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A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study finds doctors are overprescribing opioids.

By SUNPREET SINGH The Dartmouth

Doctors are overprescribing opioids, according to a new study from the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, leading to an abundance of unused drugs that could potentially be abused.

In a trial with 642 patients, researchers found that patients are only using about 28 percent

of their opioid prescriptions, leaving a large number of opioids medically unaccounted for.

In the study, surgeons were told to pay attention to the opioid prescriptions they gave to their patients. They later followed up with their patients and found that patients only used a handful of the opiates prescribed to minimize pain.

Rick Barth, the chief of general surgery at Dartmouth-

Hitchcock Medical Center and lead researcher on the study, said that doctors overprescribe pills for two main reasons. The first is that they do not want to see their patients in pain, and the second is to minimize the number of refills needed for patients in rural areas, who often face long travel times to see doctors.

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Q&A with economics professor Andrew Levin

By DEBORA HYEMIN HAN The Dartmouth

It can be hard to connect the classroom to real life, but economics professor Andrew Levin is trying to do just that. Levin, whose past ventures include giving technical advice to the Bank of Ghana and working for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, wants to teach students not just how to make connections between theory and practice, but to show them what being an economist

A new sustainability task force of students, faculty and administrators will have its first full meeting this month.

The task force is focused on reducing Dartmouth’s carbon footprint and developing the College’s existing sustainability initiatives.

The task force, announced by College President Phil Hanlon on April 22, Earth Day, will meet several times over the coming months.

Andrew Friedland, an environmental studies professor and a co-chair of the task force, said that the goal is to have a draft of recommendations done by March for a final report next April.

Friedland said the task force will focus on the following areas in which sustainability can be achieved: energy, materials, water usage, food and food systems, waste and transportation.

On July 14, the task force met for the first time to set agendas for future meetings, roughly designating one of the aforementioned topics to each gathering. Because this previous meeting was held during the summer term, not all members could attend. The task force’s first full meeting is slated for Sept. 29.

Friedland said that this meeting’s goals include reading a consensus on carbon dioxide emission reduction dates and numbers in addition to ways to shift away from using No. 6 fuels.

No. 6 fuel oil is known for having especially high levels of carbon, and the College uses 3.8 million gallons per year. The Board of Trustees voted in 2014 to begin transitioning away from No. 6 fuels. Though no timeline was formally adopted, campus planning and facilities vice president SEE SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 2

STRETCH FOR THE SUN

in the real world looks like.

Levin was hired last year and taught his first class this past spring.

Almost immediately, he noticed a different academic spirit in Dartmouth students compared to those of other schools where he has taught.

Levin was previously a professor at the University of California San Diego, Georgetown University and Columbia University. Levin recalled the graduate student-focused culture SEE LEVIN PAGE 5

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Seventy-three percent of students at historically black colleges and universities do not trust reporting by news media, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, according to the results of a survey by Gallup, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Newseum Institute released Thursday. The survey also found that 56 percent of HBCU students believe that student protesters should be able to prevent reporters from covering demonstrations on campus, compared to 28 percent of college students nationwide. Forty-three percent of HBCU students surveyed said they had read or heard a significant amount about protests over racial issues on campuses last year, compared to 25 percent of all American college students. Eightyfour percent of HBCU students described the racial climate on their campus as “good” or “excellent.”

Nearly 90 percent of millenials who graduate from high school attend college within eight years, according to a report released by The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education yesterday. The commission, which was founded last year as part of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences initiative, uses data to analyze the future of undergraduate education, Inside Higher Ed reports. The report also found that only 40 percent of students complete a bachelor’s degree in four years, while 60 percent complete it in six years.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that state governor Matt Bevin does not have the authority to cut public colleges’ budgets, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. This year, Bevin, a Republican, called for a 2 percent cut to the budgets of the state’s public colleges, prompting a lawsuit by Kentucky’s Democratic attorney general Andy Beshear. The ruling is a reversal of a previous one that sided with the governor.

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Task force to look at energy goals FROM SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 1

Lisa Hogarty said that the College would no longer use No. 6 fuels by around 2018. The College has the largest carbon footprint per student in the Ivy League.

