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Trustees approve new graduate school
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Awards honor social justice
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The College’s Board of Trustees approved a motion to establish the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at a meeting in New York City on Wednesday. The motion was approved by the faculty in a November vote after it was raised in a town hall event in October. The motion was based on the recommendations of a task force chaired by Dean of Graduate Studies Jon Kull, although not all of the recommendations were incorporated. The new school will streamline administrative oversight of the over 800 Ph.D., M.S. and M.A. students at the College, in addition to about 200 postdoctoral students. There is no plan to increase the number of graduate students, nor is any large reallocation of resources planned, Kull said. Consolidating the graduate programs and their administration into a school will also establish a central area for funding from new sources, according to a release by the College. The dean of SOGAS will be reporting directly to the provost. Kull described the decision to create a new graduate school as a bold signal, adding that the formation of a graduate school demonstrated the College’s commitment to supporting the research conducted by faculty. Kull said that the new graduate school will provide institutional support for post-doctoral students, in addition to being ideally situated to support programs that traverse departments and schools. “Graduate students are already part of the Dartmouth community and they have been for a long time,” Kull said. SEE GRAD PAGE 2
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Audience members of the Social Justice Awards mingle at the reception that followed.
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On May 23, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. lectured to an overflowing audience in the basement of Dartmouth Hall on the state of social justice in America and the ongoing civil rights movement . Thursday evening, Dartmouth’s Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards aimed to echo his message 54 years later.
Held in Filene Auditorium, the 15th annual ceremony was co-sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the William Jewett Tucker Center, the Dartmouth Center for Service and the Geisel School of Medicine. “The awards were created to find those people in our community, both local and at Dartmouth that were doing
work in social justice, environmental justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. committee co-chair Sara Campbell said. “We’re looking for the people that were doing their life’s work and looking to change the world. That’s the message Dr. King gave us.” Six awards were granted to honor those “constantly seeking to make the world a better place,” vice president SEE AWARDS PAGE 5
Sonic Landscapes course transforms Rollins Chapel
By ALYSSA MEHRA The Dartmouth
On Wednesdays, the “Sonic Landscapes” class transforms Rollins Chapel into exotic places through sound — a rainforest, an Antarctic shore, a Siberian tundra. The interdisciplinary course, taught by music professor Theodore Levin and film and media studies professor Carlos Casas, explores the intersection of music and media studies. The class examines different areas of the world, watching movies and listening to soundtracks from different
places each week to expose students to diverse perspectives and cultures. “It’s about breaking definitions and actually analyzing music and films and just seeing what music is,” Isis Cantu ’19, one of the 25 students in the class, said. She said the first class was built around everyone’s personal definition of art and music. Cantu’s academic advisor recommended she take the class because of its uniqueness and the professors, she said. This past week, the class explored the sonic and visual material in Russian republics of Tuva and Sakha. The first
American conducting ethnographic field work in Tuva, Levin recorded a soundtrack in 1987 that features xöömei, a type of traditional multitonal throat singing. The Tuvan people he recorded harmonize with the sounds of the river and other animals around, Levin said. The class focuses on sensory ethnography, expanding writing to film, sound and art, Levin said. “These are extraordinary opportunities to take a sensory journey to parts of the world that very few people here have seen,” he said. “It is opening a window to a certain kind of reality
that we hope will attract people as they go on.” The course requires students to attend showings of different movies in the Black Family Visual Arts center on Monday evenings and to discuss the films and visual culture during class on Tuesdays. “I enjoy going to the movie sessions because immediately after it, Professor Casas and Professor Levin are discussing it and asking questions, and it’s really nice to have it immediately after when it’s all still fresh in your mind,” Cantu said. SEE SONIC PAGE 3
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DAILY DEBRIEFING Jan. 22, 12:26 p.m., Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity: Safety and Security responded to a report of an unwanted male trying to enter the building. Investigation revealed that the male was actually a Class of 1997 alumnus trying to visit his old fraternity. The male was asked to leave by the occupants of the building and he readily complied. Jan. 22, 10:18 a.m., Sigma Nu fraternity: Safety and Security received a report from a student of the Class of 2016 about a burglary that occurred on Jan. 17 at Sig Nu. During the burglary attempt a mounted elk head was damaged in a failed endeavor to remove it from the wall. The Hanover Police Department was notified of the incident. Jan. 22, 4:31 p.m.: Safety and Security officers, Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services and Hanover Fire Department rendered aid to a faculty member who, while teaching a class, had lost consciousness. The individual was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for treatment. Jan. 23, 12:43 a.m., Novack Café: Safety and Security officers responded to a report of a male and female having sex in a study room. During the investigation officers identified two students who appeared to be intoxicated. They were both transported to Dick’s House where they were admitted for the night. Jan. 23, 4:41 a.m.: Safety and Security officers transported a student of the Class of 2017 from Hanover Police Department to Dick’s House for an evaluation of intoxication. The student had been arrested for DUI and conduct after an accident in Hanover. The student remained in Dick’s House for the night. Jan. 24, 10:18 p.m.: Safety and Security officers responded to a call from a student of the Class of 2017, who reported that a male changed the marquee letters on the Hopkins Center for the Arts sign after they had been set. The male jumped from the balcony and was seen with another male who was later identified as a student. The individuals were questioned and denied any knowledge of the incident at the time. Jan. 25, 8:54 a.m. Richardson Hall: Safety and Security officers received a call reporting that a vehicle had rolled out of its parking place at Richardson Hall and had struck a column on the exterior of the building. No one was injured and there was no damage to the vehicle, however there appeared to be about $2,000 worth of damage to the column.
