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Torin Tucker ’15 Veterans pick Dartmouth for community, academics dies at Vermont crossBy ZAC HARDWICK The Dartmouth Staff

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series examining the role and experiences of veterans on campus. Part one was published on Jan. 31.

Before coming to Dartmouth, Christopher Allen ’15 spent a year patrolling the streets of Iraq as a combat engineer, search-

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ing for improvised explosive devices that he was responsible for disarming.

Allen, like the other seventeen veterans on campus, is a nontraditional student who opted out of the conventional college pipeline to serve his country.

“I believe that if there are wars going on right now, I should do that first,”

Allen said. “I didn’t want to go to college and miss helping the guys that were already over there.”

The 18 veterans currently enrolled at the College represent the highest number in Dartmouth’s history.

Upon graduating from high school, Mike Ballard

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Students gather to watch the Seahawks and Broncos compete in the Super Bowl.

country skiing race

By taylor malmsheimer The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Torin Tucker ’15 died on Saturday while competing in a cross-country ski race in Craftsbury, Vt. Tucker, of Sun Valley, Idaho, was a member of the College’s Nordic ski team.

Tucker, 20, collapsed while competing in the 50-kilometer classic at the Craftsbury Nordic Center, and died at the scene, said Lucas Schulz ’08, a facilities engineer who handles snow maintenance at the Nordic Center.

The cause of his death is still under investigation, College spokesperson Justin Anderson said. Tucker began the race at 9 a.m. and collapsed at around 11:15 a.m. on his fourth and final lap of the 12.5-kilometer course, Schulz said.

Other skiers racing in the classic were the first to arrive at the scene.

At least one competitor, Schultz said, began administering CPR within one or two minutes of Tucker’s collapse.

Two competitors who stopped at the scene within a few minutes of Tucker’s collapse were doctors and began administering CPR as well, Schulz said.

No medical personnel were stationed in the area where Tucker collapsed, but race officials were quickly informed of the situation and deployed EMTs and first responders to the scene. Schulz arrived about 10 minutes after Tucker’s collapse with a first responder and two EMTs. A total of seven medical professionals worked to resuscitate Tucker, Schulz said.

An ambulance and 911 responders also arrived at the scene.

When competitors and medical personnel arrived, Tucker was not breathing and had no pulse, Schulz said. One of the doctors at the scene pronounced Tucker dead after about 45 minutes of sustained CPR, Schulz said. Tucker was then SEE TUCKER PAGE 3

Alpha Phi residents Mock trial succeeds at regionals relocate to the Lodge B y BRYN MORGAN

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The 23 residents of the Alpha Phi sorority house were forced to temporarily relocate on Friday due to water damage caused by a blockage in the house’s pipes, according to residential operations director David Eckels. While students are expected to be able to return to the house by Tuesday night, the Office of Residential Life will reevaluate the situation and timeline on Monday, Eckels said in an email.

Alpha Phi president Melinda Agron ’14 said the College

arranged for some students to move to vacant rooms in residence halls while others found temporary housing with friends.

The living room and the basement, however, remain unaffected, and all of the sorority’s activities for the week will run as scheduled, Agron said. An event for the Super Bowl and a meeting went on as planned on Sunday.

“I wouldn’t say it was convenient, but it was more convenient for it to happen on the weekend than during the

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A Dartmouth Mock Trial Society team earned an honorable mention and a chance to advance to the next round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national tournament at a regional competition this weekend at St. Anselm College in Manchester. Dartmouth sent two teams of 10 students to the competition.

Christina Gill ’16 re-

ceived the Outstanding Attorney Award, along with 11 other students at the competition.

Coach Jennifer Sargent said that one team’s record of five wins and three losses this weekend will likely win them one of 17 open bids to the tournament’s second round, which will be held on March 15-16 in Philadelphia.

The top eight teams from the competition automatically receive bids, and 17

other teams are awarded open bids based on their records. Sargent said the Dartmouth team expects to receive a bid, which will be extended in the coming weeks.

The other team from the College won four of its eight rounds, The first round of the competition took place on Friday night, followed by two rounds on Saturday and one SEE COMPETITION PAGE 3

The Dartmouth will publish an obituary of Torin Tucker ’15 later this week.

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MLK award ceremony honors alumni B y MICHAEL QIAN

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Conservative activist and entrepreneur Andrew Hemingway announced his plans to run for New Hampshire governor as the Republican candidate at a rally last Thursday, the Concord Monitor reported. There are currently no other candidates contesting the seat currently filled by Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who is expected to seek reelection. His platform includes decreasing the bureaucratic nature of health care, a school-choice policy, decreasing taxes and promoting small business growth. He also said if elected he would work to protect companies from the National Security Agency and its program of data collection.

The University of New Hampshire will build a new $25 million athletic complex to host the school’s football team, according the Union Leader. The new facility, which is slated to open for the 2015 season, will have more than 10,000 seats, broadcast and Wi-Fi capacity, concessions, rest rooms and a student section. A UNH press release announced that the project will proceed only when the school raises $5 million in donations.

The university is plans to borrow the remaining $20 million internally and expects to absorb the remainder of the cost into its five-year planning model.

Vermont and New Hampshire local police are increasingly using social media in active police investigations, the Valley News reported. Vermont State and Lebanon Police are increasingly using Facebook to post public alerts like surveillance images, composite sketches and vehicle descriptions, among others. Other agencies post alerts on outside pages or monitor news outlets on social media, which often disseminate information faster than traditional broadcasts. The Vermont State Police, which currently maintains Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Language used over social media, however, has the potential to compromise investigations or a suspect’s right to a fair trial, warned Allen Gilbert, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Vermont.

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Last Friday, the College’s annual Social Justice Awards Ceremony honored members of the Dartmouth community for their dedication to “vigorous and positive action,” the theme of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Five different awards were conferred to recipients following a competitive nomination process.

Gabrielle Lucke, MLK Celebration committee chair, said the awards acknowledge the work of Dartmouth community members in social justice, peace, civil rights, education, health and the environment.

“What does vigorous and positive action mean?” Lucke said. “We wanted to find a way to honor the people who go above and beyond.”

Christine Crabb ’90 received the Holly Fell Sateia Award — established in 2011 by former College President Jim Yong Kim and former provost Carol Folt to honor faculty or staff members who promote diversity, inclusivity and civil rights at Dartmouth — for her work organizing the MLK celebration and awards ceremony in past years.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y., was honored in absentia for her work in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Gillibrand, who played a large part in repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and was the first New York representative to support same-sex marriage, was granted the Ongoing Commitment Award.

Lia Carnie Monahon ’98, a

Massachusetts trial attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, received the Emerging Leadership Award for her work combating systematic problems in the legal world.

Monahon said that she took her first steps as an advocate for social justice at Dartmouth.

“I had the opportunity to find fellowship funding and test what I was learning at Dartmouth in the rest of the world,” she said.

The Granger Award, which is given to an alumnus who shows leadership in benefitting underserved populations, went to Martin Cetron ’81. Cetron currently directs the global migration and quarantine division at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and was honored for his work as a physician and public health professional in reducing health disparities among minority communities.

Andrew Wells III, the president of an industrial supply company, was granted the lifetime achievement award for his work at the Wells Academy, an apprentice-training program targeted at disenfranchised Native Americans.

Vice president of institutional diversity and equity Evelynn Ellis said that the Social Justice Awards provide a venue to honor Dartmouth community members who have contributed their time toward bettering the world. She acknowledged the recipients’ efforts to provide a voice to those who have no say.

Interim vice provost Lindsay Whaley said the honorees embodied the charge of social responsibility

by combating tough contemporary issues, including prisoner advocacy, Native American empowerment and the use of public service to promote equality.

“Dartmouth’s responsibility as an institution of higher learning is not just to impart knowledge,” Whaley said. “We also have the responsibility to instill in [students] a deep concern for human wellbeing.”

In choosing award recipients, the MLK Celebration committee compares the current nominees to the criteria and accomplishments of previous winners, Luck said, adding that she hopes to maintain the caliber of honorees.

“We don’t necessarily give every award annually if we don’t have quality nominations,” Lucke said. “I would love to see students nominating faculty members who are really making a difference, or the dean who has the rep among students of helping them to really be present.”

As the final event in the College’s annual MLK celebration, the awards serve to conclude the speeches, films and other programming, Lucke said.

The awards ceremony included a panel discussion with award recipients, a performance by the Rockapellas and remarks by Whaley and Ellis. College President Phil Hanlon and Gail Gentes also attended.

Dartmouth’s Social Justice Awards are sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and the Geisel School of Medicine.