Friedland said he hopes the school will transition away from oil toward alternative sources of energy, but he cautions against switching directly from oil to burning wood chips — an alternative option that is being considered. He said that a move toward energy sustainability will also have to involve new methods like photovoltaic panels, wind-generated energy and heat pumps.

The creation of this task force comes at a time when Dartmouth has been making increasing efforts at improving its sustainability. Since 2011, Dartmouth has reduced its consumption of fuel oil by nearly one-third while simultaneously adding 300,000 square feet of building space, according to an earlier College press release about the task force.

“I’m delighted that President Hanlon recognizes energy as one of the most pressing issues of our time,”

said Judith Colla, vice-chairwoman of the Upper Valley Sierra Club.

Even though the Sierra Club is not officially affiliated with the task force, Colla said that cooperation between the two would be mutually beneficial.

There have been several task forces related to sustainability in previous years, and Friedland hopes that this one will tie together much of the research undertaken by those previous groups. He said he is optimistic that the task force is not “starting from point zero,” but is actually starting far along in the process.

Members of the task force were invited to participate by Hanlon.

According to Friedland, their names were solicited from a variety of people, including Friedland himself and Rosi Kerr, director of the Office of Sustainability. Students were similarly invited to join the task force.

One of those students is Maanav Jalan ’19, who is interested in environmental studies and English. Jalan is a member of Divest Dartmouth, a movement focused on persuading the College to cease its investments in fossil fuel extraction companies.

“Traditionally, task forces have been very faculty-heavy or administration-heavy, so I’m glad that they have a lot more students this time,” Jalan said. “As a member of Divest and other social justice groups, I hope to introduce more discussion about... how [the task force] can do more to create a more sustainable Dartmouth.”

The issue of divestment from fossil fuel companies may become a point of disagreement among the task force. While some students on the task force, like Jalan, are affiliated with Divest Dartmouth, other members do not necessarily see divestment as the most effective strategy to employ.

“I think that getting Dartmouth to stop burning No. 6 fuel oil would have a much greater impact on CO2 emissions in the atmosphere than the divestment would,” Friedland said.

He added that if the College were to pursue divestment, it should be part of a broader portfolio of actions.

Nonetheless, Jalan said, “I hope that the task force can actually get a decision on the topics that elicit more controversy.”

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Study released during national awareness week

people. In some states, such as Tennessee and Alaska, the number goes “Although doctors have a responsi- to as high as 143 opioid prescriptions bility to patients and society, they often per 100 people.

In April, state legislators created a overprescribe to ease the pain of their patients, despite risks of overdosing and task force consisting of state and federal prosecutors to curb the number of death,” he said. opiate overdoses.

Barth added In recent years, there is a possibil- “Although doctors the Upper Valley ity that the unhas been plagued used pills could have a responsibility with opiate adhave fallen into to patients and socidictions. New the hands of inety, they often overHampshire Pubdividuals without lic Radio reported opioid prescrip- prescribe to ease the that there have tions. In order for pain of their patients, been 161 drug overdosage and overdoses as of over-prescription despite risks of overJuly 2016, with numbers to go dosing and death.” the office of the down, doctors New Hampshire should begin by chief medical exprescribing ibu- -RICK BARTH, CHIEF OF aminer projecting profen and only GENERAL SURGERY AT 494 total by the switch to opiates year’s end. if pain persists, DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK This he said.

MEDICAL CENTER study comes durThe study ing the National also suggests reducing opiate prescription dosages Prescription Opioid and Heroin to only 43 percent of current dosage Epidemic Awareness Week, created by the Obama administration to bring levels.

In New Hampshire, there are 72 attention to a growing national drug opioid prescriptions for every 100 crisis.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19

The Writing on the Wall

Playing the Man Card

Dartmouth needs to increase its focus on writing.

Any liberal arts college can be characterized by its emphasis on the written word. Be it literature, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry or anything in between, a liberal arts education places an explicit emphasis on the ability to effectively communicate, through writing, about whatever your area of study happens to be. As a liberal arts college, Dartmouth should be no exception, and it doesn’t claim to be.

