MARCH 6, 2014 | Vol. 112 no. 17 | middleburycampus.com School in China Safe After Attack By Emily Singer were reported to be relatively calm At 9 p.m. local time on March and in good spirits, according to 1 in Kunming, China, a group of Cason. Students were advised not men dressed in black began stab- to leave their dormitories at night, bing people with long knives at ran- to travel in small groups at all times dom, aiming for the head, neck and and to avoid public transportation, shoulders, according to witnesses. at least for the next several days. The attack left 33 people dead, in- Organized program outings were cluding four of the assailants, and cancelled until further notice. another 130 were wounded. Four “These are all precautionary more terrorists were apprehended measures, to be sure; reports from soon after the attack. staff indicate that life in Kunming A group of Xinjiang separatists is relatively normal, with local have been linked to the terror attack residents out and about as usual,” that took place at a train station in wrote Cason. Kunming. All 25 students partici- Karen Liu ’15 is currently study- pating in the C.V. Starr-Middlebury ing in Kunming and was traveling School Abroad in Kunming are safe outside of the city with two other and have been accounted for. students when the attack occurred. “We have been in touch with our They learned of the incident when a director there [in Kunming] and we parent of one of the students called are relieved to report that all stu- dents at the Kunming program are “What I can say is that we are accounted for and our safe,” wrote very lucky,” Liu wrote in an email. Courtesy of Becky wasserman President of the College Ronald D. “Two other [students] and I had Seven students were arrested last weekend when a group traveled to the White House to protest Liebowitz in an email to students, travel plans and were at the train the Keystone XL natural gas pipeline. For more on their participation in the protest, see page 3. faculty and staff. “Our thoughts are station just three hours before. We with all the citizens of Kunming will be arriving back to Kunming via who are such welcome hosts to our train [on Saturday night] and have students.” been directed by [Assistant Direc- Orchestra Numbers Plummet The school in Kunming is one tor of the C. V. Starr-Middlebury of three that the College operates School Abroad in Kunming] Peter By Philip Bohlman dent debt and youth unemploy- semester, cited a change in the in China, and the only one located Robbins to stick with our original The Middlebury College Or- ment people are just maximiz- rehearsal schedule as having in the western part of the country. travel plans because security will chestra will not perform this ing their time.” changed participants’ attitude Kunming is a notoriously multi- have increased by then.” semester due to an extreme de- However, he said that other toward the orchestra. In an at- ethnic city and tends to attract stu- That advice changed, however, cline in membership. This an- institutions have greater incen- tempt to attract more students dents interested in anthropology as staff members ultimately char- and environmental sciences. tered a bus to retrieve the students nouncement is the latest devel- tives for students to join the and accommodate for the lim- In the hours following the at- from outside of the city and bring opment in a trend of declining orchestra and attend rehears- ited free time that participants tack, students on the Middlebury them back to Kunming on Sunday interest in the program. Mem- als. He cited Mount Holyoke might have, the rehearsal program were instructed to re- evening, simply because of the in- bership has fallen from 45 mu- College offering course credit schedule became more flexible main in their dorms. A number of creased risk. sicians three years ago to 16 in for students in the orchestra as and the group’s professionalism students were traveling outside of “So far the attack has been iso- the fall term. one example. As the orchestra is suffered. the city for the weekend and were lated to just the train station, and In speaking with colleagues not for-credit at the College and “Unfortunately, I don’t think instructed to “be in touch with … staff members have not yet advised at other colleges, Orchestra therefore is not graded, Massey people are taking it as seriously staff about the best way to return to against [visiting] certain areas of Conductor Andrew Massey said he lacks a way of requiring anymore” Wyard-Yates said. Kunming,” according to Dean of In- Kunming,” Liu continued. found that the sudden disinter- students to attend rehearsals. Massey said that by taking ternational Programs and Edward While tensions between the C. Knox Professor of International est of students in orchestra was Without predictable atten- the spring semester off, he will Muslim Uighur ethnic group in Studies Jeff Cason. An all-student the west and China have been ris- not unique to the College. dance, Massey found himself have time to reorganize the meeting was convened with the ing over the years, according to The re-arranging music each week structure of the orchestra and “I don’t think that there is program’s staff in Kunming the Guardian any lack of talent or musician- based on the number of stu- draw students into the rehears- day after the attack to discuss the people from the north-western re- ship or enthusiasm, it’s just that dents that came to rehearsal. al process earlier than in past incident and security measures stu- gion have been accused of such a things change,” Massey said. Jackie Wyard-Yates ’16.5, years. dents should take. major and organized attack outside “With all of the worry about stu- who joined the orchestra last SEE ARTS, PAGE 19 During the meeting, students its borders.” Town Hall to GOODBYE TOWN OFFICE, HELLO PARK be Demolished By Conor Grant cation of the current recreational A hotly debated proposal to facilities to a new location proxi- relocate the Middlebury Town mate to the Middlebury Union Hall passed in a vote taken this Middle and High schools on Tuesday, March 4, 915 to 798. Creek Road. The language of the The decision comes after proposal is excerpted below. weeks of debate in the Middle- As outlined in the plan, the bury community as to the rela- - tive merits and drawbacks of the ational Facility will be demol- proposal. Proposal 6, the contro- ished and the parcel of land upon versial plan, represents an en- which it was built will become deavor to move the Middlebury the property of the College. Town Hall and the town’s recre- ation facilities from their current the Town of Middlebury will take location in between College and out a bond in the amount of $6.5 Main Street. million. Of that $6.5 million, the The plan calls for a relocation College has pledged to pay $4.5 - million of the up front costs and cation a few hundred feet across contribute a further million dol- the road from the current Town lars for relocation and demoli- tion costs of the current facilities. photo courtesy of middbeat site at 77 Main Street, and a relo- SEE CONTROVERSIAL, PAGE 6 relocated to a lot closer to Middlebury Union High School on Creek Road. For more, see Local, page 6. BEHIND MEET THE MAN MIDDLEBURY’S “12 VERMONT’S WHO BAKES 16,000 YEARS A SLAVE” PLASTIC BAG TAX COOKIES A DAY CONNECTION PAGE 7 PAGE 15 PAGE 18 inside 2NEWS | MARCH 6, 2014 Feminist SRI Hosts First Speaker Series By Anastasia Capatina - Action Day Another idea from the workshop was for — so that students could see this not only a desired industry. as a learning opportunity but also as a po- Seeks to to have to think about what they’re going - - The effort yielded the desired effect; the to do when they leave and it’s so reward- vestment as a tool for social change. ing for us to be able to know that students Empower a large number of students who are not - By Sam Simas attended other events. ni or parents that have a tie here and can to really give value to an average student - who doesn’t know about this or doesn’t involved with were meant to be small - events. They were very one-on-one inter- student group that people go to about this - ing more of our campus and really pulling Social Space. students in to help them become educated The Red Tent Foundation is helping to The week began with an Atwater din- look forward to working with the student sponsor the event with a grant. The Red The week also featured three lectures by enjoyable and successful when students supports female empowerment and com- minutes talking to him about what he had are interested in partnering with us. That’s munity. a really positive model and one that we Social Responsibility and Sustainability - - tor of mission-related investing at Cam- to give value to students in a concrete way. time to sit down and have meaningful con- - - that uses crowd funding to invest in en- - itors have been working over the course of said Associate Director for Career Services several months to put the event together. - - - been coming to the events not just because was impressed by the sense of community said. and caring that permeated the conference. - - their friends have been dragging them rived from a desire to appeal to a larger there but because it’s something they actu- felt — there were around 100 to 150 wom- - ally want to learn about and are interested wrote in an email. Pizza Oven Proposal Gets Cooking held at the College. There will be workshops By Day Robins ted substantial funds. nice social setting and has such an immedi- - Students Caitlin Haedrich ’16.5 and Lar- son Lovdal ’16.5 are imagining a whole new it encourages community between the com- kind of dining for the College. The duo has submitted a project proposal for an outdoor - work that Larson and Caitlin have done and other things. There is a variety of activities to entertain different types of attendees. built at the Organic Garden this summer. have really nice picnic tables and better - equipment to use with the oven. So we’re - schoolwork and spend a few hours indulg- in the Organic Garden since its beginning The oven’s location at the organic gar- To address the school’s safety and liabil- Vermont have already built outdoor wood- den will give it continuity and encourage - the key that locks the metal doors on the - bury community closer to locally grown shelter to the oven. They will also be the Holistic health practitioners Nicole food. point-people to contact for use of the oven. - Students who want to use the oven will have cause [cob ovens] get really hot and make Social Space to spearhead conversation at - - - erything tastes better because it cooks so using the oven. quickly so the outside gets really crispy be- Once the project is approved by the - - - be able to take more detailed steps such as picking the oven’s site at the organic gar- Scolton Farm’s cheese and Gleason Grains’ focus on the bonds of sisterhood and giving life to the creative force within ourselves also very multi-faceted. After you’ve made budget. has supported this project since its pro- Haedrich is hopeful that the space com- posal. mittee will approve the project in April. deepen their connection with their own Haedrich and Lovdel came up with the Construction on the oven and surrounding knowing and plant seeds of intention. There will be three other workshops on a similar oven in Haedrich’s hometown of sense to them that the farm would be the week so that it can be used by the end of best place for it because it’s just a really this summer. - - and some nights we’d show up and there’d be over 60 people from all across the com- the process of what it takes to build one - The building process of the oven itself only takes two days and can be made almost en- tirely from local materials. - - sourced and having so many recycled ma- of all ages. terials is that it’s a really low cost oven to Another important goal of the event is to include women from both the College plans on using recycled wine bottles as in- sulation. advertising for the event done in town. project manager at Nelson that we can use some of the concrete that was torn out from - ing community and is intergenerational; we The most challenging and costly part of construction will be the oven’s surrounding wood shelter. wrote Stevens. courtesy photo Ross and Cook commons are the main A mock-up of what the Organic Garden cob oven and shelter might look like. sponsors of the project and have commit- March 6, 2014 | News 3 Seven Students Arrested in Keystone Pipeline Protest By Aleck Silva-Pinto be arrested. It created an instant bond.” On Feb. 28, 12 Middlebury students After the two mile march, the group 12 travelled down to Washington D.C. for gathered in the park to hear five speak- participants XL Dissent, a student-organized protest ers. Bristol, who took last fall off to work from Midd

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not rely on it. One alternative to peer reporting, which the Economics department instituted for this semester, is professor-proctored exams. The survey indicated that 65 percent of respon- dents believe that proctors would decrease or greatly decrease cheating. But even if stu- From The dents agree that this would decrease cheat- ing, is this the answer to maintaining the in- President’s tegrity of the Honor Code? More than 50 percent of respondents thought exam proctoring would increase the Desk pressure of exams and 30 percent thought the presence of a professor during the exam BY RACHEL LIDDELL would decrease their performance. I, too, have philosophical qualms about proctors. If Andric Severance The Honor Code has received plenty professors proctor exams, the Honor Code is Paradiddles of press this year. From Jessica Cheung’s ultimately defeated. We admit that we can- Quartet “Cheating: Hardly A Secret” to the Editorial not monitor ourselves and that we do not FRIDAY 8:00-10:00pm Board’s “No Honor (Code) Among Us,” ar- value the Honor Code enough to uphold its Come support Middlebury’s all- THURSDAY 8:00-10:00pm most basic principle — that cheating is unac- ticles in the Campus have attempted to de- The Andric Severance Quartet performs ceptable in our community. Peer proctoring female a cappella group in a variety scribe the unspoken realities of academic life a sizzling stew of Latin, Afro-Cuban and at Middlebury. Most recently, Inside Higher places the responsibility of upholding the of musical styles–from R&B to classic Learning published an article entitled “The code on students. The implementation of rock to country. Brazilian jazz. Proctor is In.” The common assertion among proctors would show that we cannot manage these articles is that the Honor Code does not this responsibility. If students accepted re- work for students. Or, perhaps, that students sponsibility for our academic community, we Eight 02 do not work for the Honor Code. would render proctors unnecessary. Movie: Ratatouille This year, the SGA’s Honor Code Commit- Other solutions to rebuilding the Honor FRIDAY 8:00-11:00pm Code’s integrity exist. Most importantly, we, SATURDAY 8:00-10:00pm tee has worked to investigate this phenom- Come join us in celebrating French Eight 02 is a post-Bop contemporary jazz enon. The committee conducted a survey to as students, need to take the Honor Code se- fusion group with a particular knack for gather information on the perception of the riously. Although it’s tempting to blame the cuisine during Food and Globaliza- Honor Code and analyzed more than 750 re- lapse in academic integrity on professorial improvisational risk-taking. Their sound sponses from the student body. Over 60 per- failings, more than 90 percent of students has been described as a mix of contem- claimed that their professors take the Hon- “Ratatouille” cent of respondents either agree or strongly porary jazz with a decidedly fresh fusion agree that the Honor Code is an essential part or Code to heart. In order to truly revitalize of their experience at the College, suggesting the Honor Code, the message needs to come Late Night Karaoke that abandoning the Code is not the answer. from us. Reminders on syllabi and before exams are necessary, but they will only take SATURDAY 11:30pm-2:00am us so far. The Honor Code seems to have ex- Crazy Hearse faults in how the Honor Code is upheld at the Join us for a night of special talent College. Perhaps the most striking feedback perienced a fall in reputation. Originally a SATURDAY 9:00pm-12:00am from the survey concerned peer reporting. student-run code, now it suffers from a lack and fun at Late Night Karaoke A majority of the survey’s respondents do of coolness and social currency. The Honor Featuring Middlebury’s own David Kloep- not value peer reporting nor the requirement Code was originally, and still is, driven by fer (Guitar, Banjo and Vocals) and local students. If we want it to stay it that way, we to report it. More than 85 percent responded legends, Billy Dorsey (Bass and Vocals), that they were neutral or disagreed with the need to remember why we value the Honor and Corey Many (Drums and Vocals) will idea that the peer reporting requirement is Code and what it means to our academic lives followed by the majority of students. This as students of Middlebury College. We need perform hits from their four original al- data clearly communicates that the peer- to start discussing the Honor Code seriously; bums along with a strategic dash of cover only in this manner can we rebuild its legiti- reporting element of the Honor Code is not tunes. An intoxicating blend of Americana, working; students do not believe that their macy and further its success. peers will report them if they are in violation Punk Rock, and Transylvanian folklore, of the Honor Code. Furthermore, students do Email me at [email protected] if Crazyhearse has been labeled everything not follow the obligation to peer report. you have ideas about how to strength- en the Honor Code, if you think we from rural industrial to swamp rock to Put simply, if students do not have con- gothic folkabilly. should use proctors or if you think we mechanism of the Honor Code, then we can- should just give up already. 4NEWS | march 6, 2014 Hillel Hosts Music Collective By Christian Jambora MCAB’s WHAT’S Heartbeat — a collective of young Israe- li and Palestinian musicians — performed HAPPENING AT in the McCullough Social Space on Feb. 27 as a part of their 2014 U.S. tour. Through music, the group shared with audience MIDDLEBURY? members a message of mutual peace and understanding. Free Friday Film “I believe deeply that music holds in- Space Jam will play in Dana Auditorium credible power to bring people together, AT 6 P.M. AND 9 P.M. to open us up to each other and to express ourselves in a powerful way,” said Heart- beat Founder and Executive Director Aar- on Schneyer. Heartbeat is based in Israel and was created by Schneyer in 2007 after he re- ceived a Fulbright-mtvU award. Since its inception, the organization has expanded into three chapters and worked with over a hundred musicians. Heartbeat’s visit to the College was organized by Shelby Friedman ’16, who daniella silva serves as the Israel Chair for Middlebury The Heartbeat music group performed in McCullough Social Space on Feb. 27. Hillel. The group criticized the construction of Gefen was imprisoned for seven months the Israeli West Bank Barrier in “The after refusing to be a combat soldier in the [Associate Chaplain] Rabbi Ira Schiffer,” Wall.” In “City Rising,” Heartbeat mem- Israeli Army. Friedman said in an interview. “From bers sang, “Governments are like building “A lot of Israelis will attack me for there, I reached out to them, and it turned walls while corporations take control.” standing up with the Palestinians,” Gefen YOGA out they were already planning a tour in Throughout the show, band members said. “People think I’m a traitor for being Stretch out and breathe deep in Proctor New England.” shared messages about the current situa- with the enemy.” Basement! Friedman had been seeking a way to tion in Israel and Palestine. On performing with “the enemy” for the FRIDAY 1:30-2:30 P.M. bring people together and create a more “[Heartbeat] is dealing with this con- cooperative tone in conversations about to use music to communicate with some- MCAB TRIVIA NIGHT Israel and Palestine — Heartbeat, she real- said guitarist and vocalist Guy Gefen. “We one I don’t even share a language with.” Test your useless knowledge at Cross- ized, could provide that. are understanding together that this is Music is Heartbeat’s tool for uniting roads! Alcohol available for those 21+ “I think this show appeals to a lot of with two forms of I.D. - THURSDAY AT 9 P.M. people,” Friedman said. “To Jewish stu- ians] to solve. It is for both of us to create The organization hopes to create a better, dents on campus, music lovers, people peace together.” safer, and more just future not only for Is- Gefen is one of Heartbeat’s oldest rael and Palestine but also for the entire ZUMBA music.” Take a study break to dancercize in Mc- members and joined when he was sixteen world. Cullough Social Space! The concert featured original songs per- - “We try to make our instruments loud- SUNDAY 4-5 P.M. formed in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. er than the guns,” Shneyer said. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE HERE?

