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Gospel Choir protests anthem on Mountain Day

By TARAN DUGAL OPINIONS EDITOR On Friday, Gospel Choir used its Mountain Day performance of “The Star Spangled Banner” to draw attention to racial injustices in America and at the College.

Huddled together at the top of Stone Hill, the Gospel Choir performed the full three verses of “The Star Spangled Banner.” After the completion of the first two verses, which constitute the U.S. national anthem, they continued on to the lesser-known third verse, which celebrates the killing of slaves fighting with the British for their freedom. As the group began to sing the third verse of the song, they collectively knelt, with one member raising his fist into the air. The gesture was one of many anthem protests that have been occurring across the nation, emblematic of those kneeling in the National Football League (NFL).

“Our intention was to take our position as one of the more diverse student-run groups on campus to make a statement about what affects us,” Alex Medeiros ’20, a member of the Gospel Choir, said. “People traditionally expect praise and glory from us; however, we wanted to use our platform to make an important statement.”

After the group’s defiant performance, Dani D'Oliveira ’19 stood up and delivered a powerful speech, written by Naomi Francois ’18, Sean Ninsing ’19 and herself. The speech touched

on the symbolism behind anthem protests, which NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick originally championed in order to protest police brutality against black bodies in the United States.

“The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is a gospel of justice and equity,” D’Oliveira said in her speech. “We, the Gospel Choir, are dedicated to celebrating that good news. So, we bring this conversation to Williams College in an attempt to venerate the forgotten voices of marginalized students and staff on this campus. We highlight the low number of POC [people of color] faculty and staff, the use of certain student groups to promote a facade of diversity, as well as how inaccessible this campus is to the physically disabled. We kneel to put respect on the names and lives of the students who have been silenced in social spaces as well as the classroom, and who have been forgotten amidst celebrations like today.”

Recently, the debate against kneeling during the national anthem as a form of protest garnered additional attention when President Donald Trump proclaimed that the NFL ought to suspend players who protested during the anthem. Medeiros, amongst many others, saw this statement as an attempt to limit freedom of expression and silence the voices of oppressed minorities who were rallying against the institutional injustice that is prevalent in

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Gospel Choir members performed ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ on Mountain Day, kneeling to draw attention to issues of social justice. many aspects of American society. D’Oliveira’s speech touched on many of the same themes, including the “mass killings” of black bodies.

“The Gospel Choir had a conversation about what it

College constructs culvert

By SAMUEL WOLF STAFF WRITER Throughout the 2017-2018 academic year, the College will undertake two major construction projects at the base of Spring Street: a new culvert (drainage tunnel) to protect Williamstown and the College from flooding and a new Williams Inn. The Williams Inn project, which will necessitate the removal and relocation of the current Lickety Split building, is projected to be completed by May 2019. The culvert project does not have a definitive end date but is estimated to take approximately one year, and is an immediate priority for the College.

Jim Kolesar ’72, assistant to the president for community and government affairs, explained that the culvert has become increasingly necessary for drainage in that area of the town. “There’s a very large part of town in which every drop of rain that falls and every flake of snow that melts eventually flows, via Christmas Brook, into a culvert that begins just across Latham Street from Tunnel City,” Kolesar said.

“In major storms that culvert overflows, sometimes dra-

matically filling the middle of town. Over time those storms have occurred more frequently, and there’s every reason to believe that they’ll become more frequent.”

The current culvert was not designed to meet current need. “The current culvert was laid so long ago that there's no record of exactly when (though more than half a century) or by whom,” Kolesar said. “It's safe to say, though, that back then much less was known about stormwater management and no one could have imagined the global warming effects we're now experiencing.”

According to Moran, the current culvert is undersized and leaves low-lying areas in and around Spring Street particularly vulnerable. The last time there was a flood, several years ago, Moran said that the current culvert could not handle it.

“A large volume of water topped the inlet and ran down Latham and Meacham Street[s], reaching the Facilities building and impacting both the College and the Town,” Moran said. Changing weather patterns support Kolesar’s concerns that these kinds of events will only grow more frequent.

Though it took no action, the College has understood

for years that the current culvert design was in need of repair; however, approximately a year ago, Facilities recognized that it had the resources and time to replace it.

The department also saw the project as an opportunity to aid both the campus and the Williamstown community at large. “We’ve been working the design for nine to 12 months, but it’s kind of complicated because it’s a large area in which you’re trying to understand how and why the water migrates and at what speed,” Moran said. “There are lots of moving variables to be understood.”

Primarily, organizers were concerned about the potential location of various underground utilities; although they are aware of many, Moran posited that they could easily run into an unknown water line that was installed 80 years ago.

Nevertheless, Moran remained optimistic. “I don’t believe there is anything that will stop the project from occurring,” Moran said. When asked about the cost of the project, Moran only said that the number was in the millions.

Although most of the water flow will soon exit through

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The College is currently undertaking construction on a ditch near Lickety Split and a new Williams Inn.

would mean to use our performance as a protest on Mountain Day,” D’Oliveira said.

“Unanimously, the choir decided we wanted to use our platform to highlight injustices and promote conver-

sations on campus. Almost everyone shared why they wanted to protest and how best to demonstrate that. For myself, I wanted the choir to highlight injustices right on campus from low number

of POC faculty to how this campus is very inaccessible.

I think it is important for people to understand why the Gospel Choir did this, to talk to different Gospel Choir members.”

Students accuse College of racial bias in recent disciplinary action

By WILLIAM NEWTON NEWS EDITOR On Oct. 8, Emily O’Brien ’18 released a petition on change.org via Facebook calling on the College to drop charges after a recent campus arrest and change its disciplinary practices, claiming that both Campus Safety and Security (CSS) and the College have consistently targeted and marginalized low-income and minority students in its disciplinary proceedings. Signed by nearly 400 people, the petition stated that the “student community will rally in support, calling attention to the racist, classist, often misogynistic and ableist disciplinary practices of this school.”

While O’Brien and many others believe that racial and classist biases often play an important role in influencing disciplinary decisions, Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom claims that the College outlines detailed policies to ensure that student cases are judged against the same criteria in order to reduce bias.

“It’s crucial that we have clear policies in place to guide investigations and disciplinary processes, and then make sure they're followed consistently,” Sandstrom said. “This is key to minimizing bias.”

In addition, Sandstrom stated that although cases are handled on an individual basis, the dean’s office has its own rubric to determine if and how to punish a student based on the results of an investigation. “The dean’s office uses a rubric to guide our application of conduct sanctions,” Sandstrom said.

“We’re always going to handle each case on an individual basis and consider mitigating or aggravating factors in a student’s behavior, but the rubric helps us to ensure that we’re consistent with our outcomes and sanctions.”

One of the primary concerns of the petition was the decision of CSS to search a student’s room earlier this month.

“How can the College claim it is a ‘diverse’ and ‘inclusive’ community while continuously criminalizing and punishing low-income students and students of color, specifically black students,” the petition read.

Director of CSS Dave Boyer, however, claims that the College intensively deliberates any decision to search a room before making a decision. In the vast majority of cases, according to Boyer, the College ultimately chooses not to search student rooms, only searching an average of two rooms a year.

“The College goes through a rigorous process before deciding whether to search a room,” Boyer said. “Searching is typically a last resort, after we’ve conducted a thorough investigation and found significant evidence pointing to a real danger to self or community. What people don’t see is that we decide not to search in far more cases than the other way around. We always try to work from the perspective of finding educational solutions first.”

Sandstrom echoed a similar sentiment, stating that only the dean of the College, the president, the vice president of campus life and the director of CSS have the authority to authorize a room search.

“Typically, several members of this group [allowed to authorize searches] convene to decide whether or not a particular situation meets our strict standards for a search,” Sandstrom said. “While the law allows the College to search rooms at any time, we only actually do it when we’ve judged that there’s significant risk to self or others, serious violations of college policy, or of law. Even in those cases, we first investigate carefully and make sure we have significant, credible evidence of a problem before making the serious decision to do a search.”

Boyer also noted that CSS has a legal obligation to contact the Williamstown Police Department (WPD) with regards to certain incidents.

“The WPD are the primary police authority in the town and have jurisdiction over all violations of Massachusetts state law on college property,” Boyer said. “ With the exception of alcohol violations, CSS calls or sends notification to the WPD for all other violations of law.”

Still O'Brien believes that the College has been hypocritically encouraging diverse students to apply but mistreating them in disciplinary decisions.

“The College continues to search for and accept students from low income households and people of color who fuel their problematic ‘diversity’ statistics without actually caring about the lives of those same students,” O'Brien said in the petition.

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THE WILLIAMS RECORD BOARD Campus discussion about the value of TeamEph, including a panel held last Thursday, has sparked important questions about the goal of First Days and EphVentures, particularly for fall athletes who are required to be present for preseason during EphVentures. In this discussion, it is worth considering the option of eliminating TeamEph and requiring that all first-year fall athletes participate in the five other orientation programs.

Admittedly, preseason is a crucial time for many fall sports, and the four days of EphVentures make up a large chunk of that time. There are clear advantages to having the entire team in one place and running two-a-days. There are practical reasons for coaches and team members to want first-years on campus during EphVentures.

As a community, however, we should reconsider our institutional priorities surrounding First Days and EphVentures.

The mission of First Days, as stated on the website, is to foster “an inclusive environment where each student engages their authentic self, finds belonging in a community rooted in learning

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and shared values, and begins to navigate, grow, and contribute as an agent of change at Williams and beyond.” At the core of each EphVenture program is the same goal: to allow students to engage their authentic self and find belonging in a small, supportive group. Exploring the Arts, Leading Minds, ROOT, Where Am I?! and WOOLF use different vehicles to accomplish that goal, but they are all designed intentionally to align with the mission of First Days.

TeamEph is conceptually different from the other programs: The primary intention of the orientation’s design is to fit around an athlete’s practice schedule. The time commitment to orientation activities, excluding time spent with the team is much smaller, and the athletes, for the most part, only meet other fall athletes.

If we, as a College community, value creating community throughout the class and giving first-years space for personal development over athletic performance, then we would end TeamEph and require fall athletes to choose between the other five orientation programs.

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WILEY THORNQUIST ’20

3 pounds of Twizzlers.

This idea is in no way novel, as other peer institutions have similar practices. Middlebury has a system similar to our proposal: The school mandates that every first-year participate in an orientation program, which means first-year fall athletes must miss practice.

We have to acknowledge that fall athletes have come to the College with the intention of committing fully to their sport and balancing life as a studentathlete, and that, given a choice, many might want to be involved in preseason. However, this is not the only time students will have to bond with their teammates, learn the team dynamic and improve their skills. Fall athletes will have the rest of the preseason and the rest of their athletic careers over their time at the College to perform these tasks.

EphVentures, on the other hand, is a unique four-day opportunity to create relationships across the school community that all other students are able to enjoy, including non-fall athletes and even some fall athletes. We believe that any marginal cost to athletic performance is a worthwhile tradeoff for aligning Eph-

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Ventures with the stated mission of First Days.

If the First Year Experience committee believes that TeamEph is in line with our first-year orientation program’s values, then we would like to propose suggestions that could be implemented within the existing framework of TeamEph. For example, TeamEph could join other on-campus EphVentures for dinner or post-dinner activities, in order to form connections across the community.

Alternatively, if coaches were willing to reduce practice time slightly for first-years, they could join other EphVentures for half days. These are not ideal solutions, as they still create markedly different experiences for fall athletes and other firstyears during EphVentures. They could, however, be an improvement over the existing program.

When it was created, TeamEph replaced a complete lack of EphVentures for first-year fall athletes, and that was a positive step. Let us, as a community, take the next one and immerse all fall athletes in the First Days experience that their peers are having, as fully as possible.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor, As students and alumni of the College, we have different opinions about the views expressed in David Kane’s ’88 op-ed on what it means for Williams to be “the best college in the world” (“What does it mean to be the best?: An alum considers the relative importance of admission criteria” (Sept. 20). But, as some of the dozens of Williams students that David has hired as interns over the last decade, we all agree that there is no alum more committed to helping stu-

dents. David has taught Winter Study three times and also co-authored four peer-reviewed articles with current and past students. How many other alumni have demonstrated such a commitment to the College?

Signed, Yuanchu Dang ’17 Ryan Kwon ’18 Ziqi Lu ’18 Karan Tibrewal ’18 Fan Zhang ’17 Zijie Zhu ’17

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tween life at the College and the “real” world, and though we are used to a highAmong the many comparisons I volume workload, the timescale and reause to explain Williams – “homework- sons for performing the work are qualithemed summer camp,” for example – tatively different after school. And even my favorite is the monastery metaphor. if both types of work venerate a certain As if called by some ascetic purpose, stu- nose to the grindstone mentality, gone dents willingly leave the comfort of hu- is the level playing field of undergraduman civilization to form an isolated out- ate academics. We don’t know what to post of cloistered scholar-athletes. The expect other than that our working lives library serves as our place of worship, will be different. our carrels the altar, textbooks our holy My senior year resolution was to rescripture. For fun we walk up hills. Un- main present and spend as much time like a true monastery, however, the stu- as possible with friends while I still dent body lacks a unified faith in some can. I have fallen short on both counts, greater spiritual force. Instead, I would in large part because it is so easy to argue that Williams students worship spend every spare moment worrying work itself. about what will come next. The job As a purveyor of the liberal arts tradi- search process is inherently a futuretion, Williams has always stood for the oriented project, but the process of pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. writing cover letters and editing my This culture of diligence remains. Yet I resume also confronts me daily with can’t shake the feeling that something my recent past. has shifted. Hearing alumni reminisce This year I have experienced a fion their adventures at the College elic- nal complicating factor: the distance its a culture shock, something along the between gut-wrenching news coming lines of, “That would never fly today.” from the outside world and the mostly Williams tests and tempers its stu- selfish work that dominates life at the dents; I am undoubtedly a more moral, College. I find it increasingly difficult to educated and compedevote the necessary attent person than I was tention to problem sets four years ago. What the What the College and job applications College has not been, I when every day brings has not been, I can safely say, is great news of another unprecfun. These feelings may natural disaster, can safely say, is edented be a reflection of my humanitarian crisis or own personality rather political firestorm. How great fun. than indicative of the will a higher GPA, or any College as a whole, but kind of self-promotion talking with college administrators and for that matter, promote resilience in alumni has confirmed my sense that the communities that need it the most? the College is collectively busier than How ought we to balance the stable, traever. In an increasingly cutthroat job ditional career paths that Williams spemarket, the pursuit of knowledge for its cializes in with the growing instability of own sake just feels outdated, obligating the modern world? These are complimany students to spend outside time cated questions, and deeply privileged cultivating bankable skills simply to ones that only afflict those with a wide stay competitive. number of career choices. Nevertheless, The senior year job search process has they require us to consider the worthipushed these themes front and center ness of our aspirations, present and fuand forced me to consider my relation- ture – and to evaluate how we allocate ship with work more generally. These our time at the College while we still can be touchy subjects, not helped by the have the chance. implicit understanding that the first job out of college – rather than the diploma Ian Concannon ’18 is an economics – is the true marker of undergraduate and history double major from Dursuccess. We internalize a distinction be- ham, N.C. He lives on Thomas Street.

