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Bored at Baker users Geisel applications rise report positive culture Applications to the Geisel School of Medicine

By JESSICA AVITABILE The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS WEEKLY

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: GENEVIEVE MIFFLIN ’14

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When the Jan. 10 post targeting a female member of the Class of 2017 was published on Bored at Baker, site moderator Blaine Ponto ’14 said it was removed so quickly after being reported by other users that she herself never saw it, despite being a frequent user of the site. If it had stayed up, however, the number of users who clicked “disagree” and “newsworthy” would have made it clear that the Bored at Baker community disapproved.

Since the post became public after its target wrote about it on the Class of 2017 Facebook page, Bored at Baker has been thrust

into the spotlight, with many students decrying the sexist, racist, homophobic and overall offensive nature of some of its content. Last spring, students who protested the Dimensions show for accepted students were targeted by anonymous rape and death threats posted on Bored at Baker.

Users of the site, however, argue that Bored at Baker only receives public scrutiny following posts that violate the site’s terms of service, posts that they say are promptly removed.

The site’s content is overseen by moderators, a group of dedi-

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Vietnam War vets visit College, class

By BRYN MORGAN The Dartmouth Staff

When Lee Chilcote ’64 and Francis McGrath ’64 visited professor Edward Miller’s class in the fall of 2012 to share their stories of fighting in the Vietnam War, the experience dredged up memories and emotions that had remained unvoiced for decades. On Monday — nearly 50 years after accepting their military commissions — Chilcote, McGrath and fellow veteran

James Laughlin ’64 will return to speak to Miller’s class for a second time and to give a public lecture.

Glen Kendall ’64 Tu’71, who fought in the Vietnam War after taking part in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Dartmouth, will also join this year’s panel.

McGrath said his 2012 visit to Miller’s course, which examines leaders’ decisions as well as the SEE VETERANS PAGE 3

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The Geisel School of Medicine saw a 27 percent increase in applications from last year.

B y CHRIS LEECH The Dartmouth Staff

The Geisel School of Medicine saw a 27 percent increase in applications for the fall’s entering class than the for the entering class of 2013. Candidates sent in 5,241 completed applications to compete for fewer than 90 available spots, which will result in a acceptance rate of about

1.7 percent, according to a recent Geisel press release.

This marks the highest number of applicants the school has ever received, up by 1,104 from last year.

Associate dean of student affairs and director of financial aid Dino Koff said the change could be attributed both to the general upward trend in medical school applications and the unique

experiences that Geisel offers.

While medical school applications are up across the country, Geisel’s 27 percent increase was far greater than the average, Koff said.

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Students to launch The Box in spring

A weekend basketball game raised awareness of breast cancer.

Serving lunch, dinner and late-night fare, The Box is a student-run food truck that will offer locally-sourced Mediterranean cuisine starting the first week of spring term.

The joint venture will be run by eight Tuck School of

Business students and over 15 undergraduates.

In addition to providing an alternative dining option, The Box will promote greater interaction between Tuck students and undergraduates within the Dartmouth community, its founders Eric Winn ’04 Tu’14 and Mike Parshley Tu’14 said.

A student-run truck, they said, is both mobile and a manageable business size.

Acquiring the proper legal permits and meeting some zoning requirements challenging because Hanover has no precedent of food trucks, Winn SEE TRUCK PAGE 3

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Demand high for next Geisel class

Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., proposed a biennial budget of $28 million last year to address the lack of space, understanding and patience for treating mental health patients in crisis, which she called a pressing state issue. Progress has been made, with $6.3 million spent on improving mental health services statewide, but waiting lists for care remain lengthy, according to the Concord Monitor. New Hampshire’s 10 functioning community mental health centers spent about $3.3 million to expand their treatment teams in the past year. Residential facilities, where mental health patients live semi-independently, received less funding. An additional $1.7 million was used for inpatient services that could lessen demand on emergency rooms. The state legislature is also considering a bill that would encourage superior and circuit courts to start mental health programs for people charged with crimes caused by a mental illness, recognizing that these individuals are unlikely to receive adequate treatment in jail.

Over 1,000 patients are registered in Vermont to receive medical marijuana by growing their own or from one of the state’s registered dispensaries, VTDigger.org reported. The three existing dispensaries are located in Burlington, Brandon and Montpelier, with a fourth opening and Brattleboro on Tuesday. A Senate bill under consideration would add two more dispensaries and allow them to deliver marijuana to patients’ homes. The bill would eliminate Vermont’s limit on the number of registered patients who can obtain marijuana from a dispensary and increase the amount of marijuana a dispensary can cultivate per patient from two to four ounces. Public safety officials agreed to erase the patient cap and add two dispensaries, but requested in exchange to strike a proposal to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of qualifying conditions for receiving medical marijuana. The list currently includes cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV and other conditions, though a bill under consideration in the House seeks to add PTSD. — Compiled by Claire Daly

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The high number of applications to the Geisel School of Medicine this year will permit the school to be more selective.

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community service learning and research opportunities,” Koff said.

“Students can do this right away.”

Processing such a high number of applications will be difficult, Koff said, but the high number offers Geisel the opportunity to select an especially strong incoming class. The diverse and academically talented candidate pool may force admissions staff to evaluate less quantifiable measures like clinical experience.

Admissions officers will look at applicants’ commitment to improving patients’ lives and their ability to engage in teamwork, Koff said.

The rise in applications has not aligned with a specific increase outreach efforts, he said.

Koff said the increase shows the success of Geisel’s 20x20 plan, Koff said. The initiative aims to move the school into the ranks of the top 20 U.S. medical schools by the year 2020, and efforts include boosting the school’s external reputation and endowment.

Geisel does not plan to increase class sizes, Koff said.

Catherine Baker ’15 applied and was accepted to Geisel’s early assurance program for Dartmouth undergraduates. The program, in its second year, accepts five Dartmouth juniors annually, provided they do not apply to other programs.

Baker said she applied to Geisel because of its relevance to the modern medical profession, citing its work with health care delivery and efficiency as appealing factors.

“It’s a tumultuous time to enter the medical field,” Baker said. “But Geisel is a part of the change, and there’s a huge opportunity for students be a part of the change.”

Additionally, Geisel’s partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center provides a unique chance for students who want to

“Students at Geisel are able to engage in opportunities that are really hot topics — global health, community service learning and research opportunities.

Students can do this right away.”

- ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ADMISSIONS DINO KOFF

make a difference in a rural community, Baker said.

Geisel also offers a more comfortable atmosphere for students than larger and possibly betterknown medical schools, where students may have bigger egos, she said.

Baker said she looks forward to a more selective and diverse class in 2014, adding that the increase in applications reflects positively on the school.

“It feels good to know that many

people are interested,” she said.

Matt Sattler ’14, who was also accepted to Geisel through the early assurance program, said he applied because he appreciated Geisel’s focus on patient interaction and the “human side” of medicine.

While he was glad to hear about the increase in applications, he said he does not put too much weight behind the statistics.

“I’m not going to medical school for prestige,” Sattler said. “I’m going to medical school so I can be a doctor and help people, and Geisel is very good at that.”

Adele Shenoy ’15, a pre-med student who is unsure if she will apply to Geisel, said in an email that while application numbers do not affect her opinion of a school, seeing acceptance rates decline can be intimidating.

Additionally, although she said this year’s increase was impressive, Shenoy voiced concerns about the recent suspension of admissions to Geisel’s M.D./Ph.D. dual degree program. The decision has sparked controversy, leading to a petition outlining concerns that boasts around 1,000 signatures.

“Cancelling that program reflects negatively on a school and could actually decrease future applications,” Shenoy said.

Applications to Geisel have increased significantly in the past decade. In 2004, Geisel received 3,855 applicants. The largest previous year-on-year increase was in 2007, when applications rose 12.2 percent, according to data provided

by Koff.

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Open panel will feature veterans’ experiences

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1. Miller’s class will be joined on Monday night by veterans currently studying lives of soldiers in Vietnam, was the first at Dartmouth, ROTC members and time he had talked about his wartime members of former College President James Wright’s history seminar on experiences in depth.

“It sort of put me on a journey American military history. of going back over the places I had Each of the students in Wright’s been in Vietnam,” McGrath said. “It class was assigned a paper about one certainly brought up emotions that I of the Dartmouth men who died in had probably squashed for a number Vietnam, Schaefer said. Students in of decades, but overall, it was definitely Wright’s class and Miller’s class, as well a positive experience to go back over as all members of the Class of 1964 and try to articulate to myself what will receive a copy of “Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives,” he that experience was like.”

Miller, who hosted documentary said. filmmaker Ken Burns in the class earlier In addition to the panel discussion this term to discuss the Vietnam War, on Monday night, Chilcote, Kendall, said he hopes the panel will connect Laughlin and McGrath met with curstudents with alumni who can apply rent Dartmouth veterans on Sunday their perspectives to the class material. night and will have lunch with ROTC Class visits are a form of experiential members on Monday, Schaefer said.

Ross Brown ’14, who is currently learning, Miller said.

“At some level, this is what his- enrolled in Miller’s course, said that his tory is all about — making connec- high school “skipped over” material on the Vietnam tions between larger War. trends and processes “When I went to “I’m and the actual lived looking forexperience of real Vietnam, I was very ward to it bepeople,” he said. naive. I had no idea cause I don’t Chilcote said he of what was going have much hopes to convey a exposure to historical perspec- on, of what had been veterans,” he tive that lectures and going on over there. I said. “I think texts cannot always think the students in they have a communicate. unique per At the 2012 pan- Professor Miller’s class spective, and el, McGrath was it’ll be an interimpressed by the probably have a better esting experistudents’ historical understanding of that ence.” knowledge, he said. war than I do, even This “When I went to lack of unVietnam, I was very now.” derstanding naive,” McGrath is common said. “I had no idea among Dartof what was going - FRANCIS McGRath ’64 mouth stuon, of what had been going on over there. I think the students dents going into the class, Miller said. in Professor Miller’s class probably have Many are aware that the Vietnam War a better understanding of that war than was a central event to 20th century U.S. history, but have learned few details I do, even now.”

