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During the storm on Oct. 29, siding began to peel off the side of Waldorf-Astoria Dormitory due to the high winds.

Alissa Rothman ’15 Managing News Editor Earlier this week, super-storm Sandy slammed into the east coast, causing strong winds, flooding and snow, leaving behind in its wake many fatalities, billions of dollars of damages and millions of people without power.

The College began preparing for the storm Oct. 26, when Jim Brassord, Director of Facilities, convened an Emergency Management Group

meeting to prepare for the storm. The group includes representatives from the Facilities, Dean of Students, Human Resources, Dining Services, Environmental Health and Safety, Public Affairs, Information Technology, Admissions and Athletics Departments. The group put together plans to monitor the storm and prepare communications with the community. They also addressed potential hazards, such as power outages, and notified essential staff that they might have to work extended hours during the storm. After briefing the

senior staff of the college on all plans and communications, they began preparing for the storm.

Potential shelters like the Dining Hall and Health Services were prepared by bringing in generators in case power was lost. Cots and lanterns were also brought in, in case staff or students had to stay in the Dining Hall for an extended period of time.

Furthermore, Dining Services pre-ordered additional food to ensure stocks were sufficient for an extended period, which included bringing in extra bottled water. They also established communica-

tion with the students at the College, sending out an email to the campus warning students of the incoming storm, as well as with the other colleges and universities in the area and the Town of Amherst.

By Oct. 28, campus police sent out another school-wide email warning that the storm was expected to hit early Monday morning and possibly extend into Tuesday. That evening, students and staff were informed via the college website that all college offices would be closed the next day and non-essential staff were not to report to work. At that time, classes would be held at the discretion of professors unless otherwise notified. However, on Monday morning, Oct. 29, the decision was made to cancel all classes. “The college’s practice is that classes are held at the discretion of individual faculty when there is closure due to a snow storm. Typically a snowstorm does not put students at risk but it does put staff members that have to commute at risk. In certain rare circumstances, such as the event on Monday, when it is potentially hazardous for students to be outdoors it is prudent to cancel classes,� said Peter Rooney, the Director of Public Affairs.

Students were told that they could pick of food in Valentine in the morning and were warned to remain inside as much as possible to avoid blowing debris and falling tree limbs. “We wanted to provide some food to be taken out in the morning, because we didn’t know how severe storm would be, and we wanted students to have some form of nourishment if it got too bad Continued on Page 2

Administration Takes on Sexual Misconduct Issues Responses Include Day of Discussion, Committee Formation and Student Meetings Ethan Corey ’15 News Section Editor In the wake of Angie Epifano’s op-ed published two weeks ago in The Student, President Carolyn “Biddy� Martin and other members of the administration have met with students, faculty, staff and parents to discuss ideas and policies to combat sexual violence and misconduct on campus. Already, President Martin has established a Sexual Respect Oversight Committee composed of students, faculty and staff to make recommendations and oversee policy changes to prevent sexual assault. In addition, President Martin announced a campus-wide ‘moratorium’ for Friday, Nov. 2, cancelling all classes and closing all offices to facilitate a discussion between students, faculty, staff and possibly even trustees entitled ‘Speaking to Silence: Conversations on Community and Individual Responsibility.’ In response to student suggestions at the open meeting held on Oct. 14 to discuss the TDX T-shirt, Martin decided to include student representation on the Title IX Committee. Title IX is part of the Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits any educational institution receiving federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex, and so-called ‘best practices’ of Title IX compliance are enumerated by the Department of Education’s 2011 Dear Colleague letter. The Title IX Committee, which is charged with reviewing College policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Title IX best practices and policies, has historically only included faculty, staff and trustees, although students had been pushing for representation since its creation last spring. On Oct. 22, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) appointed Dana Bolger ’14E and Mark Kahan ’13 to serve as the first two students on the Title IX committee.

In addition to representation on the Title IX committee, President Martin also included student representation on the newly-created Special Oversight Committee on Sexual Misconduct, chaired

by Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Margaret Hunt. After reviewing a number of applicants, the AAS appointed Liya Recht-

man ’14 and Robin Wasielewski ’14 to serve on the committee. The committee will meet weekly to gather information and propose recommendations to improve the College’s efforts to prevent and adjudicate sexual misconduct on campus. President Martin listed five general areas for the committee to focus on, including the campus environment and culture, resources for survivors of sexual assault, education about sexual respect and healthy sexual behavior, recent instances of sexual misconduct at the College and peer institutions and recommendations for policy changes and Title IX compliance.

The committee will work to develop proposals for Martin, who will present them to the Board of Trustees in January 2013.

On Oct. 24, President Martin met with sophomores, juniors and seniors in Kirby Theater to discuss and share ideas about sexual respect and the College’s plans to reform policies and procedures to better address sexual misconduct. At the meeting, students pushed for a ‘moratorium,’ essentially a campus-wide shutdown, to discuss these issues more broadly with members from all sectors of the College community, noting that many students who felt passionate about sexual respect were unable to attend the scheduled meeting because of homework or prior engagements. The College last held a moratorium in 1968 to discuss racial equality, but President Martin felt that the current discussion was of enough importance to merit a similar day of discussion. Although no concrete plans were made at the meeting, on Oct. 27 President Martin and Dean Call sent out an email announcing that the moratorium would be held on Nov. 2.

Call, who worked with Assistant Dean of Faculty Janet Tobin, student leaders, faculty and staff to organize the event, envisioned the day as a special time for community building and conversation between members from every part of the College community. “It really is a day for all of us to listen to each other. As a faculty member, I think that we feel the responsibility for the institution and hold it very dear, but we recognize in this instance and others we might not be the most knowledgeable members of the community. I think it will be particularly important opportunity for the faculty and

staff to listen to our students. I think there will be a lot of perspectives offered, and I am very eager to learn from this conversation,� Dean Call said.

The day will begin in LeFrak Gymnasium, which can hold up to 2500 individuals, featuring an opening statement made by President Martin and a facilitated discussion on sexual violence led by Gina Smith, the sexual misconduct and Title IX expert hired by the College this summer to review its policies and procedures. Attendees will then break up into smaller groups made up of students, faculty and staff and hold squad-style discussions about community and individual responsibility. The squads will be led by student moderators who have received training either as orientation leaders or RCs and will meet until lunch is served on the Valentine Quad. The meal will be catered by outside groups including UMass Dining Services and Atkins Market to allow the College’s dining staff to fully participate in the day’s discussions.

