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Following restructuring in the chemistry department that has led to the apparent dissolution of Sibohan Milde’s position as a senior lecturer, support for Milde has spread among members of the student body, resulting in a petition created by chemistry major Josie Coury ’15. As of press time the petition has accrued 756 signatures from both undergraduate
and graduate students alike, Coury said. Addressed to College President Phil Hanlon, administrators and the chemistry department, the petition argues for preserving Milde’s status as a contracted senior lecturer and head lab director. This position included teaching “Quantitative Reasoning in Chemistry” and both “General Chemistry” courses, as well as working with undergraduates in lab sessions. The petition further states that if maintaining Milde’s
position is no longer feasible in any form, that she at least be accorded “proper notice” and time to prepare. Milde wrote in an email that her position as a senior lecturer with the chemistry department had been “dissolved” for various reasons, but did not elaborate further. She said that she is presently focused on helping her current students and is thankful for the opportunities she has had while working at the College. Chemistry department chair
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Pressure from students and two recent sustainability data projects have prompted Dartmouth Dining Services to increase their focus on and pursuit of local and sustainable food sources. The largest ongoing sustainability initiative in which DDS is currently involved is the Real Food Challenge, which aims to increase the number of food items that qualify as “real” foods — foods that are local and community-based, produced in ways fair to workers, humane and ecologically sound.. The student-run project was initiated by a member of the Class of 2012 who was
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Ten proposals of the 51 submitted were awarded seed funding from the Office of the Provost, the College announced last week. Funding for the 10 projects will go toward purchasing necessary equipment, financially supporting team members and running experiments to see if the project could potentially work. The seed funding program was started in the 2013-2014 academic year under the
Dale Mierke wrote in an email that the department “has not fired” Milde, and that she has been asked to apply to a newly created position of lab manager. In an email, Mierke explained with the recruitment of two new junior faculty members this year, as well as one new faculty member in 2013 and 2014 each, the chemistry department “will return to full strength with respect to its tenureSEE PEITITION PAGE 12
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direction of then-interim provost Martin Wybourne, who is currently the vice provost for research. “I involved 20 faculty members in the review process,” he said. “We had an incredibly difficult time deciding which ones to fund because of the quality [of the applications]. It was a great problem to have.” This year, the Provost’s Office received an anonymous gift from an unidentified donor, allowing more innovative projects that may CHERRY HUANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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New information was released by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights last week to clarify expectations for college Title IX coordinators, Inside Higher Ed reported. The guidance package reminded of the need for a Title IX coordinator and their duties in a Dear Colleague letter, as well as a letter specifically to Title IX coordinators and a resource guide for compliance. Dartmouth is among more than 100 schools currently under investigation for alleged lack of compliance with Title IX regulations. The information was also sent to kindergarten and first through 12th grade schools, according to the report. The information provided is similar to that sent to colleges after an investigation shows they are not in compliance with Title IX. Fraternity and sorority student leaders aimed to improve the image of Greek life on American campuses in Washington, D.C. this week, following incidents involving Greek houses at various colleges in recent months, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The student representatives prepared to meet with Congress members to exhibit positive elements of Greek life, according to the report. Students are in the capital for an annual event, though recent events have raised the profile of the discussions to be had between students and Washington politicians. Issues students hoped to highlight included how Greek organizations are involved in fighting sexual assault and victim support, amid national discussions on sexual violence on college campuses. Experts discussed a “lack of vision” for state grant programs, in addition to the usual discussion surrounding lack of funds from the programs at the National Press Club Wednesday, Inside Higher Ed reported. In a recent report released by the Education Commission of the States, experts argued that by changing aid programs, states could better serve nontraditional students, in access to aid and success rate. The report argued modern students, who now have more paths to access higher education, could be better served by aid programs, since the programs were originally designed for young adults entering college directly from high school. Topics discussed at the forum included possibly basing state-awarded aid to college performance, rather than SAT scores and high school grade point average, which is often the current standard, as well as encouraging more credits for part-time students to increase success rates. — COMPILED BY LAURA WEISS
