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Faculty to discuss grading

Students release ‘Freedom Budget,’ outline demands

2013 median course grades

By Taylor Malmsheimer The Dartmouth Senior Staff

4 percent of courses had an A/A- median, and another 4 percent had an A-/B+ median.

During the 2012-13 academic year, spanning from summer 2012 to spring 2013, approximately 41 percent of courses had an A- median, 25 percent had a B+ median and 18 percent had an A median.

The distribution was similar in 2011-12, when about 40 percent of classes had an A-

Early Monday morning, a group of students released an eight-page document outlining over 70 specific proposals that aim to more equitably distribute power and resources on campus.

Demands outlined in the document, called “The Plan for Dartmouth’s Freedom Budget: Items for Transformative Justice at Dartmouth,” seek to eliminate systems of oppression, including racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism.

“We, the Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer and Differently-Abled students at Dartmouth College, seek to eradicate systems of oppression as they affect marginalized communities on this campus,” the document begins.

The document was sent to 13 College administrators and was then released over the campus Listserv around 2 a.m.

The document’s reforms are listed in eight categories: undergraduate admissions, undergraduate curriculum, faculty and staff, financial aid, residential life, campus climate, advising and support and miscellaneous.

Proposals include increasing enrollment of black, Latino and Latina and Native American students to at least 10 percent each. Additional demands were for the College to make a multimillion dollar commitment to increasing the number of faculty and staff of color across departments.

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SPORTS WEEKLY

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OPINION

CALLING OUT COMPLACENCY

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In fall 2013, Chemistry 5 had the lowest median grade, a B-, while 75 courses had A medians.

B y SEAN CONNOLLY The Dartmouth Staff

The average Dartmouth GPA has risen steadily over the past four decades, according to a report from the Committee on Instruction, which will present its findings on grading practices in a meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences this afternoon. The report indicates that since the early 1970s, the average Dartmouth GPA has risen from around

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3.05, or a B, to above 3.4, or a B+.

Data available through the office of the registrar’s website indicates that the two most common course median grades in 2013 were an A- and B+. Over the course of the winter, spring, summer and fall terms of 2013, around 42 percent of courses had a median of A-, around 24 percent of courses had a B+ median and about 19 percent had an A median. Approximately

Alumni are currently voting on whether to eliminate alumni-wide balloting in uncontested elections for alumni trustees and executive committee members. In addition to the change in balloting policy, the proposed amendment to the Alumni Association constitution would reduce the use of

paper ballots and change the constitution’s wording to reflect name changes to Dartmouth’s medical and business schools.

Voting on the amendment as well as the 2014 executive committee — for which every candidate is uncontested — began on Feb. 12 and will continue until March 11.

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Snow boosts Skiway turnout

B y JOSE BURNES

The Dartmouth Staff

Since the ski season began on Dec. 14, the Dartmouth Skiway has received 60 inches of snow, putting an end to a pattern of mild winters. After one of the snowiest seasons in recent years, the Skiway has seen high attendance and opened access to all 31 trails.

Despite the amount of natural snowfall the Skiway received this season, snowmaking has remained consistent

with previous years because the Skiway cannot predict when or how much natural snow it will receive, said Skiway manager Doug Holler.

As of Feb. 23, New Hampshire has received 67 inches of snowfall, compared to an average 52 inches over the past three years, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.

While the season started with abundant natural snowfall, certain trails closed later this term due to weather fluctuations and rainy spells. The

closings represent a typical trend, Holler said. About 95 percent of the trails that use manufactured snow have been open for the season, but many of the natural trails reopened last week after a period of warm weather, Holler said.

The Skiway has seen an increase in the number of visitors since last year, he said.

Large quantities of snow, like the storm that hit around Feb. 14, help boost Skiway business.

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DAily debriefing The body of a Bates College junior was found on Thursday in a Rome rail tunnel, according to CBS News. The student, John Durkin, had been missing from his study abroad program for two days. Trinity College Rome Campus officials identified Durkin, a 21-year-old man from Rye, who was last seen early Thursday morning. The case is currently under investigation and official details have not yet been released. Durkin was an economics major and a member of the football team.

University of New Hampshire researchers published an academic study concluding that most people make their most important memories by the time they turn 25, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. UNH researchers asked 34 retirement community residents ages 59 to 92 to provide an individual life story in half an hour. Participants then split up their life stories into chapters. Researchers found evidence for a “reminiscence bump,” or period of time when many positive and negative memories are recalled, between the ages of 17 and 24.

The second-largest wind farm operator in the U.S., Iberdrola Renewables, announced it will suspend its 23-turbine Wild Meadows wind farm in Danbury in order to focus on resolving a dispute regarding another wind farm in Groton, the Associated Press reported. The Groton project has drawn attention for allegedly changing the location of turbines and a building without proper clearance. Although the company obtained approval from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, state regulators are concerned that the department was not authorized to approve the changes. ­

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

“Panelists share stories of adjustment” (Feb. 21, 2014): Due to an editing error, the initial version of this article incorrectly stated that Thursday’s event was the first People of Dartmouth panel. In fact, the first was in February 2011.

“Rocky supports social start-ups” (Feb. 21, 2014): The print version of this article misidentified a speaker. Mahnum Shahzad ’15, not Katherine Crane ’16, stated that people’s views of leadership have become focused on the financial sector.

“Students, staff discuss socioeconomic status” (Feb. 21, 2014): The initial version of this article misidentified one of the panelists. She is Hui Cheng ’16.

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

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Skiway opens access to all trails FROM SKIWAY PAGE 1

Many Dartmouth students said they have taken advantage of the extra snowfall by frequenting the Skiway more often this season.

Ski patrol member Sutton Higgins ’15 said that the trail conditions have been the best since she joined the patrol.

“We have a lot more snow this year, including some powder days,” she said.

Powder, considered one of the most desirable conditions for skiing, refers to fresh, unpacked snow with a low moisture content.

Both Higgins and ski patrol member Brett Teplitz ’15 said that they have spent more of their free time than usual at the Skiway this season, even when they are not working.

Kenzie Clark ’17 also said she has gone to the Skiway frequently this winter, noting that conditions have improved since the beginning of the term.

Mary Peng ’15, who visited the Skiway on Feb. 15, said that while some trails were slightly bumpy due to the extra snow, she found conditions to be better than they had been in prior trips she took. In past years, she said, the lack of snowfall has made for icy conditions.

Generally, however, Peng said she finds the Skiway to be wellmaintained and feels safe with the ski patrol keeping watch.

Decreased attendance in past years has had financial repercussions for the Skiway because of reduced profits from lessons, rental equipment and the cafeteria.

Despite the increase in visitors and the costs of snow-making, Skiway prices have remained the same throughout the season. Dartmouth

students pay $99 for a season pass regardless of when in the winter they purchase it. While the Skiway also provides reduced prices for Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees, season passes for the general public range from $365 to $525, depending on age.

The Dartmouth Skiway is expected to close in late March, but the specific date depends on future snow conditions.

IT’S A DIGITAL WORLD

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Students work in the Visual Arts Center’s digital lab.

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Alumni seek to cut costs of single-candidate elections FROM AMENDMENT PAGE 1

by majority, the amendment must attain a two-thirds majority vote to pass.

The executive committee proposed the changes in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, Association of Alumni president John Daukas ’84 said.

“Dartmouth alumni get lots of requests from the College to do things — donate money, interview new students,

“Pursuing alumni and saying, ‘Look, you really have to vote in this election,’ when there is only one candidate running doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.”

- JOHN DAUKAS ’84, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION President respond to surveys and get involved in lots of different ways,” Daukas said.

“Pursuing alumni and saying, ‘Look, you really have to vote in this election,’ when there is only one candidate running doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense.”

The executive committee commissioned the proposed amendment following years of alumni requests, Daukas said, estimating that the association has received roughly 30 letters each year from alumni calling for change.

The association spends about $70,000 to conduct a vote among the entire alumni body.

James Adler ’60 said he supports the proposed amendment because it lowers costs and reduces redundancy.

Funds for printing ballots and purchasing postage stamps come from the College, former Alumni Association president John Mathias ’69 said.

Mathias said that holding an alumniwide election is not worth the expenses of balloting when the election is uncontested.

Voting percentages rise in contested elections, Daukas said. On average, around 30 percent of alumni vote in contested trustee elections.