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“I am not a sexist, bitch,” is a set of words I have heard far too often in recent years, from relatives, friends and acquaintances alike.

There are many men who, for one reason or another, feel personally faultless when it comes to misogyny and rape culture. These men tend to respond to conversations surrounding rape culture and misogyny in a combative manner.

While this mentality is certainly more pervasive outside of the Williams bubble than in it, I often find that my and many of my peers’ levels of empathy and understanding drastically decrease when confronted head on with our individual roles in perpetuating rape culture. While many of us feel comfortable acknowledging the presence of this culture and the power structure that supports it, we simply can’t fathom the idea that we are somehow personally accountable.

At Williams specifically, our conversations surrounding misogyny and rape culture are inextricably tied to conversations about the toxicity of athletic culture, making the defensive response that much more prevalent as conversations surrounding rape culture are often seen as direct attacks on the campus’ male athletes. This defensive stance ultimately leads many to believe that conversations surrounding rape culture are initiated to a) seek attention and social retribution and b) attacking “innocent” men. By adopting this mindset, we acknowledge the issue in a back-seat manner, which keeps us wholly separate from the problem.

While many of us feel justified in our angry responses to these accusations, this mindset is ultimately self-defeating, as one openly acknowledges with their response that which they are being accused of. It’s

the exact same as free speechers protesting the expression of free speech

by National Football League (NFL) players. You’ll notice that detractors of Colin Kaepernick respond with the same argumentative structure that we tend to use to respond to women who call us out – they believe he’s a) seeking attention to make up for lack of athletic ability and b) attacking the nation, flag, veterans, etc. Just like the NFL owners with National Anthem protests, we as men tend to not only hijack the narrative, but also we have the ability to remove ourselves from issues of sexism and inequality at will.

In my experience, we men tend to understand sexual assault and harassment as something limited. Many of us view it as a general and constant disregard for all women, revealed by readily identifiable verbal and physical assaults.

It’s something immediately identifiable, and participated in with full intention and awareness. However, sexism in our society is far more prevalent and insidious than we give it credit. While we might consider ourselves “good dudes” because we don’t actively participate in rape and sexual assault, we are still to blame as we become actively complicit in rape culture by spending our energy defending our own personal and political images by separating ourselves from all mention of the subject, instead of fighting rape culture itself. Whether consciously or not, ignoring the long history that necessitates these conversations is nothing other than enabling.

For most marginalized people, issues of identity and representation are about survival, not politics; thus, those affected constantly feel what others must read, see and understand to believe.

If I as a black man have no trouble seeing amorphously racist things such

as micro-aggressions and cultural appropriation as indicators of a system of racial oppression, then I should understand that constant ogling, unwanted grabbing and degrading language are indicators of a culture of misogyny.

Since we’re inherently aware of the ability of the oppressor to change the narrative, there is no reason why we can’t accept our privilege as men and come to the table ready to listen. The reality is that we can’t live the day-to-day reality of women; thus, it is mandatory that we listen and partake in conversation, as to increase perspective.

Furthermore, to the black men of Williams, we might not be able to feel the day-to-day experience of being a woman, but we can certainly feel the presence of a strained relationship between the black men and women on campus, which is why I personally feel it is on us to take the first step on the long road to gender equality.

Ultimately, I feel as if our happiness at Williams depends heavily on healthy interactions between black men and women on campus. I feel very strongly that, at Williams, we need cohesion and understanding between all black people, regardless of gender or sexuality, in order to escape the constant cloud of social anxiety and isolation that comes with existing as a black person.

It is through the process of bridging intersectional gaps within our community that we will truly be happy. Humans learn by experience and example; thus, I feel it is our duty as black men at the College to use our intersectional needs to finally offer an adequate model for others.

It is not only our job to come to the table, but also to sit there and listen.

Jabari Copeland ’18 is an English major from Chicago, Ill. He lives on Latham Street.

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Our names are Linda Worden and Claire Bunn, and we were two of the community builders at the Davis Center last year. The community builders are students hired by the Davis Center to lead discussions about social identity, and this job transformed our lives at the College. We learned about equity, social justice and diversity, had mentors to look up to and, most importantly, worked with other students who shared our passion for creating a more inclusive campus. While this experience was one of the highlights of both of our years, over the course of many hours spent at the Davis Center, we began to notice a serious problem. The buildings that make up the Davis Center are falling into disrepair. Because the work that the Davis Center does to make the College a more inclusive and aware campus is so important, we ask the College to prove its commitment to this work by investing in the physical infrastructure of the Davis Center.

Last year, we saw tremendous renovation of our campus, with the new science building, Horn Hall and the new bookstore all under construction. However, the state of Jenness House, where we spent much of our time working, reflects how little attention has been given to the Davis Center by comparison. Paint is peeling, insulation is faulty or nonexistent, ceilings have leaked, a decomposing mouse was found in the basement and multiple wasp nests were found in the attic. Hardy House and Rice House are not wheelchair accessible. There are few spaces large enough to comfortably fit more than 20 people.

Historically, marginalized students and their allies fought for these spaces.

For example, in 1988, students occupied Jenness House, demanding that the College found a multicultural center. Today these buildings are used by the over 14 student groups that comprise the Minority Coalition (MinCo). It is important that the history of these buildings be preserved. Investments or lack thereof in physical spaces reflect our institution’s priorities. Choosing to build new buildings and decorate the quads with marble blocks while the Davis Center is falling apart does not show that the College is committed to the Davis Center and its history. In fact, it shows the opposite.

The College cannot welcome a diverse student body without offering students adequate support. Of the accepted class of 2021, 50 percent identify as people of color. At least 12 students identify as trans or non-

binary, and 22 percent claim firstgeneration status. During Previews last spring, the Davis Center held an event for visitors who were interested in learning about social justice at Williams. Around 50 students and parents came to the event and were crowded into the meeting space in Hardy House.

It is illustrative to contrast the physical condition of Jenness House with other campus buildings such as the athletic facilities. Due to a concussion, Claire spent a lot of time in various trainers’ offices on campus last spring. During the return-to-play process, Claire was asked to meet with trainers in three different buildings. Our state-of-the-art athletic facilities are fashioned with beds, weights, baths, etc. and are generally highly maintained. The contrast is immediately obvious walking into Weston or Cole Field House after spending time in the Davis Center.

This comparison between Jenness House and our athletic facilities is not meant to criticize expenditures on the athletic department, only to highlight what is surely also possible for the Davis Center. It is undoubtedly important that Williams have high quality sports medicine facilities to support studentathletes. However, according to the Office of Communications, less than half of Williams students are involved in intercollegiate sports teams (35 percent).

If it is possible to create such excellent facilities for a program which serves a disproportionately privileged student body, then it should also be possible to better maintain and renovate the facilities which house the Davis Center. The Davis Center serves not only MinCo groups, but the entire student body through student support and events on Claiming Williams Day. Even students who have never set foot in the Davis Center buildings benefit from the peer effects. When we empower one member of our community, we strengthen the wellbeing of all.

This is a call for consideration. We ask openly through this op-ed that readers advocate for the physical space of the Davis Center. We ask for renovations. We ask for accessibility.

We ask for serious maintenance. We ask that the College show its commitment to diversity not just with words but with actions.

Linda Worden ’19 is a political economy major from Penticton, B.C., Canada. She is currently abroad at the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford.

Claire Bunn ’20 is from Watertown, Mass. She is off campus this semester.

JAMIE SWEENEY ’07

The advantages of TeamEph Promoting understanding about athletic orientation love my teammates, have always felt accepted despite currently being the only About a month ago, a student re- person of color on the team and am conleased an op-ed (“No Team in Team stantly pushed to perform at my best, Eph” (Sept. 20, 2017)) calling for the on or off the ice. Without the Williams abolition of a first-year orientation pro- women’s ice hockey program, I wouldn’t gram called TeamEph, correlating it have had the structure or support I with toxic athlete culture, correlating needed to get through Williams’ dethat to all athletes on campus. Many manding academic schedule, nor would other students rejoiced in agreement. I I have been able to handle the personal have never felt so frustrated and disap- obstacles that I’ve somehow overcome. pointed by another student’s opinion.

So why doesn’t TeamEph matter in If you’ve read the article, then you these issues? It’s simple to understand know that it was highly misinformed and from a contact-sport athlete standpoint, written with false implications. This isn’t but as a month has passed since the to say that there isn’t an original article was pubissue of toxic athlete cullished, I realized it’s not ture at the College, beMissing four days of as easy to digest when cause there is. However, you don’t think like one. preseason would be To be clear, this mandain the case of the athlete vs. non-athlete divide, first-year orientalike missing the first tory both identities sincerely tion program is built for misunderstand one anfour days of a class. the five contact sports other. This has no doubt teams in preseason durbeen part of a larger coning First Days (men’s versation on campus that’s been occur- football, women’s volleyball, women’s ring long before all of us were even here. field hockey, women’s and men’s socAnd in the case of TeamEph being a part cer), not all fall sports. The entire proof this “divide,” well, that has nothing to gram is planned by the TeamEph leaddo with these issues. ers during the spring/summer/fall. For For the most part, it seems like non- four days from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., the athletes don’t get athletes, and vice first-years on these teams are divided versa. In many ways, this is frustrat- into groups with TeamEph leaders to ing since it often paints a dichotomous have dinner together and do a fun acnarrative: You’re either a white male tivity shortly after. Before and after this athlete, or you’re not. According to the time, first-years are with their teams article, if you’re an athlete of color who practicing, getting to know their teamisn’t male, straight, mentally well, rich, mates and learning new systems and or able-bodied, you are at a disadvan- styles of play. That’s the beauty of contage. As someone who feels very em- tact sports – so much of a team’s success powered by her role on the women’s ice depends on team chemistry, the ability hockey team, and checks off all but one to run a play and outsmart/out-skill the of the “disadvantaged” traits, I find my- opposing team, and the desire to work self presented with a bit of an identity for your team, not just yourself. crisis. I, too, have suffered from the toxic But back to TeamEph. Many have Williams athlete culture that promotes suggested that the first-year athletes binge drinking on weekends, sexual as- in preseason should have a choice in sault and white assimilation. But I also choosing their orientation program,

since TeamEph doesn’t allow spaces for vulnerability, or activities similar to Where Am I?! or Exploring the Arts.

While I agree it is sad that the timing of preseason overlaps with orientation, and that TeamEph doesn’t allow enough time for students to open up and explore, I also don’t think people understand the significance of preseason.

These athletes are recruited to come to the College and are expected to provide their full commitment simply because they want to. Unlike a Div. I school, athletes here aren’t bound by a contract to play their sport, nor are they given sports-based scholarships. Most of the time, the athletes here are committed to the game simply because they love it.

Missing four days of preseason would be like missing the first four days of a class, where the teacher gives you the syllabus, goes over the expectations of the entire semester and you can decide whether or not you want to drop the course.

So where does that leave us with the broad subject of athlete culture and its toxic characteristics? I think this conversation is a long, continuous and arduous journey. There was so much more I could’ve mentioned, but I’m already over the word limit. In general, I think that this conversation can only begin once everyone understands all the perspectives, and can end when everyone can sympathize with each other.

That includes separating ourselves from our pride, our cliques and our differences. All in all, we should recognize that we are all Williams, whether we like it or not, and that our identities all lie on an ever-changing spectrum. Even I am Williams, as rare as I am … or am I the epitome of Williams? Still having an identity crisis, folks.

Candy Lu ’18 is a biology major from Los Angeles, Calif. She lives in Chadbourne.

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October 18, 2017

WILLIAMS 101: Senior Staff Organization

By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN NEWS EDITOR This piece is the first installment in our “Williams 101” series, a set of articles on the basic structure and operations of the College. Our aim in this series is to help the entire College community, and students in particular, better understand and be able to engage with their institution. This first piece will focus on the organization of the College and its senior staff.

While the Board of Trustees holds the ultimate responsibility for the affairs of the College and President Adam Falk administers the College on a day-to-day basis, much of the leadership for the College’s planning and operations comes from the senior staff, a group of three faculty members and six staff members.

Each oversees several College departments and offices and gives leadership to one functional part of the College’s mission.

The three faculty members who serve in senior staff roles are the dean of the College, currently Marlene Sandstrom, the provost, currently David Love, and the dean of the faculty, currently Lee Park in an interim capacity. The dean of the College’s office is responsible, per the College’s faculty website, for “oversight of all aspects of academic opportunity and academic support outside the classroom.” To this end, the registrar, academic resources, accessible education, the fellowships office and the office of international education and study away all report to the dean of the College, as does the dean’s office.

The dean’s office itself serves as a central location for student support, and also adjudicates student conduct violations. The College’s director of sexual assault prevention and response and director of parent and family programs are both located in the dean’s office.

The provost’s role is two-fold: the direct supervision of eight functional areas of the College and the allocation of priorities and resources for the entire College. The provost supervises admission and financial aid, the Williams College Museum of Art, the libraries, the office of information technology, the science center, institutional research and the Zilkha Center for Sustainability Initiatives. The provost also works on strategic planning and

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The senior staff of the College is composed of three faculty members (lighter circles), typically serving three year terms, and six staff members. resource management with all College departments and offices, such as in the development of budgets or plans for major projects. In this role, the provost sits on committees such as the Committee on Priorities and Resources and the Committee on Appointments and Resources.

The dean of the faculty is the chief academic officer of the College; their work focuses on the faculty and curriculum of the College. While much of the governance over these areas is exercised by individual academic units and the faculty as a body, the dean of the faculty is responsible for many of the programs and procedures affecting faculty hiring, promotion and compensation, faculty professional development and funding of academic units. The dean of the faculty also supervises the athletics department and the College’s two graduate programs.

These three faculty members are joined by six staff members: the chief investment officer, vice president for college relations, chief communications officer, vice president for finance and administration, vice president for institutional diversity and equity and vice president for campus life.

The College’s chief investment officer, currently Collette Chilton, oversees its investment office in Boston, which manages its endowment portfolio. As of June 30, 2016, this portfolio was worth $2.3 billion. This work is overseen by the investment committee of the Board of Trustees.

The vice president for college relations, currently Megan Morey, oversees the College’s work in development and alumni relations, including the career center. The vice president also supervises corporate and foundation relations, an office focus-

SPRING STREET BLUES From the files of Campus Safety and Security Monday 10-2-17 9:10 a.m. Horn: A parent requested a welfare check for two students. Officers contacted the students and asked them to call the parent.

10:57 a.m. Thompson House: Officers responded to a report of a custodian stuck in the elevator. Electrical trades also responded to Thompson. Attempts to reset the elevator failed to open the doors. Officers contacted Bay State Elevator and they arrived on scene and opened the doors of the elevator.

Brooks. The students ran away and there was a strong marijuana odor present in the area. There was loud music playing in the basement and officers found approximately 100 students dancing in beach-themed attire even though they had previously shut down the event. Officers shut down the event for the second time.

8:40 p.m. Brooks: Officers responded to a marijuana odor coming from the basement and found marijuana brownies cooking in the kitchen oven with additional marijuana in plain view on the countertop.

Tuesday 10-3-17 Monday 10-9-17 7:00 p.m. Lasell Gym: Officers responded to the men’s locker room to a report of a squirrel loose in the building. Officers located the squirrel and ran it out a held-open door.

