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Campus sees renovations

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Programming Board announces Green Key concert line-up

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Construction at Memorial Field is scheduled to be complete by the middle of the summer.

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Renovations of the Hood Museum of Art, the Hopkins Center and the stands at Memorial Field are currently underway or in the early stages of planning, vice president for campus planning and facilities Lisa

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the exterior facade of the stadium, which Hogarty described as “architecturally important to Hanover.”

The College wants to make the stands more accessible and comfortable for spectators, she said.

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Hogarty said.

The construction on the stands at Memorial Field is proceeding according to plan and should be completed by the middle of summer, Hogarty said.

The aim of the renovation is to modernize and update the structure of the stands, while maintaining

T-Pain, the Far East Movement and MisterWives will perform at this year’s Green Key concert, Programming Board president Chelsea Mandel ’15 confirmed yesterday.

Lupe Fiasco and Aer performed at the event last year, while A$AP Rocky, Shaggy and RSNY performed in 2013.

Each year Programming Board distributes an electronic survey to campus where students can vote on their preferences for artists, which is one of a number of factors considered when selecting artists, Programming Board concert chair Leif Harder ’15 wrote in an email.

He noted that in this year’s survey, the number of votes between the top two artists were only one to two percentage points apart.

Prior to selecting the performer line-up, the Programming Board also considers other factors, including artist affordability, availability, name recognition, the experiences other schools have had with the

artists and how well-received the artist would be at Dartmouth, Harder wrote.

He wrote that Programming Board needs to be particularly budget-conscious because it chooses not to charge for concert tickets, which is a norm at other schools.

Brown University’s Concert Agency holds a similar event known as Spring Weekend that requires students to purchase tickets. This year, Brown’s Concert Agency contracted Waka Flocka Flame, Modest Mouse, Pusha T and Yeasayer. Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania both charged students for their spring concerts, which featured Big Sean and Kesha, respectively.

Harder wrote that given that Programming Board is proud of the line-up it was able to schedule this year, particularly because it is able to provide a free concert for students.

Harder also said that while

Students entering cosponsored Greek events like tails will be greeted by one person from each house at the door, if a policy being developed by the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council is adopted.

The proposal, which is currently in its formative stages, would promote “universal responsibility” for campus safety and Greek events, Panhell vice president

for public relations Allison Chou ’17 said.

“Basically, when hosting an event, the organization who is physically hosting it should not have to assume all of the door duty responsibility,” Chou said.

In a statement jointly released by Panhell president Jordyn Turner ’16 and IFC president Chase Gilmore ’16, the two organizations announced their intention to assemble a committee to SEE DUTY PAGE 3

The Thayer School of Engineering and Technical University of Denmark are finalizing a proposal to create an exchange program between the two schools, Thayer assistant dean of academic and student affairs Holly Wilkinson said.

For the program to be finalized, it still needs final approval from Thayer faculty and to undergo a series of several arts and sciences faculty committees, Wilkinson said.

Pending the approval, the program will be advertised to

undergraduate students this fall, open for applications next winter for trips in the fall of 2016, Thayer Dean and engineering professor Joseph Helble said.

Wilkinson, Thayer faculty members and executive director of off-campus programs John Tansey are, in conjunction with partners at DTU, drafting a memorandum of understanding, the first step in the formation of a formal contract between the two institutions.

Thayer began its search for potential exchange program partners a year ago, Wilkinson said. The 25 schools in the initial pool were chosen for their

ranking among engineering programs and their offering of English-language courses, to ensure that the program would be accessible to most Dartmouth engineering students.

After the schools in the initial pool were selected, Wilkinson said the top four to five were chosen based on mutual interest in a partnership and the level to which the academic calendars aligned. She added that there was difficulty matching up Dartmouth’s quarter system with the semester systems of other schools.

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DAily debriefing Public higher education will feel the negative effects of tighter state budgets triggered by increasing costs of Medicaid, Inside Higher Education reported. In 2013, 15.6 percent of the overall state budget was spent on Medicaid, and spending is projected to grow to 17.9 percent by 2024 based on projection from Moody’s Analytics.

The increase in Medicaid costs is expected to occupy $60 billion of the state budgets over the next decade that could have otherwise been used for education. Public education funding is expected to decrease 0.2 percent, from 12.9 percent to 12.7 percent, by 2020.

Mike Castle, a former Republican governor and U.S congressman from Delaware said that while the decrease may seem small, it will present challenges for middle- and low-income families The Common Application may begin allowing colleges to ask applicants to which other schools they are applying, Inside Higher Education reported. In previous years, the National Association for College Admission Counseling has not allowed this type of question for fear that colleges will not make offers of admission based solely on applicant merits. Todd Rinehart, associate vice chancellor and director of admission at University of Denver and chair of NACAC’s Admission Practice Committee, argued that the question can pose potential problems. He believes that the student will be in a stressful situation where it is uncertain if they should report the schools they applied to accurately or lie to improve the likelihood of their acceptance. Interim chief executive officer of the Common Application said that although the NACAC bans colleges from asking their applicants to list order of preference in the Common Application, it permits colleges to ask applicants the other schools they applied to. According to Rinehart, many admission leaders have contacted him to express discontent.