Last year, about 13 percent of alumni

voted in uncontested elections, Daukas said in an email.

All current candidates for the Association of Alumni executive committee — which includes a president, two vice presidents, a secretary-treasurer and seven additional members — currently stand uncontested. Three candidates are seeking reelection to their current seats, including secretary-treasurer Martha Beattie ’76 and committee members Karen Francis-DeGolia ’84 and Mark Harty ’73.

The election does not include candidates for alumni trustee positions, as there are no vacancies this year.

Susan Finegan ’85, who is running for president of the association, said that her campaign was not affected by the lack of competition.

In previous elections, alumni could cast votes either electronically or by mail.

The proposed amendment would make electronic ballots the default, though alumni will still be able to vote via mail if they request paper ballots.

The Association of Alumni constitution has been changed many times its in history. The proposed amendment will restore the original voting rules that governed the Association of Alumni and Alumni Council, Daukas said.

Two committees lead the Dartmouth alumni body. The Association of Alumni conducts alumni trustee elections, and the Alumni Council nominates alumni trustee candidates and represents and communicates alumni views on College affairs.

The current constitution gives the Alumni Council the ability to nominate up to two alumni trustee candidates.

In addition to the candidates nominated by the Alumni Council, alumni can nominate petition candidates. In order to run as a petition candidate, an individual must attain 50 signatures from Dartmouth alumni who can vote.

The proposed amendment would not affect the petition candidate process, Daukas said, adding that he believes the option to nominate petition candidates is a valuable part of the alumni trustee election process.

“I think it’s a great safety valve to have,” Daukas said.

In recent years, no petition candidates have been elected, and the Alumni Council has selected only one candidate for a trustee spot.

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POETIC LICENSE

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Members of the Soul Scribes met in Sanborn Library yesterday to workshop their writing.

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Staff Columnist Vivien RendLEman ’16

Guest Columnist Jacob kupferman ’14

Calling Out Complacency

Learn Something New

Being willing to criticize Dartmouth is a sign of love, not intolerance.

This is another column about sexual assault, racism, classism, the Greek system, privilege, et cetera at Dartmouth. I am writing this because as a Dartmouth student, I have the responsibility of engaging critically with the problems affecting my school. I am writing this as a member of the Greek system, because being affiliated and critiquing the very system with which I am affiliated are not mutually exclusive. I am responding to the amount of times I saw the letter to the editor by Christian Kiely ’09 (“Vox Clamantis: Intolerant Radicals,” Feb. 19, 2014) shared and liked on my Facebook newsfeed.

Let me tell you what seeing that letter on my newsfeed made me feel. Dartmouth students, I am glad that you read the school newspaper. I am glad that you have read the multiple articles denouncing the culture of exclusion and violence at our school. Your apparent identification with the letter indicates that you have at least done this. Perhaps after reading enough articles about sexual assault and the system of inequalities at Dartmouth, you will begin to recognize that our school does, in fact, have a problem.

But I am disturbed that students are quick to share an article that critiques the activism that has emerged on this campus. Are you that defensive of the status quo that privileges an elite few at the expense of others? I saw no one share the article announcing that the Bored at Baker author was identified (“Author of online post identified as member of Class of 2017,” Feb. 12, 2014). This indicates to me that students are less concerned with defending their classmates’ safety than with defending the school’s existing culture.

Kiely equates free drinking in fraternities and local sororities with diversity and inclusion. How does this statement hold for those who do not feel safe in Greek houses? For those who have experienced sexual assaults or homophobic insults within a Greek basement?

Kiely then goes on to call Dartmouth’s culture “admirably progressive.” Before you agree with Kiely, let me remind you what the word progressive means. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a progressive group as “favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.” With this

definition in mind, Dartmouth’s culture cannot accurately be called progressive. In fact, our paralyzed social culture may be just the opposite. Kiely critiques the activists by calling them “intolerant,” but he and his supporters seem to reject any changes that these “radical” activists propose without adding any reforms of their own.

Maybe this is what frustrates me most. Loving Dartmouth means caring enough to be critical of it, to think long and hard about what reforms could better our school. It means caring less about “the school’s good name” than about the happiness of the student body. If your time at Dartmouth has been perfect, good for you. But you must have a very sheltered Dartmouth experience if you have not seen someone close to you harmed by the culture here, or at least heard of instances of disparity and inequality. Your perfect experience does not invalidate the bad experiences of many.

Instead of lambasting activists trying to give voice to those harmed, why not work toward making the Dartmouth experience more accessible to everyone?

Doing this entails critical examination of Dartmouth’s existing systems. This engagement must be cooperative to accomplish any lasting change. I am calling for Dartmouth students to have conversation, not confrontation. I understand that conversation is difficult for those who feel like no one is listening to them. Yet if the attention The Dartmouth has gotten this past week indicates anything, students and alumni are listening. But merely listening is not enough if you outright reject any experience that differs from your own.

Use this opportunity to engage in challenging conversations about Dartmouth, even if you are content with your own place within our social hierarchy. I understand that it is difficult. I myself am happy to be a part of the Greek system, but I have a hard time reconciling this feeling with the system’s exclusionary nature and enforcement of antiquated gender roles. Dartmouth will not become the “admirably progressive” place Kiely calls it until changes and reform are actually enacted, and there is no way we will get there through silence or complacency.

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Students should take full advantage of distributive requirements.

Until recently, I have had a history of lamenting Dartmouth’s distributive requirements. As someone who started out as a philosophy major on the pre-med track only to change to philosophy modified with economics one year later, I felt as if my education was broad enough, encompassing humanities, hard sciences and social sciences. I have studied everything from chemical bonds to Hicksian demand curves to Kant’s transcendental idealism.

What could my education possibly lack?

Most notably, it lacked humility. If a main goal of a liberal arts education is to expand our horizons and gain perspective on the world, my course selection failed miserably. All of the courses I had enrolled in fell well within my comfort zone. And yet I continued to bemoan that I had many distributive requirements left.

So when I found a course that satisfied two requirements at once, I jumped at the opportunity. In fact, I signed up without having any idea what the course was about.

I entered a women’s and gender studies course called Telling Stories for Social Change with the explicit goal of simply “knocking out two distribs.” What I learned ended up being one of the most valuable experiences I have had during my time at Dartmouth.

The course is one of the College’s few community-based learning courses. We split our time between the classroom and sessions at the Sullivan County Department of Corrections, where we worked with some male inmates to create a play to perform at the prison by the end of term. We aimed to create a space where the inmates could talk openly and their voices could be heard.

We did not come to study their behaviors, to witness the prison system from within or to impose our own ideas about what we felt was best for their rehabilitation. Rather, we came to listen to what they had to say.

Only after listening could we offer help in any meaningful way.

While I learned many immeasurably useful things from this class, perhaps the most valuable thing I learned was that despite all the privileges I have been afforded in life, I know very little about helping others.

The people who need assistance understand what they need better than anyone else.

And so rather than impose my ideas about the best way to rehabilitate an inmate, I began to listen to the inmates themselves. I learned that my role was not to save these people in some kind of patronizing way — it was much simpler than that. I respected their right to make their own decisions. My role was to listen and then act on what I had learned by removing obstacles where I could. My role was not to push the inmates into what I thought they should do.

Such a humbling and valuable learning experience would not have been a part of my education had I not been forced outside of my comfort zone with the distributive requirements. Foolishly, I had thought that my course selection had covered enough departments to make me a well-rounded student. After taking this class, I learned that becoming a well-rounded student means taking classes outside of the subjects where you already feel comfortable. One of the keys to being a well-rounded student is being a well-rounded person.

All of us have different areas where we feel out of place. Whether you are an English major who has never been in a science lab before or an engineering major who has never studied the artists of the Renaissance, you can benefit from exiting your comfort zone. The distributive requirements are there to push us outside our self-imposed boundaries, and I truly believe that the best learning often occurs outside of our familiar subjects.

So embrace the distributive requirements and take something way beyond your comfort zone. You might just gain a whole new understanding of something you never thought of before.

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FAST BREAK TO THE END W HOCKEY MAKES POSTSEASON SW 2

M HOCKEY STAYS HOT SW 3

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BY THE NUMBERS

26 Seconds Penn led in a 53-50 loss to the women’s baskeetball team.

74 Shots by the women’s hockey team in its two wins this weekend.

63 Saves by men’s hockey goalie Charles Grant ’16 this weekend in a win and a tie.

6 Points by Tyler Melville ’14 and John Golden ’15 against Princeton.

In the last matchup, they combined for 40.

