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There was a 32 percent decrease in alcohol-related incidents last spring and summer after the campus-wide hard alcohol ban was put into effect, according to data from the Student Wellness Center. The number of medical encounters and Good Samaritan calls have both decreased as well.

From April to August 2014, there were 126 alcohol-related incidents handled by Safety and Security, the residential education office or both, while there were only 86 incidents in the same period during 2015. Good Sam calls comprised 27 percent of alcoholrelated incidents this April to August, which is up from 23 percent

There was a 32 percent decrease in spring and summer alcohol-related incidents from 2014 to 2015.

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Groups push schools CPD hosts student-alum events to address Yik Yak B y SONIA QIN

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A letter signed by 72 activist groups that was presented to the Education Department’s civil rights office last week argued that colleges have a legal obligation to respond to sex- and racebased harassment occurring

through the anonymous social media app Yik Yak. The letter — which urged lawmakers to remind colleges of their responsibility to ensure student safety under Title IX — was addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and assistant secreSEE YIK YAK PAGE 5

Last Thursday Dartmouth’s Center for Professional Development hosted two alumni-student events — a career conversation and a social. Alumni interviewed for this story expressed satisfaction with the event, though some suggested informing students about the alumni attendants would have improved the overall

experience for students.

Feedback was requested at the round table discussion event. On average participants gave 4.8 on a scale on 5 as a response to whether or not they would recommend the event to a friend, and 4.7 out of 5 when asked if the event was helpful in their career and professional development.

The events were organized by CPD assistant director for experiential learning

and advising Leslie Kingsley.

The events were made possible with the help of the Professional Development Committee, part of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, who are back on campus twice a year for meetings. This committee is a volunteer group of alumni who are interested in helping engage other alumni.

Kingsley said she wants to hold a similar event in the SEE CPD PAGE 3

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Former Big Green starting shortstop and baseball team captain Matt Klentak ’02 was named as the general manager and vice president of the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday — at 35, that makes him the youngest general manager in team history.

Klentak’s previous experience in

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professional baseball includes a year in the baseball operations department of the Colorado Rockies, four years working in Major League Baseball’s labor relations department, four years as director of baseball operations for the Baltimore Orioles under the current Phillies President Andy McPhail and finally four years as assistant general manager for the Los TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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DAily debriefing The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday to increase the limits on military and domestic spending for two years and raise the debt ceiling for one year, the Chronicle of Higher Ed reported. The bill includes $40 billion dollars in nondefense spending and would reverse the “sequestration” cuts introduced in 2013.

The Campus Computing Survey found 81 percent of senior technology officers at 417 colleges believed open-source educational materials will be important for college teaching within the next five years, the Chronicle of Higher Ed reported.

IT officers at public colleges reported being encouraged by their institutions to use these free educational materials more than officers at private universities. However, only 6 percent of college courses presently use free educational materials as the use of open-source materials is a relatively recent phenomenon.

A report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy suggested that selective, flagship public universities could enroll more low-income students than they currently do. The calculation was made by comparing the percentage of students at a college eligible for Pell grants with the expected percentage of eligible students for a college with that level of selectivity. The cost of tuition at some of these universities can be a deterrent to low-income applicants, according to the report.

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Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

“I am honored to be named general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies,” Klentak said in a Phillies press release.

“This franchise has a rich history, owners who are committed to winning every single day and passionate and knowledgeable fans who support the team.”

Klentak will have a challenging task ahead of him in Philadelphia — the Phillies had the worst record in all of baseball this past season, going just 63-99.

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Phillies beat reporter Jake Kaplan said he expects McPhail and Klentak to rebuild the Phillies back into contention — the Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and were among the most successful National League teams of last decade.

But for Klentak’s first season as the general manager, the expectations remain low considering the team’s record last year, the Philadelphia Daily News Phillies beat writer Ryan Lawrence said. Lawrence said that he and Phillies fans recognize that the franchise is rebuilding. “[Klentak] is not expected to turn this team into a winner this year, or even next year,” Lawrence said. “Fans want to see that he is making the right steps for the organization and that he

will make them a winning team in the for his current position. years to come.”

“While at Dartmouth, you could Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer see that Klentak’s outstanding perMatt Breen said Klentak is a fresh face sonal characteristics were going for the franchise — fans are excited by to translate into whatever he did,” Klentak’s selection. Once the Phillies Whalen said. “His communication opened a general manager search and skills with me and his teammates, along Klentak was identified as potential with his brightness, made Klentak a candidate, many fans appreciated great leader.”

Klentak’s experience and supported An economics major while at him as their pick. the College, Klentak started at When the shortstop for Phillies selected “While at Dartmouth, three years. The Klentak as the Big Green won general man- you could see that Ivy League Red ager, it was clear [Matt] Klentak’s [’02] Rolfe Division that they wanted championships outstanding personal someone who during Klentak’s had a back- characteristics were sophomore and ground in analyt- going to translate into junior years, and ics, Kaplan said.

