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include teleconferencing equipment so that outside experts can virtually join the classroom and ceilingmounted cameras that will help with the process.

The only current object study room has a capacity of 16 people. After the expansion is complete, the largest object study room in the museum will have a capacity of 35.

Deputy director of the Hood Juliette Bianco said that larger classes — and more of them — will be able to take advantage of the new space.

The expanded museum will also contain 50 percent more gallery space to be used for both permanent collections as well as exhibitions.

The additional gallery space will be used to display more of the museum’s aboriginal and Native American art collection, its modern art collection and its antiquities, Stomberg said.

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Construction began last week on a new house community structure — one of two new temporary buildings planned to augment the new residential housing system. The buildings will provide extended space for programming and social interactions as part of the new

undergraduate residential system.

The first building currently under construction is located on the south side of the Gile and Hitchcock residence halls and is scheduled to be completed in July, vice president for campus services Lisa Hogarty said. The larger of the two new buildings, the structure will be a traditional wood-based,two-story

building.

O n c e c o m p l e t e, t h e building will be a place for activities for School House and Allen House, two of the new residential houses, she said and compared it to a family living room.

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Public Policy 85 goes to Jordan and Israel B y Emilia Baldwin The Dartmouth Staff

Economics professor Charles Wheelan ’88 led the third annual “Global Policy Practicum to Jordan and Israel” this past interim. The Rockefeller Center for Public Policy funds the annual trip, a component of the Public Policy 85 class, as part of the College’s experiential learning initiatives.

According to the blog published by the Rockefeller Center, the trip started in Israel, with students spending time in Tel

The Hood Museum of Art will undergo a $50 million expansion and renovation.

Changes include expanded gallery space and teaching facilities, a new multi-purpose event space and a new white and beige brick façade for the building. The renovation will close the museum from midMarch this year until winter term 2019 .

Funding for the project will come entirely through donations. Two-thirds of the funding for the $50 million dollar project has already been obtained, Hood director John Stomberg, who assumed his position on Jan. 4, said.

A major part of the expansion will be the new Center for Object-Based Inquiry. The center will consist of three object study rooms that use technology to help in the close examination and research of the artifacts in the Hood’s collection. Technologies will

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Aviv, Jerusalem and Jaffa. The trip then ended in Jordan, where students spent time in the cities of Petra and Amman and visited the Dead Sea. Wheelan said that this year’s trip focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with previous trips centered on economic reform in India and the Northern Irish peace process. He also said that the course hopes to inform and educate students on international topics.

He added that he thinks the trip is relSEE POLICY PAGE 2

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DAily debriefing USA Today reported that Bill Clinton returned to New Hampshire this week solo, supporting his wife’s presidential 2016 campaign before the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primaries. Two days ago, he spoke to a crowd of about 700 people in the Nashua Community College gym. This is the third time Bill Clinton has campaigned through the Granite State — the first time for his own presidential run in 1992 and the second for his wife’s 2008 presidential campaign. CNN reported that when Clinton spoke to a crowd in Derry, a Republican state representative heckled him about his sexual impropriety. Republican contender Donald Trump is also campaigning in New Hampshire, holding a rally in Claremont last night.

New Hampshire’s attorney general says the state has reached an agreement with Wisconsin-based Universal Recycling Technologies.

The agreement will have the recycling company pay $200,000 to resolve hazardous waste allegations, WMUR reports. The state alleged that the company disposed of waste at a landfill unauthorized for hazardous waste and also failed to comply with standards for lowering mercury concentrations during the lamp recycling process. Attorney General Joseph Foster said that URT was cooperative in correcting the violations.

Transportation projects in New Hampshire often face difficulties obtaining funding because the state does not collect sales or income taxes. The Valley News reported that the nonprofit organization Vital Communities, which serves to promote new ideas in the Upper Valley and advocates for alternative modes of transportation, is working to draw attention to an optional motor vehicle registration fee that could help ease this financial strain. The organization sent surveys to all of the state’s municipalities this summer to determine if and how they use the fee. Of 67 responding communities, only 13 reported using the charge. The funds are used for general transportation improvements, though specifics of how this is allocated vary from town to town.

