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Members of the Class of 2019 were able to meet upper classmen at a Spoon University party.
Phi Tau eliminates dues
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At Phi Tau coeducational fraternity, membership dues are a thing of the past, making it the first Greek organization to eliminate dues. Beginning this term, Phi Tau members — who were already obligated only to
pay the dues they felt they could pay — will pay nodues whatsoever, Phi Tau treasurer Alex Weinstein ’16 said. House expenses will be covered entirely by the rent fees that residents pay. “So much of who we are is inclusivity,” Weinstein said. “Wherever you come from, whatever your background is, whatever your interests
are, you have a place at Phi Tau... Hopefully we can say very loudly and very clearly, ‘There is no obstacle, no matter what’s going on financially for you, to joining Phi Tau.’” Phi Tau already had low dues compared to other houses. According to the SEE DUES PAGE 3
A concrete set of alcohol guidelines that clarifies rules laid out in College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative will be implemented Oct. 19, and other administrators are developing other components of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy goals. The newly crafted Alcohol Management Procedures will replace the Social Events Management Procedures as the guidelines for organizing social events on campus. AMP specifies rules for each type of social event student organizations can host. The Office of Student Life will oversee AMP. Organizations will be able to have events with mixed types of alcohol, though no punches or hard alcohol will be allowed.
The policy specifies three tiers of social events. Tier one is members only and can be internally managed. Tier two events, defined as those for between 40 and 150 people, must have two students on door duty, two walkthroughs by Safety and Security and two bartenders, who can be members of the organization holding the event. Tier three events, defined as those with over 150 people, have the same door duty and walkthrough policies as tier two events, however, there must also be third-party bartenders and security provided by a separate organization. The College will evenly split the cost of third-party security with the hosting organization. Third-party bartenders will be College students trained according to AMP. Events with less than 40 SEE MDF PAGE 5
DHMC provides jobs to Upper Valley residents
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For Alexander Pruitt, working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center runs in the family. Six years ago, when he was in high school and looking for a job, he joined his mom at the hospital working for dining services. On Saturday, he stood serving baked goods behind a counter at DHMC. About a dozen people waited in line, and another dozen or so sat eating. A Plainsfield resident, Pruitt said what he appreciates most about his job is its proximity to his house.
Plainsfield is about a 25-minute drive from DHMC. But in a region of sparse towns without much transportation infrastructure, DHMC’s stable jobs draw in workers from across the Upper Valley. DHMC, which has 9,120 employees, serves as the Upper Valley’s largest employer. The majority of the hospital’s employees are affiliated with health care practices. DHMC employs more than 1,400 doctors, residents and fellows, in addition to slightly more than 1,700 nurses and more than 1,160 other clinical staff. But at DHMC, nearly 40 percent of
employees are not involved with patient care or clinical services. Upper Valley Haven, an organization that supports those struggling with poverty, executive director Sara Kobylenski said these employees work in areas such as housekeeping, maintenance, dietary services and transportation, in addition to administration. She said that in the Upper Valley, though service-level jobs are easy to find, it is difficult to find jobs that pay enough money. “Finding jobs isn’t the problem — findings jobs with a livable wage is the problem,” she said.