Klentak was Throughout ma- whatever he did.” named team capjor league basetain for his senior ball in the last season. Whalen -dartmouth baseball decade, teams said he viewed h ave s h i f t e d head coach bob his decision to from employing whalen move Klentak to traditional baseshortstop in his ball executives sophomore year — typically industry veterans who as a critical factor in their division worked their way up from the bottom championship. rungs — to younger, more progressive “[Klentak] is a very analytical professionals, Lawrence said. thinker,” Whalen said. “He looks at The Phillies, specifically, were every situation very critically with an formerly an old-fashioned organiza- open mind from all sides. Even when tion whose main focus on scouting he was the captain, he was a consensus inhibited the organization from em- builder and had the ability to persuade ploying the advanced sabermetrics people and get everyone to buy into — statistical measurements of player what we were doing.” performance — that many other Former Big Green starting pitcher teams had successfully incorporated John Velosky ’02, who played a year into their organization, Lawrence said. in the minors, remembered Klentak Klentak, as a progressive thinker with as a person with a strong work ethic an analytics background, will help and a fierce passion for baseball. incorporate those missing aspects into “On and off the field, [Klentak] the Phillies front office, Lawrence said. was the same person either way,” Dartmouth head baseball coach Velosky said. “He was a hard worker, Bob Whalen, who was coach when and you could tell that he had a pasKlentak was a player, said that a good sion for baseball, whether he was at general manager uses a combination practice or off the field talking about of analytics and scouting to evaluate the game. His teammates respected players. him.”

“Every job in baseball, particularly Former Big Green catcher Joe at the professional level, ultimately Calandrelli ’03 said that even before comes back to the same thing — you Klentak was a team captain, he put have to be able to evaluate talent,” the team’s development above his Whalen said. personal growth as a player.

Klentak uses mathematical and Klentak is not the only Dartmouth statistical information to evaluate alumnus who has been an executive players, but has also learned to under- in professional athletics. stand traditional scouting by talking Russ Granik ’69, for example, was to veteran scouts, Whalen said. deputy commissioner of the NBA for As a result, people are “cautiously 22 years. Although his Dartmouth optimistic” about the future of Phillies experience did not have any particular baseball, Lawrence said. relationship to his work in the profes Whalen and the former Big Green sional sports more than any other field baseball players are hopeful for Klen- of business, his time spent in Hanover tak’s success in Philadelphia and his was not wasted, Granik said. ability to turn the franchise around to “I think the education at Dartmeet the city’s expectations. mouth and its environment for four Whalen and two of Klentak’s years taught you had to interact with former Big Green baseball teammates people and how to think, which were said they think Klentak’s Dartmouth certainly a positive influence on me,” experience, along with his broad Granik said. exposure to the professional baseball The Phillies media relations team world, have helped to prepare Klentak did not return requests for comment.

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Students, alumni respond positively to new CPD events He also suggested that alums could be inserted and involved in the spring. residential community system when “When [this committee is] on it is implemented for the Class of campus, we like to create captive 2020 next year. These alums could events for students and alumni to have meals with students and be interact,” Kingsley said. consulted for career advice. Hetzel The first event of last Thursday said the informal setting would was a career conversation organized provide one of the best methods in a round table format. Between 15 of communication. and 18 alumni attended this event, “It’s relaxed. There’s no tension, along with 35 students. Several cat- there’s no stress and the alumni can egories of careers were represented, be candid and answer questions including marketing, film and me- candidly,” Hetzel said. dia, education, consulting, financial Luke Antal ’07 worked at a services, law, start-ups and venture consulting firm, Investor Group capital. The second event of the Services, in Boston for two years folevening was a reception at the CPD lowing graduation. He is currently office on South Main Street. Over building a venture capital firm and is 100 alumni and also working at 75 students ata start up called tended this so- “It’s relaxed, there’s Koru, Inc. cial event.

“I just no tension. There’s “We would love connecting no stress and the always love to with students,” s e e a l a rg e r alumni can be candid he said. “The amount of stu- and answer questions start-up that I d en t p a rti c i work at actually pants,” Kings- candidly.” is in the business ley said. of helping colChristine lege seniors get - ALUMNI COUNCIL Nicholson ’74 their first job.” now works at the MEMBER DAVID HETZEL Antal S m i t h s o n i a n ’72, ABOUT THE CPD EVENT particularly enInstitution as joyed the roundAssociate Gentable discussion eral Counsel in Washington, D.C. because students were already Nicholson, who headed directly to sorted into tables according to their Harvard Law School after graduat- interests. ing from Dartmouth, represents her For future planning, Antal advisclass on the Alumni Council. es the CPD to prepare the students Nicholson suggested that for for who they’re speaking with, so any future alumni events, student they can come with specific quesinterest in each field should be tions about the alum’s background determined in advance to allow and the things that they have done. for more alumni in fields where “They can share the LinkedIn demonstrated interest is higher. profiles of attending alums and She said there seemed to be a lot have the students do some research of student interest in fields like before the event,” Antal said. entrepreneurship and less interest Hoi Ning Ngai ’00 worked in a in law. number of different industries after David Hetzel ’72 attended law graduation, including non-profit school at the University of Virginia and human resources, before headand now resides in Boston as a part- ing to graduate school at the Uniner and litigation lawyer working versity of California at Los Angeles. for Holland & Knight, a large law She worked at the Wharton School firm with 22 offices worldwide. at the University of Pennsylvania Hetzel is part of the Alumni for several years, where she said she Council and is also a volunteer in discovered her passion for advising.

