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Dining tackles food insecurity with meal plan changes By WILLIAM NEWTON NEWS EDITOR After student activists brought forth concerns over food insecurity on campus, the College recently decided to make significant changes to dining services and the meal plan structure. Under the new plan, which will take effect next fall, the College will eliminate the 10-meal plan for all students and the 5-meal plan for seniors living on campus, reduce the cost of the 14-meal plan, allow up to two swipes at any meal on campus and open Lee’s Snack Bar from 2-5 p.m. on weekdays, offering the full menu at the lunch equivalency price. According to Steve Klass, vice president for campus life, the critical goal of ensuring that no student goes hungry prompted the administration’s decision to make these changes. “It’s important to appreciate the centrality of this principle to our decision-making, because we recognized immediately that this meant constraining some set of choices available to students on dining plans,” Klass said. “Based on this fundamental principle, we decided that, from a nutritional wellness perspective, two meals per day for seven days per week should be the minimal baseline of any dining plan offered by the College.” The changes come in response to the work of a number of student activists who

first revealed the wide scope and institutionalized nature of this issue. In the fall of 2015, Sophia Schmidt ’17, began researching food insecurity on campus through her project as an eco-advisor for the Zilkha Center. After hearing rumors of students purposefully choosing lower meal plans and getting inadequate nutrition in order to save money, she created a survey with the goal of reaching as much of the student body as possible. Since the Office of Institutional Research was unable to accommodate her or give her access to an all student listserve, she instead spread the survey through as many student groups and individual listserves as she could and got responses from half of the student body. According to the survey, one in five students said they were not always able to get enough to eat, and roughly one in three students who skip meals listed lack of money as an important reason. “The bottom line is there is a financial issue that’s causing food insecurity on campus,” Schmidt said. “Students are basically dropping down and not supplementing.” That year, Schmidt, along with Allegra Simon ’18, began brainstorming solutions, including a potential swipeshare program between students. Robert Volpi, director of dining services, however,

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Beginning next fall, students can use their swipes at Lee’s Snack Bar between 2-5 p.m. and use up to two swipes during any meal period. did not view any of these initial solutions as feasible given the fixed budget constraints under which dining services operates. Schmidt then published her survey findings and possible solutions in an op-ed for the Record last year (“Our hungry: recognizing the needs of food-insecure students on

campus,” May 4, 2016). In the fall of 2016, Valeria Sosa Garnica ’19 and Ayami Hatanaka ’18 both gained interest in addressing food insecurity on campus. Hatanaka got in contact with Schmidt after seeing her survey results and reaching out to Klass about the issue, and Garnica, who also saw

these results posted around campus, began working on the project as an eco-advisor this year. “The three of us really hunkered down and got together to form a loose team,” Hatanaka said. After the students began extensively researching food security on campus, it became apparent that

it was institutional issue, rather than an individualized one. The students found that, among other things, minorities and students on financial aid were disproportionally affected. According to Garnica, the

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Oxford mental health services fall short for WEPO students College wind farm efforts proved ill-fated By RACHEL SCHARF EXECUTIVE EDITOR

By SOPHIA SCHMIDT CONTRIBUTING WRITER The following is the first part of a three part series on the plan for the College to build a windfarm in Berlin, N.Y. Reed Zars '77 put his life on the line for science. At 21, he climbed 150 feet up a radio tower—without a harness—to install an anemometer. “It’s just ice on each rung going higher, higher,” Zars said of his winter 1977 ascent above Mt. Raimer. “As it gets a little more questionable with each step, the wind picks up and of course tries to dispose of you ... Your fingers are freezing … you’re being buffeted, and you have to let go to bolt this thing on.” The thing in question — an anemometer — is an instrument that measures wind speeds. Zars, then a senior at the College, needed wind speed data for his one-man crusade to reduce his school’s impact on the environment. Over the past forty years, Zars’ idea for a college-owned wind farm on Berlin Pass has been the subject of two student theses, four student feasibility reports, two summer research fellowships, numerous news articles, a public opinion survey, a Berlin zoning board of appeals meeting, a professional feasibility study and a petition. Despite the College’s recent commitment to net carbon neutrality by the end of 2020, however, the Berlin Pass wind farm is no longer under consideration. Zars is now a prominent environmental lawyer in Laramie, Wyo. His recent work taking on big utilities has earned him the nickname “the environmental lone ranger,” which, it seems, he has always been. In 1977, inspired by President Jimmy Carter’s charge to conserve energy and develop renewable resources, Zars proposed the College’s first campus conservation measures and ways to provide the school with clean electricity. Zars’ greatest conservation victory was his discovery that an oil tank in the College’s central heating plant was losing three percent of its energy to ambient heat loss. Thanks to Zars, Buildings and Grounds could insulate

the tank, reaping such significant savings that Zars’ faculty advisor petitioned — unsuccessfully — that the Board of Trustees waive Zars’ student debt. Zars’ creative ideas in the realm of renewable energy would ultimately have more of an impact. His 1977 report titled “Proposed Wind Energy System for Williams College,” complete with jokes, musings and hand-drawn graphs, suggests that three 200kW wind turbines (today’s smallest commercial turbines generate around 500 kW) be built on college-owned land atop Berlin Pass in Berlin, N.Y. In conceiving the Berlin Pass wind farm, Zars drew on his experience growing up in the Midwest, where old homestead windmills were a common sight. He and his brother had experimented with wind energy, once to the devastation of their mother’s bedroom, where a turbine landed after crashing through the roof. When Zars came to the College, he experimented more with windmills, attaching one to the roof of Baxter Hall —which was then the student center, located where Paresky Center now stands — and running a wire down to the Williams Outing Club headquarters, where it powered a radio and a light bulb. “Every student saw [the windmill and] would comment on it ... It was very fun to have that up and increase people’s awareness that in fact, right in Williamstown, we could generate some of our own power,” Zars said. With his anemometer on nearby Mt. Raimer, Zars approximated wind speeds on the College’s land, confirming his suspicion about a wind funnel effect on Berlin Pass. According to Zars’ calculations, this meant that the three turbines could produce between 20-50 percent of the college’s electricity needs. He estimated that the project would cost roughly $524,400

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In the first part of a Closer Look on mental health resources abroad, the Record explored the experiences and concerns associated with studying abroad at a program approved by but not associated with the College. This week, we turn our attention to experiences with mental health at one of the only study-abroad program operated by the College: the WilliamsExeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO). Across all of the study away programs approved by the College, mental health resources vary by program in large part along the lines of divergent standards and expectations of the host country’s culture. This same trend plays out in student experiences with mental health services at WEPO; the ways in which its mental health resources differ from those found at the College are closely tied to England’s culture surrounding mental health and their socialized health care system, the National Health Service (NHS). As students at Oxford, WEPO participants have free access to two lines of formal treatment: the Oxford University Counseling Center (OUCC) and local hospitals through the NHS. However, both options tend to have long waiting lists and offer almost exclusively shortterm counseling services. Gretchen Long, professor of history and current director of WEPO, explained how the OUCC is structured around

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Oxford's mental health services are both difficult to access and short-term in care. temporary counseling. “The mental health services do offer counseling, but it’s often on a short-term basis. They will often see a student for a few sessions that seem quite targeted at one specific problem,” she said. “They are primarily concerned with keeping students safe. They do not offer the kind of ‘on tap’ therapy that students might have been used to at Williams. This model is true at Oxford, and indeed, I think, over most of the U.K.” The OUCC’s services, in fact, terminate after six weeks for any student. Wait times for the OUCC can also be much longer than students in need are comfortable with. Teague Morris ’17,

who attended WEPO last year, recalled learning that he would have to wait six weeks to see a counselor. Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom, who served as WEPO director during the 2014-2015 term, concurred that this long waiting list is a common occurrence at Oxford. “While the [OUCC] is well-equipped to provide good care, our students have sometimes reported facing waitlists or session caps at times, depending on the current demand on the system,” she said. The other cost-free formal therapy options that WEPO students have access to are those provided by the NHS.

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When students from the College study abroad, they face an alarming discrepancy in access to mental health services compared to what they can access in Williamstown. Difficulties in procuring care and a lack of communication about services offered by particular programs leave students abroad with fewer options for addressing their mental health needs. Students’ mental health issues should have as little bearing as possible on their decision concerning whether or not to study abroad. The College has a responsibility to address the gap in mental health services, especially at the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO). At WEPO, students pay roughly the same tuition as if they were at the College, with a slightly decreased fee for boarding, and live in a Collegeowned property. However, students must contend with mental health services that do not approach the quality or accessibility of those at the College. Services through Oxford have long enrollment waiting lists and short maximum durations for counseling while provid-

Word on the Quad Can you name another song by Shaggy besides "It Wasn't Me"? By JANETH RODRIGUEZ PHOTO EDITOR

JESUS ESTRADA ’20

"I only know of 'Angel.'"

MARIANNA RODRIGUEZ '19

"I don't know of any."

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"'Angel?' 'Mr. Boombastic?' Is this really the question?"

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The College's duty to improve access to psychological supports for students studying abroad ers through the National Health Service (NHS) in England are overburdened and have similarly long wait times for care. Seemingly, the best option for students at WEPO in need of counseling is to rely on private providers, but the high costs of such services can ultimately prove prohibitive. The College must address the paucity of quality mental health resources at WEPO. If quality care is not being delivered through the existing structures, the College should commit to funding sessions with private providers to ensure that students have opportunities to promptly access care and sustain relationships with providers whenever and as long as and they need them. WEPO students attend a program run by the College and thus deserve psychological care comparable with what they could access in Williamstown. Furthermore, the College can do more to increase the transparency of mental health options at various study abroad programs. We commend the College for increasing the availability of mental health information about WEPO in its

pre-departure information sessions, but it can do more to expand access to information for other programs. Information about mental health services should be easily available to students as they consider and compare different programs and locations. One tool which many students use to evaluate the merits of particular destinations and programs is the collection of surveys from students returning from studying abroad. Each survey includes evaluations of both the academic experience of the program as well as the lifestyle and ease of living in the country or city where the program is located. The Office of International Education and Study Away should create a section on the survey that is devoted to the assessment of mental health services, including the ease of accessing the services. Students applying to popular programs would then be able to use the evaluations as part of their decision processes. Since accessing care across different cultures and languages is difficult, the College should also consider

adding pre-departure education on mental health resources for those going abroad. By increasing the visibility of resources (or relative lack thereof) on particular programs, students can be better prepared to deal with mental health while abroad. Students who choose to study abroad face many challenges, and it is imperative that the College strive to ensure that students have sufficient access to mental health services. By implementing solutions during both the pre-departure process and students’ times abroad, the College can begin to bridge the gap in mental health services and affirm its responsibility to providing access and care for all students.

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students every year, whether or not she’s teaching the class! The ongoing commitment of the entire teaching team is critical to the success of this worthwhile experiential learning program. Thank you for highlighting its value to our students and the community.

To the Editor: I write to share a small correction in the Record’s otherwise excellent coverage (“Income tax volunteers provide critical service to community,” March 15, 2017) of the College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA). The course, which launched the program in 2005, was first taught by Professor of Economics Lucie Schmidt. Since then, five other economics faculty have taught the class on a rotating basis, including Professors Sara LaLumia, Bill Gentry, Tara Watson, Jon Bakija and Lara Shore-Sheppard. Professor LaLumia’s dedication goes even further: she volunteers alongside our

Paula Consolini Director of the Center for Learning in Action & Site Administrator for Purple Valley VITA To the Editor: I write to the students who have protested the naming of Horn Hall. While I would fight to defend your right to protest, I ask you to consider the following: life is complicated. Too soon, all of you will have to leave the purple bubble and live your life. You will make mistakes. You will say unkind things. You will fall short of your own highest ideals in ways great and small, and you will do this all the time. However, I hope

that people who don’t know you won’t judge you harshly, publicly and self-righteously by your most difficult moments. And, I hope that this judgment won’t come from a community for which you have worked tirelessly, donated generously and love with all your heart because that would be cruel and unfair. Dave Futterman '87

CORRECTION A previous version of "CC Aproves Uncomfortable Learning as an RSO," published on Feb. 22, misstated the limits on the capacity of registered student organizations (RSO) to bring in outside speakers. An RSO may bring any speaker to campus, so long as it reveals the source of the funding to the College and provides two weeks notice of the event.

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The 2016-2017 academic year is the year of “Confronting Climate Change” at the College. First-years were sent a copy of The Sixth Extinction by our very own Environmental Fellow-in-Residence Elizabeth Kolbert, and dozens of speakers were flown in from across the country to provide students with a variety of perspectives on environmental issues. However, these talks have a self-selecting audience: professors in environmental studies, majors, concentrators, Divest Williams, the Williams Environmental Council (WEC) and a few eccentric locals. This attendees are not “confronted” by climate change. If anything, they are confronted with the reality that they see the same people at these events, a population that should not be the only one in our community thinking about the urgent threat of climate change and the implications it has for all of us. The year of “Confronting Climate Change” suggests urgency and action, yet an attitude of nonchalance towards environmental issues prevails amongst the majority of the College’s population. Part of this atmosphere may lie in the College’s failure to visibly improve campus sustainability to an extent that makes the declaration of this year as the year of “Confronting Climate Change” appear to be more than a mere publicity stunt instead of a genuine attempt to take responsibility for our environmental impact. The quiet promise to buy carbon offsets so the College can claim carbon neutrality obscures the consequences of campus operations as it transfers responsibility for reducing emissions, allowing us to evade recognition of our personal agency as long as the institution as a whole maintains an appearance of activism. This appearance, however, is utterly transparent, and it is the individual’s responsibility to see through it. The College has more square footage per capita than any other higher educational institution. The energy required to maintain the heat, electricity and water access in buildings composes the largest share of campus emissions. Even though new construction projects are held to higher standards for sustainability, the College’s continuous energy waste through inessential growth and expansion calls into question the real motives behind

the actions of the administration. Whatever these motives are, there has to be a point where we stop and take a look at the implications of our actions – and if the actions of the school we attend seem irresponsible and disconnected from reality, it is understandable why students tend to assume a similar attitude. However recognizable this uninterested attitude may be, it is no longer acceptable in this present climate crisis. The geographic location of the College makes it easy for students to maintain a narrow worldview, which affects the way we assign importance to issues like climate change as opposed to, for example, having a single dorm room. It takes a proactive effort to stay informed about the world outside the purple bubble and, for many, not knowing about what’s happening outside of campus means not being able to see oneself as a part of the world outside the College. Yet we choose to be here, and the overwhelming majority does so because this is a place of learning – a college whose isolated location shouldn’t matter as much as its unparalleled educational potential. Our mission statement reads: “No one can pretend to more than guess at what students now entering college will be called upon to comprehend in the decades ahead ... Toward that end we extend a curriculum that ... reflects the complexity and diversity of the world.” The merit of the College’s academics is uncontested, both by the outside world and students. However, with knowledge comes power – power that we are choosing not to utilize by limiting the reach of our classroom knowledge to the purple bubble, when the world at large needs this intellect now more than ever. To confront climate change, we must confront ourselves. We must confront the way we live our lives and the fact that our lives exist as part of the world outside the purple bubble. Recognizing the power that comes with a Williams education means taking responsibility for ourselves as individuals, even if the College itself fails to. In a time when, as our mission statement says, we can’t even begin to fathom what the imminent future holds, we have to be cognizant of the reality of the present and live our lives in way that honors this awareness.

