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VOL. CLXXIII NO.16

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016

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Fraternity rush concluded Sunday Jan. 17 as men accepted their bids at houses.

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Two Dartmouth professors win at BioArts competition

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Over half of Interfraternity Council fraternities participated in recruitment, which ended Sunday, Jan. 17, IFC president Sam Macomber ’16 said.

Macomber said that winter rush is generally smaller that fall rush, with fewer men and fewer houses participating in the process. He added that participation and the number of bids extended this winter has remained constant when compared to previous years.

“The vibe of winter recruitment is different, there’s a smaller

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In addition to innovative and influential discovery, scientific research can also generate stunning images, biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot said. Two Dartmouth research labs, led by Guerinot and fellow biology professor Thomas Jack, proved this in their 2015 BioArt competition wins for their magnified photos of Arabidopsis thaliana, a flowering plant.

Hosted by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, the annual competition aims to highlight the beauty of biological research and bring images out of the laboratory and into the public eye, according to the FASEB website. Among the 11 winners were images featuring chick embryos, cancer cells, bacterial colonies and representations of brain activity.

Guerinot said her team, which includes biology professor Tracy Punshon and graduate student

Suzana Car, studies how plants take up metals from the soil. Plants and seeds are the major source of micronutrients for most organisms, and Guerinot’s lab is looking at how increasing metal uptake in plants can alleviate nutritional deficiencies, she said. Higher concentrations of iron in rice, for example, could help solve iron deficiency, she said.

Guerinot said she identifies genes that contribute to metal intake and examines natural variations and mutations.

To conduct these experiments, Guerinot relies on synchrotrons — particle accelerators that emit high energy X-ray beams that cause the metals in the plants to fluoresce.

Synchrotrons are located at specific facilities run by the United States Department of Energy that her team travels to, including the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource in Stanford, California and Advanced Photon Source in Lemont, Illinois.

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College works with NSF on Antarctic program

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Sponsored in part by the College, a number of United States and Chilean high school students are traveling in Antarctica as part of a new initiative named the Joint Antarctic School Expedition.

The 10 day trip from Jan. 17 to Jan. 27, sponsored by a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant and the Chilean government, aims to inspire the next generation of polar scientists through “hands-on field experiences and cultural exchange,”

outreach coordinator for the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and main organizer for JASE Lauren Culler said Students met in Miami on Jan. 17, then traveled to Santiago, Chile on Jan. 19. There, they met with United States Ambassador to Chile before continuing on to Antarctica.

Erin McConnell ’17 , who works with the Institute of Arctic Studies in the Ice Core Lab, was excited that the College and the NSF are getting high school students involved in Antarctic programs and that the

program will expose the students to more field work in the sciences.

JASE sent Chilean students and four American students to King George Island in the Antarctic where they will learn about scientific research conducted in Escuderos, a Chilean research base. The entire program is in Spanish — American participants were also required to be fluent in Spanish.

The program began when the NSF reached out to the College with the goal of engaging young people in science, technology, engineering and math. This program specifi-

cally focuses on exploring cuttingedge polar science and getting high school students excited about arctic studies, engineering professor and co-principal investigator on the NSF grant Mary Albert said.

Albert said that she thinks it is important for the students in the program to interact with students from other countries and to see that the opportunity for research on large scale problems such as climate change and global energy is within their grasp. Student activity on the SEE JASE PAGE 3

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DAILY DEBRIEFING In New Hampshire, Donald Trump is leading the Republican presidential polls by an average of 19.6 points and Bernie Sanders is leading the Democratic presidential race by 12.8 points, according to Real Clear Politics. . The New Hampshire primary is exactly two weeks away. Nationwide, Hillary Clinton is leading the Democratic presidential nomination by an average 13.2 points and Trump is leading the republican presidential nomination by an average 15.8 points, Real Clear Politics reported.

This week, Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, John Kasich and Donald Trump are campaigning throughout the Granite State. Christie is making four stops, Kasich is making 11 stops and Trump is visiting two places in New Hampshire, according to the New England Cable News 2016 primary candidate tracker.

The New Hampshire Republican party hosted a “Firstin-the-Nation Town Hall” event this weekend in Nashua. Seven major presidential candidates attended: Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore and Carly Fiorina, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

Donald Trump was not in attendance, as he was campaigning in Iowa.

The Union Leader also reported that many are calling for an additional Democratic debate in New Hampshire before the Feb. 9 primary. The New Hampshire Democratic party wrote an op-ed in the Union Leader last week, calling for candidates to hold an additional debate after the Iowa caucuses in the Granite State. The op-ed points to the fact that for 32 years a Democratic debate has been held after the Iowa primary and before New Hampshire caucuses. In separate interviews this week, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both seemed to back the idea of an additional debate, the Union Leader reported.

