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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015

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College has highest NCAA D1 grad rate

Student Assembly structure varies slightly from peers

By KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff

graduated from that institution within six years.

Currently, the federal graduation rate considers transfer students to be non-graduates at both the college they left and the one from which they will eventually graduate, whereas the GSR accounts for student-athletes who transfer from their original institution and leave in good academic standing. If the student-athlete does not leave the college in good

This article is a part of our new culminating beat experience initiative, in which our beat reporters write longer-term investigative articles within their areas of expertise. The author is our Student Assembly beat reporter.

Though Student Assembly elections occurred in the spring term, the organization has seen turnover in its leadership this fall with the appointment of a new vice president — which raised questions about the Assembly’s election and application process.

Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said the positions of president and vice president are the only two elected positions within the Assembly — elected Class Council members are not participants in Student Assembly. The president and vice president work with the rest of the Assembly to appoint the remainder of the positions within committees through an application process, he said.

This year, Student Assembly received 134 applicants and appointed 59 members. The Assembly also used this applicant pool to fill its executive board, though many of the current members rolled over from last year.

Most positions are filled through the application process, which is blind.

Many Dartmouth student organizations as varied as Dartmouth Ski Patrol and admissions office tour guides require interviews before accepting new members.

Student Assembly, however, does not.

Cunningham said he considered adding an inter-

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The College tied with Samford University for the highest NCAA Division I Graduation Success Rate.

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In the NCAA’s recently released data from its annual student-athlete graduation rate survey, the College, along with Samford University, led Division I institutions with Graduation Success Rates of 99 percent for student-athletes who enrolled in 2008. This rate is 13 percent above the GSR for all of Division I athletics.

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fering athletic aid are required as a condition of NCAA membership and by federal law to report student-athlete graduation rates.

In 1995, however, the Division I board of directors established the GSR because of its desire for a rate that more accurately represented the mobility of college students than the federal graduation rate. The NCAA student-athlete graduation rate is the proportion of first-year student-athletes who entered a school on institutional aid and

Student Wellness Center launches B y CAROLINE BERENS The Dartmouth Staff

On Wednesday afternoon, students and administrators ambled around on the third floor of Robinson Hall, chatting with one another while snacking on chocolate trail mix, fresh fruit and crackers with hummus. In another room, students sat at a table using

watercolors to paint pages from a drawing book. In adjacent rooms, people got massages and practiced meditation.

These were just a few scenes from the launch of the Student Wellness Center, which marks a transition from the previous Student Health Promotion and WellSEE WELLNESS PAGE 3

Wheelock House sold to alumni B y DANIEL LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

Wheelock House, which is located at 4 Wheelock Street, has housed several small businesses over the years, including Robert’s Flowers, a rare book dealership and psychologist’s offce. The purchase and sales agreement for the building was made in September, and Christian academic group the Eleazar Wheelock Society will purchase the property. The society, which was founded by a group of alumni in 2008 and is

not affiliated with the College, will renovate the property into an off-campus apartment similar to a living and learning community for those interested in faith and reason.

Former Eleazar Wheelock Society student director Hilary Johnson ’15 said that the renovations are planned to begin in December and will take approximately one year to complete. The purchase and renovation of the Wheelock House was funded completely by alumni donations, she said.

Wheelock House, which is the second oldest home in Hanover, was built for the College’s founder Eleazar Wheelock in 1773 and served as the official residence for several College presidents.

The house was given to the town of Hanover for use as a public library in 1900, although it eventually repurchased by the College in 2007, Johnson said.

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DAily debriefing Brown University: The Number, a new delivery startup recently developed by three undergraduates, is already gaining popularity on campus, The Brown Daily Herald reported. The business, which went live on Monday after weeks of research and promotion, allows students to text a specified number and have anything within a certain radius delivered to them. Students must pay full price for the goods, plus an additional fee of $3.50, subject to increases during times of high demand.

Columbia University: The search for student Austin Taylor, who went missing on Nov. 2, has been called off, The Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The detective working on the case informed Taylor’s parents that his passport was scanned in Paris, and Taylor’s mother subsequently announced that they are ending the search.

Cornell University: Black Students United, a student-run advocacy group, entered University President Elizabeth Garrett’s office this week to submit a letter demanding that the University divest its endowment from interests based in mass incarceration and prisons. The organization was inspired by a similar protest at Columbia University, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

Harvard University: Harvard has begun a formal review of the construction blueprint for its new School of Engineering and Sciences complex, the Harvard Crimson reported. The plan involves two-thirds of the SEAS faculty moving to a new location in Allston, Massachusetts. Construction is expected to begin in summer 2016.

Princeton University: Two of the campus’s tiger statues, the University’s mascot, have recently been vandalized, along with the cannon on Cannon Green, The Daily Princetonian reported. The perpetrators used red paint to cover the statues with expletives and graffiti aimed at the University and Pennsylvania State University. The perpetrators have not yet been identified.

University of Pennsylvania: The University was recently ranked number 57 on a Vice list of the most militarized universities in the United States, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The ranking considered the number of graduating students that go into the U.S. Intelligence Community and various other factors like funding amounts and participation in federal domestic security task forces.

Yale University: More than 1,000 students gathered in solidarity in the midst of recent discussions and controversy about race relations at the University, the Yale Daily News reported.

The event, called the March of Resilience, was centered around discussions of unity and student power, and also included musical and cultural performances.

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Kapuscinski named chair of UCS B y CARTER BRACE The Dartmouth Staff

Environmental studies professor Anne Kapuscinski has spent her career breaking glass ceilings. She was the first female Ph.D. candidate her doctoral advisor had ever had and the first female professor in the University of Minnesota’s fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology department, which had only seen two women receive master’s degrees in its entire 40-year existence.

“When a female student who came in was assigned to me, her mouth would almost drop when she came into the room because she didn’t realize the professor would be a woman,” Kapuscinski said.

Now, Kapuscinski has achieved another first — being named the first female chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-based public advocacy group. She was elected chair in May and began her tenure on Oct. 28. Kapuscinski, however, said she does not let the novelty of being the first woman in this role distract from her work.

