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Inside: Mock trial team gaining traction, securing wins Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ Swim teams lead powerhouse victories

Ville Swipes A new student initiative is pushing to integrate the college’s meal card payment system with businesses in the borough, p. 4

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Thursday, December 2, 2010 Volume 133, Issue 13

The independent campus newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881.

EDITORIAL BOARD Jeff Davidson Editor in Chief Amelia Possanza Managing Editor Menghan Jin News Editor Miriam Hauser Living & Arts Editor Camila Ryder Living & Arts Editor Susana Medeiros Assistant Living & Arts Editor Dante Anthony Fuoco Opinions Editor Victor Brady Sports Editor Marcus Mello Sports Editor Jacqueline Small Copy Chief Olivia Natan Photo Editor Xingyu Zhang Photo Editor Julia Karpati Graphics Editor Eric Sherman Director of Web Development

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The Swarthmore women’s basketball team defeated Misericordia University on November 20. They are now 4-1, with two conference wins.

News Lakey named Educator of 2010

“Metamorphoses,” a series of vignettes based on Greek mythology written by Mary Zimmerman. PAGE 9

Sports

Peace Guest lecturer highlights Manny Pacquiao just could be the savior of boxing Tibetan mgur poetry

The Peace and Justice Association named Visiting Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies George Lakey Peace Educator of the Year. PAGE 3

Today, Professor Roger Jackson from Carleton College will examine the Tibetan literary genre of mgur, a form of poetry.

Mgur have been composed for thousands of years. PAGE 10

Throughout his career, Manny Pacquiao has done the unthinkable in the boxing ring, wowing crowds and impressing the world time and time again. Is Pacquiao the man who will finally bring boxing back into the spotlight? PAGE 16

Long after survey, dining Coldwave bands combine still limited Senior spotlight: Sarah Many logistical and financial roadblocks are synth, instruments slowing down StuCo’s initiatives to extend This Friday’s Olde Club show will feature Lambert — the art of pasthe use of meal plans in restaurants and several bands, all of whom fall into the sion Coldwave genre of music. Though the genre stores in the ville. PAGE 4 originated in France and England, the bands

Mock trial sees surge in featured are demonstrative of how the genre numbers and tournament has spread. PAGE 10 ‘Harry Potter’ filled with wins Launched just three years ago, the mock somber enchantments trial team has already been widely success-

Isaac Han reviews the latest installment of the “Harry Potter” series, and finds it somber, mysterious and enthralling. PAGE 11

Balancing composure, passion, teamwork and school spirit, Sarah Lambert, over the last four years, has emerged as the face of Swarthmore athletics. Lambert was the lone senior on the 2010 volleyball team and led the squad to its best Centennial finish ever. PAGE 17

Garnet men look to rebound after three consecAlums from literary maga- Think globally, shop locally: utive losses zine to hold event After starting the season 3-0, one of the Black Friday in Philly Three alums from Philadelphia’s APIARY best starts in program history, the

ful in competitions and has created considerable interest this year. PAGE 5

literary magazine will be at Swarthmore on December 11 to talk about how they put their humanities majors to use. PAGE 6

Living & Arts

Jen offers post-Black Friday shopping suggestions for this holiday season. PAGE 12

Opinions

Swarthmore men’s basketball team has dropped three consecutive games. PAGE 18

First-years rule the pool While the Swarthmore men’s swimming team has established itself as a Centennial Conference power in 2010, the young women’s swimming team has been led by a quartet of first-years. PAGE 19

Neutrality agreement for inn Sleep deprivation may cause project needs college’s support flinging of things Hockey for Thanksgiving Ariel notices an increased tendency of stu- Even though the inn project is still in dents to fling their coffee at things, and proposes both reasons and potential solutions for this phenomenon. PAGE 8

planning stages, The Phoenix supports a card check neutrality agreement for workers there because it will foster civility and ensure workers’ ability to unionize. PAGE 14

Hannah looks at her extended NHL family lines and their entangled story lines through the first two months of the season. Looking for something to do over December break? These guys are sure to keep things interesting. PAGE 19

In the final month, missing (and not missing) Paris Polarized politics leave U.S. Senior spotlight: The matuMaki tries to find the balance between the pros and cons of living in Paris in the last voters few options In an ever-divided U.S. political system, ration of Morgan Langley month of her study abroad. PAGE 8 Senior Co. to perform mythic ‘Metamorphoses’ Senior Company prepares to present

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Republican values have begun taking over the left, Peter argues. He compares the wishy-washy parties in the U.S. to the more hard-line parties in the Netherlands. PAGE 15

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In the past two years, Morgan Langley has developed from a tentative forward who predominantly relied on skill into the Centennial Conference player of the year as a senior. PAGE 20

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events menu Today Lecture: “Amazement Rooted in Azure Sky: Understanding Tibetan Spiritual Poetry” Roger Jackson, religion professor at Carleton College, will lecture in the Scheuer Room at 4:30 p.m. about Tibetan spiritual songs, a literary genre called mgur (pronounced “goor”).

Lakey named Peace Educator of 2010

Lecture: John Gastil ’89 Come listen to communication professor John Gastil ‘89 of the University of Washington present the results of his new book, The Jury of Democracy, in Trotter 301 at 4:15 p.m. in a lecture titled, “Of Tocqueville, Justice Kennedy, and Large Sample Sizes: Research on the Civic Educational Impact of Jury Service.”

Tomorrow Spike Stand-Up Comedy Jam Spike is at it again with its second-ever stand-up comedy show.

Come to Sci 101 at 8 p.m. to see the acts.

Senior Company presents Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses It’s opening day of the Senior Company’s production of Metamorphoses, a series of ten fantastical Greek vignettes centered on transforming themes of love and loss. Join them in the Frear Ensemble Theatre at 4:30 and 9 p.m. today. Additional performances will take place Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m.

Fall 2010 Student Dance Concert Join the Dance Program of the Dept. of Music and Dance in its biannual student dance concert in the LPAC theatre at 8 p.m. today and Saturday. A wide variety of dance and music styles will be featured, including ballet, tap, taiko, West African and Brazilian pieces.

Saturday, December 4th Holiday Greens Sale Browse through gorgeous greens, holiday accents and longlasting wreaths designed by the volunteers and staff of the Scott Arboretum at the Holiday Greens Sale in the Wister Center at 10 a.m.

Corey Silberstein Piano Recital Listen to Corey Silberstein on the piano in the Lang Concert Hall at 6:30 p.m as he performs works from Mozart, Debussy, Chopin and Berg.

Sunday, December 5th Gamelan Semara Santi Enjoy a show by the Gamelan Semara Santi, the Philadelphia area's only Indonesian percussion orchestra devoted to performance of traditional compositions from Bali, Indonesia at 3 p.m. in the Lang Concert Hall.

E-mail submissions for the events menu to news@swarthmorephoenix.com

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George Lakey, the visiting professor in the peace and conflict studies department who now holds the title of Peace Educator of the Year, engages his students during a seminar.

BY NAVIN SABHARWAL nsabhar1@swarthmore.edu On Oct. 2, former Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change and current Lang fellow George Lakey was named the Peace Educator of the Year by the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) during its conference in Winnipeg, Canada.

According to their website, the PJSA is a non-profit organization founded in 2001 as a combination of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED) and the Peace Studies Association (PSA), groups promoting leadership in the field of peace and conflict studies. In addition to serving as a professional association for scholars in the field, the organization seeks to bring academics and activists together in order to find alternatives to violence. The association gives the Peace Educator of the Year award “for exemplary teaching and/or great scholarship in forwarding peace education and peace studies.”

At Swarthmore, Lakey is currently teaching courses in the peace and conflict studies department, including “Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism,” “Research Seminar in Non-violent Struggle and Strategy” and “Peace Studies and Action,” which he co-developed with Lee Smithey, coordinator of the peace and conflict studies program.

“We are thrilled that Professor Lakey’s teaching and research at Swarthmore, not to mention his decades of work as a prominent Quaker peace activist, organizer and educator, have been recognized by the Peace and Justice Studies Association,” said Smithey in an e-mail.

A leader in non-violent change since the 1960’s, Lakey has held teaching posts at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania and has led workshops in social change in five continents.

In the Fall 2007 semester, he was invited to come to Swarthmore to serve as the Lang visiting professor for two academic years. “I’m proud to be at Swarthmore because we’re [proceeding] in a way that fully empowers our graduates,” he said.

He is also the founder and director of Training for Change, a Philadelphiabased organization that seeks to spread social change through a system that directly challenges injustice.

Lakey became interested in and passionate about social activism when he was an undergraduate student. “I was brought up in a pro-union household of people who cared about community justice, [so] I was slanted in that direction by my family, [but] it wasn’t until college when I put it together that I could make a difference,” he said.

He also cited the civil rights movement as inspiration. “The Montgomery bus boycott was happening while I was an undergraduate [...] and I was able to go to a speech by Ralph Abernathy, who was a right hand guide to Dr. King, and hearing him talk about it, I thought that could be me. These are real people like me,” Lakey said.

As a dedicated activist, Lakey has worked with workers, civil rights leaders, anti-apartheid activists and human rights organizers among others. Lakey is also the author of numerous scholarly articles as well as eight books, including “A Manual for Direct Action, Powerful Peacemaking: A Strategy for a Living Revolution” and “Grassroots and

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Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.”

Lakey’s students applaud his engaging courses and unique teaching style.

Matthew Heck ’13 is currently a member of his non-violent struggles class. “It’s a seminar where we have to write a case about a different struggle around the world each week,” he said. “He likes to tell stories a lot; it’s the basis for most of this teaching. He also relates his theory and he is able to tie in the theory that we read into real first hand accounts.”

A political science major, Heck was impressed with how Lakey was able to broaden his perspective: “I think the non-violent strategies aspect is something that most poli-sci students don’t get a chance to experience because we’re mostly talking about war and conflict,” he said. “Seeing that non-violent side is nice because [it shows] not everything in the world is war, and peace can actually be effective too. Learning different cases and learning the theory from him has really help to make that salient. It’s a great learning experience.”

Lakey further discussed how his classes contribute both to theory and practice of peace and justice. “The [Nonviolent Response to Terrorism] class is partly to advance to the field but partly to empower the students at Swarthmore,” he said. “Students taking the [research seminar] will again be able to stand up to forces in our body politic that are becoming more and more cynical in their use of fear to keep us down.”

Though he is no longer the current Lang visiting professor, Lakey is still working part-time at the Lang Center in order to further his research and aid students in projects.

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Long after survey, dining still limited

Week in pictures

BY ADAM SCHLEGEL aschleg1@swarthmore.edu

Olivia Natan Phoenix Staff

As the month of nation-wide No-Shave November comes to a close, Michael Roswell and Aaron Zimmerman shave off their beards.

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Professor Barry Schwartz unveils the “secrets of happiness” during his lecture “Some of What We Know About Happiness” on Tuesday night.

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Students attend a talk given by Professor Adrienne Eaton about social responsibility, worker justice and neutrality agreements pm Monday afternoon.

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“I think I’ve been to Sharples over 300 times in the past year and a half,” Eli Siegel ’13 said. “I don’t think I have ever been to my favorite set of restaurants, nor will I ever manage to go, as many times as I have been to Sharples.”

In response to a survey aired earlier in the semester, Student Council is beginning discussions concerning an initiative that would allow students to “swipe” for food and snacks at Ville locations under the meal plan.

On Tuesday, Nov. 23, Student Council representatives met with Vice President Suzanne Welsh to begin financial discussions surrounding the initiative. Effectively, the proposed program would allow students to use meals and dining points under the meal plan to “swipe” for food and snacks at select Ville locations.

As a student at Swarthmore College, one quickly becomes very familiar with the ins and outs of the meal plan. While the on-campus options provided by the meal plan are more than enough to sustain a healthy and comfortable diet, many students often find themselves growing tired of them and would like to diversify their gastronomical options.

“I just wish I could switch it up every once in a while,” Nina Serbedzija ’14 said.

It is from this growing desire within the student body that Student Council has recently begun to work on an initiative to extend the meal plan to a few of the restaurants and stores in the Ville.

“Right now, we’re looking into the possibility of instituting a program to use meal points in the Ville,” said StuCo’s Financial Policy Representative Ben Hattem ’12 in an e-mail. “The locations that we’ve discussed have been Hobbs, Renato’s and the Co-op, but that list could expand or contract.”

At present, there are a number of logistical barriers to such a move, such as the cost of equipment (i.e. card-reading machines), additional security measures for cards abd the wiring needed from campus to participating locations, as well as the need for an additional accounting system to manage the flow of capital.

In terms of security, the cards would need to be upgraded such that swipe access is not simply available to anyone in possession of a students’ card. “The current card system is not designed for protecting student’s money,” said Stu Hain, Vice President for Facilities and Services, over the phone.

Dining Services Supervisor Linda McDougall said in an e-mail, “The only Ville merchant who expressed interest to me [in such a program] was Hobbs and this was before they opened. With our current system, [meal plan expansion] would be very difficult logistically.”

Hobbs Coffee has made efforts to be incorporated into the student meal plan since its establishment nearly a year ago. Given the large amount of

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traffic that Hobbs has already had from Swarthmore students, there is certainly evidence for plenty of demand. “When families are here and when school starts … we’re at full capacity,” Randall said.

Randall also mentioned that Hobbs would even be willing to be lenient as far as prices, in order to accommodate the college. “Even if we didn’t make a profit,” he added.

Other than Hobbs Coffee, no other Ville restaurants or stores have come forward and spoken to the college regarding expansion of the meal plan at this time.

In addition, the current card-reading system at the college is not a “onecard system” like that of credit cards (i.e. each card has a different meal plan).

Therefore, any Ville locations to be incorporated into the meal plan would have to also be integrated into the college’s unique meal plan system.

Apart from the logistical ramifications, a meal plan extension would also require substantial financial reorganization.

The dining services budget is comprised of two main parts — revenue and expenses. Under the heading of expenses are both variable (e.g. groceries and supplies) and fixed costs (e.g. staff, maintenance and utilities).

Therefore, the proposal to extend the meal plan into the Ville would require a detailed estimation of the change in variable cost.

In addition, the annual budget is appropriated based on the fixed room and board fees of each student living on campus. The incorporation of Ville locations into the meal plan (each with varying degrees of student patronage) represents a variable cost outside of fixed room and board fees, posing a significant obstacle to accurately determining the funds necessary to support such a system.

“The annual dining services budget is based on money, in points, staying on campus to support the [dining] system,” Hain said.

