march 19, 2015 | Vol. 113 no. 19 | middleburycampus.com Questions Surround Off-Campus Housing Lottery By Emilie Munson year’s lottery, which took place On Feb. 19, a group of 10 dis- on Feb. 17. Of these rising seniors, gruntled students shook up a approved only eight varsity ath- Community Council-sponsored letes were chosen from the lottery, By The Numbers “Community Conversation” event of the 37 varsity athletes who ap- People who applied: 111 individuals groups: (students can apply in with loud allegations directed to- plied. Three others athletes were wards the College’s Residential accepted just after the lottery approved: 58 groups of three) Life team. These ten students, all because Residential Systems Co- former or current varsity athletes, ordinator Karin Hall-Kolts, who Varsity athletes approved: 11 59 application groups complained that they had been organizes and conducts the lot- varsity athletes applied: 37 17 athlete groups applied unfairly treated in the off-campus tery, forgot to add their names to housing lottery on the basis of the pot. their identities as athletes. It was the shockingly low ac- % of student body that is ceptance rate among varsity ath- 38 groups approved, The off-campus housing lot- varsity athletes: tery is a random process through letes that caused the Community 6 groups of athletes Conversation outcry. How could which rising seniors can apply to were approved live in houses not owned by the the lottery be random if so few 28% College. Interested students can athletes were accepted, they chal- submit applications for groups of lenged. up to three people. These applica- “It just doesn’t seem random tions are then put into a pot and based on who got it,” said Riley selected at a drawing event that is Dickie ’16, a former men’s hockey Cassie Kent open to all students who applied. player who was rejected from the tion may have rigged the lottery Based on calculations per- The applications are then drawn lottery and spoke at the Commu- weren’t approved to live off cam- against varsity athletes that they formed by Paige-Wright Profes- from the pot by a random student nity Conversation event. “It just pus. I think that’s really weird.” believed were more likely to throw sor of Economics Paul Sommers who applied for off-campus hous- “I don’t think that the people and this reporter using hypergeo- ing. According to the College’s “I would like to think that it in the hat were chosen to be in the lacrosse players, these ten stu- metric probability distribution, website, the only criterion that is random because it is such an hat,” said Mary Claire Ecclesine dents claimed there was foul play. the probability that only these may bar applicants from being ac- important thing for so many stu- 11 athletes, who applied in 6 ap- dents,” added Maggie Caputi ’16, member. “I just think that maybe The Campus Investigates plication groups, would be ac- College discipline. a women’s lacrosse team member some people were taken out. And In the light of these claims, the cepted in a random lottery—and As the Campus reported on who was accepted in the lottery there’s no way that anyone could Campus decided to investigate so many others would be reject- Feb. 25, 58 rising seniors were ap- but also spoke out at the Commu- know that.” just how random the off-campus ed—is 35/10,000 chances. If we proved to live off campus in this nity Conversation. “At the same time, I think it’s really suspect that Claiming that the administra- housing lottery was on Feb. 19. SEE STATISTICS, PAGE 3 Julia Alvarez ’71 to Deliver May Commencement Address Found Across Campus By Joe Flaherty in the Dominican Republic. to speak to a graduating class at By Jason Zhang of Art, “Outside In: Art of the Novelist, poet and College President of the College Ron- an institution that means a great Earlier last week, a series of Street,” which launched on Feb. writer-in-residence Julia Alvarez ald D. Liebowitz said in an inter- deal to her. anonymous graffiti paintings 13. Other events included the view, “Julia has inspired genera- “It’s very touching to be there ’71 will deliver this year’s com- appeared across campus, spark- completion of a new Museum fa- tions. As a writer-in-residence, with a class that is about to set mencement address. Alvarez, ing debate and concern. The çade and a museum piece com- she has touched so many individ- out on the journey that I am along with four others, will re- graffiti pieces were found at Bi- menting on Andy Warhol both uals in the area of creative writ- looking back on now,” Alvarez ceive an honorary degree at the Hall, Forest Lounge, the Center painted by British street art- May 24 ceremony. ing and expression of one’s own said. “They’re saying goodbye ist Ben Eine over Winter Break self.” to a certain kind of connection for the Arts, Virtue Field House, Alvarez is the acclaimed au- Warner, Hillcrest, Ross and and a documentary screening of thor of novels, essays and books, - to the College, but this place re- Munroe, according to Facilities “Style Wars” by the co-producer including In the Time of the bury graduate to do a creative mains under your skin and in Services and student sources. and photographer Henry Chalf- and How the García writing thesis in poetry. She your bloodstream, I think.” credits faculty members such as At BiHall, one stencil spray- ant. Girls Lost Their Accents. She was The College exhibition con- awarded the National Medal of C. A. Dana Professor of English Dominican Republic when she painting depicted a riot police trasts with the black and white Arts — the highest honor given & American Literatures David was 10 to escape the regime of officer holding a baton, with graffiti that appeared outside to artists and arts patrons by the Price and Robert Pack, the poet, Rafael Trujillo. the words “TOO MANY COPS, the CFA and on College build- U.S. government — by President faculty member and longtime di- In addition to graduating TOO LITTLE JUSTICE.” The Obama in 2013. In addition to rector of the Bread Loaf Writer’s from the College, Alvarez has stencil appeared next to a large ings. The juxtaposition reveals writing, Alvarez and her husband Conference, for supporting her taught at Middlebury since 1988 sprayed security camera and the not only the different level of run a sustainable coffee farm and early writing efforts. and in 1998 transitioned from words “NO CAMERAS.” At the artistic expression, but also the literacy center called Alta Gracia Alvarez said in an interview her tenured position to become entrance of Ross dining hall, divergent destinies of the works that she relishes the opportunity writer-in-residence. She holds a a graffiti work read “BLACK by famous graffiti artists and the master’s in creative writing from POWER MATTERS”. ones that appeared on campus. Syracuse University. Addition- A stenciled rat in a suit ap- Many current social issues ally, Alvarez has frequented the peared in multiple locations: are at play in the messages in- Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference herent to the graffiti. Joanne and the Bread Loaf School of Warner, the Field House and a Wu ’15 commented on the dis- English. trashcan at the entrance of CFA. play outside of Ross Dining “The Bread Loaf Writer’s Con- Another, on the exterior Hall, which read “BLACK POW- ference, the Bread Loaf School of wall of the CFA entrance, read English — I had been trying to get “THIEF,” which is stylistically ER MATTERS.” back here ever since I graduat- different from the others. “It She said, “I think damaging ed,” Alvarez explained. “So I took does not make any sense, un- public property in any form is the job [in 1988] and here I am.” like the stencil ones, which are irresponsible, in part because Liebowitz also noted Alvarez’s better done. I think they are try- we are in this living space to- - ing to say something but just gether. There are many non- lege. “She is an inspiration to not in the right way,” said Elyse destructive ways to get out your a whole host of creative under- Barnard ’15, who saw the iso- message that are equally, if not graduates here at Middlebury,” lated one at the CFA and a few less, impactful. I do not agree he said. at Ross. with it. But I do agree that it has Alvarez, who said she antici- The appearance of the graffiti a high impact factor because it pates departing her writer-in- coincides with a wave of cam- gets people’s notice.” residence position within the pus events focusing on street On the effectiveness of the College Communications next year, sees her address as an art. Most notably, the exhibi- message, Wu mentioned the in- Author, poet, writer-in-residence and Middlebury grad Julia opportunity to say goodbye to the tion held at the College Museum stallation in the Davis Family Alvarez ’71 will be the commencement speaker on May 24. SEE ALVAREZ, PAGE 3 SEE FACILITIES, PAGE 2 CHILI FEST!!! MIDD’S OWN COLLEGE PAGE 4-5 SOCIOLOGY CELEBRATES PODCAST IRISH TRADITIONS PAGE 14 AND TUNES PAGE 17 inside 2NEWS | march 19, 2015 Sga Update CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Professor of American Studies Timothy firmed that this is not the first time graf- Spears saw the graffiti at the Athletic fiti has appeared on campus. According Library focusing on the issues of Mexican Complex and heard about others, but to the College archives, numerous inci- immigration and mistreatment of Mexi- could not speculate about their purpose dents of graffiti have occurred at the Col- can labor. lege, from basic desk inscriptions in 1966 She points out the deficiency of con- ’17, did not hear about it at all partly be- to political messages on the cement can- text of the campus graffiti and compares it to the more academic way of putting By Claire Treesh in promptly to remove the graffiti works. an installation in the library, which goes a studio and gallery for student graffiti, through the bureaucracy. “I think they Moser explained the cleaning process in murals and stenciling until the room was have a very provocative display in the li- an email response to the Campus. He painted over in 2012. At the same time, At their meetings on March 8 and March brary. That also attracts attention,” she said, “A solvent is used to remove graf- homophobic graffiti appeared in Ross 15, the SGA passed notable acts and resolu- said. fiti on painted surfaces, then these sur- and prompted the then Ross Commons tions. The Senate also voted to ratify Maddy “It’s egotistic vandalism that some- faces will be repainted when weather al- Heads Steve and Katy Smith Abbott and Sanchez ’17 as the Director of Transporta- body else has to clean up,” John D. Bern- the administration to resolutely step inghausen Professor of Chinese Thomas paste to extract the graffiti. Both of these in. These incidents and the most recent and six new members of the Awards Com- Moran wrote in an email response to the methods are effective, and are labor in- all point to a long history of active and mittee. Campus. tensive.” passionate students with a desire to be However, not everyone knew as much Moser, Spears and Moran, all con- heard. meeting was the Honor Code Biennial Ref- about the graffiti pieces that appeared. erendum Resolution, sponsored by Presi- dent Custer ’15. The committee drafted this resolution in Winter Term, after carefully New Internship Funding for CSE considering the Honor Code’s merits and failings. As Custer described, the committee By Minori Fryer the globe, at a location that matches the gram as a graduate of the University of students’ skills and area of interest. Past the Pacific, said, “I have met all of the was set up to think about “how we can come A new summer internship opportu- students who have participated in the students who have participated in Am- together as a community to talk about the nity has been launched by the Middle- program at the University of the Pacific bassador Corps, and they all come back Honor Code”. The resolution, which details bury Center for Social Entrepreneurship have interned in countries such as Ne- a completely different person.” how a revision process of the Honor Code (MCSE) in conjunction with the The pal, Paraguay, Uganda, Vietnam, China, As a result of the enriching experi- could take place, was discussed at length. Center for Social Impact Learning (CSIL) Rwanda and Kenya, working on projects ence, some students have developed long After some concern surrounding the time- at the Middlebury Institute for Interna- term relationships with the organiza- line of the process, the resolution was put tional Studies at Monterey (MIIS) with tions, and often return to work for them to a vote and passed nearly unanimously. the goal of supporting students as agents “The program is not only upon graduating. The next issue was the Senate Reform of social change. enriching for American “The program is not only enrich- Act, sponsored by Custer. The act, which Introduced this academic year, the ing for American students, but it is also was created in the hopes of changing stu- program known as Ambassador Corps students, but it is also enriching for the local communities in dent perception and understanding of the was brought to the College by Jeremy enriching for the local which the students make an impact,” efforts of the SGA, met much contention. Hildebrand, founder of the Global Cen- communities in which the Babak said. “The program works on the Many senators had issues with the po- ter for Social Entrepreneurship at the ethic of ‘paying it forward’, and the great tential adjustment of types of senators, as University of the Pacific in California, students make an impact.” thing about the way it works is that there outlined in the act. The act entailed elimi- who is now the director for CSIL at MIIS. Mustafa Babak is definitely a fruitful and tangible out- Mustafa Babak, CSE program and CSE Program and outreach associate come for the students upon completion.” replacing them with eight “cluster board” outreach associate as well as the point- Although the deadline for the first senators, representing different groups person between the CSE at Middlebury associated with public health, disaster round of applications already passed on on campus. The eight senators would be and CSIL at MIIS, describes the program relief and micro-finance. March 10th, students who are interested representatives from the cluster boards: as an “extraordinary opportunity for There is a program fee of $2,000 for can apply for the second round of ap- academic and activists, cultural organiza- Middlebury students,” for its unique and the 8 to 12 week program; however, eli- plications that are due on April 10. Ac- tions, special interest and activities orga- well-structured nature. gible students (such as those receiving cording to Babak, avid and experienced nizations, publications, religious organiza- Open to College students of all class financial aid from the College) can apply entrepreneurs, as well as those who are tions, athletics, and visual and performing years, applicants are chosen by the Cen- for bulk-funding from the CSE to help beginners to social entrepreneurship are arts. Some of the senators supported this ter for Social Impact Learning at MIIS cover the costs, as a result of a generous all encouraged to apply, as long as stu- change, saying that people’s actual inter- through a rigorous selection process. donation. dents are able to demonstrate their pas- ests would be better represented with this Successful applicants are placed in one Babak, who is familiar with the pro- sion for social change. kind of system. However, there was con- of MIIS’s partner organizations around cern from senators, such as from Senator Gogineni ’16, who said that an increase in the number of senators would greatly de- Midd Alum Featured on reddit Front Page While the bill also containted of other By Tess Weitzner Savard was sifting through the footage Post, The Daily Mail and NBC News. changes to the senate, the issue of cluster the following day that he discovered To quell speculation from skeptics board senators seemed to be the biggest College Digital Media Producer Ben the octopus’ photos and decided to post who believed the photos were fake, point of interest. Therefore Custer made a Savard ’14 achieved Internet