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VOL. CLXXIII NO.66

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Mark Connolly begins campaign for governor

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By DANIEL KIM

The Dartmouth Staff

COURTESY OF MARK CONNOLLY

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Here’s the story of how Mark Connolly ’79 became a state representative at the age of 21. His neighbor in his hometown of Bedford, New Hampshire ran for Congress in 1974, and Connolly worked as his driver for the campaign. His neighbor lost the primary, but he encouraged Connolly to run for the legislature. Unlike his neighbor, Connolly was elected when he ran his sophomore year at the College.

Since then, he has dabbled in jobs ranging from banker, businessman, deputy New Hampshire secretary of state to New Hampshire director of securities regulation. Last November,

Mark Connolly ’79 is campaigning to be the governor of New Hampshire.

Hop begins Greek outreach

By ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff

This year, the Hopkins Center and the Office of Greek Life launched a new partnership that encourages affiliated students to attend more performance arts events on campus.

The partnership pro-

vides Greek houses with the opportunity to incorporate events, performances and workshops held at the Hop into their chapter’s social calendar. Tickets can be funded by the Hop and other expenses such as catering can be covered by SEE HOP PAGE 3

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Zagster could start bikesharing program on campus

By RAUL RODRIGUEZ The Dartmouth

Bike-sharing company Zagster could make its Hanover debut within the next year if a team of students backing the program have their way.

Zagster users can rent bikes from a variety of stations around campus with a phone app. The company is currently

partnered with over 130 colleges, including half the Ivy League.

This past year, Hannah Carlino ’17 and Nick Ford ’17 partnered with Zagster to bring bike-sharing to Dartmouth.

With this program, they intend to reduce the amount of cars on campus and to enhance student life and convenience. The company is still in the process

of discussing a launch date with the Dartmouth Sustainability Office, Zagster sales consultant Dave Reed said.

Ford said students could potentially see Zagster bikes on campus by the fall of 2016, which they would be able to use by enrolling in a membership.

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Rose McLarney arrives as newest poet in residence

By ALEXANDRA PATTILLO The Dartmouth

“Writing a poem is discovering,” Robert Frost once said. The place of such discovery for Frost himself, this year’s poet in residence and many others is Frost Place, a modest farmstead perched high on a rolling hill covered in wildflowers, nestled in the White Mountains in Franconia.

Rose McLarney will be writing — and discovering — in Frost Place, where Frost himself lived for five years full-time and later spent 19 summers

for eight weeks as the 2016 poet in residence. McLarney is a poet and professor at Auburn University and poetry editor of the Southern Humanities Review.

After realizing her passion for writing poetry after college, McLarney completed a masters program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has since published two collections of poetry and received multiple national poetry awards.

While other poets may be intimidated by the rural setting,

McLarney views her visit to the Upper Valley as a homecoming of sorts. McLarney grew up in Southern Appalachia and much of her poetry incorporates elements of the mountainous landscape and various related ecological issues.

“I was so deeply connected to those mountains,” she said. “I can write more about the feeling and the atmosphere there than I can about most people.”

In her affinity for writing about environments, she is a fitting match for Frost Place, named for one of the

giants of American nature writing.

Although Frost was one of the great twentieth century American poets, to Dartmouth students and faculty, he is “ours.” The poet was briefly a student of the College and later a faculty member.

Since his death, Frost Place has become a nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts and a museum, serving the Upper Valley and attracting visitors from across New England.

Frost Place was founded in 1976 when SEE POET PAGE 5

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Libertarians struggle in elections

By PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff

This article is the third and final part in series on libertarianism and liberty in New Hampshire. The full story is now available online.

It has been almost two decades since there has been an elected Libertarian Party member sitting in the state legislature in Concord.

Libertarianism may run deep in the Granite State, but its ballot line has had election after election of weak showings.

Several Libertarian Party members were elected to the State House of Representatives in the 1990s, but since then, party has struggled to gain electoral traction. Part of that may be down to the libertarian streaks within the local Republican and Democratic organizations, however.

“In some ways, in New Hampshire the Libertarian Party is kind of a victim of our own success,” national Libertarian Party chairman Nicholas Sarwark said. “As the political culture becomes more libertarian, some people find it less attractive to join an actual Libertarian Party and would rather just work within the machinery of one of the old parties.”

In 1991, Calvin Warburton — a Republican state representative — switched parties to sit as a Libertarian. He died four years later, but paved the way for others to follow. Three other Libertarian Party members sat in the state legislature for periods in the 1990s, all from districts in the south of the state.

Then the ballot access problems started.

In Vermont, ballot access — and minor party representation — is a fairly straightforward issue. The state has a long history of minorparty strength and currently boasts a strong third party, the Progressives, who are well represented in the Green Mountain State. Organized political parties in Vermont must simply put candidates forward to run, but in New Hampshire, parties that are not recognized as major parties must garner over a hundred signatures to run for each small state legislative seat — and the difficulties only grow larger from there.

Changing the state’s ballot access laws is a major issue for the Libertarian Party, New Hampshire Libertarian Party secretary Darryl Perry said. The national party is currently attempting to regain 50-state ballot access, something it has not

had since 2000, Sarwark said.

The difficulty of standing for election as a Libertarian has led many libertarian-minded people to run as Democrats or Republicans. Eighteen Free State Project entrants have been elected to the state legislature, Sorens said, and fully 20 percent of the state house are in some way supporters of the movement. But none are members of the Libertarian Party.

For Perry, the issue is one of compromising belief. People run on major party tickets because of the ballot access laws that block the Libertarians, he said, meaning many must compromise their views.

“I cannot in good conscious ever call myself a Republican or Democrat, so I encourage people to, if you’re a Libertarian, join the party that’s intended for you,” he said.

But libertarian-minded voters still essentially control New Hampshire politics, former New Hampshire Gov. Steve Merrill said.

“We have become a state that is approximately one third Democrat, one third Republican, and the critical piece is the one third libertarian in between the Democrat and Republican. No Republican can win without substantial libertarian support,” he said.

The huge chunk of New Hampshire voters who lack party affiliation — around 40 percent — are the key element in the state’s political calculus that swing between Democrats and Republicans and to which both parties must speak if they hope to win statewide elections.