Although all offices and most buildings of the College will be closed for the day, several spaces will be open to allow students that don’t feel comfortable participating to retain a sense of normalcy. In addition, counselors from Harvard University’s McLean Center will be available in Chapin Hall to meet with students that need their services throughout the day. “We’re trying to find the balance of giving those who might feel uncomfortable participating a space to have a fairly normal day, if that’s what they choose, but we would hope all that can would come and be a part of this. This is a very important day for the College and all of us in the community,� Dean Call said.

In addition, students at the meeting discussed aspects of the College’s culture and social life that they felt contributed to sexual misconduct and lack of respect. Some students criticized the perceived divide between non-athletes and students on varsity sports teams, while others lamented the so-called ‘Amherst awkward,’ which refers to the common tendency of Amherst students to avoid contact Continued on Page 3

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>>Oct. 26, 2012 1:06 a.m., Crossett Dormitory Officers responded to a noise complaint and issued a warning at a third-floor suite.

7:10 p.m., Stearns Dormitory An officer responded to a basement room where a signal was received from the smoke detector indicating a problem. The officer discovered the detector was covered with a plastic bag. The bag was removed. >>Oct. 27, 2012 12:40 a.m., Newport House While in the building, officers discovered an unauthorized party, with alcohol, in the basement with over 60 people. The alcohol was disposed of and the event was shut down.

1:38 p.m., James Dormitory A caller expressed concern about a resident who had not been seen lately. It was discovered the student was around campus.

9:27 p.m., Stone Dormitory An officer encountered a student with a false driver’s license. A complaint was fined with the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

10:24 p.m., Hitchcock House A town resident complained about loud music and people at Hitchcock. The Amherst Police also received complaints. Officers located a gathering on the third floor and shut it down.

10:51 p.m., Hitchcock While responding to a noise complaint, officers confiscated alcohol left unattended on the third floor.

11:09 p.m., Hitchcock Officers responded to a complaint about loud music and issued a warning at a first-floor room.

11:10 p.m., Tyler House Officers responded to a noise complaint and found an unauthorized party with approximately 50 people on the first floor. The event was shut down and alcohol was confiscated.

11:22 p.m., Tyler While investigating a noise complaint, an officer confiscated unattended alcohol.

11:31p.m., Hitchcock While investigating a noise complaint, an officer detected the odor of marijuana coming from a first-floor room. After speaking with the resident, a small amount of marijuana was confiscated. The matter was referred to the Dean’s Office.

11:38 p.m., James While in the building, an officer discovered loud music coming from a second-floor room. After speaking with the resident, a number of underage people were found with alcohol. It was confiscated, and the matter was referred to the Dean’s Office. >>Oct. 28, 2012 12:08 a.m., Hitchcock Several complaints were received about loud music and yelling. Officers dispersed a group of students from the third-floor common area.

12:51 a.m., Crossett Officers discovered a large unauthorized party with over 250 people at Crossett. There were many people outside the building, the stairways were over crowded, as well as a first-floor suite. The event was shut down, and people were cleared from the area.

12:51 a.m., Crossett While shutting down an unauthorized party, officers confiscated alcohol.

1:08 a.m., Stone Dormitory An officer encountered an underage visitor with alcohol. He was identified, and the alcohol was disposed of.

1:21 a.m., Social Quad An officer encountered an underage student with alcohol. It was disposed of, and the matter was referred to the Dean’s Office.

1:24 a.m., Social Quad While managing a crowd of over 250 people in the social dorm quad, a full can of beer was thrown by someone and it narrowly missed striking an officer.

1:46 a.m., Social Quad While in the social dorm quad, an officer observed a student smoking a marijuana cigarette.

He was identified, and the matter was referred to the Dean’s Office.

1:47 a.m., Social Quad An officer identified a man who smashed a glass bottle on the ground. He was fined $100 for creating an endangering condition.

2:02 a.m., Wieland Dormitory Officers responded to a noise complaint and shut down a small, unauthorized party on the second floor.

2:09 a.m., Wieland An officer confiscated alcohol from an unauthorized party on the second floor.

around dinner and lunch,” said Charlie Thompson, Director of Dining Services.

During the day Facilities and Custodial was at full staff, and additional staff from the Police and Environmental Health and Safety Departments were on duty throughout the storm. Health Services was staffed throughout the day and into the evening as well.

However, the campus experienced little damage from the storm. There were some minor, brief power outages. Humphries and Chapman were temporarily affected, and Mayo-Smith, Seeley and Hitchcock Dormitories had to run on a backup generator for a short period of time. However, there was little real physical damage to campus, though there was a considerable amount of fallen tree limbs and some uprooted trees. Monday evening, students received an email stating that classes would resume Tuesday, Oct. 30.

“Even though the storm ended up not being bad at all, it was still well worth the exercise,” Thompson said. “Because, during an emergency situation, at last minute the game may change.”

Throughout the storm, there were some complaints from students about how information and updates were communicated to the student body.

Although students received most important information through official sources such as email, the weather line (542-SNOW), the college website and Facebook and Twitter, it was often the case that these sources were not updated with the same information at the same time. Furthermore, there was an issue with false information, especially via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

“In the aftermath of every emergency event, the college’s emergency management group meets to assess how to improve communications going forward … I understand there was a relatively brief

period of time where some RCs may have communicated inaccurate information regarding classes, but that was corrected,” said Charri Boykin-East, Interim Dean of Students. “Going forward we will make every effort to ensure that information shared during emergencies is accurate.”

Some students were also confused as to why the AC Alert system was not utilized during the storm.

However, according to Chief of Amherst College Police John Carter, the severity of the storm did not merit use of that form of communication.

“The AC Alert system is reserved for imminent emergency communications only. The system was ready to be used should the storm become immediately dangerous to the safety of the campus community or should we have experienced a power outage that was going to be extended,” Carter said.

Students were also confused as to the lack of updates concerning whether or not Valentine Dining Hall was open. However, according to Rooney, the college did not want students to endanger themselves by traveling to Valentine too often.

“The Emergency Management Group was most concerned about the safety of the students and did not want to encourage students to go outside during hurricane conditions,” Rooney said.

Over the next week the Emergency Management Group will meet to discuss other ways they can improve their emergency preparedness.

“After each emergency event we self-assess to determine how we can improve campus communications during times of emergency such as Hurricane Sandy,” Rooney said. “The Emergency Management group will continue in its efforts to provide accurate, timely and essential information to all campus constituents, including students, during times of emergency, while also tending to all the other crucial components of emergency management.”

