The Dartmouth 03/06/15

VOL. CLXXII NO. 45

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Panelists, students discuss increases to academic rigor

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Administrators hope “Moving Dartmouth Forward” changes will create an intellectual campus environment.

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College President Phil Hanlon’s proclamation that Dartmouth’s curriculum would become more academically rigorous in his Jan. 29 “Moving Dartmouth Forward” announcement sparked debate and worry amongst many students. A panel on academic rigor on Tuesday evening attempted to address these fears by having panelists, many of whom served on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, discuss changes that will be associated with its enactment.

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Campus organization Wall Street 101 will host a two-day financial modeling course run by Adventis CG, a former financial consulting firm that now offers instruction to professionals and undergraduate students. Wall Street 101 secretary Max Hannam ’16 said that the

course offers a service not available anywhere else on campus, even though a large portion of Dartmouth students go into finance — 51 percent of members of the Class of 2014 who had secured jobs at the time of graduation reported they were hired as a financial analyst, associate or consultant, according to the “cap and gown” survey results.

Enrollment for the “Financial

Modeling Certification” program, which will take place April 11-12, is already nearing full capacity, Hannam said. About 20 students have expressed interest so far, and he anticipates that demand will likely outpace the number of spots available, though the exact number is yet to be determined. He said that the club plans to offer the program on a termly basis and will expand

depending on interest.

The program covers three financial areas — financial modeling, valuation and leveraged buyout, according to the company website.

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This past weekend, 17 Native American Dartmouth students attended the Yale University Midwinter Social to meet with Native students from across the Ivy League, eat Native foods like frybread and chowder, watch dances and listen to drumming from popular regional powwow groups.

The Association of Native Americans at Yale worked with the nonprofit Spirit Lake, LLC, to put on the social that included dancing, spoken word poetry and a raffle to raise funds for

the nonprofit’s youth basketball league.

The event, open to all Yale students, also extended invitations to the Ivy Native Council, the New York City based American Indian Community House, Yale Native alumni and Native people from Connecticut.

The Ivy Native Council arranges two annual conferences, where Natives from across the Ivy League come together, NAD member Sara Schomburg ’18 said.

This past fall the conference was held at Brown University and the spring event will take place at Harvard University.

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Students on the Global China Connection panel discuss time working in China.

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DAily debriefing AROUND THE IVIES Brown University: Last Friday, Brown University held its first “IvyG” conference, intended to promote reflection on ways to improve the college experience of first-generation students, according to the Brown Daily Herald. Nearly 250 students attended the conference, the Daily Herald reported, with an additional 50 university administrators traveling to Providence, Rhode Island. Eric Waldo, the executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative, gave the conference’s keynote address.

Columbia University: On March 27, the Columbia University Senate will vote on whether to approve a proposed committee that would focus on combating a lack of diversity at the University, the Columbia Spectator reported.

The Committee, which would have students, faculty and administrators as members, would communicate with the University’s existing committee on race, ethnicity and equal justice.

Cornell University: Facing a budget deficit of $55 million in its provost’s office, Cornell University will decrease the budgets of all its colleges and administrative units by $27.5 million, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. The deficit, which arose due to overfunding by the office, has existed for the last five years. Cornell as a whole is not running a deficit.

Harvard University: Harvard’s New Research Building suffered the loss of $14,000 worth of lab and research equipment last week, the Harvard Crimson reported. According to the Harvard University Police Department, the loss of the equipment is still an open investigation. An exact list of missing equipment and impacted labs remains unknown to the public.

Princeton University: Twenty-eight Princeton University seniors are running in the primary election to serve as the University’s Young Alumni Trustee for the Class of 2015, the Daily Princetonian reported. The top three vote-getters will advance to a larger-voting pool — seeking to win votes not only from their own class but also from the Classes of 2013, 2014 and 2016 — with the winner serving a four-year term on the University’s Board of Trustees.

University of Pennsylvania: Students interviewed at the University of Pennsylvania about longer and more comprehensive version of the Medical College Admission Test primarily expressed support for the changes, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. In its new edition, the MCAT will contain 230 questions, up from its pre-2015 tally of 144.

Yale University: Yale University has increased its allocation of cash assets from 1.6 percent to 3.5 percent, according to the University’s 2014 Endowment Update. According to the Yale Daily News, the report did not specify a reason for the increase.

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Course may give students internship edge FROM WALL STREET PAGE 1

ment projections, from historical information and projection inputs.

