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Tennis teams explain lineup selection strategies p. 8 One-on-one with Patrick Peterson ’18 p. 8 NARP Meets World with Matt Yuen ’19 p. 6 The Weekend Roundup p. 2-3, 7 Men’s basketball hopes to finish season strong p. 6
PE offerings run the gamut From aerobics to Zumba, a look at the numerous options the College offers for credit p. 4-5 By Sabena Allen and Samantha Hussey
COURTESY OF JENNIFER SARGENT
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017
Men’s HOCKEY
Compiled by Mark Cui, JONATHAN KATZMAN AND EVAN MORGAN
SKIING
Photo by EVAN MORGAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF This past weekend, the skiing teams won the Middlebury Carnival with 1,027 points.
After a stinging second place finish at last weekend’s Dartmouth Carnival, the skiing teams returned to their winning ways at the Middlebury Carnival. Dartmouth racked up 1,027 points, outstripping secondplace University of Vermont by more than 200 points en route to the team’s fourth carnival win of the season. On the slopes at the Middlebury Snow Bowl, the alpine teams got off to a good start in Friday’s giant slalom. Brian McLaughlin ’18 skied the fastest first run of the day and then cemented his win with a strong second run. Dylan Brooks ’17 and Thomas Woolson ’17 took third and fourth, giving Dartmouth 135 points in the men’s giant slalom. Later that morning, Kelly Moore ’18 and Steph Currie ’20 finished 3-4 in the women’s event. Fabian Stocek ’17’s scintillating senior season continued on Friday at the Rikert Nordic Center. He won his seventh event of the season, this time the men’s 20-kilometer freestyle. Luke Brown ’18 finished three seconds behind him to complete Dartmouth’s
1-2 punch. Meanwhile, freshmen women powered Dartmouth to an overall win in the women’s 15-kilometer freestyle. Abby Drach ’20 nabbed the top spot by nearly 16 seconds, followed by Lauren Jortberg ’20 in third and Zoe Snow ’18 in fifth. In Saturday’s slalom, Dartmouth skiers finished in a cluster just off the podium. Alexa Dlouhy ’19, Currie and Moore went 4-5-6 as Currie posted the fastest second run of the day. On the men’s side, Woolson grabbed a podium step in third while Tanguy Nef ’20 finished two spots back and David Domonoske ’20 rounded out the scoring in eighth. Jortberg and Drach carried the mail again on Saturday by skiing to victory in the classic sprint relay. With teammates Taryn Hunt-Smith ’19 and Emily Hyde ’19 27.5 seconds back in second place, the women’s 141 points easily took the day. Brown and Gavin McEwen ’19 earned the win for the men, ahead of Stocek and Callan DeLine ’18 in fourth. All told, Dartmouth won six of eight team events in a dominant performance.
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Photo by SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The men’s hockey team topped Brown University before getting shut out by Yale University the next day.
Fighting to clinch home-ice advantage for the first round of the ECAC playoffs, Dartmouth split a pair of games over the weekend. On its final road trip of the season, the Big Green won at Brown University on Friday night before falling to Yale University the next evening. Grant Opperman ’17’s first career hat trick lifted Dartmouth to its 5-4 victory over Brown. The Big Green started slowly, allowing two Brown goals in the first 3:21. But Opperman found the back of the net twice later in the period, and the teams went into first intermission tied at two goals apiece. Opperman’s teammates helped the senior from Wayzata, Minnesota look good on his first two tallies, with the assist on Opperman’s first coming after a tape-to-tape cross-ice pass from Alex Jasiek ’19, and that on his second coming after a feed from Will Graber ’20. Corey Kalk ’18 put the Big Green up 3-2 4:34 into the second period, shooting a soft wrister from just inside the blue line that Brown goaltender Gavin Nieto simply whiffed as he attempted to turn it aside. Opperman’s third of the night put Dartmouth up 4-2 heading into the third. A man-up goal from Troy Crema ’17 10:47 into the final stanza extended the Big Green’s lead to three, and it appeared that Dartmouth had put the game away. But Brown freshman Brent Beaudoin had other ideas, scoring twice down the stretch to bring the Bears within one. Brown’s Tyler Bird hit the crossbar with just seconds remaining, and Dartmouth was fortunate to come away with the win as goalie Devin Buffalo ’18 stood on his head trying to
preserve the lead. Buffalo got his ninth win of the season in net for the Big Green, making 24 saves in the victory. Nieto finished with 23 saves in 32 minutes of play, before being lifted in favor of Tim Ernst, who recorded 16 saves. The Big Green owned the scoresheet, outshooting the Bears 44-28 and finishing 2-for-4 on the power play. Dartmouth’s offensive burst came to a halt at Yale on Saturday with a 4-0 loss to the Bulldogs. Yale’s shutout of Dartmouth is its second of the year against the Big Green, who fell to 10-14-3 overall and 7-11-2 ECAC and missed an opportunity to move ahead of the Bulldogs into seventh place in the ECAC Hockey standings. Despite a 31-save performance from Buffalo, Yale’s Sam Tucker was simply better, stopping 26 Dartmouth shots en route to his first shutout of the season. The Bulldogs outshot Dartmouth 13-9 in the opening period and took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission following goals from Anthony Walsh and Ted Hart. John Hayden then put Yale up 3-0 18:32 into the second stanza with his team-leading 18th goal of the season. Dartmouth was simply unable to generate quality chances, ultimately succumbing 4-0 after Andrew Gaus’ empty netter put the icing on the cake. Yale outshot Dartmouth 35-26, and both teams were a combined 0-for-7 on the power play. Dartmouth will return to play at home against Clarkson University on Friday before taking on St. Lawrence University on Saturday.
