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Haystack monument defaced, perpetrators unknown By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN EXECUTIVE EDITOR On or prior to Sunday afternoon, some unknown person or persons defaced the Haystack Monument and the surrounding grass area outside Mission Park. At 12:36 p.m. on Sunday, three Campus Safety and Security (CSS) officers responded to a report of the defacement from four visitors to campus, who stated that they were members of the clergy. Three concentric, semicircular trenches were carved into the ground between the Haystack Monument itself and the benches which face it. Additionally, dirt was smeared on the sides of the monument. On one side, a handprint of dirt was enclosed by streaks around it forming an oval shape. Besides the dirt, there did not appear to be any physical damage to the monument itself. CSS has not yet been able to determine who defaced the monument, when it occurred or the potential motive behind it. “We are unsure if this is a prank or an act of vandalism and have no further information to share,” Director of CSS David Boyer said. The Haystack Monument commemorates the 1806 meeting of a group of Williams students who would go on to later found the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). ABCFM was a major Christian missionary organization throughout the 19th century, sending missionaries to China, India, South Africa, Hawai‘i and various North American indigenous nations. The name of the monument comes from a story of the students taking refuge from a sudden thunderstorm underneath a haystack. The name of Mission Park also comes from their meeting.
NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN/NEWS EDITOR Last Sunday, Campus Safety and Security responded to a report of vandalism of the Haystack monument outside Mission Park. Officers have yet to determine the perpetrator(s).
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On Sept. 7, the student body was sent an email containing an “unofficial resource guide” to life on campus. This guide, which was spearheaded by Eli Cytrynbaum ’20 and Katie Manning ’20 and included contributions from a wide range of past and present students, was designed to help others, especially marginalized and first-year students, navigate life on campus. “[T]he guide was created with the intention of supporting struggling students, especially first-gen [first-generation], PoC [People of Color], low-income, disabled, mentally ill, and/or first-year folks,” the email, sent by Cytrynbaum, said. “[H]owever, the guide is available for everyone and can be helpful for folks of all sorts of identities and backgrounds.” The guide itself, which noted that it was “imperfect and incomplete,” provided information on campus resources, gave suggestions on how to combat common student difficulties and supplied names of students who were willing to provide assistance in specific areas. For students who chose to provide their names, the guide included a disclaimer at the bottom of each page to “[please] not use [these names] as a substitute for professional support; we can’t enable williams to rely on student labor.” Topics discussed in the guide included anxiety and depression, sexual assault, financial aid and resources for marginalized groups. One section, entitled “who are these people you’re telling me to talk with???” contained assessments of a number of administrators that ranged from complimentary to quite critical. In addition, the guide contained links to additional resources, both internal and external to the College. The version that was sent on Sept. 7 was the second iteration
of the guide. The first version was sent in September 2017. The initial guide’s creation was led by Megumi Asada ’17 and Sarah Fleming ’17.5 and included input from a variety of students. In their email, the creators wrote, “This is the first guide in what we hope will be a series, each volume tackling a different set of common issues students might face at Williams.” Fleming’s own first year experience was key in her decision to spearhead the guide’s initial creation. “Williams has a lot of resources available to its students, but some of them can be really hard to find out about or navigate, especially as a first-year student,” she said. “I wanted to try to create a map of some of these resources, especially relating to mental health, chronic illness and taking time off. Basically, the goal was to produce a document that could point people to resources, provide some advice on how to use them and connect them to other students dealing with similar issues.” Fleming characterized the response to the initial guide as positive. “I sent the first one out as an all-campus email (after getting approval from the [College Council] presidents), and a number of people responded saying they really appreciated it,” she said. “Some also wrote back saying they would be interested in getting involved in expanding it.” Though the updated version bears many similarities to the initial one, it is more ambitious and far-reaching in its topics. “This summer, Katie Manning decided to update and expand the guide to include resources for first-gen students, students of color, low-income students and more,” Fleming said. The updated guide was met with controversy after claiming to have been endorsed by the 2020 Junior Advisor (JA) Class and the Minority Coalition (MinCo) steering committee. In a followup email on Sept. 9, the guide’s creators retracted the claim.
“The JAs were not consulted in advance, and many JAs do not endorse all statements made in the guide,” Cytrynbaum and Manning wrote. “Neither MinCo nor the JAs were involved in the making of the guide. MinCo shares the aims of the resource guide in its support of marginalized students on campus.” In the same email, Cytrynbaum and Manning also apologized for using language in the guide such as “mentally ill folk” rather than “people who struggle with SEE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE, PAGE 5
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ON THE RECORD “If we apply knowledge and sympathy to reduce suffering and enhance flourishing, we can gradually succeed.” Steven Pinker during his lecture "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress," page 5. “I’m super snobby about Goldfish. Every since I was little, probably around the age of two, I was a huge Goldfish fan, but only the cheddar kind. But then they came out with the wholegrain version, and now that’s exclusively what I eat” Neena Patel ’19 in her One in 2000 interview, page 6. “I want to come up with some combination of stone fruits, like peach,
apricot and plum, for next year.” Stina Kutzer, farmer and owner of Gammelgården Creamery in her interview on the new skyr flavors, page 6. “Here, listening becomes an interactive experience as Sole asks us to finish the meditative, selfreflective work she began for us on Overgrown: she is asking us to, as she states, “turn our intentions to now.”” Lily Goldberg ’22 in her review of Ivy Sole's album Overgrown, page 9.
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September 26, 2018
Can conservatism save the liberal arts? Holding onto traditional academic values By CHRISTOPHER WEIHS
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On free speech Developing guidelines for campus democracy By LUKE VALADIE Controversial guest speakers have been hot topics on college campuses for years now. It’s been two years since former President of the College Adam Falk made national headlines for, in his own words, “taking the extraordinary step of canceling a speech by John Derbyshire.” However, our divided political atmosphere has brought more radical voices to the forefront, and so the debate over what should and shouldn’t be permitted in campus dialogue remains relevant to our community. Falk’s handling of the Derbyshire incident has been lauded by some and criticized by others. I’m not making an argument about whether it was right for him to cancel that particular speech. Instead, I’d like to criticize the lack of a cohesive system for drawing a line between free speech and hate speech. Derbyshire’s speech was cancelled in a judgement call by Falk. This might have been a reasonable method in the early days of the campus free speech debate, but it’s time for the College to develop proper mechanisms for handling these questions. A sound approach would be to establish a set of principles that these decisions should be based upon, and then to uphold those principles with a democratic body. First, the criteria for controversial viewpoints to be considered hate speech rather than free speech should be fleshed out as much as possible. Of course, this is a subjective question, and universal agreement will never be reached, but achieving some kind of democratic consensus among students, faculty and the administration is an important first step in developing a policy. Judgements about how the policy applies to particular situations should not be made unilaterally. The responsibility for objectively applying the criteria to a speaker without the influence of personal bias should be spread over multiple people so that individual whims are less likely to influence the decision. And since the principles would be decided upon by students, faculty and administrators, representatives of each of those groups should be involved in applying the principles. It’s also important that this body be composed of a diverse cross-section of the campus community in order to ensure that voices aren’t ignored in the decision-making process. This is not the only approach to handling questions of free speech on campus, and it may very well not be the best one. Whether or not this is the system we adopt, it’s important that something concrete is done to prepare for the inevitable debates
that will take place here in the future. Our decisions as a community should be based upon sound, shared principles and democratic consensus. As long as these decisions are made by the administration alone, our status as an open intellectual community will be in question. But there is a catch: once the College’s principles on free speech are established and codified, it will likely be difficult to adjust them. We need to ensure that the principles do not overstep their boundaries. They’re intended to prevent both hate speech and intellectual censorship; I have no doubt that they’ll be effective at stopping the former, but if we don’t tread lightly, then they could be applied to block controversial (but not hateful) opinions. The College has the chance to set an example for how questions of free speech should be handled in campus settings. We should make sure that it’s an example of tolerance and openness, not democratic censorship. I’m hesitant to endorse any system that places restrictions on what can and can’t be said. Truly open speech is one of the most powerful tools that communities have to foster critical thought and continually improve themselves. Even though freedom of speech can be used as a tool to share ignorant opinions, I’m convinced that the principle remains a powerful force for good. But the fact of the matter is that colleges are in the business of regulating what opinions are given a platform on their campuses, and it looks like they will do so for the foreseeable future. As long as this is the case, the kind of system that I’ve outlined would mitigate the chances of unilateral censorship. I’d also like to note that I remain convinced that any government policy along these lines would be catastrophic to democracy. This system would be implemented to balance intellectual openness with the accepting environment that modern colleges aim to provide. Colleges already restrict what opinions are given platforms, largely because of community demand; this system is a refinement and democratization of those restrictions. If our community is going to make these kinds of decisions, we should make them with sound principles and shared responsibility. But the campus community must be the limit of these restrictions, as truly unconditional free speech, with all its imperfections and potential bigotry, is the foundation of democracy.
According to a report published last spring by Mitchell Langbert through the National Association of Scholars, the political registration of the professoriate at top-tier liberal arts colleges is heavily Democratic. At the College, not counting unaffiliated academics, the ratio of registered Democrats to Republicans is a whopping 132 to one. My own personal preference would see a far more balanced ratio, paired with a greater openness to instruct students that there is still a place in society for inherited wisdom and tradition. But make no mistake: I did not take to these pages to demand that Williams hire more conservatives. Within this data looms a far more valuable avenue for inquiry: Why are conservatism and the liberal arts seemingly so incompatible? I suspect it was not always this way. A liberal arts education should be the ultimate conservative project. It’s arguably the oldest continuing program of education in human history, with its roots in late classical Greece. It emphasizes understanding those universal human principles key to becoming a responsible member of society. It champions the continued relevance of those timeless, rather than trendy, academic subjects: ethics, religion, classics, linguistics, rhetoric, music and the arts. It is also an intimate and personal endeavor that educates the whole person. President James Garfield, Williams class of 1856, once apocryphally defined it as “Mark Hopkins on one end of the log and a student on the other.” What has changed? Perhaps the political inclination of the Williams professoriate hints at a type of incremental yet revolutionary transformation. For the past several decades, I believe that liberal arts education has been piloted by pragmatism, the 19th century philosophical tradition that emphasizes the application of ideas over the ideas themselves. Pragmatism, articulated by the likes of William James, Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, says that real-world effects and practical applicability are critical elements of truth. Pragmatism is no longer the preeminent tradition in philosophy, but its influence can be felt everywhere in higher education.
To stave off this eventuality, we Why pragmatism? Well, first of all, it feels right. When we ask, should consider reintegrating those “How can we adapt liberal arts to conservative essentials: universal huthe 21st century?” the response is man principles, inherited wisdom, the almost reflexively, “Liberal arts can virtue of spirited debate and timeless teach students how to solve prob- academic disciplines. This broad focus lems.” This is the comfortable and will endow upon the student a dynamseductive answer. It helps us justify ic frame of mind to better respond to why the liberal arts still matter in a adversity, adapt quickly and process world that increasingly values finely and interpret diverse points of view. tuned technical skills. As a Williams This is the education of the whole perstudent, I could find solace in this son, not the issue of the day. Williams embarked on a yearlong compromise. While I wasn’t a technical expert in any trade, I could still program in 2014 entitled “Why Libsolve problems! Perhaps I would eral Arts” to make sense of some of these issues. This should happen make a great consultant someday. And so the liberal arts has been again, since the majority of current slowly transformed and reimag- students will not have tackled these ined through a pragmatic lens. At questions on a broader, institutional the College, the curriculum duly level. Perhaps we might consider an interdisciplinary changed, adding a class for first-years host of newly mintdemonstrates ed departments and This utilitarian model that the intellectual and majors and axing intersectional poothers. Women’s, steers liberal arts, tential of the liberal gender and sexuality studies was in; unevenly but inevitably, arts more broadly. could read linguistics was out. into a more progressive Students Great Expectations For these new arrivals, change was project: issue-driven and with an English professor, who then disthe goal, and they advocacy-based. cusses the Victorian promptly set out Age with an histoto solve structural rian, who debates problems in society public health with through education. Skeptics should look no further the biologist, who explores the dislothan Princeton’s definition: “A lib- cations of industrialization with the eral arts education challenges you economist, who disputes 19th centuto consider not only how to solve ry social science with the sociologist problems, but also trains you to ask and philosopher, who note contemwhich problems to solve and why.” porary religious dynamics with the But such a focus on problem-solving theologian, who enlists the art hisbreeds unintended consequences. torian to lecture on aesthetics, who Are we teaching students to stock- draws on artistic parallels with the pile solutions in search of a prob- musician, who then asks the physilem? Are we allowing the market to cist about the acoustic design of the determine which departments stay Romantic-era symphony. The goal of or go? And what happens when we this lively exercise would be to help discover that some of our treasured students apprehend the universalclassics actually personify those in- ity of certain human truths, to find meaning from the world as it once justices we seek to destroy? This, in my view, is the crisis of was and draw invaluable connections liberal arts at Williams and else- to their lives today. I believe that if there is any instituwhere. This pragmatic model steers liberal arts, unevenly but inevita- tion capable of renewing its commitbly, into a more progressive proj- ment to the liberal arts, it is Williams. ect: issue-driven and advocacy- As members of this incredibly dynambased. It also, by extension, places ic community, we have thrived in large the curriculum of the College in- part due to our historical commitment creasingly at the mercy of a rapidly to educating the whole person. It’s transforming global economy and a time to reclaim that. spasmodic news cycle. If a Williams Christopher Weihs ’15 was a history education surrenders to these pressures for urgent transformation, it and political science double major. He lives in Washington, D.C. ceases to be liberal arts at all.
Luke Valadie ’22 is from Bradenton, Fla. His major is undecided.
