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The OPAL office in Baker-Berry LIbrary, where a meet and greet was held with new staff hires earlier this week.
B y Priya RAmaiah The Dartmouth Staff
On Sunday, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership will kick off its new OPAL Impact leadership development program with a retreat in Triangle House. The six-week program, which is based on the social change model of leadership, will run as pilot program this summer, program facilitator and assistant dean and advi-
sor to Pan-Asian students Shiella Cervantes said. OPAL Impact was first conceptualized during an OPAL staff meeting, Cervantes said. During the meeting, she, as well as assistant dean and advisor for sexuality, women and gender M i ch e l l e H e c t o r a n d interim student and community summer program coordinator Jeremy Guardiola, spearheaded its development in the fall.
Hector said that she and her team also looked at other leadership development programs across campus, such as the Rockefeller Center’s Leadership Attitudes and Behaviors program. The program, which is expected to include around 15 participants, will include sessions led by sociology professor and vice provost of academic initiatives Denise Anthony as well as women
This summer, Student Assembly plans to address fall-term weekend classes and clarify students’ rights information, while laying the groundwork for fullyear initiatives. The organization also notified new members of their acceptance this week. Assembly member Nick Harrington ’17 , who is a senior advisor for the organization, said that more broadly, the summer also provides a good time to meet “up-and-coming” student leaders, since many sophomores take on additional responsibilities in various clubs and organizations. Harrington said that unlike the full-year Assembly, which has around 60 to 100 members, the summer team is comprised of about 15 students. The team has very specific goals, he said, and so it does not need to be bigger. The current fall-term academic calendar contains two days of classes held on Saturday mornings, with the earliest periods beginning at 8 a.m. Harrington said that based on results from a recent Assembly poll, students overwhelmingly indicated that they were against early-morning weekend classes. Assembly member Noah Manning ’17, the other senior advisor of group, said the group has drawn up an alternative plan of night classes and is reaching out to Provost Carolyn Dever. “It truly is very important for Student Assembly to be active [in the summer],” Student Assembly presi-
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NH texting and driving law goes into effect B y SARA MCGAHAN The Dartmouth Staff
A s of July 1, s ole l y restraining oneself from texting while driving is not going to cut it in New Hampshire anymore. A new law banning the use of all hand-held electronic devices while driving or momentarily stopped went into effect across the state last Wednesday. This law — which bans
the use of such devices while driving as well as when stopped briefly at a stop sign or red light — will be enforced on all public roads, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said, which includes the entirety of Dartmouth’s campus. Previously, New Hampshire had only outlawed texting while driving, but this hands-free law prevents the use of any hand-held electronic device “capable
of providing voice or data communication while driving,” which includes GPS, tablets, iPods, iPads as well as cell phones, according to the New Hampshire “Driving Towards Zero” website regarding the law. New Hampshire joined 13 other states that have already banned all handheld devices in cars. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that many of the states Dart-
mouth students come from have also banned the use of all hand-held devices in vehicles, including California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Vermont. While this is a new law in New Hampshire, students from these states will be accustomed to the regulation, he said. Hands-free electronic devices, such as Bluetooth, are allowed under the new regulation. In addition,
emergency calls to 911 and other crisis hotlines are permitted. Town manager Julia Griffin said that she believes this law is “long overdue.” “Our police department is committed to enforcing the law actively,” Griffin said, adding that distracted driving is an issue Hanover police officers often cite as a regular problem. State Police officers also seem to be committed to SEE HANDS-FREE LAW PAGE 3
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DAily debriefing The Neukom Institute for Computational Science will run three different competitions over the next academic year. Competitors will write algorithms that can produce art pieces that could pass as human creations. The three contests, DigiLit, PoetiX and Algorhythms, challenge participants to create computer generated creative short stories, sonnets and programs to function as a dance-floor DJ, respectively. A panel of judges will judge the two literary contests by guessing which pieces are machine made. The music contest will let dancers chose whether a computer or a human determined the music selection. Dan Rockmore, the director of the Neukom Institute, said in an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio that if the computer-generated work convinces the judges, “I don’t think we’ve reached any particular apocalypse when that happens, but what we might really find, should that happen, is that we’ve come to a new place in human creativity and machine processing.” If any challengers pass the test they will win $5,000. Computer science professor Andrew Campbell has created a smartphone application SmartGPA which he says can determine a student’s grade point average off of measurements of past behavior. The application does so by utilizing an accelerometer, GPS and microphone to track a student’s sleep, study and party patterns and create a profile that then is compared to predictors of achievement including class attendance, stress and nightlife. A 10-week study followed 30 students and correlated behavior to 17 hundredths of a grade point. Those with higher GPAs studied more and partied less. Campbell said the application could “appeal to conscience” by giving students weekly status reports and help them manage time by making them aware of how behaviors map onto expected grades. This fall, Campbell plans to conduct a study with 800 to 1,000 students at the University of Texas at Austin. Campbell will present his paper at the UbiComp 2015 conference in Osaka, Japan, whose review committee ranked his work in the top five percent of submissions.
