VOL. CLXXV NO.35
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018
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College seeks to improve mental health resources
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The increase in student demand for mental health resources — both at Dartmouth and at the national level — has led “The Call to Lead” capital campaign to allocate $17 million towards supporting student mental health resources on campus, according to Dean of the College Rebecca Biron. Director of the College’s health service Reed said that the funding is intended to serve three main focus areas for students’ mental health: improving timely accessibility to mental health services, providing ongoing support to help
Dick’s House and other student mental health resources will receive $17 million from “The Call to Lead.”
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Fourteen from College chosen as Fulbright scholars
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This year’s Fulbright scholars want to train politicians, return artwork looted by Nazis and teach English in areas all around the globe, ranging from South Korea to Morocco. Fourteen Dartmouth students and alumni were awarded grants in the 2017-18 cycle — nine to pursue study and research and five to serve as English teaching assistants. Dartmouth’s Fulbright scholars will go to Brazil,
Canada, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, India, Ireland, Morocco, Poland and South Korea to pursue their projects. The total number of recipients is similar to last year’s total of 15 Dartmouth students and alumni, which marked a significant increase from the 2015-2016 cycle, in which eight students and alumni received the award. The recipients are Charlotte Blatt ’18, Madeleine Coffey ’18, Sarah Cohen ’18, Mary Liza Hartong GR’18, Alyssa Heinze ’18, Amanda Herz ’18, Axel Hufford ’16, James Jung ’14,
Natasha Maldi ’16, Gricelda Ramos ’18, Alexandra Reichert ’18, Nicole Simineri ’17, Catherine Treyz ’13 and Karen Wen ’16. Two Dartmouth students or alumni were also named as alternates, meaning that they may be offered an award if additional funding becomes available. Herz and Hufford said they see their Fulbright experience as a cultural exchange. They will both spend the next year as English teaching assistants in South Korea. “Immersing myself in a different culture will prompt me to reflect on my
Green Key will feature Tinashe as headliner B y ABBY MIHALY
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The sixth annual Green Key weekend is just around the corner. This year, the traditional Friday night concert on Gold Coast Lawn will feature headliner Tinashe, as well as Quinn XCII and Coast Modern. “It’s going to be a show … It’s going to be just nonstop fun,” Programing Board concert director Mary Clare Seeman ’18 said. Performances on the Collis Center
own values and predispositions, and affect the way I see, think and act in the future,” Herz said. Hufford said that for him, the Fulbright scholarship will make both a personal and public impact. “It represents a chance for me to explore another culture, and also challenges me to act as a cultural ambassador of the U.S. at a time when the perception of Americans may be in question for South Koreans,” Hufford said. SEE FULLBRIGHT PAGE 3
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porch throughout the weekend will include a variety of more “indie” artists, including the Skins, according to Collis Governing Board chair Michelle Wang ’19. Various Collis Center student life organizations will also sponsor arts and crafts events and free food during the weekend. The process for choosing Green Key artists for the main Gold Coast concert began when Programming Board contacted an outside agency with the budget and style DIVYA KOPALLE/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF
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Baby animals outside of Robinson Hall put a smile on students’ faces.
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DAily debriefing The College recently announced that Mindy Kaling ’01 will be this year’s Commencement speaker, and the other seven Ivy League schools have also announced their own graduation speakers. At the University of Pennsylvania, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell — a Penn graduate herself — will address the Class of 2018 on May 14. Former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will speak at Yale University — her law school alma mater — in New Haven. New Jersey senator Cory Booker will speak at Princeton University at its Class Day on June 4. Columbia University will continue its tradition of having Lee Bollinger — the university’s president — as its graduation speaker. At Harvard University, congressperson and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient John Lewis will greet graduates and their families in Cambridge. Brown University will have two members of its graduating class — Lexi Lerner and Naomi Chasek-Macfoy — deliver commencement addresses. Lastly, Cornell University will host civil rights activist and “Selma” director Ava DuVernay at its convocation on May 26. Kim Dong-chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang-duk — three Americans held captive in North Korean labor camps for as long as two years because they were accused of crimes against the regime — returned to American soil early Thursday and were greeted by President Donald Trump. “It is like a dream. We are very, very happy,” Kim Dong-chul told reporters upon his arrival to the US. President Trump interpreted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to grant the three Americans amnesty as an effort on the dictator’s part to improve its reputation in the international community. The president, along with first lady Melania Trump, walked up the steps of the plane carrying the detainees as it arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland at 2:42 a.m. and shook the three men’s hands. Trump told reporters that it was “a special night for these three really great people,” adding that “[The three men] have been through a lot.” Following their return to the U.S., the three men were taken to the Walter Reed Medical Center to be examined. President Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which is formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. A major accomplishment of the Obama administration, the 2015 agreement limited Iran’s nuclear ambitions for a minimum of ten years in exchange for ending sanctions that had crippled the Iranian economy. The agreement was reached between Iran, the P5+1 nations — United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, China and Germany — and the European Union. Britain, France, Germany and Iran have stated that they will remain in the deal, and Iran has accused the United States of violating the accord — a move that will likely be mirrored by China and Russia, who are also signatories to the deal. The decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal comes just weeks before the President’s planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which the Trump has said will be “a special moment for world peace.” Former President Barack Obama called the move “misguided,” saying that walking away from the JCPOA “risks losing a deal that accomplishes — with Iran — the very outcome that we are pursuing with the North Koreans.” - COMPILED BY DEBORAH HYEMIN HAN AND JULIAN NATHAN.
CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com. Correction appended (May 11, 2018): The article “‘Citrus,’ a compelling choreopoem, celebrates black women” was updated to clarify the role of the theater department in producing “Citrus.”
“The Call to Lead” will raise funds for campus mental health services FROM CAPITAL PAGE 1
students and offering education and prevention programs for faculty, staff and students. These goals may be fulfilled through various initiatives across campus, according to a campuswide email that broke down “The Call to Lead” budget priorities from Student Assembly president Monik Walters ’19 and Student Assembly vice president Nicole Knape ’19. Although Walters and Knape wrote that the College would hire five new counselors at Dick’s House as part of these initiatives in a campus-wide email, vice president for communications Justin Anderson wrote in an email statement that the College has not yet decided how many new counselors will be hired. “Dartmouth is committed to recruiting new counselors ... [but] that level of specificity has not yet been determined and is dependent on fundraising,” he wrote. “Mental health issues present some of the greatest barriers to students taking full advantage of what Dartmouth has to offer,” Reed said. “We’re really excited that Dartmouth is seeing this as an important issue.” Biron said the decision to focus on mental health was part of a larger effort to transform the residential life experience and occurred in response to student needs. She said that the allocation of funds was a process of “collecting, collating and then prioritizing ideas that [came] from various locations on campus.” Reed said that mental health trends at the College resemble national trends, citing a 30 percent increase in students utilizing college counseling centers nationally and a 40 percent increase in admissions to the College infirmary for counseling reasons over the past five years. Director of the counseling services at Dick’s House Heather Earle echoed that there has been an increased demand for mental health services at Dartmouth, adding that there has subsequently been an increased effort to reach more students and to collaborate between different mental health related groups, including faculty, staff, undergraduate advisors and groups through the Student Wellness Center. An example of this increased collaboration is counseling services’ decision to switch its intake mechanism a few years ago from an individual intake model to a triage system, according to Earle. She said that this switch has allowed more students to access mental health resources quickly in addition to helping service providers direct students towards the best resources and support services on
campus for their specific needs. Biron said that the increase in demand is more complex than simply saying that students today are more depressed or anxious than in the past. She said that examining trends relating to students and mental health is a “nuanced situation where some of [the increase in demand] is about increased awareness and willingness to seek out support services.” Earle emphasized the importance of outreach for mental health services on campus to encourage students to seek out resources and said that the counseling center does close to 300 hours of outreach per term. She said that although these outreach programs are not new, they are recently starting to catch on and resonate with students as mental health issues become less stigmatized. Director of the Student Wellness Center Caitlin Barthelmes said that the increased demand for mental health services allows Dartmouth to strengthen its “network of care,” which ranges from the housing communities to programming committees to formal mental health services. As more people talk about the importance of mental health, she said, the stigma surrounding mental health will hopefully continue to decrease
and it will be easier for students to access appropriate resources. “The more our community shows that they care about mental health and shows that they care about each other, the better can provide students the opportunity to get into the network of care,” Barthelmes said. Walters said she thinks that this allocation of resources to mental health services for students will help the College proactively address issues rather than reactively. “Dartmouth is taking the initiative to listen to what the students are saying and using that feedback to promote actual change and to put resources in place that students feel like they can access,” Walters said. Barthelmes said that students are increasingly willing to talk openly about their emotions and mental health with each other and the larger Dartmouth community, which is vital to address mental health issues on both individual and macro levels. “If you think of mental health as a public health issue, to be able to engage all community members — including having active student participants trying to come up with solutions and trying to create support for each other — is a really important part of the pie,” Barthelmes said.
