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Morton fire caused by unattended charcoal grill

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

College to relocate 67 students after Morton fire

By REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

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Firefighters on the ladder truck break through the window of Morton Hall as they work.

By REBECCA ASOULIN AND ANNIE MA The Dartmouth Staff

The four-alarm fire in Morton Hall was caused by a charcoal grill left unattended on the roof of the building, according a press release from the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal. The hibachi-style grill was placed on a flat section of the roof outside of a dormitory window.

The fire marshal said that the investigation is still ongoing. Further interviews will be conducted as the investigation continues.

Morton Hall is currently uninhabitable as a result of extensive smoke and water damage caused by a fire that started at 12:05 a.m. on Saturday, according to a Saturday Hanover Fire Department press release.

The New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Hanover Police Department are investigating the fire. Two firefighters who sustained minor injuries remained on duty at the site.

Hanover Fire Chief Martin McMillan said that the fire was particularly difficult to put out due to the building’s roof strucSEE CAUSE PAGE 2

All 67 students living in Morton Hall will be relocated to new rooms after a four-alar m fire broke out Saturday morning around midnight, said Mike Wooten, residential life director. East Wheelock assistant director Josiah Proietti, whose apartment is in the building, will also be relocated.

At a 4 p.m. meeting Saturday in House Center A, Wooten informed Morton residents that they would be given 10 minutes to retrieve their most important belongings before dark. Each floor’s group of residents were divided in half and allowed to enter in small groups to walk through their rooms for belongings.

Masks were available for students as a precaution

while re-entering their rooms.

Full retrieval of other possessions will be possible early next week, while the house center will serve as a resource hub.

The Red Cross was in Brace Commons assessing student needs and providing resources like blankets and gift cards for affected students after they gathered their belongings, Wooten said.

The College has been looking at using vacant residential hall spaces, converting halls’ lounge spaces and some of the College owned real estate in Hanover, Wooten said.

Wooten noted that College housing is at “virtual capacity” already.

Housing director RaSEE HOUSING PAGE 2

Four-alarm fire breaks out in East Wheelock cluster 12 a.m. Saturday, damaging Morton roof

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A four-alarm fire broke out in Morton Hall in the East Wheelock housing cluster at 12:05 a.m. Saturday morning, according to a press release from the Hanover Fire Department Saturday.

There are no reported injuries, and the fire was reported extinguished in a

6:21 a.m. email to campus from Facilities Operations & Management. The fire was considered contained but not extinguished according to a 3:25 a.m. FO&M campus-wide email. An earlier 2:23 a.m. email requested that students avoid the East Wheelock cluster. Over two dozen fire fighters are on the scene from ten Upper Valley fire departments.

Firefighters broke

through the window of Morton Hall around 1 a.m. in an effort to contain the fire.

East Wheelock assistant director Josiah Proietti said that McCulloch, Andres, Zimmerman and Morton were evacuated and at least 300 students were expected to be displaced Saturday night. By 3 a.m., students had reentered McCulloch.

Temporary housing has

been made available for students, according to the email from FO&M. A residential life staff member said that students will most likely be relocated to Dick’s House, deans’ houses and potentially local hotels.

House Center A, behind the Topliff tennis courts, is being used as a meeting point for East Wheelock residents.

At the center, residential life staff were checking names,

if students have rooms to stay tonight and asking if students have necessary medications in their rooms.

Those with places to stay were asked to inform their undergraduate advisor, and housing will be arranged for the remaining students, Proietti said.

Sara McGahan, Priya Ramaiah, Annie Ma and Rebecca Asoulin contributed reporting.

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assistance and began an interior fire attack. They conducted a search and ture. Morton Hall has a large empty rescue operation on the upper two space at the top that helps air circulate floors, reporting near zero visibility on for ventilation during the summer, but the fourth floor as a result of thick black the increased airflow kept the fire burn- smoke and high heat conditions. They ing. Special saws were required to cut reported moderate smoke on the third floor. through the

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No one was injured in the fire and FAST Squad and Upper Valley Ambustudents were evacuated prior to the lance were on site to assist firefighters. arrival of the fire department. The The American Red Cross helped all initial firefighters requested first-alarm responding agencies at the scene.

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Residents have received temporary housing FROM HOUSING PAGE 1

chael Class-Giguere worked on assigning students to new rooms, using the housing office’s priority system as well as trying to keep roommates together, Wooten said.

“Acknowledging that when you displace 67 people and we’re already at virtual capacity, it’s very difficult,” Wooten said.

Residential life, Safety and Security, the Hanover fire department and administrators held a noon meeting for affected students.

As early as Saturday morning, fire fighters helped some students with medications retrieve them from their rooms, Wooten said.

Dick’s House staff members were available at the House Center. Toiletries, sheets, bedding and towels were provided for students.

Residential life also has a DA$H card available for students for laundry and food. The campus laundry service, E&R, has been made available to students. Computing services is providing laptops and other technology to students.

