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College President Phil Hanlon and Interim Provost Martin Wybourne released a statement Thursday night responding to the “Freedom Budget” and outlining plans

for increased diversity at the College, including changes to financial aid and programs to bring “diverse perspectives” to campus.

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OPINION

Since Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson announced of the creation of the Center for Community Action and Prevention in early February, a group of professors have renewed their call for an independent review of campus climate at Dartmouth and increased transparency in the administra-

tion’s decision-making process.

On Feb. 13, Johnson sent an email to 18 faculty and administrators, inviting them to discuss sexual violence and other student life issues.

A group of around 10 faculty members met with Johnson for an initial meeting on Feb. 25, English and women’s and gender studies professor Ivy

The trial of Parker Gilbert ’16 is scheduled to begin on March 17 and last for around two weeks, according to a court assistant at the Grafton County Superior Court.

The Court held jury selec-

tion on Monday morning, at which time the dates for the case were finalized.

Gilbert has been charged with seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against a female undergraduate student, as well as one count of criminal trespass.

Gilbert was also originally

accused of two charges of simple assault, but the Court dismissed these charges on Feb. 25. All of the charges in this case apply to a single victim.

In August, Gilbert pleaded not guilty to seven counts of aggravated SEE GILBERT PAGE 2

Panhell increases dues Morano Gelato to add locations AFRAID TO CARE: scholarships by $1,200 A CULTURE OF APATHY // 8 B y erica buonanno

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This spring, the Panhellenic Council will bolster its scholarship program, increasing available funding from $800 to $2,000.

The scholarship aims to ease the financial burden that Panhell sorority dues impose and assist women who feel inhibited from joining a sorority for financial reasons.

Panhell president Eliana

After four years of serving fresh, homemade gelato to Piper ’14 and treasurer Lela Hanover residents and DartMcCrea ’14 pioneered the mouth students, Morano program with the assistance Gelato aims to expand out of Susan Funk ’81, beginfrom the Upper Valley to ning their collaboration last spring. ANTHONY CHICAIZA // THE DARTMOUTH STAFFthe Boston area. Owner and founder Morgan Morano has “When you’re admitted decided to franchise the busito a school that’s needness. She hopes to open two blind, there’s the understores by March 2015 and at standing that you have the least 10 stores nationwide over same accessibility to the the next five years, starting Dartmouth experience as with the Boston area. anyone else,” Piper said.

Morano established her “And if it is not, we should business in 2010, debuting her goods at the Hanover SEE SCHOLARS PAGE 5

Farmer’s Market. Morano, a Hanover native with a lifelong interest in opening a dessert business, worked and lived in Italy on and off for six years, studying under a Sicilian gelato chef who became her mentor.

There are no definite locations for new franchises yet, but Morano said she has found a strong candidate in the Boston area.

Pam Miles, an owner of Hanover’s Morano Gelato, said that Morano plans to visit each new location and teach the new staff how to make gelato. Morano will stagger

the openings of the franchises to maintain quality control, Miles said.

“It’s a learning process, but she’s a good teacher,” Miles said.

Morano said she was initially hesitant to announce her decision because people tend to associate franchising with lower-quality products. She said, however, that she plans to work with passionate individuals who share her vision.

She will travel on a weekly or monthly basis to each location to ensure high standards, she SEE GELATO PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing Since the Ukrainian parliament voted to dismiss President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22, following his rejection of a European Union trade deal, tensions in Ukraine and its Crimea region have been high. Yesterday, the Crimean parliament voted to ask Russia for reunification. The Dartmouth sat down with Russian professor Victoria Somoff for some context on the conflict.

Why do you think the Ukrainian crisis ignited?

VS: This started November after a very specific particular event, namely after Yanukovych, the now-ousted president of Ukraine, rejected an association agreement with the European Union. A lot of preparation went into that agreement, and he attended the summit in Vilnius. There was an expectation that he would sign. At the last moment, he rejected the proposal. It wasn’t just a random accident. It indicated very clearly his choice for Ukraine’s future.

