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Alumni stand with Lady Gaga at Oscars By SONIA QIN
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At the Oscars this year, Lady Gaga performed an emotionally-charged rendition of her song “Til it Happens to You.” Nearing the end of her
perfor mance, she was joined onstage by a group 50 young survivors of sexual violence that included two alums: Nastassja Schmiedt, a former member of the Class of 2015, and Lea Roth ’13. Gaga’s song addresses
the sensitive topic of sexual violence and is featured in the documentary “The Hunting Ground” (2015), a film that specifically addresses sexual violence on American college camSEE OSCARS PAGE 5
The Experiential Lear ning symposium, sponsored by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Lear ning, will take place this afternoon in Baker-Berry Library. The symposium will feature 2016-17 Stamps Scholars Julia Marino ’17, Andrew Nalani ’16, Connie Jiang ’17 and Patrick Saylor ’16, who will be sharing their work and experiences through the Stamps program. Through the Stamps Scholarship program, students are eligible for up to $10,000 grants from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation to pursue co-curricular or academic experiential learning opportunities. The program first started at Dartmouth about two years ago, associate director of the Experiential Learning Initiative Ashley Kehoe said. Previously managed by the Provost’s Office, DCAL now runs the program. Nalani, a religion major modified with women’s, gender and sexuality studies and environmental studies, wants
to go into education. Nalani’s project revolves around redesigning the curriculum of a leadership program he directed in Uganda. After the successful pilot program in the summer of 2014, Nalani began considering how to expand it into an ongoing program by redesigning the curriculum. T h ro u g h t h e S t a m p s Scholarship, Nalani also conducted research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. The program he did in Uganda also involved components of social emotional learning, and Nalani’s research at Yale expanded on how to adapt such learning for different populations, especially minority populations. “The opportunity to be a Stamps Scholar has made my learning experience come alive,” Nalani said. Nalani hopes to finish the curriculum handbook by the end of spring term. Marino’s project centers SEE STAMPS PAGE 2
Warren Belding retires after 43 years with College IT By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff
Last Wednesday, manager of IT desktop client services Warren Belding retired from the College after more than 43 years of service. While at the College, Belding witnessed several transformations in technology, and simultaneously saw his own position evolve in order to continue to meet Dartmouth’s technological needs. Belding first joined the College’s IT department in July of 1972 when he was
21-years-old. It was his first major job out of college, and also his first experience working with IT. Most of his training came while on the job, he noted, especially because the field was constantly changing and evolving. O r i g i n a l l y, B e l d i n g worked in the machine room with the mainframe computers. At the time, personal computers had not yet been invented — professors and students at Dartmouth shared a single computer, large enough to take up more than half the floor of the now-demolished Kiewit
Computation Center. Over 100 people could connect to the mainframe at a time via terminals in the center or other buildings on campus, computer science professor Scot Drysdale said. Belding worked to help users run their programs, performing tasks like mounting magnetic tape and getting printouts. After two years working in the machine room, Belding applied to and was accepted for a position as a program librarian. He compared the job to a modern-day software download page: he maintained a collection
of computer programs for people to use if they did not want to write their own. Belding said that while on the job, he was in charge of verifying that user-submitted programs for the collection were not copyrighted and could be used publicly, as well as deciding whether programs were worthy of inclusion in the library. He and his coworkers would also regularly produce a catalog detailing the available programs in the library. In the 1980s, Belding’s role changed once again with the advent of personal
computing. His job became focused on providing user support, a role he has maintained to this day. One of his first duties was helping to introduce personal computing to the Dartmouth campus. Drysdale said that the head of computing at the time, Bill Arms, who is now a computing and information science professor emeritus at Cornell University, was convinced that the future lay with personal computing, rather than with continuing to purchase SEE BELDING PAGE 3
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on Basil O’Connor, who she called “the founding father of modern philanthropy.” Marino, a history major, has written papers about O’Connor in seven different classes and plans on compiling them into a biography. To write these papers, she traveled to four different archives in Minnesota and New York, uncovering original, primary source material related to O’Connor in the history of polio from different angles. She plans to travel to 10 more archives across America and in Europe. “I think that it’s been a great experience to produce original research and take ownership of an area that I’ve come to really appreciate,” Marino said. “I have always loved history and this Stamps Scholarship has allowed me to feel like I’m participating in history, not just learning it in a classroom but really broadening my knowledge and participating in the craft of history.” Jiang, a physics major, said she hopes to become a theoretical physicist and conduct research in condensed matter theory. She has been working on theoretical physics research on quantum spin chains, which are chains of quantum particles interacting in a certain way.