The course will include self-paced exercises and materials that allow students to work at their own pace at home, as well as instruction from company founder David Lewicki, Hannam said.

He said that the program will cost about $400 per student, significantly less than the corporate price of $3,000. He added that Adventis CG is looking to make up some of the difference in cost by enrolling a higher volume of students. He noted that financial aid is currently not available for students, but he wants the College to subsidize the program in the future.

Adventis CG has already brought the program to 10 university campuses, he said.

Tuck School of Business career development associate director Deirdre O’Donnell said that the “industry standard” for financial training programs is Training the Street, which trains many of the analysts at investment banks. Their program for undergraduates costs about $250, she said.

O’Donnell said that these programs train students to be “good

logical problem solvers,” an important quality finance firms look for while hiring.

“Firms love liberal arts students, but they will want to find out whether that student has comfort with numbers,” she said.

“Firms love liberal arts students, but they will want to find out whether that student has comfort with numbers.”

-Deirdre O’Donnell, tuck school of business career development associate director She said that they look at grades in math courses, as well as accounting and statistics courses, to assess problem solving ability. She added that students who have taken a fair number of math courses generally do not need to take financial training programs like those offered by Adventis CG and Training the Street.

Hannam said that Adventis CG approached Wall Street 101 in the

fall about offering the program.

“How is it possible that there’s no resource to learn how to financial model?” he said.

O’Donnell, who was a recruiter for Lehman Brothers, said that undergraduates could also benefit from earning Excel certifications, as many financial industries, including corporate finance, banking and private wealth management, require modeling with Excel. She added that recruiters often ask what students read to assess how in tune they are with the financial industry and expect them to read the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times or Barron’s.

Wall Street 101 co-founder and president Jonathan Moran ’16 said that the club formed to expose students to careers in the financial industry. He said that the club wants to host guest speakers from different areas in finance, including banking and wealth management. He noted that Merrill Lynch financial advisor Edward Stanfield spoke to 42 students at the club’s first meeting at the end of the fall.

“It was a great start,” Moran said. “A bunch of members are off campus in the winter, so right now we’re working to get things going for spring.”

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Greek leaders, student athletes discuss academic rigor FROM ACADEMIC RIGOR PAGE 1

off suddenly work like Nobel Prize physicists,” English professor Barbara Will, the presidential steering committee’s chair, said at the panel.

Will, who declined to comment for a follow-up interview in person or over the phone, emphasized midweek, high-risk drinking as a cause of concern for the committee.

“A lot of us questioned how students were able to have these periods in the week where students were able to have a lot of high-risk drinking given the stresses of the academic calendar,” she said during the panel.

John Damianos ’16, a member of the steering committee, said that the College must work to become more intellectual.

“We’ve heard from students over and over again that Dartmouth is characterized by its “work hard, play hard” attitude,” Damianos said, expressing a desire to change that perception.

Will spoke of “magic moments,” those “late-night kind of casual intellectual conversations” as something that she hopes will become more frequent as a result of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” changes.

At the forum, English professor Donald Pease said that fraternities should attempt to return to the model of the 1850s, where they held debates rather than “late-night drinking parties.”

In his plan, Hanlon had suggested ways to increase academic rigor on campus, such as having earlier classes scheduled for Tuesday and Thursdays.

“We’ve heard anecdotally that some students — it’s hard to tell how many — choose not to take early courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays because of Greek house meetings on Wednesday nights, so potentially if you have earlier courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays that could mean that Greek house meetings don’t go as long,” physics and astronomy professor and panel member Ryan Hickox said in an interview.

Though panel members discussed at length the role Greek houses may play in hindering an academic environment, several leaders of Greek organizations and sports teams cited systems of intellectual support within their houses that encourage academics and intellectualism.

Greek houses work in numerous ways to support members academically, various Greek presidents interviewed said. Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity president Noah Reichblum ’15 said that his house hosts study hall events, either at the library or in their house. Alpha Xi Delta sorority academic chair Stephanie AbbottGrobicki ’15 said that AZD has a locker in their library stashed with academic supplies for members to

use if they need such resources. Beta Alpha Omega fraternity president Chet Brown ’15 said that Beta has recently invested in renovating its study room to make it a more appealing intellectual area, and cited its frequent use by members.

Greek houses in general can foster intellectual stimulation and engagement, Reichblum said.