Larger schools around the country, like the University of Pennsylvania, have incorporated franchises into their respective meal plans. However, given the small size of the college, it would be very difficult financially to incorporate a diverse group of off-campus dining options. “There aren’t very many small schools our size that do this,” Hain said.

However, any actual assessment of the financial feasibility of a meal plan extension would require extensive estimation of cost based on student habits. “We would need to find out how much students would use it and what meals they would use it for - the pattern, basically,” Welsh said.

Such estimation would most likely be achieved through a pilot program.

Unfortunately, due to the myriad logistical and financial obstacles, such an initiative is not yet in place.

Student Council is continuing discussions with the administration, but for the time being, the dining options remain the same.

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Mock trial sees surge in numbers and tournament wins

Photo courtesy of Jelmer Tiete

The Mock Trial A Team placed second out of 52 teams at its third competition of the semester at the University of Pennsylvania in November.

BY JACQUELINE SMALL jsmall2@swarthmore.edu

Candice Nguyen ’11 says Mock Trial at Swarthmore is a fairy tale of a club, with unbelievable growth and success.

The idea started with her and Asher Sered ’11 and Jon Schaefer ’11 during their New Student Orientation. The club only had six members that first year, the bare minimum required to compete, but now that the three founding members are seniors, it has expanded to 32 members. And the team is not just competing, but winning.

Mock Trial is an event where teams of students from colleges all over the country study and practice trying a fictional case. Students play the roles of either lawyers or witnesses and compete against other schools, following the procedures of the real judicial system.

Though the team is now doing well, it had humble beginnings a few years ago.

According to Sered, the team dates back to a pre-law information session during his Orientation. Someone asked if there was a Mock Trial team, and Gigi Simeone, the pre-law advisor, said that there wasn’t, but that “a very pro-active freshman” had e-mailed her about it over the summer. “And Candice was that freshman,” he said.

After the information session, he and Schaefer, both of whom had done Mock Trial in high school, went to talk to Nguyen, and they began to take the steps towards forming a club. At the time, the Peaslee Debate Society was the only public speaking activity for students.

“I went to a few meetings, but I didn’t really feel it was the place for me,” Nguyen said. “I thought that Mock Trial could be an interesting forum for people to meet and learn about the way the judicial system works.”

She added that the activity is for more than just pre-law students.

Schaefer and Sered are no longer planning to go to law school.

Getting the group started was difficult for the first-years. “Everything was an obstacle when we were starting,” Sered said. He said that “basic logistical things,” like getting chartered, renting buses and finding and booking hotel rooms seemed “mysterious.”

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were chartered that first year, and now have enough people to form three divisions within the team.

Now, the Mock Trial team is split into three sub-teams, one called the “A” team, and two “B” teams. The “A” team is comprised of the members that are expected to score most highly.

Last semester, Swarthmore won the Spirit of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) award. “That was nice, but it was more a ‘you’re the team that everyone liked!’ award,” Schaefer said. This semester, there have been even more awards and recognitions.

At the first tournament, at Washington and Jefferson University, six Swarthmore students won awards.

Three won as attorneys, and three won as witnesses.

At the second tournament at Colgate University, members of the team won two more awards. Sered pointed out that most of the award winners this semester have been first-year students.

In a third competition, at the University of Pennsylvania, the A team finished second place out of 52 teams, while one of the B teams tied for fourth place. At the next competition, the teams placed first and fifth with an attorney on the B team winning an individual award.

Sered pointed out that the more highly a team places, the less likely it is that individuals will win awards.

“Individual awards are given when you’re the best in a particular competition, so if you’re on a really good team you won’t stand out as much,” he said.

Unlike other teams from larger universities with law schools, the team does not have a lawyer to act as its coach. A local attorney named Stephen Imbriglia serves in an advisory role, but otherwise the team is largely self-governed.

Because of their experience, Nguyen, Schaefer and Sered are hugely important to the team, and Rosanna Kim ’13, captain of the B team, is concerned that after they graduate, the team will not be as strong. “They’re a great source of knowledge, and they give so much support and encouragement.” It will be a young team next year, since it currently has 22 first-years.

But Klara Aizupitis ’13, social chair and outreach coordinator for the team,

has big plans for their future. Next year, she hopes the team will host its first invitational meet here at Swarthmore.

She is optimistic about the team and said, “It’s going really well ... We’re a lot of fun, and more people should join.”

Kim said that it was exciting that a college Mock Trial website called Perjuries is beginning to talk about

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them and rank them more highly than previously. Last year, they were ranked last, but now they’re generating more positive buzz.

Jeremy Rapaport-Stein ’14 is glad that he decided to join the team. “Mock Trial was my favorite thing that I did in high school. If you’re a big law nerd like I am ... it’s a lot of fun, definitely a lot of fun.”

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BY GAIL ENGMANN gengman1@swarthmore.edu For many current Swarthmore students, the prospect of majoring in the humanities and continuing their creative pursuits with the demands of a regular job in this economy is a serious concern.

Lillian Dunn ’07, Michelle Crouch ’07 and Nick Forrest ’08 have been successful so far in this pursuit with their creation of Philadelphia’s first all-ages literary magazine, APIARY. On Dec. 11 from 4 to 6 p.m., the group will hold a reading event aimed at exposing Swarthmore students to established writers from the city as well as allowing them to learn more about the magazine itself. According to the Chair of the English Department, Peter Schmidt, students will be able to hear a nice cross section of writings and learn more about what humanities majors do after Swarthmore.

The alums wish to expose students to the talented writers in the Philadelphia area so that they explore the city’s literary scene themselves. Students will also get a chance to learn about APIARY’s involvement in the community.

The group become an official writing group last December. The main objectives of the group are to open up the literary scene to people who are interested and connect people from different backgrounds and of all ages. “We want people with raw voices who are new to the scene

to have their work right next to the work of well established writers,” Crouch said.

The word apiary means a place where bees are kept. At first the founders thought the word was just catchy and interesting, but it soon became apparent that it was a very fitting metaphor for their work in the literary magazine business. “There are distinct buzzing hives of people in the literary scene and we want their honey,” Crouch said.

Crouch majored in art history and minored in English at Swarthmore, after which she worked for an art gallery in Philadelphia for a year. She now works as an archivist at the Stoogeum, a museum dedicated entirely to the Three Stooges memorabilia and organizes collections and documents.

Luckily for her, her job is quite flexible, only requiring her to work 32 hours a week. Given that, she is able to devote weekends to creative pursuits and even found time to take a creative writing workshop at UPenn. Dunn said that the alums were in one place with all this energy and passion, giving them a real catalyst to create something extraordinary and fill a void in their community.

Dunn majored in English at Swarthmore and had always loved writing and journalism. Now, as one of the magazine’s main promoters, she is able to write about what she loves and meet cool and fascinating people along the way.

Similarly to Crouch, Dunn’s jobs as a freelance editor and substitute teacher

give her the flexibility she needs to accomplish her duties at APIARY. For her the magazine serves two main purposes: make a space for people to get together and allow people of different communities to meet.

“We want young people to know there are older people who write in the community and its fun and cool,” Dunn said.

APIARY also allows the members of different communities and literary scenes from across the city to make connections and experience each other’s work. Dunn said they wanted a place for people to hear different voices which will in turn enrich their own practice.

“Anyone who writes knows that it can be an isolating experience, but we’re trying to show that it can be a communal activity and a powerful thing that connects people and allows them to communicate with each other, which makes all the stress worthwhile,” Crouch said.

The third co-founder, Forrest, majored in English literature and studio art at Swarthmore. Today he has been able to build his work schedule around APIARY, which allows him to do all of the graphic design for the magazine.

“I’m now in the midst of creating art and creative writing workshops in local schools in Philadelphia,” he said. He believes that it is the APIARY’s mission to create a magazine that reflects the actual diversity of the city’s literary scene.

The making of the magazine is a collaborative effort. Each member takes part

in promoting, publishing and maintaining APIARY. “It’s a lot of work but an enormous pay-off is getting to read so much great literature and being able to see amazing work from people who haven’t published before and see them continue to publish in the future,” Dunn said .

The first issue, selling for $9, came out in September, and copies of it are currently in bookstores all over the city.

According to Crouch, the group is making sure that people who don’t have exposure to the literary scene get access to the magazine which is why they try to distribute them in schools and community centers.

The event being held at Swarthmore, “Light and Honey,” is a merging of APIARY and Light of Unity, bringing together various established poets and writers from the area. The line-up includes readings from Dr. Richard Wertime, Paul Siegell, Jeffrey Ethan Lee and co-founder Tamara Oakman. After a short overview of APIARY there will be a Q&A session with the readers and the co-founders.

There will also be an open mic portion for anyone in the audience to read their own work.

The alums are aware that finals are coming up and time is precious. To interested yet apprehensive students Dunn said “This amazing reading will blow your mind, fill your head with great new ideas and allow you to walk away and back to your work with a new perspective.”

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Deciding on graduate school Applying to graduate or professional school can be an interesting, exciting, tedious and overwhelming process, but there are many helpful people and resources at Swarthmore to advise you including faculty, Career Services, and the pre-med/pre-law advisor, Gigi Simeone. Deciding to attend graduate school requires careful thought. Ask yourself: ♦ Do I really love the field enough to obtain an advanced degree? ♦ Is an advanced degree required to enter a particular profession or advance within the field? ♦ Do I have the financial resources to cover the cost of graduate school? ♦ Do I need to take some time off from school because I am burned out? ♦ Am I postponing making a tough decision about a career by going to gradate school? ♦ Do I want to go to school full time or part time? ♦ Do I have the personal qualities and skills that are needed to be successful in graduate school? ♦ What is the opportunity cost for me? Will it change over time? ♦ What is the cost benefit of attending graduate school in non financial terms?

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Choosing to attend graduate school immediately allows for a continuity of your education which may be advantageous since you will still be in “studying mode.”

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children. Undergraduate loans are typically deferred while you are in graduate school. If you are certain about a career path which requires an advanced degree, choosing to go to graduate school right away will allow you to enter the profession sooner than if you took some time off.

Most people who plan to wait a year to explore options actually wait two or more years. Senior year is so busy many students are unable to do a thorough graduate school search, so having a year to “shop” around for a school/program that is best for you would be to your advantage. Exploring during the fall after graduation is common, but by then, one finds it best to have the experience of a full year of work and exploration before sitting down to do a highly competitive application. If you decide to delay grad school admission, consider a postgraduate work-related fellowship, a post-graduate internship, or a wide range of employment options – Career Services and the Fellowship & Prizes office can help. Before leaving campus, be sure to ask faculty to write letters of recommendation on your behalf – you can set up a file in Career Services and ask faculty to update the letters in the future.

Timeline If you hope to enroll in a graduate program the September immediately after graduation, ideally you will begin your graduate school search in the summer before your senior year. Application deadlines for September admission will be between the first of December and mid-January for most competitive programs.

Deadlines to apply for financial aid including assistantships and fellowships are often earlier. It is best if you apply (with absolutely all admission materials submitted) at least a full month before the deadline—sooner if possible. 50% of applicants apply in the last month and to improve your competitiveness you need to get your application considered before the rush. Most schools admit students on a rolling basis and it is best to apply when all of the slots and all of the financial aid awards are still available. If you wait until the last month, you are competing with most of the applicant pool, but with only half of the slots still available.

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Section editors are responsible for ensuring the completion of their section, reading and editing all copy submitted for publication in the section, coordinating their staff of writers, writing items for publication and laying out pages in QuarkXPress. The section editors must be present in the office for their respective deadlines until the Editor in Chief is satisfied with their completed section. Additionally, the section editors must attend all weekly editorial board meetings on Monday and Thursday evenings, and they must communicate regularly with the writers of their sections to assess their progress and to develop story ideas. The responsibilities of a section editor may be divided between two individuals.

Reporters / staff writers (8 news, 6 living, 5 sports) Reporters write at least one story a week for their section. Writers must attend weekly meetings.

Approximate hours per week: 6–8.

Columnists / Bloggers (6 opinions, 2 sports, 8 living & arts) A columnist receives a biweekly column. The columnists are expected to work closely with their respective section editors in developing topics and improving their writing styles.

Approximate hours per week: 3—4.

Copy editors Copy editors check facts, style and grammar and proof pages.

Approximate hours per week: 3—5.

Photographers Photographers are expected to fulfill weekly assignments. This includes taking photos at the assigned time and uploading the photos onto the Phoenix server in a timely fashion.

Approximate hours per week: varies.

Staff artists (3) Staff artists are required to submit at least one illustration per issue, for various sections of the paper.

Approximate hours per week: varies.

Cartoonists (4) Cartoonists may apply to work as either an op-artist or a living & arts artist, and will be required to submit pieces biweekly.

Approximate hours per week: 2.

Managing editor (2) The managing editor(s) are responsible for the completion of the newspaper and for delegating tasks to other editors and staff members, to support the role of the editor in chief. The managing editor(s) have significant involvement in the editorial, design and layout processes, and must be present in the office during production on Tuesday nights and Wednesday.

Approximate hours per week: 25.

News editor The news editor must have a current and comprehensive knowledge of events, people and issues on campus. Job duties include reading and editing all news copy, leading a staff meeting on Monday nights to work with reporters and develop future story ideas, working with other editors to select news content and directing reporters. Frequent communication with reporters, photographers and senior editors is essential. Applicants should be competent reporters, willing to write last-minute news stories and take photos.

Approximate hours per week: 18.

Living & Arts editor The Living & Arts editor must be able to develop creative feature and art ideas for the section each week; maintain familiarity with the art, music and theater scene, both on campus and in the Philadelphia area; and select events to feature as editor’s picks. The living section allows for more creativity in design than do other sections in the paper.

Approximate hours per week: 16.

Chief copy editor The chief copy editor of The Phoenix is responsible for the factual and grammatical aspects of all copy in the newspaper. Responsibilities include reading all copy, reading proofs of all pages, coordinating the schedules of a staff of copy editors, maintaining and updating The Phoenix stylebook and providing editorial feedback to the writers and editors.

Approximate hours per week: 12.

Graphics editor Responsibilities include working with the editors and staff artist(s) to conceptualize and create cover art and graphics within page designs. The graphic designer should coordinate art and is responsible for ensuring completion of graphics or photo-intensive pages.

The graphic designer will also attend editorial board meetings. Previous work with Photoshop is required.

Approximate hours per week: 8.

Photo editor Responsibilities include taking, uploading and editing photos; maintaining a staff of photographers; coordinating the use of the paper’s digital cameras; and communicating with editors at editorial board meetings and throughout the week.