Kobylenski said blue-collar, well-paying industry jobs used to be common in the Upper Valley, but most manufacturing has moved out of the area. Now, there is a stark divide between the jobs that require a high level of education, like those at technology companies and service jobs, like those in the hospitality and care industries. Lebanon resident Rob Williams said his maintenance job at DHMC is his second job — he cleans local office buildings at night. He said that between these two jobs, he can SEE DHMC PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing The University of Vermont will be working with the city of Burlington to provide an additional megawatt of solar-produced energy in addition to the city’s current 1.8 megawatts, the Vermont Digger reported. Developers interested in the project are being asked to submit proposals by Nov. 15 through the Burlington Electric Department. The Department will respond to approved proposals. Neale Lunderville, the general manager for the Burlington Electric Department, said that the utility would likely purchase any power produced by the panels. Lunderville added that project proposals will have to be creative since Burlington does not have much green space to install fields of solar panels. Bob Vaughan, UVM’s director of capital planning and management, said that the project is still in its earliest stages. Burlington Mayor, Miro Weinberger said that he supports the project and believes it is a great way for a city-utility owned department to serve as leadership against climate change. The Accredition Council for Graduate Medical Education issued accreditation warnings to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital’s surgery training residency program due to a complaint from a resident dismissed from the program in 2012, the Valley News reported. Dr. Thersia Knapik sued the hospital on the grounds of wrongful termination from Dartmouth Hitchcock’s surgery residency program. DHMC held that they confirmed to other institutions that Knapik completed her residency so she could then continue her post-graduate medical education. The hospital’s accreditation warning can be removed during an upcoming review of DHMC’s accreditation on Nov. 1. The leader of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), addressed an audience at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s state convention at Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena, the Concord Political Monitor reported. Party members interrupted Wasserman Schultz by shouting that they wanted more debates. The audiences was one of the largest in recent times with 4,201 attendees in total. The majority expressed discontent with the fact that there are currently six Democratic debates. Presidential hopeful former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s campaign has challenged the Democratic Party to schedule more debates, and O’Malley staffers and supporters chanted that they wanted more debates a few blocks away from the arena. One of O’Malley’s supporters said she was upset about the timing of the New Hampshire debate and with Wasserman Schultz’s inability to listen to the publics concerns with lack of debates. Speakers at the convention included Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Lincoln Chafee, Lawrence Lessig and O’Malley.
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“Working Bridges” eases work life FROM DHMC PAGE 1
support his family, but he wishes he had more time to spend with them at home. Williams said that his job at DHMC is the most steady position he holds. Public policy professor Charles Wheelan said that because demand for health care does not vacillate with macroeconomic flows, health care jobs tend to be more stable. Kobylenski said that at lower levels of the employment ladder in the Upper Valley, employees often leave their positions because of non-work related problems like transportation and housing. Working Bridges is a program at DHMC that operates on the belief that people’s lives get in the way of their ability to perform their jobs, Kobylenski said. Such barriers might include access to childcare or reliable transportation. The program, run by local service organization Granite United Way, aims to help low-income wage earners solve their personal problems to help keep them on the job, Granite United Way senior director of regional impact Suzanne Stofflet said. “When you’re stressed out about something, you’re not as good at your job,” she said. Stofflet said six companies are participating in Working Bridges so far, including DHMC, King Arthur Flour and Simon Pearce. The College and the Co-op food store are among the companies that are on the waiting list for the program, according to a Working Bridges report.
Stofflet said since the program began in February, coordinator Prudence Pease has assisted about 200 employees across the Upper Valley. “We’ve had absolutely tremendous feedback from employers,” Stofflet said. “There’s never been anything like it, in the difference it’s made in both companies and for their employees.” She said transportation and housing are two of the most com-
“Employment growth in health care organizations and providers have been steady and strong, even in downturns. People still get sick, and a lot of people are insured — you don’t have to pay for it like cars and other big-ticket items.” -economics professor douglas staiger mon problems particular to rural areas like the Upper Valley. Public transportation is inadequate, and people cannot afford reliable cars, Stofflet said. Wheelan said it is uncommon for health care organizations of the scale and specialization of DHMC to be located rurally, but they can support a diverse socioeconomic labor ecosystem. Aside from cli-
nicians, hospitals need ancillary management, accountants, wealth managers and people to support infrastructure, he said. Economics professor Douglas Staiger, who has studied health care economics, said health care organizations lend stability to their surrounding area because of the nature of demand for health care. “Employment growth in health care organizations and providers has been steady and strong, even in downturns,” Staiger, who has published on nurse employment and hospital productivity, said. “People still get sick, and a lot of people are insured — you don’t have to pay for it like cars and other big-ticket items.” He added that hospital employment has risen overall in the last couple years, especially because the increase in insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act has led to greater spending and demand for health care. Staiger said there is an “enormous” push for more efficient health care that has spurred hospitals to consolidate and specialize, but the greater effects of these transformations are unclear. With more pressure to find efficiencies, care could move out of hospitals to smaller clinics or could surge in larger systems like DHMC, he said. “DHMC’s such a big employer — these changes could have real impacts on the community,” he said. “If they suddenly boom or cut back, it’s going to affect property values, pressures for development and pressure on the town and neighboring towns.”
