Former Dartmouth quarterback/wide receiver Darryl Mobley has turned from football to music and has posted to YouTube his song What I Like. The song is from his album The Fourth Wall, which he produced under the name Mobesx.
Dartmouth News did a story on Mobley's move to music HERE. In the story the Big Green senior gives credit to football coach Buddy Teevens for encouraging him to pursue his passion. He said:
"Coach Teevens knew that I had made songs before, just messing around with the football team. I had told him and kids on the team had told him in my freshman and sophomore years. And he brought it up when I decided to stop playing football. He thought I should take it more seriously."More from the story:
In his music as Mobesx, Mobley, who grew up in Austin, Texas, aims to represent an urban perspective and marginalized groups differently from what he often sees in mainstream music, he says.
“I don’t swear in any of my records or use derogatory language toward women. So there is a positive underlying message. I also talk about real stuff— relationships and such—but not with that negative component.”
The release of the single What I Like at the end of March included the note: “Mobesx believes that modern music too frequently uses derogatory language to slander or negatively depict women, people of color, and individuals of certain religious preferences, for monetary gain. After applying for, and winning, the Dartmouth College Robert Dance ’77 Fund, Mobley’s mission was to create an album that would uplift and unify.”In a note accompanying his YouTube posting Mobley also offers special thanks to junior longsnapper Grant Jaffe for his help.
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While Osman Khan ’21 admits that, "there are some athletes at the College who are smarter than I am," his opinion piece in The Dartmouth challenges athletic recruiting and the athletic admissions\ process. It starts this way:
Dartmouth students aren’t so great at most of the sports they play. Not on a national level anyway. Barring specific winter sports, which we often excel in, as well as a few other exceptions, our athletic performance isn’t anywhere near as impressive as our alumni’s professional and academic showings are.Khan writes:
(I)t’s time to admit that some athletes shouldn’t be here. They shouldn’t be admitted in such high amounts, taking spots from more academically-qualified applicants.
Let’s admit this is a problem and start fixing it. Athletes should have to go through the grind of the full admissions process like the rest of us. Of course, admissions officers should consider athletic achievement just like any extracurricular accomplishments. But athletes should not have a special pipeline to admission. As Dartmouth’s acceptance rate drops ever lower, athletic recruitment increasingly stands out as unfair and unwarranted.
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To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Ivy League did not have a player chosen last night in the first round of the NFL Draft ;-)This might surprise you, though. The last time the Ivies had a player picked in the first round of the draft it didn't have one chosen. It had two.
In 1969 Columbia quarterback Marty Domres was taken ninth by the San Diego Chargers and Yale running back Calvin Hill was taken 24th by the Dallas Cowboys.
In last night's BGA Premium story Dartmouth defensive line coach and pro liaison Duane Brooks discussed the Big Green's pro hopefuls and said he thinks Princeton receiver Stephen Carlson, projected as a tight end in the NFL, might be the Ivy League's best draft prospect.
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The local Valley News had a story earlier this week about the Hanover High School girls lacrosse team featuring Maddie McCorkle, daughter of Dartmouth associate head coach Sammy McCorkle. Still just a junior, she is committed to play lax at Duke. Also mentioned in the story is goalie Allison Lichtenstein, whose dad Jason '90 was a kicker under Buddy Teevens in his first tenure in Hanover.