Dartmouth’s professional develop- She is now the dean for academic ment committee. He said the idea advising and support at Kenyon behind the mission of this commit- College. tee is to enrich the career opporNgai traveled to Hanover for the tunities of students by leveraging event because she is the Alumni the resources of alumni. He joined Council’s Asian Pacific American the committee, he said, because he Alumni Association representative. thought it would give him the op- She did not attend the reception. portunity to interact with students. Ngai thought the roundtable discusLike Nicholson, Hetzel also sions were beneficial not only to enjoyed both the roundtable discus- students, but also for the participatsion and the social event. ing alumni as well. “[This event] was a great op“I think that it was a good opportunity for students to hear from portunity for alumni to hear more people out in the trenches doing the about what the student experience work [the students] might want to is like right now,” she said. do in the future,” Hetzel said.

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table, where she continued her conversation with students even after the event had formally ended.

Ngai also suggested that biographies of attending alumni be distributed to the students in the future.

“I think that maybe giving students a heads-up on the kinds of things we are doing may have drawn a broader array and larger number of people,” she said.

All alumni and students interviewed unanimously agreed that they would attend another similar event in the future.

Welch said he would like to continue seeing events with oneon-one career advice from people in the field.

“I think it would be great to have something like this at every Alumni Council session,” Antal said.

Camille Wang ’17 said the events were a great opportunity to meet Dartmouth’s alumni and learn about post-graduate opportunities.

Wang, who is interested in environmental law, liked how the conversation with various alums helped her figure out which graduate schools have better reputations and what she can do to further explore her area of interest.

“I thought it was really amazing

that all those alums came from different areas in the country, and there was even someone from London who flew here,” Wang said. “That was really amazing to me, because these people love Dartmouth so much and they want to help Dartmouth students.”

Austin Welch ’17 came to the event intending to learn more about careers in law, consulting and public service.

“I wanted the opportunity to ask professionals in the professions that I want to go into about not only their current work, but how they

got to where they are, what paths they took and what advice they have for me,” Welch said.

While Welch was unable to attend the social event, he said the roundtable discussion event was well-attended and professional yet casual at the same time.

“It allowed me to have conversations with people frankly and candidly about their jobs,” he said.

Both students viewed the events positively, with Wang only adding that she wished there had been more time to talk to more alumni and visit more tables.

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The Art of the Exit

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If they want to win in 2016, Republican presidential candidates must unite.

Two weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Las Vegas to hash out their differences and debate the facts. The Oct. 13 debate and its aftermath, however, did little to shake up the field. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton still seems to be the token nominee, despite claims that she had begun to “feel the Bern” on the campaign trail. On his end, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders seems to have conceded at the CNN-hosted debate. Sanders came to Clinton’s aid when asked about her personal emails and forfeited a great deal of leverage in doing so.

Acknowledging that it might not be “great politics,” Sanders went on to assert that “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about [Clinton’s] damn emails.” Although he has persisted on the campaign trail since then, such rhetoric may suggest his stint is drawing to a close.

The same has been true with other Democratic candidates. In the past two weeks following the debate, several Democrats have vacated the already-sparse political field. Former governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Senator Jim Webb withdrew their candidacy, and Vice President Joe Biden finally put rumors of a potential 2016 campaign to rest.

On the heels of Wednesday night’s GOP debate, Republicans should be hoping for a similar exodus. If the GOP intends to ring in a victory in 2016, the candidates need a reality check. Each candidate must assess their performance thus far and decide whether their campaign is still viable.

It is their responsibility to act in the best interests of the party. Otherwise, they are simply taking up space and diminishing the GOP’s chances at success. Republican candidates could actually stand to learn something from a Chaffee and Webb — unite and throw your support behind a nominee, or exit stage left.

With 2016 being dubbed the year of the political outsider, the results of Wednesday’s CBS/NYT poll were generally unsurprising. Ben Carson and Donald Trump continue to lead the Republican field with Marco Rubio (R-FL) trailing in their wake. The poll marked a significant milestone for Carson, as it reported him pulling ahead of Trump — Carson is now polling at 26 percent,

compared to Trump’s 22. The poll’s results, however, were far less auspicious for smaller candidates. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) received only 2 percent of votes. Likewise, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) polled at a meager 1 percent.

Worse yet, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and former governor of New York, George Pataki, polled at 0 percent. Although not as dismal, the performance of other Republican candidates such as Carly Fiorina and former governor of Florida Jeb Bush also left much to be desired.

