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Students Rally on Quad in Support of Boston Donations Collected to Support Victims of Marathon Bombing

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Students marched from the First-Year Quad to the front of Frost Library holding signs with encouraging slogans and messages for Boston.

Rainer Lempert ’15 Staff Writer Last Friday over 100 students, faculty and administration members gathered together on the First-Year Quad to show solidarity with the city of Boston and the victims of recent tragedies. Students held up signs saying “Stay Strong, Boston!� and a photo of the event was taken and publicized to show support for the city. In addition, donations were collected for One Fund Boston, a charity created by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino to provide help for those

who were most affected by the events.

This event came at the end of a very difficult and scary week for Boston. On Monday April 15 at 2:49 p.m. two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three and injuring 282 other people.

On April 19 at 1:00 a.m. a policeman from MIT was allegedly killed in a shootout with the suspects from the bombings. One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was reportedly killed that night. The other suspect, his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is currently being held in federal custody.

The event to support Boston was put to-

gether by Ian Hatch ’14 and George Tepe ’14. “The purpose of the event was to support each other because we have so many ties to the community,� Tepe said. “We also wanted to show support to the people not connected to Amherst and show that we are with them as well.�

Hatch, a Boston native, felt personal responsibility to act regarding the situation. His grandmother lives close to where the bombing took place, and luckily avoided the explosion by deciding to walk down a different street while doing errands. “I woke up that morning and thought

it would be really weird if we didn’t do anything,� Hatch said. “As the morning wore on there was no announcement, so I decided that I had to do something.�

He emailed Amherst College Police Chief John Carter to see if such an event was permissible, and quickly received approval. He then contacted Tepe who is “useful in organizing events like this.� Turnout to the event was bolstered by a Facebook event created by Chris Friend ’14 and an email forwarded from Dean of Students Charri Boykin-East. “The administration was very supportive Continued on Page 3

Party Policy Pushes Gatherings into Socials Ethan Corey ’15 Managing News Editor This is the second part of a two-part series on the College’s alcohol policy. The first part, “Students Search for Clarity in Party Registration Policy,� was published in last week’s issue.

Many students have perceived a dramatic increase in the number of parties shut down for noise complaints, overcrowding, the presence of alcohol and various other reasons this year over previous years, but according to John Carter, Chief of the Amherst College Police, this perception is not supported by the facts. Only four more student gatherings were shut down this year compared to the same time period (July to April) last year, an increase from 142 to 146. In fact, disturbances have been significantly reduced from a recent high during the 2008-2009 academic year, in which there were 184 noise complaints served during the same period, Carter said.

Why then have students complained of an increase in police enforcement?

One explanation might be the change in the location of parties on campus, as renovations and policy changes have pushed parties from dorms on the Hill and the Triangle into the Socials. One Continued on Page 2

Photo courtesy of Chief John Carter

During the period between July 2012 and April 2013, 146 parties were shut down for noise violations and other infractions, an increase of four over the previous year.

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News Entries from April 16 to April 22, 2013 >>April 16, 2013 1:53 p.m., Stone Dormitory Officers and the Fire Department responded to an alarm and found a smoke detector in a first-floor suite was activated by an unknown cause. The system was reset.

was confiscated, and the group dispersed.

1:58 p.m., Stone While investigating a fire alarm, an officer discovered an unlicensed keg in the bathroom. The room group was fined $100.

1:07 a.m., Chapman Officers and the Fire Department responded to an alarm and found it was activated by cooking smoke. The system was reset.

4:55 p.m., Moore Dormitory An officer checked on a student at the request of a concerned caller. Assistance provided.

7:04 p.m., Valentine Dining Hall An officer discovered unattended alcohol in the coatroom. It was confiscated.

>>April 17, 2013 3:01 p.m., Jenkins Dormitory An officer investigated a smoke detector sounding in a third-floor suite and found it was activated by steam from a shower. The system was reset.

>>April 21, 2013 12:20 a.m., Wieland While in the building an officer discovered unauthorized parties on the first and second floors with alcohol present. The events were shut down, and the alcohol was disposed of.

>>April 18, 2013 1:24 a.m., Hitchcock House Officers responded to a complaint of loud music on the first floor and issued a warning to a group of students in the common room.

12:37 a.m., Stone While in the social dorm quad officers observed two people dancing on a window sill in a third-floor suite. Officers went to the suite and found a large gathering and an unlicensed keg. The keg was confiscated, and the gathering was cleared out.

2:37 a.m., Hitchcock Officers responded to a report of the odor of smoke and determined it was coming from a fireplace or stove from the neighborhood.

8:29 a.m., Fayerweather Lot Rd. An officer investigated a motor vehicle accident and filed a report.

8:35 a.m., Campus Grounds An employee reported an exterior light on the north side of Merrill Science was vandalized. Case open. >>April 19, 2013 10:12 a.m., Merrill House Apartments A caller reported receiving a phone call of a threatening nature. Case open.

5:15 p.m., Stearns Dormitory An officer investigated a caller originating from the elevator emergency phone. No problem was found.

7:50 p.m., Williston Hall An officer checked on a student at the request of a concerned caller. Assistance provided.

8:38 p.m., Churchill House Five-College Officers investigated an intrusion alarm but no cause could be identified. The system was reset.

11:02 p.m., Seeley Mudd Building An officer encountered a group of approximately 30 students in the basement with alcohol. The alcohol was confiscated, and the people left the area. >>April 20, 2013 12:04 a.m., Coolidge An officer encountered a group of students in the basement with alcohol. The alcohol

12:18 a.m., Wieland Dormitory While in the building, an officer discovered unattended alcohol in the kitchen area. It was confiscated.

12:37 a.m., Stone An officer encountered an unlicensed keg in a third-floor suite. It was confiscated, and one student was fined $100.

2:21 a.m., Boltwood Ave. An officer was notified of a woman near College Street who might need assistance. The woman, who is not a student, was located and transported to a Railroad Street address.

2:29 a.m., Pond Dormitory Officers responded to a complaint of loud music and issued a warning at a second-floor suite.

3:51 p.m., Amherst College Police An officer assisted a visitor who was involved in an incident off campus. The person was taken to the Amherst Police Department.

Assistance provided. >>April 22, 2013 12:35 a.m., Pond An officer encountered an unauthorized party in the basement with alcohol and shut it down. The alcohol was confiscated.

12:50 a.m., Wieland An officer discovered unattended alcohol in the second-floor common room. It was confiscated.

12:53 a.m., Wieland An officer discovered unattended alcohol in the kitchen. It was confiscated.

1:10 a.m., King Dormitory An officer discovered a rabbit being kept in a basement room. The Environmental Health & Safety Office and the Dean’s Office were notified.

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Survey Says: Students Support Divestment Peter Suechting ’15 Contributing Writer Last Thursday, April 18, Amherst students overwhelmingly responded “yes” to an AAS student survey on coal divestment. The survey asked students if Amherst College should “divest from the coal industry (corporations engaged in coal extraction, mountain-top removal, coal refinement),” and provided informational sources for those who wanted to learn more before voting. Receiving 88 percent approval and recording nearly as many responses as the AAS presidential elections, the survey reflected strong student body commitment to coal divestment. The survey results were an encouraging sign for the Green Amherst Project (GAP), who authored the survey as part of their coal divestment campaign.

“The referendum arose as a response to the Trustees’ lack of attention for our campaign,” Ned Kleiner ’16 said.

As part of Green Amherst Project, Kleiner, Deidre Nelms ’13 and Luke Lavin ’13, met with William Ford ’83, the head of the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees, in November of 2012.

They discussed the possibility of removing investments in the coal industry from Amherst College’s endowment, and initially received tentative support for the plan. However, the Trustees soon stopped responding to GAP emails and requests for meetings, and as of this writing there has been no further dialogue between GAP and any member of the Board of Trustees.

“We needed something to gain the Trustee’s attention again,” Kleiner said. “When I met with other college divestment campaign leaders at a Swarthmore divestment conference, they asked me if we had a referendum going yet. Embarrassed, I responded that we didn’t, and when I came back to Amherst I had this idea in my head that this was the next step to take.”

Further cementing the idea in place, the then small GAP leadership, including Kleiner, Nelms, Lavin and Rachel Om ’13, met with Katie MacDonald, the New England regional organizer for 350. org, Bill McKibben’s national fossil fuel campus divestment movement. She gave them tips on how to form a strong and active group that could organize

and harness the type of support that a successful campaign would require.

“After that meeting, I really focused on recruitment,” Om said. “I met with people face-to-face and convinced them to join GAP, and I was always on the look-out for new recruits.”

In the early semester, GAP was essentially inactive. Now, weekly GAP meeting attendance is nearly quadrupled.

On April 8, the group met with the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) to propose and discuss the survey on divestment. Written with the help of Senator Risalat Khan ’13, the initial proposal was voted down because of disagreement about whether or not the survey language was biased. The dissenting Senators, led by Chris Friend ‘14, subsequently proposed an edited version of their own.

At the next AAS meeting on April 15, the AAS voted again on the survey. They voted first on the newly edited GAP version, which was passed before Friend’s version was brought to a vote. The survey was scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 18.

GAP members, confident that the survey would be approved, began tabling in Val on April 10, before the second AAS meeting when the survey was actually approved. On that first evening they racked up 250 signatures pledging to vote “Yes to Divest.”

GAP member Noah Lerner ’16 attributes a lot of the success of the survey to the aggressive and personal tactics used by GAP members to garner support.

“There was a lot of confusion and uncertainty when we first started flagging people down in Val, but for the most part, people said ‘thank you’ afterwards.”

Om agrees: “The tactics we used, like dorm storming, are kind of unconventional to Amherst, and I think that is a big reason we got such great turn-out.”

Planning for the future, GAP wants the AAS to pass a resolution supporting divestment, and met with them this last Monday, April 22, to discuss that possibility. Even with the encouraging survey results, and a possible senate resolution, GAP still has work to do to convince the Trustees to divest.

This will likely be a struggle lasting through the end of this semester and continuing into the next.

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News 3

Students Lament College Drinking and Party Policy

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senior, Aaron Lemle, remembers his visit to the College as a pre-frosh, and contrasts it with the party scene he sees at the College today, saying that he had “nightmares” about returning to the Socials after his semester abroad.

“I visited Amherst as a pre-frosh, and I had a friend who was a grade above me in high school, and he took me to parties around campus. First we went to a party in King, then he took me to a frat that no longer exists, then to Marsh, and as a pre-frosh I was really excited. I though there were a lot of different venues for parties, a lot of different kinds of people at these places, and it all seemed very open and like a fun social environment. Already, though, by the time I was a sophomore all of those venues had been closed, except for Marsh, as well as Hitchcock. I think by shutting these spaces down it forces the party scene into the Socials, which are dark and very packed, so I find it very frustrating,” Lemle said.

This shift in the party culture has concerned other students as well, including Liya Rechtman ’14, an Association of Amherst Students (AAS) Senator and student member of the Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct (SMOC), who thinks the Socials are a dangerous location for parties because of their suite-style layout, which she says is more conducive for sexual assault. Rechtman blames this shift on College policies, which she says drives parties from open spaces like the Hill or the Triangle into the Socials.

“The College shuts down parties in the places that are easiest to shut down parties. Marsh is a big open space; it’s well-lit; and it’s very clear who the chain of command is for the dorm — it’s the RC — it’s the same for the Zu. It’s really easy to shut down parties in those dorms as opposed to the Socials, where people are wandering around in the hallways; there are a lot of corners; it’s much more cumbersome to figure out the chain of command; the RCs have a much more tenuous relationship with the residents; it’s harder to enforce anything at all; and it’s unclear what is private and public space,” Rechtman said. “All of those ambiguities and spatial constructions are what lead to sexual assault. The inability of police to enforce certain standards of behavior in the Socials like alcohol means that they are also less able to enforce socio-legal boundaries like sexual respect.”

