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Class of 2017 Represents Diversity of Campus

Contains Record Percentage of Students of Color and Pell Grant Recipients

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Students of the Class of 2017 arrived on campus with their families on Aug. 25 to being orientation activities and move into their first-year dormitories.

Alissa Rothman ’15 Editor-in-Chief Facing a daunting 14 percent acceptance rate, the members of the Class of 2017 arrived on campus this week, filled with energy as they unloaded their cars and embarked on their college experience.

The class were chosen out of 7,926 applicants, of which 1132 were accepted, with 466 students arriving on campus to make up the Class of 2017.

With an almost perfect male to male ratio (there are four more women than men), the students have a large amount of geographic, socioeconomic and racial diversity. “Even though our applicant pool was down

seven percent from last year we feel very good about how the quality of the applicant pool emerged, and a great group of students showed up, which is all that matters,� said Katie Fretwell, Director of Admissions. “Of course there were initial concerns that some of the attention given to Amherst last fall might have had a negative impact on students considering Amherst, but when we analyzed the pool that ultimately came in we didn’t see anything like a drop off in certain geographic regions or a drop off in female applicant either. The ratio of men to women was consistent with previous years. So, there wasn’t a particular group of students that dropped, it seemed to be a slice across groups.�

The class has large geographic diversity, repre-

senting over 30 countries, 40 states and the District of Columbia. Nine percent of the class are non-U.S. citizens and five percent are dual citizens. Furthermore, for the first time in 192 years there are more Californians than New Yorkers in the new class. “I think part of the attraction is that east coasters are moving to the west coast, so they bring a greater familiarity with Amherst. Furthermore, as Amherst becomes increasingly national and international and as alumni go out into these nooks and crannies of the world, the College becomes more well known,� Fretwell said. “Things like the internet make it a lot easier for students to do things like virtual tours and draws more students to the College.�

The class represents great racial and socioeconomic diversity. A record 45 percent of students in the incoming class have self-identified as students of color. “I suspect that makes Amherst the most diverse class at any of the liberal arts colleges,�

Fretwell said.

Furthermore, 18 percent of the class are first generation college students. Additionally, 57 percent of students receive financial aid and a record 23 percent of incoming students are currently receiving Pell grants. “That is a really distinguishing feature for Amherst among our peer institutions. It indicates that we are attracting really talented low-income students and enabling those students to chose Amherst. We are very proud of that,� Fretwell said. “I think Amherst has an excellent reputation for attracting students from different backgrounds and supporting students those students once they get here. We have a Financial Aid office and a Dean of Students office who are very sensitive to needs of students coming from different kinds of families, different backgrounds, both socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, so that programs emerge to aid students in everything from purchasing books to acquiring winter coats to experiencing an American thanksgiving if the students can’t get home. These are all good things that are happening, and I think all the students at Amherst care about that. They want fellow students to have some of the common experience of being a student, not only in the U.S. for students who are not from the United States, but to have a common experience while they are at Amherst. I think the College does a good job on that front, making sure that all our students have access to the same experience.�

The new class also contains over 24 students who have completed a gap year. “Anytime a college student doesn’t go back to school in September represents a shift in normalcy because students who are high achievers who Continued on Page 2

Facilities Moves Forward on Large Projects Alissa Rothman ’15 Editor-in-Chief The campus was bustling this summer as construction and design teams took over the campus, finishing up major projects before students flooded in for the new year.

The first of the major projects to be completed was Seligman Dormitory. As part of the residential master plan, which has it’s origins dating back to 2001 when the College put a plan in place to update or renovate all of the college dormitories and bring the freshman to the main quadrangle, Seligman Dormitory was renovated and expanded, doubling the bed capacity of the dormitory from 23 to 46. “It was a particularly gratifying project because there was so much student input into that project,� said Jim Brassord, Director of Facilities. “We had conducted focus groups to review our previous projects and to take the lessons learned from those projects and apply them to Seligman. We are very excited about it in that we were able to retain more of the historic fabric of the building. It has resulted in a very warm and inviting and residential feel, which we think the students will appreciate.�

Facilities also focused on maintaining the architectural significance and historical significance of the building with the addition, ensuring that the addition was completely in sync with

the existing structure. “We have had good feedback from the community on that,�

Brassord said. “The best feedback we can get is that it is indistinguishable from the original building. I think our architects did a nice job with that.�

Other features of the building include exposed wood ceilings and new lighting designed to create a more residential feel.

The designers also listened to students concern about their ability to keep doors open, placing a magnetic hold near each door so students can decide whether to keep their rooms open or closed. “Students we talked to felt having doors open creates a more social feel, and yet the current code requirement requires that the doors have an automatic closing feature,� Brassord said. “With the magnetic holds, students can choose to either keep their door closed or to keep it open. As you walk through the dorm and you get a much stronger sense of community by virtue of that. We are going to consider that feature in future projects.�

The second major project this summer was the renovation of Pratt Field. The project started in earnest last spring and is on schedule be completed by the first home football game on Sept. 28. In fact, the field and track are already in use, with the recreation building and press box the only things still under

construction.

The final large project that is being finished up this summer was 79 South Pleasant Street. The building was acquired by the college in 2008. It originally served as the Baptist church for the local community, but over the years it had evolved into a commercial property. “We bought it from the owners in 2008 with the intent of creating administrative space for the campus so that, through renovation of this building, we could create additional space on the core campus for faculty and classrooms. We have gone through a comprehensive renovation of this building, really being sensitive to it’s historic nature, and it should be completed in mid October,� Brassord said.

Several departments will be moving into the building, including Human Resources, Public Affairs, the Investments Office and the Five College World Language program.

Over the summer designers were also very busy, finalizing plans for the upcoming Power House renovations. “We are happy to say that the detailed design is near completion. We are anticipating, if all goes according to plan, that we will start construction late fall. The full construction duration is still not known but if it goes according to plan it is possible we could be opening it up late in the spring semester,� Brassord Continued on Page 2

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News Entries from June 1 to Aug. 25, 2013 >> June 1, 2013 10:41 p.m., The Quadrangle An officer responded to a complaint of loud music coming from a tent party. The DJ was advised to lower the volume. >>June 2, 2013 12:26 a.m., Webster Circle Amherst Police reported receiving several noise complaints. Officers had the volume of music lowered at two tent parties.

12:50 a.m., Campus Grounds A town resident complained about loud music.

An officer responded to a tent party near King & Wieland and had the music shut down.

12:51 a.m., Merrill Science Road An officer encountered two men with alcohol.

One was underage and neither men were associated with the college. The alcohol was disposed of, and the men were sent off campus.

12:48 p.m., Stone Dormitory A reported a visitor had an iPad stolen from her suite on 5/28/13. It is valued at $600. Case open.

11:35 p.m., Plimpton House Officers responded to a report of bears in the area of Plimpton. Three bears were located in the near the Emily Dickinson House and they fled into the woods. >>June 7, 2013 10:19 p.m., The Cage An officer checked on a man found asleep in his car near the Athletic Complex. After verifying his identification, he was sent on his way. >>June 11, 2013 1:11 p.m., Frost Library A man was arrested and charged with trespassing. >>June 12, 2013 7:39 p.m., Campus Grounds Officers and the Amherst Police responded to a report of a man found expired in the woods east of the faculty apartments on East Drive. The man is not associated with the College. >>June 13, 2013 11:59 p.m., Hitchcock House Officers responded to a noise complaint and issued a warning to a group of people in the firstfloor common room. >>June 19, 2013 5:44 a.m., Tuttle Farm An officer responded to a report of four people in the area of the Book and Plow farm. They were identified as students checking the sunrise. >>June 20, 2013 1:13 p.m., Valentine Dining Hall Officers investigated the theft of an iPad from the kiosk in the lobby of Valentine Hall. With the assistance of the IT department, officers were able to identify a student who had possession of it. A criminal complaint was filed against a student. >>June 30, 2013 5:33 a.m., Emily Dickinson House An employee reported that someone was at the front door trying to open it. Upon arrival, officers located two people who were in the garden area. The two, who are students at an area college, stated they tried the door to see if the museum was open. After checking their identification, and understanding that the building would not be open at the hour, they were sent on their way. >>July 7, 2013 12:31 a.m., Tyler House An officer encountered a group of students in the first-floor common area with alcohol. The alcohol was disposed of, and the students left the area.

6:26 a.m., Morrow Dormitory An officer and the Fire Department responded

to assist people who were stuck in a malfunctioning elevator. Assistance provided. >>July 12, 2013 1:48 p.m., Fayerweather Lot Rd. An employee reported that upon returning to his car he found the driver’s side mirror damaged. Case open.

12:51 p.m., Jenkins Dormitory An employee reported the theft of a microwave oven from the basement. Case open. >>July 18, 2013 11:15 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported $800 in U.S. currency and $ 300 in Chinese currency stolen from an unlocked room.

Case open.

12:00 p.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported $110 cash stolen from an unlocked room. Case open.

12:00 p.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported $80 cash and a credit card stolen from an unlocked room. Case open. >>July 19, 2013 12:15 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported the theft of $29 cash from an unlocked room. Case open.

12:15 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported the theft of $20 cash from an unlocked room. Case open.

12:16 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported the theft of $50 cash from an unlocked room. Case open.

12:16 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported the theft of approximately $25 cash from an unlocked room. Case open.

12:17 a.m., Morris Pratt Dormitory A resident reported the theft of $30 cash from an unlocked room. Case open. >>July 20, 2013 12:36 p.m., Keefe Health Center An officer investigated a situation where two windows screens were found partially removed. No access was gained.

7:27 p.m., Off Campus Location An officer checked on a vehicle parked in an unusual location. Matter resolved. >>Aug. 1, 2013 11:16 p.m., Marsh House Officers responded to a complaint of loud people in the common room with music. The music was shut off and the group was dispersed. >>Aug. 2, 2013 8:00 a.m. , Wilson Admissions An employee reported the theft of $26 cash from her pocket book several days earlier.

Case open. >>Aug. 8, 2013 1:33 p.m., Campus Grounds An officer checked on an area near Garman where it was reported someone may have been sleeping in between bushes. No one was found but there was evidence of a makeshift bed. The materials were disposed.

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Summer Construction Wraps Up, Three Large Projects Completed Continued from Page 1 said. “Conceptually it remains very consistent with what people saw in the spring.”

The Facilities Department is also preparing for the upcoming strategic planning project, which for them includes a campus assessment and framework plan that will play out in parallel with the broader strategic planning initiatives for the College. As a preliminary phase of that framework plan, they have been considering the site and conceptual design for the science center, and they plan to engage the faculty and staff and students in the upcoming months regarding the center before making a recommendation to the board in October. In order to put together informed plans, the planning architects have been traveling across the region, studying different science centers in terms of design and campus location.

“This summer has been a very busy summer for us as our planning architects have been working with us considering a wide range of alternatives and really assessing the campus,” Brassord said. “Those trips were extremely informative.

The information is now being synthesized and what we hope to do is have an open meeting or a series of open outreach meetings with the campus community in mid-September at which

point we will share some of the observations and conclusions about the various sites.”

The department is currently considering two sites, the east campus site, located where the social dorms currently stand, and the southeast site, located south of King and Wieland where there are now a group of pine trees.

“Of course we are considering the fate of the social dorms. The social dorms, if the science building is on east campus, will have to be an enabling first stage project that will enable the science center to be built,” Brassord said. “We are also, as part of this framework plan, looking at different sites for replacement dorms and considering the program and topography of the dorms.”

There are a number of sites under consideration right now. One would be south of Merrill science center and McGuire, where the current temporary dorms and tennis lot parking stand.

The other would be at the southeast site of the campus, south of King and Wieland.

“There are also some perimeter sites that are available. But the focus is more on the core campus if possible,” Brassord said.

As the summer projects wrap up the Facilities department prepares for the strategic planning the college will undergo in the next year and looks forwards to the projects that will emerge from those studies.

