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Student arrested in Assembly hosts town hall connection with arson

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The Hanover Police Department arrested Vikram Naidu ’18 today on felony charges of arson and reckless misconduct in connection with the fire that occurred in Streeter Hall at 2:49 a.m. on Feb. 18, according to press release from the department. Two trash cans were intentionally set on fire during the incident.

Naidu was arrested on charges of one Class A felony count of arson and one Class B felony count of reckless conduct. Naidu was released on $5,000 cash bail as well as $25,000 on personal recognizance.

His arraignment date is set for April 4 at 8:15 a.m. at the 2nd Circuit Court Lebanon Division.

The police are conducting the ongoing investigation with the New Hampshire State Fire Marshall’s office.

Safety and Security director Harry Kinne wrote in a campus wide email last Thursday that the incident had been labeled a felony arson.

New Hampshire criminal code RSA 634:1 classifies two categories of arson, Class A felony and a Class B felony. A Class A felony includes damaging property that is an occupied structure, which the actor was aware of, or a historic structure.

Class B felonies include arson of either the actor or another’s property done for the purpose of collecting insurance on damaged property. Arson that involves real estate being damaged or loss in excess of $1,000 falls under the Class B category. Other arson is classified as a misdemeanor.

This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

DartMUN to take place this weekend

By SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth Staff

With the surge of high school juniors and seniors, one might think it is a holiday weekend full of families touring campus.

In fact, the 400 high school students crowding Dartmouth’s campus over the next few days are part of the 11th Dartmouth Model United Nations Conference. The conference, planned entirely by Dartmouth students, will last from today through Sunday afternoon.

Students will participate in one of 13 committees, ranging from five conventional General Assembly committees — which operate following the protocols and procedures of the corresponding United Nations

body — to crisis committees, historical committees, special committees and an ad-hoc committee.

Dartmouth students who act as committee directors are given creative discretion in terms of creating their topics and scenarios, DartMUN secretary-general Andrew Wolff ’18 said.

Committees are not completely based on U.N. bodies, granting students more flexibility and the opportunity for a bit more fun, said Emily Choate ’18, undersecretary general of special committees.

“We put a lot of effort this year into coming up with really unique, novel topics,” Choate said.

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Around 30 attend the town hall on Student Assembly’s Bill of Rights Thursday night.

By SONIA QIN The Dartmouth Staff

Last night, Student Assembly held a town hall event to present its Bill of Rights draft and answer questions from students, faculty and staff interested in the document. Around 30 students and several members of the administration attended the event.

Jeffrey Fastow ’18, student affairs committee cochair, said that the student affairs committee noticed that throughout the past terms, there has been a “noticeable” spike in student issues with Safety and

Security as well as concerns over increased academic rigor. The committee also noted a disconnect between the College’s administration and students’ rights in judicial processes and hearings.

After studying the College’s student handbook, he said that his committee realized there were many gray areas, prompting the decision to develop the Bill of Rights.

Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 emphasized that the bill as of now is only a draft version and that the point of this town hall was to get

student and administration feedback.

“I think this document has started a conversation, and that was my intention,” Cunningham said.

The next step for the Assembly will be to revise the document with the feedback they have been getting and then work with administrators to actually implement the Bill of Rights, Student Assembly communications director Jessica Barfield ’16 said.

She said that the earliest the Bill of Rights would go into effect would be by the SEE BILL PAGE 5

Lecture discusses liberal arts

By SUNGIL AHN The Dartmouth

Yesterday afternoon, the Leslie Center for the Humanities held a forum called “STEM and the Liberal Arts” focusing on the interaction between liberal arts and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Key-

note speaker and history professor Cecilia Gaposchkin spoke to an audience of 20, mostly comprised of deans and professors from various disciplines.

Gaposchkin pointed out that the humanities and STEM fields are separated and called for the need to develop a “common vocabulary” between the

fields.

Identifying a rising call to promote STEM education and cut liberal arts funding, Gaposckin cited Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s comment during a debate that, “We need more welders and less philosophers.”

People were quick to point SEE STEM PAGE 5

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Feb. 20, 1:27 a.m. Collis Common Ground: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to Collis Late Night for an intoxicated male, a nonstudent from Trinity College. Hanover Police Department followed up, issued the male a summons, and turned him over to another individual.

Feb. 20, 2:28 a.m. Russell Sage Cluster: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to a Good Samaritan call in Russell Sage. The individual, a member of the Class of 2019, was evaluated and transported to Dick’s House where he spent the night.

Feb. 20, 3:09 a.m. Webster Avenue: Safety and Security officers observed a male, identified later as a Harvard Business School student, run across the road near Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, dive into a snowbank and remain still. Hanover Police was requested and the individual, who was over 21, was turned over to another person for care.