Even so, the Libertarian Party itself hopes to make a comeback in a state where it has high levels of natural support, Sarwark said. The Free State Project could help the party to do it — or maybe not.

“I don’t think 20,000 people in a state of 1.3 million is enough to dramatically change it. They can only reinforce views that were already here,” Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy director Charlie Arlinghaus said.

But the Libertarian Party needs to get its own act together before it can begin winning elections. Recent state conventions of the party have seen only around 12 people participate, Perry said.

“There’s really a lot of apathy within the Libertarian Party in New Hampshire, and it’s very sad, especially considering that there’re so many libertarians that live in the state,” he said.

He only became party secretary when no one else ran, he said.

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— the Free State Project’s annual gathering — this year? Will this be a time — with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the likely nominees of the two major parties, candidates with whom most libertarians are thoroughly disgusted — that sees a breakout for Libertarians?

After all, 2016 will see the first of the roughly 18,000 remaining Free Staters outside of New Hampshire begin to migrate into the state?

Government professor and Free State Project founder Jason Sorens and Sarwark both said the rise of a candidate like Trump presents a distinct opportunity for Libertarians running for office in 2016, when disaffected voters may search for a new outlet for their beliefs.

The Free State Project is a natural outlet for dissatisfaction in the political system, Merrill said.

“It’s a natural outgrowth of individuals wanting to be certain that government doesn’t intrude in their lives in an unreasonable manner,” he said. “I have yet to run into any Free Stater who wasn’t patriotic, interested in keeping government at an appropriate size, and willing to do their part. I think those are the kinds of people that will keep New Hampshire the state that it has been and should remain.”

Despite the affections of former governors like Craig Benson and Merrill and a fifth of the state legislature, the Free State Project is not universally beloved in the state.

“The Free State Project has become a little bit of a political football in New Hampshire,” Sorens chuckled.

The day the project announced that its destination would be New Hampshire back in 2003, state Democratic leaders attacked the group for being being anti-family, wishing to legalize prostitution and promoting the abolition of public education, Sorens said.

Another common critique of the movement is that Free Staters want to secede from the U.S., a perception that arose out of a claim in Sorens’ initial essay suggesting that one way for regions to gain greater localized power is to propose secession to force national governments to play their hand.

“Down the road, if we need to get more autonomy from the federal government, there’s always this option — the secession option — not so much as ‘we ought to secede’ as a way to get leverage to get more powers decentralized to New Hampshire,” he said.

Sorens said he would not be in favor of secession now, but “if Donald Trump is elected,” he said, laughing, “we need to preserve ourselves by any means necessary.”

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Connolly began political career while a student

wear a refrigerated suit,” he said. “If it wasn’t for that whole experience of Connolly announced his candidacy being in the legislature and meeting Elizabeth and her husband, I wouldn’t for governor of New Hampshire.

During his time at the College, have been able to do what I did.” besides working as state representa- Following graduation, he worked tive, Connolly was part of the crew as assistant secretary of state for four team, co-chair for the Big Brother/ years, then he received an MBA from Big Sister program, a member of the Northwestern University’s Kellogg the now-derecognized Alpha Delta School of Management. fraternity, and worked at WDCR, the “I was a government major at College radio station. He still kept one Dartmouth, and that is where I put foot in campus politics, participating my stake in the ground,” he said. in a disarmament conference and “However, in order to pursue an intercovering the presidential primary of est in public service, you needed to be rooted in business and understanding 1976 for the radio.

Of the College’s alumni, 22 have more broadly than just the area of been governors, 14 having governed government.”

New Hampshire. Government profes- Until the early 2000s, Connolly stayed in sor John Carey business, worksaid that the ing for a New College provides “I never measure my Hampshirean ideal atmo- success with money, based insurance sphere to foster company and the interest of I measured it by my a Boston-based students who are involvement in the bank. From 2002 passionate about greater community.” to 2009, Conelectoral politics. nolly worked as “Every stuthe deputy secdent who spends -MARK CONNOLLY ’79, retary of state four years here is and director of going to get one CANDIDATE FOR NEW securities regula[presidential] HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR tion. During that primary season time of his life, he and that really is was involved in different on this campus from most other campuses,” several major securities enforcement he said. “One, the New Hampshire cases, including those against Tyco primary is more important than most International and ING. primaries, and two, this is a small state. “I never measure my success with If we were in New York or Texas or money, I measured it by my involveCalifornia, a college this size wouldn’t ment in the greater community,” he get as much traffic. But we’re New said. “I’m proud of what I did in Hampshire; every candidate wants to business and I look fondly in my repget a picture in front of Baker Library. resentation in the state government, Every candidate wants to have at least but that part of my life [as deputy secretary of state and director of one public event, often many.”

Paul Wetmore ’79, Connolly’s securities regulation] was the most friend at the College, remained in close consequential in making who I am contact with him following graduation. today.”

He said Connolly preferred to stay Connolly resigned in 2009 after out of the spotlight during his years speaking out about a mishandling of at Dartmouth — even the fact that he a Ponzi scheme, subsequently writing was a state representative remained a book about it in 2011. In 2012, he unknown to most outside of his group started the New Castle Investment Advisors, a consulting firm based in of close friends.

“He wasn’t a celebrity or anything,” New Castle, New Hampshire. he said. “He wasn’t one of those big Connolly said that college students braggers around campus saying what should consider making public service a part of their life at least at a point in he was doing.”

After his junior year, Connolly con- their career. sidered dropping out of the College “Both business and the public due to a lack of funds to support his tu- sector is only as strong as people’s ition. One of his fellow representatives, willingness to be involved,” he said.

Elizabeth Crowley and her husband, “I would encourage people, especially helped secure a job for Connolly at an freshmen at Dartmouth to think that, oil drill site in Alaska for the summer, and understand that pursuing a profesallowing him to successfully finish his sional career is important, but when we have such challenges before us senior year.

“I remember a couple times we had like climate change, poverty, terrorto emergency land [in a helicopter] ism and a refugee crisis; you have an because of the weather change, or it opportunity, and to me, an obligation, would get so cold that I would have to to be a part of that dialogue.”

