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LUL hosts community discussion on race

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Students and administrators gathered Monday night at Cutter-Shabazz Hall for an “emergency meeting” organized

by Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, a Latino fraternity, to speak about racial issues they have faced both on and off campus. The meeting was sparked by the alleged assault of Geovanni Cuevas ’14 at the Latinx Ivy League Conference at Brown University last Saturday.

The meeting began with Cuevas’ description of what he alleges occurred at Brown on

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The College’s general faculty voted to advise the faculties of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools to recommend to College President Phil Hanlon that he ask the Board of Trustees to create a School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth at the annual

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general faculty meeting in Alumni Hall on Monday.

The assembled faculties voted 174 to nine to approve the recommendation. No faculty members abstained.

The meeting began with Hanlon addressing the audience about increasing diversity in Dartmouth’s faculty and staff. Later, discussion passed SEE SOGAS PAGE 3

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Saturday. After confronting two officers at a party about what he felt was an unwarranted display of force against a drunken partygoer, Cuevas said the officers began to intimidate him and threatened to arrest him for trespassing.

He told the officers that he was being hosted in the same building that the party was being held, he said.

Wanting to avoid a confrontation, he left the party.

However, he went back into the building from the back entrance to find his hosts.

When he could not find them

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Thursday’s Blackout demonstration, org anized by Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has sparked controversy after allegations of physical assault were made by users of social media outlets, like the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak, and later in an editorial in The Dartmouth Review, which on Monday gained traction from some national media outlets.

The Review edito-

rial said demonstrators pushed and shoved students in the librar y.

One female student, the editorial alleges, was pinned against a wall by demonstrators while shouting “filthy white b****!” in her face.

None of the police officers who monitored the demonstration on Thursday night witnessed any acts of violence, Hanover Police Lieutenant Brad Sargent said. As of Monday, only one incident of violence in the library has been reported, and this was by a third party, Sargent said.

No complaints of

physical violence have been made, according to a press release by the College. The College described the events as a “peaceful meeting” that transitioned to a “political protest.”

Several students have filed bias incident reports with the College, with some describing feelings of intimidation and disrespect by other students, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. Other reports expressed concern from demonstrators, claiming they are being falsely accused of being SEE PROTEST PAGE 6

National Greek orgs remove support for Safe Campus Act B y KELSEY FLOWER The Dartmouth Staff

Despite spending more than $200,000 lobbying for the Safe Campus Act throughout 2015, the NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference and National Panhellenic Conference withdrew their support on

Friday after eight national sororities dropped their support for the Act earlier that day.

The Safe Campus Act, sponsored by Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) is a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to

protect victims of sexual violence and improve the adjudication of allegations related to sexual violence.

Vice president of university relations for the NIC Will Foran, who declined to comment on the phone, wrote in an email that the organization received many contributions and opinions

from its member fraternities, and that this decision best reflects their opinions.

The Safe Campus Act has a few key provisions that would change the way current sexual assault adjudications system operates at Dartmouth, as well as at universities across the country. The legislation does

not allow the College to go through an adjudication process unless the complainant is willing to nonanonymously report to the police. If a reporting person asks for confidentiality, the institution would not be able to initiate or carry about SEE ACT PAGE 5

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DAily debriefing The College has settled a lawsuit brought by Tracy Coyne, a former assistant coach for the women’s lacrosse team, who alleges the College did not pay her necessary overtime, dismissed her improperly and caused her mental and emotional distress, the Valley News reported. Coyne was fired in Jan. 2014, the day she returned to Hanover after having stayed in Pennsylvania two and a half weeks longer than scheduled due to her father having been hospitalized before his death. She further alleges she was terminated without any supervisor giving her a chance to correct the issue in accordance with Dartmouth’s employment policy.

Coyne also alleges she had to work overtime for events such as for-profit lacrosse camps without receiving overtime compensation. The College contends Coyne was not improperly dismissed and that Dartmouth does not owe her overtime pay.

Burlington’s Skinny Pancake restaurant will open a location in Hanover, the Valley News reported. The restaurant chain, founded by brothers Jonny Adler and Benjy Adler as a food cart in Burlington in 2003, specializing in inventive versions of French crepes made with locally-sourced ingredients. It has four existing locations in Vermont. The Hanover restaurant will be in the Hanover Park building on Lebanon Street that will contain a bar, a performance area for live music and a view where patrons can see crepes being made in the kitchen. The new restaurant will employ up to 15 people. The high demand for a Hanover-area location and the availability of locally-sourced produce both contributed to the decision to open a restaurant in the town, the brothers said. The Skinny Pancake’s more distinctive menu items include the “Jonny Crepe,” containing barbecue pulled pork, and the “Garlique Chic,” a crepe with chicken, Cabot cheddar, caramelized onions, red peppers and basil pesto.

Hanover town leaders and College officials are trying to curtail potentially dangerous behaviors by pedestrians and cyclists in the town, the Valley News reported.

Of particular concern is frequent jaywalking by Dartmouth students as well as students who bike on the sidewalk in violation of New Hampshire state law. One informal study of pedestrian and cyclist behavior by the Hanover Bike and Pedestrian Committee found 200 jaywalkers in two hours at the corner of the Hanover Inn while another study found that the vast majority of cyclists did not wear helmets or reflective clothing. In the past few months, the town and College gave away at least 300 reflective bands to students.

Hanover town officials also intend to create improvements to infrastructure to help cyclists and pedestrians comply with the rules rather than focusing on tougher enforcement by Hanover police. These improvements could include more crosswalks with better lighting at locations where students frequently jaywalk, Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin said.

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Slaughter aims to refine Tuck mission B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

When meeting Tuck Business School Dean Matthew Slaughter for the first time, he will frequently pounce on the interviewer with a spate of questions.

“How are you? Where are you from? What are you studying?” he asked during a conversation last week in his office — leaving hardly any opportunity for a response.

Slaughter said he hopes to refine a vision and strategy for the school, which remains near the top of many business school rankings.

But he will also grapple with challenges both endemic to Tuck, like its disadvantaged location, and those that business schools around the country face, like identifying the best way to build faculty and student relationships.

Slaughter, who began as dean on July 1, has served on the Dartmouth faculty for 21 years and at Tuck for 14. He is married with two sons and two dogs — the family enjoys skiing together, he said, and they frequently buy season passes at the Oak Hill nordic ski trail.

Slaughter also hits the links at the Hanover Country Club — he is a self-described “avid but mediocre” golfer.

Slaughter is an economist by training — he received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the top programs in the country, and was offered multiple posts as a professor before settling on the College. But he has a humanist background, too. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame University, his economics

major had a concentration called “philosophy and politics of economics,” which involved reading philosophical classics. His interest in distributive justice’s intersections with economics led him to a career in academia, he said.

