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Three new staff members have joined the Office of Pluralism and Leadership in the past month , filling vacancies created by several recent resignations, including the departure of firstgeneration students advisor Karlos Santos-Coy on Sept. 4. The office also saw some restructuring this summer, reabsorbing the Center for Gender and Student Engagement. Alysson Satterlund left the College on July 11, and CGSE director Reese Kelly — who began in the CGSE SEE OPAL PAGE 2
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Dartmouth has adjusted its financial administration structure to better suit College President Phil Hanlon’s academic agenda, appointing Michael Wagner chief financial officer. Wagner will fill this role and continue as vice president for finance, reporting to executive vice president and former CFO Richard Mills. Considering Dartmouth’s $1 billion operating budget for 2014-15, Provost Carolyn Dever’s arrival and Hanlon’s vision, College leaders decided to separate chief financial officer responsibilities from the operating role of executive vice president, Mills said. Wagner said the change will allow Mills to focus on special initiatives while he focuses on financial challenges and opportunities. “Then as a team we can help folks make decisions,” he said. Chief investment officer Pamela Peedin, whose office works with the finance team to understand Dartmouth’s financial risk profile and implications for investment strategy, wrote in an email
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The student handbook now specifies sexual harassment, stalking and dating violence as kinds of sexual misconduct that threaten the well being both of students and the College as a whole. These adjustments to the handbook’s language, announced Monday afternoon in a campuswide email from interim Dean of the College IngeLise Ameer, reflect the judicial affairs office’s yearlong effort to institute a stronger
sexual assault policy at the College. The office, for merly called undergraduate judicial affairs, dropped “undergraduate” from its name this summer to demonstrate that graduate students are also protected under the new sexual misconduct policy, which took effect in June, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. While previously, the standards of conduct did not refer specifically to sexual harassment, stalking or dating SEE JUDICIAL PAGE 5
This week, 113 freshmen applied for 25 spots in the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program. They will join more than 50 participants living in the Global Village, a new livinglearning community that will introduce a residential component to the program. Great Issues Scholars, founded in 2009, is a yearlong program designed for first-years with an interest in global affairs. A donation allowed the program, which previously accepted 50 students, to double in size last
year. More than 200 students applied for last year’s 100 spots. Based on feedback from students and mentors participating in the program, coordinators decided to decrease the size of the program to around 75 freshmen, student programs manager Casey Aldrich said. The large size of last year’s program meant that the group split into two sections. With fewer students, the program will not be divided, which Aldrich said will increase the sense of community among participants. The Great Issues Scholars program will collaborate with
the Global Village, a new living-learning community. Around two-thirds of this year’s Great Issue Scholars applied for the Global Village, which is housed in the McLaughlin cluster. The community, which also contains language floors for upperclassmen, is home to around 160 students, Aldrich said. Sharidan Russell ’18 learned about the program when filling out her housing application. She decided to apply because of her interest in the Middle East and her travels to Israel and the West Bank. SEE GIS PAGE 3
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Late last month, Economics professor David Blanchflower published an article in the Times of Higher Education claiming that most Dartmouth students end up in “pre-med, pre-law and pre-wealth” majors. He writes that students understand the earning power associated with various degrees, and are choosing to major in subjects that will help them make the most of an expensive college education. Tell me briefly what you hoped people would take away. DB: I think what we’re seeing is students basically talking with their feet and making market-driven responses to the large fees that they’re having to pay. Obviously, they’re looking at returns to their investments and what’s basically happened is that they essentially have moved to places that will give them the best return. I essentially say that roughly two-thirds of all Dartmouth students are either in a pre-wealth major, as I call it, a pre-law major, or are pre-med. And those trends have been going on for the 25 years that I’ve been here, but mostly in the last decade or so, and especially since the big recession hit. Should we be concerned that students seem to be “following the money”? DB: In a sense what I say in the article is that that obviously makes sense. They’re still doing a liberal arts education because obviously there are distributive requirements and so on. But obviously the problem is that if students return in the short term an institution is stuck with its resources allocated in perhaps the wrong places. So obviously what you see is the economics department has the same number of majors as all of the humanities division — I think that’s true in the 2014 data. But the humanities division has five-and-a half times as many faculty. If you look at what economics students that are taught, there’s a little bit more of a distribution, but it’s about three-and-a half times as many students. So still the staff are allocated in some ways in the wrong places, so you have to say, well what should the institution do for that reason? Should we assume this is just a temporary thing? The answer is, well, no, because this has been going on for the 25 years I’ve been here. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. A fuller version is available online. — Compiled by Taylor Malmsheimer
