DoPE

Another of the new additions to the campus, along with SaFL, the Wall Street Club, and the Ultimate Frisbee Team. DoPE is one of the newest departments on campus, and is important because the department is in charge of pro-shows during fests, which can make or break a fest.

DoPE was formed officially after ATMOS but worked during ATMOS too.Their inductions process consisted of two rounds, an interview round along with a second round in which inductees had to come up with ideas for pro-shows for a fest. This helped in preparing them for the actual work lying ahead. This year, so far, DoPE had two sets of inductions for the 2017 batch – one before ATMOS, and another series of inductions after ATMOS, which saw a lot of interest amongst freshers. The results, however, showed that inductions into DoPE were quite selective, as only ten students had been inducted in total from the 2017 batch, while more than a hundred interested students turned up for inductions.

This ATMOS they were able to bring a leading Indian band, The Local Train, as well Rahul Subramanian, an upcoming comedian to our campus. For ARENA, the proshow was Candice Redding, which received a mixed response in campus. However recruiting artists for pro-shows forms only a part of their work – it is their responsibility, also, to arrange for the travel, stay, hospitality and the special needs of the artists. Now that ATMOS and ARENA are done and dusted, their work for Pearl is cut out for them. They’ve been working at it since November aiming to make the fest a huge success. The rest of the campus, however, is still in the dark – who are the artists? Is the contribution we made from our mess accounts going to give us a better pro-show this year? The answer to these questions will have to wait, till we find out more!

Article by Shreyam Kumar & Sandeep Jimmy