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To learn more, visit BENTLEY.EDU/GRADUATE local Controversial Town Hall Proposal Passes cized atmosphere. minute time limit. Continued from front page. At the door, an organization of oppo- One objector nents of the proposal called “Middlebury “request[ed] that Currently, the College plans to create a Residents for Preserving our Municipal the moderator be park in the space, but plans are preliminary removed for not one-sentence reasons to vote NO on article following his own the audience that the community would re- 6.” rules.” main involved as designs for the space are Jim Douglas, former Vt. governor Douglas con- drawn up. and Executive in Residence at the College, travened by indi- In the weeks prior to Monday’s Town moderated the event, which alternated cating that the two- Hall meeting, debate approached a fever between tones of rancor and conciliation minute time limit pitch. throughout the night. had been instituted Due to the incredible volume of letters In the interest of broadening the dis- for the comments received by Middlebury’s newspaper, the cussion and hearing as many voices as pos- portion of the pro- Addison County Independent, editor and sible, Douglas proposed a cap of two min- ceedings and not Conor Grant publisher Angelo Lynn had to issue a state- utes for personal comments, a measure to for the presenters, a Town Hall was packed Tuesday with concerned local residents. ment limiting readers to the submission of which the townspeople agreed heartily. a single letter each in the time leading up to What proceeded were a number of in- by the townspeople. stressed that it represented a “pragmatic” the Town Meeting. troductions to and expositions on the pro- Arguments against the proposal fo- approach rather than an “idealistic” ap- Similarly, numerous residents have posal. These presentations represented the cused on the rushed time-frame, the myo- proach. Middlebury residents questioned produced lawn signs, bumper stickers, and sixth public informational session about pic nature of the real-estate sale, and the the integrity of the decaying Town Hall pins emblazoned with slogans like “Save the proposal, and supplemented the nu- exclusion of local citizens in the planning structure and stressed that changes must the Gym!” and “Don’t Sell the Heart of merous tours of the aging facility that had process. be made to the building before someone Middlebury.” been offered to Middlebury residents in re- “The proposal favors expediency over gets hurt. At Monday’s meeting, the 280 voting cent weeks. quality,” argued Middlebury resident Monday’s debate represented the most Middlebury residents who checked into the Opponents of the proposal objected to Adam Franco at the Town Meeting. recent public-forum debate over the pro- meeting arrived at the discussion — which the length of the presentations, claiming Another Middlebury resident likened posal to relocate the Town Hall structure, took place in the decaying Town Hall build- that the presenters had exceeded their two- the rift between townspeople to “an infect- but by no means the only public discussion. ing itself — to discover an unusually politi- ed wound,” and described proposal six as On Feb. 25, more than 400 citizens and a short-term “band-aid” when the commu- stake-holders packed the auditorium of the nity really needed an “antiseptic” to solve Middlebury Union High School for an acri- the problem in the long term. monious debate at the School Board’s An- nual Meeting and Budget Hearing. all of the commentary was offered by At this budget hearing, the voters chose Middlebury townspeople opposed the pro- to authorize the lease of the land on Creek posal. Addison County Independent editor Road to the Town of Middlebury by a mar- and publisher, Angelo Lynn, described this gin of 306-118. This action set the stage for vociferous group a few weeks ago as a “very Proposal 6 at the Middlebury Town Meet- vocal minority,” implying his opinion that ing by imbuing the town with the authority a silent majority of Middlebury townspeo- to use the land on Creek Road for the new ple supported the proposal from the begin- proposed recreational facilities. ning. Now that the vote is complete, the At the end of the meeting, however, a town estimates that the construction will number of citizens took the microphone to begin in Sept. 2014, with an expected date express their support for the proposal. of completion to be set for Aug. 2015. Conor Grant A display helped residents at Tuesday’s meeting picture the proposed renovations. Arguments in favor of the proposal One in 8,700

By Jenevra Wetmore father took him to the 1939 World’s Fair. The force required to play the in- For Matthews Jr., the carillon is For most of us the Mead Chapel bells Sitting atop his shoulders, Matthew Jr. strument mandates that Matthew Jr. hit “part of the acoustic environment of are background noise to our daily activi- remembers watching “what looked like the wooden keys with his entire hand. He Middlebury.” He always leaves the door ties, so when we hear them ringing our to me an incredibly old man with a long leans in slightly to compensate, and the unlocked while he plays as an invita- impulse is not to stop and listen. Accord- white beard who was pounding away… clunking noises tion to student visitors. ingly, one might take for granted the im- and it made the most glorious racket. I of the keys are as Meet Matthew performs tunes mense skill of George Matthew Jr., the thought ‘I want to do that some day.’” much a part of the ranging from Samuel College’s carillon player. His passion for the carillon contin- music as the bells George Matthew Barber and Menotti to The carillon, which is often mistaken ued during his education at Columbia. above. Jr. ragtime music every for bells, is the largest type of percussion Riverside Church, just down the street Matthew Jr. week, always ending with instrument in the world. The Middlebury from the University, housed the largest was the first Amer- Middlebury College Carilloneur Middlebury’s alma ma- College carillon sits at the top of a narrow carillon in the world at the time. ican to play caril- ter. 75-foot staircase in the steeple of Mead The great Dutch carillonneur, Lefe- lon in Russia, and Although Matthew is Chapel. vre, was playing at Colombia at the time, has toured numerous times throughout 78, he is not quite ready to retire from his Each key is a rounded wooden le- so Matthew Jr. arranged his class sched- Europe and the United States. Still, he post as carillonneur for both Middlebury ver that, when struck, pulls a wire that ule around hearing him play. Lefevre told isn’t upset when I tell him that many stu- College and Norwich University. causes a clapper to strike a bell. a disappointed Matthew Jr. that he didn’t dents think the music they hear is auto- “I’ve tried (to retire) several times The resulting sound echoes across give lessons. mated or recorded. and I’ve come back several times ... I’ve campus and beyond. For this reason, Undeterred, Matthews Jr. considers “If you hear the bells a real live per- been playing this fifty-two years,” said Matthew Jr. regards himself “as not only himself a ‘student’ of Lefevre. “I listened son is playing...it’s either me or one of my Matthew, “… and I just love to play the the college carillonneur, but the town to him so much and studied his style ... students,” he states. carillon.” carillonneur...it’s a town instrument.” I always tell people that I studied with Matthew has been the carillonneur Lefevre but he didn’t know it.” at Middlebury College for twenty-eight Matthew Jr.’s relationship with years, and also plays the carillon for Nor- Middlebury College began when the col- wich Univeristy. He has been playing for lege’s choir director needed a carillon 52 years, and has composed and made demonstration, and asked Matthew Jr. arrangements of over one hundred com- to perform. After the performance, Mat- positions for the massive instrument. thew Jr. met with the President of the A graduate of Columbia University, Board of Trustees of the College, who the University of Bridgeport and Wesley- agreed to finance Matthew Jr.’s dream: an University in different degrees, Mat- a four-octave carillon. He soon moved to thew Jr. worked in chemical research for Middlebury. fifteen years after graduation. Watching him play in the intimate This was before, “music kind of took and drafty room at the top of the chapel over,” he recalled. “I decided, ‘I won’t steeple, it’s easy to forget the public- fight this any longer,’ and I went into mu- ity his songs get. This is the paradox of sic full time.” He was 35 years old when the carillon: it is played in solitude but, he gave up his career in science and went as Matthew Jr. reminded me, “you never back to school to earn a Masters in music. know when you’re playing, are there two Matthew’s passion for the carillon people listening or two-hundred? You Jaiyi ZHu began at the age of four when his grand- don’t know.” George Matthew Jr. has been playing the carillon at Middlebury for 28 years. | March 6, 2013 Local 7 Local 10-Cent Bag Tax Bill Debate 6 Heats up at Vt. State Senate lowdown Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration By Garrett Brann over the state’s recent litter- Earlier the current session, State Sen. ing problems. Theodor Geisel (known affectionately as Robert Hartwell introduced a bill that Vermont is currently one - would impose a a 10-cent fee on all dispos- of eight states considering able shopping bags at Vermont retailers. legislation that would limit Center will reenact “The Lorax” and will The bill would also prohibit the sale the use of plastic bags. Ma- lead a discussion about the destruction and distribution of non-recyclable bags, and jor cities such as Washington of the environment, focused on healthy ensure that the all bags meet certain envi- D.C., San Francisco and Los bodies and healthy growth. Come share ronmental standards. Angeles have also enacted in the celebration of this brilliant writer’s The majority of the fee would pass into bag taxes in the past several legacy! 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Watch Toss the Feathers, Bob Hartwell “We have a lot of members who are concerned not in California, Washington a folk/rock band, at 2 p.m. Proceeds will Vermont State Senator very concerned about adding a new tax or only with eas- and Massachusetts. Ac- fee on their customers,” said Harrison. Sim- ing pressure cording to the National House Society to restore the meeting ilar bills have been proposed in the past, but on stressed Conference of State Leg- house. For more information call (802)- never approved. If instituted, the tax will islatures, these states aim to ban all single- 453-5227 begin in July, 2015. litter reduction. use bags completely. Hartwell expects his committee to vote “When you see plastic bags as litter, it’s Jim Harrison, president of the Ver- on the bill later this week, saying that an Paula Poundstone Performing a little different — it’s hanging out of a tree, mont Grocers’ Association, acknowledges amendment, to reduce the fee to 5-cents, is it’s stuck on a guardrail, it’s on somebody’s that cutting down on non-reusable bag use The world reknowned comedian will per- likely. car,” says Hartwell as he voices concern is in the retailers’ best interest, but he wor- form at Town Hall Theater this Saturday! Poundstone is famous for her comedy, acting, and currently as a commentator Vt. High School Students Are Now Tickets to the event are 56 dollars, and can be ordered by calling the theater at (802)-382-9222

Able to Enroll in College Full-time MAR. 8, 8:30 – 10:30 PM By Alessandria Schumacher lows students to earn college credit. Students The union that reresents college educa- Within 16 months of graduation, only 60 in this program during the summer can enroll tors in Vermont, the American Federation of St. Peter’s Parish Breakfast percent of Vermont’s high school graduates in courses on campus and online. The credit Teachers, has called for an increase of state enroll in post-secondary education. In an ef- is transferable throughout several schools in funding for higher education over the next 10 St. Peter’s Parish Hall will host a deli- fort to increase attendance, Vermont Gover- the state. years. cious breakfast of eggs, omelets, hotcakes, French toast, bacon, sausage, and other nor Peter Shumlin introduced his early start The Academy’s newly expanded Ver- The organization recommends funding yummy foods. Come on down with the degree program this December, which allows mont Dual Enrollment Program allows stu- for 51 percent of state tuition costs, a return whole family to enjoy a hearty and joyous high school seniors to enroll at one of six Ver- dents to enroll in two courses without paying to the level funded by the state in 1980. The breakfast! The Knights of Columbus will mont colleges to earn college credit. tuition. Governer Shumlin has also launched state currently funds about eight percent of lead the event, which will also include a Community College of Vermont (CCV), Personalized Learning Plans to help students UVM’s tuition and 12 percent of VSC’s tuition. Burlington College, Vermont Technical Col- create individualized paths to post-secondary “What we have seen in recent years is a education. huge cost shift onto the backs of students and lege, Castleton State, Johnson State, and Lyn- MAR. 9, 8 – 10 AM don State will all be participating in the early Ideally, the new Early Start Degree Pro- families,” said Senator Anthony Pollina P/D start degree program. gram will reduce payments equivalent to a of Washington. year’s worth of tuition. Funding typically al- Vermont currently faces a budged gap Each school except for the community Green Mountain Club Hike lotted to high schools is now directed toward of approximately 75 million dollars, and the tuition costs for the students enrolled in col- governor would not say when funds could in- three years. Tim Donovan, the chancellor of If you’re anything like me, you love lege classes that is equal to about 87 percent crease. the Vermont State Colleges (VSC), expects of the full tuition cost, excluding room and Because of this lack of available funds, around 240 students to enroll. AND the pristine winters. What better Despite having the highest graduation board. rising tuition costs and the low rate of college way to enjoy them than a two-mile hike rate in the nation at roughly 90 percent, Ver- Dan Smith, VSC director of community completion, the Early Start Degree Program around the frozen lake in Salisbury? Hik- mont’s college enrollment rate is the lowest in relations and public policy, said that tuition at “is good, old Vermont creativity,” said Shum- ers should bring snowshoes if conditions New England. Of the students who enroll in CCV is fully covered in this program because lin. merit, and crampons if necessary. Contact college, just half complete a degree during the it is less than the per student cost of high He believes it will be effective because it the leader, David Andrews, at (802)-388- next four years. school education. recognizes, “that the money we have is in short 4894 for more information about the time The University of Vermont Summer Although the early enrollment program supply, that we all need to be more innovative and place. Academy (VSC), a four-week program open reduces higher education costs, it is not an al- in achieving our goals of getting more high to high school juniors and seniors, now al- ternative to increased funding for state higher school students training beyond high school.” MAR. 9 education, Shumlin stated.

