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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew a crowd of over 1,000 — including Upper Valley residents and Dartmouth students — at a speech on Friday at Lebanon High School. Sanders discussed income inequality, institutional racism, campaign finance reform and numerous social issues in his nearly two-hour speaking engagement. Sanders took numerous questions from audience members. He was introduced by local speakers, including two Lebanon High School students, Dartmouth Students and Staff for Bernie co-founder Felicia Teter ’13, Upper Valley field organizer Nate Ruby and New
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talked to community members at Lebanon High School.
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International student AMP policy sees few problems advisor departs B y KATIE RAFTER
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Assistant dean and international student advisor Steve Silver departed from his position at the Office of Pluralism and Leadership last Monday, after serving the College for more than 25 years in various positions.
Senior assistant dean and of office of pluralism and leadership director Reese Kelly did not say the reason for Silver’s departure. Issues affecting the international student community have come into focus this term since the College anSEE ADVISOR PAGE 3
The new Alcohol Management Program been in place for two weeks, and the Office of Student Life plans to meet with Greek leaders today for a formal feedback session. No major problems with compliance have been reported so far. The two more notable facets of the new alcohol policy are the presence of third-party bartenders, who are students, and
third-party security at registered parties 150 students or more. Bartenders are trained through the Training for Intervention Procedures program (TIPs), an online course available through the College. Greek Leadership Council accountability chair Taylor Watson ’16 said there have not been any formal feedback sessions regarding the new alcohol management policy (AMP), but after speaking with members of several organizations informally,
he has not heard any overwhelmingly negative feedback. Associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey said he is meeting with presidents of Greek houses today to discuss their opinions. He said he encourages anyone to reach out with concerns or questions at any time. “The process is really built to work with organizations as time goes on and to make adjustments as needed,” he said. SEE AMP PAGE3
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Pymetrics aims to help students determine strengths B y DANIEL KIM The Dartmouth
The first thing that one encounters upon making an account for pymetrics is a series of games. One of them, called “Keypresses,” is — as the name suggests — all about pressing a key as fast as you can for a few seconds. This game, it turns out, is a measure of one’s processing speed, as well as
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one’s impulsiveness or deliberateness when reacting to new information. Co-founded by Frida Polli ’94, pymetrics is a career search platform that uses 12 of these short games, which take between one and five minutes to complete, to assess one’s cognitive, social and emotional traits. These traits are then used to match recruiting ZOE WANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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DAily debriefing A pending deal, first introduced in September, would affiliate Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, a small community hospital in Lebanon, with its larger neighbor Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Valley News reported. The deal comes in response to APD’s financial struggles after reimbursement cuts for Medicare and Medicaid patients, and a general decline in revenue. The new deal would reduce APD’s financial losses and move care of less seriously injured or ill patients to APD, allowing Dartmouth-Hitchcock to focus on more critically unwell patients. It would also give Dartmouth-Hitchcock greater control over APD’s operations. Though APD considered affiliating with a larger for-profit national chain, it ultimately decided that such an action would ultimately not benefit the local community. Contaminants from Dartmouth’s former burial site for laboratory animals, Rennie Farm, have leaked into and contaminated a nearby well serving local residents, the Valley News reported. The well was tested last month and shown to have levels of 1,4-dioxane, a likely carcinogen, at six parts per billion, compared to state standards of three parts per billion. It is currently unknown how long the well has been contaminated. The test showing the contamination was the first such test performed on the well, College spokeswoman Diana Lawrence said. In 2011 Dartmouth excavated parts of the burial site as part of a cleanup effort. A 2012 letter from DES to the college indicated that this excavation might have disturbed contaminants at the burial site. Dartmouth is currently supplying bottled water to the affected family, and has offered to help provide medical care and to assist with relocation from the affected site.