Approximate hours per week: 10

Opinions editor The opinions editor’s primary job is to ensure that a diverse range of views relevant to the campus are represented on the editorial pages.

Responsibilities include soliciting op-ed pieces, working with staff columnists and cartoonists to develop and carry out ideas and ensuring completion of the staff editorial each week. The opinions editor must also keep abreast of relevant campus and world events.

Approximate hours per week: 12.

Sports editor The sports editor should maintain a comprehensive knowledge of all varsity and club teams on campus. Duties include reading and editing all sports copy and assigning sports photos. Applicants must be competent sportswriters who are willing to write and take photos as needed.

Approximate hours per week: 12.

Assistant section editors Assistant editors in news, living and arts, sports and opinions may be added as training positions.

Assistant section editors are responsible for helping the section editor in all duties and learning all aspects of production essential to the section, including layout design and editing. Assistant section editors are also responsible for writing for their sections as necessary.

Approximate hours per week: 8–10.

BUSINESS POSITIONS Advertising manager (2) The advertising manager(s) work to recruit local and national ads. Responsibilities include keeping up-todate advertising records, sending out invoices and tearsheets to the advertisers, documenting paid invoices; providing up-to-date advertising income figures and attending weekly business staff meetings.

Approximate hours per week: 6.

Circulation manager (2) The circulation manager(s) must distribute copies of The Phoenix to areas across campus early Thursday mornings, stuff faculty and administration mailboxes, maintain subscriber lists and ensure that subscriptions are mailed out each Thursday on a weekly basis, deliver extra copies to The Phoenix office and answer subscription requests as they are received.

Approximate hours per week: 3.

Advertisers (3) Advertisers sell ads for The Phoenix website and print edition to local businesses. This position pays a commission for ads sold. Having access to a car is preferable but not required.

Approximate hours per week: varies.

WEB STAFF (NEW!) Web Editor (2) The Web Editor(s) edits all stories that appear only on the web, moderates comments, posts to and moderates the forums, and coordinates the newly created Phoenix Web Staff. The Web Editor will hold a weekly or twice-weekly meeting with the Web Staff to ensure there is plenty of fresh content to keep the website as lively as possible.

Approximate hours per week: 5-7.

Web Staff (4) Web staffers are in charge of keeping The Phoenix website up-to-date throughout the week. Staffers will write stories, post blogs and/or take additional photos for the website. Staffers are required to attend weekly meetings to discuss the content to be placed on the website and will be required to post several items every week. WIth much less time commitment, it’s a great way to get started on The Phoenix.

Approximate hours per week: 3-4.

Assistant Webmaster / Ruby on Rails Web Developer The webmaster is responsible both for maintaining the website and for improving it in ways that engage our readers. Expect to post content, tweak styles, optimize the server configuration and maybe even build entirely new sections of the website. A wemaster must have experience with Rails or an avid interest in learning Rails as an extension of some existing web development background. Knowlege of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required.

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Sleep deprivation may cause flinging of things There’s been a lot of flinging of things lately. The frequency with which I personally fling things, particularly cups of coffee, has become r e a l l y Ariel Swyer incredible.

Let’s Be Serious In fact just moments ago, while recovering from the labor of creating the first two sentences of this article, I acquired a cup of coffee and almost out of habit the first thing I did was pour a large part of it onto the floor.

I was beginning to fear that all of this was a problem associated only with me — that I had developed some profound and inexplicable propensity for flinging. But several weeks ago, after I had flung a full glass of water at the floor of Sharples, I

took up the matter with the very nice person who arrived with the mop, and he informed me that a lot of people had been dropping things recently. He’s right. In Sharples, at this point, one is liable to hear smashes every few minutes.

This mass surrender to gravity could be due to several things. First of all, the flinging could be an expression of deep, unacknowledged emotions on the part of Swarthmore students, particularly the emotion “eeeuuugghh,” which is characterized by the tendency of one’s brain to make the sound “eeeuuugghh,” instead of doing other things like, for instance, remembering to grip water glasses. We at Swarthmore can be so busy learning astrophysics and Scottish dancing, we completely forget to stop and pay attention to what we are feeling (eeeuuugghh). Instead we release these feelings by going around spontaneously flinging our coffee about the place. This puts everyone at great risk of being struck by flying objects.

To promote a less hazardous and emotionally healthier environment, I propose the designation of a wall at which everyone is specifically allowed to fling things.

Students could smash their coffee cups against this wall for as long as they wanted

to, thus condensing the flinging into a single safer and more predictable stream of destruction. Students would also be required to spend at least an hour staring at a tree instead of doing their homework allowing their brains to go “eeeuuugghh...”

At the end of staring at the tree, if so inspired, they would be welcome to fling their coffee at it.

In addition to hampering emotional awareness, sleep deprivation doesn’t tend to breed motor skills. In fact it doesn’t tend to breed skills of any kind. I have concluded that what we are currently experiencing at Swarthmore is a dearth of skills.

This applies, of course, to the entire Swarthmore population and is not in any way limited to Willets 107 (I hope).

However, in what is a great stroke of misfortune for Willets 107, it happens to be the place with which I am most familiar and thus the one upon which I must base my information. The residents of Willets 107 have noticed a marked deterioration in communication skills.

Since Thanksgiving, the deterioration has been especially rapid.

It’s the sort of situation in which one could hypothetically board a train in Vermont as a fairly normal conversation-

alist and eleven hours later find herself shouting disjointed statements about trees and Michelangelo at a helpless economics major from George Washington University who has sat down in the adjacent seat. This is the sort of thing that could hypothetically happen. Something needs to be done.

I advocate, along with the institution of a flinging wall and mandatory tree-gazing, a forcible increase in student sleep. The way I envision it, if a student is staying up past what will afford that student eight hours of sleep, squirrels break into the room, grab the student’s homework and bash the student over the head with a stick, knocking him or her unconscious. If these measures are not taken, things will continue to get weirder. By the time finals arrive, we will have been reduced to a state of abject chaos with students drifting around emitting unintelligible garbles of sound and periodically flinging things at one another.

Based on what’s been seen of Willets 107, which has already achieved this state, we can safely say that it’s not so good. So let’s mobilize those squirrels! I’m going to go now, as there’s coffee in my shoe.

Ariel is a first-year. You can reach her at aswyer1@swarthmore.edu.

In the final month, missing (and not missing) Paris

Maki Somosot Small But Classe It’s exactly one more month before I return to the U.S. as I write the last installment of this column about my semester abroad in Paris. Now that the culture shock has abated, I’ve been able to strike a balance between the positives and negatives of living in the City of Lights.

Since my initial criticisms might have been too harsh, I hope that documenting what is positive about Paris in this column has mercifully spared the Parisian dreams of some readers.

I never set out to be the Grinch of Paris; in fact, I will reassure anyone that living here is ultimately worth going through all the crosscultural drama and frustration.

Thus, I will list all of the experiences I will miss (and equally not miss) about Paris, as I down a glass of the latest Beaujolais Nouveau, one of the last French wines I will enjoy here before resigning myself to guzzling cheap college alcohol once again.

Will Miss: 1. The spatial proximity to culture and leisure. I’ll miss being able to explore a museum, gallery or historical monument, for little or no cost, during the weekends. This includes picnicking or strolling along the banks of the Seine and wandering the

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maze of conveniently interconnected streets throughout the city.

2. The café and restaurant culture. I’ll miss the conversation and cups of coffee with friends in a café to unwind and pass the time, after the activity in #1. Also, eating out at reasonably priced but excellent restaurants and brasseries and then taking at least three hours to enjoy a full course meal, dessert and a cup of coffee.

3. The laidback pace of life.

People here know how to relax and unwind after a hard day at work, without ever feeling guilty about it. I’ll miss being able to take my recreational moments just as seriously.

4. The weekend philosophy.

Weary of Parisian urbanite pretensions? Why not take off to the south of France, the Normandy coast or even to Switzerland for the weekend? Although I am a poor student, at least the possibility always exists.

5. The cinematic architecture. Paris is a living cinema set, wherein each building and street scene is always ready to be immortalized in a snapshot. I’ll miss walking past some of the world’s most iconic monuments and delving into the beautiful, atmospheric streets here.

6. The reliability and accessibility of the Paris metro. I will miss being able to hop on the metro and be guaranteed an efficient arrival at my destination.

7. La bonne bouffe. Otherwise translated as the “good eats,” this covers the wealth of excellent cuisine that I will miss in Paris. This means missing the easy availability of freshly baked baguettes, croissants and pastries, but especially the abundance of cheap Turkish kebabs all over Paris; they are the staple of my existence.

8. The nightlife scene.

Enjoying live music and concerts.

Going out until the crack of dawn and sleeping in all day.

Barhopping. Repeating the same cycle every weekend without ever growing tired of the routine.

Enough said.

9. My neighborhood. My Parisian neighborhood Menilmontant and Belleville, for its cultural diversity and authenticity. This includes the nearby French bakery, the Algerian pastry shop and the neighborhood park with the stunning panoramic view of Paris.

Will Not Miss: 1. The lack of Internet. I will not miss the inconvenience of living in a factory-like building without reliable access to the Internet, and being disconnected from the rest of the world in this respect.

2. The dirtiness. I won’t miss

the institutional distribution of dog feces or trash across one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It strikes me as an unnecessary irony that Paris must contain so much litter when it would more picturesque without it.

3. The claustrophobic smallness. I won’t miss feeling like I never have enough personal space anywhere in this cramped and overpopulated city.

4. The complication of simple matters. I won’t miss the way the French can occasionally end up complicating simple matters like paying a hotel bill or compensating people for stolen laundry money. I have also noticed that diffusion of responsibility among French authorities occurs to a much greater extent here.

5. The “French” logic. I will offer a crucial rule of thumb.

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in Paris. If you don’t try to conform to this, you will feel hopelessly frustrated and never get anything done.

Eating fresh croissants, visiting museums every weekend and picnicking along the Seine is part of normal life in Paris. I imagine suffering from reverse culture shock upon returning to the U.S., but accompanying it will be a much more deliberate appreciation for traditional American lifestyle comforts. Like Internet access. And clean toilets. And occasionally, even Americanstyle optimism.

Am I still a Francophile?

Battered and bruised, yes, but finally much more educated about it.

Maki is a junior. You can reach her at msomoso1@swarthmore. edu.

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Living & Arts senior Co. to perform mythic ‘Metamorphoses’

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BY DINA ZINGARO dzingar1@swarthmore.edu This weekend, Senior Company’s ensemble of eight actors will present the play “Metamorphoses,” a series of mythic Greek vignettes with about thirty different characters. Written by American playwright Mary Zimmerman, the play draws from the classic Ovid poem “Metamorphoses,” in addition to other fables and poems interpreted by the playwright.

Following its initial premiere in 1996 as “Six Myths” at Northwestern, then in Chicago by Lookingglass Theatre Company and in New York by Second Stage Theatre, “Metamorphoses” opened on Broadway at the Circle Square Theater in 2002. It received nominations for Best Play and won a Tony Award for Best Direction.

Composed of senior theater majors, the Senior Company includes senior actors Eva Amessé, Nell Bang-Jensen, Emily Letts, Isa St. Clair and Brian Willis, along with dramaturg Joshua Lipman. In theater companies, dramaturgs (or dramaturges) deal primarily with research and development of the play and serve as consultants for the company. Along with these Senior Company members, the ensemble includes guest performers Ben Hattem ’12, Thomas Powers ’13 and Brian Ratcliffe ’11.

Usually, the composition of Senior Company pans out evenly between student directors, actors and designers, but this year, five of the six majors wanted to act. Thus, the cast chose an ensemble piece where performers have roughly equal amounts of importance and stage time. St. Clair feels the “very actor driven piece” complimented the actor-heavy company.

In “Metamorphoses,” since there are over 30 characters portrayed by ten or twelve actors, the play requires actors to play multiple parts. For Senior Company, with only four female and four male actors, the students will actually each play a few more roles than actors from the original production did. Along with several mythic roles, most of the actors will also portray the storytellers of the particular vignettes that compose the play.

Cast as the rainbow goddesses Iris and Myrrha, along with other characters, Bang-Jensen ’11 also portrays various narrators or storytellers, such as a child acting out a story and a laundress telling a story just to pass the time. “We all had a lot of fun playing with all of the narratorial roles in this production and thinking about why people tell stories; how they shape the stories they tell, and how they are, in turn, shaped by them,” Bang-Jensen said.

Fellow actress Amessé ’11 agrees that “Metamorphoses” broaches the importance of storytelling in contemporary culture. “When you are getting to know someone you just tell them a lot of stories about your life and we talked a lot about how storytelling is such a fascinating thing because it takes place on so many levels — watching a movie, reading a book, talking with a friend, being at a big dinner table. Whether we tell stories to impress or to make people laugh, stories can achieve so many different things,” Amessé said.

In choosing the play, Bang-Jensen believes the “honesty and emotionality in [the] tales” of “Metamorphoses” appealed to Senior Company.

Though the stories are not realistic with specific modern parallels, she feels that the “emotionality that arises from [the tales] is one that still rings true.”

Since the premiere of “Metamorphoses” by Second Stage Theatre was in its last few days of rehearsal in New York during September 11, 2001, the cast recognizes the play’s exploration of both transformation and loss in the play.

Though for St. Clair the central thread of the play is love and its manifestations — filial or romantic — she stresses that the cast realized that “love goes hand-in-hand with loss.” “The metamorphoses that happen in this play can be just as easily read as deaths of many different kinds,” St. Clair said. “So, for me, this play is very much a microcosm of a human life or multiple human lives.”

Due to the mythic quality of “Metamorphoses,” its characters can easily become archetypes and mere emblematic figures who demonstrate a particular,

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identifiable human trait. “The reason it is written fairly archetypically is because that’s what the myths are — in just a single story, it stands for an entire cultural heritage and it has been adapted continuously in our cultural consciousness for thousands of years — so it does flatten out,” St. Clair said.

For actors, though these characters may read as flat, cheesy or archetypal, the challenge is finding the character underneath the seeming commonality.

“While these huge themes of transformation, loss and love are often romanticized and fictionalized, I think it’s rare that people talk about them in a way that doesn't seem cheesy or flippant,” Bang-Jensen said. To overcome the banality of archetypes, St. Clair tries to find the core of her character and what makes him or her human. For the ensemble, she believes that the cast succeeded in overcoming archetypes. “There are no archetypes on our stage, and that is fantastic,” she said.