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Hop program works with Greek houses FROM HOP PAGE 1

Greek houses or funding provided through the Andrew Mellon Mays funding.

Kate Adams, the Hop advisor on student relations, said the Greek community is often described as being insular. By providing programming outside of the Greek houses, students have more options on Fridays and Saturday nights.

The idea to develop a partnership with the Office of Greek Life was created in efforts to mobilize the Greek community to serve as ambassadors for the arts, she added.

“A lot of our affiliated students are involved in the arts and it’s a good way to involve other communities on campus,” Adams said.

Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority president Allison Chou ’17 said that KDE has traditionally has hosted events with performance groups in its house, but sees value in utilizing the Hop. “Not everyone feels comfortable going into a Greek space, so utilizing the Hop could allow more students be exposed to the arts in a different venue,” Chou said.

Chou added that a large contingency of KDE members are involved in the performing arts already, but that the Hop’s partnership will expose more people to the arts.

Adams said that she thinks barriers that may prevent students from attending performance include busy schedules as well as the fear of attending an event alone, barriers she hopes this program will help overcome.

“Partnering with the Greek

community has really allowed us to extend our reach to built-in social networks,” Adams said.

Office of Greek Life representative Karen Afre ’12 said that senior society Casque and Guantlet has also expressed interest in pursuing joint events with the Hop. Casque and Gauntlet plans on hosting an open event this term that will include a mini-performance and discussion by a guest artist, she added.

Afre and Adams both added that they hope that the goal of the partnership is to spread awareness of the Hop’s resources. Both expressed optimism that in the in the future, Greek chapters will pair up to co-host events such as pre-show mixers at the Hop that would be open to both first-year students and unaffiliated students.

Alpha Xi Delta sorority president Thuy Le ’17 expressed interest in the idea of working with the Hop to create events, such as a mixer before a performing arts show, that would be open to campus.

“I think in the future we would love to coordinate events with Panhell like Greek’s Night Out that would be open to first years and students who are unaffiliated as well,” Le said.

In the fall, Greek’s Night Out kicked off the program. Sigma Delta sorority, KDE, AZD, Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority were invited to attend a pre-show mixer for the Takács Quartet that was held outside of the Courtyard Terrace.

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Zagster to potentially start in fall 2016 FROM BIKES PAGE 1

have not yet been announced, students will be able to pay for them through their DA$H accounts.

Carlino thought about bringing a bike-sharing program to Dartmouth after routinely being 10 minutes late to her introductory computer science class. While she did not want to buy her own bike, she said she thought there must be a way to fix her transit problem.

“Me being from New York, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, Citi Bike would be so nice,’” she said.

Citi Bike is a bike-sharing company that operates in the New York area.

Carlino’s accidental tardiness inspired her to embark on a business venture. She initially wanted to build a bike-sharing program from the ground up.

“I was thinking about starting this company called Big Green Bikes,” she said. “But I wanted to create something that was sustainable and had been proven to work on many different campuses.”

Ford was interning for Zagster under Max Goldberg ’12, a product manager at the company, at the time, and he also hoped to bring a bikesharing program to Dartmouth.

“I’ve always had an interest in alternative mobility,” Ford said. “I’m from the Detroit area so a lot of that conversation is happening there with the big car companies.”

In May of last year, Carlino and Ford sent out a 30-second survey to see if there was an interest on campus for a bike-sharing program. The results reaffirmed Carlino’s experience of wanting a bike without the responsibility of ownership. Ninety percent of the survey participants said that they would use a bike sharing service twice a day or more, and the main reason

that people gave for not owning a bike was that it was too much of a hassle, she said.

Zagster is all-inclusive, Ford said, which means that all operations and maintenance related to the bike share program are included in the cost of the service.

Ford added that Zagster’s appbased locking mechanism would remove the need for physical locks and hold people accountable for damaging and stealing bikes. Zagster would have its members’ credit card or DA$H numbers to make it more difficult to steal a Zagster bike.

The positive response to the initial student survey led to several talks between Dartmouth’s sustainability office and Zagster.

“Every discussion we’ve had has been extremely positive,” Zagster’s marketing chief Nate Taber said.

“There is a lot of support on campus.”

Sustainability office director Rosi Kerr has met with Carlino on several occasions and voiced support for the bike sharing program.

Part of Zagster’s appeal is that it is optimized for college campuses.

Whereas Citi Bike works well for large cities like New York City by putting all of the technology in kiosks, Zagster’s model attempts to bring bike sharing to college campuses of all sizes by moving the technology to smartphones.

Zagster and Dartmouth’s sustainability office will begin a dialogue about launch dates once Kerr returns from maternal leave. She is the de facto point person in charge of making Carlino and Ford’s proposal come to fruition, Carlino said.

In the meantime, Dart Bike Rentals remains Dartmouth’s only alternative biking initiative. Dart Bike Rentals provides term-long rentals, with organized pick-ups and drop-offs at the beginning and the end of each

term. The company could potentially complement Zagster, despite the lowmembership fees projected by the latter.

Ford agreed, citing the co-existence of student initiatives like Dart Bike Rentals and Zagster on college campuses that he saw while interning at Zagster.

Zagster’s model offers short-term rentals, while Dart Bike Rentals is geared toward long-term renting.

“We’ve heard from students that most prefer to have a bike they can take all the way to their dorm and not have to return to a station, given our fairly small campus,” Kerr said.

Once Carlino and Ford receive funding and Zagster reaches an agreement with both the sustainability office and the facilities and operations office, students could expect to see Zagster on campus immediately.

“We are ready to launch a program when they are,” Taber said.

“We typically launch a program on communities such as Dartmouth in anywhere between four to six weeks, so once we agree on a launch date, we can very quickly have a full-scale program running.”

Students could help quicken Zagster’s arrival on campus by helping Carlino and Ford garner student support, they said. This means letting the administration know that Zagster is something that they would like to see implemented at Dartmouth, as well as encouraging student groups to get involved with the initiative.

Currently, both Women in Business and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Network are participating.

“If we heard overwhelmingly from students that they wanted Zagster or another bike sharing platform and were willing to help us devise a plan to fund it, I’d be delighted to help make it happen,” Kerr said.

