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The Board of Trustees approved a complete rebuilding of Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.

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Students who were welcomed to campus at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge during First-Year Trips will find a new building if they return to visit the 77-year-old structure since the Board of Trustees approved a complete rebuilding of the facility to be completed over the next few years.

Since the approval in

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March, project architects have been working on schematic design for the Lodge and a concept design for a new Ledyard Canoe Club facility with a focus on accessibility, director of outdoor programs Dan Nelson said. Once preliminary designs are sketched, they will be evaluated by two different consultants for price estimates.

Then, updated construction costs will be presented and project managers will put together a fundraising sched-

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ule that will inform how the projects move forward.

While there have been minor additions and re-adjustments to both facilities over the years, these projects will be the first major renovations either venue has seen since their original construction over 50 years ago, Nelson said. This decision for total renovation of the Lodge stemmed from advice by Maclay Architects, a

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Improve Dartmouth, an online forum for members of the Dartmouth community to post suggestions, has altered the structure of its leadership team, moving from six moderators to 14 members on four committees.

Along with selecting new members to fill committees, who each went through three weeks of training to become part of the leadership team, Noah Manning ’17 and Juhi Kalra

Security officials and event organizers have formed a central safety and planning committee for Greek Key weekend after an unusually high number of medical issues resulted in overstretched resources during last year’s festivities.

In the past, since Green Key has not had a central committee like the other big weekends because it is a series of events planned by disparate organizations, Collis Center director and senior assistant dean Eric Ramsey said. Ramsey is the head of this year’s inaugural committee.

“The committee is an open place where people can bring up issues or questions,” Anna Hall, director of student activities at Collis, said.

Last year, resources were

“maxed out” and the weekend was more hectic than usual, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said.

“We realized in a debrief that we needed to have a more organized approach to the weekend,” he said. “Last year prompted us to take a hard look at how we approach Green Key.” A large working group, comprised of Ramsey and adult representatives of other planning groups, was formed this term in response to last year’s intensified safety issues, Kinne said.

“The committee has been essential in helping people navigate the weekend,” Ramsey said. “There is a lot of coordination that goes in to make sure people are in the right place.”

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’16 were selected was co-chairs of the organization and began their leadership positions two weeks ago.

The four committees — implementation, outreach, technology and moderators — each function differently, Improve Dartmouth co-founder Gillian O’Connell ’15 said.

The implementation team is in charge of facilitating the process of updating the top 10 suggestions voted on by users. Members of the implemenSEE IMPROVE PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing The National Association for College Admission Counseling identifies three key findings in its annual “State of College Admission” report, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Application rates are continuing to surge for most colleges, meaning that the institutional yield rate has declined sharply. In fall 2013, the average institutional yield rate was 35.9 percent, down from 48.7 percent in 2002. Second, transfer students have become crucial — 58 percent of universities predict that recruiting transfer students will become more important over the next three years. Third, recruitment has no borders, with the number of students enrolled in colleges outside their home countries increasing from 800,000 to 4.5 million in the past 40 years.

This month, the word’s richest nations will decide whether to push forward with a major international project to measure university teaching quality, which could allow East Asian universities to improve their standing, potentially at the expense of elite Western universities, Inside Higher Ed reported. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes has asked member nations to indicate

by May 31 whether they wish to take part in a full “main study.” In order for the project to work, a “critical mass” of eight to 10 OECD member nations would need to support the project, in addition to a “critical mass” of universities.

Cluster hiring, or hiring multiple scholars into one or more departments based on shared, interdisciplinary research, is increasing in popularity, Inside Higher Ed reported. A new report concluded that when done effectively, cluster hiring can improve both institutional excellence and faculty diversity. The report states that cluster hiring not only expands interdisciplinary research, but also impacts faculty diversity and components of the institution’s climate, such as the learning environment and community engagement and collaboration. Cluster hiring also has drawbacks, such as faculty hired to joint appointments being overworked and professors having trouble achieving tenure in their home department.

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Vermont-based firm, which evaluated the building last year. The evaluation suggested that a complete rebuilding of the facility would be easier and more cost-effective than renovating the existing structure.

