Issue 11

Plimpton Basement Destroyed During Party

Leo Kamin ’25 Managing News Editor

Plimpton House was left tras hed and severly vandalized af ter a large party on the night of Saturday, Nov. 12, and the early morning of Nov. 13.

The worst of the damage occurred in the basement, whe re three sections of drywall were bashed in using brooms, mops, and even the bottom of a table, warping support beams and po tentially damaging electric wi ring.

The damage was “an extreme act of vandalism and something that has not been seen on cam pus in several years,” said Chief of Police John Carter, who added that the repairs are estimated to cost more than $5,000.

Although many students sus pect that the damage was cau sed by members of the football team, no conclusive culpability has been established. Senior As sociate Dean of Students Dean Gendron has begun an inter nal investigation — known as a Community Standards Adju dication Process (CSAP) — into the matter, and the Amherst Col lege Police Department is con ducting a parallel investigation.

Dean of Students and Chief Student Affairs Officer Liz Agos to connected the act to an on going problem with vandalism on campus, which she said had cost the college a quarter of a million dollars in the five years prior to 2021. Just the previous weekend, Morris Pratt Hall was closed to registered events for the rest of the semester after

extensive damage to bathrooms during a party.

Plimpton residents described a rowdier-than-normal party on Saturday night. The gathering began as a volleyball team event, and though the space was reser ved for a party of just 20 people, Plimpton Community Advisor William Prince ’25 said that by 11 p.m. the common room, entry room, and library were entirely filled with people.

Multiple Plimpton residents and party attendees reported that a large number of football players were also at the party, which occurred just a few hours after the team lost to its archrival Williams.

When Plimpton residents awoke on Sunday morning, they found their building trashed. Prince said that, on the first

floor, “you couldn’t step without knocking over a bottle of so mething.” He also said he found a red Solo cup full of urine on the landing of the stairs.

In an email to Plimpton re sidents on Nov. 13, Community Development Coordinator for North Campus Doug Michaels described the damage. He wrote that “exit signs have been torn off of walls” and that “books in the library have been severely damaged.” The Plimpton library contains a number of old books and a fireplace constructed using bricks and wood taken from Isaac Newton’s home in London. The fireplace did not appear to be damaged.

Prince remembered thinking that the damage to the upper

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Siddhartha V. Shah Begins Tenure as New Mead Director

Ethan Foster ’25 Managing News Editor

Siddhartha V. Shah assumed the position of John Wieland 1958 director of the Mead Art Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Coming to Amherst after a stint as curator and head of ed ucation and civic engagement at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, Shah says that he hopes to foster integration between the museum and the broader campus commu nity in his role as director, while promoting projects that reflect the student body and its values.

The college officially an nounced on Aug. 10 that Shah would be assuming the director ship. In his position as director, Shah will oversee a wide range of responsibilities, from overseeing the museum’s collections, exhi bitions, and fundraising, to help ing faculty develop curricula, to promoting student involvement with the museum.

The Mead has lacked an offi cial director since David Little’s departure in the fall of 2021. As sociate Professor of Russian and Director of the Amherst Cen ter for Russian Culture Michael Kunichika served as interim director during the search for a long-term replacement.w

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GUAC at Amherst: Caelen McQuilkin '24E highlights the student group for underrepresented geology majors on campus.

American Punch Bowl Trade Deck: Alice Burg '23 offers readers a unique set of trading cards in her most recent cartoon.

Invitation": Eren Levine '24 reviews a recent dance performance at Mount Holyoke featuring Five College dancers.

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Photo courtesy of Leo Kamin ’25

POLICE LOG

>>Nov. 11, 2022

9:22 p.m., Gooding Field ACPD responded to a re port of a person sitting in their vehicle and watching a team practice. The per son was not known to the caller and was making the team uncomfortable.

>>Nov. 11, 2022

12:33 p.m., Boltwood Avenue

ACPD responded to a report of a suspicious group of college-aged men at the bus stop that had approached a woman. One man had engaged in a conversation that made the woman uncomfort able.

>>Nov. 11, 2022 2:07 p.m., Humphries House Community Service responded to a noise complaint. CSOs reported students practicing music. They were asked to lower the volume.

>>Nov. 12, 2022 12:03 a.m., Cadigan Reli gious Center ACPD responded to a report of loud voices in the

Lycium construction site. The voices were found to be coming from Newport.

>>Nov. 12, 2022 8:05 p.m., Chapman House ACPD and AFD responded to a fire alarm caused by cooking smoke.

>>Nov. 12, 2022 9:54 p.m., King Hall Community Safety re sponded to a noise com

plaint.

>>Nov. 12, 2022 11:45 p.m., Newport Park ing Lot Community Safety re sponded to a noise com plaint.

>>Nov. 13, 2022 12:29 a.m., Plimpton House Community Safety re sponded to a noise com plaint of a loud party.

On Veterans Day, Former Service Members Reflect

Dylan Vrins ’26 Staff Writer

In terms of day-to-day life, vet erans at Amherst are just like other students — academics, extracur riculars, and campus jobs are just as much a part of their daily lives. “You can walk through campus and no one would ever know you’re a veteran,” said Edmund Kennedy ’23, a former Crew Chief for water assault vehicles in the military.

Friday, Oct. 11, was Veterans Day, a federal holiday that often receives little attention on campus. For Amherst’s veterans, a small but tight-knit community, the holiday provides an important moment of recognition and a chance to come together.

What separates Amherst’s vet erans are their experiences prior to attending Amherst, and the ways those experiences shaped who they are today. Scott Hopkins ’24E, the president of the Amherst College Military Association (ACMA), served in the Marine Corps for four years as a combat engineer, and ex pressed that his experiences in the military make certain aspects of college life easier. “I’ve lived on my own before, and the military gave me discipline and self-motivation. Those kinds of skills really helped me,” Hopkins said.

As president of ACMA, Hop kins works to create a sense of com munity among Amherst veterans, planning study sessions and meet-

ups in order to bring people togeth er. Donna Nestor ’24E, who served in the Gulf War as a combat medic, noted that although the veteran community at Amherst is small, it’s an important support system to have. “We have a small but very robust veteran military association here on campus,” Nestor said. “And we’re a pretty tight-knit group.”

Hopkins also organizes events where Amherst students can con nect with and get to know veter ans on campus. “Last year, we did a Veterans Day event where you could come get to know your vets,” he said. “We had food from Chipo tle and invited the whole campus. We want to build bridges on cam pus so that people can see we are just like everybody else.”

Hopkins also noted that the stigma associated with veterans due to the depiction of soldiers in the media, especially movies, can create barriers on campus. He said that these portrayals are “not nec essarily our lived experience.” Less ening the impact of this stigma, Hopkins said, is a major goal of the ACMA.

For many veterans, going back to school after serving in the mili tary is extremely challenging. Am herst has programs catered to out going veterans who want to pursue an undergraduate degree, includ ing the Veteran Education, Transi tion, and Support (VETS) Mentor Program, which was introduced this year and pairs each first-se

mester veteran with a staff or facul ty mentor with military experience.

Tianlei Zhang ’23, who served as a missile technician in the Navy, said that the college has been very helpful to him in making the tran sition to civilian life. “I know many other schools act like they give a shit, but it’s just lip service,” said Zhang. “Amherst luckily is not one of those.”

Besides the college’s programs for assisting veterans, Amherst’s small size has also been attractive for many veterans who chose to attend Amherst. “I wanted to learn from the best and get hands-on di rect learning, not some recording in a giant classroom where I’m one of 100,” said Hopkins.

Zhang expressed a similar sen timent, emphasizing that “there are many more opportunities to build long-lasting relations [at Amherst] compared to bigger universities.”

While the disciplinary skills learned in the military can be help ful in an education setting, other aspects of the transition to the classroom are challenging for many veterans. The difference in lifestyle between the military and college makes adjusting to Amherst diffi cult. “I was taught a certain way to live in the military and then college is totally different, so it’s almost like leaving home for a second time,” Hopkins said. “You have to learn everything [all] over again.”

“Nobody will understand some of the baggage you are going

through as a veteran unless they are fellow veterans,” Zhang said. Fortu nately, Zhang added, ACMA helps smoothen this transition by pro viding a community for veterans on campus.

On Friday, to celebrate Veterans Day, Amherst’s veterans were invit ed to have dinner with President Michael Elliott. However, some vet erans wished there had been more events on campus for Veterans Day. “I think it would have been nice to have something more cam pus-wide, that involve[d] students and brought a little bit more aware ness to military service,” Nestor said. “There’s such a long history of soldiers not being honored for the sacrifices we make.”

Other veterans expressed less

interest in celebrating the holiday.

“Each veteran has different opin ions about this, but for me, it was a job I had once — nothing more,” said Kennedy. “I think the United States likes the idea of Veterans Day more than most veterans I know personally.”

According to Zhang, howev er, the holiday provides a valuable opportunity to recognize the per sisting challenges that soldiers face even after coming home. “Twen ty-four veterans kill themselves every day, which is a lot more than those who die in combat,” he said.

“So [Veterans Day] is a day to bring awareness to veterans’ continued struggles and try to address those problems, so fewer of us end up taking our own lives.”

In light of Veterans Day, The Student spoke to students who previously served in the military about their Amherst experience.

Photo courtesy of Hantong Wu '23 via Shutterstock

Plimpton Repairs Estimated To Exceed $5,000

floors was not unusual for the morning after a party. But then he saw the basement.

Gaping holes had been smas hed into three of four walls in the largest room in the base ment, through which residents must walk to access their kitchen and do their laundry. Crumbling drywall, Solo cups, crumpled-up beer cans, and empty Red Bulls littered the ground. A table lay upside-down on the floor with its leg askew, seemingly from being smashed into the wall. A number of brooms and mops leaned up against the wall, the butts of which had clearly been used to smash small holes into the ceiling.

Gendron said that there was a possibility that the electrical conduit behind the drywall had been damaged, which would further increase the price of the repairs.

Prince said that the dama ge obviously went far beyond

the sort of mess inevitably left behind by a large party. “Tras hing Plimpton with bottles is one thing,” he said, “but actually destroying property — that defi nitely escalated it.”

“This was just, to me, beyond blatant disrespect towards the residents of Plimpton,” he said. “We’re gonna have to f — ing live with this.”

Prince also expressed sym pathy for the Plimpton custo dian, Ath Chea, who had to clean up much of the upstairs mess on Monday morning. “I don’t think it should be his job to pick up af ter the students,” he said.

One Plimpton resident, who requested to remain anonymous, citing fears of retribution, said that it was “definitely upsetting to see the space where I live be disrespected so much.”

“It definitely still hasn’t been fully cleaned up on the first floor,” said the student in an in terview on Nov. 15. “The floor and the tables are covered by this weird crud and hairs and alcohol

spilled everywhere.”

Prince was especially upset that Plimpton residents would have to deal with damage that they themselves did not cause. Prince said that some of his re sidents told him that the damage in the basement was caused by members of the football team.

When reached for comment, Flynn McGilvray ’23, the captain of the football team, wrote that he “did not have any information regarding the damage that hap pened at Plimpton.”

“I am just disappointed this would happen on our campus,” McGilvray wrote.

In an interview with The Stu dent, Gendron confirmed that the football team was an initial focus of the investigation, alt hough he added that the team was not the only focus.

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Gend ron sent an email to “individuals or groups who may be directly or indirectly associated with the happenings in Plimpton,” asking them to fill out a survey about

what they saw or did on the nig ht of Nov. 12. He told The Stu dent that this email was sent to all Plimpton residents, all indivi duals whose ID cards were used to unlock doors at Plimpton the night of the party, and the entire football team.

Gendron said that the foot ball team was included because “it was brought to our attention by multiple separate indepen dent sources of rumor — not substantiated facts — that mem bers of the football team were seen in some significant number there.”

Gendron’s survey was the beginning of a CSAP into the matter that he expects may take a while to come to a conclusion, especially because it is starting during the busiest part of the semester.

