Dartlog: 01/19/2003 - 01/26/2003

The Dartmouth Review

Saturday, January 25, 2003

Boucher breaks wins record as Dartmouth beats RPI

Correction: Dartmouth's road win over Vermont occured on January 4th, thus this is their 2nd win of 2003, not their first.

Dartmouth's offense returned in force tonight, tallying seven goals including five in the decisive 3rd period as they cruised to a 7-3 win over RPI at Thompson Arena. Netminder Nick Boucher broke the record for career wins by a Dartmouth goaltender tonight, earning his 41st victory between the pipes. The previous holder was current Head Coach Bob Gaudet.

Dartmouth was led by Hugh Jessiman tonight, as he had his 2nd hat trick of the year and added two assists for a 5-point night. Kent Gillings added 2 goals and an assist, Lee Stempniak had a goal and a helper, and Jarrett Sampson added four assists to help the cause. Pete Summerfelt also added two assists as he chases the team record for most assists by a defenseman. Boucher made 22 saves on 25 shots.

Special teams played a big part for both teams, as a combined 5 power play goals were scored. Dartmouth went 2 for 5 with the man advantage, while RPI got all of its goals on the PP, going 3 for 6 on the night.

Dartmouth (10-8-1, 6-6-0) broke several streaks with the win. They snapped a 5 game winless streak, broke a four game ECAC losing streak, and ended a two game home losing streak. This was also their first win in 2003. The team heads out on a four game road trip starting next weekend, with games at Princeton and Yale this coming weekend followed by a trip to Cornell and Colgate the following weekend. The road has not been kind to Dartmouth this year, as they have only managed a 1-6-0 record in road games thus far, with the sole win coming at Vermont.

In other Dartmouth action today, the women's hockey team, ranked #4 in the country, beat UConn 8-1 in afternoon action at Thompson. Carly Haggard netted four goals to lead the team. Dartmouth (13-5-0) plays UConn again tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM, and host Yale and Princeton next weekend. The Yale game starts at 7 PM on Friday night, while the Princeton game takes place at 4 PM Saturday afternoon.

Also, the men's basketball team lost a heartbreaker, losing 84-83 to Albany in triple overtime on the road. Charles Harris scored a career-high 32 points in the loss.

RPI @ Dartmouth box score
(Women's) UConn @ Dartmouth Box Score

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Posted by Ben at 11:06 PM (0 comments)

Dartmouth falls again at Thompson

Dartmouth had won 10 straight at Thompson Arena dating back to last year's playoffs heading into last weekend's game against travel partner Vermont. They've now lost 2 in a row, falling to Union College 2-0 tonight in a game which was the exact opposite of everything Dartmouth fans have come to expect to see this year, namely a high powered offense with little defense.

Dartmouth netminder Nick Boucher turned in perhaps his strongest outing of the year stopping 30 of 32 shots, but the offense failed to give him any goal support. Again like last week, Dartmouth had some chances from the low slot in the third and were robbed by the opposing goalie. Dartmouth was also hurt by a plethora of penalties in the 1st period. Though they survived the period only trailing by a goal, and killed off 1:45 of a 5v3 in the process, it visibly sapped their energy and they were running on fumes by the end of the game.

The officiating tonight was mediocre at best. The linesmen had a very poor night, one of the only times in memory where the linesmen got booed more than the referee. And the ref, while not calling a bad game per se, called one that definitely favored Union. After Union went up 1-0, they went into a clutch-and-grab neutral zone trap, and the ref was letting most of the stuff away from the puck go without a call.

Dartmouth (9-8-1, 5-6-0) has now lost 4 straight ECAC games and are winless since the turn of the calendar at 0-4-1. They return to action tomorrow night against RPI at 7 PM before starting a 4-game road trip next weekend.

Union@Dartmouth box score

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Posted by Ben at 1:43 AM (0 comments)

Friday, January 24, 2003

Robeson

Reader Troy Blanchard sends in a link to this article, though Dartlog in no way vouches for its central premise:

Did the CIA Poison Paul Robeson?

Paul Robeson, the black actor, singer, and political radical, may have been a victim of CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb's MK-ULTRA program... In the spring of 1961, Robeson planned to visit Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The trip never came off because Robeson fell ill in Moscow, where he had gone to give several lectures and concerts. At the time, it was reported that Robeson had suffered a heart attack. But in fact Robeson had slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt after suffering hallucinations and severe depression. The symptoms came on following a surprise party thrown for him at his Moscow hotel.
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Robeson never recovered from the drugging and the follow-up treatments from CIA-linked doctors and shrinks. He died in 1977. Robeson, Jr. has been pushing the U.S. to release classified documents regarding his father. He has already unearthed some damning stuff, including an FBI "status of health" report on Robeson created in April of 1961. "The fact that such a file was opened at all is sinister in itself," Robeson recently told the London Sunday Times. "It indicates a degree of prior knowledge that something was about to happen to him."