“Quantum spin chains make up very realistic physical models of a lot of different kinds of systems that are very important in condensed matter physics,” she said. “What we are trying to do is understand many physical properties of these quantum spin chains.” Jiang said the Stamps Scholarship has allowed her to apply her classroom learning when working on problems that have yet to be solved, as well as to fully dedicate herself to research. Her senior honors thesis will expand on this research. Saylor, a double-major in earth sciences modified with biology and environmental engineering, said that his interest in earth sciences came from experiences with drought conditions in New Mexico. As a Stamps Scholar, Saylor has been working on a project evaluating the iron hypothesis in the North Pacific Ocean. The project looks at how dust and iron from Asia affect productivity in the ocean, which ultimately affects the balance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “The question we are looking at is whether or not we can evaluate that relationship, using ice cores from Alaska and Canada, to interpret how that has changed over the past thousand years,” he said. Part of the work Saylor has been
doing requires field research, including data collection. Experiential learning comes from having the opportunity to engage with “what goes into doing rigorous scientific work,” he said, by producing new information and data points that do not already exist. Saylor said that the Stamps program has been a valuable opportunity for him, because it has given him the resources, tools and support network to pursue this project. Another enriching aspect of his experience as a Stamps Scholar is the interaction he has had with other Scholars in an “intellectually curious environment.” Kehoe hopes to raise the profile and awareness of the Stamps Scholars program and give the existing scholars a venue to share with the broader campus community. She noted that experiential learning at the College aims to equip students with skills “relevant to 21st century life.” “The scholars we have presenting on Monday represent a very good range of experiential learning,” Kehoe said. “It really cuts across the range of academic disciplines and functional types of experiential learning, so we thought those are really good examples of the breadth of experience that students have.”
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Changes numerous in Belding’s time FROM BELDING PAGE 1
larger and larger mainframes. As a result, the College began looking into offerings from Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Apple to purchase for students. They also began work on creating a campus network that students could access on their computers from their rooms, Drysdale said. Ultimately, the College decided to purchase Macintosh computers from Apple in 1987. Belding was involved in purchasing, setting up and distributing computers to Dartmouth students. He said that for many years, the College used Macintoshes exclusively and did not introduce Windows to the campus until the 1990s. After, Belding continued working in a similar role, though the details of his job varied over the years. Before his retirement, he was involved in working with administrators to provide desktop support, traveling to their offices or communicating over the phone or email to help them with techni-
cal issues. While working in this position, he was known to carry around a “traveling office” full of CDs or flashdrives to assist with troubleshooting — the IT equivalent of a handyman’s toolbox. He said about five or six staff members were involved in similar positions, while another group was dedicated to faculty issues, and a third group helped student workers provide aid to other students. Though the College is where Belding has worked the longest, it is not the only Hanover community that he has served. For 29 years, Belding worked as an on-call firefighter with the Hanover Fire Department. Hanover Fire Captain Bert Hennessy said that an on-call firefighter has much the same role as a volunteer firefighter, helping to assist in fighting fires within the local jurisdiction, though they are paid a small amount. Today, there are about five on-call firefighters in the area, he said. Hennessy, who knew and worked with Belding for around 15 years,
described him as a dedicated and excellent on-call firefighter who gave a lot back to Hanover. He said that Belding was very communityoriented and was always interested in helping out. “When we needed an extra set of hands, we could always count on Warren,” he said. Though Belding retired from the fire department four or five years ago, Hennessy believed that firefighting was very important to him, adding that he thought Belding would have been a firefighter if he had not gone into computer services. Today, Belding is looking forward to retirement, which he intends to spend traveling with his wife and spending more time with his children and granddaughter. At the same time, he will miss the people he has met at Dartmouth, he said. “I’ve built up a lot of really nice relationships with the people I’ve worked with,” he said. “As far as my years with the College, that’s probably what I’m going to miss the most.”