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Fulbright scholars announced FROM FULLBRIGHT PAGE 1
Both Herz and Hufford said the classes they took at the College as undergraduates affected their motivation to go to South Korea. As a film and digital studies major, Herz said she thought Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 21.03, “Exploring Korea Through Film” with art history and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies professor Sunglim Kim was “in her wheelhouse,” but even then she did not predict how much Korean history and culture would fascinate her. Hufford was a government and Middle Eastern studies double major, and said he found himself similarly captivated by History 5.4, “Introduction to Korean Culture” with Kim and Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Soyoung Suh in his senior year. Coffey said her experience as an Arabic drill instructor at the College and English teacher to Arabic immigrants in New York during one of her off terms pushed her to apply for the Fulbright. She will be teaching English in Morocco, where she studied abroad the summer of her freshman year on the Arabic LSA+. Coffey said how she ended up studying Arabic and spending so much time with the Arabic community in Morocco and in the U.S. still comes as a surprise, because her primary academic
interest has been medicine. However, Coffey said the Fulbright scholarship does not represent a dismissal of her medical career — rather, time abroad is vital to her education as a doctor. “By immersing myself in the Moroccan language and culture, I will feel better equipped to navigate the numerous cultural barriers doctors face when treating diverse patients,” Coffey said. Both Blatt and Heinze said that their Fulbright projects are closely connected to their coursework at Dartmouth. Heinze’s government senior thesis studied the impact of women leaders’ intersectional identities on political performance in India. She said this project has inspired the research she’ll be doing in Mumbai, India next year about training programs for female politicians. This will be Heinze’s fifth time going to South Asia, after two internships, the AMES and women’s, gender and sexuality studies FSP in Hyderabad, India and a month in 2018 researching for her government thesis. Blatt is also a government major and wrote a thesis on U.S. pre-war assessments of conflict from the Truman to Obama administrations. Next year, she will be a research assistant at the Centre for International and Defense Policy in Kingston, Canada, studying the intersection of women’s rights and
international security. Although Blatt also contemplated an academic career, she will matriculate at Yale Law School in the fall of 2019. She said she will use the Fulbright to reflect on her interests in international security and find a career path within law that addresses those interests. While many of this year’s cohort of Fulbrights said they are using the scholarship as a gap year before settling into a career, Treyz said she has decided on her career as a journalist. Since graduating from Dartmouth five years ago, Treyz has moved to Washington, D.C., working with the National Journal, Fox News and now as an editor in CNN’s Washington bureau. Treyz won a grant to participate in Germany’s Fulbright Program for Young Professional Journalists. Treyz said that in addition to conducting research on German authorities’ attempts to return art looted by the Nazi government, she will also work within a German news agency. “I’m excited for the opportunity to compare and contrast journalistic practices in a similarly fast-paced German political atmosphere, and become immersed in their news and culture,” Treyz said.
COURTESY OF AXEL HUFFORD ‘16
Axel Hufford ’16 will spend a year in South Korea teaching English.
Hufford and Treyz are for mer members of The Dartmouth staff.
COURTESY OF ALYSSA HEINZE ‘18
Alyssa Heinze ’18 will research training programs for female politicians in India.
