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VOL. CLXXI NO. 94

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

King Arthur Flour may close BakerBerry location

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By HANNAH Chung The Dartmouth Staff

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King Arthur Flour will likely close its Baker-Berry Library location in December, retail and cafe operations director Kelly Mousley said Monday afternoon.

Mousley said that the company’s decision resulted from tension over what services King Arthur Flour can provide. When the College selected King Arthur Flour for the space in early 2011, its menu was limited by the College’s original model for the space in Baker-Berry, a coffee and pastry bar, Lawrence said.

The contract between King Arthur Flour and the College included a clause that did not allow King Arthur Flour to sell

King Arthur Flour, photographed after business hours on Monday, may close its doors for good next year.

DBA to transfer over academic year B y Alli brady

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Starting this summer, students will be able to roll over up to $100 of DBA between terms over the course of the academic year.

DDS director David Newlove said that on average students overspend

$112 of DBA per term and, if they have extra DBA, the amount is usually less than $15. In a November interview, Newlove said that in fall 2012 juniors charged $195 over their meal plans while seniors charged $167.

Newlove said that former SEE DBA PAGE 2

SEE KAF PAGE 3

CCAP opening delayed to fall

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The Center for Community Action and Prevention, originally slated to open July 1, has pushed back its opening to the fall to allow additional time to find a for director, associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Agosto ’01 said.

After reviewing the roughly 20 applications received, the search com-

mittee, which Agosto chairs, decided in May to continue to recruit experts in the field of sexual assault on college campuses to apply for the position, she said.

Agosto said she expects that the director will ultimately have a graduate background in health and wellness, especially assault prevention. The committee also hopes to find a candidate who can galvanize diverse campus communities

against sexual assault, she said.

CCAP, which will house sexual assault prevention resources in Robinson Hall, marked one of outgoing Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson’s final initiatives. Johnson’s departure for Scripps College this July, in addition to the upcoming arrival of Provost Carolyn Dever, has introduced a SEE CCAP PAGE 5

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Startup workshop teaches business for social change B y Hannah chung The Dartmouth Staff

Standing on a table to demonstrate the right way carry yourself while giving a business pitch, Henrik Scheel, CEO of The Startup Experience, explained presentation techniques during an event last Friday sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. A two-day event last weekend called “The Startup Experience

Workshop” urged students to devise a sustainable solution for a social problem.

Emphasizing the social aspect of entrepreneurship at the event was based in market demand for socially oriented businesses, new venture incubators programs director Jamie Coughlin said.

Scheel said in an interview that passion to resolve a social problem can combine with the right business model

to be financially successful.

“In order to create a sustainable change and have a real impact in the world, you also do need to have a strong revenue model behind whatever initiative you are trying to start,” he said.

Preceding the workshop was a panel discussion on Thursday called “Using an Entreprenueurial Mindset to Make Social Impact.”

The evening’s three panelists were Grace Teo, who

founded Open Style Lab, Coughlin and Scheel. They shared their thoughts on social entrepreneurship as well as their experiences with startups. The panel discussion, Coughlin said, aimed to help students think about the concept of social entrepreneurship by providing examples of real startup experiences.

About 50 students who attended the panel, and several students interviewed

said they were already involved in their own startup projects.

Tucker Oddleifson ’16, a member of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering, said he thought the skills brought up in discussion could be applied to his group’s projects.

Willie Hirschfeld ’14, who is part of the Paganucci Fellows Program at the Tuck SEE ROCKY PAGE 3

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DAily debriefing REGIONAL RECAP The Hartford Dismas House, which offers residence to men and women recently released from Vermont prisons, officially opened on Sunday. The house can sleep 11 people and is one of four Vermont Dismas houses operated by the group. Residents of the house must spend time in school or work in the Upper Valley during their stay, and some have already found jobs in landscaping, construction and retail, the Valley News reported.

A group of dog owners gathered at Shaker Recreation Park in Enfield to shoot a promotional video for the Mascoma Valley Dog Park Supporters’ entry in the PetSafe Bark for Your Park national contest, the Valley News reported. Entrants said they hope that the $100,000 grand prize, should they win, will supplement other fundraising efforts to build a new dog park that would include an area for large dogs, an area for small dogs and an area for training. The town has already agreed to make the land available for the park, which would be paid for and maintained by the volunteer group.

Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt. announced a report on Monday that showed a 3.4 percent increase in employment in Vermont’s renewable energy and efficiency sector over the past year, Vermont Digger reported. There are currently 15,000 workers employed in Vermont’s clean energy sector, and an additional 1,832 workers should be hired over the next year. The report points to state policies that support renewable energy projects and subsidize efficient appliances as a primary cause of the growth.

