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Students identify culture of cheating
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“We all saw it coming, but I didn’t realize it was going to blow up like it did,” one said.
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Before 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, students trickled into Cook Auditorium, several sitting on the stairs. It was the class’s first meeting since judicial affairs director Leigh Remy spoke to students who allegedly misrepresented their attendence in “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” Every Tuesday and Thursday during class, students an-
The figure skating team took a trip to the jewelery studio on Thursday.
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VERBUM ULTIMUM: RETHINKING ACCOUNTABILITY
Application numbers creep higher for high school students
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Dartmouth saw a 10 percent increase in the number of early decision applicants this year, with an all-time high of 1,856 applications for the Class of 2019. This marks the second year that the College has seen an increase in the number of early applicants — following a 12.6 percent drop in early applicants for the Class of 2017 — coinciding with
a national shift toward early admission programs. Last year, 1,678 students applied early for the Class of 2018, and 469 were accepted, comprising 40 percent of the Class of 2018. Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris, who has traveled to Fairfield County, Connecticut, Baltimore ERIN LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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ClearChoiceMD, an urgent care facility aimed to improve access and quality of medical assistance while reducing costs, opened its Lebanon doors Thursday. Visits will last just an hour each and cost about 10 times less than trips to the emergency room, founder Marcus Hampers ’89 said. The center accepts almost all insurance plans, including the Dartmouth student health insurance plan and those provided by Cigna, clinic administrator Brenda Ellis said. Self-pay visits to the center cost a flat
rate of $100, with an additional $25 to $50 added if X-rays, lab work or a particular procedure, such as stitches, are performed, Hampers said. He added that no visit to the center would cost patients more than $250. Hampers worked as an emergency room doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for 20 years. The center provides urgent care, treatment of non-life threatening and episodic illness and injury. This differs from primary care, where chronic sickness and disease prevention are managed. ClearChoiceMD doctors will not see SEE CHOICE PAGE 2
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DAily debriefing PROFESSOR Q&A
The Dartmouth chatted with Aine Donovan, who directs the College’s Ethics Institute, about Dartmouth’s honor code. How familiar do you think students are with the honor code? AD: I think there is a passing reference to it, and I think that faculty think that students can just pick it up through osmosis, but that’s not the case. If I’m not mistaken, students just have to check a box as freshman saying they’ve read and understand the code. I think we should be doing more. It is a wonderful tradition. If we don’t promulgate it we risk losing something really precious. Do you think infringements against the honor code are born out of ignorance? In the clicker incident, do you think students didn’t know that they might have been violating the code? AD: I mean, who would not know that it’s the wrong thing to do? When students break the honor code, they’re damaging the whole community. Some schools don’t have an honor code. They have rules and if you break them, disciplinary action ensues. The honor code is so beautiful because it lifts you up to an obligation that peer to peer, you have to uphold standards of academic integrity. It’s not just the rule, it’s the right thing to do. How do you think faculty could help maintain this tradition? AD: I put blame on faculty and the administration because I think we should be doing a lot more to maintain the principles. That includes reiterating the honor code at the beginning of each term, not for the first time, reiterate. I’ve heard of professors proctoring exams, we’re not supposed to do that! But they say they know there are cheaters in their class, and they have to keep an eye on them to know what’s going on. That’s a violation of the code. You can’t have it both ways. In terms of the technological advances in recent years, do you think the honor code has to be updated to keep up with the times? AD: I definitely think it needs to be updated. It shouldn’t matter if it’s online or not, but the reality is, the temptation for all of us has been heightened. If the temptation is there, you’re stressed, expediency is trumping integrity, it’s all easier with the type of technology we have now than it was in the past when you just had a blue book and a pen. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. — Compiled by Emilia Baldwin
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After hiatus, diversity council reforms B y jisu SONG