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Decolonizing faith
A response to Haystack, Hawai‘i and Institutional History By PHILEMON ABEL During the presidential induction festivities three weeks ago, I attended the Haystack, Hawai‘i and Institutional History exhibit. I was saddened to learn of the many ways in which missionaries and their children brought about cultural destruction and the end of the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom, let alone how many Williams alumni played an integral part in its downfall. Something that I did appreciate, and wanted to see more of, however, was the emphasis on the collaboration between Hawaiians and the missionaries and the way that the Hawaiian people were not passively taken over. Having done my own research project on the Hawaiian colonial project during my first year at the College, I wanted to hear more of the voices of Hawaiians, both Christian and nonChristian, and how they felt during this time. In conversations around colonialism and white supremacy that occur on campus, I feel that implications are often made that Christianity = White and that all indigenous people who are Christian are only so because of colonization, and not because of any active choice on their part. By highlighting the faith of Queen Lili’uokalani and other
Christian Hawaiians, I hope to push back against the narrative of Christianity being inherently white or colonizing, and highlight its use in the push against Hawai‘i’s colonization. As a Christian, I feel shameful when I learn of others using God’s name in vain while disobeying His most important commandment – to love God and love our neighbors. Colonization and white supremacy do the exact opposite. I want to begin by recognizing and emphasizing that the missionaries did not only bring Christianity with them, but a white savior complex that viewed native Hawaiians as inferior, without civilization. These missionaries intertwined Christianity with their lives as though it justified their ways of dress, language and other customs that had no direct relation to the teachings of Christ. They sought to make Hawai‘i into a Christian nation that mimicked European countries and completely erased Hawaiian customs. Hawai‘i’s 1840 Constitution was one of many that established the nation as overtly “Christian,” banning any laws that were “at variance with the word of the Lord Jehovah.” House Committee Chairman John Quincy Adams praised this Constitution and the missionaries’ work in converting “the people of this group of Islands …
from the lowest debasement of idolatry to the blessings of the Christian Gospel … rallied to the fold of civilization by a written language and constitution … with all the elements … which can entitle them to be acknowledged … as a separate and independent community.” The U.S. recognized Hawai‘i not simply because it was Christian, but because it conformed to Western ideals of civility, of which Christianity was only a token. When Hawaiian Christians appealed to their shared faith but began to incorporate their old customs, their pleas to remain independent fell on deaf ears. For example, it was not mentioned in the exhibit that the last Queen of Hawai‘i, Lili’uokalani, was a Christian and accomplished poet, songwriter and author. Her compositions of protest and resistance to American colonialism often appealed to what she believed to be the shared faith between them. Yet, she also embraced her native Hawaiian culture. She too called out the hypocrisy of the missionaries who used their religious ministries simply as a tool for personal gain, writing in her book Hawai‘i’s Story by Hawai‘i’s Queen that “[the missionary party’s] leaders were constantly intriguing to make the ministry their tool … securing their own personal
benefit.” Lili’uokalani and other Christian Hawaiians published prayers that merged Hawaiian and Christian traditions, showing that the two cannot only coexist, but can be used as a form of protest. The Queen translated and claimed the Kumulipo – an ancestral chant describing the world’s creation and her own royal genealogy – as her own, thus owning her Hawaiian ancestry and tradition while defining her Christian faith for herself. By writing many hymns and prayers and advocating for justice for her people, the Queen honored her God, her ancestors and her people. Lili’uokalani also appealed to the Christian principles of justice and equity in her June 1898 protest in Washington, D.C., imploring “the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ancestors learned the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity … and to the Almighty Ruler of the universe, to him who judgeth righteously, I commit my cause.” Another example was that of Joseph Nāwahī, who published a prayer that merged the Christian concepts of honoring one’s father and mother and God being a Heavenly Father with that of aloha ‘āina – loving the land and respecting it as one’s ultimate ancestor. The result
was a prayer that called for Hawaiians to honor God the Father and Earth their mother. It reclaimed the language and traditions that former missionaries and white settlers tried to erase. Many other protest organizations merged their Christian faith and Hawaiian traditions to appeal to Western power. In the end, however, America, the same country which recognized Hawai‘i due to its adoption of Christianity and Western customs in 1840, annexed Hawai‘i after recognizing an illegitimate government on August 12, 1898. I resonate with Hawai‘i’s story as a Black Christian, since my own faith is also tied to the slave trade and white supremacy. I feel that Christianity needs to be decolonized just as much as anything else tainted by colonialism and white supremacy. I own my faith on my own terms, decolonizing it and accepting it based on the teachings of Jesus, not on the teachings of racists. As a Christian, I want to call out those who took my God’s name in vain, committing atrocious acts in the name of my faith while disregarding the most important commandment – to love God and to love their neighbors. Philemon Abel ’19 is from Kansas City, Mo. He is a political science major.
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September 26, 2018
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College organizes commemoration of World War I By SHAHEEN CURRIMJEE EXECUTIVE EDITOR November 2018 will mark 100 years since the end of the “war to end all wars.” As the most destructive war of its time, World War I (WWI) saw the near-downfall of Western civilization, claiming the lives of over nine million military personnel and six million civilians. In order to honor their bravery and sacrifice, the College has organized a yearlong commemoration, incorporating the archives of fellow College students and faculty who gave up their studies to fight in the war. This commemoration of the centenary was co-organized by professor of French and comparative literature Brian Martin, professor of German Helga Druxes, Administrative Director of the Center for Foreign Languages (CFFLC) Jane Canova, Sawyer Library employees Sylvia Kennick Brown, Wayne Hammond and Lisa Conathan and alums Andrea Rodas ’18 and Sophie Wunderlich ’18. The opening event of this yearlong program started with the French Film Festival in the Spring of 2018, which presented three recent films about WWI – Christian Carion's Merry Christmas, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement and Francois Ozon's Franz. These films, released in the 1990s and 2000s, were chosen to prove “that the war still mattered, and to teach a new generation of students, faculty and staff, who don’t know much about the war because it predates even [their] grandparents, about it,” Martin said. Continuing the commemoration, during the summer, the CFFLC, in collaboration with Sawyer Library and Rodas and Wunderlich used the museum-type exhibition spaces in both Sawyer and Schow to curate The Great War at 100: Williams College and Beyond, displaying various memorabilia from WWI. The galleries in Schow illustrate the contribu-
tions of students, faculty and alumni, among them Major Charles W. Whittlesey, Class of 1905, and French professor Jean Norton Cru. Martin noted that during Cru’s time in the trenches, he wrote letters back to colleagues and students about his experiences, and these letters were published in The Williams Record. Collections in the Chapin Library also showcase stories of the war through “contemporary photographs, satirical cartoons, notable poetry and prose, soldiers’ archives and other publications, including a trench map of Ypres, an army engineer’s notebooks, a delegate’s copy of the Treaty of Versailles
and tourist guides to European battlefields,” according to the exhibition's description. In October, the CFFLC will be hosting a lecture series, inviting WWI scholars Professor Susan McCready from the University of South Alabama and Professor Raffael Scheck from Colby, which will hone in on the war’s effects in France and Germany. Finally, the committee decided to tie WWI into fall semester courses. The comparative literature, history and German departments are offering a range of war-related classes such as “Remembering the Great War,” “The Great War,” “Reisefieber: Germans on the Road” and “Si-
lence, Loss and (Non)Memory in Austria.” For Martin, “World War I changed everything.” At the end of the war, European and Middle Eastern maps were completely changed due to the collapse of the AustroHungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. “Instead of advancing culture, new technologies in the 19th century – steel which was used to make trains were now being used in machine guns and bombs – were used in the massive destruction of human bodies and cities,” Martin said. Any progress that was hoped to come out of the 19th century was used to dismantle people’s lives and cities.
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Throughout the first weeks of the school year, continued construction in Brooks and Spencer Houses has caused disruptions to some students’ housing arrangements and schedules. One senior living in Spencer House, Grace Mabie ’19, remarked that “students were frustrated because the construction was loud and went on all day.” According to Mabie, construction began around 8 a.m. every morning. She described that her “pick group started to get frustrated because people weren’t sleeping, and we went to the housing department to talk about it.” Mabie explained that within only one day of her group’s meeting with the design and construction team, they were notified in an email that the construction at Spencer would be stopped. Rita Coppola-Wallace, the College's executive director of design and construction, confirmed that “Spencer is all finished at this point until next summer, when we complete the flat roofs.” This likely means that students living in Spencer will not experience any future disruptions this year. However, some individuals were still displaced temporarily while construction was ongoing. Mabie did not personally request any accommodations as the construction did not vastly impact her personal schedule, but one of her friends was in contact with the design and construction team and chose to sleep in a temporary room in the Dennett basement for one night. Overall, through communication between the students
[students] are seeing in their own lives, such as the continual battles of racism – colonial or endemic institutional – immigration movements and wars in the Middle East, are all echoes of the First World War,” Martin said. This is why The Great War is still relevant a century after the fact. Hence, the College has come together in various ways to commemorate those who fought in the war and understand its impact. The Great War at 100 will be on display in Chapin and Schow libraries through the end of 2018, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, and the lecture series will take place on Oct. 10 and Oct. 23.
The World War I memorial program began with the French Film Festival last spring and will continue throughout the fall. Chapin Library is currently showcasing contemporary memorabilia.
Construction wraps College Council holds up in Spencer after semiannual elections continuing into fall By EMILY BLEIBERG CONTRIBUTING WRITER
However, the chaos caused by WWI was not contained to the four years. WWI’s “political and economic aftereffects were felt for years to come,” Druxes commented. Likewise, 19th century violence continued beyond the fin de siècle, leading into the “Irish Rebellion in 1916, the Russian Revolution in 1917 as well as massive decolonization in both [the] British and French Empires,” Martin said. In addition to the beginning of the decline of European imperialism, the war spurred democratic movements, such as the founding of the League of Nations, women's suffrage and the general liberation of women. “Some of the echoes that
most directly affected and the design and construction team, many of the issues that were most pressingly interfering with students’ schedules have been resolved. As Coppola-Wallace stressed, one of the most important aspects of her team’s work is remaining in constant communication with the student body throughout the process. Coppola-Wallace said that this is the key to creating the most mutually beneficial schedule and arrangement for both students and design and construction. “Construction is difficult anywhere, but especially in an occupied dorm or an occupied building,” Coppola-Wallace said. She emphasized that her team is always quick to preemptively contact the Office of Student Life (OSL), giving them information on the logistics and timelines of projects so that students will be best equipped to predict and adapt to their impacts. “In the case of Spencer, the first communication to OSL was in February 2017,” she said. Beyond initial contact with OSL, Coppola-Wallace stressed that her team is “very regularly and very early [in communication] with building occupants and neighbors” of any construction sight. More specifically for Spencer House, one of the project managers “reached out to prospective students as they were moving in to let them know of the construction and what would take place," Coppola-Wallace said. "He personally met with many if not all of them. He told them of the scope of work and the noise they would hear. He was also in touch with them a number of times after his initial communication.”
This past week, College Council (CC) conducted its semiannual elections. After initial technical issues with the online BigPulse voting system that required elections to be postponed, the voting period lasted from Friday to Monday. Voter turnout was relatively low this semester, with 447 students voting in total and an overall turnout of 20.54 percent. Turnout was 16.24 percent among seniors, 16.37 percent among juniors, 19.75 percent among sopho-
Tristan Whalen ’22 was chosen for Sage Hall. For the class of 2020, results are still somewhat uncertain; William Howie ’20, Chris Mykrantz ’20 and Forest Williams ’20 were chosen to represent the class, but the fourth elected representative was a write-in candidate, Devin Flynn ’18, who graduated from the College last year. According to CC Co-President Lizzy Hibbard ’19, CC is currently working to amend this issue and assign a current class of 2020 student to the position. “Three people were running for class of 2020 representative. Because we need four representatives per class, we se-
“We're so excited to have a full Council and get started on our fall agenda.” Libby Hibbard & Moisés Roman Mendoza CC Co-Presidents mores and 45.91 percent among first-years. On Monday night, CC announced the election results, which included the makeup of this year’s Honor and Discipline Committee. Donglin Zhang ’19, Keshav Goel ’19, Nicholas Goldrosen ’20, Chloe Henderson ’20, Abraham Eafa ’21, Gabby Martin ’21, Chenyu Zhang ’22 and Isaac Wilkins ’22 were elected to the Committee. Sanket Patel ’22 was chosen as CC's assistant treasurer. Each class also elected four representatives. Serapia Kim ’19, Ang Sherpa ’19, Joshua Teruneh ’19 and Olivia Tse ’19.5 will represent the class of 2019, and Kimberly Hadaway ’21, Solly Kasab ’21, Lance Ledet ’21 and Franklin De La Cruz ’21 were elected for the class of 2021. For the class of 2022, Kai Soto-Dessen ’22 will represent Armstrong and Pratt, Kenia Cruz Guardado ’22 was elected for Mills and Dennett, Nathan Medow ’22 will represent Williams Hall and
lected the next student BigPulse identified as having the most votes based off our runoff system,” Hibbard said. “We later realized that student no longer attends Williams, and we are talking with other write-in candidates to fill this slot.” Hibbard and Co-President Moisés Roman Mendoza are pleased with the results of the election and are looking forward to working with the new representatives. “We're so excited to have a full Council and get started on our fall agenda, which includes bystander training for all student organizations, voter engagement efforts for congressional midterm elections, supporting the Asian American Studies movement and mitigating the summer earnings requirement for financial aid students,” they said. “We were especially happy to see the big turnout of firstyears running for Council, and we encourage anyone who may not have been elected this time to run next semester!”
Monday 9-17-18 11 p.m. Hopkins Hall: A student came into Campus Safety and Security (CSS) to make a statement that someone had broken into their car while it was parked in Thompson Lot. Wednesday 9-19-18 8:14 a.m. Fitness Center: Officers responded to a report of a student with a dislocated shoulder. Northern Berkshire Emergency Medical Services also responded. The student was transported to the hospital. 11:05 a.m. Williams Hall: A report was made of stolen signs that had been taken during the first-year move in process. The signs were confiscated. 12:31 p.m. Thompson Biology Lab: The Science Center's manager and safety officer reported a student injury in a biology lab. The student was taken to the Health Center and was subsequently transported to the hospital for stitches. 7:40 p.m. Spring Street: Officers responded to a report of a vehicle driving down the street using a megaphone and shouting obscenities. Dispatch also notified the Williamstown Police Department (WPD). Officers swept of the area and did not find the vehicle. Thursday 9-20-18 8:25 a.m. Facilities staff informed CSS of a tradesperson who had entered a confined space at the heating plant and had not responded to communication attempts. 9-1-1 was activated for Williamstown Police, Fire and Emergency Services. The worker emerged safely and was not aware of attempts to communicate with him or rescue services responding to the
scene. Once the worker was deemed safe and well, everyone cleared the area. Friday 9-21-18 9:08 a.m. Main Street: A student walked out into the crosswalk and was struck by the passenger-side mirror of a vehicle. 9-1-1 was activated for Northern Berkshire Emergency Medical Services and the WPD to respond to the location for a pedestrian hit by a motor vehicle. 4:17 p.m. Hopkins Hall: A student reported a missing bike from Dodd House last seen in May. The student said that the bike was not registered, and he was not sure if he locked the bike up when he left campus. A stolen article report was faxed to the WPD. 8:43 p.m. Upper Chapel Lot: An officer reported a suspicious situation concerning an unattended vehicle with open doors and trunk. The WPD was called. The owner of the vehicle was identified as a student from another college. A search for the owner ensued for some time before the visiting student and their host came into CSS. Saturday 9-22-18 12:47 a.m. Greylock Quad: Officers responded to a report of an intoxicated student outside Gladden House. Upon arrival, officers asked for 9-11 to be activated. The student was transported to Berkshire Medical Center North. Sunday 9-23-18 7:26 a.m. Lasell Gym: A smoke detector outside the main entrance to the third floor Fitness Center was activated. There was no apparent cause for the alarm. The system was reset.
