Fall 2015 Issue 4

THE CAMPANIL

10.20.15 // Volume 101 // Issue 4 //

// Student-run newspaper serving Mills College since 1917 //

SEIU bargaining team hopeful for contract agreement Abbey Flentje flentje@thecampanil.com Since May 2014, Mills College's non-tenured faculty has unionized in order to fight for better working conditions and fairer wages.

Now, more than a year later, the bargaining team, who was assigned to get the adjuncts better contracts, believes it is near a deal with the College.

Currently the bargaining team for adjuncts is working with a committee set up by the Mills administration to negotiate the terms of a new contract that will better serve the needs of the union members.

The team is made up of three Mills adjuncts: Lecturer of Chemistry Sandra Banks, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Bula Maddison, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English Stephanie Young. With the team is a Service

Employees International Union (SEIU) representative who assists in strategizing for the meetings.

"We are as confident as we can be," Maddison said about the state of the bargaining sessions. "We are optimistic. We are aiming for ratification [of the contract] by the end of this academic year."

Working opposite of the bargaining team for the union is the

team representing the administration, which includes Interim Provost Sharon Washington and an attorney representing the interests of the College. According to Maddison, the space at the bargaining table has been extremely civil, and at times even friendly.

"Certainly we're representing see Contract page 3

COURTESY OF CHRIS SOLLARS

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Mills College welcomed Chris Sollars as the new assistant professor of studio art in the Fall of 2015.

Sollars’ work is described on his website as “the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance.”

Documented through photography and video, his work is then turned into mixed media installations.

Sollars studied sculpture for his undergrad at Rhode Island School of Design and grad at Bard College, and he currently directs 667Shotwell, a studio space in his home that he established in 2001.

The space is currently used for an ongoing series of exhibitions where artists create installations and actions in the Shotwell house.

Tania Gidney staff writer

Mills students fill the small blackened screening room of the Piedmont Theatre. The energy bounces off the walls as Mills students and faculty chatter in excitement about the opportunity to watch a pre-screening of the film.

The screen is filled with bright text; the title is accentuated with hot pink coloring, followed by white text which reads: “The film you are about to watch is based on actual

events. The brave women it depicts fought for equality 100 years ago.

Take action. Share your voice.”

“Suffragette” covers the influence of Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep) who pushes the women of Britain in 1912 to engage in civil disobedience to gain the right to vote. Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) joins the cause after suffering dangerous working conditions under which the women of laundry houses worked for long hours while being exposed to poisonous chemicals that their male counterparts were not exposed to.

see “Suffragette” page 5

Mills alumna proposes Berkeley parking plan Dajanae Barrows barrows@thecampanil.com ABBEY FLENTJE

Mills’ bargaining team is working for adjunct professor contracts.

Q&A with studio art professor Chris Sollars

Sollars installations explore reclamation and subversion of public space through intervention and performance.

Mills Students attend pre-screening of “Suffragette”

How did you begin making art?

I think it is always just tapping into the ways I work and how my brain works. I think spatially in certain ways. I always liked to draw. Within my social conditioning, there was always a freedom to do and explore what I wanted to do versus there being a certain path for me. The public school system in Indianapolis in the 80s had a montessori system, which is tactile learning and working spatially, and I think that always had a giant impact on me. It wasn’t until I was in college that I had that level of interest in wanting to learn again. I wanted to see and experience as much as possible. I would just spend a lot of time making tons of different things all the time. I

COURTESY OF CHRIS SOLLARS

An outfit Sollars made during his residency at the San Fransisco Recology Center.

realized that I really enjoyed making and building things, which is what led me into sculpture.

From beards and mustaches as sculptures, to documenting people walking in the path of water, what is the common theme that runs through your work?

The way that I approach things is similar; there might be a public action that is documented with photographs or video, and there might be a sculpture involved and all those things can go together.

Often it’s like I am directing and orchestrating things and my role changes depending on the scale and the amount of people involved.

You describe your work as public art. Can you explain what that means in the context of your work?

I always considered doing things out in the public as a way in which you don’t have to pay for an experience, and you don’t have to go to a certain location.

I like things where you might come across them, where you are not waiting for something to happen — maybe it happens and you just come across it. I like that moment of discovery. I might do public things that are not outside and might be indoors. Like people waxing mustaches as a weird, crazy idea of what a sculpture can be. Or putting people in the path of water and have them be the flow of water.

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Berkeley councilmember and Mills alumna Lori Droste has been working to build affordable housing for the city of Berkeley by permitting developers to create less parking spaces in new buildings.

On Oct. 6, Droste's proposal, called the Green Affordable Housing Package, was placed on the Berkeley City Council's agenda for discussion. According to Berkeleyside, the package is composed of two parts: placing more importance on housing instead of parking, reducing "parking requirements in new developments that are near transit, include car-share spots or

meet other criteria," (according to the article) and modernizing Berkeley's review process for new buildings. Her proposal requests to create resolutions based on these ideas

by Sept. 1, 2016.

"I've heard that it [the Green Affordable Housing Package] is one of its kind," Droste said. "I hope that it inspires people, and that Oakland really needs to step up to the plate."

Droste's inspiration for her proposal is the housing crisis currently taking place in Berkeley, particularly considering the high cost of housing and limited parking. According to her proposal, Droste see Parking page 2

Updated vertebrate lab offers new opportunities for biology students

JENNIFER SMITH

Biology courses for Spring 2016 are being revised to allow students more access to the newly updated vertebrate lab. see Vertebrate page 3

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Column: Ben Carson Mills alumna proposes Berkeley parking plan is worse than Trump

Tania Gidney

staff columnist

This presidential campaign season started off as little more than a joke — a spectacle filled mostly with out-of-touch rich career politicians and "The Donald." In fact, much of the news has been the Cirque du Trump.

Now, while most of us on all levels of the political spectrum have been crying tears of frustration over the outlandish comments

by Trump, a real power has been growing within the GOP's midst.