Deans are informing faculty to make sure they are aware of the situation and how it may affect students’ class work.

Wooten said that students filled out intake forms at noon so the College could assess student needs, and they will continue to provide support once students determine more what they need after accessing their rooms.

All students living in Zimmerman, McCulloch and Andres have been allowed back into their buildings. Wooten said that there potentially would be some residual smoke in the halls.

Last night, students could sleep in House Center A, but many found temporary accommodations with friends, Wooten said.

There were no reported injuries, and the fire was reported extinguished in a 6:21 a.m. campus wide email from Facilities Operations & Management.

Wooten said that he has never seen a fire of this magnitude in his 20 years in residential life. He said that community members, staff, students and faculty, have been reaching out to residential life staff members to offer rooms.

“It’s going to be tight,” Wooten said. “It’s going to be not exactly perfect accommodations for everyone. But we have a bed for all of our students.”

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Pieces of the Morton Hall roof lie on the grass outside the building Saturday morning.

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Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 7 Hot Takes with Max Zhuang ’19 p. 7

The Big Green Weekend Roundup p. 4-5 Two freshmen light up the tennis court p.8

Football drops

Ivy opener

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Women’s soccer

Compiled by SABENA ALLEN, JAMES HANDAL AND MATT YUEN “Our freshmen are doing very well this season. They’re making a big impact. They have a lot of energy, and they’re bringing fun and enthusiasm and also some great volleyball play.”

In the second weekend of Ivy play, Dartmouth fell 2-3 to University of Pennsylvania on Friday. The match went to a fifth set after the Big Green and Penn split the first four. The last set saw Dartmouth down 10-14 before a kill by senior Kaira Lujan ’16 pulled them within three points; however, Penn’s Sydney Morton clinched the win with a kill of her own, ending the game at 11-15.

Lujan made 15 kills for the Big Green, while Emily Astarita ’17 earned a double-double with 12 kills and 12 digs. Molly Kornfeind ’17 also assisted

in making nine kills. Overall, the Big Green had a total of 54 kills and Penn a total of 63.

Dartmouth suffered another loss the next day against Princeton University with a match score of 0-3. The Big Green’s Corinne Cox ’20 notched the first kill of the match, while Lujan carried the game with nine kills. Sara Lindquist ’18, Kornfeind and Astarita also contributed with six kills each.

Dartmouth is now 6-7 overall and 0-3 in Ivy play. Dartmouth is slated to face Yale University and Brown University this week on Oct. 7 and 8 respectively.

VOLLEYBALL

- GILAD DORON, HEAD COACH

Photo by HOLLYE SWINEHART/THE DARTMOUTH Women’s soccer dropped its second of two Ivy contests.

The Dartmouth women’s soccer team fell 0-2 at Princeton University in its second Ivy League game of the season. The Big Green stand at 6-4-0 overall and 0-2-0 in Ivy play.

Princeton stands at 8-1-1 and 1-0-1 in Ivy play. Princeton came out strong, scoring their first goal in only the fifth minute of the game.

The Tigers scored again two minutes later to lead 2-0. The Big Green found themselves unable to find the net in the second half despite a number of close attempts.

Goalkeeper Casey Cousineau ’17 made four saves in the contest compared to Princeton’s goalkeeper, Natalie Grossi, who made two saves.

Princeton led Dartmouth in shots 13-6 and corner kicks 8-1. The Big Green play at home next Saturday, taking on Yale University at home at 4 p.m.

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“I think it all starts with just the mental attitude to come out every day and work to do better. I think teams that know how to practice well play well. And I think Dartmouth over the past few years has been able to practice the way we play in the games, and that’s how we had our success recently.”

- DREW HUNNICUTT ’19 To open its Ivy League schedule, the Dartmouth football team fell to the University of Pennsylvania on Friday night, with a score of 37-24. Dartmouth stands at 2-1 and 0-1 in Ivy play. Penn improved to 1-2 and 1-0 in Ivy play.

Penn dominated the first half and led 28-10 at halftime with two touchdowns from running back Tre Solomon and a touchdown pass and run for Penn quarterback Alex Torgersen.

David Smith ’18 kicked a field goal to get Dartmouth on the board. Ryder Stone ’18 was able to score a touchdown at the end of the first half to give the Big Green a score. The second

half picked up for the Big Green, who scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to stage a comeback.

Kicking off the second half, Penn got a touchdown and a safety to lead 37-10. The Big Green then scored two touchdowns to cut the lead to 37-24. Quarterback Jack Heneghan ’18 was 2743 with two touchdowns and two interceptions for 289 yards. Wide receiver Hunter Hagdorn ’20 had 89 yards and Drew Hunnicutt ’19 had 108 yards with a touchdown. The Big Green play at Yale University next weekend in another Ivy showdown.

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“Our goals are to not get too discouraged when one individual is doing poorly in a round- and making every shot and every hole count. We are a little more positive on the golf course, which helps us all do better as a team and individually.”

