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Table of Contents ALUMNI PROFILES

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Christine Bader ’93 Unearthing Her Heart for Corporate Idealism Leon Gibbs ’63 International Businessman Opens Doors for Others Margaret Stohl ’89 Writer Creates Worlds in Unexpected Ways Ian Shin ’06 Historian Uncovers Asian Immigrant Experiences Meredith Rollings ’93 Editor Navigates Waves of Magazine Industry Anne Armstrong-Coben ’85 Pediatrician Emphasizes Medicine’s Human Side Dan Rube ’88 Bringing the Liberal Arts to Bear in Law Bobak Razavi ’03 Carrying Amherst’s Torch in Law and Education Heather Govern ’02 Fulfillment in Nonprofit Environmental Work David Sutphen ’91 Executive Gives Back to Community and Friends Jim Warren ’74 Inside Looking Out: Reporting on the Media

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Alumni Profile | Christine Bader ’93

Unearthing Her Heart for Corporate Idealism Armed with a passion for storytelling and a capacity for empathetic listening, Christine Bader ’93 has a powerful vision for the world of large corporations.

—Shawna Chen ’20 Christine Bader ’93 is a corporate idealist. Though she’s seen the best and the worst at the world’s largest corporations, including e-commerce company Amazon and oil and gas company BP, she believes that big companies can be “a force for good.”

For the last 20 years, Bader has developed expertise in corporate responsibility, helping big companies realize their impacts on the world and creating policies to mitigate the negatives and enhance the positives. But she traces much of her legacy back to Amherst, where she developed leadership and love of community-building and grounded her passion for writing.

Early Interests Bader grew up in Manhattan and attended Hunter College High School.

Though tennis was a large part of her childhood, her inner writer began to stir at the age of eight when she received a diary from her uncle.

As a high school student, she had assumed she would attend Yale, her father’s alma mater, until she visited Amherst for the first time.

“I just fell in love with it on the spot,” she said. “I loved the environment, I loved the people. … I think the strong sense of community — being in a small community and a liberal arts emphasis — was right for me.”

At Amherst, she majored in American Studies. Professors such as Robert Townsend and Barry O’Connell pushed her ability to read and write.

She remembers writing all the time — for papers, essays, The Amherst Student and more.

Though she played tennis in her first year, she later quit to join rugby yearround. Being among a strong group of women and later leading them as club president, she said, was incredibly powerful.

Her senior year, she started off writing a thesis on memory of the Civil War in American painting. During fall break, however, she realized she was much more excited about working on a paper for a different seminar on Asian-American history, specifically that of the Philippines. Though her mother is Filipino and had immigrated to the United States before meeting Bader’s

father, Bader had never learned about the history or culture of the Philippines.

Studying the Philippines for the first time gave her a motivation and energy she knew she wanted to pursue.

After fall break, she informed her thesis advisor that she wanted to change the topic of her thesis completely — to stories of Filipino-American businesswomen in the U.S. “The reason my thesis focused on Filipino-American businesswomen was I felt there was a gap in the stories told about Filipino immigration,” Bader said. “[Existing literature] didn’t make any gender distinctions or they were about Filipino-American women working in the service industry, working as maids or nurses.”

Bader included her mother as an interviewee, and the thesis ended up “being a much more personal and powerful writing experience, which in retrospect I realized is part of what set into my book experience more than 20 years later.”

The Path to Corporate Idealism Post-graduation, Bader spent a year working in underserved public schools through nonprofit City Year before completing a teaching fellowship at Phillips Academy Andover to help the school develop its community service program and coach squash.

Afterward, she returned to New York City and was placed in the mayor’s chief of staff office through the New York Urban Fellows Program. Serving with Rudy Giuliani’s chief of staff during his first term as mayor, she said she enjoyed the work so much that she stayed on for another year as special assistant to a deputy mayor.

“At that point, I started thinking like a liberal arts graduate that it might be time for grad school,” she said. She decided to pursue an MBA at Yale, which “felt a lot like Amherst to me in that people were really asking why … and thinking really broadly about the role of business in the broader society.”

After receiving her MBA in 2000, she joined BP, formerly British Petroleum. The company sent her to Indonesia, China and the U.K., where she focused on the social and community impact of BP’s major projects, “trying

to make sure that BP’s presence was a good thing, not just for the company but also for the local communities living around BP’s operations,” she said.

In London, she met her now-husband, whom she married in 2007. The two moved back to New York, and though Bader was still working for BP at the time, she joined the United Nations in a part-time pro bono role as adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative John Ruggie for business and human rights.

Ruggie was charged with articulating standards for corporate responsibility for human rights, and Bader pitched this to her boss at BP, investing about a third of her time in this new role before leaving BP in 2008 to take up the U.N. position full-time.

“It’s government’s job to regulate and realize human rights — companies certainly cannot interfere with these rights,” Bader said. Companies, however, can and should play a positive role in upholding these rights — ensuring their employment practices are fair and hiring locally whenever possible.

With Ruggie, Bader made consultations with human rights NGOs, governments, regulators and indigenous peoples communities to “find common ground in recognizing that companies have enormous positive impact in terms of bringing wealth and development, but they can also have negative impacts, which need to be mitigated.”

Then, in 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred.

Reexamining Corporate Responsibility On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded while drilling for BP in an oil field. The explosion killed 11 workers, injured 17 others and sunk the rig. It also created a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. BP was convicted of manslaughter and environmental felonies and paid a record $4 billion in fines.

Bader was crushed. She’d spent nine years at BP thinking that “the work I was doing on corporate responsibility really aligned with the business.” Now, BP was accused of negligence of both

Photo courtesy of Christie Bader ’93

Christine Bader ’06 has dedicated 20 years to corporate responsibility and believes big companies can play a positive role in society. human rights and environmental safety.

The disaster and the “horrible BP that emerged” forced her to take a cold, hard look back at her time at BP. At the same time, however, she sought out friends and peers and used her “Amherst-inculcated writing to think and reflect and explore and analyze and come back around to, ‘Yeah, actually, I think business can be a force of good.’”

This period of reexamination led her to look back at the writing she’d compiled while working at BP. When she first moved to Indonesia, she’d written emails to friends and family every couple of months detailing her work and life. Over years of travel with the U.N. and BP, she’d amassed bits and pieces, and a few people told her, “You should totally turn this into a book.”

The public narrative is that companies are full of “evil, greedy people,” she said, but “there’s this amazing army of idealists inside the biggest companies who have a story to be told.”

“I wanted to tell that story,” she added. “That’s what inspired me to write my book.”

After finishing her work with the U.N., she put together a book proposal, got an agent — Jim Levine ’63 — and sold the proposal right before she had her twin children — a boy and a girl — in September 2012.

She spent 2013 writing the book and tested some of the material in a seminar she was co-teaching at Columbia. The book, titled “The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil,” was published in March 2014.

“It’s not a tell-all,” she said. “I was honestly trying to convey what my experience was in this company.”

Soon after the book’s publication, numerous people in the field of corporate responsibility reached out to thank her “for putting out a more nuanced account of life inside a company.”

Being a Force for Good

Photo courtesy of Ryan Lash

Christine Bader ’93 is a sought-after writer and speaker, having given talks at the CECP 2014 Summit, 2014 TED@NYC event and 2015 Duke Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference.

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From 2015 to 2017, Bader worked as director of social responsibility at Amazon and led a responsible sourcing program to ensure affiliated supply chains for Amazon branding products were properly paying and treating their workers. She left the company this past May to spend more time with her kids, who just turned five.

To Ron Lieber ’93, Bader’s classmate and friend, Bader isn’t afraid to dive deep, and she doesn’t shy away from “some of the thorniest problems in business, with all their attendant

messiness,” he wrote in an email interview. With Amazon, for example, Bader leapt in, trying to be a “force for good at an enterprise that is still trying to form some values outside of ‘Let’s make things as cheap and easy as possible for customers,’” Lieber said.

“I don’t know anybody with that unique combination of intense business smarts and a relentless desire to do the right thing,” he added.

Becky Wilusz ’93, Bader’s rugby teammate and friend, said Bader is one of the most down-to-earth people one will ever meet, even with her numerous accomplishments over the years.

“There can be a culture around self-importance, … especially as you start to move up in leadership and organizations, but she’s too real of a person to fall for that trap,” she said. “She’s the best at enrolling people in what she loves … because she gets to know them and wants them to be a part of what she’s doing and understand who they are.”

Intersections of the Past, Present and Future

When Bader looks back at her past, she said, there are a number of things that “are surprisingly consistent in how I’ve been,” she said. “I still carry a lot of that with me — my desire to support, to inspire, to cheerlead, to motivate.”

Running through the thread of her life has been a strong foundation in writing, which developed while she was at Amherst. “Just in the past say 10 years, as I’ve started writing lots of op-eds and writing my book, that’s when I’ve really appreciated the grounding that I had at Amherst and it’s really helped me find my voice now,” she said. “I think through writing I process ideas and I communicate my thoughts to the world through writing.”

Though the exact picture of her future is unclear, Bader said she is constantly reflecting on how her skills, experiences and passions, including her lifelong desire to build communities and share people’s stories, can contribute to what is needed today.

“I do hope for myself and for everybody else, for my fellow members of the class of ’93 who are coming out for their 25th anniversary — that all of us are figuring out what work is ours to do,” she said. “To make sure we’re exactly in the right place. The world needs all of us to be our best selves, to be using our strengths and our skills and our passions, and fully aware of and embracing what those strengths and passions are.”

Alumni Profile | Leon Gibbs ’63

Int’l Businessman Opens Doors for Others One of three African Americans in his class at Amherst, Leon Gibbs ’63 has thrived in business management despite frequently finding himself in uncharted territory.

—Drew Kiley ’18 Gibbs has spent his life pushing boundaries. He entered Amherst in 1959 as one of the only African Americans in his class. Then, Gibbs opted to pursue a career in international business, an unusual choice at the time for both an Amherst graduate and an African American. With this background, one might expect to hear a story of conflict and controversy. However, that is not Gibbs’ story. Instead, he attributes his success to hard work and quiet dedication, while his overwhelming gratitude and generosity is evident through a new scholarship he co-sponsors, the Asa J. Davis Prize, which is awarded annually to a student who has done exceptional work on African and black diaspora history.

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Gibbs grew up in Middletown, Conn., only three blocks away from the Wesleyan campus. He attended Middletown High School and, as the third-ranked student in his high school class, felt pressured to attend Wesleyan.

“They kind of recruited me, as they do nowadays with football, but I was not an athlete,” he said. “I was more of a scholar.”

His high school dean, however, knew distinguished Amherst dean Eugene S. Wilson ’29 and encouraged Gibbs to look at Amherst. Gibbs visited the campus and liked what he saw, so he decided to apply and, upon gaining acceptance, to attend.

In 1959, Gibbs was one of only five African-American students to enter Amherst in a class of more than 250. By the time he graduated, two had dropped out, leaving Gibbs, Williams Davis and Hugh Price (author

of “This African American Life”) as the only three African Americans in the Class of 1963. Gibbs also entered Amherst from a public school, while most students in the class came from private institutions.

“There were no support groups or any of the things that people talk about today when it comes to African Americans on campuses,” Davis said.

Far from feeling out of place, however, Gibbs thrived throughout his four years at Amherst. He was active in the Lord Jeff Society, a group that met incoming athletic teams and welcomed them to campus.

Live music was popular among the fraternities at the Five Colleges, and Gibbs was the leader of a band, playing guitar and bass. He played all over New England, opening for saxophonist Cannonball Adderley at the University of Connecticut on one occasion while making some money through his appearances.

A psychology major, Gibbs opted to enter business school instead of pursuing his master’s degree, an unusual path for an Amherst graduate at the time.

“Business? It was almost like a bad word,” he recalled.

After receiving a scholarship from Columbia, Gibbs enrolled in the MBA program. Once again, he was one of the few African Americans in his class. Still, Gibbs had few problems as he studied international business. Harold Flowers, a classmate at Columbia, recalled that Gibbs was both mature and focused, and that Gibbs worked evenings in order to pay for his education.

A Small Dream

Town

Boy’s

Upon graduating from business

school, Gibbs first worked in consumer product advertising, promoting and marketing for pharmaceutical company Warner Lambert. He received his first taste of international travel through consulting with Warner Lambert associates in Latin America and went to Pfizer after two years.

Gibbs rose to the role of product manager at Pfizer. He was, once again, one of few black people in such a role in corporate America. At the time when he worked for these companies from 1964 to 1966, much of the Civil Rights Movement had not yet taken complete hold.

Flowers, the first black person to work in IBM’s finance division, called Gibbs a pioneer. The ’60s, he claimed, opened the corporate experience for African Americans.

“Wherever you went, you were the only guy,” Flowers said. “You were the only African American there.”

Still, Gibbs did not feel he was treated unfairly. “[I] never ran into any discrimination that I could recall, never ran into any problems, because I always worked hard, kept my nose clean and was a good employee,” he said.

Going International After having a baby with his wife, Dorris, Gibbs began working for Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, N.J. Identified as a top candidate for management, he traveled around the world as an internal consultant for Johnson & Johnson. With a presence in 68 countries, Johnson & Johnson provided Gibbs the opportunity to travel throughout the world. Eventually, however, fatigue set in for Gibbs, and he looked for a more settled role.

Photos courtesy of Leon Gibbs ’63

Despite growing up near Wesleyan in Middletown, Conn., Gibbs decided to attend Amherst on the advice of his high school dean.

A few years later, Gibbs assumed management of Johnson & Johnson’s operations in Puerto Rico, becoming the first African American in the company’s history to run their operations outside of the U.S. states.

The company’s chairman then asked Gibbs to take a leave of absence and work on former president Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Commission on Executive Exchange, a program where government employees would work in the private sector and employees of private companies worked in government.

Here, Gibbs was assigned to the American embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, where he helped promote trade of Jamaican-made goods and products with the United States, primarily furniture. He brought Jamaican executives to American factories in North Carolina, where they could learn about American production methods, and also met Reagan in the White House.

Gibbs then returned to Johnson & Johnson and assumed the position of general manager in Panama. In charge of five companies in Central America, Gibbs found himself living in Panama during the dictatorship of Manuel Antonio Noriega while the Nicaraguan Revolution raged nearby.

Perhaps Gibbs’ most remarkable trait is his ability to take on seemingly difficult situations and easily navigate them, almost to the point of making them seem mundane.

“Those were some very tough situations, but I succeeded,” he said simply of his time in Panama.

After 22 years of working for Johnson & Johnson, with eight of them spent overseas, Gibbs retired from the company. He went into franchising for a few years before retiring completely in 2005.

Giving Back to Amherst

Gibbs worked at the American embassy in Kingston, Jamaica as part of the President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Commission on Executive Exchange, meeting the president upon his project’s completion.

Gibbs came back to Amherst during the late 1970’s and met Professor Asa J. Davis. Davis joined Amherst’s faculty in 1970 and taught at the college for 22 years. During his distinguished career, Davis estab-

lished the college’s Department of Black Studies.

For years, Gibbs had considered ways to give back to Amherst as a “thank you” for the enormous impact the school had on his life. He reached out to his classmates Price and Davis, looking to set up a scholarship Davis’ name. For their 55th reunion, the three managed to settle on a scholarship and Gibbs plans to donate over $1 million to the fund.

