Index Fall 2010 Week Two

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September 29, 2010 Second Week

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Police Called to Living Learning House

By Ian Flanagan Staff Writer

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fficers from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (KDPS) were called to a Kalamazoo College Living Learning House on Saturday September 18th at around 11 p.m., confirmed the college’s Director Security Timothy Young.

K Security officers “smelled the odors of marijuana” in the house after being called there by RAs around 10:45 p.m. and called the Kalamazoo police to investigate, Young said. The police confiscated drugs and drug-related materials from students in the house­.

In the Security Department’s report details about exactly what was confiscated is further explained, but that report could not be released.

Young explained that typical police procedure in an incident like this is to confiscate illegal materials and to file a complaint with the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which would ask the students involved to turn themselves over to police custody.

A student from the house, who asked to remain anonymous, stated that the KDPS officers called to the house told the students that within two weeks they would receive court dates in the mail. The student also confirmed, however, that the KDPS officers declined to write the students misdemeanor tickets at the scene.

The anonymous student said that the situation began with the presence of “seemingly intoxicated” students outside of the house while he was moving See LIVING LEARNING, Page 3

College Cuts Study Abroad Transportation Funding

By Zoe Beaudry Staff Writer

Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, students will now be responsible for arranging and paying for their own airfare to and from the study abroad program location.

“The decision was made by the College in response to rising costs abroad and the decline in the value of the dollar,” says Margaret Wiedenhoeft, Associate Director of the Center for International Programs. “It was necessary to cut transportation costs to keep the study abroad program alive.”

In order to assist students with high financial need, the College has established a transportation subsidy fund. “The fund will provide subsidies of up to 100% of the average airfare, although some awards may be less. Students do not need to separately apply for this subsidy, See TRANSPORTATION, Page 3

By Kelsey Nuttall Executive Editor

Photo/Kelsey Nuttall K’13

New Dining Hall Hours

Meal Plan Changes Suffer Adjustment Period

Monday through Friday Saturday A new dinning system has been set into place at this Breakfast 7:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Breakfast year with many new meal options, and has left some Lunch 11 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

9:30 – 11:00 a.m. students confused, but the details are being ironed out, Dinner 5 – 7:00 p.m. according to Sodexo employees.

“Everybody had questions,” said Betty Hall, Sodexo hostess. “Because it is confusing. It’s confusing to me!”

Last year, Student Commission member Darwin Rodriguez K’13 worked on the Food and Dining Services Saturday & Sunday Committee. He and the other members of the committee Brunch 11:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. proposed a plan based on complaints voiced by the Brunch Plus 1:15 – 4:00 p.m. student body to make meal options more desirable.

Dinner 4 – 7:00 p.m.

They proposed changes and variety in the meal plan to the general manager at Sodexo, Mark Wilson, who Rodriguez said was helpful and told them what changes would be possible. “He was not used to students letting him meal plans, K Cash, commuter meal plans, Stacks Deli, more know what was happening and what needed to be changed,” said places to use Munch Money, and altered dining times, according Rodriguez. to Sodexo district manager Dana Babel.

After a “lot of back and forth” between Sodexo Dining Services, “We were still working out the kinks last week,” Babel said.

The Food and Dining Services Committee, and Associate Dean of According to Babel, students can now use Munch Money at Students Dana Jansma, Rodriguez said a plan was set into place the Papa John’s on West Main and Biggby’s in Upjohn Library. that did not require students to absorb any costs.

She also said that Stacks Deli, the new meal option located in The year’s opening shuttled in options in the form of “Premium” See MEAL PLAN, Page 6

FEATURES A look at a local Kalamazoo business

FEATURES A word from Student Commission President, Alex Morgan pg. 5

pg. 4

SPORTS Fall Season Kick-off Update pg. 8

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SUITE SPOTLIGHT

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Living in Room 300 of Severn Hall, are a self-described group of “jovial” guys that wanted a feature in The Index.

The members of Suite 300 are Ben Fallert, Ben Hulbert, Mike Paule-Carres, Martin Bergstrom, Tristan Kiel and Joe Barth (all K’13). They always offer guests fried cauliflower (gross). Occasionally, they wear matching tweed jackets with scarves.

