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VOL. CLXXII NO. 24

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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said that it was a challenge recruiting people to build then as well.

“The beginning step, getting it up, is not glamorous,” he said. “We never expected that much help.”

He added, however, that as the sculpture progressed, more students volunteered.

“Once we started carving it, people wanted to help more,” he said. “We had the

The amount of student bed space available in the College’s living and learning communities, now around 20 percent of all housing, will remain unchanged after the implementation of a residential housing system next fall, senior assistant dean of residential life and director of residential education Mike Wooten said.

Students will still have the option to live in the LLCs after they have been placed into the houses proposed in College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative, he said.

The living learning communities aim to integrate how students think with where they live, in a process called “transfer learning,” Wooten said. “This year, applications to join a living learning communities surpassed the number of available spots,” he said.

Residents and leaders associated with the LLCs expressed satisfaction with how the four new communities, unveiled and opened to students last fall, have been progressing. More than 200 freshmen moved into LLCs, or learning-based residential programs, in September.

The Global Village is one living learning community in which students live and interact within a multicultural, multinational and multidisciplinary community.

The Dickey Center for International Understanding, one of the Global Village’s partners, has brought

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Students have built snow sculpture for Winter Carnival for over 100 years.

B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff

Student volunteers completed work on this year’s Winter Carnival snow sculpture yesterday following some difficulty recruiting students, snow sculpture chair Ben Nelson ’17 said.

Located in the center of the Green, this year’s sculpture — inspired by the theme “A Clash of Carnivals: Superheroes vs. Villains” — is of

an uncopyrighted superhero, he said.

Students have built a sculpture for Winter Carnival since the 1920s, with one of the first being of a snow castle on Occom Pond.

In the past, low snowfall and unpleasant weather was at times a challenge for volunteer turnout, though it never prevented its construction.

Last year’s snow sculpture chair Ben Geithner ’16

Carnival weekend packed with events B y STEFFEN ERIKSEN

From classics like the polar bear plunge and human dogsled race to newer traditions like Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s fourth-annual chili cook-off, this year’s “Clash of Carnivals: Superheroes vs.

Villains”-themed Winter Carnival is packed with programming.

Though the theme faced copyright issues that prevented the use of any established characters, Winter Carnival Council Chair Katie Gibson ’15 said that the student body has responded positively. She

said that both DC Comics and Marvel did not agree to let the council use their trademarked superheroes.

Students had to be creative when developing posters, T-shirt designs and the snow sculpture, Gibson said.

“This year we were trying to find a theme that would be just as popular and that the rest of campus would like and appreciate,” Gibson said. This will be the second year the ice sculpture contest is included as a part of the weekend’s festivities.

The Council increased the number of ice sculpture teams from 15 to

20 this year due to high interest, she said.

The weekend festivities officially launched on Thursday night with an opening ceremony on the Green, including an opening remark from College Provost Carolyn Dever, an a cappella performance by the Dartmouth Brovertones and the historic torch-lighting ceremony by the Dartmouth ski team.

Earlier in the day, 20 teams had already begun carving the large blocks of ice on the Green, and the judges will determine the results SEE PREVIEW PAGE 5

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Freshmen attend an info session on the First-Year Fellows program.

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DAily debriefing Students on Hanover High School’s governing council are proposing that the school distribute free condoms to students, the Valley News reported on Thursday.

In an email to his parents, Ben Chaimberg, a member of the Hanover High Council’s four-person Condom Ad Hoc Committee, said that embarrassment and lack of funds should not be factors that prevent students from remaining healthy. He referred to studies that show that the distribution of condoms reduces the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases and does not significantly increase the rate of sexual activity. The Dresden School Board would make the final decision regarding the proposal, but will not vote on the proposal unless principal Justin Campbell supports the proposal. Campbell believes that this decision should be up to guardians and is not the school’s responsibility. Ten years ago the same proposal was made, but was rejected because of disapproval from parents. A recent survey by Chaimberg showed that 81 percent of parents surveyed last month supported the movement. The council is due to consider the proposal within the next two weeks.