The prize’s official title is “The Asa J. Davis Prize for Academic Distinction in the History of Africa and the Black Diaspora,” and the college’s history department gives it annually to “the student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the study of the history of Africa and the Black Diaspora and whose work best reflects the comprehensive interest of Asa Davis in historical and cultural contacts between Africa, the Old World and the Americas,” according to the college’s website.

Deriving its funds from a permanent endowment, the scholarship will provide financial aid to students of color with a demonstrated need, preferably in their junior or senior year with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Students with an interest in attending graduate school for international business or political science will receive additional preference.

Gibbs hoped to add attract more Amherst students to his chosen field with this final part. “We need more young people to think globally,” he said.

In donating to this scholarship, Gibbs is once again a trailbrazer, becoming the first African American to create a $1 million endowed fund in the college’s history.

Flowers thinks the scholarship and Gibbs’ generous donation speaks volumes about Gibbs’ character.

“He didn’t forget where he came from,” Flowers said. “He didn’t lose his sense of perspective.”

After years of pioneering in every field he entered, Gibbs’ focus is now on improving his golf game — a relaxation that is well earned.

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Profile | Margaret Stohl ’89

Writer Creates Worlds in Unexpected Ways Margaret Stohl ’89 has used her passion for writing to produce world-famous content in various mediums, including video games, comics and young adult novels.

—Mark Simonitis ’19 Margaret Stohl has had, to put it lightly, a varied career. She has been a high-profile creator of video games, young adult novels, and most recently, comic books. Armed with determination, Stohl creates fictional worlds with real spirit and enthusiasm. In the past few years, she has also embraced community outreach, most notably in helping to create YALLFest and YALLWest, the two largest youth and teen literature festivals in the county.

Amherst: The First Challenge When Stohl first moved to Amherst, she was a Los Angeles native who knew little to nothing about life on the East Coast.

“I came to the school with a leather jacket, a ton of wool sweaters, long pants and a pair of cowboy boots,” she recalled. “Then I got to Amherst in August, and it must have been a million degrees.”

When Stohl arrived on campus and began taking classes, she immediately fell in love with the college’s English department. She would eventually take 36 English classes during her time at Amherst and won the department’s Knox Prize, which went to juniors to provide support for literary research.

“I remember that I had Professor Pritchard for one of my freshman classes and he absolutely terrified me,” Stohl said, chuckling. “I think his class was the first time I ever got a B on a paper.

It was the first time I felt challenged. I knew that I met my match and it was an exhilarating moment.”

“She was a standout, not only a very good student but extremely independent,” Professor of English William Pritchard said. “She was very much out of the ordinary and had a lot of ‘pres-

ence’ ... I always felt that she went her own way, but when our paths crossed the results were more than pleasant.

She was a real live wire.”

At Amherst, Stohl found an environment that challenged her and also pushed to overcome those challenges.

She loved that feeling and sought out that unique experience. She fell in love with the small size of the school and produced the first women’s literature magazine at the college. She also wrote and produced a one-act play, which gave her experience in crafting humor and finding her voice.

“Anything I wanted to make happen at Amherst could happen,” Stohl said. “It’s a theme with liberal arts colleges, where you have direct interactions with the geniuses of your time and you find out that they value your opinions ... That’s when you start to take yourself seriously. By the end of my Amherst experience, I felt powerful.

When it came to my mind, I was an important person.”

The Electronic Frontier and “Mighty Captain Marvel” After graduating Amherst in 1989, Stohl took a gap year in New York City.

During this time, she wrote two screenplays with her best friend from Los Angeles, who now writes children’s books under the name of Pseudonymous Bosch.

Preparing for the next step in her life and career, she applied to several graduate school programs and got accepted at every one. “That’s the kind of thing an Amherst education allows you to achieve,” Stohl said.

She decided to go to Stanford and focused on 19th century American literature, something that she had pre-

Stohl said she fell in love with the college because “anything I wanted to make happen at Amherst could happen.”

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viously worked on at Amherst. Stohl also attended Yale for three years, participating in the American Studies program. During this time, Stohl married her husband, a Stanford grad who was studying law at Yale when she was involved in American Studies there.

However, Stohl never even took her oral exams, and her husband never took the bar exam. Instead, a video game company called Activision had read the screenplays that Stohl had written and were interested in her talent. Stohl and her husband both began their careers working with video games at Activision. This was an industry in which Stohl would spend 16 years.

The pair went on to found their own video game studio, 7 Studios.

While there, Stohl gained her first experiences with building fictional universes. It was also her first time working with entertainment giant Marvel Comics as she worked on a Fantastic Four video game and the first Spider-Man game for the PlayStation 1. “I find fans of that Spider-Man game all the time, actually,” Stohl said.

After working on video games, Stohl decided that it was finally time to focus on writing and publishing a book, something she had dreamed of doing even before coming to Amherst.

With fellow author Kami Garcia, Stohl wrote “Beautiful Creatures,” a young adult novel. This book was an international bestseller and became the first of a successful series — it was even adapted into a 2013 film. After authoring several more science fiction books, Stohl then wrote two Black Widow novels for Marvel Comics, again targeting the young adult audience. Marvel was impressed enough by her writing that they offered her a position writing the current “Mighty Captain Marvel” comic book.

Today, Stohl alternates between writing novels and working on “Mighty Captain Marvel.” She has also resumed working on video games, most notably Bungie’s “Destiny 2.”

“I enjoy the differences and challenges inherent in each medium, but they all come back to the same general principles of storytelling and world-building,” Stohl said.

Stohl discovered that just as each genre is different, each creator is different. She thinks of herself as an empath, an emotional storyteller.

“I love to write how my characters’ strengths and weaknesses play off each other, but that can be a problem when I find myself writing a hundred pages about the emotional states of three characters,” Stohl explained. “I feel the character I’m in and feel the attachments that they have to the world around them.”

“I just try to focus on what I love, creating worlds,” she added. “No matter what media I’m working in, I’m happy if I’m doing that. Of course, I have to really connect to the project.

This has led to a sort of hectic career as I bounce between passion projects,

Photos courtesy of Margaret Stohl ’89

Stohl writes the “Mighty Captain Marvel” series. The titular character is set to become the first female lead in a superhero movie. crossing plenty of genre and medium lines.”

Stohl’s experiences at Amherst had helped shape her into an innovating, boundary-defying creator. Her confidence and her ability to take risks resulted from those at the college who “convinced me that my ideas were just as valid as everyone else’s.”

“Because I was a Girl” Throughout her life, Stohl has found herself in environments heavily influenced by gender dynamics.

“When I was attending Amherst College, it still had this perception of being a men’s school and we hadn’t had any of the dialogues about dating or assault that you see today,” she said. “There was a male-driven social culture. Even though I felt mentally powerful, I never truly felt socially powerful. It was a hard time to be a girl, but I don’t remember it limiting me in any way when it came to my mind. That’s a mantra that I’ve tried to carry forward.”

These experiences lasted even after she graduated from Amherst, since she worked in the male-dominated industry of video games. However, the challenges that her circumstances posed for her taught her valuable skills, such as how to work with male co-workers and how to successfully make her voice heard.

“I actually wrote an essay on being a woman on the video game industry called ‘Because I Was a Girl’ that takes a frank look at some of the issues within it,” Stohl said. “Ironically, I eventually made the shift to the young adult industry, which is as female-dominated as the games industry is male-dominated.”

During her time working in the comic book industry, Stohl has also tried to use her position to convey her own message about issues relating to gender.

“One of the reasons that I love writing Captain Marvel is that it’s a great platform to tell all readers, but especially girls, to not let their environments hold back their voices,” she said.

“It’s fortunate for me, because Captain Marvel is going to be the lead of Marvel Studios’ first female-led superhero movie.”

Notably, Stohl has also been invited to the Marvel creators’ summit — the second woman ever invited attend this creative retreat. She described this event as a place “where you sit down with all the other creators and brainstorm how all the comics fit into one universe.”

“I loved being in that room with so many prolific creators and having them hear out, and sometimes shoot down, my ideas,” she said.

“The Bigger Issues” Today, Stohl is largely concerned with what she calls “the bigger issues.”

She was part of a team of several authors that started the young adult literature festival YALLFest, which is now the largest event of its kind in the South. YALLWest, a sister festival, was organized several years later and takes place in California.

“The main thing about working with Margie is that it is the most fun work you will ever do,” said Melissa de la Cruz, another author and YALLFest board member. “Not only does Margie make the project so much better, she understands what you want to say in the work. It’s hard to describe, but it’s almost like brain osmosis.”

“The reason that I helped start YALLFest, and in turn YALLWest, was because I wanted to get involved with the community regarding literature, as not many authors visited the South,” Stohl said. “Since then, I’ve found myself speaking on various topics, such as mental health or gender issues.”

“We are in a society that values achievement and success, but what if your goal is for everyone to succeed, or you want to help someone else?” she asked. “I just know that I want to get involved in communities and produce more lasting change than just increased book sales. There are bigger issues to worry about.”

Alumni Profile | Ian Shin ’06

Historian Uncovers Asian Immigrant Experiences Ian Shin ’06 teaches at Bates and does research focusing on Asian American experiences. He is working on a project on Amherst’s history related to Asia and the Pacific.

—Daniel Delgado ’20 History and American Studies major Shin came to Amherst as an unassuming but bright and curious student.

His academic pursuits led him to a PhD in history from Columbia University last year, and he currently teaches at Bates but will be moving to a tenure-track position at the University of Michigan next year.

Shin describes his passion for the work he does not as a primarily knowledge-driven endeavor, but rather as a way in which he can replicate the sort of relationships and impact that the “wonderful” professors at Amherst had on him as a student.

He hadn’t always been in academia —after working for four years at a global strategy and management consulting firm, he decided to go back to graduate school to pursue his master’s degree, describing the professors he met at Amherst as the “folks who eventually inspired [him] to get back into academia.”

Meaningful Relationships and Inspiration When Shin first came to Amherst, he thought he was going to major in political science and history, but after taking a class in the Art History department taught by prolific Professor of the History of Art and American Studies Carol Clark, he quickly realized political science was not his passion and began to take more American Studies classes instead.

Professor Clark eventually became his advisor in American Studies and he recalls the ways in which her “flawless lectures” could cover so much ground and brilliantly condense decades of history into understandable and insightful lectures. Her teaching methods and the ways in which she was able to “bring

the material alive” is something that he now tries to emulate as he performs his own lectures on relationship between Chinese art and American history.

American studies and English professor Karen Sanchez-Eppler also impacted Shin’s academic career as he reminisced about her class on the history of childhood and the challenging nature of determining historiographical approaches to studying the topic given the lack of records.

He remembers having class one time at Sanchez-Eppler’s house, where she asked her students to bring children’s toys and analyze them over dinner. To Shin, the class was hands-on and allowed him to know Sanchez-Eppler well. Today, as a professor, he tries to include her sense of encouragement and inclusion in the seminars that he now teaches.

Sanchez-Eppler recalled Shin as a “scrupulous” and “tenacious” student researcher who wrote with “some of the most graceful prose” she has ever seen from a student. Clark, her colleague, was “always trying to convince him that he should be an art historian.”

The final project he completed for her class, a large independent research project, was later published in the undergraduate journal “History Matters” as an essay titled “Little Dragons: Chinese American Childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” This essay, Sanchez-Eppler said, “remains among the very best pieces of undergraduate independent research” she has seen in her teaching career.

Pursuing Interests and Curiosities Shin’s interest in the Asian-American experience relates to his personal

experience as an immigrant. Born in Hong Kong, he and his family came to the United States when he was nine years old. In particular he was interested in the ways immigrants transform new lives for themselves and deal with the challenges they might face in new, uncharted territory.

He considers history a way to tell that story — and with history, he could retell traditionally accepted stories of what happened in that past that are in turn used to justify present decisions.

By diving into research, questioning assumptions and thinking creatively about interpretive possibilities, he believes that history allows him to tell different stories that challenge conventional wisdom because “in the past, things were actually different.”

As a traditionally trained, empirical historian, he spends much of his time in archives across the nation and the world in places like New York City, Philadelphia, Connecticut and London.

While he admits that at times, the work can be “tedious” and “mind-numbing,” the findings that he unearths are usually worth it. The ability to conduct research and dig through archives was a skill he acquired at Amherst with his first research seminar.

“I fell in love with the idea of just handling this old material and being transported to another time and place by interacting with these old documents,” he said.

Shin has always had an interest in the history of museums, even while he was still at Amherst. He wrote his undergraduate senior thesis on Nathan Dunn’s Chinese Museum. He decided to marry his interests in the Asian American experience, U.S. history and museums with his current major proj-

Photos courtesy of Ian Shin ’06

Shin’s interest in Asian American experience stems from his own experience as an immigrant. ect, “Making ‘Chinese Art’: Knowledge and Authority in the Transpacific Progressive Era,” which explores how Chinese art in the United States emerged in the early twentieth century through a disputed process of knowledge production. He aims to analyze the significance of Chinese art as it relates to U.S. imperialism and the concept of American exceptionalism.

This project, Shin explained, will examine “how Americans come to define the field that gets to be known as Chinese art … and they had to essentially invent that category, because Americans didn’t really understand the Chinese as capable of producing something that they would consider fine art.”

Shin described how, in the process of creating these categories, a myriad of debates and contests arose about the qualifications and experience of those who determined what works counted as “Chinese art.” This, he said, put Americans in contact with the “Japanese, who have been debating this topic, and also with the Europeans.”

These facets of his project allow him to look more closely at America’s relationship and position in the world in the early 20th century.

The Amherst Bicentennial As I spoke with Shin, I could feel the excitement with which he spoke about his future projects. He talked about the research project he was planning, which focuses on about Chinese-American civic groups as well as larger organizations like the Boy Scouts and the American Legion that had all-Chinese chapters.

Shin plans to explore the motivations of those who joined them and the benefits that their members gained.

The project he seemed the most excited about, however, is the one that seems most distant. He wants to study the history of Amherst. The college will release a book about the history of Amherst around the world to commemorate its bicentennial anniversary, and Shin was asked to contribute a chapter on its history related to Asia and the Pacific.

“I haven’t quite figured out what the angle is going to be yet, but one of the things that does strike me … is that a lot of Amherst graduates end up going to Asia as missionaries but also as government advisors in the 19th century, including the first American missionary to China,” he said. “To me, what’s interesting is that you have this school that is kind of in the middle of nowhere … so how did they understand the relationship that this little college has to this far-away place?”

Life Beyond the Books

Shin speaks with Craig Steven Wilder, Barton L. Weller Professor of History at MIT, following a discussion of Wilder’s book at Bates College in January 2017.

Right now, Shin is still focused on starting off his career and bringing his future plans to fruition. When he does have to relax, he enjoys spending time with his husband, who is finishing up his MBA in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also likes to go on walks, explore cities and hike with his dog. To “keep [himself] sane,” as Shin put it, he plays tennis as well.

Shin reflected that the “apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree,” as he is now a professor at a small liberal arts college, teaching courses on what he majored in at Amherst. However, Shin has come a long way since he was a student at the college, a time when he was a residential counselor and sang a cappella his senior year — an activity that he wishes he had started earlier.

As Shin progresses in his career and pursues his passions, is clear that Amherst has left an imprint on Shin’s ambitions and desires. In the same way, Shin has also left his own mark on Amherst.

