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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has not upheld its commitment to educate student-athletes, former Interim College President and current Chapel Hill chancellor Carol Folt said in a statement to the University’s board of trustees late last month. Since Folt assumed the chancellorship last summer, she has faced criticism of the university’s handling of deep academic fraud, which came to light in 2011. Her response to the most recent allegations, a finding by instructor and academic counselor Mary Willingham that 60 percent of 183 Chapel Hill student-athlete study SEE UNC PAGE 3
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Depression can feel like staring down from the top of a precipice, said Wei Wu ’14, speaking in a student panel on anxiety and mental illness Thursday evening. Asking for help early, she said, is key. At the panel, four students shared personal stories of anxiety, depression and the stigmas associated with mental illness. The event, hosted by Active Minds, was designed to increase awareness of mental illness at Dartmouth by providing a forum for students to talk about often-unvoiced problems. Active Minds member Jake Donehey ’17, who organized the panel, said that the panel aimed to give audience members an improved understanding of the multiple dimensions of mental illness, as well as an increased interest in conversing about the issue. The panelists brought varied perspectives, Donehey said. “Each speaker had their own unique perspective, so I just hope that this had a meaningful impact on how people talk about mental health,” he said. At the event, panelist Amara Ihionu ’17 said it was difficult for her family members to accept and
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After students approached the Center for Gender and Student Engagement objecting to past V-Week programming, saying that events like the Vagina Monologues failed to represent an adequate range of student perspectives and identities, the CGSE decided to expand the week-long program of past years into month-long campaign known as “V-February.” The revised programming will center on the theme “V is for Voices” and will spotlight global perspectives on
feminism, aiming to empower Dartmouth community members to share their own experiANTHONY CHICAIZA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF ences, acting assistant CGSE director Michelle Hector said. In past years, V-Week has used the themes of victory, violence and vaginas in its campus campaign to raise awareness of violence against women. The new program aims to provide a space for underrepresented, marginalized and silenced voices to speak out while highlighting experiences outside of traditional gender and sexuality binaries, accordSEE FEBRUARY PAGE 5
New Hampshire is second only to Vermont as the least religious state in the country, according to an annual Gallup poll released Monday. Yet students who participate in campus religious organizations said that while they believe there is a stigma attached to being religious at Dartmouth, most students are accepting. Based on attendance at religious services and how important respondents said religion was to their daily lives, Gallup found higher levels of religiosity in the South than the Northeast.
Mississippi took the number one slot, with 61 percent of respondents saying they consider themselves “very religious,” as opposed to 22 percent of respondents in Vermont and 24 percent in New Hampshire. Religion professor and Episcopal priest Randall Balmer said that religion is not as much a part of the culture in New Hampshire or Vermont as it is in the Bible Belt. Southern churches and religious communities can provide a network of friends and social opportunities that are not deemed as important in New England, he said. “I am struck by what I have seen in various parishes
in Vermont,” he said, citing services with only five or six attendees. Clarisse Benoit ’14, a member of Aquinas House, the College’s Catholic student center, said that while the Dartmouth community is generally respectful of religion and her personal choices, she feels religion is often viewed as nonintellectual. “It can feel intimidating if faith is also something that’s an important part of your life,” Benoit said, adding that she tries not to let this influence her faith. “It’s about living my faith in my own life and not being apologetic or SEE RELIGION PAGE 5
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DAily debriefing A new tradition began last Winter Carnival. In addition to the snow sculpture on the Green, professional ice carvings appear in front of Robinson Hall. Yesterday, The Dartmouth spoke with ice sculptor Murray Long of Wicked Good Ice, a custom ice art company based in Rochester, to find out more about this year’s sculpture and how Long will mentor students during the ice sculpture contest. What are you sculpting? ML: We’re making a Direwolf to follow the theme of “Game of Thrones.” Where do you get your inspiration for your sculptures? ML: The Direwolf was a request. They originally requested a dragon, which we designed beautifully, but then they requested the wolf and well, we liked both of them. The wolf is fun because we can make him really scary and interesting — and it fits the theme perfectly. How long will this sculpture take to sculpt? ML: Probably longer than you think! We stacked the blocks [Wednesday] between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. We finished the design[Thursday], and we’re starting the sculpting. We’ll probably be done late [Thursday night]. Can you describe the sculpting process from start to finish? ML: No (laughs). Well okay, so you come up with a design and you draw up some rough sketches or you look for inspiration. Then you make a plan, a block plan. You have to see how your idea is going to fit with the blocks and the scale that you have. This Direwolf we’re going to be doing is 3,600 pounds of ice, and the wolf is going to be 3-feet wide by 7-feet long and stand on a two-foot rock crag. So right now, we’ve fused the blocks together and made one solid giant block. We’re drawing lines on the outside of the block as a road map and the next thing is to round it off with chain saws. Then we fine-tune it and finish it. At the very end we add the hair and the very fine details like the spikes on his back. As a mentor, how will you be working with students over the next two days? ML: We had a class [Thursday] afternoon with the group of students where we discussed design and the steps involved in the process, and I’ve given each one of them two “checks” to cash in for a visit with me. I will check up on them and use my power tools to help them and answer questions as we go along. This interview has been edited and condensed. — COMPILED BY ASHLEY MANNING