A new policy for siting energy generation projects will be put forward by lawmakers in Vermont, the VT Digger reported on Wednesday. Tony Klein, the chairman of the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee, said that this was not part of Vermont’s new renewable energy program, which is still being developed. It would stand as a separate bill, and he said that they would encourage the construction of energy projects on developed areas by offering expedited permits and better rates. Several proposals for energy projects in Vermont have been rejected recently. The new renewable energy program currently in development, RESET, will require some of the renewable power sold to customers to come from in-state generation.

It aims to make it easier to begin projects and might allow utilities to use money from electric customers to cover the costs of their projects.

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in speakers and a variety of experiential learning programming for members of the community, Global Village lead team member Casey Aldrich said.

Prior speakers include former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell and author of “Redeployment” Phil Klay. Next week, the community plans to hold an event involving a computer-based simulation focusing on world energy. These events have not only been wellreceived, but also well-attended.

Although she was hesitant to admit a correlation, Aldrich said that members of the Global Village community have been enrolling in the international studies minor since joining the community.

The Center has been communicating and working with a variety of partners, including the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Montgomery Fellows, the various language departments and the Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education to design programming and encourage event attendance.

Each term the programming cycle revolves around a different topic.

Last fall, the community focused on global health. This winter they are focusing on environmental issues, while the spring will put a spotlight on international security and war and peace. Students will have the opportunity to visit the

ice core labs in the Thayer School of Engineering during this term.

Global Village resident Bob Wang ’18 said that he applied to the LLC to maintain his French and to meet people who want to talk about international affairs.

The Global Village has provided opportunities for students to have intellectual conversations and to meet interesting people, Wang said, such as former U.S. global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby.

Wang said that the main aspect of the LLC that he would want to see improved is the placement of sections. Freshmen are placed on floors with mostly upperclassmen, he said, missing out on the same freshmen floor experience that they would have living in a traditional dorm building during their first year at Dartmouth.

Assistant director of residential education for living learning programs and academic initiatives Katharina Daub said that the Triangle House, another LLC, is a “well-structured community.”

Triangle House, an LGBTQIA community, features live-in advisors including an undergraduate advisor, a staff advisor, the interim director of OPAL Reese Kelly and a live-in postdoctoral fellow at the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth, Brianne Gallagher.

The house hosts brunch once a week where residents engage in discussions about gender issues, Daub said.

There are 10 design-your-own communities, which allocate space for students to live together and create their own LLC based on a topic of their choosing, she said.

Often students apply for the program so that their prior floors can stay together, she said.

Examples of such communities include “Muggles for Magical Awareness,” which has discussions revolving around the Harry Potter book series, Daub said.

Another example is “The Other Reed Hall,” where students of a variety of areas of expertise gather every Friday for dinner and share one thing they learned that week.

The most difficult part of the design your own community process was finding bed space for the students, Daub said.

The new Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center has an associated LLC that aims to help students become involved in entrepreneurial activities on campus, such as a start-up boot camp, Daub said. Currently, the program has an equal representation of each class. Members of this community had the opportunity to visit start-ups in California during the winter interim period to meet with Dartmouth alums working in start-ups.

The fall of 2015 will see the first major adjustments to the new communities, including potential changes to programming and the percent of enrolled students living in the communities, he said.

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee has rejected a bill that proposes that life begins at conception, the Concord Monitor reported on Thursday. The committee voted against the “All People Created Equal Act” 10-4.

Rep. Kurt Wuelper (R-NH Strafford District 3) debated claims that it would support the criminalization of abortion, after representatives from health groups warned that it could have consequences for abortion, birth control and other aspects of health care. Jennifer Frizzell, vice president for public policy for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, opposed the bill and said that it was not consistent with New Hampshire’s stance on these issues.

— Compiled by Katie Rafter

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Due to a printing error, some of the pages of The Dartmouth were missing from the Jan. 6 issue.

The Jan. 6 article “Hanover Conservancy protects local wildlife” inaccurately said that the Hanover Conservancy manages most of the land that Dartmouth owns. The Conservancy actually only manages 20 acres of Dartmouth-owned land at the Balch Hill Natural Area.

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Existing Living and Learning Communities will not be affected by the Moving Dartmouth Forward residential houses.

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same problems as this year — you have to publicize it a lot.”