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companies with job seekers. Polli studied English at Dartmouth and went on to receive a Ph.D. in neuropsychology at Suffolk University, then a master’s of business of administration from Harvard Business School. Although this education path may seem atypical or even random, she said every step of her education is connected by her fascination with neuroscience, which she was first exposed to as a senior at the College. “It is possible that if I hadn’t been exposed [at Dartmouth], I would not have even ended up getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience and going down that path,” Polli said. Polli said she noticed at Harvard that neuroscience could be used in an innovative way in corporate recruiting when observing how people at the business school attempted to find their careers. Traditional methods of attempting to find a career, she said, could cause undue stress. As a result, she decided to apply her years of development in neuroscience to corporate recruiting, and that led to pymetrics’ inception in 2012. “The ways that careers are assessed generally is a lot of question-
naires, focus groups, conversations with people and presentations, and there wasn’t anything that was looking at what your cognitive and emotional strengths were,” Polli said. “That’s what neuroscience is basically about — examining people’s cognitive and emotional abilities and predicting something about them.” Polli said that an important aspect of pymetrics is that it does not take into account demographic variables such as gender, ethnicity or one’s education. Anyone, she said, can become an entrepreneur — while men currently dominate the field, what matters is innate skills and cognitive preferences, not demographics. The company can help broaden people’s perspectives, she said. Software engineer Fedor Garin, who has worked at pymetrics since April 2014, said that being surrounded by smart, capable people makes working at pymetrics exciting. “[Polli] can think about a hundred different things at the same time, and she is handling this company at a thousand miles per hour,” Garin said. “If you talk with her, you can see how smart she is and how quick she is on her feet. She has to
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nounced in September that the admissions office has shifted from a need-blind admissions policy for international students to need-aware. In response, international students circulated a petition criticizing the policy, which has 1,626 signatures as of press time. International student association president Chi Pham ’17 said that Silver was supportive of the international students’ creating a petition in protest of the change in international admissions from being need-blind to need-aware by helping the ISA reach out to administrators, who Pham said have been receptive of international students’ opinions, answering questions and setting up meetings with the ISA. Pham said that though the change in the admissions policy for international students from need-blind to need-aware was the first possible reason that came to mind when she heard the news of Silver’s leaving, she has since dismissed the idea. When Kelly confirmed the dismissal, he said that the change was not a factor in Silver’s decision to depart from OPAL. Pham said that OPAL told ISA leaders that Silver’s departure was due to “emergent personal plans” that OPAL could not disclose. Former post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth’s Gender Research Institute and faculty advisor to the Triangle House Brianne Gallagher will serve as the interim assistant dean and international student advisor. She will begin Monday and serve through the remainder of the academic year, Kelly said. Gallagher’s experience advising international students includes her graduate training in transnational and social justice at the University of Hawaii, where she worked with international students and organized programs about feminist issues, Kelly wrote in an email that was sent to all international students. As assistant dean and advisor to international students, Silver oversaw numerous programs for international students, including international student orientation, international issues personal perspectives program, international friendship family program and international student mentor program. His mentorship, guidance, counsel, support and advocacy for international students had a large influence on how international students transition to their life at Dartmouth, Pham said. Pham said that Silver was known by almost all international students, many of whom had close, personal relationship with him and visited him
frequently in his office hours to talk about how they were doing. Former international student association vice president Anwita Mahajan ’17 said that she saw Silver as an important member of the international students community. “I saw him as a person who really valued the importance of international students on Dartmouth’s campus,” she said. “He understood the balance international students have to strike academically, socially and financially, among other things. He is very aware of what international students are going through and treats everyone with a lot of respect.” Mahajan said that Silver played an important role in her transition to Dartmouth by answering any questions she had before arriving to campus and through international student orientation, during which Silver brought together international students by emphasizing the things they had in common while explaining the facets of American culture. “Orientation defines how you begin looking at Dartmouth, and he designs a robust Orientation every year,” Mahajan said. OPAL has been active in communicating and reaching out to students following Silver’s departure, Pham said. Mahajan agreed when she said that OPAL has been very proactive in communicating any developments. Pham said that Silver’s departure meant more than just losing an advisor. “There are a lot of sources of support at Dartmouth, so what’s missing will not be an advisor, but a friend,” Pham said. Students are not worried about his replacement, but rather how Silver is doing, Pham said. Assistant dean and Latino students advisor Rodrigo Ramirez said Silver was an important resource for international students. “[Silver] has been a tireless advocate for international students at Dartmouth and routinely went above and beyond to make sure that students had the support they need. He always strived to make Dartmouth a better place for students and his commitment to the College and to his work made me so proud to have him as a colleague here at OPAL,” Ramirez said. Kelly encouraged all international students to access the resources at OPAL during the transition period. Silver’s departure is in addition to several that have occurred over the last few years. OPAL director Alysson Satterlund and assistant dean and advisor to black students T.M. Mosley departed from their positions at OPAL on July 11, 2014. Silver did not respond to comment by press time.