THE CAMPUS + THE INTERNET NEWS, LOCAL, OPINIONS, FEATURES, SPORTS, ARTS & SCIENCES IT’S ALL THERE. LOG ON. www.middleburycampus.com opinions An Easy Win for Athletics You cannot use the word “faggot” and involved in athletics, either at the club Such facilitated conversations and some level of participation from the not mean it offensively. You cannot say or varsity level. As such a large part of should reach more students. For starters, athletics department should happen every “no homo” around your friends and say our school, Middlebury needs to utilize suggesting two players from each team year. It should also be extended to other it doesn’t matter because this arena to investigate and combat attend is too small a sample. Five members, student organizations. Homophobia does none of you are gay. You homophobia. As athletes make up such or even a percentage of a team, should not exist solely in athletics. editorial cannot claim that because a large portion of the student body, they have to attend. They should then bring Homophobia is not a problem that The editorial “some of your best friends are in a unique position to lead the way in the discussion back to their teams to make goes away overnight. Combating it requires represents the are gay,” that you are an sure the conversation doesn’t end in that constant vigilance and increased awareness, ally. Last Tuesday, Queers & not meant to blame athletes for having a room. These discussions could occur when and this duty does not fall solely onto the The Middlebury Allies and the SGA Athletic higher incidence of intolerance than the coaches are not around so the discussion LGBTQA community. For both homophobia Campus as Committee co-sponsored rest of us. Whether they do or do not is can be as honest as possible. One way to and other discriminatory issues on this decided by the an event to combat these something too intangible to measure. But integrate this is to have coaches dedicate campus, this format of discussion spreads editorial board. issues in athletics entitled these discussions are good in themselves, the responsibility to where it should fall — to “Homophobia in Athletics”. for any large group of people. homophobia the day after the event. all members of the Middlebury community The event, inspired by Wade Davis’ recent By telling stories about their own Coaches should also take themhelm regardless of talk at the College, drew 97 student athletes. sexualities, organizers Katie Linder ’15 in combating homophobia on their teams. identity. Sixty percent of our student body is and James Clifford ’14.5 set an honest tone No efforts will be truly effective until for the event. Splitting into small groups coaches recognize and assume their role. separated from teammates furthered While coaches are not necessarily part this goal by creating a non-judgmental of the “locker room” culture, they are environment. This format countered responsible for making their teams a editorial board the traditional large panel or classroom safe space and must be attuned discussions that set a high barrier to entry to the many ways homophobia EDITOR-IN-CHIEF in such personal conversations, similar to can manifest. To jump start Kyle Finck JusTalks or Midd Uncensored. In a year this, the athletics department MANAGING EDITOR where the community has struggled for should run a similar workshop Alex Edel BUSINESS MANAGER productive conversations, this should set a just for coaches, emphasizing Sydney Larkin precedent for future discussions. their role in this effort. NEWS EDITORS We recommend that this event, or This event was student run Emily Singer, Nate Sans, Ellie Reinhardt, similar events, become a regular, yearly and no coaches, administrators Eliza Teach, Claire Abbadi occurrence. Students turn over every four or faculty members were OPINIONS EDITORS years, but homophobia carries on and is present. While this presents an Hannah Bristol, not a problem that will be resolved in a opportunity for unprecedented Edward O’Brien, Isaac Baker day. The admirable student leaders of this openness among athletes, the SPORTS EDITORS event will not be here forever, and it falls athletics department needs to Alex Morris, Joe MacDonald, Fritz Parker to the administration and younger student play a more active role. A similar amr thameen LOCAL EDITORS leaders to pick up where they left off. event with a larger audience Harry Cramer, Conor Grant FEATURES EDITORS Jessica Cheung, Isabelle Stillman, Emilie Munson Why I was arrested this weekend ARTS AND SCIENCE EDITORS Ben Anderson, Leah Lavigne What do you want to do when you to, this course of action seems silly. you not joined a club because you were PHOTOS EDITORS graduate? Although I only have a year left, Why would you risk arrest? Aren’t you afraid it wouldn’t be seen as “cool”? Anthea Viragh, Paul Gerard, Rachel Frank, that question is quickly joining the list I too am guilty. The path we’ve Michael O’Hara of things strangers ask you when you’ve do your parents think? (For the record, been set on is narrow, and deviating is DESIGN EDITOR just met them my parents are the best and have been scary. But not doing what you love is Olivia Allen and they have totally supportive, if a little taken aback.) even scarier. With a constant barrage CARTOON EDITOR Notes from nothing left Putting aside the fact that my arrest was of metrics, from grades to standardized Nolan Ellsworth to say. The the most privileged view of our criminal tests, we’re constantly subject to the ONLINE EDITORS the desk answer is system one could get — it reminded hierarchy of what society decides is Greg Woolston, Maggie Cochrane, Hannah Bristol ’14.5 is that I have no me of the programs for parents to send valuable. Some of us succeed in this — Ellie Alldredge an Opinions Editor from idea. When I their troubled kids to jail for a night to our goals align with the goals set out COPY EDITORS Falls Church, Va. think about scare them straight — this was a risk for us — but for many, this push and Dan Bateyko, Sarah Sicular how much I worth taking, regardless of the career pull gnaws away as you grapple with a THE CAMPUS VOICE HOSTS have changed every year since I arrived consequences or judgment of others. I Ian Stewart, Greta Neubauer here, the prospect of thinking that far want an employer who thinks it’s cool questioning. The Opinions pages of The Middlebury Campus ahead seems laughable. No matter what I was arrested for civil disobedience But you never know what will provide a forum for constructive and respectful I say to my parents’ friends or curious anyways, and the potential repercussions happen when you take a risk and dialogue on substantive issues. With this in mind, professors, even by tomorrow the answer on my life are minute compared to the let your passion guide you. And if I The Campus reserves the right to deny publication will probably have changed. effects the construction of Keystone were an employer, I would hire the of all or part of a submission for any reason. This But I’ve always believed that being XL will have on frontline communities passionate and enthusiastic kid with includes, but is not limited to: the making of as- passionate is half the battle. And I mean from Alberta to Houston and the climate a few bumps on the road than the sertions based on hearsay; the relation of private real passion, for I think we often confuse impacts we will face for generations. kid with the immaculate record (not conversations; the libelous mention of unverifi- able events; the use of vulgar language or per- it with just anything you do. I mean the But too often, we get hung up on limited to criminal records). Because sonal attacks. Any segment of a submitted article passion where you will go 110 percent the conveyor belt consequences, the the vulnerability of doing what you love that contains any of the aforementioned will be even when you think you’ve reached your preconceived notion of what we are teaches lessons that will last far longer removed before publication. Contributors will limit. supposed to be doing as students at than that Calc class you took. 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Design assitance by Julia Hatheway nolan ellsworth | march 6, 2014 opinions9 The Mid-Midd Crisis I had the unique opportunity of have such attentive parents. I had no game, actual game, post-game, Grille, this (and I am by no means out of my speaking at The Moth this past Thurs- clear answers for them though. Nothing sleep, wake up at 1, rinse and repeat. mid-Midd crisis) I would start with day (the Moth, for those of you who seemed particularly wrong; my grades The trouble is that upon hitting the people. Yes, people. When we count don’t know, is a live story telling event were good, my friends were good and mid-Midd crisis, we cannot buy our- our blessings here, it usually comes in held in the - selves a Porsche and drive across Amer- the form of beautiful buildings, brilliant Gamut Room). ing was bothering me and nothing was ica. Nope, we are still stuck here, going professors and a point free dining sys- the The experi- making me excited. The emotional pla- through the paces of a college experi- tem. Rarely do we look to our peers as ence proved teau I hit mid-college was odd to experi- ence that has stopped surprising us. The sources of inspiration or uniqueness. unpopular to be extraor- ence and even odder to get away from. worst thing anyone can feel about col- Expanding our social circles is never a dinarily fun We change as time goes by here, or lege is that they are wasting their time. bad thing and gives us new avenues to opinion and exciting, at least I hope we do. We get smarter, Apathy and boredom are our greatest re-invention. There is nothing wrong Andrew DeFalco ’15.5 yet I realized enemies here, not alcohol or midterms. with aspiring to be like our peers, is from Toronto, Canada. something as I So what is left for us to do? We have whether it be trying to recapture under- stood up there in terms of our academic interests. Yet to confront the age-old riddle of “Here classman enthusiasm or the reserved recounting my tale. The loudest laughs, there are dangerous pitfalls at this stage I stand. What shall I do?” That is the intellect of seniors in our classes. Often the greatest applauses, the most visible of the college experience just as there only question that matters. What is to we hesitate, perhaps out of pride, to ex- signs of excitement all came from a par- were at the beginning, and I am sure be done? We may love our routines, but emplify profoundly good qualities we ticular group. It was the latest batch of there will be towards the end. Enthusi- even so, they should be broken at times. see in other people. baby Febs who had shown up and be- asm wanes and Middlebury becomes, in Can we change ourselves? Or must we Experience has to be the second yond all logic seemed generally atten- a sense, disenchanting. Classes seem to rely on familiar faces, classes and expe- component of escaping the mid-Midd tive to what I had to say. blur together and academic life follows riences? Why not give something else a crisis. Change for the sake of change is Now I do not mean to judge Febs as a predictable routine. Even weekends shot? often thought of as bad, in terms of the stereotypically more enthusiastic. Af- seem deeply scheduled procedures, pre- If I were to prescribe a remedy to college experience, however, I disagree. ter all, we are all excited Sometimes change for the about being in college sake of change is neces- sary, even if it turns out truth, my fascination was for the worse. Better we less a product of them make a mistake now, sur- (sorry, Febs) than of an rounded by great institu- internal trouble. Here I tions and people, than was two years into college later, no? Changing our and what had happened everyday experience may to all my enthusiasm? My be as simple as conscien- genuine optimism? My tiously making discussion eagerness to participate? sections about the group Had I even had any of and not the individual, that to begin with? going out of your way to I am convinced the say hi to people you have mid-Midd crisis is a thing. just met or, in my case, It happened to me slowly, telling a story about Glit- quietly, and so subtly that ter at the Moth. I did not even notice it. The mid-Midd crisis No, it was my parents that can leave us jaded and noticed. They pulled me apathetic if we let it run aside a couple times and its course. If we see it and asked vague questions acknowledge it, then at like “How are things?” “Is least we have a chance to anything bothering you?” make our middle chap- and “You seem off?” With ters at Middlebury just as mental illness now get- profound, just as exciting ting the awareness it deserves, I am lucky to Charlotte fairless here. Choose Your Words Carefully We need to change the way we in- loud, our vocabularies can be limited, ments and quirks cannot be replicated himself and will treat others in a way teract with each other. Words are dis- but our words can still carry countless on a computer screen. An online per- more indicative of who they are. connected from speech, and the sub- different meanings. An incomprehen- sonality is therefore fated to be a crude Each line of text we type is meant to sequent loss of sible grunt can convey dozens of differ- shadow of the self. express something. But so much evoca- emotion, ratio- ent emotions. Based on intonation, the Words can change this. Just as a tive power is lost by removing intona- echos nality, and in- same sentence can be sincere, insulting, character in a novel can feel lifelike and tion and pitch that that expression is Alex Newhouse ’17 is tent that comes sarcastic, self-deprecating, joyful, mel- real, so too can a person seem alive and often ineffective. In the ease of online from Boulder, Colo. with them has ancholic, or whatever else. The rise and true online. Choosing the words to de- communication we forget how dynamic harmed all of fall of pitch is what truly defines our scribe something shapes characteris- words are. A sentence typed flippantly our relationships. meaning when we talk. Words are often tics. The more varied a vocabulary, the can be perceived seriously. Someone But everyone has heard the prophe- secondary. deeper the person appears. As a person- attempting to make a joke can just as cies of the end of all meaningful inter- But when we write, intonation ality develops, it is far easier to view him easily insult their audience. But just as action, how society has become so far does not exist. Nothing matters but the or her as a real person, and not just a authors are able to control their mean- removed from any physical connection words. As a result, it becomes much line of text. The real danger in online in- ing through their word choice, we can is lost in the hollowness of words. Or, as more difficult to illustrate emotion. teraction is anonymity. People feel like control them online. When we choose some say so eloquently: the internet is What a sentence sounds like in a mind they can get away with saying anything our words deliberately, we bring more terrible, get off your phone. is not a representation of what it sounds and often do not fully comprehend that of ourselves into our interactions. I’m not writing this to say that. I’m like typed. there is a human behind the name and a child of the internet age as much as No one would disagree that authors picture on the screen. This separation anyone in my generation. I love it and can often evoke emotion purely from of online name and real-world person everything it enables me to do. If any- the words they use. Anyone who has happens subconsciously all the thing, I would recommend that we use ever taken an English class and ana- time, and few are able to the internet more. Contribute to it, lyzed a poem knows that a single word avoid it. But when one make it a better place and expand our can have several different definitions diversifies and online “personality”. and a dozen different connotations. A e x p a n d s What I argue now, though, is that phrase on a page can objectively mean one’s on- we need to find a way to eliminate those the same thing but carry an entirely line per- quotation marks around “personality”. different weight depending on the syn- sonal to A presence on the internet must become onyms chosen. b e t t e r fully fleshed-out and dynamic. A digital If we were to deliberately choose r e f l e c t personality should have just as many our words, then it is reasonable to as- oneself, it facets and shades as a physical one. The sume that textual conversations could does not internet problem is not one of overuse, become much more deep and expres- matter if but of misuse. It is not that we are too sive. We need to play with words and the screen entrenched in online interaction, but the structure of our sentences, experi- name is that those interactions are static and ment with the punctuation and expand real or flat. our vocabularies so that the feelings in- not. The This is an understandable product grained in each word, and not just the myth of of the rapid integration of the internet definition, convey our meaning. anonym- into our lives, but it is certainly not per- The verbal carelessness we have ity is gone. manent. When we gained the capability right now is why our online personali- A person of ubiquitous digital conversation, we ties are so superficial. So much of our will gen- lost a crucial element of vocal speech: individuality comes from our physical erally act the ability to be lazy. When we speak out presence. Our facial expressions, move- more like Jena Ritchey 10opinions march 6, 2014 | Jared Leto and the Thought Police tary on this notion I’d recommend you cars aren’t segregated. Whether you read Harry Zieve Cohen’s “In Defense agree or disagree with their conclu- of EUR” from last week’s Campus. The sion is your call, but to call agreement activism — if retweets and blog posts racist is absurd. can be called activism — of Middle- To believe that bury doesn’t accept this, however. The someone is racist Citizen Kanye activism of Middlebury labels every- is to believe that Nathan Weil ’15 is from thing, like a fetish. Jared Leto isn’t an empathy is im- Geneva, Switzerland. samantha wood actor, he’s a straight white male. possible and at- But not all labels are created tempts at empathy are fundamentally Within minutes above all, human. equally. Michael B. Jordan isn’t from wrong. But the liberals I’m describing of Jared Leto taking In Hannah Arendt’s On Revolu- Baltimore and he never sold drugs, don’t really believe this, it’s too abso- the stage to accept the tion, the philosopher considers the yet no one questioned his portrayal of lute for their taste. No, there is a catch award for Best Sup- relative advantages of different struc- Wallace, a young dealer in The Wire. to this rule: it only holds when the porting Actor at this tures of government. At one point she When Ellen Page came out last month people from a class of supposed power year’s Oscars, there seeks the help of poets for “[they] but no one asked why she had played attempt empathy. was a predictable, yet embody in verse those exaltations of a straight girl in Juno. Surely, they There is a bizarre assumption that no less inane, post on my newsfeed sentiment that a nature [...], the op- should be lauded for their work. So people who are white, male, straight in protest of his win. It was a link portunity being given, vitalizes into why not Leto? or, put simply, cis-anything, do not to an article titled, “10 Actors Who acts.” In other words, poetry — and The loudest voices in liberal ac- have the capacity for empathy. True Could Have Played Jared Leto’s Role we can extend this to art at large — tivism place unrivaled importance on liberalism rejects this, of course. Con- in ‘Dallas Buyers Club”, accompanied can help us to understand those ideas the notion of experience. That people sider affirmative action. One of the by a caption that was as simple as it which may not be tangible or realiz- of different classes — classes here un- main tenants of affirmative action is was smug: “yup”. In the run-up to this able. It is this power which makes art derstood as anything from race and that it benefits everyone, not just those weekend’s ceremony, Leto received a so important. It is this power which income level to gender and religion — who it helps bring to the table. We can slew of criticism for being a cisgender compels us to invest so much time in can never think in the same way is an learn from each other, we were built male actor who took on the role of a the creation and consumption of art. axiom of such twisted liberalism. Dur- for it. Art is one of the oldest and most trans woman, some comparing his This isn’t a new idea. Indeed, it ing a Gamut Room debate freshman tested manifestations of this fact. It’s performance to blackface. While Leto lives at the very core of why we are all year, two of my friends were accused time we recognize that everyone has did wear make up and dresses, it was here, why we have all chosen to pursue of racism for arguing that American something to contribute to the conver- not transface. Quite to the contrary, an education in the liberal arts. For a society is better for blacks now that sation; homogeny need no longer be it was impassioned, empathetic and better and more nuanced commen- water fountains, bathrooms and train- our lingua franca. Things We Won’t Tolerate How to be a Flake Last week, our fellow editor Ed- comfortable about making sexual pass- I’m sorry, I totally spaced out can It was a combination funeral recep- ward O’Brien ’17 wrote an interesting es at people when it’s not wanted? you say that again? Something about tion-birthday party. Notes from the Desk calling out a group Olivia: Yeah. I mean, I guess I your dying pet? Someone is having I am so sorry I didn’t meet you for of straight don’t think anyone should be able to a birthday party? I wasn’t listening. the improve M i d d l e b u r y just go up to someone and grind their What do you think the back of my show; I fell fake science Notes from guys who ver- genitals on them. And it’s not all that head looks like to that boy by the soda asleep in one Eliza Wallace ’14 is from bally berated different from my being angry with machine? of the blue the desk Shepherdstown, W. Va. men who tried some guy making cat calls at women on Olivia Allen ’15 is I don’t think I can make it, but chairs in the to dance with the street is it? have fun! Why? Well. Ok, listen, library. No, not the ones in Bi Hall; a Design Editor from them at a Q&A Fritz: Exactly. My point is that I buddy. Your a cappella concert or that atrium is too drafty. The chairs in Charlottesville, Va. (Queers and think that more of us should be telling acoustic guitar jam or whatever is the Davis Family Library. Yes, it was Fritz Parker ’15 is Allies) party, people who make unsolicited sexual ad- pretty far away from my bed and it is a reclining one. I don’t know; I got a Sports Editor from telling them to vances to “fuck off.” Those two words go cold/icy/snowy/rainy and the Midd there early. If you get there early, you Arlington, Va. “f--k off.” We pretty far towards sending the message Rides dispatcher is AWOL and you’re can snag one. Three hours. Yes, that were talking that overtly sexual attention — at least just not worth the trek. long. That’s never happened to you? about that situation that Edward pre- in the context of a sweaty dance party — I literally When I woke sented and think that the conversation would rather “I’m sorry I missed your up the windows we ended up having hit on an issue that message transcends the boundaries of stand in line at were dark and all we at Middlebury spend a lot of time - the Mail Center Symposium presentation, my dreams came thinking around, yet never seem to talk ing is never the move. End of story. for the rest of but I would rather Oedipus rushing back. about. What follows is our (corny) at- my life than at- my eyeballs than watch one My sister was a tempt to recreate that conversation: So the point of us typing up our tend this 8 a.m. pirate, a cabal of relatively casual conversation for you Renaissance po- more powerpoint.” merry Russian Fritz: Yeah. So. What do you think? all to read is to deconstruct the ideas etry lecture. So Satanists drank Olivia: I think he has a point be- that Edward brought up and the reac- let’s call it sick. all of the wine, I cause if I yelled that at a guy at the so- tions that we had to them. For both of I’m sick. I’m deathly ill, but I am kind got a tattoo on both the front and back cial house formerly known as ADP, I us, Edward’s op-ed inspired an instinc- enough to shoot you an email from of my wrist, both miniature scenes of would’ve gotten called out. tive emotional response. Olivia’s was my deathbed. Gastro. It is gastro, I birthday parties, and I was so wracked Fritz: But should that be okay? inspired by her experience as a queer- think. with regret in the dream that I had Olivia: What do you mean? identifying member of campus and a No, I didn’t feel like going out. My to wake up and double check that I Fritz: Random sexual advances MiddSafe advocate; Fritz reacted as a roommate is out of town, so I’m going didn’t actually have those tattoos in that are totally unsolicited. Are you in - to try to have a “me” night? So I lit a real life. I’m sorry I missed our meet- the wrong for getting upset at a guy ing consent. bunch of candles and ran a bath and ing. Tomorrow? who comes up to you at an Atwater par- It’s important to understand that a listened to Beethoven’s Moonlight I’m sorry I missed your Sympo- ty and starts grinding on you? display of verbal aggression towards a Sonata for like, 20 minutes? Then I sium presentation, but I would rather Olivia: As someone who’s dated gay man for expressing his sexuality at got bored and I forgot my roommate’s Oedipus my eyeballs than watch one dad’s HBOgo password, so I went to more Powerpoint this week. Is that here, I feel like at one of those parties, space for the LGBTQ community is ab- sleep. too dramatic, in light of the content that’s happened a lot, and I’ve just kind solutely unacceptable. Having different No I didn’t make it to Viva Ross on the front page of the New York of run away if I didn’t want to do that standards for how people interact with Vegas. I guess you can tell me about Times? I’m grateful to be here, I am. you based on their sexual orientation is it. I mean, yes I know it looks like, I’m I want to be here, I do. I want to hear a girl at one of those parties because I’d also unacceptable. However, it should making a Zen sand garden out of my your concerns about the word count of be so afraid that I’d make them uncom- be understood that it is — or should mashed potatoes with my fork while the assignment at breakfast and watch fortable. That feels messed up to me be — unacceptable to make unsolicited I latch on to your every word, but I’m people play the Steinway in Wright is that I feel like a guy can hit on me physical contact of a sexual nature with not listening, not one bit. I am schem- and read 300 pages of feminist theory whenever he feels like it without wor- another member of this community, ing. I am plotting my getaway. I am and attend that performance art lec- rying about making me uncomfortable, regardless of the environment or either thinking about how I could pay my ture and always possess an impossible but a guy can’t hit on another guy with- party’s sexual orientation. friend in laundry card swipes to take to-do list that flutters around in my out getting yelled at. The conclusion that we have come me to Burlington, and there’s a flight, backpack like a Yoko Ono Wish Tree Fritz: But is it messed up that you to is that the real issue in Edward’s sto- leaving tonight, $300 one-way to Ber- wish. But sometimes I also I want feel uncomfortable making unsolicited ry is that there is an unspoken code at muda. Bermuda! What’s happening to wander around and look at snow- sexual advances towards women or that Middlebury that we are not allowed to down there? I don’t even know! But I covered trees and impressive icicles. men feel comfortable making those ad- feel threatened by those who make un- bet a wise mentor will take me under I want to sit and stare into space and vances towards you? wanted sexual advances on us and that her wing and teach me to surf and sail, not think about anything at all. Just Olivia: I would never go up to a we are implicitly told we should feel and I will become tan and rail thin give me like 20 minutes. I’ll be there random woman and start grinding on and live off fish and Vitamin D. in 20 minutes. her at a party. the unwanted attention that people ex- I didn’t do the readings. I was I’m going out of town, so I’ll have Fritz: But is that a good thing? perience — regardless of sexual orien- attending a funeral reception for my to miss class next week. It’s my birth- Should everyone maybe feel a little less tation — is the real issue. friend’s dead pet. Or a birthday party. day? | MarcH 6, 2014 Advertisements11

