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HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Veterans house sees low interest Ph.D. recipients

find job placements

By Erica Buonanno The Dartmouth Staff

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Some student veterans say the house, at 80 Lebanon St., distances residents from campus life.

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B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO In the spring, an anonymous donor gifted local veterans organization Project VetCare with $375,000 to purchase an off-campus house for student veterans.

The house was expected to provide a space apart from younger, non-veteran undergraduates, where veterans could foster a sense of community through casual meetings and daily interactions.

Yet the house has seen low student interest since opening this term, with one under-

graduate and one graduate student resident, Project VetCare co-founder and chairman Robert Chambers said.

Chambers said undergraduates have not expressed an “overwhelmingly positive” reaction to the house. Few students have visited the space, and graduate students have expressed the most interest.

Several rooms are not yet up to code, and the organization will finish renovations next year, Chambers said, adding that he hopes the space will become a

venue for meetings of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veteran Association and Dartmouth Graduate Veteran Association.

Project VetCare, a nonprofit founded in 2012 to aid Upper Valley veterans, is working on acquiring gym equipment and pong tables for the house.

“I’m hoping that once they have seen the space that they may know that, ‘Hey, we can have this as an option,’” Chambers said. “They may not want to live there, but we SEE HOUSE PAGE 3

Amid national discussion about the lack of job prospects for newly minted Ph.D.’s, just four out of the 95 students who received Dartmouth Ph.D.’s in June still seek employment. Dean of graduate studies Jon Kull wrote in an email that it is not too difficult for Dartmouth Ph.D. recipients to find positions, particularly because Dartmouth only offers science doctorates.

The nationwide unemployment rate for science Ph.D. recipients is around 2 percent, according to the National Science Foundation. The Atlantic reported in July, however, that STEM Ph.D. hiring has stagnated or dropped across fields.

History professor Pamela Kyle Crossley wrote in an email that humanities Ph.D. recipients conventionally face greater challenges when searching for jobs.

The U.S. Survey of Earned Doctorates finds that humanities programs consistently see the lowest rate of graduates reporting a definite job or postdoctoral study, according to the Modern Language Association Office of Research blog.

Dartmouth offers master’s degrees in the humanities, primarily through the Master of Arts and Liberal Studies program, and various humanities and social science departments hire postdoctoral researchers.

The most common areas of employment for Ph.D. graduates are postdoctoral fellowships and faculty positions.

A post-doctoral fellowship like the Society of Fellows — which will bring Ph.D. recipients to Hanover for research, teaching and mentorship — will give graduates time to revise and expand upon their dissertations for publication, preparing a potential second project before beginning to teach and establishing themselves as academics, Society of Fellows director and religion department chair Randall Balmer said.

Kevin Hainline, a postdoctoral researcher in the physics and astronomy department, said that in many fields, postdoctoral students face three waves of applications for academic jobs when deciding what to do after graduation. The first wave consists of fellowship applicaSEE PH.D. PAGE 2

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Town officials say they hope to see solar panel arrays become a more regular feature in Hanover. Roughly 200 people attended an informational meeting at Hanover High School on Thursday to discuss the Solarize Upper Valley initiative, which aims to capitalize on government financial incentives and

collective buying power to equip as many as 300 Upper Valley homes with solar power in the next year.

David McManus, chair of the town’s sustainability committee, said Hanover’s target is 100 solar installations. Hanover public works director Peter Kulbacki said he hopes to see as many as 130.

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This term, a group of introductory math students have seen their classroom “flipped,” with theories and formulas taught through online Khan Academy videos and class time reserved for discussion. The class — professor Scott Pauls’s Math 3 section — is part of the Gateway Initiative, a three-year program that will redesign 12 high-enrollment courses.

The initiative, a collaboration between the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of

Learning, Academic Computing and the Provost’s Office, aims to change how students learn. Whereas entry-level or “gateway” classes are typically thought of as large, impersonal lectures, the initiative seeks to use technology and other educational innovations to increase student engagement and learning.

Director of digital learning initiatives Joshua Kim said research shows that students learn more when they engage with material. He said the initiative aims to take introductory classes

and give them the benefits of more personal seminars for which Dartmouth is known.