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THE DARTMOUTH OPINION
STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19
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I’m a Transnational Cyborg
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Video editing reflects on the interconnected nature of modernity and art. My favorite YouTube channel is “i’m cyborg but that’s ok,” named after a 2006 South Korean romantic comedy film called I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK directed by Park Chan-wook. The YouTube user edits feature-length films, mostly independent Asian or French new-wave cinema, down to two to five minutes and pairs the visuals with a song. Similar YouTube users who are less careful about acknowledging content rights have had videos removed. There is an art to splicing and editing, and copyright law should take into account the value of using found footage to allow for reflections of the fragmentation and intertextuality of modernity. YouTube edits create an aesthetic of transnational, transtemporal coolness — little-known gems of art from different parts of the world and different times that come together through a shared emotional core. Video edits are a common phenomenon. At first glance, there does not seem to be any skill involved with splicing together found footage. Admittedly, some video editing is executed rather carelessly and with no intent beyond immortalizing cliché love stories; however, video edits can be done in a thoughtful way to create a new work of art. Well-crafted video edits are standalone pieces if they rethink the material in a unique way and bring attention to lesser-known works. Using these starting points enables the audience to discover something new. Finding the right material requires the ability to find and pair niche, dissimlar art objects to create the sense of cool. “i’m cyborg but that’s ok”’s “Cigarettes After Sex — John Wayne,” for instance, brings together two disparate pieces of art, observing a particular motif in American aesthetic production. The video pairs Vincent Gallo’s film “Buffalo ’66” (1998) with Cigarettes After Sex’s 2017 song “John Wayne.” Pairing an independent film from the late ’90s with a modern song demonstrates sensibility and an understanding of overlapping genres. The artist “i’m cyborg” pairs these two art objects because of their common theme of repressed masculine emotion. The film, in which the notoriously brooding Vincent Gallo plays a recently-released inmate who kidnaps a girl for a day but falls in love with her, uses washed out color schemes and images of the two characters hesitantly holding hands to capture a sense of morose, unwilling desire. “i’m cyborg” chooses these motifs to include
in the video rather than major plot points. The sadness is further highlighted by song lyrics like, “He’s got so much in his heart / But he doesn’t know what to do / All he wants is her / Lying inside his room,” which create a new aural dimension to the film. While a film pieces together scenes to create a distinct story, editing footage and sound pieces together creates a distinct mood. Video editing can also illuminate emotional commonalities between artistic production in different countries, creating a transnational dialogue through feeling. One such example is “i’m cyborg”’s “Men I Trust — Show Me How,” which couples the 2018 song “Show Me How” with a Shanghainese film called “Suzhou River” (2000). The edit creates cohesion between the band Men I Trust’s self-described “smooth sounds, calm melodies and simple rhythms that relax” with what The Guardian describes as Suzhou River’s “dreamlike quality of [a] swooningly romantic story.” Indeed, the montage and overlay scenes that are featured in the video as well as the motif of the main character closing her eyes synthesize seamlessly with the soft, echoey guitar and breathy voice of the singer in “Show Me How.” “Art is the universal language” is a trite saying, but this mode of production comes the closest to making it true. The video transcends language, synergizing Chinese films with English songs to bridge different audiences. Several channels that pursue similar projects have had their videos taken down for failing to adhere to copyright laws that protect “original works of authorship” with certain rights, prohibiting third parties from reproducing the works. For YouTube videos, the term “reproducing” walks a fine line. The video for “Show Me How” demonstrates why edited footage can exist as a creation of its own. YouTube commenters have noted its value. One commenter writing, “I can’t describe how this makes me feel but I wish I could feel like this forever.” The inability to describe what the video makes one feel is why it is difficult to understand editing as a standalone art. This kind of editing requires attention to technical details and an ability to find cohesion in visual and aural motifs. The technical skill of synthesis allows people to find connections across forms, regions and time, thinking about emotional currents in their primordial past and inner psyches that remain constant.