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Steven Pinker speaks on Enlightenment By YASMINA CABRERA CONTRIBUTING WRITER On Thursday night, Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, gave a lecture of the same title in Chapin Hall. The event was sponsored by the Gaudino Fund and the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which has lined up a set of speakers throughout the academic year who are meant “to encourage dialogue around human knowledge and reason.” In his lecture, which acted as an overview of the more indepth studies examined in his book, Pinker laid out his central argument: despite the growing sentiment that society is in some kind of downward spiral, civilization is currently in a positive state and has been progressing for centuries thanks to the ideals of the 18th century Enlightenment. According to Pinker, the main enlightenment ideal which has influenced our society is that “we can use knowledge to enhance human flourishing.” This idea has been so widely embraced and has become so central to society that we might now consider the institutions which stem from it, such as democracy or scientific academies, as standard or part of the status quo. “Other ideologies have passionate advocates, and I suggest that Enlightenment ideals, too, need a positive defense and an explicit commitment, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in the book,” he said. According to Pinker, the idea of using knowledge to better the human experience encompasses four main themes: reason, science, humanism and progress. “Human beings, on their own, are not particularly reasonable, but people are capable of reason if they establish certain norms and institutions,” he said. That’s why, in his opinion, people have normalized free speech, open criticism,
debate and empirical testing as hallmarks of a good society. The ability to “understand the world by formulating possible explanations and testing them against reality” comes from the second theme, science. The third theme, humanism, is believing that the “ultimate moral purpose is to reduce the suffering and enhance the flourishing of human beings,” as defined by Pinker. “Now, that might seem bland and unexceptional, but there are distinct alternatives to humanism, such as that the ultimate good is to enhance the glory of the tribe, nation, race, class or faith,” he said. Pinker added that humanism is possible through sympathy, and that the number of people we feel sympathy for can be expanded through media like education, journalism and mobility. The last enlightenment theme is progress, which Pinker defined as believing that “if we apply knowledge and sympathy to reduce suffering and enhance flourishing, we can gradually succeed.” Pinker made it clear that progress isn’t simply a question of personal perspective, but something that can be proven through studies and statistics. “The question of whether progress has taken place is not a matter of having a sunny disposition, is it an empirical hypothesis,” he said. He demonstrated that progress can be measured through life, health, freedom and knowledge, among many other factors that have advanced over time. Pinker displayed research from Our World in Data, an online publication that presents studies showing how living conditions around the world are changing. Some of the studies included worldwide life expectancy, which has increased from an average of 30 years to 80 years in the time period between 1771 to 2015. Pinker also asserted that “the world has never been more
democratic than it has been in this past decade.” Crime has also been on a long-time downward trend. “A contemporary European has about one-35th the chance of being murdered compared to his medieval ancestors,” he said. Pinker admits that while all of these studies support the overall progress of humankind, it is easier for most people to deny it. Some of this phenomenon can be explained by
cognitive research. “People estimate risk according to how easily they can recall examples from memory,” he explained. Good news tends to build up over time, while bad incidents happen quicker, making negative stories more memorable. “News is about sudden events, not gradual changes,” he said. Pinker continued by analyzing some questions that highlight the importance of his conclusions. “It’s not good to be
mental health.” Lastly, the email clarified its critiques of specific administrators. “We would like to make it known that these critiques are the experiences of certain students and do not reflect all experiences,” Cytrynbaum and Manning wrote. Despite the retraction, some JAs were upset about the false endorsement. Many JAs shared their thoughts on the guide in a Record survey sent out to the JA class. “Having my name signed to anything without my explicit consent is unacceptable to me,” Alex Zilkha ’20 said. “I think the writers of the guide were well-meaning, but I disavow the final product put out to the student body.” Susana Cacho Lopez ’20 added, “I personally did not get asked about my thoughts about the guide or whether I agreed with it, so it bothered me how the authors of this guide said it was endorsed by the JA class because it truly wasn’t.” Other JA criticisms of the guide were based on substance rather than the mistaken endorsement. In particular, several JAs criticized the guide for being biased or overly critical of resources or administrators. “Many resources have failed my friends and me during my time at Williams. But that does not mean that I would caution my freshmen against using them,” Megan Siedman ’20 said. “I wish the unofficial resource guide had worked to develop an objective list with a breadth of resources rather than their subjective opinions on a limited number of resources.” “I appreciate what the creators of the resource guide were trying to do, but I'm concerned that the guide has spread a few individuals' (anonymous) complaints about certain members of the administration through-
out the student body in a way that might frighten firstyears and others away from using the support systems that are available to them,” added Fi von Wingerden ’20. Ben Leary ’20 concurred, adding, “Denigrating valuable school resources based on a couple of highly subjective anecdotal experiences seems irresponsible.” JA reactions to the guide were not entirely critical, however, and some found value in its opinionated nature. “I think that many of the particulars of the unofficial resource guide are unduly opinionated and perhaps un-
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PoC, low-income, disabled, mentally ill, and/or firstyear folks,’ but I just think it could have been accomplished differently.” Jad Hamdan ’19 and Jesse Facey ’19, the co-presidents of the Junior Advisor Advisory Board (JAAB), declined to comment on the guide. Rachel Bukanc, senior associate dean of the College, had a largely positive response to the guide. “As professionals whose mission is to support all students on campus, we are always interested in knowing more about what we do that is working well and what areas
“We are always interested in knowing more about what we do that is working well and what areas require more attention and change.” Rachel Bukanc Senior Associate Dean of the College founded, but I also think that this is the exact reason why an unofficial resource guide exists: to hear unfiltered, student opinions straight from students' mouths,” Conrad Wahl ’20 said. “The resources described [in the guide] do need a standardized place for students to look,” Nate Jones ’20 said. “There isn’t much point to having lots of resources for disadvantaged students when the process to receive them is so opaque that most students are unaware it exists.” Cacho Lopez added, “[I] understand the concept behind it and fully support creating a guide aimed to support ‘struggling students, especially first-gen,
of knowledge. He ended by acknowledging the gravity of the issues that we as a society face today and placed them in accurate context with past issues that humanity has been able to overcome. “The problems that we face today are unquestionably stupendous, particularly climate change and nuclear war, but the rational way to deal with them is not as apocalypses, but rather as problems that need to be solved,” he said.
Steven Pinker argued that the Enlightenment has ushered in a golden age of human prosperity through reason, science, humanism and progress.
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pessimistic; it is better to be accurate,” he said. He elaborated that, if people believe that all of our institutions are failing due to pessimism, it can result in a defeatist attitude or dangerous radicalism rather than a focus on problem-solving. He also expressed that progress is not inevitable or something that can be taken for granted, but rather a set of problems that have been solved over time through the application
require more attention and change,” she said. “The unofficial guide also provides a lot of useful information about many of the specific supports and opportunities that our office (and others) provides for students. This guide is similar to those that students on many campuses are producing in the wake of the one at [the University of] Michigan that got a lot of headlines. Information about navigating the campus resource network is a good thing – we want our services to be as accessible as possible. The guide does a good job of highlighting the range of supports we offer.” David Johnson ’71, associate dean of the College and
dean of first year students, had a more mixed reaction to the guide. In the guide, he was personally accused of racism. “I’m disappointed that it has to be so personally hurtful in a way but, without names attached, I’m limited in what I can do in reaction,” he said. “I’m anxious to always do better, so I want to learn and grow. To be given a chance to do that by the student community is all I ask for. I love my job, and I’m going to continue to do it, and I feel like I’ve done a good job in 99 percent of the cases, so I’m not going to panic.” Speaking for the dean’s office more generally, he said, “Our office got identified in ways that I hope isn’t representative of the larger population, and if it is representative of a smaller group, we want to figure out how we can do better.” MinCo co-Presidents Tyler Tsay ’19 and Rodsy Modhurima ’19 declined to comment, as did Cytrynbaum and Manning. Cytrynbaum did, however, fill out a survey on the record that elucidated both the accidental endorsement by the JA class and his personal motivations for contributing to the guide. “I intended to submit it as a daily message, which requires a sponsoring group, so I didn't think that the groups would be displayed,” he said. “I picked these two groups, as members of both helped to write the guide. However, it was not at all intentional to claim their sponsorship in this public way.” He also expressed optimism that the guide’s overall message will prevail despite the controversy. “I really think the guide has the potential to be super helpful, especially as so many College resources are underpublicized and often only end up getting used by those who somehow have the connections and entitlement to take advantage of them,” he said.
Candidate proposes tax By TREVOR WERTHEIMER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Last Wednesday, Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jay Gonzalez proposed a tax on the endowments of the state’s largest colleges and universities, including Williams. The plan calls for a 1.6 percent annual tax to be levied on the nine Massachusetts colleges and universities with endowments of more than $1 billion. In announcing his proposal, Gonzalez attempted to walk a fine line, trumpeting the importance of higher education while also making appeals to equity and fairness. “They are key assets that drive our knowledge base and innovation, but for those colleges and universities who have accumulated enormous wealth, it is time to pay their fair share,” the nominee said last Wednesday. Gonzalez’s statement and tax plan acknowledge the privileged statuses that colleges and universities hold, both in Massachusetts and nationwide, as nonprofit institutions that enjoy tax-exempt statues. The plan aims to reverse the privileged tax statuses of the nine wealthiest colleges and universities and use the revenue raised to improve education and transportation across the state. Specifically, Gonzalez emphasized the importance of making child care and preschool affordable for all families, fully funding public schools and improving the state’s roads, bridges and public transportation systems. The levy would apply to the College’s endowment of over $2.5 billion and would bring in over $40 million in tax revenue from the College. The Gonzalez campaign boasts that the plan could generate over $1 billion in revenue annually if the state collects the tax from all nine schools. The College was reluctant to comment on specifics of the proposal or its potential implications, instead stressing the hypothetical nature of the tax and the school’s official position regarding political matters. Chief Communications Officer Jim Reische spoke on behalf
of the College. “Williams doesn't comment on political races,” he said. “As everyone knows, candidates propose and promise all kinds of stuff that never comes to fruition. We want to avoid getting distracted by speculation about campaign rhetoric and instead focus on what's real: our responsibility for educating a talented and diverse community of students.” Reische also referred to the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) for further information. AICUM acts as a representative for 55 of the state’s higher learning institutions and advocates for policies that benefit schools throughout the state. In response to the proposed tax, the group stressed the benefits that the state’s colleges and universities provide its residents, including generating knowledge-based growth, spending billions on research and providing thousands of jobs annually. Because AICUM views the proposed tax as an inhibitor to these gains and others, it was willing to address the tax proposal in pointed terms. “Taxing endowments is bad for students, bad for our economy and bad for Massachusetts,” the group announced last Wednesday. The idea behind the tax is one that has been floated before by candidates and politicians. Such proposals have been criticized by colleges and universities in the past, with many citing a number of similar arguments to attack its legitimacy. Republican Governor Charlie Baker also opposes Gonzalez’s plan, but US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the nominee’s most high-profile backer, voiced support for the proposed tax. “[Senator Warren] strongly supports investments in affordable education and infrastructure…, and applauds Jay for starting this conversation,” the senator's office said in a statement released last Wednesday. The Gonzalez campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
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One in Two Thousand By SHAHEEN CURRIMJEE EXECUTIVE EDITOR I met Neena during my first year when we realized that her mom and my uncle were good friends when they attended the College. Since then, we have bonded over masala chai, my inability to hike, her inability to eat raspberries and the word “covfefe.” This Saturday, over a mediocre sandwich lunch, we talked about her summer in Germany, love of dance, favorite snack and much more! So Neena, what were you up to this summer? Well, I received a RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) fellowship, which is given to interns around the world who are then matched with Ph.D. students in Germany to work in a research lab. They said it would be an English-speaking lab, but they did not mention that all the chemicals, instruments and software were written in German. I learned a really weird assortment of German words. I was in Dresden, but I got to travel around smaller and larger cities. Seeing the cultural differences in lab work was a super interesting experience. I had never been to Germany before, and it was cool to live and work abroad, since I was on campus as a JA [Junior Advisor] all of last year. That’s great! What exactly were you working on? I was working in a radiopharmaceutical cancer institute,
and we were looking at a better way to image tumors in cancer diagnosis, and so I got to work with radioactive copper. It was fun because they have to scan everyone who walks through those labs to check the baseline of radioactivity each person has coming in and how much they gain coming out. I had to sit in a giant metal box for 15 minutes, and they told me I could take a nap, so I did that twice and got naptime at work!
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So apart from Goldfish, I know you’re pretty invested in dance.
I love naptime! Okay, speaking of places, how was the transition from home to Williams? Is there anything you miss? I grew up in Sarasota, Fla., so something big for me coming to Williams was that I had never lived in a place that was landlocked before. I didn’t think about that or how weird that would feel to me because I grew up two miles from the ocean, and while I didn’t always take advantage of that, it was where I could go and clear my head; the water and sound of the ocean always calms me down. So one of my favorite places on campus is the treehouse by the Hoosic River because I can listen to the sound of the river. I also like going on hikes because, even though you’re landlocked, once you’re on top of a mountain, at least you can see a little further. Another thing is that at Williams I have to wear close-toed shoes, while in Florida I would walk around barefoot or wear flip-flops. Sometimes when I’m in the library I take my shoes off, but my friends are like, “That’s so weird, what is she
SOPHIA SHIN/PHOTO EDITOR NEENA'S HOMETOWN SARASOTA, FLA.
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doing?” I also miss thunderstorms from home. So when it thunderstorms here, I get really excited; I love listening to thunder and watching the lightning. I see that you’re a lover of the sea. What’s your take on fish? Specifically, on goldfish? Yes, just one kind though. I’m super snobby about Goldfish. Every since I was little, probably around the age of two, I was a huge Goldfish fan, but only the cheddar kind. But then they came out with the wholegrain version, and now that’s exclusively what I eat [laughs]. Obviously not exclusively what I eat in my life.
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Everyday for most of middle school and high school, as a snack, I would bring Goldfish to school, and I’ve brought Goldfish to Williams – in the sense that I always have one of those giant tubs of Goldfish on me. I’m shocked that I haven’t grown out of it, but it’s my comfort food! I also heard that you received an interesting 21st birthday present. My friends, who are awesome, surprised me by putting 21 bags of Goldfish in my room, and on each bag of Goldfish was one or two photographs of me with them, or just embarrassing photographs of me. My birthday
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Stina Kutzer, owner and farmer of Gammelgården Creamery, pets 14-year-old Babette, the farm's first cow.
