 30 of this year, with the potential to be extended.

The Department of Justice’s executive council, which approved the position at a Feb. 11 meeting, allocated $72,216 grant to further support the department’s sexual assault outreach programs.

According to the New Hampshire Department of State’s website, the sexual assault program specialist will be responsible for helping colleges and universities develop practices to ensure they operate in compliance with federal and state mandates, such as Title IX and the Clery Act. The position will also work to strengthen first responder training and promote collaboration between crisis centers like WISE, the police and individual colleges and universities.

Heather Lindkvist, the College’s Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, said that the position will likely serve as a coordinator for all colleges and universities in the state. She said that it will also bring together the various sexual violence response teams and resource groups throughout the state, which often include the input of colleges and universities.

The Department of Justice provides grants to facilitate technical training and outreach to respond

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A carpooling initiative hopes to reduce the amount of traffic in the Upper Valley.

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As the Route 120 corridor progressively becomes a popular travel path and hub of business development, the amount of rush hour traffic along the road continues to increase. A proposed solution to the traffic problem involves a program has been around for more than two decades — Upper Valley Rideshare.

Upper Valley Rideshare

is a free carpooling platform under the direction of the Advanced Transit transportation system that connects people in the Upper Valley who want to carpool.

Carpools can range from occasional trips to every day commutes to work.

In January, Upper Valley Rideshare initiated the Route 120 commuter challenge, aiming for all companies and municipalities situated along Route 120 to have 10 percent

Senate education report hopes to reduce regulations B y TIMothy CONNOR The Dartmouth Staff

The Senate Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education presented a report to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., on Thursday that suggests streamlining existing regulations on American colleges and universities by simplifying and removing burdensome policies.

The task force was formed in Nov. 2013 by Alexander, Sen.

Richard Burr, R-NC, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-MD and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. The report criticizes the volume of federal guidelines surrounding higher education and states that the U.S. Department of Education produces an average of more than one new regulation every business day of the year.

Further, the reported cited data from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University which finds that SEE SENATE PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Brown University: In preparation for Valentine’s Day, students at Brown University aimed to also use the holiday for nontraditional activities including fundraising, The Brown Daily Herald reported.

Students planned to raise money for the University’s first annual dance marathon, Brunothon. Some also attended a discussion hosted

by Brown’s Alpha Chi Omega sorority at which they attempted to define love, with responses including “putting someone else first” and “mutual respect.”

Columbia University: As temperatures dipped to record-breaking lows in New York City this week, heating failures caused students at Columbia University to borrow space heaters from the University, and many filed complaints against the University’s Facilities department, The Columbia Spectator reported. According to students interviewed, administrators were aware of the problem and had taken a number of steps to remedy it, including emailing students with promises to fix broken heating systems and encouraging individual students not to turn off their radiators.

Cornell University: This Wednesday, Cornell University administrators lifted an interim suspension Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, allowing the fraternity to resume all activities except for social gatherings hosting guests, The Cornell Daily Sun reported. Lambda Chi Alpha had been suspended on Feb. 2 pending an investigation into a potential sex offense, marking the second fraternity this semester to be suspended by the University.

Harvard University: Pending further discussion by the faculty of arts and sciences at their March and April meetings, Harvard University will likely endorse its first honor code and affirmation procedures, The Harvard Crimson reported. If approved, the code and student procedure for affirming it before taking exams, the former of which was approved in 2014, will likely go into effect in the fall of 2015.

Princeton University: In a donation valued at $300 million — the largest in Princeton University’s history — William Scheide, a member of the Princeton Class of 1936, has given his collection of 2,500 rare books to Princeton’s Firestone Library, The Daily Princetonian reported. Scheide, who passed last November, said at a luncheon honoring his 90th birthday that he would donate the collection to the University after his death.

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from 1997 to 2012, the number of federal requirements for colleges and universities increased by 56 percent.

Some of the recommendations in the task force’s report include cutting the requirement that colleges provide students with voter registration documentation and easing the rule that makes colleges regulate illegal file sharing. It also called for the elimination of the requirement that colleges celebrate Constitution Day and that they report foreign gifts they receive and publicize their vaccination policies. In short, the report called the sum of the regulations it attacks a “jungle of red tape.”

Dartmouth associate general counsel Kevin O’Leary said that the report will only have an impact during the next period of authorization of the Higher Education Act. This reauthorization could occur during the 114th session of Congress.

“The position of the report writers is that there are problems with existing regulations that they’re going to try to change with the next authorization of the Higher Education Act,” he said. “I would say some of the concerns that were identified in the report are concerns that we have identified and that other colleagues of ours have identified.”