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a large portion of the Programming Board’s annual budget is spent on the Green Key concert, the organization aims to spend portions of its budget to provide a variety of shows throughout the year. He added that of the budget for the Green Key concert, nearly 30 to 35 percent goes toward production costs, security and facility charges.

T-Pain has won two Grammy Awards and has been featured in over 50 chart-topping singles. He is performing at several other colleges for their spring shows this year, including Vanderbilt University, Duke University and Middlebury College.

Nick Thyr ’17 said that he has heard positive reviews about MisterWives from other students and is excited for Green Key. “I think T-Pain’s going to be great — he’s always seemed on the sillier side to me but, you know, it’s Green Key, have some fun,” he said.

Maya Wilcher ’16 said she was not thrilled when she was informed that T-Pain was booked for this year’s concert.

“I kind of thought it was going to be Walk the Moon. I don’t really know anything T-Pain sings,” she said.

Harder said MisterWives has recently been growing in popularity and

that Programming Board is excited about the variety of musical sounds the band will bring to the concert.

MisterWives was scheduled to perform at last fall’s Fallapalooza, which was also coordinated by the Programming Board, but was unable to perform due to the lead singer’s illness.

“Fortunately, MisterWives has a strong relationship with Dartmouth and enjoys performing here, and therefore promised to come back and perform for campus in the spring,” he wrote.

Phil Son ’16 said that he first saw

MisterWives when they performed last spring.

“I didn’t know them, but they were animated and brought a lot of energy so I’m looking forward to that,” Son said.

Several students interviewed expressed a lack of familiarity with the Far East Movement.

The concert kicks off with a student band the Euphemisms, followed by MisterWives, then the Far East Movement before closing with T-Pain.

The concert will be held on Gold Coast lawn on Friday, May 15 at 6 p.m.

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Lupe Fiasco performed at last year’s Green Key concert.

Two new studies found that college administrators generally respond to negative high-profile incidents to restore institution reputation, reports the Chronicle. The study, presented at the American Educational Research Association, argued that in efforts to improve reputations, college presidents do not address underlying prejudices on their campuses. The second study was conducted by interviewing college members’ bias-response teams. The interviews showed that the college bias-response teams did not spend a lot of time carrying out their primary function of educating the campus community, but instead viewed their positions as a public relations function work. The study also analyzed thirty college president responses to racist incidents and found that only five of the 30 presidents acknowledged racism as an underlying issue.

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Many support potential door duty policy FROM DUTY PAGE 1

draft an official version of the proposal which can be submitted to the Greek Leadership Council for approval before the end of the term.

The first iteration of the joint door duty policy was implemented over this past summer as a pilot program, Chou said. The proposal will aim to create a system “basically identical” to the one that existed over last summer and begin its implementation in the coming terms.

“The pilot program did run this past summer, and that was agreed upon by all the Greek presidents, and it was received with very positive feedback,” Chou said. “It was said to be really a productive policy and we’re hoping to build on that positive feedback.”

The goal of the policy is to promote safety and a broader Greek vision for inclusivity, GLC accountability chair Taylor Watson ’16 said. The Greek system, he said, is moving toward a social system more similar to those of small liberal arts colleges. At those schools, “social spaces are more like living rooms managed by stewards rather than a private fraternity house run by reckless fraternity members,” Watson said.

“We’re sort of at an in-between right now where obviously the old system was dangerous, unsustainable and exclusive, and we’re not quite at that future thing where it’s very inclusive, very safe and makes sense,” he said. “This is something that gets us in the direction.”

Watson said that while the policy will likely only call for co-hosting

groups to provide members to conduct door duties, it is likely that this will result in one male individual and one female individual performing those duties on a given night.

Watson said that if an intoxicated pair — for instance, a fraternity brother and a sister at a co-hosting sorority for an event — were to leave together, he would be less likely to stop the pair, whereas a sister of the same sorority might intervene more easily with her friend.

“I’m less likely to approach my brother and way less likely to approach her, [the sorority member],” he said.

“If you have a balance of genders on door duties, you have a balance of people who can intervene.”

Beta Alpha Omega fraternity president Joseph Geller ’16 echoed Watson’s sentiment.

“If a girl sees a girl leaving with a guy, and she is intoxicated, then a girl on door duty would stop it and a guy wouldn’t,” he said.

Geller expressed concern that it would be challenging to get students who had signed up for the door duties to show up to their duty.

“I’m not sure that 100 percent of the time you would get everybody who was supposed to be there,” Geller said.