Gammelgården Creamery adds new autumnal skyr flavors By HAEON YOON OPINIONS EDITOR Signs of fall are fast approaching: the Purple Valley has a deeper flush, the Patagonia fleeces are out and the pumpkins have made their annual reappearance in dining halls across campus. But my personal favorite? Fallthemed desserts. Forget the quintessential hot apple cider and donuts. Pumpkin and apple pie skyr are the ways to go. Stina Kutzer, farmer and owner of Gammelgården Creamery, a local farm in Pownal, Vt. and home to 14-year-old cow Babette, has recently made some new flavorful additions to her products. In addition to her much adored selection of maple, blueberry and raspberry skyr, she has introduced apple pie and a limited-edition pumpkin flavor to the mix. Student skyr devotees like Peter Le ’21 have welcomed the additional flavors. “I've loved skyr ever since my first time going to Lee [Snack Bar],” Le said. “I'm so happy they are adding new flavors, but please don't ever abandon maple!" Found on the shelves of Eco Café, Lee Snack Bar, Goodrich Coffee Bar and Tunnel City Coffee, skyr (pronounced “skeer”) is a staple
in the diet of many students at the College. For those who are still eating their sad, plain yogurts for breakfast, skyr is simply revolutionary. Aside from being the best dairy product – gelato following as a close second – skyr is an Icelandic cultured milk product packed with health benefits. Just imagine a richer, creamier and 100-times tastier version of your regular yogurt. So, what prompted this change? Interestingly, it was the College’s student body that decided on pumpkin and apple pie. Last spring, Kutzer brought new flavors, developed in conjunction with Sidehill Farm, to a taste-test in Doddrich, where students reviewed and ranked the flavors. While there was an array of strong contenders, including lemon marmalade, peach-apricot jam and strawberry-rhubarb, the pumpkin and apple flavors ranked first and second, respectively. In addition to these new flavors, Kutzer has some more exciting plans for the future. “I want to come up with some combination of stone fruits, like peach, apricot and plum, for next year,” she said. Kutzer enjoys experimenting with different fruits and jams with her skyr, a luxury that is possible because of the
was Feb. 28, and when I left campus on May 24, I had only five bags of Goldfish left, which I had to reluctantly give up because of limited suitcase room.
smaller size of her farm. “If we were huge, we wouldn’t be able to experiment with these different combinations,” she explained. Her inspirations come from seasonal, local fruits, and the jams are made by Sidehill Farm, which is only 40 minutes away from Gammelgården Creamery. For next spring, she is planning to introduce citrus flavors. “I like the lemon, but people have mentioned a kind of aftertaste,” Kutzer said. “So I’ve been making it with different marmalades like grapefruit-lime, which I thought was fantastic.” Currently, the Creamery's main deliveries are isolated to the Berkshires (and one small store in Boston), meaning that current seniors and recent alumni might soon face the rough realities of skyr withdrawal symptoms. There is, however, a silver lining to every tragedy. Kutzer revealed her plans for the upcoming year in response to growing demand. “We’ve had a lot of seniors who’ve asked us about shipping skyr,” she said. “The other day, an alum[nus] from Denver called us and asked if we could do shipping. So we’re trying to come up with a box with proper insulation that we can use to start shipping our skyr directly to our consumers.” A definite game changer.
This November marks Valerie Turner’s 28th and final year of working as a custodian at the College. Turner, or Val as her friends and students call her, plans on retiring with her husband this spring. Turner's path to the College was not straightforward. She attended McCann Technical School in North Adams with the hopes of going into finance. “I was supposed to be an accounting/payroll person,” she said. “I worked in three different places that all closed before coming to Williams. I worked a little bit on Cole Avenue, where there was a mill called Photech, but the same thing happened there as well. All the mills around here closed.” Turner, who has lived in North Adams her entire life, then decided to take a similar route as her parents, who both worked at the College at the time. “My mom started working here way back, like 35 years [ago]. There were some openings, so she wrote a letter to the person in charge of hiring. They ended up bringing me on part-time, and that's how it all began,” Turner said. She has been at the College ever since, and she has forged many great friendships with other facility members over the years. “I have made a lot of good friends. My teammates ... are all really nice, and we have a good time,” she said. “We call ourselves porcelain goddesses – everybody knows that!” Turner has worked in many different places on campus, including the old Sawyer Library before its renovation, Tyler Annex, Mission Park and Hopkins Hall. Currently, she works in Williams Hall. She described her daily routine, which begins at 5:30 a.m. and ends at 2:00 p.m., as being different every day. Certain tasks, however, are repeated every year, and there is one in particular she is less than excited about. “The winter is different because of – and it’s actually what I hate most about my job
I’ve been doing classical South Indian dancing, or Bharatnatyam, since I was 7-years-old. It’s an old South Asian dance form, and all the dances tell stories of ancient Hindu epics; it’s both religious in nature and technical (and super expressive because you’re telling stories). I saw my friend’s arangetram, which symbolizes the end of basic training, and after it was over, I told my mom, “I want to do that.” So I started, and the framework can be paralleled with ballet, where you learn the footwork and then the arm movements, which you learn to put together and then into dances. Nine years later in 2014, I did my arangetram, and it was an hour and half of pure dance in a three-hour performance. It was exhausting but one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. It was also the first time I had danced alone on a stage, so it was very stressinducing, and I was practicing four to five times a day leading up to it. Then I came to Williams where, because of the lack of a Bharatnatyam teacher, I had to stop dancing. However, I met a friend, and we realized that we did the same type of dance. Since last year was her senior year, we were like, “Wow, it would be really fun if we could do a performance together!” So we somehow pulled it off.
– snow shoveling,” she said. “We have to do that whenever it snows, so they can call you in on the weekends. I only live seven miles away, but I’m scared to death of driving in the snow.” Overall, she described her experience at the College as being incredibly rewarding. Outside of friendships with her fellow custodians, Turner has made an effort to get close to students as well, especially those in Williams Hall. “When they first come in they feel awkward, [and] I feel awkward because everyone is new, [and] they’re not sure if they should talk to me. For the most part students are great, though,” she said. “I have had a few students I’ve gotten very close too, and actually one was a guy that I had to hug because he was so homesick.” In terms of advice for firstyear students, Turner offered some words of wisdom. “Just give it time; I know you are homesick,” she said. “It’s one thing if you have a single, but if you have a double, take the time to get to know your roommate. Don't spend all your time studying – I probably shouldn't say that – go have fun, but don't get into too much trouble!” For anyone who knows Turner, her humor and con-
I taught her a dance, she taught me a dance and we each performed a solo. It was nice to be back on stage, but a little scary since it had been four years since I had last done that! I saw that performance, and it was amazing. You were so graceful! But I also know about (and have seen) your clumsiness. Any comments? I’m really clumsy. All my friends know it, and I know it. It’s been three weeks into this semester, and I’ve already tripped twice going up the stairs in Paresky. Throughout middle and high school, I became pretty well known in the nurse’s office. There were these massive blue awnings held up by giant poles. In second grade, I, being a little bit of a nerd, would walk around while reading a book, and I would ram into the poles. So, I took a break from doing that, but then in senior year (bringing it back around full circle), I was not paying attention walking backwards, and as I turned around, I slammed head-first into the pole. That pretty much sums up my clumsiness. Oh my! To wrap it up, what’s on your bucket list for your last year at the College? Despite the fact that I love to hike, I have yet to go on a sunrise hike, mostly because I’m bad at waking up early in the morning. I used to be a morning person, and then I came to Williams and that all changed. So I hope I can go one of these Fridays!
tagious laughter will be sorely missed on campus when she retires. When asked about what she is most looking forward to, she mentioned that she and her husband are, in her words, “NASCAR nuts.” Though they only have been able to go to the races a couple of times a year because of her job, she cannot wait to do more traveling. She and her husband own an RV, and they are planning on driving to races all around the country. “I’m looking forward to traveling in the RV because we don't really get to use it because of work,” she said. “My husband has relatives in Kentucky, and I haven't been many places in my life. Also, we used to go to New Hampshire and the Cape when we were kids, [so] hopefully we can go again.” Turner is looking forward to spending more time with her two daughters in their late 30s and early 40s, her four grandchildren and a new baby in the family. She says she will miss all her friends and students at the College but is eager to see what the future brings. “I’m looking forward to relaxing and waking up on the weekend, looking outside and saying, ‘Wow, isn’t this snow beautiful.’ That's what I can’t wait for.”
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Valerie Turner has been a custodian on campus for the past 28 years.
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‘Ironic columns’ stem from architectural innovations and quirks By NIGEL JAFFE CONTRIBUTING WRITER During his 25-year career at the College, Professor of Art History Michael Lewis has watched hundreds, if not thousands, of tour groups pause in the courtyard below his office window on the south side of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). Each time, he hears the same speech delivered more or less word-for-word – “Like Old Faithful,” he recalled, “Every 20 minutes, it would come back. ‘See those two columns? Well, there’s an interesting story behind them…’” According to the oft-repeated anecdote, the socalled “ironic columns” at the back of Lawrence Hall were not originally included in the 1986 expansion, leaving the southern entrance bare. Predictably, the administration balked at this, insisting that the architect add columns to conform to the conventional aesthetic of an educational institution like the College. As the story goes, he begrudgingly agreed, but instead installed the snide design that we see today. Listening to this story time and time again over the years, Lewis’ frustration finally came to a head. One day, seeing a tour group approaching, he picked up a sharpie and a piece of cardboard and fashioned a sign, sticking it out through the window as the tour guide below gave their spiel. The sign displayed the words, “NOT TRUE.” The actual history of the “ironic columns” (a joke credited to art historian Whitney Stoddard ’35) begins in the early 1980s with the $7.5 million expansion of Lawrence
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The ironic columns were part of an expansion project from 1983 to 1986 and bring a creative twist to a hallmark trait for many modern buildings. Hall and WCMA. The architect in question was the eccentric Charles Moore, a titan of postmodernism and the former dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Included in his initial models for the sizable extension was a column of a different nature – a proposed sculpture by Patrick and Anne Poirier, in which a massive, fractured column would lay on its side as though it had collapsed right in the middle of the courtyard. Had the budget allowed its inclusion, the sculpture
would have led visitors down a path on the western side of the building, at the end of which they would find the museum’s entrance. Should they continue south instead of entering, they would come around the building, where they would find the cantilevered overhang which now holds faculty offices – such as that of Lewis – and the two ironic columns beneath. In fact, the columns were not only included in the initial plans, but the doorway that they mark was at one point
also slated to be the museum’s main entrance. Lecturer in Art Ben Benedict, who worked closely with Moore at Yale, forcefully dispelled the myth that the columns were simply put there out of spite. “This was an easy way for Moore to add detail and humor, using means that combined both the familiar and the surprising,” Benedict said. “Moore had a positively elven sense of humor. He would often incorporate odd surprises into his work, references to
the past. Always looking to use humor in funny little ways.” That flair for humor reappears in one of Moore’s most well-known pieces, the Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans. The postmodern plaza not only contains several absurd columns of its own, but also several sculptural carvings of Moore’s face, each of which spurts a stream of water through its mouth. Details like these are, as Benedict put it, “very characteristic of his playful nature: doing a lot with little
financial cost.” Benedict also praised the aesthetic value provided by the columns, saying that “the backside of the museum really needed them. Something had to go there to take attention away from that soaring, overbearing wall above.” E.J. Johnson ’59, professor emeritus of art and the editor of a book on Moore’s work, continued that thread, contextualizing the columns as an extension of Moore’s postmodern style. “Part of the game of postmodern architecture was to play around with elements of the past, to treat them ironically,” Johnson said. “Personally, I’m a great enthusiast of the columns. I’ve always thought of them as sort of emulating the Spanish inverted exclamation points.” Johnson, who was teaching at the College when the columns were installed, remembers being disappointed in the general reaction on campus at the time. “Most people were dumbfounded by them,” he said. “If they’d taken art history 101, perhaps they would have understood what was going on.” Unfortunately, that confusion lingers today, augmented by the urban legend that Lewis has heard tour guides perpetuate for so long. Whether observers are more inclined to agree with DesMeules or Johnson, all should at least consider the actual history behind the columns and come see them not as a mark of spite but, in the words of Lewis, as “something lighthearted, that tells you that history is with us, and that history is not solemn. We make use of it, we have fun with it and we approach it as an equal.”
Sartorial Observer: Jihong Lee ’22 Organizations work to mobilize College student voter registration By IRENE LOEWENSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“Jihong, you’re literally the only person I know who can pull off a beret!” Charlotte Hanson ’22 said the moment Jihong Lee ’22, wearing a glimmering black outfit topped with a black beret, entered the Mills-Dennett 2 (MD2) common room on Wednesday night. Within MD2, Lee is a style icon. “She manages to find the perfect balance between elegant and cute,” Ruthie Laurence ’22, a member of the entry, said. “She always dresses very well,” Shreyas Rajesh ’22, also in MD2, said. “Just on Friday, for example, she looked like she had come from the Career Fair, but that was just how she dresses every day… It’s all very straight out of a magazine.” Despite her entrymates’ admiration, Lee is modest about her style. When I asked if I could profile her for the “Sartorial Observer” column, she asked, sincerely, “Me? Really?”
Lee describes her style as “eclectic.” “I just wear whatever I want whenever I want,” she said. She often wears skirts and, of course, berets. For our interview, she looked as chic as ever in an oversized blazer, t-shirt, bird-printed skirt, socks and spotless white sneakers – all of which coordinated in a black-and-white color scheme. Others have noted Lee's willingness to experiment with multiple styles. “She has a really good eye for putting different pieces together that you wouldn’t think necessarily go together, but she makes it work,” Laurence said. “I’m sure that other people wear the kinds of things I wear,” Lee said, “but I don’t think I look at other people and try to wear what they wear.” For Lee, dressing well is in part a way to improve her mood. She finds that when she feels good about what she is wearing, she is “much more productive during the day.” “If I wear what I want, it’s like the feeling someone feels when they eat some-
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Jihong Lee ’22 looks chic as always with an eye for print and aesthetic.
thing they like,” Lee said. “It’s stress-relieving, in a way. I feel like my wardrobe is one thing I always think about, and when I’ve got that the way I like it, then I don’t have to worry over it, and I feel happy in that sense... I feel good the entire day.” Entering her room is like a stepping into a Pinterest board. Nothing is out of place. On her windowsill rest one plant and three succulents, one of which sits in a tiny zebra-shaped pot. Her shirts and pants are crisply folded and thoughtfully organized. She has arranged the clothes hanging up in her closet by color: pink, red, yellow, green, blue, navy, purple, black, gray, white and brown, from left to right. Her favorite article of clothing, however – a sweater her grandmother knit for her with her name embroidered on the inside – is at home. She left it behind, concerned that it would get ruined in the laundry. Home for Lee is Busan, South Korea, although she lived in Karachi, Pakistan, from the ages of six to 12. “I feel like people just wear what they want here,” she said. “But in Korea, I feel like when you’re stepping out of the house, you need to look somewhat presentable… Although, funnily enough, I stepped out of my house in pajamas when I was in Korea, and here I dress up.” Her interest in fashion began early. “I remember when I was in preschool, my mom used to dress me for school, and I’d be like, ‘No! This is not what I want to wear,’” she said. She would change about five times before going to school. “My mom hid my clothes once because I kept trying to change.” The outfit changes didn’t cease with the beginning of the school day. “When I got home, I would be like, ‘I want to change into a dress!’” she said. But although Lee has long cared about the way she dresses, she occasionally deviates from her typical polished style and throws on sweatpants and a t-shirt. “Sometimes, I’ll just be like, ‘I don’t have the time for this,’” she said.