“We’re trying to figure out how to take a large lecture hall and make it feel like a small class,” he said.

In the winter, the initiative will work with Biology 13, on gene expression and inheritance, and a classics course.

Twelve classes submitted proposals, and four were selected for experimentation this year. Throughout the redesign SEE DCAL PAGE 3

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Ph.D. recipients navigate fluctuating academic job market FROM PH.D. PAGE 1

tions, in which students apply for research funding, and the second is for professorships, which are difficult to obtain coming out of graduate school.

Hainline noted the slow pace of hiring in academia. Although plenty of postdoctoral positions exist, he said, noting that postdocs are cheaper to hire and require less of a time commitment, these rarely translate into tenure-track faculty positions.

“The more postdocs you end up taking, the older you’re getting and at some point you’ll have to admit that you’re not going to get an academic job and go into industry or something, which drives many people out of the field,” he said.

There are too few tenure-track jobs to match the amount of Ph.D. graduate interested in academics, according to the MLA. Sarah Henderson, who graduated from Dartmouth with a cognitive neuroscience Ph.D. in 2013 and completed one year of postdoctoral research before leaving

for an industry position, attributed the mismatch to reasons like less research funding and higher retirement ages.

Had she stayed in academia, she said she did not think she would have found a stable job until age 45.

Hainline said that while many postdoctoral researchers pursue their own interests, a third option for Ph.D. graduates is assisting faculty with their work, which is what he has been doing for the past two years.

He said one of the reasons humanities Ph.D.’s have more difficulty finding positions after graduation is that there are few postdoctoral positions in the humanities, leading many to change fields or teach in community colleges and overseas.

Funding for humanities research was hard hit by the recession and the percentage of humanities graduates who found tenure-track positions saw a sharp drop, according to MLA surveys of Ph.D. placement.

“I feel bad for people who have a degree in something that is not valued by certain slots of industries,”

Hainline said.

He said universities continue to produce high numbers of Ph.D. graduates and in a “different world,” institutions should stop accepting

“The more postdocs you end up taking, the older you’re getting and at some point you’ll have to admit that you’re not going to get an academic job and go into industry or something, which drives many people out of the field.”

- KEVIN HAINLINE people into graduate school.

“Grad school is a five- or sixyear commitment and in the end you have this Ph.D.,” Hainline said. “You go into that and some-

times you’re not told, ‘oh, you know there’s no jobs at the end,’ and they should be up front about that information and they should also not accept so many people.”

According to a Michigan State University study released in October, overall Ph.D. hiring is anticipated to rise 20 percent this year.

Kull said the College places its Ph.D. recipients in postdoc positions, consulting, teaching or industry.

He said that graduate students receive career advice through the graduate studies office and the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. Students participate in career development workshops that prepare them for both industrial and academic positions, he said.

Julia Bradley-Cook, a Ph.D. student in ecology and evolutionary biology, wrote in an email that she thinks Dartmouth’s network and name recognition will help her find a position. Bradley-Cook said she is considering an industry job, though she acknowledged that this career path is “much less clearly defined.”

Molly Croteau, a fifth-year chemistry Ph.D. student, said that she and other future Ph.D.’s worry about finding a position after graduation, although she will be applying for jobs in industry rather than academia.

She said she thinks it is tough to get any job in the current economy, even with a Dartmouth degree.

“Just having a Dartmouth degree won’t get you through the door,” she said, although she added that it might help get resumes a second glance.

Henderson said that to increase the number of academic positions for Ph.D. graduates, institutions should consider making more positions for research scientists.

“Unless people want to go into industry, there is no way to go into academia and just to do research,” she said.

Balmer said an institution’s reputation is important for Ph.D. students after graduation. Dartmouth should encourage more scholarly production in order to boost the reputations of existing faculty and the institution as a whole, he said.

Bulk buying, rebates and tax credits reduce the price of solar arrays FROM SOLARIZE PAGE 1

Solarize Hanover, a collaboration between the town government’s sustainability committee, non-profit Vital Communities and town residents, is a sub-project under Solarize Upper Valley.

