Sept. 18, 2019: College helps fund new Williamstown police station

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College helps fund new Williamstown police station After two years of planning and negotiations, Williamstown PD moves to new location on Simonds Road By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Williamstown’s new police station on Simonds Road opened for operation in July, made possible in part by a $400,000 donation and an easement of land from the College. The College’s donation was a crucial part of allowing the town to construct the station with no net tax impact. Begun in 2017 and approved at the Williamstown town meeting in May 2018, the new station contains vast improvements from the old station, including areas for the public, crime victims, officers and those in custody to be out of sight and sound of one another. The old station also had a steep staircase leading down to the holding cells, posing a safety risk. The new station was built on the site of a former home for veterans, Turner House. The College often plays an active role in specific public capital projects for the town, such as the police station or high school, with funding and in-kind donations. However, the College does not have a regular arrangement to provide funds to the town in lieu of property taxes save for a yearly payment to the fire district, which is a separate government entity from the town. Rather, it provides direct support to individual projects and initiatives. “This was a clear capital need for a long time,” said Assistant to the President for Community and Government Affairs Jim Kolesar ’72. “There were other projects lined up before it, such as the high school, but then it clearly became time.” Kolesar noted that the College was not formally approached by the town, but rather is continually look-

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Williamstown’s new police station on Simonds Road was funded in part by a $400,000 donation from the College. ing out for such opportunities to contribute. “We’re in constant conversation about this sort of thing,” he said. Indeed, the College’s involvement in the new police station continued through the planning of the project. The most central form of the College’s support was financial. Kolesar informed Town Manager Jason Hoch ’95 on Jan. 20, 2018, following the January meeting of the College’s Board of Trustees, that the board had pledged $400,000 to support the project. Hoch replied, “That’s wonderful news. Thank you! That’s a critical piece of being able to put together a program that has no net tax impact. I should have a better

sense next month of my timetable so we can coordinate an announcement for our best mutual benefit.” Concern over the new location did delay the College’s financial support for the project, though, which it did not actually approve at the January meeting. On Jan. 22, 2018, following the board’s January meeting, Kolesar emailed Hoch to clarify his earlier email. “The board endorsed the idea but didn’t take a vote for a reason I can explain. At least one member wanted us to make sure this was the best possible solution for the town,” he wrote. “In other words, one closer to town that might cost more for which money could be raised. Don’t

be alarmed. I think a small amount of due diligence will get us to the right place.” At the time, the town had already approved the purchase of Turner House at a special November 2017 town meeting and purchased the deed on Feb. 5, 2018, according to deed records. The payment for the station and land also included a state grant for $250,000 in recognition of the town’s affordable housing efforts, both of which reduced the amount the town needed to borrow. “In short, we are using free cash on hand and reallocating utility cost savings (based on the electricity generation credits from the solar array at the old landfill, also facilitated by Williams),

to cover annual debt costs to keep our total town debt payments flat,” Hoch said to the Record. “In 2025, we finish paying off a bond from the Elementary School, so those funds will then be reallocated to pay the Police Station debt.” Kolesar stated to the Record that the College’s board did not have any input as to the location of the station or construction details, such as the resources that were to be provided in the new station. Nonetheless, at one point, a member of the board made an unannounced visit to the station to assess what officers thought of the potential new location at Turner House. On Feb. 6, 2018, Kolesar wrote to Hoch, “[A] Williams board member who owns a residence in town arranged last weekend to be shown around the current station and while he was there asked the officer (I don’t know who it was but I think not [Chief of Police] Kyle [Johnson]) what he thought about the move. That person’s reported to have said that mainly he’s extremely happy to finally be moving into a modern facility, that he’s wistful (probably not the word he used) about being out of the center of town but apparently didn’t think it was a huge deal.” The other location that had been considered for the project was where Mountain One Bank is currently located on Main Street, near Currier Hall and Spencer Art Studio. This site, however, was brought up only after discussions had already started on the Turner House site. “The Town was only considering sites that were on the market or known to us to be available. The suggescontinued on Page 5

Ethan Zuckerman ’93 steps College steps up science Bae '17 gets three years center site security down from MIT Media Lab Four incidents of trespassing into North Science Center in prison cause $7500 in damages, prompt new guards on site over Epstein concerns By DAVID SHAKIROV STAFF WRITER Ethan Zuckerman ’93, a prominent internet media scholar and entrepreneur, announced Aug. 20 that he is resigning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, stating that the lab contradicted its own values in working with Jeffrey Epstein,

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which last year recognized #MeToo activists – expressed concern that Ito was “underestimating the public reaction to Epstein.” Ito resigned on Sept. 7. Epstein donated close to $800,000 to MIT alone and $525,000 to the lab, although the conditions of these donations included portraying Epstein’s involvement as anonymous. Soon after, however, this line began

“It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein.” –Ethan Zuckerman ’ 93, Director of MIT Center for Civic Media a wealthy financier and the leader of a pedophilia ring who recently committed suicide while awaiting trial. In May 2020, Zuckerman will leave his post as director of the MIT’s Center for Civic Media. “My logic was simple: The work my group does focuses on social justice and on the inclusion of marginalized individuals and points of view,” he wrote in the blog post announcing his resignation. “It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship.” On Aug. 15, Joi Ito, then-head of the MIT Media Lab, issued an apology for accepting of over $500,000 in donations to the lab and $1.2 million to his personal venture fund since 2013 from Epstein. In his apology, Ito promised to donate equivalent sums to groups that advocate for sexual assault survivors and to return all donations and investments. Zuckerman’s department is one of 26 different subsidiaries within the lab. Zuckerman told the Record he learned of the Epstein connection roughly a week before Ito’s public apology and “was quite worried it would turn into a major issue for Joi [Ito] and the lab.” Zuckerman – who helped organize the lab’s annual disobedience award,

to blur. Epstein met with Joi Ito in 2015, The New Yorker reported, after the two tried to override Epstein’s “disqualified” status in the donor and development office at MIT. Ito admits he “invited [Epstein] to the lab and visited several of his residences.” Zuckerman claims these gifts “were not anonymous” as intended and that they “[bought Epstein] contact with the thinkers he craved.” Zuckerman expressed hope that the lab be “open and honest with their colleagues about their decisions.” He went on to characterize the lab as a place where faculty have significantly more control over research decisions than students or staff, and hopes the lab leadership can use this moment as an opportunity to correct the inequity. Going forward, Zuckerman seeks other institutions where he can “teach PhD students [with a] Williams BA.” Overall, he characterizes the Media Lab controversy as a lesson to major institutions and individuals alike about being effective against injustices in the workplace. Zuckerman says it starts out small — first by calling out the predator in “the corner office,” or refusing a six figure donation from one “to launder [their own] reputation.”

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A private security team and video cameras will monitor the North Science center site. By WILLIAM NEWTON MANAGING EDITOR In response to four separate documented incidents of students and others trespassing into the North Science Building construction site, one of which resulted in significant damage, Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom announced in an all-campus email that the College has hired a private security team, which will not be armed, to monitor the zone at night. The College has also installed a number of high-resolution security cameras that can identify individuals entering the site. Additionally, per Sandstrom's email, the College plans to treat any intrusion during non-construction hours as criminal

trespassing, to be handled by the Williamstown Police Department. The most recent of the documented intrusions occurred last Thursday night — those students were identified from camera footage. According to Director of Campus Safety and Security Dave Boyer, initial estimates pegged total damages at $7,500. For Boyer, these string of incidents are entirely unprecedented and represent a serious risk to student safety. “In my 31 years, the College has never had to resort to protecting a construction site,” Boyer wrote in a message to the Record. “The risk students were taking was shocking, and establishing on site [private security] was necessary to prevent a severe injury or death.

On Monday, Judge Michael Callan of the Berkshire Superior Court sentenced Yoonsang Bae ’17 to not less than three years and no more than three years and a day in prison. Callan had previously convicted Bae of rape on Sept. 6, closing a five-year investigation that began when Bae assaulted another student on campus in summer 2014. The College had suspended Bae for two years, which he spent serving in the South Korean military, before he graduated in 2017. Assistant Berkshire District Attorney Stephanie Ilberg prosecuted Bae’s case under the direction of District Attorney Andrea Harrington, who was elected to office in 2018 partially on the platform of rigorously prosecuting rape cases at the College. The previous District Attorney’s office, led by Paul Caccaviello, had extended Bae a plea deal in 2018 that would have required he admit only to indecent assault and battery, a lesser offense. Bae did not accept the deal. Harrington’s office rescinded that offer, and instead offered three to four years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea for rape. When Bae rejected that offer and the case proceeded to trial, Ilberg asked for a sentence of five to seven years in prison. Callan has recommended that Bae serve his sentence in the Berkshire Jail and House of Correction. Following his sentence, Bae will have to register as a sex offender. He will be deported to South Korea, where he is a citizen, and will be barred reentry to the United States.

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In 2014, Yoonsang Bae ’17 sexually assaulted another student while on campus. After lengthy legal proceedings, the Berkshire Superior Court found him guilty of rape on Sept. 6, and has since sentenced him to three years in prison. The College readmitted Bae after a four-semester suspension, and he was allowed to graduate in 2017. While we do not know the details of this case and do not wish to comment on it specifically, we believe it does raise important questions about how the College sanctions those who commit sexual assault. Bae’s case is far from unusual. Of the 86 registered complaints of sexual misconduct since 2011, 34 prompted formal disciplinary proceedings, 29 of which resulted in findings of responsibility and only five of which led to a student’s expulsion from the College. Only one in four students found responsible for sexual assault in the past eight years have been expelled; the others faced suspension.

We at the Record consider the lenience of these penalties and the lack of information around what factors go into them to be irresponsible and dangerous. No student should be forced to walk through the same halls as their rapist, and no student should be made to feel unsafe around a classmate or peer. Furthermore, all students ought to know clearly what their school’s disciplinary policies on this crucial issue are. We draw inspiration from those who have elevated this conversation in recent days, particularly Abby Lloyd ’20, who wrote a powerful op-ed critiquing Bae’s 2016 readmission to the College (“On giving rapists a Williams degree: Why the College fails its duty when it readmits offenders,” Sep. 18, 2019). First, we take issue with the College’s lack of public information regarding the standards for suspension or expulsion. If a student faces a semester-long suspension for sexual assault, the community currently has no way of knowing why. We as students do not even know if the College’s standards for penalties differ from year to year or from case to case. Nor does information exist as to whether disciplinary sanctions differ for cases of stalking,

academic and social growth. Attending the College is a tremendous privilege, and is not one that should be afforded to rapists. We recognize that increased penalties for sexual misconduct necessitate serious contemplation of the evidentiary standards that are required for a finding of responsibility, and the College must work to ensure a fair process for both parties with no presumption of guilt for the accused. Either sufficient evidence exists for a finding of responsibility or it does not, however, and we maintain that punishments short of expulsion can hardly ever be appropriate when such evidence is found. The central mission of the College is and must be to provide a space for academic and personal growth in an environment conducive to learning and personal safety. The presence of a rapist on campus makes such an environment impossible. For the sake of survivors, the student body and the campus community at large, the College must strengthen its penalties for sexual assault and increase transparency around those policies. The editorial represents the opinion of the majority of the Record’s editorial board.