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Laura Kelly ’14 Kraytenberg ’14 ’14, Teddy Fitzgibbons ’14, Alex John- Strom ’14.5, Dana Tripp ’14, Lottie Hed- ston ’14, Brantner Jones ’14, Andrew Coming off a promising 2013 season that den ’14 Lebovitz ’14 team starts off the spring season this — Emma McDonald — Fiona Maloney-McCrystle — Fritz Parker — Joe MacDonald — Gabe Weissmann — Fritz Parker — Sydney Reid — Colin McIntyre 14features | march 6, 2014 Global Liberal Arts Education: What is ’Murica! the Realistic Scale of Our Education? By Winston Kies On Feb. 28, students and professors gathered in the Robert A. Jones Confer- ence Room to discuss a topic of global proportions as part of the International & Global Studies (IGS) Colloquium. They attended in hopes of garnering a fuller By Joy Zhu understanding of a particularly sweeping idea the College has often confronted in The recent assassination attempt on recent years: the global liberal arts edu- a former editor of a major newspaper has cation. The question on the table: why caused international outrage. This event bring global studies and the liberal arts does not exist in isolation. Over the past together, and how can students best take year, four editors and founders of local me- dia have been assaulted in Hong Kong. The advantage of the unique opportunities application for a new television station has and resources this system offers? been debated and almost refused in a televi- In 2007, President Ron Liebowitz sion monopoly by one network. To boycott and the College’s Board of Trustees “set news sources, Chinese companies withdrew Middlebury on a course to become the their advertisements from newspapers to first truly global liberal arts college.” put them out of business. However, there seems to be no evidence Despite government manipulation, it is that the College is the “first” to embark Paul gerard uplifting to see how minibus and taxi driv- on such an endeavor. Whether that Professor of German Michael Geisler addresses questions of local and global scale. ers too have pasted up plaques on their cars statement is true or not, the adminis- with the global to become what Geisler a circuitous way. Much of what we can do in protest of threats against press freedom. I tration has been working extensively to cannot explain how moved I was when I saw calls a “learner without borders.” Today, is derived from appreciation rather than bolster their argument. In 2007 alone, so many people on the streets pleading for a two of the most desirable professional action. In appreciating and understand- $392.5 million had already been raised united cause. To me it was a sign that people qualities are the ability to think quickly ing the educational system the admin- to stake claim to being the “first.” Here are showing solidarity and that even if the and creatively and to speak a foreign istration has put in place, the resources again, questions resurface: why is so government can do nothing about injustices, language. As a liberal arts college with it offers quickly become evident. Once much money and time being put into be- they still get heard and debated. 37 sites in different countries abroad, one puts as much value in global stud- On the other hand, the effect of hav- ing a “global liberal arts college?” ten (soon to be 11) languages taught at ies as they do in the structure of a liberal ing something so violent happen in my own The event’s speaker, Michael Geisler, the Language Schools and 12 languages arts education, the world becomes much community is curious. A few days after the Vice President of Language Schools, taught during regular school terms, the larger, yet also more accessible. Once we assassination attempt was the terrorist at- Schools Abroad and Graduate Programs College is in the perfect position to im- are aware of the opportunities afforded tack in Kunming, where 33 people were vio- and Professor of German, is one of the part both values. us—in this case the combination of a lib- lently stabbed to death. Although I have no most prominent voices for the Col- At the most fundamental level, the eral arts education (the local) and global friends and family there, the assassination lege’s educational structure. Beginning purpose of a lib- studies (the global)—we are immediately attempt enlarged my capacity to sympathize his talk, he made two - eral arts educa- and more fully able to take advantage of things very clear. First, “It is not academic or tered through news, the horror felt real to tion is to produce such opportunities. that his views, although me. bussiness-oriented, but a well-rounded Resources like the Rohatyn Center certainly some of the I can’t help but think — would Hong student and for Global Affairs and the summer lan- most respected, are not a matter of basic human Kong descend into a lawless turmoil like learner. Today, guage programs at the College are all necessarily represen- China? Recent events have made me feel nature.” many believe this perfect examples of opportunities that tative of the adminis- is not enough. the College offers. According to Geisler, world country to a third world country. But tration on the whole. Michael Geisler As Geisler ex- no other school has such a combination is it even possible? While we are economi- Second, that there is no Vice President, Language Schools pressed, the ad- of resources. So then, although it is true cally developed to an extent, we demand running definition for dition of global that there is no running definition of a the global liberal arts college. It is diffi- studies as an integral and basic unit of a global liberal arts college, the drive to freedom of press and speech. Has our politi- cult to value an indefinable goal, but that liberal arts education informs students’ become one is not without value. cal structure always been third world? The does not mean that interplay between sense of place within their community As Geisler believes, students at one clumsiness of our political system seems to global studies and a liberal arts educa- be hidden behind the glass veneers of our and within the world. The graduate, un- of the best liberal arts colleges — and the tion is without value. Geisler’s argument high-rises. Not only is our political system der this educational structure, is equal best global liberal arts college — have in support of this relationship, one that going backward, our education is also slid- parts multi-purpose tool and Rosetta more opportunities, and a greater vari- has influenced the College’s education- ing backward and highly focused on techni- Stone. He or she can learn how to do ety of opportunities, than most will ever al structure as of late, may come as a most any job, anywhere. Of course, this dream of having. To an extent, we have- surprise to some. It is not academic or critical thinking and the humanities. Even is the theoretical graduate, but one for free reign of all the College has to offer, if we had free media before, most people business-oriented, but a matter of basic which a global liberal arts college is con- but perhaps we should appreciate the would not have had the education to be able human nature. stantly striving. The remaining question, College’s unique educational system. to think critically about the events beyond a Geisler’s argument is best explained then, is simpler than the first but no less As the debate continues, partcipants by looking at the liberal arts education important: how do we take advantage of believe it is important to consider how to A local political scientist Shen suggests as the “local” and global studies as the what seems to be a unique education? define the term “Global liberal arts col- that we will meet the fate of Venice as we “global.” The goal to connect the local The answer to this question comes in lege.” become a tourist attraction while future generations seek to develop in nations of be strategically important anymore, some cultural academics have explored the possi- bility that Hong Kong could hold the capac- ity to be a cultural capital. Just as America has New York and Los Angeles, China has Hong Kong and Shanghai. Personally, I think Hong Kong’s political disillusionment could lead to a greater demand for cultural expressions. Li Ka Shing, the number one business Tycoon in Asia, questions why we should rebel when we are economically well off. But Shanghai is going to take over, and Hong Kong won’t be able to maintain its status as a make our society a happy one? The role of us by our previous colonizers. As our unique ourselves when we enslave ourselves to money. While people worry about Hong Kong’s economic future, I think a pause will not be too detrimental to our prospects. I’ve lived in Hong Kong for 19 years and only now do I realize that it is so interesting. In my life there, I have never encountered a cultural moment as critical to society as today’s. I have no idea what is going to hap- pen a few years from now — trying to predict the whims of the Chinese government is like trying to predict the weather. 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Bob the Baker and his 16,000 Cookies The Sex By Ali Lewis Panther Robert Stowe, Head Baker, will retire this spring after a long career in the base- ment kitchen of Proctor. “According to hu- with me,” Stowe said. “That’s long enough.” Stowe began working summers before starting high school when Proctor was still By Sex Panther new — the dining hall was built in 1959. I am your new sex columnist for the “And then I just kind of stayed on,” he semester, nice to meet all of you! We are said. “Went into the service for a couple always hearing or talking about the “hook years, came back … and the rest is history.” up culture” here at Middlebury, yet it Stowe’s friend Charlie Sargent joined the kitchen after high school, working with seems that people here (girls especially, Stowe in a back room then called “the meat though I’m biased) never talk openly shop,” where all the meat was processed. about sex! Instead, sex conversation is Today, Sargent is the Purchasing Manager relegated to anonymous posts on Mid- for dining services and still works alongside dfesh or the occasional drunk conversa- Stowe, 39 years later. The two share an of- topic: Start talking about sex! Campus Editor-in-Chief Kyle Finck I don’t encourage people thinking that ’14 and I arrived at 7:00 a.m. last Friday they should be ashamed of any of their to speak with Stowe. It felt very early to us, ALI LEWIS Robert Stowe conducts the from-scratch baking of Proctor desserts starting at 5 a.m. activity behind closed doors. Given that we are at a small school, no one wants to - anyway — luckily, because the dining hall resistant to change, “but I guess there isn’t air out their dirty laundry, which makes needs every pan that gets baked. any reason I should be, because the only for dinner and put double chocolate chip The biggest disaster in Stowe’s memo- thing constant about food service is change. sense. I’m not suggesting giving people all cookies in the oven. He took us with him ry (which might give some insight into how It’s, I mean, change here and change there,” the little nitty-gritty details of your Atwa- to wash the 60-gallon pot from the berry smoothly the bakery runs) was a cabinet of said Stowe, “so I guess that’s it.” ter hook-up from this weekend. Instead, cobbler, called a trunion because the whole diplomat cream for Napolean’s that he was Stowe looks forward to a small change I want to encourage people to be more thing can tilt to pour out whatever is inside. wheeling into the cooler at the end of a busy to the routine this week: “I’ll be on vaca- open about what they want sexually, spe- Stowe wielded a hose to wash out the enor- week when a wheel caught, and the whole tion!” He will take a few days off to sugar mous pot: “See, this is just like home!” thing tipped on its side. his maple trees with his wife and grand- be having sex with. Sex can be great, fun, According to Stowe, 99.9 percent of “All this diplo- children. “When you’re a sugar-maker,” he awesome, exciting (among other things) the breads and desserts mat cream — inside, said, “you have to take off when the sap’s but it really gets good when you feel like at Proctor are baked the it was terrible. But I running or you miss the boat.” you can be open and trust your partner. same day that they are was lucky enough that Of the bigger change looming in this served. what I had made, there coming May, Stowe said “I think you have And let me tell you, from stories and my On this Friday, he and was enough to carry us to embrace it and go with it.” He is looking own experience, there are way too many Jim Logan, another baker, through.” The diplo- forward to “the quiet times” in his retire- people who are having bad sex. Or worse, worked alone to prep and mat cream was just a ment. not even realizing they are having bad sex. bake everything between bit thinner that day. “I mean, some days its o.k. in here and People at the College need to be more the two of them, although The kitchen has other days it’s like … the noise. I think the open with their sexuality. This means most days the staff totals changed pretty dras- older you get, the more you don’t like it,” not being embarrassed because you like four. On the busiest days, Stowe arrives at said Stowe. “Not that I’m ancient, I guess.” watching porn or not hiding that one little work at 4:00 a.m. thing, there isn’t a meat shop anymore; all He and his wife plan to travel, if not fetish you enjoy. It also includes being the meat arrives pre-processed, like what this year then the next. “We went out and open with your limits. Sex isn’t for every- double chocolate cookies out of the oven when we walked over. They would end up started, the menus consisted of meat, pota- the road at some point,” he said. “We’ll do one, and it’s important to create an envi- doing 30 to 40 sheet pans, totaling between toes and a vegetable every day, with some summer around here and then expand and ronment where people are comfortable to 12,000 and 16,000 cookies. sort of baked good and either fruit cocktail go further and further. We’d like to travel talk about what they like, but also what Years ago, the dining hall used ready- or, on two days of the week, ice cream for and see the country some, see what it’s all they don’t. Embrace your sexuality for made cookie plugs. “But these cookies are dessert. about.” Stowe’s dream would be to travel what it is and what it isn’t. The more that made from scratch,” said Stowe, “And I as- During the time of the hearing-im- across Asia, into the Black Sea, and then people are in tune with their own sexu- sume the kids say they’re ok.” paired bakers, all the hotdog and ham- into Europe along rivers. ality, the better sex will be for everyone. Stowe would guess that today 95 per- burger buns where baked from scratch — It will certainly be different, though, Trust me! cent of the baked goods are made from “just murder” on the two bakers. They also not to spend each morning with his col- There seems to be a divide between scratch. made their own yoghurt, jams and jellies, leagues in the Proctor bakery after 49 years. genders when it comes to opinions about “We’re lucky,” I said. in addition to all the breads, rolls, and des- “You know, to work this many years “I’d like to think so,” said Stowe. serts. next to somebody, you know what they’re sex at Middlebury. Guys tell me they re- Everything gets baked in an oven “These guys were pretty much non- thinking, and they know what you think,” gret “not going to a state school” because stop, you know,” said Stowe. “I guess that’s said Stowe. “I’m not sure if that’s a good girls here are “prudes” and need to be shelves, which rotate inside the oven. An where I got some of my work ethic from, thing or a bad thing, but nonetheless … that more interested in having sex. According alarm and a strobe light, inserted when was watching these guys. I mean I don’t will be missed.” to them, girls aren’t interested in having two hearing-impaired bakers worked in the hold a candle to what these guys did!” sex. Let me tell you: many girls are in- kitchen several years ago, go off when the The two bakers worked in Proctor