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Some peer plans use dining rollover FROM DBA PAGE 1

Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson supported the rollover program because it would help students on financial aid save money. The current hybrid meal plans incorporate meal swipes and DBA, unlike the all-DBA plans employed before the 2011-12 academic year.

Because of the hybrid plan, revenue change allowing rollover DBA will be less substantial than it would have been under the prior all-DBA meal system, Newlove said. He said that the decision will not alter the price of items in locations that take DBA. In February, George Philipose ’15 posted this as a suggestion to Improve Dartmouth. His post became the second highest ranked post on the website, with 1105 “agrees” and only four “disagrees” as of press time.

Esteban Castano ’14, Improve Dartmouth co-founder said he supported the decision by DDS. “Each idea has the potential to be an important conversation-starter between students, staff, faculty and alumni,” he said.

The College’s peer institutions have varied meal plans, some of which include a rollover system.

University of Pennsylvania students can use either swipes or “Dining Dollar$,” which, like DBA, roll over until the end of the year, to pay for meals.

Harvard University employs an unlimited meal plan and Crimson

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The idea was highly ranked on an Improve Dartmouth posting.

Cash, the university’s equivalent of DA$H, which students can add to at their discretion. Princeton University students use meal swipes, which reset each semester. Columbia University students can use both meal swipes and “dining dollars,” which roll over until graduation.

At Boston College, left over meal plan money rolls over through academic years, and students who graduate with a balance that exceeds five dollars get a full refund.

University of New Hampshire students have a mix of meal swipes and “dining dollars” which reset at the end of each academic year, much like the new DBA plan.

Students interviewed said they thought the changes could be positive, though others offered solutions

to avoid DDS prices regardless of the rollover.

Kaira Lujan ’16 said that while she thinks the change is a move in the right direction, said she does not think it will have impact on most students.

“I think on the whole it is great, especially for students with DBA that will be available to roll over, but personally I am usually negative,” she said.

Living and eating off-campus allows some students to avoid the high prices of many DDS items, Kirby Schoenthaler ’15 said.

“I prefer to eat off-campus because there are more options, it’s comparable in price and living off-campus allows you to cook some of your own meals,” he said.

WORLD CUP: HANOVER

“Board of Trustees sees changing membership” (June 20, 2014): The College’s alumni council backs candidates to be alumni trustees, not the alumni association, as was previously reported.

“Summer term highlights local arts with concerts, theater” (June 20, 2014): The New York Theatre Workshop will perform “Hadestown” only once, not three times, as was originally reported. The performance is scheduled for August 16.

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Students play pickup soccer on the lawn in front of Baker-Berry Library.

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College, KAF disagree Students learn savvy entrepreneuship on use arrangement FROM ROCKY PAGE 1

Dining Services will not place a bid for the space. Students will be able to competing food products with No- use DBA, regardless of which busivack Cafe. Mousley said that these ness eventually enters a partnership demands did not align with King with the College, she said.

Arthur Flour’s business plan, which Mousley said that King Arthur includes diversification of its menu. Flour does not plan to launch a Dartmouth’s director of media re- new branch in Hanover, but it will lations Diana Lawrence and Mousley still cater to the region even after it offered contradicting statements in departs from the town. separate interviews about the nature Dartmouth students expressed of King Arthur Flour’s contractual disappointment about the potential departure of King Arthur Flour relationship with the College.

Lawrence said that King Arthur and said that the products at King Flour was in a three-year contract Arthur Flour tend to be of higher with the College. Since the three- quality than those from DDS establishments. year contract is Zach coming to an Traynor ’16 said end, the College “We really don’t want he goes to King had planned to to compromise on Arthur F lour accept bids for a several times food vendor that the experience of the each week for would occupy service that we are the space where offering at Baker-Berry drinks, and occasionally for K ing Arth ur food as well.

Flour is currently because it has been

“Ithink located. a good experience so there would be a M o u s l e y, lot of people however, said far, and we would like that King Ar- it to remain that way.” who are quite unhappy about thur Flour was this and would in an indefinite be very curicontract with the - KELLY MOUSLEY, KING ous to know the College, with a ARTHUR FLOUR RETAIL exact reasoning m i n i mu m o f AND CAFE OPERATIONS b eh i n d K i n g three years.

Arthur Flour’s L a w r e n c e DIRECTOR departure,” he said that King said.