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relationship abuse or sexual harassment as compared to sexual assault. This lack of transparency is worrying in its own right, but the College’s opacity could also intimidate and discourage survivors from reporting and pursuing cases. In the future, a rubric must clearly set out the severity of offense that merits each sanction. Furthermore, we believe that sexual assault should not result in mere suspension except in the rarest of cases. Rather, the College should establish expulsion as the presumptive, though not mandatory, punishment for students who are found responsible for sexual assault. Such a policy is not motivated by a desire merely to punish assailants; it is about ensuring the very safety of our community. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 63 percent of men at one university who admitted to at least one rape or attempted rape also admitted to multiple offenses. A 2019 peerreviewed study further found that 87 percent of sexual assaults involving alcohol were committed by a repeat perpetrator. Even absent a repeated assault, however, an assailant’s presence on campus could damage students’ perceived security and hinder

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“We do what we want”

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By PAUL PARK My sister, Jessica H. Park of the Jessica H. Park Mailroom, lives in a white house on Hoxsey Street opposite the new science center; I and her two sisters frequently visit, to provide her with company and support. A woman with autism, she has lived there since 1971 as the neighborhood around her, formerly vibrant and alive with families and children, has gradually changed. Our house is the last owner-occupied house on the street, which now consists largely of off-campus housing units. The current situation is challenging. At the back of the house we have a large, brightly lit parking lot, and, at the front, a huge construction site. While the College has tried to block some of the light hitting us from the lot, the constant noise from the construction has been especially unpleasant: the destruction of the old building, then months of bedrock blasting, which has toppled trees and cracked walls. Jessy, who like many autistic people is hyper-sensitive to noise, wears ear plugs supplemented by sound-cancelling earphones when she is in the house. In recent months, construction has stretched to six days a week, beginning at 8 a.m. and often continuing past 6 p.m. We planned a family dinner outside on our side porch Friday night. 6 p.m. came and went, with no abatement in the noise, then 7, then 8. We spoke to the foreman on the site, who was sympathetic but made clear that the work had to continue. At 9:30 we complained again. This time we spoke to another worker, who said, and I quote, “Fuck off. We do what we want.” It was a clarifying moment. There is no reason to be sentimental and to think, for example, that because she is an elderly woman with a disability and no place else to go, or else as a long-time college employee, the daughter and sister of other long-time employees, Jessy should be afforded any special consideration, or be treated any differently than any of the other people who used

to live on that and the adjacent streets. But it is bracing to be reminded so concisely of the College’s relationship with local residents. And in fact, if you look around town, you see example after example of “We do what we want” — not just the pervasive light pollution that makes Hoxsey, Southworth and Latham Streets challenging places to live, but also the constant construction and construction traffic. We understand that the College is competing for applicants with other liberal arts colleges, and with them hunting after an ever-smaller number of privileged students, but there is a disadvantage to this process of strangulation in the center of the town. Williams likes to think of itself as part of a functioning community with Spring Street at its center, and that was true at one time: repair shops, dry cleaners, grocery stores, clothing stores, news stands, a drug store, a service station, a bakery, a shoe store, and dozens of professional offices. Now the street is a service artery for the college, with the form but not the substance of the main street of a pretty New England town. Spring Street businesses are struggling, distinguished houses are torn down, living conditions in the immediate vicinity of the campus are exhausting and nerveracking, and the illusion of partnership is less and less possible to maintain. As our recent exchange with the worker on the new science center suggests, perhaps it’s better not to pretend anymore. For many years, our unofficial motto, translated roughly from the original languages, has been: “We are eager, through new construction and through other means, to maintain our number one position in a destructive college ranking system that we simultaneously deplore.” Perhaps it’s time to update the official one as well: “Fuckus Offus,” instead of that “liberalitate/armigeri” nonsense and its whiff of outdated chivalry and generosity. Paul Park, senior lecturer in English, has worked at the College since 2002.

By ABBY LLOYD My friend and I are sitting on the couch of our apartment. We’re discussing the week to come: our schedules, our classes, our meetings. I have to go to bystander training on Monday night as a representative for my club. I went to bystander training last spring in preparation for living off-campus this year. My roommates are RASAN-trained. We attended bystander training a week ago as part of our captain’s training. We are the captains of a women’s team on campus. Our sisters have been raped. Our friends have been

esty and plagiarism. Students with mental health issues or those who are on leaves of absences are prevented from continuing at or returning to the college to receive their education and degree. Students with weapons on campus are liable to dismissal from the institution. Students who rape and assault other students are given suspensions until the victim of their crime has graduated (or left campus altogether for inability of functioning on a campus on which they were violated). Students who rape and assault other students often have the opportunity of returning to campus

sexually assaulting other students? Rape? How big of a dent does that put into the college careers of perpetrators? As long as they pass 151, I’m sure they’ll be fine. Sometimes I am tired. I’m tired from classes, from practice, from social interactions and obligations. Mostly I’m tired of feeling helpless. I don’t feel like attending my tenth bystander training for an institution that does nothing to really punish those who commit the crimes that we’re trying to prevent. I don’t feel like reliving instances of rape and sexual assault and trauma so that the College can say it did its job. Allow-

Sometimes I am literally screaming at a wall, disgusted by the behavior that we accept and the responsibility that we shirk and the women (and it is, by and large, women) that we fail by pretending that a college suspension is at all a commensurable punishment for the violence that they have endured.

victims of dating violence and abuse. I have been sexually assaulted. By the end of my college career, the number of workshops I’ll have attended on sexual assault will be more than the number of semesters that Yoonsang Bae was separated from the college for sexually assaulting a woman on campus. Sometimes I feel like I’m screaming at a wall. Sometimes I am literally screaming at a wall, disgusted by the behavior that we accept and the responsibility that we shirk and the women (and it is, by and large, women) that we fail by pretending that a college suspension is at all a commensurable punishment for the violence that they have endured. Students are asked to leave Williams for acts of academic dishon-

to receive their Williams education and degree. Yoonsang Bae returned to Williams in 2016 after serving his four semester suspension. He was awarded his degree in the spring of 2017. Welcome to the Alumni Association, we hope you donate accordingly. We talk a lot about privilege on this campus. We talk about what an amazing opportunity we students have in front of us, being at Williams and all. We talk about the responsibility we have to make our time here meaningful. We also talk a lot about how to not screw that up; don’t skip too much class, don’t drink too much alcohol, don’t have any mental health issues that can’t be fixed within four sessions of health center-provided therapy. What about

ing perpetrators of sexual misconduct back on campus is not the College “doing its job.” Extending the benefits of a Williams degree to a known assailant deters no one from these crimes. Bystander training and First Days conversations fall flat in the face of an administration unwilling to punish, in any meaningful way, those who commit crimes of sexual misconduct against other students. A Williams College degree is a privilege. I am lucky to be on my way towards one. I wonder if Yoonsang Bae felt the same as he returned to campus to enjoy all that Williams has to offer. Abby Lloyd ’20 is an English and political science major from Hightstown, N.J.

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In support of the Defenders of Mauna Kea By ASSOCIATED FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM We support the Kai’i/Defenders of Mauna Kea in their opposition to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Mauna Kea in Hawai’i is a central genealogical kupuna (ancestor) for Kānaka Maoli, as well as a critical ecological and spiritual site. We reject the false opposition between science and religion invoked by some proponents of the TMT. When TMT supporters argue that Mauna Kea’s height and location will enable breakthroughs in astronomy, they obfuscate the fact that Mauna Kea is already a locus of cosmic and ecological knowledge production for Kānaka Maoli. We join our colleagues in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi to voice our support of the students, faculty and staff of the University of Hawai’i who are mobilizing to protect the sanctity of Mauna Kea. We make this statement not only in support of our community members who are now on the frontlines resisting police and construction vehicles, but because our institution was built on and in conjunction with the ongoing colonization of Hawai’i and Kānaka Maoli people. From the Haystack Prayer Meeting in 1806, and the ensuing missionary movement, to the building of the taxonomic collections of the Williams Lyceum beginning in 1835, Williams College has been entangled with the occupation of Hawai’i. In the light of this history, our silence

at this moment would amount to our complicity in the suppression of Kānaka Maoli expression, ways of being and civil rights. Affirming the peaceful principles of Kapu Aloha as practiced by the Kia’i, we denounce the use of physical force, chemical agents, intimidation and other forms of coercion or violence against all who are demonstrating on behalf of Mauna Kea. We call upon President Lassiter and the Board of Regents of the University of Hawai’i to respect the Kia’i by working with the TMT International Observatory to find alternate sites for the TMT and future projects. Cassandra Cleghorn, Chair of the American Studies Program and Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies

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Remembering 9/11 at Williams Why the College could be doing more By MICHAEL GIBSON-PRUGH The trajectory of my life was changed on September 11, 2001. Thankfully, I didn’t lose any loved ones that day, but a lot of people did. 2,996 people died, 6,000 were injured and many more have suffered from cancer and respiratory disease, including many first responders. I am forever grateful to those who rushed to the scene and gave their lives to try and save so many innocent people. I was lucky that no one I knew died during those attacks. My family left New York City after living there for over 20 years, putting me on a different course and changing how I grew up and saw the world. Every year I think about the wideranging impacts that stem from 9/11. That’s why I was shocked this year to see no mention of it in The Record, and only 2 mentions of it in the Daily Messages. I understand that 18 years is a long time, but the Williams community could be doing a lot more. I was disappointed there was no larger memorial on campus. I was disappointed that it seemed to barely register in peoples’ minds. But most of all, I think this was a missed opportunity. The September 11 attacks were one of the most important days of the

21st century, shaping much of our politics and public discourse. The War in Afghanistan began 26 days after 9/11, a war which we continue to fight in today, making it America’s longest war. After September 11, there was a sizeable increase in Islamophobia and hate crimes directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. 9/11 first responders continue to die, and there was moral outrage far reported when several members of Congress missed a meeting about the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund this summer. For all of that frustration directed at members of Congress, we as a community did not show up last week. We failed to have conversations about what that day has meant for our society, has meant to all those who lost loved ones and to those who have been unfairly persecuted after the attacks. For a campus that is politically dynamic and often engages in activism, this could have been a moment to talk about the impacts stemming from that day. Some will likely say that the best way to honor the victims of 9/11 is to continue to go about our lives. I agree, but for a campus about learning and dealing with political realities, shouldn’t we talk about 9/11 and everything that it caused? I believe the best way to memorialize people is to remember

them and keep them in our hearts by talking about the transformation our society endured after the attacks. It doesn’t seem like too much to ask to have conversations led on campus about this for one day each year. Considering the massive impact 9/11 had, I would argue that one day isn’t nearly enough time for our community and for our country to grapple with the trauma that this day caused. We could have speakers here ranging from politicians to heroic first responders and activists against hate. But we don’t. It’s worth reflecting on what we have and haven’t done to memorialize the lives lost on 9/11 and the ways in which we as a community respond to the aftermath. For everyone enrolled in the College, their lives have been governed by this moment. War, increased security and swelling islamophobia have all become our new normal, yet we didn’t capitalize on an opportunity to talk about why. We should memorialize the lives lost, and reflect on the wide ranging impacts stemming from that day. We should do this because it is not just my life that was changed forever on September 11, 2001, but everyone’s. Michael Gibson-Prugh from Providence, R.I.

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Martha Jones speaks on birthright citizenship By DANNY JIN MANAGING EDITOR The Fourteenth Amendment, which in 1868 granted U.S. citizenship to everyone who was born in the country, is often seen as a reversal of the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which explicitly denied citizenship to Black residents. But until recently, the pre-Civil War activism of Black Americans against their dehumanization has largely been ig-

nored, according to award-winning historian Martha S. Jones. “For a long time, I think, with the story of citizenship we started with Dred Scott and fast-forwarded to the Civil War,” Jones told a College audience on Thursday. “What people don’t realize was there was a lot of murkiness in between. African Americans didn’t take [Dred Scott] as the final word, but rather continued to fight for their status as citizens.” The author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Ante-

bellum America, Jones addressed an audience of more than 50 on Thursday in Griffin 3 in a talk co-sponsored by the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Program in Democratic Studies and the history and Africana studies departments. Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Neil Roberts said that he, Professor of History Gretchen Long and Professor of History Sara Dubow ’91 had spent over a year planning the event, which kicked off the second year of the Schumann program’s “Race and Democracy” series.