The New Hampshire attorney general is looking into John Kasich’s presidential campaign, which may have left pre-recorded political messages on the telephones of New Hampshire residents on the national “do not call” list, WMUR. com reported. A man from Amherst complained to the Attorney General’s office after he received one of these messages, often called “robocalls.” Former Attorney General Tom Rath, who is also a senior advisor in the Kasich campaign, said the calls were not precorded messages. Since they were initiated by live callers, he argued that they were legal. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office is currently investigating the situation.

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BioArt shows beauty of science FROM BIO PAGE 1

vated genes in young flower buds that determine which cells will form Researchers submit proposals com- specific parts of the flower. Jack colpeting for 72-hour blocks of time laborated with California Institute with the synchrotrons, she said. of Technology biology professor During these limited time frames Elliot Meyerowitz and Nat Prunet, at the facility, Guerinot’s team will a Caltech postdoctoral researcher usually stay up all night to generate and former Dartmouth graduate about 30 student. The i m a g e s . “The whole idea of BioArt image also They deplaced ninth cided to is to show people science in the Nikon s u b m i t can be beautiful. It draws Small World an image photomifrom one people’s attention and crog raphy of these makes them question — competition. sessions Jack t o t h e you look at a leaf and you said his lab B i o A r t don’t really think about looks at flowcompetier develoption, she where the metals are, but ment, how said. Car we do.” genes dedelivtermine the ered the for mation w i n n i n g - MARY LOU GUERINOT, BIOLOGY of organs B i o A r t PROFESSOR and where image at boundaries the Naform betional Synchrotron Light Source tween different cells. in Upton, New York.

Prunet, who previously worked The photo shows a heat map of in Jack’s lab, took the photo with zinc levels in an Arabidopsis leaf, a confocal microscope, showing with high concentrations of zinc fluorescent areas in the bud exrevealed in white spots throughout pressing different genes. Green the leaf. This was the first time her areas will develop into stamens, lab has entered an image into a the male organs of the plant, and science photography competition, red areas will become pistils, the Guerinot said. female organs, Prunet said. The “It was a great coincidence that gene represented by red suppresses two people at Dartmouth won,” the masculinizing gene in green, she added. allowing the female organs to form, The image from Jack’s team also he said. features Arabidopsis, showing acti- Jack added that this particular

experiment was done to study the degree to which these genes overlap and determine how many cells expressed both genes.

He said the photos his lab generates are usually meant to be published in scientific papers, but they decided to submit this particular photo to competitions because of its “striking” quality.

Prunet said he enjoys the visual aspect of microscopy and recently became interested in the intersection between art and science.

“There’s an artistic part of my job which I really like, even though it’s science,” he said.

Punshon wrote in an email that these microimages provide a unique glimpse into the biochemistry of plants, inspiring both researchers and the general public.

She added that the team is looking for more avenues to showcase similar images that might otherwise not be published.

“The images we generate are often very beautiful, and they show a dimension that we don’t see in life,” Punshon said. “It also engages non-scientists and lay people to the beauty of the natural world and to science as a way of describing it.”

Guerinot said she appreciates the publicity the competition has generated for her research.

“The whole idea of BioArt is to show people science can be beautiful,” she said. “It draws people’s attention and makes them question — you look at a leaf and you don’t really think about where the metals are, but we do.”

Winter rush sees smaller numbers FROM RUSH PAGE 1

number so it tends to be more of a low-key process,” Macomber said.

Macomber said he thought it was important to reach out to as many students as possible during the rush process, exposing interested students to a large number of houses. He also emphasized the importance of new member orientation following the actual rush process.

Macomber said that most people who go through winter rush have a better idea of which house they intend to go to since there are fewer houses available.

“The difference with winter rush is that new members tend to have more of a connection to the house that they’re joining because they’ve had more time to get to know them,” Macomber said.

Macomber said that recruitment this winter could have been slightly different since Kappa Kappa Kappa will have a “new and beautiful house” this spring, which may have attracted more members.

Tri-Kap extended five bids, which

was slightly higher than the three extended last winter.

Keaton Renta ’16, president of TriKap, said he thinks that one reason a number of people rush in the winter is because they were away in the fall.

He added that he hopes the winter members have a similar reception from brothers as the fall members did.

“I think that all brothers, including members from the fall, need to be really exited and welcoming to the winter rush class because they are small so they might feel a little isolated but most importantly to be as welcoming to them as we were to the fall guys,” he said.

