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New Latinx Major Proposal Under CEP Review

Isabel Tessier ’19 Managing News Editor

Photo courtesy of Alura Chung-Mehdi ’18

Aditi Krishnamurthy ’17 was elected AAS president by a two-vote margin in a runoff election against Phillip Yan ’18. Judiciary Council complaints were filed against Yan and third presidential candidate Will Jackson ’18 in the initial election.

Controversial AAS Election Results Revealed Shawna Chen ’20 Managing News Editor After a controversial election process that included Judiciary Council (JC) complaints and a runoff election, the Amherst Association of Students (AAS) announced on Wednesday morning, April 12 that the student body elected Aditi Krishnamurthy ’18 as AAS president for the upcoming year. Krishnamurthy received only two more votes than did fellow candidate Phillip Yan ’18.

AAS executive board elections took place on Thursday, April 6. Will Jackson ’18, Krishnamurthy and Yan ran for president.

On Saturday, April 8, the AAS announced election results for vice president, treasurer, secretary and JC chair. Due to JC complaints filed against Jackson and Yan, however, results for the presidential election were not released.

According to an AAS email sent to the student body on Monday, April 10, two complaints were

submitted to the JC chair on April 6 regarding an article of the AAS Constitution, which states that “No signs, posters, or printed material regarding a referendum or election shall be allowed within reasonable view of a public Amherst College computer.”

“Will Jackson had table tents in the front room of Valentine Dining Hall and Phillip Yan tabled in the atrium of Valentine,” wrote JC chair Cosette Lias ’17. “Both locations have public computers.”

The complaints against Jackson and Yan were deemed invalid by the JC. Lias wrote that the computer in the front room of Valentine is “not in practice a public computer and that the table tents were not within reasonable view of the computer.” The JC also concluded that Yan’s campaign presence did not have reasonable “potential to affect the outcome of the election.”

Any registered Amherst College student may dispute an election by filing a complaint. According to AAS President Karen Blake ’17, students

have protections under the constitution to submit JC complaints anonymously to “insure against retaliation or harassment of the student who submitted the complaint.”

Through his public presidential campaign and personal Facebook pages, Yan alleged on Sunday that Paul Gramieri ’17 filed both complaints on behalf of Krishnamurthy. “The results of this election were not released because Aditi Krishnamurthy sent a complaint regarding my campaign to Paul Gramieri, who filed it with the Judiciary Council,” he wrote.

Yan disputed the validity of the complaint in his statement, writing that “[a]ny person who stopped by my table at Val will tell you that we did not have posters or signs. We had index cards with peppermints attached, laid out on our table. I dismiss the argument that these index cards somehow constitute ‘signs.’ These index cards were no larger than

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A committee of five Latin American studies professors submitted a proposal for a new major in Latinx and Latin American Studies (LLAS) to the Committee on Educational Policy on Saturday, March 25, and it is currently under review. If approved, the LLAS major, which has been advocated for by Latinx student movements for decades, will be offered in the spring of 2018.

According to the text of the proposal, the LLAS major will be “an interdisciplinary program designed to critically examine the diverse histories and cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latinxs.” The major was proposed by Rick López, Solsiree del Moral, Leah Schmalzbauer, Mary Hicks and Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez.

If approved, LLAS will become a program major. It will not be a department — it will not hire its own professors or offer its own courses — but it will group together all courses relating to Latino and Latin American studies that other departments may offer and allow students to receive major credit and recognition for taking those classes.

“Having a major is going to guarantee that these types of courses about Latinx identity, Latin American identity [and] Caribbean identity are going to be offered every year and every semester, not sporadically throughout the years,” said Hugo Sanchez ’17, a member of the student committee that worked on the major proposal.

Once the CEP approves the major, it will then go to the Committee of Six. Once the major proposal is approved by that committee, it will be sent to all the faculty, to be discussed and voted on during the monthly meeting of the Committee of the Faculty. According to Schroeder Rodríguez, the proposal is unlikely to reach the Committee of the Faculty before the fall of 2017.

However, he is optimistic about the chances of the major being passed. “I don’t see the faculty as a whole being against this,” he said. “There is a good energy on campus regarding this major. When I talked informally to faculty about this, the recur-

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College Curriculum to Undergo Widespread Revision Kathleen Maeder ’20 Staff Writer The college’s academic curriculum is under review for an update in the upcoming school year by committees formed of students, faculty and staff members that plan to develop changes to schoolwide academic policies, including revising the requirements for make-up exams and extending the “Freshman Drop.”

The faculty passed two of the proposals on Tuesday, April 4.

The first is a change in the language of a policy regarding extensions and make-up exams during finals period. Olivia Pinney ’17, one of two students on the Curriculum Committee, said that prior to this change, make-up exams were only permitted when the student had an illness, and extensions were permitted only for medical reasons or personal emergencies.

Now, the language of the policy is more reflective of the typical practices of professors, and the circumstances under which make-up exams and

extensions will be granted will not be limited to medical or personal emergencies.

The second proposal will extend the “Freshman Drop” policy to allow first-years, sophomores and juniors to drop a class without penalty.

“Extraneous circumstances, such as illness or something that makes it not feasible to complete [a class] … could happen at any point in someone’s college career, and the college doesn’t see why the juniors or sophomores should be prevented from having the option to drop a class without penalty, given that they meet all the requirements to try to continue with the class,” said Pinney.

The Committee of Educational Policy is further discussing the possibility of offering minors.

“The CEP has put together a draft proposal for a minor program that is currently being reviewed by the chairs of departments, and we expect their comments sometime in the next couple of weeks,” said Professor David Hall, CEP chair, in an online interview. However, there are not yet any formal proposals in place regarding the matter, he added.

Professor Geoffrey Sanborn, co-chair of the

Curriculum Committee, said in an email interview that the committee is also reviewing and making changes to the college’s First-Year Seminar program.

These changes, however, will likely not be presented to the faculty for a vote until the fall of 2017, said Sanborn.

Another proposal would give students 1.5 credits to courses that meet for twice the average length of time in a week, including certain lab classes.

Sanborn also said that the committee is creating a new “Learning Goals Statement” for the college as well as proposals regarding the current advising system.

The Curriculum Committee has also developed smaller sub-proposals for the college’s academic curriculum. Sanborn said the committee hopes to implement “clusters” or “teaching collaboratives,” a system that would encourage professors from different departments to create courses that focus on a variety of disciplines and subjects, or have shared syllabi.

The length of time required to implement these and other proposals could vary, according to Pinney. She said that while some proposals, such as the extension of the Freshman Drop, require only the approval of the dean and are therefore likely to be implemented relatively quickly, others, such as the upgrades to the First-Year Seminar program, will likely take more time.

The Curriculum Committee has been working for two years to revise the curriculum. The proposals must be approved by the Committee of Educational Policy and voted on by faculty members.

According to Pinney, the college has not ratified a new curriculum since before the college became co-ed.

These curriculum changes, Pinney said, will hopefully represent the best interests of students.

“All of the changes that we aspire to make are pro-students,” said Pinney. “And then, on more controversial issues, that’s when Natasha Kim ’18 [the other student member of the Curriculum Committee] and I will step up and make sure that the student voice is heard.”

News

Elaine Vilorio April 3, 2017 - April 9, 2017

>>April 3, 2017 7:56 a.m., Seelye House An officer discovered three unattended bottles of vodka in a firstfloor common room. They were disposed of.

3:32 p.m., Converse Hall A caller reported an unknown male loitering on the first floor near a ladder that leads to the roof. No one was found when officers investigated.

7:46 p.m., Jenkins Dormitory A resident reported the theft of headphones from his suite over the past weekend. They are valued at $300.

9:52 p.m., Plimpton House A resident reported an unfamiliar man loitering in the first-floor common room. He was identified as being affiliated with the college. >>April 4, 2017 5:46 p.m., Charles Pratt Dorm An officer responded to a complaint of marijuana odor on the second floor. The origin of the smell could not be identified. >>April 5, 2017 1:00 a.m., Plimpton House While in the basement, an officer observed a hole in the wall. >>April 6, 2017 10:46 a.m., Pratt Pool Officers and the Fire Department responded to an alarm but could not identify a reason for the activation. >>April 7, 2017 10:26 p.m., Hitchcock House An officer discovered unattended

alcohol in the first-floor common room. It was disposed of. >>April 8, 2017 12:51 a.m., Moore Dormitory While in Moore, an officer discovered that an excessive amount of alcohol, including hard alcohol, was available at a registered party in violation of the option one party regulations. The matter was referred to Student Affairs.

9:57 p.m., Morris Pratt Dorm While in the building, an officer found unattended hard alcohol in the basement common room. It was disposed of. >>April 9, 2017 12:37 a.m., Plimpton House A caller complained about loud noise from a registered party. An attempt was made to reach the party sponsor by phone but was unsuccessful. Officers responded and the party ended.

2:05 a.m., Webster Circle An officer encountered several people fighting, which resulted in injury to one person. No one chose to pursue an official complaint.

1:14 p.m., Keefe Campus Center A visitor reported that approximately $100 was stolen from his wallet. The wallet was left unattended inside the campus center and later found outside the building.

7:10 p.m., Valentine Quad Officers investigated a 911call from a student’s cell phone with no communication. The phone was tracked and the student was located. The call had been initi-

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Thoughts on Theses Interdisciplinary and Department of Black Studies

Elaine Vilorio is a double major in black studies and the interdisciplinary major Latin American and Latino studies. Her thesis examines educational disparities between different race and class groups in her hometown in Hackensack, New Jersey. Her adviser is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Sociology Leah Schmalzbauer.

Q: How would you describe your thesis?

A: I would describe it as a way for me to figure out what had always interested me ever since I came to Amherst, which is, why was I one of the few people in my neighborhood who went to college? I come from Hackensack, New Jersey, [where] … race and class are very much tied together. It’s typically the case that a lot of the lowincome people in the town are black or Latino, or both … [while] the suburbs are where most of the white people live. Growing up, I saw the neighborhood disparities mirrored in the school system. In the honors classes was where more of the well-off people were, and so there were a lot of white students … And then the lowerlevel classes were more of the students from my neighborhood … I never really had classes with them, because I got into the honors track. I got into Amherst, came here and I always wondered what had made the difference for somebody like me. Because I didn’t think it was as simple as [that] I was smarter. That just didn’t seem like the right explanation, because I knew the people that I was thinking about, and these were people that were very insightful and were just smart people.

And they didn’t make it to college … I had peers who got pregnant, guys who got into trouble with the law and stuff, but these were all people who I knew were really bright. I came here and I was like, “Okay, what made the difference?” … My idea was basically, let me go back to my town and interview people who went to college who are low-income, Dominican especially — my family and I emigrated from the Dominican Republic in the early 2000s ...

Interterm of junior year, I went back to my town and … I recruited people that I knew [to interview], and they referred me to people that they knew, so I got to speak to a lot of people who were Dominican, who went to college [and] grew up low-income … I had only a few people who didn’t go to college, and most of the people in my sample did go to college, which is kind of the reverse of reality. I had to change my thesis to not so much be a comparision, but to be an identifier of patterns — what patterns can I detect within the group of people that went to college that could have potentially made a difference in them that the other group lacked? …

I interviewed the children of immigrants, and I also interviewed first-generation immigrants themselves, older adults who come here from the Dominican Republic, who were usually the parents of my interviewees — [though] in some cases they weren’t. I just wanted to get a sense for why people’s experiences were the way that they were. I was interested in why we were all concentrated in these low-income neighborhoods … In interviewing these people, I started picking up a pattern … [I] analyzed the interviews, did some background research on the town of Hackensack [and] demographic research. Things that I had known about the town were confirmed with data and polling census data, so I knew that … race and class were very much tied together, but it wasn’t until I saw the numbers that I was like, “Oh, it really is tied together.”

The predominantly black and/or Latinx neighborhoods were the poorest neighborhoods in the town … I started seeing a pattern which was corroborated by what I had read in other studies, which is especially for low-income immigrants of color, that two things were crucial for getting people to a four-year college: familial support, having your family understand the value of

education and push for education and talk about education and why it’s so important … and also what I call “gatekeepers,” which is, basically, people who take a special interest in the student and have institutional power. So it could be a teacher [or] it could be a coach, but there was always that one person or a cluster of people. For some reason they saw something in the student and for some reason they really invested time in this person … I managed to see those patterns in my own life too, people who took a special interest in me.