Geller said that members may be reticent to attend to their door duties at events that do not take place at their organization’s physical plant. Watson said, however, that consequences could theoretically be put in place for non-compliant door duty participants.

“How each house handles it is sort of up to them in terms of what they have at their disposal as a penalty,”

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he said.

Watson, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said that his fraternity fines members who do not participate in duties to which they commit. He said he is aware of other organizations that remove social privileges for members who do not comply with house duties.

National sororities have less experience with door duties because they host fewer events at their physical plants, Watson said, which could present a challenge in implementing the policy. The new policy, however, could also encourage the completion of door duties, Watson said. Coed door duties can make door duties more fun and create a different dynamic, he said.

Geller said that the only major barrier he can imagine to the policy is attendance.

“I’m skeptical as to whether or not it’s possible,” he said.

Ultimately, the policy is expected to promote safety in Greek organizations, Watson said.

“This is a really good example of something that’s a small thing that pushes the Greek system in a good direction,” Watson said.

The presidents of Sigma Delta sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon and Theta Delta Chi fraternities declined to comment, and presidents of other Greek organizations did not return requests seeking comment.

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Adding Administrative Bloat

Nobody Rages, Ever

We have doubts about the necessity of the new vice provost position.

On April 13, Provost Carolyn Dever announced in a campus-wide email that interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer will serve as the College’s first vice provost for student affairs, effective July 1.

Dever confirmed that this was a “change of title” for Ameer, as nearly all of her responsibilities will travel with her to her new position. Meanwhile, the Dean of the College’s role will be significantly reduced — the next dean will mainly be in charge of academic initiatives, including the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plans for academic programming in residential life.

It is troubling that the College saw fit to create a new senior-level administrative position, and we have serious doubts as to the intentions and expediency of this decision.

The manner in which Dever chose to communicate this decision is unusual in and of itself. Announcing major changes to the responsibilities of the Dean of the College and the migration of most of its functions to a new position as a fait accompli obscures the details regarding how the decision was made. Moreover, since no apparent search was held to fill this position, it is likewise unclear why Ameer was selected in particular.

It would appear that Dever has essentially circumvented the traditional process of selecting a new dean by appointing Ameer to this new position, where she will, for all intents and purposes, serve as our next dean.

Dever has yet to provide details regarding the compensation for the vice provost and dean positions. We wonder whether, amid concerns of rising administrative costs, introducing yet another top-tier administrative salary would be prudent.

We also question the significant changes to the Dean of the College position that result from the creation of this vice provost position. The new dean will oversee the implementation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” residential housing system, consult with the provost on admissions and financial

aid and address diversity and inclusion in the academic experience — in total, not a particularly compelling job description for a top College administrator. Seemingly, the Dean of the College’s primary responsibility is now a residential life program that does not yet exist and whose long-term viability remains untested. Perhaps the College should have instead created a vice provost in charge of implementing the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiatives, if they alone warrant a dedicated administrator. Asking the Dean of the College to “lead a process to help” with admissions and financial aid planning strikes us as redundant — unless the College has forgotten that we already have a dean of admissions and financial aid. As for the initiatives that the dean will “convene” and the “partnerships” they will build across departments, we look forward to finding out what those buzzwords mean in practice.

Moreover, the new Dean of the College will be selected from among current faculty.

Given the sudden nature of this announcement, we wonder how thoroughly the College thought through this criterion. We have no indication of the number of faculty interested in taking on this administrative role or whether the College even sought faculty input. At the very least, we expect that the College spoke to a broad selection of potential candidates for the job — to get a sense of not only who exactly could take the new dean position, but who could excel in it.

This is a change that is directly tied to the undergraduate experience, and students deserve administrative transparency. And we cannot ignore the chief consequence of this change — a shell of its former self, “Dean of the College” will no longer be as distinguished a title. Even if our concerns are misplaced, this change allows Ameer to continue to perform the primary functions of her interim job via administrative diktat and bypasses any search committee process.

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Like the “nobody rages anymore” meme, current complaints are nothing new.

In her April 22 opinion column, “Difficult To Recognize,” Michelle Gil ’16 laments the dismal state into which the College has slowly sunken in the past three years ­— since the halcyon era of her senior-year college applications, the Dartmouth Outing Club’s First-Year Trips and orientation. A school that enchanted incoming members of the classes of 2015 and 2016 seems to have grown odious and gangrene as of late, as the talons of administrators lock in tighter on the throat of the Greek system, Dartmouth Dining Services oppresses students with pharaonic cruelty through five-dollar Odwallas and three-dollar cookies and Alpha Delta, the greatest fraternity in the history of the college — perhaps even the universe — falls like the last stronghold of the Roman Empire to the foreign powers of mainstream media and public image. Like the proverbial frogs who died in water brought slowly to a boil, we hesitated to speak up for ourselves with each passing term, watching things get worse and worse from behind the rim of a Keystone can.

