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The Greek Leadership Council adopted a new, stricter sexual assault policy, GLC moderator Alistair Glover ’15 said Wednesday night, that will immediately remove any member of a Greek house from their house upon a finding of responsibility in any sexual misconduct proceedings by the Committee on Standards. The previous policy only removed students from their houses if they were found responsible for such a violation and were then placed on probation for two or more terms.

The new language will be added to the GLC constitution by the end of this term and will go into effect at that time.

If a member of a Greek house is found responsible for sexual misconduct by the COS, Greek Letter Organizations and Societies office director Wes

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Improve Dartmouth plans to expand program

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With over a year of experience crowdsourcing student ideas, including the nowimplemented digitization of timesheets for on-campus employees, the renovation of Novack Cafe and the addition of cell phone charging stations to Baker-Berry Library, Improve Dartmouth recently made changes to its site and plans for program expansion and ways to increase online participation, co-founder Gillian O’Connell ’15 said.

O’Connell said that Improve Dartmouth grew out of the Dartmouth Roots, an undergraduate organization that focuses on idea implementation founded by Esteban Castaño ’14 and other members of the Class of 2014 during the summer of 2012. She is currently one of the organization’s managing directors.

Six moderators run Improve Dartmouth, an online forum for students to submit suggestions to enhance life on campus. Two Dartmouth Roots members, two representatives from Student Assembly and two members of the

Palaeopitus senior society make up this moderating team, O’Connell said.

Improve Dartmouth has already successfully implemented 35 ideas, according to the Improve Dartmouth website.

Activity on the site peaked when the site first launched last January, as many students were excited to submit ideas that they had long thought of as practical means of bettering life on campus, O’Connell said.

While the site enjoyed lasting success throughout the rest of the year, O’Connell said that activity decreased over the

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Many call native Vermonter, avid cross-country skier, fluent Spanish-speaker and blue-jean aficionado Tim Rieser ’76 one of the most influential behind-the-scenes forces in Washington today.

Recently, Rieser helped secure the release of Alan Gross, an American imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 on accusations of espionage.

Rieser, in his position as a foreign policy aid to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, focuses on human rights and social justice issues, longtime friend and seniorlevel advisor in the U.S. Department of State Susan Braden ’77 said. She noted that since his time as a Vermont public defender, Rieser has advocated for

summer term as less students were on campus and there were no active Improve Dartmouth moderators.

She added that it has been difficult to match last year’s participation, largely because the Class of 2018 was not on campus at the start of the endeavor so their participation has been less substantial. Students from the Class of 2018 only comprise six percent of their current 4,613 users, according to their Feb. 23 report.

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Rieser said that his interest in law and social justice issues, as well as other countries, originated in part from his father Leonard Rieser ’44, who dean of the faculty and provost at the College and the first director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding.

Despite his success, Rieser himself prefers to avoid the limelight and work in the background, an attitude rarely seen on Capitol Hill, colleague and founder of the Veterans for America Foundation — originally known as the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation — Bobby Muller said.

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DAily debriefing Feb. 20, 11:29 p.m., West Wheelock Street: Safety and Security officers, Hanover Police and the Hanover Fire Department responded to a report of an intoxicated student on West Wheelock Street. The student was evaluated and then transported by ambulance to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Feb. 21, 7:38 a.m., North Main Street: Safety and Security officers and Hanover Police rendered assistance to a student whose car had skidded in snow near Carson Hall. The vehicle was towed and no injuries were reported.

Feb. 21, 11:07 p.m., Hopkins Center for the Arts: Safety and Security officers responded to an anonymous Good Samaritan call from the Top of the Hop. An intoxicated student was located, transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.

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In the Feb. 27 story “Public Voices Fellowship increases professor presence in media” incorrectly quoted College spokesperson Diana Lawrence as saying, “We want to know more about the research and thinking that goes on here among our faculty.” Lawrence said, “We want the world to know more about the research and thinking that goes on here among our faculty.” The online version of the article has been updated to reflect this change.

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and 2017 comprise 17, 17 and 20 percent, respectively, with the remainder of users being alums, faculty and staff.

Despite this drop in online traffic, O’Connell said she believes that new publicity initiatives will cultivate a stronger interest from the freshmen class.

“The decline in activity that occurred this fall term correlates to the decreased activity in the ’18 class because they weren’t here for the launch,” she said.

Multiple students interviewed said that decreased interest from upperclassmen may contribute to this decrease in participation.

In addition to initiatives targeting the Class of 2018, Improve Dartmouth has also recently renovated its site and plans to increase the size of its team.

A redesign of the website went online on Feb. 9, including a new user interface O’Connell described as “much sleeker and more modern.”

Improve Dartmouth is also looking to expand from its current six-member moderator team to a group comprised of around 20 students, O’Connell. With more members, Improve Dartmouth could create teams to manage various tasks, including idea implementation, publicity and technical services, she said. The moderator team would still function in a similar fashion, but would

then be afforded a greater degree of flexibility.