Government professor Joseph Bafumi expressed his approval of

the efforts made by the task force, saying that the suggested reforms would be beneficial for higher education institutions.

“I think what they’re trying to do is get rid of the extraneous and useless stuff and only focus on regulations that are clear, that are relevant and that really make a difference to create better universities and colleges,” he said. “It seems like a really good idea.”

He added that the entangled nature of the regulations targeted by the task force are a natural product of the passage of time when it comes to legislation, and said that a periodic readjustment is necessary to ensure that all of the regulations remain clear and functional.

“I’ve thought more largely about the issue of regulations in the federal government, and the government can be very large and burdensome in terms of the regulations it places on entities,” Bafumi said. “Over time the number of recommendations and the complexity of these recommendations grows, so every once in a while people at the federal level, representatives and senators, have to take a step back and say, ‘What’s really important here, what makes a difference and what’s just extraneous?’”

The report also suggests colleges shrink the area for which they gather crime data. It also suggests giving colleges more flexibility on when they are required to report events that may pose a threat to

campus security.

Executive director of advocacy group SurvJustice Laura Dunn expressed concern about how little space the report devotes to addressing campus security.

“The report is vastly focused on other issues and only devotes one to two pages to campus safety issues,” Dunn said. “I actually think any deregulation would have a negative effect on campus safety. The whole reason we have regulations is because there’s been a lack of transparency on college campuses — the Clery Act passed in 1990 was meant to stop routine practices of campuses not having the perfect safety measures and when incidents of violence came up just sweeping it under the rug.”

O’Leary said that the issues identified in the report are important areas that require remedy, but that the likelihood of implementing the suggested fixes remains uncertain.

“The parts that I’ve read seem to identify some of the problems that people have been talking about for a little while, and it would be good if in the next session of Congress those problems could be addressed,” he said. “I think it’s hard to predict how much of it will get implemented. With the Republicans in control of the House and the Senate, it has a higher likelihood of being implemented than it would otherwise, but it’s hard to know whether or not there will be enough support.”

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University of Pennsylvania: Following reports of a noise that many thought was an explosion or a gunshot near the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, Penn Police have identified an exploding transformer on a telephone pole as the cause, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. In the immediate aftermath of the noise, which was reported close to 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a “UPenn Alert” was issued to campus at 7:29 a.m.

Yale University: After Yale University announced sanctions against Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for violations of University’s sexual misconduct policies, students interviewed by the Yale Daily News questioned whether the sanctions would impact the fraternity.

While the penalties include a prohibition on hosting any on-campus events and a ban on using Yale email systems and bulletin boards, the fraternity is located off-campus and students said they did not anticipate that the fraternity would have trouble throwing events or recruiting their next rush class.

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Co-op and Thompson Arena and connects Hanover to Lebanon.

Two years ago, a Route 120 corridor workgroup was formed to look at the amount of current as well as future traffic on the road, Berry said. This past summer, the workgroup proposed that Upper Valley Rideshare focus on decreasing the amount of traffic along Route 120.

Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin participated in the workgroup, Hanover parking division supervisor Patrick O’Neill said.

In the last budget year, Hanover’s board of selectmen decided to contribute $10,000 to support Upper Valley Rideshare’s work.

Along with supporting efforts to decrease the amount of traffic along Route 120, the parking division uses Upper Valley Rideshare’s carpool matching services as a way to increase the amount of parking spaces available in downtown Hanover. This idea stemmed from a parking study performed on Hanover’s central business district, O’Neill said.

If employees carpool to work, O’Neill said, they open up spaces for customers and visitors to park in town.

Upper Valley Rideshare has promoted the commuter challenge in a variety of ways, including social media and flyers. Upper Valley Rideshare recently partnered with Everything But Anchovies, and the restaurant will be putting a flyer promoting the commuter challenge on top of each of their pizza boxes.

In 1992 — the year Upper Valley Rideshare was founded — the primary motivation to rideshare stemmed from environmental concerns, Berry said. The economic benefits of carpooling, however, seem to have become the main reason people now carpool to work, she added.

No matter where a carpooler’s main intention may lie, the economic and environmental benefits to ridesharing are not mutually exclusive. Ridesharing combats carbon sequestration and global warming and saves drivers gas money.

Each user has his or her own calendar, accessible on Upper Valley Rideshare’s website, that tracks the amount of money he or she saved and carbon dioxide emissions he or she reduced by carpooling, Berry said.