After choosing the play last spring semester, the cast spent the following months in what St. Clair describes as a “dramaturgical stage.” In these last weeks of school and over the summer, the students exchanged ideas, and even had “homework assignments” to come up with questions and find poems, images, and songs that they associated with the play.

In September, the ensemble began rehearsing and as they are nearly all senior theater majors, the actors were already familiar with each other’s strengths, weaknesses and acting styles. Though Assistant Theatre Professor Erin B. Mee served as faculty adviser, the actors worked collectively and collaboratively on “Metamorphoses” without a director.

Funneling all the company members’ ideas into one coherent voice posed quite a challenge. “One of the strengths of our piece is that it does clearly come from eight people and there are a lot of perspectives represented, but it does all fit together in one unified piece of theater,” St. Clair said.

Senior Company chose the more intimate and experimental LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre with its black box interior. Smaller than the LPAC main stage, the black box is essentially a room with all black walls and no built-in stage or audience seats. Thus, it afforded the company a great deal of artistic license. “If [the audience] comes expecting a black box, they will be very surprised,” St-Clair said.

The production also includes set design by Professor Laila Swanson, lighting design by Jessie Bear ‘09, sound design by Louis Jargow ‘10, costume consultation by Tara Webb ‘94 and props design by Vianca Masucci ‘13 and Logan Tiberi-Warner ‘11.

Crossword FINALS ... FINALLY ACROSS 1 Scotch, e.g.

5 Bamboozles 10 Doubtfire or Dalloway, e.g.

13 Altered once 14 Deck 15 Byron’s before 16 Massey of old films 17 Desktop array 18 Bespectacled dwarf 19 2.6 billion people, approximately 21 Suffix with “exhibition” or “expression” 22 Duero River tributary 23 Grant’s foe 24 Finishes off the cake?

25 Weighty numbers: abbr.

27 Filter brand 30 Syrup source 33 Hester Prynne, e.g.

37 Hockey’s Bobby 38 High scores … or a description of 19-across, 10-down, 31-down, and 55across 40 You hear here 41 Borders aisle 43 Princess protectors, perhaps 45 Finals, e.g.

46 French preposition 47 Square ____ 49 One way?

51 Next in line 55 “Dancing with the Stars” network 56 Period of high crime?

60 Prefix with –classical or –realist 61 35-down, e.g.

62 5 on the periodic table 63 Dial-up alternative: abbr.

64 He penned Pooh 65 Manipulating 66 Nay alternative 67 Wrapped 68 “_____ Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

DOWN 1 Aim 2 One way to run 3 Arcade staple 4 List ender 5 _____ Girls 6 Stockpile

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7 To you, to Yves 8 Timberwolves, on a scoreboard 9 Six-time Silver Slugger Award winner 10 Part of a “M*A*S*H” set 11 ____ Selavy, Duchamp alter ego 12 Splinter groups 13 Nelly’s 2000 hit “_____ Wit Me” 20 Golfer Ernie 24 Citizen’s suffix 26 Withstands 27 Ornate 28 Type of source code: abbr.

29 Informal response to “who’s there?”

30 Type of rule 31 “Entourage” agent Gold 32 Nehi, e.g.

33 Heidi’s home

34 Obviously …

35 Chow down 36 Monopoly buys: abbr.

42 Understand 44 ______ B’gosh 46 Stag’s mate 47 “Toystory” songwriter Newman 48 More than plump 49 Piece of loin steak 50 Partner of dangerous 52 Like “Suspiria” 53 Hipster hallmark 54 “You _____?”

56 Type of twist 57 One point from a win 58 Uno card 59 Be adjacent to

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Guest lecturer highlights Tibetan mgur poetry

BY SERA JEONG sjeong1@swarthmore.edu Today, guest lecturer Professor Roger Jackson from Carleton College will present an address, “Amazement Rooted in Azure Sky: Understanding Tibetan Spiritual Poetry,” on the Tibetan literary genre of mgur.

Mgur, pronounced “goor,” are poems that have been composed by Tibetan Buddhist masters for thousands of years. Unlike conventional poetry, mgur are often sung and are spiritual in nature.

Jackson classifies these poems as “songs of realization” which reveal inner thoughts and reflections of the composer.

Jackson is a Professor of Asian Studies and Religion at Carleton College and completed his undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University. His M.A. in South Asian Studies and Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies were completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In his lecture, Jackson will highlight the work of major Tibetan poets such as Milarepa (1040-1123), a wandering yogi. He will also focus on verses by Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662), a tutor to two Dalai Lamas. “In examining these figures, I will situate them within their social and institutional contexts, but will primarily concentrate on the ways in which they utilize poetic imagery and rhetoric to describe their own experience and to impart teachings,” Jackson said.

Jackson, a longtime reader and writer of poetry became interested in the study of mgur through his curiosity in mysticism such as that of the Zen poets of China and Japan. “When my personal and schol-

arly interest eventually settled on Tibetan Buddhism, the spiritual songs of Milarepa and his predecessors in India were waiting for me,” Jackson said.

Mgur is a centuries old poetry form, but one that has been continued into modern times. Jackson will also look into the poetry of modern Tibetan Buddhists such as the renowned Dondrup Gyal (195385). However, modern poetry is not strictly mgur and Jackson will give insight into the parallels and differences of modern Tibetan Buddhist poetry to mgur.

Mgur continues to be composed today because Tibetan Buddhist figures are expected to do so as part of their practice. Poetry still remains a medium for religious figures to reflect and instruct. “I don't think mgur are much performed, though — in that sense it's more of a literary medium now, but I expect that, as long as there are Tibetans practicing Buddhism, there will be Tibetans composing mgur,” Jackson said Jackson has identified key themes of mgur such as the Buddhists’ “critique of worldliness, their exaltation of nature, their celebration of the guru and their evocation of the natural purity of the mind.”

Mgur have been shaped by influences such as traditional Buddhist songs of positive personal experience and of Indian tantric songs. Stylistically, mgur are varied. Mgur feature meter in their Tibetan form but retaining this form is precarious when translating into English.

“It's a very tricky matter, translating poetry from one culture to another,” Jackson said. “When you take poetry from Tibetan to English, you inevitably lose the strong meter that's typical of Tibetan verse, and because the spiritual songs usually have a didac-

tic element, there inevitably are references that will be mysterious to the newcomer.”

To overcome this challenge, Jackson attempts to convey the original meanings while transforming its poetic form that suits English. “The balance may be impossible to achieve, but there's great satisfaction in trying.”

Hillary Yee ’14, an international student from Burma, was exposed to Buddhist verses in her upbringing. She explains Burmese and Tibetan Buddhist practices are different, but describes listening to Buddhist verses as an experience. “Its not calming but you can learn a lot from it and people listening are very attentive,” Yee said.

Host Cornell Visiting Professor Sudharshan Seneviratne, who teaches the course Buddhist Ideology and Social Response, invited Jackson to Swarthmore College as he felt Jackson’s profound knowledge on Tibetan Buddhism would be conducive for his students. “Jackson is one of the few scholars who is able to read the Tibetan scriptures,” Seneviratne said.

Seneviratne also felt Jackson’s lecture would be enthusiastically received by a wider group of students. “I personally witnessed the enthusiasm displayed by the community when Lama Losang was here two months back,” Seneviratne said. The Venerable Losang Samten’s Mandala display at McCabe and lecture held in September were well received by members of the Swarthmore Community.

Professor Jackson’s lecture will shed greater attention on Tibetan Buddhism, an area of growing interest for many at Swarthmore.

The lecture will take place today from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Scheuer Room.

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Coldwave bands combine synth, instruments

BY JOHN OH joh2@swarthmore.edu This Friday, Dec. 3, bands hailing from across North America, from New York to Canada to California, will be taking the stage at Olde Club. The bands all fall into the Cold Wave genre, which include headliner Xeno and Oaklander from Brooklyn, Automelodi from Montreal, local Philadelphia band Void Vision and San Francisco-based bands Sex Worker and Psychic Reality.

“I first started thinking about booking the headliner band, Xeno and Oaklander, over summer,” Blaine O’Neill ’11, Olde Club booking director, said. “I wanted an Olde Club show to focus on Coldwave genre, which is an underground music scene that continues to develop. It’s an emerging music movement that is revisiting sounds from French new wave with a goth aesthetic.”

Coldwave music takes its inspiration from French Dark and New wave and post-punk bands like Joy Division and The Cure. Many Coldwave bands originated in countries like France and Britain, but the five bands performing on Friday demonstrate the expansion of the genre across the pond.

Xeno and Oaklander, which is comprised of Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride, have their own studio in Brooklyn. They exclusively play synthesizers and instruments with an affinity for Coldwave music, which is a based off of post-punk music. Xeno and Oaklander pride themselves on the fact that they use no digital instruments or recording. In 2009, they released a much-anticipated

album “Sentinelle” on Weird Records.

Automelodi is the main project of Xavier Paradis. The main element defining his music is the mixture of using real instruments and electronic sounds.

Vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis has been active in Canada since the late 90s and formed the band in 2006.

Automelodi combines guitars with synthesizers and drum machines to create another form of Coldwave music.

Void Vision a one-woman band recording with the same publisher as Xeno and Oaklander: Weird Records. Void Vision began a few years ago and has gone through a number of transitions, both musically and internally. What started off as a full band soon became a duo as the music moved more into Coldwave, synthpop, and minimal electronics genres.

But, after releasing the 7” vinyl single “In 20 Years” Void Vision was reduced to it's core member and now exists as the solo project of Shari Wallin.

“At the heart of the music, lies a true love for technology, craftsmanship, expression, and experimentation,” Wallin said. “Though the music is somewhat bleak and apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic at times, there is an underlying optimism and spirit in the message - that being, to connect with people in a personal way and share an excitement for music on a higher level, as a craft, not a product.”

Sex Worker is a one man band that focuses on punk youth rock. Daniel Martin-McCormick works both as a soloist and in a trio. At the Olde Club performance, he will be performing by himself. The underlying message beneath some of his music has a strong anti-sex

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Brooklyn-based band Xeno and Oaklander mix synthesizers and real instruments to create their electronic, Coldwave sounds. trafficking agenda, but even if you don’t necessarily pick up on that while listening to his music, you definitely get the vibe of the message. He has recently released “The Labor of Love,” considered his best work in terms of dark music by critics like Spinner Magazine.

Psychic Reality is also a one-woman band comprised of Leyna Noel Tilbor.

Leyna started Psychic Reality in March 2009 using broken down electronics like an eighties Omnichord and an old Yamaha keyboard pushed through a loud tube amp and a subwoofer.

“My goal in starting PR then was to push the envelope sonically by putting forth aggressive heavy bass and noisy

sound that, as a solo female performer as well, bucks notions of gender and gendered notions of music,” Tilbor said.

“Now, though, in 2010 my mode of operating has shifted again, towards clarity in the vocals and a really danceable beat. I'm into dance music the most, and I use the ghettotech drum machine to make my beats.”

Tilbor has a new record about to come out on Not Not Fun called “Vibrant New Age.” “It's an ebullient dance record with a few twists I feel really good about. I recorded it all to tape, mixed to tape and mastered it direct to vinyl so it's remained an analog exercise in warmth all the way,” she said.

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S ­ wat­Style­Snapshot Name: Hanna Kozlowska Year: 2012 From: Brooklyn, NY and Warsaw, Poland Current Residence: Pittenger What She’s Wearing: “[The] sweater with numbers on it [is] from Goodwill [and] the leopard print scarf ... I got on the street,” Kozlowska said. She found her brown suede boots at a thrift store and her bow earrings were a present from a friend. Kozlowska paired her black tights with Gap rolled-up denim shorts and a plain white tank top. Her “circa-1960s coat” is a hand-medown from her stepmother.

Though the picture may not do the sweater justice, Kozlowska’s navy and red cardigan features quirky gold buttons with numerals 1 through 5, which is such a cool alternative to the typical button. She loves the “nautical combination of navy and red” of her cardigan, but punches it up with the white tank and her leopard print scarf. As the temperature is steadily transitioning from fall to winter, Kozlowska pairs her warm-weather denim shorts with tights, boots and her coat.

How She Describes Her Personal Style: “It really changes from day to day,” Kozlowska said. “One day it can be very 60s-inspired, mod [and] sort of London 1960s look. But, the next day I could wear like a colorful sweatshirt that my friend designed.” Kozlowska’s chameleon style ranges from classic to mod to funky and colorful, making it difficult for her to pinpoint a specific “style.” But, Kozlowska loved to dress up at a very young age. “I always had my own thing [and] went through different phases,” Kozlowska said, who would only wear dresses when she was very little. Now, her sophisticated childhood style has transitioned into a quirky, classic and mod style.

Fashion Influences / Inspirations: “[The] 1960s as an era in general,” Kozlowska said.

Her love of the mod, London style is very much reflective of the 1960s aesthetic. She also “adores” Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin,

all of whom are style icons, known for their classic looks in both their films and personal style. “Also, I like street style in cities like London, Paris, Rome, New York and Warsaw even,” she said.

Where She Shops: Kozlowska frequents the usual thrift store haunts, like Goodwill and vintage stores in New York.

But, she also likes “Urban Outfitters [and] chain stores like Gap, Zara, H&M [and] Forever 21.”

When Kozlowska goes to Warsaw for breaks, she likes to shop at stores there, especially since she has a friend who designs clothing, such as a neon-colored sweatshirt. Though stores like Roxy and Volcom tend to market the bright surf and ski clothing, Kozlowska likes incorporating the colorful duds into her summer outfits and likes their ski attire for her winter ski trips.

Favorite Items in Her Closet: “I have this, like, Jackie O black blazer with a round collar. It’s cropped with big buttons, which I found somewhere in Poland a really long time ago,” Kozlowska said. She also wears shorts with tights and incorporates a bow into all of her outfits, such as her pink, diamond-encrusted earrings.

Wardrobe Staples: “Tights and shorts, definitely. That’s like my uniform,” Kozlowska said. She also loves cardigans and pairing them with plain tank tops, like her white tank. “Oh, and scarves. I always have a scarf,” she said. “It can be either the leopard print one or if I want to add a little Polish accent, I put, like, a traditional floral scarf on.”

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(Rupert Grint) struggle to discover a means to complete their task, not knowing how to proceed. Though not much happens during many of these middle scenes to further the plot, this slowness, instead of being a negative, establishes the foreboding tone of the narrative and helps accentuate the tension that their quest engenders between the three. Most notably, friendships are tested, as Ron’s frustration and jealously boils over and he leaves the group, abandoning the mission.

