The Dartmouth 04/21/14

VOL. CLXXI NO. 65

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014

Students to debate Summit sees low attendance ending Greek system

By SERA KWON

The Dartmouth Staff

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Comparing the benefits of friendship with the dangers of hazing, the value of community with the prevalence of sexual assault and rich tradition with hurtful stereotypes, students will convene at 6:30 p.m. tonight in Dartmouth Hall to debate the potential abolition of the College’s Greek system. Mathematics professor Alex Barnett and economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan ’88 will give opening statements, and four students will then debate, answering students’ questions submitted beforehand.

After opening statements, two unaffiliated students will argue for eliminating the Greek system and two affiliated students will speak in its favor.

Each team will receive time for cross-examination, answering questions from attendees and moderators and closing statements.

Aaron Colston ’14, Becca Rothfeld ’14, Holli Weed ’14 and Mark Andriola ’14, will participate in the debate, which will be moderated by Asher Mayerson ’15.

Speakers were selected based SEE DEBATE PAGE 5

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Around 20 students discussed changes to Dartmouth at Saturday’s “Summit 2.0.”

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Applicants named to national scholarships

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On a Monday in late March, Ben Randolph ’15 opened an email. By the time he had finished reading it, he knew he was a Beinecke Scholar. The notification, which, came over a month early told Randolph he was one of 20 students chosen nationally to receive over $30,000 in funding for graduate school.

In the past two months, several other Dartmouth students have received prestigious scholarships and fellowships, all of which will help fund graduate education or higherlevel research.

Shoshana Silverstein ’15 was selected as a 2014 Harry S. Truman Scholar, Sarah Hammer ’15 and Hongyu Chen ’15 were named 2014 Goldwater SEE SCHOLARSHIP PAGE 2

About 20 students discussed College President Phil Hanlon’s Wednesday “call to action,” exchanging ideas on improving the College, in an event in Collis Common Ground on Saturday.

Event organizer Esteban Castaño ’14, who helped organize the event said in an email that its goal was to candidly discuss Wednesday’s summit and ways to move forward.

Castaño founded the student group Dartmouth Roots, which organized the event.

Peety Kaur ’15 said in an email that the event

was entirely planned and run by students, adding that the administration will look at the ideas it generated.

At the event, students clustered in small groups to discuss their visions for how the College can change. During one activity, students wrote their visions for Dartmouth’s future on blue Post-It notes, obstacles to achieving their vision on red Post-It notes and ideas for overcoming the obstacles on green ones. Kaur said the activity helped participants create a “map” for potential changes.

Asher Mayerson ’15, who attended the event, said that he found the

activity an effective way to brainstorm new ideas.

“I think that having students share ideas and critique each other’s ideas and build on each other’s ideas is important for thinking about the bigger things that we can do to change the College for the better,” he said.

Mayerson said he attended because he wanted to participate in the process of institutional change.

Sid Sathe ’14 said that he decided to attend the event after an organizer told him the summit would be different from previous discussions about student SEE SUMMIT PAGE 5

River Rumble race a highlight of weekend Ledyard event B y REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

Braving the still-frigid Connecticut River on Saturday morning, 25 people eagerly took to the water for the Wells River Rumble race. Over the weekend, Dartmouth students and

whitewater paddlers from across New England came together for the Ledyard Canoe Club’s sixth annual River Festival.

The weekend consisted of two whitewater kayaking races, a mini triathlon, a party and a documentary screening. The Mascoma

River Slalom, the oldest consecutively-run slalom race in the country, was postponed to later this term due to unsafe water levels, Ledyard president Conor Cathey ’15 said. This year’s race would have been the 51st.

Cathey, who organized

the Wells River Rumble race with Milo Johnson ’13, said that high water levels also led organizers to eliminate the triathlon’s two-mile canoeing segment this year.

Johnson said that Wednesday’s water levels in the Wells River, a tributary of the Connecticut River, were

unusually high at around 3,600 cubic feet per second but dropped to around 500

by Saturday. If the water level had not gone below 1,000 cubic feet per second, the Wells River Rumble race would also have been canceled.

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DAily debriefing New Hampshire’s death penalty repeal fell short by one vote on Thursday, the Washington Post reported. The House passed the repeal in a vote of 225 to 104 last month, and Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said she would sign the bill. The measure would have made New Hampshire the 19th state without the death penalty. Although the state’s last execution was in 1939, the repeal would not have affected the outcome for the state’s only death row inmate. Over 1,300 people have been executed nationwide since the Supreme Court reinstated the punishment in the mid-1970s, though popular support has declined in recent decades.

The University of New Hampshire voted to allocate $54 million for building renovations and acquisitions at its Durham campus on Friday, New Hampshire Public Radio reported. Renovations at the Hamilton Smith Hall, where the university’s English department is located, will cost $37 million. The building has not been renovated in over 30 years and does not meet disability and safety standards, though it is the campus’s most heavily used classroom building. An expansion of the Holloway Commons dining facility will cost $10 million and $4.5 million will be spent on a new swimming pool.

State lawmakers will vote on a four-cent increase on the gasoline and diesel tax next week, the Associated Press reported. The first two years’ of revenues would fund highway improvements, after which around half of the proceeds would go toward paying off the state’s $200 million in debt from the Interstate 93 expansion. While the bill’s supporters say it would help fix deteriorating roads and finish the expansion of Interstate 93, opponents argue that the rise in prices would cost drivers at the pump and lead to higher prices on goods and services. If the bill passed, it would be the first increase on the tax since 1991. New Hampshire’s tax is the lowest in New England and would remain so even if it rose to 22 cents.

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014

Five students win national scholarships FROM SCHOLARSHIP PAGE 1

Scholars and Ala’ Alrababa’h ’14 was named a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Kristin O’Rourke, assistant dean for scholarship advising, said in a February email interview that Dartmouth students write over 200 separate scholarship applications per year.

The 59 Truman Scholars were chosen from a pool of 655 applications from 294 colleges. The College has had a Truman Scholar every year since the 2010-11 academic year, and has had 25 since the award’s inception in 1977. One other Dartmouth student applied for the scholarship this year, and between two and four students have applied each year for the past five years, according to data provided

by O’Rourke last term.

In the Ivy League this year, Brown University, Cornell University, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania each also saw one student nominated as a Truman Scholar.

Silverstein called the Truman Scholarship — which g rants students up to $30,000 to pursue graduate studies with the goal of going into public service — a perfect fit for her interests, which include law, education policy and civil rights.

“I’ve known since the beginning of college that I wanted to go into law,” Silverstein said, adding that her experience studying U.S. government in high school led to her current passions.

She said being homeschooled

motivated her interest in education policy.

Brandon DeBot ’14, who won the Truman Scholarship last year, said that scholarship advising from the College helped significantly with his application responses and interview preparation. He added, however, that the advising office should conduct more scholarship outreach, citing that many stu-

“I’ve known since the beginning of college that I wanted to go into law.”

- SHOSHANA SILVERSTEIN ’15, TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT dents do not apply to scholarships because they are unaware of the opportunities.

Unlike the public serviceoriented Truman Scholarship, the Goldwater Scholarship seeks to support students pursuing mathematics, science and engineering.

Hammer said that she learned about the Goldwater Scholarship through a panel held by the Undergraduate Deans Office. She applied because it was the only scholarship specifically supporting science and Ph.D. programs.

Created by Congress in 1986, the Goldwater Scholarship covers up to $7,500 per year in graduate school costs. Out of the 1,166 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated by

American college faculties, only 283 sophomores and juniors were selected.

Hammer said that she wants to pursue graduate studies in chemical engineering, focusing on alternative energy and fuel. She said that, eventually, she would like to become a professor and have her own laboratory.

Chen said he plans to combine an M.D. with a Ph.D. in computer science and research biological and biomedical topics through computational methods.

Unlike both the Truman and Goldwater Scholarships, the Beinecke Scholarship simply supports the “graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise,” rather than a specific field of study.

Randolph will receive $4,000 prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school, where he plans on studying Native American literature, philosophy and theory.

Randolph said he was directed to the Beinecke Scholarship by a professor, who later acted as a “very, very useful” scholarship advisor.

Three other Dartmouth students were named to the scholarship in the past five years.

In November 2013, Joseph Singh ’14 and Jonathan Pedde ’14 were awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the first College students to receive the prestigious award since Gabrielle Emanuel ’10 in 2010.

Pedde is a former member of The Dartmouth senior staff.

Alrababa’h did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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RiverFest race attracts paddlers from across New England FROM RIVERFEST PAGE 1

Though the flood moved some rocks and changed part of one rapid, this did not significantly affect the race, Johnson said.

“It was crazy to see it afterward,” he said. “The water flooded so high that all of the hanging pine branches got soaking wet, and when the water dropped down they all froze. On Thursday, the sides of the river had these clumps of frozen branches.”

Rogan Brown, a University Of Vermont senior, placed first in the men’s division, while Nick Gottlieb ’11 and Alex Toth ’10 came in second and third place respectively.

