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In letter to steering committee,Palaeop calls for transparency
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Town of Hanover gives Danos After UNC scandal, award recognizing commitment student-athletes reflect
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s academic fraud scandal — during which more than 3,100 students received credits and grades from bogus courses — has cast a bright spotlight on
the academic lives of collegiate student-athletes, who represent a disproportionately large number of those implicated at Chapel Hill. UNC Chancellor Carol Folt, Dartmouth’s former interim president, has called the
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Over a catered meal in the Top of the Hop, Tuck Business School Dean Paul Danos received the chamber achievement award from the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce Thursday night. At the annual leadership award ceremony, Danos was recognized for his commitment
to Dartmouth, his family and the Hanover community. Attendees dressed formally at the event’s reception, which was followed by a dinner in Alumni Hall. “Everyone in the Upper Valley is fortunate to have benefitted from the wisdom and foresight of this modest but remarkable man,” Karen Colberg, vice president and general manager of King Arthur Flour, said in
the Chamber’s congratulatory speech. As Tuck’s longest-serving dean, Danos has cultivated local entrepreneurial ventures that have added significant value to the business community, Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce executive director Janet Rebman said. Danos has SEE DANOS PAGE 3
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The Palaeopitus senior society called on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee to increase transparency and better communicate with students. A letter sent Thursday night, signed by nearly 60 student leaders as of press time, suggested reforms like releasing preliminary recommendations for feedback and
detailing its research. Palaeopitus and signatories aim to increase communication between students and the steering committee as recommendations are developed. The letter also asked the committee to update its website more frequently and better publicize its timeline. The letter also questions the selection of the committee’s four student representatives.
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The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault held a town hall Thursday night to discuss its recommendations, released in late October, that aim to combat sexual violence on campus. The discussion centered on five recommendations, including moving Greek houses toward coeducation and banning athletes who violate sexual misconduct policies from participating in athletics. Other recommendations em-
phasized at the meeting included proposals to strengthen language on sexual assault in student organization constitutions, expand the scope of the physical education requirement to include health and wellness or educational programs and encourage students to undergo first-responder training. SPCSA chair Sophia Pedlow ’15 said she was pleased with the discussions but disappointed by the turnout. Around 30 people attended. ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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Sutton Higgins ’15 spoke at Thursday’s town hall, which saw around 30 attendees.
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Study photographed faculty, students without notice
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Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter K. Bol admitted at Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to using cameras placed in classrooms to take photographs of attendance without telling the surveilled faculty and students. Bol’s comments came in response to a question from Computer Science professor Harry R. Lewis ’68, who said he learned of the photographing— which took place during the spring 2014 semester—from two of his colleagues. The two unidentified colleagues, neither of whom are tenured, first learned about the surveillance when a senior Central Administration official called them in to discuss the results, Lewis said in his question. The students who were enrolled in these courses and photographed have not yet been told of the study. “Just because technology can be used to answer a question doesn’t mean that it should be,” Lewis said. “And if you watch people electronically and don’t tell them ahead of time, you should tell them afterwards.” Lewis ended his question by asking University President Drew G. Faust to promise that all students and faculty involved will be informed that the photographs were taken. Faust first deferred the question to Bol, who justified the electronic monitoring as part of a larger research effort to study student attendance in lectures. The study was part of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, which falls under Bol’s purview. After speaking with the professors whose classes were monitored in August, Bol offered them the option of either removing data from their course completely from the study, retaining the data while masking the name of the course, or including the data with the course name. Every professor whom Bol spoke with chose to include data with their course name, he said. In an email after the meeting, Bol said that he would, “in short order, work to inform all of the students in the courses involved in the study about the fact that their images may have been taken, but were subsequently destroyed.” Prior to beginning the study, Bol said, he was given approval by Harvard’s Institutional Review Board, a federally mandated body that assesses academic research. According to Bol, members of that committee said that his work “did not constitute human subjects research,” and, as such, did not require notification or permission of those involved. Bol said at the meeting that in the wake of this surveillance, the IRB will now automatically refer all internal studies involving undergraduate students to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education if the study does not entail human subjects research. “This was a gap in procedures that is being resolved,” Bol wrote in an email after the meeting, saying the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education will be consulted in the future. Following Bol’s comments, Faust added that she would refer the study to an oversight committee that was formed based on the advisement of a task force on email surveillance chaired by former Law School professor David J. Barron ’89. “I indeed do take very seriously the important questions that this incident raises,” Faust said. “I wish to submit this incident to [the committee] for comment and exploration. I think that was what the committee was set up to do.” German professor Peter J. Burgard asked how the instance did not qualify as “spying,” adding that while the University has cameras in place for security and protection, the study was “Orwellian” in nature. Mathematics professor Wilfried Schmid said after the meeting that news of the surveillance “does make me slightly uncomfortable, I must say, even after being given the explanation.” Brett M. Biebelberg ‘16, an Undergraduate Council representative for Quincy House and chair of the Council’s Rules Committee who was at Tuesday’s meeting, criticized the surveillance. “It’s just another instance of contradiction when we have a University that’s pushing and pushing and pushing the implementation of an honor code that requires students to attest to their honor and integrity, yet here we have yet another example of the University engaging in activities in which it’s not being forthright, it’s being secretive, and it’s withholding information from students and professors that could potentially be used against them,” he said. Others disagreed with that characterization. After Tuesday’s meeting, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Gonzalo Giribet and Economics professor Jerry R. Green said they did not consider the surveillance to be spying.