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LACROSSE On the road at the University of MassachusettsLowell, the women’s lacrosse team started the season on the right foot with an 11-9 win this past Saturday. After the opening 10 minutes, Dartmouth and UMass Lowell were locked at two goals apiece. From there, the Big Green tacked on five unanswered goals, including two from Courtney Weisse ’17 to give the Big Green a 7-3 lead at halftime. Weisse added another 1:59 into the second half, but the River Hawks scored four unanswered goals of their own over the next seven minutes to cut Dartmouth’s lead to one. Taryn Deck ’17 responded with a freeposition goal at the 19:32 mark before two River Hawk goals tied the game at 9-9. Weisse — who ended the game with a career-high five goals to her name — netted what would be the game-winner with 10:55 to play. Elizabeth Mastrio ’19’s goal at the 7:21 mark rounded out the scoring. This is the second consecutive year Dartmouth has opened the season with a win over the River Hawks. Last year’s affair was an 18-2 drubbing. Saturday’s victory marks the first Big Green win for first-year
head coach Danielle Spencer. In the season-opener against Canisius University, the men’s lacrosse team dug itself into a hole and could not recover, losing 13-8. Richie Loftus ’18 tallied four points off three goals and one assist. Wiley Osborne ’17 had one goal and two assists, totaling three points. Loftus opened the scoring 4:15 into the game, after which Dartmouth was shut out for the remainder of the quarter. The two teams traded blows through the second quarter, but Dartmouth trailed 7-4 at the half. Canisius opened the third quarter with a trio of goals in the first five minutes, opening a 10-4 lead, which was the largest margin of the game. The Big Green finished the third quarter with a trio of its own, including man-up goals by Loftus and Jack Korzelius ’18. Another Loftus goal in the fourth quarter brought Dartmouth within two, but the effort wasn’t enough. The Golden Griffins managed to climb back to a 13-8 lead by the end of the game. The loss came despite a 42-33 advantage in shots and a 32-24 advantage on ground balls.
WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Photo by LAURA LEWIN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The women’s ice hockey team wrapped up its season with a 4-1 win against Yale University.
Despite outshooting Brown University 38-25 on Friday evening, the Big Green finished on the wrong side of a 5-2 decision in its second-to-last game of the season. Dartmouth fell to 6-21 as the ghosts of the team’s offensive struggles returned to Thompson Arena. Brown jumped out to a 4-0 lead thanks to two goals from Veronice Alois, who would add one more tally late in the third period to complete a hat trick. Dartmouth got on the board with just under two minutes to play in the second period when Bailey Brekke ’20 knocked home a pass across the crease from Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17. Ottenbreit, the Big Green’s leading scorer this season, kept things going 4:46 into the third when she scored her eighth of the year to bring Dartmouth within two. Brown goaltender Monica Elvin, who was credited with 36 saves in the win, would shut the door on Dartmouth for the rest of the contest. Robyn Chemago ’17 got the start in net for Dartmouth and made seven saves through 28 minutes of action. Christie Honor ’19 played the remainder of the contest and made 13 saves, surrendering just one goal. Both teams saw limited power-play action, with Dartmouth finishing 0-for-2 and the Bears finishing 0-for-1. On Saturday afternoon against Yale University, Ottenbreit made her last outing in the Green and White one to remember, scoring her second career hat trick and carrying Dartmouth to a 4-1 win in its final game
of the season. The Big Green finished the 2016-2017 campaign at 7-21 overall, 5-17 ECAC. After a scoreless first period, Ottenbreit began her standout performance with a power-play goal with 2:57 gone by in the second period. The senior from Grayson, Saskatchewan got her second of the afternoon at 10:09 of the same period, deflecting a Sydney Hill ’20 pass over the shoulder of Yale goaltender Hanna Mandl. Ottenbreit’s third goal, which put the Big Green up 3-0 with 3:10 gone by in the final period, came on her most impressive effort of the evening. Ottenbreit collected the puck after winning her own face off in the offensive zone, took two strides and fired one past Mandl, high and glove-side. Though Yale got one back at 13:35 after Laura Anderson’s shot deflected off a Big Green defender and past Chemago, the Big Green put the Bulldogs away on Morgan Turner ’18’s empty netter with inside one minute left to play. Ottenbreit’s first tally marked Dartmouth’s only success on three special teams situations, while Yale’s power play unit finished 0-for-1. While Ottenbreit’s scoring effort was the headline, the contest was a special one for those playing the last game of their collegiate careers, as each member of the senior class recorded at least one point in the victory. Chemago contributed 29 saves to the winning effort, finishing her senior campaign on a high note.