The four speakers will publish es- about it. says on their Vietnam experiences as “They don’t understand why the part of a project conceived by Class Vietnam War became such a central of 1964 secretary Phillip Schaefer ’64, and divisive event in the ’60s and ’70s, who proposed the first panel to Miller and why it continues to be controversial today,” Miller said. while auditing the 2012 class.

Schaefer said he began reaching With 33 students, “The Vietnam out to classmates in the ROTC after War” is Miller’s most popular class, he recognizing that they, like many Viet- said, adding that the course highlights nam War veterans, struggled to com- an important moment in recent U.S. municate their overseas experiences to history.

Chilcote said he is looking forward others.

After writing a column in the to returning for the event and added Dartmouth Alumni Magazine about that he is better prepared this time after his classmates who served in the reading some of the assigned texts and military, Schaefer asked each of the listening to Miller’s lectures. approximately 150 veterans in his class “I’m hoping, from my standpoint, to write essays about their experiences that I can illuminate the history they’re in Vietnam. The 55 essays he collected studying a little bit better, from their became chapters in his book, “Dart- standpoint,” Chilcote said. mouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspec- The panel, which is open to campus, tives,” which includes an introduction will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in Filene

by Miller and will be released on April Auditorium.

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Students crack down on their academics in a corridor of the Tuck School of Business.

Tuck, College students launch food truck FROM TRUCK PAGE 1

and Parshley said. Citing student employees at the Dartmouth Skiway, they said they hope that The Box will incorporate experiential learning and job training for employees.

The Box will prioritize continuity by focusing on mentorship between Tuck students and undergraduates.

Operating on a rotating schedule, students can work in various roles, like alongside executive chef Tyler Harvey or with Tuck students on finance, operations and marketing strategies.

Fundraising efforts have collected enough money to purchase the truck and some equipment, as well as to partially cover operating costs. The Box’s Kickstarter campaign, which launched last week, aims to raise $15,000 by March 13. As of press time, The Box had garnered 91 backers and $5,775.

Using student focus groups and surveys to conduct market research over the past year, the founders said that they had found demand for fresh, healthier and locally-sourced food. They then

took these demands to Harvey to develop the menu.

Students working on the project said they are excited for the launch and the opportunity to gain handson entrepreneurial experience.

Jessica Wolf ’14, who works on

“A lot of other schools have the infrastructure to support entrepreneurship.

This is a great way for Dartmouth to charge forward, past the bad publicity.”

- Cecelia Shao ’16 staffing operations and marketing, said she has been recruiting and training students to start in the spring.

She added that initial survey results indicated a student demand for less salubrious offerings like mac and cheese and fried food, but

said The Box was unlikely to offer them as there is already access to these foods through Dartmouth Dining Services.

“If we were going to do something,” she said, “it would have to be something different.”

Kristo Jorgenson ’16, who became involved with the project while auditing an introductory entrepreneurship course at Tuck last winter, said the project has been his most valuable learning experience. The project has showed him how Tuck students handled tough situations and answered difficult questions.

Cecelia Shao ’16, a member of the project, said she had access to a wide variety of food options growing up in New York City, many of which included food trucks. A food truck in Hanover is long overdue, she said, and provides another opportunity for students to develop their entrepreneurial capabilities.

“A lot of other schools have the infrastructure to support entrepreneurship,” she said. “This is a great way for Dartmouth to charge forward, past the bad publicity,” Shao is a former member of The Dartmouth staff.

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Geisel’s Gaffe

The Path Less Traveled

Suspending the M.D./Ph.D. program admissions is a mistake.

On Feb. 6, Duane Compton, the Geisel School of Medicine’s senior associate dean for research, informed current M.D./Ph.D. candidates that the administration was placing an indefinite hold on admissions due to budgetary concerns. Applicants who had already interviewed received notice that Geisel would no longer offer seats in the incoming class. After the meeting, M.D./Ph.D. students, like Andrew Giustini, tried to speak with Geisel Dean Wiley “Chip” Souba, who had left town.

Neither students nor the faculty had been consulted before the applicants were notified, and the Dean’s Office had directly overridden the will of Geisel’s faculty council, which showed unanimous support for maintaining the program in May. Current M.D./Ph.D. students and concerned members of the faculty set up an online petition that has received an outpouring of support. On Feb. 13, the Dean’s Office sent an email to the Geisel faculty explaining the decision. The email said that the Office planned to “review structure and funding, and how [the M.D./Ph.D.] program fits into the School’s overall strategic goal of sustainability and excellence” — a markedly different statement than what was originally told to M.D./ Ph.D. students. The statement also stressed that the suspension would have no bearing on Geisel’s goal to become a top 20 medical school by 2020.

The decision and its justifications raise a number of important questions. An M.D./Ph.D. program, which draws in talented students and researchers, demonstrates an institution’s commitment to the basic sciences. Every medical school in the U.S. News and World Report’s top 30 for research has its own M.D./Ph.D. program, and despite the administration’s assertions to the contrary, the suspension will tarnish Geisel’s reputation, deter top researchers and students from coming to Geisel and stifle its ambition of becoming a top medical school.

Furthermore, the savings of halting the program would be minimal. According to Souba, supporting all 25 M.D./Ph.D. students costs Geisel at least $1,000,000 a year. However, this figure is misleading. Many M.D./Ph.D. students bring funding through individual fellowships or successful lab grants, meaning that the administra-

tion receives money from grant overhead rates.

In addition, because Geisel only matriculates two to three M.D./Ph.D. students every year and will continue to fund enrolled students, the full savings will not be realized unless the program is suspended for the next eight to 10 years. At that point, any institutional gains made by the program for the last two decades would be lost, leading a steep decline in its quality.

Finally, the Geisel administration’s actions demonstrate a lack of respect to students, faculty and applicants. If the Dean’s Office at Geisel still thought that the program had to be reevaluated, it should have acted with the full input of the students and faculty. It is hard to imagine such a scenario befalling the College, where major program revisions must pass the scrutiny of standard committees. It was also unacceptable to penalize those who had already interviewed at Dartmouth.

Interviewees ultimately ended up making a futile trip to Hanover for a school that could not even maintain their desired course of study.

Although Geisel must honor the offers that it has already made, announcing this decision in the middle of application season will undoubtedly deter accepted students with alternative options from matriculating into the program — now and in the future.

Overall, the suspension diminishes the College’s reputation by association and denies future undergraduates an opportunity to learn from some of the strongest medical and graduate students at the College.

This decision is an affront to students, faculty members, applicants and the Dartmouth community. To improve Geisel’s standing among its peers, the administration must fully reinstate the M.D./Ph.D. program as soon as possible. Indeed, Geisel must increase, rather than decrease, its commitment to producing more physician-scientist leaders if it ever hopes to receive funding from the National Institute of Health’s Medical Scientist Training Program, as all of the top 20 medical schools do. Additionally, safeguards must be put into place to check future misuse of administrative power, lest we allow another executive decision to bring down a long-standing academic program.

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Dartmouth culture should better value intellectualism.

I spent my last Winter Carnival in the library with a series of chai tea lattes and a stack of philosophy books. Most of my friends and peers spent it sledding, ice-skating or drunk in fraternities.

They looked at me with pity when we swapped anecdotes. Compare “I blacked in dancing on a table at Psi U!” with “I realized that thought experiments might be disanalagous with scientific experiments!” for a taste of the differential.

My senior year has been an exercise in thesis writing and academic discipline: long nights in the library, innumerable cups of coffee and an ever-lengthening litany of library renewals. For my friends, however, senior year is marked by preemptive nostalgia.

When a member of the outside world materializes in my corner of the library, I smile apologetically and gaze down, ashamed, into the depths of whatever caffeinated-beverage-soymilk-hybrid I’m nursing at the time. “Yeah, ragey weekend,” I say, maybe adding a nervous “haha” by way of ironic flourish — and justification.

Much of Dartmouth believes that concentrated intellectual passion is gauche, that one should take a healthy interest in a wide range of activities, network and apologize for weekend library sessions. Here, you’re either totally on board with the notion of well-rounded affability or you’re branded as an insufferable elitist.

Does everyone have this attitude? No, of course not. I suspect that many closet nerds identify with me. But anti-intellectualism is an unfortunately predominant attitude, and for the most part, I feel pigeonholed into a role that I don’t want to occupy. I don’t begrudge you your relentless social life, but I don’t envy it.

If I haven’t lived the idealized Dartmouth experience, it’s because I haven’t wanted to.

I don’t want to hike that mountain, play that drinking game, buy matching Lululemons for our mass workout or guzzle Franzia like there’s no tomorrow (there is, and you’ll be upset you didn’t afford its imminence more respect when you wake up tomorrow morning). I want to sit in the library and read books about literary theory and philosophy. For all my embarrassed self-denigration, there is nowhere I would rather

be on a Saturday night than snuggled up with a green tea and a sky-high pile of interesting reading materials.

I often hear that my college memories won’t feature my classes so much as my relationships. My friendships matter to me. But so does my lifelong relationship to literature and philosophy, which predates my Dartmouth acceptance by at least a decade. When I look back on Dartmouth, I’ll remember my friends. But I’ll also remember falling so in love with Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” that I forgot my dinner plans, realizing I spoke German well enough to read Rilke in the original and poring over “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’” in awe of Putnam’s gorgeous precision.