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Dartmouth cannot continue to be a playground for privilege. Fifty years ago, the Dartmouth student body was completely male. In typical Dartmouth fashion, there was resistance to change. But with considerable effort over the years, that demographic has changed: since 2012, the student body has had equal representation of both genders. To this day, Dartmouth continues to redefine what it means to preserve tradition without excluding deserving students on the basis of race, gender and socioeconomic background from the opportunities of a Dartmouth education. Dartmouth may be an elite institution, but it should not be only for those who come from “elite” backgrounds — yet 21 percent of students are from the top one percent of annual incomes, while only 2.6 percent come from the bottom fifth. A Dartmouth education should be one that is not just earned based on what a student has accomplished because those from privileged circumstances will always be able to afford more and better opportunities and rely on a sense of security to fully devote their energy to pursuing their passions in a high-caliber institution. A Dartmouth education must also be earned by students’ willingness and potential to grow as human beings, engage their intellect and take advantage of the differences in perspective by which they will be surrounded throughout their four years at the College. What makes students choose Dartmouth? The College’s reputation has historically attracted students of yesteryear. Unrestricted pong and binge drinking in the middle of the woods may come to some minds, but students should be choosing Dartmouth because of a genuine drive to learn. A Dartmouth education is an opportunity to understand one’s place in the world relative not only to the people around oneself, but to the surrounding communities in the Upper Valley. Making the most of Dartmouth should not be the product of social calendars, pong skills or even a high GPA; rather, it should be a product of perspectives gained and self-growth. Many students leave Dartmouth with a more expansive world view and greater self-awareness, but many others leave without ever quite bursting out of the bubble they came from. Such narrow-mindedness is dangerous. Despite momentous progress in the last fifty years, in many ways Dartmouth still holds on to vestiges of elitism and entitlement. This campus should not be a playground for privilege that goes unchallenged. It is natural for people of similar identity and background to gravitate toward each other, but self-segregation, unconscious or not, will only produce tunnel vision. Yes, all people are a product of their experiences and identities; but in order to gain perspective, it is important to see those experiences and identities juxtaposed against those that differ. Without such measures, people will continue to actively participate in a culture that perpetuates exclusivity and insularity. Dartmouth is and has always been structurally designed as a playground for the privileged. Because of that, those who come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may not easily find a sense of belonging in this community. When looking at marriage rates among Dartmouth students, 52 percent end up marrying another Dartmouth student. When socioeconomic background is taken into account, those numbers
change; 54 percent of Dartmouth students from the top fifth of the income strata end up marrying each other, but that drops to 38 percent when looking at students from the bottom fifth. ThesenumbersreflectthedisparateDartmouth experiences that come as a result of socioeconomic status. Not only are students responsible for self-segregating, the College as an institution is responsible for encouraging it. Dartmouth’s social structure is predominantly founded on tradition, which makes sense considering the lengthy histories behind many social organizations. Wealth, privilege and status tend to be clustered within certain Greek houses and secret societies, which contributes to the interconnectedness of wealthy Dartmouth families who continue to reinforce these homogeneous relationships in their children. The infrastructure of Dartmouth’s social scene is designed to pass down privilege. Dartmouth has created a culture that fails to recognize how privilege plays a role in establishing norms. Certain tenets of Dartmouth’s core identity are so prevalent that they are made to seem accessible to all, when in reality they require high financial resources and privileges to be afforded. Bean boots and Canada Goose jackets are symbols of Dartmouth’s niche consumerist culture, which is unattainable for many. It is easily forgotten that leisure time to engage in traditional Dartmouth pastimes of fratting and pong are not necessarily accessible to students who are simultaneously working to pay off loans. What students often overlook is that many of the elements that make up Dartmouth’s core identity are, in fact, luxuries. Dartmouth will continue to perpetuate the same exclusive values until students decide to actively engage beyond what they know during their time here. Alumni donations play a huge role in shaping the College’s future, making it important to consider what kind of alumni are donating and why. Prior the founding of the Centennial Circle in 2014, men donated 4.7 times more money to Dartmouth than women — which translates to 4.7 times more power to influence its future. After the Circle was created, men now give 2.5 times more money than women. Such efforts are both effective and laudable — but in order to truly diversify the demographic of alumni donors in all respects, the College must address the issue starting from the ground up by reforming students’ social experiences. Dartmouth alumni must be encouraged to practice responsible donating. If students are not sufficiently exposed to difference during their time here, they will continue to donate in a way that perpetuates the outdated values and experiences they had as students. Dartmouth is not what it was 50 years ago. Today, Dartmouth has become significantly more diverse and conscious of treading the fine line between tradition and elitism. Fifty years from now, Dartmouth should not look the way it does today. The line between tradition and elitism should be bolded and distinct. Future generations of Dartmouth should feel like their identity has roots on this campus. The College must think critically about how institutional influence plays a role in alienating its own students, and students must think critically about how their actions perpetuate self-segregation. Dartmouth has grown tremendously, but it must not become complacent with its progress thus far.