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In last week’s issue of The Index, former Provost Gregory Mahler’s name was misspelled in the article titled ‘How to Change the World Axed, Building Blocks Transferred.’ We apologize for this mistake.

What I Learned at College. . .

“Some of you may believe you’re perfectly rational human beings.

In that case, why are you paying $40,000 a year for college?”

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How do you guys define yourselves?

Fallert: We’re the America Suite!

Barth: We’re just a bunch of cool bros.

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What do you like to do together?

Kiel: Spoon… and we play Mario Kart a lot… and we like to hug Ben Hulbert.

Fallert: Karaoke. Or group sing-a-longs. Either way.

What kind of music would one hear coming out of your room?

Contribute to the On the

Barth: The Legit, and only The Legit.

Kiel: Mostly American music… Toby Kieth…

Bergstrom: When I come home from class I only want to listen to America the Beautiful.

If you six had to describe each member of the Suite with only one adjective, what would it be?

Ben H. –precious Ben F. –rugged/individualist Mike —gangsta Martin—destructive Tristan—paternal Joe—responsible

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LIVING LEARNING: Students Punished for Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia in on Sept. 18, at around 10:30 p.m. He claimed that those students were not connected to the house, but that their presence outside caused an RA to approach and disperse the crowd.

The two RAs then knocked on the house’s door, according to the anonymous student. Inside of the house the two RAs found evidence for the possession of drug paraphernalia, the possession of alcohol by an underage student, and the removal of furniture from a bedroom into the attic.

The RAs informed the Security Office and the Student Development Office’s Area Coordinators. Security then called KDPS. When asked for comment on the situation, the RAs involved stated that the college’s confidentiality policies prevented them from making a statement.

In addition to their undetermined dates in court, the anonymous student said that some house members appeared before Student Conduct Hearing Panels at the end of last week to determine whether they had broken the Student Code of Conduct (available in full at https://reason.kzoo. edu/studev/stuconduct/).

At a Hearing Panel, students have “the opportunity to comment on available written information, to provide their own account of the incident, and to call

material witnesses (people with first-hand knowledge of what did or did not happen)” according to information from the Student Development Office. The Hearing Panel determines whether a student has violated the code based on a preponderance of evidence. Article IV Section B Number 1 of the Student Code of Conduct lists a wide range of sanctions—from warnings to academic or social probation, losses of privileges, restitution measures, discretionary sanctions (work/service assignments), Residence Hall suspensions/ expulsions, college suspensions/expulsions, and the withholding or revocation of degrees—which can be applied to students found in violation of the code.

Associate Dean of Students Karen Joshua-Wathel characterized the process as quick and objective: students are typically notified if and what can kind of sanctions will be applied to them within a few days of their hearing. The hearing and deliberation process is “absolutely confidential” in Dean Joshua-Wathel’s words, and the college cannot even confirm the existence of a specific disciplinary case. The rulings of Hearing Panels are final except for contestation through the appeals process. Dean Joshua-Wathel stated that students can make appeals

only on a few specific grounds, such as procedural error, insufficiency of evidence, excessive sanctions, or the appearance of new evidence. Students typically submit a written statement to an Appeals Board appointed by the President and do not appear in person. The Appeals Board has complete autonomy to reduce, harshen, or maintain a student’s sanction as is.

The anonymous student stated that four members of the house received sanctions at the conclusion of the disciplinary process.

Two students were sanctioned with a year’s social probation as well as community service hours. Two other house members were sanctioned with two quarters of social probation each, but both students intend to appeal those sentences.

According to Associate Dean of Students Dana Jansma, students sanctioned with academic or social probation would not be allowed to continue residing in a house and would be relocated into a dormitory. Houses are expected to maintain full capacity (variously seven, eight, or ten members) two out the three quarters each year. If a house should lose members for whatever reason, the remaining house members must have a plan to replace the lost residents, said Dean Jansma. The Student Development Office would not assign new members to

the under-occupied house, however, and if it cannot replace its lost members for the next quarter, it could be disbanded and all remaining members moved elsewhere in the residential system.