If an individual, group of individuals, student organiza tion, or sports team is deemed responsible for the damage fol lowing the investigation, they will go before a panel composed

of students, staff, and faculty, which will determine their cul pability. The responsible party or parties may at that point be asked to cover the repair costs, said Gendron.

In the meantime, Plimpton residents must continue their daily routines amid the damage.

“It’s really just a gross space to have to move through,” said the anonymous resident.

There is also the possibility that future repairs to the base ment area will impair residents’ access to the kitchen and laund ry machines.

Agosto said that the timeline for repairs remains unclear as the college assesses the dama ge to the structures beyond the drywall.

Going forward, Agosto said that the Office of Student Affairs will “work with our campus ope rations partners to minimize disruption and will communica te with the residents of Plimpton about next steps and disrup tions.”

A bent mop and an overturned table with drywall residue on it were seemingly used to inflict the damage.

Photo courtesy of Leo Kamin ’25

Photo courtesy of Leo Kamin ’25

Holes were punched in the drywall in the Plimpton basement, revealing the guts of the building. Red Solo cups, beer cans, and Red Bulls littered the tile floor.

New Mead Director Outlines Goals for Museum

is prioritizing the arts was really important to me.”

Shah brings to Amherst a deep passion for community engagement, most recently dis played in his work at the PEM, where he championed outreach through educational programs and student internships while also managing the museum’s art collections and developing exhi bitions.

Shah told The Student that one of his primary motivations for accepting the position at Amherst was the opportunity it afforded to work closely with students, faculty, and staff to de velop and enhance curricular of ferings while also curating exhi bitions that appeal to the college community and broader public.

“Those are my personal and my professional interests, and those things can come together when you work at a college museum,” he said. Shah was also drawn to the college’s liberal arts model. “The idea of a community that

In light of his dedication to outreach and education, Shah expressed that what he most looks forward to about his new duties as director is the oppor tunity and challenge of facili tating the museum’s integration into the broader community, and molding the museum itself into a space where students can see their identities and life ex periences reflected. “[The fact] that the museum could be a space where we could bring the intellectual [together] with the creative and engage students’ or anybody’s life experiences or identities really excites me,” he noted.

Part of Shah’s vision in real izing a space that both welcomes and challenges the community is the emphasis that he hopes to place on diversity and inclusion through the museum’s projects, specifically through projects that highlight a wide variety of vari

ous aspects of the student body and allow a broader audience to connect to and find meaning in art.

Shah recalled a formative ex perience in his work at the PEM that has shaped the way he ap proaches curation. Having for mulated an installation on India and the country’s independence movement, he noted that the ex hibition connected deeply with a wide range of people, many of whom had little personal con nection to South Asia. “They could relate to a history of colo nialism, and by seeing a gallery full of dark bodies other people could relate to this history of co lonialism and the importance of racial representation,” he said.

Executing projects that re flect the experiences of the stu dent body accurately will be a process that includes existing ar tifacts and artwork at the Mead, in addition to acquiring new ob jects that reflect different parts of the world and moments in

time that are not currently rep resented in its collections.

“I believe in the importance of diversifying art collections, and that collections should re flect the community, wherever the museum is,” Shah stated. “But I also think that there are countless stories that can be told with whatever collections muse ums have, they just need to pri oritize the kinds of stories and conversations that you can have with them, not the preciousness of the object.”

Shah also conveyed his hope that the museum can be a space that reaches the community in ways that go beyond the intel lectual, something that can be otherwise neglected in intense intellectual environments like Amherst’s.

“I think that there can be a lot more humor and joy in muse ums,” he said. “In general, we’re living such stress[ful] lives, and you have a lot on your mind and a lot to do. And I think I’m going

to try to bring an emphasis on the museum as a space of joy and humor with me.”

Shah also emphasized his de sire to create space for spirituali ty within the museum, albeit not in the traditional sense. “I’m not necessarily talking about focus ing on organized religion, or the new age. I’m talking about em pathy, connection, and wellness,” he explained. “I think that muse ums can be a place where people can find hope, be better citizens, and learn to manage their stress and anxiety. I hope to make that a real priority.”

As Shah works to develop stories that meet the needs of the college, he hopes to actively connect with a wide variety of its members, especially students, to understand the various perspec tives that they embody and the hopes and suggestions that they have for the Mead going for ward. “I want this to be a respite for people, so I want to find out what they want.”

Mammoth Moments in Miniature: Nov. 9 to Nov. 15

The Editorial Board Administration Announces Updated Masking Policy

On Friday, Nov. 11, the ad ministration sent an email to the campus community announcing an update to the college’s mask ing policy.

As a result of consistently low case loads on campus, effective Wednesday, Nov. 15, masks will be optional in all on campus locations apart from the Keefe Health Center and the Covid-19 Testing Center. Masks will be optional in all classrooms and labs going forward, except for those with instructors who elect to maintain the requirement.

Take Your Professor/Staff Out Program Returns

The college’s Take Your Pro fessor/Staff Out Program has re turned for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The program, designed to en

rich the college community by allowing students, faculty, and staff to develop relationships outside of the classroom and work environment by sharing a meal at 30Boltwood, will run through the remainder of the fall semester, ending on Dec. 10. The program will begin again in the spring semester.

Val Suspends Service of Deli Meats and Cheeses

Valentine Dining Hall has temporarily suspended serv ing its regular selection of deli meats and cheeses in response to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control announcing a recent listeria outbreak connect ed to a wide variety of deli prod ucts. Thus far, 16 people across the nation, including two in Massachusetts, have developed documented illnesses as a re sult of eating contaminated deli products in this wave of contam ination.

The 30Boltwood Restaurant, where students can take advantage of the Take Your Professor/Staff Out Program.

Photo courtesy of 30Boltwood

Geologists Empower, Build Community in GUAC

Caelen McQuilkin ’24E Managing Features Editor

“When people think of ge ology, they’re like, ‘Oh my god, rocks.’ Period. That’s it. Noth ing about the people who study them,” said Isabelle Caban ’23. “But we [as geologists] are shap ing the field we are in, which means our identities are import ant, and they should be heard.”

Among a group of students snacking on Chipotle burritos and bowls in the Ford Event Space, on Oct. 12, Caban, the president of Geologists Under represented at Amherst College (GUAC), used the student orga nization’s first large meeting of the year as a chance to explain its purpose.

“We are here to create a space where students who don’t feel like they are represented within the geosciences [can] talk about what it means to be represented … and also not represented, what it feels like, what those experi ences are like, and ways that we can make it so that marginalized identities aren’t so marginalized in the field of geology,” Caban said.

Through GUAC, which was founded in 2016, Amherst ge

ologists from underrepresented backgrounds have found com munity and empowerment. The group’s conversations encourage new understandings of what jus tice in the discipline could look like, and show how progress in the geosciences can be made.

Systemic Issues in the Field of Geology

Caban recounted that when she first joined GUAC, she was asked to think critically about the “image that comes up for people” when they imagine a ge ologist, and then “refram[e] that image, com[e] up with another image that includes … everyone who wants to be part of this dis cipline.”

Deep-running exclusivity in the field creates the need for this re-imagining.

“Geology is extremely white,” said Rachel Bernard, assistant professor of geology and GUAC’s faculty advisor. When she was a graduate student at the Universi ty of Texas at Austin, which has the largest graduate geoscience department in the country, there were over 200 students in the program, but “for almost all of the years I was there, there were no other Black people,” she said.

Systemic socioeconomic and racial inequities create a lack of diversity in all STEM disciplines, but Bernard attributed geolo gy’s specific problems in part to “people hav[ing] a perception of geology that is not entirely accurate.” Because many of the field’s older, more influential figures — who are largely white — first became interested in ge ology through outdoor activities like rock climbing and camping, she said, dialogue about geology often also centers around these outdoor activities that are most accessible to white, wealthy seg ments of the population.

In reality, however, these ac tivities are “not really an accurate portrayal of what most geologists do,” Bernard said. Much geosci ence work takes place in the lab.

“I think we’re doing a disservice when we focus on what people currently in geology — which are overwhelmingly white people — think is fun, and advertise that,” she said. “Because a lot of people think lab work is fun, and com puter programming is fun.”

The perception that a geo science degree is useless in the job market can also present a roadblock to diversity. “When I was an undergrad, I was really

Campus Corners: Val’s Plant Nook

In this new series, The Student highlights the unique spaces and places that make up our campus, in miniature.

At the end of the hallway on the second floor of Valentine Res idence Hall, there lives a small family of plants, among them a small pine tree, a spider plant, and many varieties of cacti. The plants line the windowsill and crowd a small table below the south-fac ing window. Valentine’s custo dian, Carl Carrano, takes care of them.

It was a stroke of luck that Car rano, who started working at Am herst in August 2022, inherited the plant corner from the custodi

an who worked in Val before him. Carrano, who describes himself as a plant hobbyist, has not yet added his own plants to the cor ner, but hopes to do so soon: “The first thing I want to do is grow a peanut plant, but right now I’m working on the wicking system to water the plants.” Carrano is cur rently trying out a wick watering system that uses absorbent rope to carry water from a mason jar to the roots of the plant. “That way, the plants decide how much water they need,” he said.

Carrano hopes that the plant corner can spark curiosity and start conversations about grow ing. “I’d like it if somebody could look at it and go, ‘Oh, that’s in teresting, I want to try that,’” he said. “You don’t even have to know anything about plants, you just have to want to know about plants. Even if you grow a cactus, grow something; that something creates oxygen, so create some thing.”

focused on doing a major that would get me a job right out of undergrad,” said Bernard. “That’s super important to a lot of peo ple, especially people who come from backgrounds where fami lies don’t go to grad school auto matically.”

While there are many jobs in industry, nonprofit sectors, and government that people can do with a bachelor’s in geology, “I don’t think people necessarily think about that,” said Bernard, “because most people haven’t met a geologist, so it’s not a job that’s on your radar.”

These exclusionary pieces of geology contribute to a measur able lack of diversity, Bernard explained. In 2018, she co-wrote a paper in Nature Geoscience that examined trends in the race and ethnicity of people who have earned doctorates in earth, at mospheric, and ocean sciences in the U.S. over the last 40 years.

The report determined that the number of geoscience doc torates earned by underrepre sented minorities has not signifi cantly risen from 1973 to 2016, while the number of doctorates earned by white people has re mained consistently high — and has even started to rise in the

past decade.

The study thus determined that “ethnic and racial diversity [in the field] are extremely low” and that “worse, there has been little to no improvement over the past four decades.”

Foundations of GUAC

This broader trend of mar ginalization in the field makes its impact at Amherst as well. In Fall 2016, geology majors Araceli Aponte ’17 and Pablo Saunders-Shultz ’19 organized GUAC’s first ever meeting.

“Araceli and I got the idea for a formal group out of conversa tions we were having about some difficulties in the department,” said Saunders-Shultz. Around this time, they had both started reading more on the subject, and started to realize how their expe riences were linked to the broad er picture of systemic issues.

He also added that coming up with the acronym GUAC, “felt so perfect that we had to make our group a reality after that.”

From there, Aponte and Saun ders-Shultz began brainstorming what the group and initial work shop could look like. “We want

Photo courtesy of Sylvie Wolff

GUAC Members Reflect on Group’s Importance

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ed underrepresented students in the department to have a place to express the issues they had, first and second-year students to have a place to build community so they would hopefully continue studying geology, and some stu dents to have some realizations about issues they might not have ever thought about before,” said Saunders-Shultz.

In the end, he continued, “I think we did a good job balanc ing these [goals].”

After holding their first meet ing, the group leaders sent a reflection about the event and common themes of discussion to the geology department. “In order to better serve underrep resented students, it is important to understand their experiences and needs,” the report read. It recounted how, by facilitating an authentic discussion, GUAC

brought to light student insecu rity about what they could do with a geology major, the lack of people’s exposure to geology in high school, and how import ant “special incidents of mentor encouragement” were to getting students to continue forward in geology.