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Green Key has first female headliner FROM GREEN KEY PAGE 1
of the artist they hoped for, according to Seeman. She said that Programming Board then brought various options to open campus meetings for feedback. Seeman said people voiced hopes for someone “current,” “relevant” and “up and coming.” Programming Board executive director Jane Gerstner ’18 said that having a female headliner, the first in Dartmouth’s Green Key history, was not “intentional or political,” but that instead “it is a part of the nature of the exec[utive] board having more women on it and … [is] a very positive thing.” According to Seeman, Quinn XCII was the first artist Programming Board secured for the Green Key concert, as he had been in the running for Fallapalooza, but had a scheduling conflict. Seeman said Coast Modern added another style to the mix of artists. “We have Tinashe, we have Quinn [XCII] — two very different sounds — [and] we really wanted to round it out with a band,” Seeman said. “We want the concert to have something for everyone, and so we kind of wanted that indie, pop, rock band [feeling] and Coast Modern filled that spot perfectly.” Similarly to last year, concertgoers will be required to wear special bracelets for admission into concert events. Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said that these wristbands were
implemented in 2017 as part of an effort to ensure the event remained closed to those outside the Dartmouth community, including local middle and high school students. Orange snow fence also enclosed the concert venue. This year’s Green Key will also see water-filled jersey barriers placed across Tuck Drive. Dennis said these barriers are intended as a precautionary measure to protect against any vehicles that may attempt to run over concertgoers in the crowded venue. Interim director of Safety and Security Keysi Montás said Hanover Police made these security decisions in collaboration with Safety and Security. Both Dennis and Montás said they were pleased with the success of last year’s wristband and snow fence systems, and that they did not notice high school or middle school-aged students at the concert, in contrast to prior years. Montás noted that it is important to keep Green Key a Dartmouthonly event, adding that alcohol overconsumption by non-community members “carries a lot of liability for the College and for the students organizing the event.” Montás also said that any nonDartmouth underage drinkers who over-consume alcohol must be sent directly to the hospital rather than to Dick’s House, which can stretch resources thin, sometimes requiring
more than one ambulance running at once to keep everyone safe. “[Wristbands and fencing] is one of the ways that we make sure we have an event that is by our community and for our community … and if things were to go south … then we have the resources to make sure we provide for our community in the best way we can,” Montás said. Programming Board has worked to ensure that the security requirements inconvenience students as little as possible, implementing measures such as including instructions on the wristband envelope students receive in their Hinman boxes and adding preregistration for guests, according to both Gerstner and Seeman. Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services, the Hanover Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, Hanover Police and Safety and Security will all work together during the weekend to ensure that concert-goers remain safe, Montás said. Gerstner said that the increase in safety requirements in recent years has also increased the Green Key budget. Seeman said that students’ Green Key concert expectations increase each year. “[Green Key] has definitely grown,” she said. “It becomes very much a part of institutional memory that every year there’s this big concert, so I think every year the expectations get larger.”
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FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018
RACHEL LINCOLN ‘20
TODAY
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Charles Huckeba Exhibition, Garage Room, Hopkins Center for the Arts
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Colloquium: “Modifying Gravity to Explain the Cosmic Acceleration,” with Bishop’s University professor Valerio Faraoni, Wilder 104
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Performance: “Melaza,” presented by Danza Orgánica, Common Ground, Collis Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Student Honors Project: “Hair,” directed by Virginia Ogden ’18, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts
TOMORROW
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Hanover HopStop: World Music Percussion Ensemble, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Film: “The Godfather,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Performance: Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, directed by Taylor Ho Bynum, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
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Eclectic Barbary Coast concert to feature nine seniors By HYO LIM JEONG and EVAN MORGAN The Dartmouth
Björk, Jethro Tull and Jimmy McHugh. F lute, vocoder and acoustic bass. To say that this Saturday’s Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble show is eclectic would be an understatement. The ensemble’s nine graduating seniors each selected their own pieces for the Coast’s senior feature show, and the resulting lineup is a cocktail of jazz and rock, much of it arranged by the performers themselves. Director Taylor Ho Bynum took over the ensemble this year after the retirement of Hopkins Center fixture Don Glasgo. When plotting out the Coast’s future, Bynum said, he had to balance his own artistic ideas with Glasgo’s legacy. “I wanted to respect his tradition and move it in the directions that made sense for me,” Bynum said. “In some conversations, students will say, ‘This has been a Coast tradition for a long time.’ Cool, I dig that tradition, let’s keep it — but maybe this other one doesn’t make as much sense to me, and we can evolve it somewhere else.” The senior feature show was one of Bynum’s keepers. An annual tradition of the ensemble, the
concert gives each senior a chance to call their own number. Some seniors chose songs that carry special meaning. Others chose music that would allow them to jam. Many of the songs will serve both purposes. Singer Zoe Sands ’18, who is half Icelandic and has lived in Iceland for most of her life, said she wanted to perform a piece that ref lected where she was from. Thinking an Icelandic song might not resonate with the audience, Sands settled on “It’s Oh So Quiet,” released in 1995 by Icelandic singer Björk. “Björk is the most successful Icelandic musician, an amazing performer and weird as hell, and I love that and think it’s extremely inspiring,” Sands said. Pianist Emma Howeiler ’18 went a more traditional route with “Too Young to Go Steady,” written by Jimmy McHugh and first released by Nat King Cole in 1956. It’s a piece Howeiler learned in high school, and an intentional bookend to her experience in organized school jazz. Howeiler will wear several hats during “Too Young to Go Steady:” pianist, soloist and singer, all while leading the band. If that’s not enough, she also arranged the piece.