Upper Valley Rideshare also provides an emergency ride home benefit for their registered users who carpooled, walked, rode a bike or used a bus to get to work on the day of the emergency. Upper

Valley Rideshare will reimburse an individual for their emergency ride home up to six times per year.

Dartmouth College uses Upper Valley Rideshare in conjunction with another online carpool matching service: Zimride. The College began partnering with Zimride in 2008.

Only those with a Dartmouth email address are able to access Zimride’s online carpooling database to coordinate rides with other members of the Dartmouth community. In comparison, Upper Valley Rideshare can coordinate rides between anyone living in the area.

The College offers incentives to faculty, students and staff members who carpool to work.

Faculty and staff members who form carpools made up of two people get a reduced on-campus parking rate, while carpool groups of three or more people can park for free at a reserved parking space, College parking operation coordinator Robin Guay said.

Students who form carpools are

offered reduced on-campus parking rates, Guay said, but added that fewer than 10 students have applied for this carpooling benefit.

Along with the College and the Town of Hanover, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover-based industrial cutting machinery manufacturer Hypertherm, the City of Lebanon, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission and Upper Valley Transportation Management Association partner with Upper Valley Rideshare.

These partners have contributed money or services to the Rideshare program, Berry said.

Director of planning and zoning for the City of Lebanon David Brooks wrote in an email that because Lebanon is the employment and shopping center for the Upper Valley, it is in the best interest of the city and businesses to make sure traffic along Route 120 does not become a safety problem, inhibit the movement of people or goods or have an adverse impact on quality of life.

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Not Just for Jocks

Never Been Flogged

Dartmouth’s Greek system helps a broad range of students develop socially.

It’s easy to stereotype Dartmouth — a school with a large percentage of students from highincome households — as an institution dominated by well-prepared students from elite backgrounds.

Many may appear to already be well-adjusted to collegiate social life when they arrive. Our school, however, has a diverse student body, and there are also a significant number of students to whom this stereotype does not apply. The Greek system doesn’t lack diversity and abounds in exclusivity, I argue that the openness and loyalty in Greek houses create an environment that helps students build social and personal confidence, regardless of their background.

For many, a major barrier to pleasant social interaction is a lack of comfort or perceived acceptance around those with whom you are interacting — which can affect any student. Social events dominated by specific groups that share something in common — such as people who are all members of a particular club — can cause a sense of alienation or exclusion for somebody who isn’t a part of the in-group. In contrast, social events and situations that are predicated on a come-one, come-all basis don’t necessarily suffer from this problem, as anyone can participate.

Open social events organized by the Greek system — which I define here as public events announced through the campus Listserv — fit exactly these sort of criteria. Unlike the typical invite-only Greek parties at many schools, almost any student can attend a Greek event that had a public blitz invitation, provided that there’s no capacity issue. In many ways, open Greek parties at Dartmouth are like bar scenes — most people can get a drink and a fair chance to meet new people.

Granted, like bars, some people will benefit from this type of open social scene more than others — be that due to physical appearance, personality or membership in certain friend groups. For somebody who isn’t as connected or prepared socially, however, this sort of event offers an opportunity to talk to new people and become better adjusted at navigating a social space.

The same goes for the Greek organizations themselves, which aren’t organized around any

particular common interest. While some houses may draw many of their members from specific athletic teams or groups on campus, this pattern is by no means the rule. For the most part, Greek organizations are based on loyalty and a shared house identity. Regardless of your personal background or interests, you’re a member of the house as much as anybody else is from the day you join, given Dartmouth’s elimination of probationary membership, nominal as it may be.

That being said, many Greek organizations are selective in their membership — not everyone has the chance to fit in everywhere, and not all those who rush will get a bid. Within fraternities, sororities and coed houses, however, there is a distinct and unparalleled bond that is forged through group loyalty. You know that you will be accepted because you are a member and for no other reason. This sort of environment allows members of any background to feel comfortable about being themselves, to speak honestly and to develop into whoever they want to be, which naturally builds their self-confidence.

As former Brown University fraternity brother Sam Rosen wrote in an Oct. 23 column for New York Magazine, his fraternity brother Chris “was receptive to the story of my mom’s coming out… because I was his fraternity brother and he wanted to have my back.” Furthermore, his fraternity environment let men “feel comfortable setting aside all the ridiculous alpha-male expectations and figure out who they actually wanted to be.”