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and gender studies professor Pati Hernandez. While OPAL has run leadership programs in the past, including a spring program geared towards first-year students titled the Leadership Discovery Program, Hector said that OPAL Impact is distinct because it occurs during the sophomore summer term. That all participants will be sophomores at the midpoint of their Dartmouth careers is significant, she said. “This is the first time a lot of students are in leadership roles in their organizations, or they’re thinking about what’s next for them in the coming year,” Hector said. “It’s a cool opportunity to target those students.” T he social change model functions as a cornerstone of the program, Cervantes said. This model concieves of leadership as a collaborative process with three components: individual values, group values and societal or community values. The goal is to work with others to form common goals around a shared vision that aligns with
personal values, Cervantes said, adding that journaling and reflection will play an important role in the program’s curriculum. Self-knowledge, leadership competence and facilitating social change are the primary goals of the model, according the OPAL Impact program website. Program activities will utilize StrengthsQuest, an assessment that identifies an individual’s top areas of talent in order to facilitate effective team building, Hector said. “I’m really excited to see how it plays out,” Cervantes said of the program. “It’s important to contextualize what you get out of the program within your own life as well as personal goals regarding being at Dartmouth.” OPAL Impact’s launch comes after a period of staff turnover at OPAL, including the resignation of former OPAL director Alysson Satterlund, Center for Gender and Student Engagement director Kyle Ashlee and first-generation students advisor Karlos Santos-Coy. Last year, the CGSE was absorbed by OPAL, though it still retains its physical location in the Choates residence hall cluster.
“What many people may not know is that the CGSE, formerly the Center for Women and Gender and, originally, the Women’s Resource Center, has existed as a separate entity and as a part of OPAL at different times in the past,” interim OPAL director Reese Kelly said. OPAL recently appointed Kari Cooke as assistant dean and advisor to black students. Cooke began her role in the new position this month, while Cervantes began her role as Pan-Asian advisor last summer. Kelly added that OPAL’s mission is two-sided, as it involves not only providing support and resources to students of varying identities but also educating all students through programming to enrich the community as a whole. While the program is running as a pilot, Hector said, OPAL facilitators and program coordinators will be working carefully to determine when and how it might be offered again. “It’s about how individuals can come together as a group to take advantage of differing perspectives and values and ultimately create positive social change,” she said.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is among three large healthcare systems to stop allowing low-volume surgeons perform 10 complex surgeries. The procedures include knee and hip replacements, some cancer and thoracic operations and bariatric surgery. The three estimated that if high-volume hospitals performed these surgeries it would save 1 in 300 lives nationwide. These changes will impact the main hospital and satellite hospitals in New London, Cheshire Medical Center and Mt. Ascutney in Vermont. These changes come after a U.S. News and World Reports analysis showed that low-volume hospitals put patients at risk, with approximately 11,000 patients dying at these facilities from 2010 to 2012. —COMPILED BY REBECCA ASOULIN
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dent Frank Cunningham ’16 said. “A prime example is last summer — the Moving Dartmouth Forward steering committee was actually at its highest point of trying to gather info, and Student Assembly played a key role in trying to facilitate these discussions.” Prior to the last three years, the Assembly did not operate over the summer. Although Cunningham is currently on an off-term away from Hanover, he remains in charge of the organization.