It is hard not feel a little cheated by the whole affair, and I have no simple remedy to offer — except that we might consider how our nostalgia is symptomatic of a larger feature of the College’s history, namely that everything is constantly in flux. The phrase “nobody rages anymore” is a popular saying, one I’ve heard periodically since my first year, always with a note of semi-ironical despair. There is a sense that, in some bygone age, Dartmouth was a paradise of full-hearted partying and camaraderie, and this spirit has since been crushed and supplanted by timidity and NARPitude.

Someone is responsible, but it’s hard to say just who. Pointing fingers doesn’t help soothe the longing for Atlantis to return from below the seas of time and reassert itself in place of this sham of a “party school” we thought we chose to attend.

Interestingly, however, “nobody rages anymore” is no new meme. It’s been posted on Bored At Baker — the infamous, anonymous online forum — 236 times since I’ve last

checked. The site is only nine years old, and the earliest iteration of this meme is from eight years ago. In 2002, Liam Kuhn ’02 published an column in The Dartmouth titled “Nobody Rages Anymore” in which he bemoans the Student Life Initiative — last decade’s version of “Moving Dartmouth Forward” — the threats to the Greek system, the debunking of the “fabled Dartmouth experience,” the drop in quality of frat parties and the general postapocalyptic state of the campus. The rest of the column is a mostly modest reflection on the arbitrary nature of one’s college career — that, ultimately, it is what one makes of it.

I don’t think it is entirely right to capitulate and throw one’s belly up to the jaws of fortune, since I taste a lot of good salt in Gil’s complaint.

Much has been taken from us with little of our consent, making Yik Yak’s dystopian allusions not as playful as they seem. We’ve lost kegs, keg-jumping, Tubestock, first-year beanies, smoking cigars in class and almost all of the initiation traditions developed independently and cherished by student organizations. This has been going on not just for our generation, but the whole of Dartmouth’s history.

Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, wrote that you can never step in the same river twice. No one ever returns to the same college after a break, either. Wouldn’t it be bizarre if everything stayed precisely the same from day one until graduation? As some things get steadily worse, other things get steadily better. This matrix of change is what gives texture to life — it’s what makes holding on from day to day worth it. Gil’s column is so perfectly on-point that it misses the bigger picture. As students have discovered over and over again through the years, there is no stable “Dartmouth experience” to be had. No one rages anymore because no one ever really raged in the first place. We are bound to be the architects of our own experience, despite the vicissitudes of a world in flux. In closing, I’d like to quote the immortal, concluding valediction with which Liam Kuhn ended his own article — “Have a great weekend.”

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Construction projects at various points of completion FROM RENOVATION PAGE 1

be slightly reduced but the new seats will be wider and some will also have backs.

“It will provide a much more pleasant fan experience,” Hogarty said.

Head football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said that the renovations of the stadium are necessary.

Memorial Field is a facility with a lot of history, he said, and it is important to preserve this while still upgrading the facilities to improve the safety and

comfort of the visitors.

He said materials for the renovation were purchased years ago, and now the stadium has reached a point where an update is necessary, as the current stands were built around 85 years ago.

“The venue will be more friendly for people, young and old, who come to the stadium,” Teevens said.

Hogarty said that planning for renovations of the Hood is in progress, and the construction company is currently examining the conditions of the building and the surrounding areas.

The architecture firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects was selected in 2012 to design the museum’s expansion and renovation. The College is working with the firm to gather the necessary materials for renovation of both the interior and exterior of the museum.

She said that they have been work-

“That project is in really good shape, and the only question left is bringing on board a new director.”

- LISA HOGARTY, VICE PRESIDENT OF CAMPUS PLANNING AND FACILITIES

ing through the transition in the leadership at the Hood since former director Michael Taylor left his position last month. Although this did not halt the renovation plans, Hogarty said, new leadership must be addressed before any construction begins to take place.

“That project is in really good shape, and the only question left is bringing on board a new director,” Hogarty said.

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Renovations of the Hood Museum are planned to be complete by 2018.

Once this is resolved, the museum will be emptied out and actual construction can begin, she said. The project is planned to be completed by fall of 2018.

Hogarty said the renovation is intended to modernize and renew the infrastructure of the existing building. In addition, the College plans to expand the gallery and classroom spaces of the building. They will build an additional 20 thousand square feet of space for these purposes, expanding into the current courtyard area.

Hugh Freund ’67, a member of the Hood’s Board of Overseers, said he supports the plans to renovate and expand the Hood.

“I happen to be a total enthusiast for this project because art has always been interesting to me and were some of my most favorite courses at Dartmouth,” he said.

Freund said the Hood’s art collection has grown significantly, and the number of visitors and programs has increased over time, meaning it is now necessary to expand.