“Both places served us well for decades and decades,” Nelson said.

“Now we are trying to better accommodate the very active programs that use them.”

Construction will likely not affect Trips programming, vice president of campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said, and she hopes that the project can be completed in 11 months so that it will not overlap with Trips.

“Our schedule needs to match up with Dartmouth’s academic calendar because we want to try and have as little impact on activities that students use these facilities for as possible,” Hogarty said.

Ledyard, which was originally constructed in the 1960s, closed in the fall and is in need of updates, Ledyard president Michael Baicker ’17 said. He said he hopes construction plans will include additional space for boats and gear, an expanded kitchen as well as increased meeting space for members to host events.

“We are hoping that the new plan for building will be two stories,” Baicker said. “The idea is that we would like the new clubhouse to connect to the parking lot where our trailers are and then to the river for our boats.”

“Both places served us well for decades and decades. Now we are trying to better accommodate the very active programs that use them.”

- DAN NELSON, DIRECTOR OF OUTDOOR PROGRAMS Of importance to project planners is accessibility, both Hogarty and Baicker said. Currently, neither the Lodge nor Ledyard meet the standards described in Americans with Disabilities Act, which is required for construction projects beginning on or after March 15, 2012, according to ADA.org.

In addition, planners will work to

make the buildings as sustainable as possible, Hogarty said.

“We want to make as small a greenhouse gas footprint as possible,” she said.

These renovations will address the condition of the facilities themselves and increased usage, which has “outgrown the current space and configuration of space available,” Nelson said.

Nelson emphasized that the programming hosted in both of these facilities will not change before, during or after construction, but will be relocated for the duration of the rebuilding.

Furthermore, the purpose of the buildings will not change, and Ledyard plans will not include residential spaces.

Since the close of the clubhouse in the fall, there has been a decrease in activity at Ledyard, Baicker said.

“I think a new clubhouse will increase membership and interest,” he said.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni have expressed the importance of keeping the original, rustic feel of the Lodge during renovations. Nelson said planners and architects will keep this in mind as they sketch the preliminary designs for the structure.

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Safety and Security received 51 calls over the course of Green Key in 2014.

to finals week may have played a role.

Safety and Security received 51 calls from the town, making sure resources, between Friday afternoon and 6 a.m. including security, are deployed in the Sunday morning, though the number most efficient way and that event tim- of reports filed is not known. In 2013, ings are properly aligned or spaced out, Safety and Security filed 54 reports over Green key Ramsey said. weekend. AdThe commit- “We realized in a ditionally, Dennis tee is using a caldebrief that we said there were endar tool where 34 arrests durgroups can input needed to have a ing Green Key the events they more organized last year, the are planning, approach to the vast majority Ramsey said. of which were “We found weekend. Last year alcohol related. that when orgaprompted us to take This, he said, was nizations plan also a significant events within a hard look at how increase from their member- we approach Green previous years. ship, sometimes Both they don’t have Key.” Safety and Secua greater underrity and the Hastanding about - HARRY KINNE, SAFETY nover police are what might be increasing staff AND SECURITY DIRECTOR going on around and analyzing it,” Ramsey said. last year’s data in Kinne said he sees the committee as not only order to use security more strategically important for preventative reasons, this year, Dennis said.

Safety and Security will station but also important for debriefing after more staff around campus to increase the event.

“We can always figure out something to do better and celebrate things that went well,” he said.

He said that the committee helps Safety and Security look at things from a wide lens. Hanover police chief Charlie Dennis said treating the weekend as a single event is a great idea, because it will allow resources to be utilized more effectively and efficiently.

Safety is the number one priority of the committee, Kinne and Ramsey both said. Last year, the high number of students who needed to be taken to the hospital for alcohol-related reasons exhausted the fire department’s capabilities, and ambulances from other restoreD 35mm priNt communities were dispatched to help.

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visibility and quicken response times.

Kinne added that Dick’s House also usually increases staff during the weekend due to higher amounts of medical need.