Lyme, which participated in an earlier phase of the initiative, installed 51 solar arrays in households in 2014.

“We’re expecting at least that we can meet what the town of Lyme has done and better that,” McManus said. “We have many more people, more households, so we’ll just have to see.”

Sarah Simonds, an energy program manager for Vital Communities, a nonprofit sustainability group, said many people do not consider purchasing solar arrays due to time constraints and confusion about the installation process.

Solarize Upper Valley, based in White River Junction, helped 120 homes install solar arrays in round one of its project.

Simonds said that she hopes to have 300 Upper Valley households solarized in round two, and, in a possible third round, to boost the overall number to over 500. The third phase does not have a start date at this time.

Bulk buying, state rebates and federal tax credits lower prices of solar arrays, McManus said.

“It’s less expensive to have solar in Hanover than it may ever be in the future between the state rebates

and the federal tax credit,” said town manager Julia Griffin.

If 10 households sign up for solar power, the base cost for each would be $19,000. A New Hampshire rebate would return $3,750 to each homeowner, and they would then receive a federal tax credit for $4,575, bringing the actual cost down to $10,675 per household.

If 80 households contributed, however, the base cost would be $18,000, the state rebate would hold level at $3,750, and the federal tax credit would decrease to $4,275, leaving each homeowner to pay $9,975.

Energy Emporium, a green energy contractor based in Enfield, will conduct free site visits to evaluate different households and make recommendations for installation, Founder Kim Quirk ’82 Th’83 said.

Griffin said that between 25 and 30 percent of households participate in a site-evaluation will install solar systems. If a homeowner agrees to install solar, he or she would sign a contract and make a $2,100 down payment on the program, which would allow Energy Emporium to begin the permitting and purchasing process.

Further payments would be due shortly before the one week installation period begins in the spring, Quirk said.

McManus said that those purchasing solar arrays could expect to fully recoup their initial investment within eight to 10 years of installation under the Solarize Hanover

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Town officials say they hope to see at least 100 solar systems installed in Hanover in the upcoming year.

plan, and, if enough people sign on, the recoupment could be possibly as low as four years. An average monthly energy bill would cost around $90 a month, Quirk said.

A standard solar array produces roughly 600 kilowatt hours, the average household monthly use, Quirk said.

Initial registration is open until Jan. 31, 2015.

Barbara Munson, a Hanover resident who attended the meeting, said she was interested by

the prospect of solar energy and would like to sign up for an initial site visit.

“I’m certainly interested, but I’ll have to see all the individual figures and I’ll have to convince my husband, who is not as interested,” Munson said.

Hanover was recently named a “Green Power Community” by the Environmental Protection Agency, one of 54 in the country and the first in northern New England, Griffin said.

“We see the growth of Hanover’s green power community as one of the most effective ways to address climate change at the local level,” McManus said. “We’re practical idealists.”

Griffin and McManus said that they hope to make 100 percent of Hanover’s electricity renewable in the long term. Hanover receives roughly 17 percent of its energy from renewable resources, Griffin said, but the town hopes to improve that figure over the coming years.

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Initiative experiments with classroom styles FROM DCAL PAGE 1

process, professors will work with a team of pedagogy experts to redesign instruction, from individual learning activities to entire course structures, instructional designer Adrienne Gauthier said.

Gauthier emphasized the power of a student-based classroom, saying that although technology can make learning more efficient, clearer and less cumbersome, it is a means to help students learn.

She said the initiative aims to help students better understand material and get to know professors.

Interim DCAL director Lisa Baldez said that in the past two decades, there have been massive advancements in understanding how the brain works and learns. Active learning leads to better absorption and retention of material, she said.

“It turns out that the classic model of teaching in the university setting, the ‘sage on the stage,’ a professor standing front of a group of students lecturing, isn’t necessarily well-matched to the way that the brain learns and retains knowledge,” she said.

The initiative also aims to make large classes more accessible to a wider range of students, Baldez said.

Baldez emphasized the teamwork needed to change classroom procedures, including a video team to make pre-recorded lectures, instructional designers to help think through different techniques and library staff trained in information gathering.