“When you’re living with each other, interacting with each other all the time, it’s very easy to have conversations around academics and seek out academic advice,” he said.

Pease said that Greek houses could become more academic environments if the spirit of the new “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative is met.

“If those houses can become locations for the discovery of the significance of experiential learning, by seeing how drama organizes the relations of those houses, I could see a new dimension of that course, an added rigor of that course, that could only be made available by the already existing collective spirit of fraternities and sororities,” he said.

While all Greek presidents interviewed for this story said that their respective organizations do not maintain “lay-up lists” — a list of easy classes that can fulfill distributive requirements — several acknowledged that other houses may maintain such lists or that they had heard of some houses keeping them.

“I would believe it,” Brown said.

“I don’t know myself.”

Brown, who emphasized that Beta does not keep lay-up lists or answer banks of any kind, said that while such lists can be helpful, they are not usually necessary for students who have planned their course of study extensively.

Most Greek organizations and sports teams prefer to use informal communications between members during course selection periods when members want advice on specific courses or professors, students interviewed said.

“We work informally to kind of help each other in the course selection process,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon president Daegwon Chae ’15 said.

Sports teams function in much the same way, with upperclassmen’s mentorship of younger students playing an important role in academic development of student athletes at the College, several student athletes interviewed said.

“Coming in as a football player, you automatically have 100 teammates, 100 brothers, and you can talk to them about anything,” football quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 said. “I don’t think any regular student — any student who comes in not playing a sport — has that kind of support behind them.”

Generally, academics still take

priority at Dartmouth, many athletic and Greek leaders said.

“There probably aren’t many Division I basketball teams that constantly talk about school,” basketball co-captain Gabas Maldunas ’15 said. “When some of my friends from other schools come to visit, they’re like, ‘Why are you guys so crazy talking about school all the time?’”

The women’s track and field team does maintain course lists that are “sent out termly,” according to Dana Giordano ’16. Still, such lists are often “disregarded” by players, Giordano said, in favor of players simply asking each other about specific courses.

Sara Lindquist ’18, a member of the volleyball team, said that she enjoys the academic support she gets from her team.

“You automatically have a group of girls who have been in the school and been exposed to a bunch of different types of courses.”

Lacrosse captain Jack Connolly ’16 said that, while his team does not maintain such lists, he has in the past been aware of other teams utilizing them.

Maldunas said that it is important for athletes to balance their in-season and out-of-season workloads well,

as they can be at a disadvantage when taking courses in-season and also dealing with the commitment of their athletic schedules.

Hickox said in an interview that advantages affiliated students and athletes may glean from having a clear mentorship system could be countered by the residential house system mandated by the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy changes. He added that Greek houses and sports teams supporting each other is not necessarily something to be condemned.

“If you have people around you who are willing to help you and share your academic and intellectual experience, I would say that’s definitely something to celebrate,” he said. “The problem comes about if there’s a feeling that access to those groups is exclusive and there’s some sort of built-in advantage to that.”

The sharing of academic and intellectual experiences, however, is “exactly the sort of thing that we want to promote,” Hickox added.

Reichblum said that his house is high-achieving academically, having secured the highest average grade point average amongst Greek houses last term, and said that he is satisfied with what the house is doing to support its members in school.

Abbott-Grobicki said that AZD’s highly academic reputation and high GPA can intimidate some women, and therefore a weekly ritual that traditionally recognized academic achievements of the sisterhood has been expanded to also recognize other achievements, including laundry completion.

Phi Delta Alpha fraternity president Taylor Cathcart ’15 and Phi Tau coed fraternity president Aylin Woodward ’15 said that top priorities in their houses include securing more faculty mentorship. Phi Delt is in the process of searching for a faculty advisor, while Phi Tau is looking for a female faculty advisor in addition to its male advisor. Under the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan, Greek houses are required to have both male and female advisors.

Ashneil Jain ’15, student member of the panel and president of Zeta Psi fraternity, told the audience that the policy changes should be interpreted as a way to make the College more intellectual, but not necessarily more difficult.

Jain could not be reached for phone comment because he is currently travelling overseas.

Woodward is a member of The Dartmouth opinion staff. Jain is a member of The Dartmouth business senior staff.

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STAFF COLUMNIST AYLIN WOODWARD ’15

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Nor Any a Drop to Drink

Safety Over Sanctions

The College has overstepped its role in implementing the new alcohol policy.