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Three new staff members join OPAL FROM OPAL PAGE 1
position after the departure of Kyle Ashlee earlier this year — stepped in as interim OPAL director. CGSE, founded in 1988 as a part of OPAL, branched off several years ago as part of an initiative to connect CGSE with the women and gender studies department. Kelly said merging back into OPAL is appropriate because his previous role as an LGBTQ advisor in OPAL overlapped with work done by the CGSE, and associate Dean of the College Liz Agosto said the shift came from a desire to “honor students’ multiple identities” by improving cohesion and creating a place to explore intersecting identities. Though it is now part of OPAL, CGSE will retain its physical location in the Choates cluster, Kelly said, which students call a “retreat” from campus life. As of Sept. 15, OPAL has filled all vacant positions with interim or permanent staff, Kelly said. Community and student program coordinator Jeremy Guardiola ’12, who will temporarily cover Santos-Coy’s responsibilities, joined OPAL on Monday, Kelly said. Guardiola served as a presidential fellow in the Dean of the College office, according to his LinkedIn profile. Dia Draper, an associate director for the Tuck School of Business’s strategic initiatives, has filled the vacancy left by former advisor to black students T. M. Mosley, who departed in early July. Shiella Cervantes, a former pan-Asian American community house director at the University of Pennsylvania, replaced interim advisor to pan-Asian students Edward Kim on Aug. 25. Kim began in the spring, following the departure of former assistant dean Aeriel Ashlee, who left for medical reasons. Agosto, who began overseeing OPAL this summer, said recent departures made staffing a top priority, as the office wanted to ensure there was “no lag in support” for students. Noting that she could not speak to others’ experiences, Agosto said
that OPAL does “really high touch and often emotional and draining” work, which could contribute to staff turnover. Former advisors left to pursue other work opportunities and attend to family matters, she said. Students often expect OPAL advisors to resolve questions about faculty retention, undocumented status and other concerns, Agosto wrote in an email, adding that this can be challenging for staff members, who do not directly control Dartmouth policy. Before launching a director
“I’m trying not to dwell on the fact that so many people have left but to show people the resources that are on campus and available.” - bennie niles ’15, former opal black student advising intern search, Agosto said staff will reevaluate the office’s structure. “The staff is helping students understand the ways to make change, empowering students, engaging with them and asking and challenging them to think about what social justice and movements look like,” Agosto said. “That’s what the staff is invested in, and we want to allow them to do that work.” Kelly said that no programming has been affected by the staff turnover, adding that he did not believe merging OPAL and CGSE this summer impacted the office’s “foot traffic.” The turnover led to uncertainty among students, said Afro-American society president Bennie Niles ’15, a former OPAL black student advising intern and co-director of the Inter-Community Council. Niles said that the departures surprised and upset many students
who have built and fostered relationships with OPAL staff. Niles said that Draper’s hiring and his interactions with her have created “a better sense of community.” OPAL staff, Niles said, are asked to do an immense amount of work, and he said he believes the College could do more to support them. “I’m trying to rally the troops, so to speak, and to show other people in the community that people are still here and they do care,” Niles said. “I’m trying not to dwell on the fact that so many people have left, but to show people the resources that are on campus and available.” OPAL’s remaining advisors include Latino student advisor Rodrigo Ramirez who began in March 2011, Native American program director Kapi’olani Laronal, who began in September 2013, and international student advisor Steve Silver, who began in 1999. Agosto added that retention and recruitment across the College is a priority for senior leadership and that conversations around the issue should and will continue. This year’s staff and structural changes follow several years of high turnover in OPAL. In early 2011, former advisor to black students, interim center for women and gender director and acting OPAL director Samantha Ivery announced her resignation. Following Ivery’s departure that June, Pam Misener, advisor to LGBTQ students, became the interim OPAL director and later chose not to seek the permanent position. Satterlund became director in February 2012. Also in 2012, at the same time Mosley was hired, Aeriel Ashlee filled a position left vacant by former pan-Asian advisor Nora Yasumura. According to a job posting on LinkedIn, the College is seeking a coordinator for CGSE. The College is also seeking applicants for two new positions, one focusing on LGBTQ issues, the other on Native American programming, Agosto said. Cervantes and Laronal did not respond to requests for comment. Ramirez and Silver referred requests to Kelly.