The anonymous student who agreed to speak The Index emphasized that only two house members and an outside guest had drug-related materials confiscated from them. He stated that a second housemate of his was caught in possession of alcohol as a minor but that there was no connection between the drug possession, the alcohol possession, and the presence of seemingly intoxicated students outside. He said that the Living Learning House had no plans to host a party that night and that he and several of his housemates had not even finished moving their belongings when security officers arrived.

He said that some members of the house “broke the rules, hands down” but that those students “took full responsibility” and cooperated with the RAs, the Security Office, and the KDPS. He concluded with the hope that all the housemates who were not involved in any infraction of the Code of Conduct would not be forced to leave the Living Learning House.

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TRANSPORTATION: Subsidy Offered for Qualifying Students as it will be determined by the financial aid office,” said Wiedenhoeft. Despite the subsidy the college made the right decision considering these economic times,” said Brittany options, this significant change in policy has been met by mixed feelings from students.

Worthington K’13. “The availability of a subsidy will help offset the costs a little bit for “I think the cost of transportation students who have greater financial need. This change may should be provided because those who also encourage students to look into study away options.” can’t afford it are now at a disadvantage As an alternative to study abroad, Kalamazoo offers study for going abroad,” said Hayden Uihlein away programs at 12 liberal arts schools in the Midwest, as K’13. “At a school where it’s so heavily well as several programs in more urban areas. encouraged to go abroad, I think the “I think the study away programs are generally less attractive program should be comprehensive.” to students,” said Jenny Servis K’13. “Study abroad is a huge In past years at Kalamazoo, airfare factor in deciding whether or not to go to a school. So in this was provided for group flights for case it’s little bit like the Michigan promise scholarship: you each program. Additionally, there were feel a bit cheated. Especially for a school where one of the four non-Kalamazoo programs with main attractions is study abroad, I don’t think cutting back on

Brittany Worthington K’13 pre-arranged international round-trip something so key will benefit the school.” transportation for their participants, The new policy will affect the 2011-2012 long-term which took place in Israel, China, and and extended-term study abroad programs. Students with Japan. Current sophomores will now have to re-evaluate their financial limits when questions or concerns may contact the Center for International Programs, located in choosing a program.

Dewing Hall.

Continued from page 1 “It’s unfortunate that it had to happen the year I came to this school, but I think

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It’s unfortunate that it had to happen the year I came to this school, but I think the college made the right decision considering these economic times.

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At Home in the World: Anarchy in the UK: England with Hutch

By Hutch Pimentel Staff Writer

To those of you still upon that fair Arcadian hill, I bid you farewell. It only took a 6-hour drive, another 3-hour drive, a 7-hour flight (next to a delightful screaming baby) and a 45-minute cab ride to finally

arrive over the pond, but I most certainly have. It was turbulent, to say the least.

First came the necessary existential crisis that one must go through during the selection

of the appropriate study abroad program.

Items evaluated: interests, endurance level, funds, independence, and others. I arrived at the decision to come to Goldsmiths at the University of London instead of several other fantastic places like Thailand, Rome and Greece – mainly because of my general Anglophileness and my interest in theatre.

Next steps: application (success), acceptance (success), meeting fellow travelers (success). Then came the postPhoto/Hutch Pimentel K’13 acceptance paper work (not really a success). As my program is in the third tier, I received no assistance in my bid to obtain a Tier 4 Student Visa, which proved to be one of the most difficult

bureaucratic processes I have ever had to navigate.

It is difficult to communicate the many hoops I had to jump through in order to finally succeed.

Suffice to say, I thoroughly annoyed whoever I thought might be a source of information, even the woefully unprepared CIP. But upon my arrival, I discovered that they were simply trying to prepare me for what I should of expected at Goldsmiths.

I and three other K students arrived early Saturday morning and found the city still mostly asleep. Goldsmiths, on the other hand, only appeared to be asleep.