Luz Lim ’20, another geology major, went to that first GUAC meeting in November 2016, af ter seeing a poster about it and discussing with some friends. “Seeing [the diversity of the attendees], for me, was really eye-opening,” she said. “I had been living in culture houses like La Casa, and I already knew that paying attention to identity [was important to me] — my back ground is Korean and Mexican. But I didn’t realize how much I wanted to talk about it within the academic setting.” She looked back on that first meeting as a “moment of awakening.”

Lim was ultimately inspired to lead the group following Aponte’s and Sanders-Shultz’s graduation. “I didn’t really know what I was doing,” she said. “I just knew that I really liked the space … and I wished that there were more of it.”

Creating Community, Contem plating

Geology

GUAC continues with com munity as its central value. Over the years, the group has intro duced more formal events in addition to the Chipotle dinner tradition.

Lim described one Spring 2018 event that was particular ly impactful, when the group brought Paula Zermeño ’92, who then worked as a scientific asso ciate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to campus. Students from all departments showed up, packing the space and filling the time with ques tions.

“It was another example of how people just wanted a space to be able to ask these questions,” she said, “and to see somebody who looks like them actually make it, and be able to comfort them as they expressed their in securities.”

Fiona Anstey ’24, who first started attending GUAC meet ings over Zoom her freshman year, says she feels that GUAC makes change by “lifting every body up.”

As a woman in the field, Anstey values the community she’s met in the group. She men tioned Sadie Gomez ’22, who has gone on to pursue a career teach ing geology, and Caban, who in terned with a research program at Stanford over the summer. “If she can do something like that, then it makes me feel like I can do something like that,” Anstey said. “You read about people in science magazines and stuff, and it seems so far removed, but if you’re in a small, tight-knit community, and there’s people who you know personally, [like] you’ve made jokes at Val dinner together … it makes it more hu

man, and attainable.”

Envisioning the club’s future as a space of sharing and em powerment, Caban said she was recently inspired by the Ameri can Geophysical Union’s Second National Conference on Justice in Geoscience this summer. Ber nard co-organized and launched the conference, which took place over three days and included sessions ranging in topic and style, such as “Burnout Culture,” reading sessions, arts and crafts sessions, and question driven sessions.

“I feel like [the conference] allowed for people who haven’t been heard before to speak, and those who … have their voices heard all the time, because they are in positions of power, to be quiet and listen,” Caban said. “I don’t think there’s a lot of spaces for that. And that’s what I want GUAC to be.”

Caban highlighted the im portance of talking about peo ple’s different identities in geol ogy. “We can try and be like oh, ‘we are all geologists,’” she said, “[But] just because we’re all ge ologists doesn’t mean we expe rience geology in the same way, and that’s important.”

“Different ways of learning, different ways of communicat ing … are unique to everyone depending on where they come from, and their background,” Caban added. “When we all come together, sharing those will maybe teach someone else a way of learning that they never even heard about before.”

Lim reflected that the com munity she found through GUAC was a huge part of her decision to continue forward in geology. One part of her expe rience in the Amherst geology department was her struggling with simultaneously loving ge ology and often feeling that the field was “very niche, and very romantic. Like I’m going off and doing a passion project.” The field didn’t immediately provide very satisfying answers to these questions, and marginalized stu dents themselves seemed to be

the ones grappling with them the most often.

“How can I justify pursuing a career in something that feels … entirely irrelevant to every thing I grew up thinking about, and the realities around me?” Lim found herself asking. She at tempted to reconcile her interest in geology with “the core values that I was instilled with growing up as a woman of color, and as somebody who has come from a lower middle income family … values of, ‘take your progress and

“ ”

— Isabelle Caban '23

be able to remember where you came from … apply everything back to the community around you.’”

Leaning on GUAC, she said, is what allowed her to contin ue moving forward. While the group didn’t provide “concrete” or “plain and clear” answers to her questions at the time, “it helped me feel more at peace at being in geology just because it helped me feel like I had a place there.” The acknowledgements section of Lim’s thesis thanks some of her fellow GUAC mem bers, Carley Malloy ’22, Sadie Gomez ’22, and Petra Zuñiga ’22 because, as she put it, “I truly don’t think, if they hadn’t been there and showed that they cared about the same things … that I would have been able to commit to staying in geology and finish ing my thesis there at that time.”

Now, Lim has more thoughts on these questions she faced.

“During a GUAC meeting my senior year at Amherst, I told

The poster for the first ever GUAC meeting, designed by Araceli Aponte '17.

Just because we're all geologists doesn't mean we experience geology in the same way. And that's important.

Photo courtesy of Pablo Saunders-Shultz '19

Underrepresented Geologists Advocate for Change

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the group that we should be al lowed to follow our passions and to study things just because we want to,” she recounted. “Why should the most privileged and comfortable get to be the only ones with choice?”

Now nearing the end of her masters’ program at The Univer sity of Nevada, Reno, where she is studying how the Earth’s crust changes during mountain build ing processes, Lim reflected, “I think a lot of people with his torically marginalized identities feel that kind of pressure as well when faced with the privilege of choice, specifically in their ca reers … But I encourage people to follow what they think is right and invest in themselves. In the past two years, I have developed skills in geologic research and communication, I’ve learned about other career paths in sci ence policy that I might want to follow, and, most importantly, I’ve validated my capabilities to chase after dreams, set goals, and achieve.”

From GUAC, Forward

The conversations that GUAC begins about students’ personal experiences with geology at Am herst lead to broader questions about the field’s practices, and how they might change.

For example, the traditional centering of field work in ge ology can isolate some people coming into the field. “There are identities that people hold that make field work very difficult, and sometimes even not possi ble,” said Caban. “[That means] physical disabilities and things like that, and being able to hike a mountain, but it’s also like, where are you hiking a mountain? In a rural white community that will be racist towards anyone else that enters that space?”

Caban added that this also means “thinking about where people grew up, and people’s experiences growing up. I grew up in a city. I hardly ever went camping or hiking, until I got here to Amherst, where there’s space for me to do so.”

Claire Jensen ’24, another GUAC member, spoke on how

geologists can also reimagine how fieldwork itself “impacts the environment and the people who also are in the same envi ronment.”

“There’s those old white men who are like, ‘Oh, I just bang rocks together, and call it a day.’ Okay, you can get away with just doing your work and just looking at your rocks. But realize that the rocks come from somewhere,” Jensen said. “There’s a place that they were associated with, there’s people that they are associated with. Your research has other im plications outside of just looking at the minerals in a rock.”

Bernard had similar thoughts. “Geology has had this history of being very extractive. Geologists come in and take, or they come in and drill and then just leave,” she said. She noted the specific impact that certain field practic es have on Indigenous commu nities, and said it is important to better understand the human history of the land and the peo ple who live there. “Indigenous knowledge is science that has value,” she said.

Thinking on the changes that have occurred in the department since GUAC’s founding, “the department actually did a lot in response to the issues raised by GUAC, which is awesome,” said Saunders-Shultz.

Bernard also took note of these changes. “I really like that we are in a department where ev eryone is excited about [having these conversations] and open to change,” said Bernard. “And I think GUAC is a big part of that, because we also want to best serve our students … hearing the kind of things that GUAC thinks are important is really important to us too.”

In 2020, for example, geolo gy professors participated in the Unlearning Racism in the Geo sciences (URGE) training and formed a pod to talk about prob lems and steps forward, meeting every week for the academic year.

One strength of GUAC is that it allows students to take advan tage of the diversity and strong community in the Amherst geol ogy department, and bring it with them as they continue forward in the field, which will likely be far less diverse. “[In GUAC we can] try to make the field better, prepare ourselves, and build com munity while we’re here, while we have this really cool, diverse net work of people that are going to support you no matter where you go,” said Bernard.

Jensen added: “I think the group itself seems to be like a cat alyst for launching people out into the world.”

While she still remains skepti cal about the field changing, Ber nard said there are things that give her hope. One is the Black Wom en in Geosciences spreadsheet, a project she started which keeps track of all the Black women in the U.S. who have earned Ph.D.s in geosciences since 1942, when Marguerite Williams became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in the subfield of geomorphology.

“I put it on Twitter, [and said] ‘I have this list, if you know some one, submit names.’ A lot of them I knew, and then slowly, people

[GUAC] helped me feel more at peace being in geology just becuase it helped me feel like I had a place there.

— Luz Lim '20

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started adding things,” she said.

“I’m hoping that if people are feel ing isolated, or if they have a ques tion about [for example] what it’s like to work at the USGS [United States Geological Survey], they have someone, some reference frame to ask.”

Others spoke about the hope for change that they draw from the idea of geology itself. “It’s very difficult to describe what pure geology is, because even when you’re looking at a rock, you need to understand physics to under stand how it was formed, and you need to understand chemistry to understand what the minerals are in the rock,” said Caban. “And you need math to know all of these equations about how the rock was uplifted to the surface, or the pres sure and temperature conditions it was at in the earth.”

In the same way the science itself brings together disciplines and ways of thinking, Caban sees potential for geology to help peo ple to build community through their differences, and across fields.

“If we can be in community with one another and make sure that everyone learns the best way that they can, we’re only making our selves better, as people, as a de partment, as geologists,” she said.

In the meantime, says Caban, who will graduate at the end of this year, the goal is to keep GUAC going. “First and second years are highly encouraged to join GUAC and participate in leadership positions on the e-board to make the changes and connections they believe are im portant to this work,” she said.

“Please feel free to reach out to me or Dr. Rachel Bernard.”

GUAC meets over a Chipotle dinner for its first large group meeting of the 2022 semester.

Photo courtesy of Claire Jensen '24

A Columbus Conundrum

Maddie Hahm ’24 Contributing Writer

I had never been so acutely aware of my “American-ness” before I went abroad. More spe cifically, I never realized how many of my most intrinsic be liefs are culturally determined until I was introduced to one of Spain’s most important holidays.

A few weeks ago, the country celebrated its national day or, as they call it here, el Día de la Hispanidad. Because it’s a na tional holiday, everyone gets the day off from school or work, and an enormous parade takes place throughout the streets of Madrid. I was thrilled to have a day to myself (in Spain, uni versities don’t have fall breaks, so I take what I can get), and the weather was so beautiful. I loved how much pride everyone had in their Spanish heritage and couldn’t wait to spend the morning walking around Ma drid, sightseeing, and immersing myself in the festivities. It wasn’t until I was halfway through my Madrid city biking tour that I realized the true nature of this annual celebration. El Día de la Hispanidad, or “Spanishness” Day, is actually just a glorified version of Columbus Day. In fact, it’s more than that. It’s Co lumbus Day times 10.

Growing up in Oakland, California, I never celebrated Columbus Day. At my local ele mentary school, we always called the second Monday of every Oc tober Indigenous People’s Day, a date meant to honor the Indige nous communities of the Ameri cas and all that they had endured during the Spanish usurpation of their lands. We were taught that we lived, worked, and breathed on Ohlone soil. (And, as I lat er learned, Muwekma and the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Territory as well.) We discussed their civilizations and took field

Streaks left behind by the planes that flew by in cel ebration of el Día de la Hispanidad.

trips to their tribal lands, speak ing with members of the com munities. We investigated the California missions and how they forcefully converted the na tive populations to Christianity. Most importantly, we learned about the horrors of Columbus’ actions and how his conquest led to the eradication of entire pop ulations.

Long story short, I’ve never supported the existence of Co lumbus Day, and I always as sumed that my own rejection of the holiday was, at some level, universal (naive, I know). Giv en my background, I think I was especially surprised to learn how large a role Columbus and el Día de la Hispanidad play in Spanish culture.

According to Spanish written law, the annual holiday of “Octo ber 12 … symbolizes the histor

ical anniversary on which Spain … [began] a period of linguistic and cultural projection beyond the boundaries of Europe.” In other words, it marks the day on which Columbus reached the Americas and began his mass genocide of Indigenous popu lations and cultures around the world.