Kinne also said that he hopes that with the new policies put in place by the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, on-campus parties will be safer and students will be less intoxicated.

Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, which annually hosts the Gammapalooza party, is not particularly concerned about safety because the event “usually goes off without a hitch,” Chi Gam risk manager Mark Widerschein ’17 said.

Widerschein said for the fraternity, the biggest risk management requirement they have is employing the number of security guards required by the Hanover Fire Department.

They hire third-party security, mostly

students, to watch over specific areas for the duration of the event. Because the event is dry, some of the risk is mitigated, he said. Furthermore, after talking to the risk manager from last year, Wilderschein determined that no changes to planning were needed.

He also said that much of the risk management is troubleshooting that happens the day of the event, such as making sure that the house does not violate fire codes and ensuring that people are not damaging the house.

Leif Harder ’15, who is Programming Board’s main concert director this year, said that he has gotten the concert planning “down to a science” from his previous experience on Programming Board. Since the concert typically sees around 5,000 attendees and is one of the largest events on campus, Harder said safety is a big challenge.

“It’s truly the most complex event,”

Hall said of the Green Key concert.

Harder said that Programming Board has formed great relationships with Safety and Security, the Hanover Police and another private security company called Green Mountain Concert Services.

Green Mountain is mostly responsible for watching the entrances to dormitories during the concert, Kinne said. Despite concerns, Harder said the concert usually ends up having a fun, safe atmosphere.

“We’ve never really had any strong safety issues from this concert, which is great,” he said.

Throughout the weekend, Dennis encourages students to “be safe, be a friend, be that good Samaritan,” he said.

“It can be a very fun weekend,” Kinne added. “We want it to be fun, but we also want it to be safe, or else it detracts from enjoyment of it all.”

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CONTRIBUTING Columnist IVAN HESS ’15

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Reacting with Respect

Legalizing same-sex marriage is a crucial move to legitimize queer love.

On April 28, the United States Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for Obergefell vs. Hodges, the case that will decide the legality of same-sex marriage across the nation — and by extension, the futures of millions of queer Americans.

I think many overlook the significance of same-sex marriage. With it comes privileges that have long been denied to queer people, and through it comes a fundamental validation of love — regardless of the genders or sexualities of those who share it.

As an institution, I find marriage to be deeply flawed. It is founded upon a traditionalism that I find repugnant, and its history is stained by misogyny. I would prefer an institution more radical, but can admit for now it is the most promising means of achieving equity. As a romantic ideal, however, I can think of nothing more beautiful.

In its essence, marriage symbolizes everlasting love and partnership, through unknowable difficulties and countless years. The ideal of marriage and the intimacy that comprises it is bigger and better than what we are as mere individuals. I will always believe in matrimony, regardless of its flaws and problematic history. There is nothing more beautiful and transformative that we can experience in our lives than the endless depths of the kind of love that marriage is meant to manifest.

Beyond idealism, however, marriage provides legal rights long denied to queer people. We must remember that the movement for same-sex marriage was largely catalyzed by the AIDS crisis, when partners were unable to visit their dying loved ones in the hospital because their relationships were not legally recognized. Nor should we forget that the Obergefell case resulted from a similar situation: in the wake of Obergefell’s husband’s death, the state of Ohio refused to recognize their marriage in Maryland and list the two as married on Obergefell’s husband’s death certificate.

The Supreme Court has since consolidated it with three other same-sex marriage cases from Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. Because of its significance, the right of matrimony cannot be denied to queer people. Marriage — not a civil union — is what must be guaranteed to queers to

allow for complete equality, through the law and in love. “Separate but equal” is a strategy that has never succeeded in the pursuit of equality.

The Supreme Court’s ruling is about more than the institution of marriage itself — it is about the legal and cultural validation of queer love. It is about affirming same-sex love’s worth, in the eyes of the law and society as a whole. Legalization of same-sex marriage should not be the ultimate objective of the LGBTQ-rights movement, but it is important for what its achievement signifies.