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AR There’s a quote that, among people who love the arts, gets passed around when something terrible happens. I first heard it during my sophomore year of high school, when news of the Boston Marathon bombing spread. It made its rounds on social media and was repeated by musicians at concerts for weeks. I heard it again in 2015, during the outrage over the killing of Freddie Gray by the Baltimore Police Department and again, a few months later, when a white man killed nine people in an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. It came up again after the attacks in Paris and Beirut, then in Nice, now in London. It’s been deployed as a stance against war and terror and has been claimed as a mantra by musicians to justify their craft in a cruel world. It’s a quote by Leonard Bernstein, delivered in remarks after a memorial concert for John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963: “This will be our reply to violence – to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before,” he said. I thought about this quote a lot following the election of Donald Trump. I thought about how empty it had come to feel. Again, and again, as more and more terrible events have happened, artists have turned to this idea – that the simple act of making something beautiful could make the world a better place. And yet, after the Trump election, I struggled to see how we could continue to make art in a time of such fear. There had, after all, been a tide of violent hate crimes in the wake of Trump’s election, and his campaign had guaranteed continued violence with its platform of increased

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defense and militarization. He had run on a platform that targeted and victimized marginalized populations, that awakened and fueled hatred and that granted political legitimacy to a platform of white supremacy. What good is art in the face of an oppressor? Why should beauty matter in a time of cruelty? As a musician, a performer and even a liberal arts student, I struggled to see how anything I could do would make a tangible difference. I could sit in a classroom and discuss Weber’s notion of state violence. We could talk about Benjamin’s theory of art in an age of mechanical production or discuss the philosophical underpinnings of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. I could play you a Beethoven sonata or, as Bernstein did at that memorial concert, perform Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony. However, all of this seemed to be quite removed from the very concrete ways in which people, across the country and around the world, were suffering. Indeed, artists will have to recognize the fact that the world faces problems that they, alone, cannot solve. The arts can’t stop a bullet from killing another person, nor can it end hunger or poverty. It’s going to take a coalition of people, from different backgrounds and disciplines, to come together to solve the problems we face. As an act of individual expression, art can be a powerful weapon against cultural and political oppression. There is a reason that Plato wanted to banish the poets, that Stalin threatened and cen-

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As alumni from the class of 1966, which gave $5 million to build the new Environmental Center, we hope President Adam Falk will attend environmentalist Bill McKibben’s campus lecture on April 20, listen to his call for action to stem climate change and reconsider the College’s decision to preserve the fossil fuel assets in its endowment portfolio. Falk opposes such a sale because he believes that it would be a meaningless gesture. However, he has avoided what may be the crux of the matter — conflicts of interest which hit some of the trustees in their pocketbooks and color their world views. Consider the fact that on Oct. 5, 2016, Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Eisenson ’77 wrote to the Record to spell out the Board’s position on climate change (“Green financing: The College’s investment in reversing climate change”). “To the many members of the community who have urged the College to lead in the fight against climate change: Thank you,” he began. However, he continued, because of the complexities involved in stripping oil and gas assets from the endowment portfolio, the Board has made “a studied and careful decision not to adopt a divestment policy.” The same day, Eisenson’s private equity firm, Charlesbank, announced it was selling their stake in Blueknight, a crude oil, gas and asphalt services company, for $95.3 million. Another potential conflict of interest comes from trustee O. Andreas Halvorsen ’86. Speaking at a forum in Griffin Hall last fall, he accused students campaigning for divestment of being spoiled children who didn’t understand how the real world worked (“Is the administration listening?: Divest Williams responds to trustee condescension,” Nov. 9, 2016). Nowhere did

Leonard Bopp ’19 is from Albany, N.Y. He lives in Mark Hopkins.

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sored Soviet composers. Art, as an object of cultural thought, has power. After all, an oppressor will try to silence the people who will fight against their cruelty and who will demand a more free, humane society. In the face of oppression, we must be a part of the fight. We must also recognize that being an artist is a privilege; it is not a privilege afforded to everyone. This is not to say that there aren’t people from marginalized populations making art – indeed, some of today’s most important art is being made by those who have been historically marginalized. This is to say that access to the arts is a often matter of socioeconomic privilege. Early exposure to the arts varies dramatically in public schools across the country. The ability to access concerts and museums is often available only to the affluent. The ability to make art is generally something reserved for people who have access to the quality education and training that being an artist can require. Therefore, as artists and as people who believe in the power of the arts, we have a vital responsibility. We must give a voice to the otherwise voiceless. We must use our power to challenge oppression, to build strong and inclusive communities. We will make art in the name of justice and freedom because the world, and the fate of humanity, depends on it.

he mention that his hedge fund held significant stakes in four oil companies or that he and some colleagues personally controlled 5.4 percent of one of them. We calculate that ten of 21 trustees have material financial links to the oil and gas industry. For example, the most recently elected trustee, Mark Tercek ’79, is the president of The Nature Conservancy. This position sounds environmentally friendly, and his board appointment was hailed by Eisenson as proof of Williams’ commitment to fighting climate change. Nevertheless, prior to this post, Tercek ran the environmental markets group at Goldman Sachs, which has earned millions of dollars from gas and oil production on its properties. As students know, trustee Joey Horn ’87 resigned when it was publicized that she and her husband had been convicted in a court in Oslo, Norway for employing two Filipino au pairs, rather than the one they were legally entitled, and making them work 60 hours a week, twice the legal limit. They may even face jail time. (“Joey Horn ’87 resigns from Board following conviction,” Feb. 22, 2017). Falk’s silence on the matter coincided with the construction of a new dormitory financed by the Horns (“Horn Hall opens as new residence,” Sept. 14, 2016). It raises suspicions that the College hoped to get away with spending money tainted by the oil and gas industry. If liberal institutions like Williams expect the country to take us seriously again, we need to clean up the messes in our own backyards first. A start would be the sale of the oil and gas assets in the College’s endowment portfolio. The College should also list its fossil fuel assets and register the fossil fuel interests of the trustees.

We calculate that ten of 21 trustees have material financial links to the oil and gas industry.

Peter Koenig ’66 lives in London, U.K. David Tobis ’66 lives Oakland, Calif.

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Last month, the faculty of the College replaced the Exploring Diversity Initiative (EDI) with the Difference, Power and Equity (DPE) requirement. This change is the result of years of work by students, faculty and staff to rethink one of the College curriculum’s fundamental tenets: the EDI requirement. And it is one of the most important curricular changes to happen during my four years at Williams. The curriculum at the College is built on six pillars. Three of these pillars are the divisions – the languages and the arts (I), the social sciences (II) and the natural sciences (III). These divisions define course exploration and the value of the liberal arts at the College. By requiring students to take three courses in each of these three divisions, the College is embracing the value of a well-rounded education. This is the fundamental groundwork for what makes a Williams education what it is. What you may learn in an English class could inform how you think in your math class and vice versa. And, after we graduate, all of these skills we gain, from literary analysis to fossil examination, will shape how we think about and make sense of the world. The divisional requirements are the foundation of a liberal arts education, built on the premise that learning disparate topics will come together to form one unified whole. That unified whole being you, a Williams graduate. The value of the divisions is tied into the value of the liberal arts education, something we all bought into when we chose to attend the College. However, there are the other three pillars that define the Williams academic experience – the core requirements, if you will, that develop specific skills. These three pillars include the Writing Intensive (WI) re-

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quirement, the Quantitative and Formal Reasoning (QFR) requirement, and now the DPE requirement. These three requirements define the Williams Curricular Triad. The purpose of the Curricular Triad is not one of breadth but rather one of fundamental skills. For students to succeed in the 21st century, the College believes, we should be able to communicate effectively, analyze formally and understand differing perspectives. These skills transcend the divisions and define how we think about the world around us. Through the WI requirement, students learn how to communicate, conveying ideas in compelling ways. Through the QFR requirement, students learn formal analysis – how to construct a logical argument and rationally analyze problems. And, through the new DPE requirement, students learn the value of perspective and how to see the societal structures that define how we live and interact with each other. It is this third component of the Triad, the new DPE requirement, that crystallizes the Triad’s importance. Communication is important, reasoning is important, but being able to understand how the structures we analyze function is fundamental. That is why DPE matters. It’s about understanding the fabric of the world around us, and it’s about how we think about that world. These three core principles are the tenets of a Williams education. They give students the skills to critically analyze and make sense of situations around them. They work in coordination with the liberal arts divisional requirements, which empower students with a diverse range of academic experiences. As a student, it’s often hard to see the value of this liberal arts approach and how it might actually

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help us be active and engaged citizens. While we on the Committee for Educational Affairs have constructed the Triad as three distinct units, the Triad’s true value comes from the cooperation of communication, analysis and perspective. It is only when you, as a geoscience major, find yourself in a fiction writing class that the intersection between communication, formal analysis and perspective becomes evident. Because the act of fiction writing is not only about communicating, but also about making sense of the world. It is only when you, doing a sociology independent study on food, find yourself analyzing 19th-century cookbooks that the importance of developing a formal analytical structure meshes with the need to understand the societal systems that created these cookbooks. It is only when you, as a senior in your spring semester at Williams, find yourself drawing on skills you gained in classes from freshman year that the entire value of the Curricular Triad – and the three-divisional requirements – finally comes together. For me, the Curricular Triad is something that I am actively seeing the value of through my studies. And I have no doubt I’ll continue to see the value of it when I enter the workforce next year. With the Triad of skills, Williams students graduate empowered to take on any situation, armed with a toolkit of knowledge allowing them to communicate effectively, analyze formally and employ different perspectives. So, when you graduate, don’t forget to take that toolbox with you as your Williams education empowers you to make a difference in the world. Jeffrey Rubel ’17 is a geosciences major from Kansas City, Mo. He lives in Poker Flats.

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Psych services hires new therapists, receives approval for new building By NEENA PATEL EXECUTIVE EDITOR In March, during the midcycle budget approval process, the College’s Psychological Counseling Services (PCS) received approval to hire two additional full time therapists. PCS is in the process of recruiting for these two positions. This endeavor is part of the College’s goal to grow PCS, and this year alone the College has added over 65 clinical hours per week, or the equivalent of over two full time therapists, as well as contracted two other therapists in January. In the 2015-16 academic year, 29 percent of the student body utilized PCS, a 13 percent increase from 10 years prior. There has also been an 80 percent increase in the annual number of individual therapy hours that are scheduled since 2009. “This kind of strategic growth in service is only possible through continued College investment in mental health,” Wendy Adam, director of PCS, said. “Where many college mental health services refer students to external providers, cap the length or number of individual therapy sessions or provide primarily crisis intervention and stabilization services, PCS continues to offer comprehensive, inhouse psychotherapeutic and

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The College will convert Hewat House at 100 Hoxsey St. to a new home for Psych Services. psychiatric care for students, without any caps on service.” PCS offers psychotherapeutic services such as individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric services like assessment and medication management, psychoeducational workshops and crisis assessment through on-call phone coverage 24/7 and crisis intervention appointments. Adam joined the College as director of PCS in November of 2016, the same week as the U.S. presidential election. “I experienced firsthand the unwav-

ering investment of the PCS team and the unquestionably supportive presence of administration across departments, in seeking a solid place for students to flourish, even and especially amidst change,” Adam said. “The strategy we bring looks to meet not only current demand for clinical services, but larger systemic impact within Williams and beyond.” Not only was PCS approved to hire two new therapists, but last weekend the Board of Trustees also approved a capital project to develop long-

term housing for PCS in the renovated Hewat House at 100 Hoxsey St. The renovation project will take a couple of years but will allow all of PCS to reside in the same location and keep them close to medical services, as this house is directly across the street from the Thompson Health Center. “These significant, strategic increases in medical and mental health staffing over the past few years have created substantial pressure on space at Thompson Health Center,” Adam said.

“With rapid expansion in PCS personnel to meet increasing demand – difficulties arose in accessing appropriate clinical space, resulting in therapy offices spread out across campus, now in four locations (Health Center, Davis Center, Peer Health and First Congregational Church).” The Health Center has also had to relocate several other staff and turn one large office into two, impacting the services as a whole. “With a residential feel to contribute to student comfort in accessing PCS services, and situated directly across the street from Thompson Health Center, the Hewat House renovation serves an important role in the Health Center’s strategic plans for leadership in whole student wellness and wellbeing services,” Adam said. “I’m remarkably proud of our ongoing investments in staff and facilities, all of which are driven by our profound desire to see all students thrive because they have intentionally chosen holistic wellbeing over all other attributes,” Steve Klass, Vice President for Campus Life, said. “Our long-term goal is to ensure that everyone graduates from Williams with the tools they need to flourish throughout their lives and that they have the expertise

and desire to pay this investment forward into their families and workplaces.” PCS is also continuing to change their training program, which expanded in 2015 to become a formal college mental health fellowship program that hosts three fulltime post-doctorate psychotherapy fellows for two years. The fellows complete supervised clinical hours that are required for state licensure and also partner with Antioch University and Smith so that fellows can get the required internship hours that they need for training. “Through our training program, Williams can affect macro, systemic changes through the leadership of our training graduates,” Adam said. “While in fellowship, fellows learn crucial curricula and skills necessary in this specialty area, while providing continuous, supervised clinical care for Williams students across two academic years as they achieve required milestones for professional licensure.” “Future plans for PCS aim to promote wellbeing through multifaceted efforts, while still offering the full array of our current intervention and treatment services,” Adam said. “The past five months at Williams [have] convince[d] me that, together, we can lead, and lead well.”

