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Since the fall, students have been pushing for more rigorous kosher food standards.
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The adequacy of kosher dining provided by the Pavilion in the Class of 1953 Commons has come into question since a petition posted by Cameron Isen ’18 began circulating in September. As of press time, the petition had 723 signatures.
The petition asks the College to provide the kosher kitchen with an Orthodox certification, a stricter standard than the kitchen’s current certification from a service called Tablet K. In response, the administration put together a working group, which met in the fall to tackle the issue. However, no tangible solution has been
implemented yet. Headed by director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding Daniel Benjamin, the working group consists of Jewish faculty members, Jewish students and members of the administration. Isen, one of the two Orthodox Jewish students participating in the working group, said SEE KOSHER PAGE 3
The Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives released its first annual report on faculty diversity on Thursday, Jan 7. The report summarizes the work of the newly established office in recruiting, retaining and supporting underrepresented minority faculsty, with the goal of increasing URM faculty to 25 percent of tenure track faculty by 2020, up from the current 16 percent of Dartmouth faculty who are URM. Based on current data, increasing URM faculty to 25 percent would require hiring about 60 new faculty members with roughly 30 each across the College’s graduate schools and within the arts and sciences, Denise Anthony, vice provost for Academic Initiatives, said. Anthony’s position and the Academic Initiatives office were created in the fall of 2014. Over the past year, the vice
provost focused on strengthening recruitment and retention, fostering an inclusive community and helping build succesful careers for URM faculty, according to the report. The College has set aside $22.5 million in endowment funds to support URM recruitment and retention efforts which will provide around $1 million in annual spending for the initiatives, Anthony said The report also announced the pilot of a two-year postdoctoral César Chavez fellowship, a dissertation fellowship for URM scholars whose research domain is in Latino and Latin American studies. A similar program, the César Chavez Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for URM students, began in 1994. The report also states an intention to continue the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” lecture series SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 5
Presidential Fellows support administration
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Stephanie Barnhart ’14, Holli Weed ’14, Aylin Woodward ’15, Maggie Kennedy ’09, Morgan Matthews ’15 and Tom Dexter-Rice ’15 are the 2015-2016 Presidential Fellows. Fellows are assigned to a sponsoring office based on their interests where they help senior administrtors carry out different aspects of the College’s mission. The program, established in 2009 by former College President Jim Yong Kim, of-
fers a “unique opportunity for talented graduating seniors and recent alumni” to assist with the college administrative process, according to the website. Four of the fellows offered their insights into their own personal experiences and on the program itself. Kennedy, on the health and well-being staff as part of a three-person team, said her job focuses on mindfulness and stress on campus. Part of her work is to help promote healthy habits for students, she said. Kennedy was a member
of the varsity women’s ice hockey team, which inspired her to promote health at the College, she said. Since she graduated a few years ago, she said she was inspired by her work after college to apply to the program. After graduation, Kennedy worked in a special education pre-school in addtition to coaching sports for the Loomis Chaffee School. She said these experiences inspired her to focus on health, which led her to this fellowship. Kennedy works frequently with faculty and staff in her daily affairs, noting that she
loves how each day on the job is different. Her biggest adjustment was sitting at a desk all day, given that her former occupation required her to be on her feet, she said. She mentioned that she enjoys sharing an office, as it permits her to brainstorm new policy ideas with the other members of her team. “We want to keep things relevant and not get stale,” Kennedy said. Matthews works for the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, where she is involved in evalu-
ation and assessment work. She participaes in the experiential learning initiative and conducts literature reviews of experiential learning and the gateway initiative, an effort to make large introductory classes feel smaller by creating focus groups for students. She also evaluates the content on the center’s website. Matthews said that she decided to apply for the program because she was always interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of teaching. SEE SCHOLARS PAGE 2