Winter Carnival Council advisor Joe Castelot said Nelson proposed the idea for the sculpture in early January, and after getting the appropriate permits and design approvals, construction began a few weeks ago.

Students shovelled snow on the Green to ensure they had enough for the sculpture in case snowfall was low this year, Castelot said.

While the amount of snow was not ultimately an issue, the Dartmouth Skiway provided some additional snow, he said.

In recent years, weather has threatened sculpture construction. In 2012, temperatures just above freezing and low snowfall caused setbacks for the construction team.

The snow sculpture committee for that year also brought in snow from the Dartmouth Skiway, though in other years snow was brought from outlying fields around campus.

In 2013, the sculpture was built with snow from athletic fields and ice rink shavings trucked to the Green.

In 2014, last minute snowfall aided construction of the sculpture after a “January thaw” of rain, sleet and warmer weather.

The committee also brought in snow from the Dartmouth Skiway.

Last year, the sculpture depicted a throne to coincide with the “Carnival of Thrones” theme.

In 2013 it depicted Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf for the “A Very Grimm Carnival” theme.

The 2012 sculpture was a cupcake for the “Carnival in Candyland” theme.

In past years, there have been

several obstacles in the form of extreme weather conditions. In 1955, the Carnival sculpture, which showed an Inuit riding a whale, endured far beyond the weekend’s events due to excessively cold temperatures. The sculpture ultimately had to be destroyed with dynamite in the spring .

U nu s u a l l y w a r m we at h e r caused the 1997 sculpture of a knight on a horse to melt, and the sculpture was instead transformed into a knight’s funeral.

Past sculptures depicted Dartmouth-associated figures like a 37foot sculpture of College founder Eleazar Wheelock and the 30-foot tall sculpture of the Cat in the Hat to honor Theodore Geisel’s 100th birthday. The tallest sculpture was a 47.5-foot snowman.

Nelson said the process starts with building the foundation of the piece by using a large wooden frame to pack and freeze snow into a solid block for carving. He said he has been working on the sculpture for around eight hours a day, working more hours closer to its completion.

While creating the sculpture takes a significant amount of time, Nelson said he decided to be the sculpture chair because he cares about the tradition behind it.

Alumni council president Louis Spelios ’95 said that the snow sculpture is an iconic Dartmouth

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The 1972 Winter Carnival, “Winterland of Oz,” featured a snow sculpture in the form of a castle in the center of the Green.

symbol for many alumni.

“There is so much tradition and memory there for so many people,” Spelios said. “To see the sculpture on the Green is very special. As you come into Hanover, it’s the perfect thing to see.”

He said that the snow sculpture is “an intangible draw” for all alumni, especially for those who remember being involved with

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The 1992 sculpture was one of several that have commemorated Dr. Suess.

the building of the sculpture as students.

Allison Carswell ’17, who helped with the sculpture last year, said she is always surprised at sculpture’s large size. She said that while she enjoyed working on it last year, helping to build it is not something she feels she needs to do each year.

Jules Hislop ’17 and Hirsh El-

hence ’17 both said the sculpture reflected the theme well.

Marisol Meyer ’18 said she thinks the sculpture is “symbolic of all the effort that students put into Carnival.”

Hannah Nolan ’16 said that she thinks this year’s sculpture is a “huge improvement” from the 2013 sculpture.

Kelsey Flower contributed reporting.

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GUEST columnist LILY BROWN ’15

Deflating with Caution

More Than Just Numbers

Grade deflation must fit into a broader plan to tackle academic shortcomings.

While there may be no scheduled classes today, on any given day it’s likely that at least a few students have pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment or exam. Enter Baker-Berry Library at any time throughout the term and you will see hundreds of students studying for hours on end.

While College President Phil Hanlon has asked faculty “to consider a number of ways to increase the rigor of our curriculum” through unilaterally curbing grade inflation or having earlier classes, he should instead look to increase rigor by fixing structural inadequacies in the academic resources Dartmouth offers its students.

First, it is a fallacy to assume that students who take earlier classes are inherently more academic.

There is nothing intellectually superior to taking a class at 8 a.m. on a Thursday instead of 2 p.m.