Women’s hockey makes playoffs with 4 point week

B y jehanna axelrod The Dartmouth Staff

With two wins this weekend, Dartmouth women’s hoc k ey clinched its fifth straight appearance at the ECAC Hockey Tournament. The Big Green (9-18-1, 8-13-1 ECAC) shut out Brown University 3-0 Friday night before traveling to Yale University and beating the Bulldogs 2-1.

“We knew what was on the line — if we didn’t win, then we wouldn’t make the playoffs,” Lindsey Allen ’16 said. “Everyone had that in the back of their heads, we just wanted to keep playing and to keep going. We knew if we played really well defensively then they couldn’t score so they couldn’t win.”

The team came out firing against the Bears (4-20-5, 3-16-3 ECAC), dictating play early as Brown struggled to find its offensive rhythm.

Just 45 seconds into the first period against Brown, Allen put the puck in the net with assists from Laura Stacey ’16 and Catherine Berghuis ’16. Berghuis slid the puck up the ice to Stacey, who flew into the zone on a two-on-one with Allen. She slid the puck to her linemate, who deposited the puck into the open net.

Dartmouth’s offense continued to create opportunities. Just under 17 minutes later, Devon Moir ’17 scored her second goal in the last three games and extended the Big Green’s lead to 2-0 by putting the puck up under the crossbar from the slot.

Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 scored Dartmouth’s third and final goal on a power play with just over a minute left in the second period.

“For both games we were trying to keep pushing and keep going and not let them have a chance to set up in our end,” Allen said.

The Big Green kept Brown at bay in the third period, earning goalie Lindsay Holdcroft ’14 her

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first shutout of the season. The captain stopped all 26 of Brown’s shots.

Dartmouth’s offense finally played to its potential, registering 32 shots on goal and scoring more than two goals for the second time since Jan. 25.

After dominating Brown on Friday and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s loss to No. 4 Clarkson University, the Big Green controlled its own destiny against the Bulldogs (8-14-7, 6-9-7 ECAC). A tie against Yale would have been good enough to propel the Dartmouth women into the playoffs.

The team dominated, firing 42 shots on goal. Yale’s goalie was up to the task, stopping 40 of the shots she faced, but Holdcroft stopped 17 of 18 Yale shots in the 2-1 win.

Ottenbreit kicked off the scoring 9:24 into the first period with

her second goal of the weekend.

The lead was short-lived as Yale tied it up with 5:01 left in the period on a shot that deflected off of Holdcroft’s glove and into the net.

Moir tipped in the gamewinning goal 7:05 into the second period on a shot from Ottenbreit.

This was Moir’s second goal of the weekend and her third tally in the last four games.

“It was just nice to be able to produce after working hard during the year,” Moir said.

The defense played another strong third period, keeping Yale out of the net and holding on to the lead.

With the win, Dartmouth cemented its position as eighth seed in the ECAC, giving the team a post-season berth. Both RPI and Colgate University lost on Satur-

day, giving the Big Green the final playoff spot by three points.

The Big Green will kick off the first round of the tournament with a best-of-three series against Clarkson (25-4-5, 16-2-4 ECAC) on Friday in Potsdam, N.Y. Clarkson propelled itself to first in the league on the back of a weekend sweep and losses by Cor nell University and a tie by Harvard University against the Bulldogs.

This season, the Golden Knights swept the Big Green, winning the games by a combined 9-1.

“We’re extremely excited,” Ottenbreit said. “We faced a lot of adversity this year, and it was hard just making the playoffs. Now it’s a whole new season and anything can happen. We’re the underdog, and I don’t think anyone thinks we can do it except us. That’s motivation to prove everyone wrong.”

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After two road wins and key losses by RPI and Colgate, the women’s hockey team made the ECAC Tournament.

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Men’s hockey has 3 point weekend at home

B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

With a potential home playoff series at stake, Dartmouth played its final homestand of the season this weekend. Dartmouth (716-4, 6-12-2 ECAC) won 2-1 versus Brown University Friday night before sending the Class of 2014 off with a 3-3 tie in one of the season’s most exciting match-ups against No. 14 Yale University.

Thanks to the three point weekend, the Big Green sits in 10th place, just three points out of eighth. The team hits the road to play No. 13 Cornell University and No. 19 Colgate University in a tough slate of games. The team needs a weekend sweep to have a chance of hosting a playoff series at Thompson Arena.

Grant Opperman ’17 commended the seniors’ performance, saying he was glad that Eric Robinson ’14 will return next season. After suffering a shoulder injury in November, Robinson has received a medical waiver granting him a fifth-year of eligibility.

Coming off its first weekend sweep of the season, Dartmouth hoped to continue building momentum. Dartmouth, then 11th in the ECAC, was the only team in the conference that earned four points last week.

Tyler Sikura ’15, in his first home game back from injury, was the hero of Friday’s game. His second goal of the year could not have come at a more important time, as it won the showdown with Brown (11-13-3, 8-11-1 ECAC) just 51 seconds into overtime.

Brown, who has won just three of 14 games in a hostile arena, suffered from poor puck control and an inability to capitalize on scoring opportunities.

For much of the first period, both teams had scoring opportunities but could not put

the puck in the net. Dartmouth dominated play for the first two periods before Brown fought back in the third.

Nick Bligh ’16 almost put Dartmouth on top five minutes into the game, getting the puck into the crease and beating senior goalie Marco De Filippo, but senior defenseman Jake Goldberg made the save just before the puck crossed the line. Tim O’Brien ’16 hit the post eight minutes left in the opening frame.

Dartmouth struck first with 13:44 left in the second when Brad Schierhorn ’16 redirected a point shot from Andy Simpson ’15 into the net for his seventh goal of the season.

Dartmouth was in the lead until junior Matt Lorito scored the equalizer 8:17 into the third. Lorito corralled the loose puck

and shot it above the shoulder of Charles Grant ’16.

Neither team scored before regulation ended, sending the game into overtime.

Just 51 seconds into the extra period, Sikura unleashed a slap shot from the point on a power play that flew past De Filippo into the net.

O’Brien dropped the puck to Opperman, who sent it across the ice to the captain, who unloaded the shot and sent the Big Green home winners.

Grant, who was named ECAC goaltender of the week, turned aside 24 shots, including nine in the third.

Brown has now dropped five of its last seven games, and sits eighth in the ECAC.

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Saturday night at Leede Arena, the women’s basketball team pulled off a stunning upset, taking down the League-leading University of Pennsylvania 53-50. Just a day after the Big Green (4-20, 1-9 Ivy) was blown out 87-46 by Princeton University, the team ended an eight-game losing streak with a potentially title-determining upset.

After Friday night’s loss to the Tigers (176, 8-1 Ivy), the Big Green players left Leede with heavy hearts and low spirits but were determined, Lakin Roland ’16 said, to look forward.

“I think we all made a point to say that was in the past,” she said. “It was over with.

We told ourselves we were going to come out stronger, and we did.”

Dartmouth, typically a good starter, came out swinging against Penn, up 16-8 with 10 minutes left in the first. The team controlled for the entire game, leading for all but 26 seconds. Dartmouth’s defense was on point going into halftime, forcing turnovers, desperate shots and even shot clock violations for Penn, who came out flat-footed.

Despite the fact that Dartmouth could only manage 40 percent from the field, the

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RUNDOWN Men’s Basketball SCHOOL

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OVERALL

HARVARD YALE COLUMBIA BROWN PENN PRINCETON DARTMOUTH CORNELL

9-1 8-2 6-4 6-4 4-5 3-6 2-8 1-9

22-4 14-10 17-10 14-10 7-16 15-8 9-15 2-22

Women’s Basketball SCHOOL

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PRINCETON PENN HARVARD YALE CORNELL COLUMBIA BROWN DARTMOUTH

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

17-6 17-6 17-7 12-12 13-11 6-18 8-16 4-20

Men’s Hockey

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The men’s hockey team was taken to overtime twice, but came out of the weekend with three points.

Women’s basketball upsets Penn at home

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Big Green’s defense held the Quakers to an abysmal 34 percent, including only 21.7 percent in the first half.

“I think that they didn’t come out as strong as they could have,” Schmitt said.