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Class embraces experiential learning about how the state should be and how it should function.” evant to College President Phil Hanlon’s Sarah Ogren ’16, a student on the initiative to increase experiential learn- trip who wrote a daily blog about the ing as part of the “Moving Dartmouth group’s time there for the Rockefeller Center, agreed Forward” policy initiative.

“They’re fighting about with Wheelan.

She said that she Wheelan also how the state should did not feel truly said that he finds the idea of con- be and how it should informed about the conflict until flicting narratives function.” working on the within the Israeliground in Israel Palestinian conand Jordan. She flict very interest- -CHARLeS WHEELAN ’88, added that, while ing. The two sides she was well-read possess different ECONOMICS PROFESSOR on the conflict maps, accounts before attending of events and histhe trip, meeting tories, he said.

“Part of the value of being there and interviewing people who live with is that you can listen to both sides, or the conflict daily strongly enhanced her even variations on the two sides and point of view on the situation.

Most days of the trip were consumed you understand why the conflict is so intractable because there isn’t even by various meetings and tours, Ogren a common set of facts or a common said, with the group meeting with a range of people from government offihistory,” Wheelan said.

Wheelan said that he did not fully cials to regular citizens from the area. For understand the conflict until he traveled example, in Amman, Jordan, the group to the area. He added that he did not met with various heads and directors particularly comprehend the magni- from the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign tude of the fight between secular and Affairs, she said. On another day, the religious thought in Israel and Jordan group went on a tour of the ancient city of Petra. The group also visited the until after his visit to the area.

“There’s a huge battle for the ‘soul World Bank branch in Jerusalem, Israel. of Israel,’” he said. “They’re fighting Ogren added that the class started FROM POLICY PAGE 1

over the summer with reading assignments and will continue until later this week when the group will hand in a collective memo concerning what they think the United States’ role should be within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The students spent last fall reading texts relevant to the conflict to educate themselves as much as possible before going abroad.

The Public Policy 85 trip is only one way in which the Rockefeller Center helps to promote experiential learning at Dartmouth., Andrew Samwick, professor of economics and director of the Rockefeller Center, said. He also noted that other initiatives include the First Year Fellows program and the Policy Research Shop.

Samwick said that students have reviewed the Public Policy 85 trip positively since the first one to India two years ago.

“In my experience, students regard Public Policy 85 as one of the defining moments of their Dartmouth careers,” Samwick said.

Along with encouraging experiential learning, Samwick said that field work contributes to Hanlon’s hope for Dartmouth students to be citizen leaders.

“The exposure to policy challenges elsewhere in the world can inspire students to stay engaged in their lives beyond Dartmouth,” he said.

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House structures to be used as a residential life social space programs that could take place in the new spaces.

House is made up of Gile, Streeter “We want to really understand and Lord Halls. what works well and what doesn’t The second temporary House as the House system itself becomes center, to be built on the south more mature, so that when we have tennis court next to Alumni Gym, an opportunity for renovation at is scheduled to begin in March and the residence halls, we’ll have an is also planned understanding for completion “They’re designed to of what type of in July, Hogarty space is most said. The facility allow multiple kinds successful for will serve as an of activities from in- programming,” extended social Hogarty said. space for South formal hangouts to T h e House (Topliff group functions that structures are and New intended to be Hampshire Halls are more formally or- temporary so and the Lodge) ganized.” that the College and North Park can evaluate House (Ripley, the type of Woodward and -REBECCA BIRON, DEAN spaces needed Smith Halls). for student OF THE COLLEGE The building programming, will be a oneHogarty said. story tent-like She noted structure that that future will, despite its description, be fully renovations will be based on the functional as an indoor facility, she information gathered. said.