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not have been funded otherwise. This allowed almost $450,000 to be awarded in funding for these “high risk, high reward” projects, the College reported. “We’re not funding incremental research,” Wybourne said. “We want to help faculty that want to explore a new avenue.” Proposals were selected with the goal of building the College’s reputation in mind, Wybourne said. The criteria included the quality of the proposal, the probability it will succeed even though it is high-risk and the likelihood that the funding will lead to future grants from other outside institutions. Wybourne also stated that having an undergraduate component was a consideration. “It is allowing faculty to take risks in their scholarships that more traditional funding sources wouldn’t allow,” Wybourne said, adding that the funding might “kick-start” faculty projects. The seed funding programs has three categories. Pilot Funds, oneyear grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000, are designed to support new directions of inquiry with potentially high-impact projects. Cross-disciplinary Collaboration Funds, two-year grants between $50,000 to $200,000 total, target cooperative projects that connect faculty from two or more schools at Dartmouth or two subject areas that are traditionally unrelated in addressing complex societal questions. Starting in the 2014-2015 academic year, the Office of the Provost introduced a new funding category for arts, humanities and social sciences faculty, for whom it has typically been difficult to secure outside funding. This two-year grant provides up to $20,000 and is aimed at innovative projects that advance scholarly or artistic development. Last year, the program received 40 proposal submissions, most of which
were science-related, Wybourne said. “We certainly do not have a quota system,” Wybourne said. “When we reviewed last year’s program, we realized we really needed to target humanities and arts and that’s why we added a new specific category.” These projects, many interdisciplinary and interdepartmental, also include collaboration across schools. Classics professor Pramit Chaudhuri is working with Joseph Dexter, an old acquaintance and Ph.D. student studying systems biology at Harvard University, to use the funding to advance classics research methods. Their project, “Computational Analysis of Intertextuality in Classical Literature,” is at the intersection of biology, computer science and classics in its aim to refine and test computational tools for classicists to study the relations between texts and the context arisen from cultural traditions. “We want to make the barrier to entry as low as possible,” Dexter said. In order to do so, Chaudhuri and Dexter hope to recruit a full-time professional programmer. Chaudhuri noted that these computational tools needed to be intuitive to ease the process of classics analysis. Seed funding has made this endeavor financially feasible, he said. Thayer engineering professor Solomon Diamond and biology professor Michael Hoppa’s project “Magnetic Nanoparticle Tags for Remotely Interfacing with Neuronal Circuits” will address the limitations of studying neural functions at the circuit level. Diamond said he plans to work with Hoppa’s optogenetics technique to create a research tool for studying neurons at the intermediate scale. “The [program] incentivizes faculty to collaborate on new ideas in ways that are very difficult to pursue without support,” Diamond said. “[Hoppa] and I connected really only because of this opportunity.”
Priyanka Nadar, a Thayer School graduate student who has been working with Diamond for the past three years, said she was excited about the potential impact of the project on the scientific community. “It will be revolutionary,” she said. “It will have crazy implications for the field as a research tool for fundamental and clinical neuroscience.” Geisel professor Sarah Lord said that the funding program is supporting projects that could have a meaningful impact on Dartmouth students. Anthropology professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song and computer science professors Andrew Campbell and Lorie Loeb and the Neukom DALI Lab will work on “HealthMatters: Mobile Phone and Location-Based Systems Promoting Resilience and Healthy Lifestyles,”
which will focus on tackling student sleep and stress problems through digital innovations. Preliminary ideas include having stations that send stress level surveys to nearby phones, Loeb said. “The funding that each of us got really is to support students,” Loeb said. “From Dartmouth for Dartmouth.” Music professor Ashley Fure will work on the development of a series of kinetic sound art objects in a project called “Seven Stages: An Electroacoustic Object Opera.” Art history professor Katie Hornstein received funding for “Manufactured Desire: Industrial Exhibitions in 19th-Century France.” Geography professor Frank Magilligan received funding for “Smart Cameras Meet Smart Rocks: Quanitfying Stream Channel Responses to Natural and
Human-Induced Disturbances” and English professor Andrew McCann received funding for “Theory of the Middlebrow: Market Technologies, Media Networks and Their Discontents.” Physics professor Chandrasekhar Ramanathan will work on “Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Hyperfine Interactions in Graphene Spintronics” and sociology professor Emily Walton will work on “Urban Multiethnic Neighborhood Stability and Health.” Psychological and brain sciences professor Thalia Wheatley and Tuck School of Business professor Adam Kleinbaum will team up to work on “The Spread of Ideas from Brain to Network.” Proposals were due on Feb. 2 for projects starting in the summer of 2015.