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Alumni Profile | Meredith Rollins ‘93

Editor Navigates Waves of Magazine Industry After transitioning from book publishing, Meredith Rollins ‘93 has spent 20 years as a magazine editor, working for six different magazines.

— Paola Garcia-Prieto ’18 Meredith Rollins was named editor in chief of Redbook, a Hearst magazine, almost three years ago after spending her career working for a variety of magazines. Her passion for good content and willingness to try new things has guided her throughout her career in the so-called “dying” magazine industry. The English and French major started to make her way up the publishing ladder immediately after graduating and has never looked back.

On Finding her Passion Rollins described how she always knew that she would be working with books. She was an avid book reader, which she claims is the result of not being a “sporty” person, yet she never fancied herself an author growing up.

When she came to Amherst, she majored in English and French and felt it was “obvious” she’d end up working in book publishing. Her studies focused on creative nonfiction and she wrote a memoir for her thesis titled “Falling From Grace.” After writing on a couple of student magazines and interning at some publishing houses during January terms, she landed an assistant editorial position at a Random House publishing group straight out of college.

She made fun of herself for thinking she could negotiate her starting salary when she got the job, only to be told that no, that was what the salary was.

Rollins worked under a nonfiction book editor and found the job to be incredibly intellectually stimulating, but was not satisfied by its slow pace, “Between the excitement of buying a book and actually getting a manuscript, two or three years could go by.” After a couple of years in book editing, Rollins decided to move to an industry with a faster turnover rate, and so began her career in the magazine world.

Traversing the Magazine World After Random House, Rollins worked at Harper’s Bazaar in the features department, where she covered all of their book coverage and celebrity interviews for a few years. From there she found herself at a political magazine called George Magazine, which was edited by John Kennedy Jr. but folded shortly thereafter when Kennedy died. Her next job was at the New York Magazine, where she stayed for several years, editing features and reporting stories. The magazine came out weekly, which Rollins described as “being a hamster on a wheel, but in the best way.”

Rollins then decided to switch things up and went to W, a high fashion and celebrity lifestyle magazine. She imagined that she’d be doing the editing and story assignment job to which she had grown accustomed, only to find out she was also expected to write features about fashion and big celebrity covers. She remembered thinking, “Well, I don’t know why you thought I could do, that but that’s great!”

Rollins continued to search for different experiences and prioritized working with interesting people over sticking with a specific content genre.

She found herself at Lucky’s, a style and beauty shopping magazine that no longer exists, because she greatly admired the founder, Kim France, and wanted to work with the people on her team. “You pick different contracts for different reasons,” she said. She stayed for six and a half years before being asked to join Redbook, a women’s lifestyle magazine she had actually never read before working there, “even though it’s for a person who’s exactly at my point in life.”

Rollins chose the job in order to work on a general interest magazine.

She was an executive editor for four years before being promoted to editor in chief in 2014. Since then, the magazine has made AdWeek’s Hot List every year. Now her job description includes deciding on the overall direction of the brand, working with advertisers and marketing, and reporting to the corporate floor. While excited by the challenge, she misses the hands on editing and working one-on-one with writers on stories, which she’d been doing for the last 20 years. “It’s no less interesting … but not what I thought I was going to be doing when I got into magazine editing,” she said.

Weekdays in the City, Weekends in Connecticut Rollins balances out her high-stress life in the city by getting away every weekend with her husband and two boys to Litchfield, Conn., where they own a three bedroom gardener’s cottage and co-own the White Hart Inn with writer Malcolm Gladwell and chef Annie Wayte. In a recent article from The New York Times, Rollins describes her typical Sunday, which includes quality time with her sons (one of whom is a master egg chef at just 9 years old) and various outdoor activities. They often enjoy dinner at their inn before driving back to the city in preparation for another week of work, “It’s two good sides of a very full life.”

Originally from a suburb outside of Chicago, Rollins has stayed in the Northeast since she began high school.

After completing boarding school at Taft, Rollins was admitted to Amherst early decision and then moved to New York City straight out of college, where she’s lived since. When asked why she never returned to Illinois, she said, “I had an amazing childhood but it’s not what I want as an adult. Suburban life

Rollins aims for “Redbook,” a women’s lifestyle magazine, to be a place for her readers to relax but also enable dialogue on women’s issues, such as the lack of women running for local office.

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Photos courtesy of Meredith Rollins

Besides being head of a major magazine, Rollins also co-owns an inn in Connecticut with friends Malcolm Gladwell and Annie Wayte. is just not for me.”

Time in Amherst and Abroad in Paris Rollins did take a hiatus from the Northeast when she spent her entire junior year in Paris. When asked about the most memorable part of the year she said, “I hadn’t realized how unfluent I was until I got there.” She had a group of French friends who, at the end of her time there, realized she was actually funny.

“There’s this gap between what you think you’re saying and what’s actually coming across,” she said. “I realized most of my friends there thought I was just kind of dim. My brain was barely accurate because that was all the words I could muster up. And then finally at the end when I was really fluent they realized, ‘Oh, she has a personality!’”

Rollins doesn’t remember much of what she did during her time at Amherst, “I have terrible short term and also long term memory.” However, she is still very close with many of her Amherst friends. Her friend, Ted Lee ’93, who was with her in Paris, introduced her to her husband, Conley Rollins Jr. She blames her husband for the fact that she’s only gone to one of her reunions, “He’s five years younger so we’re on the same reunion cycle and every five years we end up at his Harvard reunion.” She’s thankful that Amherst has formed the bedrock of her friendships, partly due to the number of graduates that end up in New York City. She even works with her friend Kate (Westerbeck) Lewis ’94, who runs digital editorial for Hearst.

Reflections on Print Media While Redbook is enjoying record success under Rollins’s tenure, the future of magazines in general is in jeopardy, as many companies are folding.

“It’s an interesting point of inflection for print magazines, generally,” she said. “I think that print will always be part of media landscape, might morph and change but it’s not going anywhere.” Rollins argues that the newspaper industry has reportedly been dying in the last decade but is still a go-to source for news, especially today.

“In a world filled with suspicious-

ly sourced content, [such as with] the 2016 election, I would far rather get my information from a print magazine, no matter how old fashioned that may seem, because you know it’s been researched and fact-checked and vetted and that it’s beautifully written because it’s being held to a standard,” she said.

“I do feel like that’s more important than ever.”

Her passion for women’s content is apparent when discussing how the current social climate affects a lifestyle magazine such as Redbook. Rollins strives for the magazine to be a place where women can escape from the tension and pamper themselves and find confidence in their appearance but also learn about women’s issues. She aims to talk about “political topics” in a way that is applicable to the lives of the women who are reading the magazine.

Some relevant topics they’ve covered in the past year include: the high price of infertility, women’s lack of access to health care and how women can get involved in local government. “If you’re part of your kid’s PTA and can fundraise for that, there’s no reason you couldn’t run for city council!” Rollins said. While every part of women’s lives is political, she places value on providing her readers a way to relax.

When I asked what advice she’d give to a hopeful young journalist, Rollins talked about her editorial assistant, Stacia Affelt, who began working for her straight out of college just last year.

Because of reduced staff sizes, Affelt gets more hands-on experience in the magazine. She writes for the website, does research and contributes to the social media content, on top of the typical assistant work.

The industry is definitely changing, but Rollins thinks there are still opportunities for passionate writers, “Take as many experiences as you can,” she advised. “What I look for when I hire someone is less ‘did you work at a magazine or newspaper in college?’ and more ‘do you know what this magazine is about, and do you care about the content, and do you write whenever you have the chance?’”

“Whatever happens to the magazine industry three decades from now, people want great content,” she said.

Alumni Profile | Anne Armstrong-Coben ’85

Pediatrician Emphasizes Medicine’s Human Side Within medicine, Anne Armstrong-Coben ’85 has occupied several different roles in pursuit of improving health outcomes for her patient populations.

— Jingwen Zhang ’18 Empathy for others and a resolve to affect positive change define Anne Armstrong-Coben’s multifaceted career as a pediatrician. A political science major while at Amherst, Armstrong-Coben brought skills and traits that she picked up in her undergraduate career into medical school and beyond.

She has taught medical students and residents at Columbia University in New York City, and she also opened and ran a medical practice for children in foster care for several years, hoping to address their unique and pressing medical needs. Her heart for her patients has led her to emphasize the importance of narrative medicine in her teaching, and she now oversees service learning for the medical school, raising up new classes of physicians with hands-on experience in providing care to those who need it most.

A Political Science Past Armstrong-Coben grew up in a big family, the second of seven children. “I always knew I wanted to be a doctor since I was three years old,” she told me.

“I wanted to be a pediatrician.”

She took the first step toward realizing this goal when she decided to come to Amherst College, which was the perfect fit for her — one of Amherst’s key advantages was that she could play Division III women’s basketball while being on the pre-medical track and getting to know her professors on a close, personal level.

Similarly, Armstrong-Coben was a perfect fit for Amherst. Even though she came from a high school where “there wasn’t a lot of emphasis on reflection and thinking,” she quickly adapted to the college’s thoughtful academic atmosphere.

Her sights were still set on medicine, but she also declared political science as her major. Armstrong-Coben felt drawn to the professors in the department and the way political scientists thought about various issues.

“You learn how to think,” Armstrong-Coben said of her Amherst education. “I learned how to write, and I learned how to listen.” When people ask why she chose to receive a liberal arts education, she asnwers that those

skills have helped her “be humanistic in practice,” which she considers important for any physician.

Professor of Political Science Austin Sarat, who was an important professor to Armstrong-Coben, recalled that she was an engaged and curious student.

“She was, in addition, a wonderful person whose human concerns seemed to drive her studies,” he said.

The Importance of Narrative Medicine After graduating in 1985, Armstrong-Coben moved to New York City to attend medical school at Columbia, where she enjoyed the new educational and urban environments.

“There was just something about [Columbia] and … the patient population that I found very, very exciting,” she said.

Armstrong-Coben did not leave Columbia after obtaining her MD; she completed her pediatric residency there and stayed on later as faculty, first working primarily with residents, and then with medical students.

She and other faculty members have been involved with integrating the ideas of the field of narrative medicine into the medical students’ curriculum. “[I’m] very fortunate the person who invented narrative medicine, or created it as a field, is actually at Columbia,” Armstrong-Coben said.

Narrative medicine is a substantial part of Columbia’s medical curriculum, and she said it improves physicians’ practice by helping them become “better listeners and observers; when you’re with your patients in one-on-one encounters, you become much more present for them and you can hear their stories and witness their experiences better.”

From her experiences as a physician and teacher of future physicians, Armstrong-Coben has recognized a need for what she calls “humanism in medicine.” Several factors contribute to a widening gap between physicians and patients, including the increasing presence of computers for record-keeping and a productivity needs. However, to her, the patient-physician relationship is the most important aspect of being a

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Armstrong-Coben spent much of her time running community-based practices to provide care to underserved communities.

doctor.

Narrative medicine, then, “keeps the humanism in the patient-doctor relationship really forefront in the education,” she said. She hopes that the skills students learn through narrative medicine will become an integral part of their identity as physicians.

Armstrong-Coben credits her time at Amherst as helping to foster her interest in narrative medicine, since it shaped the way she thought about patients and approached her interactions with them.

Even though narrative medicine did not yet exist when Armstrong-Coben was starting her career, her interests and her way of thinking aligned very closely with what narrative medicine teaches, inspiring her to become more interested in the field when it finally emerged.

“My education at Amherst — it did teach me to think more, and be more attentive with things, and curious,” Armstrong-Coben said.

“I loved not just the patient in my exam room — I loved knowing about their lives outside of there and all the impact that everything else has had on them,” she added.

She has the same outlook in her interactions with students. At Columbia, she is an advisory dean to over 100 medical students. This position is exciting to her because she can see her students through formative years in terms of career and personal life, and her students’ perspectives remind her of her own reasons for going into medicine.

As with her patients, Armstrong-Coben values one-on-one interactions with her students and learning more about them during what she called “a neat time in people’s lives.”

Improving Outcomes for Children in Foster Care While Armstrong-Coben has contributed to medical education at Columbia, she also dedicated her time to serving a traditionally underserved community with unique health needs: children in foster care.

Armstrong-Coben identified the strong and unmet health need among these children when she opened a practice for homeless adolescents. She realized a trend among her patients — most of them had been in foster care until they turned 18, at which point they were turned out with no place to call home and nowhere to go. The health care they received while in foster care, she said, was “horrendous.” Some of them also landed in foster care because they suffered abuse and neglect.

“My dream was to open a practice for children in foster care, and so that’s what I ended up doing,” she said. “It’s a population that I love and feel passionate about.”

As of this past year, Armstrong-Coben is no longer running the Newark, N.J. foster care practice that she opened up seven years ago. However, her passion for working with underserved populations in New York City remains.

She has also engaged in legislative

Photo courtesy of Anne Armstrong-Coben ’85

Anne Armstrong-Coben’s career has taken her through the subfields of narrative medicine, pediatrics, legislative work and service. work for New Jersey’s child advocate’s office on the issue of homeless adolescents and children in foster care. This is, as she put it, one of her various careers within a career. She has relayed her experiences and stories — as well as the knowledge she gained from her political science major — in order to influence policies on child welfare in her state.

Her decision to become involved with legislative advocacy, she said, was inspired by a realization that “you have patients who keep walking through the door with similar problems, and you realize that addressing certain things at an individual level isn’t going to be the most effective way to do it.”

The positive side of legislative work, for Armstrong-Coben, is the potential impact when an entire patient population can improve their health and health care access. The downside? “It moves really slow,” she said with a laugh.

Bringing Service to the Clinic and Classroom Armstrong-Coben did not limit her passion for working with the populations most in need of quality health care to her own practice. Where Columbia is in New York City, medical students and residents are surrounded by people who need better care, many of whom live in poverty. She has identified and now brings attention to factors affecting patient outcomes so that her students can be more effective in tailoring their approach to patients, accounting for differences in class and socioeconomic status.

In her experience, many disparities in medical outcomes are related to families’ different resources. For example, she said, a child living in a family unable to consistently pay their electric bill would be at higher risk of being hospitalized. All patients could see and hear the same things in an exam room, but their different environments or resources can lead to differences in outcomes.

“Access to resources, what you end up seeing, has so much more of an impact on health than actually a lot of the direct health care that we’re doing,” Armstrong-Coben said.

Recently, Armstrong-Coben said,

she was named the director of the Office of Service Learning for the medical school at Columbia, which indicated to her a growing interest in hands-on experiential learning and serving. Community service is growing increasingly important in medicine, which she largely credits to incoming medical students who often choose to work with nonprofit and community organizations and public or global health.

“I think many from my generation — and also generations after me — felt like so much of education is just very selfish,” Armstrong-Coben said.

“It’s sitting in a library with a book and studying.” With this practical, service-oriented approach to learning, she said, “You can go out into communities and learn that way.”

Life Outside Medicine Beyond her work in the clinic and the classroom, Armstrong-Coben also values her time with her family. She has four young children, and they are a priority to her. Although balancing work and personal life comes with its own challenges, she said her husband Harlan Coben ’84, whom she met during her time at Amherst, has been “instrumental in me being able to do what I did” — to continue advancing in her career while remaining a dedicated parent.

“As a physician, Anne has always tried to help the underserved and been their champion,” Harlan, a bestselling author, said. “People sense her goodness right away. I am ridiculously proud of her.”