“It is truly very important for Student Assembly to be active [in the summer].” -Student assembly president frank cunningham ’16 “I have all the faith in the world in [Harrington] and [Manning] — they have done an excellent job so far, and they are constantly keeping me in the loop,” he said. Shivang Sethi ’17, who just joined the Assembly this week, said that he believes the sophomore summer term functions as a great trial period for joining clubs and organizations. Sethi said he feels optimistic about his involvement for the term. “The way that the Assembly is being chosen is such that they’re not necessarily reflecting the values of the people,” he said of the Assembly the rest of the academic
year. He added that he believes that the Assembly’s regular eleciton process is a “popularity contest” in many ways. “Instead of complaining or whining about it, I thought it’d maybe be a good idea to join this organization,” he said. Sethi said he hopes to bring in more perspectives from people of color, as well as LGBTQ+ and international students, to the organization. Manning said that in terms of students’ rights, there are many misunderstandings among students that the Assembly can help clarify. The Assembly could facilitate lines of communication between the administration and student groups, he said. More generally, Manning said that the Assembly will start publishing financial statements so that students can see how every dollar is spent. “There’s some student sentiment about, ‘Does Student Assembly do anything?’” Harrington said. “By bettering lines of communication we can have a much more productive conversation.” As an organization, the Student Assembly has encountered significant criticisms over the past year. In November, the Undergraduate Finance Committee sanctioned the group after reviewing expenditures on customized Patagonia jackets, an invite-only lunch event and a formal that was later cancelled. This spring, students created a petition calling for the resignation of Cunningham following what it referred to as “uncouth, unjustified” behavior at a student protest. Over the past few years, the UFC has allocated the Assembly an increasingly small amount of money. For the 2014-15 year,
the UFC budgeted the Assembly $40,000; in 2013-14, $58,000; in 2012-13, $69,500; in 2011-12, $76,250. “The Student Assembly doesn’t report to the administration,” Assembly advisor Eric Ramsey said. “It is held accountable by the student body itself.” Sethi said the “popularity contest” aspect of Assembly elections exacerbates the likelihood of the organization’s making mistakes, because winning candidates do not necessarily need to know much about student governance.
In June, Julia Dressel ’17 stepped down from her position as Assembly vice president, announcing in a campus-wide email that she could not commit herself to the team. In accordance with the organization’s constitution, Cunningham appointed Dari Seo ’16 to the vacant position. The general Assembly will confirm or deny his appointment in the fall. “Hands down, Dari is an excellent, compassionate leader, and also has a fantastic voice that is really well-respected throughout the Dartmouth community,” Cun-
ningham said. “Dari is someone who truly cares. I think that’s the greatest thing about him. He has a heart of gold.” Seo said he plans on serving the student body through the Assembly regardless of whether his appointment as vice president is confirmed or not. “Serving the Dartmouth community for me means supporting and loving all students,” Seo wrote in an email. “I want to help SA build a more inclusive, diverse, compassionate and warmhearted student body.”
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Students have a unique opportunity to shape the presidential race. Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Hanover should be a wake-up call to campus — it’s election season. Students at the College on the Hill are in a position from now until November to get up close and personal with candidates. What’s more, students have the opportunity to pose questions to candidates that could help shape the debate. We know, that sounds fantastic, but being a student in New Hampshire comes with the benefit of being able to vote here without residency. New Hampshire voters get to set the tone early with the First in the Nation Primary. The University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth will be the two most frequented colleges in the state visited by candidates. Dartmouth students should be aware of and eager to exercise their right to not only vote, but also influence the debate for both parties. Though campaign schedules have yet to be finalized, we can expect quite a bit of exposure to various candidates, particularly from the Republican Party, which currently has 16 candidates. The visits from presidential hopefuls should not be taken for granted. Dartmouth students should gear up to ask difficult and meaningful questions of each candidate, while deflecting populist rhetoric and generic terms such as “freedom,” “change” and “democracy.” When presented with the opportunity to engage candidates, students should be ready to challenge them in an intelligent and professional manner. We should refrain from the antics that occurred during Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-Texas) visit this past fall, when some students asked inappropriate questions concerning his stance on homosexuality and marriage equality. While their angst is warranted, we should recognize that such public displays of unprofessionalism put Dartmouth students in a bad light. Yes, it is important to call out candidates on the positions with which we may disagree, but we need to remember to do it in a way that will productively contribute to the debates. Of the many candidates, we find a wide
range of backgrounds to explore. Among 16 Republicans, we find candidates who are present and former members from both congressional houses, governors, business people, as well as a few individuals with little or no public experience. Among the five Democrats, we find a group with experience as senators and governors. While media, advertising and rhetoric will have a large influence on voters, Dartmouth students should act as role models for the electorate by taking the time to research candidates. Websites such as Votesmart.org are great ways to dig up facts about candidates’ political stances and voting records. Want to find out why people view Hillary Clinton as “hawkish,” or why Bernie Sanders is both a socialist and a federalist? Checking out these candidates history is the best way to shape your own opinion and ultimately your vote. Remember, there is nothing more intimidating to a candidate than a well-informed electorate. The New Hampshire primary is one of the most publicized events in politics. Iowa and New Hampshire are generally the initial focus of every presidential campaign before the swing-states. In the spirit of “Live Free or Die,” non-resident students have the right to vote. If you do not intend on going through the trouble to obtain an absentee ballot, do not deny yourself the opportunity to contribute to a candidate you might favor. This election cycle is likely to have a profound impact on the country. The Republican primary will determine the fate of a divided party, while the Democratic primary will decide what the mission of the more cohesive party will be. While there is a clear Democratic frontrunner in Clinton, do not doubt the potential of other candidates to shape and reshape the political landscape. Ultimately, it is up to the voters, but as Dartmouth students we owe it to ourselves to make sure that we are informed, and that when given the chance, we test these candidates who hope to become the country’s next commander-in-chief.