This actual potential candidate is neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who according to CBS News, is leading in the polls at 21 percent right behind Trump (27 percent). According to CBS News, Carson is viewed by most constituents as being more moderate.

Now, one could argue that Carson is closest behind Trump because he has been in the race six weeks longer than Trump but that would be too simple. In reality, Carson's success is a result of his radical views which show that there is little that separates him from the Kim Kardashian of the GOP candidates. Immigration, tax reform, gun control, abortion, voters rights, vaccinations — the list is endless.

The problem with Carson is that he's a conservative who is equally as radical as Trump but his humble nature allows for him to be perceived as a more appropriate candidate for the presidency. For many, Trump’s flamboyant behavior is too much for the title of President of the United States, but Carson's calm and businesslike demeanor is perfect. This sort of focus on behavior regardless of platform is dangerous as many could, and those who are uninformed will, vote based on the candidates behavior more than anything else.

According to InsideGov.com, both candidates believe in the second amendment's right to bear arms to a near absolute, but in this case, Trump is actually more moderate as he supports a ban on assault

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weapons and a waiting period with a background check while the only regulation Carson says should exist is a ban on automatic weapons within large cities.

Huffington Post has even reported that Carson said the Jews would have been better off had they had guns during the Holocaust, despite the Anti-Defamation League staunchly refuting these claims.

Adding to his outlandish views, he is quoted by CNN online as saying, "Hey, guys, everybody attack him!

He may shoot me, but he can't get us all," after the Oregon shooting.

While it would be easy to assume Trump supports tax policies that benefit him, he has mentioned taxing the wealthy at a slightly higher rate to reduce the national deficit; Carson on the other hand, has maintained his stance that the bible's rule of a 10 percent tithe should be what we follow. According to OnTheIssues.org, when asked to expand on his tax reform policy, Carson had this to say: "What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he's given us a system. It's called a tithe.”

Trump is an egomaniac and not fit to hold the oval office. That being said, Carson's rhetoric is equally, if not more so, appalling than Trump's, yet Carson has a real shot at winning. His humble nature makes him more likable to the moderates who are opposed to the more outlandish nature of Trump, according to CBS News. And while the media emphasizes Trump's craziness, Carson is sliding up the polls under everyone's noses.

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notes that it costs about a million dollars to build twenty parking spaces, money that could be used to construct affordable housing.

COURTESY OF LORI DROSTE

M i l l s a l u m n a L o ri D ro s t e (above) hopes her plan will come to Oakland.

"It's an enormous problem," Droste said. "We have a housing crisis now."

Although Droste acknowledges people's nervousness about the proposal, she stresses

modernizing the policies for parking to build affordable housing.

She also has expressed confidence in the proposal's passing and potential for cities in the East Bay, particularly Oakland.

"We can't wait two and a half [or] three years for a 100 percent affordable project; we just can't," Droste said. "The two things would dramatically and beneficially affect affordability in Berkeley."

Droste's proposal has received support from climate change experts and transportation and urban planning experts, according to the East Bay Express. Rebecca Saltzman, the BART director of District 3, expressed her approval for the ordinance.

"The Bay Area is experiencing a housing affordability crisis," Saltzman said. "Much of Berkeley is well served by BART and AC Transit so many people can live there without a car, or with fewer cars per household. Developers should be given the flexibility to build less parking and to invest in affordable housing."

Ann Cheng, former mayor of El

Cerrito and current program director of GreenTrip which is a certification program that advocates for efficient driving and affordable parking and housing, believes that Droste's proposal holds progressiveness for its intentions. Cheng's work falls alongside TransForm, an award-winning nonprofit organization for transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"In general, [we] are looking for city parking policies that are considering the location of the development, existing transit and importantly considering the occupants," Cheng said. "In our research, we find the income levels of housing is strongly predicted by vehicle ownership and driving."

Although Cheng has awareness about the process of passing proposals, such as the Green Affordable Housing Package, she expresses hope for a consideration in affordable housing with Droste's proposal.

"Our hope is that there will just be a consideration of affordable housing for reducing parking requirements," Cheng said.

Annual CUSP educational speaker series returns Emily Burian

contributing writer

The Center for Urban Schools and Partnerships (CUSP) through the Mills education department brought back the educational speaker series for a 4th year in a row. The series includes six speaker events that discuss a variety of topics surrounding education and social justice.

CUSP was founded in 2011 by the Mills School of Education and connects the education department at Mills to schools in the Bay through different activities, one being the speaker series. The invited speakers all have an interest in improving education. The talks are open to Mills faculty, students and the surrounding community.

Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, a former activist in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, spoke for the series' first event on Sept.

29. She discussed the importance of building bridges in education between generations in order to bring South Africa forward which can be applied to many of the racial inequalities seen in the world today.

The second event on Oct. 15, Shawn Ginwright, a resident of Oakland and professor of education

at San Francisco State University, spoke about working with youth in communities of color. He believes that schooling can be a joyful and uplifting experience for kids rather than negative and defeating. His experience in community-based activism gave insightful conclusions on making schools an ecosystem for youth to grow.

"If you want to connect with young people, it's not what you know, it's what you feel," Ginwright said. "Working with the heart is saying we need to create space to build hope in schools and organizations."

The four remaining speakers Daniel Solorzano, Michael Dumas, Laurence Tan and Diane Ehrensaft have topics that range from promoting gender creativity in children to anti-blackness in academia.

Professor of Education Diane Ketelle organized many of the talks. She is enthusiastic for the change that they can encourage in students.

“I would hope that a student who attended a talk would be inspired to think about the issues surrounding our beautiful campus.

Outside the campus there are public schools that are struggling, and maybe through attending these

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talks they would gain some awareness of that,” Ketelle said.

According to Ketelle, the series can be beneficial to not only graduate and undergraduate students, but also to anyone that is dedicated to fighting for justice and creating agency.

The rest of this article can be read at thecampanil.com.

