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International applicants to the Class of 2020 will be considered under a “need-aware” policy, as opposed to the “need-blind” policy used for the past eight years, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The admissions office had been need-blind for international students from the Class of 2012 through the Class of 2019. Under the need-aware policy, the financial need of international applicants will be taken into account “as one of many factors,” including academic achievement and community context, according to the admissions office. The College has been need-aware
Starting with the Class of 2020, admissions for international students will no longer be need-blind.
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Three new College initiatives designed to improve campus safety — a new smartphone app, a sexual assault curriculum and an online consent manual — are now in various stages of implementation. Director of Safety and
Security Harry Kinne worked on the development of the app with a group of students and staff. They reviewed several alternative apps before deciding on LiveSafe, Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator Amanda Childress said. The app was promoted to SEE MDF PAGE 2
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Students rally around Bernie Sanders
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As enthusiasm for Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., swells in New Hampshire and nationally, Dartmouth students have begun to organize more aggressively for the self-described democratic socialist. Online, the Sander s presence is palpable on Dartmouth social media. Following a live streamed
conference with Sanders on July 29 that reached over 100,000 people throughout the country, a group of Dartmouth students created an web presence and began to organize events for students supporting his campaign. “This has really just kind of grown out of that first event,” Felicia Teter ’13, an organizer for the Sanders campaign at Dartmouth, said. “There are people who are passionate about that and
wanted to form a group.” The Dartmouth Students and Staff for Bernie group on Facebook had 195 members as of press time, far ahead of the corresponding Dartmouth for Hillary Clinton group, which has 86. Dartmouth for Martin O’Malley, a group supporting the former Maryland governor, had 156 members. Though Teter said that SEE SANDERS PAGE 3
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Incoming professor of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva, who joined the College faculty this year, describes himself as a “New Englander” attracted to “a campus in the mountains.” But to students of anthropology, he is perhaps better known as a member of a global team of 60 scientists that recently found evi-
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dence of a new human ancestor, Homo naledi, in the form of over 1,600 fossils in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave. “Every once in a while, our field hits the jackpot and we find a skeleton,” DeSilva said. “The shocking thing about [this discovery] is the volume of the material.” According to DeSilva, team leader KATIE MCKAY/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF
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DAily debriefing National first-time enrollment in graduate school rose in 2014, up 3.5 percent from 2013, Inside Higher Ed reported. The number of applications and admissions both hit highs as well, a Council of Graduate Schools study found. Overall enrollment in graduate schools rose less than half a percent from 2013 and is still not as high as it was in 2009. The first-time enrollment rise marks the largest for a single year since 2009 and is due to increases in international and U.S. student enrollment, according to the report. The highest first-time enrollment growth from 2013 was in mathematics and computer sciences, followed by engineering and health sciences. A recent study found larger start-up packages from top providers are more likely to go to male medical researchers than female medical researchers, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. According to a recent Medical Foundation Division study, the average package for male researchers was $889,000, compared to an average of $350,000 for their female counterparts. The findings suggest retaining women along the path of working in scientific fields may require more work. The disparity in start-up package size was among Ph.D.s, though not clinical researchers. A Carnegie Mellon University study found solely watching videos — one way of generally taking a MOOC — is not an effective way to learn material, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The study examined a Georgia Institute of Technology MOOC on psychology, which offered students the option of enrolling and watching video lectures which is the usual MOOC formula, or instead combining the course with interactive materials. The study found students who did the interactive option outscored those who did not on the course’s final, as well as that when students completed an interactive activity they learned six times as much as students who read or watched a video without an interactive element. The chief executive of edX said the company’s online courses include interactive elements, according to the report. —COMPILED BY LAURA WEISS
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Smartphone app,consent manual piloted FROM MDF PAGE 1