This isn’t to say that the environments Greek systems create for their members are totally denuded of social expectations — those expectations remain, in ways that are both good and bad. Yet even within these confines, the open Greek social scene at Dartmouth offers almost anyone who wants to participate the chance to develop socially — not just the jocks or the well connected. Open parties provide all students with a space to refine their social skills, even those who aren’t affiliated. For students who do choose to rush, Greek houses present a special environment for personal development because they offer a supportive atmosphere — one that is extended to any and every member.

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“Fifty Shades of Grey” is not a role model for sexual empowerment.

In her Feb. 18 column, “No Strings Attached,” Jessica Lu presented an optimistic view of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Lu concedes briefly that it “may present a problematic portrayal of BDSM relations,” but continues on to discuss the merit of the franchise — namely, that it brings female sexual pleasure into the mainstream and enables women to openly discuss and express their sexuality. I’ve read all three of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” books, and have no problems with BDSM-style sex. I argue, however, that “Fifty Shades of Grey” does the exact opposite of sexually empowering for women.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” is sneaky — at a glance, it de-stigmatizes both BDSM and female pleasure in one fell swoop. If this were true, it would be a truly incredible feat. Neither the film or novel, however, present a new sexual liberation for women, but rather continue to work within a harmful, patriarchal view of women.

First, the novel taps into the trope that men should and do find virgin women highly desirable. Anastasia was incredibly special to Christian because she was completely pure — never been kissed, never seen a flogger before.

Any other submissive, had they been exposed to or engaged in sexual contact, would not have been able to win Christian’s love and “fix” him.

Second, the novel portrays self-sacrificing women as virtuous and noble. Anastasia doesn’t inherently enjoy being beaten or tied up, and she struggles with submissiveness because she prefers equality in relationships. For Christian, though, she’ll do anything. No matter how many times she hesitates or refuses, Anastasia ultimately lets Christian do what he wishes because, in her mind, his needs are more important than hers. Christian’s need to dominate women stems from an abusive childhood. Not only does this assume sexual deviancy is rooted in underlying issues, but asserts that Anastasia can not only sacrifice her agency for Christian’s needs, but also fix him. The novel represents his need to dominate her as more important than her desire for equality, but it’s okay because she can still be his magical savior.

Finally, ”Fifty Shades of Grey” suggests

that the best kind of women are sexually naïve — but if you push them far enough, they’ll be down for anything. It’s the same misogynistic stereotype in which women openly resist sexual activity but secretly enjoy it. Anastasia’s sexual awakening is exciting — even if it’s not on her terms. She’s too afraid to lose Christian to stand up for what she wants or doesn’t want.

BDSM-style sex can be empowering and meet the needs of all involved because it is rooted in consent and trust. This relationship, however, involves emotional manipulation and coercion. Christian manipulates Anastasia by saying, “That’s what a good submissive would do.” Christian’s contract, the Red Room of Pain and all the sexy whispers in her ear essentially say, “This is what I want. How far are you willing to go to make me happy?” Anastasia wants to please Christian, so she agrees to be his submissive. Not because she wants to, but because she wants him to love her.

The books make it clear that her favorite and most intimate moments with Christian are when they have very consensual, “vanilla” sex. Anastasia engages in sexual activity with Christian for Christian, not for herself. She fears losing him more than she fears being manipulated into sex. We never see Ana stand up to Christian and say, “Actually, I’d rather not be tied up today. Can you give me oral instead?

I’d like that.”

If “Fifty Shades of Grey” were truly empowering, Christian would respect Ana’s voice when she says “No.” It is not “hot” or “racy” for a woman to resist a man only to have him do whatever he wants anyway. Ana should engage in BDSM activities for herself, not for a man.

What we should be hearing from Ana is a “Hell yeah, I’m so down for you to spank me, this is exactly what I needed!” instead of a “Holy crap!

I can’t do this.” No matter how many orgasms Anastasia has, the relationship cannot be a role model for sexual empowerment — not because of the power dynamics inherent in BDSM, but because she was never truly comfortable with what Christian wanted but kept satisfying him anyway.

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to sexual violence, Lindkvist said.

The position and grant approved by the executive council aim to enhance resources and services provided by higher educational institutions, including public universities, community colleges and technical and private institutions.

Lindkvist added that addressing the differing needs of this diverse group would be one of the primary duties expected of the position.

“Developing programs that will meet the needs of all those constituencies is important,” Lindkvist said. “What they’re really trying to do at the state level is what we’re supposed to at the school level, such as training for investigators and making sure anyone involved in the Title IX process is well informed.”