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understand that she had mental health problems. At Dartmouth, she has used counseling services at Dick’s House, and she said she found her undergraduate advisor extremely supportive. Ihionu said she hopes attendees realize that mental illness is more common than they might think, adding discussing mental illness allows people to feel more comfortable seeking help. “Just talking about it is a step forward to actively deconstructing that stigma,” she said. “I want people to know that all your feelings are completely valid, and whatever people tell you doesn’t change what and how you feel in a certain moment.” Wu shared her experience regarding a prolonged depressive episode she experienced her sophomore and junior years of college. She has since studied and written extensively about mental illness, and she said that attendees should understand that while depression can happen to everyone, there is always a way out of it. She said that even though she is technically out of her depressive episode, the disease is a long-term condition that must be constantly managed. “What I learned during my depression is that you need to take care of yourself and believe in yourself and forgive yourself,” she said. Health education programs coordinator Kari Jo Grant, who has advised Active Minds at the College
for six years, said mental health and stress-related issues in young adults are a national phenomenon. Still, she said, she has noticed a prevailing attitude on campus that students must be happy and love Dartmouth at all times, which can make acknowledging feelings of depression and anxiety difficult. “It’s self-perpetuated,” Grant said. “That feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, I think, is particularly hard at places like this, where there is this perception that one should always be proud and accomplished and all that.” According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 has a diagnosable mental illness, and the number one reason that students do not seek help is concern of stigma.
Active Minds recruited student panelists through a campus-wide email, then followed up with an application for interested speakers. About 30 people expressed interest, and seven whose schedules worked with the event’s timing applied, Donehey said. Several members of the audience expressed admiration for the panelists. Younji Lee ’17 said she thought the panelists were brave for sharing their personal stories. Active Minds is a national student organization promoting mental health awareness and advocacy. Dartmouth’s chapter holds panels and hosts speakers on various mental health-related topics, in addition to film discussions and stress-relief nights. The forum was held in Collis 101 at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
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Students divided on Folt’s response FROM UNC PAGE 1
participants read between a fourthand eighth-grade level, have elicited a wide range of reactions from the UNC community. CNN first publicized the research, which also included a finding that between 8 and 10 percent of study participants read below a third-grade level, in an article published Jan. 8 . At a faculty council meeting on Jan. 17, Folt and other administrators refuted Willingham’s claims, questioning the study’s scientific validity and explaining that UNC’s institutional review board had suspended the study for collecting identifying information about participants without authorization. On Jan. 23 Folt told trustees that the university accepted responsibility for a “failure in academic oversight.” Students received credit for African and Afro-American studies courses that never met for over a decade. Many of these students were athletes. Students and faculty say that Folt’s handling of Willingham’s findings has shaped their perception of her leadership. Some say that Folt’s response was driven by a desire to boost the university’s image. Jay Smith, a UNC history professor, said that these concerns are
especially seen in administrators’ dismissal of Willingham. “They subjected Mary Willingham to a public flogging,” he said. “It was unseemly, it was irresponsible and I would like to see the administrators apologize for that performance.” Sasha Seymore, a Chapel Hill junior and a junior varsity basketball
“They subjected Mary Willingham to a public flogging. It was unseemly, it was irresponsible and I would like to see the administrators apologize for that performance.” - jAy smith, CHAPEL HILL HISTORY PROFESSOR
player, wrote a letter to the editor in The Daily Tar Heel, voicing frustration with the paper’s coverage of the scandal and summarizing the administration’s remarks. “It’s pretty much come down to whether or not you believe her
or whether or not you believe the administration,” he said in an interview. “Personally, I’m more inclined to believe the administration.” Chapel Hill sociology professor Andrew Perrin said Folt has spent a lot of time and energy on her response to Willingham’s findings. He said he is looking forward to what Folt will do for the university. Zoe Skinner , a Chapel Hill senior and a women’s lacrosse player, said she was frustrated that studentathlete accomplishments off the field are rarely celebrated as much as those on the field, she said. Skinner said she had mixed feelings about Folt’s Jan. 23 statement on academic fraud at the university. “Even if she said it’s in the past, it affects us now, and it’s putting down all of the past generations of student-athletes,” Skinner said. “I think that she needed to say something, but I think that it does kind of take a stab at past Carolina student-athletes.” Smith said he would like the administration apologize for its treatment of Willingham and engage with her in a discussion of common ground shared by the University and its critics. “That’s would I would like to see,” he said. “I’m not holding my breath.”