members of the Class of 2019 during Orientation, when all incoming students were encouraged to download it onto their phone. The group is crafting a marketing plan for the rest of campus, she said. The features of LiveSafe include a live chat text with Safety and Security, which can be made anonymous, she said. When reporting a crime, a user can also include photos or videos in their message. The app also features a safety map that shows where all emergency resources are on campus and can map reported incidents as well. The reporting feature includes options for various types of offenses, including accidents, assault, abuse, disturbance, drugs and alcohol, hazing, harassment, mental health, sexual assault, suspicious activity, theft and vandalism, though the format is the same for each category. Another feature is Safe Walk, which allows app users to connect with contacts who can watch their progress home on a map feature, Childress said. “If I’m home in my dorm room, and I’m walking from the library to my room in the River, you can actually see me moving and it’ll let you know and text you when I get there,” she said. The feature can also request safe rides and access the phone’s camera so the other user can watch the user walk home, she said. The app is not Dartmouth-specific, but can be tailored to an individual college’s community and send alerts to users regarding campus-specific incidents, Childress said. LiveSafe was founded by the victim of an assault on Capitol Hill and a survivor of the 2007 shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, LiveSafe vice president of marketing Eren Koont said. “They took the tragedy that was in their lives and used that as motivation and decided that they could do something to make the world a safer place by taking advantage of the technology that everyone has in their hands,” he said. The app was first launched with campus partners in the fall of 2013 and has grown from a primarily Virginia-based app to having campus partnerships in over 30 states, as well as partnerships with corporations and businesses, he said. In the state of Virginia, 75 percent of students have access to LiveSafe, he said, and development is still primarily driven by student feedback. “We have a joke here that we don’t change the font in the app without talking to students first,” he said. Though the company does not disclose data from partner campuses, Koont said that universities have shared anecdotal evidence of the app’s effectiveness, for example, Virginia Commonwealth University partially attributed a recent 40 percent reduction
in crime to the work with the technology. John Damianos ’16, a member of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, became familiar with the app through undergraduate advisor training and said one particular strength is the userfriendliness of the interface. “When a person is in trauma, small boxes of text or a lot of text or confusing navigation is not helpful at all,” he said. The ability to text Safety and Security is also very useful, he said. “I think we can all come up with potential scenarios where people are in a place where they don’t feel safe and also don’t feel safe whipping out their phone, making a phone call, calling [Safety and Security], telling them their ID number, telling them where they are,” he said. The online consent manual is not yet live, though Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist is working on it with a student group, Childress said. Though the College has extensive material relating to the issue of consent, the development of this manual was actually a student request under “Moving Dartmouth Forward,” she said. “For a lot of students, they feel very comfortable with consent and what it means, and for other students they may feel uncomfortable in certain scenarios and situations,” she said. The manual will differ from other materials in that it is discussion-based and includes examples of scenarios where consent may have been difficult to manage or interpret, Childress said, including situations involving alcohol. “I think it becomes more of a discussion, because most assaults end up being around issues of consent,” she said. Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto said that the College has done a good job clarifying its policy language surrounding consent, and the manual will turn policy language into examples to teach definitions of consent
and explore gray areas. “The consent manual’s intention is to help educate the community around what positive consent looks like, how to ask for consent,” Agosto said. The four-year mandatory sexual assault prevention education plan is in the pilot stages, with working groups creating the framework of what the plan would entail, she said. New pilots that debuted during Orientation this year include Lindkvist’s lecture about a community of respect and Dartmouth Bystander Initiative’s more prominent role on campus, Childress said. The groups are also working with the office of residential life to develop programming, she said. Current working groups are identifying the intended outcomes of such a program, with development moving at an intentionally slow pace, Agosto said. Focus groups will work during fall term to evaluate the Orientation programs. “The four year curriculum is a longer-term implementation plan,” she said. “It’s not going to all be done in the first year, it’ll build on itself while we try to get it really right.” The only other institution that has a similar four-year program is the United States Naval Academy, so working groups spent time looking at their program for some guidance, Childress said. The Academy is a few years into its program and has seen success from an evaluative standpoint, she said. This program served as a good reference point, though the experience at the College will also be informed by other research and studies, she added. “We’re looking at a logic model and making sure what we do incorporate is well planned, research, informed and really tailored to the Dartmouth student and the Dartmouth experience,” she said. Kinne could not be reached for comment.