Corrections “Innovation center construction stalls” (Jan. 31, 2014): Due to an editing error, the original version of this article mischaracterized enrollment in an introductory entrepreneurial course taught by Tuck professor and Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network director Gregg Fairbrothers. Thirty to 60 students enroll in the course annually, not over a span of 11 years, as the initial version of the article implied.

We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth.com.

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Alumni accepted awards emphasizing their work in civil rights, public health and education on Friday.

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Cross-country skier dies Trial team wins honorable mention during Craftsbury race FROM COMPETITION PAGE 1

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brought to Curtis-Britch Funeral Home in Newport, Vt., Anderson said.

While the varsity Nordic team was competing in the University of Vermont Carnival in Stowe, Vt., multiple other non-varsity members of the team competed alongside Tucker in the 33rd Annual Craftsbury Marathon, College athletics spokesperson Rick Bender said.

Schulz said he notified the Dartmouth ski team members at the marathon of Tucker’s death when he returned to the Craftsbury Outdoor Center’s main area.

Varsity team members had finished competing in Stowe on Saturday when they were informed of the tragedy, Bender said. The ski team returned to campus by 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and did not compete in its remaining races in the UVM Carnival on Sunday, Anderson said.

College President Phil Hanlon an-

nounced Tucker’s death in an email to campus on Saturday evening. Undergraduate deans, counselors and clergy were available for counseling services in Robinson Hall on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

Bender said Hanlon and athletic director Harry Sheehy have reached out to student-athletes and the Dartmouth community, and encouraged those who are in need to contact Safety and Security for counseling services.

Nine hundred men and women were registered to compete in the Craftsbury Marathon, which ran from Greensboro, Vt. to Craftsbury Common, Vt., according to the Nordic Center’s website.

Athletics department and Dean of the College staff are discussing the most thoughtful and appropriate way to honor Tucker, Anderson said. Bender said that no decision has been made regarding the Dartmouth Carnival, which is scheduled to begin on Friday.

Clogged pipe damages Alpha Phi sorority house been caused by larger items being flushed down the toilet. week because it didn’t interrupt people’s Seven rooms require repairs, including removing some carpeting and work or midterms,” Agron said.

On Friday, the custodian for Alpha sheetrock.

Phi found water dripping into the The first-floor kitchen ceiling and first-floor kitchen and discovered the a portion of the second-floor ceiling hallway have been source to be an removed, Eckels overflowing third- “Obviously it’s not said. Carpeting floor toilet. with water damage A blockage was ideal, but ORL has in the second- and located and cleared done everything third-floor hallway in the three-inchareas and affected diameter pipe that they can to make sheetrock walls carries wastewater this the easiest from toilets and experience it can be, were also removed.

The College floor drains, Eckbrought in a speels said. The clog so we can get home cialty cleaning comcaused water to as fast as possible.” pany, Envirotech back up in a thirdClean Air, which is floor bathroom currently sanitizing and leak through - Carly Rauh ’14 affected surfaces in the walls and the the house. floor, reaching the “The women of Alpha Phi have ground level.

The greatest problem is the threat been very understanding and coopthat the water damage poses to the erative and appreciate the work that integrity of the house’s second-floor is going into repairing the damage to the house,” Eckels said. walls, Agron said.

“We have not been able to deter- Carly Rauh ’14 said the office of mine what caused the clog, but this residential life has eased the transition kind of clog in a main drain line is by providing transportation and houspretty unusual,” Eckels said. “The ing in the Lodge residence hall. lines are meant to easily handle water, “Obviously it’s not ideal,” Rauh toilet paper and other waste that you said, “but ORL has done everything would normally think should go down they can to make this the easiest experience it can be, so we can get home as a toilet.”

Eckels said the blockage could have fast as possible.”

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on Friday morning. Each team is divided into prosecution and defense sides, both of which compete twice throughout the weekend. Local attorneys and justices volunteer to judge the trials.

The two Dartmouth teams competed against 20 other teams from 12 schools including Brown University, the University of New Hampshire, Tufts University and Bowdoin College.

Sargent, who was a trial lawyer and a judge before coming to Dartmouth to teach at the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, said she was impressed with the level of competition.

“I used to coach at the law school level for mock trial, and the level of expertise for the rules of evidence, constructing a case and the courtroom demeanor at this undergraduate level is spectacular,” she said. “I never imagined undergraduates could be so good.”

Team member Morgan Sandhu ’17 said that because of the College’s schedule, the mock trial team has less preparation time than teams at most schools. The College’s teams attend only one invitational competition in the fall,

while other schools’ teams attend three or four, she said.

“Our fall team and our winter team are two totally different teams, because people leave and people come back,” she said. “Most schools can start prepping in August or September and go straight through, but for us, fall is used more as a practice or trial period and winter is more competitive.”

Although the team usually meets twice a week for practices and once on the weekends to run through

a full trial, many practices were canceled this year due to members’ conflicting schedules, Sargent said.

Sargent said that although most of the students in the Mock Trial Society do not plan on pursuing majors in law or going to law school, they enjoy participating in competitions and are skilled at conducting trials.

“I’m an experienced trial lawyer, and looking at the level of competition at the undergraduate level is astonishing,” she said.

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The Dartmouth Mock Trial Society participated in a competition this weekend.

Moving Dartmouth Foward A series of public meetings designed to give community members the opportunity to discuss and contribute to the initiatives President Phil Hanlon ’77 announced during Fall 2013. These events are sponsored by the Office of the President, and open to all students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The dates and topics are:

February 3, 2014: The D-Plan Location:

12-1pm session, Haldeman 041 • 6:30-7:30pm session, Fahey Ground Floor

Presenters:

Bruce Sacerdote, Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics Christiane Donahue, Director, Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, and Associate Professor Linguistics

February 17, 2014: Enhancing Housing Options Location:

12-1pm and 6:30-7:30pm; both in Fahey Ground Floor

Presenters:

Mike Wooten, Director of Residential Education Inge-Lise Ameer, Senior Associate Dean of the College

March 3, 2014: Creative Use of Learning Technologies Location:

12-1pm session, Haldeman 041 • 6:30-7:30pm session, Fahey Ground Floor

Presenters:

Joshua Kim, Director of Digital Learning Initiatives Alan Cattier, Director of Academic and Campus Technology Services

For more information visit: www.dartmouth.edu/~president/

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contributing Columnist Florence gonsalves ’15

contributing Columnist Joseph Geller ’16

Wolves of Wheelock Street

Free the Freshmen

Some students should look beyond Wall Street for future plans.

The libraries are full from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., the frats from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. We are studious intellectuals by day and obliterated goons by night.

We binge learn and binge drink, the extreme culture extending from studying to socializing.

Learn as much as possible, cram, take Adderall so you don’t have to sleep, then drink into oblivion because only belligerence can release the stress — the absurd pressure to succeed. Extreme studying and extreme partying are engaged in a type of symbiosis, which I fear sets a troubling precedent for the rest of our lives.

This summer I set up my Dartboard account, read the “Vault Career Guide to Consulting” and “Case in Point” and went to every session that Career Services offered. I loved it — writing cover letters, networking with alums, doing practice problems.

Everything boiled down to making a profit. I had a singular purpose. Each time I completed a case, I felt worthy. It was a mysterious feeling of power, that I was good enough to enter the elitist sphere of consulting and maybe eventually, investment banking or private equity. I could be “good” enough to be the wolf-ess of Wall Street.

I was diligent, content to work on cases for hours. I was addicted to feeling competent and lured by the prospect of earning over $10,000 for a summer internship. Then, to release, I’d do like most of Dartmouth does and party the weekend away.

I assumed my job would be like that, too. I would work crazy hours and be surrounded by other intelligent, motivated people. We would live a life of expensive lunches and straight gin and Chanel suits. I would work hard, play hard and let the extravagance mute the exhaustion. My paycheck would go toward the extreme partying, as working such long hours at soul-sucking jobs mandates the release only excessive alcohol consumption (and perhaps illegal drugs) can offer.

Instead of horrifying me, this delighted me.

After all, I had been taught to accept this type of lifestyle here at Dartmouth.

But then I never got an interview. I was denied 15 times. My self-worth lay in shambles. I took an off term. And only after spending four months

with horses and my journal did I realize that a whole different type of passion exists. One can have a passion for the work itself, whether it’s writing or painting or, yes, trading, rather than the lifestyle or salary that accompanies that work.

I do not mean to say that being passionate about wealth management is a crime. If you love banking or consulting or private equity, then pursue your passion. I certainly could not say that was true for me. I was lured by the paycheck and the prestige. I fooled myself into thinking I was passionate and that I could subsist by working maniacally during the week and letting loose on the weekends. I fear the majority of Dartmouth students chase the same illusory goal.