Arthur Flour no Claire tified the College on June 9 that it planned to cease its Pfister ’16 said that although she operation on Sept. 10, but recently does not drink coffee, she would told the College that the company miss King Arthur Flour for its highwould like to participate in the bidding quality pastry items and relaxed process for the new venue and will atmosphere. continue its business in the current Students said that last year’s location until December. The process elimination of many of King Arof requesting bids has not yet started. thur Flour’s sandwiches and other Mousley said that King Arthur options altered their use of the cafe.

Flour will not participate in the bid- Joe Howard ’16 said that he has ding process if the College insists that not gone to King Arthur Flour in vendors can only serve coffee and Baker-Berry since it altered its menu, but added that the main store in pastries.

Mousley said she could not Norwich is still an option. provide the specifics of the King “Students with cars on campus Arthur Flour’s revenue but said the will be most likely unaffected by company’s business model includes this change because the real King serving sandwiches, salads and savory Arthur Flour is just a short drive away,” he said. “I usually go to the options.

On a typical day, the King Arthur real King Arthur Flour and not the Flour menu may offer up to four dif- campus King Arthur Flour since ferent sandwich options, such as brie they’ve started to restrict what they and apple or roast beef, five salads, offer on campus, like the apple cider such as Caesar and southwest chicken cinnamon spread.” and other options such as kale slaw DDS director David Newlove could not be reached for comment or baked tofu.

“We really don’t want to compro- by press time as the office is on vamise on the experience of the service cation. Novack Cafe manager Beth that we are offering at Baker-Berry Rosenberger declined to comment. because it has been a good experience Procurement services, which will deso far and we would like to remain termine what will fill the new venue, could not be reached for comment that way,” she said.

Lawrence said that Dartmouth by press time.

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School of Business which stresses experiential learning and social entrepreneurship, said that he was glad that the panel emphasized that improving the world can be profitable.

“They don’t have to be mutually exclusive,” he said.

At the weekend workshop, students working in groups analyzed customers’ needs through random street interviews from which they identified a social problem to change.

These problems ranged from organizing carpools for low-income workers to providing fresh food to parents in an urban setting who lacked disposable income to travel.

Each team then composed a business model that included a revenue and cost of the model and potential partnerships with other business.

The groups then reached out to customers and carried out market surveys to test their ideas, finally pitching their ideas for models to the judges.

Victoria Li ’16 said she learned the need for brainstorming and reviewing initial ideas before beginning to develop a business

model.

Three other participants of the workshop — Kayla Wade ’16, Oddleifson and Walker Sales

“In order to create a sustainable change and have a real impact in the world, you also do need to have a strong revenue model behind whatever initiative you are trying to start.

- HENRIK SHEEL, CEO OF THE STARTUP EXPERIENCE

’16 — said that the workshop helped familiarize them with steps involved in generating ideas.

Sales said he learned the impor-

tance of having a flexible attitude and being willing to change direction in case an initial idea or model does not unfold as expected.

The Rockefeller Center wanted to teach students that “innovation can be learned,” the Rockefeller Center’s design and entrepreneurship officer Thanh Nguyen said.

Coughlin said that he hoped to expose the students to the environment and the process of social entrepreneurship through the weekend’s workshop.

“I do think entrepreneurship in broad sense is a skill set, is a philosophy, a way of looking and identifying a problem and coming up with solutions,” he said.

The weekend is a “tool kit” to “build a solution to learn to solve these problems,” Coughlin said.

The events took place at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center and the Rockefeller Center.

It was cosponsored by the Office of the President, the Rockefeller Center, Collis Center for Student Involvement, Dartmouth Athletics, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer and the Office of Pluralism and Leadership.

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Recognizing Rhimes

Change the Name

Rhimes’s speech was underappreciated and unfairly criticized.

“What did you think of Shonda?”

I heard that question more than once after attending the 2014 Commencement speech

by Shonda Rhimes ’91. At first, the question caught me off guard. Her Commencement address had impressed me, and the question implied that the speech was controversial or disappointing. Each time I was asked I praised her speech, and more often than not I was met with a look of surprise. When pressed for specifics, however, I found myself at a loss for words. My simple and admittedly unsatisfactory response was that it made me feel good.

Yet I came to realize that it was the overall tone of the speech, rather than any specific quote, that made it memorable. Criticisms of the Commencement address miss the purpose it truly serves. Commencement addresses should speak to the graduating class, as graduation is the perfect moment to provide students with closure and not some key to success in the “real world.”