Wednesday 10-4-17

2:43 a.m. Stetson/Sawyer: Officers responded to several motion detector activations on the third floor of Stetson west stacks and found four students on site in the library after the location was secured and staff had left.

7:30 p.m. Gladden: Officers responded to a disturbance concerning an argument between two students. Williamstown Police Department also responded, and Village Ambulance transported one of the students to the hospital.

5:14 p.m. Horn: Officers responded to a report of teenagers riding bikes through the parking lot and saw no one on bikes.

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Friday 10-13-17

11:24 p.m. Mission Park: Officers responded to damage reported at the window next to the dining hall gate caused by a student skateboarding inside.

The skateboard hit the window on the bottom of the pane, creating cracks and spider-webbed damage.

2:14 p.m. Hopkins Hall: A student reported a missing mailroom hand cart from Fayerweather. The cart was signed out on Thursday to bring packages to his room. The student said he left the cart right inside of the south door of Fayerweather.

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Saturday 10-14-17

5:00 a.m. Tyler: Officers responded to an activated smoke detector in the laundry room. A burnt pizza (in the kitchen) caused the alarm.

7:20 p.m. Dodd: Officers responded to a fire alarm.

In the kitchen, students were preparing a meal. The emergency exit doors and several windows were open for ventilation.

11:00 p.m. Brooks: Officers shut down a beachthemed party in the basement because it was over capacity, with over 100 students dancing.

Saturday 10-7-17 12:30 a.m. Brooks: While on routine patrol in Brooks parking lot, an officer observed a group of students sitting at a picnic table in the rear of

Tuesday 10-10-17

11:29 pm. Walden Street: Officers responded to Walden Street for a report that a student fell off his bike and was in pain. On arrival, officers found not a Williams student, but a 15-year-old Buxton School student on the ground complaining of arm and head injuries. 911 was contacted. Village Ambulance arrived and evaluated, then transported the student to Berkshire Health North.

ing on obtaining outside support, such as grants, to support the work of the College.

Jim Reische, currently the College’s chief communications officer, runs the College’s online and print communications channels and content, as well as media relations for the College. This work involves collaboration with other administrative offices and academic units on developing their own communications.

The vice president for finance and administration is responsible for the financial management of the College. This vice president, currently Fred Puddester, supervises functional areas such as the controller, human resources, facilities, budget office and college counsel.

This position, created in 2011, works closely with the provost on the College’s budget process, a relationship intended to both allow for faculty leadership in the

allocation of resources and the continuity of professional financial leadership. “We’re just a more complex operation than we used to be,” Falk said. “A lot of the work involved would be hard for a faculty member to rotate into every few years and do as effectively as someone who’s been doing it their whole career. Hiring professional leadership also frees up money for other things. For example, one of the first things we did when we brought in the new vice president for finance and administration was renegotiate our health insurance. And the money he helped us save was then put back into academic student support. But it’s really important to have a faculty member rotate through the provost’s role. And so, again, we’re pairing a vice president who’s a professional with a faculty member – in this case the provost.”

Leticia Smith-Evans Haynes ’99 currently serves as the vice president for institutional diversity and

equity. This office spearheads the College’s efforts, across all functional areas, to create an environment in which all members of the College community can thrive, to recruit and retain a diverse faculty, staff and student body and to facilitate broader work in higher education equity.

The vice president supervises the Davis Center and the office of special academic programs.

The vice president for campus life, currently Steve Klass, manages several functional areas affecting student life on campus, such as the office of student life, the chaplain’s office, dining services, campus safety and security, the health center, Integrative Wellbeing Services and the Center for Learning in Action. Prior to 2011, these offices reported to the dean of the College. This restructuring was intended to allow for more faculty management of direct student support. “The first [change] was to restructure the dean of the College’s office so that it had less functional supervision and could focus more directly on the deans in the office, on student wellbeing and academic issues,” Falk said. “Work like the registrar’s office that really touches students’ academic lives – and that a faculty member with their academic experience could come into and feel wellequipped to do.”

Indeed, the work of the dean’s office, this office and the office for institutional diversity and equity are often closely linked.

“Student support at Williams comes in many forms, and our goal is to make sure that there is ‘no wrong door’ when students are seeking assistance,” Sandstrom said. “The dean’s office offers a wide array of support, including ongoing individual advising around academics, social and behavioral issues and many other challenges. We work closely with the Office of Student Life, the chaplain’s office, the Health Center, the Davis Center, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, Campus Safety – making sure that whichever office students enter first is able to both offer immediate assistance and make referrals that match students’ particular needs, interests and goals.”

The next installment in this series will focus on the budget and finances of the College.

Priest addresses spiritual and intellectual development of Catholics on campus

By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN NEWS EDITOR On Oct. 5, Williams Catholic hosted Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., to deliver a lecture titled “The Rational Mystery: The Shape of Catholicism in the 20th Century.” White is a Catholic priest of the Dominican order and associate professor of systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He spoke on the possibilities and challenges that religion, and Catholicism in particular, will most likely encounter in the coming years.

Williams Catholic hosted White as part of a longer partnership with the Thomistic Institute, an institute of the Dominican House of Studies that focuses on the spiritual and intellectual development of Catholics on college campuses.

White’s lecture was the first of several the group has planned for the year.

“We felt the Catholic community here at the College had a real need to be better educated about our great intellectual tradition, and there were really no other opportunities to do so at the College,” Williams Catholic Co-President David Vascones ’18 said. “We were really excited to bring on the Thomistic Institute, which has already been so successful at doing this at other top schools.

Having Fr. White as our first speaker was an incredible gift; he is one of the brightest minds in the Church today. I hope that this new endeavor of ours will help renew the intellectual life of Catholics at the College and help us engage with our faith in new ways.”

White centered his talk not just on the challenges that modernity can pose to religion and Catholicism specifically, but also on the opportunities it offers. “I speak not in a prophetic way, but about the key challenges to people thinking about the world religiously in the coming years,” he said. “I will touch not just on impediments to being religious, but also opportunities to be religious.”

The key challenge, he identified, is the growing proclivity for relativistic pluralism with regards to religion. “Father, you are wearing a strange medieval costume! It’s been hundreds of years since anyone’s believed they’ve had a claim to absolute revelation!” White posited an imaginary observer might say.

He raised the question, though, of whether any absolute truths, like a belief in justice, could exist once all dogmas had been relativized. Therefore, he said, the key opportunity in coming years for Catholics is to reassert the “christocentricity” and claim on dogmatic truth of that religion.

The dogmatic belief in one religion, though, does not preclude appreciation of others, nor of modern science, White said. “We need not denigrate religions just because we don’t believe they’re true in every aspect,” White said. “There are deep and profound truths in non-Christian religions that ought to be respected.”

Similarly, White argued that the advances of modern science offer opportunities for religion, rather than challenges. “Modern science is metaphysically parasitical – that is, it assumes a lot of metaphysical truths,”

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White said. “One can’t get away from the core problem of why there is a world, …the question of why the world exists, and the best answer is God the creator.”

The third subject upon which White touched was Christianity and the overarching ethics behind happiness. He claimed that the pursuit of happiness involves self-discipline – something not unlike learning a musical instrument. In the modern age, he argued, the Catholic Church has an unparalleled opportunity to serve as the site of development for this disciplined happiness. “The heart of Christian happiness is to be able to love,” White said. “It is tremendously hard to love. … The Catholic Church has a well of wisdom and happiness.”

White concluded by identifying the role that the communal rites of the Catholic Church can play in what has become an increasingly individualistic society. “[Society] is fractured by a modern individual ethos allied with a capitalist market economy,” White said. Contrary to this trend, the rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church offer a unique space to draw people into communion with each other, White argued.

To close, White acknowledged both the difficulties that religious people likely face in an increasingly secular society and the ever-present and growing need for religion to be present in a modern world.

“This is a time of challenges but also radical opportunities,” White said.

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Trustees host open student forum College constructs culvert to

By JIWON SUNG STAFF WRITER

On Saturday, several members of the Board of Trustees held an open forum to receive input from students on their views and concerns about the College. Some leaders of the College community present were Kate Queeney ’92, the chair of the board’s student experience committee, Jordan Hampton ’87, president of the Society of Alumni and Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom. The board holds open events with students four times a year to “understand all facets of the College and communicate with alumni, faculty and students.”

One of the first issues that was brought up was prioritizing agendas within the budget. “The two biggest components of the budget are people, which include financial aid and salaries given to faculty and staff, and buildings, which include debt service. Other than that, the budget also includes physical materials,” Richard Pickard ’75 said. He also noted the extent to which the College subsidizes all students’ academic experiences.

“Approximately $108,000 is needed to provide an education for one student. So even students paying the full sticker price are also receiving approximately $40,000 from the College.". The core mission of all the trustees, he said, was supporting the education of all students. “We look at the budget every year and ask ourselves, ‘Does that [the budget] reflect the priorities of the College?’” he said.

Sexual violence was a social issue that was brought to light by a Rape and Sexual Assault Network (RASAN) volunteer who was present at the meeting. Although the student recognized the fact that all trustees acknowledged the seriousness and importance of sexual violence on campus, she wanted to know the details of what was being done in regular trustee meetings to prevent this issue. All of the trustees acknowledged the goal of preventing sexual assault to a maximum degree at the College and on all college campuses.

“We get an update on what the College’s programs are to prevent and adjudicate sexual assault. We don’t make the decisions ourselves, but we make sure that Williams is current in its processes and the enforcement of its processes, as well as if the

processes comply with governmental regulations,” Pickard said.

Queeney said that sexual assault incidents were “disturbing from a human standpoint.” She also assured that the reinterpretation of Title IX by the Department of Education did not in any way indicate the College would be “going backwards,” although the potential changes that may result from the reinterpretation of Title IX would be up for future determination.

The recent op-ed published by an alum in the Record (“What Does It Mean to be the Best?”

(Sept. 20, 2017)) and the increase in bias incidents on campus raised awareness of issues pertinent to students of color and first-generation students. “It’s important to make them [students of color] feel they are brought here because of their merit or the struggles they faced and not because they are some ‘charity case,’” one sophomore said. Some of the other issues included professionalism and confidentiality within the dean’s office, financial aid, hiring more faculty of color, separation of athletes from non-athletes and the lack of effective communication between the administration and students that prevented the administration from being aware of the specific realities of the campus social scene. “I think professors genuinely want to help students with what they’re going through but one, they’re either misguided or two, they don’t ask the right students what they can do to help because they’re asking certain types of students that will give them certain types of answers,” a senior said.

Another student shared this view by saying that there are specific structures of the College that prevent productive communication between various stakeholders in the College community.

In closing, Queeney emphasized that one of the central missions of the College was to provide the best educational environment possible to its students. “It’s hard to get here, so we want to make the best education. The people here are intellectually powerful and caring and I want that education for you all,” she said. Overall, the trustees agreed that the purpose of their existence was not to “keep the College fixated,” but to improve it.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the new culvert, the existing culvert will not be entirely eliminated. During and after construction, it will continue to service the parking lots near the Towne Field House and the Facilities building. When construction is in progress, areas along the north side of Weston Field and along Latham Street may be occupied, although Weston Field itself should remain available for use. “There could be pretty massive civilian and pedestrian impacts [along Latham Street],” Moran said, before adding that there will always be a way for students to cross the street.

Though the physical signs of culvert construction will appear soon, the Williams Inn project

is already apparent in the large ditches that are forming around Lickety Split. As part of that project, a separate existing culvert pipe will need to be shifted along the access drive, which required permission from the New England District of the Army Corps of Engineers, which has been examining the safety of both culvert projects over the past several months. “We have to fill out an application and submit supporting documentation with plans and specifications.

Then, they review it for completeness, technical information and data, and ensure that the project meets qualifications. If anything’s not there, they come back and ask for resubmission,” Moran said. Recently, the Army Corps granted its approval for both projects.

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FEATURES 6

One in Two Thousand

By NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN NEWS EDITOR I met Onyeka when she auditioned for Frosh Revue this fall.

This week, I caught up with her about her path to the College, creative prom photos and, of course, memes.

So to start, how did you end up at the College?

When I was doing the college research process and everything, I was kind of stuck, because my school didn’t really have a lot of resources for the college application process.

I was basically told to go to a University of California school, or any other in-state public school, so I didn’t really look at private schools until I stumbled upon QuestBridge one day when they sent me a letter in the mail saying, “Apply for QuestBridge!” And I was like, “Hey, I guess I’ll do it!”

I looked through the catalog of QuestBridge schools, and then I kind of stumbled across one tiny school in the corner – one of the last listed – and I was just so confused. I’d never heard of Williams once in my life. Nobody had ever mentioned it before, because nobody in California knows about Williams, apparently. But then I looked at the QuestBridge resources that they have at Williams, and everything else about it, and I just kind of fell in love – I knew that was the school that I really wanted to go to – or that I should at least try to visit. So, I applied for Windows on Williams, which is a fly-in program that Williams has for low-income and firstgen students. I once again fell in love; everything I thought about Williams was reassured – the community was so strong and so great and so open and willing to talk. I distinctly remember Calen [Firedancing

’20]; he was sitting at my table for the admission ambassador dinner on the first night and I just remembered thinking that he was so funny and so open.

Now, I not only work with him as a fellow admissions ambassador, but he’s also my director for Frosh Revue, which is a pretty awesome turn-around. I was so glad that people at Williams were able to retain that genuine expression of emotion and intensity that I didn’t really see at other schools. I decided then and there that this is where I want to go, this is where I deserve to be. … So basically Williams was always my number one throughout the process, and it worked out.

I genuinely love it here and I’m so happy.

How did you first get involved in ‘Williams Memes for sun-dappled tweens’?

So for QuestBridge, I reactivated my Facebook one day because I decided to get involved in that community, and as an extension of being in that college application-oriented community, I noticed a lot of people joining college meme groups, like ‘UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens’, and all the other different pages. So, I figured, “Well, if I'm gonna go to Williams, I might as well join the meme group.” So I decided to just try joining Williams memes, and I got in, and I was like, “Oh, this meme group is a little quiet.” I mean, other groups published once a day, like people are constantly active; this is a small school but I expected a little bit more meme-ry going on, you know? So I consulted the Williams Class of 2021 GroupMe – I asked if I should post some memes and some people were like, “Yeah, you should, that’s going to be a good first impression for us.” So I decided to just post – my first meme was a Mr. Krabs meme. You

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know the one where he’s kind of shook? I labeled it, talking about how Williams expected so much of pre-frosh, basically, like our financial aid packages and everything else, and like a social security number. And then I posted the prom meme, and everything else, and then I ended up being a moderator on the page, and it’s been a really fun experience. I haven’t been posting recently since coming to Williams, as adjusting to college has been a lot. I’m going to get back to it soon.

You mentioned the prom photo acceptance letter meme. Can you tell us the story behind that?

Okay, so, I was planning for prom with my friends in high school and everybody else kind of had dates, like elaborate proposals, and people asking them out with lights and all this stuff, and I was like, okay, I don’t have a date. So I went with my friends ultimately but I decided

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to bring my own date [the acceptance letter] in my duffel bag with all my other back-up stuff for prom. Like if I’d get tired I had extra shoes, so I brought my acceptance letter. Now I didn’t know if I was going to use it, but just in case. It turns out that prom had a photo booth where we could just take pictures for free with our friends. I was like, “Well, I don’t really have any friends, so I might as well take my acceptance letter and use it as my date.” So essentially that’s how that picture started up – I just took my acceptance letter in there and people were staring at me; I was like, “Don't ask questions.” And then I posted on the meme page. I sent it to my group chat first and asked, “Should I post this on the meme page?” and everyone said, “Yes, please do it,” so I did, and that’s my claim to fame now apparently.

