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This is the second in a two-part series examining the College’s hard alcohol policy. The first piece was published yesterday.

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After Founders Day, house system questions raised

By AMANDA ZHOU

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When College President Phil Hanlon announced the ban on hard alcohol as part of his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative a year ago, a discussion in higher education resurfaced: does banning hard alcohol “eliminate high-risk behavior” — one of the primary goals of Hanlon’s policy initiative?

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Students have raised a number of questions about how the new housing community system will work when it rolls out this fall. While current students found out which house community they were in last Friday at Founders Day, in the future, classes will be notified of their house community soon after accepting their place at the College.

During their first year, students will live on a first-year floor with fellow members

of their designated house, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron said, though multiple houses will be represented in one building. Undergraduate advisors that live on first-year floors will be assigned to firstyear students who are in the same house as them. After sophomore year, students will live within their housing communities.

Alternatively, students can live offcampus or in living learning communities.

Aside from freestanding LLCs, all other LLCs will be placed in the McLaughlin Cluster, which contains around 300 beds, senior assistant dean of residential life

Mike Wooten said.

Additionally, over sophomore summer, students living on campus will not be required to live in their housing community, Wooten said. Just as before, students will live within three to four open residence halls.

Not every house community will be open over sophomore summer because the College already has plans for renovations as well as camps and conferences that will use some of the dorms, Wooten said.

House professors will still be engaged with event planning through the summer, he

added.

Students returning from abroad programs will search for housing within their community using priority numbers. Just as before, seniors will still be given priority, then juniors, then sophomores.

One challenge to the new housing system has been the number of beds in each house community, Wooten said, though he is sure that everyone will be able to get a bed. He added that when grouping halls together into housing communities, SEE HOUSE SYSTEM PAGE 3

Thayer professor’s company identifies viral antibodies

By ALYSSA MEHRA

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In 2007, Thayer engineering professor Tillman Gerngross founded Adimab, an antibody discovery company that develops therapeutic antibodies against infectious disease targets, alongside his colleague and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dane Wittrup.

The company recently developed a new technology that allows them to quickly identify antibodies effective at combating diseases such as Ebola, Zika and other viruses.

Last month, Adimab reported the isolation of a broad panel of neutralizing anti-Ebola virus antibodies from a survivor of the recent Zaire outbreak.

Antibodies bind to the viruses or bacteria and prevent them from infecting the person’s cells, Adimab senior scientist Laura Walker said.

Gerngross said that Adimab, headquartered in nearby Lebanon, has approximately 70 employees and partners with over 35 pharmaceutical companies. The genesis of the company come from the realization that the pharmaceutical industry

needs the best tools to discover new drugs — including antibodies — in order to continue to innovate in finding new treatments for human diseases, he said.

In only six weeks, Walker and her team were able to identify and clone out 300 antibodies that all bind to the surface of the Ebola virus using a 15 milliliter blood sample of a survivor from the 2014 Ebola outbreak. The work, published in the journal Science, highlights the speed of Adimab’s recently launched single B cell isolation platform. The 300 antibodies also constitute the

largest panel of functional anti-Ebola antibodies ever reported in the scientific literature, according to a press release.

Gerngross said that the technique developed is faster than anything that has been done in the past and will allow for a deeper insight into why this patient may have survived.

The team subsequently sent the antibodies to laboratories that specialize in testing the potency of antibodies at neutralizing the Ebola virus, Approximately 5 percent of SEE ANTIBODIES PAGE 2

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DAILY DEBRIEFING Feb. 27, 12:32 a.m., Russell Sage Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call in Russell Sage. The student was found to be intoxicated to the point of needing medical attention and was transported to Dick’s House for the night.

Feb. 27, 12:35 a.m., Collis Common Ground: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services rendered aid to a student in Collis who was found to be intoxicated. The student was transported to Dick’s House where they were admitted for the remainder of the evening.

Feb. 27, 1:50 a.m., Webster Avenue: Safety and Security officers, the Hanover Fire Department and the Hanover Police Department rendered medical attention to a student for intoxication.

The individual was transported to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for further evaluation.

Feb. 27, 4:21 a.m., Park Street: Safety and Security officers and the Hanover Fire Department responded to Park Street for a fire alarm. The fire alarm went off in an apartment, caused by a dish towel that caught fire while resting on the stove. There was no damage to the building, and no one was injured.