Feb. 21, 12:43 p.m. East Wheelock Cluster: A member of the Class of 2019 reported $1,500 worth of clothing stolen from Morton Hall. The individual requested that the Hanover Police Department take a case number and the incident is under investigation.

Feb. 21, 12:31 a.m. Sarner Underground: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to Sarner Underground, Room 68, for a graduate student who was observed vomiting. The student was intoxicated to the point of needing medical attention and transported to Dick’s House where they spent the night.

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DartMUN attracts 400 high school students FROM MUN PAGE 1

This year, DartMUN leaders have placed particular emphasis on committee preparedness. Choate said that committee directors must be able to follow procedure, command authority and lead confidently.

The General Assembly committees this year will deal with five different topics, including nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and a futuristic scenario regarding the militarization of outer space, Wolff said. Crisis committees will handle both current and historical topics, such as the massacre at the 1980 Munich Olympics, he added.

Throughout the conference, crisis committees will be presented with new information as mock breaking-news articles are flashed onto the projector screen, Choate said. These committees present neat problem-solving exercises, as delegates are tasked with balancing rapid-fire situations while continuing with their central topic of debate, she said.

“I find that crises are probably the most fun because they are the least structured and can have the most happen,” director-general Alison Clarke ’18 said. “You can send things up on the spot that you think will solve the problem.”

This year’s three special committees are the Yalta Conference, a NATO committee and a committee devoted to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

The ad-hoc committee is less related to Model U.N., but still functions under the umbrella of parliamentary debate, Wolff said.

Delegates assigned to the ad-hoc committee are given limited information in advance of the conference. For example, last year, the ad-hoc committee was modeled after the Procter & Gamble Co. executive board, he said. This year’s ad-hoc committee is structured as a NFL owners’ meeting, Wolff said.

“I like this type of committee because I think that the topics that you can do in Model U.N. can be pretty dry,” he said. “[Here] you get to deal with cool topics, and you get to pretend to be the owner of an NFL team for a few days.”

An opening ceremony in Alumni Hall Friday afternoon will feature former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg. Clarke said that Gregg’s strong commitment to and involvement in international affairs will complement the world outlook delegates need to bring to Model U.N. The ceremony will be followed by a Friday afternoon session. Del-

egates will adjourn for the night, before returning for three committee sessions throughout the day Saturday. Saturday night features a social, and the conference will conclude with a final committee session on Sunday.

A number of individual awards are given at the end of the conference. While each director has a different set of qualifications for the “Best Delegate” award, in general, the winner is one who is not afraid to form a block of delegates to get something done or come in front of the room and speak about his or her ideas, Choate said.

The conference also promotes a philanthropic project, Clarke said. This year, DartMUN will be selling shirts and candygrams to students to support the Good Neighbor Health Clinic, which provides dental and medical care to people in the Upper Valley in need of assistance.

Twenty-eight schools will be attending this weekend’s conference, most of which are from New England, Wolff said. While there are five or six new schools joining this year, the remaining schools are returning from previous years.

Over the summer, DartMUN sent out invitations with relevant dates and registration information to the schools that attended the conference last year, though most schools hear about the conference through word of mouth, Clarke said.

While background guides drafted by DartMUN leaders provide a baseline of research, it is up to delegates to collect country-specific data and information, Choate said.

Delegates must write a short position paper describing their country’s stance and what they hope to get out of the session, she said.

Many committee directors were involved with Model U.N. in high school, and participating in the conference and seeing competitive, intelligent high school students doing what they did elicits nostalgia, Wolff said. He added that Model U.N. was an opportunity to think critically about foreign policy and other issues not necessarily covered in a high school classroom.

Dartmouth students lacking a background in Model U.N. also get involved.

“A lot of us who are involved are government majors, and it’s certainly interesting to expose high schoolers to some of these international topics,” committee director David Tramonte ’18 said. “Even if you’re not a government major, it’s good to know what’s going on in the world.”

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COLUMNIST BEN SZUHAJ ’19

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The Tragedy of Comedy

Safety and Accountability

Larry Wilmore and Trevor Noah need a shift in approach.

After going on Reddit this past week to promote “The Nightly Show,” Larry Wilmore, who occupies the time-slot once filled by Stephen Colbert, was bombarded by angry Redditors. One third of the comments focused on a segment from September wherein host Wilmore and a panel of comedians cracked jokes at the expense of celebrity scientist Bill Nye. In response to one Redditor’s accusation that “The Nightly Show” “has done nothing but pander to the lowest common racial tensions denominator,” Wilmore emphasized his desire of he and his staff to focus on issues of “race, class and gender.”

“It’s really those three things,” Wilmore wrote.