Class of 2017 Moves Onto Campus for Orientation Continued from Page 1 come to a place like Amherst have been going back to school every fall. To interrupt that cycle is going to help them see the world differently. Students who have had that experience when they come to Amherst are going to express that experience in the classroom and in the dorm, in sometimes unpredictable ways,” Fretwell said. “They’ll have a different level of maturity because they will have lived differently than other students. We are excited about that and certainly the high achieving students who take a break from all that school may find themselves renewed and reinvigorated intellectually. It is often the case that they are ready and recommitted to their schooling when they come.”

The incoming class is also highly qualified. Over 86 percent of the class graduated in the top decile of their high school classes. They represent over 378 different high schools. Fifty nine percent of the students attended public high schools, 35 percent

attended independent high schools, six percent attended parochial high schools and half of a percent were home schooled.

There are also several transfer students joining the college this year. Out of 473 applications, the College accepted 20 students, with 13 enrolling this year, resulting in an acceptance rate of 4 percent.

The transfer students range in age from 18 to 33, with a significant contingent from community colleges and two veterans.

“These students will bring an added level of worldly experience,” Fretwell said. “Transfer student have stories that are often different than our traditional high school students.”

For Fretwell, it is the diversity of this class that distinguishes it.

“The socioeconomic and racial diversity is remarkable, and the community, I think, will celebrate that and will build from it. Those are the kinds of things that will impact the whole college,” Fretwell said. “I think that is going to be special.”

>>Aug. 9, 2013 1:55 a.m., Marsh House Officers responded to a noise complaint and found approximately ten people in a secondfloor room. All nonresidents were asked to leave. >>Aug. 25, 2013 8:08 p.m., Stone Dormitory An officer responded to a complaint of a fire escape blocked by boxes and a mattress. After speaking to a resident, students cleared the debris.

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Q&A with Provost Peter Uvin

Q: Can you tell us a little about yourself?

A: I come from Belgium, originally, in the heart of Europe, from near Brussels.

In my family I was the first one to go to College. I studied in Belgium, then Sweden and then Switzerland where I got my Ph. D. I studied law and politics, two different degrees, and got my Ph. D. in international relations in Geneva.

Research-wise, most of my work has been focused on development and most of it in East Africa, in Burundi and Rwanda.. I also became specialized because all of the countries I worked in ended up in war, there is no correlation there, I hope, but nonetheless I became very interested over the years in the relationship between development enterprise and the whole project of development, and the dynamics that lead to violence in countries and conversely then, how could you use international assistance to actually decrease violence. So I became very interested in this both intellectually, but also very practically. I did a lot of consulting and I did a lot of work in the field.

I would spend three or four months in Africa working with agencies, international or local. I’ve always been quite a doer. I do scholarship, and I love scholarship, but I mainly do it to make change happen whereas others are more fundamental.

Six, seven years ago after I had had a sabbatical where I spent a year in Burundi walking through the country and interviewing people I decided to stop working in Africa. I had enough of being foreign speaking to other people. I decided I wanted to do something in my own society, the US not being entirely my own society, but nonetheless I’ve lived her now for over 20 years, I have kids here.

This is my country now. At the time, my university, Tufts, was looking for an academic dean. I got the job and did that for six years. Then I came here to become Provost because I liked making things happen in the university or in the college.

Q: What inspired you to start a career in college administration?

A: First of all, this was something I knew about.

I’ve been living in colleges or universities since I was 18. In Africa, I know something about it too but you remain an outsider the whole time and you’re trying to interpret another place it feels a bit artificial. For me, to be in a university does not feel artificial. I have been spending 30 plus years of my life in it as a student, a graduate student, the whole professor career and administration. So, I feel I know this.

The second thing that I like about administration, oddly enough, is that I am a person who hates power. I don’t like power, and in a university administration you actually have no traditional power because you are dealing with professors who are very empowered, who have tenure, processes of government that are extremely consensual and based on shared governance and so on.

So you are in a situation where truly all you can use is the capacity to facilitate good conversation, to bring smart people together, to create good information, but not just dictate or power over. I like that, I really enjoy working with people to make stuff happen rather than just telling people what to do. I think this comes from my experience in development. There you can’t tell people what to do because they won’t do it. They’ll find 200 ways not to do it or to pretend to do it as long as you’re there and then to stop doing it them moment you look away. So if you want to make anything happen that is sustainable you have to work with people and create ownership. I like those things, and I think in many odd ways university administration is very similar. It would be different if you were the CEO of a company or a general in an army. There you have power over. But that is not the case in a university. I like that, it feels right to me.

Thirdly, since I was a kid I believed in teaching.

I love good teaching. To me, it didn’t happen often.

But when it happened it was beautiful. I can still say the names of people I had when I was 14, who truly made me the person I am. Unfortunately

there were not many, because I come from a much less good education system. But I’ve always had this love for making good teaching happen, either by being one myself or in a place like this by just being part of an institution that has a commitment to it. So I love a job like this.

Q: How do you see your role fitting into the administration at a school that has never before had a provost?

A: I think in practice the main reason I got the job was that I was willing to take a job that no one know what it was. I imagine most of the other candidates were scared stiff of that, but I was willing to accept it. So, it wasn’t clear what the job would be when I took it on. It is clear that the president and the board and quite a few other members of the faculty and senior staff believe that Amherst is slightly under-administered. In terms of it’s management there is too much ad hoc decision making, often driven by personality and not so much people who really have systems in place and lack a certain degree of experience and professionalism and people dedicated to doing the right thing at the right moments and everyone knowing what their job is. I think in part there are just not enough people to do it. So everybody is scrambling and improvising and reacting to crisis, that unfortunately tend to happen all the time, and as a result you are just kind of stagnant, just treading.

I think the president wanted to create a situation where she had a whole team around her of people who know their tasks, there are enough of the to fulfill their tasks, they had experience with this type of tasks and so on.

That said, that still begs the question of what does a provost completely do? It seemed a could do a number of things that were either not done so far, sort of falling between the cracks, things that were done ad hoc, or could be done more or better. One that has clearly fallen on my plate so far seems to be strategic planning. I oversee and facilitate and set up the whole strategic planning process, which will start soon. I played a key role in setting up all of that and will over the next 12 or 15 months, however long it will take, continue playing a key role in that. Again, it’s nothing world shocking to do that, but somebody has got to do it.

If I weren’t here, it would be one of the deans who are already super overworked having this added onto their tasks. Now you can say “dump it on the provost, he’ll take care of it.”

The second area I’ve taken a lot of leadership in is what you could broadly call diversity or community. I sent an email out the community that was precisely about this area. It seems that this is an area that had fallen between some cracks as well.

The College has done a lot to attract a wide range of people, and it has done that very well with great dedication and talent and resources being put where they ought to be put. But then afterwards, frankly, not much was done with it here. If you look at this whole debacle with the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) and so on, if you compare that to our peer schools, it’s frankly relatively painful. It is like we are 25 years behind them. It is not even a year or two, it’s a generation or two, in resources, in the structure set up, in the experience acquired. Again it seems there was a constant change and turnover of people involved, some her part time, some here for six months, another one who is part time doing this. That is not the way to run an important area like this at a college that is world class. I’ve taken over that area, and clearly this year I hope to immediately hope to start setting in motion some changes which are people who work in that area, but also using the strategic planning to really rethink and dramatically upgrade what we do in this area. I act as sort of a chief diversity officer, though that’s not a very interesting name. I imagine that down the road we will hire another professional who will report to me and who will hopefully be someone who has been doing this for fifteen or twenty years and who will come in with even more ideas, but I didn’t want to do that right away. I want first to know what we want to do as a college and then find the right person to make it happen. I didn’t want to do the hiring first and then find out we hired the wrong profile.

I am also very involved and oversee institutional research, which is just a very small piece, but a good piece. We have an extremely powerful institutional research office here at this college. It is far better than anything I’ve seen before in my life. Using that data well and commissioning from them the right sort of data is something that I’m involved with and it is a great pleasure. They are very good at what they do.

Another area I am playing a role in is ‘the international,’ so to speak. The Office of Study Abroad now reports to me. But also the international students who come here is something that I’m very interested in. Everything, the outflow and the inflow of international people is something that is important to me and I am trying to take an initiative in.

You have had previous experience in college administration as the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies and the academic dean at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. How will your past experiences shape your goals for your time at Amherst?

A: They always do. It is hard not to. I started my career in this country at Brown where I was for seven years as a regular professor, teaching two or three courses and advising undergraduates.

In some ways, here is more like my Brown experience because at Tufts was I was in a graduate school. I’ve worked at two very good places that are, frankly, in the same business as we are. They draw more or less the same type of students that we do, though they are bigger. Both Brown and Tufts at the undergraduate level are probably five, six times bigger than we are. With bigness comes certain advantages; they can afford in certain areas far more. If you go back to diversity, Tufts has seven centers dedicated to various aspects of diversity, each of which has one or two or three full time employees. It’s a different ball game entirely.

We can learn from this. I know these people; I’ve talked to these people. I have a direct insight from another place. I think that helps a lot. I think that Biddy Martin deliberately knew that it helps to look outside sometimes. It is a quite insular place.

Sometimes that is the price of being good at stuff.

You become maybe slightly smirk or self satisfied.

And there are reasons to be satisfied. You are one of the best colleges of its kind in the U.S. and in the world. You are doing well financially, academically. You feel like “hey life is good, why would we change one minutia of what we are doing?”

And yet smugness and over self-confidence is a dangerous thing. I think it’s good to bring people in who come from elsewhere and who can look at these things from a distance and say, “hold up, why aren’t you doing this? Why are you behind on some of these things by a generation or two?” People who will dare to say it. So I think coming with an outsiders perspective to this has strength. It has a weakness too. You might not know enough. But it has the strength in that you can shake the tree a little bit; bring in some fresh ideas to things. That is what I hope to bring.

Q: What do you think are Amherst’s major challenges today? How do you plan to tackle these?

A: Oh dear, there are a bunch. On one hand not so many. The College does not face many great challenges, unlike many other liberal arts colleges, state universities and research universities. We, in all likelihood, could continue for decades without changing a thing and I bet you we would still be around. We have more money than much of our completion, in the world in fact, on a per student basis. We have a lot that protects us. And yet, and yet and yet, it is so hard to be sure of that. I see three.

One is disruptive technology or disruptive change. There is this argument that some things, technology in this case, like online learning, can create new players in the field, who can actually suddenly and totally and without any warning put under attack even the most dominant and top players. The reason why it is disruptive is that you can’t attack players like us in the normal way, by becoming like us, because we have more money, a longer history, we attract better people because

of our reputation and so on. So you can’t actually become like us in the normal way. It is almost impossible except if you are another one of these very top institutions. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible. But, sometimes, something changes in the nature of the game, and online learning could be that game changer. We could suddenly have a situation in which in a few short years Amherst may find itself playing a game it has never had to play before. Now I don’t know if this is going to happen. It may be that there will always be enough people who believe that only person to person interaction in every course for a full 48 months in the way to go and who are willing to pay under all circumstances 10,20, 30, 40, 200 times more for that than that exact same knowledge taught by some Harvard professor behind your computer.

Maybe. But maybe not. And if it is going to happen, we better be ready. I have no idea what is going to happen, but something is.

Number two is the financial side of things. We are crazily expensive and we are not getting any cheaper. People are pissed off about it. Society at large is angry. Politicians are angry. Everybody is angry. Except for those who come here and absolutely love it because it is a phenomenal education.

It is a great product and worth every dollar. Nonetheless, it keeps on putting pressure and adds to potential financial disruptions. There is something there. I don’t think it is about money only. It really is about the business model by which we function, what value we put on peoples education, what can we tell the world about “this is why it’s worth it.” It’s money plus the whole story behind it. What do we stand for? Ten years from now, what will we say is the reason to come to a place like this? And by the way, it will stay expensive.