Now that you’ve been here for a while, what are the highlights?

I would say generally I’ve probably never been happier in my life, I think. It’s been a really weird experience; it’s been a really overwhelming experience.

I’ve been overloaded with stuff, but it’s been a sort of positive overload; I mean it is stressful, but I know I have a support system that exists here, that I know I can depend on and talk to; those people are always there that I can reach out to, and that’s definitely comforting because it’s not something I’ve always had. It’s generally been a really good experience – I love it here. I don’t think I’d be happier anywhere else. I do actually love it here, but, of course, I have some critiques.

I really notice, especially at parties, where it’s generally like thin white athletic people, and I’m like: “I am none of the above.” It’s definitely been a really weird experience, blending in, trying to fit in, or even trying to retain myself, reaching out in general to a community that’s so different from me. I feel like, on a bigger campus, I wouldn’t really be comfortable reaching out, while on a small campus, I can.

You’re working at the Davis Center as a community builder – how’s that been going?

We just started last week, and so far it’s kind of made me aware of how for some people, they can’t really pick out any identity that is most important to them, but for other people – for people like me, for people of color, for queer people, for disabled people, for all the people on campus who kind of feel marginalized – that’s relatively easy. So the entire work of the community builders as an organization is to, basically, reach out to people on campus who don’t really understand the nuances of identity, don’t really understand systems of

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power or racial injustices, or basically the injustices in the world and sometimes even on this campus. The entire work of the community builders is just to make sure that all people on campus have some working knowledge of their privileges, or basically how to interact with the world in a way where they’re aware of those positions of power they may inhabit. And so, I’m definitely really excited to start working with people because everybody can learn something a little more about themselves. Being able to facilitate those conversations on this campus and having a role with changing the landscape of how people interact with each other is something that excites me more because, like I said earlier, the community is one of the reasons I came here.

So being able to contribute to the community in a way that makes it more wholesome and more friendly to each other is something that I’m so glad to be part of.

Have you had any “firstyear moments,” particularly funny or embarrassing stories on campus?

So actually this isn’t really one specific story, just like a little pet peeve kind of, but also kind of embarrassing. Lately one thing that I’ve been trying to do on campus kind of low-key, but also kind of not, is trying to meet a lot of people and understand people to build, you know, the community. So I literally just talk to people, and I’m just trying to understand everyone by recognizing names and stories to make them feel welcome. But there are multiple times when I wave to someone and I’m like “Hey!” and they don’t wave back or even acknowledge me. It’s happened to me multiple times at this point and it’s … I’m just trying so hard to be your friend, people, to reach out! Say hi to me anytime!

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This graffiti has gone untouched for several years, unclaimed by any member of the College community.

By JEONGYOON HAN STAFF WRITER Just outside Whitman’s dining hall, there is a piece of graffiti that has gone untouched for years. The words “Si nos dan a un@ Nos dan a tod@s!” have hung above the Paresky bike rack since before the Class of 2018 stepped foot on campus without claim nor much reaction from the student body. Indeed, the writing has become a campus-wide mystery that’s yet to be solved.

The first thing I did to learn more about this mystery was to go to Whitman’s; maybe someone there would know about it.

To investigate, I spoke to dining hall staff member Ada Moreno about what she thought the graffiti meant. She translated it to mean, “If we give to one, we give to all.”

Moreno and her coworkers found it curious that the writing hadn’t been removed. They all remember the writing having appeared two or three years ago, so they said it was odd that Campus Safety and Security (CSS) or Facilities hadn’t washed the writing off.

There has been disagreement as to when the writing first showed up: A CSS officer discovered it five years ago; one student adamantly said it’s been on campus for at least 10 years; one member of the senior class saw it as a high school senior when visiting the College for a tour.

College members even contest the message’s translation. Renditions that I’ve heard include: “If you do it for a person, you have to do it for everybody,” “If they give

to one, they give to all,” “If we do for one, we give to all.”

The translation that Cecilia Del Cid, a staff member at the Davis Center, gave was surprising; the verb “dar” in Spanish can be translated as to “give” or “hit/target,” which leads her to believe that one possible English version of the message could be, “If you hit or target one of us, you hit/target all of us.”

Gene Bell-Villada, professor of romance languages, agrees, but additionally noted the significance of the two lines’ endings: The “@” in “un@s” and “tod@s,” which indicates gender neutrality, suggests that it could have a feminist message behind it.

“Because of the way it is written, it is definitely open to interpretation,” Del Cid said.

Upon reading it, Andrea Orozco ’21 – who agrees with the translation, “If you do for one, you do for all” – said she first applied the message to students’ access to opportunities here on campus.

“If you’re going to favor one person, they must favor all,” Orozco said.

Professor of Spanish Jennifer French first thought the message might have originated from Cuban patriot and poet José Martí. Along similar lines, Bell-Villada said he views the message in the context of Latin American politics.

“The message on the Paresky column strikes me as a fine example of political sloganry from Spanish America,” he said. “It’s brief, concise and eloquent, stating the essential with minimal words. It sticks in the mind.”

Indeed, the same phrase was used in a series of 2010 univer-

sity student protests in Juaréz, Chihuahua, Mexico, demanding access to amenities and rights for citizens of Juaréz.

Orozco said she believes that the message brings up important questions and issues that can be interpreted through various ways, but added that writing on school property is not the answer.

“If you want to protest, you shouldn’t damage school property,” Orozco said, who saw the message as a sign of dissent. “I like the message, but I don’t like the method.”

Bell-Villada said that while it technically is a form of vandalism, the graffiti could be seen by some “as a kind of rebel art form.”

“I think questions of content and of execution take precedence here. People would have been quite upset if the message had been racist instead of feminist,” Bell-Villada said. “On the other hand, if someone at a Red state campus in Trump territory had sprayed the words ‘Make America Great Again!’ or ‘Lock Her Up!’, presumably there would have been few objections.”

Regardless of one’s takeaway from the sentence, what is most intriguing about it is that the presence of the writing has remained mostly unquestioned for several years. Perhaps the original writer’s intent was precisely for this purpose: The short and concise sentence should act as an afterthought to those who see the message every day, but one that would still linger in people’s minds as food for thought.

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‘Celestial Pavilion’ design wins architecture class competition

By JEONGYOON HAN STAFF WRITER Last Thursday at solar noon, 12:39 p.m. EST, over 20 students, faculty and staff gathered in the Celestial Pavilion, designed by Kate Latimore ’19. The pavilion is a sleek and simple yet elegant white wooden building that captures the movement of the sun throughout the seasons.

Latimore’s pavilion, standing between Schapiro and Hopkins Halls, was the winning design for Professor of Art Ben Benedict’s “Architectural Design II” class.

In the competition, held biennially, students in the class are given two weeks to design a functional yet intriguing structure based on a specific prompt that Benedict gives them. This year’s prompt, given in the beginning of September, read: “Your assignment is to design a small pavilion or structure to celebrate [the Spring and Fall equinoxes and the Summer and Winter Solstices] here in Williamstown. ... Before you don your eclipse glasses, keep in mind that we are not Druids dragging 25 ton stones across the Salisbury Plain. We are a small number of students (and two old guys) using materials we can buy at the lumberyard to build a festive mini-monument.”

“The challenge is that’s hard to do,” Benedict said. “Building something you’ve designed brings many lessons that expand your thinking about how to design.”

This described Latimore’s experience in creating the pavilion – her first design was a spaceship, which she quickly realized would be difficult to construct.

But through researching and planning, each sketch Latimore produced during the two-week designing period culminated in the pavilion students and faculty walk by each day.

The core vision that Latimore brings across through her building is to convey time as a linear concept as demonstrated through the movements of the sun. Additionally, Latimore said

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The design for the Celestial Pavilion, standing outside Schapiro Hall, was created by Kate Latimore ’19 for a project in Ben Benedict’s class. she wanted the building to “remind [people] that we can engage with the world down to the most basic sense of interacting with the sun and its movements.”

Latimore achieved this by allowing sunlight to flood into the building’s interior through 12 slots – signifying the 12 months of the year – that are on one side of the wall that faces the sun. The inspiration for the slots in the wall, in fact, came from Chapin Hall: seeing shadows and sunlight moving across the Hall’s columns reminded Latimore of a sundial, and she decided to incorporate a similar idea into her design. The slots are further apart upon first entering the pavilion, suggesting the idea of winter, “when the nights are long and the days are short. As you

walk to the middle the frequency of slots increases letting in more light, suggesting summer when the days are long and the nights are short,” Benedict said. “As you reach the other end, you’re back to winter.”

As the path of the sun changes throughout the year, the sunlight would hit different heights of the walls in the pavilion. Latimore designed the roof to be angled at 24 degrees above horizontal, which is the lowest angle the sun will be on the shortest day of the year, the Winter Solstice on Dec. 21. Sunlight would “climb” up to the height of the eight-foot tall wall, as marked by the Winter Solstice.

On the Summer Solstice, June 21, the light will only reach part-

Students use scooters for fun transport

By JULIA MARIANI CONTRIBUTING WRITER There is a rising population of students riding scooters around campus. Scooters, originally used as methods of transportation for football players during preseason, have risen in popularity that now extends beyond the team.

To find out more about the phenomenon, I spoke with TJ Rothmann ’21, a linebacker for the College’s football team. He has been riding a scooter since preseason training and sees it as a functional mode of transportation across campus. For one, it helped with fatigue after football training; instead of having to walk all the way back from the football fields after an exhausting practice, players could unwind and enjoy riding scooters instead. Another draw was ease of access. “It was mainly a logistical thing, and now they are just so easy and cheap. They’re cheaper than buying a bike,” Rothmann said.

For students who prefer not to ride a bike, scooters provide a suitable alternative. They are

small and easy to ride. Scooters also fold easily, avoiding the hassle of locking and unlocking a bike. Tire pressure is not an issue since the wheels used on scooters are solid, and the handlebars allow for more stable riding when compared to a skateboard. Scooters can be purchased online for as little as 35 dollars, making them a wallet-friendly alternative to bikes and skateboards as well.

According to Rothmann, however, riding a scooter is not always the best option. “The first time I rode in the rain I absolutely wiped out. It was a slick surface. I went around a turn going toward Mission, and I just wiped out,” he said.

Hills can pose a challenge as well. “A sophomore football player was going down Mission Hill once, hit a bump and wiped out,” Rothmann said. “CSS [Campus Safety and Security] got called. He was fine!”

Ice and snow conditions during the winter also may cause issues for scooter riders in the coming months.

Rothmann also emphasized that scooters are not limited

to the football team. To learn more about scooter riders who are not members of the football team, I spoke with Peter Barry ’21. He decided to purchase a scooter for reasons similar to Rothmann.

“I decided to ride a scooter because I had seen people riding them at my older siblings’ colleges and always thought it looked fun, and when I got here I realized it would also be really practical because walking across campus can take 10 minutes and gets boring. As a non-football player, my friends will make jokes along the lines of, ‘Oh I didn’t know you played football!’, but it’s funny. Scooters are way too efficient to not take advantage of,” Barry said.

Scootering undeniably has increased in popularity on campus, especially among the first-year class. A trend spotted on other college campuses as well, the popularity of scooters seems to emerge from their efficiency in travel, easy storage and low-maintenance upkeep.

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way across the dark blue floor at noon at the same angle of the triangular door, and on the Spring (March 21) and Fall Equinoxes (Sept. 21), the light will only reach part-way height of the light blue and white wall.

Once the idea was presented to the class on Sept. 22, the seven students voted for Latimore’s design to be built. “Kate’s project was simple and powerful.

The combination makes it both memorable and buildable which is why it was chosen by the class,” Benedict said.

The week following the vote, the class constructed the pavilion with the help of Benedict, Benedict’s friend Rick Kobik and the Center for Learning in Action, while students continuously contributed throughout the week.

This allowed for a collaborative effort to construct Latimore’s design. Indeed, Benedict and students offered constructive critiques, including Benedict’s suggestion to have triangular doors to introduce different shapes into a rectangular structure. Additionally, the slanted roof was originally supposed to face the other direction, but felt that it would be more fitting if the roof’s angle associated with the Summer Solstice.

Some modifications to the pavilion were less intentional.

Latimore first envisioned a monotone colored theme to the pavilion, with hues of grey and white. But upon buying paints for the pavilion, Latimore was intrigued by the shades of blue offered at the hardware store, and

changed the color scheme at the spur of the moment.

“It wasn’t a [specific decision] to choose blue, but it represents the sky in some ways. I do like how it adds a bit of dimension to the white of the outside,” Latimore said.

Now that the pavilion is open to the public, Latimore said she is excited that her concept has come to life.

“I’m so happy,” Latimore said. “It’s the coolest thing to be able to walk through a building that you designed, now to full scale. I’m really happy with how it worked out.”

Latimore said she hopes that the building can be a space for visitors to appreciate the movements of the sun through whatever form that may take, such as studying or simply acting as a space of gathering for people.

“What this class has made me do is think more detail-oriented, because the details do matter,” Latimore said. “I think more about creating a space than the building itself. There’s also a logical approach: You start with the big picture and then you go down to the details and edit things, but there’s always a concept that you follow.”

The options are endless for Latimore as she plans to further explore her interest in architecture. This past summer, she worked at an alum’s architecture firm called Beebe Skidmore, which is located in Portland, Ore. Additionally, Latimore went on a fellowship to study public baths in Japan from June through the first half of July.

Latimore said she hopes that, regardless of where her future projects may take her, they can help foster a spirit of community.

This speaks to her love of architecture and the purpose it brings to communities of all sizes and from all regions.

“I like the fact that architecture has a more utilitarian approach. There’s form and functionality,” Latimore said.

“Creating space for me means community as well, and bringing people together.”

MSRC applies innovative new tutoring strategies

By KATHERINE SANDS CONTRIBUTING WRITER This year the Peer Academic Support Network, under the guidance of Laura Muller, is implementing a number of substantial changes that will seek to improve the network’s functionality and accessibility.

Laura Muller serves as the College’s director of Quantitative Skills Programs and Peer Support, a role with the basic premise of supporting both faculty and students in courses that have a quantitative component.

“I help both groups develop ways to remove barriers that limit overall student learning in those courses,” Muller said. “I enjoy thinking about how to situate small quantitative components – such as an assignment – just as much as I like to think about how to scaffold quantitative learning throughout a whole course.”

A large part of Muller’s work involves her role as the director of Peer Support, in which she oversees the Peer Academic Support Network. The three main components of the network are the Math and Science Resource Center (MSRC), the Economics Resource Center (ERC) and individual peer tutoring. In the fall of 2016, 90 percent of all individual student tutoring happened in “STEM+” courses (science, technology, engineering and math), which include Division III courses, economics courses and a few psychology courses.

“If you add the hours tutors work in the MSRC and ERC, about 97 percent of peer tutoring on campus is in STEM+,” Muller said.