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Students get involved in campaigns Students react to financial aid policy change FROM SANDERS PAGE 1
there have been four key organizers for Sanders at Dartmouth, Robert Wright III ’18, another campus organizer for Sanders’ campaign, said that 15 people came to the group’s last meeting on Tuesday. The Bernie 2016 campaign will open its Upper Valley office in West Lebanon on Sunday, Teter said. She will join local campaign staff in speaking at the event and said that a good turnout could help convince Sanders to come to the Upper Valley or Dartmouth’s campus as part of his campaign. The Sanders supporters on campus will also organize weekly phone banking, canvassing and voter registration efforts in the coming weeks. Sanders supporters are hoping to expand their efforts beyond the New Hampshire primary and the official Sanders campaign. Dartmouth students who support Sanders’ presidential campaign are considering creating a new organization, Dartmouth Progressives, to advance democratic socialist ideas beyond this election, Wright said. “It’s not just about his candidacy. There needs to be a mass movement of people that he calls the ‘political revolution,’” Wright said. “We can continue the political revolution that he’s trying to build to begin to end the apathy that was both caused by the political mess and now is perpetrating it.” Many of Sanders’ campaign staffers in the Upper Valley believe the region could be crucial to winning New Hampshire, Wright said. Co-president of the Dartmouth College Democrats Maddie Cooper ’16 said that she was excited by the amount of enthusiasm generated by political campaigns on campus. Although College Democrats does not endorse any candidates in the primary, individual members can be involved in campaigns, she said. “Dartmouth really plays an important role in all elections in New Hampshire,” she said. “One of the incredible things about New Hampshire is that it doesn’t take a lot to make a real difference because we’re in a really small state.” Cooper said that the College Democrats are looking forward to hosting more candidates on campus. Clinton and O’Malley have both appeared at the College in the past several months, and Sanders has come to the College at numerous points in the past. “I’m already seeing a lot of excitement about the primaries and a lot of excitement about the candidates, and I think it’s wonderful how many students are engaged and involved at this point in the process,” she said.
Clinton supporters at the College are not as organized as the Dartmouth Students and Staff for Bernie group, and they lack a formal organization, Charlotte Blatt ’18, a Clinton supporter who created the Dartmouth for Hillary Clinton Facebook group, said. Blatt, who is former vice president of the College Democrats and currently serves as their first-year outreach coordinator, said she spoke only for herself and not for the organization at large. Recent polling has shown Sanders beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., by large margins in New Hampshire. A CBS News and YouGov poll conducted between Sept. 3 and Sept. 10 showed Sanders leading Clinton 52 percent to 30 percent, with Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet announced if he will run, polling at 9 percent. Six consecutive polls since the beginning of August have shown Sanders leading Clinton in New Hampshire. New Hampshire will hold the nation’s first primary on Feb. 9, 2016. Iowa will hold a caucus on Feb. 1. Sanders has also built a lead in Iowa in recent polls, leading by a 10 percent margin in another CBS News and YouGov poll, also conducted between Sept. 3 and Sept. 10. Clinton’s national lead has also been falling, and a poll run by Ipsos/Reuters from Sept. 7 to Sept. 11 found Clinton leading Sanders by just 8 percent, 39 percent to 31 percent. Biden received 16 percent. As late as Aug. 3, a Morning Consult poll found Clinton leading Sanders by 60 percent to 16 percent nationally. Her lead eroded since. Sanders represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate, which might be helping to increase enthusiasm in New Hampshire, particularly in the
Upper Valley region, Wright said. Both Wright and Teter cited Sanders’ views on campaign finance reform as a major factor in their support for him. “He is actually a person for the people instead of a person for a select group of people, if you have enough money to buy in,” Teter said. Wright said that Sanders’ refusal to accept contributions or support from super PACs demonstrated his commitment to his ideals and average Americans. “Money in politics is one of the root causes of every problem that seems to not be solved for decades, and [Sanders] is the only one not using a super PAC, and he’s got the most small donations of any candidate on either side,” Wright said. “He’s the only one who is both proposing real solutions to the problems of elections and politics being corrupted by campaign contributions and lobbyists and also acting as if he is really motivated by this by refusing to use super PACs.” Blatt said that Clinton’s “Democratic pragmatism” was a key factor in her support for the former Secretary of State’s campaign. “She takes a lot of liberal ideas and puts them into a context that could actually be implemented in our government,” Blatt said. Both Sanders and Clinton supporters said that they hope to capitalize on New Hampshire’s early primary and the high degree of visibility it receives from candidates to make an impact on the race. “I do think that one of the coolest things about going to college in New Hampshire is that anyone who wants to get involved in politics really can get involved from the get-go,” Blatt said.