CHAD RILEY, HEAD COACH

- HANA BRADSHAW ’19, W. GOLF

Men’s soccer played to a 2-2 against the Princeton Univery Tigers this past Saturday in nceton, New Jersey The tie is Big Green’s fifth of the sean. The double-overtime game s pushed Dartmouth into 100 ra minutes in total in the 2016 son, meaning the Big Green s essentially played more than extra game’s worth of time.

The Big Green opened the

scoring early in the first half when Noah Paravicini ’19 scored his second goal of the season. Dartmouth also scored the second goal of the game when Tyler Dowse ’18 put away his first goal of the season in the 53rd minute.

The Big Green was unable to keep the lead, allowing two Princeton goals to fly by, just over five minutes apart. The second goal, which came in the 60th minute,

was the last in the 110-minute game. Tiger Josh Haberman bested James Hickok ’17’s five save game by turning away nine shots on goal, while Matt Greer ’18’s four shots on goal doubled that of any other player in the game. Men’s soccer will take a break from its conference campaign this Wednesday when it hosts the University of New Hampshire at 7 p.m.

The men’s golf team participated in the MacDonald Cup Tournament this weekend hosted by Yale University.

Dartmouth placed tenth out of 17 teams overall before play was stopped due to inclement weather. Out of the eight teams that finished play before the tournament stopped, Dartmouth placed seventh. In the team rounds, Dartmouth shot a 294 and +14 over par, while Harvard University closed the day out at +2 over par to claim first for the day’s play. Individually, Ian Kelsey ’18 tied at 37th at +5 over par. Riley Griffin ’20 tied for 44th. The results of the

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oto by LAUREN GRUFFI/THE DARTMOUTH n’s soccer traveled to Princeton, New Jersey, to play to another stalemate after two overtime peris. The tie is the Big Green’s fifth of the season.

The Dartmouth coed and women’s sailing teams participated in the Danmark Trophy, the Hewitt Trophy, Women’s Regis and the Susan Rogers ’75 Memorial races this weekend.

At the Danmark Trophy, the Big Green placed ninth out of 20 teams with Yale University taking the regatta. Dartmouth

rugby

Rugby won its home game nst Ivy rival Harvard Uniity this Saturday at Brophy d. The Big Green had a close e, but triumphed with win of 19 against the Crimson. This es Dartmouth at 4-1 overall 3-0 in Ivy play. The Crimson ow 1-1 in conference play and overall. Dartmouth came in ng to this weekend’s game after week’s win dominating, 110-0 against Columbia University. s weekend, the Big Green led

tournament’s conclusion were unavailable by press time.

The women’s golf team participated in the Princeton Invitational over the weekend and placed fourth out of 12 teams at the conclusion of day one. Isabelle Kane ’18 led the Big Green tied at 11th place after shooting 148 and +4 over par. Jamie Susanin ’17 and Catharine Roddy ’19 tied for 14th place at +6 over par.

As of day one, Yale University lead the tournament, followed

by Georgetown University and Columbia University. At press time, the results from day two were unavailable.

at 12-7 before the intermission, and held strong with a 10-point lead after Isabel Boettcher’s ’20 third try of the game. Harvard scored again to bring the score to 17-12. However, freshman Eva Klein’s ’20 try marked the Big Green’s final five points to ensure Dartmouth maintained the lead. Though Harvard scored again, the Big Green successfully clinched the game with a lead of three points.

Dartmouth will enjoy a bye this week, but will be back at it on Oct. 15 with a game against Princeton University.

efore I came into the preseason, I had no idea at they were like as a team, except that they rformed pretty well last season last year. But eing them just in the weight room and the field, ey are very athletic and a very gifted team.

I am hoping through our coaching and what rought in with my experience and knowledge at we can really dominate this season.”

TACEY BRIDGES, ASSISTANT COACH

Dartmouth field hockey lost its game to Brown University this Saturday with a final score of 2-1.

Dartmouth did not score in the first half. However, the two teams were tied early in the second half when Morgan Philie ’18 made a successful shot. Even so, the Bears came back not long after and snatched the win with another goal by Lucy Brown.

The score remained at 2-1 in favor of Brown for the remainder of the game. This dropped Dartmouth to 3-5 overall and 0-2 in conference play.

The Big Green also faced nonconference Northeastern University this past Sunday and fell with a final score of 5-2. Northeastern took a strong lead in the first half, ending with a score of 4-1. Dartmouth answered halfway through the second half with a successful shot by Katie Spanos ’20. Even so, the Huskies held their lead and scored again at the end of the second half making the final score 5-2.

The Big Green will return this coming Friday with a home game against the University of Pennsylvania.

hosted the Hewitt Trophy with Yale coming in first again and Dartmouth a close second.

The Big Green placed second at the Susan Rogers ’75 Memorial regatta with the Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges coming in first. At press time, the results of the Women’s Regis race were unavailable.