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“I think for us and the people here it was a really productive, critical, thoughtful conversation,” Pedlow said. “What’s disappointing to me is that there weren’t more people here to be part of it.” Many attendees were SPCSA members. Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, co-director of health promotion and wellness Amanda Childress, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy, counseling director Heather Earle and associate athletic director for club sports and intramurals Joann Brislin also attended. “I was really impressed with the students that did share and did comment, and I think that they brought up some really great points and were able to bring some of the majority voice into the room,” Childress said. “It’s nice to hear a voice aside from the group-think of the organization.” Several SPCSA members spoke during the event, including Sutton Higgins ’15, who presented the committee’s proposal on making Greek houses co-educational. Higgins said male-dominated social spaces such as fraternities contribute to sexual assault on campus by creating an environment in which the balance of power favors men. “I don’t think that the majority of social spaces on this campus should be dominated by one gender or another,” she said. “We don’t feel that it should be a choice between going to a male-dominated space or a female-dominated space. It should just be a social space that isn’t dominated.” Club rugby president and SPCSA member Jake Levine ’15 discussed the proposal to ban students found responsible for sexual assault from participating
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Around 30 people attended Thursday’s town hall, many of them SPCSA members.
in athletics. The policy would enable coaches to act on observations of sexual misconduct or offensive speech and punish athletes autonomously. Levine said that the athletics department should punish negative sexual behaviors and promote positive ones. “From the bottom up, it starts with team culture in the locker room,” he said regarding sexual misconduct. “It needs to not even be a second thought in the back of the mind.” Gabby Bozarth ’17 discussed revising student organization constitutions, citing the Afro-American Society’s constitution as a positive example. The organization’s constitution stipulates that members must be welcoming to all races, genders, sexualities and classes, and that affiliation can be terminated otherwise. “It’s an active step forward to
change the social dynamic,” said Bozarth. “Just because it’s not a problem in your club doesn’t mean you can’t be involved for others.” Rachel Funk ’15 described plans to broaden the physical education requirement at the College to incorporate holistic health and wellness programs or education programs such as the Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor program, the Sexpert program, the Eating Disorders Peer Advisor program and the Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor program. Pedlow said the town hall is an important part of SPCSA’s schedule, which was established in 2010 by former College President Jim Yong Kim. “The thing that we’re really looking for now is engagement from students about what they can do,” she said. “What we want to see now is students saying ‘what can we do?’ Not just on an individual level, but on a structural level.”
Corrections “Greek leaders to release proposals (Nov. 6, 2014)”: The initial version of this article failed to indicate that presidents of Alpha Theta and Phi Tau coed fraternities responded to requests for comment.
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SPCSA chair Sophia Pedlow ’15 spoke Thursday night about the organization’s recommendations, released in October.
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Tuck aims to conclude Students criticize steering committee dean search in early 2015 FROM PALAEOPITUS PAGE 1
been interested in the job. “We had a pool of candidates that brought in numerous creative students, we were really impressed with right from whose participation and contributions the start,” Hansen said. to Hanover’s business have positively The committee is looking for someone who both understands the history affected the area, she said. Tuck students, faculty and alumni and tradition of Tuck while being able frequently work with local businesses to meet the challenges of the future, and nonprofits, Colberg said in her Hansen said. He added that members are looking for an individual who will speech. The award winners are recognized continue the “culture of change” that for acting in alignment with the Cham- Danos developed to move the school ber’s mission, which is “to invigorate forward. the economic health of the area we The committee aims to give a “handful” of names to serve, while conthe College Presitributing to the dent Phil Hanlon well-being of the “Everyone in the and Provost CaroUpper Valley.” Upper Valley is lyn Dever by the Danos moved fortunate to have end of the year, t o H a n ove r Hansen said, with about 20 years benefitted from the the goal of naming ago when he wisdom and foresight a new dean in early became Tuck’s of this modest but 2015. dean, starting The search comwhat would be remarkable man.” mittee is using the first of his five Spencer Stuart, an four-year terms. - Karen Colberg, executive search Although Danos King Arthur Flour and recruitment will step down consulting firm, to from his position vice president assist in the search. on June 30, he will remain on Tuck’s faculty and will Representatives from the firm could not be reached for comment by press teach. Forty percent of Tuck alumni have time. graduated during his tenure as dean, The Hanover Area Chamber of Danos said. Under his