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Sexual assault activist Susan Brison works to improve campus
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On an otherwise quiet Thursday night, students head to the Hopkins Center for an evening of doughnuts, beer, cider and dancing. At BarHop, a wide range of attendees lounge at tables lit by candles or compete in trivia while others begin to dance on floors lit in psychedelic, spiraling patterns as the music shifts from Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds to Drake and Lil Wayne. While students and organizers agree that Barhop — which celebrated its anniversary over Winter Car-
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Susan Brison, a philosophy professor and sexual assault activist, was told by an attorney to forget her assault. Instead, she focused her academic and activist work on combating sexual assault through writing both books and op-eds, public speaking and advocacy for violence against women. Brison’s most recent op-ed “Why I Spoke Out About One Rape But
Stayed Silent About Another,” published in Time magazine in December, describes two personal experiences of sexual assault. As part of her advocacy work, Brison lobbied for the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 and its reauthorization in subsequent years. Her 2003 book “After math: Violence and the Remaking of a Self ” received wide acclaim for its emotionally and intellectually stimulating account of her own sexual assault and her subsequent
journey as a survivor. Brison said that writing was an essential form of activism for her and for advocates in general. The process of writing “de-stigmatizes” sexual assault by talking about it and raising awareness, she said. “One of the most important things in anti-rape activism is to enable survivors of rape to speak and to make it possible for others to listen,” Brison said. “I think even just writing about one’s own experience or other survivors’ experiences is an
Students see success following “Repcoin” launch B y KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff
From computational immunology and bioinformatics to ukelele and “being a legend,” Repcoin — a new site launched Feb. 12 by Stephen Malina ’15 and Matt Ritter ’15 — provides users both a reputation marketplace and a platform for experts to be discovered in different categories. One week after the launch, 250 people are using the site in about 150 different
essential part of doing something about the problem of rape.” Brison said that she was partly inspired to write the book because of others’ reactions to her own assault. One instance in particular stood out to her. “The Attorney General looked at me and said, ‘after the trial, you must forget that this ever happened,’” Brison said. Brison said she considers her own SEE BRISON PAGE 3
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categories, Ritter said. On the site, experts can sign up for a self-professed skill and create their own categories, and investors give them “reps” as endorsement. Malina and Ritter believe that this will increase the credibility of experts and give them a platform on which to be discovered. Reps are a form of virtual currency that investors can give to experts they want to support. Giving these to experts will build
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DAily debriefing An open letter by student associations, non-profit organizations and victim advocate groups was sent to lawmakers in all 50 states, Inside Higher Ed reported. The letter, created by NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, was written in response to bills that would require college officials to refer all reported cases of sexual violence to law enforcement or that would give accused students judicial rights not available to the accuser. Some provisions, such as one being considered in Virginia that would require public colleges to report an alleged campus sexual assault to police within 24 hours, would be in direct conflict with Title IX. The writers hope that the letter will convince legislators to reconsider said legislation. NASPA president Kevin Kruger said that some of the laws could deter students from reporting incidences to campus officials. The University of California at Los Angeles and Princeton University released a study stating that some student athletes take easier courses and do not work as hard as nonathletes in order to fit in with their teammates, whom they perceive to not care as much about academics, Inside Higher Ed reported. Five surveys were used in this study — one of 25 Reserve Officers Training Corps cadets at an East Coast university, one of 49 athletes ranging from 6th graders to college sophomores, one of 50 orchestra students from a Midwest college, one of 14 dancers from a university dance troupe and one of 98 division III football players. The time that athletes studied was found to be directly correlated with how they viewed their peers. Professors at University of California at Los Angeles Daniel Oppenheimer and Sara Etchison co-wrote the paper, titled “Pluralistic ignorance among student-athlete populations,” with Princeton professor Joshua Levine. There are now 150 college centers, programs, or institutes whose purpose it is to expose undergraduates to conservative perspectives, the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy reported. Director of policy analysis at the center Jay Schalin declined to provide a list of such centers. Many of the center directors would decline interviews unless guaranteed anonymity due to a fear that the publicity would garner opposition. Reporter for the Center for Public Integrity Dave Levinthal said he was worried that many students did not know that the offerings were bankrolled by major groups to push their agenda. Most of the centers described in Schalin’s report are financed by a few major private donors, including David and Charles Koch. President of the Cato Institute John Allison said that the donations are an efficient method at exposing students to ideas that they would not otherwise be at colleges that he said are dominated by liberals. The centers offer courses, fellowships and scholarships, sponsor research, stage debates, and distribute books like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The Institute for the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University offered 18 courses in history, political science and philosophy and will start to offer freshmen scholarships to take eight courses over four years. The report by Schalin also claims that there is little faculty opposition to liberal or leftist financing political centers or programs, as opposed to there being high levels of opposition to conservative attempts. — COMPILED BY NOAH GOLDSTEIN