Tim Connor ’18 said he rushed in the winter because he was abroad during the fall term. He said that he went into rush with four fraternities in mind and visited all of those houses during rush. He ultimately committed to Tri-Kap. He said that despite thinking that winter rush is more selective, he enjoyed the process.

“I thought it was mostly positive,” Connor said. “Rush is inherently stressful by nature, but to be honest, I

actually think I really liked the sort of low-key aspects of winter rush.”

He said he thought that winter rush was more relaxed due to the lower volume of people compared to fall rush.

“There’s less houses full of 30 kids every night trying to meet all the brothers and go through all the social hoops of rushing,” Connor said.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which held winter rush in 2014, did not hold rush this year, president Adam Grounds ’16 said.

Last year, Alpha Chi Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities extended two bids each, Chi Gamma Epsilon and Tri-Kap extended three and Zeta Psi extended seven.

This past fall, about 350 men joined 14 fraternities.

Representatives of Alpha Chi, Sig Ep, Chi Gam and Sigma Nu — fraternities that held winter rush last year — did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Connor is a former member of the Dartmouth staff.

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Program sends high schoolers to Antarctic FROM JASE PAGE 1

program can include studying seals and penguins, viewing the growth of moss, grass and algae, visiting fisheries and traveling on a ship along the coast to see the effects of climate change on the glaciers first hand, she added.

Since many countries have research centers around King George Island, the program provides high school participants with the chance to meet students and scientists from around the world, Albert said.

High school students are learning what scientists’ lives are like, what equipment they use and how international scientists conduct their research, Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies director and organizer of JASE Ross Virginia said. He added that the program exposes the students to a vast set of questions and opportunities, and that students share their experiences with others and fuel their interest in science.

Programs like JASE are a perfect way to bring United States high school students and the College together to engage with international scientific communities, he said.

Albert said that it is significant that the program sends students to the Antarctic because the region influences “global energy balance” and serves as “an amplifier” for climate change.

Virginia echoed this sentiment, saying that because the Antarctic glaciers melt, the albedo — the fraction of solar energy reflected from the Earth back into space — decreases and creates a feedback loop in which Earth warms at an increasing rate. As the ice melts, it is important to come up with

a sustainable way to extract the previously untapped resources, particularly oil and gas, as they become available, he said.

In regards to Dartmouth’s engagement in the program, Virginia said that the NSF reached out to Dartmouth because of the scientists here and the College’s “leadership in polar science.”

Programs like JASE are a way for the College to gain recognition and recruit the best high school students worldwide, especially since a number of participants in the College’s past Arctic and Antarctic programs are attending Dartmouth, he added.

The College’s engagement in programs like JASE is important as the Arctic programs funded by the NSF or NASA usually have the College’s Ph.D. students working as faculty for the program, Albert said.

The program also fits into the larger goals of the Dickey Center, Virginia added. One of the Dickey Center’s goals is to bring international communities together through cooperative science and this Antarctic studies program is “perfect” for this purpose, he said.

He added that JASE is a way to bring “Dartmouth out to the world,” which fulfills one of the Dickey Center’s goals of engaging internationally through polar science.

The JASE program is one of two programs that the NSF supports through its grant to the Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies. While JASE takes high school students to the Antarctic the second program, the Joint Science Education Project, takes high school students to Greenland.

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Students and professors attend a lecture on neuroscience.

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STAFF COLUMNIST DAN FISHBEIN ’19

STAFF COLUMNIST WILLIAM PETERS ’15

An Unhealthy Obsession

Sanders’ Money Problem

Embattled Patriots fanboy struggles with more than just his team’s loss.

If you had seen me this past Sunday afternoon, you might have thought that I was in need of serious medical attention. I sweated profusely, my hands shook and my heartbeat reached levels it hadn’t attained even during my earlier gym. My New England Patriots — whose star quarterback Tom Brady has been the subject of my idolization for the entirety of my conscious memory — were trailing their rivals the Denver Bronocs, led by Brady’s rival Peyton Manning, 20–12 with just about six minutes to go in the AFC Championship. As the Patriots’ season ultimately slipped away and we failed to go to the Super Bowl for the second year in a row, I felt devastated.

Still embattled with grief over the loss, I questioned why I do this to myself. I’m totally fine being a sports fan in general; with the heartbreak comes moments of sheer jubilation, like when the Boston Red Sox ended their World Series drought in 2004 or when Kevin Garnett famously roared at the rafters as he led the Boston Celtics to their 17th banner in 2008. What I’m really mad at myself for, rather, is caring so much about football, a sport mired in the concussion crisis. During the game, an addict whose heartbeat rose and fell with each of the Patriots’ successes and failures, I jonesed for victory. Yet, I have serious questions about the future of my fandom, the safety of my idols, my school’s support of such a dangerous game and my country’s addiction to this loosely disguised violence.