Jones, the Society of Black Alumni presidential professor at Johns Hopkins, posited the state of Maryland as a key battleground where free Black people continued to struggle to protect and marginally expand their civil rights after the Dred Scott case. At the time, Maryland was the state with the greatest population of free Black people, who numbered at least 75,000 in 1860. The Maryland Court of Appeals had in fact rejected the logic of

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Professor Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins delivers her talk on birthright citizenship and pre-Civil War Black activism, which was held on Sept. 12.

Panel discusses future of speech, internet By DANNY JIN MANAGING EDITOR The debate over the internet’s impact on the world can be polarizing, but three prominent journalists sought nuance on the subject in a Thursday conversation at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. More than 100 attendees watched Call Your Girlfriend host Aminatou Sow moderate a panel with The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald and Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood in an event sponsored by The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum, The Cohan Family Forum Fund and The Thomas B. Healy ’50 Fund. Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Gregory Mitchell, who led the lecture committee that planned the event, said the event’s aim was to generate a lively conversation around the problems we face in a digitized world. “Students were very interested in thinking about the relationship between social media, technology and the political moment we are in,” Mitchell said. “Students today are the first generation to have to think about things like Russian hacking, the role of Facebook in elections, the possibility of deep fakes and their past online selves following them through their political and civic lives.” Greenwald won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014 for his reporting on NSA surveillance for The Guardian. He said that while his reporting on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden taught him to be critical of the internet’s facilitation of surveillance, he believes the internet’s merits should be recognized. When Greenwald started The Intercept, a left-wing online news outlet, he appreciated the ease with which people commented on the blog and made corrections. “I think [technology has] really diversified the types of voices that are heard,” he said. “You no longer have to own a satellite station or a printing press, but you can make a free Twitter account… On balance, I would rather have this anarchy of the internet than 1972, when you had to be a member of the oligarchic class to have a voice.” But the increased connectivity has come with costs. Sow, who is Black, noted that those costs especially harm communities of color.

“We all pay a different fee,” she said. “As a person of color, there’s a lot I don’t need to see… It’s not a democratic platform for everyone. Not everyone has access. Not everyone has the same power.” In addition, digital spaces are often assumed to be predominantly male, a notion the panel sought to challenge. “It was also important to me that the panel prominently feature women because we often get this stereotype in our head that there are no significant female voices in tech, which is not at all true,” Mitchell said. “So I was thrilled to have Molly and Amina.” The internet’s emphasis on generating clicks and “engagements” has encouraged content to be more provocative, Wood said. When individuals realize they can attract more attention through inflammatory and incendiary speech, she said, digital shouting matches naturally follow. “If you can talk about everything and you can always have disagreements, then you can always say something,” she said. “Then it just becomes this overriding ethos.” Yet she and Greenwald both expressed concerns over intellectual censorship or self-censorship. Greenwald argued that it is important for young people to take risks and to question assumptions in their transition to adulthood. “One of the most valuable human experiences that can bring growth is to have dialogue with people who think differently,” said Greenwald, who cautioned against allowing private actors like Facebook to determine what sort of speech is acceptable. “Sometimes you see flaws in your own thinking. If we communicate solely with like-minded people, we lose that capacity… In some ways, the internet disembodies and dehumanizes us because you’re not talking to someone – you’re typing.” He cautioned, though, that the digital age has forced that pursuit to be balanced with caution, as saying something irresponsible could remain on the internet forever. Greenwald added that, while it is easy to romanticize a foregone past, the problems that exist with the internet are modern adaptations of previous problems. Wood, too, said that the internet has mirrored society’s broader anxieties, but she noted that it also has the potential to mirror the good in society. “It’s worth protecting,” she said. “Its really a modern miracle.”

the Dred Scott decision in 1858’s Hughes v. Jackson. In that case, the state’s high court upheld the right of a free Black man named Samuel Jackson to bring suit in the state’s courts. The alternative, Jones said, would have been to create 75,000 ‘outlaws’ in the state of Maryland. Understanding the fight for birthright citizenship, Jones said, is particularly pertinent given that the Trump administration has publicly discussed plans to end it. But for her, birthright citizenship is an important safeguard against racism and xenophobia. “In any country, there are the despised,” Jones said. “It turns out the children of the despised are citizens — I hope unassailably.” Jones’ narrative focused on George Hackett (1806–1870), a Black Baltimorean who helped defeat an 1860 bill that would have resulted in the removal or re-enslavement of Maryland’s entire Black population. Hackett’s unsung heroism, according to Jones, was most visible in his efforts at his local courthouse. “He kept returning to his local courthouse in an effort to construct himself and others like him as citizens,” she said. Yet individuals like Hackett, who were crucial to the early history of Black citizenship, have been “obscured, neglected and overlooked” by scholarship, Jones said. Nevertheless, she continued, continuing in Hackett’s legacy means pushing forward in the struggle for civil rights rather than dwelling on his lack of recognition. “I think he’d want us to pause only briefly, and to turn instead to the problems of our own times, the challenge of civil rights,” Jones reflected, “because there is still work to be done.” The “Race and Democracy” series continues Sept. 25 with a visit from David Eng, the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. That event is co-sponsored by the Schumann program, as well as the English, psychology and comparative literature departments.

Potato vandalism shatters car window By REBECCA TAUBER DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR On Sunday morning, a Campus Safety and Security (CSS) officer who was patrolling Thompson parking lot discovered that a window on a Subaru Outback had been broken. The officer called the car’s owner, Katrina Wheelan ’21. “When I went with the officer to take a look, I saw that the car had been ‘potato-ed,’” Wheelan said. “One of the windows was broken, and there were bits of raw potato and glass everywhere. One potato was lodged in the roof.” Wheelan speculated that the damage, which may cost up to $500,

“There were bits of raw potato and glass everywhere ... one potato was lodged in the roof.” — Katrina Wheelan ’21 may have occurred Saturday night. “Based on the force with which the potatoes hit the car, I would guess that the vandals used a potato gun,” she said.

So far, neither CSS nor the Williamstown Police Department have been able to determine who caused the damage or why. Anyone with information regarding the incident should contact CSS.

In Other Ivory Towers By JOEY FOX NEWS EDITOR In Other Ivory Towers is the Record’s look at colleges and universities outside the Purple Bubble. This past summer, Oberlin College and Wesleyan University faced significant lawsuits, both of which alleged that the institutions did not properly intervene against students engaging in defamatory protests. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) In June, following a years-long legal process, a jury ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million in compensatory damages and another $33.2 million in punitive damages to Gibson’s Bakery, a family-owned bakery near the college. The total damages were later reduced to $25 million. The jury found that the college, as well as one of its administrators, was guilty of “libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and improper interference in the business relationship between Gibson’s and Bon Appétit, Oberlin’s food management company,” according to reporting by The Oberlin Review, the college’s student newspaper. The lawsuit, which the owners of Gibson’s filed in 2017, stemmed from an incident that took place

in November 2016. After a Black Oberlin student attempted to purchase alcohol in Gibson’s using fake identification, a white Gibson’s employee accused the student of shoplifting — an offense the student later plead guilty to — resulting in a physical altercation that also involved two other Black students. The employee maintains that the students were the aggressors, while other eyewitness accounts claim that the employee initiated the violence. The students acknowledged in their guilty pleas that the employee’s actions were not racially motivated. However, the event nevertheless instigated a series of protests among Oberlin students and faculty, who argued that the bakery had long engaged in racial profiling. The successful lawsuit claimed that Oberlin College assisted students in their efforts by cancelling classes, allowing the free use of copy machines for protest flyers and ultimately ending its business relationship with the bakery for two months. The college attempted to obtain a new trial, but was denied last Wednesday. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) At Wesleyan University in Connecticut, an associate profes-

sor of molecular biology and biochemistry is suing the university for defamation because it failed to hold students accountable for what he called “slanderous and vicious personal attacks.” The suit, which was filed in May, has not yet been resolved. The professor, Michael McAlear, says that, after he called into question student protesters’ use of the words “sexual predator” to refer to two Wesleyan faculty members, he himself was labelled a “predator.” According to reporting by the Hartford Courant, McAlear had never been accused by the institution of sexual misconduct. McAlear reached out to university administrators, who he says agreed with him that the students were out of line and should have been identified and questioned. However, no student ever faced disciplinary action from the university, according to McAlear’s lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that McAlear was professionally and personally damaged by the students’ statements, which surfaced in protests against the administration, fliers distributed to visiting students and teaching evaluations. In a statement through a spokesperson which was provided to the Hartford Courant, Wesleyan denied McAlear’s accusation of defamation.

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College plays active role in new police station CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tion about the bank site came late in the process after we had already completed a needs assessment at the Turner House site,” Hoch said. “The bank site had not been part of our original consideration set; however, we did reflect on the suggestion when it was made and did not find it sufficiently advantageous to suspend the planning and commitments already in place at Turner House.” Hoch and Kolesar focused on the disadvantages of a site so central to campus and the relative lack of issues posed by a less central location. Not only would buying the building harm an active local business, Hoch maintained, but would also be closer to campus than the current station. “In thinking about that site, which is a gateway to the campus on the east, it feels like an uneasy juxtaposition to have the Town’s Police nestled within the edge the campus with dorms and academic buildings adjacent without even a road crossing,” Hoch wrote to Kolesar on Feb. 5, 2018. “Our current facility has reasonable separation at the back of a building, with Route 7 as a secondary buffer to the edge of the Greylock Quad.” Since most calls are responded to from the field, Hoch continued, the centrality of the station should not affect response times. Alleviating the board’s concerns on this issue in part depended on Johnson’s assessment of the merits of the new location. On Feb. 6, 2018, Hoch sent an email to Johnson. “Just a heads up that I suggested that Jim Kolesar chat with you re location of new facility. He’s been tasked with gathering info to allay board member concern,” he wrote. “No issue, Jim gets it, just needs the attributable comments from you. Thanks.” The executive committee of the board then approved the College’s involvement about a month later, on March 6, 2018, per an email from Kolesar to Hoch. Following that, the discussion between the College and the town turned to the land needed for the station. While the town and College had originally considered an arrangement in which the College would purchase Turner House and donate it to the town, ultimately the town chose to buy the property outright. The College, however, agreed to grant the town an easement for a parcel of land adjacent to the station.

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The main purpose of this easement was to allow for drainage off of the town’s property, as Jim Hanifan of Caolo and Bienik Associates, the architecture firm working on the station, stated in an email to Hoch. “The drain pipe discharges overflow runoff from the Police Station’s underground detention/infiltration basin onto Williams College land.” The College assented to the easement in principle on March 14, 2018, in an email from General Counsel Jamie Art ’93 to Hoch. Earlier correspondence between the College and town in September 2017 had also explored the possibility of sharing network fibers between the station and the College’s library shelving facility (LSF). After a series of exchanges, though, divergent timelines meant that the College moved ahead with its own fiber. “We haven’t even begun contemplating fiber and data options at all and I don’t want to slow your process,” Hoch ’95 wrote to the College’s chief information officer, Barron Koralesky, on Nov. 6, 2017. Eventually, the police station used its own network cable, rather than sharing with the College. A final discussion between the town and College before construction began on the station concerned water access. The town’s public works department had recommended that the station tap into an existing water line to the College’s LSF. On July 16, 2018, Senior Project Manager Jason Moran wrote to Hoch confirming this. “No issues with you tapping into our existing water line on the access road to the LSF,” he wrote. The new station indeed does tap into the LSF driveway’s water access line. “Our Water Department recommended the driveway connection as being a better connection and less disruptive during construction which would have required cutting across or tunneling under Simonds Road since the water main is on the opposite side of the street,” Hoch said to the Record. In response to the view that the College was too involved in strengthening policing, Kolesar notes that ultimately what services the town chooses to fund are a community choice. “The College wants the community to make those decisions,” he said, noting the overwhelming approval of the project at the town meeting. “If the College thought a particular project was way off-base, it wouldn’t engage. Short of that, the College trusts the community to make good decisions and goes along with it.”