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Lower medians and earlier class times are not proxies for intellectual stimulation. At the April 27 meeting of the faculty of The goal of any liberal arts education arts and sciences, faculty members discussed is to challenge students to think critically, potential changes to distributive require- take risks and grow intellectually alongside ments, class meeting times and grade infla- their peers. Assessments and homework are tion. Notable ideas include reverting the just one component of such an education. distributive requirement system to be similar Increasing the intensity risks underminto the one that was used prior to 1992, which ing this goal by limiting time available for used broad-based academic categories, and personal care, extracurricular pursuits and adding additional time slots for morning and social bonding — all of which are undenievening classes. Some professors expressed ably important to student well-being and concerns about steady grade inflation — bi- overall achievement. ology professor Mark McPeek, in particular, Experiential learning initiatives are made a compelling argument in favor of much more promising avenues to promote raising grading standards. academic enrichment. The economics de These academic questions, polarizing as partment, for example, recently announced they may be, warrant the careful consider- a new course for fall term 2015, Economics ation of students and faculty alike. We agree 70 — a two-section offering that will use that a Dartmouth education could benefit the winter interim period to provide a study from some structural revisions. Yet we would abroad component in either Peru or Poland. have expected academ Tr ave l i n g ic rigor to go hand-in- “The goal of any liberal arts a b ro a d i s, o f hand with substantial course, an excepeducation is to challenge improvements — not tional example — just alterations — to the students to think critically, take a focus on engagway students learn and risks and grow intellectually ing and consistent how they experience alongside their peers. learning is postheir courses. More Assessments and homework are sible in Hanover flexible distributive re- just one component of such an a s we l l . E ve n quirements and lower education. ” less resource-inmedians are not proxies tensive changes, for holistic reform. such as including Spending four years collaborative or attending 8 a.m. classes or receiving lower creative projects, oral assessments and small grades will not result in a meaningful aca- discussion sections in one’s curriculum, go demic life. We do not accept the notion that a long way toward teaching students both a more taxing education is a better one. We specific course content and broader inteldoubt that College President Phil Hanlon’s lectual skills. These skills, not the mastery vision of a “24-seven learner” is the one of content necessary to receive an A in any who closes out the library every night. given course, make a Dartmouth education The proposed changes do not address valuable. the problem of accordion-style learning, the If the College fails to keep the core values type of learning in which students cram for of a liberal arts education in mind, then no exams or write final papers the night before. amount of tougher grading, earlier classes or It is a pattern no doubt encouraged by the “academic rigor” will restore Dartmouth to pace of a 10-week term, but this is not the its former place at the top rung of the U.S. type of education that the College should News and World Report best undergraduate offer. teaching list.
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First-year women should not be afraid to discuss sorority affiliation. We’re halfway through spring term, and the time has come in which women in the Class of 2018 are able to discuss the formal Panhellenic Council recruitment process without being met with passive aggressive comments of “It’s only winter term, you guys still have so much time!” As an ’18 woman beginning to consider the possibility of rush more seriously, I have a few words I’d like to put out there for my fellow first-year sisters. In my experience, Panhellenic recruitment and sorority affiliation seem to carry a slightly taboo aspect, one in which women are discouraged from openly discussing their preferred choice of which organization they would like to join. The Panhellenic recruitment process exacerbates this by essentially preventing women from having the upper hand in their choice of affiliation — the organizations seem to have more agency to choose their members than potential rushees, and even then, I have heard that the algorithm behind the rush system deprives members and organizations of some power as well. First-year women often find it difficult to discuss their hopeful affiliations out in the open as the final determination of where we will be affiliated is not always up to us. I find this ridiculous to some extent. It is true that we should shy away from superficial discussions of house rankings, but it’s undeniable that organizations differ from another — each and every sorority has its own personality. Every first-year woman should have the opportunity to hear stories or meet affiliated upperclasswomen that demonstrate the unique traits of each sorority. Each organization is different, regardless of whether the sisters make the house or the house makes the sisters. What I believe every sorority on campus emphasizes, however, is lifelong sisterhood, friendship, solidarity and female empowerment. Therefore, I find it difficult to understand why women hesitate to have open dialogue about which organization best suits them. If you have met members of a sorority with whom you connect and identify,
there should be no reason to fear saying so publicly. Many of my male friends that I have talked to about fraternity recruitment seem to have an idea in their head about which fraternity they wish to join — or have at least narrowed down the possibilities to two or three options. Of course, this is likely due to the systemic difference of men’s increased ability to choose their affiliation and the ability of fraternities to remain open to the public for campus parties. As many women often do not have an opportunity to experience the sorority they wish to join in a social setting — unless they have their eyes on a local sorority — it is true that their idea of the sorority may be less concrete or well-rounded. Yet that does not mean that their ideas should be immediately invalidated. There are two prongs to this silenced conversation. One is the outdated system of Panhellenic recruitment — in which all sororities barring Epsilon Kappa Theta take part — which takes power away from “potential new members,” making affiliation with a specific house a privilege rather than a choice. The other is that many women fear being excluded from this privileged system so much that they are reluctant to take part in an open conversation about the rush process. It’s a cycle of being silenced and silencing others. Sororities are no different in terms of affiliation from other campus clubs, activities or sports. Put very simply, it is a form of membership to a group of people who share the same ideas, beliefs and values as you. By no means am I trying to bash the idea of sorority affiliation or Greek recruitment. As an ’18 woman, I intend to rush next year, hoping to join a system in which the majority of students take part. All I know and would like to say, however, is that I’m not afraid to discuss with my friends what sorority I think I would be a good fit for me. None of us should ever be afraid of the system so much that we can’t talk about it. By talking about it, we can take the power back.