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Staff Columnist Vivien RendLEman ’16
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Welcoming Winter
Together in Tragedy
Winter term is more tolerable when you make an effort to enjoy it. Both last year’s and this year’s Winter Carnival themes reflect the same attitude toward the colder months — winter is coming, and it’s going to be grim. Dartmouth students have a complex relationship with winter. Freshmen swear that their D-Plan will keep them out of Hanover each winter, while upperclassmen who find themselves stuck in Hanover grumble every time they fly in from warmer locales. True, the weather between November and April legitimizes some of these grumbles. All of my memories of freshman winter lack any trace of sunshine. A grey haze hangs over all of them. Indeed, some of these memories are truly horrible. I will never forget the time I walked from Collis to the River apartments in the snow, with a smoothie in each hand (admittedly a bad choice) and had to spend 10 minutes warming my hands before I could feel them again. It seems like every Dartmouth student has a similar winter horror story. At the same time, I like to believe that Dartmouth students do not think that the winter is as bad as they make it out to be. The pervading hatred of winter, then, is an affect. We screenshot the negative temperatures with a strange sort of joy, just like we post Facebook statuses about seeing the sun rise from the 1902 Room. On the surface, both of these experiences are truly miserable. All-nighters are never worth it, and negative 10 degrees feels as painful as it sounds. Yet the students who post about their study habits and the weather they brave seem to derive a strange sort of pleasure from “surviving” under these conditions. Thinking about winter as something that one survives, though, is the very root of the problem. This mindset establishes an adversarial relationship between the weather and the student, when this does not need to be the case. Yes, I understand that seasonal affective disorder is a real condition. I also understand how difficult it is to get out of bed when there is a foot of snow outside. But buy a SAD lamp and bear with me — I
think that each winter has the potential to be not only enjoyable, but the best term of the year. Enjoying winter depends entirely on how you approach it. Some people take a difficult course load in the winter, which oddly enough does make the longer nights more bearable. There is a reason we all came to a small college town in New England: what is more conducive to acquiring knowledge than subzero wind chills and the prospect of a cozy armchair? Curling up and reading a book in Sanborn Library while watching the wind blow snowflakes through the window may be cliché, but it is incredible. Perhaps this is why during the winter, more than any other term, I feel connected to Dartmouth students of generations past. Perhaps the very chair in Sanborn that I chose was once occupied by Theodor Geisel (because you cannot feel like a true Dartmouth student without referencing Dr. Seuss). No other term is better suited to holing up in the library, but also no other term is better suited to getting outside. Sure, in the spring, summer and fall Dartmouth students can hike, run and swim. But in the winter, Dartmouth students can try things that they could not do if they went to school elsewhere — say at a school where the low in February is 30 degrees. Go cross-country skiing on the golf course, ice skate on Occom Pond, or snowshoe up Mount Moosilauke. Do anything that will help you actually appreciate the ice and snow. And even if you don’t feel adventurous, the long, frigid walks to class are better if you take time to look around. Dartmouth is stunning, especially in the snow. What better time to learn to love winter than Winter Carnival itself ? That is what the weekend is about. Try the polar bear plunge or the human dogsled race, and above all, come out to support the ski team. If the winter brings our hardest days, there’s no better way to go through them than as a community.
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The passing of Torin Tucker ’15 affects us all.