The most striking piece of the night might be Daniel Seo Tu’18’s rendition of Herbie Hancock’s “I Thought It Was You.” It will feature him playing the vocoder, which adjusts a vocalist’s voice as autotune does. Normally the player adjusts his tone with a keyboard as a controller, but Seo will be using an electronic wind instrument, or EWI. For Seo, the piece is not only a tribute to Hancock, whom he cites as the inspiration for picking up the vocoder in the first place, but also the song, which was groundbreaking in its use of the vocoder in jazz. Indeed, the ent ire concert will be different from the typical Barbary Coast concert, as it will feature a smaller ensemble but a greater variety and number of pieces. Playing more pieces, ensemble members have less time to rehearse each one. But because smaller musician groups tend to learn quicker and sound better faster, they only required four short rehearsals during the term. And seniors have far greater agency in t heir musica l and performance choices — in a typical concert, Howeiler would not be singing nor would Seo be playing the vocoder. The audience on Saturday can expect a unique mix
of virtuoso playing and individual experimentation. Many of the pieces in the concert will sound quite different from their original versions. Howeiler reharmonized her arrangement of “Too Young to Go Steady” to be played by five horns: two tenor saxophones, alto sax, trumpet and trombone. Even though she wrote the parts for member she handpicked from the band, “I had to tell the musicians how to play and what I was hearing in my head, because they were reading the notes and interpreting it differently than I had imagined.” Seo also did some arrangement to modify the Herbie Hancock original, reharmonizing it to fit a five-piece horn section. Howeiler and Seo open the piece in a pianosaxophone duet, but Seo soon switches to the vocoder and adds a EWI solo that Hancock couldn’t have dreamed of. “It’s Oh So Quiet,” Sands’s selection, has come a long way since its orgin in the 1940s. It began as a German song, “Und jetzt ist es still,” and a 1951 Betty Hutton cover added English lyrics. When Björk, mostly known for her electronic music, released a big-band cover in 1995, the track shot up the charts. Bynum
tracked down a transcription from a German composer, and the sheet music arrived the day of Sands’s first rehearsal. Saturday’s concert marks the end of Bynum’s first year at the head of the Coast, and he has already made his presence felt. While Glasgo favored funk and Latin jazz, Bynum began his first year with a fall concert of traditional favorites like Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk before bringing in some of his own collaborators for a contemporary winter show. For Howeiler, the arrival of Bynum has been transformative. “He’s so big in the avant-garde jazz scene and the creative music world that he’s opened up a whole new understanding for me of what I can play as a pianist,” Howeiler said. “I’m a completely different player than I was before he arrived.” Sands, primarily a rock singer before joining the Coast this year, will be performing a senior feature after just one year with the group. “It makes it really sad for me to leave because I’ve learned so much in this one year,” she said. “I realized jazz is a lot harder than I ever imagined, but it’s made me so much of a better vocalist.”