He said he has already met with the Inter-Fraternity Council about certain elements of the program and made adjustments to door duties and list policies as a result. Watson said the new alcohol policy is more honest, and members of organizations seem to recognize this. He has not been trained as a third-party bartender, but said the presence of sober, objective bartenders at events has the potential to benefit the social environment at the College “I think this could change the culture here in a good way,” he said. Watson added that having thirdparty bartenders actually removes an element of responsibility from the organization holding the event, as they do not have to be concerned with serving guests alcohol. “I don’t think that having the fox guarding the henhouse is a good thing,” Watson said. Third-party bartenders are only required for tier-three events, defined as those with over 150 attendees. These require two Safety and Security walkthroughs on top of third-party security. Tier-two events, with 40-150 attendees, require bartenders as well, but they can be from the organization itself, while tier- one events, with less
than 40 attendees, do not require trained bartenders. Reilly Johnson ’16 went through the TIPs training this term, and said it was an easy process that did not cost anything. Johnson acted as a third-party bartender at Sigma Delta sorority’s semi-formal on Oct. 24, a registered tier-three event, alongside Jeffrey Loo ’18. Johnson said originally she participated in the training because she is social chair for Chi Delta sorority, but decided to serve drinks at other events in order to make money. Loo said he learned about the opportunity on JOBNET, which is maintained by the Student Employment Office, and took the training course after inquiring about the position. Johnson said some aspects of the role did not feel natural to her. “I found it really uncomfortable to have to say to sisters of Sigma Delt that they couldn’t go behind the bar,” she said, “In my opinion, it took away some of their autonomy over their social space.” Ramsey said the new program does not seek to take away any autonomy from members of organizations. Instead, taking away the responsibility of serving alcohol at events means that hosts can be more focused on the health
and safety of attendees. Johnson said she and Loo did not encounter any problems while serving drinks, and were strict about only serving to guests wearing wristbands. There was also third-party security from Green Mountain Concert Services, which helped regulate the event. GMCS provides security services to dozens of colleges in New England. GMCS could not be reached for comment. Loo said they spoke briefly with the security company during the event, but mostly worked separately. He said the bartenders had no problems while working at the bar, and said that partygoers were compliant with the rules. Ramsey said the College receives feedback from GMCS after every event, and they have not reported any problems over the past two weeks. “Every time that an event has gone well, it has reduced the levels of anxiety and confusion for students,” he said. Loo said having third-party bartenders could be useful in preventing anyone from feeling obligated to serve underage attendees in their own house. Johnson said while she believes it is important to have sober monitors at events, she is not convinced that thirdparty bartenders are necessary. “It’s a very different Dartmouth than the one I came into,” she said.