Instructional designers like Gauthier work to implement innovations like “classroom flipping,” when students watch pre-recorded lectures or lesson videos before class, and focus in class on discussing, debating and writing about the material. In the trial math class, for instance, students watch Khan Academy videos at home so class time can focus on troubleshooting.

The Gateway Initiative will also see “backwards course design.” Kim said this strategy starts by determining what professors want their students to learn. Next, educators determine how to reach these goals, and add the material last.

In Gateway Initiative classes that are still lecture-based, in-class polling allows students to remotely answer questions via smartphone or clicker.

After the data is collected, the professor instructs students to discuss and defend their responses among themselves, combining technology with interpersonal learning.

The Gateway Initiative will also expand the use of Canvas, an online management system that replaced Blackboard at the College this year.

Kim said Canvas is especially useful for providing multimedia educational

supplements, implementing “low-stakes quizzes” and making use of online discussion tools.

Dartmouth professors are eager to further improve their courses, Kim said, emphasizing the initiative’s role in the context of Dartmouth’s established strength in teaching.

“That’s what Dartmouth is all about — we are really the college that you go to if you care about teaching and learning, both as a professor and a student,” he said. “It’s really important for us to be innovative with learning and technology.”

He said, however, that redesigning courses comes with challenges. Kim said that students excel at traditional learning — memorizing material and reciting it back on a test, but some do not like the active participation required in these changed classes. Finding time to watch pre-recorded lectures in schedules that are already packed can also be difficult, he said.

Following the course redesign, a team will evaluate success based on professors’ stated objectives. Baldez said the initiative’s future expansion will be based on its current success, as determined by measures like academic performance, end-of-term student course evaluations and conversations with students.

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Housing limited to veteran students FROM HOUSE PAGE 1

have made the space available.”

Initially, Project VetCare planned to offer rooms to all local veterans, though students would receive preference, Chambers said. The donor, however, stipulated that the house be for Dartmouth veteran students — “which initially we didn’t particularly like, but we listened,” Chambers said.

Rent runs from $750 for smaller rooms to $800 for larger ones, Chambers said, and the money contributes to an emergency fund for local veterans seeking housing, employment and medical services.

William Peters ’15 said that while on-campus housing may be more expensive than the off-campus house, students are generally willing to pay for proximity to social and academic life.

Off-campus housing will not foster community for veterans, as students tend to stay on campus, David Brooks ’15 said.

Aside from distance, the house, at 80 Lebanon Street, is roughly a half-mile south of the Hanover Co-op, Peters said he did not like the idea of exclusive housing. Veterans are often proud of assimilating into housing with other undergraduates, forming communities that expand their identities beyond the veteran label, Peters said.

Brooks said that as a prospective

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student, having the option to interact with other communities through affinity housing options attracted him to Dartmouth. Brooks said he often stops by the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies affinity house to cook meals.

“You don’t have to be Latino to live in the Latino house or black to live in [Cutter Shabazz Hall], but you have to be a veteran to live in the veteran house,” Brooks said.

School would have felt like no more than job, he said, if he lived away from campus and commuted every day.

“I have met so many people and have learned so much about myself that I wouldn’t have if I had that segregated experience of living in a veteran house,” Peters said.

Peters said he believed a dedicated veterans’ lounge in a campus building could accomplish many communitybuilding goals.

He added that his interactions with Project VetCare have been limited.

“Their hearts are in the right spot,” Peters said.

Conversations about veterans’ housing first arose among graduating students several years ago, Peters said.

As younger classes settled in to residential life at Dartmouth, demand faded.

Undergraduate dean Kent YrchikShoemaker, who advises DUVA, said that he approached the Office of Residential Life last year to understand options for veterans’ housing, either an affinity house or a living learning community. DUVA members, however, expressed little interest in either option.

Members of the Class of 2019 who are veterans will receive a brochure including information on the house, to raise awareness of the space as a resource, Chambers said.

Brooks and Peters are members of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

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Verbum Ultimum The Dartmouth Editorial Board

Staff Columnist DAVID BROOKS ’15

Restructuring Research

Denying the Undeniable

The College should centralize undergraduate research opportunities.