Not only did he not sign the agreement, he immediately started negotiations with Russia. Russia promised him home investments in the Ukrainian economy, Russia promised to lower gas prices.

It was a clear choice on the part of Yanukovych and his government where Ukraine was going to go. With Russia, with President Vladimir Putin’s regime, and not with Europe. That’s when people took to the streets protesting.

Do Ukrainians feel resentment toward Russians?

VS: I believe speaking in English makes it harder to differentiate, but when you’re asking Ukrainians versus Russians, it seems the conflict is framed in ethnic, linguistic or cultural terms, as if it’s ethnic Russians against ethnic Ukrainians. That’s not what the conflict is about. In Russian, you can say Russian meaning “related to the state” by saying ‘rossiskii,’ or you can say ‘russkii,’ meaning the ethnic group. And the Ukrainian protest is anti-rossiskii, antiRussia as a state, not against ethnic Russians. I think it’s important to see this difference.

— Compiled by Josh Schiefelbein

This interview has been edited and condensed. For a longer version, see Dartbeat. com.

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Hanover gelato store to expand south FROM GELATO PAGE 1

said.

“I’m passionate about the brand and about the product,” Morano said. “I have no problem traveling to ensure that each shop maintains the high-quality gelato and clean standards that I expect from them.”

Morano said she hopes to eventually build a team of Morano Gelato Inc. employees, though she will oversee the expansion herself.

Students said they were excited for Morano Gelato’s expansion but did not want the quality of the product to decrease.

Nathan Busam ’17 said he thinks franchising the company is a great opportunity to allow more people to sample high-quality gelato, but added that he fears a possible reducMELISSA VASQUEZ/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF tion in quality.

“I think it’s great for Hanover- Hanover’s Morano Gelato will remain the franchise’s largest, Morgan Morano said. based companies to spread so that people can learn more about the area “This is an absolutely perfect loca- Drinane said she has confidence in or at least things that come from this tion, and I don’t think having other Morano’s product. area,” Stephanie Emenyonu ’16 said. Morano Gelato’s is going to take “She worked really hard for this,” Shirley Fang ’17 said she had anything away from what we have Drinane said.

In May 2011, after operating in mixed feelings about the expansion. here.”

“It’s one of the few businesses Morano said Hanover’s store Rosey Jekes Cafe, Morano opened a will always be the largest, shop on South Main Street. Morano that I know the features and Gelato now offers a rotating selection of that has re“I have no problem though aesthetics of each store of 16 flavors that are made in shop ally succeeded will be identical throughout every day. in Hanover, traveling to ensure the franchise. The store Last September, Morano sold the so it’s kind of that each shop will continue to sport the Main Street store to Bill and Pam exciting that it’s going to maintains the high- traditional Italian colors Miles and Jon and Jenn Langhus to of black, white and gold allow her to focus on expanding the expand,” said quality gelato and and to make its gelato each business. She retains ownership of Fang, who has clean standards day from scratch. Morano the brand, Morano Gelato Inc. lived in Haadded that every new shop Morano had no initial plans to nover for eight that I expect from will be community-orient- expand the business, but the national years. “It is a them.” ed. If she were to open up attention she received after taking the little sad bea shop in New Mexico, for store to South Main Street — one cause it is not going to be - MORGAN MORANO, example, she said that she Forbes reporter wrote an article in would work with the shop’s 2011 saying it was the best gelato our little speOWNER employees to make gelato he’d had in the U.S.— prompted cial Morano that incorporated both lo- her to decide that franchising was a Gelato, but I’m cal and Italian flavors. natural step. happy they are going to do well.”

Miles also said that though Mo- Rachel Drinane, manager of “I was noticing that gelato shops rano Gelato is franchising, Hanover’s Hanover’s Morano Gelato, said she is were opening that were still focusexcited for the expansion and proud ing on American flavors, and they branch will always be special.

“We’re lucky because there’s a of the work that Morano has done. weren’t really highlighting the tradismall college in town,” she said. While the endeavor includes risks, tion of true Italian gelato,” she said.