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CONTRIBUTING Columnist MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18
CONTRIBUTING Columnist BEN SZUHAJ ’19
Ethical Artificial Intelligence
The Benefits of Prize Hunting
Self-driving cars raise complex problems regarding technology and morality. Self-driving cars are fast becoming a reality. While the safety ramifications of these cars are generally considered positive because of the unpredictable irrationality of human driving, there are moral questions about their potential actions. What if the car was confronted with the choice between killing five pedestrians or ramming into a wall, saving the five but killing its passenger? A recent paper published in the science journal arXiv deals with this topic — similar to the trolley problem that poses the more passive killing of five against the active killing of one — concluding that manufacturers and psychologists will have to collaborate on instituting proper guidelines for the cars’ actions in such a scenario. If this conclusion sounds unsatisfactory, it’s because it is. It gives us no insight into what the car should do if confronted with this choice. It does, however, give us one interesting piece of data. The paper’s team surveyed people online, and the majority of respondents chose a utilitarian way out — the car should just try to minimize the number of total deaths. The number of people who advocated for this, however, dropped considerably when they were asked to imagine that it was them in the driver’s seat. So, how do we decide? How should we decide? First, we must consider whether there is any difference in the inherent value of the lives inside and outside of the car. The principled answer would be no — of course, all lives should be weighed the same. But if we take a more consequentialist look at this, we may see some change. What if, for example, the person in the car is a country’s president? Should the car then kill her to spare the five people? I would guess that we are a little more reserved in electing to sacrifice the public figure than we are to sacrifice Joe Average. But even if the person in the car is not a public figure, is it the car’s duty — being that person’s car — to save that person? Or is it the car’s mandate as a safer driving alternative to take the more secure route and merely try for the smallest number of casualties? This question is one of responsibilities, and like the trolley problem before it, one of active versus passive decision-making. While a utilitar-
ian would likely see no difference in the deaths of different people, it is only because she’d be concerned with the end result. I contest, however, that the motivation behind the action is at least as important. If the car was already on a route that would kill five people — and thus passive in its movement — would that really be worse than the car taking active control in order to kill one person? This is very much like the distinction between manslaughter and murder. Yet, then another conundrum arises — if the car knows that it is on a collision course with the five people, as we must assume an autonomous car would, it is more a choice between two equal options rather than a choice versus a non-choice. Because if the car is going to have to actively do things to drive anyway, what does it matter whether one of those things is turning the steering wheel? For the vehicle to hit the five people, it would have to actively maintain a straight course, its gear, the engine and a host of other mechanics. Whereas the human in the trolley problem could hypothetically not affect anything about the situation if she chose, the car here has no choice but to affect the situation — it is the situation. I pose a challenge to even the strictest of utilitarians — what if the choice was between killing one pedestrian and killing the sole passenger in the car? This hypothetical erases any consideration of greatest good for the greatest number, and is nearly — if not totally — unresolvable. So I propose this: let’s take a modified utilitarian stance. Let’s give the car a reliable way to calculate the probability of death for each of the people who it might choose to kill. If the one pedestrian was going to be clipped and not hit head-on, but the passenger would be instantly vaporized upon impact into a wall, the probability of death for the pedestrian would likely be lower. Instead of greatest good for the greatest number, let’s go with greatest total probable good. The bottom line is, if these cars are going to be smart enough to take us places, they’d better be smart enough to make decisions not even the smartest of humans could make on a split-second basis. That’s the artificial intelligence to which humanity should aspire.
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Conservation hunting can actually help preserve endangered species.
In response to the outpouring of grief and anger over the killing of Cecil the lion in August, American Airlines announced it would no longer transport the bodies of large-game animals as cargo. While the nearly 400,000 petitioners who had put pressure on the airline giant to halt its practices of trophy transport hailed this decision as a victory, many conservationist-hunting groups — those who advocate for selectively hunting certain endangered species — felt differently. Initially, many people find the idea of paying to hunt endangered animals repulsive. Upon deeper inspection, however, the idea makes sense. Culling the herd to preserve it is a natural phenomenon. Sick or old gazelles are the ones run down by cheetahs. Horticulturalists understand it as well — trim off the brown ends of a rose bush to produce new blooms. The same philosophy applies to how we seek to preserve and protect ever-shrinking populations of African black rhinos. We live in a market economy, which ensures that the things we buy are priced effectively — the more wanted a good or service is, the more we will be willing to pay for it. The same logic applies to prize