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If they offered more alternatives, DDS could teach students a lesson.
Prospective students shouldn’t base their decisions on college rankings.
Last term, I consistently used a quarter of home. Within a week, only the TV dinners my weekly meal swipes. Regularly skipping and tiny, albeit very overpriced, container of breakfast and lunch, I quickly finished off my gourmet gelato had been consumed. Cream DBA as a result of my newfound KAF ad- cheese, bagels and strawberries all went to the diction. As a result, I made the switch to the trash. Disheartened by my failure to follow a Convenience 45 plan, with a weekly allotment healthier and more cost-effective approach, of five swipes. With more than $900 in DBA, I gave up on preparing breakfast and went I had full faith in my ability to manage my back to my old ways. At this point in the term, KAF addiction while still using meal swipes I’ve gone back to frequenting KAF a little too at other dining locations. much. In the last week of the term, I have less In light of this predicament, I’ve done than $20 in DBA and long-expired meal some thinking. Does having a limited amount swipes. As someone who of DBA and meal swipes grew up eating out a lot, “Giving students make us more financially I’ve had my fair share of conscious adults? For food from restaurants in greater financial students who regularly town. Although it is fun freedom would eat at pricier locations to eat out with friends on like KAF and Collis, this prepare them for life a weekend night, this isn’t is a legitimate concern. always feasible. As the outside the Dartmouth Since KAF is not a DDS term progresses, so does bubble.” establishment, they do the academic rigor. Spicing not accept meal swipes. up our meal plans becomes In fact, many students go increasingly difficult. For me, even grabbing negative in DBA to get their KAF fix. With a latte from Dirt Cowboy after classes often reading period on the horizon, stress-eating seems like a luxury. Like many students here, becomes a way of life. Although the Dartmouth one too many Collis dinners can make takeout GET Funds app is generally helpful for keeping or delivery seem even more appealing. I, too, track of balances, it still doesn’t settle the meal found myself shelling out cash for adequate, swipe or DBA dilemma for students. Instead albeit bland, options. In week 10, I’m start- of requiring every undergrad to purchase a ing to wonder if it was all worth it. Although meal plan, the College could do better. I have a soft spot for Tuk Tuk, many of the Beyond a baseline of meal swipes, students restaurants on Main Street leave much to be should have the option of using remaining desired. funds at their discretion — whether through That being said, I did make an attempt a DBA or discretionary funds at any College few weeks ago to take matters into my own retailer, including Collis Market. Students hands. After trekking through the cold to the should be able to choose how they want to Co-Op on a frigid Sunday afternoon with my manage their finances. This might seem gym buddies, we finally arrived. The store was counterintuitive at first, but giving students bright, filled with fresh groceries and bustling greater financial freedom would prepare with families. I felt a sudden pang of nostalgia them for life outside the Dartmouth bubble. for my neighborhood Whole Foods back home, Most of us already have debit cards and credit with its fresh produce, spicy hummus and cards for special occasions and emergencies roasted dried fruits. Nevertheless, I made do at off-campus. If the total cost of DDS meal the Co-Op. My friends and I bought backpacks plans were minimized and financial flexibility full of yummy snacks and breakfast items to for students were maximized, everyone would accompany the care package foods sent from benefit.