These experiences aren’t “fun” in the traditional sense. They don’t photograph well (the caption might read “Girl with Horrible Posture Crouched Over 20-Page Paper, Pallid Skin Gleaming in Light of Computer”). But I love them. I’m in the library because I’m in a committed relationship with my thesis and wouldn’t have it any other way.

Literature and philosophy are relationships.

Last week in my medieval English literature class, I touched a book from the 1300s that had been annotated by readers hundreds of years ago. My relationship with texts is a relationship with the thousands of other thinkers who read those same texts, turning to those same ideas for comfort in a chaotic world. And I wish that mainstream Dartmouth valued that relationship more.

My Dartmouth is not one that cares about Winter Carnival, the outcome of football games or the big party next weekend. My Dartmouth is something else entirely: two parts logical operators and one part poetry. But I’m not alone here, and I wish there were a more centralized intellectual community, a social space predominantly devoted to academic pursuits and a place where I could listen to others nerding out about their respective passions with open arms and an open mind.

Right now, Dartmouth’s intellectual scene consists of disparate intellectual voices crying out in the wilderness of the stacks.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that my thesis and I are seeking a double date.

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8:51.91 3K time for Abbey D’Agostino ’14 this weekend, the fourthfastest ever.

71.1 Percentage of points by the women’s basketball team scored by Lakin Roland ’16 and Nicola Zimmer ’14.

4 Years since the men’s hockey team has scored at Clarkson. The team put up six on Saturday.

25 Cornell’s win over the men’s basketball team ended a 25-game losing streak against Division I opponents.

Men’s hockey pulls shocking upset sweep on road

B y josh schiefelbein The Dartmouth Staff

After a long and painful start to the season, the men’s hockey team is finally starting to get healthy enough to mount a playoff run. For the first time all season, Dartmouth swept a two-game weekend slate.

Dartmouth rebounded from its uneven performance a week ago, which left them with a 3-0 loss at Harvard University, by overwhelming St. Lawrence University and No. 14 Clarkson University, avenging tough early-season losses to both teams.

“Our record doesn’t show the kind of team we have,” Grant Opperman ’17 said. “Things just really came together this weekend, and now we’re able to play at our full potential.”

Entering the weekend, the Big Green wanted to get more shots on goal and find ways to score, Charlie Mosey ’15 said. In the two games, the Big Green shattered both objectives, scoring nine goals and registering 56 shots across the two games.

All season, St. Lawrence (11-5-4, 5-9-4 ECAC) has been hot away and cold at home, and the same held true Friday night. With the win, Dartmouth extended its win streak at St. Lawrence to seven games.

Friday also featured the return of captain Tyler Sikura ’15 for his first extended action in nine games, contributing two assists. Sikura last played on Dec. 30 against Northeastern University.

“It was fantastic being back in the lineup,” Sikura said. “A lot of work went into rehabbing and making sure I came back 100 percent.”

Both teams started slowly out the gate through a scoreless first period.

Grant received the start against St. Lawrence, relieving James Kruger ’16 who had started the last game. Grant’s last start was the 8-1 loss against Quinnipiac University where he allowed five goals, but on Friday night, Grant had the hot

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glove, finishing the night with 32 Sikura tallied his second assist of saves, including several close calls the evening on the Opperman goal that helped preserve Dartmouth’s and clearly made his presence felt lead. on the ice in his first game back.

After Jack Barre ’16 was called “It’s great having Sikura back for hooking just over three minutes in the lineup because he’s such a into the second, St. Lawrence’s dynamic player,” Opperman said. best-in-the-nation power play unit “He can score goals and completely struck first with just over 30 seconds dominate the game with his play.” remaining on the man-advantage. St. Lawrence tried to rally, but The Big Green tied the game the team missed several shots on an with a power open net, outplay of its own “Our record doesn’t show shooting Dartas Brandon 17-2 in the kind of team we have. mouth McNally ’15 the third.

Things just really came notched his T h e fifth goal of together this weekend, next night, the year. Sikura and now we’re able to Dartmouth visand Eric Neiley play at our full potential.” ited Clarkson ’15 picked up (17-13-2, 10-8-0 the assists as ECAC) on SatMcNally made - Grant opperman ’17 urday. a g reat indi T h e vidual play, burying the puck in game began in Clarkson’s favor the Saints’s net. as the Golden Knights held a 6-0 Three minutes later, Opperman shot advantage eight minutes in, scored his sixth goal of the season just before Dartmouth’s offense on a breakaway set up by Neiley exploded. and McNally, deking out the St. In the span of four minutes, Lawrence defender on his way to Rick Pinkston ’15, Brad Schierhorn score. Dartmouth had aggressively ’16 and Neiley scored for the Big pressed St. Lawrence’s defense with Green. The three rapid goals forced consistent shots before Opperman Clarkson to pull freshman Steve gave the Big Green its first lead of Perry for sophomore Greg Lewis. the night.

Before Pinkston’s goal, Dart Mosey increased Dartmouth’s mouth had not scored at Clarkson’s lead to two on a two-on-one, redi- Cheel Arena since Nov. 2010. recting a feed from Jesse Beamish The third goal came when Op’15. Mosey’s shot was one of only perman’s intercepted a pass from two that the Big Green had during Perry and fed the puck to Neiley. the final period.

Just when it looked like Dart-

mouth would go into the period break with a three-goal advantage, Neiley scored again with 0.3 seconds left, pushing the lead to four.

Freshman Jordan Boucher put Clarkson on the board by knocking in a loose puck with two and a half minutes remaining in the period.

Early in the third, Dartmouth caught a break — Clarkson had a goal waved off as the puck went in as the officials blew the whistle.

Shortly afterward, Opperman scored on a rebound, making a desperate situation seem even more hopeless for Clarkson. Less than two minutes later, Schierhorn tallied his second goal of the night, turning the game into a rout.

“We knew we were close and in the last couple games, it was a matter of battling through adversity and picking up the win,” Sikura said. “Beating St. Lawrence and Clarkson gives us a huge confidence boost that we can use for our remaining games.”

With 10 minutes left, McNally was sent to the locker room for a game misconduct for face masking, giving Clarkson a five-minute power play. The outcome, however, was a foregone conclusion.

McNally will be out for next week’s home game against Brown University.

Dartmouth, which has now won three of its last four games, will host Brown and defending national champion Yale University at Thompson Arena.

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The men’s hockey team pulled off two upsets this weekend, beating St. Lawrence and Clarkson on the road.

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

Men’s basketball loses both games on road

B y jasper bingham The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s basketball team dropped both of its games on its road trip this weekend, falling 70-67 to Cornell University in a heartbreaker and 6959 to Columbia University. The Big Green has now lost four games straight, bringing its record to 9-13 overall, 2-6 versus the Ancient Eight.

The contest against the Big Red started out close, with neither team gaining more than a three-point edge for the opening 10 minutes. Cornell began to gain some momentum when sophomore Nolan Cressler drilled a three and Dwight Tarwater powered to the cup for two, sparking a furious 18-6 run for the home team.

The Big Green tried to answer before the break, as Brandon McDonnell ’16 sunk a pair of free throws and Kevin Crescenzi ’16 drained a long ball after losing his man with a hesitation dribble.

Cornell reciprocated, though, extending the lead to 31-20 going into the locker room.

The team committed to turning the game around after halftime, guard John Golden ’15 said.

“Honestly, we didn’t play well in the first half,” he said. “Coach got into us a little bit and told us we could play a lot better than we did.”

After the break, Dartmouth mounted a furious comeback to put itself in a position to win.

The scoring alternated for the first five minutes of the period, as Cornell’s lead shrunk to nine points. Cornell then pressed its advantage, starting with a

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The men’s basketball team had a disappointing road weekend, losing twice.

steal and a breakaway two-handed jam by freshman Darryl Smith.

After the media timeout, two Cornell free throws brought the lead to 51-36, the largest of the game.

Dartmouth needed a player to step up and it got one in Alex Mitola ’16.

Mitola canned three three-pointers in two minutes, the string punctuated only by a long shot from Crescenzi.

Mitola finished off his virtuosic burst with a trip to the foul line, where he made both his attempts to pull the Big Green within one. Crescenzi finished off the job on the next possession with a jumper in the paint to give Dartmouth the lead at 52-51 with seven minutes remaining.

“We came out and played a lot better defense to start the second half,”

Golden said. “Getting stops on them allowed us to get some easy buckets, which got us right back into it.”

The two teams continued to battle up until the final minute of regulation, with neither side gaining more than a three-point advantage.

With Dartmouth behind 62-59 at the 1:03 mark, Connor Boehm ’16 swung the ball to Mitola, who squared up for three. As he released the ball, Darryl Smith flew in and swatted it away, setting up a fast break for Cornell.

Mitola sprinted after in hot pursuit but arrived too late, as junior Devin Cherry completed the layup and drew the foul.