Indeed, two of the first nine classes a student ever takes at Dartmouth are supposed to be dedicated to ensuring that they can write clearly and effectively. After the much-lauded first-year writing requirements, however, it seems like the College’s emphasis on, and possibly respect for, writing declines significantly. It is treated as a means of getting ideas across about your subject of interest, and not much more. The fact that Dartmouth doesn’t have a writing, creative writing or communications major severely disadvantages us as students and makes us considerably less competitive going into the real world after graduation.

No matter what the career path, we all need the effective communication skills that a more comprehensive writing education would provide.

Lawyers need to write arguments; doctors need to communicate with peers and patients; video game designers need to pitch their concept to a room full of investors who have no idea how graphics work; and the list goes on and on. In so many ways, Dartmouth is preparing us to eventually be leaders in whatever field we decide to go into. Many of the best leaders are often those who can communicate most effectively. No matter the context, someone who is practiced in constructing a clear argument and getting it across to all different kinds of people is going to command their respect and attention.

From group projects to teams of junior consultants to even friendships and relationships, so many conflicts arise not because people have goals that are inherently opposed, but rather because they can’t communicate what it is that they want.

Writing often and writing well also serve to cultivate people’s critical thinking skills. In a day and age when people blurt out the first thing that comes out of their mouths all over Twitter and internet comment threads, a consistent pursuit of academic writing teaches people to consider the power their words can wield. Our lives are now intrinsically tied to the internet, a medium that if, left unchecked, could erode measured and respectful discourse. Now more than ever, students graduating from a top institution need to be able to

communicate their ideas in a way that is respectful and measured enough to not alienate people who don’t agree with them, but also clear and effective enough that those same people actually reconsider their point of view instead of putting their hands over their ears.

We have also come to a place where creative writing is seriously undervalued in elite colleges, ours included. Fiction and creative nonfiction are some of the best means to get people who may not see a specific point of view to empathize with those who they previously couldn’t identify with and understand the very wide range of perspectives which they may never be exposed to otherwise. For example, many Dartmouth students could never understand what it is like to grow up as part of a minority group in an inner city. However, through effective creative writing, those people who will never live that reality could at least come to empathize with it.

The case for the importance of a substantial writing skill set is clear, which makes it all the more frustrating that the College doesn’t represent it as well as it should. Creative writing deserves to have its own major, but it is confined to a concentration. Writing is just as valid an art form as studio art, music and film, yet it is the only one among those that doesn’t have its own major. It’s baffling that there are multiple majors about the study of different literatures, but not a single one focused on the creation of our own. Nonfiction writing is also woefully underrepresented in our curriculum, and those classes that do teach it don’t get the attention or respect they deserve.

It’s time that the College started taking writing seriously such that every student who goes through Dartmouth can leave here with a substantial understanding of how to write well.

There needs to be an outlet for students who not only want to use writing as a tool, but want to make it their life; in other words there needs to be at least one major that is focused completely on writing. As it stands now, writing classes are scattered all over different departments, and anyone who wants to seriously pursue it needs to go through far too many hoops. Writing and communication are the basis for our world, and Dartmouth needs to start treating it as a central pillar of our education.

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Trump is attempting to win votes using tired gender stereotypes.

To some Democrats, he’s the end of the as only sometimes higher and even lower world, the apocalypse or the sign of dooms- than Trump’s. Clinton suddenly seems like a day. To some Republicans, he’s change, a sitcom queen bee, like Regina George, whose breath of fresh air or an outsider. To Vladimir hair was so big because it was “full of secrets.”