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Financial team shifts job responsibilities FROM WAGNER PAGE 1
that dividing responsibilities to give each position a more specific focus makes sense because of the demands of each role. The CFO plans and executes Dartmouth’s fi nancial planning, budgeting, treasury, reporting and operations activities while collaborating with academic and administrative leaders involved in financial planning, organization and policy matters, namely the president, provost and Board of Trustees. Currently, the College’s financial leadership team is working on planning the fiscal year 2015 budget, Wagner said. He said he also aims to communicate with the community about Dartmouth’s financial constraints and opportunities to meet student, faculty and alumni needs. The financial administrative team is focusing on simplifying their processes as well as making their business operations more efficient, he said. “That includes creating new technology tools, simplifying our policy, improving our processes, so we’re constantly looking for opportunities to do those things,” Wagner
said. New technology includes electronic time management, tools for financial modeling and budgeting, imaging of endowment documents, electronic business expense reimbursement and electronic workflow for certain forms, among others, Wagner elaborated in an email. At Dartmouth since 2001, Wagner served as the College’s comptroller and CFO of the Geisel School of Medicine before being appointed vice president for finance in 2010. He served as interim CFO of the College after former executive vice president and CFO Steven Kadish left Dartmouth for Northeastern University in 2012. “I personally think that I grew a lot through those experiences and that adding that with the combined skills that we have within our team will work really well,” he said. As CFO, his responsibilities in working with senior administrators like Hanlon and Dever will expand, Wagner said. The roles of CFO and vice president for finance are combined at many Ivy League schools — including Harvard University, Princeton University and Cornell University.
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Fall programs to focus on global health FROM GIS PAGE 1
“Being a person who’s benefiting from this program and is excited about it, I think it’s fantastic,” Russell said. “It’s a great way to try to expand Dartmouth’s identity globally. By looking to students, it’s opening up so many doors for connections students may have, for new understandings, for new programs to grow out of this.” Fellow Great Issues Scholar Peter Vo ’18 said that of the students he has met, some have had more exposure to different cultures, while others mentioned living in primarily “one-culture” neighborhoods. Whatever their backgrounds, he said, all seem to have applied to the program wanting a broader global perspective. Vo, originally from Vietnam, moved to Texas at a young age, but grew up in South Korea and has traveled extensively in East Asia. In addition to scheduled events, funding is available for scholars to develop their own, allowing them flexibility, Vo said. One student had the idea to plan a tea, where students would learn about the cultural importance and variety of the beverage, Russell said. Lindsay Salem ’18 said she is excited to share experiences with other participants and is interested
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in using the opportunity to raise money for a maternity home she has worked with in Nicaragua. “If you only live within one mindset, your life isn’t going to be that fulfilling,” Salem said. “It’s really cool meeting people from not only different countries, but different places around the U.S. who want to get the same things out of their college experience as you do.” The Great Issues Scholars program concentrates on one main theme each term, such as security, environment, health, gender and development. This fall, scholars will attend six to eight events focused on global health, including discussions with visiting speakers Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of England’s National Health Service, and former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby. “Even though we’re focusing on global health, we’ll try to get them to think about the impact that these issues have in other ways as well,” Aldrich said. The winter will bring programming on the environment, and the spring, international security. Eliza Hoffman ’17 participated in the program last year in order to stay connected to the world while at Dartmouth. “It’s easy to lose track of what’s
going on in the real world when you’re on campus, and this program was a really interesting way to fix that,” Hoffman said in an email. Vo said he is planning to form an intramural football team with other students living in the Global Village, as many students from outside of the U.S. are used to soccer, not American football. “Having a community like the Global Village is a great way to meet new people from different places, and consider how differently people think, how differently people act, and is also a great opportunity to share among them your own culture, your own customs which you love and see if you spark a common interest,” he said. Great Issues Scholars must attend a number of events each term. Although she regrets that the program will end after this year, students who meet the residence requirements are guaranteed Global Village housing for all four years, Salem said. “As the world becomes more and more connected, it is our responsibility to keep up with current events and issues, and Great Issues Scholars was a fun way to do so,” Hoffman said. Final decisions on Great Issue Scholars applications will be made by next week.