Daphne Tuzlak, a Middlebury College senior, Ellen Ludlow ’10 and Gray Kelsey ’13 topped the women’s division.

Cat Mejia ’14, who volunteered at this year’s RiverFest and helped organize the triathlon two years ago, noted that this year’s race saw an unusually high number of Dartmouth winners.

Mejia said Wells River Rumble race is her favorite RiverFest event because of the course’s exciting nature and how easy it is to watch the large rapids. The race has a mass start and is in a small class IV creek that drops 86 feet over one mile.

“It makes it exciting going down the river with everyone right next to each other,” Johnson said. “It makes it a little more difficult because someone might be in the place you prefer to be in a given rapid and you have to decide to either charge ahead or let them go.”

Johnson said that all of Saturday’s competitors have been kayaking for at least two years, with most kayaking for far longer. Experience, he said, makes a paddler successful.

“It’s a fairly difficult river,” Johnson said. “The consequences if you make a mistake are real and you could get hurt. It takes practice knowing how to get your boat where you want it to go and to stay upright which in certain rapids is very important.”

The postponed Mascoma River Slalom occurs in class II and III rapids and was scheduled to occur Sunday, starting at the Packard Hill Covered Bridge in Lebanon.

The club sets up temporary gates in the river that participants need to maneuver through.

Josie Nordrum ’17 and Eliza Grainger ’17 organized the modified triathlon, which consisted of a land race in which participants held paddles and wore “kayaking skirts,” a type of equipment traditionally used to cover kayaks, a 9.2-mile bike race through Norwich and a five-kilometer run around campus.

The event brought 30 Dartmouth participants and drew a good number of spectators, Nordrum said.

Thursday’s documentary screening, part of a termly event called Conservation on Tap, The Festival Party, at the DOC House Saturday night, featured a raffle and a live performance.

Money raised from the raffle, Tshirt sales and registration fees will be donated to American Whitewater, an organization that conserves and restores rivers and advocates for whitewater paddling.

“One of the great things about Riverfest in general is that it is a good way to contribute to the white river paddling community,” Cathey said.

Ledyard’s River Festival is not affiliated with the senior week event called RiverFest, organized annually by class council.

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A kayaker participated in the Wells River Rumble, a race held as part of the weekend’s River Festival.

NOTICE

Emergency Test On Monday, April 21 at 3 p.m., Dartmouth will test two of its emergency notification systems.

The Outdoor Mass Notification System consists of sirens and voice speakers that can be heard outdoors up to 10 miles from campus.

The DartAlert system delivers an automated message to all Dartmouth email accounts and landline phones, as well as to the personal phones of registered users.

These are two of many tools Dartmouth would use to communicate in a major emergency.

For more information: www.dartmouth.edu/~prepare

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Staff Columnist jon miller ’15

CONTRIBUTING columnist isaac green ’17

An Expensive Education

Facing Our Frustrations

Our tuition warrants attention, despite the lower increase this year.

Although recent years have seen average tuition increases of 4.8 percent (from 2009-14, well outpacing inflation rates), and lowering this number is long overdue, I would like to laud College President Phil Hanlon for his efforts to rein in out of control tuition increases. Rather than cutting back, the consensus on some parts of campus seems to be that tuition can be raised endlessly, and students will still matriculate. I attended one of Hanlon’s faculty meetings in the fall, where he affirmed his commitment to trying to tie tuition levels to inflation. I witnessed firsthand what a contentious topic this was among the faculty.

The recent 14 percent application drop (a product, I believe, of a combination of many factors, some as prosaic as a new supplemental application essay and the new policy of not accepting AP credit for future students) begs us to reconsider the idea that students and their families will pay endlessly high prices to come to Dartmouth. Although the Board of Trustees ultimately decided upon and approved the relatively slight tuition increase, I think the credit for this strong step in the right direction lies primarily with Hanlon. At the fall meeting, Hanlon made a point of stating his belief that tuition needed to be lowered. Although it has previously been published in The Dartmouth that some experts tie Dartmouth’s relatively small increase in tuition to the 14 percent drop in applications, it is worth noting that Hanlon brought the topic of reducing tuition to the forefront of conversation months before the final applicant numbers were known.

All the other schools in the Ivy League (excluding Columbia University, which has not announced its tuition costs for the 2014-15 year) raised their cost of attendance for the 2014-15 academic year. Princeton University increased its tuition by 4.1 percent, and Cornell University increased its cost of attendance by 3.26 percent.

Harvard University increased fees by 3.9 percent, the largest increase seen in seven years. Information on Columbia excluded, Dartmouth remains the school with the highest cost of attendance. It has long been puzzling to me that Dartmouth, located in a rural setting, could have the second highest total cost of attendance, including tuition

and fees, in the Ivy League for the 2013-14 academic year (only slightly behind Columbia, which is located in the middle of New York City).

So what does it really take to be on campus taking classes? With an overall cost of attendance of now $65,133, it’s sometimes easy to lose perspective of the College’s cost. As students, I think most people would agree we are first and foremost at Dartmouth to learn and attend classes. Let’s consider the cost of attendance on a class-by-class basis. The average student will take about nine classes per week, spread over 30 weeks of three quarters in a single year. For students living on campus, the average cost of attending a single class at Dartmouth — calculated from the 2014-15 cost of attendance, which includes not only tuition, but also room, board, books and miscellaneous fees that cannot be avoided — comes to $241.23.

This number certainly illustrates just how much it costs to attend Dartmouth. If anything, Dartmouth ought to seek tuition reductions.

In addition to approving a tuition increase of 2.9 percent, the Board also approved an operating budget of $1 billion (that’s billion with a “B”) for the fiscal year 2015. A small liberal arts college in rural New Hampshire should not need an operating budget of $1 billion to function. Perhaps this astronomical number denotes greater problems within the College’s institutional structure that need to be reexamined. Hanlon has taken another step in the right direction by making Dartmouth’s overall budget more transparent by teaching classes this spring on the topic. More money ought to be spent on maintaining quality faculty members, rather than myriad offices nebulously dedicated to “academic and student” support.

Regardless of the current budget for the fiscal year 2015 and the average 4.8 percent tuition increases over the previous five years, Hanlon should be more widely praised among students for his successful efforts to lower tuition increases.

The recently announced tuition increase of 2.9 percent is the College’s lowest since 1977 (ironically the year when Hanlon graduated). I am grateful for Hanlon’s efforts to reduce tuition and hope to see his goal of pegging tuition to inflation eventually realized.

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We need to fight the urge to denounce protest out of frustration.

A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed, “Oppressed by the Ivy League” that many on this campus read, shared and discussed. I myself shared it on Facebook with the preface that, “something’s amiss when I agree with most of a [Wall Street Journal] oped.” Caught up in the heat of the moment, I was frustrated with what I saw on campus, and the frustration that came across in the piece’s rhetoric resonated with me. But now I owe a mea culpa.

The editorial’s eloquently phrased frustration resonated with me, but my frustration came from a very different source. The protests frustrated me because I felt they had lost sight of the noble aims that had motivated them in the first place. The editorial expressed frustration that the protestors were coming forward at all. While the heightened polarization that immediately followed the protest disappointed me, the editorial discouraged students from even suggesting that something was even amiss to begin with, particularly at our “tolerant-toa-fault” Ivy League institution. While I wished for a more productive dialogue, the editorial demeaned those who dared start one at all.

My reactions to the protest and the editorial were so uncharacteristic that, to be perfectly honest, it scared me. I worried that I was losing myself and the values I arrived with in August.

Why should a liberal boy raised right by two lesbian moms in the diverse bastion of political correctness that is Santa Fe, N.M., ever take issue with the right of minorities anywhere to air their grievances and demand a response? I grew up and became politically aware during the Bush presidency, and by the time I was 12, my parents had dragged me to more protests and sit-ins than Dartmouth has seen in the past five years combined. So why should I speak out against this one, and why — oh why — was I suddenly agreeing with the Wall Street Journal editorial board?

I thought long and hard about these questions, and, finally, I figured it out. For the first time in my life, I felt as if I were the one being protested. I felt like the biting tone of the protest

and “Freedom Budget” targeted me as a white male and a proud student at the institution that I have come to consider part of my identity.

Further, I saw the same thing in the people around me. The unfortunate immediate result of the protests was a mainstream delegitimization of the protestors and their demands. The perceived antagonism from both sides served to separate the very groups that most needed to be talking — the protestors and the rest of the student body. This was the source of my frustration, but I let my imperfect response to an imperfect action get the better of me.

Looking back I wish I hadn’t posted that editorial on Facebook, and I think many of my friends would react very differently were they to re-read the editorial again with a few weeks of time and space to give them perspective. The protest reignited a necessary conversation on this campus, and whether the demonstrators did so in the best way they could have is neither here nor there. Immediately following the protest we focused as a community far too much on the attitudes and means of the protestors and not nearly enough on the ends.

The way we make a change on campus is together. The “Freedom Budget” and the issues it raises allow us as a community to consciously begin to shift our culture. While many of the points outlined by the “Freedom Budget” can and should be implemented, the fact of the matter is you can’t throw money at oppression or administrate away racism.