Certainly other factors exist that pressure students into pursuing Wall Street jobs and that pressure to be successful also propels students toward inebriation. There is the notion that if you’re not making a lot of money you’re not doing anything worthwhile. There is the treadmill most of us have been on since high school: work hard, get As, then go to an Ivy League college to validate the hard work and, ultimately, yourself.

I thought that treadmill stopped at college, but I was wrong. I even ran a few miles before collapsing (too much studying and too much alcohol will do that to you). But that collapse helped me get off the treadmill for good. I realized I want a life, not a career.

Maybe I’m bitter because I got denied an interview. Maybe I’m just not of the same caliber as other students because I’d rather not get work done than miss out on my eight hours of sleep.

Ultimately, I think I would crumble under the pressure of Wall Street. And maybe (actually, most definitely) I’ll get a lot of backlash for this article — nothing riles Dartmouth students up more than another student telling them that their lifestyle is over-glorified and disillusioned.

But it is worth some backlash if it gets people thinking. I know there are many incredibly bright, passionate students on this campus with the capability and potential to do world-altering things. It seems like a waste to just send them off to propagate wealth and debauchery as the wolves and wolf-esses of Wall Street.

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The GLC should reconsider its ban on freshmen in fraternities.

First of all, I would like to clarify that despite my column on priorities, I am a staunch supporter of the Greek system. Just because I disagree with those who drink to the detriment of their grades and health does not mean that I do not support Greek life.

In his recent column, Michael Beechert (“A Slight Success,” Jan. 30) advocated for the continuation of the policy that banned freshmen from fraternities until after Homecoming. He supports the ban not necessarily because it has made freshmen safer and more responsible, but rather because it forced them “to find other means of social interaction” than the Greek system.

I respectfully disagree. First of all, freshmen are old enough to make decisions for themselves. I strongly believe that freshmen should have the choice to see what the Greek scene is like from the get-go, and then choose whether to make friends and socialize within the system or outside of it. Part of life is learning how to make decisions on your own. And while there’s no guarantee that freshmen will make the right choices, they should have the freedom to make and learn from their own mistakes. Nobody is going to be there to hold our hands and protect us once we step into the real world. That is reality.

I understand that safety is a legitimate concern, and that the point of the ban was to protect the freshmen from binge drinking and sexual assault. That is perfectly reasonable. I would advocate keeping the ban if it made a significant, positive impact on the overall safety of the freshmen class, but that was not the case. This fall, the number of drinking incidents involving freshman dropped only 3 percent. In comparison, school-wide incidents of intoxicated students handled by Safety and Security dropped approximately 16 percent. Now, I would argue that these statistics suggest that access to Greek houses is not the problem. In fact, I would argue further that the ban actually does more harm than good.

Newfound freedom is exciting for fresh-

men everywhere, and at college, they continue experimenting with drinking and partying. It is no secret that Dartmouth freshmen drink mostly hard alcohol in dormitories and have easier access to it in their own dorms than they do at the fraternities. At fraternities, they generally have access to at most a beer or two. Therefore, I think it is more dangerous for freshmen to be drinking in their dorms than it is for them to be out and about on frat row.

Especially in the beginning of the year, freshmen are not necessarily drinking with anyone they can trust, because their “friends” are still mostly strangers. Additionally, they probably do not understand their limits with alcohol yet, let alone the signs that indicate the need for medical assistance. First-year students are sometimes afraid to Good Sam their friends, even when it is necessary. Older, more responsible students present in the fraternities are better able to recognize these kinds of things, and many of them have more experience dealing with over-intoxication.

The presence of students more experienced with drinking and campus resources helps keep everyone safer.

I understand that sexual assault presents another major issue, but I don’t think that it is any easier to prevent sexual assault in the dorms than in the fraternities. New, younger students may not feel comfortable stepping in to stop a stranger from making a pass at someone who was either clearly not interested or intoxicated. Upperclassmen who are more comfortable and more experienced with these behaviors can recognize dangerous situations and are better equipped to deal with them.

That aspect of Greek life is vastly underappreciated.

I truly believe that despite all the flak the Greek system receives, freshmen are probably safer when they can go to fraternities than when they cannot. Keeping this in mind, I urge the Greek Leadership Council to reconsider their position and end the freshman ban.

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48 Shots by the men’s hockey team against Princeton.

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Men’s basketball defeats Princeton, Penn at home

B y JASPER BINGHAM The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s basketball team got a much-needed jolt of confidence this weekend as it took down the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University in back-toback showdowns at Leede Arena.

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25 Years since the men’s basketball team swept Penn and Princeton.

23 Number of penalties between the women’s hockey team and Princeton.

11:02.21 Time recorded by the women’s DMR team, good enough to qualify for nationals.

The Big Green (9-9, 2-2 Ivy) handled Penn (4-13, 1-2 Ivy) 67-58 on Friday, then kept its momentum going for an impressive 78-69 win in overtime against Princeton (12-5, 0-3 Ivy) Saturday. Dartmouth pulled off the wins despite the absence of center Gabas Maldunas ’15, the team’s main offensive threat, who is out with an ACL injury.

The two victories were Dartmouth’s first against Ivy League opponents this season, snapping a five-game losing streak.

Alex Mitola ’16 was the catalyst for the Big Green in its contest against Penn, exploding for 23 points in the second half and 25 in the game. John Golden ’15 added 15 points and eight rebounds on an efficient 6-8 from the field.

Dartmouth trailed most of the first period, as Penn’s Fran Dougherty poured in 13 points before halftime. The Quakers held a slim three-point advantage with two minutes left in the first, but Miles Cartwright hit a pull-up jumper, and then a tough layup in transition with 5.3 seconds left to push the lead to seven heading into halftime.

Mitola said that during the break he committed himself to reversing the momentum from Penn’s lastsecond run.

“I was really frustrated that we were down seven points,” he said.

“We could tell that we needed to make a run and that we could definitely beat this team.”

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With two wins this weekend, men’s basketball jumped right back into Ivy League contention.

Mitola emerged from the locker room blazing hot, swishing three three-pointers in three possessions to put Dartmouth on top, 32-31.

The teams battled back and forth for the next seven minutes until Golden hit back-to-back shots in the paint, bringing the Dartmouth lead to five at 50-45 with 9:14 remaining.

From there, the Big Green continued to stretch its lead. Kevin Crescenzi ’16 and Golden splashed back-to-back jumpers, and then Mitola stepped in to work some more magic, draining a three off a beautiful kickout pass to the corner

by Golden.

Dartmouth hung on for the final four minutes, never allowing its lead to go below eight.

Cole Harrison ’17, who sat out the game with an upper respiratory infection, said the big difference on Friday was the team’s effort level.

“The big thing in [the Penn game] was how hard everyone was playing,” he said. “I thought Kevin Crescenzi and the effort he put forward, and also Malik Gill [‘16] at the start of the second half, really pushed us over the edge and gave us that extra boost that we needed.”

The momentum from the win contributed to the team’s strong showing against Princeton the next day, Mitola said.

Tyler Melville ’14, the team’s captain, came up huge against Princeton, scoring a season-high 21 points and making several key plays down the stretch for the Big Green.

He said that his performance was fueled by a pep talk from his father, Randy Melville, who once played as a guard for the Tigers and was sitting courtside Saturday.

“My dad gave me a reality check,”

he said. “He stressed the importance of using my God-given ability and not being content and complacent with what’s been going on as far as my struggles.”

Melville came into the contest against Princeton having shot just 1-of-25 from the field in 2014, but his slump evaporated as soon as he

“I was really frustrated that we were down seven points [at halftime]. We could tell that we needed to make a run and that we could beat this team.”

-Alex mitola ’16 stepped on the hardwood. He went three of five in the first half, scoring seven points and helping the Big Green hang with the Tigers as the score was knotted at 31-31 going into the locker room.

It was the second half, though, where Melville really shone. With Princeton up 60-59 with 39.8 seconds remaining, he took the ball from outside the arc on the wing and slashed through four defenders for a gorgeous scoop shot off glass, bringing the bench to its feet. Then he knocked down two clutch free throws after getting fouled on the next possession to bring the score to 63-60 with just 27 seconds left on the clock.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, P r i n c e t o n wouldn’t go down easily. Will Barrett exploded through contact in the

lane to set up an old-fashioned threepoint play. He hit the free throw, and Golden missed a last-second three, sending the game to overtime.

Dartmouth did not lose its composure in the extra period, as the team poured in a whopping 15 points in five minutes thanks to Princeton hacking and the Big Green going 11-of-12 from the line. The game was in reach for the Tigers until the team’s bench committed a technical foul with 36 seconds remaining and Dartmouth leading 70-67.