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for international students for most of its history, Lawrence wrote, and is need-blind for U.S. citizens, permanent residents, applicants with refugee or asylum status in the U.S. and undocumented students in the U.S. This change follows two major administrative changes — Virginia Hazen, who had been director of financial aid since 1989, retired in July, and Maria Laskaris, who had been dean of admissions and financial aid since 2007, recently moved to the position of special assistant to the provost for arts and innovation. At the time the policy was instituted, Hazen said that the policy would allow the College to attract a more diverse student body. Interim dean of admissions and financial aid Paul Sunde wrote in an email that the revised aid policy is meant to help increase and sustain the international student population at Dartmouth. Reverting back to a need-aware policy, he wrote, is only one component of a larger effort to stabilize the variability of international admissions. Sunde added that the admissions office believes being “more strategic throughout the entire cycle” will help the College do a better job of developing a “robust” and “stable” enrolling class. Sunde wrote that he believes the issue is not “uni-dimensional,” but rather a part of a broader impetus to encourage international students to apply to the College and subsequently attend upon admission. Lawrence also added that the College’s goals include enrolling a varied class. According to Lawrence, the College hopes not only to “increase and stabilize” the population of international students on campus but also to
enroll a class that is diverse in a variety of ways. Lawrence also pointed out that only five schools — Amherst College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University — are need-blind for international applicants. International student Hassan Kiani ’16, who hails from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, said the College did not inform international students currently attending Dartmouth about the change. Prajeet Bajpai ’16, an international student from New Delhi, India, said that the College’s need-blind policy distinguished Dartmouth from its peers during his college search. He added that he was not surprised that the College had failed to reach out to current undergraduates from other countries. “I find it to be overall a horrible situation,” he said. “The justification that this policy will bring Dartmouth more in line with its peers makes no sense to me.” Kiani also said he was disappointed in the changed policy, adding that the shift will make Dartmouth’s community more exclusive. “So many international students I know wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the need-blind policy,” he said. Anwita Mahajan ’17, social vice president of the International Students’ Association, wrote in an email that she believes need-awareness will discourage international applicants. “Dartmouth used to be in a select group of institutions that supported international applicants equally as U.S. residents, and that meant an honest college application process, as well as a stress-free time at College,” she wrote. “I fear that that may not happen henceforth.”
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Defending Planned Parenthood
Post-“Moving Dartmouth Forward,” the College must remember its purpose. Despite the lack of hard alcohol on campus A contrasting vision of “Moving Dartmouth and the occasional grumblings about so-called Forward” comes in the form of a remark President academic rigor, the start of this fall term has Hanlon made in a September interview with this been business as usual. As newspaper — “I’m expectCollege President Phil Haning that this transformalon’s “Moving Dartmouth “We fail to see the tion is going to take place Forward” policy initiative connection between the over a period of years approaches the nine-month content of the policy — it’s not going to change anniversary of its announce- initiative and the College’s on a dime.” Substantive ment, it has begun to lose its standing in the U.S. News’ change takes time. For the novelty. Going forth, admin- rankings — particularly policy initiative to have a istrators and students alike when the initiative is still truly transformative immust remember the passion pact on campus climate, in its infancy — let alone that went into the initiative we need to remember its during its inception. Borne of its ability to reverse the guiding vision. We cannot an institutional identity crisis, College’s downward trend.” expect to create a series of “Moving Dartmouth Forboxes to tick off along the ward” has always aimed to implementation timeline improve Dartmouth, despite and hope that change will sometimes-fierce disagreement over precisely how follow. to do so. As more components of the plan enter From the outset, President Hanlon made it clear the admittedly less glamorous implementation that “Moving Dartmouth Forward” is about the phase, we cannot lose sight of this goal. values of our school and our community. It will Interim dean of admissions and financial aid succeed if it can put those values into action. We Paul Sunde recently remarked that he hoped that strongly believe that the College must focus on deliv“Moving Dartmouth Forward” will be reflected ering effective change, and always in the service of in the U.S. News and World students and their success, Report’s university rankings, not just feel-good pubwhere the College recently “Above all, there must be licity. Without a strong dropped from 11th to 12th a finish line for “Moving unifying vision for what place. We must admit that Dartmouth Forward.” As Dartmouth — postwe are puzzled by Sunde’s of now, we cannot tell you “Moving Dartmouth remark. We fail to see the con- where it is, let alone if Forward” — looks like, nection between the content we’re headed in the right it is likely to fail. The of the policy initiative and the would be wise direction. But what is most College College’s standing in the U.S. to ensure that all policy News’ rankings — particularly important is not when announcements are when the initiative is still in its we reach it, but what the transparent about the infancy — let alone its ability College looks like when we desired end result and to reverse the College’s down- do.” its decision-making proward trend. cess. A more constructive response Above all, there must be a finish line for “Movwould have enumerated exactly which parts of ing Dartmouth Forward.” As of now, we cannot “Moving Dartmouth Forward” will boost the Col- tell you where it is, let alone if we’re headed in the lege’s ranking. We can hardly expect any reform right direction. But what is most important is not to reverse a decade of gradual decline in the U.S. when we reach it, but what the College looks like News’ rankings in less than a calendar year. when we do.