As Judith Butler said of queer love, “There are certain kinds of love that are held not to be love, loss that is held not to be loss, that remain within this kind of unthinkable domain.” Until society provides queer people the legal guarantee of marriage and all privileges enjoyed by their heterosexual peers, queer love will remain illegitimate.

Anything less than this is an insult to equality and an inadequate remedy to historical injustices.

Speaking as a queer person, to love is not easy.

It is often dangerous, often delegitimized and often crushed because of its fragile locus in the public sphere. But love is the greatest gift life can give to us. Even when it fails us, it is still a beautiful thing.

I am entirely overjoyed by the prospect of having more love, of someday soon having the right to marry and create a future with someone.

Marriage is neither perfect nor perfectible, but it represents one unique realization of love.

That love is the voice that shouts over all silences, the hope with no match in fear and the strength so powerful that fists and force mean nothing in its face. It is a truth as absolute as the whispers of God, more first than Genesis, more last than Revelation, more beautiful than anything in creation. This beauty is what inspires my hope for a future in which my love and the love of millions of others is both legally validated and protected from persecution. I am both so excited and so frightened for the upcoming decision because of what is at stake. And now I will wait hopefully until the Court’s announcement in just a few short weeks — because this decision is not only a judgment upon the legality of same-sex marriage, but upon the virtue, beauty and validity of queer love itself.

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When students take action to have their voices heard, we owe it to them to listen.

On May 2, a group of students demonstrated outside Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s Pigstick party and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority’s Derby event. Many have questioned the choice of the parties as a protest venue, and some have suggested that the demonstrators’ delivery, including the use of profanity and shouting, undermined their message. These are not the questions that should dominate our discussion. If the impulse on this campus is to hold demonstrators to standards of decorum, then perhaps we should first consider what standards we should uphold when we respond to a protest.

At the very least, when students take action to have their voices heard, we owe it to them, as their peers, to listen. Listening does not require one to fully agree with their message or believe their behavior is ideal. Listening simply requires us to respectfully engage with the message.

Yet the track record of student reactions to protest indicates that we often fall short in this regard. After the April 2013 Dimensions protest, which took place in the Class of 1953 Commons during the show for prospective students, there was a widespread belief that student demonstrators had selected an inappropriate venue. These criticisms crowded out engagement with the protest’s substance — racism, sexism, classism, sexual assault and homophobia. In response to the April 2014 “Freedom Budget” sit-in, which addressed many of the aforementioned themes, students again focused on venue and delivery.

The way the student body views and evaluates protest indicates a failure to listen with respect.

Our focus should not be on determining an ideal venue or attitude — protests are not meant to be ideal in the eyes of those witnessing the protest or those being protested. It is not enough claim to be in agreement with the demonstrators’ message if one chooses instead to focus on the method or location.

For the Alpha Chi protest in particular, some students, many of whom claim to agree with the overall message, have argued that the demonstrators should have engaged Pigstick attendees in a dialogue from the concert stage rather than chant from the parking lot. When students preface their criticisms with blanket statements of agreement, they often sound disingenuous and instead suggest that what they really care about more is palatability.

Such misgivings about method have once

again come to the forefront of discussion. We do not deny that some students take offense with the students’ slogans or messages. But this does not warrant ad hominem attacks or a prima facie dismissal of the demonstrators and their message. If we are going to consider any question of method, it would be that this protest was non-violent and did not violate College policies.

Violation of College policy was, after all, major evidence to some that the 2013 Dimensions protest was inappropriate. The Pigstick-Derby protest, though it stayed within these bounds, still does not satisfy the requirements of some students for effective protest. We can hardly be shocked, then, by accusations that this campus is complacent or even working to frustrate and dampen the efforts of student demonstrators.

This editorial, of course, cannot ignore the most controversial incident from Saturday afternoon — the video of Student Assembly president-elect Frank Cunningham ’16 confronting a female demonstrator. While we must acknowledge that Cunningham’s campus-wide email referred to his being called a “derogatory name” prior to the incident, we strongly disapprove of his behavior. No student should be treated that way, especially not by the SA president — the individual ostensibly responsible for protecting the rights of every student. When campaigning for SA president and vice president, Cunningham and Julia Dressel ’17 posted to their Facebook page, “When our leaders are passionate about defending students, their voices are heard and their resistance is felt.” While Cunningham’s voice and resistance were certainly heard and felt during the Derby protest, he failed to defend the students he was elected to represent.