Lindkvist said she expects whoever assumes the position will interact with the College by working closely both with her and staff at the health promotion and wellness office. The position, however, will likely work at an organizational and institutional level rather than take an “on-the-ground” approach at individual schools, she added.

Laura Dunn, executive director and founder of advocacy group SurvJustice, expressed doubt at the necessity and efficiency of the position.

While there is nothing wrong with the position’s creation, Dunn said, other state initiatives such as developing policy combating sexual assault and reinforcing compliance with Title IX and the Clery Act are likely more effective at addressing the issue.

Dunn cited the working group assembled by the State University of New York last year, which brought together sexual assault experts and advocates over a period of 60 days to address issues of resources and policy, as an example of a better approach. She added that the group produced a uniform policy on sexual assault with no ongoing costs.

“Having a uniform policy has an appeal, because students are protected in the same way regardless of where they choose to go to school,” Dunn said.

Additionally, Dunn said, a uniform policy will also save money in the long run, as the new position would require ongoing investments in the position’s salary and benefits.

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She added that the Department of Justice’s approach would require an individual to have a broad range of experiences to be best qualified for the job, citing a need for a strong law background.

“Just because you’ve worked for a school and have been a victim advocate doesn’t mean you have the prerequisite experience to ensure compliance with federal law,” Dunn said.

Tori Nevel ’16, chair of the Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, said that she thought the position would greatly benefit all institutions in the state and alleviate the resource gap between public and private schools.

Nevel also said that she hopes the position will help resolve any ambiguities surrounding certain aspects of Title IX. “Title IX can be hard to enforce in a lot of ways,” Nevel said. “It states that men and women must have equal opportunity in higher education, but what does that mean in practice?”

Having a point person in this position, Nevel said, would make it easier to answer all the questions Dartmouth and other New Hampshire institutions have about compliance with Title IX.

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“Romeo and Juliet” will bring a new twist to the classic play

B y kourtney kawano The Dartmouth Staff

With its components of romance and drama, many theaters have undertaken the iconic “story of more woe” between the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The challenge faced by modern theater productions is finding the perfect balance between creating a unique interpretation that audiences will find as thoughtprovoking as the original play without taking too much creative license through the characters’ dialogue or the play’s setting.

T he College’s theater department will premiere an innovative version of “Romeo and Juliet” for its annual winter term production. The department’s p ro d u c t i o n w i l l p rov i d e a n emphasis on the historical context of Shakespeare’s text in order to give the audience insight into his mind and create a double performance through the use of camera and film.

The production, directed by theater professor Peter Hackett, will premiere on Friday evening and have a two-weekend run.

U n l i k e o t h e r m o d e r n i ze d versions that still only focus on the play’s romantic nature, like the 2013 Broadway version featuring Orlando Bloom in the titular role of Romeo, Hackett’s version will use multimedia to reflect a more meaningful and analytical look at the social and political

commentaries laced within the text.

Hackett said that the main challenge of presenting such an iconic play is making people see the story in a new way. He said he was inspired to steer away from traditional retellings by a project done by the Nature Theater, a company from Oklahoma, that asked people to retell “Romeo and Juliet” “in their own words.”

“Everybody thinks they know the story,” Hackett said. “What I find interesting is that we all seem to be locked into 19th-century romantic interpretation of the play.”

Using Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” (1996) and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1968) as examples, Hackett said that the emphasis placed on romance in many interpretations can overshadow other aspects of the play, such as the beauty of the poetry or sobering realities, like the dysfunctions within the Montague and Capulet families.

In order to help the audience understand some of the more subtle contexts of the play, the action will be broken by “footnotes” delivered by the actors, Hackett said.

Students from “Theater and Society II: Early Modern Perfor mance” researched and complied these “footnotes,” which range from information about clandestine marriages to the typical age of marriage in Shakespeare’s time, “Theater and Society II: Early

Modern Performance” professor Laura Edmonson said. To help put the historical information into a modern-day setting, the students also used social media to translate the historical information, such as describing what a day in Juliet’s life would have been like through Yik Yak posts.

To further the production from traditional re-tellings, the action

“Everybody thinks they know the story.

What I find interesting is that we all seem to be locked into a 19th-century romantic interpretation of the play.”

-Peter Hackett, director of “Romeo and Juliet” on stage will also be filmed at the same time and projected, giving audience members the freedom to choose where they focus their attention — the live projected video or the live storytelling by the actors. For example, in the famous balcony scene, viewers will be faced with the dilemma of watching two simultaneous interpretations in the different mediums.