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The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is the Upper Valley’s largest provider of jobs.
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Phi Tau will use revenue from rent to replace dues FROM DUES PAGE 1
Greek Letter Organizations and Societies office, average dues for men in Fall 2014 were $342. Women’s dues averaged $308. Until abolishing dues, Phi Tau charged $150 per term, although paying this was optional, Weinstein said. A “significant amount” of Phi Tau’s members had utilized the reduced dues policy in the past, Weinstein said. “This is another step [Phi Tau] has taken to break down those barriers to entry into the Greek system and the social spaces of Dartmouth,” Gender-Inclusive Greek Council president Veri di Suvero ’16 said. Di Suvero said she was not sure if other GIGC members would follow Phi Tau’s lead. Alpha Theta coeducational fraternity is currently reviewing its finances and considering adopting a similar nodues policy, Alpha Theta president Noah Cramer ’16 said. “We want to be as financially inclusive as possible,” he said. “We’re very proud of our pay-what-youcan policy, with members able to request a dues reduction of any amount without reason and have that granted no questions asked.” Prior to abolishing dues, Phi Tau received around $2,000 per term from dues, Weinstein said. This represented a small portion of Phi Tau’s revenue, most of which is derived from the rent the house receives from its members and the boarders who live in the building. Phi Tau, which owns its own house, brings in between $30,000 and $40,000 per term from rent, Weinstein said. “For the last several years, the vast majority of our operations, our funding, our anything came from our rent because we own the building,” Weinstein said. “The amount that came from dues kept getting smaller and smaller proportionally as the College kept raising our rent, and we realized [dues were] not incredibly necessary to the function of the house.” Although dues were optional even before this term, many potential members did not realize how seriously the policy was taken or still felt pressured to pay dues, Phi Tau president Justin Halloran ’16 said. “The culture in the house was very much, ‘Don’t worry about it,’ but because of the culture on campus, people felt that, ‘If I’m not paying my dues but other people are, I’m not doing my part,’ and that’s not the impression we wanted people to have,” he said. Currently, Phi Tau is one of the smallest Greek houses on campus with fewer than 20 members, Halloran said. The house hopes
that the new policy will help it to recruit new members this fall, and Weinstein said numerous members of the Class of 2018 have expressed interest in joining Phi Tau. Phi Tau will not cut any of its major social events, including the termly Milque and Cookies event or the weekly ice cream socials that the house hosts, Weinstein said. Minor cost-cutting measures and budget controls for other social events will be put in place. The house has previously spent several hundred dollars per term to provide soda for its members, a practice that will now cease. Halloran noted that Phi Tau has lower social costs than many Greek houses since it does not charge members additional dues for apparel or formals. These differences could make it harder for other houses to switch to a no-dues policy, he said. Additionally, Phi Tau can only remain solvent without dues since it owns its physical house, whereas the Panhellenic Council sororities and two fraternities — Chi Heorot and Alpha Chi Alpha fraternities — do not, he said. “I think that some other houses may look at this as an incentive to say, ‘Oh, we could strengthen our financial aid policies,’” Halloran said. “I think Phi Tau is a little bit unique in a few ways, one of those being that a lot of people who join Phi Tau weren’t necessarily thinking of joining a Greek house.” The larger endowments of some fraternities may allow them to institute a no-dues policy, Weinstein said. Phi Tau has savings and investment accounts that are growing, but it does not have the same financial resources as some larger Greek houses. Part of the impetus for the nodues policy came from College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, Halloran said. Since the College will begin to create alternative social spaces via the new residential housing system, Phi Tau felt the need to make itself more attractive for potential new members, he said. While Phi Tau’s alumni had previously objected to a no-dues policy when the idea was raised in past years, they supported the motion this year, he said. The only potential concern Phi Tau has with its new policy is if it receives an incredibly large increase in members, Weinstein said — an increase of over 100 in a single term could be prohibitive for the house. Halloran said, however, the house’s potential expansion would be limited by current members’ opinions on the house’s ideal size and community, not by financial concerns.