Former Tuck Dean Paul Danos said that Slaughter balances scholarship and teaching, which, coupled with his expertise on economic policy and international trade — and his charisma — made him a strong choice for the post.

His honesty and sincerity will also serve as an example for students, Danos said.

“I predict that he is going to be one of the great deans in the history of management education,” Danos said.

In an interview, Slaughter stressed how he hopes to build a vision for the school. For example, he hopes to create a distilled mission statement of a single sentence by the spring.

The current draft of the sentence reads: “The Tuck community prepares wise leaders to become the difference in the world of business and beyond.”

When composing drafts of the mission statement, Slaughter said he talked to as many people as he could.

In fact, communication is a theme of Slaughter’s approach.

At school, he drinks coffee with students once a month. And he has paid visits to alumni in New York, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and London — cities with large groups of alumni — Justin Purnell Tu’13 said. Purnell said alumni are crucial for mentor-

ing and networking, and he said alumni have been “thrilled” with Slaughter.

As a professor, Slaughter has interacted with over one-third of alumni in some form, Purnell said.

“We have a very strong level of trust in his approach. As an academic, he has a keen insight into where education is going and where the Tuck school should be,” Purnell said.

Tuck frequently tops rankings of most alumni dollars brought in, a signal of alumni support for the institution.

“I only get 24 hours of the day, still, so what is really important is that I have a lot of colleagues that understand and share that vision, and they are equally excited at bringing that into reality every day,” Slaughter said.

Student Board president Omar Abdelsamad Tu’16 said he meets with Slaughter on a monthly basis, and he said Slaughter has sought to interface with students, citing a town hall Slaughter held last week.

“I think when you have an institution as old as Tuck you start to get concerned that internal candidates may not be the best person for the job, but as soon as you meet [Slaughter] and speak with him and understand his vision you become more confident in Tuck’s future,” Abdelsamad said.

Slaughter stressed the importance of a robust Tuck community — the environment, he said, encourages students to feel like they can take risks.

In one course, for example, SEE SLAUGHTER PAGE 7

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Tuck School of Business Dean Matthew Slaughter took over on July 1, and has aimed to refine the school’s mission.

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General faculty vote to recommend stand-alone grad school new School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. to the topic of the independent Many faculty expressed support graduate school. An amendment for the graduate school as a symbol was made to the language of the of Dartmouth being as serious motion to clarify the purely advi- about its graduate education as it sory nature of the general faculty is about its undergraduate educavote. The proposed amendment tion. caused a short bout of confusion Some said that a School of Graduate and Advanced Studies over voting procedure.

It was finally agreed that two would help alleviate feelings of votes would be held — one on marginalization that graduate the amendment of the motion’s students at Dartmouth often language and one on the content have. Others said that this school of the motion. After some more would demonstrate to others Dartcareful revision of the language, mouth’s commitment to research. the general faculty almost unani- Some faculty also expressed mously passed the amendment. concerns, however, that the estabDiscussion then moved onto the lishment of this new institution would reallocate resources origimotion itself.

Hanlon stated that he endorsed nally dedicated to undergraduate programs. A t h e p ro p o s a l request was also when he initi- “I give the made during ated the conthe meeting for versation about administration greater clarity t h e g r a d u at e credit for putting regarding what school. In light together a task exactly was beof the College’s ing voted upon.

17 Ph.D. pro- force, trying to Dean grams, 14 mas- make the case, of graduate ters programs s t u d i e s Jo n and 250 post- asking for faculty Kull, one of doctorate stu- input.” the main prodents at Dartponents of the mouth, Hanlon p ro j e c t , s a i d said that the - Rockefeller that the estabCollege needs center director lishment of this t o p ay m o re school would a t t e n t i o n t o and economics make a fir m t h i s “ m i d d l e professor andrew that academic gensamwick on the task statement Dartmouth eration” that supports its bridges the gap force created to graduate probetween under- address the standgrams. graduates and Some tenured faculty. alone graduate additional re H a n l o n school pan sources would identified four be allotted to main reasons the new school, such as more proto create the graduate school.

“One is signaling that we value fessional development activities, graduate studies. Second is that it’s writing programs and support for a very natural place for graduate post-doctoral fellows. programs to cross multiple de- “Right now post-docs can come partments and multiple schools, to the things we offer only if there’s and that’s the way of the future,” room,” Kull said.

Hanlon said. “Third is: it’s a place Kull also said that the creation that supports post-doctorates. The of this independent graduate fourth is that right now we have school would require changing a strange organizational structure “Organization of the Faculty at where an office inside Arts and Dartmouth College” document.

Sciences oversees graduate pro- Biological sciences professor grams — 40 percent of which lie Roger Sloboda said that the creation of the independent graduate in professional schools.”

Hanlon said that the Trustees school would simplify the arrangeare interested to hear the input ment and organizational paths of reporting. He does not foresee any and advice of faculty.

Provost Carolyn Dever is also drawbacks. in support of the independent Geisel biochemistry professor graduate school. She pointed Dean Madden, a member of the to the interdisciplinary gradu- task force created to examine the ate program ecology, evolution, proposal, said the creation of an ecosystems and society which, independent graduate school is though it does not fall into any not the initiative of administraundergraduate department, would tors, but rather administrators have a comfortable home in the responding to suggestions from FROM SOGAS PAGE 1

the faculty.

Madden said that there was a strategic planning process from 2011 to 2012, under former College President Jim Yong Kim, during which faculty working groups were formed for a variety of projects. Madden was in a group called “Graduate Education for the Future” and there was another group called “Research, Scholarship and Creativity.” Both of those groups in their reports suggested forming a school or institute for graduate, post-doctoral and advanced studies.

“The motivation [for this proposal] didn’t come out of the task force or the administration, it really came out of these earlier working groups,” Madden said.

During the meeting, engineering professor and task force member Brian Pogue said that while some faculty may believe the proposal is being rushed through, it has in fact been under discussion for decades.

“I don’t think it could happen any slower,” Pogue said.

Rockefeller Center director and economics professor Andrew Samwick said he is unsure what problem is being solved by the creation of the new graduate

school and what benefits are being granted by the new institute.

The new school is taking “some of the administration of Arts and Sciences graduate programs away from the Dean of the Faculty of

“I thought the discussion was very serious and thoughtful, and very positive and supportive.”

- Provost carolyn dever on the general faculty meeting about the stand-alone graduate school plan

Arts and Sciences,” he said.

“I think what has been proposed is an administrative response to a problem of resources,” Samwick said.

Nevertheless, Samwick said he

does not believe the proposal is harmful in any way.