Putin, he’s a “colorful” man. On both sides of The title “Crooked Hillary” also sounds like the political aisle and even in other countries, something out of a sitcom. Trump may be the Republican presidential nominee Donald new to politics, but the blatant stereotypes Trump may appear to be a wild card. that he and his supporters use to fuel his Trump is a polarizing figure because he campaign speak to TV clichés. appears unique. Yes, he may technically be Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis amidst an outsider to Washington, but he attended Republican criticism that her campaign staff his political rival’s wedding and once donated is hiding facts about her health led to, of to the Clinton Foundation. He has appeared course, campaign staff hiding that diagnosis. on talk shows to discuss the Iraq War, first Calling her physically incapable of being on the Howard Stern Show and later on president is also a cheap shot. This draws Fox News and MSNBC. On Twitter, Trump on predictable tropes about women being has taken to describing his candidacy for weaker than men. Perhaps most egregiously, president as, “a movement, not a campaign,” Trump tweeted about Clinton’s capability as further attempting to perpetuate his image a president based on her relationship with as a radical non-politician. her husband. He wrote, “If Hillary can’t But if you’re voting for Trump because satisfy her husband what makes her think he’s a revolutionary, he’s the wrong guy. And she can satisfy America?” Trump attempted if you’re a Democrat, consider whether or to discredit Clinton first because she is a not you should actually give him credit for woman, thereby calling her dishonest and being a “lunatic.” After all, the bare bones of weak. Then, he attempted to discredit her his strict immigration and abortion policies because of her supposed failure as a woman, seem rather consistent with the Republican or her inability to keep former President Bill Party in philosophy at least, if not in detail Clinton happy. This sort of rhetoric is closely or in rhetoric. But what aligned with his even more is most typical about “But if Clinton’s playing gendered insults towards Trump, and perhaps Fox News reporter Megyn most underlooked, is the woman card, then Kelly. He insinuated that his use of old gender Trump must be playing Kelly had “blood coming tropes. His campaign is out of her whatever,” and structured on unoriginal the man card.” also called her a “bimbo” gender clichés. This and a “lightweight.” Of sexism is not creative; course, the lightweight rather, it illustrates his attempt to pander to comment continues the thread of his referthe public. ring to women as weak, and the “bimbo” The main arguments against Clinton comment targets specifically women’s intelright now are her supposed lack of honesty ligence. and the concern over her physical wellbeIt’s not as though Clinton isn’t playing ing. Criticism about Clinton’s dishonesty gender politics, too. At the Democratic does spring from a specific event, namely National Convention, a video montage her use of a private email server during introduced her with images of the former her time as Secretary of State. Nonethe- male presidents, then the sound of glass less, the public holds Clinton accountable shattering followed by a large photograph for lying, while dismissing dishonesty when of Clinton — referencing the shattered glass it comes to Trump. PolitiFact, the Pulitzer ceiling. She also often talks about being a Prize-winning fact-checking site, determined mother and a grandmother, and her DNC that 57 of Clinton’s statements during the playlist included standby feminist anthems primary debates were true and 71 mostly like “Brave” by Sara Bareilles and “Roar” true, accounting for about 50 percent of

by Katy Perry. She’s been accused, in fact, her statements. In contrast, just 9 percent of playing the woman card. of Trump’s statements were true: only 10 But if Clinton’s playing the woman card, were rated true and 29 mostly true, with the then Trump must be playing the man card. largest number of statements, 88, being false. It’s impossible to overlook the gendering of Significantly, 47 of his statements were given this election on either side. But while ClinPolitiFact’s lowest honesty rating, “Pants on ton utilizes gender to underscore issues like Fire,” compared to only six of Clinton’s the lack of women in leadership positions statements. and the gender wage gap and to insist upon Yet while Clinton is typically called out for unity, Trump utilizes gender to defend his her false statements, Trump is not. Trump own manhood and perpetuate stereotypes either speaks so falsely that it is impossible of female inferiority. But, if Trump really is to call him out for his less-than-truths, or so macho, why does he have to try so hard there is some other inexplicable reason why to prove it? Trump resonates with a certain less attention is paid to Trump’s statements. demographic, and the race between Trump Whatever the reason may be, a clear dis- and Clinton is closer than ever. While it may crepancy exists between Clinton’s honesty seem like Trump is radical from a distance, rating and the public’s perception of such, the numbers make it clear that gender norms with fluctuating polls describing her honesty have not changed much after all.