These themes of jealously and hardship are not muddled in this film. This film embodies the growing maturity of the books and of Harry as he grows and is representative of the fact that the “Harry Potter” series is more than just a story for children and has grown up alongside its readers. The darkness of the film takes precedence over the previous joys and wonders of Hogwarts and pushes Im

Hermione (Emma Watson) erases their memories of her very existence.

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), with the help The series of books that we fervent- of a security detail headed by Mad-Eye ly read as children seems to be finally Moody (Brendan Gleeson), prepares coming to an end as the penultimate his return from the Muggle world to Harry Potter movie the Wizarding world, enchants our hearts and where he will continue his minds. “Harry Potter and Movie Review quest to defeat Voldemort the Deathly Hallows: Part (Ralph Fiennes).

Critic rating: 8.5/10 1” marks the culmination But as in every epic of a long journey across quest, the process comes Rotten Tomatoes the adaptations to capture with intense difficulty.

Rating: 79% the increasing darkness Refreshingly, the movie, of the books, in which an quite unlike a normal evil wizard, “He Who children’s movie or Must Not Be Named,” terrorizes the previous Harry Potter movies, wizarding community. The movie does not take lightly the presadaptation adequately captures the ence of death: in the first few essence of the novel, presenting a minutes, Hedwig and Madstory that is all at once dark, forebod- Eyed Moody make their ing, terrifying and sad. exits, and the movie ends The movie, much like the book, with another heroic starts with a sense of impending doom death, further setting and danger encompassing England. the grim tone to be Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour picked up in the (Bill Nighy), warns the masses that next part.

“These are dark times, there is no The middle of denying. Our world has faced no the film drags as greater threat than it does today” at H a r r y , the beginning of the movie. In an H e r m i o n e effort to protect her parents, and Ron

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us toward the series’ inevitable conclusion.

What “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1” has shown is that the filmmakers are finally taking the book seriously and doing their job in adapting the book. A film adaptation need not necessarily be an exact chronological transcription of events of the book but must effectively capture its tone and vision. This film has finally proved that its filmmakers are up to the task. It is in the dark tone and perhaps the creepy nude make-out scene of Ron’s fears between Harry and Hermione, as displayed by the evil powers of the locket horcrux when it is finally opened, that the film shows the maturity of its characters and establishes itself as a legitimate epic drama film.

So what awaits Harry, Hermione, Ron and the wizarding world in Part 2? Those of us who have read the books already know; what remains to be seen is whether the filmmakers will continue to successfully reflect the tone and spirit of the books. And we all must wait until the second part is released in July to discover whether the film can offer a satisfying ending to Harry’s on-screen journey.

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Think globally, shop locally: Black Friday in Philly It has become the widely adopted view that the term “Black Friday” — applied to the (shopping) day after Thanksgiving — got its color from the effect it has on retailers, pushing them out of the red and into the black for the year. But its usage with regard to this specific Friday has a much more local historical context: The Philadelphia Jen Johnson police department coined it In-town, Off-campus in the mid-1960s to describe the day between Thanksgiving and the Army-Navy football game, a day notorious for horrible traffic and pedestrian congestion throughout the city. Nowadays, more than traffic, the mention of Black Friday conjures images of department stores and behemoth malls besieged before sunrise by patrons so consumed with sleep deprivation and the spirit of the day that they might trample someone.

“Black Friday” may have its roots in Philadelphia traffic, but it has become a popular bellwether for the trajectory of the US economy. This year, as the country continues to wend through an economic funk, the main question is: Will this holiday shopping season return better sales figures than the past two years? From their Black Friday investigations, major newspapers around the country are reporting significant sales increases over last year.

Consumers describe themselves as spending more and being more willing to spend. If the stock market is driven by optimism and pessimism, things are looking up.

How should you spend your holiday dollar? As locally as possible. Buying local keeps significantly more cents on the dollar in the community where you spend. If you order from a national online retailer, you’ll feed the national economy, as well as the economy of whatever country manufactured what you bought online — which may or may not be the US. If you buy a Shellbark Hollow Farms crottin de chevre cheese ($7-$9) at the Swarthmore Co-op, the money you spend will stay concentrated within a 20mile radius. In a non-food sense, “buy local” is also taken to mean, “shop at small businesses in your community.”

If you just want to pick up biscotti or a lovely pair of candlesticks, shopping in Swarthmore will suffice.

However, if your holiday shopping list is more extensive or more eclectic, pick up a SEPTA Independence Pass ($11) and let the train take you where you want to go. There are plenty of shopping districts in Philadelphia; here are details on two of the most accessible areas in Center City.

Rittenhouse Square, the area roughly between Walnut and Spruce Streets and west of Broad, has it all and is home to some of Philadelphia’s most expensive restaurants (Le Bec-Fin, 1523 Walnut Street) and penthouses. The area around Rittenhouse Square Park is Philadelphia’s version of 5th Avenue in New York; if you’re looking for Zara, Armani Exchange, BCBG, H&M, Coach, etc., this is where to come. Premium Steep (111 S. 18th St.) has tea and everything tea related, as well as clever houseware. On the same block, Di Bruno Brothers’ largest location (103 S. 18th St.) is a gourmet food emporium — if you like cheese, it’s worth stopping in just for samples. For hand- and locallymade jewelry and accessories, stop by Tselaine (1927 Walnut St.). Knit Wit (1718 Walnut St.) has a well-curated collection of beautiful and expensive women’s clothes; if you go in with a few hundred dollars to drop, the saleswomen will be very helpful. Right on the Square are Anthropologie and Barnes & Noble. If you like Urban Outfitters and have never been into Brooklyn Industries, check out the new branch at 1525 Walnut St. Omoi (1608 Pine St.) that carries men’s and women’s clothes, stationery, and Japanese knick-knacks very popular with young adults in Philadelphia. Just off of Broad Street at 1428 Walnut is Lush Cosmetics, a British company that sells handmade bath & body products made with highquality natural, often organic and Fair Trade, ingredients.

Some of their products bear the V for certified vegan-safe.

(If you have a problem with perfumes or other strong odors, steer clear of this store.)

To get to Rittenhouse, get off the train at Suburban Station at 17th & JFK; walk south on 16th, 17th, or 18th Street (the first street you cross should be Market — if it’s Arch, you’re going the wrong way) until shiny boutiques dominate. Rittenhouse Square is between 18th and 19th,

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between Walnut and Spruce. If it’s freezing or you want to do maximum shopping with minimum walking, the Liberty Place Mall at 17th & Market is home to the major national brands that don’t have boutiques in the Rittenhouse area, like J. Crew and Express.

Just a few blocks east of Rittenhouse is the City Hall neighborhood. Granted, there are the shops at the Gallery at Market East and the Burlington Coat Factory, but when you emerge from Market East Station, the area doesn’t scream, “Shop here.” Explore beyond Market Street, however, and there are a growing number of small shops worth exploring. Cross Market at 13th and keep walking south until you find Marcie Turney and Valerie Safron’s little empire: Grocery, a gourmet grocery with both hot and salad bars to trump Whole Foods, at least in quality; Open House, a home good store; Verde, a florist’s, chocolatier’s and accessory shop all in one; and three restaurants: Bindi, modern Indian; Barbuzzo, new Italian; and Lolita, modern-Mexican-BYOT (bring your own tequila).

All of this and more make the 100 block of 13th Street a destination in its own right. A great resource for moderately priced handmade jewelry, bags and other accessories, Verde is possibly the star of the block. At the back of the shop, watch Turney and her assistants make sumptuous chocolate truffles destined for the display case near the register. Chocolates are $2 a piece; flavors change seasonally, and many ingredients are sourced locally. The seasonal mix or Turney’s chocolate barks — topped with fleur

de sel, granola, dried berries and other wonderful things — would make excellent small gifts.

Another destination in the City Hall area is Center City’s premier commercial-historical destination, Reading Terminal Market (51 N. 12th St, between Filbert & Arch).

The famous indoor market opened in 1892. Only open until 5 or 6 PM depending on the day, Reading Terminal Market buzzes at lunchtime as the downtown work crowd pours in to choose from a wide variety of delicious, inexpensive food. If you’re looking for a gift that’s smaller than a breadbox and not electronic, there’s a good chance it can be found here. The market offers free live music, among other events; check ReadingTerminalMarket.org for a calendar.

To get to the City Hall area, get off the train at Market East Station. The nearest exit from the train tends to be the Philadelphia Convention Center, which will put you on Market Street between 11th and 12th. Wherever you emerge, you will be in the City Hall neighborhood. As you stand on Market Street, City Hall and higher street numbers lie to the west; Penn’s Landing, Old City, and New Jersey lie to the east. If you stop to shop in Rittenhouse first, just walk a few blocks east to get to the City Hall neighborhood. It won’t matter which train station you use to return to Swarthmore; the fare zone is the same, so get off at Market East and back on at Suburban Station if it’s more convenient.

Jen is a junior. You can reach her at jjohnso4@swarthmore.edu.

Crossword ACROSS 1. Numbskull 4. Former CBS CEO Laurence 9. Easter dinners 13. Le Sage’s “Gil _____” 15. Lawn care brand 16. Jacob’s twin 17. Lake Mead impounder, originally 19. Craze 20. “Sesame Street” resident 21. Trouble spot for Indiana Jones 23. HBO series set in Baltimore 26. Freud subject 27. Stop on the PGA tour 33. Bring back in 37. “Ligeia” author, briefly 38. Singer Fitzgerald 39. Much of afternoon TV 42. Tear apart 43. Church cries 45. 1998 name in the news 47. Oil tycoon John 50. _____ la la 51. Large, imposing structure 56. Predict 61. _____ motion (start) 62. Boxer’s prefight attire 63. Neolithic mystery 66. Sign for the superstitious 67. Implement for an apple 68. Rich soil 69. Calendar pages 70. In tune 71. Like Seinfeld’s humor DOWN 1. Monastery head 2. What water in a bucket may do 3. Béarnaise, e.g.

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“Do _____!” (“Stop procrastinating!”)

54. Stogie 55. Foe 56. Egg on 57. Italia’s capital 58. Follow orders 59. Bic products 60. Part of N.Y.C. 64. Previously named 65. Suffix with station or green

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In our last issue, we mistakenly published the wrong grid with the crossword clues.

Here is the correct grid. We sincerely apologize for our error.

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Neutrality agreement for inn project needs college’s support Although many components of the Town Center West Development Project — more commonly known as the inn project — may still be in the planning stages, it is not too early for the college to take a definitive stand on workers’ rights.

In seeking to ensure a fair workplace when the inn is built, the Swarthmore Labor Action Project has attempted over the past two years to get the college to support a card check neutrality agreement, which is a more streamlined and fairer way for workers to gain union representation.

There are two ways that unions can legally be recognized in the country: through National Labor Relations Board elections or a “card check.” An NLRB election is a typically slower process than a card check system.

More importantly, however, several reported cases suggest employers in a preNLRB election period have delayed elections, fired pro-union workers, threatened to close the worksite, threatened to cut wages and benefits and held one-on-one “meetings” with employees all in an effort to intimidate workers out of voting for a union. The grimmer reality is that this calculated intimidation does, in fact, scare workers out of voting for union representation in several cases.

The card check system is typically paired with a neutrality agreement. As a legal contract between employer and workers, this agreement calls for civility between the two sides: The employer agrees to neither endorse nor discourage union representation, just as employees agree to not disrupt the flow of the business with actions such as boycotting or striking.

We support a card check neutrality agreement because it fosters civility within the workplace. This system has been shown to powerfully ensure workers’ ability to unionize and safeguard against possible intimidation from an anti-union employer.

In turn, this system allows for the possibility to not form a union or dissolve an already formed one if a majority of workers believe this is the best option — so the agreement does not, as some opponents would argue, force a union on unwilling workers.

Unionization — or, as the case may be, the ability to unionize — is an essential right that employees should have at a worksite, no matter how small. In addition to maintaining solid wages for workers and oftentimes ensuring necessary healthcare benefits, unions foster a sense of solidarity that cannot be understated. While beneficial for employees, the card check neutrality agreement can even be beneficial for the employer. Adrienne Eaton, a professor who has studied labor relations and neutrality agreements for years, reported in an oncampus presentation Monday that stocks actually go up after a union is recognized under a card check system versus the other elections process.

The smoothness and civility of union recognition under a card check neutrality agreement, then, avoids stressful and divisive union battles that end up hurting both sides. Plus, happy workers logically would seem to increase productivity and efficiency.

Once the inn is built, the college will not have control of its labor practices — that will rest with the operator (in other words, the employer). Nevertheless, the college owns the land that the inn will be built on and will ultimately pick the operator, meaning that it has a great deal of leverage currently. As the college looks to find a

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developer and operator, the college should utilize this leverage to make a card check neutrality agreement clearly non-negotiable.

Deciding on a card check neutrality agreement as the system for union recognition is imperative now rather than later.

This action would proactively avoid potential disputes between workers and employer that would only bring stress, discontent and anger to the workplace for both sides.

The college’s negotiations with developer and operator are vital steps in the process — ones that are near, though the timeline is still not totally clear. Moreover, transparency now will aid in ensuring a fair workplace for the future.

The timeline still remains unclear, but the college’s application for a $2 million grant — submitted in October — is still being reviewed. If that is approved, the college must start spending money on the project within six months, which could be as soon as June. While it seems unlikely any conclusions can be reached at this month’s Board of Managers meeting, we hope that some serious considerations can be made at the February meeting.

Certainly, a card check neutrality agreement is not a perfect system. Unlike the NLRB elections, the actual card check is not a secret vote. Moreover, some workers in reported cases believe that there is a lack of information disseminated about the union. Nevertheless, the NLRB seems to be democratic only in principle, and those who feel uninformed about the union under a card check neutrality agreement typically vote against it.

We are not suggesting the college is losing sight of its Quaker principles, nor are we expecting the college to rush along an already difficult process. Rather, we think

the college should explicitly endorse the principles of a card check neutrality agreement because it will more effectively safeguard against employer abuses and ensure workers’ ability to unionize, compared to NLRB elections.

Fighting for such an agreement sometime soon may be difficult because we are still in the planning stages. But once the inn is built — if that day comes along — we believe action now will pay off for both employer and employee.

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Polarized politics leave U.S. voters few options As I was preparing to write this final column in my series on European socialism a n d Americans’ aversion to it, I came across a Peter Akkies document Social Thoughts c a l l e d “Investing i n America’s Economy.” Written by a group of three non-profit institutions that are essentially think tanks, the document is a trove of reasonable and intelligent solutions to move to a structurally sound economy in the near future while helping to spur the economy out of the current downturn.