We didn’t expect many communication issues, as we all speak the same language, but we were gravely mistaken. We had arrived in the wake of many a-missing emails, and all before anyone we had to correspond with could be contacted.

It was most certainly an absolute mess – administration asked for things I had sent them and for forms I hadn’t been sent. They eventually gave up and put us in our rooms – on the top floor of our building. There is no elevator. We had some heavy bags that

we already had to lug around due to our cab drivers dropping us at the wrong end of campus.

“We didn’t expect many communication issues, as we all speak the same language, but we were gravely mistaken.”

After finally moving in, we discovered that we had no idea what we were supposed to be doing and no one to ask. We found out that most of the people around us were freshers, not other international students as we had been assuming.

We will be spending this next week doing things with the freshman, although we aren’t exactly sure what to do. There is no one around to micromanage us, so it’s up to us to decide to what to do and when to do it.

On that note, I think I’m going to go do something now. Maybe I’ll get a phone, maybe I’ll try to find something to hang up all my clothes, or maybe I’ll buy some food so I can eat. Who knows?

Rates of International Student Enrollment Continue to Rise this Year B F C y

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Staff Writer

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On Friday, September 21, the main lobby of the Dewing building was bustling with faces and voices.

At the opening host family meet and greet for K College’s international students, the students are introduced to the American families who will be their connections during their time here.

This year holds the record for the most international students, and, among them, the most degree-seeking international students the college has ever enrolled—a whopping 41.

“This is a big year for us,” said Dr. Pat Ponto, an employee in the Counseling Center and a host mother, in an interview.

In the first year of the host family program, about 20 years ago, there were only about 20 international students.

Victor Garcia K’97, head of the host family program, echoed her sentiments, saying in an interview that in the past, there were at most a couple of dozen students. He is pleased at the recent growth in numbers.

Not quite the typical exchange program of many schools, K’s host program is aimed at helping international students from the country and campus as richly as they can. Already,

they have taken a trip to the Lake Michigan beach in New Haven, and activities scheduled for the future include a trip to Chicago and an apple picking expedition at a local orchard.

Beyond these preplanned outings, however, families and students get to know one another on their own time. “We really literally welcome them into our homes,” said Garcia.

Students don’t live with the families, but are welcome for dinner or whenever they need an escape from campus.

Marcie Weathers is a long-time participant in the program, ever since hosting her first “daughter,” Chihiro, seven years ago. Now she has a total of five hosted students, from China, Japan, Jamaica and Zambia. She said that the program is testing out the idea of a host family sans K employee.

From the students’ perspective, this is exciting. Sanogo Manfa, from France, said he’s happy to be hosted by a big, lively family like his own. “It’s quite a good deal for me.

We are very cheerful,” he said. “They seem interested [in] what you are saying, what you are doing. They are very... maternal.”

Sanogo is a visiting international student at K for a single

year. He’s currently working on a master’s degree in Englishto-French translation from the University of Strasbourg. By contrast, Anya Khongthavornpipat, a first-year student from Thailand, plans to pursue degrees at K in computer science and physics so long as she doesn’t “get lazy and drop one of them.”

Twelve percent of this year’s freshman class is made up of degree-seeking international students, up from 1.7 percent two years ago, and the college hopes the number will continue to grow. The admissions department is reaching out in new ways in order to recruit international students: Khongthavorpipat and two other students found out about K when a biology professor visited their school last year. All three are now freshmen.

The increase in international students and diversity has the potential to turn K into a community that cultivates global citizens. Tendai Mudyiwa, a first-year from Zimbabwe and recent elect to the Student Commission, is already getting started: “I believe I can offer something different,” he said. “I am speaking from an international perspective.”

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Breaking the Bubble: The Crow’s Nest Weathers the Storm

By Elaine Ezekiel Staff Writer The owner of two of Kalamazoo’s hippest local businesses is a surprisingly laid-back and unassuming guy. Although Chris Danek likes to attribute his success to luck, the self-effacing entrepreneur built Fourth Cost Cafe and The Crow’s Nest with one intrepid decision after another.