Many complained about Rhimes’s informal register and use of expletives. While using language appropriate for the wide range of ages represented in the audience may have been more tactful, I doubt that many in the Class of 2014 interpreted Rhimes’s speech as vulgar or shocking. Rather, her tone made her relatable, somebody who had indeed once sat in the same spot as the graduates. A Commencement address does not require a vocabulary scrubbed clean of informal content. If anything, too much formality impedes a speaker’s ability to connect with students.

Rhimes spoke without any pretense and made it clear that her speech had no moral truisms to offer. When she told the audience not to “be an asshole,” it came across as a piece of genuine advice, not an intentionally provocative statement.

Rhimes’s casual style boosted, not eroded, her credibility. Rhimes spoke of winter crosscampus treks that all Dartmouth students endure. I immediately perked up when I heard her mention EBAs. She even talked about drinking at Bones Gate fraternity and being

hungover at her own graduation 23 years ago. Out of context, these appear to be poor topics for a Commencement speech. Rhimes glamorized some of the more unsavory habits of Dartmouth students, a fact that she herself conceded. But these small quips made me take her seriously. When Rhimes told the Class of 2014 that the next day was “going to be the worst day ever for you,” it resonated.

Rhimes tailored her life lessons to Dartmouth students, and she allowed us to smile, laugh and reminisce along the way. That should be the aim of every Commencement speaker.

Although I do hope every member of the Class of 2014 takes to heart Rhimes’s advice to not “be an asshole,” a good Commencement speech goes beyond offering a laundry list of wisdom. Most of the content of any Commencement speech, including Rhimes’s, is soon forgotten by its audience. When a speaker takes the stage, they do not have the opportunity to make a significant difference in how the graduating class finds their way in the real world. A Commencement speaker should not try to hand Dartmouth students the mythical golden ticket to post-grad fulfillment, because no such ticket exists. A speaker can and should remind us that our time here is special, that the air we breathe is indeed “rare air.” It was refreshing to hear Rhimes conclude not with grandiose predictions of the graduates’ future success, but with “the only lesson you’ll ever need to know” – even as we leave the College, we should always be our true selves. Rhimes understood that her speech would make the greatest impact by focusing on how it feels to be a Dartmouth student for one last moment.

Ultimately, Commencement is not the day we celebrate everything that lies ahead. It’s the day we celebrate our journey at Dartmouth.

So what did I think of Shonda? As I listened to Rhimes speak, I found myself appreciating my own time here. She almost made me feel like I were a member of the Class of 2014, too. I was happy to be breathing Hanover’s rare air that day, and I was thankful that I still have two years to do so.

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The “Redskins” is an offensive name and should be changed.

In 1974, Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees denounced the use of “the Indians” to represent Dartmouth on the field. Forty years later, it’s hard to imagine Dartmouth’s official publications and athletic wear featuring the Indian mascot, and it’s even harder to think of a legitimate criticism of the Trustees’ decision. The persecution and forced assimilation of Native Americans relied upon the premise that Native Americans were savages who needed to be tamed. The use of Native Americans as a mascot for a predominantly white institution perpetuated the dehumanization of Native Americans and disrespected the hardship and cruelty that Native Americans have endured at the hands of white Europeans and Americans.

What could be worse than naming a team after a racial group? Naming a team after a derogatory slur for a racial group.

Recently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Redskins trademark because federal law does not permit trademarks that are “disparaging” to any racial group.

This will certainly reinvigorate a controversy that has faded in and out of American discourse for decades. As the debate wears on, Redskins owner Dan Snyder, fans of the team and other political and social leaders should not view the call for a name change as political correctness run amok, but rather a chance for the team to abandon its association with a racial slur that invokes a painful history of genocide.

Simply put, “redskins” is a degrading and offensive term for Native Americans. Few would argue that a widely condemned slur like the ones against, say, African Americans or gay men would be appropriate names for a football team, so why should the “Washington Redskins” be an exception?

Furthermore, the name “Redskins” incites harmful levels of cultural appropriation from the team’s fans. While there is, to an extent, some merit to celebrating another culture by practicing its traditions, Redskins fans often take this practice way too far. Fans frequently

paint their faces to look like Native Americans, mockingly wear headdresses and feathers considered sacred within Native American culture and imbibe massive amounts of alcohol, disregarding the alcoholism that the legacy of colonization has inflicted upon some Native American communities.

Meanwhile, the term “redskin” is deeply rooted in the American tradition of displacing and eradicating Native American communities. In fact, the term was once used to reference a bounty provided to those who had killed Native Americans; an 1863 newspaper promised “$200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory,” according to Esquire Magazine.

Regardless of the team’s intent, the term perpetuates a long and cruel tradition.