“First, I’m doing this as an intellectual and as a scholar and as a scientist,” Kapuscinski said.

Even when Kapuscinski announced her appointment to colleagues, she never mentioned that she would be the first female chair.

“Maybe that says something about [Kapuscinski’s] modesty or the fact that she doesn’t view herself as the first woman chair,” environmental studies department professor Andrew Friedland said.

Kapuscinski first worked with the UCS when she was invited to speak at a workshop in 2001 on biotechnology and agriculture. The invitation led to her appointment to the UCS Board of Directors a few months later, and she has been active ever since.

“The board members realized they didn’t have anyone on the board whose own work was at the intersection of food production and the environment,” Kapuscinski said.

Kapuscinski said that she finds her work on the board to be rewarding.

“Although I usually have to put in the time on nights and weekends, it’s really worth it,” Kapuscinski said.

The board decides the overall direction of the UCS. As chair, Kapuscinski will preside over board meetings, meet monthly with UCS President Ken Kimmell, speak on the organization’s behalf and convene outside scientists to work with the organization.

She was also a member of a UCS Strategic Planning Committee that formed a five-year plan with five goals for the organization.

The goals range from reducing carbon emissions and creating a clean energy economy to reducing the threat of nuclear weapons while ensuring the safety of nuclear power to reforming

the United States’ agriculture system.

One goal in particular — ensuring non-politicized science in the country’s democratic process — is of personal importance to Kapuscinski.

“We can’t have a vibrant, functioning democracy without science being a major part of our decision-making,” she said. “If we allow some of our leaders to muzzle, deny or distort the science, we start to be on the route to undermining our democracy. This is something that matters deeply to me.

My family immigrated to the [United States] in 1960 — my father lost his whole family in World War Two, and one of the reasons we came to this country was because it was a beacon of democratic processes and freedom of expression.”

At Dartmouth, Kapuscinski also has a range of responsibilities. As the inaugural Sherman Fairchild Professor of Sustainability Science, Kapuscinski fosters activities relating to sustainability across the curriculum. This work includes overseeing the Sustainability Solutions Café, a series of lectures and discussions that is now in its fourth year at the College.

“The Sustainability Solutions Café filled a niche that we weren’t serving in the past,” Friedland said.

Kapuscinski also runs a research program with two large grants. In her research, she makes sure to include undergraduate students. At any one time, Kapuscinski may have anywhere from three to six undergraduates involved in her projects.

On top of all this, Kapuscinski also teaches “Environment and Society,” an 84-person introductory course.

Students in the course praised her willingness to devote individual attention to each student.

“She’s a wonderful person, especially given the fact that she takes time to get to know each of us and is clearly invested in each individual student,” Catherine Rocchi ’19 said.

Megan Larkin ’19 agreed, emphasizing how Kapuscinski studied the attendance sheet to learn each student’s name.

“The class gives me a chance to have conversations and learn together with a room full of bright, talented students,” Kapuscinski said. “We do a lot of things to develop their strategic thinking skills, because every student in that class is going to, at some aspect in their lives, have an important interaction with the environment.”

Kapuscinski said she sees herself as a mentor, advising students on jobs, internships and graduate school.

Though she has mentored both male and female students, Kapuscinski has become a significant mentor for the latter.

“Women have tended to gravitate towards me, because even though there are many more women in science than when I was their age, it’s still not even, and they’re still looking for role

models,” Kapuscinski said.

Kapuscinski said her new role at the UCS will further her goal to inspire female students in the sciences.

“The fact that I’m the first woman chair allows me to showcase to women scientists that women have what it takes to play this leadership role.” Kapuscinski said.

As UCS chair, Kapucinski also hopes to inform young people who are aspiring scientists about the organization.

“I noticed when I first moved to Dartmouth that a lot of [undergraduates] who were interested in the intersection of science and public action were often not aware of entities like the Union of Concerned Scientists,” she said.

Kapuscinski is also involved in the online, open-access, non-profit journal Elementa: Science of the Antropocene, which Dartmouth co-founded with five other universities. She serves as editorin-chief of the journal’s sustainability transitions sub-section.

“The majority of journals being published by publishing houses still charge high subscription charges,” she said. “Dartmouth is trying to create an alternative model that will not have this paywall.”

Kapuscinski, who started her undergraduate years at Swarthmore College as a biology major intent on medical school, said that even when she realized she did not want to be a doctor she retained her love for biology.

Later when on an exchange program to Pomona College, Kapuscinski took a seminar where she conducted a project on dams.

“I got fascinated by how we have situations where humans decide to alter the environment and the intent is to meet an important human need, but the action ends up having these unintended harmful consequences on the environment,” she said. “So I began asking myself, does it always have to be one way or another? And that got me interested in environmental science.”

Kapuscinski’s current work examines algae as a feed for farmed fish, and she has been particularly notable for her work on genetically modified fish.

“She is a well-known, well-regarded scientist in her own right, with her expertise focusing on sustainable ecosystems,” Kimmell said.

Friedland echoed Kimmell, emphasizing how her research has the potential to translate into policy that affects real people.

“She’s done a really great job of pursuing scholarship that has a strong and immediate public impact,” Friedland said.

Kapuscinski said she hopes her expertise in environmental studies can help in her position as UCS chair.

“The other thing I can do is to elevate a little bit more of the work that UCS does on its food and environment program,” she said.

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Wellness Center sees high turnout FROM WELLNESS PAGE 1

ness Center, which had been in place for several years, director Caitlin Barthelmes said.

In recent years, the center had been focused on responding to highrisk behaviors such as binge drinking and sexual assault, Barthelmes said.

This new center, she said, will instead be centered around examining those issues and others from a more preventative lens.

“We’re looking to try to work with students to understand the underlying issues that contribute to those behaviors, but also to help students think about themselves holistically and really reflect on the multiple dimensions of wellness,” she said.

Barthelmes said the center’s goal is to make sure that students are thriving in their daily lives, not just getting by.

Wellness program coordinator Maria Sperduto said the launch party, which ran for two hours, was intended to introduce students to the center’s numerous resources that they can utilize at their leisure.