He said that the number of professors able to utilize the resources of the Hood should be increased.

“I worry that the College is so focused on so much that the arts don’t get as high a visibility as I think they deserve,” he said.

Plans for the renovation of the Hop are still in the preliminary stages, Hogarty said. Over the past few years, the College has been looking at options for renovations and expansion, particularly to create new performance venues.

“I worry that the College is so focused on so much that the arts don’t get as high a visibility as I think they deserve.”

- HUGH FREUND ’67, A MEMBER OF THE HOOD’S BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Hogarty said that planning for the Hop renovations is more complicated than for the Hood because the building is used the entire year. To accommodate for this, the College is currently looking at how to update selected areas without shutting down access to the whole center, she said.

There are currently no immediate plans for renovation.

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Students support proposal for exchange program FROM THAYER PAGE 1

The two forerunners were the University of Melbourne in Australia and DTU, though currently the partnership with DTU is more developed, and a proposal for a partnership with Melbourne will not be proposed in the near future, she said.

She said that the Thayer also released a survey to students a year and a half ago, to which between 60 and 70 responded. Among the top preferences for a foreign exchange program were Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe.

Once approved, both schools will review the program every three years, Wilkinson said. Both schools will attempt to maintain an equal number of students participating in the exchange, he added.

Wilkinson said that students who participate in the program will both gain a cultural experience and have the opportunity to accelerate their degree completion by earning four credits for the term as opposed to three at Dartmouth.

Helble added that the experience will also expose students to how engineering is taught and practiced in other countries while pushing them out of their comfort zones, which he said will be a boon to both their educational experience and careers in engineering.

Helble said that the program will further contribute to Thayer’s mission of teaching engineering in a liberal arts setting.

“We are not an engineering program that believes, like many others do, that an engineering education at the undergraduate level should be about cramming as much technical content as possible into four short years,” Helble said.

Helble said that the faculty has been supportive of developing exchange programs within Thayer’s curriculum, while also being supportive of student

groups, such as Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering, and other study abroad programs that provide a means of obtaining engineering experience outside of Thayer.

Helble said that another factor in the decision to propose a program was due to a significant increase in enrollment.

The current program accommodates three to four students per program per year, Helble said.

“There has been a high level of demand over the last couple of years,” Wilkinson said. “We are, unfortunately, having to turn great students away from participating in one of our exchanges because we can only send a limited number of students.”

Wilkinson noted that the proposed program will offer an alternative to students who do not want to travel to Asia, as the existing undergraduate exchange programs are with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

There is an internal application process for students who are interested in studying abroad, and a committee comprised of faculty members and Wilkinson determine which students to accept into the program. A faculty advisor helps students select courses prior to their departure, she said.

Engineering majors Robert Halvorsen ’17 and Pranav Vangala ’17 are both supportive of an additional exchange program, saying the demand for abroad programs exceeds the number of open slots.

Halvorsen added that, due to Thayer’s relatively small size, there are certain specific courses that may only be offered at other schools.

Tommy Hodsden ’18 said that he would be interested in participating in an exchange program if it is approved, as he has been considering participating in one of the programs Thayer already offers.

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Thayer School of Engineering is planning a new exchange program.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015

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Softball to battle Harvard in season-ending four-game set B y DANIEL LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

After the softball team’s spectacular 11-game win streak ended in a 9-0 shutout loss to Brown University in the second game of the four-game doubleheader this past weekend, the team will look to play the final four games of its regular season this weekend.

Looking to take on Har vard University, softball (21-14, 14-2 Ivy) will prepare for its final home games on Saturday before heading to Cambridge on Sunday for the second doubleheader of the weekend.

The loss that ended the team’s victorious str eak came as a surprise given Brown’s 5-11 Ivy League record and 11-19 overall season record, but head coach Shannon Doepking mentioned that the loss was a great lesson for the team to show that records really do not mean anything during the games.

“It’s us taking it one game at a time [and] competing ever y single pitch,” Doepking said. “It was a great learning moment for us to see that anyone can win on any given day and we just need to show up,” The coach’s positive sentiment was shared amongst the players as well, which is not a common reaction after such a streak is ended.

“We’ve done a great job all season of coming out and playing our game. I think it was good to have a loss, even though it was not ideal, and being able to overcome that last weekend,” Kristen Rumley ’15

By BLAZE JOEL AND BRETT DRUCKER The Dartmouth Senior Staff

While it may seem like it’s only just begun, the spring season is coming to a close, and most Big Green teams get their final shot at Ivy League competition this week.

On the diamond, the Big Green is in an ideal position, with opportunities to lock up postseason position for both baseball and softball this weekend. Men’s lacrosse and men’s tennis will also be in Hanover this weekend looking to grab one final victor y while heavyweight crew hosts its only events of the spring.