Acceptance rate for class of 2021 drops to record low of 14.6 percent By FRANCESCA PARIS one as gender fluid and one as COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR questioning. 95 are international students, who together On March 23, the College represent 47 nationalities. Of announced that it had offered domestic students, 50 per1253 students admission to the cent are students of color (220 Class of 2021. Following a 22 students are Asian American, percent spike in applications to 214 are black, 175 are Latino the College for a total applicant and 17 are Native American). pool of 8593, the College had Additionally, 274 are firstan acceptance rate of 14.6 per- generation college students, cent, down from 17 percent for and 86 have a parent who atthe Class of 2020 and the low- tended the College. One admitest in the history of the College. ted student is a U.S. Marine. Of the students admitted, “This year’s applicant pool 573 identify as women, 593 as was the largest and strongest men, five as transgender, three in the College’s history, which as non-binary, one as agender, made rendering decisions parone as gender non-conforming, ticularly challenging,” Richard

Nesbitt ’74, director of admission, said. “We anticipate yielding a terrific and diverse class of powerful academics, curious problem-solvers, and engaged community members.” Among domestic admitted students, 30 percent are from the Mid-Atlantic, 24 percent from the West, 17 percent from the Northeast, 15 percent from the South, 8 percent from the Midwest and 6 percent from the Southwest. Four students are from Puerto Rico and two are from the U.S. Virgin Islands. The average SAT scores for students who submitted results from the old SAT are

Revkin, Gill discuss climate activism By SOPHIA SCHMIDT STAFF WRITER Last Wednesday, environmental journalist Andrew Revkin and paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill joined Nick Howe, associate professor of environmental studies, and Phoebe Cohen, assistant professor of geosciences, in a roundtable discussion about communicating climate change in a “post-fact world.” Gill, assistant professor of paleoecology & plant ecology at the University of Maine, is a first-generation college graduate from a working-class background (both of her grandfathers were employed in the fossil fuel industry). Gill identifies as rooted in the “demographic we hear a lot about” regarding Trump’s election. Despite her fossil-fueled roots, Gill, a selfproclaimed geek, is not only a practicing scientist but is a vocal advocate for climate action. Through her paleoecology research, Gill “recreates past environments” which help her understand ecosystem resilience under a changing climate. Gill, who describes herself as “Indiana Jones meets Leslie Knope,” is a co-organizer of the upcoming March for Science. She is a vocal advocate for marginalized identities in scientific fields, and works on effective modes of climate communication. Revkin has covered climate change since the 1980s. He wrote for the New York Times for 21 years, where he started the opinion blog Dot Earth, and was one of the masterminds behind the concept of the Anthropocene, a “geologic age of our own making.” He recently joined the team at ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, as a senior reporter on climate change. Despite his years covering the subject, Revkin admits that he didn’t fully “confront” climate change until the early 2000s. Before that, he thought of it as just another environmental problem—as something we can solve. He believes now that there is no we; there are “fundamental differences,” he said, in how different groups of people react to information. In addition, Revkin now sees climate change as an incredibly complex issue entwined in all aspects of the human experience. He is wary of solutions that come as perky soundbites. Gill and Revkin kicked off Wednesday’s roundtable with a discussion of scientists stepping into the political realm. Revkin pointed out that scientists are still citizens, parents, and voters, and are thus entitled to participating in political processes. However, he emphasized, a scientist’s work is separate from their civil interests. Still, science will and always has been inherently political, Gill pointed out, because it is done by humans. According to Gill, National Science Foundation grant applications ask about the societal relevance of proposed research. The fact that Gill’s research has implications for policy and

society is considered “a feature, not a bug.” According to Gill, this kind of institutional support for applied science has helped foster a culture of public outreach among younger scientists. Gill and Revkin pointed to social media as a useful tool for science communication. Revkin called social media a “zone of accuracy” in which citizen scientists can contribute to the verification process. Gill also uses social media to humanize scientists in the public imagination by presenting herself as a normal human with interests and passions. “It’s all about leveraging the communities you’re already involved in,” Gill said, whether those be boy scouts, church, or a sports team. She emphasized the importance of “building consensus.” Climate communication succeeds through human connections. “You don’t have to talk about the IPCC,” she said. “Have a conversation about fly fishing.” Many people approach conversations with climate deniers as fights to be won with facts, Gill said. However, this rests on the assumption of the information deficit model—that if people only knew the facts, they would act. According to Revkin, this model has been disproven. “I have several degrees in science,” Gill said, “and I don’t use any of them at Thanksgiving. I use my theater experience from high school.” By that, she meant she practices empathy. Someone might disagree with you about a carbon tax, Gill pointed out, but “no one’s going to say, ‘Your kid with asthma can suck it!’” Revkin suggested that instead of focusing on mitigation in conversations about climate change, we focus on adaptation. Mitigation chats are difficult, as they center around constraints and what people need to give up. Discussions of resilience, on the other hand, center around weatherizing homes or helping farms adapt to changing temperature — things that are positive for all those involved. “We know that doom and gloom turns people off,” Gill said. According to Revkin, we must embrace the effects of climate change that can’t be reversed during our lifetimes. “It’s all about ownership,” he said. Gill noted that the upside to the Anthropocene is that it “gives us permission to be more hands-on.” This hands-on approach to environmental stewardship might come in the form of re-wilding campaigns or planned relocations of species, she said. How can you help further science communication? If you’re a scientist, leak information to journalists. Leaking “makes you feel like a super-spy,” Gill said. If you’re a writer, Revkin advised, “Listen.” Sarah Cooperman ’17, a biology major and environmental studies concentrator, appreciated hearing that “talking convincingly about climate change doesn’t require a science degree.” “For once,” Cooperman said, “I felt positive leaving a discussion on climate change.”

736 in critical reading, 737 in math and 732 in writing. Average scores submitted for the redesigned exam are 722 in evidence-based reading and writing and 721 in math. The average super-scored ACT is 33. Of the accepted students who submitted high school rank, 93 percent will graduate in the top 10 percent of their classes. Of admitted students, 68 percent applied for financial aid. Admission decisions are need-blind for domestic students and the College provides financial aid packages (including grants, work-study options and loans), which

are intended to meet 100 percent of what the College calculates as “demonstrated need” for each student. The College accepted 230 students who are affiliated with the QuestBridge program, an organization which helps the College identify high-achieving high school students from low-income backgrounds. Additionally, 129 admitted students participated in Windows on Williams (WOW), a program in the fall that provides high-achieving high school seniors from lowincome backgrounds the opportunity to visit the College.

As in recent years, the desired size for the Class of 2021 is 550 students. Via the early decision process, 257 students have already committed to attend the College. 16 students were admitted through the QuestBridge Match program, and another 13 will join the class after deferring admission last year. On April 24-25, all admitted students are invited to attend Williams Previews to explore campus, experience the entry system and engage with future professors and classmates. Students admitted through regular decision have until May 1 to decide whether or not to enroll.

SPRING STREET BLUES Monday 4-3-17

Friday 4-7-17

2:21 p.m. Spencer Art Studio Building: A professor requested assistance for a student on the second floor. Officers met the student in the parking lot and transported the student to the Health Center.

8:05 p.m. Bryant House: A student called Campus Safety & Security (CSS) to report a student outside on the fourth floor ledge who had poured some alcohol off the ledge and then threw the bottle down. Officers went to Bryant and spoke with the student involved.

3:54 p.m. Hopkins Hall: A student reported several Magic, The Gathering items missing, which were possibly stolen from his room in Carter between March 22 and April 1. 9:35 p.m. Sawyer Library: An officer responded to a report of a broken window on the south side ground level of the building and secured the glass break for the night. The officer placed a work order for architectural trades to replace the window.

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10:00 p.m. Dodd House: A student reported that they had needed to use an inhaler due to a marijuana odor. Officers went to the second floor to investigate but were unable to determine where the odor was coming from. 11:09 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded to the swing behind Gladden House for a noise complaint. There was a small group of people that did not appear to be making a lot of noise. Officers advised them of the noise complaint and they agreed to keep the noise volume down.

11:13 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded to a noise complaint and found three students watching a movie in a common room. They advised the students of the noise complaint. 11:25 p.m. Fayerweather Hall: CSS received a report of a student that may have been intoxicated and gone outside without shoes. Students were concerned after seeing a female in the first floor hallway knocking on doors and then entering a room that they knew did not belong to her. 11:32 p.m. Mission Park: Officers activated 911 in response to a student that they observed excessively vomiting, spitting and dry heaving into a trash bucket. The officers described the student’s skin color as “ghastly grey.” The student could not keep his eyes open and could not carry any kind of conversation. Williamstown Village Ambulance evaluated and transported him. Saturday 4-8-17

Tuesday 4-4-17 2:17 a.m. Hopkins Hall: A guest reported a lost wallet that had been missing since the previous evening in Morgan kitchen. Officers filed a theft report and took the guest to the Williamstown Police Department (WPD) to file a police report. 9:26 p.m. Fayerweather Hall: An officer met with a student who was concerned that someone may have been in her room and written something on the wall while she was away on break. Wednesday 4-05-17 11:27 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded to a noise complaint in a common room, and found three students completing homework while talking quietly. They advised the students of the complaint.

7:50 p.m. Prospect House: Officers responded to a report of an out of control student breaking things. Students were trying to calm another who was pacing and mumbling in an agitated manner. He was also chewing on something very crunchy that he claimed was glass. He told officers he had taken crystal meth. The officers called 911, and the student continued hallucinating and spitting on the floor until an ambulance arrived from the WPD and transported him. 9:42 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded to a noise complaint for a common room, but found students sitting quietly on the floor talking with quiet music. The students looked like they were about to start a game and there was no alcohol present.

Thursday 4-6-17

10:50 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded again to a noise complaint for the same common room. There were 10 students present and no music playing.

4:15 pm Health Center: Staff asked for assistance in locating a student that failed to show for their appointment this afternoon.

11:30 p.m. Gladden House: Officers responded to a third noise complaint for the same common room and found the area quiet.

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Dining services addresses Wind farm efforts fail to catch campus food insecurity CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 first barrier to making large-scale changes to the meal plan structure was making the administration aware of the scope of this issue. “Administrators first saw this as an individualized issue, but we really resisted this,” she said. “You can’t fix this problem by giving more money to certain people.” All three students agreed that the administration was not ignoring this issue, but rather did not understand how widespread the issue actually was at first. According to Schmidt, the administration lacked any significant data on food insecurity until she published her survey. Though all three students met with administrators periodically throughout the year, they were not directly involved in actually developing the official new plan. Instead, they said, their role was limited to making the administrators aware of the widespread issue of food insecurity on campus. “Our primary role was in bringing the issue up, and trying to define the nature of the problem,” Schmidt said. Though none of their specific solutions were implemented, they still believe that the fundamental principles behind their solutions were taken into account. “Some of those ideals that we were talking about were in the end result,” Schmidt said. “We did talk a lot about expanding hours of the dining halls, and I believe that eliminating the 10 is part of the ideals that we were setting out to achieve.” Both the students and Klass agree that eliminating the 10-meal plan to ensure that students receive at least two meals a day and expanding dining hours thoroughly addresses many of these issues; however, the students were discouraged by the way the administration made these changes. “We wanted it to be a process where we collaborated with administrators to change the structure of meal plans to be better for students,” Garnica said. “We did not have any decision making power in any of the specifics of the plan.” Schmidt explained that the administration, which had kept a constant line of contact with the students during the first part of the process, suddenly stopped communicating

with the students as the specifics of the plan were finalized. “We had meetings [with the administration] throughout this whole year, but there was a gap when we didn’t hear from them for a while,” Schmidt said. “We met with them a few weeks ago, and we were presented with the new plan. The way it was presented in the last meeting was first, here is what we heard from you, and now, here is the solution.” Hatanka expressed similar concerns with the College’s handling of this issue. “This process to get to the end product was not an ideal one,” she said. “Yes, we got to a product that potentially may work for a large part of the student body. But the process to get there left out many student voices.” Klass acknowledged this concern but argued that the pressing nature of this issue made it unfeasible to reach a large portion of the student body and still make sure a new plan could take effect next year. “I want to emphasize the urgency with which we received this message of perceived hunger on campus,” Klass said. “Since we don’t make mid-year changes of this nature to our dining program, prolonging the process any further would push our ability to respond to this urgent issue to another year.” Still, the students agree that the issue of food insecurity is not new and that the administration could have made a better effort to engage more students in the decision-making progress, setting a strong precedent for future student activists. “There does exist power dynamics between students and administrators that make it difficult for students to speak their minds,” Garnica said. Ultimately, despite these concerns with the decision-making process, Schmidt, Garnica and Hatanaka are grateful that both Klass and Provost Duke Love took their concerns seriously and hope that this will be the beginning of a continued collaboration between students and administrators to address the issue of food insecurity. “This was exciting to have administrators actually listen to us and actually understand what we’re saying,” Garnica said. “We’re hoping other students will approach and join our sort of collaborative process with the administration”

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A wind turbine sits atop the old Baxter Hall, with a slogan referring to 1970s energy independence efforts. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 plus about $5000 per year for maintenance in 1977 prices. To put this in perspective, Zars calculated the investment in a Berlin Pass wind farm would recoup “twice the income of a 30year annuity investment.” Although the plan sounds easy and logical enough in Zars’ report (as he puts it, “2+2=4”), the idea was ambitious for the time. Although wind was gaining traction both technologically and societally, Zars was not aware of any other school in the U.S. pursuing renewable energy. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, the first utility-scale wind operations were not built until 1980. Zars also looked to Europe for inspiration. He found a school in Denmark — Tvind Skole in Ulfborg — where students were designing and building a record-breaking 2MW turbine. After graduation, Zars, who scorned fellowships, set out to visit this school with “just…peanut butter and [a] bicycle.” It was this gritty, do-it-yourself spirit that helped Zars see his proposal through. When his anemometer repeatedly froze over, Zars solved

the problem by refitting a campus light fixture with an infrared bulb (the plan went slightly awry one night when the head of Facilities caught Zars trying to remove the can light from the ceiling of Bronfman with a screwdriver). This “[do] it … and ask for permission later” attitude was common for students back then, Amy Johns ’98, director of the Zilkha Center, said. This sign of the times was also evident in the content of Zars’ report. Although it details everything from the way the wind-generated electricity would be stepped-down and synchronized to the way inflation and national policy would affect the project’s payback period, the report says next to nothing about zoning, permitting or other regulations. Still, the report made a strong case for a wind farm on the college’s Berlin Pass land, at least to Jay Shelton, Zars’ advisor on the project. Shelton pitched Zars’ idea to the Board of Trustees, and when that failed, to actor Robert Redford, who was the 1977 commencement speaker. Zars says that the project “didn’t want for enthusiasm and support, at least at the grass roots level, in some corners.” But beyond those corners, he said, “It didn’t catch fire the way it had in our own minds.”