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investments that will lead to trending experts in categories ranging from art to athletics, according to the Repcoin press release. Ritter said that an increasing number of people are looking for information online, and it is difficult for them to know whether answers that they find can be trusted. Since Repcoin went live last week, Malina said that the site has largely been working and there have not been any major issues. He said the feedback he has received has been positive and he is content with the progress so far. “People seem to really enjoy the dynamic we have created, so we are really happy with how things have gone,” he said. Malina said he was initially inspired to create Repcoin after reading two science fiction books in the summer of 2014. One of the books, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” (2003), included a concept called the “Whuffie,” a virtual reputation-based currency. As winners of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network’s “The Pitch” last fall, Malina and Ritter were able
to transform Repcoin into a formal project and receive funding. They worked with the Neukom DALI Lab, a research and development lab in the computer science department at the College, during development. Malina said that, computer science professor Lorie Loeb, who works at the DALI Lab, and masters student and technical director at the DALI Lab Tim Tregubov helped them throughout and were available to offer advice. While developing the site, Malina said that the main challenge that he and Ritter faced was that while they both have experience in software, neither of them have developed a product from the ground up. Ritter said that the constant pressure they have been under has been the most challenging aspect, because they always need to be ready to resolve any problems. Ritter said that he believes that Repcoin will give Dartmouth students an interesting outlet to share their thoughts with their peers. He said he thought it was exciting to have an entrepreneurship program developed here at the College. Will Baird ’15 said that he began using the site and investing last week when it went live. He said that it is
interesting to be able to verify people as experts in different fields, and said that it offers a great opportunity for students to put their expertise on to the site and have others verify it. “It will be cool to see how it grows,” Baird said. Jason Feng ’17, who works in the DALI Lab, has also been frequently using the site. “[Repcoin is a] good way to get a first impression of someone very quickly, and I think that’s very valuable,” he said. In terms of Repcoin’s future, Ritter said that he hopes it will become big enough to become a sustainable program or that it will reach a point where it can be turned into a for-profit business and potentially develop fulltime jobs. Malina said that he envisions a future in which Repcoin functions as the leading web authority on reputation. “The long term goal is that this will become the central hub for reputation on the web,” he said. “What we want to do is become the one-stop shop where you can literally ping our site for a measure for someone’s reputation in any category they have.”
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Brison works to end sexual assault, improve campus for survivors on campus is a faculty issue — it affects students’ academic perexperience, and sexual assault in formance,” Brison said. “All of general, to be a gender-based hate us have students who have been crime. She noted the importance assaulted and cannot live up to of people recognizing the crime their full potential as a result.” as a “political phenomenon” and Brison said that nationally, a hate crime on par with bias faculty members are beginning crimes. Instead, people often view to do more work with students sexual assault “as something that and administrators around this ishappens as a sue. Brison said fluke to unlucky that the “Mov“One of the most individuals who ing Dartmouth should just for- important things in Forward” prog e t a b o u t i t anti-rape activism is posals — parafter,” Brison t i c u l a rl y t h e to enable survivors said. climate survey, Brison is cur- of rape to speak and independent inrently working vestigators and on a book about to make it possible strengthened the negative ef- for others to listen. I ties with the fects of certain Upper Valley’s types of por- think even just writing WISE program n o g r a p hy o n about one’s own — are strong t h e d e ve l o p steps in the ment of Amer- experience or other right direction. i c a n a d o l e s - survivors’ experiences S h e cents. She said noted the imthe book will is an essential part portance of examine how of doing something the Dartmouth children are Summit on raised to view about the problem of Sexual Assault certain types of rape. last July. Brisexual relations son served on a and definitions panel of surviof masculinity - SUSAN BRISON, vors during the and femininity PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR conference. as nor mal or Brison AND SEXUAL ASSAULT desirable. said that she “ I ’ m c o n - ACTIVIST was “thrilled” cer ned about with College that subset of President Phil p o r n o g r a p hy Hanlon’s residential communities that is violently misogynistic,” plan because of its potential to fosBrison said. “It’s part of what many ter communities with undergraduphilosophers call the ‘cultural scaf- ates and to provide opportunities folding’ of rape.” for faculty and students to interact The project combines Brison’s outside the classroom. main academic interests in gender In her experience working as violence and free speech theory, live-in faculty advisor for the East she said. Wheelock cluster, Brison said that The role of professors and many upperclassmen students who faculty members in preventing wanted to live in the residential campus rape is crucial, Brison said. cluster said they felt unsafe in their The sheer number of Dartmouth old clusters. faculty, including male faculty “The stereotypical Dartmouth members, getting involved to stop work-hard-play-hard ethos comsexual violence and aid victims is pletely separates the life of the “encouraging,” she said. mind, the academic work and the “The problem of sexual assault social life, where you’re connectFROM BRISON PAGE 1