We should not respond to protest with interrogation of protest methods and efficacy, verbal and physical intimidation or online threats. We must embrace the free expression of all opinions, in any format. No student is entitled to dictate the terms on which their peers must deliver a message or idea before they will consider it. The liberal arts tradition cherishes dissent and the clash of ideas.

When we postpone our willingness to engage with ideas we may find discomforting or offensive until they are made pleasant, we actively undermine that tradition. The reflex to shield ourselves from all challenges to our beliefs — including beliefs of what is appropriate or reasonable — is much more alarming than any protest method.

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tation team will assist administrators in incorporating suggestions in cases when help is needed, O’Connell said.

Tasks of the implementation team will also may include creating a campuswide survey to collect more opinions from students to working with a focus group relevant to the suggestions.

New implementation team member Regan Plekenpol ’17 said that she decided to apply for a leadership position at Improve Dartmouth because she agrees with the mission of the organization.

“I think it’s really important to get students’ feedback on the changes they want to see on campus,” she said. “I think it’s really important that these changes get implemented by students and for the student.”

The outreach team is responsible for informing community members about the work and role of Improve Dartmouth and facilitating student participation, while the technology team is in charge of maintaining the website.

Aylin Woodward ’15, a member of outreach team and one of the original six moderators, said that she was attracted to the outreach team because she wants to make sure that more people on campus know about Improve Dartmouth.

“I just really wanted people to know that we are a group of students that are trying to make substantial difference at Dartmouth,” she said.

The outreach team plans to send thank you notes and to the administrators with which they collaborate when implementing the changes suggested on the website, Woodward said. She added that the organization plans to host a social event at the end of the term where students can drop by, mingle and learn more about Improve Dartmouth, as well as produce a flyer about recent changes that have been implemented on campus.

Prior to this expansion,the six moderators were in charge of collaborating with respective administrative members, outreach and maintaining the website.

“Now that we have more manpower, we are going to be able to actually increase facilitation,” Kalra said.

To promote more involvement amongst the first-year students, O’Connell said that the moderators reached out to first-year undergraduate advisors to publicize the organization. The moderators also created posters and YouTube videos, which received more than 2,000 views, to publicize Improve Dartmouth, she said.

These initiatives have been successful, as members of the Class of 2018 have been visiting the page more frequently, O’Connell said. There has been an five to seven percent increase in freshman activity on the site this term, she added.

“Of course, we would like to see stronger numbers with that,” O’Connell said. “We are still very much in a transitional period.”

Out of the 37 total suggestions posted in the last three months, four of them were suggested by members of the Class of 2018.

Vanessa Soncco ’18 said that she heard that Improve Dartmouth is a great platform to learn about what students think is important on campus.

Bryan Lee ’18 said that he likes the idea of Improve Dartmouth and plans to post on the website soon.

“I think that it is a really good method for Dartmouth to make students feel like they are a part of the school where they can maximize their potentials,” he said.

Kalra said that she is looking forward to the dynamic between the newly joined members and team members who have previous experience with Improve Dartmouth.

Recently completed ideas include shifting the Baker-Berry Library opening time from 10 a.m. to 8 a.m. and offering cell phone chargers students can borrow at the circulation desk.

Ideas soon to be in progress include modernizing banner and allowing students to register for physical education classes during off-terms.

Woodward is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff.

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For the men’s and women’s track and field teams, months of training and preparation will culminate in two days of competition this weekend when the teams travel to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. For both teams Heps is the most important meet of the spring season, after the NCAA Regional Championships.

The women enter this year as the defending runner-up from last year’s Heps, while the men will look to improve on their fifth-place showing at last year’s Heps.

“I expect us to be in the top four, which is where we were indoors,” women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze said. “I think we’re in just as good of a shape, if not better, than we were during the winter.”