This thesis was very much a study of the people I grew up with, and it was also to figure out what made a difference for me and why there needs to be more institutionalized programs so things aren’t so much left by chance … I think that something my thesis does is highlight the structural influence of things. I don’t so much delve into personal things like resilience — a lot of people are resilient — but my point in the thesis is at least to say that working hard is good and it’s going to get you somewhere, but sometimes working hard isn’t enough. You need the combination of working hard and then you need somebody to open the door for you to work hard.

You need those things, both of those things, and sometimes you don’t get the door opened for you.

Q: What was one great moment from your thesis?

A: The first was interviewing the people. I love interviewing people … People were vulnerable, they let me into their home … The thesis would be nothing without the people who allowed me to interview them — absolutely nothing …

[The] second great moment is having my mom help me with the thesis. [For] my mom, and my parents in general, there isn’t much room for them to be involved in my education, especially at a place like Amherst. It’s this elite place.

When they come here for admitted students’ weekend, there really isn’t much programming for them. They primarily speak Spanish. I try to bring them to things, but it’s just difficult. If you don’t speak Spanish, and you don’t really get how higher education works here … you just don’t know how to interact at first, unless you kind of continue staying in them. So they haven’t really had much of a chance to participate in the education that Amherst has given me, and even in high school, again being an immigrant and not knowing much about the American education system.

This was a chance for my mom and my dad to be involved in my education. They reached out to people in the community, and they were like, “She’s doing this thesis, and she wants to speak to people,” and they were kind of vouching for me, and that was really amazing to have them be involved ... They were so helpful, and so happy to help me and [be] supportive.

The third great moment was probably when I presented my thesis at a conference. A couple of us presented at the sociology conference … and it was amazing to present it alongside Ph.D. students and actually compete with them. We were frequently the very best presenters, which was wild. So it was cool to know that Amherst had prepared us to produce quality work to the point where we were comparable to and sometimes better than the doctoral candidates that we were presenting alongside of. And my parents came to that, which was really cool for them, to get to come to an academic space and hear my thesis. I gave them a shout-out at the end in Spanish.

— Jacob Gendelman ’20

The Amherst Student • April 12, 2017

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Latinx Major Proposal Submitted After Decades of Support Continued from Page 1

The Road to LLAS According to Sanchez, students have advocated for a Latino studies major for decades. But the movement has happened in waves, as student involvement changes with each graduating year and organizers face a perceived lack of support from the administration.

The most recent wave of student organization around the proposal began in spring 2014. Since then, a small committee of students has met weekly, conducting research to present to the administration in support of the creation of the major. They compared Amherst’s major offerings to those of similar colleges, and found that all the other NESCAC colleges have a major, minor or both in a field related to Latino or Latin American studies.

Students also compiled a spreadsheet of all the courses related to LLAS that the college had offered in the past 10 years to demonstrate students’ longstanding and increasing interest in the topic.

According to the proposal, the number of these courses offered has increased from five to over 40 in the past 10 years. Since a Five College Certificate in Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies was created in 1990, 106 Amherst students have earned the certificate, making up 72 percent of all students who earned certificates.

In the fall of 2015, Schroeder Rodríguez joined the college Spanish department and soon became

the head faculty member organizing the major proposal. He reached out to department chairs of various departments that offer courses related to Latino and Latin American studies.

“Basically, I facilitated conversations among people who had already been talking about this in order to get everything on paper and submit it to the different committees that it has to go through,” Schroeder Rodríguez said.

Forming a “Latinx Consciousness” The college has undergone a rapid demographic change in the past decade. Since 2006, the number of students who self-identify as Latin American, Latino or of Caribbean origin has doubled, according to the proposal. This has also impacted the student movement for a Latinx major.

For Sanchez, courses on Latino and Latin American topics are a means of understanding his identity at Amherst and within the United States.

“I’m a first-generation person of color from a working-class family, so this idea of coming to college is very new to me … I was lost when I got here,” he said. “Not only in terms of ‘what am I going to do after college?’ but I was also lost in the sense of realizing my identity.”

Sanchez found it challenging to transition from a majority-Latino community to Amherst, a historically white institution. “Trying to fathom my position within the broader context of the United States was very difficult,” he said. “It did create a barrier for me in terms of adjusting to the college experience and making myself feel comfortable on-campus.”

In the fall of 2015, students in the Latino affinity group La Causa invited Dean of Faculty Catherine Epstein to a club meeting, where they presented her with a formal statement on the “Latinx condition” at Amherst College.

“We do not feel that we have a space or a cohesive Latinx identity on this campus,” it read.

One of the forms of support for which the statement pressed was a Latino studies department. “Since spring of 2014, La Causa has headed

3x5. They were not hung up, nor taped to a wall.”

Noting that Krishnamurthy was the only candidate against whom a complaint was not filed, Yan questioned the intent and purpose of the complaint. He said in a later interview that a member of his campaign staff allegedly conversed with Krishnamurthy about Krishnamurthy’s email to Gramieri about the complaint prior to his filing on Thursday night.

Initially, Yan said, his team had not planned on releasing any statement until after the JC verdict came out, but changed their mind after a member of his campaign staff reported that members of the opposing camp were allegedly spreading a version of events depicting him as ill-intentioned.

“After that, I said, ‘We need to give them our side of the story,’” Yan said.

He said that Krishnamurthy discussed the complaint with Gramieri before it was released to the student body.

“We can’t speculate as to Paul’s intentions, but we do think that there is very, very reasonable chance that Paul was influenced by the interactions he had with Aditi and the conversations they had,” Yan said. “We confronted Paul yesterday, and we said, ‘Paul, we have witnesses that will testify that you had multiple conversations with Aditi about the complaint. His response was not to deny it but to ask, ‘Who are these people? I want to know.’”

Krishnamurthy denied any involvement with the complaint in a comment on Yan’s Facebook status, but Yan still said he believes that “the complain-

ant and Aditi” influenced each other.

Krishnamurthy said in an email interview that she did ask Gramieri whether Yan’s tabling in Valentine while the polls were open was constitutional, but did not ask or encourage Gramieri to file a complaint. According to Krishnamurthy, Jackson and “many of my peers” also spoke to her to question the constitutionality of Yan’s actions. Jackson confirmed this statement.

“I didn’t discuss filing a JC complaint with Paul, rather simply asked him whether the tabling was against the rules or not,” she wrote. “There is a difference between asking the Elections Chair — a neutral body — a question, and collusion, as Phillip is claiming.”

To her, filing the complaint was “due process being executed.”

“Yes, it’s frustrating when a complaint is filed and slows the election process, but it is completely unproductive for said complaint to be framed as a personal attack,” she added.

Gramieri also denied Yan’s allegations, saying that he was not influenced by a preference for one candidate over the others. Multiple students approached him about the constitutionality of Yan’s actions, he said, and he filed the complaint to ensure a fair election.

“I’m a big stickler for the rules,” he said. “That’s part of the reason I was the first treasurer in three years not to have a budget deficit: because I made sure our rules were followed to the tee.”

Gramieri said he had no ill intent in filing the

complaints, and that he is friends with both Jackson and Krishnamurthy and has worked with Yan on the Senate. “I did not make the JC complaints as a personal attack against any candidate at all,” he said. “There was the concern, albeit a slight concern, that [Yan’s materials] were within eyeshot of a public computer. Given that that’s a rule, I wanted to make sure it was addressed.”

The AAS, he said, is trying to reestablish its credibility, and the only way it can succeed is if “we have students leading the student government who have been elected fairly and democratically.”

Yan, however, disputed the validity of the complaint, noting that the constitution bars signs, posters or printed materials, not tabling or index cards.

“Posters and signs are materials that are hanged up as a fixture in order to continually project information vis-à-vis these cards we were handing out were giveaways, like business cards, with our information on it,” he said. “It’s not printed material — we hastily scrawled on it with pen and highlighter.”

He further pointed to precedent rulings in which the JC deemed similar complaints invalid.

According to the AAS website, a complaint alleging a violation of a clause which prohibits “signs, posters and printed material regarding a referendum or election … within 25 feet of Valentine on the day of voting” was found invalid during the AAS E-Board elections for the 2012-2013 academic year. The ruling stated that “although the rationale and spirit of the clause pertaining Valentine made the clause relevant at the time of ratification, the clause is no lon-

ger relevant due to the change in voting medium.”

Because none of the candidates garnered more than 50 percent of the votes, which the constitution requires for an official win, the AAS proceeded to conduct a runoff election between the two candidates who received the most votes, Yan and Krishnamurthy. Polls were open through Monday, April 10. Krishnamurthy received 327 votes while Yan received 325. “[W]hile Phillip’s speculation was correct that Paul filed the JC complaint, his public statement was not appropriate,” Blake said in an email interview. “We have no evidence to prove that Paul filed on behalf of Aditi. Rather, we know his concerns laid with the student body. We hope that following this situation, the newly elected AAS will review and update its constitution.”

According to Jackson, it is customary to undergo a review of the AAS constitution every two years, but “it’s been four or five years since that’s been done.”

“I think the spirit of the constitution should take precedent over the rules in some cases,” Jackson said. “Even if they had found the complaint against Phillip valid, that would’ve resulted in a three-week or four-week-long process … It would’ve been a month before we would have a president, and while that’s according to the rules, it would’ve been terrible for the functioning of the AAS.” As a presidential candidate, Yan said he doesn’t want the controversies to continue. “I just want it to end as peacefully as possible,” he said.

Emma Wilfert ’20 Staff Writer

areas.” The common areas will be repainted, carpeted and installed with new lighting fixtures.

Brassord also added that there were plans to “[convert] two bedrooms at the center of the second floor into a lounge that will be open to the corridor and adjacent to and connected with the balcony, which we will also enhance with roof deck outdoor furnishings.”

Current Val resident Carlos Cosme ’19 expressed enthusiasm for the renovation plans. “I think carpets would be super nice,” he said, adding

that the current lack of carpets in Val is his biggest complaint about the dormitory. “The linoleum floor sucks.”

Val was one of his last housing choices during room draw, Cosme said. He added that he wished the showers had lighting fixtures. Brassord’s response did not specify if lighting upgrades would be added to bathrooms as well as hallways.

When told of the planned renovations, Andrew Floersheimer ’20 said “many of the students would like to see a great deal more.” In particular,

Floersheimer said he would “love to have lighter showers and no visible stains [in the bathrooms].”

Floersheimer said he visited Valentine to assess the condition of the facilities ahead of room draw, but had previously heard various rumors about the downsides of living in Val. “[I heard] it was not the greatest place to live on campus,” Floersheimer said. “It smells like food.”

Floersheimer, despite his concerns about the conditions of the bathrooms, said that the renovations are “a good start in the right direction.”

ring comment that I get is, ‘It’s about time,’” Schroeder Rodríguez added.

The CEP is currently communicating with the five professors as they review the proposal, which has already been revised once to incorporate the CEP’s prior feedback. The proposed title for the major was originally Latina/o, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, but has since been changed to Latinx and Latin American Studies. On April 14, the CEP will meet with the five professors to ask more questions.

Photo courtesy of La Causa Facebook page

The proposal, which will implement a Latinx and Latin American studies program, was headed in part by La Causa, Amherst’s Latinx affinity group. the movement towards creating a Latinx Studies Department. Unfortunately, due to administrative obstacles and hindrances, the goal … seems to have dissolved,” the statement said. “By not moving toward the development of an actual Latinx Studies Department … [the] administration seems to be implying that … the Latinx experience and contributions to academia are insignificant and not worth examining on a scholarly level.”

Students in La Causa will submit a new statement to the CEP supporting the proposed major.

“Having a major would be that thing that would undoubtedly build a Latinx consciousness on campus,” Sanchez said. “And by that I don’t mean identity … but also a consciousness: this thing people can cling onto so you know, when you come here, [that] you don’t feel alone, you don’t feel marginalized.”