It stands in stark contrast to everyday wisdom and even the sentiment in the White House, where the President felt the need to assure the American people that the government is fiscally responsible by announcing an insignificant freeze in federal workers’ pay that can only serve as ammunition for Republicans eager to denounce the administration.

In years when the economy is doing poorly, right-wing politics appeals to voters because the message seems simple: we must keep spending under control and the best way to do this is to decrease the size of government. It is essential that mainstream alternatives to right-wing policy proposals are available in these cases.

But right now in America there are none. Instead of telling his own story, the president reluctantly implements some Republican ideas and in doing so deprives himself of a message of reason and hope that could win him re-election in 2012.

In The Netherlands political parties that are not right-leaning can’t get away with following rightist rhetoric to score some quick minor victories. If one leftist party did, it would lose a large chunk of its supporters to another leftist party.

That is not to say that the Dutch left does not realize that some spending must be reduced, but it does not go so far as America’s Democratic Party goes by supporting the ideas of their political opponents — Democratic opposition against renewing the Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans has faded so much that it looks increasingly likely that Republicans will get their way.

And Americans who disagree with right-wing views find there is no left-wing alternative voice to turn to, which feeds back into the widespread view that the left has no good plans for how to get the economy back to a sound state.

At this point you might wonder how the document I mentioned restores budget balance in America while avoiding the draconian cuts that Republicans and, increasingly, Democrats are convinced must be implemented. The document the think tanks have written bravely proposes two reasonable measures that will be

unpopular with the American public.

But they are measures that could and should be part of the story that the American left brings to the American people to regain the public’s confidence and be able to repair the country’s damaged and structurally imbalanced economy.

First, the think tanks propose raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, for instance by introducing a tax on carbon emissions, by reintroducing the estate tax and by proposing a tax on financial speculation.

The latter is an especially brilliant idea because it would generate around $70 billion of revenue in a given year — they estimated the figure for 2015 — while the tax should appeal to voters who are generally still angry at Wall Street excesses.

Why the Obama administration will not propose a tax like this one is beyond me, but I believe that were there more political parties such ideas would be aired — an idea that finds evidence in the fact that one of the two independent senators, Bernie Sanders from Vermont, is one of the senators open to tax increases.

The second area that the think tanks propose to look to is defense spending.

They propose saving hundreds of billions of dollars, for instance, by cutting the nuclear arsenal (while retaining more than enough weapons for a credible deterrent) and by stopping expensive research on things such as next-generation fighter jets.

To be fair, these proposals originally come from a commission set up by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who is willing to consider non-mainstream ideas to save money. Yet, still, the Obama administration has refused to consider further defense cuts.

In The Netherlands both tax increases and a large cut in spending on the military are on the tables and have a good chance of becoming enacted in the law, but in the U.S. this seems far from feasible given the current political “atmosphere.”

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for me to explain the unwillingness of Americans to raise taxes or reduce defense expenditures other than through the bipolar nature of American politics, which offers voters such limited choice.

Of course, the alternative proposals are not limited to raising taxes and decreasing defense spending.

Recognizing the American Society of Civil Engineers’ conclusion that fully “two-thirds of U.S. roads are in poor or mediocre condition,” for instance, it recommends putting people to work to repair the badly deteriorating infrastructure around the United States. In the long run, this will save costs as investment in roads will reduce the need for expensive emergency repairs.

The final note that I want to leave you with, then, is to convince yourself that there are reasonable alternatives to cutting, cutting and cutting more expenditures by reading the recommendations in “Investing in America’s Economy.”

From snowy London, greetings and have a splendid end of the semester!

Peter is a junior studying abroad in London this semester. You can reach him at pakkies1@swarthmore.edu.

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Second deer cull in Crum approved To the Editor: Swarthmore College has received permission from the Pennsylvania Game Commission to conduct a cull of the deer population in the college’s Crum Woods for a second consecutive year. This year’s cull is scheduled to take place during the college’s winter break, from mid-December through mid-January.

In planning for this initiative the college has once again taken extensive measures to ensure the safety of all who use the woods.

Highly trained sharpshooters who are Pennsylvania Game Commission licensed professionals will conduct the cull at preapproved sites. The areas in which the cull will take place will be posted for the duration of the cull, which will occur during times when there is little traffic in the woods.

In 2003, a Conservation and Stewardship Plan for the Crum Woods was completed by Natural Lands Trust and Continental Conservation. That report concluded that an overabundance of deer headed the list of factors threatening the woods. Excessive deer browsing is severely limiting the ability of the forest to regenerate naturally and is altering the structure and composition of the forest. For example, deer are consuming nearly all of the native oak saplings. As old oak trees age and die, there are few younger trees left to grow and fill in the canopy and to provide habitat for other animals. Non-native plant species that are not part of the deer diet are replacing the native species in the woods.

Following the delivery of the

Conservation and Stewardship Plan, the College’s Crum Woods Stewardship Committee engaged in research and consultation with the local and college communities to consider options for managing the deer population in order to restore the ecosystem of the Crum Woods. Following an extensive review process, the College concluded that the most humane, forest-science-based and socially responsible way to manage the deer population in the Crum Woods is to cull the herd.

The results of population management measures on the health and vitality of the overall forest ecosystem are actively being studied at the college. A research-based monitoring program, designed and implemented by Roger Latham of Continental Conservation (and former Swarthmore biology professor), is assessing the forest ecosystem’s response to the reduced number of deer in the woods. This research primarily studies the health and number of plants in the woods with a focus on the native species that deer are most likely to consume. Further information about the research that has been conducted in the woods regarding the deer population is available online at http://www.swarthmore.edu/deermgmt.xml, as are answers to frequently asked questions at http://www.swarthmore.edu/deerfaq.xml related to this initiative. Questions or comments about this issue can be sent to crumwoods@swarthmore.edu.

Jeff Jabco and Colin Purrington Crum Stewardship Committee Co-Chairs

Bring reusable container Saturday To the Editor: As you may know, Saturday night is the inception of a wonderful new event — Sharples will be transformed into the Great Hall of Hogwarts, and we will celebrate our winter formal Harry Potter-style, at the first annual Yule Ball!

In order to accomodate the event, the main room will be closed off for decorating during normal Saturday dinnertime hours.

Students can still eat in the West Dining Hall. Dining Services will be distributing carry-out containers for the rest of the student body.

However, due to the relatively short time frame of planning around the event, Dining Services will not be able to provide compostable containers for Saturday night.

This means upwards of 1,000 Styrofoam con-

tainers will be handed out. Styrofoam is extremely difficult to recycle, and is harmful when broken up or left to break down in the sun.

I strongly encourage all Swatties to bring some sort of reusable container — tupperware, metal box, reused hummus container, you name it! — to claim your Sharples dinner on Saturday night. This will ensure that we don’t flood our local landfills with unnecessary Styrofoam —and will send Dining Services the message that our student body is committed to a transition to greener food packaging. In order to send this message, we must step up to the plate and take responsibility on Saturday night.

Many thanks for your consideration.

Jessi Holler ’11

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Platforms for this semester’s Student Council election will be available online (www.swarthmorephoenix.com) tonight after the midnight deadline. Open positions include: Vice President, Appointments Chair, Campus Life Representative, Secretary and Student Events Advisor.

Voting begins Wednesday Dec. 8 and ends Sunday Dec. 12. There will be a question and answer session with candidates on Monday Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Kohlberg Coffee Bar.

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Sports Manny Pacquiao just could be the savior of boxing

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T h i s will eventually be a column about the greatest boxer in the world, but first this is a column a b o u t Timothy Bernstein f o o t b a l l .

Boxing is Bullet Points now the cautionary tale people use when they talk about football’s new emphasis on concussions. They talk about the danger of football “going the way of” boxing, as in becoming a sport that’s no longer worth pursuing for anyone but the lower rungs of society, a sport that middle-class parents will force their kids to stay away from if things don’t get better fast. They point out boxing’s transition from cultural staple to niche status, covered in most newspapers with a copy of whatever the Associated Press cared to write, broadcast on pay cable and pay - per - view to limited interest. Still too violent for most viewers, now even the extremists are gone, defecting to mixed martial arts. It’s brutal for boxing in 2010, they would say, and they would be right.

Maybe.

And here’s where Manny Pacquiao comes in, the man who “could” be the one to do the unimaginable and make boxing relevant again — with as many asterisks, quotations marks and italics as you would care to put in to emphasize the “could” part of it. Pacquiao, aside from being the guy who sang “Imagine” with Will Ferrell, is a Filipino fighter who is recognized as the current pound-for-pound* best boxer on the face of the Earth. If you’re reading this and you’re a guy, he probably weighs less than you do, but over the past year he has climbed to the top of his sport nearly without resistance, defeating — no, obliterating — opponents who outweighed him by as much as twenty pounds. *Basically, a system devised to compare fighters across different weight classes. Of course, these rankings are computed by about a hundred sources with a hundred sets of criteria.

Somewhere in all that could lie some insight into boxing’s problem.

Horatio Alger could probably have settled on just about any boxer there ever was if he were searching for a new subject, but Manny Pacquiao’s story would have proven especially tempting.

Abandoned by his father, he separates from his five siblings to lighten the load on his mother. Legend has it that he had tried out for a local boxing team before he left, but had been rejected, which is sort of like when Michael Jordan couldn’t make the roster of his high school basketball team. He moves to Manila as a teenager and first gets into boxing while living on the streets. After a friend and fellow boxer named Eugene Barutag passes away, Pacquiao decides to go pro at the age of sixteen. He weighs 98 pounds.

Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated once wrote something about Roger Federer that fits Pacquiao like a glove.

Posnanski wrote that Federer’s greatness was unique in that it could be

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appreciated by everyone. In other Still, it wasn’t enough: He wanted more. video online nine months later in which words, if you were watching the first He knew there was more in him. In ’07, he promises to beat Pacquiao and “cook tennis match of your life, you could he got his high school diploma and him with some cats and dogs.”* Now watch him play and find yourself started taking college courses in busi- Pacquiao comes out looking good, and unable to take your eyes off the screen, ness management in his hometown. this is around the time where you proband if you were John McEnroe and you Later that year, he decided to run for a ably saw him on a talk show, sitting had been involved in some of the great- seat in the House, the same people who next to Will Ferrell and managing to est matches in the history of the game, honored him after he beat Barrera, only hold his own. He’s the World Super you could watch him play and be just as he lost. He regrouped. He decided to run Welterweight Champion. He’s the best enthralled. Which is why if anyone can again two years later with a party boxer on the planet. He weighs 150 save boxing on style, it’s Pacquiao, who called the People’s Champ Movement. pounds. is aesthetically pleasing enough to His opponent was part of a family that *Not the worst thing a boxer has ever seduce the casual fan while causing Bob has been in power for thirty years. said about an opponent, by a long shot.

Arum, a promoter who witnessed Ali Pacquiao won twice as many votes as he Strike three. when Ali was Ali, to declare him the does. He is still a congressman today.

You could say that Pacquiao has greatest boxer he has ever seen.

Think about that for a second: One of lived a life of contrasts, and it wouldn’t A fighter the world’s great- be far off. A professional fighter who named Medgoen est athletes doubles as a politician, a penniless boy Singurat defeats moonlighting as from the streets who pours his new Pacquiao, now 20 an elected wealth back into his community, the ne If there needs to be a years old, in 1999 o f f i c i a l . plus ultra in a sport that thrives on ‘could’ added whenever to strip him of U n i m a g i n a b l e , aggression who is soft-spoken and humthe Flyweight right? That’s sort ble. All of it held up by an unshakable the question of Pacquiao world title. In of the theme Christian faith, which infuses every saving boxing comes up, here. r e s p o n s e , part of his life, outside the ring but also Pacquiao puts on In 2008, within it: Every day, when his training then an ‘if’ isn’t far behind. Pacquiao defeats session comes to an end, when he has about 25 pounds and moves up to Oscar De La Hoya finished honing the craft of beating men junior featherin a fight De La with his fists, he will ask for a couple weight, also known as super ban- Hoya was supposed to win by overpow- minutes of silence. Then he will pray. tamweight*, and doesn’t lose for anoth- ering Pacquiao, except that suddenly If there needs to be a “could” added er six years. In ’03, he beats Marco Pacquiao has gotten bigger to move up whenever the question of Pacquiao savAntonio Barrera (don’t tell me you’ve to welterweight, only it isn’t slowing ing boxing comes up, then an “if” isn’t never heard of HIM) to become the him down. He actually seems faster, far behind. At 31, he is fifteen years into World Featherweight Champion, and quicker. De La Hoya throws about four his pro career, and even his own traingets honored by the Filipino House of hundred punches and lands less than a er wonders if there are more than two Representatives. He weighs 123 pounds. hundred. His corner stops the fight in or three more fights left in him. That *A lot of the weight classes have dif- the eighth round. It’s the last fight of one of them would be against ferent names. Strike two. his career. It was also the second-most Mayweather is looking less and less To say definitively that Pacquiao successful fight in boxing history. likely, and so the matchup that really comes in second to God in the When Pacquiao beats Miguel Cotto a could make saving boxing that much Philippines is to overlook that the race year later, that fight becomes the most- easier may be denied us just as more might be close enough to demand a watched match of the year. Suddenly, and more people are beginning to pay recount. His every move reported on, people are starting to pay attention attention again. his every act of charity commemorated, when Pacquiao’s name comes up. He But perhaps we should leave worries it is almost unthinkable that he actual- agrees to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr., about the future to Pacquiao the conly lost the first time he ran for who had the pound-for-pound title gressman. For now, though, whether it Congress. He has captured the complete before him. Then Mayweather accuses be for only two, three, five, or ten more and total reverence of his homeland him of using banned substances, and fights, Pacquio the Savior is still among unlike any athlete in recent memory, Pacquiao sues. A boxing story gets us, ready to step into the ring to attempt and while most stories detailing the worldwide attention once again. The the unthinkable once more. extent to which one holds the attention fight gets called off in January, but that Timothy is a sophomore. You can of his country hostage have to be taken doesn’t stop Mayweather from posting a reach him at tbernst1@swarthmore.edu. with a grain of salt, is there really any doubt that the crime rate in the Philippines actually drops sharply during a Pacquiao fight? Who would leave his house to rob a grocery store and miss the National Fist, the Pambansang Kamao, experience his latest triumph?

Who would leave his house to arrest fy., basKetball, coto de caza, ca. him? Unimaginable.