“We’re not telling you where to look, what experience to have,” Hackett said. “You can choose or go back and forth. The whole time, you’re listening to Shakespeare’s beautiful language.”

Assistant director and videographer Heather Oudheusden ’15 said that she is excited to use multimedia to bring new aspects to the show that audience members not have considered before.

She said that one of the major challenges of the show was figuring out the technical aspects of the camera work.

Hackett said that helping the actors interact with the cameras was also a challenge, since it added an extra level of choreography to the production.

There will also be pre-recorded footage, including the actors’ thoughts on the play and students from the College and local high schools performing their favorite moments.

To parallel the use of live video, the staged performance will occur in a modern-day rehearsal studio designed by theater professor Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili. His set for “Romeo and Juliet” will be filled with video cameras, monitors, long folding tables and chairs and costume pieces on mannequins.

Additionally, the cast and production team feature a diverse mix of underg raduates who have been practicing to get the timing and choreography of the complicated sword fights right and

to ensure the video sequences are in sync with the onstage performance — the department even hired a professional fight choreographer, Ron Piretti, to ensure the fight scenes ran smoothly. Portraying the star-crossed lovers and bringing this modern adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” to life on stage will be Reed Latrowski ’15 and Tess McGuinness ’18, respectively.

Latrowski and McGuinness are “phenomenal,” Oudheusden said. “ I ’ m s u p e r exc i t e d , ” s h e said. “[McGuinness] has great knowledge for what it means to be a teenager back then, and we get to see [Latrowski] in a whole new light.”

Since planning for the show began almost a year ago, Hackett has been waiting to bring this new vision to life.

“There were lots of challenges, but that’s what made it so fun,” Hackett said.

This weekend’s performances will be Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Moore Theater. Next week, the play will be performed Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets will between five dollars and $12 for students and between $10 and $12 for community members.

There will also be performances Thursday Feb. 26, Friday Feb. 27, Saturday Feb. 28 and Sunday March 1, with a post-performance discussion after the Feb. 27 performance.

Wind Ensemble will explore silent film in Friday’s concert

B y kaina chen

The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble will perform “An Evening in Metropolis” on Friday featuring four contemporary selections that are tied together by the inspiration of a particular place, either true or imagined.

The ensemble’s conductor Matthew Marsit said that the first piece on the program, “Metropolis” (1992) by Adam Gorb, is written to represent the energy of city living studded with moments of chaos, beauty, busyness and grandeur.

“It’s a stunning work, one that is probably in my top 10 list of favorite pieces,” Marsit said.

The program’s second piece, “Metropolis Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble” (2015) by Richard Marriott was commissioned by the Hop and is being premiered Friday. It was originally composed as a score to the 1927 German expressionist silent film, “Metropolis” (1927).

The piece will feature violin

soloist Alisa Rose, who is a member of the Real Vocal String Quartet and has worked with the Kronos Quartet and the singer Feist.

Marriot said that the music had to closely match the film’s scenes.

“When writing for a movie, the music has to change when the scene changes to match the mood of the film,” he said. “We have a love scene that goes over a minute of film, but in my concerto it might go over four minutes, and comes back three times. It develops each time.”

Marriot, who has spent over three decades in the music industry c o m p o s i n g, p erfo r m i n g a n d producing music and building instruments, said that when he was writing “Metropolis,” he had to be aware of the film’s differences from reality.

“Silent film, in some ways, is akin to opera,” he said. “It’s a fantasy.

It doesn’t try to depict reality in quite the same way.”

Mar riot visited the Wind Ensemble several times during rehearsals, offering critiques and

the opportunity to collaborate with him when interpreting the score.

Traditionally, the Wind Ensemble chooses to showcase pieces that were composed during or after the 1950s, which allows most of the composers of the pieces the Ensemble chooses to showcase to visit campus and sit in on rehearsals.

Marriot said that he was excited to introduce the audience to “Metropolis.”

“I wanted the audience to have a better understanding of the film,” he said. “The 1920 German expressionist era was a fascinating time in cinematography, and this is one of the greatest silent films in history. The opportunity to share that with the audience is incredibly exciting.”

Marsit said that the imagery of the film has been a source inspiration for many artists and inspired the third score that will be showcased in tomorrow night’s concert, Thomas Miller’s “Suite from Metropolis” (2005). “[The film “Metropolis”] shows

the plight of the working man in the industrial era,” he said. “There’s a lot of imagery that involves machinery and factories, and that lends itself to have a musical score.

It’s inspired a huge number of scores, probably more than any silent film in history.”