Students can use the massage chair, create works in the art therapy corner or occasionally play with a small puppy named Mochi, among other options, Barthelmes and Sperduto said. Sperduto said the center wanted to expose students to the warm and inviting atmosphere of the space, which she said is one of its greatest benefits.

“The positive vibe and safe, comforting energy is what I think makes students come back once they’ve been here,” Sperduto said.

Students can also come into the center for wellness check-ins, which Barthelmes said are intended to allow students to vent or discuss their stresses.

“We’re listening ears and a sounding board for students to come with something they’re trying to work on, and they can work with us through that particular behavior and hopefully we can help come up with a concrete plan for them,” Barthelmes said.

Barthelmes said that these checkins are different from counseling sessions at Dick’s House because these sessions are not intended to diagnose students, nor are they intended to facilitate long-term solutions in regards to mental health.

“Wellness check-ins are not intended for moments of crisis, although we would of course talk with students who are very upset,” Barthelmes said. “But the idea is hoping to catch things early, where students are just starting to feel stressed out.”

Having a wellness center is an integral part of having a healthy study body and faculty, director of the Cornell University Wellness Program Beth McKinney said. Although their program is primarily for faculty and

administrators, it offers resources to students through fitness and wellness classes.

McKinney said the wellness center has grown enormously since its inception 26 years ago, as people saw its benefits in not only physical, but also emotional health. She said the program offers similar resources as Dartmouth’s Student Wellness Center will, such as yoga classes and pet therapy.

Having a wellness center or program provides motivation for people to check in with themselves, because they might not think to do so on their own, McKinney said.

“Most students have an idea of what they can do to be more stressfree, but when a university offers them a wellness program and opportunity to learn more and to experience it, they’re likelier to actually take action,” McKinney said.

Barthelmes emphasized that the center uses research-based practices to help develop methods of wellness and de-stressing that have proven track records of success.

Student reception to the launch party and the center overall was overwhelmingly positive, as evidenced by the event’s popularity and high turnout. All nine rooms of the center were packed throughout the evening.

Ying Lin ’16 said she was happy about the center’s transition and the reaffirmation and increased publicity of its goals.

“I think it’s super cool that the office has been able to rebrand itself as the Student Wellness Center and make it more clear that they’re a space that’s trying to help student engage in and take control of their wellness,” Lin said.

Lin also said she was encouraged by the high turnout of the event and

that she is happy people are being introduced to the center’s many resources, which might be underutilized due to a lack of awareness.

Abigail Baldwin ’18 also said the center did a great job advertising the launch party by stationing a tent handing out kettle corn right in front of Robinson Hall. Baldwin said the abundance of quality food at the party upstairs drew students in.

Becca Suydam ’18, who spent time coloring at the “Creation Station,” said she found the event very relaxing, especially since she had just taken an exam.

Sperduto said the program’s coordinators had not discussed a specific number of students they thought would attend, but the turnout surpassed their expectations.

She pointed to the “Affirmation Station” — a room where the walls were covered in affirmative quotes like “I am kind” and “I am a good listener” — as evidence of this. At the end of the event, in addition to the original quotes, there were also Post-Its that students had put up, saying things like “I went to bed early,” “I called my family” and “I didn’t do work last night, and it’s okay.” Sperduto cited these Post-Its, as well as a discussion in her office where students opened up about being homesick, as evidence to her that the launch party was successful.

Overall, Barthelmes said that fostering a community that endorses and embraces wellness has both short-term and long-term benefits.

“We’re trying to cultivate a campus that supports positive well-being, because those skills will not only serve students well while they’re here at Dartmouth, but will also be good life skills as they navigate the world beyond Dartmouth,” she said.

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aligned with the needs of the College to provide more housing space for students.

“For a long time students have been asking for a place in which they can have an LLC,” she said, “The Wheelock house was an under-utilized space, but the College can’t put student beds into the house because of Hanover laws. To convert the house to be student apartments is something that EWS could do but the College could not.”

Johnson said that although Wheelock originally intended the house to be for his family, then-students were living then in the basement and upper floors of the building.

“From the very beginning, the house was envisioned as a place where faculty and students could engage around our education in a way in which community encourages the flourishing of people and of their education,” she said.

The College’s director of real estate Ellen Arnold said the society approached the College roughly six months ago about their interest in purchasing the property. The society expressed an understanding of the historical significance of the house and wanted to allow the house to be used for Dartmouth students, which she said she understood to be one of the house’s original intentions.

“We knew that they had raised funds to renovate the house in a way that would help preserve the history and the architectural features of it, and that was something that had never been presented to the College before,” she said. “It just seemed like a good opportunity to see some work done on the property — to see it preserved and protected in a way that was consistent with its history.”

Arnold said that the group wanted to further engage students on campus.

One of the significant issues for the College was assuring that there were appropriate preservation restrictions in place, Arnold said. Although the interior of the house will be renovated, the exterior will remain the same.

“Obviously the building is a really old structure, so it needs a lot of work to make it habitable,” Johnson said. “The apartment will need to follow certain federal requirements. There needs to be fire safety, [and] there also needs to be amenities in the back. The front building was Wheelock’s home, and the rear brick were the stacks which don’t have plumbing or piping, so the building needs to be winterized again.”

Clinical psychologist Donna Steinberg, who has held her office on the second floor of Wheelock house for six years, said that she was both sad and surprised about the sale of the house. “[Wheelock House] has been a great spot for me,” she said. “I have a beautiful space with three windows, a view of the trees and a fireplace. It has just been very comfortable for me. Also, my lease was supposed to be up in June 2017, so I had a little more time on the lease — that was the surprising part.”

Steinberg said that as a tenant, she does not have a say in the matter.

“Dartmouth owns the building, so [it] can sell it to whomever [it wants] to,” she said. “I didn’t really like the news because I wasn’t planning on moving this fall, but it’s going to work out fine for me.”

Steinberg said that she will be moving her office to 3 Lebanon Street later this month. Robert’s Flowers will be moving to its former location in Lebanon Street, which previously housed Lemon Tree Gifts.

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Staff Columnist SARAH PEREZ ’17

CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN ’18

Potty-Mouthed Politics

Defending Free Speech

Children spouting profanity is not a valid tactic in political advertisements.