fame after a them on Reddit. Savard created and shared a graphics motion to split the bill, in order to only vote photo of himself taken by an octopus was “Reddit is a website I’ve been on for on the senators section at that meeting. The featured on the front page of Reddit, a a while. I know the format, I know how entire photo series. motion was passed and the act was put to popular entertainment, news and social to make [posts] appealing to people. I Despite his internet fame, Savard has a vote. The senators voted 9-6-2, and the networking site. The photo of Savard wanted everyone to see [the photos], and act did not pass because it required a 2/3 dressed in a white lab coat rapidly it’s cool if people hopefully attract some research for the photos. majority. circulated the Internet and credited attention to the sciences at Middlebury,” Savard said, “I am not the story, I am At the March 15 meeting, two acts were its photographer, Middlebury’s female Savard said. hopefully just there to tell a good story. I passed: The Coffee Hour Act, sponsored California Two-Spot Octopus. On March 10, the post garnered more don’t want to be the researcher, I want to by Custer and the LaundryView Invest- Before the photo was taken, Savard was than 2.2 million views on Reddit, and be the GoPro, I want to capture things in ment Act, sponsored by Senator Toy ’17. working on a video about the College’s that number has since risen to over a cool way and make sure that research The Coffee Hour Act will entail one coffee science departments and decided to 3.3 million. The image has reached hour a week provided by the SGA, available feature the neuroscience research of popularity among the site’s users, with unappreciated...I was here for four years for students to meet with and talk to their several comparing the image to a ’90s and I’m realizing now there’s so many senators. Each senator is required to attend was observing whether octopi could be alternative rock album and a “promo different aspects of Middlebury that I at least three coffee hours a semester, likely trained to open a puzzle box with food shot for an educational TV show.” didn’t appreciate, and most of that is after firstly watching another octopus The post has also been featured on based around the work the students are Custer said that he envisioned these being demonstrate. Savard prepared to record news outlets such as The Washington doing.” easy, casual study breaks for students, with the experiment by inserting a GoPro the added ability to get to know SGA mem- camera with an automatic shutter inside bers or offer suggestions. the aquarium containing the octopus. The LaundryView Investment Act is a “[The octopi] grab everything we put project that has been a reoccurring discus- sion for SGA during the entire academic According to her, octopi are naturally year. After extensive research, the adminis- curious creatures. It therefore came tration has told the SGA that the funding for as no surprise LaundryView, a program which would tell the octopus immediately reached for students which machines were open/work- the camera when it was placed in the ing, would have to come directly from the tank. In doing so, the octopus happened SGA’s budget. This act designated $8,500 to direct the lens towards Savard and capture several photos. and $3,500 for the second year to be paid “It was all very circumstantial,” - Savard said. dent Life Survey, it was found that nearly The photos captured the progression 72 percent of the student body thought they from the moment the octopus grabbed the camera to when it directed the Courtesy Ben Savard camera toward Savard. It was not until put to a vote and passed 10-6-1. The photo of Ben Savard ’14 was taken by a California Two-Spot Octopus. march 19, 2015 | News 3 Statistics Prof. Calculates Probability of Foul Play CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 - excluded two application groups, whose names were not or were likely not in the - lottery pot at the time of the drawing (the three athletes who were accepted just after - their own names in the lottery pot so that are two-fold. - they know that the pot was not pre-select- First, Hall-Kolts sent the emails inform- tion of their group. 44/10,000 chances. off campus and all were rejected in the ini- express desire to see the waitlist and know tial lottery. - students who applied in all-athlete groups ing nature. - organizer of the proposed Palmer social house “The Hall,” felt his social house ap- - - plication was denied for the same reason: - though slight, that ing them against this outcome would “The reason we do the draw non-athletes who - occur. It is not im- - the spring. is to address the concern spond right away In an email to Adams sent after the result to occur in a that there is something other and get a higher group’s rejection, which Denious shared with the Campus, Adams explained that the random lottery pro- spot on the waitlist. with the Campus, Stewart explained, “We College plans on hosting a series of meeting cess. than random chance [hap- Adams respond- - with local property owners to try to address Sommers inter- pening]. It is completely ed that this was this issue. preted these low not an issue he was Finally, and most radically, some stu- - random chance.” as an athlete house asking us how many Doug Adams the timing of the - Associate dean of students email was not inten- Finally, a student who wished to remain thing impeding the tional. anonymous told the Campus that during randomness of the “[The email was sent] at the time that his application process for a mod he was lottery system. she [Karin] was done processing the infor- - “Somewhere there is an element of non- mation,” Adams explained. “We certainly - randomness,” Sommers said. “And it may can adjust our times if it’s felt that that is a housing to all-male groups of athletes. This - in the lottery. “A large group of my friends lottery not thoroughly mixing the slips.” tually awarded a mod for next year, how- they were not informed of their position on Administrative Response the waitlist. This lead them to suspect that Adams denies that applications for so- Campus last students were not getting off the waitlist that fair.” week, Associate Dean of Students for Lastly, in the largest sense, the student Residential and Student Life Doug Adams other factors, such as pressure from par- maintained that the lottery was 100 percent According to Adams, this year an espe- random. donors to the College. “The reason we do the draw is to address “The perception of a lot of kids is that at the College. the concern that there is something other percent of the stu- As Denious sug- than random chance [happening],” Adams dents who were “Somewhere there is an ele- gested in his email said. “It is completely random chance.” Adams countered that these allegations to Adams, some stu- ment of non-randomness. are “completely not true.” He said the reason that students’ posi- social houses next And it may be as simple as administrators draw off-campus attended the lottery drawing. tions on the waitlist are not shared with year are athletes. someone who conducts the “We always with the drawing. positions changing often when students look at athletic sta- lottery not thoroughly mix- on this one aspect of tus after we make their identity. - ing the slips. ” the acceptances “This [Denious’s campus instead. for the main rea- Paul Sommers Palmer social house complaints of discrimination against a paige-wright professor of economics “We don’t take anything into consider- son that we want group] was a group to make sure that - raised. we are not discriminating against a group,” He maintains that the off-campus hous- around [on the waitlist].” Adams said. “We look for the strongest pro- in the country, social interests, and some ing lottery is one of the most transparent gram, not [at] the group of students that are of us happen to play sports,” Denious said. processes of any at the College. On Campus Housing Policies Thus, according to Adams, the applica- sweeping generalizations, and completely can get, currently,” Adams said. housing policies and suspected discrimina- the committee felt were the strongest; they person in the house and completely goes claims. unfairly in on-campus housing processes. athletes on their roster or the gender of - those athletes. letic community here without really know- The Waitlist house application process, two groups of In addition to the lottery itself, athletes Implications understanding the culture of each team,” - The Campus - with the waitlist process that follows it. cause of their identities as athletes. After the initial lottery, students who ap- Campus on - - - - Campus say gardless of whether or not the lottery was form them whether they were accepted or for certain whether athletic identity may random, it is important to know that ath- not, and those students not accepted must - letes applied for Homestead House with - one non-athlete. The group felt optimistic others, consciously or unconsciously. The spond to the email quickly as the order in which students respond determines their They were the only group that applied to place on the waitlist. A higher spot on the Alvarez and Four Others to Receive Honorary Degrees MCAB’s WHAT’S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 an honorary Doctor of Science degree. - - - College. HAPPENING AT - science, language instruction, and design- MIDDLEBURY? the local school for the past 20 years. undergraduate science education,” Li- - CHECK BACK IN - - ters degree. The other honorary degree APRIL FOR NEW graduates, which is highly unusual for a - PROGRAMMING - AND WARMER - - eral Arts, a lecture titled “The Lord Alone WEATHER - (HOPEFULLY). countries. In addition to winning three an intentional theme for the ceremony. Grammys, Hahn also attended the Mid- - “All of the honorary degree recipients - - HAVE A man, French and Japanese. - itz said. day.” - RELAXING SPRING The commencement ceremony will Christina Johnston, the principal of take place at 10 a.m. on May 24. BREAK! 4Local |March 19, 2015
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isabelle dietz The 2015 Vermont Chili Festival attracted a crowd of thousands of connoisseurs. from Cornwall, VT. Sax has attended Frog all also made around 15 gallons three chili festivals, and also comment- and ran out before the event was over. ed that this year seemed like a younger Rosie’s made 30 gallons, 15 of both of crowd. Duncan Levear ’15, a three-time their flavors, and also ran out. chili festival participant, also noticed a “I’ve never dished out 15 gallons of crowd increase. “I think there are more chili in an hour and a half,” said Cody people here this year. It’s more popular. March, who was working at the G.W. I think the lines are longer.” Tatro Construction booth. “I’ve never Although teams needed 15 gallons dished out 15 gallons of chili period.” This past Saturday, March 14, Winner. of chili to enter in the festival, several Some booths anticipated large downtown Middlebury was transformed A panel of six chili judges were also ran out early on in the event. The Fire crowds and made much more than 15 by thousands of people who gathered for at the event, and they voted on six dif- and Brimstone booth made close to 15 gallons. Our House (Twisted Comfort the Seventh Annual Vermont Chili Fest- ferent categories of chili which included: gallons, and ran out by 2:30 p.m. G.W. Food), made 120 gallons (20 gallons for val. Chili Fest has been ranked one of the veggie, beef, chicken, game, kitchen sink Tatro Construction, Relay for Life, Con- each of the six categories). Top 10 Winter Events by the Vermont and pork. Winners all received cash priz- nor Homes, WhistlePig and the Bearded Todd Raymond, who was working at Chamber of Commerce. The event went es and then competed for the Best Over- from 1p.m. to 4p.m. Proceeds from this all category, which received a cash prize event support Better Middlebury Part- of $1,000. nership and the Vermont Food Bank. Judges for the event rated chilis on a The chili was provided by over 50 res- score sheet that included criteria such as taurants and caterers from around Ver- aroma, taste and texture. mont. To enter as a chili booth, teams “It’s tough,” said chili festival judge had to make at least 15 gallons of chili. Bill Snell, owner of Tourterelle. “There’s Activities included chili tasting, bal- a lot of good ones.” loon animals, street performers, a bever- For Sarah Pollack, a judge from Bur- age tent and live music provided by The lington, last Saturday was her first time Grift. judging the Vermont Chili Fest, howev- Participants in the event paid $7 at er she had previously judged an indoor the door ($5 in advance, children under chili fest. eight were free) and received a voting to- “I do make chili at home,” said Pol- ken and a spoon. They then were able to lak. “My daughter tells me that…my epi- walk down Main Street and sample chili taph is going to read, ‘Has never gotten from the many different booths there. chili right.’ That makes me quite the After deciding which was their favorite, qualified judge.” participants were able to vote with their This year the Vermont Chili Festival token for the People’s Choice Award was extremely popular, and noticeably isabelle dietz crowded. “The event was too crowded Matt, chef and owner of Our House, cooking one of his multiple batches of chili. Pictured below are photos of various chili for our liking this year,” said Peggy Sax, samples at the Vermont Chili Festival. March 19, 2015 | Local 5
the Two Brothers booth, said that it took the restaurant three days to make their chili, and that probably about six people were involved in the process. Some organizations use the popularity of the Vermont Chili Festival for public- ity. Casey Harlow, for example, passed out beads for Relay of Life. “I’m here to publi- cize for our event on April 11 and help pass out the chili,” said Harlow. Kris Lawson, owner of Curve Appeal in Middlebury, had a sign up advertising free bathroom use during the Chili Festival to help publicize her store. “I went to Costco and got tons of toilet paper,” said Lawson. “A lot of people will maybe come in and go, ‘Ooh, I didn’t know that this was here.’ Or my other hope is that the conservative people who are a little frightened and don’t know what it is and don’t want to walk down the big scary steps will come and go,‘This is nice.’” The Vermont Chili Festival had a large showing both from students and local fami- lies. Activities such as balloon animals ap- pealed to a younger crowd, while the beer tent was only open for those over the age of 21. “The beer was good,” said Arnav Ad- hikari ’16. “They had Drop-In. I love Drop- In.” Middlebury College students also have a tradition of being involved in the Vermont Chili Festival. Last year the winning team was the men’s cross-country team. The fes- tival also draws on students for volunteers. Kyler Blodgett ’17 was a volunteer this year. “My job involved being at the check- in table for tickets, marking people off the prepaid list and doing cash for tickets that are being bought right now, giving them their chips and their buttons, telling them how it’s laid out,” said Blodgett. He found out about the volunteer opportunity through a Middlebury Community Engage- ment email. The Vermont Chili Festival in Middlebury allows students from different regions than New England to sample Ver- mont chili. “Coming from the West Coast, I’ve never really experienced a real chili like they have here at the chili fest,” said Henry Thompson ’17. “I like how it’s such a cel- ebration of a folky, you know, agricultural, community based food.” Thompson has been to the Chili Festival for both of his two years at Middlebury, and says that he plans isabelle dietz on making four out of four. “Honestly, chili From left to right in the top row, Caitlin Duffy ’15.5, Greg Swartz ’17.5, Joelle Men- fest is the highlight of Middlebury spring hart ’15, Jaime Huffnagle ’15 and Paul Donnelly ’15 enjoy chili samples. Pictured in every year.” the middle row are the chili fest judges. Chili booth servers (bottom left) pose for the camera. Max Goodfellow, age 6.5, and his balloon penguin (bottom right).