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CCAP’s dismissal shows a lack of transparency and accountability. In a May 6 job posting for a director, the the center as a mark of Dartmouth’s leadership Center for Community Action and Prevention on the issue — but this is a bogus claim. It’s a is described as a “critical element of the College’s simple repackaging of existing programs.” commitment to preventing and addressing sexual And today, still, we take issue with what can assault and other forms of sexual violence.” An- only be called a publicity stunt. But there is no nounced in February, the center was slated to open gratification in saying “I told you so” when these July 1, before its inauguration was pushed back to announcements — or lack thereof — jeopardize this fall. Now it has been abandoned altogether. student trust. When she announced CCAP, then-Dean While the College may have initially intended of the College Charlotte Johnson heralded it as to establish a separate center for the purpose of a revolutionary stand against sexual assault. It sexual assault prevention, its failure to launch must have been just coincidence, of course, that requires us to once again demand transparency this revolutionary stand arrived 20 minutes after from our administrators. We understand that she publicly acknowledged the College would want gruesome threats of rape “Dartmouth’s commitment to downplay the folding posted to Bored at Baker, to eradicating sexual of CCAP, given how it the same day the College assault should not wax has been touted these announced a 14-percent and wane with application past seven months. But drop in applications — all the College has an obligarates, media attention or amid an ongoing Title IX tion to admit uncertainty other external factors. And when plans are uncertain, investigation. In the initial press re- conversation cannot stop especially those regarding lease the center was said when television cameras student safety. to reflect Dartmouth’s leave the Green.” When The Dart“commitment to confront mouth reached out to the the national scourge of Office of Public Affairs two sexual violence on college campuses” and its weeks ago to ask when CCAP was expected to “role as a leader in developing culture-changing open, one representative was wholly unfamiliar strategies.” Announced with much less fervor this with the center. Another said that the College week was the fact that CCAP will no longer be would be resuming conversations about CCAP an independent entity but will instead be folded with students, faculty and staff “with the start of into the student health promotion and wellness the fall session,” and announcements would follow. office, along with services addressing alcohol and But this week, the very first week of classes, we drug use and mental health issues. learned that CCAP was dropped — no public If merging CCAP’s planned responsibilities announcement or promised “conversations.” As into the wellness office makes the most sense from little noise or news as possible. administrative and student support perspectives, Dartmouth’s commitment to eradicating so be it. There’s no harm in changing course. Ideas sexual assault should not wax and wane with fail all the time, but when failure follows such hype application rates, media attention or other exand fanfare, our administrators owe us a timely ternal factors. And conversations cannot stop and forthright explanation. Further avoidance when television cameras leave the Green. Once of the issue only compounds the argument that the clamor has ceased, so too do attempts at Dartmouth’s strings are pulled by external atten- coordinating progress. This perpetual stop-andtions. go “action” not only obfuscates and harms the This lack of accountability is shameful. cause — it is embarrassing and unfair to students In an editorial following the center’s announce- who expect and deserve an explanation when ment, we said, “the College’s P.R. machine pushes promises change.