Earlier class times hurt students with jobs that start early in the morning or end late at night, athletes who have morning practice and any other students with a number of legitimate reasons to take classes later in the day. Presumably, earlier class times could stop some students from consuming alcohol on a Monday or Wednesday night, but this group of students will still have the option not to take these classes, or simply deal with going to class hungover. A two-hour difference is not enough to dissuade students, especially considering how little sleep the average Dartmouth student often gets.

Grade inflation is a problem in many departments, but it cannot be solved through unilateral grade deflation. Last year, the government department instituted median limits for both seminars and lectures. In doing so, they effectively addressed grade inflation while allowing for differences in class type and size. All departments should adopt a similar policy, but go further in recognizing the discrepancies between various courses. Introductory classes should have higher standardized medians in order to encourage academic exploration. Low medians in introductory courses only serve to “weed out” students who do not perform well in those classes and discourage them from further exploring the department. A high grade only demonstrates that a student was successful in that particular course. Considering

the role that externalities, such as prior education, the status of a student’s mental health and other personal factors during a given term, one grade is an insufficient indicator of a student’s potential for success in a department.

Further, increased non-recording option availability goes hand-in-hand with standardized medians. Curbing grade inflation, while important, can discourage students from taking risks in course selection. By increasing the amount and kinds of classes that students can NRO — and thus take without fear of lowering their grade point average — the College would mitigate the negative impact grade deflation has on academic exploration.

Dartmouth offers a variety of academic resources, yet there is still room for improvement.

Professors and academic deans should have more office hours that take students’ schedules into consideration. Academic support services should ensure that students have consistent and accessible resources across all subjects and course offerings. There is, for example, a significant difference between a good English paper and a good economics paper.

In considering ways to improve the academic experience, we should also revisit the quarter system. Having a ten-week quarter incentivizes students to take the easy way out, as each missed day puts students irrevocably behind. There can be no sick days, no personal traumas and no stumbling blocks. Students are already overworked, overbooked and struggling. The D-Plan was intended to be a short-term solution that would allow coeducation without decreasing the enrollment of male students. It was not meant to be seen as innovative, let alone permanent. The College should consider changes to the academic schedule, perhaps by looking at the J-term schedule at schools like Williams College or adapting features of a semester system to Dartmouth’s calendar.

As we said in last Friday’s Verbum Ultimum, “Moving Dartmouth Forward” left more questions than it gave answers. While the details still have to be worked out, the College will need to do more than simply mandate lower grades if it wants to increase academic rigor.

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We cannot focus on statistics alone when critiquing the Greek system.

In last Thursday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” speech, College President Phil Hanlon stated that the presidential steering committee had concluded that the Greek system itself is not the root of Dartmouth’s problem. The committee’s research compared schools with Greek systems to those without them, and their findings reported that both grapple with high levels of harmful behaviors, such as binge drinking and sexual assault. These findings evidently shaped the decision not to significantly reform the College’s Greek system.

We could draw attention to the lack of transparency — Hanlon has not produced the specific data on which he based this decision — but that would miss the point. The results of this research are irrelevant when discussing the Greek system’s future as there is also an ideological critique. It is not sufficient to talk only about sexual assault, binge drinking and exclusivity — we also must talk about sexism.

Empirical evidence is not relevant if we all agree that gender discrimination is wrong and that spaces that explicitly exclude women promote a patriarchal system. If that is the case, then the Greek system must go.

While we can endlessly look at data and analyze possible correlations between sexual assaults and fraternities, none of this is necessary to have a valid critique of the Greek system. In our society, many agree that gender discrimination is unjust. It is reprehensible — and illegal — for an employer not to hire someone simply because she is a woman, for example. The fact that gender discrimination is wrong does not demand justification.

So why, when faced with a system that explicitly excludes people based on their gender, do we need data to form a judgment? Imagine an organization that explicitly states that it only accepts white people. It would be absurd to look at studies, make graphs and crunch numbers to prove that this organization was unfair or harmful for people of color. It is clearly a question of ideology, rather than numbers.

Within the context of gendered spaces, male-dominated spaces pose a specific problem

because of the history of sexism — or what we have come to call the patriarchy. It is impossible to discuss gender discrimination in a void.