The last one is diversity in its broadest sense, not just a specific debate about the continuing act of historical discrimination, but a broader one about learning to work and live in communities with vast amounts of difference. Increasingly, anyone who is successful in life must have the capability of being sympathetic to, empathetic to, caring, capable of listening to and communicating to, learning from people who are massively different. And that is not so obvious, it is actually pretty hard. Places like this are an enormously powerful incubator for that potential. I don’t think we are there yet, but I think we could be that.

Q: How to you plan to tackle these challenges?

A: For now, the main one is strategic planning.

The whole process is designed to explicitly face these questions. Beyond that, universities or colleges, at their best, are two things. One is that they are deliberative democracies. They are places where truly, if they function well, all their stake holders, or their citizens, can bring their voices to bear on subjects, in a way that is akin to the old city states in Athens. We can hear you and we can hear you carefully, not just once every four years when there is an election. If it works well, a deliberative democracy is capable of constantly acting.

If it does not work well, it is manipulation, which is not hard to do as well. But I am a deep believer in the beauty of the deliberative democracy. The other thing is that ideally universities can be places of learning, which is why I am so interested in working on institutional research, because, to be a learning organization, you need data. You have to be willing to face up to, not what you think or dream or anecdotes, and really know the subject and applied the same kind of scientific dispassionateness to the management of the college as we apply to our own research or lab. That is not necessarily going to happen. Many professors, I think, because they live in this sort of world full time and they identify very deeply with it tend to have a relatively less scientific view of management, and a more deeply identity influenced view. I want this place to be a learning place, constantly willing to look at the data and see what it tells us in a way that all voices are heard, a deliberative democracy, and then come to a smart decision where we can react the whole time. I want us to be an organization where we are constantly driven in both a data based and input driven way.

-Alissa Rothman ’15

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Tips for the Class of 2017

1. Learn how to study effectively. Find your a nook inside the library or around campus (we won’t share ours because that would defeat the point). Take study breaks often.

Go for a walk around the trails or simply call a friend or family member.

2. Stay healthy. Don’t fall into the routine of ordering calzones at 2 a.m. every day. Invest in healthy midnight snacks. Try to eat as healthy as the options at Val allow you. And we cannot stress this enough: get enough sleep every night.

3. Develop strong relationships with your professors. Attend office hours whenever you can. Not only will you get more of the course, but your rapport with the professor will help you in the long run when you need recommendation letters.

4. Explore the area. Amherst can seem really boring if the only thing you do is eat at Val and hang out at Keefe. The Arts & Living editors have created a special map of the area in pages 6 and 7.

5. Join clubs, but make sure you don’t join too many. The club fair takes place next Monday, Sept. 2, and you’ll think that if you take the candy, you have to sign up for their club. You don’t. You can just take the candy.

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6. Don’t get stuck in your comfort zone.

Amherst does a great job of admitting students from diverse backgrounds, but it fails at fostering a sense of community among them once they’re here. Until there is a solution to that problem, it is up to you to create this community.

7. Pay attention to the events calendar. Don’t miss out on musical and theatrical performances, as well as important lectures.

8. Don’t be afraid to reach out to alumni.

Conversations with alumni can be very informative and beneficial in the long run.

Having those established connections will make it less awkward when you ask them for an internship.

9. Write for The Student. Writing for us is a great way to get involved on campus. By contributing to the paper, you get a unique perspective of the college. Plus, the staff is wonderful, although the pay isn’t great (read: nonexistent).

10.Read The Student. We understand that there will be other clubs and organizations that are better suited for your interests, so writing for us might not happen. However, reading The Student is a great way to keep yourself updated on college affairs.

Safety and Wellness First %BO %JOFS BOE 1FUF "MTIBSJG Diner and Alsharif have both served on ACEMS since their first year. Diner is currently on the Board of Directors, and both are ranked as med-10s, the equivalent of “crew chief” on a standard corps.

Welcome to campus, first-years. We hope that Orientation is treating you well. Enjoy Camp Amherst while you still can; classes start next week.

We wanted to use this opportunity to offer you a short introduction to our group, and to offer some advice about when to call us for urgent medical help.

Your first introduction to us was through the RC skit. You learned that we are the “premier emergency medical squad on campus,” that we “help the sick, the injured and sometimes those who have had too much to drink.” For a sentencelong summary, this was fairly accurate. Together with Campus Police, ACEMS responds to every medical emergency that is reported on campus.

Three responders are on duty at any given time, operating through 12-hour shifts. Though approximately 40 percent of calls are alcohol-related, we see everything from broken bones to severe allergic reactions. Our members are not paid and have to complete a rigorous EMT-B course followed by a competitive audition in order to join.

Though we have staff advisors, our Board of Directors is composed exclusively of students, and we take pride in how our circumstance allows us to be especially in touch with the population that we serve.

The philosophy behind Amherst’s EMS system is particularly pragmatic, favoring the well-being of the student body over a strict system of punishment. We operate under a limited system of medical amnesty; if a student requests medical as-

sistance after having taken a substance that would ordinarily cause them legal concern, campus police will take reasonable measures to limit or even eradicate punitive measures if it is that student’s first infraction. In general, if campus police does write up a student for a substance-related incident (usually resulting from underage drinking), recourse sought “against” the student rarely exceeds a polite conversation with a dean or other administrative official.

Keefe Health Center, UMass Health Center and Cooley Dickinson Hospital are all available medical resources. If you are experiencing something that requires urgent attention, or are unable to get yourself to one of these places, please call ACEMS for an evaluation. The following is a list (though certainly NOT an exhaustive one) of circumstances when you should give us a ring: r Severe illness or general distress r Allergic reaction, especially when sudden or uncommon r Excessive or uncontrollable vomiting r Difficulty with breathing or chest pain r Unconsciousness r Decreased level of responsiveness, especially when induced by alcohol, drugs or diabetic emergency r Confusion, severely decreased level of cognition or acute, unexplained change in mood or behavior r Physical trauma or injury such as laceration, abrasion or breakage/tearing r Intake of a potentially hazardous substance r A threat of self-harm or harm to others r Anything you are on the fence about. If you are unsure about whether or not something merits medical attention, we urge that you call ACEMS anyway.

Amherst College in the 2012-2013 school year was a place and time filled with pain and discomfort in more ways than one. A number of important and contentious debates sprung up on campus. Words were spewed from many different angles. On the surface this was perhaps abnormal, replacing the usually somewhat tepid and quiet Amherst awkward and filling the space with radical action and concern over laudable, progressive causes. Everyone at Amherst, faces new and old, should be aware of this. But what they should also realize is how little has actually been accomplished and how uncommitted most students at Amherst remain to pushing forward in substantive ways.

Don’t get me wrong; they are committed in the abstract, supporting the idea that something needs to happen, but when it comes to the debate about what exactly few have come to any consensus.

There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the most contentious one is the belief that student activists are at fault for pushing too far too quickly and for asking too much. The culture of decrying radical, non-institutional action we see among people angry at protests over recent national events such as the Zimmerman trial is not foreign in our own backyard. But getting angry is one thing. Using this anger to justify a lack of concern for social justice by blaming the protestors for estranging people from the cause is another. Essentially, this means that social justice initiatives are at a crossroads with two dead-ends, either compromising their cause and settling for a barely-substantive solution or pushing forward, only to anger everyone around them. Talk about a catch-22.

Enough with the abstractions though. Last year at an optional gathering of the students, faculty, and staff of the college to address sexual respect issues on campus, while President Martin was speaking, a number of students arose and walked through the sea of students brandishing signs matter-of-factly asking why the college and the student body refused to acknowledge some of the more serious issues related to the subject. Why wasn’t race a part of the discussion? Where was

the discussion of male privilege and how college groups reinforced them? Important questions the college wasn’t asking, meaning there would be no answer. The tone was sobering and uncomfortable, the students not showing off as righteous freedom fighters brandishing fire and brimstone phrases but the tired, weary but still passionate and angry students they were, simply looking for an answer and wanting their pain to be known by others.

One could see the look of disgust on the faces of the students in the crowd, almost in unison as if they were programmed to do so . However, this disgust was not aimed at the conditions the activists were pointing out, but the activists themselves.

Through the silence one could hear comments passed around: “How could they be so rude?”

“They don’t care about anyone but themselves.”

“There are survivors in the audience.”

Some students actually compared acknowledging the role male privilege plays in sexual assault to denying men a say in the issue, going on to say that this is tantamount to ideological rape itself. On a more national level, we hear similar comments all the time. Men say they are nice to women and protect them rather than abuse them but argue that they are turned off by feminists who ask for equal rights and pay equality, as though they are overstepping their role in society by asking to be paid the same as men for the same job. The same plays out with race; whites using a façade of pseudoequality to blame minorities for asking for “special privileges.” Excuse them for bringing up problems which still exist in society that the majority doesn’t want to acknowledge. But that’s the point isn’t it?

They don’t have to acknowledge it now that there aren’t as many formal barriers to equality and freedom as existed historically, so they can pretend that everything is fine and blame activists for overstepping their original goals of equality.

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Welcome from the Student Government (FPSHF 5FQF AAS President Welcome back to Amherst! It is truly an exciting time to serve as your Student Body President.

Last year catalyzed a great deal of changes to our campus, and much of the work is ongoing. Therefore, I’d like to describe some of the work that our student government, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) will undertake over the next year.

The AAS Senate is comprised of senators that represent you on student issues. They oversee an annual budget totaling to roughly one million dollars. The AAS puts this money at the disposal of clubs and initiatives that improve student life.

Charged with articulating your opinions and overseeing your dollars, student input is key to our mission. AAS senate meetings are open to the public, and take place every Monday ay 8:30 p.m. in Converse Hall’s Red Room. All meetings start with a “public comment” period during which

any student may make a statement on any topic of their choosing. The senate once listened to student comments for over an hour, so do not hesitate to come to any AAS meeting — you will be heard.

Looking back at a challenging year, the AAS and the College must work to create more “Amherst Moments” that we can share as a community.

They do not necessarily need to be large events, but rather should simply aim to bridge campus divides. As important is the need to recognize these “Amherst Moments” so that we can appreciate the positives of our community alongside its flaws.

To this end, I am continuing to work closely with the administration to organize weekly pub nights in Schwemm’s. Weekly pub nights will continue to support responsible drinking and serve as a set location for students to unwind and meet with friends at the end of our stressful weeks.

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President Discusses Plans for Year Continued from Page 4 cial pub nights once a month that would include activities like trivia to bring drinkers and nondrinkers together. It is our hope that this weekly tradition would create a formal space in which Amherst drinkers and non-drinkers can safely and enjoyably relax together.

Recent institutional changes are also noteworthy. The creation of full time director positions for the Multicultural Resource Center, the Queer Resource Center and the Women’s and Gender Center are encouraging signs that the College is finally moving to properly support these critical student resources. With directors reporting to the new Provost Peter Uvin, the College finally has the leadership structure in place to carry the majority of the burden of advancing these centers. As more and more students use these centers over the coming year, we must ensure that their budgets have increased enough to reach their full potential.

As the College explores new avenues for fostering an atmosphere of sexual respect, the AAS should strive to lead by example. To this end, the AAS has for the first time taken part in bystander training for all senators. This experience will help train senators to recognize and curtail unacceptable behavior, as well as provide them with an appreciation of the training’s benefits as we explore ways to integrate bystander training into club leadership programming.

With a new disciplinary system for sexual assaults, we must remain vigilant to ensure that administrators encourage reporting, that survivors are supported and protected and that adjudication by new disciplinary committee members is rigorous and unbiased. Students should feel empowered to express concerns to administrators, senators and to the permanent Sexual Respect Task Force chaired by Molly Mead. To encourage and support continued student voice, the Sexual Respect Task Force will now include seven student members, the most on any administrative committee. Keep a lookout for an AAS email in the coming weeks if you are interested in joining the committee.