“I give the administration credit for putting together a task force, trying to make the case, asking for faculty input,” Samwick said. “But to give credit for that is that they have to listen to what they’re hearing, and what they’re hearing were some questions about whether this is really an administration issue or a resource issue.”

Faculty expressed satisfaction with how the meeting and vote went.

“I thought the discussion was serious and thoughtful, and very positive and supportive,” Dever said.

In order to address the concerns that were raised during the meeting, Dever said that the best way would be to make it very clear that “this is not a retreat from who we are as an institution, it’s an opportunity to develop excellence in areas where we’re already strong.”

Madden was pleased with the result of the vote and as well with the faculty turnout and participation.

“We had a pretty robust discussion of the proposal,” Kull said.

“I’m obviously delighted that the vote turned out the way it did.”

On Wednesday, November 18, at 3 pm, Dartmouth College, with the support of the Town of Hanover, will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS), which consists of sirens and voice speakers that can be heard outdoors up to 10 miles from campus. The OMNS will sound for 5 to 15 minutes.

We apologize for any disruption this may cause.

The College will simultaneously test its DartAlert system, which delivers automated messages to members of the Dartmouth community via phone, desktop, and email.

These are two of many tools Dartmouth would use to communicate in a major emergency.

For more information, visit www.dartmouth.edu/~prepare.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Staff Columnist Min Kyung Jeon ’16

STAFF COLUMNIST MICHAEL BEECHERT ’16

Cherishing Bodies of Color

Europe’s Border-Free Folly

People of color must defy the media’s devaluation of their appearances and lives.

In Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel “The Bluest Eye,” the young black female protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, longs for a pair of blue eyes. She sees white features à la Shirley Temple as inherently more beautiful and valuable than hers. Pecola’s self-loathing is made all the more heartbreaking by her mother’s reminders that she is an ugly, unlovable child. The internalized racism and colorism portrayed in the novel are topics seldom discussed among people of color in the United States and abroad. Yet I have seen how these destructive sentiments permeate the fabric of American and Korean societies, and no doubt they affect many others as well.

Evidence shows that whiteness is privileged in the mass media. A 2015 University of California at Los Angeles study on the racial composition of the Hollywood entertainment industry found that although non-white peoples constitute almost 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2013, they remain outnumbered by whites in media representations. In film, the racial ratios favor whites by greater than two to one for lead roles, two to one for directors, and three to one for writers.

Likewise, minorities are underrepresented in lead and creative roles by similar or larger ratios in broadcast and cable shows.

These statistics mean that millions of children of color grow up consuming movies and television programs that implicitly validate the physical appearances, behaviors and lifestyles common among whites and ignore those of non-whites. The typically negative and reductionist portrayals of minorities, in the rare cases when they are included, only serve to reinforce this hierarchy. One need only glance at beloved Disney animated movies like “Pocahontas” (1995) — which portrays the titular Native American heroine as a mere appendage to dashing Englishman John Smith — to grasp that minority individuals in mass media rarely receive the serious and complex treatment they deserve.

Recent attempts at highlighting minority experiences, such as the television series “Fresh off the Boat” (2015), are commendable but run the risk of degenerating into a caricature. Its repeated, stale jokes about Chinese food, for example, left a bad taste in my mouth.

I see a connection between the under- and

misrepresentation of minorities in mass media and the results of Kiri Davis’s experiment in “A Girl Like Me” (2005). The documentary shows 15 out of 21 black children who had been asked to select a black or white doll opting for the latter and ascribing goodness to it. This experiment, though small, mirrors similar findings published by the psychologist duo Kenneth and Mamie Clark in 1939 and 1940. Dolls and animated films, though distant memories to adults, form the first building blocks of a child’s self-perception. That black children in both these studies consistently deemed white dolls more desirable is a chilling testament to the impact of social norms on children of color’s self-esteem.

In South Korea — reportedly boasting the world’s highest per capita incidence of plastic surgery — teenagers face pressure from their own parents to undergo skin bleaching and other procedures that engineer more Western-like features such as double eyelids and sharper noses. In my opinion, the sense of self-deprecation in Korean women’s psyche is such that ludicrous phrases like “Barbie-Nose Rhinoplasty” adorn the 400 to 500 cosmetic surgery shopfronts packed into a square mile in the capital’s wealthy Gangnam district. Some defend this practice by arguing that more conventionally attractive features increase one’s employment prospects or that people may as they please with their bodies if it enhances their happiness. Nevertheless, these are warped rationales for a phenomenon prevalent not only in South Korea but also in other non-Western societies that I think emanate from the harmful psychological effects of centuries of Western imperialism on non-white peoples.

In contemporary discourse, decolonization and empowerment of minorities in the U.S. and elsewhere are often framed in terms of strengthening political and economic power. But I believe that such a movement must include a collaborative effort among all people of color to restore confidence in their own looks and lifestyles. Without love for monolid eyes, natural hair, hooked noses, dark skin and other distinctive physical features belonging to bodies of color, people of color cannot hope to build and celebrate a proud cultural or national identity of their own.

The attacks in Paris serve as a reminder of the Schengen Agreement’s flaws.

Islamic terrorism has reared its ugly head once again, and indeed in spectacular fashion.

The Nov. 13 attacks in Paris — the heart of Europe, a jewel of art and culture and a birthplace of modern democracy — gave the world a startling and unambiguous wake-up call. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and its accomplices, who seek to destroy all that Westerners hold dear, will not be content to lead the Middle East into ruin. They want to and have the capacity to take the fight to us, knowing full well that the relative complacency of the United States and Europe has made them easy targets. The failure of Western governments to decisively eradicate the nascent infestation of ISIS years ago — and their idiotic policy of “containment” that followed — have come home to roost.

One must hope, in light of the horror of recent events, that the West’s response this time around will not be similar to what it has done after past attacks on Western soil. Specifically, it would be a grave mistake if — after the requisite period of mourning, public outrage and maybe a few airstrikes — the terror in Paris slowly slips into the back of the public consciousness while the root of the problem continues to fester.

European governments in particular, with the partial exception of the United Kingdom, have in their gross negligence quietly crossed their fingers in hopes that radical Islam will simply go away. As tragedies in Paris have proven twice this year, this expectation is unrealistic. In the absence of either a miracle or a change in policy, attacks will continue to happen in the coming years, and likely with increasing frequency.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of the present situation is that there is no one single policy change that would shield the West from the threat of Islamic terrorism. To be sure, more aggressive action against ISIS was needed in 2014 as the group was conquering more territory in Iraq and Syria, but that ship has long sailed. Intervention at this point in time — that is, a ground assault — might be a catastrophic failure now that ISIS is so well entrenched, and

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politicians are rightly worried about risking the lives of soldiers for such a dangerous proposition. But there are still measures that can be taken on the home front to mitigate the threat of further attacks, and it would be foolish not to at least contemplate them.