“Though it seems like a lot of talk on race. It’s one of the ways we were distinguishing ourselves from ‘The Daily Show.’”

But “The Daily Show” isn’t doing much better.

Trevor Noah, Stewart’s, successor has lost over 30 percent of his audience over the course of just one year, compared to the 55 percent drop in viewership for Wilmore. While it’s hard to account for intangibles like the loss of a charismatic host, clearly both shows — insofar as the ratings are concerned — are doing something wrong.

Wilmore is a more distinguished comedian than Noah. Among other accolades, Wilmore has won an Emmy for writing the pilot episode of “The Bernie Mac Show.” Noah is the upand-comer. New to the scene, he’s fresh off the plane from South Africa, having moved to the United States in 2011. With big, bright eyes and a charming smile, he’s fun to watch. Be that as it may, he never lets you forget that he’s an outsider.

Noah often jokes about his heritage on “The Daily Show.” As he cheekily pointed out, Donald Trump, with his “light xenophobia with a dash of diplomacy…is the perfect African president.”

It would have been difficult — if not impossible — for Stewart to have made this joke. Noah and his writers aren’t dumb. They’re fully aware of this. They take advantage of the new angle.

Noah has joked about his race and his continent of origin countless times, often for the purpose of satirizing America. It’s funny. It gets a laugh.

Sometimes it carries a message. But, for some, it can cause discomfort.

If Noah is the outsider observing America for the first time, then Wilmore is the quasi-disenchanted, truth-telling American commentating on the news from within his own, all too familiar country. Much of his show focuses on and discusses near-comical examples of injustice, mostly those of “race, class and gender.” Wilmore runs a reoccurring segment called “Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening,” about how Republicans and Democrats alike are trying to “unblacken” the White House. For Black History Month, he has shared seemingly-unrelated daily facts with the audience, facts which he has acknowledged most people probably don’t have much interest in hearing. The idea is a good one — and the desire to educate is noble — but it doesn’t get views.

Experimentation is not something new for Comedy Central. Colbert was given the chance to shine in his cutting-edge satirical portrayal of the American conservative. From his platform, he critiqued major flaws in political and social dogma.

While he inevitably offended some people, he was, for the most part, warm and likable. Stewart, the founder of “The Daily Show,” while more of a stark conversationalist than Colbert, handled major issues with grace, often times turning serious for the camera, aware of his dual position as the head of a comedy news show that also served as the main source of news for many viewers.

Noah and Wilmore are equally talented, but, as far as the ratings are concerned, it seems they have either been too quick to shine their spotlight on issues of “race, class and gender,” or they have been going about it in the wrong way. Perhaps Wilmore is too abrasive, unapologetic as he is.

Perhaps Noah is overemphasizing his outsiderstatus. It could very well be that a large percentage of Americans aren’t ready to watch a South African make fun of them on cable — the same as they might not prefer to tune-in for a blunt and honest discussion of American inequality every night at midnight. The other possibility is more grave. As a nation, we aren’t ready to have these kinds of talks. In any event, Noah and Wilmore are bringing important issues to the public’s attention, even if it means a shrinking audience.

Hopefully, the recoil is only temporary.

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The Student Bill of Rights is indicative of relations with Safety and Security.

On Tuesday morning, Student Assembly ethics reporting system that Dartmouth uses, a sent out its working draft of a student Bill of contracted third party company called “EthRights in a campus wide email. Along with a link icsPoint.” This system is in place for reporting to a website that presents the Bill in detail, the of any concerns or misconduct having to do Assembly invited students to a town hall meeting with a member of the Dartmouth community on Thursday evening. Although we recognize that an offended party doesn’t wish to bring to the fact that the Bill is a working document that a Dartmouth official themselves. can and probably will change before it sees any However, this system, especially as it relates kind of ratification, the form in which it exists to Safety and Security conduct, is flawed to now highlights some important aspects of the say the very least. After EthicsPoint assesses student relationship with Safety and Security. concerns brought to them, they then report This document reflects the broad mistrust of back to Dartmouth, which is then supposed to Safety and Security among the student body. take the appropriate action. The entire purpose Article IV of the Bill of Rights details of an independent third party ethics entity is the Assembly’s proposed to have a body that can “Students’ Rights With objectively take action in Regards to Safety and “What does it say the case of misconduct and Security.” Some of these hold the offending parties about student rights, like the section accountable. This system that prohibits Safety and perception of the simply reports back to the Security from engaging people who are school without disclosing in coercive activities inthe offense to the public, cluding “verbal threats supposed to keep creating an environment and/or assault toward a us safe when we in which offenses can be student” seem intuitive. swept under the rug. A However, there are more think it necessary to new system of accountnuanced aspects that point specifically codify all ability, which would be to aspects of the unique transparent and available relationship that has been the ways they are not to not only the students forged between Safety and allowed to mistreat involved in the incident Security and the student but representatives of the body. Section 2 of Article us?” student body would help IV makes a call for transhold Safety and Security parency, requiring that all Safety and Security accountable to students. If this new system protocols be published online and printed in works, complaints can be followed up on and the student handbook. It then requires that the students’ point of view on incidents could be organization comply with and not misrepresent clearly established in their own words. This these policies, the failure to do either would feedback system is also important in that it make them subject to “an official review.” will specifically apply to Safety and Security.