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Defunding Planned Parenthood hurts men’s and women’s reproductive health. After the anti-abortion-rights Center for Medical Progress released a video earlier this summer that allegedly showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the harvesting and selling of the organs of aborted fetuses, much of the backlash against Planned Parenthood has been severe. Many people, including lawmakers in several states, have called for an end to federal funding for the organization. This is not the first time that antichoice organizations have released such videos and stirred criticism against Planned Parenthood, and it likely will not be the last. Not only are these videos and their content unfounded, but they have also blurred and threatened the larger picture of what Planned Parenthood stands for — namely, the reproductive health of both men and women. After the videos were made public, the Department of Health and Human Services conducted an investigation into Planned Parenthood and found “no known violations of the country’s fetal tissue laws.” Despite this, many states — including Indiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Pennsylvania, among others — have conducted their own investigations, and all have likewise found no evidence of illegal activity. Evidence has also surfaced that those asking questions in the videos are, in fact, hired actors looking to slander the organization. Additionally, though many associate Planned Parenthood with providing abortion services, the organization estimates that abortions account for only about 328,000 — a mere three percent — of the almost 10.6 million services Planned Parenthood provided last year. As some journalists, such as Michelle Ye Hee Lee, have noted, the three percent statistic is misleading, with some sources estimating the more accurate number to be approximately 12 percent. Regardless, this is still a small number compared to the number of critical health services that Planned Parenthood provides, including contraception, cancer screening and STI and STD testing and treatment. Contrary to what many believe, these services are not limited only to women — men can also receive such services as vasectomies and colon, prostate and testicular cancer screenings. Yet, in the aftermath of the fetal tissue traffick-
ing allegations, the fact that Planned Parenthood does so much more than abortion seems to have been forgotten. The video has unleashed a new string of attacks against Planned Parenthood facilities, including but not limited to the arson of a Planned Washington clinic this month. To some anti-choice individuals and organizations, providing a medical procedure that ends the potentiality of life evidentially justifies threatening the lives of Planned Parenthood employees. Moreover, regardless of whether three percent or 99 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services are abortion-related, the argument calling for its defunding because it provides abortions has no basis in economic or legal reality. Of the federal and state funding that Planned Parenthood receives, almost none goes toward abortions. In fact, only 17 states allow funding to go toward abortion with the strict condition that those abortions are “medically necessary.” As such, successful attempts to defund Planned Parenthood are, in reality, defunding largely non-abortion services. It is one thing to be personally opposed to abortion and even fight for its illegalization — but it is another matter entirely to viciously target an organization that provides safe and legal abortions and thereby limit access to the various other health services this organization provides. Yet it appears that the majority of Republican leaders have either ignored or failed to realize this, putting Planned Parenthood on the defensive as they fight against bills in numerous states that would strip them of federal funding. In New Hampshire, Planned Parenthood has already lost this battle after a decision by the state’s entirely male Executive Council to defund it. Alabama and Louisiana have likewise defunded the organization, jeopardizing men’s and women’s access to affordable healthcare. The baseless war against Planned Parenthood continues to rage on. Regardless of one’s stance on abortion, Planned Parenthood undoubtedly provides vital health services that many low-income men and women would otherwise be unable to afford. A loss for Planned Parenthood is not just a loss for abortion rights — it is a loss for men’s and women’s health.