Feb. 28, 1:20 a.m., Choates Cluster: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services rendered aid to a student who was found intoxicated outside of the Choates Cluster. The student was transported to Dick’s House for further evaluation and admitted for the evening.

Feb. 28, 7:00 a.m., East Wheelock Cluster: Safety and Security officers and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services responded to McCulloch Hall, where an individual was found passed out in a bathroom. After evaluation, the student was turned over to a friend.

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Adimab isolates anti-Ebola antibodies future, policy makers will be challenged to take action, he said. the antibodies are very potent neu“This is not a scientific problem,” tralizers and those are what most Gerngross said. “This is a question likely saved that patient, he said. of will and political willpower to Gerngross act and make said this is excit- “In an academic lab, you s o m e t h i n g ing because in the happen. We future one could can make discoveries don’t have a quickly identify but you’re not going framework in the antibodies w h i c h a ny that bind the vi- to be the person that one is comrus out of the develops the drug that mercially inpatient’s blood centivized to to assess their goes out to people. For make a drug potency in neu- me, the metric that we for five peotralizing the inple.” fection. Because as academics should be He added A d i m a b m a d e thinking about of how we the he curtheir data pubhas five are impacting the world rently licly available, it molecules is very accessible has many dimensions.” from the antifor someone to bodies in cliniturn these potent cal trial and is antibodies into -TILLMAN GERNGROSS, planning on a drug against THAYER SCHOOL OF adding anothEbola. Since vier four to five ruses are a public ENGINEERING PROFESSOR this year. health crisis and “It’s there was no majust incredijor commercial ble the impact opportunity, Adimab decided to you can actually have on patients share their findings. Because the and that is very limited when you same approach will work for new are in an academic lab,” Gerngross viral threats that pop up in the said. “In an academic lab, you can FROM ANTIBODIES PAGE 1

make discoveries but you’re not going to be the person that develops the drug that goes out to people. For me, the metric that we as academics should be thinking about of how we are impacting the world has many dimensions.”

Gerngross said that in the past academics have focused on the number of papers one gets published or how much grant money one brings in. However, he said, touching lives and helping to find cures are far more important in academic work. He added that he fuses his work with Adimab with his teaching at Thayer so that his students can be exposed to “realworld experiences” and see how biotechnology has the potential to impact lives.

Walker’s assistant Eileen Goodwin ’15 said that working labs at Dartmouth gave her general experience and lab skills for her job at Adimab.

“General lab skills are helpful for working in a lab and just knowing what to expect in terms of data processing and keeping everything straight,” she said. “Right now, I’m working on some projects with Laura that are very invasive so honestly the lab organizational skills are probably the biggest thing.”

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Administrators talk fall roll-out of residential house system FROM HOUSE SYSTEM PAGE 1

D-Plans and where students like to live was taken into account.

Allen House includes Gile, Streeter and Lord Halls. East Wheelock House includes Andres, Zimmerman, McCulloch and Morton Halls. North Park House includes Ripley, Woodward and Smith Halls. School House includes Massachusetts Row and Hitchcock Hall. South House includes the Lodge, Topliff and New Hampshire Halls.

West House includes Fahey, McLane, Butterfield and Russell Sage Halls.

Wooten said that generally speaking,

there will still be the same amount of singles and doubles across a housing community.

“We worked very hard on that. We knew there needed to be some sense of equity if you’re randomly assigned to one house or another, that you could expect a similar types of room in your graduated experience of living in a house,” he said.

Biron said that the planning process of deciding which buildings belonged to what communities also took account of the amount of social spaces per community, such as common rooms and study spaces.

“That required some extra work and especially students in working groups, some extra building. Which is why the volunteered a large amount of time to two house centers are being built,” she help plan the governance structures said. and define what a “membership” in a Wooten also said that there would housing community would look like. be substance free housing within each Biron, Wooten, Allen House house commuprofessor Jane nity. “[The money spent for Hill, North Park At Founders House professor Day, last Friday Founders Day] was a Ryan Calsbeek held in Baker- substantial percentage and West House Berry Library, professor Ryan students met of the money that the Hickox all felt their house pro- president dedicated to the that Founders fessors, signed a was a sucroll-out process. We will be Day leather-bound cess. book and re- using some more of that “There ceived housewas palpable money in the fall when we positive energy. themed scarves have the official opening of More than a and t-shirts.