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Why You Should Pay for Music

Returning to Westeros

Piracy robs content creators of their livelihood.

On April 20, the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network hosted a panel on the digital rights of artists. The panelists agreed that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we think about the value that content creators provide.

Music piracy continues to be an issue in the United States. Roughly 20 million Americans uses peer-to-peer sharing systems to acquire music. There are indications that music piracy is on the decline in the face of relatively low-cost streaming options such as Spotify and Apple Music, but the idea that lies at the heart of the act — that creative content is not worth paying for — remains troubling.

Sometimes this notion, especially when applied to well-known, wealthy artists, manifests itself as a perceived victimless crime. What is a minor loss in sales to an artist worth millions of dollars? We roll our eyes when we see an artist like Taylor Swift refuse to put her music on Spotify and get in legal battles with Apple. For every artist who isn’t making millions, however, this idea quickly falls apart.

The internet has massively lowered the barriers to entry for musical pursuits but has grossly decreased the feasibility of making a livelihood from these pursuits. Anyone can use a variety of music platforms, like SoundCloud and Bandcamp, to upload their music. No producers. No recording studio. Just a musician and a laptop. By refusing to pay for content, we reduce the breadth of content available to us. The number of people classified as “Musicians and Songwriters” has dropped by 22 percent since 2002. Fewer musicians will enter an industry if there is little possibility of financial stability. This limits the perspectives available to consumers and perpetuates a lack of diverse representation in artistic fields. Entering the field may be easier, but staying in the game proves impossible for many.

If you enjoy a song, you have given it value and should be willing, circumstance permitting, to pay for that value. By pirating music, or any other form of content, you are depriving someone of their livelihood while still benefiting from their effort. It’s hard to imagine another circumstance in which this wouldn’t be met with widespread public outrage, but in the world of creative content, it seems par for the course.

As college students, we are perhaps the genera-

tion most immersed in the culture of online piracy, but it is within our means to be able to turn the tide.

Content creators, like most producers, deserve to be compensated. They provide value, and there is an argument to be made for pay-what-you-want, or more ideally pay-what-you-can, systems, such as that employed by Radiohead for their album “In Rainbows” (2007). But it is predicated on appreciating the value that we gain from creative content and accepting the price we should pay.

In these schemes, you decide the value of the creative content. According to market research firm comScore 38 percent of donwloaders paid, while 62 percent did not making the average price paid $2.26 per download. Radiohead called this research “wholly inaccurate,”and later information from collecting society MCPS-PRS and internet metrics firm BigChampagne, estimated over 400,000 copies of the album were downloaded on its release day alone. The band made more digital income on that album than all their other albums combined, according to lead singer Thom Yorke. This success can be attributed to the quality of the album itself and the band’s popularity. It seems unlikely that smaller groups could pull off something similar, and in fact, the band did not want this to be a model for other groups. Rather, it highlights the questions that digital streaming has brought up and points to the larger need to find new business models.

As college journalists, we feel strongly that we must elevate the status of creative content in our collective imaginations. People, especially young people, do not take creative content seriously.

They consume without realizing that people have to provide the content they take for granted.

There is someone behind the music you torrent from The Pirate Bay. There are writers, producers and actors behind the television show you watch on Projectfreetv.com, and a photographer behind the photos you take off of Google Images without giving any credit. We understand that some people simply cannot afford to purchase all of this content, but we should all try to shake of this cultural complacency that accepts what is essentially theft. Short story: pay for the next song you download.

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What does our interest is in ‘Game of Thrones’ reveal?

HBO’s critically acclaimed fantasy from the north and an exiled scion’s pursuit drama “Game of Thrones” returns this to reclaim her father’s throne from the east Sunday with its sixth season. The series make up the rest of the plot. In George R. has attracted record numbers of viewers on R. Martin’s world, honor gets you killed and HBO and developed a particularly extensive the line between good and evil is incredand active international fan base. Based ibly blurry. The monsters of the series are on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of the humans themselves. The evil is what epic fantasy novels written by George R. R. each of them are capable of doing to each Martin, the television series is set to overtake other. The powerful do what they can, and the books with its sixth season. Without the weak suffer what they must. The most a textual basis for season six, the show’s beloved characters lose their lives, and the producer and Dartmouth alumnus David tone of the series is incredibly dark. It must Benioff ’92 and his co-producer D. B. Weiss say something about Western society if milwill have broad leeway in telling Martin’s lions upon millions of people willingly tune story. The show’s actors and producers in week after week to watch such a series. have received wideModern Westspread praise for their ern society holds acting, storytelling, “‘Game of Thrones’ an incredibly disilproduction values, provokes its audience lusioned and cynical scope and complex worldview. In the characters – winning to ask questions and United States, we 26 Primetime Emmy wrestle internally with face an indefinite awards for their efwar on terror, gridforts. Why do millions such issues as morality, locked government of viewers return to honor and the nature of and a changing clithe world of ice and mate and economy, fire year after year to good and evil. How far with many strugwatch their favorite are you willing to go for gling to make ends characters get killed meet. Faith in govoff ? The popularity of your family? Do we really ernment is at an “Game of Thrones” have a say in the political all time low and is partially reflective political process process? Is there anything the of the broader trend is increasingly beof increasing interest we can do to solve the ing seen as rigged in novel big-budget, and unfair. What world’s problems?” high production value does this have to television dramas, as do with “Game of well as a more cyniThrones?” George cal and disillusioned R. R. Martin, when viewing audience. articulating his writHigh production ing philosophy, said value television drahe thinks “all fiction mas have been steadily increasing in popu- needs to reflect reality” and that while larity, from “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” fiction is untrue “it has to have a truth at and “Lost” to “Breaking Bad” and “Mad the core of it . . . you’re still writing about Men.” These series developed such broad people; you’re writing about the human and active fan bases that fan discussion, condition.” Martin went on to say “the debate and interest continued on after their human heart in conflict with itself ” is the final episodes. These shows were nominated only thing worth writing about. “Game for and won awards at an outstanding pace of Thrones” provokes its audience to ask and their acting, complex characters and questions and wrestle internally with such stories have garnered widespread acclaim. issues as morality, honor and the nature of The popularity and novelty of “Game good and evil. How far are you willing to of Thrones” partly continues this trend, go for your family? Do we really have a say with fans continuing to discuss the show in the political process? Is there anything and books well into the show’s off-season. we can do to solve the world’s problems?