SPRING STREET BLUES From the files of Campus Safety and Security Monday 9-9-19 3:00 p.m. Sage Hall: A groundskeeper called CSS and requested an officer to respond concerning the collision of a College vehicle with the corner of a marble block, causing a flat tire and minor damage to the rim. The officer drove the truck back to the shop and filled the tire with air after reseeding it. No new damage to the marble was visible, and no pieces of marble were on the ground.

respond and found a faulty detector in the third floor area, which was replaced, and the system was reset. Wednesday 9-11-19 7:50 p.m. Chandler Gym Pool: An officer responded to a report of blood on the floor near the pool needing a biohazard clean-up. The injured party was no longer present.. The onduty custodians responded as well.

10:36 p.m. Sawyer Library: An officer responded to the west main entrance for a report of a student not feeling well. The student reported sharp and severe pain in the right side of their abdomen and was concerned about appendicitis. Officers activated 911 for Northern Berkshire Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to respond. The student was transported to Berkshire Health - North in North Adams.

8:18 p.m. ’62 Center: The Director of CSS received an email from Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) Production management regarding several thefts from the Center for Theatre and Dance over the summer. The email, which was also sent to WPD, detailed multiple unique costuming items stolen from WTF and the value of each item, as well as details concerning these items being posted on eBay for sale.

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5:43 p.m. Greylock Hall: An officer responded to a report of an injured participant in the boot camp class that was taking place. The officer provided first aid and an ice pack. The participant did not request further medical attention, and EMS was not activated.

9:29 p.m. Dodd House: Officers were dispatched to the kitchen, where a bat had been reported. Officers apprehended the bat, brought it outside and released it. The bat did not make physical contact with any students.

6:11 p.m. Greylock Basement: An officer took a statement from a student who had spent last year at the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford and placed her belongings in the International Storage Area in Greylock Hall basement. The area is normally locked, and she was missing several items valued at approximately $1000. CSS faxed a Stolen Article Report (SAR) to the Williamstown Police Department (WPD).

12:19 a.m. North Science construction project: Two students were observed on video surveillance in the project and will face disciplinary action and fines.

6:51 p.m. Faculty Housing: Officers responded to a housing unit on Meacham Street for a report of the fire alarms ringing for no apparent reason. Officers also could not determine a cause, but were able to silence the audible alarms. An on-duty electrical tradesperson was asked to

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10:48 p.m. Dodd House: An officer transported a student from Dodd House to Hopkins Hall to meet the Non-Emergency Medical Transport van. The student had fallen off his bike on the concrete pathway between Sawyer Library and Dodd House moments prior. The student reported a hurt left arm/elbow and that he was slowly his losing range of motion. The student reported that he did not hit his head. The Non Emergent Medical Transport service was called to have him evaluated at Berkshire Health - North in North Adams.

11:57 p.m. 63 Hoxsey Street: Officers responded to the area of Hoxsey St. and Walden St. for a report of an intoxicated student needing assistance. Upon arrival, they found a student sitting on the steps to 63 Hoxsey St., visibly intoxicated and unable to sit unassisted on the stairs. EMS was contacted and arrived on scene, and the student was transported to Berkshire Health - North. Saturday 9-14-19 2:40 p.m. Hopkins Hall: An officer took a statement concerning a missing bike. The bike was previously near the bike rack on the north side of Mission Park last night and was missing today. The bike was not locked to the rack. A SAR was taken and sent to WPD. Sunday 9-15-19 9:10 a.m. While patrolling through the Thompson Lot, an officer noticed a vehicle with a smashed window. On the ground next to the vehicle, there were broken pieces of a raw potato. There were also potato remnants on the driver’s side back seat window. The student owner was contacted and was not aware of the damage. WPD was notified and arrived to meet with the owner, and photos were taken for documentation. 1:20 p.m. East College: An officer responded to open a student room. Upon opening the door, the officer saw drug paraphernalia and marijuana immediately in view. The student took responsibility for the items, and they were confiscated. 10:56 p.m. Prospect House: Officers were asked to conduct a welfare check by the mother of a student. The student was not in the room, so the officer left a note to call CSS. A short while later, the mother called to advise that the student had made contact with her and that their cellphone battery had been dead.

Upcoming Programs at the Clark LISA YUSKAVAGE and ALISON DE LIMA GREENE: On Renoir SEPTEMBER 21, 2 PM Contemporary artist Lisa Yuskavage and Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, consider Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s impact on the history of art and explore why Renoir matters today.

DARBY ENGLISH: On Martin Puryear and the Venice Biennale SEPTEMBER 28, 2 PM In his lecture “Some Things You Can Do with a Dome,” Darby English, exhibition scholar for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, discusses Swallowed Sun, the featured sculpture in Liberty/Libertà, the current Biennale exhibition by contemporary American artist Martin Puryear.

MIKO MCGINTY: On Artists and Their Books OCTOBER 2, 6 PM Graphic designer Miko McGinty joins Robert Wiesenberger, the Clark’s associate curator of contemporary projects, for a conversation on the nexus of artists and books—both the artists’ books that appear in the Clark’s exhibition on the Venice Biennale and the experience of working with artists like Martin Puryear to capture their work in print. All events are hosted in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Tavern (413) 458-6000 (Reservations) | Golf (413) 458-8355 (Tee Times) Details: clarkart.edu

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One in Two Thousand By SHAHEEN CURRIMJEE DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR We tried to select the subject of this week’s One in Two Thousand randomly, but the first ten people we emailed did not respond to us. We decided to interview Grace Murray ’20, someone we knew would be interested and interesting, and it all worked out. But in the future, if you get an email from us, don’t miss your chance to be featured! Two Septembers ago, I met Grace in the psychology lab of Professor Jeremy Cone. We were shy and awkward, as expected from those who know us. But, six months later, we shared a hotel room in Atlanta during a psychology conference, and the rest is history. This Monday, I sat down with my friend (and future co-author of some ground-breaking social psychology theory) to talk about her family, aspirations and work experiences. Lately I have been thinking about childhood memories. Is there a moment that stands out to you? I have gotten this question before, and I’ve always struggled to answer. I genuinely had a happy childhood, but for some reason the memory that comes to mind is when I was 4 or 5 years old, I had a tricycle — it was red, it had a horn on it, it was awesome. I left it in the middle of my driveway, and my mom had this huge green Suburban. She was backing out, and she accidentally ran

over my tricycle. It was a tragedy! This should not be the first childhood memory that comes to mind. But the good thing about that story is that it led me to getting my very first bike with two wheels.

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There’s always a silver lining! So, you come from a large family, right? Sure. I have three brothers and one sister. So five kids is a lot of kids, but when I think about my grandma’s family or my mom’s family, it actually seems pretty small because my grandma had 12 siblings and my mom has eight siblings. My family is no longer religious today, but historically, the Murrays are a Catholic clan, and back in the day, birth control was not permitted by the Catholic Church … [Chuckles.] That’s why my grandmother has so many siblings. Whoa! O.K. And what about your family on campus? This was a cheesy question, I know. I have a bit of an extended family on campus. I live in Poker F with some great friends; I also have some friends living in Spencer House. But I feel most at home in the psychology department, which seems kind of silly. But I have worked for professors. I hang out in the common room and make tea — and take snacks from the cupboard. The snacks are the best. Shoutout to [Departmental

That’s amazing, Grace! Any other psychology travel stories? SHAHEEN CURRIMJEE/DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR GRACE’S HOMETOWN LAWRENCE TWP., N.J.

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Administrative Assistant for the Psychology Department] Christine Russell! What kind of work have you done for those professors? [Cone] did social psychology research, looking at implicit biases between groups. The other professor [Dan Norton] I worked for was particularly interested in this field called psychophysics, which is low-level perceptual responses in populations with depression. Have you done any particularly meaningful or impactful psychology work that you are proud of?

Yeah! Last year in my junior spring semester, I took a class called “Clinical and Community Psychology.” As part of that class, you incorporate an internship or volunteer position to get some real clinical experience, like what a psychologist might do. My internship was at the elementary school with the school guidance counselor, and she’s a licensed clinical social worker. I got to sit in on some one-onone counseling sessions as well as teaching an anti-bullying and emotional health curriculum in the classrooms. I would say that really impacted me because Greylock Elementary School is

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Jay Pasachoff’s research focuses on the sun’s corona, shown here in a preliminary composite.

Spotlight on Research: Jay Pasachoff ’s goal the sky, aim the sun By TARAN DUGAL ONLINE EDITOR This past July, Professor of Astronomy Jay Pasachoff embarked on an astronomical expedition to Chile with Johnny Inoue ’20, Christian Lockwood ’20 and Erin Meadors ’20 to study and observe the July 2 total eclipse. Supported by a grant awarded to Pasachoff last May from the Solar Terrestrial Program of the Atmospheric and Geosciences Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the group built upon Pasachoff’s successful research of other eclipses, most notably the great American eclipse of August 2018. Preparation for the expedition, according to Pasachoff, began months in advance of the eclipse, as expensive equipment, including various telescopes and cameras, had to be shipped to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory about 50 miles outside La Serena, Chile. On the day of the eclipse, the team split up and coordinated their research over three different sites. Pasachoff, Inoue and Lockwood were stationed on the center line of the eclipse, positioned such that they witnessed the longest duration of totality, at 2 minutes and 35 seconds. Meadors was on duty

in the city of La Serena itself, witnessing a duration of totality of 2 minutes and 5 seconds. The third and final observational unit was stationed at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and included solar astronomer Kevin Reardon ’92. One of the principal goals of Pasachoff’s research is to track how the sun’s corona changes over the course of the sun’s 11-year-long sunspot cycle. At the moment, the sun is at the minimum of the cycle, meaning that very few spots can be observed on most days. As a result, the sun’s corona could be seen extending at the sun’s equator during the eclipse. Away from the equator, however, huge plumes of gas could be observed, held in place by the sun’s magnetic field. Pasachoff hopes that, by consolidating the dozens of pictures of the corona that his team captured during the eclipse into a singular composite photo, he might be able to gain some insight into how the sun’s magnetic field changes along with the sunspot cycle. In a similar vein, Pasachoff said he would like to use the data gained from the latest expedition in collaboration with Predictive Science Inc., a company based in San Diego. Predictive Science used measurements of the sun’s mag-

in the town over from us, but I had never had any contact with that community at all in North Adams. So that was the moment when the Purple Bubble popped for me and I realized the level of privilege that we have at this college and the education that we are pursuing. Everyone in the community around us has a unique life story and things that they are working through, and I am interested in hearing those stories and engaging with the community. One way that I hope to do that is by pursuing psychology and counseling in my future career. So that definitely guided my dream a little.

netic field months before the July eclipse in order to predict what the corona would be like during the event. By providing Predictive Science with photos of the corona during the total eclipse, Pasachoff hopes to allow the company to compare its predictions with the hard data, and make subsequent modifications to its model for maximum accuracy — a worthy goal, according to Pasachoff, as the proper functioning of Predictive Science’s model will allow us to more accurately study how not just the sun shines, but also the billions of other stars in the universe that we cannot observe. Pasachoff hopes to continue using the NSF funding to study the next two observable total eclipses, which will take place in December 2020 and December 2021 in Argentina and Antarctica, respectively. He also plans to travel to India this December and next June to observe two separate annular eclipses. For students who are fascinated by eclipses, or simply wish to learn more about astronomy in general, Pasachoff recommends stopping by the observation deck on top of the Physics building on Nov. 11 in order to witness a transit of the planet Mercury. “It will look like just a dot,” Pasachoff said, “but it will be intellectually spectacular.”