“Therefore, all of the courserelated individual tutoring falls under my purview.”

As director of Peer Support, Muller is responsible for all of the logistics that go into facilitating peer tutoring on campus. “Day to day, we are thinking about scheduling tutors, supporting tutors around teaching skills, meeting student need for tutors, as well as taking care of little things like snacks in the MSRC and ERC,” Muller said. She is also involved in some long-term programming

that helps students support their peers in general coursework.

Muller sees the main purpose of the MSRC and ERC as providing collaborative spaces where students can go to find peers who are also working on problem sets and other course material. The MSRC provides tutor support in 100-level and some 200-level Division III courses, while the ERC provides support in “Principles of Microeconomics,” “Principles of Macroeconomics” and “Price and Allocation Theory.”

“Both spaces are staffed by tutor-facilitators who answer questions as they arise in doing that work,” Muller said. “Though some students come into the rooms with specific questions, many come just to work in a supportive environment.”

Muller said that the biggest change that has been made to the Peer Academic Support Network in the past year is that now the majority of tutors have scheduled hours. This enhanced scheduling system happens through TutorTrac, where students can go online and make appointments with tutors.

While TutorTrac helps in scheduling and setting appointment times, it also improves tutor accessibility. “If you were to log onto TutorTrac and want tutoring, for say, BIO 202, and see that someone has availability in 10 minutes in Eco, you could also just show up,” Muller said. “Appointments take first priority, but the tutor is there at the times and places listed on TutorTrac and is happy to have students drop in with questions about course material.”

Other changes this year include a greater effort to schedule tutor availability at times when students have problem sets and exams. While this new scheduling system makes peer tutoring more accommodating for those

looking for additional help at times when they have a greater workload, it is not always possible because of the nature of peer tutoring. “If there is not another Williams student willing to tutor for a specific course or able to tutor the day before an exam because of their own workload, we are not able to offer tutoring,” Muller said. “We need to respect that the first job of a tutor is as a Williams student.”

Muller said that while her work in each of the three components of the program has unique challenges, the overarching challenge that she faces is meeting demand.

“We have hired and scheduled tutors based on past use,” Muller said.

“And yet, we can be surprised by demand for tutoring in a particular course.” A particularly surprising moment came this year when the professor for a course changed after having been the same one for an extended period of time. “We had to hire additional tutors to keep up with demand,” she said.

Muller emphasized that the Peer Academic Support Network is always looking for feedback from students and wants to find ways to improve accessibility and increase awareness about the services that are offered. In order to help students navigate the new systems being implemented this year, Muller said that there will be tabling soon to teach students how to make appointments through TutorTrac.

Looking toward the future, Muller said that one of her goals is to start to find ways to offer support to students who are taking courses in which there is no tutor. “We have some very preliminary ideas,” she said. “We welcome ideas from students about the kinds of non-course based support they would like to have.”

“We need to respect that the first job of a tutor is as a Williams student.”

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Less is more in cinematic ‘Beatriz at Dinner’

By CARLOS CABRERA-LOMELI STAFF WRITER A friend described Beatriz at Dinner as being “like a Get Out through the Latino perspective.”

Indeed, there are some similarities between these two films: A person of color entering an exclusive white upper-class space; an intense degree of tension, discomfort and lack of belonging on the part of the person of color (and the audience) to make a larger point. However, while Get Out uses the vehicle of magical realism and satire to directly call out the appropriation, abuse and injustice against the black community and black culture in the United States, Beatriz at Dinner, directed

by Miguel Arteta, takes the opposite approach. Instead, the film focuses on a hyper-realistic study of human empathy, hatred and longing through the interactions of the protagonist Beatriz and her dinner guests – a parallel of the blatant discrimination and lack of compassion towards Beatriz’s Latina identity.

Salma Hayek brings an incredible degree of humanity and depth to Beatriz, a dedicated and selfless physical therapist who can empathize with other living things to a great degree. She lives alone in Southern California, with several animals in her house. One of them, a goat, was killed by one of her neighbors. Although heavily affected by the loss, Beatriz still goes to her job at a cancer alternativetreatment center, where she helps post-chemo survivors withstand and move past their physical pain.

It is in a scene at the cancer treatment center that the incred-

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‘Beatriz at Dinner,’ shown at Images Cinema last week, offers a powerful commentary on today’s money-obsessed society. ible talent of both Arteta and Hayek begin to come through. A patient lies face down on a medical table, and Beatriz moves her hand inches above the body of the patient, seemingly scanning where the patient feels the pain. In a completely silent scene, the talent Hayek has to express emotion through simple gestures, an ability to maintain tempo and a startling level of honesty and self-exposure allows the viewer to fully understand the source of Beatriz’s talent as a physical therapist: the limitless ability of Beatriz to feel the pain, burden and isolation of others. No music, no words,

but the degree of humanity on screen is deafening.

With this ability, she has been able to connect with an extremely wealthy Newport Beach family, Kathy, Grant and Tara, the daughter who became extremely close with Beatriz as she struggled to cope with lymphomatic cancer as a teenager. Tara has gone off to college and her mother now contracts Beatriz for massage sessions. After one of these sessions, Beatriz is unable to drive back home as her car fails to start.

Kathy asks Beatriz to stay over for dinner until Beatriz can get a ride back. For this night, the property and development millionaires

Kathy and Grant had already invited two other rich couples for a dinner party.

As soon as the guests arrive, Arteta returns to the power of silent cues, of awkward silences and distance to prove how isolated Beatriz becomes in the presence of the cultural differences of affluent WASPs, regardless of how hard Beatriz tries to fit in. Casual dinner conversations on new development projects, expanding wealth and hunting occur in a natural manner amongst the dinner guests. But the humanity and empathy Beatriz brings to the table (quite literally, the dinner table) is the key factor in illuminating a

new mode of thought. The pursuance of wealth, of self-grandiose and permanent prosperity, many times requires destruction.

One of these guests is an international property development tycoon by the name of Doug Strutt, played by John Lithgow. It is easy to label Doug as a heartless capitalist only seeking the bottom line. However, he is a family man who genuinely cares for his grandchildren and friends. He is not a caricature, but someone who believes that the measure of living things is their human utility and societal contribution, a not-so-rare opinion. It is he that insults Beatriz the most, interro-

gating her about her immigration status, assuming she is a maid and even insinuating she’s been a burlesque entertainer. The values and passions of Beatriz and Doug come crashing against each other, and it is Beatriz who pays the price.

Beatriz at Dinner uses the prejudice against Beatriz’s identity as an immigrant woman of color as a starting point for further analysis on what is it that pushes individuals to become either the selfless and caring Beatriz, or the cruel Doug. Both believe that the way they see the world is right, and both are pursuing a place of peace in their past. Beatriz longs to return to the mangroves of the small town in Mexico where she grew up that she would explore in a canoe as a little girl. An American development firm destroyed her town and its mangroves. She can no longer return to that place, but what it represents – innocence, life and protection – is what drives her to care and heal others.

Doug seems to seek the shining logo of the American Dream: success, security and peace of mind.

However, his methods involve suppressing protesters of developing nations that go against his hotel developments, polluting the environment and avoiding any responsibility. The contrast between these two characters presents the unlimited richness and beauty of Beatriz at Dinner. The work relies both on silence and personal exchanges to establish not just how difficult it can be to be an immigrant woman of color in a wealthy white space, but also the normalized values that have made this an issue in the first place.

St. Vincent explores sex and sadness

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A WCMA exhibition explores how Takenaga’s work has involved languages of abstraction.

Dots, lines evoke celestial bodies at WCMA

By JOSEPH VALENCIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER Dots are an often overlooked and underappreciated element of art, despite their usefulness. Barbara Takenaga strives as an artist to make the most out of dots, and has shaped them to become a cornerstone of her artistic style. Takenaga draws from many sources to inform her art. She mixes her culture into her art, using elements of Japanese printmaking while also including elements of tantric painting, which is a variation of minimalism. All of these elements, as well as some aspects of optical art, help to make her paintings truly unique among other contemporary pieces.

Beginning in the early 1990s, Takenaga began to implement the use of dots more heavily, using them to construct various configurations bearing a striking resemblance to celestial bodies and galaxies in some pieces.

She has claimed that her art is based on labor, the hard work and repetition that she puts into each piece. Her pieces are also characterized by their freeform and boundless nature – some pieces seem to have no apparent starting or ending point, stretching on to infinity.

The collection currently offered at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is an

impressive array that showcases all of the aforementioned qualities of Takenaga’s art. One colorful and eye catching piece is called Festivus, a piece that consists primarily of the colors yellow, blue, green and orange.

The painting is comprised of many orb-like structures, most of them orange and yellow dots, arranged in a spiral formation. The blue and green orbs break up the constant barrage of yellow and orange. The spiral itself is impressive to look at, as it seems to go on forever. The surge of bright colors helps to support the piece’s name of Festivus, and while Festivus is impressive, it is made only of dots and very few lines. Takenaga truly shines when she utilizes dots and lines in unison.

Another noteworthy piece that utilizes both lines and dots to great effect is Blue/ Silver Wheel. This piece is another spiral formation, made with blue dots of various sizes tucked into pockets formed by silver lines. The painting consists of many overlapping layers of the wavy silver lines and blue dots. The layers overlap infinitely, as the center of the spiral implies that the pattern continues forever. This piece is a prime example of some of the psychedelic qualities found in Takenaga’s art.

A piece that makes great use of organic and geometric

shapes is Sphere/Horizon. It is divided evenly across the middle (horizontally), with the lower half being mostly geometric and the upper half being mostly organic in shape. The lower half is made up of rows of dots, arranged in packets that form arrows, all pointing towards the vanishing point of the horizon.

The upper half is made up of dots arranged in curved lines that come together to form a spherical construct that originates from the vanishing point and stretches upward until it fades away. Once again, Takenaga broaches the concept of infinity through the inclusion of the vanishing point on the horizon.

To me, viewing this painting is akin to looking upon a limitless dreamscape. I marvel at the creative process behind the piece, and I see the laborious aspect of Takenaga’s work.

Though my time at the College has been brief, this has been my favorite collection offered by WCMA. Though most of the pieces seem very similar at first glance, each one is unique in its own right, and each piece has a different tone to it. The pieces covered were only three that stood out to me, but the collection has so much more to offer to those who make the time to explore it. All of the paintings on display are both a mental experience and a wonder for the eyes.

The hardest stage of heartbreak may just be the final part – letting the pain subside.

Before realizing you can’t live off wine, whiskey and the taste of a lover’s lips, you cling to the last thing you shared with someone you loved and let love you. At its most heart-wrenching, you finally recognize what you thought of as young love may have in fact been cruel, alluring and addicting seduction.

After embodying the role of discontented ’50s housewife and cult space queen, St. Vincent proclaims her latest iteration of self as “a dominatrix at a mental institution” for her new album MASSEDUCTION. Behind the façade of disembodied legs and neon vinyl leotards, she also says it’s her most personal work to date as Annie Clark. And it is most definitely a breakup album.

But to focus only on romantic breakups would be too facile for an artist like St. Vincent.

She explores the breakup with an era. It’s a familiar era that we all share at some point in our lives – the era that I lovingly call “a beautiful shitshow” – the era of loving, making love, hurting and doing it all over again – the era in which we learn the most if we get through it. You had to have lived through pure delirious heartbreak to fully embrace the melodrama of “how could anybody have you and lose you and not lose their mind too?” in the chorus of “Los Ageless.”

This is an album about saying messy goodbyes.

The tragically enthralling MASSEDUCTION opens within the intimate and liminal space of a late night.

Clark croons, “I know you’re probably sleeping.” Reach-

ing out right at the moment when all anxieties, fears and revelations coalesce in your mind, she offers a moment of support.

Before the insomnia seeps in, the album rips you into the earworm jingle of “Pills” – a sardonic take on the means in which we medicate away all inconvenience. Here we see Clark executing her apt skills of dark humorous lyricism with lines like, “From healers to dealers and then back again.

From guru to voodoo and voodoo to zen.”

As one of the most inventive, playful and skilled guitarists of our time, Clark makes a definitive choice to use MASSEDUCTION to explore a different breadth of sonic textures and pop sensibilities. “Sugarboy” and the title track “Masseduction” find the artist offering an unapologetic stance on sex, sexuality and power with abrasive kick drums propelling grooves to banging choruses. Acidic wordplay and guitar groans keep the songs poignantly bemoaning amidst the pop gestures. It’s queer, erotic, synthdriven madness fueled by a desire to self-destruct.

In the cheeky and kinky song “Savior,” Clark complains, “None of this shit fits,” when her play partner puts her into different cliché BDSM costumes. If you were curious, the leather proves a bit more comfortable than the vinyl nurse outfit.

The absurdity of the situation, however, quickly takes a turn as she proclaims, “Honey, I can’t be your savior.” The catharsis of the humor allows the unveiling of the pressures and burdens of someone fashioning you into “their savior” and “their martyr.” Conflating idealization with idolization,

Clark hints at seduction’s destructive undertones. It’s toxic to be someone’s ideal.

“Young Lovers” further expands the dark sides of relationship gone awry. Here, guilt and fear undercut the romantic imagery of robin songs and Eiffel Tower lights.

Clark sings, “I wish your love was enough,” while describing a lover taking pills that are unpronounceable. Eventually, the time to say goodbye arrives and “Slow Disco” punctuates the last moment alone, together between lovers. Then the pain lingers.

Exploring the larger thematic issues of power and agency raised through romance, Clark speaks of the album’s title in Interview Magazine: “The seduction part references the kind of forces in people or in nature that can swallow you whole, that are standing just outside the reach of the black hole. When I say the album is about love, I just mean that seduction, power, all that stuff, are the things we kind of reach for when what we’re really looking for is love.”

MASSEDUCTION could easily have come off tired and trite given Clark’s claim that the album is about “sex, sadness and drugs.” But, constantly at the brink of falling into a cliché, Clark remains sincere.

She always has been her best at the edge of a stage dive.

In the final song, “Smoking Section,” Clark leaves us with the words “it’s not over” after flirting with a loaded gun and a tempting rooftop ledge. MASSEDUCTION appreciates the tumultuousness, beauty, agony and depth of a life lived always to the fullest and always at the edge. I say, bring on the future. Bring on the fear.

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In new album ‘MASSEDUCTION,’ St. Vincent plays the part of a ‘dominatrix in a mental institution.’

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October 18, 2017

‘Battle of the Sexes’ becomes an instant classic

By CECELIA MESSBAUER STAFF WRITER The Battle of the Sexes is one of the most iconic moments in sports history, a watershed event that had and continues to have an outsized impact on American popular culture relative to the popularity of tennis as a sport. 29 year old World No. 2 Billie Jean King’s convincing victory over 55 year old tennis hall of fame Bobby Riggs in 1973 took a chauvinist’s attempt at a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt and turned it into a high-stakes athletic triumph that vindicated both women’s tennis as a sport and the labor rights of female athletes that King had been fighting for, all while second wave feminism was washing over the United States in full force.

Such material is perfectly suited for a sports movie and demanding of one well done.

Battle of the Sexes, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, delivers on all counts to provide an instant classic to the genre’s canon.