Marsit said that the organization needed for performing a piece alongside a visual posed a unique challenge. Typically, the conductor and the musicians collaborate when settling on the speed or mood of a particular passage, and the eyes of the musicians follow the conductor’s baton when navigating through tempo changes and changes in style.

With the film running in the background, however, many of the musicians’ parts serve as sound effects to particular moments in the visual, requiring Marsit to don a “click track,” an earpiece that serves as an electronic metronome, which is adjusted remotely throughout the duration of the performance. “[The click-track] will guide me on very exact tempo markings,” he

said. “There are points in the music that have to line up perfectly with the score. It’s not simply haphazard — moments of actions have large strikes in the ensemble.”

The final piece on the program is “Lost Vegas” (2011) which w a s c o m p o s e d by M i c h a e l Daugherty. The title emphasizes how the casinos, skyscrapers and commercialization have detracted from the intimacy of Las Vegas in the 1960s and 1970s, Marsit said.

“The piece is designed to be his reflection on the good old days of Las Vegas and incorporates sounds we associate with Vegas,” Marsit said. “It’s another magnificently large city, a great metropolis.”

Robert Wright ’18, a trumpet player who joined the Wind Ensemble last term, said that while the program was challenging, he thinks the concert will be a success.

The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium on Friday. Tickets for students will be five dollars to $10, while tickets for the general audience will be nine dollars to $10.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015

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Track and field competes in Boston

B y Daniel lee

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled south this past weekend to compete in Boston University’s Valentine Invitational. While the event was non-scoring, both teams finished with strong results in the final meet before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, highlighted by a new school record set by high jumper Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16.

Competition began Friday night, with the women taking the first day of competition. Whitehorn has been a strong competitor for the Big Green, becoming the first woman to win both the 100-meter dash and high jump at last year’s Heptagonal Championship and consistently finishing in the top of both the high jump and sprinting events this season.

Whitehorn continued her streak at BU, winning the high jump event by clearing 5-10.75/1.8m. This jump was high enough to set a new school record, and Whitehorn bested her own previous school record by a quarter-inch and beat second-place finisher Allison Frantz ’18 by nearly four inches.

Whitehorn did not have the only notable finish for the Big Green, as the men’s team shared in the success.

Another standout came from Anthony Anzivino ’16 who completed the men’s 3000-meter run in 8:20.35, a personal best. The time earned him 38th overall in the standings and fifth amongst Ivy League athletes.

“We perceive this as a very competitive chance for everyone to do as best as they can,” Anzivino said. “The goal of this meet was to get a better time because

the race that we run at Heps depends on how fast we’ve run before.”

Other impressive results for the men’s team came in the 500-meter dash, with Phil Gomez ’17 completing the race in 1:04.05 to finish fourth overall — the best finish of the day for the Big Green — and second amongst Ivy League athletes. Amos Cariati ’18 was the next Big Green athlete to cross the finish line, coming in at 1:04.86 for 15th overall and fifth amongst Ivy competitors.

In the 60-meter hurdles, Nico Robinson ’17, Alex Frye ’17, Ben Colello ’18 and Danny Katz ’16 finished with respective times of 8.49, 8.52, 8.56 and 8.56. The athletes took four of the five top spots amongst Ivy League athletes, with Brown’s Christopher Garzia taking first among Ivies.

“We want to see our runners improving and being successful, and we definitely had that [this past weekend]” Anzivino said.

The women’s team also enjoyed similar success at the invitational, with Sara Kikut ’16 taking second in her section and 15th overall in the women’s 60-meter dash with a time of 7.81. In the 400-meter dash, Marissa Evans ’18 placed fifth overall at 55.52 and Jennifer Meech ’16 took 10th at 56.09, with both women representing the top two Ivy League finishers. Continuing the success, Erica Hendershot ’15 won her section and took fourth overall for the women’s 500-meter dash with a time of 1:14.14.

The only notable issue that hindered the women’s relay team was illnesses that kept several runners unable to compete.

Moving forward, however, men’s head coach Barry Harwick said he is sure the

team will be able to compete strongly at Heps. While the non-scoring aspect of the meet didn’t allow for any team to win the competition, both the men and women said they were satisfied and motivated by the results.

“Everyone ran really well and our coaches are very excited with our performances going into Ivy League Championships,” Kikut said.

The string of success the team has had, particularly in the past few weeks, comes at the perfect time as the team prepares for championships.

“The [Valentine] Invitational was one of the best meets that we’ve had so far, and it’s a great time to be at our best right now,” Harwick said.