Many fans argue that the team instated the name to celebrate Native American coaches and players, but this claim ignores concrete and irrefutable evidence. In 1933, George Preston Marshall, then the team’s owner, explicitly stated that the team’s Native American head coach “has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.” In fact, Marshall picked the name so he could continue to use the Native American logo, as the team had previously been the “Boston Braves,” according to the Washington Post.

Others assert that, regardless of the name’s origin, Native Americans support and even feel honored by the name. While there is little evidence to support this claim, apart from a methodologically flawed poll and various incidental anecdotes, there is no shortage of Native American criticism of the name. Most prominently, 77 tribes have publicly endorsed a name change, CBS News reported.

A name is simply one of many elements that unite a community, and if the Redskins community is truly a strong one, a name change will not diminish what they have.

With a new name, Redskins fans could still unite around the team that they love, while simultaneously becoming more appealing and inclusive as they are no longer bound to a hostile slur.

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New assault prevention center still looking for a director FROM CCAP PAGE 1

challenge for CCAP, as the high turnover of upper-level administrators required briefing new faces on CCAP’s mission, Agosto said.

Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault summer co-chair Shanet Hinds ’16 and member John Damianos ’16 said that they do not expect administrative turnover to influence the Committee’s work with CCAP. A center has been a long-term SPCSA recommendation that was the product of many discussions amongst many participants, they said, so they do not expect the departure of any one administrator to have a large effect.

Damianos added that any administrator who joins the College will enter Hanover cognizant that preventing sexual assault is a top priority, so the administrator will be prepared to “put this issue on the forefront, to be brought up to speed,” he said.

To Hinds, the move signals that administrators have given CCAP substantial thought.

Sexual assault peer advisor Ethan Klein ’16, however, criticized the delayed opening, noting that it is symptomatic of greater College misfires on sexual assault policy in the past.

“The fact that it is delayed is just another facet of continual problems with understaffing, underfunding, lack of support and lack of organization on initiatives about sexual assault from the part of the College,” he said, citing understaffing at the center for student health promotion and wellness.

Klein said that he as a SAPA felt hesitant to bring questions forward in the past because he thought sexual abuse awareness program coordinators Amanda Childress and Rebekah Carrow had too much work.

The delay shows that CCAP was founded from “a greater urge to generate publicity than to generate meaningful change,” he said.

CCAP will alleviate existing confusion by centralizing resources, Agosto said.

SPCSA member Tori Nevel ’16 said that the fall opening will allow CCAP to be introduced to new incoming students and students returning from terms off campus, thereby reducing confusion about resources. A fall opening will make for a less confusing transition, since all students will be introduced to CCAP at once, Nevel said.

Damianos also noted that a fall opening will allow CCAP to use ideas gleaned from the national Summit on Sexual Assault, which will be held at the College July 13-17. The Summit will gather experts and community members to develop new sexual assault policies for campuses across the country.

With a fall opening, CCAP can incorporate ideas forwarded at the Summit before its opening day, rather than needing to substantially modify its mission early on, Damianos said.

“You wouldn’t want us to have this new change in July, and then new adjustments again in August and September,” Hinds said.

Klein said the hiring of a survivor advocate, someone tasked with directly supporting sexual assault victims, will also help increase clarity. He said that he does not think the delay will add to confusion, especially since CCAP is not aimed at survivors.

Agosto said that she acknowledges the infor mation about resources, which comprise an alphabet soup of acronyms including SAAP, SPCSA and SAPA, can confuse the casual observer.

“We recognize that there needs to be increased clarity and communication,” Agosto said, noting that advocates are working to streamline infor mation about existing resources for survivors.

Movement Against Violence s u m m e r s e c r e t a r y Re b e c c a Schantz ’16 declined to comment in an email, citing lack of knowledge about CCAP.

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The assault prevention center will be based on the third floor of Robinson Hall.

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‘Maleficent’: A Concert will bring culture, spirit sleeper, but a beauty B y laura sim

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bludgeons us, turning to a minor character, who whispers to himself, “Maleficent,” the 2014 reimagining and the audience, “true love’s kiss.” of the 1959 Disney classic “Sleeping Thanks, Disney. We didn’t realize.

Beauty,” begins with a sweeping heli- While this is primarily a movie copter shot over the vast kingdoms of for children, a filmmaker should not the humans and the Moors, beautifully reduce the film to baby food. Rememwrought with towering mountains, ber, we can chew on our own. Pixar glittering streams and idyllic pastures. recognizes this fact, which allows their Throughout the film, the audi- films to transcend age groups and ence is treated to many of these rich, appeal to all demographics. Granted, expansive images — Disney flexes its the fable genre proves tricky, as it is cinematic muscles (and $180 million historically didactic and juvenile. Modbudget). This isn’t the same hokey, ern reworkings like “Snow White and the Huntsman” (2012), however, take muted fairytale of your childhood.