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TENNIS This past weekend, the men’s tennis team traveled to Princeton, New Jersey to play in the ECAC Indoor Championship, which featured St. John’s University and fellow Ivy League teams with the exception of Brown University. On Friday, the team defeated its first round matchup, University of Pennsylvania, 4-1. The Big Green got off to a fast start by securing the doubles point with wins from Ciro Riccardi ’18 and Charlie Broom ’20 as well as George Wall ’17 and Roko Glasnovic ’19 . Wall later secured the win by defeating Penn’s Gabe Rappaport 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. On day two of the tournament, the Big Green was eliminated by Columbia University 4-0. The Lions quickly secured the doubles point with 6-3 and 6-1 victories. They followed that up with three straightset single victories. Four Dartmouth matches, consisting of one doubles and three singles, did not finish but were all extremely close. However, by then, Columbia had already secured four points to win the match. After being eliminated by Columbia, the Big Green faced Princeton University for third place. David Horneffer ’20 and Max Fliegner ’18 cruised to a 6-1 victory at the No. 2 doubles position, but the team lost the other two doubles matches. Diego Pedraza ’17 and Max Schmidt ’17’s match was particularly close, as the Big Green duo ultimately fell 7-6(4). In singles, Schmidt secured the Big Green’s sole
win of the day, winning his match against Davey Roberts 6-1, 6-2. With the loss, the Big Green placed in fourth in the overall tournament, and is now 3-6 on the season. On Saturday, the women’s tennis team recorded its first loss of the season after falling 6-1 to the College of William & Mary at the McCormak-Nagelsen Tennis Center. Julia Schroeder ’18 and Racquel Lyn ’20 won the Big Green’s first doubles match at the No. 2 doubles position, but the Tribe won the other two doubles matches to take the doubles point. William & Mary overwhelmed the Big Green at singles, winning four straight set matches. The Big Green’s lone single win came from Schroeder, who defeated Olivia Thaler with a final score of 5-7, 7-6(4), 1-0(10). On Sunday, the team bounced back, defeating Virginia Commonwealth University 4-3 in Richmond, Virginia. Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 as well as Jacqueline Crawford ’17 and Allison McCann ’20 secured the doubles point with final scores of 6-2 and 6-3 respectively. In the first five singles matches, Ng and Lyn secured victories while Crawford, Schroeder and Mathis were defeated. The last match came down to Chuyang Guan ’20 at the No. 6 singles spot. Despite dropping the first set, she pulled through in the intense three set match with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory. The win pushes the women’s record to 8-1 overall.
SQUASH The Big Green won the Hoehn Cup, the top honor in the B division of the National Team Championships, with a 7-2 victory over No. 10 Princeton University. After tasting A division play in the 2016 Team Championships, the Big Green fell out of the top eight this season and returned to the Hoehn Cup, which is named for Edward “Red” Hoehn, a former top player who coached Dartmouth squash from 1938 to 1963. No. 9 Dartmouth cruised past No. 13 George Washington University 7-2 in the opening round of the championship. Nick Harrington ’17 and Brian Giegerich ’18 each dispatched his opponent in three games to give the Big Green an early edge. In the next round of play, Jack Harvey ’18 and Matt Giegerich ’19 also won in three games, putting Dartmouth up 4-2. Glen
Brickman ’17, Sam Epley ’19 and Alvin Heumann ’18 swept the third round of matches, with Heumann’s four-game win — the final match of the day — coming in front of a large crowd. Dartmouth clinched the Division B title in the second ro u n d a g a i n s t P r i n c e t o n . Harrington led off the day with a 3-0 victory that set the tone for the Big Green. Matt Giegerich clinched the victory for Dartmouth in a tough five-game match, taking down Princeton’s Shehab Thabet. The men’s squash team wraps up its season with a 10-7 record and will compete in the CSA Men’s Individual Championships on March 3. The women’s squash team competes in the CSA Women’s Team Championship this weekend in Princeton, New Jersey.
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A survey of PE classes a
Dartmouth Physical Education and Recreatio who are not members of club or varsity team what PE at the College is all about. Spinning
Zumba Zumba, a Latin-dance aerobic workout that incorporates movements from a variety of dance styles such as hip hop and salsa, is currently one of the most popular PE courses offered at Dartmouth. Working under the motto, “Ditch the workout, join the party,” Zumba classes pride themselves on mixing high- and low-intensity cardio moves in an interval-style that makes the workouts effective in burning calories.
Zumba Toning, an advanced version of Zumba, incorporates a lightweight, maraca-like toning stick that helps tone specific areas of the body, including the arms, abs and thighs.
Martial Arts FLIP offers several martial arts classes. In one combined Japanese technique class, students learn selfdefense through jujitsu and aikido and Japanese swordsmanship through iaido. The tai chi class focuses on strength and balance for meditation and health. Instructor Claudia Henrion says the class involves, “learning the first section of the tai chi form as well as other exercises that build strength, flexibility, balance as well as relaxing both mind and body.”
Nicholas Bramlage teaches jujitsu, where students learn how to defend themselves in situations where their attacker is bigger and stronger than they are. “It’s great for building confidence, self-esteem, discipline, self-control, everything you really desire in life,” Bramlage said.
Asked and answered The Dartmouth sat down with three athletic administrators — senior associate athletic director for physical education & recreation Joann Brislin, director of fitness Hugh Mellert and coordinator of intramural and club sports Theresa Hernandez — to talk about the nuts and bolts of PE and intramural sports. Why does Dartmouth require its students to complete three PE courses? JB: It’s a faculty requirement. It’s been in place for as long as I know — I’m sure it dates back to the early 1900s. If Dartmouth requires three PE courses, why aren’t the costs covered in tuition?
Formed 15 years ago, the spinning class is always high in demand. Each of the nine sections provides a group workout on Star Trac Bikes that uses music to pump up the body, while simultaneously improving cardio endurance and toning target areas. “At the beginning of the term there are always newbies,” instructor Amy Mitson said. “I encourage participants to act like beginners, take it slow and most importantly, come back! The bike can feel strange at first, but then participants get stronger, things feel better and people have more fun.” Gregorio Amaro, another spinning instructor, said the class offers a variety of challenges, including riding fast across flat terrain.