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2:16 a.m., Seelye Parking Lot An officer found an intoxicated man, who is not a student, on the ground along the road near Seelye House. He was assisted to his nearby residence.

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>>Oct. 23, 2012 12:11 a.m., Valentine Dormitory Officers investigated a smoke detector sounding on the second floor and discovered food was burned in a microwave oven in the lounge. The system was reset.

12:18 a.m., James An officer issued a no-trespass order to a nonstudent who was involved in a drug issue.

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2:20 a.m., Wieland Officers responded to a complaint that a party which was shut down earlier started up again. It was shut down again, and people left the area.

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9:46 p.m., The Quadrangle A caller complained about a vehicle traveling fast around the quad in which the driver was sounding the horn. The vehicle was found parked near Seeley Mudd, and no one was around.

12:18 a.m., James While in the building for a noise complaint, an officer detected the odor of marijuana in a second-floor room. A small amount of marijuana was confiscated. The matter was referred to the Dean’s Office.

2:33 a.m., Wieland An officer found alcohol left unattended outside the building. It was confiscated.

3:56 a.m., Crossett While clearing out a large unauthorized party from a first-floor suite, an officer discovered a smashed window. The residents will be charged for the damage. >>Oct. 29, 2012 1:05 a.m., Pond Dormitory An officer observed a candle burning in a second-floor window. The officer spoke to a resident and extinguished the candle. The room group was fined $100 for creating an endangering condition.

1:28 a.m., Coolidge An officer encountered two students carrying a sidewalk “paver” into the building. They were directed to return it to the front of Wieland where they had taken it from.

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>>Oct. 22, 2012 2:52 p.m., East Drive An officer issued a written no trespass order to a man with no affiliation with the college.

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English Prof. Georfrey Sanborn grew up in Unity, Maine. He atttended Stanford Univ. for his undergraduate degree and completed his Ph.D. at UCLA. He taught at Fairfield Univ. for five years, Williams College for four years and Bard College for 11 years.

Q: How did you begin studying English, and what made you decide to pursue it?

A: Well, I was a creative writer as an undergraduate. I wanted to write fiction. I didn’t have a huge interest in literature as an independent subject; I wasn’t interested in literary criticism. It was only after I graduated and I was working in a bookstore in Iowa City [called Prairie Lights], owned Jim Harris. He hired me in 1987 to install a computer system there. That is how he was an early adopter of all that kind of stuff. That was when it was just one floor; it’s a lot larger now. But it was really cool because he didn’t pay us much, but he had a lot of really interesting people working there. It was a lot of fun to talk to the people there. I would just have these conversations about literature or anthropology or whatever it was with my coworkers. All of a sudden I started to get interested in reading books and thinking about them and talking about them. I hadn’t understood that to be something that you did in your life, as opposed to something you did in a class. I think there is something about the purely classroom experience that I did when I was an undergraduate that felt like a board game where there are certain kinds of moves you can make and steps you can take and get to the same conclusion. But this felt like an open-ended, ongoing conversation that made me want to be able to participate in it more fully and for as long as I could. So, Jim let us take books home. That was one of the perks; we could use it

as a library. I started taking home these works by American writers that one of my coworkers kept recommending. The two that were most powerful [for me] were Emerson and Whitman, who I had never read as an undergraduate. So I came to that stuff because someone just said ‘Hey, you should read Emerson, it’s really great, and maybe we can talk about it.’ So, I would go read it and say ‘It is really great! Lets go talk about it!’ I can still remember reading at Bruegger’s bagel shop in Iowa City. That was the place where everything clicked, where I was like, ‘this is thrilling. I really just want to keep doing this.’ At that point, I applied to grad school. When I got to grad school, I hadn’t been much of a student before that point, but then all of a sudden I cared about it. Once I understood the way it could actually be part of a life, it was off to the races.

Q: What is your research on and how did you become interested in it?

A: A lot of my research is on the pacific islands and on New Zealand in particular. My most recent book is on two Maori chiefs [Te Ara and Te Pehi Kupe] and their relationship to The Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick. I am arguing that The Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick are partially based on the lives of these two chiefs. That involved a lot of archival work in New Zealand and talking to the descendants of the two chiefs.

I’m arguing Te Pehi Kupe is the basis of Queequeg in Moby Dick and Te Ara is the basis of Magua in The Last of the Mohicans. The research involved, in part, going to New Zealand and learning enough about these guys’ lives and about Maori culture to write creditable mini biographies of them. The book alternates between biographies of these two chiefs and readings of the novels. So part of my research is historical research like that.

I am also doing a book right now on 19th century African American writer William Wells Brown where I am doing a lot of online research using digitized newspapers and periodicals in order to think about the way he uses other peoples texts

in his work.

Q: What have you published in the past? What other subjects have you researched?

A: I’ve written two books and edited two books and written several essays. They tend to be on 19th century American writers, Melville in particular. My first book is on cannibalism in Melville. I’ve also written on Dickinson, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Frances Harper and Sandra Cisneros, so some more modern writers too. But basically American literature in its full sweep is what I tend to write on.

Q: What classes are you teaching this semester?

What classes are you teaching next semester?

What are they each about?

A: This semester I’m teaching a seminar called Hawthorne, Melville and Literary Friendship where we read everything that Hawthorne and Melville wrote between 1849 and 1852, which is the period of their friendship. We read letters and journals as well as the published works. It’s about the kinds of relationships that are created and sustained by literature and by writing letters, you know, correspondence. The other class is called Narratives of Suffering and it’s about the experience of suffering as a special kind of pain, one that extends indefinitely in time and is a sort of experience that has to be borne and borne up under. You have to bear suffering. It’s also about narrative structure. Narratives that have beginnings, middles and ends are very hard to employ when you’re describing experiences of suffering because, in a way, suffering doesn’t fit into a beginning, middle and end structures. We start with some contemporary films and then do, among other things, The Book of Job, King Lear, Moby Dick, Beloved and Maus.

Next semester I’m doing a course called American Extravaganzas that is about wild narrative fictions in the American tradition, that are sort of a little bit out of control. And again it’s about thinking past beginning, middle and end nar-

rative structures. We are going to be doing Poe, Twain, Nabokov and Infinite Jest. Then I’m doing a course called Poe, Faulkner and the Gothic, which is sort of split between those two writers, and focusing on the gothic elements that work in relation to race and southern history.

Q: What aspects of Amherst do you like so far?