Together, Dartmouth students are more than capable of making this a welcoming place for all.

One of the reasons I chose Dartmouth was because last year’s Dimensions protest inspired me. I was excited to come to a school where students cared enough to risk standing up and demanding improvement. Looking back, I missed an opportunity to take up the work that made me want to enroll in the first place.

In the future I will look past myself and join in creating a Dartmouth in which we can all be comfortable and proud. I encourage others to do so, too.

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Softball’s win streak snapped at 16 by Brown B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

After winning three games against Brown University, the softball team suffered its first Ivy loss of the season.

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Over the course of the first three games, Dartmouth outscored Brown 17-3, Every part of Dartmouth’s game in the first three contests clicked, pitcher Kristen Rumley ’15 said.

On Saturday, both Rumley and Morgan McCalmon ’16 pitched complete games in 7-1 and 4-0 wins.

Rumley, after allowing a home run in Saturday’s first game, shut

Ivy League Tournaments the women’s lacrosse team has missed before this year.

down Brown for her 14th win of the season. McCalmon also set a personal benchmark, striking out a career-high 11 hitters in game two.

In the first game, Rumley was supported by a homer from Chloe Madill ’17.

Kara Curosh ’14 contributed to Dartmouth’s game one victory with her bat, adding three RBIs in Saturday’s game one when she hit a double to right center that cleared the bases.

Katie McEachern ’16 not only kicked off the scoring in the fifth

inning of game two, but also earned the game-winning RBI. The Big Green was also helped by back-to-back homeruns from Karen Chaw ’17 and Kelsey Miller ’16.

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The softball team’s perfect Ivy League season ended Sunday thanks to a 3-1 loss against Brown.

With the pressure of the season weighing down on the closing weeks of Ivy League play, Dartmouth baseball is locked in a dogfight with Yale University for the Red Rolfe Division crown. The Big Green (12-19, 7-9 Ivy) sits two games back from the Bulldogs (1719, 9-7 Ivy) after splitting a pair of doubleheaders against Brown University this weekend.

Dartmouth churned out the span of possible results, dropping the opening matchup 12-3 before

losing the second game on Saturday 7-6 in extra innings. An altogether different story unraveled on Sunday when the Big Green shut down the Bears in a 7-0 victory before clinging to a one run lead in the 3-2 win that closed out the

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had nothing to lose.

“They were just having a lot of fun,” co-captain Dustin Selzer ’14 said. “They definitely have some guys who can swing, and they showed us that.”

Brown’s Ivy record since the change of coaching staff has been an even .500, statistics that bode well for the Big Green coming into the final weekend of Ivy League match ups. If the new factor in the Red Rolfe Division can hold up their tendency to split the results on the weekend against Yale, Dartmouth could potentially win

the Division if the Big Green could manage a clean sweep of Harvard.

Brown’s lineup put up 12 runs in the first game on Saturday, scoring at least one run in each inning. The Big Green’s starter, Beau Sulser ’16, uncharacteristically surrendered 10 runs against 12 hits in his four and one-thirds innings stretch on the mound.

Dartmouth’s offense wouldn’t get on the scoreboard until the fourth inning when a home run

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games in Rhode Island.

The games came just a little over a week after Brown’s head coach of 18 years Marek Drabinski stepped down, giving no reason for his sudden and unexpected departure, the Brown Daily Herald reported.

The following weekend, the Bears picked up their first Ivy victories of the season at Harvard University.

The Bears, co-captain Jeff Keller ’14 said, played like they

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With two losses, the baseball team fell two games behind Yale.

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from Chris Kipouras ’15 to secure the win for the Big Green (18-5, 5-1 Ivy) against Brown University on senior day.

The final score line was 4-3. The two wins secured the team’s winningest Ivy record since the eight-team league was established in 1998 and the 18 wins ties an all-time high.

The junior fought off seven match points in his 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-6 (7-3) victory at the number two spot.

In its Saturday game against Princeton University, the women’s lacrosse team came away empty handed, losing 12-10 after a second-half rally.

The Tigers (10-4, 6-1 Ivy) came into the game off of a 9-5 win against the University of Pennsylvania, which allowed Princeton to clinch the Ivy League regular season title with Saturday’s win. The game’s significance, coupled with the team’s history,

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Chris Kipouras ’15 won the tennis team’s match against Brown in dramatic fashion.

“Kip is one of the toughest competitors out there,” head coach Chris Drake said. “He always thinks he can win, and he hangs in there as well as anyone I’ve ever seen.”

Dartmouth began the day by winning the doubles point. Both the number one team of Brendan Tannenbaum

’16 and Cameron Ghorbani ’14 and the number three team of Brandon DeBot ’14 and Kipouras dominated their opponents to secure the doubles point for the Big Green against the Bears (10-12, 0-6 Ivy).

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After making quick work in a 4-0 sweep at Yale University on Saturday, the men’s tennis team won in dramatic fashion for the second week in a row at the Thompson outdoor courts on Sunday. It took a third set tiebreaker victory

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Princeton started the game with momentum from its Wednesday night win over Penn. On attack, the Tigers scored

four consecutive goals before Sarah Byrne ’15 netted the Big Green’s only first-half tally.

“Their speed did take us a little by surprise,” co-captain Kara Lehman ’14 said.

“We didn’t expect them to come out that quick.”

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B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

Spending just over $23.4 million in fiscal year 2013, Dartmouth’s athletics department expenditures ranked the third-highest in the Ivy League, according to the Department of Education’s equity in athletics data analysis cutting tool. The University of Pennsylvania leads the League in spending, with fiscal year 2013 expenditures totaling over $39 million, and Yale University tops out above $36 million. Dartmouth’s budget more closely resembles the rest of the Ivies, which spent between $18 and $22 million overall.

In that fiscal year, Dartmouth spent almost $22,000 per athlete for its 1,067 total team members. Penn spent $39,000 for each of its 1,001 athletes and Yale, which has 960 varsity athletes, spent just over $38,000 per athlete. Brown University, which spent just over $18 million in total athletic expenditures, spent just under $17,000 per each of its 1,081 athletes.

These numbers reflect total participants, not distinct student-athletes.

About half of the athletics department’s budget comes from the College, and the rest comes from a mix of alumni donations, endowed funds, corporate sponsorships, fitness center memberships, ticket revenues and NCAA grants, Dartmouth’s executive

Data courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics and the Department of Education.

vice president and chief financial officer Richard Mills said.

In 1990, institutional support comprised 67 percent of the athletics department’s $5.6 million total revenue, while in 2013 it comprised 47 percent of the $22.1 million in revenue. Over the past two decades, alumni donations have increased significantly, growing from 8 to 24 percent of total funding sources.

Athletic director Harry Sheehy stressed that the financial investment pays off, citing the educational value of participating in a sport and the boost to Dartmouth’s visibility that comes from its athletic programs.

In 2013, 891 of 4,475 undergraduate students, just under 20 percent, participated in varsity athletics.

In terms of Ivy recruiting costs, Dartmouth ranks fifth, having spent $910,350 during the 2013 fiscal year, just under the league’s approximately $925,000 average. Princeton University spent the most on recruiting, doling out over $1.1 million that year.

Much of the College’s recruiting expenses are covered by the athletic sponsor program, which helps fund recruits’ campus visits through donations.

“I think many coaches will tell you that the most important juncture in the recruiting process is the moment a student agrees to visit a campus,” deputy director

of athletics Bob Ceplikas said. “Because the moment they arrive here, all the rules change. And when I say all the rules change, I mean that if they come in with a preconceived notion, that Harvard, Yale and Princeton were household names, that starts to change once they’re here and they understand what makes this place so special.”

The College spent roughly $900,000 more on men’s sports than women’s sports, according to the College’s 2013 EADA report, with the largest difference being between the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams. This overall discrepancy is typical of Dartmouth’s Ancient Eight peers. In 2013, the men’s hockey operating expenses totaled $472,434 while the women’s operating expenses amounted to $190,391. This $280,000 difference tops the League by $130,000. Cornell’s men’s hockey team spends about $150,000 more than its women’s team, the next largest gap.

The difference, Sheehy said, is due to equipment, noting that men break sticks at a quicker rate than women.

Other reasons for differing levels of funding between sports by gender may be due to postseason competitions and coach salaries. On average, according to the Department of Education, full-time head coaches for men’s teams earn $106,089 annually while head coaches for women’s

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teams earn $79,917. Dartmouth coaches are paid less than their Ivy League counterparts. Princeton pays its women’s coaches the most at $107,782. Cornell’s men’s coaches make an average of $142,217.

Coaches are paid based on experience, Sheehy said.

Assistant coaches average $55,123 for men’s teams and $42,311 for women’s teams.

As part of a project to raise $20 million, 10 of the College’s coaching positions have been endowed, Sheehy said.

Ceplikas, who has worked in the athletics department under four College presidents — Jim Wright, Jim Yong Kim, Carol Folt and Phil Hanlon — said each has supported the department and the Ivy League concept of athletics, which encourages widespread participation and the pursuit of excellence, Ceplikas said.