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DAILY DEBRIEFING New England Cable News reported that four Republican presidential candidates will make their way to New Hampshire in the next week, Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Carly Fiorina and Governor John Kasich (R-OH) are making their rounds in the Granite State. Trump will campaign tomorrow in Windham at the Castleton Banquet and Conference Center. Cruz will visit Hudson on Tuesday, holding a second amendment rally at the Granite State Indoor Range gun shop, and Londerry later in the day, visiting the Tupleo Music Hall. Fiorina will hold a meet and greet at the Hollis pharmacy on Friday before travelling to Milford later in the day to visit the Town Hall. She will also stop by the Derry Boys and Girls club on Saturday. Kasich will campaign at the Historic Balsams Resport in Dixville on Friday as well. CBS news reported that in the latest Fox news poll, Donald Trump leads in New Hampshire while Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) leads in Iowa. The polls show Cruz leading over Trump in Iowa with 27 percent support, while Trump follows with with 23 percent support among likely Republicans. Senator Marco Rubio (R-F.L.) won 15 percent of the vote, while other Republican presidential candidates remained in the single digits. CBS reported that a third of republican caucus-goers said they would never back Trump for president, while only seven percent said the same for Cruz. In New Hampshire, another Fox news poll shows Trump leading with 33 percent of votes, Rubio with 15 percent of votes and Cruz with 12 percent of votes. The poll also asked how certain New Hampshire voters were about their decision. Fifty-six percent of respondents said they were certain they’d vote for the candidate they indicated, an increase from 44 percent certain voters in mid-November. Trump supporters said they were 79 percent sure about their decision. According to a Fox News poll this week, Bernie Sanders is currently ahead of Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire polls by 13 points, with less than a month to go until the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary. The poll, released Friday, shows Sanders ahead of Clinton by a 50-37 percent margin. Candidate Martin O’Malley, a former governor of Maryland, received the remaining three percent. In November, Sanders was ahead of Clinton by only one point. While 79 percent of Clinton supporters would be happy with Sanders as the nominee, only 56 percent of his supporters would feel that way about a Clinton win, Fox News reported.
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When selecting a job, she said DCAL appealed to her because she wanted to learn more about why teachers “do what they do.” She said she found out she got the job last spring and she started work in June. Matthews said, given her recent graduation from the College and direct involvement with students in the gateway initiative, that she does have a relationship with undergraduate students in her current position. Those relationships shift the focus from faculty to students and makes students feel more comfortable, she said. As with Kennedy, Matthews said that a lot of the work she does happens at a desk. She does, however, get invited to many meetings on emerging issues. “I never thought I would say this, but I really like going to meetings,” she said. She has attended meetings for massive open online courses, which have provided a setting for her to get to meet other people and create connections. As a communications fellow, Woodward is in charge of College President Phil Hanlon’s public speaking events including provid-
ing background research in addtion to managing visiting lecturers and scholars. She decided to apply for the fellows program because she really enjoyed her time at the College and wanted to capitalize on an opportunity to be at a place she loves, she said. “I wanted to give back to an institution that gave so much to me,” Woodward said. She said that her job focuses on giving Hanlon as much information
“There’s nowhere I’d rather do this work than at my alma mater.” - HOLLI WEED ’14, PRESIDENTIAL FELLOW
as he needs to make informed decisions. She said she has enjoyed learning how the non-student aspect of the College works and said she gained more respect for all that goes on to make the College run smoothly. “It’s a fantastic environment to grow up in professionally,” Wood-
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ward said. Weed works in the communication department, where she is in charge of correspondence, speech writing with senior administrators and peer benchmarking. She said she fell in love with higher education during her time as a student at the College and she wanted to have an experience that would both strengthen her candidacy for graduate school as well as be meaningful to her. After her first year working with the program, she realized she wanted to gain more experience in finance, so she applied to work a second year in the operations and special fellows position. She said that she has enjoyed being able to spend more time at the College. “There’s nowhere I’d rather do this work than at my alma mater,” Weed said. Though five of the six current presidential fellows are self-identified women, the fellows are otherwise an incredibly diverse group of people, Weed said. “I would love to see others have the opportunity I’ve had,” Weed said. “This program has catapulted my professional aspirations to new heights.”