Women have traditionally been oppressed by men — not the other way around.

Women were long denied access to male-only spaces that afforded men certain privileges — including most professions and universities — and denied many of the same rights as men, like the right to vote. With this in mind, sororities can be justified as a reaction to fraternities, where women hold power that traditionally belonged to men. To this day, though, fraternities still award men a disproportionate amount of power on campus. It is not enough to create sororities to counteract the fraternities — we have to dismantle the structures that disproportionately benefit men.

I do not suggest that there is no place for facts or studies, but it is an insult to pretend that problems within the Greek system can be addressed in such a simplistic way or that these facts somehow put an end to the discussion. When the debate is presented as one of empirical evidence, rather than supposedly unsubstantiated ideas and personal experiences of negative behaviors in the Greek system, then President Hanlon and the pro-Greek side seem like the logical ones. By ignoring the sexism inherent in fraternities, however, they fail to take full account of the Greek system’s problems.

If we were simply trying to curb underage drinking and sexual assault, maybe the studies would be the most important consideration.

The discussion, however, was supposed to be about moving Dartmouth forward. If we want to move forward, we must understand that fraternities, havens of institutionalized sexism that give men an inordinate amount of power on campus, are archaic. To say that all colleges have the same problems is to ignore the problems specific to this College — problems that may not manifest in concrete or quantifiable ways, but that certainly determine the campus culture and tilt the social scene in favor of Greek-affiliated males at the expense of other students.

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New and old events will happen over Carnival Weekend FROM PREVIEW PAGE 1

before announcing the winners of the competition at 4 p.m. on Friday. The top three winners will each receive a prize provided by the Dartmouth Class of 1977 — $600 for the grand prize, $300 for the runner-up and $100 for third place, Gibson said.

The Dartmouth Dodecaphonics will be hosting their Winter Whingding performance in Spaulding Auditorium Friday night at 8 p.m.

Dodecaphonics president Katelyn Onufrey ’15 said that the a cappella group will be performing nine new arrangements. The show will also include performances by Sugarplum and DStyle, she said.

Every member of the a cappella group will be individually featured during the performance as the group seeks to “cater to the excitement for the weekend,” Onufrey said.

Gibson said she expects the human dogsled race — which will happen on Saturday at 2 p.m. — will attract a high percentage of student participation. The races take place on the Green, with participants pulling other students in sleds while wearing brightly-

colored, odd clothing.

Weekend activities will also include events sponsored by Greek organizations, including Phi Delta’s chili cook-off this Saturday at 3 p.m. All proceeds from the fundraiser will be given to the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that provides housing for families of veterans receiving treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals, he said.

Phi Delt member and event organizer Jake Greenberg ’17 said that the event bears particular significance to the fraternity given the rich tradition of its members’ service in the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School and Dartmouth ROTC programs.

With support from the Interfraternity Council, the office of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies, Alpha Delta fraternity, Alpha Phi sorority, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity and the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, Greenberg said he hopes that this year’s cook-off will top last year’s attendance of 500 students.

Alumni council president Louis Spelios, who is a member of the Class of 1995, said that he believes that Winter Carnival weekend is a special experience for the alumni that return to the College. He said

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A group of students work on constructing this year’s snow sculpture on the center of the Green.

that many alumni return not only to reunite with friends but also to watch Dartmouth winter sports teams compete over the weekend.

“The alumni really appreciate the opportunity to see students succeed and interact with them to hear what is going on in Hanover,” Spelios said.

The Friday schedule will also include the polar bear plunge at Occom Pond from 10:30 a.m to 1 p.m. as well a 99-cent ski day at the Dartmouth Skiway, with buses picking students at the front of the Hopkins Center from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Gibson said. On Saturday, there will be a “make your own

mask” event in Collis Common Ground, where students can design a superhero or supervillain mask.

The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium, and comedian Mark Forward will perform a stand-up routine in One Wheelock at 10 p.m.

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TODAY 5:00 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Squash versus Brown University, Berry Squash Exhibition

6:30 p.m.

“Diplomacy” (2014), Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

8:00 p.m.

“Winter WhingDing,” Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

TOMORROW 11:00 a.m.