No president has made an active push to decrease the department’s budget, he said.

Dartmouth’s and the other Ivies’ athletic budget is comparably smaller to those of other Division I schools, roughly one-sixth of the Ohio State University’s budget.

Sheehy said that comparing the Ivies to the power conferences is like comparing apples to oranges because they are institutionally set up to be different.

“The difference between the normal

Division I model and the Ivy League is that, in the Division I model, they want you to be a standalone business,” Sheehy said.

“Even though most of them lose money, they’re separate from the university and they operate separately.”

Additionally, no Ivy offers athletics scholarships.

Physical Education classes and club sports, however, are organized and funded by athletics with some subsidization from the College, Sheehy said.

Dartmouth receives several NCAA financial distributions each year, based on various factors, like the number of scholarship offers the school makes and the distribution of varsity sports offered.

Since Dartmouth offers zero scholarships, Dartmouth receives zero dollars for this portion. However, thanks to their comparatively large number of varsity teams, Dartmouth and every other Ivy League school receives much more money.

Other NCAA distributions are awarded for more targeted reasons, such as one given for academic enhancement, which Dartmouth uses to fund the academic counseling portion of its Dartmouth Peak Performance program, Ceplikas said.

In order to receive corporate sponsorships, the athletic department uses its marketing staff to solicit corporate sponsors.

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Ceplikas said.

Marketing focuses on local and regional businesses like Boloco and White River Toyota.

Many sports conferences and colleges receive money through lucrative media contracts. For example, power conference schools typically receive between $12 and $20 million per year, according to a report by the Delta Cost Project. The Ivy League, however, does not solicit media contracts and the Ivy League Digital Network does not bring in a significant source of income, Sheehy said.

During the last Board of Trustees meeting, the Board approved money to fix the swimming pool and the stands at Memorial Field, but Mills said neither expenditure falls within the department’s current expense budget. Instead, the pool and the stands renovations fall into the capital budget pool.

Over the past decade, Sheehy said that he believes around $94 million has been spent to upgrade athletic facilities, and Dartmouth’s only need is an indoor practice facility so that teams can practice inside during the snowy winter months.

“One reason why I like where I am is because I think the things I believe in fit here,” Sheehy said. “I’m really happy being in a non-scholarship situation philosophically.”

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Men’s lacrosse loses seventh straight Softball team falls one amir taree game back of Harvard By

The men’s lacrosse team was defeated 9-3 by the No. 10 University of Pennsylvania Quakers on Saturday afternoon at ScullyFahey Field in a game controlled by tough defense.

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The game was the final home Ivy League contest of the 2014 season for the Big Green (1-9, 0-5 Ivy).

After Penn’s (7-3, 4-2 Ivy) senior Drew Belinsky scored the first goal of the game five minutes into the first quarter, the Quakers continued to grind, adding four more goals before Dartmouth broke through.

The Big Green got on the board with 5:49 left before halftime as Wiley Osborne ’17 opened the scoring.

The Quakers never trailed in the game as they earned their place in the Ivy League Tournament in two weeks.

“They’re a very well coached team,” midfielder Phil Hession ’15 said. “They’re disciplined all over the field and they have one of the best goalies in the country.”

Osborne notched a second goal with 1:49 remaining in the third to bring the Big Green within four, but Penn responded just 29 seconds later to make the score 7-2 and effectively stop any attempted Dartmouth rally.

The Big Green offense was led by two freshmen, Osborne and Jack McCormick ’17, both coming off the bench to score Dartmouth’s three goals in the

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The men’s lacrosse team fell to 1-9 with a 9-3 loss to Penn.

contest. McCormick added the third goal with 11:43 remaining in the fourth quarter.

Goalkeeper Blair Friedensohn ’16 tallied nine saves in the second half for the Big Green leading to a career-high total of14 saves in the game.

“This was one of his best games of the year,” Hession said. “He made up for a lot of times when we made mistakes. He’s clearly improved throughout the year.”

The visiting side had three players finish the game with two goals apiece, including junior Chris Hupfeldt, sophomore Nick Doktor and senior Zack Losco.

Losco added a pair of assists to lead all players in the game with four points.

The Quakers’ defending first team all-Ivy goalkeeper senior Brian Feeney continued his good form and defended against a strong Big Green attack by recording 12 saves.

Penn outshot the Big Green 3727, while also winning the ground ball battle 37-36. The Big Green committed 23 turnovers to Penn’s 19.

“They’re not a flashy team,” Bobby Osgood ’15 said. “They just do the right thing and they don’t make very many mistakes.”

Before the game, the team honored its nine seniors, who played their final home Ivy game on Saturday.

The Big Green will finish Ivy League play next Saturday when the team travels to Brown University at 2 p.m.

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Dartmouth continued to roll on Sunday, winning 6-2 in the first half of Sunday’s double-header before allowing three runs in the bottom of the fifth to fall 3-1 in game two.

Rumley picked up her 15th win by limiting Brown to two runs in game one.

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She was heavily assisted by Madill, who hit her first collegiate grand slam over the center field wall in the fourth.

But the hitting stopped for Dartmouth in game two. A single

by Curosh provided Dartmouth’s only run, but it didn’t prove enough after Brown responded with a three-run fifth to win the game.

Brown’s upset also snapped its 28-game losing streak, Despite Sunday’s loss, Dart-

mouth still can redeem itself with four games against Harvard University coming up this weekend.

Coach Rachel Hanson said she is confident that her team will be able to bounce back from the defeat in preparation for the Crimson.

Dartmouth has been looking forward to playing Harvard all season, Rumley said.

“I think going into next weekend against Harvard, we’re going to be pumped,” she said “The pitching went well, the hitting went well and I think we’re in a good position for next weekend.”

A high-stakes four-game softball series that could determine Dartmouth’s postseason would be an exciting way to end a career, Curosh said.

Harvard will play two games against Cornell University on Tuesday to make up for games canceled earlier this season.

The Crimson also has to complete the final inning of one of its games against the University of Pennsylvania after the game was called due to a lack of light in early April.

Barring an upset, Harvard will have a perfect Ivy record going into next weekend.

If Dartmouth wins three of its four upcoming games, the Big Green will win the Ivy League softball’s North Division title and the right to host the Ivy League Championship Series on May 3-4 in Hanover.

Weekend splits track teams, competing in Calif., N.J. and Conn.

B y JORDAN EINHORN The Dartmouth Staff

The track and field teams split up this weekend, heading to California for the Mt. SAC Relays and invitationals at Yale University and Princeton University.

The competition at Mt. SAC is one of the premier track meets in the country, featuring the best collegiate and pro athletes in the sport. Abbey D’Agostino ’14 and Dana Giordano ’16 competed in the run invitational elite 5,000-meter run and John Bleday ’14 ran in the Olympic development elite section of the 5,000-meter.

D’Agostino was third overall, but the top collegiate finisher, with a time of 15:30.93. Giordano ran a lifetime best to finish in 14th place with a time of 15:53.96. Bleday finished in 16th place in 14:04.71.

“It is a different vibe when you are with people who share the same experiences as you,” D’Agostino

said, noting that the three “made it a vacation,” enjoying themselves and running on the beach.

Since this year is not a championship year on the world stage, D’Agostino went into the race just looking to compete, not aiming for a qualifying time. D’Agostino said the race started off slower than expected, and she was on the outside when someone picked up the pace.

“I’ve been stuck on the outside before, so I was frustrated,” D’Agostino said. “But I just wanted to compete, and I was in a place where I felt like I could respond if anything happened.”

D’Agostino, Giordano and Bleday all ran times that should be fast enough to qualify for NCAA regionals, coach Barry Harwick said.

Other Dartmouth track runners competed closer to home at Yale and Princeton.

The Larry Ellis Invite at Princ-

eton featured more of Dartmouth’s distance runners .

The Big Green was led by strong performances in the 5,000-meter run by Reid Watson ’16 who finished in ninth with a time of 16:31.68 and Henry Sterling ’14 whose time of 14:15.27 was good enough for 11th. Both times were personal bests, Harwick said.

In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Sarah DeLozier ’15 finished in sixth place with a time of 10:16.38, and Anthony Anzivino ’16 finished in 25th place with a time of 9:09.84.

Since steeplechase is not an event that can be competed, or fully practiced, indoors, athletes are becoming acclimated to it.

The second time the Big Green competed in the event this season, Harwick said the team saw many improvements — athletes had more practice with the hurdles and water jump, in addition to being in better shape overall.

Most athletes competed at Yale, where the performances in the sprints were the highlight of the day. The meet at Yale provided the team with the chance to compete against Ivy League opponents and prepare for the Heptagonal Championships, coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said.

On the men’s side John Abraham ’16 won the 100-meter dash in 10.80 and the 4x100 meter relay with Danny Katz ’16, Brett Buskey ’15, and Edward Wagner ’16.

The team finished in 42.17, over a second and a half ahead of the second-place team from Central Connecticut State University.

