The Bark March Print

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BULLDOG OF THE MONTH: ANNIE COUNIHAN FIGHTING BACK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE | PG. 4 ALBUM OF THE MONTH: RYAN BEATTY “DREAMING OF DAVID” | PG. 6 M ARCH MADNESS: BARK BRACKET | PG. 11

LETTER FROM THE BARK As an organization, we would like to adress the importance of women in our daily operations. This year, we are mostly volunteer-based, with a staff consisting of more than 50 percent women. And those who are not volunteers are our leaders, which is made up of 80 percent women this semester.

We would like to personally thank each and every one of them for their hard work and dedication, including the women that sit on our Board of Publications.

However, although we would be nowhere without these particular women, we would also like to thank YOU, our female readers, who have also contributed a great deal to this organization by living lives worth writing about. Thank you for your continued support and contributions! We hope to continue to aid the societal progression toward gender equity.

Regards, The Bark

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Bulldog of the Month: Annie Counihan Fighting Back Against Sexual Violence

March Madness: Bark Bracket

06 Album of the Month: Ryan Beatty “Dreaming of David”

08 Embracing Winter in Duluth: A Photo Essay

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THE STREETS OF VIETNAM. PHOTO BY JOHN HATCHER

Editor’s Note: This month’s Bulldog of the Month was chosen prior to the announcement of the UMD Student Association’s presidential and vice presidential candidates.

This is not an endorsement for Annie Counihan as vice president.

BULLDOG OF THE MONTH: ANNIE COUNIHAN FIGHTING BACK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE a survivor of sexual assault, I happen to be a lot more passionate about that

assault and violence, she hosted an event on Jan. 30 called “Shatter

By Brianna Taggart Spreading awareness on sexual violence and the struggles of immigration are just two of the things UMD sophomore and 19-year-old Annie Counihan is passionate about.

With a double major in both political science and Hispanic studies and a minor in environment, sustainability and geography, Counihan is dedicated to promoting social justice. She is also the chief student life officer of Student Association and treasurer of Pre-Law Club here on campus.

“I’m just super passionate about social justice and women’s rights and being

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“This was one of the coolest parts for me so far.”

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than I am other things,” Counihan said.

To engage with UMD students about sexual

the Silence on Sexual Violence.” That campaign was about how to hold your friends accountable, and they had a speaker

from Men As Peacemakers, an organization in Duluth that aims to end violence against women and children.

“My main goal for that was to spread awareness about resources and how to be an ally and an advocate,” Counihan said. “I think it was a really good turnout.

It was super fun.”

The event was so successful that Counihan and her event was featured in the Star Tribune. Sexual assault survivors also ended up reaching out to her about it.

“That was one of the coolest parts about this for me so far,” Counihan said.

“I wasn’t expecting it to be that much of a statement.

After the article in the Star Tribune, people reached out and said ‘this is so brave’ and ‘thank you so much’ and it was just super eye opening, because I

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didn’t do it to be brave. I didn’t think of the positive repercussions from this and it was just super cool.”

Her social justice plans don’t end when college does, though. After she gets her undergraduate degree, Counihan hopes to become an immigration lawyer.

Counihan is planning another event and is currently collaborating with the yoga club for it. It will focus on healing and trauma.

“I’m super passionate about justice and immigration reform,” Counihan said.

“It’s a yoga session for survivors of sexual assault as a healing mechanism and how to take control of your body again and using yoga as a means to cope and heal,” Counihan said.

Her love for this continued to grow as she had the opportunity to intern for an immigration law firm in St. Paul last summer.

“And, that completely opened my eyes and like that’s what I want to do for sure,” Counihan continued.

There’s not a date for the event yet, since planning for it just began in the end of February.

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ALBUM OF THE MONTH: RYAN BEATTY - “DREAMING OF DAVID”

By Andy Wolfe You know you’re setting out to review a good album when you can’t write a word. Thoughts are constantly arrested by unexpected musical twists and turns, demanding closer listening, less writing. Such is the case while listening to Ryan Beatty, a 24 year old who sings with an angelic voice that easily ices up onto treble and tenor plains, gliding sweetly across dreamy digital cloudscapes. But that description does not do this music justice, and it’s difficult to find comparable songs or artists in the pop world to use as touch points of description.