Baseball vs. Har vard University (Saturday at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday at Harvard at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.)

Thanks to a 10-game win streak, including a pair of four-game sweeps against Red Rolfe Divison rivals Yale and Brown Universities, the

said. “We need to see that as a team going for ward as Ivy Championship and for Har vard as well. It was unfortunate that we lost, but we could see the next steps that our team could take.”

The Crimson has enjoyed a win streak of its own that lasted from March 31 to April 12 and spanned nine games against the University of Rhode Island and Cornell, Princeton and Brown Universities. Just like Dartmouth, though, Brown put an end to the win streak in the final game of a four-game series, stopping the Crimson before the team’s streak reached double digits. Har vard is currently a solid 10-2 at home and a respectable 11-5 against Ivy League schools for an overall 21-19 season record, putting them second in the North Division behind the Big Green.

The Crimson finished second in the Nor th Division to the Big Green last year as well.

One compelling figure in the game should be Har vard’s ace pitcher, Laura Ricciardone, who has won 11 games and completed nine with 63 strikeouts in 23 games. Her numbers are up there with Rumley’s league-leading numbers, and she has dominated several teams on the mound in her final year.

“She’s a great pitcher, and she’s one of the best in the Ivy League,” Doepking said. “We’re going to go in with the same approach that we’ve had all year and that is make her throw strikes, and we need to be disciplined in the strike zone and if we’re swinging at good pitches, good things will

baseball team (16-19, 12-4 Ivy) has cruised to its eighth straight division title ahead of this weekend’s matchup with Harvard (18-20, 7-9 Ivy).

In stark contrast to last year when the Big Green took home the division crown in a one-game playoff, this year, Dartmouth pulled ahead early and is now just jockeying for position with teams in the Lou Gehrig Division for the right to host the Ivy League Championship Series on the first weekend in May. Despite making the series in each of the past seven seasons, Dartmouth has not brought home a title since 2010 and hasn’t hosted the three-game playoff since 2009.

Last weekend, the Big Green won a pair of tight games against Brown (9-26, 4-12 Ivy) in the Sunday doubleheader on a walk-off sacrifice fly from catcher Matt MacDowell ’15 and a fielder’s choice from designated hitter Joe Purritano

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Katie McEachern ’16, the Ivy League’s home run leader, will seek to lead the Big Green to a division title this weekend. happen.”

The team has been able to score in a variety of ways, as shown in the fifth inning of last weekend’s game against Brown. The Big Green tallied its first run off of a “surprise bunt,” Dartmouth Sports softball play-by-play announcer Brett Franklin said. Later in the inning, the Big Green scored four more runs off of a grand slam by Katie McEachern ’16.

Har vard’s offense has had success largely because their leadoff hitter, senior Katherine Lantz, has been swinging the bat extremely well. She is currently maintaining a .375 batting average, an impressive .430 on base percentage and .596 slugging percentage. Though she has not had numbers as im-

pressive as the Big Green’s leadoff hitter McEachern, she has proven to be a difficult out for opposing pitchers.

“We’re going to stick to our game plan…when our pitchers do a good job of setting up their pitches and hitting good spots, it makes it tough on the offense,” Doepking said. “We can’t give her anything for free. We can’t throw the ball over the middle of the plate. We got to make her own anything she’s going to get this weekend.”

One of the many key aspects to this weekend will be pitchers Rumley and Morgan McCalmon ’16, who have proven over the course of the season to be the deadliest 1-2 punch in the Ivy Leagues.

“The biggest thing is pitchers

coming out and just doing their job and the defense backing us up just as they have been doing all season,” Rumley said. “[McCalmon] and I have done a great job of working through Ivies so if we come out and play the Dartmouth softball way, we should be good.”

If the Big Green wins just one of the four games this weekend against Har vard, the team will clinch the North Division for the third consecutive year. Depending on results from the final weekend of Ivy play, Dar tmouth would take on either Princeton or the University of Pennsylvania in the Ivy League Championship Series.

The championship series will take place on May 2 and 3.

’16. Purritano has been one of the keys to the team’s offense this season, driving in a team-high 27 RBIs and slugging 0.472 on the year. The other cornerstone of the Big Green offensive production is leadoff hitter and shortstop Matt Parisi ’15, who leads the team with a .341 batting average on the season and was recently nominated for the Brooks Wallace Award as the best shortstop in the country, the only Ivy student nominated. Harvard is second in the Ivies in batting average and leads the league on the mound with 243 batters struck out, but has struggled with consistency, splitting each of its last two Ivy series 2-2. Barring a major disaster, this weekend should serve as a solid tune-up for the Big Green as the team strives for home field advantage in the Ivy Championships.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth wins three games. Harvard wins one.

sion with only four regular season games left to play in the Big Green’s quest to repeat as Ivy League Champions. Dartmouth, led by the veterans Kristen Rumley ’15 — who tops the Ivy League in wins and ERA — and Katie McEachern ’16 — the league leader in both batting average and home runs — is looking to prove that last weekend’s 9-0 loss sandwiched between three victories was just a fluke.