Among the most popular accomplishments of the program, Improve Dartmouth brought new locations of the campus’s printing system, GreenPrint, adding stations in the Rockefeller Center and the Life Sciences Center.

O’Connell described this recent accomplishment as an “illustration of how Improve Dartmouth and Student Assembly have worked together to make an idea happen.”

While other improvements range from the installation of a door between King Arthur Flour cafe and the periodicals room in Baker-Berry Library to allowing DBA to roll over between terms, O’Connell said the most notable accomplishment has been the major revision to the sexual assault policy.

“The overall biggest idea that has been completed on the site and still the overall most popular idea on the site has been the zero-tolerance sexual assault policy,” she said.

Over one year ago, a student posted in favor of a zero-tolerance policy, which received 1,221 positive votes and 46 negative votes.

Dartmouth Roots advisor and Rockefeller Center program officer Vincent Mack said that Improve Dartmouth has been a huge success so far, citing the various completed projects as confirmation

of the program’s achievement.

While he has served in an advisory capacity and offered feedback on various iterations of the site, he said that the decision-making rests in the hands of the students involved.

He said that Improve Dartmouth functions as a platform where both students and administrators collaborate to see real solutions implemented.

Students develop creative ideas and post them on the site, then the Improve Dartmouth team pairs these ideas with the relevant administrators.

“It provides a way for ideas to be generated and for there to be a healthy dialogue around the feasibility of those ideas,” Mack said.

Ivan Carrier ’18 said that he has visited the site to vote on suggestions but has not submitted any ideas of his own and does not believe his class is very aware of Improve Dartmouth’s efforts.

Kyu Kim ’18 also said that many first-years have not been properly informed of the site, stating that his knowledge of Improve Dartmouth came through campuswide emails.

Vivian Hu ’16 said that she typically only thinks about the site when she receives campus-wide emails.

Julia Isaacson ’15 said she visits the site with less regularity, but the emails will occasionally prompt her to check in and vote on ideas.

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Schaub must notify the president of his or her respective Greek house within 48 hours of receiving the individual’s sanction from the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, according to the previous GLC sexual misconduct policy, approved Feb. 12, 2013.

Schaub did not respond to a request for comment by press time. Director of judicial affairs Leigh Remy declined to comment.

Once the chapter president is notified, the individual found responsible, the Greek house president, Schaub and the Greek house’s advisor would meet to notify the individual of the consequences, the current policy states.

Under the current policy, in the event of probation or suspension of one term, an individual found responsible for sexual assault or misconduct would be subject to social probation, be unable to hold leadership positions in the house or any Greek council, would be barred from living in his or her Greek house and would be required to go through an individual education program.

When an individual received a more severe sanction — that is, a suspension of two or more terms or expulsion — that individual would then be subject to “immediate and permanent removal from his/her chapter.”

In the case of the new policy, any finding of responsibility would result in immediate and permanent removal from the individual’s chapter regardless of the imposed sanction, Glover said.

“I think this is on par with what GLC has been doing for the past two years,” he said. “We are here to ensure that the

Greek community remains accountable and a viable organization on campus, and I think making this change is a step in that direction.”

While numerous Greek leaders contacted either declined to comment or did not respond to requests seeking comment, Glover indicated that there was some disagreement over the new policy. He declined to provide a final tally of votes on the policy change amongst GLC members and presidents.

GLC votes are tallied anonymously using an Australian, or secret, ballot, Glover said. The election began last Wednesday, Feb. 18, and a final tally came in on Saturday, Feb. 21.

“There was dialogue regarding the new policy,” Glover said. “There were concerns regarding submitting to the COS process. There were individuals who had their reservations and felt that may not be the fairest process.”

Despite those concerns, the policy was approved. Glover said he does not expect any backlash from the Greek community regarding the change.

“We take a strong stance against any sort of sexual violence, and I think that’s a great idea,” he said.

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity alumni and volunteer corporation president Herb Philpott ’85 said he was pleased by the change.

“Sig Ep at Dartmouth and the national fraternity fully support the GLC policy on sexual assault,” he said. “It’s consistent with our fraternity’s cardinal principles — virtue, diligence and brotherly love. Sig Ep has always stood against sexual harassment and assault.”

Philpott said Sig Ep has terminated members for sexual misconduct-related

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Sig Ep’s Dartmouth chapter voted as a house to approve the policy change, and “were clearly in support of it,” Philpott said.

Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault chair Tori Nevel ’16 said that the SPCSA supports the change.

“One of our recommendations is that student organizations hold themselves and their members accountable and raise their standards, so we really support it,” she said.