Dartmouth weathered every small run

“It’s Feb. 22, the exact same day as the Miracle on Ice in 1980. That was our pregame speech to the team. We showed them the locker room speech before the game. We showed them the final minute of that game with the whole crowd counting down the seconds.

And we told them, ‘If we play them 10 times, they might win nine, but not this game.’”

- head coach belle koclanes the Quakers tried, and continued to build momentum as the game progressed. With a 10-point lead and 10:30 remaining in

the game, Dartmouth found itself in prime position to keep the Quakers’ offense at bay with key defensive stops.

“As the game progressed, our confidence was building because we were making those critical stops,” head coach Belle Koclanes said.

However, the team looked shaky down the home stretch, as two traveling calls helped Penn maintain possession and shrink the gap.

A charge put the ball back in the Big Green’s hands.

Penn whittled Dartmouth’s lead to just two with 6:52 on the clock, and a quick foul, Dartmouth’s 10th of the half, put Penn in double bonus. The Quakers could only capitalize on one shot, but they cut the Dartmouth lead to one. Back-to-back fouls

by Penn gave Dartmouth a five-point swing, but the Quakers answered immediately with a basket.

The teams traded baskets until the score was 44-43 Dartmouth. Immediately after, Penn committed its 10th team foul, and the Big Green entered double bonus. With a minute left, Nicola Zimmer ’14 sank one of two free throws, but Dartmouth immediately committed another foul. The Quakers made only one of the two but rebounded the ball SEE W BASKETBALL PAGE SW 7

SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

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

16-3-1 12-5-3 11-6-3 10-6-4 9-7-4 10-9-1 7-8-5 8-11-1 6-10-4 6-12-2 5-11-4 4-16-0

22-6-4 16-11-5 21-8-5 14-7-5 14-8-5 17-14-3 13-13-6 11-13-3 12-16-4 7-16-4 9-14-4 5-22-0

Women’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

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

16-2-4 16-3-3 15-4-3 11-4-7 12-7-3 10-9-3 6-9-7 8-13-1 7-15-0 6-14-2 3-16-3 4-18-0

25-4-5 21-4-4 20-5-4 20-5-9 13-17-3 14-11-4 8-14-7 9-18-1 10-22-2 10-20-3 4-20-5 9-24-1

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Big green tAKES OFF ON OFF-TERM

At 7 a.m. most mornings in the fall, varsity track and field distance runner Jill Corcoran ’15 woke up and went for a run. But instead of taking her through Pine Park or down Rip Road, her daily jaunts brought her past Big Ben and the Tower Bridge.

While rigorous training schedules often prevent university athletes across the country from studying abroad, the D-Plan provides varsity athletes the flexibility to take terms off throughout the year, whether it be to work, travel or study overseas.

Corcoran and women’s lacrosse goalie Jessica Frieder ’15 spent the fall term in London, sharing an apartment in Marylebone just south of Regent’s Park. Frieder interned at the National Football League’s U.K. office, and Corcoran interned in a marketing and business development position for GO Mammoth, the largest social fitness club in the U.K. “Training in London was awesome,” Corcoran said. “It was nice

because running is so transferable.

You can really do it whenever and on your own time, so getting in my training was no problem.”

Corcoran’s runs gave her a

“Training in London was awesome. It was nice because running is so transferable.

You can really do it whenever and on your own time, so getting in my training was no problem.”

- JILL CORCORAN ’15 chance to get to know the city while working out, she said. Compared to Dartmouth, where the team practices every afternoon, Corcoran had to work around her schedule in

London, doubling up on runs some days to make up for weekends spent traveling. Corcoran also mixed up her runs like she does at school, alternating between six to eight miles on weekdays while mixing in faster workouts twice a week and 10-12 miles on the weekends she spent in the city.

To accommodate the soccer season and training schedule, men’s soccer defender Colin Skelly ’14 spent his sophomore winter in Barcelona. During his junior summer, Skelly worked with the Philadelphia Union, a major league soccer team, and trained with a Premier Development League team in the Philadelphia area.

While abroad, Skelly trained with a local club in Barcelona, and they also coordinated his soccer training in Philadelphia. He also ran and lifted weights to stay in shape.

William McNamara ’16, a linebacker for Dartmouth’s football team, and defensive end Sawyer

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Whalen ’16 are currently on the Dartmouth language study abroad program in Rome.

Considering the team’s training schedule, the winter is the only feasible time for football players to take off, McNamara said.

The ability to study abroad sets Dartmouth apart, Whalen said.

“At a lot of other schools, athletes don’t have the ability to study abroad,” Whalen said. “Dartmouth is great because we can have the experiences we want without sacrificing our athletic commitments.”

The D-Plan, however, also has potential downsides. Some argue that it hinders team chemistry and performance, as athletes rotate on and off, and it can be difficult to train and practice if not all members of the team are on campus.

Skelly disagreed, noting that success comes down to individual commitment and that opportunities to train exist no matter where an athlete is. Taking time away may energize players to get back on the

field when they return to campus, he said.

“When the team is reunited, there is a level of enthusiasm that is often lost amongst the grind of

“At a lot of other schools, athletes don’t have the ability to study abroad.

Dartmouth is great because we can have the experiences we want without sacrificing our athletic commitments.”

- SAWYER WHALEN ’16 college athletics.”

Heavyweight rower William Johnson ’16 currently plans to take a fall off term. He hopes to

either get a teaching internship in the U.K. or an internship in New York City. Rowing lends itself well to individual training, and Johnson said he is focused on ensuring that he maintains a level of training consistent with that of his peers on campus, which could include as little as an hour on the erg each day.

The Dartmouth baseball team has unique off-term guidelines.

Baseball players are on campus for the whole year, but they take every summer off, including sophomore summer, to play baseball around the country.

Pitcher Beau Sulser ’16 said he is excited about his summer trip even though it means missing out on the experience to bond with members of his class.

“Although we will miss activities on campus,” he said, “I do think it is a positive for the success of the baseball team and gives our players the best shot to continue their baseball careers after college.”

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Men’s basketball swept by Princeton and Penn on the road

B y jasper bingham The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s basketball team could not find a way to get back in the win column this weekend, dropping both of its games on the road. The Big Green fell 67-57 to Princeton University on Friday night, and 74-65 to the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

The Big Green (9-15, 2-8 Ivy) has now lost six straight games.

Dartmouth started out well against Princeton (15-8, 3-6 Ivy), keeping the score close for much of the first half.

The Big Green held a one-point advantage with 6:16 remaining in the period thanks to a finger-roll layup in transition by Eli Harrison ’17 to beat two trailing defenders.

After that, though, the Princeton defense clamped down, preventing the Big Green from hitting any more field goals before the break.

In the absence of the Big Green’s offensive production, Princeton began to open the game, going on a 14-1 scoring binge. The Tigers, like Dartmouth, shot poorly in that stretch, making just two field goals. The team made up for its inefficiency on the offensive end, however, by going 8-10 from the foul line before heading into halftime.

Princeton held a 12-point advantage heading into the break.

Captain Tyler Melville ’14 said the first half ’s end made it hard for the team to find its scoring rhythm.

“We started slow at Princeton, which made it tough for us to get going offensively,” he said.

Princeton was relentless to start the second period. In the first minute of play, senior Will Barrett drained a long ball and sophomore Hans Brase cut his way through the Dartmouth defense for a layup, stretching the Tiger lead to 17.

The Big Green would not go down easy, though. Connor Boehm ’16 muscled his way through the paint to the hole for a conventional three-point play, sparking an 8-0 run for the visiting Big Green.

Dartmouth continued to battle for the first half of the second period, keeping Princeton within single digits at 45-37 with just over 10 minutes remaining in regulation.

The Tigers then exploded on a 13-3 run that effectively sealed the game. Dartmouth ended the game on a 10-1 run over the final two minutes, but it was too little, too late — the home team held on for the win.

Melville and John Golden ’15, JULIETTA GERVASE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

SEE M BASKETBALL PAGE SW 7

The men’s basketball team looks to end a six-game losing streak when it returns home next weekend.

Women’s swimming and diving finishes eighth in Ivy Champs

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

Providence dealt a heavy blow to the women’s swim and dive team this weekend, as the Big Green came in eighth place in the Ivy League Championships at Brown University. The team had high hopes of improving on last year’s fifth-place performance, but the seniors were forced to hang up their fast suits and swim caps with a disappointing finish at the bottom of the scoreboard. The team scored 535 points, 874 points behind first place Harvard University.