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Grad school to launch July 16 FROM GRAD PAGE 1
Animakshi Bhushan, a Ph.D. student in the Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems and Society graduate program, wrote in an email to The Dartmouth that she believes the new school will make it possible to incorporate a more efficient feedback and update process for the graduate programs. SOGAS would also provide a much needed platform for graduate students from various disciplines to come together and exchange ideas, Bhushan wrote. The new school will strengthen the College as a whole without compromising the College’s undergraduate focus, Kull said. “If you look at our peer groups, we’re compared to universities,” he said. “By acting like a university in this way, it will help us look like a stronger competitive institution among our peers.” Molecular and cellular biology graduate student Erin Langdon said that since most universities have a separate graduate school, the recognition of graduate studies at Dartmouth as an entity is a positive change. Langdon said that she does not expect or know about any major changes to come to her life as a graduate student, besides her degree denoting that she
went to a graduate school. For example, as the biology department is under the College, graduates’ degrees say that they went to Dartmouth College, she said. SOGAS will be the College’s first new school since the establishment of the Tuck School of Business in 1900. It is expected to open July 1, 2016. Faculty involved in Ph.D., M.A. and M.S. programs will still retain their affiliation with the different schools within the College and the graduate programs will retain connections with their departments. A physical plant for the school will not be built, although administrators will be looking for options for a designated community area for the graduate students, according to the press release. The Council on Graduate Studies will still serve as an advisor, providing recommendations, reviewing proposed programs and certifying graduate degree candidates. The other graduate schools will continue to function normally and their deans will still remain in their positions. Under the current structure, the graduate students — outside of those affiliated with Tuck, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Geisel School of Medicine — report to Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno. College spokesperson Diana Law-
rence wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth that the SOGAS demonstrates Dartmouth’s commitment to research at the highest level. It will enhance the impact of current research enterprise, help attract the most talented students and faculty and promote collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts while maintaining Dartmouth’s high expectations for quality and excellence. Alumna Julia Bradley-Cook GR’14 said that not being affiliated with a graduate university while doing research in an international context — she did her Ph.D. in Greenland — often led to awkward conversations in which it would be hard to convey the rigor of academic programming and the relationship between the graduate students and the College. Bradley-Cook said that the change will also bring together the graduate students. “Having a school that can unify the graduate student body as a whole means a lot for the students who are on campus,” Bradley-Cook said. She said that she feels great about the announcement as a lot of graduate students do not feel recognized on campus and that creating SOGAS is a strong step in the right direction towards bringing them that recognition. Joyce Lee contributed reporting on this story.
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Class explores diverse spaces through sound and visuals FROM SONIC PAGE 1
The students critically analyze the films by studying them in context and from different perspectives, she said. During the x-hour on Wednesdays, students are asked to attend group listening sessions in Rollins Chapel, which allow students to fully experience the sounds and pick up on nuances they otherwise might not have heard, Cantu said. She said the movie screening and listening sessions are her favorite part of the class. “In class, we get to discuss it but it doesn’t trump the experience of hearing it, the experience of seeing it,” she said. Casas said the two additional sessions each week are not mandatory but strongly recommended, and attendance fluctuates depending on students’ schedules. The sessions are open to the public, he added. Levin and Casas started the class in the winter of 2013 and have been offering it every winter since. “In a way, we are scanning the planet and looking at particular landscapes and what type of sonic and visual material is gathered through cultures that live in this particular landscape,” Casas said.