As a refresher, in the original tale, liberties to revitalize these cobwebbed Maleficent curses Aurora to prick tales with more current sensibilities. her finger on the spindle of the spin- At times “Maleficent” achieves this, like when ning wheel upon Maleficent cursher 16th birthday While this is es Aurora but that causes her to then becomes fall into a death- primarily a movie for y motherly like sleep. Auchildren, a filmmaker ver and nur turing rora is awakened toward her. She when Prince Phil- should not reduce even lets her fall lip gives her true the film to baby off a cliff, only to love’s kiss and have the trees they live happily food. below magically ever after. rescue her. Jo But this time, the film focuses on Maleficent, played lie’s character treads the line of both

by Angelina Jolie, not Aurora. The heroine and villain, never completely film reveals her transformation from embodying either. The film succeeds a loving fairy to the vengeful, cloaked in subverting the clichés of true love and hero/villain binaries that Disney sorceress audiences recognize.

The first trailer only showed this has perpetuated for nearly a century foreboding Maleficent, which is mis- and introducing a more progressive leading. However, the most recent agenda. trailer corrects this, showing that But I wanted far less verbalizing of Maleficent has a big heart, and when the moral — it was on the screen, and wronged she needed to learn to love that should be enough for us. Stop the spoon-feeding. again.

The new Maleficent also received a makeover; Jolie is already sumptuous, Rating: 6.5/10 and Disney spared no effort to make “Maleficent” is playing daily at the her appear excessively so for this Nugget at 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. role. Her sculpted cheekbones could and 9:15 p.m. cut diamonds, and her questionably tight leather suit is reminiscent of Catwoman.

Beyond just her appearance, Jolie’s command of Maleficent’s limited dialogue provides much needed dramatic spark and credibility to the film. But the film seems unsure of how much it wants to stray from the original, so it gets bogged down in explication and clarification.

The story of Sleeping Beauty is so entrenched in the public domain that the filmmakers here seemed scared of swimming into uncharted waters for fear of confusing audience members. They only make slight alterations, which makes for a patchwork of old and new ideas that can’t hold together.

And this is what often bothers me about todays Hollywood films — they do not challenge us or trust our intelligence. A narrator must interject throughout the film to ensure that every nook and cranny of understanding is amply buttered. When Aurora is finally awakened by true love’s kiss — which is already overdramatized with a romantic score and close-up — Disney

Seamless and organic, Ricardo Lemvo and his Los Angeles-based band Makina Loca blend together dif ferent music styles found across the world ­­— transcending any single culture, time, place or creed. Lemvo and Makina Loca will come to campus for the first time to play a free concert on the Green at 5 p.m. Thursday. The band features rhythms inspired by Africa and Cuba with a pan-African sound.

Lemvo, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but has a rich Angolan ancestr y, sings in languages including English, French, Spanish, Por tuguese, Lingala and Kikongo. Lemvo said that his passion for including multicultural messages in his music stems from his childhood and surroundings. He said he grew up learning French, the official language, but heard indigenous languages around him and learned to speak several of them.

Despite dif ferences between groups and cultures, he said, music was always a common thread.

“I believe music is a universal language,” Lemvo said. “It brings people together, people who are different. So one of my goals when I write my music is that I do not target a particular audience. I play music for ever yone.”

For Jacob Edgar, founder of the group’s record label, his work with Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca is rooted in a similar desire to generate art that appeals to people of all cultures.

Anyone can enjoy this music, regardless of language barriers, he said.

Due to the nature of Lemvo’s

culturally rich music, attendees will engage in a kind of music appreciation that differs from the norm, Hopkins Center publicity coordinator Rebecca Bailey said.

“This music is really aimed at hitting you physically, hitting your body, making you feel great, making you feel like dancing and making you feel like being friendly to other people in the surrounding area,” she said.

Edgar said he views music as an art form that can be appreciated by all communities. Simultaneously, he said, music can power fully express cultural ideas and values.

Music is a source of stories, unity and traditions, Edgar said.

Attendees of the kickoff event can expect a summer festival feel, much like those of larger musical festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo and Governor’s Ball, Bailey said.

“We’re tr ying to bring the idea of the music festival to Hanover and tr ying to capture the flavor of them,” she said. “So we’re looking

for acts that not only have a lot of texture culturally, but also just really set the audience on fire.”