The ladies had aimed for fourth place, one step above their finish last year, but struggled to make it into A finals or, for some, out of the preliminary heats. After a long season of training, the swimmers had trouble bouncing back physically, co-captain Christine Kerr ’14 said.

“We just didn’t seem to be able to recover,” she said. “We had masseuses and ice baths, but we were just tired.”

On the first day, the 400-yard medley relay team was disqualified for a premature start. The team had to forfeit 40 points as a result. That loss, however, was not necessarily the deciding factor, Danielle Kerr ’14 said.

“I honestly don’t think it would’ve

made a difference,” Danielle Kerr said.

“People were so far off their best times.

It was more than just the morale.”

While overall the team performance left much to be desired, several swimmers took home personal records and highlight memories.

“Though I really wish that we had done better collectively, I think it was obvious that we all swam with our hearts.”

- MARY van metre ’14 Mary Van Metre ’14 had a personal best, competing in the A finals on Thursday in the 50-yard freestyle thanks to a time of 23.02 in the preliminaries.

“I had never made A finals before,” she said. “It was cool that it was my senior year because I was the old fart, and all these younger kids were really fast. It was awesome to finally achieve that goal, especially since my teammates were super supportive and giving me hugs afterward.”

In the final event, Dartmouth’s strongest relay team of Kendese Nangle ’16, Van Metre, Siobhan Hengemuhle ’15 and Charlotte Kamai ’16 repeated last year’s top three performance by

touching in third after Harvard, which touched in first, was disqualified.

“Though I really wish that we had done better collectively,” Van Metre said, “I think it was obvious that we all swam with our hearts.”

On a more sentimental level, the Kerr twins competed in the 500-yard freestyle A final together, a fitting capstone to their careers.

Danielle Kerr finished sixth and Christine Kerr finished eighth, so the sisters stood next to each other on the podium. Since her shoulder surgery 11 months ago, Christine Kerr said, her goal was to swim and make an A final at the Ivy Championships.

“I got to stand right next to my sister,” Christine Kerr said. “That was more than I ever thought I would be able to do. That made my Dartmouth career.”

Danielle Kerr, the only swimmer to make it into both an A final and two B finals, recognized the team’s potential for growth.

“The coaches had a meeting with us and told us they tried new things this year, and they clearly didn’t work out like we’d hoped,” she said. “But things like this have to happen so change can take place and we can learn to be better.”

The men’s team takes to the pool next weekend in Cambridge, Mass., for Ivy Championships.

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The women’s swimming and diving team finished the Ivy Championships with 535 points.

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Dartmouth got off to a fast start Saturday night against Yale. From the beginning, Dartmouth outskated the visitors, playing the more physical game and taking more shots in the early going.

“It was a fun game from start to finish.

The pace was good,” head coach Bob Gaudet said. “Both teams really played fundamental hockey.”

Dartmouth took a two-goal lead into the second, but Yale scored the next three goals. Simpson scored with just over 1:30 to play in the game. Neither team scored in the five minute overtime, leading to a 3-3 tie.

“It’s a little bittersweet,” Opperman said. “We took some penalties, but our kill did a good job all night. I don’t want to say that’s an excuse for a tie. It’s nice to get that late goal and get a point but you always want to win.”

Brandon McNally ’15 returned from his one game suspension on Saturday, joining Eric Neiley ’15 and Opperman on the first line. The trio dominated the early minutes of the game and nearly scored on the first shot.

Almost four minutes into the game, Neiley passed the puck to McNally, who sprinted down the ice for the potential breakaway.

Instead of taking the shot, how-

ever, McNally passed the puck to Opperman, who flicked it into a wide-open net to put the Big Green up 1-0.

O’Brien scored, increasing Dartmouth’s lead to two, just 3:03 into the second.

Yale then mounted a furious comeback as senior Jesse Root scored and just over a minute later, sophomore Cody Learned netted the equalizer.

Yale took the lead at the midway point of the third and the teams traded opportunities until Simpson saved the game with an equalizer with 1:26 remaining in the game. His shot flew through a screen and buried itself in the back of the net, sending the game into overtime and the crowd at Thompson into a massive uproar.

Yale dominated the extra period, taking five shots, but Grant turned away each one. Yale threw 42 shots at Grant, who made 39 saves. By comparison, Dartmouth took 27.

Following the game, Dartmouth honored its seniors with a small ceremony on the ice.

“I thought we had a great weekend,” defenseman Taylor Boldt ’14 said. “but there’s also a sad feeling that there’s a chance I’ll never play here again.”

for two points, giving Penn its first lead of the game with 47 seconds left, 50-49.

The Big Green retook the lead quickly as Zimmer scored a hook with just 21 seconds left to give the Big Green a 51-50 lead.

The energy in Leede exploded as fans on all sides took to their feet, screaming, “Defense!” The home court advantage was clear as the fans had a devastating presence on Penn’s offense, which looked out of rhythm all night. Support, Zimmer said, adds fuel to the team’s fire.

“It’s huge,” she said. “I mean a lot of teams call it the sixth man. It’s just as much playing a role in our win as much as anything else.”

A traveling call gave Dartmouth possession with 5.8 seconds left. The Big Green inbounded the ball to Roland who ran down court and laid up a perfect bucket, bringing the score to 53-50. Penn ran down court and shot a desperate three which bounced off the rim, and the clock stopped with 0.6 seconds left as Penn called a time out.

Mike McLaughlin, the Quaker coach, contested the time remaining, adding three seconds back.

The additional time would not be enough for Penn to come back. At the final buzzer, Dartmouth led by three.

The fans took to their feet as players

stormed the court, celebrating their first victory in the Ancient Eight and the end of Penn’s nine-game win streak.

“You know what day it is today in sports, don’t you?” Koclanes said.

“It’s Feb. 22, the exact same day as the Miracle on Ice in 1980. That was our pregame speech to the team. We showed them the locker room speech before the game. We showed them the final minute of that game with the whole crowd counting down the seconds. And we told them, ‘If we play them 10 times, they might win nine, but not this game.’”

The Big Green were done in by strong shooting from Princeton (17-6,

8-1 Ivy) on Friday. The home team could only manage a 38 percent clip from the field while the visitors knocked in 60 percent of its shots. Only two Dartmouth women, Roland and Abbey Schmitt ’15, were in double figures, compared to four Tigers players.

The key differences were rebounds and turnovers. The Big Green was on the bad side of both figures, losing the battle on the glass 39-20 and committing five more turnovers than the visitors.

The Big Green will hit the road for its last trip of the season this week, visiting Columbia University and Cornell University.

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The team rebounded from a blowout loss against Princeton to beat Penn.

Team to return home for senior weekend FROM M BASKETBALL PAGE SW 6

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The men need to pick up points next weekend if they want a home playoff series.

who scored a combined 40 points in Dartmouth’s overtime win against the Tigers earlier in the season, were held to just six in the contest.

Golden said that Princeton may have scouted him and Melville and made adjustments, but that he had to play better nonetheless.

“There’s no excuse,” he said. “If we want to win, I can’t have one point. Maybe they did [scout us], but I just played very poorly, and if we’re supposed to win down the stretch with injuries, I have to play better.”

Wesley Dickinson ’17 was a bright spot in the game for Dartmouth, pouring in a career-high 10 points on 3-4 shooting.

“He’s a great kid, and it was great to see him contribute to the team as far as getting rebounds, making free throws, getting putbacks,” Melville said. “I think Wes is going to be a key addition to this team going forward.”

Dartmouth fell short again on Saturday, as a balanced scoring attack and resilience in the second half propelled Penn (7-16, 4-5 Ivy) over the Big Green 74-65.

Five of Penn’s players reached double figures, while Dartmouth

had just two, led by a career-high night for Brandon McDonnell ’16, who had 18 points on the game along with Kevin Crescenzi ’16.

Neither team got an edge in the first half. The Big Green came out hot, making its first seven field goals to gain a 14-8 advantage in the opening five minutes.

“These two games could be huge, because we could get two wins at home and go into the last weekend with confidence, get a couple more wins and finish out the year strong.”