Mental health services at WEPO fail to meet student needs CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 However, these services are similar to the University’s in being almost exclusively short-term and requiring extensive waits. “When you go to the NHS and request a therapy appointment, it’s very easy to get an initial consultation if you have some priority reason,” Morris said. “But then to get to an actual regular appointment, which would have been once a week for six weeks, was an eight week wait – so it was a longer wait than the sessions would have lasted.” If students are in need of longer-term or immediate formal therapy not provided by the University or NHS, the next option is private counseling services, which can pose a significant financial burden. “Local private practitioners also provide very good care. In this case, however, students need to pay the provider fee upfront and then work with their private insurance company for reimbursement,” Sandstrom said. “This can add additional layer of stress at a time when students are already struggling.” Because Morris’ mother works for the U.S. government, he said, his insurance covered private therapy, and he was therefore able to access this option; however, he emphasized that his situation is rather unique. “That’s very much something that’s not available to most people,” he said. “[My appointments] $600-800 a week. And that’s because, in the U.K., if you’re going to a private practice for any medical procedure, it’s because you either have enough money to bypass the NHS or you have a really specific need.” In his particular situation, Morris felt pressure from the College administration in Williamstown to leave WEPO rather than to seek these expensive and complex resources. “[The Dean’s Office was] apparently really of the opinion that I should be sent home,” he said. “Since the mental health access is limited and Williams has oversight, they sometimes just want to eliminate the problem.” The WEPO director, he said, as well as the rest of his WEPO class lobbied for him to stay, an effort that was successful and for which he expressed immense gratitude. Long, Marlene Sandstrom and Noah Sandstrom, professor of psychology and director of WEPO in the 2015-2016 term, all highlighted the availability of alternative resources available at Exeter College for struggling students. “Students often make use of the chaplain and the junior dean at Exeter College, both of whom provide valuable support for student welfare within the college,” Noah Sandstrom said. Michelle Hufschmid, the current junior dean at Exeter College, also mentioned the resource of the student volunteer program, which resembles Peer Health at the College and is structured around diversity and inclusive representation. “There are the peer supporters, including peer supporters of color and LGBTQ+ peer supporters, who are well trained student volunteers,” she said. “There are as well a JCR [Junior Common Room] equalities rep, a male and a female JCR welfare rep, a male and female LGBTQ rep, a disabilities rep, a women’s rep and an international rep.”

Molly Bodurtha ’17, who participated in WEPO during the 2015-2016 term, found the junior dean at the time especially helpful. “[The program directors] directed me to the Exeter College Dean Emily Holman, who not only was herself helpful to speak to, but also helped me get an expedited appointment at the [OUCC], where I’ve had the best counseling I’ve ever had,” she said. While she admitted that her experience may not prove representative of every participant’s experience at WEPO, Bodurtha found mental health resources quite accessible in large part due to the approachability of Holman. She also highlighted the kindness and accommodating nature of her professors at Oxford. “On the instances in which I chose to ask the program director to inform my Oxford tutors about personal hardship, the tutors were tremendously receptive and they went above and beyond in terms of providing accommodations,” she said. Since WEPO is managed by the College, many involved with it believe that the College can work itself to improve the availability of resources. During his time as WEPO director, Noah Sandstrom worked with the Exeter College and Oxford University to amend mental health resources. “We found the administration at Exeter to share our concerns,” he said. “In addition, there is a university-wide committee of representatives involved in work specifically with visiting students, and this group has recently focused attention on mental health issues that are particularly relevant for visiting students. These conversations, for example, have led to renewed commitment from the [OUCC] that students will be seen in a timely fashion.” Morris believes that another solution could lie in the College providing funding for private counseling in certain cases, especially because the College did subsidize his initial consultation. “There are a lot of things about the cost of that program that are obscure and annoying,” Morris said. “One of them is that we pay [roughly] the same amount of money as to go to Williams but then don’t receive many of the same benefits as we would have if we went to Williams,” he said. “[The cost of therapy] is such a meaningless amount of money to the College – it doesn’t seem clear to me that they couldn’t [subsidize it]. If they can subsidize an initial consultation, it doesn’t seem absurd that they could at least partially subsidize some follow-up appointments if it’s been demonstrated that you need it.” One point of restructuring agreed upon by all parties involved is the need for greater awareness about what services will and will not be provided to WEPO participants. “I think it also would have been better to have had more transparency about what was going to be available,” Morris said. “I found out how all the bureaucracy worked after I needed to, but not before I needed to.” Long and the Sandstroms all emphasized a similar desire for greater awareness of resources for students deciding whether or not to enroll in WEPO. “It is important for all students who travel abroad to recognize that the accessibility and level of support for mental health in other countries is likely to differ from what they are used to at Williams. This is true for WEPO as well,” Marlene Sandstrom said.

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One in Two Thousand By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN NEWS EDITOR I first met Calen when we were both selected for the mythical organization that is Frosh Revue, sparking many tremendous evenings of improv and, subsequently, friendship. I sat down with Calen to catch up about his untraditional, or rather exceedingly traditional, high school, his first forays into tour guiding and more. Could you talk a bit about where you call home? Right now, I live in a suburb of Phoenix. I was born in Inglewood and moved when I was six, so it’s kind of a weird dichotomy I live in. I’m black but lived in a mostly white neighborhood, went to mostly white schools, and moving out of Inglewood, which is a heavily black community, was a big change. I grew up with a single mother, and I have two brothers, a baby brother who’s 3 years old and an older brother who’s a senior in college and is actually married.

would mean that I would finally get out of the really white spaces I was in, and that definitely wasn’t as true as I thought it would be. Definitely, though, having that solidarity with people of color here has been amazing. I underestimated how hard it would be adjusting to college, but I’ve definitely found people and professors here that I wouldn’t trade for anything. In a lot of ways I romanticized college a lot because I was pretty eager to move away from where I was, and then you have a more sober realization.

CALEN FIREDANCING ’20

I heard you went to a very interesting high school. Yeah. My high school was called Glendale Preparatory Academy. It’s part of a set of schools in Arizona called Great Hearts Schools, and they’ve since moved it to Texas, and, basically, they have this very hardcore liberal arts philosophy in the sense of following a very strict “Great Books” program in the model of Aristotle to Aquinas, this program of great Catholic scholarship. It was pretty rigorous, definitely with a very strict culture there.

I think the person in your family all of our friends es- Was it like living in a medipecially want to meet is your eval theocratic world? grandmother — she sounds pretty awesome. One of the funny things at my school was that we had a rule My grandma is a legend; she was where you weren’t allowed to talk actually the first black woman to about popular culture in class or graduate from Baylor University at all at school. Obviously some and has been one of those inspi- teachers who were less strict rations in my life, [someone] who would let that rule go. I have gothas definitely saved my family in ten more than one detention, one a lot of ways. time for making a Lady Gaga reference in class, which I thought What was the transition to was clever, but the teacher didn’t the College like for you? think so, and other times for talking about politics, even. It was On a basic level, I mean, Phoe- very choking in ways. nix is hot, and I had to learn very quickly that Williamstown is How did your school define not so warm. Also coming from pop culture? a city, this is pretty different even from a suburb. I also had There was this weird rumor, a rethis conception of college that ally big topic around school, that it would be super diverse which we had this 50 year rule where if

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it was newer than 50 years ago it was pop culture. Well, then the administration put out this official statement that was like, “no, that’s not a rule, we leave it to the ‘discretion of teachers,’” which is obviously insane because it was pretty much up to the discretion of whoever felt like it at the moment.

filed that out during the cocktail hour with the people you wanted to dance with, and then you couldn’t really stray from those official dances. It was pretty Victorian, from a very old era.

What was prom like then?

I had a kind of rocky January; I had applied to five schools, and I decided in mid-February that I wanted to apply to Notre Dame, which was a school where I had done a summer program, a school I have a lot of friends at. My friends were like, “see if you can apply late, they might let you in,” and I actually somehow convinced its admissions office to let me in late, and they flew me out for free, and I still ended up not going, but I actually still talk to my admission counselor from there - he’s a good guy,

We had required dance lessons for our prom, and we danced five different classical dance styles. It was like a real promenade, so you showed up, there was a cocktail hour, and you had dance cards, and we had all these really horrible and sexist etiquette rules that we had to follow that were taught to us the week before prom. Girls literally couldn’t walk around prom without being escorted — it was kind of horrible. We had dance cards that said the song and what dance it was, and you

You also had a bit of an interesting college application process, yes?

no huge hard feelings; we have each other on Snapchat.

Did you get to meet President Barack Obama?

You’ve had a few interesting occurrences as a tour guide, yes?

I did not. They’d sent us all these ambiguous emails before we’d shown up to D.C., “we can never promise anything, but we really hope you’ll be able to meet some important people.” So we were like, “OK, we’re going to meet the president.” I showed up and they were still being cryptic, and we go to our first event, and they say, “guys, we’re really sorry, we couldn’t get President Obama. He’s still vacationing in Hawaii,” which we knew was false, since we knew he was coming back the next day. So we let that go, and then they said Joe Biden would be coming, and Joe Biden ended up cancelling because he said he had an important speech the next day. It turns out, I looked on CNN five minutes later, it said, “Joe Biden to give speech derailing Trump.” I was like, “how hard can it be to derail Trump, that can’t be that hard.” Anyways, we showed up, and our keynote speaker, though, was Tim Kaine. As a hardcore political buff, I knew he was being considered for VP, and I was really excited, though honestly most people didn’t really know who he was. Then, of course, as we were walking out, President Obama’s motorcade flies right by us.

Giving tours is fun because there’s this solidarity amongst tour guides of funny things that have happened to us; having been thrown into that really early over spring break, I did have a scary tour moment, where I had the bad idea of taking a tour into my own entry. We went up to the entry common room, and one of the things tour guides complain about is that tours love to look at the quote boards, and obviously the quotes aren’t always the most appropriate. I had a quote on the quote board that was pretty much dead in the middle ... Anyways, a few people on my tour noticed and they actually had the audacity to ask me about it, which I pretty much just ignored and had a red face for the rest of the tour. I’ve had some nightmares about that. Did you enjoy Frosh Revue? Frosh Revue is one of my favorite things about Williams. Frosh Revue is one of those places on campus where people from all different backgrounds and stripes and colors can just be themselves and be weird, and there’s just this amazing support within that group. Most of my friends get tired of me talking about Frosh Revue, I talk about it so much. What are you going to be doing this summer? I’ll be on UCLA’s campus taking a film class for six weeks, but I’ll also be working as an advisor for the National Recognition Program from US Presidential Scholars. Since I was a presidential scholar last year, they have former scholars come and basically be RAs for the program.

You’re also involved with SpeakFree, right? In high school, one of my most influential teachers taught us a poetry class, and you can kind of imagine at my high school poetry class was mostly of the Chaucer and Keats style. Once I started writing, I found this awesome mix where some of the other communities I was a part of, like Black Twitter, led me to some spoken word poets, and I started writing some spoken word pieces. When I got here I joined SpeakFree, and that’s a really awesome community of people and huge support.

Gramercy offers unique comfort food By MINWEI CAO STAFF WRITER

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Grace Fan ’19, Jojo Fernandez ’20 and Angela Yu ’20 tell the personal stories of members of the Williams community.

Humans of Williams revamps page By JANE PETERSEN FEATURES EDITOR Upon starting their College experiences, many first-years are forced to answer a daunting question of which extracurriculars they want to participate in. For Grace Fan ’19, this question was easier than it is for most. The Humans of Williams Facebook page, started by Susmita Paul ’16, is simple in its goal: with a picture and a caption, each post tells the story of a different student, professor or staff member at the College. For Fan, this seemed like a natural fit, given that she ran a similar page for her high school, “The Faces of Falmouth High School.” “I had kind of been eying the page for a while before I came to Williams, and I was like ‘this is something I want to do … I messaged the page and was like, ‘Hey, if you need help, let me know, I’d be more than happy to help you out,’” Fan said. “So I guess someone had forwarded an article about my page, and so she had heard about me, which was kind of strange coming to Williams as a naive frosh. Susie was like, ‘Actually, you can have the page.’” As a first-year, Fan was already the new head of Humans of Williams. Angela Yu ’20 and Jojo Fernandez ’20 round out the rest of the Humans of Williams team this year. “For me, similar to [Fan], I had kind of been eyeing the page as well, and it just so happens that [Fan] was my storyteller for first-days,” Yu said. “She had mentioned that she was the organizer of Humans of

Williams … So I went up to her and asked her if at all I could help with the page.” Fan got back to her, and Yu has been a part of the team since January. “I had also seen the page, and I had thought that it was really interesting, and I follow similar pages like Humans of New York,” Fernandez said. “[Fan] was my WOOLF [Williams Outdoor Orientation for Living as First-years] leader, so I learned more about the page through her during the trip.” According to Fan, the nature of the College community has helped the page thrive. “Something about the Williams culture that stands out to me when I interview people is how willing people are to open up … They’re always so willing to talk to you and tell their stories and be vulnerable. I think that is a really amazing thing when you’re trying to do a project like this.” Asked if they had any plans to pursue photo journalism in the future, the group’s answers were very mixed. “Personally, this is a learning experience for me. Even though I have the interest in everyone’s individual stories, photography isn’t something that I’m particularly really talented in,” Fernandez said. For Yu, Humans of Williams is more of a mission for personal fulfillment. “I like that I’m able to find purpose through photography and learn about people’s stories, but I mostly do it for personal enjoyment, not as a profession,” she said. For Fan, however, photography has been an ongoing passion that has fed her love of

storytelling. “I actually started taking photos before any of this came to be. I was really able to discover my love for stories and people’s experiences and sharing those things through photography in a way,” she said. “For all of high school I wanted to be a photojournalist, and photography is still something I hold dear and try to do as much as I can on campus, but it actually just so happens that stories are now my focus.” The group shared with me some stories that stood out in particular. Yu mentioned her most recent post about her custodian, Curtis Cowell. “He shared with me his story of getting crazy, intense brain damage after a car accident, and he told me all about his recovery … But the love of his family and the medical treatment that he got helped him a lot through those very painful times,” Yu said. “Later on, he came back to me and told me that lots of his friends didn’t know this story, and that they were really inspired by what he had [been] through.” One post that stood out to Fan in particular was Paul’s self-portrait about her own story while running the page. “I think the way that the page has influenced me the most is through her legacy,” Fan said. “She raised up the voices of marginalized students on campus by talking about their experiences on campus as immigrants, or people of color or people struggling with mental health issues and really made these identities known.”

Gramercy Bistro is a hidden gem in North Adams. Situated right at the entrance of Mass MoCA, Gramercy serves a traditional brunch of comfort food with an upscale twist from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. The space has a museumstyle openness to it due to its white furnishing and glass windows that allow for maximum sunlight. Mass MoCA’s industrial buildings can be seen from pretty much any seat in the restaurant. The walls are lined with art that gives the restaurant a breath of fresh air, and the space feels bright, clean and uncluttered. The menu does not have many items on it, which I prefer, as it is a sign that the restaurant is confident in the few items it does serve. A small menu also tells the customer that the restaurant tries to keep its food simple and minimalist but delicious. I got the onion soup au gratin to start. Onion soup is hard to do well, as many times it is made overly salty. Alas, Gramercy’s onion soup is also overly salty. However, it is indeed hard for me to think about a time in recent memory when I had onion soup with just the right amount of salt. Despite the fact that I felt like there was half a salt shaker in my soup, the au gratin part of the soup

(the cheese, breadcrumb and butter mixture layered on top) was very hearty and rich. I can that guess the soup was broiled before it was served because the ramekin pot was piping hot, which kept the soup very hot the entire time. For entrees I tried a rabbit pot pie, their breakfast pastry and a classic croque madame. All of these dishes are classic comfort breakfast food, but Gramercy executes them in sophisticated fashion. Croque madame is essentially a glorified ham and cheese sandwich with gruyere cheese and a fried egg on top. (Fun fact: without the egg, the sandwich would be called croque monsieur.) I liked the panini style bread of the sandwich along with the subtle, not too biting mustard. Croque madame sandwiches are also served with a special cheese sauce called mornay. I felt like the mornay overpowered the sandwich, and I wished I could taste the actual gruyere cheese more. The ham was also a little too dry for my liking. The breakfast pastry, however, was absolutely delicious. Goat cheese, chives and bacon were enveloped in a puff pastry and topped with two sunny side up eggs. What could go wrong? I especially enjoyed the goat cheese sting balanced by the buttery puff pastry. And bacon is just the cherry on top for every meal.