hunting. First, aging male rhinoceroses, ones identified as no longer being able to breed, are tagged by local officials. These males contribute to what is known as the “surplus male problem.” They fight with younger males, harass female rhinos and generally disrupt the herd. Females can only bear one calf every two to three years, so an abundance of male rhinos in a herd — especially ones that can no longer breed and are a threat to younger males — is undesirable. By auctioning the right to hunt one of a carefully selected number of male black rhinos, the local governing body — for instance, the Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism — can rely on the market to set a fair prize for the killing of a sustainable number of animals. Moreover, they are able to reinvest the money into better protection of the animals — many of which are raised and bred on ranches in an attempt to try and facilitate the resurrection of a dwindling population. According to the World Wildlife Fund, between 1970 and 1992, 96 percent of Africa’s remaining black rhinos were killed. They estimate around
5,000 black rhinos are left in the wild today. Populations of African rhinos were first decimated by European hunters around the turn of the 20th century. Shortly thereafter, poaching became the imminent threat to the survival of many rhinoceros species. A single rhinoceros horn can fetch up to 300,000 U.S. dollars on the black market. Additional efforts are being made to combat poaching. This year, a San Francisco biotech start-up company announced it had succeeded in using the genetic sequencing of rhinoceros DNA to 3D-print a fake version of the horn with the same genetic profile as the real thing. They plan to flood the black market with fake horns to undercut poachers and put them out of business. This is but another example of market-based thinking combating social issues. For most people, this idea sounds more agreeable. After all, it requires that no animal be killed. All economies, however, operate within the confines of fixed resources. Both of these answers to an insidious problem are economic solutions, which means that they require some share of those fixed resources in order to be implemented. Something must always be sacrificed to make something else, and the real problem that many people find disquieting about paying to hunt endangered species is that they feel it condones prize hunting itself. While I do not condone it — prize hunting is an exemplar of cowardice, frivolity and greed — I do believe in allowing a regulated market to set the price for the hunting of a few, selected animals. Doing so is a crucial component of a stop-gap solution to the nefarious problem of poaching. At the end of the day, I would rather condone the killing of a few black rhinos than watch them end up like their sister-species, the Western black rhinoceros, which was declared extinct in 2011 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It was a chilling experience to research this article and discover that in light of that news, some anonymous soul had taken it upon themselves to revise every “is” and “are” in the Wikipedia entry for the Western black rhinoceros to “was” and “had.”We must ensure that the African black rhino does not suffer the same fate.
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Hampshire state representative Andy White (D-Lebanon). “The bottom line is, our country faces very, very serious problems,” Sanders said to spectators in the overflow room before taking the main stage in gymnasium. “The good news is, they really are solvable problems if we create a government that works for working families and the middle class rather than just the billionaires that control what goes on in Washington.” A focal point of Sanders’ speech was campaign finance reform. He promised onlookers that, as president, he would not nominate any candidate to the Supreme Court unless that candidate was committed to overturning the court’s Citizens United decision that allowed more donations from corporations to candidates and also overturned donation caps for such entities. Sanders said that thanks to the money of corporations and the wealthy in politics, votes of individual Americans are being devalued and the United States is shying away from democracy. “[The United States] sure does not look like democracy to me,” Sanders said. “It looks like oligarchy, and we have got to stop that.” Sanders’ campaign refuses to accept donations from Super PACs and will
generally not accept corporate donations. The Republican party’s general reticence to accept climate change is also a product of the influence of money in politics, he said. Since major corporations and right-wing donors — such as David and Charles Koch — refuse to fund candidates who acknowledge climate change, many Republican legislators believe their political careers will collapse if they support it, he said. “It is not utopian — it is not pie-inthe-sky — to say that large, multinational corporations should not be able to get away with stashing their money in the Cayman Islands and other tax heavens and get away in a given year with not paying a penny of federal income tax,” Sanders said. Sanders argued for raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour and for increased rights for workers, including the strict enforcement of a 40-hour workweek and rights for parental leave. “It is not a radical idea to say that if you work 40 hours a week in America, you should not be living in poverty,” Sanders said. “The minimum wage in America today is $7.25 per hour — that is a starvation wage.” He also called for a 90-day parental leave program for all new parents. “When I talk about family values, what I talk about is ending the national