“Alcohol, alcohol everywhere, nor any a drop to drink.” I may have taken some creative license with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s words, but the sentiment rings true. I sat down with members of my coeducational fraternity last night to lay down the law as its president — no hard alcohol for anyone, anywhere or anytime after March 27. Needless to say, the reaction within my own slice of Dartmouth mirrors what I’ve seen from campus at large — most of the members resent the hard alcohol ban on principle.

But this is an opinion piece — I’m not here to recap the views of others. Personally, I’m not against the idea of banning hard alcohol. In fact, I’ve decided that the policy is motivated by a genuine desire to do good and to make students’ lives safer and more productive. It’s gutsy, and though it lacks nuance, it’s a step in the right direction. Administrators are clearly willing to double down for the sake of achieving progress in student social life, and they have refused to fall into the trap of pursuing piecemeal reform. It is that very adherence to a strictly all-or-nothing notion of progress, however, that will doom the ban to failure.

I predict the hard alcohol ban will ultimately be a zero-sum game — we may end up trading fewer liquor-related medical transports and pregames hosted in dorms for fewer Good Sam calls and more sexual assaults, as the drinking culture is pushed into private rooms and residences. It will likely fuel escalation between students and administrators who will quickly find themselves on opposite sides of an unbridgeable chasm.

The reality is that certain things are beyond our control — in spite of the vast resources that will no doubt support this endeavor, it will likely prove near impossible to eliminate hard alcohol on this campus. There are just too many loopholes.

What’s more, our culture and our choices surely can’t change by the order of magnitude that “Moving Dartmouth Forward” has in mind.

The ban’s rollout and the subsequently announced sanctions for violations are sloppy and nebulous at best. Though some may support the new alcohol policy, the number who express confidence in its potential to change behavior

remain few and far between. Particularly laughable is the sheer lunacy of the idea that all of campus — despite the severity of the penalties of transgressions — will simply choose to uniformly adhere to these policies, even as many complain that they are unclear and unfair. The College seems to have adopted an unfortunate brand of paternalism that would hardly be out of place in the writing of Rudyard Kipling.

It isn’t a stretch to see parallels between administrators’ attitudes and the traditional Hobbesian view that a productive and mutually beneficial civil society is a fundamental public good that must be provided in exchange for authority. Public good, however, can take many forms. What College President Phil Hanlon and his loyal, hardworking team are trying to accomplish here is the provision of an intangible public good — student life.

In his role as sovereign, he wants nothing more than to guarantee an environment that looks out for the safety and security of students. It is this Hobbesian treatment of Dartmouth, though, that — to extend the metaphor — has led to what the students consider a palpable breach of contract between a sovereign and his citizenry.

As the leader of this community, Hanlon faces a challenge — how can he mobilize his large constituency behind such a significant change?

What this new alcohol policy lacks is what us government majors like to call a focal point — an equilibrium of mutually agreeable behavior, or the point where both opposing parties’ interests are maximized. Instead, we have two parties — administrators and students — disagreeing on the best way of fixing our drinking culture. There is, then, no single equilibrium, and neither side will likely budge in its preferences.

The sweeping consequences of this ban — from infringing on individual rights to running the risk of sending drinking culture underground — implicates administrators in the business of passing judgment on social practice, and that is neither their prerogative nor their job. It falls far beyond the scope of their professional mandate.

I can only hope that this becomes clear when the time inevitably comes to re-evaluate the hard alcohol ban.

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The hard alcohol sanctions reflect a misplaced preoccupation with liquor.

This past Monday, the Office of the President, Palaeopitus senior society and Student Assembly hosted a town meeting on “Moving Dartmouth Forward” where administrators announced details of sanctions to enforce the hard alcohol ban. Students found to possess or consume hard alcohol will face a graduated scale of sanctions, with College probation for the first offense.

Students with more than three infractions may face sanctions up to permanent separation from the College, decided at the College’s discretion.

The College will also impose stricter sanctions for students and organizations that provide hard alcohol to others. These sanctions indicate that administrators take the hard alcohol ban seriously and will punish infractions accordingly.

Judicial affairs director Leigh Remy, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne and Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer have all said that they expect students to follow the policies rather than break them, highlighting the faulty and naive logic behind the heightened sanctions.