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Which presidential candidate do you think will have the biggest impact on the race?
While it is still early in the race for the White House, several have already embarked on the campaign trail. Despite recent controversies surrounding his “luxury speedboat” (a 24foot offshore fishing boat) and some ancient speeding tickets, Marco Rubio is the man to watch in the coming months. Not only does Rubio add much-needed diversity to the Republican field, he also relates to many working-class Americans. The son of poor Cuban immigrants, Rubio is in some ways the antithesis of his next-door neighbor, Jeb Bush. While the two Republican contenders hail from the same zip code, they could not be more different. Rubio’s story is not one of wealth and opulence, and it might be just what voters need to hear. —Sarah Perez ’17 Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is currently making the biggest impact on the 2016 presidential race, even if I — like many — am skeptical of his chances of grabbing the nomination. Though his name has been fairly well-known for years now, Google Trends demonstrates his recent meteoric rise to notoriety. Headlines mentioning his name have gone from three in March of this year to 100 within the first eight days of July. The hashtag “#feelthebern” has blown up on Facebook and Twitter, and sites like Redbubble have far over a dozen designs with some variation of that hashtag or “Sanders ’16.” He raised more money in the first 24 hours of his recent presidential campaign than three other mainstream candidates — Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) — all through small donors. Clearly, the man has momentum, primarily from those disillusioned with establishment politics, which Democratic frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in particular seems to represent. In comparison to her moderate liberalism, he’s edgy and daring, willing to break with tradition and voice radical and not-so-radical ideas that
many liberal and leftist youths find appealing. Yet, despite his current energetic following, I fully believe that Sanders is unelectable for the American populace at large. He has served very well in Vermont, but currently, most of the United States cannot and will not stand behind a self-identified socialist. He will likely cause the Clinton campaign to move left — whether in rhetoric or in action, only time will tell — but that will be his ultimate impact. Many may #feelthebern right now, but when the Democratic National Convention comes, that burn will long have faded away. —Emily Albrecht ’16 I think Bernie Sanders is going to have the biggest impact on the presidential debate in the coming months. He has unusual and interesting ideas which if we carries the message properly will appeal to a wide swath of the electorate — both in primaries and in a general election — he has a strong base of supporters, and unlike the less main stream candidates the republicans perennially field, he has a brain and is not a walking gaffemaker. The prevailing sentiment is that he will push the rhetoric and debate to the left and force Clinton to acknowledge the liberal base she needs to win the general election, but that he will inevitable lose to her. But those who doubt that Sanders can beat Clinton in the democratic primary forget the tale of a certain junior senator from Illinois eight years ago. Sanders is dynamic and anti-status-quo enough to come out on top in a long and arduous race where Clinton is already having trouble energizing voters. The certainty of Clinton’s success will begin to wane as voters see that Sanders isn’t just throwing his name in the hat for sport or spectacle and that he intends to run an honest campaign on the issues. Whether Sanders could win a general election is certainly a worry for the democratic voter, but the race is long and the desire for a fresh voice is great. —Isaac Green ’17
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NH implements stricter laws on texting and driving