The Administration Post-Amherst Uprising Although the most recent push for a Latino studies major began before the campus-wide protests known as Amherst Uprising occurred, Sanchez and Schroeder Rodríguez see the Uprising as an important turning point for the movement.

When one of the demands listed by student organizers for the administration included a major for Latino studies, word began “filtering through the crowds that people wanted this major,” Sanchez said. The major proposal form mentions Amherst Uprising in the its background section, saying that the Uprising “injected new urgency” into the discussions of developing a Latino studies major.

“After Amherst Uprising, I think that’s when the administration went like, ‘Okay, I think these people are actually serious. There’s something we’re missing here,’” Sanchez said. “To me, being a student, it couldn’t be more obvious, but to them, unfortunately, they needed that smack in the face to realize, ‘Oh. We need to do something to help.’”

According to Sanchez, the college approved hires for professors specializing in Latino or Latin American studies in the English, religion and Spanish departments. He said the college also approved contracts for professors in Asian American and Pacific Islanders Studies and Educational Studies.

“I don’t think I could’ve imagined that [in] my first year, second year,” Sanchez said.

Krishnamurthy Wins by Two in Contentious AAS Elections

Valentine Residence Hall to Undergo Renovations

During the inaugural State of the College Address on Wednesday, March 29, President Biddy Martin announced that Valentine Residence Hall will be renovated this summer.

In an email interview with Chief of Campus Operations Jim Brassord, the renovations to the dorm “will be a light-touch cosmetic upgrade of the interior finishes in the corridors and common

Opinion

THE AMHERST

STUDENT

On Getting Away

E X E C U T I V E B OA R D

Editorial Over the weekend, a swarm of prospective students surrounded our campus, full of questions and expectations.

They struggled to differentiate the yellow Keefe Campus Center from the yellow Loeb Center. They paused by the dozens of identical brick buildings, trying to assess the merits and disadvantages of this school while cautiously walking around campus, unable to know where their path might take them. The new adventure of college awaits them, as well as all the mysteries surrounding it.

However, for us students at Amherst, being on campus is no longer an adventure. The fastest paths to Val from our respective dorms are already ingrained in our muscle memory. Spending time on campus risks developing an autopilot and automation that deprives us of the mindfulness of our surroundings.

In thinking about what we can learn from these eager accepted students, the Editorial Board urges us to resist the mode of autopilot that comes from significant time spent in one place. This can come in the form of taking a few hours, or a few days, to travel off campus. This move can be to somewhere as close as Northampton, or further, like New York City. Bring homework and learn in a different environment, or take a moment to live outside of the stresses of school. We all need to get away from the insular experience of Amherst to understand our society at large. We need to remind ourselves of what it means to

exist outside of simply being a member of the Amherst community.

While away, try to adapt to the new environment by losing the sense of security in exchange for exploration.

Allow yourself to get lost in the moment without an agenda or résumé building goal. Let your senses take over as you simply allow the world to grab hold of you. Go for the food that’s available or the memories made along the way.

Restore that eagerness to meet new people that came when we were pre-frosh and form connections outside of your comfort zone, connections that get lost when we become complacent. Maybe after you return, you’ll have a refreshed outlook on Amherst as well.

If getting off campus isn’t an option, find a way to make this campus new again. Go visit a new dorm or take a path that you normally don’t. Talk to people who aren’t in your immediate friend group. Take advantage of those events on campus that you always skip because you have too much homework. Revive the wonder that the pre-frosh have, and map it onto different aspects of this campus. Admitted students weekend isn’t just a time to make fun of the naiveté of high school students. It can serve as a reminder of how we should view our campus — as bursting with possibility.

By looking at this campus through the eyes of those eager pre-frosh, maybe we can regain some of their hope and excitement and bring it back to our current experience.

If I May: The Greenways Have Failed Jake May ’19 Columnist Last year, around this time, I remember my roommate excitedly telling me that he was able to select a suite in a Greenway dormitory. He was excited because, as a rising sophomore, he thought his chances of getting a suite in the brand new dorms would be difficult. Even with the “33/33/33” policy, in which a third of the new dorms would be reserved for each of the eligible class years, he assumed that the rising seniors and rising juniors would take the suites. However, he was lucky enough to be in a room group with a pick between the sophomores and the juniors, as he had a junior in his group. He was thrilled to be living in a suite — for some students, the most coveted of living situations — and to live in a dorm that the college had advertised as fantastic new living spaces.

Fast forward to right now. Tomorrow is the second-to-last day of room draw. Those on the bottom of the list for rising juniors and rising sophomores will pick their living spaces over the next two days. And the Greenway dorms have barely been chosen. The Triangle (comprised of Mayo, Seelye and Hitchcock) is completely full. It appears that many dorms that were previously less desirable, such as Moore,

are filling up more rapidly than Greenway.

One thing is very clear: Amherst students do not want to live in the one-year-old Greenway dorms.

To put it bluntly, the Greenway dorms as living spaces have failed. It is simply embarrassing for the college to have built these new buildings, and now nobody desires to live in them. But what did the college expect when it built buildings that contained suites (albeit tiny ones) on the same floor as singles? Suitestyle living is more conducive to socializing, and perhaps to partying a little louder, while singles lining hallways tend to facilitate a quieter style of living. Why put these two together? A friend who lives in the Greenway dorms told me that he received a noise complaint during orientation week, a time when students are more inclined to have louder parties due to the lack of classes. This is not to say that the student who complained shouldn’t have; rather, it is just a failure of design that people with two drastically different styles of living have to live together. The students in suites should be able to throw parties with louder music, while the students who want quieter living are equally entitled to that. When you put them together, no one is happy.

What did the college expect when they built dorms that have very small rooms, which were

filled with pre-school-esque decorations such as the much-maligned giant Scrabble boards and clothespin bench, and are located in a relatively inconvenient place on campus? Did it really believe that students would be flocking to them? It is disappointing to see such a lack of foresight from the administration.

At the beginning of this year, I wrote in an article for The Student that by knocking down the social dorms and not providing an adequate or comparable replacement, the college risked ruining social life here at Amherst.

I included at the end a caveat: it was early in the year, so I didn’t want to rush to judgment.

However, it is mid-April and the semester is winding down. I am confident in my belief now: the Greenway dorms have failed in nearly every way. They did not provide an adequate replacement to the socials, where larger groups of students could gather on the weekends to have parties without disturbing students who did not want to participate. They did not create the residential culture that the college hoped for, where different types of students want to live together, because few students seem to want to live in the Greenway dorms at all. And the unfortunate truth is that, because of how recently these dorms were built, we are unlikely to see a solution to these problems any time soon.

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The Amherst Student • April 12, 2017

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The Scattering of Campus Social Life Nolan Lindquist ’18 & Elias Schultz ’18 Contributing Writers It’s no secret that the destruction of the socials has had a big impact on the social scene at Amherst. If a group of students want to have a party, then they have to reserve a dorm’s public common room, or a venue like the Powerhouse, unless they live in one of the five suites in Jenkins. That has made it a lot harder to organize parties, according to Beau Santero ’18, a member of the football team. On the flip side, residents of the “Triangle” dorms of Mayo-Smith, Hitchcock and Seelye have qualms of their own, with one Mayo resident speaking for many of his neighbors when he complained of sticky floors and trashed bathrooms after parties organized by non-residents.

At the end of the day, some of these conflicts are inevitable when students have such different ideas of a good time. Some people look forward to Friday, because it means a board game night in a friend’s dorm room. For others, it means getting a good night’s rest before waking up early for a hiking trip with the Outing Club. Still others pine away, lighting candles to the memories of Pond, Stone, Coolidge and Crossett.

However, after talking to a few of our fellow students, we have come to the conclusion that a lot of the tensions, which arise when students with different interests compete for a limited number of viable social spaces, are due to the dynamics of party registration and dorm governance unique to Amherst. This is good news, because it means we can try and fix things.

The key problem of partying at Amherst after the socials’ demolition is that the interests of partygoers and dorm residents are less aligned than at any point in the college’s history. Before 1984, residential fraternities hosted most parties. After 1984, a mixed regime of parties within on-campus suites, parties in common areas of dorms and parties in off-campus houses prevailed. Under both systems, a large share of parties were held by residents in a suite or house. Obviously, this helped

reduce the negative effects of noise and mess on students less interested in partying. Now, with all options other than parties in common rooms and public venues like the Powerhouse eliminated by architectural fiat, living and partying have become spatially scattered with negative effects for all.

Moreover, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for people to form intentional communities with their peers that are grounded in a fusion of social and residential space — a formula that has been essential to the success of theme housing at Amherst.

In exploring these issues, we spoke to four students: a football player, a Mayo-Smith resident, a theme house residential counselor (RC) and a three-year RC who has supervised both first-year and returning-student dorms. We know our research is far from exhaustive. The sample size is tiny, and our respondents were drawn from our extended social circle. That’s why we intend for this to be a starting point. We hope others will raise new ideas and call us out where they think we are mistaken.

Our conversations with a resident and partygoers on the Triangle help illustrate why the current situation is a crummy deal for partiers and non-partiers alike. One Mayo-Smith resident said he wouldn’t choose to live in Mayo-Smith “or a similar dorm” again. Indeed, according to statistics provided by Director of Student Activities Paul Gallegos, 29 percent of all registered parties in the 2016-2017 academic year to date have occurred in the three Triangle dorms (Mayo-Smith, Seelye and Hitchcock).

That burden is perhaps a contributor to the divide between partiers and residents perceived by the same Mayo resident. “On weekends, the bathrooms are frequently trashed, with spilled alcohol, cups, and garbage on the ground,” he said. “Our first-floor common room is disgusting, smelly, sticky and unusable.”

This lack of accountability is a natural result of a system in which residents and partygoers have distinct interests. Conversely, Santero described

a parallel group of problems faced by people trying to organize parties: demolishing the socials, he says, was “a shock to the system.” Now, “it’s a scramble to get a giant group of guys who are really excited to go out on a Saturday all together in a social space while also trying to be respectful to students who, quite simply, never wanted to live next to the football team in the first place.”

One RC, who asked to remain anonymous, painted a picture of exceptionally toxic relations between his residents and students using the dorm’s common space for registered parties. “I know that there have been dorm damage incidents in the past in all dorms, but this year damage has skyrocketed,” he said. “Damage has gone beyond just simple accidents to outright destruction of property and disrespect. The basement has had eight holes [made by students] … these are holes the size of a chair or a human body.”

The tenor of relations described by the people to whom we spoke belies the effectiveness of a technical or administration-driven solution.

We are not at all anti-party. In fact, we’re the opposite. And new rules, or a new formal party registration system, seem like half-measures at best.

What has happened is the complete dissection and rearrangement of student life in space. Strong communities are based on the richness of overlapping social, residential and academic experiences. When these different functions are scattered across campus, it’s a no-win situation.

Our interview with Bryan Doniger ’18 was a refreshing counterpoint to the horror stories we heard from our other respondents. Bryan is the RC of Marsh, the arts theme house. Marsh is an intentional community. Members have to apply and interview. They contribute to the life of the house with Marsh-sponsored art projects. The dorm has an e-board and a president alongside the RC. Doniger says that when his residents have objected to a planned party, “we’ve been able to work out all objections without cancelling any parties … the goal is to host events while still keeping everyone relatively happy.” As a result, Doniger has

had to do much less to resolve conflicts between residents and partygoers than RCs of other dorms, noting that even when he had to shut down parties, things went smoothly.

Doniger’s experience with Marsh may be idiosyncratic. However, we think there is a more compelling explanation. Marsh as a whole has more social resources than other dorms. By that, we mean it is a real entity in a way that Garman, Seelye and Lipton just aren’t. Because it functions as a hybrid of a student organization and a residence hall, residents know what they’re getting into. We believe this web of social ties creates a sense of collective belonging and responsibility that is missing in other dorms (aside from the other theme houses). It is weakly institutionalized where it does exist, making it hard to perpetuate.

Thus, Marsh is able to host regular open parties and biweekly Coffee Haus events with little fuss, even as other dorms have seen a huge increase in party-related conflict.