Mitola knocked down the two technical free throws, then got fouled and hit two more. Brandon McDonnell ’16 then took over, sinking two free throws of his own and throwing down a slam in transition with 11 seconds left to seal the game.

Melville said the two wins this weekend changed the tone for the team going forward.

“We want to raise the bar and our expectations of others and of ourselves,” he said. “We’re ready for everybody, so any game that we play is going to be a competitive game, and we’re going to play every game expecting to win.”

Harrison agreed, saying that the victories changed the Big Green’s entire outlook on their place in conference competition.

“It makes us as a team more relevant again in the standings, because Harvard could suffer a loss or two anywhere throughout, and if we keep playing like we should, we can be right there in it at the end,” he said. “We’re capable of winning the rest of the games we have.”

The Big Green will square off against Yale University next Friday night, then against Brown University on Saturday. Both games will be at Leede Arena.

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Swim meets come down to the wire

B y Gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams competed in a close meet on Saturday at the University of Connecticut, both contests resting on the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay. While the women secured a nail-biting 154-146 victory, the men were narrowly edged out by UConn 152.5-147.5.

The women’s team needed to take first place in the final race in order to win the meet, trailing by a lone point. The energy around the pool, said co-captain Christine Kerr ’14, was electric.

“Everyone was going absolutely crazy because everyone knew that this race really mattered,” she said. “Everyone was just roaring and cheering and getting super

excited. It gave you that surge of adrenaline before you jumped off the block and made you swim that much faster.”

Kerr led Dartmouth’s B relay team, taking third in the 400-yard freestyle

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relay by swimming a 3:32.98, just .49 seconds behind UConn’s A relay team.

Dartmouth’s A team, comprised of Amy Sun ’17, Mary Van Metre ’14, Sasha

Alcon ’15 and anchor Charlotte Kamai ’16, dominated the pool, swimming a 3:30.70.

Both Dartmouth relay teams were ahead of UConn until the last 50 yards when the Huskies’ A relay snuck ahead, Kerr said.

The men had a similar situation when the scores of the entire meet converged on the final relay, but despite swimming the fastest relay this year, co-captain Andrew North ’14 said, the team came up short.

“I was really happy with my split,” he said, “but [UConn’s anchor] swam a really fast split, too.”

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Track teams continue to set records

B y JORDAN EINHORN The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth runners broke a school record for the fourth time this season this weekend, this time in the men’s distance medley relay. Friday’s 9:37.33 time run by John Bleday ’14, Phil Gomez ’17, Steve Mangan ’14 and Will Geoghegan ’14 at the Pennsylvania State University narrowly eclipsed the old mark of 9:37.61, which was set in 2006.

The women’s distance medley relay team ran the second-fastest time in school history at the meet, only two seconds off the record, with a time of 11:02.21. The team of Dana Giordano ’16, Jennifer Meech ’16, Megan Krumpoch ’14 and Abbey D’Agostino ’14 took second place in the race.

The women qualified for nationals, which will be held in March in Albuquerque.

The only other athlete to compete at Penn State was Janae Dunchack ’14, who finished fourth in the pentathlon with 3,796 points.

The distance medley relay consists of 1,200-meter-, 800-meter-, 400-meter-, and 1,600-meter legs. Runners said they used different strategies for the relay than individual events.

“In both our races our anchors Will

“Will ran very well with a 3:58 leg but he went out in 1:55 which is very, very fast.

It was necessary because he needed to catch up to the leaders but in an open race you wouldn’t do that, you would try to run more even splits.”

- head coach barry harwick and Abbey got the baton behind the pack and had to go out very fast,” head coach Barry Harwick said. “Will ran very well with a 3:58 leg but he went out in 1:55 which is very, very fast. It was necessary because he needed to

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The men’s DMR team bested a Dartmouth record, but is not guaranteed a spot in nationals.

catch up to the leaders but in an open race you wouldn’t do that, you would try to run more even splits.”

Gomez was the only underclassman participating, but he embraced the opportunity to compete.

“The 400 is not the focus of the race,” Gomez said. “Every part is important but most of the weight was on the other guys. I was honored to be running with three of the best guys in program history and I knew whatever I did they would do their part.”

The women were pleased with their fast time, Krumpoch said, but look to run even faster the next time.

“In my leg of the race everyone took off really quickly, so the plan for me is to work on pacing,” she said. “In general a big thing for us is to be more confident.”

Other members of the track and field teams stayed home to compete in the Dartmouth Classic, the third home meet of the season. Both the Big Green men’s and women’s teams had numerous individual wins.

Highlights for the men included a strong performance by Jonathan Beering ’17, who threw over 51 meters total, good for the win.

John Abraham ’16 came in second place in the 60-meter dash, with a time of 7.01 seconds. Ben Nollet ’17 won the high jump, clearing 1.98 meters.

For the women, Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 won the 60-meter sprint and came in second to teammate Kathleen Sprout ’17 in the 200-meter race. Elizabeth Markowitz ’16 won the 1,000-meter race by four seconds and Stephanie Brown ’16 won the pole vault.

Balancing multiple meets is difficult for the coaching staff, Harwick said.

He and Coogan drove to Penn and returned midday Saturday for the remainder of the home meet.

Next weekend, the teams split up again, traveling to the Valentine’s Invitational at Boston University and the New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York.

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RUNDOWN Men’s Basketball SCHOOL

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HARVARD BROWN YALE COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH PENN PRINCETON CORNELL

4-0 3-1 3-1 2-2 2-2 1-2 0-3 0-4

17-3 11-7 9-9 13-8 9-9 4-13 12-5 1-17

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HARVARD CORNELL YALE PENN PRINCETON BROWN COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH

3-1 3-1 3-1 2-1 2-1 1-3 1-3 0-4

13-5 11-7 9-9 12-5 11-6 7-11 4-14 3-15

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UNION QUINNIPIAC CORNELL COLGATE CLARKSON YALE BROWN RPI HARVARD ST. LAWRENCE DARTMOUTH PRINCETON

11-3-0 9-2-3 8-3-4 9-5-1 9-5-0 6-5-3 6-7-1 5-6-3 3-9-3 3-8-3 3-11-1 3-11-0

17-3-5 13-4-3 13-7-2 9-9-3 8-4-3 8-3-4 8-10-4 6-6-3 5-8-3 8-10-2 4-15-0 3-12-2

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13-2-2 12-2-2 11-2-3 8-3-5 8-5-3 7-7-2 5-7-4 6-10-1 6-9-1 4-12-0 3-13-0 1-12-3

17-2-3 21-4-3 16-3-4 17-4-7 9-14-3 11-9-3 7-12-4 7-15-1 10-15-2 7-19-2 8-19-1 2-16-5

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By JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Just under six minutes into the first period of the men’s hockey game against Princeton University on Saturday, the sellout crowd at Thompson Arena erupted, raining down tennis balls and a lone fish onto the ice. The Big Green men, especially goal scorer Grant Opperman ’17, celebrated, batting the balls around the rink as the baseball team shuffled out onto the ice to collect the debris.

The crowd remained on the edge of their seats as the Big Green treated them to one of its best games this season, eventually beating the Tigers 5-3. The team played with an energy that fans had not seen much of so far this season.

Dartmouth (4-15-3, 3-11-1 ECAC) rebounded after suffering a gut-wrenching 8-1 loss at the hands of No. 3 Quinnipiac University on Friday with the emotional win over Princeton (4-17-0, 3-11-0 ECAC).

The two points earned by the Big Green on Saturday propelled them above Princeton in the standings by one point.

The Big Green exploded in the first period, racing out to a 3-0 lead in the first 20 minutes on the back of goals from Opperman, Ryan Bullock ’16 and Jesse Beamish ’15.

In the first six minutes, Dartmouth took numerous close shots, seemingly a different team than the one that had played Friday night.

Opperman netted a well-placed rebound shot over senior goalie Sean Bonar’s shoulder for the first goal of the game.

“It was a good play on the power play,” Opperman said. “There was a great screen. I was lucky enough to be the guy on the spot and pick up the puck and get it in the back of the net. It was awesome seeing all the tennis balls coming down.”

Opperman’s goal was the team’s first power play goal of the calendar year and first in its last 24 opportunities. The Big Green finished the first period with a major 22-5 shot advantage, and added another power play goal in each successive period.

Another highlight of the evening was that Eric Neiley ’15 returned to the ice from a two-game suspension, his first action since the 1-1 Cornell draw.

“It feels good,” Neiley said. “You never want to sit out. You just want to help the team in any way you can.

It’s good to be back, and I’m glad I could help out. Tonight was a fun game to be back for.”