Universally loved for her warm presence and friendly, upbeat attitude even on the bleakest of Monday mornings, Lisa Armstrong is a key part of the dining experience at Driscoll. Since arriving at the College 28 years ago, she has held roles at Mission Park, Greylock (decommissioned in 2010) and, for the past 12 years, Driscoll. “I’ve always loved working here,” she said. “There’s a great camaraderie between the students and the staff. I love the people here, and I look forward to meeting all the new students each year, I really do.” Though she said she has thoroughly enjoyed her time in dining services, Armstrong once pursued a very different career, working for several years in local nursing homes. Her first job, which she took while still in high school, was at the Williamstown Commons Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. “I was 15, so I was kind of afraid at first to work with elderly people,” she said. “But talking to the people there, I found that the stories you hear are really amazing.” After graduation, Armstrong moved to Bennington and starting working fulltime at Sweet Brook Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. “I became a licensed CNA [Certified Nursing Assistant], and I loved my job. I made a lot of good friends there. Then, after I had my daugh-

So the great thing about doing research with professors is that you often get the opportunity to travel with them to a conference to present their research. I got to do that twice. The first time, I traveled with you to Atlana, Georgia, for the SPSS conference ... SPSP? One of them is the stats thing... I know — [Pause.] Wait! The SPSP, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, conference! Yes, it was super fun to engage with the research and be in Atlanta. Then a year later, we took our research to the International Convention of Psychological Science, which happened to be held in Paris, France! So, I managed to convince the psych

ter, I left the nursing home, and when she was a year old, found a part-time job here.” Armstrong made another major life change around that time: She quit smoking. “My doctor told me I would go to my daughter’s high school graduation with an oxygen tank, so I quit a twopack-a-day habit and started on the treadmill,” she said. “Then I really got into running about two years later, and I’ve been at it for 18 years since.” Her daughter is now studying at McCann Technical School to become a licensed practical nurse, following in the footsteps of her grandmothers on both sides, who were nurses as well. “Before her grandmother passed away, my daughter promised her she would become a nurse,” Armstrong said. “When my mother was in the nursing home at Williamstown Commons, she signed a paper that said my daughter could take care of her at night. My mom used to do the cutest thing back then: When my daughter was working late at night, my mother would put her call light on right before the shift ended. My daughter would ask what she needed, and she’d say, ‘Just a hug and a kiss goodnight.’ It was the sweetest thing.” As the eldest of six siblings, Armstrong has recently taken on a new role within her family. “Now that my mom and dad are gone, my family calls me the matriarch,” she said. “I have three brothers and two sisters, and we’re

department to fund my trip to Paris, which was amazing. Sneaky! You’ve also managed to escape the Purple Bubble on a more local level. Any recommendations? One of the highlights of the Berkshires is this little town called Lenox. It’s nearby — maybe a 30-minute drive away. There’s lots of great shopping, particularly this store called FatFace. I have bought quite a few items of clothing from there. They speak to my style, I would say. I also love going to the Blue Benn and the quarry in Vermont. Those are great ideas! So you’ve got this big family, you’ve done this great psychological work and you’ve had these abroad experiences. It seems like you’ve got it all. But is there something you don’t have that you really want? Well, there is one thing. I have been cursed my whole life with better than perfect vision, and I’m just jealous of all these people with the amazing accessory of eyeglasses. I have always wanted some of my own. Why don’t you get fake prescription glasses? That’s dumb. But recently I bought some blue-light glasses, which makes me feel pretty intellectual. So there’s hope! We’re rooting for you.

pretty close-knit. Lots of great nieces and nephews.” All of her siblings reunited in North Adams in 2016 when the baseball field at the Daniel Alcombright Athletic Complex, just a few blocks from Stop & Shop, was renamed the Richard “Dick” Lefebvre Field in honor of their father. “My dad was always coaching, umpiring, doing all sorts of things with baseball,” Armstrong said. “He just absolutely loved the Red Sox. We lived on the same street where the baseball field was, so he would always bring his lawn chair down and watch the games. At night, when the lights would come out, he’d turn to one of us, and go, ‘Just like Fenway. Just like Fenway.’” Armstrong said the city council unanimously agreed to rename the field once her brother, Jon Lefebvre, proposed the idea to the mayor of North Adams. “Jon got to throw out the first pitch when they dedicated the field,” Armstrong said. “My mom knew about it before she passed away. She would show a picture of the sign to everybody that visited her in the nursing home.” Armstrong said she hopes to continue working at Driscoll for a long time. “I’d have to be dragged out of here kicking and screaming,” she said. “I have a great relationship with my coworkers, the coaches and the students. They all say hi to me, even on the street, when I’m out running. Like I said, I love where I am.”

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Before she came to the College 28 years ago, Lisa Armstrong worked in the Berkshires as a licensed nurse.

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From Hoxsey to hitched: Dylan Barbour ’16 appears on The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise By IRENE LOEWENSON FEATURES EDITOR When a producer from The Bachelorette first reached out to Dylan Barbour ’16 on social media and asked him to try out for the show’s 15th season, he declined. “I went and told my mom that I thought it was a funny joke, and she was like, ‘Well, why not?’” Barbour recalled. “I had just broken up with my girlfriend, and my mom convinced me to do it, so I was like, ‘All right.’” He called the producer back and said he would do it. On The Bachelorette, 30 young men — including Barbour on the most recent season — simultaneously date a bachelorette, who eliminates one or more of the men each week. By the end of the season, the bachelorette chooses the man to whom she would like to get engaged. Barbour, a San-Diegobased tech entrepreneur, was eliminated in the sixth episode of the 2019 season; he was then among nine men dating bachelorette Hannah Brown. But his time on reality television was far from over. On the day of his elimination, producers asked him to appear on Bachelor in Paradise, a show similar to The Bachelorette but with a roughly even ratio of men to women, a tropical setting and a de facto dress code of swimsuits. Despite the fame he has recently accrued as a realitytelevision star, Barbour was, only a few years ago, a typical student at the College. A Los-Angeles-area native, he majored in English with a concentration in leadership studies. He played linebacker on the football team and lived with his teammates at 66 Hoxsey Street during his senior year. “Football was really good, with being part of a team and meeting new people every single year, and just the overall experience,” he said. “It teaches you a lot about multitasking, being able to juggle

PHOTOS COURTESY OF DYLAN BARBOUR (LEFT) AND AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES INC. (RIGHT).

Left: Dylan Barbour ’16 is all smiles at an Eph football game. Right: Barbour poses for a promotional photo for Bachelor in Paradise. school, sports and all that — and the social life that comes with it.” Barbour remains a loyal supporter of the team; he watches livestreams of all the games and even plans to come to campus this fall to see one in person. “It’s going to be sick,” he said. “I’m super excited.” His first post-college job was at Morgan Stanley in San Francisco. “I worked directly under two Williams alums, which was a really cool experience for me, just to kind of meet them out in the real world,” he said. “They took me under [their wing] and taught me a lot about business and about being professional and being in that environment.” In the fall of 2016, he began discussing an idea for a social enterprise app with his cousin, Samantha Pantazopoulos. He left Morgan Stanley in Feb. 2018 to pursue this project, called Vizer, full time. Vizer’s goal is “to make good health achievable,” according to the app’s website.

If a Vizer user meets a daily fitness goal — such as logging 10,000 steps, getting 30 minutes of exercise or taking a class at a partner studio — a corporate sponsor donates a meal to the San Diego Food Bank. Although the app is limited to San Diego for now, Barbour said that he and Pantazopoulos hope to expand Vizer across the country. “It’s something I’m super passionate about: giving back, playing sports,” Barbour said. “[It’s] something that’s really tangible, in terms of giving back to the community.” The app has found success, receiving a $500,000 grant this June and growing the number of users by about six percent a day, Barbour said. Filming for The Bachelorette began in March, but because contestants are not allowed to have cellphones while on the show, Barbour would periodically call Pantazopoulos from a producer’s phone to check in on Vizer. “Sam really held it down,” Barbour said. “She handled a lot of it. I don’t think I could

have done what she did if I was in her position.” In addition to not being able to use their cellphones, contestants follow a highly structured schedule, Barbour said. When he was not going on dates with Brown, he was interacting with the other men or answering questions from producers — all on camera. He estimated that he slept three hours a night. “There’s always some drama,” he said. “You’re just on edge. I don’t know anyone who was comfortable, ever.” Even so, he found The Bachelorette to be “a really cool, surreal experience.” He learned how to date, handle stress and express himself, and he befriended many of the other men. Barbour is still in daily contact with other contestants, including Tyler Cameron, Jed Wyatt, Connor Saeli and Mike Johnson. Johnson, who appeared on The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise alongside Barbour, described Barbour as “my little brother, my friend that I have so much respect for.”

“The lil snot knows himself well and is incredibly intelligent,” Johnson wrote via email. “I love where he’s headed in life… He’s definitely a soft teddy bear with a comedy central and business minded personality! I’m proud to know the homie.” And although Barbour’s relationship with Brown did not last, he noted that he harbors no resentment toward her. “We’re still cool,” he said. “I actually talk to H.B. a little bit here and there… We just didn’t have that thing, that spark, at the end of the day.” A spokesperson for Brown declined to provide comment for this article. On Bachelor in Paradise, however, Barbour managed to find that spark. From the very first episode, he expressed interest in Hannah Godwin, a model and social media influencer from Birmingham, Alabama. Barbour soon pulled Godwin aside. In an open-air treehouse on the beach, the two talked and eventually kissed.

“She just makes me feel super nervous,” he said on the show. “I mean, I just think she’s totally out of my league, to be honest.” But their relationship did not always run so smoothly. For the first six days of filming — or, as the show framed it, the first two weeks — Godwin found herself in a love triangle, with Blake Horstmann also vying for her affection. Barbour described these days as the “most stressful six days of [his] entire life.” “I didn’t drink,” he said. “I was dead sober. I didn’t sleep. I was actually sick — I had a sinus infection for the first six days.” At the end of those six days, Godwin chose Barbour over Horstmann. Barbour spent the rest of the month relaxing and getting to know Godwin better. “I had so much fun,” he said. “We’d hang out in the pool all day and goof off. We’d eat tacos, walk, drink margaritas, just talk – which was super cool — just have normal conversations, like what we wanted to do in life, our families, things like that. [We would] hang out with everybody, go to the beach. And, honestly, I felt like I was just watching the show after [the first six days], because we just got to see all of the drama that happened that didn’t involve us at all.” The relationship between Barbour and Godwin progressed quickly. On the season finale, which aired last night, Barbour got down on one knee before Godwin. She readily accepted his proposal. “so happy to be the future Mr. Dylan Godwin [red heart emoji],” he wrote on Twitter last night as the episode aired. Barbour acknowledged that the path he has taken in his few years since graduation has been unusual. “It’s pretty funny that someone from Williams went and did this, not gonna lie,” he said. “It’s not really the traditional path.”

This Week in Williams History: September 16, 1986

The College was a very different place in September 1986. Francis Oakley was president of the College, Top Gun was drawing crowds at the box office and the inaugural episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show had just aired. But a different issue had captured the hearts, minds and mouths of the student body: Mushrooms, apparently, were everywhere. Meanwhile, tears were flowing freely on account of the ban on Kegolators, whatever those are.