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SEIU continues fighting for fairer wages Updated vertebrate from

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the interests of the union, and certainly [they] are representing the interests of the College, and they're not the same," Maddison said. "But at the same time, I think, each of us is recognizing the legitimacy of the other's interests."

When Mills' adjunct faculty voted to unionize, they created a list of several improvements they wanted in order for job security.

According to union spokesperson David Buuck, the union is bargaining for fairer compensation, better benefits, job security, the ability to govern themselves on campus and career advancement. Because non-tenured faculty are paid by the course, if a class is canceled due to low enrollment then it can leave professors scrambling financially.

"Some people just can't afford being an adjunct," Buuck said.

Many members of the union are less concerned with wages and more concerned with being recognized for their commitment to Mills, Buuck said. Because of their commitment to Mills, he and the union feel the adjuncts deserve to have a better sense of job security.

"Adjuncts are sometimes con-

sidered replaceable," Buuck said.

Maddison said that titles are an issue of great importance at the bargaining table. She added that even when an adjunct professor has been at Mills for a long time, they are still called a "Visiting Professor."

"I am very tired of being called a visiting [professor]," Maddison said. "I have been teaching at Mills for ten years, so it's confusing. Students will ask me, for example, for letters of reference, and I think that it doesn't really help their position when I sign my name with 'Visiting' because it sounds like I'm just passing through."

Non-tenured track faculty typically have contracts of one year, but the bargaining team is working so that adjunct faculty with more seniority have three year contracts.

They are also stressing the need for cancellation fees being paid to adjuncts if a course is cancelled late in the semester.

Buuck believes that with more job security, adjunct faculty will feel like a part of Mills.

Both Maddison and Buuck said the contract being drawn up will be beneficial for everyone at the College. With better faculty working conditions, it makes for a bet-

ter learning environment in which students do not have to worry about whether or not their professors will be gone the next year, according to Buuck.

Maddison believes that if ratified, this contract will help students, as well as faculty, by showing them their adjunct professors are in a place of stability and being treated at a fair standard. In addition, Madison said this contract will "level the playing field" between departments, making sure that all adjuncts will be paid the same.

"I think [the contract] will be better for the College because it's based in thinking about justice," Maddison said. "It's a very Mills way of thinking."

Negotiations between the bargaining team and the administration will continue throughout the Fall 2015 semester. According to Maddison, they are aiming to send the contract to the union for a ratification vote the week of Nov. 30, with hopes of having a fully ratified contract by the end of the year.

The Campanil reached out to the Provost's office, but due to meetings they were unable to provide a statement. Updates will continue as the date for the ratification vote gets closer.

ABBEY FLENTJE

J o b s e c u ri t y a n d c o m p e n s a t i o n a re t h e m a j o r i s s u e s o n t h e b a rg a i n i n g t a b l e .

New support groups being offered to students Abbey Flentje flentje@thecampanil.com For any Mills students struggling with anxiety or who may be on the Autism Spectrum, there are now two support group meetings that can help.

Recently in the Student News, there were announcements that Autism Spectrum and Anxiety Management support groups had been created. These groups started in response to requests from students who wanted several options for support, according to Dr. Julia Anable, interim director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS). The groups are open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The Autism Spectrum group will help students who are struggling with complex social relationships, while the Anxiety Management group will help students learn to cope with anxiety inducing situations.

"Everyday we work with students who are profoundly impacted by significant stressors," Anable said in an email. "Anxiety now surpasses depression as the most commonly experienced mental health

concern in the U.S. and is a concern for many college students. Autism is not as common, but is still an issue for many college students, including students at Mills."

According to Anable, support groups can be extremely helpful to individuals who are in need of treatment as they cannot be recreated in individual therapy. Being able to hear the stories of others, sharing experiences and coping strategies, getting other perspectives from group members and having the opportunity to talk about social phobias and cues are some of the ways these groups can help people.

Anable also said that students can attend these groups as many times as they choose. This is different from individual therapy sessions, which students only receive eight due to high demand for counseling.

Dr. Ilana Barakat who will be facilitating the Autism Spectrum group said the group will allow people to gain social skills and techniques, as well as be a safe space for people to receive support from other people who will understand.

"For individuals on the Autism Spectrum, processing social cues,

interpreting people's intentions and deciphering the best social response can feel like a complex and challenging maze," Barakat said.

ASMC's Access and Support Services Senator Sophia DiPaola said she believes these support groups will help students build a community with one another.

She said groups like these are a good way for students to find others who are going through the same struggles.

"Many people are comforted in knowing that they are not alone," DiPaola said. "It's a space to cultivate crucial tools to help us find balance and manage the complex emotions and variables that come with everything we are going through. It's an opportunity to be heard and seen without judgement. It's extremely valuable for processing."

Anable said that CPS plans to form more groups besides the two focusing on anxiety and autism, based on more students' requests.

Some of the future groups will be for depression, trauma recovery and body image.

More information on these groups is available at Cowell through CPS.

collection provides backbone for revised biology programs

JENNIFER SMITH

The newly o rg a n i ze d vertebrate collection o f f e rs b i o l o g y s t u d e n t s m o re c l a s s o p p o r t u n i t i e s .

Erin Strubbe staff writer

The Mills vertebrate collection is new and improved this semester as a result of a grant from the Joseph and Vera Long Foundation.

Mills’ vertebrate collection, housed in the Natural Sciences Building, has been at Mills as long as El Campanil’s bells. The collection, like the bells, was donated by then-trustee David Hewes in the early 20th century. It has grown and evolved a great deal since then and continues to hold an honored position in the biology department.

In recent years, the collection and the lab it lives in have been in dire need of updates and restoration. The answer to this problem came in July 2011, when the Mills biology department was awarded a $2.5 million grant to promote female leadership in the sciences.

In Fall 2012, Assistant Professor of Biology Jennifer Smith took charge of the vertebrate lab and used a portion of the grant to begin implementing much needed upgrades to the collection. She and her students have spent the past three years acquiring new pieces for the collection as well as cataloging, organizing and salvaging the aging specimens.