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Recently, a series of incidents of van- Having said this, the Campus believes logue about a critical issue. Importantly, dalism brought unrest to the College com- that incredibly important activist messag- the video made waves without creating an less destructive (though hopefully equally munity. Messages such as “Black Power es underlie these incidences of vandalism. unhelpful side conversation about the de- effective) means of communicating their Matters” and “If you win the rat race, By marking College buildings, the activists struction of school property. you’re still a rat” have are throwing the cold hard fact of racism The limitation of such forums, how- painted sheet would be easier to clean editorial appeared, spray-painted right in our faces. On this predominantly ever, is that they only reach people who up and less damaging than spray paint- The editorial or etched, on the walls of white campus, many students are rarely actively choose to involve themselves in ing buildings. These means of spreading represents the Ross Dining Hall, War- forced to address issues of race and police the conversation. While learning from the message would also avoid distractions ner Hall and McCardell brutality. This is not a luxury afforded to from the subject matter; we could talk the editorial board Bicentennial Hall. Many people of color, who have no choice but to a forum dedicated to education on the about the messages themselves instead of of The Middlebury students and faculty deal with these issues in their daily lives. topic, we can still learn a lot from these the vandalism. Campus. feel that these messages Thus, the medium of the artwork is inte- spray-painted messages. We are witness- We as a community might also want to are violations of College gral to the content of the messages. The consider creating a communal space that property and infringements on commu- our student body with issues it might students could use in any artistic way they nity trust and accountability. issues head-on and makes these often dis- typically only think about in a classroom like and voice their opinions. Tufts has a tant struggles highly personal. The van- statue of a cannon that community mem- dalism undeniably starts a conversation, and gravity of the issues that affect mem- bers can draw on, paint or otherwise use and we at the Campus recognize that the bers of our community every day. It would to express themselves. Perhaps Middle- conversation it aims to start - about rac- bury needs a similar free-form space sole- editorial board ism and privilege – is vitally important. more than an incident of vandalism, but it ly for this purpose. Currently, we have two EDITOR-IN-CHIEF We question, however whether this is the is a result of much deeper societal prob- chalk walls in BiHall and the mail center, Joe Flaherty conversation the activists have actually lems that we need to wrestle with as a but these spaces are primarily used for MANAGING EDITOR created. community. advertising and students have not histori- Conor Grant - That being said, an inexcusable side cally taken ownership of these spaces for BUSINESS MANAGER nitely contributes to the message, it also communicating activist messages. We Sydney Larkin has started a polarizing conversation, additional work for our facilities staff recognize that these spaces also feel sani- NEWS EDITORS which has been primarily about vandal- members. We are an incredibly privileged tized, and cannot facilitated as strong an Claire Abbadi, Phil Bohlman, Ellie Rein- ism, not race or privilege. Recently, Midd academic community, but must recognize effect had the activists placed it there. We hardt, Christian Jambora, Eliza Teach OPINIONS EDITORS Unmasked was able to contribute to the the many hours our staff members spent need a student-owned space where we can Hannah Blackburn, Lawrence Dolan, Kate sexual assault dialogue on campus through cleaning and repainting vandalized ar- start authentic and meaningful campus- Hamilton, Edward O’Brien, Erin Van Gessel posters around campus and an accom- eas. The intention of the vandalism may wide discussions. SPORTS EDITORS panying video in which survivors share be to start an important conversation, While we agree with the importance Emily Bustard, Joe Macdonald, Alex Morris, their experiences navigating the College’s but ultimately it was disrespectful to staff Fritz Parker, Remo Plunkett sexual assault policies. This has been a members. While it may not have been the call on artists and activists to be mind- LOCAL EDITORS ful not to let their work Isabelle Dietz, Annie Grayer come at the expense of Alessandria Schumacher other people’s time and FEATURES EDITORS hard work. Ultimately, Jessica Cheung, Hye-Jin Kim, Emilie Munson a less destructive means ARTS AND SCIENCE EDITORS of communicating the Emma Eastwood-Paticchio, Leah Lavigne, same ideas may steer Elizabeth Zhou the conversation away PHOTOS EDITORS from the methods and Rachel Frank, Anahi Naranjo, Michael more toward the subject O’Hara, Ivan Valladares matter. Furthermore, DESIGN EDITORS being at such an institu- Evan Gallagher, Julia Hatheway tion of higher learning, CARTOON EDITOR Middlebury students are Nolan Ellsworth Rubi Saavedra ONLINE EDITORS well-equipped to initiate Jerrica Davy, Alex Herdman conversation in a more COPY EDITOR artists’ sophisticated fashion. While the Campus Sarah Sicular intention to create more recognizes and appreciates the message THE CAMPUS VOICE HOSTS very produc- work for our staff, that has been the un- the artists are trying to convey, we urge Jessica Cheung, Michelle Irei tive forum fortunate consequence. our peers to communicate the message in SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR for open dia- For this reason, we feel that the activ- a way that better serves our community. Olivia Jurkowitz
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The ing lives, not proceeding with mine. in the sense of waning astigmatism the floors at the U.S. Environmental outcomes for my Middlebury 60-hour My time away did, however, start or wearing prescription lenses, but P r o t e c t i o n work week were letters and numbers, inward at a Buddhist monastery in the in the sense of understanding. I can Agency in not social reform or justice. In the age orchards north of Escondido, Califor- hear a procession of gridiron coming- Reader Op-Ed Washington of the climate refugee and Black Lives nia. I lived under the rules and regimes Zane Anthony ’16.5 is D.C., where I Matter, thousands were sounding the of practicing monks of the olden Thai are our bounds today from college from Annapolis, Md. intern. Soles alarm, and meanwhile, I was unre- forest tradition. As a layman for one to employment that my generation’s pat, digni- sponsive, a bovine bumming around month, I attended morning and eve- youths – particularly, those of the na- fied, across them as agents flood in greens under snow, spouting facts like ning chants, prepared meals, swept tion’s college elite – are losing sight and out of the aisles office to office, a broadsheet and nightly holed up in a paths and hiked to the groves down in of themselves. College-age millenni- loose collared dance. My desk, flush the foothills to collect fruits – avoca- als are wearing blinders, and as I have with the copier, features an Escher Last fall, I met with Dean Hanson, does, oranges, kumquats – to trade in come to discover, it has meant step- print, a portrait of my parents and asked for temporary leave ping away from schoolwork to lower soft stones I collected on California’s and so started my gap self. I read, wrote and meditated in- them, take another look and gain finer coast. I doze watching swarms of foot semester, a season re- satiably. I found sustentative calm, resolution. That mental image we traffic in the corridor, which evokes a leased from routine, millennia-old wellsprings of wis- sustain of how we are supposed to go Southwest terminal moments after de- h y p o t h e t i c a l dom, and more distilled notions through our education should not, and planing. One of the pebbles warms in c o u r s e w o r k of what I hope to accomplish this cannot, blind us. College “condition- my fist. and doused year, decade and century. ing” can wait. It is time to know – pre- The internship started Monday, but in rough- Days after leaving Metta For- cisely and concisely – what we are do- and-tumble est, I was back East, attending ing in college in the first place. As the two weeks. I do not have a badge for “real” life. the weekly roundtable brief for globe gains weight, its temperature building clearance yet – they say two I was inter- EPA’s Climate-Ready Water Utili- rises slowly and sprawl persists on the weeks, though the office veter- ested in en- ties (CRWU) Initiative, the office in scale of continents, I cannot proceed hanc- which I now sit. CRWU is a program listlessly, without genuine purpose or computer setup has within the Water Securities Division anchorage. In the light of the heat, this been tortoise- that develops climate change risk is my time to reassess. I welcome you pace. I am the assessment tools and strategies for to join me. youngest in water utility infrastructure opera- What our Connected Generation the build- understands and a warmed world por- ing, prob- remediation panel, though specific tends do not agree. There is a mountain ably on to the water sector, scaled nation- range of evidence without manifesto the whole wide and tailored by U.S. region. and we are complacent, afraid to ask block. So far as glimpsed by the intern, fresh or difficult questions – to look I am there seems to be an overwhelm- diagnostically at the old – because we here in ing amount of impactful work do not want to see what we will find. search of conducted here. The CRWU Ini- Do not trivialize the importance of in- meaningful tiative’s efforts directly protect trospection. Evaluate and reevaluate. work. Two water treatment and transport Critically review the armature of your years into infrastructure around the coun- plan. Consider time away, and take a college and try, for decades and for millions. closer look: it is the only way to create back from Gloria Breck In the thick of my semester away a climate tolerant of and furnished for the honey- from Middlebury, I see clearer. Not reform. The view is not all bad. Let Us Never Fear To Negotiate Have you seen the movie Boyhood? I watched it on my the TV screen that his mom asked him to clean a few days who were that guy this past midterm election, too lazy or plane ride back to school this January — United had free ago. “busy” to vote. I myself came close to being that guy after movies for once, shocker! — Seem familiar? Seem sad? The image does not preview - that generation of change-makers for which our prede- involved with voting by mail. U.S. And Them sion on me. cessors have stressed a need. Gone is the generation of But then I remembered the outcome of voting. I re- Jack Turnage ’17.5 is For those who don’t dreamers, replaced instead with a level of contentedness membered that I might not be deeply impassioned about from Denver, Colo. know, it follows a boy, Ma- and lethargy we have not yet earned for ourselves. that proposition on medical malpractice suits or even who son, over a twelve-year peri- Our planet’s temperature rises with each passing day, the lieutenant governor of my state was (am I the only one od as he grows to be an adult. Boyhood therefore doubles technology poses increasingly dangerous threats and our who doesn’t know what they do?), but that doing a little as a sort of societal documentary, spanning from 2002 to American government remains as called upon as ever, research and casting my ballot kept me in the game of de- 2013. That chronology aligns perfectly with my own grow- yet historically unproductive. These unsustainable trends mocracy. Voting on (sometimes seemingly unimportant) ing up. I, and all other 90s babies from the year of the dog make our generation the linchpin of progress; we just issues might not have changed my life, but it helped make need to take on the challenge. sure that I lived a life that could one day incite change. teen years during that period. Some events have recently demonstrated clear social Because it all comes down to this: when we do not vote, objectives, like the climate march last fall. These social we disenfranchise ourselves; individuals lose their say in movie brought back to life — 1990s Volvo station wagons, uprisings are reminiscent of past student protests — civil Soulja Boy songs, and the iPod Mini just to name a few rights, anti-Vietnam War, etcetera, and they are one way power. to counteract the ambivalence that runs rampant in our empathetic response from me. generation. normally the nature of this column, but I felt it an impor- Mason embodied a sentiment my generation seems all There is another even easier way to stay involved in tant enough issue to set the tone for this new year of writ- too familiar with: apathy. Whether it was seen through his public life, however: voting. ing. While I myself cannot claim to be above this youth low number of smiles and laughs or his lack of involve- For some reason that I cannot fathom young people apathy that I have laid out, I still want to highlight it. As ment and interest in activities and people, Mason didn’t Middlebury students, we all like to think of ourselves as bring a whole lot to the table, and what’s more, he didn’t - being educated, involved world citizens, but I think we seem to care. cent of young people came out to vote. This is no small must also keep in mind the privilege and ease of living I asked a few of my friends if they knew this type in real thing — the “Millennial generation” makes up a quarter of Let Us Never Fear To Negotiate utopia. While it’s great to push the Real Food movement people could have. through campus, partner with Divest Middlebury and the “LOL” back to a friend without actually cracking a smile. - like, let us not forget about an even more basic yet over- The sun beats into his bedroom, highlighting the dust on ting in his room. I can’t tell you the number of my peers looked way to stay involve: the civic duty of voting. The Things we say matter In last week’s edition of the Campus, the editorial our problems, but talking about the importance of talking board wrote of a recent SGA bill: “The Campus com- about them. but we cannot let it stand alone as a solution. mends the SGA for taking If you’re skeptical, think about the last time you The thing about talking is that it’s easy to ignore. initiative to create a more heard somebody mention fostering dialogue or engag- Groups on our campus have spent years trying to foster notes from the serious dialogue of change.” ing in conversations or starting discussions: these are the dialogue about issues of all kinds, and the tough reality is In a reply email, SGA Presi- buzzwords that govern confrontational interactions here desk dent Taylor Custer wrote - Fritz Parker ’15 is from back: “I look forward to subjects, it seems, is to agree to talk about them some tions. Even if we allow ourselves to feel good about being Arlington, Va. engaging in this important more. The insidious thing about this phenomenon is that the sort of people who are willing to talk about hard prob- discussion.” In the midst of talking-about-talking is really shorthand for putting off lems, we will fall into the mold of failing to do anything disagreement, we agree that it’s important that we’re talk- the responsibility of doing. It’s metadiscourse, linguistic ing about it. Doesn’t seem so productive, does it? apathy, and we should do everything in our power to op- I am writing this week to suggest that there is a differ- pose it. someone here breaking that mold. Creating a mess that ence between talking about problems and doing things to I was disappointed at Sunday’s editorial meaning to someone else has to clean up is an imperfect solution, solve them, and that we – the students, faculty and ad- hear my fellow editors using this tactic to write off the re- but I commend the person responsible for going outside ministration of Middlebury – tend to do far too much of the former and not enough of the latter. So much so, in activism – my co-editors suggested – is to spark conver- for what they think is right. Language is a fragile, fragile fact, that what we end up doing isn’t even talking about sations about the issue at hand, and an anonymous act of thing; repeated abuse can break it. | march 19, 2015 opinions9 The Borders of Our Lives
From our vantage point in rural aka “illegal,” immigrants. Thus, when as a consequence of policies such as ian disaster. Refugees are consistently Vermont, the border may seem so far migrants experience labor violations, the North American Free Trade Agree- denied asylum, in large part because away as to be they have no way of protecting their ment (NAFTA), which have allowed for the laws governing asylum were cre- i r r e l e v a n t . rights without exposing themselves U.S.-subsidized big agricultural cor- ated during the Cold War and have Reader op-ed But in fact, to authorities and putting themselves porations to flood the Mexican market not been updated to accommodate for Shubha Ganesan ’17 is our every day at risk of deportation. University of with their products. Since the reces- non-Soviet Union refugees who may from Tuscon, Ariz. ac- Southern California soci- sion of 2008, however, the border has be fleeing their home countries for dif- Sophie Vaughan ’17 is t i o n s ologist and seen an increase in refugees coming ferent but equally valid, reasons. from Oakland, Calif. and in- l a w from Honduras, El Salvador and Gua- Speaking of the Soviet Union, that actions, consciousness and lack temala to escape violence, and fewer country--though no longer in exis- of consciousness, impact the im- immigrants coming from Mexico for tence--placed sixth in 2013 in num- migration system and the people economic reasons, though we could ber of U.S. asylum grants by country who live within its grasp. easily call countless Mexican immi- of nationality, ahead of Guatemala, For this reason, MAlt El grants “economic refugees,” if such Honduras and El Salvador. Needless Paso, working together with a classification existed. to say, our asylum system is devastat- Juntos: Farmworker Student Street gangs have supplanted ingly inadequate. Across the country Solidarity Network, con- state governments in many Central detention centers are being built to structed a symbolic border Ameri- can coun- house refugees and other migrants fence and “casa de cartón” school profes- tries, four of which have for the months and sometimes years (cardboard house) in the sor Em- m u r d e r rates among before their trials and likely deporta- lobby of Davis library last ily Ryo the top five worldwide. tions. Construction is under way in week. The border, wheth- notes that Innocent Dilley, T e x a s er we acknowledge it or m i g r a n t c i t i z e n s f o r a new not, is a constant pres- w o r k e r s are sub- fam- ence in our lives and one view our ject to i l y which--due to the injustice refusal to extor- and exploitation embed- grant them t i o n , ded in the immigration sys- legal status kidnap- tem-- we should no longer as pretty p i n g ignore. hypocritical and sex- deten- Though almost the en- considering ual vio- tion center man- tire agricultural sector in we are bene- lence. aged by controversial the U.S. relies on immigrant labor, fiting from their labor at the same time In the prison giant Correc- we often dehumanize the people upon we are saying, “We don’t want you.” mean- tions Corporation of whom our food and sustenance depend In some ways those who make it to time, the America, who will and subject them to inhumane work- Vermont are lucky. Many who cross U.S. is be paid $108,000 ing conditions. In Vermont, approxi- the U.S.