The men’s cross country team placed seventh in the Paul Short Invitational 8K at Lehigh University over the weekend. Nat Adams ’17 came in 19th overall with a time of 24 mintues and 2 seconds. He was followed by teammates Matt Herzog ’17 who finished 25th, Connor Clark ’17 who placed at 32nd and Quinn Cooney ’19 who came in at 47th.

Dan Salas ’17 finished soon after Cooney with a time of 24:35 to take 69th place. The Big Green’s cumulative time was 2:01:25 with an average race time of 24:17. Iona College came in first out of the 38 teams that competed Saturday. Next weekend the Big Green will be in Boston to compete at the New England Championships.

The women’s cross country team came in ninth at the Paul Short Invitational 6K in Lehigh Saturday morning.

The meet featured 45 teams on the women’s side. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 led the Big Green with a 25th place finish earning a time of 20:39. Other top finishers for the Big Green included Olivia Lantz ’17 who placed 29th, Diana Vizza ’20 who came in 50th, Georgia Fear ’20 who claimed 57th place and Bridget O’Neill ’18 who finished 88th. Dartmouth’s total time was 1:44:06, with an average time of 20:53. Yale University took first with an average time of 20:30.

Like the men’s team, the women will also venture down to Boston to compete in the New England Championship on Oct. 8.

field hockey

Photo by LAUREN GRUFFI/THE DARTMOUTH Field hockey dropped its third consecutive game this past Sunday.

Cross-Country

We’ve played a very challenging pre-Ivy league schedule, which I think s really toughened us up well. I think it’s the fifth or sixth rated on the PI hardest schedule, and our guys have responded to it well. The rformances have been good, but I think there’s still room for mprovement since we’re not 7-0. But I think we battled hard and we’re ntinuing to get better.”

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Big Green football loses first Ivy League game against Penn

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Nationally televised Friday night games have proven unkind to the Dartmouth football team.

Since the implementation of this recent invention in the Ivy League’s schedule template, the Big Green’s only two losses have come on the end of the weekday.

Last year, it was the backbreaking, come-from-behind, 14-13 loss against Harvard University in one of Dartmouth’s biggest games in recent memory. This year, after a strong 2-0 start that allayed some doubts over replacing a mass 2015 senior exodus, the Friday night loss wasn’t particularly close. The University of Pennsylvania — who shared the Ivy title last year with Dartmouth — came to Hanover, dominated early and often, and left with a decisive 37-24 victory, as the Big Green got a stinging reality check in its Ivy League season opener.

Line of scrimmage battle In football, only one unit — the offensive line — on either side of the ball is missing from a traditional statsheet. So when an offensive line receives plaudits from players and coaches from both its own team and its opponent after a game, it merits much more recognition than it usually gets.

Penn quarterback Alek credited the Quakers’ offensive line with doing a fantastic job up front.

“You can’t get this won or started without them. They had great push,” Torgersen said. “It mainly starts up front.”

In explaining what let the offense and running game flourish, Torgersen’s teammate running back Tre Solomon also immediately went to the offensive line. “[Dartmouth’s] strength is definitely their defensive line, they have a really good motor up front,” Solomon said. “It was just all about being able to maneuver and get through the line.”

When asked about what contributed most to the Big Green’s first loss at home in nearly two years, head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 immediately stressed both offensive and defensive lines in the very first few words of his reply.

“I thought [Penn’s offensive line] did a great job against our defensive front,” Teevens noted.

“They played physically, and up front they did a real good job of moving our people.”

From the very first drive and throughout the rest of the night, the Quakers’ offensive line won the battle at the line of scrimmage. Not only did it give Torgersen ample time to throw, but most notably Penn’s front five opened up massive running lanes for the rushing

attack, paving the way for a balanced, overpowering Penn offense.

Successful first down plays off the line opened up holes and led to short amounts of yardage needed on second and third downs. Whenever Dartmouth seemed to start getting penetration up front, Penn’s offensive line rammed the defense backward, allowing its runners to puncture through the Big Green’s front seven.

Penn offensive fluidity It naturally followed from the O-line play that Penn saw plentiful opportunities on the ground and in the air, of which they took full advantage. In an absolutely clinical showing, the Quakers marched down the field and scored on each of its first four possessions; the first one came on the opening drive of the night to silence the Blackoutthemed crowd.

Penn’s early course toward victory established an eerily familiar tone. One year ago, it was Dartmouth who authoritatively leapt out ahead of Penn as visitors, scoring on its first four possessions during the team’s 2015 meeting and winning by a 21-point margin.

This year, the tables turned and just like last year, the contest effectively ended early.

Balanced defined and helped guide Penn’s dominant offensive play, as the Quakers picked apart the Dartmouth defense in all aspects. After a quarter of action, an even offensive distribution consisted of 86 rushing yards and 84 passing ones, furnishing a +7 first down margin by halftime that lasted for the remainder of the contest.