Levin said the course aims to approach ethnography from different disciplinary perspectives. In each of these approaches, the class is asking what it means to represent a soundscape or landscape artistically and what makes these forms of representation art, he said. “We’re trying to look at this nuanced intersection of art in sometimes very radical and unfamiliar forms, which is sometimes very challenging to listeners or to viewers, and how can those different forms of representation synergize and reinforce one another,” Levin said. For example, the class discussed an exhibit at the University of Alaska Museum of the North created by classical composer John Luther Adams. The installation displays seismological and geophysical data from sensors and geological stations across Alaska that is transformed via various algorithms into both visual and sonic representations, he said. “Our question that we try to ask with our students is — ‘What is this?’” he said. “What makes it extraordinary? Why is it in a museum? And how can a scientist in a sense, also be an artist? And how can an artist be a scientist?” The listening and visual sessions are meant to foster an artistic impres-
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Rollins Chapel gets transformed into a new, far-away place through sound each week for “Sonic Landscapes.”
sion of diverse places students can share with others by taking them there through sound, Casas said. “We had to find another way of transporting the students to these places,” he said. “We found these two spaces, a cinema and a chapel, and we want to use them as a way to transport them. They come here, they listen. They come to the screenings and they get immersed in films that they probably would never have the opportunity of watching again.”
Casas said are also exposed to other forms of art outside of the movie screenings and listening sessions. This past week an ensemble of three musicians from Tuva, the area of focus for the week, stopped off their tour to talk to the students and perform for them. “I think that in certain ways the students are so privileged to be able to have these different ways of getting sensorial information getting it even from a live performance,” he said.
The intent of the session is to create a sense of immersion to understand what it is like to live in these diverse places, Casas said. “We try to bombard them with the maximum of information we can, whether it’s sonic or visual,” he said. “The students come from different backgrounds and that makes it for a much more enriching experience for them because it is the first time that they are exposed to that type of material.”
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STAFF COLUMNIST BEN SZUHAJ ’19
VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD
The Integrity Trap
A Call for Clarity
It is time we stop glorifying integrity in politics. The American political system is in disarray. The seemingly enormous divide between Democrats and Republicans widens daily, and with the 2016 presidential race in full-swing, it isn’t hard to see the fissures forming within parties as well. Long gone are the days of bi-partisanship, the cross-party teamwork of the early 60s and early 80s. Today, we languish in the grip of a political gridlock, a stagnation dotted periodically with brief moments of hope. We say, “If only we elect him, then things will really happen. He’ll do things. He’s not a politician.” What does it say about the state of American politics that the claim to fame of the current Republican front-runner is that he is not a politician? Take a moment and imagine a world wherein surgeons were so mistrusted, you asked your plumber to operate on you instead. How did we get here, you ask? The root of the problem lies in the fact that politicians need to appeal to their bases, or else face attack ads and debate-floor accusations of “compromising” on their values. That being said, if you asked any American firstgrader, they would tell you — compromise is a good thing. A lack of compromise is what leads to gridlock, which leads to voter disenchantment and the decrying of a broken political system. And yet, it is this very climate that allows outsiders and radicals to gain support, to claim “never to compromise on their values,” and, as such, to be elected. I call this the “Integrity Trap.” Return to childhood for a moment. Weren’t you instructed, in some way or another, to act with integrity? Integrity this, integrity that. We hear phrases like, “He is a man of integrity,” or, “Always act with integrity,” and so on. Integrity, in American society, is synonymous with strength of spirit, will, mind and morals. As such, it is consecrated on the highest level — a cardinal virtue. Almost nothing is absolutely good, including integrity. In fact, integrity can be a sin, and often can be the label we use to euphemize a particular subset of sin — ignorance, obstinacy, petulance and insanity. After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, right? Is integrity, as it has come to be known in the landscape of American politics, not a glorified encapsulation
of the same idea? “Oh yes, he sticks to his guns”… even if the filibuster will only delay a vote until after the next campaign cycle. Even if it means wasted taxpayer dollars and time. The quintessential example of ignorance, obstinacy, petulance and insanity passing itself off as integrity is Donald Trump. Trump, who vows to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. Trump, who vows to shut down sections of the Internet. Trump, who vows to “take care of women,” while simultaneously de-funding Planned Parenthood. Trump has no place in politics, no tact or grace, and yet this non-elegance is the very quality that leads voters to flock to his campaign. “He is honest.” No, he’s not. Being blunt does not make him honest. He’s an antipolitician, facing very adult problems with very childish solutions, spewing absurd campaign promises left and right and then vowing to back them up. He claims he can do this because he is funding his own campaign. He is not in the clutches of the billionaires. Money, somehow, has become equated with faux-integrity. In the world of international terrorism and global trade, a lot of Americans are scared. Some of them look to Trump for comfort and support. He is a beacon of stability in an otherwise chaotic landscape. This is not a new phenomenon. History has shown time and time and again this is one way dictators rise. They rise from the chaos, promising stability, riding on a wave of terror, either with guns, or, in Trump’s case, with so-called integrity. Thankfully, the American political system was designed to stymie the efforts of a lone individual re-defining the system. Even if elected, Trump very likely won’t be able to “stick to his guns,” without facing impeachment. But he shouldn’t be elected in the first place — not by an informed citizenry anyway. As tempting as his facade of uncompromising conviction and infallible promises may be to some disenchanted voters in a modern political landscape of non-action and conflicting interests, electing to government more representatives who promise to cling irrevocably to their values will only perpetuate the system. As backwards as it may sound, integrity is not always a good quality in our politicians.