U.S. News and World Report’s college rank- put together by the Carnegie Classifications for ings are constantly critiqued, decried and loudly Institutions of Higher Education. We are now dismissed. But in the hearts of prospective students the only Ivy League school without the specific and college officials, they hold a secret power. requirements that earn an R1 classification for They held a power over me during my own col- “highest research activity.” That statement, that lege search not long we stand alone in this ago and play a role in “To even admit the perceived loss, should my younger sister’s, be more than enough which is just begin- credence, I, as a junior and to make anyone affilining. With no familial senior in high school, gave ated with Dartmouth or athletic connection concerned. But to to any one particular to the rankings feels wrong. give too much weight university and parents The myriad of college to this loss would who simply attended also be a mistake. local colleges, our rankings reflect, perhaps To make significant search had to start poorly, the state of higher actions because of somewhere. To even it would be insane. admit the credence, I, education.” The undergraduate as a junior and senior focus, with a very in high school, gave small graduate proto the rankings feels gram, is one of the wrong. The myriad of college rankings reflect, distinguishing features of Dartmouth. Research is perhaps poorly, the state of higher education. undoubtedly important, but for a small college in But what I find most interesting is the dichotomy the woods of New Hampshire, research classificabetween universities and liberal arts colleges. It’s tions hold little weight. On the other hand, there a dichotomy that Dartmouth doesn’t fit into. Yet, are some metrics which, while probably flawed, we this division dictates should care about. a list that — despite “Any policy driven by a We rank second universal criticism in undergraduate — holds incredible desire to game rankings teaching, accordsway over prospective will be fundamentally ing to U.S. News students’ decisions. and World Report, flawed. Consider the loss So we’re an oddan excellent reflecball in this poorly put of R1 research status, a tion of our focus. together, but power- classification put together by If that took a cataful list of colleges. strophic tumble, we While not quite one the Carnegie Classifications may want to begin of the tiny, liberal arts for Institutions of Higher to consider some colleges, we “comchanges. Education.” pete” (to use that Otherwise, colword loosely) against lege policy should universities that are fundamentally different. be driven by a fundamental set of values. DartHerein lies my fear: we are trying to be something mouth’s purpose will always be to provide the best that we are not. This is not a critique of any possible, well-rounded, undergraduate education. specific policy, not even the “Moving Dartmouth This might sound like every college’s title slide in Forward” initiative — which so often finds itself their admissions presentation, but Dartmouth fununder attack on these pages — but rather as a damentally differs from most national universities, word of caution. For years now, there has been who are beholden to regularly producing research, a pressure to stack the metrics in one’s favor. sports wins and flashy admission materials. We Institutions of higher are small and flexeducation look for “Otherwise, college policy ible. We can adapt larger applicant pools to rising interest should be driven by a than ever before. Corin tech and entrerespondingly, students fundamental set of values. preneurship, but are applying to more Dartmouth’s purpose will while staying tied schools than ever. to our liberal arts And in response to always be to provide the roots. Every move that, colleges defer best possible, well-rounded, we make should be “overqualified” apgrounded in what plicants who they undergraduate education.” we do best. And believe are likely to that is not what any enroll elsewhere in other Ivy, university, order to protect their or college does. It is yield rates. I don’t doubt Dartmouth participates Dartmouth’s own unique brand which produces to some degree in this numbers game, and I don’t an incredibly close alumni network, a free and pretend that there is any hope of that changing. I vibrant social and intellectual life and students who am more concerned with the policies that control aren’t just well-equipped — but interesting. This is what goes on in the College. just a depiction of my idealized Dartmouth, and Any policy driven by a desire to game rankings others have their own description. But no one’s will be fundamentally flawed. Consider the Col- favorite thing about Dartmouth will ever be that lege’s loss of “R1” research status, a classification we rank well.