Students will break the policy, and assuming that they will not attempt to bend or break the rules is ignorant and foolish. The new punitive system reflects this unsound logic. For example, will students aged 21 and over who drink hard alcohol at a bar in town and then walk on campus be liable for College probation? Technically, that is a first offense of public intoxication of hard alcohol on College grounds. Further, how does the College expect to distinguish which publicly intoxicated students have consumed “beer or wine” category beverages only and which have consumed alcohol higher than 30 proof ? These sanctions, while strict, are seriously flawed in terms of enforcement.

Despite administrators’ insistences that the College’s Good Samaritan policy will remain, in the words of Ameer, “the same on March 28th as it is now,” these policies communicate an intent to instill fear in the student body — and may even deter students from making a Good Samaritan call. The new sanctions can only be successful if students actually trust that the College will keep this promise. Otherwise, drinking — particularly high-risk incidents that may require medical attention — will be driven underground, and these policies may do more harm than good. Remy herself noted that students complained that College policies are often difficult to interpret — not all students will follow our coverage closely or attend town hall meetings. Not all students may even read the new policy, and those who do not may assume that the Good Sam option is no longer available to those who consume hard alcohol. Further, the policies themselves indicate an

interest in punishment rather than student health and may therefore cause student distrust of both administrators and College safety officials, as well as other students. In the case of undergraduate advisors, who are now tasked with heightened disciplinary duties, students will either end up working against administrators collectively or the trust will be broken between those students accountable for others’ safety and the ones who should trust them the most.

As we have said before and must re-emphasize here, hospital transports are an extremely reductive and simplistic metric of unhealthy drinking habits on campus. In fact, almost every study cited on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” page for additional resources had no differentiation between hard alcohol and other, lower-proof alcoholic beverages. Students can just as easily continue high-risk patterns of alcohol consumption. In the presidential steering committee’s final report, high-risk drinking is defined as four drinks for a woman and five for a man — the amount consumed in a couple of games of pong. In fact, the report also includes an entire paragraph dedicated to the College’s subculture of excessive beer consumption, referencing “pong,” “doming” and “booting and rallying” as examples of related, insidious behaviors. These behaviors will certainly continue under the ban, and restricting students’ access to other forms of alcohol may even encourage this culture of unhealthy consumption of beer. Yes, the number of medical transports may be reduced when hard alcohol is removed from the equation, but binge drinking will live on. Remy reminds students to look back at the presidential steering committee’s report and “remember the people behind each of those 135 visits to Dick’s House or the hospital,” but what about all the other students who are affected by binge drinking?

Of course, as Hanlon noted in an interview with The Dartmouth on Monday, “it’s an ambitious undertaking … and that’s hard.” While Hanlon was speaking about “Moving Dartmouth Forward” generally, he’s right in the context of this ban — such an ambitious move is hard. We hope that the College will recognize these flaws and attempt to address them in coming weeks. If administrators truly have students’ safety in mind, they must address the inconsistencies in the policy, clearly communicate the policy’s effect on the Good Sam policy to all students and acknowledge binge drinking in a more holistic way. Such change is difficult, but necessary. Ultimately, if these sanctions prove to be ineffective, the College must also be open to their re-evaluation — student safety is more important than publicity and pride.

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The Ivy Native Council aims to promote and preserve the understanding of indigenous cultures of the Americas, to raise awareness of indigenous issues and to foster networks among any and all indigenous students and alumni of the Ivy League, according to their Facebook page.

In addition to these formal conferences, most of the Ivy League schools will hold powwows or other social events throughout the year, NAD member Brooke Hadley ’18 said.

Powwows are events that celebrate Native American cultures through food, song, dance and drum ceremonies.

Hadley said that she believes that Dartmouth sent the largest number of students to the event, with 17 participants, all from the Classes of 2017 and 2018. She contacted the Ivy Native Council at Yale and organized vans to take Dartmouth students to the event.

She said that she enjoyed the experience, and in particular the opportunity to eat traditional Native foods and enjoy the community aspect of the event.

“We still have a GroupMe amongst all the students that came,” Hadley said. “I think it created a bond and a continuing relationship.”

Hadley noted that for Dartmouth’s powwow in the spring she plans to arrange hosts for students who attended the Yale social. She said that she hopes to develop relationships between Native communities across the Ivy League during her time at Dartmouth.

Brandi Reano ’18 said that she attended the conference because she has friends from several other Ivy League schools that she was hoping to see, many of whom she met during the Brown conference she attended last fall.

“I really like powwow music,”

Reano said. “There was a mini powwow — so to be around that kind of music and people I genuinely like is what I looked forward to.”