On Nov. 3, the pro-Latino and pro-immigration PAC Deport Racism published its first video on YouTube. For a bizarre two minutes, the political ad features Latino children hurling profanity at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A boy who introduces himself as Ricardo accuses Republican candidates of using “offensive words,” and then goes on to offer some of his own. Flipping the bird at the camera, the boy calls Trump “a racist f--k.” His counterpart Rosa quickly follows up, calling the 2016 contender “a racist d--k.”

Unsurprisingly, the video has also been called many things. GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) described the attack ad and its producers as “disgusting.” Trump weighed in during an interview with Fox Business, calling the video “a disgrace.”

The ad’s producer, Luke Montgomery, came to its defense amidst the criticism. In a Nov. 5 interview with TheWrap, the Democratic activist asserted that his video is simply “fighting fire with fire.” Unfortunately, Montgomery is sorely mistaken. Deport Racism’s attack ad marks an all-time low in the realm of political campaigns. Using foul-mouthed children for political expediency is not legitimate activism.

Worst of all, the attack ad reveals a glaring misunderstanding of the Latino population in the United States. It is an embarrassment not only to the organization, but also to the roughly 54 million Latinos who call the U.S. their home.

Deport Racism claims to represent a broad coalition of groups committed to social justice.

The PAC describes itself as “a movement of Latinos, immigrants and social progressives of all origins committed to fighting for equality and holding candidates accountable in the 2016 race for the White House.” Its leaders, however, have overstepped their bounds in claiming to speak for Latinos across the country. Latino voters are not a monolithic bloc in terms of ideology or experience. A Sept. 9 article from The Hill describes the phenomenon, “There are West Coast Hispanics and East Coast; Hispanics, Hispanics from Central America and Hispanics from South America and the Caribbean.”

Yet, Deport Racism’s attack ad distorts such a reality. Instead, the PAC promotes divisiveness, pigeonholing Latinos into trite stereotypes to advance its agenda.

Recent election results have discredited Deport Racism’s inflammatory rhetoric. As reported in the New York Times on Nov. 5, 2014, the conservative Republican Cory Gardner defeated the incumbent Democrat Mark Udall for a Senate seat last year in Colorado — where Latinos comprise 21 percent of the state’s population. The GOP also witnessed the re-election of two Hispanic Republican governors in 2014. Governor Susana Martinez secured re-election in New Mexico. In Nevada, Governor Brian Sandoval won his re-election bid by a landslide. Sandoval received 71 percent of the vote in a state where Latinos constitute over 25 percent of the population. A similar scenario played out in Texas, where Latinos are the second-largest portion of the electorate.

Republican Greg Abbott trounced Democrat Wendy Davis in the 2014 gubernatorial election, receiving 44 percent of the Hispanic vote along the way. Each of these cases leaves the bottom line clear — Latino support for Democratic candidates cannot be assumed, as Deport Racism would have us believe.

I watched the attack ad several times, and as a Latina, I found it to be nothing short of appalling. Not only does it severely misrepresent the Latino community in the U.S. for political gain, it also exploits children in doing so. Having grown up in a Cuban household, I can attest to the fact that my mouth would have been promptly washed out with soap or Tabasco sauce if I had used any of the profanities featured in the video. Pathetically, Deport Racism relies on such shock value to garner interest and reel in donation dollars. It couches its rhetoric in expletives without contributing anything of substance. Deport Racism and organizations like it should not be tolerated or taken seriously. A group that hides behind potty-mouthed children to make its point does not deserve a single second of voters’ attention, much less two minutes.

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Recent events at Yale University reaffirm the importance of open dialogue.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Though Voltaire never actually wrote this famous line — Beatrice Evelyn Hall did — seldom has there been a more important time in the flow of our national discourse to open a column with these words.

Enough has been said about this week’s situation at Yale University for a brief rundown to suffice. A professor sent an email challenging the administration’s advice on which Halloween costumes are appropriate for students and concluded that it’s not her “business… to control the forms of costumes of young people.” And on a campus that many say is steeped in racism, this was the breaking point.

Her comments were met with immediate pushback, with many students calling for her to be removed from her position presiding over a residential college. This controversy, however, did not result in a constructive forum for the intersection of different views. Instead, it led to the professor’s husband, also a Yale professor, being shouted down, told he is “disgusting” and asked “who the f--k hired” him, even as he explains that he has “the same objections to the [offensive] speech” the students do. Even as he adds that he “[defends] the right of people to speak their mind.”

Let us remember what prompted this attack on a professor — an email which neither encouraged racism nor offensive costumes. Instead, this email advocated for a defense of the same principle that allows these students to shout profanities at him in public. This hypocrisy is an issue — in our age of the laudable pursuit of social equality, many activists have co-opted pain and offense.

They have laid sole claim to distress and, in doing so, have polarized the national dialogue to the point where anybody who disagrees with them is not only wrong, but also a bigot. Capturing the moral high ground has allowed this generation of student activists to do no wrong — to conflate their reasonable arguments with unreasonable assertions, attacks and atrocities of their own.

The students, faculty and administrators at Yale have every right to do exactly what they have been doing. That is just the point — those on all sides of this debate have the right to voice

opinions, engage in critical analysis of others’ views and draw their own conclusions. Might this professor be offended at being told he should step down? Certainly. Would he be justified in trying to eliminate the student’s opportunity to tell him that? Certainly not. If he had asked the students to stop talking because they had offended him, would they? Under their logic, they should. But moral equivalence cannot exist when one party begins to reserve the sole right to be offended — or, for that matter, the sole right to any feeling or action.

The fallacy of composition is to assume that something shares all of its traits with a bigger thing of which it is a part. Everybody who advocates for the examination and deconstruction of social and racial barriers is doing important and necessary work. Everybody who condemns systematic oppression and unconscious bias should be appreciated for it. But that by no means implies the validity, importance or necessity of everything those people might do or say. In the hijacking of moral correctness by many contemporary social activists, we see this fallacy, which in turn leads to a systemic suppression of opinion and debate under the guise of noble cause. Dictatorial constraints on what can and cannot be said — and by whom — constitute a very special type of tyranny. This tyranny is made more dangerous by the fact that it goes largely unrecognized. We have instances of blatant misappropriation of moral authority, like this one, to thank for bringing it to our attention.

