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College remembers late bursar Mary Kate Shea ’81 By MADELINE McFARLAND EXECUTIVE EDITOR On Thursday night, Mary Kate Shea ’81, the College bursar, passed away unexpectedly. President of the College Adam Falk notified the community in an e-mail he sent out on Friday afternoon, in which he honored Shea’s tenure at the College and her renowned diligence and kindness in working with students. Shea served as the College bursar for five years, after working as the director of the College’s conferences office from 2009 to 2012. Shea came back to the College after a successful career in the events planning and sports industries, working for NBC in the 1996 Olympics, the NBA, the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission, the 2002 Winter Olympics, Dartmouth, Connecticut College and the Children’s Miracle Network. In her time as bursar, Shea emphasized the need for more interactions with students, and was instrumental in the implementation of various new systems of student check-ins, such as room draw or parking registration holds, that “drastically reduced the number of people in a difficult situation, because it addressed it sooner,” according to Controller Susan Hogan. “I would say she was responsible for getting families in touch with the College more often and more promptly, because we’ve been able to set some other times to interact,” Hogan said. “We were more involved than in previous years,” Jill Mendel, the controller’s office accounting assistant,

said. “The barriers to coming to see us were lower and it made coming to the bursar’s office more comfortable and welcoming for students, to not only come when you’re in trouble, but come before there is trouble.” “I think she humanized the process,” Matthew Sheehy, Shea’s colleague on the Village Ambulance board and the College’s associate vice president for finance, said. “She really took the process and said, ‘What makes sense for students?’ ‘What makes sense for families?’ ‘When are people thinking about this?’ ‘What does the College calendar look like?’ and ‘When are people going to be worried about things?’ What at times can be a very transactional process, I think she humanized it by talking to families on the phone, understanding people’s issues and really taking to light what that means to them.” “I think everyone will tell you her commitment was unparalleled,” Hogan said. “There was never an e-mail, a phone call that went unanswered, because she realized when students have holds or get a note saying, ‘you’re behind,’ it’s really stressful, and she wanted to eliminate that stress as soon as possible. She was a quintessential New England woman: She was no-nonsense, do what you’re supposed to do, do it when you’re supposed to do it, do it well … and she expected that out of herself and everyone else. She worked tirelessly to get students through some very difficult situations, and I have been blown away by how many people across campus - parents, students, co-workers

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Members of the College community are mourning the loss of beloved bursar Mary Kate Shea '81 (right) after her recent unexpected passing. - have been sending emails reaching out to the controller’s office to say something special about Mary Kate.” An avid sports and Red Sox fan, Shea also supported

the Ephs at their sporting events, especially basketball games. Not only an alumna of the College herself, but a member of an Eph family including her father

John Shea ’50 and brother Tim Shea ’90, Shea was “an Eph through and through,” Sheehy said. “If you knew where to look for Mary Kate, it wasn’t unusual to see her

doing her stroll through Route 2 in Williamstown.” Shea served with Sheehy on the board of the Village

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Student group works to establish Preach It Forward campaign Hindu prayer room in basement seeks changes to chaplaincy of Thompson Chapel By SARA HETHERINGTON STAFF WRITER At the beginning of October, a room in Thompson Memorial Chapel was repurposed for use as a Hindu prayer room. The room was previously used by the Christian Fellowship. As a result, the Christian Fellowship now uses what was previously a room used by Muslim students. The change was the result of a push from Aanya Kapur ’20. “At the beginning of the year, I was thinking it would be nice to have a space for Hindus to pray – any sort of space we could find. I went to speak to Chaplain Rick [Spalding] in the chaplain’s office and explained. He said he’d never been approached about it before … but said of course that’s possible,” Kapur said. While Kapur prepared a budget, Spalding helped find a space in Thompson Chapel. “For some years I have hoped that a group of observantly Hindu students might coalesce on campus,” Spalding said. “The obvious place to look was the basement of Thompson Memorial Chapel, where there are a number of different spaces clustered around the Interfaith Common Room – so we began a series of consultations about the uses of those spaces – consultations that are still going on.” There is not an official group for Hindu students on campus, so with Spalding’s help, Kapur sent out an email to students who had identified as Hindu on PeopleSoft, and asked if anyone would be interested in setting up the prayer room. On that project, she said, “I’m working with one freshman in particular, Shreyma Mira [’21], from New Delhi. The room is very bare at the moment, but has the basics needed for prayer.” “If someone were to be setting up a temple, they would

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buy from India because it’s cheaper,” she said. But, because the shipping is expensive, Kapur is making do with basics found on Amazon. “My friends are going to India in the winter so [we’ll] buy the bulk of things by then.” Because of this, the prayer room should be completely finished by Winter Study, but before that, Kapur hopes to continue to hold bi-weekly services for any interested College community members. The space, though, does raise questions about how to accomodate the large number of student religious groups needing space in the chapel. “The resources of space are limited – at least until the College finally decides to start a long overdue renovation of the building! – but we were able to identify a room that would meet the Hindu students' needs,” Spalding said. Despite the space issues, Spalding characterizes the reaction of other communities that use the Thompson Chapel space as positive. “All of the other student groups that use spaces in the Chapel have been really glad to welcome a new student spiritual community into the wonderful mix of that space,” Spalding said. “And the need to cooperate and collaborate on the use of the limited spaces will provide an ideal set of questions for a fresh round of inter-religious, inter-group conversation around the essential question: How can we live together, practice our various faiths and support one another in our different traditions?” Besides setting up the prayer room, Kapur, with the help of the chaplain’s office, helped organize a trip to the Hindu temple in Albany, N.Y. “We organized a trip to the Hindu temple in Albany for Diwali because that’s

one of our main festivals throughout the year,” she said. “A group of us went in a van to the temple, had the service and dinner and then came back.” Kapur hopes to see the Hindu community on campus grow in other ways from these initial steps, and also hopes to begin offering platforms for informal discussion. “We are all connected from our faith, but I’m from England,” she said, “so the way I practice Hinduism would be different from the way someone from India practices.” Opening up discussion can help increase a sense of community and understanding between Hindu students on campus, but Kapur also stresses that events are open to all students. On their first trip, half of the students were non-Hindu. “We really want people to come and use this space,” she said of the prayer room. “It doesn’t have to be for religious purposes. If someone wants to come see it, [they can] learn more about a different religion which is not widely recognized on campus.” The group’s future trips to the Hindu temple in Albany are similarly open to all students. “We hope to continue going to the Hindu temple for Holi and Navaratri,” two upcoming festivals, she said. Though Kapur is unsure of whether the group will try to become an official club, she is grateful for the community that has been forged in such a short time. “Because there hasn’t been a group on campus, for me it’s been nice as a way to get to know people of the same faith and cultural background,” she said. The Record contacted the Muslim Students Union for comment, but the group was unable to comment before press time.

This summer, a group of students and recent alumni launched the Preach It Forward campaign by sending two letters to the chaplain’s office and administrators involved in chaplaincy hires. The first one, issued in July, was signed by 38 students and alumni; the second, released in August, was signed by five. The second letter outlined four concrete proposals: to require bias trainings for all members on chaplaincy search committees, to standardize how search committees garner community input, to reform the process of search committee membership selection and to require that “successful applicants have experience serving traditionally marginalized groups within their faith tradition, explicitly stating so in job postings and throughout hiring procedures.” The Preach It Forward campaign, according to its Facebook page, is a “call on the Chaplains’ Office to renew its commitment to marginalized students of faith.” Currently headed by around 20 students and recent alumni, the public campaign “call[s] on the College to implement reforms that would reduce bias in staff hiring procedures” and “to prioritize the hiring of candidates who would serve marginalized students of faith, especially female and LGBTQ+ people.” According to Christine Pash ’18, one of the students chairing Williams Interfaith this year and involved in the campaign, the letters and subsequent campaign target systemic biases and institutional systems, rather than recent individual hires. The chaplain’s office has not had a permanent chaplaincy position held by a woman since 2000-2004, although Rabbi Rachel Barenblat ’96 did serve as the interim Jewish Chaplain last spring.

“The letters were a result of issues surrounding genderbased marginalization,” Pash said. “People noticed that year after year, there are several new chaplains hired, and they all end up being male.” The calls are particularly relevant, according to Pash, because of the anticipated departure next month of the only current LGBTQ+ chaplain, Chaplain to the College Rick Spalding. According to Tiffani Castro ’19, a student who became involved with the campaign this fall, many people were disappointed when Barenblat was not hired for the full-time Jewish chaplain position. “People were very excited that there was a woman in the chaplain’s office,” Castro said. “There’s only so much you can speak about with someone if they don’t identify as [your gender]. There was huge disappointment when [Barenblat] was not hired – it felt like something that was being demanded was being listened to, and then it was taken away.” Spalding said he remains committed to listening to students’ needs at the College. “It matters to me a great deal that people know that the chaplain’s office is wholeheartedly in support of taking the opportunity that my departure creates to take another step in the direction of making the chaplain’s office even more useful to the Williams community,” Spalding said. “One vacancy out of four is huge. That’s a 25 percent infusion of brand-new energy, which is very exciting.” According to Vice President for Campus Life Steve Klass, the search process for Spalding’s replacement is already underway, and the calls made through the Preach It Forward campaign have already affected aspects of this search process. “The second part of [our first meeting] was dedicated to a presentation and discus-

sion on understanding implicit bias in search processes and the engagement of particular practices to ensure the most diverse pools of candidates possible,” Klass said. “This presentation was led by Ngoni Munemo, associate dean for institutional diversity and associate professor of political science. At this meeting, I also presented the aforementioned letter I had received from the campaign to the search committee so that they would read about their experiences firsthand.”

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THE WILLIAMS RECORD BOARD The Calendar and Schedule Committee’s (CSC) Annual Report from the 2016-2017 academic year, available on the College’s website, recommends the consideration of major changes to the current academic calendar to address, in part, the CSC’s perception that semesters are too compressed. We disagree that semesters are too short and believe this argument is a misattribution of blame for students’ stress. Furthermore, we do not believe that a longer semester would reduce student stress by spreading the work over a longer time period; rather, it would exacerbate the problem by packing in more material, lengthening stressful periods and eliminating some of the College’s most valuable community-building traditions. The report states that some CSC members feel that the College’s semesters “are quite compressed and stressful, both for students and faculty alike.” CSC then recommends consideration of at least 10 scheduling changes, including the elimination of Winter Carnival and Mountain Day, the shortening of Winter Study to two weeks, shortening the final exam period

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Getting behind schedule Where CSC’s considerations for calendar revisions miss the mark and changing the length and timing of various breaks. This opinion, which seems to lack student input, highlights a problem with the CSC and with many administrative committees: While the CSC officially has three student seats available, none were filled in the 2016-2017 academic year per lack of interest. College Council should campaign more aggressively to fill open slots, sending follow-up emails to students if initial interest is lacking. If seats are still empty, CSC members could ask former student members of the committee to recommend new members. Students are stakeholders in the schedule process and their opinions are distinct from the faculty’s on this issue; as such, student input is invaluable to the conversation. Further, if this year’s CSC chooses to move forward with discussing any of the scheduling changes recommended by the report, it must seek wider student input. This input could come in various forms, including an open forum. We also note that schools with similar schedules to the College’s 4-1-4 semester system, including Bates and Middlebury, have semesters similar in length and

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An article published last week (“MinCo, MSU, CISU and IC protest Trump travel ban,” Oct. 25, 2017) misidentified the name of one of the groups responsible for planning the two-day event protesting President Donald Trump’s travel ban in the title. The name of the group is CISA, the Coalition for Immigrant Student Advancement, not CISU.

timing to ours, with the exception of our two-week spring break and June graduation. The root problem of student anxiety is not that semesters are too short, or that we have too many opportunities to decompress – Mountain Day and Winter Carnival are valuable to students as time to spend together and to appreciate the Purple Valley, while Winter Study is constructive as a period of academic exploration. Claiming Williams Day is also a crucial community event which should not occur during Winter Study, when fewer students would likely attend. Instead of focusing on changing our semesters, then, we should focus on whether we can take better care of our students and set realistic academic expectations that allow them to work as hard and effectively as possible. Better communication between faculty and students about realistic expectations for course loads could start to address some concerns about student anxiety and academic balance without changing the schedule to eliminate breaks. We value the chance to take time to decompress, which is why breaks such as fall reading

period and spring break are important. There is also, then, value to the CSC’s proposal of a longer Thanksgiving break, which would better allow some students who live far from the College to go home. The two days of class on Thanksgiving week could potentially be made up by beginning the fall semester two days earlier. Additionally, it is worth considering shortening the time between spring finals and Commencement, which is held later at the College than at peer schools, to better accommodate students whose jobs start in late May or June. It is clear that drastic changes to the academic calendar are controversial and would have widespread effects. The CSC should conduct a survey for students, faculty and staff to systematically evaluate opinions on the current academic calendar and on potential changes. Relying on a larger set of data, rather than anecdotal evidence of complaints, would allow the CSC and faculty to make improvements to the academic calendar that are responsive to the needs of students, faculty and staff – to the extent that any issues are related to the organization of the academic calendar.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Over the last three months, two beloved colleagues from the dean’s office staff, Rashanda Booker and Rosanna Ferro, have left the College to pursue personal and professional opportunities. We in the dean’s office miss them both dearly, as do many people on campus. Knowing that there is some anxiety about the process for hiring their successors, we wanted to share some of our plans for the searches. No one else can ever replace Rashanda or Rosanna, but we want to make sure students have advisors, mentors and role models who are as capable and as deeply devoted to students’ success. With that in mind, and in response to questions and concerns from campus, here is some information about the search process: Both positions are now posted on the College’s website and are being widely circulated to professional associations and publications, with a special focus on reaching people from groups that

are underrepresented in higher education, or whose backgrounds resemble in some way the backgrounds of the students served by these roles. Both advertisements speak directly to the need for diversity and inclusion. Underlying this is our commitment in the dean’s office to serving underrepresented students as an essential component of our mission to support all students. We have convened two parallel committees to lead the searches. Each includes staff, faculty and student representatives. The student representatives are Brian Benítez ’18 and Theo Kwapong ’20. Student participation is critical to a successful hire. Beyond the students serving on these committees, other student leaders on campus will be encouraged to reach out to the student body as a whole, to gather questions and thoughts on what qualities the College should be looking for in our candidates. All community feedback (from students, staff

and faculty) will be passed on to the search committee for review and considered when each committee makes a recommendation to Marlene Sandstrom, dean of the College. We will also invite student input during the on-campus interviews, when student representatives have the opportunity to meet with the finalists and provide feedback to the search committees. The loss of Rashanda and Rosanna is a loss for all of us. While each had her own reasons for her move, we realize the pain the two departures cause to many students who relied on them, and the gap this leaves in our office. We’re working hard to recruit the very best people to take up those roles, and welcome everyone’s help in thinking about our needs and identifying the very best candidates for the job. Please email me any suggestions. Rachel Bukanc Senior Associate Dean