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Takeaways from New Hampshire’s campaign trail By JACK McGOVERN, EDITOR-AT-LARGE

Only 50 miles from the College, in the neighboring state of New Hampshire, the 2020 presidential campaign is already in full swing. The two dozen Democrats and handful of Republicans in the race are meeting with voters in public libraries and church basements, holding rallies at local colleges and city parks and sitting for town halls in real-life, brick-and-mortar town halls. With all the pomp and pageantry appropriate for the occasion, New Hampshire is the first state in the nation to contest its presidential primary every four years. And this summer, I was right there, in the middle of the action. Thanks to the Russell H. Bostert Memorial Fellowship from the Office of Fellowships at the College, I spent eight weeks in New Hampshire on the campaign trail. I saw 21 candidates – 19 Democrats and two Republicans – in total and interviewed over 200 voters, activists and elected officials. The campaign in the Granite State is unlike any other in American politics. Considered an early testing ground for hopeful candidates, New Hampshire is famous for its emphasis upon “retail politics” – face-to-face interactions between candidates and voters. Yet what I heard from voters was not any special insight on whether President Donald Trump would win reelection or which Democratic candidate was best suited to defeat him, but a distaste for the food-fight debates that often dominated the primary this summer. Voter after voter expressed dissatisfaction with the debates as made-for-television specials. They complained that candidates talked over each other and packed cheap

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Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders (top left), Joe Biden (bottom left) and Elizabeth Warren (right) engage potential voters during campaign events in New Hampshire. shots into 60-second responses. “It’s like a game show up there for me,” one elderly supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) told me after the first Democratic debates. As the summer progressed, I saw first-hand the ways that the candidates are connecting with voters at in-person events. In their stump speeches, the White House hopefuls often began with a story about themselves, their family or their community before presenting

a policy or a value shaped by that experience. Former Vice President Joe Biden talked about finding purpose after the deaths of his wife and daughter in a 1972 automobile accident and, more recently, the passing of his son from brain cancer in 2015. He then proposed a new medical research agency to discover cures for chronic illnesses. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (DMass.), who spends more time on the “twists and turns” of her

biography than almost any other candidate, told her audience how she struggled to find child care after she went back to school to become a lawyer and only stayed in the profession because her Aunt Bee moved across the country to live with her family. She then segued into her proposal to subsidize a network of childcare facilities that would charge families based on their ability to pay. The tandem of personal anecdotes and policy proposals is

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part of a formula that works: It humanizes the candidates and gets voters to think about how government affects their lives and sticks out more than anything else in their memories. A college student at a Biden event, to call up an example, told me about the history of cancer and Alzheimer’s in his family and praised the former vice president’s proposal to invest in medical research. An elementary school teacher found Warren and her struggles to obtain child care as a young mother “so relatable.” She cited her universal childcare plan but corrected what she believed was an incomplete media narrative around the Massachusetts senator. “I can relate to her,” she said. “It’s not just the ‘I have a plan.’” Even candidates who have underachieved on the debate stage or underperformed in the polls inspired more confidence in person. An undecided voter described Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who has since dropped out of the race, as “a little bit jarring” at the debates, but ranked the senator in her top two after hearing her speak about the long line of power-player women in her family and her commitment to reproductive rights. The little moments that happen off-camera mattered too. At the same event in a smalltown chocolate shop, Gillibrand paused her remarks to help an elderly woman find her seat, a gesture that underlined her intergenerational brand of feminism. Her staff in the state was almost entirely female, an observation that another undecided voter noted to me. When Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) asked how many audience members pay no taxes like Amazon, a child near the front raised their hand. “Bless

your heart, honey! When you turn 18 you will,” Harris said with a laugh. Undecided voters afterwards commended her “sense of humor.” Former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who has spent millions of his own money but failed to qualify for the third debate, was one of several candidates to shake every hand at his event. The room went quiet as the former businessman walked around the room, looked each voter in the eye and repeated the person’s first name. As I heard positive feedback from voters at event after event – and mostly negative reactions to the debates – I began to think that all of those little things mattered: the detailed life stories, the back-and-forth banter with the crowd, the selfie lines and the handshakes. I thought that if New Hampshire is even a little less disillusioned with politics than the rest of the country, I understood why. They see a different side of the candidates — a better side — because they see them in person. For now, that privilege remains mostly with New Hampshire, as well as with the other early voting states of Iowa and the much more racially diverse Nevada and South Carolina. But with the campaign heating up and the primaries nearing, the candidates are already holding more events nationwide. Warren, for example, spoke to 20,000 people in Washington Square Park in New York on Monday night. So if you get the chance to see a candidate over winter or spring break, take that chance. And who knows? With such a crowded field, maybe a candidate will visit Williamstown, or at least North Adams, ahead of the March 3 Super Tuesday Massachusetts primary.

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HiLo North Adams: A music venue for colleges, community By LILY GOLDBERG ARTS EDITOR Recently in “Statistics 101” — a class I’m taking solely for the divisional requirement — we learned about a concept called the Interquartile Range (IQR), or the middle 50 percent of a given data set. Some statisticians believe that the IQR is a good assessment of the data set as a whole; by avoiding the extremities at the high or low end of values within the set, you can observe the middle free from outliers. But if the set, for pure example, represents music venues within 30 minutes or so of Williamstown, you might struggle to locate a middle range at all. On the highbrow end, the trained listener can seek classical joy at Tanglewood, or big-name acts at the formal MASS MoCA. As for the College’s musical “underground,” one might have found hints of it in last year’s short-lived “70 Below” series — however, noise complaints from Hoxsey residents and rightfully irritated landladies continue to threaten its livelihood. What the Williamstown area lacks is Northampton’s Pearl Street Nightclub, Cambridge’s Middle East, New Haven’s Toad’s Place – a mid-size college music venue and bar. HiLo, a new music venue which opened in North Adams on Sept. 6, is about to change that. HiLo takes its name from the bygone HiLo paint company, whose paints stocked the shelves of the building’s previous business, Quinn’s Wallpaper and Paint. I toured HiLo last Wednesday, biking past MASS MoCA, MCLA and the McDonald’s drive-through to arrive at

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HiLo takes its name from a supplier for Quinn’s Paint and Wallpaper Stores, the original business at 55 Union St. in North Adams. 55 Union St., where I was greeted by a mostly-finished facade and a very busy team of sanders, scrapers and painters. HiLo’s interior, which I meandered through to meet co-owner Brian Miksic in his office (sawdust residue on the floor, a Fender bass in the corner by the door), features dark blackboard-esque walls and high cabaret tables, and is notably more complete than its exterior. “When people are watching in small towns like this, they pay a lot more attention to construction projects and ask “How come nothing’s happening?” said Miksic. “Well, something’s happening. It just takes time.” Miksic, who works in property development, acquired the building last fall, but he had been dreaming of a music and comedy venue in North Adams for some time. “It’s been strange to me that you have two colleges in two towns and no music venue,” he said. “We have a good 40-mile

radius where people don’t have a place to go.” HiLo began when Miksic decided to assemble a team of pros in lighting, sound, and booking. “Finding people who really know what they’re doing and putting them all together is how you succeed,” explained Miksic. Though the project started in downtown North Adams at Ashland Street, Miksic and his team chose to move HiLo across the Hoosic River, for the sake of rock n’roll: “The Hoosic delineates the downtown central business district zone, and this is an industrial zone — it’s zoned for factories, for things that make noise,” Miksic explained. “So it’s the perfect place for a club, because we can be really loud all night long.” And HiLo has been really loud. “Our stage is very large for a small space, and the reason for that was purely from me saying, ‘We need enough room for the horn section.’ I’m not joking.” said Miksic.

“Jen [HiLo’s booking agent] has booked three bands with a horn section in the past month.” Bringing an eclectic range of music to HiLo was always part of the plan – Miksic’s own taste, perhaps, is influenced by his previous “career” as a college DJ at the University of Wisconsin. A fan of everything from surf rock outfit The Growlers to 90s hiphop star Warren G, Miksic’s love for music has influenced the way he runs HiLo. “Everything we’ve done here is with an eye on the artist. The thought process of putting a club together, often people don’t care. It’s just ‘oh, the musicians will load in somehow.’ But if we can think about it, let’s think about it.” The architecture of HiLo reflects this ethos – the stage is by the door so musicians can easily load in. And upstairs, there’s a furnished apartment with a foosball table and a laundry machine where touring musicians

can spend the night. (TOURISTS hotel in North Adams runs a program called “Sing for Your Slumber” where touring musicians can opt for a night’s stay at the hotel as payment — Miksic’s model, however, accounts for the apartment in the booking fee rather than compensating them only with a room.) Running an artist-focused club is not always the most cost-effective choice, but it is something Miksic values highly: “I can fit 20 more people in here if I made the stage smaller, but then the whole band is jammed in the corner!” Miksic pauses. “Maybe I’m crazy, maybe I’d go out of business that way, but I’d rather go out of business with a horn section.” Accessibility is another value for HiLo; all of its shows will be all ages, and it aims to keep its ticket prices between $10 and $20. “I wanted to go to shows when I was in college, but none of the shows were all ages — ev-

erything happened in a bar,” Miksic said. “On Saturday, we had the Oshima Brothers, a pair of singer-songwriters from Maine, and right in the front row were these five MCLA students. I know they were all under 21, so they wouldn’t be able to go to a bar show, but they knew the Oshima Brothers, and were singing along to all their songs, and the guys noticed. Think about when you’re performing, at this level, when you’re on your way somewhere and someone knows all the words to your songs. It’s awesome.” HiLo will also feature student discounts for tickets because, Miksic said, “most if not all college students are broke.” Upcoming shows include reggae band Alchemystics and local favorite Misty Blues (fronted by the College’s very own Gina Coleman ’90); Miksic is also working on getting a band together for live rock n’ roll karaoke. Keeping ticket prices low is important to Miksic in making sure HiLo is accessible not only to college students of the area, but also to North Adams residents. Miksic, who has been in North Adams for 15 years, recognizes that HiLo’s construction is part of the city’s undergoing revitalization, which includes the construction of a newly announced public park across the street from City Hall. (Miksic, who sits on the North Adams city planning board, is excited by this.) However, rather than creating a community around his venue, Miksic has created HiLo for his community. “I like this city. I like the grittiness of this city, and I don’t want that to go away. I hate when things are finely polished – they become pretend, and I hate that,” said Miksic. “This is a really cool place but it’s got a long way to go, so let’s go do it.”

Lour Yasin ’23 bridges East, West through unique pop music By BELLAMY RICHARDSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER Lour Yasin ’23 is an international musician from Palestine. A guitarist, singer and composer, Lour mixes Arabic and English as well as Eastern and Western music styles. How did you get involved with music? I’ve been a performer ever since I was a kid. My love for music started when my father, who would travel a lot, would come back from his travels and bring a guitar every time. I started learning guitar at the age of 5 or 6. At the age of 8, I enrolled in a music conservatory and experimented with many styles, like classical, pop, jazz, arabesque and a little bit of Western music. What makes your music unique? What’s your thing that you bring to the table? I mush the two languages, English and Arabic. I make the chorus in Arabic and the verse in English, and then sometimes in a single line, I use a word that’s both the same in English and in Arabic. I also experiment with the beats, the music, the harmonies and the instrumentals. I use many different styles. When I play the guitar I use the

Spanish picking style, and I’ll use chords that are mostly used in Eastern music. Everything right now is just experimental. When people listen to it, I want them to think, “This is new. This is unlike something I’ve heard before.” Who is your intended audience? Is your music generally more in Arabic or English and which style do you feel more comfortable with? I try to do 50/50. It’s not intended for a specific audience. I want everyone to enjoy it. People say, “Only Arabs listen to Arab pop,” or “Only Americans listen to American music,” but I think that’s just dumb, because music is very subjective and inclusive. I make music for everyone, and I want to make it all melt. I don’t want people to say “This is the part in English, and this is the part in Arabic.” I want them to listen to something new and still like it even though it’s a bit foreign. I don’t want the music to be so foreign to the point where it shuts people out. I want to let them in. That’s very admirable. Did you have any unexpected challenges or surprises that you ran into in the creation of your music?