At this point, what the GOP needs is not a dose of political defeatism, but an earnest re-evaluation of its candidates. Smaller Republican candidates should not just throw in the towel, but instead, seriously consider the contribution of their campaign to the wellbeing of the party. While pontificating about the party platform may win less popular candidates some much-needed coverage, doing so detracts from the bigger picture. Time and resources allocated to the campaigns of the lesser candidates could be serving a larger purpose — a GOP victory in 2016.

The crowded Republican field should not come as a surprise. Instead, it indicates a systemic issue plaguing the GOP. The party has succumbed to extreme polarization within its ranks. Tea Party loyalists and establishment supporters are increasingly estranged, depleting the party as a whole. Most recently, such hostility was evident in the search for a new Speaker of the House after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) resigned.

Republicans have struggled far too long in presenting the party as a united front. If success in 2016 is to remain a possibility, all within the party must address this. They must put a stop to the constant bickering, position taking and squabbling that has characterized the GOP to this point. No one expects the GOP to join hands in singing “Kumbaya” — and the good thing is, they do not have to. Republican success in 2016 will be contingent on something else entirely — the party’s ability to mobilize and support a single, strong candidate. But for this to happen, some candidates need to face the music and exit stage left.

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If the College wants top talent, it needs to be willing to pay for it.

Last week, dean of graduate studies Jon Kull announced a plan for an independent School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.

According to Kull, the school would have more autonomy over budgeting decisions than it presently does. Kull also said that an independent school would improve faculty recruitment and retention. Of all arguments in support of this plan, this one holds the most promise. The College is, of course, nothing without its faculty.

Undergraduate teaching quality is where the College shines, and any policy or institutional change should further enhance that strength. An independent graduate school might help faculty recruitment, but it is not enough. We hope this change will be made in concert with future initiatives that will address concerns about faculty.

Dartmouth’s problems with faculty recruiting and retention are well-documented, and solving them must be a top priority for administrators.

Faculty recruitment is an expensive investment — and the return is poor if we cannot attract top-notch scholars who are willing to stay in Hanover. A suboptimal success rate in hiring ultimately causes waste.

Beyond these fiscal concerns, it is clear that professors who spend many years at the College enrich our community. They know the school well, and they are better equipped than students and even some administrators to identify the College’s weaknesses and to effect long-term improvements in specific departments. Long-term professors are also better equipped to advise students throughout their time at the College.

Several problems persist in the College’s data regarding faculty. A 2014 “Moving Dartmouth Forward” discussion covered the low minority faculty retention rate.

According to the College Fact Book, 23 percent of associate professors identified as being part of a minority group in 2014.

For full professors, however, the percentage dropped to just under 9 percent. In 2009, these numbers were 21 percent and 7 percent, respectively. The College also has the largest pay gap in the Ivy League between male and female professors, with female faculty making on average 82.8 percent of their male colleagues’ earnings in 2014.

Since the College does not collect exit interview data, the proposition that the current lack of an independent graduate school causes faculty to leave remains a hypothesis, among others. A common explanation for poor faculty retention, which in practice often functions as an excuse for the status quo, is Hanover’s geographic isolation and consequent lack of vibrant social outlets or networks for professors. While these are credible theories, we cannot be sure of the magnitude of their effect without data on what might encourage faculty to stay.

The aforementioned factors, however, are fixed, with a roughly constant effect over time. Faculty pay — a statistic subject to fluctuation — has exhibited a worrying trend for the past two decades. In

the early aughts, then-College President James Wright acknowledged the College’s problems with compensation and sought to “bring Dartmouth salaries in line with peer institutions.” After seeing modest progress on this front, faculty compensation increases stalled during the tenures of former College President Jim Kim and former interim College President Carol Folt, even though the cumulative undergraduate tuition increase totalled 16 percent under their watch. Recent data indicate that College President Phil Hanlon has taken steps to return pay to an upward trend, but faculty compensation likely still warrants the same sort of attention and urgency that Wright gave it.

The College cannot expect to attract top talent if we are not willing to pay for it — no changes to graduate studies can substitute for that. According to data from the American Association of University Professors, in the 2008-2009 academic year, the average salary for associate professors was $104,200, or $115,600 when adjusted for inflation. In the 2014-2015 year, this figure was $113,200. At Princeton University, a peer with a similar undergraduate focus, the averages for 2008-09 and 2014-15 were $114,300 (or $126,800 adjusted for inflation) and $133,000 , respectively. The associate professor position puts faculty on the tenured track, which means that a competitive associate professor salary is critical for retention. The pay gap between the College and its wealthier peers should at the very least be holding steady — not worsening.

Administrators should ensure that the College’s resources, including those directed to an independent graduate school, are effectively serving faculty recruitment goals.

The College’s salary and wage expenses for undergraduate academic and student programs have grown by 20 percent since fiscal year 2009, after adjusting for inflation. Ideally, these cost increases have gone toward moving Dartmouth’s salaries closer to those of our peers, though judging from the numbers it is unclear that is the case.