In the first period, the team suffered a momentary scare as Neiley was crosschecked from behind into the net. The goalpost struck his neck, sending him to the bench for the rest of the first period. He returned after the period break.

Just 45 seconds into the second period, Brandon McNally ’15 redirected a shot from the point by Neiley,

netting Dartmouth’s second power play goal of the night. McNally’s goal would prove to be the game winner.

From there on, however, the second period proved to be Princeton’s, as the Tigers stormed back into the game, cutting the deficit to one before the horn sounded.

“Princeton took advantage of some of our turnovers in the second period,” head coach Bob Gaudet said. “We made a few of them in the offensive zone while trying to make a play.”

The Tigers battled back with three goals from senior Alec Rush, junior Tyler Maugeri and senior Andrew Calof before the second period ended.

“I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t nervous, because it’s funny how the game ebbs away a little bit, and it’s not from a lack of effort,” Gaudet said. “But to regroup going into the third period was really important. We just kept the play in front of us. I thought Princeton played a good game but they weren’t a threat in the third period.”

Beamish proved to be the night’s hero, netting his second goal on the

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power play during the final frame.

Beamish’s shot from the left circle bounced off goalie Sean Bonar’s leg pads and rolled slowly into the net, sealing the win.

“That was just a huge play to get a puck into the net,” Gaudet said, adding that in such a tight game, any small bounce can make a large difference.

Princeton would pull Bonar from the net to add an extra skater with 2:22 left but never managed to score.

Dartmouth successfully prevented Princeton from getting multiple shots with the extra skater.

The Big Green finished the third period with a 19-3 shot advantage, finishing with a 48-20 advantage for the game.

Dartmouth’s penalty kill also rebounded from the previous night’s game, thwarting all four of Princeton’s chances. The Big Green’s power play came back strong after a futile month, going three for four on the man advantage.

Goalie James Kruger ’16 allowed three goals in 20 shots but picked up his first career win with Dartmouth’s offensive outburst. Bonar matched

his career high with 43 saves. Dartmouth’s 48 shots set a new season high.

Both sides played aggressively all night long, combining for 10 penalties and multiple fights.

Quinnipiac (19-4-5, 9-2-3 ECAC) took advantage of Dartmouth’s injury-depleted and young squad on Friday night. With the win, Quinnipiac swept Dartmouth for the second straight season and extended its winning streak against the Big Green to five. The Bobcats looked the part of a championship-caliber team.

“Quinnipiac is an excellent team,” Gaudet said. “I thought from the opening face off they were outstanding, and we didn’t have any answers, and that’s my job.”

Dartmouth made it easier for Quinnipiac with poor puck control and five penalties, two of which would lead to power play goals.

Dartmouth was held scoreless on its three power plays. The Big Green entered the game needing to score during the power play to remain competitive, but it could not compete against Quinnipiac’s penalty kill.

The rout started eight seconds into the game when senior Connor Jones took the opening face-off, skated through Dartmouth’s entire first line and shot the puck past Charles Grant ’16. Jones’ goal was the fastest score in Quinnipiac history.

“We played a team that played at a really, really high pace, and my hope is that what we can gain from it is the thought that playing at that pace takes so much work and takes

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so much effort that that’s where we need to try to consistently be,” Gaudet said.

Quinnipiac reeled off another five goals by the end of the second period, including three scores in three minutes during the second.

After the sixth goal, head coach Rand Pecknold took the foot off the gas pedal.

Once Quinnipiac extended its lead to five, Gaudet yanked Grant and inserted Kruger.

Dartmouth’s lone goal, a shot by Tim O’Brien ’16 in the slot, came long after the game’s outcome had been settled. The tally seemed only to antagonize Quinnipiac, which quickly responded with another two goals.

“We’re better than we showed, but they have an outstanding team,” Gaudet said. “They presented us a lot of problems in terms of their skill level and quickness.”

Sophomore goalie Michael Garteig picked up his NCAA-leading 19th win of the year, and freshman Sam Anas added two points to his NCAA-leading 34 points by a freshman.

Dartmouth travels to Harvard University on Friday for its only game of the week.

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Women’s hockey is swept but remains in eighth in ECAC

B y jehanna axelrod The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s ice hockey team dropped games to both Quinnipiac University and Princeton University this weekend on the road. Despite the fact that the Big Green (7-15-1, 6-10-1 ECAC) lost to both teams earlier this season, players were confident coming into the weekend on a three-game win streak.

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Dartmouth scored first in Friday’s 3-1 loss to No. 9 Quinnipiac (17-4-7, 8-3-5 ECAC), but the team could not convert on its chances as the game progressed. Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Princeton (11-9-3, 7-7-2 ECAC) featured a more potent offense, but late-game penalties helped keep the Big Green out of the net.

“It’s tough to have a good flow and to play the game that you’re preparing for when you get that many penalties,” head coach Mark Hudak said.

The Big Green remained eighth in the ECAC, as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (10-15-2, 6-9-1 ECAC) and Yale University (7-12-4. 5-7-4 ECAC) also recorded losses. Dartmouth stands just one point behind the Bulldogs.

“We had a better game against Quinnipiac,” Devon Moir ’17 said.

“The score doesn’t really show it, but Quinnipiac is a lot better. In the Princeton game, we didn’t play the full 60 minutes. We sort of took time

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The women’s hockey team’s three-game winning streak was snapped this weekend, as it lost to Quinnipiac and Princeton.

off and let the team get the best of us.”

The Bobcats came out firing against the Big Green on Friday, testing goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft ’14 with 12 shots in the first frame, but the captain was up to the task, turning away each one she faced.

The Big Green offense could not muster much of an attack, registering only five shots in the first 20 minutes.

After a scoreless opening period against Quinnipiac, defenseman Emma Korbs ’17 scored her first collegiate goal to put Dartmouth up 1-0 11:58 into the second period on a blast from the point. Katy Ratty ’17 and Karlee Odland ’15 were credited with the assist. Ratty started the play with a great forecheck in the

corner, cycling the puck to Odland, who found Korbs for the goal.

“The freshmen have really contributed quite a bit this year,” Hudak said. “As they gain some experience, they’re starting to realize that they can take some offensive risks.”

Seven minutes later, with just 43 seconds left in the period, Quinnipiac tied the game on a back door pass to freshman Emma Woods, who buried the puck for the goal. The Bobcats never looked back, scoring 3:14 into the third period and again with 2:17 left in the match.

The Big Green finished the game with 16 shots on goal, 12 fewer than its opponent, but kept Quinnipiac scoreless on power plays.

The women then traveled to

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position for the Big Green, joined by Ian Woon ’15, Aaron Athanas ’16 and Daniel Whitcomb ’16. UConn’s anchor, junior Felix Samuels, split at 45.13, making up almost the entirety of the overall time difference between the two teams. Together, Dartmouth swam 3:04.41, just .51 seconds behind the Huskies.

“I still felt that the times were good for this time of year,” North said.

“Our 400 relay was much faster than it has been earlier this season, which is pretty awesome at this point in the year because we’re still lifting pretty hard. It was nice to see everyone step up when they needed to.”

Swimmers knew the meet would be close. UConn’s men’s and women’s teams had split with the University of Pennsylvania earlier in the season,

which had beat the Big Green men and women handily earlier this month.

“We needed every point that we won,” Kerr said. “Going into it, they looked better than us on paper, but some of our swimmers turned out awesome times, and it worked out.”

Both teams had key victories earlier in the meet that allowed them to go head-to-head with the Huskies during the relay. The teams started with a pair of firsts in the 200-yard medley relay, which, Kerr said, helped set the tone.

“The opening relay is always a toss-up,” she said. “Normally, when we win, it’s a really good prediction of how we’ll do in the rest of the meet.

It put us in a good mindset.”

Kerr also pointed to the victory of Olivia Samson ’16 in the 200-yard IM as a turning point in the meet. Then, she said, the team realized it could win. Samson swam a 2:10.18 in the

200-yard IM, bringing home a crucial victory for the Big Green.

“I was surprised,” Samson said, “but I knew that how the points were at that point in the meet that I had to step up and give it my all.”

The men nabbed nine first-place finishes overall, with standout performances from consistent swimmers Nejc Zupan ’14, David Harmon ’17, James Verhagen ’16 and Jun Oh ’16.

Oh won the 1,000-yard freestyle by 10.78 and tied for first in the 500-yard freestyle.

“If you had told me going into that last relay that we would swim a 3:04 and not win, I wouldn’t have believed you,” North said.

Both teams travel to Columbia University next weekend to compete in the last dual meet of the season before the Ivy League Championships at the end of February.

New Jersey to face the Tigers, with a chance to vault into sixth in the ECAC. The contest was marred by a combined 23 penalties that hindered the game’s flow.