Biron said stuthe actual running of the thousand that the estidents came to mated cost of houses.”

Baker-Berry,” Founders Day Biron said. was $100,000, Biron however all bills -REBECCA BIRON, DEAN OF added that she have not been THE COLLEGE observed lots of accounted for students finding yet. and speaking “It was a substantial percentage of with friends or classmates in their house. the money that the president dedicated “I saw a lot of people celebrating to the roll-out process,” Biron said. “We that and talking to the house profeswill be using some more of that money sors,” Biron said. “I was really kind of in the fall when we have the official surprised that I was moved.” opening of the actual running of the Hill said it was really fun to hear houses.” people get excited about people living Biron added that many people, in their houses and start to already hear

gentle rivalries between houses.

“I think [Founders Day] went pretty well,” Hill said. “I don’t think we oversold expectations and I think students were pleasantly surprised by the way it was done, especially for the students who worked on the committee.”

Calsbeek said that though the administration had reason to be hesitant about the way people would perceive the event, Founders Day was a “wild success.” He added that there is still a lot of information that has yet to be disseminated to students.

Hickox said that he was tentatively concerned because he thought students were still uncertain about the details of the system and may not be enthusiastic.

The event, however, allowed student to see the new system as a “fairly big deal,” which promoted them to want to find out more.

Hickox said he has already started to meet with students interested in forming a working group to figure out the house governance structure.

In terms of facilitating interaction, Calsbeek said that students and house professors will be responsible. He said that at his house dinner he heard a lot of ideas for possible house events such as stargazing at the Second College Grant or having a plot at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. He said that a group of sophomore women had expressed interest in going to the shooting range and learning how to shoot shotguns.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM THE DARTMOUTH EDITORIAL BOARD

STAFF COLUMNIST CLARA CHIN ’19

Accepting Responsibility

Vox Clamantis, No Response

Being drunk is not a blanket excuse for bad behavior.

Few advances have been made in responding to college sexual assault.

It has been roughly one year since the transgression were committed while intoxicampus-wide ban on hard alcohol was imple- cated, we perpetuate a cycle of irresponsibility. mented. Last winter, College President Phil To be clear, the intent of this editorial is Hanlon announced the policy shift as part of not to blame victims. No level of intoxication the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative. makes victims responsible for their assaulter’s Beginning last spring, students in possession actions. Rather, we seek to remind all students of alcoholic beverages containing more than — regardless of their involvement in the Greek 15 percent alcohol by volume were subject system — that being drunk isn’t an excuse to stricter action by the College. The new to be destructive, violent or hurtful. All too policy was intended to create a safer, healthier often, alcohol is used as an excuse for poor, campus culture. By outlawing hard alcohol, even dangerous, behavior. We attribute actions the administration hoped to curb high-risk that do not represent us in the best light to behavior and address issues such as binge being drunk. It doesn’t take much to realize drinking and sexual assault. However, whether that such rationalization is problematic. When the new policy has accomplished what it set we consume alcohol, we are no less ourselves. out to do remains debatable.

We are still responsible for each and every Much of the disone of our actions, and it cussion about alcohol “If we, as a student is incumbent upon us to act on campus has been accordingly. Being drunk centered on this ban. body, continue does not absolve of us of Students discuss its ef- to excuse drunk personal accountability. ficacy, its enforcement We need to stop blaming misbehavior solely and its fairness in fraterit on the alcohol and own nity basements and dorm on the basis that the up to our actions. Having rooms across campus. In transgression was too much to drink does not lock-step with these disgive us license to act in a cussions, students swap committed while way that jeopardizes the tales of rowdy revelry intoxicated, we well-being of others. Even over Sunday dining hall science has confirmed this perpetuate a cycle of brunches. While the fact. A 2011 study from majority of these tales irresponsibility.” the University of Missouri are about harmless drunk found that we are still exploits — embarrassing conscious of our behavior texts, bad selfies, minor scrapes — some stories while intoxicated. We just tend to care less. would definitely raise eyebrows outside the As Dartmouth students, we need to care Dartmouth bubble. Getting blackout drunk more. If we want administrators to treat us and peeing in a trash can is not socially ac- like adults, then it is time for us to take receptable behavior, but such exploits rarely elicit sponsibility for our actions. The stale excuse more than an a brief wrinkle of amusement- of intoxication has gone on far too long and tinged disgust from many students. we must take ownership of our actions and While peeing on other peoples’ property the consequences of those actions. While the may seem like a fairly minor transgression in administration may be at fault for supporting the scheme of college misbehavior, our will- a alcohol policy that fails to get at the root ingness to let “Well, it’s okay because I was cause of high-risk behavior, it’s time for us drunk” be a blanket excuse is concerning. to step up. Only by doing so do we have any If we, as a student body, continue to excuse hope of making tangible progress and truly drunk misbehavior solely on the basis that the moving Dartmouth forward.