“Dartmouth Classic,” Men’s and Women’s Track and Field, Leverone Field House

2:00 p.m.

“Winter Carnival Programming: Human Dogsled Races and Make Your Own Masks,” The Green and Collis Common Ground

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Swimming and diving teams finish 1st and 2nd at home B y KOURTNEY KAWANO The Dartmouth Staff

In their final non-conference meets of the season, the men’s swimming and diving team defeated the University of Connecticut 177-123 while the women’s team lost to the Huskies by a score of 166-134. The men’s win marked its first home and its second overall win of the season.

“Overall, the teams did a great job,” assistant coach Alexi Kuska said.

“Everyone swam hard and strategically.”

Though the Huskies earned the top spots in the one-meter and threemeter diving contests for both men and women, the Big Green earned critical points from its top finishers.

Ryan Shelley ’15 and Brett Gillis ’16 placed second and third from the onemeter board with scores of 278.32 and 269.77 respectively. Gillis went on to place third from the three-meter board behind Taylor Clough ’17, who finished in second-place with 320.70 points.

The women’s diving team struggled against the Huskies, who earned the top four spots in both events.

Kendall MacRae ’15 placed fifth from the three-meter board with a score of 238.05, while Fiona Weeks ’15 placed sixth with a score of 235.65.

Weeks and Macrae placed fifth and sixth, respectively, on the one-meter board.

After earning key points in the diving events, men’s swimming dominated UConn to win the meet.

James Verhagen ’16, Aaron Athanas ’16, David Harmon ’17 and Ian Woon ’15 represented the Big Green’s A team in the 200-yard medley relay. The four won the race in a time of 1:31.93, shortly ahead of Dartmouth’s B team, comprised of Henry Senkfor ’18, Jay Schulte ’15, Tate Ramsden ’17 and Daniel Whitcomb ’16.

“Starting the meet with a win in the relay sets a positive tone,” Verhagen said. “Every good swim lifts the confidence of the entire team.”

Verhagen swept the backstroke events, taking first in the 100-yard in 50.50 seconds and the 200-yard in 1:51.81. Harmon won the 100-yard butterfly with a 50.52 second finish, and Verhagen came in third to add to his strong day.

Misha Tovmashenko ’18 and Tony Shen ’18 claimed the top two spots in the 200-yard freestyle with respective times of 1:41.60 and 1:41.82. Later, Tovmashenko and Shen carried that momentum, teaming up with Woon and Whitcomb to win the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:05.98.

Woon and Tovmashenko also swam a close race in the 100-yard freestyle, taking the top two spots with respective times of 46.72 seconds and 46.77 seconds.

Schulte swam an impressive 2:08.81 in the 200-yard breaststroke,

finishing more than two seconds ahead of teammates Konrad von Moltke ’15 and Timo Vaimann ’17, who took second and third in the event. In the 200-yard individual medley, Athanas finished the race in 1:54.55, nearly four seconds before Senkfor touched the wall to earn second place.

This meet, Schulte said, was the team’s last “grind-it-out” meet before heading into league championships.

“It feels great to help the team to a win,” Schulte said, “We had a lot of good swims against UConn in the midst of a pretty intense week of training.”

Although the women’s team fell short against UConn, several individuals had outstanding performances.

The A teams for the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay both placed first with times of 1:48.08 and 3:32.63.

Taylor Yamahata ’18 dominated her three individual events, claiming first in the 100-yard backstroke with 57.81 seconds, 200-yard backstroke with 2:04.58 and 200-yard individual medley with 2:09.66.

Her first win in the 200-yard medley relay — alongside Madeleine Dunn ’17, Emily Holt ’16 and Charlotte Kamai ’16 — Yamahata said, built her enthusiasm for her later races.

AnnClaire MacArt ’18, Olivia Samson ’16 and Hayley Winter ’18 earned the top three spots in the 1000yard freestyle, with MacArt winning the race in 10:35.49, more than four seconds ahead of Samson. MacArt also placed second in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle races with times of 1:52.97 and 5:01.73.