The 2014 SPCSA recommendations — released following their second annual symposium on sexual assault at Dartmouth last spring — suggest a policy that bans varsity and club athletes found responsible of sexual misconduct from participating in Dartmouth athletics.

The Greek Proposal, a selection of suggested reforms released in November by leaders in the Greek community to promote Greek-endorsed policies to the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, contained a similar proposition. The Greek Proposal called for immediate ejection only after a suspension of one or more terms, rather than after any finding of responsibility.

Nevel said the GLC provides an

example for other organizations.

Nevel added that there has been misinformation over the change, and that some think that an accusation of sexual misconduct will immediately lead to removal from a Greek house, which is not the case.

The Panhellenic Council expressed support for the change in a statement released to The Dartmouth by vice chair for public relations Jessica Ke ’15. The statement said that Panhell is pleased that the Greek community is taking a stronger stand on issues of sexual assault.

Glover said that he does not anticipate further changes to this part of GLC policy in the near future. The new leadership of individual Greek houses and the GLC, who will take office this spring term, will be primarily responsible for the implementation of the new policy, he said.

“I think it will be up to them to uphold the standards and reevaluate the zero-tolerance policy,” Glover said.

Glover does not anticipate the change having any impact on individuals’ decisions to join or not to join Greek organizations. The policy, when it comes into force, will establish a new expectation for affiliated students at Dartmouth, he said.

“I think it sets the tone for what we expect when you decide to become a member of Dartmouth’s Greek com-

munity,” Glover said.

College sexual assault awareness program coordinator Amanda Childress declined to comment, citing a lack of familiarity with the policy. Sig Ep fraternity president Eli Derrow ’15 and Alpha Theta coeducational fraternity president Cristy Altamirano ’15 both declined to comment, and numerous other student leaders did not respond to request for comment.

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The College should support sororities that want to become local.

College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan tackles many problems with student life that merit discussion — this editorial board has already commented on the hard alcohol ban and academics. Yet there is one proposal that was noteworthy for its absence from Hanlon’s Jan. 29 speech — sorority localization.

The idea that more local sororities could change the Greek system, and thus student life and well-being, for the better is not new, but has recently gained more traction.

The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault recommended that the College support localization, and local sororities attracted national media attention in a Jan. 19 New York Times article as an innovative way to decrease sexual assault on college campuses, specifically at parties in male-dominated spaces. Even the presidential steering committee’s final report — though it declined to recommend mandated localization of Greek houses — acknowledges that national affiliation of sororities creates a gender imbalance in social life at the College.

There is a growing consensus among students that the College should actively support sorority localization by offering financial and administrative assistance to houses that disaffiliate with their national organization. Responses from The Dartmouth opinion staff in the Feb. 26 “Opinion Asks” column overwhelmingly supported localization in some form, as did the Jan. 15 column “The Fault in Our Sororities”

by Isaac Green ’17. The College now has the chance to send a clear signal that administrators will work with, rather than against, sororities to improve Greek life and its impact on the campus social dynamic.

At present, of 11 College-recognized sororities, only three are local — Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and Sigma Delta sorority. Of the 15 Interfraternity Council member fraternities, nine are local fraternities. The most

recent fraternity to localize was Beta Alpha Omega fraternity in 2008, whereas there have been no new local sororities since KDE was founded over 21 years ago in fall term 1993. This disparity is all the more troubling in light of the greater burdens that national affiliation imposes on sororities relative to fraternities. Chief among these are limitations on the ability to offer financial aid to members and other limits on spending, as well as the bans on alcohol in the physical plants of national sororities that renders them inadequate alternatives to fraternities as social spaces. National affiliation diminishes the full potential of Dartmouth sororities to empower their members with a social space where a group of women, rather than men, are in charge and in control.

That being said, national affiliation is a choice, and when students choose to join national sororities, they are in fact exercising their right to use their own space as they see fit. The College cannot and should not take that right away. We should not discount that many sorority members still see distinct advantages in national sororities that they feel would be lost by disaffiliation, including freedom from the costs and risks of maintaining a Greek house as an open social venue and access to a nationwide professional and social network. Moreover, national affiliation does not categorically bar a sorority from hosting social events in its house.

Though these arguments in defense of national sororities may be valid, they are ultimately irrelevant to our discussion of whether the College should provide financial incentives to houses that go local. If enough members in a sorority are convinced of the benefits of declaring complete autonomy over their houses — including the power to invite others into their space, for whatever reason, be it a large party or smaller gathering — then it should be a no-brainer that the College would lend them its full and enthusiastic support in that endeavor.

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“The Abortion Monologues” does not do justice to the medical impact of abortions.

As a part of V-February’s month-long programming, this Saturday will feature a performance of a piece entitled “The Abortion Monologues.” The Center for Gender and Student Engagement’s website describes the performance as a series of monologues in which 23 women “reveal the details of their lives, families and relationships as they tell the stories of their abortions.” In my opinion, the purpose of this event is misguided at best.