When I think of common college experi- student activates seems to be the biggest voices ences, I imagine movie nights with friends, for creating change. Students are pushing for hiking in the woods and, at worst, stressing major initiatives to combat sexual assault. over midterms. So to hear that Kate Carey, In a collective move, students from colleges a behavioral and social sciences professor at across the nation, including Yale University, Brown University, wrote in an editorial accom- Tufts University and Harvard University, panying a Center for Disease Control report rallied in front of the Department of Edulast year that “rape is a common experience cation in 2013 to call for colleges to better among college-aged women,” I was surprised address sexual assault. In a similar case in and appalled. According which Columbia students to the report, roughly 20 “Roughly 20 percent called for closer coordinapercent of women are tion with decision-makers of women are sexually assaulted durwithin the administration, ing college — a number sexually assaulted the Title IX coordinator much too high for a situ- during college — a responded with disdain. ation much too grim.

Despite students calling In addition to the high number much too for change, those with the number of alleged sexual high for a situation power to change adminisassaults, many students trative and judicial policy assert that their school much too grim.” within the school do not administration’s sexual always respond positively assault policy is too weak. In a survey ad- (or at all). Despite the salience and obvious ministered by Sen. Claire McCaskill of more urgency of this issue, it’s one that requires than 300 four-year colleges and university, time and money to address. more than 40 percent of the colleges did not Even with those resources, it’s not an easconduct a single sexual assault investigation ily solvable issue, which partly explains why from 2010 to 2014. This apparent lack of schools continue to deal with assaulters in interest or urgency is surprising and disturb- easy ways without changing the system. ing, considering the high rate at which sexual Fortunately, with the “Moving Dartmouth assault occurs.

Forward” policy initiative, the College has The number of complaints that were filed made some strides towards addressing sexual and ignored does not even scratch the surface assault and letting victims be heard. The iniof women who have been sexually assaulted, tiative includes launching a website for sexual since fewer than 5 percent of victims speak assault prevention, creating an online consent out. Even when sexual manual and mandating all assault investigations do students participate in a occur, they have been “Rather than ignore four-year sexual violence criticized for being too student voices, prevention program. shallow or too forgiving However, this is not whether by failing of the victims’ assaulters. enough. The most imEnough students have to investigate cases, portant piece of the puzzle complained about the making acquittals is increasing student inshallow nature of these volvement. According to a investigations that the easy, and making sexual assault survey that issue can no longer be communication covers 300 schools in the ignored.

United States, 90 percent difficult between In April 2014, 23 of schools have a sexual asColumbia University students and those sault awareness program, and Barnard College who can change but no primary intervenstudents filed complaints tion programs that teach to the Department of the procedures, the skills such as how to be an Education’s Office of College is better active bystander.

Civil Rights asserting Students are clearly willing served listening to that their sexual assault to get involved. Organizacases had been mishan- its students — a step tions like Mentors Against dled. Other students that that is most likely to Violence and programspoke out against Title ming like V-February IX violations around that help prevent sexual have raised issues relattime came from a variety assault.” ing to sexual violence. In of schools including the addition, many students University of North are required to undergo Carolina, the University Dartmouth Bystander of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth and Initiative Training.

Swarthmore College.

The College seems to be moving in the right College students are speaking out against direction. Rather than ignore student voices, the apparent lackluster response to sexual whether by failing to investigate cases, making assault on part of administrations across acquittals easy and making communication the country. Unfortunately, this backlash difficult between students and those who can seems to have only been met with even more change the procedures, the College is better lackluster responses. Many students feel like served listening to its students — a step that their administration isn’t doing enough, and is most likely to help prevent sexual assault.

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Alcohol policy has unclear effects

were considered second-hand effects. 1980 to 36 percent in 2011.