Torgersen and Solomon alternated in recording touchdowns, and by the end of the night the backfield duo was responsible for all five for Penn.

Heneghan & company struggle At times on Friday, it seemed Dartmouth quarterback Jack Heneghan ’18 might have hit his passing groove. Finding ways to move the ball with short, quick throws, Heneghan developed a nice rapport with underclassmen Hunter Hagdorn ’20 and Drew Hunnicutt ’19, who collectively had just under 200 receiving yards. But these positives were overshadowed by a passing game that couldn’t settle into a rhythm against Penn, which seemed off kilter for the first three (competitive) quarters.

Much of the struggle had to do with the burden of keeping up with Penn’s offensive onslaught on the other side of the ball. After the offense failed to develop anything its first time out, it already found itself in a 14-0 hole the next time it stepped on to the field. Putting points on the board in two of its four first half possessions just wouldn’t

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Jack Heneghan ’18 completed 27-of-43 passes in the Big Green’s first Ivy League game against the University of Pennsylvania.

suffice.

Heneghan’s mobility played a key role in the season-opening victory against the University of New Hampshire. He netted 80 yards on 14 carries against the Wildcats, but this aspect of his game was notably absent against Penn as well as against the College of the Holy Cross the week before. The short passes allowed Dartmouth to move upfield, but not enough deep balls tested the Penn secondary. At a few different points on Friday, passes were thrown behind receivers or beyond their reach. Teevens recognized some of the challenges his quarterback faced, but remained bullish on Heneghan’s play. “[On a few passes], we had an open guy and the [ball] was [thrown] just behind. We’re off with the throw or we’re off with the route, in terms of placement,” Teevens said. “I thought [Heneghan] settled down a little bit later...We kind of forced the ball a little bit. He did some real good things [though].”

It was in the third quarter when

things most visibly began to fall apart for Heneghan. The game was already far out reach, but across three consecutive offensive plays that spanned the end of the third quarter and start of the fourth, Heneghan threw an interception, then another, and then got dropped for a safety. In truth, a strong fourth quarter in what was all but garbage time masked much of the struggle for Heneghan in his final stat line — a rough introduction to Ivy play for the new starter.

The lone bright spot Last year’s rushing attack adhered to the prototypical “running back by committee” approach.

Four rushers received between 16 and 25 percent of all touches on the ground. Through the first couple of games this season, with five different players getting at least 13 carries, that same guiding philosophy initially seemed to have carried over. Teevens will likely maintain this style, but that should hardly detract from the emergence of running back Miles Smith ’19

as of late.

After not seeing any runs out of the backfield in the season opener, Smith made breakthrough performances the last two weeks. The stat that best captures the strides he’s shown? An astounding 12.6 yards per clip on the ground, borne out of an explosiveness that’s seen him reel off runs of 35 and 18 yards against Holy Cross, and a pair of 41-yarders against Penn.

Especially on his two long runs against Penn, Smith’s quickness getting out of the backfield and bursting into open space created these big plays. His ability to stave off defenders after contact also popped out last Friday. All of this comes packaged in a very small sample size which should give you some pause, but that’s no fault of Smith’s, who has seen a mere 13 touches this season. Regardless, he’s made the most of his opportunities, and after building on a breakout game against Holy Cross, Smith appears ready to assume a larger role in the Dartmouth offense.

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The Big Green’s defense could not keep up with the University of Pennsylvania’s offensive push in the first half of the game.

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consideration in this race is Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts, whose team has run away with the AL East title. In general, I believe the MVP should come from a winning team, but in this case, Trout is so far ahead of the field (he leads the league in on-base percentage and boasts an OPS nearly 90 points higher than Betts) that the award belongs to him.

Regular Season Awards With the postseason around the corner, it seemed like a good time wrap-up the regular season by predicting each of baseball’s annual regular season awards.

AL MVP: Mike Trout, CF, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim The American League MVP race effectively comes down to one question: Should the MVP go to the best player in baseball, regardless of how his team fares, or should only players on contending teams be considered for the League’s highest honor? Trout is, without a doubt, the best player in the AL; however, his Angels have not been in legitimate playoff contention all season.

The other name that merits

The Week of Heavy Drinking (Sept. 23 - Oct. 3) I love that sports and heavy drinking traditionally go together really well. No, I’m not talking about the type of drinking Dartmouth` students associate with heavy drinking (i.e. Keystone in a fraternity basement).

The drinking I’m talking about looks more like sharing a pitcher of nice beer in a Montreal sports bar.

Drinking a beer while viewing any sport is so American its practically a constitutional right. Huzzah, to sports and heavy drinking.