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Women’s hockey comes up short at home

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IVY

OVERALL

HARVARD YALE BROWN COLUMBIA PENN PRINCETON DARTMOUTH CORNELL

7-1 7-1 5-3 4-4 3-4 2-5 2-6 1-7

20-4 13-9 13-9 15-10 6-15 14-7 9-13 2-20

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HARVARD PENN PRINCETON CORNELL YALE BROWN COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH

7-1 6-1 6-1 4-4 4-4 2-6 2-6 0-8

17-5 16-5 15-6 12-10 10-12 8-14 5-17 3-19

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ECAC

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UNION QUINNIPIAC COLGATE CLARKSON CORNELL YALE RPI BROWN HARVARD ST. LAWRENCE DARTMOUTH PRINCETON

14-3-1 11-4-3 10-5-3 10-8-0 8-6-4 8-7-3 7-7-4 7-10-1 5-9-4 5-9-4 5-12-1 4-14-0

20-6-4 21-6-5 14-11-5 17-13-2 12-7-5 13-8-4 13-12-5 10-12-3 9-12-4 11-15-4 6-16-3 5-20-0

Women’s Hockey

The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s hockey team ended its home season on a sour note, falling to St. Lawrence University on Friday night 4-1 and No. 5 Clarkson University 6-1 on Saturday night.

Despite the disappointing finishes, the women remain in the running for the playoffs and in ninth place in the ECAC, thanks to Colgate University and No. 3 Cornell University’s wins over eighth-place Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute.

A three-point weekend by Yale University means that the Big Green (7-18-1, 6-13-1 ECAC) can only reach eighth place. RPI (10-18-3, 6-12-2 ECAC) and Dartmouth are separated by one point in the standings with one weekend to play. The Big Green hits the road to play 11th place Brown University and Yale while the Engineers travel to play Clarkson (23-4-5, 14-2-4 ECAC) and St. Lawrence (11-17-3, 10-7-3 ECAC). The Engineers have a much tougher weekend, but the Big Green needs to tie them in the standings to make the playoffs. The team from Hanover holds the tiebreaker over RPI thanks to a season sweep.

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The women’s hockey team was swept in its final homestand of the season.

tice and play our type of hockey, without making any little errors, we have a really good shot at making the playoffs,” forward Laura Stacey ’16 said. “We’ve played really tough all year and been just a few bounces away from winning some games. I think next weekend is a chance to get it together and make a push for the playoffs.”

The women came out firing against the Saints, outshooting the visitors 16-7 in the first period. However, the Big Green could only put one goal in the net. With just under five minutes to play in the opening frame, Stacey won a draw to Lindsey Allen ’16 in SEE W HOCKEY PAGE SW 7

SCHOOL

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CORNELL CLARKSON HARVARD QUINNIPIAC ST. LAWRENCE PRINCETON YALE RPI DARTMOUTH COLGATE BROWN UNION

15-2-3 14-2-4 15-3-2 9-4-7 10-7-3 9-8-3 6-8-6 6-12-2 6-13-1 6-14-0 3-14-3 4-16-0

20-3-4 23-4-5 20-4-3 18-5-9 11-17-3 13-10-4 8-13-6 10-18-3 7-18-1 9-21-2 4-18-5 9-22-1

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Tucker Murphy ’04 - Cross-Country Skiing (Bermuda) As the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia reach the midway point, Dartmouth athletes have been consistently performing well, starting as early as the opening ceremony on Feb. 7.

If the gala were a competition, Tucker Murphy ’04 would be a strong medal favorite. In temperatures below 40 degrees, Murphy, Bermuda’s sole representative, wore Bermuda’s iconic red shorts and a blazer while carrying the nation’s flag, temporarily trending on Twitter.

So far Dartmouth athletes have experienced both success and heartbreak.

Murphy competed in the 15-kilometer classic race and finished 84th, an improvement on his 88th place result in Vancouver.

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Sophie Caldwell ’12 and Ida Sargent ’11 Cross-Country Skiing (USA)

Hannah Kearney ’15 - Freestyle Skiing (USA) Hannah Kearney ’15 was the favorite to win gold in the freestyle moguls, and she seemed prepared to defend her gold from the 2010 Winter Olympics when she earned the highest score in the qualification round. Nabbing a gold in Sochi would have made Kearney the first back-to-back winner of an Olympic freestyle event.

Yet Kearney lost her footing temporarily at the start of her run and came in third, behind sisters Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe of Canada.

The next day, she announced her retirement. She will continue to compete in World Cup events, but these will be the last Olympic Games in which she participates.

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Sophie Caldwell ’12 surprised with a sixth-place overall finish in the women’s cross-country sprint despite falling during the final sprint when her ski tangled with another skier’s pole. Caldwell’s finish is the best ever for a U.S. female cross-country skier.

“I know I ski the fastest when I’m happy and enjoying myself, so the best I could do to prepare was to soak up the experience,” Caldwell said in an email. “I definitely wasn’t expecting that result going into the day, but I felt great and was so excited about everything.”

She finished second in her semifinal heat to claim the sixth spot in the six-person final,

and she was the only American to advance past the quarterfinals.

Ida Sargent ’11 also finished 19th in the event.

Caldwell said she has enjoyed the support she has received from fans in the U.S. and the attention it has brought to her sport.

The warm weather has been another bonus, she said. A few days after her first race, the pair competed in the 10-kilometer classic race in spring-like condiditons.

Caldwell earned some temporary Internet fame for competing in short sleeves.

Caldwell finished 32nd, and Sargent finished 34th.

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Andrew Weibrecht ’09 - Alpine Skiing (USA)

By JOSH SCHieFELBEIN The Dartmouth Staff

Gillian Apps ’06 - Ice Hockey (Canada) Representing Dartmouth on the Canadian women’s hockey team, Gillian Apps ’06 looks to earn her third goal medal after taking the top spot in Torino and Vancouver. Apps, a three-time Olympian, said each of the Games have been unique.

Canada is the favorite and has won gold the last three Winter Games.

So far the Canadians have defeated Switzerland 5-0 and Finland 3-0 before clashing against a powerful American team that defeated Switzerland and Finland by a combined 12-1. Canada triumphed over America in a physical 3-2 win. The Americans outplayed the Canadians for most of the first two periods, but a dominant third period performance put Canada on top.

“Our team is still working on improving little parts of our game as we go through the tournament,” Apps said.

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“We’re looking to be able to play a full 60 minutes as a group. If we can get to that point, that is where you will see us play our best hockey.”

In the semifinal on Monday, team Canada will face Switzerland in a rematch.

The American team will play Sweden.

Apps has contributed seven shots on goal in her 32 minutes on the ice over the three wins.

Sunday morning, Andrew Weibrecht ’09 stunned the world with a silver-medal finish in the men’s super-G, coming just fractions of a second ahead of more-heralded teammate Bode Miller who tied for the bronze.

Weibrecht’s top finish this season was 20th place at Beaver Creek, and he was never considered a medal favorite in Sochi.

Weibrecht won a surprise bronze medal in Vancouver in the super-G but had been beset by injuries in the interim and was even dropped from U.S. Skiing’s “A” roster.

After a fast start that had him ahead of the gold-medal pace by over three-tenths of a second, Weibrecht faded over the last split, slipping into second place with a time of 1:18.44.

Weibrecht told NBC that he knew he had skied well but was surprised by his result.

“I took a couple seconds and looked at the time,” he said in an interview with NBC. “I saw ‘2.’ I looked away. I looked again. I thought, ‘You have got to be kidding.’”

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Susan Dunklee ’08, Sara Studebaker ’07 and Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 - Biathlon (USA) Susan Dunklee ’08 finished 14th in the biathlon 7.5-kilometer sprint on Feb. 9 to post the top Olympic sprint finish by an American woman.

“I have never been so nervous before a race as I was yesterday morning,” Dunklee said in an email. “However, once I started warming up and zeroing my rifle, everything felt very routine, which is exactly what you try to create on race day.”

Dunklee finished 41.5 seconds behind firstplace biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina, and battled for the bronze medal until she missed her final shot, costing her 20 seconds as she completed a penalty lap.

Though missing the shot was “heartbreaking” Dunklee said, she was able to laugh it off and keep skiing for one of her best performances of the season.

Sara Studebaker ’07 and Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 finished 44th and 65th in the event.

Studebaker competed at the Vancouver Olympics, but the sprint was Dreissigacker’s first Olympic competition.

Dreissigacker said she was nervous but excited before the competition. She missed one shot prone and three standing.

“I haven’t been competing in high-level biathlon races for that long, but I’ve been shooting well in practice, and I really expect better of myself than missing three in standing,” Dressigacker said.

“I was really frustrated about that, and feeling a bit down, to be honest. But then I had to remind myself that I was at the Olympics, racing against the best biathletes in the world.”

Dunklee and Studebaker’s finishes qualified them for the 10-kilometer race two days later, on Feb. 11.

Dunklee continued to perform well, temporarily moving up to the top five before she missed three shots in the final standing shooting position, dropping her to 18th in the 10-kilometer.

Studebaker missed five shots and finished 51st.

Dreissigacker had the best result of U.S. women in the 15-kilometer race, finishing 23rd with two penalties. Dunklee finished 34th with five penalties, and Studebaker came in 55th with four penalties.

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Women’s basketball drops two games at home, falls to 0-8

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s basketball team battled in two games this weekend against Cornell University and Columbia University, but was swept by its New York rivals, falling to Cornell (12-10, 4-4 Ivy) 78-59 on Friday before dropping a closer match to the Lions (5-17, 2-6 Ivy) 65-59. The team (3-19, 0-8 Ivy) returned home from a six-game road streak for the games.

“It’s going to take time to get to where I want to be,” head coach Belle Koclanes said. “With that said, I hope people have really been following us closely so that they can see our players are getting better.

Their decision making is improving. It’s not all about the win/loss column.”

The match against the Big Red was close until 13 minutes left in the second half, when the visitors’ 30-11 run blew the game open. The game was tied at 48 before Cornell rattled off nine straight points and forced the Big Green to play catchup. The Dartmouth women pulled the game back within five, but small runs by the Big Red negated any comeback attempt.