The overall level of first-hand and However, they found an increase Aaron White, senior scientific second-hand alcohol related conse- in the number of alcohol-related advisor to the director of the U.S. quences were similar on campuses hospitalizations in young adults AcNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse with and without bans, and White cording to the study, between 1998 to and Alcoholism, said that said that said that this shows how difficult it 2008, there was a 25 percent increase there has been no systematic research is to prevent behaviors like binge in the number of 18-24 year olds as to whether or not hard alcohol drinking on college campuses. who were hospitalized for alcohol bans are effective at curbing drinking.

The data suggests that ban- overdoses without any other drugs These types of policies are relatively ning hard liquor probably is un- involved. new, he said, and likely to have a White noted that he was unsure determining the big impact on if this effect was due to an increase effectiveness of “It is way too early overall levels in the extent of extreme drinking these policies re- for us to say mission of binge drink- among students or due to students quires multiple though the being more willing to call for ambuaccomplished, but we ing, years of data. ban could still lances.

To To b e n are seeing positive minimize some However, all of this adds up to a Nelson, the cohar m, White change where, while there is an overtrends in terms of health said. director of the all decrease in binge drinking, those Harvard School and safety for students.” “ I t who do are more heavily intoxicated, of Public Health would be irra- White said.

College Alcohol tional to assume A variety of other universities, Study, the pri- -LIZ AGOSTO, SENIOR that banning many similar to Dartmouth in locamary issue in ASSOCIATE DEAN OF one type of alco- tion, size and focus on the liberal arts, addressing colholic beverage have a hard alcohol ban in place. lege drinking is STUDENT AFFAIRS on a campus is Amherst College, Bates College, ease of access. going to prevent Bowdoin College, Colby College, In his opinion, the most effective all binge drinking, because banning Colgate University, the University policies are ones that restrict access all alcohol on a campus does not of Notre Dame, Stanford University, or increase the price of alcohol. reduce it that much,” White said.

Swarthmore College, Washington White echoed this sentiment.

He added that when measuring University in St. Louis and Williams “When alcohol is cheap and easily a college drinking policy, however, College all prohibit the consumption available, people drink more and they other numbers — like deaths and of hard alcohol on campus. drink more often,” White said. “If hospital transports — should be There is not one “magic bullet” it is cheap and you can easily get it, taken into account. policy that eradicates all alcohol-repeople tend to do it and so most of The NIAAA established a college lated problems on college campuses, the policies that work seem to work alcohol intervention matrix, which White said. Change usually comes by reducing access and increasing ranks policies aiming to reduce from an array of policies that are price.” underage and excessive drinking at enforced by schools.

Nationwide, about four out of five colleges by effectiveness and cost.

Senior associate dean of student students will drink alcohol while at R e s t r i c t i n g affairs Liz Agosto college, according to statistics from happy hours said that the ban the National Council on Alcohol- and price pro- “It would be irrational is just one part of ism and Drug Dependence. Out of motions, re- to assume that banning a multi-pronged students who drink, half also binge taining a ban approach, makdrink, or consume alcohol that brings o n S u n d a y one type of alcoholic ing it is hard to blood alcohol concentration levels alcohol sales, beverage on a campus pinpoint just one over 0.08 grams per deciliter. This increasing the part of Moving correlates with about four drinks for alcohol tax and is going to prevent all Dartmouth Forwomen or five drinks for men in the retaining and binge drinking, because ward and say “that span of two hours. enforcing a effective.” banning all alcohol on a was According to a 2001 study led by drinking age of “It is way too the CAS principal Henry Wechsler, 21 are the most campus does not reduce early for us to say 29.1 percent of students that at- highly effective mission accomit that much.” tend universities that ban all forms strategies, acplished, but we of alcohol abstained from drinking cording to the are seeing positive entirely, compared to 16.1 percent of NIAAA’s in- - AARON WHITE, SENIOR trends in terms of students at schools with no bans. At tervention mahealth and safety schools with full bans, 38.4 percent trix. Banning SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR TO fo r s t u d e n t s, ” of students were classified as “heavy hard liquor on THE DIRECTOR OF THE Agosto said. episodic drinkers,” while schools with campus is not a At Dartmouth, U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE Agosto no ban had 47.8 percent of students strategy listed. said that fall into that category. The study Nelson said ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND she would look at shows that even completely banning that the drink ALCOHOLISM a lot of different hard alcohol does not decrease binge of choice for sources of data drinking to zero on college campuses, college stumoving forward White noted. dents has hiswith respect to Weschler’s study also compared torically been cheap beer, but the ban, such as judicial affairs or first-hand and second-hand conse- recently, an increasing number of AlcoholEdu — an online alcohol quences of alcohol at colleges that college students have been choosing safety instruction program taken by banned all alcohol and those that to drink hard alcohol. incoming freshmen. She said that did not. Actions like driving after In 2014, White and Ralph Hing- she does not want to rely on student drinking, missing a class or damag- son published a paper on excessive satisfaction data, as it is not a core ing property were considered first- alcohol consumption on college part of how the policy should be hand effects, while taking care of a campuses. They found lower overall viewed. She added that this is not to drunken student, being insulted, or levels of binge drinking at colleges say that student voices do not matter, being a survivor of sexual assault over time, down from 44 percent in but there are other numbers that FROM POLICY PAGE 1