Of course, Dartlog stands behind the conclusion a reader might draw: that Paul Robeson, Jr., is a nut-job.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:41 PM (0 comments)

Don't have much time for a full Fisking, but aside from his comparisons of Bush's actions to the Confederacy, Stalin and Hitler (Bush is just soooooo inconsistent, one day he's a fascist the next he's a communist...so frustrating), Robeson made this suggestion,

"He highlighted the need for economic justice in the United States, and instead of reparations to the black community, Robeson suggested spending "hundreds of billions of dollars" elevating the income of every American who made less than the median income."

We sort of tried this, it was called welfare. It didn't work. Beyond that, doesn't raising everyone to the median just move the median higher (remember though that the median is not the mean)?

Also, glad to see that he rules out a civil war to fix our problems. At least he's not being TOO crazy.

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Posted by Ryan at 1:28 PM (0 comments)

Emmett...

Truth. Also, I'd be obliged if some could explain to me what on earth this means:

"Paul Robeson, Jr., son of civil rights renaissance man Paul Robeson, delivered a deliberate but passionate speech..."

Deliberate but passionate? Aren't all speeches deliberate? Am I to believe this is odd because it is both deliberate AND passionate?

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Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 1:04 PM (0 comments)

Paul Robeson, Jr. Is a Fucking Idiot

Pardon my language, but it had to be said.

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Posted by Emmett at 11:43 AM (0 comments)

Ambassador Young

In an op-ed in today's Daily Dartmouth, Kabir Seghal '05 writes, "Ambassador Young has spent more than 35 years in public service. President Jimmy Carter appointed Andrew Young as the United States Ambassador to the U.N. He was forced to resign in 1979 after it became known that he had met with a member of the PLO. Today America negotiates with both Israelis and Palestinians. Mr. Young was 20 years ahead of us."

Wait, wait... So by cavorting with the PLO when they made no pretense to hide their bloodthirsty aims (rather than now, when they do), he is ahead of his time? Let's not forget that he was under strict orders not to contact the PLO. When it became public, he lied about the contact, and for this, was fired by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

You know, I guess he was ahead of his time. He was fooled by Arafat long before most other liberals were.

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Posted by Emmett at 11:42 AM (0 comments)

Better Dead Than Red

Well your dad was a commie.

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Posted by Ryan at 9:53 AM (0 comments)

Thursday, January 23, 2003

Also...

Let's not forget, these academic departments might be funding field trips for political rallies -- at a time of budget cuts!

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Posted by Emmett at 3:27 PM (0 comments)

College Funds

I think this was noted earlier (although it could have been in a personal email), but wouldn't the use of such funds contravene the College's non-profit status? Any lawyers out there know?

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Posted by Christian at 3:01 PM (0 comments)

More on MAJOR Story

Here's the email I sent to the chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. I sent similar emails to Dean Larimore and the chair of the Sociology Department. Feel free to send emails yourself. Their email addresses are:

Dean Jim Larimore: jim.larimore@dartmouth.edu
Marsha Swislocki, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese: marsha.swislocki@dartmouth.edu
John L. Campbell, Chair, Sociology Department: john.l.campbell@dartmouth.edu

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Dear Professor Swislocki,

My name is Emmett M. Hogan, and I am a 2001 graduate from Dartmouth. I recently read two pieces in The Daily Dartmouth that troubled me greatly. They are:

"Responsible Government," by Andrew Biteen '04 - January 23, 2003
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=200301230201

"Students to Attend D.C. Protest," by Kaitlin Bell - January 16, 2003
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=200301160104&is_date=2003-01-16

These pieces state that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese provided funds to students to cover the costs of a trip to DC. The purpose of the trip was to protest the Administration's policy towards Iraq.

I am writing this letter because, as a concerned alum, I fear this action -- if true -- amounts to an unconscionable misuse of College funds. Please let me know if these accounts are true, and if money from your department -- at a prestigious liberal arts institution -- has been used for political ends.

Sincerely yours,

Emmett M. Hogan '01
Day Number: 215-717-3473
Evening Number: 215-546-4655

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Posted by Emmett at 2:37 PM (0 comments)

There is an excellent article here on the rise of Conservative campus papers. The Review is, of course, mentioned in passing. I also post this because the author, Bolek Kabala, was one of my classmates at Groton.

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Posted by Alston B. Ramsay at 2:17 PM (0 comments)

MAJOR Story: The College Is Funding Political Causes

Andrew Biteen '04 has an excellent article in today's Daily Dartmouth in which he condemns College funds being used for political activities. He cites Student Assembly cosponsorship of John Kerry's speech last week and the use of COSO funds, Department of Spanish and Portuguese funds, Sociology Department funds, and possibly Dean's Office funds for this activity. His source (which I wish I had caught myself) is a January 16, 2003 article in The Daily Dartmouth.