Rechtman said that this issue should have been dealt with when the College was confronting the sexual misconduct crisis in the fall, pointing out that other schools have pioneered models of enforcement that allow for both more regulation of student behavior and more freedom for students by bringing parties and drinking out into the open.

“I am so deeply baffled and disappointed in the administration’s lack of appropriate, effective or efficient action in response to the conversations that I have been trying to start about alcohol and other drugs, on a wide variety of levels, not just the spaces where the alcohol policy is enforced, but also the drugs that are enforced more or less harshly. It’s unclear to me why the administration hasn’t done more in that respect; the Oversight Committee did look at schools with other models,” Rechtman said. “Bowdoin, for example, has a model that is basically open beer, no hard liquor, which makes sense to me as a model. The idea is that the more you allow, the more you can regulate, and where you can regulate you can keep students away from doing very dangerous things like assaulting each other, hurting themselves, developing problems with alcohol abuse. A lot of variety of problems occur that have to do with alcohol, and the response to them should not be to push alcohol into a completely unregulated, outlawed field in which people feel like once they’re already in that space, then all bets are off. The

thing to do with alcohol is regulate it.”

Other students have proposed modeling the College’s drinking policy on Harvard Univ. or Yale Univ., which have more lenient policies focused more on ensuring safety than stopping underage drinking, leading to far less disciplinary action for alcohol and other drugs. For instance, in 2011, the College had 157 disciplinary referrals for liquor violations, while Yale Univ. only had 13, despite being a much larger institution than the College. However, according to Chief Carter, both Harvard Univ. and Yale Univ. have robust Residential Life programs with live-in professional staff that enforce university policy in dormitories and only use police as a last resort, allowing for more discretion; in contrast, the College has no similar enforcement mechanisms in place, meaning that it has to rely on campus police to maintain order and safety in dormitories. While a House Master can turn a blind eye to underage drinking, campus police cannot ignore illegal activity. Nevertheless, Chief Carter said, police at the College are far more lenient than their counterparts in town or at the Univ. of Massachusetts.

“The priority of the department is always the preservation of life and safety. Therefore, things like medicals, fire alarms and crimes in progress get priority over all else. The maintenance of order and peace comes next, and that means answering disturbance calls, noise complaints, etc.

This tends to blend into the enforcement of the college’s policies on parties and alcohol. However, it is generally more our intent to restore peace (i.e. end a disturbance or party) than identification of every underage drinker at an event. The rest of the time is spent engaging in activities that promote a safe environment, which does include patrolling the residence areas, enforcing the laws of the Commonwealth and the enforcement of the college’s rules. Our police officers show incredible tolerance and patience in situations in which Amherst or UMass police would go quickly to an arrest solution,” Carter said.

Recently, there have been efforts made by administrators to help residents of the Socials better manage the party scene on weekend nights and prevent safety infractions like crowded stairwells and dancing on windows. Dean of Student Conduct Susie Mitton Shannon has been advising residents who meet with her for policy violations to maintain awareness of the number of partygoers in their suites and turn away newcomers if the space is full, as well as suggesting that place speakers in front of the windows to discourage partiers from dancing on the windowsills. These measures are meant to encourage students to take responsibility for what happens in their residences, according to Dean Mitton Shannon. Additionally, she and other members of the Alcohol and Drug Task Force have been initiating efforts to inform students about their liability under the Massachusetts social host laws, which hold residents legally liable for anything that happens in their residences during a party — meaning that students could be sued if someone is injured in their residence.

Ultimately, the conflict between students, police and College administrators boils down to the fact that students want to drink and have parties, while the College and the police have to enforce College policies and the law, which restrict students’ ability to drink and have parties, according to Matt DeButts ’14, an AAS Senator active on this issue.

“I feel sympathetic to the College because I suspect that they’re caught between a rock and a hard place with worries about sexual assault and the knowledge that more alcohol consumption leads to sexual assault, and I’m sure they want us to have fun,” DeButts said. “I think students need to relax, and I think the way our generation seems to do that is to drink. I think people look to have a good time on Fridays and Saturdays and it’s tough to have that consistently shut down.”

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Students helped raise money for One Fund Boston, a charity established by Gov. Deval Patrick and Mayor Thomas Menino for victims.

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and did a good job disseminating information about the gathering,” Tepe said.

In response to the tragic events, the Amherst College Police have closely monitoring the situation in Boston. “During this past week we were very vigilant,” Chief Carter said. “We have been paying very close attention to information that was coming out of the Massachusetts State Police and the FBI as well the media.”

Throughout all of this surveillance, there was never any indication that Amherst was threatened.

“None of our information indicated that there was a threat to any of western Massachusetts,” Chief Carter said.

Despite this, Chief Carter acknowledges that

there is always a possibility of disaster.

“The reality is that it could happen anywhere.

I always hope that we as a community don’t have to face what the MIT community is facing right now,” Chief Carter said.

“Amherst College is a solid, small community.

One of the great strengths we have here is that we are close knit, and we have a feeling of who belongs and doesn’t belong. The people who live here are quick to submit suspicious activity, and this is a strength that supports the Campus Police,” Carter said. “If you see something suspicious then you should always contact us.”

“It is probable that terrorist attacks will occur again at some point in the future,” Hatch said.

“Tragedies like this deserve a response but we need to have a keep calm and carry on attitude.”

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Editorial

End of Year Surprises

As exam period approaches, this year for the first time in living memory, students have as much to look forward to as they already have to not look forward to. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis promises to keep spirits up as students get excited about not having any use for their glass coasters and Spring Formal. While we thank Program Board for their hard work, students should also appreciate the generous end-of-year break we received — an extended “reading period.

In semesters past, reading period has never failed to underwhelm. Sometimes a break-inname-only, its moderate platform typically encompassed little more than a weekend. Reading period has sought to boost its favorability this exam season; pandering to a student base desperate for change, it has positioned itself far to the other extreme. Students will now receive an official hand-out of five days of reading — three if we only count real days and not weekends — still generous by historical measure.

Professors this semester may have mixed feelings about the administration shoving upon them the end of semester earlier by two extra days. However, faculty need not worry, since they’ve been reassured that grades will be due just days after finals this semester, giving them ample time to make sure final papers will now be due before reading period.

Students also have much to look forward to in the upcoming year. While students will have to bear many unwanted construction sights, smells and sounds, they will get to see a return before the

year is out; the College has promised students a new building in Spring which they unveiled with many completed drawings and sketches. While the administration has promised “The Power House” as a social space to satisfy student need, the administration has done very little to figure out what that need actually is.

The College seems to have made up its mind about the space; the plans students were presented with seem near finalized, and students have yet to be consulted on this supposed student space.

Seeing the charge to renovate the building, we fear the same result as the Keefe Campus Center renovations — after much talk about incorporating student input on reservation specifics, the Administration went ahead with renovations in a manner which which did not directly involve students. The result is that many good student ideas to enhance social spaces on campus were overlooked, and the time to discuss any other Keefe ideas has passed.

Typical proceedings surrounding renovations at this College teaches us that a very narrow window exists for students to get their views across to administrators or renovation committee members. If the building is to have any potential as a desirable central student space, students should demand to make the Powerhouse work best for their needs. If we fail to do so, the building could end up unused, or at worst, like many other spaces on campus, an ugly thorn in the side of clubs seeking to host attractive events for the college community.

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Lessons We Have Yet to Learn #Z 1SPGFTTPS 4IBOEJMZB T 4QSJOH 'FNJOJTU 5IFPSZ $MBTT This past year we’ve read the powerful words of rape survivors, as they bravely testified to their experiences of mistreatment at the hands of the Amherst administration.

We’ve seen a fraternity’s sexism and misogyny on full display in a deeply offensive t-shirt.

We’ve read and denounced an Amherst administrator’s shocking reinforcement of rape culture and its corresponding myths right here in The Student.

But it seems we still haven’t learned.

Last week several Amherst students created and distributed an advertisement for “Amherst Hookups” — an on-campus used furniture company — to the entire senior class. The ad features a man crawling up to a woman on the beach beside the words, “Amherst Hookups Clean Edition: One Man’s Trash That’s Another Man’s Come-Up. Sale: May 5-18, 2013.”

The Admissions Race

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As high school seniors prepare to send in their college deposits by May 1, they may breathe a sigh of relief that the admissions process is finally over.

With the number of college applications proliferating and admissions rates plummeting, the process has never been more competitive and stressful. For those hapless few stuck in the limbo of waitlists, however, the pressure and anticipation continues.

Perhaps no one has suffered more from the dreaded waitlist than a certain high school friend of mine. My friend was, for lack of a better term, a statistical aberration. He possessed a bizarre talent for shading in bubbles. On his first sitting, he clocked a perfect score of 2400 on the SAT Reasoning Test.

No one-hit wonder, by the end of junior year, he had added perfect scores of 800 on two SAT Subject Tests and 5’s on eight AP exams to his repertoire.

With a 4.0 GPA, multiple club leadership positions and an amicable character, he was well regarded by both his teachers and peers. Needless to say, his college expectations were high.

Then, April came. The initial blow was more of a curious surprise than an outright disappointment. My friend was waitlisted by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, his four top college choices. Remaining optimistic, he would joke that the waitlist is even more selective than the admitted class, after all, the odds of being waitlisted by all four schools was smaller than being admitted to any given one. After that, however, it was a slow defeat by attrition. That year, Princeton accepted zero students of its waitlist. Harvard accepted about only 25. Eventually, Yale and Dartmouth bid their farewells, and in the end, he was rejected by all but one of the schools that he applied to regular decision.

Towards the end of summer, I had the chance to ask my friend his thoughts on the whole admissions game. He responded, visibly embittered, “It’s frustrating. It’s absolutely frustrating to know that I was so close and that the smallest factor could have tipped the scales in my favor. I worked for this, and I deserved more than disappointment. I didn’t deserve to disappoint my parents, my teachers, my friends and myself. I didn’t deserve to be waitlisted four times and rejected four times over. At least

now, I can move on with my life. Yet, I know that I could’ve gotten in if only for that smallest factor…if only I hadn’t quit soccer, if only I had taken speech and debate more seriously or if only I hadn’t been born Asian.”

His answer caught me off-guard and struck me as uncharacteristically petty. Admissions to the most elite institutions are never guaranteed, regardless of how strong the applicant may look on paper.

With so many qualified and unique applicants, the process is an absolute crapshoot, and no one “deserves” or is entitled to admission. The fact that my friend was waitlisted at colleges of such caliber was an achievement in of itself. Nonetheless, it struck me as odd how he was waitlisted by all, and not admitted to a single one, of his top choices. Perhaps, there was some truth to his final words. Would he still have been rejected by all four colleges had he been a different race?

We will never know the answer, for it would be impossible to produce an identical applicant, save for race, in an identical admissions year. As I began researching the issue, however, I came to the vague conclusion that being Asian certainly did not help his candidacy. After taking serious time to ponder the empirical data and observations, however, I realized what a tremendous understatement that was, and I began to feel the same bitterness and indignation that he manifested in his comments.