Weekend Picks Three things you should see this weekend
+dance
+film
“Melaza”
“Don’t Call Me Son”
Friday, 6 p.m. at Collis Common Ground
Sunday, 4 p.m. at Moore Hall
Boston-based dance theater company Danza Orgánica brings its newest work to Dartmouth today. “Melaza” (Molasses) is a piece that examines the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. The piece is danced not only to music, but also to poetry and other media, including a news broadcast of a 1954 shooting by Puerto Rican activists in Washington, D.C. Danza Orgánica first performed Melaza in October 2017, just a few weeks after Hurricane Maria brought devastating flooding and power outages to the island, and the group dedicated the first performance to the storm’s survivors. Since then, the group has added new scenes exploring Puerto Ricans’ emotional response to Maria. -Evan Morgan
Brazilian indie film “Don’t Call Me Son” (Mãe só há uma) showed at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival but didn’t generate much buzz stateside. Don’t let the lack of fanfare stop you from seeing it this weekend. Main character Pierre is an androgynous teenager who drifts between male and female appearances. His life gets more complicated when he learns that the woman he thought was his mother actually stole him at birth. Pierre’s upper-class birth parents are eager to take him back until they learn about his androgyny. The film boldly crosses two big ideas, gender and parentage, and lets their interplay carry it forward. The Portuguese dialogue is subtitled in English. -Evan Morgan
+event An Evening with David Harbour ’97 Sunday, 7 p.m. at the Hopkins Center for the Arts
Chief Jim Hopper — er, David Harbour ’97 — is stepping out of sleepy Hawkins, Indiana to make an appearance at his alma mater. Square-jawed, broad-shouldered Harbour made his Broadway debut two years after he graduated from Dartmouth and was nominated for a Tony in the 2005 revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” He moved to television with appearances on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” but was not a household name until the Netflix original “Stranger Things” became a smash hit. His portrayal of the stoic but big-hearted Hopper earned him Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations. At the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Sunday, Harbour will discuss his twenty-year career in film, television and theatre and his upcoming role as the star of 2019’s “Hellboy.” -Evan Morgan
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and that’s when I started looking more at Dartmouth myself. I was Micah Schroder ’20, second able to visit campus for the first time baseman for the softball team, my freshman year for a camp, and I was named to the All-Ivy second really enjoyed the atmosphere. The team after a stellar season. She community was really welcoming. was one of several members of the That first time I stepped on campus I softball team honored by the Ivy felt really at home, and I knew it was League. The team went 16-5 in the a place I really wanted to be at for Ivy League in the my four years regular season to of college secure first in the “I realized this year regardless Ivy League, and that you can’t always of whether I will host Harvard played softball be perfect, and you University in or not. the Ivy League just have to let certain Ch a m p io ns hip h a t plays go and move on.” W Series this has your u p c o m i n g experience weekend. been like - MICAH SCHRODER ’20 with the How did softball yo u b e c o m e team? involved in MS: It’s softball? been a really MS: I originally played volleyball rewarding experience. Our coach and my sister, who was a year older, tries to emphasize that the program had played softball until she was six. not only develops better players but When I turned nine, she still liked also better people. During the short the sport and I thought I’d give it a time I’ve been in the program, I’ve shot since volleyball was getting kind definitely become a better person, of old. So I was kind of following and I’m really thankful for that. her footsteps. That’s been the most rewarding thing about being on this team. W h a t m a d e yo u c h o o s e Dartmouth? How would you summarize MS: I had a friend looking at the season? Dartmouth back in eighth grade, MS: We’ve been really resilient The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Micah Schroder had a strong season her sophomore year, earning All-Ivy second team honors.
and hard-working. We didn’t have the best start to the season, but we didn’t get down on ourselves. Even with some of the series in the Ivies, we remained really resilient and would chip away even when we were down. We’ve been working hard during practice, and it’s really paid off this season. What’s the feeling like winning Ivies? MS: We’re really excited. But we don’t want to be co-champions of the year, we want to be the champions. Right now, we’re still taking it one game at a time. We want to deal with Harvard first before celebrating.
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The Big Green softball team had a stellar season, finishing first in the Ivy League with a conference record of 16-5.
What’s the team mindset going into Harvard? MS: We have a little payback to give to Harvard for losing the series earlier on in the season, which will definitely help during the series. It’s definitely still one pitch at a time, one inning at a time.
What’s overall team chemistry like? MS: We have a new leadership structure this year that’s been working really well, like a tiered structure. That dictates a lot of team chemistry. What’s unique about our team is that everyone genuinely enjoys being around each other, whether we’re playing softball or not. We all love each other and care about each other, and are always looking out for each other on and off the field. We are truly a family and carry that throughout our everyday life. What’s your favorite moment of the season? MS: My favorite moment of the season was beating [the University of New Hampshire] not only once, but twice. That was a really defining moment for the team and the season. We’ve been really resilient, and having the rough start we had, beating UNH out of spring break really just spoke about just how much will we had on the team. That also spoke to the fact that it’s not just
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one player who has had a defining moment, but it’s the whole team who has worked together to have a good season. How have you grown as a softball player from freshman year to sophomore year? MS: My mindset has grown. During freshman year, I was really trying to adjust to a different speed and really trying to be perfect. I realized this year that you can’t always be perfect, and you just have let certain plays go and move on. It’s been more of a mindset change than a technique change for me. W hat are your goals or expectations for next year? MS: Team goal is always to win a title. We have a good program and are humble, but we expect to win Ivies each year. Being gritty is always another main focus, not letting anything defeat us. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.