Parker Gilbert trial to start over break FROM GILBERT PAGE 1

sexual assault.

Hanover Police arrested Gilbert in his room on May 15, 2013. The cause for his arrest was the alleged rape of a female student in her unlocked dorm room early on May 2.

At the time of his arrest, Gilbert was charged with four counts of aggravated sexual assault.

After his arrest, Gilbert was arraigned at the New Hampshire 2nd Circuit Court in Lebanon, and bail was set at $75,000. He was later

transferred to Grafton County jail in North Haverhill.

Gilbert posted bail in May, after the London native was required to turn over his British passport and remain in the state of New Hampshire. He was permitted to leave the state only for attending medical and counseling appointments in Massachusetts and Vermont, the Valley News reported.

If convicted, Gilbert could serve up to 20 years in prison for each count of aggravated felonious sexual assault.

In October, one of Gilbert’s

defense attorneys filed notices that said Gilbert’s defense counsel may rely on an intoxication defense in the trial, arguing that Gilbert was not in the mental state required to be culpable for committing the offenses, the Valley News reported.

During the trial, there may be an on-site jury view of the tworoom double where the alleged assault took place, the Valley News reported.

Gilbert, a former member of the men’s rugby team, is no longer enrolled in classes or activities at the College.

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Faculty talk sexual assault, campus issues with administration FROM FACULTY PAGE 1

Schweitzer said. They spoke about topics like coordinating sexual assault resources, the separation of prevention and support efforts, the administration’s focus on the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative and the allocation of funds.

“We had a frank discussion with Dean Johnson and made many of our concerns known to her,” Schweitzer said in an email. “Especially about the trend of the College taking resources from one area and putting them into another.”

Johnson said in a statement that some of CCAP’s funding will come from the consolidation of existing resources, and added that the College remains committed to the work of the CGSE. Biology professor Ryan Calsbeek, who also attended the meeting, said that a growing group of faculty members are now regularly emailing and meeting with each other to discuss these issues.

Members of Dartmouth Change, a nonprofit organization comprised of nearly 500 alumni and other community members that seeks to end sexual assault on campus, met with College President Phil Hanlon for the first time on Feb. 27.

On its website, Dartmouth Change lists 11 recommendations that the administration could take to address sexual assault. Its top two suggestions are for the College to commission an independent review of campus culture and to publicly reveal its strategy for addressing sexual assault.

Professors said that students and faculty have demanded an independent assessment of campus climate several times in the past, most recently in the Committee on Student Safety and Accountability’s 2013 report.

“We feel very strongly that this independent examination of all facets of campus culture needs to happen, because in order to establish programs that you think will be effective in targeting the problem, you have to know exactly what the problem is,” said theater professor Peter Hackett ’75, a member of Dartmouth Change.

Biology professor Lee Witters, also a member of Dartmouth Change, said he believes that sexual assault on campus is a symptom of broader social issues.

An “unbiased, external look” could place campus climate issues in context, he said.

“I think the framework for the growth of things like sexual assault, homophobia, racism, classism, you name it, comes from some common origins, and that focusing exclusively on assault doesn’t deal with the rest of this,” Witters said.

Johnson said in a statement that

the administration is currently considering a campus climate survey.

Art history professor Mary Coffey said she noticed a general lack of clear channels of communication between administration, faculty and students. She cited an overabundance of committees and centers as a contributing factor.

Women’s and gender studies professor Giavanna Munafo, a former director of the Center for Women and Gender, now CGSE, said she thought campus resources should be better coordinated.

“We’ve been putting in a lot of effort into creating resources and hiring people, but are we connecting the dots?” Munafo said. “I’ve been here for 20 years and worked as an administrator for 15 years, and if it’s hard for me to figure out how all these resources are coordinated, I would imagine that for any undergraduate it would also be hard to figure it all out.”

Professors interviewed said they appreciated Hanlon’s willingness to seek input from the community, as exemplified by his open office hours every Friday, and looked forward to continued substantive discussions.