Over the next year, the College should also work to encourage safe parties. To be clear, this means Amherst should have parties, and these parties will not necessarily be registered with the school. A college devoid of spontaneous social interactions loses the socialization and mixing that Amherst so desperately wishes to create. Safe par-

ties organized without fear of sanctions from College authorities will be more open, fostering greater interaction between students. Unsafe behaviors and excessive alcohol consumption should of course be dealt with, but policies that only attempt to decrease metrics like ACEMS’ calls fails to take into account the community benefits of a more vibrant social scene. The administration should position itself as an ally of responsible parties rather than simply an adversary of dangerous ones.

In this spirit, the AAS should ensure that the new social dorms being planned avoid replicating current deficiencies — poorly lit and overflowing common rooms — and allow students to hold safer gatherings within their own space. In addition, event policy for the new Power House should impose the lowest possible burden on students to encourage greater use of this new space. The college should not treat the Power House like the Friedmann Room or O’Connor Commons — few students will complete paperwork and meet with an administrator when they can instead email one RC to reserve Mo-Pratt’s common room.

In addition, the AAS must reach out to more student groups. Office hours and tabling in Val have been used in the past, but we should strive to use the effective outreach strategies used during AAS campaigns. AAS members should attend more club meetings as a helpful representative of the AAS and should reach out to RC’s to connect more directly with residents in their dorms.

The AAS must continue to improve the diversity of student opinion within its own ranks. The elections committee will continue to reach out to under-represented groups like women in the upcoming first-year senate elections, building off of the success of the spring elections. By encouraging members of underrepresented group to run for senate, the AAS can better represent all students while allowing students to democratically decide their senators.

Once these new senators are elected, the senate will work more consciously to empower these new voices to allow them to prosper. At the recent senate retreat over orientation, the senate began conversations about how to formalize responses to disrespectful behavior. These discussions will ultimately lead to a more effective senate and a senate that is more inviting to the rest of the student body.

In short, as Amherst continues to change I planning on focusing more efforts on bridging campus divides and uniting Amherst as one campus community.

Faculty Dance Concert Friday, September 6, 7PM, Kirby Theater Free admission. Open seating.

No reservations required.

Amherst College Theater and Dance Department is proud to present an evening of original works by faculty members Paul Matteson and Wendy Woodson. The concert will feature WAYPOINT, a duet for actor and dancer looking for the horizon,written and directed by Wendy Woodson, created in collaboration with and performed

by Ron Bashford and Paul Matteson.

The evening also includes two pieces choreographed by Paul Matteson. SHOW STOPPERS, performed by Matteson and Raja Feather Kelly, is a physically epic journey of brothers, or lovers, or friends; no, strangers who happen to share the same questions, fears and secrets. Matteson’s other work, TAKE IT OVER, performed by Matteson, James Morrow and Jennifer Polins, is a kinetic partnering pushed to the edge of execution where failure is inevitable and intended futures turn inside out.

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Blaming Activists Disguises Important Conversations about Social Justice on Campus Continued from Page 4 goals. What few realize is that most of the activists have been doing this for a long time. Many do it to the point where their grades and social lives suffer for it, but no one acknowledges this. No one acknowledges the long nights and hard-won (or more frequently lost) conversations the students who held those signs had been having for a long, long time, longer than even most of the students on campus realized sexual assault even occurred here. You know, because Amherst students are too “good” for sexual assault. These students have tried to calm down, have tried to initiate conversations with other students on campus, often to no avail.

And what do they have to show for this? Well, their anger for one. Which is why they chose to unleash some of it in front of the student body in a quiet, respectful manner, simply looking to breed discussion. But isn’t that what students who criticize them want in the first place?

In this light, the comment “they don’t care about anyone but themselves” is perhaps the most offensive. Not only is it dismissive, but it assumes they have no knowledge of what other students think. Of course, promoting conversation is important and it is important to value the input of others, but this comment assumes that every student on campus is adequately equipped to actually understand the seriousness of these issues in the first place. Like it or not, this is a huge assumption. The same comments were passed last year during a student vote about the Multicultural Resource Center, in which a majority of students voted down an initiative to make the MRC more available to students at the expense of the game room and the College decided to initiate the plan anyway. They were accused of putting the interests of some students over the majority, and therefore hindering democracy.

The problem with calling this democracy is that it assumes, absent formal barriers, every student is equally capable of understanding the importance of an MRC or more drastic sexual respect initiatives. This is the same problem which governs almost every debate about freedom in the U.S., going back to the idea that the removal of barriers means some notion of freedom exists. No one bothers to mention that more implicit ideological barriers exist. With regard to sexual assault, typical discussions of the issue reflect dominant middle class values. They hold that rape is bad but it’s more of a personal issue between the assaulter and the victim. Perhaps the assaulter should be punished but only because of their individual deviance, not because they acted with the implicit backing of a society predicated on male and (often) white privilege.

Most students cannot grasp the idea of male privilege simply because we aren’t taught this... society does not want people to be aware of it, so why would any institutions actively promote an awareness of male privilege? Regardless of your feeling on him, one of Karl Marx’s most well-known phrases comes to mind: “the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

Asking every student’s opinion and then working from there isn’t true democracy if most students just reiterate the same ideas handed down in society over and over again. Sometimes more drastic efforts need to occur; is this “abusive” and “controlling” as some have said? Harsh words, but there is a kernel of truth to them in select instances (many say the same about socialist governments and their abuse of the public in the name of equality and social justice), but it’s important to understand these efforts come from a need to challenge deep ideologies which are oppressive but which few accept as such. Doing so adds context and moves the debate beyond blaming and onto understanding.

Critiquing signs and protests, when unaccompanied with a trigger warning, for unfairly hurting survivors is a more good-hearted effort, but no less problematic. Victims of sexual assault have been hurt deeply, but hiding this as the College seems mostly willing to do will not solve their pain. The

College seems willing to provide help for students who have been hurt, giving them counseling and other efforts which often ask them to cope with their assault by forgetting it. Of course, helping victims is an admirable goal, but it also has a second more sinister effect: keeping the prevalence of sexual assault on campus as quiet as possible. It also serves to separate victims from the rest of the campus while their perpetrators continue to blend in with little trouble. Sexual assault is deeply uncomfortable, but hiding it doesn’t solve the problem. Of course we want to be comfortable, but in order to move past these issues we need discomfort because it is the only way students can truly understand the impact of sexual assault on communities and individuals. And that is exactly what the student protestors are trying to do. Could this sometimes be uncomfortable for victims? Yes, and protestors should be aware of this and include trigger warnings whenever possible. But blaming students for holding signs up without a trigger warning when they had no means to express one is unfair because it blames them for the very conditions which they are fighting against in the first place.

This would be akin to blaming civil rights demonstrators in the 1960s for angering whites who then at times increased their own violence against minorities. Should the civil rights demonstrators have been aware of this and tried to minimize it?

Absolutely, but too often minimizing this meant allowing already existent violence against minorities to continue and doing nothing for fear of angering whites. The problem isn’t the demonstrators; it is the conditions which make it almost impossible to demonstrate and protest without consequences and backlash in the first place. This is what we should be addressing. In order for true change on campus to occur, we will all have to become more aware of sexual assault and we will all need to feel uncomfortable, and this includes victims as well.

On a simpler note, all of this boils down to a simple often misguided idea: that there are appropriate places and times to protest. The idea that it is not okay to promote your own notion of democracy peacefully in the middle of a college sanctioned effort to promote progress is reductive and downright offensive, as though the College should have a monopoly on social justice. This reeks of a need to segment off protestors, deny them social agency, and compartmentalize true democracy from everyday life. Can protestors be out of line?

Possibly, as can anyone, but an analysis of the protest without the context is meaningless, and very few people bothered last year to understand the context in which the protestors were acting.

At the end of the day, much of the reaction to more substantive forms of protest are rooted in the fact that it does in fact make people feel uncomfortable, wondering if they could do more. And we as Amherst students are all busy, so it may be more natural for us to feel uncomfortable with our lack of time to engage in social justice efforts, but we should not take this out on those students who make us aware of this. We should be aware of it, learn from it, and try to do whatever we can.

And for new students, a quick message: don’t just support social justice in the abstract. As a previous orientation leader for two years, I can’t tell you the number of students who sympathized with concerns over race and class by passively noting something akin to “well race and class don’t matter to me because I’m okay with everyone, but I guess they matter to other people so we should be respectful of that.” This sounds good on the surface, but race, class, and gender diversity and inequality matter to all of us and we should all not just accept those who value them but learn to value them ourselves; otherwise we run the same risks as those criticizing protestors for caring about these issues “too much.” And don’t blame activists for their efforts without understanding the situations which lead to them in the first place. It’s easy to see them as blaming the “majority” for the supposed actions of the few sexual abusers, but it’s important to understand why this is the case, and more importantly, why it is necessary for change to truly occur.

Miss Saigon **** $$ Pho-cking delicious!

This place is amazing for friends and pho (I have more but I’ll stop)!

Great Vietnamese fare at reasonable prices makes Miss Saigon the best place to escape Val while

Brueggers ** $ Come to Bruegger’s for a slightly better bagel than what Val has to offer. (Did you really get your hopes up for Jewish fare in Western Massachusetts?).

Left Click The laptop hospital.

Chez Albert **** $$$$ I’m sure someone’s been to this restaurant to review it, but the entrées’ prices hover around $25 and being a Student staffer does not pay well (or at all).

Save this meal for the semester after your summer at JPMorgan.

Italian You’d think pizza, the ubiquitous and delicious staple of delivery fare, would be the Italian food of choice for Amherst students ordering in. However, a serious lack of quality pizza delivery places (Domino’s is probably the most popular option) and the presence of Antonio’s (whose delivery service is weak) means that calzones are the most popular Italian item on campus. While D.P. Dough has the best prices, calzone connoisseurs know that the savings are not worth the subpar ingredients and gastrointestinal distress.

Bruno’s and Pioneer Valley Pizza deliver well and,

Although the Town of Amherst isn’t large, scary or unnavigable (as you can see in the map below), sometimes you can’t be bothered to leave to library or the comforts of your heated dormitory to stuff your face with cheap, greasy food. Unfortunately, those who suffer from this problem face an overwhelming array of delivery options. We’re here to help.

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J. Gumbo’s **.5 $ Those few who have tried this newish, casual Cajun joint swear by its free

Antonio’s **** $ Whether you know it as “An-tawns”, “An-tones”, or even “An-stone-ios”, this home of late-night pizza delight will satisfy your cravings for both complex concoctions — chicken-bacon-ranch?

— and the classic cheese. In fact, slices of “hot cheese up front” are only $1 after midnight on Fridays, and will make even the harshest blizzards worth braving.

Judie’s ***.5 $$$ Take your parents here for popovers and apple butter, along with other uncontroversial staples of American cuisine. Perfect for a date if you have an Oedipal complex.

Crazy Noodles ** $ Noodles of all kinds — Asian, Italian and…other — are plentiful at this small restaurant, but quality isn’t always delivered alongside quantity.

Moti **.5 $$ Finding out the rosewater lemonade — to die for — is available to go might deter some students from sitting down at this reasonably priced Persian bistro, but its excellent kabob dishes, gyros, dips, falafel and romantic décor make Moti a great date option.

Arigato **.5 $$$ The lunch specials are too good to pass up at this surprisingly good sushi house, though the slow service and higher prices are a deterrent for the dinner crowd. Branch out with an interesting entrée like spicy squid if you’re not in the mood for sushi.

Wheatberry **** $$$ Farm fresh food at its finest. This charming and crunchy restaurant serves breakfast and lunch until the late afternoon and uses local, sustainable, seasonal, organic ingredients. The unbeatable freshness and quality of the food is well worth the price.