By this, I mean border control. The U.S., by virtue of its geographic isolation, has always had sole responsibility for securing its own borders.

Although this control is not particularly vigorous along either our northern or southern boundaries, it is not likely that in the post-9/11 era it would be easy for would-be jihadists to waltz over from Syria and start detonating bombs or shooting at civilians in restaurants. Europe, however, is another matter entirely. Thanks to the Schengen Agreement, which from 1995 abolished border checkpoints among 26 European countries, travelers can cross much of the continent without stopping for any security or identity checks. The checkpoints that do exist at the Schengen Area’s southeastern extreme — that is, the part closest to the Middle East — are generous to say the least, and the flood of refugees from Syria has challenged existing border security infrastructure. Before the Paris attacks, the few remaining realists in European governments must have quietly been wondering if it would be possible for terrorists to exploit the situation and wreak havoc. After this past weekend, the answer is obvious.

For many, the Schengen Area embodies the virtues of the European project — openness, freedom and multiculturalism. It has therefore been viewed as virtually untouchable. If border controls were reinstated, the thinking goes, the idea of Europe will have failed on principle. This is a dangerous fallacy. One can both believe in the promise of Europe and recognize the real threat posed by the rise of Islamic terrorism. If countries like France want to protect themselves, they would be remiss to rely on the abilities of overwhelmed foreign authorities to identify and halt infiltrators thousands of miles away. To continue to do so, admirable and true to ideals as that may be, is to flirt with disaster.

To the Editor: I am writing to respond to Ioana Solomon’s ’19 thoughtful column in The Dartmouth yesterday, “Artificially Selecting Community.”

As I said in last week’s messages to students, you are not required to submit a house community group request. We are offering that option for those who feel more comfortable doing so, but in the spirit of the house communities’ purpose and consistent with many of Solomon’s reflections, we encourage you to “go solo” — just as you did when you first came to Dartmouth and did not know the other students assigned to your building. Our goal is to give you the choice. These are options, not requirements.

I also want to recognize Solomon’s references to those of you who may feel like you “haven’t found your perfect place,” are exploring friendships or may be experiencing

what Solomon calls “a culture of isolation, depression and fear.” We know that despite Dartmouth’s many opportunities, it can be a stressful place. One of the reasons for establishing the house communities is to strengthen students’ sense of place — in response to long-standing feedback from students and alumni. As we work toward making that a reality, we care about how you are doing right now. If you have questions about the grouping process and the house communities transition, please do not hesitate to reach out to your undergraduate advisor, community director or a residential life staff member.

The undergraduate deans, pluralism and leadership office staff and Dick’s House counselor and clinicians are also available to provide support. As we head into the term’s last week, please let us know how we can help.

—Mike Wooten, associate dean of residential life

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National sororities withdraw support for Safe Campus Act FROM ACT PAGE 1

any disciplinary proceedings with respect to the allegation, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said.

“If you think about Dartmouth’s process, this is closing out almost every case that we get,” Remy said. “This is saying that only for those students who are willing to report to the College and the police can the College do anything.”

This does not allow the College to take action on a possible perpetrator that has been anonymously reported by several students, which would suggest a pattern of victimization, Remy said.

Remy said she also thinks the bill incorrectly conflates the legal adjudication process and College adjudication process. Part of the legislation gives attorneys for the accused student much more leeway than does the current Title IX process, turning the College adjudications system “into a court,” Remy said.

Remy said she thinks the legislation puts the burden completely on the reporting student and is “further silencing” than current policies.

“Who are we making this campus safer for?” Remy asked.

The NIC, which includes national fraternities with Dartmouth chapters Alpha Phi Alpha, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi and Zeta Psi, and the NPC, which includes sororities with Dartmouth chapters Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Delta, Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Phi, now support the Fair Campus Act, sponsored by Rep. Sessions, which differs from the Safe Campus Act by one provision.

Under the Safe Campus Act, when a student reports an alleged sexual assault to a university administrator, the university would be required to report the incident to law enforcement, Foran wrote.

Law enforcement would then have a 30-day period of exclusive jurisdiction to begin an investigation.

The Fair Campus Act does not have this provision.

Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity left the NIC in October, not just because of the Safe Campus Act, but because the fraternity does not believe in the direction the NIC is currently headed, Lambda Chi Alpha international headquarters communications director Tad Lichtenauer said.

Patricia Davis, chief executive officer of the Title IX Center — which supplies support for colleges and universities in Title IX and the Clery Act compliance — said the Center does not support the Safe Campus Act because it prevents

colleges and universities from disciplining students who are breaking the college’s rules.

“It makes students less safe than the laws that are in place right now, which do not make them all that safe,” Davis said, adding that the proposed law “takes away the power of universities who really care.”

Most sexual assault advocacy groups do not support the Safe Campus Act. Laura Dunn, executive director of SurvJustice, a national nonprofit that provides legal assistance to survivors of campus sexual assault, said that at first it might not seem bad that the Safe Campus Act forces survivors who want help to go into the criminal justice system, but this is not the best approach.

Dunn said that systematically, the criminal justice system does not have a track record of helping protect women against violence.

“To force survivors to use a system that is currently ineffective actually will discourage survivors and make them think there’s no point going forward,” she said.

Davis also said that the criminal justice system is often biased against the survivor, and that this policy takes away students’ power to choose whether to report through that system.

The criminal justice system has a much higher standard of evidence — guilty beyond a reasonable doubt — because if a person is found guilty, they will probably go to prison, Davis said.

Since penalties are much lower in the college system, the standard for guilt is lower as well — based on a preponderance of evidence.

This means that more students are found guilty of sexual assault through university judicial proceedings.

Alphi Phi sorority was the first national sorority to break from the NPC’s support and stated that it did not support the Safe Campus Act on Nov. 12.

Dartmouth Alpha Phi’s vice president for risk management Susanna Kalaris ’16 said that the national organization decided to vocalize its lack of endorsement for the Act after hearing feedback from members, branches and alumni.

While the national Alpha Phi organization left each individual chapter to make its own decision on whether they supported the act, Dartmouth’s executive board had a discussion and decided that the chapter would not endorse the Safe Campus Act. “We fully support national,” Kalaris said “We don’t endorse legislation that limits the options of sexual assault victims to report their crime when, if and how they

want to do it. It’s totally up to them, should be completely on their own schedule and shouldn’t be dictated by anyone else.”

The national Alphi Phi statement said that the Safe Campus Act can be detrimental to survivors and limits their options, Kalaris said.

“Sororities are the best organizations to fight [the Safe Campus Act] if they’ll stand up and do it.”