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By MAX ZHUANG

The Dartmouth Staff

This Friday, the Dartmouth baseball team will be playing against the NCAA’s No. 1 ranked University of Florida. For an Ivy League school, playing against the top team in the country in any sport is rare, but for the Big Green baseball and softball teams, playing against the best teams in the country happens all the time.

The 127th ranked team overall and 2nd ranked Ivy League team in the NCAA RPI rankings from the end of last season (Florida finished 6th), Dartmouth baseball seeks these challenges early in the season because it should.

“We know going in that this will be a tough game,” baseball cocaptain Duncan Robinson ’16 said.

“But it gives our team confidence when we can hang with teams that are national powerhouses. It helps us prepare for big games down the road.”

More than just confidence building, top competition provides invaluable experience. When both Big Green’s baseball and softball teams have played against top teams such as Florida, Texas A&M University, Louisiana State University, the University of Oklahoma and Auburn University, Dartmouth’s hitters get the opportunity to see some of the best pitching the nation has to offer.

“It gives us a baseline of where we are at and prepares us for Ivy play,” baseball co-captain Thomas Roulis ’15 said. “We get a good foundation to get the ball rolling.”

Facing challenging pitching early in the season eases the transition into conference play where

the pitching is of a lower caliber.

“It’s meant to be much easier to transfer from tough pitching against the best schools to against Ivy League pitching,” last year’s softball team home run leader Katie McEacher n ’16 said.

“We tend to get better contact playing against Ivy teams. Their pitching leaves the ball over the plate much more often.”

Even though players look forward to these experiences to improve, on paper it can seem detrimental to the team.

Last season’s baseball team, for example, held a win percentage of .800 and record of 16-4 in MAX ZHUANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF the Ivy League, but exhibited a less than stellar There is a strong positive linear relationship between baseball Ivy League wins and difference between Ivy and overall win percentage. overall win percentage and record at .488 and eight Ivy League championships, difference in win percentage which have similar ideas that we have.

21-22, respectively. Caused by claiming two league titles, while means that they are likely facing Personally, I’ve been playing like the rigorous schedule, both teams’ softball claimed the most recent easier teams to beat in non-Ivy this my entire career here. It’s competition. It’s also important to nice to change things up from the overall records tend to experience two league titles back-to-back. deflation, looking worse than what The difference in win percent- note this is a cumulative account Northeast and play down south for they could be. age between Ivy League and overall of the past two years — Harvard weather and venue purposes.”

“These last two years we’ve baseball competition for the Big will be playing Florida as well this Other, strong Ivy programs definitely played the top 25 in the Green is substantial. Even though season. Does tougher competition play against top competition too.