A committee of College administrators tasked with promoting diversity met for the first time in two years early last week. Established in 2001, then revived in 2011, the Diversity Council had planned to release an institution-wide diversity plan by December 2012. The council put the plan on hold following administrative changeover, vice president for institutional diversity and equity and council chair Evelynn Ellis said. Now, Ellis said she is working with the provost and other senior administrators to draft a new plan, but she said there is no set date for its release. Recruiting and retaining minority faculty will be one focus of the upcoming plan, Ellis said. At last week’s meeting, members discussed expectations for moving forward as a more active council. Ellis has also met with Dever and vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony to further discuss the council’s initiatives. “What helps, in addition to having a leader in diversity, is having top leadership that believes very strongly in your diversity plan,” Ellis said. Anthony said that in the future, the council aims to increase diversity across all of Dartmouth’s campus through its initiatives. College President Phil Hanlon addressed recruitment and reten-
tion of underrepresented minority faculty at a faculty meeting last month, noting that the College has committed $1 million to this goal. In five years, the College aims to have minority and international professors comprise 25 percent of its faculty, Dever said at the October meeting. Minority and international professors comprise 17.5 percent of Dartmouth’s arts and sciences faculty, a figure that has not shifted significantly in the past decade, having stood at 17.5 percent in 2003. In June 2012, the Alumni Council formed an ad hoc committee on diversity and inclusion, following “concern that a series of high-profile departures of administrators and faculty of color perhaps indicated an underlying challenge faced by Dartmouth in hiring and retaining faculty and staff of color and other historically underrepresented groups,” according to a report it published in October 2013. S. Caroline Kerr ’05, who cochaired the committee, said Dever has reviewed the 2013 report, noting that she has “complete confidence that [Dever] gets this issue and realizes it’s critical to address for Dartmouth.” Chris O’Connell ’13, former inter-community council co-chair and assistant director of admissions, said increasing the number of minority professors would do
more than boost diversity for its own sake. Finding a faculty mentor who shares a part of their identity could benefit students by providing them with a support network, O’Connell said. Physics and astronomy professor Stephon Alexander said that while discourse about ideas and drafting the plan are important, it is crucial that these ideas are put into action. Alexander directs the E. E. Just Program, which supports minority students in STEM fields. He noted that while diversity at Dartmouth right now is not where it could be, he is optimistic that Hanlon and Dever will begin to tackle the issue. Thayer Engineering School Dean Joseph Helble, who sits on the Diversity Council, said the committee provides structure for discussions surrounding Dartmouth’s diversity needs. “If we don’t have a council like this, we’re relying on those conversations to happen randomly, and that doesn’t help us get to where we need to be,” Helble said. Anthony said that the council will provide an important source of accountability, noting the administrators’ commitment to the issue. She said several offices are working to tackle these issues, including the athletic department and the Dean of the College’s office, but said the council will provide focus on an institutional level.
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patients over a long period of time for chronic conditions, Hampers said. Hampers noted, however, that patients can request an appointment with as specific doctor or provider at the center. Stuart Grande, a postdoctoral research fellow at The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which studies how to transform health care delivery across the country, said this type of “concierge-based” patient care mimics a national trend of providing health care at lower costs. Corporations such as Walmart, Walgreens and CVS have increased their market share by incorporating clinics into their stores, he said. At CVS “minute clinics” or Walmart care clinics, patients can purchase the services they want at affordable prices. ClearChoiceMD opened its first center in Vermont in June, and now operates three other centers in the state. In New Hampshire, the company has a center in Portsmouth, and two more are scheduled to open in Belmont and Keene next month. “I’ve been practicing at Dartmouth
for 20 years and I’ve said to myself one hundred times, ‘Why don’t we have an urgent care center?,’” Hampers said. “And now I’m tickled to be the one providing that service now.”
“I’ve been practicing at Dartmouth for 20 years and I’ve said to myself 100 times, ‘Why don’t we have an urgent care center?’” - MARCUS HAMPERS ’89, CLEARCHOICE MD FOUNDER
DHMC has urgent appointment departments at its Nashua and Manchester locations, but not in Lebanon. While some hospitals in the state have opened urgent care centers, he said these centers charge “hospitallike” prices. DHMC spokesperson Deborah
Turcott did not respond to requests for comment by press time. ClearChoiceMD’s Lebanon center will compete with DHMC, Grande said, as it will offer some of the same services as DHMC but at a lower price. Hampers said he believes the relationship between DHMC and ClearChoiceMD doctors need not be “adversarial.” DHMC doctors are very interested in doing what is best for their patients, Hampers said, and if they are overbooked, they can send patients to him. Hampers noted that the location of the laboratories in each building and the check-out process have been streamlined, which will promote productivity. President and CEO of the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce Paul Boucher said that aside from the CVS “minute clinic,” Lebanon does not have anything similar to an urgent care center. He said he thinks the center will do well, particularly due to its affordability. He added that the cheaper flat rate might appeal to individuals without insurance but who need to see a doctor.