As for the graduate school, Kull stated that he thought its share of the budget should increase “a bit” — our hope is that no budgetary shift will come at the expense of undergraduate priorities, particularly faculty pay.

At this stage, it is hard to predict how much value an independent graduate school will add — and at what cost. Though the College is unlikely to ever be a leader in graduate programs, it should still provide graduate students and staff the resources they need to excel. We are eager to see if the new graduate school can not only strengthen the College’s reputation as a research university, but also inspire a longterm commitment to attracting and keeping the country’s brightest minds — ensuring that Dartmouth remains among the country’s premier universities for undergraduate teaching.

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Yik Yak can facilitate cyber-bullying Alcohol-related incidents decline following alc ban FROM YIK YAK PAGE 1

tary Catherine Lhamon.

The 15-page letter was split into four main sections addressing concerns that online harassment disproportionately affects women and people of color, that anonymous social media applications like Yik Yak are frequently used for sex- and race-based harassment prohibited by Title IX and Title VI, that schools have failed to appropriately respond to harassment occurring through Yik Yak and other social media applications and that schools need to be reminded of their legal obligation to address sex- and race-based harassment.

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported allegations that the University of Mary Washington — which is currently under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for these allegations — has neglected its responsibility to uphold student safety by citing First Amendment objections to shutting down Yik Yak. Other universities have had issues with harassment on Yik Yak as well.

Mary Washington’s Title IX coordinator sent an email to students informing them that the university had “no recourse for such cyberbullying” and instructed students to instead file a report with Yik Yak if they became the subject of threatening comments, according to the letter sent to federal officials.

Many students at campuses across the country are finding themselves in similar situations. Problems presented at Duke University, Clemson University and Kenyon College went unresolved because of administrators fear banning Yik Yak would be an infringement on students’ freedom of speech, the Chronicle reported.

Administrators at Dartmouth declined to address known sexual harassment occurring on Yik Yak and other anonymous posting sites, according to the letter sent to federal officials.

Debra S. Katz, a lawyer working on a Title IX complaint case brought against Mary Washington, announced she had successfully persuaded the Civil Rights Office to investigate the University on allegations that the school exposed students to a sexually hostile environment by failing to confront online harassment, the Chronicle reported.

A representative from Katz’s law firm declined to be interviewed for this article.

Yik Yak is frequently unavailable on high school campuses due to potentially threatening language, Feminist Majority Foundation policy and research director Gaylynn Burroughs said. She said that college-aged students are not behaviorally different enough from their high school peers to warrant a lack of regulation on Yik Yak on college campuses.

There should be some form of monitoring over Yik Yak on campuses so that the app can be used as a positive educational opportunity, Burroughs said.

“We are here to tell people about the consequences of their actions — you cannot harass people with impunity,” she said. “Right now, we have to meet with the Civil Rights Office and talk about some of the suggestions we made and what they are willing to do.

We are hoping to follow the University of Mary Washington given the way Yik Yak is now negatively being used.”

Activist groups like the ones responsible for the letter to the Civil Rights

“No one should have to go to school and face constant harassment —we aren’t talking about simple name calling but severe and persisten harassment and intimidation.”

-gaylynn burroughs, feminist majority foundation policy and research director Office can make a meaningful difference in addressing social media-based bullying, Burroughs said.

“So far, we have a broad range of organizations — racial justice groups, social groups, [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] groups — and we are here and together on this, hoping to leverage each other in a positive way,” she said.

Just two weeks after leaders of several of the organizations mentioned in the letter met to talk about the issues raised in the document, Burroughs suggested that more groups be involved to address social media “pollution.”

Sociology professor Janice McCabe — who teaches Dartmouth’s “Youth and Society” course — said that issues around social media bullying have been raised in her classes in prior years.

“In my four years here, we have been talking about gossip long before Yik Yak,” she said. “It’s honestly going to happen regardless, but social media speeds it up and makes it harder to escape. We can ban one, but another one comes up and there is a real possibility that we won’t be able to ban all the possibilities.”

McCabe, along with many students, said she saw the worst of anonymous social media platforms in spring 2013 when students published threatening posts on the anonymous, Dartmouth-only social media site

Bored at Baker targeting students who protested during a Dimensions of Dartmouth event.

In winter 2014, Bored at Baker came under fire after a member of the Class of 2017 anonymously posted a guide outlining how to rape another student and included that student’s name and residence hall. After the target of the post made the incident well-known on campus, students organized a vigil emphasizing community values.

“Bored at Baker was very destructive to the Dartmouth community and became more hurtful because it was specific to the school. But in my experience, it seems Yik Yak is just annoying,” Clare Mathias ’18 said.

Reaction to social media harassment and social media apps generally is different on each campus, Burroughs said.

At the Mary Washington, students have welcomed the issues raised at their school and some have joined with activist groups to call for change.

“No one should have to go to school and face constant harassment — we aren’t talking about simple name calling but severe and persistent harassment and intimidation,” Burroughs said.

Karina Korsh ’19 said the main issue with social media apps is anonymity.