Despite the “college” in its name, Dartmouth is a research university. As we encourage post-doctoral students to come to Hanover through the Society of Fellows, we should reevaluate how the College approaches research at the undergraduate level.

The College recently introduced two new research programs, Stamps Scholars and First Year Research in Engineering, and these join a number of existing research opportunities ­— presidential scholars, sophomore science scholarships, senior fellowships and the Women in Science Project. The next step is centralizing these opportunities and ensuring students know about them.

At a Steering Committee of the General Faculty meeting earlier this month, participants cited improving undergraduate research infrastructure and supporting more initiatives as a major priority. We agree.

Though Dartmouth’s undergraduate advising and research office has an undergraduate research database for students, the link is hidden away on the office’s website, and many projects are only available for presidential scholars. Given that there are only 195 projects listed, it’s doubtful this page reflects every research opportunity.

We encourage Dartmouth to adopt a system like that of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which all undergraduate research is centralized through a database — where students sign up for positions that faculty then confirm.

While Dartmouth does not currently have a system like MIT’s, we do have a central database in place that students often access: Banner Student. Though the system desperately needs modernization, Banner currently houses go-to resources for students. We propose that the College incorporate the current undergraduate research online projects page into a campuswide research database on Banner Student, so that students can check for new research

opportunities as easily as they can review their DBA balances.

With a centralized research database on Banner Student, it would be much easier for administrators to evaluate the full scope of undergraduate research happening at the College. Around 600 students conduct research in connection with the undergraduate advising and research office each year, but the director of the undergraduate advising and research office, Margaret Funnell, said the total number of students who pursue research is hard to calculate. Experiential learning is one of College President Phil Hanlon’s banner campaigns. Quantifying the amount of research being conducted at the undergraduate level, possibly only if students register all research through a centralized system, could strengthen our image as an institution that prioritizes hands-on learning.

A database would also encourage interdisciplinary work. According to the undergraduate advising and research office website, it is up to each student to find a faculty member to work with. While initiative is certainly a virtue, it can be incredibly difficult for Dartmouth students to go on an intensive faculty mentor search on top of everything else that we do at this school — especially when you are a biology major who wants to work on an English literature research project.

The benefits of quantifying the research that we conduct cannot be overstated. Administrators would see how much and what type of research students are working on across departments. Using that information, deans and other advisors could more accurately guide and aid students toward opportunities and majors.

Strong ties between students and professors are a hallmark of the Dartmouth education. Expanding and centralizing undergraduate research opportunities will bolster these relationships and boost the College’s reputation as a place of cutting-

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Arguments against the Greek system rely on unfounded assertions.

The Oct. 17 Verbum Ultimum resulted in a glut of responses that agreed and disagreed with everything from the article to the decision to run the piece on the front page of The Dartmouth.

However, lost in the sea of responses are answers to the myriad claims made by the editorial board.

While there are some valid concerns raised by the authors, the assumptions, emotional appeals and lack of facts follow a typical vein shared by those calling for the end of the Greek system.

The authors first argue that the Greek system results in negative publicity and damages the College’s reputation. I must agree that at times the Greek system has created negative publicity, regardless of whether or not it is founded. However, there are times where administrators are all too willing to allow the Greek system to take the fall for behavior which the administration is responsible for. The sensationalism put forward

by Huffington Post, Gawker, Rolling Stone and others is left unchallenged by administrators who fail to respond to a one-sided narrative — the knee-jerk reaction of administrators to the Beta Alpha Omega fraternity emails obtained by Gawker is a perfect example.

Next, the board asserts that “for many, Greek life takes precedence over academics.” The authors take this position as fact, but they ignore the fact that affiliated students have a higher GPA than unaffiliated students. Many of our valedictorians, including four of last year’s, were affiliated.

The authors do cite examples of historical Greek misbehavior to support their argument.