In the 200-yard butterfly, Sasha Alcon ’15 out-touched UConn’s Holly Gallagher to come in second with a time of 2:08.54. Kamai swam the 50-yard freestyle in 24.55 seconds for third place and finished second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.34 seconds. Katie Altmayer ’18 and Holt finished in second and third in the 100-yard butterfly with respective times of 58.80 seconds and 59.13 seconds.

Despite dropping the matchup against the Huskies, the women remain confident in their ability to succeed as the conference season comes to a close.

“Our team has made huge improvements,” Yamahata said. “We’ll just continue to maintain our passion and race hard.”

The swimming and diving teams will return to conference season play on the last day of Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival with a meet against rival Columbia University this Sunday.

The men will look to extend their win streak and continue their success at Dartmouth’s Karl Michael Pool while the women will seek their first win this season before the Ivy League Championships start on Feb. 19.

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Taylor Yamahata ’18 led the way for the women’s swimming and diving team with dominant individual performances.

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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B y RICH SHEN & AUSTIN LIM The Dartmouth Staff

By blaze joel & Brett drucker The Dartmouth Senior Staff

After a week of midterms and neverending snow, the three-day celebration of Winter Carnival is finally upon us. In addition to the excitement of the polar bear plunge and ice sculpting contests, many of the Big Green teams will compete this weekend for their own share of Carnival glory. The basketball teams will face off against tough Ivy League competition in an attempt to return to their early-season winning ways, and the skiing team will look to break through for a historic top finish.

Men’s and Women’s Skiing — Dartmouth Carnival (Friday and Saturday) This weekend marks the lone home competition for the Dartmouth ski teams for the season. The team has had a consistent showing this year, with second-place finishes in the first three carnivals of the season. Only one team — Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association rival the University of Vermont — has bested them, finishing more than 50 points ahead of Dartmouth in each competition. The Big Green, who recently moved up a spot to fifth in the national SYNC Ski Coaches Poll, will have to fight off the elite Catamounts squad — ranked fourth in the nation

by SYNC — if they are going to bring home their first Dartmouth Carnival title since 2010. The team has been bolstered by solid performances from across the team. Last weekend at the St. Michael’s College Carnival, Fabian Stocek ’17 took home a win in the 10K classic. He competed in place of Patrick Caldwell ’17, who had won the 10k at the Bates College and UVM Carnivals but was off competing at the Under-23 World Championships. In alpine, Dylan Brooks ’17 managed a second-place finish in the men’s giant slalom, while Foreste Peterson ’18 grabbed third place in the women’s slalom to provide the key points needed to pull away in the second day. The Dartmouth Skiway and Craftsbury Outdoor Center always make for exciting venues, but the thrill of a home race likely won’t be enough to get Dartmouth over the hump and back into the top spot.

PREDICTION:

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Fanni Szabo ’17 and the women’s basketball team look to right the ship this weekend.

Dartmouth — Second place Women’s Hockey vs. Yale University (Saturday 4 p.m.)

The women’s hockey team (10-102, 6-8-2) looks to break its four game winless streak at home this weekend in a critical matchup with Yale (1012-1, 7-9-0) in Hanover on Saturday.

The Big Green and the Bulldogs are currently tied in the Eastern College Athletic Conference for seventh place with 14 points, making this matchup an important contest for post-season seeding. After hosting Brown University, who sits in the ECAC cellar tied for last, on Friday, Dartmouth will look to take revenge on Yale for a 5-1 defeat earlier in the season in New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale comes into the weekend after a split last week, defeating the defending national champions Clarkson University but coming up short against Saint Lawrence University. Special teams will be critical as the Big Green will need to see continued production from its power play unit — which leads the league with a 29.4 scoring percentage — while also improving on its penalty killing percentage where it currently ranks 10th in the ECAC. Both teams have a chance at taking this game, which could be a key indicator of the Big Green’s position for the stretch run in the ECAC. PREDICTION: Dartmouth 4 – Yale 3

Women’s Basketball vs. Yale University (Friday 7 p.m.)

Also looking to get back into the win column after dropping three straight to Ivy League foes, the women’s basketball team (10-8, 1-3 Ivy) welcomes leagueleading Yale University (10-8, 4-0 Ivy) to Leede Arena on Friday. The Bulldogs enter the game as one of two remaining undefeated Ivies, but have seen three of their wins come against Brown and Columbia Universities, who are currently two of the bottom teams in the league.