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Alumni discuss sexual assault on campus and survivor advocacy FROM OSCARS PAGE 1
puses. An interview with Schmiedt was featured in the documentary. Schmiedt said that they found out they were invited to appear on stage with Lady Gaga just weeks before the event. The two were in Italy at the time and did not know how they could arrange a flight to Los Angeles on such short notice. Eventually, Schmiedt said, a generous donor covered their travel expenses. Roth said that they and Schmiedt traveled the furthest out of all the survivors on stage. “This was basically the biggest activist statement the Oscars had ever had,” Schmiedt said. “It was Lady Gaga’s desire to make a statement.” The importance of this statement became evident when they met her, Schmiedt said, as Lady Gaga hugged every one of the survivors. Roth said they felt honored to be part of the performance, and added that it was extraordinary that the event acknowledged survivors of sexual violence in a positive way. Schmiedt also said, however, that some of the reactions to their involvement in the performance have been a bit “off color,” with many people telling them how lucky they were. “We had to go through some really horrible things to have this opportunity,” they said. “I’m sure all of us would have given up this opportunity if it meant not being sexually assaulted.” Roth said that they hoped the public display at the Oscars will encourage other survivors to be open about their experiences and increase support and understanding more broadly. Roth said that for them, the most powerful aspect of Lady Gaga’s performance was her emotional vulnerability, rawness and honesty while sharing her experience. Schmiedt added that they really appreciated the honesty and anger that came with the performance, especially because survivors can have a lot of anger from being told what to do and how to react to their traumatic experiences. It was not just a sad song but a song that operates on many layers, they added. Schmiedt and Roth co-founded Time to Spring Up in 2013, a company that uses multimedia to create a space for sexual violence learning and healing, after they participated in the Real Talk Dartmouth Dimensions show protest in 2013. “We just felt very discouraged by a lack of imagination in terms of how students can organize and what forms of healthy community we can imagine,” Roth said. They said that they wanted to start making art and fiction to express this positive vision of what our
society can be and how millennials can connect. The two alumni have also authored “Millennial Sex Education: I’ve Never Done This Before” (2015) together, a collection of short stories and questions that explore issues of sexuality. The book is fictional, which allowed Roth and Schmiedt to avoid having to use the stories of real people. Roth said that one of the objectives of “Millennial Sex Education” is to differentiate consensual sexual experience from rape and sexual assault, adding that consenting to one act does not mean being open to everything. Susy Struble ’93, founder of Dartmouth Change, a non-profit sexual assault advocacy group, said she found Lady Gaga’s performance profoundly moving. Struble said that this Oscars performance shows victims recovering from trauma that they are not alone and could help spur some conversations in people’s homes. Myka Held, the staff attorney for the advocacy group SurvJustice, said that she did not think anyone could see Lady Gaga’s performance and not be moved by it. Held noted her disappointment that media coverage of sexual assault college activists has been fading, but added that Lady Gaga’s performance could bring the topic back to the forefront and remind viewers that sexual assault often affects people around them. Caroline Heldman, Occidential College professor and co-founder of End Rape on Campus and Faculty Against Rape, helped organize the survivors who appeared onstage with Gaga. She said she met Schmiedt and Roth in New York when they were doing Clery Act-related work together. Heldman said that the idea to have sexual assault survivors onstage came from “The Hunting Ground” team and her work organizing the survivors involved contacting people she had worked with. Regarding Gaga’s Oscars performance, Heldman said it demonstrated how many people are affected by sexual violence as well as the resolve of survivor activists to change rape culture. “Not only was it an incredible moment in the history of the campus anti-rape movement, but also in Oscar history,” Heldman said. Roth noted that people who identify as LGBT are twice as likely to be assaulted and that people of color are also assaulted at much higher rates. “A lot of the news coverage has been now that people have come forward, hopefully more people will report,” Schmiedt said. “I don’t think that the reporting system is always the best response for a survivor.”
They said that oftentimes reporting to the institution or to the police can be much more traumatizing for the survivor. “I don’t want people to feel ashamed for not reporting to the police or authorities,” Schmiedt said. Schmiedt said that at the College, there is a tendency for students to create a “perfect narrative” and to put on a problem-free, insular facade. However, it is important to acknowledge what is going on outside of your personal experience, they said. Struble said that Dartmouth’s approach to addressing the issue of campus sexual violence needs to be driven by a completely independent committee of experts. Each campus has its unique culture, she said, and the outline of the solution should be defined by experts, adding that the entire Dartmouth institution is part of the problem.
“It’s much broader and deeper institutionally than just a couple of bad apples,” Struble said. “It’s our long time commitment to financing and resourcing efforts and how we speak about and frame the problem.” In June 2014, the College changed its policy to make expulsion the mandatory sanction for students found guilty of sexual assault. Moving Dartmouth Forward implemented a four-year sexual violence prevention and education program for students and a first-responder training for faculty and staff, which was piloted in the fall of 2015. Roth said they are very supportive of the Callisto platform, which is a third-party sexual assault recording and reporting website. Held said that from her experience, many colleges have recently been “talking the talk” but are not actually doing anything. Colleges need to hire staff members and Title IX coordinators who
can help support survivors, Held said. Heldman believes that every state needs an affirmative consent policy where both parties have to demonstrate that they received explicit consent. She added that many cases of sexual violence are perpetrated by serial rapists, and emphasized the necessity of colleges expelling rapists and perpetrators of sexual violence. Schmiedt and Roth said they are excited to be publishing another book in the coming month, titled “Campus Violence Workbook,” which discusses the issue of campus violence in terms of sexual violence, hazing and institutional violence. “I think that it’s very important for students of all identities to support each other, to express themselves, to not lose themselves within the Dartmouth bubble,” Roth said. “We need to be honest with each other about our experiences.”