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In ‘Sports, Ethics and Religion,’ students point to relaxed culture “Without scolding, without judging, without fingerwagging, it’s imswered a question using a personal portant to remember that students clicker device. Religion professor Ran- are here to learn and faculty are here dall Balmer said he noticed that the to teach,” Dever said. A male member of the Class of number of answers, which he could display in real time, seemed incon- 2017, who requested anonymity because he said sistent with the he did not want number of stuhis name assodents in the class- “Without scolding, ciated with the room. without judging, wrote Balmer began without fingerwagging, indicent, in an email that to suspect that when students students were it’s important to sending their remember that students were allowed to leave Cook to clickers to class take the midterm with friends, and are here to learn and in the library, it decided to test his faculty are here to became apparsuspicion. teach.” ent to him that On Oct. 30, “cheating beBalmer received approximately - PROVOST CAROLYN DEVER came the norm.” Balmer 250 clicker resaid he was aware sponses to his inof academic disclass question, teaching assistant Gregory Poulin honesty during the online midterm. Balmer did not address the possible MALS’16 wrote in an email. But after Balmer and the teaching assistants violations in class, the male member of handed out one paper version of the the Class of 2017 said, and students question per person, it was clear that seemed to understand this silence to only about 200 students were present. mean he was unconcerned. “Following the midterm scandal, “We all saw it coming,” Zainab Bakrin ’18 said, “but I didn’t realize the class became a place that fostered cheating,” he said. “Were students it was going to blow up like it did.” On Tuesday, Balmer asked the 43 forced to cheat? No. But the fact that students to stay after class, and Remy cheating was clearly occurring yet was informed them of possible disciplinary never addressed is absurd.” A female member of the Class action. All students interviewed for this of 2017, who requested anonymity article said they are not implicated in because she did not want to jeopardize her standing with her coaches or the incident. Provost Carolyn Dever sent a teammates, said students not enrolled campus-wide email reminding stu- in the class did not understand why dents of the academic honor principle anyone would risk facing disciplinary Wednesday morning and confirmed processes for a small part of their that “the actions of a group of students grade. Attendance and participation for possible violations of the honor count for about 15 percent of each code relating to misrepresentation of student’s final grade. While some students “technically class attendance and participation are currently under judicial review.” Dever cheated,” she said she believes their said in an interview that academic poli- violation differs from cheating on an cies “are not rules for the sake of rules, exam. “It’s like skipping any class, except but about the value of education.” FROM RELIGION 65 PAGE 1
they were saying they were there and they weren’t,” she said. The male member of the Class of 2017 said that while cheating “is always wrong,” students in the class felt that because obvious cheating went unaddressed, they believed it was being “swept under the rug.” Another male member of the Class of 2017, who requested anonymity to avoid compromising his grade in the course, said that students enrolled are now “in the spotlight” of conversations all across campus. He said he was surprised that term-long cheating had not been brought to judicial affairs earlier. Jeffrey Lang ’17 said that it is “not that hard to hide in such a large class” and that he could see how people could take advantage of the situation. The large size made discussions ineffective, said the female member of the Class of 2017. Lang said the course size made
it difficult to have effective group debates, which counted for about 23 percent of a student’s grade. Teams consisted of around 50 people, meaning debates more closely resembled presentations, and a “core group of people” would be involved, Lang said. As it was difficult to coordinate large groups, the female member of the Class of 2017 estimated that half of the class did not do work for the debate. “A handful do all the work and everyone else rides on that,” Bakrin said. Clickers were used during group debates for students to vote in real time for the teams they considered most effective, Lang said. He said that using clicker results for discussion and answering questions that previewed the lecture benefited his experience. Two students interviewed said the clickers did not seem useful and did
not add to their learning. Students did not seem engaged and most people seemed “static,” the female member of the Class of 2017 said, but she added that this attitude did not differ much than what she has observed in other courses. Lang said the workload seemed comparable with other courses and included a significant amount of reading. The class size was not “detrimental” to the quality of the course, he said. In addition, he noted that the course size meant there was great diversity of opinions and discussions reflected interest. “People say a course is a layup, but there really aren’t many layups at Dartmouth,” Bakrin said. “There is a lot of reading and like any other course, you chose to do the readings or not.” Sasha Dudding and Taylor Malmsheimer contributed reporting.