These are the facts. In “The Opportunity Cost of Admission Preferences at Elite Universities”, Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y Chung of Princeton Univ. state, “African-American applicants receive the equivalent of 230 extra SAT points (on a 1600-point scale), and being Hispanic is worth an additional 185 SAT points. Other things equal, recruited athletes gain an admission bonus worth 200 points, while the preference for legacy candidates is worth 160 points. Asian-American applicants face a loss equivalent to 50 SAT points.” In another 2009 study of more than 9,000 students who applied to selective universities, Espenshade along with Alexandria Walton Radford found that “white students were three times more likely to be admitted than Asians with the same academic record.”

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Are women — used women — for sale at Amherst College?

This semester in our Feminist Theory class we have studied the ways in which women are commodified based on their sex and used as (sexual) objects of exchange between men. Women who are “trashed,” like the one in the ad, are those who have hooked up with men and are now “bargains” and thus no longer valuable. Economical men are encouraged to take advantage of them for their own gain. Such commodification of women’s bodies directly contributes to rape culture: after all, objects/“trash” lack agency, cannot consent to sexual activity, and are therefore subject only to the whims of their owners. The value of a commodified woman is derived only through her sexuality.

We are disgusted that our fellow students could so thoughtlessly engage in sexism, misogyny, victim-blaming, and slut-shaming, and we reject any culture that permits and generates these messages.

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Being Asian-American in a Colorblind Society 3VPEJ %VBO Contributing Writer I want to tell you that our racial identity means something even on this liberal arts campus that has tokenized students of color, collapsed multiculturalism into an empty catchphrase and reduced diversity to glossy half-pages in admissions brochures. At this college with no Asian American Studies courses and few Asian American faculty members or staff, our history has been largely obscured. We are taught that assimilation is desirable, upward mobility into corporate America is enviable and success entails leaving our communities behind. Somewhere along all these years of “education” premised on numerical markers of achievement and whitewashed narratives of the past, we have attained precarious acceptance in the status quo, but in that long hard process, lost ourselves.

We are encouraged to be proud of our model minority status and forget that 12.6 percent of Asian Pacific Islanders still live in poverty (including 37 percent of Hmong Americans and 29.3 percent of Cambodian Americans), that Asians continue to be targeted for violent hate crimes and that working-class Asian immigrant families in urban enclaves are constantly denied the labor rights and fair wages they deserve. We are told to value material accomplishments over carving that niche where we can most effectively work for the wellbeing of people and discover a sense of purpose and fulfillment.

When it was originally coined in the 1960s, the term “Asian American” automatically denoted solidarity with other people of color in anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles. The radical Asian American Movement was inspired by calls for Black Power and blatantly rejected exoticism and orientalism. Asian American community and youth activists had fought against residential discrimination, labor exploitation, and the gentrification of historic Asian neighborhoods in the inner city. Asian American students constituted an important part of the Third World Liberation Front that created the first ethnic studies

department at San Francisco State Univ. and countless campaigns for racial and economic justice across the country. This is the rich legacy we inherit and build upon.

From health disparities to the criminalization of undocumented immigrants, the problems Asian American communities confront today are no less urgent or significant than those that we faced four decades ago. As people of color who have benefited so much from the civil rights movement and African American activism, we are also necessarily implicated in the broader struggle for racial equity and dignity. We need to dismantle the prison-industrial complex and end the mass incarceration of black and brown men. We need to expand both access to education for low-income students and students of color, and their investment in learning. We need to look deep within our own communities to root out the vestiges of homophobia and patriarchy.

There is too much work to be done and that is why I implore you to remember who we are.

I am not arguing for us to fall into the trap of identity politics because in essence, our struggles are grounded in the uneven distribution of economic resources over the world and the ravages of corporate globalization. Nor do I propose that we simply insert ourselves into working-class communities to which we have never really belonged because, certainly, we should be cognizant of our class and educational privileges and support grassroots campaigns alongside local leaders. Instead, my hope is that we understand the critical ways in which race figures into that equation and the socio-political implications of being Asian American in a colorblind society.

I leave you with a quote from Japanese American lesbian activist Michiyo Cornell from her 1979 speech at the Washington Monument: “To our Third World sisters and brothers, gay and straight, I would like to say we all share the same oppression as Third World people, and for that reason we must stand together or be hanged separately by what Audre Lorde calls the noose of conformity.” It is up to us where we go from here.

Are You a Gifter? +POBUIBO +PSEBO Contributing Writer CALLING ALL SENIORS!!! It’s the middle of April and the time for giving has finally arrived.

So what is Senior Gift anyway?

If you haven’t heard by now, Senior Gift is a great way to show your appreciation for everything that Amherst College as provided for you over the four years you have been here. Officially, Senior Gift is part of the Annual Fund, which provides vital support to the College’s annual operating budget.

As the largest source of unrestricted giving received by the College, the Annual Fund is a vital component of the budget and helps ensure that Amherst can continue to operate and to provide the highest caliber education possible for its students.

Thus, being a Gifter helps Amherst pay for many of the programs that

make it the great place it is. Not only do gifts to the Annual Fund address Amherst’s most current pressing needs, but they also directly support Lives of Consequence — giving the College broader access to the best students, enhancing teaching for today’s world and extending the Amherst learning experience far beyond the classroom. Each gift to the Annual Fund has the immediate buying power of a gift twenty times its size to the endowment.

Why should I be a Gifter?

The truth is that each individual’s pledge, regardless of the amount, means a great deal. A high participation rate sends a message to Biddy that we care about Amherst so much that we would be willing to give from our (meager) income just to show our support. The Class of 2010 reached 90.7 percent participation. It’s time we break that record.

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Continued from “Race” race in admissions, Asian first-year enrollment at UC Berkeley increased from 37.3 percent in 1995 to 43.6 percent in 2000 to 46.6 percent by 2005. At UCSD, it increased from 35.9 percent in 1995 to 46.9 percent in 2005.

According to Ron Unz, writing in the New York Times, “After the Justice Department closed an investigation in the early 1990s into charges that Harvard University discriminated against Asian-American applicants, Harvard’s reported enrollment of Asian-Americans began gradually declining, falling from 20.6 percent in 1993 to about 16.5 percent over most of the last decade …

But these same years brought a huge increase in America’s college-age Asian population, which roughly doubled between 1992 and 2011.”

No source, however, matters more when discussing affirmative action than the Fourteenth Amendment: “No State shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The question of whether affirmative action admissions policies are constitutional will be addressed by the Supreme Court in its decision of Fisher v. University of Texas. The ruling may have tremendous implications for the admissions policies of both public universities and elite private colleges, which depend on substantial federal funding.

The case before the court is difficult and complex. I am in no position to comment on how the Court might or ought to rule. I was, however, interested in how the Fourteenth Amendment and the Court’s constitutional precedent applies to specifically Asian-Americans.

The Supreme Court will not base its decision on 4.8 percent of the US population. The focus of the oral arguments of Fisher was not on Asian-American college applicants, although they were mentioned tangentially. Had it been, though, I find it extremely difficult to imagine how race-based affirmative action, as applied to Asian-Americans, is at all consistent with America’s constitutional values.

There are competing interpretations of the Equal Protection clause. One interpretation, as articulated by Justice Harlan in his dissent of Plessy v Ferguson, is that the “Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” This interpretation is closer to the interpretation that the Supreme Court professes to use. The Supreme Court applies strict scrutiny, the most stringent standard of judicial review, to laws and policies that discriminate based on race. Such laws and policies are presumptively unconstitutional, but can be justified if they serve a “compelling state interest” and are “narrowly tailored” to achieve that goal. While the Court’s task of weighing government interests against constitutional rights is formidable indeed, strict scrutiny is a troublesome solution.

“Compelling state interest” and “narrowly tailored” are by no means objective tests and are ultimately determined by the justices’ discretion. It is extremely ironic that the Court first applied strict scrutiny in Korematsu v United States to uphold the constitutionally of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II. I question the worth of a concept so malleable that it can be manipulated to condone so flagrant a usurpation of constitutional rights as Japanese internment. Nonetheless, whereas the Court’s decision in Korematsu is widely condemned, strict scru-

tiny continued to serve as constitutional precedent in upholding the affirmative action policies of the Univ. of Michigan Law School in Grutter v. Bollinger and continues to serve as the framework for analyzing the affirmative action policies of the Univ. of Texas in Fisher.

How do race-based affirmative action admissions policies pass strict scrutiny? What compelling state interest do they serve? The opinion of Grutter v Bollinger held that the compelling state interest served by affirmative action is diversity, to achieve a “critical mass” of “underrepresented minorities so that they do not feel isolated or like spokespersons for their race.” I find the Supreme Court’s answer to this question extremely problematic, considering how affirmative action is applied to Asian Americans. In practice, underrepresented minorities refer to Black and Hispanic students. This practice is predicated on an entirely arbitrary categorization of race. Burma and Korea are more different in terms of language, politics, culture and history than the United States and Mexico. While the Common Application has a circle to bubble in for Hispanic, it has only one circle for Asian. The idea that Asian-Americans do not benefit from affirmative action, despite being a racial minority, because they are “over-represented” betrays a total lack of appreciation for the scale and heterogeneity of Asia. Hypothetically, if a university were to declare that it had achieved a critical mass of underrepresented minorities with 30 percent of its student enrollment, when in fact, 28 percent were Hispanic and only 2 percent were Black, it most certainly would not have achieved the appropriate level of diversity. It is obvious that to place Blacks and Hispanics into a single racial group would be an erroneous and arbitrary classification contrary to the goal of diversity. Yet, the Common Application insists on applying an equally arbitrary classification by failing to distinguish among Asians of different origins.

Then, I came to Amherst. Growing up in an upper middle class, suburban neighborhood made it easy to comfortably cling to the idea of meritocracy: that all else equal, the only thing that ought to matter is one’s ability and effort. At Amherst, however, being exposed to such a diverse body of people and perspectives made it impossible to ignore how parochial my prior point of view was. After all, all else is never equal.

Gradually, I developed an appreciation for Amherst’s tremendous achievement: how in less than four decades it has transformed itself from a predominately white, all-male institution to a racially, culturally and socioeconomically diverse co-ed community. Affirmative action made that possible.

The notion that the Constitution should be colorblind now strikes me as distasteful. To be colorblind is to ignore three hundred years of history. If not colorblindness, what does the Fourteenth Amendment require? While the Court professes to examine affirmative action with strict scrutiny, I suspect that it is motivated by a different interpretation of equal protection: that the Fourteen Amendment requires the Court to look beyond the written law and recognize the social reality and that equal protection allows the state to acknowledge de facto discrimination and remedy the vestiges of historic discrimination.

Under this framework, the folly of a pure meritocracy becomes evident. The purpose of higher education, especially at America’s most selective schools, is not only to produce able graduates but

also to serve as an avenue for social mobility. Empirical data demonstrates that students from low-income households gain most from an education at a selective college. To achieve that end, holistic admissions are absolutely necessary because “objective” factors, such as grades and standardized test scores, are poor indicators of ability and effort, as they fail to account for an applicant’s upbringing and environment.

Nonetheless, the practice of race based affirmative action, when applied to Asian Americans, is a crude tool in addressing the social reality and history.

The fact that median household income for Asian Americans is higher than any other racial demographic makes it easy to dismiss the claim that Asians suffer from present and historic discrimination to the same extent as Black and Hispanic Americans. Yet, how does preferential admissions treatment for an applicant whose parents immigrated from Argentina in the 1990s do anymore to remedy the vestiges of historic immigration than providing that same treatment to an applicant whose Japanese grandfather was interned during World War II, or whose great-grandmother was prohibited from attending an all-white high school in Mississippi (Lum v. Rice) or whose Filipino grandfather could not marry the woman he loved because a 1953 Utah statute declared marriage between a “white and…Malayan…void.”