We must recognize that the possibility of intellectual debate is slipping away with each passing day of pandering to those who have eroded our ability to disagree. We must acknowledge the importance of a dialogue and ensuring the continued ability to take a controversial stance.

Most importantly we must remember that no one group controls who can say what. Nobody has a monopoly on freedom. Nobody who asserts their right to speak their mind can take away your right to speak yours.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” 18 words. Simple.

For the sake of a brighter future, let’s keep it that way.

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view component to the application process, but said that the fast-paced quarter system made interviews difficult to fit into students’ busy schedules.

Cunningham said that while considering potential applicants he speaks to students, professors and faculty to solicit feedback.

“The fact that we have an application process and we’re reading them blind speaks a lot to what we’re looking for,” Assembly vice president Dari Seo ’16 said.

Assembly spokesperson Justin Maffett ’16 said that every committee chair takes an active role in selecting a number of positions within their committee and the students that will fill these.

Cunningham said that because the Assembly’s constitution does not dictate the number of people within the committees, this can be decided on a term by term basis, depending on the Assembly’s agenda for the year.

This term, the health and wellness committee had more posts than some other committees because the mental health campaign “Stop Hiding, Start Talking” resulted in greater responsibility, Cunningham said.

Students are accepted to specific positions within the Assembly, not to the Assembly in general, Cunningham said.

Assembly chief of staff Nick Harrington ’17 said Student Assembly stressed diverse perspectives when selecting members.

“We have a role to make sure that any work we’re doing as the student body government is representative of the student body,” Harrington said.

Assembly members said they also reach out to people on campus who they believe would be suitable for certain positions to encourage them to apply.

“There are certain students on this campus that earn a reputation for being leaders in their own organizations or being outspoken on a certain issues,” Harrington said.

Harrington said they take the applications seriously, but also try to be aware of students who might serve a positive role on the Assembly who have not reached out on their own, because they might not have thought about it.

“If I have someone in mind that I know is capable of doing the job well, I will reach out to them,” Cunningham said.

This year, after Julia Dressel ’17 resigned from her post as vice-president, Cunningham nominated Seo for the post. Seo and Cunningham were previously members of AD, and Seo had appeared in a video

promoting Cunningham’s candidacy. The current executive board contains several other members of Cunningham’s former fraternity, including health and wellness cochair Speight Carr ’16.

Cunningham said, however, that the Assembly does not reach out to friends when looking to fill posts, because he does not believe that nominating friends would best serve campus.

“I want people on this board that can commit to a cause, and the experience that each of them have outside AD legitimizes their roles,” Cunningham said of Carr and Seo. Cunningham pointed to Carr’s work with the Assembly on mental health in the last year and Seo’s personal experiences as well as his popularity and reach on campus.

“It is way more than their Greek house,” Cunningham said. “It is their dedication to Dartmouth.”

Seo also emphasized the importance of transcending social divisions within the student body.

“Student Assembly is one of the very few [organizations] at Dartmouth that is not framed into one specific umbrella of campus, but we truly want to make it representative of what Dartmouth stands for,” Seo said of the Assembly’s aim to unite various sectors of campus.

The Assembly reaches out to potential applicants because it lends the process some flexibility, Maffett said.

“It’s more that [Cunningham] can select and appoint a handful of people, and then those people are empowered to reach out and approve applications,” Maffett said.

The Assembly’s organizational structure largely that of mirrors peer institutions’ student governments, though it differs in the proportion of elected and appointed members, the application process, the guidance provided by the Assembly’s constitution and the organization’s source of funding.

President of the Princeton University’s Undergraduate Student Government Ella Cheng, a senior, said elected positions include the president, vice president and several committee chairs. The president appoints the remainder of the positions.

At Princeton, like at the College, “Every president has the option to create as many appointed positions or erase as many as they’d like, so that changes every year,” Cheng said.

Beyond these appointed positions, Cheng said that all candidates for membership must interview before the Senate votes to confirm that person — the Student Government requires a majority vote to nominate a member.

Middlebury College Student

Government Association chief of staff Michael Brady said the president and vice president are elected, as well as two senators for each class.

The president appoints a cabinet of about 15 heads of committees, ratified by the Senate. Middlebury’s Student Government Association does not have a formal process for applying to the Senate, but this year they sent out applications to try to be as transparent as possible, Brady said.

Unlike Middlebury’s Student Government Association, which is tasked with distributing funding to student organizations, the College’s Assembly does not furnish its own budget.

Instead, it is allotted funds through the Undergraduate Finance Committee. The Assembly is given a lump sum of $44,000 at the beginning of the fall term, UFC chair Carolyn Parrish ’16 said.

Since the Assembly is given these funds without restriction, students do not have complete oversight over how the sum is spent. In fall 2014, when Cunningham was serving as Assembly vice president, the Assembly was sanctioned by the UFC for spending funds on personalized Patagonia jackets for its executive board and other expenses.

She said that the budget proposals occur too swiftly after the new president is elected, which means the Assembly does not have enough time generate an accurate idea of the next year.

“In the past we’ve seen these really inspiring, but large, proposals from Student Assembly because people come into their administra-

tion and aren’t really aware of how money should be spent,” she said.

In the winter term, the Assembly will put together a comprehensive budget about how they plan to spend the remainder of their money, which Parrish believes will lead them to think critically about the rest of their time in office.

Other institutions contacted also receive funding through their schools’ student finance bodies.

Yale’s government, however, recently received a direct endowed donation.

In previous years, the Assembly posted the amount of money allocated to specific initiatives, such as $200 to fund a study break or $484 for a laptop charger rental program.

In addition, the proposals listed the names of the sponsoring Assembly members.

This section of the Assembly’s website has not been updated since 2010, and there is no comprehensive breakdown of the Assembly’s budget available on its website or accessible to the public.

The Assembly is in the process of updating its website, which Cunningham said he hopes will be ready by winter term 2016. The updated website will include information on the Assembly’s expenditures and a list of its current leadership, neither of which are currently publicly listed.