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Pressure from national media makes necessary change seem contrived. As president of my coeducational fraternity I participated in Tuesday’s discussion regarding the reforms that we community leaders must bring to the Greek system. By the end of what seemed like a decisive 90 minutes, I left feeling immensely troubled. I believe the majority of Greek presidents appreciate the transparent dialogue and the responsibility we are being given to change the school from the bottom up. However, I am less sure we are actually as in control of our own destinies as administrators would like us to believe, because Dartmouth is not being honest with itself about the reasoning behind the manic call for change. Unsurprisingly, according to the assembled powers, Dartmouth has reached a pivotal tipping point. Change is imminent because the current state of affairs is inexcusable. But the message we were offered was frustrating in its irreconcilable dichotomy. On one hand, we were told to advance sweeping changes — and yet, we were constantly reminded at the meeting that the necessity for this change was largely catalyzed by concern not for the problems themselves, but for our public image. The very nature of this burden is insurmountable. Nothing we do will ever be enough because of the critical social scrutiny we receive. My sense is that the expected magnitude, speed and inevitability of the change they are demanding make its successful execution (at least on our end) realistically out of our collective control. It is no secret that there are those in the world of new media, whether individuals or journalistic sources, that harbor what seems to be an inexplicable and intense bias against both Dartmouth and its students. As Jennifer Wulff ’96 wrote in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, since the Andrew Lohse-inspired Rolling Stone article came out my freshman year, Dartmouth’s plague of rampant extreme behaviors has developed into a hot button nationwide topic. Various media outlets have flocked to feed off the wounded Dartmouth, with each subsequent article leaving our school’s pride and credibility
a little more broken. Dartmouth’s failure to transcend the quagmire of (potentially welldeserved) poor publicity stems not only from the semi-existence of those destructive realities in question, but also from the administrators’ and students’ apparent inability to combat the unending flood of negativity. Ignoring my opinions of Lohse as a writer and person, I believe that his article “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy” is the spark that eventually catalyzed what will probably be the largest overhaul of the status quo at Dartmouth since the school went coed. Maybe in the long run Lohse’s alma mater will thank him for services rendered to the school — in his own muddled quest for 15 minutes of fame, our most infamous ’12 has given us a kick in the rear. It is just unfortunate that it took such an inflammatory threat to Dartmouth’s public image for us to reach critical mass. Dartmouth should have already begun battling its inner demons, because now we are paying the price by being forced to do so under the watchful eye of the national media. We now bear the burden of being held to an unachievable standard set by those who do not necessarily have the most accurate perceptions about Dartmouth. This makes any and every victory henceforth seem the slightest bit contrived because the pressure behind the necessity of such radical change on campus ultimately came from outside our community. The realization that Dartmouth needed to improve its health, safety and behavioral patterns should have manifested before the value of our education and the credibility of our institution were on the line. For better or worse, Dartmouth has harnessed its desire to mitigate our poor public image and transformed it into momentum for change. Finally, there is the idea that we need to start policing our extreme behaviors. And while I am disappointed that the genesis of that idea seems to mostly have come from trying to pacify the media, it is inarguable that Dartmouth is finally back on the right track.
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only individual cases are nontransparent. violence, they are now included in When Remy undertook the standards I, II and III. director position, she aimed to In the coming year, Remy said, build the campus’ confidence in the office’s role will change fol- and understanding of judicial aflowing the “Moving Dartmouth fairs, as well as increase the office’s Forward” presidential steering transparency. Emphasizing her committee’s report. The commit- belief in fairness, Remy said her tee, convened in May by College goals include responding quickly to President Phil Hanlon, is tasked cases and discussing the reasoning with recommending ways to reduce behind the standards of conduct. binge drinking, sexual assault and Of 10 students interviewed exclusivity. about their opinion of the office, Since Remy became judicial seven said they had a neutral imaffairs director in July 2013, the pression of Judicial Affairs, while office has focused on strengthen- three said they perceived it negaing the sexual assault policy and tively. attempted to increase face-to-face Dan Pham ’16, who serves on communication with students and the Committee on Standards, said organizations, Remy said. that before h e was elected to his seat, The past year has seen al- he had no opinion on the office but most complete assumed stustaff tur nover. dents would “Judicial affairs isn’t Of the office’s perceive it four administra- out to get students. negatively. tors, three — in- It’s a way to uphold Since cluding Remy, joining the assistant direc- the standards and to committee, tor Alexandra give students time however, his Waltemeyer and impression to reflect on their a d m i n i s t r at i ve changed. assistant Becca actions, as opposed “It’s Wistrom — were to something that’s much less of hired since suma punitive strictly punishment.” mer 2013. process than The office is I thought it also searching for w o u l d b e, ” - Dan pham ’16, a hearings officer, Pham said. a new position who serves on “Judicial afthat will focus the COmmittee on fairs isn’t out on administrative to get stuhearings and out- standards dents. It’s a reach to students