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Last year’s Williams Reads theme of “Confronting Climate Change” and this year’s focus on mass incarceration both engage systemic injustices that predominantly harm poor, black, brown and indigenous communities. The College’s choice of theme can be understood as an attempt to make crucial educational interventions into violent systems. This explanation is complicated by the fact that the College’s nearly $3 billion endowment continues to be invested both in fossil fuel companies and possibly private prisons. In 2014, a fossil fuel divestment campaign at the College succeeded in demonstrating widespread support from students, faculty and staff for removing investments in industries that are killing people and the planet. Yet there continues to be no transparency around the nature of the College’s investments or the status of the impact its investing commitments made in 2015. Furthermore, the College has not made any efforts to learn from or collaborate with other colleges’ and universities’ work on divestment or reinvestment. The irony of the College focusing its yearly themes on climate change and the prison system while refusing to divest is aggravated by the fact that two of the largest divestment movements in the world focus on fossil fuel corporations and private prisons. In 2015, Columbia became the first institution to divest its direct investments – an estimated 220,000 shares – from private prisons, on the basis that “the business model of private prison companies creates incentives for increasing the level of incarceration.” The last several years have also seen massive international movement for institutions to divest from fossil fuels, as well as campaigns to divest from banks that support infrastructure projects that appropriate and destroy indigenous land, such as efforts to divest from banks that are funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. Last week, PNB Paribas, the largest French bank, stated that it would no longer work with or finance the projects of companies whose “prin-

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cipal business” involves dealing with oil and gas from shale or tar sands. These divestment movements do not claim that some kind of institutional “moral purity” can be achieved once every stock is sold. They aim for institutions both to move their investments out of unethical industries and to invest positively in projects that work against these crises, such as renewable energy, as well as critically evaluate the ethics of their investments more broadly. The College has remained stagnant in its efforts in all of these areas. Where has this inertia come from? The structure of the endowment, like that of most colleges and universities, is not conducive to divestment, as there are multiple commingled funds and different managers. Yet it is confusing that the College has made no effort to build relationships with fund managers that will allow for these ethical decisions – as Barnard did, when it divested from energy companies that deny climate change in 2017 – or collaborate with other universities and colleges to open up feasible possibilities for divestment and reinvestment. The College celebrates intellectual exploration around the issues of climate change and mass incarceration, while at the same time its nearly $3 billion endowment is invested in industries that perpetuate these crises. The Board of Trustees made its decision not to divest in 2015, and the situation has only worsened. Our federal government has pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, scrapped environmental regulation and is reinitiating a full-on “War on Drugs,” which promises to further criminalize and incarcerate black and brown communities. Now, more than ever, divestment – and reinvestment – is critical. The next president of the College, too, should be a person with progressive values, who won’t be afraid to take a stance on these critical issues and who won’t be bound to a corporate rationale that prioritizes the College’s accumulation of wealth over the wellbeing of the world beyond Williams. Alexandra Griffin ’19 is a biology and history double major from New York, N.Y. She lives on Spring Street. Rosa Kirk-Davidoff ’21 is from Albany, N.Y. Crystal Ma ’21 is from Redmond, Wash. Kaira Mediratta ’21 is from New York, N.Y. They live in Williams Hall.

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Recent op-eds in the Record have sparked an important conversation about the College’s mission. As alumni from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, we found that the piece written by President of the College Adam Falk and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Liz Creighton ’01 defending the College’s mission, as well as the students whose existence on campus was called into question by one op-ed, was refreshing, reassuring and empowering (“Redefining ‘the Best,’” Sept. 20, 2017). However, while an affirmation of our mission is critical, we implore the College community to reflect more closely on an overlooked aspect of our campus – faith life. We strive to inspire meaningful action from both the College administration and wider community in addressing a glaring vacuum of support for students of marginalized identities and minority backgrounds in faith communities. We are grateful for the College’s recognition that fostering faith communities is not antithetical to the values of a secular institution. Faith communities have benefited from the allocation of resources such as the chaplain’s office and faith spaces in the basement of Thompson Chapel. However, even a casual examination of these resources reveals that they are still largely designed to cater to the ‘normative’ adherents of only the most dominant faith traditions. Although we would be remiss to ignore that the role of chaplain to the College has been held by a gay man since 2000, the four chaplains have been cis-gendered men for several decades despite some turnover. The allocation of religious spaces also reveals that minority traditions are still marginalized. Muslim students, unlike their Jewish and Christian/Catholic counterparts, still do not have a dedicated social space and have long relied on the Interfaith common room as a substitute. Most recently, this space was reallocated to another group without consulting students or deliberating on a

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Valuable lessons about domestic politics from abroad N I’m a junior studying abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. I’ve already spent two months here and have less than half of the semester to go until I return to the purple bubble. People usually perceive study abroad as a time to learn about other cultures and to polish language skills, but I found that it also serves a third, perhaps more important function. As a result of my time abroad, I have gained a new perspective on the political divide back home in the United States. Learning Russian has been a journey full of new adventures, people and surprises. But there has been a recurring theme, which is that Russians are more similar to us than we realize. Just like us, Russians are annoyed by professors who assign readings that are pointless. Just like us, Russians time their Instagram posts to maximize the likes. Just like us, Russian parents want the best for their children. Of course, we have our differences, especially regarding politics – Did Russia really hack the election? – political correctness and gender roles. But every culture has its differences. As I navigate this foreign culture, I’ve been reflecting on my subconscious prejudices against Russians. Some are benign and inane, while others are more sinister. Regardless, many of these prejudices were based upon the Hollywood trope of a Russian mafia or a super villain. I’ve been able to shatter many of these prejudices as I began spending time with everyday Russians. Tearing down that wall of bias is an important step in truly understanding another culture and its people. And quite frankly, I was personally very proud of how far the demolition of my personal wall had come. But on a national level, that wall against Russians continues to exist and is further reinforced by the us-versusthem rhetoric we so often see these days. As I looked back stateside, I was reminded that this us-versus-them mentality was caustic enough to tear apart the nation. Given the divisiveness of the election, I don’t think I need to convince anyone that the United States is suffering from extreme political division. The Left and Right seem to be marching in

their respective directions without looking back to understand the other side. This article isn’t political in nature. That is, I’m not writing to convince you to be liberal or be conservative. Each person has their own opinions and each should argue passionately for them. However, that argument, debate, discourse – whatever you want to call it – should be respectful. No one should hurl blanket insults at the “other side.” How do we make that happen? I think the answer lies in my story about Russia. Prejudices and biases can only be overcome if they are tackled headfirst. If you think everyone who voted for President Donald Trump is racist and fascist, you might want to speak to a Trump supporter to find out why they voted the way they did, and how their environment and circumstances affected their vote. Chances are, they had personal reasons that justified their vote. (I had a discussion with other Americans in my program about why people back home voted for Trump and it was enlightening for me.) In the same vein, if you cannot stand those taking a knee or protesting, you might want to consider reaching out to the other side to understand why they are doing the things they do. Chances are, if you were in their shoes, you would do the same. Ultimately, the goal is to argue passionately but also compassionately. Only by understanding the other side and where they are coming from can Americans begin to bridge this political divide. Growing up, I never thought I’d have Russian friends or even live in Russia. Alas, here I am studying Russian in Russia, writing this article on Russian WiFi while talking to my Russian friends. It’s this kind of exposure that has helped me realize that Russians aren’t so different from me. I think this principle might be useful in healing the political divide back at home. I hope that more people will reach out to the “other side” and realize that they’ve been standing on the same side.

Prejudices and biases can only be overcome if they are tackled headfirst.

David Han ’19 is a political science and Russian double major from Irivine, Calif. He is currently studying abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia.

plan to accommodate students who would be affected by the decision. We have since learned that, after pleading by affected students, the chaplain’s office plans to reexamine its decision and involve students who use the space in seeking an appropriate solution. However, the problem is being attributed to a one-off lapse of judgment rather than systemic marginalization that requires more intentional examination and resolution. This recent action is indicative of the continued lack of understanding of the needs of marginalized students in faith communities on campus, and a resistance to acknowledging and dedicating the resources and effort needed to address them. It pitted the needs of two groups against each other and further alienated marginalized students. Such norms have been upheld by the College: The administration has maintained support for staff and students who have stifled efforts by marginalized students to make these spaces more inclusive in the past. During our time at the College, we found both the administration and chaplain’s office unequipped to deal with bias incidents we experienced in these faith communities. Particularly, the administration failed to meaningfully address incidents of bias from a staff member who worked with us in an advisory position. Despite alerting the chaplain’s office, Office of Student Life, dean’s office and Davis Center of the harm caused by this staff member, each office either took no action or was ultimately unwilling to go beyond a perfunctory attempt to find resolution. After a brief mediation attempt was derailed by the staff member’s unprofessionalism – including breaches in confidentiality and incitement of harassment – the administration took a handsoff approach at what it deemed to be intra-community issues. This mentality has continued to permeate the responses of the administration and the chaplain’s office when faced with supporting students of marginalized identities and minor-

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Not long after filling the position of Jewish chaplain, the chaplain’s office expects another vacancy in December, and another search process to hire the next chaplain to the College. I was honored to serve on the Jewish chaplain search committee last semester, an experience which gave me much insight into the nuances and challenges of chaplaincy at the College. With the rather unique perspective as a chaplain search committee member, and with much experience working with the chaplain’s office, I would be negligent in my commitment to spiritual life at the College if I did not share some of that insight, especially with those tasked with identifying the next chaplain to the College. I know that many people with stakes in spiritual life at the College have different priorities in choosing the next chaplain. I cherish the organizers of the #preachitforward campaign as good friends who taught me a lot about interfaith dialogue. I do not share my views here to disagree with the goals of that campaign. Rather, based on my own experience, I add my voice to the dialogue around the search process in the hopes of shedding more light on the challenges of spiritual life at the College. We would all agree that it is very important to raise awareness about the search process since, in my experience, many in the College community pay too little attention to religious activities on campus and many students rarely or never interact with the chaplain’s office. I believe that in order to best serve the needs of the College, the next chaplain to the College must be deeply formed as a Christian pastor,

deeply knowledgeable about other religious traditions and committed to engaging with them and deeply prophetic as a witness to the moral imperatives of our time. First, Christian pastor. According to the job description, the College is seeking an “ordained, or otherwise credentialed, religious professional in one of the Protestant Christian traditions.” While the ceremonial and administrative roles of the chaplain are important, I have come to recognize the specifically religious aspect of the chaplain’s work to be most meaningful. Many students will encounter the chaplain in the context of individual counseling. Although other qualified professionals at the College can provide students with valuable counseling services, students of all backgrounds need a resource for dealing with questions of faith and spirituality during turbulent college years. The chaplain to the College is not just another counselor, but a distinctly religious figure. A chaplain experienced in spiritual advising is crucial to the wellbeing of students of faith. A broad diversity of Protestant traditions exists at the College. Navigating it requires a chaplain with great sensitivity to ecumenical relations. The Protestant student organizations, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Feast, Ephs for Christ and others, represent students of distinct backgrounds within Protestantism; there are also Protestant students at the College whose specific tradition does not fit neatly into any of the existing groups. The chaplain to the College, though presumably ordained or trained in one denomination, must be enthusiastic and wellequipped to support a wide range of Christian denominations in a spirit of compassionate ecumenism.

Second, committed to interfaith dialogue. One of the most important aspects of the chaplain’s office is the work that the chaplains have done in recent years to build and support a culture of solidarity and mutual understanding among students of different faiths and no faith. In addition to the Christian ministry, the chaplain will also serve the Williams Interfaith community, which brings together students of various faiths, especially those whose religions are not represented by the four chaplains or who may feel marginalized in the existing religious communities at the College. Appreciation for other religious traditions and a commitment to engaging deeply with differences is indispensable to the work of the chaplain. Third, prophetic witness. The chaplain to the College, grounded in religious conviction, should speak boldly about moral causes, calling us to fight for social justice and peace. The example and the words of the Chaplain should inspire us to draw close to the suffering and reach out with loving arms to the poor and marginalized. The work of the chaplain should empower us in the difficult task of loving in a world that in many ways is sadly torn apart by hate. The chaplain to the College does so much more than preside at Convocation and Baccalaureate; the chaplain is counselor, teacher, pastor, bridge-builder, mentor, friend and more. With my sincere appreciation for the work of the search committee, I offer a prayer of thanksgiving and hope for the future of the chaplain’s office. David Vascones ’18 is a history and Spanish double major from Queens, N.Y. He lives in Prospect.

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In Other Ivory Towers News around academia By FRANCESCA PARIS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Harvard searches for new president The Harvard Crimson has revealed a partial short list of candidates for Harvard’s new president, just months after the school announced that its president, Drew Faust, would step down after June 30, 2018. Faust’s term ends a decade after it began, with the conclusion of Harvard’s capital campaign, which has raised over $8 billion. In June, The Boston Globe speculated that the president would likely be picked from one of three positions: an insider (a current dean or provost), the former leader of another top university or a prominent Harvard alum. The media leapt on the final suggestion over the summer, suggesting that former President Barack Obama might take the job. The Crimson reported on Monday that the four insider candidates likely to be on the search committee’s short list are: Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor of Government Danielle S. Allen, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and University Provost Alan M. Garber. The information comes from “several prominent donors and professors at Harvard.” The Crimson did not name other candidates on the list. The Crimson reported: “Presidential search experts and Harvard affiliates have said Harvard’s next president will need to tackle several different challenges as he or she assumes office – including reshaping social life at the College, lobbying the federal government, growing Harvard’s engineering profile, and managing the University’s embattled finances.” Whoever gets the job will fill the most prestigious opening in education — and the most well-paid. Faust earned $1.2 million in total compensation in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the Globe.