Froyoworld *** $ While Froyoworld may have a sterile, corporate ambiance, nothing cures exam-time blues like self-serve frozen yogurt and heaping piles of toppings. Beware, those who have eyes bigger than your stomach, because pricing is based on the weight of your order.

Rao’s *** $ Though its coffee and too-loud, eclectic music might suggest otherwise, the name of this popular study spot isn’t pronounced like “rouse” — it’s “RAY-ohs”. Finding a seat with ample table space at this café is not an activity for those without patience or agility.

The Lumber Yard **** $$$ Sister to the upscale Sconset Café on Nantucket Island, the pristine, Pottery Barn interior of Lumber Yard is about as flawless as the quality and presentation of its food. Get ready to dish out the dough for fried beets, delicious seafood and homemade specialty ice cream.

Pasta E Basta ** $$ Strictly referred to as “Pasta E” (anglicize the pronunciation of “e”), this pseudo-Italian restaurant is a good choice for sustenance when Val isn’t cutting it but you need something to hold all that Thursday night alcohol down.

Panda East **.5 $$ Those who seek scorpion bowls — large receptacles of alcohol served with a straw — probably account for three-quarters of the patrons of Panda East.

There’s also greasy-but-decent Chinese food and plenty of room for large parties.

Loose Goose Café **.5 $ Also the home of Amherst-famous Sugar Jones cookies, the Loose Goose has great breakfast sandwiches for a fast, affordable brunch.

Flayvor’s Ice Cream at Cook Farm **** $ If you’re looking for a scenic outing and some creamy goodness, enlist a friend with a car and make your way to this adorable dairy farm in Hadley. Delicious specialty flavors, various farmfresh goods, rustic decor and a peek at the animals will cheer you right up.

r Dessert: Herrell’s Ice Cream, Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium r Vegetarian/Vegan/Natural: Bela, Paul & Elizabeth’s r Italian: Spoleto, Mulino’s Trattoria (see their cheap dinner specials) r American: Local Burger (long lines during regular hours, but entirely worth the wait), Haymarket Café r Indian: India House, India Palace r Retail: Urban Outfitters, various boutiques

When you get bored of your own award-winning college town, visit that of nearby Smith College. The renowned music scene is something you’ll have to explore according to your own tastes, but here are just a few of the best places at which to grub and gift:

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Glazed (Donut Shop) *** $ Rumors run rampant about late-night donut deals and a dozen for $5 on Mondays. But with flavors like peanut butter and jelly, mint Oreo, and even a take on the Cronut (the Doughssant), Glazed is a good choice at any time.

Delivery Express Delivery Express is a service that will deliver food from local restaurants like Amherst Chinese, Panda East, Antonio’s, and Go Berry, among others. However, the delivery fees are high, the wait times can be long, and they stop delivering at 10 p.m. (If you’re doing delivery right, you shouldn’t be ordering before midnight.) So, for those nights when you just want to stay in bed and watch Netflix over the horizon of your ever-expanding stomach, stick with the above-mentioned delivery staples and avoid Delivery Express.

Dessert Sugar Jones cookies may dominate at RC-sponsored events — they’re tasty, and Sugar Jones will deliver quarts or gallons of milk — but true Amherst cookie fiends know that D.P. Dough has the thickest and gooey-est chocolate chip cookies around. They’re so good that students have been known to order a dozen just to satisfy the minimum delivery price and give the extras away to their friends. Calories don’t count when you share, right?

Bart’s *** $ If you think frozen yogurt is for yuppies, this classic ice cream parlor (and tasty diner) will assuage your weariness of the modern era.

Wings Wings Over Amherst, popularly known as just “Wings,” is really the only option. You’re going to want to order boneless wings, which are really just chicken fingers drowned in sauce which is why they’re so amazing. Make sure to go in with a friend or two to get the most bang for your buck, and expect everyone who you didn’t ask to demand “just one wing.” They’ll be attracted by the spicy buffalo aroma, which has been known to permeate the locale in which the wings are consumed; try to find an out-of-the-way common room to gorge.

Sandwiches Amherst Sub and Pizza is the clear winner here, with a little-talked-about and ridiculous deal for the famished: You get a free small cheese pizza with the purchase of any two large subs — plenty of energy whether you’re training for an Olympic event or powering through a Social Org study session.

though your stomach may still take a while to recover from a 2 a.m. buffalo chicken calzone (what were you thinking?!), at least your taste buds will be satisfied.

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Amherst Cinema ***.5 $$ A large variety of refreshments (Craft beer and wine?!

Brownies?) and a small selection of films mean Amherst Cinema is the perfect place to take a hipster on a date.

High Horse ***.5 $$$ Burgers and beer is the name of the game in this classy establishment; the High Horse makes its own craft brews! Macklemore and Ryan Lewis dined here for postSpring Concert drinks, so if you think you’re too good for the Horse, you need to get off your … you get the picture.

leaving your budget intact. Split the pho or order the popular seafood salad — don’t pho-get about this restaurant!

(Sorry.)

Veracruzana *** $$ Although slightly overpriced, Amherst’s second most popular Mexican restaurant feels authentic. The tequila bottle by the cash register may entice you, but it probably hasn’t been refilled in years — stick with a Jarrito, a type of Latin American soda.

A.J. Hastings You could say A.J. Hastings has us by the balls: our love of sports allows Hastings charge us ridiculous prices for Amherst athletic wear. They are also home to expensive school supplies but mainly, it’s the best place to find Christmas gifts for your siblings when you only have a few hours before your flight home. Great selection of candy and art materials. Mom & Pop charm.

Fresh Side ***.5 $$ Fresh Side, with its delicate and yummy tea rolls (Asian-inspired burritos), is the only appropriate place to TYPO (take your professor out). Get a pot of ginger tea if you have a sore throat or are pretentious.

GoBerry ***.5 $ Though the selection is limited to three flavors, GoBerry provides locally sourced frozen yogurt and fresh toppings that will entice you even in freezing winter weather.

Amherst Books Feel free to stop by Amherst Books just to see how much money you’ll be saving buying your textbooks on Amazon or at the Option.

drinks for students and large portion sizes (the bumblebee stew comes highly recommended), but the rest of us are skeptical of New-Orleans legitimacy in Western Mass.

Black Sheep *** $$ Superb sandwiches, lattes and baked goods from the Black Sheep will never fail to attract lazy Amherst students to low-interest events, and with good reason. The casual café also hosts Thursday night open mic sessions, supporting the crazy and/or amazing artists that populate the Pioneer Valley.

Paradise of India *** $$$ Staples like saag paneer and tandoori dishes are yummy but expensive. Don’t go with your Indian friends — they will probably complain that it isn’t as good as their relatives’ cooking.

Mystery Train Records **** $ Hipsters, forget Northampton — Amherst is already home to a record store, located at 178 N. Pleasant St. A recent Yelp review: “This is the greatest record store in Western Mass. A stop to the Pioneer Valley without a stop at the Train is like going to Harvard, early 2000’s, without stalking Natalie Portman.”

Mango Mango **.5 $$ The only exclusively BYOB restaurant in town, this vegan- and vegetarian-friendly bistro offers vaguely foreign sandwiches, salads and stews. The fish tacos are far better than Val’s.

LimeRed *** $ Bubble tea of all kinds can be found at LimeRed: If you’re looking for a departure from the classic milk tea and tapioca, LimeRed Bliss is a smoothie-like frozen drink that is uniquely satisfying.

Lone Wolf **** $$ Nothing cures Sunday morning blues (interpret that how you will) like a mug of coffee and a hearty helping of challah French toast at the Lone Wolf. The omelet specials alone are worth the long lines for this popular brunch spot, but late sleepers be warned — it closes at 2 p.m. on the dot!

Bueno y Sano **.5 $$ You will leave Bueno y Sano with a foodbaby-distended belly, but their burritos can be pricey when including necessary add-ons like sautéed spinach and guac. You will eat your burrito on a metal, Frisbeebedpan-looking thing — don’t question it.

Amherst Chinese Food **.5 $$ AmChi, as this local establishment is often referred to, does grow its own vegetables, and its lack of alcoholic exuberance makes it perfect for takeout rather than a night on the town.

White Hut **.5 $ Filling Amherst’s niche for cheap and quick burgers, fries and shakes, White Hut is open until 2 am on the weekends.

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A Classic of a Passing Generation

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This year, during that late-August recess, I found my catalogue surprisingly empty. None of this past year’s favorites called to me strongly. Sitting on my couch with nothing to do, and loathing the idea of actually doing something productive, I spied in my bookshelf a game that I hadn’t thought of for year: Red Dead Redemption.

I first played through Red Dead during a similar break, shortly after its release in the summer of 2010 and at some point in between high school and college. Returning to it after three years was an utter delight and speaks volumes to both the

replay value of gaming masterpieces and the ability of works of art in general to change and evolve as we do.

Red Dead tells the story of John Marston, a former outlaw looking for, as the title suggests, redemption from his gunslinging past. Once a member of the notorious Dutch van der Linde Gang, Marston now looks to settle down on a ranch with his wife and son. It is through clever, slow and deliberate exposition that the player learns the details of Marston’s life. In conversation with a diverse cast of characters, Marson divulges over time that his family has been kidnapped by the U.S. government in order to coerce him into hunting down and bringing to justice the members of his old gang. The hunt for his former brothers-in-arms is the motivation that drives the plot forward, and provides justification for the game’s biggest action sequences.

But without spoiling too much, this classic old-West plot isn’t what makes the game shine and stand out as one of the greatest games of

this generation. The final act of the game brings Marston’s story full-circle, giving meaning to each of his actions throughout and delivering a thoroughly satisfying ending like few others. If a game should have one selling point, Red Dead’s is almost certainly its final act.

This doesn’t mean that the game is only worth playing for its plot and writing. The general atmosphere of the game both complements the prior points and deserves mention on its own.

The game is made by Rockstar, the company that brought us Grand Theft Auto and LA Noir; and in traditional Rockstar fashion, the game contains an open world that’s worth exploring.

The world comprises three regions, each with a real-world analog: New Austen may as well be Texas, Nuevo Paradiso is northern Mexico, and West Elizabeth is an amalgam of the Western Border States of the early 1900s. Each region boasts its own set of flora and fauna, as well as unique and often breathtaking landscapes. Nuevo Paradiso really steals the show here; riding past the region’s orange-tinted rock formations and through its white sand deserts is truly evocative of the classic Westerns I know and love.

Townspeople in New Austen speak with a Texas drawl and wear cowboy hats, while those in the metropolitan areas of West Elizabeth prefer bowler hats and suits. There is also a full range of activities to engage in outside of the main story, from hunting cougars and bears to horseshoes and blackjack. There’s even a way to cheat at a game of Texas Holdem; get caught and you’ll be challenged to a duel.

These minigames can be repetitive, but they’re a good excuse for completionists like myself to explore the world that the game’s designers so

painstakingly crafted. Admittedly, at times some tasks could become boring or tedious. Riding across the Western wilderness for a long while, looking for a pair of cougars to chase down with a hunting knife was not always fun. But at least the game’s minimalistic and tasteful soundtrack, which chimed in perfectly at key plot points, kept me immersed in that old West ambiance.

It’s hard to explain what I like so much about Red Dead Redemption. It’s certainly hard to compare it to other games, like Dark Souls, that I’ve praised in the past. But there’s something about Red Dead which transcends expert execution and makes it, in my humble opinion, a masterwork of the medium – something which I wasn’t sensitive to back when I first played it in 2010.

I suppose that since then I’ve had some time to watch more movies, read more books, talk about them and develop some critical taste. Now I see more how Red Dead functions as a member of a corpus of tales and films centering on the old West. In its long and winding narrative, it embodies so many themes that are emblematic of the Western: the rebelliousness of youth and the romanticism of “the life,� the death of the Wild West at the hands of civilization, and the legacies that notorious men leave behind.