The Flint, Mich. native moved to Kalamazoo for graduate work in Western’s Department of Psychology, but he said he was “turned off” by the behavioral approach of social work taught there. Danek and a buddy were having what he calls, “one of those conversations over coffee and cigarettes late at night, trying to save the world,” when they came up with the idea for a 24-hour coffee shop. “At the time,” he said, “there really wasn’t a coffee house to hang out in… especially open late at night. So we looked into it, and for some reason we just took it a step further.”

Danek abandoned his graduate studies and applied for a $5,000 small business loan. The two friends opened Fourth Cost Coffee on 816 S Westnedge Avenue’s ground floor in 1993.

After one and a half years, the business partners split up, and Danek took over as general manager and owner. He hired in some staff to accommodate the café’s growing patronage. After Fourth Coast’s success, Danek set his sights on the floor above the café, which he completely transformed before opening The Crow’s Nest in 2003. Before he remodeled, “[t]here was plaster all over the brick and it was partitioned out in the dining area,” said Danek, “It just didn’t seem to have a good flow.” The restaurant’s current atmosphere mimics its title. Exposed brick and rustic hardwood floors envelop the compact perch that overlooks Westnedge though wrap-around windows.

The transition from running a café to both a café and

a restaurant was difficult for Danek. “I really was silly, honestly, to think I could run a restaurant after running a coffee house,” he said. “It’s a different beast. There’s so much more to get right.”

He says he’s lucky that his businesses dodged the impact of a recession that hit Michigan restaurants particularly hard. On the contrary, he’s “actually hoping to have the best year yet,” he said.

Whatever fears the economy may have brought local businesses, Michigan’s new bar and Hutch Pimentel K’12 contemplates his Davidstown Frighter, a Crow’s Nest breakfast sandwich restaurant smoking ban was what really scared Photo/Elaine Ezekiel K’13 Chris Danek. His 24hour café attracted He always notices when K classes begin because of regulars seeking a tobacco haven in a smoke-free the influx of college students. The late start of K’s world. “That was perhaps the most frightening and fall quarter is good for Danek’s enterprise. He said, uncertain moment,” he recalled. Danek leaned into “I can expect [K students], cross my fingers, to come his fear, and opted to completely remodel the café’s in through the end of [their] semester,” which spans smoke-stained walls and ceiling two days before the later than Western’s. Recently he hired K-alum, smoking ban commenced. Danek concedes, “Although Alyssa _______ to waitress at the restaurant. Between I was a smoker for 20 years and it doesn’t bother me the inexpensive and creative menu, remodeled café, at all, culturally, there’s not doubt about it that it’s just revamped Wi-Fi and 24-hour access to caffeine, The not cool anymore to be a smoker. I think it’ll be good Crows Nest and Fourth Cost Coffee continue to be for business in the end, but I was worried.” what Danek calls “pro-student atmospheres.”

Long-Time Land/Sea Director Plans for Retirement this October

By Thomas Zimmer Staff Writer

After many years of working a K, Tom Breznau, Director of the LandSea program, is retiring at the end of October this year, but he will always remember what K has provided him.

“I have been able to create a lot of wonderful opportunities for my own growth and development as well as the leadership development of others while at K over 31 years. I have had a very positive working relationship with the College and will always cherish the decades I have

spent at K,” Breznau said in an e-mail.

Breznau began his career at K in 1979 within the Economics and Business Department. He became a leader for LandSea in 1981.

“I found an experiential leadership model that changed my whole concept of leadership and personal growth,” he said.

For a while, after his serving as a LandSea leader, he found himself teaching in the MBA program at the University of Zimbabwe. Soon, though, the LandSea

program was calling him back.

“I was contacted by the [former] LandSea director, Prof. Dave Winch, telling me he wanted to leave LandSea and would I be interested in the job,” he said.

Breznau started his new job in 1992. He became responsible for the program on a twelve-month basis, including the selection and training of student leaders and risk management, and students’ experiences have reflected his work.

“Tom, I will forever be grateful

for everything you did for LandSea and for me. The opportunities you and the program have given me have changed my life and have changed me for the better,” said Kristin McBarnes, a former LandSea participant and member of the “Dear Tom Breznau, Thank You For LandSea...”