I couldn’t believe that this law nor this day actually existed. Here I was, a born-and-raised Californian, thinking that the U.S. was stuck in the past be cause some of us still referred to the second Monday in October as Columbus Day. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, there was an entire holiday dedicated to the memory of Columbus’ coloni zation (or so it seemed to me). It was also surprising to see how

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Experiencing el Día de la Hispanidad

seriously the Spaniards took the holiday. There were bells ring ing in the streets. A fleet of jet planes flew by, leaving clouds of celebratory smoke in their wake. I saw people wearing the Span ish flag (some had even paint ed it onto their faces). Nobody seemed even remotely disturbed by the underlying connotations of this holiday.

However, as I’ve gotten to know more Spaniards (specifi cally Madrileños) over the past couple of weeks, I’ve begun to learn that the national opinion regarding this holiday is more nuanced than I initially thought. While there are definitely many people who proudly celebrate and praise el Día de la Hispan idad, there are others (mainly in the younger generations) who find it distasteful and insensi tive. One of my friends told me that she doesn’t agree with the idea behind the holiday because she doesn’t see anything worth

celebrating. According to her, although a lot of Spaniards still perceive the “descubrimiento [discovery]” of the Americas to be one of Spain’s proudest mo ments, there is an increasing number of people who find the “encubrimiento [concealment]” of the Americas (a name they coined) to be despicable.

Another group of Spanish stu dents shared that they — along with many others — are staunch ly against wearing the Spanish flag, partially out of principle and partially out of fear of being labeled a fascist, as the flag has evolved into a symbol of xeno phobia and hatred over the years (similar to what happened to the American flag after Trump’s election).

I even emailed a Spanish pro fessor at one of the local uni versities for some additional clarity. She explained that, in addition to its ties to Columbus and Spanish heritage, el Día de la Hispanidad has also histori cally been viewed as a religious

holiday in Spain. For years, it has been a time when citizens pay homage to their Lady of the Pillar (aka la Virgen de Pilar, aka the Virgin Mary). Nevertheless, as one of my program directors pointed out, it’s unclear whether these underlying religious con notations existed before or after Columbus arrived in the Amer icas. It’s distinctly possible that the Spaniards decided to associ ate la Virgen de Pilar with el Día con la Hispanidad later on be cause they wanted to merge two important and seemingly “pos itive” historical Spanish events together.

What I didn’t realize during my first impression of the hol iday is that many people don’t actually associate Oct. 12 with Christopher Columbus (or even religion) anymore; el Día de la Hispanidad has transitioned over the years into being primar ily a day of patriotism and a cel ebration of Spanish culture, sim ilar to what the Fourth of July is for many Americans. Since

the Spanish Civil War, people have begun to view the holi day as a day on which to honor those who fought against the dictator Francisco Franco. For people with military ties (and for people without), el Día de la Hispanidad is still meaningful because it represents a love of Spanishness, not necessarily a love of Columbus.

This entire investigation has been an incredibly eye-opening experience for me. Before com ing to Spain, I had never really considered how people’s ethical beliefs are shaped by their na tionalities. Then, once I learned about the existence of el Día de la Hispanidad, I immediately made assumptions based on my own personal beliefs and experienc es. Now, a few weeks and several fascinating conversations later, I’m realizing that everything is so much more ambiguous (and that making assumptions is a dangerous game).

Ultimately, what I really want to emphasize with this article is

the subjectiveness of Spain’s Na tional Day and of what is deemed to be “right” or “wrong” within a culture. Although we might firmly believe that we should not commemorate Columbus or his day in Oakland, here in Madrid, the holiday is more complicated.

Celebrating el Día de la Hispan idad, including its history, is a part of the culture, and many people will not blink twice if you choose to wear the Spanish flag. There are so many societal par adigms ingrained in our minds based on our places of origin that we cannot possibly compre hend the notion that anybody else might live differently. But they do. And we do. Thus, even though I will never celebrate Columbus Day nor look back fondly on Columbus’ legacy, I cannot speak for the rest of the world. At the end of the day, a lot of what we choose to celebrate is purely cultural, as are many of our beliefs, and that is not for me to decide, regardless of my personal preferences.

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“An Invitation” From Amherst and Mount Holyoke Dance

Eren Levine ’24 Staff Writer

On Nov. 10 to 12, Mount Holyoke College’s Department of Dance hosted this year’s Am herst and Mount Holyoke Col leges Faculty Dance Concert. The event, titled “An Invitation,” featured six unique, thought-pro voking pieces performed by Five College dancers, and choreog raphy by Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College faculty and guest artist Passion Fruit Dance Company.

The first piece in the show, “Field,” explored conceptions of space, relationships within spac es, and malleable environments. The performance radiated cohe sion, and even when the dancers were not actively touching one another, there was a strong sense of interconnectedness between them. The program note about the piece says, “[The director and dancers] encourage you to allow your mind to wonder, want, and track,” and I definitely felt that this sentiment shone through. During prolonged moments without mu

sic, it was entrancing to focus solely on the movement onstage and how united the dancers were.

The dance ended in the same po sition it started in — two dancers facing the curtain, holding their arms out toward it — which gave the piece a full-circle feeling and allowed the audience to reflect on the time spent between the two mirror-image moments.

The mood shifted to a lighter and brighter feeling with “Puzzle Pieces,” featuring many Amherst College dancers. This dance in cluded 13 performers, and during most of the performance, all of them were on the stage, often each doing different things. Some dancers were working their way across the stage, while others exe cuted complex moves in fixed lo cations on stage. This assortment of movements gave the piece a fast-paced feeling, but somehow, it still felt like I would not have gotten the full picture if I hadn’t seen everything all at once. The title “Puzzle Pieces” reflects the performance well: Each dancer was unique in their movements, yet everything fit together seam

lessly.

The third piece, “Brink,” was all about dreaming and featured performers talking as well as dancing. The description of the piece states, “[The choreographer and dancers] enacted dreams to move together towards the im possible.” A single sentence could not encapsulate this piece any better. The dancers were com pletely in sync and appeared to be moving as one. The use of lighting highlighted the incredible talents of individual dancers, including various lifts and tricks that were impressive to watch. The featured dialogue in the piece helped en gage the audience and even led to laughter from the audience at times. When the piece came to a close, I overheard someone in a nearby seat remark, “The audi ence was encouraged to laugh,” a comment that perfectly describes the welcoming and intriguing na ture of the dance.

The number right before in termission, “The Extensions of Me: Perspective,” began with a thought-provoking slam po etry piece titled “Perspective.”

Once the dancing began, it was clear that the performers were supporting each other, working off of each other’s energy, and embracing the upbeat, hip-hop vibe of the piece. There was also a solo in the middle of the per formance by the choreographer Djeffrey Jean-Phillipe, performed to a reading of the poem “Who Gives a Black Man Permission to Feel?” by Preston Perry. The first line in the poem stuck out as par ticularly moving, stating, “This is not an angry Black poem, though I am angry, and I am Black. This is more of a cry for all the Black men who were never given per mission to cry.” This solo, in addi tion to the dance as a whole, was empowering and provided an in cisive commentary on the world we live in.

After I returned from inter mission, the event burst back into dance with a multimedia perfor mance titled “Snow/Migrants” that commented on themes about climate change. The piece used props, including lifejackets and a full-sized kayak, to empha size concern about the global

climate crisis. There was also a video playing in the background throughout the piece, depicting glaciers, oceans, and other cli mate-related natural landscapes. The combination of all these factors created an engaging per formance that truly made me re flect on the precarious state of the natural world. The description of this piece notes how “most of us feel overwhelmed by the implica tions of climate change and issues surrounding migration.” This was aptly depicted in the performance through sudden changes in the pace — from slow to fast and then back to slow — all paired with an intense violin playing in the back ground. I also noted an especial ly impactful moment, when one of the dancers was buried in life jackets, which again emphasized the feeling of being overwhelmed by global crises.

The final dance in the show, “Connection,” was this year’s guest artist repertory project, choreo graphed by Tatiana Desardouin of Passion Fruit Dance Company. The performance was lively and featured many talented dancers engaging in solos and dancing small group parts in addition to as a whole group. The piece is de scribed as “[emphasizing] the im portance of creating connections first within, then with the world.”

The close connection between the performers was palpable, and it was clear that they were all sup porting each other and having a good time on stage. This connec tion also extended to the audi ence, as the energy in the theater was uplifting and positive. For a show that seemed to highlight various modes of connections in all of its pieces, this final number was an excellent way to close out the night.

“An Invitation” is one of three Fall Five College Dance concerts. This semester’s last performance will be the Smith College Faculty Concert, presented Nov. 17-19.

Last weekend, Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College Dance Departments presented their Fall Faculty Dance Concert. Eren Levine ’24 reviews the performances, reflecting on each piece’s individuality.

Photo courtesy of Peter Raper

Memories and Nostalgia in A24’s “Aftersun”

Cole Warren ’24 Staff Writer

There is always a certain sad ness in nostalgia. The nature of the memories doesn’t matter — whether happy or sad or impact ful or minute, they are always a fleeting interpretation of a past that you will never be able to ex perience again. As you age, every thing you’ve lived through begins to amalgamate or just fade away, leaving only distinct images that bounce around your skull as you try to go back in time. Memories are so emotional because they are so imperfect, perpetually incapable of returning us to all those mo ments we want to relive. It is this pain of remembrance that the film “Aftersun” captures so well, illumi nating all the complexity of remi niscing about the places you will never revisit and spending time with loved ones who you can never see again.

If you have only seen the post er for “Aftersun” or heard a brief description of it, you may be in clined to think that the film is just another one of the standard indie dramas that appears every time award season rolls around. When I first heard about it, I chalked it up to being another movie about an unhappy family, this time ex ploring the tense relationship be tween father Calum (Paul Mescal) and 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio) as they vacation in a Turkish resort town. Howev er, viewing “Aftersun” in that light is a great disservice to the uniqui ty of writer and director Charlotte Wells, whose debut feature under takes the task of portraying the anger and confusion surrounding grief without resorting to melo drama.

What makes “Aftersun” stand out is the fact that the film itself is the memory of an older Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall), who is now both a parent and the same age her father was during their fateful vacation together. “Aftersun” is a visual representation of memory, depicting the minutiae of their va cation, all the while being intercut with brief scenes from home mov

ies and harrowing shots of her fa ther in a strobe-lit nightclub. As the film progresses, the line between fact and fiction blurs and becomes fundamentally unimportant. The movie transitions from tender moments between Sophie and her father at the beach to a fictional nightclub, where an older Sophie screams at the image of her dad. By this point, the audience begins to infer why these two seemingly un related settings are connected; they are adult Sophie’s memory, in all its joy and anger, of the last time she ever saw her father alive.

Probably the strongest part of Wells’ writing and directing is that she never feels the need to delve into exposition for the sake of clar

ity. Because the film centers on So phie’s perspective, we are isolated from Calum’s struggles, never fully knowing why he appears in crisis throughout the vacation. Rather, all we see are the little moments of tragedy in Calum’s life: his de prived youth (he became a parent when he was only 19 or 20), his failure to form relationships, his impulsive purchases of souvenirs he can’t possibly afford, and his self-destructive behaviors resulting in new bruises or scrapes that he brushes off to Sophie. The few mo ments of actual conflict between Sophie and Calum, such as when he refuses to sing karaoke with her, are quickly resolved for the sake of the vacation. Wells captures best

how parents often hide their flaws and failures from their young chil dren, and that is how we are forced to see Calum: His life, struggles, and personality when he is not acting as a parent are all left to the viewer’s imagination.

However, despite the intel ligence and emotion in Wells’ screenplay and direction, the film’s emotional core is secured by the performances of Mescal and Co rio. Both are relatively new actors on the silver screen, and maybe it is because of this that they seem so realistic. Their conversations are natural: They are bored with each other, make each other laugh, and occasionally quarrel. Yet they al ways feel like real people, and the

audience can immediately recog nize in their acting a familial rela tionship. Mescal and Corio over come one of the most demanding challenges of acting: making the viewer forget that they are even ac tors at all.