“Before we move forward with Hogarty said that the purpose [renovation], we’d like to build behind the construction of these temporary structures with enough two structures was to provide flexibility so students can make the facilities with enough flexibility so space their own,” Hogarty said. that students could experiment with “We wanted to figure out what FROM HOUSE PAGE 1

makes a great space for students professors.”

Noah Manning ’17, a member of before updating the residence halls the student advisory group that has themselves.”

Dean of the College Rebecca been consulted during the planning Biron, who is overseeing the House of the new structures since last spring, reiterated communities p l a n n i n g “The goal was to create B i ro n’s i d e a of equalizing process, said that the structures a central gathering place residential halls will also help that all students could in light of the new House e q u a l i ze t h e amount of social feel part of and come system. “ I f space available and go from.” you’re going to for the students ask students to in different live [in certain n e w H o u s e -NOAH MANNING ’17 residence halls] communities, as for three years, not all student you need them residential halls to feel that it is have the same fair, so the fact amount of available space. They are intended that some living spaces have large to serve the same purpose as gathering places and others do not spaces such as Brace Commons would have created a large disparity,” in the East Wheelock residential Manning said. “The goal was to cluster or Occom Commons in the create a central gathering place that all students could feel part of and McLaughlin residential cluster.

“They’re designed to allow come and go from. It was an attempt multiple kinds of activities from to give a more centralized identity to informal hangouts to group functions those students.”

While the structures are primarily that are more formally organized,” Biron said. “The programming that meant for the students of the might happen in them would be residence halls in Houses such as decided by the House communities School House or South House, other themselves, by students and students are welcome to participate

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in programs or events held in the new spaces, director of residential operations Catherine Henault, said.

However, the main purpose of the buildings will be to extend program space for the students of residence halls with no large common space, she added.

Biron cited student demand for more social space that they feel ownership of as a driving force behind the construction of these spaces. She said that the new residential housing system aims to let students build connections to a physical area of campus, creating a sense of belonging. She added that it would create a stronger sense of responsibility for the community of which students are a part of.

H o g a r t y e m p h a s i ze d t h e opportunities for students to expand their creative ideas for events at the College using these spaces.

“I think this is a really exciting opportunity,” Hogarty said. “What we’re trying to do is create a nice palate for students to paint on. I’m excited to see students use their imaginations and create the kind of programs that they’ve always wanted to have but haven’t had the space to conduct the programs in. I think the spaces will be as cool as the students allow them to be.”

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Senior Staff Columnist emily albrecht ’16

Good Without God

Religion should not be required to be a politician.

The American political landscape has become dangerously polarized. Most social, economic and other issues are starkly divided across the aisle — just identifying as being liberal or conservative leads to an assumption that you hold various beliefs that might have nothing to do with actual policy. While religious beliefs and identities fall prey to these generalizations, the very place of religion in politics is rarely questioned across the political spectrum. It does not matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat — in order to be a good, moral leader, the American narrative all but states that you have to be religious.

No matter how the majority tries to spin it, marginalizing the secular demographic is discrimination. Whether one is a monotheist, a polytheist or an atheist; Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Wiccan... all people, regardless of cultural identity, deserve equal thought and respect. To put it simply: religion does not belong in politics.

There is a difference between Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) going to the church of his choice any day and in any way he chooses and him uncritically proclaiming that “any president who doesn’t begin every day on his knees isn’t fit to be commander-in-chief ” during his presidential campaign. The former is freedom of religion, a right fortunately guaranteed in our country. The latter is ignoring the reality of American religious diversity.

Statements like these disenfranchise diverse spiritual demographics and write them off as unimportant and irrelevant.

Within the scope of national politics, Cruz is not alone in his sentiment. With politicians, religious affiliation, generally Christianity, is assumed. It is politically unsound to declare non-belief, despite the alleged separation of church and state. In the 113th Congress, only one representative identified as unaffiliated — less than .5 percent of Congress. How is that fair representation when, according to

the Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study, 28 percent of Americans identify themselves as religiously unaffiliated?