terested in sex. But the difference is that cookies are ready, but Stowe says you can for “the longest time.” Stowe still misses girls worry about being judged for their tell when they’re almost done by the smell. them. “They were a good bunch to work BOB THE BAKER behavior. They want to have sex, yet for Only once that he remembers did the oven with.” When they left, the economy was some reason, there’s a stigma where they start to smell too strongly, when Stowe for- tanking, and the bakery had to do with see him in action @ can’t act like they want it, for fear of be- got to take out one of the four racks of bis- what they had, so Stowe moved up to head cuits, but they weren’t too hard to send out baker. Stowe describes himself as pretty middleburycampus.com/multimedia ing a “slut” or “whore.” On the other side, no one wants to be considered prudish, so people might also be participating in activities that they don’t feel comfortable Room 404: Quirky Content, personal touch with. Neither situation is desirable, for ei- ther party. By Maddie Webb ventional Love Letters and a comedic Ge- per or magazine lying around and skimmed A solution? Start talking! The sooner nealogy of Herbals (a family tree portraying it during a spare minute, only to abandon it Room 404 may not be the most recog- we start talking about sex, the more we as quickly as they had found it. Turpan and nizable student-run publication on campus, Laurel and Sage as the common ancestors). his peers believe that requiring readers to or- - the only ones with certain insecurities. If the content itself did not make the publica- der their copies, and then presonalizing each And that is only going to make you feel tional. The publication’s distribution strate- tion unique enough, its distribution process copy, increases the chances of students read- more comfortable sexually, I promise. gy, developed by the organization’s founders is notable as well. ing the publication thoroughly and also hang- Moss Turpan ’14.5 and Dylan Redford ’14.5, The members of Room 404 work hard to ing onto it. I know people tend to be a little bit does not rely on the typical grab-and-go al- compile an email list of prospective contribu- I experienced this myself during my in- scared to get these kind of conversation location that other organizations utilize. For tors and interested readers to get their word terview with Turpan as he brought out the started, so I’ll start it for you here in my those who do not even know what Room 404 out. Leading up to a new edition of Room Spring 2013 edition of Room 404, and neatly column. I’ll try to discuss different sexual is, here is some background information on 404, the staff organizes a non-exclusive re- wrote my name in block lettering along the problems, frustrations or discoveries I one of the College’s hidden gems. lease party. All attendees receive an issue of black line that was preceded by “This Book have had or heard about on our campus The publication features poetry and the most recent publication. However, that is Belongs To.” I immediately wanted to read here. But most importantly, don’t let the prose with a purpose, creative graphics, comic not the only opportunity for students to get every line and every post script and admire quizzes and other ramblings that Turpan says conversation end there. Keep talking. And their hands on a copy. Posters are plastered every drawing including a very well-con- discovering. And if you choose to have “don’t have a place in any other campus pub- around campus inciting people to request structed ring pop. And, indeed, I did just that sex, make sure you are having better sex! lications.” All of the components are created, their own copy via email. A requester is en- as soon as I went back to my room. edited and designed by a team of contributors tered into the email server and a personalized The idea of receiving an aesthetically- You deserve it! We all deserve it! Don’t at meetings that occur “wheneverly.” copy of the publication is delivered promptly pleasing and personalized gift in a mailbox you dare sell yourself for less than you de- Although the idea for Room 404 sprout- to his or her mailbox. that is more commonly designated for tu- serve. That is, sheet tangling, toe-curling, ed during Turpan and Redford’s freshman This is a key feature that separates Room breathtaking, orgasmic sex (provided you 404 from other student-run publications on tantalizing, and if nothing else, simply new. want it, that is). until Winter 2013, but a Spring 2014 edition campus like Blackbird, the literary maga- Although this tailored distribution of maga- Here’s to getting the conversation quickly followed, leading the club to run on zine, or even the Campus issue you are read- zines is a factor in why Room 404 is less of started! a twice-a-year publishing basis. The Spring ing right now. Publications can be as easy to a “big name” compared to Blackbird or The 2013 edition featured a Choose Your Own Xoxo, leave behind or throw away as they are to Campus, it arguably could produce a more Sex Panther (60 percent of the time, I Friday Night Adventure at Middlebury, an obtain. Everybody has picked up a newspa- dedicated and stronger readership. erasure poem from a book by Freud, Uncon- work every time) 16features | march 6, 2014 Ash Wednesday Reveals Campus Religious Climate By David Ullman when sins are detailed with greater speci- how small we are.” He added that this no- every Wednesday and Friday, ate exclu- - tion uplifts not discourages him. sively vegetarian foods, and tried to meet On Wednesday March 5, the Christian gregation thanks the lord for his gifts, the After the service, many students leave someone new every day during Lent. holiday of Ash Wednesday marked the be- Breaking of Bred, a communion, and an the ashes on their forehead for the remain- “I was constantly asking myself ‘why ginning of Lent, a six-week long period of organ postlude. der of the day. am I doing this...to please God,” Marowitz discipline and devotion. Ash Wednesday Jordan expressed particular enthusi- Blake reports seeing many people he said. “So when you’re hungry, it’s a con- emphasizes human mortality and Lent tra- did not know were observant Christians stant reminder.” ditionally asks observers to take up a spe- of Ash Wednesday — the imposition of with the ashes. Some do not give something up but Ashes — when the chaplain draws a cross “It’s just a time when people are not add another ritual into their routine. with ashes over afraid to express their religious identity,” According to Faith Whang ’15, the humbling experi- one’s forehead and said Harper. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship plans ence, one that can “Sometimes you can feel recites, “Remem- Matthew Blake ’16.5 claims many peo- to practice a daily fifteen minute pray both connect stu- ber that thou art ple who are not familiar with Christianity period but she expresses concerns over dents with their like on the college on the hill dust and to dust ask him questions about Lent. maintaining this routine on campus. faithful traditions you are on top of the world. thou shalt return.” “I’ve had to do a lot of translating,” said “When you’re at Middlebury, you’re from home or add It is a humbling experience According to Jor- Blake. “I’ve had to express what it means to in this bubble where everything is about unique challenges dan, this reminder be a Christian to other people and that has you,” said Whang, “I’ve noticed that even on Ash Wednesday just to can be particularly trying to take a little piece of the day away a college environ- know how small we are.” important for stu- to be a Christian.” from me is hard.” ment. dents. After Ash Wednesday, Christians en- She refers to a popular axiom while In honor of Blake Harper ’15 “The ashes rep- ter Lent, a time when many observers fast, referring to the struggles of maintaining the holiday, Chap- resents that you deny themselves a particular luxury and her faith at school. lain Laurie Jordan may feel young and vital and invincible. involve themselves with various religious “Someone told me freshman year that ran a service at Mead Chapel that required But every one of us is going to die one practices. college is three things: sleep, study, and her to respect the varied styles of worship day and our bodies are either going to be Shannon Reinert ’15, who leads the social life and you can only do two. Add- within the Christian tradition, unlike most burned or decayed,” said Jordan. Newman Catholic Student Organization, ing faith is like a fourth thing,” Whang - Blake Harper ’15, whose father is a cited desserts and makeup as examples of said. nomination. priest and is involved in numerous reli- indulgences she gave up. Like Whang, Harper does not give up “I try to use the basics, prior to all the gious life organizations on campus, echoes Gregory Markowitz ’15 said that he a specific luxury but adds a new ritual to splits in Christianity,” said Jordan. “So it’s a similar sentiment. was not raised religious but has became a his day: devotional readings with friends. not really dealing with the tender breaking “Sometimes you can feel like on the more involved Christian while on campus “It is a time to think about the way we points.” college on the hill you are on top of the spend our time, think about the way we The service included a Psalm of Con- world,” said Harper. “It is a humbling ex- church last summer. Last year, he did not use our resources, think about the way we fession, when the congregation asks God perience [on] Ash Wednesday just to know attend Ash Wednesday service but fasted treat each other,” Harper said. to absolve their sins, A Litany of Penitence, Style Icon: John Hawley, a Walking Tapestry By Mary Claire Ecclesine diverse world we live in. After attending prep school in the city, Hawley continued As I was walking down the Axinn his education at the College and studied hallway for my interview with John Haw- abroad in Argentina. It is through all these ley ’14, I noticed him from 20 feet away. experiences that Hawley has shaped his He was wearing a bright, but soft, yellow style and sense of fashion. He loves to take button-down shirt with simple faded blue bits and pieces from all facets of his life, khakis, sophisticated rectangular glasses combine them and paint a story of where and a classic pea coat thrown over the he has been, what he has seen, the people chair next to him. We exchanged a friend- he has met and perhaps even tell where ly greeting and got right into the interview he wants to go. This guarantees that his after a few minutes of chitchat. However, style is unique — simply because no one what I didn’t realize until a couple min- has lived the exact same life John has and utes into our interaction was that his sim- therefore cannot share the same story. ple faded blue khakis were actually not so What I love about Hawley’s approach simple and his classic pea coat was not so - classic after all. His pants had a hidden self to one “genre” or “style.” He wakes up line of colorful pattern on the inside of the in the morning and decides what to wear back pocket, and his coat was lined with a based on how he feels and what version preppy fabric. of himself he wants to be that day. Who wants to be one-dimensional? We all can typical of a Middlebury guy — put to- relate to and admire so many different types of clothing, so why should shouldn’t after further investigation, I noticed that we explore all of them? Hawley says his true interest in thought-out and subtly high fashion. After clothes began in high school, partly be- Mary Claire Ecclesine a very enjoyable 20-minute conversation I cause he was starting to hangout with Casual but eye-catching Hawley poses in his signature dark-framed glasses. learned that this is John’s “mantra” if you girls, but also because he went to a prep sense, to the world. This usually tells a lot will. He loves to wear things that “pop,” school with a dress code, and he didn’t about a person, their background, their likes to take what he thinks looks cool on want to be stuck in its boundaries. In a mindset and their idea of the world. and others and replicate them and incorporate stand out without “standing out.” concerted effort to not look like every- them into his own wardrobe. Hawley is a senior Econ major and body else and not get bored by wearing different responses. According to Hawley, As Hawley gets ready to graduate this plays on the men’s rugby team. He was the same thing every single day to school, fashion gives people a chance to “create spring, he will be moving to Boston to Hawley had no choice but to get creative something artistic everyday and to ex- he still calls home, with his older sister, with this clothing. This meant little touch- press anything they want through a pretty no more t-shirts, sweatpants or skinny mom and dad. His mom is a Broadway es and additions to things that made him manageable medium.” Hawley claims that actress and his dad is a lawyer. Hawley stand out (again, without “standing out”). loafers. John relates this upcoming stage says having parents in those two profes- Unfortunately for Hawley, this was a dif- him fashion is not that hard of an art form in his life back to his high school days sions makes him the “world’s perfect liar,” - to succeed in; after all, “everyone knows and will have to challenge himself to be although he laughed and quickly con- tentions for wearing things such as “illegal how to put on pants.” If you are the per- - fessed that he is actually a terrible lair. pants.” So it was in the halls of Fordham - front in the working world. He will have His mom and sister seem to inspire him dergoing a creative process in your own to achieve professionalism, while still ex- most, not so much in fashion, but rather that Hawley came to develop his distinc- way. Artistic expression is important and pressing himself in a way that allows him in life. He admires the fact that his mom tive sense of style. to John, this is his version of it. to be excited when he gets up in the morn- Similar to Middlebury’s last style Inspired by his sister, Hawley tries to ing to get dressed. Although challenging, and takes such passion and dedication to icon Kathleen Gudas ’16.5, Hawley likes approach fashion with a “don’t give a f***” something tells me he will impress those pursue. And he really values his sister’s to look for a good bargain. He shops at all attitude. However, what might surprise the common stores you would suspect like you is that his mom is the one exception to Who thought a rugby-playing, econ clothes while pulling them off extremely J.Crew and H&M, adds in some Bonobos his free-minded way of expression. Haw- major Midd kid would be so interested well. clothing (which is a men’s tailored cloth- ley says that he does not wear anything in fashion? Hawley represents creativity Hawley had a very exciting back- he would not want his mom to see him in. and artistic ability in a new light. He never values items from thrift shops and vintage He can wear something she would think is wants to feel pigeon-holed into one style growing up he saw so many different types clothing stores. Once again, it’s about tak- crazy or ridiculous, but nothing that she of clothing simply because he plays a par- of people everyday either in the subway, ing things from all corners of the world would deem inappropriate in anyway. I ticular sport or attends a certain school. walking down the streets or playing bas- and putting it together to create the myri- think all of our moms would hope this is “Everyone has their own personal- ketball at public courts around the city. ad of himself. our mindset when getting dressed in the ity and style that is unique in some way This made it impossible for Hawley to be I love to ask every style icon why they morning. As far as icons go, Hawley takes close-minded and forced him to accept like fashion and what exactly they think inspiration from all sorts of people from through your clothing is a pretty powerful and acknowledge the large and greatly fashion gives to people, and in a greater Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch thing,” Hawley said. | March 6, 2014 Advertisements17