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unable to finish before she graduated. Maya Wilcher ’16 resurrected the project last summer when DDS’s main food vendor provided money to the College for a sustainability intern. Wilcher later recruited Nina Dewees ’16 to help her. On Thursday, the two finished the project’s first stage, which involved inputting all information about the food that DDS purchased for the Class of 1953 Commons for both April 2014 and October 2013, two months representative of a full year, Wilcher said. They loaded the names, location and prices of all the food items into the Real Food Calculator online. The next step of the project will be to research all of the food and calculate the amount of “real” food. Once there is baseline information, future steps will include making suggestions to DDS about food sources and later reevaluating the food. Wilcher and Dewees hope younger students will be able to help with these steps. Dewees noted that since sustainably sourcing food can cost more money, the two are researching potential cost-effective options as well. Wilcher said she has wanted to work on a project with food for some time, but that it can be difficult to find tangible projects to pursue. She knew the sustainability office has had food interns
in past and sought out work there. “Both of us are really interested in food, local food and sustainable cooking and eating,” Wilcher said. “The point of ‘Real Food’ is to have the numbers and data to see where we’re at, to be able to improve for there.” One thing that both the pair and DDS are interested in is increasing transparency about where DDS food is sourced from, Dewees said. Although DDS has taken steps in this direction, such as putting up signs in Collis about locally sourced food, a lot of the food served by DDS still doesn’t have a clear origin, and the Real Food Project will work to change that, she said. Associate director of DDS Donald Reed stressed that while he is the facilitator of the project, it is completely student-run. “I’m anxious to see what our base numbers are [and] how we can work on improving our [Real Food] score from there,” he said. He said that while DDS has always wanted to support local or regional growers and has worked for years with the Dartmouth organic farm, the College’s renewed efforts in meeting the Real Food Challenge has made DDS further committed to sustainability efforts. “It’s the right thing to do,” he said. On Tuesday, Reed attended a spring food show for DDS’s primary vendor.
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partnering on is hosting a local DDS farmers market during the summer in the Collis Center, where students will be able to purchase mostly raw food from vendors each Friday with their Declining Balance Account. Kerr acknowledged the challenging situation that DDS has to work within — they need to provide a massive quantity of meals every day, which means they need food that has been washed, chopped or slightly processed in some other way. Often, local farmers are selling their foods completely unprocessed, Kerr said. Food services, including dining halls, in general have evolved to meet industrial needs and now are trying to disconnect a bit and revert to local products. “They’re not going to replace everything with local food right away,” she said. “The food system is going to adapt and evolve.” Kerr added that DDS has an interest in increasing the amount of local food to meet the wants and needs of students. “People underestimate how much DDS thinks about this while also trying to meet basic industrial needs that are pretty big,” Kerr said. Another impediment to this move is the difficulty in obtaning locally-grown food from New Hampshire in the winter. To counteract this, Kerr said Dartmouth can help the local food system build the
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infrastructure needed to flash freeze produce from the summer while also finding creative methods to grow foods in the winter. One project in the works in the construction of greenhouses on top of landfills which then use the waste heat to grow winter greens. The College has participated in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System for the past three years. STARS is a self-reporting framework for colleges and universities that helps them measure their sustainability performance. A portion of this report focuses on dining services. This report, according to Sustainability Fellow Denielle Harrison, has allowed DDS to get a better sense of in what areas to work. “They have improved significantly by offering more sustainable and thirdparty verified options,” she said. Of the current 236 participants, slighly over half were awarded either platinum, gold, silver or bronze. Dartmouth as a whole — not just DDS — was not recognized in any of these categories. Harrison emphasized, however, that DDS has improved sustainability because they want to, not solely because of the report. “They’ve put in the time and effort, made it happen, partnered with students,” Harrison said. “They really care about it.”