The problem extends far outside of national politics. Any official in a public position of authority must be aware of spiritual diversity. If a teacher wants to hold an open Bible study at her house after school, or sees his students at Mass, that is entirely within their right of religious freedom. Those actions, however, are very different from a teacher leading a class-wide prayer during school hours with students who may or may not share in their faith. In that context, they are acting as a public official and they have to remain unaffiliated in order to ensure that they demonstrate religious tolerance to all students. Likewise, when politicians such as Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee claim that “in every person’s life the only thing that makes life truly worth living the next day is knowing that that emptiness is filled by the Lord Jesus Christ,” they legitimize their religion, and their religion only.

Atheism, agnosticism or any other selfidentifier of irreligion is politically unpopular for a number of reasons — just about all of which stem from a false conflation between religion and government. Religious freedom does not mean the freedom to impose a majority religion as normative and especially not as a necessary quality of a good leader. There are people all over this country who are implicitly being taught that their unique beliefs or non-belief is something wrong or abnormal. Most of those in the religious majority do not intend for this to happen and many do not realize that it does. Ignorance of a situation, however, does not negate the reality of it. Having a different belief system than the person next to you does not make either of you right or wrong. It just makes you different, a trait that should be celebrated instead of swept under the rug.

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New Hood design to incorporate clean energy, more space space will also function as a lobby and a connection to the Hopkins Center Rosalie Kerr said that the current for the Arts.

The Hood will host its final two museum will also be renovated as the current heating, ventilation and air exhibitions this term before the renovation begins. conditioning systems are inefficient.

Construction on the museum will last The renovations will also improve security systems, technology capa- from August of this year until December 2018, during bilities and the which time, there lighting and “In 1985 there wasn’t will be construcstrength of the the Internet or a whole tion fencing bewalls in the extween Wilson Hall isting galleries lot of AV equipment and the Hop and so that they can used in museums between the Black support larger so we don’t have Family Visual Arts works of art.

Center and the “In 1985, the infrastructure to Hop. Students will there wasn’t support new media.” be able to access the Internet Wilson through its or a whole lot side door and the of AV equip- -JULIETTE BLANCO, Hop through its ment used in main doors and its museums so we DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE back stairwell on don’t have the HOOD MUSEUM OF ART Lebanon Street. infrastructure From the time the to support new museum is closed media,” Bianco until July of this said.

The expansion to the museum is year, the museum will be emptied of designed by the architecture firm Tod its art collection.

The collection will be kept in an Williams Billie Tsien architects The common-purpose event arts storage facility in Somerville, Mass. space will be used to host receptions vice president of campus planning and for exhibition openings or musical facilities Lisa Hogarty said.

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mer term 2018, the new museum will undergo an acclimatization process meant to ensure space can maintain stable humidity and temperature through different seasons.

“We want to make sure we go through different seasons — winter, spring, summer — to make sure we can maintain humidity,” Hogarty said.

During that time period 47 objects from the Hood will be on loan to 17 institutions, with an emphasis on lending to other teaching museums.

The renovation will also involve taking out existing wall plaster, reinsulating the entire building, and repairing the bricks and mortar of the original museum. Plans for the expansion include increasing energy efficiency. The new building is expected to reduce energy usage by 10 percent.

The renovation will also extend the life cycle of the old Hood by 50 years, Hogarty said.

Stomberg said that students will be working with the Hood for exhibition and installation planning for the museum’s reopening.

All of the galleries in the museum will be focused on the Hood’s collection for the first 12 months after its reopening, Stomberg said.

He added that there will be two exhibitions after the reopening that will focus on the 19th century American

artist Lily Martin Spencer and another will focus on the work of contemporary artists from Africa and the African diaspora.

He added that the museum will also continue working with classes and conducting community outreach for K-12 students in the Upper Valley.

Digitizing parts of the Hood’s collection and putting it online will also be a priority during the closure.

During the closure, Stomberg said

that the Hood intends to have satellite exhibitions on other parts of campus.