Moreover, the filming and premieres of new Mankind has an uncertain future, just seasons of these drama series, including like the characters of “Game of Thrones.”

“Game of Thrones,” are often glamorous Like the self-interested leaders of Westeros Hollywood events. This contributes to the ignore the looming winter and invasion incorporation of these television programs of the undead from the north, our world into the Western cultural psyche, both leaders are ignoring challenges which reflecting and informing world views. threaten our existence. Despite the dark The storyline itself contributes to the tone of the series, people still tune in week popularity of “Game of Thrones” beyond after week hoping for the best amidst chaos its appeal as big-budget, high production and disorder. Viewers have hope that in the value television. The plot of the story re- end everything will be okay. The current volves around a Machiavellian struggle for challenges that humans face are unique, power among the various dynastic families but mankind has faced serious challenges of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. A in the past and survived. But for now, Jon looming winter and invasion of the undead Snow is dead and winter is still coming.

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N.H. has Libertarian McLarney’s work to focus on nature leanings FROM POET PAGE 1

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In order to maintain its libertarian character, New Hampshirites need to actively fight for a more. limited government, Merrill said. The state’s unique brand of yankee liberty does not come without conscious effort.

Once new government programs are started up, it becomes harder to get rid of them, he said.

Daniel Webster, the namesake of Dartmouth’s Webster Hall and the progenitor of the famed phrase about the College — “It is a small college, but there are those who love it” — was a native of New Hampshire and represented the state in Congress. To him, the state’s longtime symbol, the Old Man of

the Mountain — now a pile of rock beneath Cannon Mountain — symbolized the very personal freedoms for which the state is famous.

He said: “Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”

Disclosure: The author is also a descendent of Josiah Bartlett, for whom the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is named. Bartlett died in 1795; the two have never met.

Partnership works to build interest in the arts

event with EKT, Kappa Delta sorority and Alpha Phi sorority ests exists among students in the showing interest.

Greek community and that the The Hop also contacts fraterpartnership with the Hop is one nities to set up programming, but scheduling conway for students flicts have preto share and ex“We want the Hop vented participaperience those tion, Adams said. interests with to be students’ go-to “Initially frafellow Greek spot for world class ter nities that house mementertainment.” were contacted bers. expressed high The most interest, but in recent part-KATE ADAMS, HOPKINS the end it denership with pends on how Greek chapters CENTER ADVISOR TO their programconsisted of a STUDENT RELATIONS ming schedule is tea box proset,” Adams said. motion that al Both Afre and lowed chapters Adams noted to compete for tickets to see the Swingle Singers that they hope this partnership — a U.K. based a capella group. continue and grows so that more The tea box promotion was students can take advantage of the created to build up interest in the arts at Dartmouth.

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A member of Random Acts of Kindness works on a project during a meeting.

a group of neighbors led by David Schaffer and Evangeline Machlin persuaded the town of Franconia to approve the purchase of the farmhouse where Robert Frost and his family lived full-time from 1915 to 1920 and spent 19 summers. The center sponsors an annual festival and conference on poetry, a teachers’ conference and an advanced seminar with a distinguished faculty of Pulitzer Prize winners and Guggenheim Fellows, along with various other creative events.

“Our mission is simple: to promote the creation and appreciation of poetry and honor Frost’s legacy,”said Maudelle Driskell, executive director of Frost Place.

Frost’s legacy lives on through the prose and diction of the Robert Frost poets in residence, an annual poetry fellowship where a poet is invited to live and work at Frost Place for several months over the summer. Since 1977, the center has awarded the fellowship to a poet at time of personal transformation.

Residency alumni include prominent contemporary poets, among them Katha Pollitt, Robert Hass, William Matthews, Mark Halliday, Laura Kasischke, Rebecca Foust, Todd Hearon and David Graham ’75 and English professor Cleopatra Mathis.

“When selecting applicants, we look at more than their body of work and their accomplishments,” Driskell said. “We hope to select candidates at the same crossroads that Frost was when he came to Franconia, before later achieving wide success.”

For McLarney, the environment of the Frost Place could be a major inspiration. The landscape acts as more than a backdrop in her poetry, but as a character in her stories. She is excited to reenter a rural setting and be immersed in nature in the White Mountains, to recharge, reflect and refocus on her next body of work.

“As a poet concerned with environment, working while looking out at the landscape Frost chose will inspire the articulation of my own ideas about the land on which we live, and on which we leave our ruins, and bring focus to my poems,” McLarney said. “Meanwhile, interactions with other writers and readers through The Frost Place and Dartmouth’s programs will, as shared love of literature does, wonderfully widen my view.”

Frost also grappled with environmental change throughout his career. He lamented the damage being done to the natural world but also greatly admired the beauty that remained in nature.

“The New England landscape he was writing about was already

COURTESY OF ROSE MCLARNEY

Rose McLarney will be this year’s poet in residence.

imperfect,” McLarney said. “It job training paths” and stresses is not like he lived this pastoral the importance of a liberal arts ideal that most people think. He education. She encourages students was also looking at a real, com- to “keep writing poetry because promised world, but was able to you love it, not because you hope create incredibly beautiful poems to make a career out of it.” that are critical of humanity while Mathis, a former poet-in-resinever failing to find the beauty in dence in 1982, valued her time at his surroundings.” the Frost Place.