Lindsey Allen ’16 said that the team treated the matchup as a playoff game because of its huge implications.

In the first period, the Big Green had three power play chances, but failed to convert on any. Princeton scored 18:12 into the game, but Dartmouth tied it up just 49 seconds later with a tally from Laura Stacey ’16. Allen hit Stacey with a quick pass. Stacey then fired the puck by the goalie’s shoulder and into the net.

Neither team managed to score

in the second, so the game remained at 1-1 entering the final period. Just 30 seconds in, the Tigers beat goaltender Holdcroft to take the lead, and about four minutes later, scored again on a power play.

“We had to push hard the third period,” Allen said. “We had a long bus ride ahead of us, so the only thing we can do is leave it all out there.”

The Big Green and the Tigers combined for 13 penalties in the final frame, preventing either team from gaining a huge advantage in momentum. Dartmouth finally converted, as a Eleni Tebano ’17 scored her first collegiate goal. Unfortunately the late surge was not enough. Despite 26 shots on goal and eight power play opportunities, the Big Green was unable to beat its Ivy League rival.

“We went hard, and that’s sometimes why you get penalties, too,” Hudak said. “You’re going just a little bit too hard and playing just a little bit too desperate, and you’re not playing with the control you’d like to play with.”

With less than two minutes left in play, Odland received a game misconduct for hitting from behind, meaning she will be suspended for one game. The junior was an integral part of Dartmouth’s top line, so the Big Green will need to regroup and adapt as its road does not get easier next weekend.

“Karlee’s definitely one of our players that we need on our team,” Moir said. “We’re just going to have to work ever harder to fill that role that she plays. I think if we come out with a lot of energy against Harvard, we’ll be able to play a good game.”

Dartmouth hosts No. 5 Harvard University at 7 p.m. at Thompson Arena next Friday.

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Women’s basketball swept on the road by Princeton, Penn

B y Macy Ferguson The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s basketball team had a tough road trip last weekend, suffering a 71-53 loss at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday and a 7653 defeat at the hands of Princeton University on Saturday.

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Friday’s game slipped through Dartmouth’s (3-14, 0-3 Ivy) fingers early when the Quakers (12-5, 2-1 Ivy) jumped to a quick lead with a 15-0 run just five minutes into a game. Although guard Nicola Zimmer ’14 stopped the run with her second three of the period, Penn still came away from the half with a 15-point lead.

Zimmer and forward Lakin Roland ’16 led the offense, both finishing in the double digits with 10 points. As a whole, the offense shot 38 percent from the field and made eight three-pointers in the game

while only getting to the line once.

Penn dominated on both ends, shooting 42 percent from the field with nine steals and 13 forced turnovers.

During the first half, Penn’s defense stifled the Big Green, holding them to only 26.7 percent shooting from the field.

“Penn played a zone that we struggled with,” guard Katie Vareika ’17 said .

The team is accustomed to playing man-to-man defense, which made the Quaker’s zone scheme hard to adjust to, she said.

The Quakers continued to lead throughout the second, with Penn outscoring the Big Green 37-34 in the final frame. The second half was more competitive, however, as Dartmouth out-rebounded the Quakers 17-15.

Freshman center Sydney Stipanovich finished with a doubledouble — 12 points and 12 rebounds — for Penn and senior guard Alyssa Baron led the Quaker offense with 20 points.

Vareika said the Big Green executed its offense well in the last few minutes of the game but found its rhythm too late to make an impact.

“We were looking good toward

the end, but it was just too late in the game to make a run that would have changed the outcome,” Vareika said.

Saturday’s game at Princeton (11-6, 2-1 Ivy) went in a different direction, as the game was within three points at halftime but then

“The big takeaway from this weekend is that we need to put two halves together and play with a lot of enthusiasm and energy with defensive focus and make high percentage shots.”

from the free-throw line. Roland led all Dartmouth scorers with 12 points and five rebounds, and Zimmer was close behind with 11 points, also shooting a perfect four-for-four on free throws.

The defense, however, fell apart in the second half. Princeton shot 72 percent from the floor and out rebounded Dartmouth 21-9.

“Even though the defense crumbled in the second half, we’re definitely getting better and improving our defense and working better as a

team,” Vareika said.

The team’s improvement is a result of practice, increased cohesion and sharper focus on defense above all else, Vareika said.

“The big takeaway from this weekend is that we need to put two halves together and play with a lot of enthusiasm and energy with defensive focus and make high percentage shots,” she said.

Dartmouth continues its road swing next weekend, playing at Yale University and Brown University.

- KATIE VAREIKA ’17 slipped away from the Big Green.

Milica Toskovic ’15 scored the first points of the game on a layup in the paint at the 18:38 mark.

“We came out a lot stronger in the first half and executed our offense well and took better shots,” Vareika said.

Vareika was one of three Dartmouth players to score in the doubledigits, contributing 10 points from the bench and going four-for-four

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The women’s basketball team went 0-2 this weekend, falling to Penn and Princeton.

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ONE ON ONE

WITH DANA GIORDANO ’16

B y lily gordon The Dartmouth Staff

This week, I sat down with Dana Giordano ’16, a member of the women’s track team, to discuss her distance medley relay team’s recordsetting performance Friday night at Pennsylvania State University.

Finishing with an impressive combined time of 11:02.21, the fierce foursome earned themselves a spot in the NCAA Championships.

How do relays compare to the individual events you run?

DG: Your teammates are really dependent on you, which can create a lot of pressure but is also exciting.

They’re also less common in college, so it’s fun when we have the chance to run them.

What is the most challenging aspect of the race?

DG: This past weekend, the most challenging part was knowing the field because it was so small. It was also challenging for me just knowing how talented everyone out there was.

I had to remind myself that everything was going to be okay and that I belonged out there even though my times are not what theirs are.

So I guess the hardest part for me, leading off, was just trying to stay in it right from the beginning so that we wouldn’t have a big gap.

How do you prepare?

my team and join them.

How much do your times vary from practice to events?

DG: This past weekend we were all very close to our goal time, but we could have done better by about a second or two. So for instance, I knew this race I needed about a 3:25 or lower, and I think I got pretty close to that but could have been faster. So you really have to know your times because even if you’re competitive and you’re winning a race, you’re still racing the clock, not just the other people out there.

Do you have any pre-meet rituals or superstitions?

DG: Sometimes we all watch movies the night before a big meet. We’re told not to do homework on the day of the race. I’m not really the most superstitious. Some people on the team are crazy about what they eat, but not me. I race the best when I’m happy. So if I’m nervous or thinking about a lot of things, it’s just not going to work out well. Abbey [D’Agostino ’14] and I were just talking about this the other day: it’s silly that we get nervous about these meets. We are out there running every day, doing what we love. Come race time we should just remember that, relax and have fun with it.

How do you mentally prepare yourself in the few minutes before you run?

DG: [Jennifer Meech ’16] and I usually practice handoffs because she’s the next leg of the race. And then the four of us usually have a little pep talk before the event and hold the baton together before we get out there and send it off.

DG: We do striders right before, which are fast 150-meter sprints to get your heart rate up before the meet.

So in those final minutes you get a little antsy, but when you get on the line, you just have to stop.

What role does team chemistry play?

What typically is going through your head while you are running?

DG: Team chemistry is really important because you don’t want to run for just anyone. You won’t run as fast if it’s for nothing. So team chemistry definitely gives it a purpose and provides us all with motivation for the race.

DG: You can hear the coach’s split sometimes and the crowd, but honestly you’re really just thinking about moving up to the next group. Your mind doesn’t really wander in that short of a race.

Do you spend much time with the other members of the relay team outside of practice?

DG: We spend a lot of time together as a team and eat practically every meal together. It’s really nice for me because I feel like I can walk into FoCo at nearly any time, and I’m guaranteed to see some people from

B y Austin major and freddie fletcher The Dartmouth Staff

I write this column with a heavy heart. As most of campus knows, the ski team and the Dartmouth community lost Torin Tucker ’15 — a teammate, fraternity brother and friend who was competing in a sport he loved. Both my and Austin’s thoughts and prayers go out to all of Torin’s teammates, friends and family as they process this loss. We both hope that campus can pull together to celebrate the life and legacy of a peer and lend support to the Dartmouth Ski Team.

This week, the Legends competed against the men’s alpine ski team, and since it involved being outside in the winter, Austin said I was on my own.

My good friend Ben Morse ’14 decided I should come out to the mountain to take a few runs and “hit some gates,” whatever that means.

I got to the Skiway around 9 a.m., with blue skies, a full sun and freezing weather, even before wind chill. I see the team training, gliding around in skin-tight speed suits that can’t possibly provide the warmth needed at 2 degrees.