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track faculty.” These additions, he further wrote, allow these faculty members to take over lecturing roles previously filled by “nontenure-track colleagues.” To accommodate these changes, he wrote, the department has opted to reorganize a non-tenure-track position as laboratory manager, “reflecting the revised scope of the new appointment to laboratory responsibilities.” Coury said she created the petition because she said Milde had a profound impact on her chemistry education, calling Milde an “integral part” of her experience. The petition, which was created four days ago, has already gained a traction via social media platforms, such as the application Yik Yak, Facebook and campus listservs, Coury said. Despite having drafted the petition and being a chemistry major, Coury said that she was not completely certain of the circumstances surrounding the dissolution of Milde’s position. She said she had been expecting to hear more from the department, adding she has heard many rumors from her fellow students. “It’s just very confusing for all of us,” she said. She added that she thinks her classmates want to know why the department is restructuring and what Milde’s new potential role will be. In terms of the petition, Coury said she is hopeful that it will have an impact. “I think they will take it seriously,” she said. “It seems like they aren’t 100 percent certain of what their decision is.” Cecilia Torres ’18 said she supported the petition because she is involved with the Dartmouth Alliance for Socioeconomic Awareness
and is concerned with the effect of socioeconomic class on student success at the College. Torres said that having a strong introductory chemistry professor like Milde is important to ensure that all students are going into upper level chemistry courses at the same level. Torres said she feels the chemistry department’s communication to students of Milde’s “discontinuation” felt abrupt and vague. Daniela Pelaez ’16, who is currently in Milde’s “General Chemistry” course and took “Quantitative Reasoning in Chemistry,” said Milde is an “amazing individual.” Pelaez recounted an instance when Milde drove her to the hospital when she was sick and stayed with her during her visit. Pelaez, who is helping Coury with the petition, said she hopes that they will be able to bring the petition to the chemistry department to demonstrate the student reaction to Milde’s discontinuation, citing the fact that the petition has been signed by students across all disciplines, not just from within the chemistry department. Pelaez said she also worries about the loss of a woman in a “STEM” — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — department. She said the field often falls short in terms of representing women. Missy Cantave ’16 said she sent the petition out to her sorority because she believes Milde is a caring professor who will take the time to get to know students academically and otherwise. “I think one of the reasons people come to Dartmouth is that relationship with your professors,” she said. “It’s a place where people want professors to care about their students, and losing someone like that is sort of defeating the purpose.”
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 1:00 p.m. “Conversation with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski” of MSNBC, lecture, Murdough Center, Cook Auditorium
3:00 p.m. Music department senior recital with Leif Harder ’15, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Faulkner Recital Hall
3:00 p.m. “Money in Politics: A Discussion of Recent Developments,” Law Day panel, Rockefeller Center, Room 003
TOMORROW 7:00 p.m. “#werq: a queer journey,” honors project created and performed by Chris Gallerani ’15, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Bentley Theatre
7:00 p.m. “Mr. Turner” (2014), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
8:00 p.m. “Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble,” Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
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Sports 2 Column Up- Sailing team has stellar weekend EMILY WECHSLER per Story By
The Dartmouth Staff
By Blaze Joel AND BRETT DRUCKER The Dartmouth Senior Staff
We’ve come to one of the biggest sports weekends of the year, with the NHL and NBA playoffs in full swing and the Kentucky Derby set for Saturday. Despite the national sports scene, it is a relatively quiet weekend for Big Green athletics, as only six teams are in action. We’re taking a different approach to this week’s primer, and rather than focusing solely on the Big Green’s competitions, we’re choosing one Dartmouth series and a second Ivy League game that directly impacts the Big Green. Softball Ivy League Championship Series vs. University of Pennsylvania (Saturday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m.) For the third year in a row, the softball team (23-16, 16-4 Ivy) faces Penn (22-18, 13-7 Ivy) for the right to play in the NCAA tournament as the Ivy League’s automatic qualifier. Penn bested the Big Green two seasons ago, although the Dartmouth women managed to gain the upper hand and claim the Ivy crown last season. Both series went the full three games. This season, the women will bring the competition to Hanover, giving the Big Green the home field advantage in the series. The advantage has proven to aid many of the teams who have claimed the Ivy crown in the last decade, including each of the last two seasons when the home field corresponded to the victorious team between Dartmouth and Penn. These