Hood staff will also aim to sponsor programs like artist and art historian lectures and dance programs around campus that would otherwise take place at the Hood, Stomberg said.

“We’re looking for places around campus where the Hood can hold exhibitions that will stir up some excitement for our collections and what we do,” he said.

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Student Spotlight: Artist Marina Massidda ’17 B y Haley gordon The Dartmouth Staff

Marina Massidda ’17 formally began taking art classes at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when she was in her early teens, following a childhood filled with informal artistic pursuits.

Massidda said that these classes ranged from general workshops to figure sessions.

“That was a good way for me to be exposed to art in a studio setting,” she said.

Massidda, currently a studio art major at Dartmouth, plans to pursue a professional career involving painting after graduation. That career might involve a turn as a professor, Massidda said.

Massidda drew throughout her childhood and her teenage years.

When she started, she referenced photographs while completing her work. Currently, as a painter, Massidda chooses to paint from observation, composing actual scenes with objects or figures to paint directly, rather than using photographic references. While great work has been and continues to be created with the use of photographic references, for her personal artistic process she prefers to paint without them, Massidda said.

“I learnt that in a photograph information is locked in, all the exact values and colors,” Massidda said.

“Whereas in real life it allows for a lot of interpretation.”

Assistant studio art professor Enrico Riley ’95 taught Massidda in two of his classes, “Painting 2” and “Painting 3.”

“I think she is an immensely gifted observational painter,” Riley said.

“She has a great facility for observing objects, in particular figures, and painting them in a very sophisticated manner.”

Massidda said that she gets her still life objects from a closet in the Black Family Visual Arts Center. The closet contains objects varying from the standard plastic fruits to old appliances to bicycles, Massidda said. “[The still life painting] can really be as conventional or as quirky as you want it,” she said.

Massidda frequently features mirrors in her paintings.

“For me one of the best things to paint is the human figure,” Massidda said. “But it’s hard to get people to pose for you for long amounts of time, so I’ve done a lot of self-portraits using mirrors.”

The human figure is a form Massidda likes to play with in her pieces.

“I think the figure is almost like an ideal subject in terms of painting,” Massidda said. “It’s so dynamic in terms of shape and form and even color.”

Even one aspect, like color, can take Massidda hours to fully capture.

“Skin tones are so challenging in

terms of trying to capture the transitions in temperature and texture,” Massidda said. “It’s sort of conflated with portraiture in a way — each figure has its own energy and personality and its different, so it’s also a tireless subject.”

Fellow studio art major Dondei Dean ’17 described Massidda’s style as “flat,” “even” and “controlled” with a “great grasp of temperature.”

With a studio art major and four painting classes under her belt, Massidda has created many artistic pieces while at Dartmouth.

“The latest big project I did at school was this large three by four foot self-portrait where I was nude in the mirror,” Massidda said. “It was me, painting myself in the mirror.”

The self-portrait took time to complete, but not only because of its size, Massidda said.

“I spent a lot of time on it, really trying to get it to be really believable,” Massidda said. “It was something I really wanted to do to study the figure.”

Dean described Marina’s presence in the studio as fun and relaxed.

“Marina spends a lot of late nights in the studio,” Dean said. “She tends to paint her friends which is really funny so she often has conversations with the people that she’s painting as she’s painting them.”

Vanny Nguyen ’17, a friend of Massidda’s who has posed for her in the past, said her paintings reveal a strong connection to the subjects.

“They all seem to be of people who are close to her, or of things that are significant in her life,” Nguyen said.

“I guess when I see a portrait that she paints, I can tell that that’s someone Marina Massidda ’17 is a studio art major who focuses on oil painting. that holds a special place in her life, and it’s very personal, I think.” said. “She likes going back in the past In addition to the exposure neces- time at Dartmouth, Riley said. sitated by a nude self-portrait, Mas- “The mechanics of her painting and doing studies of all these different sidda said she found herself exposed have become much stronger and pieces from different art pieces.” emotionally as well. therefore her paintings are operating The physicality of painting sets it apart from mediums in which the “It was pretty personal in a way,” on multiple levels,” Riley said.