The Big Green came out strong in the first half, playing to a 36-30 deficit. Overall, the team shot 44

percent from the floor, but Dartmouth surrendered a 55 percent clip to the Big Red. Lakin Roland ’16 led the Big Green in points with 17 while Fanni Szabo ’17 pitched in with 14 of her own.

On Saturday, the Big Green women hosted Columbia in the Pink Zone game for breast cancer awareness as part of the Play 4Kay weekend in women’s college basketball. Dartmouth showed some marked improvement in this contest, hanging with the Lions until an 18-7 run that began with 13:57 left in the game.

Roland and Nicola Zimmer ’14 set career-highs with 22 and 20 points, respectively. Roland added 11 boards for another doubledouble. The two players contributed over 70 percent of the team’s offense as the rest of the Big Green women struggled to find rhythm on offense. The rest of the team went 6-27 from the floor. Szabo was hampered by foul trouble and an off night shooting the ball, only scoring seven points on 3-11 shooting in 24 minutes of play.

The team held the visitors scoreless for nearly four minutes, but could only build a 6-0 lead over that stretch. The Lions responded with a 14-2 run to take the lead.

“We were feeling good,” Zimmer said. “I think we started with seven

stops on defense. We were feeling that we were in it and maintaining that consistency.”

As the game progressed, Dartmouth found itself down 14-8, but Roland sunk a key bucket to keep the Big Green within striking distance, quickly answered by the Lions but supported by another Dartmouth basket. Columbia attempted to shoot but instead slammed the ball

at the backboard, opening up the court for a quick Big Green score.

Columbia’s Taylor Ward kept the Big Green at arm’s length by swishing a third court three-pointer.

The score was 28-24 when the announcer called the last minute of play. After taking two points from free throws, Dartmouth turned over the ball and lost possession in the Lions’ territory, a mistake Columbia

capitalized on in the closing seconds of the half, ending play with a 3026 lead over the Big Green. During halftime, Koclanes said she worked with team to provide solutions to problems they faced on the court.

“I knock on the door and I ask them if they’re ready for solutions,” she said. “We made our adjustSEE W BASKETBALL PAGE SW 7

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The women’s basketball team was doomed by its opponents’ clutch runs this weekend.

Led by Nordic team, ski team places second at Williams Carnival

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The ski team continued its streak of second-place finishes at the Williams Carnival last weekend, coming in behind the University of Vermont for the fourth time this season. Dartmouth’s 834 points left it 136 short of UVM’s total but nearly 200 points ahead of third-place Middlebury College.

The Nordic team led the way for the Big Green, as the men won both events and the women finished second. The Dartmouth men took the 3x5-kilometer relay handily thanks to a team of Fabian Stocek ’17, Silas Talbot ’15 and Patrick Caldwell ’17, finishing 33.2 seconds ahead of the closest team from UVM. Talbot’s time of 9:25.1 was the fastest lap by any competitor.

Another Big Green relay team finished second, just over a second off the pace set by the top skiers.

In the men’s 10-kilometer classic race, Caldwell and Talbot topped the podium again. Stocek finished fifth. The race was Caldwell’s first individual collegiate carnival victory.

On the women’s side, the relay team of Annie Hart ’14, Emily Hannah ’16 and Corey Stock ’16 finished second behind UVM with a time of

36:27.7.

Hart led the team again in the 5-kilometer classic race with a fourthplace finish.

On the slopes at Jiminy Peak, the team was less successful, the best results being second-place finishes in the women’s slalom and giant slalom.

Lizzie Kistler ’16 led the way for Dartmouth with a fourth-place finish and combined time of 1:46.48. Abby Fucigna ’15 finished in sixth after cutting nearly one and a half seconds off of her first run time to finish with a combined time of 1:47.04.

On Saturday in the slalom, Maisie Ide ’16 was the top finisher for the Big Green in fifth place, followed by Sara Kikut ’16 in seventh.

The men struggled in the giant slalom, finishing in sixth. Dylan Brooks ’17 was the top Big Green skier, earning a combined time of 1:45.69 and 13th place.

In Saturday’s slalom, the Big Green had three racers in the top 15. Morse took fifth with a time of 1:35.72 while Dylan Fisher McCarney ’15 and Mathieu Bertrand ’14 finished 13th and 14th, respectively.

Next week the team travels to Middlebury College for the EISA Championships and NCAA East Regional.

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Thanks to a strong Nordic performance, the ski team placed second to UVM at the Williams Carnival.

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the offensive zone. The sophomore fired a shot but could not beat the St. Lawrence goalie. Yet Devon Moir ’17 was in the right place at the right time and buried the loose puck for her first career goal.

“We went into it with a lot of energy, we did not want to have to be fighting back,” Katy Ratty ’17 said. “We wanted to be on top at the beginning.”

Shortly after, St. Lawrence tied it up at one. The visitors scored the only goal of the second period to make it 2-1 going into the final 20 minutes.

“We were playing very well, so we just kept thinking that we have to keep pushing and the goals would come,” Allen said. “We were outshooting them, out-chancing them, and unfortunately they got a couple goals, but we knew that if we just kept pushing we could get the goals and get it back.”

The Big Green’s chances for a comeback were hindered when the Saints netted a power play goal 4:49 into the third period. With just under two minutes left, head coach Mark Hudak pulled goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft ’14, but the visitors sealed the win with an empty net goal 1:23 left in the game.

Dartmouth’s offense again struggled to connect on scoring opportunities.

Despite recording 32 shots on goal to St. Lawrence’s 21, the Big Green managed

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The women’s hockey team needs to pick up points this weekend on the road to play its way back into the playoffs.

only one goal.

“We just need to bury rebounds and bear down on the puck when we have the opportunity,” Ratty said.

The team also failed to put the puck in the net on Saturday, finishing with one goal out of 27 shots in the 6-1 defeat to the Golden Knights.

Clarkson came out strong in the first period, netting a power play goal 8:22 in and another one 16:44 in, but Dartmouth stayed calm and battled back in the second period, outplaying the highly-ranked visitors.

After being outshot 16-7 in the first

period, the Big Green narrowed the margin to 13-12 in the second. Holdcroft stood on her head to keep the Big Green in the game, making numerous point-blank saves, including a sequence in which the captain knocked the puck out of the air with her shoulder and then dove across the net to stop a shot with the edge of her skate.

Almost 12 minutes into the second, Eleni Tebano ’17 scored the only goal of the frame with a laser from the point on a power play. Stacey dropped the puck to the freshman blueliner, who unloaded a slapper that found the corner of the

net and cut the deficit to one.

While Dartmouth’s offense controlled the tempo for the second period, Clarkson took it right back at the start of the third. With 1:01 gone in the period and again just over a minute later, Clarkson jammed the puck past Holdcroft twice to extend its lead to 4-1.

“We had in the second and we might have just run out of energy since we’ve been fighting so hard in the first two periods and the night before,” Stacey said. “That’s something we need to focus on because it really did hurt us

and it can’t happen. We had played so well, and it just took the air out of us.”

The Big Green could not bounce back from the deficit and Clarkson scored two more times, including a third on the power play, before the final buzzer.

“We just had a couple breakdowns, they got a couple unlucky goals,” Allen said. “A ton of our shifts were extended because we couldn’t clear the puck. We did the little things wrong, and they capitalized on our mistakes.”

Although she allowed six goals, Holdcroft had another stellar game, saving 33 shots.

Following the game, Holdcroft, Lauren Kelly ’14, and Ali Winkel ’14 were honored in a ceremony for their contributions over the past four years, which included a NCAA Tournament berth their freshman year.

Stacey said that the seniors were crucial in keeping the team together through their rollercoaster season.

“A lot of teams would have cracked after what we’ve gone through, and I really credit our coaches and captains with rallying us and keeping us together,” Stacey said. “Although we’ve taken a couple side roads along the way, we don’t think our season is anywhere near over.”

Dartmouth wraps up its regular season next weekend with away games against Brown at 7 p.m. on Friday and Yale at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Women look to rebound Men stay on road for Princeton, Penn at home next weekend the score close during the first half and then let the margin widen in though, and after back-and-forth the second period. foul shooting by both teams, The first half was closely conthe score favored Cornell 66-62 tested, as the game went through with 0:26 remaining. Following a 10 lead changes and eight ties.

Mitola kept timeout, the Big his team in the Green got the game with three ball to Eli Har- “We have to be able to long balls in the rison ’17, who capitalize on free throws, first seven mindrained a deep, that was the crucial utes. Columbia f a d e - a w a y thing in the game. I’m fought back as three, bringing not saying that’s a tell-all junior Meiko the bench to its statistic, but free throws hit two feet and imbuare certainly a big part of Lyles three-pointers ing the team the game.” of his own in with new life. response, but After a free Dartmouth throw by Cher- tyler melville ’14 fended off Cory and then a lumbia until the layup by Tyler last minute of Melville ’14, the score stood tied at 67 with the first half, when freshman Jeff nine seconds remaining. Cherry Coby sunk a free throw, grabbed got to the free throw line again and the rebound when he missed a make one of two, putting Cornell second, and put the ball back in back on top. With five seconds for two. The score was 31-30 in remaining, Cornell stole the ball favor of the Lions going into the off Melville on an inbound pass, break. effectively ending the game and The start of the second half looked promising for the Big the comeback.

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ments, and we talked about what we’re doing well. We had to do a better job defending 00. She’s a very good player, so just trying to limit her touches and scoring was key.”

Columbia’s number 00, junior Miwa Tachibana, finished with 17 points to lead a balanced Columbia attack that had three players in double figures.