From my understanding, it seems that the performance is intended to destigmatize and promote abortion as an option. Frankly, as a future physician, I find this alarming — even from a purely medical standpoint. As far as I can tell, it seems the focus of the debate on abortion is no longer primarily arguing whether a fetus is a human life. The nature of the debate has shifted to address the question of whose life should take precedence — the mother’s or the child’s.

In particular, what disturbs me most about conversations surrounding abortion is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to sift through the scientific literature and separate facts from political agendas. Some studies, for example, have suggested that having an abortion is safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. If you look closely at many of the studies that make these claims, however, you find that there are often fundamental flaws in the methodology. Only 27 states require providers to report postabortion complications, and most electronic medical records systems make it difficult — if not impossible — to track when a woman comes in to the emergency room because of a complication from an attempted abortion. Moreover, when you take the same data from these studies and bracket out death by homicide and pre-existing conditions, you find that carrying a pregnancy to term is often not only as safe but actually safer than having an abortion.

Taking a critical look at the facts, the idea that there are no consequences of abortion is a myth. Whether it’s a physical complication such as cramping or hemorrhaging, or

a psychiatric or emotional complication, the aftermath of abortion is real and can be harmful, even dangerous.

A study conducted by scientists from the University of Manitoba found that a woman who chooses abortion is more likely to attempt suicide within a year compared to a woman who carries her child to term. Though correlation does not necessarily imply causation, this statistic is nonetheless sobering. Moreover, in an exit interview conducted on women who had abortions in a separate study, as many as 64 percent of American women expressed that they felt pressured into having the abortion. A campaign called “Silent No More” took off in 2002, fueled by women who sought healing after their abortions and wanted to prevent other women from making the same decision.

Today, the “Silent No More” campaign has nearly 2,000 testimonies on their website written by women who regret their abortions.

What this information means is that we are not meeting the needs of these women.

When a woman has a crisis pregnancy, what she needs most is support. When a woman has had an abortion, what she needs most is healing. I find it heartbreaking that there is no medical follow-up to abortion — we’re taking women who often feel scared and alone, adding another pain to their souls and then sending them off as if we solved their problems.

Whether they intend to be or not, events such as The Abortion Monologues are a mockery and a distraction from the underlying issues. I sincerely urge each of you, as intelligent, compassionate human beings and future leaders of our world, to think critically about these issues — and about your participation in events such as The Abortion Monologues.

Educate yourselves, seek the truth and respect the dignity of your fellow human beings. The future of our society depends on each of our choices.

Ana Maria Dumitru is a MD/PhD candidate at Geisel School of Medicine and the co-founder of Geisel Med Students For Life.

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that Rieser has been the “most effective Senate staffer in the last 25 years.”

Rieser also works as the Democratic Clerk for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. Recently, Rieser helped in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba in addition to helping orchestrate Gross’s release.

Gross was freed last December largely due to Rieser’s negotiation efforts over the past two years, Gross’s lawyer Scott Gilbert said. Rieser helped ensure all parties remained focused on the human dimension of the situation, Gilbert said, adding that Rieser approached the matter as more than a job and cared a great deal about Gross and his family.

Rieser said that he acted as a liaison between the Cuban government and the U.S. Department of State and traveled with Leahy to Cuba multiple times. He said he talked to Gross over the phone often, encouraging him not to lose hope.

“The biggest concern that we had was his mental health, because he made clear that 2014 was going to be his last year in Cuba,” Rieser said. “He was not going to live another year in Cuba.”

Gross wrote in an email that Rieser was a reassuring source of information and lifeline to the outside world during his imprisonment, calling him “one of the very few honest players in a very confusing environment.”

Craig said that Rieser, known for being honest, straightforward and nonpartisan, has an enormous amount of credibility both within the administration and with foreign governments. He said that foreign officials respect Rieser because he does not overpromise and is transparent about the concerns of the Senate.

Rieser said he considers the release of Gross a step forward in a larger effort to improve American-Cuban relations, a process that began about 20 years ago. Both he and Leahy first became interested in Cuba because of its proximity to the United States, he said.

Rieser said that both he and Leahy believed that the United States’ embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960, was “a failed relic of the Cold War.” “It was becoming an increasing irritant in our relations with other countries and an embarrassment and really beneath the United States,” he said. “Why can Americans travel anywhere in the world, but not Cuba?

Why do we have an embargo against a tiny country of 11 million people when nobody else does?”

Rieser said that the administration’s initial approach to getting Gross home was to simply make demands, a strategy that he believed would be unsuccessful.

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“If the past 53 years have taught us anything, it is that the Cuban government does not respond to being bullied or to ultimatums,” he said. “I told them that if that was the approach they insisted on, then Alan Gross would die in Cuba and that would be the end of any chance of changing the policy for the rest of this administration and probably for some years after.”