SPRING STREET BLUES From the files of Campus Safety and Security

Tuesday 10-24-17 8:57 a.m. Health Center: Staff called to report that they had received a call from a student who stated that she was having an allergic reaction. Officers responded to the dorm. Village Ambulance also responded. The student said that she felt fine but had just experienced some discomfort after consuming a granola bar that contained cashews, which she is allergic to. Village Ambulance transported her to Berkshire Health North. Wednesday 10-25-17 2:10 p.m. Williams Hall: Officers responded for a transport to the Health Center. The student was complaining of severe abdominal pain, vomiting, fever and weakness. Upon arrival, officers requested that 911 be contacted for Village Ambulance. Village Ambulance transported the student to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt. 7:46 p.m Lasell Gym: Officers responded to a report of a student with an injury to his foot. Officers bandaged and applied an ice pack to his foot and transported the student to Berkshire Health North. 8:22 p.m. Faculty House: Officers responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident in the parking lot and also contacted The Williamstown Police Department (WPD) to respond. There were two vehicles involved in the accident, and WPD took an accident report. 4:05 p.m. Denison Park Drive: Officers responded to a report that a light pole had been damaged. A contractor on site remained at the location and provided necessary information. Electrical trades responded and disconnected the wires at the base of the light. They placed a work order to repair the light. 8:05 p.m. Sage: Officers responded to a fire alarm. The panel indicated a third floor room. There was no smoke, candles or burned popcorn. There was a citrus smell in the air, probably from hairspray. Officers reset and cleared the panel. Thursday 10-26-17 8:38 a.m. Paresky Center lawn: Campus Safety and Security (CSS) received a call from a College administrator that there was a woman handing out some sort of booklet around Chapin Drive and Paresky lawn. Officers arrived and the woman had left the area. They obtained a copy of the booklet in question. 9:17 a.m. Sawyer Library: Access Services staff notified CSS that there was a woman in the library reference area who may be banned from the library or campus. The woman left just prior

to the officer’s arrival, via a car that was parked in the Congregational Church parking lot. 12:55 p.m. ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance: Facilities reported a motor vehicle accident near the front entrance. CSS contacted the WPD to respond. 10:41 p.m. Bernhard Music Center: Officers responded to a report that the elevator was not functioning properly. The custodian advised that the elevator was not moving from the first floor and the doors continued to open and close repeatedly. The on-campus electrician responded and was also unsuccessful in returning the elevator to normal operation. The electrician powered down the elevator and contacted Baystate Elevator in the morning. The officers posted out of order signs. Friday 10-27-17 2:29 a.m. Hopkins Hall: A WPD officer advised CSS that he had arrested two Williamstown residents and charged them with stealing bicycles from the College. Two young males were in custody. They were arrested while in possession of two bikes that were not theirs. When confronted, they both admitted that they had stolen the bikes from the Paresky area and had taken other bikes before. 2:54 a.m. Prospect: Officers responded to a welfare check request. Officers contacted the on-call counselor, who had a conversation with the student. 4:37 p.m. Science Quad: The athletic gym monitor reported that there were three young boys with skateboards walking towards Jesup Hall. 10:02 p.m. Health Center: A student reported that, the previous afternoon, she had missed a step on the east side of Paresky when she tripped and hurt her ankle. The Health Center requested a transport to the hospital. 11:03 p.m. Chadbourne: Officers responded to an emergency phone activation and found no one in the area. Saturday 10-28-17 1:52 a.m. Gladden: Officers responded to a call for an intoxicated and vomiting student. Village Ambulance EMTs also responded. Her vitals were normal and she signed a refusal form. 7:57 a.m. Morley Science Labs: A student reported water on the floor in Room 022C MSL Animal Wing. Officers walked through the Animal Wing and found a leak coming from the ceiling outside of room 048, south end of the Animal Wing. They contacted mechanical trades regarding the leak. 8:36 p.m. Dodd: Officers responded to a noise complaint called in by a student reporting

that loud music was coming from somewhere outside the building. Upon arrival, there was no loud music being played anywhere in the Dodd area. 11:33 p.m. Fitch: Officers responded to a noise complaint. Upon arrival, officers found loud music coming from the first floor common room. They found students about to use a bong, as well as a 30 pack of beer, with no hard alcohol present. The students involved were cooperative. 11:10 p.m. Lambert: Officers responded to the outside of the house for an intoxicated student. Village Ambulance and WPD responded as well. Village Ambulance transported the student to Berkshire Health North. Sunday 10-29-17 1:51 a.m. Hunt Tennis Center: Officers responded to the tennis courts to conduct a wellness check on a report of an unknown female. Officers found a non-student sitting on the benches and she appeared to be upset. She was a visiting relative of a student who went outside to make a phone call and the phone call was upsetting. She said she would be fine and would go inside to Mission.

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1:27 p.m. Prospect: Officers responded to a tip line submission of two students smoking under the awning too close to the building. 2:07 p.m. Mission Park Dining: Officers responded to a report of a leaking skylight. They contacted the on-call architectural tradesperson to respond. 2:27 p.m. West College: CSS received a report of water on the floor in the basement laundry room. The officer found water coming in through the floor in the corner of the laundry area. The officer contacted Facilities and environmental safety and compliance to address the situation. 3:24 p.m. Hopkins Hall: A student came to the CSS office to report a missing phone. Officers took a stolen article report and forwarded it to the WPD.

Tufts’ graduate school indirectly profits from opioid-induced deaths The Tufts Daily editorialized on Sunday about a recent Esquire article on the Sackler family, donors of the Tufts’ Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. The Esquire piece, which opens by listing the Sackler family’s contributions across the spheres of art and higher education, stated that “the greatest part of that $14 billion fortune tallied by Forbes came from OxyContin, the narcotic painkiller regarded by many public-health experts as among the most dangerous products ever sold on a mass scale.” More than 200,000 people in the United States have died from OxyContin overdoses since the drug’s introduction in 1996 by Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical company. Thousands more have switched to street drugs like heroin after getting hooked on expensive prescription pills, often OxyContin, which has accounted for more than half of prescriptions since 2001. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stated over the summer that opioids kill roughly 142 Americans each day, and other estimates are higher yet. The Sackler family has benefited financially from the sale of OxyContin to a degree that Esquire writer Christopher Glazek surmises might surpass tobacco, cars and firearms. Esquire quoted Anthony Monaco, president of Tufts, who awarded the late Raymond Sackler an honorary degree in 2013. “It would be impossible to calculate how many lives you have saved,” Monaco opened, and he finished with: “You are a world changer.” The editorial published by The Tufts Daily points out that Tufts has taken on significant work in researching and combatting the opioid crisis. Buwt the school has never acknowledged the Sacklers’ role in creating that crisis or benefiting from it. The paper’s board calls for Tufts to “publicly recognize its own complicity in receiving money tainted by the epidemic, resolving to take an active stance against it.” The paper also calls on the university to change the name of its biomedical school.

4:06 p.m. Paresky Center: An officer responded for a water leak coming through to the second floor from the roof.

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10:57 p.m. Hopkins Hall: Dispatch received a call from a student who was slurring his words and incoherent. The dispatcher was able to ascertain the location of the caller, and dispatched officers to that location for a welfare check. Officers activated 911 and Village Ambulance responded.

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WILLIAMS 101: The Endowment By WILLIAM NEWTON NEWS EDITOR This piece is the third 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 third piece will focus on the College’s endowment. Each year, the Williams College Investment Office is tasked with growing the College’s over $2.3 billion endowment even as the College spends up to 5 percent of its smoothed value yearly and inflation continues to rise steadily. In the last 10 years alone, the endowment has accounted for over $800 million in spending. After the endowment surpassed $1 billion in value in the early part of the 2000s, the College opened the Investment Office in 2006 with the understanding that the endowment needed a fulltime staff to oversee its investments. In the 10 years since, the endowment has averaged a 7.3 percent real annualized return. While this is generally considered successful relative to similar institutions, measuring the success of an invest-

ment return can be somewhat difficult; its success must be measured relative to a benchmark and this benchmark must take into account trends in the general market in any given year. In the College’s annual investment report, it measures the returns of the College’s portfolio relative to its own policy portfolio benchmark, a 60/40 bond/stock portfolio and a return objective. While the details behind the College’s internal benchmark are somewhat unclear, the 60/40 bond/stock portfolio essentially takes the weighted average of a sector of the bond/stock market to determine how investments should be doing on average given current market conditions. The return objective is simply a real return of 5 percent plus inflation. The College’s endowment returns relative to these three measures over the past one, three, five and 10 years are displayed below.

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While the results over longer periods of time have consistently exceeded the College’s goals, the report made clear that the results from 2016 are “disappointing.” The College performed poorly in the global long equity portfolio, due in large part to volatility in healthcare and industrials, and only brought in 7.6 percent returns compared to the 25 percent target allocation. The College did, however, over-perform in real estate and buyouts (the full endowment report can be accessed on the Investment Office’s website). Still, despite the less than optimal previous year, the report emphasized that the College is still satisfied with its long-term returns, noting that individual years are less important than general trends over longer periods of time.

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According to Pash, Preach It Forward has largely remained an effort led by students and recent alumni. “The responses were pretty much the administration's standard response, which in the past – in many contexts and many administrators – has not lead to tangible change or satisfaction of student demands,” Pash said. In addition to maintaining an active Facebook page and engaging in other efforts to increase awareness, students and alumni involved in Preach It Forward sent out surveys to students in religious communities on campus asking them to provide their experiences with sexism, homophobia and/or transphobia within religious communities on campus and with the chaplain’s office. The survey asked the following questions, with the options of selecting “Yes, often,” “Yes, sometimes” or “No, not at all” and elaborating on that experience: “Have you had any experiences with [sexism, homophobia or transphobia] in religious and spiritual communities on campus?” and “Have you experienced [sexism, homophobia or transphobia] with any member of the Chaplains’ Office?” and “Do you feel com-

fortable approaching a Chaplain to discuss issues related to gender & sexuality?” The idea behind asking these questions and gathering these responses, according to Pash, was to gather tangible evidence and stories to bring to the chaplain’s office and members of the administration involved in chaplaincy hires. “The hope is definitely not to cloud the positive things that the chaplain’s office has done, but instead to gather research on these specific topics,” Pash said. “While there are definitely people who have not experienced sexism or homophobia in the chaplain’s office, [this call] is an obvious thing for a lot of people. We want more inclusion in our spiritual lives and spaces.” Although Spalding supports the original premise behind the campaign, he “hasn’t been able to endorse some of the campaign's subsequent steps and strategies." “The survey asked students to provide narratives of sexism and homophobia that they had experienced in relation to the chaplain’s office,” Spalding said. “These surveys may unearth some painful and very important stories, which we will take with utmost seriousness. But there are a great many oth-

er stories which are apparently not welcome in the survey. And there's no clarity about how any of the stories are being curated or will be reported.” Emma Lezberg ’20, a member of Williams Interfaith and the Williams College Jewish Association (WCJA), finds the campaign important for marginalized students who could potentially visit the chaplain’s office. “I personally don’t at all feel marginalized by the chaplain’s office or any other office at the College,” Lezberg said. “But if other students do, it is important to address that – and if implicit bias is affecting hiring decisions, it is important to address that as well.” Although the campaign initially started primarily with a focus on issues of genderbased and sexuality-based marginalization, Pash said that the group hopes the campaign will remain inclusive of other issues of marginalization in religious life. “[We have] realized that there are many other intersecting marginalizations [and] learned through critiques from other students that we were not succeeding fully in taking these marginalizations into account,” Pash said. “We've thus renewed our focus towards them.”

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One in Two Thousand By NEENA PATEL EXECUTIVE EDITOR I met Anna May my first year at the College through mutual friends. I sat down with her to talk about her Irish dance experiences, storytelling and what got her interested in the chemistry and psychology majors. When did you start taking Irish Dance? I started when I was like six years old and my mom had me do ballet. I really didn’t like ballet; I thought it was kind of boring. I used to go hide in the bathroom during ballet, and eventually my mom caught on to the fact that I wanted to quit. She said I should maybe try another type of dance, and then took me to Irish dance. They gave me candy at the end of the first class and I was hooked. That was really all it took. I’ve stuck with it ever since. Like I left the first class and was like, “Mom they gave me candy and I have curly hair so I’m going to be good at Irish dance.” And she was like, “Wow, a little overconfident much?” How have you been balancing dance and college? It’s tricky to figure that out definitely. Freshman year I decided I wasn’t going to dance at all. I was away from my teachers; it wasn’t going to work and I didn’t even consider it. I kind of competed that year without even practicing and that’s not a good idea. Somehow, I pulled off qualifying for Worlds and my mom was like, “I’m not paying for you to go to Worlds; you’re a mess.” And then last year I decided that I really wanted to give it a go at school and try dancing. I reserved studio times in the morning and would go before class, would take videos of myself dancing and then send them to my dance teachers at home for some feedback. I would trav-

el home every once in a while to see them in person and do a practice completion and was able to somehow pull off doing fairly well at Regionals and qualify for Worlds and go to that.

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How was your experience at Worlds? My spring break was pretty miserable. I ended up choosing not to go on the track training trip, which was a sad choice because I love the track team. So that was a tough choice there but I stayed home and just did work and practiced. Not my favorite spring break experience. I could have been on the beaches of San Diego, but I just tried to get ahead on homework, so missing a few days of school to travel to Ireland wasn’t going to kill me. How did Worlds go? Everyone has the opportunity to qualify for Worlds at Nationals or Regionals. I was kind of a mess at Nationals because I tried the little freshman year technique of just not practicing and you can’t pull that off. For Regionals I actually practiced and qualified [for Worlds] so that was fine. I think only 10 or fewer qualify from all the regions of the U.S. Places in Europe like Scotland and the British Isles and Australia, those are the big places of Irish dance I’d say. And you all kind of meet in one place, and this year was Dublin. It’s all divided by age group; it’s usually 200 [people]. You all dance two rounds and then the top 50 get called back for a third round. My goal was to try and be in the top 50, but I didn’t dance very well the day of actually. I got off stage and my dance teachers were like, “What was that?” I ended up missing it by like 10 places which wasn’t too bad actually so I was happy to be not too far off. Are you continuing your training this year?