Emma Stone is at the top of her game as King, and Steve Carell shines as a fully fleshed out but never too sympathetic Riggs – but the genius of the film is that for all the symbolic weight of the title bout, the narrative spends most of its time on both the bigger picture of feminist politics embodied by the match and King’s personal struggles within that cultural landscape. As the film opens, King’s primary conflict is with

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‘Battle of the Sexes,’ shown at Images Cinema last week, exposes the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement.

Jack Kramer, a less cartoonish but more insidiously misogynistic broadcaster, promoter and renowned former player who is speaking against equal pay for women players. King, having become the first women to earn $100,000 in prize money, leads a boycott of the Women’s Tennis Association and – with the help of Sarah Silverman’s World Tennis Magazine founder Gladys Heldman – creates an independent women’s tour. In that sense, the ensuing first act is reminiscent of nothing so much as baseball classic A League of their Own.

King’s initiative is complicated when Riggs, whose marriage is falling apart due to a gambling habit, takes advantage of the public tension of the moment to monetize his misogyny by challenging the No. 1 women’s player in the world, and to that end is rebuffed by an incredulous King. But when King loses her ranking to Margaret Court, the Australian superstar accepts Riggs’ challenge and, to the shock of her tour-mates, loses decisively.

Court is one of the few characters that is not fully fleshed out, but the narrative uses what space it has for her to empha-

size the difference in Court’s and King’s approach to the Battle of the Sexes. Court, a conservative Christian who ultimately aligns herself against many goals of the feminist movement, tolerates Riggs’ sexist overtures while playing as if the stakes are confined to a one-off exhibition tennis match. King, whose crusade for equal pay had no time for Riggs’ antics before Court’s loss made clear the need for a statement win, gives her all to defeat, discredit and embarrass Riggs, all while inhabiting her sport not only as an unapologetic women but also as a closeted lesbian.

This second aspect of King’s identity is tied to the true emotional core of the film: not a sports drama, but a love story between King and her hairdresser Marilyn Barnett. Their illicit affair is bursting with romantic tension from their first interaction, and the film shamelessly and joyously indulges in romantic tropes that make full use of cinematic license to tell the kind of classic love story so rarely afforded to same gender relationships.

Hard realities are met head on, especially in the depiction of King’s husband Larry

as he discovers the truth, but difficulties of the relationship never lessen the impact of love on King’s drive and ultimate victory.

As for Riggs, Carell’s portrayal works so well because it emphasizes his complexity and vulnerability, especially in scenes with his children, while simultaneously never letting him off the hook for both his overt misogyny and the related entitlement that causes him to fail as a husband.

In the end, though, Riggs is portrayed not as evil but as pathetic, a bloviating and overcompensating agent of a vile cultural force who talks big and falls hard, while the patriarchal system that enabled him continues to thrive. King beats Riggs, proves Kramer wrong and secures equal pay, but her life of off-screen activism will see a never-ending struggle against the misogyny of Riggs and Kramer.

While it is important to acknowledge that King’s place in the second wave feminist zeitgeist can’t be separated from her status as a socioeconomically privileged athlete (the implications of which are driven home when she enters the Astrodome on a litter carried by men dressed in the style of Egyptian slaves), Battle of the Sexes takes the most important and the most thrilling parts of history’s most famous tennis match and turns it into one of the most unique and effective sports films ever made.

King Krule returns with smoky tunes

By HANNAH TAGER STAFF WRITER This year, Archy Marshall stated he “couldn’t be bothered” to work with Kanye West.

He also claimed to not know who Drake was in 2015. The slim, fire-haired British artist seems to be at odds with his artistic alias, King Krule. Aided by his notoriously raspy and mature baritone voice, King Krule has topped charts with his trademark style: jazzy punk beats and overly angsty lyrics.

In his newest album, The Ooz, the modest-looking 23 year-old redhead delivers on both.

“Biscuit Town,” the first song on the album, is a typical King Krule track – it opens with a jazzy guitar riff that is abruptly interrupted by the abrasive and guttural sound of his voice.

Marshall’s baritone arrived with puberty. In an interview with The New York Times, he stated, “I was 14, 15. Right away I was like … I can’t hit these notes anymore. My voice became more and more sandy. [It] degraded into the layers of a croissant. It became flaky and dry.”

Lauded by some as original, King Krule’s puff pastry vocals are alarming and disagreeable to the ears. His unique sound sacrifices vocal control and fluidity; Marshall lacks the range and croon of his punk predeces-

sors such as Joe Strummer or Ian Curtis. Instead, King Krule’s voice verges on screamo, an effect that is exacerbated by his moody lyrics.

“I seem to sink lower, gazing in the rays of the solar,” begins the first verse of “Biscuit Town.”

It ends, “I think we might be bipolar, I think she thinks I’m bipolar. … For at least for now, it’s all over/Yeah, at least for now, it’s all over.” In this first verse, King Krule’s rhyme scheme is simple and almost lazy, perhaps evocative of the insomnia that, along with depression, influenced many of his lyrics on The Ooz. While his discomfort is audible on the album, his lyrics lack the subtleties or poeticism that could convey the nuances of his mental illness. In “Dum Surfer,” released as a single in September, King Krule sings that his “brain’s potato mash” in a track that sounds like a darker, yet just as corny, “Monster Mash.” The song has an extraterrestrial sonic vibe and begins with a ghoulish moan, but just like “Biscuit Town,” and the chorus of “Monster Mash,” “Dum Surfer” has a repetitive rhyme scheme, each line ending with “-ash.”

The New York Times calls King Krule “timelessly cool, a child of bohemia with a sharp proletarian edge, tall and model gaunt with a gold-capped front tooth and a fluff of red hair,”

but his appeal is just as contrived as any praise for The Ooz. As his fans listen to the album, convincing themselves of Krule’s unfiltered talent, they buy into his carefully-manipulated brand; what appears as reluctant fame to King Krule’s counter-culture fan base is no more than calculated success.

While his persona and rejection of Kanye suggest a personal indifference to fame and fortune, the young punk is undoubtedly aware of and actively curates his image. At a recent underground performance of The Ooz in a Manhattan dim sum restaurant, King Krule donned an unreleased sweatshirt from the street-wear brand Supreme, betraying his preoccupations with hype brands and cheap consumer trends.

King Krule is a counter-culture idol, appealing to the trustifarians who look like they’ve stepped out of a fancy trashcan and swear by Charles Bukowski – in fact, Marshall cites the author as one of his literary inspirations. But taken at face value, The Ooz boasts lyrics as bland as Bukowski’s prose and features vocals as disturbing as a Bukowski plot. The spectacle of King Krule is frustrating to a jaded listener and perhaps worth trading for the shamelessly arrogant, albeit talented, Kanye West.

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October 18, 2017

Equestrian opens season by hosting show at Bonnie Lea Farm

NEENA PATEL/EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Anna Ringuette ’19 won the open over fences competition at Bonnie Lea Farm last Saturday.

By NEENA PATEL EXECUTIVE EDITOR On Saturday, the equestrian team hosted its first horse show of the season at DeMayo’s Bonnie Lea Farm in Williamstown.

The team came in fifth; Mount Holyoke won the show.

The College has 13 members on its equestrian team, which is coached by Lisa DeMayo. At shows, riders are not permitted to ride their own horses. The home team or host stables are given to the riders for the day, and they draw horses before their ride.

The team competes in Hunter Seat Equitation, and there are eight levels within the Hunter Seat Division: walktrot; beginner and advanced walk-trot-canter; novice, intermediate and open on the flat; and novice, intermediate and open over fences. Riders can

decide if they want to ride in an over fences class, a flat class or both. Riders are placed into their classes depending on how many weeks of lessons and how many competitions they have participated in as well as how well they have done. A rider becomes part of the open division when they have at least six blue ribbons at the 3-foot-6-inch height in rated horse shows.

Last weekend, Anna Ringuette ’19 won the open over fences; cocaptain Emily Orchant ’18 came in second in open on the flat; Holly MacAlpine ’20 came in sixth in both novice over fences and novice on the flat and Anika Mitchell ’18 came in first and Maddie Hurwitz ’21 came in fourth in walk-trot-canter.

The College is part of Zone 1 and Region 3 in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA). The IHSA consists of 40 regions in eight zones with almost 400 colleges and more than 9000 riders that represent 45 states and Canada.

Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Bennington, Mount Holyoke, Springfield and Westfield State are also part of this region. Throughout the

year, riders can earn points depending on which place they take. When they have 36 points, or 28 for open, they are qualified to compete at the regional finals. The top two riders in each class move on to compete in the finals for their zone, and from there, the top rider can go on to Nationals.

Each member of the College’s team takes lessons with DeMayo while training throughout the year. The team rides outside when the weather is good and rides indoors during the winter.

The team is also responsible for taking care of the horses during the show, and the riders were at the barn bright and early on Saturday to set up.

The show was the first of the season for all schools in the region, and Amherst, Smith and UMass Amherst competed. It was also the first show for Hurwitz and Anna Jackowski ’21.

“The whole team rode really well,” Ringuette said. “Our horses were good all day, and it was a positive start to the season.”

Ringuette attended Nationals last year in Lexington, Ky. Orchant is co-captain of the team with Mia Dana ’18. Dana was proud of the team’s perfor-

mance and grateful for the horses and Bonnie Lea staff.

“The show went really well,” she said. “The team had a lot of great rides, including both some well-deserved wins and some placings that didn’t reflect the quality of the riding.

That, though, is a normal feature of IHSA and working with horses generally. I was also proud of how well the horses [did] – it’s difficult for any horse to be surrounded by the excitement of a show, much less have a changing cast of unfamiliar riders. All our horses handled it well and had some beautiful rounds.

“A lot of work goes into hosting an IHSA show, and we’re lucky to have so many wonderful people from Bonnie Lea supporting us, be it by organizing the horse draw, lending us their horses or helping us clean tack [riding equipment].”

The next horse show that the team will attend will take place this coming weekend at the UMass Amherst. The team trains year-round and competes in both the fall and the spring, with big shows such as Regionals, Zones and Nationals occurring in the spring.

Women’s golf concludes fall season with win at NYU Invitational

By CORDELIA CHAN TEAM CORRESPONDENT In its final tournament of the fall season, women’s golf finished first at the NYU Invitational last weekend out of a 10team field. The women edged NYU on a fifth-player tiebreaker, and Holly Davenport ’21 won the individual title.

Play began on Saturday at the Forest Hill Field Club in Bloomfield, N.J., on a course that totaled nearly 6000 yards.

Davenport shot her best collegiate round to date, leading all players with a three-over 75 on Day One. NYU sophomore Arisa Kimura was two shots behind in second place. Davenport’s consistency was her strength, allowing her to twoputt most holes for par.

“Saturday went really well for me,” Davenport said. “I was hitting my clubs really consistently so I didn’t get into too much trouble out there. I didn’t make a ton of birdie putts but I was able to lag putt really well to make some pars, which I think was key on that course.” Cordelia Chan ’19 was the next-best scorer for the Ephs, shooting a 79. Chan

struggled with her driver on Day One, especially on the narrow Forest Hill fairways.

Tri-captain Liz Gudas ’18 had an 82 despite starting with a four-putt on a difficult first hole. She bounced back with a birdie on the second hole and steadied herself the rest of the round. Stella Woo ’21 and tricaptain Phoebe Mattana ’18 followed with matching 84s, with each player struggling on the greens. Isabella Wang ’19 played as an individual and turned in a solid 78, her strongest tournament round of the year. The highlight of her round was getting on the green of the long par-5 11th hole in two shots and two-putting for a birdie.

The women finished Day One in second place, five strokes back from host NYU, which led with a score of 315.

“We didn’t play our best golf on Saturday, but the team showed great character battling the challenging conditions,” head coach Tomas Adalsteinsson said.

The Ephs turned in a strong Day Two, erasing NYU’s fivestroke advantage.

Davenport held onto her lead in the individual standings, shooting a 77 on Sunday.

Her round started with a disappointing double-bogey on the second hole, but she rebounded with three consecutive birdies on short par-5s. Davenport’s twoday total of 152 was three better than the field as she secured her first collegiate victory.

“My swing felt really good and my putter was working for me as well,” Davenport said. “I had a couple of rough holes, but I had some really nice birdies to save me. It was really cool to win as an individual, but mostly, I was excited for my team. Everyone really stepped up on Sunday, and we were able to get the win.”

After shooting a 76 on Day Two, Chan moved four spots up the leaderboard to finish second behind Davenport.

Chan’s second-place outcome marked her third consecutive runner-up finish.

Mattana managed a nice comeback after an uncharacteristic performance on Day One. She shot a 77 on Sunday, moving up eight places to finish T-12 individually. Gudas shot a 78 to finish T-9.

Woo played to her strength, consistency, but was able to make some long putts for three birdies. She moved up four places to finish 16th individually.

Wang followed her strong showing on Day One with an 80 in the second round. Her T-6 finish last week was her best collegiate performance.

When all the team scores were added up, Williams and NYU

were tied with a two-day total of 628. The Ephs shot 308 on Sunday to NYU’s 313, and the tiebreaker came down to the fifth player’s Day Two score. Woo’s 78 bested NYU freshman Navika Kuchakulla’s 82, as the women notched their second tournament win in as many weeks.

“It always takes a team effort to win golf tournaments, but last weekend we needed

all five scorers, and each player stepped up,” Adalsteinsson said. “It’s fantastic to end the fall season with a win and five scores in the 70s. This team is so tough mentally and just keeps getting better.”

The Ephs conclude their fall season with a NESCAC title and three total tournament victories.

The women begin their spring preseason on Feb. 15, 2018.

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Tri-captain Liz Gudas ’18 shot an 82 on Day One and a 78 on Day Two of the NYU Invitational.

CAPTAINS’ CORNER: HANNAH GOODRICK ’18

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By BROOKE HOROWITCH SPORTS EDITOR

Team: Field hockey Hometown: Darien, Conn.

Residence: Parsons House Major: Music Snack bar order: Make-your-own omelet At what age did you start playing field hockey?

I went to the same school, Greenwich Academy, from preK through 12th grade. I probably picked up a stick for the first time when I was in first or second grade. At Greenwich Academy, the field hockey program is historically very good. In gym

class, we would just play around, and then I started playing on a club team in seventh grade and played all throughout high school. I had been a swimmer all my life. I started swimming on a competitive team when I was about 5, and I played violin. That is a very individual activity, so I loved the fact that field hockey was a team sport. I really liked how you have to rely so much on your teammates. In high school, I ended up doing field hockey, swimming and track, and field hockey was great in the midst of those more individual things.

Did anyone in particular influence you during those years?

I had an amazing high school field hockey coach named Angela Tammaro. She coached at our school for 49 years and retired right after my senior year. She’s known as a legend, and she still comes to my field hockey games now. She has a bunch of former players who play in the NESCAC now. My sister is four years older than I am, and she played for Ms. T., so I kind of knew her before going into high school. She’s still a mentor to me, and I go to her when I need advice.

Why did you decide to attend the College?

I was looking primarily at NESCAC schools at the end of my college search. Williams was the place where I could pursue all of my interests; the music department is almost unmatched among small liberal arts colleges.

We have such great course opportunities, guest performers and professors. I loved the music department and really loved

the field hockey team. There is a great balance between life and field hockey – not just field hockey as your life – but Williams is still a very competitive team in the NESCAC. I was also pre-med, and I knew that I would have the freedom to take whatever courses I wanted here, even while playing field hockey.