-Mexico border are detained turning a a year per detainee mately 1200-1500 migrant workers shortly thereafter, tried in Federal blind eye housed. sustain dairy farms large and small but Court, and deported. Some attempt to to this have no access to work visas and are immigrate because their local agricul- great hu- therefore considered undocumented, tural economies have been decimated manitar- Jena Ritchey An Insane System The prison system has recently been put in the prisoners are then forcibly put into solitary confine- August 13th, 2013 at 12:15 this prisoner took his own spotlight with new statistics and stories revealing its ment. life. His death can be attributed to the severe neglect flaws. But while racial dis- Signs of the dismal conditions mentally ill in- and maltreatment of his diagnosed and documented parities have been widely mates face can be found even within Vermont pris- mental health disabilities in conjunction with emo- reader op-ed publicized, and rightly so, ons. One horrifying example, as denoted by the Su- tionally traumatic life events. Brenna Christensen ’17 is there is another form of pervising Attorney at Disability Rights Vermont, is But the kicker to all of this is that the current sys- from Durango, Colo. injustice manifesting itself that of an man from St. Johnsbury, Vermont diag- tem a waste of resources. The reason that many peo- within our carceral system: nosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger’s ple with mental health conditions are sent to prison the treatment of those with mental health conditions. Type, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, as in the first place is because of a lack of space at men- In 2006, a study conducted by the U.S. Department well as Antisocial Personality Disorder and Oppo- tal hospitals. Currently, within the state of Vermont of Justice found that more than half of all prison and sitional Defiant Disorder. He was arrested and in- there are only roughly 40 long-term treatment spac- jail inmates have a mental health condition as com- carcerated for parole violation. Due to his diagnosed es available, and with the way balancing the budget pared with only 11 percent of the general population. mental health disorders, the patient was supposed is looking, investing in more beds is at the bottom Although many of these people have been excused to be located in the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hos- on the list of state priorities. So instead of a proac- by the courts because of their illnesses, the lack of pital. However, for lack of available space and at- tive solution, investing in mental health resources, mental health resources alternatively resigns many tention on the part of the Department of Correc- the state resorts to tossing these people in prison, to be locked up and shipped away. What’s worse is tions, the patient was stuck in isolated segregation costing tax payers the same, if not more, and in sev- that within prisons, those with mental health condi- in Springfield, Vermont, and confined to a small eral cases, costing those with mental health condi- tions face a host of difficulties. Neglect is rampant. cell with little human interaction for twenty two tions their lives. According to that same survey, roughly 17 percent hours a day. During that time, the prisoner’s mental It’s time for the state of Vermont, and our na- of inmates report a lack of available mental health health condition severely worsened, leading to self- tion in general, to rise above misunderstandings of treatment. harming behaviors, suicidal thoughts, and extended mental illness and invest in the safety of our people. A whole host of social problems stem from this bouts of crying and screaming. When the prisoner There should be alternative to prisons for those with neglect. Prisoners, particularly psychotic prisoners, was finally admitted to the psychiatric hospital, he mental illnesses—it just makes sense. often have difficulties interacting with their fellow was covered in bruises and abrasions attributed to For more information about upcoming events on inmates. Guards, who are not especially trained to his time in solitary confinement. Another example the carceral state, check out the Gensler Symposium work with those with mental health conditions, then is that of a man from Winooski imprisoned in New- schedule at go/gensler2015! have difficulty interpreting and protecting all in- port, Vermont, suffering from documented depres- mates humanely. More often than not, mentally ill sion as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. On
Agree or disagree with this week’s Opinions? Write us an Op-Ed or a Letter to the Editor. The Campus accepts submissions weekly. Contact us at [email protected]. The Middlebury Campus 10opinions march 19, 2015| Not So Newsworthy Does anyone know how to disable current events. We could hardly say So why, oh why, do we put up with example, go take a look at your news- the news column on your Facebook they even qualify as news. The real this crap? Do we just not have the pa- feed, or YikYak or Twitter and see all newsfeed? problem is that whatever happens to tience for the news anymore? Some- the inane, nonsensical things that for You know be “trending,” (I guess that is to say thing could definitely be said for the some reason, we take seriously. The Unpopular the little col- “popular?”) is not necessarily what shortening of our national attention The “millennial” generation, which Opinion umn that is important. Also when did hashtags span. We seem to have tragically be- I guess we have been dubbed, has been gives you 30- become acceptable titles for news ar- gun confusing our entertainment for quick to adopt and vigorously protect Andrew DeFalco ’15.5 is word blurbs ticles? Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon. the news. That is not to say people in social media and Internet freedoms. from Boston, Mass. about vari- Let’s be serious here: most reason- other political camps have somehow It has become something that has de- ous nonsense able people can agree that any endem- avoided this problem either. The rise fined our generation. Yet we have been happening in the world today? You ic problem in our society is remark- of the Internet and its children — the incredibly hesitant to see any flaws in know what I am talking about? It usu- ably complex, be it racism, a Social tweet and the status — have infected this new, lightning quick, information ally keeps me up to date on important Security system that will go broke in our perception of “staying up to date.” typhoon. “Information” on its own things that qualify as “news” like, what the foreseeable future, or the political Not too long ago the only mediums for we intrinsically see as good, but that Kanye West is up to, what no-name complexities of the Middle East, pick being attuned to the comings and go- does not mean we have to value it all reporter is apologizing for a remark nearly anything in the world and it ings of the world were the newspaper equally. Nor does it mean more is al- that most people did not even know cannot be summed and television. ways better. Something like ISIS takes about, or, my personal favorite, what up in a hashtag or “‘Any endemic problem But who has the more than a few articles to under- Sarah Palin’s daughter is doing (This a blurb. Yet, our in our society is remark- time to read the stand, something like American poli- thing does not pull up results based on news not only has paper anymore? tics demands vigorous, in-depth, de- your interests, right?). I am glad I have become “Look what ably complex ... pick And who wants bate to function. Whether it is a global this little column of “trending” news to this outrageous nearly anything in the to watch a news phenomenon or our own institutions, keep me up to date. How else would I thing this absurd program where we lose something valuable when ar- be able to stay knowledgeable on all person said,” but world and it cannot be you actually have guments or “the news” can be summed these important current events? in many ways it summed up in a hastag to listen along? up in a tweet. We should never silence Okay, I exaggerate and I realize has simply become With the ram- voices, but we can discern which ones many of you do not pay much atten- irrelevant. The or a blurb.” pancy of social truly deserve our attention. Do I re- tion to the various bits of attention- things that need media we have ally care that Reddit thinks the rav- seeking sound bites that breed in so- reporting seem oddly absent. We are deputized any incompetent’s Buzzfeed ings of a delusional state senator are cial media. The wider world clearly remarkably concerned with the po- article so that is carries the weight of important? We can change the debate does pay attention though. While the litical correctness of attention seek- a journalist’s work. How many of you by simply not giving credence to the current antics of musicians or politi- ing people and have comparatively remember the #CancelColbert wildfire nonsense. The most constructive thing cally irrelevant daughters aren’t par- less patience for, oh I don’t know, the that effectively started with a young we can do is talk about the issues we ticularly damaging bits of information, number of people who die in car acci- woman misunderstanding a joke and know to be real and let the attention- they don’t exactly provide the much- dents every year, which is somewhere the resulting witch-hunt to end the seeking, the nonsensical and the fool- needed context to the busy world of north of 30,000. Colbert Report? And that’s only one ish be shouted unnoticed. Nonviolence: Then and Now There is a perception amongst many people that can nonetheless be effective. eye for an eye” policy. Other groups and individu- the Civil Rights Movement was a wholly nonviolent As the Civil Rights Movement gained popular- als adopted similar approaches, such as Malcolm X, effort. While there is in- ity in the early twentieth century, many leaders SNCC (somewhat ironically, given the group’s name deed a rich history of non- adopted nonviolence as their main weapon against and founding principles), and CORE. The SCLC and Reader op-ed violence within the move- discrimination. In 1941, James Farmer founded the NAACP remained true to their nonviolent roots, and The Dramas of the Civil ment, largely attributed to Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago with this created a rift between the once unified-in-mis- Rights Era class. Martin Luther King, Jr., the intention of promoting better race relations and sion civil rights advocacy groups. there is also legacy of self- ending injustices. This group staged non-violent Today, with the police shooting of Michael Brown determination and armed resistance. This legacy is protests such as a sit-in in a Chicago coffee shop in Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner in New often forgotten, but must be acknowledged in order in 1943. CORE remained one of the first organized York, racist and targeted police brutality in the Unit- to understand the state of racial affairs in the United groups to practice nonviolence, and the strategy ed States has made headlines all around the world. States today. This article will provide a brief history quickly expanded. In 1957, the Southern Christian This police brutality we see today is essentially a re- of both the non-violence and Black Power move- Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Martin Luther flection of the systematized violence that took place ments within the larger Civil Rights Movement, King, Jr. advertised nonviolence to large audienc- against African Americans in the 1940s to 1960s. before shifting to a discussion of the importance of es, promoting its peaceful yet effective methods. In The question we need to ask ourselves is what role both of these strategies in current affairs. 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit- nonviolence will take in today’s fight to end racial Nonviolence is a method of bringing about so- tee (SNCC) continued the mission of the SCLC and bias in the police force. Malcolm X preached that cial or political change through peaceful means. In CORE by founding its organization on the practice “self-preservation is the first law of nature” and that the U.S., Pacifist Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, of nonviolence itself. Nonviolence quickly became “tactics based solely on morality can only succeed Henry David Thoreau, the Fellowship of Reconcilia- a dominating feature of the Civil Rights Movement, when you are dealing with basically moral people or tion (FOR), Women’s International League for Peace guiding African-Americans on their fight for racial a moral system.” The issue at the center of the fight and Freedom (WILPF), the American Civil Liberties equality. today is that the United States legal system and the Union (ACLU), as well as those involved in the Civil However, despite the popular draw towards non- people in it are immoral. The fight is no longer one Rights Movement have all implemented nonviolent violence in the Civil Rights Movement, it became of religious values, but rather of moral actions. Is tactics to accomplish their various goals. Morality clear by the mid-1960s that within the black free- nonviolence the best way to fight police brutality? Is is the foundation of nonviolence, as nonviolent pro- dom struggle there were different visions for the there a choice against such superior firepower? testors believe that their moral strength gives them future. Stokely Carmichael (now known as Kwame Nonviolence has always existed alongside its physical strength to resist their oppressors. Ture) and Charles Hamilton, authors of the impact- darker twin. No matter what names the philosophies According to Martin Luther King, Jr., nonviolence ful book Black Power, deemed the traditional Civil bear, they almost never operate alone. The history provides a way to persons fight immoral systems Rights Movement “integrationist,” and called for of the Civil Rights Movement can give some clues without becoming immoral themselves. However, self-determination within the Black community. about how to deal with today’s racial struggles, but people and movements have historically struggled While the term self-determination embodied a num- the past can yield no perfect solution for the future. with nonviolence, as it lacks visible muscle. Despite ber of directives, it was a notable departure from Only time will tell if the American people can find this, the rise in support for integration in the during the values of nonviolence. Self-determination called the right balance. the Civil Rights Movement shows that nonviolence for self-defense, more closely resembling an “an
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Boone Mccoy-crisp Active Threat Training Overlooks Causes If you are a Freshman or Sophomore, in black and wielding a shotgun, but the pales in comparison to the nearly 1,500 what to do if you think your friend is you likely attended a mandatory “Active message is essentially the same. college students killed every year in suffering from depression. Even a short Threat” sem- The problem is that, while a nucle- traffic accidents, 1,400 killed in alcohol defensive driving seminar could save inar put on ar attack was a very real threat to the related in- more lives than reader op-ed by the school U.S. in the 50s, suggesting that active cidents, “The fear mongering of the watching Goth Jackson Adam ’17 is administra- threat situations loom over us daily is and 1,300 national media that follows ‘ma- Arnold Schwar- from Towson, Md. tion dur- inaccurate and defeatist. The reality is who com- zenegger shoot up ing J-Term. that active threat situations on college mit suicide jor tragedies’ overshadows the an office building Those of you fortunate enough to have campuses are exceedingly rare. Making every year. less sensational tragedies that in a government missed it the first time were offered a the video was a tacit admission of dis- In fact, if funded video. second opportunity a few weeks ago. interest in addressing the root causes you went to occur every day.” College shoot- The presentation included a vid- of campus related gun violence: a lack college for ings are national eo produced by the Department of of gun control and the continuing fail- 92 years straight, you would still only tragedies, but so are all preventable Homeland Security preaching the keys ure of a mental healthcare system little have a one in 100 chance of a shoot- deaths. Sure, it’s time we take a critical to surviving an Active Threat situa- changed from the one that existed dur- ing taking place on your campus. Even look at how we can change gun control tion: “Run. Hide. Fight.” The video in ing the Cuban Missile Crisis. then, the odds of you being involved are policy and the mental healthcare sys- all of its cheesy, Over the past miniscule. tem in the United States, but it’s also overwrought, Die “Over the past 50 years, 50 years there has The fear mongering of the national time we recognize the reality of the Hard-esque glory, there as been an average been an average of media that follows “major tragedies” situation: a video and a talk on campus harkens back to six people killed overshadows the less sensational trag- attacks will do nothing to prevent such the 1951 U.S. Civil of six people killed every every year on col- edies that occur every day, and as a re- attacks in the future. So by all means, Defense film “Duck year on college lege campuses by sult, time and resources are wasted on continue the national discussion about and Cover’’ which gun violence. That’s programs like the Active Threat semi- the causes and consequences of “Active taught school chil- campuses.” roughly equal to the nars. Instead of giving us a half hour on Threat” situations, but stop suggesting dren to duck and cover to save them- number felled every year from trauma why our instincts to run and hide when that people should live in fear by forc- selves in the event of a nuclear attack. sustained playing football, according faced with a gun are 100 percent cor- ing them to attend seminars. The real The cute turtle has been ditched in fa- to the National Center for Catastroph- rect, why not give a 30 minute seminar threats aren’t so sensational. vor of a burly Jack Bauer clone dressed ic Sports Industry Research. But that on the signs of alcohol poisoning, or 12features The Middlebury Campus| MARCH 19, 201513 PATH GRADUATES: MAKING YOUR IDEA A REALITY CCI Student Designed Internship You design it, they fund it Tree House Fund Awards grants for student projects designed to Grants of $2,500 benefit students at the College, the environment Applications due April 1 or the community Up to $2,200 awarded Applications due October 18 of each year VErmont Center for Emerging Technologies Ron and Jessica Liebowitz Fund foR Business advice, mentoring and seed capi- Innovation tal for graduates working on start-ups Funds projects and ideas that encourages new Provides collaborative workspaces for learning and partnerships participants Students, faculty and staff eligible to apply Located in Burlington, VT Grants for up to four years available Davis Projects for Peace Funds summer projects dedicated to advancing MiddCORE Midd Entrepreneurs Course to train students in lead- Winter term course for students with world peace ership, communication and entre- a business plan and serious making it a Grant of $10,000 preneurial skills reality Applications accepted from over 90 undergradu- Available at the College as a Win- Taught by advisors from the Vermont ate colleges in US ter term course, weekend acceler- Center for Emerging Technologies ated course or one Month program Available at Sierra Nevada College in summer MiddSTART Old Stone Mill Apply to have your own creative Microphilanthropy website to Midd Ventures workspace to invent, design and solicit funding for student Club that supports students develop projects and businesses interested in new entrepre- Located on the banks of Otter Creek Post at any time neurial ventures Get advice Applications accepted on a rolling on the path: Midd Challenge Connects students and al- from CSE, PSI & CE basis Funds student projects in four categories: busi- ums for brainstorming and advisors such as ness, education outreach and policy, the arts or networking Elizabeth social entrepreneurship. 