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Levin combines policy, theory and practice in his teaching has found that almost everything depends on teamwork. Though that he studied in as a Ph.D. can- not the first person to stress the didate at Stanford University. He concept, he wants to emulate it noted that this was a stark differ- to the fullest degree by creating a ence from the attention Dartmouth classroom environment in which undergraduates insist on and he acts as a receive. manager and “ O n e “Dartmouth students have the students thing I found are team pretty high expectations in the spring members a l r e a d y i s for the quality of the who teach t h a t D a r t - teaching. It’s a real each other. mouth stu“ I t dents have challenge to me to be an seems ideal pretty high outstanding teacher and to me to expectamake that a not just on the punchtions for the part of the q u a l i t y o f the-clock teaching side of classroom t e a c h i n g , ” things.” experience Levin said. and not just “It’s a real something challenge to that people me to be an suddenly disoutstanding cover when teacher and not just on the punch- they go to the outside world,” Levin the-clock teaching side of things.” said.

In the interest of innovating In a similar vein, Levin wants upon his teaching methods, Levin to impart the fast pace and unpreplans to adapt the “real world” dictability that comes with working experience he has accrued over the in the real world, he said, a realyears into the classroom. He is cur- ity that he himself has grown to rently working with the Dartmouth understand gradually through his Center for the Advancement of research. Thus, he seeks what he Learning to incorporate this style calls a “robust” strategy, meaning of experiential learning in his one that is capable of holding up classes, stressing necessary “real even when things do not go as world” skills such as working on planned. a team.

Levin’s approach offers an apWhether at a nonprofit organi- plied angle to a field that can seem zation, investment bank or interna- abstract to students. Below are tional organization such as the In- highlights from The Dartmouth’s ternational Monetary Fund, Levin conversation with Levin about FROM LEVIN PAGE 1

economic theory and practice.

the conclusion without some of the cautionary notes.

What’s the bridge between Another problem is that acatheory and actually making demics typically, they can work on a public policy? How do you a long time frame. Some academics judge which is more impor- work on a book for five, 10 years, tant when facing issues? you know, perfecting it and making it comprehensive and making sure AL: One problem that often that everything in it is accurate. happens with academics is that Public policy oftentimes they’re they tend to be too dogmatic faced with a very specific deciabout the right solution for the sion that has to be made quickly real world. Every theory abstracts where they don’t have the time to from certain practical details, and do that kind of careful, thorough the question is: did you get all the research for years before they make critical stuff in the theory and the a decision. So the extent to which stuff you left out, it doesn’t really academics help provide research change the conthat’s ready to clusions or not. go when the Usually an ele- “One problem that policy issues ment of, “take often happens with come up, that this with a grain academics is that can be invaluof salt,” some able. It’s also kind of caution they tend to be too the case that or disclaimer, dogmatic about the when there’s of “if you’re a policy iswilling to make right solution for the sue comes up the following real world.” and there is no assumptions good research and you can to inform it, get these nice, the decision neat answer anhas to get swers but just keep in mind that made anyway. But then hopefully we’ve made a lot of assumptions that would trigger some new rehere. Some academics, many of search that over time — because my colleagues actually, are really oftentimes the public policy is good at doing that, which is why recurring. they’ve been effective in forming public policy but there are plenty What’s your favorite economof academics who forget about all ic theory and your favorite the assumptions that they made in economic policy? order to get the nice neat conclusion and all they do is promote AL: A really important develop-

ment in monetary economics over the last few decades is the extent to which it’s critical for the central bank to communicate clearly to the public. The reason that’s so critical is because businesses and consumers and investors are all making decisions that depend on their expectations about what’s gonna happen down the road.

If the policy is very opaque and confusing, it’s very difficult for people to make those decisions and that uncertainty can actually hurt the economy. So there’s a real benefit for the central bank to have a clear strategy that it explains as clearly as possible to the public.

This is something that’s been a dramatic change; if you go back 50 years ago, even 30 years ago, central banks tended to be very secretive, very mysterious. In the 1990s, there was a book written about the Federal Reserve called “Secrets of the Temple” and the idea was that Alan Greenspan who was the chairman was the high priest who would give occasional, mysterious remarks about the economy or what the Fed was going to do. That era’s pretty much over; I think most economists, and certainly I’m persuaded myself, that the central bank really needs to make a strong effort to have a compelling strategy and to explain that strategy clearly to the public so that members of the public can make good decisions.