distributed flyers and posters, constructed a website explaining enforcing the law. Over Fourth of the law and enacted other initiaJuly weekend, state police troopers tives, Marshall said. gave out 96 citations and 47 warn- Hanover has implemented simiings across the state for violating lar initiatives to increase awarethis new law, the New Hampshire ness of the hands-free law, such Union Leader reported. as distributing posters, sending The New Hampshire Depart- web updates and updating social ment of Transportation reported media, Griffin said. In addition, that distracted driving caused 116 a large road sign was posted at fatal crashes in the past four years the bottom of West Wheelock in the state, according to “Driving street as drivers entered Hanover Toward Zero” Hands-Free for New from Norwich, which alerted and Hampshire reminded drivwebsite. In ad- “Our police ers of the law’s dition, drivers implementaare 23 times department is tion date, Grifmore likely to committed to fin said. crash while tex T h e ting and three enforcing this law town also asked t i m e s m o r e actively.” high school likely to crash principals to while dialing a remind stuphone number. —Hanover town den ts of th e Griffin, Den- manager julia griffin hands-free law, nis and New Griffin said, Hampshire as individuals highway safety under the age engineer Michelle Marshall said of 18 will not be allowed to use that the law aims to keep people any electronic device — even a safe and decrease the number of handless device — while driving distracted drivers on state roads. or while momentarily stopped at Dennis said that distracted a stop sign or red light. Violations driving is both a statewide and of this rule may result in license nationwide problem, adding that suspension or cancellation. he thinks that this law “will help The first violation of the hands prevent needless crashes and free law will result in a $100 fine, deaths across the state.” the second offense will result in a In order to increase awareness $250 fine and every subsequent across the state, the New Hamp- offense within two years will result shire Department of Transporta- in a $500 fine. According to the tion ran radio and television ad- hands-free website, penalty assessvertisements, spoke with citizens, ments will be added to these fines.
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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 9:30 p.m. Public astronomical observing, Shattuck Observatory
7:00 p.m. “The Clouds of Sils Maria” (2015), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
2:00 p.m. “Patient Pref Tweet Chat,” Twitter discussion about health care preferences, hosted by the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, online
TOMORROW 2:00 p.m. “VOXFEST 2015” Reads of two in-progress plays, “The Special Election” and “URANUS”, Hopkins Center, Bentley Theatre
7:00 p.m. “Vietnam: A Work in Progress,” special film screening presented by Ken Burns, Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window” (2013), film screeing, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
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Q&A with China Forbes, co-lead vocalist of “Pink Martini” B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff
Next Tuesday, students and community members will get a taste of the eclectic offerings of the musical group “Pink Martini”. The group, founded by Thomas Lauderdale in 1994, is a selfdescribed “little orchestra.” Classical, Latin, jazz and classical pop all influence the group’s work. The Dartmouth sat down with China Forbes, one of the band’s lead vocalists, to discuss her experience in the group. Why did you decide to join “Pink Martini”? CF: Well, I was already singing and writing songs and I had recorded a solo album in New York, where I was living and playing shows. And my Harvard [University] classmate Thomas Lauderdale called me up and desperately begged me to fly to Portland, Oregon to fill in for a singer for some big shows he had booked for the band “Pink Martini”, which had just started. I didn’t know what “Pink Martini” was and I was all the way across the country doing my own thing, but he was so persuasive that I flew to Portland. I had a great time, and I had this adventure and met
everyone. Everyone was so neighborly and different from New York, and I finished the weekend and went home back to minding my own business. He asked me to come back and do another show the next month. He lured me for the whole month of December to be an artist-in-residence. Thomas is so creative and an exciting person to be around, and it just feels like there are limitless possibilities when you’re with him. I was very seduced by that — I felt like “Pink Martini” was a really fun thing to be a part of. I continued commuting from New York for three years before I eventually moved there and became the full-time singer.
How would you describe the style of the group? CF: It’s a very eclectic style that’s sort of based on the classical piano of Thomas’ background and then influenced a lot by Latin rhythms and percussion and multiple languages. It’s music of the world — very inclusive, romantic, life affirming, hopeful music. How does singing in multiple languages influence the work? CF: Well, originally we started out singing songs from films, many foreign films.