Race is an inadequate indicator of disenfranchisement. The best indicator that a person suffers from present and historic discrimination is persistent poverty. When attempting to redress societal inequality, admissions committees should not flag applicants of certain races but rather applicants who come from persistently impoverished households and neighborhoods. Affirmative actions ought to be based on class, not race. Current admissions practices are especially unjust to groups that happen to fall under the umbrella of Asian, yet suffer from the same social inequities as under represented minorities. Among the ten largest Asian groups in the United States, the average income of five of the groups (Vietnamese, Pakistani, Laotian, Cambodian, and Hmong) falls below the national average. While combining admissions information with financial aid information is problematic (for example, a particularly unscrupulous school may disproportionately reject low-income applicants to increase revenue), an explicitly socioeconomically conscientious admissions process at America’s most elite and well-endowed institutions would more effectively target truly disadvantaged applicants.

A couple of months ago I spoke again to my high school friend and tactlessly brought up his admissions ordeal.

Reflecting on his experience, his response surprised me. “As a high school senior, there are things that you think that matter that really don’t, and there are things that you don’t value that you should. Going to an Ivy League school is one of those things that really don’t matter. Going to a school with a diverse group of students, cultures and ideas is one of those things that you should value. If not for holistic admissions, I never would have met the range and variety of characters that I have in college. If not for holistic admissions, many, myself included, would not have the courage to share their unique and different perspectives. If not for holistic admissions, I very well may have ended up at Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Dartmouth, when Amherst is where I belonged all along.”

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and in 1997 came historical drama “Amistad� and a serious case of sequelitis in the form of “Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World.� But the two most important in this chain of high- and low-brow pairing were 1993’s “Schindler’s List,� which significantly challenged the trend of Spieldberg’s dramas being overly sentimental, weepy affairs, and “Jurassic Park,� the first in a long line of CGI-driven special effects extravaganzas which has all but paved the way for dozens of awful films from the minds of schlockmeisters like Michael Bay. Though “Jurassic Park� may have been designed to perform well in the under-18 demographic, the film has, for better or for worse, become something of a modern classic as far as blockbusters go. This is, after all, a re-release in 3-D of a 20-year-old movie, which does sort of presuppose that the movie made more than its fair share of dollars back when Vanilla Ice was all the rage. That doesn’t necessarily mean it holds up now or was even

particularly good then. After all, “Independence Day� will probably be re-released sometime in the next few years.

So how does “Jurassic Park� hold-up? Quite simply, a sort-of solid yet relatively indifferent “pretty good� just about sums it up. While it lacks the grim atmospherics, difficult ethical conundrums or gee-whiz adventurous fun of much of Spielberg’s best work, what’s here is a fun time at the movies, nothing more, nothing less. It’s a solid reminder that for all his sentimentality, Spielberg does have summer-movie credentials that go beyond early efforts like “Jaws,� the de facto first blockbuster. It lacks the heart and charm of something like “Raiders of the Lost Ark� — what will probably always be Spielberg’s best work of pure entertainment — but it’s well-constructed, well-paced, tense and suspenseful, and good God does the CGI look good for something 20 years old.

The story is one that we all know and is pretty inconsequential. The movie’s biggest success can be found at the edge of your seat. While the movie is mostly remembered for its CGI (thankfully the most dated aspect of “Jurrasic Park� is Laura Dern’s 90’s apparel), it’s most important that it is a complement to and not a replacement for sharp directing and fierce editing. In the movie’s standout sequence featuring the T-Rex, Spielberg builds suspense by highlighting the sound of its footsteps and the shaking of a cup of water on the dashboard of a Jeep for several minutes before we even see the beast. And while the more explicit and frequent presence of the dinosaurs on screen robs the film of some of the creepiness of “Jaws,� the film wisely keeps the focus on the characters’ point of view rather than continuously self-indulgently including shots of the dinosaurs in all their primal glory. Later on, a fantastic shot follows a

raptor from behind as it charges in which Spielberg’s use of noise and shadow is utterly compelling.

If anything keeps the movie from truly ascending to the upper-echelons of stone-cold suspense-driven thrill-ride classics, it’s that the characters aren’t worth your emotional investment. They’re a few dimensions shy of living, breathing human beings, and this inherently limits the film’s ability to awe in addition to its ability to shock. The acting is suitable, although none of these roles really require stretching out. And there are a few too many moments of humor that keep the movie from really attaining that sense of impending dread that would really take it to the next level. Wayne Knight (“Seinfeld�) as Dennis Nedry is supposed to be the comic relief, but the most embarrassing parts belong to the theme park owner’s grandchildren. While the movie works well in the moment, it’s hard to develop any lasting connection to any of the characters or feel a sense of empathy for them when they’re, you know, being chased by a T-Rex. To quote the late Roger Ebert, “I hate it when that happens.�

The added 3-D is not especially noticeable, which is good in the sense that it isn’t a distraction and bad in the sense that it sometimes feels like you wasted four extra dollars for nothing.

But the film is worth seeing either with 3-D or without it, so this is really a non-issue (as is the case with most 3-D films, it seems). And while the phrase “all sound and fury signifying nothing� may apply, when you’re watching Jeff Goldblum stare down a T-Rex as it runs at him and he watches helplessly, I can almost believe the quackish Chaos Theory Dr. Malcolm spouts off throughout the film. I also almost touch heaven for a few fleeting seconds. Maybe that’s just me, but “Jurassic Park� is still worth seeing.

Curiously-Named Game Bucks a Trend .JLF #VDLMFS Staff Writer With the benefits of time, money and experience, most video game series improve over time. Adding new game mechanics, scrapping the bad ideas and especially boosting graphics quality all keep a franchise alive. In a very strange move, one particular game, Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3, bucks the trend. The latest in a series of episodic role-playing games based on the popular Penny Arcade webcomic, PA:ORSPD3 (No, I can’t call it anything shorter) is probably the first ever example of a series that went from cel-shaded 3-D graphics to 16-bit 1990s-SNES-style pixel art that harkens back to a time where voice-acting and third-dimensions were mere fantasy.

In my previous articles, I’ve been reluctant to review sequels.

Generally the only people who are interested in sequels are those who enjoyed the earlier entries in the series; if I review sequels often, I might alienate my fanbase (Hi, Dad!). I can make an exception, however, for PA:ORSPD3, which is effectively a brand new game in its own right. For starters, it was developed by Zeboyd Games, a small indie developer that very comfortably inhabits the nostalgia-insulated niche of old-school role-playing games, and is best known for the humorous Cthulhu Saves the World.

With the change in developers came not only a change in graphics, but a massive shift in gameplay. The result is that this latest entry boasts some of the slickest and most engaging gameplay in the series.

The basics of gameplay should feel familiar to any fan of roleplaying games. You control a party and move through an over-world map, where most of the plot exposition and dialogue takes place. You can choose to go to different locations, all of which invariably lead to your being attacked by monsters.

You fight the monsters, maybe heal yourself and sometimes attack some more in a particularly impressive fashion, probably involving bright colors and really big numbers.

PA:ORSPD3 isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it does shine in several different ways. For instance, combat is deceptively complex. While it is turn-based, there is a time-meter keeping track of when exactly each character gets to act, based on their speed, the speed of the action and external factors. As such, your decisions have to take into account whether you can act before your opponent. Each of your four party members can then have up to three classes, which all have unique abilities. The number of tactical options in conjunction with the time-based combat means that any one decision can have a dramatic impact on your success, which sometimes only arises from a precise chain of

different class abilities set off at just the right moment. At the same time, Zeboyd has devised several clever ways of streamlining the more monotonous aspects of role-playing games. You never have to purchase utility items such as healing potions, but rather get a finite amount with each battle. You don’t have to worry about health in-between fights, but rather start at full capacity each time. You don’t have to worry about random battles, but rather can tell when you’ll have to fight. You can save anywhere. You can run! You can fast-forward through dialogue, not that you’d want to, as humor is another one of the game’s strongest assets.

Being based on an insanely popular comedy webcomic, it’s no surprise that PA:ORSPD3 is rife with jokes hidden in every nook and cranny. The main story of the game is an exercise in epic absurdity, with the main characters, Gabe and Tycho, joining forces with a detective and a skull in a jar to kill parodic send-ups of Lovecraftian ancient gods and monsters after a powerful tome is stolen. Along the way you fight an assortment of bizarre enemies, including mimes, slimes, hobos, garbage monsters, rats, bats, knights and the like. Each enemy’s punny name and silly one-liner keeps the tone of the game light, but the real comedy comes from the dialogue between the Gabe and Tycho.

Their exchanges are consistently

clever and funny, and never contain too many inside jokes or references to the webcomic. You also get a real sense of who these characters are, even if the plot is nothing to write home about it.

Though I kept harping about the unusual downgrade in graphics, I actually genuine like the old-school style of the game. Admittedly, I’ve always been a fan of the charm and

full of numbers and information below� format. In addition, the music in the game is just as fitting for the old-school style. The battle music gets you pumped, the haunted house music is cheesy and ethereal and the over-world music just sounds like adventure. An upside to the retro style is that the game runs on nearly any computer, and has even been released for Android and iOS.

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Each strange locale — including a haunted manor, a dilapidated pier and an otherworldly crystal bridge — is detailed and atmospheric, even with only 16 bits of color. Any fans of the old Final Fantasy games will appreciate the layout of combat, which basically copies the classic “enemies on left, party on right, box

Even better, the game costs about the same as a candy bar. All in all, even if you don’t like the webcomic, even if you haven’t played or didn’t like the previous entries in the series and especially if you like old school role-playing games with some fresh updates, give Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 a try. Then try to say the name three times fast.

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At the Table with Ellie: Sierra Grille on my phone in the hopes that it would guide me to a great find. As we made one pass down the main drag and looped around for a second go, I noticed a sign for the Sierra Grille on a side street. A quick check with Yelp showed that the Grille had four out of five stars with 115 reviews, so we decided to check it out.

While investigating the menu in the front window, I realized their unique system and thought that it could be fun and interesting. Rather than have the entrees set and ready to order, each diner chooses his or her own source of protein and matches it with one of the listed sauces and two sides. The novel idea seemed worth trying, and the restaurant appeared to have a pleasant ambience with the dim lighting and people sitting in the front room.

As we stepped inside, I saw that the Sierra Grille was a bar as well, serving numerous drafts, bottled beers and wines. We requested a table for two and followed the hostess to a separate dining room. Soon we were seated and poring over the menu.

I examined my options closely, as I always do, starting with the specials list, which included an artisanal cheese plate and a special blueberry barbeque sauce.

I moved to the regular menu and sifted through the selection. I noticed the small bites menu that included such things as hummus, spiced olives, cornbread and empanadillas, all for $5 or less. Shifting my gaze to the appetizers, I found a cheese plate ($7), steamed mussels that could be cooked in a number of styles including Thai and Mediterranean ($8) and Belgian fries that come with aioli and catsup and could have melted Image courtesy of &MMJF "OEFSTFO smoked cheddar and duck gravy added for a dollar each ($5 5IF 4JFSSB (SJMMF PGGFST EVDL BT B QSPUFJO PQUJPO to begin).

Finally, I found the entrees. One side of the menu listed XJUI TJEFT PG UFOEFS BTQBSBHVT BOE SJDI HSBWZ the “proteins,� ranging from chicken breast ($17), duck breast &MMJF "OEFSTFO ($22), hanger steak ($27), shrimp ($20) and smoked pork tenStaff Writer derloin ($23) to tempeh ($15) for any vegetarians. The other side listed the sauces, which included Bacon Ale Gravy, Thai I learned a lot this week about dining out, starting with Hot Basil Coconut, Spicy Satay Peanut and Olive and Sunthe fact that honesty can be difficult but absolutely worth it, dried Tomato Cream. Finally, at the bottom were the sides, particularly when it can lead to commiserating over a meal which included grilled asparagus, mac and cheese, smashed that wasn’t as enjoyable as you wanted it to be. potatoes, Asian style green beans and others.

