Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2011-2012 Student Newspapers 2-20-2012 College Voice Vol. 95 No. 13 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2011_2012 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 95 No. 13" (2012). 2011-2012. 7. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2011_2012/7 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2011-2012 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 VOlLVv\E XCI ' ~SUE 13 Raja Kelly '09 stars as Sly Slone in Dance Department Chair David Dorfman's Prophets of Funk. David Dorfman Talks Disco, Prophets and Sly Stone dergraduate degree in business from MELANIE THIBEAULT valved in retail management. I was dissuade me, touting the difficulties of adjudicator for my master's thesis, and ARTS EDITOR Washington University in St. Louis. an assistant buyer, an assistant depart- surviving in the field. she invited me to join her company af- My junior year of college, 1 spent a ment manager, and then I was Involved CY: So what did you do? ter I graduated. 1 danced with her for Dance professor David Dorfman year away at the University of Illinois, in management consulting. But what DD: I listened politely and I asked three years. Iimmediately went on tour has been busy this past year, touring which is where I took my first dance really made me happy, satisfied and when Icould meet her in person. Since to Hong Kong with her; that was my with his company, David Dorfman class. It was the second semester, and motivated was the dancing I was do- I still so badly wanted to do it, I au- first big trip. I spent a number of years Dance, and premiering their latest I finally got the courage to take a very ing. I like to call them my wondering ditioned with Myers in Milwaukee. with the wonderful Susan Marshall's show Prophets of Funk, a tribute to beginning level class, and 1 loved it. and wandering years. She invited me to Conn as a part-time company as well. When an opportuni- the great funk/soul band Sly and the When I returned to Wash U to gradu- During that time I met Stuart Pimsler, graduate student. I did a summer study ty for alums to come back to Conn oc- Family Stone. Recently, the company ate: I got involved in productions a newly minted MFA from Conn, when at Conn in '79 and studied everything curred, that got me reinvigorated about performed at the Joyce Theater in New there. After graduating, I danced as he came with his dance partner to I could. reuniting with an important my own choreography. I brought a York to critical acclaim and five full much as I could. I would jump in my Wash U as a guest artist. I got to know mentor, the late Daniel Nagrin. It was piece here and never looked back. In houses - the last two shows were car after work, and at class take off my him, and found out that Martha My- just fantastic. It just worked out. I'm 1985, I formed my company, David sold-out. Dorfman, who received his business suit and put on leotards and ers, the dean of the American Dance one that perseveres. And to this day, Dorfman Dance. In '86, I got my first MFA in dance from Connecticut Col- tights, dance attire that I wouldn't be Festival for many years and the head Martha and I are great buddies. grant from the New York Foundation lege in 1981, talks about his past, pres- caught dead in now. of the Dance Department at Conn, had CY: Where did you go after you re- for the Arts. it gave me a boost, some ent and future in the world of dance. CY: What did you do in the time placed him on his new path. He said, ceived your MFA? forward momentum. In the mid-90s, I Wo..__ ...... College Voice: When did you begin between graduating from Washington "David, if you're serious about dance DD: I didn't tell anyone I had an worked as a guest artist at Conn for the a cingT ......... University and beginning Connecticut YOO:41h6fIlrh'irljtlt'1i4arfha,~I aid that 'MF: unn aDout fi·veyears after. !felt first time. David Dorfman: I received my un- College? right away. I reached her by phone and I needed New York training. I had in- CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 DD: In those two years, I was in- she tried everything in her power to vited choreographer Kei Takei to be an Peckin' on Kodak's CONNECTICUTD~OLLEGE . (X. New London Nostalgia bankruptcy. The monetary illnesses for Ko- IPEK BAKIR How could Kodak be dying? Do dak started in the late 1990s. The MANAGING EDITOR we still not take photography class- company failed to recognize that Kodak is going through one of es where we learn to develop film? brand loyalty was not an everlast- the more upsetting demises that the Are we not still buying film cam- ing feeling for its consumers. The corporate world has ever witnessed. eras to look artsy? Are we not using company has been called out as the Founded in 1880, the company the phrase "Kodak moments" any "twentieth century corporate dino- Eastman Kodak has played a pivot- more? Kodak's issues are business- saur" by a number of commenta- al role in popularizing photography centric, not affecting the culture and tors. It has been great at innovation throughout the entire world. technology that it has provided. The but laggard at translating such ideas After tackling extreme economic reason for the company's direction into enduring business ventures. hardship for over a decade, Kodak toward bankruptcy is not because CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 filed for bankruptcy protection. of failure to maintain its popular- The company announced that it ity, but rather due to bad business will stop produc- choices. why is Conn's relationship with New ing both digital HEATHER HOLMES London so radically different from the cameras and STAFF WRITER Coast Guard's? pocket vid- The day I came back to Conn from Back in 1909, Wesleyan officially closed eo cameras, winter vacation, I noticed a sign in the its doors to female students. Two years reserving its window of a house on Williams Street later, Connecticut College was founded remaining that read in splashy font, "New London in part as a response to Wesleyan's act of capital for Loves USCG." 1 couldn't help it-a huge exclusion; now, 101 years later, the college produc- smile broke across my face. Something continues to expand and improve what ing print- about that poster felt so right. I looked began as Connecticut College for Women ers, inkjet it up and learned that the New London in 1911. The story of the birth of Conn devices City Center District spearheaded the College is nothing short of miraculous- and online United States Coast Guard (USCG)- according to Conn's website, "The state services. It is appreciation movement, which began in required a $100,000 investment from the also looking January and culminated, appropriately, city to ensure that the proposal would to license its on Valentine's Day. Connecticut College succeed. And the city had to deliver in ten brand name and the Coast Guard Academy are such days. and line of different institutions that, to a certain CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 products in extent, it doesn't make sense to compare order to sur- them. Still, the gesture got me thinking: vive through NEWS OPINIONS ARTS SPORTS Go gic Men's Hockey Wrap-Up Gooq'es New Privacy 3 Oborno's Contraception 6 Oscar Predictions 8 11 Policy Controversy *t- 2 Editorials FEBRUARY 20, 2012 THE COLLEGE VOICE . THE COLLEGE VOICE "The views and opinions cxpres~ in The College Voice are strictly those of stu- . .Editorials 0 denl aulbors, and not of Co_ut College. All content and editorial decisions remain in the hands of the students; neither the College's administtation nor its On February 81h I saw the sun rise. It had been a long beneficial for two reasons. For one, you're actually doing faculty exercise control over the content," time since I had seen the psychedelic mixture of blue, or- something to better the environment of Connecticut College ange and purple splattered on the sky. I woke like a zombie rather than being cooped up in a room having statistics Editor-in-Chief and threw on a flannel shirt and corduroys, shoving trail Ihrown al you. While educating students on the dangers Jazmine Hughes mix down my throat for some quick sustenance. The time and realities of alcohol consumption is definitely necessary, was around 6:45. Route 32 wasn't buzzing like the petro- somehow instruments like "Choices" fail to constructivelx, Managing Editor Creative Directors leum stampede that I'm used to, and I hopped the concrete address the problem. Plus, more than half of the trash tha(I dividers 10 campus and made my way to Physical Plant. I picked up was alcohol-related. Cleaning up after othe~s nUiy lpek Bakir Ayano Elson had two hours of service to complete after being written up make you think twice before draining a fifth and s~~hllllt° at the end of first semester, and February 8th was the last it on the ground or casually tossing a solo cup into a bUs.~ David Shanfield day I could complete it without receiving a harsher punish- And two, it forces one to take a deeper look at how tll1s .