Dartmouth tied the game 30-30 less than a minute and a half into the second half. Columbia then took a small lead, but the Big Green tied it up again after forcing a wasted shot by Columbia as the shot clock expired. The two teams battled for the lead and, with less than 15 minutes of play left, it was Columbia by two after two free throws.

Within seconds, Roland completed a perfect layup and gave the Big Green the lead for the first time since the opening minutes of the game by putting away another basket from just within the arc. The Lions, however, turned their 38-36 deficit into a 54-45 advantage over the course of nearly seven minutes.

The Big Green held the advantage on the glass, in points off turnovers and dominated second chance points 14-4. However, Columbia’s depth proved to be the difference as the Lions’ bench outscored the Big Green’s 12-4.

“I just want to win,” Roland said. “It was easy to get rebounds in their zone and box them out.

Converting on that is just a matter of focusing.”

In the face of loss and adversity, Koclanes said, the Pink Zone Game helped the Big Green maintain perspective.

“We’ve been talking a lot about fight, particularly today,” she said.

“Just having some perspective about how here we are, blessed to be healthy and competing against an opponent as opposed to competing against a disease. In life, it’s either fight or flight, and we are going to continue to fight to be a better team.”

The team stays at home next weekend to host Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania at Leede Arena. Tip-off for both games is scheduled for 7 p.m.

offensive possessions. After Melville’s shot, though, the Dartmouth offense stagnated, hitting just one field goal in the next nine minutes.

The team tried to make its way back in the game, pulling within six points with under seven minutes remaining, but the Big Green would never get closer, however, as Columbia’s defense locked down and sophomore Maodo Lo and junior Alex Rosenberg combined to go 12-of-12 from the free-throw line in the remainder of the contest.

Performance at the line seemed to limit the Big Green who made 58.3 percent of its attempts compared to 84.6 percent from Columbia, which leads the Ivy League in free throw shooting.

“We have to be able to capitalize on free throws, that was the crucial thing in the game,” Melville said.

“I’m not saying that’s a tell-all statistic, but free throws are certainly a big part of the game.”

The Big Green will go on another road trip next weekend, playing Princeton University on Friday night and the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Dartmouth beat both schools earlier this season.

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ONE ON ONE

WITH JANAE DUNCHACK ’14

B y jordan einhorn The Dartmouth Staff

This week, I sat down with Janae Dunchack ’14, a multi-event athlete on the women’s track and field team.

Dunchack has been a dominant force for the team and is the three-time defending Ivy League champion in the pentathlon at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships. Dunchack hopes to sweep the event for her college career with a win at Leverone Field House on March 1 and 2. She came to Hanover as a high jumper but switched to multi-events her freshman year.

What about multi-events sounded interesting to you?

JD: I liked the idea of multi-tasking because I was never super exceptional at one thing in particular. I was always very good or moderate at a whole bunch of different things. To be a successful multi, you don’t necessarily have to be the best at everything; you just have to be up there in each different event.

qualify for nationals, which would be very disappointing. My goal is to get over 4,000 points, which should put me in a solid spot to go to nationals.

With everyone breaking records right and left, what’s the team dynamic like right now?

JD: I’m really excited because I’ve definitely seen a change in the team this year. People seem more motivated; people seem to be pushing themselves a little harder to get that extra second or that extra inch or two. No one’s really saying it, but I feel like everyone is really preparing for Heps and getting really excited to have it at Dartmouth because it only happens once every four years, so in your career at Dartmouth you only get to see it one time.

What is it like to be a senior?

JD: It’s really different in that I’ve realized I’ve run out of time. Freshman, sophomore, even junior year, I was like “Oh, there’s next year,” I have more time to get better, to get stronger. I realize the importance “I’m really excited What has been of doing everythe most im- because I’ve definitely thing to the best portant thing seen a change in the team of your ability to help you im- this year. People seem and getting betmore motivated; people prove? ter every time as opposed to seem to be pushing JD: Just a lot of themselves a little harder waiting or trysupport. Having to get that extra second ing to hold off. strong support or that extra inch or two.” I realized how from my coach, big of an effect my teammates, upperclassmen friends, family. - janae dunchack ’14 have on younger It’s a very difficult students. How event and very emotionally stressful. they act, how they carry themselves, Having people encouraging you and what they find important are things telling you it’s going to be okay, you’re that usually the underclassmen will going to get better, everything is go- find important or value in their lives. ing to work out, is probably the most I’ve just realized the importance of helpful thing I could have. being a good role model whether or not I think people are watching me.

What’s the most difficult part of doing the pentathlon?

What do you think makes the Dartmouth track team different JD: The most difficult part is mentally from other teams? preparing for each event. You have to be really focused, switching from JD: We all love each other, we have a one event to the next to the next good time. There are little arguments one. I’ve been having trouble really here and there, but for the most part we focusing and really getting all I can all get along very well. We’re just filled out of certain events because I’ll be with a fun group of people. Everyone either distracted or not able to get the on the track team is just impressive, I technique down. don’t know how else to put it. Juggling all these practices, all this homework.

What is your goal individually Like a lot of other sports groups, we’re going into Heps? gone every weekend. So one or two days of our week no work gets done, no JD: On top of defending and trying studying is done, so being able to handle to get a four-year winning streak, that is the most impressive thing ever.

I really want to try to qualify for nationals. Depending on who shows This interview has been edited and up it’s possible for me to win and not condensed.

B y Austin major and freddie fletcher The Dartmouth Staff

Faithful readers, this week has been trying for us and for our sleep schedules.

Between the U.S. winning the “Ice Cold War” in front of Vladimir Putin, Dartmouth athletes absolutely killing it Sochi and contemplating blitzing Sophie Caldwell ’12 to ask if she wants to grab a FoCo meal some time, we have not had time to think about much else.

This week, we did something we promised ourselves we would for a long time. We participated in this week’s competition before noon on Sunday. It’s a big feat for us, and to be honest, we’re pretty proud of ourselves. But we didn’t do it for the glory or the recognition, we did it because, as half of Dartmouth knows, that powder at Killington isn’t going to ski itself.

The men’s basketball team accepted our challenge, which, luckily for us, meant we were playing very much indoors and close to where we both live. Plus, it’s the weekend of the biggest annual event in professional basketball: the dunk competition. At 5 foot 9 inches, I live vicariously through those guys.

Preparation was simple: play as much 2K as humanly possible, take on any challenge we could find at Alumni, watch dunk highlight videos, talk about the Lebron James “Decision” and listen to as much of Troop 41’s “Do the John Wall” as we could.

We set the challenge for Wednesday, conveniently right after what was probably an intense cardio-filled basketball practice. Completely random and definitely not intentional. Sorry guys,

we have group projects every other afternoon. We were going to meet Tyler Melville ’14 and Eli Harrison ’17 for a game to 10 at Alumni. Tired opponents.

Home court advantage. Wit and charm.

The situation looked right for what could be the first outright Legends victory since...we’ll get back to you on that one.

Anyway, it only got better. Those of you who keep up with this column — conservatively approximately 90 percent of our close friends and family, 80 percent of the student population and, of course, 100 percent of dartmouthsports.com readers — will recall that I am not the best b-baller in the world, despite my roots in the Bluegrass State.

So we brought an ace: Joe Dowdell ’14.

And by brought in, I actually mean he was coincidentally there about to play pick-up, and we realized that if we were to have any shot, we needed Joe. For those of you unfamiliar with Joe’s Legend CV, he is a Big Green wide receiver and, as Google has informed us, balled substantially hard in high school.

His eligibility for Legends status as a varsity athlete is still a topic of debate with the National Legends Board, but we do what we want.

Well, as it turns out, despite an ace in the hole, Freddie’s self-proclaimed basketball skills and a solid home crowd of me and a few guys sitting around watching, our opponents were not nearly as intimidated as we would have hoped. Tyler and Eli got in tired from practice, gave the customary pregame handshakes, laughed a little bit at the possibility of us beating them, gave Freddie and Joe the rock and then promptly took it away and put up three quick buckets.

Joe wasn’t having it. He went off for a quick two points about brought it back to within striking distance on a long three-pointer and a layup. But then, it happened.

Readers, I am not in the business of cutting stories short. No word count or editor can keep me down. This occurrence, however, silenced even the most condescending of us. Freddie guarded Tyler with the standard Legends oneon-one defensive scheme, and Tyler pulled a head fake, put the ball through Freddie’s legs and then laid the ball up as if he was playing on one of those Little Tikes orange and blue nets, all in stride. Honestly, I think we can just leave it at that. Freddie kind of looked at the ground for a while, but hey, that could have happened to anyone. Eli was good for three or four more from the field. Our elaborate plan for victory at any and all costs completely backfired.

Again.

Fans, I know you are all shocked.

But honestly, we are kind of glad that it happened. Like many of you, we finally realized that even early preparation doesn’t work sometimes and that just winging it at the last minute was clearly the way to go.

We do want to encourage all of you to come out and support the basketball team for their final games in Leede this season. These guys battle day in and day out. Getting to see Tyler play over the last four years has been unreal, and finally playing against him makes you appreciate how good these guys really are. The Legends will be in attendance, offering potential post-game autographs. Pictures for only $5. What other reason do you need?

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: EVERY INCH MATTERS

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The men’s tennis team hosted the ECAC Indoor Championships this weekend.