ing with faculty and students and community members,” Brison said. “That’s just not healthy, it’s important for students to have a holistic view of college life.” Brison noted that this was not a criticism of Dartmouth students or culture as a whole, but rather an unfortunate and easily avoidable phenomenon. Psychology professor John Pfister worked as the East Wheelock dean while Brison was the cluster faculty advisor. “Susan brought a true renaissance to East Wheelock,” Pfister said. Pfister said that Brison brought interesting speakers and facilitated discussions and interactions between visiting artists and students and had a strong rapport with the students in the cluster. He noted that she is one of the “wisest” people he knows and considers her to be a “rejuvenating force.” “She has a talent for bringing students into the fold and exposing them to something different than they’ve had before,” Pfister said. History professor Annelise Orleck — who has worked with Brison for 24 years — said the two collaborated on a variety of campus projects pertaining to sexual assault and academic endeavors. She noted that Brison has helped many people by “chronicling her survival” and “finding a line between being a scholar and an activist.” “She has been an absolutely courageous leader, role model and inspiring presence for many people, students and faculty alike,” Orleck said.
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Dartmouth must update its distributive requirements.
Dartmouth is widely recognized for its dedication to liberal arts education, and as a part of that mission, students have to fulfill various distributive course requirements to ensure exposure to a wide range of subjects before graduating. As the College looks to increase academic rigor and revise the curriculum, now is the time to reconsider distributive requirements. We believe that a fully open-course curriculum — like the one at Brown University — is not the right model for our educational goals, but that does not mean that the current system cannot be improved. There are a number of adjustments that must be made to keep the curriculum holistic. Dartmouth has not done enough to develop distributive courses that teach students to critically assess and discuss timely and important societal issues. There are classes such as the upcoming “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter ” — but overall, students can spend their four years in Hanover without confronting questions of ethics and social responsibility in the broader community. We suggest that the College create a new distributive that verses all students in issues of global citizenship, including social justice and intersectionality. As it stands, students must fulfill 13 specific distributive requirements in order to graduate, in addition to a full year of foreign language or demonstrated proficiency. Though — unlike some schools — we thankfully have four years to do so, many students still find it difficult to complete this alongside their chosen degree plan. Simply adding more distributives, then, is not the solution. We must work within and improve the framework that we already have — which is why we suggest that a new distributive requirement be integrated into restructured first-year writing courses. Many first-year writing courses lack direction, with students just reading from a variety of books chosen by their profes-
sor. Others, however, have a more specific focus, such as “Constitutional Law and the Right to Privacy.” The discrepancy between first-year writing courses clearly needs to be addressed to guarantee a more consistent experience for all first-year students. Incorporating new distributive topics into this system is one way to maximize the writing program’s potential as a shared learning experience for an entire class year. Professors teaching first-year writing classes could tailor their course topics around the educational objectives of the new distributive requirement. Moreover, the requirements that we do have should be re-evaluated — the College last modified them more than a decade ago. Is both a “Literature” and an “Arts” distributive, for example, necessary? Why is there a binary between “Western” — assigned to courses that cover North America and European topics — and “Non-Western” classes? The former two could be merged into one “Literature and Arts” distributive, modeled after Princeton University’s class requirements, and students could simply take two “Literature and Arts” courses. Regional requirements should be split into more specific categories, or students should be required to complete more than one “Non-Western” class, with no requirement for “Western” — as most students will end up taking courses that address Western culture and history during their time at the College. Distributive requirements, when used, should encourage students to branch out academically. By putting “Literature and Arts” together, restructuring “Western” and “Non-Western” classes and incorporating more distributives into first-year writing classes, there will be enough room to add a new distributive without overburdening students. Dartmouth should retain its distributive system — but it must be updated if we want to provide a truly global liberal arts education.