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The College needs to be more forthright with important information. From the summer of 2016 onward, Dart- the administration did not release an official mouth will be offering classes at some new statement to campus announcing the policy, times. One of these new periods, 6A’s, will nor did they clearly outline how the decision run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. on Mondays was reached until it came under significant and Wednesdays while the other, 6B’s, will run pressure from the student body. from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. In addi- The College seems to be prioritizing mantion, class times have been shifted to leave 15 aging student response rather than informing minute intervals, compared to the current 10 its students. The information that is not clearly minute windows, between classes. The reac- communicated is often potentially controvertion to these changes has been strangely quiet sial. As soon as the College, say, gets a $100 beyond Yik Yak. We aren’t million donation, the behavioral psychologists “The College seems student body is probably (even though one of us is takgoing to hear about it in ing “Social Psychology” this to be prioritizing a press release, a campus term), but we think we may managing student wide email, an article on be able to attribute this lack Dartmouth Now and an response rather of a student response to the article in this newspaper. fact that Dartmouth hasn’t than informing its However, when actually clearly informed students.” the information is someus of the change. The new thing that can be expectschedule was released as a ed to elicit a negative rePDF on the “Calendars” action from the students, page on the Office of the Registrar’s website it ends up buried deep on the Registrar’s on Nov. 2 according to the timestamp on the website, or in an email sent out on the last night website’s source code. We have not yet received of the term. This leads to a huge proliferation an official announcement, campus-wide email of misinformation. People operate based on or real notice of any kind. Although we could rumors, rumblings and Yik-Yak, spreading discuss the potential merits and faults of this lies and half-truths as they have little else to new schedule, we find a more important is- go on. sue at stake here: the lack of communication Whatever the cause may be, the administrabetween the College and its students. tion needs to be held to a higher standard when The Registrar’s office has been sharing it comes to the dissemination of information. information on the shift with departments Information that doesn’t shine the best light on and programs internally to allow them to plan Dartmouth, which seems to be what often gets their course schedules, according to College obfuscated, is also often the most important. spokesperson Diana Lawrence. They plan to Informing us all directly — through a clear make a broader announcement after Spring campus wide email at a time of day where course election “so there is no confusion people are likely to actually see it — about about when the new schedule takes effect,” major changes would be a good start, but even she wrote in an email to that isn’t going far enough. the Dartmouth. The College should also We feel that this change “With all the time, be expected to make clear is significant enough that it energy, money and who is responsible for these should have been commudecisions and the reasonlove that we put nicated with the students ing behind them. Dartwhen it was decided. If the into this school, we mouth has a responsibility information is to be made think that it owes us to be as transparent with public, as this schedule us as possible, and at this was, the change should transparency at the point, it doesn’t seem like have been communicated very least, even if we it is. Purposefully hiding clearly. information, or present This isn’t the only or the are not happy with the ing it at a time and in a most important example of information they share form that means it will the administration’s lack with us.” have less impact, is probof or untimely manner lematic. Our relationship of communication with with the College cannot students. be unilateral; the channels In March of 2014, the administration chose of communication need to be opened and to wait until the night of Thursday, March improved. With all the time, energy, money 6, to respond to the Freedom Budget, which and love that we put into this school, we think had been released almost two weeks before. that it owes us transparency at the very least, This response also happened to come on the even if we are not happy with the information night before the last day of classes, leaving they share with us. One important role of students little time to react before nearly ev- this newspaper is to hold the administration eryone went home for break. The response accountable by bringing facts to light in our was disseminated in an email that evening, news coverage and separately voicing concerns which could easily be lost between lecture as an editorial board. We now eagerly await announcements or a cappella blitzes. the administration’s response, and hope that Earlier this year, Dartmouth decided to it doesn’t come the evening of March 8. end need-blind admissions for international The Editorial Board consists of the Publisher, students, citing the increase of international the Editor-In-Chief, both Executive Editors and an applicants as the primary reason. However, Opinion Editor.