In addition to Cunningham, Seo, Harrington, Maffett and Carr, the current executive board is made up of Abbey Anderson ’18, Anna Sherman-Weiss ’16, Becca Nova ’16, Benjamin Vihstadt ’16, Blair Duncan Jr. ’17, Evan Read ’16,

Garrison Roe ’18, Grace Mermel ’16, Hannah Saris ’16, Isabel Odom ’18, Jalisa Clark ’16, Noah Manning ’17, Parker Richards ’18, Spencer Furey ’17, Sydney Walter ’18 and Yoon Kim ’16.

Richards is a member of The Dartmouth staff.

Though the Assembly constitution does not lay out specific job descriptions for roles, Cunningham said he ensures that “every decision that I make is in line with our constitution.”

He said that the constitution had not been ratified for four to five years prior to last year, when he served as vice president alongside former Assembly president Casey Dennis ’15 and ratified the constitution.

He said that they do not have plans to rewrite this version yet, though the Assembly has considered editing certain ambiguous sections to add more clarification.

Harrington said Cunningham often checks to make sure that decisions they are making during committee meetings are constitutional.

At Yale, Sweedler said the College Council’s constitution was rewritten two years ago. Members can propose amendments at any time, and a majority vote is required for any changes to be made.

She said there are clearly delineated roles for positions on the council, and if new positions are created, they add these to the constitution.

At Middlebury, Brady said that the Student Government Association’s constitution was completely redrafted last year, but its bylaws are rewritten more often.

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academic standing, they are assumed to not have graduated, NCAA associate director of public and media relations Michelle Hosick said.

Since the first GSR released in 2001 for student-athletes starting college in 1995, the Division I GSR has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent.

“It’s difficult to say with certainty why the rate has increased, however, the Division I members have adopted a number of academic reforms in that time period, including enhanced academic criteria for incoming freshmen, strengthened progress-toward-degree requirements current student-athletes must meet and the Academic Progress Rate, a real-time metric that tracks team success every term and has penalties associated with it for teams who don’t meet benchmarks,” Hosick said.

This year marks Dartmouth’s fourth straight year leading Division I athletics programs for GSR. Of the 24 NCAAsponsored sports at the College, 19 had a 100 percent GSR. The College’s athletics department does an “outstanding” job in emphasizing the balance between athletics and academics, director of athletics and recreation Harry Sheehy said. Sheehy said that the department always favors

academics first.

“I think the philosophy here at Dartmouth is absolutely amazing for all of us involved with student-athletes,” women’s lacrosse head coach Amy Patton said. “We are all striving for excellence for them in academics and on the playing field.”

Patton said that many of the resources that assist athletes in their academic success are not athlete-specific, but rather those that are also available to the entire student body, such as the accessibility of professors and faculty through office hours.

For all students, Dartmouth has an academic culture where “people want you to perform well” and where it is easy to receive help through office hours and tutoring services at the Academic Skills Center, women’s basketball player Lakin Roland ’16 said.

“As athletes, we have an extra layer of support through the athletic department,” Roland said.

One of the programs specifically for student-athletes is the athletic department’s Dartmouth Peak Performance program, which assists students in balancing their academic and athletic pursuits, Patton said.

“Dartmouth Peak Performance is a program to help students balance their personal, athletic and academic lives,”

Sheehy said. “Things like advising, study skills, academic support and success strategies are all covered with our student athletes. We really want them to be able to have a well-integrated life here at the College.”

Women’s soccer player Jill Dayneka ’16 said the DP2 program is a support initiative that can include anything from strength and conditioning training and leadership building to sports psychology and academic assistance.

Assistant athletics director for peak performance Katelyn McPherson helps student-athletes with their academic lives by setting up tutors, speaking with professors about classes that athletes might miss because of games, helping freshmen select courses and coordinating their schedules to ensure that they do not take a heavy course load while in season, Roland said.

To further assist student-athletes, the College should continue to strengthen its current programs moving forward, Dayneka said.

Many women on the soccer team come in their freshman year feeling worried over how to manage their athletics with the pressure to be on a certain academic track, Dayneka said.

For Dayneka, the strengthening of the current academic support programs could help the students-athletes realize that much of their first year can be

spent exploring the academic departments, campus organizations and their various interests.

Sheehy also agreed that the athletics department could enhance some of its student-athlete assistance programs, though he emphasized the department’s current level of success.

“There’s not a lot more young men and women that we could graduate

over what we are already doing,” Sheehy said. “But, with Dartmouth Peak Performance what we are really trying to do is set our students up for success after Dartmouth. When we look at our leadership training, community engagement and career planning programs, those are the things we want our students to be exposed to and carry forward with them.”

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Julie Solomon ’17 debuts as director with “Baltimore Waltz”

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A brother and sister traverse around Europe on a what is supposed to be a fun-filled romp and instead find themselves having to deal with the heartbreaking effects of illness and mortality.

“Baltimore Waltz,” which was written by Paula Vogel in 1989, the year after she lost her brother to AIDS, centers on Anna and Carl, a pair of siblings who embark on a hedonistic, yet heart-wrenching, European odyssey. The show, which combines the surreal and the serious, will open at the Hopkins Center this weekend and will mark the directorial debut for Julie Solomon ’17.

Solomon, who has worked as a set designer for numerous studentdirected productions in the past, said that she chose “Baltimore Waltz” as her premier directing project because of its small cast and episodic plot.

Zahra Ruf fin ’17, Robert Leverett ’16 and Sid Mehra ’18 played the production’s characters.

“I really responded to the characters and the plot,” she said. “It’s a sad show, but it’s also hilarious. Paula Vogel takes such a huge issue but turns it into a light-hearted comedy, which is something I just really responded to.”

It was more difficult to put together a production team than a cast, Solomon said. Around 20 people auditioned for the show and five were called back for a second round of auditions, while Solomon is one of the only set designers on campus who had taken the mandatory class for set design on student productions. Nicolle Allen ’16 joined the show as costume designer, while Jackie Pageau ’18 worked as sound designer.