“Aftersun” is a film that will linger with you long after you leave the theater. The movie’s jux taposition of heartwarming and heartbreaking scenes is emotion ally devastating and surprisingly personal. Whether you have lost a parent or a loved one, or even just experienced the contradictions of emotions from past memories, “Aftersun” is a film that visual ly represents the tragic beauty of reminiscence.

Cole Warren ’24 reviews Charlotte Wells' “Aftersun,” which follows a daughter reflecting on her father’s death upon becoming a mother herself.

Photo courtesy of Yasmin Hamilton ’24

CONTENT,

CONTEXT, COME UP

“This album is for that little kid who was playing Rock Band in his room, wanting to be Rivers Cuomo,” Alex Russell ’23 said this about the upcoming release of his debut al bum, “Stardust,” sometime in the spring of 2023. For the first edition of “3 C’s,” I spoke with him about the “Context” of what inspires him to make music, some insider secrets about the project’s “Creation,” and a glimpse of what’s on the “Come Up.” Keep an eye out for Alex at Valcony and Coffee Haus, where he often performs, and be sure to support his new group, the N.O. Collective.

Q: Tell me a little bit about the ti tle, “Stardust.”

A: I was looking for older tracks and I came across a Nat King Cole record called “Stardust,” and I thought it was gorgeous. And so I did an interpolation of it for one of my songs, I sort of lyrically sam pled it, and then I loved [it]. I kind of created my idea out of what that song meant to me. I started writing an album about that, and the stars aligned. When I was looking at my ancestry, talking to my father, hear ing about the outside of the family and that I had a famous great aunt, Mildred Washington. She passed at a very tragic age, I’d say around 24 or so. And she knew Nat King Cole. There was a photo discovered of her with Nat King Cole that I got to see, and yeah, the stars aligned there.

Q: What are your influences?

A: I began to really settle into pro ducing and writing three genres. I guess they’re sort of different for each genre. Like I’d say for hip hop, I’ve always really been very much influenced by Kanye, MF DOOM, and J Dilla. Especially from a pro duction standpoint. I’ve been mak ing hip hop for the longest [time]. I think I started producing that when

I was 14, so I’m probably most ex perienced in that genre. Then when it comes to R&B and that sort of sound, any Soul sound [has been an influence], obviously Frank Ocean. Steve Lacey is one of the big rea sons I began to pick up the guitar again this summer. Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Otis Redding, and then lastly, [in terms of] Alternative, Justin Vernon, and that’s what this album is.

Q: You talked about producing, and I’ve seen you play the instru ments and sing the songs and write the lyrics and everything. How much of this album is a oneman project, so to speak?

A: Yeah, so there’s definitely stag es to this. And we’re still — I’d say we’re at the midpoint now. My first stage is always writing the song acoustically. So for that, in the past I’ve only really used keyboards, the piano. I started learning guitar not too long ago, and I was able to use that. So I just sit with the instru ment, and I’d write a song. I fumble around on the guitar until I come up with something that I like. That was the first stage this summer. That began to speed up as I sort of got in the zone. The next stage would be production. I mostly produced hip hop and R&B in the past, Alterna tive was new for me. I was only able to produce one of those tracks this summer. And that was the track with the Steve Lacey beginning and the Kanye sample, and the album is 12 songs. I now have five songs produced. So that’s why I say I’m at the midpoint. So that part has been [only] me up until just recently where I started to ask for the help of Greg Smith [’24]. Greg is extremely talented. He actually just sent me the first demo of a song that I had asked him to produce from it and it’s wonderful. That’s going to speed

up the process because I was real ly struggling. And Greg is — you know I can write the songs I could sing them, but I can’t produce like Greg. I also have been working with Austin [McNabb ’23E]. He is the primary engineer for this project.

Q: Of those five [songs] that you have so far, is there one that you think right now really captures the essence of the energy of “Star dust”?

A: I think the most predictable an swer is the title track “Stardust” — it’s the outro of the album. I think the reason I have to say “Stardust,” the song, is because it lyrically ties the whole project together at the end. But, besides, if I weren’t going to say that one, I would say “Bird House” because it follows this weird musical shape, this weird song shape, and because there is a key change, and it’s very dramatic, but melodramatic, I’ve said that is the song that [most] closely aligns with the image of the album.

Q: Is this the first musical project you have released?

A: I have released music with a very close friend of mine who currently goes to Brown — we went to high school together, played lacrosse together, [and] we released three albums together. Those are all very electronic, experimental hip hop. It was never the sound that I real ly wanted to be making. I have a whole hip hop album that I’m still currently working on, the bulk of which was written and produced in 2020 during the pandemic.

Q: Do you feel like “Stardust” is very much for you? Who is this album for? Is it for someone? Is it for the people?

A: I feel as though this album is for me. That’s the way I’m able to tell you that answer, is comparing it in my head. I know that I feel this album is for me. I’ve always want ed to learn guitar. This album is guitar-heavy. I’ve always wanted to make alternative music. You know, I grew up listening to, like, Weezer and like Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, and The Head and the Heart. So I always wanted to make stuff like that, but I never could — I never had a band to play with, I didn’t even know how to play gui tar. So this album is for that little kid who was playing Rock Band in his room, wanting to be Rivers Cuomo.

Q: Tell me a little bit about any big challenges and things that you’ve had to learn or adapt to.

A: I always need to work with a bassist and a drummer. And that can be hard, you know, because you have a vision of a song in your head, and when you write it, that’s what you think it’s going to turn out as, and then based on the other mu sicians’ styles that you’re working with, they may not have the same interpretation. They may just go a completely different direction with it. Sometimes that works, like there’s a song called “Ribbons” that I performed at Coffee Haus in Marsh. [It] was supposed to be very somber, and very guitar-heavy, like almost drumless. I started playing it

with Adrian [Freedman ’24] when we were jamming one day and he put “four on the floor” to it, which is a very loud drum beat, present in a lot of EDM. It was just very unex pected and it sounded amazing and I’m currently working on produc ing that song with the “four on the floor” Adrian put in, with the bass part Gabby Moore [’23] put to it.

Q: What incites you to either change something that’s already on “Stardust,” maybe put it in, maybe save it for a later project? What are you looking for in these ideas that make you think this be longs on “Stardust”?

A: I think with every project that I work on, there is one word, or a phrase that encapsulates the album. But I typically break off around five to six, maybe seven branches of themes that I want present in the album. Those themes drive the al bum content. So everything pretty much ties into one of those themes and all of those themes tie back to the main album message. Some times I find that a track I’ve writ ten aligns better with one of those themes or the main album message than a track I currently have in the tracklist. And then it sucks because I need to get rid of that track. But I always keep the archives. I always like to keep tracks for later, trying to fit them into new ideas.

Read the full interview online at www.amherststudent.com

Photo courtesy of Alex Russell '23

For the inaugural edition of 3 C’s (Context, Creation, Come Up), Kobe Thompson ‘24 interviews musician Alex Russell ’23 ahead of his debut album “Stardust.”

“Survivor” Season 43: Episode 8, Reviewed

Vaughn Armour ’25 Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, “Survi vor 43” aired its eighth episode. It was fantastic yet again, delivering suspense and excitement to eager viewers like myself.

It began by filling in the blanks for the last vote, which was left slightly ambiguous. Sami had gotten wind of Dwight being the target and jumped on board. He was the only member of his Baka tribe to do so.

His decision benefited him sig nificantly, as the seven that voted together at the last Tribal Coun cil (Cassidy, Karla, Jesse, Ryan, Cody, James, Sami) formed an alliance, and vowed to go to the final seven together. Of course, this alliance won’t last long, but it will provide them with a bit of

temporary power. It is clear that Sami consistently has his finger on the pulse of the group.

We also learned early in the episode that Jeanine gave Dwight her idol before he was voted out in an effort to keep James from stealing it with his “Knowledge Is Power” advantage. Jeanine was devastated. She thought, as the rest of the tribe did, that her idol left with Dwight. However, Dwight had passed her idol to Jesse before Tribal Council. This may be the only secret in the game, and Jesse intends to keep it. He now has an idol, and cou pled with his impressive strategic prowess and social positioning, Jesse is the current favorite to win “Survivor 43.”

From a narrative perspective, this was the Owen episode. We learned that he was born in Korea,

and then adopted at four months old by white parents. He spoke of his desire to fit in as a child, and how he struggled with feel ing different from both his family and his peers. That insecurity was seeping into the game for Owen. He had been on the wrong side of the votes a couple times in a row, and felt out of the loop because of it. In an attempt to change his position, Owen unified the Baka players on the bottom (Noelle, Gabler, Jeanine, and himself) against the majority alliance.

At the immunity challenge, James did a poor job of hiding his desire to eliminate Owen. Probst offered the tribe a large bag of rice, contingent on five of them sitting out of the immunity chal lenge. Giving up your shot at im munity is a tough sell, but these people are starving. That rice had

to look like Val’s miso salmon.

James implored Owen to sit out, telling him that he was pro tected. This was reminiscent of Amanda Kimmel telling Parvati Shallow that she didn’t have to play her idol in “Survivor: Heroes vs Villains.” This backfired on Amanda, and it didn’t work much better for James. James and Owen don’t have a close relationship, so it was quite suspicious. Owen ignored James, and made the correct decision to participate in the challenge. He eventually won, taking down Cody at the end of a long competition in which they had to hold up a large ball on a platform, using an increasingly long stick.

Seeing Owen wear the immu nity necklace warmed my heart. He was emotional, explaining how he had watched legends like Colby Donaldson (“Survivor: Af rica,” “Survivor: Heroes vs Vil lains”) and Kelly Wigglesworth (“Survivor: Borneo,” “Survivor: Second Chance”) do the same. It has been over 20 years since the first time those two played, showing how dedicated a super fan Owen is. He may not be in a powerful position, but Owen has a vast knowledge of the game and a strong ability to read peo ple. I still believe that he can turn things around.

As often happens with large alliances in “Survivor,” the ma jority alliance immediately tar geted each other. In a group that large, some people will be better positioned than others. The great players are the ones that recog nize their position and do some thing to change it. Sami did just that. He recognized that he had minimal power within the large group and came up with another plan: to target Ryan.

Ryan is far from a strategic threat as his game is largely just being helpful around camp and hoping people keep him around because of it. He spends more time interacting with the fish than he does his tribemates. However, he is a massive, athletic guy. His physical prowess makes him a large threat in immunity chal

lenges — a compelling reason to vote him out. Sami first pitched this idea to his former Baka tribe mates who immediately latched on. He then went to Karla and James, and before long, Sami had turned the entire beach against Ryan. Of course, Ryan was fishing this whole time.

James pushed back against the Ryan plan, and for good reason. Despite his lack of strategic sense, Ryan is loyal to Coco. He would likely never target James, Karla, or Cassidy. Since he’s on their side, winning challenges will also actually benefit them. De spite Sami’s best efforts, the sev en remained together for at least one vote. Jeanine was eliminated without finding out that Jesse had her idol.

Despite not pulling off the Ryan vote-out, Sami is in a fasci nating position directly between both groups. This is a high-risk, high-reward spot to be in. Ideally, everyone will think he’s on their side, and no one will target him. Eventually, though, he’ll have to make a decision to turn on one of the groups; I don’t imagine they’ll be happy.

At this point in the season, it usually becomes clear who actu ally has a chance to win the game. Most players are somewhat along for the ride, with only a few play ing well enough to have a realistic shot at the title of “Sole Survivor.”

This season, though, we have a handful of serious contenders.