- Title ix center chief executive officer patricia davis

Davis said that Alpha Phi’s statement was “very courageous.”

She condemned national fraternities and sororities who had not yet withdrawn their support.

“Sororities are the best organizations to fight this if they’ll stand up and do it,” she said.

Seven national sororities, including Phi Mu, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Phi Epsilon, Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma Delta Tau and Delta Gamma, stated on Nov. 13 that they do not support the act. On the same day, the NIC and the NPC withdrew their support from the bill.

Dunn said fraternities in particular supported the Safe Campus Act because while universities have done a good job supporting

survivors’ civil rights, they have not always focused on due process within sexual violence cases for the accused.

Currently, students who are accused of sexual assault in campus adjudication systems have the right to be given notice that they are being accused, to be informed of the charges being brought and to be given notice prior to the hearing. As of 2013, the Clery Act also gives both parties the right of an advisor of choice, which can be an attorney, Dunn said.

“Overall, I think schools are better at due process than victim’s rights,” Dunn said. “There are some concerns, but a lot of the pushback is that we’re actually seeing people held accountable for sexual violence. If you look at criminal prosecution, less than 2 percent of cases end in a conviction.”

Dunn said if people were really concerned about safety on campus, the Safe Campus Act would include more than just sexual violence.

“That’s really the indicator that there’s an intention in selecting that as the only type of violence or crime that is singled out for elevated standards,” she said. “That in it of itself could be struck as sex discrimination because sexual violence more often will affect women. And elevating a crime that’s affecting women over every other type of crime to have a higher standard doesn’t sit with fundamental fairness.”

Senators Kirstin Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act to the Senate in Feb. 2015. This act

is currently in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as of July 2015.

Gillibrand and McCaskill called NIC and NPC’s support for the Safe Campus Act “misguided” during a phone call with reporters, the Huffington Post reported.

According to Gillibrand’s website, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act would establish campus resources for survivors, ensure that college staff meet minimum training to address sexual assault cases, create “historic transparency requirements” to show students, parents and officials the problem and how campuses are fixing it, require a uniform student disciplinary process across campuses and in coordination with law enforcement and incentivize colleges and universities to address the problem by establishing enforceable Title IX penalties and stiffer Clery Act violation penalties.

Foran wrote that the NIC has yet to take a position on the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, but that representatives of the NIC have met twice with the senators and their staff in the past week.

They will continue to work with any elected official or group eager to effect change, he said.

All national fraternity presidents at Dartmouth did not respond to requests for comment.

Dartmouth Inter-Fraternity Council members declined to comment.

Dartmouth Panhellenic Council did not respond to requests for comment. NPC also declined to comment. Title IX Coordinator Heather Lindkvist declined to comment on Monday, citing time constraints.

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violent. Some reports claim that demonstrators are being named on Yik Yak and other social media sites, and that this creates a potentially unsafe situation for those people, Remy said.

Several students interviewed by The Dartmouth reported witnessing chants including expletives, such as “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your comfort.” Several students also said they witnessed a group of women crying on First Floor Berry in response to the demonstration.

Two students reported that demonstrators entered their private study rooms and blocked the doorway, while others said that demonstrators singled out some students by name and circled around others’ desks while chanting. No students reported witnessing or experiencing any sort of physical violence, though some expressed that they felt uncomfortable or intimidated by the protest.

NAACP president Jonathan Diakanwa ’16 said there were incidents of close verbal confrontations between individuals, and that although these students could have been uncomfortable or scared, there was no physical violence of any kind.

NAACP vice president Tsion Abera ’17 also said that there is no truth to the allegations of violence.

“These allegations of physical assault are lies to make white students look like the victims and students of color to look like the perpetrators,” Abera said. “The protest was meant to shut down the library. Whatever discomfort that many white students felt in that library is a fraction of the discomfort that many Natives, blacks, Latina and LGBTQ people feel frequently.”

Abera denied that there were any physical assaults perpetrated by the demonstrators, but some protesters did use profanity in their chants, she said.

The NAACP organized the Blackout to demonstrate solidarity with the black students at the University of Missouri and Yale University, and also in response to the vandalism of a Collis Student Center Atrium #BlackLivesMatter exhibit representing the unarmed black individuals who lost their lives to police brutality this year.

Demonstrators marched from Novack Café to the lawn in front of Dartmouth Hall. At that point the official demonstration concluded, but many demonstrators continued, marching back into First Floor Berry up through Fourth Floor Berry, then back to

Novack and Collis.

On First Floor Berry, many demonstrators spoke about their struggles at Dartmouth as a students of color and challenged and yelled at students who were sitting on the other side of the library to stand up and support the move-

“It was important to point out that the students sitting there in the library at the computers represented this greater degree of ignorance, apathy and privilege.”

- Da n ko r f f-ko r n ’19 o n s i n g l i n g o u t i n d i v i d ua l s d u r i n g t h e p rot est

ment.

Many of the demonstrators then approached the sitting students and chanted “F**k your white privilege” and “F**k your white asses,” demonstrator Dan Korff-Korn ’19 said.

“It was important to point out that the students sitting there in the library at the computers represented this greater degree of ignorance, apathy and privilege that you see at Dartmouth, but the way it was done by personally attacking people was counterproductive,” Korff-Korn said.

David Tramonte ’18, who was not involved in or present at the library during the demonstration, said he heard from some students in the library that students were verbally assaulted and that some cried in response to this treatment.

“While I don’t think the protest should happen again to the extent where people are being yelled at and making people cry, I think the invasion of space needed to be done,” Tramonte said.

Victoria Campbell ’18, who also was not involved with the demonstration, said she has heard that demonstrators got in other student’s faces and that there were some incidents of disrespectful language.

“However, I have a problem with the protest being made to look like a spectacle by the students who were recording videos of it in the library,” Campbell said.

Many white students were angered by the protest and the language used, but the protest

should not be labeled as a hate crime or racist, Tramonte said.

Charlie Lundquist ’17, who participated in the protest but left after feeling uncomfortable with the shift in tone and documented this experience in a column on The Tab, an online tabloid covering Dartmouth-related issues, said that the protest’s organizers “failed to identify what exactly was going to happen in the protest that day.”

“I think a lot of people wouldn’t have participated if they had known that the protest would be disruptive and in the library yelling,” Lundquist said.

Lundquist said that he left almost immediately after the protest reached the library, and did not witness personally any yelling or intimidation.

C o m m en ts s u ch a s “ F *** your white privilege” were not personal or racist attacks on individual white persons in the library, Diakanwa said. Instead, these comments were meant to target the legacy of white supremacy that many students have benefited from and students of color are fighting against, he said.