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

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The audience watches as a student performs during Thursday’s vocal masterclass.

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“Cafe Society” (2016), directed by Woody Allen, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

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Staceyann Chin’s story steals hearts in ‘Motherstruck!’

By KYLEE SIBILIA The Dartmouth

Wednesday night in Moore Auditorium, the audience rose to its feet as Staceyann Chin stood proudly in the center of the stage, her feet spread wide apart, her fists thrust high into the air and her face filled with raw emotion. Chin, fresh off giving a rousing performance of her critically acclaimed onewoman show “Motherstruck!,” accepted her standing ovation with a roar of glee, eliciting yet more laughter from an audience that had been chuckling at her jokes all night long.

“Motherstruck!” chronicles Chin’s quest to become pregnant despite being a financially insecure, single lesbian without adequate health insurance. The play, charged with humor from beginning to end, is just as serious and empowering as it is amusing.

Chin’s monologue begins with a vivid description of her childhood in Jamaica, where she was abandoned by her parents and raised by her verbally and physically abusive great aunt. Her education at a prestigious all-girls school eventually leads to Chin’s realization that she is gay.

Disturbed by the rampant homophobia in Jamaica at that time,

Chin moves to New York City, where she becomes involved with the rapidly growing slam poetry scene, developing a deep friendship with a gay man named Peter.

Chin and Peter, united by their desire to start a family, marry at city hall, but things quickly go awry when Peter is diagnosed with cancer and eventually dies. Chin is left in an endless cycle of breakups, failed sperm donations and financial struggles with her insurance company as she continues her quest to bear a child.

Prior to the performance, Susan Mikulay, co-producer of “Motherstruck!,” explained to the audience that this performance was not one that the audience could simply sit back, relax and enjoy. She urged the audience to “lean in, engage.”

When Chin finally undergoes a treatment that successfully renders her pregnant, she raises her hands to the heavens with joy: “It’s Mother’s Day, I’m pregnant, and I could not imagine a better thing to be.”

After undergoing a strenuous pregnancy and a grueling labor, Chin gives birth to a baby girl, who she names Yuri. Chin quickly realizes that motherhood is much harder than she expected it to be, and she is constantly wracked by the fear that she is not doing right

by her child.

She visits Jamaica and Germany in search of the guidance of her great aunt and her mother only to find that neither of them can offer her the perfect solution she is looking for. Chin returns to Brooklyn, and upon realizing how happy Yuri is there, she decides to start the process of getting her American citizenship.

The play concludes with Chin offering some final words of wisdom.

“No one has the definitive manual on parenting. Everyone is just doing the best they can,” Chin said.

Chin then races to the forefront of the stage, arms raised above her head as she wishes for her daughter “to fly again, phoenix, bigger and brighter than everything she ever thought she could be.”

Chin’s magnetic personality shines through every line of the play, as it should. Her work as an activist on behalf of LGBTQIA people, for which she has been honored with several awards including the 2007 Power of the Voice Award from the Human Rights Campaign and the 2008 Honors from the Lesbian AIDS Project, lends an authenticity to her work.

Chin is not shy about defending her beliefs; in fact, she sees her

opinions about the world as a crucial element of her ability to make art. In a visit to Professor Laurie Churba’s “Contemporary Practices in US Theater” class on Tuesday, she stated, “I come at my work as an activist…If there was nothing to fight against, I don’t know if I would find art that interesting.”

It is this raw passion that seemed to evoke such a positive response from the audience on Wednesday.

Monik Walters ’19 felt that the show was honest and inspiring.

“It felt like nothing was held back...It was sort of like living

through that experience with her,” Walters said. “Feeling what she felt in certain moments is very, very important in how special the performance was.”

In a post-performance discussion held with Chin and audience members, Chin described her style.

“I’m a soldier of the truth. The act of writing, the act of telling stories, is the weapon of my choice,” Chin said.