The question is not what to take away from other dorms, but how to make Marsh-like systems a bigger part of residential life. Marsh works because it is built on organic ties between students, not the artifice of administration-proposed follies like last year’s “Neighborhoods” scheme. Designating distinct “loud” and “quiet” dorms is a step in the right direction, but it is only a first step.

Moving forward, we should explore ways to build Marsh-like institutional structures into the fabric of upperclassman dorm life at Amherst, learning from relevant models at other institutions, like the social houses at Bowdoin and Middlebury or the eating clubs at Princeton that have abandoned the selective “bicker” process.

This article is not a research note or a policy proposal, and it is not our place to make specific policy recommendations that our little bit of investigation doesn’t justify. But it is safe to say this: In 1986, the Beastie Boys called on their fans to “fight for the right to party.” Now more than ever, we need to make sure that this is a fight we have with the administration, not with each other.

Arts&Living

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Lauren Horn ’17 used brilliant, original choreography to portray the challenges of performing identities that are marginalized and controlled by society.

Theatre and Dance Thesis “Invisibility of Identity” a Visual Masterpiece Lorelei Dietz ’20 Staff Writer All the world is a stage, and identity is a performance. Each instance of our lives is a dynamic reaction between our personal microcosms and macrocosms, which manufactures memories, histories and our perceptions of ourselves and others. The tradition of the American stage has been, in theory, defined by free agency and personal choice. America tells us that we decide what personas we want to perform, that we get to decide how we relate to individuals and society. Our identities are an improvisational piece largely perpetuated by our desire, personal choice and commitment. But that is not how performance of identity on the American stage is practiced, most acutely and painfully for America’s minority and marginalized groups. America is a white space, a stage on which black and other minority people must perform not as their individual selves but to the expectations that white society holds to qualify their worthiness.

In her senior dance thesis, “The Invisibility of Identity,” Lauren Horn uses visual performance to emphasize and discuss how we perform our identities in our day-to-day lives.

Horn’s combinations of our more traditional conceptions of dance, movement, spoken word and interview overtures culminated in a simultaneously cerebral and visceral account of the experience of having these identities. It feels like a moving diary entry, intimate, vulnerable and honest with an assertive strength.

Horn, through her performance, manages to create a safe space in which weighty topics can be discussed without sacrificing any of the seriousness and depth these topics demand. The performance compels the audience to stay and face the difference between black and white in our society and the effect of white spaces on black individuals.

Horn initially engaged her audience with a series of poses or sequences of movements framed with illuminated rods, each paired with a question or a story that provoked contemplation in the audiences. What made this a particularly potent, devastating and enlightening dialogue about the difference of racial experience in America and intersectionality of identity was the use of language and movement together, in one space. The language brought a more specific context to the movements, while the movements themselves illustrated the lan-

guage beautifully, endowing each word with its full emotional impact. We rely on words for their specificity. They provide context that in certain situations is otherwise unattainble.

But there are certain emotions, certain states of being human, that cannot be defined outside the language of the body. Both, in this instance, come together so that the audience may understand the struggle.

The performance then diverged into sequences of dances and segments of movement accompanied with recited text messages. In the moments suspended between text messages were throbbing movements that swelled in intensity and agitation. Their only accompaniment was the sound of footfall and heavy breathing. These symbolized not only the effort needed to perform such complicated and skillful sequences, but also the heavy toll of the struggle to meet society’s expectations and resist the encroaching feeling of hopelessness in the face of such powerful and stubborn cultural forces.

Each text message had a vague sense of familiarity, of generality. They were messages many could have imagined authoring at least in part, performed with a convicted superficiality one feels is bloated with frustration,

anger and even hollowness. The moments of music-less dance that strung these messages together emphasized this point with its rawness, its emotional fluidity and its cry to be heard unadulterated. In this, the words performed and the bodies that performed them are completely at odds. By posing words and bodily experience as opposites, the show conveys that the identity performed to the world through text messages is incongruent and removed from the experience of the self. The body is rendered in struggle, revolting against this performance that is so disharmonious with internal experience. In this juxtaposition, we see the pain that is inflicted in one who must fulfill a societal expectation instead of fulfilling themselves, who must become rather than be.

Society dictates for minorities who they should become. At times, it demands them to be cut into parts, to disassemble and compartmentalize themselves so that they can’t ever experience their full identity all at once.

This idea was invoked as dancers placed their heads, hands and feet — the only portions of their bodies uncovered by business attire — into pools of light. Here, small, exposed parts of their bodies were emphasized over the at-

tire associated with expectation and conformity to a white ideal. In one way, it said that no matter how much they perform and try to fit into the dominant white spaces of our society, society viciously refuses to recognize them by anything but their skin tone.

The performance closed with an examination of the intersectionality of being black and being gay, performed by Marvin Bell ’19E and Matthew Holliday ’19. Interviews with both were conducted, recorded and then played as the two performed. The final dance, featuring both of them, exhibited a zeal that was a little too happy and energized to inspire the audience with a genuine sense of happiness and joy. Then, a sudden blackout and the solitary sound of a rattling chain-link fence followed. Perhaps that rapid shift from the loud, energized music and dance to the minimalist, solitary and hollow sound of the rattling fence suggests the discrepancy between the performed contentment expected of society and the empty pain that lurks behind the performance. The stage, steeped in black, reverberating this melancholic chime, spoke of a deep pain and trauma that society doesn’t give the chance to surface, breathe or heal on the bodies of our most marginalized people.

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Horn ‘17 also interviewed her dancers about their identities and played the recordings of these interviews as they performed.

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Poetry Series at Jones Library: Texture, Translation and Rhythm

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Polina Barskova and Eugene Ostashevsky captured the nuance of language with original Russian poetry read alongside English translations at Jones Library.

Sophie Currin ’17 Staff Writer Before Polina Barskova began to read her poems this past Sunday afternoon at the Jones Library in Amherst, she said something very wise: “Poetry is not to be understood but to be dealt with.” This comment proved to be especially fitting, at least for me, as she continued to read three of her wonderful poems in the original Russian — a language completely foreign to me — along with the accompanying English translations.

Polina Barskova is an associate professor of Russian literature at Hampshire College, and is teaching a course at Amherst College this semester entitled “Vladimir Nabokov and the Writing of Exile.” Barskova received her B.A. from St. Petersburg State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to scholarly articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film and the aestheticization on historical trauma, Barskova has published eight books of poetry and one book of prose. The English translation of three of her poetry books, “This Lamentable

City” (Tupelo Press), “Zoo in Winter” (Melville House Press), and “Relocations” (Zephyr Press), have recently been published.

The event this past Sunday was a dual reading by Barskova and Russian writer and professor of liberal studies at NYU Eugene Ostashevsky as a part of the “jubilat / Jones Poetry Series” sponsored by the Friends of the Library, jubilat literary journal and the Juniper Initiative of the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

The two poets’ styles resounded pleasantly and juxtaposed nicely, leaving residual energy in the Goodwin room on the third floor of Amherst’s public library. The edge of the left side of the attic-like room, near the windows overlooking the street, ropes a collection of antique furniture and other items off from the visitor’s reach. And through the necessarily open window on such a balmy spring day, the sounds of car traffic, foot traffic and the occasional siren oozed into the room, the new air pushing out the old, stagnant winter and fleeting sounds such as the audience’s laughter mixing harmoniously with the poets’ words, rhythm and sounds.

A relatively new resident of the Pioneer

Valley, Barskova charmingly indulged the audience. This reading, she revealed, was the first outside of her other, more familiar home — St. Petersburg, so she was nervous. I took this nervousness as a good thing. Barskova’s poems focus on the memory of politics and reflect the typical Russian literature, which is itself preoccupied with Russian literature. On Sunday, her three readings detailed, amusingly, what people do in libraries, literature as stealing and friendships between poets.

I truly enjoyed listening her poems flow so seamlessly, almost discreetly, from English into Russian versions.

While Barskova was reading in Russian, I — with no understanding of the language, or a language similar to it — found myself thinking about the act of translation. I remembered, again, what Barskova said in the beginning, “Poetry is not to be understood, but to be dealt with.” I did not understand, per se, what she was saying in Russian, but the cadence of her poems, the sounds that she placed together, resonated with me despite my inability to comprehend the content.

Paired with the English translation, I dealt with the Russian portion by noticing the sim-

ilarities in cadence between the two in order to match the pair of poems up in moments.

Listening to poems in Russian along with the English translation facilitated an imagined texture of the language, of the layered phrases and sounds, transcending literal meaning.

Through this cultivated texture, Barskova creates feeling, movement and rhythm.

Ostashevsky plays with meaning and the logic of language in his pieces, relying more on sound and rhythm than on comprehensible content. In comparison to Barskova’s, the pieces Ostashevsky read from his selfdescribed (and confirmed by the audience’s reaction) funny book of poems, “The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi” are animated, child-like and seriously not-serious.

Similar to my personal interpretation of Barskova’s poems in Russian, Ostashevsky’s poems in English effectively layer structures of language that, though not conceptually logical, invite the ears to be entertained and the senses to be tickled.

Because Barskova and Ostashevky shared the reading at Jones Library, both authors’ stories and characters grasped the possibility to interact and to be collaged and montaged.

Theatrical Production of “Eugene Onegin” Strays From Original

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Tuminas’ rendition of “Eugene Onegin,” based on Pushkin’s poem, was performed in Moscow, Russia, with a recording screened at Amherst Cinema.

Youngkwan Shin ’18 Staff Writer Alexander Pushkin is Russia’s national poet, and “Eugene Onegin” is his most resonant masterpiece. It is no easy feat to transfer the life of poetry to the stage, but it was the burden director Rimas Tuminas had to bear in his much-anticipated and much-acclaimed reimagination of Pushkin’s seminal poem. The production, shown in Amherst Cinema, lasts a little under two hundred minutes, and in that time presents a jarringly contorted vision of the world of “Onegin,” one in which regret mangles its chronology. The older Eugene Onegin reaches throughout for what could have been through

the useless clarity of hindsight, but his efforts still end in vain. Tuminas’ “Eugene Onegin” is a meditation on remembrance, and, in many ways, radically departs from past incarnations of the timeless story.

But first, the synopsis. Both the poem and the play tell the story of Eugene Onegin, a jaded Petersburg dandy in imperial Russia.

Onegin proxies the lethargic cynicism of his times when he casts his aspersions on the succession of parties and get-togethers in his way.

He stands in stark contrast to friend and junior Vladimir Lensky, a young poet and capital-R Romantic in search of proportional love. As Lensky pursues a relationship with the sociable Olga Larina, disinterested Onegin tags along.

But the poetry of “Eugene Onegin” curiously does not align with the flaring passions of Lensky. The ubiquitous rhyme scheme instead conspires with the tremendous feeling in its delightful rigidity, and at every turn the coldness of the poem’s form mirrors the coldness of Onegin’s heart. Only when Olga’s sister, the bookish, starry eyed Tatyana, enters the scene is their collaborative effort challenged, and as time passes, Onegin’s indifferent front painfully erodes away.

While familiarity with the poem would no doubt be of tremendous help in understanding the significance of Tuminas’s production, one cannot help but feel that this reimagining is in some ways a stand-alone work of art. This sensation is particularly due to the things the production excises. Certain omissions are inherent to the differences between stage and poetry.

The rhyme scheme that so cleverly conceals and deceives disappears, leaving a Pushkin shaped hole that has no substitute. To its credit, the production uniquely operates from the vantage point of a wise and wounded Onegin looking back to his youth, and this mechanism provides a kind of distance that theoretically mirrors the coldness of Pushkin’s poesy. But in execution, the older Onegin is far too emotionally engaged. The act of remembrance, instead of dulling the effect of the unfolding tragedy, doubles it, and in its wake the audience finds two Onegins with whom to empathize.

Other changes in the story and presentation are incidental, such as the inclusion of a ballet troupe, a mute lady and a hyperactive rabbit.

What these new characters do is not important.

They are abstractions of the overarching emotions of the story, pocketed in the downtimes

of drama simultaneously to maintain audience attention and to summarize the themes of the play thus far. These small additions run the gamut of quality: hilarious and entertaining at best, interminable and boring at worst.