Facebook group that has been established to honor his legacy with the LandSea program.

For Breznau, it is time to leave the legacy behind. He said he has a “bucket list” See LANDSEA, Page 7

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StuComm Minutes

MEAL PLAN: Student Commission Committee Sees the Rewards of New Meal Plans

The Richardson Room next to Jazzman’s Café, is a place where students can opt to use Munch Money or, after 1:30 p.m., a meal credit swipe. The number of meals used at Stacks instead of Welles is unrestricted unless students have the Carte Blanche meal plan. Under this meal plan, the substituted meals are limited to seven.

Sodexo now allows Munch Money to be replenished in the form of K Cash, which can be credited to student IDs after Munch Money is gone.

Also new are the commuter plans, which have received a good response from students this year, according to Babel.

“Our entire goal was: we were looking for a way to provide more variety for the students and more flexibility,” said Babel.

According to Hall, the other change that added to the confusion of first week was that of eliminating the Lunch Plus option. Rodriguez said that the Food and Dining Services Committee was unaware that Lunch Plus hours were to be eliminated while working to expand meal options for the year.

Babel likened the Stacks Deli option to that of Lunch Plus. She said the options were the same, cold sandwiches and lunch meats—the Stacks option was just something different.

Babel said that she has not received feedback regarding the meal plan changes, though comments can be directed to Sodexo through their website or comment cards available in the cafeteria.

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The Student Commission had their first meeting with all of its new members appointed Monday.

-The Student Commission will be tabling for two hours per semester per month in lieu of holding office hours weekly.

-In efforts to make himself more present on campus, Student Commission President Alex Morgan spoke at the first-year brunch, went to the parent meeting, participated in a Summer Common Reading discussion group, and talked at a Student Life Seminar.

-Because of the Student Activities Fund, budgeting has been altered. The Index, The Cauldron, and WJMD Radio are no longer funded through StuComm. Additionally, Student Organizations may not charge admission for events being held

on campus. Club Sports are currently “in limbo” and are not being funded by StuComm or Athletics.

-The budget request bylaw was amended, allowing StuOrg leaders to bypass the two-weeks-in-advance requirement until Oct. 15.

-StuComm is currently working on designing a new website template, will be designing a new logo, and intends to rent golf carts with a “StuComm” banner and give students rides as a way to promote its role on campus.

The Student Commission allows all students to attend its meetings in the Student Development Suite Monday at 9:00 p.m.

Minutes compiled by Kelsey Nuttall K’13

Student Commission Appointees Sworn In

By Kelsey Nuttall Executive Editor

The new members of the Student Commission, elected last week, swore oaths finalizing their positions at the Monday evening StuComm meeting.

Later in the meeting, Darwin Rodriguez K’13, Executive Board member, joked. “Elections went well… for you guys, at least,” he said.

Alex Morgan, StuComm President then yanked the meeting’s tone back to seriousness. “I think losing is the best way to build character,” he said. Morgan recounted his few student government positions through his junior high and high school careers, and re-capped that elections went flawlessly.

The 17 members elected to positions were announced Monday

morning in a campus-wide e-mail that denoted the names of all candidates and the number of student votes they received. Three students were also appointed to position due to a lack of junior commissioner candidates.

Later, during Monday’s meeting a member of the Executive Board Bridgett Colling K’13 raised discussion regarding the ethics of posting vote counts with the final election results meeting. Colling said that she received a complaint from a student who believed that the published final results were insensitive to candidates who were not awarded positions.

She proposed that in the future, e-mail results will be limited to those elected, with a link providing further election results, such as final vote

tallies, at the bottom. This motion passed.

Morgan said that his concern with unpublished votes was gossip.

“There will be a game of telephone where the numbers keep changing,” he said.

“I think it’s still important for transparency’s sake to include the votes of everybody that ran,” said Colling.

Regardless of controversies, new members of the Student Commission were ready to be officially sworn into their positions. “I’m excited,” said Sam Wolfe K’13. “I’m a part of this really-overwhelming-atfirst organization that brings so much change to the K College community.”