One of the many students contributing to the lab updates, Lauren Burke, a senior biology major, has been helping Smith create an online database for the collection. This will improve accessibility to the collection for students and professors, and provide opportunities for collaboration with neighboring institutions.

“I am helping to maintain and photograph…and organize [the specimens],” Burke said. “At first, nobody knew where anything was.”

According to Smith, updating the collection has been a constant learning process, as she and her students have spent much of their time developing efficient systems of curating the specimens with the help of institutions like California Academy of the Sciences, UC Berkeley and the Smithsonian.

These updates have been imple-

mented just in time for the return of the popular Evolution and Vertebrate Biology classes in Spring 2016, which is taught every other year. Pieces of the collection have been used in biology courses in the past, but next semester, several biology courses have been updated to make better use of the expanded and more accessible collection.

“We’ve got hundreds of birds, we’ve got hundreds of skulls, we’ve got skins, we’ve got an entire invertebrate collection as well,” Burke said. “We have a really amazing collection and I think it’s super underutilized.”

The goals of restoring the natural history collection are to both increase interest in the biology program by prospective students and to enhance learning opportunities for existing students of Mills.

“It’s just going to be much more welcoming and accessible,” Smith said of the improved collection. “Everything is very organized now, and the learning opportunities are endless.”

Smith believes that the restored specimens and expansion of the collection will improve the experience and education of biology students.

“What’s special about this collection is students can actually pick up a skull and hold it in [their] hands, so you actually have that tactile, three-dimensional aspect of learning,” Smith said.

Faculty and students in the biology department have done a great deal of work to improve the facility since 2012, but they’re not done just yet.

Smith hopes to complete an online database of the vertebrate collection as well as a digital image library of all the specimens, so that students can study and refer to pieces in the collection outside of the classroom as well.

Many students who had led the charge in improving the lab have since graduated, and Smith is now seeking students to help her finish the work that is now so near completion.

“There’s always more work to be done,” Smith said.

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Arts & Entertainment

Mills community questions “coming out” in 2015

out in February of 2014, Time magazine published an op-ed quesstaff writer tioning whether or not Page should be praised as “brave” for comIf you opened your Facebook ing out “to a room full of LGBT timeline on Oct. 11, you were prob- youth, at an event sponsored by the ably greeted by a series of statuses Human Rights Campaign.” While celebrating National Coming Out the article acknowledged Page’s Day, an informal “holiday” ob“authenticity,” it asserted that an served annually by the LGBTQIA actress coming out in the year 2014 (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, risked very little professionally, and queer/questioning, intersex, and challenged the notion that coming asexual) community. out is inherently courageous.

Established in 1988 by psycholSince the recent — and long ogist Robert Eichberg and openly overdue — cultural shift to focus gay activist Jean O’Leary, National on the overwhelming obstacles still Coming Out Day encourages those faced by the transgender commuwho are closeted to “come out” to nity, some have questioned whether friends and family, and by the same those who come out as lesbian, gay token, encourages those who are al- and bisexual are risking as much as ready out to continue living openly their transgender peers. and without shame.

Skylar Crownover, a Mills In recent years, National Comsenior and transgender man, ing Out Day has become more of a emphasized the important role that social media event than an occasion coming out plays in providing role that is formally commemorated by models for transgender youth who the LGBTQIA community. This may not see themselves represented evolution reflects a larger ongoing in mainstream media. conversation regarding the impor“I think, while there has been a tance of coming out in an era that lot of progress…there’s still a lot has seen so much progress in the of violence and homophobia and sphere of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transphobia that happens. So, I transgender rights. think in terms of [coming out’s] imWhile coming out used to mean portance, at least for me, it’s about the end of a public figure’s career having role models,” Crownover (see Ellen DeGeneres in 1997), said. “You hear a lot about people in 2015 it seems to have become who are victims of hate crimes…so somewhat routine. Aside from a I think it’s important that if you’re headline in the Huffington Post, in a space where you can be out public figures deciding to come and be a role model to say, ‘Hey, out are met with relatively little it’s not all violence. You can be out fanfare. Celebrities disclosing their and it can be okay.” sexual orientations used to be so Still, Crownover believes that rare that it was a public event by it is important to be aware of the default; today those who choose a epidemic of violence affecting the more public forum for coming out transgender community, particuhave been criticized as larly transgender women of color. self-congratulatory.

The numbers are staggering; seven After actress Ellen Page came transwomen of color were mur-

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dered within the first two months of this year alone, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A recent study by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found that unemployment among transgender people of color is four times the national average. At a time when the oppression of the transgender community is so visible and so dire, positive role models — and, by extension, coming out — may be more important than ever.

National Coming Out Day is often criticized for pressuring closeted LGBTQIA+ people to come out who may not be ready or able to do so. Sophie McArthur, a senior who identifies as lesbian, feels that National Coming Out Day prioritizes members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are able to come out. “[National Coming Out Day] creates a weird hierarchy in the LGBTQ+ community. No one should feel like they have to come out or that they are less for staying in the closet. Coming out is a deeply personal decision and often, sadly, coming out of the closet is really dangerous,” McArthur said in an email.

Others feel that National Coming Out Day is valuable simply because it gives closeted members of the community an opportunity to come out. Phaeton Gordon, junior transfer student and transgender man, personally values National Coming Out Day because it gives him an annual window to be open about his identity.

“I come out every National Coming Out Day because there’s always something different with me, I’ve found. Anybody can come out if they want to, [and] I don’t think it’s right to force anyone

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to come out on National Coming Out Day. My personal feeling on National Coming Out Day is that it’s good for me, but I know that for other people it may not be,” Gordon said.

Criticisms of National Coming Out Day as exclusionary and even irrelevant certainly aren’t baseless. However, there seems to be a generational divide of opinion regarding the relevance of coming out in 2015. Neil Virtue, head coach of the Cyclones swimming team and member of the student outreach-focused Bridge Advocacy Team, feels that coming out is a personal process that takes place day after day.