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Anthropology department welcomes professor DeSilva FROM FOSSIL PAGE 1
Lee Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, first identified Rising Star Cave as a potential location for excavation after using Google Earth to survey an area called “the crater of humankind.” Since there were hundreds of caves in the area, DeSilva said, Berger gave his business card to groups of spelunkers and asked them to contact him if they found fossils in the area. In October of 2013, Berger told DeSilva that he had received an email with an attached image of a skeleton. But in order to reach the skeleton, researchers would have to squeeze through a gap that was only about eight inches wide in some places. After a social media search for experienced scientists who were small enough to squeeze through the gap, Berger found six female scientists who found and excavated the fossils. “They were absolute heroes — there’s been a lot of credit given to them but not enough as far as I’m concerned,” DeSilva said. “I had a chance to work on these fossils because they were brave enough and skilled enough to go into that chamber.” Following the excavation, DeSilva’s said his role has been to work with the leg and foot bones in the fossil col-
lection, analyzing how Homo naledi moved. DeSilva said that there are an estimated 15 individual skeletons in the find. “We have never had a site with so many fossils before,” DeSilva said. “We can ask questions about variation, questions about growth and development, and [questions] about a population rather than just an individual representing a species.” Raised in Massachusetts, DeSilva did not take an anthropology class as an undergraduate. Instead, he was introduced to anthropology when his supervisor at the Boston Museum of Science, where he worked following graduation, asked him to create a new exhibit on human evolution. In preparation, DeSilva went to the bookstore and bought the book “Extinct Humans” and “became hooked.” Seeing his enthusiasm, his boss then convinced him to go to graduate school to pursue his passion. After completing his graduate work at the University of Michigan, DeSilva taught at Worcester State College and Boston University before accepting a position at the College. “A lot of my teaching is inspired by my research and lot of my research is inspired by my teaching, and that’s because of the students,” DeSilva said. “So often I’ll be teaching and a student will ask a question that I
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don’t know the answer to. I love those questions.” Already, DeSilva has been well received by his colleagues. Anthropology department chair and associate professor Sienna Craig said that DeSilva aligns well with the College’s commitment to its students. “He’s not only a top-notch researcher, but he fits so well in Dartmouth’s model of the scholarteacher,” Craig said. “He’s an outstanding teacher and someone who is really committed to bringing his research into the classroom and bringing students into his research.” This fall, DeSilva will teach “Introduction to Biological Anthropology.” He will also teach “Primate Biomechanics” and “Human Evolution” this winter. “He seems to be a magnet for students,” anthropology professor Nathaniel Dominy said. “It’s a testament to his personality, his approachability and his accessibility.” At the College, DeSilva said he hopes his students will become familiar enough with their subject to “see what we don’t know.” “It’s just this unveiling of this curtain, and as a student that can be incredibly inspiring.” DeSilva said. “That’s what I want in my time at Dartmouth, to get students to that point.”
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Shoot for It: With John Beneville ’16 and Alex Lee ’16
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“Shoot for It” will be bringing you scorching hot basketball takes all fall term.
B y ALEX LEE AND JOHN BENEVILLE What’s up Dartmouth!? John Beneville ’16 and Alex Lee ’16 here. Our weekly column “Shoot For It” will feature basketball banter through the eyes of two very different sports fans. Alex is majoring in mathematics and economics, but if we’re being honest, he spends most of his time playing pick-up basketball. You have probably seen him at Collis getting way too emotional over a regular season basketball game. He grew up in Massachusetts, but his favorite
team is the Miami Heat. *Cue the boos.* He became a Miami Heat fan in 2010. *Cue even louder boos.* He continues to ardently root, however, for the Miami Heat today and hopes that the addition of Justise Winslow and the emergence of Hassan Whiteside can help them challenge the Cavaliers this upcoming season. John has been a Los Angeles Lakers fan for life and recently saw Alex sign yet another one-year deal to ride on the Heat’s bandwagon. John admires competitors and skilled players, which means he hates LeBron
James. This summer John was given a free movie ticket to see that movie LeBron “starred” in, but he tore it up into little pieces and watched a Kobe Bryant highlight video instead. This week we will be talking about Tristan Thompson and his recent attempt to get a max contract from the Cleveland Cavaliers. After TT replaced Kevin Love in the starting lineup during the playoffs, he averaged 10.6 points, 12.1 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. Yet, this is somewhat of an understatement. At a young 24 years old, Thompson was a menace on the offensive glass, and on the other end of the floor, he held opponents to 10.3 percent from beyond the arc. For a big man, this is extremely impressive, and the defensive stat showcases Thompson’s quick feet and ability to effectively keep up with smaller and quicker players. Aptly, the Cavaliers want to lock in Thompson’s contract rather than allow him to accept his one year, $6.8 million qualifying offer. They reportedly offered him five years and $80 million, but he and his agent Rich Paul — coincidentally also Lebron’s agent — are holding out for a maximum contract of five years and $90 million. Furthermore, Rich Paul claims that if Thompson is “forced” to accept his qualifying offer this season,