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The full potential of resources like the book arts workshop remains untapped. Not far from the Orozco Room in the basement of Baker Library is an inconspicuous hallway, which houses the Dartmouth book arts workshop. It is a shame that so many students are unaware of the opportunity to learn and hone their skills in printing, which — as is the case with many of the specialized resources on campus — is something that won’t be so readily accessible after we leave the College. While the workshop allows you to create physical works of printing, it may also help curb some of the madness that comes with midterms, extracurriculars and the general fast paced style of the quarter system. Given that creative hobbies can help relieve feelings of stress or anxiety, these four years seem like an ideal time to explore resources like the book arts workshop offered by the College. The workshop has many old printing machines that would usually be very expensive or difficult for students to use or set up independently. I have primarily worked on letterpress printing in the book arts workshop, but the instructors also teach illustration techniques, bookbinding and other components of printing and bookmaking. The workshop has open studio every week, which is free for all Dartmouth students. Not only are you instructed on how to use the machines, but you are also provided with printing material and ink for your projects free of charge. Though my observations may not hold true for everybody, I have always found the workshop to be uncrowded and under-utilized. I have been able to work on any machine and with any materials I wish. Sarah Smith, an expert in letterpress, runs the workshop during most open studio hours and will help novices with any of their projects. Some courses do make use of the book arts workshop, but I have always had the impression that only a small handful of students actually take advantage of the amazing resources of this studio. Many do not even seem to know it exists or have only heard of it in name. Whether students are simply unaware of the workshop or hesitant to try something new, I am confident that the workshop can teach any student — even if they are not interested in the arts — to appreciate the work that goes into printing.
I personally have spent a good deal of time printing with the Golding Pearl printing press. The Pearl is just one of probably half a dozen interesting and archaic machines which students can learn to use. The studio also boasts a wide variety of typefaces and engravings that would be nearly impossible for an individual to acquire in a private studio — considering that many of the engravings and typefaces are as old as the machines themselves and have not been manufactured in nearly a century. Because of the rarity of the items in its possession, the book arts workshop presents students with a special opportunity that they will likely not come across again. Moreover, considering the abundance of fees and fines that exist at the College, it seems unusual that the studio does not charge students to work in the area during open studio hours. I probably would not have discovered the workshop had it not been for my occasionally studying in the Orozco Room — one evening I wandered into the hallway during open studio hours. The College should do more to publicize the book arts workshop and similar programming like the student workshops at the Hopkins Center. Students should have ample opportunity to explore their artistic interests without having to worry about cost. The College’s hands-on resources deserve promotion and investment due to the benefits they offer to students. Study breaks ultimately lead to a healthier and more balanced academic experience — we can all only study so much. National Institutes of Health studies have shown that the arts in particular can help fight stress and improve overall quality of life. Workshops are an ideal outlet for artistic expression. The book arts workshop gives students free reign to craft anything they can dream up on paper — from wedding invitations to greeting and business cards to activist posters. We stand to gain a lot if we break from the comfort and familiarity that we settle into in our daily activities. Perhaps you would think something like the book arts workshop isn’t for you — but you’re guaranteed to miss out if you never try something off the beaten track.
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nival — has had a successful first year, the future of its funding and programming remains uncertain. The three-room social event — at which free alcohol, soft drinks and snacks are available to students — occurs every Thursday and Friday at the Hop Garage. The initiative was originally funded by a donor who wished to see a bar on campus, head bartender Aaron Ellis ’15 said. Currently, BarHop employs 32 students and community members and draws crowds of as many as 200 students each night, manager Sean Gao ’13 said. The program primarily appeals to upperclassmen students who are above 21, Ellis said. The bartenders — mainly students — do not serve alcohol to students under 21, often resulting in lower crowds of freshmen and sophomore students. In addition to upperclassmen, BarHop also provides a space for many graduate students, Anne Ressler ’14Th’15 said. Graduate students have fewer formalized social spaces on campus, and BarHop can help to fill that role, she said. “It’s a place that I enjoy going with my friends,” she said. “It’s got a really cool sort of casual vibe. I really enjoy it as a very good example of the alternative programming that the College keeps talking about.” BarHop’s future funding sources, however, are unclear at this time, Ellis said.