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By Charmaine Lam Images have largely replaced sound in today’s media. In fact, we are so used to pic- tures accompanying sound that it’s strange just to listen to a story and to let our imagi- By Izzy Fleming and Maddie Webb nations take over in creating mental pic- To be very straightforward, we decided tures. It’s even stranger when we consider to do capoeira this week because we wanted this within an academic context. to learn how to beat people up. As trendy girls Yet, that is what the Sociology Depart- living in a downtown world, it seemed like a ment is doing. Working with Erin Davis, a necessary life skill — or at least Maddie’s wor- - risome mom made it seem that way. **insert sweet, southern, high-pitched voice** “You er, a group of senior sociology majors are two darlin’s need to learn to defend your- translating their 80-page senior theses into selves!” In order to set the scene for our capoeira Davis previously taught the J-term outing, it is important to provide background course “Sound and Story,” where students on the 24 hours leading up to practice. Al- learned the techniques of radio production though Izzy fasted all week in calculation for and produced their own stories through approximately 57 servings of chili at Chili Fest, she had not planned for the surprise appear- an alternative to academic writing. The ance of a hot dog stand. Along with the obvious pit-stops at Otter Creek Bakery and Sama’s on class generated student interest in translat- the way back to campus, let’s just say she felt ing senior work into more accessible forms. sick Sunday morning. She now understands After conversations between interested why athletes monitor their food and drink in- students, Davis, and the sociology depart- take leading up to an important game. It must ment, the project was conceived in the fall be hard to be you guys. of this academic year. When Izzy went to meet Maddie at ADK It’s the marrying of two seemingly dis- before capoeira practice, Maddie was no parate concepts: mass journalism and aca- where to be found. After a few minutes, Mad- demia, but a development that Sociology die pulled up in an RV. Maddie’s long lost friend from Nebraska had come to visit, and Department Chair Linus Owens sees to be they drove around drinking Kool-aid. Noth- important. Although a journalist and a so- ing says a Midwestern reunion like a house on wheels and powdered soft drinks. In other with the sociologist asking questions about words, driving sideways on a bouncing couch the underlying socioeconomic structures at made Maddie dizzy even before the impend- the root of events that the journalist may ing cartwheel drills. oversee, the relationship between the two As soon as we walked into the studio, we is not too far removed. realized that this was not a typical kickboxing “Both sociology and journalism are class. If we had managed to do our research, getting at a similar question, which is how we would have known capoeira is a Brazilian martial arts game that incorporates dance, to explain the world and how to put it in a - meaningful context that people can under- cally, four skills neither of us possess. Even stand and do something with,” Owens said. By putting sociological research into jour- world possesses together other than MAYBE nalism, in-depth research on a social phe- Oprah. Maddie refused to let this news shake nomenon can be conveyed to a much wider her. She stood up a little straighter and told audience. Izzy, “Shawn Johnson is an Olympic gymnast Unlike sociological research, journal- from the state next to mine, I’m pretty sure I ism is not comprised of pages of research, can do this.” Yeah. The class included one thing that we ac- analysis, and graphs. Rather, journalism tively avoid when choosing our NARP activity: appeals to the short attention span of most conditioning. Two minutes into the class, Izzy readers. whispered “I should’ve worn a sports bra!” “When you do research, it only matters Three minutes into the class, we were asking that you care,” Davis said. “When you’re for the nearest water fountain. Four minutes working on the podcasts, you have to ask into the class, we were standing by the propped yourself why anyone else cares about it, or door trying to eliminate our sweat stains. Five minutes into class, the warm-up was over. In a departure from the academic describe what capoeira is. In terms of its re- mindset, students have to think about lationship to martial arts we came up with a translating their work into a story that questionably accurate SAT-style analogy — listeners will be able to connect with on a courtesy capoeira is to martial arts as tantric sex is to much more personal level. Podcast trend makes waves at the College in an emerging Sociology podcast. Above: regular sex. Our instructor, Brennan Delat- “Because who’s going to read your 50- Serial podcast, Freakonomics Radio and Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller of Invisibilia. tre ’16 practiced traditional capoeira when page essay, right?” Owens chuckled. er her senior thesis, Wright-Lapin conduct- she studied abroad in Brazil. She described - ed and recorded one-on-one interviews Narrative is not the only approach to capoeira as a physical conversation between not cover the entirety of the research and bodies. It is not about hurting one another with teachers, administrators, counselors, creating podcasts. According to Davis, an- writing that has gone into a student’s senior (sorry Mom!), instead it is acting and react- and students. In addition, she conducted other common, more traditional approach work, students have to think about smaller ing to your partner’s movements. After vari- semi-struc- is having the student act as the host and things to extract. ous kicking, ducking, crawling, pivoting, and tured class presents his or her story. However, she also These things squatting combinations, we were asked if we discussion stressed that there were more than these might be a point of knew how to cartwheel. Apparently, living in a “When you do research, it only that varied two options available to students. state next to Shawn Johnson does NOT mean interest that came in academic The students involved in this project up at some point matters that you care. When level to look are working closely with Davis to put their Halfway through the class, we stopped during research you’re working on the podcasts, at student podcasts together. At this point in the se- learning new moves, and Brennan taught all but that the stu- of us Brazilian songs that are sung during tra- participation, mester, the projects are still in early pro- dent didn’t have you have to ask yourself why ditional capoeira sessions. In addition to the which she duction stages but scheduled to be com- the time to pur- singing, our classmates played several Brazil- anyone else cares about it, or noted with pleted in May. sue. Or the stu- ian instruments in order to keep the rhythm observations. Although the major aim of this proj- dent might look alive. We formed a circle and two people Due ect is to make sociological research more for a smaller story care.” would “play” with each other and have a con- to the type accessible to the larger public, the depart- versation using the moves we had just learned. that will point to of research ment hopes this pilot project will also open At one point, we both got into the circle with a the research as a erin davis Wright-Lapin up fresh alternatives to traditional senior more experienced player, and although it was larger whole. j-tERM INSTRUCTOR OF SOUND & STORY conducted far from graceful, it was incredibly therapeu- One of the tic. Discovering the limits of our bodies with PODCAST PROJECT INSTRUCTOR and the na- to have embarked on any such project at students involved the meditative music completely surrounding ture of her the College and has raised some important in the project, Ro- us was honestly one of the coolest things either study, Davis questions on the accessibility and applica- salie Wright-Lapin ’15, is still looking for of us have ever done. recommended that she pursue the narra- bility of academic research to the general the perfect way to translate her research Although we wrote this column from our tive approach. public. into a podcast. respective beds due to muscle soreness, we “It would be a more vivid image rather In the academic grindstone that is urge all of you to try out capoeira. If you are Wright-Lapin’s thesis is about how than just analytical research,” Wright- Middlebury, it could be worthwhile to take curious to see what experienced capoeira play- socioeconomic status, family background, Lapin said of focusing on one story in her the time to stop and think about why oth- ers can do, they will have a performance that is and notions of academic achievement play podcast. “It’s an opportunity to portray my ers should care about our work as much as open to the Middlebury community on April into social groups and identities at Middle- we do. 19th! bury Union High School. In piecing togeth- march 19, 2015 features15 Woolf gets Crafty with Beer and Cider
By Erin Winseman Last summer, Abby Woolf ’17.5 came across a book about winemaking and decided to buy it on a whim, thinking it might be a new hobby to invest in when she returned to Vermont in the fall. Al- though instead she ended up making cider and, most recently, beer, the pro- cess of brewing stretched from October to January and left her with about 40 bottles of cider and a possible business opportunity. Woolf, a double biology and film major from California, had no previous experience of brewing and taught her- self according to what she had read. She began by driving to the Vermont Home Brew Supply Store in Winooski, Ver- mont, to buy the necessary equipment, and then went to Happy Valley Farm in Middlebury to buy five gallons of plain apple cider. “At first I said I was making wine be- cause at the time I thought it wouldn’t be that hard, but it’s so much harder COURTESY OF mansfind.com than cider or beer. There’s more equip- From apples to bottles, Biology and Film major Abby Woolf ’17.5 gives us a crash course on cider and beer brewing. ment and it takes more time,” Woolf ex- means all the sugar is gone. If you want Woolf was waiting for fermentation to ing. Her brother, who recently graduated plained. “So then I decided to do cider to have carbonated cider, you have to take place and planning when to go down from college in Australia, is also experi- instead, because the apples were in sea- add priming sugar to the bottle, so that to the Old Stone Mill to check on it. menting with brewing beer. He called son.” whatever yeast is left will ferment that In the past month, she switched to her out of the blue one day to tell her The brewing process began with little bit of sugar.” brewing beer. While she was waiting for that he and his friend were organizing pouring the five gallons of cider into a Woolf bottled all the cider, but found it to ferment, it exploded in the carboy. a brewing company in California called bucket and adding yeast, which then ate that it tasted very intense at first. “What happens with beer is that once The Fringe, which would specialize in the sugar to produce carbon dioxide and “Two weeks after I bottled it, it was it’s in the carboy it bubbles up and you flavored beer. They plan to promote lo- alcohol. The cider-yeast mix then sat in very intense and bitter. So I let it sit a need to watch it. But I didn’t get a chance cal artists with advertisements under- the bucket fermenting for two and a half little more and to go check on neath the label, giving a unique local de- months, with an airlock on top of the it started tast- “My career path isn’t along it enough, so sign to each bottle. bucket to let the carbon dioxide out. ing better and the line of businness, but I’ll it overflowed,” “They are tapping into an untapped Once it was done fermenting, Woolf better,” Woolf Woolf said. market in America, which is flavored siphoned it into a different container said. always brew.” Despite the beer. It’s really big in Australia. They called a carboy. Woolf also mishaps, Woolf have made a lavender beer, fennel beers, It sat there for another few weeks, experimented Abby woolf ‘17.5 has been success- those are the good ones,” Woolf said. allowing the yeast and other particles with adding dif- ful in her brewing “Right now all they have is a label and to settle out in the bottom. This product ferent flavors to her cider through tinc- endeavors to create a final bottled prod- a name and some flavors that they’re was then siphoned again into another tures, a method in which she took laven- uct. working on.” bucket, before finally being bottled for der, ginger, and cinnamon sticks and put The bottling is actually her favorite “I definitely will keep [brewing] and consumption. them separately in three different jars part of the process. it would be really cool to start a brewery. “That will produce still cider, be- filled with vodka, which sucked up the “Just because you’re winding it [the I actually am kind of working with my cause the way you measure how much nutrients from the sticks. process] up. You still have to wait after brother and his friend, so if that takes alcohol is in the cider is with a hydrome- She then added the flavorings to her that for it to taste good, but the act of off that would be awesome,” Woolf said. ter, which measures the specific gravity,” bottles and found that the lavender tinc- bottling is fun,” Woolf said. “My career path isn’t along the lines of Woolf said. “When it’s done fermenting ture was the most popular. Woolf, however, is not the only one business, but I’ll always brew.” it will say 0% potential alcohol, which The hardest part of brewing for in her family who is interested in brew- Sexscapades with Abstinence and Poop change. I was pet sitting. The first time S stepped in dog shit. This is so embar- Stories Curated My choice is not motivated by the came over to the house, we talked for rassing.” by Maddie Orcutt fear of upsetting my spiritual family, the hours. We had great chemistry, but no “Can I help you?” The discussion of abstinence in worry of negative sex experiences or reli- one made a move. I decided to cut to the “No thanks. Please just go back to church youth group filled my mind with gious conservatism. chase. bed.” scenes from “Footloose,” with conserva- I do not think that such motivations “It’s late, and you’re welcome to I cleaned up the mess and decided to tive pastors and teachers telling me that for abstinence are bad, but they aren’t spend the night. There’s a spare room hop in the shower. A couple of minutes sex is the devil’s playground and invok- primary. Rather, I’ve chosen abstinence upstairs, or you can sleep with me. The in, the door knob turned. This time, S ing city council meetings to preserve my out of God’s love for me. choice is yours, S. Zero pressure.” made the first move. generation’s sexual purity. When and if I do have sex, I want “Your room, if that’s okay.” “Mind if I join you?” As a Christian, I’ve chosen absti- it to be with someone who fully knows, We climbed under the covers, each S and I hooked up for several weeks, nence until if or when I get married. sees and loves me. Someone who won’t plastered to opposite edges of the bed. and it was always casual. In retrospect, When I arrived as a freshman, I was value me just for what my body can offer I was so confused and frustrated. And we were both making sense of profound or how I can satisfy him; someone whose horny. Uncharacteristically bold, I made pain elsewhere in our lives. affections for me won’t change based on another, not-so-subtle move. For me, stepping in dog shit was a my performance or attitude. “S, can I give you a kiss before we go metaphorical beginning: S and I took Christianity describes our relation- to bed?” the shit that life had dealt us, and in that ship with God like this. In scandalous “THANK GOD. I thought you’d never little old house, one shower at a time, terms, the Bible depicts God as a lover say anything.” we outgrew our sorrow, and eventually, – one who really sees, understands, and At some point in that long night, I each other. I regret nothing. desires to know us intimately – not for realized that I had forgotten what I was what we can offer or how we can please really in this house for… pet sitting. I Here are two selections for this Him, but simply because He loves us. snuck my way out of S’s arms and headed week. Published bi-weekly in The Cam- Sex, a naturally good desire and act, is out in the dark to let the dogs out. pus, Great Sexpectations hopes to in- a representation of this intimacy with SQUISH. crease sex positive dialogue through God. I stepped in a pile of dog shit. I let storytelling. For these reasons, my choice for ab- out a frustrated groan. I could hear S Please keep sending your embarras- stinence is motivated by the faith that waking up and rustling in the sheets. ing, funny, positive stories about sex to God’s love alone can completely satisfy “You okay?” [email protected]. Submis- me. It’s not easy and it certainly isn’t “Please don’t come out here. I just sions are published on a rolling basis. popular, but for now I am content to aware of the stereotypes around social know that my worth or identity is not de- life and sex on campus and wondered if, fined by sex. being in a new place of vulnerability and [email protected] freedom, my view on abstinence would 16features | march 19, 2015 Allison Carroll Brings Talent from Far and Away By Josie Trichka can adequately prepare for their perfor- For 95 years, the Middlebury Per- mance. forming Arts Series has brought world- “We make sure they have hotel rooms class performers inside the “Middle- and taxis from the airport, and then here bury bubble.” The series has showcased in the Center for the Arts, we make sure Yo-Yo Ma, Louis Armstrong, the Von they have rehearsal spaces. The perform- Trapp family, Pablo Casals, and Lady- ers send me the bare bones of their pro- smith Black Mambazo (just to name a gram, but we also try to flesh it out with few). As the director of the Performing some program notes and biographical Arts Series, Allison Coyne Carroll is now information.” largely responsible for the logistics be- The performance itself, though, is hind bringing these talented performers produced by the efforts of the many staff to this remote pocket of Vermont. members who make all events at the Cen- ter for the Arts possible. Carroll said, “We have a great staff here at the center for the arts — our box office and the rest of the administrative staff, the technical director for the con- cert hall – we all work in concert [pun intended] to make sure the event goes smoothly when the patrons are here.” The process of selecting the perform- ers involves a lot of communication and There’s a lot that goes into the prepa- planning. Ideas for new performers can ration of each performance, as well as the come from the artists themselves, from execution of the performance itself. Car- their agents, or from the music depart- josie trichka roll described to me the preliminary ar- ment’s faculty members who attend con- Culture and performance in the remote college is brought to you by our very own Carroll. rangements that she had to make for the ferences and concerts. arrival of the Elias String Quartet, who “When these artists are in town, we’ll “Her last recital here, she’d had ex- on this semester, pianist Paulis, “one of performed here last Saturday. often take them out after the concert. tensive travel and she was tired, but most lauded pianists in the world” ac- “We first chose the performers They can be a great source of inspiration; she gave this tremendous recital and cording to Carroll, will perform to close and their program. I, then, issued their oftentimes they’re coaching up-and-com- got such a response from the audience. this year’s series. contract. Because they’re foreign per- ing artists or they’ve had the opportuni- The mood when she came off-stage, you Carroll suggested that the positive formers, we also had to be concerned ty to work with another artist that they could see it, she had completely shifted response to music she is able to experi- with their visas. There are also taxation think would be a good fit for us. I’ve also and was just elated from the response ence on a regular basis is something in- concerns with foreign artists, so I’m in- been meeting with the music faculty and she got from our audience.” herent in the Vermont lifestyle. volved with that as well. Once the con- planning for next year to make sure that There are some upcoming perform- “For being such a small, rural, inti- tracts have all been signed, we then get we’re bringing musicians that are going ers this spring that music-lovers (and mate atmosphere, Vermont has a pretty out the word about the artist. We make to help compliment the curriculum.” everyone else) won’t want to miss. An lively arts scene. The arts have a very sure that they’re in our arts calendar. [As One performance that stood out to example of coordination between Carroll important place in the daily lives of Ver- we get] closer to the performance, there Carroll in her time at Middlebury (and and curricula of academic departments, monters and in the cultural life of Ver- are posters around