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Phi Tau coeducational fraternity will institute a no-dues policy for members beginning this term.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Contributing Columnist PAUL HARARY ’18
GUEST Columnist MEGHAN HASSETT ’15
Not All Fun and Game
Needlessly Changing Policy
Despite its economic benefits, trophy hunting does more harm than good.
Need-blind admissions for international students are crucial for a diverse Dartmouth.
Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist with a penchant for sports hunting, has recently been the focus of international headlines and public outrage due to his fatal shooting of Cecil, a reportedly well-known and beloved lion in a national park in Zimbabwe. The 13-year-old carnivore was notable for being the subject of an Oxford University study on animal tracking, and his death has sparked discussion about a common practice regarding big-game hunting in both the United States and across Africa — the sale of hunting licenses to fund wildlife conservation. In Palmer’s case, he paid approximately $54,000 for the right and permits to kill and export a male lion from the Hwange Game Reserve — although not Cecil, specifically. While authorities are questioning the legality of this particular hunting safari, there is no doubt that trophy hunting is permitted in several countries, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana — as well as in the U.S. The dealing of these licenses is often an integral source of funding for wildlife conservation in these countries, but this makes little sense from a commercial standpoint and even less from a moral one. Economically, the argument for the auctioning of one-off hunting licenses at first seems quite convincing. Not only is it a primary source of funding for wildlife conservation efforts, but it also allows governments to carefully regulate the quantity and profile of animals that are killed. This ensures that, in most cases, hunters focus their efforts on older, non-reproducing males — individuals that tend to pose a threat to wild populations by killing off younger, smaller animals. According to Voice of America, the official external broadcast institution of the U.S. government, the hunting industry brings in more than $744 million each year in South Africa alone. This money is used to support conservation infrastructure, pay the salaries of park rangers, police illegal hunting and provide mechanisms to control the black-market trade of pelts and ivory. In addition, the number of game tags put on auction is often strictly limited, guaranteeing high-prices for the few that are circulated and putting a hard cap on the number of animals killed per year — roughly 800 lions
After reading The Dartmouth’s Friday article, “College ends need-blind admission for international students,” which stated the admissions office will consider international applicants to the Class of 2020 under a “needaware” policy, I can only think that the College is headed down the path of socioeconomic exclusivity. Dartmouth is very proud of its diverse student body, touting its breadth of students that come from all over the country and across the world. Students from widely varying backgrounds bring with them a rich landscape of perspectives to share with others. During my time here, I have always felt that one incredible, sincere conversation with someone who has led a very different life and holds a unique worldview from my own could often teach me more and offer a more profound learning experience than some of the classes I have taken. It seems like opportunities for these kinds of mind-blowing and perspective-shifting experiences will no longer be as readily available, as more people matriculating here will look the same and have had more similar experiences. With this shift in the need-blind policy, I fear international students in need of financial assistance will be excluded from entering the College. This may result in a fundamental change in campus discourse and the student experience by shifting the population away from less wealthy students from a large variety of nations in favor of those with the resources to pay tuition. When comparing two incredibly gifted and talented students — one of whom is wealthy and the other would need a full scholarship — accepting the wealthier student seems a great way to increase the College’s profits while continuing to boast a strong percentage of international students. With this new policy change, I fear a decrease in attendance of students from non-Western, less wealthy nations, limiting us to Western views of seeing the world, as well as international perspectives rooted in socioeconomic privilege. It is vital that college students be confronted with different viewpoints constantly — people you may otherwise never
were killed in Zimbabwe between 1999 and 2009. For all the money that big game hunting supposedly brings to these countries, however, it pales in comparison to that generated by ecotourism. Jeff Flocken, North American regional director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, drove home this point in a July interview with National Public Radio, where he noted that “legal trophy hunting is measured by the millions it contributes to Africa’s economy while non-lethal nature viewing [is measured] by the billions.” Nature tourism, he said, generates 13 to 15 times the revenue that comes from trophy hunting. Flocken hit the nail on the head — the almost 4.7 billion that ecotourism is estimated to bring into South Africa each year dwarfs the millions in revenue from permit sales. Although the latter sum is still undoubtedly significant — particularly in countries where poverty and corruption serve to make wildlife conservation a relatively low government priority — it endangers the natural resources that draw ecotourists and creates a system that is at risk of abuse. Rather than relying on the hunting industry to foot the bill for conservation efforts, African governments should apportion some of the money generated by nature-viewing to care for native wildlife. Not only is it self-defeating to allow a resource as valuable as African fauna to dwindle in the interest of hunting — which brings in peanuts in comparison to tourism — but it is also irrational to argue that the funds for stewardship would not exist if not for the auctioning of licenses. In addition to the compelling economic case against hunting is the moral argument. While it can be beneficial for an animal species as a whole — when managed responsibly, which it often is not — legal big-game hunting sets a dangerous precedent and justifies the killing of a few individuals for the benefit of the greater population. Although this issue could occupy an entire column on its own, it seems clear that sacrificing these few animals is entirely unnecessary. Non-lethal nature viewing generates enough income to pay for wildlife conservation more than a dozen times over — so why pretend that hunting licenses need exist at all?