The team took first and second place in the javelin. Jim Budzinski ’14 won the event with a throw of 60.54 meters followed by Jacob Shippee ’16 in second with a throw of 58.53 meters.

Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 performed well for the women, claiming second in the 100-meter dash

in a time of 11.86 seconds and winning the high jump by clearing 1.75 meters, her personal best in the event.

Jenn Meech ’16 also won the 200-meter dash in 24.13 and the 400-meter in 57.01. Lauren Ready ’15 set a new school record in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.42, breaking last year’s record by teammate Janae Dunchack ’14.

Sprinters were helped by the windy conditions, whereas distance runners had to compensate for the headwind, Harwick said.

According to Ford-Centonze, Ready and the other hurdlers have benefited from recent warmer temperatures which have allowed them to practice with more hurdles than they would inside.

The track team continues its hectic schedule, divided again next weekend. Some athletes will compete at the renowned Penn Relays, while others will be at the University of New Hampshire.

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The singles matches were back and forth competitions with all but two of the six going to a third set.

Dovydas Sakinis ’16 made quick work of his opponent at the number one position, dispatching him in two sets. DeBot did not experience his doubles success — in his last match at home, the senior leader lost in two sets in the number four spot.

George Wall ’17 secured a huge point for the Big Green in the number six position. After being just two points away from winning the match in the second set, Wall eventually won in a third set.

The dramatic ending was a fitting precursor to what occurred on the middle court with Kipouras.

With the entire competition tied at 3-3, Kipouras and his opponent battled deep into a third set. Every fan in attendance crowded to see the only remaining competitors exchange blows.

Kipouras dropped the first set.

On the verge of dropping the second — which would have given Dartmouth an overall loss for the day — Kipouras forced a tiebreaker where he achieved a 7-6 victory.

A dramatic second-set victory set the stage for another thrilling last set. Kipouras again found himself

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The team faces Harvard next weekend in a battle for second place in the Ancient Eight.

with his back to the wall. He staved off repeated match points.

Yet he forced a tiebreaker. The sun was beginning to sink, the air was chilly and everyone surrounding the center court was on their feet. Every point was met with either a roar or shouts of encouragement.

“It was as dramatic as you can get in college tennis,” Wall said.

Kipouras won the tiebreaker 7-3, and consequently the match. After the last point he fell to his knees, yelling to the sky as the crowd banged on the fence, roared and stormed the court. The team mobbed the junior.

“It was one of those perfect moments that you can only ever really get from sports,” Blake Niehaus ’17

said.

Fans, players and coaches gathered together to take a picture, commemorating a dramatic victory for Ghorbani and DeBot’s last match at home.

“I couldn’t think of a better way to go out,” Ghorbani said. “We’ve battled all year, and I think this just shows how strong this team really

is.”

The victory placed the Big Green at 5-1 in the Ivy League this season. The team plays its last match next weekend against Harvard University, which will determine the outright second place team.

Columbia University clinched the league title this weekend.

On Friday, the men traveled to face the Yale Bulldogs (12-9, 1-5 Ivy). The team cruised against Yale, dispatching the team in just two hours. The team dropped zero sets and a total of 38 games en route to a 4-0 win. Wins from the four, five and six spots secured the victory after the Big Green won the doubles point.

Dartmouth was ranked 41st in the nation heading into the weekend, but the victories should lift the team at least a few spots. Even with a loss, they have potentially done enough to secure a bid to the NCAA championship tournament.

“This match was defining monment of the whole season,” Wall said. “It’s just been so exciting to be involved with these guys and take the program to a new level. Stuff like Kip’s win is what defines who we are.”

The team travels to Cambridge next Saturday for its final match of the season.

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Selzer to bring Dartmouth within five. A solo home run by Thomas Roulis ’15 in the fifth was the last Dartmouth run of the game.

When the two teams took the diamond for the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, neither could manage a clear lead. A fourrun effort in the third put Dartmouth ahead 4-2, but two Brown runs in the fifth and seventh each kept pressure on the Big Green offense.

Bo Patterson ’15 worked his way around the diamond twice that game, stealing second and going to third on a throwing error in the sixth before a sacrifice grounder by Matt MacDowell ’15 brought him home.

Patterson again put the team back in contention in the eighth after a failed pick-off attempt gave him time to take second before Matt Parisi ’15 batted him in on a single through the left side of the infield.

The game ran into the 10th when an unearned run snapped the 6-6 tie in favor of the Bears.

Saturday’s results, Selzer said, were some of the most disappointing of his entire career at

Dartmouth.

The Big Green had shaken out its late-season jitters when it returned to Brown’s Murray Stadium on Sunday, churning out seven runs in seven innings while shutting out the Bears in the first game of the doubleheader. Mike

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Concato ’17, taking the place of recovering Michael Danielak ’16, threw 108 pitches and six strikeouts. The four-hit outing, Concato said, resulted from remaining calm and throwing the pitches that he was working for.

With one win on the weekend under their belts, the players entered the final game of the four-

game matchup, giving up the first run of the game to the Bears in the third. The altered staff availability in the pen brought Chris England ’15 to the mound for his first Ivy start of the season.

England allowed just two runs on four hits in seven innings, providing the performance the team needed, both Keller and Selzer said.

“Credit today is due to Chris England,” Selzer said. “He was great for having the guts to go out there and start for the team when we needed him. Without a doubt, he stepped up and was a huge asset to the team.”

Two runs for Dartmouth in the sixth and one final home run by Purritano in the eighth — just in time to keep the Big Green ahead before Brown homered in the bottom half — carried the team to a slim victory as Chris Burkholder ’17 and Duncan Robinson ’16 took to the mound to keep the Bears quiet in the box for the final two innings of the game, giving up just one hit between them.

The team will try to build momentum going into the final weekend of Ivy play by taking on St. Anselm College in Hanover on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

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team’s attitude as “positive” going into halftime.

The team has managed to make large comebacks in past games, so it was not worried about the score, she said.

The Big Green outscored Princeton 9-8 in the second half.

The team focused on moving the ball quickly on attack and increasing its possession time, Allard said.

“We definitely made a lot of improvements in the second half,” she said. “We were getting the draw controls and holding the ball longer.”

Dartmouth nabbed more opportunities to score, with a second-half 11-7 lead in draw controls. This shift in momentum came with improved play on both ends of the field.

Goalkeeper Kristen Giovanniello ’14, attributed the second half success to the team’s focus on limiting easy shots.

“We tried playing to prevent cutters from getting into the box,” she said.

“We wanted them to earn their goals by passing around, as opposed to off of one quick touch.”

Giovanniello also had four saves in

the second half, giving her a total of five which she attributed to the efforts of the defense.

“Our defense really stepped up and gave me a chance to save the ball,” she said. “It’s a testament to them and their effort.”

Facing a five-goal deficit with 8:09 to go in the game, the Big Green pushed on. Racing against the clock, the Big Green ended the game on a 4-1 run but ran out of time to fully capitalize on the late-game surge.

“We are a team that always fights to the end,” Allard said. “There was no question in our minds that we weren’t going to fight on the end.”

Despite the loss, the team took pride in its performance and toughness, Giovanniello said.

The team’s record pushed it out of the top four, so Dartmouth will not qualify for the Ivy League tournament for the first time since it was established in 2010.

Dartmouth will look to finish its season with a win at Harvard University on Friday.

“We’ve been through a lot, we’ve had a lot thrown to us,” Lehman said.

“To put that all behind us and finish with a win would be huge.”

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B y KATIE JARRETT The Dartmouth Staff

This Friday I sat down with the baseball team’s second baseman Thomas Roulis ’15 to talk about the team fighting out of an earlyseason slump, his professional idol and his ideal superpower.

How did it feel to earn Ivy Player of the Week for the first time last week after your performance against Brown?

TR: I wasn’t really expecting it, to tell you the truth. It’s a great feeling, especially when your team can take three out of four in a series, get the ball rolling again and be able to compete in the Ivy League.

What do you think enabled your success against Yale?

TR: I was doing a better job at the plate and seeing more pitches, swinging at more pitches and laying off the off-speed stuff.

What do you need to do to continue your success?

TR: We have to keep getting to pitches early on, get into bull pens and keep working counts.

Yankee Stadium, but now I would probably say Fenway Park because of its history and great fan base.

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Where do you see yourself in five years? Do you think baseball will still be a part of your life?

TR: Everyone kind of hopes that’s where they will be in five years. I hope to be playing after college for sure. How long it goes, I can’t really say.

Loyal readers, real spring in the Northeast is finally upon us and you all know what that means: 50 degree temperature changes, puddles in places that defy both logic and gravity, Red Sox baseball, the Bruins in the playoffs and, most importantly, a sport we can all participate in: Marathon Monday in Boston.

Given our obvious connections and undying allegiance to all things Boston, Freddie and I felt particularly inclined to focus on running this week.

Well, that and my mom reminded me that I need to fit into the work clothes I purchased last year or buy new suits.

Ergo, we saw the immediate need to run, and to run a substantial distance.