5:00 p.m. Sept. 26, LeBron James admits fearing for his son’s life — I know what you’re probably thinking: oh no, Max, not another racially charged topic. It’s Monday and so it’s too early in the week to dive into the

NL MVP: Kris Bryant, 3B/ OF/1B, Chicago Cubs To me, this is the easiest pick of any of these awards. Bryant is by no means the only strong candidate for this award, but his resume, like Trout’s, is head and shoulders above the rest of the field. Bryant is the best player on the best team in baseball.

The primary knock on the reigning National League Rookie of the Year was that he struck out too often in his first season in the big leagues; Bryant modified his swing in the off-season and has struck out over 40 fewer times in his sophomore campaign.

In addition to his prowess in the batter’s box, Bryant has been a versatile and highly effective defender for the Cubs, moving all over the diamond under Cubs tinkerer extraordinaire Joe Maddon (see more on him later). He has played all three outfield positions, third base and first base for the Cubs and succeeded in all of these roles.

The only possible slight to his significance of it all. I’m not going to, but I do think that it’s really nice to see that LeBron James isn’t a robot.

If you haven’t seen the press conference, LeBron talks about how he’s scared that one day his son will get pulled over and that even though he teaches his son to be respectful to police officers, he’s worried his son won’t return home.LeBron was passionate about something for once that wasn’t just the basketball court or Michael Jordan or some inane Amy Schumer movie. I really hope that he owns the race issue in America today because I think that it’s the right thing to do, but also because it could really cement LeBron as one of the greatest athletes in American history.

3:24 p.m. Sept. 27, I got the new “NBA 2K17” game — Five words: “2K” is really freaking cool. More than five words: I want Charles and I want him now. When is Charles Barkley going to be in this game?

This game also makes it too easy to get charging fouls.

The Golden State Warriors are too overpowered, but it’s still cool since I’m a Warriors fan. Now I know what it’s like to be a New England Patriots fan! And to the rest of you schmucks emotionally invested in a mediocre team, I fall asleep laughing at your pain.

8:04 p.m. Sept. 28, Joe Flacco’s wife gives birth to the couple’s fourth

candidacy is the fact that his team boasts other exceptionally good players, such as Anthony Rizzo, an MVP candidate in his own right.

AL Cy Young: Zach Britton, Closer, Baltimore Orioles The AL Cy Young race is perhaps the most interesting of any of these awards. Britton has been absolutely lights out all season long, but he is a closer and by season’s end he will likely have pitched about a third of the innings as the starters in contention for this award like Rick Porcello or Justin Verlander.

However, I do not believe that any AL starter is having a truly exceptional season. Britton’s 2016 has been unbelievable. Going into Sunday’s games, Britton has had 47 save opportunities; he has converted them at a perfect rate of 47 for 47.

He has surrendered just four earned runs all season for a sparkling 0.55 ERA. Forget about his relatively low inning count. Britton is the best pitcher in the American League, and he deserves the Cy Young.

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to win this award. Cubs teammates Hendricks and Jon Lester, first and second respectively in ERA in the League, both have strong resumes, as does Nationals ace Max Scherzer.

Two weeks ago, I detailed how Hendricks has been able to be so effective this season, and his numbers speak for themselves. The only reason Hendricks has not run away with this award is that he was so unknown prior to the season’s beginning.

AL Rookie of the Year: Gary Sanchez, C, New York Yankees Sanchez was not called up until Aug. 3, and that fact may end up costing him this award. The reason Sanchez’s low at-bat totals do not matter to me is how good he has been in the games he has played. The Dominican-born catcher hit more home runs in his first 45 games than any other player in baseball history.

In what has been a disappointing season for Yankees fans, Sanchez is an obvious reason for optimism looking ahead.

NL Cy Young: Kyle Hendricks ’12, RHP, Chicago Cubs Unlike in the AL, there are several starting pitchers having exceptional 2016 seasons. Earlier in the year, it appeared that Clayon Kershaw would run away with this race, but an injury has prevented him from building up the body of work necessary

NL Rookie of the Year: Corey Seager, SS, Los Angeles Dodgers This pick is a relatively easy one: Seager is a legitimate MVP contender in the NL and could easily make the leap I anticipate Bryant making from Rookie of the Year to MVP next season. Seager has

child in five years — We’re talking back-to-back-to-back-to-back here.

Joe, give the woman a break.

11:54 on the clock, Second quarter: Julius remains spazzing out.

Confrontation over.

2:30 on the clock, Third quarter: Julius kicks off the ball and starts rumbling down the field, again.

2:28 on the clock, Third quarter: Bang. Waters hits Julius straight on and knocks him out.

11:49 p.m. Oct. 1, Minnesota Gophers’ Jaylen Waters ejected for hit on 258-pound kicker — Joey Julius is the morbidly obese kicker for Pennsylvania State University, which played against the University of Minnesota Gophers this weekend.

Big Toe Joe, that’s what my buddy who goes to Penn State, Willie, calls him.

Although it’s kind of sweet to have a fat kicker, Willie was pretty sad this weekend to see his big friend get absolutely destroyed by the Gopher’s freshman special teamer Jaylen Waters. Go back and watch the hit because it is absolutely vicious. So vicious in fact that Waters was immediately ejected from the game. Let’s do a case study on what happened.