Rieser said that for the first year and a half, he had no idea of the probability of success.

“I found, at times, dealing with our own government was as frustrating as dealing with the Cuban government,” he said.

In secret negotiations in Canada between the two governments, the United States agreed to release the “Cuban Five,” Cuban prisoners held in the United States on convictions of espionage, in exchange for Gross.

Currently, the countries are discussing terms of opening embassies in Havana and Washington, D.C., an issue they hope to resolve within roughly the

next month, Rieser said. He added that both countries are interested in resuming normal air travel and mail service between the United States and Cuba.

Braden said that the media rightly gave credit to Rieser for the tremendous amount of work he did with Cuba, an unusual occurrence as the job is often “thankless.”

Muller said he learned the basic “weapons of operating” in Washington D.C. from Rieser. He noted that Rieser’s success is in part due to his knowledge on a wide range of issues.

“He would know my issue better than me, but he also knew a dozen other issues intimately well,” Muller said.

Rieser is always on the move and can often be seen jogging through the halls of Congress to meetings, Muller said. He added that he could always count on Rieser to answer his office phone as late as 10 p.m., a testament to his “industriousness and diligence.”

Rieser loves hiking, skiing, biking and running, and his “connection to nature keeps him who he is” even when he is not in Vermont, Braden said.

Rieser came to Dartmouth after attending Stanford University for one year and taking another year to work and travel, which made his Dartmouth experience different from that of many other students, he said. He studied history, particularly Latin American studies with Marysa Navarro, who was a history professor from 1968 to 2010, and was interested in the various revolutionary efforts of the time and democratic, social and land reforms, Braden said.

Braden said that Rieser demonstrates that people in government can make a difference and can actually affect more change from within. “[Rieser] shows that you can make change,” Braden said.

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To The Dartmouth Community, Tonight our men’s hockey team will host a game against Princeton that has big implications for both the ECAC playoffs and the Ivy League Championship. It is the start of an exciting final weekend of the regular season that also has Dartmouth playing Quinnipiac, the top ranked team in the ECAC, on Saturday.

Many of you know of the “tradition” of throwing tennis balls after the first goal against Princeton. In the past, referees have overlooked the first “throw” but in recent seasons the throwing of tennis balls has spread to the second, third and fourth goals and Dartmouth has been penalized each time. This, I believe, makes us the only school in the nation that possesses a “tradition” where our own fans knowingly hurt their team. This, in and of itself, should make us think twice. How sad it would be if this “tradition” cost our team an Ivy Championship, an important bye in first-round of the ECAC Tournament, or an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament. That chance exists this year.

I write this letter not only because of the embarrassment that this “tradition” can cause (and make no mistake that Dartmouth “fans” causing their team to be penalized embarrasses many in our community), but also to support our hockey student-athletes who want a fair chance to succeed.

We have one of the best home ice advantages in all of college hockey. Come to the games, arrive early to make sure you get in, be loud and have fun. But please, do not hurt our team that has played so hard all season at the time that they need your support the most. Here’s wishing the men of Dartmouth hockey a great, successful weekend.

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As February comes to a close, Dartmouth spring sports are ramping up.

Nearly half of all Dartmouth sports teams are in action this weekend as we have officially reached the transition period between winter and spring. A few of the highlights of this weekend that we will not preview include men’s lacrosse travelling to South Bend to face national powerhouse No. 2 University of Notre Dame and women’s lacrosse jetting off to Gainesville to face the No. 4 University of Florida. Additionally, the women’s hockey team will begin its Eastern Coast Athletic Conference Championship push in the first round against Clarkson University.

Men’s Hockey vs. Princeton University (7 p.m. Friday) After a mixed weekend on the road last week, the men’s hockey team (1310-4, 10-8-2 ECAC) returns home for its final regular season weekend against cellar-dweller Princeton (4-19-3, 2-16-2 ECAC) and No. 10 Quinnipiac University (20-8-4, 15-2-3 ECAC).

Quinnipiac needs only one point this weekend to clinch the Cleary Cup, the ECAC regular season crown.

Despite Princeton’s less than spectacular record and a 4-2 win over the Tigers for the Big Green earlier this season, this is by no means a throwaway game for the Dartmouth men.

The top four teams in the ECAC receive a first-round bye in the playoffs.

The Big Green is currently in sixth, just one point behind fourth-place Colgate University (18-11-3, 10-7-3 ECAC) and Harvard University(14-10-3, 10-7-3 ECAC) and three points behind third-

place Yale University (16-7-4, 11-6-3 ECAC). A three-point weekend would do wonders for the Big Green’s playoff chances, and that all begins with getting a win against Princeton.

In the first matchup, the Big Green relied on a big first period and a two-goal game from captain Tyler Sikura ’15 to mask an 0-5 night on the power play.