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Student users find community, solace on anonymous website the site because anonymity allows students to share their real opinions. cated users that can remove posts that Bored at Baker also serves as a students say violate the site’s terms news source, VanBriesen said. Last of service. There are currently 12 fall, he first learned of Theta Delta moderators, three of whom must Chi fraternity’s suspension from the agree to remove a post. The current site. moderator feature was introduced to Pellowski said that Bored at Baker the site in May 2013. is the only place on campus where Aaron Pellowski ’15, who began he has found authentic discourse using the site the about important summer before “There’s a huge issues, because he matriculated, in-person consaid that in the amount of alternative versations must week follow- experiences that remain polite. ing the Jan. 10 “There’s a huge would be completely threat, the site’s amount of almost popular invisible to me if I ternative experiposts either de- never used Bored at ences that would nounced its aube completely thor or expressed Baker, like how people invisible to me sympathy for the view their fraternities, if I never used target.

Bored at Baker, financial aid, classes “Everyone on like how people Bored at Baker and personal lives, and view their fraterhates the people a lot of that stuff gets nities, financial who post those aid, classes and things because shared on the site.” personal lives, they’re unrepreand a lot of that sentative of the stuff gets shared people who use - AARON PELLOWSKI ’15 on the site,” he the site,” Pellowssaid. ki said. “Then He also said he was initially coneveryone who doesn’t use the site cerned before matriculating that Dartjumps to the unintelligent conclusion mouth students would be incapable that that’s what the site is, when really of intelligent discourse, but that he that’s the opposite.” was relieved when he found Bored at Pellowski said that the Feb. 10 Baker and was able to converse with gathering on the Green in response users who think critically about the to the post allowed the Dartmouth College. community to come together, but it “It turns out that 95 percent of the only allowed two student leaders to people here are really pretty stupid and speak. In contrast, he said, a substan- shallow and basic and vapid,” he said, tial and broader discussion took place calling Bored at Baker an “IV drip of on Bored at Baker. realness” that keeps him sane.

Other students argued that the Other students have used the site to problem is not the site itself but the work through personal issues. A male way that Dartmouth students choose Ph.D. candidate at the College, who to use it. operates an account named “Pinkie “The board without the students Pie,” said that Bored at Baker has using it is a blank slate — it doesn’t helped him battle his depression and invite any particular type of content,” feel connected to other people. He said Callista Womick ’13, who has had first joined the site in early 2011 and an account since 2011 and continues created the Pinkie Pie account during to use the site as an alumna. “It’s really the interim between fall 2012 and just a mirror of our own culture.” winter 2013.

Frequent users contend that the Users are able to create personalimajority of users are sincere and ties on the site, giving them names and intelligent. pictures. The Ph.D. candidate, who Womick said she first made an declined to reveal his identity because account her sophomore year after he wanted to preserve his anonymity hearing that the site was “a haven for on the website, said that Pinkie Pie the worst people on campus,” a claim has become her own entity, separate that piqued her curiosity. from himself, whom he refers to as “In addition to the horrible things the writer. Bored at Baker, he said, is a posted, there’s a really strong com- place for Pinkie Pie to express herself. munity who may not know each other “There’s really no other kind of in person, but they know each other site where I’d feel comfortable with online and share jokes and support this kind of ... experiment,” the Ph.D. each other,” she said. “There were candidate said in an online message. upperclassmen users who I liked what “I’m ‘hacking’ my own brain, toward they had to say, as well as lot of really trying to stabilize myself. If the end funny people, and it allowed me to result is something superficially like explore a lot of my thoughts and values dissociative identity disorder or schizoand honed the way I communicate.” phrenia, I’m not sure I really care. I’d Derek VanBriesen ’17, who created rather operate well with something an account last summer, said he values like that than be depressed as much FROM ONLINE PAGE 1

as I have been in the past.”

Reaching out for help on Bored at Baker is not uncommon, and many users use the site to ask for advice or seek companionship, said Pinkie Pie, the Ph.D. candidate’s online personality. She said that while it is easy to abuse anonymity, people will more readily reach out for help than they will in the real world.

A male member of the Class of 2014, who wished to remain anonymous because he did not want to be associated with the website, said that when he used the website he would often send personal messages to users who appeared to be going through tough times and offer to talk through their problems with them.

During the week, around 700 to 800 unique users log in per day, Pellowski said.

Ponto said she would estimate that slightly more males use the site than females, an inference based on interactions with users and observation of their content. She added that a majority of users seem to be sophomores, juniors and seniors, as freshmen are likely less aware of the site.

She said she believed that most content is generated by a relatively small percentage of users, while the larger community provides feedback by agreeing or disagreeing with posts.

The Ph.D. candidate, writing as Pinkie Pie, said that the site’s users represent a wide variety of students.

“[Bored at Baker] gets the shy, awkward, depressed, lonely, the angry people who need to vent, the frustrated social justice warriors, the desperately horny and the staunchly upbeat,” she said.

The original Columbia University version of the site, Bored at Butler, was created by a 2006 Columbia graduate named Jonathan Pappas, who goes by the name Jae Daemon online. There are now “Bored at” sites at Dartmouth, Harvard University, Princeton University, Carleton College, New York University and other colleges, as well as a “global board” connecting the sites.

Dartmouth users have been able to infiltrate other schools’ sites through various means, including via friends’ email accounts or asking for access on the global board. Ponto said the Columbia site is “tamer” than Dartmouth’s, while Pellowski noted that it is not used as much or by as many people and the posts are less interesting.

Users could not pinpoint exactly what about Dartmouth is different that makes the site more prone to offensive posts.

Ponto said that during a conversation with another longtime user, the other person said that Bored at Baker acts as an “equalizer” because anonymity grants all users an equal voice.

“We are so stratified at Dart-

mouth,” Ponto said. “All of these people can come together on Bored at Baker, and the anonymity erases all of these things.”

Womick said that posts targeting students on Bored at Baker reverberate around campus when students who do not use the site are informed if they or a group they belong to is being discussed.

“I don’t know how many students I’ve seen targeted in very hateful and extreme ways,” she said. “I don’t know how one can walk around campus and not know who was saying those things, or if you knew them, or if they would be physically safe.”

While offensive posts do appear on the site, the tone has change, users said. With the introduction of moderators in 2012, reported posts are removed much more quickly than they had been in the past, Ponto said.

She added that there are continuing conversations about potential changes to the website, including creating a permanent user ban or modifying what types of posts should be removed.

Students currently logging onto the site are confronted with a message from Jae Daemon, which responds to the recent controversy by stating that “great anonymity comes with great responsibility,” and should not be abused. He said he will continue to post similar reminders on a monthly basis.

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DARTMOUTh EVENTS

THE DARTMOUTH COMICS

DosiRock: Sounds of the City

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Yoo Jung Kim ’14

TODAY 1:00 p.m.

“Family and Community” with Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Top of the Hop

4:00 p.m.

Workshop, Concertina album with Sarah Smith, Baker Library Rooms 23 and 25

4:30 p.m.

“Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act” with Robin West of Georgetown University Law School, Rockefeller Center 003

TOMORROW 3:00 p.m.

Special lecture, “Innocent in Prison” with Fernando Bermudez, Filene Auditorium

4:00 p.m.

Pathology research and review seminar, “T Cell Responses in Influenza Infection: Help or Hindrance?” with Richard Enelow, Borwell 658W

Double Secret Probation

Ryan Gallagher ’16

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French Variété Concert with Sophie Michaux, Faulkner Recital Hall

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Lord ’97 and Miller ’97 write and direct smash hit,‘The Lego Movie’

B y rebecca asoulin The Dartmouth Staff

All Lego aficionados should rejoice the day in fall 1993 when filmmakers Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97 met as freshmen at Dartmouth. The duo wrote and directed “The Lego Movie” (2014), which has received an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and moviegoers, earning $69.1 million over its opening weekend in early February. The animated movie features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. Lord and Miller’s previous films include “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (2009) and “21 Jump Street” (2012).

How did you two meet and begin to work together?

CM: We met our freshmen week at Dartmouth when we had some friends in common who told each of us, “I know someone who is just as weird as you.” And we met, but we didn’t really become great friends until I accidently lit Phil’s girlfriend’s hair on fire. She lived right down the stairs from me in Hitchcock, and Phil and I became best friends and have been ever since.

Where did the idea for “The Lego Movie” come from?

PL: Our producer Dan Lin had the property and asked us if we wanted to work on it, and we originally refused.

That’s too commercial. We went off and started thinking about the homemade movies people we’re making

online with their Lego products. And so we started wondering if we could make something that looked like a $100 million dollar version of one of those Lego home movies. We started thinking maybe we could make a really subversive, grassroots movie about art-making in the guise of a huge commercial movie. And we pitched that to Dan and he insanely thought that was a good idea.

In your opinion, what makes “The Lego Movie” work? Why do you think it resonated with both audiences and critics so well?

CM: There are a lot of reasons.

There’s something universal about Lego. There’s something really special about making something so iconic and tangible that comes to life. We also had an amazing crew and team of people that make this so enjoyable and the film coherent.

PL: I still can’t believe people are still responding to “The Lego Movie.”

There’s something about projecting a narrative onto inanimate objects. It’s why the Muppets and animation is so appealing to people. I think there’s something about Lego and how crude they are that makes it even more special and fun.

How has Dartmouth played into your careers?

PL: We had an animation professor, David Ehrlich, who did a lot in the independent animation world. He taught us a kind of entrepreneurial independent self-starting approach to animation.

Courtesy of Eric Charbonneau

Chris Miller ’97 and Phil Lord ’97 met freshman fall at Dartmouth and have since remained work partners.

He got us off our duffs and gave us a sense that we could be professionals.

I’m sure he was probably hoping we would make something more blatantly artistic. Also, he taught us that with the right attention and focus you could take anyone, a math major or engineer, who didn’t seem like an artist and turn them into a filmmaker. Every year we took a film class with him and watched him inspire people who hadn’t really been artists to be artists. That belief is in the DNA of our movie, and I think it’s in the general Dartmouth education, or

at least in my Dartmouth education.