The teams will be traveling with a total of 72 athletes, evenly split between the men’s and women’s teams. Men’s head coach and track and field director Barry Harwick ’77 said that the Ivy League mandates this quota of 72 athletes.

“We have at least one athlete in every event,” Harwick said. “We want to score in as many events as possible, and I’m pretty confident that we have many athletes who can do that.”

The women’s team will look to their strong distance, jump and sprint squads to lead the way. Dana Giordano ’16 returns as the defending champion in the 1,500-meter from last spring, as well as the defending champion in the mile and 3,000-meter from the indoor Heptagonal Championships. Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 returns as the defending champion in the high jump.

The women’s team will also look to Jennifer Meech ’16, who should prove to be a factor in the 200-meter and 400-meter sprints, as well as Molly Shapiro ’16 in the triple jump and Allison Frantz ’18 in the heptathlon.

The 4x100m quartet of Whitehorn, Meech, Anna Kikut ’16 and Marissa Evans ’18, as well as the 4x800-meter team of Bridget O’Neill ’18, Elizabeth Markowitz ’16, Bridget Flynn ’18 and Meghan Grela ’17, should be in contention for strong finishes this weekend.

On the men’s side, Curtis King ’16 in the 10,000 meters and Jacob Shippee ’16 in the javelin will be strong contenders. The men’s team will also look to Edward Wagner ’16 in the 400-meter hurdles and Nico Robinson ’17 in the decathlon for strong finishes in their respective events.

“If I can stay near the front of the race in contact with the leaders, then I should be in the driver’s seat,” King said about the 10000-meter race. “I think there are few guys who can drop a 30-second 200 [meters], 9,800 meters into a race.”

Competing in peak condition in such an important event requires extensive planning and preparation.

Both the athletes and coaches noted the intense training and workouts in the weeks leading up to this weekend.

This week, the athletes have eased back on the intensity to really sharpen up.

“It took me a month to get back into the form I had indoors, and feeling the sharpness return is huge,” King said.

“We did some of the same indicator workouts that Joey [Chapin ’16] and I did indoors with some added company, which means the whole team is in great shape.”

Ford-Centonze said she encouraged the athletes to make the most of this relaxed week of training.

“I tell my athletes to take advantage of this, because this is the only week where I go to them and ask them what they want to do,” she said. “We just need to trust their bodies and trust that they’ve done the right things.”

From the coaching staff ’s perspective, preparing for Heps also required extensive logistical preparation.

“Organizing the logistics beforehand takes away one element of stress,” Harwick said. “We want our athletes to be able to focus on competition rather than worrying about all of those details.”

The team will be departing campus at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, hoping to arrive in Philadelphia by 4:30 p.m. to do a shakeout practice, Ford-Centonze said.

During competition on Saturday and Sunday, the athletes will be spread out between the track, the throwing area and the hotel, where the athletes will be resting and recuperating before they compete.

“This isn’t like other sports, where they can all go to the field or the court together and then get dinner together.

That’s not how track and field works,” Ford-Centonze said. “If the other team sports could see what our schedule looked like, I think they’d be surprised.”

Beyond the logistics of the meet, however, the team will look to arrive in Philadelphia relaxed and ready to compete.

“We all want it so badly,” King said.

“In cross country, in track invites online, we’re always looking for the Ivy jerseys.

Now they’re all in one place.”

Both Harwick and Ford-Centonze emphasized that they will tell their athletes to be confident in the months of training and preparation they have put in.

“The one thing I always try to tell them is to trust what you’ve been doing and trust the workouts. But more importantly, to trust yourselves,” FordCentonze said.

Heps will begin on Saturday at 11 a.m. and conclude late that evening following the women’s 10,000 meters at 9 p.m. The second day will begin at 10 a.m. and finish by 5 p.m.