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mouthwatering The > new official pizza of the Middlebury Campus GREEN PEPPERS LOCAL | HANDCRAFTED | FRESHLY PREPARED | AT YOUR CONVENIENCE [802] 388-3164 arts sciences College Celebrates ‘12 Years’ Connection By Leah Lavigne “Then a few weeks went by and some- Born in 1805 in Hepburn, New journey back to New York. The 2013 Steve McQueen film “12 one was interviewing Steve McQueen, York, Henry Bliss Northup enrolled at Years a Slave” won three Oscars at the the director of the film, on television, Middlebury College in 1825, studying refers to Henry Bliss Northup’s role in 86th Annual Academy Awards earlier and he was standing next to Brad Pitt, a typical course load of Greek, Latin, regaining his freedom. He describes this week, including the coveted Best theology, law, mathematics, philoso- seeing Henry Bliss Northup at his mo- Picture prize, after taking in an im- So, instantly, it went from knowing phy, history, chemistry, mineralogy and ment of rescue in detail. pressive $128 million at the box office nothing to really being interested in the - “As my eyes rested on his counte- worldwide. This critical and financial thup graduated from the College, Solo- nance…the perfect memory of the man success has dramatically revived inter- the book from the library and it became mon Northup married Anne Hampton, recurred to me, and throwing up my est in the source material for the film clear to me and they later — the captivating 1853 memoir of the that Middle- went on to same name dictated by Solomon Nor- bury had to “As my eyes rested on his coun- have three - thup to writer David Wilson. have these pic- tenance...the perfect memory children, who thup! Thank God — thank God!’” Solomon Northup was born a free tures.” are depicted - man in 1808 due to a New York state The por- of the man recurred to me, and in the memoir up passed away around 1857, and Henry law dictating the freedom of any child traits arrived throwing up my hands towards and the film. Bliss Northup died in 1877. born after July 1, 1799. His haunt- at the College Henry Bliss Hart hypothesized that the film ing narrative begins in 1841 Saratoga late in the Heaven, I exclaimed, in a voice Northup mar- changed the identity of Solomon Nor- Springs, New York, when two men from week prior to louder than I could utter in a ried Electra thup’s rescuer so as not to confuse the Charlotte, North Carolina convinced the unveiling, Taylor, the - Solomon to play his fiddle in a circus and they rest- less exciting moment, ‘Henry subject of one tury, Henry Bliss Northup’s great uncle with them in Washington, D.C. Upon ed facing the B. Northup! Thank God — thank of the por- owned Solomon Northup’s father, link- arriving, the men drugged Solomon and wall as Saun- God!’” traits, in 1830. ing the two men in a way that prompts illegally sold him into slavery, starting a ders told the They raised historical misunderstanding. brutal twelve year nightmare. group of gath- seven chil- “Many master descendants and “He thought he was going to be ered attendees -’Twelve Years a Slave’ dren, though slave descendants, if they lived in the away for just a few weeks in D.C., and the history of Solomon northup none survived same area, might stay in touch and his wife, who was cooking in Sandy the acquisi- their father. recognize and honor each other,” Hart Hills, New York for the summer, didn’t tion. H e n r y get a note, and he didn’t send her a let- “Normally we wouldn’t show the Bliss Northup pursued a career in poli- ter,” said Associate Professor of History public pictures in this condition,” Saun- tics, holding positions as District Attor- there was an ongoing paternalistic re- William B. Hart. “He probably thought ders said. “We would have them con- ney of Washington County, NY and as lationship between Solomon and his he was going to be back before she got served.” a member of the New York Assembly. The museum is a member of the He eventually ran for the U.S. Senate in think the director [McQueen] was prob- years for her to hear from him, but it Williamstown Art Conservation Cen- 1852, though he lost that campaign. ably afraid that it might confuse the took twelve years for him to return.” ter in Williamstown, MA, where the - Wilson and Northup drafted a copy paintings are currently undergoing the up convinced a carpenter in Louisiana last name as Solomon did, then viewers of the memoir in three months, and in process of cleaning and restoration. to write three letters for him, and they might think that Solomon’s master had 1853, the text sold 8,000 copies in its Upon revealing the portraits, Saunders eventually made their way to Saratoga come to secure him, which we know was first month of publication. When the pointed to some discoloration and dark- and into the hands of Henry Bliss Nor- not the case.” publisher discontinued publishing in ness, explaining that they will be much thup. Although Henry initially delayed Hart is hopeful that more can be 1856, it had sold 30,000 copies. brighter. in responding to the letter because of discovered about Henry Bliss Northup, The text was re-discovered by two The paintings are, however, incred- his run for Senate, he traveled to the especially about his time at the College. Louisiana historians in the early 1960’s, ibly detailed portraits, and when the south in December of that year with “We don’t know if he read Solomon and the memoir is now used by the Col- restored acquisitions return to the mu- documentation of Solomon’s freedom. lege in courses in History, American seum, Saunders will pursue his hypoth- After conferring with state legislators that he did,” Hart said. Studies and other departments. esis that the artist is early-19th century and one senator, they all agreed that The restored portraits will be on Despite this familiarity with the Albany, New York portrait painter Ezra Solomon had been wrongfully enslaved, display at the museum sometime next text, a recent acquisition by the Mid- Ames. and Henry and Solomon began their fall. dlebury College Museum of Art has revealed a surprising real-life connec- tion between the College and Solomon Northup. Though the movie depicts an upstate New York shopkeeper as the man who rescues Northup from his liv- ing nightmare, the memoir reveals the rescuer to be Henry Bliss Northup, a prominent upstate attorney and mem- ber of the Middlebury College Class of 1829. Late in the summer of 2013, the museum received notification that two direct descendants of Henry Bliss Nor- thup, Elizabeth Marsland Hay Haas and Jennifer W. Smith, were interested in donating two portraits, one of Henry and the other of his wife Electra Taylor Northup, to the College. The paintings had been in the Northup family’s pos- session for nearly two centuries. Oscar nominations, the museum held a reception for interested faculty, staff and students on Feb. 25 to unveil the two portraits and hear Hart discuss the film, the book and the lives of both Hen- ry Bliss Northup and Solomon Northup. The portraits were last profession- ally conserved in 1946, and Director of the Museum Richard Saunders initially hesitated to bring more alumni por- traits into the College’s collection. “They [the portraits] were going to - ing about the story of Solomon Northup middlebury college office of communications and “12 Years a Slave,” Saunders said. Director of the Museum Richard Saunders displays portraits of Henry Bliss Northup ’1829 and his wife, Electra Taylor Northup.