A: I love the students, I love my colleagues and I’m just really excited to be here. There is just a level of intellectual excitement and engagement here that is special.

Q: What do you hope to contribute to Amherst during your time here?

A: One of the things that I like about this job is the College made it clear I wasn’t hired with any particular agenda in mind, but they liked my work and they wanted me to feel as though I had a kind of green light to pursue whatever sort of research and teaching interests that I had. Part of what I want to contribute is what every other faculty member here is invited to contribute which is their own kind of imaginative, intellectual energies, experienced in a context that enables them to take that as far as possible in whatever direction presents itself. I think there is something about a kind of free-range intellectual activity that has vitality to it. That’s going back to what I was saying about your work being connected to your life. It feels like it’s possible here in a way that’s not really possible at research institutions. I chose not to teach at a research university and to teach at a liberal arts college instead, and the reason why is I feel like that sense of open-ended, free range intellectual work was way more possible at those places.

Q: What do you like to do in your spare time?

A: I like to play with my kids. I like to play music.

I play guitar and keyboard and write songs. I also like to watch basketball.

-by Alissa Rothman ’15

College Continues Looking Into Sexual Misconduct Policies Continued from Page 1 with other students outside of their immediate social circle. To help solve these problems and build a broader sense of community, several students suggested bring back the ‘Mix-it-up at Val’ program, which encouraged students to sit with groups at Val with whom they do not usually sit.

Caroline Katba ’15 criticized what she saw as the elitism endemic to the College’s culture, citing disparaging remarks made by a dean reported in Epifano’s op-ed that suggested that Africa was dangerous and ridden with disease and lions and that citizens of Wyoming were backwards and unenlightened.

“This is not just an issue of policy. There hasn’t been any mention of the comments about Africa. There hasn’t been any mention of the comments about people in Wyoming. There hasn’t been any mention of our culture of elitism. These comments showed disrespect and, in a sense, racism. Thinking that we’re better than the people in Wyoming or the people in Africa is wrong. There’s a perception in the Five College Consortium that Amherst College is as snobbish as a school can get, when that’s just not true. It’s our job as students to hold ourselves accountable to everything we say. When we hear people make elitist comments we need to stop those people and educate them on what they’re saying, even if they don’t like what we have to say,” Katba said.

Students at the meeting also brought up the relationship between alcohol and sexual misconduct, arguing that recent efforts to increase enforcement of the alcohol policy had ‘unintended consequences’ that heightened the risk of sexual assault. The group of 10 students that met with the Board also made this argument, summarizing it in a report released to the student body.

“It was noted that the increased enforcement of the alcohol policy created a disparity in where students could feel comfortable congregating. It is much easier for police to see (and require registration) of a gathering in a big and open space (for example: Marsh Dormitory’s ballroom) than in a gathering in many suites and on the stairs (such as in Stone Dormitory). The enforcement of regulations specifically around beer pong also forced students into smaller spaces with less people around and drinking primarily hard liquor. Conversely, beer pong was a social activity with more regulation and enforcement of social norms that also required players to consume alcohol more slowly,” the report read.

President Martin responded to these concerns, citing the need to enforce College policy and uphold legal obligations.

“When it comes to the so-called crackdown, although I doubt the Dean of Students would call it that — I wouldn’t call it that — there has been attention on enforcement. The administration takes seriously its obligation to enforce all of its policies,” President Martin said. “The administration can’t enforce some policies and ignore the others. So now the question is, how do we produce an analysis together about how we can go forward responsibly?”

The students who met with the Board held an open meeting on Oct. 25 to share the results of their meeting with the student body.

The group reviewed the issues it brought to the Board, including faculty training on sexual respect, reform of the disciplinary procedures for sexual misconduct cases, the improvement of resources and support systems for survivors of sexual assault, the inclusion of race and gender in first-year seminars and the unintended consequences of the alcohol policy. The group also asked for review of deans involved in sexual assault cases, including but not limited to Dean Carolyn Bassett, Dean Charri Boykin-East, Dean Allen Hart and Dean Liza Nascembeni, and they encouraged the College to allow students to meet with Gina Smith, the sexual misconduct and Title IX expert hired by the College this summer to review its policies and procedures.

President Martin responded to some of these concerns in an interview with members of The Student staff, saying that Smith would independently review deans involved with sexual misconduct cases and make her own determinations. She expressed interest in making Smith available to students, but offered no concrete information about when meetings with Smith might occur.

“She will be available. I’ve suggested to her, in response to her request to meet with the 10 students who met with the Board, that she instead be available in a more open forum for students broadly. She’s not done with her work, so there wouldn’t be any recommendations that she could share anyways. She’s still in the review stage, so having her draw on students now would make sense. She’s very informative, and I think educationally it’s very valuable to have her speak. She’s at a point where she’s gotten to know what issues there are here well enough that she can interact with any constituency that wants her to,” President Martin said.

Despite the progress made by the administration in the past few weeks, several students who attended the meeting expressed frustra-

tion at the time it took the College to address sexual assault. Bolger, who wrote the article on the TDX t-shirt, argued that the College should have begun reforms last spring, when many allegations began to come to the surface.

“As someone who had gone to the Title IX Committee multiple times last year, who met with several deans last year, who was discouraged from filing a complaint last year and who met with other survivors and went with other survivors to speak with the deans and the Title IX Committee, the College did know that there were serious problems last year. I’m really glad that they’re taking things more seriously now, but it is not true that they were taking this seriously last year, and it is not true that they didn’t know about it,” Bolger said.

On Oct. 26, Gretchen Krull, the College’s Sexual Assault counselor — in addition to serving as Assistant Director of Health Education and Alcohol/Drug counselor at the same time — resigned after 22 years at the College. While the reasons for her resignation were unclear, at a meeting with parents the next day, Martin denied allegations that Krull was forced to resign. Rechtman, who had worked with Krull, suggested that Krull had conflicting and confusing obligations that made her position dysfunctional.

“Gretchen’s role was overcomplicated and underinclusive. She was given too many tasks and not enough resources to do them effectively. There’s no way one person could have effectively and ethically done everything she was given to do. That is in no way a personal failing on her part. That is a structural failing of the entire administration,” Rechtman said.

President Martin agreed that Krull’s position was overcomplicated and stated that restructuring the support network for survivors of sexual assault would be part of replacing Krull.

“The position was always confusing. It included a lot of roles and it wasn’t clear what it meant to have a counselor separate from the counseling center. The plan now — and this is where the Oversight Committee will be important — is to think about how to restructure these various functions so that there’s clarity about the purpose of each and so that there’s integration and coordination,” President Martin said.