What are your favorite things about the field hockey team?

Something that we have really found as a team this year is how much we need each other. In games, practices and off the field, there is such a camaraderie, especially this year, that makes it so fun.

What is it like playing for head coach Alix Barrale ’93?

She’s amazing! She does a camp at Greenwich Academy every year. She’s been doing it since my sister and I were little, so I went to her camp since around sixth grade. I never really thought of her as a collegiate field hockey coach. When coaches are recruiting, players feel like it’s not so easy to be themselves around them, but when I decided that I wanted to try to play field hockey in college, I felt like I could totally be myself around her. She already knew me for many years, and that’s still true today. I feel like I can totally be my weird and quirky self around her. She is so supportive of all of the things that I do because she knows that I still love the team so much and am very committed to field hockey.

How has your experience been as a co-captain, and what is your relationship

with your co-captain, Alex Bennett ’18, like?

I’ve really enjoyed it. It is definitely a lot of work, but for this group of girls, I wouldn’t think of putting in any less effort. On paper, we seem like two very different people. She’s a political science major, and I’m a music major. She played field hockey and lacrosse in high school; I did more individual sports on the side. But I think we are a perfect match – there is a great balance between us. We respect one another so much, so we always listen to each other first and talk about our ideas and combine those to make something great. We are also good friends.

I would do anything for her, and I know she would do anything for me. We worked together so much in the past year once we found out that we were going to be captains. We have been in constant communication, even when she was abroad, to make sure that we make this season the best for the other players on the team and to make our last year the best it can be.

Having won six consecutive games, the team is now 10-2 and is tied for second in the NESCAC with a 6-2 conference record. What has enabled you to be so successful?

One big thing is the close relationship between the captains and the coach. Open communication is not even questioned.

We always make sure that we don’t keep anything under the surface. That has trickled down to every player, captain and coach. As long as we can all discuss what we think and be on

the same page, even if we don’t agree at first, we can acknowledge and validate everyone’s opinions. Also, one of our team mantras has been to have faith in each other. We really do need each other – in field hockey, no one person can do it alone.

We’ve seen a lot of NESCAC teams that really rely on one or two players, and they’re not as successful overall.

What is your philosophy on training?

Since our season is in the fall, I put in a lot of training in the spring and especially in the summer. I also do triathlons, and I do one or two a summer.

I used to do more long-distance running and a lot of endurance work, but now with the lifting program at the College and the speed and conditioning that we learn through Coach Barrale, my training has shifted to focus more on speed and power. In field hockey, you need endurance, so I’m happy I have that base, but I’ve learned a lot about how to train specifically for field hockey at Williams.

How have you developed as a player over the past four seasons?

I’ve definitely become more of a confident player. I’m not as afraid to make mistakes as I was freshman year. Over the years, Coach Barrale’s faith in me has allowed me to realize that I don’t have to play with fear. I can just go out there, and even when I make a mistake, because that’s going to happen, it’s not about the mistake. It’s how you recover from it.

What are your goals for the remainder of the season?

Obviously, we want to keep improving. This is another team mantra that sounds cliché, but we also want to keep having fun even at this last part of the season when we have three games against incredibly competitive teams: Keene State, Middlebury and Tufts. It’s so easy to get bogged down with the pressure, but we still really want to have fun with those games. We also want to play to our potential.

I think we definitely can give these teams a great game.

I know you play violin for the Berkshire Symphony and are preparing for a senior thesis recital. How do you balance academics, music and athletics?

I get that question a lot. Everyone at Williams is so busy, and sometimes I don’t know how we do it all. But when I step back and think about it, I don’t think I could do one of these things without the other. They totally go hand-in-hand for me. The things I learn about performing, practicing and being disciplined with the violin definitely translate to how I train and prepare for competition in field hockey. I think I’m a better violinist and player because of that. And, obviously, I have to be studying.

A lot of my courses are music courses, and those make me the most excited, but I’ve decided to take a huge range of courses here. It all factors into this picture of how I’m going about my everyday life. I feel like all of these things give me a well-rounded view.

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Kevin Callanan navigates business side of tennis at TEAM8

By JANE PETERSEN FEATURES EDITOR Kevin Callanan ’87 has taken a decades-long path throughout several aspects of the sports industry. A captain of men’s tennis during his senior year at the College, he has gone from player, to agent, to his current job as chief business officer at TEAM8, a sports agency started in 2013 by 19-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer and his longtime agent Tony Godsick. Recently, this path has taken Callanan to Prague, the location of the firstever Laver Cup, which he runs.

Callanan attributes his interest in the business side of sports in part to a talk he attended while participating in the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford. “I attended … a symposium on the business of sports,” Callanan said. “Someone on the panel was working for IMG [International Management Group] in London. They were talking about their jobs, and I turned to my buddy and said, ‘Jeez, this sounds interesting!’”

As for making connections in the industry, Callanan looked to

then-men’s tennis head coach Sean Sloane. Sloane had spent the previous summer working at a tournament in Vermont but was planning to leave for a job at the United States Tennis Association (USTA). He passed on some of his responsibilities to Callanan, helping him develop the experience necessary to get a job at IMG. “I ended up working at this tournament in Stratton, Vt.,” Callanan said. “We had a small staff preparing for this tournament in August. I worked [for the tournament] for two years.”

After the tournament moved to New Haven, Conn., IMG decided to run its own tournament in New Hampshire and hired Callanan to manage it. “I moved from New Haven, where I had lived for six months, to North Conway, N.H.,” Callanan said. “My first IMG event was a women’s tennis event at Mount Cranmore.”

Callanan stayed with IMG for 26 years, eventually making the move to Cleveland, where the company is based, and working his way up to becoming a vice president. He stayed at IMG until

last November, when he was offered his position at TEAM8.

“The idea is to take care of Roger’s business and also look for other opportunities to represent athletes and own events,” Callanan said. “We’re particularly interested in the events side of things, because we think there are some opportunities to build some events.”

One such event is the Laver Cup, a tennis tournament somewhat modeled after golf’s Ryder Cup, where top international players team up to duke it out in a three-day showdown between Europe and the rest of the world.

The first annual Laver Cup was held at the end of September.

The Laver Cup is named after the Australian tennis great Rod Laver. “Roger wanted to do something to honor the legacy of Rod Laver, who was one of the greatest players of all time,” Callanan said. “He was also a very important person at the start of professional tennis. …

When there wasn’t any way to make a living as a pro tennis player, Rod Laver was somebody who sort of pushed the powers that be to start realizing

that there was a business opportunity and that [tennis players] should be compensated like other athletes.”

Fans got to watch current stars such as Federer, Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios participate this year in Prague, while some former giants of the sport got in on the action as well. John McEnroe and Björn Borg captained the World and Europe teams, respectively.

“They both respect and appreciate what Rod Laver did,” Callanan said. “They were pretty mellow … although John still gets a little fiery.”

Both former players will be returning for next year’s Laver cup in Chicago, where Team Europe will try to defend its 15-9 victory over Team World.

Looking back, Callanan attributes his success to Sloane for helping him get a start in the business side of sports. “Without the Williams connection … who knows where I’d be,” he said.

“The stuff you learn at Williams, and the way you can learn to represent yourself and demonstrate your flexibility … those will all be very helpful.”

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Kevin Callanan ’87 (right) works at an agency started by Roger Federer.

Women’s soccer continues undefeated season Men’s cross country falls

By DANNY JIN SPORTS EDITOR No. 4 women’s soccer (12–0– 1, 7–0–1 in the NESCAC) edged Springfield and Wesleyan, both by 1-0 scorelines, last weekend.

Having defeated Amherst 3-2 on Sept. 23, the women notched the Little Three title.

On Sunday, Williams beat Springfield with a 71st-minute goal by forward Syd Jones ’21.

Springfield controlled the pace of play in the first half. The Pride forced an early save from Eph goalkeeper Olivia Barnhill ’19, when forward Mikaela Coady put a shot on net.

Williams had an opportunity to take the lead in the 19th minute, when a Springfield foul led to a penalty kick. Pride goalie Ciara Boucher, however, made a stop on tri-captain Evan Gancedo ’18.

The pace slowed in the latter part of the half, and neither team recorded a shot in the final 26:30. At the break, the game was still scoreless.

The Ephs threatened again in the 51st minute, when forward Sarah Scire ’20 got behind the Pride defenders, but Boucher made another crucial save.

Jones provided the breakthrough for Williams in the 71st

minute. Center back Liz Webber ’20 sent a long ball forward, and Jones knocked it on to get past the back line. She beat Boucher to net her second goal of the season, putting the Ephs up 1-0.

Springfield had its best chance of the game with 5:57 left. A shot by midfielder Gabrielle Fernandes was headed for goal, but Barnhill tipped the ball over the crossbar.

Despite a late attacking surge from the Pride, the Ephs held on for a 1-0 win. Springfield finished the game with a 7-5 advantage in shots, but Barnhill made three saves to keep the home side off the scoreboard. Boucher had two critical saves for the Pride.

Sunday’s win was the third straight game in which Williams prevailed by a 1-0 scoreline.

Head coach Michelyne Pinard acknowledged that the Ephs have seen fewer scoring opportunities as opposing defenses have improved late in the season.

“As you go from September to October, teams get more organized defensively,” she said.

“At the moment, we’re having to finish on fewer chances. It makes sense that we’re not able to get behind teams as much as we did earlier in the season, but we’re continuing to evolve offensively.”

Moving forward, Pinard has identified two objectives that will allow the team to create more chances early in games.

“What we need to do is solve the space earlier in the game,” she said. “[Every team] gives us something, and we need to figure out what that is early on. The other [point] is that we need to take care of our passes more. If we can solve those two things, we can be more dangerous.”

On Saturday, the women beat Wesleyan 1-0 to earn the Little Three title. Tri-captain Jacqueline Simeone ’18 scored the game-winner in the 46th minute.

The Cardinals kept possession at the start of the game and began to get forward midway through the half. In the 28th minute, Kayla O’Brien was fouled by Sarah Kelly ’20 in the box, and the referee signaled for a Wesleyan penalty kick. Defender Kinsey Yost took the spot kick, but Barnhill guessed correctly and dove to make a spectacular save. She smothered the rebound, and the game remained scoreless until halftime.

Williams, however, found a breakthrough less than a minute after restart. Natasha Albaneze ’18 played a corner kick to Simeone, who hit the ball first-time.

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Olivia Barnhill ’19 recorded her 10th shutout of the year on Sunday as the Ephs won their sixth straight game.

Simeone’s shot sailed over the head of the goalkeeper and into the net.

The goal shifted the momentum of the game, and the Ephs found themselves with a 1-0 lead despite the Cardinals’ strong first half. The Ephs started to take control of the possession battle and saw chances to extend the lead while keeping the Cardinals off the ball.

Wesleyan did not record its first shot of the second half until the 80th minute, when Lauren Goetzman and Emily Ribatt each had their shots blocked by Williams defenders.

Jones provided Williams with a chance at an insurance goal in the 86th minute. She made a deceptive move on the right wing and sent a cross in, but CasselsBrown made a save.

The Ephs held their 1-0 advantage until the final whistle. Williams had a 9-2 second-half lead in shots and a 12-9 edge for the full 90 minutes. Barnhill finished with three saves while CasselsBrown totaled seven.

Pinard said after the game that Barnhill’s penalty kick save was a turning point.

“Liv is incredible, and that save was huge,” she said. “We would’ve had a long day if that had gone in. It was a turning point for us and started to lift us to play more urgently.”

Pinard stressed the importance of winning the Little Three title.

“Any sort of championship matters to us,” she said. “Winning the Little Three was one of our goals, and it feels good to have accomplished it. Wesleyan is a good team and really tough at home, so I’m thrilled with the result.”

The women return to Cole Field on Saturday to host Tufts at 12:30 p.m.

at Little Three meet for first time in 30 years

By LIAM ALBRITTAIN and ZEKE COHEN TEAM CORRESPONDENTS

Men’s cross country finished second to Amherst at the Little Three Championship on Saturday, snapping a 29-year winning streak for the Ephs.

Williams came into the meet ranked No. 15 nationally and No. 3 regionally, whereas Amherst was the favorite, ranked No. 7 nationally and No. 1 regionally.

Williams had lost to Amherst twice this season at the Purple Valley Classic and Paul Short Invitational but hoped to close the gap in a smaller meet.

The 8k race went out slowly for the first mile, with Amherst’s and Williams’ best each feeling each other out. After the first mile, the pace slowly increased, and after the big hill at the end of the second mile, Amherst’s top pack rushed ahead, trying to break away from the field.

Eph co-captain Liam Simpson ’18 and Austin Anderson ’19 took a risk and followed the surge, while teammates Peter Kirgis ’20 and Mitchell Morris ’19 ran more conservatively, hoping to pick off runners. While the gamble did not pay off for Anderson, Simpson hung tough, finishing third in a time of 26:04. Amherst’s Cosmo Brossy won in 25:59.

Behind Simpson, Morris and Kirgis each closed extremely hard, finishing in sixth and eighth overall in times of 26:41 and 26:46, respectively. Aidan Ryan ’21, Nick Gannon ’20 and Ryan Cox ’20 each had strong finishes for ninth, 10th and 11th overall in times of 26:47, 26:48 and 26:52. Co-captain Ben Deck-

er ’18 rounded out Williams’ top seven for 12th place in 27:03, running well in spite of an illness.

Although not a scoring member for the team, Anderson finished 13th in 27:04, ahead of Amherst’s fifth man. Despite Williams’ impressive depth, Amherst’s top-heavy performance proved decisive in a meet of this size, and the Mammoths prevailed over the Ephs with a score of 25 to Williams’ 36. Wesleyan finished in third with 76 points.

Head coach Pete Farwell ’73 was pleased with the team’s efforts on Saturday.

“We knew Little Threes was going to be a real battle, and Amherst was favored,” he said. “We thought we had the guys to win if we ran perfectly – and I think we ran really well – but a few things conspired against us and not everyone was in top shape this day.

Amherst ran great, and we ran very well and just missed.

“Streaks are bound to be broken. We’ve had some phenomenal good fortune and races to keep the streak, and this year, their team was just really really good. We have quite a Little Three rivalry now, and the sportsmanship was great on Saturday.”

He also discussed his plans for the remainder of the season.

“We’re definitely looking forward to NESCACs two weeks from now, and we are definitely looking forward to November,” he said. “I’m happy with Saturday, but I think we can perform very well in the postseason.”

The Ephs will race on their home course again at the Plansky Invitational on Saturday at noon.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK “Bobby has done a tremendous job. He has shown great poise and has performed well in critical situations. [The Middlebury game] was a great win for our team. The players’ commitment and belief in each other was very evident Saturday. We continued to fight and make big plays when they were needed most.”

“It was fantastic to see Holly finish as medalist in her first season. She worked hard this summer to prepare for the season, and now her work is paying off.

Last weekend she played smart, kept the ball in play and made key putts. Holly has been a great addition this year, and the medalist finish will give her confidence for the spring.”

–Head coach Mark Raymond

–Head coach Tomas Adalsteinsson

BOBBY MAIMARON ’21

HOLLY DAVENPORT ’21

FOOTBALL DUXBURY, MASS.