How do I rationalize my addiction, and make it so that I can sit through four hours of violence on a typical winter weekend? Brady and the rest of the NFL are grown men who put their bodies on the line every weekend during the season but also earn millions of dollars for doing so. They have the right to do so, or at least in my rationalization they do. As time goes by, new football controversies seem to surface every year – from the Carolina Panthers’ homophobic taunting of the New York Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. to the numerous domestic violence disputes involving players that have played out this past season. In light of all this, both this rationalization and my continued fandom begin to fall apart.

That’s why, when I meet someone who plays

on the Big Green football team or talk to friends here who played football in high school, I can’t help but imagine what they’ll be like in 10 or 15 years, when chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a disease that has been found in people as young as 17 — ­ catches up with many of them.

I question why my college, which prides itself on preparing students for the future, also prides itself on the conference championship of its football team and question whether Dartmouth and the Ivy League have and are continuing to address the concussion issue. Although we might be able to justify Brady and Edelman returning from the field on Sundays’ banged up but with millions of dollars in their pockets, I find it much more difficult to accept the fact that the articulate linebacker sitting next to me in philosophy class is subjecting himself to the same brain damage.

Even after all of this, I’m sure I’ll still watch the Super Bowl in two weeks and would be surprised if I don’t attend some Dartmouth football games next fall. I can’t just turn my back on football. I challenge anyone to come forward and say that football has meant more to them as a fan than it has to me. I was raised on New England football.

I live right outside Worcester, Massachusetts, the snowiest city in the country last year. During the winter, when the sun only stays out for what feels like four hours a day, there’s not much to keep you going through the weekly grind other than the promise of Brady and the Patriots on Sunday. I learned how you sometimes just get lucky from the Ice Bowl in 2001, snickered with my friends after the Janet Jackson – Justin Timberlake fiasco during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004, and went from desolation in 2007 and 2011 when my grandfather’s New York Giants beat us in the Super Bowl to euphoria in 2014 when we finally redeemed ourselves with a championship for the first time in a decade over the Seattle Seahawks.

You could write a movie in the same vein as “Boyhood” (2014) featuring my coming-of-age in conjunction with Patriots football.

I’m addicted to football, and much of American society suffers the same fate. But to get started on our road to recovery, we must admit that we have a problem.

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The socialist’s mission to reform campaign finance is no small task.

The fiery rhetoric of Bernie Sanders has set ablaze the hearts of young voters across the country. The Vermont senator’s strategy of late has been to target the current campaign finance system, a product of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which affirms the rights of non-profits to spend on candidates’ behalf.

Sanders points to current campaign finance structures as the cause of the majority of our nation’s ills. Sanders argues that if elected officials were not so focused on fundraising, they would be far better legislators. He wants to revolutionize our political system, eliminating the ability of big banks, Wall Street and Super PACs to “buy” candidates and elections. While this may be the best vision for our country, realistically, it is unlikely to happen anytime soon, even if Sanders were to be elected.

At the press conference prior to his town hall meeting in Spaulding Auditorium on Jan. 14, I asked Sanders if as president he would go so far as to push for a constitutional amendment to override the decision on Citizens United. He said he would, and that he had already introduced such an amendment in January 2015.

Senate Joint Resolution 4 would: “Protect the integrity and fairness of the electoral process, limit the corrupting influence of private wealth in public elections and guarantee the dependence of elected officials on the people alone by taking actions which may include the establishment of systems of public financing for elections, the imposition of requirements to ensure the disclosure of contributions and expenditures made to influence the outcome of a public election by candidates, individuals, and associations of individuals, and the imposition of content neutral limitations on all such contributions and expenditures.”

Anyone with a decent moral compass and a desire to see the nation progress as a leader of the democratic world could get on board with this. Sanders has been relentlessly touting this kind of legislation; however, it went to committee a year ago, and no action has been made since. With gridlock and dependency on wealthy donors, little is likely to occur while Sanders is campaigning, even if the people at his rallies love cheering for campaign finance reform.