two teams have been dominant forces in the Ancient Eight this season, and the series will feature the league leaders in batting average, RBI, ERA, wins, home runs and strikeouts. Members of both teams make up four of the top five in the Ancient Eight in batting average and home runs, and both schools combine to command all five of the top spots in RBIs. Earlier this season in Philadelphia, the teams split a pair of one-run games, with the Big Green defeating the Quakers 3-2 before falling 5-4 in the second game. Katie McEachern ’16 and Kristin Rumley ’15 power the Big Green from the plate and mound, respectively. McEachern leads the league in batting average and home runs, while placing fifth in RBIs. Rumley leads the Ivy League in ERA and wins and places second in strikeouts. Penn relies less on the long ball than a Dartmouth team that places three in the top five in the league in homers, but is no less fearful at the plate. The Quakers have outscored the
Big Green 199-189 this year due to their proficiency at small ball. Penn boasts three of the top five batting averages in the league, as well as the top three RBI totals. Penn pitcher Alexis Borden has had a stellar year in the circle and, while she merely boasts a .500 record and an ERA north of 3.00, her strikeout total is off the charts. Borden has struck out 140 batters this season, 20 more than second place in the league Rumley. Like the last two years, expect this one to come down to the wire between two very balanced teams. PREDICTION: Dartmouth wins the series 2-1 Lou Gehrig Divisional Playoff: University of Pennsylvania vs. Columbia University (Saturday at 2 p.m.) Twenty games were not enough to decide the Lou Gehrig Division in the Ivy League. Both Penn and Columbia sit at 16-4 in the league, with 22-14 and 26-14 overall records, respectively. To add more intrigue to the game, Penn and Columbia split their final four contests of the season against each other, with the Lions winning the final game in 10 innings to force the playoff in Philadelphia. The winner of this game will host the Ivy League Championship Series next weekend against the Big Green, which saw its 14-game winning streak halted at the hands of Amherst College last week. The Big Green split the season series with both teams, going 1-1 on the road in both cases in two close games. The Gehrig Division playoff will be a hard-fought contest that pits strength against strength. Columbia, led by outfielder Joe Falcone, has belted the ball around the field this season, leading the Ancient Eight in both runs and home runs. Not to be outdone, however, the Quakers rank third in runs scored and second in big flies. On the other side of the ball, the Quakers lead the Ivy League in ERA and runs allowed, while the Lions place second in ERA, third in runs allowed and tied for first in strikeouts. This matchup seems like a classic toss up. Either team could and has won against the other, including on the road. This game will come down to experience and who cracks first under pressure. Columbia, who has been to the last two Ivy League Championship Series, has a definite experience advantage over the Quakers. In the end, the Lions’ experience will take them forward to a battle for the Ivy crown against Dartmouth. PREDICTION: Columbia 6-4
The coed and women’s sailing teams are finishing their regular seasons in strong form after posting some of their best finishes of the spring last weekend. The women’s team qualified for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association College Sailing Women’s National Semifinal by placing sixth out of 16 at the New England ICSA Women’s Championship — Reed Trophy. The coed team, which will compete in its national qualifier this weekend, raced in three regattas and earned two second-place finishes and one first-place finish. “The women’s New England Championship was the event with the most on the line,” head coach Justin Assad said. “The girls sailed well there.” The women, reigning two-time national champions, had to finish in the top eight at the Reed Trophy at Boston College in order to earn a bid to nationals. Deirdre Lambert ’15 and Lizzie Guynn ’16 started the event strong for the team, winning the first race as the A-division squad. The B-division team of captain Sarah Williams ’16 and Hope Wilson ’16 struggled, guiding their Z420 to 12th out of 16 B-division boats in the first race. Saturday’s conditions were shifty, with wind ranging from three to 10 knots northwest, making for difficult sailing conditions. Ten of the races were completed Saturday, and five more were run on Sunday for each division. Margaret Kilvert ’18 stepped into the B-division boat for the last two races of the day Saturday, and Julia McKown ’17 took over crewing for Wilson in the lighter Sunday wind. The team was in eighth place going into racing Sunday and was nervous about securing a bid to nationals, Williams said. “We were pretty down to the wire,” she said. “For us, it was definitely stressful. We didn’t know how many races we would get off, so were just trying to do the best we could in every race. Our coach just told us to go out and all you can really do is sail the best race you can.” After moving around in the rankings and spending much of Sunday in sixth place, Williams said, their coach reminded them to keep an eye on the two boats that were near them in the rankings. “We started playing a little bit more strategically, just to make sure — at the end of the day, the biggest goal was just to qualify, and we have a lot of time in the next month to keep practicing,” Williams said.