By REBECCA PARK CONTRIBUTING WRITER The 2018 midterm election season has begun in the U.S., and the results of the Nov. 6 general election could have a profound impact on the control of Congress for the next two years and beyond. With this in mind, organizations at the local, national and regional levels are racing to register as many people to vote before the Oct. 13 general election registration deadline as possible. With National Voter Registration Day having just passed on Tuesday and buzz around the elections growing, some College students who now have the ability to vote and participate in an election may be wondering about what impact their vote may have. Professor of Political Science Cheryl Shanks, however, views voting in elections not only as a way to affect real change in the community but also as an exercise of one’s right and responsibility to vote. “Voting is a power – not just a right – an actual exercise of power,” Shanks said. Though one vote may not have an influence on the outcome of the race, she said, being involved in these democratic processes is about taking charge of social responsibility and allowing for engagement in the community. Thus, being fully informed on the voting process for this upcoming election is critical for bringing to life the nation’s goals and commitments to democratic ideals. First, students will have to register beforehand. Students should also update their registration if their name, address or political affiliation has changed. According to federal law, college students are eligible to register to vote in either the states they go to college in or their home states. One advantage of registering in Massachusetts is that you can vote directly at Williamstown Elementary School without requesting an absentee ballot, which may increase students' likelihood of actually voting.
However, the outcome of tion process by keeping track the elections back home may of the complicated voting be more important, especial- rules for all 50 states as well ly if the race is predicted to as reminding students about be close. In deciding where upcoming deadlines and othto cast er logistical your vote, information Professor through text of Politiand email. cal Science Three million Jim Mapeople have hon advises already regisstudents tered to vote to register nationwide “wherever through the [they] think voting tools. they know Additionabout the ally, CC is issues and working with care about Professor the issues of Africana the most.” Studies Neil Cheryl Shanks There are Roberts to many ways Professor of Political Science address votto register ing access to vote and and exclugroups willsion, in part ing to faciliby bringing tate the process. For example, speakers to discuss voter the Center for Learning in suppression and alternative Action (CLiA) is frequently in forms of advocacy. They are Paresky during lunchtime for also pushing the adminisquestions about voting. Along tration to join NSLVE [The with this, a number of stu- National Study of Learning, dents active in politics table Voting and Engagement], every Friday in Paresky from a program out of Tufts that 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to tracks levels of voter turnout help students with voter reg- on many college campuses. istration and absentee voting. In regard to WilliamThese groups hope to stown’s community efforts, increase participation in the League of Women Voters democratic processes by has a webpage as well as a students, who are included table set up at the Williamin a demographic of dismal stown Farmers Market to envoter turnout, especially in courage locals and students midterm years. According to to register, and right across The New York Times, only the street from Greylock 18 percent of young people Quad is the town clerk’s ofvoted in 2014, although they fice, which can help facilitate make up 37 percent of the questions about voter regisoverall population. tration and absentee voting “People participating in any day of the week. democracy is important,” For more detailed inforJoey Fox ’21, one of the stu- mation on the voting redent organizers who regular- quirements of each state, ly table on Fridays, said. check out usa.gov/voting. College Council (CC) is The deadline to register to also seeking to increase voter vote is several weeks before registration and turnout in election day and varies by the midterm elections. A new state; in New York, Califorsoftware called TurboVote nia and Massachusetts (the has recently been launched three states constituting the at williams.turbovote.org to greatest share of undergradpromote the voter registra- uates at the College), the tion of students who reside deadlines to register are 25, in the United States. Turbo- 15 and 20 days before ElecVote simplifies the registra- tion Day, respectively.
“Voting is a power – not just a right – an actual exercise of power.”
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September 26, 2018
Noname’s Room 25 finds intersection between poetry and rap By PHILLIP PYLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER Over two years after her debut album, Noname finally released Room 25 on Sept. 14. Born as Fatimah Nyeema Warner, Noname is now 27 and has come a long way since her 2016 album Telefone. In Room 25, the Chicago-based artist explores the transformative experiences that brought her to where she is today. The album is an ingenious blending of hip-hop, neo soul, R&B and jazz instrumentals. Room 25 begins with “Self,” a song about self-reflection and questioning one’s existence and decisions. It’s an ode to all the times she’s doubted herself and her attempt to rise above criticism. This is evident when Noname says, “Y’all really thought a bitch couldn’t rap, huh?” The opening song begins an 11-song tapestry of the emotions and growth Noname has experienced. “Self” also gives listeners perhaps the best verse in rap of the year: “My pussy teachin’ ninth-grade English/ My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism.” Following suit, Noname explores what has been troubling her in recent months in “Blaxploitation” – for example, admitting to her own hypocrisy for eating Chick-Fil-A when she is supportive of the LGBTQ community. But perhaps what is plaguing Noname most is the current political climate; she attributes her lack of sleep to this: “I’m struggling to simmer down, maybe I’m an insomniablack/ Bad sleep triggered by bad government.” After “Blaxploitation,” Noname delves further into political dialogue
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Noname (AKA Fatimah Warner) gained a cult-like following after appearing as “Noname Gypsy” on early Chance the Rapper mixtapes. in “Prayer Song” (feat. Adam Ness) with a reference to the 2016 killing of Philando Castile: “I seen a cellphone on the dash, could’ve sworn it’s a gun/ I ain’t see a toddler in the back after firing seven shots.” In these two songs, Noname explores both police brutality and the problems brewing in Washington. In “Window” (feat. Phoelix) and “Don’t Forget About Me,” Noname pays homage to two artists who’ve influenced her: Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo. In “Window,” Noname references “Everything is Everything” by Hill when she raps, “Everything is everything, just know that I love you.” In fact, she alludes to the Hill classic three times in
Telefone and in multiple features. Noname connects her opinions on self-doubt with Hill and invokes the legendary rapper. In the song “Don’t Forget About Me,” Noname talks about her drinking problem and finds consolation in D’Angelo’s music: “Tell ’em Noname almost passed out drinking/ Secret is, she really think it saves lives/ Somebody hit D’Angelo, I think I need him on this one.” Her connection with D’Angelo is present in both the neo-soul nature of the song and their common struggle with alcohol. The song ends with Noname voicing her fear of disappearing; she understands the inevitability of death but wants to live on in spirit: “But if I have to go, I pray
my soul is still eternal/ And my momma don’t forget about me/ I pray my momma don’t forget about me/ I pray my daddy don’t forget about me.” After “Don’t Forget About Me,” Room 25 transitions into a more optimistic state in “Regal,” where she raps about finding hope and growth in her experiences. Throughout the course of the song, she repeats, “I swear I look so regal. I swear I look so regal.” Continuing down that path of happiness, “Montego Bae” (feat. Ravyn Lenae) contains elements of love and what it means to find love. Common collaborator and fellow Chicago-based artist Ravyn Lenae beautifully sings, “I wanna fall in love in Montego
Bay/ I know my heart is wherever he may stay.” Adding onto this idea of environment, Noname describes her ideal conditions for falling in love: “Smoking backwoods in the backwoods, living lavishly/ Ooh ooh that’s my Montego Bae.” The eighth song on the album, “Ace” (feat. Smino and Saba), is the intersection of three rising Chicago artists: Noname, Smino and Saba. Smino brings a smooth R&B flow to the track and sings with clever analogies, such as, “I’m roll on track, I’m in this field/ I’m shot, you put me in my feels.” Noname and Saba bring the track along with faster raps and assertions of the trio’s recent successes, “Smino
Grigi, Noname and Saba the best rappers,” sings Noname. “Room 25, the best album that’s coming out.” Saba adds onto this confidence with an allusion to his growing popularity when he raps: “I can’t recall the last time that my live show was intimate.” After this upbeat rap and R&B fusion track, Room 25 turns to a jazz-heavy “Part of Me” (feat. Phoelix). The song finds its base in self-actualization and the role of family in shaping self. Noname begins to close herself off from the world in “With You.” She sings, “This is my happy every suicide.” She then invites listeners to build on her story and the love she provided in the ending verses: “Little love from me, we can build this home alone, alone/ Forever with you, forever with you.” In a moment of utmost peace and contentment with her life, Noname ends Room 25 on the track “no name.” She raps to the power of her 25th year and how it saw a complete turn in her life: “Only worldly possession I have is life, only room that I died in was 25.” Despite this shift, she knows she must hold onto her past, for it shaped who she is now: “Through all the joy and all the pain/ Don’t forget from where you came/ The avenue remembers you/ Your song, your truth, your light is proof/ That love is still with you.” Room 25 ends with a piece of advice for Noname’s listeners. She now knows how sacred life is and doesn’t want people to take it for granted: “Your life, you life, is your life, baby/ Don’t let it pass you by, don’t let it pass you by.”
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Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman, the long-suffering wife of novelist Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce).
Glenn Close delivers Oscar-worthy performance in The Wife By CECELIA MESSBAUER STAFF WRITER The Wife is an intriguing film, although its immense quality makes it at points hard to watch. The performances are so real, and the reality they capture so unsettling, that there are times when you wonder how much you are actually enjoying it – until all the uncomfortable details build to a thunderously satisfying climax that, while not wrapping anything up neatly, provides a muchneeded emotional catharsis. The Wife, directed by Bjorn Runge, is based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer. The movie is above all else a vehicle for a powerhouse performance by six-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close as Joan Castleman. Joan, the titular wife of newly Nobel-Prize winning author Joe Castleman, played with complementary aplomb by Jonathan Pryce, spends the bulk of the film in Stockholm for a ceremony that unceasingly feeds her husband’s ego while treating her like a respectable decoration. The focus on award-ceremony parties, suffuse with high society and intellectual elites, quickly reveals itself as an excuse to expose the artifice present in the most painfully awkward moments of such staged celebrations. From strained introductions and stilted small talk to the banter that the men in the room think is much cleverer than it actually is, the film makes the
audience feel Joan’s exhaustion and frustration with the proceedings even before the unfolding drama makes it clear that there is more to her life and her husband’s career than the public assumes. Close shines in Joan’s public performances of contentment but really makes an impact in one-on-one scenes with her husband and son (played by Max Irons). Her son is an insecure aspiring writer who has a fraught relationship with his father. Joan lets down her guard some of the way but never makes it clear until the very end what she really feels. Her scenes with a hopeful Castleman biographer (Christian Slater) are also revealing. He suspects the whole story is not what it seems but is unable to get Joan to tell him what he wants to hear, leaving the audience wondering not just what the truth is, but what Joan wants the public to believe. Playing expertly off of Close’s eroding self-restraint is Pryce’s barely (if at all) restrained narcissism. In an environment where everyone is lining up to tell him how wonderful he is, Joe spends most of the film performing a faux-humility, in which his praise of his wife makes clear he sees her as a prop to his success as much as a person in her own right. This dynamic continues in their more candid private moments, where Joe’s affection, while definitely genuine, is weighed down by his expec-
tations for her to forgive his transgressions and put up with the imbalanced lives they live in public. No definite answers to the question of a sustained but fractured relationship are provided, and it is unclear until the end whether or not it is really unable to be salvaged. This drama is compounded by a chilling series of flashbacks detailing the meeting of Joan as a talented Smith College student with a knack for writing and Joe as a professor struggling to get his fiction career off the ground. There is clearly a genuine attraction between them that is complicated by Joe’s clear abuse of his power and insecurity over his craft. The slow build of revelations in both tracks of the narrative helps the audience understand where it all leads while still leaving them totally unprepared for the final culmination of Joan’s arc. It is that emotional climax, with Close delivering a powerful monologue, that might finally secure her an Academy Award, which elevates the film from good to great. Joan’s pent-up rage over the course of several decades is unleashed in a way that reveals just how much she had been suppressing, even in her seemingly most honest moments. While it does not lead to a simple resolution to the plot, witnessing an unfixable wrong given some measure of justice just by being spoken of and acknowledged provides the audience with a visceral satisfaction.
A weekly exploration of all the things Jonathan Van Ness (‘Queer Eye,’ ‘Gay of Thrones’) is curious about.
‘My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’ Karen and Georgia tell each other their favorite tales of murder and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans.
‘My Brother, My Brother and Me’
An advicecast for the modern era featuring three real-life brothers: Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy.
‘Lovett or Leave It’
Jon Lovett ’04, former presidential speechwriter and co-host of ‘Pod Save America,’ is joined by comedians, actors and journalists for a roundup of the week’s top news.