“Meeting with Dean Johnson left me feeling very hopeful,” Calsbeek said. “I think that faculty and administrators have different viewpoints about a lot of these issues, and that’s very healthy.”

Schweitzer agreed that faculty and administrators often have different approaches to these issues.

The faculty seek both immediate improvements and structural shifts, she said in an email.

“The administration wants to take smaller steps that will not upset alumni and trustees,” Schweitzer said. “The faculty aren’t beholden to those constituencies; we have different sets of pressures.”

Susy Struble ’93, who founded Dartmouth Change, said the College has an opportunity be a leader in addressing sexual assault. Transparency, she said, must address the credibility gap between rhetoric and reality on campus.

Hackett said that CCAP’s creation exemplified the lack of administrative transparency.

In January 2012, about 120 students, administrators, faculty and staff gathered for Dartmouth’s first symposium on sexual assault, hosted by the SPCSA, and came up with recommendations, Hackett said. A violence prevention center topped the list.

Dartmouth Change members learned that the administration had rejected this suggestion, and responded by offering to raise funds to establish and staff the center. Administrators denied this suggestion.

Hackett said that the timing of the CCAP announcement called into question the reasons behind its creation, and added that the community would not support the center if it did not believe it was established for the “right reasons.”

“By announcing it without input from the campus community, instead of announcing it two years ago when it was publicly asked for by symposium and privately asked for by Dartmouth Change and many others including the president’s

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committee on sexual assault, while in the midst of a Title IX investigation, shortly after Bored at Baker, no matter what your intentions are, by doing it in this way it looks like you’re responding to a crisis in the press rather than doing it because it’s the right thing to do,” Hackett said.

Struble said that CCAP does not meet the goals outlined in the SPCSA symposium, which called for the centralization of health, security and legal resources in a physical plant that would house student groups such as Mentors Against Violence.

Dartmouth students filed a Clery Act complaint against the

College last May. That month, the Department of Education opened an independent investigation into Dartmouth’s Title IX compliance.

Witters said Dartmouth is at a critical juncture in its history, and he has seen campus issues receive more discussion now than in his 30 years at the College. He added that, in the past six months, administrators have begun to make themselves more accessible to faculty.

“I don’t know what the reasons for that are, but there is a lot more conversation with the administration,” he said. “If you ask for a meeting, you’re going to have a meeting. I sense that people at every level are talking about this.”

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The True Cost of Dartmouth

Running in Circles

The cost of a full Dartmouth experience extends beyond tuition alone.

Watching a movie at The Hop: $5. Renting than $10 can apply for funding to cover up to Dartmouth Outing Club gear for a weeklong 70 percent of trip and gear expenses. As part of hike: over $100. New member sorority dues: a new three-year pilot program, the President’s $335 to $647.

Office has designated an annual total of $50,000 As every student knows, the Dartmouth expe- to be used for this purpose. This decision is rience extends beyond the classroom. Discussions encouraging. during office hours bleed into provocative dance Similarly, the Panhellenic Council’s recent performances at the Hopkins Center. Lectures announcement of its plans to collect scholarship about glacial till are strengthened by DOC trips funds under its purview for distribution to any to the White Mountains. Students and profes- member of a Panhell sorority indicates that the sors bond over the lectures, performances and Greek system is aware of the class issues inherent various other College-facilitated cultural and in the current dues system. educational experiences that various centers However, while we commend the President’s and performance groups bring to campus.