campus and things of one that still brings a smile to her face) the Nile River Project concert will kick mont, and I think that’s part of the qual- that nature.” was that of Dubravka Tomsic, who is per- off a week of discussing the cultural, so- ity of life that draws people to live here. Carroll is also responsible for ensur- forming again at the College in April of cioeconomic, and environmental issues It’s part of why I came back here and re- ing that the artists feel comfortable and this year. surrounding the Nile river basin. Later main here with my family.” A Very American Enterprise Takes on Divided Government By Larkin Barron Hoxie and Khan “had a desire to or- Last Saturday, the American Enter- ganize a club to bring people together; prise Institute (AEI) of Middlebury held scholars and people who study public a policy conference on divided govern- policy, to talk about issues of American ment. government,” Dry said. AEI is a new club at Middlebury He mentioned how hard they’d based on a public policy think tank in worked to pick panelists and speakers Washington D.C. Thanks to this new to create an academic and bi-partisan voice on campus, students can now tune presentation, and was satisfied with the in to a national network of free political passionate discussion that followed. enterprise. When asked what he’d like to see An employee of AEI’s D.C. office, come out of this new club, Hoxie said Stan Veuger said, “The company is com- he saw AEI as a place for the balanced mitted to ideals of freedom and opportu- discussion of political issues. nity. We focus “A real on a range of discussion,” issues: domes- he said, “lib- tic policy and “I really liked his point that eral, conserva- a lot of eco- divided government is actu- tive, doesn’t nomic policy.” matter. We AEI has come ally a sign that our democracy want to have to Middle- is working as intended in the a thoughtful, bury through real, articu- ivan valladares their campus Madisonian construct of it.” late, academic On Saturday, the American Enterprise Institute held a conference on divided government. outreach pro- discussion on gram, to “bring pETER DYKEMAN-BIRMINGHAM ‘18.5 all issues. We that American government doesn’t work speech. some more in- student picked divided and gets nothing done. Its good to have “I really liked his point that divided tellectual and government these conversations. We don’t talk in government is actually a sign that our political diver- today because big ways outside of the classroom about democracy is working as intended in sity to a lot of debates on campuses that we want to show that our club is non- our government very often.” the Madisonian construct of it,” Peter are often more dominated by more ag- partisan,” Hoxie said. Commenting on the importance of Dykeman-Birmingham ’18.,5 who at- gressive political voices.” “At Middlebury, every political dis- this conference to Middlebury students, tended the event, said. The conference began with a lecture cussion that I’ve experienced has always Zieve Cohen said, “We care a lot about Some attendees lamented that the by Professor Shep Melnick of Boston been very partisan and very politically certain kinds of issues. Environmental panel competed with so many other College examining the constitution and charged,” Khan said. “I’d rather see a issues are an obvious one, and race and events and voiced hope that, next time, divided government, and then featured healthy political discussion that allows poverty have been talked about a lot in there would be a better turnout. two panels: one discussing the legisla- people to maybe come to realizations the past couple of years.” There was also some criticism tive process and another the legislative about things they hadn’t thought of be- “Students don’t quite seem to get that the panels lacked racial and eth- agenda of the 114th Congress. fore.” that there is a governmental response nic diversity, though people were very There were appearances by former Students were particularly im- to these things that they can actually pleased with the variety of viewpoints governor of Vermont Jim Douglass, pressed with how stimulating the influence, particularly in Vermont,” he represented. Political Science department chair Ber- speaker was. continued. “Students should get more AEI is only just beginning. Their tram Johnson, Murray Dry and Mat- “[The speech by Shep Melnick] was involved in the College Democrats, Col- next event is coming up on April 1, fea- thew Dickinson, as well as Veuger of the really interesting, it was provocative,” lege Republicans and AEI. In America, a turing Congressman Pallone of New American Enterprise Institute. Harry Zieve Cohen ’15 said. “It’s good lot of politics is local, and here there’s a Jersey and Barbara Comstock of Vir- Phil Hoxie ’17.5 and Alexander Khan to hear a different take; someone who real opportunity to make a difference.” ginia. Mark your calendars and prepare ’17 organized the event with the help of doesn’t just reiterate what has become Other students thought Melnick for some invigorating and controversial Dry, who was the faculty sponsor. common wisdom and accepted doctrine: raised some interesting points in his political conversation. arts sciences Cummings Charms with Irish Traditions
By Luke Linden people just sit politely and very still,” For over a decade, the College has Cummings said. annually celebrated Irish music and This impulse was immediately ap- dance in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. This parent in the first half of the event, year saw a continuation of this tradition which was organized as a more conven- with some notable changes. Affiliate Art- tional concert. The performers were ists Timothy Cummings, Pete Suther- seated on stage, Cummings on various land and Dominique Dodge joined with bagpipes, smallpipes and Border pipes, alumnus Caleb Elder ’04 and an array of Dominique Dodge on harp, Pete Suther- current students to lead this year’s pro- land primarily on fiddle and banjo and ceedings. Elder on fiddle and mandolin while the Unlike in years past, the event was a audience filled in the rows of seats. hybrid of a conventional concert experi- Yet the rhythmic, infectious nature ence and an interactive traditional dance. of Irish dance music seemed to fully en- To accommodate gage the audience this new structure, from the start. the event was held Patrons seated in Wilson Hall, “I hoped to give people an near the stage a move from the opportunity to hear live would tap a foot Kevin P. Mahaney or bob a head here ’84 Center for the music and to move their and there while Arts (MCA) Con- bodies, to experience the a mother swayed cert Hall, where it with her child, at has been held in ‘rapture of being.’” times falling into the past. Similar c h o r e o g r a p h e d to last year’s event, hand games. By which married Timmoty cummings the time the chairs Irish and Scottish affiliate artist were cleared and music, this year’s audience mem- event incorporated bers were invited both Irish and Ap- to dance, they rel- palachian music, which share a cultural ished the opportunity, and it became history and significant musical links. clear that this music demanded physical Cummings offered some insight into expression. these changes while speaking to the core Before this moment of release came, spirit of the event, which has remained the concert prelude featured myriad mu- rooted in its origins. sical styles, instruments and artists. Per- “We’re definitely changing things, in formers moved seamlessly from sprightly large part because I am not an operatic dance tunes to heart-wrenching ballads, tenor [as previous event organizer Fran- drawing out the subtle distinctions in- cois Clemmons was], I’m an instrumen- herent in Irish and Appalachian cultural talist,” Cummings said. “It’s more tra- contexts while often uniting them in ar- dition-focused and more dance-focused, rangement or in emphasizing particular but there’s still an element of inviting musical features. the audience to participate in some of At times student performers were in- the songs, which Francois had done as vited on stage, including Scott Collins ’15 courtesy pete sutherland well.” on Scottish smallpipes, Laura Harris ’17 The desire to offer audiences the on accordion and Milo Stanley ’17.5 and ability to participate in Irish and Appa- Ellen Taylor ’15 on fiddle. One number ferent continents and different points audience completely unfamiliar with the lachian dance seems to be borne of a de- was even accompanied by Appalachian in time. Yet a consistent feature of this music to jump in at the next refrain of sire to offer a more authentic and natural clogging performed by local talent Kris- music was its endearingly participatory the chorus, or to simply bask in the in- experience. tin Bolton. In this way, the audience was quality. tricately interwoven harmonies of the “It’s really weird to be playing highly exposed to a wide range of traditional Whether sunny or grim in mood, unique traditional instruments with the rhythmic dance tunes on stage and to see music, drawn from different styles, dif- each piece was structured to allow an security of knowing the piece would soon return to a familiar key or phrase. Cummings also noted this particular feature of the Irish and Appalachian mu- sic that he chose to feature. “It’s very casual and free-spirited – nothing formal about it,” he said. “It’s the music and the dance of the people in that way – it’s not necessarily ‘high art.’ It’s designed not to be virtuosic, but in- stead to include everybody.” When the chairs were finally cleared away and Mary Wesley assumed the stage as dance caller, the casual and free- spirited nature of Irish and Appalachian music was fully realized. Large numbers of students, families, children and older couples took to the dance floor, eagerly embracing the music in a way that sug- gests – despite its antiquated, unfamiliar flavor – that it continues to resonate and engage modern audiences. That after- noon succeeded in using the peripheral niche of traditional music as an avenue for audience members to celebrate and participate in an engaging communal musical experience. In this way, Cummings seems to have accomplished his goal. “I hoped to give people an oppor- tunity to hear live music and to move their bodies, to experience the ‘rapture of being,’” he said. “Tied to all of that, of course, is to involve students in that experience and pass along the torch of Courtesy Finn yarbrough tradition.” Seeing the Unspeakable The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls Gloria don’t Trebien Pollard will present a new solo perfor- Once upon a time — in 2005 — a 20-year-old girl Gloria is a “woman of a certain age” who makes the best mance that chronicles issues of race, gender named Annie returned to her native Russia to brush of her loneliness by seeking love at social dance clubs for and sexual identity. At the core of this work is up on the language and lose her American accent. singles. When she meets Rodolfo, their intense passion miss the growing pace of “identity politics” and the While there, she encounters dangerously high heels, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair. Present- lingering presence of “political correctness.” evil stepmothers, wicked witches and ravenous bears. this 4/2, 7:00 P.M., MCA DANCE THEATRE 4/2-4, 7:30 PM EACH EVENING; 4/4, 2:30 PM, SEELER STUDIO 4/4, 3 AND 8 PM, DANA AUDITORIUM 18 arts SCIENCES march 19, 2015 | Extreme Weather Takes Toll on MCA
courtesy mca The Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) experienced leakage on the roof above the College Museum of Art due to severe weather conditions this past February.
By Elizabeth Zhou was accompanied by very few leaks. Unfortunately, the complicated roof years – though admittedly, some prob- Over the past couple weeks, the The Facilities Services staff works system of the MCA – composed largely lems are simpler to correct than others. brutal conditions of the slowly receding strategically to combat the uniquely dif- of a protruding wigwam pattern, a patch- MCA is not the only building that winter have caused leaks to occur at the ficult conditions that Vermont winters work style and sloping angles – is prone has been internally affected by structural Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts present. to trap large amounts of snow. This is issues. The roof of Coffrin Annex, which (MCA), which has played an integral “Much of our attention focused on similar to Le Chateau, which also faces connects the Annex to the main part role on campus since its construction in snow removal and thawing frozen drain obstacles due to the complexity of its of the Coffrin dorms, also experienced 1992. The affected area is located above lines. To the extent possible, we proac- roof design. Both buildings tend to pose leakage at the onset of spring, as pipes the Middlebury College Museum of Art, tively remove snow from roofs that are more problems for the facilities staff on the roof failed to drain melting snow. where ice has pierced holes in the roof, more problematic,” Luther Tenny, Assis- than other structures on campus. As soon as facilities removed the snow, allowing melted snow to leak into the tant Director of Maintenance & Opera- Structural problems vary according however, the problem disappeared. building. Additionally, snow has blown tions at Facilities Services Office, said. to the architecture of each building. Flat While prolonged leakage issues may into the ventilation ducts and melted, “Let’s just say we’re all happy to be done roofs with drains can freeze up and cause manifest themselves at times, as in the further contributing to the structural is- with February.” water to back up, namely at Freeman In- recent case at MCA, the facilities staff sues. The inconvenient nature of the leak- ternational Center and McCardell Bicen- works to maintain a high level of effi- The timing of the leaks is not en- age, which has not gone unnoticed by tennial Hall. Additionally, ice dams are ciency toward the unpredictable brutal- tirely unexpected. Generally, most roof students and faculty who frequent the apt to form atop roofs with poor insula- ity of Vermont weather, and its inconve- leaks occur as springtime approaches, MCA, is further exacerbated by the lin- tion, creating further leaks. nient aftermaths. As spring creeps ever when rising temperatures cause heavy gering winter conditions. Due to the harsh, frigid conditions closer and the College continues to mod- snow loads on top of buildings to melt. “Trying to find a pinhole leak under of each winter, facilities services have ernize its building structures, such mi- Meanwhile, the prolonged period of icy four feet of drifted snow and ice can be a enacted numerous repairs and upgrades nor issues as the MCA leakage are likely cold weather in January and February frustrating task,” Tenny said. to the College’s roofing systems over the to arise less frequently. one life left
By Alex Newhouse barriers. It wants you to explore the des- creature and these flying animals are no way to communicate with another It opens with a view of sand. Dark ert, to find the hidden secrets through- partners in a nomadic lifestyle, search- player except by emitting one single tan and flashing in the sun’s rays — this out it and to forge your own path toward ing the desert for sustenance and pur- sound, and you never see the other play- is clearly the desert. The camera pulls up the mountain. pose. er’s name. But this player and I decided and shows heatwaves emanating from But I didn’t think I wanted that. My The point is that there is no limit to to solve this puzzle together, and soon the sparkling sand, and behind a hill the exposure to gaming had been almost ex- the number of stories Journey can tell. we became makeshift friends. It was a large sun beats down on the land. The clusively made up of well-defined games Its storytelling is so effective because relationship that took us all the way to yellow sky is striped with clouds. The with traditional gameplay loops. The there is no one correct plot. This game the end of the game, where it enhanced camera then pans over the landscape idea of an “art game” sounded foreign succeeds because it gives the player the one of the most moving moments I have and comes to rest on a small figure in a and unenjoyable to me. But I gave Jour- tool to make the world his own, to fill it ever experienced in video games. In a brown robe, face hidden in shadow. This ney a try anyway. with his imagination. game that empowers you to fashion your mysterious creature stands up from his And what I found was not so much Of course, the game wouldn’t have a own story and fill out the world with rest in the sand, and you take control, a game as a canvas. Journey’s world is fraction of its impact without having at your own thoughts, this sort of relation- moving him over the sand that crunches unbelievably beautiful, especially for a least competent gameplay, and Journey ship becomes entirely your own, and not and slips under his feet. You climb a hill game now three years old. It is, in a lot goes above and beyond here as well. Its a tool of the game. It is unique in that and on top of that hill is a view of a mas- of ways, the PlayStation 3’s crowning puzzles are simple but striking, and its way, something that few other games sive expanse of scorched land. Rising in jewel in art. Its desert feels alive in a way set piece moments create awe or even had attempted at that time. It makes you the distance, breaking through the layer that I never expected, fear as you guide the care about your partner in a way that of clouds, a mountain stands imposing with the wind peri- creature through games rarely do. That friend isn’t just a with a light shining out of the top. No odically whipping up journey dangerous confron- colleague of the creature in game — he is words are said, no text or instructions sand and the desert tations and environ- my friend, as well. are given. This is Journey. Your only ruins feeling appro- ments. And after you This is a game about life and death. goal is to reach the mountaintop. priately weathered and ancient. Each complete each puzzle, you know you are It’s a game about finding your own When I first bought this game in ear- area you go to has a different puzzle, and moving ever closer to your goal. The path and about defining your own way ly 2013, it was already a year old. It had as you progress, you acquire runes that mountain, invariably visible in the dis- through life even when the destination received critical acclaim and had won grow your scarf, permitting you to jump tance, stands as a constant reminder of seems clear. This game is about the lit- several Game of the Year awards from higher and reach even more interesting your journey. tle moments in life when you discover different websites. But I never thought to places. Sometimes, when you are in the something incredibly special just a few give this small game a chance. It doesn’t But there is no backstory here. You midst of a puzzle, you will hear the tell- steps off the beaten path. It’s a story have intense gameplay or a huge, breath- never do learn who this little creature is, tale sound of one of the creatures jump- about rebirth and coming to terms with taking story. It doesn’t have explosions or why he wishes to travel to the moun- ing or activating a switch. It took me the fact that sometimes, in spite of all or guns. It doesn’t even have a score, tain so badly. Everything is learned from completely by surprise when it happened your efforts, you will fail. But Journey or anything that could be called a “tra- small hints in the world. Perhaps you the first time, because there is no other shows you that even in failure there is ditional” gameplay loop. It has puzzles, find a painting on a wall in a ruin, and indication that Journey is a multiplayer success. When you walk through the des- but even calling it a puzzle game is a lit- you decide that the figure is a citizen of game. But indeed, when I looked around erts of Journey, looking upon the ruins tle too restrictive for what Journey is. It a past civilization, left behind after a ca- the world, I found another little figure and the golden hills, you realize that the relies on being open-ended, presenting lamitous event. Or perhaps you see the bounding along and trying to solve the mountain really doesn’t matter all that a world to the player without context or flying creatures and believe that your same puzzle I was working on. There is much, after all.