Elected officials’ fear of losing their financial backing is potent in Washington, and in statehouses across the country. Sanders cites the example of his Republican colleagues of the Senate health committee who have listened to testimony from doctors about cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, pointing out that they do not question the science being presented to them by experts. However, when it comes to issues such as climate change, Republicans dismiss scientific evidence, not because of disbelief, but because donors from the fossil fuel sector are often financial backers. The current state of campaign finance does not simply compromise the integrity of elections, but the integrity of the legislative process as well. Such influence does indeed endanger our democracy. Having the Koch

brothers, the Walton family and Wall Street executives shape decisions on the economy, healthcare, defense, and foreign policy behind closed doors is a blight of the democratic process, and I agree with Sanders that it needs to end.

Sanders believes that if we were to eliminate the influence of wealthy donors, we would have a more productive democracy for the benefit of the people instead of the “mockery of one person, one vote,” created

by Citizens United. There is nothing fair and equal about a few wealthy families having the ability to decide who the candidates are with millions of dollars while the rest of the electorate can only wait to cast a vote. The question is not about whether or not Sanders’s philosophy is correct, but rather if it is likely to become a reality. During the first January Democratic Primary debate, Sanders attacked rival candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her taking around $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, a company that has lobbied congress to cut social security. But Sanders is not safe from big money either, at least not politically. National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union has spent more than $550,000 on advertising in support of Sanders’s campaign. Communications Workers of America, another major labor union, recently endorsed Sanders and said they would respect the candidate’s wishes, but use all “legal and possible” means to get him elected. Though these and similar organizations supporting Sanders are made of middle-class people and denounce the title “Super PAC,” they are still considered as such according to the FEC. While Sanders may continue to reject big money, the fact remains that he is going to need it to secure the nomination, let alone to continue funding a campaign through Nov. 8. My bet is that he’ll need that money in the final stretch, even if he doesn’t like it.

Even if Sanders sits in the Oval Office, getting a Republican-controlled Congress to walk away from their financial support will be a nearly impossible task. Sanders’s popularity with young voters suggests that the younger generations support his platform, but there are still other demographics that would need to get on board to get him elected and actually pass legislation that changes the system.

Clinton is still the frontrunner in many states, and it might be that her candidacy presents a more realistic policy agenda, which will eventually secure her the nomination. However, if Sanders loses, he would have still changed the political dialogue. His loss would not invalidate the fact that Sanders, a long-shot candidate, made a serious challenge to an established party figure while being funded largely by the middle-class, with individual contributions averaging $27. His run shows that Sanders can advocate for campaign finance reform on the national stage while holding onto millions of supporters. If he loses, his loss would set the stage for other major advocates of reform who could create change in Congress, and even run a serious campaign in 2020.

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Track and field tops Yale and Columbia in home meet

By CHRIS SHIM

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The men’s and women’s track and field teams defeated Ivy League rivals Columbia and Yale Universities in a tri-meet on Jan. 23 at Leverone Field House. On the men’s side, Dartmouth won with 89 points to Columbia’s 53 and Yale’s 39. The Dartmouth women won with 88 points over Columbia’s 50 and Yale’s 42. The trimeet marked the third straight meet in as many weeks held at Leverone.

“There’s not really a lot of headto-head competition between the Ivy League teams in track and field, so this was a rare opportunity for us to match up against Yale and Columbia,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick ’77 said.

Women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze echoed similar sentiments.

“The level of intensity this week was much higher since we were competing against two Ivies,” FordCentonze said.

The Big Green women recorded victories in two events from both Jen Meech ’16 and Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16. Meech won the 200-meter in 24.75 seconds and 400-meter in 55.82 seconds, while Whitehorn took home wins in the 60-meter dash in 7.58 seconds and the high jump with 5-7.0-feet/1.70-meter.

Whitehorn mentioned that while the team did not rest or taper for the meet, she was still pleased with both her own performance and those of the team.

“The meet went well in terms of team scoring, but individually we still have much to work on,” Whitehorn said. “We didn’t rest in preparation for the meet, a point to be considered when reflecting on individual performances. However, if we can finish first against Yale and Columbia while tired, we can definitely finish first at [the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships] with rest.”

The women’s team also received victories on the track from Aliyah Gallup ’17 in the 500-meter with 1:15.57 and the 4x400-meter relay team of Marissa Evans ’18, Kayla Gilding ’19, Katy Sprout ’17 and Allison Frantz ’18, which won in 3:52.54.

Gilding also took home the long jump title, soaring to 17-8.0-feet/5.38meter. Amelia Ali ’19 won the weight throw in 50-0.75-feet/15.26-meter and placed second in the shot put with a 38-10.50-foot/11.85-meter throw.