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September 26, 2018
Support the Girls brings gritty feminist comedy to the screen By NANDINI SEETHARAMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Support the Girls, directed by Andrew Bujalski, is a comedy about what happens when everything goes wrong. The main character, Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall), is the general manager of the highway-side sports bar Double Whammies. She is wellversed in her job and has even learned how to perfectly thrive inside the sweaty, objectifying atmosphere of a sports bar, where men come to watch both the TVs and the girls that serve them. The 90-minute film follows Lisa through a single-day enactment of Murphy’s law – “anything that can go wrong will go wrong” – from the TVs not working to a robber getting stuck in the air duct. It’s through these mishaps that the audience gets to see the extent of Lisa’s unfaltering optimism. She knows the ins and outs of this job, and she has a can-do attitude toward everything; no problem is too big for her to solve. While this makes Lisa admirable, it also makes her fragile. She is always overworked, and she is always placing the burden on herself. When one of her girls (Shaina, played by Jana Kramer) gets in trouble for hitting her abusive boyfriend with a car, she instantly holds an unsanctioned carwash fundraiser to raise money to help her girl out. This gets Lisa in trouble with her
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Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) steals the show as the general manager of Double Whammies, a sports bar that features skimpily dressed waitresses. boss, who takes her on a drive – only to chew her out until she breaks down. She ends up getting out of his car and asking her husband to drive her back to the restaurant, even after being technically fired. It is almost painful to watch her continue to come back to her ridiculous workplace, but it just shows how
attached she is to it. Although her marriage is falling apart, she finds home in managing Double Whammies with her maternal characteristics. With a title like Support the Girls, I expected to see a strong feminist message. Interestingly enough, even though the film takes place in a “sports bar with curves,”
there was still an underlying current of female solidarity. From the beginning, Lisa tells her new hires that she has a strict zero-tolerance policy when it comes to customers mistreating her girls, and she shows that she means it – for example, when someone calls a waitress fat, Lisa has absolutely no problem tell-
Philadelphia-based rapper Ivy Sole explores manifestations of love By LILY GOLDBERG CONTRIBUTING WRITER I haven’t taken my headphones off in days. By some divine coincidence, two of my favorite female rappers released their sophomore albums within four days of each other; Chicago based rapper Noname’s much-awaited album Room 25 dropped on Sept. 14, while Ivy Sole’s sophomore album Overgrown came out on Sept. 18. While Noname (born Fatimah Nyeema Warner) has received widespread attention and critical praise for both her debut album Telefone and her earlier work with Chance the Rapper, Sole has flown relatively under the radar as a rapper. Overgrown will change that. While Sole’s style ranges from dancehall to jazz rap, her Christian upbringing is an instantly recognizable and unifying influence in her music. In a recent Billboard interview, Sole credits the church she attended in Charlotte, N.C. as the place “where all of [her] vocal training came from,” and many tracks off of her first full-length album, Eden, nod to the Book of Genesis in particular. “Parables,” my favorite track off of Overgrown, is Sole’s attempt at addressing the intersection of this upbringing with her identity as a black queer woman. Nothing about the lines “comfort me with the holy book/ Probably closer to the fallen one/ Lucifer on my looseleaf/ But I know I ain’t the only one” feel
apologetic; while tracks on Eden expressed Sole’s discomfort with her identity, her lyrics on Overgrown now project a quiet confidence. Though mainstream artists like Frank Ocean have made small but important strides towards normalizing queerness in the rap industry, female-identifying artists, and especially femaleidentifying artists of color, face especially tough obstacles. As Sole has said, “Female rappers typically get to pick between two tropes: the over-sexualized vixen or the socially conscious lyricist.” These tropes are especially hard to navigate for queer rappers, as queerness is heavily fetishized in the male gaze and in the media. Rita Ora’s summer hit “Girls” is a good example of the fetishization of queerness; though rapper Cardi B (who is featured on “Girls”) raps lines like “I steal your bitch, have her down with the scissor/ Tonight, I don’t want a dog, I want a kitten,” she still defended her husband Offset for penning the line “I don’t vibe with queers,” claiming she did not know it was a slur. What makes Sole’s music so compelling is her refusal to be pigeonholed into either trope. Though Overgrown is saturated more with narratives of personal growth and healing than raps about social justice, the act of making music that confronts insecurity about identity is in and of itself political. The opening track, “Lovely Fiction,” is
filled with lines like “I wanna love the way mama and Ruby loved me/ Help them form their first sentences, survive the police” that weave Sole’s identity and sense of intimacy into a stirring and complete experience. And while Sole doesn’t shy away from her sexuality, she raps about it on her own terms. “Still Wasted,” a jazzy number that Sole calls the “queerest song on the album,” swaps explicit lesbian imagery for subtler lyrics like “curves might make you wanna pitch a little tent.” Sole is not performative here; instead, she invites us into the full scope of her emotional and sexual experience. That being said, Overgrown is not touchy-feely. The incredibly sexy “Rollercoaster,” the synthy “Backwoods,” the dancehall inspired “Taken” and the spoken word inspired “Overgrown” all feature the killer combination of rhythmic lyrics and catchy vocals that define Sole’s music. On the final track “Les Fleurs,” she offers her wishes for the listener: “I just hope you get the flowers you deserve/ I hope you tend your garden, and I hope you love the work/ I wish you well in healing, I pray you find your truth/ I pray you find yourself and in yourself, you find your youth.” Here, listening becomes an interactive experience, as Sole asks us to finish the meditative, self-reflective work she began for us on Overgrown; she is asking us to, as she states, “turn our intentions to now.”
ing the man off if it means that her girls can feel safer and happier. As a result, the waitresses treat her less like a boss and more like a friend. They also have her back, as demonstrated when Danielle (Shayna Mchayle) ruins the bar’s business after Lisa gets fired. In the end, she and Maci (Haley
Lu Richardson) follow Lisa to a new job at Mancave, a competing sports bar. It is an interesting turn of events to look at from an outside perspective. My first instinct as a woman was to think that sports bars like Double Whammies completely objectify and mistreat women for the sake of business. This film, however, demonstrates that true sisterhood can be found anywhere and is perhaps even stronger in settings in which they have to look out for each other. When given the opportunity to leave, they continue to work at another sports bar, not because they like the job necessarily, but because they like each other. Lisa can easily become a manager at Mancave, and Danielle and Maci are not going to let her do it alone. Support the Girls is, at its core, a character study. It explores the choices and emotions of an optimistic woman that gets hit by life a little too hard. By having the worst day possible, Lisa finally learns to sometimes put herself first. We still see her be a little too nice – she gives the money from the carwash back to Double Whammies, as it was unlawfully earned – but she is a changed woman. After getting hired by Mancave, Maci and Danielle scream to release their frustration, and Lisa decides to join them. She finally decides to let her own feelings be heard – a satisfying ending that this film deserves.
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Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship
to support post-‐‑graduate study at the University of Cambridge, UK
Current seniors may apply for one or two years of funding, with the possibility to renew for up to two years for those continuing to the PhD at Cambridge Five to ten awards to members of the Class of 2019
Donovan-‐‑Moody Fellowship
to support two years of post-‐‑graduate study at University of Oxford, UK One award to members of the Class of 2019 All seniors are eligible, all majors welcome. More information is available on the Office of Fellowships website. Application deadline: Monday, Oct 22, 2018
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Overgrown oscillates between Sole's Catholic upbringing in Charlotte, N.C. and the grit of Philadelphia.
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The Williams Record
September 26, 2018
Women’s field hockey defeats Bates, falls to Amherst
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Isabel Perry '20 scored in games against Amherst and Bates, helping the team maintain offensive pressure. By CAMERON BROWN and KIRSTIN MAPES CONTRIBUTING WRITERS This weekend, women’s field hockey (4-1, 3-1 in the NESCAC) fell to Amherst in a close game of 4-3 and beat Bates 4-2. On Sunday, the Ephs pushed past the Bobcats with two second half goals by Isabel Perry ’20 and Emma Ticknor ’20. The match got off to an action-packed start for the Eph defense as keeper Emma Santucci ’19 defended two shots
from Bobcat Emma Patterson and Grace Fitzgerald within the first six minutes. Bobcat senior Taylor Lough, however, took a ball off Fitzgerald's stick for a 5:53 goal, giving the Bobcats an early 1-0 lead. The Ephs offense pushed back with four penalty corners and three hard shots before Meredith Wright ’19 found the back of the goal at 12:41. The shot was assisted by Perry and Ticknor, tying the game at 1-1. The pressure shifted back and forth over the rest of the period. Taking the lead, the Ephs
added a goal by Libby Dolan ’19 at 17:01. However, the Bobcats did not back down and finally found a gap in the Eph defense to push a late goal by Bobcat forward Bridget Thompson who was assisted by Riley Burns and Emma Patterson at 31:22. The Ephs and Bobcats remained at a 2-2 stalemate heading into the half. At the half, Santucci had four saves and was replaced by Abby Lloyd ’20 for the second. The energy of the first half was not lacking at the beginning of the second half, as
Bates notched two quick shots by Fitzgerald and Lough in the first three minutes. Both were saved by Lloyd. The contest kept the pressure on, with both teams totaling 13 penalty corners in the half. But a 57:42 penalty corner by Kate Gregory ’22 ended in a nice shot by Perry for a 58:18 goal, pushing the Ephs ahead 3-2. The Ephs took the defensive advantage, keeping the Bobcats at bay and fronting strong offensively. Ticknor sealed the Eph lead with a 64:36 goal assisted by Wright to bring the Ephs to 4-2 with six minutes left in the match. The Bobcats had a chance to retaliate in the final minutes of the game with a late penalty corner at 69:14. A Bobcat goal into the corner was nullified for a foul due to "dangerous play," ending the match at 4-2. The Ephs totaled an impressive 17 penalty corners in the game. "We really capitalized on those [penalty corners], and we did a great job stepping up to the ball," head coach Alix Barrale ’93 said. "We bounced back hard and defensively we were able to stay composed when Bates pushed the pace of the game up... Gregory also really stepped up for us today and was a solid part of our defense. It was a battle from start to finish, and I'm glad
we didn't have to sit with our loss for too long." On Saturday, the Ephs had a good start but ultimately fell to the Mammoths 4-3. On the Ephs’ fourth penalty corner, the Mammoths fouled and gave the Ephs a penalty shot. Wright stepped up and slipped one over the glove of Amherst goalie Katie Savage for the first goal of the game at 25:01. Five minutes later, Siobhan Morrissey ’22 scored her first collegiate goal to double the Ephs' score to 2-0. The Mammoths picked up the pressure and cut the Ephs' lead in half after Franny Daniels connected with teammate Natalie Hobbs at 33:48, making the score 2-1. The Ephs led 2-1 going into the half. Lloyd took over in goal in the second half of the game for Williams. Santucci ended the first half with three saves. Lloyd would finish the day with eight saves. At the beginning of the second half, the Mammoths kept the pressure on the Ephs with several near shots on goal. At 46:58, the Mammoths tied the score off of Kendall Casey's shot from the top of the scoring circle. On the Mammoths' eighth penalty corner of the game, Casey put the Mammoths on top 3-2 with an assist coming from Shannon Tierney. The Mammoths had another opportunity
at 61:20, but a kick save by Lloyd cleared the danger for the Ephs. The Ephs pushed the offensive tempo and put some defensive pressure on the Mammoth goalie with shots from Wright at 63:38 and Emma London ’22 at 63:28. However, the Mammoths were able to keep the ball from entering the net. At 66:01, the Ephs called a timeout to regroup. Out of the timeout, Perry connected with Wright, who put the Ephs level with her second goal of the game, bringing the score to 3-3. The Mammoths answered back two minutes later with a goal from Schwartzman with the assist coming from Tierney. The Mammoths held onto their 4-3 lead, ultimately winning the game. "It's funny because we scored three goals, which is a good offensive game, but we lost the lead, and I think Amherst deserves the credit," Barrale said. “They beat us to a lot of balls and finished well. We were playing a little bit hectic, weren't making our regular passes, and they finished well and had some beautiful shots. However, we hung in there and made it exciting, but it wasn't our best showing.” The women will play Springfield today at 6 p.m. at Williamson Field.
Women’s soccer shuts out Bates, ties Amherst in double overtime By ALEXANDER CHRIST CONTRIBUTING WRITER Women’s soccer (5-0-1, 3-0-1 in the NESCAC) played two conference matches over the weekend, beating Bates 3-0 and tying Amherst in double overtime. On Sunday at Bates, Georgia Lord ’21 scored the game-winner at 3:55 after a failed clearance by the Bobcats, leaving the ball perfectly placed at the edge of the penalty box. Lord ran towards the ball and blistered a low laser past goalie Katherine Nuckols. It was Lord’s first goal this season. The goal was the only offense needed by the
Ephs, as their aggressive play ensured that Bates would have few opportunities to score. Bates’ only opportunity came late in the first half when Laura Jarry sent a cross to Sarah Dipillo, who shot a burner through the grass. But tri-captain goalie Olivia Barnhill ’19 dove to stop the threat. In the 69th minute, a beautiful corner kick from Ilana Albert ’21 sailed over the head of Nuckols and met the foot of tricaptain Sarah Hollinger ’19, who buried the ball in the middle of the net. Even with a 2-0 lead and only a few minutes left in the game, the Ephs continued to press. A
powerful run by forward Sydney Jones ’21 in the 85th minute nearly resulted in her seventh goal of the season, but her shot was blocked by a sliding defender. Seconds later, Dawn Penso ’19 dribbled down the left side in Bates' territory and sent a high looping pass towards the goal box. The pass went directly in the goal to give Penso her first goal of the season. The Ephs finished with an advantage in shots on goal (17-4) and corner kicks (3-1). Barnhill made three saves in her fourth shutout of the season. On Saturday, the Mammoths managed to halt the Ephs' five-game win streak
by lasting 110 minutes in a 0-0 draw. Both teams opened the contest with scoring opportunities. At 2:57, Amherst’s Natalie Landau fired a corner kick into the goal box. Her teammate Jordan Bailey headed the ball towards the net, but the ball sailed wide right. At 7:57, Hayley Roy of the Mammoths pounded a shot directly at Barnhill, who made the save comfortably. In the 20th minute, the Ephs had their best opportunity to score. Lord sent a corner kick into the goal box, where Victoria Laino ’21 scissorkicked it off the crossbar. The game then settled down considerably. Tight defense
prevailed against offense. Maria Chapman ’22 played a great game, often guarding the Mammoths' forward Rubii Tamen. Her speed and quickness prevented Tamen from breaking through and getting one-on-one with Barnhill. In overtime, both teams were betrayed by their legs. Although Amherst had several shots on goal, most landed on a hop to Barnhill, who handled them with ease. A desperation shot by Albert from 25 yards outside the penalty box was as close as the Ephs got to a golden goal. The clock eventually ran out, and the Ephs had to settle for a draw.
Barnhill had 11 saves in the draw, her most so far this season. The Ephs finished with an advantage in corner kicks (7-5) but were edged by Amherst in shots on goal (18-4). The Ephs were participating in “Play with Pride” week, in which college teams across the country wear rainbow laces in support of athletes and coaches of all sexual orientations. United Soccer Coaches, in conjunction with LGBTQ+ coaches and Allies Member Group, started the initiative in 2017. Next Saturday, the Ephs return to action at 12 p.m. against Connecticut College.
CAPTAINS’ CORNER: EMILY HARRIS '19 and began thinking about fitting it into my college experience. Running has been my main sport for most of my life. Why did you decide to attend the College?