However, actions by individuals do not necessarily reflect upon the whole, and the redaction of the “Beta-vision” allegation reflects the weakness of their evidentiary support. I fail to see the logic that led them to conclude that “the Greek system undeniably enables and institutionalizes harmful behaviors.” Some harmful behaviors, such as using drugs and high-risk drinking, are societal problems of today’s youth and are not an embodiment of Greek institutions. The authors present a list of conclusions without citing any reliable data or even anecdotal evidence. Saying that the Greek system “facilitates binge drinking and sexual assault” is an accusation masked as

a truth unless there are supporting facts. The editorial board provides none.

This is the biggest problem perpetrated by those who write pieces attacking the Greek system and Dartmouth in general. For example, last winter, columnist Rebecca Rothfeld ’14 wrote that “there is a veritable boatload of evidence that Dartmouth represents a hostile environment for certain communities,” without providing one piece of that boatload of evidence. That same term, a piece by Sarah Fernandez ’14 claimed that fraternities result in behaviors such as “sexual assault, racist, sexist, classist, homophobic and transphobic acts” which are “are largely defended as unfortunate byproducts.” Fernandez failed to even attempt to prove her first claim and put words into others’ mouths with her second. The Verbum takes the same tack, citing numerous conclusions with no supporting evidence. The editorial standards of The Dartmouth should be better than this.

The authors then use the next section to provide an alternative to the Greek system, which does need more of an emphasis. However, they deny that the Greek system can be part of these changes, maintaining but never explaining why “our antiquated system cannot be reformed.”

The board concludes by citing the recent crackdown on the Greek system, which destroys what made the system initially attractive. I agree that the response by administrators is hurting what was once a more welcoming place. However, this is a problem about administrators’ response to highrisk drinking and other issues. In fact, the current spat of alcohol incidences — 12 first-years were sent to Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center the first weekend of this term — proves that campus problems extend far beyond the Greek system.

This piece of the argument is really more against current policy than the Greek system itself.

Ultimately, the Verbum fails in adding to the conversation surrounding Greek life because of its assumptions and unfounded conclusions — and it certainly does not provide a strong argument for abolishing it. The editorial board must provide a better response and should be held to a higher standard than last week’s Verbum reflects.

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coaching staff so that the next time you’re in them, hopefully you’ve made some of the corrections that you didn’t have either the previous year or the previous week,” he said.

Hernandez agreed, noting that the defense could relax having been in the situation before, which helped the unit come up with the stop.

“That’s something that we all remembered,” he said. “We played kind of stress free, and we were loose, and we did what we had to do, and it ended up working out for us.”

Bramble led the offense with 113 yards rushing — his second 100-yard performance of the season ­— and Hernandez earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week accolades after his performance with eight tackles and an interception on the afternoon.

The Big Green only took a 10-6 lead into the break but emerged from the third up 24-6.

“The second half we really started pushing them off the ball and spreading the game out a little

bit on the outside,” Bramble said.

Dartmouth has won five in a row against the Lions in what has been a lopsided series. The Big Green hold a 66-17-1 advantage since the two teams first met in 1899 .

“I think we’re confident but not over-confident,” Hernandez said.

“We know we’ve done some good things, but we know there’s still a long road ahead of us, so we’re definitely focused. We have some tough games coming up but we’re really excited about that.”

Beyond Columbia, the Big Green is set to face undefeated Harvard University the following week in Hanover in what could be a matchup that decides the Ivy League title.

The Crimson will play fellow league leader Princeton University this weekend in New Jersey. Despite such an important game on the horizon, the team remains focused on winning this week, Dobes said.

“When you only get 10, there is no such thing as a trap game,” he said. “I think we’re too mature to take anything for granted.”

The game kicks off at 1:30 p.m. at Robert K. Kraft field in New York.

“We want to get back to the attitude we had in the pre-season and first few games,” he said. “We’ll return to doing what we did well and having confidence.”

The Big Green has the advantage on offense, having scored 24 goals this season to the Lions’ 13. Defensively, the Columbia backline has been stingier, allowing 13 goals to the Big Green’s 17. Junior goalkeeper Kyle Jackson is the linchpin, with 22 saves on the year. Scoring will be challenging for the Big Green attack that has gone cold during the losing streak.