Even though an overwrought gag or a tonally dissonant interlude causes the tone of the production to occasionally hiccup, the play remains admirably coherent throughout. Much of the play’s coherence is thanks to its actors, who bring the best of their passion and craft to their respective lots in the tale. The two Onegins allow only a single fault line to run down their implacable face-masks, but they channel so much suppressed emotion along that crack that it feels as though a meltdown is imminent at every significant turn of the plot. Tatyana’s transformation over the play’s 198 minutes is a mini drama of its own, skillfully pacing her progression from clumsy girl to hardened woman in tandem with the ebb and flow of Onegin’s heart. Whatever fault the production may possess, it does not lie in its casting.

There is an unmistakable sense that the last third of the production loses steam. Tatyana’s development finds a well-timed closure, but the existence of two Onegins is complicated.

This feels like a necessary imperfection, particularly since the waning end of the original poem cloaked the lack of narrative with impressionism. In a way, it reveals how a reimagining this radical is still so chained to the state and stature of the original work. Perhaps, then, the best way to view the production is to situate it in the long history of retelling and rehearing, a history that only has all of the future to extend and expand.

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The Amherst Student • April 12, 2017

Croasdaile ’17 Explores Racial Discourse and Hip-Hop in Cuba

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Croasdaile studied the Cuban myth of racelessness in her critical ethnography.

Gabby Edzie ’17 Staff Writer Black studies and Spanish double major Christine Croasdaile ’17 wrote a thesis, which examines hip-hop in socialist Cuba. Croasdaile traveled to Cuba for a second time over interterm to conduct interviews, examining how an art form of racial expression exists in a place where race is both “seen and unseen.”

Q: Who has been your advisor for the thesis, and how has their work overlapped with your research?

A: My advisor is professor Solsiree Del Moral.

I think it’s a good match, especially in terms of region. The Black Studies Department is a diasporic department, so we cover the United States; Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean, and then we do diasporic studies overall.

My thesis is focusing on Cuba, so it is more of a Latin America and Caribbean topic. It also deals with something very contemporary. My professor is a historian by trade, so she has helped me in terms of thinking about how my idea fits into the greater timeline of race in Cuba.

Q: Can you give me an outline of your thesis?

A: I had studied abroad in Cuba. Race is something seen and unseen there. I had also read Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s “Racism without Racists,” which talks about color-blind racism in 21st century America. So I took his groundwork — specifically, in his appendix he has an interview of sorts where you ask questions about how race has been socialized in different places. I took that, translated it and made it relevant to Cuba. Then, I interviewed people that I knew in Cuba.

I also did research on Cuban hip-hop and how it’s a racialized art form. So, my title is “Racism Without Race,” because they believe they’re a raceless society. The question is, can Cuban hip-hop bring race back into Cuban discourse? I went to one of the bigger group’s shows, and I read a lot of literature that highlighted them and other groups. I also watched five different documentaries on Cuban hiphop, and I read the true stories of where the groups are now. I tried to get myself acquainted with the art form and with the genre as much as possible.

Q: What was your time like in Cuba when you were abroad?

A: I actually studied abroad before coming to Amherst: once in Mexico and once in Argentina. Both times were with host families, and I saw the value in that. I knew I wanted to go to a place for my Spanish major that also had a racial standpoint — so South America and even more so, Cuba. I knew there were a couple of student resident options, but I really wanted to go with a host family.

What’s also interesting is that I had three other students from Amherst there with me: Christin Washington ’17, Lauren Horn ’17 and Robyn Farley ’17. I was in the same host family with Lauren, Christin is my best friend and I’ve known Robyn since we were in the same program before Amherst. We actually had two other black women on our trip too, so out of

the eleven people in our program, six of us were black women. It was interesting for us to see the country through that standpoint. In a place racialized without discussing race and where machismo is very present, there was a … culture shock. Add on the lack of connectivity to internet, and you have a whole bunch of juniors in a space, just trying to get internships, trying to contact their schools to make sure they’re on track to graduate and you also just want to talk to your family. It was a lot of learning about patience, self-reliance and resiliency. It was also leaning into discomfort and understanding that you’re not right, and they’re not wrong but rather where can we find common ground and acknowledge differences?

Q: How did the interview process over interterm go? How did you choose your interviewees and what was the most difficult part of it?

A: I was afforded money from the Alpha Delta Phi fund to go back to do research over interterm.

The majority of people I interviewed were people I knew. I interviewed 22 people, and if I didn’t know them from my first visit there, they knew someone that I knew.

They already knew I was interviewing them about Cuban hip-hop, and I made it explicitly clear that the first part was on their life and the perspective of race and the second part was hip-hop. When any person talks about race, it’s an awkward, uncomfortable feeling, because race is a social construct that many people would like to say doesn’t have a bearing on how society portrays people, but it is ultimately something that is used against people all the time, seen and unseen, regardless of where you are. Whether or not your country is built on it, whether it be slavery or not, it’s still there.

Tie in the U.S. relationship with Cuba and you have a whole other thing. Tie in that I’m a Spanish major, but I’m black and my family is from Jamaica, and that’s a whole other thing.

In my methodologies, I make sure to talk about an insider-outside status when doing a critical ethnography, because you can feel like you have so much of an “in” with somebody and even then, their true colors can come out.

Q: Did you go into the interviews with certain questions or leave it more open-ended?

A: Everyone was asked the same questions. It was a two-part questionnaire. The first part was based off of Bonilla-Silva and the second part was my design where I asked people their own musical preferences, and what they know about hip-hop. I also asked whether or not their state should be in charge of hip-hop, because coming to a socialist country like Cuba, everything is institutionalized automatically. So Cuban hip-hop was originally its own underground scene (and it still has an underground scene).

In 2002, the Cuban Rap Agency was formed in response to its growing capacity. There was already a rap festival being held in this neighborhood called Alamar, which was a black neighborhood that coincidentally, or I guess not coincidentally, resembled housing projects in the South Bronx. That’s where hip-hop was born.

What’s interesting about Alamar as the birthplace of hip-hop in Cuba is the resiliency.

Black Cubans were moved into Alamar — out from the eastern into the western part of Cuba — because there wasn’t anything out there and part of the socialist ideology after the revolution was to get everyone housing. So, they created Alamar, which was supposed to be its own gated community of sorts that had all its own amenities, like education. But it didn’t have higher education. When they moved black people into this area, black people tried to recreate for themselves. One of the resilient things they did was create radio signals out of chicken wires and different parts. Because the Alamar housing projects used to be where Soviet workers lived, they were really tall, so the black Cubans could use the wires to get [a] signal from Miami, and that’s how they first started hearing music. Then, once people that were able to get into the country started bringing them music, the hip-hop scene opened up and exploded.

In my conclusion, I look at the state of music now. The height of Cuban hip-hop was in the ’80s and ’90s. I met a hip-hop group that said they were one of the most prominent hiphop groups, that they have been doing hip-hop in Cuba for twenty years, but I wasn’t hearing hip-hop in the streets. I was hearing reggaeton, I was hearing salsa. Why is it that this art form that is for the people is not for the people? I explore that through thinking about how people do or do not talk about race and try to avoid talking about race. And then, what happens when I engage them with certain examples of hip-hop? I showed them two videos and let them read two sets of lyrics and had them respond and see if they’ve ever experienced anything like what the artists were saying. Do they agree with it? Would they listen to it? How does this align with their everyday conversations?

You can see certain people are just turned off by it. Nobody is really writing about race in Cuba now, because nobody is talking about it.

Also, with hip-hop being an art form at the end of the day, people were not getting paid that much for it. The average person in Cuba gets paid 24 dollars a month, and that’s like a doctor. Imagine if you’re making hip-hop that’s very racialized in a place that says, “We’re not black, we’re not white, we’re Cuban.” You’re not getting paid for your craft. A lot of the hip-hop artists have either disbanded, are doing different things or have left the country all together and are creating music outside the country.

Q: Is there a Cuban hip-hop scene in the U.S.?

A: We know Pitbull. Pitbull is not Cuban hiphop. He makes reggaeton. In one of the documentaries I watched, he comments on how if these artists had extra support, they’d be amazing.

Back in the early 2000s, the Cuban Rap Agency had a magazine called “Movimiento” that got closed down. But there was a collective called Black August and its purpose was to spread hip-hop all around the world and to support the arts. Black August included people like Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, people that are pioneers of black conscious hip-hop. They were going to Cuba to be mentors to these guys and to perform at their festivals. That’s not happening anymore. So, I’m also thinking about the global hip-hop community. There are so many versions of hip-hop all over the place. There’s hip-hop in Jamaica.

There’s hip-hop in Africa. There’s grime in the UK. So it’s not only hip-hop on the local level, but also the global art form and what the conversation is within all of them.

It’s unfortunate that the social standings and structures in Cuba prevent them from talking about race openly. Marx says that class-based measures should ameliorate all other things — that resources that address the class divide can help fix all other crises, and that race is a crisis.

In my conclusion, what I’m saying, because I’m blunt, and always will be blunt, is basically “somos cubanos,” which is a trope that says “We’re all Cuban. We don’t look at this.” It’s sort of like “All lives matter.” To create an art form such as Cuban hip-hop that celebrates your whole self is basically saying “Black Lives Matter.” The only difference is in Cuba, it’s punishable or

criminal by state.

Q: What was the most difficult part about writing your thesis?

A: I think what’s been the most difficult thing in writing my thesis is that transcribing, translating and analyzing the responses is emotionally taxing. To sit there and know that I’ve made a lot of great relationships with these people, but they’ve either internalized racism or never thought about it or are not allowed to express it. I heard things that to us don’t make sense. At one point I thought it was me that had the problem, but they’re like, “black people are racist too.” So just understanding their concept of race was hard. At one point I was thinking maybe we have an exceptional view and think we know race more than anyone else, but it can’t be that way. There’s no way. It’s called “autocomplejo” which basically means like you’re self-loathing; you’re the reason for your problems. To hear that from blacks, whites, mestizo [and] mulatto alike, it’s a totally different way to think.

I’m blessed to know that I was able to engage in a country so deeply. I think one of my biggest limitations was that I was in Havana, which is the capital. It’s mostly white and has a lot of tourists, but if I were ever to have the opportunity to do some sort of racial study or project in Cuba again, I would love to hear what they think in the eastern part of the region, which is more black, so Santa Clara, Santiago or Camagüey.

Q: How has your thesis surprised you?

A: Critical ethnography is probably the worst thing you could give to someone who’s a perfectionist, because you think you know what you’re going to get, and then you get all these interviews and realize it’s not what you thought. So how has it changed? Well, originally I thought a lot more about how my secondary sources would find their way into my writing. But, the nature of my writing is more like thought processing. The literature that I actually read was people’s musings on Cuban society as a whole, or they’re doing surveys on the hip-hop scene. I’m taking the hip-hop scene and applying it to Cuba.

I was very hopeful in the beginning. I thought Cuban hip-hop could bring race back into Cuban discourse, and it could just be the examples I gave, but there’s a respectability politics tied up in everything, just as there is here.

Young people that are afraid of the state or just don’t want to be implicated will not be forthcoming in my recordings with them.

So even though the first time I went there I could’ve had a full conversation with them about how race happens, as soon as I put the recording in front of them, it was done.

Also, my whole idea as to what I thought my thesis was going to bring me and how it would make me feel has changed. I am so grateful for the process, and I know how it goes, but it has been a whirlwind. It’s very reflective for me in terms of knowing what I’m most invested in.

I’m not invested in being an academic. I can do academia, but I’m not an academic. I see myself as a social justice, activist person, and that’s what my writing ended up being. It’s a very activist art form I picked, and I went out of my way and engaged with people. If anything, my thesis will be a reflection of the person I am and how I’ve come to know myself. And I think that’s what I need to come to terms with — my thesis is not like anybody else’s, because I am not like anyone else.

My thesis also showed me how the two academic disciplines that I’ve chosen here as well as all the extracurricular activities I’ve been involved in have truly influenced how I spend my time here, and I wouldn’t change a thing. Out of all the classes I took for black studies, I know that my focus has always been about the movement of movement.

Overall, my thesis has allowed me to see who I am as a person. I’m still a perfectionist, knowing that it’s the most imperfect and perfect piece of writing I’ve ever written. And to hate it and to love it and wrestle with it, it’s a lot.