direction, Tuck Commerce also awarded hotel develintroduced research-to-practice semi- opment and investment firm Norwich nars, which allow students to collaborate Partners the business leadership award on faculty projects, spearheaded a and Salt Hill Pub the business innovator revised curriculum and increased its award. WNBA president Laurel Richie ’81 full-time faculty from 36 to 51. A search committee, chaired by Tuck was this year’s keynote speaker. senior associate dean Robert Hansen, The leadership awards began in was established this summer to search 2007 in order to recognize the “exfor the new Dean. The committee is traordinary” leaders of the Upper comprised of professors, deans, Tuck Valley, Rebman said. This year, each eight-person table cost $1,250, while alumni and a current student. Hansen said that many people have individuals could pay $95 for a seat. FROM DANOS PAGE 1
Kelsey Weimer ’16, one of the student representatives, left the committee in the spring, though her name is still listed on its website. She cited her position as chair of IvyQ as a reason for leaving. The presidential steering committee, convened in May by College President Phil Hanlon, has solicited feedback and consulted experts throughout the summer and fall to find ways to reduce binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity. After the initial timeline was extended, the committee was expected to opened its proposals to public discussion this fall and present Hanlon with its recommendations by the end of the year. Hanlon was originally scheduled to present to the Board in November, but is now expected to do so in January 2015. The committee will present general suggestions to the Board of Trustees at this weekend’s meeting, committee member Kayla Wade ’16 said. Palaeopitus began drafting the letter on Tuesday, and the group worked “non-stop” to finish it by Thursday, Palaeopitus member Noah Smith ’15 said. “To my knowledge we were trying to get it done as soon as possible,” he said. “Everything is happening on such a time crunch with the steering committee.” Concerns about a lack of transparency have been ongoing, Palaeopitus member Rianna Starheim ’14 said. Hanlon hosted an invitation-only summit in April, preceding the steering committee’s creation. At the time, mathematics professor Alex Barnett contrasted the presence of Safety and Security officers checking names at the entrance to the summit with Hanlon’s stated focus on inclusivity.
Aylin Woodward ’15, president of Phi Tau coeducational fraternity and a member of a Palaeopitus, explained that students have been concerned about the lack of information they have received from the steering committee. “In the current campus climate, in this moment of escalating change where nobody really knows what’s going on and information is being circulated, as a group we came to the conclusion that the information scarcity problem is at the heart of the student-administrator communication issues,” she said. “Instead of being a two-way communication, it’s from the top trickling down and we really don’t have a say in the argument.” Kevin Francfort ’15, president of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering, said that he had heard of other student groups trying to raise awareness about issues with the steering committee but was initially surprised that Palaeopitus was taking action. After reading the letter, he said he appreciated the society’s “balanced response” and consideration of a broad range of student interests. Smith said Palaeopitus is unique because it represents a diverse array of student groups and individuals on campus. Steering committee member John Damianos ’16 said there was no application process for members because the committee was formed shortly after Hanlon announced it. The President’s Office reached out to students who were highly involved across campus, he said. Damianos noted that he meets with students to talk about campus issues nearly every day and reaches out to those who publicly criticize the committee. Student body vice president Frank Cunningham ’16, a steering committee member, said he fights for the
student body on a daily basis and is committed to ensuring the student voices are not overlooked. While he was under a non-disclosure agreement due to his position on the committee and could not comment fully, he said he thought the letter was “appropriate.” “I don’t go in there thinking about Frank Cunningham, I don’t go in there thinking about the steering committee,” he said. “I go in there thinking about us.” Palaeopitus sent Hanlon and the steering committee a copy of the letter Thursday afternoon. It was then released in a campus-wide email. Woodward said the letter was made public to demonstrate that there is solidarity among the student body and to spark change in the committee’s practices. “One of the things that we’re asking for the in the letter is for the steering committee to be more transparent, so we wanted to make sure that in our interactions with the committee we were as transparent as possible,” Starheim said. “As a group, we serve as the liaison between the student body and the administration.” Signatory Mary Peng ’15, president of the Dandelion Project, which works with a school serving the children of Chinese migrant workers, said she agreed with the emphasis of cooperative approach between the administration and the students. Zach Queen ’15, president of Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, said he signed the letter because he is concerned about the committee’s secrecy and its “Orwellian” structure. The committee is not considering the views of the entire student body and “seems intent on forwarding a personal anti-Greek agenda,” he said. Woodward is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.