This week, the College suffered a painful loss. Torin Tucker ’15 died Saturday while competing in a cross-country ski race in Craftsbury, Vt. His death is incomprehensible, but our community’s response has been one of warmth, support and reflection. We at The Dartmouth have the good fortune of cohabiting Robinson Hall with the ski team. Although otherwise disconnected, our communities interact each day by virtue of this space: a held door, a shared smile, a coinciding run to Collis. In the week since Torin’s death, we have seen the profound impact that his passing has had on friends and teammates. We bear witness to their grief, and we express solidarity in mourning his loss. Dartmouth is a small community comprised of even smaller sub-communities. The beauty of this campus — and its greatest strength, particularly in times of crisis or tragedy — is the way that these smaller circles interact, overlap and connect. There are many ways to react to a tragedy and equally many to write about one. Various
clichés abound for expressing grief after a loss. We as an editorial board have struggled to express our thoughts, but we wanted to show our support nonetheless. Students, faculty and staff share the weight of this loss. In turn, we must support each other during this time. Though you may not have known or even met Torin, he was integral to this community, as we all are. We belong to more than just an academic institution located in rural New Hampshire. We share family, friends, dreams, ambitions, experiences. We share our time at the College. We share this space. It is easy to lose ourselves in the daily minutia of our lives. This tragedy strikes us at one of the busiest times of the term, in the midst of midterms and as Winter Carnival begins. We urge the student body to slow down. Support one another. Be grateful. As members of The Dartmouth, we extend our love and support to Torin’s family, our neighbors downstairs, the community and all those who knew him.
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Month’s events to include talks, mixer FROM FEBRUARY PAGE 1
ing to the CGSE website. New additions to the annual program include “Voices: An Original Production,” a panel called “Voices Around the World” and a keynote address. “Voices: An Original Production” will allow self-identified women at Dartmouth to share their own experiences in a format modeled on the Vagina Monologues, performance co-director Jessica King Fredel ’17 said. A discussion will follow the Feb. 12 show. The production aims to provide a platform for women to share stories that will resonate with audience members, King Fredel said. The production centers on perspectives specific to the Dartmouth student body, said V-February committee member Murylo Batista ’15. “I predict students will connect even better with this than ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ because it’s the experiences of their own peers,” Batista said. One of King Fredel’s main goals was to create a community for the performers beyond the production itself, she said. “I want to be making these spaces on campus for women to come together,” King Fredel said, adding that she
hopes participants will have analytical conversations about their experiences as women. “The Vagina Monologues,” a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler that discuss taboos surrounding female sexuality, has received criticism for not actively portraying diverse female voices, V-February committee member Murylo Batista ’15 said. While the CGSE will stage “The Vagina Monologues” this year on Feb. 26, the center will also hold an event about controversies associated with the performance the following night. V-February will also offer Dartmouth men a chance to share their stories, through the all-male Upstaging Stereotypes performance, said director Jimmy Ragan ’16. The show, performed for the first time during last year’s V-Week, challenges traditional notions of masculinity. Ragan said V-February is the ideal time to perform Upstaging Stereotypes because the program celebrates diverse gender and sexual identities. The show aims to leave viewers with the realization that men fall victim to stereotypes just as women do, Ragan said. When men do not completely fit into clichéd ideas of traditional masculinity, they can act in a self-destructive manner, and the show’s cast intends
to show that there are better ways of becoming confident in your identity, he said. “We feel that our performance is pro-feminist, male-positive — and it’s essential that you have both,” Ragan said. Upstaging Stereotypes will take place on Feb. 17 in Collis Common Ground. Other events on the V-February calendar include a social event promoting safe spaces for all genders and a Proud to be a Woman Dinner. Speak Out, an event at which students share their experiences with sexual assault, will be held on Feb. 18. Dartmouth’s V-February program works with the international activist organization V-Day, a group devoted to end violence against women and girls, Hector said. Proceeds from Dartmouth’s VFebruary events will go to WISE, an organization that assists individuals who are suffering from domestic and sexual violence in the Upper Valley, Hector said. The V-February program will commence with the Cindy Pierce Comedy Show on Feb. 10 and end on Feb. 28 with a keynote address by motivational speaker Sarah Vitorino, who has studied how women cope with incarceration.