In the meantime, trained counselors from Harvard University’s McLean Center will be available to assist students in need of counseling for sexual assault, and Director of Health Education Denise McGoldrick will take over Krull’s drug and alcohol counseling responsibilities.

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A Storm of Confusion It was the Sunday night before class, and confusion reigned supreme on campus. With Hurricane Sandy set to make landfall in several hours, students stayed up late waiting for information about classes the next day. Confused Facebook messages flew back and forth. Some students announced defeat in the waiting game and decided they were just going to skip class for their own safety in spite of forthcoming news.

An update on the website announcing that the College was closed only exacerbated the confusion.

“Why do we still have class when campus buildings are closed?” students wondered. The confusion among students was compounded by the unfortunate information gaps that were created when only a handful of students received any official emails — many were lost and caught in email spam filters.

In order for the student body at large to receive any information, a student had to go so far as to contact the President of the College directly via social media late at night. It should be most concerning that, with Hurricane Sandy fast approaching, one vague tweet from @Biddy_Martin to @trusso15 served as the only real-time liaison between the student body and the administration.

Students widely criticized the administration’s lack of advanced planning and lack of clarity in its communications via email and on its website.

Many other colleges including Columbia, Yale and the other 5-Colleges decided in advance to close for multiple days, whereas Amherst decided to cancel class just an hour before said classes were scheduled to begin on Monday morning. Students were also unsure what impact administrative office closures would have on their classes.

The administration’s indecisiveness was very difficult for students, whose plans are completely contingent upon the announcement by the Col-

lege. For any student who was traveling over the weekend, off campus or wished to plan their workloads and midterm studying accordingly, the confusion prevented students from utilizing their time efficiently, and instead wasted many student’s time as they waited and searched for news. It was also certainly most frustrating for students at Amherst to be the only ones left in the dark among all their friends at other colleges.

We understand that the College may have waited until Monday morning to cancel class for a reason. However, what may have been an unwillingness to make an uninformed decision came across as an unwillingness to make any decision — especially one that would require administrators to work on the weekend.

In the future, when the administration does finally make plans to assess the weather and situation on the ground before canceling classes, it should directly inform the student body and faculty, it should have done so well in advance and it absolutely should have done so when concerned students took the initiative to establish communication. The College also should not have waited until the eleventh hour to make that final assessment, but rather followed the example of other colleges and taken action promptly, taking into account the students’ and faculty’s need for timely information.

Given the absence of any communications leaving professors accountable for making the final decision about classes, the administration should not have hesitated to make an executive decision, and let its actions deepen its already weak reputation of bureaucratic foot dragging. Professors do not appreciate it when students procrastinate. Similarly the administration should not procrastinate, especially on issues of student safety.

Letter from an Alumna "OOBOO )POH Contributing Writer I was very surprised to receive the e-mail sent by President Martin on October 18twith the subject line “President Martin’s Statement on Sexual Assault.” This email led me to the first-person account written by Angie Epifano published in The Amherst Student the day before that. I was horrified and dismayed reading her account of what transpired following her May 2011 assault. Her letter eventually led me to Dana Bolger’s website, “it happens here,” and her blog posting at ACVoice. In Ms. Bolger’s post on “Roasting Fat Ones Since 1847,” she makes reference to a statistic that “Amherst has expelled only one student for rape in its entire history — and only after a criminal court sentenced him to time in jail.” I realized with shock and disbelief that the case to which this refers was my own.

October 31st marks the 23rd anniversary of my sexual assault by a classmate at Amherst College during my sophomore year.

Four months after the incident, I chose to pursue the disciplinary process offered by

...something even more “disturbing happened as I continued to read through the reactions of outrage from the campus and community: I started having my own flashbacks.

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the school. Between February 4th and April 18th of 1990, I participated in three successive steps in the disciplinary process after

submitting my initial letter of complaint to the Dean of Students at the time, Ben Lieber.

Following an initial hearing by the Committee on Discipline, an Appeal Board Hearing was then held before a final appeal and review was submitted by then-sitting President Pouncey.

The Committee found my perpetrator responsible of “sexual conduct not freely agreed to by both parties.” His only sanctions were disciplinary probation, loss of campus housing, community service at a local women’s shelter, prohibition from extracurricular activities including football and restrictions on his access to campus buildings except to attend classes and check his mail. Despite these sanctions, I was outraged to find myself in the Campus Center that following fall semester having to purchase my Homecoming ticket from the very student who had assaulted me.

I joined in campus efforts to raise awareness, helped organize marches and attended self-defense classes. I found support from fellow survivors through a student-run group called HERS (Helping & Empowering Rape Survivors) that had been founded on campus that year by my sister, a member of the Class of 1990; she had been raped on campus her first year. While I was held up by others as strong and courageous for what I had done, I questioned whether it was enough.

I learned in January of 1991 that my assailant had broken into the apartment of a woman who lived in Amherst. He had sexually assaulted her in December of 1990, just over a year after my own assault. Within a month, she had pressed charges through the Continued on page 4

Contextualizing Conversation on Fraternities +FSFNZ 4JNPO Contributing Writer I am not a member of a fraternity.

Nor do I think that frats are an absolutely essential component to our conversations about sexual respect at the College. I am, however, a student worker in the Archives and Special Collections within Frost Library, which gives me familiarity with something of which many Amherst students are ignorant: institutional memory.

I did not know about the Archives until the summer after my sophomore year, when a friend stumbled upon a job there. I proceeded to have the reaction I’ve found to be typical among students introduced to this resource: “Whoa, we have what!?” Yes, there is interesting stuff here — seven centuries of books (yes, seven); materials, including manuscripts, from major poets like Wordsworth, Dickinson and Frost; and much, much more besides. But the collections in Archives are neither novelties nor irrelevant to students like you

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or me. Believe me, I wouldn’t be able to write my thesis without them. In light of recent events and recent articles, I took it upon myself to do a little digging into what actually happened to fraternities at the College.

By now I’m sure you’re all familiar with the notorious and despicable TDX shirt that helped bring sexual respect to the fore of campus attention. It sparked a debate on fraternities’ shadowy place in Amherst life and, frankly, some uninformed explanations of their abolition in 1984. Let me be clear that, first of all, I have not done any research on recent frat life (the most recent source I looked at was a 1993 thesis on the abolition of frats) and so I am not looking to make any contentions about its current place at the College. Second, I am anything but an expert on this subject. My goal is merely to show that anyone — with only a few hours’ research — can put forth facts rather than rumor and thus inform any conversation.