This demand is indicative of an argu- EthicsPoint is meant for complaints about ably pervasive notion among students that anyone in the Dartmouth community, and Safety and Security lacks transparency and such a broad scope could lead to important is constantly “changing the rules” on us in an information concerning Safety and Security attempt to catch people committing violations being lost in a sea of varied complaints. This that they don’t fully understand. Hopefully, new system would create a place to go specifiby clearly codifying their policies and making cally for Safety and Security concerns, which them readily available to students, Safety and would make the organization more readily Security can not only justify their actions to accessible to the students it is protecting. students by referencing specific policies that It is also important to consider the implicaare available to both parties, but they will also tions of these stipulations in the Assembly’s be held accountable to the standard of having Bill of Rights. What does it say about student to justify any significant action by citing clearly perception of the people who are supposed to understood policies. Dartmouth’s students do keep us safe when we think it necessary to spenot appear to trust it’s security force, and per- cifically codify all the ways they are not allowed haps this effort at transparency can start to put to mistreat us? This document reflects a huge everyone on equal footing and foster a mutual schism of trust and understanding between understanding of the rules of the game.

Safety and Security and students. Whether this Section 4, Article IV calls for the establish- attitude is justified or not is another issue for ment of a “formalized feedback mechanism, another article. The point is that it exists, and in which any encounter between students and it has lead to an increasingly fraught relationSafety and Security officers may be reviewed ship between the two parties. This new Bill of by both parties involved.” The Bill goes on to Rights could be a good first step in bringing stipulate that an overview of all these reports, students and officers together, not only ensurorganized by officer, be readily available to ing that Safety and Security acts in a way that the Student Assembly president and the vice reflects increased accountability to us, but that provost of student affairs. While we have some we begin to trust the people entrusted with our concerns about the makeup of this overview safety and security. committee and if they should have access to any identifying information of complainants, The Dartmouth Editorial Board consists of the Editor this feedback system could prove useful. It in Chief, the Publisher, the Executive Editors and an would either replace or coexist with the current Opinion Editor.

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Town hall discusses Bill of Rights FROM BILL PAGE 1

end of spring term and the latest will hopefully be by the start of the new academic year in September.

“We’re always open for questions and comments, the website’s going to remain there at least for a year,” Barfield said.

Cunningham said that he would love to host another town hall event.

He added that many of the College’s peer institutions have clarifying documents in their student handbooks or release similar statements of concern to their administrations. What distinguishes the Assembly’s Bill of Rights from those documents, Cunningham said, is the goal of integrating the Bill into the student handbook, which other institutions have not done.

Cunningham said the Assembly’s goal was to integrate this Bill of Rights document into students’ daily lives.

Following Cunningham and Fastow’s opening speeches, the floor was opened to audience questions. Questions ranged from what the next steps would be for the bill to how regulations for Safety and Security officers would actually be enforced.

After each question was answered by either Fastow or Cunningham or both, the town hall broke up into smaller discussion groups.

Vice provost for student affairs

Inge-Lise Ameer said that after having seen the Bill of Rights for the first time a couple of days ago, she wanted to come to the town hall to have a better understanding of what students were experiencing.

Senior associate dean of student affairs Liz Agosto said she thought the event presented a good start to the conversation. However, Agosto said that she had not been involved with the development of the document and heard about it at the same time the rest of campus did. She emphasized the need to find a balance between institutional issues and the need for student rights.

“With rights come responsibilities, and I think that to talk about one without addressing the other leaves a void in our actions and our expectations,” Agosto said.

Agosto said she wishes administration had been invited to have the conversation sooner, but she is nevertheless excited to start the conversation now.

“I support student initiatives and I think that there’s no reason for students to engage us until they’re ready in this process,” she said.

Student Assembly member Rebecca Suydam ’18 said that she was pleased by the administrator and student turnout.

“I think that it’s really important

to open up dialogue on this campus, especially about such important issues,” Suydam said.

Livia Clandorf ’17 presented many suggestions to members of the Assembly during the event regarding ways they could improve the current bill.

“I think it’s an important initiative to get right, and when I saw the document and had a lot of criticism for Student Assembly, I wanted to make sure it was heard,” Clandorf said.