Jesse is playing the best game, with no one targeting him and an idol in his pocket. James and Kar la are a powerful duo within the majority alliance, and maintain a 4-3 Coco advantage within that alliance. Cody has quietly been on the right side of every vote and seems to have the best social game on the island. Sami and Owen are not content with the majority al liance dominating this game and seem poised to break this thing open. I could realistically see half the cast winning this thing, which is incredibly rare for the final 10. Tune in next week to see how this fantastic season continues to un fold.

Graphic courtesy of Nina Aagaard '26

Vaughn Armour ’25 tracks the up-and-coming competitors and one contestant’s personal backstory.

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“Broken Hinges”

Gracie Rowland ’25 The Indicator Staff Writer

I slammed the door in Hope’s face and told Her

I was better off alone, my pride too brazen to realize that good intentions Matter more than harsh words spo ken over late night calls. I was too ashamed to apologize back then, too ashamed of the broken hinges I left.

All my bad decisions become im mortalized in short lines of poetry; I sometimes wonder if they resent their small relevance.

Armed with a fistful of secrets and youthful indiscretion, My days are plagued by quiet re membrance, every morning a gasp for air.

Decaying love and childhood

dreams, I wish to forget

All the things that once shimmered with golden naivety.

My sister says she and I are almost too much for a single person, Too full of memory and magnitude, darkness and desire.

Swallow me in small doses and you can stomach me, But gulp me down and I’ll splatter on the kitchen floor.

I was meant to be a ghost, not a soul, you see, I was meant to haunt, not to love, To hide in the tawny ground like old Socks and love letters buried beneath my bed.

Broken hinges, broken hinges, Why did no one tell me growing old is just

Leaving a trail of buried memories behind?

Mariana Rivera-Donsky ’25 The Indicator Staff Writer

She got in the car at half-past two in the morning.

It didn’t really matter to her where exactly she was going as long as it was away. There was only a cer tain amount of time that she could ignore the steadily growing pres sure in her chest — right under neath her collarbone. Right above her lungs. She had lain in bed for hours doing absolutely nothing productive.

It wasn’t exactly a feeling of sad ness. Or pain. Rather one of unease, which no amount of deep breath ing and tossing and turning could get rid of. Everything was just too too too much for her to handle at this god-forsaken hour. Her body was beyond tired, but her mind re fused to let her stop moving. A fin ger twitched. Her eyelids fluttered. And suddenly she was wide awake again. Every single thought she had seemed to come from her stomach and crawl its way out of her throat.

She knew she was prolonging the inevitable. She needed to leave. Eventually, reluctantly — like she was still trying to prove to herself that she could stay, that she could close off her mind — she got out of bed.

Most people find driving in the dark to be either terrifying or lib erating. Something about driving down a dark deserted highway with no one for around for miles was satisfying to her. Like letting a scream build in your throat for hours before finally letting it out. She never considered the possibil ity of dying. Of crashing. It didn’t

really phase her one way or anoth er. Maybe she was too stupid to consider it, something about her youth and ignorance.

In the past few weeks this had become her almost-nightly ritual. She never knew quite where she was going to go, preferring instead to just drive. Tonight it looked like she was going to end up on the beach. Her mother had grown up on a beach, so as a child she al ways felt like a mini version of her mother anytime they took a family trip to the beach. The family trips eventually stopped, but the feeling of her mother’s influence never re ally did. She should call her mother tomorrow. Well, later today.

The beach, of course, was empty. She almost expected it not to be. But no one was there. She let the dog out of the car, watching as he ran towards the water, sand flying up as his paws connected with the ground. The moon was waning, she thought, and there was not much light, just barely enough to see the water. She walked towards the wa ter, kicking at the cold sand. It had rained earlier in the night, so the sand was hard-packed and cold to the touch. She took off her shoes. Dug her toes into the sand and waited for the tide to come towards her.

The wind was bitter, even for summer. New England waters were cold at night. She could feel it in her hair, the salt air thick and abrasive. There was a light from a boat in the distance, nothing more than a pin-prick of light on the very edge of the horizon. A big boat. It must have been huge to be seen from that far away. How many people

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would be on it? How many people do you need to operate a boat that big? Do they get lonely?

She watched the waves in the distance, barely visible in the dark blue night, just little white crests above a dark dark dark ocean.

She watched the waves break on the shore. The water rushed up to her feet and it soaked her toes, stinging the cuts on her ankles be fore retreating backwards.

She watched the dog as he ran behind her. He was chasing some thing, but it was far too dark for her to see it. She supposed it didn’t matter.

She stayed there, toes digging into the sand, feet cold as hell, arms wrapped around her ribcage for a while. She didn’t know how long. A while though. And then she walked back to the car, opened the trunk and watched as the dog hopped in.

She stopped off at a gas station on her way back. Walked into the harsh white light and grabbed a few things at random. Yogurt and Ore os, she realized. She grabbed a pack of jerky on her way to the counter, feeling rather than seeing the eyes of the store clerk on her.

She waved goodbye to the clerk and then she once again let herself into her car and pulled back onto the highway. She grabbed a blan ket from her bed. She fed the dog some of the beef jerky — he was nearly too tired to eat it — and made her way downstairs to the front porch. Covering herself in the blanket and pulling out her newly-acquired yogurt, she made herself comfortable enough to watch the sunrise over the lake at exactly 5:12 a.m.

These pieces were initally published in The Indicator’s 2022 issue “Break” and are presented here in colloboration with The Indicator.

Photo courtesy of Sam Spratford '24

Women’s Soccer Breezes Through NCAAs to Round of 16

Violet Glickman ’25 Staff Writer

This weekend, Amherst wom en’s soccer traveled to Rochester, New York, for the first two rounds of the NCAA Championship tour nament. The team’s record of 17-2, complete with 12 consecutive wins, earned them a bump to No. 8 in the nation and No. 2 seed at the start of this weekend.

Following their NESCAC Championship the previous week end, the Mammoths got the rec ognition they deserved for their stellar play all season, led by head coach Jen Hughes, who received her third NESCAC Coach of the Year award, and assistant coach Su DelGuercio. Sophomore forward Patience Kum ’25 was awarded the prestigious NESCAC Player of the Year award and was selected FirstTeam All-NESCAC. She was joined on the All-Conference First Team by junior forward Abby Schwartz ’24 and defender Charlotte Huang ’25. Midfielder Sierra Rosado ’25 received a spot on the All-NESCAC Second-Team. To top it all off, the conference also named juniors Ally Deegan ’24 and Mika Fisher ’24 Co-Players of the Week for their championship performances.

Starting off on Saturday, Nov. 12, the Mammoths took to the turf against Westminster College (Pennsylvania). Staying true to their recent form, Amherst turned the intensity up from the begin ning of the contest, taking control and putting a goal on the score board just minutes into the game. After only 10 minutes had elapsed, Kum and Isabel Stern ’23 expert ly combined with a quick passing sequence that left Kum in a oneon-one situation with the Titans’ keeper. Undaunted, she fired a left-footed shot that deflected per fectly off the post and into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.

Stern also initiated the Mam moths’ next big opportunity. She confidently carried the ball into the offensive third before laying off

a neat through ball to (Managing Sports Editor) Liza Katz ’24. Tak ing a composed touch, Katz rifled a well-placed shot into the bottom corner of the net, giving Amherst the second goal of the game and Katz her seventh tally of the season.

The Mammoths added yet an other with just 25 seconds to go in the first half. After receiving a throw-in from near the left corner flag, Katz laid the ball back to Ella Johnson ’26, who sent a tantalizing cross into the box. Charlotte Mc Guire ’25 beat the onrushing Titan goalie to the ball, flicking a header to the far post where Deegan was waiting to finish the play, heading the ball into a wide open goal for a 3-0 lead. The Mammoths then dominated throughout the final 45 minutes with stellar defensive play that allowed just two shots on goal.

The Mammoths ultimately saw out their lead and advanced in the tournament with a 3-0 win.

After their win on Saturday, the Mammoths took to the field on Sun day against host Rochester Institute of Technology, with light snowfall and cold temperatures providing the backdrop for their Round of 32 matchup. With a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line, Amherst came out of the gates strong, earning four cor ner kicks in the first 12 minutes of action. That type of offensive pres sure is hard to withstand, and the Tigers couldn’t handle the heat for long. After a Schwartz header goal in the 17th minute was ruled off sides, another give-and-go move, this time between Alexa Juarez ’23E and Kum, gave the NESCAC Player of the Year another free run at goal. And just like the day prior, Kum didn’t miss, calmly slotting the ball past the RIT keeper to give the Mammoths a 1-0 lead. The goal seemed to boost the Mammoths’ confidence, as they controlled pos session and outshout the Tigers for

the remaining minutes of the half but could not find an insurance goal.

The second half proved much less exciting than the first, though this perhaps was by the Mam moths’ design. For the majority of the half — and to the Mammoths’ benefit — the ball was mainly pos sessed in the neutral third of the field, and neither team could create many threatening chances. Fisher was called upon in the 74th minute and came up big, stopping a Tigers shot that appeared destined for the top-left corner to maintain the lead. The Mammoths held strong, and Kum’s second goal in two days proved to be enough for a 1-0 win that sends them to the Sweet Six teen of the NCAA Tournament.

Team captain Isabelle Geneve ’23 summarized the weekend in two words: “long and frigid.”

“[But even] after six hours on the bus and practicing in the rain,”

Geneve continued, “the team still managed to be excited and ready to play, even in the snow and the sub40 wind chill. There is a deep belief in our team, and we are confident in our abilities to score early and often or to come back after we are down. We are looking forward to flying to Cleveland, not only to play and win but to have new experiences like flying together that’ll only make us closer. We’re all excited and plan to come back with two wins before the holiday break!”

The Mammoths’ efforts this weekend demonstrated the level of trust and strong chemistry the team has built over the season. They will hope to continue to showcase that strength this weekend in the Sweet 16 round against the sixth seed, Williams Smith College. The game will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, Nov. 19, with kickoff at 1:30 p.m. EST.

Photo courtesy of Clarus Studios

Women’s soccer battled the elements on the way to NCAA tournament wins. The team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2018 thanks to two goals from NESCAC Player of the Year Patience Kum ’25.

Men’s Soccer Returns to Sweet 16 for 12th Straight Year

Liza Katz ’24 Managing Sports Editor

After earning their place in the Division III NCAA Cham pionship Tournament with their 2-1 win in the NESCAC Cham pionship last weekend, men’s soccer began their quest for a National Championship this past weekend. With home-field advantage in the tournament’s first two rounds, they defeated Husson University 2-0 on Good ing Field on Saturday, Nov. 12, before downing No. 15 St. Law rence University 4-2 on Sunday, Nov. 13.

First up for the Mammoths was a date with the Eagles, the North Atlantic Conference Champions. In a game where the Mammoths rested many of their usual starters, the team started slowly, with only one shot on frame in the first 30 minutes of the contest despite having the lion’s share of possession and spending much of the half in Husson’s defensive third. On the other hand, the Eagles didn’t manage a shot during the first half, an indication of the Mam moths’ dominance. However, whatever Head Coach Justin Serpone said to the team at half time seems to have worked, as the Mammoths came out firing in the second half. They earned three corner kicks in the first four minutes of the second pe riod and continued to maintain possession in their offensive half of the field despite being unable to find an opener.

With so much pressure, the Eagles’ defense couldn’t hold on forever, and the breakthrough eventually came in the 64th min ute. Yet another Amherst cor ner resulted in a scrum inside the 18-yard box, where the ball eventually bounced to Fynn Hay ton-Ruffner ’25. While his shot was blocked, the rebound end ed up at the feet of Nico Kenary ’23E, who calmly slotted the ball home for his second goal in two games to give the Mammoths the lead.

And 10 minutes later, the

home side got their insurance goal. After Aidan Curtis ’25 found some space on the right side of the field but got held up in the penalty box, the ball found its way to Hayton-Ruffner on the right side. He sent in a beauti fully weighted cross that Curtis, who had stayed in the box, head ed past the Eagles’ keeper to bag himself a goal and double the Mammoths’ lead. It was Curtis’ sixth goal, and Hayton-Ruffner’s team-leading ninth assist of the season. Seeing out the last 15 minutes with little trouble, the Mammoths advanced to the next round of the tournament with a 2-0 win.