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trying to make it so that we need to get all these Orthodox Jewish students that the group members’ differing and when we have enough students, levels of knowledge slowed down the we’ll serve kosher food.” process of facilitating the discussion Schein participated as a panel of tangible solutions, leading them to speaker in a forum held two years ago miss several self-imposed deadlines. where prospective Jewish students and “We didn’t want to be the kind college guidance counselors at Jewish of group that came and made a big day schools could ask questions about voice and do something like occupy Jewish life at the College. the president’s office,” he said. “We “Unanimously, the participants all tried to go about it in a politically cor- said that even if guidance counselors rect and kind way and we spoke with and parents want to send their kids a lot of people at the administration. to Dartmouth, parents are not willAt this point, I see no reason why it ing to send their kids to schools that don’t serve kosher food,” he said. hasn’t been done.” Isen added that he is not very “However, the College didn’t seem optimistic that kosher dining will be to acknowledge that issue.” Schein said that, in spite of no improved in the near future. “I’m very fed up at this point,” Isen change occurring in kosher dining, said. “It’s been about a year since we the Orthodox Jewish population has came to this school and we literally been growing for the past few years. have nothing to show for [the kosher When he was accepted to the College, he called Dartmouth Chabad situation].” Isen said that the lack of progress Rabbi Moshe Gray to ask about atregarding kosher dining may be tending the College as an Orthodox indicative of a more essential prob- Jew, to which Gray replied that it would be difficult lem, which because there were is the lack of an Orthodox “Judaism is a religion no Orthodox Jews Jewish com- that very much thrives on campus. “The following mu n i t y o n campus. Ap- from its community. year when someone proximately It is very difficult to got in and called Rabbi Gray, he 400 members of the student p r a c t i c e J u d a i s m , would tell them body identify especially Orthodox to instead call the one Orthodox Jew, themselves a s Je w i s h ; Judaism, when there is which was me,” Schein said. “So among them, no community.” three students between 10 to called me that year 20 identify as and I hosted them Orthodox, he -CAMERON ISEN ’18 for a weekend and said. all of them ended “Judaism up coming here. is a religion that very much thrives from its com- The year after that, the three kids munity,” Isen said. “It is very dif- would host three more students and ficult to practice Judaism, especially it would continue to snowball.” Orthodox Judaism, when there is no Schein said that the demand for community. I’m not saying kosher kosher dining is only going to increase. food will automatically make tons of “There is a threshold and at a Orthodox students flock to our school, certain point it is going to be unacceptbut it is very obvious and apparent able that [the administration] isn’t based on common sense and people doing anything — it’s unacceptable that I have spoken to, that nobody is now — but they’re not going to be coming to a school where they can’t able to hide it any longer,” Schein said. “There will just be more stueat.” Every Ivy League school except the dents complaining and it is simply College made the list of top 60 private ridiculous at this point.” universities by Jewish student popula- Dartmouth Hillel president Jonah tion, according to a list published by Kelly ’18 said that the group is in Hillel International, the largest Jewish full support of the Orthodox Jewish students’ efforts for adequate kosher campus organization in the world. Mayer Schein ’16, an Orthodox dining. Jewish student, said that he had been “As a pluralistic organization, struggling with food since he arrived Hillel supports any denominations on campus. The response he com- of Judaism,” Kelly said. “We fully monly heard from the administration support any endeavor to strengthen was that there were not enough people Jewish life on campus.” Class of ’53 Commons culinary who demanded kosher dining. “It shouldn’t be the chicken and operations manager C. Robert Lester egg issue that the school is trying to declined to comment on kosher dinmake it into.” he said. “The school is ing.