The Big Green men received wins on the track from Lloyd May ’18 in the 200-meter in 22.57 seconds, Amos Cariati ’18 in the 500-meter in 1:05.45, Joey Chapin ’16 in the mile in 4:19.64 and Pat Gregory ’18 in the 3000-meter in 8:27.00.

“It was a solid rust buster and I think it was a good tune up for the bigger meets to come in Boston,” Gregory said of his win in the

3000-meter. “Plus, it’s always great to run and win against other Ivy League teams.”

Dartmouth received five individual wins in the field events from Max Cosculluela ’17 in the pole vault with 16-00.75-feet/4.90-meter, Nico Robinson ’17 in the long jump with 22-4.5-feet/6.82-meter, Corey Muggler ’17 in the triple jump with 49-9.0-feet/15.16-meter, Lucas Ribeiro ’19 in the shot put with 54-04.75-feet/16.58-meter and Colin Minor ’18 in the weight throw with 56-0.0-feet/17.07-meter.

Both coaches were especially pleased with how the freshmen athletes performed. Harwick pointed out that the team also benefitted from the debut performance of Justin Donawa ’19, who is also a member of the soccer team at Dartmouth. “[Donawa] jumped over 47 feet in the triple jump with just a week’s worth of practice,” Harwick said.

“He’ll form a great 1-2 with Corey Muggler in the triple jump for us.”

The teams came off of a team victory against the University of Maine and the University of Vermont one week prior on Jan. 16. The men’s team won with 83 points and the women’s team won with 87 points.

“For some athletes that weren’t quite ready to jump in and compete at the Dartmouth Relays, [the meet against Maine and Vermont] was good chance for us to give them a chance to compete,” Harwick said.

The coaching staff emphasized how important and convenient competing at Leverone is to the teams.

In addition to the familiarity of the location, they also emphasized how running on a supposedly slower flat track such as Leverone’s as opposed to a faster banked one can actually benefit the athletes. Meets on slower flat tracks are converted in order to standardize them to times run on banked tracks.

“Next week, when we go to [Boston University], which is a banked track, we can use our seed times from our track and we get better seed times that will put us in better heats and give us a better chance,” Ford-Centonze said.

Although Hanover avoided the blizzard that hit much of the northeastern United States this past weekend, the Columbia team was forced to stay in Hanover an extra night because of the snow in New York, Harwick said.

According to the coaching staff, next weekend, the teams will split up, with some of the athletes going to Boston University’s Terrier Classic and the throwers going to compete at the University of New Hampshire.

The women will compete at the Terrier Classic on Friday, Jan. 29, while the men will compete on Saturday, Jan. 30. The throwers will compete at New Hampshire on Jan. 30 as well.

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Men’s track ran at home this past weekend against Columbia and Yale Universities in Leverone Field House.

PB AND JAMS

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The Programming Board hosts an open meeting in Collis Common Ground on Monday to plan spring music events.

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 12:30 p.m.

“Eric Aho’s Ice Cuts,” University of Vermont professor Kathleen Osgood, Hood Museum of Art

4:00 p.m.

“The Future of Digital Learning: A View from the Liberal Arts,” Joshua Kim Ph.D, Borwell 658 West, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

4:15 p.m.

Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Personal and Societal Well-being,” Munmun de Choudhury, Kemeny 008

TOMORROW 3:45 p.m.

“Migration to Germany: Ist Deutschland ein Einwanderungsland?”

Nisha Kommattam, Dartmouth Hall 104A

4:30 p.m.

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New student band, Half the City, performs on campus band, Some Kind of Jet Pilot, for two years, with Sridhar occasionally The Dartmouth joining them.

Since forming in the fall, student Sridhar is also a former member band Half the City has played in a of the a cappella group the Dartnumber of campus events including mouth Decibelles and is currently BarHop, Thetaroo and Friday Night in D-Style, Dartmouth’s freestyle rap Rock last week. The band primarily and comedy performance group. plays covers of songs from a wide- Silva played with the Eupherange of genres, including funk, misms, a student band that saw many pop-rock, gospel and hip-hop. members graduate last year.

The founding Half the City “We were looking at this year and members include Latika Sridhar ’16 we were like, what can we do that will on lead vocals, Brendan Barth ’17 on be really fun with a bunch of people the saxophone, who have played Daniel Shanker music, and we ’16 and Ted Ow- “We were looking at just decided to ens ’16 on the this year and we were put together guitar, Moises something new,” like, what can we do Silva ’16 on the Cetron said. drums and Josh that will be really fun A l Cetron ’16 on with a bunch of people though Some the bass. Half Kind of Jet Pithe City brought who have played music, lot focused on in trumpet play- and we just decided to writing and er Kathryn Wayoriginal put together something playing choff ’16 this music, Half the winter to fill in new,” City decided to for Barth while move in a difhe is abroad in ferent direction -JOSH CETRON ’16, HALF New Zealand. and started off Prior to the THE CITY BASS PLAYER mainly playing for mation of covers, in order Half the City, to jump-start the each member of the band had process of putting a new band on its already participated in the campus feet. music scene. Owens, Shanker and “We really wanted to have someCetron played together in a student thing we could have a lot of fun with

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really quickly,” Cetron said. “Playing covers gives you an opportunity to do that.”