By Sabena Allen a Ice Fishing Dance
FLIP offers a variety of classes: improvisation, modern, belly dancing, swing dancing, line dancing and salsa. Instructor Jamie Orr said his classes help students socialize and find a good community. “I hope that students discover that dancing isn’t old fashioned. In particular, swing and Latin dances are commonly danced to contemporary music,” Orr said.
The PE department works in tandem with other organizations such as the Dartmouth Outing Club to provide other interesting opportunities for students to fulfill their PE credits. One of the more unique courses offered during the winter is the DOC’s Ice Fishing class taught by Ray Crosby, a staffer at Collis Center. This small course, with a maximum of 12 students, requires two indoor classes in Robinson Hall, where students learn the theory and techniques of how to fish specifically in a winter environment.
Students have class two hours per week for eight weeks in order to earn their PE credit. Orr’s evening classes have anywhere from 25 to 35 students, and his daytime line dance classes have about 15 students. “At any ability level, [dance is] a lowpressure way to mix socially,” Orr said. “And dancers are such friendly people.”
Upon completion of these two classes, students spend a few hours the following Saturday on Occom Pond applying those skills and fishing from a hole cut from the ice.
JB: The biggest reason is that we don’t have subvention from the College to cover the cost of instructors, so the cost of PE courses covers the instructors. We have the opportunity for a PE discount, and we have an allocated amount of money from the President’s Office. Financial aid is the determinant of who qualifies. They receive information where they can apply for the PE discount. The financial aid office determines the level of their need and if they complete the requirements of the credit then their student accounts are reimbursed.
fitness classes offered for PE credit.
Mitson noted how the improved facilities helped accommodate the demand for spinning classes in recent years. “When I first started teaching at Dartmouth, there were about 10 bikes in the Berry classroom of the old Kresge Fitness Center,” Mitson said. “The facilities are much improved in recent years with a bright space, big windows, new bikes and double the number of participants.”
In what ways has the PE program grown over time? JB: The Zimmerman Fitness Center is just 10 years old. In Dartmouth terms, we didn’t have a fitness center like that. We didn’t have the opportunity for the general student body to participate in that kind of fitness. HM: In the 22 years that I have led the [Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement] program, we have gone from about 15 to 20 fitness classes to 60 to 70
How do new programs get create do instructors put in proposals t HM: New fitness classes are added a Five years ago we did not have Zumba classes. Sometimes we have students background in a certain fitness discipli to develop a class. We are constantly the disciplines as we see what might b
How did members of varsity or c PE courses — for example, hock JB: There’s student interest in learni reach out to people with that expert are students, and they are hired as the
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on and its subdivision, the Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement Program, offers more than 60 ways for those students ms to earn their three mandatory PE credits. This week, The Dartmouth surveyed 10 of those courses to find out
and Samantha Hussey
Snow Sports Snow sports — including snowboarding and alpine, Nordic, and telemark skiing — are the most popular of Dartmouth’s PE offerings during the winter. Over 50 Dartmouth students are employed as instructors each season, and anywhere from 200 to 250 students take classes every winter. Students take skiing or snowboarding classes once a week, and buses are available to take students to the Skiway.
Beginning skiers and snowboarders will be able to use the chairlift by the end of the eight-week session, according to John Brady, head of the Dartmouth ski program. Dartmouth is a school “above any other college in the country is part of the history of skiing, and it’s a great thing to do in the winter when the streets are covered in snow,” according to Brady. Dartmouth students “just have to walk across the Green with their skis, get on the bus, go up, put their boots on, and take their classes.”
ed? Do students request them or to the program? as trends in the fitness arena change. a — now it is one of our most popular s who may have a particular skill or ine, and we will work with that student y evaluating our offerings and modify be more appealing to our participants.
club teams become involved with key players teaching skating? ing how to skate, for example, so we tise. Often people with that expertise eir student job to instruct a PE class.
KICKBOX AEROBICS Racquetball and kardio and SQUASH konditioning Racquetball classes focuses on developing consistent patterns of positioning, stroke form and shot selection. While these skills evolve a lot during the eight-week course, students generally begin with simple routines and later progress to variations and more complex patterns. “[To make the class fun], we try a variety of ‘funny rule’ games: playing both right and left-handed, singles and doubles, [and] in-class minitournaments,” said instructor Denis Rydjeski, who has taught the class for 12 years.
“Kardio Konditioning” is an aerobics-based training class that integrates a variety of exercises such as running, jump rope and strength training in an intense workout to music. For instructor Sue Darling, teaching this course is so rewarding. “Watching people who aren’t necessarily athletes come to the class consecutively and watch the improvement on their bodies is one of my greatest joys,” Darling said. “Watching someone that has had very little activity in x amount of years and watching that improvement — it’s amazing.”
The squash program covers basic technique, courtcraft and strategy. Instructor William Bassett believes that squash, often compared to chess, appeals to students on a unique intellectual and competitive level. “Squash is one of only a few racquet sports, unlike tennis or badminton, where you share the playing area with your opponent,” Bassett said. “Teaching a sport where the participants, with racquets, share a 21-feet-by-32-feet space is challenging from a safety point of view. This somehow adds to the uniqueness of the experience.”
Like “Kardio Konditioning,” “Kickbox Aerobics” works on kicking, punching, plyometrics and strength conditioning, alongside some great music. “I try to work with all different levels,” said Sue Darling, who has taught kickboxing for around 18 years. “I am always showing different modifications which is very important so people don’t get discouraged. Everyone is at different fitness levels and sometimes you are starting at the very beginning.”