Demonstrator Kevin Bui ’17 said that the protest called attention to important issues regardless of its use of expletives.

“I do agree that emotions got quite strong, but I think that we as a community should validate their anger and listen to it and not just brush it off,” Bui said. “It is important to look at what causes such emotion and how to support that.”

On Friday, College President Phil Hanlon responded to the controversy of the demonstration in a campus-wide email.

Halon’s email did not directly mention the protests, but it did discuss the merits of “free expression and the open exchange

“There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not being very nice.”

- Vice provost for student affairs inge-lise ameer on disputed media coverage of the protest

of ideas” while acknowledging that “the inclusion and safety of all members of our campus is a responsibility...citizens of the Dartmouth community [hold.]”

Hanlon’s response shows that people of color are not supported by the administration, Abera said, which has been evidenced by administrators’ responses to previous racist acts against people of color, such as the alleged egging of a Native American student this term, hate speech on social media and death threats that were posted on Bored at Baker during previous

protests, NAACP secretary Abbeygale Anderson ’18 described Hanlon’s response as “political rhetoric and fluff ” that did not address anything that occurred on campus from either perspective of demonstrators or students who felt targeted by them.

At a community discussion in Cutter-Shabazz on Monday night, several students voiced concerns over portrayals of Thursday’s protest, particularly in The Dartmouth Review and on Yik Yak. Vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer was in attendance at the meeting, and she apologized to students who engaged in the protest for the negative responses and media coverage that they have received.

“There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not being very nice,” Ameer said.

Ameer pointed to the College’s press release that acknowledges that no complaints of violence have been filed with the College at this time and describes the protest as a “peaceful meeting” turned “political protest.”

Many students who witnessed the actions of the protesters approached by The Dartmouth declined to comment for this article.

Assistant dean and advisor to black students at the Office of Pluralism and leadership did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne did not respond to request for comment by press time.

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In one course, for example, students frequently participate in class debates. The debaters’ ideas, he said, are frequently torn apart, but students know they can trust their peers, so they do not shy away from the intellectual exercise.

In comparison to other top business schools, Tuck must meet the challenges of its small scale and its rural location, Danos said.

For instance, business schools that are proximate to large cities are more easily accessed by recruiters, he said. Slaughter agreed, noting that the location can serve as a disincentive for some to attend Tuck.

Tuck professor Howard Anderson said Tuck’s strong alumni support can help in addressing these location challenges.

But Slaughter said that the solution to Tuck’s challenges with respect to location is messaging.

Namely, the school should promulgate the vision that its smaller community will permit deeper engagement with the global economy.

To complement improved public relations about the school’s global opportunities, Slaughter said Tuck plans to offer TuckGo — the requirement that all Tuck students, starting with this year’s

class, will have to take one of the study-abroad courses that Tuck offers.

Danos also said that messaging matters.

“There is always being really good and being recognized as being really good. They’re kind of two different things. If you just try to get recognition without doing good things then that won’t last long, that is not sustainable,” Danos said.

Tuck professor Robert Shumsky said that while he has observed that Tuck has refocused on a long-term strategy since Slaughter assumed the role, daily life has not seen major changes. But he said Slaughter brought fresh energy and a new perspective.

Shumsky has enjoyed going on walks with Slaughter — Slaughter’s replacement for a sit-down meeting and perhaps a signal of Slaughter’s intentions to interface directly with professors.

Anderson noted that not all of Tuck’s successes can be attributed to Slaughter — he had the luck of assuming the mantle at a time when the school was already booming.

Tuck professor Laurens Debo said the transition between deans has been “seamless.” Like his colleagues, he said that Slaughter is an approachable dean.

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upstairs, he went downstairs to the party to find them, he said.

When the officers saw him again, they slammed him against a wall, tackled him and threatened to pepper spray and arrest him, Cuevas said. The officers claimed he was resisting arrest, he said, though he noted that other witnesses said he was thrown around “like a rag doll.”

He was detained until Brown students came and verified he was a guest, he said.

Cuevas said he sees the incident as reflecting larger concerns about public safety for people of color on the campuses of Ivy League universities.

“We don’t feel safe,” he said at the meeting. “To the administrators in the room, I need you to listen, because we don’t feel safe.”

After Cuevas spoke, the floor opened up to hear from members of the audience. Several speakers — both students and staff — shared their experiences living on the Dartmouth campus and their thoughts on race and racism at the College. Multiple people cried as they discussed their experiences.

Chinedum Nwaigwe ’19 said that she is starting to feel she had been misled in coming to Dartmouth.

“I’m starting to feel as if my being here is to say that we provide an inclusive environment where black students can thrive,” she said. “But I can’t thrive because I’ve cried in this school more about this — racism — than I have because of pressure from exams.”

Another student, who is an undocumented immigrant, said that she felt unsafe on campus, and was afraid to leave her room on her own. She said after coming out as undocumented on her class Facebook page, one of her classmates threatened to have her deported.

Several students expressed dissatisfaction at how they have been portrayed following the Black Lives Matter protest last Thursday, particularly in The Dartmouth Review and on the anonymous social media application Yik Yak. One student also said she would be filming people of color reading racist posts on Yik Yak as part of a project to show others what their communities deal with on campus.

Several students said they felt that The Dartmouth Review’s coverage was inaccurate and inflammatory. Several students said they wanted The Dartmouth Review shut down.

Vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer, who attended the meeting, said she was sorry

that the protesters from Thursday night have had to deal with such inaccuracies, and with aggressive responses to the protest.

“There’s a whole conservative world out that’s not being very nice,” she said.

She said the College has released a public statement correcting any inaccurate coverage of the incident and acknowledging that there have been no complaints of physical violence filed with the College.

College President Phil Hanlon also released a statement Monday

“We don’t feel safe.

To the administrators in the room, I need you to listen, because we don’t feel safe.”

-GEOVANNI CUEVAS ’14, who alleges that he was assaulted by brown university campus security saying he was “disturbed” by reports of the incident. He met with delegates from the conference, along with Provost Carolyn Dever, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, Ameer and Assistant Dean and Advisor to Latino Students Rodrigo Ramirez, for a two-hour meeting. He also spoke with Brown University President Christina Paxson, who said the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave.

After several students shared their views, members of the Latinx delegation said that they planned on reintroducing the Freedom Budget to the administration.

The document, which was first proposed more than one year ago, would seek to increase minority enrollment among the student body, increase minority faculty representation and increase discussion of minority issues in the curriculum, among other things.

While the faculty did enact some of the reforms it proposed, not enough changes have been made, Cuevas said.

Ameer said that after the meeting, she plans to speak with Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne about increasing security for people of color on campus who feel threatened after Thursday’s protest. She also plans to speak with the IT department about trying to identify Yik Yak posters, though such efforts have not been

successful in the past, she said.