- john golden ’15 The scoring went back and forth for the rest of the period. Penn went on a 10-0 run starting at the 8:00 mark, only to have Dartmouth respond with an 11-5 run of its own to close out before the break. Penn maintained a slim 38-34 lead.

The Big Green remained close in the beginning of the second half with back-and-forth scoring. The start was punctuated by Golden

wowing the crowd with two twohanded throwdowns to make the score 52-46.

Despite the fact that the Big Green couldn’t close out on its final runs in either contest, McDonnell said he admired that the team didn’t rest until the final buzzer.

“In both games we were trailing at halftime, but at no point did we think we were out of it, even late in the game,” he said. “There was no point where myself or anyone on the team showed any signs of giving up.”

The Big Green hopes to snap its losing streak next weekend in a two-game homestand. The team will play Columbia University on Friday night and Cornell University on Saturday night. Golden believes these home games can renew the team’s confidence.

“We tend to play much better at home,” he said. “These two games could be huge, because we could get two wins at home and go into the last weekend with confidence, get a couple more wins and finish out the year strong.”

The last time the Big Green squared off against its Empire State rivals, it was swept, falling 70-67 at Cornell before losing to Columbia 69-59.

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ONE ON ONE

WITH LINDSEY ALLEN ’16

B y macy ferguson The Dartmouth Staff

This week, I sat down with women’s hockey forward Lindsey Allen ’16, who leads the team in goals and points, which she attributes due to a shortened bench and small group of upperclassmen. We talked about her love for the sport and what it means for the Toronto native to be a leader on the team.

How long have you been playing hockey and what got you into it?

LA: I’ve been playing since I was 3 or 4. As a kid I wanted to do everything my brother did, and hockey is what stuck with me. I stuck out because not many other girls played hockey.

How did you end up as a forward?

LA: It’s where most of the action is, and we get to score most of the goals.

How has your game developed in your time at Dartmouth?

LA: The game is so much faster than high school hockey, so you learn fairly early on that you don’t have as much time with the puck. You have to skate faster, be stronger, move the puck faster, shoot harder and make decisions faster.

out ,no matter the time of day. I love our rink. Nothing compares to Thompson [Arena]. It doesn’t matter if it’s a practice or game, it’s great being there. Looking at the past people who have worn that jersey and played in the rink adds significance. A couple of Olympians have worn my number. You see what can be achieved by attending Dartmouth and playing hockey here.

How have you developed into the team’s most consistent scorer?

LA: I get garbage goals. I don’t necessarily do the work, I’m just in the right spot at the right time. Because of injuries and the shortened bench, I feel like I’ve had to step up, and so has everyone else. I feel like top-score status is a result of that. I would not be leading scorer without my linemates and the defensemen.

“Everyone is willing to help you out, no matter the time of day. I love our rink. Nothing compares to Thompson [Arena].

It doesn’t matter if it’s a practice or game, it’s great being there. Looking at the past people who have worn that jersey and played in the rink adds significance. A couple of Olympians have worn my number. You see what can be achieved by attending Dartmouth and playing hockey here.”

Do you have any plans to try and play after college?

LA: That’s a little far off. I’m trying to just see where school goes for me. The CWHL is growing now, so there could be potential to play there.

Or in Europe they have some women’s hockey where you can get some pay.

I’ve considered that. And there’s always coaching.

Either way, I’d love to incorporate hockey into whatever I do

Has the hock- - lindsey allen ’16 ey experience been what you expected it to be?

LA: It’s been better. I thought it would after college. be all work and no play. I don’t mean going out, I mean that there’s fun How did you feel when the womincorporated to the practices, and en’s Canadian team beat the U.S. we laugh at lifts. It’s not just hockey, hockey team at the Olympics this week? hockey, hockey.

LA: Super excited. We considered Do you have any unique pre- having practice at 6 a.m. so we could game routines to get ready to watch the gold medal game. compete?

LA: I have a playlist. I put it on right What’s your favorite profesbefore I leave my room for the game. sional team or player and why?

I pause my music and get dressed. LA: Toronto Maple Leafs. I’m from Then I take sticks and headphones Toronto, so it’s always been blue and to a certain seat and tape my stick. white. Phil Kessel from the Maple Then I sit and visualize what I want Leafs. He is a sniper, he sets up a to do in that game. I read a pre-game significant amount of Toronto’s goals. message that my friend sends me His quick release is insane. I’ve learned from him to just shoot the puck and before every game. good things will happen.

What is your favorite thing about This interview has been edited and the team?

LA: Everyone is willing to help you condensed.

B y austin major and freddie fletcher The Dartmouth Staff

As the Sochi Olympics come to a close and semi-obscure events like bobsled drift back into irrelevance (though no one can forget “Cool Runnings” (1993)), we decided to break the one rule we set for the winter.

That’s right, faithful readers. Those of you who follow us religiously, which is probably all of you, will recall that we solemnly swore never to Nordic ski. It’s physically taxing, cold and isolating, and we don’t look great in skin-tight apparel (just kidding).

But then we saw what critics have called the most underrated event in Olympic history: the biathlon. For those of you who live under a rock or don’t appreciate the finer aspects of crazy winter sports, the biathlon combines skiing incredibly long distances and then being able to control your breath enough to shoot a golf ball-sized target with a .22-caliber rifle.

I could be wrong about this (but I used Wikipedia, so I’m not) but the biathlon was originally based on a Norwegian military training exercise in which soldiers would ski huge distances and then be expected to fight in battle. We have to hand it to you, Norway — that’s nuts.

So, like most weeks, we sent out a frantic, last-minute blitz about something we should have taken care of a long time ago, but this time instead of being bailed out by our

charisma and charm, all we got was: “Sorry, the team is at a Carnival this weekend and won’t be back by press time.” Huge downer, but hey, at least this week, we couldn’t get upset by a country mile. So we have that going for us.

Regardless, we still wanted to try out cross-country skiing and cross it off our nostalgic senior “I really do kind of like seven feet of snow and want to get out there and try stuff ” bucket list. Coincidentally, so did my old man, who is fresh off a balmy six-month “vacation” in Afghanistan and using me as an excuse to go on an actual skiing vacation in the mountains. Classic Dad. Mom was smarter and forecasted that it would not be quite as easy as it looked. Good choice.

We prepared as most do when their parents are up for the weekend: going off campus in search of real food, eating as much of it as humanly possible, getting dessert and all the beer and wine the restaurant could serve and, of course, not having to pay for any of it or even bother to look at the check. Then, they dropped me off for a balmy eight hours of sleep before we got up at the crack of dawn to have breakfast, because that’s what actual people in the real world do, allegedly.

After this drawn out (and probably extremely effective) pre-game ritual, we went to the Dartmouth Outing Club house, rented skis and traipsed onto the golf course.

First of all, when it takes five minutes to put on skis, you know you’re in trouble. The second warning

was probably that as soon as we got them on, one of us (and I promised my dad I wouldn’t say who) fell flat on his butt and started swearing in front of a 5-year-old lad who was leaps and bounds better than us. The third sign was when we based our form off the same child who was now approximately 200 yards away from us. The stars weren’t aligning, but as is Legends tradition, we convinced ourselves we knew exactly what we were doing and didn’t take advice from anyone.

After a few more spills, bad words and questions about our initial motivation, we started to get the hang of it. By that I mean we were proficient enough to move without relying on the poles. Courses, apparently, aren’t flat. We learned this as we came to our first hill, which, for those of you planning to get a golf pass in the spring and play everyday after 12s, will recognize as the one between the 5th fairway before you get to the bridge. We figured the hard part was going to be getting up the hill.

Turns out that’s not that bad. What we didn’t realize was that turning is hard. There isn’t really much control on those skis. To stop, we found the place with the most snow and bailed as close to there as possible. Needless to say, it was a pretty rough go.

After about two hours of waltzing through Pine Park and the rest of the course, we gained a sound appreciation for a sport that competitors make look so easy and graceful. Throw firearms in the mix and we have no idea how people do it.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: SPRING AWAKENING

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The men’s tennis team is gearing up for its spring season after a third place finish in the ECAC Tournament.

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median, 27 percent a B+ median and 18 percent an A median. These percentages do not take into account courses with A/A- or A-/ B+ medians.

Of the classes offered in fall 2013, 176 had A- medians, 121 had B+ medians and 75 had A medians.

Chemistry 5 had the lowest median grade, a B-, and all four 200-student sections of Math 3 had a median of B/B-.