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Men’s Tennis Falls to Bowdoin, Women’s Lacrosse Goes 2-1 Defeats Division I Foe Bryant Against Three NESCAC Rivals Scout Boynton ’20 Staff Writer The Amherst men’s tennis team faced off against Bowdoin and Bryant University this past weekend, April 8-9.

On Saturday, April 8, the Polar Bears traveled to Amherst, defeating the Mammoths in a close 5-4 match.

On Sunday, the Mammoths returned ready to play and finished the weekend with a 5-2 win against Bryant. With the 1-1 split on the weekend, Amherst’s record sits at 13-3.

Saturday was Amherst’s second NESCAC match of the season, falling to 1-1 in conference play.

The 13th-ranked Mammoths beat the 3rdranked Polar Bears 2-1 in doubles action.

Zach Bessette ’19/Jayson Fung ’20 pulled out a 9-8(3) victory on the first court and Oscar Burney ’20/Josh Marchalik ’20 found victory on court No. 2, 8-6.

Andrew Arnaboldi ’17/John Heidenberg ’19 fell in a close 8-9 loss.

Marchalik won his singles match as well, beating Grant Urken 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(3) on the second court. Amherst’s final victory of the day was won by Fung on court No. 4, 6-0, 7-6(7).

The Mammoths traveled to Smithfield, Rhode Island on Sunday to play Division I Bryant. The match was played according to Division I guidelines, a seven-point format.

Each of the six singles matches was worth one point and the team that won two of the three doubles matches earned the seventh point.

Amherst earned wins on the second and third doubles courts to earn the first point of the match. Arnaboldi/Chris Paradis ’20 found an 8-5 victory on the second court and Sam

Silver ’17/Heidenberg clinched a 8-2 doubles win on court No. 3.

With a 1-0 lead, Amherst entered singles play and logged wins on the second, fourth, fifth and sixth courts. On court No. 2, Bessette won 6-1, 6-3 and Jesse Levitin ’19 pulled out a three-set victory, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6, on the fourth court.

Paradis won 6-4, 6-3 on court No. 5, and Arnaboldi notched a 7-5, 6-3 triumph on court No. 6. By the end of the day, the Mammoths had secured a 5-2 victory.

The purple and white return to the courts on Friday, April 14 to face Connecticut College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jon Heidenberg ‘18 went 1-1 on the weekend in doubles play.

Katie Bergamesca ’18 Staff Writer The Amherst women’s lacrosse team dropped two NESCAC contests this past week against Wesleyan and Colby.

On Wednesday, April 5, the Mammoths traveled to Middletown, Conn. for a midweek conference match-up against Wesleyan. Despite a nine-save effort from goalie Kyra Gardner ’18, Amherst was unable to generate enough of an offensive presence to bring home a win on the road.

The majority of the first half was scoreless, with both teams unable to successfully penetrate the other’s defense. However, after more than 16 minutes of action, Wesleyan’s Liana Mathias was the first player to get on the board. Motivated by Mathias’ effort, the Cardinals tacked on another two goals and led the Mammoths 3-0 with less than ten minutes to go in the first half.

A goal from Claire Cagnassola ’17 of a pass from Kaitlyn Haase ’19 ended Amherst’s scoring drought and brought them within two with 1:15 left before halftime. Wesleyan responded quickly, tacking on another goal before the horn blew and reclaimed their three-goal advantage.

For the first few minutes of the second half, the Mammoths kept the game close. Goals from senior Hanna Krueger and junior Dakota Foster kept the score tight 5-3 with 26:03 to go in the game. However, four straight Wesleyan goals sealed Amherst’s fate. Julia Crerend ’18 added one more goal off a feed from Katherine Malone ’20 before the final whistle to make the score 9-4.

Krueger was also a presence on the defensive end for the Mammoths with two caused turnovers. Sabrina Solow ’19 caused two turnovers of her own in the losing effort.

The Mammoths returned home to Gooding Field on Saturday, April 8 to host the Colby Mules. Amherst went up quickly on the 19th-

ranked Mules, taking a 2-0 lead less than ten minutes into the game.

Cagnassola opened up the scoring with a goal off an assist from Annie Cohen ’19 at 22:04.

Krueger added an unassisted goal less than a minute later. The Mules’ offense was held at bay until for the most of the first half; their first goal came with less than ten minutes to go in the half.

Colby’s Cassie Rogers tacked on a second goal to tie up the game going into halftime.

The Mules completely dominated the second half, scoring six straight goals. Cagnassola prevented the Mammoths from having a scoreless half with a goal off a feed from Kate Burns ’19 with less than a minute to play in the game.

Cagnassola was a force for the Mammoths in their loss to the Mules. The senior led the team in goals and groundballs with two and three respectively. Kelly Seibert ’20 and Rowena Schenck ’18 anchored the defense for the Mammoths causing two turnovers a piece.

On Tuesday, Amherst took on Connecicut College in an attempt to halt the three-game losing streak, and they were successful.

Although the opening few minutes were back-and-forth for the Mammoths, with a Camels’ goal cancelling out the Amherst opener, the game quickly blew open. The Mammoths went on a 6-0 run to close the half, with goals coming from six different players.

The strong play continued to open the second half, with Amherst scoring two more unanswered to take an insurmountable 9-1 lead. A Conn. College consolation tally brought the margin to seven goals, but four more goals from the Mammoths at the end of the second half brought the final margin to 13-2.

With the results against the trio of conference foes, Amherst drops to 5-6 on the season and 2-5 in NESCAC play. The Mammoths will next face Tufts on the road on Saturday, April 15 at 1 p.m.

Women’s Track Impresses on Baseball Suffers Rough Week, Home Field at Spring Fling Drops Four of Five Games Nicole Frontero ’20 Staff Writer The women’s track and field team hosted the Amherst College Spring Fling on Saturday April 8 and finished fourth with a total of 53.50 points. Worchester Polytechnic Institutue won the meet with a score of 97.50, while Trinity followed in second with a score of 60 points. Wheaton College scored 54.50 points to finish third.

On the track, Rubii Tamen ’19 and Anna Buford ’20 each posted impressive showings in the 100-meter race, running 13.00 and 13.56 seconds to clinch the fourth and ninth spots, respectively.

They both also ran well in the 200-meter event, with Tamen finishing in 26.88 seconds and Buford 27.19 seconds to place fifth and 11th, respectively.

Meanwhile, in the longer 400-meter dash, the Mammoths secured a seventh-place finish with Julia Asin ’19 running a time of 1:04.69.

Amherst also posted strong showings in the

800 meters. Leonie Rauls ’18 finished third (2:20.37), and Kaeli Matthias ’18 claimed ninth (2:27.38). Savanna Gornisiewicz ’17 placed fifth in the 1,500-meter, running a 4:49.18, which beat her 4:53.85 seed time.

Amherst logged particularly impressive results in the 5,000 meters as Katherine Treanor ’20 took home the gold in a time of 17:35.91, and Tess Frenzel ’17 came in second with a time of 18:29.10. Danielle Griffin ’18 then placed third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:10.82.

In the high jump, Kaitlyn Siegel ’20 leaped 1.58 meters to claim second, and Kiana Herold ’17 clinched fourth place with a height of 1.53 meters.

Additionally, the Mammoths had two topthree finishes in the triple jump, with Abbey Asare-Bediako ’18 jumping 11.78 meters to finish first, and Emily Flaherty ’19 jumping 10.10 meters for a third-place finish.

The team’s next competition will be Saturday, April 25 at the UMass Amherst Invitational, which is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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Junior Danielle Griffin was one of Amherst’s standouts at the meet, finishing third overall in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:10.82.

Delancey King ’18 Staff Writer Facing some tough opponents both in and out of conference, the Amherst baseball team went 1-4 this past week to bring their overall record to 6-9.

The Mammoths suffered a tough week on the diamond as they dropped two non-conference matchups before losing a NESCAC series to the Middlebury Panthers. Amherst kept it close with Midd, taking one of the three-game series before dropping the next two to the conference foes.

On Wednesday, April 5, the Mammoths suffered a disappointing loss to Mitchell College at home. Down 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Amherst managed to make it a game after a clutch, three-run home run from junior captain Harry Roberson. Roberson, who has been absolutely clutch this season, is currently leading the Amherst offense in doubles, triples, and slugging percentage.

The purple and white then took their first lead of the game in the seventh inning as Anthony Spina ’17 connected for a line drive that plated Roberson.

Unfortunately, Amherst was not able to hold onto the lead. The Mariners pulled away with five runs in the eighth inning, ultimately defeating the Mammoths 11-6.

In their first NESCAC West series, Amherst hosted Middlebury from Friday-Saturday, April 7-8 at Memorial Field.

The Mammoths fell to the Panthers 8-4 on Friday, after a grand slam from Middlebury’s Justin Han put the Panthers up by three in the eighth inning.

On Saturday, the two teams split the doubleheader, with Amherst winning the first game 3-1 and Middlebury taking the second 6-2.

Max Steinhorn ’18 led the offensive charge in Saturday’s winning effort, as he went 2-for3 at the plate and scored one of the Mammoths’ three runs. Steinhorn currently leads the team in hits and totes a .444 on-base percentage.

On the defensive side, senior pitcher Jackson Volle allowed only five hits and struck out eight batters to add to his impressive season average of a 1.53 ERA. Amherst closed out the week with a makeup game at home against nonconference rival Wheaton College. Both teams came out firing, as thirteen runs were scored in the first inning. Three Wheaton homers, however, including two back to back in the sixth inning, helped to secure the win for the Lyons.

The Mammoths managed to cut the deficit to four in the fourth inning, as senior captain Yanni Thanopoulos sent Roberson to the plate with a sacrifice fly to centerfield.

However, that was the closest Amherst would come to overtaking the Lyons. The potent Wheaton offense continued to perform and earned the visitors an 18-8 victory.

Looking ahead, the Mammoths hope to get back on track with a win against Eastern Connecticut State on Thursday April 13. The team then faces archrival in a big NESCAC series this weekend.

They host the Ephs for a 4 p.m. game on Friday, April 14, before traveling to Williamstown for a doubleheader that begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

“All of our goals that we set out at the beginning of the year are still in front of us,” Roberson said. “There’s a lot of trust in the guys in our locker room to figure it out. The success that this program has had in the past years puts us in a bit of a novel position right now in terms of how important the upcoming weekend against Williams is for us.”

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Men’s Lacrosse Bests Colby and Conn. College, Falls to Wesleyan Mary Grace Cronin ’18 Staff Writer The Amherst men’s lacrosse team finished the week with two wins and a loss in NESCAC play. In a game that was key to the conference standings, the Mammoths fell by a score of 17-13 to Wesleyan last Wednesday, April 5.

Despite a stellar individual effort from Chris Albanese ’17, who recorded five goals, the Cardinals’ offense proved to be too much. On the other end, Wesleyan’s Tom Dupont recorded seven goals in one quarter of play, carrying his team to victory.

The 11th-ranked purple and white opened up the scoring on a man-up goal from Albanese, courtesy of an assist from Trenton Shore ’19. Wesleyan fought back with three straight goals, but Amherst’s sophomore duo of Andrew Ford and Brogan Mahon tied the game at 3-3 before the close of the first quarter.

The next fifteen minutes saw the same back and forth action from both teams, with a goal from Matt Killian ’17 and two more tallies from Albanese keeping the game deadlocked at 6-6 heading into the half.

Unfortunately for Amherst, Dupont kicked off a four-goal run in the third that the home team was ultimately unable to erase. Additional goals

by Shore, Colin Minicus ’20 and Zach Schwartz ’18 kept Amherst within four goals until the final

whistle.

Three days after the heartbreaking loss, the Mammoths picked up a gritty 9-5 win against Colby in a defensive battle. Minicus and Mahon recorded the first unassisted efforts of the game, followed by two from Max Keeley ’18 in the second quarter to knot the two teams at four goals apiece going into the half.

Amherst, however, pulled away in the third, going on a four-goal run courtesy of tallies from Killian, Albanese and Shore, outscoring the Mules 4-1 in the third. The Mammoths maintained the strong defensive showing in the fourth, keeping the Mules scoreless, while one more goal from Keeley was the final nail in Colby’s coffin.