When you think about pot pie, you think comfort food in a Southern grandma’s kitchen. I had never had rabbit before, so this was a very adventurous meal for me. I would describe the taste of rabbit as a darker, more tender chicken. I thought the crust on the pot pie could be reduced and the gravy enveloped within enhanced with more flavor, but I was impressed with the execution and the presentation. For dessert, I finished the meal with a deconstructed lemon meringue pie, fitting in well with the current trend of “deconstructed” desserts. Customers like the messy yet very structurally organized aesthetic (sounds like a college student!). The dessert was a grand finish to the brunch. It was not too sweet nor too sour on the lemon cream side, and the meringue itself was maple infused and piped into hard meringue. The crunch of the meringue was a nice complement to the cream. My favorite part of the dessert, believe it or not, was the side of graham cracker crumbs. It was very reminiscent of a childhood cookie I used to eat all the time. Gramercy is a treat-yourself or treat-your-friend kind of place, and I recommend making sure to check it out next time you are visiting Mass MoCA.

MINWEI CAO/STAFF WRITER

Gramercy Bistro serves a variety of gourmet comfort-breakfast options, including breakfast pastries.

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Local scout troop empowers girls and benefits community By RB SMITH FEATURES EDITOR Everyone at the College is familiar with Paresky Center and the medley of people and activity that circulates daily through the center of campus. Many are unfamiliar, however, with some of Paresky’s most colorful and vibrant visitors. When spring arrives, a few times a month Paresky comes alive with the arrival of the Williamstown Girl Scout Troop. While some students may be familiar with the persuasiveness with which they hawk their cookies to Whitman’s diners, few realize the full extent of the benefit that the troop imparts on the local youth and the greater community. “Look at these!” were the first words that greeted me as I sat down to chat with the troop after a long evening of cookie sales and activities. The panoply of bright, enthusiastic faces proceeded to talk through all the specifics of their latest group project, a twist on the classic egg-drop that helped teach engineering and problem solving. The girls’ ages ranged from 10 to 12, and they represented six different schools (an unusual fact – most Girl Scout troops all come from the same school, while the Williamstown troop takes girls from as far as North Adams, Pownal and even Lanesborough). They were incredibly proud of their myriad of contraptions and could not wait to tell about all their various projects. When many think of the Girl Scouts, images of cabins, sashes and baked treats may come to mind, but the Williamstown troop, like Girl Scout troops around the country, is challenging the stereotype and promoting what the scouts ardently called “girl power.” Some of the girls’ favorite and most memorable

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The Williamstown Girl Scouts give back to the community in a myriad of ways, including donating cookies to the local fire department. experiences with the Scouts involved building robots and completing challenges like the egg drop. They recently made an overnight trip to the Museum of Science in Boston, and many of the Scouts had an exuberant interest in science and technology, fields in which girls are traditionally underrepresented. One girl said that the Scouts made her “feel like [she] could do anything,” and the rest quickly nodded in enthusiastic assent, erupting with even more excited chatter

about their latest and next group activities. The Williamstown troop also pushes boundaries in more traditional scout activities. Like with many troops, the Williamstown Scouts love to go camping and enjoy the outdoors. “Camping as a troop is very valuable as it takes the some of the girls out of their comfort zone and gets them into nature which is very important,” Kristen Mabey, troop leader, said. The girls, however, still continue to challenge stereotypes even

on their more traditional scout retreats. On one trip, they noticed that the Boy Scouts got to learn knife skills, while the girls did not. The girls decided to speak up, and they ended up finding someone to teach them. “We are a very adventurous troop [that wants] to do everything and for the most part we try to make that happen,” Mabey said. Meeting roughly once every two weeks, the girls learn everything from science to international awareness and also do a hefty chunk of community

service. Money raised by selling cookies goes to both the troop, to help girls participate in activities their families may not be able to afford, and to local charities. Group activities often involve work at local food banks, and community action is deeply ingrained in the troop’s culture. When talking about their favorite part of the Scouts, almost all the girls replied that the greatest piece was the opportunity to help others. Mabey added that “in the community service projects, we do teach the girls the importance

of doing things for others and making the world a better place.” Despite all the community service and female empowerment that the Scouts bring to Williamstown, very few students are aware of the exciting and involved group right under their noses. Mabey believes this is partially due to the regional nature of the troop, with participants not just from Williamstown but many of the surrounding municipalities as well. Although this means their connection to Williamstown is less firm, Mabey considers is a huge advantage. “Our troop is pretty diverse and at one point we had girls that were in eight different schools (we currently have six different schools between us) and they are able to meet other girls that they normally wouldn't have met and we have become one big family.” Despite their regional presence, however, the troop’s leaders are eager to foster a stronger relationship with the College. They visit to sell cookies and do some activities, but Mabey “would love to have more interactions with students that can share their talents and experiences with my girls. I think [the more] interactions that young girls have with the [College] and the students, the better.” College-affiliated or not, however, the Williamstown Girl Scouts will continue their persistent enthusiasm and passion for action. In the near future, they plan on continuing their involvement in science and technology, keeping up their devotion to community service and, of course, having a lot of fun. Although cookie selling season has passed, the Williamstown Girl Scouts will hopefully be back in Paresky soon with some new project and their infectiously good attitudes.

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Honors project presents an exploration of power, gender By EVELYN MAHON STAFF WRITER On Friday and Saturday, Mia Georgina Hull ’17 presented her theatre honors project, Presume Not That I Am The Thing I Was, a performance piece titled after an excerpt from one of King Henry IV’s speeches in Shakespeare’s King Henry IV. Hull only began to speak text about halfway through the piece. As the audience entered, she repeated a series of movements over and over in different positions on the stage. The stage itself was a wooden rectangle, with a wood and leather chair in the center, surrounded by chicken wire that was adorned with a mishmash of patinated household objects, reminding me of a domestic iron throne. Hull was simply costumed in the beginning of the piece, in a white t-shirt with sheer leggings. As the performance progressed, she slowly and uncomfortably removed her leggings, then shuffled across the stage to a pile of clothes and put on a pair of tweed men’s trousers. Hull then walked around the stage, experimenting with a loping gait, hips thrust forward, back slouched. To those who know Hull personally, this was entirely unlike the way she carries herself normally – Hull has the grace and poise of a classically trained dancer, so the audience (which was composed mainly of Hull’s professors and friends) found great joy and playfulness in her actions. After continuing to play with her gait, Hull approached a pile of tennis balls, two of

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Mia Georgina Hull ’17 explores gender identity and politics in her theatre honors project, ‘Presume Not That I Am The Thing I Was.’ which she put in the front of her trousers to simulate genitalia. This warranted multiple chuckles from the audience. She then threw a black men’s jacket, similar to a Carhartt coat, over her head, adjusted it and then wrapped a pair of boots, tied at the laces, around her neck. This choice possessed an air of danger to it, since it seemed that the laces could choke her. She knelt, then shuffled across

the stage and upstage, then slowly removed her head from the coat/boot amalgam, leaving what appeared to be an exoskeleton on the stage. This created another body on the stage, which Hull tried to imitate, throwing her legs up over her head in a splayed version of the plow yoga pose, then squatting and tilting her head to the left while her arms contorted to mimic the folds of the coat.

The silence of the piece was broken when Hull finally spoke, saying, “I know you … I know you …,” – a phrase that mingled performance with reality, since she really did know us all. In fact, it was very unlikely that a person who did not know Hull personally and had reserved a ticket beforehand would have gotten into the full house. From here, Hull played with text from a few of

Shakespeare’s history plays, sitting on the chair and ruminating on the Dauphin’s mockery of King Henry V (the Dauphin sends the king tennis balls), then standing on the arms of the chair and in a booming voice calling the men of England to action in the famous “St. Crispin’s Day” speech. At one point, a closet door opened, and hundreds of tennis balls poured out (coordinated and thrown

by lighting designer Jack Scaletta ’18) while loud music played and lights flashed. All the while Hull danced, at first frantically and then slowly, as if suspended in time. She then, for the first time in the piece, stepped off of the platform she had been performing on and recited Richard II’s monologue: “I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world.” Hull, after such a demanding and broad performance, spoke plainly and earnestly. The way she presented the speech was entirely consistent with her quotidian interactions, providing a stark contrast to the piece up until that point. The act of stepping off the stage stripped away the veneer of machismo that she had taken on during the first speeches, making the choice of the Richard II text even more interesting. Richard II lacks the bravado and braggadocio of leaders like Henry V, and his possible homosexuality is a commonly proposed theatrical hypothesis (just as is Ophelia’s pregnancy). Hull’s exploration of gender and what a woman must become to speak these speeches comes at a very important time in terms of identity and gender politics. Women have been playing men’s roles in Shakespeare plays for decades, but what does it mean if a role matches the gender of the performer no matter what the tradition of the canon says? Hull’s thesis left me with more questions than I arrived with, proving an absolute success.

Quartet explores stylistic variety By JOSHUA GREENZEIG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Okwui Okpokwasili employs various artistic practices to create a dialogue with Nick Cave’s ‘Until’.

Okpokwasili performs with Cave’s ‘Until’ By WYLIE THORNQUIST STAFF WRITER This past Friday, MASS MoCA hosted a dance performance by writer, choreographer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili. The performance, which was a collaboration between Okpokwasili and Peter Born, took place within MASS MoCA’s Building 5 exhibition of Nick Cave’s Until. Okpokwasili, who has worked on many other projects in partnership with Peter Born in the past, employs various art forms, including writing, music and dance, to create raw and emotional experiences in her practices. In the past, Okpokwasili has worked on other projects that center on her experience of race and gender. She frames her MASS MoCA piece as her personal way of dancing with Nick Cave, combining the raw emotional force behind Cave’s Until with the human form to explore how or if she could channel that energy into her own performance. The evening started with a walk through the Sol LeWitt gallery space and began after the audience had settled into the large warehouse-turnedgallery space that currently houses Until. From there, Okpokwasili accomplished what Nick Cave set out to do in creating Until – to bring the inner world of his famous sound suits to life. After her performance, she spoke a little about her own conceptualization of this space. For Okpokwasili, this performance, like many other performances of hers, was about black and brown women’s bodies and how they are seen

in performance. She seeks ways to convey that performance in ways that defy reductiveness and that draw upon a myriad of sources with personal importance to her, including early West African sculpture and preChristian Igbo mythology and culture. The first section of Okpokwasili’s performance began in the midst of the windspinners constituting the opening of Until. Along the path that winds through it, she made her way through rhythmically and slowly to amplified percussive sounds reminiscent of marbles hitting metal. Strapped to her back was a bright light covered with thin white plastic. As she moved across the room towards the audience, the light she carried caught on the shimmering, multicolored forest of wind-spinners above and around her, embedded with guns and bullets. The light seemed at times like a shell of sorts, and at other times it read almost as a pair of wings. Sometimes it seemed like another body hoisted upon her back. Okpokwasili described the masquerades of her parents’ hometown in Nigeria “where the living and the dead encounter each other” that inspired her for this section. She and Peter Born discussed what it looked and felt like to be lost in this space, which Okpokwasili compared to the bush, a landscape which she saw as a similarly liminal space in Igbo mythology. In the second section, the audience packed into a smaller second room with

looping, projected images of minstrels and chicken heads, where a single voice spoke out. Later Okpokwasili spoke about the text that she wrote that was spoken here, clarifying that it was a reflection of the Igbo belief in the “ogbanje,” or the “child who returns.” An evil spirit used to explain the phenomena of women that suffer multiple miscarriages, she speaks about food, love and enduring suffering as the audience sits hushed and listens. At the third section of her performance, set upstairs, Okpokwasili abandoned the large white figure she had strapped to her back earlier in favor of all black. In this relative darkness, she seemed to almost disappear into the streamers, surrounded by warm wind and the soft, white noise reminiscent of the ocean. The closing scene was an emotional one, dominated by repetitive, anxious movements in her hands and arms and ended with a soft chanting as she exited the scene. Afterwards, Okpokwasili and Born spoke about the thought processes that went into the project. Ever eloquent, Okpokwasili explained to her audience, “I do it in the hopes of reaching. I do it in the hopes that I can create space for you to reach back.” With a soft but measured defiance, she uses performance to gaze back at the projections put upon her body. At the close of her conversation, she asserted that “to be vulnerable is to be truly liberated … my challenge is joy.”

Steeped in critical acclaim that came with their most recent release “Beloved”, the Kris Allen Quartet offered a taste of it’s unique and modern sound this past Saturday to a full auditorium at the Clark Art Institute. A set of mostly original material written by Artist-in-Residence and Jazz Ensemble Director Kris Allen, the music stylistically weaved between beautiful ballads and more up-tempo compositions which showcased the diverse improvisational skills of the Quartet. Allen’s group consisted of himself on alto saxophone, tenor saxophonist Frank Kozyra, bassist Matt Dwonszyk and drummer Jonathan Barber. Perhaps most interestingly, the group’s instrumentation is a bit out of the ordinary. With two saxophones and a rhythm section (bass and drums) that features no instrument to play full chords, the group explored a wide, harmonically rich and complex approach in its playing. During either composed or improvised moments, the whole band took advantage of the stripped-down harmonic limitations they faced and ventured into captivating territory. Drummer Jonathan Barber’s playing stood out as he skillfully supported solos, highlighted Allen’s interesting and original melodies, tastefully filled the vacated compositional space left by the missing chordal instruments and took a few of his own solos, leaving many in the crowd wanting more. In fact, the theme of the night was the idea of “more.” This tone was set early on when Allen could not narrow down his choice of featured artwork behind the band to one singular work; a projector screen behind the band which displayed some of the Clark’s collection moved from piece to piece throughout the show. However, this theme of “more” was not just restricted to the visual art behind the stage; in fact, it was applied equally to the musicians. As with most — if not all — jazz

shows, improvisation was the highlight. The single unifying strength across every solo taken by members of the Quartet was that each improvisation built upon itself and the ones which came before it. This was most evident during an extended solo by Jonathan Barber, in which he started by using mallets on the drum set to produce intriguing sounds. After building the solo to a loud climax, Barber seamlessly transitioned into using drumsticks and continued improvising. As soon as the band transitioned back into the melody, the audience let out one its loudest cheers of the night. One thing – usually out of the control of performers – which aided the band was the venue itself. The auditorium in the Manton Research Center at the Clark was one of the best acoustic environments I have experienced in the Berkshires. When talking to a contingent of Williams Jazz musicians after the show, Allen joked that during sound check he asked for the drums to be turned up in the house mix because he heard too much bass, a truly rare scenario. Despite the amplifier for the bass, overhead microphones for the drum set and microphones for each saxophone, the band easily could have played its set with no amplification, and there would have been no difference. Members of the Jazz at Williams community also joked that they wished they could perform in the space. However, irrespective of the beautiful venue, the Quartet’s performance was perhaps the most amazing jazz event all year on campus. The virtuosic musicality of the players, the incredible compositions and the multiple but cohesive artistic elements brought to the performance made it an unparalleled experience for the Williamstown community. For those interested in hearing more jazz at the College, there will be a swing dance with the Williams Jazz Ensemble (WJE) – led by Allen – this Saturday as well as concerts on April 28 (WJE), May 10 (Jazz Combos) and May 11 (Williams Jazz Repertory Ensemble).