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MLK Awards celebrate leadership in social justice issues FROM AWARDS PAGE 1
for Institutional Diversity and Equity Evelynn Ellis said. The awards were established to recognize members of the Dartmouth community and its affiliates who have “contributed significantly to peace, civil rights, education, public health, environmental justice, or social justice,” according to the Social Justice Awards website. The Social Justice Awards are also meant to encourage others who are losing motivation and assure them that they are being noticed and appreciated, Ellis said. She added that the recipients can be nominated by friends, colleagues or public entities. Campbell noted that the evaluation process beings in February, as the committee debriefs the past year’s awards and discusses goals for the upcoming year. In the spring, committee members ask for nominations through advertising and solicitations to identify deserving award recipients. “They are people who work very hard, year in and year out, get all the work and all the criticism,” Ellis said. “Rarely, do we stop and say, ‘We appreciate this group. You’re moving us forward.’” The awards are given in the fol-
lowing four categories: Emerging Leadership, Ongoing Commitment, Lifetime Achievement and Student Organization. Additionally, two other awards are granted to honor the legacy of Dartmouth community members. The Holly Fell Sateia Award honors a Dartmouth employee who is not paid to do social justice work, but still goes above and beyond in their actions. The Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement exemplifies a lifelong commitment to public service and innovation in aiding an underserved population. David Gordon ’00 received the Emerging Leadership Award for his work in training healthcare providers and supporting them as they implement operational changes in patient healthcare facilities. His organization, the Collaboration for Locally-Driven Improvement in Pediatrics, works bottom-up in resource-limited hospitals. With international medical and public health experience including projects in Ecuador, Uganda, Turkmenistan, Lesotho and Kenya, Gordon is training physicians and establishing international communication to support doctors and patients around the world. The Ongoing Commitment award was granted to Nancy
Bloomfield ’99 to honor her work with families involved with Vermont’s child protection system through her efforts as a family engagement specialist with Easter Seals Vermont, a disability services organization. Bloomfield also communicates with a variety of organizations in the Upper Valley. As the executive director of the state-designated parent-child support center Family Place, she helps young children get off to a healthy start and promotes longterm family well-being through a variety of on-site and home-based programs. She also encourages youth advocacy in issues relating to crisis counseling and housingrelated programs. Studio art professor emeritus Ashley Bryan received the Lifetime Achievement award in absentia for his meaningful work in bringing African history to children. As an award winning children’s book author and illustrator, Bryan connects the past and the future by writing introductory books of African-American spirituals, stories from the African oral tradition for children’s literature. His past honors include the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal and the New
York Public Library’s Literary Lions award. Ellis said she plans to travel to Bryan’s home on an island off the coast of Maine to personally deliver the award, as he was unable to attend the ceremony. The Urban Health Scholars , a Geisel student group that trains medical students interested in serving medically underserved urban populations, received the Social Justice Award for Student Organizations for their holistic approach to healthcare. The group connects Geisel students with shelters and clinics, hosts educational events, discusses scholarly papers and brings speakers to campus. The Holly Fell Sateia Award was granted to associate director of Safety and Security Keysi Montás to honor both his approach to campus safety and his concern for students. A teacher, poet, fiction writer and former New York City policeman, Montás is deeply concerned about physical and emotional safety as he questions student development in the collegiate setting. “If every person who is in law enforcement or Safety and Security had the mind of this man, we would not have Ferguson, we would not have Baltimore,” Ellis said. “We
would have none of that because of his holistic way of viewing Safety and Security.” Christopher Keating ’86 was granted the Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement. Keating, an advocate for equal justice, serves as the executive director of New Hampshire’s Judicial Council. “I want to make sure people understand the cost of the death penalty, as it relates to the financial and opportunity costs,” Keating said. Under his tenure, New Hampshire established eligibility guidelines and performance standards for attorneys providing representation to the indigent accused, increased funding for appointed counsel in major crimes cases and created mechanisms to fund representation in capital post-conviction proceedings. Ellis said the awards are meant to encourage the Dartmouth community to continue to be involved in social justice work, a pursuit that may often be unrecognized. “What we want them to do is pause and let us say thank you,” Ellis said. “Thank you for doing this. What we also say to them is, ‘Tomorrow get back to it!’”