The final loss of Pacquiao’s career What she’s done: comes against Erik Morales in the fight the first-year torched the dickinson red for the super featherweight title in 2005. devils to the tune of 21 points in the He gets headbutted in the fifth round Garnet’s centennial conference opening and loses by unanimous decision, each victory. Moritzky is third on the team, judge putting Morales two points ahead. averaging 10.4 points per game.

He regroups. He puts on a little more weight and he fights Morales again. The favorite career MoMent: extra weight helps, but Morales doesn’t want to go down; he refuses. He holds “Winning the [swat tip-off tournament]. it on to the ropes, the referee, anything he was the first time the seniors on the team can find. At last, in round ten Pacquiao have won it as well as coach devarney.” knocks him down. Morales has never been knocked down before. He is the season Goals: World Super Featherweight Champion.

He weighs 130 pounds. “to be playing in the conference finals and Pacquiao’s filmography lists roles in ultimately make it to the ncaa tournaeight films, along with two albums (he ment. My personal goal is to contribute all wasn’t bad covering Lennon), which that i can to the team in order to make our doesn’t even include the biographical team goals a reality.”

“Pacquiao: The Movie.” The latest rumor has Sylvester Stallone trying to favorite rihanna sonG: get him into his next movie; just don’t Xingyu Zhang Phoenix Staff “disturbia.” let the Philippines know that the National Fist will play an Expendable.

garnet athlete of the week

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Senior Spotlight: Sarah Lambert — the art of passion

BY VICTOR BRADY vbrady1@swarthmore.edu Sarah Lambert ’11 is the face of Swarthmore athletics — the lone senior on an up-and-coming volleyball team this past season, co-president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and a constant presence at Swarthmore athletic events.

Lambert has a rare presence about her, a combination of her engaging personality, enthusiasm, and that ever-present smile.

But when volleyball head coach Harleigh Chwastyk first met Lambert, who has led the Swarthmore volleyball team from near the bottom of the Centennial Conference squad to the verge of national recognition, she was a little more quiet and reserved.

“I still remember the first time I met Sarah,” Chwastyk said. “She barely said two words and she seemed to be a very down - to - earth person.”

At Swarthmore, Lambert, behind constant dedication and remarkable school spirit, blossomed into the emotional leader of the volleyball team.

“She has exceeded every single one of my expectations,” Chwastyk said. “Not everything comes easy to her, but she works incredibly hard and she’s found playing time every year because of that.”

Even in her maturity, Lambert remains a child at heart, according to Chwastyk, who describes Lambert’s love of coloring and coloring books.

Lambert defines versatility on the volleyball court. She has played nearly every position while at Swarthmore, from outside hitter to setter. But a constant throughout her Swarthmore career has been her serving ability, a weapon which has plagued opponents for the past four years and propelled the Garnet to some of its biggest wins in program history.

Against Haverford in the Centennial Conference semifinals this past November, it was behind the golden palm of Lambert that the Garnet advanced to the first Centennial finals in program history and knocked off the four - time defending - champion Fords.

Down 2-1 and tied at 24 in the fourth set, Lambert subbed in and pushed the Garnet to the lead to force a fifth set. In that tie-breaking set, Lambert served out the final three points.

It was the culmination of a brilliant career, during which she amassed 132 aces, tied for fifth most in program history, with school spirit, skill and four years of hard work intertwining into a once-in-a-lifetime moment.

“Lambert has consistently been one of the strongest servers for the last three years … at least for the last half of the season, our lineup was set so that Sarah was one of our first servers,” Chwastyk said.

Lambert’s serve is aggressive but more of a float serve than a hard drive, almost ironic coming from the senior who is affectionately known as “Slam.” She is consistently able to drop it in between defenders and right along the back line.

Even down 2-0 and 22-16 in the third set of the Centennial

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Conference Finals against Franklin & Marshall, Lambert came out firing on her serve, running off six consecutive points to knot the third set at 22 before the Diplomats would take the next three points.

Lambert was quickly thrust into a leadership role with the volleyball program. When Lambert was a sophomore, the team only had eight players, four of whom were first-years.

She joined in with the upperclassmen and has led by example since.

“Slam was a great captain. She was always on top of things that needed to be done. She was really dedicated to the team and wanted to see the team succeed as a whole,” Brone Lobichusky ’14 said.

“Slam loved our team and the sport so much and that really showed. She really led by example, by always working her hardest and doing everything in he power for our team. Her dedication was a big factor in our team's success,” Kat Montemurro ’13 said. “[She] was not only a great leader on the court, but off the court we all looked to her. She was always organized, planning team activities, travel schedules and even some practices ... she was the heart of our team,” Montemurro added.

Lambert is a model of consistency both in games, with her serve, poise and leadership, and in practice. She is regularly the first one in the gym, setting up the net before each practice.

That consistency extended into the mental aspects of the game as well. In a sport dominated by runs, hard hitting and fast paced action, it was that calm collectedness that allowed Lambert to keep not only herself but her entire team poised through a match.

Though Lambert hardly said anything when she first met Chwastyk, it is her words of inspiration that her teammates say they will miss most next year when Lambert is no longer there to take the court.

“I’ll miss her inspirational words at the beginning of each game,” said Allie Coleman ’13, who shared time at the setter position with Lambert this year. “[Lambert] was the best cheerleader on the team — always yelling and getting everybody pumped up.

Her team spirit is definitely going to be a loss to the team. I liked Slam's talks during time outs — they went straight to the point of what was going on on the court,” added Lobichusky.

Passion — for her sport, her teammates, her school and even her hometown Steelers and Penguins — has dictated Sarah Lambert’s Swarthmore career. From her work with the Swarthmore mascot Phineas the Phoenix to her mentoring of a young volleyball team to her constant support of her fellow athletes, it is difficult to think of Swarthmore athletics without immediately thinking of Lambert as well.

“With a lot of players, you see them grow and mature. But what I’d say with Sarah is that she still has that little bit of kid in her,” Chwastyk said. “I think that lends itself to the school spirit. She really enjoys all the opportunities that she’s had and has a greater perspective. She’s very mature but still young at heart.”

Andrew Cheng Phoenix Staff

Sarah Lambert was the senior leader for one of the most successful volleyball teams in Swarthmore program history. Lambert and the Garnet advanced to their first ever Centennial finals this year.

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BY RENEE FLORES rflores1@swarthmore.edu Responding to a disappointing loss in the season opener against Widener, the Swarthmore women’s basketball team has won four games in a row, including two impressive Centennial Conference performances.

At the Swat Tip-Off Tournament on November 21, the Garnet bested Immacalata 70-66 in the Championship Game, having snuck past Misericordia the day before.

Swarthmore followed up that home championship with a dominating road-victory over Dickinson to open Centennial play and a strong 75-66 win at home against defending Centennial-champion McDaniel.

Against the Dickinson Red Devils, Kayla Moritzky ’14 led the team with a game high 21 points, including an acrobatic and-one-layup as time expired in the first half of play.

Kathryn Stockbower ’11 put up another double-double with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Stockbower recorded 16 double-doubles out of 25 games played in the 2009-10 season. Katie Lytle ’14 played a solid game, recording six points, five rebounds, three steals and two blocks.

Swarthmore’s defense made a strong showing in the second half, recording four blocks, five steals and 29 defensive rebounds as the Garnet won 63-49.

Looking to extend the winning streak to four games on Tuesday, the Garnet took a four point lead into the half before the Green Terror responded to take a three point lead midway through the second half.

But the Garnet senior leaders responded, with Ceylon Bodur ’11, who led the team with a game-high 17 points, draining a long three and Stockbower adding an and-one to give the Garnet a lead it would never relinquish.

In her first game of the season, Genny Pezzola ’12 recorded six points, while Lytle scored 11 and Madeline Ross ’13 added seven.

After that initial loss to Widener, the team has worked hard to get on track, playing together as a unit and powering through every game. The team went into the second game of the season against Misericordia with the mindset of that being the start of the season.

“We take it four games at a time, hoping for a 4-0 among those four games. We focus on what we do well and then capitalize on it. Swarthmore has been known as an academic school, but we’re here to make a statement,” said Ross in response to the recent success of the team.

But despite the recent success, head coach Renee DeVarney is only cautiously optimistic. “It’s too early to mean anything right now,” she said.

The team agrees that the preseason poll, in which the team was picked sixth, behind both Dickinson and

McDaniel, holds no meaning once the season actually starts. “They ranked us in terms of what we had last year.

They didn’t take into account our first-year class. But, this year I think we have everything we need,” Moritzky said.

“We want to play like we know how to play. When we go into the locker room at the end of a game, we want to be proud of how we played,” Ross said.

Despite injuries in the beginning of the season, the team is performing well. First-year Liz Casey is still recovering with an ankle injury, but the team hopes she will be returning to play soon.

Lytle also had a preseason leg injury but has been lighting up the court since. Against McDaniel, she was a sharp 3-4 from the field and 5-6 from the line.

“We got better every game,” DeVarney said. “I just want to see [the team] get better every day and have fun in the midst of the struggle.”

The team has a series of three more Centennial games prior to December Break. Swarthmore travels to Muhlenberg tonight before returning home for matchups with Ursinus and Washington.

The team is not worried about the upcoming conference games, feeling confident that they will play well.

“I think we can win [the next three games], and that’s the exciting part,” Moritzky said.

Tip-off with Muhlenberg tonight is scheduled for 7:30.

Garnet men look to rebound after three consecutive losses

BY DANIEL DUNCAN dduncan1@swarthmore.edu

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Jordan Martinez enters the front court in Monday’s non-conference game against Moravian.

The Garnet shot 43 percent from the floor, but fell 87-79.

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Despite some exceptional individual performances, the Swarthmore men’s basketball team displayed just a little bit too much inconsistency over the last week and a half. After soaring out to a 3-0 start—one of the best in school history— the Garnet dropped close games to Washington & Lee, Dickinson (in the Centennial Conference opener) and Moravian this past Monday.

After escaping against Clark University with a 69-66 win that involved a late game rally from 13 points down in their first game of the Equinox Classic, the Garnet ran into a strong Washington & Lee Generals team. A back-and-forth game ended with a 59-45 Garnet loss.

Falling behind by 16 points early in the first half didn’t help the Garnet, although Ryan Carmichael ’11 and Sam Lacy ’11 both helped to spark rallies that turned that deficit into a 42-41 lead with 8:35 left in the game.

Will Gates ’13 added 15 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double, leading all players in both categories. Unfortunately, this was not enough, as the Generals went on an 18-3 run to end the game.

Before leaving for Thanksgiving break, the Garnet opened up Centennial Conference play with a trip to Dickinson, losing 74-61. The team was led by 30 points from Gates, with Sean Conroe ’13 adding 10 of his own.

Coach Lee Wimberly thought this was a winnable game, pointing out that the defense held the Red Devils’ three leading scorers to single digits in points.

However, he was concerned with the guard play, noting that three young guards for Dickinson scored 42 points. Lacy agreed, saying, “They got easy penetration all game. Almost all of their points were off the drive.”

Wimberly believes the guards are capable of better play than they showed against the Red Devils. While the defense needs to improve, the offensive flow needs to as well. Gates thinks more people need to score: “In our two wins over Clark and Widener, we got a lot of scoring from many different people. I think that was our downfall in the Dickinson game. In our wins we had 3-4 people in double figures and against Dickinson only 2.”

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“We need to get scoring from somewhere other than Will Gates. We need more reliable scoring from the supporting cast. As good a scorer as Will is, it can't be a one-man show. Other guys need to step up,” Lacy added.

More people did score Monday night against Moravian, but the Garnet fell 87-79 in a game high on fouls, with 67 free throw attempts between the two teams. The offense was still heavily reliant on Gates, who scored 31 points to tie his career best.

The Garnet also received 13 points from Jay Kober ’14 and 12 from Carmichael.

The game was a tale of two halves for the Garnet, who fell behind early again, this time spotting the Greyhounds 22 points in the first half before warming up.

Down 49-31 after the first half, the Garnet rallied to cut the deficit to seven late in the second half, but that was as close as the team would get.

Gates’ consecutive 30-point games is one of the greatest scoring performances in Swarthmore men’s basketball history.

He is the first player in program history to score 30 back-to-back, and now has three 30-point games in his career.

The Garnet travelled to Muhlenberg Wednesday night in a critical Centennial Conference matchup. Although the Mules were a preseason pick to make the Centennial playoffs, the Garnet still went for the win.

Wimberly believes that Muhlenberg’s gym is one of the toughest places to get a road win in the conference.

Despite that, the team needed the win.

Lacy said, “We need to play better on the road. It sounds simple, but we need to beat them no matter whether the game is in our gym or theirs. We won’t make the playoffs if we can’t beat teams on the road.”

Unfortunately, the Garnet’s first true road win of the season was not to be, as Swarthmore fell to the Mules Wednesday.

After going down 16 points at the half at Muhlenberg, the Garnet valiantly battled back, taking a one point lead in the final minute before the Mules rallied for a 59-58 win.

The Garnet now begins a Centennial homestand before December Break. The next game is on Saturday, December 4, against Ursinus at Tarble Pavilion. Tip-off is scheduled for 3:00. The Garnet concludes the 2010-part of the season against Washington College on Wednesday.

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First-years rule the pool Hockey for Thanksgiving

BY ANA APOSTOLERIS aaposto1@swarthmore.edu After defeating Franklin & Marshall for the first time in four years two weeks ago, the Swarthmore Garnet men’s swim team cemented its reputation as a juggernaut in the Centennial Conference. After several individual wins in last weekend’s Rowan Invite (a meet without team scoring), the men rolled to their fourth dual meet win of the season last Tuesday, handing the Ursinus Bears a 147-113 drubbing as Swarthmore remained undefeated on the season.

Overlooked in the men’s dominant start to the year, however, is the fact that the women — not expected to have much of an impact in the conference after losing AllAmerican Anne Miller ’10 to graduation — recorded their second conference win of the season on Tuesday, against just one loss. The 143-119 victory over Ursinus came on the heels of several strong individual showings at Rowan, and the team’s unexpected success can be almost entirely attributed to the performances of the class of 2014.

Becky Teng, Erin Lowe, Maggie Regan and Sarah Eppley may only have a few months of Swat life under their collective belt, but the first-year quartet has wasted no time in making a major impact on the Garnet athletics scene. Adding versatility and speed to a team badly in need of a jolt, Lowe, Teng, Eppley and Regan have rendered the future of the women’s swim team much brighter, consistently racking up points in a variety of events.

“It’s been surprising,” said temporary head coach Casmera Wick.

“There was a lot of talk going into the season about Anne Miller not being here, and we also lost Casey [Osborne] and Claire [Shelden], but with our freshman women … those four have definitely brought a lot to the table.”