From Up On Poppy Hill An Evening of Songs and Arias How to Survive a Plague don’t Japanese director Goro Miyazaki creates a story Come support a select group of students from the De- The British Elias String Quartet will give a lecture of perserverance set in 1963 Yokohoma with a partment of Music as they present songs, duets and and demonstration of their ambitious new work, The captivating animation style. Presented as a part arias from baroque to contemporary eras. Free. Beethoven Project, in which they are endeavoring to miss 3/8, 8 P.M., CONCERT HALL, CFA learn and perform all the Beethoven string quartets. Free. Free. this 3/8, 3 AND 8 P.M., DANA AUDITORIUM 3/12, 4:30 P.M., CONCERT HALL, CFA March 6, 2014 | arts SCIENCES19 Artist Explores Identity, Faces POLITICS OF The conference room of Robert A. people’s identities change as they move be- places,” Westerveld said. “I think people Jones ’59 House now hosts an exhibit by tween different landscapes is central to the across the world are getting more and more P WER student Levi Westerveld ’15.5. Entitled exhibition. connected: globalization, the Internet, you “New Spaces, Same Identities”, the series “I realized that many migrant work- buy something that’s made somewhere else By Cullen Coleman of 12 portraits reveals the often-unseen ers still perceive themselves as farmers, in the world. But at the same time people The North American energy revolution faces of migrant workers in China. Having because there is such a division in Chinese are more disconnected and so this is a way, is poised to reach a loud and disruptive cre- previously exhibited portrait series of the society between the people who come from through the art, to create an opportunity to scendo in 2020 as the United States becomes Quw’ustun native people of Vancouver Is- rural China and urban China,” Westerveld connect with different people. In the same land, Canada, and of traditional farmers of said. “There are spaces in the urban land- way it’s about giving a voice to people who seemed an impossibility with domestic oil the Valley of the Dordogne in France, this scape with a real division between people might not always have a voice in society. production falling steadily from 1990 until recent series continues and expands a pro- who belong and people who don’t belong. Chinese migrant workers are working dai- 2008 and LNG terminals gearing up for ever- cess and aesthetic of sensitive humanity Migrant workers are living in new spaces, ly, every day of the week, long hours, and increasing imports. The effects of this trans- and tenderness. but their identity is not changing or adapt- they do not go to school, they don’t speak formation are already felt, from economic Ross Commons Co-Head and Profes- ing to the space. The Chinese city is not English and often times don’t speak Man- gains to diplomatic strength, and “declinist” sor of Religion Maria Hatjigeorgiou has adapting to their identify and not accept- darin Chinese, so they don’t really have a thought about the United States has a strong ing them.” way to reach out to other people.” adversary as the energy renaissance ushers exhibition at the M Gallery in Fall 2012. In 2011, the number of migrant work- Certainly, the process of developing in a new world energy order. “I sense that Levi is on track to ar- ers in China hit 230, and 17 percent of these series of portraits seemed to de- The American energy transformation ticulate a very personal visual medium: China’s population velop and uncover has been remarkable in both its scope and through his deep empathetic listening, HEAD TO Westerveld’s pro- speed. By combining two independent drill- the stories of his subjects, and revealing and rural landscapes. cess and his chosen ing technologies, horizontal drilling and hy- - These workers are middleburycampus.com role to himself. draulic fracturing, U.S. shale gas production humanization of capitalist development, only allowed in urban “It is mainly rose by over 50 percent each year from 2007 which seeks to destroy the human soul,” regions on a tempo- about the migrant until 2012. In addition, U.S. crude oil pro- Hatjigeorgiou said. “Levi manages to cap- rary, contractual basis. /MULTIMEDIA workers and the duction grew by 50 percent between 2008 ture something archaic, almost primor- After one contract ex- connection I create and 2013, leading to a string of consecutive dial in the gazes of his subjects, and his art for exclusive video coverage between them and increases not seen since the late 1960s, when becomes the vehicle that conveys it to us, another job or return the audience, but it production in Texas was peaking and Alaskan in a way that almost shocks us, because it to their rural homes. A global economy’s is about me too,” Westerveld said. “It’s not evokes the mystery of human existence. momentary want for labor seemingly gov- a straight line between the migrant workers numbers will be hard to repeat in other na- This aspect of humanity can never be cap- erns migrant workers’ mobility inside their tions. As a recent Foreign Affairs piece noted, tured by the culture of the endless photo- country’s borders, and their legal existence I’m the one curving the line and deciding a blend of favorable geography, risk attuned within a city depends entirely on their la- how people are getting represented here. only be accomplished by art. In fact, this bor output. Even though I try my best to grasp my un- landowners to claim underground resources is the power of true art: by commenting “There is a real focus on their not conscious and not to think too much when and a strong entrepreneurial spirit have cre- on the human experience, it reminds us of belonging to the space,” he said. “And so I do the art, it’s very much about me as ated a unique American energy environment. what is true and enduring.” wherever you look, from the cultural, eco- well. I see myself involved in very different Other countries might have the right rocks A sincere respect for people quickly nomic or the social perspective, migrant ways. The colors I choose, the expressions but few have the correct industry structure. workers are alienated by the city. There I try to choose to put on the face, the lines approaches each person. I’m drawing, the lines I’m not drawing, are this increased production are seen at the eco- “All the people that we see are people work, sleep and eat together. They don’t re- mostly unconscious choices. I’m not think- nomic level. The McKinsey Global Institute I know well and have interviewed sev- ally interact with the local people.” ing too much when I do the piece — I just estimates that by 2020, unconventional oil eral times before starting the project,” Westerveld described how various lin- go for it.” and gas production could increase the Unit- Westerveld said. “On one hand because I guistic constructions further mark migrant Westerveld will discuss “New Spaces, ed States’ annual GDP anywhere from two to was doing research with a professor on mi- workers as outsiders within urban land- Same Identities” at an opening reception four percent, or roughly $380–$690 billion, scapes. Friday, March 7, at 8:00 p.m. in the Rob- and create up to 1.7 million new permanent it takes time to get to the point where they “I really see the art as a bridge between ert. A Jones ’59 conference room. All are jobs. This is in addition to the rebalancing of are willing to have their picture taken and the people who live in [two very] different welcome to attend. roughly half comes from energy imports. The secondary and tertiary economic effects of rushing through the process. You need to the shale revolution are seen in the renais- feel honesty and respect for the person. If sance of American manufacturing. Because you’re just ‘using’ them, it doesn’t feel com- the heavy manufacturing of steel, cement fortable when you’re drawing them. You and petrochemicals relies on natural gas for certainly need to have a connection with its energy feedstock, abundant and cheap the people and that takes conversation and U.S gas has lent a competitive advantage to time. It’s very pleasurable to get to know all industries that were once thought to be lost the people. Each person has a very particu- forever. With American manufacturing gain- lar story. I can look at all the drawings and ing steam, increased investment in construc- have a lot of memories and connections tion and services has given a much needed that come back.” boost to an ever-depreciating infrastructure Working with charcoal and dry pastel, stock. Westerveld seemingly captures in two di- On an international level, the end of U.S mensions the seasoned reality of his sub- dependence on foreign energy imports will jects. This exhibit, much like his previous have geopolitical ripples for years to come. work, focuses on giving a face and a voice It is important to remember that though the to people whose stories and existence often U.S will not be importing energy, the country courtesy remains unknown. The captivating gaze is still connected to global energy markets. of the portraits seems to communicate a This necessitates the support for current sys- - tems of international treaties and the main- sion of human experience and emotion, tenance of safe shipping lanes - while stabil- beyond the three dimensions of length, ity in key energy producing regions remains width, and height. Many of the portraits of the utmost importance. A disruption in shift from a tea-stained negative space to a Iraq, Saudi Arabia or any other major pro- striking sense of photorealism and charac- ducer will still cause the price citizens pay at the pump to spike. However, the manner in the transition and contrast between rural which America deals with the international and urban landscapes. community will change. Instead of relying “I was trying to understand how the so heavily on the stick of military force, the identity of these people, their perception U.S now has the carrot of energy exportation of their own identity was changing as they that will allow us to bolster allies and combat move from the rural landscape to the urban the weight of OPEC and Russian directives. landscape, which in China are extremely Though North America may not assume different spaces,” Westerveld said. “I was OPEC’s role as manager of global energy going with the idea that the people, as prices, greater production parity will greatly they move between those different spaces, undercut the strength of nations reliant on were going to have very different changes hydrocarbon exports. and perceptions of their own identity, in As cries of America’s decline contin- the same way that, for me, moving from ue to build, the shale revolution will only compound the U.S. economic recovery and France to the United States has changed a continue to bolster the country’s dominant lot of things about myself.” sources of economic, military and cultural Westerveld talked extensively of the power. When U.S. oil production peaked relationship between his portraits and his in 1971 and the Oil Embargo shortly fol- major, Geography. A class on campus led lowed, the U.S. positioned energy as a mat- Levi to research Chinese migrant workers ter of national security. This has led to 40 before studying abroad in Kunming in Fall 2013. He was able to pursue his research and counterintuitive objectives. The U.S. is further with a Ph. D. student who focuses poised to realize the tremendous economic on ethnic minorities among Chinese mi- and diplomatic gains associated with energy grant workers. independence and a new system of Ameri- He pointed out one woman’s portrait, levi westerveld can foreign policy that may allow rhetoric to pointing out the form of her safety helmet One of the dozen featured drawings of immigrant faces in Westerveld ’15.5’s exhibit. match action. underneath her hijab. The question of how 20 arts SCIENCES | March 6, 2014 Orchestra Battles Student Indifference Kevin Dong ’16 and other members of revive interest in the orchestra for the to either perform or attend an orchestral Continued from front page. the orchestra to form a committee with next academic year. Wyard-Yates said performance. the intention of rebuilding the program. that the orchestra recruiting commit- For Massey, the value of the Col- If numbers stay low, Massey will en- They put up posters at the start of the tee will focus on recruiting freshman lege Orchestra is the opportunity it af- courage orchestra musicians to practice spring semester in the fall. She fords the students to play a key role in with the Chamber Music program, which with the hope of also noted that performances. He said that at Williams performs with smaller ensembles. He attracting new reinvigorating the College, the concern of the orchestra is wants to bolster advertising efforts for players. Unfortu- “You develop your artistic spirit of the group prestige, where only a select number the next school year in order to prevent a nately, the flyers would be impor- of students are integrated into a group situation similar to what he experienced did not have much - tant to attracting comprised mostly of musicians from last fall, when just six people signed up of an impact. self in a position where it more students and other orchestras in New England. At the for auditions. Dong says that is only noticed when it’s maintaining mem- College, community musicians are only Although membership has declined, he knows there are bership. In years integrated to fill instrumental gaps for Massey noted that he has not experi- plenty of students unwelcome. past, she recalled performances. enced a substantial change in concert at the College with -andrew j. massey u p p e r c l a s s m e n “You develop your artistic ability attendance. He said he was surprised at ample abilities to conductor college orchestra hosting parties and you find yourself in a position where the size of the audience at the orches- play, having met after concerts — it is only noticed when it’s unwelcome,” tra’s concert last November with only many competent events that made Massey said, noting that when playing 16 players, in which they performed in student musicians the orchestra more in a professional orchestra, a musician tandem with the College choir. The Col- in the pit orchestra for the 2014 Winter fun to be a part of. In a similar vein, is only noticed after having made a mis- lege choir, too, has experienced a similar Term Musical “Les Miserables.” Dong said that one incentive they might take. “At Middlebury we make a point decline in membership. In the immediate future, students advertise would be a tour to a nearby that every musician has an opportunity Wyard-Yates has teamed up with like Dong and Wyard-Yates will look to city such as Boston, Montreal or Albany to be an individual musician.” Lecturer Links Environment and Art By Toby Aicher in faces to create what he calls the hopeful start-up that seeks to build biodegrad- weeks. We’re trying to build materials that Cameron Visiting Artist Jake Winiski monster. able materials from agricultural waste to reduce the amount of input energy by half gave a lecture titled “How an Artist Be- “Over the years, as I’ve taken on a replace the energy intensive and non-de- and can be used for their three or four week comes A Biologist” last Tuesday, Feb, 25. more biological perspective from my sec- gradable materials often used in packaging cycle and then can be tossed out in the gar- In his talk Winiski detailed an unordinary ond life, I’ve become really fascinated by such as Styrofoam blocks. den because they’re gonna decompose.” life spent in pursuit of the fantastic in both the idea of the hopeful monster,” he said. To build materials they use the prop- Winiski only recently started working his capacity as an artist and a scientist. “Evolution is not always a slow gradual - for Ecovative. He had worked a variety of Winiski is a research biologist for the process but sometimes manifests itself phae, or their root-like structures that jobs to support his artistic endeavors, and company Ecovative and he presented their as a dramatic mutation. And that gives a bury underground. They take agricultural stumbled into his job as a research biolo- efforts to build biodegradable materials portion of the population this mutation, waste, such as corns husks or oat hulls, gist. from fungi and their vision of a world rid and it’s essentially a monster. That muta- and place them into a template that shapes “Over the last few years, mostly by ac- of Styrofoam and other environmentally them into the desired material like a pack- cident, but with a little bit of luck, I backed disastrous industrial materials. He also ex- which allows it to out-compete the rest of aging brick around a television. They add my way into working as a research biolo- hibited his strange yet wonderful art that the population, and it essentially becomes fungus and their hyphae spread around the gist,” he said. “My only formal training is revolves around a self-constructed minia- normal, or it fails and it’s bred out of the material and hold it together like glue. The in the arts. I think I took one biology class ture world. larger population. What I’m trying to do hyphae then digest and convert the feed- as an undergrad. I essentially knew noth- Winiski began the lecture showcasing with these images is create an entire world stock into a stronger material called chitin- ing before coming. I learned on my feet and explaining his work as an artist. All his full of hopeful monsters. “ ous polymer. They heat and dry the mate- through observation.” The idea for the model was catalyzed rial to inactivate the fungus. At the end of Winiski works in product design. He created in 2009, when he “started build- by his interest in crypozoological photog- the process they have a strong material of explained how each species has their own ing this room-size model with junk: card- raphy, or photos of supposed mythical chitin and dead hyphae that can be used as unique properties and uses, and he ex- board, paint, tape, etc.” creatures such as big foot and the lochness packaging material. plores how new species can be incorporat- The image he showed us of his entire monster. Winiski hopes that this material will ed into the production process. world looked chaotic and colorful, a jumble “Cryptozoological photography is a start to be used in place of synthetic indus- “What I do is essentially just play, of oddball materials seemingly randomly beautiful indication of how the human trial materials such as Styrofoam. something that many biologists under- placed. The model he has now contains the myth-building impulse has been trans- “When you get a TV or most any other stand,” Winiski said. “I try new materials, ferred to the modern age and our current product by mail it comes with Styrofoam observe how they work, how it feels, how “It has gone through constant break- technology,” Winiski said. “The simplicity corner blocks and you immediately chuck it resists being cut and what it does when ing down and reconstruction,” Winiski of interjecting into a photograph, circling them out. But one cubic foot of this mate- it’s growing.” said. “I’ll rip it apart and rebuild it. In the a blurry image, and proposing the possi- rial takes the amount of energy given off by Winiski ended by challenging the dis- end it needs to be a stand-alone world bility of some amazing humanoid creature burning a liter and a half of petrol,” he said. tinction between artist and scientist. He that is governed by similar rules than was fascinating. But instead of going out “Furthermore, that Styrofoam is going to posited that they both require a similar this world. So when materials go into this - way of thinking, and said skills crossed world, they don’t come out.” building my own worlds, and I would look sands of years. Styrofoam accounts for over between his two professions. Winiski takes up-close photos of dif- for Sasquatches inside it.” “I leveraged non-linear explorative, ferent areas of his models and later paints The second part of Winiski’s lecture and most of that is coming from products creative experiences and applied that to them. His images are a 50:50 hybrid of described his work for the company Ecova- that are ephemeral, that were packaged in research and developed of biomaterials for photography and painting. Often he paints tive. Ecovative is a recent material science a TV, shipped and was only used for two Ecovative,” he said. one life left BY CHAPIN BOYER I don’t like real-time strategy games All that needs to concern the player is The three starting difficulties merely that the game will give you is that your very much. Turn-based ones like Fire the resources they must gather and the grant you a different number of starting villagers are banished, the mechanics Emblem occasionally entertain me, but buildings that need building. To do this, resources. “Easy” is quite liberal with allow you to create and discover your for the most part I prefer to play games the player merely marks an area on the its starting resources, even building you own narratives within the game. I built where you only control one character, or map to gather resources or clicks on some houses to get you going. “Normal” some new houses in my town the other maybe a small group. As such, Banished spots where they want buildings built. is where I spend most of my time, and it day so that the kids who were coming is not the kind of game I would usually They can then go into the menu and as- grants you enough resources to be able of age could move out of their parents’ consider playing. As a top-down city- sign some villagers to those jobs, and to muddle through the first winter or houses. A ten-year-old girl immediately building simulator, Banished should the villagers automatically go to work. so without panicking. The “Hard” diffi- occupied one of the houses. She lived never have appealed to me and seemed All that is left then is to culty is where things get alone for a full three years before marry- destined to slip past my radar. That sit back and wait un- tricky. On this level ing (the game takes place in the Middle is, until I got my hands on the thing. til the player needs Banished you barely have any Ages — it was a different time), and the My big problem with playing strategy to manipulate some- resources and the vil- entire time she was the town’s only mer- games is that there are too many little thing else about the town. If the player lagers have just departed the cart they chant, dealing with the traders from the people to control all at once and I can’t isn’t too keen on watching a bunch of came in on. With no buildings and few outside world all on her own. It was a make them fight properly and oh god digital villagers gather wood and raise resources, the player will need to play random moment that I had not planned, I forgot about the buildings and what houses, the game has an option to speed strategically in order to keep their ban- but one that drew me so much deeper the hell is a pylon, how do I even make up time. And the beauty of Banished is ished families fed and sheltered through into the game. Suddenly, alongside the tanks?! There is a lot going on is what I this simplicity of gameplay. Once you the first year’s winter. Even once you groups of faceless villagers, I had a con- am saying. get some resources flowing and have a have gotten past the starting difficulty, nection to one person within the village: Banished slows all of that chaos stable source of food, your town will be spikes in population or natural disas- this spunky ten year old who decided to way down. For one thing, there is no able to make it through the winters and ters can wreak havoc on a town, requir- be a merchant. Every time she made fighting in the game. Each game starts you just need to keep up with the pace ing some quick thinking and careful a sale it brought a bit of a smile to my on a randomly generated map with a of growth. There is no win condition ex- planning to survive. face. Call me sappy or ridiculous, but small group of villagers. Banished from cept surviving and growing your small When all is said and done though, moments like that make Banished well their previous homes, the villagers must settlement into a grand town that you it is not the game’s difficulty that drew worth the $20 price of admission. And build a new town in which to survive. can be proud of. me to Banished. Instead, it is the sto- hey, the whole game was created by one No bandits attack the town; no mon- This is not to say that the game is ries that the game is capable of telling. guy, so that is pretty cool too. Now if sters or wild beasts stalk the forests. not challenging, because it certainly is. While the only pre-written narrative you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a town to run. March 6, 2014| SPORTS21 Men’s Basketball Heartbroken at Final Buzzer in NESCAC By Joe MacDonald ball to the basket. More importantly, The men’s basketball season ended in defensively, he’s really a hard-nosed, disappointment with a 78-75 loss in the competitive player, and I think his NESCAC semifinals against Williams on presence on the floor certainly made a Saturday, March 1. difference for them over the stretch run.” Knowing they needed a win to extend Michael Mayer, Williams’ all- their season, the Panthers had arguably conference center, established his their best offensive first half of the dominance early in the contest, sinking season, scoring 50 points against the three of the Ephs’ first four shots. Mayer number-nine Ephs. Middlebury could finished the night with a game-high 27 not keep up its hot shooting from the points to go along with seven rebounds. first half after the break, however, and “Williams’ philosophy offensively is Williams outscored the Panthers by 14 in to run their offense through their five- the second half to win the game. man,” Jeff Brown said, “and he’s an This season will be the first since ideal player for that style because he 2006-2007 that Middlebury will not can pass…and post-up with an array of compete in the NCAA tournament. After offensive moves.” starting the season 6-5, the Panthers After the triple from Rooke-Ley, partially righted the ship and finished 17- things started to roll for the Panthers, 9. Of those final four losses, three came who finished the first half on a 20-5 by a total of eight points, run, with the only and two of those came at the Williams’ points coming Jeff Patterson hands of Williams. All season from Mayer. Captain Jack Roberts ’14 soared through the air to try to block this Ephs three-pointer. long, the Panthers seemed “The biggest thing Joey Kizel ’14 had an Williams proved too much for Middlebury in the second half of a 78-75 Ephs win. to be plagued by an inability for us was really astounding 19 first- from deep in the second half, while to three. On the final possession, Kizel to close out halftime leads, a not having a tre- half points. Dylan blemish to which Head Coach Sinnickson ’15 also had Williams got to the charity stripe 22 had just six seconds to bring the ball up Jeff Brown admitted. mendous balance a big first half, scoring times in the second half and hit 18 free the floor, and could only muster a deep, “The biggest thing for as an offensive nine, while Jake Brown throws. contested three-pointer that did not find us was really not having ’17 chipped in seven off “They increased their defensive the net. tremendous balance as an team.” the bench. pressure [in the second half] and really “Saturday’s game looked very similar offensive team,” Jeff Brown All told, Middlebury kind of controlled us,” Jeff Brown said. to most of the games we played this year,” said. “At times, when things shot 64.5 percent from “I think the biggest factor was the Daley said. “Unfortunately that is what cranked up and we got into JEFF Brown the floor and 71.4 differential from the free throw line.” happens when you rely almost entirely more of a half court team, we Head Coach percent from deep, “We didn’t make any defensive on the three point shot...This was a trend really lacked the close to the where Kizel went 5-6, adjustments at the half and Williams that will not continue next year.” basket attack that would get in the first half, far clearly did because we only scored 25 Kizel leaves the basketball program us to the free throw line and get some outpacing Williams’ still-impressive second half points,” Matt Daley ’16 said. with 1493 career points, good for fourth easy baskets.” 42.4 percent shooting from the floor and “They didn’t allow us to get open looks all-time on the Middlebury scoring list, In the Williams game, the two teams 44.4 percent from beyond the arc. from three point land because we hit 10 just five behind Kevin Kelleher ’80. battled neck-and-neck for much of the Last time these two teams met, in the first half.” Additionally, Kizel exits as the all-time first half. With 6:43 remaining in the Middlebury held a 16-point lead at Sinnickson made a lay-up to open the leader in three-point percentage and free game a Hayden Rooke-Ley three-pointer halftime, but a significant decline in second half and extended the Panthers’ throw percentage. gave Williams a four-point advantage. outside shooting from the Panthers and lead to 13, but Williams consistently The responsibility of filling the void Rooke-Ley was inactive the last time Williams’ ability to make a lot of free chipped away over the next 13 minutes, left by Kizel next year will fall to Jake these two teams met, but the senior throws down the stretch combined to finally tying the contest at 64-64 on Brown, who saw extensive minutes as guard had a major impact in this contest, allow the Ephs to pull away for a three- a pair of Mayer free throws with 7:27 the team’s point guard this season. scoring 14 points off the bench. point win. The story was much the same remaining. “He certainly showed during the “He’s a very tough competitor,” Jeff on Saturday. Middlebury shot just 28.6 Down two with just over a minute stretch run that he’s capable of running Brown said, “He’s able to drive the percent from the floor and 18.2 percent remaining, Middlebury ran a poor the team,” Jeff Brown said, “We’re offensive possession, but James Jensen really high on his potential next year to ’14 kept the Panthers’ hopes alive by energize our offense and also to be able knocking down an uncharacteristic to score some points himself.” panther sc0reboard jumper, tying the game at 73-73. As a class, the team’s six seniors – A foul on the ensuing possession led Kizel, Jensen, Jack Roberts ’14, Nate Another second half collapse ends to a pair of free throws from Rooke-Ley. Bulluck ’14, Albert Nascimento ’14 and L men’s basketball vs. Williams 78-75 the men’s season in the NESCAC Kizel then missed a three-pointer and – Luis Alvarez ’14 – finish with a 96-19 after Jensen committed the necessary record overall, 31-8 in the NESCAC, four After an undefeated conference foul – Williams first-year Duncan NESCAC tournament appearances, three women’s hockey vs. Conn. College 2-1 L (OT) regular season, women’s hockey drops the NESCAC tourney opener. Robinson made it a three-point game NCAA tournament appearances and one by hitting 1-2 free throws. On the other NESCAC championship. Bowdoin ran away with this one in L end, Kizel forced a foul from Rooke- Jeff Brown looked back fondly on men’s hockey vs. Bowdoin 6-3 the second period. Ley, who appeared to commit the foul what the class of ’14 has accomplished. Women’s lax validates third-place unintentionally, but the move worked “A tremendous amount of effort W ranking, defeating Tufts in the women’s lacrosse at Tufts 12-8 NESCAC season opener out for Williams because it took away the and unselfishness with the group,” Jeff opportunity for Kizel to attempt a game- Brown said, “Jack and James, probably tying three-pointer. L Rough start for the 18th-ranked two of our best defensive players on this men’s lacrosse vs. Tufts 24-6 Kizel hit both of his free throws to year’s team, really did a lot of the quiet Jumbos. draw within one before a pair of free stuff in the background for the program. throws extended the Williams lead back They are just a real, real special group.”