With so many courses and sports, is it difficult to provide adequate practice spaces? HM: Space is always a challenge and we have a priority list for distribution of the space. PE classes are at the top of that priority list. We work together as a team to come up with the best allocation of space. Can you explain the different intramural sports leagues (such as Granite and Moosilauke) and how individuals are placed into each one? TH: Winter is our most popular term for intramural sports. Each term we always offer a women’s league by itself. As far as competitiveness goes we have the Granite league, the most competitive, where you’ll see a lot of the club teams participate in that league and ex-varsity players from high school. Our Moosilauke league is moderately competitive. It’s more of a YMCA and recreational style league. In order, we offer
Strength Training
Ice Skating Beginning, intermediate and figure skating are taught by members of the figure skating team. There are about 20 students in each class, and students break off into sections of four to six students, instructor Charlotte Kuller ’20 said. According to Kuller, the class adapts to students’ pace of learning, focusing on getting students comfortable on the ice.
“I hope people can come away from this class enjoying skating, especially because up here there are so many great opportunities for outdoors skating, which everyone should be able to have fun doing,” Kuller said.
Strength Training focuses on beginners who are unaware of the safety and efficiency in weightlifting. With an average class of 12 students, these sections are generally small relative to other PE courses. “Early in the term we learn terminology — reps, sets, axis of rotation, range of motion — how to use resistance equipment and proper form,” instructor Jolin Salazar-Kish said. “We then move to free weights and finish with floor work, abdominal work and stretching techniques.”
By the end of the course, instructors hope their students can enter any gym with confidence and feel knowledgeable and comfortable enough to use the equipment to their maximum benefit. Similar to Strength Training, StretchStrength & Balance combines weight machines and cardio exercises with stability balls, stretching and balance training.
Co-Rec where we stick a gender requirement for it to be approved. Being placed into leagues is pretty self-selected, but we do monitor it. We want to create an environment where students can thrive in and feel incentive to want to come back. How has the housing system shaken up the intramural sports scene? TH: It gives students who otherwise would not participate in intramurals an opportunity to do so in a friendly, fun environment where the house professors are very nurturing, and the ADs are there to support them and really offer another outlet for them. Students, even from some of the fraternities, sororities or a part of different organizations have now grouped themselves with their houses. It gives students another opportunity to play intramurals in separate leagues.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length. ERIC WANG, HANA WARMFLASH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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NARP Meets World: The Prodigal Son Returns I told myself I’d never venture down this godforsaken path again. I swore an oath with my right hand on my last column that I’d never write another NARP Meets World for the rest of my time here at Dartmouth College. Yet I find myself sitting in the deepest abysses of the Stacks, attempting to procure a comedic smattering of entertainment from this tangled
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mess I call my brain. I am by every precedent and definition washed up, but I am here to dabble in the devil’s craft once more. You might have been wondering to yourself throughout this term, “Where is the legendary NARP, Matt Yuen?” To be honest with you, I’ve become a recluse of some sort, stepping out of the limelight this glorious column has placed me in the center of. From the shadows I have been keeping a watchful eye on the events unfolding within and beyond the bittersweet boundaries of Dartmouth. And similar to a groundhog that is frightened back into its warm burrow by its shadow, I find myself taken aback at the current state of this entropic mess we reside in. From the inauguration of the president with the smallest hands to ever step into office to the inevitable erosion of my youthful and aesthetic appeal, I can unequivocally pronounce that things cannot get any grimmer. But don’t be fooled for a second. I have not been shirking my responsibilities as a columnist for
the sake of pursuing social capital within the freshmen-infested confines of SigEp’s basement or obtaining knowledge from my ever so intellectually stimulating classes. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those places, if that is a testament to both my social and academic activity on campus this term. The fact of the matter is as much as I considered rekindling the tantalizing romance between myself and NARP Meets World throughout this term, I resolutely decided against it each time because I needed a break. As a genius columnist behind an even more genius column, I fully understand the significance this column has grown to have in each and every one of your hearts. In the midst of an increasingly destructive and chaotic world, it only makes sense that NARP Meets World has become some sort of a mental crutch in this demoralizing journey we call life. I would be severely remiss if I were to say that being placed in this position of honor was not the
best thing to ever happen in my life. But week after week, the constant responsibility of providing unique and entertaining content to my fans has taken a toll on me, as I am not Atlas. I’ve been cracking under the pressure of holding the entire sky on my back. Throughout the existence of NARP Meets World, I’ve watched myself slowly morphing into the character I had created in this column. I watched my patterns of speech slowly devolve into its ultimate perversion, as I could not go through a single conversation without bantering. I watched as my hairline slowly retreated further and further back, as the pressure of this column combined with the side dish of academic rigor got to me. The fine line between reality and NARP was beginning to blur, and I knew I had to remove myself before I was in too deep. Following my role model Henry David Thoreau, I retreated into the woods until I truly was a voice crying out in the wilderness. And seven weeks later, I find
myself reemerging from my burrow a new man. In other words, I have never been as much of a NARP as I am today. People say Thoreau was a genius for his transcendentalism, but I say that he was naïve for stopping there. Throughout my time in hiding, I have reached an even higher level of enlightenment. I call it ... transcend-NARP-alism. With my eyes clear and my heart full, nothing can stop me now. Some may call me a poser who only writes this column for stardom and fame, while others may call me out for writing this column only because my editors have been consistently pestering me to contribute to this paper. I say yes to both claims. But don’t be misled for a second at all. While my intentions may be as muddy as the melting snow outside, the effect is the same. I find myself naturally gravitating back to this column by a force, one as old as time itself: fighting the good fight. I’m back baby, and it’s time to see truth as it is.