In the end, Lambert and Guynn took second in the A-division at the end of the 15 races, and the B-division team took 11th after losing the tie-breaker with University of Rhode Island, contributing to Dartmouth’s overall final ranking of sixth. On the coed side, the Big Green had even more success. At the 80th running of the Boston Dinghy Cup, Dartmouth took second. The race, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the Charles River, featured three divisions, all sailing FJs. “Saturday was pretty typical river sailing conditions. The river can be kind of wacky at times in terms of the wind, with the breeze constantly shifting, but I think we handled that pretty well,” Scott Houck ’15 said. “We managed to get some pretty consistent results.”
“For us, it was definitely stressful. We didn’t know how many races we would get off, so we’re just trying to do the best we could in every race.” -SARAH WILLIAMS ’16 Houck sailed in the A-division with Mia Steck ’17 and placed seventh, while Dartmouth’s B- and C-division sailors took fifth and fourth, respectively. The second day was less windy, requiring a delayed start to wait for the wind to pick up. Only two races got off, but they were enough for Dartmouth to secure second place overall, two points above Tufts University and nine behind Stanford University. “We sailed really well, almost won the regatta,” Assad said. Sailing 420s crewed entirely by freshmen, Dartmouth won the Greater New York Dinghy Regatta, hosted by Fordham University, for the second time in five years. Only six races were sailed in each division as the wind died early both days. After starting the competition with a fourth-place finish, Dartmouth took the lead at race 4A and held it for the remainder of the weekend. Erik Weis ’18 and Connor Lehan ’18 took fourth in division A, winning one race outright, and Nathaniel Johansson ’18 and Caroline Lauer ’18 took first in division B, winning two races and finishing in the top three in all but one. “They had an awesome weekend together,” Williams said.
Four sailors also competed at the George Morris Trophy hosted by Boston University. Dartmouth took second overall, with the A-division team of Robert Floyd ’17 and John Lewis ’17 taking third and the Bdivision team of Duncan Williford ’18 and Nathaniel Greason ’17 taking second. Though Dartmouth did well by taking second, they finished a full 27 points behind the University of Vermont Catamounts after competing in just eight races per division. Most races Sunday were ended due to fading wind. “We had some really successful finishes. Overall it was a great weekend,” Williams said. “When we’re at this point in our spring season when a lot of other teams have more time on the water than us, we use every weekend competition as practice, and we’re just constantly trying to get better. It’s not always about scores.” The team will go onto the water early before a race to practice boat handling maneuvers, Williams said. The sailing program is currently seeing its first full week of sailing at home, as Mascoma Lake was too frozen to sail until last Friday. The team had traveled several times to Boston to sail earlier in the year. This weekend the coed program will be the focus as it prepares to travel to the Coed New England Dinghy Championship at Salve Regina University. “We’re still trying to get back into the swing of things on our own lake, working on boat handling, working on starts, really work on everything to make up for lost time,” Houck said. The team was disappointed earlier in April not to have qualified for the ICSA Team Race Championships, despite preparation, Assad said. Williams said that, for now, the women’s team will launch into training, hoping for success at nationals but taking things “one day at a time.” The team graduated excellent sailors in both its 2013 and 2014 classes, but Assad said he hopes that with three to four weeks of training ahead, the team can do well in the postseason. The team placed eighth in the Gill National Championship Finals last season. Both of the team’s A division coed sailors, Matt Wefer ’14 and Avery Plough ’14, graduated last season. Their absence leaves the Big Green with a difficult challenge to surmount this weekend. The team next sails this weekend at the Coed New England Dinghy Championship in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Women’s tennis qualifies for NCAA tournament for first time B y Reilly Mcinerney
For the first time in College history, the women’s tennis team has received an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament. Completing its 5-2 record in the Ivy League by taking down Harvard University by a 5-2 score last Saturday, the team has been nationally ranked each week for more than three months and was ranked as high as No. 18 in the country at the end of February. The Big Green, now ranked No. 31, will play the No. 51 College of William and Mary next Saturday, May 9, at the NCAA tournament in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. If the Big Green wins, the team will play the winner of the game between the University of North Carolina, currently ranked second in the nation, and Quinnipiac University. On the individual side, Taylor Ng ’17 of the women’s team and Dovydas Sakinis ’16 of the men’s team both qualified for the NCAA Division I singles championships. Ng received the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the tournament after going 7-0 in Ivy League singles play this season. Ng is the only Ivy League representative in the women’s singles tournament and is the first Big Green player to qualify for the women’s singles tournament. Sakinis received an at-large bid and will be joined by Ivy rivals Winston Lin of Columbia University and Denis Nguyen of Harvard. Sakinis is the third player in program