Owens added that writing and playing original music is simultaneously enjoyable and stressful, agreeing that playing covers has been a positive experience for both the band and their audience.

“When you play original music, you’re really exposing yourself in a lot of ways,” Owens said. “That’s part of what makes it a lot of fun, that you’re displaying both your live musicianship and your songwriting abilities, but it’s also stressful when you’re on stage and you’re wondering how it’s going to be received, so just starting off with covers has allowed us to have a ton of fun, and I think the people who have come to our shows have enjoyed it too.”

However, Half the City is looking to slowly incorporate a few original pieces into its repertoire. The band wants to work on originals and looks to have a diverse set this year, Cetron said.

The band aims to play in four to five shows per term. Last fall, the group performed at a few fraternities, BarHop, Sarner Underground and One Wheelock.

Half the City played their first show of the winter term at FNR in Sarner Underground on Jan 15.

The band opened for another student band, Cafuné, from New York

University.

City try to include a range of genres FNR general manager Tyler Fritz while also taking into account the ’16, who booked the band for FNR, nature of the venue. was also responsible for booking the The band utilizes its repertoire band for BarHop in the fall. of covers of familiar and popular “They always do a really good job songs when playing in venues where when they play,” Fritz said. people like to dance, whereas, in Fr i t z e x quieter venues, plained that the “Places like One they can play pairing made an “exhibition sense because Wheelock and BarHop show.”

Half the City not give us the opportunity “Placonly had similar es like One musical origins to play an exhibition Wheelock and and a compat- show, where we try to BarHop give ible sound to Caus the opporshow off our skill.” funé, but also tunity to play could gar ner an exhibition new interest for -MOISES SILVA ’16, HALF show, where we the venue among try to show off the Dartmouth THE CITY DRUMMER our skill,” Silva student body. said. “ T h e y While brought in a new demographic of none of the members of Half the City people that might not normally plan on pursuing a career in music come to Friday Night Rock shows, after graduating from Dartmouth, so we had them for the first show of they all expressed interest in having the term,” Fritz said. “Some people, music continue to play a role in their who have never been to FNR before, lives post-graduation. came to see their friends in a band.” “I don’t think any of us are going to Half the City welcomed the op- stop doing music,” Owens said. “It’s portunity to play with a band from going to be hard to stop because it’s outside Dartmouth. such a fun part of all of our lives.”

“Opening for outside acts forces Half the City will next take the us to have a high standard for our stage for a two hour set at the Fresh music,” Shanker said. event organized by the Dartmouth When putting together a set list for Organic Farm and the Dartmouth each show, the members of Half the Sustainability Project on Feb. 6.

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Members of Half the City opened for Casual Thursday this fall term. From left, Daniel Shanker ’16 on guitar, Moises Silva ’16 on drums and Ted Owens ’16 also on guitar.

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SPORTS

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No athletic events scheduled

Men’s hockey sweeps weekend to extend win streak to five

By SAM STOCKTON The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s hockey team traveled to central New York and knocked off both Cornell and Colgate Universities to extend their season-long win streak to five.

Building off of its momentum from a strong start to the New Year, the Big Green was able to topple this pair of ECAC rivals.

“Everything seems to be clicking right now,” Troy Crema ’17 said.

“Charles Grant [’16] in net has been really solid. We’re getting really timely scoring — in both games this weekend we had a goal in back-to-back shifts, which helped our momentum carry through the weekend. Everyone has bonded together as a team, and we’re getting even more momentum.”

Since the start of 2016, the Big Green has won seven of eight games and is playing its best hockey of the season, particularly in the team’s own end of the rink. The team has not allowed more than two goals in a single game during this window, realizing its goal of being one of the best defensive teams in the country.

“There’s been a big emphasis on our defensive zone and playing in our defensive zone the right way,” Grant Opperman ’17 said.

“Once we got back from break, we’ve spent a lot of time practicing in our defensive zone with hopes that we could clean up our zone, be efficient in the zone and have the puck more, which obviously leads to more offense. I think we’ve seen that happen on our win streak, and we’ve been scoring a lot more goals.”