The concert will be preceded by a pre-show talk between Lemvo and Edgar about the styles of music Lemvo and the band use at 4 p.m. in Wilson 219.

Last summer’s first concer t featured the Boston-based Ethiopian-American group Debo Band, originally scheduled to be held outside. Poor weather, however, moved the per formance into Spaulding Auditorium.

The joyous nature of Lemvo’s music is particularly fitting for an outdoor concert, he said, and Lemvo said he hopes many members of the Dartmouth community will come out for the event.

“Hopefully ever yone will come and have fun,” Lemvo said. “Our music is fun. It’s infectious and it makes ever yone dance.”

Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca released their latest album, “La Rumba SoYo,” in the U.S. Tuesday. ​

Courtesy of Ricardo Lemvo

Musician Ricardo Lemvo is known for his cross-cultural and multilingual music.

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All-American rugby defeats Cambridge B y GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth played host to the Men’s Collegiate All-American rugby team this weekend, a collection of the best players from around the country who, less than 10 days before their debut this Saturday, were chosen to come together after a four-day camp at Merrimack College. The team, captained by Madison Hughes ’15, was split in two and competed against the visiting Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club and the Collegiate Barbarians of Ontario on Saturday.

The All-Americans dismantled the Cambridge Light Blues, concluding with a decisive 27-15 victory, but the second team finished on the wrong side of a hotly contested 35-32 match against Ontario.

Hughes, a three-time All-American and a cornerstone of Dartmouth’s own rugby club, captained the MCAAs after playing for the U.S. on the Sevens National Team in New Zealand this winter.

Playing international rugby is a completely different experience than the one he has had playing for the Big Green, he said, because more players have rugby experience.

“Rather than having a couple of guys out there doing the decision making, you’ve got one through 23, really,” Hughes said. “There are decision makers on the field at every position.”

Hughes and the rest of the squad are playing under the leadership of returning MCAA coach Matt Sherman, who coaches Stanford University’s men’s rugby team and has coached the U.S. Senior National Rugby team.

In the first game against Cambridge, the Americans wasted no time, scoring on a penalty in the second minute to notch the first three points of the game. Kingsley McGowan, of Saint Mary’s College of California, found the opportunity to score with perfect placement between the posts, punctuated by a good conversion by Niku Kruger of Kutztown University.

After a good kick for post by Cambridge, the Americans rounded out their lead to 17-3 in the 24th minute of the first half after Paris Hollis of Life University broke through down the right sideline, scoring the final try of the half.

As the second half opened, Cambridge underwent a revival, taking advantage of several penalties committed by the Americans. The penalties,

Sherman said, indicated his team’s lack of discipline. Cambridge, running with the momentum, scored its first try of the game in the seventh minute.

Nate Brakeley ’12, playing for Cambridge, ran in for a try to bring the score to 17-15, untied after Cambridge missed the conversion.

Because the Americans are not used to playing together, the team must improve on working as a unit to be more effective in the scrum, Hollis said.

“We need to develop a little bit more on our team cohesion,” Hollis said.

“Obviously we’ve only been together a week, and they’ve been together forever so if we do that it will all connect and we’ll be successful.”

But the Americans reasserted control in the second half, ignited by a kick down the line to Sebastian Sharpe of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Sharpe pressured Cambridge, forcing the Light Blues to kick out and give the Americans a line out just outside the try zone. The Americans then took full advantage of the positioning, scoring on the next play.

The Americans scored the final try of the game when Hollis smashed through with a half-field run, breaking tackles and diving into the try zone to finalize the 12-point lead. Settling down and recuperating after giving ground to Cambridge, Sherman said, was a highlight for the team.

“That was probably the biggest strength of the game today,” he said. “We actually were more together during the game. We didn’t implode. We actually fixed some things and got better.”

Despite showing signs of life earlier in the half and even after winning a scrum just outside the try zone, Cambridge could not permeate the Americans’ back line and were forced away by three consecutive spot-on tackles.

The second team of All-Americans played the Barbarians neck and neck, losing 35-32.

Maintaining a 10-point deficit as the game drew to a close, the Americans hovered around the try zone for several minutes, running in the last try in the match’s closing seconds. The lastminute score was not enough to send the Americans to their second victory.

Moving forward, Sherman said, the two All-American rosters will see some adjustments before the team challenges Cambridge again in Canton, Massachusetts, and faces off with the Ontario Blues, their toughest competition, this week.