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“Insights into Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas through HighPerformance Simulations,” University of New Hampshire professor Kai Germaschewski, Wilder 104
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“Experiential Learning Across the Liberal Arts,” symposium and reception, Room 102, Baker-Berry Library
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THE DARTMOUTH ARTS
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016
Dartmouth Dance Ensemble performs works-in-progress By MADELINE KILLEN The Dartmouth Staff
Walking into the Hop Garage on Sunday afternoon, one would see a simple set-up of chairs arranged to promote an intimate viewing of a Dartmouth Dance Ensemble performance. The ensemble presented a preview of three works-in-progress that will be showcased during the spring term. Two of the pieces featured choreography from director John Heginbotham and codirector Rebecca Stenn. Brooklynbased Heginbotham previously worked with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and Connecticutbased Stenn was previously with MOMIX. Dartmouth dance instructor Mina Lawton both performed and choreographed the third piece, specifying that her piece was largely incomplete. The ensemble performed five brief segments with which Lawton has been experimenting. The first piece that the group showcased on Sunday, which Heginbotham choreographed, featured two female graduate students who demonstrated incredible control over their extremities. The dancing was clipped, but clearly highly intentional. In the question and answer session at the end of the preview, the dancers noted that this piece was the only one in which the facial expressions were choreographed. The dancers blinked to the beat of the odd, minimalist and otherworldly-sounding music, which brought to mind both alien movies and drum circles. I will not be adding it to my study playlist any time soon, but it worked well with the choreography, which at some points made me think of bugs being electrocuted, but gracefully so. The second piece was Mina Lawton’s, which she said she has been working on with another dancer who was not in attendance. The segments that she demonstrated largely featured her back and profile. After the performance, she commented that this was because the woman with whom she has been choreographing the piece has a beautiful back and profile. Lawton said that they were exploring ways to display the back and the face in profile without the effect appearing too stiff or too obvious. The third and final work-inprogress, and my favorite piece, was a series of five segments that
Stenn choreographed to songs by the English indie rock band alt-J. All five segments featured one of two pairs of dancers: either Lawton and Guy in Black, or Guy and Girl in Flattering Groutfits. For some reason, Guy and Girl in Groutfits had one segment without music, which seemed unfair to me. After the show, Stenn said that the lack of music is “a way of highlighting what came before and after.” “Silence is music to me in a way,” Stenn said. What “came before and after” were segments featuring Lawton and Guy in Black, which were highlighted not only by the lack of music in the Groutfit pair’s segment, but also the beauty and chemistry of Lawton and Guy in Black’s segments. They were smiling and laughing throughout their entire ballet-influenced segments. At one point, I leaned over to my roommate and said, “I want them to get married.” During the question and answer segment, someone asked if their facial expressions were choreographed, and they admitted that they had not been. Stenn specified that for some pieces, the choreographer prefers that the dancers’ genuine feelings while performing the piece show in their faces. The unity of form and style demonstrated by the ensemble in this preview bodes well for their full showcase in the spring. The choreography was precise, even in the working pieces, and the dancers seemed to honestly enjoy themselves. The dancers featured were all graduate students or community members, and the performers noted that very few undergraduate students are involved in the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble this year. The ensemble practices on weekends due to the constraints of the varying schedules of its members; one performer said that they rarely have time to practice together. The ensemble members have a variety of dance backgrounds — some studied dance as undergraduates, some have danced as a creative outlet for their entire lives, and some have worked professionally as dancers in the past. The ensemble is open to all, but does require dancers to audition for a spot in the group. The Dartmouth Dance Ensemble will perform a full show in the Moore Auditorium on May 27 and 28.
