Dartmouth

Navy stole a game from Dartmouth at Alumni Hall last night. The Midshipmen (7-2) used their quick hands and defensive instincts to create 15 steals in a deceptively easy 85-68 victory over the Big Green.Team captain Skip Victor was the principal pickpocket, with five steals to go with his team-high 18 points, plus seven rebounds and five assists.Dartmouth (4-5), which lost by 14 points to North Carolina on Saturday, made it close in the first half, trailing 38-35, thanks mainly to 14 blown layups by the Mids, who made only 16 of 40 field goal attempts.

Dartmouth named Rick Sowell men's lacrosse coach Tuesday, making him what is believed to be the first African-American lacrosse coach in Division I.Sowell, a Washington College graduate who was the 1985 Division III Midfielder of the Year, spent the past seven years as an assistant at Georgetown.He replaces Tim Nelson, who resigned June 29 after compiling a 41-63 record in eight seasons.Pub Date: 7/23/98

Dartmouth came into last night's game with the nation's top-ranked attack, but the unit couldn't keep pace with its counterpart as No. 1 Virginia scored three straight goals early in the second half to take control and gain a 10-7 victory at UMBC Stadium in the women's NCAA Division I semifinals.Virginia (17-2), which has won 12 straight, will face three-time defending champion Maryland tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the championship game at UMBC Stadium.Despite a slow start, the pesky Big Green (13-3)

HANOVER, N.H. - Annapolis' Jacque Weitzel has scored a lot of big goals for the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team.But it was her two assists in overtime yesterday that sent the Big Green to a 9-8 win over Loyola and a berth in next weekend's national semifinals at UMBC.Weitzel, who scored 56 goals in the regular season, fed Kate Graw for the game-tying goal early in the second overtime and set up Melissa Frazier for the game-winner with seven seconds left.Those goals capped a national quarterfinal in which Loyola (13-4)

The No. 4 Maryland women's team brushed aside 12th-ranked Dartmouth, 16-7, yesterday at College Park for its fourth straight victory since beginning the season with losses to Duke and North Carolina."

Maryland coach Dick Edell promises there will be no distractions.Before the No. 3 Terrapins play at No. 12 North Carolina tomorrow, Edell will finally be able to see his son, Gregg, a sophomore at Dartmouth, play collegiate lacrosse. And it's just by coincidence. The Big Green, which is on spring break, is playing Virginia Military Institute as part of the doubleheader in Chapel Hill, N.C., and will stay in town to play the Tar Heels three days later.But Edell made it clear that he and his team are solely focused on staying undefeated and winning their first game in Chapel Hill since 1986.

Freshman Todd Richard scored with 17 seconds left to lead Hartford (11-3, 5-1) to a 10-9 win yesterday over Towson State in America East action in West Hartford, Conn.Richard got off his game-winning shot in the midst of a scramble in the mud in front of the Towson goal. A save by Hawks goalkeeper Chris LaMonica with four seconds left sealed the win for Hartford.With the win, Hartford set a record for overall and conference victories and claimed sole possession of second place in the conference.

In her final year at Dartmouth, Kirsten Prettyman (Bryn Mawr) is making her first full season in the lacrosse goal a productive one.Prettyman, a backup to All-American Kim Cohen the past three seasons, had her finest moment against Princeton with 15 saves as No. 5 Dartmouth stunned the defending NCAA champion and No. 1-ranked Tigers, 10-9. Prettyman has played every minute for the undefeated (4-0) Big Green.* Senior Jen Bass (Maryvale Prep), first-team All-Ivy League last year, had two goals in a 10-9 loss to New Hampshire for a career total of 95, fifth on Cornell's all-time list.

THOUSANDS of young men and women are well embarked this season on their first year of higher education. At staggering expense to their parents, many of them are attending prestigious institutions whose names are household words.Are their minds being enriched? Two authors in recent months have come up with the same answer: No, their minds are not being enriched. Their brains are being washed. In many of the nation's top colleges and universities, radical professors and militant students have succeeded in ravaging the traditional groves of academe.

THE LEADERS of our colleges and universities, including Dartmouth, bear a high responsibility to their students and to society. By precept and example, they must inculcate in a future generation an understanding of the principles of truth and justice, which are the essential basis of the liberal community.An explosive controversy at Dartmouth raises troubling questions about how its academic leadership is discharging its moral commitments and obliWilliam E.Simongations to the college's students and to society.