However, upon a quick Wikipedia search behind the specifics of a marathon, we realized a true course is 26.2 miles, and to quote a great hero of mine, “I’m not trying to be the best at exercising” (Kenny Powers, for those of you without the staple of any college experience — access to HBO).

At that moment, we set out to find pretty much any excuse possible to avoid running such a distance. It was at this point that we looked at our blitz and saw the map of routes from the Dartmouth Endurance Racing Team.

So, thinking that The Dartmouth would reimburse us for the $2 (or one margarita at Molly’s, depending on how you view the concept of money) we had to fork over for the map, we

What would you say is the hardest part about playing college baseball?

TR: It’s a long season. It’s short when it comes to games, but long all year because of the amount of work and time you have to put in. It’s fun to do, so I can’t really complain.

What would you say is your favorite thing about being a Dartmouth athlete?

TR: My closest friends are on the team. Some might “It’s a long season. It’s people get sick of them after a while, but short when it comes it’s fun being to games, but long all with them all year because of the day long.

amount of work and time you have to put in. It’s fun to do, so I can’t really complain.”

What is your take on how the season has been going?

TR: We started off kind of slow, but especially now, we are starting to come around. Going into these last few weekends, we just have to take care of what we can control by playing our game. It all starts with the first game. We win the first one and take it from there.

Is there a Major League Baseball player that you look up to?

TR: I’m from Long Island, N.Y., so Derek Jeter was always my go-to guy. I’m 15 minutes from Citi Field, but I’m not a Mets fan. Ever since I was little, Jeter was always there.

He’s a great leader on the field and someone that I’ve always looked up to. It’s pretty sad that it’s his last season. It’ll be different not seeing him on the field.

If you could play in any major league ballpark, which would you choose and why?

TR: I’ve actually played in Yankee Stadium once. I would say

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

T R : Probably super strength. It would be cool to be able to lift anything.

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bought it and tried to think of ways to create a challenge that was both conducive to our needs and would get by the editors without too much pushback.

We settled on the Rip Road route, running a 3.5 mile circuit to measure our pace. We would then see how that would stake up to the rest of the field.

The preparation was pretty simple.

We read in a marathon training book that on the morning of the race, you should eat waffles and peanut butter early in the morning, find places to pack in as many of those energy gel things as you can, carry around a lot of water bottles in funny places and — of course — wear really short shorts.

So we did that every day. To some of us, every day is race day.

Other than that, physical preparation was pretty much the same as every week — eat whatever we wanted at FoCo (double desserts because we earned it) and drink blue Powerade alongside every meal without exception. At the gym, we took leg day off (with the obvious exception of our calves), spent a grand total of 25 minutes on the elliptical, worked our biceps a lot and then spent an equal amount of time in the sauna.

Originally, we scheduled our run for Tuesday at noon, but because conditions did not feel right when we woke up at 1 p.m., we decided to move it to Thursday. So we set out east first so we could knock out the hill before we got really tired on the way back.

Anyone who has ever tried to take Rip Road knows what I am talking about with this hill. Even though you

know it’s coming, it still gets you every time. The all-time worst is that after you think you are out of it, there is a slight uphill that just throws that last punch. We pushed through and were actually making pretty good time.

We came down Rip Road onto the golf course and made the obligatory comments on how it would only be like a week or two tops before the course opens and then we could stop going to Fore-U — where we made our livings skipping the driving range, getting a lot of ice cream and playing putt-putt.

After that it was pretty much smooth sailing into the finish. We are not going to go into which of us won the race because these details are not important. Our average finish time, though, was just south of 28 minutes doorstep to doorstep, putting us at 209.6 minutes (around three and a half hours) for the marathon. Based on our age, we would not have even qualified, let alone beat some of the current Dartmouth students gearing up for the race Monday (here we go, C.J. Pierce ’14). But, as you know, we are qualitative people who aren’t confined by “numbers” or “time limits” or “rules.” Marathon Runners: 1, Legends: 0.5.

So we dropped another one. I think at this point, it’s safe to say that we might not accomplish our goal of breaking even, but we have to at least try and save face. Tune in next week as we take on the Dartmouth table tennis team in a match-up that will hopefully get me the last PE credit I need to graduate.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: FOREHAND WINNER

What is one thing that most people don’t know about you?

TR: I know some of the guys on the team know this, but I’m actually a third-degree black belt.

I did karate for 11 years, starting at 4.

If you could meet any historical figure, who would you choose?

TR: I think George Washington would be pretty cool. It would be cool to see what it was like back then and what his responsibilities were.

If any song could play when you walk into a room, what would it be?

TR: “Danza Kuduro.” It was my walk-up song in the summer, and there’s just something about the beat I really like.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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The women’s tennis team fell at Yale on Friday before beating Brown in Hanover by the same score on Sunday.

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life.

“I was initially unsure about going because I didn’t think it would be productive, but then I had a friend who was a facilitator and he felt very strongly that I would get something out of it,” he said. “He was pretty convinced that my concerns were unwarranted, and I mostly went on his word.”

He said he also wanted to see if Wednesday night’s summit, which has since received national media attention, would lead to lasting change. He said he came away from Saturday’s discussion feeling more optimistic about the effort’s potential.

Sathe found that the organizers were realistic about the cause and had a concrete plan to turn dialogue

and ideas into policy initiatives.

“I guess what really struck me is that it didn’t feel like the effort was about them and what their priorities were,” he said. “It was about creating a platform for everyone to talk and share ideas.”

Mayerson said the session helped him think more creatively about how the College can achieve positive change.

No attendee would speak on the record about specific proposals, discussions surrounding which were closed to the media.

Twelve of 15 students interviewed said they had not heard of the event. The other three said that, while they were aware of it, they did not attend because they were unavailable at that time.

Kaur said that the low attendance did not surprise her because of

the event’s time and location and the fact that it had not been highly advertised.

“I know people were still unsure about the purpose of this event or skeptical that it would be worth their time — and I totally get it,” she said.

“This whole process is new and different and still a bit nebulous.”

Mayerson said he had personally expected higher attendance.

Having successful discussions about change is impossible without higher levels of student involvement, Kaur said. Moving forward, she said organizers will try to reach students who may be more skeptical about the process.

She added that facilitators at the event said that the most effective way to increase involvement is through actively reaching out to students.

“I personally don’t think we can

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on recommendations from various student groups that the organizers are involved in, organizers said.

Georgi Klissurski ’14, an event organizer, said the format was inspired by the Oxford Union debate series, which consists of weekly formal debates. He said he wanted tonight’s event to unite people in one space to talk about an issue important to campus climate.

Those within and outside of the Greek system, though often holding strong opinions about one another, don’t share their views with one another, Klissurski said. Conversation, he said, is the first step toward change.

Rothfeld, who is arguing for the elimination of the Greek system, said she hoped the debate would encourage rational deliberation among affiliated students and perhaps dissuade some younger students from joining the Greek system.

“I think that a lot of people support the Greek system just because it’s dominant, and a lot of the support for the Greek system on campus is a function of need for acceptance of existing social instructions that people could not defend if pressed to articulate a defense,” Rothfeld said. “I hope this debate will push people to think of principled reasons for their decisions.”

Rothfeld is a member of The

Dartmouth opinion staff.

Andriola, who will argue for keeping the Greek system, said he hopes the debate will foster productive dialogue and elucidate the main arguments on both sides. He added that he hopes these conversations will continue beyond the event.

The format, he said, might pose challenges to productive dialogue, as the notion of debate suggests that there will be a winner and a loser.

Debate, he said, suggests competition.

“This event is more about employing a competitive lens for the sake of shared learning and open communication,” he said.

Wheelan, who was a member of Alpha Delta fraternity during his time at the College, said the debate will be constructive if it is followed by continued discussion.

“I would like to see empathy all around,” he said. “I would like people in the Greek system to recognize more forthrightly why people view them as dangerous, problematic, offensive and so on, and I would like people not in the Greek system to think about why over 50 percent of the student population chooses to join it.”

Wheelan said that discussions about the social scene in the ‘80s resembled today’s in that they were not “terribly constructive.” He said that, in his opening remarks, he intends to ask students to envision the ideal

Dartmouth social environment and the role that membership organizations would play within it.

“No matter where you come down on the Greek system, I don’t think any sane person thinks it should look like it does now, in 20 years,” Wheelan said. “Once you open that door, it makes it easier to talk about it. It doesn’t make people quite so defensive because you’re talking about the future in the context of a larger discussion of the social scene which is really more important.”

Reflecting on other potential challenges, Klissurski said some students may not feel represented by the speakers or may find the opening question too polarizing.

“For us, the question is a little controversial,” Klissurski said. “But that’s obviously a way to get people in the room, because we want people to talk to each other.”

Colston, who is speaking against the Greek system, said he thinks that conversations about improving Dartmouth must address social life.

“We’re part of a national conversation, even an international conversation, on the future of higher education,” Colston said, noting that this raises the stakes in terms of conversations regarding social life. “And it’s also just great to have a space for oratory. I think oratory is an art and a science that we should have a space for.”

take honest steps towards improving Dartmouth without hearing from every student,” Kaur said. “I know that it’s crazy to expect every student to be involved in this process, but having that ideal standard is what pushes us to keep improving.”