“Our estimates are that spring is what is going to determine what will happen,” he said. “Either we’ll run out of money or we’ll have a new donor.” Gao said that BarHop’s funding comes from a variety of sources, including alumni donations and some College support, though he did not know the specific amount from either source. In the course of its first year, BarHop has moved to expand its programming and experiment with new ideas. Initially a Thursday-only event, it is now open on both Thursdays and Fridays, Ellis said. Efforts to schedule live performances have been geared up, partly in attempt to appeal to younger students who cannot drink at BarHop, Gao said. Students interviewed emphasized the fact that BarHop provides an alternative to Greek houses as a social space and place in which to consume alcohol. “I felt uncomfortable with fraternities as the main social place,” said Anna Davies ’15. Davies, who has attended every BarHop event for which she has been on campus, said that BarHop has made a notable impact on the College’s social scene. “It’s part of a solution, and it’s really one of the first things that Dartmouth has done that has been so successful for students,” she said. She also called for water pong to be introduced at BarHop to shift the concept of pong away from
Greek houses and into neutral spaces. “I have a lot of friends who are seniors who are kind of done with going out to frat basements and playing pong all night who prefer a relaxed beer-drinking scene where they can hang out,” Ellis said. “That’s more the crowd we draw — it’s not people who want to rage or anything.” Another major demographic drawn to BarHop are fraternity members whose houses are on probation or have been suspended by the College, Ellis said. Such students will sometimes attend BarHop before going elsewhere for the remainder of the night. One oft-repeated critique of BarHop lies with its capacity issues. Due to fire codes, there are strict limits placed on the number of people who can be in each of the venue’s three rooms at any given time. While Davies estimated that the average wait is no more than three minutes to enter a different room, it can still be troubling to some patrons. Long lines at the front door of the event have become less common in recent months, however, Ellis said. “In all honesty, the space is a snitch too big,” Ressler said. “It’s too big for the number of people they have in it at any time, so even when they’re at capacity, that middle room can feel kind of empty because the space is so large compared to the people in it.” Limits on occupancy are en-
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BarHop offers an alternative social space for students on Thursday and Friday evenings.
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BarHop provides free alcoholic beverages to students over 21.
tirely a result of fire code, Ellis said. “It’s not really a choice that we make,” Ellis said. “If we break fire code, we get shut down, and the whole thing is over.” Ellis added that the potential creation of a new space for BarHop could change its occupancy constraints. Currently, BarHop utilizes a classroom space in the Hopkins Center. In the future it could gain its own independent space, Ellis said, although no plans are currently in progress for such an addition. “Right now, the administration is hesitant to have an on-campus bar, so we don’t have a dedicated space,” he said. For BarHop’s one-year anniversary over Carnival weekend, a large canvas was set out with paint for patrons, Gao said. “We gave 150 to 200 people a blank canvas and just a little of the atmosphere, and we actually got a really cool mural out of it, out of left field, and it’s amazing,” he said. Artistic events could become more frequent in the future, he said. Despite its snacks, soft drinks, entertainment options and participatory entertainment events, students interviewed said that the primary attraction is still the
alcohol. “Free alcohol is great,” Deby Guzman-Buchness ’15 said. Programming Board president Chelsea Mandel ’15 agreed, citing the variety of alcohol offered at BarHop compared to Greek houses, which typically only serve Keystone Light beer in their basements. “Having cool ciders and cool iced teas that are [alcoholic] is definitely cool for people who are over 21,” she said. Bartenders are required to obtain a bartending license from the State of New Hampshire, Ellis said. To do so, they typically enroll in a one-hour online course that covers consumption laws, standard drink sizes and methods to recognize fake identification that may be used to purchase alcohol by those below the legal drinking age. BarHop does not serve hard alcohol, and primarily focuses on beer, hard apple cider and wine, Ellis said. No unattended alcohol is left anywhere in BarHop, he added. Moving forward, Davies hopes that BarHop will continue in the future. “I don’t know that there is anything to be improved on of BarHop itself, but I think that there should be more of BarHop,” Davies said.