We did “Never on Sunday”(1997) in the original Greek. We did “Song of the Black Lizard”(1997) from the Japanese film of the same name [“Black Lizard” (1968)]. We were naturally doing that and we wrote the song “Sympathique” (1997) in French because we both spoke French and had studied French and wanted to sing in French. We had a singer in the band who was Spanish at the time who sang in Spanish. All of those languages were already in the repertoire and then it became a fun challenge and an expansive approach to continue learning songs in different languages. Especially as we traveled around the world our fans really demanded it. So after years of traveling to Turkey now we have songs in Turkish, and we have songs in Arabic and in Chinese and Japanese, and it just goes on and on. It sort of became our thing to keep learning different languages. You also worked as an actress. How does that artistic role compare to being a singersongwriter? CF: One thing that I loved about music is that I had agency and I was the one writing the material and performing it and booking the gigs. I was able to
just do my artistic thing whenever I wanted, and I wasn’t at the mercy of casting agents.
What is your favorite part of performing and traveling with “Pink Martini”? CF: I love the camaraderie. It’s like a family, and I always had fun with all the guys and gals who were on tour. I loved seeing the world. It’s been incredible to be in this band and to have been able to travel to so many places. The variety of accommodations from a terrible hotel on a strip somewhere in the middle of nowhere to the most beautiful lush gorgeous hotel in Switzerland right on water that I’ll never forget. It’s kind of amazing to have that range of experiences. We played in incredible venues. It’s a lot of peak experiences...It’s not glamorous at all in many ways. It’s a real roller coaster ride. But when you get home from touring, it’s very hard to return to be a person who has to drive a car, cook and get groceries. When did you start on an artistic path? Why do you think you decided to stick with it? Are there any moments in particular that stand out?
CF: When I was eight years old I fell in love with Donna Summer, and I wanted to be her. I learned how to sing by imitating her. Over the years I took piano, I taught myself guitar and I started writing songs. It’s sort of like I was born to do this. I feel like when I’m singing and on stage and everything leading up to performance has been done — I’ve gotten to the venue, I’ve rehearsed, I’ve put on my makeup, I’ve gotten dressed. You step on stage and I sort of feel like, ‘This is what I was meant to do.’ It’s an incredible feeling. But over the years I reached a point where I was burnt out, and I wanted to stop. I had a two-year-old son at the time, and I lost my voice and had to have vocal cord surgery. My body stopped me and gave me a chance to have a break, and during that break when I didn’t know if I would ever be able to sing again — let alone did I want to — I realized I really did want to sing. That was so much of the essence of who I am. I am someone who sings to myself all day long, and I needed to get back on stage. I love performing, and I chose to return to it from a place where I didn’t have to. That was an amazing realization to know that I am choosing it, and it is what I want to do.
Alumni theater company, Vox Theater, to Perform in VoxFest B y Hallie huffaker The Dartmouth Staff
Vox Theater, a company run by Dartmouth alumni Kate Mulley ’05, Matthew Cohn ’08 and Thom Pasculli ’05, will be returning this weekend to showcase several pieces-in-work at the Hopkins Center in a series titled VoxFest. After just one week of rehearsals, the Company will stage five free performances that stretch the boundaries of “typical” theater. Vox Theater, founded in 2012, was created to capitalize on connections between alumni, Cohn said. As alumni, it is particularly special to return to Dartmouth, “where we first learned how to be artists,” Cohn said. According to Cohn, this will be the third year in a row that Vox Theater will return to the College with VoxFest. The company works closely with students in Theater 65, “Drama in Performance”, a class that aims to understand the process of working on new plays. Jamie Horton, who teaches the course, said that he felt a “really natural association” between Vox Theater and current Dartmouth students. “We are committed to fostering and growing relationships with our alums,” Horton said. Cohn also noted the ease of communication between alums and students. “We founded the company because we realized that even if you didn’t overlap at Dartmouth, there is a kind
of certain shared vocabulary among alums,” Cohn said. Cohn said that VoxFest participants can form “very intense” relationships. He noted that some students who participated in previous years have later worked with Vox Theater postgraduation in New York. VoxFest consists of many exhibitions, including the July 8 Vox Barter performance at the Hood Museum. Cohn said that the main three shows for the weekend are “Tear a Root from the Earth,” “The Calamity” and “Merced de Papel.” “Tear a Root from the Earth,” a folk musical about Afghanistan directed by Marina McClure ‘04, will be performed Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Warner Bentley Theater. The show follows one Afghan family over the course of several generations, according to John Bair ’06, one of the co-writers. The musical is based off of a concept album by the Washington, D.C.-based Americana band Gramophonic, made up of Johnny Walsh and Jessica Batke, and the musical incorporates many of their songs. Gramophonic will actually be performing live during Saturday’s show, Bair said. The piece is very much a work in progress, Bair said. Some parts of the show will be staged with minimal costumes, while others will be read by the performers, McClure said. “This is the first workshop of what will probably be a series of workshops