Driskell wants the poet in resi- “The program truly opens the dence program to be more than a door to the world of poetry, to a typical artistic residency. She noted whole new community of readers that the Frost poets are expected to and poetry friends,” Mathis said. come preMcLarney p a re d t o plans to concomplete a “Our mission is simple: to tinue this significant promote the creation and history of chunk of creative introtheir work, appreciation of poetry and spection while e m b r a c e honor Frost’s legacy.” also engaging the vawith the local garies of communities nature in -MAUDELLE DRISKELL, of Franconia the Upper EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FROST a n d D a r t Valley and mouth. With c o n n e c t PLACE the Upper with the Valley landcommuscape as the nities of s e t t i n g an d Franconia a family of and Dartmouth. readers and writers supporting Dartmouth has a long and her, McLarney will carry on Frost’s close relationship with Frost Place, legacy as she dives deeply into her financially supporting the poets in own writing. She hopes to invest residence program since 2012. The the time to get to know Frost Place College also hosts poetry readings intimately to create something of and workshops with the poets in beauty. residence throughout the summer “Frost would be charmed by the and the center offers multiple schol- idea that people would want to be arship opportunities for students in in his house, read his work and pay the creative writing program. The homage to him,” Mathis said. master of liberal studies program The extraordinary legacy of also offers its students two scholar- Robert Frost rests safely in the ships to the conference each year. hands of Frost Place. The center McLarney hopes to engage with and its’ programs will continue to students at the College. As a teacher foster the next generation of creherself, McLarney is disturbed by ative minds, encouraging individuthe increasing pursuit of educa- als to “take the road less travelled tion limited to “career tracks or by.”

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THE DARTMOUTH EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016

DARTMOUTHEVENTS TODAY 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

“Technology for the Other 3-4 Billion Inhabitants,” talk by Dr. Victor Lawrence, Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“Requiem for the American Dream” (2016), documentary featuring Noam Chomsky, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“The Milliner’s Daughters,” production by Nicole Allen ’16, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center

TOMORROW

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“Unbranded” (2015), directed by Phillip Baribeau, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“The Witch”(2016), directed by Robert Eggers, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

“The Milliner’s Daughters,” production by Nicole Allen ’16, Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center

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Alumna Q&A: Buzzfeed video producer Michelle Khare ’14

By NALINI RAMANTHAN The Dartmouth Staff

Just two years after graduating from Dartmouth with a self-designed major in digital arts and media technology, Michelle Khare ’14 has found success in the world of internet video. She currently works at BuzzFeed and has 150,000 followers across various social media platforms.

How do you make your mark on your work?

MK: Within BuzzFeed, we’re really lucky to have a lot of freedom to create content that is really special, unique and speaks to us as individuals. So, for me, I’ve done a lot of content on being a minority, on being Indian. I have done a lot of content to provide these experiences to groups of people who have never experienced them before. I love doing videos that challenge societal norms and encourage people to think differently.

What artists inspire you?

MK: A lot of Dartmouth alums really inspire me. Mindy Kaling ’01 and Shonda Rhimes ’91 are huge, huge inspirations to me. I was really lucky to get to meet Shonda during my FSP to

LA my senior year, and I feel so lucky to kind of have people to look up to who are women of color, especially Mindy, who is Indian like I am, who are totally killing it in the business. And so I also look up to their content a lot, I look up to their mantras and their brands.

They inspire me because they work incredibly hard to get their job done, and they defy all odds while doing it.

Like you, my father immigrated from India, while my mother was born in America. I know for me, growing up, this had a big impact on the way I saw both Indian and American culture. Have these different cultural backgrounds influenced the way you approach different aspects of Indian and American culture in your life, and if so, how?

MK: So I am mixed race, and one of the things I love to speak about is identity. Growing up not being completely Indian but not looking white was definitely something that filled a lot of my childhood. It was a lot of explaining, you know, “Yes, this is my mom, even though she doesn’t have the same skin color that I do.” I grew up in a conservative, small town in Louisiana, and that one aspect of my life really affected the way that I grew up. So a

lot of my childhood, I met being mixed race with a lot of confusion and frustration about it. I never saw my situation of a multiracial individual or family portrayed in the media, and I think that at first, I looked at them and thought, maybe I that means I’m not supposed to be in media. My goal, in life, is to let every person know, whether mixed race or different in any way at all, that just because you don’t see someone who looks like you doing the dream that you have, doesn’t mean you can’t be the first person to do that. As I grow older now, I see so many wonderful aspects of being multiracial and multiethnic. I recently got back from a trip to India where, with BuzzFeed India, I got to create a lot of pretty cool videos, and the whole experience was extremely eye-opening and beautiful. I was actually there for my grandfather’s funeral, and it really brought things full circle for me.

very unique industry of internet video, and it would be a dream of mine to work with her one day. My dad is an immigrant, and I really admire and look up to him for that, and I respect that. I feel so grateful to have grown up in a household where my father was an immigrant because it taught me so much about work ethic. And it really, really taught me about being thankful for the small things, even, that we are afforded to have in America, most especially at Dartmouth. Dartmouth was an incredible privilege. Both of my parents went to local universities, and I was the first person in my family to leave our home state to go to college.

And, you know, I wouldn’t have had an opportunity like that had my father not come to America and had I not seen his work ethic and tried to emulate that in my life. So, I’m very thankful to be the daughter of an immigrant.

I know you’ve talked a lot about your role models, but who do you know in “real life” that has been most influential in your career?

Is there anything that you’ve worked on recently that you’re particularly proud of ?

MK: So probably my biggest influence and idol is YouTube comedian Lilly Singh. She’s also known as Superwoman. I really admire her work ethic. I also admire her for being a fellow Indian woman who I feel has succeeded in a

MK: One video, that I was not in, that I’m really proud of is — it came out last week — called “People Recreate Photos of Their Immigrant Ancestors.”

In America, it’s a unique situation, where everyone here, except for Native Americans, is a descendant of an

immigrant. Another video I’m really proud of that I did is “1 Woman, 8 Sarees,” which is like a beauty video that I filmed in India, and that was just an incredible experience to get to make a video on a very mainstream and American website for an Indian audience. And it ended up going viral, so that was really cool to see.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

MK: It’s very hard to predict where you’ll be in five years in an industry on the internet. I want to continue making viral videos for the internet. I wasn’t honestly really expecting for my personal following to grow as much as it has at BuzzFeed. Now I feel really blessed to have almost 150,000 followers on all platforms. And I found that speaking to large groups of people about the issues that I face and that other women have gone through has been awesome, and I would love to continue that. I really want to come back to Dartmouth, and share what I’ve learned with Dartmouth students.

It would be super cool to do that in one way or another.

Khare may be reached on Instagram at @ michellekhare, Twitter at @MichelleKhare and on Facebook.