“I think Yik Yak becomes problematic when people forget to show respect,” she said. “Being anonymous brings out the best and worst of people.”

Bullying and harassment are not confined to anonymous social media apps, however, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Michael Bronski said focusing on apps may fail to address broader issues.

“Although I’m sympathetic to stopping bullying, I’m a little bit suspicious of attacking the social media sites, even if they facilitate [harassment] because bullying would exist regardless of things like Yik Yak,” he said. “My concern is that we focus too much on social media but not profoundly on the social systems that allows this to happen. We need to focus on the root causes of hostility and hatred so attackers do not have the power they have today — Yik Yak just seems like a venue.”

Burroughs offered reasoning for the letter and its support.

Harassment makes it impossible for students to learn effectively at their schools, Burroughs said.

“We see this as a serious problem, and it’s unfortunate that people have been using the first amendment as a sword and shield for this type of situation,” she said. “It’s like going to class and see a giant blackboard in the back of your class saying ‘I wish that we could rape all of these women,’ and you don’t know who put it up. Nobody can learn in that environment.”

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in the same period last year.

The number of medical encounters decreased from 90 in April to August 2014 to 59 in the same period in 2015, while the number of Good Samaritan calls to Safety and Security for those periods in 2014 and 2015 were 29 and 23, respectively.

Data is collected monthly, not termly.

At Homecoming earlier this month, fewer individuals were sent to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center than in past years, Kinne said. Safety and Security was able to transport more people to Dick’s House. Only students who were severely intoxicated were transported by ambulance to DHMC, Kinne said. DHMC hospitalizations related to student alcohol consumption also declined this past year, he said.

College President Phil Hanlon introduced the hard alcohol ban as a part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative. The ban prohibits both the possession and consumption of hard alcohol with a proof of 30 or higher on Dartmouth’s campus and at events sponsored by the College or College-recognized organizations.

Further actions have been taken to enforce this policy, including hiring additional Safety and Security officers and requiring undergraduate advisers to complete additionaly rounds on “likely drinking nights” — Wednesday through Saturday.

There have been some incidents where hard alcohol has been discovered, but the level of intoxication has not been as severe as it has been in the past, Kinne said. He said he attributed the decrease to the hard alcohol ban.

Not everyone credits decreased alcohol-related incidents to the hard alcohol ban, however.

“We’re going to continue to collect data to evaluate the College’s efforts, but we don’t have causal data so we can’t

attribute it to any particular policy,” Student Wellness Center program assessment and evaluation coordinator Mary Nyhan said.

Nyhan works with Safety and Security, Health Services and the judicial affairs office to track high-risk drinking and other alcohol-related data.

“We are working to better understand student barriers to calling ‘Good Sams,’” Nyhan said. “Our goal is to work with students to make them more comfortable calling ‘Good Sams.’”

Kinne said that regardless of the reason of a call, Safety and Security is concerned with safety first, not punishment. “[Safety and Security does not] make the determination if it’s a ‘Good Sam’ or not,” Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said. “We just take the calls and would respond either way — our response isn’t any different.”

Hanover Police captain Eric Zaber supports the Good Sam policy.

“I think the idea is fantastic,” he said.

“I understand why the school has chosen to do that. I support the initiatives and I support the school.”

Zaber, who came to Hanover in May from Illinois, noted that there was a similar Good Samaritan law that sprung from the heroin epidemic there.

“Good Sam is excellent for not only students but for everyone,” Zaber said.

Although he has had limited interactions with students, Zaber wants students to be comfortable calling 911 if someone is in physical or psychological trouble, he said.

“They should be able to call us without fear of prosecution,” he said.

Even while the numbers have gone down, Zaber still encourages students to reach out when they need help.

“Our number one priority is saving lives. Our whole presence is to protect and help people,” Zaber said. “If you’re in a bad situation, we want you to call to get some help.”

ONE FOR THE BOOKS

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

English professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson discussed her book project.

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Men’s and women’s cross country teams prepare for Heps

Curtis King ’16 and Brian Masterson ’16 put in underwhelming The Dartmouth Staff performances at last season’s Heps, The men’s and women’s cross Dartmouth notched 112 points to country teams will take on their finish one point out of third place.

Ivy League rivals this weekend in Dartmouth’s top runner at Heps what is arguably the teams’ big- last season, Silas Talbot ’15, has gest meet of the year. All eight Ivy graduated, so the Big Green will League cross country teams will have to look elsewhere to replace be competing in the Ivy League his production to rise the ranks at Heptagonal Championship at Van Heps.

Princeton University won last Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New year’s Heps title and are returning York.

The Big Green women are last season’s runner-up, Michael pursuing their third consecutive Sublette. The Tigers also won the Heps championship, a mark that Ivy title every year from 2010-2012.