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015

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Baseball heads to Columbia for title

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

If it can be said that this year was a season of opportunity for Dartmouth baseball — as I wrote in the preseason round up so many weeks ago — then this weekend is the culmination of that opportunity, the chance to swipe the Ivy League crown from the two-time reigning champ Columbia University in the Lions’ own den. Whether or not Dartmouth will bring home the championship for the first time since 2010 is a question to be answered only by the unpredictability and fickle nature of baseball itself. Whether or not the Big Green can is a question that the team has already answered.

Dartmouth has its pick of two of the Ivy League’s best pitchers to take the start for the games on Saturday — Mike Concato ’17 and Duncan Robinson ’16.

Both pitchers are among the top five in conference ERA, which, in this case, is more relevant than overall ERA given the disparate levels of competition each Ivy team decides to take on outside of the conference. Robinson’s 1.31 conference ERA leaves him second only to the University of Pennsylvania’s Mike Reitcheck with 1.23 while Concato sits in fourth with 2.06. Robinson was listed in the press release on Thursday as the possible game one starter.

Captain Louis Concato ’14 said he is feeling confident about the Big Green’s chances this weekend.

“For us it’s just another weekend,” he said. “We’ve played them before.

We split with them early in the season, but we’re a much better team than we were when we played them before, and they’re a better team, too. That’s how baseball works, but our team definitely has the ability to win.”

The ideal situation for Dartmouth would be a quick, two-game sweep as the ERAs of the next best Big Green pitchers take a two-point leap. That’s not to say the series is over if it goes to a third game — Louis Concato has shown the ability to get things done on the mound in high-pressure situations.

Louis Concato gave up just two earned runs to then-No. 14 — now ranked in the top five — Texas A&M University in five innings of work. But keeping the Lions at bay, no matter who is on the mound, will be a challenge that Dartmouth will have to meet if it is to break its string of bad luck in the Ivy League postseason.

Columbia brings with it the most productive offense in the Ivy League,

B y BLAZE JOEL AND BRETT DRUCKER The Dartmouth Senior Staff

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Mike Concato ’15 will need a big game for the Big Green to upend Columbia University.

holding within its lineup the three players to cross home plate most throughout the season — Jordan Serena, Gus Craig and Joe Falcone. The three Lions alone have scored 64 conference runs, while the only Dartmouth player to lead an Ivy League offensive category is shortstop Matt Parisi ’15 with 12 doubles on the season.

Dartmouth did, however, have the most explosive game of any team during the regular season in its 22-run evisceration of Yale University at the front end of its 14-game winning streak. After beginning divisional play, Dartmouth did not lose a single game — conference or midweek — until the end of the regular season.

While the statistics put the Big Green at an offensive disadvantage, the team’s recent activity in the batter’s box could be enough if its pitchers produce outings representative of their abilities. Besides that, the few Dartmouth batters who were producing in the early season have been joined recently by freshmen who have become increasingly comfortable at the plate, such as Kyle Holbrook ’18, who was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on April 28 after hitting .500 across four games. The situational hitting that has been characteristic of Dartmouth over the past month, catcher Matt MacDowell ’15 said, will be critical in dismantling the Lions’ rotation.

“It seems like everyone at some point in the season has stepped up and had a big hit or something like that,” he said.

“We might not have blown out some teams like we have in the past, but we have always been finding a way to win.”

Should the series necessitate a third game, Columbia’s three likely starting pitchers — Mike Weisman, Kevin Roy and George Thanopoulos — are fifth, seventh and ninth, respectively in conference ERAs, ranging from 2.10 to 2.61. Weisman is the only Ivy League

pitcher to hold opponents to a sub-.200 batting average in conference play.

The last time the two faced off this season, the teams split — the win coming for Mike Concato and the loss to older brother Louis Concato, though both pitchers gave up four runs apiece.

The Big Green split with all of the Lou Gehrig Division early on in the season, coming off of a particularly difficult preseason which, head coach Bob Whalen said, contributed to the team’s notoriously slow start.

“You have to be ready at the beginning because those games that you play at the beginning count as much as the games at the end, but you want to be playing your best baseball at the end,” Whalen said.