Arts Explores: BVAC Sculpture Studio, a creative arsenal

By MAC EMERY

The Dartmouth Staff

In the sculpture studios on the first floor of the Black Family Visual Arts Center, students’ erratic, twisting sculptures line the room’s perimeter like suspended dreams. Anatomical skeletons patiently wait to inspire and guide the next class. A huge sculpted hand emerges from a table nearby, outspread as if in expectation, and across the room a life-size cardboard figurine is splayed face first on a table in a sadly relatable facsimile of a student passed out while studying.

Long yellow cables dangle from the ceiling, and an array of equipment, tools and materials hang on the wall like a creative’s arsenal. An adjoining room contains heavy soldering equipment, another room has rows of plaster molds and industrial air vents, and yet another is stocked with glistening saws and woodworking equipment. In the multiple rooms of the sculpting studio, students from all backgrounds and majors explore their creative side.

The studio art department offers sculpture courses every semester, for students of all experience levels and backgrounds interested in exploring sculpture and the abundant resources the department boasts. The courses include “Sculpture I,” available every semester, which introduces multiple

forms of sculpture, including clay, plaster, wood, cardboard, wire, recycled materials and more for those looking for a new experience and instruction. The department also offers upper-level sculpture courses for students to further advance their skills.

Sculpture students rarely want for materials or equipment. From the very first project for “Sculpture I,” the department supplies everything the students could need.

“They had a plethora of things to use,” said Emma Mouzon ’18, a former “Sculpture I” student. “Boxes of bamboo sticks. All the supplies were there. Everything.”

Students also have exclusive, around-the-clock access to the stocked, modernist facilities, and the autonomy to work on their projects whenever creativity, or free time, is flowing. Students have access to a woodshop, a molding room, two sculpture spaces, a metal shop and more.

“It’s so different from every other class at Dartmouth that I’ve taken,” studio art intern and sculpture teaching assistant Malika Khurana ’15 said. “It’s something where you have to learn to be self-reliant and make decisions on your own and manage your own materials. There’s nobody who’s going to tell you how to do it, because it’s about you.”

All these options exist in a cooperative, encouraging environment unlike the competitive conditions sometimes prevalent in Dartmouth courses. Khurana commented that students develop stronger relationships with their professors and that makes the studio art community feel like a family.

“I’ve had classes that get really close, you’re all sort of vibing together at the same time,” Khurana said. “It has a real community feel, in this building.”

Whether the moment requires a helping hand, constructive reflection and feedback or technical input from the professor and class TA, assistance is never far away.

“It was very collaborative in the sense of getting opinions on your work or needing help,” Mouzon said.

This comfortable environment can pacify the uncertainties that sometimes plague new artists.

“It’s not that you have to talk about it personally, but art is something that becomes so tied to who you are,” Khurana said. “So a lot of it is being very vulnerable, and facing things that you are insecure about.”

Trained for rigid rubrics and demanding expectations, students sometimes struggle at first with the program’s flexibility and indeterminacy. But with experience, they often build trust in their creative impulses

as professors instruct them on new tools, techniques and materials.

“There’s also no right answer.

Students in the lower level classes will often talk about what the professor wants. But that’s so irrelevant,” Khurana said. “In that sense, it’s a very pure form of education.”

This manifests in an individuality between projects obvious to even a cursory survey of the many strewn across the sculpture spaces.

“Everybody has their own ideas and they’re not meant to look the same, because everybody is an individual,” studio art professor Brenda Garand said.

For former students like Khurana and Mouzon, it is not difficult to see how creative flourishing can add to a Dartmouth experience, and foster the area of talents that can wither under relentless exams and requirements. For Mouzon, who is also an economics major, this artistic exposure was a chance to regenerate her creative drive.

“I love it. Because there’s definitely a part of myself that’s very organized and structured,” Mouzon said. “But there’s definitely another part that’s extremely enthusiastic and creative.”

Since the department is so open, sculpture classes draw together students of different stripes. Khurana, who also double majored in engineer-

ing, reflected on the intermingling of interests and talents.

“It’s been funny in my own experience, because I never came to Dartmouth thinking I would do studio art,” Khurana said. “Everything is so interdisciplinary. Computer Science majors end up loving art classes.”

In the eyes of Khurana, this fulfills the promise of a liberal arts education, since very few impediments exist to prevent students from across the board from dabbling in an art class.

“It’s very inspiring to see that you can do both, and [kind of] have the left brain, right brain going together, and intersperse them together,” Mouzon said.

Garand said that she hopes that her students leave with a changed perspective that might be hard to achieve elsewhere.

“I think that the main thing is that it will change how they view the world and see the world, every day and moving through spaces,” Garand said. “Looking at spaces, thinking about forms, thinking about ideas.”

For those on the fence about dabbling in sculpture, Mouzon effusively recommends the experience.

“I would say don’t be scared to explore a side of yourself that you might have denied,” Mouzon said.

“You learn a lot as you go and you realize you are capable of so much.”

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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2016

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Senior Spring: Men’s swimming captain James Verhagen ’16

By BRANDON LEE The Dartmouth

A swimmer from South Africa, James Verhagen ’16 knew almost no one in the country when he set foot in the United States for the first time his freshman fall. But he will leave with his name in the record books.

“I knew I’d be going into a good school, [but] I had no idea about the athletic environment I’d be going into,” he said.

Since arriving on campus, he hasn’t looked back. Verhagen has seen immense success, setting multiple pool records, finishing with an array of awards and building a legacy of camaraderie within the swim team.

Teammate Aaron Athanas ’16 described Verhagen as “a brother… [and] the consummate professional.

He works hard, and although he may be quiet, he is heard when he speaks, and when he does it carries

a greater weight. With that being said you also could not ask for someone more consistent. He has quietly gone about being one of the best backstrokers in Ivy League history and the undisputed best at Dartmouth.”

Yet for the swimmer, his journey to excellence all started in Johannesburg, South Africa. While Verhagen played field hockey in high school, swimming was always his sport of choice.

“I kind of just progressed from learning to swim in classes, through club swimming and high school swimming,” Verhagen said.

And while he developed later than most, Verhagen did not let that frustrate him, turning into a superior athlete within his club program, which he explains is the primary swimming program in South Africa, rather than a school organization.