One of Dartmouth’s strongest weapons has been its three-point shooting led by Katie Vareika ’17, who sits on top of the Ivy League with a 51 percentage from behind the arc, while Yale is dead last in the Ancient Eight, shooting only 25.3 percent from three. Yale has been effective on the offensive boards, reeling in a league-leading 14.2 offensive rebounds per game, but the two teams match up similarly in regards to statistics, which should lead to a closer game than their records might suggest. In what should be an extra-excited atmosphere thanks to the Carnival weekend and the team hosting a celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, this is as good of an opportunity as ever for the Ivy League’s leading scorer Fanni Szabo ’17 and the Big Green to return to the winning track.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 68 - Yale 65

Twenty-six seconds left. Secondand-goal from the one-yard line. Make a touchdown here and the Seattle Seahawks would move ahead by three points, virtually guaranteeing the team a Super Bowl victory. The Seahawks running back, Marshawn Lynch, had carried the ball 24 times that day for more than 100 yards and a touchdown.

The New England Patriots were lined up in their goal-line formation, preparing to do everything they could to stop the run on the most crucial play of the game. The Seahawks had all but won the game, and the Pats were just making one last desperate attempt to keep their hopes alive.

Just when all seemed lost for New England, a miracle happened. For some unimaginable reason, the Seahawks chose to pass the ball in this situation.

Russell Wilson threw the only interception from the one-yard line to occur in the NFL all season, and the rest was history. Two kneel-downs later and Tom Brady became the third quarterback in history to win the Super Bowl four times as a starter and only the second to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award three times. Brady had been playing phenomenally all game long, but a moment of pure luck in the final seconds of the game was what put the Pats over the top for their fourth championship in the Brady-Belichick era. Malcolm Butler, an undrafted free agent who had barely played all season, made the biggest play of his life — intercepting Russell Wilson’s pass to completely swing the game in the Pats’ favor. Despite being a player from the back of the roster who had been passed over by every NFL team, Butler delivered for the Pats in the biggest moment and on the biggest stage.

A player who came out of nowhere to make the play that would decide the Super Bowl, the undrafted rookie’s story reads like none other. Butler started his college career playing at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi, but was kicked off the team just five games into his freshman season.

Butler eventually transferred to the University of West Alabama, finishing out his college career playing Division II football in the Gulf South Conference.

For most D-II football players, graduation marks the end of their

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football careers. Yet, against all odds, Butler got his opportunity when one of the Patriots’ area scouts, Frantzy Jourdain, happened to notice the young cornerback while evaluating other players. In May of last year, the Patriots gave Malcolm Butler a tryout — his only tryout for any of the 32 NFL teams.

The Pats brought Butler in primarily to evaluate his special teams skills — they were planning on using him to cover kicks and punts. No one expected the former D-II cornerback to make the kinds of defensive contributions he eventually would make.

For Butler, though, it didn’t matter how he got his opportunity. He had his foot in the door, and he wasn’t about to give up on his dream any time soon.

Through training camp and the preseason, Malcolm Butler regularly made plays in coverage against the Patriots’ wide receivers. He quickly caught the eye of both Tom Brady and the coaching staff, earning the nickname “Scrap” for his aggressive, give-no-ground approach. By the time the second preseason game rolled around, “Scrap” had already proven himself enough to earn the start opposite Darrelle Revis. In that preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the former undrafted free agent was a starter for the first time in his professional football career, and was sharing the field with one of the best and most well-regarded cornerbacks in the game. On one side of the field stood “Revis Island” — a six-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro and a former American Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year. On the other side of the field stood someone only a few years removed from working at Popeye’s. Little did anyone expect that “Scrap” would eventually be the one who made the championship-winning play.

For Malcolm Butler, that interception will always be remembered as the moment where he knew he had finally made it — as the moment when he finally proved that he belonged in professional football, despite all the challenges he had faced trying to get there.

That interception marked the dramatic culmination of the ultimate underdog story and served as a poignant reminder of what sports are all about: coming out on top no matter the odds. Hopefully, that’s how the play will ultimately be remembered.