Going into the Ivy League Championship Series — for the third consecutive time against Columbia, who has taken Dartmouth in both the previous match-ups — the Big Green is coming off of one of its most successful stretches in program history.

The team, MacDowell said, is familiar with the series, is better prepared than they have been in the past and lacks the “panic” element that prevents it from gaining the critical momentum needed to come out and take the series into its own hands.

While we would like to believe that the team that takes the Ivy crown at the end of the year is always the undisputed best, the truth is that the victor, who claims a year of their own and their opponents lives, can be determined in less than half of a day. The winner will be, plain and simple, which team steps onto the diamond and plays better baseball. And to that point, as of late — despite what numbers, statistics and critics may say — Dartmouth’s own record, performance and rise through the Ivy League ranks speak that more than a writer ever could.

It’s championship season for the Big Green. Last week saw the softball team repeat as Ivy League champions, and this week their counterparts on the baseball team will look to capture their first title since 2010. On the courts, the women’s tennis team will head down for a first round matchup in the NCAA tournament. This weekend promises to have some exciting Big Green action as teams look to add to the trophy case and perform on a national stage.

Baseball Ivy League Championship Series at Columbia University (Saturday at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m., Sunday at 1 p.m. if necessary) Another season, another Red Rolfe Division Championship for the Big Green. While the team’s 14-game win streak came to an end in the final season game against Amherst College, the long run of victories catapulted the team to its eighth consecutive division crown.

Dartmouth, however, still needs to overcome one last hurdle to take home the program’s 12th conference title in its 142-year history. This weekend, the Big Green collide with the Lions in New York in the third consecutive meeting between the two in the series. Columbia has swept both meetings in two games.

The two teams have been neck and neck this season, both finishing with identical 16-4 league records and splitting the two games they played against each other in March. Columbia qualified for the series thanks to a 4-2 victory over the University of Pennsylvania last weekend in a one-game playoff for the top spot in the Lou Gehrig Division.

The Lions are led at the plate by designated hitter Joey Falcone, who leads his team with a .340 batting average, leads the Ivy League with 43 RBI on the season and sits second in the league with nine home runs. Falcone has led the highest scoring offense in the league, and the Lions sit atop the Ancient Eight in almost every offensive category. The Columbia pitching staff is nearly as stout, tallying the second lowest ERA and second highest strikeout rate in the league this year.

When the two met earlier this season in the first weekend of Ivy play, starter Mike Concato ’17 pitched a complete game in a 5-4 victory before the Big

Green fell 4-1 in the second half of the double-header. While both teams have come into form over the last six weeks, Concato will be a critical piece of the series for the Big Green, which has relied on big innings from the sophomore all season.

Last year in the championship series the Big Green was able to muster only three runs over the two games, which will not be enough to unseat the two-time defending champs. While Columbia promises to be the toughest challenge the Big Green has faced in weeks, with their recent momentum and an extra week of rest, Dartmouth sits in its best position in recent years to capture another elusive Ivy League title.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth wins the Series 2 games to 1 Women’s Tennis at the College of William & Mary (Saturday at 9 a.m.)

After a successful season that saw the team finish second in the Ivy League and attain its highest national ranking in College history, the No. 31 Big Green received an invitation to the NCAA tournament that kicks off this weekend.

In their first round matchup, Dartmouth will face No. 49 William & Mary.

Although the two teams did not match up this season, they both played Brown and Yale Universities with William & Mary beating the Bears and falling to the Bulldogs and Dartmouth coming away victorious against both teams. The Tribe received their invitation to the tournament after cruising through the Colonial Athletic Association tournament as the top seed and winning all three of its matches 4-0.

The Big Green has also been on a bit of a run recently, winning its last four matches of the season. Taylor Ng ’17 anchored the Big Green at number one singles and doubles, earning Ivy League Player of the Year accolades in addition to being named first team All-Ivy in both singles and doubles. She is also the first Big Green player ever to qualify for the NCAA singles tournament which will take place later in May. Despite running into a hot opponent, Dartmouth’s strong results all season should serve the Big Green well and give the team a solid victory in the NCAA tournament.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 4 – William & Mary 3