Cunningham opened the event by noting the Assembly had been working hard to prepare and present the bill.

“By no means is this bill finished, or even close to being finished, but it’s a step forward,” Cunningham said.

“This bill is a concrete step forward to opening the lines of communication between students and administrators.”

Cunningham said he is hopeful that this Bill of Rights will be able to bring about real change on campus.

“I think the turnout could have been higher, but I’m also grateful that with the numbers that showed up,” Cunningham said. “I had some awesome conversations this evening.

I got a lot of great feedback.”

Barfield is a member of The Dartmouth business staff.

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Forum talks STEM and the humanities

dience members pointed to how the STEM fields often focus on technical out the irony that Rubio made a skills, as opposed to broader critical grammatical error — “less” instead thinking approaches that the liberal of “fewer” — while devaluing liberal arts encourage. One attendee noted that the real threat to liberal arts at arts education.

Gaposchkin also cited a comment Dartmouth is the gradual increase of from President Barack Obama with pedagogical conventions, adhering a similar message to that of Rubio’s. more to teaching information and She noted that people, including skill, rather than focusing on developpoliticians from both sides of the ing methods of thinking in students. aisles, repeatedly imply that a liberal He said that the risk was compounded arts education is less practical than by the fact that undergraduates are often taught as if they were graduate technical and manual skill training.

Gaposchkin became involved with students, as Dartmouth has relatively comparing STEM and the liberal few graduate students.

Attendees also discussed that arts because she wanted to address fundamental misunderstandings of what a liberal arts education entails the liberal arts. In one comment on is sometimes unclear — students one of her articles for the Washington might be more comfortable choosPost, a reader wrote, “most liberal ing a liberal arts education if they received more information about arts degrees are worthless.”

Specifically, she wanted to address how it could apply to a future career. misconceptions that the humanities Another audience member pointed out that when are impractical, comparing vothat STEM is “The way we talk cational training different from about the liberal arts and liberal arts liberal arts and education, there that liberal arts to people who are not is merit in the do not lead to in them is, I think, a discovery and employability. curiosity that The liberal arts challenge.” liberal arts eduare not equal to cation fosters. humanities, as a -HISTORY PROFESSOR G a liberal arts eduposchkin recation is a way RICHARD KREMER sponded that the of teaching and drive to know learning to think rather than the acquisition of knowl- more and to ask questions are qualities that employers look for and are edge, she said.

Gasposkin also said that the way part of the skills taught in a liberal of thinking that liberal arts educa- arts education.

Italian and comparative literature tion brings is valuable to employers and to professional success, citing professor Graziella Parati closed the her interviews with recruiters who panel by saying that this forum is came to Dartmouth. She added that only a beginning and that the faculty there are many industries that do must draw students to much larger not depend on STEM fields, such discussions involving liberal arts and as media, consulting, finance and STEM. She noted the importance politics, and many STEM industries, of bringing back alumni who have such as healthcare and information had different careers than what their technology, also require plenty of major would usually lead to.

In an interview after the forum, non-STEM talent.

She also explored the history of Parati said that while the discussion liberal arts, pointing out that many was great, students need to become of the seven founding branches of more involved, as the problems she liberal arts, including arithmetic, sees as a professor might be different geometry and astronomy, are con- from what students might see.

History professor Richard Kremer sidered STEM by today’s standards.

Gaposchkin argued that STEM said he enjoyed the discussion, noting and liberal arts each require the other that it made him think about how by citing Thayer School of Engineer- people involved with the liberal arts ing professor Peter Robbie, who could be more creative in the way they previously said, “We need liberally- present the liberal arts education to educated, expansive thinkers who people outside the field.

“The way we package the liberal are comfortable in many fields.” She added that science is better when arts, the way we talk about the liberal arts to people who are not in them is, embedded in liberal arts training.

In her concluding statements, she I think, a challenge,” he said.

In an interview, Gaposchkin said emphasized that scientists who embrace humanities are more creative that the forum did a good job of “meta-processing” what liberal arts and tend to have broader variety.

In the discussion that followed, au- means for Dartmouth.

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DARTMOUTH EVENTS TODAY 8:00 a.m.

“Refugee Crisis: Ensuring Healthy Resettlement and Health Security,” U.S. Public Health Service Captain Martin Cetron, Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

7:00 p.m.

Women’s Basketball, Dartmouth v. Brown University, Leede Arena

8:00 p.m.

“Chicago: The Musical,” theater department MainStage production, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center

TOMORROW 4:00 p.m.

“Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015),” a documentary directed by Kent Jones, Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center

7:00 p.m.