embarrassment that is the United States of America being the only industrialized country on earth that does not guarantee paid family leave,” he said. Major Wall Street banks that were bailed out by the federal government in 2008 and 2009 should be split up to eliminate the concept of “too big to fail” from the American financial system, Sanders said. Sanders discussed opportunities for students seeking education in America and pledged to make public colleges and universities free of charge for qualified students. “It is beyond my comprehension how it happens that today hundreds of thousands of bright and qualified young people who desperately want a higher education are unable to go to college for one reason alone, and that is that their families lack the funds,” Sanders said. New Hampshire has the highest rate of college-related indebtedness in the country, White said. In her introduction to Sanders, Lauren Hadley, a senior at Lebanon High School, said that in addition to fears about being accepted to colleges, she fears that she may not be able to afford school. “I know each and every one of you guys have a certain issue that you are passionate about, and [Sanders] has a plan for you, whether it is about
retirement, health care, the economy or education, [Sanders] is there for you,” Hadley said. Teter — the Dartmouth Students and Staff for Bernie organizer — spoke immediately before Sanders and emphasized her biracial heritage and the 39 percent graduation rate of her high school on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington. “The success of black and brown children should not be seen as luck while the success of white children is seen as an expectation,” she said. “Bernie Sanders is the only candidate routinely calling out the institutional racism and systematic oppression routinely apparent to people of color.” Both Teter and Sanders also talked about remedying police brutality and violence against minorities, as well as the high rate of incarceration in the United States. “How about — as a nation — us investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration,” Sanders said. African American citizens should not need to fear police brutality for minor infractions and have their opportunities curtailed by law enforcement and lack of funds to pursue higher education, he said. Voters who attended the event generally expressed support for Sand-
ers’ positions, although many were not sure if they would ultimately vote for the senator. “I agree with everything he says [but] I haven’t decided if I’ll support him,” Lindsay Dearborn, a Lebanon resident, said. Four other voters interviewed at the event all said they would definitely support Sanders, and two New Hampshire voters Jennifer Ditan and Caleb Vick — signed up to volunteer for his campaign. “I studied for awhile the economic policies he’s presenting now, and it’s refreshing to hear them in politics,” Vick said. Andrew Weckstein ’18 said he was undecided about supporting Sanders, but that his candidacy could be good for the election generally. “I think he has a lot of good ideas,” he said. “I think, if anything, he brings into the political window a lot of really important issues. I think some of what he said is not as radical as the media makes it seem.” The New Hampshire Democratic primary — which will be held in February — is currently hotly contested between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with an average of six national polls currently showing Sanders with a 2.4 percent lead in the state.
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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2015
DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m. “Sovereign Debt, Migration Pressure and Government Survival,” lecture with David Leblang of the University of Virginia, Silsby 119
4:00 p.m. Microbiology and immunology lecture presented by Dr. Aimee Shen of the University of Vermont, Vail 614
7:00 p.m. “Most Likely To Succeed” (2015), free documentary screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
TOMORROW 4:00 p.m. “Marshall Scholarship Information Session” with British Consul General in Boston Susie Kitchens, Reed 108
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Rude Mechanicals performed “King Lear” over the weekend
Claire Feuille ’18, who played Lear’s eldest daughter Goneril, The Dartmouth Senior Staff was responsible for choosing most Family betrayal, insanity, feud- of the cuts that the group made. ing daughters, on-stage fights, She said that cutting the play was death. All of these issues and more difficult because of how plot-heavy played across the stage as the Rude it is. Mechanicals performed William “We had to be really careful not to cut out Shakespeare’s plot points or “King Lear” “There’s a lot of parts that weren’t this weekend. stage combat and necessarily plot The Rude points but set M e c h a n i - a lot of exposition. them up,” she c a l s ’ p r e s i - That can be difficult said. “We had to d e n t Av e r y be really careful Feingold ’17 to stage without to keep the comsaid that the resources, since it prehension there play is one of can get a little boring for the audience.” Shakespeare’s Peter Skow ’18, longest, which and confusing. You who played the presented one need a lot of props title role of King of the producLear in the protion’s largest and costumes and duction, said that challenges — sets, which we the group did a making a play that was short usually don’t use. We bit of cutting as they went along enough to be really needed to rely in rehearsal. He enjoyable for on our acting.” said that if they the audience. were working on a “The trascene or a speech ditional script -avery feingold ’17, and realized it is over four wa s becoming hours long,” rude mechanicals redundant, they he said. “We president would make the wanted it to decision to cut it. not be over an hour and a half, so there was a lot Feuille said that this process of cutting the script to keep just led to things such as imagery and commentary being ultimately cut. the plot and character points.”
B y amelia rosch
Courtesy of the Rude Mechanicals
Peter Skow ’18 prepares for the role of King Lear.
Courtesy of the Rude Mechanicals
Rude Mechanicals members Reed Sturtevant ’16 and Andrew Dewhurst ’16 rehearse a scene from “King Lear.”