12:00 on the clock, Second quarter: Julius kicks off the ball and starts rumbling down the field.

11:57 on the clock, Second quarter: Julius literally starts getting in a fist fight with Gopher’s number 35, Waters.

11:56 on the clock, Second quarter: Waters is not happy about the confrontation and wrestles down the big guy.

11:55 on the clock, Second quarter: The kick returner is brought down at the 20-yard line.

Immediately the penalty flags are flying everywhere the benches almost clear. This was a big hit and no one thinks it was fair. However, reviewing the facts, I think there’s a very simple lesson here to be learned. Don’t start something you can’t finish. I applaud Waters for the hit because I’ve been sick and tired to see Julius lumbering

played a key role in the Dodgers NL West title and shown himself to be more than capable defensively and offensively on the season.

AL Manager of the Year: Buck Showalter, Baltimore Orioles This was an incredibly tough pick for me. Terry Francona has done an excellent job guiding the Cleveland Indians this season. The reason I give the edge to Showalter is what he has done with what he has. The Orioles are not a particularly deep or gifted offensive team, and their starting rotation has been ineffective all season, yet Showalter has them in the running in one of baseball’s most hotly contested divisions.

NL Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon, Chicago Cubs On July 31, the Cubs took on the Mariners on “Sunday Night Baseball.” The Cubs fell behind 6-0, played a pitcher in left field, came back to tie the game, and then used a pitcher as a pinch hitter in the bottom of 12th who laid down a two-strike bunt to score Jason Heyward . Every button Maddon pushed worked that night, and that’s how it has been all season in Chicago.

The Cubs are baseball’s best team, and Maddon has played a key role in engineering a dominating 100plus win season on the North Side of Chicago. around making tackles.

He’s a kicker and so when he gets hit, he gets treated like one and whoever hits him gets kicked out of the game. I don’t think that was the right call.

First, the hit occurred straight on so it wasn’t a cheap shot. Secondly, Waters is 6 feet 3 inches tall, 255 pounds. Thirdly, Julius is 5 feet 10 inches, 258 pounds. It’s a fair fight and Julius needs to learn his place.

You’re a kicker. Do your job. Kick the football.

Also, I’ve been writing my column in the periodicals a lot lately and I must say there’s a lot of cute women in the periodicals. Shoutout to the periodicals.

Rebecca Asoulin ’17 Editor-in-Chief

Rachel DeChiara ’17 Publisher

Annie Ma ’17 Executive Editor

10.03.16 Vol. CLXXIII No. 120

Gayne Kalustian ’17 Kourtney Kawano ’18 Sports Editors

Ashley Dupuis ’19 Evan Morgan ’19 Sam Stockton ’19 Assistant Sports Editors Annie Duncan ’17 Kate Herrington ’17 Photography Editors Jaclyn Eagle ’19 Templating Editor

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Women’s soccer enjoy early success, discuss championship hopes

By EMMA SKLARIN The Dartmouth

2016 is looking like a big year for the Dartmouth women’s soccer team.

With six wins already under their belt — and only two wins away from matching its 2015 overall record — the women are proving their strength as a team this fall.

Women’s head coach Ron Rainey has high hopes and challenging goals set for the team.

“I know our players value the Ivy League season and want to do as well as they can for the program and for the school,” he said.

This is the third year that Rainey has been coaching. He said that the team has always had a culture of impressive work ethic and of players giving their best to every practice and game out of respect for each other.

The team’s defense has proven very strong this season. Rainey credited the team’s ability to limit their opponents to six goals in the 10 season games thus far to the work the players put on the field.

“Some of the strengths of our team have been how the whole group has stepped up to play well, not just senior...but also juniors and sophomores, and even some of our freshman have stepped up,” he said. “But I think the big thing has been how the team has kind of fallen in battle for each other and how that’s helped us in this first half of the season.”

This is especially noteworthy considering how close the scores have been for the Big Green in its games so far.

In its opening game, the women beat Marist College, 1-0, in double overtime. They followed that performance with another win against Iona College, which yielded the largest win margin for the team with a 3-0 shutout.

Freshman Charlotte Esty ’20 has been a key contributor to the team’s success on the offensive side. She has scored three goals this season, two of which were game-winning tallies against Fairleigh Dickinson University and Gardner-Webb University.

As someone who has played for most of her life, Etsy said competing

for the Big Green is a unique experience.

“It’s amazing to be around a group of people that always want to work harder, always want to get better, and always want to push each other,” she said.

A large part of the team’s defensive success has been goalkeeper Casey Cousineau ’17, who is currently ranked 10th in the NCAA Division I for save percentage with a statistic of 0.902. In shutouts, she is currently tied for 21st with five shutouts this season.