Solomon said that both Allen and Pageau had worked on past student productions with her. Due to difficulties in finding a lighting

designer, Solomon said theater professor Dan Kotlowitz worked on lighting for the production.

Solomon said she faced additional challenges in finding someone to design the show’s projections. She said that she wanted to use projections to show what was happening in Anna’s mind, but there were few students who were capable of working with projections. Lizzy Rogers ’16 was able to use her expertise

“It was a hard show for a first show. I was grappling with the little things. It’s not a show that’s very straightforward.

We really had to pin down what is happening and when, but I think it came out really well. I challenged myself in it, and I’m proud.”

-Julie Solomon ’17, director in animation to work as projection designer, she said.

“Getting together a design team was hard,” Solomon said.

“We definitely have more actors at the school, but it all worked out.”

The production’s stage manager Kyla Mermejo-Varga ’17 said that she joined the production because she knew Solomon, and the two had worked in the set shop together before.

Kelleen Moriarty ’19, the only first-year on the production team, joined the show as an assistant for set design, but ended up becoming more involved, Solomon said.

“With [Moriarty], we had to bend the rules a bit, since she’s a freshmen and hadn’t taken the class yet,” she said. “She was technically my assistant, but she did more as we went on.”

Moriarty said that she first met Solomon at the theater department open house during freshman Orientation. Although Solomon was the only student who had taken the mandatory class for set design, Solomon told Moriarty that she could serve as a set designer based on her previous design experience in high school.

The set designers faced some issues on set, mostly related to communication.

“It’s a teaching and a production opportunity, so there is a huge

emphasis on communication,” Moriarty said. “We’re going through our own processes, so what needs to be done and when has to be said.”

Mermejo-Varga said that one of the major challenges the production faced was handling its logistics.

“There were a lot of technical elements, so getting on top of all of those was something we had to work really hard at,” she said.

Moriarty said that she enjoyed the chance to see the inner workings of a theater production at the College as a first-year student. “ I t ’s b e e n a n i n c r e d i b l e opportunity to be involved with the department,” she said. “I’ve gotten some really great mentors

out of it and a chance to meet some of my peers. It was a great jump into the deep end. It’s been a great creative process to be a part of.”

Despite difficulties in procuring a crew, Solomon said she was satisfied with the resulting production.

“It was a hard show for a first show. I was grappling with the little things. It’s not a show that’s very straightforward,” Solomon said.

“We really had to pin down what is happening and when, but I think it came out really well. I challenged myself in it, and I’m proud.”

“Baltimore Waltz” will be performed on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Bentley Theater. Tickets will be four dollars for students and community members.

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DARTMOUTH STUDENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS Complete Guidelines & Applications online: hop.dartmouth.edu (hover over Students link)

The Robert Dance ’77 Arts Initiative Fund The Robert Dance ’77 Fund enables talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Preference is given to performing or visual arts projects that are “site-specific works,” created for venues other than traditional galleries, theaters or auditoriums. Outdoor venues, residential spaces and dining halls are among the sites that might be appropriate. The fund makes a total of up to $4,200 available to sponsor major student projects in the performing and visual arts. Undergraduate students and organizations are eligible to apply.

The Peter D. Smith Initiative Fund The Peter D. Smith Student Initiative Fund was established for the support of student enterprises in the arts. It was established by the former Friends of the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art and continues today with the support of the Membership Programs of the Hop and the Hood. It is intended to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to complete special projects. The fund makes a total of up to $3,000 available to sponsor major original projects. Application is open to individuals or groups.

The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund The Lazarus Family Musical Theater Fund supports student-initiated projects in musical theater, with a priority given to original work. Although projects need not be curricular to be considered, senior projects that bring together work in theater and music are particularly appropriate. In the absence of proposals featuring original music, lyrics and/or text by students, productions that are to be directed, choreographed and designed by students may also be considered. The fund provides a total of up to $1,800 to support student-initiated projects.

The Class of 1961 Arts Initiative Fund Undergraduates are invited to apply for support of student enterprises in the arts. This award is funded by members of the Class of 1961 in order to enable talented Dartmouth undergraduates to undertake special projects in the arts. Particular interest will be given to those projects that “stand alone”—that is, projects that are not undertaken as senior fellowships or honors projects nor are affiliated with student organizations. The fund makes up to $1,500 available to sponsor student-initiated projects in the performing and visual arts. Application is open to single or group projects.

Applications & Guidelines Applications and complete guidelines for each fund are available online (hop.dartmouth.edu) or check with the offices of the Directors of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, the Chairs of the Departments of Theater, Music, Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, and Art History, the Hop Ensembles Office and the Hop Student Workshops.

DEADLINE: Thursday, November 12, 2015 ALL APPLICATIONS and recommendations must be submitted to the Hopkins Center Director’s Office, Lower Level Wilson Hall, by 12 pm, Thursday, November 12, 2015 or via email to Sherry.L.Fiore@dartmouth.edu.

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In its season finale this past weekend, the women’s soccer team notched its first win in Ivy League play, defeating Cornell University 1-0 at Burnham Field. On a brisk Saturday afternoon, the Big Green (8-4-4, 1-3-3 Ivy) put together a complete performance that the team struggled to find early in this season’s conference play, controlling the pace and possession of the game from the outset and generating chances early and often. A goal scored by Lucielle Kozlov ’16 in the 60th minute was all the Big Green needed to grab a win over Cornell (9-4-4, 2-4-1 Ivy) and move ahead of Yale University to finish seventh in the Ivy League standings.

Before the game got underway, the team took time to honor its four seniors — Jill Dayneka ’16 as well as co-captains Jackie Friedman ’16, Corey Delaney ’16 and Kozlov. All current starters on the team, their careers with the Dartmouth soccer program outstrip current head coach Ron Rainey by two years.

“I’m happy that we won,” Kozlov said. “I thought we played a good game as a team. It is obviously bittersweet as a senior [because]

this is my last game ever at Burnham, ever with this team, ever playing soccer. I have had such a happy journey with this team.”

Kozlov took full advantage of her last time out on the pitch, creating numerous scoring opportunities for the Big Green. Kozlov’s strong attacking play ultimately contributed the game-winning goal 15 minutes into the second half after a scoreless first.