After surviving Husson, the Mammoths took to Hitchcock Field on Sunday against the win ner of Saturday’s other game, St. Lawrence University. The Saints had played a marathon of a game the prior day, needing a penalty shootout to take care of business against Roger Williams Univer sity. In stark contrast to the day before, the Mammoths took full advantage of their opponents’ tired legs in the first half of Sun day’s contest, putting four goals

past the St. Lawrence keeper in the first 45 minutes.

In fact, it took Amherst only 81 seconds to take the lead. This time, it was Hayton-Ruffner on the scoresheet, as he netted his team-leading ninth goal of the 2022 season with a perfect ly-timed header off of a freekick served into the box by Ada Okorogheye ’24E to open the scoring. After 20 more minutes of dominating play by the Mam moths, in which they ripped off eight shots to only one for the Saints, the home side got their second goal. The move again started with a Hayton-Ruffner pass, this time to Curtis, who one-timed a ball to Declan Sung ’24E. Sung, the reigning NES CAC Player of the Week, skill fully avoided an onrushing de fender and took a shot which, while taking a heavy deflection, arched into the net nonetheless. 2-0 Mammoths.

The highlight of the match, though, came just six minutes later. Niall Murphy ’25 collected a loose ball on the edge of the Mammoths’ attacking third and drove into the space in front of

him. After quickly making his way down the left flank, he cut inside toward the top of the box, weaving through a sea of Saints defenders and uncorking a rock et of a shot with his right foot from just outside the area that found the right side-netting. Just like that, Murphy had scored one of the Mammoths’ best goals all year. The bow that he took in celebration was certainly war ranted.

While the Saints got a goal back in the 38th minute, the Mammoths sealed their win just before halftime, when a series of headers inside the 18-yard box, the last from Adrian Trott ’26, found Andrew Barkidjija ’23E. After bringing the ball under control with his thigh, he vol leyed home the team’s fourth goal of the day. Despite the Saints getting a second goal 10 minutes after halftime, it was the last they could muster, and Amherst saw out the rest of the game to move on to the Sweet 16 for the 12th straight season.

“It was a hard-fought week end,” said Murphy, whose goal was one of the Mammoths’ high

lights on Sunday. “Both Husson and St. Lawrence proved to be tough opponents, and we had to dig deep to find a way to survive and advance. Our collective en ergy, especially in the first half against St. Lawrence, was the difference maker. Six different players scored this weekend and a lot of guys put in really import ant minutes. It is crucial to have a deep team to be successful in this tournament.”

“Making the Sweet 16 is not easy, and I am proud that we have made it this far,” echoed Curtis. “The goals [on Sunday] were great, especially from Niall in particular. We get to play at home again next weekend, so you cannot ask for much more.”

The Mammoths will look to continue their run of form and advance to the Final Four for the third straight season this coming weekend. And like last year, they will do so at home. First, they will take on the No. 18-ranked Univer sity of Mary Washington on Satur day, Nov. 19, at 11 a.m. If they win on Saturday, they will face either Bowdoin or SUNY Oneonta on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 12 p.m.

Photo courtesy of Clarus Studios

Men’s soccer beat Husson University 2-0 and St. Lawrence University 4-2 to advance in the NCAA Tournament.

Predictions for the 2022 World Cup Group Stage

Hedi Skali ’25 Staff Writer

We’ve waited four years (and a half) for this moment. It’s finally ar rived. Welcome to the 2022 World Cup. Similar to March Madness, the tournament does have a few titans, but is nevertheless impossible to predict. Except for me. I will predict it.

Group A: Netherlands, Senegal, Ecuador, Qatar

This could be an entertaining group, but since Sadio Mané likely won't compete due to injury, most of these games won’t be competitive. Mane’s former Liverpool teammate Virgil Van Dijk should easily lead the Netherlands to the top of Group A. They have, by far, the most talent ed squad. I think it’s likely that Qatar will fall to the bottom of the table. The battle for second is slightly more interesting, especially given the Mane injury; however, Senegal still has elite talent in defender Kalidou Koulibaly and goalkeeper Eduoard Mendy. Ecuador and Qatar are truly no match, and will finish at the bot tom of the table.

Group B: England, Wales, United States, Iran

Led by the “Lebron James of soccer” Christian Pulisic, could this year be USMNT’s year? I don't buy it. This team is too young, and they are competing with the great est soccer player in Welsh history, who’s playing in his last World Cup. Maybe next time, America. As for numbers one and four, England is stacked at every position, while Iran is not. Nevertheless, Iran made some noise in 2018, so perhaps they could disrupt the battle for second by beat ing the U.S. or Wales.

Group C: Argentina, Poland, Mexico, Saudi Arabia

Argentina has the longest un beaten streak in international soc cer. Ever. And, they are extremely talented at every position. And, they’re led by the most complete player of all time, Lionel Messi, who only lacks a World Cup to cement his legacy. They will win this group, if not the whole tour nament. Saudi Arabia will be last. While Poland is an incredibly deep team, I don’t think this Mex ico comes close to the level of past teams. I will always trust Ochoa in goal, and Lozano has been in credible this season. Still, I trust Lewandowski’s goal-scoring talent more than both of them, giving Poland the edge.

Group D: Denmark, France, Tuni sia, Australia

As a Tunisian native, I have no idea how we even made it here. But, Australia should feel the same way. Youssef M’Sakni, who was insane in the Tunisian league a few years ago, will carry Tunisia to third. On the surface, defending champion France is more talented than Denmark, but are they complete without Kante and Pogba? Given Tchouameni and Camavinga’s form, I think France will be fine. Still, Denmark plays an incredible system of soccer with a defense that is virtually impossible to penetrate. They surprised every one at the Euros, and I trust them to do it again. France will probably make it farther in the bracket, but Denmark will win the group.

Group E: Germany, Spain, Japan, Costa Rica

If not for Group A, this might be the weakest group in the tour nament. Talent-wise, Germany is heavily concentrated in the midfield. Spain are very similar but show a lit tle more talent on the defensive end. I’m more convinced by Germany, but I expect them both to get ousted early in the knockout rounds. I’ll say Japan will take third, and Costa Rica will place fourth. At least we will get to see Keylor Navas play.

Group F: Croatia, Belgium, Mo rocco, Canada

This is a great group to watch, but not quite the dreaded “Group of Death.” With Luka Modric still play ing at a world-class level in an ex cellent system, I think Croatia takes the top of the group. Despite their lackluster defense, Belgium arguably has the best midfielder (Kevin De Bruyne) and goalkeeper (Thibaut Courtois) in the world. Also, Lean dro Trossard could surprise many, following his excellent performance for Brighton this season. With the late addition of Hakim Ziyech to the squad, Morocco has one of the most talented rosters they’ve ever put out. It’s so hard for me to put them in front of either team, but I would not be surprised if they made some noise in the fight for second place. Oh, and Canada, even with Alphon so Davies, is 4th.

Group G: Brazil, Switzerland, Cameroon, Serbia

No team is more talented than Brazil. If they are able to stay in form, and play as a team, they should win the title. While I’ve really liked Alek sandar Mitrovic’s play for Fulham this season, Switzerland has proven time and again that they are not to be played with. They took down a fully healthy French team at the Euros af

ter being down 3-1 in the 81st min ute; they’ll take second place in the group. Still, Cameroon are coached by Samuel Eto’o, a legendary striker from the 2000s. While I’d trust Eto’o to suit back up for Cameroon, I’m not sure Eric Maxim Chupo-Moat ing can do the trick. Perhaps one of Serbia or Cameroon will grab a win off of the Swiss, but look for them to be at the bottom of their group.

Group H: Portugal, Uruguay, South Korea, Ghana

Uruguay is the most underrated team in the tournament. They have both youth in the likes of Valverde, Nunez, and Araujo, and veterans in Suarez, Cavani, and Godin. Still, Portugal is a different animal. It is no longer “Ronaldo and the Gang.”

They have the most versatile fullback in the world in João Cancelo, and an incredible attacking midfield in Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fer nandes to play balls to the talented Joao Felix and, of course, Cristia no Ronaldo. Both teams will easily make it out of this group, but I still hope to see at least one excellent goal by Heung Min-Son, and may be even an upset from South Korea. Since Ghana has had players coming in and out of their squad throughout the past few months, I doubt they will win a single game.

Men’s Basketball Opens Season With Nail-biter Victory

Hena Ershadi ’26 Staff Writer

The Amherst men’s basketball team, returning after a successful 2021-2022 season, emerged vic torious against Albertus Magnus College in a close game on Sat urday, Nov. 12. With the win, the Mammoths started their 2022-2023 campaign off strong as they look to make a big jump from the previous year. After their loss to Williams in a gripping NESCAC quarterfinals match, which put an end to their NESCAC tournament run, the Mammoths are looking to improve on last year’s finish by taking over the tournament and concluding the season with a NESCAC champion ship.

Their journey will consist of many challenges, one of which is filling the void left by four capa ble and impactful seniors. This includes Garrett Day ’22 who was named to the All-NESCAC Second Team, as well as the D3hoops.com All-Region I Third Team. Howev er, the team is confident that their passion, hard work, and excitement for the upcoming season will allow them to dominate on the court. “If there’s one word I would use to de scribe the team, I’d say ‘fire,’” said senior center Beluolisah Oranye ’23, “If you come to see us, we’ll just be playing our hearts out to the best of our ability.”

“We didn’t do as well as we wanted to, but I think that that real ly propels us this year — we’re really

motivated to do better and have a better season,” added team captain Mohammed Alausa ’24. “I think overall all the guys are excited. Per sonally, missing my freshman year due to Covid, I’m elated to get back on the court with the guys.”

The team’s strategy to bet on teamwork and dedication seemed to pay off during their game against the Albertus Magnus Falcons. Both teams fought for control of the game in the first half, with neither team able to secure a solid lead over the other. With Will Scherer ’25 con trolling the boards defensively, and Bobby Sommers ’25, Mike Schretter ’23, and first-year Charlie Randall ’26 scoring on the offensive end, the Mammoths were able to end the first half with a tenuous one-point

lead, with the score at 31-30. The start of the second half seemed shaky for the Mammoths, however, as a quick 9-0 scoring run from the Falcons had the Mam moths trailing by eight, at 37-45, in the first five minutes. However, while they were down, Amherst was not out: For the next 12 minutes, the Mammoths rallied, gradually clos ing the Falcons’ lead. Eventually, a three-pointer from Sommers re duced the Falcons’ lead to just two. With momentum on their side, the Mammoths then took over, with a lay-up from Giovanni Tam ’26 and a C.J. Mitchell ’25 three-pointer widening their lead. With the lead and little time remaining, the Mam moths stayed on the front foot and saw out the game, ending in a hard-

fought win for Amherst by a score of 67-64. Offensively, a career-high 15 points from sophomore Som mers led the team.

The win will likely serve as a massive boost and is an impressive start to the team’s season. Alausa shared his excitement regarding the rest of the season. “Winning the first game helped as a confidence booster, so it was an amazing expe rience,” he said. “Overall, [we are] very excited for the rest of the year.”

The Mammoths will be look ing to maintain the confidence they gained in their first win into the Marymount University Tour nament next weekend. Their next game will be against the University of Lynchburg on Saturday, Nov.19, at 3 p.m.

Women’s XC Team, Dassin ’24 Qualify for National Championship

Alex Noga ’23 Managing Sports Editor

This past Saturday, Nov. 12, the men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at NCAA Mideast Regional Championships at St. Law rence University. The men’s team finished sixth out of a field of 23 teams, and Theo Dassin ’24 earned himself an individual at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Champi onship national finals with an 18th place finish. On the women’s side, a second-place finish, led by top-10 finishes by both Mary-Kate Mc Granahan ’23 and Daphne Theiler ’26, earned the whole team an atlarge bid to the National Champion ship tournament next weekend.