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he promises that TT will leave the Cavaliers during the 2016 free agency. The sides reportedly have not moved an inch in the past two months, and as training camp looms, it is unclear how the situation will play out. John’s Take: Here’s the deal, Tristan Thompson is a great rebounder, has a better motor than most and defends at an elite level. The problem though is that’s all he can really do. Other than that, he walks like a literal duck out of water and waddles around aimlessly on offense. We don’t have to look at Thompson’s backside more than twice to know that he can probably squat all the weights in Cleveland, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a $90 million contract. And while I am sure that King James — used ironically here — would love to have Thompson back to bail him out of more abysmal fourth quarters and leg “cramps,” Thompson’s just not worth that much. This could be another case of LeBron believing not only that he is the “chosen one,” but that he is also the “chosen” coach and the “chosen” General Manager. Someone should tell LeBron James that he needs to focus on basketball. I swear the dude does more extra-curriculars than the ’19’s did in high school. Alex’s Take: I find it interesting how John’s take
on TT somehow became an “objective” commentary on Lebron James, but I must admit that I do agree with his appraisal of the Tristan Thompson’s situation. Thompson has a sturdy body, quick feet, great energy and relentless motivation essentially every minute he’s on the court. Thompson, however, has a very limited offensive game — he’s not quick to the basket and he cannot drive right or left. I don’t even want to think about his jumper. The fact of the matter is that Tristan Thompson would not be in the position that he’s in, if not for Lebron James. The most impressive part of LBJ’s game is the fact that he raises the performance of his teammates to previously unknown levels, unlike a certain aging garter snake playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. Whether it’s Matthew Dellavedova, J.R. Smith or Timofey Mozgov, Lebron transforms nobodies and washed-up players into players who otherwise would never even be in the conversation for a max contract. Tristan Thompson is the latest beneficiary of the Lebron bump. Tristan, take the five year, $80 million deal. You don’t want to risk that much money on ego. Have any basketball topics you’d like us to discuss? Send an email over to sports@thedartmouth.com.
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Football to kick off season with battle against Georgetown
B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff
Long removed from its heights of Ivy League dominance in the 1990s, the football program has endured a lengthy revival period. After a 13-year drought between winning seasons that was snapped in 2010, the Big Green have steadily improved in nearly each subsequent season, only dipping down as far as a .500 winning percentage in 2011. With expectations higher than ever, that development could reach its zenith in 2015 with the potential for Dartmouth’s first Ivy League championship in 18 seasons. In the Ivy League preseason media poll, the Big Green was picked to finish second in the conference, accruing four out of 17 first-place votes in the process. That mark would amount to the highest for the team since 1996, an undefeated, Ivy championshipwinning year. The team, however, does not take much stock in these projections, affirming that it will control its own fate. “The preseason media polls aren’t a big deal,” quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 said. “If they were right, they’d have us as [number] one. We just have to go out there and compete every day and get better every day, and I think that [will] take care of itself.” Fortunately for the Big Green, these preseason polls tend to have poor predictive power — since 1996, only two seasons saw the team chosen by the consensus poll to take home the title actually do so. It follows that a slightly more under the radar squad, such as the Big Green, seems primed to take a leap into serious contention. Head coach Buddy Teevens has felt a change in the atmosphere surrounding a program with championship aspirations. “You feel there’s a lot more excitement across the board,” he said. “The faculty members you see talk about it…[from] townspeople in the local community, alumni members who come down to practice. They read the things in the paper and so forth. And I’ve said it for years, the preseason polls don’t matter, it’s the end of the season polls.” Talk about the team’s improve-
ment and their potential to seize the ever-illusive Ivy title is not just happening around town and on the coaching staff, though, and Teevens said the team itself has high expectations for where they will finish the season. “And I think our guys [have] a little chip in their shoulder. Nobody’s thought much about us, and we’ve continually improved,” Teevens said. “The guys are aware of [the expectations], but I think as much as anything they’re appreciative of people taking notice.” Such lofty prospects for 2015 rest largely on a squad loaded with experience, depth and premier conference talent. The team’s success should start with the quarterback position, as Williams starts his senior campaign as one of the top players in the Ivy League and with his feats already stamped in Dartmouth’s record books. Only three-fourths the way through his career, Williams has the thirdmost career passing yards and second-most touchdown passes in program history, with a chance to finish first in both categories. Last season was particularly a banner year for the Texas native as he topped the League in completion percentage and passing efficiency, and exhibited a potent dual threat presence in posting among the best rushing totals on his team. Williams’s favorite target from a year ago, Ryan McManus ’15 , will hope to reignite one of the conference’s best quarterbackwide receiver combinations. McManus hauled in an Ivy-leading eight scores and was in the top five in both receptions and receiving yards in the conference in 2014. Victor Williams ’16 provided additional help downfield coming in third on the team in receiving yards and figures to undertake a more prominent role in 2015. Joining Dalyn Williams in the backfield will be a strong trio of rushers composed of Kyle Bramble ’16, Brian Grove ’16 and Ryder Stone ’18 . Bramble, an All-Ivy Second Team honors recipient, led the team in rushing and sustained an excellent 5.2 per-rush average across all 10 games last year, in addition to providing help in the passing attack. Though he received fewer touches than Bramble, Grove showed ability as another rushing
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Preseason practices have prepared the Big Green to put forth powerful performances in the upcoming fall season.