Aside from the nation more,” softball’s ace pitcher last season’s baseball team had directly lead to weather Morgan McCalmon ’16 said. “It’s .800 Ivy League win percentage, its success? Roulis “Playing tough teams great and filled stabecause of how much our program overall win percentage was 32 win seems to think so. has grown from when five or six percentage points lower at .488. sets up for success in diums, it gives the teams a years ago there was no way we The top Ivy league teams expe- “It’s a great the long run.” fair evaluation could have held our own against rience the greatest discrepancies e x p e r i e n c e of themselves some of the teams we’re playing between their Ivy win percent- playing in front and provides a now.” age and overall win percentage; o f a p a c k e d -KATIE MCEACHERN ’16 taste of region When Dartmouth competes this means that they play against house and some al competition against significantly more challeng- baseball teams that are harder to of the top pitchon the chance ing teams, it shows the quality of the beat compared to those at the bot- ers and position that one of the Big Green programs. Dartmouth tom of the Ivy rankings. In fact, players,” Roulis baseball has competed in the last Harvard University has a negative said. “It helps me focus in on the teams wins the Ivy League chammoment and really gets me going pionship. for Ivy competition. The begin- “Playing tough teams sets up for ning of the season puts me in the success in the long run,” McEachern baseball state of mind, baseball said. “When we win Ivies and go mode.” to regionals we have to compete A strong positive linear relation- against them anyways. Even if we ship exists between Ivy wins and don’t necessarily play against the difference between Ivy and overall same teams, we will face a similar win percentage. This means that level of play that isn’t in the Ivy there is likely a strong correlation League.” between teams that perform well At the end of the day, most playin the Ivy League and play against ers aren’t concerned with thinking better teams. Correlation does not about who they’re playing or psychmean causation, however, in that ing themselves out too much about even though there are factors in the game. They take it one challenge playing better teams that might at a time, improving with each swing contribute to Ivy success such as of the bat, pitch thrown and ball confidence building and seeing fielded. With only victory in mind, better pitching, Dartmouth’s suc- the Big Green’s players are excited cess is not solely determined by its to take on what’s not only the most ambitious scheduling. Harvard, challenging part of the season, but again, for example probably would also the time when they find who not get better or improve its win they are as a team. percentage by loading up their “We’re still figuring things out,” schedule entirely of top 25 teams. Robinson said. “But when we go “Columbia [University] like down to play Florida, we’re putting us plays a competitive schedule,” the best players on the field and we’re MAX ZHUANG/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Robinson said. “Other teams looking to win all three games.”

The past two years, the top Ivy baseball teams have had the greatest discrepancies between Ivy and overall win percentage.

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Strong play fails to translate to wins for men’s basketball

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Two games remain in the Dartmouth men’s basketball team’s schedule, but its in-conference fate has long been decided. Stumbling to a 1-6 Ivy League mark start and mathematically eliminated from contention three weeks before the season’s end, the Big Green, now 3-9 in the conference, appear destined to finish somewhere in the fifth to eighth range in the standings. As it closes out a testing year, it’s worth assessing where things went right and wrong — especially for a team that has not experienced a conference win percentage decline from the prior season since 2009-10.

The defining trait this season, especially more pronounced in conference play, is that the Big Green’s control and efficiency during games has not been proportional to its winning percentage. A look at possession time with the lead best encapsulates this — during Ivy games, Dartmouth has led 47.6 percent of total game time and its opponents 45.1, yet that has produced a mere 3-9 record. In five games this season decided by five points or less, Dartmouth lost all of them, including two that went into overtime.

“We weren’t able to complete plays, make big shots, just making winning plays down the stretch when the opposing team turned up the screws,” head coach Paul Cormier said.

Cormier also referred to a lack of experience and point guard stability.

“We didn’t have the experience to combat [an opposing surge],” Cormier said. “I would say it’s 50-50.

You have to have a true point guard who understands, what we call, time, place, situation, and we didn’t have that.”

Much of this resulted from difficulties towards the end of games, but at some point it goes beyond closeout failures. In that vein of thought, very convincing evidence exists that some of these late-game travails can be ascribed to poor luck.

According to KenPom.com, out of 351 Division I college basketball teams, Dartmouth has the second worst luck rating — a measure of the deviation between a team’s per game efficiencies and winning percentages — in the entire country.

Several indicators bear this understated efficiency out. While the

Big Green is currently tied for the second-worst winning percentage in the league, it has accrued the fourthbest scoring margin. Moreover, per Sports-Reference, two advanced stats — net rating, which estimates point differential per 100 possessions, and simple rating system, which considers point differential and strength of schedule — places the team above where simply wins and losses do.

In sum, it’s unprecedented and abnormal how little Dartmouth’s efficiency and control of games has translated into victories. If the season was longer, for example, the team’s actual quality would have been better reflected in a larger sample of games — and thus more victories.

At the same time, in an area more within its control, Dartmouth’s shot distribution continues to lag. In the last decade or so, but especially as of late, the NBA and the sport more broadly has increasingly prized 3-point shooting for its scoring efficiency and other benefits such as spacing the floor. The best shot will always be the open one, but aside from that, the most efficient ways of scoring are with the 3-point shot, followed by drives to the rim (high-percentage looks closer to the basket) and free throw generation.