In addition, she said she would reread the Freedom Budget, begin holding monthly meetings with student leaders for people of color on campus and work to increase funding for minority groups on campus.

Students interviewed after the meeting expressed satisfaction at having a chance to discuss racerelated issues on campus. They were also glad to have members of the administration present, though they remained hesitant that any lasting changes would be made.

Rafael Nunez ’18, one of the delegates to the Latinx conference, said he was glad that people of color on campus have had the chance to share their experiences, though he was disappointed that it took the events at Brown to inspire such a discussion. He said that while he is glad administrators attended the meeting, he will not believe any promises until he sees actual change.

Sherralyn Sneezer ’19 agreed.

She will be satisfied when she sees changes, she said. She also hopes administrators can provide more support for Native American students on campus.

The meeting on Monday is not the only student response to the events at Brown last weekend.

The delegates to the convention also released a statement Monday supporting Cuevas and demanding changes from the administration at Brown.

They demanded that Brown University Security implement monthly sensitivity and “Alterna-

tives to Violence Project” modules for their staff, acknowledge and apologize for Saturday’s events and create a clearer process for communication between campus security and hosts of future events

by Jan. 1, 2016.

They also demanded an apology from Paxson, a reevaluation from Brown administrators about outsourcing security officer jobs, a

“I’m starting to feel as if my being here is to say that we provide an inclusive environment where black students can thrive. But I can’t thrive because I’ve cried in this school more about this — racism — than I have because of presure from exams.”

-CHINEDUM NWAIGWE ’19

public forum for Brown students to voice their grievances with administrators present, a reimbursement for the delegates, a promise to fund another meeting in the spring and monthly meetings with minority groups on campus.

Across the Ivy League, they de-

manded that presidents speak with one another about recent events, introduce proposals to divest from private prisons to their respective Boards of Trustees and release public statements explaining how they will address the issues raised in the delegates’ statement by Nov. 23, 2015.

Delegates to the conference from Harvard University said that they are planning to meet with the Harvard’s dean and other faculty officials to discuss racial issues on campus, Harvard delegate Kelly Navarro said.

Harvard delegates started drafting a letter to the dean after the incident this weekend, Harvard delegate Ruben Reyes said.

Reyes said that the delegates cannot provide any specific demands for administrators at this time, as they still need to meet to discuss details.

Columbia University delegates to the Latinx conference sent a letter to the university’s president, Lee Bollinger, condemning the lack of response from administrators and demanding greater action, the student news blog Bwog reported.

One of the goals of the meeting was to recreate the sort of safe space Brown University provided for the delegates at the conference, Cuevas said.

“I wanted to reproduce the same space we had at Brown with a critical mass of people of color,” he said.

He said that this effort was more successful than any others he could recall recently.

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use of quoted speech in the work.

Part one concerns the Messiah’s This term’s Handel Society show coming and the virgin birth. Part two in the Spaulding Auditorium at the encompasses the passion of Christ Hopkins Center will showcase one and his resurrection. The third and of George Frideric Handel’s more final part includes predictions of famous works, “Messiah” (1742). judgment day.

“Aided by top-flight soloists and The Handel Society’s perfora full orchestra, the Handel Society mance of “Messiah” will have one of Dartmouth College will perform intermission after part one.

Handel’s beloved ‘Messiah,” the Handel Society member and Hop’s publicity coordinator Rebecca soprano Tara Gallagher ’19 has Bailey said. previously performed “Messiah” The Handel Society is the oldest and appreciated performing a piece American organization focused on with which she was already comfortthe performance able. of choral-orches “I’ve tral pieces. It was “Aided by top-flight actually sung originally led by soloists and a full it before. As a mathematics and freshman, it’s philosophy pro- orchestra, the Handel nice to have fessor John Hub- Society of Dartmouth something bard. They were familiar that College will perform founded in 1807 I know,” she a n d c u r re n t l y Handel’s beloved said. “I’m renumber around ‘Messiah.’” ally excited 100 members about that.” drawn from the “Mess t u d e n t b o d y, -Rebecca Bailey, siah” is often faculty and local associated with Hopkins center community. They Christmas mufocus on pieces publicity coordinator sic, Gallagher

by Baroque artsaid. ist. The society is “ M y named after Handel because of his favorite parts are the more tradiuse of grand choruses. In addition to tional Christmas sections. Even the chorus, the show will feature four though people know them, each special guests and soloists — Margot time, we are able to bring something Rood, Ryland Angel, Gene Stenger new to them, which is really nice,” and Paul Max Tipton. she said.

Rood is a soprano who had her Rinehouse particularly enjoyed solo debut in Boston in 2011. She has performing one of the choruses. performed “Messiah” with various “My favorite part is this one other groups including the Rhode chorus, ‘He trusted in God.’ It has Island Philharmonic. Angel is a this sort of mocking tone, we take countertenor who has performed on on almost a mob mentality. It’s really more than 50 recordings. He has re- interesting. It’s both pretty and dark cently been involved with the Opera at the same time. It’s really cool,” he National de Paris. Stenger is a tenor said. with two masters in music degrees, The show is currently sold out, from Colorado State University and which is normal for the Handel Yale University. Tipton is a baritone Society’s performances, but more and trained at the University Michi- tickets might become available closer gan School of Music. He performed to the show, Bailey said. with the New York Philharmonic for Rinehouse is looking forward to their first Bach Festival. putting all the groups together for “Working with them is pretty the performance. cool. They sound incredible. It’s a “It’s really nice to be finally perwhole other side to the oratorio. It forming with the soloists and being adds a whole other dimension,” bass able to put it all together,” he said.

Adam Rinehouse ‘19 said.

In addition to termly concerts, “Messiah” is one of Handel’s the Handel Society perfor ms better-known works. The piece is community outreach and tours traditionally associated with eccle- throughout Europe. Robert Duff is siastical holiday music but was not the artistic director and conductor intended to be church music. It was of the Handel Society. He received first performed in Dublin in 1742 his doctorate from the University of for a crowd of approximately 700 Southern California and has taught people. at Pomona College and Mount St. “Messiah” is an oratorio divided Mary’s College. into three parts. An oratorio is a mu- The Handel Society’s fall show sical composition about a sacred or will be Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. semi-sacred object. There is minimal in Spaulding Auditorium.

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The men’s soccer team (11-5-1, 6-1 Ivy) lost its final Ivy League game this past Saturday to Brown University (10-5-2, 4-1-2 Ivy) in a tight 1-0 contest that was decided by a penalty kick.

“We always knew it was going to be a tough game,” head coach Chad Riley said. “We knew that Brown was a tough team.”