Massidda said. “I don’t really think Massidda is inspired by painters artist does not physically interact with about it when I do something like that, of many styles. She admires John the materials, Massidda said. but definitely Singer Sargent, “You can engage with it in your once I unveil a Renaissance hands very specifically, and apply it,” “I like the idea of a it — it gets portrait painter, Massidda said. “Digital art is very some stronger, provocative subject in particular for valuable in some ways as well, but I maybe even matter that’s not his ability to re- think there’s something very special uncomfortable capture about physically engaging with the necessarily supposed alistically material, and the limitations and reactions.” faces.

D e s p i t e to be provocative.”

“Everything is challenges that go along with that, these reacnot meticulously like solvents and weird chemicals and tions, Masblended,” Mas- stains.” sidda remains -Marina Massidda ’17 sidda said. “He’s With the physical nature of loyal to the definitely playing paint in mind, Massidda supports concept of with the paint and experiencing finished paintings in nude self-porexploiting the fact person rather than through a screen traits. that he’s using paint and that’s some- if possible.

“It’s not my first nude self- thing I’m interested in, working with “Because paint is such a physical portrait,” Massidda said. “I like the the medium and having the subject material there is such a quality and idea of a provocative subject matter be important but not necessarily the texture and color and scale and everything that needs to be taken in person that’s not necessarily supposed to be priority.” provocative.” “[Marina places a] super high to really appreciate,” Massidda said.

Massidda’s work has become more emphasis on photo-realistic quality However, Massidda noted that “open” and “abstract” during her and studying the classics,” Nguyen with the spread of social media sites

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there is a wider range of people that can be exposed to art who might otherwise never see it, a positive consequence for individuals in an educational system that sometimes neglects the arts.

“I think visual art is not integrated into general education that much,” Massidda said. “We have reading, math, science­— all this stuff — but the value of recording visually is not as much integrated.”

To students thinking of filling that gap by taking arts classes at Dartmouth, Massidda said that she encourages participation as long as students understand the work involved.

“Of course I’m an advocate [of taking arts classes],” Massidda said.

“But definitely be prepared to put in a lot of time and effort.”

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Women’s hockey sees mixed results across first 15 games

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The Big Green came out hot in the early season.

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The women’s hockey team (4-92, 4-3-2 ECAC) is in the midst of a trying seven-game losing streak that began on Nov. 27 against then No. 1 University of Wisconsin.

The team kicked off the season with a win over then No. 5 Harvard University, but now sits at 4-9-2.

With several players battling a number of injuries, the team has only held a lead in just two of the seven games.

The Big Green has been challenged by a schedule which had the team traveling for six of the most recent seven match ups — three played against teams with a top national ranking and one against an opponent in the receiving votes category. Over the course of the losing streak, the team has never allowed fewer than three goals and never scored more than two in a single game.

Off to a 4-2-2 start (including an impressive 4-1-2 conference record), the team travelled to Madison, Wis. to take on the undefeated Badgers on consecutive nights. Despite the team’s record, captain Laura Stacey ’16 said that the start was not perfect.

“It would have been great to get a few other points here and there, especially against Yale [University],” Stacey said in an interview following a 2-0 shutout victory over Union College on Nov. 14, the final win prior to the start of the current skid. “Even beating St. Lawrence [University] would have been awesome, but I think we’re in a really

good spot and we’re playing some really good hockey.”

The trip to Wisconsin got off to an impressive start in a hostile environment at the Kohl Center in Madison. Badger forward Annie Pankowski scored the first goal of the night early in the first, but Lindsey Allen ’16 netted the bounceback goal less than two minutes later, her seventh goal of the season. The first period concluded with the score knotted at one.

However, the Big Green surrendered three unanswered goals in the final two periods and fell 4-1.