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The faculty’s vote regarding course evaluations was merely the first step. On Monday, the faculty of arts and sciences voted to open course reviews to students during course election period. We commend professors for taking this step, and we look forward to choosing our classes with more information. The long-overdue measure should better inform student choices and incentivize both more effective teaching from professors and more thoughtful evaluations from students. But Monday’s vote is merely the first step. Next, we urge faculty to vote to require their peers to open their evaluations, instead of having an opt-in rule, and expand the information available on this database. Without these steps, students will continue to rely on outdated, faulty data for certain classes, which will perpetuate the cycle of misinformation in course election. As it stands, unofficial websites guide student choices. But resources like the Hacker Club’s course picker do not provide the amount or quality of information that we deserve when choosing classes. Most Dartmouth students take 35 or 36 classes here over the course of their four years. When tuition is almost $47,000 annually, and the average student takes nine classes each year, that breaks down into a sticker price of $5,200 per course — and that’s before calculating the cost of textbooks. No one needs to be told that this is an enormous amount of money. We deserve to get the most out of that five thousand dollars, which means being thoroughly informed as to the pros and cons of each class before we sign up. And to be thoroughly informed, we need a formalized and official system with the full weight of the College behind it. We thank the faculty for taking this first step. We acknowledge the concern that some junior faculty may see a higher rate of critical reviews due to their inexperience, but this should not be a reason they are excluded from the system. Students deserve to know what they are signing up for. The policy approved by faculty members is weak. When creating Dartmouth’s public course evaluation system, we urge those behind
it not to go the way of Harvard University’s analogous system, which recently dropped difficulty ratings from its reviews. One reason why we must be informed before enrolling in a class is to ensure that we can handle it along with our other classes and obligations. At an already elite liberal arts institution, Dartmouth’s quarter system makes for an intense and stressful environment. Public course reviews will allow students to balance their academic course load within this environment. Removing a difficulty ranking limits the utility of such a tool. Let’s hold our own system to a higher standard. The quality of our undergraduate education has traditionally been one of Dartmouth’s strongest suits, and we must remain constantly vigilant to maintain that strength. Publicizing course reviews to students will incentivize professors to listen to their comments and concerns, and will highlight strong teaching practices while punishing poor ones. Professors will be held widely accountable for unconstructive teaching habits — aggressive and public criticism in class, unfair attendance policies, needlessly harsh grading — and rewarded for strong ones. If no students sign up, a professor re-evaluate his or her teaching methods. And professors with popular classes will be able to single out what makes their style successful, and communicate those methods to colleagues. Open communication and conversation between students and faculty will lead to more information and better classes for all parties involved. With all the talk about Dartmouth’s social scene, we must remember that first and foremost we are here for the best education possible. To that end, all professors must be mandated to open their courses for public review, instead of the proposed opt-in system. And, just as they are now, students must evaluate their classes before they can view their final grades. Making course reviews public will strengthen that education and lead to better, more fulfilling classes for both students and faculty.
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Dartmouth’s sexual assault education must be more comprehensive. Students who rushed this fall attended an hourlong Dartmouth Bystander Intervention session, which focused on how individuals can prevent sexual assault on campus. The program I attended focused narrowly one kind of sexual assault: those that result from predatory men preying on incapacitated women. Per my recollection, the program did not allude to the possibility of a male victim. And the presenters did not provide definitions for words like rape, sexual assault and consent in their conversations about sexual assault. I found it to be an emotionally targeted presentation that fluctuated between awkward and boring. I didn’t leave feeling empowered, hopeful or educated. Instead, I left feeling like Dartmouth had failed to capitalize on an opportunity to diminish sexual assault on campus by not comprehensively educating attendees. As the sole sexual assault education program that people about to assume positions of social power on campus are asked to attend, DBI ought to go further. It should do more than just encourage a sense of paternal responsibility to look after one another when we’re out at night. Yes, bystander training programs certainly have a place in college sexual assault prevention policies. Intervention is important. I have nothing but respect for people who check in with an inebriated woman they have never met as she walks out the door of a fraternity. I agree that if we were more vigilant about recognizing situations that could lead to sexual assault, the campus would be a safer place. But the program can be summed up in one flawed sentence: it is our responsibility to prevent sexual assault at Dartmouth by intervening in situations that we notice could lead to sexual assault. While sexual assault often results from social drinking situations, they many arise in other ways. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 35 percent of attempted
rapes of college students happen during dates, and relationship violence comprises a significant proportion of the sexual violence that occurs on college campuses. Most importantly, while we all share a responsibility to prevent sexual assaults by watching out for each other, we have a far greater responsibility to prevent sexual assaults by not sexually assaulting other people — a point the program never addressed. As I recall, not once in the hourlong program was I told not to rape. This is nothing short of tragic. No matter how many “bystanders” there are around campus, sexual assault will continue until every student takes personal responsibility for ensuring they do not assault a fellow student, whether through malice or ignorance. To that end we must better educate students about the horrific consequences of sexual assault for victims. When our professors hand out syllabi at the beginning of term, we are told in no uncertain terms not to plagiarize. This is often accompanied by precise definitions of honor code violations and lengthy discussions of ramifications. And professors sometimes mention the number of students who have been dismissed for academic honor principle violations in recent years. The College should send the same message regarding sexual assault, so that every student in every class hears: here is what sexual assault is, here is what harassment is, here is why you should not do it and here is what will happen if you do. Dartmouth has an opportunity to use the spotlight upon us to take the lead in making positive and constructive changes to combat the pernicious tides of behavior rampant across college campuses. Administrators must take innovative steps in this charge, and I see no better place to start than creating a mandatory sexual assault program that emphasizes personal responsibility and makes a lasting impact upon its attendees.