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Rethinking Accountability
We Are Not All Heroes
Students should not be rewarded for simply showing up to class. Technology has undeniably revolutionized education, but this advancement must be critically examined. Not every subject benefits from laptops and PowerPoints — and clearly, the clicker system has substantial flaws that enable its abuse. Blue books and chalkboards still have a place. Before you call us luddites, we’ll acknowledge technology has its benefits. Submitting a paper on Canvas is more convenient than sprinting across campus to slip a hard copy under a professor’s door. We’re not about to give up our laptops and Google Docs for typewriters. But look around during your next class. You will likely see more screens open to Facebook and BuzzFeed than to Word. We are adults, and we must be held accountable for our actions. But effectively removing oneself from class discussion through these actions affects the rest of the class. When nearly no one can answer a professor’s questions, it lowers the quality of the class for everyone. We are at Dartmouth to get a high-quality education, and first and foremost we must dedicate ourselves to academics. Students need to be mentally and physically present in the classroom for it to be a meaningful educational experience. However, we believe that having a defined attendance policy — say, when simply showing up accounts for 15 percent of your grade — does not foster this kind of experience. First, attendance policies are often easy to circumvent, as seen in the case of “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” If a professor does a vocal roll call, friends can say that the student in question stepped out of the room for just a moment. If a professor hands a sheet around, students can easily sign in for a friend. More importantly, students should not be rewarded for merely showing up — they should be rewarded for participating. With attendance points, a student sitting in the back row on Facebook gets the same credit as a student actively engaged in class. Professors should instead incentivize — but
not mandate — attendance through class discussions that are crucial for performing well on tests or papers. At a liberal arts institution like Dartmouth, students should not be able to rely on PowerPoint notes or class readings alone. Though participation points can be difficult to dole out in large classes, quick paper pop quizzes offer one method. And in smaller classes, professors can and should set aside part of a student’s grade for participation. There’s a deeper problem at play here. A pervasive “lay-up” culture encourages and incentivizes cheating, cheapening our educational experience. With all of the other endeavors to focus on — extracurriculars, athletic teams, Greek life — it is too easy to put class on the backburner, and it shouldn’t be. We hear about professors who are easy, and take their classes so we can scrape by. When we don’t care about the class, or expect to get a high grade from it without doing the legwork, cheating seems both trivial and often expected. The bigger the class, the easier it is to justify each incident. Lenient professors who enable this kind of behavior and logic perpetuate the cycle. Dartmouth has long been renowned for its undergraduate teaching. We cannot allow the “lay-up” culture to diminish this. Though technology can be an effective tool, it often compounds this culture’s negative effects by enabling either dishonesty or intellectual laziness. Nobody is perfect, and we have all been caught between a rock and a hard place during a class. We’ve all opted for an easier class over a harder one. We have all wasted at least one lecture clicking away on the website of our choice. Everyone is complicit, so each of us must individually fight the “lay-up” culture that is endemic to our campus. However, professors must assist in this effort as well by changing the structure of classes to incentivize participation without mandating attendance and by reducing the ineffective use of technology where needed.
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Being thankful of service members should not mean idolizing veterans. This past Veterans Day, I was over- or put themselves in harm’s way to protect whelmed with the amount of support the lives of their fellow service members. In from people who took the time to honor fact, many of those same individuals will tell our veterans, past and present. I received others that they are not heroes. They view personal notes from friends who only wished their choices as part of their ethos or duty to let me know that they were thinking of and merely believe that they were doing me that day. However, the appreciation what should be expected of all members of and respect of the general public must be the armed forces. Often, veterans live with tempered lest members in the veteran com- survivor guilt — Masciotra is pouring salt munity develop a sense of superiority or into the wounds these people still actively entitlement. David Masciotra’s sensational try to manage. Salon article titled “You don’t protect my He also points to incidences where freedom: Our childish insistence on calling members of the military committed atrocisoldiers heroes deadties, and he mentions ens real democracy” the high rate of sexual “While the appreciation could have addressed assault in the military. this problem but in- of the public is a better Where the military stead detracted from response than veterans has failed, our overa productive dialogue from the forgotten war in seers — the civilian by waging a semantic Korea or the unpopular population — hold it argument about what war in Vietnam received, accountable. The inconstitutes a hero and there is a legitimate danger sistence of our