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Team: Women's cross country Hometown: Manchester, N.H. Residence: Lambert House Major: Chemistry Snack bar order: Skyr What is your background in sports? I started running cross country in fifth grade. I ran on the USA Track and Field cross country team, and I was really bad at it to start. I came in second to last in one of our first races. I would run, and if I got tired, I would start to walk. I had a nice time, but I just didn’t do very well. I continued competing through middle school and high school. Then, I started to enjoy the competitive aspect of running more. I also started to do track in middle school and did the longer distance track races. In high school, I took running more seriously
It was in large part because of running. I was deciding between here and a pretty similar small liberal arts school. Their program was Division I, so I wouldn’t have been able to run there. As I was making a decision, it became pretty apparent to me that I wanted running to be a part of my life. I would be really sad to not have it. I wanted to compete on a team that really had competing well as one of their goals. That was important to me, and it was a big deciding factor. I also love this area. There are also the typical reasons of wanting to go here, like it being a small liberal arts institution with the focus on undergraduates. What goes through your head when running? I got really into long runs this summer. Something that is cool about those is that I either really don’t think or I reflect about something that is going on in my life for an hour and a half or two hours. It’s a cool period to reflect and not think about anything in particular. In races and workouts, I focus on where my teammates are in relationship to me. I try and run and compete with myself. I don’t do this all the time, but sometimes I write a word on my hand so when I look down in a race it reminds me of something. What I try to think about is running with a purpose. What that is changes from race to race. Sometimes it’s competing for your teammates or yourself. I would say I don’t really think about anything in particular.
Does the team have any fun traditions? We have an annual run at Mt. Greylock. We all start at the bottom together and run up. The first three miles are very steep, so we kind of separate out into smaller groups. You end up running with two or three people. It’s a really cool opportunity to surmount this really big thing with a couple other people. I’ve heard a lot about how shared adversity brings people together, so this is a cool opportunity for that. As you are finishing, the people who have already finished are lining the sides of the big monument, and so you run it and the people who have already finished are cheering you on. You go up, touch the monument and cheer on the other people who are still finishing. Coach Pete [Farwell ’73] brings up apple cider and cider donuts, and it’s a great time. Another team tradition is our goals meeting. We had it last week, so that is fresh in my mind. This year, we had a really nice conversation that many people contributed to. A lot of people’s goals centered around continuing to find the joy of running and making it the focus of the season. What’s your relationship with Farwell and co-captain Lindsay Klickstein ’19? I think it’s so unique to have a coach who isn’t focused on having you run at a certain pace during your run and run a certain number of miles. Having someone who is more focused on the joy of running and being in a beautiful place and getting to know people on a deep level as you run is so unique in a college coach. Lindsay and I have been running on the team together for four years. We really became good friends over the course of our sophomore year when we were training
together more. Unfortunately for me, she did the Williams Exeter Program at Oxford, so that was sad, since she was not here for the whole [junior] year. She left for Oxford in the end of September. However, she was present in the month of September, and it was really fun to continue to run with her for at least part of my junior year. She really loves the team, so she came to a lot of the races over the course of the fall when she could. We are living together in Lambert this year. Before races, we usually have snacks; somebody usually bakes something and we hang out the night before a race. We've hosted a couple of those. What is your favorite memory with the team? This is definitely one of my favorite memories. It was last year towards the end of the season. There weren’t a ton of people practicing. We did this workout on the golf course after daylight savings time. It was getting dark really early, so we were on the golf course together in the dark. It was at a point in the season when everyone was feeling really fast and strong. So, it was fun to do that. We did part of the workout on the golf course and the other part on the track under the lights. It was cool to be all together and feel really strong. I also love the late fall weather and all of our runs at that time of the year. How have you developed as a runner over the past four years? When I came in my freshman year, I hadn’t been able to run for the entire month of August because I sprained my ankle many times. That wasn’t great because for cross country, summer training is kind of important. I had kind of a slow start. I was running to be running and
didn’t think I was too much in a position to be competitive. I worked my way up through the season, but the focus of that season was to just be out there. Over the last three years, during the summer and the season, I’ve worked my way up a little each season, which has been really cool. Last year, I was part of the crew that got to go to Nationals for the first time, and that was exciting to be competing with my teammates at that level. I wouldn’t have been able to do that at a Division I school. That had been a big goal for me coming into Williams. This summer I had a really solid training. I think I am probably in the best shape I have ever been in, which has been pretty exciting. What's the team dynamic like this season? It’s pretty close this year. We all enjoy running together obviously, but people are finding a lot of ways to be together outside of running, which is pretty cool. That is something that hasn’t been the case in past years as much as it has been this year in my opinion. Being friends with people outside of running and taking interest in their lives contributes a lot to the team dynamic. You trust people both on and off the course. Do you feel pressured to lead the team? Any pressure that I feel is selfimposed. Something that Lindsay and I noticed is that people have stepped up to leadership roles without Lindsay and I doing anything. A lot of younger girls on the team have taken on leadership roles and feel comfortable taking on those roles. That is something Lindsay and I really appreciated. In general, it makes it a more collaborative atmosphere. Lindsay is [also] really good at connecting with people and makes that
one of her priorities, which I think has contributed a lot to our team dynamic. How do you connect with different running groups, since not everyone runs at the same speed? One way we try to do that is through team snacks and goals meetings. Those are a couple of times when we sit down and focus on getting to chat with everyone. We have been incorporating more doubles this year. Once a week, the coaches would recommend running in the morning and running in the afternoon, so that is good opportunity. The morning run is pretty chill and is just for the sake of getting out and getting your legs moving. That has been and will continue to be a chance to get to run with people who you don’t run with normally. We all also go to dinner after practice. That is a nice time to debrief and get to know more about people. Just by the nature of this sport, if you end up running with people who are around your pace, it’s easier to develop a friendship because of the time you have spent running together. On a team with so much breadth, that is something we have to be very deliberate about. What is the relationship between the women's and men’s team like? We do quite a bit of stuff together. We are basically one team. The men and the women will almost always do the same workout. The men definitely will do it a little faster, but they are not doing more, which is cool. From time to time, people from different teams will run together, but that is not the norm. Sometimes we have coed snacks. We also have team tshirts that we make every year. This year, the men and women have the same t-shirt to foster a one-team mindset.
September 26, 2018
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The Williams Record
Men’s rugby gives warm welcome to new head coaches By NICK SOMMER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
England Rubgby Football Union (NERFU) and beyond. “I would love to grow this club into something that [the College] can stand behind and be proud of,” Willey said. 85 percent of the current WRFC athletes never touched a rugby ball before coming to the College, and Willey’s ability to grow and promote an organization will be invaluable over the next few seasons as the club looks to grow beyond the 40 student-athletes it currently draws to the pitch every semester. So far, Willey has been blending in well with the team and bringing them to new heights. “Leaning off the help of a particularly skilled and knowledgeable senior class, Willey has helped continue the success of WRFC through the introduction of new drills and an emphasis on mastering fundamentals,” Jason Mazique ’21 said. “This has been demonstrated through a 52-0 win over Union College that was predominantly led by underclassmen early in the season. Willey has already [shown] through his commitment and involvement that he is more than ready to step up to the job.” While Willey handles the forwards, Reisler will share his wisdom and talents with the backs. For the last seven seasons, Reisler has proven to be an invaluable member of the WRFC, serving as the club’s primary backs coach. This year, Reisler will take on an expanded role with the team. “While I did not feel
The Williams Rugby Football Club (WRFC) hired new head coaches for the 20182019 school year: Matt Willey and Tim Reisler. They graciously accepted the club’s invitation to take over the leadership and work jointly as co-head coaches to replace outgoing coach Jeremiah “Jerm” Madison. Together, Willey and Reisler possess over 35 years of rugby playing and coaching experience. Willey joined the team from the Bennington “Battle” Rugby Football Club, a men’s team he founded with Madison 11 years ago. Although his playing days were cut short due to injuries, Willey is a certified rugby referee who brings a detailed knowledge of the laws of the game and various playing strategies. A true rugger at heart, he said, “I joined this club because I love this sport so much and always dreamed of my two girls growing up around this sport.” Willey is a businessman by trade, opening his third Ramunto’s Brick Oven Pizza franchise in Williamstown earlier this summer. As a forward's specialist with 16 years of overseas playing experience, Willey’s primary responsibilities are to coach the WRFC’s scrum and manage the club’s professional relationships with other teams and organizations on campus, within the New
comfortable to coach the team on my own, working with Matt Willey will be a lot of fun, and we can fill in the gaps that exist,” Reisler said. As a facilities staffer at the College and long-time Williamstown resident, Reisler is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the College on an operational and financial level. Not only will this benefit the team as the club looks to expand and modernize its roster and equipment collection, but it will also allow team leadership to seek Reisler out on a more frequent basis when issues arise off the field. “My favorite part of coaching the team is being involved in the sport, but more importantly, building relationships with the [players],” Resiler said. “In my job in Facilities, I have had minimal interactions with students over the years, and coaching this team has given me that opportunity.” Although he has taken great strides to build up the club’s back-line over the last few years, Reisler is looking forward to taking the line to the next level as he prepares to lead what promises to be one of the club’s most skilled backs groups in recent memory. “Having made the playoffs last year for the first time in 20 years, I’m excited about how far we can and will go this year. I fully believe we have the skills to win our division and win a championship.” Reisler is also looking forward to leading the team to an impressive eighth consecutive win against Amherst.
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Tim Reisler (right) takes on an expanded role in the Williams Rugby Football Club as head coach. Like Willey, Reisler is a longtime member of the Bennington Battle RFC and has played all seven backs positions, specializing in fullback and flyhalf. Ever light on his feet, he, who is known affectionately by the team as “The Grey Squirrel,” excels at kicking and has also been known to leave many WRFC ruggers’ ankles quaking in dust. Willey and Reisler provide the team with an immense wealth of knowledge about the game. The athletes believe the coaches work together well and allow for them to have a voice
on the team. “Our coaches have been great at taking the reigns of the team and, with their mix of quiet and vocal leadership, Tim and Willey, respectively, have been pushing us towards winning playoffs, something that hasn't occurred in a few decades,” Jason Adulley ’19 said. “They've been phenomenal at allowing the players to take more ownership in the team.” While succeeding the beloved Madison will not be easy, Willey and Reisler are up for the challenge and will work diligently with the athletes to
take the club to new heights. The ruggers are looking forward to this year and think it will be one of their best seasons yet. “The rugby club is lucky to have the knowledge and experience of Matt and Tim to help us develop and excel both on and off the pitch,” Seth Goldstein ’19 said. “Combining Tim’s previous time with the WRFC, and Matt’s extensive rugby acumen, the two have come together to form a very formidable coaching team. We are certainly very excited to see how this season develops.”
Men’s soccer edges Amherst with last-minute save, falls to Bates
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Chris Fleischer ’19 scored the final goal against Amherst, leading the men to a 2-1 victory. from Eric Hirsch ’19 was blocked. This defensive energy turned into offense for Bates, and their attack was spearheaded by forward Charlie Cronin’s persistent runs up the pitch, which bent the Williams defense out of shape. In the 32nd minute, Cronin picked up the ball on the left wing and hit a ground-bound ball towards the net that was only just saved by Schein. In the 38th minute, Cronin was inches away from easily scoring off a pass from midfielder Jordan Cannon, but Cannon’s pass missed Cronin’s foot.
By MANDELA NAMASTE STAFF WRITER Men’s soccer (3-1-1, 2-1-1 in the NESCAC) dropped a match to Bates 2-0 but edged Amherst 2-1 with a last-minute penalty kick save by goalkeeper Aaron Schein ’19. On Sunday, the Ephs started out aggressively against the Bobcats, creating multiple chances in the first half. In the 30th minute, Bobcat goalie Robbie Montanaro leaped to his left to stop a screamer from Nick Boardman ’22, and a 38th minute chance
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Following halftime, the Bobcats attacked early and often, and drew first blood in the 56th minute when midfielder Peder Bakken passed a ball that was deflected by Schein onto Eric Opuku, who poked it home to give Bates a 1-0 lead. Two minutes later, the same tandem worked again. Bakken hit the post off of a free kick, and the ball bounced right to Opuku, who merely stuck his foot out and redirected the ball into the net to double the Bobcats’ lead. The Ephs had several chances throughout the re-
mainder of the half – notably a frozen rope from Chris Fleischer ’20, but Montanaro and his defense played a tremendous match, displaying terrific awareness and cohesion to record the shutout. Schein recorded four saves, while Montanaro made nine saves, recording his fourth clean sheet of the season. “[It was a] disappointing performance today and a definite learning experience for us. We simply need to compete smarter to neutralize other teams' strengths, earn more possessions and create more chances,” head coach Erin Sullivan said of the match. On Saturday, the men outlasted archrival Amherst 2-1 in an away match. Forward Demian Gass ’20 ripped two shots within the first 15 minutes of the match, to no avail. However, those chances were the result of constant workmanlike play from the Eph backline and midfield. While the men were able to create several legitimate opportunities, they were tested by their archrivals, especially in the first half. Using the highrisk, high-reward “flip throw” on each and every throw-in, Amherst put the ball in highly advantageous positions near the net numerous times. Despite myriad opportunities in this manner, the Mammoths were unable to convert any of those chances. Mammoth forward Jimmy McMillian sprinted past the
Eph defense on multiple occasions, and forward Sebastian Derby happened upon the ball in Williams' territory at several pivotal moments but failed to put the Mammoths on the scoreboard thanks to headsup play from Eph defenders like co-captain Scatt MacDonald ’19 and Liam Bardong ’20. Both teams entered the 15-minute halftime hoping for the ball to make it past the net. Both teams picked up in the second half right where they left off in the first. In the 51st minute, Derby got the ball at the top of the box with only Schein to beat but flipped it just right of the goal, depriving the Mammoths of the first score of the match. From there, the momentum started to shift toward the Ephs. The Ephs blocked four Mammoth shots in the next 10 minutes and ratcheted up its defensive pressure, turning it into offensive firepower. This gradual buildup culminated in the 58th minute, when midfielder co-captain Greg Andreou ’19 got the ball off a free kick and punched it home to put the Ephs on top. The Williams lead was doubled 15 minutes later when Fleischer attempted a cross that instead snuck past Mammoth goalie Michael Stone and into the net, giving Williams a 2-0 lead with time quickly running out. Amherst would not go quietly, though; in the 86th minute, midfielder Dane Lind got
to a ball just outside of the box, did a step-over move and crossed it to Derby, who was positioned right in front of the net. He poked it home to cut the Ephs' lead to one goal. A minute later, Amherst defender Sean Fitzgerald headed a ball towards the goal that was only just saved by Schein, and the Mammoths started to play aggressively, even bringing Stone outside the net to the outfield. This approach paid off when an Eph committed a foul in the box in the 89th minute, setting the stage for a climactic penalty kick from defender Cutler Coleman. He struck the ball, but unfortunately for Amherst, Schein guessed correctly, grabbing it and effectively sealing a Williams victory. Schein has denied a penalty kick twice this season. Both goalies recorded six saves on the day. After the match, Sullivan praised his squad’s tenacious effort. “We carved out a gritty road win today led by our seniors,” he said. “I’m proud of our entire team for the way [we] prepared for this game, competed throughout and stuck together through some rough patches at the end. These are the types of games players live for, and so many players rose to the occasion, particularly late in the match.” Men’s soccer will match up against Conneticut College at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK “Aaron has been a huge part of our early season success. Aside from being a steady presence in the back, he's made some spectacular saves when matches have hung in the balance. I'm proud of Aaron's focus, work ethic, and leadership day-in and dayout this season. These intangibles have been hallmarks of the entire senior class, which is a very promising sign.”