On Friday night in Ithaca, the Big Green continued its strong defensive play, earning a 3-0 shutout victory. Kevan Kilistoff ’19 opened the scoring early in the second period, finding the back of the net for the first time in his Dartmouth career. Kilistoff ’s goal, assisted by Brett Patterson ’16 and Opperman, came when a centering feed from Patterson glanced off Kilistoff ’s stick before ricocheting off a Cornell defender’s skate and past Big Red netminder Mitch Gillam. The goal was reviewed before eventually being upheld and would end up as the gamewinner. Thirty-seven seconds after Kilistoff ’s strike, Crema doubled

the Big Green’s lead with his third goal of the season.

Throughout the night, the Big Green controlled the game, outshooting its Ivy League and ECAC rivals by a count of 2918. The team knew that it had to adjust to Cornell’s significant size advantage.

“They’re a huge team,” Crema said. “I think their smallest [nongoalie starter] is listed at 6’2” or something like that. We knew we had to get the puck around them, and we take pride in our transition game. We were able a couple times to move the puck quickly up to our forwards and get some good oddman rushes out of it. Eventually we got a couple lucky bounces and some goals.”

Opperman, who is listed at 6’1”, also noted the Big Red’s size.

“I remember going through the handshake line and looking up at a lot of their guys,” he said.

After allowing eight shots in the game’s opening frame, the Big Green surrendered just ten over the game’s final 40 minutes.

Goaltender Grant stopped all Cornell shots to earn his second shutout of the season, with the first coming in a 3-0 victory over Merrimack College that clinched the 27th Annual Ledyard Classic for the Big Green.

“Chuck’s been great,” Crema said. “He’s just a stud right now.

He’s backstopping us back there.

His presence creates an amazing atmosphere on the ice that does great things for our team dynamic.

He’s an amazing goalie and we’re happy to have him right now.”

After controlling their victory over Cornell from the start, the Big Green faced a new challenge when they traveled to Hamilton, New York to take on the Raiders.

Colgate raced out of the gate to present Dartmouth with a twogoal deficit before the game was six minutes old.

“Colgate came out strong,” Crema said. “For some reason, they’ve kind of handed it to us the last couple years, and they came out with two quick goals. That kind of put us back on our heels, but the momentum of the streak and the bond that we’ve created helped us form together and be strong and play our game. By the end of the game, we were victorious.”

The Big Green’s captain em-

phasized the team’s focus on playing the way it had been playing throughout the New Year.

“After they scored two goals, we just made sure everyone stayed calm and stuck to our game,” captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 said.

“We did the things that made us successful so far. We got back to getting pucks in deep and on net, and we were rewarded with two nice goals midway through the first. After that we just came out and played a solid team game and came out with the win.”

Not even two minutes after a Mike Borkowksi goal gave Colgate a 2-0 lead, Crema notched his second goal of the weekend to cut the Raider lead in half. On the next shift, Carl Hesler ’18 tallied his sixth goal of the season, and the Big Green tied the game.

After a scoreless second period, Tim O’Brien ’16 notched his first goal of the season, assisted by

River Rymsha ’18 and Crema, early in the game’s final stanza to give Dartmouth its first lead of the night. From there, the team would survive three straight penalties to seal a 3-2 victory. Once again, Grant authored a strong performance in net, turning aside 28 shots en route to the victory.

Grant was particularly impressive as the Raiders mounted a late rush, attempting to tie the game late.

The pair of wins improved the Big Green’s overall record to 10-8-1 (7-5-0 in the ECAC) and showed that the team could take its newfound momentum on the road. Going into the weekend, the team was just 2-6-1 on the road with its only loss in the New Year away against the University of Vermont. In central New York, the Big Green built on its impressive 2016 and earned two critical victories.

“Going on the road is always

tough, especially in the ECAC, because there are so many strong teams,” Crema said. “Having that homestead for the last six games or so helped us gather confidence as a team and the momentum from that allowed us to get a couple big wins on the road.”

Patter son emphasized the importance of not changing the team’s style of play away from Thompson Arena.

“We came in expecting to win and play the style we’ve been playing at home,” he said. “We didn’t let the away barn change our preparation and the way we came to play.”

Despite the pair of wins, the team remains tied for fifth place in the ECAC. Next weekend, the Big Green will play host to Quinnipiac University, the country’s top ranked team, and rival Princeton University with four more crucial conference points on the line.

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The men’s team seeks to continue its success this upcoming weekend at home against Quinnipiac and Princeton Universities.