Full disclosure: I don’t ski. I mean, I did once or twice growing up, but I was pretty bad and didn’t really enjoy it. I grew up by the beach.

What do you expect? But seeing as snowboarding was akin to surfing, I picked it up freshman year, and I have enjoyed it so much that I never took a winter term off. So instead of racing Ben on a pair of skis, I chose

to play to my strength and bring my board to the mountain.

Well, let’s just say that I got some funny looks from both skiers and coaches. After introducing myself and letting them know why I was there, they sort of understood what was up, but they still couldn’t believe a snowboarder would want to race on a giant slalom ski course. I didn’t see the big deal, so after I took the lift up, Ben suggested I take a practice run and go through few gates.

I soon realized that the gates (posts that you ride around, or shoulder through, if you’re really good) hurt really badly when you hit them. The skiers apparently wear all sorts of pads and arm guards to lean through the gates, and I didn’t quite have the same equipment, so I decided I would give the gates some respect. I then noticed that the gates are pretty far from one another, and it requires skill just to make it around them, let alone maintain some speed. Finally, as I watched the skiers take their runs, I noticed they are really fast — like have-no-fear fast, break-50-mph fast, which is almost D’Agostino-fast (still waiting for her to start racing cheetahs).

After my practice run, I felt like I had a pretty good idea of what I needed to do to make it down the hill without tearing my ACL or ruining the Legends’ hard guy reputations, which was goal number one.

The next challenge was completing the course in time, which Ben explained would be more difficult than I had expected. If I couldn’t complete the course in under 90

seconds, I would register a DNF, or Did Not Finish. I wanted to beat that timer. The men’s team skiers registered about one minute and two seconds, with one of Ben’s runs clocking 1:01.7.

The run felt slow at the top, likely because the gates were far apart and the mountain had a series of sharp drops, so I needed to keep my speed under control. But after getting around, and I mean well around, the first few gates, I shifted into a better zone, increased my speed, and felt like I was on track to register a sub-90-second performance, when, I missed a gate, which in real skiing would mean disqualification. But, I kept charging forward. By the end, I had missed only two of what felt like 100 gates and made it in what I thought was a reasonable time.

Then Ben came whizzing by me and stopped at the clock, which was spitting out our times. I held my breath. The news was disappointing — I received a DNF. I am currently contesting the result with the International Ski Federation, and I hope that it will not hurt my point totals too badly. That last sentence was kind of a ski joke, or so I’m told.

The cards were stacked against me, and I couldn’t quite pull it off, but I still had a great time. The team could not have been nicer, and visiting the Skiway is a great opportunity. With great races coming up this Friday and Saturday, I encourage you to get yourselves up there. Ski or ride some for yourself and show the ski team that the Dartmouth community supports them, now more than ever.

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Going forward, how do you plan to improve your strategy?

DG: I think we all just need to be a little more competitive. Especially as the first leg, I need to just hop in there and not be so afraid. You’ve got to get out there at some point!

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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The men’s basketball team swept Princeton and Penn this weekend for the first time in 25 years.

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Veterans group expands campus programming

“In the end what really kept me here was the fact that Dartmouth wanted me ’16 received a partial football scholar- to be here,” Ballard said. “They wanted ship to Concordia University in Austin, veterans to come here and somebody Tx. After a semester of partying with to share that experience with the school teammates and skipping early morning and the community.”

Ballard also pointed to the supclasses, he took his coaches’ advice and withdrew from school. That semester portive veteran presence on campus was characterized by a lack of maturity as a reason for staying in Hanover.

Allen said he has seen the comand focus, he said.

Ballard decided to enlist in the Ma- munity grow over the years. When he rine Corps, following in the footsteps of arrived in Hanover three years ago, his father. After spending two years as Dartmouth had seven veterans. The a mechanic in California and North Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Carolina, he served the next three years Association, of which Allen is now as an embassy guard in Uganda, France president, was a social club that met and Chad. He then began thinking bi-weekly at Ramunto’s for pizza and about returning to the U.S. to continue beer. Now, club membership has more than doubled — an ideal size for holdhis education.

A year before discharging, Ballard ing events and raising awareness on decided he wanted to play college campus.

Last term, DUVA held its annual football. He found that Texas Tech University was a good fit and was one Veterans Day Banquet, attracting about 135 people. of 10 walk-ons to This make the team, “I wanted to come here term, the club but a shoulder plans to show injury ended his because being a veteran documentaries dream of playing is important to me.” from the wars in Division I football Iraq and Afghanibefore he ever - MIKE BALLARD ’16 stan, followed by a took to the field. question-and-anBallard deswer session with cided he wanted a more academically rigorous school, veterans who served in those conflicts, on that was more considerate of his Allen said. Among the documentaries unique circumstances as a veteran, so is “The Battle for Marjah” (2011), an expose detailing a key battle in the he transferred to Dartmouth.

“I wanted to come here because Afghanistan War. The club is currently planning a trip being a veteran is important to me,” Ballard said. “I emailed people here to Boston to visit the Freedom Trail and at Dartmouth, and they got back to USS Constitution. Over spring break, me right away. They told me about a few veterans plan to travel to a Marythe people in veteran affairs and that land military base to speak about the we have a veteran group here that is possibilities Dartmouth offers, Ballard said. growing.”

This kind of programming is what Being a veteran and an older student on campus presents a unique set of convinced Ballard to remain a student challenges. Allen said he was anxious at the College.

“The longer I’m here, the more I fall about the role his age would play.

“I was a little nervous being the third- in love with Dartmouth,” he said. “I’m oldest undergraduate on campus,” he glad I’m here, and I’m glad I stayed.”

Veterans also commented on how said. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to fit in, but I’ve had a great experience. accommodating the College is.

Craig Serpa ’16 spent nine years Nothing has made me feel like I was a in the military, the longest stint of all different type of student.”

Ballard, however, points to the age undergraduate veterans, before madifference as a key factor in making life triculating at Dartmouth.

After meeting former College a little tougher.

“If you’re not a veteran, you won’t President James Wright at an event for fully understand what it’s like,” Ballard Marines, Serpa’s interest in Dartmouth said. “It’s hard to relate sometimes to peaked. He excelled in junior college and was admitted in the fall. people who are younger than you.”

Serpa, who is involved in DUVA, When he first arrived on campus in the fall, Ballard said he considered said members of the College administransferring to Columbia University. tration, professors and students are open Socially, he saw Columbia as a better to talking to him about his experience as fit, with a larger pool of graduate stu- a Marine. Aside from living off-campus, dents and people his own age, located nothing about the school makes him in an urban environment. He said he feel any different, he said.

“I’m receiving the same experience submitted a transfer application before reevaluating the decision and realizing as an 18-year-old kid coming out of that Dartmouth was the best place for high school,” Serpa said. “Which is really cool.” him.

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THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

Double Secret Probation

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TODAY 12:00 p.m.

“Moving Dartmouth Forward: The D-Plan,” Haldeman 041

3:15 p.m.

Music department colloquium, “Video Games and the Musical Imagination,” with Dr. William Cheng, Hopkins Center, Faulkner Recital Hall

5:00 p.m.

“Without Their Permission,” with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Filene Auditorium

TOMORROW 4:30 p.m.

Annual William Jewett Tucker lecture, “Becoming Global Citizens: Civil Discourse Across Difference,” Hanover Inn Grand Ballroom

4:30 p.m.

Crepes a la Carte

Brian Flint ’14

“Women in War: The Case of El Salvador,” with Jocelyn Viterna of Harvard University, Haldeman 041

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Performers race through 30 plays in 60 minutes in Play Space show “This is not your standard fare,” he said. “This is what the depart“Hi!” a company member ment was looking for with the Play cheerfully greets me. “What’s your Space program — things that push name?” She has a stack of name the envelope, change the nature of tags placed in front of her, a Sharpie the theatrical experience.” poised in her hand.

On Saturday, the audience filed “Apoorva. A-P-O-O-R-V-A,” into the theater, name tags on, and I carefully dictate, an automatic found a warning sign on our seats, response to years of botched spell- foreshadowing the silliness to come. ings.

On the flip side was a program with She nods, scribbles on the name the names of all 30 plays and cortag and hands it to me with a smile. responding numbers, one to 30.

The card reads, “Hello, my name At the front of the theater, the is Jay Gatsby.” same numbers were posted on stage.