Armstrong-Coben reminisced that she and Harlan Coben had started dating in college and — with a laugh — that she had started taking political science classes because he was a political science major.

Overall, she considers herself fortunate for having her many opportunities.

“I’ve just been given a lot of opportunities to do some really cool stuff that I hope has had a lot of impact,” she said, driving home once more the longtime passion that she has had for changing the world around her for the better.

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(mammoth reactions) To gather a range of opinions on the new mascot, The Student reached out to members of the students body and asked what they thought about the Mammoth. Most reacted positively, with some suggesting possible initiatives around the Mammoth that would encourage school spirit.

Jessica Jeong ’20 The women’s golf team always does a team huddle before we start each tournament round and to pump each other up we say, “Mammoths on 3! 1,2,3, Mammoths!” It’s definitely cool to have a mascot that we can do this with, even though it’s still a little awkward for us. It feels like the bond between the college and the team is strengthened. Instead of simply playing for the team members, I feel like we’re now properly playing as a representative for our school.

Billy Jang ’20 I think when you’re picking a mascot for a school that has essentially a bunch of traditions behind it, and a lot of alumni and a lot of very liberal students, it’s hard to get any mascot that’s going to really unify everyone under a certain front, especially when people are already divided over the Lord Jeff issue anyway. So I like the Mammoth, because it’s very neutral.

Reece Foy ’18 I think it makes sense to do away with those systems of supremacy, but I don’t think changing the name of the mascot was effective. I don’t think it was substantive in encompassing anything other than displeasing people who have poured their lives into loving and supporting this institution. … There was a lot of money that was put into the committee to do the mascot. In my opinion, why didn’t we use that money and more money at our disposal to starting some kind of fundraiser? Why didn’t we create a department, maybe for Native American studies … to become educated about that history and to show your commitment to native students as well as your current student population and institutions across the country in starting a native studies department and using the archives that we have. Not just changing our mascot, but giving native students a voice that will last through the rest of its creation, and through that, having a more detailed discovery of a mascot. … I would want to see real justice and real change made for native communities, especially being a native myself. In the end, I hope that’s what the mascot change will lead to.

Sasha Williams ’19 It’s kind of weird, because freshmen coming in think of it as the official mascot, but since I was here for the transition between Lord Jeff and the mammoth, I don’t really think about it too much.

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Phillip Yan ’18 I think the new mascot is symbolic and a testament to the hard work and feeling of all the Amherst students who have come together to create a new spirit and community by which to rally.

Abigail Offei-Addo ’21 Personally, to be completely honest, when I heard it was a mammoth, all I could think about were jokes about dead animals, but at the same time, I think it’s kind of cool especially because we have a mammoth skeleton in Beneski. That’s something not a lot of campuses can boast about.

Sam Amaka ’19 Not gonna lie, would’ve rather been the Wolves or the Valley Hawks, but I feel like everyone’s really warming up to the whole mammoth thing. It’s going to be kind of funny when we play against Tufts — our mascots are very, very similar. It’s kind of like we jocked the mascot.

Heather Scott ’21 My initial reaction was like, ‘Why would they pick an extinct animal?’ I feel like a lot of schools could make some pretty solid jokes against us, but the whole thing with scientists possibly bringing them back to life kind of goes in our favor …

I’ve seen worse mascots. It’s big and got tusks. … I think an actual mascot at games would be cool — that’s a pretty traditional college thing.

To not have that would be less school-spirited than we could be.

Samuel Zhang ’21 After I heard more about where it came from, where the concept came from, I was like, ‘Why didn’t they do the mastodon?’ ... Having the mastodon as your mascot sounds so obscure and so intellectual. If you go out and people ask you, ‘What’s your mascot?’, and you’re like, ‘A mastodon,’ it just sounds so cool.

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THE MASCOT COMMITTEE The Mascot Committee, which was charged with developing and implementing a process for mascot selection last year, will return to its roots as the traditions committee and look to incorporate the Mammoth into future campus traditions to build community, according to Student Traditions Committee co-chair Alejandro Niño Quintero ’18.

The mascot committee was comprised of members of the Alumni Executive Committee, the Association of Amherst Students, the Student Traditions Committee and faculty and staff. In total, 22 people made up the mascot committee. Throughout the mascot selection process, other members of the Amherst community were also involved in providing suggestions and feedback.

After the Mammoth was announced as the winner of the yearlong process, the mascot committee handed off design and visuals to the Office of Communications and Alumni and Parent Programs, Niño Quintero said.

A few committee members have been involved at some stages, but “we’ve mostly passed it forward to different groups.”

“It’s up to all of Amherst what they want to make of the Mammoth,” he said. “Whatever it is, I think the Mammoth will be something we’ll grow into. I don’t expect an immediate unification around it. I think it’ll be something that hopefully becomes meaningful beyond my time here.”

When the committee first began designing procedures for the mascot selection, Niño Quintero found himself feeling less pressured and more confident in “believing in the process.” Sticking to what they’d created and ensuring that everyone was included made him proud, he said.

“It really felt like we designed the process, and when we launched the campaign, it was like, ‘It’s in the hands of the people now,’” he said. “Letting go of it — putting it in the hands of the community and seeing what would come back.”

For Niño Quintero, serving on the committee was deeply meaningful. It helped him reexamine what community at Amherst looks like beyond the physical campus and it gave him a chance to work with alumni.

“This isn’t the most important thing on this campus or in this country, but I think these little symbolic things matter, and I hope that I’ve made this campus more inclusive and hopefully a stronger community over time,” he said. “I’m proud to be a part of that little community-building and that small change.”

As the traditions committee reassembles, he said, committee members will be considering creative ways to unite the school and all its stakeholders — developing a physical representation of the mascot, for example.

The committee is open to suggestions, he said, particularly those that have “come and gone on the way.” He and his co-chair, Harrison Haigood ’18, hope to utilize resources such as the college’s archives to bring greater context to old traditions as they navigate new community-building.

A. J. HASTINGS Starting on Oct. 21, the Saturday of Homecoming weekend, college merchandise seller A.J. Hastings will be carrying items bearing the new official logo of the Amherst College Mammoths. Several types of shirts as well as sweatpants with the new logo will be available, according to co-owner Sharon Povinelli. As of press time, the logo is still kept under wraps by the Office of Communications, to be released at an official release party on Oct. 20, the Friday of Homecoming weekend.

The brand-new merchandise will feature the logo licensed by the college and will create a more consistent look throughout some of the apparel. While A.J. Hastings has sold a few Lord Jeff items in the past, most of its items did not feature the name of controversial historical figure Lord Jeffery Amherst, primarily because the Jeff was only ever the college’s unofficial mascot.

Graphic by Justin Barry ’18

BEBU PROFILE A Tale Told by Beneski Museum Educator Fred Venne Official name: Mammuthus columbi Nickname: “Bebu,” for the Beneski Building’s abbreviation on the Amherst College course scheduler Sex: Male Height: 13 feet at the shoulder Weight: 13 tons Age: 46 at time of death, but now 20,000 years.

Hometown: Melbourne, Florida Current Residence: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Beneski Building Cause of Death: Walked into a bog while looking for food.

The Columbian mammoth housed in the Beneski Museum of Natural History was first excavated in Melbourne, Florida in 1923. A property owner named C.P. Singleton was digging on his land, hoping to plant a grove of orange trees when he hit something that he thought was a bone.

After contacting Frederick Loomis from Amherst College and the Smithsonian, a team of paleontologists excavated Singleton’s backyard. At the site they found two mammoths, including the one that stands in the museum today, as well as 40 other megafauna, or animals over 90 pounds.

Columbian mammoths’ ideal habitats of grassy plains stretched from California to Florida. They were herbivores and required anywhere from 300 to 700 pounds of grass to feed themselves each day. This particular mammoth was 46 when he died, which was determined by the growth lines on its tusks. Unfortunately for him, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and presumably while looking for food one day he stumbled a bog, which preserves fossils very well. Bogs act almost like quicksand, and the mammoth was sucked in 20,000 years ago.

ATHLETICS On the day the new mascot was announced in April, a baseball game was going strong. When the news that the Mammoth had won the widely publicized vote for a new mascot, excitement made its way through the crowd and the players.

“Guys were cheering and had the tusks up,” said Athletics Director Don Faulstick, referring to the hand motion resembling tusks that athletes and audiences have used as a sign of school spirit.

Faulstick said that even the teams that weren’t in season last spring showed enthusiasm for the “possibilities where we’re heading — building community around the mascot.”

“It’s been really cool to see our department and other student groups and other people on campus really rally around a college mascot as opposed to a mascot for only a certain group,” he said, adding that the entire athletics department supports the Mammoth as the new mascot.

“I think the overall piece from what a lot of us had said in athletics was that we’re happy to be a part of a process that was really a community pro-

cess,” he said. “It wasn’t just this group of people or that group of people on campus — the process was really inclusive … We’re all looking forward to having a mascot that’s really able to build community and be a mascot that everybody can be proud about.”

Having worked in athletics at Amherst for 20 years, Faulstick said he never really associated the department with Lord Jeff. Athletes had “A” on their uniforms, and the college itself was what they rallied around. An official change was overdue, he thought.

The department is still looking into possible uniform changes, Faulstick said. The word “Amherst” will remain the centerpiece of the uniform, but he said a number of students want the Mammoth on their shirts, hats and warm-up gear.

Faulstick said that the athletics department will consider these suggestions once the official Mammoth logo is revealed, which will take place during the first night of homecoming on Friday, Oct. 20.

Povinelli is excited about the new mascot and its connection with the school. “Out of the choices that evolved, the Mammoth was my first choice, so I’m pretty happy about that,” she said. “I like it because you can say ‘Mammoth pride,’ they have a mammoth in the museum, and because I don’t know of any other school around here that has a mammoth as a mascot.”

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Alumni Profile | Dan Rube ’88

Bringing the Liberal Arts to Bear in Law Dan Rube’s career in law and sports remains grounded in his Amherst education.

—Nate Quigley ’19 Dan Rube ’88 arrived at Amherst as a tennis player interested in math.

Some thirty-odd years later, he is now the executive vice president and deputy general counsel at the National Basketball Association. Although he’s had quite a few stops along the way, the manner of thinking and engaging with the world that he absorbed at Amherst has never stopped guiding his choices.

Growing up, Rube was truly a child of the 1970s. His dad owned a small business in the community, he went to local public schools and he loved playing sports. Indeed, the most distinct part of his childhood was probably his affinity for tennis and baseball. Such was life in New Rochelle, a few miles north of New York City.

Though his career led Rube through some of America’s most elite legal circles, Rube had never really thought of law as a genuine career path before Amherst. In high school, he had not cared very much for the humanities.

“I didn’t much enjoy reading in high school — it wasn’t my thing,” Rube recalled. Instead, as with most high school students, he focused on math — his primary academic interest — and sports.

In fact, his love for the tennis courts was a major motivation for his decision to attend Amherst, a school where he could continue to develop his passion for the game. Certainly, Amherst’s academic reputation aided him in making the decision, but Rube did not have the specific motivations that many of his future classmates had. He simply wanted to go to a good school and play tennis, and Amherst seemed the perfect fit.

material, they were intuiting it, as if taking the class for a second time after having already mastered the content.”

With math seemingly off the board, Rube turned his focus to one of his other first-year courses, an introductory political science seminar that would completely redefine his time at Amherst. Taught by the esteemed Professor Austin Sarat, a “young star” in 1984, the course offered a “kind of intellectual stimulation and focus on reading and writing that was really new.”

As was — and is still — the case in most of Sarat’s classes, no one could hide. Each student was expected to be ready and willing participants in the weekly sparring sessions with Sarat.

Rube was always up for these battles, and his enthusiasm didn’t go unnoticed.

“As a student, Dan had a lightening quick intelligence and a lively wit,” Sarat said. “He seemed to really enjoy learning and to value his college experiences.”

The class provided a springboard for Rube into a consummate liberal arts education. He took more political science classes, made full use of the remarkable stable of brilliant thinkers in Amherst’s English department and even dipped his toe into the murky waters of philosophy. Looking back, Rube credits a host of professors with further stimulating his passion for the humanities, but he heaps extra praise on the English department.

“I couldn’t get enough of that stuff,” Rube said. “The teaching was outstanding and the reading lists were all excellent.” Although he ended up majoring in political science, professors like William Pritchard and Allen Guttman spurred the development of Rube’s critical thinking.

Academics at Amherst

Outside the Classroom

However, once on campus, Rube’s academic focus quickly shifted. He had arrived at Amherst intending to pursue math, but his multivariable calculus class proved a rude awakening.

“It took me about five minutes to look around and see what real math kids looked like,” Rube said. “While I was working my butt off to learn the

Rube’s time of intellectual discovery at Amherst was inextricably linked to his deep love of sports. “It’s really hard to separate what my experience at the school was like on the team and what it would have been like without it,” Rube said.

Above all else, the mentorship of long-time tennis head coach Ed Serues

Math and Tennis Early On

was something that still carries significance to Rube. After a disappointing first season plagued by injuries, Rube returned to New Rochelle somewhat dejected. Waiting for him, however, was a letter from Serues promising how important Rube was to the team’s plans.

The letter motivated Rube to keep improving his game and he quickly became a member of the team’s starting lineup, eventually being named captain by his senior year.

Serues also introduced Rube to his other major commitment on campus, the men’s squash team. Like most public school students, Rube had no prior experience with the sport — he did not even own a racquet. Serues’s prompting paid off, as Rube attended tryouts even though he had no idea the school even had squash courts. It took a couple years to grow accustomed to the sport, but by Rube’s junior year, he was a letter-winner in both tennis and squash.

All this is not to say that Rube existed solely inside the athletic bubble that’s common on campus today. Rather, many of his closest friends came from his first-year floormates on the fourth floor of Stearns, especially his roommate Jeff Guiel. Today, three decades after first meeting, his friendship with Rube still holds a special place in Guiel’s heart. “Danny was the first person who really talked to me at Amherst that first day freshman year,” Guiel recounted. “Danny made me — and everyone he meets — feel welcome in such a deep way, right away.”

A Passion for Law Of Rube’s experiences at Amherst, perhaps none impacted his life more so than the decision to apply to law school his senior year. “I didn’t come in with any master plan to be a lawyer,” he said. “I was feeling my way a little bit.”

Ultimately, the one driving force behind any professional decision was a desire for some level of independence.

Growing up the son of a small business owner, the importance of agency in one’s career was impressed upon Rube from an early age. With the development of interest in the humanities at Amherst, Rube began to look for a path

Although a letter-winner in tennis and squash at Amherst, Rube has since developed a passion for climbing.

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Photos courtesy of Dan Rube ’88

After entering college with an affinity for math, Rube shifted his focus to the humanities, especially political science and English. that could combine these two motivations and gradually gravitated toward the field of law. He was accepted to the law school at Harvard.

“Law seemed interesting to me, and it gave me that opportunity to pursue something professionally challenging with that degree of independence,” Rube said.

The opportunities afforded by a Harvard law degree alone were good enough reason for Rube to enroll, but he was also drawn by other factors. Boston was very attractive to the Northeast native and the university’s large size was somewhat of a novelty. Though he had applied to other schools, the decision was already made when Rube received his acceptance letter from Harvard.