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This year I realized junior year was going to be pretty crazy, so I might not go to Worlds because it’s a huge time commitment. So instead I’ll probably go to Nationals this summer and hopefully have a little more time ... to prep for that, so I think that’s the goal this year. I practiced a lot this summer so I just need to get in shape for Regionals and have all my materials down. It’s not that very high pressure since I’m already not planning to go to Worlds. But also, it’s low-key high pressure because I’ve qualified every year and this would be the first time I wouldn’t qualify and my teachers would probably make fun of me. They like to pick on me. Our friends always say you’re really good at telling stories; do you have any that you want to share? Generally, the feel you get from my stories is just anticlimactic, and you think there’s something coming and then I'm just like,

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“Oh, no that’s it.” So yeah, a little overly descriptive. That’s one of the reasons I took “Everyday Stories” freshman year. I took that as a 100-level English class thinking they would teach me how to tell a better story but instead we just read stories. But that was one of my favorite classes – if you ever get the chance to take a class with [Professor of English] Peter Murphy, he’s amazing. What about that story you told us about dropping your bread in a fish bowl? Oh my gosh! I got food from Grab ’n Go and tried to open my sandwich and the bread went flying out of my hand and landed in my fish’s bowl. So, then I had to take it out, but I laughed at it for a while and then took a bunch of pictures and then took it out. So hopefully my fish Dale didn’t get sick from that. What made you interested in being a chemistry and psychology double major?

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By LYDIA DUAN STAFF WRITER I’ll be the first to admit, I’m artistically challenged. My ceramics career peaked in the third grade when I made a mug with a holey bottom and half a handle. Needless to say, I wasn’t drinking tea out of that thing anytime soon. But thankfully, people who can take clay and work magic do exist. The ceramics club is one such group of people. To see what the club was all about, I went to the ceramics studio in Mark Hopkins one Thursday night during their open hours. Soon thereafter, I found myself chatting with Max Harmon ’18.5 and Annalee Tai ’21, who along with Nick Gardner ’19 and Johnny Ahsing ’21 helped restart and now help run the studio. Why “restart“? Because prior to this school year, ceramics had been put on the back burner due to a non-functional kiln. Six years ago, the studio in Mark Hopkins had been a storage room before students happened upon it and decided to convert the space. It was a discovery that surprised the students – how had the space not already been integrated into something functional? It had just been sitting there, gathering dust. The club picked up some steam by the time Harmon was a first-year, but it was a “small group of people and an undeveloped studio.” Fast forward to this fall, where Harmon and Thai obtained the

materials to repair the broken equipment. Once the kiln was fully operational again, there was no better opportunity than the present to resurrect the club. Visiting the studio was an overwhelmingly positive experience. Picture a convivial group of people, deftly making pieces of art while laughing amongst themselves. It’s a brightly lit space with just the right amount of messiness, enveloped in sweet strains of acoustic music playing gently in the background. The open atmosphere, the creativity and the social bonding were all conducive to creating a space where students could step away from the stress of everyday life and simply unwind. “It feels good to do something with your hands,” Tai said. “It’s really grounding.” Especially in an environment like the College, where it feels as though one is running from practice to performance, seminar to study session, all hours of the day, it becomes even more vital to have a place to be creative and just play with clay. Harmon echoed her sentiment. “There’s something immensely rewarding about tangible production – it’s nice to create tangible things,” he said. Being able to see your results from the onset is another reason that spurs students like Tai and Harmon to keep coming back to the artform. After all, “you can’t center the clay until you center yourself,” Harmon said with a laugh.

This art is open for everyone to partake in, even for people like me who are complete novices at ceramics. “You can absolutely walk in with no experience. We’ll teach you,” Harmon said. Open hours for ceramics are on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The more experienced students are more than willing to help beginners learn foundational skills, like throwing a pot or working a wheel. Students, eager to lend a hand where they can, greatly facilitate the multistep process of ceramic-making, from molding to firing and every step in between. And after students learn the basics? “It’s pretty freeform,” Tai said, “You can make anything.” The College currently does not offer a ceramics class during the fall or spring semesters, although it does offer “Making Pottery on the Potter’s Wheel“ during Winter Study. This links into a larger conversation about the utility and importance of art in a curricular setting. The traditional view that “ceramics is a craft, not an artform” is in part responsible for why the ceramics studio was not used for all those years. It’s an ongoing dialogue, and it’s one that needs to be had. The ceramics club has been homegrown and student-run since the very beginning. Now, it’s become a space for students to kick back, relax and enjoy the fact that clay is, at the end of the day, a whole lot of fun.

You taught Irish dance at one point, right? I taught Irish dance all throughout high school. I first started off with the little kid class where you had 4 and 5 year olds running around. But I had one of the main teachers at my dance studio there helping me out. And I think the best way to learn how to teach is to be thrown into it and figure it out. I really got to know the ropes over the years and then got to start teaching my own classes by the end of high school and then was a counselor at dance camp for several years. It’s really fun to be on the teaching end of it as well, and help out the other dancers at your school. It’s nice to

see your advice change the way someone dances and help them do better. Do you have any stories from dance? One time when I was 9 years old they interviewed me for a radio station. I was really nervous and just blurting out random answers, and they had to tell me to slow down while I was talking. They just asked me, “Why do you love Irish dance?” and there are so many reasons that I like it – the rhythm is really cool, you have so many great friends and all these things. And I just panicked and go, “I like to win!” and that ended up on the radio. I would have nightmares that someone tracked that down and was like, “This kid is so terrible!” I sounded like a brat. I was so afraid they were going to turn me into a Toddlers & Tiaras brat. I was definitely in it for the friends and everything, but I did blurt that out one time. That was my first ever interview. Full circle! My last question is a more Williams question: What is something that you think everyone should do on campus at some point? Mountain Day at some point, you gotta do the hike. Going up Greylock is an experience. This year I did Stone Hill because I had a lot of work. I’m mad at myself – I’ll have to make it up at some point. Maybe next year I’ll just do it twice? But yeah next year I definitely want to do the big hike on Mountain Day. It’s so fun to spend an entire day hiking around Williamstown. Spend time with friends, you end up bonding with people so much. And then go to Schow because that’s my favorite library. Gotta end it the nerdy way!

Bottoms Up: ‘In-Cider Scoop’ on best autumn drinks By FRANCESCA PARIS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Annalee Tai ’21 scuplts a clay pot on the potter’s wheel in Mark Hopkins’ student-run ceramics studio.

I always thought chemistry was kind of cool. That’s a great description. My parents were both chemists at one point in their life, and they’ve moved on to other things. But they always thought that chemistry was something useful to understand. It’s not like they ever forced me to study it, but they just always thought it was a good discipline to study. And I always found that I kind of liked it so I ended up taking a chemistry class at the beginning of school and then took another one, and then really liked organic chemistry so I took another one, so I decided to declare as a major in that. Psychology is just pretty interesting; human behavior is pretty interesting. And I think it’s cool to balance a hard science like chemistry with a soft science like psychology and compare how research is done in the two fields. I don’t really know what I want to do. I just want to be around fun people. That’s like my life goal honestly. Just do something interesting and continue learning in some way and be around nice, fun people.

As the leaves turn and the colors change, as each dining hall presents its assortment of apples with varying quality, as the temperature begins to drop (well, maybe), you will inevitably find yourself answering the question of “what should we drink?” with one word: cider. This leaves you with the burden of figuring out exactly which cider to drink, and if your answer is “Angry Orchard,” then this is precisely the article for you. We did the research, and suffered many a mediocre cider so you won’t have to. Drop all your preconceived notions about apples and alcohol and pay attention to the Record’s “In-Cider Scoop.” Best signature cider: If you’re new to the wide world of cider, the number of choices can be overwhelming. Nine Pin’s Signature Cider is a perfect starter to transition you gently into that world. The Albany-based company’s signature blend is sweet, but not as sugary as a bottle of Angry Orchard. The taste is soft, and the apple flavor rises through the gentle fizz of bubbles. Best dry cider:

the “cider maker’s cider.” We’re not really sure what that means, but clearly people who know a lot about this are pretty convinced by it. Wit’s Up is an intense dry cider experience, with an organic, earthy taste. The loamy flavor arises among intense bubbles. As far as ciders go, it’s fairly barebones, but bare-bones in a rustic sense, like an unheated cabin in Hopkins forest. Citizen Cider is based out of Burlington, Vt., and also produces one of the best flavored ciders, the ginger-infused Dirty Mayor, as well as a delicious traditional cider.

place where fall looks much different: Texas. Austin Eastciders produces one of the most interesting taste experiences that we tried with its Hopped Cider. This cider is a combination of bittersweet apples and hopped tea, and falls on the drier side of the cider spectrum. The hops are surprisingly mellow and pleasant, and the flavors work smoothly together. You’re not going to want to chug this one (or any of them, come on), but it’s a fascinating blend of tastes, just like some of the other ciders from Austin Eastciders, including Texas Honey and Blood Orange.

Best flavored cider:

Underdog:

Champlain Orchards Cidery’s McIntosh & Maple combines two of Vermont’s favorite things: apples and grade-A maple syrup. The Shoreham, Vt., orchard produces seasonal ciders like the Vermont Peach and the Honey Plum, but the McIntosh & Maple is a year-round staple, and a bronze medalist in the 2015 Great International Beer & Cider Competition. Simultaneously sweet and refreshing, with a little tartness, the cider taste is buoyed but not overwhelmed by the woody maple taste. This cider is an easy choice if you’re trying to impress someone or give a gift — you really can’t go wrong.

We can’t end this article without talking about the Pumpkin Blend from Downeast’s Cider House. Does fall make you feel like putting on your fuzzy socks and warm flannel, jumping in leaf piles and ordering a pumpkin spice flavored anything? This may be the one for you. It’s not particularly appetizing at first glance: This cider looks similar to Mountain Dew, and you can’t open the can without getting a strong waft of pumpkin. But close your eyes and drink up because the tones of cinnamon and nutmeg blend perfectly with the bitter pumpkin for an experience that takes fall out of the air and into your mouth. The taste is significantly milder than the smell, and the pumpkin aftertaste made for a surprise crowd favorite here at the Record.

After Nine Pin, take any of Best hoppy cider: Citizen Cider’s numerous blends for a whirl — if you’re looking for This cider hails from well outsomething dry, give Wit’s Up a try. According to the bottle, it’s side the northeast bubble, to a

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Citizen Cider offers our dry cider of choice with its Wit's Up cider, as well as other tasty flavored options.

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Students design specialized course load with contract major option By JEONGYOON HAN STAFF WRITER The College offers 37 majors, each of which is housed in a certain academic department with a set curriculum. There is, however, one lesser-known type of major that gives students the initiative to construct their own courses of study: the contract major. Guided by two professors, contract majors use topics and themes gathered from a variety of the departments offered at the College to dig deeper into a specific interest of theirs. Lara Shore-Sheppard, who chairs the Committee on Educational Affairs (CEA) – the governing body that, among other things, oversees the contract major application process – said that the contract major speaks to unique interests students may discover during their time at the College. “[The contract major] makes it possible for Williams students to major in something that they have a passion for that we do not necessarily offer but that is within the purview of the liberal arts,” she said. To pursue a contract major, students must apply for approval from the contract major advisor, Amanda Turner, as well as the CEA, during their sophomore year. This initial statement of interest, which is due on Nov. 15, is followed by a finalized proposal in the spring. Since the contract major is, in many ways, a culmination of a lifelong passion for students, the contract major experience – from applying to carrying it out in their junior and senior years – varies significantly. That being said, contract majors appreciate the program’s independent, student-driven and interdisciplinary approach that allows them to get to the heart of their particular area of interest. Being able to contract major in performance studies

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Sofia Smith ’18 (center) is a contract major in performance studies, in which she studies intersections between music, theater, sociology and art. (PS) was the primary reason why Sofia Smith ’18 decided to stay at the College, rather than transfer to the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, which offers PS as an established major. Smith wanted to create a curriculum drawing from music, theater, women’s, gender and sexuality studies (WGSS), sociology, art and art history to explore performance in various areas. She focuses on performance as it relates to the self and its historical and cultural context, and focuses on “undoing the binary between theory and practice and using performance as an episteme.” As a sophomore, Smith had a vague idea of what she wanted to study, with a desire to learn about storytelling and forms of the narrative.

Uncertain about what to major in, Smith approached Amy Holzapfel, chair and associate professor of theater, who suggested she pursue PS. As interested as she was in pursuing the contract major, Smith said she felt that applying for it required a lot of work, especially as a sophomore who was just being introduced to the world of PS. “It was a lot to take on as an independent project,” Smith said. Nevertheless, Smith said, pursuing the contract major was crucial to letting her get at the topics and burning questions that mattered most to her. Becoming a contract major was important to Izi Torres ’19 for similar reasons. Frustrated with rigid premed track requirements, Torres was more interested

in studying science while looking at the overarching question of best practices for patient-doctor interactions. Torres said she wanted a curriculum that would allow her to study science through the lens of technology studies, biomedical ethics and social issues tied to medicine – areas of study that she said weren’t satisfied by the established majors offered by the College. Her major, critical health studies, concerns “trying to understand how medicine and health care are justified through science, and how science is set up as a structure.” Under the major, Torres examines areas of science – mostly health and medicine – through ethics, critical theory and theory of technology, among other methods,

to also explore social issues related to health. Max Harmon ’18.5, who is studying critical geography – which he described as a study of society through a critical social analysis with a spatial focus – said he is grateful for the contract major’s fluidity in allowing students to mold their studies over time and through different subjects. “It was basically through the process of learning the things I wanted to learn and the way I wanted to be thinking that I think it was my professor who said, ‘What you’re writing about sounds very similar to this thing that exists in academia,’” Harmon said. Torres described the process of getting her proposal approved as “long and exhausting.” Members of the CEA suggested that, instead

of studying critical health studies, Torres take a combination of different pre-existing majors, which Torres didn’t feel would fully satisfy her specific interests. “There was so much administrative pushback with nitty-gritty things,” Torres said. “[The application process was] confusing, frustrating and not that well-supported.” Smith said she also had issues of gaining validation for her interests during the application process. Nevertheless, all three students said that what makes for a successful contract major is a lot of self-drive, determination and independence. “It’s important to take a body of knowledge and use it to apply to further academic progression,” Torres said, speaking to the contract major’s nature of constant reflection and making connections between studies. Harmon’s advice to prospective contract majors is to have great curiosity for the particular subject and the prospect of exploring that deeply through the contract major. “Feel excited about the opportunity to have ownership and intentionality over the thing that you’re studying,” he said. “At least for me, I’ve been most excited by making connections between things. That’s always been an area of growth and excitement. It’s cool to have an academic experience that mirrors that.” Regardless of what could be a difficult and challenging process for some, Torres says that students should consider the possibility of becoming a contract major if they have interest. “A big lesson I’ve learned is to acknowledge that you are a smart human being and that the ideas you have are valid,” Torres said. “Whether other people think of them as valid does not negate the fact that you have these ideas and you should do something about it if you want to.”