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STAFF COLUMNIST HANSA SHARMA ’19
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Gambling on the Poor
Gently into that Good Night
It is time for states to acknowledge the moral implications of lotteries. Purchasing a lottery ticket at the neighborhood bodega the moment you hit 18 is just as much of a rite of passage and a sign of adulthood as getting your driver’s license. State lotteries and casinos are open only to adults, largely for the same reasons. Like cigarettes and alcohol, lottery tickets are a potential gateway to addiction. Run by the 43 state governments as regressive taxes, lotteries brought in about $70 billion in sales for the 2014 fiscal year. Nationwide, statistics show that state lotteries tax the poorest of the poor. Not only do low-income individuals pay a higher relative opportunity cost by purchasing a lottery ticket, their stakes are also higher because they are more prone to keep buying. A North Carolina Policy Watch analysis concluded that the poorest counties in the state reported above-average lottery sales. Eighteen out of twenty of the poorest counties had per capita lottery sales exceeding the state average. According to a 1994 Indiana University study, rising unemployment rates produced higher lottery sales. At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, lottery sales hit record levels in 22 states. Numbers aside, lotteries prey on our most vulnerable emotions. Ticket buyers are lured into a vicious cycle; a feedback mechanism built on hope and rewards. Hope is a powerful emotion. Historically, it has been the cornerstone of our nation and its success. Whether it was the Puritans sailing to Plymouth or the Virginia Company to Chesapeake Bay, the driving force was hope — hope of religious autonomy and economic profit. By providing a quick and nearly impossible means of accumulating wealth, lotteries draw people in. Once individuals start winning small cash prizes, there’s no turning back. As the stakes become higher, their hope only grows stronger. Revenue from lotteries exceeded revenue from corporate income taxes in 11 of the 43 states where lotteries were legal in 2009.
With further digging into the uses of lottery revenue, we can better understand why our government condones this punitive tax disguised as a game. Proceeds from lotteries are directed to public schools. Despite providing for the education of our future generations, we must also consider the consequences of the lottery system on the poorest among us. Lottery tickets not only cost money that could have been allocated towards satisfying immediate needs, they do so by deluding buyers with fantasies of opulence. Even if buyers beat the odds and hit the jackpot, they are usually ill-equipped to manage their newfound income. In fact, 44 percent of national lottery winners spend all of their winnings within five years. Worse yet, 68 percent of lottery winners continue purchasing lottery tickets despite losing consistently. These facts reveal the truth about staterun lotteries. Setting a record for the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, the Powerball jackpot jumped to $1.3 billion this weekend. Now more than ever, the moral ramifications of the lottery system are relevant. Is it really worth exploiting the hopes of poor people? As an immigrant with an optimistic view, I came to appreciate the American Dream the moment my plane swept across the New York City skyline. The American Dream is one of hope. And while it may sometimes border on naivete, it is the bedrock of our nation. The American Dream is why we are a free nation of diverse citizens stretching from coast to coast. Believing in it pushes people to seize opportunities and believe in themselves. It gives them hope that their hard work and perseverance will amount to something greater. By tempting the most vulnerable among us with the prospect of achieving thier American Dream, the lottery system is eroding one of our nation’s core tenets. It is dashing hopes and making it more difficult for those down on their luck to be optimistic. So, the next time you purchase a lottery ticket, consider betting on yourself first.
As a society, we must reconsider the way we perceive the end of life.