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Last Saturday’s performance by the Kris Allen Quartet highlighted the improvisational ability of the group.

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Drake takes a global victory lap on 'More Life' By MANO SUNDARESAN STAFF WRITER Drake has been in a tricky spot for the past year, simultaneously at the peak of his commercial success and in the middle of a creative rut. After a string of remarkably consistent releases that demonstrated both artistic and commercial growth, the Toronto rapper dropped his much-anticipated album Views in 2016. Originally titled Views from the 6, the album was supposed to be Drake’s defining artistic statement about his city. What it ended up being was a bloated, half-baked rehash of many of his older sonic and lyrical themes. “Views trash” memes flooded social media in the weeks after its release, and many called it his worst project ever. And yet, despite the mixed reviews, Views was Drake’s most successful release ever, with his dancehall smash “One Dance” topping charts internationally and becoming the most-played song on Spotify ever with over one billion streams. A tour-heavy year later, and Drake has responded to this criticism and unprecedented fame with his new album, More Life. On More Life, Drake no longer seeks to conform to traditional hip-hop norms; instead, he embraces his status a fullblown pop star. He addresses the confusion he experienced last year on closer “Do Not Disturb”: “I was an angry

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Drake breaks away from traditional hip-hop norms to embrace his pop star identity on an emblematic new album, 'More Life.' youth when I was writin’ Views / Saw a side of myself that I just never knew.” On More Life, Drake avoids the preconceptions of “realness” and authenticity associated with hip-hop by transcending the genre entirely into the realm of pop. Labeled a “playlist,” More Life clocks in at over 81 minutes with 22 songs – an obvious attempt at greater streaming numbers, but this time, it doesn’t feel bloated or monotonous. Rather, More Life is an international tour-de-force, mean-

dering from region to region, style to style, almost effortlessly, with longtime collaborators like 40 and Boi-1da creating seamless transitions between songs. It carries an ethos akin to that of Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, unexpectedly flowing from idea to idea in an unfinished, but consequently organic manner. However, despite the diversity and scope of the playlist, More Life might be the most “Drake” project Drake has ever released. Unchained from the high expectations

accompanying his hip-hop status and the album format, Drake has room to explore new styles and fit more comfortably into his true identity. More Life lives up to its name; on breezy Afrobeat cuts like “Passionfruit,” “Madiba Riddim” and “Blem,” Drake sounds more lively and excited about his music than ever before. Drake gleefully embraces a new identity as world traveler and sampler. He raps, “I switch flow like I switch time zone” on the frantic, slang-

heavy banger “Gyalchester.” Meanwhile, he quips, “I wanna move to Dubai so I don’t ever have to kick it with none of you guys” on “Free Smoke,” using his internationalism as a means of escape from persistent hip-hop beef. Moreover, Drake takes his ear for talent abroad, introducing the mainstream to a bevy of young, international talent. Two of the playlist’s strongest tracks – “4422” and “Skepta Interlude” – are performed by rising U.K. artists Sampha and Skepta, re-

spectively, and grime artist Giggs has standout verses on “No Long Talk” and “KMT.” In this way, More Life bears more resemblances to The Life of Pablo; the features are the best part of the project. Drake often plays second or third fiddle on these songs, recognizing his artistic limitations as a rapper and instead providing an inexplicable “Drake-ness” to the sonic palette. Quavo and Travis Scott stretch their auto-tuned voices in all directions over a recorder loop on “Portland,” while resident trappers 2Chainz and Young Thug deliver incredible verses on the brambly “Sacrifices.” Even Kanye West pays a visit to the world tour; the mind-boggling chemistry between Yeezus and the 6 God on “Glow” serves as a tempting teaser of what could have been, as their plans for a joint album were recently scrapped. Despite its length, More Life contains very little filler. At times, Drake’s attempts at accents are borderline-offensive and fall flat (“No Long Talk”), and the R&B moments on the playlist (“Nothings Into Somethings,” “Since Way Back”) evoke the déjà-vu that Views suffered from, but aside from these misses, More Life is unbelievably consistent. In fact, More Life is everything Views should have strived for: a reconciliation of art with fame and an acceptance of pop as a means of artistic progression.

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Last Saturday's CoDa spring concert combined impressive technical execution with contemporary vision.

CoDa debuts ambitious set of student-choreographed work

By CAMRYN HENDERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Contemporary Dance Ensemble’s, (CoDa) latest showcase of student-choreographed contemporary dance brought forward some promising new work along with outstanding gems from experienced choreographers. Though the opening number suffered slightly from onthe-nose acting (e.g. a handvisor over squinting eyes to signify being lost), it gave rise to one of the most haunting and memorable tableaux of the show – a dancer riding an ostentatiously large tricycle across the stage, squawking a hand horn over bare bass music. While the piece that followed – a work in progress by Maria Allende ’17 – was impressively ambitious in its storytelling, the execution seemed at odds with the apparent goal of the project. The monologue frames the piece as a portrait of the tortured inner life of an aggressively-bullied football player. The dance itself is an almost nonstop torture sequence of the lead dancer, who is brutally and repeatedly twisted, thrown and tripped (in a notably sexualized manner), while four other dancers watch on with morbid curiosity. The fo-

cal point of the piece became the sheer relentlessness of the violence, to the point of titillation. Alexia Barandiaran's Burning Leaves relieved this angst with a bright and colorful dance set to Hozier's folksy "Work Song." The energetic motion and color-coded dressed recalled a lighthearted meditation on the passage of the seasons. The two pieces bordering the intermission, choreographed by Nyla Thompson ’20 and Alexandra Krstic ’19 constituted the peak of the show. Thompson's Undivided matched the dynamic and rapidly shifting energy of Zoe Keating's "Escape Artist" near-perfectly, oscillating between fluid and sharp, almost martial movement. The piece was unburdened by storytelling, instead reveling in the pleasure of abstract geometry. The dancers moved in and out of entropy, dispersing and coalescing along bands of light on the floor. The crisp, modern costume design also deserves a nod – earthy green jumpsuits over ribbed tops. They approached uniforms, but subtle variations marked the dancers out as individuals. Following this was Krstic's as ever, an ambitious twoparter, with the first set to spoken word rather than

music. The first section was impressively choreographed to the syncopated, largely non-rhythmic cadence of Jeffery Tambor's monologue and successfully combined abstract gestures and literal acting-out of the monologue. Krstic's passionate solo, which served to bridge the two sections, made the rest of the very strong piece feel almost tepid in comparison. The next piece, by Grace Mazzarella ’19, was rather pared down – a duo set to music by Youtube star Lindsey “Dubstep Violin” Sterling. The dance was by no means uninteresting or unimpressive but failed to engage the music as well as previous pieces. The energy was more or less uniform, and the music seems to serve primarily as a metronome. The show – a full company dance by Artist-inresidence Erica Dankmeyer – served as an engaging formal exploration of two classical pieces, fluid, cascading piano followed by jaunty, syncopated violin. In addition, Thompson and Dew Maskati ’20 brought a particularly strong energy to the ensemble. While the show's choreography was something of a mixed bag, the technical execution provided by the company was excellent across the board.

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7-year-old Parker Langenback joins men’s lacrosse through Team IMPACT By TESNIM ZEKERIA EXECUTIVE EDITOR Take a quick look at the most recent men’s lacrosse team photo, and you’ll be sure to spot their latest draftee – Parker Langenback, a bubbly 7-year-old boy who is currently a first grader at Williamstown Elementary School.

Born with spina bifida, a birth defect marked by the incomplete development of the spinal cord, Parker became the newest member of the team through an organization known as Team IMPACT. Founded in 2011 by a team of seven people, the intercollegiate nonprofit partners kids dealing with life-threatening

and chronic illnesses with collegiate athletic programs that suit the child’s needs. The team becomes a nurturing support network for the child, while the child teaches the team valuable lessons of resilience and perspective, serving as a source of unparalleled inspiration. Men’s lacrosse Head Coach George McCormack first

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Men’s lacrosse greets its newest team member, 7-year-old Parker Langenback, as well as his family.

heard about this initiative through softball Head Coach Kris Herman, a co-founder of Team IMPACT. Since then he has been submitting a Team IMPACT application each year with the hopes of recruiting a child. Fortunately, Parker was matched with the men’s lacrosse team after his school physical therapist approached his parents, Melissa and Rob Langenback, about this exciting opportunity. “When Parker’s school physical therapist contacted me and asked if we might be interested, we thought it sounded like a really good program,” Melissa Langenback said. To celebrate the arrival of its newest team member, the team held a press conference and drafting ceremony in late February, during which Parker and his family signed a letter of intent. Melissa described the event as “amazing,” and the family was taken aback by the team’s enthusiasm and warmth. Parker would go on to receive his very own locker in the locker room, a lacrosse stick and a white No. 41 jersey with “Parker” emblazoned across the back.

“We didn’t expect that at all. It was so cute and we did not know it was going to be a really big deal like that,” Melissa said. “The team is so much more than I expected it to be — the whole team is so warm and welcoming. “I don’t want to make them sound all mushy gushy, but they’ve all been welcoming and that was the biggest surprise — that people, really strangers to you, could take you in so openly.” This warmth and compassion goes beyond the lacrosse field. Since the process is entirely student-driven, several team members make an effort to reach out to Parker on a daily basis. From joining him for recess at his elementary school to sending him daily emails to even playing Mario Kart with him at his house, it is clear that Parker’s teammates have become his extended family and new best friends. “He's a motivation to us in how he keeps a smile on his face through adversity,” Cameron Brown ’19 said. “It's been awesome spending time with him, and we're psyched to have him on our team.” Meanwhile, his fierce display of courage and resilience

on the field during practice never fails to inspire his teammates and coach. In fact, Parker regularly says a few words of encouragement before the start of each home game and can sometimes be found rolling across the field during halftime to offer some motivation. “His energy and his toughness always inspires our guys to put things in perspective as far as their problems.” McCormack said. “When we talk about being strong, we talk about being Parker strong and that’s really the best strength you can have. Every day, he gets up and he’s got a smile on his face and he brings energy to everything he gets involved with.” Today, when he is not playing Mario Kart with teammates or dancing to his favorite songs in the locker room, you can probably catch Parker at lacrosse practices working on his throw. “I’m pretty sure Parker is hands down the coach’s favorite player,” Kevin Stump ’20 joked. When asked about his predictions for the team, Parker proudly responded, “Yeah, they’re strong enough to win.”

Men’s golf places third at Baseball goes 1-2 in series against Wesleyan NYU to start spring season By JACKSON MYERS STAFF WRITER

By JAKE FOEHL TEAM CORRESPONDENT Men's golf kicked off its spring season last weekend with a third-place finish at the NYU Invitational. At Forest Hills Field Club, the par-71 course tested the players in standard spring golf conditions, a stark contrast from sunny Florida, where the Ephs trained over spring break. On Saturday, Sam Goldenring ’20 led the Ephs with a 77. The men completed the small straight with a 78 from tri-captain Ross Hoffman ’17, a 79 from tri-captain Jacob Watt-Morse ’17 and an 80 from Will Kannegieser ’20. Scoring improved on Day Two of the tournament, as five of the eleven teams in the field bested their first-day scores by double digits. Trinity followed up their Day One score of 314 with a 304 en route to a victory in the Bantams' second event of the spring after finishing T-16 in a 21 team field at the Towson University Spring Invitational two weeks ago. Trinity had been in a tie for second after Day One, two shots behind Farmingdale State, who dropped all the way into a tie for fourth in the final standings. Skidmore made a Sunday charge to finish in solo second. Goldenring again led with a 78 on Sunday to finish in a tie for seventh with a total of 155. Watt-Morse also made the top 10, tying for ninth after a second-round 77 brought

him to 156. The other two Eph scorers finished in the top 20 as well; Hoffman tied for 12th with at 158 and Kannegieser tied for 15th with a 159. The men mirrored their Day One score of 314 for a total of 628, placing third. Trinity claimed first with an impressive 304 on the second day. Skidmore made a charge on Sunday to jump to second with a total score of 621. "We struggled to score on Day Two and left a lot of shots on the course,” Head Coach Josh Hillman acknowledged. “We knew there would be some cobwebs to sort out, and there were. We will use [this experience] as motivation to improve this week." The teams will face off again April 29-30 to compete for the NESCAC Championship at Taconic Golf Club. Amherst and Middlebury will also vie for the crown, and the winner will earn a berth to the NCAA tournament two weeks later. Trinity and Williams in particular are evenly matched in talent and competitive drive, each trying to find a way to separate itself from the other. Both teams defended their home course in the fall, and the Ephs will look to defend their home course once again in the spring, with potentially much larger implications. The men will compete at the Wesleyan Invitational this weekend. The tournament begins Saturday at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield, Conn. and will continue the following day.

Last weekend, baseball (9– 4, 4–2 in the NESCAC West) took one out of three games in a series versus Wesleyan. In a double-header at Wesleyan on Saturday, the Cardinals pulled off two unlikely comebacks, but the Ephs rebounded to win at home on Sunday behind a gem from starting pitcher Johnny Lamont ’20. The Cardinals’ sweep of Saturday’s doubleheader ended an eight-game win streak for the Ephs. In the first game, the men scored three runs in the top of the fourth. Kellen Hatheway ’19 singled and stole second, Jack Roberts ’18 had a bunt base hit and Doug Schaffer ’18 batted in Hatheway with an infield single. Roberts scored on a groundout by tri-captain Adam Regensburg ’18, and Nate Michalski ’17 singled to bring Schaffer home . The men led 4-2 going into the bottom of the seventh and final inning, but pitching missteps cost them the lead. Tri-captain Luke Rodino ’17 was relieved by Jack Bohen ’19, but his two wild pitches allowed Wesleyan to tie the game at 4. The Cardinals then walked off in improbable fashion on an infeld single. With Will O’Sullivan on second, No. 3 hitter Ryan Earle pounded a hard ground ball to the first baseman Michalski. Michalski dove to knock it down but did not have time to get Earle at first. O'Sullivan rounded third hard and tried to score. Michalski's throw to the plate looked to be in time, but catcher Alex Panstares ’19 was unable to get the tag down.