The other main contenders for Dartmouth has not reached since the team won four consecutive this season’s Heps crown are the times between 1994 and 1997. Four University of Pennsylvania and of Dartmouth’s top five runners Columbia University. Both teams from last season are returning to are in the United States Track & Heps this year, including last year’s Field and Cross Country Coaches runner-up Dana Giordano ’16 . Association national top 30 and At last season’s Heps, Giordano are returning runners who placed finished the 6,000-meter race in in the top ten at last season’s Heps.

“I sat down with the whole team 20:28.1 seconds, less than five seconds behind the winner, Megan yesterday, and on the men’s team, there are six teams that have a Curham of Princeton University. chance to win Giordano’s the race, and main compe- “The Heps are we’re one of tition for the them,” men’s individual Heps unpredictable, and we head coach title this season will have to be on our Harwick is Harvard Unigame to come out with Barry said. “We need versity’s Courttwo guys in the n e y S m i t h , the win.” top 10, and our women’s head next three in the coach Courtney -DANA GIORDANO ’16 top 20. If we run Jaworski said. as well as we did “Harvard’s runner, Courtney Smith, has got- at the [Boston College] Invitational, ten closer and closer every race we’ll have a good chance. Columbia to [Giordano],” Jaworski said. [University] is probably the pre“[Giordano’s] season’s training is a meet favorite — [The Lions} did bit back since she had such a long the best at the Adidas Wisconsin season last year, but she’s progress- Invitational, and we’re running at ing very nicely and she’ll be in the their home course.”

This season, Heps are being held front pack battling the entire way.”

Dartmouth is also returning two at Van Cortlandt Park for the first other runners who placed in the top time in four years. In each race 15 at Heps last season. Sarah Ben- since 2012, Heps have been hosted nett ’16 and Reid Watson ’16, who at Princeton’s West Windsor Fields.

“The course is a bit different — had respective 12th- and 13th-place finishes last year, will look to lift the we ran there at regionals last year, but it’s a slightly different course Big Green to another Ivy title.

“The Heps are unpredictable, than what we ran last year,” Jaworand we will have to be on our game ski said. “It’s a historic course, and to come out with the win. Like all it’s a course that’s good for a team of the other teams, we are going like us, especially since we run on for the title,” Giordano said. “I the trails all the time. The key is expect the race to stay together for that we’ll have to get out very hard a bit and then separate out in the in the first mile, since it is harder second half of the course. We are to move around later in the race ready for this meet and can’t wait on the trails.”

The men will run their 8,000-meto finally show our potential this ter race at 11 a.m. and the women season.”

While the men’s cross country will run a 6,000-meter race immeteam has not had as much success diately following.

“At the end of the day, it’ll be a in recent seasons as the women have, the team is still pursuing very close score — six teams have a the Ivy League title. Last year, the legitimate chance to win,” Harwick Big Green placed fourth at Heps, said. “The teams that ultimately a mildly disappointing result for come out on top are the ones that a team that historically has been are very confident in their abilities, among the most successful in the and they’re able to run aggressively Ancient Eight, winning the second and are comfortable at the front of most Ivy titles of any school. After the pack.”

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Dana Giordano ’16 is looking to improve on her runner-up finish at last year’s Heps, where she took the runner-up position.

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015

FRIDAY LINEUP

FOOTBALL at HARVARD 7:30 PM

VOLLEYBALL VS. PRINCETON 7 PM

Football prepares for massive showdown with Harvard

B y ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Three hundred and sixty three days ago, Dartmouth was in a situation very similar to the one it faces today. Playing against another in-conference undefeated team and its biggest rival, the Big Green faltered, however, and lost its grip on a potential Ivy League crown. One year later, the annual clash against Harvard University has arrived once again, though the stakes are even higher. In the most anticipated matchup of the conference season, the No. 22 Big Green (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) will seek to accomplish what it’s done only once in the last 18 years: defeat Harvard (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) — currently ranked 15th — and take the most pivotal step toward claiming its first Ivy title since 1996.

For the first time since the 19th century, Dartmouth will play a game on a Friday. To add to the aura surrounding this crucial fixture, the Friday night game in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be nationally broadcast, and will mark the first time two ranked Ivy squads will face off against each other in eight years.

“We hate to say this is the most important week, but two undefeated teams in the Ivy League, [and] someone’s going to come out with a loss,” standout cornerback Vernon Harris ’16 said about the matchup.

“This game is very important to us.

It’s one of the biggest games we’ve had. So this game is more important than just this season, it’s big [for] the culture of this football team getting back to our dominance of the past.”

Through its first six games of the season, the Crimson has pummeled each of its opponents by an average score of 44 to eight, exceeding 40 points in each of its outings and shutting two opponents out. While not facing an especially challenging schedule, the Crimson’s utter dominance — mirrored only by Dartmouth in the Ivy League — speaks to the all-around strength and talent that the program has possessed for some time now, and which has translated into three of the last four conference titles.

Quarterback Scott Hosch leads the Crimson offense, which ranks the most efficient in the Ivy League with a 6.8 yards per play average.