This is Beatty’s second full album since coming out in 2016 at the age of 20, following the mass shooting inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, . Prior to that, Disney had hoped to make him their next Bieber, a baby-faced popular music poster boy. Thank god Beatty decided to follow a path of integrity with so much more depth. That he had enough talent to plot his own course without a giant corporate mogul was evident on his first full

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length LP “Boy in Jeans,” but “Dreaming of David” hangs together even more artfully, a full conceptual look at the pulls, pleasure and pains of love and longing.

It’s music that feels like a drug, absolutely intoxicating.

And the lyrics reveal a humanness, a yearning, lusting, and desperation. Amidst all the surrealism, Beatty still reveals moments of precise things and places (like the pool, an iPhone speaker, the hotel lobby, a casino, or walking the woods with his father). He writes in fragments of thoughts that, when woven together, create his “patchwork” of underwater, refracted-light music. It’s maybe a perfect blend of abstract and concrete - a daydream of flesh and love - weakness and wonderment.

“Flowers at the Door” evokes a Harry Styles song, with its keyboard intro and lines of love desperation, like “Our heads connected, I got the message/You had your hands around my skull,” and “I look up to you when I’m below,” but he sings higher and prettier than Styles. The fact that he can evoke the voice of a pop star, then just as easily slip into an auto-tuned, higher register, pleading “why don’t you turn me around?” above only an electric piano speaks to a

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talent far above his young years.

Beatty also takes risks in almost every song.

“Evergreen,” a standout track, launches with some subtle auto-tuned scatting and “It was seven or so ‘cause the daylight was over/You got out of the robe and into the water,” grounds the album in specificity of time and place. It’s also a contrast to so many other surrealistic and figurative lines that pervade the rest of the album. It’s one of the most accessible songs arriving halfway through the album at what could be the end of the first side. There’s desperation within the refrain “If there’s nothing else around the corner.” But

Beatty cleverly interrupts it with the singular line “We can meet up right where we left off,” providing a tension in a mundane relationship between the “tethered” bond and the fragility of the greener-onthe-other-side feelings of lust and boredom. What was once “Evergreen” in the love combusts into “Now we’re just on fire.”

What sets this song above most other pop songs that also speak to doubt or the pull of lust within an otherwise comfortable relationship is Beatty and his producers’ musical choices: it starts with more repetitive bass than anything else on the album, mimicking the concept of

a deep-rooted, routine relationship. Then the bottom drops out at 2:18 as Beatty sings the chorus, practically acapella over a digital drone, simulating a moment of pause and fear.

Then at 2:44 he sings in an auto-tuned, deeper voice simultaneously with his high scatting voice over a skittering drum-and-bass that delivers an unnerving, frenetic sense of sliding off a cliff. From safe-andsound (“way too familiar”) to panic in three minutes and 44 seconds. It’s a trip!

So, yeah, I just listened to that song six times while writing those last two paragraphs - and it never got old!

If you’re an album listener and have 42 minutes to spare, or want some sweet background music while you’re studying, this is your

next headphones album, filled with songs of artistry that float along like the “dream” of the title. The drones and beats never outstay their welcome; rather like water slipping naturally down a stream, they slide around pebble beats, gurgling strums, and under-surface organs; and Beatty’s longing, easing voice - the most arresting instrument on the album - reflects off the instrumental waters with enough shimmer to leave any listener in repeat mode.

Andy Wolfe UMD Alum Andy is a UMD alum and an English / Journalism teacher at Superior High School. Aside from teaching, Andy is an avid music listener, writer and outdoorsman.

EMBRACING WINTER IN DULUTH:

By Madison Hunter

A PHOTO ESSAY

Winter in Duluth can be brutal, but also beautiful. I decided to take photos which embrace that. I trekked into the cold to Enger, Brighton Beach, Canal Park, and a little bit further to Gooseberry Falls. Duluth has a lot of beauty to share, and it is an amazing place to live, even in the cold.

This photo taken at Enger Tower, gives an amazing aerial view of Duluth.

On Brighton Beach, the waves crash on the shore freezing into beautiful ice formations. On sunny days the light reflects off the ice and water, leading to a stunning view.

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In this photo, a couple takes a stroll through Canal Park.

Duluth has many gorgeous urban and nature places to take a walk or hike.

Even dogs who live in Duluth love winter!

A stunning view of one of the falls at Gooseberry. Ice and snow make art themselves, and it is amazing to capture.

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