She said that this led to a loss of smaller textual character moments. “We had to use acting to fill in the gaps we lost in the text,” she said. “We had to rely on the people to make it successful.” Feingold said that in addition to the play’s length, its content also made staging it difficult for the group. “There is a lot of stage combat and a lot of exposition,” he said. “That can be difficult to stage without resources, since it can get a little boring and confusing. You need a lot of props and costumes and sets, which we usually don’t use. We really needed to rely on our acting.” He said that the group ended up using more props than they traditionally do. For the play’s major fight scene which occurs in Act I, Scene IV, the group ended up ordering swords. Feingold said that he is excited to have the opportunity to use the swords in the group’s future productions. He said that, in general, stage combat can be hard because of space and physical limitations. Skow said that a personal challenge for him was inhabiting the body of Lear, which he described as the most challenging role he’s ever played. “It was hard because Lear is supposed to be an 80-year-old man,” he said. Skow said that he had to do a lot of physical and voice work in order to learn how to act the part, which was a new experience for him. Another large challenge for the group was the physical space they
inhabited while performing “King Lear.” While the group tradition-
“We had to be really careful not to cut out plot points or part that weren’t necessarily plot points but set them up. We had to be really careful to keep the comprehension there for the audience.” -claire feuille ’18 ally stages their productions in outdoor locations, such as the Fahey courtyard or the Kemeny courtyard, “King Lear” was performed at Kappa Delta sorority. Feingold said that having an indoor space was a boon in some ways, because it gave the group a larger and more complete backstage area and looked more like a theater. He said, however, that the space was also not designed as a theater, which created some added challenges. “The stage fighting was hard to do with the ceilings because we were using swords,” he said. “We had to be careful not to destroy anything.” Skow said that another challenge was the general stage layout. The
two backstage areas were not connected, so members had to enter and exit on the same side of the stage, which the group did not realize until they rehearsed in the space. Skow said that the group had to make some last minute adjustments to compensate. Despite the challenges both in the play itself and the location, members of the Rude Mechanicals said that they were pleased with how the production turned out. Skow said that the scene that meant the most to him was the scene where Lear dies. “When Lear comes in, he has lost it completely,” he said. “For most of the play, he is trying to hold it back and is trying to keep himself from crying. He gets to let it all go at the end. It was really fun and really natural to do.” Feingold said that he enjoyed the scene where the character of Edgar disguises himself as a beggar named Tom and reunites with his blinded father because of the mix of emotional and humor in the scene. Feuille said that her two favorite scenes in the play where either the main fight scene or the scene when Edgar’s father, Gloucester, gets blinded. Feingold said that overall he enjoyed working on “King Lear” with the rest of the group. “We are family,” he said. “They are my favorite people. It is amazing to spend time with them.” The Rude Mechanicals’ performances were on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. and Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Kappa Delta sorority house.
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Glee Club brought Mozart’s “Requiem Mass” to life
really dynamic program,” she said. Composto said that Sunday’s The Dartmouth Senior Staff concert covered a wide range of The Dartmouth College Glee moods. Club partnered with a guest or- “[Chalif ’s] piece is totally difchestra and four outside soloists to ferent [from the others]. It’s very bring the program “Monumental new. I would describe it as a whole Mozart” to life on Sunday. They range,” she said. “You have a draperformed excerpts from “The matic requiem and then a fun silly Magic Flute” (1791) and “Requiem ‘Magic Flute,’ and then Brian’s Mass in D Minor” (1791), as well as piece is a totally different sound works by Russian composer Sergei than either of those. It’s a huge Rachmaninoff and an original range of sound and emotion.” composition by co-president Brian Glee club baritone-bass Kevin Hoffer-Hawlik ’19 Chalif ’16, said that he enjoyed The two the performance beM o z a r t “[‘The Magic Flute’ cause of its breadth p i e c e s i n is] a really huge and quality. the concert “This concert — “ T h e contrast from the was one of the most M a g i c requiem. It’s the intense musical perFlute” and same composer, formances I have “Requiem been in in my life,” M a s s i n same time of