This Week in Williams History: Ads from the Archives, 1967

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Known for its 24-hour breakfasts, Moonlight Diner serves as an alternative to the typical on-campus offerings.

Moonlight offers tasty all-day breakfast By KATHERINE SANDS CONTRIBUTING WRITER With many different breakfast establishments in and around Williamstown, including more frequented options like Chef’s Hat, Renee’s and The Blue Benn, Moonlight Diner & Grille is often overlooked. Located at 408 Main Street in the same lot as Chopsticks, Moonlight’s proximity to campus has done little to make it a student hotspot. In order to get a sense for what Moonlight is all about, I headed over there on Friday to see what this particular restaurant contributes to the sometimes-lacking Williamstown dining scene. Walking into Moonlight is like stepping into a time warp that takes you back to the 1950s. With large posters of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando plastered onto the walls, in addition to a display of records and an authentic juke box, the place looks like it could be from a scene in Grease. I almost expected a waitress in a poodle skirt to roller blade up and escort us to our seats. Even the music had a ’50s feel to it, and after a quick Shazam I learned that the song playing when we walked in was “It’s My Party” by Lesley Gore, a No. 1 hit pop song from 1963. Upon being seated in a booth, the friends who accompanied me and I spent some time perusing the menu. For the most part, Moonlight has a standard

list of offerings. The breakfast options include typical egg and omelet dishes in addition to pancakes and some sides like muffins and bagels. The lunch options include typical hot and cold sandwiches, burgers, a few full meal selections including steak dinners and a section specifically reserved for pasta dishes. Nothing stood out as particularly notable or out of the ordinary. After looking through the menu we selected a breakfast sandwich with eggs and bacon on a bagel, two eggs over easy with toast and home fries and chocolate chip pancakes. Our food took about five minutes to come, and in general we were very satisfied with our choices. We gave the home fries an A+ rating, as they were perfectly crispy and not too soggy on the inside. The pancakes had a nice chocolate chip to pancake ratio, not overwhelmingly sweet but not sparing with the chocolate chips either. Overall, the food was by no means spectacular but perfectly good as far as diners go. One thing that is nice about Moonlight compared to other places is its setup. The diner is very spacious, with numerous tables in addition to booths in the middle and along the walls of the single room restaurant. It wasn’t very crowded when we went, and due to the large number of people that the diner can accommodate it doesn’t seem as though there would often be a long wait or a feeling of overcrowded-ness.

Because Chef’s Hat seems to be the more popular breakfast locale for students despite the fact that it is significantly farther than Moonlight from campus, I went there on Sunday to get a sense for why that might be. The menus are relatively similar, although Chef’s Hat has slightly more options that are also more creative. After sampling a few things on the menu, I would have to give Chef’s Hat a slight edge in terms of food. However, there was a long wait both to be seated and to be served, the tables were crammed together and it was very loud. Moonlight is definitely a more pleasant dining experience in comparison. With fewer people, a bigger and more spread-out setup and a fun 1950s rock-and-roll theme, Moonlight is casual, relaxed and fun. The fact that we were in and out in half an hour was an added plus. In a place like Williamstown where there are relatively few off-campus dining options that are close to campus, Moonlight is as good a choice as any. For those looking to go somewhere that’s not on Spring Street, it’s only a 15-minute walk and a three minute drive away. While the food is not standout or exceptional, it was perfectly satisfactory and the fun 1950s decor added to the overall experience. The prices were also very reasonable, with plenty of inexpensive options. All in all, I would definitely recommend Moonlight as a fun diner location for students looking to get off campus and try something different.

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Even ‘Stranger Things’ occur in second season By OLIVER YANG STAFF WRITER Halloween has just passed and, with it, so have timely releases and re-releases of horror films. Along with them came the second season of Stranger Things. After finishing the show’s first season, my expectations were riding high for season two. The key to my enjoyment of the first season was the perfect blend between paying homage to the past and creating a unique story. From the very first episode, we can see how the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, reference older scifi and horror films – from using the exact same location as that of Spielberg’s E.T. (Hawkins, Ind.) to having a similar cast as that of The Goonies, the Duffer Brothers borrow heavily from ’80s cinema. However, at the same time, the Duffer Brothers tie these enduring stories together and retell them in a fresh new way with modern film technology to create a masterful sci-fi, horror and fantasy TV show. One of the most standout aspects of Stranger Things is the Duffer Brothers’ ability to weave a variety of narratives together almost seamlessly to create a world of immense mystery and wonder. The second season of Stranger Things continues as the first did – as a paranormal horror movie, conspiracy thriller and touching coming-of-age story all at the same time. Quick recap (warning: spoilers ahead): In season one, our group of misfits comprises of Mike Wheeler, the leader, Lucas

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In season two of ‘Stranger Things,’ new character Max joins Dustin, Mike, Lucas and Will for trick or treating in an already scary town. Sinclair, the skeptic and Dustin Henderson, along with a fourth friend, Will Byers, who had recently gone missing. The four meet Eleven, the daughter of Terry Ives, a woman who participated in a government program known as MKUltra investigating psychokinetic abilities. Ives gave birth to Jane, who was later referred to as test subject “011” (Eleven). In an accident, Eleven managed to make contact with a monster from an alternate reality world called the Upside Down and created a gate between reality and the monster’s dimension. This monster would be nicknamed the Demogorgon. The four friends and Eleven team up

along with the town Chief of Police Hopper and a few other characters to defeat this monster, all the while avoiding Dr. Brenner and the government agents trying to capture Eleven. In a twist ending we see Will cough up a slug, signaling an incubation of sorts within his body. So far, season two of Stranger Things has successfully addressed audience concerns by amping up the horror. In the first episode alone, many seemingly innocent scenes are made out to be much scarier, such as Will’s violent flashbacks to mundane tasks like investigating a pumpkin farm. The new monster terrorizing Hawkins is much

larger and brings death and decay along with it. Once again, we meet a new character, this time a proficient video gamer who goes by the username “MADMAX.” Unlike Eleven, who is a shy but powerful individual, Max Mayfield is a sharp-tongued girl who is easily irritated. Though initially distrustful of others, she does lend a hand once she realizes the gravity of the situation. In this case also, we see how the Duffer Brothers can rehash the same kind of story – unknown girl makes friends with group of protagonists – yet adds a twist to keep the story fresh. More interesting than the addition of new cast members

is the handling of the old ones. The persistence of their character development is refreshing for old viewers of the show. We see Will’s mother still suffering from the trauma caused when he went missing a year ago. She takes Will home and often treats him with extra-special care, as if he’s about to break. However, this only serves to make Will feel less human, and, as he puts it to his brother, like a “zombie man.” We see Barb, who didn’t serve the plot much last season and whose parents are now hiring a private detective to get to the bottom of her mysterious disappearance (she was killed by the Demogorgon).

Meanwhile, amongst the high school students, Nancy still struggles with the guilt of leaving Barb alone as Steve remains aloof, creating friction between the two of them. Even characters who seem to have been unchanged mostly during the story have subtle differences that show up much more in season two. For example, Hopper acts much more aloof and serious now, which could also be due to his new role as Eleven’s caretaker. A lot of this can be chalked up to the fantastic acting between the two, in which Hopper conveys both strict anger and deep love for Eleven, who can use her eyes alone to communicate emotion. There is a definite time shift that happened from season one to season two. We see the birth of video cameras as ways to record information, instead of the phone that Will’s mother used to communicate with him. Despite these technological shifts, the music and environment remain the same, keeping the series firmly grounded in the ’80s. With great actors and new developments in plot and character interactions, overall Stranger Things has set a high bar for itself, as there are many concurrent stories happening all over Hawkins. It is up to us to see whether season two can deliver on developing all these stories properly, from the shady Dr. Owens who runs tests on Will, to the mysterious Max, to the private investigator hired by Barb’s parents. Something we can be sure of, though, is that we are in for a wild ride of thrills once again.

‘Active Ingredients’ enlivens gallery space at WCMA By LI YU ARTS EDITOR

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‘Paramodernities’ examines tenets of modernity through a dance and lecture hybrid performance.

Dancers perform through lecture, experiment By LI YU ARTS EDITOR You’ve already heard of post-modernity and premodernity, but what about paramodernity? Last Friday, Artist in Residence Netta Yerushalmy – along with scholars Carol Ockman and Thomas DeFrantz and dancers Brittany Engel-Adams, Stanley Gambucci, Taryn Griggs, Jeremy Jae Neal and Nicholas Leichter – brought a preview performance of Paramodernities #2 and #3 to CenterStage at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Yerushalmy places dancers alongside scholars to create a lecture-performance hybrid exploring the tenets of modernity. Paramodernities #2 – featuring the College’s very own Ockman, professor of art history, and dancers Yerushalmy and Griggs – deconstructs Martha Graham’s iconic Night Journey, a ballet based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex but told from the perspective of Jocasta, Oedipus’ wife and mother who commits suicide. Yerushalmy, Griggs and Ockman began the performance lying down on the stage. The two dancers both wore identical red costumes. Some audience members were arranged in an arch on one side of the stage, while the rest were arranged in the mezzanine such that a clear line could be drawn between the space of the audience and that of the performers. In the middle of the performance, scenes from Graham’s ballet were projected

onto the screen behind the performers, whose choreography at times could be matched to the ones in Graham’s. The two dancers alternated between angular, aggressive movements and softer, more feminine ones of grief, repeating their repertoire between each other in a sort of counterpoint, with one dancer performing a set of movements while the other followed not long afterwards. Alongside the choreography, Ockman read from “In the House of Pelvic Truth,” an essay she wrote that combined personal anecdotes about going to the dentist, the male gaze and the female body. Ockman’s lecture emphasized that it was difficult to pay full attention to the dancer’s choreography and simultaneously take in everything; indeed, both Paramodernities #2 and #3 performed this tension between the two mediums as Neal disrupted DeFrantz with a loud interjection, while Yerushalmy and Griggs stole the script out of Ockman’s hands, stomped on it and stepped and crawled all over her as she struggled to continue reading. Moreover, Ockman and DeFrantz were both integrated into the choreography; the relationship between Ockman and the two dancers was sometimes loving and at other times hostile. Paramodernities #3 featured Duke Professor DeFrantz and dancers EngelAdams, Gambucci, Jae Neal and Leichter. In #3, Yerushalmy reinterprets Alvin Ai-

ley’s Revelations, a dance that highlights African American spiritual music. But Yerushalmy’s #3 had no soundtrack, only the ghostly hum of a single dancer, which was enough to make the audience shiver. The set was rearranged so that the audience was seated along all four sides of the stage facing towards the center. Only Jae Neal, Leichter and Gambucci, along with DeFrantz, were on stage at the beginning of the performance, but Yerushalmy and Engel-Adams soon joined them. The movements of the dancers started off highly individuated and abstracted, a visual theme which the dancers’ individually distinct costumes supported as well. Gathering momentum as the performance went on, the choreography grew increasingly more synchronized and rhythmic until the performers coalesced into one group, and suddenly dispersed at the end. With the space set up to allow for close scrutiny, the audience was intimately aware of the human body’s limited representational capability – both choreographies require the lecture to supplement and provide context; Yerushalmy is acutely aware of this too. At the end of every performance, she hosts a small discussion. These concluding talks highlight the experimental and highly multi-pronged approach of Paramodernities to conceptualize difficult subjects and ultimately open the subject up for discussion.

A museum exhibit typically asks active attention from its visitors, but in Active Ingredients, a new exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) which debuted on Oct. 20, the objects on display defy expectations to physically engage with museum-goers in the present. Organized by Lisa Dorin, interim director, Marsha Ginsberg, artist and designer, Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Amy Holzapfel and David Levine, artist and director, Active Ingredients subverts the inclination of the museum to memorialize its objects and suggest a gap between the worlds of the viewer and that of the object. The name of the exhibit suggests potential, the fusion of various components to create something new. Before entering the galleries, visitors are already confronted by William Pope.L’s Mudder of Excess Part B in the form of smell – the installation comprises what looks like a stage flat, graffitied with words, propped on top of a cluttered table smeared in oil and peanut butter. As the rich, organic matter starts to decay, its scent wafts through and drifts out of the gallery. The table is covered in art supplies, as if Pope.L had left them there on purpose. Ranging from empty containers of glue to brand new palette knives still sealed in their packaging, the items lend the

piece a sense of incompletion and hint at the indulgence of creating art. 1-1-1, a 1969 sculpture by minimalist sculptor Richard Serra, is composed of a heavy cylindrical object precariously balanced upon three vertical sheets, waist high, like a lead house of cards. The objects are heavily codependent on each other to maintain their arrangement: The lead sheets depend on the cylindrical object to stand up vertically, while the cylindrical object rests on the three sheets. Fenced off from the viewers, the sculpture threatens to collapse at any time and challenges the safety of the viewing experience promised by the museum. In the middle of one of the galleries, visitors encounter a powder blue platform. This is Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ 1991 piece, Untitled (GoGo Dancing Platform). For only five minutes each day, a dancer climbs onto the platform and “activates the space.” Visitors who are not so lucky as to catch the performance are left standing before an empty platform. Gonzalez-Torres’ piece examines the stage as the site of performance – instead of positioning the dancers as pure spectacle, GonzalezTorres makes the concept of spectacle, and its absence, the real focus of his piece. When active, viewers are made aware of the ephemerality of the performance; when inactive, the platform

nonetheless holds its potential. The crude suggestion of the piece’s title, moreover, points out the voyeuristic relationship between the object and its viewers. Jamie Isenstein’s Arm Chair occupies a place in between object and performance, past and potential. It takes the form of an unassuming green armchair, but lacks a few components – there are four holes where the legs and armrests should be, for the artist to place their arms and legs into and make the object functional. The performer thus becomes the object, and the object becomes a performance. With no Isenstein present, Arm Chair abjectly slumps forward on the floor, a “will return” sign dangling from its ear. Isenstein’s sculpture is patently absurd – a nonfunctional functional object, effectively suspended between past and present by the promise of the artist’s return. Camille Henrot’s Enough is Enough is an interactive telephone attached to the wall. Upon picking up the phone, an automated voice prompts the listeners to click on “1” if they want to complain about the world at large, and similarly strange requests. Listeners are then redirected through a series of different automated voices that ultimately loop back to the original automated hotline. With its various live components, Active Ingredients is an exhibition worth visiting and bringing to life.