The Crimson will be fighting for their lives when they take the field on Saturday, hoping for a miracle behind senior Laura Ricciardone who is second in the league to Rumley with 11 wins on the season.

Har vard’s high-powered offense leads the league in runs scored and RBI and is second only to Dartmouth in home runs. The Big Green also holds a better record than any team in the South Division by four games, which all but guarantees that the Ivy Championship Series will be played at Dartmouth Softball Park in two weeks. Despite Harvard struggling to keep their season alive, the Big Green is too deep to drop all four games and should finish the weekend looking toward another home matchup for the Ivy crown.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth wins

three games. Harvard wins one.

Softball vs. Harvard University (Saturday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Sunday at Harvard at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.)

The softball team (21-14. 14-2 Ivy) is also in a commanding position with a three-game lead on Harvard (21-19, 11-5 Ivy) in the North Divi-

Men’s Tennis vs. Harvard University (Saturday 2:00 p.m.)

In its final action of the season, the Ivy League’s second and thirdranked teams face off for bragging rights. Columbia University 14-5, 7-0 Ivy) has already won the League title with a perfect record, but the Big Green would love to finish on a high note and a five-match win streak. After dropping its first two league matches, Dartmouth (13-10, 4-2 Ivy) has stormed back to win four in a row and is ranked No. 46 in the country. Last weekend, the Big Green welcomed Yale University (11-11, 1-5 Ivy) to Hanover and came away with a 5-2 win, dropping the doubles point but taking 1-5 singles for the win.

The men will have to be at their best to take down the No. 34 Crimson, whose only league loss this season comes against Columbia. When the two met in February’s ECAC championship in Cambridge, Harvard took home a 5-0 win, capturing all but one of the singles matches in straight sets.

This could prove to be too tough a test for the Big Green, who have been inconsistent at doubles and will need their A-game to pull off the upset.

PREDICTION: Harvard 5-2

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015

FRIDAY LINEUP

TRACK AND FIELD PENN RELAYS

MEN’S GOLF IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP

Senior Spring: Alex Adelabu ’15 on a journey of growth B y RAY LU

The Dartmouth Staff

Stoic and engaged, Alex Adelabu ’15 raises his hand in the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program to contribute his own perspective on intercultural awareness. The Big Green men’s soccer team wrapped up an Ivy League title in the fall, and Adelabu has been keeping busy. Considering his background, he will have a lot to share.

Adelabu was born in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo state in Nigeria, and his family moved to Houston when he was 11. Naturally, Adelabu’s experiences have given him an extremely unique background. Yet it is the way he reflects on and engages with his surroundings that demonstrates his character.

Growing up, Adelabu lived on the campus of a school for the disabled, where his dad served as the principal.

While Ibadan is Nigeria’s third largest metropolitan area, Adelabu had the small town feel while living in a more isolated area.

“I guess that’s where I got used to being different and not being judgmental,” Adelabu said. “We had a church right next to the mosque, because it was a school and you had to respect different students who practice different beliefs and whatnot.”

At the school, Adelabu also discovered his passion for soccer around three or four years of age. One day, he followed his two older brothers to the soccer field in the center of the school. “[My brother] shot a ball and it hit me right in the stomach, and I think it shot me like two or three feet back, and I started crying,” said Adelabu.

His parents had told the brothers not to take Adelabu to the field, because it was getting dark.

“They didn’t want me crying [when I went] home because my parents would be mad,” Adelabu said. “So they gave me the ball, and then I just started playing. After that, they just started taking me to the field.”

When Adelabu was eight years old, his parents sent him to boarding school. His love of soccer didn’t stop there. His favorite team, Arsenal Football Club, was a powerhouse in the early 2000s, led by star striker Thierry Henry. Adelabu can recount sneaking into the TV room late at night several times with his friends in order to catch a soccer game. Break time was always a point of contention for the students.

“At boarding school, there were a lot of kids that wanted to watch Barney,” Adelabu said. “So it was either Barney or soccer.”

When Adelabu and his family moved to Texas, it was the second major change in living experience he had in his first 11 years. The changes this time around, however, were less tangible.

The humid Houston weather was fine for Adelabu, who likened the climate to Nigeria’s. The biggest adjustment for Adelabu, however, was the food. He refused to eat pizza for the first time until five years ago, and in middle school he often replaced the patty in his hamburger with a cookie.

More noticeable to Adelabu, however, was the cultural difference.

“In Nigeria, there are people from different ethnic groups, but the race question wasn’t thrown at me,” Adelabu said. “But in the [United States], the race question got to me, and I really had to experience difference on another level.”