When I first started out I was telling people, “I want to make Arab pop and I’m gonna mix it with elements of Western music,” and some of the people at the music conservatory were like, “What? This doesn’t really work… You do realize that no one’s going to listen to what an Arab girl has to say… You can’t really attract a Western audience.” I thought to myself: it just doesn’t matter. It’s just music. There’s nothing political about it. I did have a lot of trouble with the technical aspect when I was making the music. I just didn’t know what to do, like should I use this chord or that one or write it in the Arabian musical notation that I know or in the English one. In the end, I just thought to myself — let’s just put on the lyrics, put on a song, and see what happens. Has your music developed or changed over time? Yeah, it definitely did change. When I first started out making music, the instrumentals were very Eastern. I thought, “This sounds like the next soundtrack to an Indiana Jones film. I need to fix this.” So it did change. Basically what I do these days is I pick three, four, five chords, and then I change the pitches of each chord on the guitar or the piano and I try

to match the lyric or line to each chord, and I keep doing that until the song is complete. In terms of instrumentals, my songs are more Western than Eastern, but they’re balanced out by [Arabic]. The beat changes when I sing in Arabic. It’s like when you’re a DJ and you have a beat drop and the whole crowd goes wild. Arabic for me is the beat drop. Are there any people who inspired you on your musical journey or any artists that you look up to? There’s this guy who lives in the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem named Apo, and he has a band called “Apo and the Apostles.” I took a listen to their music two years ago and I thought, “They’re using Arabic and English as well.” He would speak in Armenian when he sings, and I thought, “he’s just including all the cultures he’s part of: English, Arabic and Armenian.” It was very different than anything I’ve ever heard from an Arab artist. Also, Mashrou Leila, which is a Lebanese band, had a really big influence on my music because they revolutionized Arab pop in a sense. They basically mixed elements of Arab pop with the alternative style. What they were doing was really incredible.

For those of us who now want to listen to your music, where can we find it? I’ve got a Soundcloud account that goes by the name Lour Yasin. That’s basically it, but I’ll be starting a YouTube channel for music in about a month. I also have a Spinnup account but I still haven’t uploaded any original songs on it. I’ll be doing that next month. Will you be performing live anytime soon or do you foresee yourself doing that in the future? Oh yeah, definitely I’ll be doing that in the future. I did have a performance at the Rectory last week. How was that? It was really fun. I was a bit nervous because that was the first time I played my songs live. I was afraid that people were not going to like it or not understand what I was trying to do, but a lot of people loved it and a lot of people after the show came up to me and said, “This is unlike anything I’ve ever heard before and it’s really nice.” That was really great to hear. What was your initial take on the music scene here at Williams?

I think the music scene is very vibrant to say the least, but I feel like it needs more diversity. When it comes to having student-run bands at Williams or having people regularly perform music from their own culture, it doesn’t really happen much. I really do want to see more diversity in the music scene at Williams but I do believe it will be more diverse as we go along, and I just hope to be a part of it and add a little bit of Arabian music to make it more interesting. Final question: Do you see yourself working as a musician in the future? Oh yeah, definitely. That’s what I want to do. I want to be one of those musicians who adds more diversity to the music industry and the music scene, and I just want to give people something new. I just want someone out there to listen to the music that I make and say, “This music gets me, even if I don’t understand what some of it is saying.” I just want to connect with someone on a very personal level. I try to write about issues that everybody deals with. I want to bring Arab pop to the scene because I think people will enjoy it. It’s really nice. It’s gonna do wonders.

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Assistant softball coach Mackenzie Keyes receives WSF grant

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Mackenzie Keyes, assistant coach of softball, has been at the College for three years and received the Tara VanDerveer Fund grant from the Woman’s Sports Foundation last week. By ALICE QU SPORTS EDITOR On Sept. 10, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) announced that the College was one of 10 schools receiving its Tara VanDerveer Fund grant. The $200,000 grant, which is designated for advancing and supporting women in coaching, will go to Mackenzie Keyes, assistant coach of softball.

According to the WSF website, this grant is part of the foundation’s efforts to increase the presence of female coaches in college athletics. In 1970–71, 90 percent of all head coaches of women’s college teams were women. By 2017, the rate had fallen to 40 percent. WSF CEO Deborah Antoine noted the impact a coach can have on a young athlete’s development. “A coach is often one

of the most important adults in a young person’s life, outside of their family, and the lack of female coaches and mentors has far-reaching consequences for the development of girls,” she said on the foundation’s website. Softball head coach Kris Herman submitted the application for the fellowship on behalf of Keyes to WSF. “As a female coach who has been in the business for 35 years, I've seen a lot

of ups and downs — mostly ups, frankly — in women’s sports,” Herman said. “One of the struggles has been in how we mentor and train coaches of both genders, and it’s been [a] fact that more women than men are finding limited opportunities.” Herman hopes that the grant prompts the College to “have our assistant position be more well compensated and to have Coach Keyes be afforded the

opportunities to be involved in WSF activities and work with more women coaches.” Keyes, who is in her third year of coaching at the College, is excited for the opportunities that being a fellow will grant her, such as attending professional development conferences and events arranged by the WSF. Such events include but are not limited to the annual Sports Advocacy Network meeting and

Annual Salute to Women in Sports awards gala that will be held in October. “I will be able to meet a lot of people, network and just be empowered by this huge sports foundation,” Keyes said, “Any time you’re involved with something like that, it’s really cool.” Keyes’ role and presence in the College’s athletic department have also grown since receiving the grant. “I am game manager for women’s tennis in the fall, and then I’m going to help with game management for women’s and men’s basketball, and work in the weight room for a little bit, because that’s also something I enjoy doing,” she said. With monetary and professional support from the fellowship, Keyes is not only able to focus on furthering her coaching career, but she also now has more freedom to pursue her personal goals as well. “I’m really looking forward to working in the weight room,” she said. “I’m actually working to get my second master’s degree right now [in] kinesiology, so it’ll be cool to implement that in a way outside of softball.” While Keyes is enjoying the perks of being a Tara VanDerveer fellow, coaching remains her main focus. “I just love it,” she said. “I just love the relationships you build every day with your boss and staff members, and the potential impact you have on young adults is really rewarding.”

Men’s cross country clinches Little Three championship By JOE LAROCCA SPORTS INFORMATION Men’s cross country clinched the Little Three title on Saturday, with the Ephs reclaiming the title after their 29-year winning streak from 1988 to 2016. In the 6k race, the men scored 15 points, topping Amherst’s 56 and Wesleyan’s 73. “I think the results speak for themselves, but this was a really exciting day,” Eph assistant coach Jamie Norton commented after the race. “I thought that our guys took control of the race from the beginning and dictated the pace. We had a lot of guys up in the front group the whole way, and that just speaks to the depth and the power of this team.” This race marked the Ephs’ first 15-point showing at the Little Three Championship since 2001. To finish with just 15 points, a team must finish its top five runners in first through fifth place. The

Ephs surpassed that, with eight runners crossing the finish line before any Mammoth or Cardinal. “It’s highly unusual, if not unprecedented,” Eph head coach Pete Farwell ’73 said. Aidan Ryan ’21 continued his strong start to the season, winning his second consecutive race with a time of 18:52.96. Ryan was the only runner to cross the 19-minute threshold, running at a pace of 5:03.9 per mile. He finished more than 12 seconds ahead of the second-place runner, Elias Lindgren ’22. Nick Gannon ’20, Tristan Colaizzi ’20, Peter Kirgis ’20, Kenneth Marshall ’20, Sam Wischnewsky ’20 and William McGovern ’20 trailed Lindgren, to clinch third through eighth place respectively. Together with Lindgren, each member of the pack finished between 19:05.25 and 19:18.05. Farwell was especially impressed by the tight 25-second spread between Ryan

and McGovern. “Any time you have a spread of 30 seconds between one and five is really good,” remarked Farwell. “We had less than that spread with eight guys.” Ryan Cox ’20 finished in 19:42.76 at a pace of 5:17.3 per mile, in his first race in nearly a year due to injury. Will Spollen ’23 finished second among all first-years in the race, coming in right behind Cox with a time of 19:44.38. Although the Ephs secured an overwhelming victory, the race appeared tight for most of the six kilometers. “It wasn’t a foregone conclusion for most of the race that this would be a clear, dominating victory,” said Norton. “[Amherst and Wesleyan] had a couple of guys right up there, but we showed our strength in that last part of the race.” The men will continue their season on Sept. 28 at the Purple Valley Classic, their first home meet.

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Men’s cross country secured the first eight finishes during the 6k at the Little Three Championship last weekend.

CAPTAIN’S CORNER: Sam Goldenring ’20 How did you get into playing golf?

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By ALICE QU SPORTS EDITOR

I started when I was 7, because I have an older brother who also played golf here [and] graduated in 2015, and my dad started playing after college. My brother wanted to tag along one day with [my dad], so he took him to some pitch and putt course right by our house. Me being the younger brother, I wanted to go along next time, and then I somehow realized that I’m actually pretty good at this. The rest is history.

Team: Men’s golf

Is there a lot of competition between you and your brother?

Hometown: Florham Park, N.J.

Oh yeah, it’s very intense. He’s in medical school now, but he’s still a very good player. We had some very fun and heated matches at home over the summer, but that’s what makes it fun. That’s why golf is so great.

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What is the weirdest and/or funniest thing you have ever seen on a golf course? In Little Threes my sophomore year, there was a kid from Wesleyan who let out pretty much a vulgar scream after making a 40-foot putt

for an eight, which sounds pretty wild. Then also on the same hole, he hit a shot into a housing development and just waved it off like it was nothing. How do you train for golf? In golf, you can pretty much do as much or as little as you want. I’m still considering playing professionally after I graduate, so I model what I do after the guys on tour. I’m in the gym a lot, more than most people think a golfer needs to be. There is a lot of flexibility and core strength, stuff that you need to be able to produce a fast swing over and over again without throwing out your back. To be honest, it’s all kind of injury prevention stuff. So if my body is in a good spot, I can go as hard as I want at my swings. What are your thoughts on mini golf? Oh I love it. I love mini golf. People always tell me, “Oh if we play minigolf, would you beat me by 20?” and I’m like, “In all honesty I don’t know.” I do stupid stuff, like I’ll putt lefty if I’m playing with my friends. I love it, especially as a way to get people into golf — I can’t think of a better thing.

Have non-golfers ever beaten you in a game of mini golf before?

wearing khakis that don’t fit. So I just kind of like to have fun with it.

Especially in the past few years, no one’s ever really come close. But it’s always fun bringing someone so new to the game to play mini golf and they just have a ball.

What was your experience like being a captain as a sophomore?

Is Wii golf a good approximation for actual golf? Terrible. That is probably the one golf video game I am horrendous at. I can’t figure it out. I’ve tried to swing easy; I’ve tried to just rip at it. That’s probably the one game that a lot of people can beat me at. What is your best or favorite golf outfit? I’m not known on my team to have a super preppy wardrobe. But I’ll just say it — I have these pair of pink pants which I think are pretty electric. I’ll wear the pink shorts with a tame belt and this gray and white striped shirt. That’s kind of the usual go-to for me. There’s this phrase in golf, “look good, feel good, play good,” and I just kind of go off of that. And you know how golf gets such a bad rep for [being for] 60-year-old retired guys with beer bellies

It was weird. It was very weird. Even though I was in a position of power and leadership, I didn’t feel like the team was mine. Even as a sophomore, as a captain, you’re supposed to be the guy who has got your stuff figured out. But I had a pretty hard time adjusting freshman year, so I still didn’t really get things. Being one of the guys that people look up to, there is some pressure there. Is there any advice you would have liked to tell yourself two years ago? It’s OK to not know things. Being in that position [of captain], I felt obligated to find this out for people or do all the things that people were asking of me. But in reality, I was just a sophomore who didn’t really know what was going on. It’s okay to not know things and it’s okay to ask for help and reach out. What is something about golf that most people don’t know about?

I’d say it’s pretty peaceful, especially at Taconic. It’s probably my favorite place on campus just because it’s so beautiful – Just the fact that, if I have a lot going on off the course in my life, I know that the golf course is a place I can go to just relax and take in the scenery and not really care about anything else. Golf is kind of my escape in that way, and it can be that way for a lot of people. So what will you miss about playing at Williams? I haven’t really even thought about it yet, but probably just that whole family atmosphere I was talking about. It’s just super cool to be putting with my headphones in and then have someone come up and tap me on the shoulder and be like, “Hey, you don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but that was really awesome what you did.” I’ll definitely miss that and just the whole team. Team golf is so different than the golf I play over the summer where it’s just me, myself and I, but having four other guys to travel with, four other guys that will always have your back if you have a bad day, that's just something that you can’t really find outside the college arena.