Office and Panhell for these actions, we believe The cost of a full experience at the College the College must go further to accommodate stugoes beyond tuition, and Dartmouth should dents from low-income backgrounds and ensure devote its resources to ensuring that students they have equal opportunities to participate in from low-income backall of the activities, grounds can participate academic, extracur“The cost of a full experience fully in all aspects of ricular and cultural, at the College goes beyond College life. that may enrich their Approximately two- tuition, and Dartmouth Dartmouth experithirds of eligible under- should devote its resources to ences. graduates are affiliated ensuring that students from Participating in with a Greek organiza- low-income backgrounds can extracurricular action. Students who join participate fully in all aspects tivities is time that a Greek organization of College life.” could be spent worktheir sophomore fall ing. Students should and remain affiliated for be able to throw the rest of their time at the College could end themselves into their extracurriculars, which up spending over $2,000 on Greek life before can clarify future professional pursuits, without graduation. For a student whose budget may feeling like they’re abdicating responsiblity. already be stretched thin between the cost of Outside Hanover, financial aid packages do tuition, textbooks and living expenses, this may not cover living expenses during internships, and be an exorbitant amount of money. students studying abroad have limited employ Dartmouth is nestled in mountains with ment opportunities. Yesterday’s announcement beautiful climbs and challenging trails, but the that administrators plan to expand financial associated costs of exploring the outdoors can aid for foreign study programs is a great start. block students from participating in valuable However, it’s worth considering how other parts learning experiences. The cost of renting a of campus could help broaden the net. Extendtwo-person tent, first aid kit, trangia stove, frame ing the number of grants offered by the Tucker pack, sleeping bag and sleeping pad from the Foundation, the Rockefeller Center and the DOC for a week could pose a significant financial Dickey Center could reduce the pinch students obstacle. feel when they take unpaid internships.

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Lack of data precludes substantive conversation on Dartmouth’s issues.

Another term, another campus crisis — the last four quarters at Dartmouth, dating back to last spring, have been plagued by events that most of us agree do not befit this community. We’ve limped from Dimensions to the “Bloods and Crips” party to the Bored at Baker incident. Each term has followed the general pattern of initial calm, eruption of outrage, return to ambivalence and finally resignation to frustration. The same issues rear their ugly heads. The same arguments are recycled. The same sides are taken.

Why have our conversations become so circular? Because they lack empirical grounding — in virtually every case, we do not have data to drive our conjectures about why Dartmouth struggles with sexual assault and binge drinking. Is the Greek system responsible for these problems? To some extent, of course. Is there a wider cultural phenomenon at work as well? Almost certainly. Yet without hard statistics — not the “research” and projections listed on Dartmouth Change — we are no closer to pinpointing the root of the problem.

Furthermore, the College’s public relations machine contributes to this lack of clarity rather than furnishing the community with tools for informed discussion.

These points become obvious when we consider the state of campus dialogue on sexual assault. We can rail against the Greek system as much as we want, but the near total lack of Dartmouth-specific data on the frequency of sexual assault is a central impediment to crafting a solution. Yes, “group-think” within certain organizations or as a product of cultural standards might normalize what is otherwise viewed as reprehensible behavior. But it could also be the case that a small, predatory and possibly deranged minority perpetuates these crimes. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle, and the policy implications are enormous. Yet at the moment, most of our community does not know if the answer to this question is even discernible or which version of the story is closer to the truth.

The narrative on binge drinking is similar,

but perhaps worse. This past fall saw the implementation of a new Greek Leadership Council policy restricting freshman access to Greek spaces for the first six weeks of the term.

The ban was an opportunity for a fascinating natural experiment — to see if the campus-wide incidence of drinking-related violations would change in step with prohibiting freshmen from fraternities and sororities. And yet when the GLC and the College’s Health Improvement Program presented their findings in late January, they were almost laughably devoid of detail.

While the number of College-documented alcohol-related incidents declined, the data did not reveal where or when these incidents took place (Greek house, freshman dorm or otherwise, before or after the ban was lifted).

Perhaps the College was simply not careful enough in its data collection. I don’t have the answer, and I have to speculate. Safety and Security reports on Good Sam calls are quite explicit in their documentation of the time and place that a student gets picked up, and I find it impossible to believe that there isn’t a master spreadsheet containing all of this information.

So there doesn’t seem to be a reason for not publishing a more discerning version of the data, apart from administrators consciously choosing to keep it under wraps.