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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m. “Shouldn’t the Appalachians be Flatter by Now?” lecture with Ryan McKeon of the California Institute of Technology, Steele 007
4:00 p.m. “Solitary Bees in a Warming World,” lecture with Jessica Forrest of the University of Ottawa, Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center 201
4:00 p.m. “Tracing Poseidon’s Image,” gallery talk with Alexandra Berman ’16, Hood Museum of Art, second-floor galleries
TOMORROW 4:00 p.m. “Women’s Ice Hockey,” Dartmouth vs. St. Lawrence University, Thompson Arena
5:00 p.m. “Into the Woods” (2014), film screening, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Loew Auditorium
7:00 p.m. “Selma” (2014), film screening, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Spaulding Auditorium
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
B y BLAZE JOEL AND BRETT DRUCKER The Dartmouth Senior Staff
Just as many students suddenly realize how little time is left in the term, the clock is ticking for many of Dartmouth’s winter teams looking to end their seasons on a strong note or prepare for postseason play. This weekend will see some of the Big Green spring teams kick off their seasons with non-conference play, such as the defending Ivy League Champion softball team, which is traveling to Florida for the University of South Florida Wilson DeMarini tournament and the men’s lacrosse team heading to Columbus, Ohio, to take on Ohio State University. We chose however, to focus on some of the winter sports heading into dramatic clashes as they sprint to the finish. Women’s Hockey vs. St. Lawrence (Saturday at 4 p.m.) Despite wrapping up a post-season berth last weekend, the women’s hockey team is locked in a dogfight for the seventh seed with Yale University as both teams are tied with 20 points on the season. The Big Green (13-11-2, 9-9-2 ECAC) will have a tough road this weekend, facing off against two of the league’s top four teams including the Saints (18-10-4, 12-5-3 ECAC) in Thompson Arena. Saturday’s matchup will be the rubber
match of a three game set between the two teams this season that included a non-conference neutral site game in November. Dartmouth won that game 5-1 before falling to Saint Lawrence 2-1 in league play the next week. Dartmouth will need to see continued production from its power play unit that is ranked first in the ECAC with a 28.2 scoring percentage against all competition, nearly four percentage points higher than the second place team in order to pull off the upset this weekend. After winning two last weekend including an impressive victory over No. 10 Cornell University, the Big Green look poised to at least take a point out of this critical encounter. Prediction: Dartmouth 2 – St. Lawrence 2 Men’s Hockey at Clarkson University (Friday at 7 p.m.) After going 1-1 last weekend, the Big Green (12-9-4, 9-7-2 ECAC) sit just one point behind Harvard University for the fourth seed in the ECAC and final first round slot with only two weeks to play. This weekend Dartmouth hits the road, stopping in Potsdam N.Y., on Friday night for a matchup with Clarkson University (11-15-4, 8-8-2 ECAC) who is tied for 7th in the league. The Big Green will look to get back to the winning ways from its six-game win streak that was snapped on Saturday with a 3-0 loss
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Women’s hockey’s final home games will be accompanied by “Pink the Rink” on Friday and Senior Night on Saturday.
to Colgate. The game against the Golden Knights should be closer than Clarkson’s 5-2 win over the Big Green in January, since Dartmouth began to find a rhythm over the last month for its first consistent winning stretch of the league season. Dartmouth will need to improve on special teams if it is going to get back into position for a bye as the team ranks in the bottom third of the ECAC in both power play scoring percentage and penalty kill percentage. While it will be tough to get many past Clarkson goaltender Steve Perry — who is third in the league with a 1.85 goals-against-average — Clarkson enters the game on a two-game losing
streak, including a 2-1 defeat to cellardweller Princeton University, which shows they have been trending down since the two teams last matched up while the Big Green is trending up. Prediction: Dartmouth 3 – Clarkson 2
Men’s Basketball vs. University of Pennsylvania (Saturday at 7 p.m.) Fresh off its second Ivy win of the season against Columbia University last weekend and a series of individual accomplishments, the men’s basketball team (9-13, 2-6 Ivy) takes to the floor looking to add to its win total against the University of Pennsylvania (7-14, 2-5 Ivy). Against Columbia, forward
Gabas Maldunas ’15 became the 26th player in Dartmouth history to score over 1,000 points in his career, and guard Miles Wright ’18 led the way with 16 points to earn his second straight Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor. The Quakers are sporting a three- game losing streak where they have been out-scored 229-159 during which the team has averaged only 53 points of offense. These two teams are matched next to each other in almost every statistical category which should make for an exciting night of basketball as Dartmouth attempts to start a climb up the standings. Prediction: Dartmouth 62 – Penn 58
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Women’s squash finished their season placing second in the Kurtz Cup.