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have met with opinions you may otherwise never have heard or considered. Ending needblind admissions for international students is a huge step in the wrong direction for academic integrity at Dartmouth, as well as for the overall student experience. Our international students are worth just as much as American ones, and they must be treated the same by the admissions office. When we have international students, such as my first-year undergraduate advisor Miriam Kilimo ’14, who went on to become Rhodes Scholars and contribute so greatly to the College in myriad ways, it seems idiotic to discourage international students in need of financial aid from applying. Moreover, when it comes down to which international students are interested in applying, it seems that being one of the only elite American universities with need-blind admissions would give the College’s international reputation equal or better standing with many of its peer institutions. With the shift to a need-aware policy, Dartmouth runs the risk of Ivy League universities who retain a need-blind financial aid policy — such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities — seeming much more attractive in the eyes of international students. This policy change may discourage all international students from applying to the College — regardless of whether or not they can foot the bill. With this in mind, I can only see a heightening of social exclusivity based on race and class in Dartmouth’s future. I can only see diversity of opinions and perspectives narrowing, be they from international students or those without a preparatory school background. I can also only see the number of international students decreasing, allowing campus to live comfortably in an American-centric bubble even more so than we already do. Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde said that this policy change will “stabilize” international student admissions, ensuring “robust” enrolling classes. I fail to see, however, how ending needblind admissions for international students will do anything but send Dartmouth further down the path of homogeneity and exclusivity.
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Greek houses must have outside security for large events FROM MDF PAGE 1
people do not need to be registered. AMP will no longer allow onthe-fly party registration, but will allow on-the-fly cancellation. The new policy was formally revealed to leaders of Greek houses last Wednesday. Former co-chair of the social event and alcohol management group and accountability chair for the Greek Leadership Council Taylor Watson ’16 said the biggest goal of the new policy is to be realistic about alcohol at social events on campus. “Only about 25 percent of social events were actually being registered, which is bad, so the main goal is to get to a point where all events are registered,” he said. Watson said the new policy puts more responsibility on organizations but takes away some of the restraints. For example, the rule dictating that events cannot have both cans and bottles of alcohol is being eliminated, he said. Sigma Alpha Epsilon alumni chair Robert Scales ’16 said that his fraternity has not been approached as a whole about the implementation of AMP yet, but certain individuals have been and he is aware of the policy changes. “I think the key thing is ensur-
ing strong cooperation with Safety and Security and making sure that they are ready to implement it according to the design,” Scales said. The AMP launch date coincides with the end of the freshman fraternity ban, associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey said. “I’ve been at Dartmouth for 12 years, and I’ve seen a lot of different iterations of the Alcohol Management Program, and I want to get this one right, so we’re committed to making sure everyone has the information and resources they need to have a gentle transition,” Ramsey said. Ramsey is working on the implementation of AMP and the Student Organization Accountability Project, which will be implemented this winter term. The Student Organization Accountability Project encompasses rules Hanlon mentioned in his Jan. 29 “Moving Dartmouth Forward” address — the elimination of pledge terms, the requirement that houses have one male and one female faculty adviser and that they undergo an annual review to ensure they are contributing to the academic and personal welfare of their members. These conditions must be met in order to maintain recognition by the College. Ramsey said accountability
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Burlington Taiko, a Japanese drumming group, performed for students.