But what makes Red Dead stand out among these works is the interactive element. Being able to control the actions of John Marston, and more importantly control them outside of the central plot, immerses you in his life and his character more than possible in any other medium. Selling wolfskins at the Armadillo General Store to earn some extra cash for a new horse may seem like tedium to some, but to me it’s the difference between a good movie and a great game.

The Serious Side of Summer Movies

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The summer. When not forced to brave the heat and midday traffic to fetch coffee for your seasonal employer or trying too hard to avoid listening to your coworkers’ embarrassing and waytoo-personal stories, students can hopefully make enough time in their schedule to see many of the year’s most anticipated blockbuster films. Designed to provide mass-entertainment (although not at cheap prices these days) and provide further respite from the heat, summer blockbusters are a staple of any young person’s summer away from school. These films are usually the ones getting attention a year in advance of their release date, and all too often they underwhelm in the narrative and character department and feel like hollow entertainment, mind-numbing one minute and gone the next. They have no staying power. They don’t crawl up on you and enter your mind and challenge your thoughts and emotions. You won’t remember the characters names five minutes after you leave.

In all of this though, what is forgotten is that the summer, especially in recent years, is often a time when many of the year’s “little films that could� are released. Whether quirky and light or heavy and hard-hitting, these films serve to provide slightly more mature entertainment for serious film-goers. This isn’t to say that blockbusters are all bad — in fact this year we had some solid ones — but it’s nice to have a little variety to spice things up. Big-budget mayhem can be fun for a while, but three months of the same fluff every week wears away what interest existed in May. Here are a few smaller films I wish more people had caught this summer, all of which screened at smaller independent theaters. “Before Midnight�

This nuanced, textured fly-on-the-wall look into a middle-aged relationship continues nine years after 2004’s “Before Sunset� (which itself followed 1995’s “Before Sunrise�) left off. Consisting of merely a handful of lengthy scenes (the masterful opening shot is over 20 minutes long) which lend the film a grittier, more personal vibe, “Before Midnight� channels with complexity and insight

some of the darker, more self-doubting times anyone in a relationship goes through. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy return as modern cinema’s most honest and compelling onscreen couple and deliver performances worthy of Oscar nominations, and the film, while not always easy to sit through, sticks with you. Beyond this, it actually builds on and enhances the previous films in the series; if only more trilogies like this existed. Here’s hoping this won’t be the last of Jesse and Celine. 2022 can’t come soon enough, but right now in 2013, you should really see “Before Midnight.� “Fruitvale Station�

Of all the films this year, no film sears and burns with anger and passion more than first-time writer/director Ryan Coogler’s account of the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a police officer at San Francisco’s Fruitvale train station. Actor Michael B. Jordan, whose presence in the film world will certainly grow in the coming years, portrays Grant as a flawed, complicated and tragic character, a seemingly true-to-life performance building off of a masterful script. Knowing how the film ends gives the film an air of existential dread that goes far beyond any more conventional form of suspense. It’s all the more prescient considering its release around the time of the Zimmerman verdict, but its effect would be just as great had it come out any other time. This film has important things to say about race and inequality in America, but it isn’t preachy or manipulative about these topics. It is simply searing, hard-hitting drama and modern filmmaking at its finest. “Blue Jasmine�

And here I was thinking Woody Allen had made his last great movie long ago. The amazingly productive Allen reminds of his golden era from 1975 to 1992 with “Blue Jasmine,� a reworking and update of “A Streetcar Named Desire� which shifts the focus away from Stanley and onto Blanche, here played by Cate Blanchett, who will almost certainly garner an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a multi-faceted shell of a person trying desperately to keep up appearances in spite of the tragedy which has occurred around her.

Although it is Blanchett’s character which is the focus of this film, Allen surrounds her with plenty of able-bodied supporting figures who bring Al-

len’s most serious film since 2005’s “Match Point� to life. Now I can finally stop complaining about everyone fawning over “Midnight in Paris� two years ago. “Stories We Tell�

A fascinating cinematic essay by talented filmmaker and actor Sarah Polley, what is ostensibly a documentary about her mother’s relationships and search for her true father ends up serving as a perfect modern companion piece to Orson Welles’ late-period masterpiece “F for Fake.� As Polley explores the narratives of those around her and how they view her mother, we learn far more about the storytellers than we do about the supposed subject, and in brilliantly subtle strokes Polley allows us to slowly realize she is weaving her own narrative about her mother and her family, part fact and part fiction, through the subjective lens. This meditation on the nature of storytelling is essential viewing for anyone who doubts the power of cinema to force the viewer to question everything he thinks he knows about a person, including himself. “Mud�

This Southern gothic update of Mark Twain establishes a fantastic sense of place, just as 2012’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild� did slightly downriver with the Mississippi delta. A character study and coming of age story at heart, it is bleak, with the layers of magical realism more subtle and less explicit than in “Beasts.� Perhaps most notable as

the finest in a string of performances designed to reinvent Matthew McConaughey as the serious actor he has recently shown himself capable of being, but young Tye Sheridan from “Tree of Life� shows this lesser-known actor merits attention as well. “The Way, Way Back�

The most lighthearted effort on the list, “The Way, Way Back� is a breath of fresh air in a season of bleak, uncompromising dramas and (more often) loud violence-orgasms masquerading as entertainment. A coming of age story, “The Way, Way Back� is the directorial debut of two-thirds of the writers of 2011’s “The Descendants.� The film is tender, funny and sweet, without ever becoming too saccharine or cloying. Expertly straddling the line between comedy and drama, in some ways it feels like a long-lost 80’s teen movie recently unearthed, reminding us, that for a teenager, bitter and sweet often go hand in hand. Desires for independence so often expressed by teenagers often aren’t arbitrary but are rooted in serious family squabbles and concerns at home; the fun and zaniness that come from a summer job at the water park can mask a more tragic core. It’s also highlighted by a hilarious performance from one of the decade’s most underrated actors, Sam Rockwell, which for me makes this film guaranteed viewing. Now if I can just get to see the similarly funny but seemingly insightful and honest-looking “The Spectacular Now,� my summer will be complete.

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FALL SPORTS PREVIEW

Lady Jeffs Look to Get Tennis Teams Looking For Over Playoff Hurdle Continued Success This Fall Nicole Yang ’16 Managing News Editor

Coming off an 11-5 season, the Amherst field hockey team looks to have another strong showing this fall. Last year’s edition of the Lady Jeffs got off to a strong start, winning their first five games, before stumbling to the tune of three straight losses (three of them in overtime). In fact, four of the team’s five losses last year came in overtime, incuding their last of the season, a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Middlebury in the NESCAC playoffs. Notably, only one of those losses came at home. Season highlights included a 3-2 win over Williams and a 3-2, overtime road win against Trinity in the first round of NESCAC’s.

Despite losing four outstanding seniors, Nomi Conway, Mary Katherine McNeill, Sarah Wise and Katie McMahon, the Lady Jeffs still have a talented returning group of players. Notably, goalkeeper Rachel Tannenbaum ’14 is ready to continue her dominance protecting the net.

Ranked in the top 10 nationally with an 82.6% save percentage, Tannenbaum earned a spot on the All-NESCAC first team as well as a pot on the Capital One At-Large Academic All-District first team. Another member of the junior class, Madeline Tank, also looks to have another great season. As one of the team’s leading scorers, Tank had twelve goals last season. Representing the senior class, Krista Zsitvay and Alex Philie will step up into a leadership role. Both players received All-NESCAC second-team recognition last year and played an important part in the team’s offensive successes. Sophomores Annie Turnbull, Annika Nygren, and Katie Paolano all received consistent playing time last year and look to have the same this season. Nygren

scored three goals last season, and Turnbull was a crucial element to the team’s defense. With this experienced group of players, Amherst takes on Middlebury, who ended the Lady Jeffs’ season last fall, in their first home game of this year on September 7th. Other notable games this season are an away game against rival Williams on September 21st as well as home game against Bowdoin on Sept. 14. Amherst hopes to go farther this season in the post season with the NESCAC tournament starting on Nov. 2 and the NCAA tournament starting on Nov. 13. If they can improve their record in close games, the sky is the limit, including another run at a NESCAC title and a possible berth in the NCAA tournament.

Niahlah Hope ’15 Public Affairs Office

Joey Fritz ’14 leads a talented crop of seniors on both the men’s and women’s side.

Karl Greenblatt ’15 Managing Sports Editor

Megan Robertson ’15 Public Affairs Office

Sarah Canning ’14 is one of the seniors to watch out for this season.

Cross Country Teams Ready to Shift Into Gear

Brenton Arnaboldi ’14 Senior Staff Writer WOMEN Coming off a 3rd place NESCAC result and a 16th place finish at the NCAA national championships in 2012, the Jeffs might be facing an uphill climb if they want to replicate last year’s success and catch Williams at the Little Three Championships.

Spearheading the roster is Lizzy Briskin ’15, who earned Second-Team NESCAC honors last season. After not cracking the starting lineup her freshman year, Briskin enjoyed a phenomenal sophomore campaign, posting a 14th place finish at NESCACs and running the team’s second-fastest time in seven of eight races.

Other returners who competed in the starting lineup last year include Caroline Rose ’16, Betsy Black ’16, Amy Dao ’14 and Olivia Tarantino ’15. Anna Berglund ’16, Jessie Kaliski ’15, Keelin Moehl ’16 and Lisa Walker ’14 are also expected to compete for top-7 positions this fall.

“We’ll need to work together very well as a team, both in practices and meets,” co-captain Brooke Kirkham ’14 said. “We need to improve on group running, which involves good pacing and coordination. If we can all work together to become a stronger collective group of seven — rather than depend on a few star individuals — we’ll put ourselves in a good position to qualify for nationals,” Kirkham said.

The women kick off their season with a meet at Smith next Saturday before participating in the UMass Invitational on Sept. 14.

MEN After stumbling to a subpar 11th place fin-

SCAC selection Joey Fritz ’14. Chris Dale ’14 and Michael Solimano ’16 are back after AllConference selections in doubles, while Andrew Yaraghi ’16 is coming off a Rookie of the Year effort in the spring. Brenton Arnaboldi, Karan Bains, and Justin Hendrix will also provide invaluable senior leadership.

“As a team, we might need to adopt a more aggressive, in-your-face approach,” Arnaboldi said of this fall.

He added that the team’s main priority would be to improve its doubles play.

While the fall is mostly about staying in shape, Arnaboldi said, “Our goal is to win every match on the calendar.”

Of particular importance is a three-game road stretch against top-20 ranked teams Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon and Kenyon.

ish at NCAA regionals last fall — thus failing to qualify for Nationals — the men’s cross country team is looking to re-establish itself as a force in New England this season.

Despite capturing the program’s first-ever ECAC title (a second-tier event) at Williams, the Jeffs struggled badly in other postseason competitions, placing 7th of 11 at NESCACs before finishing well below the top-5 cutoff at NCAA Regionals.

“We had the talent, but for some reason things just didn’t click late in the season,” cocaptain Alvaro Morales ’14 said.

Motivated by the bitter end to the 2012 campaign, the Jeffs hope that the returning core of Greg Turissini ’15, KC Fussell ’15, Charlie Reigard ’14, Gus Greenstein ’14, Romey Sklar ’15, Dan Crowley ’16, and Morales can propel the team into the NCAA national championships.

Turissini emerged as the Jeffs’ top runner for much of 2012 — earning NESCAC Performer of the Week honors after speeding through the 5-mile UMass Invitational course in 24:38 (4:55 mile pace) — while Fussell posted the thirdfastest time for Amherst at both NESCACs and the NCAA Regionals.

To improve on last year’s finish, the Jeffs will need to overcome the losses of Andrew Erskine, Pat Grimes and Dillon Buckley. Erskine led all Amherst runners with a 16th place result at NESCACs (25:02 over five miles) and a 29th place finish at the NCAA Regionals, while Grimes and Buckley competed regularly in the team’s top-seven lineup.