history to qualify for the singles tournament and the first to do so since Dan Coakley ’94 in 1994. Both Sakinis and Ng were named Ivy League Players of the Year in singles. The duo was also awarded first team all-Ivy honors in both the singles and doubles categories. The men’s tennis team (14-10, 5-2 Ivy) narrowly missed qualifying for the NCAA tournament this year. Though the men finished tied for second in the Ivy League with Harvard, the team was not among the three Ivy teams selected for the field of 64, which included Columbia, Harvard and Princeton University. The team did enough to qualify for the NCAA tournament, even though they did not receive a bid, men’s head coach Chris Drake wrote in an e-mail. Drake wrote that the team will continue to look to improve its doubles play going forward. The women’s team was second in the Ivy League conference behind Princeton (12-8, 6-1 Ivy). Four of the Big Green’s five Ivy victories came by a margin of 4-3. The team said they were excited to represent Dartmouth in the NCAA tournament and on the national scene. “It’s obviously very exciting,” Ng said. “It’s a testament to all the hard work [the players] put in and the team culture cultivated by the coaches.” The coaches are equally enthusiastic about the team’s opportunity
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The women’s tennis team will take on the College of William and Mary in the NCAA tournament on May 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C.
to showcase the Big Green. “The team is real excited to go play at the NCAA tournament,” women’s head coach Bob Dallis said. Dallis is hopeful that the team’s success will help show Dartmouth in a positive light. “They could spread Dartmouth’s name in a positive way and out on the national scene, whether it’s in athletics or, ‘Hey, this is Dartmouth College and it’s a great place,’” Dallis said. “We’re excited that we get to do this on a little bit more of a national stage.” The team watched the selection show together, and when the Big Green was selected, the squad was
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Taylor Ng ’17 is the first women’s tennis player in College history to qualify for the NCAA tournament in singles.
ecstatic. “On the day itself, a few of us were kind of nervous going into it,” Julienne Keong ’16 said. “When they did the selection show we were one of the last teams to be announced in the tournament. All of us jumped up and we were cheering. I think it was a very special moment.” While the team was nervous before the announcement of teams competing in the tournament, the women’s performance made them confident they stood a chance. “We’re making history,” Akiko Okuda ’15, co-captain and the sole senior on the team, said. “We were pretty confident that we were going to get in because we knew our ranking was right above the threshold.” While the team assumed that it would be able to secure a spot in the tournament after beating Harvard last weekend, the process was still nerve-racking as the Big Green was the last non-seeded team to be announced for the tournament, Okuda said. The team’s first opponent, William and Mary, remains the Big Green’s focus going forward. “That really is where our focus is,” Dallis said regarding William and Mary. “Because it’s the first match that’s the most important match. You worry about what’s in front of you.” The Big Green team has a special relationship with the William and Mary team.
“Their assistant coach used to be my assistant coach here at Dartmouth,” Dallis said. “Their head coach is a really nice guy, we played them a bunch this fall and we’ve gone to their fall invitational the last two years.” In preparation for the heat and humidity of North Carolina, the Big Green is stepping up its cardio exercises. “We are in Hanover, New Hampshire, and its 45 degrees out today,” Dallis said, chuckling. “So when you play in heat and humidity, it does tax your aerobic system a little bit more.” The team played agaisnt members of William and Mary twice last fall, and so far the athletes feel fairly confident about the outlook against them at the tournament. “We know a lot about them, so we will be prepared in that sense,” Okuda said. Jeltje Loomans and Leeza Nemchinov will look to lead the Tribe past the Big Green and into the second round of the tournament. Nemchinov will join Ng in the NCAA tournament singles championship while Loomans and Nemchinov will team up on the doubles side of the NCAA tournament. Loomans has qualified for the NCAA tournament in each of her four years at William and Mary. The team will play William and Mary on May 9 at 9 a.m. If they win that match, they will play the next match on May 10 at 1 p.m.