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LANDSEA: Tom Breznau Retires that would be better fulfilled without the responsibility of LandSea, along with a couple of other reasons for leaving. “I will be 64 in November,” he said, “and the college has decided to change the calendar next year causing the LandSea program to have to move to a new park,” he said.

With him leaving, the

College will have to find a new director to accompany the relocation to a new park. “There will be a few interesting changes as a result of this move,” Breznau said, “but the heart of the LandSea program will remain the same leadership model that has been developed over the past thirtyfive years.”

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Counseling Corner:

Listening to Yourself: The Music of Emotions

By Dr. Alan Hill Contributor

Continued from page 5

Photos courtesy of Tom Breznau

Photos courtesy of Tom Breznau

Photo courtesy of kzoo.edu

Like music, emotions range from the primitive to the sublime and offer an infinite variety of experiences. We can learn to listen to our emotions, like we do music, and enrich our lives. We are compositions that are constructed through the experience of our emotions. In turn, the wisdom inherent in ourselves is conveyed in the musical themes of our emotions. Every emotion we experience has an important message for us about ourselves, others and/or the world and also lends us the energy or the motivation to act in an appropriate way to deal with emotional situations.

For instance, guilt may inform us that we did wrong and the energy of the feeling propels us to make amends, or resolve to find a way not to make such a mistake again, while anger may tell us we face an injustice and this feeling gives us the energy to try to correct the injustice.

Anxiety or fear informs us that there is danger and gives us the energy to protect ourselves, while sadness tells us we are experiencing a loss and propels us to come to terms with that loss. So feelings are extremely important as they help us to understand ourselves and our relation to the world around us. By listening to the symphony of our emotions we are listening

to ourselves and from this music we harness information, energy and wisdom.

However, sometimes the music of emotion is too loud and/or chaotic. When feelings are many, constant, negative or painfully intense (e.g., stressed, shame, rage, depression, alienation, panic, and hurt), we may feel overwhelmed and emotions move from ally to enemy. It’s easy to see why one might want to dope feelings in such ways as drug use, cutting, procrastination and denial. Dope coping may short circuit the noise but at the expense of hearing the music.

We become deaf to our emotions; emotional development is stunted and sadly one is unable to experience emotional intimacy since one becomes incapable of sharing feelings.

In articles to follow this quarter, members of the counseling center staff will write about emotions and listening to one’s self. We will explore how we can identify and channel our emotions; how we can lower their volume through such techniques as mindfulness and changing perspective, how we can best work through particular emotions such as hopelessness, sadness, anxiety, guilt and anger and how we can open ourselves to the music of our emotions.

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Hornets Fall in Close Game Against Top-Ranked Team, Calvin College

By Martin Bergstrom Staff Writer

another cry from the crowd as Kalamazoo’s Dane Carey went down under the studs of Calvin’s Nick Holtrop. Again the referee waved play on.

Kalamazoo responded resolutely with a strong counter attack down the left flank. Phil Jackson began the move with a determined slide tackle on the right wing before switching the ball down the left flank. The move stalled there, though, as Calvin managed to get numbers behind the ball and stifle the attack.

K a l a m a z o o ’s center back pairing of Ben Darling and Philip Turner responded heroically as Calvin continued their assault of the Kalamazoo penalty box winning several strong tackles on the edge of the eighteen.

Calvin midfielder Tyler Vetger’s long throws had been causing trouble for the Kalamazoo defense all afternoon, and a throw on 30 minutes was barely punched away by Carey.

Poor set piece defending continued to haunt Kalamazoo as a Calvin free kick beat the entire Kalamazoo defense, including Carey, before bouncing clear.

Moments later, Kalamazoo’s Phil Jackson escaped reprimand for his hard tackle from behind as the whistle had already blown

for a separate offense. Kalamazoo keeper Grant Carey then managed to push a threatening Calvin free kick over the bar and the subsequent corner passed without incident.

The second half began in much the same vain as the first with Kalamazoo playing the counter attack and Calvin controlling through the middle. Kalamazoo was defending resolutely though and constraining Calvin to wild shots from well outside the eighteen.