Will the women’s hockey team get Can the Middlebury ski team Last regular season weekend for Will Liza Herzog ’14 lead the an at-large bid to the eight-team the NCAA men. Pick ‘em: team in scoring again this editors’ picks NCAA Championship? weekend at NCAA Nationals? 25 Kentucky at 1 Florida (-8) weekend at Conn. College?

YES NO FLORIDA No They’re too good not to. They lack the manpower needed. Is it March Madness yet? There’s a lot of offensive

Alex Morris (33-31, .516) NO YES Florida YES I googled it, and there are a bunch As much as I hate agreeing with Are you serious with these With 23 other players on the of teams out west that are supposed y’all, I can’t see the Panthers falling questions, Joe? I like the Gators at roster, I like my chances. to be really good. Apparently they out of the top eight. home. have mountains there too. Fritz Parker (34-39, .466)

YES NO Florida YES Middlebury entered their upset I want to pick Kentucky, but they I heard she’s really good. against Conn. College ranked third. on its home mountain, I think top- haven’t been playing well of late. I think they’ll get in. Joe macdonald (29-36, .446) 22sports | March 6, 2014 Women’s Hockey Tourney Ends in Upset By Colin McIntyre ten minutes into overtime. Conn. College announced on Sunday, March 9. As the Connecticut College came to Kenyon the period. They peppered the net with 13 Arena on Saturday, March 1 and upset shots to the Camels’ 2, but were unable to could receive an at-large bid. top seed Middlebury in a 2-1 overtime take the lead. The NESCAC tournament soldiers win that saw the Panthers eliminated “I think we created good chances and controlled the puck well,” Captain Sara where third-seeded Williams will host the always, we will work hard to get better NESCAC tournament history. The eighth- remaining teams. Middlebury, meanwhile, every day.” seeded Camels scored ten minutes into the sudden-death overtime period to advance to next week’s championship at Williams. Camels went ahead when Ashley Anctil managed to slip a rebound shot past bemoaned each Middlebury near miss, Annabelle Jones ’15 six minutes into the as the Panthers saw several close shots contest. Minutes later, Amanda Bogue by Camels goalie Kelsie Fralick, who had penalties on the night. 39 stops on the night. The Middlebury Middlebury had several chances to equalize, as they kept up pressure in the power play to send the game into overtime. Wardwell ’16 both had close calls but the In extra time, both teams had opportunities, none closer than Joyce’s trailing 1-0. break where she was pulled down by The second period was all Middlebury. The Panthers immediately controlled the puck to Pam Schulman ’17 in the zone. Schulman crossed the puck into the crease “We moved the puck really well on the to Joyce, who knotted the game with a one- time goal. our chances,” Laura McConney ’15 said, Middlebury continued to dominate, The Panthers allowed Conn. College FILE PHOTO Forward Katie Sullivan ’15 and the Panthers expected to dispatch eighth-seeded Men’s Lacrosse Blown Away in Home Opener College on Saturday, March 8. The The 18th-ranked Middlebury men’s was ultimately not even close to enough, slow start on Saturday, March 1, as they speaks to the total dominance that the early leg-up in the race to keep pace with Jumbos achieved on the day. more goals to increase their already Alumni Stadium. ’16 – the second leading scorer in the goals cut the Middlebury lead to one, the Middlebury goal at a high rate. Taylor Pirie ’15 netted Middlebury’s scored seven more to increase their lead quarter, Giarrusso was impressive as he quarter. Thought Middlebury got on the cut the lead to one with 10 minutes remaining in the game, Broome put The 18-goal loss was the worst at this point but was matched by another Middlebury was able to play a much season, when Harvard beat Middlebury more balanced game against Plattsburgh, their lead to 12-2. Giarrusso came up big 23-3. slightly outshooting the Cardinals and quarter. Middlebury. – including 23 in the second quarter Anthea von viragh The Panthers return to NESCAC play alone – to Middlebury’s 17. Middlebury throughout the game. Gallagher was 10- when they play host to Connecticut By Gabe Weismann but quickly responded with an unassisted ability to learn and improve will be The women’s lacrosse team came out Catherine Fowler ‘15 and Maggie Caputi tested next Saturday, March 8, when Panthers going into and limit the Jumbos’ scoring. Benotti College in New London, CT. The Camels, “We’re really to give the Panthers a better game than excited about this they did in 2013. season as I think we have a lot of by the Numb3rs in key moments during the game. Jumbo Kali Digate, Middlebury things going well Co-captain Deoul admitted that the Career scoring rank for Joey Kizel ’14 began an uncontested eight in the history of the men’s basketball for us.” the break. However, program. 4 an unassisted goal The last year the men’s hockey team “We are really happy with how we Hannah Deoul ‘14 played against a tough opponent,” Deoul winning record. This year’s team 1989 This scoring run included two Defender Katie Ritter, gave the we realized we have a lot to learn. We Middlebury athletic teams that fell in Panthers what they witnessed this as we tried to switch weekend. 3 Katie Ritter ’15, Ali Sciarretta ’16, and Herzog led the Panthers in points, Delaina Smith ’17. heading into the spring season. We’re really excited about this season as I 0 Panthers let in another goal to Digate, Shots for Tufts men’s lacrosse in with two goals and an assist. 77 March 6, 2014| SPORTS23 Men’s Hockey Iced in NESCAC Playoff By John Wyman Middlebury went into the second the Panthers, but Bowdoin snatched direction. A pain as heavy as a half-dozen hockey period with an extended six-on-four an unexpected two-on-one rush. As the “This team had a lot of potential,” players followed Middlebury’s season- advantage, and did not disappoint. Bowdoin players criss-crossed in front Donahoe said. “But in the end it was just ending 6-3 loss to Bowdoin on Saturday, Belisle threaded a wrister through a of BonDurant, the puck jarred loose, but potential most of the time. There were March 1. The Panthers saw an early lead quarrelsome traffic jam and past a one player with his back to the net found some times when we played great: versus slip away before the game hopeless Bowdoin goalie it again and whirled it past Bondurant to Norwich, in the third period versus became out-of-reach late. to even the score. seal the game. Hamilton and last weekend too.” Louis Belisle ’14 led “There is a lot of Once more, Bowdoin “It was a disappointing way to go out, With an 8-4-1 record at home, the Panthers on offense, talent on this team responded immediately. for sure,” Freyre said. “Having played the 2013-14 team gave the Kenyon scoring two trademark For Moorfield-Yee, the the way we did the past two weekends, crazies plenty to cheer about. While power-play goals, fellow still. But, they width of his stick handle this wasn’t what we were expecting... the leadership, camaraderie and on-ice seniors Robbie Donahoe have got to find a was enough to parry In the third period...we were thinking, services of the seniors will be missed ’14, John Barr ’14, Michael away the first point ‘This will be our last period unless we do next year, the core of returning players Longo ’14, Ben Wiggins vehicle to realize blank shot on goal, but something here.’” certainly possesses enough scrap and ’14, Nick BonDurant ’14 that potential more Bowdoin’s fore-checking The Panthers finish the season with skill to let the goal horns roar in Kenyon and Thomas Freyre ’14 all pressure forced another an 11-11-3 record, the first time since next season. skated in their final game consistently.” costly turnover that led 1989 that they have failed to finish above “There is a lot of talent on this team for the Panthers. directly to a go-ahead- .500. The team battled through doubts still,” Donahoe said. “But, they have got Playing in front of Robbie donahoe ’14 goal for Bowdoin just and adversity all season long, and then to find a vehicle to realize that potential a packed house, the four minutes into the saw their schedule cut short as things more consistently.” Panthers came out fast and defenseman period. appeared to be moving in a positive loose from the puck drop. Middlebury called Youngster Mike Najjar ’17 a timeout to rally its lofted a creative pass over skaters, but the team some Bowdoin defenders would fail to muster even for a good chance, and minutes later a single shot on goal for the remainder Robbie Dobrowski ’15 freed up Longo on of the period while surrendering a pair a break with a no-look dish in the neutral of goals. Two well-struck Polar Bear zone. Eventually, Derek Pimentel ’15 slapshots from the top of the zone would forced a Bowdoin hooking penalty and find open twine and vault Bowdoin the power-play unit cashed in for the ahead 5-2 going into the third period. first goal. The quick release of Belisle While the Panthers showed renewed beat the Bowdoin goalie on the blocker energy in the third period, it was too side, the puck snatching just an inch of little too late. Longo and Jake Charles his jersey on its way through. ’16 delivered some strong body-checks The lead would be short-lived, as and Barr worked hard on the offensive two minutes later Bowdoin intercepted boards to open up chances for his a breakout of the Middlebury zone and teammates. Eventually, George Ordway unluckily the defender who dove to ’15 would come steaming across the blue break up the shot tipped the opportune line and snap off a bullet that brought attacker’s shot perfectly under the Middlebury within two. cross bar. As Middlebury took the goal, As time wore down, Bowdoin battened Bowdoin quickly gained a power-play down the hatches and the Panthers had Mchael o’hara and one minute later surprised Panther trouble setting up sustained pressure in The men’s hockey season came to an end with the 6-3 loss against Bowdoin on goalie Liam Moorfield-Yee ’16 with a the offensive zone. With seven minutes wraparound goal from behind the net. left, a power-play opportunity arose for Track Speeds to School Records and National Rankings By Fiona Maloney-McCrystle strong showing in the mile, taking 12th with one week remaining to qualify for the national championship meet at the The Middlebury track and field team place in a time of 5:02.35. Maxwell, nationals. University of Nebraska on March 14 and was back at Boston University on Feb. along with Morris, Erzsie Nagy ’17 and “I was very surprised,” Hetzler said. “I 15. 28 and Mar. 1, where this year’s Open Jackie Kearney ’16, was also a member knew we had the talent on the team, but I New England championship brought of the women’s distance medley relay didn’t know we had it to that extent. We together the region’s best athletes across team, which took sixth place in a time had known we could run a fast relay for Divisions I, II and III. The Panthers had of 11:47.43 to earn All-New England a couple of years now. It is so fulfilling to seven individuals and three relay teams honors and solidify a sixth place national finally put one together as a senior.” compete over the course of the two day ranking. The other relay for the day, the the middlebury event, and brought home three new “We were hoping to go under 12 distance medley team of Nichols, Sam school records. minutes,” Nagy said. “During my leg, Cartwright ’16, Luke Carpinello ’16, and great eight On the women’s side, my goal was to get as Wilder Schaaf ’14.5 took fifth place with Alex Morris ’16 continued many people as I could. a time of 10:06.19. RANKINGCHANGE TEAM her indoor success when she “I knew we had the I could hear people “As a whole, I think we were a little Mac’s Musings broke her own school record shouting splits around disappointed with how the DMR went,” WoMen’s lacrosse in the 400 meters by over talent on the team me and I thought they Schaaf said. “We basically ran the same were a little slow so I time we did earlier in the season and we These girls are poised for a half a second. Morris posted but I didn’t know 1 monster season was shocked. That is were hoping for more improvement.” a time of 56.97, just sneaking we had it to that under the 57-second mark why I love running the The remaining Panther men were track & field 1600 in the DMR; the Jason McCallum ’14, who took 12th in and finished in ninth place extent. We had They seem to break records field is already spread the pole vault with a mark of 14’ 9.5”, overall. known we could 2 every week “I was incredibly nervous out so you just have to and Holtzman, who took 14th in the 200 about running this 400. run a fast relay for go after people. I was meters with a time of 22.24, bringing women’s hockey just trying to run as fast home the third and final school record of Going into the race I was a couple of years Stunning loss, but this as possible so the team the day. ranked 17th in the country squad could still compete now.” could go to nationals.” With several individuals and relays and you must be in the top 3 for a national title 17 to qualify for nationals, so In the field events, sitting – for the moment – in contention senior captain Laura for this season’s NCAA championships, women’s tennis I knew that I needed to pull peter Hetzler ‘14 out a significantly better Strom ’14.5 posted a a small group of athletes will travel time to move myself up Sprinter mark of 5’ 7”, continuing to Boston on Thursday, March 6, to 4 rankings sounds good the rankings,” Morris said. her successful season try to bolster their times at the Tufts “When I saw 56.97 flash on and earning All-New Last Chance Meet. The team will then men’s tennis the screen I couldn’t believe England laurels with a remain in Boston for Saturday’s ECAC 5 A number-nine ranking it, I’ve never been so excited in my life. I fourth place finish in championships. ain’t bad either really benefited from a strong Division-I the high jump. Hannah Blackburn ’17 “The 4x400 relay is going to Tufts Skiing took 21st in the long jump with a mark because it’s a flat track,” Holtzman said. runner in my heat that I was able to chase Looking for some fast times of 16’ 7”. “The NCAA has come up with some 6 and she really pushed me right to line.” this weekend Morris is now the 13th-ranked athlete On the men’s side, the 4x400-meter conversions to help standardize times, in the nation in the 400 meters. team of Fritz Parker ’15, Bryan Holtzman and we think that we have a better men’s lacrosse “After the race, I didn’t even feel tired ’14, Alex Nichols ’17 and Peter Hetzler chance of running a faster time on a flat Can’t blame them for a loss and it was so humbling how excited all ’14 managed to bring home another track. If we don’t run as fast as we would 7 against #5 Tufts, but 24-6? my teammates and coaches were for me,” Middlebury school record, running a like, then we will run on a banked track she said. “It’s moments like that that time of 3:16.82 to break the previous on Saturday at ECACs.” jeff patterson No one knows who this really make all the pain worth it” mark of 3:18.61, set back in 2005. That Those who can make the final NCAA time ranks them 10th in the nation cut will finish their indoor seasons at 8 mysterious man is, but he Alison Maxwell ’15 also put forth a takes great photos sports 24

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FILE PHOTO The Final

jeff patterson CurtainWomen’s hockey, men’s hockey and men’s basketball all fell in their NESCAC playoff games this weekend, signalling an end to the season for Max Greenwald ’16 (top) and Dylan Sinnickson ’17 (bottom right). Katie Mandigo ’16 (middle) and women’s hockey still hope to play in the NCAA Tournament.

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