Harvard and Early Career Once in Cambridge, Rube went through the same routines as most of his classmates, one of whom hailed from Hawaii and would eventually become the 44th president of the United States. He held a post on the Harvard Environmental Law Review, spent too many hours studying and made friends over basketball at the gym. He even met his wife, Patti, at Harvard. Busy with all this, Rube thought nothing of a potential career in the sports world, ignoring the traditional law school path of those who end up working in the NBA. “Most students who are looking to maybe make a career in the sports world would take sports law or labor law or antitrust law,” Rube said. “Actually, I really wanted to take antitrust law there, but it ended up conflicting with a course I needed to take for the clerkship I ended up applying for.”

That clerkship ended up shaping Rube’s view of law — and he was hooked. For him, observing judges at work equated to watching a great master paint. The ability to combine the more theoretical aspects of legal theory with each case’s practical considerations was the legal profession at its finest. “I often tell law students who are thinking about it that if you clerk and you’re not interested by that, you probably weren’t meant to be a lawyer in the first place,” Rube said.

Rube loved his experience so much that he even considered following many of his Harvard classmates into a career in the public sector. Though he ended up returning to private practice, he still took to heart many lessons from the

clerkship.

Moving Up in the NBA After leaving New Jersey, Rube moved to Philadelphia to work at Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, content with making a career in such a private firm, especially since he was working side by side with his wife.

The opportunity to work for the NBA caught him completely off guard, as Rube had no real thoughts about leaving his position in Philadelphia.

However, when a friend from law school — who had just started working at the NBA — e-mailed Rube and a group of other Harvard graduates informing them of another open position, Rube had no doubts.

“I stayed up until three in the morning and prepared a resume from scratch and submitted it,” Rube remembered, laughing. “It was just a great opportunity and it kind of came out of nowhere.”

Rube landed the position, which was largely focused on the NBA’s byzantine salary cap system. Initially tasked with making sure teams understand and adhere to the cap, Rube’s responsibilities broadened as the years went by. He eventually assumed greater responsibility for collective bargaining discussions with the National Basketball Players Association, began to help formulate the league’s revenue sharing policies and took on other jobs that were not adequately filled. Now, Rube is the NBA’s executive vice president and deputy general counsel.

The league has changed enormously in the two decades since Rube joined, but Rube still retains much of his intial enthusiasm.

“As the game has grown and the business has grown, the need for legal services generally and even legal attention in the space within which I operate has grown,” Rube said. “The variety of work is what makes it so interesting.”

Coming up on his 30th reunion, Rube looks back fondly on his time at Amherst, crediting the college with developing many traits that are still important to him today.

“No matter what you’re doing, you’re doing the kind of things that a liberal arts education teaches you to do,” Rube said. “You’re analyzing and drawing connections between things, you’re problem solving, you’re communicating — and so in so many ways, the value speaks for itself.”

Alumni Profile | Bobak Razavi ’03

Carrying Amherst’s Torch in Law and Education Bobak Razavi ’03 has moved from career to career, but through it all runs a passion for civic engagement that he shares with others.

—Ariana Lee ’20 Bobak Razavi ’03 is currently a school teacher of seventh and eighth graders at St. Paul Academy Summit School, a K-12 independent school.

As an Amherst student, Razavi was thoughtful and added an unique perspective to his classes. After graduation, he attended law school but recognized soon after that his passion was not in this field.

This realization is what led him to his current teaching career, where he tries to bring an Amherst-style outlook to a middle school classroom, broaching difficult topics and creating ways for students to embrace his own love of digital media.

Bringing Interesting Perspectives When Razavi first visited Amherst, he was amazed at the teacher and student relationships that he distinctly remembers seeing at an event in Lewis-Sebring.

“I didn’t realize college could be like that, in that students were like the next generation of equal peers to professors,” he said. “Nowhere I went did it feel quite like that.”

Razavi majored in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought. His interest in the major was due to its interdisciplinary element. “I loved that it was a combination of political science and philosophy and case law and it was very intentionally not law school-y,” he said.

At Amherst, Razavi was also a features editor for The Amherst Student and president of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG.) Anthropology and sociology, American studies and environmen-

tal studies professor emeritus Jan Dizard, who taught Razavi’s firstyear environmental studies seminar, described Razavi as an “active and eager student.”

“He was just excited to be here at Amherst, and he had and still has a great sense of humor,” he said.

“He was an active participant and a smart guy … We became friends as a result of that first encounter and kept in touch with one another … I feel very fond of him.”

The evening before Dizard’s class with Razavi met, the news was filled with photos of the Iraq War, of armoured vehicles from the U.S. moving across the flat desert of Southern Iraq. He recalled a distinct memory that he has of Razavi in class while discussing the war.

“The build-up to the war was, of course, [the idea that] the Iraqis would greet us as liberators who were liberating them from the evils from Saddam Hussein,” Dizard said. “The men were all raising their thumbs … and it was impossible not to talk about these themes in the next class.”

During class, Razavi was quiet for a while — “uncharacteristically,” Dizard said. After some other students said that Iraqis were “cheering us on and giving us the thumbs up and so on, [Razavi] cleared his voice and said, ‘I’m from Iran, and in the Middle East the thumbs up is the same thing as the middle finger in the United States.’”

“That was Bobak,” Dizard said.

“He was modest. He would never try to dominate the discussion … He would wait his turn and always had something … that was an interesting

twist on an interesting perspective.”

From Law to Education After graduating from Amherst, Razavi worked at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked “on major price fixing cases and large corporate mergers,” he said. Two years later, he moved onto the next step in his career, attending the University of Wisconsin Law School with a focus on environmental law. From there he went on to work at a large law firm.

“I met a lot of good people there, but I kind of knew that wasn’t where my heart was long term,” he said.

“So after three years of practicing law there, I went into teaching, and that has been awesome.”

As a middle school teacher, Razavi hopes to have an impact on civic engagement and wants his students to feel connected with the current issues occurring in the nation and the world today.

“For our eighth grade curriculum, it’s modern American history,” Razavi said. “We have been more intentional recently in terms of engaging the reality of white on black violence through agents of the state, through the police, and that’s going to be hard conversations with eighth graders.” Despite the difficulty of having these conversations, however, Razavi emphasizes the importance of educating his students on these matters. “They are seeing it on YouTube and in their Instagram feeds and Snapchats,” he said. “The other piece I care about is making kids realize that there is such a thing as privilege and some people have it and some people don’t.”

Photos courtesy of Boback Razavi ’03

Bobak Razavi ’03 has led careers in law and education and now works with students at St. Paul Academy Summit School.

Amherst’s Influence at St. Paul Razavi said that as a teacher at St. Paul Academy Summit School, a significant part of his teaching style and his approach to classroom discussion originated from his own experiences as an LJST at Amherst.

“I feel like I’m trying to create the middle-school version of Amherst where people listen to each other, you’re all in a circle, you’re all equals and we care a lot about reading, we care a lot about writing and we care about ideas,” Razavi said.

“I think it’s important to have these classrooms, where we’re having inquiry-based discussions about issues that matter, and your voice counts, especially if you have facts to back it up from the reading that you did last night.”

His love for digital media was still apparent as he chatted about helping to start the first video news network at St. Paul Academy, his excitement clearly showing.

“Kids are making news stories about the school,” he said. “Some of it is serious, [like] where they’re reporting on what happened at the boys’ football game, but there’s parts of it where I intentionally made it very light-hearted.”

Razavi has incorporated elements of MASSPIRG and his first environmental studies course at Amherst in the late ’90s into his current seventh grade social studies curriculum. His work has impacted St. Paul Academy, making it “pretty influenced by sustainability studies and climate change.”

Looking Back

Bobak Razavi ’03 enjoys making home videos with family and teaching students how to produce films through movie-making camps.

Reflecting on his experience at Amherst, Razavi believes that those four years have shaped him into an active doer.

“I feel like in high school you sit back and complain and … kind of just have a passive existence,” Razavi said. “You could totally go through high school, do everything, and only do what a college wants you to do to get accepted, but then now have a deep and authentic and engaged life.”

The classes that Razavi took, the clubs he participated in and the

people befriended “helped me gain my voice and become someone who would do things and act on things,” Razavi said. “I became involved on the environmental side and planned the first solar power day in the town of Amherst. I felt like I could not have done that without a bunch of doers around me.”

Razavi’s fondest memories at Amherst involve the big circle of friends he had, with whom he still stays in touch. “[I think] of my friends and hanging out with them in old Pratt … and in James and Stearns … but then I also [think] of their weddings and seeing all the same people at weddings,” he said. The bittersweet day of graduation, Razavi remembers, was “really sad.”

“I was really disappointed to be leaving,” he said. “I was really distraught, and I felt like the rest of my life would not be as good … I think of that day a lot, and it rained that day like crazy … After it was done, the sky opened up, and I was like, ‘This is the most depressing thing ever. This is the best four years, and now it’s over.’”

Other fond memories he shared include door-knocking for MASSPIRG — an interesting experience for an introvert, the divisions on campus after George W. Bush beat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election and “the magic of the orientation stuff at the beginning of the year.”

Razavi also has a love for moviemaking, and he runs movie-making camps, where kids write their own storyboards, cast their own characters and film and edit their own videos.

In the same vein, Razavi also enjoys doing home video production.

“I make fake films … where I have the kids and their cousins play roles and we record those videos,” Razavi said. “I think they’re going to think it’s hilarious 10 years from now.”

During his free time, Razavi enjoys spending time with his family — his wife and two kids. His family loves outdoor activities such as apple-picking, going to pumpkin patches and father-daughter T-Ball, he said.

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Alumni Profile | Heather Govern ’02

Fullfillment in Nonprofit Environmental Work From marketing and environmental law to nonprofits, Heather Govern ’02 brings a strong code of ethics to all that she pursues.

—Olivia Gieger ’21 Govern met with me at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning at a coffee shop in downtown Boston. We talked for nearly an hour and a half before she headed off to work. I was surprised by the flexibility her work schedule allows her.

This, she said, is just one small benefit out of the many rewards of working for a nonprofit.

Govern works as a staff attorney for the National Environmental Law Center.

Though she took a rather roundabout way to her current career, she has gained a deep passion and appreciation for environmental law and discovered her own deep commitment to doing the most good for others through her career.

That excitement for her work became more and more apparent to me as we talked about her life and her career.

Govern’s love for her work comes from tenaciously sticking to the principles that are most important to her.

Moving Toward Victories in Environmental Law As an attorney in the field of environmental law, Govern spends much of her time researching and searching for new legal cases.

She looks for violations to environmental laws, such as the Clean Water Act which regulates pollutant discharge the Clean Air Act which monitors emissions, and the Endangered Species Act which provides measures and regulations to help conserve endangered plants and animals. “[Finding polluters] is not that difficult, because there is very good documentation and data related to the violations that the companies are experiencing,” Govern said.

“All these companies have to submit reports ... and they’re taking measurements of what they put into the water or what they’re putting out into the atmosphere.”

At the moment, Govern is especially interested in Concentrated

Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), for short. CAFOs are largescale animal farms, which are notorious for abusing and burdening waterways through improper waste disposal.

One of these CAFO cases that is in its final stages — Environment Florida, Sierra Club v. Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. — looks at the violations the poultry production company, Pilgrim’s Pride, has committed against the Clean Water Act by dumping its chicken waste into the Suwannee River.

The settlement from Pilgrim’s Pride is about $1.3 million, which will go to Florida family farms to cover costs of sustainable farming practices, such as open pasture systems and integrated farming, techniques that allow for cleaner water and a healthier environment overall.

The relatively new interest in CAFO law suits in Govern’s field comes as the National Environmen-

tal Law Center wraps up one of its largest cases to date: Environment Texas, Sierra Club v. ExxonMobil.

Govern described the case as a true “David and Goliath” tale, as Exxon’s legal team was over twice the size of the environmentalists’.

After a long legal process, the federal district court ruled that Exxon had violated the Clean Air Act for 16,386 days.

As a result, Exxon was ordered to pay a hefty near 20 million dollars in reparations, which, according to Govern, is likely the largest sum ever imposed on a corporation in a civil suit.

This major environmental victory is the product of hard work and effort not just by Govern alone, but by two Amherst graduates. David Nicholas ’81 worked as a lead attorney on the case and economist Jonathan Shefftz ’89 was also involved.

This collaborative team of Amherst alums speaks to one of Govern’s favorite aspects of Amherst: the Amherst alumni do not disappear after one walks out with a diploma.

“I really love that there is such an Amherst network when you get out,” she said. “Everyone is so supportive. Everyone is so smart.

You know you’re in good company when you’re working with someone who went to Amherst. You quickly have this kinship with whoever you’re working with.”

Govern expressed a genuine appreciation for the closeness between alumni that lasts over time.

“Amherst has never gone away, and I’ve been out fifteen years … I really love that,” she added.

A Roundabout Road

Photo courtesy of Heather Govern ’02

Govern transitioned to working in the nonprofit world after several years in the corporate marketing world. Now she works as an attorney at the National Environmental Law Center.

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Though Amherst’s presence has not left her life, Govern herself has changed and come a long way from the day she graduated, especially in terms of her future goals and plans.

“Right after Amherst I wanted to write, and I wanted to write creatively,” Govern said.

Soon after college, she began what would become a seven-year career in marketing.

Her firm took on a client that wanted to market environmentally harmful cleaning chemicals as sustainable.

However, contrary to what she expected, her colleagues in the firm were collaborating with this client, drafting ways to mask the product’s true nature and tout it as environmentally safe.

“I was sitting in this meeting thinking, ‘What? What are you talking about? What are we doing?

Why do we want to trick [people]?’” she said. “[This], I just thought, was unethical and wrong,” she added.

This experience marked Govern’s shift toward her current path, as she began investigating a change in career and eventually she decided to pursue environmental law.

After searching for schools, she ended up applying to and receiving her degree in a dual degree program from Northeastern University School of Law and the Vermont Law School, with a masters in envi-

ronmental law and policy in 2013.

Despite the detour it created on her road to becoming an environmental lawyer, Govern does not regret the time she spent working in marketing.

“Being in marketing for so long helped me figure out exactly what I wanted,” she said.

This gave her a certain resolve and clear vision for an end goal as she headed into law school, which helped her easily choose a school and design her own coursework in order to pursue her end objective of nonprofit environmental law.

While she does admit that seven years was perhaps a long time in marketing, she advised Amherst students to experiment.

“I tell people to work in the real world for a little bit, to get an understanding of how you want to go home at the end of the day and describe your job,” she said. “Do you want to be be proud of it, or do you want to care more about how much is in your paycheck?”

The Payoff of Working in Nonprofit Upon her graduation from law school, Govern began an internship for the National Environmental Law Center (NELC), which eventually turned into a paid position.

That was four years ago, and she has worked there ever since.

“It’s great — I love it,” Govern said, adding that she is excited about the outcomes of a string of cases that have recently wrapped up.

Govern credits her love for her job to the fact that the firm is a nonprofit. In contrast, many corporate lawyers find themselves burdened with work and unhappy with their career, she said.

“In nonprofit work, you feel like you’re doing something good for other people, and for the world,” she said.

Govern’s job comes with other advantages beyond the content with which she works.

“My work-life balance is fantastic,” she said, describing her flexible schedule, which allowed her to meet with me during what would be regular work hours for most others.