Though he has thrown less than most other Ivy signal-callers, the senior has garnered 9.4 yards per attempt, a mark that leads the conference by a relatively wide margin. Hosch has also thrown for 12 touchdowns in the air — adding to his four on the ground — to pair with just one interception, and has distributed the football to multiple targets.

Seven different receivers have caught balls for touchdowns, and four of them have eclipsed 235 total yards on the season. Senior tight end Ben Braunecker leads the group with 454 receiving yards and five scores this year.

“They play two tight ends — which is somewhat unusual in our league — but two very talented tight ends,” head coach Buddy Teevens said, assessing Harvard’s offense.

“One is an NFL prospect, and a couple of guys on the offensive line are being considered professionally as well.”

A strong stable of running backs also helps create a very productive offensive balance for Harvard, as the team has logged the majority of its touchdowns on the ground.

Junior Paul Stanton has amassed more than 600 yards to go with nine touchdowns and spearheads the rushing attack that leads the conference with 4.8 yards per carry.

“Year by year, they’re basically the same,” Harris said of Harvard’s offense. “They run their offense, they’re not dictated by the defense…

They have a pretty strong offensive line, that’s the core of their offense.

[We need to] make sure we can penetrate, and if we’re able [to do that], good things happen from there.”

On defense, the Crimson have been nearly as strong, yielding just 4.1 yards per opposing play and ranking second to only Dartmouth in the Ivy League. Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 noted their strength and mentioned the type of defense he and his team will be anticipating.

“They’re going to try to play sound football, they’re not going to blitz much,” Williams said. “[They play] a lot of zone. So we just have to line up as an offense and execute.”

As it enters its most important game in 2015, Dartmouth will try to bounce back from its poorest offensive performance and closest

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Dartmouth will meet an unbeaten Harvard University in the Big Green’s first Friday game since the 19th century.

game of the season last week, when it eked out a 13-9 win over Columbia University to preserve its undefeated record.

In large part, the decline in play came from the Big Green accumulating a school record 17 penalty calls for 161 yards — and two other calls that were offset or declined — which precluded the offense from ever attaining proper rhythm or continuity. Moreover, the flags became increasingly questionable, as replays on multiple plays bore out, and occurred toward the end of the game, as seven penalties came in the fourth quarter.

“A lot of [the penalties] had to do with those guys out there throwing the flags,” Williams said. “A lot of those penalties were effort, I don’t know if the coaches necessarily want us to not play as hard as we did. But there were a number of penalties that we had where we hurt ourselves definitely.”

Williams considers it his responsibility to lead the effort to avoid penalties going forward.

“It starts with me,” he said. “I can’t have unsportsmanlike, personal fouls. It’s my job to get guys under control…we just need to be more composed. A lot of those things happened that we normally don’t do because we were kind of in a panic stage. The game wasn’t how we wanted it to be, and we were just playing out of character.”

The penalties hurt, but the unexpected amounts of blitzes and quarterback pressure that Columbia

induced had nearly as much of a disruptive effect. Recording six sacks — the most Dartmouth has allowed this season — and forcing a fumble on one, the Lions sent pressure that reached Williams on what seemed like every play.

The Big Green quarterback had inadequate time to throw and was forced to escape the pocket often, and as a result of the conditions his accuracy was diminished and Williams missed on several of the deep throws he usually completes.

In the second quarter of the game, a screen play counteracted the pressure well, as it quickly gained 13 yards and jumpstarted a touchdown drive that concluded a few plays later. Williams noted that this type of play call, along with other adjustments, could address similar difficulties the team faces in the future.

“Screens help, and it also helps if you’re running the ball a little more effectively,” Williams said. “It also helps if you set the protection the right way. [Columbia] blitzed a lot more than they showed on film…

We just have to make adjustments earlier, and I have to be more proactive in handling that…so I just have to be ready for all the different possibilities.”

Teevens also noted that injuries to his offensive line played a role last Saturday’s struggle.

“We were a little bumped up,” Teevens said. “Dave Morrison [’17], our starting tackle, was out, so we had some less experienced guys in

the mix. They certainly did good work, but having a guy that’s been in there for a period of time would certainly be helpful in the coming week.”

Yet as much as the offense struggled due to penalties and opposing pass rush pressure, Dartmouth’s defense remained as consistent and dominant as it was in prior games and ultimately sealed the win with a defensive stand in the final minutes.

Though ample experience, depth and talent has paved the way for the unmitigated success the unit has enjoyed this year, Harris points to a specific mindset as particularly helpful.

“Our hugest thing if you look at our defense is pursuit to the ball,” Harris said. “If you look on film, our entire defense is going to be running to the ball… You don’t expect anyone else to make the play, you expect to go in making a play.

And if everybody expects to make the play, good things are going to happen.”

Since last Saturday’s game, punter Ben Kepley ’17 was also named the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week. With the offense not working to its fullest potential, the sophomore had to punt the ball 11 times against Columbia, the most in his career. Notably, Kepley exceeded 50 yards twice, pinned Columbia back to its own six and 12-yard lines on separate occasions, forced seven fair catches, and thus had an instrumental role in the game’s field position battle.