way to uphold while helping to the standards alleviate the office’s large workload, and to give students time to reflect Remy said. A search committee on their actions, as opposed to received a large number of applica- something that’s strictly punishtions for the hearings officer posi- ment.” tion, and two rounds of interviews Remy said that the community is will follow. best served through conversations “This is a great team of people about values and respect instead of to work with,” Remy said. “I think getting caught up in the rules. they really respect students. I think In June 2013, Remy was prothey listen carefully. I don’t think moted after working in the underthat this is an office that anybody graduate deans office since 1999. wants to come to, but my hope is When she accepted the position, she that if you do, you feel that you’re said that she would serve as director fairly treated and given ample time for a year and then decide if she and listened to.” would continue in the position, a Judicial affairs oversees the Com- choice she made this summer. mittee on Standards, which exam- “I think that we have accomines student misconduct that could plished some really important result in suspension or separation things for students and on behalf from the College, and the Organi- of the institution this last year,” zational Adjudication Committee, Remy said. “It’s been a hard year, which focuses on misconduct within but I see it as a service.” organizations. For a period of several months, Less serious cases of individual Remy co-wrote the sexual misconmisconduct comprise the majority duct policy with general counsel of the office’s cases, Remy said. Robert Donin. Together, she said, Remy said she is trying to change they met with various organizations the common perception of Judicial to gather input. They will continue Affairs as a “black box,” adding that to work on it this year.
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“I think those guys mentored a lot of the young guys very well,” Teevens said. “[Garrett Waggoner ’13] and Dazzo. They’re physically very similar. Good size, good speed, good athleticism.” Special teams were also a critical part of last season, with the team coming up short in a few games due to field goal miscues. This year, Alex Gakenheimer ’17 will start by kicking field goals and extra points while the veteran Riley Lyons ’15 will handle the kickoffs.
Dazzo, Williams and Teevens said putting all phases of the game together is the key to success. “We get after people, and we’re really excited to get going and hit people and play our type of football, so that’s something that we’ll carry over from last season,” Dazzo said. The Big Green open the season this weekend under the lights against Central Connecticut State University, who are coming off last weekend’s 20-7 loss to the College of the Holy Cross. Dazzo noted that the Blue Devils are led by senior running back Rob
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Hollomon, who impressed with a 161-yard performance in the team’s first game of the season. The Big Green faces an uphill climb against a team that already has three games under its belt, but Dazzo suggested the advantage can go both ways as Dartmouth has more film to watch and prepare. “We know a little more about them than they know about us because we haven’t played,” Dazzo said. “But they’re probably a little more comfortable together, playing, tackling, being in live situations.” This is the two teams’ first ever meeting, which can complicate preparations for the game, Teevens said. “They’re a scholarship football program so they have good players,” he said. The game will take place under the lights at Memorial Field, an experience that Williams enjoys and remembers from high school in Texas when he often played at night in front of thousands of fans, he said. At the end of the day, it comes down to what happens on the field. “We’ve got something to prove,” Teevens said. “We talk about progress, but let’s prove how good of a football team we are by how we play.”
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from the team this year over the start we had last year,” Danilack said. “The way we’re playing and the attitude on the team about what we’re trying to do is much stronger this year, and we built that through preseason, so we’re very excited.” The Big Green has high goals for this season. Several players said their primary goal as a team this year is winning the Ivy League title, despite finishing last in the League in 2013. An Ivy League championship would earn the team a bid to the NCAA tournament. During 12 years under former head coach Jeff Cook who manned the bench until 2012, the Big Green reached the postseason seven times. “We haven’t been for two years, and that used to be kind of a norm for us, so we’re hoping to get back to that,” co-captain Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14, who is returning as a fifth-year player after obtaining a medical redshirt for the 2011 season, said. Strong performances against the Hoosiers and Fighting Irish have boosted players’ conference. HoffmanJohnson said he thinks the team has the talent to not only win the Ivy League but to go further into the tournament
than ever before. “I think the farthest Dartmouth has ever been is the Elite Eight, so if we can make it there, I actually believe that this team can go to the Final Four,” he said. “I think we’re that good.” The team has made it into the Elite Eight twice, in 1990 and 1992. Along the way to a potential championship, the team also has some smaller goals, one of which is to win five games in a row, Danilack said. The Big Green plays its first Ivy League game on Oct. 4 at Princeton. “It’s already on everyone’s minds,” Stray-Gundersen said. “As the first Ivy game of the season it kind of sets the precedent. We’re just ready to go.” Danilack pointed to tonight’s home opener against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and the final Ivy home game against Brown University on Nov. 15 as other key matches. In goal, the Big Green is returning two experienced goal keepers. Both Stefan Cleveland ’16 and James Hickok ’17 earned significant playing time last season, only allowing just over one goal per game combined. The team kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Burnham Field against UMass Lowell.