greater whether our wars were of viewing all veterans citizenry to address just — he even delved these issues has forced as superhumans. Not all into police tactics. military to confront members of the military are the The civilian populongstanding problems lation’s treatment of heroes.” and improve the ranks veterans is largely rein the process. This is spectful and at some points almost too a productive factor of having an involved deferential. The same day a fellow Marine civilian population. Individuals and groups and I were called baby killers (a response must be accountable for atrocities they that is definitely an outlier), a different commit. However, they in no way diminish lady tried to give us a $100 bill. When the sacrifices of our service members. The we refused, she stuffed it into my friend’s fact that many of the incidences Masciotra front pocket and ran off. I have even had mentions are well-known shows how the anti-war protestors bring baked goods for conduct of our military is not taken lightly. the Marines in the recruiting office I was Appropriately, respecting veterans does working out of. not automatically create a special class of While the appreciation of the public citizens. Yes, we should honor veterans is a better response and stand by committhan veterans from the ments made to them forgotten war in Korea “Masciotra’s referral to — but we must also or the unpopular war veterans as victims — and not be afraid to disin Vietnam received, use of that sentiment agree with, challenge there is a legitimate to discredit the heroic or otherwise expect danger of viewing all sacrifices of many men the best out of the veterans as superhu- and women — is calloused men and women who mans. Not all members and boneheaded. Even if served. No one likes of the military are an entitled veteran less you accept his premise of heroes. Just like the than the veteran comvictimhood, being a victim civilian population, munity. A quick search there are heroes, good makes acts where one puts will provide scores people, average people his or her life on the line for of articles written by and bad people. I was another no less heroic.” veterans critical of never a hero. I did my members of our comjob to the best of my munity who demand ability. I hope that I did lasting good to the special treatment — whether it has to do units I served, positively affected the lives with small matters like free checked bagof those Marines I mentored and learned gage at airports or refusals to budge when lessons that I will apply to the rest of my certain benefits are questioned in light of life to make me a better person. the whole country’s fiscal pains. Many veterans feel this way. However, People often ask me what it is like being a Masciotra’s referral to veterans as victims veteran at Dartmouth. I tell them it is amaz— and use of that sentiment to discredit the ing because the vast majority of students heroic sacrifices of many men and women treat me as one of them. I will never forget — is calloused and boneheaded. Even if the kindness shown to me here. Many of you accept his premise of victimhood, be- us signed up to do something exceptional. ing a victim makes acts where one puts his We take pride in that fact, but while we are or her life on the line for another no less thankful for the appreciation the public heroic. The most heroic acts can involve shows us, we do not want or expect hero selfless men and women who suffered harm worship.
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College counselors talk early application trends
admitted does not mean the selection process is less rigorous. and Northern New Jersey to meet “A higher percentage of a smaller with representatives from other group admitted is misleading,” he universities, said this increase is not said. “Early decision applicants tend to be stronger applicants anyway.” exclusive to the College. While Laskaris said she could Applying early, Boshoven said, not point to one specific reason for does not increase a student’s the increase, she said specialized chances. tours on campus have generated In the Ivy League, Columbia a greater interest in the College University, Cornell University, among applicants. These offerings Brown University, Dartmouth and include tours of the Neukom Digital the University of Pennsylvania alArts Leadership and Innovation low students to apply early decision, Lab, Dartmouth Entrepreneurship while Harvard University, PrincNetwork’s Innovation Center and eton University and Yale University allow students the Black Famto apply singleily Visual Arts “A higher percentage choice early acCenter. tion. So far, only Highly pub- of a smaller group Dartmouth, licized negative admitted is misleadBrown and Penn eve n t s l i k e l y have released caused a decline ing. Early decision early admissions in applications applicants tend to be data. in previous stronger applicants Penn years, Laskaris saw a 5 percent said, noting that anyway.” increase in early recent applidecision applicants have seen cants this year, Dartmouth’s ef- - JOHN BOSHOVEN, with a record forts to address COLLEGE COUNSELOR 5,390 applicaissues raised in tions, according previous controto The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn versies. “People are seeing this as a place accepted 54 percent of the Class where these things are being ad- of 2018 through the early decision dressed seriously and deliberately, process. and we’re making progress,” she Brown, meanwhile, saw a decrease in the number of early apsaid. The College has also launched a plicants, dropping 2 percent from new information session featuring last year’s record high, The Brown local alumni in California, Las- Daily Herald reported. Brown saw karis said. The program highlights an increase in international apDartmouth’s focus on