My boyfriend took me out to dinner in Northampton this Finally, I had my list ready. When the waiter arrived, I Thursday. We drove into town, buzzing with the anticipation quickly scanned the menu to make sure I remembered everyof an awesome meal in a less familiar setting. I had mentioned thing, realizing the sheer number of options and combinations to various friends that I was eating in Northampton and had left me a bit flustered. requested their suggestions. I only heard about typical places, As we waited for our dinner, I inspected the room, noticLocal Burger and Zen, so I decided to try an unexplored res- ing the posters set on the warm gold and red walls as well as taurant. the candles at each table. I also realized (it sounds silly until We pulled into bustling Northampton, and I opened Yelp it happens to you‌) that our table felt too long, to the point

that my date didn’t feel intimate because my boyfriend was far away.

Soon our artisanal cheese plate ($15) arrived to distract me from my concerns. Conceding to my intense hunger, I snatched a crostini and topped it with a piece of blue cheese.

As I savored the bite, I topped a cracker with Camembert. I tried each cheese — the chevre, the Gruyere, the Camembert, the cheddar and the blue — and I found myself a bit disappointed by the end because I felt that no cheese had had the burst of flavor I had anticipated and craved. I’m not saying I wanted a stinky cheese, but the Gruyere was so bland that I didn’t want to eat it. I appreciated the artful presentation of the cheese, with the fresh lettuce, the thinly sliced Granny Smith apples and the red grapes, as well as the mustard and cornichons, but I did not enjoy the cheese itself as much as I could have.

Regardless of the cheese, I anticipated the chicken and my sides with relish. I first sampled the mac and cheese, purported to be delicious as it was “just like Mom and Dad used to make, with four cheeses.� Again, I admitted my disappointment in finding the cheese to be bland. I actually found myself craving a rich, creamy fondue with the slight zing of zesty cheese to remind me of how flavorful cheese can be.

I moved on to the sweet potato curly fries with molasses mustard. I enjoyed both, although I am not usually an ardent fan of fries. The fries were thinly cut and not so candied by themselves as to become saccharine with the sweet molasses mustard.

Finally, I tried the chicken breast with blueberry barbeque sauce, which seems to be where the Sierra Grille excelled. Although I didn’t find a strong blueberry taste in the barbeque, I enjoyed the spicy tang as it mixed with my chicken.

I also tasted my partner’s Belgian fries and grilled asparagus, finding the asparagus grilled to the point of becoming soft but not mushy and the duck gravy to actually be pretty darn rich and tasty with the fries.

At the end, I would suggest veering from the cheese dishes, unless you love extremely mild cheeses. I think that Sierra Grille has a nice atmosphere and pretty good food, but I don’t think I will be eating there again.

However, I have learned a few important lessons. I should try my friends’ suggestions first. Also, Yelp may not be as reliable as I thought, or I have to have different criteria when searching for a restaurant. And finally, no matter how positive we wanted to be, my date and I finally admitted that neither of us had been perfectly satisfied and we drove to Antonio’s, where you can always find tasty and comforting pizza.

SILT: Two “Fresh� Entrepreneurs %JMMPO #VDLMFZ BOE -PDL 8IJUOFZ Contributing Writers My name is Lock Whitney, and I’m an aspiring entrepreneur. My project represents a combination of my two main interests: small business and food! I have some background in both fields, namely as the owner of Amherst College’s student-owned used textbook store, The Option, and I have worked and volunteered on four organic farms in America and in France.

My name is Dillon Buckley, and I’m trying to be my own boss! In my four years running at Amherst, I have come to see a lot of the valley, especially its farmland, and our project aims to showcase the food that the land here produces. I love food and I’m interested in making the world a better place through social enterprise.

Together, our idea is to open an independent food market that sources (almost) exclusively from local farmers and producers.

Living in Amherst last summer, we were both exposed to the College in a new light. Because the College was out of session, we experienced the town as residents for the first time. We spent more

time in town center, we discovered many natural treasures in the surrounding area (mountains, places to swim) and we got to know some Amherst residents outside the College.

We quickly came to love Amherst’s strong community-mindedness, which supports and fosters the unique, creative energy of many independent stores in the town’s center. Yet, as residents of Amherst, we couldn’t help but notice one glaring absence amongst the center’s storefronts: where can we buy groceries in town? One night in particular, we were planning to cook breaded eggplant from Simple Gifts Farm. When we realized that we didn’t have eggs, we trudged to CVS to buy a dozen. When we learned that CVS was out of eggs, we realized that we were plain out of luck.

But how could it be that there’s nowhere to buy eggs in a town that is surrounded by local farms? In a town with a CISA sticker on nearly every car bumper? In a town that’s proud to buy local?

So we began to imagine the kind of place where we’d like to shop. “The produce display would be out of this world� “What if there were hanging sacks of bulk grain?�

“How would we do meat? Would we have to keep it all frozen?� “We have to be sure to provide the basics: eggs, milk, etc.� The questions just kept coming, and we were enjoying the challenge of coming up with answers! It began to feel like we had a faint outline of a viable business.

Over the course of this year, our idea has continued to develop and the prospect of opening our own market has seemed more and more difficult to achieve. So in the past few months, we have begun collaborating with a group of Amherst farmers, professionals and community members who are striving to create a similar, locallysourced food market. The project is called All Things Local or ATL for short!

The All Things Local Market is a producer and consumer cooperative designed to enhance local agricultural marketing and development, and also to provide new marketing opportunities for producers of value-added food products and non-food products. In short, it is a new marketing vehicle in support of small locally owned businesses and their connection with the public. All while returning 80-85 percent of each individual

sale back to the local producers.

Being a young entrepreneur is difficult; initially, we had little knowledge and few contacts in the area. But we have worked hard to combat those shortfalls through taking initiative and never being

afraid to ask questions! We haven’t yet achieved our goals but we’ve taken some big steps in the right direction. We can build and develop strong ties between local producers and local consumers with fresh, healthy, delicious food!

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In Giddy World, Defiance Has a Jingle "OESF 8BOH Staff Writer Imagine the following scenario: your country has endured a dictator’s rule for 15 years.

The economy has grown, but so has the number of casualties of its political unrest and the government’s stranglehold on freedom. Now your people have the chance to vote him out, but they are too afraid to become the new victims. What do you do?

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According to “No,� the answer is: you give them happiness.

Or give them impressions of happiness, as in highly Westernized images on television of hip-hop and ballet dancers and tall white families having a picnic of baguettes that nobody in Chile ate in the 80s. Of course, there is a political message behind those images, and the campaigning strategy grows more sophisticated as V-Day draws near, but the gist is the same: the people have had enough pain, so we need to feed them with fantasy. Did I say “fantasy�? I meant “hope.�

A political drama based on historical events and ironically larger-than-life premises, “No� echoes the triumphant “Argo� in its thrill, humor

and craft. But unlike “Argo,â€? “Noâ€? is a one-man show. Impossible to overlook in contemporary hispanophone cinema, the dominating presence of leading star Gael GarcĂ­a Bernal (“Amores Perros,â€? “Bad Educationâ€? and “Babelâ€?) is as much unmistakable in the film as he is in the poster: against a palette of colors, his gaze over his right shoulder seems contemplative, charismatic and strikingly heroic.

But that impression can be misleading. “Noâ€? draws a clear, if at first subtle, line between the biopic of a hero who saves the country from a despot and the vignette of a common man who plays his part in a movement, the latter being closer to what the film sets out to do. The film is ambitious not because it deals with an ambitious whole, which is the revolutionary rejection of Pinochet’s regime through a shockingly bare national referendum; rather, it zooms in on Rene (Gael GarcĂ­a Bernal), the mastermind behind the opposition advertising campaign, whose resoluteness is as pronounced as his lack of grandiose self-importance. The “Noâ€? campaign turns the table around and drives out a bloody authoritarian regime, but as the confetti flies high and cheers rock the streets, the protagonist walks away quietly with his son, smiles faintly, then hops on his next project: a promo

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for a low-brow telenovela. He is the hero of the campaign, but the film does not give him much credit. There is no speech about democracy, about media or about history, even though the

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Yet I imagine that the refrainment of the film from heroism stems from both artistic and ethical purposes. In reality, there was indeed a flashy “No� campaign that tried to persuade Chileans to choose democracy over Pinochet’s regime, and Chileans did vote to oust Pinochet, but to suggest that the campaign catalyzed the result would invite controversy. That is okay, because given the generally ancillary role that reality plays on screen these days, the otherwise humbleness of “No� deserves a nod.

Despite the intentionally muted heroism and the many humorous moments that reveal alacrity for self-deprecation (the rainbow symbol in the “No� campaign that represents the spectrum of opposition confuses the minister, who could not decide whether his opponents were gay, the indigenous Mapuches or gay Mapuches), the film reminds us from time to time of its seriousness. And thankfully, it does so in a way that respects our intelligence. When Rene embraces his wife, who as a dissident has been in and out of arrest and police abuse, we only need to hear his one statement of purpose: Pinochet needs to go.

Then, confident that the message has registered in our minds (rightfully so), the film moves on to scenes of the shooting of another wondrous advertisement. To that I say, dream on: unabashed with its vintage visuals and matter-of-fact tone, “No� hits an honest mark.

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Men’s Lacrosse Holds Off Late Williams Rally

Jeffs Top Ephs 10-9; NESCAC Tourney Still Possible Brenton Arnaboldi ’14 Staff Writer With its NESCAC playoff hopes hanging by a thread, the men’s lacrosse team staved off elimination with a gritty 10-9 win over archrival Williams on Saturday.

The season-saving victory moved the Jeffs (3-6 NESCAC, 5-8 overall) into an eighth place tie with Williams (3-6 NESCAC, 5-7 overall) in the league standings. The top eight teams in the 11team conference qualify for the NESCAC Tournament, which begins next weekend.

To get into the postseason, however, the Jeffs will probably need to beat Trinity (2-7 NESCAC) in the regular season finale today at 4:30 in Hartford, in addition to receiving some outside help.

(Please refer to the end of the article for detailed playoff scenarios).

Facing playoff elimination in the penultimate game of the season — a loss to Williams would have placed the Ephs at 4-5 and Amherst at 2-7 — the Jeffs responded with a tenacious, workmanlike effort, dominating battles for loose ground balls (33-21 edge) and faceoffs (16-6).

Desperate to rescue their season, the Jeffs raced out to a strong start at Williams, grabbing a 3-1 lead midway through the first quarter. Cocaptain Devin Acton ’14 opened the scoring 3:01 into the game. After Williams equalized, Aaron Mathias ’14 and co-captain Ramsey Bates ’13 scored 52 seconds apart to give Amherst the early edge.

Both offenses continued to produce at a prolific rate in the first half, with Amherst and Williams scoring three goals apiece in a furious seven-min-

ute stretch. With Amherst holding a tenuous 6-4 lead midway through the second quarter, the Jeffs’ defense unraveled near the end of the period, as the Ephs scored three unanswered goals to nudge ahead 7-6.

Just as when it seemed as if Williams had seized the all the momentum, however, Amherst’s Kane Haffey ’16 stunned the Ephs with a dramatic goal in the dying moments of the opening half. The first-year attacker scored just one second before the buzzer, tying the game at 7-7 and rejuvenating the Jeffs with a positive boost of confidence.