Now, let’s be honest with ourselves.

There are a number of themes in

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Amherst history, and principal among them is Greek life. Misogyny, unfortunately, is another theme, and it would be irresponsible to say the two are unrelated. But the picture is cloudier than cause-and-effect. Frats have been around a long, long time, and changing views on women in the 1960s and 1970s actually had disgusting counter-effects as the “Animal House”-style frats that dominate our stereotypes today gained prominence and began exploiting sexually-liberated women.

Amherst frats date back to 1830, and it’s hard for current students to understand the extent to which they defined the school. Looking at class lists around the turn of the century, one sees Greek letters next to nearly every name.

Future president Calvin Coolidge was one of the rare “independent” students, and it appears that “Silent Cal” was a misfit, even appearing as the subject of a mocking poem in the Olio from his sophomore year. In 1952 the College became the first school in the country to mandate 100 percent rushing, re-

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quiring that every student be a member of a fraternity (including the Lord Jeffrey Amherst Club, created in 1935 as a residential alternative). In fact, until the 1960s, frat houses were the only places for upperclassmen to live at the College (besides the rare student listed as inhabiting the chemistry lab…some things never change). In some ways they still are, oh residents of the Triangle and Hamilton. In 1961 the school bought the houses from the fraternities in exchange for their maintenance. The frats stayed there until abolition, when the houses became dorms.

However, just because frats were so deeply ingrained in Amherst tradition doesn’t mean they went unquestioned.

Administrators in the 1850s required them to open their files to the school, and as a result the College President, Edward Hitchcock, was himself initiated into Alpha Delta Phi for oversight purposes. More murmurs questioning the use of frats appeared in the early 20th century, and the decision to build Valentine in 1940 was aimed at

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bringing students together for meals, rather than secluded in their fraternity houses. More serious questioning came after World War II, as alumni and faculty committees both recommended abolition in 1945. The Trustees decided merely on reform, resulting eventually in 100 percent rushing in 1952 and regulations requiring frats to accept members regardless of race or creed in 1948.

In 1956, the senior honor society (yes, the College had multiple honor societies) also recommended the abolition of frats, though that would not happen for nearly 30 years.

As an old, boys’ school, as well as an “Old Boy’s school,” neighbored for much of its existence by two women’s colleges, Amherst is a historically masculine, chauvinistic institution.

It’s no accident that Tim Matheson’s character in the aforementioned “Animal House” introduces himself as an Amherst student when visiting Mount Holyoke. Recent stories about horrifying conduct by Amherst men towards Five-College women are sadly

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nothing new. Try, for example, the shocking (and purportedly satirical) Student article, “Sleazing: The Games Amherst Men Play” from the Nov. 8, 1973 issue, which explains how to seduce and dump Mount Holyoke women, or reminiscences in the 1980 commencement edition’s “Year in Review” from four of the first women admitted as first-year about their male classmates’ understanding of the Five Colleges’ advantages for Amherst men and how these, erm, traditional arrangements marginalized and sickened Amherst’s new women. In fact, a quick jaunt through late-1970s issues of The Student will effortlessly uncover sexism, including a 1979 anonymous letter to the editor applauding the Dean of Admissions for an extremely good-looking first-year class — and worse, a response the next week from a female student thanking the writers for recognizing that smart Amherst girls can be as attractive as Five-College co-eds.

The question, of course, is how much of this culture was the fault of frats. The record is hazy, implying much but stating little. Within a few years of women’s admittance in 1976, fraternities became a problem. In November 1979, two female students filed a complaint with the Federal Office of Civil Rights over the unequal housing opportunities caused by all-male fraternities. Within two years, and accompanied by much student debate, the school ordered the eight frats on campus to admit women, in the process causing them to lose their national association. In early 1983 the Dean’s Office further tightened the rules, requiring frats to be no more than twothirds one gender or the other. Frats were able to skirt these rules to some extent by exploiting the distinction between residential and social bids, allowing them to still keep women out of their houses.

Things came to a head in the fall semester of 1983, with the circulation of a White Paper from Acting-President Craig that called for the abolition of the frats. Students rose up in protest, ultimately making The New York Times (sound familiar?) with a sit-in in the President’s office. A student’s December poll, via forms on Val tables, found that 85 percent of respondents (77 percent of the school) wanted to keep fraternities, though the vast majority also wanted a new social center or a similar alternative to frat social life.

Ten female students, frat members all, wrote in to The Student in support of fraternities, saying co-ed frats hadn’t been given enough time and that this first chance at co-ed habitation was an important education in dealing with the opposite sex — something Amherst men sorely needed. The article notes as well the way fraternities brought together all four class years, an argument against their allegedly divisive nature.

In February 1984, the Board of Trustees voted to abolish frats, effective June 30 of that year. Strangely, their decision made not a single mention of women, just a passing condemnation of “gross

social behavior.” In fact, they explicitly stated frats were not the cause of social problems on campus, nor would their abolition solve such problems. Instead they questioned “whether [frats] can reasonably be expected to play a constructive and affirmative role in attaining a better integration of the educational goals of the college.” The ad hoc committee that put together the report was composed entirely of former Amherst frat members.

However, it seems clear that the trustees’ report is misleading.

Frats were indeed abolished over issues with women, but the mores of the day did not let the most shocking cases come to light, and the institutionalized misogyny refused to tar Amherst frat men and rather led public opinion in different directions. According to Helen Shepherd ’88’s senior thesis, women’s expected calming influence in frats often backfired as women took to the rowdy lifestyle. “What for males had been the ‘sowing of wild oats’ became intolerable behavior when engaged in by women.” Yet Shepherd concludes that the “abuse of women by fraternity members” was the real reason behind the trustees’ decision, despite the hopes of at least some female frat members that things were getting better.

Tellingly, the class of 1986 had the fewest female members since women were first accepted as first-years, probably a response to college guidebooks saying Amherst wasn’t a good place for women.

Whatever other issues were tied up with fraternities at Amherst — housing, obstruction of education goals, the anti-intellectualism worried about in the 1950s — their interactions with Amherst women played the dominant role in their abolition. While this is, I believe, the idea held by most current Amherst students, I think it’s important to understand the controversy at the time, and the fact that many, if not most, students wanted to keep fraternities.