Dartmouth men’s basketball looks to finish season strong By ALEX LEIBOWITZ The Dartmouth
In the past two weeks, the men’s basketball team has been playing much better than its record would suggest. While the team is 6-17 overall and 3-7 in the Ivy league, most of those losses came at the beginning of the season. Over the past three weeks, Dartmouth has recorded impressive wins over in-conference rivals Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania and Brown University. The team’s 3-7 conference record places it in a sixth place tie with Cornell University. However, with Penn and Columbia tied for fourth in the league off 4-6 records, there remains a chance for Dartmouth to finish in the top four, thereby earning a spot in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament and a chance at an NCAA tournament bid. Saturday’s home win against the Lions was especially impressive. Coming off a close loss at home Friday night to Cornell and down early in overtime on Saturday, the Big Green seemed doomed to another close loss. But with the team down 79-78 and seconds left to play, Taylor Johnson ’18 grabbed a missed free throw, drove the ball the entire length of the floor and scored with one second left to give the Big Green the victory. Even without the game winning heroics, Johnson played well throughout the game, recording 18 points on 7-10 shooting, four rebounds and three assists. Head coach David McLaughlin
does not see the Big Green’s changing fortunes as some sort of anomaly. Rather, he views the winning as a normal development as the team gets comfortable with the new coaching staff. Currently in his first year at Dartmouth, McLaughlin noted the players needed the beginning of the season to get more comfortable with the new personnel. “I think we started the season off slow, and I think that’s a transition,” McLaughlin said. “A new coach, new coaching staff, us as coaches trying to become experts on our players and our players vice versa. I think the guys are now getting a little bit of an identity. We are on both ends of the floor.” On the recent win against Columbia, McLaughlin cited the team’s ability to adapt quickly to challenges. “In particular I thought tonight, we showed that we could play through adversity, that were tough, that we can play at both ends of the floor, and play with multiple guys,” McLaughlin said. The main takeaway from the game, according to McLaughlin was, “playing through adversity.” Commenting on the recent run of success, Mike Fleming ’17 noted that the team has begun to adjust to the new system implemented by the coach. “Obviously teams grow as the season progresses,” Fleming said. “I think that we’ve just tried to continue buying into what the coaching staff is telling us. It just speaks volumes of our character. We
haven’t had the season we wanted but obviously we are starting to find some success when it really matters.” Although Fleming was a bit disappointed the team did not win both games over the weekend, he saw the weekend as a testament of the team’s growth and the one win over Columbia as crucial for the team’s quest to make the Ivy League Tournament. “This weekend, in general was really important for us,” Fleming said. “Obviously we wanted to come away with two wins. But we didn’t take care of business Friday night. We didn’t really necessarily change our approach, but we just buckled down and stayed true to ourselves.” Evan Boudreaux ’19, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year the past season, has continued to be a star for the team. He detailed the dramatic differences between the beginning of the season and the current state of the team. “I think we’re playing really well as a team,” Boudreaux said. “I think we’re playing as a unit — five guys playing together, instead of one-on-one a lot.” He also added that a key to the team’s current success is the team’s significant improvement on the defensive end. The recent success has placed heightened focus on making the Ivy League tournament. In his weekly radio show, McLaughlin stressed the importance of focusing on each individual game rather than the larger goal of making the tournament. The Big Green has
four Ivy League games remaining against Brown, Yale University, Penn and Princeton University. Brown is currently last in the league, while Princeton is first. Two of the games are at home where Dartmouth plays better with a 3-7 overall record at home compared to 3-10 away. Furthermore, two of the three conference wins have come at home. This weekend will be crucial to
the team’s playoff hopes. The team needs to beat Brown, currently 11-15 overall and 2-8 in the conference, this Friday to have a chance of playing in the Ivy League tournament. Dartmouth defeated Brown 77-74 in its last matchup on Feb. 11. The Bulldogs, who the Big Green will play on Saturday, is currently third in the Ivy League. In its last meeting on Feb. 10, the Big Green lost 73-64.
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The Big Green is currently tied for sixth place in the Ivy League.
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From Feb. 15 to Feb. 18, the Dartmouth women’s swimming and diving team traveled to Providence, Rhode Island to compete in the Ivy League Championships. Last year, the team finished in eighth with 532.5 points, seven points behind seventh-place Cornell University. Day one consisted of the 200-yard medley race and the 800-yard relay. Although the team swam its fastest time of the season by four seconds in the 200-yard medley race, it was still the slowest time out of the eight competing teams. In the second and final event of the day, the 800-yard relay, the Big Green finished in 7:28.88 to take seventh. The two performances secured 90 points for the Big Green, placing the team in seventh. Brown University placed last by the end of the first day, managing only 48 points. By the end of day two, the Big Green dropped down to eighth place with 156 points. Brown surged ahead from eighth to fourth place with 288 total points after a very strong performance. In the B Final of the 500-yard freestyle, AnnClaire MacArt ’18 secured 16 points by finishing in 11th out of 16 swimmers. Three Dartmouth members competed in the 1-meter diving board, finishing in 19th, 29th and 30th out of 30 swimmers. The team failed to reach the finals of the 200-yard individual medley or 50-yard freestyle.