“Kane’s goal at the end of the half was huge for us — it was great to go into halftime tied as opposed to being down by one and we were able to ride that momentum into the second half,” cocaptain Danny Gold ’13 said.

“I was proud that we stuck with it when Williams went on a run,” head coach Jon Thompson said. “Our group never seemed to panic, and we responded in a critical moment to tie it right before the half.”

After a wild first half, both defenses stiffened as the game evolved into a tense chess match between two evenly matched teams. After 8:42 of scoreless play to start the half, the Jeffs struck twice in a one-minute span to grab a 9-7 lead, with Patrick Routh ’15 and Bates bagging the goals.

The Ephs kept the game tight, however, closing the deficit to 9-8 with 52 seconds left in the third quarter.

The score remained 9-8 for the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter, until Acton netted the eventual game-winner on the man-advantage with 6:56 remaining in regulation. Frustrated by Amherst’s disciplined defense in the second half,

Megan Robertson ’15 Public Affairs Office The men’s lacrosse team will face Trinity on Wednesday in the last game of their regular season.

Jarvis Sill Wins Williams Invit.

Jeffs Fifth at NESCAC Qualifier

Varun Iyengar ’14 Staff Writer Men’s Behind a breakout performance from sophomore Jarvis Sill, the men’s golf team finished sixth at the Williams Spring Invitational last weekend.

Played at the Taconic Golf Club, cold and windy conditions prevailed in Williamstown. The par 71 course played very tough, as no player broke par on either day. The low score on Saturday was a 4-over 75, though the course was even harder on Sunday with the low posted at a 6-over 77.

Sill, though, was unfazed by the conditions. Building off a top-10 finish two weeks ago, the sophomore shot a two-day total of 152 to win the individual tournament title, the first victory of his collegiate career.

Sill opened the weekend with a solid 4-over par 75 to tie with Hamilton’s Matt Yung for the lead heading into Sunday’s play. Facing even rougher conditions in the final round, Sill was the more consistent player down the stretch, carding a final-round 77 to earn a two-stroke victory.

Unfortunately for the Jeffs, the rest of the team was not able to match Sill’s pace.

Only first-year James Line was able to card a round under 80, shooting a finalround 79 for a two-day total of 166. It was a respectable performance from the rookie, as he finished in the top-20 individuals.

Notable as well was the effort from Nicholas Koh ’14, the Jeffs’ top performer in the fall, who played in his first tournament of the spring season. He carded a two-day total of 170 to finish two strokes

behind Line.

Behind their strong performances, Amherst was able to finish ahead of Bowdoin and Wesleyan by a comfortable margin. Although the sixth place finish was not ideal, the result was deceptively poor as the Jeffs’ two-day total of 654 was only 10 shots back of the second place team.

The Jeffs will certainly look to make up that deficit moving forward.

With that goal in mind, the Jeffs return to the course for their season finale on Wednesday, hosting the Little III Championship at the Hickory Ridge Golf Club.

After a successful spring season with an emphasis on underclassmen growth and maturation, the team will look to put all the pieces together and finish with a strong showing against their Little III rivals.

Women’s Led by individual runner-up Liz Monty ’13, the Women’s Golf team took fifth place out of twelve teams at the Jack Leaman Invitational this past weekend.

In their only home event of the season, the Lady Jeffs built on an already successful spring season, placing in the top-five for the third consecutive tournament.

With one event remaining before postseason play, the team is rounding into form nicely in preparation for the NCAA Championships in mid-May. The weekend’s two-day event was split between two venues. Saturday’s opening round was hosted by the Hickory Ridge Golf Club, a 5,895-yard, par 74 course with the teams moving to Orchards Golf Club for the final round, a par 72 course measuring 5,880 yards.

Amid windy conditions on Saturday, the Jeffs still managed to get off to a strong start. All five of the Jeffs’ scorers carded rounds in the 80s with Monty shooting a 6-over par 80 to tie for fifth place.

First-year Devyn Gardner also played well, building on a strong performance from a week ago, to card a respectable 9-over 85. Fellow rookie Jenny Xu ’16 posted an impressive round in her own right, finishing one stroke behind Gardner with an 86.

Unfortunately for the Jeffs, only Monty was able to improve her score on Sunday. The senior shot a solid 5-over par 77 to move into second place individually, marking her best finish of the spring. Monty has been on fire in her last collegiate season, finishing among the top three competitors at all three spring events.

Behind Monty, Kristen Lee ’14 picked up the slack for Amherst, shaving four strokes off her opening-round score for a two-day total of 172 (88-84). Finishing one stroke behind Lee, Gardner and Irene Hickey ’13 posted respectable scores of 173, while Xu rounded out Amherst’s scoring with a 176.

After posting an opening-round total of 339, the Jeffs improved five strokes between rounds to finish the tournament on a solid note. With impressive performances from their younger players, the team is certainly on the rise and will look to continue improving in the season’s final weeks.

Next weekend, Amherst closes out regular season play as the team travels to Williamstown to compete in the Williams Spring Invitational.

the Ephs scored a last-gasp goal with 1:08 on the clock, but the Jeffs held on to secure a priceless victory.

Saturday’s win improved the Jeffs’ record to 1-4 in NESCAC one-goal games, ending a streak of tight, gut-wrenching losses.

“To get a one goal win is so nice,” Thompson said. “It’s funny though — why did we get the one goal win? We had a guy make one more play than Williams. One more play. All the little details add up throughout the game, and it was great for us to have made just one more of those details count.”

Excelling in small individual battles, the Jeffs enjoyed a substantial advantage in faceoffs. Duncan Morrissey ’14 won 16-of-22 faceoffs at the stripe to give Amherst possession at crucial moments.

“Duncan’s dominance at the face-off stripe allowed us to stop their runs and also go on some runs of our own,” Gold said. “If he can keep playing at that level, we will be able to keep winning the close ones.”

Given the logjam near the No. 8 seed in the NESCAC standings — combined with the league’s convoluted tiebreakers — the Jeffs won’t automatically qualify for the NESCAC Tournament with a win over Trinity, nor will they definitely miss the playoffs with a loss, leaving a cloud of uncertainty entering the final day of the season.

If Amherst wins at Trinity, the Jeffs need either a Williams home loss to Middlebury (7-2) or a Bates (4-5) win at Colby (2-7) to qualify for the postseason.

Conversely, if Amherst loses to Trinity, the Jeffs need both a Williams loss and a Bates win to make the tournament cutoff.

Jeffs’ Lambert, Fussell Each Take 5K at Little IIIs Nicole Yang ’16 Sports Section Editor The Amherst track & field teams traveled to Williams this past Saturday to compete in the Little III Championships. The men had a strong second place showing with a total of 111 points ahead of Wesleyan (97) but behind Williams (169). The women fell short, only totaling 70 points, behind both Williams (187) and Wesleyan (105).

Keri Lambert ’13 had another great race in the 5000-meter as she took first place with ease, finishing over 90 seconds ahead of the second place runner and teammate, Caroline Rose ’16.

Lambert’s time, 17:03.87, is two seconds faster than her time at the Tufts Snowflake Classic and is also the new second-fastest DIII time in the nation.

The Lady Jeffs had some impressive performances in the 800-meter as well. Lauren Almeida ’13 came in second with a time of 2:20.31, while Amy Dao ’14 and Victoria Hensley ’16 finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Almeida, Dao and Hensley would later run the 4x400 relay with Keelin Moehl ’16, where they finished second.

On the men’s side, the Jeffs were able to win two individual events: K.C. Fussell ’15 came in first in the 5000-meters with a

time of 15:17.91 and Josiah Terrell-Perica ’15 placed first in the discus with a distance of 41.25 meters.

Pat Grimes ’13 nearly stole first place in the 800m as he finished only 0.3 seconds behind Williams’ Jabulani Blyden.

Romey Sklar ’15 was close behind, finishing third with a time of 1:57.43.

In the 3000-meter steeplechase, Dan Crowley ’16 finished third with a time of 9:58.77, and Lucas Lebovitz ’15 finished fourth with a time of 10:13.59.

Amherst also had some great results in the field events.

First year Khalil Fleming took second in the triple jump, posting a distance of 12.79 meters, while Stephen Hetterich ’15 took fifth in the long jump with a distance of 6.02 meters.

In addition to his discus title, Terrell-Perica was able to rack up a solid amount of points for Amherst, placing third in the hammer throw, second in the javelin and fourth in the shot put.

Teammate Denzel Duncan ’13 also performed very well, taking third in the discus and second in both the hammer and the shot put.

Next Saturday, April 27, Amherst travels to Tufts Univ. again to compete in the NESCAC Championships. The men also have a meet on Thursday, April 25, where they travel to UPenn for the Penn Relays.

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Softball vs. Elms, 4:30 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Trinity, 7 p.m.

Men’s Golf Little III Championship, TBD THURSDAY Men’s Track & Field @ UPenn, All Day FRIDAY Softball @ Keene State (DH), 3:30 p.m.

Baseball vs. Wesleyan, 1 p.m. @ Wesleyan, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY Men’s & Women’s Outdoor Track & Field NESCAC Championships (@ Tufts), All Day Men’s Tennis vs. Middlebury, 1 p.m Women’s Golf Spring Invitational Day 1 of 2 (@ Williams), TBD Women’s Lcrosse @ NESCAC Quarterfinals, TBD

Jarvis Sill ’15 earned the individual title at the Williams Spring Invitational with a two-day score of 152.

Under the windy conditions at Taconic Golf Club, Sill was able to break the tie on Sunday between him and Hamilton’s Matt Yung. Both players went into Day 2 with a score of 75, but Sill outshot Yung as he finished with a 77. Overall, Sill is having a strong season thus far as he led all Jeffs in the Hampton Inn Invitational earlier in April. He hopes to keep up the great play this Wednesday in the Little III Championship, which is being held at Hickory Ridge in Amherst. —Nicole Yang ’16

Game of the Week WOMEN’S LACROSSE vs. TRINITY When and Where: Wednesday, April 24 Home 7 p.m.

Coming off a 16-7 win against archrival Williams, the women’s lacrosse team looks to finish off their season strong against top-ranked Trinity.

With senior captains Hillary Densen and Marta Randall leading the attack, the Lady Jeffs hope to hand Trinity its first loss of the season and ride the momentum of a four-game winning streak into the NESCAC tournament.

Priscilla Tyler ’15, another key offensive player and also the team’s leading goal scorer, looks to rebound from her quiet performance against Williams and add to her season total of 27 goals.

Notable first-years look to end their first season on a high note as well. Goalkeeper Christy Forrest ’16 is currently 5-3 on the season, while Mia Haughton ’16 has an impressive six goals and eight assists.

Amherst is currently 5-4 in the NESCAC and 9-4 overall. With a win against Trinity, they could improve their standing in the upcoming NESCAC tournament, which begins on Saturday, April 27. —Nicole Yang ’16

Hillary Densen ’13 had a remarkable game this past Saturday against Williams as she scored four goals and had six assists. This performance followed her great game against Skidmore this past Wednesday, where she netted two goals and had three assists. Her recent contributions led her to be named NESCAC Women’s Lacrosse Player of the Week on Monday. Densen now is the conference leader in total assists with 25, and she also is in a tie for fourth in overall scoring at 42 points.