This break I had the distinct pleasure of considering the various ways I could become legally incapacitated. As part of granting my parents power of attorney, I was forced to consider several grave scenarios. My reasons for doing so were fairly simple — not only do my parents have my best interests at heart, but they’re also uniquely well-suited for the task, as both of them are doctors. A few of the questions posed by the contract were easy to answer. Organs? Sure, I won’t need those if I drown in Occom Pond. Finances? I hereby agree to give Mr. and Mrs. Chun full access, in the case of my incapacitation, to my fortune of a few hundred dollars earned by working retail during the holidays. One group of questions, however, took substantially longer to answer — those concerning end-of-life care. Three options comprised this portion of the form. Two of them began with, “I want my life to be prolonged.” The other, “I do not want my life to be prolonged.” The latter option authorizes the legal agent to pull the plug if the “burdens of the treatment outweigh the expected benefits.” In the past, this is what I had often said I would prefer. $88 billion dollars, nearly 30 percent of Medicare’s budget, is spent on patients in the last year of life. In a recent brief, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice concluded, “Studies show that more spending, more days in the hospital and more physician visits are not always associated with better outcomes or with the care that patients want. Less intensive and expensive care can both save money and improve quality, satisfaction, and outcomes for many Medicare beneficiaries.” And yet, despite the slim chances that this legal document would ever be put into practice, something gave me pause. It was not an issue of rational choice, because I knew what was right. Instead, it involved confronting my own death. It was a consideration a hundred times more salient
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for some 76.4 million aging baby boomers and their families. The sixty-one million boomers will, by 2030, be between 66 and 84 years of age. In addition to the boomers, there will be nine million people born before 1946. Six out of ten will be managing a chronic condition. For all of us, this presents a serious problem. With end of life and long-term costs at all time highs, Medicare simply cannot handle the strain of the boomers. And yet, it is clear that the problem at hand transcends economics. It is a problem with the way we perceive death. When a life is lost, we view it as a failure of the medical system or a tragic accident. We “rage against the dying of the light.” But, is that really prudent? The survival of Medicare and the quality of our last few years may depend on our ability to accept death as a natural process. Staring at the sheet of paper before me, I realized that this is not something that comes naturally. In fact, it goes against human nature. I’m reminded of Paul Kalanithi, a promising neurosurgeon who, at age 36, was diagnosed with terminal stage IV lung cancer. Kalanithi recently published his memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air.” In it, he described how he pursued medicine to, “keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.” Any discussion of end-of-life care cannot be a simple cost analysis. It will always be an ethical, medical, economic and ultimately, a human decision. At the macro-level, our ability to sustain Medicare may rest on our ability to change our ideas about death. Albeit difficult, devising a plan in the face of tragedy is a discussion that every family should have. There may be some distant horizon at which we, like certain jellyfish species, will defy age. Until then, we must wrestle with being, by definition, mortal animals who wish they were anything but.
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Report announces new grants to support a diverse faculty FROM DIVERSITY PAGE 1
during the winter and spring terms of 2016. These series of events focus on building and sustaining inclusive environments for teaching and learning, Also mentioned in the report is the Dartmouth Community Study, which was launched in spring 2015 with the intent of examining the campus climate across all groups in the College and its graduate schools. The final report on this study and recommendations from its working group, led by Anthony, will be communicated to the campus community in spring 2016. The College has also received a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support faculty diversity, according to the report. Michelle Warren, professor of comparative literature and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at the College, will be assisting with two aspects of the grant, she said. As part of the grant, Warren said she will assist with faculty searches in departments that volunteer to have data-enriched conversations about the role of diversity in their search. Her other role in the project is studying the outcomes of Dartmouth’s three dissertation fellowships: Charles A. Eastman, César Chavez and Thurgood Marshall. The goal of these fellowships is to promote diversity in higher education. Warren said that her office is studying the career trajec-