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“Quantum Entanglement in Many-Body Systems and Boundary Theories,” Microsoft Researcher Fernando Brandao, Wilder 104
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Men’s hockey gets ready to take on No. 1 Quinnipiac, Princeton
By SAM STOCKTON The Dartmouth Staff
The men’s hockey team will host Quinnipiac and Princeton Universities this weekend as it looks to extend its five-game winning streak. Thanks to an aggressive style of play in all three zones, the Big Green has not lost since a Jan. 8 defeat at the University of Vermont, the team’s lone loss of 2016. “We’ve been playing really hard as a team — we’ve really been competing,” head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 said. “Our team defense, our timely scoring and our specialty teams have been excellent, as well as our goaltending, and we’re competing really hard in what amounts to be amongst the toughest schedules in Division 1 college hockey.” Over the course of the streak, the team has skyrocketed up the national polls. PairWise, a ranking used to determine the NCAA tournament field, ranks the team No. 18. Despite the newfound national attention, Gaudet remains unconcerned with rankings. “There’s nothing that matters less in my world,” he said. “With our players, it’s a focus on the
process. We control our work ethic, our attitude and our preparation. So what we try to do is try to get better every day. I’ve been doing this for 34 years or so, and it means nothing until the very end.” While Gaudet maintains that the team does not concern itself with polls, forward Troy Crema ’17 admits that a certain contingent of the team does check out the team’s rankings every week. “The postseason is always in the back of your mind, but you try to take it game by game,” Crema said. “I know a bunch of us after every game are always looking at the PairWise to see where we’re ranked.” A key factor in the Big Green’s current win streak has been veteran goaltender Charles Grant ’16, who was just named ECAC goaltender of the week for the second time this month. Grant previously earned the honor following his performance in the team’s Ledyard Classic victory. In the month of January, Grant’s .953 save percentage and seven wins led Division 1 at the time of his award, and his 1.26 goals against average is good for fourth in the country. The team will lean on its star goaltender as
it takes on the No. 1 ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats on Friday night. Gaudet said he looks forward to the challenge of playing such a strong team that has lost just one game this season. “They’re the top team in the country, and in all facets of the game, they’re excellent,” he said. “We just have to be on top of our game. They’re really good offensively, they’re very good defensively and they compete very hard. Their specialty teams are excellent. I think their power play is the best in the country. They’re a very formidable opponent, so we have to be on top of our game.” Despite the Bobcats skill, there is plenty of reason for optimism for the Big Green, based on the team’s recent history. Last season, in a November match-up with the then-No. 1 ranked Boston University Terriers, the Big Green was able to pull off a 2-0 upset victory against a team that featured current Buffalo Sabres star Jack Eichel. This time around, the team will again not be intimidated by the top-ranked team in the nation. “It definitely gives us confidence knowing that we’ve been in this
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The Dartmouth men’s hockey team has lost just one game in 2016, a 1-0 nailbiter to the University of Vermont.
spot before against the number one team,” captain Brad Schierhorn ’16, who scored both goals in the victory over BU, said. “Normally, if you’re facing the number one team in the country you might be a little nervous, but because we have that experience from last year, we can just approach it like it’s any other game.” Crema added that this Quinnipiac team has similar talent to last year’s Terriers. “I’m sure Quinnipiac has a few prospects that will go on to play pro hockey after this year, so we’re just going in with the same mindset [as they had against BU] — stick to our game plan, work hard and play our game,” he said. “It’s been working well for us.” On Saturday night, the Big Green will take on a Princeton Tigers team that Gaudet holds in high esteem. “Princeton is an excellent team,” he said. “The first time we played them was a very tough game, and they are a very good offensive team. They’re very structured defensively, and they’ve got good goaltending.” Among the Big Green faithful, the Princeton game is known for students lobbing a traditional
volley of tennis balls following Dartmouth’s first goal. According to Crema, the team enjoys the tradition, and it will have some effect on the game. “I’m sure our shot count will be up in the first period,” he said with a laugh, acknowledging that every skater would love to be the one to trigger the onslaught of tennis balls. Gaudet’s focus lies more on ensuring that the team stays focused despite the fan enthusiasm. “My hope is that the tradition with the tennis balls doesn’t hurt us in any way because this game is such a difficult game for us,” he said, smiling. “If we’re fortunate enough to score, we just want to make sure we have an opportunity to score again and not have to kill off penalties.” In injury-related news, Nick Bligh ’16, who has not played since the loss at Vermont, will remained sidelined this weekend according to Gaudet but has resumed skating and is hard at work with the training staff to get back on the ice. Between the showdown with top-ranked Quinnipiac and grudge match with Princeton, it is sure to be a lively weekend for the Big Green at Thompson Arena.