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‘Active Ingredients,’ an interactive exhibition, will be showing until Jan. 7, 2018, at WCMA.

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‘Suspiria’ restoration brings horror classic to life By CECELIA MESSBAUER STAFF WRITER Suspiria is absurd. The 1977 Italian horror film, dubbed in English and digitally restored for two late-night Halloween specials at Images Cinema, is a garish, technicolor nightmare committed to rattling the senses with every shot. It never attempts to approach grounded realism, and some of its elements are so over-the-top that they inspire laughs rather than screams. When the scares come, though, they hit hard, making it all too clear why Suspiria is a classic of its genre. Directed by Dario Argento and starring Jessica Harper, Suspiria follows American ballet student Suzy Bannion’s move to a prestigious German ballet academy, which from the very first shot is depicted as a very bad place, with a series of slasher-style murders juxtaposed against an even more terrifying veneer of daytime normalcy performed by the school’s instructors. She befriends Sarah (played by Stefania Casini), a fellow dancer who has her suspicions about the faculty members’ nighttime whereabouts and whether they’re being truthful about the absence of the school’s director. The duo’s attempts to uncover the truth lead to an escalating buildup of horror where what’s really going on ends up being not all that complicated but terrifying nonetheless.

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With careful restoration by Images Cinema, ‘Suspiria,’ a horror classic, continues to scare and enthrall a new generation of viewers. The film’s stylistic trappings lean into a gonzo horror sensibility. The opening scene of Bannion arriving in Germany intensifies the uneasiness of the archetypal dark and stormy night, with Harper’s face bathed in red lighting in the back of a taxi and progressive rock band Goblin’s theme music providing a relentless backdrop of dread. That soundtrack is used as a signature effect, with the same theme starting

up every time the characters’ fleeting respites from danger come to an end as a new threat closes in. The fastpaced synthesizer rolls over menacing vocal effects evocative of satanic chants, which is on the nose but incredibly effective, especially through the immersive sound system of a movie theater. The harsh lighting persists as well; the ballet school rejects a faded noir color palette in favor of a painfully bright red school

interior, which only serves to turn hellishly smoldering once night comes and students are caught in the wrong places. The film is heavy on gruesome on-screen deaths, and its ambition pays off despite the limitations of late 1970s effects. Refreshingly, the allfemale setting and surrealist tone detaches the film from oft-problematic tropes about which girls die first. The murders are seemingly ran-

dom, unless to target someone who suspects something, and the evil being pulling the strings doesn’t have much of a grand plan beyond “because why not?” If the film stalls, it is when it breaks the pattern of inexplicable violence to take a brief sojourn into town so a conveniently knowledgeable outsider can provide an awkward exposition dump, which takes itself very seriously and in doing so provides some unintend-

ed, but appreciated, tensionbreaking comic relief. Some of the horror scenes also feel off in their timing, stretching a little too long before breaking the tension and allowing anticipation to turn into impatience, and a few set pieces that provide effective visual escalation aren’t quite attached enough to the central narrative to land perfectly. The payoff when the danger swoops in from the margins to engulf the main characters, however, pulls no punches and delivers exquisitely terrifying thrills. Ultimately, the film succeeds at the thing that matters most of all: getting the audience to invest in its characters. The setting of a dangerously strict ballet academy is the one element that grounds the horror in reality, and the friendship that Suzy and Sarah form in the face of unknown terror and a treacherous boarding school support system makes it both frightening and painful to realize just how much the odds are stacked against their survival. The finale is equal parts thrilling and heartbreaking. The reveal of the malevolent supernatural antagonist is big enough to capitalize on the film’s outlandish, nightmarefueling setup, and sends the audience home with a lingering adrenaline rush of having just barely woken up from the worst nightmare of your life before your subconscious self could meet a bloody demise.

‘Presence of Absence’ lends active agency to past objects By ANGELA TANG STAFF WRITER In a time in which it has become easier to meet up virtually rather than in person, with social media shaping our daily relationships, the exhibition The Presence of Absence: Medieval Art and Artifacts raises the question: What is the relationship between humans and nonhumans? The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opened The Presence of Absence: Medieval Art and Artifacts on Aug. 18. The exhibition evolves around object-oriented ontology to bring a sense of agency to passive medieval objects. Breaking away from common conventions of passive objects installed primarily for the pleasure of human viewers, the works of art and artifacts shape the physical interactions people have with them. Perhaps the most interesting thing that caught my eye was the Edwin Howland Blashfield Gallery, in which the exhibition was shown. The gallery was originally constructed in the 1930s to evoke the medieval era, and to hold WCMA’s medieval and early renaissance collections. This has been the first time in

over a decade, however, that it has actually been returned to a gallery space after being boarded up. The newly-restored space has stained glass windows that let in sparkles of light that are reflected on the tiled floor. The beamed ceiling was retained from its original state. The lighting in the space is soft and warm, almost giving off a celestial aura. The objects themselves reflect this aura and represent the presence of the medieval period and the absence of their original contexts. The objects contain the histories of past societies that used them for religious purposes, and are also retaining and absorbing new contextual histories as viewers in the present see them. There is a sense that the history of an object is always growing. There is also, however, a sense of permanent absence when we consider the fact that we may never fully absorb and recall the various past histories and contexts that the object has resided in. The object that seemed to be the most weighted in history and therefore the most interesting to me was Byzantine Oil Lamp with Cross and Scallop Shell Cover on Stand, c. 5th-

6th century. Even though the lamp was placed on top of a pedestal and out of its original context, I could imagine people in past societies using it as an oil lamp and illuminating their houses with it. The beauty of the object was both present in its actual display, and also present in the absence of what it once was. The exhibition’s curator, Kevin Murphy, said that the purpose of the exhibit is to “contemplate the weird, the eerie and all the ways objects haunt us.” This was particularly fitting, given that the manner in which the objects remind us of a past seems to waver between the human and the nonhuman. “I see this installation as an opportunity to transcend or maybe even transgress norms of how museums display works that are foundational to the traditional Western canon,” Murphy said. “I believe that emphasizing the agency of objects, however, will encourage audiences to engage with our medieval collection in ways they haven’t considered before.” The otherworldly aura in the gallery offers viewers an avenue to meditate and engage with the objects in a transhistorical manner.

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The Williams Record

November 1, 2017

Volleyball defeats Middlebury 3-2 in final regular season match By ELIZABETH SULLIVAN and NICA KOVALCIK STAFF WRITERS

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Erin Denham ’20 had a team-high 21 kills in the win over Middlebury.

Volleyball (11–11, 5–5 in the NESCAC) topped Middlebury 3-2 at home on Saturday to finish its regular season. At 5-5 in the first set, the Ephs won a string of five consecutive points, starting with a kill by Ally Ostrow ’19. Another surge, featuring three kills by Erin Denham ’20, gave the women a 20-13 lead. A five-point run by Middlebury, with two kills from Becca Raffel, brought the Panthers back within two. An attack error by the Ephs tied the match at 21 all. Williams, however, scored the final four points of the set, with Denham notching two kills and Natalie Albright ’20 and Mia Weinland ’19 each adding one, rounding out a 25-21 victory.

Middlebury stormed back to win the second set 25-11 and even the match at 1-1. Opening the match with a 10-1 lead, the Panthers took advantage of Eph errors, registering 14 kills in the set. Isabel Sessions and Sarah Staver strung together three kills each. The women bounced back in the third set to claim a 2521 win and a 2-1 lead in the match. Trailing by four, the Ephs fashioned an eight-point run to assume a 23-19 lead. Alex Newton ’20 and Denham sparked the Eph run with two kills each. Down 2-1 in the match, Middlebury came back strong in the fourth set, capturing a 25-16 victory to force the fifth and deciding set. The Panthers rebounded late in the match, notching 10 of the last 12 points to win 25-16. Eliana Schaefer

and Sessions led the end of the match run by the Panthers, each tallying two kills. The Ephs opened the fifth and final set with a 5-1 lead, keyed by three kills from Denham. The Panthers clawed their way back and narrowed the deficit to two after an Eph attack error. Williams established a fivepoint lead, 13-8, after a kill by Tess Richman ’19 and a service ace by Daiana Takashima ’20. Consecutive kills by Denham and Weinland propelled the women to a 15-10 fifth-set win, sealing the match. Sessions led the Panthers with 23 kills, and Raffel added 14, while Emma Walsh recorded 44 assists. Denham led the Ephs with 21 kills, and Newton recorded 53 assists. Head coach Christi Kelsey was thrilled with the team’s

performance as she reflected on the season. “I’m not sure if there are enough words to express how incredibly proud I am of this group,” Kelsey said. “Saturday was a mental and physical battle, and our team stepped up to the challenge. “We have learned a lot about ourselves in the last two months of the regular season, and as coaches, the most you can ask for is to be playing some of our best volleyball of the season as we get ready to head into the NESCAC Championship,” Kelsey said. “We are looking forward to preparing for next weekend.” Seeded No. 7 for the NESCAC tournament, the women return to action on Friday at 5 p.m. when they play No. 2 seed Wesleyan in a NESCAC quarterfinal match. No. 1 seed Tufts hosts the tournament in Medford, Mass.

Football trounces Hamilton 24-6, secures first winning season since 2011 By KEVIN COAKLEY STAFF WRITER On Saturday, football (5–2) defeated Hamilton 24-6 on Farley-Lamb Field. To start the game, Min Kyu Park ’21 sent a kickoff, aided by the wind, into the end zone for a touchback. Soon enough, the Continentals were forced to punt. The punt only went 16 yards to the Hamilton 45, giving Williams the ball back in great field position. The offense then methodically made its way downfield, reaching the 8-yard line. On the final play of the drive, quarterback Bobby Maimaron ’21 stayed in the pocket and waited for Frank Stola ’21 to come across the field. With players concentrated on the left side of the field, Stola streaked to the right. He caught the ball and sprinted into the end zone untouched. After Park’s extra point, the score was 7-0. The Ephs soon had another chance to add to their lead. After an eight-play Hamilton drive that was riddled with penalties,

the Ephs got the ball back on their own 35. Maimaron then rushed for 35 yards in three plays, and after a penalty, the Ephs were in the red zone again. On third down, Maimaron was sacked by Cole Burchill. Park came on for a 32-yard field goal and nailed it to give his team a 10-point lead. The men nearly let Hamilton back into the game soon after. After receiving a punt, the Ephs had the ball at their own 16-yard line. Maimaron then passed to Steve Bohling ’20. As he ran near the sideline, however, Justin Leigh came over and forced a fumble, which the Continentals recovered. Put in a precarious situation, the defense stepped up. With Hamilton on the 23-yard line on second down, Jarrett Wesner ’21 sacked the quarterback for a 10-yard loss. This forced a 41-yard field goal attempt, and even though kicker Zach Altneu’s kick was long enough, it flew right of the goalpost, keeping the score at 10-0.

On the next drive, the men moved 80 yards upfield, and Maimaron completed a 31-yard heave to Stola, who brought the ball all the way to the 2-yard line. The drive was then capped off by a 2-yard Maimaron touchdown run. Feeding off of the Ephs’ offensive success, the defensive unit had its best showing yet on the following Continentals’ possession. Quarterback Kenny Gray was sacked twice in a row, with the first coming by way of Wesner and Ben Anthony ’20, and the second by Jameson DeMarco ’19 and co-captain Chris Hattar ’18. This gave the ball back to a red-hot Williams offense at its own 26. The men then added another touchdown when Maimaron found Justin Nelson ’21 in full stride on a second and 12. Breaking through a hole between Hamilton’s safeties, Nelson found a clear path to the end zone for a 76-yard score, putting the Ephs up 24-0 minutes before halftime. Looking to maintain their lead, the men played more con-

servatively in the second half. In most of their plays, the men either looked to run the ball or to make short, high-percentage passes. The strategy seemed to be to run the clock down while making the Continentals prove that they could get past the Eph defense. And for most of the second half, the defense looked nearly unbeatable. Although they gave up plenty of yards each possession, the men kept the ball in front of them and in-play, forcing the clock to wind down. The Continentals finally broke through with 8:31 left in the game. On their previous drive, they punted the ball from midfield to the 1-yard line, putting the Eph offense in a hole. On the first play of the drive, Maimaron threw the ball directly into coverage and was intercepted. Then, starting on the Williams 18, Gray completed two quick passes to get into the end zone. Hamilton attempted a two-point conversion to make the game a twopossession contest, but the ball fell out of Sam Robinson’s hands, so the score remained 24-6.

The Continentals then attempted an onside kick and successfully recovered it at their 48. The offense threatened to score again, but on fourth and 10, all that Gray could do under pressure was throw the ball up and hope for the best. Fortunately for Williams, there were no receivers in the area, giving Anthony an uncontested interception. This essentially ended the game with five minutes remaining. The Ephs had a stellar 476 yards of offense, while their opponents had 317. Maimaron had another solid game with 268 yards passing, 65 yards rushing, three total touchdowns and two interceptions. Nelson excelled as Maimaron’s top target for the day, catching six passes for 125 yards and a touchdown. Hamilton quarterback Gray was 21-of48 with 237 passing yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. He primarily looked to Joe Schmidt, who had 97 yards on six catches and a touchdown. The men also excelled on the ground, garnering 208 yards.

The Ephs were led by TJ Dozier ’21, who had 112 yards on the ground. Marcus Gutierrez recorded 77 rushing yards for the Continentals. On defense, Williams dominated with five sacks and two interceptions. TJ Rothmann ’21 led the team with eight tackles. The Continentals, meanwhile, were led by Tyler Hudson with nine tackles. They also had two sacks and two interceptions. “I’m just proud of our guys,” head coach Mark Raymond said. “We knew Hamilton was going to be a tough football team, and we knew they wouldn’t go away in the second half. We had some critical stops at the end in pressure situations, which is what good teams do.” The win guaranteed the Ephs a winning season, their first since 2011. The men play their first Little Three game at Wesleyan on Saturday. The Ephs will need to contain Cardinal wide receiver Mike Breuler, who leads the NESCAC in receptions, yards and touchdowns. The game will take place at 1 p.m. in Middletown, Conn.

CAPTAINS’ CORNER: JACQUELINE SIMEONE ’18 to specializing in soccer, mainly because she and that group of girls really took me under their wings, and playing with older girls was essential to my early development as a player. I also enjoyed the whole team aspect of it. I’ve never seen myself as an individual athlete. I think I need a lot of interpersonal connections on the field, and that always played a huge role in games.