With Heps right around the corner, the track and field coaches are gradually taking a different approach to their practice regimens.

“We are backing off the intensity and trying to sharpen our athletes so that they can be fresh and healthy as they can be,” Harwick said.

With the previous two competitions both being non-scoring, the focus going into Heps is different. Runners must ensure that they rank in the top six spots in their respective races to gain points, and they must ensure that they score in as many events as possible, Harwick said.

“We are just at a point where we are satisfied, but we still have to make it to the next step and have to work as hard as we can in the next two weeks to be ready,” Kikut said.

The Ivy League Heptagonal Championships will take place at Harvard University on Saturday, Feb. 28 and Sunday, March 1.

B y RICH SHEN AND AUSTIN LIM The Dartmouth Staff

This past weekend marked one of the most entertaining All-Star weekends in recent memory. It was filled with high-flying dunks, wet three-point shots and hysterical commentary from the most entertaining crew in sports (read: Shaq and Charles Barkley). The events on Saturday culminated with the 2015 Sprite Slam Dunk, one of the most entertaining dunk contests I can remember. For this edition of “Any Given Thursday,” we decided to share our reactions to each one of these dunks.

Mason Plumlee’s first dunk: Pretty solid. He had Kyrie Irving throw the ball off the side of the backboard and then jammed home a two-handed reverse. The real question, though, is why did he pick Irving instead of a teammate? I guess the Nets are just that bad.

Victor Oladipo’s first dunk: This dude has some major swag — he came in singing Sinatra and then did a sick 540. For the shortest guy in the contest, he certainly made a big statement with his first dunk.

Zach LaVine’s first dunk: LaVine emerged wearing a “Space Jam” jersey with Michael Jordan’s name on the back — bold statement. He can’t possibly live up to the name, can he? Oh, he threw the ball in the air, we’ve all seen this before…OHMYGOD. That dunk was ridiculous! How is that even possible? He had to avoid hitting his head on the rim! Wow. Giannis Antetokounmpo’s first dunk: Sorry, still watching LaVine’s.

Plumlee’s second dunk: Mason brings out his brother, who is around 6’ 11” and proceeds to dunk over him, which is pretty cool. Admittedly he did push off a little, but still a solid dunk.

I’m finally sitting down again after LaVine’s dunk.

Oladipo’s second dunk: Gets a pass off the side of the backboard and does a 360 dunk, but it is less emphatic than I would have liked. Impressive, but not as good as his first dunk.

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Men’s track and field will travel to Harvard University next weekend, who they defeated at January’s Dartmouth Relays.

LaVine’s second dunk: This dunk was insane, like throw-everything-you-

currently-have-in-your-hands-on-theground-and-walk-out-of-the-room insane. I think I did a real life spit-take, and I didn’t even take a sip of anything beforehand. He puts the ball behind his back and is still rising! He’s still going up and finally after his head reaches the level of the rim he decides, hmm I guess I’ll dunk it now, and does so emphatically. My god. This kid must have springs on his shoes or something because these dunks should be illegal.

Antetokounmpo’s second dunk: Still watching LaVine.

LaVine’s third dunk: He just makes it look so easy, it’s insane. Andrew Wiggins holds the ball up before LaVine puts it through his legs and jams it home with authority. This gets me thinking about a Wiggins-LaVine dunk contest. Which would you rather watch, Wiggins vs. LaVine dunking or Steph Curry vs Klay Thompson shooting?

These are the tough questions in life.

Oladipo’s third dunk: Another solid dunk. He has a teammate throw it off the backboard and does a windmill before dunking it with authority. Can we talk about his teammate’s hair? It looks like a bird’s nest. I was initially distracted from the dunk by the hair — need to have a talk with Victor about his teammate selection.

Oladipo’s fourth dunk: Tries to do an awesome dunk, but can’t convert it. Unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter because we all know who’s going to win.

LaVine’s fourth dunk: LAVINE. Off the structure of the backboard from a teammate, through his legs, jams it home and that’s all she wrote.

This was an unreal performance from LaVine, who won in emphatic fashion.

If you haven’t seen these dunks already, do yourself a favor and get to a computer NOW. LaVine’s high-flying heroics made for what was easily the best dunk contest performance we’ve seen in the past decade. He single-handedly revived what was once the most exciting part of the All-Star weekend. The best part of it? Zach LaVine is only 19 years old — the second youngest winner of the dunk contest in history. He still has room to improve, get stronger and jump even higher. Who can even imagine what this kid will be able to do five years from now?