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On Friday, Dartmouth takes on No. 1 Quinnipiac at Thompson Arena.
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SPORTS ONE ON ONE
WITH KAYLA LIEUW ’19
By EVAN MORGAN The Dartmouth
This week, the Dartmouth sat down with climber Kayla Lieuw ’19. Lieuw, who hails from Potomac, Maryland, has an extensive résumé in speed climbing. She has won four youth national championships and competed with USA Climbing at the world championships in locales from Austria to Singapore. What are the different types of climbing, and what specifically do you do? KL: Competition climbing is broken up into three disciplines. There’s sport climbing, which is taller walls with ropes; bouldering, which is shorter walls without ropes but with pads and stuff; and then speed climbing is on a standardized wall so that there can be world records, and that’s obviously just based on time. I also do bouldering and sport climbing, but my top achievements are in speed climbing. How did you get involved in climbing and climbing competitively? KL: When I was eight, my mom just wanted to find something for me and my brother to do over the summer, and there was a new rock climbing gym, so I just went that one day and I was hooked. I joined the youth team shortly after, which started out as once-a-week practices, and then I just kept with it. A lot of the kids on these youth teams do competitions, so I started competing as well. Do you do most of your climbing indoors, or do you climb outdoors as well? KL: My best accomplishments are in speed climbing. Dartmouth doesn’t have a standardized speed wall, obviously, so these days most of the climbing I do is bouldering and sport climbing. Before I got to Dartmouth, I mostly climbed indoors all the time, but Dartmouth has a really good outdoor climbing location, Rumney, which is about 40 minutes away. Now that I’m here, in fall, I’d go to Rumney three or four days a week. In winter, I’ve been climbing in the gym. How does climbing outdoors differ from climbing in a gym? KL: Outdoors, the route or path is very unclear compared to indoors, because indoors there are these big holds that are taped very clearly. And generally, the
style of climbing is different. Indoors, a lot of times it depends on the setter, the person who puts up the climb and the holds, but there can be more gymnasticlike movements compared to outdoors. It also depends what location you’re at. For example, I’m still learning the style at Rumney. How has your experience climbing at Dartmouth been? KL: It’s been really great. There are a lot of psyched undergrads and grads and locals who live around here who also use Dartmouth gym. Climbing outside in the fall, since I hadn’t been able to climb outside much before coming here, that was a really good experience. There’s a Collegiate Climbing Series run by USA Climbing, so me and Matt Rube [’19] just started a collegiate team. Technically we’re official under USA Climbing, but we’re hoping to have our first meeting and practice next week. As a collegiate team, we compete at local competitions and also Nationals every year. This year it’s in San Diego. I hope if we start a team here, it can grow. As a climber, how do you train? KL: It depends what season it is. Half the year for me is bouldering, and half the year is sport and speed. Right now I’m in bouldering season, which is more geared to power, whereas sport climbing is more endurance-based. So right now, I’m working on powerful moves. Obviously, climbers need to have really good finger strength, so I’ll do finger strength workouts a lot. I have a hang-board in my dorm room which I hook onto the door. And another part is cross-training and injury prevention — strengthening muscles I don’t use that much in climbing. If all the muscles I use in climbing are over-developed, I could injure something that I don’t use much. Tell me a bit more about bouldering. KL: Since there are shorter routes, the moves are harder compared to sport climbing. Sport climbing will be like 60 feet, but compared to bouldering, the moves are a lot easier, it’s just about endurance. Towards the top, you’re obviously going to be tired, so it’s just training to get endurance so you’re not as tired at the top after 50 feet of climbing. Bouldering isn’t about endurance — instead, there are much harder moves. In climbing, you can make the moves harder by making them farther apart or making them awkward based
on the footholds or the size of the hold. Bouldering is definitely more geared toward five or six really hard moves. You need to have more strength and power. I definitely put on more muscle in bouldering season. What do the best climbers have in common? What sets apart a good climber from a gifted climber? KL: One of the reasons why I like climbing is because you can have completely different body types. I feel like a lot of sports have a certain body type, like gymnasts want to be short and lean. Obviously being lean and muscular isn’t bad for climbing, but I’m 5’7”, for example, and some of the girls in my category are 5-foot-nothing. They can still beat me, I can still beat them. There’s no ideal body type. But some qualities of really good climbers are body awareness — how to use your body really efficiently — and reading routes well, and