involves recognizing the work of students and getting all organizations to reach the same level of responsibility. He added that the process is open to changes subject to feedback from students as it goes on. “Accountability sometimes has a negative connotation around here, but we really are working hard to set up students for success,” he said. Ramsey said right now student groups are highly involved in these two programs and are working with staff through the evaluation of the rollout process to talk about the new procedures. “Both of these are very studentintensive processes,” he said. Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto said that after vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer assumed her new position, the student affairs division reinvigorated the office of student life. Agosto said the purpose of this was to ensure that Greek Letters Organizations and Societies, the Dartmouth Outing Club and the Collis Center report to the same place and all organizations receive the same information. “This is so no one department
has it all, but that student life is looking at the big picture and looking at how are we holding all of our organizations to the same level of expectation and accountability,” Agosto said. Agosto, who has been responsible for coordinating the student life and co-curricular portions of “Moving Dartmouth Forward,” including sexual violence and alcohol management, said multiple aspects of the policy initiative are making progress in their implementation this term. She said several pilots for the sexual violence prevention program were put into place for orientation, and the committee is working with the first-year residential education program to adapt the sexual violence pieces that are part of the new curriculum for students. The LiveSafe iPhone application was also introduced to the Class of 2019 during orientation. Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, who assumed the role in July, is charged with coordinating the house professor component of the new housing community system. She is also working on the Dartmouth Thrive initiative, which is coordinating with student
affairs to be a bridge between academics interests and programming for students and co-curricular offerings all over campus. The “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan describes the Dartmouth Thrive pilot program as one that develops leadership skills and focuses on building a well-rounded person “in mind, body and spirit.” This summer, Biron worked with the house professors selected to for the residential housing program, which will launch next fall, to start planning their specific roles as well as to continue the planning for the physical transition into the six new housing communities. Over the course of the year, they plan to convene a number of student working groups with the new house council — comprised of representatives from the office of student affairs, office of campus services and house professors — working on how the experience of the communities will roll out this year. “The communities are going to last forever, but how they are experienced by students is something we expect to be organic and designed by the students and the house professors once they actually start on the ground,” she said.
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Like jumper cables she awakens Ellie, the passionate feminist and grandma The Dartmouth Staff bear in need of a lamb to shepherd. “Grandma” (2015) opens on Ellie While she has her work cut out for (Lily Tomlin), a former poet, college her — Sage believes Betty Friedan’s professor and widow, bitterly break- “The Feminine Mystique” refers to ing up with Olivia (Judy Greer), her Mystique from X-Men — Ellie must much younger girlfriend of four teach Sage how to walk the walk and months. Ellie has been largely forgot- talk the talk so a man will not do it ten by life beyond a few anthologized for her. Unfortunately, Ellie currently poems. Her fiery vigor has been only has $50 to her name, which extinguished by the tides of time and sparks their quest to find a benefacloss of Violet, her former partner of tor amongst Ellie’s lost friends and 30 years, leaving behind an irascible, acquaintances. icy self. Now she just treads in the Their first stop is obviously the narcotic waters of nostalgia, donning father, Sage’s stoner punk boyfriend her professorial regalia while leaf- who tries to steamroll all over her spinelessness ing through old by d e ny i n g photos. Anonym- “Indeed, Tomlin still his paternity. ity becomes her But then Ellie refuge, as she pays has it. At 76, she acts comes in like a off her debts and like her precocious wrecking ball, cuts up her credit grabbing his cards to turn into five-year-old ‘Edith hockey stick a wind chime, as Ann’ character from and delivering if she is tying up her ‘Laugh-In’ days a vasectomizloose ends before has grown old and ing slapshot. the curtains close. Score one for But purpose wizened but has still the matricomes knocking archy. In the in the form of maintained the same car, she gleeSage (Julia Gar- acerbic, incisive wit.” fully counts his ner), her teenage money as if granddaughter in thinking, “I still need of $630 for an abortion. Like a newborn child, got it.” Sage is wide-eyed and terrified of her Indeed, Tomlin still has it. At 76, future, as if tears are always about to she acts like her precocious five-yearspill from her mousy, cherubic mien. old “Edith Ann” character from her
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SINGING THROUGH HISTORY
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COURTESY OF ROB STRONG ’04
Performance artist Taylor Mac explored the history of popular American music last Thursday at the Hopkins Center.