tories over time of fellows from these strategies that can change classroom programs. dynamics and facilitate learning. For The Dartmouth Center for the example, one way of reducing implicit Advancement of Learning will also be bias in the classroom, she said, is to involved in efforts to promote faculty replace asking for a show of hands diversity, the report stated, in response to a question with going Lisa Baldez, director of DCAL around in a round-robin and asking andgovernment and Latin American, everyone to speak. Latino and Caribbean studies profesVice-president of the Office of Instisor, said that she is pleased to see the tutional Diversity and Equity Evelynn administration Ellis said she has commit to faculty closely “The report is really worked diversity. with Anthony in “The report is important because the past and that really important provided the it provides data that IDE because it prodata on faculty divides data that can be the basis of versity referenced can be the basis an institution-wide in the report. of an institutionEllis wide conversa- conversation.” emphasized the tion,” Baldez importance of said. addressing facDCAL will be -LISA BALDEZ, DIRECTOR ulty diversity isrunning a work- OF DCAL sues as promptly shop this term to as possible. help faculty learn “If we about disrupting don’t make a implicit bias in the classroom, she turn-around now, it becomes statistisaid. Called “10 Things You Can Do cally harder in the future to do so,” she to Disrupt Bias in the Classroom,” this said. workshop will be held in the DCAL Government professor Yusaku teaching classroom and will be open Horiuchi reacted positively to the reto all faculty, including those from the port. Horiuchi is one of the co-chairs Thayer School of Engineering, the of the Asian and Pacific Islander Tuck School of Business, the Geisel Caucus. The group consists of selfSchool of Medicine and The Dart- identified Asian and Pacific American mouth Institute. Islander faculty members who aim to Baldez said that she thinks that promote a sense of community within there is a strong desire from faculty these groups. He is also one of the 155 for workshops that talk about specific College faculty members who signed
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a letter of support in November for student activists calling for more inclusivity and diversity at the College. “Diversity is important not because everyone says that diversity is important and not because the percentage is low,” Horiuchi said. “New ideas and new initiatives often emerge when people with different backgrounds and interests interact.” Horiuchi said his experiences teaching in Singapore and Australia contributed to his belief that if the same people are interacting all the time, they can “miss the heterogeneity of the world.” As a minority himself, Horiuchi said that being Japanese allows him to offer a new perspective when teaching students about Japanese politics. “I strongly think that diversity is good for education and research,” Horiuchi said. Ellis said that interacting with people from different cultures and experiences has been important in expanding her worldview, adding to her belief in the importance of faculty diversity. “Some of the richest experiences that I’ve had on an intellectual development level, professional development and a personal development level, I’ve pulled them from people who were in no way like me,” Ellis said. “It shouldn’t be your goal as a student to go out into the world thinking all of the knowledge worth having is held by white people.” Ellis noted the necessity for faculty to be on board with the initiative to increase diversity, especially since
faculty members are hired by the votes of fellow faculty in their respective departments. Baldez acknowledged the ambitiousness of the numerical goals in the report, but emphasized the importance of having high goals. Efforts to increase diversity and inclusivity are important to pursue despite challenges, Anthony said, “Recruiting people to come to northern New England whether they are students, faculty or staff has challenges, but the thing to remember is that every university has recruiting challenges,” Anthony said. “We can’t use those as an excuse to say that we shouldn’t try.” Dartmouth is not the first Ivy League institution to begin formally investigating its faculty diversity. In November, Yale University launched a $50 million five-year faculty diversity initiative. In a long letter to colleagues, published online, Yale’s president Peter Salovey and provost Ben Polak wrote that this initiative will help recruit and appoint more diverse faculty, improve faculty development offerings and expand and develop the pool of undergraduates who will contribute as future generations of faculty. Ellis said she believes strongly in the achievability of the goals set forth in the report. “We can do anything we set our minds to,” she said. “I think it will be hard work, but what’s wrong with hard work?”