“V-Feb: Upstaging Stereotypes,” a performance that explores diverse masculinities at Dartmouth, Common Ground, Collis Center

8:00 p.m.

“Chicago: The Musical,” theater department MainStage production, Moore Theater, Hopkins Center

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By JAMES HANDAL

The Dartmouth Staff

T h e D a r t m o u t h wo m e n’s lacrosse team played the second g ame of its 2016 campaign against fellow Granite State rival University of New Hampshire at Fahey-Scully Field Tuesday and was victorious 11-10 after a strong second period. The Big Green are now 2-0 overall, with the five wins in a row. UNH falls to 1-2. With the win, Dartmouth now owns a 24-16 lead in the series.

“It’s a really big rivalry every year as we both are the big teams in New Hampshire and it brought back the history of the Big Green program,” Charlotte Wahle ’19 said. “All of my teammates really worked together well and stayed composed until the very end of this close game.”

Jaclyn Leto ’16, who recently reached the 100 goal milestone, led the Big Green, adding five more goals and an assist. Taryn Deck ’17 picked up three goals and two assists, while Courtney Weisse ’17 also added two assists in a strong team display.

Strong plays by freshman Elizabeth Mastrio ’19 and Kierra Sweeney ’19 resulted in critical goals by both players. Sweeney’s goal in the first half was Dartmouth’s first tally of the game, while Mastrio’s unassisted goal extended Dartmouth’s lead to 9-7 midway through the second half.

“The team was really able to push the ball in that second half and despite coming close in the end

we had more grit and confidence within ourselves, which then gave us that last surge of energy to keep the lead and preserve the win,” Mastrio said.

Mastrio added that the team is “extremely excited” about the start to the season so far and for what is to come in the next few games.

In the first period, both the Big Green and the Wildcats were fairly equal with each team capping spells of strong play.

UNH opened quickly with two goals from Marissa Gurello and Krissy Schafer before Dartmouth called a timeout and regrouped to tie the game 2-2 with goals from Sweeney at 21:16 and then Leto at 16:53.

Towards the end of the first period, UNH regained the lead with a pair of goals from Carly Wooters to strengthen the Wildcats winding down the period. Leto, who played well all night, scored her second goal less than two minutes after to bring Dartmouth within a goal near the end of the first period.

With less than a minute remaining, the pace of the game quickened, resulting in the two teams trading goals. Rebecca Sennott of the Wildcats and Deck scored 15 seconds apart, and Dartmouth headed into the break down 5-4.

“In the first half, the team was not executing our game plan at all and we were lucky at half time to have the score as close as it was,” head coach Amy Patton said. “Going into the second half, everyone had to take a deep breath and erase what just happened.”

Patton added that the team couldn’t afford to dwell on the first half and needed instead to play the way “we know how” and execute the game plan that the team started with. As the second half started, Patton said, the team got more aggressive on both defense and attacking and got a lot more people involved.

“The team started working harder and got in attacking mode all over the field,” Patton said.

The Big Green took control of the game in the second period thanks to Leto’s offensive playmaking and Wahle’s excellent goalkeeping.

Wooters scored an early goal at 28:21 to gain some momentum for the Wildcats, but Deck responded with two quick goals at 27:11 and 26:08 to bring her tally to six goals through the two games played.

Following another Wildcat tally, Leto added a pair of goals for the first tie of the game at 21:37 and then to take a 8-7 lead at 18:50.

Following a Mastrio goal, Leto scored her fifth of the night at 14:31 to give the Green a 10-7 lead.

Strong play by the Wildcats towards the end of the game scoring three goals in the final twelve minutes, but Sophie Davidson ’18 scored the difference-maker at 11:39 to give Dartmouth the 11-10 win.

“The game against New Hampshire this weekend was a great challenge for us to get the chance to play against some really strong competition,” Mastrio said. “The

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Dartmouth women’s lacrosse improved to 2-0 after a strong second half against the University of New Hampshire.

ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Jaclyn Leto ’16, pictured above, leads the team with 10 goals and 11 assists.

team has worked incredibly hard in the months leading up to the season and I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished so far versus UMass Lowell and UNH.” Wahle, who played her first game in net last weekend against UMass Lowell helped work for the win against UNH, recording seven saves with 10 goals allowed. Wahle has faced 35 shots in the past two games and recorded a total of 12 saves.

Patton said the team’s passionate freshman class is determined to improve individually, with players early to practice and “working great.”

Patton said the Wahle is a “really coachable kid.” The coach has been impressed with Wahle’s progress.

Wahle credits the defense in front of her as what keeps the team in the game.

“I know that with my teammates I have great help in front of me and I have such a strong defense this year,” Wahle said. “The wide support of my teammates gives me so much confidence knowing they are going to do anything to stop the ball so that the opponents can only get a low angle.”