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Athletics-academics balance hard to strike, Big Green players say FROM UNC PAGE 1
fraud both an academic and athletics issue. That she acknowledged that the fraud touched athletics is a far cry from former chancellor Holden Thorp’s characterization of the decades-long fraud as purely academic. According to an extensive report from investigator Kenneth Wainstein, academic counselors from UNC’s football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams purposefully steered athletes toward fraudulent classes. The practice lasted from 1993 to 2011, when the African and Afro-American studies department administrator who had overseen the scheme retired. Student-athletes enrolled in the “shadow curriculum,” as the 131page October investigation called it, did not need to attend class and often had to submit only a final paper to get the grades they needed to maintain NCAA eligibility. In many cases, the final papers were plagiarized. Of the students enrolled in the lecture paper courses, about 47 percent were athletes. Prior to assuming the role of UNC’s chancellor, Folt served at Dartmouth for 30 years, holding the positions of dean of faculty, provost and finally, interim president. As both the NCAA and individual institutions set eligibility standards for student-athletes, who typically must meet a credit or GPA benchmark, academics and athletics can quickly intertwine. While UNC’s student-athlete population accounts for just 4 percent of the student body, Dartmouth’s comprises nearly 25 percent. Support systems like individual counseling and Dartmouth Peak Performance help these students balance academic and athletic demands. Jon Katzman ’17, a football kicker, said DP2 has helped him learn about classes, job opportunities and academics in general. Athletes can also find tutors through the program. “Taking advantage of what DP2 has to offer is certainly encouraged by our coach because it puts us in a better place to succeed on and off the field,” he said. Last year, the National Association of Basketball Coaches honored Gabas Maldunas ’15 for earning over a 3.2 cumulative GPA as a junior or senior. Maldunas was the only one of his teammates eligible for this distinction. Dartmouth, Harvard University and Yale University were the only Ivy League schools with at least one men’s basketball player recognized for the honor. During the 2013-14 academic year, the average GPA each term ranged from 3.44 last fall to 3.53 in the spring. Gary Gutting, a University of Notre Dame professor who penned a 2012 op-ed in The New York Times titled “The Myth of the ‘Student-Athlete,’” said in an interview that it’s “foolish” to expect much academic success from
athletes who fall short of a college’s ordinary admissions standards, especially because of their time-consuming athletic schedules. Charlotte Kamai ’16, however, said swimming has taught her to balance multiple commitments. Kamai was one of 80 students across the Ivy League to earn an Academic All-Ivy honor — a distinction that requires at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA while being a key athlete on a team. “Being on a team makes me a better student,” she said. “Practices take up a huge amount of time, which gives me rigid schedule and forces me to be productive. It holds me accountable and gives me something to strive for.” Kamai said athletes use DP2 in different ways, but that she has found free tutoring from the Tutor Clearinghouse and career counseling to be two of the most helpful resources. Maldunas echoed Kamai’s sentiments about academic support programs, calling DP2 very helpful with providing tutors and advisors. He attributed some of the team’s improved academic performance over the past couple of seasons to DP2, which launched in 2011. “The coaches take our academics very seriously as well, and they would always let us skip practice or come in late if we have an academic conflict,” he said. “They know that we are students as much as we are athletes.” Assistant athletic director for DP2 Katelyn Stravinsky, who directs athletes to appropriate resources, said she stresses accountability for studentathletes, meaning they must ask for help when needed. Katie Fuhs ’18, of the women’s soccer team, said being a student-athlete at Dartmouth is difficult, but noted that she knew before coming that she would get overwhelmed. She said she has had to miss several class periods, but that she has been pleased with academic support systems. Fuhs said one professor has required her to attend some Friday classes she would have missed for games, leading Fuhs to stay behind or find a “Plan B” for travel, she said. “‘When the heck does everyone else get their work done?’” she recalled asking herself when looking at her teammates. “Because it seems like I’m the only one struggling to keep up.” Basketball associate head coach Jean Bain said prioritizing academics and effectively managing time can challenge student-athletes, who spend numerous hours practicing each week. The NCAA, which governs Dartmouth athletic rules, limits in-season practice time to 20 hours a week. “I cannot speak highly enough of the coaches and athletic administrators in helping with my academic success,” Kamai said. “They strongly emphasize that we are student-athletes — meaning student always comes first.” Gutting said many athletes are students first, especially those who play
sports that do not yield much revenue. Maldunas said he and his teammates try to choose easier classes in the winter, when the season is in full force, and save more work-intensive classes for the spring or summer. He attributed part of his academic success to knowing which classes to take and
