Spotlight: Can’t Sell Culture offers a new type of campus comedy
As Can’t Sell Culture nears its second full year on campus, its founders prepare to pass the torch of club leadership on to the next generation.
As Can’t Sell Culture nears its second full year on campus, its founders prepare to pass the torch of club leadership on to the next generation.
Co-captains Margot Luria ’24 and Rachel Freer ’24 discuss the transition of the Big Green equestrian’s competition format and their goals for their final riding season.
Abiuso’s new album “A Day is the Worst Segmentation of Time” offers a deep-dive into a variety of themes, including religion, death and nostalgia.
Bringing together musicians from diverse backgrounds, the student band has created a unique, joyful sound passed down with each new generation of members.
Flynn has pioneered a solo career that builds on his background as a music major and performer in a campus band.
Haughey’s most recent song “Sorry” surpassed 500,000 listens on the streaming platform.
Since its formation in 19S, the band has seen itself transition from a brand new cover band to a well-established musical presence on campus.
For the past year, McGovern has worked with National Geographic to study the impact of social media on wildlife conservation.
Children all over the country have been stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of them might not fully understand the reasoning for this quarantine. While this virus might seem daunting to explain for some, Hannah Margolis ’20 saw the pandemic as an exciting opportunity for science education.
While many people disregard old objects, Mary Pedicini ’19 finds a new meaning for them through her sculptures. As one of five interns selected by the studio art department, she has spent the past year working as a teaching assistant and helping faculty prepare for classes. From her life-size honors thesis project to her philosophical exhibition at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Pedicini has developed a distinct style of creating sculptures out of found objects during her time at Dartmouth.
Nicholas Gutierrez ’20 is involved in anything and everything creative at Dartmouth. Gutierrez, a native of Miami, FL, is a playwright, actor, film projectionist, opera singer and leader. As a film and theater modified with anthropology and geography double major with a minor in linguistics, his passion for pursing diverse interests goes beyond his extensive extracurricular involvements. In his work as a playwright, Gutierrez has staged two of his plays with the theater department. He is also acting in the theater department’s fall mainstage production of “The Living” and is a singer with the Dartmouth Opera Lab.
When someone mentions the word “pink,” what images come to mind? Maybe you picture a little baby girl in her light-pink nursery, pink-frosted gender-reveal cakes or the new millennial pink that covers dorm rooms and stores across the country. Whatever you think of, it is most likely related to girls and traditional femininity.
Maybe you have seen her give a tour of her dorm on YouTube or heard about her stint on the red carpet of the Video Music Awards this summer. Joelle Park ’19, who is in her final term at Dartmouth, is by all accounts zealous and innovative — founding and maintaining her own Youtube channel titled “Joelle,” which has over seven thousand subscribers, is just the start.
For Stephanie Everett ’19, her career on stage far predates her recent roles in the Dartmouth productions of “Eclipsed” and “Into the Woods.” Rather, it dates back to her fourth-grade talent show, in which she and four other girls performed “Hard Knock Life” from “Annie” complete with props and choreography. According to Everett, her passion for theater grew from that day on; she participated in musicals throughout middle school and high school, where she said she found a serious program with a dedicated teacher.
Kelleen Moriarty ’19, the student director for the upcoming production of “The Glass Menagerie,” has been involved in theater since she was in middle school. According to Moriarty, when she first came to Dartmouth, she knew that she wanted to major in theater and eventually pursue it professionally, since theater was “the one thing” in her life she was “very sure” of.
Hannah Matheson ‘18 is one of the few students who came to Dartmouth knowing already what she deeply cared about.
For a leader, it can often be difficult to strike a balance between pushing group members toward growth and making everyone feel motivated and supported.
After spending four years packing schedules with advanced classes, extracurricular activities, volunteering and other application-boosting obligations, most undergraduate students enter college and begin to specialize, dropping wide-ranging affairs in order to hone pet passions.