Religious students find community FROM RELIGION PAGE 1
hiding it.” Saaid Arshad ’14, a member of the Muslim student organization AlNur, said he has never encountered prejudice on campus as a result of his religious beliefs. Maddie Cooper ’16, vice president of religion and education for Dartmouth Hillel, said that Hillel builds community by hosting traditional Shabbat student-cooked dinners after weekly services. Cooper, who considers herself an active member of the Jewish community, said that she feels welcome at the College. She said she has found resources, through the Tucker Foundation and the inter-faith living and learning community, that have helped her explore answers to life’s larger questions. Cru, a Christian student group, hopes to ensure “everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus Christ,” secretary Abby Thornburg ’15 said in an email. She said she tries to live according to her beliefs without forcing them on others. Jacob Casale ’17, a member of Cru and the Christian Union, said that although he was somewhat nervous to come to Dartmouth after attending a Christian school for 13 years, he found many of his fears to be unsubstantiated. After finding faith-based resourc-
es and organizations on campus, Casale said he was able to stay true to himself. “No one has called me stupid,”
“No one has discounted my perspective in a conversation if I do talk about my faith.” - Jacob casale ’17 Casale said. “No one has discounted my perspective in a conversation if I do talk about my faith.” Balmer said that degrees of religious identity vary between faiths, with Catholic and certain Jewish identities passed through generations and Protestant identity more likely to be determined by personal choice.
After moving, for example, a person may chose to practice a different denomination of Protestantism depending on churches in the new location, he said. He said it seems to him that the majority of Dartmouth students are not religious, but that there are groups of devout students who form their own communities. Arshad said that students who classify or qualify as religious are a minority on campus, but he believes the community remains large and strong. The Gallup poll might not capture all aspects of a person’s religious faith, Ballmer said, since some people “cobble together” their own religious identities. “To say that Vermonters are not religious is a little bit misleading,” he said. “I think that people do have religious or spiritual sensibilities.”
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right foot and pick up some points this weekend against the Crimson. “Their goalie played a really solid game so that’s definitely something we’ll have to get past tomorrow,” captain Ali Winkel ’14 said. “They didn’t outplay us, they just capitalized on our small mistakes.” The team has prepared by watching video footage of the Harvard team, so the women have a better understanding of how they play, Stacey said. “Last time, we didn’t play our best game and didn’t know what to expect,” Stacey said. “We’re going to play with our hearts and play our game. If we do that, we’re bound to do some good things out there and maybe we can pull off the big win.” The Big Green is coming off a tough weekend on the road against No. 8 Quinnipiac University and Princeton University. The team lost both hard-fought games, falling to the Bobcats 3-1 before being defeated by the Tigers 3-2.
Holdcroft’s spectacular saves kept the Dartmouth women in both games. Against Quinnipiac, the Big Green was outgunned on the offensive side, managing only 16 shots on goal. The team bounced back the next night, firing 26 shots on the Tigers’ net, but surrendering 28. “We need to work on our offensive zone and getting shots to the net and getting more traffic in front,” Holdcroft said. One strong point for the Big Green was its penalty kill. The team held its opponents to a combined 1-13 with the man advantage, including killing off nine of the 10 Tigers’ power plays. In order to stay competitive this weekend, the Dartmouth women must stay out of the box. The Crimson boasts an impressive 18.2 percent efficiency on the power play in ECAC play. “Against Quinnipiac, the refs weren’t really calling a lot, so we were able to play a little more,” Holdcroft said. “Against Princeton, the refs called a much tighter game,
which was tough since it was so close. We need to be smarter and not take as many penalties since it hurt our chances of a comeback.” The weekend sweep ended the Big Green’s three-game winning streak. The team did not lose ground in the ECAC, however, thanks to losses by RPI and Yale. The three teams are separated by one point in the standings. “We don’t want the season to end early, so we’re going to do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Stacey said. “This weekend, if we finish everything we start, we’re bound to have good things happen to us.” Winkel said that the team is focusing on the little things against the Crimson in order to try to find success. “We’ve been hitting our stride and playing better lately,” she added. “We’re just going to keep our energy high and be gritty out there.” The puck drops against Harvard at 7 p.m.