Teng, in her rookie campaign, is the Garnet’s winningest swimmer of the season to date, having won six events in her first four collegiate dual meets. A graduate of New York’s Bronx High School of Science, she’s given the team outstanding production in a variety of events. She has scored points for Swarthmore in every event except for butterfly and distance freestyle and has also contributed to both freestyle and medley relays.

“Swarthmore swimming is a bit of change from my club swim team back in New York, but I think I am adjusting pretty well,” Teng said, an assertion with which all who have watched her swim this season can agree. She also feels as though her versatility is well complemented by the practice structure at Swat, saying, “Coming from a team where yardage was the main priority, I fully appreciate … [that Swarthmore] offers options in practice to target different swimmers.”

As much as she has thrived in her new environment, Teng remains humble about her achievements while keeping her eyes firmly on the future. “I think my times have been solid so far, but it's still the beginning — and I know there’s room for improvement,” she said. “I

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can't help but feel optimistic going forward with the team; I'm always wishing for good health, great practices and the best outcomes.”

Teng’s “best outcomes” have been matched almost win for win by teammate Lowe. Lowe, a Texan from Austin’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy, is one of the Garnet’s leading point-scorers thus far; she has recorded five individual wins in her first four meets and hasn’t finished lower than third in any event. According to Lowe, she swims “almost exclusively butterfly and freestyle, because I can’t do backstroke or breaststroke to save my life” — but her areas of specialty have worked out so far, as she has emerged victorious in the 200 freestyle twice, the 100 freestyle once and the 200 butterfly twice.

Eppley and Regan have swum under the radar in comparison to the other impact first-years, but their importance to the team depth is not to be underestimated. Eppley, a sprint freestyler come to Swarthmore by way of Orinda, California, has put up a significant scoring haul in the 50 and the 100, placing in the top 5 in every race she’s swum thus far. She’s also found a niche on Swat’s “A” freestyle relay teams and swimming the freestyle leg in several medley relays. Her emergence as a sprint specialist comes not a moment too soon, as the Garnet’s only top-16 finisher in last year’s Championship 50, Claire Shelden, was lost to graduation.

In contrast, Regan’s importance to the team lies not in specialty events, but in her ability to provide consistent point-scoring potential across the board. On her comfort zone, the New Jersey native said, “My main events are the 200 breaststroke and the 400 IM, but since I have been at Swarthmore I have started swimming a lot of the distance freestyle events.” She added that she is used to serving as a jackof-all-trades in swimming circles — “[in high school] I would swim anything that my coach needed me to swim.”

In her ability to swim “anything,” Regan has given the Garnet women vital depth in their lineup.

She has scored points every time she’s raced, and the versatile freshman has set ambitious goals for her collegiate career. “It would be awesome to break some of the school records or maybe make NCAA's by the time I graduate,” she said.

With [the freshman class’] depth and diversity … it’s very exciting going forward,” Wick said. That is not to say, however, that the future is the only thing the women have to look forward to. “This year, the women have really gelled,” she added. “They’re willing to stand up for each other, willing to compete for each other … there’s something about this team, it doesn’t matter if the cards are stacked against them, they’re ready to compete until the bitter end.”

Both the men and women take to the pool again this Friday and Saturday for the Swarthmore Invitational. The Friday session will begin at 6:30 pm, while Saturday sessions are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Hannah Purkey The Purkey Perspective With winter break fast approaching and Thanksgiving already gone, my thoughts turn to what I’m most thankful for. Two things always come to mind: family and hockey. Yet these two things have always felt like one and the same to me, not only because I love my home team as if they were family, but also because the drama that comes out of the National Hockey League can only be described in terms of family. Thus, my Thanksgiving dinner had a few extra characters at the table that kept the break interesting, as the holidays as a hockey fan always are.

Without further ado, I introduce my NHL family and the storylines they have found themselves entangled in, and me entertained by, recently.

It is always a bit awkward when a sibling brings home her latest significant other for family holidays. You hear for so long how great this new guy is and how she can’t wait for you to meet him. She has hyped the guy so much that the entire family is in a tizzy to welcome him. But when he finally gets there, after all the hype and uncertainty of whether he would actually come this year, he trips over the tablecloth, accidentally knocks over some candles and sets the turkey on fire. Meet Ilya Kovalchuk.

The winger for the New Jersey Devils had the entire hockey world talking about him this off-season when he became a free agent. Hardly a day went by without another Kovalchuk trade rumor headlining hockey blogs everywhere. After his first contract was rejected by the NHL, Kovalchuck signed a 15-year $100 million deal to stay with the Devils. New Jersey was excited to start cashing in on this huge investment starting this season.

Yet all Kovalchuk seems to be able to do this year is trip over the tablecloth. In November, he only racked up one goal and three assists, not to mention a minus-seven +/ranking. This is an abysmal record for someone getting paid that much and a big let down after so much off-season hype. He hasn’t been helping his case at all by botching December 2, 2010

easy plays. Sure, it’s a lot of pressure to meet the family for the first time, or to live up to $100 million expectations, but that’s no excuse to suddenly become a different player. He needs to put some serious points up in the second half of the season if he wants to be invited back next year.

No family is complete without the crazy uncle whose most recent divorce everyone loves to gossip about. Sure, most of the stories that you tell behind his back are outlandish exaggerations, but you just can’t help yourself.

They seemed like such a happy couple and then out of nowhere, he says he needs a change. And just like that he’s sitting in your family room, avoiding questions about what went wrong. Meet Danny Heatley.

Heatley found himself at the center of the NHL gossip mill in 2009 when he decided that it was “time for a change” and asked to be traded from the Ottawa Senators. All the old questions are getting thrown at him again as he prepares to return to Ottawa with his new team, the San Jose Sharks, this week. Has time healed the old wounds between these two lovebirds?

With reports that Ottawa fans are booing the Sharks logo whenever it is shown at Ottawa home games, I’m going to say not quite.

All healthy sibling relationships have some kind of rivalry in them. But between brothers, the rivalry is always a little bloodier. Meet the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals.

The rivalry between these two teams is especially drawn out at the moment since HBO is doing a special documentary mini-series based on this year’s winter classic between the two. As if the Ovechkin v.

Crosby storyline wasn’t enough to make these teams competitive, the promise of prime television airtime has made it even better.

At a recent team bonding exercise, HBO followed the Caps to FBI headquarters, where the guys got some tips on how to train like agents.

And really, what better way for hockey players to show off their manliness than by shooting things and knocking down doors? And to top it all off, “blowing stuff up,” as Semyon Varlamov describes it. Their target of choice was easy: a stuffed penguin doll. If only Santa could fit some Penguin retaliation onto his sleigh …

For everyone who has a little brother, you know that it is his job to be as annoying as possible. This usually entails reading your diary, ratting you out to your parents, or, if he’s really intent on making your life hell, sticking his

hands within an inch of your face and repeating, “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you!” Meet Chris Pronger.

Over the last few seasons, it has become apparent that this Philadelphia Flyers defenseman wants to challenge Sean Avery for the title of most annoying opponent.

In last year’s Stanley Cup Finals, Pronger thought it would be a good idea to make off with the game puck — for games his team didn’t win.

Thus it should be no surprise that Pronger is again in the media for acting in a lessthan-mature manner. In a game this week against the Calgary Flames, Pronger attempted to distract the Flames’ goalie by waving his arm in front of his face, little brother-style. Although it is debatable whether this was actually against NHL rules, the overtime goal that came from the incident was disallowed and the Flyers ended up losing in a shootout. When the media asked Pronger about it, he took the high road, of course: “I’m not going to get into a he-said-she-said with the refs; I’m the he.” Yes, calling the referee a girl is definitely the best way to handle a call you don’t like.

Lastly, we have the helicopter parent. Some know this particular type of parenting better than others, but we have all heard the horror stories. These parents get involved in their kids lives whether they want them to or not. They bend rules and overstep boundaries to ensure that their kid is protected. Meet Colin Campbell.

A Senior VP and Director of Hockey Operations in the NHL, Campbell functions as the league’s disciplinarian and is responsible for overseeing suspensions and other punishments for players who misbehave. But much to his embarrassment, e-mails recently came out where Campbell tried to intervene on behalf of his son, Gregory, a player for the Boston Bruins. Campbell complains about borderline calls against his son and insults other players who drew the penalties, notably calling Marc Savard the “biggest faker.” Talk about hovering too close. The person most embarrassed by the exposure of these emails was probably the person they were meant to protect: Campbell’s son.

As finals end and you start heading home, I hope you will consider inviting these characters to your next family get together as well. Sure, they are a bit eccentric and steal all the best leftovers. But really, life is just more interesting when they are around.

Hannah is a senior. You can reach her at hpurkey1@swarthmore.edu.

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Senior Spotlight: The maturation of Morgan Langley

BY VICTOR BRADY vbrady1@swarthmore.edu

The number seven has earned a special place in recent soccer history, donned by some of the premier scorers in the last two decades: Christiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Frank Ribery, David Villa and Bastian Schweinsteiger, just to name a few.

For the Swarthmore Garnet, Morgan Langley ’11 has worn the number seven for the past two years during which he became not only the best player in the Centennial Conference and the best player to ever play at Swarthmore, but one of the best men’s soccer players in all of Division III. Langley led Swarthmore in goals in each of the past two seasons, compiling 14 goals in each of the past two campaigns. Langley also led the Garnet in assists this season, with 14, shattering the previous single season record of eight.

For Langley, 73 of his 95 career points, the most in Swarthmore history, came in his final two years for the Garnet. The highlights are endless — the game-tying goal against Hobart, the assist versus Dickinson, the hat-trick against Gettysburg, the game winners over Stevens or Hopkins or Haverford — as Langley combined his stunning combination of strength, speed, touch and finish to wreak havoc to the Garnet’ opposition.

But despite the scoring explosion, Langley’s greatest improvements on the pitch over the past four seasons have been in the mental side of the game.

When you are a premiere offensive talent, everything is fair game for defenders. Throughout his career, Langley was pushed, pulled, tripped, kicked and hit with moves suitable for a WWE wrestling ring. On three separate occasions just this past year, he was dragged down from behind by the last defender to prevent a breakaway. Fouls?

Sure. But enough to throw Langley off his game.

“I think [Morgan] would be the first to tell you that in his early years at Swarthmore, he had a very short fuse,” goaltender David D’Annunzio ’12 said.

“And that was sometimes a problem.

Opponents would use his intensity against him and try to get him focused more on the trash talk and the dirty fouls they would make on him.”

But that changed in the past two years. Langley never lost his fire and intensity on the field, but instead channeled that energy and passion through his play. “I remember there were many incidents this season where in past seasons I would have thought, ‘That’s going to take Morgan out of his game.’ But they didn’t … I’m really pleased with how he responded to our opponents’ antics this year, and I think it is an indicator of how Morgan’s game has developed and matured over his college career,” D’Annunzio added.

“I think that Morgan has been one of the most dramatic development cases I have worked with,” head coach Eric Wagner said. “He has become multidimensional and as an athlete, when he got here he was fairly fragile … and he became much more physically tough, sound, athletic and fit. He has gone from being a very tentative player to being an

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As a senior, Morgan Langley set both the single-season and career points men’s soccer record. Langley recorded 42 points this season to give him 95 in his career. incredibly strong emotional leader for the team,” Wagner added.

Langley, as a junior, became the first 10-goal scorer in a single season for Swarthmore in Wagner’s tenure at the College. The breakout season was the result of a commitment that Langley made over the summer after his sophomore spring-season when he realized that he needed to rely on more than just skill to become the dominant player that he believed he could be.

“He decided that he needed to commit himself 100% to soccer or get out of it, and between that sophomore spring and junior fall, he decided to commit himself athletically — fitness, strength, health, everything. He worked his tail off over the summer and came back in incredible shape and was a 90-minute player from then on,” Wagner said.

For anyone who has seen Langley dismantle opponent’s defenses with his brilliant first touch, quick turns and breakaway speed, it is difficult to imagine Langley ever laboring on the field.

But prior to that summer, Langley would find himself winded after only 20 or 25 minutes on the pitch. He would lose his touch and focus. But not anymore.

“It’s a wonderful case of player development and a wonderful case of maturity. It’s just a great success story all around,” said Wagner, who never saw Langley play live until he arrived at Swarthmore as a first-year.

That maturity was contagious, instill-

ing confidence in all of his other teammates that if they put a ball within the same area-code as Langley, he would find it and make a play.

Kieran Reichert ’13, who was second on the team with seven assists this year, will miss Langley’s play-making ability up top. “The thing I will miss most next season will be looking up, seeing Morgan making a run, hitting a ball and feeling confident and relieved that he will put the ball away. That kind of relief and trust is invaluable.”

“He’s so quick that he can always create for himself, however this season, he showed an equal willingness to create for his teammates,” Micah Rose ’12 said.

Langley assisted on three of Rose’s five non-penalty-kick goals this season.

For his senior season, the Clothier Field crowd expected magic from Langley every time he took the pitch.

And incredibly he delivered, time and time again. He scored or assisted on the game-winning goal in eight of the team’s 10 regular-season home games this year.

Rose, a captain for the Garnet in 2010, knows that the team will miss Langley’s talent in 2011. But it is his chemistry with Langley that Rose will miss the most.

“I’ll just miss walking out onto the field with somebody who I’ve played dozens and dozens of games with — that level of familiarity is not easy to develop. Morgan and I worked a lot together.

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through playing at Swat and in Vermont that will be difficult to replace,” Rose said.

That chemistry was tangible — between Langley and all of his teammates — every time that he stepped onto the field. Langley’s 14 assists, good for fourth in all of Division III, are a good testament to that, with Langley putting pass after pass right to the feet of his teammates.

Langley gave the Garnet fans one final treat in his penultimate game, a thrilling 2-1 victory over DeSales in the first round of the 2010 NCAA tournament.

Tied in the final minute of regulation, Langley ran onto a ball in the left corner and served a perfect cross —cleat to cleat — to Fabian Castro ’12 for a tap-in to put the Garnet back into the second round of the NCAA Championships.

“I’m going to miss the attitude and intensity that he brought to the field,” D’Annunzio said. “He was always so confident, and I think that helped everyone around him. I knew that every time he played he was going to show the opponents why they shouldn’t be on the field with us. And he wasn’t going to stop until they knew.”

Langley and his classmates Gage Newman ’11 and Philippe Celestin ’11 leave the Garnet with a 63-9-12 career record. The team did not lose a single game at Clothier Field in either of the past two seasons.

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