“Laugh-In” days has grown old and wizened but has still maintained the same acerbic, incisive wit. A onceabortion clinic turned chic coffeehouse is low hanging fruit for Ellie’s unfiltered polemic, as she pours her “redundant” drip-coffee on the floor and reminds the customers of aborted fetuses within the espresso-laden walls. She enlivens that crotchety “kids these days” mentality with her earnest and unabashed humor and makes ballbusting gutbusting. After
PRINTING MACHINES
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Students had the opportunity to explore the Book Arts Workshop’s printing press this weekend.
a while, even Sage stops abashedly coddling and last-second cold feet, whining “Grandma!” and embraces which is rare in films about abortion. Ellie’s bite. It feels like stand-up It is a determined march towards without the mic, and one begins to facing death while creating life in the wonder what is scripted and what is process. While Sage puts off motherjust Tomlin’s riffing. hood, Ellie becomes a mother again. But the film steers away from pure Perhaps it’s the genre — think “Obvibuddy comedy ous Child” (2014) and begins to “These comedies — but abortion paint a more comedies are remind us of nuanced porunapologetically trait of Ellie the humanity frank and sympathrough her surrounding thetic, as if to show encounters. any picketers the As if it were a abortion and bury door while capturcigarette, Ellie the excutionering the herculean gets a soothdecision mothers esque guilt beneath ing tattoo of make within the an “O” — for narratives of same scene. As ovaries, says togetherness and Ellie puts it, “This Ellie, or Olivis something that ia, claims Sage rebirth. An event you will prob— from her that could have ably think about friend Deathy some moment ended in funeral bells at (Laverne Cox). every day for the Growing in- in past movies now rest of your life.” c r e a s i n g l y deserves a ‘happy These comedies desperate, she remind us of the tries to thrust birthday’ for the humanity surher dusty first- birth of a stronger rounding aboredition copies tion and bury the family, a new Sage of the feminist executioner-esque canon upon an and an Ellie rescued guilt beneath old friend and from insignificance.” narratives of toreturns to her getherness and wealthy former rebirth. An event husband from that could have whom she ran away 30 years prior. ended in funeral bells in past movies Inevitably, Ellie and Sage must ap- now deserves a “happy birthday,” proach “Judge” Judy (Marcia Gay for the birth of a stronger family, a Harden), Sage’s aloof, high-profile new Sage, and an Ellie rescued from mother and Ellie’s estranged daugh- insignificance. ter, for the money and mend old wounds. Rating: 8.5/10 Shot for a truly indie $600,000 “Grandma” is now playing at the and compressed into a tight 78-min- Nugget Theater at 4:30 p.m. and 7 ute package, “Grandma” avoids p.m., as well as 9:15 p.m. on Friday melodramatic breakdowns, shoulder and Saturday.