“It is a totally different world [from corporate law],” she said.

“Anytime there is corporate versus nonprofit, you’re going to have such a better lifestyle and not have to work as much in the nonprofit.”

Her positive experience with the National Environmental Law Center, especially after her time in the for-profit world of marketing, form the basis of the advice that she has for current Amherst students and what they choose to do after college.

“More money is not going to make you happy,” she said. “ Doing something that you’re really proud of, that helps people and the world and maybe the environment, will bring you so much more happiness than a higher paycheck,” she added. “You will derive so much more satisfaction from a job that you value and where you feel valuable.”

Alumni Profile | David Sutphen ’91

Executive Gives Back to Community and Friends David Sutphen ’91’s varied passions lead to a career path through the government, private and social sector with a current focus on education — Kelly Chian ’20 David Sutphen has moved around in different industries over the years, jumping from politics to entertainment to education. He currently works as chief communications and engagement officer at 2U, an education company focusing on providing online master’s degree programs. Sutphen was appointed to the company’s board of trustees in 2014 and remains active on the boards of nonprofit groups U.S. Soccer Foundation, GetSchooled and Business Forward.

Finding a Place Within an Education Setting Sutphen grew up in a working-class family in a Milwaukee, Wisc. neighborhood with four older sisters. Both of his parents were public servants and active in the civil rights movement. Sutphen started playing soccer when he was five years old, and the sport continued to be an important part of his teenage years.

To his interracial and interfaith upbringing, with his father being an African-American and his mother a white Polish Jew, he attributes his skill of “translating” among different perspectives in his professional career.

During spring break of his junior year in high school, he and his best friend went to Mount Holyoke to visit his older sister Mona, who is now also a trustee at her alma mater and was chief of staff for former president Barack Obama. He spent a night of being escorted to the bathroom at the all-women’s college before deciding to stay with his sister’s boyfriend, a first-year at Am-

herst College.

After a week at Amherst and spending time with the soccer team, Sutphen decided to apply to the college. He was accepted and came back to campus later that year, this time as a first-year student.

To Sutphen, being around other black students on campus was an interesting social situation, since his class only had 16 black students.

“I think the students of color felt particularly limited in their voice because the numbers were so small,” Sutphen said.

Sutphen joined the varsity soccer team, which was ranked in the national top 10 nearly every year during his time at Amherst. “I was fortunate to start my freshman year,” Sutphen said.

“That obviously meant a lot to me because soccer was a lot of my identity during that stage.”

Eric Satz ’91 met Sutphen the first week of school while trying out for the soccer team. They were both teammates and later became roommates. “[Sutphen] was a confident, serious student that didn’t take himself too seriously,” Satz said.“He enjoyed the classroom, his professors and his classmates.

He thrived on healthy debate.”

Still, Sutphen questioned his academic belonging and felt intimidated by the caliber of academic performance of his peers. However, some conversations and comments from professors challenged the way he thought of himself and his place.

“I have a couple of distinct rec-

At Amherst, Sutphen was a member of the varsity soccer team.

He is currently on the board of the U.S. Soccer Foundation.

ollections of interactions with professors early in my time in Amherst that have had real lasting impressions on how to think differently and making you believe that you can thrive in this school,” Sutphen said.

A political science major and thesis writer, Sutphen appreciated the college’s strong emphasis on writing and accredits some of his professional success to his writing abilities.

“There’s no way I would have gotten on the Michigan Law Review had I not learned how to write so well,” Sutphen said. “I wouldn’t have written opinion pieces for newspapers or opening statements for Senator Ted Kennedy. If you write really well … you have a really powerful role in shaping what is said.”

After Amherst, Sutphen worked briefly as a paralegal for the Lawyer’s Committee on Civil Rights Under Law before attending University of Michigan Law School, where he was on the Editorial Board of the Michigan Law Review.

Navigating the mental Sphere

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Right after graduation, Sutphen was a law clerk for the Hon. Timothy Lewis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. For the first time, his imposter syndrome went away because he felt he could “hold [his] own in any type of setting in an intellectual capacity.”

Sutphen then worked in the law firm Covington & Burling. During that time, his best friend at law school, Harold Ford Jr., got elected to the House of Representatives. Ford convinced Sutphen to take on the role as chief of staff, prompting him to leave the law firm.

“I went from being Harold’s best friend, where we used to play racquetball every day and hang out at parties, to essentially being his staffer,” he said.

After two years, the instability of the line between friend and boss led him to quit. Three months later, he accepted the offer for the position of judiciary committee general counsel for Senator Ted Kennedy, a prominent Democratic proponent of civil rights. Kennedy’s chief council, Melody Barnes, told Sutphen that he would have to work on business issues like intellectual property in addition to civil rights.

“I had no knowledge or interest in [business issues],” Sutphen said. “I didn’t pause or say this wasn’t what I wanted to do. I just said ‘yes.’ Of course, I ended up actually going down that path more than I did the civil rights path.”

While working for Kennedy, Sutphen worked on a range of issues like the impeachment trial of former president Bill Clinton, hate crimes, religious liberty bills and intellectual property.

Promoting Prosocial Inia-

Photos courtesy of David Sutphen ’91

Sutphen, a current member of the college’s board of trustees, values the relationships formed throughout his multifaceted career.

tives in the Private Sector After over five years in government, Sutphen moved to work as the senior vice president of government & industry relations for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

At a lunch and his first meeting with the RIAA president, Cary Sherman, Sherman asked Sutphen about any coursework or work experience in intellectual property or copyright laws. “I told him, ‘I never took a class and never really worked on intellectual property issues,’” Sutphen said. “Cary had this look on his face like, ‘Did we just hire this guy to be our top lobbyist? But he doesn’t know anything on the subject.’

Given what I learned at Amherst and other job experiences, I thought, ‘it’s literally not rocket science, I will figure it out.’”

After working for a trade association, Sutphen found it a natural transition to work as senior vice president for the media company Viacom, which owns Paramount Pictures, MTV and Comedy Central. The large expanse in channels and demographic audiences exposed Sutphen to many different worlds which helped in “building and reinforcing [his] relationships and community.”

Sutphen worked on copyright complaints against YouTube and began to take on a public responsibility role. He helped start GetSchooled, a nonprofit collaboration between Viacom and The Gates Foundation focusing on improving attendance in high school.

After years of lobbying and the election of Obama, who is opposed to lobbyists, Sutphen became partner at Brunswick Group, leading the consulting of strategic communications and public affairs for Fortune 500 companies. Six months ago, and after eight years at Brunswick, Sutphen took on the position as chief communications and engagement officer at 2U. The company started nine years ago with the mission to make master’s degree programs more accessible through an online platform in partnership with major elite educational institutions.

With the technological transformation of education, Sutphen believes

he is in a place to create real impact in communities and lives.

Giving Back and Creating Communities Outside of work, Sutphen tries to spend as much time as possible with his three-year-old son. Still a passionate soccer fan, he watches the sport occasionally. He also hosts social dinners once or twice a year, and these have been attended by notable people such as Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Walter Isaacson of Aspen Institute.

Sutphen noticed that in his network of connections, who are involved in areas from civil rights to finance to entertainment. that “there was a cohort of dynamic and engaging black men spread across these various fields that didn’t know each other.”

“A particular challenge of men of color, like black men that reach a ‘level of success,’ is there is not a lot of ‘you’ out there to turn to in moments of vulnerability or to unload or to unwind,” he said.

Sutphen also volunteers his time on multiple nonprofit boards, like the board of trustees for the college. He decided to become a trustee because of his growing appreciation for how much he benefited from Amherst, and he felt a duty and responsibility to give back.

He said that he appreciated the range of perspectives and knowledge, and how everyone brought something valuable. His specialty as a trustee has been advising on communication and reputation issues and crises that the school has experienced recently.

With a diversity of opinions among board members, Sutphen said he appreciates the “clear higher-order focus on what is best for the institution.”

“Sitting up on stage of commencement my first year [as a trustee] and looking at the students come across the stage, I realized how truly diverse the school is — which was not as much the case when I was there,” he said. “You feel that in a really profound way.”

The difficult next step after achieving “representationally diverse community,” Sutphen said, “is how to make that a true community.”

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Alumni Profile | Jim Warren ’74

Inside Looking Out: Reporting on the Media A journalist whose career has taken him from Newark to Chicago to D.C., Jim Warren ’74 writes about the subjects that matter to him.

—Emma Swislow ’20 Imagine waking up one morning, walking into Val and seeing the new issue of The Amherst Student on the newspaper rack.

You grab a copy and start flipping through it. Much to your surprise, there’s a letter from the president saying that the college is shut down for the rest of the semester until he can make a final decision on whether women will be allowed to attend.

This is just one of the pranks journalist Jim Warren ’74 and his friends played during their time at Amherst as a part of the group they coined Rubber Chicken Enterprises.

“Most people quickly realized that this was the Rubber Chicken Enterprise guys,” Warren said.

“One of my friends who was a dorm monitor had one of his freshman literally packed up and walking to the bus stop downtown thinking it was legit. The Washington Post wrote about it. We did stuff like that and we were occasionally called into the dean’s office but in the end, after four years, [college President John William] Ward was very good about it.”

A Fateful Bus Ride While still in high school at the Collegiate School in New York City, Warren’s guidance counselor suggested that he visit Amherst.

After an early morning bus ride with his mother, Warren arrived on campus for an interview.

“A freshman, who had gone to my high school picked me up and I was actually a little bit hung over,” Warren said. “We had won our high school soccer championship the day before and celebrated that Friday night.

“So I got there and I went to his dorm and literally put my head into a bowl of cold water while my

mother waited somewhere outside.

I had my interview at 11, took a bus back a few hours later and on Wednesday, the acceptance letter came.”

At Amherst Warren spent his time outside of the classroom writing and editing for The Amherst Student, hosting a midnight sports show on WAMH (then WAMF) and playing soccer.

“Life at Amherst was intense in many ways,” Warren said. “Obviously it was academically very intense. I worked a whole lot. I spent a lot of time in Frost Library off in a corner. When I think back I remember working really hard, partying really hard and athletics were my one release.”

Warren attended Amherst in the early 1970s, a tumultuous and politically divisive time on college campuses.

“There was coeducation, there was the Vietnam War, there was the Civil Rights Movement around the country,” Warren said. “It was a very fascinating time to be going to a place like Amherst, especially with as many brilliant and provocative teachers as one had.”

While it might be hard to believe now, the prospect of coeducation at Amherst was met with lots of opposition. Amherst allowed women to attend the college in 1975, however, the year after Warren graduated.

“It’s hard now to look back and to realize the depth of outright animus to the idea in some sections of the community, notably alumni,” Warren said. “It’s hard to believe that people didn’t want it. They thought that somehow it was going to ruin this place. We thought that was foolish.”

Career by Chance After graduating with his bache-

lor’s in English, Warren started his career in journalism by working as a reporter at the Newark Star Ledger, mostly due to chance.

“It was totally an accident,” Warren said. “I planned to go to law school, but I decided to take a year off and through a connection, I got a job at the Newark Star Ledger, a newspaper in New Jersey ...

I ended up liking it, staying there and moving on to Chicago. I didn’t necessarily have it in my blood, but I enjoyed writing.”

From there, Warren wrote for Chicago Sun-Times and then Chicago Tribune.

He ended up staying at the Tribune for 24 years, working as the Washington D.C. bureau chief as well as the managing editor of the features section, among other positions.

“The Tribune Company, the same company that owns the Chicago Tribune, also owned lots of TV stations and decided to throw us all in together to see what we could do and it was no more specific than that,” Warren said.

“All the print guys and all the TV folks had a natural suspicion of each other, the TV guys thinking the print guys were self-righteous jerks and the print guys thinking the TV guys were airheads. By living together, essentially, in the same office, we realized that really wasn’t the case and we ended up doing a lot of great stuff together,” he added.

While this combination of TV and print organizations was new at the time, it’s become commonplace, if not expected, around the country.

“Now you see that sort of thing all the time,” Warren said. “You see the camera in the newsroom of The New York Times or The Washington Post in the background. Well,

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Warren writes for Poynter Institute as its chief media correspondent. He has a daily column called the Warren Report that is published by Poynter and Vanity Fair, in which he writes about the media’s current focuses and its success in covering these topics.

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“No matter how good or bad I am, I wouldn’t be half as good without that intellectual prodding I got at Amherst,” Jim Warren ’74 said. there was none of that in 1995. We were one of the first.”

A New Era in Media Over his time in the media business, Warren has seen the industry evolve to where it is now.

“With the internet revolution, it’s just apples and oranges,” Warren said. “There’s very little similarity to the world I started in where newspapers were king.

There were maybe four or five or six media gatekeepers who decided each day what was news.

“Now you’ve got this revolutionary time in the news world where you can sit in a dorm room at Amherst College and be blogging or reporting stuff that could conceivably have an impact.”

Warren does see this move toward a more digital age of media as a change for the better.

“It’s appealing in a visual way that we could never be in the old print world,” Warren said.

“The world I knew is gone, but you have to stop mourning that,” he added. “It’s like the pissed-off alums in the early 70s. There had to be a statute of limitations on mourning the end of all-male Amherst. It’s the same thing here.”

Currently, Warren writes a daily column for both Poynter Institute and Vanity Fair in which he explores how the media reports on the news.

Warren finds that this sort of writing is especially interesting given President Donald Trump’s attitude toward the news industry.

“It’s fabulous not only to try and make sense of Trump, but also to make sense of the media as it tries to make sense of Trump and to see what impact, if any, its reporting and analysis of him will have,”

Warren said. “And to me, most importantly, if the media over time will be able to regain some of the trust that’s clearly lost during the Trump era, in no small measure because of his effective bashing of the media.”

Warren wrote an article for the September issue of Vanity Fair on the reporting done by The New York Times and The Washington Post during the Trump presidency.

Cullen Murphy ’74, editor-at-large of Vanity Fair, edited Warren’s article.

Warren and Murphy were editors together on The Amherst Student, and Murphy remembers the long nights they put in when the newspaper was still housed in the basement of Morris Pratt Dormitory.

“We were on a very tight deadline, and he was handing over 1,000 words a day, and I think one of the things that made the whole process work was simply complete trust in one another,” Murphy said.

“Plus, we enjoy being in touch around the clock when closing a piece like this,” he added. “It’s like Pratt basement all over again. But without the pizza.”

Although Warren’s career went in a different direction than he expected when leaving Amherst, he still finds ways to connect the two together.

“I’m in a world that at times can be relentless in its dailyness and what might seem its superficiality because you’re just immersed in what’s happening today and that was very different after four years at Amherst,” Warren said. “No matter how good or bad I am, I wouldn’t be half as good without that intellectual prodding I got at Amherst.”

Volleyball Easily Handles Williams, 3-1, to Halt Four Game Skid

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Emily Kolsky ‘20 has put together a strong campaign with 223 kills this fall, which makes her best on the team and second-best in the NESCAC. Will Zaubler ’19 Staff Writer The Amherst College women’s volleyball team snapped a four-game losing streak this weekend with a NESCAC win over Williams.

Before facing off with Williams, however, the Firedogs endured two tough away losses against strong opponents: Clark University and Hamilton.

Against the Clark Cougars, Amherst played well in an evenly contested match, but dropped a tight first two sets and ultimately fell 3-1 (17-25, 21-25, 25-12, 20-25). In the third set, the Firedogs showed tenacity and grit to avoid the sweep.