RIDING THE PINE Just as Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption” climbed through a river of sewage and came out clean on the other side, so too have we, Hank and Fish, emerged from the dimly lit, figurative basement of The Dartmouth, Dartbeat, to its crown jewel, the sports section’s back page. We, unlike Dufresne, were not justly rewarded for hard work and sacrifice. Rather, we were only promoted into the actual paper due to an acute shortage of sports columnists on campus over sophomore summer and the misplaced generosity of editor-in-chief Lindsay Ellis, who before editing this column had accepted only Fish and not Hank’s friend request on Facebook. In a scenario straight out of sports editor Jasmine Sachar’s nightmares, we’ve come under her command, and the burden now lies upon her to transform us from the fat and smug bloggers we are into columnists.

We sat down to write this column freshly infuriated by Portugal’s last-minute equalizer against the U.S. Despite our initial rage at the final result (which by all standards was a historic American soccer success), we found immediate comfort in Cristiano Ronaldo’s devilish good looks and longer-term solace through a logical examination of how well the U.S. has done thus far. This week, Riding the Pine will try to supply you with that same level of relief — not by attaching pictures of the Portuguese star, but by breaking down how surprising and exciting the American run has been to this point.

It would be impossible to explain the U.S.’s success without first crediting the Klins-mann with the plan: U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Klinsmann’s first controversial move came when he decided to cut the most well-known American soccer player of all time, Landon Donovan. Klinsmann butted heads with Donovan for several reasons, including Donovan’s perceived lack of passion, his lack of adequate competi-

WITH JOE CLYNE AND HENRY ARNDT

tion in Major League Soccer — which, as far as soccer leagues go, isn’t the world’s strongest — and Donovan’s status as a fan darling coasting on his former success. As we wrote this damning description of Donovan, we were forced to confront the sobering realization that we, in fact, are mirror images of the American striker — uber-talented, widely beloved, but sadly unchallenged and miserably bored. With every move he makes, however, Klinsmann seems to justify his exclusion of Donovan from the squad.

Through two matches, Klinsmann’s substitutes have led to late offensive breakthroughs and the unforgettable game-winning header by defender John Brooks against Ghana. Without Klinsmann’s tactical genius, the U.S. would undoubtedly be wallowing in the depths of Group G, on the road to elimination like Spain, now the black sheep of the soccer world.

The U.S. opened up group play with a hugely important fixture against the bane of our soccer existence, the mighty nation of Ghana. The U.S. notched a goal within the first minute against the Black Stars (who had eliminated us in the two prior cups). After forward Clint Dempsey’s stunning start to the game, Ghana knocked the U.S. around for the next 80 minutes of action. The U.S. could barely retain possession: forward Jozy Altidore pulled up with a strained hamstring 21 minutes into play, midfielder Michael Bradley looked totally out of place on the pitch, and the U.S. was lucky that Ghana could only convert one of its 21 shots. Out of nowhere, Klinsmann’s substitutes saved the day for the Stars and Stripes. A beautiful corner from sub to sub ended up in the back of the net, and the U.S. escaped host city Natal with the victory and three points.

Despite managing an early win in the group of death, the U.S. needed

to gain at least a draw against Portugal before its likely defeat at the hands of the powerful Germans. Reverting to the vintage disappointment of its soccer teams in the past, the Americans carelessly allowed an early goal from midfielder Nani off a flubbed clearance in the box. Riding the Pine quickly grew to hate this Nani character despite being completely unaware of his existence before kickoff. We thought Ronaldo was supposed to be the good one. In a match full of twists and turns, the U.S. seemed to grow stronger with every passing moment spent in the heat of the Amazon rainforest.

We slotted two impressive goals to take a late lead, which could have been even wider but for a few unlucky bounces. In the 95th minute with only seconds remaining in the match, the U.S. seemed destined for a monumental win.

In a last-ditch effort, Ronaldo, beautiful and deadly, delivered a world-class cross to the head of a Portuguese player, anonymous for all intents and purposes, preventing the U.S. from being the first Group G team to advance to the knockout stage.

The U.S. is slated to take on Germany just two days from now, a match with massive implications. A win or tie will put the Americans through to the knockout stage. Even a loss does not disqualify them, so long as Ghana does not win their final fixture against the Portuguese.

Statistician Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight gives the U.S. a 74.7 percent chance of advancing to the knockout stage. Unfortunately, he estimates that Riding the Pine only has a 4.7 percent chance of living to write another day.

If you open these sports pages next Tuesday and don’t see our familiar and slightly off-putting faces, we only ask that you don’t tell our parents that we got fired from our only on-campus extracurricular activity.