The following night, the Badgers registered four more goals against Dartmouth and improved to a perfect 16-0-0 with the Big Green falling to 4-4-2.

The team then travelled to Hamden, Conn. to take on No. 4 Quinnipiac University where they suffered a 7-1 defeat, the clear nadir of the current losing streak, in a game in which they trailed 5-0 at the halfway point.

The following afternoon, the team travelled to Princeton University to face off with the Tigers.

Stacey scored an unassisted powerplay goal at 9:57 in the first period and the team held a lead for the first time since the victory over Union. The team lead for just over 20 minutes before three late second-period goals gave Princeton a 3-1 lead as the teams headed to their respective locker rooms for the second intermission. The Tigers added a shorthanded, empty-net goal late in the third to cement a 4-1 victory.

Next, the Big Green faced the University of New Hampshire.

Allen scored early in the second period to tie the game at one with assists from Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 and Eleni Tebano ’17 on the player advantage. However, just two minutes later the Wildcats reclaimed the lead on the strength of a goal by Cassandra Vilgrain.

Devan Taylor extended UNH’s lead early in the third and a late rally, punctuated by an unassisted Ailish Forfar ’16 goal with just under five minutes to play, fell short. The Big Green fell for the fifth straight time, this time 3-2.

The Big Green’s next chance to climb out of the rut was its sole home game, a Dec. 12 matchup with the University of Vermont.

The Catamounts found the back of the net twice in the opening frame, but Ottenbreit stopped the bleeding with a power-play goal assisted by Tebano and Stacey at the 16:32 mark of the period. Before the Big Green could capitalize on the momentum generated by the goal, Catamounts’ winger Victoria Andreakos scored just 40 seconds into the second. Once again a late Big Green rally, this time featuring a Stacey goal, fell short. The losing streak reached six games, though the team had lost the two most recent bouts by a single goal.

In the team’s first game of the new year, the Big Green travelled to No. 8 Northeastern University. Ottenbreit opened the scoring and the

team held a 1-0 lead after the first period. However, three late second period goals by Northeastern put the Big Green in a 3-1 hole. The game ended in a 5-2 Northeastern triumph.

Coach Mark Hudak pointed to two major issues during the streak — consistency and injuries. He observed that, while the team was not playing terrible hockey, it was not

“We want to be competing hard in practice and pushing ourselves so the games feel easy.”

-CATHERINE BERGHUIS ’16 performing consistently enough.

“The first Wisconsin game was pretty good,” Hudak said. “We just couldn’t seem to get the kind of consistency that we need.”

Catherine Berghuis ’16 emphasized the importance of consistently strong play.

“For 10 to 15 minutes a game, we have let things slide,” Berghuis said. “We need to play for a full 60 minutes or we’re not going to compete with the best teams. Games are sometimes lost in 10 to 15 minute spans.”

An emphasis for the team as they approach the stretch run of their

season is competition in practice.

“We want to be competing hard in practice and pushing ourselves so the games feel easy,” Berghuis said.

Hudak noted the streak’s beginning coincided with the absence of Brooke Ahbe ’18, who has missed every game during the streak due to injury. Ahbe registered three goals and two assists during the team’s first eight games and has been unable to play since.

Hudak added that several other players continue playing despite nagging injuries, including Forfar who has played through a sprained wrist.

Stacey missed the Northeastern game as she competed for the Canadian National Women’s Development Team in the Nations Cup in Germany.

Still, the team did not offer these absences as justification for their defeat, as Allen said, they are “not an excuse, but they do affect how we’ve played.”

“We need to everyone healthy,” Hudak said. “We’re kind of slim in numbers right now. We’ve played good teams [during the streak]. Other than the Quinnipiac game and the second Wisconsin game, we’ve played a pretty good game.”

Fortunately for Hudak and the Big Green, the team expects to be back at full strength when they return to Thompson Arena this weekend against Colgate and Cornell Universities.

ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

With injuries sidelining several key players, the Big Green has been struggling to put together complete games.