“Our team has enough talent to score in the game,” Alex Adelabu ’15 said. “We just need to make sure we’re focused but we’re still in a good place in the league, we have a chance to win the Ivy title and we’re going to take it.”

The Dartmouth men are well positioned for the postseason, even with the conference loss to the University of Pennsylvania. They sit tied for second in the Ancient Eight, just one point behind Harvard University, who they will play next weekend in Hanover.

“The Ivy League is a very tough,

competitive league. Usually teams that win the title don’t win every single game, and the position we’re in now still gives us a really good shot.” Hoffman-Johnson said.

Dartmouth last captured the Ivy title in 2011, and with three games remaining in the conference, the Big Green still has a chance this season to top the Ivies, which Rooney said was a goal for this season.

“We’re in a good spot in the table,

we just need to capitalize on our chances,” he said.

On a more personal level, the team is looking for a bit of revenge for a 2-0 defeat last season in Hanover.

“Columbia beat us last year at home, so we have a score to settle,” Stauber said. “Winning isn’t a promise, but it would be a huge step in the right direction.”

The game kicks off at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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Football hits the road to face Columbia B y brett drucker

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

At the halfway point of the 2014 campaign, the Dartmouth football team sits in a position it has not experienced in over a decade.

Entering this weekend’s matchup at Columbia University, the Big Green boasts a 4-1 record and a perfect 2-0 record in Ivy League play, potentially on track to win its first Ivy League crown since 1996.

But the task will be far from easy, with five Ivy games scheduled to test the team over the final stretch of the season. The last time the Big Green was in this position, in 2001, it lost its third Ivy game of the season 27-20 — to Columbia.

The Big Green opens the second half this weekend visiting the Lions (0-5, 0-2 Ivy) in the Big Apple for Columbia’s homecoming game.

The Lions have struggled in recent years, winless since November 2012.

Last weekend, the team fell 31-7 at the University of Pennsylvania after being outscored 17-0 in the second half.

The Big Green on the other hand, comes off a 24-21 victory over the College of the Holy Cross.

Despite jumping out to 24-6 lead, the Big Green allowed the Crusaders to fight back and turn a seeming blowout into a nailbiter that came down to the final drive.

“I think we’re playing well, but I think we could play a lot better,” running back Kyle Bramble ’16 said.

For the second season in a row, the defense was forced on the field

to stop Holy Cross from mounting a game-winning drive. But unlike last year, the Big Green forced a turnover on downs with less than a minute to go on a sack and three incompletions.

“I think it shows that we’re tougher than we were last year,” nickelback Frankie Hernandez ’16 said. “We’ve come up in some big situations like the one we had last week and we’re going to look to keep

doing that the rest of the season.”

The team practices situations like that one at the end of practice on Wednesday and Thursday, defensive coordinator Don Dobes said, to give players confidence in their assignments under pressure.

“Any time you’re in those win or lose situations, it’s always a great learning lesson for the team and the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7

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Dalyn Williams ’16 and Kyle Bramble ’16 will likely exploit a porous Lions defense.

Men’s soccer looks to end losing streak

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The men’s soccer team travels to New York Saturday to face Columbia University, where they hope to get off the schneid and back into the win column. After reeling off five wins in a row, the Big Green (7-4-1, 2-1-0) has lost two straight and only scored one goal per game. During the previous streak, the team netted 13 goals.

The team is looking to refocus, co-captain Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14 said.

“We need to return to who we are and focus on what the team does well

— we like to be the hardest working team,” Hoffman-Johnson said. “We put in a lot of work last winter, spring and pre-season to get really fit. Later in the game, when everyone is tired after doing a lot of running, we can outwork our opponents because of our fitness.”

During the team’s eight-game unbeaten streak, the team scored 21 goals and notched two tallies or more in each game.

“Early in the season, we were converting three to four chances a game, and we haven’t been doing that lately,” Gabe Stauber ’15 said.

“We need to go back to what we were

doing and to being more ruthless and dangerous around the box. The past two games, we’ve still been creating chances but we haven’t been finishing them as much.”