She will play her last regular season game of her college career this upcoming Wednesday. —Nicole Yang ’16

Baseball Takes Series at Hamilton Moves to 8-1 in NESCAC, Set to Face Wesleyan

Megan Robertson ’15 Public Affairs Office 5IF +FGGT MPTU B IFBSUCSFBLFS BU )BNJMUPO CVU UIFZ SFCPVOEFE MBUFS JO UIF BG UFSOPPO UP XJO UIF TFSJFT 5IFZ XJMM TRVBSF PGG BHBJOTU UIF $BSEJOBMT UIJT XFFLFOE ,BSM (SFFOCMBUU Managing Sports Editor Despite a walk-off, 1-0 loss in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader, the baseball team continued its strong play over the weekend, taking two of three games from a fiesty Hamilton team.

The Continentals entered the weekend at just 9-15, but they played the Jeffs, who have now improved to 18-6, tightly in all three games. The loss they handed the Jeffs on Saturday was Amherst’s first in NESCAC play.

As has been the case all season, the highlight of the series for the Jeffs was their outstanding pitching. In the three-game series, Amherst starters allowed just four earned runs in a total of 20 innings (a combined ERA of 1.80). The Jeffs’ offense continues to

be somewhat hit-or-miss; after run-scoring difficulty nearly cost the squad a game last weekend, it finally caught up to them against Hamilton.

In the series opener (April 20), however, it was the ace of the staff who shined for the Jeffs. After a shaky performance last week, Bob Cook ’13 returned to form and, in familiar fashion, dominated his opponent.

Things did not start perfectly for the Jeffs, as the Continentals scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first. That, though, was all Hamilton would get on the afternoon. Cook settled into a groove, relinquishing just two hits and one walk while striking out five over his seven innings of work.

The Jeffs themselves got on the board in the top of the third thanks to an RBI single

by Taiki Kasuga ’14, scoring Quinn Saunders

’14 who, himself, had reached on a single and advanced on an Andrew Vandini ’16 sacrifice.

They would take the lead the next inning: first-year Mike Odenwaelder, a frequent offensive catalyst for the Jeffs, reached on an infield hit, stole second, and later scored on a passed ball.

It was the top of the sixth, however, in which the Jeffs found some insurance. With two outs, some sloppy play by Hamilton led to two Amherst runs, the first of which came without the benefit of a hit. Senior Danny Pillitteri was hit by a pitch, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a throwing error by the Continentals’ catcher.

After Quinn Saunders ’14 walked and advanced on that same error, Vandini drove him in with a single to right-center. That was all the Jeffs would need: after Cook departed, Charles Nutter ’15 picked up the save with two scoreless innings of relief. The Jeffs sealed the deal with a 4-1 victory; Odenwaelder, who leads the Jeffs with a .392 average, was 3-for5, while Vandini turned in a 2-for-3 day of his own.

Game 1 of the following day, April 21, however, would not bring the same kind of success for the Jeffs. The Amherst pitching continued to be excellent: starter Fred Shepard ’14 pitched the first seven of what was scheduled to be just a seven-inning game, walking just two and striking out nine in a shutout effort. But the Jeffs failed to get on the board against Hamilton pitcher Jonathan Lane. Hardly overpowering, Lane struck out just two in his seven innings, but he hit his spots and recorded plenty of groundouts. The biggest threat for the Jeffs came in the top of the sixth, when Amherst placed runners on second and third with one out. Hamilton, however, brought the infield in and induced a well-placed groundball that could not bring the run home.

With two outs, another groundout killed the scoring chance. That’s where things stood — scoreless — through the end of seven. In the first extra frame, the Jeffs again put two runners in scoring position but could not bring them home. In the bottom of the inning, Hamilton used small-ball to deal the death blow. Outfielder Joe Jensen walked and immediately utilized his speed by stealing second.

After an intentional walk, the Continen-

tals kept the pressure on with another doublesteal. This time, first-year backstop Conner Gunn’s throw to third was off-target and, as the ball found left field, Jensen scored the winning run. The final was 1-0 in eight innings, and the Jeffs had dropped their first league game of 2013.

After the gut-wrenching and offensively sluggish defeat, however, the Jeffs knew that, by grinding out another win, they could still take the series. The Amherst squad did exactly that behind six strong innings from Dylan Driscoll ’14; in the nightcap, unlike earlier in the afternoon, the Jeffs were able to come up with some run support for their starter.

After a Cook homer brought the Jeffs to within one in the fourth, the squad took the lead for good with a three-spot in the top of the fifth. The inning was highlighted by another RBI (this time a double) from Cook and a run-scoring single from Odenwaelder. The following inning, a single from Alex Hero ’14 brought in another run, pushing the score to 6-3. In the bottom of the seventh, Driscoll departed and Adam Medoff ’14 picked up the save. Despite the difficult loss, the Jeffs had rebounded to win the series and improve to 8-1 in conference play.

On Monday, April 22, the Jeffs returned to action for a non-league road test against Springfield. While John Cook ’15 kept the Springfield lineup at bay, the Jeffs mounted an all-out offensive assault, highlighted by an eight-run sixth inning, and cruised to a 10-2 victory. Gunn enjoyed a 3-for-4 day at the plate, while Vandini, Saunders, Brendon Hardin ’15 and Jonathan Ramirez ’16 chipped in with two hits apiece.

After leaving some business unfinished against Hamilton, the Jeffs will look to pick up three “W’s� this weekend against Little III rival Wesleyan. This season, the Cardinals are a solid 7-2 in their division and will be looking to gain some momentum heading into the playoffs with a strong performance against the Jeffs. To be sure, the Amherst pitching staff, which has been lights-out in 2013, won’t make it easy on the Cardinal hitters. The main question for the series is that of how the Jeffs’ own bats will perform. If the Amherst offense clicks as it did against Springfield, the Jeffs will have the ability to record a sweep, but winning the series will suffice to make it a successful weekend.

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Men’s, Women’s Tennis Keep Smart, Stupid Stats 5XFFOFST Winning Streaks Alive /JDPMF :BOH Sports Section Editor Men The Amherst men’s tennis team increased their dual-match winning streak to eleven this past weekend as they shut out Trinity, 9-0, on Saturday and topped sixthranked Bowdoin, 6-3, on Sunday. A second squad of Jeffs traveled to Babson on Sunday, where they won 6-3 as well.

The match against Bowdoin was yet another upsetwin for Amherst as they continue to outplay higher ranked teams and remain undefeated in the NESCAC (70). Amherst began the day with two 8-3 wins in doubles as Chris Dale ’14 and Andrew Yaraghi ’16 topped Doug Caplan and Kyle Woistencroft in the No. 1 spot, while Justin Reindel ’14 and Ben Fife ’16 defeated Sam King and Noah Bragg in the No. 2 spot.

In the No. 3 doubles spot, Joey Fritz ’14 and Dan Keolasy ’13 lost a competitive match to Chase Savage and Luke Trinka by a score of 8-6. Still, the Jeffs had a 2-1 lead going into the singles matches. Fritz and Yaraghi both dominated in their singles matches as Fritz routed Bragg, 6-2, 6-0, in the No. 1 spot, and Yaraghi crushed Casey Grindon, 6-0, 6-1, in the No. 2 spot. Dale sealed the match for Amherst as he beat Chris Lord, 6-0, 6-4, in the No. 4 spot.

Notable on day was the No. 3 singles match where Fife had a hard-fought battle against King who he had faced earlier in the day in his doubles match. Fife dropped the first set, 3-6, before coming back to win the second one, 6-4. In the extremely competitive, decisive tiebreak, Fife prevailed with a 14-12 victory.

In the No. 5 singles spot, Reindel lost a tough three set match to Wolstencroft 7-5, 2-6, 10-3. Brenton Arnaboldi ’14 also lost for Amherst in the No. 6 spot, falling to Savage 6-3, 6-4.

Amherst also took a second squad up to Babson where they picked up another win to improve to 24-7 on the season. The match against Babson showed the team’s depth, especially since top players, Mark Kahan ’13 and Michael Solimano ’16 were not in action in either dualmatches.

Next Saturday, April 27, the Jeffs complete their regular season with two matches at home against SunyOneonta and ninth-ranked Middlebury. Amherst looks to go undefeated in the NESCAC for the third season in a row.

Women The top-ranked Amherst women’s tennis team improved to 15-0 o the season in Division III play and 7-0 in the NESCAC as they edged archrival third-ranked Williams, 5-4, on Saturday and defeated Wellesley, 8-1, on Sunday.

Against Williams, Amherst got off to a quick start, capturing all three doubles matches. In the No. 1 spot, Jordan Brewer ’14 and Gabby Devlin ’14 remained undefeated as a doubles pair with an easy 8-1 win over Rebecca Curran and Kara Shoemaker. Juniors Jen Newman ’14 and Zoe Pangalos ’14 defeated their opponents, Kathleen Elkins and Maria Pylypiv, 8-4 in the No. 2 spot, while Caroline Richman ’13 and Safaa Aly ’15 beat Nancy Worley and Veranika Li, 8-5, in the No. 3 spot.

The Lady Jeffs encountered more difficulty in the singles matches as they were put to the test for the first time in over two weeks. Pangalos was the first to finish her singles match, besting Alex Stone by a score of 6-4, 6-2 in the No. 6 spot. The No. 5 singles match finished shortly after but with a different result as Devlin lost to Pylypiv, 7-5, 6-1.

With a 4-1 lead, Amherst only needed one more win to clinch the victory. In the end, it was Brewer who was able to triumph over her opponent, Shoemaker, in a competitive 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 match to secure the victory for the Lady Jeffs. Brewer ended up being the only Amherst player to survive her three set match as Newman, Sue Ghosh ’16, and Richman all fell short in the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 singles matches, respectively.

On Sunday, Amherst had much less trouble taking down Wellesley as every position in the lineup won except for No. 3 doubles where Mary Soyster ’14 and Rebecca Pol ’16 could not overcome Catherine Matulis and Kendall Tada in a tight 9-7 match.

Next Saturday, the Lady Jeffs travel to Midd. and look to remain undefeated in both NESCAC and Div. III play.

Softball Goes 3-2 on Week ,FWJO )PPHTUSBUFO Staff Writer The Lady Jeffs swept a doubleheader against the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts last week before dropping two of three against Wesleyan over the weekend, bringing their record to 22-11 (4-8 NESCAC West). The Jeffs had no problem dispatching the Trailblazers (10-18) but could not solve Cardinal first-year Su Pardo, who allowed just six hits and two runs in two complete-game victories. Theresa Kelley ’13, Caroline Sealander ’15 and Arielle Doering ’14 picked up wins with strong efforts, as Doering went the distance in game two against Wesleyan.

On Wednesday, the Jeffs needed just five innings to pick up a 10-2 mercy-rule victory over MCLA in the first game, exploding for nine combined runs in the third and fourth innings. Reilly Horan ’13, who was 3-3 for the game, started the scoring in the second with a leadoff double, eventually scoring on a double steal.

In the third, a Kelsey Ayers ’15 leadoff triple set the tone for the inning. Ayers came home on a double steal, and after a walk Horan doubled and Brianna Cook ’16 singled to make it 5-2. Sealander ended the scoring by coming home on a Sarah McKay ’16 single. Horan capped off her spectacular game with a two-RBI single in the fourth, and Sealander again helped her own cause with a two-out, two-run blast. First-year Nicolette Miranda came on in relief and settled down after walking two to work out of a bases-loaded jam and preserve the mercy-rule ending.

Kelley and Doering dominated the Trailblazer bats in the nightcap, allowing three hits and striking out 12. The Jeffs used aggressive baserunning and a couple of key errors to manufacture two runs in the early going before Doering’s two-run double in the sixth provided insurance in a 4-1 victory.

Wesleyan (24-7) came in tied with Middlebury atop the West division and quickly showed why, getting to Kelley early in a 5-2 victory. The Jeffs struck first, as Horan continued her hot streak with another RBI double.