Tuesday, April 11 saw another close NESCAC matchup between the purple and white and Connecticut Colllege. After going down 5-2 in the first quarter, Amherst exploded for eight goals in the second stanza. The Camels’ four goals in the final quarter, however, were enough to send the game into overtime. The first extra period went scoreless after several close shots by the Mammoths, but an Albanese goal one minute into double overtime on an assist from Shore secured the win for Amherst.

The purple and white will take the field again this Saturday in one of their most important matchups of the season. The Mammoths will face No. 3 Tufts on their home field at 1 p.m.

ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT

Kristian Sogaard ’19 Favorite Team Memory: Qualifying as a team for cross country nationals this past fall and running in my first NCAA meet Favorite Pro Athlete: Roger Federer Dream Job: Doctor Pet Peeve: Being stuck behind slow walkers Favorite Vacation Spot: Hawaii Something on Your Bucket List: Visiting all 50 states Guilty Pleasure: Naked chicken chalupas from Taco Bell Favorite Food: Chicken parmesan Favorite Thing About Amherst: The amazing people I’ve met and experiences I’ve had How He Earned It: Sogaard ran well in this weekend’s Spring Fling, notching first place finishes in both of his events. In the 800-meter run, his specialty, Sogaard raced to a first-place finish, finishing with a time of 1:55, more than a half-second before his nearest competitor. In his other event, Sogaard took part in the 4x400-meter relay, the final event of the meet. The Mammoths’ foursome finished in first with a time of 3:34.40, a victory made sweeter by the fact that Amherst just barely edged out Williams for the title.

Anya Ivenitsky ’20 Favorite Team Memory: Spring break trip to California Favorite Pro Athlete: Roger Federer Dream Job: Doctor Pet Peeve: When someone starts a sentence but doesn’t finish it Favorite Vacation Spot: North Carolina Something on Your Bucket List: Learning how to play the piano Guilty Pleasure: Netflix Favorite Food: Chocolate ice cream Favorite Thing About Amherst: The people How She Earned It: Ivenitsky was an essential part of Amherst’s three conference wins in the past week, posting a perfect 6-0 mark in three singles and three doubles matches. In all three matches, the pairing of Ivenitsky and Avery Wagman ‘18 dominated on the doubles courts, with no opponent pairing winning more than four games. In singles play, Ivenitsky posted sweeps against both Connecticut College and Colby, while she prevailed in a hardfought, three-set battle to clinch Amherst’s win over Bowdoin.

Men’s Golf Opens Spring Season with Strong Performances Photo courtesy of Clarus Studios

Sophomore Jack Norton has been one of the Amherst offense’s top contributers so far this season, recording 25 goals and four assists in just 10 games.

Women’s Tennis Perfect Against Trio of Conference Opponents Scout Boynton ’20 Staff Writer

The Amherst women’s tennis team had a successful week, winning all three of their matches to continue a five-game win streak and improve their overall record to 5-4.

On Tuesday, April 4, the Mammoths won their first conference battle against Connecticut College, shutting the Camels out 9-0. The purple and white won an impressive 212 of 229 sets played on the day.

Amherst started out strong in doubles action, beginning the day 3-0.

On the first court, Camille Smukler ’20/ Kelsey Chen ’19 beat Emily Migliorini/ Stephanie Simon, 8-1. Anya Ivenitsky ’20/Avery Wagman ’18 pulled out an 8-2 victory on the second court, and Megan Adamo ’17/Claire Carpenter ’17 dominated with an 8-0 victory on the third court.

In singles, the Mammoths again swept the Camels, winning all six matches. On court No. 1, Smukler pulled out a 6-1, 6-2 win. In the second position, Chen won 6-2, 6-2. Ivenitsky played on the court No. 3 and Camilla Trapness ’19 on No. 4; each won their match 6-1, 6-3 and 6-1, 6-1 respectively. Adamo also posted back-to-back 6-1 set wins on the fifth court. Wagman sealed the deal on court six, recording two 6-0 shutout wins to propel the Mammoths to victory.

On Saturday, April 8, Amherst played back to back NESCAC matches against Bowdoin

and Bates. The 13th-ranked Mammoths upset the fourth-ranked Polar Bears 5-4 and swept the Babcats 8-0.

Strong doubles play set the purple and white up for victory, as they started with a 3-0 lead against Bowdoin. Smukler/Chen (8-3), Ivenitsky/Wagman (8-4) and Clarpenter/Adamo (8-5) clinched wins on the first, second and third courts respectively.

The Mammoths’ fourth and fifth wins came on courts No. 3 and No. 4. Ivenitsky bested Samantha Stadler 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 and Trapness came from behind to defeat Tasha Christ 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

In the 9-0 shutout against Bates, the doubles successes were earned by Chen/Smukler (8-2), Wagman/Ivenitsky (8-4) and Carpenter/Adamo (8-4).

In singles action, the purple and white won five of the six matches, with the sixth going unfinished. Smukler won on the first court, 6-2, 6-1, Ivenitsky on the second, 6-3, 6-0 and Trapness with a come from-behind-win on the third court by a score of 2-6, 6-2, 11-9. On courts No. 4 and 5, Adamo and Wagman each tallied 6-1, 6-0 victories.

Carpenter was up 6-3, 5-2 against Hannah Londoner on the sixth court before the venue closed and they were unable to finish their match.

With a 3-0 start in conference play, Amherst will return to action next Saturday, April 15, when they travel to take on NESCAC rival Williams College at 1 p.m.

Talia Land ’20 Staff Writer This past weekend, the Amherst men’s golf team traveled to North Dartmouth, Mass., for the team’s opening weekend of play at the Hampton Inn Invitational.

The Mammoths tied for third place out of seventeen teams at the meet, which was hosted by UMass Dartmouth. Amherst finished with a score of 640, 20 points behind first-place Tufts and 14 behind second-place Babson.

On the first day of play, Dan Langa ’18 carded a score of 79. First-year Nicholas Kumamoto finished one stroke behind, placing both him and Langa in the top-15 players for the day.

Liam Fine ’17 and Cameron Clark ’20 shot 81 and 82, respectively, while junior Justin

Henriksen rounded out the group with a first round mark of 83.

On day two, Kumamoto helped the Mammoths take four strokes off of their day one total, finishing with a combined two-day score of 159 and tying for 12th-place overall in the tournament.

Clark improved to a score of 78 on day two, which gave him a finish of 15th overall.

Fine and Langa both rounded out the tournament with two-day totals of 161, while Henriksen finished with a total of 164.

Overall, the tournament was an impressive first showing for the team, which had a fairly successful fall season.

The Mammoths will look to continue their success in the Williams Spring Opener on April 22 and 23, as well as at the NESCAC Championships, which will take place at the end of the month.

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Nicholas Kumamoto ‘20 shot a 159 on the weekend, good for 12th place.

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Men’s Track and Field Finishes Second Overall at Spring Fling Veronica Rocco ’19 Staff Writer On Saturday, the Amherst men’s track and field team hosted the Amherst Spring Fling. The annual meet, held at Pratt Field, is the only home meet for the Mammoths this year. Amherst earned 79 points, second to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who scored 149 points.

The day started for the Mammoths with the 1,500-meter run, where senior Kevin Connors won in a time of 4:06. Connors made a decisive move for the lead with one lap to go and never relinquished it, even as his competitors made a hard last push for the finish line. Teammates Cosmo Brossy ’19 and Spencer FergusonDryden ’20 also had successful races, finishing in 4:07 and 4:09 to place third and fourth, respectively.

Tucker Meijer ’19 held the lead for much of the second heat of the 1,500, but was passed in the final stretch by a Williams athlete to place second in his heat and ninth overall in 4:14.

Teammate Clark Ricciardelli ’20E followed Meijer to place 12th overall with a time of 4:15.

In the 110-meter hurdles, Maxim Doiron ’19 and Yonas Shiferaw ’20 both qualified for finals and placed third and fourth with times of 16.18 and 16.55 seconds, respectively. With his thirdplace finish, Doiron qualified for the DIII New England Championships.

In the 400-meter dash, sophomore Vernon Espinoza led junior teammates Harrison Haigood and David Ingraham as the trio placed sixth, seventh and eighth overall, respectively.

Aziz Khan ’18, returning to track after playing on the NESCAC Champion men’s soccer team this fall, led the Mammoths in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.28 seconds to place sixth overall.

The speedy soccer player was followed by first-years Elijah Ngbokoli (11.39), Mayowa Tinubu (11.45) and Biafra Okoronkwo (11.88) in the shortest event on the track as the trio made strong outdoor collegiate debuts.

The Mammoths showed their mid-distance strength once again as Kristian Sogaard ’19 won the 800-meter run in 1:55. The sophomore led the entire race and held off fast-charging competitors in the home stretch to pull away for victory. First-year Ralph Skinner followed teammate Sogaard, accelerating in the last 100 meters to place third in 1:56. Jacob Silverman ’19 finished in 1:57, good for fifth. Both Sogaard and Skinner qualified for the DIII New England Championships with their runs.

First-years Jordan Edwards and Jack Dufton

competed in the high jump, with both clearing 1.79 meters. Dufton returned to competition after an injury that kept him out of most of the indoor season. Edwards had a successful day in the horizontal jumps as well, placing third in the long jump with a leap of 6.13 meters and winning the triple jump, with a jump of 13.09 meters.

Sam Amaka ’19 placed sixth in the shot put with a throw of 12.32 meters, leading teammate and fellow sophomore Wisdom Yevudza, who placed 20th. Amaka also placed 11th in the hammer throw with a throw of 36.02 meters. Sophomore Cornell Brooks returned to the field with a toss of 25.36 meters in the discus to place 21st.

Shiferaw followed up his strong 110-meter hurdles race with a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, an event that is only held during the outdoor track season. The hurdler ran a time of 1:01 to lead teammate Doiron, who placed fifth in 1:01 as well. Jeff Ewing ’18 also competed in the event, placing seventh in 1:05.

In the 200-meter run, Khan once again led the short sprinters of Amherst, placing third with a time of 22.60 seconds. With his finishing time, Khan qualified for the DIII New England Championships. Both Tinubu and Okoronkwo also ran the half-lap sprint, finishing in 23.52 and 24.24 seconds, respectively.

Alumnus Dan Crowley ’16, competing unattached, won the men’s 5,000-meter run in 14:56.

The Amherst grad led senior Ben Fiedler and Aaron Zambrano ’18, who ran times of 15:45 and 16:04, respectively.

In the second-to-last event on the track, the 4x800-meter relay composed of FergusonDryden, Silverman, Skinner and Connors placed second to WPI in 8:10.

In the meet-concluding 4x400-meter relay, the Mammoths emerged victorious as they moved up throughout the race with each baton exchange. Ingraham held off a fast-closing Williams anchor to win the event in 3:34.

“It was great to get so much cheering and support at our only home meet,” Connors said.

“People seemed particularly excited to compete in front of the home crowd, and a lot of quality performances followed.”

This weekend, the team will travel to two meets, the Connecticut College Distance Fest on Friday and the UMass Amherst Invite on Saturday. On Friday, several of the purple and white’s top distance runners will compete in races ranging from the 800 meters to the 5,000 meters.On Saturday, all other team members will compete across town against schools from a variety of NCAA divisions at UMass.

Women’s Golf Takes Third Overall at Season-Opening Vassar Invitational Nate Quigley ’19 Managing Sports Editor After a strong fall season that saw the team collect a bevy of top-three finishes, the Amherst women’s golf team returned to action this weekend at the Vassar Invitational. Shooting 642 as a team at the two-day tournament, the Mammoths placed third overall finishing behind only archrival Williams and New York University.

On Saturday, Amherst logged a team score of 327, paced by the strong play of Morgan Yurosek ’20, who was named NESCAC Rookie of the Year after her impressive fall campaign.

Yurosek led all golfers with her first-round score of 76, putting her in pole position to garner individual honors once again.

Fellow underclassmen Jessica Jeong ’20 and Katie Rosenberg ’19 also performed well for the Mammoths, shooting 82 and 84, respectively.