Currently, Leto leads the team

in goals (10) and points (11) and Deck leads the team in assists (4) with Weisse and Mastrio each close behind at three apiece.

In the game, Dartmouth had a 13-14 advantage in turnovers, while both teams were quite physical with five yellow cards assessed to UNH and six to Dartmouth.

The Big Green outshot the Wildcats 29-24 and led draw controls 14-8.

T he Big Green travels to Gainesville, Florida to take on No. 3 University of Florida at 12 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27. Florida is nationally recognized in college women’s lacrosse as a perennial powerhouse, and the Big Green are winless in all four of its matchups against the Gators.

Patton believes Florida will be a great experience to test the determination of the team.

“Florida is a really polished team,” Patton said. “As we enter the game, if we focus too much on them, we lose sight of what we are trying to do. Every game we try to focus on what we need to do better and we need to work on things to do better. Florida is incredibly quick and have great shooters and we are only going to get better from playing them.”

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

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SPORTS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016

FRIDAY LINEUP

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS BROWN 7 PM

Men’s baseball looks to take back Ivy League Championship

By VIKRAM BODAS The Dartmouth

After five straight years of heartbreaking losses in the Ivy League Championship Series, the Dartmouth baseball team is looking to capture its first title since the 2009-2010 season.

By all accounts, the key to this year’s team will be replacing the holes left in the lineup by now graduated Nick Lombardi ’15 and Matt Parisi ’15. Head coach Bob Whalen, who is entering his 27th season with the Big Green, believes that doing so will have to be a collective effort.

“We have options,” Whalen said.

“When you have two guys like Lombardi and Parisi who have been every day players for a long time you know what you are going to get.”

Whalen added that it is not as simple as picking a player to replace each of them but is about giving the players opportunities early to go out and play. Luckily for the Big Green, the team has two respected captains in seniors Duncan Robinson ’16 and Thomas Roulis ’15 to help in this transition and ensure that the winning tradition continues in Hanover.

“I think they are both excellent captains and leaders,” Whalen said.

“I think you are fortunate as a coach when some of your most talented players are also the hardest workers and also have the respect of both the

coaching staff and their teammates.

That’s what puts them in a position to lead like nobody else on the team can.”

Robinson, the reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, will shoulder the responsibility of starting the first game of most series during the course of the season.

“Pitching the first game of the weekend every weekend can be challenging for a variety of reasons,” Whalen said. “Taking the mantle of that responsibility is a big thing. Every time he takes the ball he puts the team in a position to win.”

After his breakout year, Robinson did not rest on his laurels. Instead, he continued to hone his craft by playing competitive baseball throughout the off-season.

Robinson wrote in an email that he pushed himself further by playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League, which forced him to overcome some struggles. Robinson added that he was able to develop even further as a pitcher thanks to help from the Cotuit Kettlers head coach Mike Roberts.

Robinson’s co-captain, Roulis, is coming off an injury plagued 2015 campaign, which resulted in him missing the entire season. The former All-Ivy League honorable mention second baseman will help stabilize the top of Dartmouth’s lineup. That said, his biggest impact might come from

ONE ON ONE

WITH JACLYN LETO ’16

By EVAN MORGAN The Dartmouth

This week, The Dartmouth spoke with the women’s lacrosse co-captain Jaclyn Leto ’16. Leto is a senior standout, garnering unanimous All-Ivy League First Team honors in both her sophomore and junior seasons. In Saturday’s season opener against the University of Massachusetts Lowell, she became the 17th Big Green player to score 100 career goals. On Tuesday, she was named to the watch list for the Tewaaraton Award, given annually to the most outstanding American college lacrosse player.

Prior to Saturday’s game, did you know that you were close to breaking the 100-goal mark?

JL: No, I actually didn’t. I knew I was

close at the end of last season, but I kind of forgot about it because I was thinking about that game. I found out when they announced it.

Do you pay attention at all to individual milestones like that?

JL: No, I think after last season, when we kind of struggled and went 3-11, I personally had a good season, but it doesn’t really mean anything when you’re as a team not doing well. My only focus this year is making sure as a team we are doing well and accomplishing everything we are capable of because we have a really good, young team.

You opened last season with nine consecutive losses before rebounding at the end of the season. How did you stay posi-

a defensive standpoint as the shorehanded senior figures to slot into one of the middle infield positions in 2016.

“He is a very good infielder — he always has been,” Whalen said. “His athletic ability allows us to play him at some different places. His experience allows us to put him in a position where the most important criteria is just to make routine plays. We just want guys making the plays that they are supposed to make and right now he gives us the best chance to do that.”