“On one level, I think it’s kind of amazing and refreshing to hear younger people and students saying that [coming out] is kind of an irrelevant process. But I still think that there are a lot of people that aren’t okay with telling the world about that part of themselves,” Virtue said. “For me, personally, coming out never ends. There’s always situations I’m in where I’m choosing to or not to [come out.]”

Coming out is a deeply personal event and there is no “one size fits all” coming out process. Respect for those who are unable to come out or don’t feel prepared to do so is a top priority for those who criticize National Coming Out Day as well as those who embrace it.

In any case, the cultural relevancy of coming out seems unimportant when one considers the life-changing effects it can have for those who are tired of being closeted.

As Ellen Page said in a recent interview, “I will talk about being gay so happily and so gratefully all day long every day over how I felt when I was closeted.”

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Movie Review “XXY”

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Themes of gender and sexuality push this f a m i l y t o l e a r n , g ro w and u n d e rs t a n d the world a ro u n d them.

Taelor Ramos staff writer

Available now on Hulu, this Argentine-Spanish-French film possesses a melancholic coloration — from dark waters to evening woods — that add intensity to the visual while the plot deepens and twists.

15-year-old Alex lives in a town on the coast of Uruguay with her mother and father who is a biologist working closely with local turtles.

In the opening scenes, the sense of Alex being in danger is set and the tension between her parents is made palpable as guests arrive to visit with the family. Alex, an intersex teen, has been raised as a girl. In the father’s eyes, Alex was perfect from the moment of birth, but Alex’s mother has her reservations. Among the guests the mother has invited to the house is a surgeon who she researched after discovering that Alex had stopped taking the hormones that blocked increases in testosterone. Without the pills Alex would, to use the surgeon’s word, “masculinize.” Between pills, creams and operations, all Alex really wants is autonomy and stability. Navigating the strained home and new visitors would be enough, but Alex also must face betrayal and rising hostility from the community.

Themes of gender, sexuality and adolescence mingle with that of friendship, betrayal and safety in “XXY.” The meaning of family, the role of the parent-child relationship and the compassion of love are prodded by the rupture of secrecy and things previously left unspoken. Bodies, not just Alex’s, are featured not as spectacles or for shock value — no groins are shown throughout the movie for that matter— but as art in motion, as nature.

Be aware that this film is not rated and does involve scenes of intimacy as well as one extreme scene of harassment.

Other suggestions in light of National Coming Out Day include the documentary “(A) Sexual” (2011) which is available on Netflix and Hulu, as well as the recently released “Pariah” (2011) also available on Netflix.

Arts & Entertainment

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Students attend pre-screening of “S u f f r a g e tte” from

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I n S o l l a r ’ s p e r f o r m a n c e p ro j e c t “ Wa t e r S h e d , ” u s i n g a c i t y b l o c k l e n g t h o f ro p e , p e o p l e w a l k o v e r b o t h e x i s t i n g a n d h i d d e n c re e k p a t h s o f S a n F r a n c i s c o .

Studio art professor explores public art through mixed media installations from

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Do you think more artists are creating public art? Why? I think that has increased exponentially since I was a student. And that is happening because of opportunities, including that a lot of things maybe an art market can not support. And I think it is also people in opposition to a commercial endeavor. There are more and more artists that are very interested in public experiences that challenge themselves as much as the viewers.

For me it really goes back to what things are private information and what things are public information, which really goes back to the way that I grew up.

Where do you find inspiration for your art?

I think we all have private moments and also very public moments and social movements and that became part of my working mode. I just will sit sometimes and I will write down the ideas that are coming to me. I get those sitting thinking moments and when they come, I just let them come. That

generates pieces or sometimes seeing things will generate a piece.

Maybe I’ll read something and it’s like: “Yeah, totally, I need to make some work about that.”

You spent your summer at an artist residency program at the Recology Center in San Francisco. What were you working on?

The residency is four months and you get a studio and full access to what people dump. So you get to go dig through, not household trash, but what people dump when they have to clean out someone’s home, or when they are demo-ing a house, or they get tired of all the junk in their garage and that is what I dig through. I would just grab stuff I was interested in. For instance, I’m as interested in this crappy old bucket as I am in this vintage toy or coffee grinder or some old handmade box. I let the things gravitate toward me and then I would sort things. Like a pile of old gloves, or signs, or everything that is blue, or weird sci-fi novels or old video cassette that I would capture video from and then make videos of. I think because I found an old

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sewing machine I started making outfits for the show and then made videos from that.

What has your experience been with trying to balance what galleries want, and how you make money and also how you balance what you want to be creating?

One thing I always deal with is: “Will anyone buy any of these things?” I haven’t sold a lot of stuff over the years. I don’t make a living by selling things, but I’m always thinking: “How does that thing resonate in a way that it will have a draw to it?” I’m always thinking about if the set I’m working on will have a photographic series, if it should be digital or if should be physical.

In terms of what I am allowed to do, it goes back to trusting what I know. I think doing things that I know and letting myself use the things that I know, and my own personal experiences, my involvement with a subject or learning what a space wants to be and letting it show me, is all about a sense of trust. It also goes back to taking time with the history of art and knowing it well, knowing a lot of pieces, knowing the directions that people went over the years and knowing that the work does not always have to be a certain way, which gave me a lot of freedom.

If there is one thing that you wish your students could take away from a class, or from spending time with you, what would it be?

First I said “mystery” in my head, but the last thing out of my thoughts was: “Make every strange idea and allow yourself to get those strange ideas.”

Do you have projects that you are working on currently?

I have two shows next year that I am working towards. One is at Chico State where it is going to deal with dryness because it’s near the Oroville Dam. And I just went up to UC Davis last week because I’m going to be doing a public project in February, which will be that strange thing where it’s not about using a specific material, but instead using the things that are on campus as a point of departure for what things might be involved.