However, the Big Green kill was as effective as their power play was ineffective, killing five of six Tiger opportunities.

Make sure to get there early for this one, as Thompson Arena fills up pretty quickly.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 3-1 Women’s Basketball vs. Columbia University (7 p.m. Friday) Much like their last game against Columbia (8-16, 2-8 Ivy), the women’s basketball team (11-13, 2-8 Ivy) comes in slumping. The team has lost two in a row and eight of its last nine (the only win coming over Columbia in a 61-54 overtime thriller in Manhattan two weeks ago).

Over the last nine games, the Big Green has put up more than 50 points just three times and failed to eclipse 40 twice. The good news is the defense has been playing well, conceding less than 60 points three times.

Dartmouth’s defense will have to be its strength, as only two Big Green women — Fanni Szabo ’17 and Lakin Roland ’16 — average double figures.

After these two offensive standouts, there is a significant drop-off, as the next highest scorer averages 5.3 points per game.

Last time out against the Lions, the Big Green shot just 30.6 percent from the floor, but made up for that from the charity stripe, sinking 19-22 from

the line. The Big Green defense held Columbia to just 34.4 percent shooting, but the Lions did not convert from the free throw line, going just 8-17. This time around, the Big Green will have to play similarly stellar defense and shoot better to beat Columbia. Both are possible, especially if Szabo and Roland get rolling.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth 58-52 Women’s Track and Field at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Saturday-Sunday) As one former sports editor and Big Green distance runner used to famously say “It’s Heps season. They’re a big deal.” And they certainly are. The Ivy League Heptagonal Championships are this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Dartmouth women will be looking for a bit of revenge.

Last season, the Big Green finished second to the Crimson in both the winter and spring Heps by a total of 33 points.

When Leverone Field House opened its doors to the championships last winter, the Big Green fell by 20 despite a huge Sunday performance that saw them rocket up the standings.

This season, the women’s team has dominated, winning three of its four scoring meets by a total of 110 points and coming in second in the Carisella Invitational in Boston.

The women have built themselves into a perennial Ivy League threat and have been carried this season by a balanced attack, led by Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16, Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17, Dana Giordano ’16, Sarah Bennett ’16, Elizabeth Markowitz ’16 and Sarah DeLozier ’15, among others.

PREDICTION: Dartmouth finishes second

For much of their respective histories, it’s been pretty fun rooting for the Los Angeles Lakers or for the Boston Celtics. The two most decorated franchises in NBA history, these two teams have combined to win almost half of all NBA championships.

The Celtics last hoisted the Larry O’Brien trophy in 2008, and the Lakers won it all in both 2009 and 2010.

With all-time greats like Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson between them, it’s been historically pretty easy to cheer for these two franchises.

The past few years, however, have been a different story. With the superstars from each team’s last championship run now either injured or no longer playing for the team, watching a Lakers or Celtics game has become a lot more painful and a lot less fun, which got us thinking, “Wow, this must be what it’s like to root for any of the other 28 NBA franchises.”

So, with that in mind, Rich and I started wondering: “What’s it like right now being a fan of each of the different NBA teams?” Here’s our assessment of all the Western Conference teams.

Golden State Warriors: With the Splash Brothers leading the way, Golden State fans finally have something to cheer about besides the perfect weather in California (I swear I’m not bitter).

Memphis Grizzlies: The Grizzlies have finally broken into the elite echelon of teams and are a true title contender this season. Too bad they’re still one of the slowest paced and most boring to watch teams in the NBA. Houston Rockets: James Harden puts the team on his back every night. The Rockets have emerged as a championship quality team, and fans in Houston have a reason to celebrate. Hopefully they’ll also be able to watch some basketball between each one of Harden’s free throws.

Dallas Mavericks: With one of the most effective offenses in the league, the Mavericks are a few lucky breaks from making it to the conference finals.

If the basketball weren’t enough of a reason to be a Dallas fan, they also have arguably the most handsome man in basketball, Chandler Parsons, as their shooting forward.

(MAN CRUSH ALERT!) Portland Trail Blazers: An underrated team with two veritable superstars, the one Portland fan can look forward to several more years of success.

Los Angeles Clippers: Everyone hates the Clippers. (There might be a slim chance that I’m still bitter about the nixed “Chris Paul to the Lakers” trade where David Stern BLATANTLY CHEATED.) San Antonio Spurs: Ol’ faithful. The

Spurs have one of the most loyal fanbases in the NBA due to their history of success.

The team hasn’t been playing as well as usual this season, but you can never count out Pop and Timmy as threats to win it all.

Oklahoma City Thunder: With two of the most entertaining players in the league, here’s an important philosophical question for Thunder fans: Do you like your superstars enough to ignore how poorly your coach is using them?