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Haynes captures forbidden desire in “Carol” (2015) Therese sells toys in a Santa hat, mousy and furtive like a guilty elf. The Dartmouth Staff Carol enters draped in fur, A chase film that unfolds with wearied by her mortal coil and surgical patience, “Carol” (2015) everyday banality, yet delighting focuses on forbidden lovers re- in its accouterments. She spots strained by the severe conservatism Therese and they share a gaze that of the early 1950s. Whereas lesbi- is a fraction of a second too long, anism only existed in the interstices too invested, too wanting. of 1950s life, Todd Haynes puts it Carol tries to smoke a cigarette, centerstage in this decadent, nos- her classic lead on, but Frankentalgic adapberg’s disaltation of Palows smoktricia High- The interaction has ing — and smith’s 1952 the remoteness of an presumably romance lesbian flirnovel, “The interview, yet Mara and tations. So P r i c e o f Blanchett charge the she wisps Salt.” her hair air with longing, quietly It is a roto reveal mance told erupting in blushes and her marble in hindsight imperceptibly flickering neck, then through the leaves her s e n t i m e n - their eyelids.” lambskin tal lens of g l ov e s o n Therese the counter - ANDREW KINGSLEY ’16 Belivet as her call(Rooney ing card. Mara), who recalls her Therese takes the bait. The followbrief yet passionate affair with ing week they share lunch, Spanish the aristocratic Carol Aird (Cate omelettes and martinis à la Carol Blanchett). They meet in Fran- and consume each other, each one’s kenberg’s department store, where eyes lavishing in the spectral beauty
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of the other’s through the surreal haze of cigarettes. The interaction has the remoteness of an interview, yet Mara and Blanchett charge the air with longing, quietly erupting in blushes and imperceptibly flickering their eyelids. Haynes adeptly captures their forbidden desire, filming their rendezvous as erotic tension and subtext; dialogue distracts or remains laconic. Instead their love must be subsumed into the erotic extremities of fingertips, concealed by fur coats and leather gloves. Therese and Carol see each other in fetishized fragments, reassembled like Frankenberg’s manikins into lustful, illicit ideals of billowing curls and succubine eyes. Charged by the warmth of Therese’s memory lips redden, eyes intensify and desire burns. The lovers are framed within slivers of doorways so that each meeting becomes a visual tryst, capturing their compunctions in space. Their romance raises the suspicions of Carol’s husband, Harge (Kyle Chandler ) and Therese’s boyfriend, Richard (Jake Lacy ). Carol must remain “decent” for her trial concerning the custody of their daughter after Harge accuses
her of being an unfit mother, while caress of the shoulder carries the Therese, already distanced from weight of a first kiss. Locked gazes Richard, merely develops, like the become a passionate embrace. photographs she often takes, into Merely sharing space becomes being. transgressively arousing, as if Cinematogeverywhere were a bedrapher Edward “The thrill of the room in which Lachman films chase becomes the the two lovTherese through w i n d o w s a n d thrill of the chaste, as ers can freely mirrors, refract- Terese timidly enters undress with eachother ing and obscurtheir eyes. ing her until her the waters of her T h e sexual identity flowering sexuality thrill of the comes into focus. guided by Carol’s However, Haynes chase becomes the thrill of rips the two wom- expert, lambskinen apart just as gloved hand.” the chaste, as Therese timit gets juicy, as if to continue his idly enters the waters of her film’s striptease. - ANDREW KINGSLEY ’16 flowering sexMany will find the film slow or uality guided by Carol’s exlabored because it focuses more on atmosphere pert, lambskin-gloved hand. “Carol” ends perhaps where than action. Haynes denies our pornographic lust for their con- Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”(1958) besummation through the film’s gins: lovers locking eyes, wondering glacial romantic progression and if they will spiral further into an translates their sexual frustration impassioned, all-consuming love through repeated defer ments. affair. Don’t expect “Blue is the Warmest “Carol” is playing daily at the NugColor” (2013). This is a film about foreplay. A get at 4 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.