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A ‘drewview’ of the original musical ‘Legally Drew’ By ANDREW KINGSLEY The Dartmouth Staff
Drew Zwetchkenbaum ’16 and Daniel Shanker ’16 reprised their musical “Legally Drew: The Drewsical,” written as freshman, in three performances this past weekend in Silsby 028. Now, as seniors, in dire need of social validation and ego stroking before the adult world soon consumes us all, this dynamic duo decided to bring “Legally Drew” back to life. While part of me wanted to eat my good friends Drew and Daniel alive like the zwetschgenkuchen from Lou’s, their play is genuinely too good to pan, and tickled my callous, critical insides. Now I must find some other overwrought piece of popular garbage to tarnish and sate my critic’s bloodlust. Is “Zoolander 2” (2016) still playing somewhere? Anyway, the play centers on Drew (Doug Phipps ’17), a dead-
beat looking for a change in his life, waiting in line at city hall to change his legal name to Andrew, an objectively superior name. Perhaps the only flaw in the play is that Drew ultimately doesn’t change his name. But that’s just me. Out of the emptiness of a city hall bureaucracy comes a lean and uproarious musical that makes the most out of its minimalist set and setting. Indeed, many have compared the play to “Waiting for Godot.” John Lahr of The New Yorker commented three years ago, “How I found myself at this student production in the middle of New Hampshire is beyond me. Nonetheless, Beckett would have been proud of Zewkenbarm and Shunker. While the ‘sperm donor’ number and fellatio-seeking Tooth Fairy may diverge from Beckett’s minimalism, the play breathes a deliciously absurdist life into a desolate space and finds humor
where there never could be.” Couldn’t have said it better, Lahr. Drew is akin to Alvy Singer from “Annie Hall” (1977) a nebbish, hopeless romantic who turns whatever he touches into garbage. In line, Drew meets a lonely lawyer, Jan (Virginia Cook ’18 ), the most lovable of psychopaths, Tim (Jake Gaba ’16 ), a conservative with a romantic (and bleeding) heart, Sid (Speight Carr ’16 ), as well as the crude, horny janitor (Goutham Kandru ’16 ), all while waiting to reach the cantankerous city hall employee at the end of the line (Gigi Anderson ’16). If only all city halls were this exciting. “Legally Drew” excels at fleshing out each of these peripheral characters and transforms them from mere bit parts or one-off gags into vital pillars of the play’s punch. Even the chorus (Carolina Alvarez-Correa ’16 , Brad Garczynski ’16 , Connor Lehan ’18 , Sutton Lowry ’16 and Aileen Zhu ’16 ) added flare with its dance numbers
and kazoos. The humor feels like what the film “Deadpool” (2016) was going for but couldn’t achieve: a blend of sexual gaucheness and subversive self-awareness to render a fairly trite romance palatable. Fortunately, the play never succumbs to any sappy temptations — the play is, despite the penis jokes, too smart for that — and whatever moralism there is the actors soon beat to death in the name of absurdity. Beyond the comedy, I must commend the music. After watching the play my freshman year, I remember thinking with a blend of awe and bitter jealousy, “Damn, the songs were really good.” Three years later, the songs maintain their wow-factor, notably Drew’s pessimistic mom’s (Haley Reicher ’17 ) stinging solo, “Effing Change Yourself.” Other highlights include the allergy number, “May Contain Peanuts,” the Tooth Fairy’s (played by Zwetchkenbaum himself) night-
marish cameo and Tim’s closing tune, “Krishka.” Many audience members commented on how catchy the songs were — perhaps the greatest testament to their distinction. Ultimately, what has impressed me most about “Legally Drew” is its humility and intimacy. It feels like living room theater in Silsby (where it was originally performed), and there’s such an unassuming nature about its production. There are few props, few bells and whistles. It lives and dies by its (song)writing alone, which despite its self-deprecating cracks is quite remarkable. Now I’m getting sappy. Oh, would you look at that? 650 words. They only paid me to that marker. I can finally stop reviewing this piece of crap. Rating: “10”/10 “Legally Drew” will inevitably be playing in Silsby in another three years.