Nick Rooney ’15 said he is optimistic about recovering from the team’s losing streak and that the team is well-rested and well-focused heading into Saturday’s matchup against the Lions (5-5-1, 1-1-1 Ivy).

Rooney said that the team has not played its best in its last two contests, but the week layoff has helped them regain focus.

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B y blaze joel The Dartmouth Senior Staff

While week six witnesses the beginning of hockey season in Hanover, the rest of Dartmouth’s fall sports teams hit the road this weekend after Homecoming, hoping to avoid a hangover from a relatively successful weekend. Here’s our take on some of the matchups.

Football at Columbia University (1:30 p.m. Saturday) The bulk of Ivy play is coming up for the Big Green (4-1, 2-0 Ivy), who enters its final five games (all against Ivy opponents) tied for first in the Ancient Eight. This week’s matchup against the Lions (0-5, 0-2 Ivy) seems to be a coast game for the Big Green. The Lions have only posted double-digits once (a 61-28 loss to Monmouth University) and have given up a total of 221 points for the season. The teams had one common opponent so far — the University of Pennsylvania. The Big Green dominated the Quakers 31-13 and the Lions fell 31-7 to their Keystone State foe.

The Lions are a pass-first offense.

Splitting time between two quarterbacks, the team has 1,089 passing yards compared to just 229 rushing yards.

For comparison, Dartmouth rushed for 218 yards in its game against Penn alone. The Columbia offense averages 263 yards per game, a number that quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 has surpassed in two games this year.

The Lions defense is porous, giving up over 540 yards per game including 280 on the ground. Look for Williams and the two-headed monster of Kyle Bramble ’16 and Brian Grove ’16 to have big days.

This game should be an easy win for the Big Green, provided it doesn’t do too much scoreboard watching of the huge Harvard University-Princeton University game in New Jersey.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 49-7 Women’s soccer at Columbia (4 p.m. Saturday) The women’s soccer team (4-4-4, 1-0-3 Ivy) comes into the game fresh off its first Ivy win, a 2-0 victory over the Penn. Columbia (6-2-5, 2-1-1 Ivy) comes in off a 1-0 win against Princeton that helped propel it to a tie for second in the Ancient Eight, just one

point ahead of the Dartmouth women.

The Big Green tied Princeton 2-2 earlier this season. Their other common Ivy opponent is Penn, which the Lions lost to 1-0.

This game should be a defensive battle. The Big Green has a slightly more potent offense, but is only averaging 1.08 goals per game. The Lions surrender 0.56 goals per game and the Dartmouth women give up 0.68 per contest. Three Lions goalkeepers have worked to earn the team seven shutouts this year.

Dartmouth’s backline, led by goalkeeper Tatiana Saunders ’15, has been equally spectacular with six shutouts, including four in a row. Lucielle Kozlov ’16 and Corey Delaney ’16 will have to play their best to find the net.

PREDICTION: 0-0 tie Men’s soccer at Columbia (7 p.m. Saturday) The men’s soccer team (7-4-1, 2-1-0 Ivy) comes into this matchup against the Lions (5-5-1, 1-1-1 Ivy) in the throes of a two-game losing streak after reeling off five in a row. The Big Green put up two goals during its most-recent skid, compared to 21 during its previous eight-game unbeaten streak.

Both teams have already played Penn this season. The Big Green lost 2-1 on Saturday to the Quakers and the Lions defeated Penn by the same score on Oct. 11.

The Lions’ defense has been stingier than the Big Green’s, allowing only 13 goals, compared to 17, but the offense is less potent. The Dartmouth men are outscoring Columbia 24-13.

Columbia only has three multi-goal scorers, including freshman Francisco Agrest and sophomore Rhys Williams, who each have three goals. The Big Green brings a much more balanced attack, as seven players have multiple goals. Junior goalkeeper Kyle Jackson could cause issues for the Big Green attack, led by Alex Adelabu ’15, Hugh Danilack ’15, and Matt Danilack ’18.

Jackson has 22 saves and has only allowed 12 goals.

If the Big Green can get on the board early, this game could turn in its favor. But this could be a challenge against Columbia’s defense that has held opponents to 39 shots on net this season.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 1-0