Cousineau said that she loves being tested in goal because that’s the heart of soccer for her. She said that over her past three years on the team, the culture has stayed the same.

“A lot of our players have maintained the same dedication for the sport, respect for the D and just 100 percent commitment 100 percent of the time, so that’s really special,” she said.

Cousineau said it is important that everyone on the field knows that they have an impact on the team, and that

they are all working together throughout the season toward one common goal: winning the Ivy League title.

It is a goal that Esty believes the team can achieve. The games they have played may have been close, but she has a lot of confidence in the team and knows they will need to work hard for every win moving forward.

Esty had to sit out in the game against Brown University because of a concussion, and she said that watching her teammates play was incredibly inspiring.

“Everyone showed so much grit and so much passion, especially toward the end, which was unbelievable to watch” Esty said. “You saw everyone go into sixth gear and play like they’d never played before. If we can do that in every game and show up from the start and play like that, I think we’re going to do really well.”

Despite dropping the first two contests in Ivy League play against Brown and Princeton University, both players remain optimistic.

As a veteran on the team,

Cousineau alluded to the team’s past success in creating a competitive atmosphere, ensuring that none of the players take wins for granted.

“It came down to the fact that we played every game game-by-game and spent a lot of time focusing on each and every opponent” she said. “I think that’s what’s created a winning record.”

Rainey said that his biggest goal for the team is for the women to improve each day over every week of the season.

“With all 29 players accepting their roles and working hard at practice, then I think the team can progress through the season and we can take a lot of pride in how the team does through this year,” Rainey said.

For Cousineau, her biggest goal for the season, she said, is for the team to be recognized for its achievements.

“In the past, we haven’t really lived up to our potential,” she said. “I hope that’s what we do this year. I hope that we go out and show everybody that we are a force to be reckoned with.”

Freshmen Guan and Broom transition well to college tennis

By DANIELLE OKONTA The Dartmouth

Many freshmen athletes have started off great seasons on both varsity and club teams here at Dartmouth, but two freshmen have gone above and beyond. Last weekend, two freshmen athletes on the men’s and women’s tennis teams concluded very successful season openers. Chuyang Guan ’20 of the women’s tennis team went undefeated in singles, win-

ning all three matches in straight sets, at the Tribe Invitational held by the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Likewise, Charlie Broom ’20 of the men’s tennis team also went undefeated, going 4-0, in singles at the Ivy Plus Invitational held

by Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Both freshmen have earned many past accolades prior to their collegiate debuts and have been nationally ranked at the

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Chuyang Guan ’20 opted to play for Dartmouth instead of turning pro.

junior level.

Guan started playing tennis in the summer of 2005 at 7 years old. Prior to picking up a racket, Guan was playing basketball. Her father introduced her to tennis, signing her up for lessons with a neighborhood Russian coach.

“I spent all summer playing tennis in the mornings and began to enjoy the sport as I continued playing,” Guan said.

As the lessons continued, Guan eventually gave up basketball and pursued tennis exclusively.

Growing up next to a tennis club, Broom was exposed to tennis at an even younger age.

“My bedroom overlooks thirteen tennis courts,” Broom said.

In his early childhood years, Broom would make his way down to the tennis club and play the game on his own for fun.

Eventually, he became good enough to consider playing for sport and officially started playing at the age of 10. Though both played tennis in their youths, the two followed disparate paths to Hanover.

Guan had two options: play collegiately or transition to the

professional level. Unfortunately, she suffered an injury during her sophomore year of high school and had to make a tough call, ultimately deciding to play at the collegiate level.

For Broom, collegiate tennis was an early aspiration. As he progressed in high school, he began the process of applying for schools and took an interest in Dartmouth.

“I really like the intimate size of the campus, and I found the team to be more like a family,” Guan said. “I also think the community at Dartmouth is very warm and welcoming.”

Dartmouth’s unique foundation for undergraduates has also played a part in each athlete’s transition to the College as student athletes.

Both athletes agree that while they are still gradually adjusting to college, some aspects of their schedules have become manageable.

Before coming to Dartmouth, Guan spent her mornings and afternoons practicing and only had a small window of time to study.

“Now as a student athlete at Dartmouth, I get to spend more time studying and working on aca-

demics while competing,” Guan said.

Broom also enjoys the routine of his schedule.

“Back home, I would go to school and plan to organize my own training schedule, and it was different every week,” Broom said.

“Here at Dartmouth my schedule is very structured, and I am becoming more accustomed to it as the year progresses.”

While both coaches are still getting to know their new freshman athletes, they agree that they are enjoying the new additions to their programs.

“As a player, [Guan] has a high level of focus, has strong spatial awareness on the courts and she has a willingness to go outside her comfort zone,” women’s head coach Bob Dallis said.

Broom’s impact, men’s head coach Chris Drake said, is felt both on and off the courts.

Both coaches expressed that though the early successes have brought attention to the two young athletes, maintaining love for the game and personal well-being off the court will be critical for long term success.