New Orleans Pelicans: Pelicans fans are lucky enough to enjoy one of the most exciting young players of this generation. At just 21 years old, superstar Anthony Davis has one of the brightest futures of any player in the NBA. It’ll be fun to see if AD can single-handedly make the unibrow cool in New Orleans.

Phoenix Suns: This Suns team probably would have been a fourth or fifth seed in the Eastern Conference this year. Instead, it’s looking like the sub-.500 Brooklyn Nets will be in the playoffs and the Suns won’t. Someone make sure to keep the Suns fans away from the Brooklyn fans.

Utah Jazz: Although it’s been hard to watch the Utah Jazz over the past few years, Jazz fans should be excited about all the talented young players currently on the roster.

This team will probably be making some beautiful music together sooner rather than later.

Denver Nuggets: When your team’s head coach is buying and reading books about how to connect with young people, you know that your team is just a complete dumpster fire.

Sacramento Kings: Kings fans would like to collectively write a letter to owner Vivek Ranadive to stop recommending that the team play 4-on-5 basketball because it worked for his daughter’s recreational basketball team.

Los Angeles Lakers: Lakers fans may not be the biggest fans of this current Lakers team, but no one hates this roster more than the Black Mamba himself. (See: Recent Jimmy Kimmel.)

Minnesota Timberwolves: With Ricky Rubio’s creative passing and the Bounce Brothers’ ability to sky above the rim, the Timberwolves are about to become one of the most fun young teams in the league. Timberwolves fans should also be very excited about the player that Andrew Wiggins might become in the near future.

Overall the fans in the West should be relatively happy. The conference is loaded with talent, and the games are — for the most part — entertaining.

The same cannot be said for the East, where two teams under .500 are projected to make the playoffs. Next week we will go through the mindset of the fans in the East, so make sure to tune back in!

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015

FRIDAY LINEUP

MEN’S HOCKEY VS. PRINCETON 7 PM

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. COLUMBIA 7 PM

Baseball prepares to kick off 2015 season in Texas

B y gayne kalustian The Dartmouth Staff

It’s a season, for the baseball team, of opportunity. Without a doubt, the seven-time defending Red Rolfe Division Champions have a challenge at their doorstep. At the end of last season, the Big Green graduated co-captains Jeff Keller ’14 and Dustin Selzer ’14.

Right-fielder Keller led the team in batting average (.308) and doubles (15), while Selzer — a two-time all-Ivy First Team first baseman — anchored the right infield for all but two games last season, batting clean-up for Dartmouth. The team, however, knew those departures were coming.

What the team was not prepared for were season-ending injuries for three of its starters: prospective co-captain Thomas Roulis ’15 and rotational pitchers Beau Sulser ’16 and Michael Danielak ’16. In the 2013-2014 season, second baseman Roulis (.300) had the highest number of at bats at 150, was second only to Keller in batting average and led the team in triples (4). Danielak and Sulser started a collective 14 games for the Big Green.

This is the situation Dartmouth is in as it heads down south to face No. 14 Texas A&M University today for its first series of the season, which will be broadcasted on ESPN 3. Losing a few starters to injuries is not as ideal as returning a healthy team, but it is not a death sentence. Many of the team’s other important, structural players are still in the mix as the team looks to piece together an eighth consecutive Red Rolfe Division title and, hopefully, the recently elusive Ivy League title.

Returning to lead the Big Green this year is Louis Concato ’14, who was selected by his teammates to captain alongside Roulis at the end of last season. In Roulis’s absence early this season, Concato said he has received incredible support from the other seniors who have taken strides to show leadership while his coach has instilled faith in him to get the job done.

Concato was in the pitching rotation last season, finishing out among the four starters with the second lowest ERA (3.60) after throwing 45 total innings for Dartmouth. He red-shirted as a freshman with a stress fracture in his right foot, he said, and knew he had the ability to take a fifth year if his academics allowed it. He is currently finishing his second major in economics.

“I was looking forward to coming

back with a great group of seniors — a really strong team,” Concato said.

“Our freshman class has done a great job so far, and I think we still have a very good team. It does hurt though, you know, losing [Sulser], Danielak and Roulis, who are all three guys who have contributed a lot. We’ve got a long ways to go.”

Also returning is his younger brother, Michael Concato ’17, who claimed a 3.81 ERA last season and the start in the team’s first game of the Ivy League Championship Series. Michael Concato kicked off his collegiate career against then-No. 18 University of Kansas last year, throwing eight innings against what was one of the most powerful offenses nationally, allowing two runs before handing off the win to teammate Duncan Robinson ’16.

Robinson, who pitched mostly as a closer or in long relief for the Big Green last year, accumulated the team’s lowest overall ERA, 2.96. Robinson is expected, head coach Bob Whalen said, to take one of the open slots in the starting rotation.

Robinson himself pointed to developing a third, off-speed pitch that he can pull out to keep hitters off balance. “[Coaches] can’t teach you how to throw it specifically,” Robinson said.