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The film tackles more than the political movement of the suffragettes. It also describes the lack of custodial rights for women, childhood victimization of girls working in factories, the physical violation of women’s rights by the state and innate violence that people resort to when backed into a corner by an oppressor.

After viewing the movie, Mills student Julia Wilmers said, “The way it is advertised is about their voting rights, but it’s about women’s rights in general.”

However, Mills students Blue Anderson, Jillian Haines, Alida Humphrey and Wilmers all expressed frustration with the lack of inclusiveness and diversity. All of the characters are white in the film.

The entire cast was white-washed, despite the fact that England had a substantial Indian and Chinese population due to the colonization of India and China during this period.

Sarah Gavron, director of “Suffragette,” was quoted at the Tribeca Film Festival luncheon where she was asked about this issue of diversity within the film.

“We interrogated the writ and photographic evidence, and the truth is, it’s a very, very different picture from the U.S. The U.S. had a lot of women of color involved in the movement, some who were excluded, some who weren’t excluded. But in the UK, it wasn’t like that, because we had pockets of immigration...it was later, around the war, around the fifties, that really the UK shifted and changed in a really wonderful way to produce

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“Suf fragette,” is about the history of women’s v o t i n g ri g h t s i n E n g l a n d .

what we have today,” Gavron said, as reported by IndieWire.com.

At a discussion for the prescreening the following day, Director of Engagement and Inclusion and Division of Student Life Sabrina Kwist countered this quote by reminding everyone that history books and documents are often altered to discard events about those who are marginalized.

It is important for the audience to consider these historical errors.

The film itself is beautiful. The imagery is powerful, and transports the audience to another space and time. The cinematography is vivid and the script is well written. The score is beautiful and interweaves with the tale, and the characters grow and burst, making you feel things — especially Mulligan.

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Lake Merritt’s “new” signs, its responses and community

On Sept. 27, a white Oakland resident called the Oakland Police Department on SambaFunk!, a group of Latinx and African-American drummers and dancers, for playing their drums and “disturbing” the peace at Lake Merritt at 7:30 p.m. The encounter ended in an altercation between the two parties and multiple citations against SambaFunk!.

Since then, signs were placed at the park that prohibit the use of “a musical instrument without a permit.” More of the park rules on the signs prohibit such things as loud music without a permit, barbeques and private groups of 25 people or more without a permit.

The incident and its aftermath of signs has fueled protests and dialogue about racial tensions, policing and gentrification in Oakland, particularly at and around Lake Merritt. City

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“remaking Oakland” bring to the table. At the same time, the issue can be seen with intersectionalities of racial and class issues, two major roles that play into gentrification and this clash.

As members of Oakland’s community, we understand the responses of its citizens to support the drummers. We completely agree with the protests WIKIMEDIA COMMONS and discussions around this inciLake Merritt has become known for its many events and sense of community in the past dent. Overall, we understand this few years. incident’s aftermath. officials have countered against role in gentrification, or enforc- been occurring at Lake Merritt As journalists and editors, this notion, saying that the signs ing ideas that do not make Lake for a long time and Oakland’s we have to play a role in getting are outdated and not reflective of Merritt a place to relax and have tenants’ rights and laws for involved in our Oakland comthe community that is being built a good time. public spaces. munity. At the same time, our in Oakland.

While we know about the This moment with Samba- roles as people and residents of So what did The Campanil potential harm in disturbing the Funk! is one of many represen- this community also help us get have to say about this? peace in neighborhoods, the fact tatives of the clash between cul- involved. With stories like these, In regards to the signs, it that it happened does prove a ture, tradition and gentrification. we have to tell and play a part in proves problematic for the Oak- point about keeping something From the events in Afrika Town public spaces. The space that is land community. Old or new, it that has been in Oakland longer in April to the noise complaints Lake Merritt should be one that takes away the fun and commu- than its issues with gentrifica- against Black churches in West is enjoyed, not enforced with nity of Lake Merritt. At the same tion. This incident shows a clash Oakland, they all represent this harsh citations or questions on time, the signs appear to play a between a tradition that has clash that gentrification and what we can do in a park.

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In regards to mental health Dajanae Barrows

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People have seen me begin this column with a tone of nervous excitement, shifting to sadness, confusion and sleep deprivation.

My journey as a grad student in the English and American Literature department has not been the easiest one, especially concerning my mental health. My experience as a grad student has awoken my anxiety and started a state of depression that I’m now battling on a daily basis. It didn’t seriously hit me until my second semester, scrambling to finish 20-page papers, balancing two internships and two jobs. And although I tried to lighten my load, I still had to find a part-time job this semester to help pay my bills and support myself.

All of this has made me question whether I am the only one who is experiencing this.

Well, the obvious answer is “no.” Many undergrads and grad students alike experience bouts of anxiety, fear, depression and other mental health matters. However, from the experiences that I’ve gathered from other grad students, I’m starting to feel that we have to hide our issues.

When I say that, I mean that our

loads are greater than our four-year experiences as undergrads, and we have to balance so much more than our younger selves, i.e. work loads and grades, social lives (if chosen to have one), jobs and the list goes on.

With all of these (potential) things that can fuel our mental health issues, I feel that we have to internalize our feelings further, all to show that we can balance this and place bigger flags in our academic careers.

But what if internalizing it doesn’t work? *cues Yuna’s “Lights & Camera”* I feel like I’m the epitome of this question. Because my depression has risen, I have to fight harder to balance the above things. I also have to cope with something that makes it difficult to get out of bed most days, doubt myself every minute or break down whenever everything goes wrong.

I admit — not with pride, but with honesty — that my mental health matters. I fear that admitting this will make me look weak to my peers and professors, that they will judge me even further than how I feel they do. At the same time, me confessing this is the start of working to get through the rest of the program.

I can’t internalize and hide how I feel. For me, trying to suppress this didn’t work and took a huge

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toll on me that I’m still recovering from. I have to have that support system to get through the days, going from my working mother to my loving partner to the friends that I have on campus, and the bonds that I’m building with old friends.