WOMEN’S GOLF PALM CITY, FLA.

Maimaron connected with wide receiver Frank Stola ’21 for a 15-yard score as time expired to take football to a 27-26 upset of Middlebury on Saturday. He finished 21-of-29 for 195 yards and two touchdowns, adding 93 rushing yards and a touchdown on 15 carries. The rookie quarterback led an 80-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes, earning NESCAC Offensive Player of the Week honors for the second straight week.

Davenport won the individual title at the NYU Invitational last weekend, finishing with a two-day stroke total of 152. Her 75 on Day One was her best collegiate round to date, and she bounced back from an early double-bogey on Day Two to putt for three birdies en route to a 77. The first-year was instrumental in the NESCAC champion Ephs’ third team victory of the season.

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October 18, 2017

Maimaron leads late comeback as Ephs top Panthers on final play

By KEVIN COAKLEY STAFF WRITER Bobby Maimaron ’21 connected with Frank Stola ’21 for a touchdown on the final play of the game, as football (4-1) topped Middlebury 27-26 on Saturday.

In a thrilling comeback, the Ephs secured the victory over the previously-undefeated Panthers, who had defeated the Ephs in five consecutive years.

The Ephs elected to receive but punted soon after gaining possession. The Panthers then started at their own 43. The defense looked poised for a stop, but on 3rd and 2, quarterback Jared Lebowitz threw the ball deep to Frank Cosolito, drawing a pass interference call in the process.

The new set of downs allowed the Panther offense to reset and continue to drive down the field.

Eventually, the Panthers scored on a 19-yard pass to a wide-open Maxwell Rye, bringing the score to 7-0.

Rye was also heavily involved in the Panthers’ next scoring play. Facing 4th and long, Middlebury was forced to punt. Rye stuck his punt to the 1-yard line, giving the Williams offense no room to work. After three downs with no net yardage, the Ephs were forced to punt from deep in their own territory.

The Panthers rushed nearly all of their men at Eph punter Adam Regensburg ’18 and blocked the punt out of the end zone. This was ruled a safety, bringing the Middlebury lead to 9-0 and giving possession back to the home team after a Williams free kick.

Middlebury threatened to break the game open early in the ensuing possession. But the Eph defense, which was the secondbest scoring defense in the NESCAC for four weeks, was up to the challenge. Lebowitz gained 29 yards on the second play of the drive, but after that play, the defense stepped up and forced a fourth down. This led to a 34yard field goal attempt, but Edward Manzella ’21 got a hand on it to keep the score at 9-0.

A similar situation occurred on the next Panther drive although with a different result.

After the Williams offense was stymied by its opponents, the Ephs punted again. Lebowitz then led his offense up the field

by hitting his receivers in stride with quick throws, eventually coming into the red zone again.

The Eph defense held, however, forcing the Panthers to try another short field goal. This time, kicker Carter Massengill got his attempt off cleanly, and it sailed through the uprights for three points. The scoreboard now read 12-0 in Middlebury’s favor, and it stayed the same heading into halftime.

Middlebury seemed in control in the first half. The Eph offense had a tough time getting things moving, only garnering 103 yards of total offense in the first 30 minutes. Middlebury’s highpowered offense, meanwhile, often got into the red zone, but it converted only one opportunity into a touchdown.

The Panthers received the ball to start the second half and immediately marched up the field again to the red zone. The Ephs did not allow a touchdown, and Massengill’s field goal attempt flew wide of the uprights, keeping the score at 12-0 and giving the ball back to Williams.

The offense seemed to get a second wind to start the half, quickly moving into Middlebury territory. Long rushes by TJ Dozier ’21 and Maimaron led the Ephs to midfield, and then back-to-back 15-yard penalties

by Middlebury brought the ball near the red zone.

The stage was set for Maimaron, who beautifully executed a touchdown throw to tight end Justin Burke ’21. While most of the offense rolled to the right, Burke streaked across the field to the left. When Burke received the pass, there was no one in front of him, and he ran into the end zone untouched. After a successful extra-point kick from Min Kyu Park ’21, the score was 12-7.

Middlebury responded quickly, however. Midway through the following drive, Lebowitz found Rye on a route through the middle, giving him room to run after the catch. Rye looked to be tackled, but he evaded his defender and was clear to run forward.

Only a tackle by Jarrett Wesner ’21 stopped him from reaching the endzone. This effort was eventually for naught, however, as the Panthers scored soon after on a pass to Peter Scibilia.

The Ephs looked to respond strongly to keep the game close.

Maimaron led his team from the Williams 49 into Middlebury territory. At one point, he seemed to have been hurt, but he soon came back into the game after making a quick recovery. This was essential, as he completed two rushes that totaled 12 yards, including one that he ran in for a touchdown. With the teams separated by only five points with 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the game was up for grabs.

The Panthers would not let up, however. Again, they responded with a touchdown drive, making the game a twopossession contest once more.

At one point, the Ephs seemed to have earned a stop after cocaptain Christopher Hattar ’18 forced Lebowitz to throw the ball away for an intentional grounding penalty. On 3rd and 14, though, the Ephs were unable stop a well-placed pass through the middle, and soon after, Lebowitz found Aiden Power for a touchdown pass through the middle of the field.

It seemed that whenever the offense got Williams back into the game, Middlebury responded.

In an impressive offensive display, the Ephs again scored on the next drive, bringing the score to 26-21. Led by passes and quarterback runs by Maimaron and intermittent rushes by Steve Bohling ’20, the Ephs worked their way up the field and into scoring position.

Then, with 10 yards to go, Maimaron handed the ball off to Rashad Morrison ’21, who cut upfield, broke a few tackles and made his way into the end zone.

This touchdown was followed by a big stop by the defense, giving the offense back the ball at its own 20 with 2:45 left to play but with no timeouts remaining.

The crucial final drive started with four quick pass plays for about 25 yards. The offense soon had a few hiccups, however, starting with a fumble by Morrison, which fortunately went out of bounds, and then a false start penalty. With the clock winding down, the Ephs could not afford to have any more mistakes. Maimaron then completed four of his next five passes before throwing an incomplete pass with only six seconds left. Williams had only one play, and 15 yards stood between the Ephs and a win.

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Bobby Maimaron ’21 threw a 15-yard touchdown pass as time expired to give the Ephs a 27-26 victory.

On that last play of the game, the Panthers rushed three men, leaving eight others in coverage. Maimaron dodged one defender before running forward in the pocket. With the pass rushers approaching, he let a ball fly into the arms of Stola, who held onto the ball as he fell down in the end zone. Teammates charged the field and piled on Stola in celebration of their walk-off touchdown to beat the Panthers.

Head coach Mark Raymond remarked on the resilience his team displayed.

“We just kept fighting and gave ourselves a chance to win.

I cannot say enough about the toughness that these guys displayed on Saturday.”

Both teams’ offenses were stellar, especially in the second half. Williams had 378 yards of total offense, led by Maimaron’s 195 passing yards and two passing touchdowns. Middlebury, meanwhile, had 432 total yards, with 304 of those coming by way of Lebowitz’s arm. He was 24-of-37 with three touchdowns and ran for 34 yards.

Maimaron also led the Ephs in rushing with 93 yards and one touchdown on 15 carries. For the Panthers, Scibilia led the way with 62 rushing yards.

Stola had 11 catches for 88 yards, including the winning touchdown. Middlebury, meanwhile, was led by Maxwell Rye, who had seven catches for 133 yards and a score. He also averaged 50 yards per punt.

The Eph defense was led by Luke Apuzzi ’20 and TJ Rothmann ’21, who had 16 and 15 tackles, respectively, combining for two tackles for losses. Aaron Slodowitz had 18 tackles for Middlebury. The only sack of the game came from Middlebury’s Wesley Becton.

The Ephs return to FarleyLamb Field on Saturday to play Tufts at 1:30 p.m.

Women’s cross country takes 10th No. 10 field hockey wins sixth straight game consecutive Little Three championship

By JULIA GUNTHER TEAM CORRESPONDENT Women’s cross country earned its 10th straight Little Three title at home on Saturday. The women finished with a team score of just 20 points, fewer than half of the 43 points of runner-up Amherst. Wesleyan came in third with 69 points.

Williams displayed its depth, taking six of the top 10 spots and 11 of the top 20 in the meet.

Amherst’s Nicky Roberts flew away with the lead in the 5k and ran a blazing 17:49. Tri-captain Victoria Kingham ’18 ran a smart race, crossing the line in 18:23 for second. She was followed by Audrey Rustad ’20 in third and tricaptain Anna Harleen in fourth, finishing with times 19:00 and 19:05, respectively. Erica Barrett ’21 had a “breakout race with a strong kick,” according to head coach Pete Farwell ’73.

She finished in 19:17 for fifth and worked with tri-captain Emily Sundquist ’18, who came in sixth with a time of 19:21.

The sixth finisher from Williams was Stella Worters ’18, who

ran a strong 19:31. Next across the line was Anna Passannante ’20 in 19:48, and then there was a tight pack of three: Sarah Tully ’21, Tyra Wynn ’19 and Eliza Matt ’18 finished in 19:56, 19:58 and 19:58, respectively. Emily Harris ’19 was close behind and crossed the line in 20:03.

Leah Rosenfeld ’20 led the next pack of Ephs and finished in 20:28. Brianna Bourneand ’21 and Caroline Galo ’21 were working with her to cross the line in 20:33 and 20:39, respectively.

Then there was another trio of Janelle Gowgiel ’20 at 20:58, Jaylan Fraser-Mines ’21 at 21:17 and Katie Flaharty ’18 at 21:21.

Hannah Lebowitz ’20, Wyndom Chace ’21 and Adrienne Banks ’20 displayed good teamwork and posted times of 22:16, 22:20 and 22:39. Jesse Facey ’19 and Ariel Brodey ’21 worked together to finish in 23:04 and 23:13, respectively. Julia Gunther ’20, who was struggling with sickness, crossed the line in 24:07.

The spread of the Williams team was only 58 seconds from first to fifth, and there were also only 58 seconds between second

and 10th. The results showcase the depth that the women have this year.

“I thought the group ran a solid, controlled race overall,” assistant coach Dusty Lopez ’01 said.

“It would have been easy for our team to get drawn out, but everyone stayed with the plan.

“It was nice to see the seniors go out with a good race in their last Little Three meet. They have made some great contributions to the team in many ways, and Saturday was a great example of how much we have come to rely on them in competition as well.”

Farwell reiterated these sentiments. “Our pack is closing up some on the top trio, which bodes well for the NESCAC Championship in two weeks,” he said. He also highlighted Barrett and Tully’s strong races.

This Saturday, the Ephs have another home race at the Plansky Invitational, which includes many alumni. The women’s race will begin at 12 p.m. The championship season begins on Oct. 28 with the NESCAC Championship race, hosted by Bates, in Lewiston, Maine.

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The women placed six runners in the top 10, edging Amherst for the top spot at Little Threes.

By KIRSTIN MAPES and CAMERON BROWN CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

No. 10 field hockey (10–2, 6–2 in the NESCAC) extended its winning streak to six games with a 3-2 comeback victory over No. 11 Hamilton on Oct. 11 and a 3-1 win against Wesleyan on Saturday.

The women traveled to Middletown, Conn., on Saturday to face Little Three rival Wesleyan. The Ephs put pressure on the Cardinals’ defense early in the first half.

Co-captain forward Alex Bennett ’18 and forward Meredith Wright ’19 each put hard shots on goal within the first 10 minutes, forcing saves from Wesleyan goalkeeper Delaney Wood.

The Ephs maintained a possession advantage early on, totaling eight penalty corners in the first half. Julia Cochran ’19 found a breakthrough at 14:53, scoring off a penalty corner from co-captain Hannah Goodrick ’18. Bennett also collected an assist on the play.

With a 1-0 lead, the Ephs kept the ball, not allowing the Cardinals a shot on goal in the half.

The women finished the first half in front, but head coach Alix Barrale ’93 said the team was not satisfied with the one-goal cushion.

“We turned our energy up in the second half,” Barrale said.

“We never felt like we had the game, and we had to keep finding ways to push through.”

In the second half, the women kept the pressure on, totaling 10 shots on goal before Libby Dolan ’19 found the net at 59:45 off an assist from Emma Ticknor ’20. The Ephs did not let up, drawing eight more penalty corners in the second half. Molly Lohss ’21 added a third goal at 62:55, with Dolan providing the assist.

In the final 10 minutes of the game, Wesleyan played a long

ball that connected with Cici Frattasio, and Frattasio netted a late goal to make it 3-1, with the assist coming from Maddie Shea. The game finished without any more scoring chances for either side.

“I was proud of the way we were able to push through to win that game,” Barrale said.

“Wesleyan’s defense was hard to get through, but we found a way to finish on top.”

On Oct. 11, the women came back from a 2-1 deficit in the second half to defeat Hamilton on Farley-Lamb Field. Dolan, who scored in the first half to tie the game at one, provided the deciding goal at 63:24.

The matchup between the Ephs and the Continentals proved to be a tough contest from the beginning, with both teams battling for control of the ball. Hamilton gained two early penalty corners but was unable to produce a shot on goal. Wright recorded the first shot of the game for the Ephs, but her attempt was saved by Contiental goalie Julia Booth.

After Hamilton earned seven more penalty corners, Continental senior Margaret Revera scored the first goal of the game at 29:09 on a pass from Cat Donahue. The Ephs responded, however, with a tricky shot by Dolan finding the net at 31:58.

Nevertheless, Hamilton struck again before the end of the first half, notching a tally at 33:40 by Tatiana Bradley to go up 2-1.

“Hamilton came out strong and beat us to a lot of balls,” Barrale said. “Our defense and [goalie] Emma Santucci [’19] in the box kept us in the game in the first half.”

At the half, Santucci had one save, while Booth had two saves for Hamilton. Abby Lloyd ’20 took over as the Eph goalie in the second half.

Bennett and Dolan each came close to scoring early in the second period, but Booth made three saves to maintain Hamilton’s lead.

Wright, however, found the back of the net at 56:06 to tie the game with just under 14 minutes left.

The Ephs and Continentals both fought for dominance over the ball, looking for a late game-winner. It was Dolan who tipped the game in Williams’ favor, scoring off a penalty corner with fewer than seven minutes left. Cochran provided the assist on the deciding goal.

Hamilton took a timeout following the goal and pulled its goalie in favor of an extra field player. Despite the additional offensive presence, the Continentals could not find an equalizer, and turned away a late shot to preserve the Eph lead.

Barrale praised her team’s second-half turnaround.

“Once we got a fast pace, we knew there was no way we were going to lose the game,” she said.

Over their six-game winning streak, the Ephs have outscored opponents 21-7.

Dolan has tallied seven goals and three assists over that span, and she ranks second in the NESCAC in goals (15) and points (37).

Bennett has accumulated four goals and six assists in her last six games. Her 10 assists on the year are first in the conference, and her 30 points rank third.

Goodrick has added two goals and six assists over the unbeaten streak as well, and she is third in the NESCAC in assists.

The women visited Keene State yesterday, but the results came in too late to report. They return to FarleyLamb Field on Saturday to host No. 5 Tufts, which is tied with Williams for second place in the NESCAC.