life he said. D Minor” but totally different Excerpts from — are two prominent sounds and attitudes. “The Magic Flute” were performed afbut differ- That dynamic makes ter the prelude by ent works a really dynamic Rachmaninoff and from late Chalif ’s composiin Mozart’s program.” tion. Excerpts were life. Mozart drawn from both worked on acts of the Mozart both pieces -Jordana composto opera. during the ’16, glee club Mezzo Soprano Alyssa same time soprano section Gonzalez ’17 had a in his life — solo in the quintet “the Magic leader from “The Magic Flute” was Flute” as the first written for of the three ladies. a German theater troupe that Mozart was The quintet scene involves the active with, while the requiem three ladies giving the opera’s was written for the “grey stranger” hero, Tamino, objects that will help whose identity Mozart never him along on his quest to save the learned. The requiem was famous- opera’s female protagonist Pamina ly unfinished at the time of his from the villain Sarastro. Other death and was not performed under excerpts performed from “The Mozart’s name until a decade later. Magic Flute” included Tamino Sunday’s program also included and Pamina’s meeting scene and “Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice, O the opera’s finale where Tamino Virgin)” (1915) by Rachmaninoff triumphs. and Chalif ’s “Dream” (2014), “It’s a funny little scene where which were performed first and we help him on the journey,” Gonzalez said. “It’s been a ton of fun. second, respectively. Mezzo soprano section leader A couple of us worked together Jordana Composto ’16 described a few years ago on a chamber the requiem was “huge” and “dy- orchestra performance. We get to namic,” while “The Magic Flute” bring it back and stage it. It’s been a wonderful chance to work with as “fun and super challenging.” “[‘The Magic Flute’ is] a really [Glee Club director Louis Burkot]. huge contrast from the requiem. It’s It’s great to work with them and the same composer, same time of has been a lot of fun.” life but totally different sounds and Composto, who is both in the attitudes. That dynamic makes a quintet from “The Magic Flute”
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and has a solo in Chalif ’s piece, said that she has enjoyed the different approaches that both works require. “[‘The Magic Flute’ is] beautiful music,” she said. “It’s fun because we get to act. It’s a group of five that I haven’t sung with before. It’s nice to do a break out project. I also have a solo in Brian’s piece, which is pretty challenging. It’s playing around with sound and production. I have to do slides, which is not in normal training. It’s been challenging to figure out the technical side. It’s fun to work with him directly because it is his piece. He can tell me exactly what he wants to hear and it is super collaborative.” Gonzalez said that in addition to the pieces from “The Magic Flute,” she also enjoyed the chance to perform Mozart’s requiem. “It’s a beautiful piece of music. It’s very dynamic and moving. It’s just so beautiful to sing and amazing to work with our peers on such a difficult piece of music and see how much we’ve improved,” Gonzalez said. John Kotz ’19, a tenor in the Glee Club, said that he enjoyed seeing Mozart’s requiem, especially the “Hostias” section.
“We knew that part pretty well, and it was a lot of fun to sing,” he said. “The harmony there was
“It’s a beautiful piece of music. It’s very dynamic and moving. It’s just so beautiful to sing and amazing to work with our peers on such a difficult piece of music and see how much we’ve impoved. I’m so glad [Glee Club director Louis Burkot] decided to bring it in this year.” -alyssa gonzalez ’17, a soprano in glee club super strong.” He said that he enjoyed being in his first concert with the club
and having a chance The program featured four guest soloists for the Mozart requiem. The soloists, soprano Alexandra Batsios, mezzo soprano Emily Geller, tenor Jesse Darden and bass-baritone Kian Freitas have all performed in the past with Opera North, a New Hampshire-based performing arts group. The soloists mostly worked on their pieces independently from the Glee Club, Composto said. She said that the large range of pieces that the group had to learn for the weekend’s concert made it impossible for them to prepare with the orchestra ahead of their performance. “We have so much music to learn,” she said. “It takes us until two or three days before the concert to be ready to add orchestra. We don’t have luxury of full week of practice with the orchestra. It’s a new energy to come into rehearsal and put it all together.” The college’s glee club has over 40 student members and is directed by Louis Burkot, who has been leading the group since 1981. Burkot directed Sunday’s show. The show occurred on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium. Chalif is a member of The Dartmouth
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The orchestra warmed up in preparation for the Glee Club’s performance on Sunday.