he said. “They won all their matches and played really hard, and had really outstanding performances this weekend and the whole season for freshmen.” The season is now over for women’s squash, except for those players that are selected to compete at CSA Women’s Individual Championships at Princeton University Feb. 27 through Mar. 1. “In the end it matters that we lost, of course we are not happy about it — we’re disappointed,” Wiens said. “But, looking back on the whole season, all our players, the whole team can be very proud of the season, the way they played and the way they represented Dartmouth and wore the green jersey. The way they were as a team was just exciting and fun.” Men’s squash spent this week preparing for their championship tournament, the Hoehn Cup, which begins today at Trinity College with a match against the United States Naval Academy at 11:30 a.m. Dartmouth, seeded third in the B Division and 11th overall, beat Navy, seeded sixth in the B division and 14th overall, 5-4 in their
season match Dec. 6. The team changed little to prepare for the tournament, Wiens said, only moderating their practices so that they will be well rested and ready to take the court for three matches this weekend. They’re also spending some extra time “soloing,” or hitting on the court by themselves. “We are a little unfortunate that we have our top player, Nick Harrington [’17], who can’t play because he has an injury, but we aren’t going to take that as an excuse not to win matches,” Wiens said. “We’re going to go out there and we’re going to try to win the tournament.” If they win, the Big Green men are likely to face Cornell University in the semi-final. A win in that match would put them in the finals for the Hoehn Cup, likely against top-seeded Princeton, to whom the Big Green lost 3-6 earlier this season. While the Big Green defeated Cornell at their Feb. 1 matchup, it was a close match that ended in a score of 5-4. With such a tight margin between the two teams, their potential meeting in the Hoehn Cup could end with either team victorious. Captain Mark Funk ’15 said he felt
the Big Green should have beaten the Tigers when they last played and is confident the team will get to the finals to face them again. “It’s three tough matches,” he said. “There’s no one that we’re overlooking at all, but I’m confident in our guys. We’ve had a tough last two weeks just training for this, and I’m very excited to see what happens this weekend.” The men’s team has not defeated Princeton once in Funk’s time on the team, with the Tigers proving victorious over the Big Green since at least 2005. “We look forward to this and we really want to win that match,” Weins said of the Dartmouth squad. “They’re all very hungry for this tournament, and they all want to show everyone that this was a great season. They played well and they want to finish that way.” For the seniors, these could be their last college squash matches. “It hasn’t really set in,” Funk said. “You think about every shot you hit. It would mean a lot [to win].” Weins also said that this weekend’s tournament should be exciting across the divisions because as U.S. Squash has developed, “the teams are so much closer than they used to be.”
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SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
FRIDAY LINEUP
MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. PRINCETON 7PM
WOMEN’S HOCKEY VS. CLARKSON 7PM
Gabas Maldunas ’15 returns from ACL to reach 1,000 points B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff
Like professional NBA stars Pau Gasol and Kevin Garnett, Gabas Maldunas ’15discovered a passion for basketball during his later years in middle school and high school. Despite his upbringing in Lithuania, where basketball is the country’s national sport, Maldunas didn’t take to the sport too quickly, admitting he didn’t enjoy it much when he began playing in the second grade. Still, he continued to play at the insistence of his parents, and years later — after growing to an impressive six-footnine-inch height — he found his calling as a power-forward and center like Gasol and Garnett did. No longer the small second-grade boy who didn’t have an interest in dribbling a ball, Maldunas went to high school in New Hampshire, only a short drive from the College, at Holderness School in Plymouth. His time in high school, Maldunas said, was where he had his first experiences playing basketball in America and began to develop his technique on the court before being recruited to play at the collegiate level. Playing for the Big Green, Maldunas said, was not initially his first option. Originally, the athlete had committed to play for Brown University. Ultimately, though, Maldunas would de-commit from Brown, and his decision now came down to a choice between the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth. Unsure of which to settle on, Maldunas met with men’s basketball head coach Paul Cormier to learn more about the Col-
lege’s basketball program. It was after this meeting, Maldunas said, that he made the final decision to join the Big Green. The face-to-face meeting, Cormier said, gave him a view of Maldunas as a kid with a respectable upbringing. “Seeing how close he is with his family showed me how sincere he is,” Cormier said. “I knew he would work hard for the team.” After sealing the deal and matriculating in the fall of 2011, Maldunas exploded onto the courts in his first season and never looked back. As a freshman, he played in every game of the season, led the team in rebounding and garnered Ivy League Rookie of the Week four times. The momentum never slowed down in his sophomore year, as Maldunas was named to the All-Ivy second team — the first Dartmouth player to do so in four years — after leading the team in scoring, blocked shots and rebounds. With consistently strong performances in his first two seasons, Maldunas was primed to continue his success into junior year. In last season’s early non-conference matches, Maldunas recorded several career highs, including seven blocked shots in a game against Longwood University and 17 rebounds against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He played in the first 15 games, leading the Ivy League with 8.5 rebounds per game, before tearing his ACL during a mid-season practice left him benched for the remainder of the schedule. It was a devastating blow for Maldunas and the team, which suffered a 30-point loss to Harvard University the weekend following his season-ending
injury, but he refused to let it stop him. Rather, he used his injury as fuel, determined to recover as quickly as possible so he could get back onto the court for his senior year. After getting reconstructive surgery last winter, Maldunas took time in the spring to rehabilitate his knee before working on improving his footwork and speed with a former soccer coach this past summer. By last November, he was ready to play in his last season and serve as one of two co-captains on the team. His recovery, teammate and cocaptain Alex Mitola ’16 said, was inspiring for the team. “He was able to overcome his injury and grow as a player and leader,” Mitola said. In addition to recording over 100 career blocks — one of only five Big Green players to do so — and 500 career rebounds, Maldunas added another feat to his list of achievements this season. For the first time since Alex Barnett ’09 scored 1,000 career points in a 2008 game against Quinnipiac University, Maldunas joined an elite group with 25 fellow Big Green basketball players that reached the 1,000-point mark. Ending with 11 points in this past weekend’s game against Columbia University gave him exactly enough to reach the benchmark. Before the game, Maldunas called his family to let them know how close he was to reaching the mark. Knowing they were watching from Lithuania made the moment special for Maldunas, who scored his 1000th point off of a free throw with less than two minutes left to play. “It’s an honor to be the first player to
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Gabas Maldunas ’15 became the 26th Big Green player to reach 1,000 points.