throughout the rest of the year,” McClure said. “So we are focusing on refining the script and music.” Bair is particularly excited for the audience to attend. Immediately following the show there will be an audience discussion, where members can voice their opinions about the performance. Christopher Wall ’92, who wrote “The Calamity,” similarly takes cues from the audience, listening to what they say during intermission to see if the play is flowing. “The Calamity” is a full-length, twoact musical that will be performed on Sunday at 7 p. m. in the Bentley Theater. The show portrays a modern take on the Middle Age practice of towns closing their gates during the plague. Wall said that he hoped to explore the human decision-making process. “I was very curious in kind of an existential way when we say we might help each other out,” Wall said. “But what about when something like that really happens?” Tommy Dickie ’05 is one of the four actors in “The Calamity.” He stated that during the rehearsal process there have been “obstacles,” like all works in progress, but that “it is in the figuring out how to solve the obstacles that the art happens.” He said that he believes that there is much value to performing pieces-inwork for an audience. “When you go to see a fully staged play, the idea is, ‘Audience, sit back and
let us entertain you,’ which does not always initiate a conversation between audience and artist,” Dickie said. “And this is more like opening up a window for people to spy in on a laboratory.” “Merced de Papel,” an original dance and puppet performance, will be performed Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Bentley Theater. It was co-created by Marisa Clementi ’05 and is defined in the program as being “about the making, the destroying and reassembling of identity, sanity and memory.” Haley Reicher ’17, a student in Theater 65 who will be in the performance, said that the piece is based on a novel, “The People of Paper” by Salvador Plascencia. Plascensia’s novel follows
a woman made out of paper and her interactions with the world around her. “We are taking themes from that book to explore what it is like to be breakable but also able to hurt other people,” Reicher said. “A woman made out of paper is very easily hurt herself but can also give papercuts to those with whom she interacts.” Horton said that he believes VoxFest to be an exciting opportunity for both performers and students. “I always love working on new plays, they are the lifeblood of the theater,” Horton said. “This is a remarkable opportunity for the students — as an undergraduate, I never had anything close to this.”
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Performers and the audience connect during Wednesday’s Vox Barter show.
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SPORTS ONE ONE ON WITH EMMA KORBS ’17 B y ALYSSA JORGENSEN The Dartmouth Staff
As sophomore summer kicks into full swing, women’s ice hockey defenseman Emma Korbs ’17 and her fellow teammates are working hard to prepare for their first game against Harvard on October 23rd. With Korbs on campus not only training for next season but also for the potential of another Team Canada training camp this August, The Dartmouth sat down to discuss summer workouts, the upcoming season and her hockey career. How have your summer workouts been? EK: Since our season ended in the winter, we have been training really hard ever since the spring. It is a different dynamic in the summer because most of our team isn’t here, but the workouts are really tough and are leading us every day towards our goals for the fall. We work out five of the seven days of the week. We run and lift, and every day has a different focus that helps us strengthen different aspects of our game — explosiveness, power, agility, cardio and speed. How do you see this next season unfolding, in comparison to last season? EK: Ever since our freshmen year, we have been progressively getting better. Freshman year we had more freshmen than upperclassmen, which is difficult
because the more experience a team has really matters at this level. Last year we made statistical and cultural strides that set us up to be in a great position for this season. Now we are older, and our team is more experienced and better. Our pre-season schedule really proves that we are now growing into the team we want to become. We play [the University of] Wisconsin [at Madison] very early on, and that is one of the best teams in the country, so them wanting to play us says a lot. We’re ready to prove to those teams that we belong with them and that we can take games from them. I think this next season will be our best yet since I have been at Dartmouth. The shift from sophomore to junior year normally marks a natural shift in leadership roles on the team. How do you view your role as a leader for Dartmouth Hockey? EK: I think every single person on our team leads in their own way. By working hard every day, setting an example and excelling in different things, everyone has their own leadership qualities that different people can look up to and follow. I really strive to be the best leader I can be by always working my hardest and by being a good teammate. I think that’s what is most important for me — being a good teammate. I think this year especially has been a transition for me because I am becoming more and more confident and comfortable in my
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Emma Korbs ’17 was part of the Under 18 National Team in 2012.