With somewhat muted expectations, the men begin their season at the UMass Invitational in two weeks (Sept. 14).

MEN The spring of 2013 saw another highly successful run for the Men’s Tennis team, which reeled off 15 wins in a row at one point and ultimately reached the NCAA Semifinals. Between the end of preseason and the NESCAC Championship game, the Jeffs were untouchable, winning every regular-season match (including five shutouts).

Unfortunately for the Jeffs, Williams, who had a similarly immaculate season, narrowly got the better of Amherst, 5-4, in the NESCAC Finals. This didn’t stop the Jeffs, however, from racking up three more wins in the NCAA tournament before being shut out by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

The Jeffs return a talented group of players this fall, led by All-Academic and All-NE-

WOMEN Of the team’s four events this fall, none is circled on the calendar in a bolder shade of red than an Oct. 5 home match against Williams. That’s partly because, as with the men, the women’s spring season ended at the hands of the Ephs in the NESCAC Finals.

Very similarly to the men, the women did not lose between March 22 and May 4 of last year, and, after being knocked off by Williams, they were able to record three more wins to reach the NCAA Semifinals.

Besides beating Williams, it would be difficult for the Lady Jeffs to have a better year than the one they just enjoyed. What’s more, the team’s senior class is large, and its talent is formidable.

Four seniors — Jordan Brewer, Gabby Devlin, Jen Newman and Zoe Pangalos — earned all-NESCAC honors last year, and Isabel Camacho ’14, Alex Budd ’14 and Maggie Seaver ’14, among others, will be integral components of a machine that will once again be finely tuned. It seems reasonable that both teams will expect to contend for the NCAA title come May.

Jeff Golfers Swinging for Fall Dominance

Nicole Yang ’16 Managing Sports Editor

WOMEN The Amherst women’s golf team had a very successful season last year, placing in the top half in every tournament they competed. The team began its season with a third place out of thirteen showing at the NYU Invitational, and ended its season with a third place out of seven at the Williams Spring Invitational.

Captain Liz Monty ’13 led the way last year, consistently placing in the top overall. Monty finished second out of over 70 golfers in the NYU Invitational and tied for fourth in the Middlebury Invitational. She shot her season best with a two-day score of 148 at the Mount Holyoke Invitational in September. Fellow captain Irene Hickey ’13 also played an important role in Amherst’s successes last year.

Hickey shot her season best with a two-day score of 169 at the NYU Invitational in the fall.

Hickey repeatedly placed in the upper third of golfers in many of the tournaments Amherst competed in. While the team is losing two significant players, sophomores Devyn Gardner, Sarah Ressler, and Jenny Xu look to build off of their great rookie seasons. Gardner ’16 had a number of strong showings last year for the Lady Jeffs and hopes to have similar

experiences this season. Seniors Sooji Choi and Kristen Lee look to step up and fill the void that Monty and Hickey left. Led by Head Coach Michelle Morgan, who was named the WGCA Service Award winner last year, the Lady Jeffs open their season at the NYU Invitational the weekend of September 14.

MEN The Amherst men’s golf team ended its spring season on a high note by coming in first place in the Little III Championship. Senior Nicholas Koh hopes to lead the Jeffs once again. Earning a spot on the All-NESCAC First Team, Koh was the top golfer for Amherst in all three fall tournaments last year.

In the spring, Jarvis Sill stepped up to lead Amherst to a third place finish out of twenty teams at the Hampton Inn Invitational. Sill finished tied for fifth out of over a hundred golfers. After losing seniors Alex Butensky, Mark Colp, and Ben Johnston, Koh and Sill will have to keep up the great play in order to lead the team to victory. Erik Hansen ’14, Josh Moser ’15, and James Line ’16 all look to contribute to the team’s successes as well. The men’s fall season begins with the Trinity Invitational on Sept. 7 and 8 and ends with the ECAC Championships on the weekend of October 12.

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FALL SPORTS PREVIEW After Near Miss, Women’s Stacked With Talent, Men’s Soccer Back in Title Hunt Soccer Looks to Repeat

Niahlah Hope ’15 Public Affairs Office

Senior midfielder Kate Sisk hopes to lead the Lady Jeffs to a title.

Karl Greenblatt ’15 Managing Sports Editor A 20-win season such as Coach Jen Hughes produced in 2011 is certainly hard to top, but the Lady Jeffs put together almost as strong an effort in 2012, finishing 13-2-2 and making the NCAA tournament.

What was the Lady Jeffs’ formula for success? To be sure, the team had its share of starpower. Forward Amanda Brisco ’14, for example, tied for the NESCAC lead with 22 total points and posted top-five marks with eight goals and six assists. Similarly, Kathryn Nathan ’13, the 2011 NESCAC co-player of the year, continued her dominance last fall and earned a First Team All- NESCAC selection.

Just as impressive for the Lady Jeffs, however, were the unsung heroes on the defensive side of play; Sandy Shepherd ’13 and Maya Jackson-Gibson ’15 both earned All-NESCAC selections, the latter being notable as one of only three underclasswomen to receive the honor.

With its core group in place, the Lady Jeffs won six of their first seven before being dealt their first loss, a gut-wrenching, 3-2 home defeat at the hands of Williams. That was the Jeffs’ final loss in the regular season, and it was ultimately a 3-3 tie with Bowdoin that knocked them out of the NESCAC playoffs. A deep run into the NCAA Tournament was not to be, as the Lady Jeffs suffered a 3-1 loss to Lasell that ended their season.

Last fall, it was the Lady Jeffs’ strong start that put them in a position for late-season success, and the squad hopes once again to cruise early. This year, however, the team won’t exactly have the luxury of easing into the season. Middlebury and Bowdoin, who battled the Jeffs to draws last year, await in two of the team’s first three games (Sept. 7 and Sept. 14, both home).

Coach Hughes is well aware of the nature of the early portion of her team’s schedule, saying, “We will continue to focus on our process [this preseason] and hope the results fall into place. Right now we are singularly focused on getting ready

for our opening game against Middlebury.�

Then, a tilt in Williamstown looms large as the team’s fifth game (Sept. 21). This matchup should take the traditional rivalry to another level, as the Ephs handed the Lady Jeffs one of their two losses last season. If anything, the team may enjoy some less nail-biting wins in the second half of the season.

As is usually the case when an Amherst team loses talented seniors, the rising seniors are more than capable of filling the void. The Jeffs have nine returning strikers, six of whom have starting experience. Brisco, along with classmates Chloe McKenzie and Kate Sisk, will be critical in leadership roles.

Additionally, sophomore goalkeeper Holly Burwick has proven herself, and Jackson-Gibson should remain the anchor on defense. “With the graduation of two of our four starting backs from last year, we will need to shore up our back line and will look to our reserves and first-years to make immediate contributions,�

Hughes said.

If the Lady Jeffs keep playing as a cohesive unit, hardware will once again be a distinct possibility. “In addition to our talent, I’m most excited about the positive energy and strong leadership. I’m very much looking forward to the season,� Hughes said.

Jason Stein ’16 Contributing Writer

After a 2012 campaign that ended in heartbreaking fashion following a loss in the NCAA Elite 8, men’s soccer looks to continue their success and NESCAC dominance in 2013.

Amherst finished as NESCAC Champions with a 17-0-3 overall record (8-0-2 in NESCAC play) in 2012, a season that concluded against Williams in the Elite 8. The game was tied 0-0 heading into overtime, remained tied throughout OT and went to penalty kicks, despite the five times Amherst hit the crossbar during regulation. The Lord Jeffs ultimately lost to Williams on penalty kicks, dashing their hopes of winning a national championship. Still, the Jeffs defense finished with the second lowest goals against average in Division III history; Amherst also outscored its opponents 56-3 during the 2012 season and never trailed in any game.

This year, Amherst “has big shoes to fill,� according to Head Coach Justin Serpone, as the Lord Jeffs lose a talented core of senior contributors from last year’s squad. The 2013 team will be without Spencer Noon ’13, Amherst’s all-time leading goal scorer and a 2012

First Team All-American, and outside back Chris Lerner ’13, a Third Team AllAmerican selection. Defender Federico Sucre ’13 is also gone, as is his twin brother, striker Alejandro Sucre ’13, who was drafted 67th overall by the Vancouver Whitecaps in the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft.

Given the losses to graduation, Coach Serpone said that “everyone is going to be important to our success this coming season. Everyone is going to have a chance to contribute and I really believe everyone is talented enough to make a play when we need it at some point.�

Julien Aoyama ’14, a defenseman who (like Noon) was named a First Team All-American in 2012 and helped lead the defense, will look to build upon his standout junior season. Likely joining Aoyama on defense will be Brendan Caslin ’14, Ben Norton ’14 and Gabriel Wirz ’15. Forward Jae Heo ’14 also returns, coming off a season in which he scored seven goals, had eight assists and was an integral part of the Amherst attack.

Stalwart goalkeeper Thomas Bull ’16 returns to the net after a dominant freshman season, in which he started all 20 contests, recorded 17 shutouts, and surrendered only three goals, an

astonishingly low average of .15 goals allowed per game.

Additionally, midfielders Max Fikke ’14, Milton Rico ’15 and Mikey Hoeksema ’15, as well as Greg Singer ’16, should all see major minutes this season and remain impactful players.

As a result of their strong season last year and returning talent, Amherst is ranked No. 4 nationally this preseason. Amherst comes in as the second best team in the region, behind Williams, ranked No. 3 nationally and No. 1 in the New England region.

Amherst’s first week includes a matchup at New England College on Sept. 4 and the home opener against NESCAC rival Middlebury on Sept. 7. The Lord Jeffs will be determined to avenge their 2012 heartbreaker on Sep. 21, when they travel to Williamstown for a critical early-season matchup. During Homecoming Weekend, the Lord Jeffs will face Wesleyan on Oct. 19.

NESCAC postseason play is set to begin on Nov. 2, while the first round of NCAAs are scheduled to start on Nov. 16.

With the talent and postseason experience that Amherst returns in 2013, the Lord Jeffs could conceivably be playing meaningful games deep into November.

Firedogs Hope to Contend HOME HIGHLIGHTS Despite Youth, Key Injury Five games to see...

Karl Greenblatt ’15 Managing Sports Editor Although few were fully satisfied with the Firedogs’ 14-9 finish in 2012, particularly after an impressive string of 20-win seasons under illustrious coach Sue Everden, there were plenty of bright spots last fall for the Lady Jeffs.

For starters, seniors such as Emily Waterhouse ’13 and Kristin Keeno ’13 ended their individual careers on a strong note; Keeno led the team in digs, while Waterhouse’s total of 188 kills was second on the squad.

Secondly, the Lady Jeffs discovered a pool of outstanding first-year talent, particularly the tandem of Lizzie Ahern ’16 and Nicole Carter ’16, two California natives who left the West Coast ready to make an immediate impact. That they certainly did: Ahern was by far the team leader in kills, while Carter garnered an impressive 699 assists. By season’s end, both had become among the best in the league at their positions.

Their spark helped the squad win its first three matches of 2012, although the team then dropped back-to-back road decisions to Bowdoin and Tufts.

From there, however, the Firedogs were quite consistent, going 7-1 in NESCAC play the rest of the way. Their season did come to a quicker end than they would have liked, in the form of a 3-0 loss to Williams on their home floor in the first round of the NESCAC playoffs.

Hoping to get over the hurdle in 2013, the Amherst squad was dealt a devastating blow in the offseason. Ahern, arguably the team’s MVP last fall, received surgery for a torn labrum and will miss most of the year. In order to overcome the loss, the Firedogs may need Carter, at times, to be capable of carrying the team. Still, she will have help in the form of a handful of capable returners. Sammy Newby ’16 and co-captain Lauren Antion ’15 both saw significant playing time last year, while co-captain Kellyn LaCour-Conant ’15 looks to have a breakout junior season.