Mayerson suggested that future events be held at more convenient times to generate student interest.

“Getting involved is a very concrete way to be part of the process,” Mayerson said. “It’s hard for a lot of students to be part of the process without engaging in conversations.”

Cassidy McDermott ’17 did not attend the event, but said she thinks its emphasis on inclusivity was important. Wednesday’s summit, which about 120 people attended, was closed to the public.

“If it is invite-only, people might want to come but can’t,” she said.

“Everyone has a voice, even if they aren’t really involved.”

Kaur said that there are plans to hold more events and to make them more accessible to the general student body.

McDermott said that if there were another summit, she would consider attending because she thinks it is important to hold discussions about campus issues. Sathe also said that he would consider attending another summit.

Castaño said he looks forward to seeing the events of the next few months, adding that he hopes to build an inclusive “grassroots movement.”

Eight event organizers could not be reached for comment by press time. Event organizer and Dartmouth Roots member Gillian O’Connell ’15 declined to comment.

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014

DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY All day Exhibit, “Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology,” Baker Berry Library

2:00 p.m.

Class of 2014 history honors thesis presentations, Haldeman Hall 125

6:30 p.m.

Letterpress orientation workshop with Bob Metzler, Baker Library, Rooms 23 and 25

TOMORROW 12:00 p.m.

“Campus Conversations: Addressing Sexual Assault at Dartmouth,” Hood Auditorium

12:30 p.m.

Lunchtime gallery talk, “From Minimalist to Contemporary Sculpture in the 1970s,” Hood Museum of Art

2:30 p.m.

Ilead lecture event, “An(other) Inconvenient Truth,” Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, Oopik Auditorium

Crossing the Green Across: 1 Secretariat stopper 5 “Rosemar y’s Baby”’s Levin 8 Runny rock 13 Ages 14 Boston’s Big ___ 15 Gangster and slasher, e.g.

16 Israel followers?

17 Butts 19 Apt. units 20 Overnight mask 21 Slushy cooler 22 Go all in 24 Like helium 25 Military drum 26 Drew Brees, for one 28 Unlikely lint collector 29 Destructive sticks 30 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr.

33 Western Indian 34 Flir ty dinner game 37 Rap artist article 38 3x, in Rx lingo 39 “Whoops!”

40 Pull the plug 42 Malfunctioned, as a Mac 43 Doberman direction 44 Take up once more?

47 Faceoff started sport 50 Strong-ox yoke 51 Act like a rat 52 Rained out: Abbr.

53 Cramming crowd 55 In ___ of 56 “The Great” Russian 57 MMMMX/X 58 [Sigh] 59 Ones interested in

life lines 60 Hunk 61 Paving stone

Andrew Kingsley ’16

27 “That’s ___ quit!”

30 Prepare for apocalypse 31 What the Bulls Down: and Lakers have each achieved twice 1 Disquiets 2 Forever 32 “Prepare to lose!”

3 Unicycle or kayak 35 Cry of surprise 4 Shrek’s sidekick 36 More slimy 5 “If you ask me…” 41 Paper Mate com6 Theron’s “Mon- petitor ster” co-star 7 Like a team needing a buzzer beater 8 “Family Guy” daughter 9 Hallow 10 Kelly of “Rear Window” 11 Maid’s concern 12 Plus 15 Get along with 18 Ancient Greeks, e.g.

20 Jazz variety 23 Part of 29-Across 24 Like apples in autumn

42 Infamous guitar maker 44 Talks like Rachael Ray 45 Lauder of lipsticks 46 ___ couture 48 Skirt 49 Pick up line?

51 Letters before F? 54 ’04 and ’05, e.g.

55 Vegas opener

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Wes Anderson Q&A With ‘Transcendence,’ Pfister draws fans, cinephiles spins tale of artificial intelligence

B y emmajean holley The Brown Daily Herald

The tinny ring of an outgoing Skype call was just about the only noticeable sound Wednesday evening in a silent but densely packed Metcalf Auditorium. But when the face of famed film director Wes Anderson materialized on screen, the audience suddenly burst into thunderous applause.

The interview, hosted by the Ivy Film Festival, followed a free screening of Anderson’s most recent film, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” at Avon Cinema.

There were a few hiccups — audio glitches made Anderson’s responses difficult to understand at times, and the interview length, initially scheduled for one hour, was cut in half because Anderson was at a dinner party.

Still, the crowd loved him. Before answering each question, Anderson paused and cocked his head to the side, gathering his thoughts while the audience waited with bated breath for his response. Various remarks sent the audience into peals of laughter, applause or snaps.

“All of us were so starstruck,” said Pia Brar ’15, an IFF programming staff member who attended the event. “He’d say the simplest thing, and everyone would just start giggling like silly schoolgirls.”

Oakley Friedberg ’17, an IFF industry staff member, reached out to Anderson and coordinated the event. Friedberg had met Anderson on several occasions because his parents, both in the film industry, have worked with him in the past, he said.

The interview was mostly composed of prepared questions, which IFF members drew from responses to a student questionnaire. Because many of the questions were similar, IFF members categorized and rephrased them “so that they would encompass the range of what people were asking,” Friedberg said.

Many questions focused on Anderson’s creative process. Anderson said he stresses the importance of planning to “pre-visualize” his films but added that his approach is neither deliberate nor self-analytical.

“I never think about themes, but

I like to hear what other people suggest are the themes,” he said.

“What I want to do is make an experience, a story and a world that has life in it and a group of characters that can be interesting.

I like to have something abstract about it.”

Anderson encouraged aspiring filmmakers to “follow their instincts” and not to cave into commercial pressures.

“Sometimes it’s better to make something in a simpler, more economical, smaller way than (raising) more money, because this can interfere with it,” he said. “Just make what want you want to make one way or another, and that will lead you somewhere.”

A particularly memorable moment occurred when Friedberg asked about the origins of his films’ storylines. In response, Anderson beckoned a fellow dinner guest into the conversation: Hugo Guinness, his co-writer for “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” The two filmmakers demonstrated a playful, familial camaraderie as they toyed with the laptop angle and volume settings.

Stories begin with characters, Guinness said.

The characters “came from our friends,” Anderson added. “We decided we’d like to write a story based on a real person.”

But Guinness disagreed. When asked to elaborate, he stated, “the subconscious” is the origin of character development. Following this, he wagged his fingers in goodbye and stepped off screen, his exit accompanied by raucous applause.

“Wes was clearly very excited about talking to us. It wasn’t at all awkwardly formal, and I knew it would be like that, but I was still relieved,” Friedberg said, adding that Anderson’s engagement with the audience served to humanize his legendary status.

Tathya Abe ’16, who attended the event, echoed this sentiment.

“It was nice to demystify the idea of ‘the’ Wes Anderson because his characters are so avant-garde and different and unique, and he’s just a really relatable guy,” Abe said. “It’s nice to see that such an ordinary human can make something like that.”

B y tracy shen

The Columbia Spectator

The film “Transcendence,” starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, and Morgan Freeman, tells too familiar a tale about the dangers of our modern-day addiction to technology.

In the film, Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), his loving wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and his melancholic best friend, Max Waters (Paul Bettany), work in the field of artificial intelligence. When Will’s controversial project makes him the main target of anti-technology extremists, the team’s radical retaliation bears grave consequences, leading to unexpected loss. Consequently, a great mind is consumed by an unquenched thirst for power.

Award-winning cinematographer and first-time director Wally Pfister perhaps tried to convey too much: human consciousness, immortality, power, evil technologies, and love. The film is an undernourished hodgepodge of ideas. The duality of technological advancement is exposed, but the question of “What’s next?” is romanticized and left unanswered.

Having already worked on worldwide blockbusters like “The Dark Knight,” “Inception,” and “The Prestige,” Pfister was better prepared than many first-time directors.

“What you’ll find in life is that everything you do kind of contributes to what you do later on. Oneof the great things that I got out of all those years working on big-budget features as a cinematographer was having a little less intimidation in getting on the set for the first time as a director,” Pfister said in a conference call.

But the director still encountered many difficulties in making “Transcendence.” Pfister discussed how making a larger-budget, highconcept science fiction film nowadays can be very challenging.

“The challenges obviously as a cinematographer-turned-director are in those areas that, you know, are brand new to you,” he said. “And for me, the greatest challenge was also one of the most enlightening, wonderful, fun things, which was in directing actors and delving in the performance for the first time.”

He was also greatly impressed by the cast.

“It’s mind-blowing. Really, I feel incredibly fortunate to be lucky enough as a director to have the likes of these incredible actors,” Pfister said. “Johnny is just a joy to work with and he is a really smart guy.

And Paul Bettany is a lot of fun, as is Rebecca.”

According to Pfister, “Transcendence” tells a story that is different from movies with a similar theme.

“Partially, what sets ‘Transcendence’ apart is that it’s not strictly speaking in artificial intelligence,” he said. “It’s actually a human mind that gets uploaded. So we are talking about actual human consciousness.