O’Sullivan slid in safely to give Wesleyan the 5-4 victory. Bohen was charged with the loss, his first of the year, and Wesleyan reliever Asher Young evened his season record at one with the win. Rodino left the game after 6 1/3 innings, having allowed seven hits and one walk. In the nightcap, the Cardinals took a one-run lead in the fourth when Eph starter Sean Hager ’20 walked in a run with the bases loaded. Hager was able to end the inning without further damage, and the Ephs answered when tri-captain Jack Cloud ’17 hit an RBI single to left to score Michalski. The Ephs seemed to seal the victory with a five-run eighth inning, but the bullpen again would struggle to close the game out. Hatheway ripped a triple to knock Cloud home, and a Roberts single then scored Hatheway. Regensburg and Michalski also notched RBI singles, and Jackson Parese ’17 executed a squeeze bunt to bring in another run. Roberts added an insurance home run in the top of the ninth to extend the Eph lead to six. Reliever Tyler Duff ’17 pitched a scoreless eighth, but Wesleyan struck again in the bottom of the ninth. Perhaps drawing inspiration from their comeback win earlier in the day, the Cardinals forced the game into extra innings with a six-run outburst. Wesleyan’s Matt Jeye notched two RBIs with a bases-loaded single. Tom Benz ’19 came in to relieve Duff, but the Cardinals’ bats kept striking. Jesse Levy-Rubinett, the pinch-hitter who had led off the inning, knocked home the tying run to knot the game at seven.

Only when Marcus Colella ’17 came in to pitch could the Ephs end the inning. The Ephs took an 8-7 lead in the top of the tenth. In the bottom half, however, the Cardinals rallied once again, and Jeye singled in another run. With two outs and a runner in scoring position, Wesleyan third baseman Ellis Schaefer dribbled a grounder up the third base line, but Colella overthrew first base, allowing Jeye to score, capping a tremendous Wesleyan comeback and a second straight walk-off win. The Ephs won Sunday’s home game behind Lamont’s complete game. The southpaw dominated on the mound and kept a shutout for 8 2/3 innings and did not yield an earned run. He struck out 15 of the 33 batters he faced, surrendering just five hits and two walks in his nine innings pitched. The Ephs’ four-run third was all the support Lamont needed. Parese started things off with

a single and advanced to third on a hit-and-run with Michael Stamas ’20 at the plate. The pair then executed a double steal, with Stamas taking second and Parese coming in to score. Cloud smacked an RBI single and came around to score on a single by Hatheway, and Hatheway scored the fourth run of the inning on a rare balk call. The Cardinals’ lone run scored on a fielding error in the top of the ninth. Wesleyan was able to bring the tying run to the plate, but Lamont induced a pop-up with men on first and third to close a 4-1 Eph win. The men played 10 games in Arizona over spring break, going 8–2. “Our spring break trip was a great experience,” Head Coach Bill Barrale said, “and I am extremely proud of the way we performed.” They faced Becker yesterday, but the results came in too late to report. They next play at Amherst on Friday at 4 p.m.

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Tri-captain Jack Cloud ’17 was 2-for-3 in Sunday’s win over Wesleyan.

ATHLETES OF THE WINTER

EMMA WADDELL ’18 WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING BANGOR, MAINE

BEN LIN ’17 MEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING SHORT HILLS, N.J.

Waddell was instrumental in the women’s undefeated season, NESCAC Championship win and second place finish at Nationals. She excelled in both freestyle and butterfly in particular. She was dominant at the NESCAC Championships last month, when she helped set meet records in the 200 medley, 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays. Individually, she claimed first in three races, posting a meet record in the preliminary session of the 100 freestyle. She was named the conference’s Swimmer of the Year. She continued to impress at the NCAA Championships, where she set a national record in the 50 freestyle, won the 100 butterfly and was again honored as Swimmer of the Meet. She is one of 11 finalists for the Div. III Honda Woman Athlete of the Year Award.

Lin was a critical part of the Ephs’ victory at NESCACs and their seventh-place finish at NCAAs. He broke NESCAC records in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke and 100 individual medley this season. In addition, Lin holds the 50 backstroke record and was a member of the record-holding 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay teams. At Nationals, he won individual titles in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 100 breaststroke. His 100 backstroke time also broke a Div. III record. At the NESCAC Championships, he won three individual and two relay events, as the men won their 15th straight conference title. He was named the conference’s Swimmer of the Year and Four Year High Point Swimmer.

DANIEL ARONOWITZ ’17 MEN'S BASKETBALL COLUMBUS, OHIO

SARA LEHMAN ’17 WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY LEXINGTON, MASS.

Aronowitz, a tri-captain, led men’s basketball to a 23–9 record and a trip to the NCAA Final Four. The 6-5 forward averaged 17.3 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.3 steals per game, earning First Team All-NESCAC and Second Team All-New England honors. He posted a 49.6 percent field goal percentage and a 37.3 3-point percentage. His 554 points, which ranked second in the conference, made him the 18th player in school history to reach the 500-point mark in a season. He was tied for second in the conference in 3-pointers and fourth in steals. Aronowitz finishes his Williams career with 519 rebounds and 1362 points, which rank 14th in school history. His stellar showing in the NCAA tournament resulted in a selection to the All-Tournament Team.

Lehman, a forward, scored a team-leading 19 points on 13 goals and six assists this season. In a 2-1 victory over Wesleyan on Dec. 4, she assisted on the Ephs’ first goal and scored the game-winner. In January, she scored the go-ahead goal in the final minute against Bowdoin and notched three goals and an assist in two wins over Colby. Most notably, in a 4-4 tie against Amherst on Jan. 28, she became the ninth player in school history to record a hat trick. For that effort, she was voted Hero Sports’ Div. III Ice Hockey Hero of the Week. She posted a goal and assist during a February weekend series against Trinity. Last month, she was named to the All-NESCAC Second Team after scoring the third-most goals in the conference.

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Former Olympic ski jumper Jeff Hastings ’81 inducted into Hall of Fame By BROOKE HOROWITCH SPORTS EDITOR Jeff Hastings ’81, a ski jumping Olympian, commentator and advocate was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in Stowe, Vt., on Saturday. “In more than 30 years in the sport of ski jumping, there are few areas that Jeff hasn’t touched,” the Hall of Fame said in a press release. Hastings began skiing when he was 4 years old. He grew up in Norwich, Vt., and trained in Hanover, N.H. His father, who had ski jumped in high school, encouraged him and his younger brothers, Brad and Chris, to join the Ford Sayre Ski Jump Program. They loved the sport and practiced together. “As soon as there was enough snow, we’d be out doing jumps on our side hill,” Hastings recalled. In high school, he continued to ski jump and played lacrosse and golf. He decided to attend the College to pursue ski jumping. “It is a great school,” he said. “At that point, it had Div. I ski jumping and a really nice ski jumping facility at Berlin

Mountain. It was one of the six or seven schools in the east where you could ski jump and hosted a great annual carnival.” Hastings said he appreciated Head Coach Bud Fisher’s support and the team camaraderie. “Carnivals really encouraged a lot of bonds because we left school on Thursday nights and stayed on cots in gyms or hotels,” he said. “There was a very strong group dynamic being off campus, and we always cheered each other on ... There were lots of rich moments and connections out at Berlin Mountain.” In addition to participating in the collegiate carnival circuit, Hastings competed in regional tournaments with world-class ski jumpers. “Fisher was really generous,” he shared. “He gave me keys to a truck and a gas card and told me to compete where I needed to compete – on Williams.” The College also fostered his skiing ambitions. He took a semester off after earning a spot as a fore-jumper for the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. The next year, he joined the U.S. Ski Team and completed an independent study during Winter Study, when he com-

peted in Czechoslovakia and wrote about “life behind the Iron Curtain.” After graduating with a degree in economics, Hastings moved to Colorado and continued training and ski jumping internationally. He improved each year and qualified for the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, where he earned ninth place on the normal hill event and fourth on the large hill. He missed the bronze medal by .2 points but set a modern American record in the event. Hastings described the thrill of Olympic ski jumping. “It is like a physics project,” he said. “You’re trying to make this simple move that your head is telling you is crazy – if you do it right, you think you’re going to flip, but you have to get comfortable as close to the edge as possible. Then when you have a good jump, you don’t feel like you’re falling at all ... You’re going higher and higher.” However, after the Olympics, Hastings decided to shift his focus. He attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and began cover-

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Jeff Hastings ’81 came in fourth place in the large hill ski jump at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games. ing Olympic ski jumping for various television networks. “I had the luxury of being able to pursue one passion, and I will forever be grateful,” he said, “but it was time to move on.” He enjoyed commentating and has broadcasted every Winter Olympics since 1988. While reporting, he even met Bob Costas and Jim McKay. “I loved having a credential, a front row seat

and a backstage pass to a really cool event,” Hastings shared. Although he will not travel to the 2018 Pyeonchang Games, Hastings remains an active Alpine and Nordic skier. He supports ski service programs like Virtual Nationals, which allows children to send in ski jumping videos and be judged by professionals, “grassroots equipment programs” and

United States of America Nordic Sport (USANS) initiatives. The Hall of Fame recognized Hastings’ philanthropy and talents with tribute videos and medals in a ceremony on Saturday evening, which Fisher and his wife attended. “Jeff is an outstanding leader exemplifying what is possible through his hard work and dedication,” the Hall of Fame said.

Softball extends winning streak to seven games Men’s swimming places seventh at Nationals

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Softball (14–9, 5–0 in the NESCAC West) won five games on Cole Field last week. The women swept a doubleheader against Skidmore and a three-game set versus Hamilton to extend their winning streak to seven. On Saturday, Senior Day, the Ephs started their series with the Continentals with an 11-10 walk-off win. Mackenzie Murphy ’19 hit her second home run of the game with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to give her team an improbable 11-10 win. The Ephs trailed 9-2 after the top of the fifth. They scored one run in the bottom of the frame and five more in the sixth. They entered the bottom of the seventh and final inning down 9-8,

but Rebecca Duncan ’20 hit a home run to tie the game. The Continentals regained the lead in the top of the eighth, and the Ephs faced a 10-9 deficit with three outs remaining. The women got another gametying homer, this time a one-out blast off the bat of Jessica Kim ’19. Then, Murphy homered to right field to end the game 11-10 in the Ephs’ favor. Murphy picked up the win from the circle, going the final 3 1/3 innings and allowing three hits and one run while walking none and striking out three. The walk-off win was an apt concluson for Senior Day, as the program celebrated four seniors: Brooke Bovier ’17, Ashley Wirth ’17 and co-captains Dana Cohen ’17 and Alison Michalik ’17. A day after rallying from a seven-run deficit, the Ephs mounted

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Jessica Kim ’19 hit a game-tying home run in Saturday’s 11-10 win.

a six-run comeback to take the first game of a double-header on Sunday. The women prevailed 7-6 after trailing 6-0 in the third. In Sunday’s second game, the Ephs secured the sweep with an 11-2, five-inning victory. The Eph comeback began when Lexi Curt ’18 singled to left. Duncan then cracked a two-run home run. The women added three runs in the fourth. With the score at 6-5 in the fifth, Riley Salvo ’20 doubled and scored on a single by pinchhitter Brenna Martinez ’18. In the bottom of the sixth, Curt led off with a line drive homer. Her team-leading sixth long ball gave the Ephs a 7-6 advantage. Murphy earned the win, tossing four innings of one-hit ball without walking a batter. She fanned two and evened her record at 4-4. In stark contrast with the series’ first two games, the women controlled the nightcap from the start and cruised to an 11-2 win. Murphy gave the home team an early 2-0 lead when she crushed a two-run homer to left, driving in Kim. The Ephs added two more in the frame and put the game away with a seven-run third inning. Martinez, Alvarado, Curt and Michalik had RBI singles in the outburst, and Murphy added a two-run single. Curt’s single extended her hitting streak to 15 games. Duncan earned the win, throwing the first three frames and allowing one hit and one walk while punching out four. Last Wednesday, the women opened their home schedule with two wins over the Skidmore Thoroughbreds. The Ephs hit five home runs over two games and got nine shutout innings from their starting pitchers en route to 8-0 and 4-1 victories. In the first, Curt hit a solo homer, and Duncan drilled a

two-run blast to make it 3-0 Ephs. Two more runs in the fifth extended the lead to five. Murphy was in control from the circle, going four scoreless innings. Bovier made her season debut in the top of the fifth, throwing a scoreless inning. The Ephs ended the game in the bottom of the fifth, scoring three times to put the eight-run mercy rule into effect. Duncan led off the inning with her second home run of the game. Salvo drove a ball into the right-center field gap for an RBI double, and an RBI double by Emma Corbett ’20 brought the final score to 8-0 Ephs. Duncan was 3-for-3 with two home runs, three RBI and three runs scored. The nightcap was a pitcher’s duel between Alejandra Magana ’19 and Skidmore freshman Emily Popp. The Ephs took the lead when Margo Beck ’18 scored on a wild pitch in the second. It was still 1-0 entering the fifth, but Kim socked a two-run homer to center, and Curt followed with a solo shot to make it 4-0 Williams. Skidmore scored in the sixth after Cohen relieved Magana. Skidmore scored on a basesloaded walk with one out, but Duncan came in to stop the bleeding. She worked out of the jam and worked a scoreless seventh for her second save of the year. Magana got the win, throwing five shutout innings and giving up just two hits. She had no walks or strikeouts. Curt was 9-for-16 on the week, collecting four home runs, sevenruns scored and nine RBI. She was named NESCAC Player of the Week. The women spent spring break in California, playing 16 games on the west coast. They are back in action Thursday, when they travel to RPI for a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m.