Gender relations have been a problem at the College for many years. We are lucky now to be able to talk about them relatively openly, a striking contrast to the materials surrounding the abolition of frats, which contain the merest hints and whispers of the true problems and why so many female “brothers” left the frats. So let’s educate ourselves, and let’s make sure that our current discussions are documented so that future Amherst students can understand the precedents we’re setting today. As the trustees predicted, abolishing frats did not end social issues on campus, regardless of the reasons for abolition. That part is up to us.

For those who are interested: the sources for this story include Box 1 of the Fraternities Collection (including the “Final Report of the Ad Hoc Trustee Committee on Campus Life”), Box 1 of the Coeducation Collection (including materials from a 2002 WAGS course on women at the College), The Student and senior honors theses by Helen Shepherd ’88 and Carey Lifschultz ’93. I also recommend Nicholas Syrett’s book, The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, which was largely researched in our Archives.

Career Columns: ASIP Deadline Approaches As some of you may or may not know, the deadline for Amherst Select Internship Program is fast approaching. So the PCA’s thought we would dedicate this week’s article toward the program; what it is, who’s eligible and how the application process works.

Hopefully, after you’re finished reading, all your lingering questions will be answered.

Amherst Select gives accepted students access to a database of select internships offered by alumni, parents of students and “friends” of the college. The Career Center and CCE vet internships so that we can offer you the high quality opportunities. Furthermore, once accepted, you will receive extra interview and cover letter help to ensure you are prepared to apply not just for Amherst Select internships but also for any future positions. Finally, once you are accepted into the program you are in for the rest of your time at Amherst.

The application process is relatively straightforward, but there are a few changes from previous years. There are two parts to the application, one being a web form that consists of a few questions about your goals and interests for a summer internship. This is meant to gauge students’ interest to help develop the pool of positions available. The second part of the application is the resume submission through Quest. To complete this step you must edit your resume and have it approved by a PCA or career advisor, update your QUEST profile, and upload your

resume to QUEST. As such, you should not have your resume reviewed on the same day as the deadline. We suggest that you have your resume approved immediately, to ensure your QUEST profile will be updated before the 5 p.m. deadline on Nov. 2. Resumes reviewed any later are not guaranteed approval in time. Another change from previous years is that there are no subsequent deadlines for Amherst Select. This is the only deadline for the year and late applications will not be accepted. Once your resume is accepted and uploaded, simply search ‘Amherst Select Internship Program’ in QUEST and hit apply for the “position.”

All first years, sophomores and juniors are eligible and encouraged to apply. Furthermore, anyone not accepted can re-apply next year. All upperclassmen who were admitted to Amherst Select in previous years are still members, but do need to have their resume approved in Quest before having access to the ASIP internships. It is in their best interest to get approved sooner rather than later.

To ensure that all interested students can apply, the PCAs are offering extra open hours. We will have four dorm events next week consisting of resume workshops and one-on-one review. Keep your eyes open for posters advertising time and location.

We hope this article has been of some help and good luck with your Amherst Select Internship Program application.

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district court system. I became distraught as a painful possibility began to torment me: if I had chosen to seek justice through the court system, could I have somehow prevented harm to this other woman? I went to the District Attorney’s office and, upon my request, was able to meet my assailant’s latest victim. Our repeat offender was sentenced to two and a half years at the Hampshire County House of Correction, of which six months’ time was expected to be served.

By April 1991, The Amherst Bulletin, The Hampshire Gazette and The Student were all publishing front page articles scrutinizing the campus’ disciplinary proceedings and how it handled my complaint of sexual assault. Could a campus judicial system have prevented the second assault from happening? Is there something inherently flawed about the campus system, or is it an important option for some measure of recourse? Could the process be reformed to serve those it was meant to serve? These were the questions being debated and discussed over two decades ago, and, yet, I learned last month from the President’s email that nothing had really changed after all. The campus judicial system as described

by Angie remains just as flawed, both at the front end of handling reported cases and at the heart of the judicial process itself.

A campus of our caliber of academic excellence should strive to pave the way for others in learning from its mistakes rather than to reveal its failure to move forward from a lesson that should have left its mark 23 years ago.

Over the years, I have passive-aggressively communicated my anger towards the College by refusing for many years to donate to the Alumni Fund, a tactic I know is utilized by other Amherst survivors of sexual assault. Our campus should be concerned about both the loss of real and potential donors, along with the negative media attention potentially compromising our ability to attract the most academically talented prospective students.

I want to remain hopeful that under President Martin’s leadership the seeds of true and lasting social change will be planted at Amherst. As an educator, I recognize that learning is a process, not an event. Enormous social change is required both on our campus and in the normative values that perpetuate the horrific reality of sexual assault that too many women at Amherst seem to know intimately well.

The words Angie quoted in her article that “silence has the rusty taste of shame” have continued to repeat in my own mind like a mantra. While I have turned my back on my alma mater in some ways in the years since my assault, I now wish — again — to find my voice and to join Angie and countless other survivors who have decided to spit out that bitter taste of shame... I will be silent no more.

Peter Suechting ’15 writes in about Amherst College’s investment and the possibility of divesting in coal.

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The AAS Treasurer’s Report Discretionary Funding: Oct 23rd

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"CJHBJM 9V AAS Treasurer I have quite a few exciting developments to share with you all. Due to the newspaper’s lack of space last issue, the treasurer’s report for last week has been combined with this week’s report. As you can see, the AAS has been funding many different student organizations and events.

One especially important funding allocation is the money allotted for the AAS shuttle service during Thanksgiving Break. Instead of paying out of pocket for transportation to and from Bradley and Boston airports, students can hitch a ride on the buses provided for by the AAS. Don’t forget to reserve your spot on the shuttles!

While we are on the topic of transportation, I’m happy to say there is a new transportation funding policy in the works. The new AAS transportation guidelines will address student groups’ concerns about expensive transportation costs as well as the shortage of AAS vans due to high demand.

I’m polishing the guidelines’ language now but expect the details to be revealed next week. Another thing to look forward to as we head closer to the end of the semester are club budgets for spring 2013. Information on the deadlines and logistics will be provided later so be on the lookout!

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Throwback Horror Films for Halloween

Jake Walters ’14 Staff Writer I love horror movies. Unfortunately, it seems like I’m increasingly alone in this statement — not that I can blame people for a lack of interest in a genre that self-cannibalizes and generally trades character identification and suspense for cardboard cut-outs and shock value. That being said, the number of horror films, including “Psycho,” “Jaws” and of course, “Halloween,” that are affectionately deemed cinema classics is larger than you may think. Are these, however, really the only films worthy of coming back to when looking for a scare? While I can’t provide a definitive answer, I can try to tip the scales in favor of a more varied Halloween viewing experience by providing a list of ten unfairly neglected horror films that would be great any time of year (but especially on Halloween).