Meanwhile, senior captain Jamie Gracie shot an opening round 85, one shot better than Emily Young ’20, who closed out Amherst’s opening round with a score of 86, which did

not count towards the Mammoths’ total for the day, as only the four lowest individual socres are added up.

Sunday’s nicer weather proved more conducive to lower scores across the board, with eight of the 12 competing schools posting lower scores on the second day of competition.

For the Mammoths, no improvement was more impressive than that of Gracie, who shot a 74, 11 strokes better than on Saturday. Young shaved seven strokes off her Saturday tally, posting a 79 on Sunday.

On the other hand, Yurosek and Jeong both saw their scores tick up by two, shooting 78 and 84, respectively, while Rosenberg carded a 90, which did not count toward the team score.

Even with the varying results, Amherst still managed to shoot a 315 on the second day of competition, maintaining their third place standing, while Yurosek’s two-day total of 154 put her in a tie for second place in the individual results.

The Mammoths return to action this weekend, April 15-16, when Amherst will host the annual Jack Leaman Invitation, the team’s sole home event of the season.

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Forest’s Fast Take Forest Sisk ’17 Columnist In the aftermath of Sergio Garcia’s breathtaking win over Justin Rose in a one-hole playoff at the Masters, Forest takes a moment to look back at the tournament’s action and investigates the curious case of Phil Mickelson.

The 2017 Masters tournament brought together the world’s best golfers to drive, pitch and putt on the tricky Augusta course. Although golf isn’t exactly a physical sport, the Augusta course can be described as arduous, and the four-day affair is not one for the weakminded.

The players have caddies to carry their clubs and never move above a brisk walk, but the mental strife that players face over more than half a week take the mental toll of a marathon.

The Masters features one of the smallest fields in the world, with only 93 entrants in 2017, as it is the most selective of the tournaments.

The small roster contributed to an excellent display of golf. Though no single person, nor small group, ran away from the field, there were some great shots, holes and rounds over the four days. Despite all of the Vegas gurus’ top ten most likely winners falling short of winning, the most shocking news came before the first day.

The world’s current number one, Dustin Johnson, playing the best golf of his life, slipped and fell the evening before day one. He tried every trick in the book to be physically ready for the year’s most vital tournament, but his body did not comply.

He withdrew just before the first tee on Thursday.

This opened up the field a little more for everyone else. Some first-timers and lowlyfavored golfers emerged as early leaders, but the test of time proved overbearing for their new life atop the leaderboard.

Slowly but surely, the elite group of golfers crept up the standings. After a series of good shots, bad shots and many in between, two golfers stood at 9-under with no holes left to play. Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose replayed the 18th, whimsically named “Holly,” in a playoff to determine the green jacket’s dimensions.

A Rose shot into the trees and a Garcia one-putt delivered a first major victory to Sergio. As a Spanish-speaker, it was fun to hear, “Vamo, Sergio! Vaaamanos!” in the background of the tightly-buttoned Georgia town.

Though the tournament did have some element of excitement — a playoff, new names and a new champion — America did not respond accordingly.

Final round viewership dropped a massive 11% from last year’s comfortable 3-stroke victory. It wasn’t for lack of competition. It wasn’t for a lack of big names atop the leaderboard.

Then what was it? Nobody really knows, to be honest.

Some people say it was under-advertised, but anyone who is willing to watch golf for hours on end knows the Masters is the first week of April.

Some “experts” have even suggested that the first wave of nice weather in the northern states pushed people outside, away from their televisions.

In lieu of a buzz about the tournament, the tabloids and investigative efforts have focused on the “lefty” and long-time legend, Phil Mickelson.

Just like a midafternoon soap, there are a lot of moving parts and revolving faces in this scandal, which only makes it all the juicier. Phil Mickelson is a known gambler and a known loser on those bets.

However, nobody knew the extent of his debts. It’s reported that Mickelson is millions of dollars in the hole, and when people are millions of dollars in debt, they do stupid things.

Some people lie to people they care about,

some people falsify their records, and some people loan out huge sums of money to insider-trading Wall Street titans. Can you guess which model Phil chose? If you guessed Option C, you’ve got it.

Mickelson’s Wall Street buddy’s name is Billy Walters, and just this past Friday, he was found guilty by a federal jury of fraud counts in the double digits and conspiracy of insider trading.

Where does Lefty fit into the mix? Well, when you’re millions of dollars out to rich and powerful people, your judgment becomes nearsighted.

The alleged insider trading scandal, which proved to be extremely lucrative for Walters and earned him $100 million over just six years, featured a relationship between Walters and the former chairman of Dean Foods Company, Tom Davis. Davis repeatedly informed Walters of projected ups and down in the company’s stock, on which Walters cashed in.

Mickelson, confronted with large gambling debts to Billy Walters, was coerced into loaning $2 million to Walters to profit from these illegal tips.

His investment multiplied one and a half times to three million, which, according to sources, was still short of Mickelson’s massive debts.

My first instinct was to feel bad for the golfer. Gambling is an addiction, and even good people allow addictions to lead them down criminal paths, but research and word of mouth has led me in a more cynical direction.

As a casual fan of golf, it is easy to interpret Phil purely from the quick shots on TV of him smiling, waving and competing in the gentleman’s game. Among the inner circles, however, there is another man under that perfectly coifed hair, one that the living room viewer doesn’t know.

At a previous PGA championship, a reporter observed out loud, “Man, the fans here love Phil.” Without hesitation, an unnamed pro retorted, “They don’t know him the way we do.”

This dual personality that Mickelson exudes is no coincidence. Another reporter commented, “There are a bunch of pros who think he and his whole smiley, happy face are a fraud. They think he’s preening and insincere.”

So why be like this? Easy answer: endorsements. Mickelson is the model golfing man, the image-perfect family man, almost to a strange extent. The golf industry has a ton of money in it and Lefty has the skills to pay the bills.

A third reporter added more insight on the matter: “Phil Mickelson literally has no friends out there. He annoys everybody.” My personal favorite Mickelson anecdote, maybe because it reminds me of FUBAR in Saving Private Ryan, is his affectionately dubbed nickname on the links: “FIGJAM — Fuck, I’m good, just ask me.”

Let me be clear, I don’t have a personal agenda against this man, and I totally respect his golf game.

It’s just worth noting when these superstar athletes who have their world in their hands are total phony assholes.

I mean, even “Tin Cup” designed its villain to look exactly like Mickelson. That can’t be an outright coincidence.

There are plenty of athletes who are the most charitable and kind people and constantly give back to the society and the game that puts them on such a high pedestal. Phil Mickelson is not one of those people.

See you at Augusta next year, Phil.

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Gina Pagan ‘18 continued her incendiary start to the season, allowing only one earned run in 13 innings and totaling 16 strikeouts in three appearances.

Softball Extends Win Streak to Eight After Sweeping MCLA and Middlebury Nate Quigley ’19 Managing Sports Editor Following a dominant sweep of Hamilton to open conference play, the Amherst women’s softball team continued its recent run of good form, sweeping a doubleheader against the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Wednesday and then taking all three games in this past weekend’s series against Middlebury.

Against MCLA, the Mammoths faced little competition in either affair, prevailing 9-0 in the first matchup, followed by a dominant 8-1 win in the second game.

Amherst did most of its work early on in game one, notching multi-run innings in all of the first three frames. After a single and a hit-by-pitch put runners on second and third with two outs, Annie McCluskey ’20 smacked a double into left, driving in two runs in the bottom of the first.

Then, after staving off a MCLA threat in the top of the second, Amherst put together its most comprehensive rally of the day, notching four runs on four hits, keyed by a pair of triples from Julia Turner ’19 and McCluskey, who added another two RBIs to her scoreline.

The third saw the last three runs of the game, with the Mammoths using three singles and some timely running on the base-paths to add another

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three runs on the board, firmly putting the game out of reach.

Lorena Ukanwa ’19 then came into the game as relief for starting pitcher Jackie Buechler ’17, who had given Amherst three strong scoreless innings. Ukanwa finished off the shutout, pitching two perfect innings and striking out four of the six batters she faced.

In the second game, Amherst started the first inning strong once again, taking an early 2-0 lead thanks to another RBI from McCluskey and a single from senior captain Alena Marovitz. However, the Mammoths were unable to do much more offensively for the next few innings, and only the masterful pitching of junior stud Gina Pagan, who went four scoreless innings while allowing only one baserunner, kept Amherst in the lead.

The Mammoths then blew the game open in the bottom of the fourth, posting four runs off of a Marovitz homer, a McCluskey sac fly, and a pair of nice hits from Lauren Tuiskula ’17 and Kyra Naftel ’19.

Although MCLA did manage to put one run on the board in the top of the fifth, an unearned one at that, two more Amherst runs in the bottom of the inning boosted the Amherst lead to 8-1, before Tuiskula closed out the game in the top of the sixth.

In the Mammoths’ first game against Middle-

WED THU

FRI

Softball vs. Smith, 3:30 p.m.

Men’s Tennis @ Conn.College, 3:30 p.m.

Softball vs. Smith, 5:30 p.m.

Baseball @ Eastern Connecticut State, 6 p.m.

Baseball vs. Williams, 4 p.m.

Men’s Tennis @ MIT, 4 p.m.

Softball @ Wesleyan, 5 p.m.

bury on Saturday, the team again exploded offensively, notching an 11-1 victory in five innings.

As opposed to the games against MCLA, in both of which Amherst jumped out to early firstinning leads, the Panthers stymied the Mammoths for two innings, allowing only one player to reach base. However, Pagan topped that, striking out four of the first six batters Middlebury sent to the plate and retiring the other two for a perfect two innings.

The potent Amherst offense finally broke through in the bottom of the third, when the Mammoths managed to send 14 runners to the plate, with 10 of them making it all the way around the bases. Highlighted by a bases-clearing Marovitz triple and a two-run double from Tuiskula, Amherst managed eight hits in the inning.

After a scoreless fourth for both sides, Amherst tacked on its final run of the game in the bottom of the fifth before Middlebury managed a consolation run in the top of the sixth.

The doubleheader games on Sunday, on the other hand, proved to be much closer affairs.

Amherst’s first win, by a slender 3-0 margin, depended upon another pair of strong outings from Buechler and Ukanwa, who combined to pitch seven scoreless innings, while allowing only three hits and one walk.

On the offensive side for the Mammoths, Ally

Kido ’18 drove Tuiskula home in the top of the third for the first run of the game and Marovitz, the next batter, scored Naftel with a sac fly.

Amherst tallied an insurance run in the top of the seventh, with a two-out RBI single from Sammy Salustri ’19, and Ukanwa slammed the door on any hope of a Middlebury comeback, pitching a perfect seventh to notch the save.

The second game proved an easier affair for the Mammoths, as they hopped out to a 3-0 lead after three innings, one which they never relinquished in the 7-0 victory. Although Naftel led the way, going 4-5, no Amherst player scored more than one run or notched more than one RBI. Indeed, the most impressive individual performances once again came from the Mammoths’ pitchers. Ukanwa and Pagan combined for yet another shutout, tallying more strikeouts (seven) than hits and walks combined (six).

With the series sweep, Amherst’s conference record now stands at 6-0, good for first place in the NESCAC West division, while the team boasts a 17-6 record overall.

The Mammoths will seek to lengthen their current eight-game win streak when the team takes on Smith on Wednesday, April 12, in a home doubleheader. The first game will start at 3:30 p.m. and the second will begin at 5:30 p.m.

SAT Men’s Track & Field @ Conn. College Distance Fest, 5 p.m.

Women’s Golf Jack Leaman Invitational @ Amherst College, TBD Women’s Track & Field @ UMass Amherst Invite, 10:30 a.m.

Men’s Track & Field @ UMass Amherst Invite, 10:30 a.m.

Men’s Tennis vs. Swarthmore, 12 p.m

Women’s Lacrosse @ Tufts, 1 p.m.

Women’s Tennis @ Williams, 1 p.m.

Softball vs. Wesleyan, 1 p.m.

Baseball @ Williams, 1 p.m.

Softball vs Wesleyan, 3:30 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse vs. Tufts, 1 p.m.

Baseball @ Williams, 3:30 p.m.