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Recent Alumnus Q&A: Chris Gallerani ’15 By KATHERINE SCHREIBER The Dartmouth Staff
Chris Gallerani ’15 graduated from Dartmouth last spring with a theater major. Gallerini now lives in New York City pursuing a professional career in acting. What has the transition from Dartmouth into the real world been like? CG: Transitioning into “the real world” has been challenging in ways I expected and in many ways I wasn’t prepared for. Moving to New York has made me aware of how large the theater industry is because it can feel the theater department at Dartmouth is so small. It can make you feel very small when you realize how many other people there are out there who are doing the exact same thing. I think the biggest challenge for me has been finding ways of keeping in touch with myself and staying healthy physically and mentally. Almost every day I wonder why I am doing this — I could be pursuing something more administrative, maybe work in an office. One of the things I’m finding about being an actor is that it can feed your soul in a way that can feel very satisfying and makes you feel very alive. But when you’re just starting out it doesn’t pay the bills and in order to get to the place where you are producing what you want artistically in some form regularly, you have to do work that isn’t as satisfying mentally, but will pay your bills and rent. Can you talk about your apprenticeship at the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer? CG: I wanted to do something that would bridge the time between graduation and the time that I would be moving out from home and so I decided to apply and got into the apprenticeship program. It was a really eye-opening experience — I learned so much about the world of professional theater, especially the world of professional theater in New York. The Williamstown apprenticeship program is a program for young actors, many of whom have either
just graduated or are still in school. The idea is to give young artists a view into world of professional theater. My job as an apprentice was primarily to assist the main stage production with lighting, working on scenery and carpentry and doing work calls, as well as being on at least one backstage work crew. We also get some experience acting in small shows for the rest of company — there was a late night cabaret series that I was involved in as an apprentice. What work are you doing now? CG: I’ve just been cast in a show with a small company called AlphaNYC. We’re doing a production of “An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde [(1895)]. That’s very exciting — I haven’t done anything for a couple months, so this is my first opportunity to get back on my feet. The first show I did in New York was part of a small theater festival called the Bad Theater festival, which looking back is very ironic and appropriate. When did you become interested in pursuing theater? CG: I came to Dartmouth thinking I was going to be a music major. I was kind of interested in musical theater and I took “Acting 1” my freshman fall, and I fell in love with it and decided to declare a theater major my sophomore year. What interested you about theater? CG: I was very interested in theater history classes and sort of the more practical side of theater — how theater responds to society, responds to current events and to different parts of the human condition. I think a big change in my interest happened my sophomore year, beginning with taking theater history classes and then learning more about writing and culminating with my thesis my senior spring where I wrote a piece. What do you appreciate most about the experience of writing your senior thesis now, looking back? CG: Looking back what I really appreciated was the autonomy that
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Chris Gallerani ’15 wrote a one man show for his honors thesis last spring titled “#werq: a queer journey.”
was given to me by the entire theater said that one of the most important department. I miss that now that things that any person in the theater I’m going to open calls and hoping world can do is speak the languages someone will notice me and see me. of different theater artists so as an As an actor you are always at some- actor being able to understand the one’s beck and call — you’re at the language of a director or costumer hands of casting directors and other or stage manager and being able people. What to underI really apprestand how “Looking back what I c i at e a b o u t the dif ferh av i n g t h e really appreciated was ent aspects experience of the autonomy that was of a theater my thesis was production being able to given to me by the entire come togethhave a say over theater department. I er and how what I showed each opermiss that now that I’m people and not ates on their having to rely going to open calls and own. My on a casting hoping someone will education at director to say, Dartmouth “This is how notice.” i n t h e at e r we see you and was so good this is how we at p rov i d - CHRIS GALLERANI ’15 want to cast ing me with you.” that. The theater maWhat asjor requires pects of students to your Darttake classes mouth and your liberal arts in theater history, to take design education do you appreciate classes, to push themselves out of now? things they would normally be drawn to. I’m grateful that I had CG: My professor Jamie Horton that experience at Dartmouth.
Are you interested in pursuing a graduate degree in theater? CG: It’s something I’ve definitely thought about — I haven’t really made a decision yet. Ideally I’d like to spend one to three years in New York putting in some time and gaining some experience and deciding if this is the path I want to take. I think what’s best for me at this point is to learn how to be an adult, how to be a human. What advice would you give to Dartmouth students looking to pursue theater after graduation? CG: I would say remain open and find routines and behavioral things that keep you healthy physically and mentally and be prepared for things that aren’t the best work. I was doing things that weren’t close to the level of work that I was doing at Dartmouth or things that I was capable of doing. I would say be as open to as many opportunities as you can, but don’t be afraid to protect your own integrity and your own health. This interview has been edited and condensed.