Amherst dominated the stanza, propelled by a .382 hitting percentage and strong individual performances.

Co-captain Marialexa Natsis ’18 recorded four of her 14 kills in third set, including two in a row, extending Amherst’s lead over Clark to 17-8.

Emily Kolsky ’20 and co-captain Asha Walker ’18 also put in strong performances in the loss, finishing the match with 18 kills and 13 digs, respectively.

After Clark, Amherst traveled Clinton, N.Y. to challenge Hamilton. The Continentals were on a hot streak heading into the clash with the Firedogs, coming off two NESCAC wins in a row against Bates and Colby.

Amherst could not find a way to stop Hamilton’s NESCAC winning streak and fell 3-2 (25-21, 23-25, 25-19, 20-25, 9-15) in another tight match. After the first four stanzas, in which Amherst and Hamilton traded sets, the Firedogs could not overcome a 6-2 deficit to start the fifth set, which they ultimately lost 15-9.

The loss to the Continentals was highlighted by first-year Daria Kim-Percy’s strong performance, which was perhaps her best of the year.

Kim-Percy led the Firedogs in both aces, with two, and digs, with 27.

Against the Ephs (8-10), the Mammoths put the string of tough losses behind them, and bested Williams 3-1 (25-20, 25-21, 20-25, 25-17), by winning multiple tightly contested sets.

Playing at Chandler Gym is always a tough task for the Firedogs, but Amherst won the first two sets of the match, jumping out to a commanding 2-0 lead.

Williams fought back in the third set, winning 25-20, but Amherst responded strongly in the fourth stanza, winning the set 25-17 to thwart an Ephs comeback and leave Williamstown with a 3-1 win that snapped their fourgame skid.

Kim-Percy continued her strong play against Williams, providing a double-double with 12 kills and 19 digs. Adelaide Shunk ’20 also played well, assisting on 23 of Amherst’s points.

The win against Williams, gave the Firedogs a massive boost, whose playoff chances hinge on strong performances over their upcoming final five games.

“It was great beating Williams not only because it was an important win to create a turning point in our season, but also, it was truly amazing to beat our rivals and play together as

a confident team again,” Natsis said.

The team returns to the court this weekend, when they host a trio of matches in LeFrak Gymnasium for the annual Hall of Fame tournament. On Friday, Oct. 20, Amherst will take on Wellesley at 7 p.m. On Saturday, the Mammoths will face off against the Coast Guard Academy and WPI in back-to-back affairs.

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Hayes Honea ‘19 leads Amherst in digs by a wide margin with 369.

Men’s Tennis Takes Three of Top Men’s Soccer Goes 2-1 on Week with Four Doubles Places at MIT Invite Wins Over Bates and Mt. St. Mary Matthew Sparrow ’18 Staff Writer Continuing the momentum from their strong showing at the New England Regional Championship, Amherst men’s tennis had a great weekend at the MIT Invitational led by Zach Bessette ’19 and the doubles pair of Jayson Fung ’20 and Ethan Hillis ’21.

In the singles competition, Amherst represented three of the top fifteen seeds, with No. 5 seed Bessette, No. 11 Kevin Ma ’21 and No. 15 Sean Wei ’21. All three advanced to at least the round of 16, where they were joined by fellow Mammoth Nathan Kaplan ’20.

Bessette’s journey started off with straight-set

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Oliver Kendall ‘19 was one of eight Amherst entrants in the MIT singles bracket, losing in the first round.

victories over Rajan Vohra of Brandeis and Wesleyan’s Zach Fleischman. After a tight 6-1, 7-5 win over Calvin Chung of Williams to advance to the quarterfinals, Bessette lost a heartbreaker to Alex Taylor, the 14th seed from Williams, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4).

Ma, Wei and Kaplan cruised through their first two matches before they fell to higher seeded opponents. Ma lost to No. 1 seed Steve Chen of Wesleyan, while Kaplan lost to eighth seeded Austin Barr from Williams. Wesleyan’s Andrew Finkelman advanced over Wei. Amherst’s remaining singles entrants, Fung, Hillis and Oliver Kendall ’19, were all defeated in the first round. In the consolation bracket, Hillis progressed to the finals before losing against Middlebury’s Timo van der Geest.

The Mammoths demonstrated their talent with a strong showing in the doubles tournament.

Only three Amherst pairs competed, but all three advanced to the semifinals, with the duo of Fung and Hillis reaching the championship match.

Their tournament began with a difficult matchup against the top seeded pair of Noah Farrell and Peter Martin from Middlebury. Fung and Hillis, however, won 8-5 before rolling through their next two matches. This set up a meeting in the semifinals with Bessette and Ma, seeded fourth, who had handily defeated pairs from NESCAC opponents Tufts and Bowdoin.

Wei and Kaplan joined the other two pairs in the semifinals after dropping a total of six games in three matches, highlighted by an upset victory over third seeded Zain Ali and Rohan Gupte of Tufts.

While Wei and Kaplan lost to second seeded Anupreeth Coramutla and David Aizenberg of Brandeis, Fung and Hillis took out Bessette and Ma in a thrilling tiebreaker, 9-8 (4).

Although Coramutla and Aizenberg would get the best of Fung and Hillis in the final, 8-6, Amherst will have plenty of confidence heading into next week’s Wallach Invitational at Bates.

Delancey King ’18 Staff Writer Last week, the Amherst College men’s soccer team played three tough matches, with two of the three battles going into overtime. Recording two wins and one loss, the Mammoths are now 4-2-2 in NESCAC play and sit comfortably fourth in the league standings.

This past weekend, the Mammoths traveled to Maine for a doubleheader against Colby and Bates. Amherst suffered only their second loss of the season on Saturday, as the Mules managed to pull out a 2-1 overtime victory.

Jeff Rosenberg put Colby ahead in the 17th minute of play, notching an unassisted goal which ended up earning him NESCAC Player of the Week honors. The Mules managed to preserve their lead until the 86th minute, when Weller Hlinomaz ’18 was able to capitalize on a corner kick from Cutler Coleman ’20, sending the Mammoths into overtime for the third game in a row.

After a scoreless first overtime period, the Mules’ Jansen Aoyama found the back of the net to deal Amherst a tough loss.

Seeking redemption after the previous day’s defeat, Amherst came away with the 2-1 win against the Bobcats. It was Bates who struck first, with Beaufils Kimpolo-Pene recording his third goal of the 2017 season. However, Kieran Bellew ’18 answered for the Mammoths. The senior collected a ball from Bijan Zojaji ’20 before beating his defender down the left side and scoring off a chipped shot over the Bates keeper.

Senior captain Aziz Khan notched the game winner early in the second half, but what characterized the game was the strong goalkeeping of Michael Stone ’21. Stone made six saves in net for the Mammoths, earning the second win of his collegiate career.

“It was a hard weekend,” midfielder Luke Nguyen ’19 said. “It was nice to bounce back on Sunday, but we all know there is work to be done

if we want to win our last 3 games.”

For the fifth time in seven games, the Mammoths went to overtime against Mount St. Mary in what was a thrilling win for the purple and white, 2-1. Each team traded goals in the second half, and, with the teams knotted at 1-1 at the end of regular time, the game headed into the extra period. Only a minute and fifty seconds into extra time, Amherst sealed the victory with a golden goal from first-year Kyle Kelly off a corner kick courtesy of Fikayo Ajayi ’19. Stone made three saves in net, earning his second consecutive win.

With this victory, the team improved to 8-2-2 on the season. Next up, Amherst faces NESCAC rival Wesleyan on Saturday, Oct. 21 for their Homecoming game. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m.

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Bryce Johnson ‘21 has been a key element of the Mammoths defense.

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Field Hockey Suffers Two Consecutive NESCAC Losses Jenny Mazzella ’21 Staff Writer This past weekend, Amherst field hockey played two away games, facing off against fellow NESCAC schools Colby and Bates. Unfortunately, the Mammoths suffered two close losses. Both games ended with final scores of 1-0.

Amherst played the Colby Mules on Saturday, Oct. 14, and it was a closely matched affair, with both Amherst and Colby registering five shots on goal. Amherst had eight total shots, which bested Colby’s five. Amherst also had sixteen penalty corners, while Colby only had four.

Unfortunately, while the statistics favored Amherst, the final score did not. Colby took an early lead, scoring six minutes into the game off of its first shot. Amherst came close to scoring during an eight-minute span in the second half of the game, with the Mammoths earning four penalty corners. Elizabeth Turnbull ’18 nearly scored off a pass from Kendall Codey ’19, but the Mules’ goalie made a key save. Amherst goalie Emilie Flamme ’20 tallied four saves throughout the game, but it

was not enough to earn the victory.

Amherst returned to the field the next day to compete against Bates. Once again, Amherst had the advantage in total shots, shots on goal and total penalty corners. Unfortunately, yet again, it was not enough to secure the win. The game remained tied at 0-0 for majority of the playing time. With eight minutes left, Turnbull again came close to getting the Mammoths onto the scoreboard, but Bates managed to stop it. Laura Schwartzman ’20 took another shot off the rebound of Turnbull’s original shot, but that was also blocked. Bates ended the stalemate soon thereafter, scoring with just four minutes left to play. The Mammoths stayed focused and continued to fight until they very end of the game, earning back-to-back penalty corners and taking three shots in the final ten seconds of the game. Unfortunately, they were unable to get onto the scoreboard, and Bates came away with the win.

With these two losses, Amherst now has an overall record of 8-4 and a conference record of 4-4. Amherst will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 21, traveling to face Little Three rival Wesleyan.

Football Returns to Winning Ways with Rout of Colby Talias Land ’20 Staff Writer The Amherst College football team traveled up to Waterville, Maine this past weekend to take on the Colby Mules. Behind a stellar defensive effort, the Mammoths rebounded from the previous weekend’s loss with a dominating 40-7 win.

The Mammoths started by establishing the vertical passing game and claimed a lead on their first drive of the game. Ollie Eberth ’20 connected with both Bo Berluti ’19 and Harry Boeschenstien ’20 for two long passes, setting up a 32-yard John Rak ’19 field goal to put Amherst on the board. Rak put another field goal through the uprights at the start of the second quarter to make Amherst’s lead 6-0. Later in the quarter, Reece Foy ’18 connected with James O’Regan ’20 for a touchdown. Scrambling to avoid Colby pressure, Foy bought himself time while his receivers worked to get open, eventually hitting O’Regan, who made a leaping catch, barely staying inbounds. With Rak’s conversion of the extra point, the score sat at 13-0 in favor of Amherst at halftime.

The Mammoths exploded for 21 unanswered points in the third quarter to put the

game out of reach. The run was keyed by a few impressive special teams plays. At the 8:13 mark, Tristan Andrzejewski ’21 blocked a Colby punt, recovered it and ran it 11 yards for the touchdown. Five minutes later, after an Amherst defensive stop, Eberth connected with Craig Carmilani ’18 for a 28-yard score to cap off an 86-yard drive. Nate Tyrell ’19 scored the final touchdown of the quarter, returning a Colby punt 53 yards, breaking several tackles as he rumbled into the end zone. That play made the score 34-0 heading into the final quarter.

Colby avoided the shutout with a touchdown pass, but Joe Kelly ’21 responded, scoring the final points of the day for the Mammoths off an interception that was returned for a touchdown.

Eberth finished 12 for 20 with 141 yards, and Foy went 7 for 9, totaling 56 yards. The Mammoths held the Colby offense to just 135 total yards of total offense. Rak, in addition to his kicking display, registered seven tackles to lead the team.

The Mammoths head into week six of a nine-week season. This upcoming weekend, the purple and white will host the Wesleyan Cardinals on Homecoming weekend in a matchup of 4-1 teams. The game kicks off on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. on Pratt Field.

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Senior quarterback Reece Foy only played a few quarters but impressed while he was on the field, leading Amherst to a 13-0 lead at the half.

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ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT

Cosmo Brossy ’19 Favorite Team Memory: Winning Little Three’s as a team and finally breaking Williams’ 29-year streak Favorite Pro Athlete: Gold medalist Emma Coburn Dream Job: Whatever Nicholas Cage is in National Treasure Pet Peeve: When you hold the door open for someone and they don’t acknowledge you Favorite Vacation Spot: Florence Something on Your Bucket List: Become a black belt in karate Guilty Pleasure: Val vending machine Favorite Food: Watermelon and lime Favorite Thing About Amherst: Running the nature trails in the Fall How He Earned It: Brossy paced the Amherst men’s cross-country team, and the entire field, en route to a first-place finish at the annual 8K Little III Championship hosted

by Williams at the Mt. Greylock XC Loop with a time of 25:59.0. This snapped Williams’ 29-year winning streak at the event.

Brossy led a herd of impressive Mammoths, with four of the top five finishers coming from Amherst.

Hannah Guzzi ’20 Favorite Team Memory: Winning the NESCAC tournament last year Favorite Pro Athlete: David Ortiz Dream Job: Dog whisperer Pet Peeve: Slow walkers Favorite Vacation Spot: Scotland Something on your bucket list: Going on an African safari Guilty Pleasure: Reading Harry Potter over and over again Favorite Food: Val’s cookie cake Favorite Thing About Amherst: The soccer team!

How She Earned It: Down 0-1 late against Bates, Guzzi scored both the equalizing and game-winning goals as Amherst came from behind to defeat Bates 2-1 in an overtime conference match. This pushed the Mammoths’ unbeaten streak to five games. Guzzi leads the team with 11 goals and 23 points overall, starting every game thus far over the course of the season and leading the Mammoths to a record of 7-5-1. A four-year starter, the senior forward has amassed an impressive 44 goals in her career thus far.

Men’s Club Soccer Falls to UMass, Tops Harvard Kelly Karczewski ’18 Staff Writer The Amherst College men’s club soccer team went 1-1 last week — falling short of taking down division-leader Umass A in a narrow 3-2 loss on Friday, Oct. 13 before dispatching Harvard B 4-1 on Sunday, Oct. 15 to end the regular season. Ending with a 7-2-1 record, the team, more commonly referred to as AFC (Amherst Football Club), just missed out on an at-large bid to the playoffs.

In perhaps the toughest competition of the regular season, Amherst came into the game with confidence and excitement, finding space early on and pressuring the UMass defense with speed from forwards Drew Kiley ’18 and Ian Fayorsey ’18. The initial mojo was interrupted, however, by a transition goal from the UMass left midfielder, who capitalized on a counterattack to open tge scoring. His one-time strike found some open real estate in the top right corner, sailing past Amherst goalie Tim Offei-Addo ’19.

The remainder of the half saw offensive attempts on both ends, particularly by the Amherst attack. A powerful header from Kiley went just wide of the net in 38th minute, and an outsidethe-box penalty kick flew over the goal, not quite on the mark. When the whistle blew to end the first half, both teams had hustled and created chances but the frenetic pace hinted at what would evolve into a heated battle of pride.

Up 1-0, UMass fell into a good rhythm at the start of the second half, finding the back of the net in the 58th minute to make the score 2-0. The two-goal deficit seemed to wake up the Amherst attack, who answered with a goal of their own just minutes later. After a scrum in the box, Fayorsey pounced on the loose ball and placed it in the back of an empty net to set the score at 2-1. Heated by the closing gap in the score, an unnecessary nudge evolved into a multiple-player fight, all parties pushing and shoving around the initial offenders.