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Performance groups hold auditions over the weekend
B y amelia rosch and maya poddar The Dartmouth Senior Staff
T h ey b e g i n e a rl y, b e fo re noon and go late into the night. Sometimes, decisions are not made until the sun rises on Monday. Over the weekend, students had the opportunity to audition for performance groups. While dance groups held group auditions, a cappella groups held both individual and group auditions. Leading up to the auditions, groups held a variety of events for freshmen who were interested, such as ice cream socials and open rehearsals. S h a ny S u n ’ 1 6 , the codirector of Sugarplum, said that Sugarplum chose to host group auditions with Fusion, SHEBA and Ujima to give first-years more options. The auditions for dance groups lasted from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. “The reason we do it is so that the freshmen who are interested in dance get to get a feel of every single group and what their style is,” she said. SHEBA member Desmond Fambrini ’16 said that first year students have to audition for all four groups. For dance auditions, hopefuls have the option to perform 30 seconds of their own choreography or to freestyle. Fabrini said that the dance groups hold three rounds of auditions, a first round where auditionees perform a dance from each team, a second round where first year students perform a solo for all the groups and the final call back round. David Clossey ’16, the Aires’s business manager and the organizer of this year’s auditions, said that five a cappella groups participated in men’s auditions this year, three all-male groups — the Aires, the Brovertones and the Cords — and two co-ed groups, the Dodecaphonics and the Sing Dynasty. He said that 50 men participated in male auditions. Clossey said that each group takes around four to six new members each year, but there is no set quota. He said that the auditions begins at 10 a.m. He said that for male a cappella groups, the process
is comprised of three rounds — the first round tests potential members’ pitches and ranges, the second round gives auditionees an opportunity to sing both solos and a supplemental role for all the groups and the third round is the callback round. Female a cappella auditions are also made up of multiple rounds and involve auditionees ranking the groups. He said that the first and second rounds give members a chance to feel comfortable and showcase their voices, while creating a standard process so that groups have an easier time comparing people who audition.
“Some kids have no experience and can’t even read music, and some have been in an a cappella groups for four years in high school. It’s a real cross section of campus. It’s a wide spectrum of kids.” -david clossey ’16, business manager of the aires and auditions organizer Clossey said that after the second round, all the groups and auditonees move to the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center to watch each group perform and speak about their group. “It’s a way for the auditionees to think about which group they want to be in and make an informed choice,” he said. I n t h e A i r e s, t h e r e i s a tradition that the group’s current musical director gives the speech introducing the group, Clossey said. “It’s very special for [musical director Nikhil Arora ’16],” he said. “It’s all about how much the groups mean to him. He’s gotten to hear the speech three years, as an auditionee, as a sophomore and as a junior, and he gets to share it.” Clossey said that the groups
then spend about two hours deliberating which students they want to call back. He said that the final round usually begins around midnight. During the callbacks, potential members must choose which group’s callback they want to attend. “It’s like early decision for colleges,” he said. “That’s how we explain it to them.” Clossey said that each group does callbacks slightly differently — the Aires have potential members learn one song of the Aires’ reprotoire and sing one part with three of the Aires current members. He said that the Aires use this process to see how potential members’ voices blend with current members. He said that the Aires tend to have decided who their new members are by around 3:30 a.m. the next morning. He said that the Aires’ deliberations must be unanimous, although that varies from group to group. After the new members are selected, the process for the Aires is still not over. Clossey said that the group picks “Aires names” for the new member, which have an etymology based on things such as the member’s audition song.
He said that “Aires names” are important to the group. “We call each other by our names all the time,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve been called ‘David’ by the Aires since I joined.” He said that the group then
“The hardest part is obviously deciding who we want in our group but more than that is deciding what we want our standard to be for that year.” -shany sun ’16. sugarplum codirector wakes up new members by singing the song “Somewhere” (1957) from the musical “West Side Story” to them. He said that the group first performed the song in 1966 and rarely performs it in public. Clossey said his favorite part of the audition process is getting to
know potential members. “Some kids have no experience and can’t even read music, and some have been in an a cappella groups for four years in high school,” he said. “It’s a real cross section of campus. It’s a wide spectrum of kids.” Sun said that her favorite part of the audition process is getting to watch first-years’ excitement at getting to interact with the different groups and figure out which group fit their styles. Clossey said that the hardest part of the audition process is it’s length. “It’s a really drawn-out affair,” he said. Sun said that for Sugarplum, the auditions are about more than just figuring out who the new members of the group are going to be. “The hardest part is obviously deciding who we want in our group, but more than that it is deciding what we want our standard to be for that year,” Sun said. Fambrini said that this year was the hardest for choosing members because the level of talent on display. “It was obnoxious how good they were,” he said. “We were upset because everyone was so good.”
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Freshmen stretch during auditions for SHEBA, Sugarplum, Ujima and Fusion this Sunday.