Student organizations should be allowed to spend the money they receive as student organizations on political activities as long as it is generally pursuant the organization's mission. To ban organizations from using funds to these ends is to ban them from engaging their missions in any real sense. So Student Assembly funds going to a speech by John Kerry isn't troubling.

(In fact, I pretty much think that the Student Assembly should be allowed to spend its money however it decides, short of contributions to a candidate's campaign. After all, the mission of the SA is generally what it's members decide it to be. We've had SAs in the past that have decided to become very political indeed. This is separate, note well, from the question of what the Student Assembly should spend its money on. The SA funding a rally against abortion, for example, should be allowed, but should not happen.)

Indeed, if such restrictions were held, Aquinas House would be prohibited from using College funds to buy candles for Mass. The College Republicans and the Young Democrats would basically have to cease on campus. Naturally, such stringent boundaries on what you can advocate and how you can advocate it would constitute an intolerable restriction on expression, and would seriously damage the health of "the free marketplace of ideas" at Dartmouth. (Granted, it's hurting already.)

However, academic department funds -- and Dean's Office funds -- should not be used to further any specific political cause. This is nothing short of an outrage. Neither the Dean's Office nor any academic department can justify in any way funding a trip to DC to protest the war. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot: the Dean's Office funded a protest outside the Planned Parenthood in Lebanon; the French Department took out an ad in The Valley News defending Second Amendment rights; the Mathematics Department bought 500 copies of Daniel J. Flynn's Why the Left Hates America. The walls would fall, and everyone would instantly see how outrageous that would be.

This is a story, a big one, and needs to be commented on. If it's true, Dean Larimore, Spanish Dept. Chair Marsha Swislocki, and Sociology Dept. Chair John L. Campbell must answer.

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Posted by Emmett at 2:02 PM (0 comments)

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

To all in Hanover

I think it's time for a Global Warming-themed front page of the Review.

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Posted by alex at 3:03 PM (0 comments)

Monday, January 20, 2003

AISES at Dartmouth

While sending something to Greenprint, I stumbled accross the constitution for the AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY AT DARTMOUTH.

How many people can possibly be in this group?

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Posted by alex at 9:18 PM (0 comments)

Happy Milk Day

Reader Philip Mone '02 sends in his ruminations on the day:

No work for me today. Time to reflect.

"I didn't get into law school because of the color of my skin. I repeat: I didn't get in to law school because of the color of my skin."

Is there anything more inherently racist than the University of Michigan Law School rejecting more qualified students because of their skin color? Where's the equal opportunity in that? Isn't that unequal opportunity?

Admission to law school should be based on merit and merit alone. As it now stands, University of Michigan Law places Skin Color alongside GPA and LSAT
scores as elements of "merit."

Skin Color.

Hmmmm, our constitution actually specifically states that that's illegal.

Someone, please present the other side of the case. Am I missing something? Right now it seems EXTREMELY hypocritical, especially on this day of recognizing civil rights, for anyone who has ever felt they were discriminated against because of the color of their skin, to be arguing FOR the continuation of raced based admissions at University of Michigan Law. Ask yourself: what would Martin Luther King, Jr., say on this issue.

Well in a sense, in his famous speech, he did ring in on the broader issue.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

That dream is not being realized, at least not at the University of Michigan Law School, because Dr. King's children, if they were to apply today, WOULD be judged by the color of their skin.

One final thought: there is no such thing as "reverse discrimination." It's just discrimination, plain and simple; all that changes is who wins and who loses.

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Posted by Andrew Grossman at 1:41 PM (0 comments)

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Dartmouth falls to UVM 6-4

Dartmouth lost their first game of the year at Thompson Arena, falling to UVM 6-4 in a game which looked to be an easy win for the first 38 minutes. Jessiman, Stempniak, and Overlock gave Dartmouth a 3-0 lead, when the meltdown began. UVM scored twice in the final two minutes of the second, and got three more in the first three minutes of the third to turn a 3-0 deficit into a 5-3 lead in less than five minutes. Dartmouth got one back to make it 5-4, and had a two-man advantage for a full 2:00 when two Catamounts were sent off at the same time, one for roughing and the other for hooking. Dartmouth had several chances from point blank range, but UVM's goaltender made some spectacular saves to keep UVM in the lead. UVM added an empty netter to make the final 6-4.

Dartmouth (9-7-1, 5-5-0) stays home next weekend to take on Union College on Friday and RPI on Saturday at Thompson Arena before starting a 4 game road trip.

Despite having beaten Cornell and Boston College and tying New Hampshire, Dartmouth's chances of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament have taken a huge blow the past two weeks by losing to Clarkson, St. Lawrence, and Vermont and giving up 20 goals in the process. Dartmouth now needs to fight to finish 4th or better in the ECAC to get the first round bye in the Conference Playoffs and hope to win the automatic berth in Albany.

Vermont-Dartmouth Box Score
Game Recap

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Posted by Ben at 12:02 AM (0 comments)