Roulis, who will shift to shortstop next season, will be flanked in the infield by promising sophomores Dustin Shirley ’18 and Justin Fowler ’18 who will battle it out all year for the starting second base job. Freshmen infielders Nate Ostmo ’19 and Sean Sullivan ’19 will also compete for time in the infield.

Roulis wrote in an email that he tries not to focus on past team successes or failures, adding that each season is a new opportunity for success and to show how hard the team worked since the last game the previous season.

Roulis added that as long as each player plays the game hard and the right way, everything else will take care of itself.

First base will be manned primarily

by Dallas native Michael Ketchmark ’17, who some, including himself, feel had a down year in 2015. Whalen disagrees with the narrative and expects a strong year from his burly corner

infielder.

“You can make numbers come out any way you want,” Whalen said. “You take guys every year and you challenge them to get better every year. He only had a few at-bats his freshman year so the batting average is frankly irrelevant. I think his experience this summer has him poised for a very good year.”

The departure of the aforementioned Lombardi leaves a big hole at the big corner, and Whalen is exercising patience in naming a full time starter for the position. As it stands today, it seems likely that Steffen Torgersen ’19 will at least start the season as the regular at third base.

Joe Purritano ’16 figures to get most of the designated hitter responsibilities this year. The sweet-swinging senior was recently selected in the 30th round by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2015 MLB Draft after a season in which he hit a solid .277 to go along with 3 homers and 30 runs batted in.

Behind the dish, Adam Gauthier ’16, John Melody ’17 and Rob Emery ’19 will help manage Dartmouth’s deep starting rotation, which includes Robinson along with starters Beau Sulser ’16, Michael Danielak ’16 and Jackson Bubala ’17 among others. The bullpen will be anchored by closer Patrick Peterson ’18 and set-up man Chris Burkholder ’17, who are both coming off strong 2015 campaigns.

Unlike the infield, the Big Green’s outfield will look relatively the same in 2016 as it did last year. Nick Ruppert ’16, Ben Socher ’17 and Kyle Holbrook ’18 will again man the outfield spots. All three offered Whalen a quality balance of offensive production and defensive stability throughout last year.

However, Hayden Rappoport ’18, Matt Feinstein ’19 and Mike Brown ’19 will all push the three incumbents if their production falls at any point throughout the year.

The Big Green will play 18 games over three trips to Florida before its Ivy League opener against Princeton University on April 2. Whalen hopes to use these games as a way to prepare his team and give the younger players playing time early in the season.

“We are trying to win every game,” Whalen said. “This is not big league spring training. While we are doing that we are giving guys opportunities to show us what they can do. We will see where we are before the first conference game.”

Even though the immediate goal for this team is to win the Ivy League, Robinson feels that this is a group that has a chance to go much, much further.

Robinson said that the team wants to play into June, adding that the team “want[s] to shock some people” by winning an Ivy Championship and moving on to more playoff competition.

tive during that stretch, and how did you turn things around?

us so much better. It’s great to see them on the field because they add a lot of passion, speed and excitement to the game.

having a really good run in the Ivies.

Personally, I want to play my last season as hard as I can, and I would love to bring the Ivy Tournament to Dartmouth and win it here.

JL: It’s just having faith in your preparation and who you are as a team. We’re a really close group every year, and we knew last year we were struggling, but we also knew we were capable of doing so much more. We just wanted to end the season as positively as possible, and I think no one really gave up, which is an awesome characteristic of that team which has carried over into this season — finishing it out and getting the most out of it.

You guys have a very rookieheavy roster in 2016. How are the ’19s doing, and do they affect team dynamics?

JL: They’re amazing. They’re such a fun, funny freshman class, and they’ve been bonding to the program so well.

They work so hard and they’re such an athletic group, so they actually push everyone else and have made

In high school you played lacrosse and soccer. What was it that drew you to those two in particular, and why did you continue lacrosse in college?

JL: I love speed and competitiveness and I love playing team sports. I actually started playing soccer first. Then I started playing summer lacrosse and kind of got hooked, started going through the recruiting process, found Dartmouth and fell in love with it.

With two wins in the books and 13 games to go, what can we expect from the women’s lacrosse team this season?

JL: We have really high goals which I think we definitely can meet. The most important one for our team is returning to the Ivy Tournament and

You are one of the only Ivy League players on the Tewaaraton Award watch list. What does that mean to you?

JL: I actually found out about that last night — I was super excited. My freshman year, there were two girls on my team, Courtney Bennett ’13 and Kristen Giovanniello ’14, who were on it. They are two of the players who I’ve always looked up to, not only as unbelievable lacrosse players, but as hardworking, great people and great teammates. If a freshman now could say that about me in four years, I’d be really happy. Not just to be on the list, but to follow in the footsteps of teammates like that is really cool.

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