mcab spring concert: t-pain 4/18, kenyon arena, 9 pm tickets on sale at new time: 12 p.m. on monday, 3/30 go/obo$15 for students March 19, 2015 | arts SCIENCES 19 science sp tlight: nobel laureate carol greider By Toby Aicher Telomeres are protective sequences meres in germ cells. She investigated the tried her experiment again: the telomeres of DNA at the end of our chromosomes. elongation mechanism with the model didn’t extend. Nobel Laureate Carol Greider gave a Due to the peculiarities of DNA replica- organism Tetrahymena, a single-celled “The RNA experiments indicated that lecture last week on how she helped solve tion, the ends of chromosomes shorten animal from the protazoa kingdom. To activity was eliminated when RNA was one of molecular biology’s fundamental every time they are replicated. Telo- search for the enzyme she collected ex- degraded, implything there was an RNA mysteries: why are germ cell lines im- meres are a non-coding buffer zone; tracts from the cells, and added them to component,” Greider said. “Liz and I felt mortal? when chromosomes shorten, telomeres artificial telomere sequences (repeating that the best way to really show that an In the 1960s, biologist Leonard Hay- are whittled away instead of important TTGGGG nucleotide bases) to see if they RNA was involved was to find the actual flick noticed that adult human cells in a genes. Telomeres also attract important were elongated. RNA. So I went into the cold room to try Petri dish can only divide 40 to 60 times binding proteins that prevent the ends “After about nine months of trying and purify the enzyme.” until they stop growing. This discovery of different chromosomes from joining, variations on experiments, we found our After several years of work at UC uncovered a paradox: we are all prod- and stop harmful DNA enzymes from di- first strong evidence for telomere elon- Berkeley and at a fellowship at the Cold ucts of cell lineages that go back millions gesting DNA. Just as shoelaces begin to gation,” Greider said. “An 18 nucleotide Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Is- of years and cell divisions, but our adult fray when their plastic tips fall off, chro- telomere ‘seed’ was elongated with a re- land, NY, Greider discovered the struc- cells can only divide a limited number of mosomes begin to decay when their telo- peated sequence that was six bases long ture of the telomere enzyme, its gene and times. How do germ cells, which are the meres shorten. – precisely the length of the TTGGGG its mechanism. For this she was awarded reproductive cells passed on by parents, Elizabeth Blackburn’s observation telomere repeat in Tetrahymena. Now we the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medi- reset this ticking biological clock? explained why adult cells have a limited had a biochemical assay that we could use cine in 2009. Carol Greider discovered the answer number of cell divisions: their chromo- to determine if this was a new telomere Greider named the telomere elongat- in graduate school at the University of somes shorten and their telomeres dis- elongation mechanism.” ing enzyme telomerase, an unusual name California, Berkeley while working in the appear. But how are germ cells able to Next Greider hunted for the telo- for an enzyme. lab of Elizabeth Blackburn, who shares regenerate their telomeres and pass on mere elongating protein’s gene and for its “We first called the activity we iden- her healthy telomere fortified DNA to their mechanism. She suspected it used DNA’s tified ‘telomere terminal transferase’ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi- offspring? relative, RNA, as a template to extend the because it was transferred telomere se- cine. Just before Greider’s arrival, Eliza- Greider hypothesized that there was telomere ends. She added RNA degrad- quences into termini, but later shortened beth Blackburn had discovered an impor- an enzyme capable of elongating telo- ing enzymes to the protein extract and it to ‘Telomerase,’” wrote Greider in her tant genetic element called telomeres. biography on the official Nobel Prize web- site. “My friend and fellow student Clair Wyman and I would joke around in the lab a lot. Claire pointed out the name was too long and suggested various humorous names as alternatives. Names were fur- ther discussed later that night over a few beers and telomerase was one Claire had proposed initially as a joke. She thought it was funny, but Liz and I both liked it.” Greider verified her discovery of telo- meres and telomerase through experi- ments with telomerase deficient mice. She created a telomerase “knock-out” version of mice in which they lacked the enzyme telomerase. The mice were able to develop and have offspring normally for the first four generations, but the fifth and sixth generations of mice had growth defects. The sixth generation was com- pletely sterile. The results aligned with her theory. The telomeres of the mouse reproductive cells diminished in each passing generation, until they were too short and their genetic information was damaged. When she mated the fifth gen- eration mice with control mice so that their offspring would have a version of the telomerase gene, the sixth generation of mice was able to regenerate their telo- meres. The experiment neatly summa- rized her decades-long and Noble Prize- winning work on telomerase. The College is fortunate to have hosted several excellent lecturers this year, including two noble laureates. It is incredible not only to learn about their discoveries, but also to see the people be- courtesy nobelprize.org Nobel Laureate Carol Greider, who discovered telomeres and telomerase, spoke about her research at the College on March 9. hind the science and hear the stories that the reel critiC brothers
service by naming him a typical slacker. job, and paranoid as he is, Marty decides without judgement and often without BY OAKLEY HAIGHT He’s always occupied and plotting some- to go into hiding from the police. He thematic intentions towards comedy or Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard is a comedy thing, but he does so with the logic and stylizes this drama into an escapist fan- tragedy in a given scene. In a similar about the kind of adults who have toy ambition of an adolescent. He whines tasy equivalent to his Super Nintendo. vein, it’s easy to see Buzzard as a warped lightsaber battles in their parents’ base- that his menial temp-job is bogus and Marty clearly finds pleasure in the grav- social-commentary, but these notions ments, and it is surely the most unset- that he could make more money any- ity of his situation, but can’t comprehend never come by way of gratuitous symbols tling movie ever made to feature such where, but even he can’t really believe the consequences of his actions. His first or overt narrative devices. Marty some- a scene. Its hero is a man named Marty this. Shortly after he finishes his pizza stop on the run is his friend’s basement times wears zombie masks in public, for who appreciates the comforts of frozen- sandwich, he blasts heavy metal and sets where the lightsaber battle occurs. These example — we can say something about pizza sandwiches stuffed with Doritos out to turn his video-gaming glove into two men dueling is a funny spectacle, Marty’s identity from this, certainly. But and mayo, and whose main hobbies are a weapon. He cuts his hand while put- but Marty is taking it too seriously. He rather than existing solely as a symbol, heavy metal, video games and getting free ting knives on the starts to use his vid- the mask feels simply like a piece of Mar- things by using obscure coupons. He’s glove’s fingers, which eo-game claw with ty’s personality. a slacker with vaguely anti-corporate seems accidental at BUzzard real knives – the Even without considering the spe- ideas. You almost certainly know some- the time, but he cuts tone of the film re- cific content of Marty’s life, you feel like one like Marty, and you might not want himself again, re- mains the same, but you’re learning something about human to be stuck in conversation with him. opening his wound with scissors multiple we understand how wrong this could go. nature from the way Buzzard observes Buzzard looks more closely at a Marty- times throughout the movie. Whatever It makes us reconsider our laughter. How him and his habits — this is true of all character than we do in our daily lives, has been ailing Marty is clearly getting did Marty end up like this, and shouldn’t great character studies. Buzzard may and the more we see of Marty, the more worse. Still, life makes room for small we really be more worried about the guy? have a thesis that addresses the state we understand the extent to which he is joys like clipping a hot pocket box for Buzzard understands the balance of modern adulthood, but Marty isn’t emotionally damaged. His life and the coupons or a potato-chip throwing con- between using characters as vehicles for bothered by any of this. Perhaps he rep- movie around it are both horribly funny test with a friend (a “work friend” only, jokes and making characters into jokes resents a philosophy, but he certainly and horribly sad at once, tinged with a Marty announces). themselves. This is a ridiculously funny doesn’t have a philosophy himself — he’s constant sense of something dreadful ap- Marty’s obsession with petty scams movie, but none of the people in Buz- just doing the best he can to get by, steal- proaching. inevitably goes too far. He begins to cash zard are laughing at themselves or each ing checks from his company and hot I must say that I’ve done Marty a dis- some checks he has stolen from his temp other. Potrykus presents his characters pockets from his friends. 20 arts SCIENCES march 19, 2015 |
The project’s model integrates pro- BY CONNOR FORREST grams in music, education, dialogue, leadership and innovation to engage A musical collabora- citizens and students across disciplines tive of East African artists drawn from and geographies. The concert experience, eleven countries touching the world’s brings together an international group of longest river will visit the College Mar. 30 musicians from Burundi, Egypt, Ethio- through Apr. 3. The Nile Project uses mu- pia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda sic to raise awareness for the Nile Basin’s and the U.S. to inspire cultural curiosity, sustainability challenges. highlight regional connections and show- During four days of residency activi- case the potential of trans-boundary co- ties including participatory workshops, operation. keynote talks and class visits, the Nile Participatory workshops and cross- Project artists will explore a variety of cultural dialogues will provide students cultural, political and environmental is- with unique intellectual experiences to sues, culminating in a high-energy pub- deepen their understanding of the Nile lic concert on Thursday, April 2 at 8:00 ecosystem. The Nile Fellowship and Nile p.m. in Wilson Hall of the College’s Mc- Prize programs incentivize students to Cullough Student Center. apply their education and training toward For many of us, hydropolitics is an mobilizing their peers and pioneering abstract intellectual concept we might innovative solutions to the Nile Basin’s discuss briefly in our course fulfilling complex and interrelated challenges. the AAL requirement. Along the Nile, The Nile Project has garnered sig- and the Environment class at 9:05 a.m. however, it affects millions of lives ev- nificant media attention along its journey Tuesday, March 31st, musicians from in Axinn 109. This event is open only to ery day. In the United States, we have toward this tour. The group’s first record- the project will present a lively master students. so much water that even the contents of ing, Aswan, was named one of National class surveying music and dance tradi- All of the Nile Project activities, in- your toilet bowl are potable. But for one Public Radio (NPR)’s Top Must-Hear tions from several of the eleven countries cluding earlier introductory events by of the fastest growing population areas International Albums of 2013. NPR said, bordering the basin at 4:30 p.m. in room African music star Herbert Kinobe and in the world, conflict over river access “the results are joyous and even raucous 221 of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center ethnomusicologist Sylvia Nannyonga- began thousands of years ago and has … You can hear just how much fun the for the Arts (MCA). Tamusuza, are supported by the Expedi- only grown more impassioned with the crowd is having — and how tight the band Wednesday, April 1st, the Nile Proj- tions program of the New England Foun- passage of time. Since 2011, project par- is, even as their instrumental multitudes ect founder, Mina Girgis, will give the dation for the Arts, made possible with ticipants have worked to transform the adeptly combine everything from indige- keynote address, breaking down her cre- funding from the National Endowment Nile conflict by inspiring, educating and nous instruments like the Ugandan adun- ative process and exploring the ingredi- for the Arts with additional support from empowering an international network gu lyre to saxophone and bass.” ents necessary for successful cross-cul- the six New England state arts agencies. of students to cultivate sustainability in NPR followed up on that review with tural collaboration at 7 p.m. in the MCA The Nile Project concert will take their ecosystem. a broadcast story “Producing Harmony Concert Hall. place on Thursday, April 2 at 8:00 p.m. in Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road in a Divided Region” in September 2014. Thursday, April 2, a panel of speakers Wilson Hall. Audience members are en- Project, Egyptian ethnomusicologist When the Nile Project made its January will lecture on civic engagement and the couraged to come ready to dance, though Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American 2015 premiere at New York City’s Glo- management of water resources at 12:30 seating will also be available. singer Meklit Hadero conceived the Nile balfest, The New York Times hailed the p.m. in the Franklin Environmental Cen- Tickets are $25 for the general pub- Project in 2011. Their mission was to edu- group as “a committed, euphoric interna- ter at Hillcrest. lic; $20 for Middlebury College faculty, cate, inspire and empower the citizens of tional coalition.” Friday, April 3rd, project’s female staff, alumni, emeriti and other ID card the Nile Basin to foster the sustainability The Nile Project residency consists musicians with visit and talk with Assis- holders; and $6 for students. Go/boxof- of the river’s ecosystem through musical of five major events between Tuesday, tant Professor of Environmental Studies fice for tickets. collaboration. March 31 and Friday, April 3. Merrill Baker-Medard’s Gender, Health “For many projects, music is the end result. But for us, it is just the begin- ning. The integration of music with your leadership and innovation, we hope, will create a driving force that will change the way Nile Citizens relate to each other and their shared ecosystem.” - Mina Girgis The Nile Project is an international coalition artists using music to change the world.