September 18, 2019

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Women's cross Tommy Verdell hired as associate country takes first AD for inclusion, compliance at Little Three Championship By SOFIE JONES SPORTS EDITOR

By JULIA GUNTHER SPORTS INFORMATION On Saturday, women’s cross country secured its 12th consecutive Little Three title, with a total of 24 points. The women were followed by Wesleyan with 48 points and by Amherst with 60 points at this year's race in Middletown, Connecticut. The Ephs’ average time was 15:18, compared to the Cardinals’ and Mammoths’ averages of 15:30 and 15:37, respectively. “It is great to see the firstyears and sophomores up there with the juniors and seniors in that large pack, building energy together,” Eph head coach Pete Farwell ’73 said after the meet. “Overall, this was a good win against strong teams.” Wesleyan runner Rebecca Anido-Lopez finished the 4k race in 14:53 for first overall. Sarah Tully ’21 then led the Ephs through the finish line, capturing second place in 15:08. The Ephs ran in a strong pack throughout the race, securing five of the top 10 spots. Eva Borton ’23 earned third with a time of 15:11 and was followed by co-captain Emma Herrmann ’20 in fifth and Brianna Bourne ’21 in sixth, with times of 15:20 and 15:25, respectively. Maddy Boutet ’20, who is currently in her first season of collegiate cross country, despite being a senior, fought

to take eighth place in a time of 15:26. The subsequent 30 seconds saw a herd of purple cows cross the finish line, as Sarah Lyell ’23, Grace Dailey ’22, Alex Bettez ’23, Sarah Jane O'Connor ’22, Erica Barrett ’21, Lilly Wells ’22, Leah Rosenfeld ’20, and Jaylan Fraser-Mines ’21 all earned spots in the top 25 and finished around the 16-minute mark. The depth of this year’s Eph team was on full display throughout the race, as Maddy Lawler ’23 and Maria Tews ’23, as well as Carmen Bango ’20, were close behind in times of 16:10, 16:14 and 16:20, respectively. This race was Bango’s return to crosscountry racing after multiple missed seasons due to injury. Emma Tapscott ’22 crossed the finish line shortly after at 16:46, and was followed closely by Hazel Richards ’23 eight seconds later. Other returning runners brought up the back of the herd to clinch the victory. Farwell was pleased with the team’s results. “We had good packing and everybody was kind of in touch,” he said. “It is great to see some of the first-years coming in and contributing and a number of people much improved from last year.” The Ephs will return to competition at the Purple Valley Classic on Sept. 28, at their home course on the campus of Mt. Greylock Regional School.

This past summer, Tommy Verdell was named associate athletic director for inclusion and compliance, a newly formalized position within the College’s athletic department. While all colleges in the NCAA have long designated a staff member to handle compliance, positions centered on inclusion and representation are fairly new in the world of collegiate athletics. The position is one step toward the goal to “create, embrace and recruit more diversity within the entire athletic department,” Verdell said. “Not just diversity in terms of race, but also socio-economic, first-gen, sexual orientation, everything. Inclusion means everybody.” In his position, Verdell will oversee efforts to create a more inclusive culture throughout the Eph athletics program. For him, this starts by learning what student-athletes have experienced thus far and what changes they wish to see occur. “First and foremost, it’s a lot of me listening, because I need to hear what people are telling me,” Verdell said. “With 32 different teams, everybody’s team is going to be going through different things. I need to listen and then work with the teams, like I’m their teammate too. This isn’t me saying, ‘Here’s what you do.’ I’m here to ask a lot of questions so that we can find the answers we need to create the inclusive environment that we’re seeking.”

Verdell will also work with the newly-created Gaius C. Bolin Chapter (GCBC) of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, named after the first graduate of color of the College. Verdell will work with GCBC to support athletes of historically marginalized groups. Verdell credits his hiring, in part, to Vince Brookins ’20 and Say Say Rivers ’21. “Say Say and Vince have done a great job of getting GCBC off the ground,” he said. “They are an integral part of me being here, of the position being here.” Alongside GCBC, Verdell considers creating an environment that embraces the experiences of those who have felt excluded by the College’s athletic culture in the past as a big part of his role. “The needs for the minority student-athletes are different,” Verdell explained. “We have had incidents and situations on campus that have directly affected minority student-athletes in different ways than white student-athletes.” Another important aspect of Verdell’s role is to help in efforts to diversify the pool of recruited athletes. Currently, the student-athlete population is not representative of the diversity of the College community as a whole, he explained. “This is something that’s not just going to happen overnight,” he said. “It’s [going to be] a process to get to that point.” “We’re Williams, we have an academic standard that has to be met,” Verdell said. “And now, we’re also trying to meet this diverse and inclusive

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Verdell previously served as men’s basketball assistant coach at Bates. standard, but it has to work together with the other two.” Some of the challenges that the athletics program faces in achieving this goal are products of league and conference rules, he added. For example, schools that compete in the NESCAC are not allowed to send coaches on home visits, while other Div. III colleges can. This, Verdell said, privileges athletes who can travel to visit campuses. He hopes that making the athletic environment at the College more inclusive will also help with recruitment efforts. “As recruits come visit, they need to be able to feel more of that culture that we want to build,” he said. Verdell, who comes to the College from Bates, where he was the men’s basketball assistant coach and assistant ath-

letic director, stressed that the College is not alone in grappling with questions of diversity and representation within athletics. “This is an issue that many other athletic departments across the country must recognize and correct,” he said. “Our vision for our athletics program is to be that leader,” he said. “Let’s take this bus, drive it, and get everybody on board so that we can have the community that we are seeking to create. We’ll never be perfect. This is always going to be worked on and a conversation we’ll have. People are going to make mistakes and be wrong. The first step is to have increased awareness of others, let’s start with that. That’s the beginning of building the kind of inclusive environment that we want.”

Football falls to Middlebury 17-13 in season opener By KEVIN COAKLEY SPORTS INFORMATION On Saturday, football (0– 1, 0–1 in the NESCAC) fell to Middlebury 17-13 in its first game of the year. The Pan-

thers scored the first 10 points in the game before the Ephs rallied to score 13 points in a row on two touchdown passes from quarterback Bobby Maimaron ’21 to wide reciever Frank Stola ’21. Middlebury, however, scored a

touchdown with 30 seconds left to win the game. After a scoreless first quarter, Middlebury took a 3-0 lead a minute into the second quarter, with a 26-yard field goal. Forcing the Ephs to punt on

their first possession after the field goal, the Panthers went back on the attack and extended their lead to 10-0 with a 10play, 75-yard drive. The Panthers’ Will Jernigan kept the drive alive, scram-

bling for 14 yards when facing a third and 4. The second Panther touchdown of the game came on Jernigan’s pass to teammate Wyllis McKissick. McKissick raced into the right corner of the end zone and Carter Massengill converted the PAT giving the home team a 10-point cushion. The Ephs answered on their next possession when Maimaron lofted a pass to Stola on the left sideline. Stola was then able to fight off the Panther defensive line for possession of the ball, jumping over a fallen defender. The Ephs’ pointafter-touchdown attempt by Andrew Schriebstein ’22 ultimately failed, and the Panthers maintained a 10-6 lead going into halftime. On their first possession of the second half, Maimaron threw a touchdown with a 30-yard pass to Stola. A successful PAT from Schreibstein then brought the Ephs to a 13-10 lead. The teams then traded punts back-and-forth, until the Panthers took possession on their own 22-yard line with 2:31 left in regulation.

Jernigan connected on two consecutive passes to Panther teammate Aidan Power and contributed a 15-yard run to move the ball to the Ephs’ 40-yard line. A 12yard pass from Jernigan to a teammate got the Panthers to the 28-yard line. Panther wide receiver Maxwell Rye caught Jernigan’s next pass and was forced out at the Ephs' 2-yard line, setting the stage for Jernigan’s touchdown run to secure the Panther win at 17-13. Offensively, Stola was the leader for the Ephs, hauling in six passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns. Stola also returned two kickoffs for 65 yards and four punts for 41 yards. On defense, the Ephs were led by linebacker TJ Rothmann ’21, who made 13 tackles, and linebacker Luke Apuzzi ’20, who contributed 10 tackles, forced two fumbles, and had a sack. The men will return to competition on Saturday in their home opener against Tufts. Kickoff on FarleyLamb Field is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

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Frank Stola ’21 (top) secured two touchdowns for the Ephs during Saturday’s season opening loss against the Panthers. Punter and kicker Andrew Schreibstein ’22 (bottom) pushed a 12-10 Eph lead to 13-10 with a successful extra point conversion.

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THE RECORD CROSSWORD | Sept. 18, 2019 By Noah Cohen-Greenberg ’22 ACROSS 1. Word with Wednesday or tray 4. Speak hoarsely 8. Not real 12. One-named singer of 2014's “Chandelier” 13. Water in Argentina 14.“___, a plan, a canal, Panama” 15. 2015 action-comedy starring Melissa McCarthy 16. You can either be on or off it 18. You need them at Jiminy 20. Gives notice 21. Deck 23. “He ___ into my DMs” 24. Rickman who played Snape 25. Grain holder 26. Black gold 29. Funding org. 30. Group of eight 31. No clue 32. “___ and you shall receive” 33. One of two outcomes of a Winter Study course 34. ___ Von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire 35. NYC private school Horace ___ 36. The P of PBR 37. First step to open a locked door, maybe 40. For, in Mexico 41. The best place to go clubbing in Williamstown? Or where you might find 3-Down, 16-Across, 26-Down, 29-Across, and at least a couple 31-Acrosses 43. ___Jam 46. “Thus, with a kiss, ___” - Shakespeare 47. Suffix meaning soak up 48. Prefix with maniac 49. “I want you to want me, I ___ you to ___ me” - Cheap Trick

50. High School Musical main character 51. Dept. concerned with national security

DOWN 1. Donkey 2. Drink cautiously 3. A good place to hide a needle 4. 2:5 5. Sounds of frustration 6. Take to court 7. Running alongside 8. Turned to 9. Love in Madrid 10. Mario ___ 11. They justify the means 17. He wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 19. Family 21. Dad 22. Oh well 23. One famously took place at a Woolworth's counter 25. Tiniest 26. Light up? 27. Places to rent (abbr.) 28. Something to shoot at a party? 30. Phrase with most or best 34. Rower's tool 35. Sulked 36. Reimburse before 37. ___ arms 38. Some modeling at Williams 39. French cheese 40. But, in Honduras 42. Divided region (abbr.) 44. A long time ___ 45. Show approval

SOLUTIONS | Sept. 11, 2019

Dear Ephelia Answering students’ questions on all things Williams

By EPHELIA If you are eating a syrupy breakfast, and the handle of your fork falls into the syrup, what do you do? Should you get a new fork? Should you wipe it off and continue? Do you lick it off in broad daylight? Please advise. – Sticky & Confused There is only one correct answer: Lick it. You got a syrupy breakfast for a reason. I don’t wanna see two forks on your plate unless you’re having a dinner date. Stand tall and be proud! Lick that damn fork and fork anyone who cares. *** What’s the fastest way to get from Tyler Annex to

science quad? Empirical data please. – Lazy Leopard Break a toe and get an ambulance to take you. *** What do you do if your TA this year is someone you have hooked up with? – Bull with the Horns Assert your dominance by making out with your TA in front of all the other students in the class. That’ll show them. You got the connects. *** How do you say hi in public to your current hook up without having them think you’re being weird? – Confused cow

Try a pained, closed-mouth smile that simultaneously conveys your shame, confusion,and latent lust. Also, and I oopsksksksksk. *** What is the healthiest snar order that is not a salad? – Hungry Hungry Hippo Air. It’s free and abundant. *** Need some advice? Wondering, “What would Ephelia do?” This week, we asked our board to come up with questions. To submit a question, anonymously go to The Record website and click the "Ask Ephelia" tab or email dearephelia@gmail.com!

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