keeping yourself together mentally. It’s a pretty big mind game. At bouldering competitions, there are five climbs, and you haven’t seen any of these climbs before. You just turn around and you have four or five minutes to look at the route, figure it out and try to finish it. If you, say, do badly on your first climb, you need to keep your head together through all the other climbs. What goes through your mind before climbing a difficult route? KL: First I look at the handholds, and I find the hand sequence — whether I’m going right or left, whether I’m going to match (meaning use a hold with both hands). Then I’ll look at the feet, and there’s a lot of little technique things you can do, like heel hooks — you put your heel on the hold to get you up. If you’re an experienced climber, you’ll be able to say, “I’m going to get a heel hook right at that foothold, when my hands are here.” In sport climbing, when you’re reading the route, you always want to see where you’re going to rest, because sport climbing is all about that endurance and making sure you have enough endurance by finding the better holds and the better positions to rest. If you’re experienced, you can definitely see what move is going to be the hardest, which is what we call the crux. Based on your own strengths and weaknesses, you can tell what’s going to be hardest. How much of climbing is mental and how much is physical? KL: At competitions, I’d say it’s almost fifty-fifty. My mental improvement has been the difference between being super confident and super nervous, like when I first started competing. When you’re just in the gym or outdoors, it’s not as
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much of a mental stress. Competitions are a pretty high stress environment, so mental strength is almost as important as physical strength. At competitions like Nationals, all of the finalists will be of the same caliber physically. The difference is who can keep it together, who has a better day. Can you describe the feeling when you reach the top of a climb? KL: I don’t really know how to describe that. Part of the reason I like climbing is when I’m on the wall, I can just tune out of things. Climbing is my stress relief, if I’m ever stressed with school or other things. It’s my place to go to get away from everything. If the climb is something I’ve been working on for a long time, I feel like I’ve really accomplished something. When you’re bouldering outside, you’ve literally just climbed up this huge rock. People wonder why you would spend all that effort. Sometimes there are a lot of easy ways up the rock, but when you do a hard route, you feel super accomplished. There are people at school who ask me, “Have you ever made it to the top at the gym?” Yeah, of course I have. Then they say, “Well, why do you keep climbing?” You just keep pushing yourself. It’s amazing pushing yourself, seeing how hard of moves you can do, how much stronger you can get. Climbing can often be an individual sport. What is its social aspect like? KL: Since I grew up with climbing, climbing has been a really big social outlet for me. I’ve competed against a lot of the same people since I was eight, so I’m best friends with people from all over the country and the world. I feel like there are never climbing competitions where people are mean and outwardly competitive. I really like the climbing community because even if you’re at Nationals and competing against them, you’re competing against your best friends, so it is sometimes like, “Oh, I
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really want you to do well, but I want to do well too.” But it’s never super cutthroat competition. And at Worlds, you’re on the U.S. team, so that’s another nice thing. We have team training camps to bond and train together, so it does have a team aspect too. Have you had any frightening moments while climbing? KL: Not really. I’ve never really gotten injured, or broken any bones, which surprises a lot of people. People have this idea that climbing is a really dangerous sport, but I feel like I’ve had friends in cheerleading or gymnastics who get injured a lot more. If you could only climb in one place for the rest of your life, where would it be? KL: I would say Spain — Catalonia is really good. I’ve heard that there is so much good climbing there. What are your future climbing plans? KL: This is my last year of youth competitions — the first weekend of February is my last bouldering youth nationals, and I’ll have my last sport climbing nationals in July. I’ll probably keep doing adult competitions, but I don’t think I would do it professionally — that is, try to make my living off climbing and just climb. I want my career to be something other than that, but I will definitely continue climbing. You’ve given to climbing. What do you think climbing has given back to you? KL: Resilience. You can’t give up in climbing. People will ask me, “Have you fallen?” Yes — you fall a lot, a lot more than you get to the top. It’s just not giving up. I’ve found that a lot of good climbers are often good students, because we have the same mentality with school and climbing. We just are hard workers.
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Kayla Lieuw ’19 casually demonstrates her climbing skills in street clothes.