Katie Warshaw ’16, another returner, looks to be a significant contributor on defense. Among the first-years joining the team will be Keeno’s sister, Kelci Keeno ’17. Their efforts may indeed make or break this season for a young but highly spirited squad.

The Lady Jeffs fell to Bowdoin early in 2012, so their home contest on Sept. 20 against the Polar Bears will be highly anticipated. Of course, Williams ended the Firedogs’ season last year, so the squad will play perhaps its biggest regular-season game when it travels to Williamstown on Sept. 26.

Other home matches to catch include tilts against Tufts (Oct. 5) and Colby (Oct. 18).

One thing is for sure: the enthusiasm of Antion and her teammates is palpable. “We have a very large freshman class of incredibly talented players who are expected to fill any holes on the court, and all of the returning players trained harder than ever this off-season.

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if you call yourself a sports fan 5. Volleyball vs. Conn. College Saturday, Oct. 4 @ 8 p.m.

This is one the Firedogs need if they are to make a title run; plus, the Camels took last year’s matchup, 3-2.

4. Men’s Soccer vs. Wesleyan Saturday, Oct. 19 @ 2:30 p.m.

The Cardinals and Jeffs drew in double-OT last fall, so look for the same kind of intensity this time around.

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Last year’s NESCAC playoffs saw the Panthers end the Lady Jeffs’ season in overtime, which will not be lost on the Amherst outfit in its 2013 opener.

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It took penalty kicks for the Polar Bears to dash the Lady Jeffs’ NESCAC title hopes in 2012. Count on this one to have that “grudge-match� feel.

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1. Football vs. Trinity Saturday, Nov. 2 @ 1 p.m.

What better way to spend Family Weekend than to take in some smash-mouth football between two NESCAC powerhouses? Other than the Williams game, this one will be the biggest determinant of the Jeffs’ success.

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STANDOUT SPOTLIGHT

Sports 11 by Karl Greenblatt ’15

The arrival of the Class of 2017 can only mean that fall has arrived, and, as surely as the foliage will soon change colors, the Jeffs will soon return to doing what they do best: dominating the NESCAC. 2012-13 was another banner year for Amherst athletics, complete with the championship finishes (including a national title for the Men’s Basketball team) that have come to be commonplace in recent years.

Still, if it’s possible to top last year’s success, we have every reason to believe that this year’s outfits — led, of course, by the Class of 2014 — will find a way.

True, the big story in the sports world on campus this fall is the inauguration of the new Pratt Field, but the always-promising football squad is only the beginning of the fun. Now that you’ve seen what the Jeff teams will have to offer, we bring you eight individual players that will make you want to come out to the game, no matter how far behind you are on that paper.

Julien Aoyama

Lizzy Briskin

Jake O’Malley

Alex Philie

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In order for the 2012 Jeffs to win the NESCAC and make a thrilling run in the NCAA tournament, lots of key pieces had to be in place. Perhaps none was bigger than Julien Aoyama ’14, who anchored the defense and turned out to be one of the most dangerous and versatile backs around — his First Team All-America selection proves just that. Besides once again leading NESCAC defenders in points (which he did last year), the senior would like nothing better than to go out with back-to-back titles on Hitchcock Field.

With much of the attention last year on record-shattering alumna Keri Lambert ’13, junior Lizzy Briskin flew (or should we say “ran?”) largely under the radar. In her first full year of competition, however, Briskin put together a formidable sophomore campaign, most notably posting top-10 finishes at the James Early Invitational and the Little III Championship. She was rewarded for her efforts with an all-NESCAC selection, and, having gained valuable experience, she returns as one of the team’s leaders.

With Mass. native Jake O’Malley ’14 as a principal target, the Jeffs’ offense should have little trouble lighting up the new Pratt Field with its aerial assault. As a junior, O’Malley led the Jeffs in both receiving yards (380) and receptions (34), with five of those catches accounting for 87 yards in a 23-20 victory over Williams. At 6’3,” he is a physical player — and a clutch one, at that, given his second-half surge last year — who is tough to defend, and he promises to be at the center of what the Jeffs hope is a return to the top.

Midfielder Alex Philie ’14 was one of four allNESCAC selections for the Lady Jeffs in 2012, furthering her track record as a consistent and invaluable contributor over the course of her Amherst career. The two-time all-conference pick totaled a career-high 17 points last year and was second on the team with five assists. After seeing her team drop a tough overtime game in the NESCAC semifinal a year ago, Philie and her fellow seniors will have championship expectations again in 2013.

Amanda Brisco

Jordan Brewer

Nicholas Koh

Nicole Carter

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In 2012, the Lady Jeffs dropped a heartbreaker to a stacked Bowdoin squad in the NESCAC semifinals but still gained an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament, and Amanda Brisco ’14 was a big reason why. A First Team All-NESCAC selection, Brisco finished the season tied for the league lead in total points with 22. The 2010 Rookie of the Year also scored three of the Lady Jeffs’ four goals in the NESCAC playoffs, and she will lead the charge to get past the Polar Bears this time around.

Senior Jordan Brewer racked up an impressive list of accolades in 2012-13 to go along with her team’s 15-match winning streak and run to the NCAA Semifinals. In the fall, Brewer and teammate Gabby Devlin ’14 took home the Stony Brook Invitational doubles title. Then, in the spring, Brewer was a First Team All-NESCAC selection for both singles and doubles. Ultimately, she also earned an invitation to the NCAA Singles Championship.

Last year, the Jeffs capped their spring season with a first-place tie with Williams for the Little III Championship. That was the team highlight of the year for Nicholas Koh ’14, but his individual pinnacle may have come in October, when he earned First Team All-NESCAC honors. Shooting a two-day total of 149, Koh placed fifth overall and was able to join just five other players on the first team. As one of two returning seniors on the team, Koh’s precision on the course is sure to be as surgical as ever.

The story of the Firedogs’ season in 2012 was the sensational play of their first-years, so it’s fitting that Nicole Carter should be the only sophomore of our featured fall athletes. The setter was rock-solid in her rookie year, tallying an impressive 700 assists out of the team’s total of 833. Undoubtedly one of her team’s most consistent and valuable players, Carter, of course, is not a rookie anymore; her experience should make her and the Firedogs, who were 14-9 last fall, doubly dangerous.

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Revamped Jeffs Poised to Defend New Turf

Bolstered by the return of Lewis ’14E, a veteran group will lead the championship charge Andrew Knox ’16 Contributing Writer After 121 years on the old Pratt Field, the Amherst football team enters its 122nd season with a remodeled home venue and championship aspirations. Thirteen starters return along with a number of other key contributors to anchor a squad that went 6-2 last season.

With seven starters returning on offense, the unit is looking to build off of last year’s success. The offensive line will be without the duo of John Ceccio ’13 and Jack Reynolds ’13 for the first time in four years, but team captain and All-NESCAC left tackle Rob Wasielewski ’14, along with Scott Mergner ’15 and Jack MacLennan ’14, will form the foundations of a physical and talented offensive line.

It remains to be seen whom the Jeffs offensive line will be protecting at quarterback, but Amherst has a strong crop of running backs led by Tyler Jacobs ’15 who returns from injury after missing the end of last season. Sophomores Kenny Adinkra ’16 and Sean Wilson ’16 will be expected to build off successful freshman campaigns that saw Wilson breakout for 127 yards in the season finale against archrival Williams College.

Junior Max Lippe ’15 and sophomore Jonathan Pieterse ’16 will battle for the starting quarterback position after splitting time last fall and will have no shortage of talent at the wide receiver position to throw to. All-NESCAC performer Jake O’Malley ’14 and Wade McNamara ’14 will provide the Jeffs with big play capability on the outside, while Gene Garay ’15 will vie for the starting slot receiver role after seeing significant action last fall.

When healthy, Garay provides the Lord Jeffs with a big play threat who is incredibly shifty and difficult to tackle in open space.

Additionally, Brian Ragone ’16 will look to expand his role in the Amherst offense after producing some big plays in the passing game a year ago.

Although the Amherst defense loses five starters from a year ago, including four in the front seven, the unit looks to regain form as

one of the best in Division III. Senior captain Danny Chun ’14, the team’s leading returning tackler, and junior Chris Tamasi ’15 will lead the defense from their linebacker spots and help junior Ned Deane ’15 and Thomas Kleyn ’15 take over for multi-year starters Sam Clark ’13 and Matt Pieterse ’13.

The defense will also break in new starters along the defensive front after the graduation of team MVP Travis Dickenson ’13 and Matt Spohneimer ’13. Key to the Jeffs success is the ability to stop the run as they did last season when they held opponents to 3.4 yards a carry, and force them to throw into the teeth of one of the most talented secondaries in the NESCAC. In the offseason, the Jeffs learned that

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Sophomore QB Max Lippe should continue to see time under center.

Landrus Lewis ’14E, who tore his ACL early last fall and missed virtually the entire season, would receive an extra year of eligibility. Now, the two-time captain brings back a wealth of experience; he is the complete package, a proven ball hawk at the corner position and a scintillating kick returner.

In the meantime, senior Kevin Callahan and sophomore Jamie Spears will compete for the starting corner position opposite Lewis. Max Dietz ’14 brings back a team high five pass breakups to the back end of the defense from the free safety position, while Jake Schuman ’15 and Jimmy Fairfield-Sonn ’16 are vying for the strong safety position.

As it was at times last year, special teams is an area of uncertainty for the Jeffs. Jake Schmidt ’14, who converted nine of 11 field goals last year, is no longer with the team, nor is punt/kick returner James Durham ’13. Junior Will Brewster and sophomore Jackson MaGonagle will continue to compete for the starting job at punter after splitting time a year ago, but it remains to be seen who will handle placekicking duties. Lewis and Jamie Spears ’16 are expected to handle the return duties, and gives Amherst the potential to score every time they touch the ball.

After games against Hamilton and Bowdoin, the Jeffs will face a test early at home against Middlebury on Oct. 5 when they face off against the defending Div. III East Region Offensive Player of the Year, quarterback McCallum Foote, who threw for almost 2,900 yards in eight games. Middlebury’s passing attack is difficult to defend, but Foote will be without his top two targets from last season.

Amherst’s next tough test will come two weeks later against a much improved and highly motivated Wesleyan squad that will be intent on ruining the Jeffs’ Homecoming weekend.

In one of the most pivotal games of the season, Amherst will welcome defending NESCAC champion Trinity College on Nov. 2.

Trinity brings back All-Everything running back Evan Bunker to lead a potent rushing attack, and pre-season All-American LB Tom Szmanski will lead a defense that was ranked

in the top ten nationally a year ago. After losing a tight game to the Bantams last season, 32-20, Amherst will look to beat Trinity for the second time in three years. In 2011, the Trinity game was the key to the Jeffs’ title march; the Amherst squad amassed a big lead early and held on for an agonizing but crucial 35-28 victory.

To end the season, Amherst will travel to Williamstown, Mass. on Nov. 9 for the 128th edition of the “Biggest Little Game in America.” Williams comes off a disappointing 4-4 season that saw the Ephs drop three games in a row for the first time in recent memory.

Williams will look to bounce back this season, and would love to beat the Jeffs for the last time before Weston Field is remodeled and avenge last year’s loss.

The Class of 2014 knows what it takes to win a NESCAC championship, and they will look to lead the team to the always-soughtafter 8-0 campaign in their last season. They will look to kick things off right on Sept. 22 when they travel to Hamilton College for their 1 p.m. season opener.

football Schedule Sat. 9/21 1 p.m. @ Hamilton

Sat. 9/28 1 p.m. vs. Bowdoin Sat. 10/5 1:30 p.m. @ Middlebury Sat. 10/12 1 p.m. @ Colby Sat. 10/19 1 p.m. vs. Wesleyan (Homecoming) Sat. 10/26 1 p.m. @ Tufts Sat. 11/2 1 p.m. vs. Trinity (Family Weekend) Sat. 11/9 12 p.m. @ Williams