In the real world, most business and policy decisions are heavily numbers-driven. They are informed by analyses that identify trends and make projections. This is a basic guide for making rational choices. While Dartmouth is neither a corporation nor a government entity, this doesn’t mean that its approach to key issues should be different.

Referencing data to support or refute conclusions is a basic feature of any intelligent dialogue. So before this column is vilified for reducing the real trauma of survivors to a bunch of rows in a spreadsheet, I will call on the administration to release anonymous aggregate data broken down by incident type, location and outcome. To fix our problems, we must first prove who is at fault. Otherwise, we’ll just keep running in circles.

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‘Freedom Budget’ receives response from administrators FROM BUDGET PAGE 1

document highlighted for us that we, as the administration, must engage the campus more effectively in current and future action to achieve our shared vision for Dartmouth,” the statement, released Thursday evening, read.

The student-authored “Freedom Budget,” released to campus last month, outlined over 70 demands for changes regarding issues of diversity and inclusivity.

The document demands that

the College increase enrollment of black, Latino and Latina and Native American students to at least 10 percent each and increase the number of faculty and staff of color across departments. Other proposals include banning the Indian mascot, providing pro-bono legal and financial assistance to undocumented students and expanding gender-neutral housing and bathrooms on campus. The document also demands that residential life spaces on campus be accessible to all students.

Writing on behalf of Human Resources Vice President Lynda Baker, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Evelynn Ellis and Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno, the statement addressed concerns about issues of diversity and inclusivity.

The release cited the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” series, the Improve Dartmouth website and the strategic planning process as evidence of the administration’s

Panhell boosts dues assistance funds

Emily Leach ’16, who is affiliated, said that because of the Greek system’s large role in many students’ work to change that.”

Piper met with Tracy Walsh, Dartmouth experience, the decision assistant dean of development and not to join should be voluntary administration, to formulate the rather than mandated by personal project’s logistics. After term-long finances.

“I think a lot of students struggle discussions with administrators with sorority and Panhellenic dues,” said ReCouncil soror- “I think a lot of students becca Schantz ity presidents, struggle with sorority ’16, who is also t h e s c h o l a r - dues, more than is affiliated, “more ship program is openly recognized by the than is openly ready to be pi- administration.” recognized by loted this spring. the administraIn the past, tion.” $800 in finan- - REBECCA SCHANTZ ’16 Estecial aid was disfani Marin ’17 tributed among said the economic burden of sororities, amounting to two $50 stipends per house, Piper said. joining a Greek organization creThe new scholarship, with $2,000 ates an unnoticed barrier between of financial aid, will be distributed students, and that a scholarship among eight women who receive may motivate more students to financial aid from the College.

Scholarship applicants must write a reflective essay, most likely relating to what the Greek system means to them, Piper said. Panhell members and Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director Wes Schaub will read the essays anonymously and select the eight recipients.

The program aims to help new sorority members cover fall and winter new member fees next year, Piper said, as the first term in a sorority is the most expensive. As of winter 2013, the most recent data available online, total first term dues for new members range from $335 to $647. Piper said she hopes to eventually expand the scholarship enough to provide full financial assistance to all eligible students.

“It should never have to be a choice between our community and your financial aid,” she said.

Panhell vice president of public relations Jennifer Gargano ’14 agreed that socioeconomic status is a significant factor in the Greek system, noting that many women may feel financially strained.

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participate in recruitment.

McCrea said it is up to Greek leaders to initiate the scholarship program, as the issue’s lack of public visibility should not preclude sorority presidents from taking action. “ F i n a n c i a l c i rc u m s t a n c e s should not be a limiting factor,” she said. “As student leaders, the responsibility is ours to take on.”

Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority president Shari Liu ’14 said she is proud of Panhell for its efforts in pursuing this program.

“I hope that the next council will continue to fight for actionable change,” Liu said.

Representatives of Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta Epsilon and Kappa Kappa Gamma sororities did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

willingness to engage with community suggestions.