There was a sense of independence and a do-it-yourself mentality that was pervasive on campus for me.

Can you speak about your experience at Dartmouth and how it has affected you?

PL: We did a lot of stuff that we weren’t supposed to do. I met both my work partner and my wife at Dartmouth, so it has affected all aspects of my life.

CM: We are also working on “22 Jump Street,” which is the sequel to “21 Jump Street.” This one takes place at college, and so we used some of our own college experiences. We put a little bit of pong played Dartmouth-style in the film. There’s actually a scene where Channing Tatum and another actor are playing pong, and Phil and I are actually just off camera playing against them. We were the only people on set who knew how to play.

What advice would you give to aspiring student filmmakers?

CM: You need to make a bunch of stuff. That’s the way to do it. Don’t make stuff other people want to see but make stuff you’re excited about even if they suck, which they probably will, but eventually they will stop sucking.

PL: I agree. It’s so easy to make films.

It used to be so hard. All you need is your phone, which is crazy. There is no reason people shouldn’t be making films all of the time.

What failures have you experienced and how have they affected you?

CM: How much time do you have?

Our whole career is a lot of failures. If I watched my student films now I would see that they were slow and long and not that amazing, but they somehow led us to a job. We came up with a bunch of

bad ideas for TV shows. And our TV show, “Clone High,” which we thought was pretty good, was pulled during its first season and was a massive failure.

It caused a hunger strike in India. We worked on countless terrible sitcoms.

We’ve just done a lot of failing. And according to the New York Post, we’re still failing. Even in success some people think you suck, but that’s okay.

What film work inspires you?

PL: I like the amateur filmmakers.

I like the folks who are just making something naively but with a lot of enthusiasm. Sometimes the best stuff comes that way. The boring answer is a long list of people that other people like too. We could go on and give you a long standard list that a lot of other people would say like the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. We should say the videos we saw in people’s dorm rooms, like the ones I tried to show everyone like “Harold and Maude” (1971) and “The Jerk” (1979). When we were in school, you couldn’t download a movie. You would bring videotapes from home, and if you had a good collection, you were really popular. We would end up watching the same ones over and over again. “Cutting Edge” (1992) was a great ice skating film and a great influence by that measure. I mean we didn’t get Fox right? The Upper Valley didn’t have Fox Network.

PL: My sister would videotape episodes of “The Simpsons” and send them to me in the mail, and we would invite people over to watch them because there was no other way to see it. It was crazy.

CM: We’re old. [Laughs] This interview has been edited and condensed. “The Lego Movie” was screened in advance at the Hopkins Center on Feb. 1.

The film is currently playing at Entertainment Cinemas in Lebanon.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

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Genevieve Mifflin ’14 performed in the 2011 production of “Undue Influence.”

B y MARLEY MARIUS When Genevieve Mifflin ’14 quit gymnastics at age 8, her parents worried that she would drop extracurricular activities altogether. Yet Mifflin concentrated her energies in dance, which she had started at age 2

and now committed to with a greater passion.

“My mother was a dancer, so my sisters and I have all done dance,” Mifflin said. “But I’m the one who stuck with it.”

An anthropology major and theater minor with a dance concentration,

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Genevieve Mifflin

Mifflin is currently choreographing a one-woman piece as her independent study in theater. She danced throughout middle and high school and joined the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble her freshman year.

Mifflin has trained in disciplines ranging from jazz to hip-hop and considers modern dance her specialty.

She said that she loves dance for its physical challenge, which lets her take her mind off other things and concentrate on her movement.

“I’ve always had a really active mind,” she said. “I’m constantly over-thinking and analyzing, and it’s exhausting. But when I’m moving, I’m not thinking about anything but moving.”

Ford Evans, an adjunct theater professor and the former director of DDE, said that Mifflin has a great ability to dance “in the moment.” She thinks deeply about an artist’s responsibility to create certain types of art, he said.

“She really gets it,” Evans said.

“She’s always open to new material and assimilating a lot of material and ideas,” he said.

Mifflin said she also enjoys the relationships she has fostered throughout her career with older dancers and instructors, who have become her close

friends and role models. She remains close to dancers and teachers from high school, she said.

Dance has allowed Mifflin to challenge herself intellectually, as she has worked on pieces that present the audience with social and political themes and those that combine the performing art with spoken word. Anne Munger ’13, who danced with Mifflin in high school and at Dartmouth, recalled Mifflin performing such a piece as a high school senior.

“She did the most beautiful solo in this long, flowing maroon dress to a combination of spoken word and music,” Munger said. “To me, it was revolutionary. I had never seen a dancer use language to motivate and inform movement quite like she did.”

The piece inspired a dance that the two co-choreographed at Dartmouth called “Fourth,” which tried to incorporate elements of poetry like sentence structure and rhythm into dance. Members of the ensemble performed “Fourth” late last May. Mifflin’s involvement in dance has also led her to take on other commitments on campus. Her involvement in the ensemble’s 2011 performance of “Undue Influence,” a work that drew attention to sexual violence at

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Dartmouth, resonated with her so deeply that she trained to become a Sexual Assault Peer Advisor.

The project demonstrated dance’s potential to describe and communicate difficult subjects, which she is interested in pursuing further in the future, she said.

“Dartmouth has taught me a lot not only about myself, but also about how to choreograph, how to be a performer, what you can do with your body and what you can socially comment on,” Mifflin said.

Mifflin continues to be inspired by the power of dance and considers teaching performing arts after college.

“I like the marriage of art and education and what you can bring to people through those mediums,” Mifflin said.

the final word with Genevieve Mifflin ’14

If I could sit down to dinner with anyone, I would choose: Maya Angelou.

The most played song on my iPod is: “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” by Arcade Fire.

The one talent I wish I had is: the ability to cook like my mom.

Despite star-studded cast, ‘Winter’s Tale’ has flu-like appeal

B y Varun bhuchar The Dartmouth Staff

Books will be written on the awfulness of “Winter’s Tale” (2014). The odd decisions, stale lines and questionable career choices will keep film scholars and BuzzFeed writers at bay for decades. If you were dragged to this movie on a Valentine’s Day date, rethink your relationship. If a relative decides a few months from now to give this movie as a gift, cut off all contact and disown him or her. If you’re on a plane and this is the in-flight movie, fake a heart attack. The resulting legal proceedings and hospital bills will be better than subjecting yourself to two hours of “Winter’s Tale.”

The plot, if you can call it that, is about Peter Lake (Colin Farrell), a master thief who falls in love with a terminally ill young woman, Beverly Penn, (Jessica Brown Findlay) who he has known for literally five minutes.

But watch out, lovebirds! An evil Irish

gangster (Russell Crowe) and the Devil (Will Smith — yes, really) can’t let that happen for reasons I’m still trying to work out.

By the time Jennifer Connelly, who plays Virginia Gamely, shows up halfway through the film, I had mentally checked out and was just wondering how on Earth this was made. Wasn’t there a point in the production process when someone stood up and exclaimed, “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen”? The answer, sadly, is no. Akiva Goldsman, the writer, director, producer and ruiner of the film, is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who called in every favor and likely sacrificed a few goats to make this movie possible.

“Winter’s Tale” is a horrifically offensive movie. Not only is it distasteful culturally, racially and socially, but it launches a full-out tactical offense on the good taste of anyone unfortunate enough to watch it. The first scene is innocuous enough with Peter’s Rus-

sian parents, who are being deported sion of “The Jerk” (1979). from Ellis Island, placing their baby Crowe brings back the evil Irishson in a model ship and sending him man stereotype. I think, at least, he afloat toward New York Harbor. was going for an Irish accent. A sock Never mind that they’re about five could have been stuffed in his mouth, miles offshore, the baby makes it for and you wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference. He has mysterious the sake of the plot!

Peter is then adopted by a Native scars on his face that are supposed to American man. How do I know build his character, but instead, they push it to the point he’s Native American?

Because the audience “‘Winter’s Tale’ where it’s hard to care anymore. He’s suffers a drawn-out dark and mysterideluge of details lead- is not a comedy ous and evil! Yawn. ing it toward this fact, of errors; it is Findlay, best some more absurd just errors.” than others. The adopknown for her role on “Downton Abtive father character speaks in slow sentences, makes lots of bey,” apparently asked to be killed off vague references to “our people” and in the show so that she could appear then points to Peter’s horse, who, by in this film. Really? That’s like taking the way, can fly. Did I mention Peter’s the lead in the Indy 500, getting out adoptive father is a fisherman — in of your car in the middle of the race Brooklyn? And just how does Peter and insisting that you will finish and acquire an Irish accent? Then again, do better on the back of the stationary if we believe in flying horses, we can rock you just found on the side of the somehow have a more offensive ver- track. The fact that she’s as lifeless as a

Ken doll and saddled with this Deepak Chopra-like narration doesn’t really help her case. Good thing they have free health care in England, because this part is not going to get her to the top of casting directors’ lists.

“Winter’s Tale” is not a comedy of errors; it is just errors. The epitome of its kitsch happens early when Beverly catches Peter robbing her room. Because he’s so smolderingly handsome, she invites him for tea. They talk, building their flimsy characters, and at the peak of their sexual tension, she asks him about the best thing he has ever stolen. The camera slowly zooms in on Crowe, the music swells and he answers in his rugged Irish brogue, “I’m beginning to think I haven’t stolen it yet.” My eye roll would make Liz Lemon proud. Watch at your own risk, people. This is a tale to avoid.

Rating: 1.9/10 “Winter’s Tale” is (unfortunately) playing at the Nugget.