It brings together artists from all 11 countries along the Nile River Basin who represent the 435 million people who live in the area.
Today, only 10% of those people have electricity.
Today, half of the Nile countries experience serious water shortages on a large scale.
Today, 7 of the 11 countries suffer from over 30% malnutrition.
By 2055, the region’s population is predicted to reach roughly 900 million.
Unless common ground can be found, and agreements made, those numbers will only continue to grow. march 19, 2015 | SPORTS21 OU SAE: We’re not By Trevor Schmitt The Middlebury men’s lacrosse team that different racist chanting by members of the Sigma Though Murray continued his strong culminating in a goal to start the third, year Cardinal attackman Harry Stanton answered right back with four straight goals following goals from Joel Blockowicz ’15, a beautifully bounced shot off a Tim Giarrusso three days earlier, as Cardinal Lyle Mitchell The easy thing to do is to crucify in garbage time when the game was far the dismantling of all fraternities across The team returns to action this Saturday the country and a cultural reconstruction Before we slam all fraternities and of thinking needs to be done about Tennis Opens Season with Success these thoughts, I come to a worrisome By Remo Plunkett conclusion; we are not that different from Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s Later in the day against Brandeis the men If one starts to turn the mirror inwards Later in the day the Panthers took on team also reeled in two wins on Saturday, In addition, the Panthers further silenced Middlebury courts on Sunday, March 15 to on the season, will return to action during its Judgment is a mainstay of daily life the women’s team returned to their home In the men’s doubles matches at home in the team cruised to wins in all three doubles Meanwhile, the women’s tennis team, their winning streak on Sunday with a home rounded out the Panthers’ doubles success the Panthers, earning the team’s fourth addition, the weekend allowed the team to addition to these wins, Palmer, Jackson and In singles, the match continued to turn together and look down on anyone who Women’s Lacrosse Picks up Road Victory By Christine Urquhart The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team allowing only three goals in her time on the unfair discrimination — against blacks, younger students, older students, townies, fought back and answered with a goal of by the Numb3rs Panthers’ scoring streak, but Middlebury to focus on highlighting our teammates’ Middlebury took eighth place in the NCAA Skiing Championships in Lake Placid, NY 8th Alison Maxwell ’15’s national championship-winning mile time. 4:56.17 women’s tennis’ record so far in the spring season after the openning weekend. 3-0 Number of ground balls for John Jackson ’18 team member Perticone also contributed two as the Panthers held off Wesleyan 11-9. 13 the Panthers are going to “come out in The cumulative score of the women’s Ice Hockey 2014-2015 Joe MacDonald ’16 is a sports editor season, where the team went 20- from Pepperell, MA. 94-48 5-3. 22sports | march 19, 2015 Cone Takes NCAA Giant Slalom Title By Colin McIntyre On Thursday, Whiteface played host fourth place in the 15K classic race. They UVM was the top eastern school in fourth, Middlebury skied its way to an eighth to the giant slalom events. The women tied Vermont to finish behind Utah, Colo- while Dartmouth finished sixth. place finish at the NCAA Championships placed eighth in the team event after rado, and New Mexico. Phinney led the The high NCAA finish rounds out a last weekend. Middlebury posted their Sackbauer placed 12th with a time of Panthers with a time of 49:39, two min- strong year for the teams overall. The best result since 2009, highlighted by a 2:26.75. She finished four seconds be- utes behind the winners, but just five sec- women’s nordic team, despite having sev- team win in the men’s giant slalom and hind the winner from New Mexico. Elle onds out of the top 10 as she finished 11th. eral key racers fall ill late in the season, Rob Cone’s ’17 national championship Gilbert ’16 was 17th after clocking a time “I skied with the leaders for the first scored more overall points this year than in the same event. Cone, Christopher of 2:27.54. Katelyn Barclay ’15 fell during of three laps during Friday’s race,” Phin- in any previous season. On the slopes, the McKenna ’17 and Mary Sackbauer ’15 all her second run and was disqualified. ney said. “While I was upset that my fall men’s overall championship in giant sla- recorded All-American finishes on the On the men’s side, McKenna and in the last 1km left me one spot out of the lom marks the third event championship weekend. Cone turned in nearly identical first run top 10, I’m happy to know that I can ski for the men’s Alpine squad in the past The nordic events took place on the times to sit in fifth and fourth, respec- with the best women in the country.” four years. first day of action on Wednesday, March tively. Cone then won the second run, Mooney and Holt, who had both been 11 with the skate events at Mount Van and McKenna turned in the third fastest battling sickness all week, improved on Hoevenberg in Lake Placid. In the wom- time to leap up the podium to finish first their first outing. Mooney, who won the and third, both claiming First Team All- classic title on the EISA circuit, finished the middlebury en’s 5K skate, the western schools swept the top-10 spots, and Kelsey Phinney American honors. Riley Plant ’18 fell on 16th with a time of 49:49. Holt grabbed ’16 was the first Panther across the line the first run as he neared the finish line. a point for the team in 30th place with a great eight in 15:35, 70 seconds behind the winner, The team won by six points over Denver, time of 52:32. who had racers in second and fourth but, “I think we did a great job of keeping good for 20th. Stella Holt ’15 was next RANKING TEAM for the Panthers in 34th, coming in with like Middlebury, had their third racer fall the morale high,” Phinney said. “Heather Alex’s Assertions a time of 15:56. Heather Mooney ’15 was on his first run. and Stella are incredible athletes, team- behind her in 39th, with a time of 16:10. “The program has really been build- mates, and competitors, and they showed Track and Field Overall, the women came in 10th in the ing and we have a great group of GS guys. that with the way they raced in the face of I might be biased, but damn, it event with 11 points. Utah won the race We’ve got them for a couple more years,” being sick.” 1 was a proud weekend to be a with 91 points, followed by Colorado and Cone said after the race. On Saturday, the championships con- Panther. #IwannabeAlison New Mexico. Friday saw the nordic teams return to cluded with the slalom events at White- Skiing In the men’s 10K skate, the lone Pan- the competition for the classic races. On face. Sackbauer again led the women with A national victory over the ther Patrick McElravey ’17 finished 27th the men’s side, McElravey fared slightly a ninth place finish that earned her Sec- 2 in 27:16, two minutes back of the winner. better, finishing 23rd with a time of 59:04 ond Team All-American honors. She sat ‘West’ is quite simply, epic. A mix of eastern and western skiers fin- in the 20K classic. The western schools tied for 13th after finishing the first run Women’s hockey ished among the leaders, with Colorado, swept the top-eight individual spots, and in one minute flat. Her impressive second 3 Dartmouth and Vermont taking the top Colorado, New Mexico and Dartmouth run moved her into the top 10 with a time These ladies have heart. three places. took the top-three team spots. of 1:58.74. Teammates Barclay and Gil- The women’s team finished tied for bert came in 23rd and 25th, respectively, Tennis with consistent runs. Barclay had a com- 4 Starting the season strong bined time of 2:02.25 and Gilbert took with straight wins. 2:03.07 to finish both runs. Overall, the women took seventh in the event. Women’s Lacrosse Cone led the men in the slalom, placing 5 Taking care of business in the 10th with a time of 1:58.22 after sliding ‘CAC. down from a fifth-place first run. Plant turned in a solid second run to move up Men’s Lacrosse to 24th overall with a time of 2:01.76, Holding on to a win against while McKenna had to hike after missing 6 Wesleyan is vital in the team’s a gate in his first run. He turned in a solid NESCAC standing. second run but finished the event 30th in 2:23.99. The men matched the women Grass and placed eighth in the event. Feeling blessed that I can The eighth place overall finish by 7 actually see the ground and not the combined teams placed them third just white tundra. amongst teams from the east, and first among teams comprised only of Ameri- Midterms Courtesy Middlebury Athletics cans. Colorado won the championship Sorry professors, but my mind for the 20th time, edging out Denver 8 is already on the beach in San classic at the NCAA championships, hosted by St. Lawrence on March 11-14. and Utah who finished second and third. Diego. Women’s Hockey Heartbroken by Norwich By Fritz Parker keeper was able to corral the puck. On the other end of the ice, Marsh was having The Middlebury women’s hockey a tougher time making stops. Norwich team saw its season come to an end this managed just six shots on goal during the past weekend when the fifth-ranked period, but two of them found their way Panthers fell to in-state rival and fourth- into the Middlebury net, and Norwich ranked Norwich in an NCAA quarterfinal was able to tie the game and then take the matchup on Saturday, March 14 in lead despite being outplayed for much of Kenyon Arena. the period’s 20 minutes. Despite falling to Trinity in the The Panther skaters headed into NESCAC tournament final on March 8, the third period needing a goal to force the Panthers were awarded an at-large overtime, or two to advance to the birth to the 12-team national tournament. national semifinals. The way that Robert After missing the tournament last year, was playing in the net, a fourth Norwich the Middlebury team had its eyes set on goal likely would have been a nail in the returning to the national title game after coffin for Middlebury. last doing so in 2013. Marsh stepped up to the test, During their lone regular-season overcoming her previous errors to play 20 Fritz parker meeting in early February, Middlebury minutes of solid hockey as time expired. The Panthers had a goal disallowed after the referee lost sight of the puck with triumphed over Norwich 2-1 in overtime. In the offensive zone, the Panthers had two minutes left of play to potentially tie the game 3-2 against Norwich. On Saturday, Middlebury got on the several more opportunities as Norwich the team to a final score that was not was a 2013 All-NESCAC Second Team board first when Katie Sullivan ’15 scored players went to the box three times indicative of the overall competitive selection, while goalkeeper Annabelle 10 minutes in with assists from Anna during the third period. After Panther balance of the game. Jones ’15 earned Second Team honors Van Kula ’16 and Mackenzie Martin ’15. Coach Bill Mandigo pulled Marsh with For the Middlebury seniors, the loss in 2014 before splitting time with Marsh That lead was short-lived, however, two minutes left to play, an apparent means an end to their careers in blue and this season. as Norwich’s Liz Gemmiti fired back, tying goal for Middlebury was waved off white. Fluke capped off her career with Middlebury finishes the 2014-2015 beating Middlebury goalkeeper Maddie by the officials — to the vocal disapproval an outstanding senior campaign, leading season with a record of 20-5-3, their Marsh ’15 to even the game at one goal of the Panthers’ home crowd. Several the team and the conference in goals fourth 20-win season in the past five apiece midway through the first period. hard shots as time expired did not find (20) and points (44) en route to NESCAC years. The Panthers climbed as high as After Gemmiti went to the box for their mark, and Norwich took the game Player of the Year laurels. Marsh — who third in the national poll after beating tripping, Hannah Bielawski ’15 rocketed 3-2. stepped in to play in goal this year after Norwich in early February, and appeared a slapshot from near the blue line past The Panthers lost despite leading playing sparsely during the previous poised for a long postseason run before Norwich goalie Celeste Robert to retake in nearly every statistical category. three seasons — was a regular-season falling in both of their last two games to the lead. Bielawski’s goal was assisted by Middlebury outshot Norwich 32-17 in stalwart for the Panthers, finishing near Trinity and Norwich. Carly Watson ’17 and Emily Fluke ’15. the game, going on six power plays while the top of all of the goalkeeping stats Next year’s squad will lean heavily Middlebury continued to push the taking only one penalty. As has been during the season and earning a spot on upon the play of Watson and NESCAC offensive advantage in the second period. the case for the Panthers throughout the All-NESCAC Second Team. Rookie of the Year Jessica Young ’18 as Several times in the period’s opening the postseason, a combination of strong Bielawski — who tied for fourth on they look to improve upon this year’s minutes, Panther players had clean looks opponents’ goalkeeping and an inability the squad with 20 points this season — success. at Robert, but each time the Norwich to score goals down the stretch doomed march 19, 2015 | SPORTS23 Maxwell’s Win Paces Trio of Panthers in NCAA Mile By Fritz Parker Alison Maxwell ’15 sprinted past M.I.T.’s - Maryann Gong with 100 meters to go in the NCAA Division-III Championship women’s - - on the straightaway with the lead. Chappell- - - - spots. - - - - - - - - - BRINGING HOME THE HARDWARE individual ncaa championships at middlebury years since Middlebury’s last individual NCAA championship the shot at a national title. 2 before winning two this weekend - Combined All-American honors earned by skiing and track - hind the leading pair. athletes this weekend 11 Number of middlebury women’s runners who reached - 3 the podium in the mile panther sc0reboard 1989 2005 Field hockey heads down to W year of Middlebury’s last the last time that two Middlebury athletes field hockey vs. Ursinus 5-1 Lexington, Virginia to face the individual champion in won individual NCAA The Panthers closely defeated the men’s Alpine skiing championships in the same year men’s basketball vs. U.N.E. 69-67 w hosting Nor’easters off a last-second conversion by Connor Huff ’16. A strong Middlebury goaltending men’s hockey vs. Colby 2-2 T effort prevented the Mules from converting in the overtime period. 1990 20o0 2010 The team went 2-0 on the road at vs. Smith W the Tyler Tip-Off Tournament to women’s Basketball begin their season. 2001 Clean sweep of the Mules for year of Middlebury’s last individual w Middlebury. They beat Colby twice women’s hockey vs. Colby over the weekend to begin their champion in women’s track season at 2-0.
Pick ’Em: women’s lacrosse vs. Closest to: How many wins for Closest to: How will Jamie Hillas Pick a team (other than Kentucky) Amherst on the last Saturday of men’s lacrosse before classes who will advance to the NCAA DI editors’ picks spring break. resume after spring break? at NCAAs? men’s basketball Final Four.
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term. Joe macdonald (48-57, .457) sports March 19, 2015 | 24 NATIONAL CHAMPS! After Rob Cone ’17 (below) captured the NCAA title in the men’s giant slalom on Thursday, March 12, Alison Maxwell ’15 (top - - pionships on Saturday, March 14. Both Maxwell — pictured with fellow All-American milers Sarah Guth ’15 and Summer Spillane ’15 — and Cone — alongside giant slalom All-American Chris rage.
Photos Courtesy Middlebury Athletics, Paige Fernandez
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