Kozlov received a pass from Lauren Lucas ’19 on the right wing, beat a defender with a dribble move and streaked up the right side of the penalty box before burying a shot in the bottom corner of the net’s far side. The score was her 11th tally of the season, a number that leads her team and places her second in the Ivy League for goals scored. “[Kozlov’s] goal was a goal scorer’s goal,” Rainey said. “She picked her head up, saw where the keeper was and played it past her.”

Kozlov’s shot was just one of the 16 that the Big Green generated that day against the Big Red. Dominant possession of the ball allowed Dartmouth to maximize opportunities against a Cornell team that mustered just two shots in the first half and nine in the

game, failing to pressure a stout Dartmouth defense.

“We have done a very nice job the last two weeks — against Harvard [University] and against Cornell today — limiting teams’ chances, and we did a nice job of winning balls and stopping attacks,” Rainey said. “When you create chances, the odds go up that you are going to score one.”

It was fitting that a senior and a freshman linked up for the last goal of the season and the game’s winning goal. The leadership of the senior class has had a strong impact on the other members of the team, particularly the freshman, Remy Borinsky ’19 said.

Lucas, who leads the team with six assists, set up Kozlov for the game-winner. The positive rapport between the seniors and freshmen has been an important factor in the team’s success all season, and the celebration of the seniors before the game helped inspire the team in their final game of the season, Borinsky said.

“As a freshman, I could not have asked for better seniors, they were amazing,” she said. “I think everyone today played for them — I know I did. We just wanted to get that win. We hadn’t won [in

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Women’s soccer defeated Cornell University 1-0 at home in its season finale.

the Ivy League] for them, I think everyone came out like, ‘Let’s go and do it.’”

Rainey echoed Borinsky’s praise for the four seniors, citing their work ethic and dedication to the team over their four years with the program.

“You know I think the senior group is special,” Rainey said. “I’m a little sad that I was only around them for two years because I know the amount of work they put into the program. The pride that they have in the program is special.

What we have seen is a good example for our juniors, sophomores and freshman of what they have got to do moving forward. [The seniors] have done an excellent job for Dartmouth and for the soccer program.”

Having just finished the final game of the team’s season, the Big Green’s victory represents a highlight for the team as they head into the offseason. The team features six strong juniors who should help the Big Green build on this season and improve next year.

Women’s hockey drops Tuesday night showdown with Maine

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Facing strong performances from their opponent’s penalty kill unit and goalie, the women’s hockey team fell 4-1 to the University of Maine at Thompson Arena on Tuesday night.

The Big Green (2-2-2, 2-1-2 ECAC) struggled to finish off many of its chances offensively, especially on the power play.

Despite out-shooting Maine (6-6, 3-4 AEC) with a wide margin of 27-16 over the course of the game and earning three power plays, Dartmouth — first in the Eastern College Athletic Conference in power play conversion at 31.8 percent — failed to score during any of its man-advantage opportunities and only scored once on even ice.

Despite the team’s impressive record with power plays, Dartmouth is actively working to reduce its dependency on those goals to get on the scoreboard so

the team can still perform against an opponent that kills these power plays, Lindsey Allen ’16 said.

“We’ve definitely been working the past couple of years on trying to score more even-strength goals, but we do tend to score a lot on the power play,” Allen said. “When we can’t score [on the power play,] it tends to frustrate a lot of people.”

While the Big Green managed to kill both of Maine’s power plays, it also proved unable to capitalize on any of its own three opportunities. Allen credited the Maine defense with being efficient on the penalty kill.

“Their defense was able to clear out the rebound, and we weren’t able to put it in, which definitely benefitted them,” Allen said. “They had a lot of people that collapsed to the net, and we just couldn’t get it by them. We played decently well — we just couldn’t get it past their goalie.”

Head coach Mark Hudak said he

felt that something was just not clicking Tuesday night for his team, which had been scoring 2.8 goals per game coming into the matchup.

“I just don’t think we were quite ‘on’ tonight. We weren’t finishing on some of the chances that we had, and I think in some of our decisions we tried to rush it a little bit,” Hudak said.

Both Hudak and Allen pointed to the strength of Maine’s goaltender Mariah Fujimagari as a major hurdle in the match. Fujimagari recorded a save percentage of 96 percent, stopping a total of 26 shots across three periods of play, while Dartmouth goaltender Christie Honor ’19 managed only 12 saves in comparison.

Following exciting ECAC matchups against Ivy League rivals Brown and Yale Universities this past weekend, a letdown game on a weekday against a non-conference opponent might have been a reasonable expectation.

Alternate captain Kennedy Ottenbreit

’17 stressed, however, that the team sees every game as an important opportunity. She said the team does not look at the game against Maine as less important, but instead tries to see it as another opportunity to improve its play.

“Yes, you focus on Ivy because you know it’s Ivy, but you don’t really think of [the non-conference games] any differently,” Ottenbreit said. “You just prepare the same, and we were hoping that we could take this game to get better for our in-conference games.”

Dartmouth’s one goal in the game came early in the second period. Ottenbreit corralled a loose puck in the offensive zone, took a shot that was blocked, collected the rebound and dumped the puck over to her teammate Morgan Turner ’18, who buried the puck in the net for the goal. This scrappy goal was an important response to keep them in the game having conceded a Maine’s second goal only three minutes earlier, Ottenbreit said.

“I think we got the puck to the net when we needed to,” Ottenbreit said.

“We just honestly kept trying to bat it in. [Turner] tried. I tried. We just kept trying, and I kind of hit it over to her and she put it in. It was just a scramble.”

Dartmouth will move back into ECAC play this weekend when it will face Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College. Hudak said that these teams will provide a tough test for the Big Green. “[RPI and Union] are really frustrating. They’ll be pretty stingy with their defense. RPI’s got a very good goalie this year,” Hudak said. “We’re going to have to come out and play a really good solid game through all of our players, and I think if we’re able to do that, we’ll be successful.”

The Big Green will first face RPI on Friday at 7 p.m., and the Union matchup will start Saturday at 4 p.m.

Both games will take place at home at Thompson Arena.