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MEN’S SOCCER VS. UMASS LOWELL 7 PM
WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. NORTHEASTERN 5 PM
Football starts season under the lights B y BRETT drucker
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
With the sun setting over the West Stands of Memorial Field on Tuesday, the Dartmouth football team finished one of its final practices before the team’s season opener this weekend. After months of sweat and preparation, the team anticipated returning to the gridiron and is seeking to extend its four-year winning streak in season openers. After finishing last season with a 6-4, 5-2 Ivy record that put them in third place in the Ivy League, the Big Green starts the season with its eyes on the program’s first league title since 1996. “This year we’re more composed, more confident and poised and ready for a chase at this title,” quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 said. Six seasons removed from a winless campaign, the team has built itself into one of the strongest contenders in the Ivy League, finishing third in the annual pre-season media poll. The team is led by Williams, who established himself as one of the Ivy League’s premier dual-threat signal callers and earned All-Ivy honorable mention in his second season in Hanover after taking the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award in his first campaign. Williams completed 56 percent of his passes for 1,773 yards and 11 touchdowns in addition to over 700
yards on the ground and five rushing scores. Halfway through his Dartmouth career, the junior is already seventh on Dartmouth’s all-time total offense list. The team will miss the presence of running back Dominick Pierre ’14, who had the second-highest total of rushing yards of any Dartmouth player in his career. A stable of young backs including the duo of Kyle Bramble ’16 and Brian Grove ’16, who both got significant touches last season but missed spring practice due to injury, will hope to replace the workhorse Pierre. Head coach Buddy Teevens said that their
absence from spring practice allowed other players, like Abrm McQuarters ’17 and Jacob Siwicki ’17, to get additional practice, building depth. On the defensive side, the team is missing last season’s top three tacklers, who formed the core of the unit that allowed the fewest points and the second-fewest pass yards in the Ivy League last year. But Teevens suggested that the team’s depth has improved over the past few seasons — players like cocaptain Stephen Dazzo ’15, who have game experience, are ready to fill in. SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7
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After a spring term and preseason full of practice, the football team finally kicks off Saturday.
Men’s soccer sets sights high for 2014
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The Dartmouth Staff
After a two-year hiatus from the NCAA tournament, the men’s soccer team has high hopes for this season. In 2013, the Big Green finished 6-7-4 overall and 1-6 in Ivy League competition after having one of the best starts in program history — beginning the season 4-0-4. The collapse came after a 2-1 home loss against Princeton University. Even after losing some key players, such as All-Ivy center back Colin Skelly ’14, the Big Green players say they are confident in their squad this year and the seven newcomers to make an immediate impact. Multiple players spoke highly of the depth and talent of the team this year. “All seven freshmen have gotten significant minutes in the past few
games, so that just goes to show that they’re a strong class and ready to make an impact,” Sten Stray-Gundersen ’16 said. Stray-Gundersen, who has played in 30 games, said that as one of the few returning players with significant playing time over the past two seasons, he is helping mentor the new freshmen on the field. So far, three freshmen have started every game and all but one has made an appearance in all three games this season. The Big Green is currently 1-2 this season, with losses coming against the past two national champions University of Notre Dame and Indiana University. “The way we played those teams was very encouraging,” senior co-captain Hugh Danilack ’15 said. “We showed ourselves that we could play with them and compete with
them,” he said. “I think those games were important in figuring out who we were and what kind of capabilities we have as a team.” Dartmouth won its first game of the season against Hofstra University 2-1 last Sunday. Even though its record is not as strong as last season’s at this point, players are optimistic, especially because of the higher level of competition played this year. Danilack noted that the team’s front line is encouraging, even though it has only buried three goals this season. Crucial offense will come from striker Alex Adelabu ’15, a First-Team All Ivy and NSCAA All-Northeast honoree and First-Team All-Ivy midfielder Colin Heffron ’15, who played in all 17 games for Dartmouth last season. “I would take the start and attitude SEE SOCCER PAGE 7