Following suggestions presented in these forums, the statement said that the office of financial aid will help to offset the costs of foreign study programs and that the College will allocate $1 million to hire faculty “who bring diverse perspectives to campus.”

Based on a recommendation from the Alumni Council’s ad hoc committee on diversity and inclusion, $30 million will be invested in bringing post-doctorates to campus

through the Society of Fellows program. The E.E. Just Program, which supports minority students in STEM fields, will be expanded.

As part of a three-year pilot program, the Dartmouth Outing Club will receive funding from the Office of the President to subsidize activities for students receiving financial aid.

The “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions will continue in the spring, and the College is planning to launch a new website to explain its efforts.

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Physics and astronomy colloquium with David Lowe of Brown University, Wilder 104

3:30 p.m.

Jones seminar, “Mechanical Loading Decreases Osteolysis and Tumor Formation via Effects on Bone Remodeling,” with Maureen Lynch of Cornell University, Spanos Auditorium

4:00 p.m.

Psychological and brain sciences colloquium with Kevin Oschner of Columbia University, Moore Hall B03

7:00 p.m.

Film screening, “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013), Loew Auditorium

TOMORROW All day Artists’ books exhibit, “Spring Flowers,” Sherman Art Library

6:00 p.m.

Musicians of the Performance Laboratory in Chamber Music Culminating Concert, Faulkner Recital Hall

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Men’s hockey looks to continue recent hot streak in postseason FROM M HOCKEY PAGE 8

are more productive as a unit than when they are separated.

Opperman, a freshman, has complemented the juniors well this season, tallying eight goals and seven assists on the season.

Though they scored a combined 26 goals and 55 points on the season, including 10 on the power play, the players’ aggressiveness has limited their effectiveness.

McNally leads the team in penalties with 27 in 27 games, while Neiley is third with 11.

For Dartmouth to upset RPI, the first line will need to avoid the penalty box but still maintain its aggression.

Sikura, who recently returned to the lineup from a knee injury, serves as the nucleus of the second line and delivers a significant change-up. Although he was out for a large chunk of the season, Sikura has rebounded and provided much-needed depth for Dartmouth’s injury-reduced squad.

Since returning, Sikura has notched a team-leading two game-winning goals, including a dramatic overtime shot in the win over Brown two weeks ago.

The puck will drop Friday and Saturday in Troy, N.Y., at 7 p.m., and if a third game is necessary, Sunday’s winner-take-all showdown will also start at 7 p.m.

KELSEY KITTELSEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

RPI swept the season series, but the Big Green is a different team now, having won four of its last six games.

Additional trips to New York have been added.

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The Dartmouth Employee Arts Festival March 19 Kickoff Reception @ Top of the Hop 5pm-7:30pm

March 20 Exhibition @ Alumni Hall 8am-5pm

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FRIDAY LINEUP

MEN’S HOCKEY AT RPI 7 PM

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. BROWN 7 PM

Men’s hockey opens playoffs at RPI

B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

Big Green goaltender Charles Grant ’16 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute forward Ryan Haggerty control their teams’ postseason fates. As the two teams prepare to face off this weekend in the first round of the ECAC men’s

SIDE -BYSIDE

Dartmouth

RPI

8-17-4 Record 14-14-6 2.52

GPG

2.76

3.33

GAA

2.63

16.5

PP %

16.9

78.3

PK %

82.7

hockey tournament, all eyes will be them in one of the key matchups of the series.

“The team’s been playing really well over the last few weeks, so we’re confident that we can pull out a couple wins,” Grant said.

As the 10th seed, Dartmouth

(8-17-4, 7-13-2 ECAC) will hit the road to square off against seventhseeded Engineers (14-14-6, 8-9-5 ECAC). The winner of the bestof-three series will advance to the quarterfinals to take on one of the top four teams in the league.

RPI swept the season series against the Big Green, winning both games, 7-1 in November and 4-2 in January. After a difficult start to the season, Dartmouth has gone 5-2-1 in its last eight games, including statement victories over Clarkson University and Cornell University on the road.