Women

Competing in a field of 21 total teams, the national No. 14 women’s cross country team placed second at this past weekend’s NCAA Mideast Regional Championships. Fresh off her NESCAC individual champion ship two weeks ago, McGranahan paced the Mammoths with a time of

22:23.4. She improved on her thirdplace finish from last year’s region als by finishing in second this year, crossing the line just 13 seconds be hind this year’s winner. Theiler was not far behind her senior teammate, finishing the course in 22:48.6 for sixth place finish, the best perfor mance of her debut season. Both McGranahan and Theiler automati cally qualified for the DIII National Championship with their top-10 finishes on Saturday.

Sophie Wolmer ’23 was the next Mammoth to cross the finish line, finishing the course in 23:19.3 and placing 16th out of 159 total run ners. Rounding out the rest of the scorecard for the Mammoths was Allison Lounsbury ’26, who placed 22nd (23:34.1), and Claire Callon ’25, who scored for the first time this season with a 24th-place finish (23:39.4).

Though the Mammoths fell just short of first place, which would have secured them the region’s au tomatic bid to the National Champi onship, the team earned an at-large bid for the tournament when the

field was announced on Sunday. The Mammoths will travel to Lansing, Michigan, to compete in the nation al finals on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Men

The men’s team posted a solid sixth place finish out of 23 teams competing at the Mideast Regional Championships this past weekend. And like he has many other times this season, Dassin led the way for the Mammoths. He placed 18th with a time of 26:07.9, a huge improve ment from his performance at last season’s regionals where he finished 40th. Dassin’s placement, as well as his consistently stellar running all season, secured him an at-large bid as an individual runner at the Na tional Championship in Michigan next weekend.

George Cahill ’26 was the next Mammoth to cross the line, finish ing 29th with a time of 26:39.5. Had four at-large teams been chosen from the Mideast Region, Cahill’s time would have qualified him for an individual at-large bid for the National Championship, but only

two Mideast teams earned at-large bids (Connecticut College, Middle bury). Henry Dennen ’26 completed the course just over seven seconds later, placing 32nd (26:46.8). Will Merhige ’23 and Aidan Gemme ’26 were the final two Mammoth scor

ers, finishing at virtually the same time, ending with times of 27:01.8 and 27:02.7, respectively, for 38th and 39th-place finishes. Aside from Dassin, the men’s cross country sea son concludes with their sixth place finish at the Mideast Regionals.

Football Falls to Williams To Cap Off 2-7 Season

Drew Stephens ’26 Staff Writer

The football team fought val iantly in the final game of their 2022 season, but were ultimately defeated 20-10 by rival Williams in the 136th installment of the Biggest Little Game in America this weekend. With the loss, the Mammoths ended the year with a 2-7 record.

A classic college football ri valry returned to NESN this Sat urday, Nov. 12, at Farley-Lamb Field in Williamstown, Massa chusetts. In their biggest game of the season, the Amherst football team aimed to take down their archrivals, the Williams Ephs, who entered the game with an identical 2022 record (2-6). How ever, the Ephs were able to pull away in the second half to claim their third straight victory over Amherst by a 10-point margin.

It was the Williams offense

that struck first on Saturday, finding the endzone on their first possession of the game to put the Ephs up by seven. However, as was the case numerous times this season, the Amherst defense was able to provide a spark and produce some momentum for the Mammoth offense. Late in the first quarter after Amherst went three-and-out on its first two possessions, linebacker Andy Skirzenski ’24 picked off a Wil liams pass to give Amherst the ball deep in Williams’ territory.

One play later, quarterback Mike Piazza ’24 found receiver Carter Jung ’26 for a 16-yard gain to put the Mammoths in the red zone.

A few plays later, on a third-andgoal from the five-yard line, Piaz za connected with Carson Och senhirt ’24 for a five-yard score to put the Mammoths on the board.

The extra point from Conor Ken nelly ’23 tied the game at 7-7.

On their very next possession,

the Mammoths put together a promising drive that included two third-down conversions from Pi azza to again reach the red zone. However, on a third-and-10 at the Ephs’ 18-yard line, Piazza con nected with Jack Roberge ‘25 who was stopped 3 yards short of the line to gain . A 28-yard field goal from Kennelly instead put the Mammoths up 10-7 with seven minutes remaining in the half.

While the Amherst defense held Williams scoreless for the rest of the first half, the Ephs came out of halftime strong and regained the lead on their opening posses sion of the third quarter. A 29-yard touchdown pass put the Ephs up 14-10 with 10:09 left in the third. From there, the Amherst offense stalled, as they failed to gain a first down for the entire rest of the quarter. To make matters worse, on their first drive of the fourth quarter, a reverse option pass from Ochsenhirt — a trick play meant

to try and jump-start their stag nant offense — was picked off. But again, the Mammoth defense was able to bend and not break. A Skirzenski sack forced Williams to settle for a field goal early in the fourth, which made it 17-10 in fa vor of the Ephs and kept the lead at one score.

Ultimately, the Amherst of fense was not able to take ad vantage of the numerous stops by their defense. The offense be gan a promising drive with eight minutes to play, immediately fol lowing the Williams field goal. A 23-yard pass from Piazza to Jung opened up the drive, putting the Mammoths at the Williams 48yard line. However, they failed to pick up another first down, and a decision to punt would ultimately doom the Mammoths. On the en suing drive, Williams would run out the clock and hold onto the ball for nearly six minutes, con cluding a dominant 79-yard drive

with a field goal to go up 20-10 with only 30 seconds remaining. Time would ultimately run out on Amherst’s season on the ensuing possession, and the they left Wil liamstown with their seventh loss of the season.

Amherst football’s 2022 sea son was a tough one to say the least. Their 2-7 record is the pro gram’s worst of the 21st century. Many familiar themes permeated those defeats, including in the season-ending loss to Williams. The team struggled to finish out close games, as Saturday was the fifth time the Mammoths lost by 11 points or less this season. Ad ditionally, the Amherst offense struggled to score, as they have all season: They were outgained by Williams 376 to 174 in total yardage on Saturday. The Mam moths will look to improve on this season next fall, when they will return to Pratt Field to begin the 2023 season.

Photos courtesy of Clarus Studios Theo Dassin ’24 qualified for nationals as an individual.

No. 9 Women’s Basketball Opens Season Strong, Goes 2-0

Liza Katz ’24 Managing Sports Editor

The 2021-22 season was cer tainly successful for the Amherst women’s basketball team. They fin ished the year with a 25-4 record and were ranked No. 4 nationally by D3Hoops.com after making the NESCAC Tournament Final and the NCAA Final Four. But after losing a nailbiter to the University of Wiscon sin-Whitewater in the Final Four, the Mammoths will look to avenge that loss in what is hopefully yet another award-laden season.

However, that road won’t be easy: The team lost five seniors after last season, all of whom played significant minutes and were key to the team’s NCAA Tournament run. Dani Valdez ’22 is a particularly impactful loss – she was named to the All-NESCAC first team, to the D3Hoops.com Region 1 first team, and a WBCA All-American after the last season.

With the graduation of those five

seniors, the team’s juniors — Reeya Patel ’24, Abbey Skinner ’24, and Nicole Stanford ’24 — are now the elder states(wo)men, as there are no seniors on this year’s roster. The trio will look to lead a young group into 2022-23 both on and off the court.

On the floor, incumbent starters Patel and AnLing Vera ’25 will be expected to shoulder much of the scoring load. Guard Kori Barach ’25 and forward Maya Cwalina ’25 both saw time off the bench last year, and will be counted on to contribute in increased roles this season as they at tempt to reach their national-cham pionship goals.

And based on their play this weekend, those goals look to be within reach. In their season opener, they took down the No. 16 Spring field Pride 54-50, leading by as many as 12 on the way to their first win of 2022. Patel led the way offensive ly, scoring eight of her 17 points in the first quarter as the Mammoths built a 14-4 lead. The second frame was no different than the first: Patel

SWIM & DIVE

Nov. 19: @ Colby, 1 p.m. Nov. 21: @ Wesleyan, 5 p.m.

SQUASH

Nov. 19: vs. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 12 p.m.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

Nov. 18: vs. Hamilton, 7 p.m.

Nov. 19: vs. Hamilton, 3 p.m.

Nov. 22: @ University of New England, 4 p.m. Nov. 27: @ Manhattanville College, 3 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY

Nov. 19: NCAA National Championships @ East Lansing, MI Women @ 11 a.m., Men @ 12 p.m.

poured in eight more points, includ ing a buzzer-beating three, to pace the team to a 32-23 halftime lead.

But Springfield is ranked for a reason. After the Mammoths went cold to open the second half, the Pride went on a 6-0 run and narrowed the lead to three. A three-pointer by Sylvia Liddle ’26 ended the run, and Skinner scored five points of her own as the Mam moths stretched the margin back to 10 heading into the final quarter.

The Pride again opened the quarter with a 7-0 run to reduce the lead to three. A Vera three-pointer ended that run, but the Pride got within three two more times. Firstyear Anna Tranham ’26 stopped the comeback attempt with a clutch three-pointer, and free throws down the stretch secured the Mammoths’ first win of the season.

Sunday was much of the same for the Mammoths, who picked up win number two 57-50 against Rowan College. However, unlike their first game, this one started as a defensive

battle: Neither team scored until Rowan made a layup almost halfway through the first quarter. Amherst’s first field goal came with 2:09 left in the quarter. From there, both teams found their stride, combining for 10 field goals in the quarter’s last two minutes. Amherst held a four-point lead after one.

Unlike the first quarter, the sec ond started with the Mammoths catching fire, and the Mammoths’ lead stretched to nine with 6:17 to go in the half. But Rowan fought their way back, narrowing the lead to three before a 12-3 Amherst run brought the advantage to 32-20. However, the Profs outscored Amherst by 10 during the third — the Mammoths started the quarter matching Rowan shot-for-shot, but the Profs went on a 7-0 run late, putting the lead at two after three quarters.

But despite the Profs tying the game early in the fourth and taking a five-point lead with five minutes to play, the Mammoths fought to the end. While two minutes of back-

and-forth play followed, Amherst took the lead for good on a Cwalina free throw with 3:39 to go. The team saw out the game at the free throw line to win their second game 57-50. Barach was the star for the Mam moths on Sunday, with 15 points, nine rebounds, six assists, and two steals in an impressive all-around performance. Vera also added 17 points.

Speaking about the tip-off tour nament, Patel said, “It felt so good to be back on the court this year … We were so happy to see LeFrak packed for our season opener against Springfield. The energy really helped fuel us throughout the game. We were happy with the wins, but we know we have a lot to work on and focus on as the season goes along. I am excited to see what else we can do this season with the group we have!”

The Mammoths return to ac tion for their first road game of the season, and their last game before Thanksgiving break, at Gordon Col lege on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m.

MEN'S HOCKEY

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Nov. 16: @ Gordon College, 7 p.m. Nov. 29: vs. Emmanuel College, 7 p.m.

A M E S C H E D U L E

Nov. 19: vs. Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22: @ Saint Michael’s University, 4 p.m. Nov. 26: @ SUNY Geneseo, 3 p.m. Nov. 27: vs. Babson, 3 p.m.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

Nov. 19: vs. William Smith College @ Case Western, 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20: vs. Case Western/Loras College @ Case Western, 3 p.m. (if necessary)

MEN'S SOCCER

Nov. 19: vs. University of Mary Washington, 11 a.m. Nov. 20: vs. Bowdoin/SUNY Oneonta, 12 p.m. (if necessary)

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Nov. 19: vs. University of Lynchburg @ Marymount University, 3 p.m. Nov. 20: @ Marymount University, 1 p.m. Nov. 23: @ Babson, 1 p.m. Nov. 27: @ Yeshiva University, 3 p.m. Nov. 28: vs. Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 7 p.m.