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The women’s hockey team begins its final homestand tonight, hosting No. 5 Harvard University at Thompson Arena. Next weekend, the Big Green (7-15-1, 6-10-1) remains at home to play St. Lawrence University and No. 3 Clarkson University before hitting the road to finish the season against Brown University and Yale University. These final five games are crucial for the Big Green women, as they currently occupy the eighth and final playoff spot in the ECAC standings, owning the tiebreaker over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute thanks to a season sweep of the Engineers. This season, the ECAC standings are top-heavy, with Harvard (17-3-3, 13-2-2 ECAC), Clarkson (21-4-3, 12-2-2 ECAC) and No. 5 Cornell University (163-4, 11-2-3 ECAC) outpacing the rest of the pack by a four-point margin. “I think that it’s going to be a tough couple of games, but at this
point, if we want to move up, we have to beat the teams above us as well as below us,” captain Lindsay Holdcroft ’14 said. “Last time against Harvard, we didn’t play our best and I think that we can
“We don’t want the season to end early, so we’re going to do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn’t happen.” - LAURA STACEY ’16 give them a run for their money this time.” Despite facing two of the top three teams in the season’s final three weeks, the Big Green sits in a relatively good position for the postseason in a competitive five-way race for fourth place, which is good enough to host a playoff series. The Big Green will need to pull an upset to vault into fourth, but the team has a good chance of moving up
in the standings, as it is only three points out of sixth in the league. “We hold our season in our hands, so if we win the games we should and pick up one that we might not be expected to, we’ll be in great position for the playoffs,” Laura Stacey ’16 said. The last time the Big Green played Harvard, Dartmouth was shut out 5-0, its largest defeat of the season. Though Dartmouth outshot the Crimson 25-19, the team failed to put the puck past sophomore netminder Emerance Maschmeyer. The team was haunted by an 0-6 night with the man advantage. The Crimson offense is potent and its defense is staunch. The team from Cambridge has outscored opponents 65-30 this season. Maschmeyer posts a remarkable .949 save percentage, 1.51 goals against average and 13 wins in her sophomore campaign. Despite the tough opponent and previous loss, the Big Green is confident that it can get back on the SEE HOCKEY PAGE 7
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The women’s hockey team returns home to face off against Harvard, hoping to rebound from a weekend sweep.
a long way. Hopefully one day, women, like men, can have fulfilling My team, the Toronto Furies, was and rewarding careers playing the gearing up for its first road trip of the sport they love, while earning some season, a two-game slate against the serious cash. Many players in the Montreal Stars. Still battling to fit in CWHL have full-time commitments as a rookie, I never know whether elsewhere, playing for the love and I’m going to dress. The coaches passion of the game, not for money. We arrived at our hotel around wait until after Wednesday night practices to send out the lineup for 3 p.m., where players shared the upcoming weekend. Fortunately rooms, as we did on Dartmouth for me, I was told I would suit up, road trips. As I stepped off the and boy was I excited to play, espe- bus and into the arena, the first cially against my former teammate person I saw was none other than Camille Dumais ’13. Of course, I my buddy Cam, who, as usual, would need to adjust my game a bit, had a little chirp for me. Then it was finally game time. I since I was accustomed to setting her up for goals. This time around, was fired up and ready to go. As the two teams I would have lined up along our to look for her “Hopefully one day, respective blue in order to women, like men, can lines for the naincapacitate have fulfilling and tional anthem, I her abilities to rewarding careers playing reminisced about pull a fast one the sport they love, while my Big Green on me or my earning some serious days where I teammates. was fortunate to I was deter- cash. Many players in start almost evmined be the the CWHL have full-time ery game. I loved one with brag- commitments elsewhere, playing for the love and hearing my name ging rights. to the roar of We s e t passion of the game, not our Dartmouth off Saturday for money.” fans. As the song m o r n i n g at ended, I was told I 7:45 a.m. for a game starting that evening. I was would start. With a rush of adrenaexcited to both play what appeared line, I knew it would be a good game. The game progressed, and we to shape up as the top team in the league and bond with my team- found ourselves in the penalty box mates. The bus ride reminded me of and short-handed. As a result, we road trips with the Big Green — we lost the first matchup. The game watched movies and played games. over and done, Cam and I met up The only difference: no homework for dinner and caught up. I was determined to have a larger due on Monday! The budget constraints, however, were obvious. impact in the next game. First, I Unlike college games, where our knew I had to fix my ankle. After team would depart the night before, a painful but effective deep-tissue we left on game day and planned to massage, I took to the ice. Unforhead home immediately following tunately, we conceded the second game to Montreal, this time a 4-3 the Sunday afternoon game. In the Canadian Women’s loss. We learned that it’s a difficult Hockey League players aren’t paid task to beat any team short-handed. and money is tight. Teams rely on With a great experience and weeksponsorships, both corporate and end behind us, we parted ways with from the NHL. The women’s game Cam and Montreal, leaving them is still a tough sell, but it has come with the bragging rights. For now.
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