Calvin was presented with a real chance in the 59th minute though as Vetger skipped past several defenders in the box before his shot was blocked, and then controlled Photo/Ben Fallert K’13 by goalkeeper Dane Kalamazoo’s Alex Arnold Macdonell. was almost through to the goal on Calvin finally broke the 28 minutes but for an excellent deadlock after 64 minutes with a last ditch effort from Calvin’s fortuitous shot from Van Sickel. center back pairing that averted Van Sickel, playing on the left the danger. wing, attempted to round his The half looked destined defender on the outside of the box, to end without incident as both and when unable to find the space, sides seemed content with the opted to shoot instead. It was score line, but in the 44th minute, tentative effort from a tight angle, Calvin’s Tyler Vetger found but had enough power and dip to himself through to the goal. Carey beat the goalkeeper. cut down the angle quickly and Kalamazoo responded managed to get a hand to Vetger’s convincingly with a cross from shot, but Vetger’s follow through Dane Carey. Calvin cleared poorly caught Carey in the shoulder. and Martin Blanc collected the Carey was down for the count ball before beating several Calvin and sophomore Dane Macdonell players to the goal line. His was brought on to replace him. subsequent cross caused a goal line Moments later the whistle blew to scramble as both Phil Jackson and signal the end of the half.

Rory Landis had shots blocked.

Anderson Gymnasium Receives Face Lift

By Kelsey Nuttall Executive Editor

The Anderson Athletic Building’s gymnasium got a facelift over the summer, and is presenting its new and improved self to the campus this week.

The gymnasium floor was redone, the walls were painted bright orange, and new lighting was installed. The new lighting, according to Jeanne Hess, Chair

of the Physical Education Department and Director of the Kalamazoo Athletic Fund, is twice as bright but boasts the use of less electricity.

Hess also added that a giant hornet is now sitting in the middle of the gym flooring. She said, “There’s more hornet spirit.”

As the half dragged on, play became choppy with both sides winning numerous free kicks.

Kalamazoo’s Ben Darling had a free kick cleared before Calvin earned another corner.

Neither side could find a real chance though and Calvin reverted to taking long shots from well outside the box that failed to trouble Macdonell. Calvin had half a look at goal when he misjudged a weak back pass from Kalamazoo’s Philip Turner, but Macdonell managed to clear the ball before Calvin could capitalize.

On the other end a through ball from Blanc put Alex Arnold through on goal before the assistant referee raised his flag for off sides.

With the final whistle looming Kalamazoo threw everything forward with Phil Jackson winning a corner down the right before Ben Darling flashed a shot wide from range. Jackson was then booked for a crunching tackle that, admittedly, did not involve a lot of ball.

Calvin refused to whither under Kalamazoo’s pressure though, and forced Kalamazoo to play long balls forward as the clock wound down. Eventually, Calvin’s diligence paid off as the buzzer marked the ending of a rather conservative display.

Photo/Kelsey Nuttall K’13

The Kalamazoo College men’s soccer team recorded a narrow 0-1 loss against number one ranked Calvin College Wednesday afternoon.

After surviving an intense first half barrage, the Hornets succumbed to a hopeful shot from Calvin’s Van Sickel in the 64th minute. Though both sides continued to attack after the strike, a series of strong tackles and excellent saves relegated the match to a one goal affair.

Calvin, playing in red, started the better of the two sides with their first shot on goal coming after four minutes. It was a poor effort though and Kalamazoo goalkeeper Grant Carey collected it easily.

Carey was called on again two minutes later when he was forced to rush out and block Calvin’s Scott Hooker as he raced through on goal. Carey then pushed clear the subsequent corner.

Calvin continued to pile on the pressure with shots from Zach Willis and Justin Ahearne just missing the Kalamazoo goalmouth.

Kalamazoo, playing in white, responded with their own counter attack that led to a penalty shout as Jared Georgakopoulos went down at the edge of the eighteen.

The referee however, adjudged the collision to be incidental and waved for play to continue.

In the midfield, there was