Reano said that the social was well executed. She said that the familiar faces, music, laughing and joking around made the social a good experience.

“It was really meaningful to have a lot of Natives in one central location,” Reano said.

Schomburg said that she appreciates that the Native American communities in the Ivy League are not competitive with each other.

“I feel like it’s super inclusive and I think we all really just look forward to getting together,” she said.

Schomburg added that it was fun to go to Yale and see how campus life there compares to Dartmouth.

All three NAD members interviewed said that the Native community at the College is similar to those at other Ivy League schools, with the exception of its larger size.

Reano said that having a bigger community comes with advantages and disadvantages. She noted that the program at Dartmouth is more established and has more resources than other Ivies’ programs.

She noted that the larger, more widespread community means that students do not get to be together as much. She said that she believes smaller communities at other schools, such as Yale and Brown, are more connected and get together more often.

Schomburg said that the College’s strong Native community is part of what drew her to the College. She noted programs like the Native Fly-In Program that provides Native seniors an opportunity to visit Dartmouth and Native Pre-Orientation that helps Native students feel welcome.

While she said she enjoyed learning more about Native culture at Yale, “at the end I was really excited to come back here,” Schomburg said.

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While Wednesday’s war m weather might have been a tease, this weekend will see two more winter teams finish their seasons, and another begins its journey into the postseason.

The men’s hockey team should provide thrilling action as the Big Green looks to repeat last weekend’s victory over an undoubtedly terrified Princeton University squad, and the men’s and women’s basketball teams will look to keep season-ending win streaks alive.

With many spring teams enjoying the weekend across the eastern seaboard from South Carolina to Florida, this week we’ll take one last glance at the winter teams looking to welcome thoughts of spring with wins.

Men’s Hockey vs. Princeton University, Best two of three (Friday, Saturday, 7 p.m., Sunday if series tied at 1-1)) The men’s hockey team enters its first round matchup with Princeton University this weekend on fire. The Big Green has won nine of its last 11 contests, including two 3-1 victories over the Tigers and league-leading Quinnipiac University last weekend.

Thanks to that performance, the Big Green secured the fifth seed in the ECAC and the honor of hosting a home playoff series in the first round. The men have come on strong over the second half of the season, thanks in large part to the offensive prowess of Eric Neiley ’15 and Brandon McNally ’15, who were named Ivy League Player of the Month and Week, respectively, in February.

Goalie James Kruger ’16 also earned Goaltender of the Week honors for making 52 saves across the two games last weekend, as well as a pair of scoreless third periods. Last weekend, the Big Green handled Princeton in a wild atmosphere at Thompson Arena, scoring two early goals to take a commanding lead that was too much for the Tigers to dig out from.

The team’s timely scoring — including a power-play tally from McNally with less than two seconds to go in the second period — established the Big Green as the heavy favorite in this weekend’s matchup. Even without the tennis balls, expect Dartmouth to roll on to the second round, knocking off the league’s cellar dwellers.

Prediction: Dartmouth wins series 2-0

Men’s Basketball vs. Brown University (Friday 7 p.m.)

Much like the men’s hockey team, the men’s basketball squad has been on a streak lately, coming off three consecutive Ivy wins.

If the Big Green wins both of its games this weekend, it will finish its regular season 14-14 overall and 7-7 in the Ivy League, a record which would make it eligible for the 2015 Division I NCAA Tournament.

Friday night, the men will welcome Brown University to Leede Arena hoping to avenge a 67-64 loss in Providence, Rhode Island, in early February. In the last matchup, Brown took control in the second half, going up by as much as nine points. Despite a game-leading 21 points from guard Miles Wright ’18, the Big Green never managed to lead in the second.

The Bears have been playing .500 basketball over the past four games, while Dartmouth has gone 3-1 against the same opponents the last two weekends. Last weekend, the Big Green showed they could play any type of game, scoring 84 points at Columbia University on Friday and holding Cornell University to 45 points in a defensive contest the next night. Guard Malik Gill ’16 earned Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honors for his contributions in both games, totaling 28 points and 10 assists coming off the bench in the two games.

With the Big Green streaking and a last opportunity to play on their own floor, the men should pull out a close one to break out of a three-way tie for fourth in the Ivy League.

Prediction: Dartmouth 65 Brown 62 Women’s Basketball at Brown University (Friday 7 p.m.)