“RPI is going to see a different team this weekend than they did earlier in the season,” Tyler Sikura ’15 said.

By comparison, RPI has been inconsistent, going 3-3-2 over its last eight, falling flat at inopportune moments. Last weekend, RPI defeated Brown University 3-0 on Friday before being annihilated 5-0

by Yale University, with the sixth seed on the line.

This weekend will be the fifth time the teams have played each other in a best-of-three playoff series. The Big Green advanced in 2001 and 2004 while falling in 2000 and 2009.

Dartmouth will try to take Haggerty, RPI’s biggest scoring threat, out of the game by keeping him away from the net, Grant said.

Haggerty leads RPI in goals, 24, and points, 38, in addition to five game-winners , while in recent weeks Grant has been one of the nation’s strongest goaltenders.

Earlier this week, Grant was named ECAC hockey men’s goaltender of the month for February,

“RPI is going to see a different team this weekend than they did earlier in the season.”

- TYLER SIKURA ’15 posting a 4-0-1 record, which included a historic shutout of Cornell, the first by a Dartmouth goaltender in Ithaca in 54 years.

This weekend will be the first time Grant will face RPI’s offense this season.

For its first line, Dartmouth will likely keep Eric Neiley ’15, Brandon McNally ’15 and Grant Opperman ’17. The three forwards SEE M HOCKEY PAGE 7

KELSEY KITTELSEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

The men’s hockey team heads to RPI this weekend for a best-of-three series in the first round of the ECAC tournament.

games and could feel my adrenaline pumping. This was going to Transitioning from the Toronto be good. After losing both games Furies to the Brampton Thunder against Calgary, our team needed was not easy. I was joining a new to get some points.

In the Jan. 25 game, I scored team with new coaches and players who had already played together the winning goal in the third period for a good part of the season. I was and recorded two assists. I scored once again a new player fighting for right off the draw. The center won a spot on the team that already had the face off back, I deked a couple six defenders. Although the team of players and scored top corner. It welcomed me with open arms, there was my first goal for Brampton, and it could not gave come at a better was naturally some tension.

My first two games for Brampton time, as it helped us win. Boston is were against the Calgary Inferno. In currently second in the league, so the Jan. 18 game, I scored my first it was a big win for us.

Not only did I prove to myself point. I got an assist on the tying goal that allowed my team to go to my team and coaches, I also won over the into overtime. fans. As I left Though we lost “Transitioning from the the rink, young the game 3-2, Toronto Furies to the fans asked for the comeback was good, to say Brampton Thunder was not my autograph, easy. I was joining a new a moment I will the least. never forget.

B r a m p - team with new coaches W e ton has more and players who had systems than already played together for lost our second game against Toronto, so it a good part of the season.

Boston, but we took time for I was once again a new were still pretme to adjust and player fighting for a spot ty happy. The learn. The two on the team that already weekend proved games against that I can be an Calgary gave had six defenders.” impact player me a sense of the team’s character and skill, how when given the chance.

I was really looking forward to the coaches acted and what they our next two-game series at Monexpected from me.

We lost both games to Calgary, treal.

Montreal was the top team in but I came out of the weekend feeling more comfortable playing with the league and had posted a 13-3 the team and with a better grasp of at that point, so we knew it would the systems. I was ready for our next be a tough weekend. We changed our strategy, but were ultimately two big games against Boston.

Throughout practices that week, unsuccessful as we lost both games.

I slowly started to fit in and started Despite our losses, we mastered feeling like part of the team. I our systems, which will hopefully could not wait for the weekend, as I help us move forward.

This weekend we play Toronto, would play some of my formal rival opponents including a few former the game I’ve been waiting for. I Harvard University players. I also have a lot to prove. Let me just say looked forward to seeing the Boston this: I will give it my all, doing my Blades coach Digit Murphy, whom best to ensure the two wins. These two games are really important for I had always admired.

The weekend started off on a our team to make the playoffs and good note as I was placed in the every point counts from here on starting line up. I love starting out.

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