place on the team, and I am starting to realize that people notice the things I do and that people look up to me in the same ways that I look up to them. It keeps me accountable and helps me be the best I can be. Tell us about your experience playing for Team Canada and about your Team Canada conditioning camp in the spring. EK: For two years I was invited to the Under 18 National Team tryouts and I made it in August of 2012. I made it onto the series team, which means I played with Team Canada in a series against the US in late August. But then I got cut for the worlds team, which was a disappointing moment that has pushed me to keep getting better. I was not invited back last year for the Under 22 National Team, but this spring I was invited to the developmental team conditioning camp in May. Basically we all conditioned off-ice for days straight, and you either get cut or advance to the August tryouts in Calgary. I worked extremely hard in the spring to prepare for the camp and I would not have been able to do it without the help and support of my teammates. Every day I would put in a little extra work to get into the shape I needed to be in to succeed, and every day at least one of my teammates would come in to do extra with me and to help push me. Now I’ve just been working and preparing for the possibility of advancing to the August tryouts this summer. What legacy do you want to leave behind for Dartmouth Hockey? EK: What I really want to pass on to others when I leave is the ability to embody our team culture and work ethic into habitual practices. I want to be the teammate that truly walks around with our core values embedded in me, and I want others to see such values in me. What would be amazing is to have freshmen classes come in and see in our actions the kind of team and teammates we are, and then they walk like us and understand immediately our culture, goals and visions. I want to be that kind of person, like a walking example of what Dartmouth Hockey should be and to show others what it means to work hard and to be a great teammate.
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015
FRIDAY LINEUP
No athletic events scheduled
ON ONE ONE WITH JACQUELINE CRAWFORD ’17 B y CHANELLE QI The Dartmouth Staff
How does it feel not having practice with the rest of the team during this summer? JC: I still have practice with my fellow teammate Taylor Ng ’17 with our coach. It’s really nice because I feel like I’ve been making progress on individual aspects of my game, but its definitely a different atmosphere without the rest of the team.
How would you categorize the past season? JC: I think that the spring season was a time of really good growth for the team and showed how well we came together. We also continued to improve throughout the season. We had a tough first match in the Ivies but I think qualifying for What’s the biggest difficulty the NCAAs for the first time in associated with being a stuour history was dent athlete? a really good JC: Time ending for the “Dartmouth is management season. It seems fantastic because is honestly the like everything biggest chalcame together professors are very lenge of being a incredibly well. understanding as long student athlete. Dartmouth is as you’re proactive. What do you fantastic bel o v e m o s t It’s sometimes cause profesabout team difficult from a social sors are very tennis? understandJC: Team ten- perspective, but being ing as long as nis is so differ- part of a team more you’re proacent from any tive. It’s somethan makes up for it,” form of tennis I times difficult played growing —JACQUELINE CRAWFORD from a social up. As a team, ’17 per spective, we share both but being part the wins and of a team more losses, and being able to play for than makes up for it, because one another is such a different dy- they’re going through the same namic. For me, it changed the game thing and can provide support. We in such a positive way. It provides all face similar situations, and we more incentive to both play hard help with dealing with any presand represent Dartmouth well. My sures that come up with being a teammates and I get along incred- student athlete. ibly well and it also takes away some of the pressures that come What are your goals for the with such an individual sports. upcoming season and the incoming recruit? How did you first get into JC: We’re all really excited for playing tennis? Allison Chuang, our new recruit JC: I first started playing tennis from the Class of 2019. Given when I was around nine years old. our success last season, we’re My family had just joined a club, really looking to build on that. and I started playing with one We already have a more difficult of my friends. After a couple of schedule coming up, which should lessons, I realized I really liked it. provide us with more practice and I started competing at the age of exposure to new teams. I think 10 consistently in national events, we’ve proven that we can match up and by the time I was 15 I started well with some of the best teams in playing international junior tour- the country, and taking advantage naments around the world. When of those opportunities would be I was 17, I started playing as an really great for team. Of course, amateur in professional level our main goal every year is to win tournaments. the Ivy League title.