“The coaches take our academics very seriously as well, and they would always let us skip practice or come in late if we have an academic conflict.” - Gabas Maldunas ’15, BASKETBALL PLAYER when. Religion professor Randall Balmer said he designed his “Sports, Ethics and Religion” class with athletes in mind because he wanted to appeal to their interests and enhance their academic experiences. Enrollment tallied 272 as of press time. “I was concerned that some athletes might come to Dartmouth feeling a tad overmatched — or at least intimidated
— by the academics at an Ivy League school,” he said. Balmer said, however, he fears a few students mistakenly expected his class to be a “gut,” or “layup.” To English professor Donald Pease, an incident paralleling UNC’s scandal could never happen at Dartmouth, where “everything is in broad daylight and there wouldn’t be the possibility of a shadow situation.” Several other students and faculty members echoed the unlikelihood of a similar scheme happening at Dartmouth. “At the end of the day, we’re all here to get an education, so I don’t think I could see that happening at Dartmouth,” women’s soccer player Lucielle Kozlov ’16 said. By the same token, women’s cross country co-captain Sarah DeLozier ’15 said most student-athletes are at the College because of academic goals, and that things like “layup lists” facilitate balanced course selection, not cheating. Pease said he treats all his students the same, but accommodates athletic traveling and meets with people who are struggling in his classes, whether they are athletes or not. Athletes seem to put additional consideration into course selection because of their athletic commitments
and may often take easier, non-major classes to achieve a balanced course load, Katzman said. “A class that doesn’t carry too tough of a workload, yet is intellectually engaging, is the jackpot,” he said. Gutting said that while a school like Dartmouth may not compromise as much as big-name sports colleges in athletic admissions, the percentage of “athletically-driven admissions” will be higher at a small school with a full array of athletic programs. Last year, Dartmouth had more programs honored by the NCAA for excellent academic performance than any other school in Division I, with 26 teams recognized, according to the Dartmouth athletics website. Dartmouth student-athletes also had the highest graduation rate for those enrolling at a Division I school in 2007 — a title the College has held for three years. “If you’re not able to balance both [academics and athletics] then you will struggle here at Dartmouth,” Bain said, acknowledging that college students are surrounded by many temptations. “You must understand the reasons you are here at Dartmouth.” UNC’s Office of the Chancellor and press office did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m. Charles C. Jones seminar with Alice White, Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall
3:30 p.m. Physics and astronomy colloquium with professor Alexander Pines of the University of California at Berkeley, Wilder 104
6:00 p.m. Third annual veterans banquet, Grand Ballroom, Hanover Inn
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8:00 p.m. Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
8:00 p.m. “In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” by Sarah Ruhl, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts
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B y BLAZE JOEL The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Seasons are coming to a close this week, as some of the Big Green’s fall teams are making a push for the postseason. This weekend, the football team, men’s soccer team and women’s soccer team take on Cornell University in high-stakes games with major Ivy League title implications. Football at Cornell (12:30 p.m. Saturday) The football team (5-2, 3-1 Ivy) takes on Cornell (0-7, 0-4 Ivy) in Ithaca this weekend. The Big Green comes in fresh off its first Ivy loss, a 23-12 defeat at the hands of undefeated Harvard University, while the Big Red enters off its best Ivy League game of the year, a 38-27 loss to Princeton University. Cornell has struggled this season on both sides of the ball, scoring 13.7 points per game and giving up 33.3. The Big Green has scored 26.6 per game while giving up 24.6. The Big Red has only managed 261 yards per game and has surrendered 432 to opponents. This should bode well for a Big Green offense, which averages 363.7 yards per contest. Dalyn Williams ’16, Kyle Bramble ’16 and Ryan McManus ’15 look to have bounce-back contests after the Dartmouth offense struggled against Harvard. After a solid second half last weekend, the Dartmouth defense is poised to have a strong showing against a Big Red offense that has struggled, especially in the red zone this year. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 35-14 Women’s soccer at Cornell (2:30 p.m. Saturday) The women’s soccer team (8-4-4, 3-0-3 Ivy), which has won five straight, comes into a matchup against Ivy basement dweller Cornell (7-9-0, 1-5-0 Ivy). The team’s recent 2-0 upset of first-place Harvard left the Big Green just one point back heading into the final game of the season. The Crimson plays fourth-place Columbia Saturday. For the Big Green to win at least a share of the Ivy League title, it needs a better