I’m even keeping a journal to vent when I can’t with others.

Although I fear what this program has to offer in the next few months, I won’t try to stand up tall and finish in stride. I will go along in this journey with humility and honesty and know that I will have to work harder on some days to not let my anxiety and depression defeat me.

This is an installment to the column “Confessions of a grad student.”

Editor’s note: With the exception of staff editorials, the views expressed in columns and the Opinions section do not necessarily reflect the views of The Campanil and are solely those of the author. Additionally, statements made by contributors outside of The Campanil do not reflect the opinions of the editorial board.

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Let’s talk about sax Anna Ayala Staff Columnist

This sax overload isn’t a recent phenomenon. The sax reached a high note in 2011 with the release of Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” and then in some sort of mind meld, Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)” a few months later. In 2012 it was Macklemore with “Thrift Shop,” a song we’re all still trying to forget and I just reminded you about (“what, what”). For a brief period, the sax-fest died down.

But now, in 2015, Saxapalooza continues and the line up this year is totally rad, bro. We’re talking Jason Derulo, Fifth Harmony and even Redfoo!

There’s enough saxophone in popular songs these days that I’m convinced songs that don’t have any saxophone in them do. Oh, The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face?”

Yeah that has some saxophone, right? No, actually it doesn’t.

“Lean On” by Major Lazer? Well MØ’s voice might as well be one.

The sound of the saxophone is a powerful and deceiving ear worm.

Although these songs don’t have that sweet squeak, the saxophone is so pervasive that it tricks us (at least me) into adding it into every jam.

Now, is all this sax a bad thing?

I don’t know. Some may argue yes, because to be honest the saxophone kind of sounds like a duck army.

Others may disagree, but I’m making these examples up and I can’t come up with any pros. My personal view is neutral, or more like a case-by-case basis. I enjoy “Worth It” by Fifth Harmony; “Talk Dirty”

by Jason Derulo is tolerable; but if you put on that one by Ariana Grande, so help me we will have a problem. So, in the end, the saxophone is an instrument that exists and the only time it was truly, 100 percent acceptable was in “Get Right” by J-Lo. Also, this is definitely some reptilian plot by Bill Clinton. You know, because he plays the saxophone and is a member of the reptilian race, who seeks to control society. What better way than through the subliminal sounds of that smooth instrument?

Here is a playlist to start talking about sax: 1) “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” Katy Perry 2) “The Lady Gaga

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10.20.15 Freedom through religion?

Sonja Lund Staff Columnist

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Singer Jason Derulo ‘s “ Ta l k D i r t y t o Me” p e a ke d #3 on the B i l l b o a rd Charts.

3) “Thrift Shop” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 4) “Talk Dirty” Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz 5) “Worth It” Fifth Harmony ft. Kid Ink 6) “Midnight City” M83 7) “New Thang” Redfoo 8) “Problem” Ariana Grande

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In social justice spaces, religion can be a difficult topic. To some people, the word carries connotations of science denial, hetero/cissexism and misogyny. Too often religion has been the means by which the rights of marginalized groups were denied to them, even as laws and attitudes in secular society have changed.

Everyday Feminism, a web magazine, recently shared an article on how to live authentically as a queer Christian. Among responses of hope and joy, many comments from (presumably) atheist feminists all said the same thing: “Why bother?” And indeed, why would any person whose identity is criticized by a religion want any part of it? More generally, why would any feminist — pursuing the ultimate goal of liberation for all — want to take part in an institution that seems to always involve restrictions on how one is to live their life?

Religion’s root word literally means “re-connection,” and that’s the point of it all: One practices a religion (or several) to connect to something bigger than themselves.

How each religion goes about making those connections is different, but it’s usually facilitated by some kind of ruleset. Do this daily; don’t eat that; cover this; read that. If one has lived their life under the thumb of unjust authority, it might feel easy to be turned off by the whole thing.

Not everyone feels that way, however. For example, the women behind Wrapunzel, a modesty and hair-covering community, don’t feel constrained by the Orthodox Jewish law that says they must cover their hair upon marriage.

Instead, they find that it lets them be co-creators with God by daily

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engaging their creativity when wrapping their scarves, and that mindfully following the law brings the Divine into their lives and into the world. In the Orthodox law, these women find spiritual liberation.

I am a Christian, even though I could list the many reasons why I might be “better off” as something else; the Church has not always been kind to me. But over the years, I’ve found that when I actively practice my religion, I feel connected not only to God, but to nature and to my fellow human beings.

I break out from the small world of my own selfishness and instead wake up to the sacredness of everything, and I become more generous and patient and grateful. With prayer, hymns and meditation, I can reach out to God and drag Her into my daily life. While I love and admire other traditions, Christianity is it for me. It’s how I connect to something bigger, over and over.

In my Christianity, I’m free.

Religion has long been used as a weapon of the oppressor, and I don’t blame anyone for staying away. But for many of us, religion is not a question of “Why bother?”

We dance, we pray, we kneel, we light candles and burn incense.

Each in our own way, we find our peace. Through our rituals, rules and gods, we are liberated. That is why we stay.

This is an installment for the column “In Search of Feminism.”

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Sports & Health

10.20.15

The Athletics are not moving to San Jose Volleyball player Emma Rigby

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Monika Sabic

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After three years of battling in federal court with Major League Baseball, San Jose struck out from getting the Oakland A’s to move to the South Bay. The Supreme Court refused to hear San Jose’s appeal of antitrust against Major League Baseball (MLB) to allow the city to build a stadium in the South Bay for the Athletics, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

San Jose filed the lawsuit three years ago against the MLB when the approval for the new ballpark was stalled. When the A’s ownership announced plans to move to San Jose, the San Francisco Giants blocked the city from building the ballpark. When the Giants built AT&T park in 2000, it also reserved the territorial rights in the South Bay. As a result, San Jose filed an antitrust lawsuit against the MLB for hindering its approval for the new ballpark for the A’s.