The Cardinals, however, struck back with three in

the frame, with a walk and a single setting up a two-run double. The Jeff defense then suffered a momentary lapse, as a Wesleyan batter reached on an error and then stole second, with an overthrow on the steal allowing another run to score.

Wesleyan added runs in the second and third inning, providing Pardo with more than enough support as she scattered five hits over seven innings. The Jeffs’ final run came courtesy of a fifth-inning Ayers double.

Saturday began well, as the Jeffs started strong and held on to win an entertaining 7-5 game. Wesleyan’s starter had serious control issues and lasted less than an inning, walking five before leaving the game as Amherst scored three in the frame. The Jeffs added two more in the second but left the bases loaded as the Cardinal starter incredibly reentered the game and recorded a strikeout.

The teams traded runs over the next three innings before Wesleyan made it close again, scoring two in the top of the sixth to make it 6-4. After her wild pitch allowed the second run to score, Doering bore down and recorded two groundouts to strand the tying run on second.

Carolyn Miller ’14 tacked on an insurance run with a solo shot in the bottom half of the inning. Wesleyan got the run back with an unearned, two-out run, but Doering shut the door, inducing a comebacker to end the game.

The rubber game was an anti-climactic five-inning affair, as Pardo one-hit Amherst and Wesleyan rocked the Jeffs for eight runs. The Cardinals began their scoring in the first with a two-run homer, and added three runs in the third thanks to a string of two-out hits.

Wesleyan secured the mercy rule in the top of the fourth, again starting the inning with two straight outs before recording three singles and two walks in a three-run frame. Sealander came on and pitched a scoreless fifth in relief of Kelley, but the offense couldn’t get anything going, with Rutherford providing the sole offense and breaking up the no-no in the third.

The Jeffs finish their season with two non-conference matchups, hosting Elms on Wednesday before traveling to Keene State for a doubleheader on Friday.

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With the explosion of advanced statistics, Amro outlines some basic tenets for critically examining precisely what sports stats tell us.

More than 98 percent of the statements in this column are true. That previous sentence was the exception. It was a lame example of a useless statistic. More than just conjectures, statistics feature a specificity that can have a powerful impact on our thinking about a particular topic. That first sentence is a glaring example of what can go wrong when they are not subjected to the proper scrutiny. Unlike Snapple Facts, however, most sports statistics don’t suffer from questionable veracity. More often than not, sports stats are well researched, and seldom can they simply be dismissed as false. Nevertheless, their potential to mislead is pernicious, precisely because it’s so easy to get lost in a deluge or dearth of factual information.

A true statistic may be just as misleading as an overtly false one. The batting average of baseball players proves a useful example. Consider two hitters: one with a batting average of .250; the other with a .300 batting average. The former hits at a rate in line with the average for MLB players, while the latter has a significantly higher batting rate than the average major leaguer.

But as Bill James — the preeminent sabermetrician who’s made a career of reframing the importance assigned to statistics in baseball — has written, the difference between an average and above-average hitter isn’t readily discernable from their batting performance in a single game. Over 12 at-bats, the hitter with a .250 average should collect three hits; the .300 hitter four.

Twelve at-bats amounts to three games or so. And thus more or less the difference between “average� and “above-average� hitters is an extra hit every three games. Moreover, should the player batting .250 chance into a couple of hits in a single game, one might leave the stadium thinking he was the best hitter on the team. In a small enough sample size, random chance looms large over outcomes — which is one of the reasons why one-game playoff features more excitement than a prolonged series.

The example above also belies the fundamental problem with batting average: that if the question is how good is a hitter, batting average doesn’t provide all that useful an answer. Batting average is nothing more or less than the probability that a hitter will record a hit.

Hits are wonderful athletic feats. But a hit isn’t necessary to get on base, or to move base runners up, or drive home a run. It may be tempting to treat batting average as the quintessential measure of a hitter’s ability. The question is, the ability to do what?

The utility of any stat pivots on the question of precisely why we’re interested in it. In other words, the key to understanding what a stat tells us is to understand the question we’re looking to answer by means of the stat. At a baseball game, if the question is which batter gives a team the best chance to score a run, the answer is not simply the player with the highest batting average because it’s not just hits that amount to runs.

Sports leagues stockpile stats because they are useful tools in the quest for objective clarity about athletic performance. When faced with a stat, our

first question inevitably must be why am I looking at this? Only then can we proceed to what am I looking for? And once that’s clear, we need to go further: is the emergent trend here a product of chance? If it isn’t, is it sustainable? What underlying changes — in the performance of the team, of the player, or of the competition — does this stat point to?

The same kind of misleading information we encountered earlier is prevalent in basketball statistics as well.

Consider two players with the following stats: player A averages 10 points, two rebounds and four assists per game; player B averages 15 points, four rebounds and six assists per game. For simplicity, assume that the two players are physically identical and have the same playing style. Based on this information, can we decide who the better player is?

This might make complicate matters: player A comes off the bench and plays only 18 minutes per game; player B is a starter who is on the court for 36 minutes a game. Standardization of our two hypothetical players’ performances, then, might be one way to derive useful insights from the statistics we have. The most popular method for doing this is extrapolating a player’s output over a 36-minute period. And in our example, it’s clear that even if player A didn’t double his output once his playing time was doubled, he’s still doing more with less, when compared with player B. And so we might expect that player A was the better player.

Remember, however, that in a 48-minute game, there’s no guarantee that every minute of play will feature the same level of competition. And if we really want to find out which player is better, we have to base our evaluation on a fair comparison. In basketball, each player’s contributions are necessarily shaped by the presence — or absence — of the remaining talent on the floor (the strategy of the coach is in play too, but that’s more unwieldy a variable to account for).

And so it wouldn’t be fair to compare the performance of a starter playing against other starters to the performance of a player who could start but instead comes off the bench to face lesser competition. Even if player A is an excellent bench player, it might be true that given extended playing time against starters, his production would drop off. Conversely, if player B is only an average starter, his performance might improve in limited minutes against bench players.

Thus one way to even the stakes for our comparison might be to weight each player’s performance for not only the number of minutes he plays, but for the quality of the competition he plays against. In that light, it becomes far less ambiguous how much each player is making of the opportunities he’s given — and thus which of them is better.

Sports statistics are not in and of themselves misleading. But the inferences one may choose to draw from them, or be quietly led to draw from them, can be dangerously out of touch with reality. Factual as they may be, the only way to really digest a stat is with a grain of salt.

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No. 12 Women’s Lacrosse Rolls by Williams, 16-7 Amherst Set for Season Finale against Trinity Maggie Law ’14 Staff Writer Senior Captain Hilary Densen ’13 led the Amherst Women’s Lacrosse team to its third straight victory on Saturday with four goals and six assists in the Jeffs’ 16-7 win over archrival Williams.

The Jeffs’ earned their second consecutive win last Tuesday with a decisive victory over nonconference opponent Skidmore, downing the Thoroughbreds 17-5. No. 12 Amherst is now 9-4 on the season and 5-4 in NESCAC play.

Six different players scored in Saturday’s game as the Jeffs cruised to victory over Williams on Senior Day. Krista Zsitvay ’14 opened the scoring for Amherst just two minutes into the first half with help from classmate Alex Philie ’14, who then added her own goal three minutes later for a 2-0 lead.

Williams responded quickly, however, as junior Rebecca McGovern passed up a free position shot and found teammate Rebecca Bell ’15 to pull within one.

Amherst added its third goal with 15:59 left to play as Densen carried the ball behind the net and sent a pass to fellow captain Marta Randall ’13, who buried it for her first score of the game.

The Ephs responded less than a minute later to make it 3-2, but Philie and Zsitvay quickly added goals with help from Densen to stretch the lead to three, and Randall’s second goal of the game at the seven-minute mark gave the Jeffs a comfortable four-goal advantage.

Williams fired back just 14 seconds after winning the draw to cut the deficit to three, but Zsitvay responded after a thrilling run up the middle to make it 7-3. Densen then followed with her first tally of the game to give the Jeffs a five-goal cushion.

Hoping to stay within striking distance, the Ephs took advantage of a free-position shot with 25 seconds left to make it 8-4 heading into the break.

The Jeffs maintained momentum to start the second half, netting the first three goals of the period. Densen had a hand in all three tallies, assisting Philie just 43 seconds into the period before notching back-to-back goals of her own.

Elizabeth Ryan ’13 ended the Amherst run with a free-position goal at 18:23, but Densen kept up the offensive pressure with an assist on sophomore Meghan Mills’ goal at 15:56 and her fourth tally of the day at the nine-minute mark.

Zsitvay added her fourth and final goal just three minutes later with help from Philie, but Williams answered with a goal from McGovern to break up the Amherst attack. With just over a minute left to play, Philie dodged her defender and took it straight to net to make it 15-6.

The Ephs took control of the ensuing draw and capitalized with a goal 15 seconds later, but Philie added the finishing touch for Amherst with just three seconds left on the clock and the Jeffs walked away with the 16-7 victory.

Densen’s four goals and six helpers led the way for Amherst, who held a 23-18 advantage in shots. Philie recorded five goals and two assists on the afternoon, while Zsitvay netted four and Randall followed with two goals and one assist on a successful Senior Day. Teamwork was the key word for the Jeffs last week as eight different players scored in Amherst’s 17-5 victory over Skidmore.

Priscilla Tyler ’15 and Mills headlined the team’s highest-scoring game with three scores apiece, while Densen, Randall, Zsitvay, Philie and Elizabeth Ludlow ’14 each recorded a pair of goals.

Amherst controlled from the start with Lud-

low netting the game’s first score just 12 seconds after the opening draw.

After scooping up an offensive rebound, Densen fed the ball to Zsitvay for the Jeffs’ second goal before Philie extended the margin to three just 58 seconds later.

Randall made it 4-0 at the 17:58 mark, but Skidmore finally got on the board a minute later after freshman Emma Harris finished off a long run up the left side. Tyler quickly responded with a wraparound goal from behind the left post before assisting on Philie’s second score of the game at 11:06. Down by five with 10 minutes left in the half, Skidmore’s Robin Fetterolf found Spencer Morgan cutting to the cage for the team’s second goal.

Caroline Holliday ’14 answered with a bounce shot that flew right past the Skidmore keeper, sparking a four-goal run for the Jeffs.

Ludlow ripped a hard shot to the upper left corner 30 seconds after Holliday’s score, and Mills quickly followed suit with a goal from right outside the crease.

Zsitvay kept up the pressure with her second tally of the game at 5:38, but Skidmore halted the streak at four to make it a 10-3 game with just under four minutes remaining in the half.

Amherst had the last word, however, as Tyler stretched the lead to eight with an unassisted goal at the one-minute mark. Holding a 23-9 shot advantage in the first half, the Jeffs headed into halftime ahead, 11-3.

Densen kept the ball rolling in the second half with a goal at 24:19. The second-leading scorer was assisted by Mills, who added her own goal less than five minutes later to give the Jeffs a 10-goal lead.

Skidmore managed back-to-back goals 10 seconds apart to cut the lead to eight, but another four-goal run would solidify the Amherst victory.

Tyler, Mills, Densen and Randall rounded out the scoring in the final 12 minutes as the Jeffs came out on top, 17-6.

Freshman goalkeeper Katelyn Salerno made three saves during her 30 minutes in net, while classmate Christy Forrest ’16 stopped five in the second half.

Amherst will play its final regular season game tonight against No. 1 ranked Trinity College before the NESCAC Championship Tournament begins on Saturday.

The opening draw is set for 7 p.m. on Gooding Field.

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