“They say it’s a feel pitch. You need to figure out what works for you and work from that.”

His curveball, with its aggressive break, and fastball have been reliable in the past, but diversifying the types of pitches he can throw can keep him more competitive in longer outings that will be necessitated by a spot in the rotation. In establishing its rotation, Whalen said, the team is looking for players who can shorten the bullpen without putting themselves at risk.

The final rotational spot is still open, he continued, though Adam Frank ’15 and a mix of freshmen are receiving looks, including Sam Fichthorn ’18, Clay Chatham ’18, Marc Bachman ’18 and Patrick Peterson ’18.

“You never know how quickly firstyear players are going to come along,” Whalen said. “This whole crew, they will definitely be in the mix. How quickly they’ll come along, starter or reliever, that’s the part that we don’t know.”

Chris England ’15 and Adam Charnin-Aker ’16 are also in the mix, while Chris Burkholder ’17 is shaping up to be a critical player on the back end who can close out important games for the Big Green.

Positionally speaking, Dartmouth has a mix of old and fresh blood on the diamond. While all positions are considered open at all times, Whalen pointed out, “no one would be surprised if [Matt Parisi ’15] ended up on short stop…and if [Nick Lombardi ’15] ended up at third.”

The left infielders both appeared in all 39 games last season and served individual purposes offensively. Parisi, identified by Whalen as a “good leader,” started as a lead off man with his speed to get on base, but was moved to the bottom of the order as the line up was mixed up to generate more offense. Lombardi, the hard-hitting homerun and slugging percentage leader last season, has been at third since he arrived as a freshman, able to make quick plays for the out at first with the strength and speed of his arm.

On the right side of the infield, there are open spaces for someone else to step up. On first base, the team is looking at Jay Graham ’15 — a “utility player” listed at 6’3” — Whalen said, recalling his few innings on the mound last season.

Also in the conversation are Michael Ketchmark ’17 and Joe Purritano ’16.

Purritano has not shown much in the way of defensive play since he came to Dartmouth, instead occupying the role of the designated hitter, earning recognition as the League’s Rookie of the Year in his freshman season when he batted .343. As a sophomore, he batted only .265, but until the offense gets underway this season, it’s hard to peg his sophomore campaign as the exception or the rule — more likely the exception, though, as the entire offense spent a substantial portion of last season somewhat frustrated at the plate. Hitting, as Selzer pointed out after almost every game last year, is contagious.

To fill the void on second base left

by Roulis, the team has been looking at Justin Fowler ’18 and Dustin Shirley ’18. Shirley, Whalen said, is unique among many freshmen fielders due to his ability to play around the bases.

“We’re trying to create some versatility along with some competition at these positions,” he said. “As a coach you always have to ask yourself, ‘What if [someone] got hurt or something happened and he couldn’t play for 10 days or two weeks?’ What would you do? You’re always trying to make guys feel comfortable that they have the ability to do more than one thing.”

Behind the plate, Dartmouth is

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Two of Dartmouth’s starting pitchers are out with season-ending injuries.

returning all three of its catchers: Matt MacDowell ’15, Adam Gauthier ’16 and John Melody ’17. MacDowell will presumably take most of the starts, as he has since his sophomore year.

In the outfield, with the absence of Keller — the only starter last year not to commit an error — the team is looking at several players including Kyle Holbrook ’18, who also has been getting attention behind the plate but seems somewhat unlikely to end up there with the three other capable catchers on the roster.

In his final season at Dartmouth, two-sport varsity athlete Bo Patterson ’15, who plays wide receiver for the football team, could prove instrumental in fielding the long balls, Whalen said.

“Bo Patterson is in the mix…everywhere because of his athleticism,” Whalen said. “He’s got good competitive experience, not just baseball experience, which I love. I love guys that play football. They bring a real physicality and a mindset that most baseball guys don’t have.”

As expected as a face can be in an “every position is always open” mentality is Nick Ruppert ’16, who is slated to play in center field, as he did last year. Ruppert missed most of his

freshman season with a hand injury.

Despite not returning all the players it had hoped to, the Big Green has a good mix of players it can rely on and players it is looking to develop, certainly helped along by the amount of playing time they will be able to get in preseason games.

A blessing in disguise for this team is the amount of experience different players will get at positions, something typically not afforded to any but the best players in their freshman and sophomore seasons.

It’s an opportunity for players to come out and earn a spot — in the order, in the infield, the outfield, even on the mound. The team has 17 games to play between this moment and the Ivy League opener against Columbia University, last year’s Ivy League Champions who defeated Dartmouth in New York but have since graduated both aces on their staff.

In that time, Dartmouth is looking to shape itself into a team who can chase that eighth straight Red Rolfe Division Title and maybe, for the first time in the memory of any players now wearing the Green and White, go all the way and reestablish itself as the best team in the Ancient Eight.