experiential plicants, The Brown Daily Herald learning and promotes Dartmouth reported, and 8 percent of this year’s among applicants from the Silicon pool comes from the Midwest. Boshoven said hailing from the Valley area. College consultant John Merrill, Midwest may slightly help some who said he helps between six and applicants gain admission to schools 10 students apply to Dartmouth on the East Coast, as the region each year, said he believes the elec- tends to be underrepresented geotronic submission of the Common graphically, but he said he did not Application has boosted the num- consider the advantage to be very ber of early decision applicants at significant. more selective institutions. Highly Middle class students are probqualified students see the early deci- ably the most underrepresented sion process as a way of increasing group in the early decision pool, their chances of being accepted to Boshoven said, because they do not have the financial resources to a highly-ranked school. “Students who are very qualified commit to a school before seeing see it as an advantage to get into one aid packages. of the more selective colleges,” he “It seems to favor the ecosaid. “As they get better as a student nomically disadvantaged and the with more test prep and everything economically advantaged,” he said. else, I think they are certainly trying “the big bubble in the middle of to advantage themselves by apply- the middle class really can’t play the game.” ing early,” Merrill said. John Boshoven, a college coun- Dartmouth’s admissions office selor in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has yet to report demographic said that since the early decision information on this year’s early applicant pool is smaller than the decision applicant pool. regular decision applicants pool, Park e r Richards an d Tay l o r the higher percentage of students Malmsheimer contributed reporting. FROM APPLICATIONS PAGE 1
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The final week of classes brings high drama to the fields of Hanover, as the football team fights to stay alive for the Ivy League title and the men’s soccer team could secure an NCAA Tournament berth with a win. The women’s cross country team is competing for a spot in the national championships, running in the Northeast Regionals. Football vs. Brown University (12 p.m. Saturday)
The Big Green (6-2, 4-1 Ivy) squares off against a Brown team (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) that has been competitive in every game this season, falling to undefeated Harvard University 22-14 in late September. The Big Green lost to the Crimson 23-12 two weeks ago. The Big Green needs to win out and hope for an upset of Harvard by either the University of Pennsylvania or Yale University to earn a share of the Ivy title. Brown has had two two-game winning streaks and a two-game losing streak this season. Every Brown game but a 42-16 blowout win against
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Cornell University has been within two possessions. The last three games in the Dartmouth-Brown series have also been close, with the Big Green taking two of the last three. Both teams allow nearly identical points per game – the Big Green at 22.4 and the Bears at 22.1. Offensively, the parallels continue. The Big Green barely outgains the Bears 391.1 to 390.2 yards per game. The biggest difference has been on the ground, where Dartmouth has a 155-115 edge in rushing yards per game. Quarterback Marcus Fuller has been the top option for the Brown offense, throwing for almost 2,200 yards and 12 touchdowns. If a Big Green defensive front seven that amassed six sacks against Cornell can repeat its performance against the Bears, the team could find success in slowing the Brown attack. The Bears rank 15th in the nation in passing yards per game and have a trio of talented receivers who will challenge the Big Green secondary. Defensively, the Bears have only allowed 127.5 yards per game on the ground and 240.2 through the air. Ignoring a 45-42 shootout against the Bulldogs last week, the Bears have allowed fewer than 19 points per game this season. The Bears’ defense should challenge a Big Green offense led by Dalyn Williams ’16, Kyle Bramble ’16 and Ryan McManus ’15 that amassed 583 yards last week and averages 391 yards per game on the year. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 24-17
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Men’s soccer vs. Brown (5 p.m. Saturday) The No. 25 men’s soccer team (104-2, 4-1-1 Ivy) is tied with Princeton University (10-3-3, 4-1-1 Ivy) at the top of the Ancient Eight standings. A win by the Big Green guarantees the Dartmouth men an NCAA Tournament bid due to the team’s 2-1 overtime victory over the Tigers earlier this year. Harvard University (10-4-2, 3-1-2 Ivy) is still alive for the postseason, but needs both Dartmouth and the Tigers to lose. The Big Green face the Bears (5-5-6, 2-2-2 Ivy) while the Tigers play eighthplace Yale University (1-12-3, 0-5-1 Ivy). With the Tigers having the seemingly easier matchup, the Big Green must win to be assured of its fate. The Big Green has more than doubled the Bears’ offensive output during both conference play and the full season, tallying 12-5 and 30-14 advantages in goals, respectively. Brown has the advantage in goals allowed for the season, but both teams have only surrendered five goals in the Ivy League. Brown has four players who have scored multiple goals this season, compared to eight for the Big Green. Forwards Ben Maurey and Will Cross lead the Brown attack, with four and three goals, respectively. But the scoring tails off quickly as only seven Bears have found the net this season. Alex Adelabu ’15 and Hugh Danilack ’15 lead a Big Green offense that has seen 14 men score goals this year.