Day three of the championship included the preliminary rounds of the 1,000-yard freestyle, 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke, 3-meter diving and 400-yard medley relay. In the 1000-yd freestyle, MacArt was less than three seconds off a Dartmouth record as she placed in eighth with a time of 9:58.71. Teammates Hayley Winter ’18 and Molly Brickman ’19 finished in 20th and 25th out of 25 swimmers, respectively. In the only other individual finishes above 20th place for the day, Allison Green ’19 placed in 18th place on the 3-meter board, and Sam Norton ’20 finished 16th in the 100-yd breaststroke. The Big Green ended the day by placing last in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:52.14, keeping the team in eighth with a total of 250 points. The final day of the championships included the 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, 1650-yard freestyle, 3-meter diving finals and 400-yard relay. The Big Green’s highlight of the day was from MacArt, who earned 20 points by finished in ninth out of 22 swimmers in the 1650-yd free. The Big Green finished the championships in eighth place with 358 points. Seventh-place Cornell finished with 653 points while first-place Yale University toppled defending champions Harvard University 1681 to 1590.5 points.
Photo by PAULA MENDOZA/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The men’s basketball team topped Columbia University in overtime on Saturday.
Photo by PAULA KUTSCHERA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The women’s basketball team lost to Cornell University and Columbia University.
On Friday, the men’s basketball team fell to Cornell University 69-65 at home. Cornell’s Matt Morgan led all players with 28 points on 9-15 shooting, while the Big Green’s Evan Boudreaux ’19 continued his recent hot streak with a career-high 27 points on 10-20 shooting and recorded a team-high eight rebounds. The game was close throughout. During the second half, Mike Fleming ’17 made a 3-pointer to give the Big Green its largest lead of the night of six at 44-38. However, the Big Red quickly erased the Big Green’s lead before taking an eight-point lead of its own at 65-57 with only 2:27 to go. Dartmouth got within two with 58 seconds left, but the valiant effort fell just short after Morgan sunk four free throws. On Saturday, the team avenged its loss to Cornell by defeating Ivy-league rival Columbia University 80-79 in overtime at home. The win was a total team effort, with Taylor Johnson ’18 scoring a season-high 18 points on 7-10 shooting, Guilien Smith ’19 adding 23 points on 8-14 shooting and Boudreaux contributing 12 points and 11 rebounds. It was Boudreaux’s 12th double-double of the year, which is the most by a Dartmouth player in over 50 years. The Big Green led by 10 at 66-56 with only 5:40 remaining in the game. However, the Lions rallied to tie the game and send it to overtime after Johnson’s buzzer-beating three came just a split-second too late. In the overtime period, with Columbia leading 79-78, Johnson had another chance to win the game. This time, he converted in time,
laying the ball in with just a second remaining. With the win, the Big Green is now 6-17 overall and 3-7 in the Ivy League. On Friday, the women’s basketball team fell to Cornell 72-57 at Newman Arena. Cornell’s Nia Marshall scored 25 points on 9-19 shooting and gathered four rebounds, slightly outdueling Dartmouth’s Fanni Szabo ’17, who put in 22 points on 10-15 shooting and snagged three rebounds. The match started off close, with Cornell clinging on to a 14-12 lead at the start of the second period. However, the Big Red took advantage of an 11-0 run, and after the Big Green broke the scoring drought, the Big Red then went on a 14-2 run to go into halftime leading 37-21. From there, the Big Red held on to its lead in the second half to secure a 15 point victory. On Saturday, the team followed up with a 21-point loss 69-48 to Ivy-league rival Columbia in Levien Gymnasium. The team was unable to avenge its historic four-overtime loss to Columbia on Jan. 27. The Big Green fell behind early, unable to match Columbia’s fast start. Szabo and Isalys Quiñones ’19 led the Big Green with 12 points each. The loss drops Dartmouth’s record to 6-17 overall and 1-9 in the Ivy League. Up next, the men’s and women’s basketball teams face Brown University on Friday and Yale University on Saturday.
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Photo by DANIEL BERTHE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF This week, men’s swimming and diving will compete in the Ivy League Championships.
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Photo by DANIEL BERTHE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The women’s swimming and diving team finished in eighth at the Ivy League Championships.