result than the Crimson. The team is built on defense. Through six Ivy games, the team has given up only three goals. Cornell, on the other hand, has been scored on 10 times. The Big Red has scored 21 goals this season, but only four in conference play. That said, Cornell has some dangerous scoring threats in Elizabeth Crowell, Caroline Growney and Kerry Schubert, all of whom have four or more goals this season. Offensively, the Big Green is led by Lucielle Kozlov ’16, Corey Delaney ’16 and Tasha Wilkins ’15, who all have four or more goals. If these three can get going against a Cornell defense allowing more than a goal per game, the game should go in the visitors’ favor. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 2-0 Men’s soccer at Cornell (5 p.m. Saturday) The men’s soccer team (9-4-2, 3-1-1 Ivy) fell into a tie for first place in the Ivy League with Princeton after a 1-1 tie against Harvard last weekend. Cornell (9-5-1, 2-3-0 Ivy) is fresh off a 2-1 loss to the Tigers. With two games to play, the Ivy League title is still fiercely contested. Five teams sit just one win out of first. Cornell has played 11 one-goal games this season, including all five of its Ancient Eight contests. In league play, the Big Red has only scored three goals while giving up four. The Big Green, on the other hand, has a 9-5 scoring ratio in conference play. Goaltender Zach Zagorski has been stellar in net for Cornell this season, allowing just .53 goals per game. Dartmouth goalie Stefan Cleveland ’16 has been similarly stingy, allowing .95 goals against. Cornell relies on Conor Goepel to put the ball in the net. Goepel has six goals and 15 points through 15 games. No one else on the roster has more than four points. The Big Green has five players with five or more points, led by Alex Adelabu ’15 and Hugh Danilack ’15. Expect this to be a low-scoring affair, as both teams will be jockeying for Ivy position. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 1-0
with some of the best teams in women’s collegiate hockey. Hudak said he views the tough tasks ahead as a litmus test for his group. “This part of the season is really that telling part,” Hudak said. “It’s going to give us a good indication of where we’re at and what we need to do to try to make a run for the playoffs.” The men’s hockey team will handle a heftier upcoming slate this weekend. With road games against conference foes on consecutive nights, Dartmouth will seek to develop early-season momentum on its road trip. Entering the new season, the Big Green (0-0-1, 0-0-1 ECAC) has immediately benefited from the returns of several key players who were injured last year. Among their most prominent returns, fifth-year senior Eric Robinson ’14, captain Tyler Sikura ’15 and Brett Patterson ‘16 will look to lead the team at full health. Head coach Bob Gaudet noted that the severity rather than the large number of injuries proved more harmful. “It was just an odd year because the injuries that we had were those that knock you out for an extended period of time,” Gaudet said. “So they weren’t like soft tissue injuries, they were bones and ligaments.” Forward Eric Neiley ’15, Dartmouth’s goals (16) and points (29) leader from 2013-14, said he felt that his team’s experience will
factor in prominently both on and off the rink. “We’ve all been around. We know what the grind of the season is like, how to manage classes and hockey,” Neiley said. “We know how to go on the road and play in other team’s buildings.” In its opening game, the team squared off against the Harvard Crimson, against which it split the season series last year. In this season’s contest, several lead changes and generally evenly matched play resulted in a 3-3 overtime tie. Gaudet noted that the offense created “really good chances.” “What I’d like to improve on is tightening up a bit defensively,” he said. “But in terms of the speed of the game we played, I thought we played really fast.” Looking ahead to Friday, the Big Green will travel down to Schenectady, New York, to challenge the reigning Division I national champions, the Union College Dutchmen (5-3-0, 0-2-0 ECAC). Gaudet said the Union team is a physical team with strong goaltending. Dartmouth will then head southeast within the state of New York to the home of the RPI Engineers (3-5-0, 2-0-0 ECAC), for a 7 p.m. game Saturday. RPI has already beaten the defending national champions twice this season, indicating an even tougher matchup ahead for the Big Green. Neiley said he believes the familiarity between Dartmouth and RPI will fuel the intense action on
the ice. “We ended their season last year, so there’s probably a little bad blood left in their mouth from that, so we’re going to get their best effort,” he said. “It’s going to be a physical game like it always is there.” Neiley said that although the team must tune out raucous environments, the road game experience — particularly within ECAC play — is enjoyable. “You get to clear your head and focus solely on hockey,” he said. “At the same time, there’s opposing fans and loud places to play and good teams, so it’s fun.” In preparation for Dartmouth’s next two games as well as for the entire rest of the season, the team has focused heavily on refining its style of play, especially with respect to pace. “We have tried to continue to hone the systems that we play with, get on the same page, even improving the speed at which we play,” Gaudet said. “It comes over the course of time. We really have to turn up the energy to compete at a high speed level, when you’re still learning line-mates and concepts on the ice.” Looking ahead to the remainder of the year, Neiley expressed optimism about his team’s prospects. “We have a really strong team. Obviously with the experience that we have, [we feel] this is our year,” Neiley said. “For the seniors, this is our last chance to put a banner up in the rink.”
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Andy Simpson ’15 and his team will play conference games on two consecutive nights this weekend.