B y Blaze joel The Dartmouth Senior Staff
The first weekend of term is also a major sports weekend for the Big Green, as nine Dartmouth teams are in action. We’ve analyzed a few games on the weekend slate. Women’s soccer v. Northeastern University (Friday at 5 p.m.) The women’s soccer team (1-2-1) plays twice this weekend: at home Friday against Northeastern University and on the road Sunday against the University of Vermont. After picking up its first win on Sunday against St. John’s University 2-0, the Big Green stay home to face the Huskies (4-2-2). The Dartmouth women have been unbeatable at home over the last three seasons, not dropping a contest at Burnham Field in 14 games. For this streak to continue, the Big Green will need to play a tough game, as the team has had a stellar early season. Northeastern’s offense has cruised to 3-0 and 4-0 victories so far this season. However, it has only scored in four of eight games this year. The defending champions for the Colonial Athletic Association post one of the best defenses in the country, allowing a fourth-best 0.25 goals per game. Six of the team’s eight games have been shutouts. Opposing teams have only managed 15 shots on net against the Huskies and have lost the corner kick battle 61-12 this year. This does not bode well for a Dartmouth offense that has only put three balls in the back of the net this season. The Big Green defense has been stellar, though, allowing only four goals in four games and holding opponents to just 13 corners in the early season. This game will boil down to which offense shows up for Northeastern and how the Big Green defense compares. Expect a low scoring affair where one goal could make the difference. Prediction: 0-0 tie Men’s soccer v. University of Massachusetts at Lowell (Friday at 7 p.m.) The Big Green (1-2-0) made it into the win column last Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Hofstra University and now looks towards the meat of its schedule after two early season losses at ranked opponents from the Hoosier State. This is also the team’s home opener and it should build off of a typically loud crowd at Burnham Field, as it has in the
past. Despite a disappointing 3-4-3 mark at home last season, the team went 6-1 in the friendly confines two years ago. The team should match up well against the River Hawks (2-5-0), who at times have struggled to score this season, being shut out in four of seven games thus far. Both of the River Hawks’ wins have come in multi-goal efforts. The Dartmouth back line must slow this streaky offense but should be up to the task. On the offensive side of the ball, Dartmouth has also struggled to find the net, but it’s not from lack of effort. The team has ripped 34 shots this season, 11 of which have been on net. Though the team has only scored three goals, this should be easier against the River Hawks, who have allowed 12 goals. This game should come down to which team can enter the scoring column first. If athletes play the way they are capable, this should go down as a win. Prediction: 1-0 Dartmouth Football v. Central Connecticut State University (Saturday at 7 p.m.) This is the first time ithat the Big Green (0-0) will host the Blue Devils (1-2). The game is under the lights at Memorial Field, where the Big Green went 4-2 last season, including a dramatic win in the snow against Ivy League cochampion Princeton University. Expect a raucous crowd for the opener. For the Big Green, this game will be a good litmus test: CCSU beat defending national runner-up Towson University in its season opener but has struggled in the two games since, posting only seven points in two blowout losses. Regardless, the Blue Devils have star power at running back, quarterback and safety, which will challenge the Big Green. That being said, Dartmouth is a force to be reckoned with when healthy. Quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 is a dual-threat in the gun, posting top-five numbers for passing and rushing last season. With a newly healthy receiving corps, expect those numbers to only increase. A Blue Devils rush defense that has surrendered 184 yards per game should be a good opportunity for Kyle Bramble ’16 and Brian Grove ’16 to get experience as the feature backs. The defense may be tested early, but experience in the secondary and depth at linebacker should be the difference. Prediction: 24-17 Dartmouth