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Tennis teams explain lineup selection strategies By CODY FUJII The Dartmouth
Before each dual match, the coaches of the men’s and women’s tennis teams have to make the crucial decision about which of their players will play varsity. Both have 11 players on their respective rosters, but not all players are selected to play in each match. Although neither team employs a strict starting lineup, there is consistency in who plays during tour naments. The evaluation process for the players starts in the fall and continues throughout the year. “It starts in the fall,” women’s tennis coach Bob Dallis said. “We look at how they do in some of the tournaments in the fall and then how they’re competing throughout the year and in practice.” Dallis said the lineup is decided based on “who’s going to give Dartmouth the best chance to win.” Fall tournaments are played over
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the course of two months, from September to November. “The women’s team usually puts seven players in the lineup each game, so there is a lot of overlap between the singles and doubles matches,” Dallis said. “You’re looking to put out the best players on the court.” Despite the consistency of starting players, Dallis emphasizes that players practice as a team. “The whole concept in practice is that everybody is trying to get everybody else better,” he said. According to women’s tennis player Julia Schroeder ’18, many other schools decide their lineup from the results of practice matches. In other words, the winners of a tournament among members of the team end up in the starting lineup. Dartmouth has a different system. “It’s more about where [Dallis] thinks we fit best,” Schroeder said. Although the fall match results
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By DANIELLE OKONTA The Dartmouth Staff
Patrick Peterson ’18 is a decorated right-handed pitcher on the men’s baseball team. In his freshman year, he was named a Louisville Slugger All-American and All-Ivy League First Team relief pitcher. In his sophomore year, he was a member of the All-New England Third Team and the All-Ivy League Team for the second year in a row. Most recently, Peterson was selected to be the 2017 National College Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Watch List as the only Ivy League representative. He enters his junior year with a perfect 7-0 record with 10 saves. What is it like to start off the season with so much traveling? PP: It is a lot of fun. We get to visit some warmer places. We try to keep up with our schoolwork from time to time. One of the best things we can do while traveling is playing against
teams we have not played before. It is fun meeting new people. We will be traveling to Miami later this season to compete against some athletes that were top of their recruiting classes. The hope is that we get to challenge ourselves and win a couple of games down there. What are your expectations for the season within the Ivy League? PP: Our main goal is to compete in the Ivy League Championships and win. We are trying to take every game day by day. We don’t like to worry too much about what we can do in the future or the season but more so what we can do for the next game. Our next game is against Eastern Michigan University, and right now we are focusing on competing and doing well in that game. Is the team planning on getting back to winning in the Red Rolfe Division? PP: We obviously took a little bit of a step back in the division. We want to
play an important role in shaping the lineup, they are not the be-all and end-all of the starting roster. Schroeder says the coaching staff decides the lineup and starting players based on “where players stand and what’s best for the team.” Figuring out where each player stands is very important during the fall, as the lineup is fairly solidified by the winter season. “As a team, we want to figure out who our top six singles players are and what our doubles lineup is,” Shannon Mukerji ’18 said. “Fall is the time when we are testing that, and by winter it’s pretty firmly established.” The starting lineup is fairly established, but it can change depending on the match. On the women’s team, players do not specialize in either singles or doubles. “Everyone who plays singles plays doubles and vice versa,” Mukerji said. The starting system for the men’s
tennis team, currently 3-6 overall, works slightly different than that of the women’s. “Some guys will only play doubles, and some guys will only play singles,” Paul Midgley ’18 said. “But as it happened [at the ECAC Championship Friday and Saturday], the six guys who played doubles also played singles, so it really depends.” Additionally, the men’s lineup is more flexible. “We have 11 guys on the team, all of whom are capable of playing in the top six,” Midgley said. “So it really depends who’s playing best on that day or in the practice before.” On the men’s team, as on the women’s side, players are evaluated in the fall during tournaments and practice so the coaches can create the most effective lineups. Diego Pedraza ’17 notes that evaluations are based on tournament performance and “a lot of other factors.”
Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams have set ambitious goals for this season. The men finished second in the Ivy League the past two seasons, and although they lost twice at past weekend’s ECAC Indoor Championship, Midgley is optimistic about the season’s potential. “Our main aim is definitely to win Ivies,” Midgley said. A secondary goal for the men’s team is to qualify for the NCAA national tournament, which they did for the first time in nearly 20 years last season. The women’s team, currently 8-1 overall, has similarly ambitious goals for this season. “Goals for this coming spring would be to go undefeated in the Ivy League and get a bid to the NCAA tournament,” Mukerji said. The women’s tennis team will return to play on Mar. 4 against the University of Massachusetts. The men will host the University of Memphis on Friday.
get back into the Ivy Championships and take every game as it goes. We are going to aim to win as many Ivy games as we can to hopefully get back to where we need to be.
powerful this year. His focus is just to play the game the right way, which is just like playing catch and playing small ball to score.
nervous. I would always get worked up in stressful situations. With a little more experience and not being “a little innocent freshman” anymore, I have could gain a lot more confidence. It has become easier to go out every single day and pitch no matter what the situation may be.
What’s new about the team this year? PP: This year, we have a new mental conditioning coach named Brian Cain. He is considered one of the best mental conditioning coaches in all of baseball. We have adopted this new philosophy about focusing on the present before looking at the future in our season. He is very energetic and a lot of fun to be around. He helps us get energized and at practices and while competing. He has allowed us to help each other find new ways to grow and get better during practices so we can be prepared for any and every game we have. What has been Coach Bob Whalen’s focus in training? PP: It is similar to last year’s training. We always have conditioning twice a week, but this year we have focused more on power instead of just agility and conditioning. We have been working with our strength and conditioning coach Kelly Cosgrove. It has challenged us to get stronger and faster and hopefully a little more
What makes a great relief pitcher? PP: You should start pitching first — the coaches have to put you in the position to get there. All I do when I go out there is to try and throw as many strikes as I can and put the ball in play. I don’t try and stretch many guys out. In a tough situation, you should throw the ball wherever you want and know that your teammates will be there to pick the play for you. What aspects of the game do you pride yourself on? PP: Hard work. It is tough to practice two to three hours every single day, and you can get lazy at times. Our team is trying to stay focused and give our best at practice and in competition. I aim not to get too nervous when the stakes are high and work well in pressure situations. How do you think you have grown since freshman year both as a player on the baseball team and as an athlete at Dartmouth? PP: I think I have become a little less
How did it feel to be named to the 2017 Stopper of the Year Watch List? PP: It’s exciting. It doesn’t mean a ton. It is very much appreciated, but I haven’t devoted too much attention to it. I’m more focused on what baseball holds for me and my teammates for the rest of the year and in seeing what happens. What do you wish to accomplish before the end of your baseball career at Dartmouth? PP: I definitely want our team to win an Ivy League Championship. I also want us to place within the College World Series; that has been one main goal I have had since my freshman year. I hope next year I can do something special before I graduate. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.