Dartmouth Centers Forum put on “Motherstruck!” as parts of its theme “Protest and Activism: Insisting on Change.”

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Staceyann Chin performed “Motherstruck!” at the Hop Wednesday night.

Cécile McLorin Salvant and The Aaron Diehl Trio to perform

By KAINA CHEN

The Dartmouth Staff

Expectations may seem a given for an artist familiar with the spotlight, but Cécile McLorin Salvant says otherwise.

“When you’re crippled by other peoples’ expectations, your art doesn’t really breathe,” said Salvant, jazz singer and artist of the 2016 Grammy Award-winning album “For One to Love” (2015).

Salvant performs with The Aaron Diehl Trio, composed of Aaron Diehl, piano, Paul Sikivie, bass, and Lawrence Leathers, drums.

Freedom from others’ expectations is evident in the creativity of her work, but she never stops keeping the audience in mind. In deciding on the program for a particular show, she “tend[s] to feel it out depending on the room, and the vibes [she] get[s].”

“I’ll throw in something funny or something that has a lot of intense

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Cécile McLorin Salvant emphasizes the authenticity of the creative process.

emotional movements,” Salvant said.

Margaret Lawrence, programming director at the Hopkins Center, first saw Salvant perform live in Burlington, Vt. at a jazz festival.

“Her interaction with the audience is very warm. It’s a lot of fun,” Lawrence said.

Both on stage and in the studio, Salvant emphasizes the honesty of a creative process over producing for outside expectations.

“I’ll often make something that’s authentic to my experience and to what I think is important,” Salvant said.

Her artistry has caught audiences’ attention.

“The depth of her talent, her originality, the purity of her voice — they are things we don’t see often,” said Lawrence.

Salvant’s abilities to critically look into the history of jazz and to be innovative with older songs make her a standout, noted Lawrence.

“If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald — it is this 23-year-old virtuoso,” Stephen Holden wrote in a New York Times review of the 2013 Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.

Salvant takes this praise in stride.

“Human beings just love to com-

pare,” Salvant said. “I think it’s a huge honor to be compared to these great singers, but I’m also my own person.”

Jazz makes fertile ground for the personalization and creativity for which Salvant is known, as it encourages improvisation and storytelling.

Classically trained in France, Salvant said that there wasn’t one defining moment when she knew that singing, and in particular, jazz, would be her career. In her early twenties, “things were going well, and I suppose I just said I would try it and see where it goes,” Salvant said.

Salvant is keen to share her insights with students. She led a master class when she first visited the Hop, and she led another class yesterday with music professor Fred Haas’ “Jazz Improvisation” course.

Her advice for students who are seeking to be serious jazz singers is to pick any of the jazz greats and listen to every single one of their songs.

“Jazz is a language,” Haas said.

“It must be learned in its most basic forms before it can manifest into something new and innovative.”

Considering where jazz is headed, Haas explained the evolution of the genre.

“If you take a slice of time since

the beginnings of jazz, there have always been multiple approaches and styles. There are people combining different elements and culture, and then there are those happy during improvisation,” Haas said. “Jazz is going to be exactly what it’s like now.”

Perhaps parallels can be observed between the “present” perspective of jazz and Salvant’s approaches to her artistry, as she is more concerned about the present than the future.

“I just know what I feel this week,” Salvant said. “In the future, hopefully I’ll still be making music, maybe teaching more, just being around art and music.”

As for “life in general,” one of her goals is “being able to say ‘no’ more,” she said.

“I’m looking forward to knowing myself more,” Salvant said.

During her time off, Salvant stays in the realm of the artistic ­— she enjoys painting and drawing. She also likes cooking, being with family and traveling.

Cécile McLorin Salvant and The Aaron Diehl Trio will perform tonight in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. Audience members are invited to an informal post-performance discussion immediately following the show.

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Big Green rowers face tough competition at 2016 U-23 Worlds

By GAYNE KALUSTIAN

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Three members of the Big Green rowing family, Walter Banfield ’17, Bobby Moffitt ’16 and men’s heavyweight head coach Wyatt Allen, skipped the pond at the end of August to compete at the 2016 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the Netherlands.