Rounding out a trio of Dartmouth teams trying to finish the season with multi-week win streaks intact, the women’s basketball team heads on the road for its last action of the season after winning its final two home contests last week against Columbia and Cornell Universities.

Just like the men’s team, the Dartmouth women lost a threepoint game to Brown earlier in the season, falling 50-47 in Hanover.

The Big Green have struggled at times to get points on the board this season — averaging a leaguelow 56.3 points per contest — despite the contributions of the Ivy

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The men’s basketball team has a chance to go .500 on the season with two home games this weekend.

League’s leading scorer, guard Fanni Szabo ’17, who averages 16.9 points per game.

If the Big Green can play strong defense like last weekend when they allowed only 35 points to Cornell, they should be able to open space for the offense that has relied on

the long-ball with three of the top 11 three-point shooters in the league.

Despite taking early leads the last time these two teams met, Brown was able to pull away in the second half and hold off for the lead, painting this game as a

classic contest of will and desire.

There’s nothing the Big Green would like more than to end with another win, and if they play their best game, they should have a good chance against the Bears.

Prediction: Dartmouth 53 Brown 48

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015

FRIDAY LINEUP

MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. BROWN 2 PM

MEN’S HOCKEY VS. PRINCETON 2 PM

Men’s lacrosse starts season 0-3 B y RICH SHEN & AUSTIN LIM The Dartmouth Staff

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Under first-year head coach Brendan Callahan, the men’s lacrosse team has started its season on a three-game losing streak.

B y Emily wechsler The Dartmouth Staff

On Wednesday afternoon, men’s lacrosse dropped its home opener against Sacred Heart University 10-9 on a buzzer-beater. Down 9-8 with 23 seconds left, Jack Connolly ’16 tied the game for Dartmouth, but Sacred Heart managed to score again just as time expired. The loss brought the Big Green’s record to 0-3. “[It feels] terrible,” goalkeeper Blair Friedensohn ’16 said. “We just thought we had them, we were a better lacrosse team, and they just snuck it by us at the end on a questionable goal.”

Head coach Brendan Callahan said the team anticipated that this year’s matchup with Sacred Heart would be a fight.

“As we’re learning and growing and trying to get better, every game is going to be a battle, and it certainly was today,” Callahan said.

Dartmouth looked strong for much of the game, controlling possession in the early minutes. Bolstered by strong play from Friedensohn in net, the Big Green defense was particularly sharp. The Pioneers outshot Dartmouth 41-29, but Friedensohn had 13 saves.

On offense the two teams were evenly matched, and the score differential never rose above two for the duration of the game. Even though Sacred Heart only gave up three penalties, Dartmouth managed to convert and score while a man up.

The Big Green made several un-

forced errors on the offensive end, resulting in turnovers that put its defense under pressure.

Neither team was able to score for the first five minutes. The Pioneers ended the scoring drought with two goals — less than one minute apart — with nine minutes left to play in the opening quarter.

Moments later, Evan Key ’18 notched his first collegiate goal off a pretty feed from Cam Lee ’16.

After a timeout, Sacred Heart took control of the flow of the game.

Dartmouth gave up a few turnovers and another goal, risking a fourth on a botched clear by Friedensohn.

A pause for an injured player allowed the Big Green to regroup, and on their next offensive drive, Jack Korzelius ’18 buried the ball off a solo drive, marking his first collegiate tally. Korzelius did not stop after making his scoring debut and finished the game with four out of the team’s nine points. He was the single highest goal-scorer on the day. “[Korzelius] stepped up big for us on the offensive end,” Callahan said.

On the defense, speedy 5’11 defender Robert Osgood ’15 made big plays, and Friedensohn kept the Big Green in the game between the pipes, out-saving Sacred Heart’s goalie by six.

The first quarter ended with the Big Green down 3-2, the second up 7-6 and the third tied 8-8 with Dartmouth getting its only goal of the period with 33 seconds to play.

Sacred Heart’s defense was equally

solid in the fourth, holding Dartmouth scoreless until the 23 second mark after they went up 9-8 with six minutes left in the game.

“It was certainly a battle today with Sacred Heart,” Callahan said.

“We’re trying to figure out how to win, and when you’re doing that, you have to finish, and we did everything but finish it.”

The team was more dissatisfied with the loss since it was their home opener.

“This field means something special to us. We call it ‘the woods,’ Friedensohn said. “You gotta ‘defend the woods,’ and that’s why it hurts extra to lose here.”