“I grew very late in high school, so that was quite correlated with

The Roundup Compiled by James Handal and Evan Morgan

Men’s Lacrosse The hits keep coming for men’s lacrosse, as the University of Massachusetts Lowell (3-11) dealt the Big Green (1-11, 0-4 Ivy) its seventh straight loss on Tuesday.

The men are winless in four home games this season.

Dartmouth opened the game with a pair of goals, the first from KC Beard ’16 on an assist by Billy Heidt ’16, and the second an unassisted score from Will Randell ’19.

UMass Lowell answered with two goals later in the period to tie the game at 2-2. The River Hawks got the better of Dartmouth during the second quarter, outscoring the Big Green 5-3 and taking a 7-5 lead into halftime. A River Hawks tally at the beginning of the third made it a three-goal game, but goals by Jack Korzelius ’18 at 6 minutes 36 seconds and Wiley Osborne ’17 at 6:26 cut the deficit to one. After twice trading goals, Dartmouth pulled even with UMass Lowell on Richie Loftus ’18’s second goal of the game with 9:06 remaining in the fourth. However, a River Hawks goal one minute

later proved to be the difference, as UMass Lowell prevailed 11-10.

Korzelius scored four times for the Big Green, and goalie Joe Balaban ’19 notched six saves while playing a full game. The narrow loss came despite winning the turnover battle by 10 and outshooting UMass Lowell 39-26.

Women’s Lacrosse The Dartmouth women’s lacrosse lost its first game of the season at home against the University at Albany, State University of New York 9-7 on Monday at ScullyFahey Field. The Big Green fall to 6-7 and 2-3 in Ivy League play while the Great Danes improve to 9-4 and 4-0 in conference play.

In a close defensive display in the first half, Jaclyn Leto ’16 scored two goals with Kathryn Giroux ’19 adding another but trailed 4-3 at halftime. Albany and the Big Green were evenly matched with both teams trading possession and shots, tallying 10 shots each in the period.

Starting the second half, Leto helped Dartmouth get a 6-5 lead

how my times descended,” Verhagen said.

Under Peter Williams, head coach of the Waterborn swim club, Verhagen built up his foundations as an athlete and grew into a competitive swimmer. It was during his junior year that Verhagen realized that he could come to the U.S. and compete at the college level.

“Williams was a huge inspiration,” Verhagen said. “He was a quality technical coach and mental coach. He has a mind for the sport and a mind for people.”

Immediately upon his arrival, the butterfly and backstroke specialist began contributing to the team, taking first in the 200-meter backstroke at the Dartmouth Invitational his freshman year. That same season, he would go on to break the Dartmouth school record for the 100 and 200 breaststroke at the Ivy League championships, as well as lead off the 400 medley relay team that finished just .14 seconds

off first place.

“I think that 400 medley relay was one of my prouder moments,” Verhagen said. “I was a freshman on a relay, which was an awesome experience for me. We were very competitive, and we kind of surprised everyone.”

The men’s team finished the year with its highest ranking in program history at No. 9 in the Collegeswimming.com mid-major poll, which “gave us hope… and sparked a revival,” according to Verhagen.

Verhagen would continue to break records throughout the rest of his time as a swimmer, placing third and fourth in the 100 and 200 backstroke respectively at this past season’s Ivy League championships, be recognized as an Academic AllIvy student athlete his junior and senior years and be named captain his senior year.

For the swimmer, more incredible than his numbers are the people

he has spent time with, the relationships he has built throughout his career and what those people have to say about him.

“Never has there been such a supportive, humble leader of our team in my years of coaching,” former Dartmouth head coach Jim Wilson said. “He never has a bad word to say about anyone and is always there to help, whether it be in training, at a competition or working with small children at our swim school. He will be greatly missed.”

While the chapter on Verhagen’s collegiate career has come to a close, he will take the lessons he has learned from swimming through his entire life.

He has secured a job at a consulting firm in New York, and although he is not “completely married to the idea,” he may move back to South Africa.

For now, he seems to be content to roll with the tide.

after racking up three more goals.

In response, Albany stepped up its pressure and responded with four goals, reclaiming the lead 9-6. With just over two minutes left, Kierra Sweeney ’19 added another goal for the Big Green, but it was too late as the Great Danes won 9-7.

Sarah Martin on Albany tallied four goals to lead her team.

Leto moves into fifth all time in goals with 145 and sixth all time in points with 168 at Dartmouth after scoring five goals.

Charlotte Wahle ’19 had two saves in the loss.

and extend the Big Green lead.

Thomas Roulis ’15 also contributed to the game with two RBIs. Duncan Robinson ’16, Michael Danielak ’16 and Chris Burkholder ’17 limited the Big Red to three runs and three hits for the Big Green’s 9-3 win.

In the second game, no runs were scored until the Big Green notched two in the fourth inning.

Holbrook and Ketchmark batted in runs to take a 2-0 lead in the

pitching duel. Dartmouth scored a third run in the sixth to take a 3-0 lead. Cornell managed to score a run in the seventh, but the Big Green was victorious 3-1.

Cole O’Connor ’19, Marc Bachman ’18, Jackson Bubala ’17 and Patrick Peterson ’18 all pitched in the game, contributing to the Big Red’s zero runs and six hits.

The Big Green play Yale at home this weekend in two doubleheaders, Saturday and Sunday.

Baseball The Dartmouth baseball team beat Cornell University in its doubleheader on Wednesday 9-3 and 3-1 to tie with Yale University atop the Red Rolfe Division in Ivy League play. Stellar pitching by the Big Green held Cornell to four runs and nine hits in both games combined, while the Big Green offense exploded for 12 runs. Dartmouth improves to 13-20 and 7-5 in Ivy League play while the Big Red fall to 12-16 and 5-7 in Ivy play.

The first game against Cornell was tight until the seventh inning as the Big Green exploded for five runs. Dustin Shirley ’18 hit a two run triple which brought in Ben Socher ’17 and Kyle Holbrook ’18

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Chris Burkholder ’16 pitched the last 2.2 innings and notched the win in the first game of the baseball team’s Wednesday’s doubleheader against Cornell University.