Banfield rowed the men’s lightweight single sculls, his third appearance at Worlds, while both Moffitt and Allen represented the Big Green — and the United States — in the men’s eight.

In his third appearance as a coach at Worlds, Allen took on a new role as the lead coach of the eight. Moffitt sat in the bow, a departure from his role in the middle crew at Dartmouth.

Banfield finished last in the C final, situating himself and the U.S. in the 18th spot out of the 27 original competing countries. Allen’s team, which included Moffitt, took 10th place in a field of 13, missing the A final by over five seconds. All three said the finishes were disappointing, but it was Moffitt who took a more optimistic stance.

“We walked away with kind of a bitter taste in our mouths,” Moffitt said. “We didn’t perform up to our own expectations. We wanted to be on the medal stand, but we fell short of that.

But I mean the competition was pretty

stiff, and we felt like when we were there we put out a good effort.”

Moffitt has reason for his optimism.

Despite finishing 10th, his rise turned heads, earning him an invitation to train with the U.S. Senior National team in Princeton, N.J. Moffitt will be making the move soon to test the viability of Senior National — and possibly Olympic — dreams. Though he’s rowed for years, the move to the international stage is new for Moffitt.

The recent graduate appeared at Worlds for the first time in his career this year, setting a goal for himself during his junior year at Dartmouth. He trained nonstop until this summer, when he finally was invited to the selection camp for the heavyweight team run by his own college coach, Allen. While Moffitt felt he had an advantage at the camp, which was held in Hanover, Allen said it meant Moffitt had more to prove.

“When you run the selection, you have to be very transparent, especially when it’s one of your own athletes,” Allen said. “You have to be very clear that they earned their way to the boat.”

Years of hard work culminated in Moffitt’s selection for the eight — the priority boat. He trained in Hanover under the tutelage of Allen, a nine-time national team member and two-time Olympian. Moffitt lived in Lord Hall for a month while he and the seven

other members of the boat attempted to achieve cohesion. Bringing together eight rowers, mostly from different teams, was one of the biggest challenges this team, and every rowing team, faced, he said.

Moffitt noted the need to change the athletes’ various rowing techniques into a uniform stroke that would propel the team ahead of its opponents.

“It was really hard to decide how do we get that uniformity,” he said.

The team decided to focus on implementing a stroke that involved driving their legs and swinging their bodies through as a cohesive unit, Moffitt added. The swing, he said, is another major aspect that was different for each person.

Eventually, Moffitt ended up in the bow, a change that gave him the opportunity to emphasize his technique.

While at Dartmouth, he was one of the larger and stronger rowers and therefore was placed in the middle of the boat.

On the international stage, he wound up being on the smaller side, moving to a more technical position in the boat.

Banfield’s experience could not have been more divergent from Moffitt’s, racing a single and training in Seattle with his old coach from high school, Richard Lawrence. Banfield arrived in the Netherlands having trained for 12 months straight through a combination

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Walter Banfield ’17 competed in the men’s lightweight single sculls at the U-23 Worlds.

of rowing for Dartmouth in an eight and cultivating his own skill in a single.

Singles rowers are chosen from a straight time trial, which is different from that of the eights, which were determined through a selection process while attending a special rowing camp. In singles, the best rower goes and for Banfield, his first place finish was enough to send him to Worlds for the second time as an under 23.

Rowing in an eight and rowing in a single are completely different experiences, according to Banfield.

“In some ways there’s a lot more pressure, and in some ways there’s a lot less,” Banfield said. “You’re just out

there doing your thing, but the races take a lot longer, can be harder.”

Because he is the only athlete racing in a single scull, Banfield said he realizes “at the end of the day it’s all on you.”

“I’d say I screwed up, just wasn’t fast enough...might have been adjusting wrong,” he said.

Back at Dartmouth, Banfield has less clear visions of his future as a rower. The senior is looking for jobs, applying for fellowships and still deciding if he wants to try to go pro. He knows it would be tough to balance working and training for such a rigorous sport. For now, he said, he will see what his options are and go from there.

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-Winston Bennett

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