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By DANNY JIN SPORTS EDITOR

Team: Women’s soccer Hometown: Milton, Mass. Residence: Hoxsey Street Major: Economics Snack bar order: Triple sweet potato fries What was your childhood experience with sports? I started playing youth town soccer around age 6. I went to a school called the British International School of Boston, and I played a lot of rounders, which is essentially British baseball, as well as rugby. When I was younger, it was basically rounders, rugby and soccer – kind of a random combination. [Laughs.] I come from a big golf family, so I played a lot of golf and tennis. What eventually led you to focus on soccer, and when did you make that decision? I was fortunate enough to be able to play with my sister, who is a few years older [than I am]. I played on her town travel team – that was huge in my transition

I know that you went to IMG Academy for high school. What was it like to be in such a sports-oriented environment? It’s funny because people ask me about playing soccer during high school, but for me, soccer was high school. [Laughs.] It was a very demanding place. I would go to classes until noon, and from noon on, it was all about soccer. My electives were things like vision, nutrition, yoga and running. I would go to the trainers two hours before every single practice. We’d get to practice an hour early to work on running form and conditioning. I’d train for three hours and have a lift after practice, so it was definitely very soccer-focused. I had a great experience at IMG. It was fun and demanding, and I would never take it back. The repetition that I got at IMG through scrimmages has really helped me, and the focus on perfecting the firsttouch ball has served me well in collegiate soccer, I think. Playing one- or two-touch is definitely my style of play, and that repetition really prepared me. How did you decide to attend the College? I had been in contact with [head coach Michelyne Pinard] since I was 14, and I came to visit then with my family. We fell in love with the campus, but Michelyne was also the only coach who commented on my progression as a soccer player. No other coach had ever noticed that, so it was a huge point on the soccer aspect. It’s always been academics before soccer, though. My mom says, “In student-athlete, student is before athlete for a

reason.” I always told myself that I would go to the best school, and if soccer could complement that, I would do it. Williams seemed to be the best fit. In an interview you did with Sports Information, you talked a bit about your grandfather’s love for the College. How has that shaped your experience here? [Laughs.] He and my grandmother loved Williams so much. They had no affiliation other than just loving the Berkshires and the mountains here. He always wanted one of his children to come here, but no one could get in, quite frankly. He unfortunately passed away when I was much younger, but I remember taking the field for the first time, and I felt his presence. It’s something that really motivates me when I’m feeling in a rut at all. I think about him and my grandmother and making them proud. Is there a story behind your uniform number, 27? 27 is my family’s lucky number. My brother and sister were born on July 27, my parents got married on June 27 and my first home growing up was 27 Long Meadow Road. Apart from all of those, it’s also found its way athletically into my family. My first year of high school, my brother and I were both just given 27 as jersey numbers. I played for the Massachusetts Olympic Development Team – it was an honor making that team – and I showed up to the first game, and they handed me 27. I love 27. [Laughs.] What makes playing under Coach Pinard so special? Michelyne is so invested in our personal development outside from soccer. Her goal is to shape us into the best women that she can. We talk about our six championships: You have the soccer ones, which are Little Threes, the NESCAC regular season, the NESCAC tournament, the regional championship and the

national championship. Then you have the team championship, and that’s always been her main focus. She wants all 30 of us to love and respect each other, more than anything. That’s been really influential to me as a captain – just following Michelyne’s lead and piggy-backing on that mission. What are some ways in which that mission has been fulfilled? I’m always so stunned by how excited we are when everyone is able to get on the field and do what we love most. It’s quite amazing. We have a “player of the week” award that’s voted upon by all the team members each week. It doesn’t always have to do with games. It’s often whoever is pushing the hardest in practice and who we think deserves to be recognized. That’s another thing that reminds me of how proud we are of each other, and the moments when it’s announced are so special. I’m always awed by the length of the smiles on everyone’s faces. It’s amazing. I know you have some pregame traditions. How do those energize the team? [Laughs.] We have so many traditions – it’s weird to think about. It’s a lot of singing. We just like to sing a lot, I guess. The night before a game, right after our pregame practice, we circle up and do our chant. It’s the same as football’s; I think it’s called “Yard by Yard.” In the locker room before games, we sing “Shipping Up to Boston” [by the Dropkick Murphys] along with a special mashup of another song. We have a dance that we do on the field. We sing “Church” [by T-Pain] every time before taking the field. A lot of traditions. What was it like to be a Junior Advisor (JA) last year? Being a JA was such a blessing. I had a great experience, mainly from all the friendships that I fostered from it. I like to keep myself busy; I like always having something to do or a place to be.

I don’t mind having people rely on me. It was definitely exhausting at times, but it taught me a lot about what I need. I realized that in previous years, I had been giving a lot more to others than to myself, so I realized that it’s okay to spend time taking care of myself. It’s okay to take some time away because it will make the time that I spend with everyone else better. It was definitely a balancing act last year.

episodic memory of it. I just remember looking around, seeing [tri-captain] Evan [Gancedo ’18] looking at me and smiling and Victoria [Laino ’21] smiling. I ran over to the bench, and we did some group hug type of thing. [Laughs.] It felt really great to clinch the Little Three championship. It was also a great look by [Natasha Albaneze ’18], who has been so selfless this year.

How has your experience with Nothing But Cuties (NBC) been?

Your class won the NCAA title your sophomore year, and you are statistically one of the most successful in school history. What has it been like to play with that group?

NBC is great. I can’t dance while I’m in season, but dancing with them is a whole other workout. Sometimes I’ll feel more exhausted in an NBC practice than I would be in a soccer practice. I remember my first performance with them, and afterward, I felt like I had when we won the national championship. It felt that great because NBC does a great job of fostering a community that cares for each other more than anything I’ve ever felt, much like what the soccer team has done. How did you get involved with Reclaim Childhood, an organization that seeks to use sports to support women and girls in Jordan? We had never had a soccer chapter before this year, so I met with Abby Conyers ’14, another No. 27, who is a leader for Reclaim. We spoke about starting a soccer chapter and a “goals for girls” campaign. Basically, you can either make an upfront donation or pledge a certain amount per goal. That makes scoring so much better and more exciting for our team, knowing that every time we score, we’re helping out this amazing organization. You scored the game-winning goal on Oct. 14 against Wesleyan to win the Little Three championship. How did you feel in that moment? I was in complete disbelief when that happened. That was so surreal, and I don’t even know how to describe it. I have somewhat

We have three captains, but we’re really leading as a senior class. All decisions are made with all six of the seniors, and we meet almost weekly to discuss things. Having this leadership role and that responsibility has been really rewarding. We pay a huge tribute as well to the other classes, who have really gotten on board with our mission this season. Without their buying into this vision, it wouldn’t look like what it does. As a team, we never really speak about our success. We understand that we have been successful, but each season is a new season and each game is a new game. We’re just playing soccer, though, and we’re doing what we love. And we’re loving it together. Sometimes Michelyne needs to remind us of our championships because we’re so focused on the game and looking at it as just that. Playing the best soccer that we can is always our focus, and that’s what we’re concerned with. We’re very in the moment, and she’ll always tell us the things we’ve done. It’s always a moment that we take and just say, “Oh, you’re right. We did do that.” Our team does a really good job getting excited about the little things. We’re always yelling and very overtly passionate about each other’s successes. When these bigger championships do happen, it’s pretty great.

November 1, 2017

SPORTS 11

The Williams Record

Men’s soccer falls in first round of NESCAC tournament By BROOKE HOROWITCH SPORTS EDITOR Men’s soccer (8–3–5, 3–3–4 in the NESCAC) fell to Bowdoin on penalty kicks in the first round of the NESCAC tournament on Saturday. In Brunswick, Maine, the No. 3 seed Polar Bears and the No. 6 seed Ephs were tied at one after double overtime, but Bowdoin won the penalty shootout 4-3 with the help of two crucial saves from goalkeeper Stevie Van Siclen. When the two teams met on Sept. 28, Bowdoin emerged with a 1-0 victory. On Saturday, both teams came out explosively at the beginning of a fast and physical playoff match. Bowdoin received a free kick about 35 yards from the net, but goalkeeper Bobby Schneiderman ’18 punched the ball away in a crowded box. In the 15th minute, Bowdoin midfielder Moctar Niang nearly scored with a header off of a free kick by Matty McColl, but Niang’s attempt went just wide. Chris Fleischer ’20 had two scoring chances as well, sending two shots left of the post. Both sides had opportunities from corner kicks late in the first half. Bowdoin midfielder Jake Steinquist headed a service wide right, and Williams co-captain Tobias Muellers ’18 also sent a header wide after receiving a cross from Nick Ranieri ’21. The men attacked with renewed intensity in the final five minutes of the period. Eli Petrik

’21 used his speed and footwork to penetrate the Polar Bear back line. Teo Pollini ’20 also launched two headers toward goal from corner-kick deliveries. The first hit the crossbar, and Van Siclen saved the second, so the game remained scoreless at halftime. The Ephs led 4-3 in shots at the break. At the start of the second half, Bowdoin earned several set pieces and threatened on offense. In the 54th minute, the Polar Bears broke the deadlock when Levi Morant knocked a header into the back of the net after receiving a perfectly-placed corner kick from Ethan Ellsworth. After falling behind, the Ephs began to control more of the possession. Muellers sent several smart passes forward, and Eric Hirsch ’19 was active on the right flank. Schneiderman made another great save under pressure to prevent Wilson MacMillan from doubling the Polar Bear lead. The stop added to the Ephs’ momentum, and the men repeatedly challenged the Polar Bear defense in the latter part of the half. Mark Sisco-Tolomeo ’18 won a free kick approximately 30 yards out, and Ranieri sent a bending ball toward goal. Van Siclen, however, punched the shot over the crossbar. In the 78th minute, the Ephs equalized. Sisco-Tolomeo headed a cross from Ranieri into the right side of the net, notching his team-leading fourth goal of the season.

Both teams had chances to secure the game near the end of regulation. Niang sent a through ball to David Byrd, but Byrd’s shot was deflected and saved. Petrik won the ball deep in Bowdoin territory and tried a low shot that went wide left. Fleischer attempted a powerful shot from distance that also sailed wide. As neither side could convert, the game went into sudden-death overtime. The Polar Bears controlled the play in the first overtime. Morant played a ball to a wide-open MacMillan, but he had a heavy first touch and sent a shot wide. Minutes later, MacMillan sent a through ball to CJ Masterson, who nearly got past the Eph defense. Scatt MacDonald ’19 hustled back, however, and cleared the ball out. Despite Bowdoin’s dominance, neither team could score, so the game continued into double overtime. The Ephs rebounded in the second overtime as Fleischer and Kyle Brady ’20 recorded shots. The men also earned a corner kick in the 106th minute, and Malcolm Singleton ’18 won the ball on the right side. He launched a powerful shot toward the net, but Van Siclen came up with another critical save to send the match to a penalty-kick shootout. Sam Ward and McColl made Bowdoin’s first two penalty shots, and MacDonald and Sisco-Tolomeo each converted for Williams. On Bowdoin’s third attempt, however, Schneider-

No. 13 men’s cross country

Fifth at NESCACs, second at Little Threes

Men’s cross country placed 16 runners in the top 25 at the Little Three race on Oct. 14.

No. 4 women’s cross country

First at NESCACs, first at Little Threes

Women’s cross country won its 10th consecutive Little Three title and third straight NESCAC crown.

No. 7 field hockey

12–4, 6–4 in the NESCAC (T-third)

Field hockey amassed a sevengame winning streak from Sept. 24 to Oct. 17, and forward Libby Dolan ’19 is third in the conference with 17 goals scored.

5–2 (T-third)

After going winless last year, football won four of its first five games, highlighted by a 27-26 comeback victory over Middlebury on Oct. 14.

Men’s golf

Second at NESCAC Fall Qualifier

Men’s golf claimed victories this season at the Middlebury Fall Classic, Saratoga Invitational and Ekwanok Collegiate Match.

Women’s golf

First at NESCAC Championship

Cordelia Chan ’19, tri-captain Liz Gudas ’18 and tri-captain Phoebe Mattana ’18 were All-NESCAC selections, and Chan was named NESCAC Golfer of the Year.

Men’s soccer

8–3–5, 3–3–4 in the NESCAC (T-sixth)

Men’s soccer allowed just 0.58 goals against average over the course of the season, ranking third in the NESCAC.

No. 3 women’s soccer

14–1–1, 8–1–1 in the NESCAC (first)

Volleyball

11–11, 5–5 (T-fifth)

Women’s soccer opened its season unbeaten in 14 games, finishing first in the NESCAC regular season while notching the Little Three title. Alex Newton ’20 is fourth in the NESCAC with 687 assists, and Daiana Takshima ’20 is seventh with 379 digs.

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man guessed correctly and dove toward the lower-right corner to save MacMillan's attempt. Ranieri then put the Ephs up 3-2. Niang scored for the Polar Bears with a powerful ball to the upper-left side of the goal, and Van Siclen blocked a shot from Bobby Fabricant ’20 to tie the shootout 3-3. Jason Oliver then scored for Bowdoin, and Van Siclen made another save

By LIAM ALBRITTAIN and ZEKE COHEN TEAM CORRESPONDENTS Men’s cross country traveled to Lewiston, Maine, on Saturday for the 2017 NESCAC Championship. The Ephs finished fifth with 126 points, snapping a four-year winning streak. Amherst won its first championship in program history with 35 points, followed by Middlebury (66), Bates (109) and Connecticut College (115). Eager to assert their position on the narrow, winding 8k course, the Ephs got out to a fast start, unofficially leading in the standings for the early portion of the race. Co-captain Liam Simpson ’18 was in his customary position in the top group, while the trio of Ryan Cox ’20, Aidan Ryan ’21 and Peter Kirgis ’20 were among the chase pack. Behind them, the remaining 15 Ephs competing ran aggressively, hoping to bridge the gap between Williams and Amherst, which was favored to win. The early aggression, however, did not pay off. Simpson held on for ninth overall with a time of 25:38, but the individual title went to Amherst’s Mohamed Hussein, who finished in 25:07. Hussein was followed by Connecticut College’s Scott Mason and Danny Aschale, who ran 25:13 and

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match and then have the chances to win it. I think our preparation and mindset going into today’s game was excellent so it only makes an outcome like this sting that much more.” With a possibility of receiving an at-large bid, the men await the NCAA tournament selection show, which will occur upon the completion of conference tournaments.