By COLIN HOGAN TEAM CORRESPONDENT From March 15-18, men’s swimming and diving competed at the Div. III NCAA Championships at the Conroe ISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas. They earned a total of 216 points at the meet, coming in seventh place. The first day of races began with the 500 freestyle. Andrew Trunsky ’20 represented the Ephs and secured a 14th-place finish with a time of four minutes, 29.80 seconds. The success continued in the 200 individual medley, in which Timothy Kostolansky ’18 placed 11th in 1:49.85, followed by Colin Hogan ’17 in 15th with a time of 1:50.92. The final event of the evening was the 200 medley relay. The team of Ben Lin ’17, Jack Melnick ’19, Kostolansky and Curtis Maher ’19 finished fourth with a time of 1:29.25. Their impressive performance put the Ephs in sixth place overall. The next day started with the 200 freestyle relay. John Freeman ’17, Lin, co-captain Grant Johnson ’17 and Maher earned fourth with a time of 1:21.58. Lin kept the momentum going with a first-place finish in the 100 butterfly. He won narrowly with a time of 47.37 seconds. The session concluded with the 400 medley relay, in which Lin, Melnick, Kostolansky and Johnson took second with a time of 3:15.72. Lin’s lead off in the backstroke was especially notable, as he broke his own NCAA record, which he had set in the morning preliminary, with a time of 46.94. Halfway through the competition, the Ephs stood in fifth

place. They continued to swim well on the third day of the meet, which began with the 100 backstroke, in which Lin took home another national title and lowered the NCAA record he had set the evening prior with a time of 46.62. Kostolansky joined Lin in the Championship heat and finished in fifth in 48.91. “Breaking national records obviously doesn’t always happen and takes exceptional swims,” Head Coach Steve Kuster said. “The 100 back for Ben was about as close to a perfect race as you can get and was really special to watch.” In second and last race of the evening, the 800 freestyle relay, the powerhouse team of Johnson, Maher, Lin and Trunsky finished in eighth with an overall time of 6:40.19. The Ephs remained in fifth before the final session. On the last day of the meet, Trunsky earned a fifth-place finish in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 15:31.22. In the 200 backstroke, Lin notched his third individual national title of the week, touching over a second before the next finisher with a time of 1:44.00. The win marked the conclusion of Lin’s impressive individual swimming career. It also gave the Ephs valuable points. The men accrued 216 overall and finished in seventh place. “The men did a great job all week,” Kuster said. “They were solid across the board and really stepped up on the relays. Every relay cracked the top eight, and every guy contributed and has a lot to feel good about.” The men graduate Freeman, Hogan, Johnson, Lin, Jack Ferguson ’17, Andrew Lyness ’17, Cody Niles ’17 and co-captain Zihan Su ’17.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

“Johnny was truly outstanding on Sunday. Our team needed that, and he could not have pitched better in the biggest game thus far in our short season.”

JOHNNY LAMONT ’20

– Head Coach Bill Barrale

“Mackenzie has really stepped up her game, both physically and in terms of her presence on the field. She is a key part of our team this year.”

MACKENZIE MURPHY ’19

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GROTON, MASS.

DIABLO, CALIF.

Lamont, a starting pitcher, went the distance in Sunday’s 4-1 win over Wesleyan, striking out 15 batters while allowing only five hits and two walks. He surrendered just one unearned run and was named NESCAC Pitcher of the Week. In three starts, he has a 2-0 record and a 1.89 earned run average.

– Head Coach Kris Herman

Last week, Murphy won three games, giving up just one run in 11 1/3 innings on the mound. She was 7 for 20 at the plate with three home runs, four runs scored and six runs batted in. The reigning NESCAC Pitcher of the Year has four wins on the season, and she currently owns a 10-game hitting streak.

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The Williams Record

April 12, 2017

Women’s swimming and diving earns silver at Nationals By KATIE PRIEST TEAM CORRESPONDENT On March 18, women’s swimming and diving finished second at the NCAA Div. III National Championships at the Conroe ISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas. The meet began on March 15, and the first event of the session was the 500 freestyle. In the championship final, tri-captain Lauren Jones ’17 finished eighth in four minutes, 59.92 seconds. Alison McNamara ’19 touched for 10th in the consolation final in 4:53.76. Next was the 200 individual medley, in which Olivia Jackson ’17 earned second with a personal best of 2:01.49. In the most notable performance of the evening, Emma Waddell ’18 stole the show in the 50 freestyle, winning with a meet record of 22.69 seconds. On the diving boards, tricaptain Ariana Ross ’17 placed eighth in the 3-meter board with a final score of 426.95. The evening concluded with the 200 medley relay. The team of Jackson, Caroline White ’20, Maia Hare ’19 and Waddell came in third, just behind Denison, with a time of 1:41.60. Day Two of competition began with the 200 freestyle relay, in which Waddell, Delaney Smith ’18, Jackson and Jones placed second with an overall time of 1:32.90. The success continued with the first individual event of the session, the 400 individual medley. Megan Pierce ’17 stole the show, winning by almost three seconds with a personal best of 4:15.71.

Waddell followed in the 100 butterfly with another victory and her second title of the meet in a time of 53.48. In the 200 freestyle, Jones finished in seventh place with a time of 1:49.90. Jackson, White, Waddell and Jones rounded off another successful finals session by securing silver in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:40.57, one second behind first-place Emory. On March 17, the women held on to the second-place position they had maintained since the beginning of the meet. The session began with the 200 butterfly in which Pierce claimed another national title with a lifetime best of 1:59.76. Veronica Wolff ’20 finished just behind Pierce with a time of 2:01.77 for fourth place. In the next event, the 100 backstroke, Jackson kept the momentum going with a fourth-place finish and a time of 55.25. The 100 breaststroke followed, and White earned fifth with a time of 1:02.77 in an extremely close race. On the 1-meter board, Ross finished her outstanding career on a positive note, taking ninth place with a total score of 410.70. The evening concluded with the 800 freestyle relay, a favorite for the women. The team of Madeline Wessell ’20, McNamara, Pierce and Jones finished fifth with a time of 7:22.47, less than half a second behind Chicago. Day Four was full of team spirit and fast swimming, an exciting conclusion to the women’s season.

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Women’s swimming and diving finished second overall at the NCAA Championships with 445 points after coming in third last year. It began with the 1650 freestyle, the longest event of the week. The Ephs notched two top-eight finishes in the event: Pierce concluded her impressive swimming career in fourth at 16:44.32, and McNamara followed in sixth with a time of 16:55.66. Waddell then earned second place in the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.45, a lifetime best. Jackson topped off a phenomenal backstroke career in the 200, reclaiming her national title with a personal, school and

NESCAC record of 1:55.83. In the 200 breaststroke, White took second at 2:15.08. The women rounded off their week in Texas with the 400 freestyle relay. The team of Smith, Jones, Jackson and Waddell secured a secondplace finish with an overall time of 3:23.11. The Ephs earned second overall with 445 points, and Waddell was named the Swimmer of the Meet for her stellar performances over the fourday championships.

Head Coach Steve Kuster was proud of the silver-medal finish. “All of the women contributed to the second-place finish,” he said. “It was great to see them battle as one this weekend and not back down from anyone at the meet. We talked about really making our presence known and they for sure did that and then some.” He also praised Waddell and the senior competitors. “Emma has been so steady all year,” he said. “She has raised the bar in terms of

her work ethic, and it really showed. She was great in her individual events and even better on our relays. “Our seniors all had great outgoing meets to finish their careers on. It was so nice to see them go out on such a great note. The 200 backstroke for [Jackson] was about as close to perfect a race as you can get and was really special to watch.” The women graduate Pierce, Jackson, Jones, Ross, Salmi, Nora Lee ’17, Erica Meyers ’17 and tri-captain Olivia Clark ’17.

Ephs fall in Final Four, App wins coach of the year 14-stroke comeback leads women’s golf to victory By JACKSON MYERS STAFF WRITER

On March 17, men’s basketball (23–9, 5–5 in the NESCAC) fell to the Augustana Vikings 90-79 in the NCAA tournament semifinal. Against a talented Augustana team, the men needed to recreate the magic of their first two tournament games, in which they shot almost 70 percent from the field. Instead, it was the Vikings who caught fire in the Final Four game, while the Ephs were ice cold. Despite only committing three fouls and an incredible one turnover against the stout Viking defense in the first half, the Ephs made just 35.5 percent of their shots and one of their first 10 3-point attempts. This kept them in the red against the pinpoint accuracy of the Vikings, who shot 66.7 percent from behind the arc and made six of their first seven 3-pointers. With two resounding blocks by Micah Martin on the Ephs' first two possessions, the Vikings demonstrated that their defense would be a force to contend with. Although the men adjusted, three balls from Crishawn Orange and Jacob Johnston and two from Dylan Sortillo catapulted Augustana to a double-digit lead in the first few minutes. Defense soon gave the Ephs some wind, as the Vikings committed eight first-half turnovers. Consequently, the men were occasionally able to narrow the deficit to single digits, but Augustana seemed to have an answer for every

incipient run Williams looked to make. Treys by Bobby Casey ’19 and tri-captain Dan Aronowitz ’17 had narrowed the lead to nine, but Nolan Ebel answered with a layup in the final minute to put the score at 42-31. After forcing a shot clock violation with less than two seconds in the half, Williams inbounded the ball to Aronowitz who heaved a buzzer-beater shot from half court that banked off the glass and into the bucket. Capitalizing on the momentum of Aronowitz's miracle shot, the men opened the second half with a 10-0 run. After trailing by as much as 15 in the first half, the Ephs took a 44-42 lead with 16:46 to play thanks to a pair of foul shots by Cole Teal ’18. Augustana jumped right back in, however, as Orange knocked down buckets on back-to-back possessions to tie the game. Two Donovan Ferguson free throws, followed by a steal to set up Brett Benning for a floater, gave the Vikings a modest four-point lead, which they preserved for the next several minutes. Twice, the Ephs’ shooting threatened this advantage, but each time the Vikings were able to respond and maintain a slim lead. Down 71-65, Aronowitz got a layup off a baseline drive, Teal hit a foul shot, and Aronowitz got a putback off his own miss to cut the Ephs’ deficit to just one. Just as Williams looked to continue this momentum shift into the final minutes, Augustana launched into its own run, start-

ing with a pair of free throws by Ebel. A tough post bucket by Martin through a triple-team and then a huge 3-pointer from the corner by Benning to extended the Viking lead by eight almost instantaneously. Williams looked to recover, as Aronowitz made an acrobatic layup through a foul, but three more points from Orange, including a long two-point jumper, gave the Vikings an 81-72 lead with 1:11 to play and seemed to seal the game. The Ephs resorted to fouling, and although Aronowitz and Teal converted a few possessions in the final minute, the Vikings maintained their late lead from the free throw line to win the game 90-79. Aronowitz finished his college career with his best scoring performance of the year. He led all scorers with 29 points on five 3-pointers, while Kyle Scadlock ’19 contributed 16 points and a teamhigh five rebounds. The Vikings shot well from beginning to end, finishing the game with a remarkable 62 percent performance from the floor and 56.3 percent from 3-point range. The Ephs, meanwhile, made 40.3 percent of their attempts and only eight of their 29 shots from long range (27.6 percent). “Playing Augustana was a great test for our team,” Head Coach Kevin App said. “We didn’t play our best game, but we competed at a high level, stayed together as a group and gave ourselves a chance to win. Unfortunately, Augus-

tana made a few more plays in the last four minutes than we did.” He acknowledged the team’s seniors, Aronowitz and tri-captain Taysean Scott ’17. “Our two seniors left their mark on our program in their final season. They led our group, and I will miss getting the opportunity to coach them everyday. I told them that it's been a pleasure getting to say that I was their coach.” Augustana lost to the Babson Beavers 79-78 in the championship game on March 18. At the end of the tournament, Aronowitz was named to the All-Tournament Team. He averaged 18.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game in the tournament, adding 15 3-pointers in those five games. Aronowitz is 14th on the Ephs’ all-time scoring list with 1362 points. On April 6, App received the Glenn Robinson Award as the top Div. III men’s basketball coach in the country. In his third season after taking over for Mike Maker, App led the young team to the Final Four. “Awards like these are only possible when you’re surrounded by terrific people,” App said. “My assistants, Brian Emerson and Justin Bradley, and the wonderful studentathletes we have the privilege of coaching are the reason we had some success this season.” Moving forward, App said he would like the team to build off this season’s sucess. “We saw that when we play with confidence, joy and unity, we can be very good,” he said.

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Head Coach Kevin App was named Div. III coach of the year after leading the Ephs to a 23–9 record and a Final Four appearance.

By CORDELIA CHAN TEAM CORRESPONDENT Women’s golf won the Vassar Invitational last weekend to begin its spring season. At Casper Kill Golf Club in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the women overcame a 14-stroke deficit on Day Two to claim the victory, an unprecedented comeback for the program. Returning from a productive spring break training trip in Orlando, Fla., the Ephs were tested by gusting winds on the par-72 course. Nonetheless, the women battled through first-tee jitters and difficult greens to shoot a respectable score of 331 in Saturday’s round. Liz Gudas ’18 posted an 80, the Ephs’ top score on the day. Cordelia Chan ’19 followed closely with an 81, rebounding nicely after shooting 44 on the front nine. Phoebe Mattana ’18 and co-captains Tracey Kim ’17 and Sophie Kitchen ’17 each shot an 85. Isabella Wang ’19 played as an individual and also fired an 85. After Day One, the Ephs sat in fourth, trailing firstplace NYU by 14 strokes. Many of the Ephs made quality shots throughout the day but experienced bad luck around the greens. “Our ball striking was pretty solid on Saturday, but we were far from our best on and around the greens,” Head Coach Tomas Adalsteinsson said. “We were not adapting to the conditions quickly enough to capitalize on our chances.” On Sunday, the women shot a combined score of 300, just two strokes off their team record. After the women had finished playing, they had to wait to see if their score was good enough to win. The Ephs were 16 strokes clear of the field on Day Two. Their two-day total finished at 631, two strokes better than second-place NYU. Amherst rounded out the top three with a total of 642. Chan led the way on Sunday with a 73. Her total of 154 put her in a tie for second in the individual standings. Chan posted back-to-back birdies on the long par-5 10th and the uphill par-4 11th to shoot +1. Mattana and Gudas shot 74 and 77 respectively, placing sixth and T-seventh, respectfully. Kim struggled

on the greens on Sunday but notched three birdies to shoot 76. After hitting her irons awry on Day One, she made an impressive 18 greens on Day Two. Kitchen did not score for the Ephs but improved by six strokes to a 79. “[After Day One], we knew that we were not far from being able to play some of our best golf,” Adalsteinsson said. “We were the last team to leave the course on Saturday night, after practicing for a little bit after the round, and we were the first team to arrive for warmups on Sunday morning. “We identified what we need to do better, and with a strong game plan and great determination, the team played one of its best rounds ever. The women stayed confident in their ability and were focused on playing their best golf one shot at a time. “I am immensely proud of the team's resilience and positivity last weekend.” “Everyone was focused on learning from her mistakes and looking forward to a chance to show what our team could really do,” Kim said. “There was an air of energy and motivation that was really inspiring.” The women won the NESCAC Championship in the fall and will look to continue their success in the spring. Gudas and Mattana were First Team All-NESCAC selections in the fall season, and Chan and Kitchen were Second Team picks. In addition, Gudas was voted by coaches as NESCAC Player of the Year. The Ephs will return to the links this weekend at the Jack Leaman Inviational hosted by Amherst. The tournament will begin on Saturday and continue the following day. The following week, the women host the Williams Spring Invitational on April 22-23. Strong performances in the coming weeks could seal a NCAA bid for the team, Adalsteinsson said. Last year, the women placed fifth at NCAAs. This year, the four-day tournament will be played May 9-12 at Bay Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas. “Our goal is to play our best game each tournament, each round and each shot,” Adalsteinsson said. “We'll see where that will get us.”