When Adelabu’s family came to the U.S., his mother and father often preached about the importance of working hard and taking full advantage of the opportunities they were given. This mentality, Adelabu said, is common of most immigrants. As a result, differences between his family, African immigrants and native Houston African-Americans were extremely salient to Adelabu.

“We kind of looked down at black [Americans] like ‘Oh, they’re not taking advantage of this system, they’re not working hard enough,’ but not understanding how the system is built against them,” Adelabu said. “When I was in Houston, it was always ‘Don’t be like these people because they don’t work hard.’ It was really a judgmental perspective of minority groups.”

In seventh grade, Adelabu also tried to take up football in Houston. Little did he know that football in America, especially in Texas, meant an oval ball and full-body padding.

“A coach gave me a helmet and I was like ‘What’s going on?’” Adelabu said.

“Some kid then ran me over, and it was like ‘Yo, this is some weird football.’”

Fortunately, Adelabu found himself back on the pitch, trying out for and making the soccer team in eighth grade. In high school, his skills translated to two Most Valuable Player awards for Alief Taylor High School.

His senior year, he committed to play at Pennsylvania State University. The decision wouldn’t stick, however, and in May of Adelabu’s final year of high school, head soccer coach at Penn State for the last 22 years Barry Gorman retired. His replacement, Bob Warming, ended up taking only two members of Gorman’s initial recruiting class. Adelabu was one of the five

students left without a school.

That’s when Dartmouth came into the picture and offered Adelabu a spot on its soccer team. At that point, though, it was already too late for the admissions process. Not wanting to waste a year of eligibility, Adelabu enrolled for an extra year of high school at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire.

That year made the transition to the College much smoother, Adelabu said.

Nonetheless, Adelabu struggled his freshman year.

“It was rough. Soccer-wise it was tough just because I wasn’t used to sitting on the bench… There were practices where I just went ballistic,” Adelabu said. “I was kicking people.

I was mad because I wasn’t getting playing time, and I was working hard but things were just not clicking.”

He said that Jeff Cook, who stepped down as the men’s head coach in 2013, brought Adelabu into his office and told him to begin considering the other members of the team as people who were working with him, rather than competing against him.

Adelabu started his freshman year on the right foot, scoring back-to-back goals at the Dartmouth Classic in early September. When school began in late September, though, Adelabu began to struggle and failed to score another goal for the rest of the year. Adelabu said that he couldn’t wait for his first season to be over.

With the soccer season winding down, Adelabu was able to devote more of his focus on school in the winter, when he met more international students and started to settle into his place at the College. His most transformative experience, however, came in the summer.

Through the Tucker Foundation, Adelabu participated in Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, working as a case manager for a homeless shelter in Houston.

“It was depressing to some extent because you see people who don’t have that many things,” Adelabu said.

“Everyday you’re talking to them, and sometimes you realize that you’re very young, you still have a lot ahead of you and you can make the most of it.”

Combining his volunteer work with his struggles in his first season donning a Big Green kit, Adelabu renewed his energies and trained hard during that summer. The results: a breakout sophomore season with a team-leading nine goals and 21 points.

In a late-season game against Harvard University, the Big Green went down in the eighth minute. Adelabu tied up the game with a strike 22 minutes in. In the second half, however, he

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Alex Adelabu ’15 led the men’s soccer team to an Ivy League title in his senior year. completely took over, taking advantage of a defensive miscue to slot the goahead goal before assisting Alberto Gorini ’16 to put the game away in the 82nd minute.

“I felt like that was me coming into the spotlight,” Adelabu said. “At home, against Harvard, you just can’t set up a better moment than that.”

Just as Adelabu was growing more comfortable in his position, the team underwent a coaching change, and then-assistant coach Chad Riley came to the helm.

“It was tough because we were trying to understand each other,” Adelabu said. “Obviously he was the assistant coach the year before, but when coaches come in they have different views, and it’s really important that you try to understand each other and how different players work.”

This past season brought the men’s soccer team back to the top of the Ivy League. The Big Green opened up the season against the University of Notre Dame, suffering a 4-1 loss to the

then-defending national champions.

The team, however, was not deterred.

After bonding over a training trip in the wilderness, morale was at an all-time high.

“We have a video of [training in the water], and that moment when we were all singing in the water, we knew that there was something special that was going to happen,” Adelabu said.

The season ended with a loss to Providence College in the NCAA Tournament, but overall the team’s season was a success.

“Dartmouth is just really dear to my heart,” Adelabu said. “It’s been a great four years, and it ended in a really great way. I couldn’t have asked for a much better ending to it.”

Currently, Adelabu is still training with the soccer team. He is staying fit and looking to play at the professional level. Whatever comes next, he knows his experiences will stay with him.

“I try to stay humble,” Adelabu said.

“With anything you have to put the hard work in, that’s always a prerequisite.”