“Cori played exceptional golf this weekend. Her 5-under par, 67, is one of the lowest rounds ever in Div. III golf... The determination and effort we see from her each week is resulting in very good scores. She has played well at the Orchards before. Her score could have been even lower, and I know she's excited to do as well as she can for the team the next couple of weeks.”
– Head coach Erin Sullivan
– Head coach Tomas Adalsteinsson
AARON SCHEIN '19
CORDELIA CHAN '19
MEN'S SOCCER NEW YORK, N.Y.
WOMEN'S GOLF WINDSOR, ONTARIO
Schein made a crucial save after a penalty kick to keep the team in the lead, resulting in a win against Amherst.
Chan had a record-breaking low round last Sunday in the Mt. Holyoke Invitational, leading to a first place individual finish.
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The Williams Record
September 26, 2018
Football controls ground game, beats Colby at home By JOE LAROCCA CONTRIBUTING WRITER A momentum-changing special teams play, a recordtying four rushing touchdowns from quarterback Bobby Maimaron ’21 and a career-best performance from running back TJ Dozier ’21 sparked football’s (2-0, 2-0 in the NESCAC) 36-14 win over Colby in its home opener. The game’s only turnover came on a play in which Colby punt returner Alex Sands fumbled the punt, which was then recovered by defensive back Christian Dumons ’19. Two plays later, Maimaron kept the ball on a readoption play and ran into the end zone for a touchdown, giving Williams a 6-0 lead it wouldn’t relinquish. Despite this, the Eph offense didn’t jump off to a great start, as Maimaron completed just three of his first 11 passes and the Mules defensive line generated consistent pressure up the middle. But the turnover towards the beginning of the second quarter gave Williams’ offense plenty of momentum, as it scored 15 points on its last three drives of the half.
Towards the end of the first half, with Williams holding a 9-0 lead in what was still a close game, Maimaron orchestrated a two-minute, 80yard drive that culminated in another touchdown run by the quarterback. Maimaron wasn’t dominant through the air (8-for-18, 110 yards); instead, he did most of his damage on the ground, tying his own collegiate record with four rushing touchdowns. The Ephs started the third quarter with two quick touchdown drives, highlighted by an improved passing attack and multiple chunk plays by running back Dozier. By the end of the third quarter, Williams had already taken an insurmountable 36-0 lead. In the fourth, Colby finally got on the board with two touchdowns to cut the deficit to 36-14, but the Williams offense was able to run out the clock on its next drive to improve to 2-0. The Ephs’ defense was extremely stout, limiting Mule quarterback Jack O’Brien to a 1-for-8 passing day for just three yards, which in turn led to quarterback Matt Hersch taking over towards the end of the second quarter. Af-
ter holding Colby to seven straight punts in the first half, the Ephs didn’t allow a single point until the fourth quarter for a second straight week. Dozier, one week after piling up a career-high 128 rushing yards, broke his own record with 160 yards on just 19 carries. Averaging an impressive 8.4 yards per carry, Dozier consistently broke tackles and juked defenders, gaining 15 yards or more on five different rushes. But his most impressive play on the game came on a bulldozing nine-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, in which he took two defenders with him and lunged for the goal line to break the plane. The score put Williams up 29-0. Dozier reflected on the all-around team effort. “The chemistry we had between the running back, quarterback, the offensive line … it was perfect,” he said, while making sure to emphasize the standout performances of his teammates after the game. “I can’t take all the credit because the offensive line did an amazing job today.” Despite the final score, there were still many areas of improvement for the Ephs.
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Bobby Maimaron ’21 tied his own single-game rushing touchdown record, with four on Saturday. Williams converted just two of 11 third-down opportunities and committed nine penalties for 62 yards, compared to just three for 32 yards for Colby. “I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, trying to do too much early, rather than just
execute, and we made some critical errors,” head coach Mark Raymond said of his team’s first-half performance. But Raymond was nonetheless thrilled with the Ephs’ strong start to the season. “We’re always happy to be
2-0. Wins are hard to come by, and you cherish every single one of them,” he said. Next Saturday at 1:30 p.m., the Ephs will host Trinity in what should be an exciting matchup between two undefeated teams.
Men’s and women’s cross country place second in Purple Valley Classic By LIAM ALBRITTAIN, ZEKE COHEN, JULIA GUNTHER and ELIZABETH BIGHAM TEAM CORRESPONDENTS Last Saturday, women’s and men’s cross country placed second at the Purple Valley Classic. 13 teams travelled from as far as Ohio to compete in the annual invitational. The athletes ran through mud and over hills on the Mt. Greylock Regional High School course, which is beautiful as well as challenging. In the women's 6k, MIT took first place, with a score of 67 and two individuals placing in the top five. The Ephs took second with a score of 81, while Tufts took third with a score of 114. The overall top finisher was Tufts senior Natalie Bettez, who ran a time of 22:06. Emma Herrmann ’20 placed first for the Ephs in seventh,
with a time of 23:08. She was closely followed by co-captain Emily Harris ’19, who took eighth in 23:12, and Audrey Rustad ’20, who took 13th in 23:19. “When our three girls got together like that after the beginning and worked together, that's the pack we want,” head coach Pete Farwell '73 said. Next, Sarah Tully ’21 ran a strong race for 25th with a time of 23:43. Erica Barrett ’21 and Jaylan FraserMines ’21 finished close behind with times of 23:48 and 23:57 for 28th and 32nd, respectively. Shortly thereafter, Brianna Bourne ’21 rounded out the Ephs' top seven in 24:14 for 42nd overall. Caroline Galo ’21 (24:37), co-captain Lindsay Klickstein ’19 (24:51), Janelle Gowgiel ’20 (24:53) and Hannah Lebowitz ’20 (25:52) rounded out the 6k field for the Ephs. Overall, Farwell was very
pleased, saying that "to come in second at this meet is really good. We've been working hard, and people still found their legs on a tough course." Earlier in the day, some of the Eph women raced in the 5k. The first-years showed their strength, winning the 5k and taking three of the top five places. "We have a really neat group of first-years," Farwell said. Grace Dailey ’22 won the race in an excellent time of 20:04. Close behind her were Lilly Wells ’22 and Abby Scott ’22, who took third and fourth, with times of 20:16 and 20:32, respectively. Sarah Jane O'Connor ’22, Lauren Fossel ’22 and Adrienne Banks ’21 worked together well to finish 11th, 12th and 17th, with times of 21:20, 21:22 and 21:34, respectively. Next came Emma Tapscott ’22 in 21:59 and Wyndom Chace
Games this week Wednesday Sept. 26 Men's soccer vs. RPI
Women's cross country, Saratoga Invite Away, 10:45 a.m.
Cole Field, 4:30 p.m.
Men's cross country, Saratoga Invite
Field hockey vs. Amherst
Away, 12 p.m.
Away, 11 a.m.
Friday Sept. 28 Women's tennis, ITA Tournament (Sept. 28 to 30) Away Men's tennis, ITA Tournament (Sept. 28 to 30) Away Volleyball vs. Bowdoin Chandler Gymnasium, 7 p.m.
Saturday Sept. 29
Women's golf, Fall Classic (Sept. 29 to 30) Taconic Golf Club, 1 p.m. Men's golf, NESCAC Fall Qualifiers
Men's soccer vs. Connecticut College Away, 2:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. Tufts Chandler Gymnasium, 7 p.m.
Sunday Sept. 30 Women's soccer vs. Castleton Away, 1 p.m.
Away, all day
Tuesday
Field hockey vs. Connecticut College
Oct. 2
Away, 12 p.m.
Field hockey vs. Skidmore Away, 4 p.m.
Women's soccer vs. Connecticut College
Men's soccer vs. Skidmore
Away, 12 p.m.
Away, 7 p.m.
Football vs. Trinity Farley-Lamb Field, 1:30 p.m.
Volleyball vs. New Paltz Chandler Gymnasium, 7 p.m.
’21 in 22:23. Julia Gunther ’20 (22:46), Tori Saltz ’22 (22:54), Avivah Malin ’22 (23:19) and Elizabeth Bigham ’21 (23:21) rounded out the field in the 5k. No. 17 men's cross country faced off against No. 3 Amherst, No. 6 RPI, No. 7 MIT and No. 8 Middlebury. In cool, windy conditions, the Ephs finished second overall with 72 points. RPI won the meet with 41 points, while Middlebury was third with 103. The day started with the men's 5k, in which all of Williams' firstyears and some upperclassmen competed. Elias Lindgren '22 ran a strong, confident race, winning in a sprint finish in 16:29.7. Jack Wallace '22 finished fifth in 16:42.1 while Jett Ballantyne '22 was sixth in 16:58.2. Williams ended up edging out WPI 30-30, winning due to the strength of the Ephs’ sixth runner.
The men's 8k featured the best individuals and teams in the region. Aidan Ryan '21 and Ryan Cox '20 ran confidently in the top pack, feeling out the pace in the early stages of the race. As RPI's top man gained separation and the pack thinned, both Ephs hung tough. Cox held it together for a fourth-place finish in 25:56.3 while Ryan kicked hard to outrun an Amherst athlete, finishing sixth in 26:04.1. Behind those two Ephs, a trio of Williams juniors rounded out the top five. William McGovern '20 had a strong kick and placed 15th in 26:29.4 – 47 places higher than his finish a year ago. Samuel Wischnewsky '20 finished in 19th in 26:33.8. In his last race before going abroad, Kenneth Marshall '20 finished 29th in a time of 26:43.0. Rounding out the top seven for the Ephs were Chris Avila '21,
who ran 26:58.6 for 36th and Kevin LaFleche '20, who ran 27:06.8 for 45th. Farwell was excited about how well his team performed. “We really got things going from an individual and team standpoint in the 5k," he said. "I was very impressed with how well [Lindgren] raced, and his poise and ability to hold off a WPI athlete coming up on him in the last couple steps. WPI came ready to race, and our firstyears did very well to pull out the win. In the 8k, I was ecstatic watching our juniors show their strength. We did very, very well to get second, and our guys beat some good athletes and teams. We had good, strong races and did a great job executing.” The Ephs will return to competition on Saturday at the Saratoga Invitational, hosted by RPI.
Men’s golf hosts, dominates Williams Fall Invitational By REBECCA KUO CONTRIBUTING WRITER Last weekend, men’s golf won the Williams Fall Invitational with a total of 588, beating 20 universities. On a windy Saturday at the Taconic Golf Club, the Ephs turned in a strong first round performance to take a sevenshot lead at their home event. Co-captain Sam Goldenring ’20 and Beau David ’21 led the charge for the Ephs on what was a tough day all around, as evidenced by the relatively high scoring. Goldenring shot a 2-under 69 to lead the individual event. David turned in a 1-over 72, trailing Goldenring by three shots and tying for second on the day. David Brewer ’22 continued his strong play from last weekend's team victory at Middlebury with a 76, another key piece to the Ephs' day-one lead. Despite some consistently strong plays, Ben Beiers ’20 endured occasional stumbles throughout the day and eventually turned in a 79. Co-captain Jake Foehl ’19 shot 80. Everyone was in the top 50 for individuals. Tucker van Eck ’21 and John Menton ’22 represented the team as individuals. Despite losing a ball on his first hole that appeared to be in clear sight and playable, Van Eck held it together to finish his day with 83. Menton struggled all day, shooting 90. The Ephs led the team event after Saturday with a day-one total of 296 (+12), joined by second place Babson at 303 (+19), third place Tufts at 304 (+20) and fourth place Husson at 305 (+21). The Williams "B" team sat at 14th with a day-one total of 326 (+42), looking to make a move into the top ten.
“[It] was a rough day, but we fought hard, and we [went] into Sunday confident and with the lead,” Van Eck said after the round. On Sunday, the Ephs ran riot to defend their home course. Goldenring put in another excellent performance with an even-par 71 and was backed up by another 71 from Foehl. The pair have spent many years on Taconic as legacies of the College. Foehl and Goldenring's 71s were joined by another round from David, a 3-over 74. David continued to build on some strong ball striking en route to a relatively stress-free round that looked solid throughout. Despite a tough four-hole stretch when he played 6-over, Brewer battled all day and played the rest of his round in 1-under on his way to an eventual 76 (+5). After his first four rounds as an Eph, Brewer continues to justify head coach Josh Hillman's faith in him and his decision to put the first-year straight into the lineup. Beiers also managed a decent round of 79, but his score was dropped on the back of strong play from the team as a whole. The team's 292 Sunday total was a four-stroke improvement from day one. The final team score of 588 (+20) sealed a whopping 17-stroke victory over second-place Husson at 605 (+37). Goldenring's score of 2-under 140 was the only underpar score in the field and sealed Goldenring's second straight individual victory by a comfortable five shots. This was also Goldenring's second Williams Invitational victory. Already, Goldenring appears an early contender for NESCAC Player of the Year and shows no sign of slowing
down as he looks to lead the Ephs to more victories in the near future. As for the Williams "B" Team, DeLano was the story of the day as he turned in a great round of 73 (+2) to lead the "B" Team in its charge up the leaderboard. DeLano's 73 was aided by another pair of strong performances from VanBelle and Wyatt Khosrowshahi '21, who finished with 76 and 77, respectively. Beischer added an 81 along with an 82 from William Conyers '21 to round out the scoring. The "B" team's solid Sunday play culminating with a 307 aggregate brought them into a 10th place finish at 633 (+67), their goal heading into the day. “The whole team played well and battled hard this weekend," Hillman said. "Saturday was a very tough day, so it was important we stayed patient and did our job. [Sunday], they went out and played great, smart golf and capitalized when they could. Goldenring continued to play really solid golf, picking up his second individual win in just two starts. Once again I was impressed with how mature the guys were out there. When we got some bad breaks, we rolled with it, and when we were making good shots and getting good breaks, we remained calm and didn't get too jacked up. It was fun to watch.” This win marks the second straight victory for the Ephs as well as Goldenring's second consecutive individual win.The men are back in action at NESCAC Fall Qualifiers this weekend at Wesleyan on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, the seven players not heading to Wesleyan will play a match against Amherst on Saturday.