25:19, respectively. Amherst runners Clark Ricciardelli and Cosmo Brossy rounded out the top five. Head coach Pete Farwell ’73 was pleased with Simpson’s race. “Liam gave a great run and took his shot,” he said. “Although the hills caught up to him a bit, top 10 in a really great field is fantastic.” Behind Simpson, several Ephs had successful outings. Most notable was Cox, who ran his best race of the season, closing hard for a season-best 25:48 to place him 15th overall. “[Cox] had the race of the day,” Farwell said. “He planned to really get out and attack, and he’s quite an aerobic animal to handle that and miss all-conference by just one spot.” Behind Cox, Ryan had a strong outing despite sickness, finishing in 26:10 for 29th overall. Next, Mitchell Morris ’19 finished 33rd with a time of 26:17. He was the only Eph who ran a conservative, hard-closing race. Kirgis rounded out the scorers, battling hard throughout the race to finish in 41st with a time of 26:24. Rounding out the top seven were two Ephs who each had tremendous performances. Jake Lange ’21 finished 51st overall in 26:36, just 10 seconds behind Kirgis.

“[Lange] made a great push after three miles, really making a big jump,” Farwell said. Co-captain Griffin Colaizzi ’18 made his return from injury, running 26:47 on the tough course to finish 60th overall, closing hard with his trademark kick. “Griffin did great, and I think that in two weeks we’ll see real improvement,” Farwell said. Although the team result was disappointing, Farwell was optimistic. “This was a very challenging course, with lots of ups and downs, twists and turns,” he said. “That describes our team as well this season. We’ve been unlucky with sickness and injury, but we’re hoping for a full lineup soon. “While I know our guys were disappointed with the result, we were only 17 points outside of third place. This is a great conference and I think our run sets us up well down the line. For now, we’re going to have our guys rest up, and look forward to attacking the regional.” On Sunday, many of the runners outside the team’s top seven will compete at the USA Track and Field Cross Country New England Championship, in Franklin Park, Mass., at 11:45 a.m. The top seven will rest and prepare for the NCAA New England Regionals, which take place on Nov. 11.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK “Bennett is a stud! She is not only an offensive powerhouse but also an incredibly stellar defender, something most people do not recognize. Her performance versus Amherst was exceptional, and her success could not have happened to a more deserving person.”

“Mark has produced a tremendous career in purple and gold. He is a tireless worker and opportunistic finisher, always among the most difficult matchups in our league. Beyond the numbers, Mark is a fierce competitor and a compelling personality, and he has a virtually unparalleled passion for the game.”

–Head coach Alix Barrale ’93

–Head coach Erin Sullivan ’96

Yasmine Bouagga, socio-anthropologist, entered Calais Jungle with cartoonist Lisa Mandel, and

on David Madding ’18 to secure a 4-3 shootout victory for the Polar Bears. Head coach Erin Sullivan ’96 praised his team’s determination and resilience. “Saturday was a great college soccer game, and it’s always disappointing to see matches like these end in a shootout,” he said. “We’re proud of our team’s effort to fight back and level the

Men’s cross country finishes fifth at NESCAC Championship meet

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Co-captain Tobias Muellers ’18, who recorded a shot against Bowdoin, started all 16 games this season.

ALEX BENNETT ’18

MARK SISCO-TOLOMEO ’18

FIELD HOCKEY RYE, N.Y.

MEN’S SOCCER FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.

A co-captain forward, Bennett scored a hat trick in field hockey’s 4-2 first-round win over Amherst on Saturday. In addition, she assisted on a goal scored by Meredith Wright ’19 at 19:53, as the women secured a spot in the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament. Bennett and Libby Dolan ’19 are tied for second in the conference with 39 points this season.

Sisco-Tolomeo scored his team-leading fourth goal in the 78th minute of Saturday’s NESCAC quarterfinal game. His equalizer sent the contest into overtime tied 1-1, although the Ephs eventually lost to the Polar Bears on penalty kicks. The forward has notched 19 goals and nine gamewinning goals in his career.

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Tri-captain Victoria Kingham ’18 (bottom, third from right) came in second overall with a time of 21:53 in the 6k race at Bates last Saturday as women’s cross country claimed its third straight NESCAC Championship.

No. 4 women’s cross country wins third consecutive NESCAC title By JULIA GUNTHER TEAM CORRESPONDENT Women’s cross country captured its third straight NESCAC title at Bates on Saturday. Tri-captain Victoria Kingham ’18 came in second overall as the women scored 62 points. Middlebury finished second with 77 and Tufts earned third place with 82. It was beautiful day for racing – the sun was beaming, and the temperature was a cool 60 degrees with a light breeze. As the Ephs were waiting to warm up, spectators arrived and cheered enthusiastically. Spirits were high as the women prepared to race,

talking about packing strategies and where to make moves while previewing the course. The NESCAC is a deep conference, and the competition between the 144 runners was ferocious. The Bates 6k course had many rolling hills and twists and turns, as well as a wooded section, where the trail was hard-packed dirt. Kingham led the Ephs with a second-place finish in an impressive time of 21:53. She earned First Team All-NESCAC honors while co-captain Anna Harleen ’18 and Audrey Rustad ’20 were named Second Team All-NESCAC. They finished in 11th and 12th in 22:34 and 22:35, respectively.

Stella Worters ’18 ran a strong race for fourth on the Eph team and 17th overall, crossing the line in 23:01. The final scorer for the team was tri-captain Emily Sundquist ’18, who finished close to Worters with a time of 23:10 for 20th overall. Emily Harris ’19 finished sixth for the team in 23:21. Despite a recent illness, Erica Barrett ’21 was right behind her, finishing in 23:24. Caroline Galo ’21 had a strong performance and crossed the line in 23:33 for eighth among the Ephs. Next on the team was Eliza Matt ’18, who finished in 23:48. After Matt, a group of three

Ephs ran together. Brianna Bourne ’21, Emily Tibbetts ’20 and Janelle Gowgiel ’20 all had very strong races, showing weeks of solid training, and finished in 24:07, 24:20 and 24:25, respectively. Sarah Tully ’21 was right on their heels, crossing the line in 24:32 in spite of illness. Anna Passannante ’20 was the next finisher for the Ephs with a time of 24:46. Leah Rosenfeld ’20 raced tough and crossed the line in 26:19. The depth of the team was evident throughout the meet as eight women placed in the top 36. This meant that eight Ephs finished before eight other teams had their

fifth runners, and sometimes fourth runners, cross the line. Additionally, all 15 of the Eph racers finished before one opponent’s seventh runner had crossed the line. Head coach Pete Farwell ’73 was thrilled with the victory. “[It was a] great team effort with all of the top eight pacing extremely well over the up and down terrain and putting out great effort over the final mile to improve placings and with final kicks,” he said. “It was a very highly contested team contest with the top four teams finishing so close in score, and it was eventually decided by our fourth and fifth finishers, Worters and Sundquist.

“[The] top three earned their All-NESCAC [honors] with tremendous races,” Farwell said. “And big breakthroughs came from Harris and Galo.” He was also proud of the seniors’ efforts and leadership. “The senior class has made this team their mission and has accomplished great things already this season. [I am] looking forward to more culminating team experiences and races in the next three weeks, when they traditionally reach an even higher peak.” This Saturday, the women will host NCAA New England Regionals at 11 a.m.

No. 7 field hockey beats No. 14 Amherst in NESCAC tournament By KRISTIN MAPES and CAMERON BROWN STAFF WRITERS No. 8 field hockey (12–4, 6–4 in the NESCAC) defeated Amherst 4-2 on Saturday in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. On Farley-Lamb Field, the day began with a couple of early green cards for both the No. 3 seed Ephs and the No. 6 seed Mammoths. With the pressure heightened, Amherst picked up the game’s first penalty corner at 8:25, and Shannon Tierney recorded the first shot, which was saved by goalie Abby Lloyd ’20. The Mammoths opened the scoring at 12:56, when Emery Sorvino netted on an assist from Mary Grace Cronin. The Ephs answered back, however, with a quick goal by co-captain Alex Bennett ’18 at 14:10. Williams picked up a penalty corner at 14:56, and a hard shot from Bennett forced a save from Amherst goalie Emilie Flamme. The women kept the pressure on with an 18:10 penalty corner and took the lead on a goal by Bennett, assisted by co-captain Hannah Goodrick ’18, at 18:38. Williams maintained possession and notched another goal at 21:18. Meredith Wright

’19 received a pass from Bennett and fired a ball into the corner of the goal to put the Ephs up 3-1. The Mammoths made their way down the field, with two hard shots from Tierney and Sorvino at 24:37 and 24:53 both saved by Lloyd. Amherst’s final effort of the half came at 30:21 with a shot from Cronin saved by Lloyd. The women added a fourth goal two minutes before halftime. A solid pass from Goodrick to Bennett gave the senior forward a chance to shoot, and Bennett converted. The Eph lead was 4-1 at the half. Lloyd had four saves for the women at the break, while Flamme had one save for Amherst. Katie Savage took over in the box for the Mammoths in the second half. The second half saw aggressive offense from the Mammoths, who recorded two shots in the first five minutes of the period. Tierney and Megan Shea both had attempts saved by Lloyd. The only shot in for the Ephs in the second half came from Bennett at 44:00, but Savage managed to deflect the shot away. Amherst players Elizabeth Turnbull and Kendall Codey picked up two green cards at 45:15 and 48:41.

The Mammoths picked up a penalty corner at 57:03, producing a hard shot from Codey, and Lloyd laid out for a critical save. After a battle for possession, two more Mammoths, Caroline Feely and Codey, were given a yellow card and a green card. The Mammoths found the back of the net with a late goal at 67:20, bringing the score to 4-2 with less than three minutes remaining. After two more penalty corners, Amherst had a final shot at 69:46 saved by Lloyd. Head coach Alix Barrale ’93 noted the success of her goalie, Lloyd. “She battled in the goal box, which was crucial in our win,” Barrale said. “We did a great job combating the Amherst defense while still being explosive offensively. Overall, this was a great win for our team and the program, and I’m excited to move more into postseason and really show what our team is capable of.” The win improved the Ephs’ all-time record against the Mammoths to 28-19-1. Saturday’s game also ended Amherst’s nine-game winning streak against Williams, which had dated back to 2006. The women will face No. 5 seed Trinity in the semifinals on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Middlebury, Vt.

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Co-captain Hannah Goodrick ’18 recorded two assists in field hockey’s 4-2 victory over archrival Amherst.

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Victoria Laino ’21 scored two goals in the women’s 4-0 victory over Bowdoin in the NESCAC quarterfinals.

No. 3 Ephs defeat Polar Bears 4-0 By DANNY JIN SPORTS EDITOR No. 3 women’s soccer (14–1– 1, 8–1–1 in the NESCAC) topped Bowdoin 4-0 last Saturday on Cole Field in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. The Ephs entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed while the Polar Bears were seeded eighth. After being shut out in a 1-0 loss to Middlebury on Oct. 24, the women created several early chances in Saturday’s game. In the opening stages, Natasha Albaneze ’18 played a through ball to Alison Lu ’20, but Bowdoin goalkeeper Rachel Stout kept Lu’s shot out of the net with a strong one-on-one save. Midfielder Victoria Laino ’21 started the scoring in the 14th minute. At the edge of the penalty area, she powered a long shot past the keeper. Although Stout got a hand on the ball, it ricocheted into the net under the crossbar. Laino found her second tally of the day in the 37th minute. Georgia Lord ’21 sent a cross in from the left wing. A defender headed the ball out, but Laino collected the rebound inside the penalty area. She buried a firsttime shot to set the score at 2-0. Bowdoin threatened as well, playing attackers through on two occasions. Midfielder Claire Dardinski found forward Kate Rusk-Kosa behind the defense early, but Eph defender Sarah Kelly ’20 raced back to intercept. In the 43rd minute, Bowdoin forward Morgen Gallagher won the ball in Williams territory and had a clear line to the goal, but a defender chased her down. Polar Bear midfielder Nikki Wilson played a key role for the

visitors in the possession battle. Wilson won the ball in the offensive third several times, and she had a shot go wide in the 19th minute. Williams retained its two-goal lead at halftime. The Ephs held a 14-2 first-half shot advantage. Bowdoin started the second half with more urgency, beating the women to many 50-50 balls. The Ephs found a third goal, however, in the 57th minute. On a counterattack, Albaneze picked out midfielder Natalie Turner-Wyatt ’19 in space. Turner-Wyatt ran with the ball into the offensive third, drew a defender and slipped a through ball to Lu, who calmly sent a shot into the bottomright corner. Bowdoin forward Julia Patterson threatened to strike back for the visitors. She broke through into the penalty area and took the ball past multiple defenders. Patterson was unable to get a shot off, however, before the Ephs cleared for a corner. The Ephs’ fourth score came in the 65th minute. Lu’s cross from the right wing was defended, but Turner-Wyatt volleyed the loose ball into the net to make it 4-0. The score remained 4-0 Williams until the final whistle. The Ephs ended with a 22-6 shot advantage. Whitney Lincoln ’20 made one save for the home side while Stout stopped six shots for the visitors. The women managed to score in a variety of ways on Saturday, and head coach Michelyne Pinard said the team’s confidence to take long shots was crucial. “I think we’ve always been able to score [from long shots], but we haven’t had the confidence to take the shots from dis-

tance,” Pinard said. “As soon as you start taking shots from distance, you get space behind the back four. Being dangerous in different ways allowed us more space to get into, and I thought we made great choices [with the ball]. It was fun to see so many people be a part of our attack.” She also stressed the importance of the team’s depth, especially late in the season. “The season is grueling,” Pinard said. “It’s eight weeks of at least two games a week, and that takes a toll on the body. Our depth allows us to give people breaks when they need them. Late in the season, every team has injuries. The fact that we can deal with our injuries so well because of our depth helps us in moments like these. I thought everyone who stepped in did a phenomenal job, and it showed.” With the victory, the women move onto the second round of the NESCAC tournament. The women will face Amherst, the No. 7 seed. When the two teams played on Sept. 23, the Ephs edged the Mammoths by a score of 3-2. Amherst defeated No. 2 seed Connecticut College 1-0 last Saturday to set up the rematch. “Amherst-Williams is always fun, and Amherst-Williams on Cole is something we train all year for,” Pinard said. “We love that we get to see them. They’re a dynamic, athletic team, and we haven’t seen that style of play in quite some time. We’re excited to see if we can handle them defensively and break them down offensively.” The semifinal match will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday on Cole Field.