VOL. CLXXIII NO.46
PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 53 LOW 37
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ivy coaches vote to eliminate College drops to tackling in season practices ‘Yellow light’ rating BY ERIN LEE
The Dartmouth Staff
SPORTS
MEN’S HOCKEY ADVANCES TO QUARTERFINALS PAGE 8
OPINION
CAPLAN: INCLUSIVITY IN THE DOC PAGE 4
ARTS
GENIUS OR INSANITY: A LOOK AT ‘TLOP’ PAGE 7
ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF
In 2010, Dartmouth eliminated all tackling from its practices to reduce injuries.
BY SONIA QIN The Dartmouth Staff
All eight Ivy League coaches recently voted to eliminate full-contact hitting from their regular season practices at the annual coaches’ meeting two weeks ago. The unanimous decision will now
DARTBEAT DARTMOUTH LIES EXPOSED RECENT GOOGLE SEARCHES: SPRING BREAK FOLLOW US ON
TWITTER @thedartmouth COPYRIGHT © 2016 THE DARTMOUTH, INC.
In 2010, Teevens eliminated all full-contact hitting in practices to reduce injuries including concussions. Teevens said that the non-tackling training regimen has produced a lot of success on the fi eld SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 2
SEE FIRE PAGE 3
Upper Valley Aquatic Center plans for expansion BY JOYCE LEE
READ US ON
go to each the league’s athletic directors, policy committee and university presidents for approval before the policy goes into affect. Implementation potentially may begin by the 2016 preseason, Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has changed Dartmouth’s speech code rating from “green light” to “yellow light” in November. The nonpartisan organization believes the College’s bias reporting policies could be used to suppress free speech, FIRE policy research director Samantha Harris said. FIRE’s goal is to protect the free speech and due process rights of students and faculty members on college campuses through educational outreach, individual case resolution and a speech code database, Harris said. Before Dartmouth’s FIRE rating changed in November 2015, Dartmouth had been rated as green light school since 2005. Before 2005, Dartmouth was considered a “red light” school when Zeta Psi fraternity was derecognized for disseminating an internal newsletter that personally insulted a number of female students. FIRE deemed then-College President Jim Wright’s statements supporting the derecognition an effective
“speech code” for “elevating ‘feelings’ over free expression.” A green light rating means a school does not have speech codes that restrict protected speech, Harris said. red light means an institution has at least one policy that FIRE believes both clearly and substantially restricts free speech, she said. A yellow light rating could refer to policies that restrict narrower categories of speech or are vague enough to be vulnerable to abuse, she said. “A ban on offensive speech campus-wide would get a red light, whereas a ban on speech like posters in residence halls, for example, would get the yellow light because the amount of speech affected is much less,” she said. Dartmouth’s bias reporting policies fall under the yellow light category because of its broad language, Harris said. The College defines a biasrelated incident as “behavior which constitutes an expression of hostility against the person or property of another” over an
The Dartmouth Staff
The Upper Valley Aquatic Center will begin $3 million in renovations this summer, adding 8,000 square feet for a larger locker room, group exercise studio and physical therapy center. The additions will also feature natural light, open views and a fitness mezzanine that overlooks the fitness floor. Groups from Dartmouth, including the men’s and women’s swim teams, men’s and women’s club water polo teams, Greek organizations
and Dartmouth Center for Service organizations use the center for various activities. Many Dartmouth students also utilize the pool and other facilities such as the fitness center, executive director of UVAC Richard Synnott said. The expansion is due to the growth of the center’s membership base, increased day pass use from the community and an increase in the number of families using the center. Synnott said that the additions, which will also include a daycare center,
are geared towards single parents attending the facility with young children. There are also about 120 student memberships at the center, including Dartmouth students, Synnott said. “When we have a big swim meet, the locker rooms are too small to accommodate students who are part of the swim meet and our regular members who are attending the rest of the regular facility,” Synnott said. “The new locker rooms are going to add a third more space than the locker rooms now, if not double.”
Logan Briggs ’16, captain of the men’s swim team, said that while the team does not practice at the center, they hold the large, twoday Dartmouth Invitational swim meet at the center’s facilities. During the meet, the swim team has not felt the need for larger locker rooms, Briggs said. “The guys’ locker room had [both] a men’s and boys’ side,” Briggs said. “There was quite a bit of space for people to use, and we didn’t notice any issues. Other facilities, from my experience, are more crowded than
UVAC.” While the annual swim meet, which takes place in January, is an important event for the swim team, the team may no longer host the event starting next year due to insufficient funding, Briggs said. Caitlin Flint ’16, captain of the women’s water polo team, said that the plans for the renovations has not affected the team’s practices at UVAC, which take place once a week. SEE UVAC PAGE 3