Median grades for courses that enroll fewer than 10 students are not released.

Faculty Coordinating Committee chair Leslie Butler said that the faculty meeting will be just the beginning of a discussion about grade inflation at the College.

“There’s not a lot in terms of action,” she said. “It’s really just a discussion — it’s the first time it’s come before the faculty.”

In its report, the Committee on Instruction said that after being charged by the dean of faculty to review grading practices and

analyzing statistical trends, it found that current grading practices do not align with the guidelines in the Organization, Regulation and Courses catalogue published by the office of the registrar.

The report went on to state that inflated grades do not effectively communicate the quality of students’ work and can undermine Dartmouth’s credibility as an institution with high academic standards. The committee will seek comments and potential solutions from the faculty as it continues to study grade inflation and related issues.

Faculty member expressed concern about the continued elevation of student GPAs. Geography professor Richard Wright said inflation at its current rate is unsustainable, adding that Dartmouth must take action.

“We can’t continue the way we’re going,” Wright said. “We can’t continue having a 0.01 increase every year into the future, you know, because at some point, everyone’s going to have a 4.0.”

Mathematics professor Sergi Elizalde said that inflation is not just limited to the humanities, though he believes that grading in math classes has inflated less than other areas.

Professors should have guidelines to combat the issue, Elizalde said.

Other professors said that the grade inflation problem has multiple causes, but it is likely connected to how courses are evaluated.

Economics professor Christopher Snyder said he theorized that the student course and instructor evaluation system administered at the end of each term creates incentives for professors to give higher grades.

“You look good as a teacher if you have high student evaluations,” he said.

Snyder said that he recently carried out an informal experiment in which he made the exams he gave slightly more difficult in the beginning of term and then later adjusted them back to normal levels to see how students’ perceptions of

him shifted. He said he found that despite teaching the same material with the same approximate difficulty as in years past, he received more negative reviews by students.

“If you think you’re doing well, you feel kindlier to your professor,” Snyder said.

Faculty Coordinating Committee member John Carey said that discussion topics at the faculty meeting fluctuate from term to term, adding that grade inflation is a subject of contention.

“There are almost as many different opinions as there are faculty members,” he said.

Faculty meetings allow reporting committees to seek input and comment from the faculty and administration about their findings, Butler said.

Snyder, however, said he believed no immediate substantive action will come about as a result of this afternoon’s meeting.

“I’m quite sure nothing will be accomplished,” he said. “I don’t think there will be many fireworks going off.”

Wright stressed that the issue of grade inflation is not unique to Dartmouth.

Similar conversations at other Ivy League institutions have recently attracted national attention.

In December, Harvard University’s dean of undergraduate education announced that the median grade at Harvard is an A-minus.

Yale University formed an ad hoc committee to examine grades and found that nearly 62 percent of grades awarded by Yale in spring 2012 were in the A-range.

Princeton University is reexamining its grade deflation policy, which dictates that no more than 35 percent of students in any department may receive an A. Last fall, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber tasked a faculty committee to review the policy.

During this afternoon’s faculty meeting, College President Phil Hanlon will deliver a report, and in addition to sharing their thoughts on grade inflation, professors will discuss Dartmouth’s priorities when allocating resources.

Student coalition demands administrative response

STUDY TUNES

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It also asked that the College provide pro-bono legal assistance and financial assistance to undocumented students, expand genderneutral housing and bathrooms on campus and ban the Indian mascot. To combat ableism, the document demands that residential life spaces on campus be accessible to all students, regardless of physical condition.

The document was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s movement to produce a Freedom Budget during the civil rights movement.

The group of students demanded a point-by-point, public response from the administration

TRACY WANG/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Students sought the quiet of the Hopkins Center’s Paddock Music Library to study yesterday.

to each of the demands by March 24.

“If the Dartmouth administration does not respond by the indicated time, those who believe in freedom will be forced to physical action,” the document states. “As mentioned before, this proposal is not about interpersonal interactions, but about restoring justice in an institution beset with a history of discriminatory and oppressive practices. This list of demands does not promise to end oppression; but with this list, Dartmouth College can begin to build itself anew.”

This article will be updated online as more information becomes available.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

TODAY 4:00 p.m.

Panel and discussion, “V-February: Voices Around the World,” Fahey First Floor Lounge

4:15 p.m.

Computer science colloquium, “New Approaches to Graph Partitioning,” with Dr. Roy Schwartz of Microsoft Research, Steele 006

4:30 p.m.

“Practical Wisdom: The App That Can’t Be Found,” with Ken Sharpe ’66 of Swarthmore College, Haldeman 041

TOMORROW 12:30 p.m.

Artist-in-residence series talk, “Abstract Painting and the Legacy of the New York School,” Hood Museum of Art

4:15 p.m.

Brownstone lecture, “Illusions and Solutions: Real and Imagined Obstacles in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations,” with Lev Grinberg, Rockefeller 002

4:30 p.m.

“Putin’s Russia,” with Eugene Rumer, Haldeman 041

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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Brown to host annual Ivy Film Festival B y KATHERINE M c CONNELL The Dartmouth Staff

Hoping to send its final products to the Ivy Film Festival in April, the Stories Growing Films production group has been producing short films each term since last summer.

The Ivy Film Festival, the largest student-run film festival in the world, offers a venue for student writers, directors and filmmakers to exhibit work, and Dartmouth students are seizing the opportunity.

Hugh Sagona ’15, the president of Stories Growing Films, said he is excited about an upcoming film he’s directing, tentatively called “Million Dollar Crazy,” which will be finished by the end of spring. “[It’s a] contemporary noir heist film, and it’s about a guy coming back into town and trying to get the old group together,” he said.

“A kind of stereotypical heist story with a little bit of a twist that you find out at the end, which I like.”

“Method Acting,” a film written by Marquis Austin ’16 and directed by Devon Koch ’16, is a mockumentary about a group of high school students making a film for an overzealous method actor. Another project, a screenplay Austin is developing, explores the relationship between a 15-year-old

teenager and his reckless sister, Austin said. If either is ready in time, Austin said he hopes to submit to the festival. “[I have] known about Ivy Film Festival for a while,” he said. “It’s by students for students and attracts a lot of attention and impressive industry figures.”

The festival invites prominent industry figures to speak and interact with the student filmmakers, and past attendees have included Aaron Sorkin, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Wes Craven, Adrien Brody and Julia Stiles. Natalia Maymi, one of the festival’s executive directors and a Brown University senior, said that it is too soon to know who this year’s keynote speaker will be.

“We are trying to incorporate as many speakers as we can but have more niche specialties in the industry,” she said. “We think that this exposure is really valuable to our visiting filmmakers who came around not only to see their films screened but to network and establish connections with these industry figures.”

The festival will publicize the event to ensure that each student film has a full screening, Maymi said.

The first Ivy Film Festival, held in December 2001, mostly involved

Ivy League students. The event quickly expanded beyond the Ivy League, Maymi said, to include submissions from all undergraduates. The festival has a large student staff, and different departments cover various aspects of the filmmaking process and industry. “[The festival] also has screenings all throughout the school year, not just during the festival,” she said. “There is a lot of reaching out to different distribution and production companies, as well as reaching out to industry figures like directors and screenwriters.”

Last year, organizers received 300 submissions, with 20 finalists chosen, Maymi said. So far, 220 films have been submitted this year.

Student filmmakers selected as finalists are given a framed plaque and monetary prizes.

Students who have submitted films to the festival have gone on to achieve further success, including former finalist Anahita Ghazvinizadeh. “Needle,” a film Ghazvinizadeh wrote, was screened at the festival and later won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Ivy Film Festival will be held at Brown University from April 14 through April 20. The deadline for film and screenplay submissions is March 1.

SATURDAY NIGHT ROCK

ANNIE KUNSTLER/THE DARTMOUTH

Delorean and Until the Ribbon Breaks perform in Sarner Underground at an event hosted by Friday Night Rock.

Dartmouth Photo Files photographs have been scanned, and more photos are uploaded In the basement of Rauner online each year, College archivist Special Collections Library, be- Peter Carini said. Photo technollow the College’s archives, works ogy is constantly improving and photographic records specialist soon more photos will be scanned Patricia Cope, the gatekeeper of more quickly, he said. However, all historical photos. Cope provides he it could take up to 10 years to students access to Dartmouth’s complete the digitalization process. photographic records, thousands of Difficulty arises when delicately images that present a visual history scanning the 19th-century files. Cataloguing can also be complicated of the College.