The back lines for both teams are stout. Brown goalkeeper Mitch Kupstas has a goals against average of 0.92 this year, but has only earned four wins. The senior has six shutouts on the season. Stefan Cleveland ’16 has been equally impressive, with five shutouts and eight wins in 13 games. If the Big Green can break through the Bears’ defense once, Dartmouth should take the game and Ivy League. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 1-0 Women’s cross country Northeast Regionals (12 p.m. Friday) After an impressive win at Heps two weeks ago, the women’s cross country team enters Friday’s Northeast Regionals with a chance to qualify for the NCAA championships for the second straight year. The team is ranked 22nd in the nation by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, tied with regional rivals Syracuse University. The top team in the region is Iona University, ranked 17th. The top two teams in Friday’s race receive automatic bids to the NCAAs. Sarah DeLozier ’15 and Dana Giordano ’16 both finished in the top 20 at regionals last year and will be looking to improve on their performances. If the team maintains a strong pack as it did at Heps, it should be able to take down Syracuse and receive an automatic bid to the NCAAs. PREDICTION: Dartmouth finishes second
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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SPORTS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014
FRIDAY LINEUP
MEN’S HOCKEY VS. YALE 7 PM
VOLLEYBALL VS. CORNELL 7 PM
Football preps for final home game of the season, against Brown B y BRETT DRUCKER
The Dartmouth Senior Staff
When Dartmouth and Brown University meet on Memorial Field Saturday, they play the Big Green’s final home game of the season, while also stepping into a larger history of Ivy League football. After the game, the 91-year-old west stands, home to the student section and press box, will be torn down and renovated for the first time since the stadium was built in remembrance of the 112 Dartmouth students who died in WWI. While the field has seen several renovations over the years, like the addition of the Floren Varsity House and the installation of a new turf playing surface,
the concrete west stands are the main element of the stadium remaining. “The mindset is about enjoying our last home game with all of our brothers and hopefully putting on a great show for our fans one more time,” right guard A.J. Dillione ’15 said. Since the two teams first met on Memorial Field in 1924 (a 10-3 Dartmouth win), the Big Green (6-2, 4-1 Ivy) has been the more successful two program. However, over the past five years, the Big Green and the Bears (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) have developed a tight rivalry, with each contest coming down to a touchdown or less. Brown has won three of its last five games against Dartmouth, including the last two in Hanover. In last season’s matchup in Provi-
TREVELYAN WING/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
The Big Green defense huddled during its disappointing home loss to Harvard.
dence, the Big Green came away with a dramatic 24-20 win. The Big Green closed off the win with a critical defensive stand in Dartmouth territory with 1:25 remaining. This weekend, the Big Green looks to preserve its hopes of a shared Ivy League title, which would be the program’s first since 1996. Dartmouth enters the game coming off a commanding victory at Cornell University last weekend. Despite surrendering the first touchdown, the Big Green stormed back to score 42 unanswered points. “Sometimes we come out a little flat, so we had to remind ourselves to calm down, play our game and everything will be alright,” cornerback Vernon Harris ’16 said. Wide receiver Victor Williams ’16 agreed, noting that the team’s performance has been up and down all season, despite being 4-1 in Ivy League play so far. “It just comes down to attention to detail,” Victor Williams said. “I think it’s really exciting when you’re winning, and you’re not satisfied.” Dartmouth’s passing attack led the way for the offense as Dalyn Williams ’16 threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns while the defense turned in one of its best performances of the season, holding the Big Red (0-8, 0-5 Ivy) scoreless for the final 56 minutes
of the game. With 62 rushing yards and another score on the ground to go with his passing prowess, Dalyn Williams set a Dartmouth record with 443 total yards, earning him his second Ivy League CoOffensive Player of the Week honors of the season. Brown is coming off a tough defeat at the hands of Yale University, 45-42. The seesaw game saw the Bears jump out to an early 20-7 lead, but a strong comeback from the Bulldogs on the back of league-leading running back Tyler Varga, who tallied 204 yards on the ground in the game. Brown’s offense this season has seen most of its success in the air. Junior signal caller Marcus Fuller ranks second in the Ivy League, averaging more than 270 pass yards per game. The Bears’ running game, on the other hand, ranks fifth in the league with an average of 115 yards per game. On the defensive side of the ball, the Bears have kept points off the board, surrendering just 22.1 points per game, which is good for second in the league. Dartmouth is third with a 22.4 points per game average. Brown’s defensive system will challenge the offensive line with looks that players haven’t seen in the past, Dillione said. “Brown has a good defensive front,