The Big Green was looking for its first-ever 7-0 Ivy League season and the conference’s first since Princeton University in 2010. Dartmouth last finished an Ivy League season undefeated in 2004, when the squad went 5-0-2 in Ancient Eight play.

“To our guys’ credit, I thought the week of training was very good leading up to [the game],” Riley said. “I thought the performance

was good as well.”

The game was decided on a penalty kick from Brown senior Tariq Akeel, the player’s fourth of the season. The opportunity for a penalty came from a deflected cross by the Bears led to a collision in the box between goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland ’16 and a Brown striker.

“It was just a cross, and I saw nobody [defending] on the back side, so I decided to go after,” Cleveland said. “The forward was right next to me. Right as I took off to punch the ball wide, he cut right in front of me. I had already committed at that point, so I couldn’t pull out. I just went for the ball, and unfortunately it would’ve put that one right through him.”

The goal conceded was just Dartmouth’s second in Ivy League play and broke Cleveland’s streak of four straight shutouts. The

senior co-captain is still the Ivy League leader in save percentage among regular starters by a large margin and is second in saves with 52. Dartmouth ranks eighth for goals against average in all of Division I soccer.

Both teams had opportunities to score in Saturday’s physical matchup. Dartmouth and Brown tied with 12 shots apiece, and the two teams combined for 28 fouls and six yellow cards. The Big Green, however, outshot its opponents 9-2 in the first half but could not capitalize, and the advantage was reversed in the second half when Brown outshot Dartmouth 10-3.

With less than five minutes to go in the first half, Emory Orr ’16 had a great look at the net that Brown sophomore goalkeeper Joey Cipicchio also parried away. The game was Cipicchio’s first win minding

the net all season . Regular starter Erik Hanson did not play in this game.

In the 28th minute, Amadu Kunateh ’19 fed a great ball to Noah Paravicini ’19, but Cipicchio saved the shot as well.

In the 55th minute, Brown had a great shot on goal from freshman Matthew Chow, a member of the Canadian U17 World Cup team, who only had the keeper to beat.

The shot, however, curved just enough to the left to miss the goal.

The Big Green enters postseason play for the second consecutive year. Last season, Dartmouth advanced to the second round of the NCAA College Cup after a 2-1 win against Fordham University. The team then lost its second match against then No. 10 Providence University, who advanced to the semifinals.

“Similar to what we did last

year [leading up to the NCAA College Cup], we just stick to our schedule,” Riley said.

This year, Dartmouth will play Hartwick College in the first round on Thursday Nov. 19 at Burnham Field. The Hawks, who play in the Sun Belt Conference, were ranked No. 88 in the last Division I RPI standings and finished the regular season 11-5-3. If the Big Green advances, the team will face sixth seed Syracuse University in the second round .

“We’re just trying to keep the nerves in check, trying to stay calm,” Matt Danilack ’18 said.

“Everyone wants to look ahead and look who we have in the future, but we need to, as always, focus on the little things, focus on one practice at a time, one game at a time. We’re just trying to prepare for Hartwick on Thursday, and that’s it and not looking beyond.”

Volleyball loses to Yale in five-sets, falls out of first in Ivy League

B y DANIEL LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

After a victory over Brown University in five sets on Friday helped move the team into a tie for first in the Ivy League, the women’s volleyball team followed with a five-set loss against Yale University in its final game of the season on Saturday, dropping the team out of Ivy League title contention and an opportunity to play in the NCAA tournament.

When Harvard University (1410, 10-4 Ivy) lost to Yale on Friday and Dartmouth beat Brown (10-16, 4-10 Ivy), there was a three-way tie between the Big Green, Princeton University (15-8, 10-4 Ivy) and Harvard with one game in the season remaining. With the loss against Yale, Dartmouth finished its season tied with Yale for third in the conference standings.

“This is my favorite season I’ve had at Dartmouth not only because we got so far, but because I felt that the team had reached a point we had never had in the past,” Paige Caridi ’16 said.

Playing in Providence, Rhode Island, Dartmouth took care of business, defeating Brown in a tight match. After dropping the first set,

the Big Green took the next two but was unable to close the match in the fourth, sending the contest to a deciding fifth set. Dartmouth held off the Bears to win 15-10 in the final set and keep its hopes of a title alive.

For the first time all season, Dartmouth played two consecutive five-set matches as its season finale clash against Yale also went the distance. Despite all of the exhausting time spent on court, the Big Green appeared poised to finish the Bulldogs on their own court in the fifth as Dartmouth opened the set strong with a 4-1 lead that continued on to a 9-5 lead in the abbreviated set.

At that point, however, a hint of doubt crept into Dartmouth’s game as the women struggled with their passing and failed to generate stops, leading to a 7-0 run by the Bulldogs that effectively turned the tide of the game and saw Yale lead 12-9.

The Big Green fought to reduce the deficit to 14-13, but Dartmouth was unable to force the final set into sudden death as Yale sophomore Kelsey Crawford registered the final kill to end the match.

“They were making some really good plays and we weren’t able to

answer them,” Caridi said. “At that point, we could tell the momentum was turning and we had to stop it as soon as possible, but the reason why we couldn’t get out of it was because we weren’t passing well enough to really put ourselves in a position to take good swings.”

The final loss extended Dartmouth’s drought without an Ivy League title, an end result that overshadowed much of the success that the team has had this year.

Since the creation of the conference in 1977, Dartmouth has never won the Ivy League title. After a stellar start to the season, the team appeared ready to rewrite history, but faced some difficulty in the heart of the conference schedule, losing three games in a row.

“Overall, it was one of the best seasons, and we did the best of any other Dartmouth team so that was really amazing,” said Emily Astarita ’17.

After finishing 4-10 against Ivy League teams last year, the volleyball team made a massive improvement this year with a 9-5 record, establishing the Big Green as a serious threat in the conference.

“We were really determined this year and our goal was to be in contention for the Ivy title, and we

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The Big Green came six points away from the first Ivy title in team history.

did that,” Kaira Lujan ’16 said.

The graduating Class of 2016 was the first class of recruits for head coach Erin Lindsey, and the program has continued to grow tremendously since her arrival.

“During my time here there has been a lot of development of players, and every year of experience the team is better,” Lujan said. “We had a lot of freshman on the court [this year], and they’re going to be phenomenal [next year] and our new class will be phenomenal and

everyone is going to step up to the plate.”

With the season officially over, the only thing the team can do is prepare for the coming year, which holds high hopes and expectations.

“Getting so close to the Ivy League title this year has lit a fire under the team again that proves that we can be a championship team,” Caridi said. “I’m excited to watch next year’s team grow and see [younger] players have careers of their own.”