reach the mark since 2008,” Maldunas said. “But I’m also really proud of the team and how we came away with the win.” With this distinction, Maldunas will forever be remembered among the likes of former Big Green players Jim Barton ’89and Seamus Lonergan ’97, who hold the top two records for total points at 2,158 and 1,651 points, respectively. “It’s great that he made 1,000 career points, especially after his injury,” Mitola said. “It speaks to his dedication.” In the final six games of the season and his career here at the College, Maldunas has a chance to surpass his current spot at No. 26 on the list of top scorers. His main focus, however, is on finishing the season strong and
performing to the best of his ability. With good defense, Cormier said, Maldunas will continue to be a force for the team. “When his defense is solid, the offense comes with it,” Cormier said. For Maldunas, these remaining games will be particularly exciting because his brother and father will attend them, beginning with tonight’s game against Princeton University and tomorrow’s game against the University of Pennsylvania. “It will be the first time they’ve seen me play since I was in eighth grade,” he said. Maldunas and the men’s basketball team will take on the tigers at 7 p.m. tonight and the Quakers at 7 p.m. on Saturday, both games at Leede Arena.
Women’s squash 2nd in Kurtz Cup, men’s Hoehn Cup starts today
B y EMILY WECHSLER The Dartmouth Staff
The women’s squash team travelled to Harvard University to participate in the College Squash Association’s Women’s National Team Championships Feb. 13-15. Seeded at the top of the B Division and ninth overall, the team reached the finals for the Kurtz Cup, losing to Stanford University 6-3 Men’s squash has its first round of competition in the CSA Men’s National Team Championships today. “It was a very exciting weekend,” head coach Hansi Wiens said. “We knew that we should be able to get to
the finals, and we did a good job. The whole team played really well.” Though the women were ranked in the top eight for much of the season, they fell to ninth at the end of the season, just missing the A Division and a chance at the Howe Cup. Instead, they were set to play Bates College, ultimately defeating them 6-3 in the first round. The women continued the success with a 7-2 victory over Williams College in the second before facing Stanford. The Big Green had defeated all three teams earlier in the season with final scores of 7-2, 6-3 and 7-2, respectively. “We were not very happy about [not being in the top eight], of course,”
Wiens said. “We deserved to be up there especially after beating Stanford and George Washington University, but there’s nothing we can do.” Stanford took the win early, as Rebecca Brownell ’18 had the lone win in the first six games. Sarah Caughey ’15 and Zainab Molani ’18 secured two victories for the Big Green, both winning five-game matchups in the next round of play. Helena Darling ’15 was forced to retire early. “On the final day, that was quite an interesting match-up,” Wiens said. “I think Stanford deserved to win on that day. They were stronger, but our team gave them a hard fight and tried
everything to beat them. [They] did well, fought as well as they could and played well, but on that day Stanford was just better.” The team echoed Wiens remarks on the match against Stanford. “We definitely could have done better against them,” Lydie McKenzie ’16 said. “Last time we played them they didn’t have their number two, so they were better than last time we played them. But, maybe momentum just wasn’t great? Sometimes things just don’t go your way.” Stanford’s win marks the first division title at the Women’s National Team Championships for the program.
A snowstorm also put a damper on Sunday’s squash activities. Several teams withdrew from the competition, leaving early to avoid being stranded in Boston. It also threw off the timing of Dartmouth’s match, as their 10:30 a.m. match was pushed to 2:30 p.m. and they were unable to reach the courts until half an hour before the match — a full hour later than usual. Wiens cited all three finals match winners as standout performers for the weekend. “Like the whole season shows, Zainab Molani and Rebecca Brownell had a very strong weekend again,” SEE SQUASH PAGE 7