Oakland A’s owners, Lewis Wolff and John Fisher, have been looking to get their baseball team a new stadium for a while. Built in 1968 by the Oakland-Alameda County, the Coliseum Stadium has been notorious for broken pipes and flooding in the dugouts. Due to the run-down conditions both the Raiders and the A’s, who share the stadium, have been in recent talks to move out.

Since both Wolff and Fisher are also owners of the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team, moving the A’s to the South Bay would have

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been ideal for them. Now with the Earthquakes settled in the newly built Avaya Stadium, the prospective downtown ballpark for the A’s would have been the city’s gem. San Jose would have become home to three professional sports teams.

The team’s owners are currently looking to make negotiations with the city of Oakland for a new ballpark. The A’s are in a 10-year lease contract with the city. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the A’s have already had meetings with Oakland city officials and architects to draft designs for a new stadium.

Oakland is at risk of losing its professional sports teams: the Golden State Warriors’ are to move to San Francisco’s Mission Bay and the Oakland Raiders are in talks to move back to Los Angeles. As of now, the A’s could be the only sports team to remain in Oakland.

In September 2015, Oakland developers were in talks of building “Coliseum City” in East Oakland as an effort to keep the city’s sports teams in the East Bay. According to head developer Floyd Kephart, the 120-acre development would have three new facilities that would be owned by the teams.

As claimed by Bay City News, the reality for Coliseum City is at 50-50 odds of being built from taxes from commercial development, which will cost $4 billion over the next 10 to 15 years under its development. The plan’s fate will be decided this month by Oakland and Alameda county officials.

The A’s have brought four World Series Championships back home to Oakland Coliseum Stadium. No matter where the team moves, its fans will follow and sport the yellow and green, hoping that their East Bay team will bring back another World Series title.

Quick exercises to do behind a desk Monika Sabic

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With hectic schedules packed with classes, work or clubs, it is not easy to schedule time to work out. For those who do not have the time to fit a solid workout into their schedule but want to, here are simple toning and strengthening exercises that you can do while sitting in class or studying. Deskfriendly exercises are one of the many ways you can achieve physical wellness as a busy student.

Table Toners: While sitting behind a desk, place you hands flat on the table in front of you. Strongly press down on the table as you lift up your legs straight under the desk. Do not forget to sit up straight and hold in your abdomen. Hold your legs up and press your hands down for as long as you can hold.

This workout is focused on building your core. By holding your legs out in the air, you are strengthening your vastus lateralis,

the outside muscle of your thigh, and the rectus femoris, the front muscle of the thigh. Firmly pressing down on the table will build up the bicep muscles. By sitting up straight during this exercuse, you will feel tension in the rhomoid major and rhomoid minor muscles that are located in your upper back, in between the spine and the shoulder blade. Strengthening these muscles will help build your posture.

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Rigby is known for her g re a t advice to her t e a m m a t e s d u ri n g g a m e s .

volleyball techniques. Her passing and blocking has become much stronger since becoming a middle blocker.

As Rigby’s volleyball skills have tremendously improved during her second year on the team, so has her leadership. Co-Captain and fellow middle blocker Miranda Crothers has noticed Rigby’s transformation into an outstanding leader for the team.

“She is the rock of the team,” Crothers said. “When the team gets frazzled, she calms them down.”

Going into this season, Rigby’s goal was to become a better leader on the court and a role model for the new first year players. Since there are no juniors or seniors on this year’s team, Rigby felt that it was her duty to set standards and create a welcoming environment.

Co-captain and first year Janan Salaan admires Rigby’s work ethic on and off the court. Salaan believes that Rigby is a dedicated athlete­—always the first to be at practice and always having a positive attitude for her teammates.

“There was never a time when myself or the other first years ever doubted [Rigby],” Salaan said. “We are lucky to have her on the team.”

Rigby was surprised when she found out about her Cyclone of the Week Award. With only two games left in this season, Rigby plans on giving it her all and finishing this season strong.

“It’s time to leave everything out on the court,” Rigby said.

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Upper Arm Circles: You can get rid of those dumb- before switching to the counterbells; using your own upper body clockwise direction. You should strength can be the best way to feel a burn in your upper arm tone your arms. Simply hold your muscles. The Upper Arm Circles arms out to your sides and move are an easy and quick way to tone your arms in circles. The larger the your biceps and triceps muscles. circle, the easier it is. The smaller In addition, this will help build the the circle, the more difficult it rhomoid major and rhomoid miis. Remember to stand or sit up nor. This exercise will help build straight. Do ten circles clockwise your posture.

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Transitioning from one position to another is difficult, but Emma Rigby’s versatility and commitment on the volleyball team proved that it could be done—thus making her Cyclone of the Week.

Originally trained as an outside blocker, Rigby sacrificed her position to become a middle blocker.

Understanding that her team was in dire need for someone in the middle of the court, Rigby was willing to switch and learn the new position.

Head coach Loke Davis was impressed by how quickly Rigby was able to transition into her new position. According to Davis, it is a huge shift to change from the outside to the middle of the court. The outside blocker, or “safe person,” is able to see more of the court and less likely to be in the way of a play, as opposed to the middle blocker who has a limited court view and must be able to make quicker attacks.

“She is competitive with other middle blockers in the [Division Three] conference that have been playing the middle blocker position for years,” Davis said.

Rigby has become a valuable middle blocker for her ability to read the opponent’s attacks. Reading the attack works in a pattern: - watching the ball, then the setter, then back to the ball, and then the hitter. This skill has helped Rigby be responsive on defense and prepare for a quick offensive attack.

In the game against UC Merced, Rigby dominated in her middle blocker position. She led the team with three kills (a successful pointscoring play), two blocks and a dig.

Although the Cyclones had a tough loss against the Bobcats, Rigby’s performance was highly valued in the game.

“She was one person who stood out as a consistent leader across the board,” Davis said. “Bringing that consistent game was really valuable for the success of our team.”

Despite having to learn new skills as middle blocker, Rigby has noticed improvements in her

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