The idea is to question whether in fact this machine ... contains the actual soul of this particular person.”

The director also commented on his movie’s relevance to everyday life. He mentioned that in today’s society, we start to gradually develop relationships, connections, even some sort of intimacy with machines.

“As we talk to Siri, as we listen to our GPS, we communicate through

a social network, and we are being asked questions by machines in a social network. Where did you go to school? Who are your friends?

Do you want more friends?”

Despite the big questions it addresses, the film sometimes sinks into high-budget sci-fi clichés.

But “Transcendence” still has some redeeming qualities. At the very end of the movie, Pfister shows how two droplets, coming into each other, embrace into one. The moment realizes the myth told by Aristophanes that everyone on this earth yearns to be with another.

Love, like the water, will eventually heal and nurture what is torn apart.

With a nuanced depiction of human connections, the film is not entirely devoid of its refreshing moments.

SPRING IS FOR SINGING

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X.ado and the Rockapellas presented a Saturday show with unity as its theme.

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‘Under the Skin’ provides Something wicked inspires at WiRED a creepy, satisfying critique

with more angst.

B y VARUN BHUCHAR A nice thing about European The Dartmouth Staff countries is that they’re pretty cool In “Under the Skin” (2013), with concepts that America might Scarlett Johansson drives a large consider taboo, like underage white van around Scotland pick- drinking, nudity and socialism. The ing up young men for the time of last point is especially important their lives. She’s as beautiful and because most, if not all, European enchanting as ever, and these lads countries have a national film comcan’t resist her charms. When she mission willing to fund film directors takes them home, she leads them like Jonathan Glazer and his quirky to her room, disrobes, puts them projects, namely “Under the Skin.” in a preserving fluid and sucks out Like his fellow countrymen in their organs.

Radiohead, Glazer has transformed Behind the wacky plot of “Under “Under the Skin” into his “Kid A,” a the Skin,” though, is a beautifully radical departure from his old style. abstract film that looks like David His two previous films, the ultraLynch and Stanley Kubrick decided violent and brilliant “Sexy Beast” to team up with impeccable results. (2000) and the unsettling “Birth” The film begins with a pinprick (2004), are pretty straightforward. of light shining through the dark- Nine years later, Glazer is leading ness. Then an eye begins to materi- the charge into the relatively unalize in front of the viewer. In what I touched depths of neo-surrealism. assume is a nod to the abstract mon- Speaking of European sensibilitages of “2001: A ties, Johansson Space Odyssey” plays a charac“Underlying the (1968), “Under ter who emotes the Skin” hits film is a sense of so little, yet so the ground run- uncanniness — the much. Kind of ning with a wordlike the antiheless 10-minute kind that comes roes Ryan Gossequences that from the abandoned, ling plays when introduces the he teams up with viewer to the hab- old house in your Danish director its of Johansson’s hometown.”

Nicolas Winding nameless alien Refn, Johansson’s character and her character is not menacing caretaker. particularly heroic, but she is vul Like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nerable and real, and like the doll “Under the Skin” is more of a cin- she literally is, she’s a sight to see. ematic poem than a straightforward Her British accent isn’t the best, but story — it uses broad strokes to show she nails a deep stare into the Scotthe viewer one blown-up section tish Highlands with her trademark of a theme rather than the whole smolder. picture. Unlike Shane Carruth’s The most extraordinary thing insufferable “Upstream Color” about “Under the Skin” is its cri(2013), “Under the Skin” manages tique of what it is like to be a woman to succeed in portraying the beauty in modern society. Everything captured during a journey of self- about the nameless protagonist discovery, even if the protagonist emphasizes how she is alien in every happens to be a man-eating alien. sort of way, especially in terms her Underlying the film is a sense of body and the challenges she faces uncanniness — the kind that comes harvesting men for her job. from the abandoned, old house in The film’s conclusion will upset your hometown. Part of it is due to and shock some viewers, but the the ghostly characteristic that Scot- sadistic turn seems necessary. It’s land’s natural fog machine casts on the only way to truly get under the cinematography. Part of it is also Johansson’s character’s skin. due to the film’s eerie soundtrack, which sounds like Jonny Green- Rating: 8.6/10 wood’s score from “There Will Be “Under the Skin” is currently playing Blood” (2007)somehow infused at the Nugget.

B y KATHERINE M cCONNELL

“Evil is not born, it’s made.”

This prompt inspired three pairs of writer-directors participating in this term’s WiRED, a 24-hour playwriting experience sponsored by the theater department and the Displaced Theater Company. The process began at 8 p.m. on Friday when writer-directors, managers and actors met to play icebreaker games. The event culminated in a 45-minute production of three plays in the Bentley Theater on Saturday.

In total, 17 students participated in the productions in some form. The prompt was announced Friday evening, and after icebreaker games, teams flocked around campus for quiet places to work through the night.

Rebecca Asoulin ’17, who worked with Haley Reicher ’17 to write the play “Useless,” said she and Reicher chose to work in a Baker-Berry Library study room until it closed at 2 a.m. They then relocated to a Choates residential cluster common room. Fueled by coffee drinks, popcorn, pita chips and Cabot cheese, the two centered their play on the tense relationship between two boys, a bully and his victim. They incorporated the prompt into their conception of the bully, whom they depicted as having a troubled relationship with his father, Asoulin said.

“Amazingly, we weren’t dead tired all day on Saturday, but it’s insane,” Asoulin said. “There was one point where both of us had had it, and Haley was pacing around the library after drinking too much coffee.”

Asoulin is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

The two were able to beat out fatigue and writers’ block when they nearly simultaneously thought to include Lewis Carroll into their play, a favorite author of theirs, Asoulin said.

Luke Katler ’15, who co-wrote and directed “There’s a Monster in That Room” with Cooper Stimson ’13, said that the time pressure was hectic but motivating. Katler and Stimson worked at Stimson’s off-campus house and began brainstorming by sharing their initial reactions to the prompt.

Though they had not outlined a plot before WiRED began, Katler said he and Stimson agreed that they wanted to produce a more serious, dramatic vignette than what they produced when they worked together on WiRED in fall 2011. This year’s prompt and a full bag of Smartfood popcorn helped achieve this goal, Katler said.

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Three pairs of writer-directors participated in WiRED this term.

“Once we had the conceptual idea, that was followed by the outline and the actual writing process,” Katler said.

“Once we had the whole thing written, we didn’t change it.”

Katler is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

WiRED was overseen by four managers, Diane Chen ’14 and Amber Porter ’14, who also co-wrote and directed a play, as well as Ariel Klein ’17 and Naomi Lazar ’17. Chen and Porter have run WiRED together since their sophomore year and helped Klein and Lazar, who participated in WiRED last fall, take up the responsibility for the future.

Lazar said she was particularly excited about the prompt for this term’s WiRED show and the original villains it inspired writers to create.

Though the show’s managers are involved with the theater department and have experience stagemanaging, Klein called WiRED an “easy access way to get involved with theater for a day.”

Working drafts of scripts were due early Saturday morning, and casting began at 8 a.m. Due to a limited number of actors who auditioned to perform, many people were cast in more than one play. Actors were not expected to memorize their lines.

A small but supportive audience attended the evening performance. The show opened with Katler and Stimson’s play, which revolved around a fictitious mass murderer, Mandy, recounting her monstrous acts to a reporter, a cop and a psychologist while in prison.

Mandy’s character described how her evil tendencies began when she was a young girl and realized that she could manipulate her friends in petty fights about whether to play hopscotch

or leap frog. Though largely filled with dark humor, lighter moments abounded in a scene where Mandy’s childhood friends spouted vulgar insults onstage.

Next came Asoulin and Reicher’s play where a bulley named Joey is called into the office of a professor. The professor is also Joey’s father and deems him “useless.” Next called into office is the victim of Joey’s bullying, a math whiz named Lewis Carroll, whom the professor is more than happy to devote his attention to.

Joey takes out his frustration on Lewis, taunting that Lewis’s “wet dreams are in binary.”

The final show was Porter and Chen’s play “Introducing…” Porter described their play as sillier than the other two, spoofing the life of “Wicked” and “Frozen” (2013) actress-singer Idina Menzel by creating a villain named “Adele Dazeem,” referencing how John Travolta mispronounced her name at this year’s Academy Awards. The play included the villain snapping Travolta’s neck onstage.

The play also incorporated some of Menzel’s famous songs from playing Elphaba in “Wicked” and Elsa in “Frozen,” adding new lyrics and impressive vocals by Zahra Ruffin ’17. Enjoying the play’s nuances required familiarity with pop culture, and it concluded with British singer Adele mocking Leonardo DiCaprio for not winning an Oscar.

Chen half-jokingly described the end to WiRED as her favorite part of the production, to which Porter agreed.

“We’re both senior theater majors, so we basically live in this hundred foot area of the [Hopkins Center],” Porter said. “Everything is so funny since last night when we couldn’t sleep and were writing these songs.”

Ashley Ulrich contributed reporting.