and last year there were a few things that they got us on,” left guard Ben Spiritos ’15 said. “We just have to go out and be fundamentally sound.” Though the Bears started the season with back-to-back losses to Georgetown University and Harvard, their recent film shows that they have become more successful, offensive coordinator Keith Clark said. He highlighted protecting the quarterback and establishing a running game, which the team has had issues with at times this season, as two key goals for the game. “Dalyn is throwing the ball as well as any quarterback around and, if we can protect him, I think there will be plenty of opportunities to throw the ball down the field,” Clark said. “We do need to establish a balance and keep them off-kilter a little bit.” Saturday will be the last game at Memorial Field for 27 seniors, a bittersweet experience, many players said. Over the past four years, the team has grown back into a perennial titlecontender. The switch followed a shift in attitude, Spiritos said. This weekend, the Big Green has a chance to move one step closer to its goal and send the historic bleachers off in style. The game will kick off at noon. Follow @TheDSports for live game updates and analysis.
With Ivy title on the line, men’s soccer to battle Brown POSSIBLE
B y Nick Harrington
In the most crucial game of the year so far, the men’s soccer team (10-4-2, 4-1-1 Ivy League) takes on Brown University (5-5-6, 2-2-2 Ivy) Saturday on Burnham Field, looking to win its first Ancient Eight title since 2011. The Big Green is tied with Princeton University for first in the Ivy League. Both teams will play their last games of the regular season Saturday. With a win against the Bears, Dartmouth could claim at least a share of the Ivy League title and secure an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. En route to this critical match, defender Nick Rooney ’15 said the team has faced a few challenges. “I think we had our rough patch in the middle of the season. You
hate to say any rough patch is good timing but the two straight losses to Boston University and Penn really kind of woke everybody up, and now we all realize what is at stake,” Rooney said. The Big Green is coming off of a strong 3-0 win last weekend against Cornell University. And this momentum should propel the team forward, Stefan Defregger ’15 said. “We battled and won decisively,” Defregger said of the Cornell match. “We are pretty confident going into this weekend. We’ve been having a really good season and I think we’d all agree we are starting to play our best at the end of the year.” This week, the Big Green breached the top 25 in the latest NSCAA poll. Wyatt Omsberg ’18 continues to
be a top rookie in the Ivy League, picking up his second Rookie of the Week award in the past three weeks. The Bears have struggled this season in Ivy League play, but have seen good results recently. The Bears, ranked fourth in the league, are coming off a tie against Penn and a 1-0 win against Yale. Defregger noted that although the team’s record may not show it, Brown poses a legitimate threat. “Brown is a good team. They’re always a good team,” Defregger said. “They’ve had some bad luck throughout the year. They’ve tied a lot of games against a lot of good teams.” Brown is led by point leaders junior Jack Gorab and senior Ben Maurey, who each have 10 points on this season. Maurey has four goals and Gorab has two.
Defregger was quick to highlight what this game meant for the senior class. “We won the Ivy League title our freshman year, but few of the seniors now were actually contributing on the field so for us, with the past couple of seasons being a little disappointing, this is our chance to leave our mark on the program,” Defregger said. Nick Ford ’17 credited much of the team’s progress this season to the senior class. “Of course, there is no other place in the world to play like Burnham. Imagining that it is the last game we’ll play there is just colossal for us,” Rooney said. “The fans are so great. No other team in the country has what we have here at home.” The game kicks off at 5 p.m. Saturday.
SCENARIOS IF Dartmouth loses, Princeton loses and Harvard wins: Harvard wins Ivy title. Harvard receives automatic bid.
If Dartmouth loses/Ties and Princeton wins: Princeton wins Ivy title. Princeton receives automatic bid.
IF DARTMOUTH WINS OR DARTMOUTH TIES AND PRINCETON Loses/TIES OR DARTMOUTH LOSES, Princeton Loses and Harvard Loses/Ties: Dartmouth earns at least a share of the Ivy title. Dartmouth receives automatic bid.