From the moment audience It was the audience’s job to yell out members descended the stairs to a number, which indicated the play the Bentley Theater on Saturday to to be performed. the final time they heard performA company member would then ers shout, “Curtain,” “Too Much run out, rip off the number and Light Makes the Baby Go Blind,” call out the play title, bringing the an interactive performance of 30 actors on stage to perform. At the plays in 60 minutes, proved a clever end of the performance, the troupe and hilarious experience. members shouted, “Curtain!” — Inspired by a show of the same cueing the audience to choose a title put on by The Neo-Futurists, new number. a Chicago-based experimental Most plays lasted between theater troupe, Amber Porter ’14 10 seconds and 3 minutes, makproposed the idea for the theater ing “Curtain!” a common word. department’s Play Space program, “Drink,” thanks to play number which allows theater majors and mi- seven, took on special significance, nors to use the Bentley Theater and too. Introduced within the show’s a $100 budget first minutes, for unconven- “We started off with “The Drinking tional projects.

Game” involved Porter said she 50 ideas, and we just Diane Chen ’14 had been ex- had to be hard on casually sitting cited to debut on the corner of a new style of ourselves and decide the stage with a ex p e r i m e n t a l what was going to be whiskey bottle theater at Dart- in the show and what and shot glass. mouth.

She took a shot “There are was not.” each time a joke the improv fell flat, a perg roups, and former messed then we have - CRISTY ALTAMIRANO ’15 up or whenever the 10-minute the audience play festival in WiRED, and this is asked her to, for the duration of kind of the middle ground between the performance. the two,” she said. “The intent for Chen’s sideshow was a clever WiRED is to restrict and inspire, built-in back-up plan for mistakes, and this is the ultimate version of although performers did not have that.” to fall back on it often. The audiThe theater department appre- ence and I roared with laughter at ciated the novelty of the project punny sketches like “One Night as well, theater professor and Play Stand,” where a company member Space program director Jamie walked out and placed a lamp stand Horton said. at center stage.

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Performers in Saturday’s “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” theater show had to be on call at any moment.

In another sketch, “Eye Contact Is Important,” company members ran out from backstage and held a staring contest with the audience for a full minute. Another favorite featured Molly McBride ’14, who played the recurring character of a girl enamored with anyone in a uniform, including Zahra Ruffin ’17 as a frustrated 911 call operator and Robert Leverett ’16 as a monotone Transportation Security Administration officer.

The original plays were written and rehearsed over just two and a half weeks, Porter said. The creative process included collaboration from all of the performers.

“It’s gotten to the point where no one really knows what they have contributed,” Porter said.

The group faced the daunting challenge of solidifying the acts in time for the production, performer Cristy Altamirano ’15 said.

“We started off with 50 ideas, and

we just had to be hard on ourselves and decide what was going to be in the show and what was not,” she said. “In the end, we communicated well and just had fun.”

Perri Haser ’17, another performer, said she enjoyed the show’s chaotic nature.

Porter said she was pleased with the show and its turnout, especially given the scheduling conflict with

the Dartmouth-Princeton hockey game and the Hopkins Center’s screening of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (2013). The performers are discussing running a similar show in the spring, she said.

“The show tonight was as great as I’d ever imagined it,” Porter said.

“We had such a great energy, and the entire company was just having fun.”

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Richman ’92 edits award-winning docs Alumni groups promote arts careers, internships

alumni with professionals. According to the mentorship director Jessica While many students know the Krug ’11, the program has increased Center for Professional Development’s in popularity. Following the December popular recruitment program that application cycle, 19 recent graduates many use for jobs in banking, finance connected with mentors, its largest and consulting, the office and alumni group so far, she said. groups like Dartmouth Alumni in The Center for Professional DeEntertainment and Media are working velopment also facilitates shadow to expand opportunities for students programs over break, which include interested in the arts, too. opportunities in the arts, Yee said.

Lesley Kingsley, the center’s as- Currently, Dartmouth students and sistant director for internships and recent alumni work on Broadway, at employer relations, said students the Kennedy Center for Performing interested in arts and entertainment Arts and in the production room at need to be proactive in the job search. ESPN, Yee said. While entry-level and They can visit the office for a tutorial on internship positions themselves may using internship databases and alumni not seem glamorous, the connections networks. are “invaluable,” she said.

Finding full-time careers can be Sarah Hylton ’13 said she used the tricky, but contacts with previous em- Dartmouth Alumni Directory to land ployers and alumni can help expose a job at the Metropolitan Museum of students to informal job offers, she said. Art in the summer after her junior “You are not going to find a lot of year. She worked in the museum’s traditional internship listings,” King- editorial department, which included sley said. “It’s really about advocating editing wall labels and assisting with the for yourself and museum’s book independently productions.

“You are not going to arranging an

Allison find a lot of traditional opportunity.”

Yeager ’14 spent A s s i s t a n t listings. It’s really about her sophomore director Kate winter workYee said that advocating for yourself ing for Shine each internship and independently Global, a nonor networking film proarranging an opportunity.” profit event can lead duction comto other opporpany in New tunities. She - lesley kingsley, CENTER York City that encouraged helped make students to be FOR PROFESSIONAL the Academy their own ad- DEVELOPMENT Assistant Award-winning vocates. documentary director DA E M A , short “Inocenan association te” (2012). As for graduates in entertainment and an intern, Yeager assisted film producmedia, lists alumni whom students may ers with their work. contact for career advice on its website. Yee said the biggest struggle that Representatives from the group, who students face is getting their foot in the will visit on Friday, come to campus door. once or twice a year, Yee said.

“It ultimately comes down to who DAEMA also runs a six-month knows you, who knows your work ethic mentorship program begun in 2009 and who knows the work that you are that pairs current students and young capable of doing,” she said.

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Woody Richman ’92 was on campus last week to teach a film editing class and discuss “How to Survive a Plague” (2012).

B y MAYA PODDAR Woody Richman ’92 is a film editor who specializes in documentary film.

He has worked with director Michael Moore as an editor for “Capitalism: A Love Story” (2009), “Fahrenheit 9/11” (2004) and “Bowling for Columbine” (2002). He recently edited the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “How to Survive a Plague” (2012), a film about two activist groups that worked to spread awareness about AIDS in the early years of the epidemic.

When did you first become interested in film?

WR: I always loved going to the movies and watching movies. It was an escape into a fantasy world. My family definitely encouraged activities in the arts, but it was never something that anyone really thought about for a career. Freshmen fall, my advisor said, ‘You’re going to take three classes, two of which are pretty difficult — why don’t you take something less academic?’ I took From Script to Screen, which was an introduction to filmmaking. I learned about the people behind the film, and in a larger way, the arts.

I wanted to explore more. When I was a sophomore, I petitioned to get into a creative video class, and I got in even though I was an underclassmen.

Dartmouth was where I realized that I could work in film.

How did you get into editing and working with documentaries?

WR: The first decade of my career, I worked on only narrative film. I was an assistant editor in cutting rooms for [directors] Nick Gomez, Spike Lee and Oliver Stone. Between jobs or at night, I’d edit low-budget narrative features.

If you look at my IMDb page, you’ll see some really bad ones. The first film I edited was “Destination Unknown” (1997), which won the Hamptons Film Festival that year. It was a real indie film.

At the time, documentaries were on the rise, and sort of became the new indie film. Every aspiring, young filmmaker wanted to make one. There were more of these editing jobs, but I wasn’t getting them. I looked online and Moore was advertising an editing position for his gun documentary, “Bowling for Columbine.” About 2,000 people applied, and all that experience I had in narrative features, full-length projects that involved taking the films from beginning to end, was really attractive to both Moore and his lead editor, Kurt Engfehr. Engfehr had come out of television, so he knew short form and was looking for someone who knew long form. I got the job. Then things started building.

Can you talk about your most recent project, “How to Survive a Plague”?

WR: [Director] David France really loved “Trouble the Water” (2008),

especially the way that I handled found footage as well as how I portrayed Kim, Scott and Brian as atypical heroes. This translated to “How to Survive a Plague,” because the organizers for ACT UP were often bombastic, and people did not see them as heroes necessarily. They were openly gay at a time when people did not accept homosexuality.

What is an interesting aspect of editing that most people don’t know about?

WR: Most people think of editors as just cutting the bad parts rather than acting as the emotional guide through the story.

What advice would you give to student interested in careers in the arts?

WR: Your parents will probably tell you to get a real job. You’ve got to realize that you’re an adult, and you don’t have to listen to your parents. If you have a real passion to do something, you’ve got to go for it. You’ll do some menial labor to get your foot in the door – the fact that I’d learned how to make cappuccinos at the Ben and Jerry’s in Hanover was a very valuable experience for my first film job. The advice I would give is that your friends who take a traditional route will have more stuff and go on fancier vacations, but you have to be okay with that. It’s about following your passion.

This interview has been edited and condensed.