That leaves the midrange shot as the least efficient in the sport.

In this respect, Dartmouth has been reluctant in embracing this key tenet of the basketball analytics movement relative to other Ivy League teams. Consistently below league average in each of the last five years, the team has endured a harmful downturn in 2016. Sinking to a five-year low of 28.8, the tendency starkly diverges from the league average trend, which now stands at 38.1. Furthermore, this season has also seen the Big Green post the second highest midrange jumper consumption, another sign of a poor shot-taking diet.

“We would shoot more threes if we had better 3-point shooters,” Cormier said in emphasizing the personnel aspect of this issue.

“Everything depends on the talent I have. If I had a talented group of 3-point shooters, I would definitely be more apt to shoot the three. I [have] an inside-out philosophy, I’d like to attack inside and then out, but if I had a lot of great threepoint shooters that certainly would change.”

While higher 3-point shot-taking does not invariably lead to more success, a greater focus towards it is vital for a healthy offense in light of the sport’s current era. Even in the Ivy League, with the exclusion of the outlier of Yale University, a fairly strong correlation results from winning percentage and 3-point attempt rate.

Perhaps the brightest spot to emerge in the 2015-16 season for Dartmouth was the ascendance of Evan Boudreaux ’19. Tying the all-time conference record for the most Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors, the freshman has risen to new heights during conference play in averaging a double-double at 19.7 points and 10.6 rebounds per game.

Two notable aspects of his game have stuck out in 2016.

Few equal Boudreaux in terms of a near-unstoppable ability in driving to the hoop and generating results.

If he doesn’t convert a shot after penetrating the paint, he consistently and seemingly naturally draws contact at the rim — the freshman leads the Ivy League in made free throws and trips to the line.

Secondly, Boudreaux has cultivated an overpowering presence on the boards, fueled by physicality and anticipation, a talent that’s simply striking at times. Near the top in every rebounding statistic in the conference, the freshman has dominated the defensive glass especially with a second-best Ivy defensive rebound percentage.

“I’d say the biggest thing we need to get from him [moving forward] is we have to be able to put him on the opponent’s best big man at times defensively,” Cormier said. “He’s gifted offensively, we have to get him to pay more attention to the defensive side, and improve there so he’s a complete basketball player. He’s shown at times he can do that. We ask him to do an awful lot, but we’ll try to stretch him a little more so he can be a totally complete player.”

A composite measure for his contributions in win shares ranks Boudreaux as the sixth best player in the conference — in only his freshman year, with everyone on the list above him a junior or older. With all of these merits under his belt, Boudreaux should unquestionably receive the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. If that does happen, it would be the second consecutive year in which a Dartmouth player will have won the award after Miles Wright ’18 did in 2015.

This then begs the pressing question of whether the team’s trajectory should only slant upwards. First and foremost, Boudreaux and Wright need to prove that they can mesh well together moving forward, and that their styles are compatible, as well as continue to make individual strides.

Just as crucial will be the pieces that surround them. Size and an interior presence will once again mark a concern entering 2016-17, as half of the team’s frontcourt players

are seniors.

The backcourt offers many more interesting options, starting with Taylor Johnson ’18 , the team’s third-highest scorer in Ivy play during which he elevated his game and displayed a superb 3-point shot.

Among the team’s 11 regular rotation players that have played at least 200 minutes this year, the sophomore had the highest true shooting percentage — a shooting efficiency metric that takes into account three’s and free throws — on the entire team, an amazing feat considering he’s a guard. He also did so while commanding relatively few offensive opportunities, as measured by just a seventh-highest usage percentage.

The team will have to return its attention to a lack of point guard stability, but the development of some younger guards might address this issue. Cormier also notes that he expects to rely on incoming freshmen to help remedy this deficiency.

After losing a senior leader and one of the team’s best players due to an unexpected transfer, no one should have expected a rapid recovery in 2015-16 from the Big Green. Yet the team nevertheless showed signs of building a foundation that could prove competitive in the conference. Having two more years with some of the Ivy League’s brightest young talent in Boudreaux and Wright, and several more interesting pieces that surround the duo, Dartmouth should only improve from where it will end in 2016.

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Dartmouth has been reluctant to adapt to the growing 3-point shooting trend, falling well below the league average in 2016.