option. Stone, a late bloomer in 2014, will look to build on the gaudy four-touchdown and 173yard totals he fielded in only the final two games of the season. Paving the way for these runners will be an offensive line that loses four of five starters from 2014, but with depth that should help fill the void up front well. The impressive qualities hardly end there. In returning all but two of its defensive starters from 2014, as well as boasting three fifth-year seniors in Chai Reece ’15 , Troy Donahue ’15 and Eric Wickham ’15 , the defensive unit could easily match the offense in terms of team strengths. The defense allowed the second fewest points per game, yielded the third fewest yards and grabbed the most interceptions in the Ivy League last season, and the team should sustain if not improve on those metrics this year. “It’s definitely going to help,” defensive back Danny McManus ’17 said about his unit’s wealth of experience. “Those [fifth year seniors] have been playing together for a long time now. That cohesion is definitely helping us out on defense.” Four seniors, all of whom were tapped with 2014 All-Ivy First Team selections, will lead the way. A.J. Zuttah ’16 will seek to clog up the opposing running game once again on the defensive line, Will McNamara ’16 comes off
a conference-topping 9.7 tackles per game and will tie the defense together at linebacker, while Donahue and Vernon Harris ’16 will patrol the secondary. Before the team begins its Ivy League slate, one that will determine whether the team reaches its ultimate goal, the Big Green will face a series of non-conference opponents that serve as preparation. The first game of the year will send the team to the nation’s capital for a Saturday afternoon tilt against Georgetown University. With their last winning season coming in 2011, the Hoyas are trying to improve from a 3-8 2014 record . Two games into its new season, Georgetown is 1-1. Georgetown will have plenty of help with several key players returning from its team nucleus a year ago. Senior Jo’el Kimpela had 838 rushing yards in 2014 with a 5.3 yard per-rush average, and has remained the top running back in 2015. He shares the backfield with a few other rushers, notably senior quarterback Kyle Nolan, who already has two touchdowns on the ground this year. Teevens said he believes that this matchup will pose a good challenge for his team. He also referenced the severe neck injury suffered by Hoya linebacker Ty Williams that made national headlines in the team’s season opener, but from which Georgetown bounced back
with a win. “They’ve got an outstanding running back, they’ve got a good quarterback,” Teevens said. “I think what they showed against Marist [College] is really the team we’ll see. A team that can put points on the board, that does a good job in the kicking game, that’s stingy from a defensive standpoint.” As a team, the Hoyas do not veer in one particular way in terms of offensive style. The team has averaged four yards per each rush and 4.7 yards on pass attempts, as well as evenly called rush and pass plays through two 2015 games, numbers that draw similarities to those seen in 2014. The same holds on defense, as Georgetown does not necessarily possess a single glaring weakness, though they have showed to be a bit more vulnerable to the passing attack. As with every year, the Big Green will open the season later than most college football teams, and thus encounter in its opener a squad already with the experience of a few games played. Williams stressed that the team needed to start the game strongly in this type of situation. “It’s always an adjustment playing a team that’s been on the field,” Williams said. “They’re going to be a little faster probably the first couple plays, but as long as we do what we’re supposed to do I think we can do pretty well.”