The home opener marked firstyear head coach Callahan’s first game on Scully-Fahey Field. Callahan was an All-American goalkeeper at Stony Brook University and now serves as the 10th men’s lacrosse head coach in college history.

“Coach Callahan is amazing,” Philip Hession ’15 said. “Sometimes we joke, you know, he’s a very young coach, I think he’s only 29, but we go ‘Wow.’ His soul age is much older than 29. He’s doing a great job, and we’ve been bonding from the beginning.”

Despite the slow start to the season, the team is focused on taking each game as a learning experience.

“Our goal every game so far is we have to keep moving forward and getting better, and we certainly took another step forward today,” Callahan said.

The men will face Wagner College Saturday at 1 p.m. in Staten Island,

Last week we talked about how it would feel to be a fan of the teams in the Western conference of the National Basketball Association, and this week we will talk about the teams in the East.

Atlanta Hawks: They have one of the best playing styles in basketball. They move the ball, spread the floor and are extremely efficient. They are reminiscent of a younger version of the Spurs dynasty. Atlanta has emerged from a team on the edge of a playoff seed to a veritable powerhouse. Everyone should jump on the bandwagon.

Toronto Raptors: The Raptors are surprisingly good for something coming out of Canada. They play a free-flowing style of basketball, and with some unbelievable athletes complementing one of the best point guards in the league, the Raptors are the best thing to come out of Canada since maple syrup.

Chicago Bulls: A devastating blow to D-Rose, as he hurt his knee again. You really have to feel for the guy. There is a possibility he returns for the playoffs, and with the emergence of Jimmy Butler, this team is poised to make a run in the playoffs.

Cleveland Cavaliers: With one of the top two best basketball players in the world, one of the best starting lineups in basketball and one of the worst owners to disgrace this league, Cleveland fans better appreciate how lucky they were to stumble backwards into getting LeBron.

Washington Wizards: John Wall is one of the most explosive players in the NBA, and yet the Wizards still find a way to under-utilize his talent. The Wizards are on the brink of breaking through, but as a fan you have to be frustrated with the way the management put together this team.

Milwaukee Bucks: One of the most exciting young teams in the league, Bucks fans can look forward to years of highlights with Jabari Parker and the Greek Freak, Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Jason Kidd has proved to be one of the best young coaches in the NBA, and this team will only continue to improve by leaps and bounds.

Miami Heat: Surprisingly, the attendance at Heat games has not dropped since LeBron left. Despite receiving a lot of criticism for consisting of bandwagon fans, Heat supporters have

stayed loyal and were rewarded at the trade deadline with the acquisition of Goran Dragic. This team has upset potential, and the fans should stay right where they are.

Brooklyn Nets: The most overpaid and under-performing team in the NBA. Your 2014-15 Nets can proudly boast having three of the 20 highest-paid players in the league. Last year, this franchise managed to lose $144 million.

To put that in perspective, the next least profitable team lost $13 million.

Without a first-round draft pick until 2018, only the most hard core of Nets fans are sticking with this team.

Charlotte Hornets: It’s Charlotte, nobody really cares. If you’re a fan of the Hornets you’re 1 in 300 million.

Indiana Pacers: The Pacers have returned to mediocrity, which is unfortunate, but everyone saw it coming. If you were a Pacers fan you should jump onto another bandwagon while there is still time.

Boston Celtics: This year’s Celtics might as well be named the “Island of assets and misfit toys.” Just because a team has interesting young players doesn’t mean it has an interesting young team. For Celtics fans, the best hope is that some of these young guys can be flipped for a superstar.

Detroit Pistons: Exhibit A through Z of why Josh Smith is the basketball team equivalent of a parasite. Pistons fans are reaping the benefits of Stan Van Gundy’s cheeky decision.

Orlando Magic: The Magic are probably the least covered team in the NBA. Can you name their starting five?

They are irrelevant — not quite bad enough to make fun of, but not good enough to be a playoff team. If you are a Magic fan, you should go to the beach and forget about basketball for a while.

Philadelphia 76ers: This team’s current mantra: “Trust the process.” This team’s current advertising slogan: “Together we build.” If that isn’t just the most thinly veiled way of giving every 76ers fan the middle finger, then I don’t know what is.

New York Knicks: “I only care about the Yankees,” said everyone in New York.

That is our last article for this term.

Thanks to everyone who has been reading or otherwise supporting our column! Hope you all finish out the term well, and we’ll see you in the spring.