The records, which date back when some labels do not accurately represent the to 1938, were contents. For exc a p t u r e d by “Through the photo ample, Carini College photogfiles, you can watch said that, to the raphers Adrian relief of a cataBouchard, Stu- the College spread loguer, one file art Bratesman, out and become much labeled “sex” Joseph Mehling was actually a and Eli Buraki- more part of the photo record of an. Images from town.” safe sex semiafter 2000 are anar. available online, - Peter Carini, “We wanted to Cope said. extend the num Cope, who College archivist ber of access catalogues new points for those additions to the photographic records, said she en- pictures,” Carini said. “Now, they joys building a resource that helps each have their photo file title like students and alumni. She said she ‘Dartmouth Hall,’ but we’ve added especially enjoys showing students other descriptors.” the changes in film medium, from Since the photo files span de8-by-10 negatives the size of a sheet cades of Dartmouth history, they of printing paper to the current offer a longitudinal view of campus, Carini said. digital format.

“The most rewarding part of the “Through the photo files, you whole process is if a patron finds can watch the College spread out something and it works for their and become much more part of the project, and they’re just delighted town,” he said. they found what they needed,” For example, the photo files show Cope said. “That’s the part that’s the creation of academic buildings, local businesses and events over best.”

Rauner also keeps a broader time which gives a better picture collection of about 80,000 photo- of how the current College came graphs relating to the College and to be, Carini said. the Upper Valley, called the photo The photographic records and files. This collection differs from the photo files are often featured on photographic records because the Rauner’s blog and in class exercises. files date back to 1850 and come Calling the resources “Dartmouth’s from various sources, not just the secret treasures,” Salman Rajput ’14 said that he found the records official College photographer.

The photo files may be accessed particularly useful when analyzing physically and, for some, electroni- the architectural history and concally. Since 2011, 10 percent of the struction of the Sphinx.

B y MAXIMILLIAN SAINT-PREUX

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014

ARTS

‘3 Days to Kill’ fails to develop characters, plot

takes a 30-minute sojourn to connect with the teenage daughter he The Dartmouth Staff totally doesn’t get, man.

Not too far into “3 Days to That’s a shame. When “3 Days Kill” (2014), recently retired CIA to Kill” does its action sequences, hit man Ethan Renner (Kevin they’re pretty damn good, espeCostner) returns to his apartment cially the opening shootout at in Paris. As he puts his key into a Serbian hotel. Director McG the door, a young boy opens it, seems to get stuck with movies that and Ethan realizes his apartment are action-packed but saddled with has been taken over by squatters dumb subplots that nobody wants. from Mali. After threatening the In the typical Hollywood mentality leader with a gun, the first of many of trying to appeal to everyone by minorities Ethan intimidates and shoehorning in a plot about how beats in the film, he leaves his much Ethan loves his family, “3 apartment to advance the plot, Days to Kill” ends up appealing to no one. but I really wish he hadn’t.

I could tell you “3 Days to Kill” What’s so bad about the movie is a heartwarming comedy about is that the people around Ethan a grizzled hit man learning the end up being caricatures you can’t true meaning of family, love and care about because you don’t know Christmas through the scrappy who they are. Viewers should understand a wellimmigrants livdeveloped characing in his apart- “‘3 Days to Kill’ is ter by the end of ment, but that a derivative actionthe film. Although isn’t the case. it’s hard to ac Instead, “3 thriller that never complish this in Days to Kill” is movies because a derivative ac- seems to figure out tion-thriller that what it wants to be.” there is so little time to tell the never seems to story, there’s a figure out what it wants to be. The result is a reason the films that do this well deeply unsatisfying film with some are so critically acclaimed. bright points, but not enough to Take Heard’s character for example. She is an attractive woman illuminate the rest of the work.

Part of the problem is that the primarily in the film as eye candy. film places all of the chips on Half the costume and makeup budRenner’s shoulder. In addition to get is reserved for her inexplicable unwanted tenants, Renner is also costume changes, which seem to dying of brain cancer. He hasn’t get skimpier and skimpier with seen his wife (Connie Nielsen) and each of her appearances. daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) in five Contrast this, however, with years because of his job, so the her role in the plot as Renner’s former tolerates him while the handler. She shows up when it’s latter openly despises him. And convenient for the story and does if that weren’t enough, he gets whatever is necessary. She’s nice dragged back into his old life by to him even when it doesn’t make his drop-dead gorgeous handler, sense for her to be, and as a result, Vivi Delay (Amber Heard), who there is no reason to empathize promises a cure for his cancer if with her. Sure, she may be the he can kill an international arms new version of the shadowy CIA dealer in three days. Hey, that’s agent.

But instead of staying in the the name of the movie!

Does that sound like a lot to shadows, she tries to come into the sun and withers away in the handle? Of course it is.

The screenplay, co-written by process, an analogy that could Luc Besson, the French director apply to “3 Days to Kill” itself. who loves to make movies about crazy Americans in France, is Rating: 3.8/10 wildly uneven. One moment Renner will be dispatching bad “3 Days to Kill” is currently playing guys left and right. The next, he at the Nugget.

B y VARUN BHUCHAR

B y LAURA SIM The Dartmouth Staff

When Cornelius Gurlitt, now 81 years old, traveled across the Swiss border by train in 2010, a routine customs check led to an incredible find. The son of a prominent Nazi was traveling with 9,000 euros, prompting a police investigation that ended with the discovery of a priceless collection of drawings and paintings allegedly taken from war-torn Germany.

Stored in his 1000-square-foot Munich apartment, Gurlitt had a collection worth an estimated $1.3 billion, including works by Matisse and Picasso.

German prosecutors removed over 1,400 works of art and objects from his apartment in 2012.

Gurlitt’s father, an art dealer who sold paintings confiscated or purchased by the Nazis during World War II, is thought to have kept many of these works for himself. Yet in a fall 2013 interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Gurlitt said that all the works in his collection had been acquired legally.

In 1968, Gurlitt inherited the works from his father, Hildebrand Gurlitt.

German civil code requires claims for stolen property to be filed within 30 years of a theft, meaning the statue of limitations for goods looted by the

Nazis expired in 1975.

In a twist, another collection of 60 artworks was uncovered at Gurlitt’s residence in Salzburg, Austria. The works were mostly oil paintings, including pieces by Picasso, Renoir and Monet.

Officials are currently cataloguing and authenticating Gurlitt’s full collection.

Although Gurlitt was not personally responsible for questionable purchases or looting, there is pressure on him to remedy past mistreatment toward Jewish art owners. Public outrage surrounding the case has exploded as more pieces were unearthed. Gurlitt has been called a “Nazi hoarder,” and his collection has been referred to as a “Nazi art stash.”

This month, Gurlitt set up German and English language website to tell his side of the story. The website states that while there is no legal grounds to compel Gurlitt to return his collection, people may contact him with claims for specific artworks. Gurlitt is also reviewing offers by museums to purchase works.

In a statement signed by the collector, he wrote that he only wants “to live with my pictures, in peace and tranquility.”

So far, previous owners have filed claims for just 3 percent of the works considered suspicious. The remaining seized objects have already been cleared

of suspicion, Gurlitt’s spokesman Stephan Holzinger said.

Did Gurlitt commit a crime? While Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, authorized Gurlitt’s father to buy and sell confiscated art, is Gurlitt in some way complicit for never trying to determine the works’ origins? He cannot pretend he has not thought about the possibility that they were forcibly taken or looted, since the art cannot be washed of the vestiges of war.

Although a treaty at the 1907 Hague Convention, which Germany signed, barred countries from confiscating artwork if they occupied a territory during war, the Nazis specifically targeted missions to seize art in many European countries like Poland and France – an emblem of victory over their enemies.

The Soviet Union used similar tactics to gain “trophy art” during World War II as well.

Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight wrote that it is difficult to determine the value of the collection, but “we do know the squalid history of the war.” The criminal case against Gurlitt will likely not go further than possible tax implications, but the transparent process Gurlitt and his lawyers have outlined on his website will hopefully lead to a morally commendable solution.

SIGNS OF ‘SPRING’

TREVELYAN WING/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

The theater department’s production of “Spring Awakening” premiered on Friday in Moore Theater.