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FRIDAY LINEUP
MEN’S HOCKEY AT UNION 7 PM
VOLLEYBALL AT PENN 7 PM
Football looks to bounce back from disappointing Ivy loss B y BRETT DRUCKER
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
“We’re on to Cincinnati.” Those were the words of New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick in the post-game press conference after the team’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Without dwelling on the defeat, the Patriots came back to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in convincing fashion. But in the post-game presser, the stoic message was the same: “We’re on to Buffalo.” Or so joked Tom Brady. Coming off a 23-12 loss to undefeated Harvard University, the Dartmouth football team heads off on its own journey to upstate New York this weekend, looking to get back into the win column against Cornell University. And inside the Big Green locker room, the mantra seems to be the same: We’re on to Ithaca. “We’re definitely upset that we lost to Harvard, but we’ve got three more games left and we’re ready to get after it and have fun playing them and dominate the rest of the season,” co-captain Sean Ronan ’15 said. Last weekend, the Crimson and Big Green entered the contest with matching 3-0 records for the first time since 1997. The were the league’s last undefeated teams. Despite a series of opportunities throughout the game, Dartmouth could not catch up to Harvard after the visitors scored on their first possession of the game. “[The team was] definitely disappointed,” linebacker Will McNamara ’16 said. “Guys just really expected to
win that game. It was a game that we all felt we could have won if we played the way we should play because the talent’s here to win. It’s just upsetting when you don’t execute.” The Big Green saw its running game held to only 94 yards on the ground and had three turnovers, two fumbles and an interception, which doomed any chance of a comeback. “We just can’t turn the ball over,” Ronan said reflecting on the loss. “We had one crucial turnover down in the red zone area, and they took advantage of it and scored on us. You just can’t do that against good teams.” Dartmouth will travel to Ithaca, New York, to take on the winless Cornell (0-7, 0-4 Ivy). The team hopes for a return to its winning ways. The Big Red has struggled on both sides of the ball this season, averaging the lowest average yards per game in the league (261.4) while allowing the third most yards per game in the league on defense (432.3). Cornell has also been outscored 96-233 through the first seven games of the season. Cornell has seen a carousel at the quarterback position, with four players seeing significant action under center this season. Last week in a 38-27 loss to Princeton University, sophomore Robert Somborn got the nod and completed 23 of 40 passes for 315 yards and two touchdowns in the biggest offensive performance for a Big Red quarterback this season. Last year when the two teams met in Hanover, Dartmouth came away with a convincing 34-6 win. The Big Green was led by quarterback Dalyn
Williams ’16, who threw for 156 yards in addition to 96 on the ground and a four-sack performance from the defense that kept the Big Red off the scoreboard until midway through the fourth quarter when the game was out of reach. The win gave Dartmouth five victories in a row over its Ivy rival and a 56-40-1 advantage in the series, which dates back to their first meeting in 1900. Because the Ivy League does not
participate in the FCS playoffs, the Ivy title is the pinnacle of a football team’s potential achievement, giving added importance to every league game, kicker Alex Gakenheimer ’17 said. “Every week is championship week,” he said. “In context, I think everybody’s fired up.” Despite the disappointment of losing the opportunity for Dartmouth’s first undefeated season since 1996 and a
clear path toward the Ivy League title, the players remained focused on the task ahead. “We’re trying to win out,” Ronan said. “That will put us in a good spot, hopefully. We don’t control our own destiny right now but as long as we win our games, we’ll have a chance. It all starts with Cornell.” The game will kick off at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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Dartmouth defeated Yale 38-31 earlier in the season, and hopes for a similar win over Cornell this weekend.
Men’s and women’s ice hockey teams to hit the road this weekend B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN
The hockey teams are set to enter big matchups this weekend, with the men’s squad playing Union College Friday and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Saturday and the women taking on St. Lawrence University Saturday night. The women’s hockey team (4-0, 2-0 ECAC) will travel to Rochester, New York, to square off against ECAC foe St. Lawrence University. Prior to this first road challenge, the team has started hot, notching victories in all three of its opening games as well as in an
exhibition match. Coach Mark Hudak pointed to a consistent effort as the key to the team’s early season success. “We’ve had contributions from everybody on the team, defensively and offensively, so I think we’re playing well as a team right now,” Hudak said. One of the most important tasks heading into the 2014-15 campaign was filling the void left by four-year starter Lindsay Holdcroft ’14 in goal. Having posted a 1.33 GAA and one shutout through the opening three games, Robyn Chemago ’17 has thus far successfully filled the role between the
pipes. The team has made strides from its youthful makeup, Hudak said, calling it a “middle-aged team.” As to more literal growth, captain Karlee Odland ’15 pointed to an increase in size. “This year we have a fully sized roster, and I think that affects so many things, like our practice,” Odland said. “We can keep things rolling a little bit better.” More competitive and productive practice sessions have helped the team, Odland said. As the women’s squad heads into its next ECAC matchup on Saturday, it will face an array of
new challenges. Battling a squad in St. Lawrence (4-4-1, 1-2-0 ECAC) that has played nine games this season, the team will encounter a stout competitor whose goalie has stifled the team in the past. Now a senior, Carmen MacDonald has allowed one goal or less in six out of the last eight times she has guarded the net against the Big Green. “We have to be able to go into that game and expect that it’s going to be a little harder game for us,” Hudak said. “But as long as we continue to maintain the effort that we’ve had and then continue to build on some of the skill stuff and some of our systems, I think
we’ll be okay.” Odland stressed the need for a cohesive and organized team effort. “Just keeping things simple and being predictable to our teammates is going to be key. That’s when we work the best, when our teammates know what we’re going to be doing on the ice so they can read off us,” Odland said. “If we’re just sticking to our systems and being predictable to one another, we’ll come out with a win.” The Big Green will soon enter the meat of its schedule, clashing SEE HOCKEY PAGE 7