The fight only lasted a few seconds, but the referees awarded a red card to the visitors.

Still feeling the pressure, UMass picked up its offensive presence and pushed back hard towards their competitor’s net. Within a matter of minutes, UMass had forced three impressive saves by OffeiAddo, and careful sweeping by senior center back Alex Frenett ’18 ruined several promising breakaways by UMass’ relentless attack. A monstrous strike from the UMass center back, a few feet outside of the box, finally made its way past the Amherst keeper to make the score 3-1.

The clock was reaching the 80th minute when Amherst turned up the heat again, charging UMass’ net with promising forward feeds and forcing the Minutemen to remain on the defensive.

It wasn’t until Kiley, after some smart footwork, found Fayorsey open in the middle that Amherst was able to put the ball in the back of the net to make the competition a one-goal game. The last minutes of the game saw several scoring opportunities by both sides, but neither team was able to find the net one last time. Amherst had given them a close match, but UMass ultimately came out on top with the 3-2 score.

AFC saw a better outcome two nights later against Harvard B, defeating the Crimson 4-1.

The purple-shirted men struggled to impose themselves on their opponents in the first half.

Fayorsey scored off a corner kick, but Harvard pegged one back before halftime on a free kick.

Controlling the midfield in the second half, Amherst searched for a goal to give them the edge.

Harvard held firm until first-year Marco Sanchez deftly redirected a corner past the keeper. The goal opened the floodgates for Amherst. Ten minutes later, Fayorsey controlled fired a rocket into the sidenetting. Then, Kiley scored Amherst’s fourth on a solo effort.

Despite missing the playoffs, AFC’s impressive record makes this season one of the young program’s most successful ever.

Women’s Soccer Claims Pair of Major Weekend Wins

The Hot Corner

Katie Bergamesca ’18 Staff Writer

After an odd rule interpretation in last week’s playoff game between the Nationals and the Cubs, Jack Malague disscusses the use of video review in Major League Baseball.

After a tough September fraught with heartbreaking losses, the Amherst women’s soccer team has begun to find their groove in the second half of the season. The Mammoths just completed a 2-0 week, with both wins coming against in-conference foes.

On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Mammoths took the field to face off against Colby. Amherst’s Mia Bongiorno ’19 had the lone goal in a closely contested match. Bongiorno scored her game-winning goal less than a minute before the halftime buzzer, and the Mules were unable to tie the score in the next 45 minutes.

The next day, Amherst returned to the field, this time in Lewiston, Maine to face Bates. The game against the Bobcats remained scoreless in the first half. Bates was first to score in the second half, getting on the board in the 50th minute of play. Hannah Guzzi ’18, however, proved to be the hero for the Mammoths, delivering the tying goal with less than five minutes to go in regulation time.

Neither team found the nylon again before the final buzzer, so Amherst and Bates headed into overtime. Guzzi scored her second goal in the 95th minute of play, giving the Mammoths the overtime win and recording her 11th goal of the season.

With their 3-0 week, Amherst improves to a 7-5-1 record on the season overall and 3-4-1 in the NESCAC. They will return to Hitchcock Field on Saturday, Oct. 21 to play Wesleyan in the final home game of the season. Seniors Guzzi,

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Senior Hannah Guzzi scored both the trying and winning goals in Sunday’s 2-1 overtime defeat of Bates.

King, Meredith Manley and Alison Neveu will be honored before the 12 p.m. start, as this will be the last game they play on Hitchcock Field.

Nicky Roberts Finishes First at Little III Championships

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The Mammoths were led by Nicky Roberts ‘18, who added a first-place finish at the Little III Championships to her second-place finish at Paul Short.

Jamie Mazzola ’21 Staff Writer On a gorgeous day at Mt. Greylock, Williams’ home course, the Amherst women’s cross country team (43 points) placed second to the Ephs (20 points) at the annual Little Three Championships, defeating Wesleyan (69 points). This victory for Williams marks their 10th straight win at the Little Three Championships. As a result of their strong showing, Amherst moved up one place in the New England Region rankings to No. 7, while Williams retained their second-place regional ranking.

The women raced a 6k at Mt. Greylock earlier in the season at the Purple Valley Classic. Mt. Greylock is known as a grueling course, with rolling hills and changes in terrain throughout the race.

In only her second meet of the year, senior Nicky Roberts made her presence known to all, leading from start to finish and capturing first place overall in a blistering time of 17:49.

Roberts finished a full 34 seconds ahead of

her nearest competitor, a 1:14 improvement over her time the previous year. Roberts is Amherst’s first individual Little Threes champion since 2012. Williams’s Victoria Kingham (18:23) and Audrey Rustad (19:00) placed second and third overall in the race.

Sophomore Kristin Ratliff (19:25) and first-year Olivia Polischeck (19:29) placed an impressive seventh and eighth overall in the race, working together and running tactically smart races. Junior Lela Walter (19:41) finished closely behind in tenth place, and junior Lizzie Lacy (20:20) placed 21st to round out the top five Mammoth finishers.

Amherst looks forward to the annual NESCAC Championships at Bates on Saturday, Oct. 28th. This will be the final meet of the season for all but the top seven runners, who will move on to the NCAA Division III New England Regional Meet on November 11th.

With seven of the top ten ranked New England Region teams and one of the top ten ranked Atlantic Region teams competing, the NESCAC Championships is sure to be a highly competitive meet.

Jack Malague ’19 Columnist

Last week, the Washington Nationals lost their fourth National League Division Series in the past six years, surrendering their early lead and serving up the Chicago Cubs’ third straight appearance in the National League Championship. As the Nationals choked away their chance for a D.C. team to make a conference final for the first time since 1998, an odd interpretation of an obscure rule helped them steal defeat from the jaws of victory. With two outs in the fifth inning and the Cubs leading by one, Javier Baez, as he is wont to do, swung and missed at an 0-2 slider in the dirt. The ball quickly scooted under the glove of Nationals’ catcher Matt Wieters, releasing Baez to run to first with two outs. Wieters raced to retrieve the ball and, panicked, threw wide of first base. Addison Russell came around to score from second, and a third strike that might have meant the third out instead became a two-base, run-scoring error, and the nightmare inning continued.

This was one of four ways that Cubs hitters reached base in the fifth inning that night (the other three being an intentional walk, a hit batsman, and three base hits). It gets more interesting, because as Baez followed through after his swing, the end of his bat clipped Wieters’s mask. As it turns out, a provision in MLB’s rulebook seems to govern this exact scenario. When a batter unintentionally hits the catcher on his backswing, the rule says, it is “a strike only … and no runner shall advance on the play.” It seems straightforward enough; because Baez got a hold of the mask, he loses his chance to run to first. Home plate umpire Jerry Layne, however, didn’t agree. Despite protests from both Wieters and Nationals’ manager Dusty Baker, the play stood as is. Layne explained himself after the game, making a roughly 200-word statement in which he managed to use the phrase “in my judgment” six times. Layne argued that the rule only applies if the umpire thinks the backswing contact actually affected the play. You will find no such provision in the rulebook, making Jerry Layne possibly the first ever activist umpire. So much for “balls and strikes.”

This was not the only controversial moment in the fifth game of that NLDS. In the bottom of the eighth, Cubs catcher Wilson Contreras attempted to pick off Jose Lobaton at first base.

Lobaton got back well ahead of the throw and was called safe. But not so fast. When slowing down the ultra high definition feed of the game, it becomes clear that for the briefest of moments Lobaton’s foot lost contact with the base while the tag was still on. Lobaton was called out, and the Nationals’ threat ended.

This has become a common gimmick with replay review. The umpire, not blessed with the gift of slow motion vision, makes a call that appears incorrect only upon consultation with replay review. This occurred last Friday as well.

Cleveland DH Edwin Encarnacion sprained his ankle as he returned to tag up on second, and fell off the base. Adding insult to injury, he was called out on replay review as the Cleveland trainers carried him off the field. The Division series seemed to mark another completed revolution in the relationship between umpiring and television coverage. Though technology once made umpires’ jobs much harder, since the advent of replay review it has removed a considerable amount of pressure from their shoulders.

Let’s go back in time. During the first inning of a day game in July 2008, Derek Jeter took off on an attempt to steal third. The catcher’s throw arrived well before Jeter, but the Blue Jays’ third baseman missed Jeter’s left hand, which slid into the bag before the tag was applied to his chest.

Nonetheless, third base umpire Marty Foster punched him out. Jeter popped up and protested, “he didn’t tag me.” Foster responded, “He didn’t have to. The ball beat you.” Jeter, usually loath

to get into it with an umpire, became apoplectic.

It was indeed absurd for Foster to wave his hand at a pretty integral rule, but it is difficult not to feel at least a little sympathetic. For the first hundred plus years of Major League Baseball, umpires could rely just on the timing of the throw and general placement of the tag. As time wore on, television broadcasting made their errors more identifiable, especially once networks started broadcasting games in high definition. Where umpires once needed only to avoid blatantly incorrect rulings, fancy telecasting forced them to be perfect. Missing even the most difficult calls could draw the ire of an entire city.

We can see this on full display in the blown call that ended Armando Gallaraga’s bid for a perfect game in 2010. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Gallaraga got Cleveland Indians rookie Jason Donald to hit a ground ball to the right side of the infield. Miguel Cabrera, playing first base, ranged at least forty feet to his right to retrieve the ball, forcing Gallaraga to hustle to cover first. Cabrera fielded in time and threw across his body to Gallaraga, who caught the throw and stepped on the bag, just barely in advance of Donald. Unfortunately, Jim Joyce threw out his arms and ruled Donald safe, ending Gallaraga’s perfect game hopes. In the days before televisions broadcasts, and even in the days before high definition, the blame for ending the perfect game would likely have gone to Miguel Cabrera. After all, he ranged much too far to his right and began the high wire act of a pitcher covering first. With the addition of slow motion, however, all the blame goes to Jim Joyce. In the days that followed he received a barrage of hate mail and death threats, and had to issue a tearful apology to Gallaraga after the game.

Since MLB expanded instant replay in 2014, blame has shifted shoulders once again. The onus is now on neither the player nor the umpire, but on the manager. The umpire’s error is forgotten in the demand for the manager to challenge the call, and a manager’s failure to challenge earns him the furor previously reserved for the umpire.

Joe Girardi learned this lesson last Friday when his decision not to challenge a crucial play cost the Yankees Game 2 of the ALDS. With runners on second and third and two out in the sixth inning, Chad Green’s 0-2 pitch to Lonnie Chisenhall ran up and in toward the lefty’s hands. Dan Iassogna, umpiring behind the plate, ruled that the pitch had hit Chisenhall. Immediately, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez started motioning to the dugout, urging his manager to challenge. And sure enough, the “super slow-mo” revealed not only that the ball had missed Chisenhall’s hand, but that it had glanced off the knob off his bat and into Sanchez’s glove. He had struck out, and the inning should have been over. Girardi, however did not to ask for a review. The inning continued, and the lineup turned over. Francisco Lindor came up batting left handed, and tattooed a 1-0 slider for a grand slam to right.

Girardi received the predictable reaction.

And as boos rained down from the Yankee Stadium bleachers two nights later, one would have to believe he stood there wishing that MLB never moved to replay review. Because if they hadn’t, it would be Iassogna receiving the best of New York’s anger, not Givardi.

All this is to say that replay review has created as many problems as it has solved. Far from being a perfect solution to the inadequacies of human umpires, it has instead exposed the human error present in writing rules, watching video or deciding when to challenge. Life was simpler when fans could just yell at their televisions, instead of watching umpires and referees don headsets or stare at a Microsoft Surface to sort out infinitesimal vagaries for what often seems an eternity.

How should these leagues speed up review? Get rid of it.

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Amherst dominated this year’s edition of the Little III championship, claiming four of the top five places, including first overall, for a winning margin of 11 points.

Men’s Cross Country Captures First Little III Championship in 29 Years Veronica Rocco ’19 Staff Writer Since 1988, Williams had emerged victorious at the annual Little Three Championship, a tri-meet between Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan. The Mammoths made history on Saturday when they defeated the Ephs by a score of 25-36 to break their archrivals’ 29year winning streak.

Williams hosted the meet on their home course at Mt. Greylock High School, but due to construction, the course was different from years past.

However, it was the same course the harriers traversed at the Purple Valley Invitational in September.

At both the Purple Valley Invitational and the Paul Short Run earlier this season, the Mammoths easily beat the Ephs, making Amherst the favorite going into the meet.

FRI GAME SCHE DULE

From the start of the race, the top Amherst and Williams runners ran together up front, giving neither team an early advantage.

Following the 5k point in the eight-kilometer race, Amherst started to break the race open,as the top-four Mammoths battled the top-three Ephs.

With less than a mile to go, the lead pack was whittled down to Cosmo Brossy ’19, Clark Ricciardelli ’20E, Mo Hussein ’18 and a Williams runner, with Tucker Meijer ’19 not far behind.

The last 800 meters of the race were decisive, as Brossy and Ricciardelli separated from Hussein and Liam Simpson of Williams to finish first and second, respectively. Hussein, a four-time All-American, fought hard but was passed by Simpson in the final stretch to finish fourth.

Meijer held his position and finished fifth, twenty seconds ahead of the next competitor.

Following Meijer was a pack of seven Ephs, an impressive display of Williams’ depth.

The Mammoths needed their fifth runner to cross the line to break the winning streak, and Kristian Sogaard ’19 made history when he finished 14th and as the Mammoths fifth scorer. With Sogaard’s finish, which was the 800-meter All-American’s first time scoring in the team’s top-five, the Mammoths defeated the Ephs.

Right behind Sogaard was Spencer Ferguson-Dryden ’20 in 15th place. The sophomore fought hard in the last mile of the race, and his improvement this year has been critical for the Mammoths’ success.

Jack Wesley ’18 was the team’s seventh runner, finishing in 23rd place to round out the team’s scoring.

Jacob Silverman ’19 rebounded from a tough race last weekend to finish 30th. Ralph Skinner ’20 claimed 33rd place, using his

SAT

Volleyball Men’s Tennis vs. Wellesley, 7 p.m. Wallach Invite @ Bates, TBA Volleyball vs. Coast Guard Academy, 11 a.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Wesleyan, noon

Field Hockey vs. Wesleyan, noon Football vs. Wesleyan, 1 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. Wesleyan, 2:30 p.m.

Volleyball vs. WPI, 3 p.m.

800-meter speed to kick past several runners in the final stretch.

Aaron Zambrano ’18, Justin Barry ’18, Billy Massey ’21, Estevan Velez ’20, Chris Stone ’20 and Jamie Mazzola ’21 rounded out the team’s runners on the difficult Mt. Greylock course.

“The team was absolutely thrilled to be part of such a historic win,” Sogaard said. “To be on the team that broke Williams’ 29-year winning streak is an honor and we really appreciate all the alumni that came out to cheer us on. The race itself was tough since the Williams course is very hilly, but our team raced smart and moved up throughout the race to secure the victory.”

The Mammoths will be off next weekend, training for the NESCAC Championships where they will seek to earn the team’s first ever conference title. The Mammoths will be the favorite when they race at Bates.

SUN

TUE

Men’s Tennis Wallach Invite @ Bates, TBA

Women’s Soccer @ Trinity, 6:30 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. Farmingdale State, 11 a.m.