Attack the Block

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With a high-energy quotient, characters that are both likeable and believable, witty rapport conveying a genuine sense of camaraderie and an adventurous spirit, this modern classic offers entertainment in spades. It works simultaneously as a loving throwback to the longlost genre of 80’s Spielberg-esque kids-on-a-mission film (although its decidedly more violent and gruesome than any of those movies ever were) and an example of modern entertainment at its finest.

“Attack the Block” should be what all blockbusters aspire to be, and it puts many other films with 10 or 20 times its budget to shame. The soundtrack is pretty great, too.

Don’t Look Now

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Out of every film on this list, if I was to suggest only one to see, it would be “Don’t Look Now.” The story of two parents who travel to Italy to escape from the death of their daughter, this criminally underrated film was innovative for its time: not only because of its unique editing style, which frequently emphasizes symbols or motifs over continuity, but because it painstakingly captures the intimate details of the effect a death of a child has on parents. Throughout the film, “Don’t Look Now” finds the couple increasingly distanced and unable to relate to each other due to the death, while the father becomes more and more paranoid and obsessed with a figure resembling the image of their daughter. As the film draws to a close in one of the most unbearably suspenseful sequences ever captured on film, its atmosphere of paranoia escalates, emphasizing the extent to which realworld dangers and their own internal grief bleed together. “Don’t Look Now” is a truly unnerving film, all the more so because it takes the time to develop the two leads, expertly played

by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, allowing their pain to slowly creep under the audience’s skin as it lashes out at the pair on the screen.

The Fly

gone-bad, “The Fly” is one of the most emotionally fulfilling horror films ever made. It begins as the story of a scientist’s relationship with a reporter covering his new invention of a device that can transplant matter instantaneously. However, when he uses the invention on himself before properly testing it, he finds himself changing in increasingly terrifying ways that threaten not only his relationship, but also, his own health. This almost impossibly moving tale of a Shakespearian figure felled by his own hubris, highlighted by uncommonly strong performances from Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, transcends the confines of the drama to become first and foremost an affecting, resonant tale of love and a cautionary tale about the perils of mankind’s wildest dreams unleashed.

Near Dark

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A shockingly underrated entry in the mid to late 80s horror boom, Director Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark” transcends genres: it is not only a freaky, unnerving horror film, but also, an evocative Western and a tragic tale of doomed family and love. This story of a family of vampires terrorizing the Mid-West also earns points for being a unique and refreshing take on the long-worn out vampire film genre.

Night of the Hunter

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A movingly tragic tale of science-

One of the most blunt and disturbing films ever about the effect of violence on a child and the way children cope with adversity, “Night of the Hunter” boasts a magnetic Robert Mitchum starring as a criminal disguised as a preacher who stalks two children who know the location of their father’s stolen money.

Although the film, which was way ahead of its time, ultimately ruined director Charles Laughton’s budding career (although he had been a respected actor for several decades), Laughton’s direction nowadays is deservedly seen in a much more positive light, most notably for its ingenious combination of Southern gothic imagery and German expressionist techniques. Honestly, I can’t do the beauty of this film enough justice here, but sequences such as the sublime yet haunting downriver raft trip taken by the two fleeing children have to be seen to be believed. Moments like this cause this film to not only be one of the most gorgeous films ever made, but one of the most horrific as well.

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Peeping Tom

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Interestingly, this is another film, like “Night of the Hunter,” that essentially ended its director’s career (although Laughton was not of the same caliber as Peeping Tom’s Michael Powell, easily one of the most respected British filmmakers). That’s a genuine shame, though, as this 1960 masterpiece is an excruciating descent into the mind of a killer and an unnerving look into the secrets people keep behind closed doors. “Peeping Tom” is effective due to its first-person murder sequences (the killer films his victims as he kills them with a knife attached to his tripod), which are ahead of their time, as well as the intriguing questions it raises about the nature of voyeurism. In addition, the film contains one of the creepiest performances ever — on par with Anthony Perkin’s interpretation of Norman Bates in “Psycho” — in Carl Boehm’s portrayal of Mark Lewis.

Trick R’ Treat

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This mid-80s classic combines modern gore with 50s schlock-sensibilities for a riotously good time, cheesy over-the-top acting and all.

Whereas most horror comedies tend to suffer from too stark a contrast between the humor and the scares, leaving neither seeming fully formed, “Re-Animator” integrates them more effectively by attempting to re-create, rather than send-up, the short-comings of 50s horror. In this sense, its humor is more nuanced (a strange word to describe a movie whose most famous scene is essentially a sex joke). This makes it all the more riotous.

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Lovingly crafted and deliciously gruesome, this tribute to Halloween delivers scares and laughs with equal aplomb. A Creepshow-styled anthology film, “Trick R’ Treat” details four mostly-strong stories with dark humor that never forget that a horror-comedy doesn’t have to eliminate tension for humor. Above all, this film earns points for sheer love for the holiday itself, which soaks through every frame, and I can think of few films to get you in the spirit more than this one.

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A History of the Videogame Narrative

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Of course, this fact has often been the source of criticism and dismissal of video games as an art form or even as a reasonable adult hobby. That is not to say that there haven’t been video games that feature a compelling story, but those are few and far in

between. Furthermore, such games often tout having a compelling story as a feature, implying that such narrative is truly a deviation from the norm.

Video games began as novelties, not unlike the first motion pictures.

Among the earliest examples of a video game was a “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device,� patented in 1948, which allowed players to move a dot of light on a screen. The word “amusement� in the name makes the purpose of the device clear. Motion pictures had a similar start as an exciting novelty; the public lined up to pay a nickel to watch Edison’s kinetoscope record of a man sneezing. It would take a couple more decades before video games became a consumer item in the early 1970s, first as arcade machines and then as home consoles. These ancestral staples of home entertainment didn’t worry about justifying themselves. Pong

was virtual tennis for two-players.

Space Invaders consisted of a tank firing at slowly descending rows of ships. Perhaps the novelty of controlling something on the screen allowed one to overlook the existential crisis lurking in these games. Even at this time though, games that had yet to enter the public sphere toyed with narratives. Engineering and computer science students toyed around with text-based adventure games such as Adventure (ADVENT) that were entirely focused on playing with narrative, as well as early role playing games based on tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. In a time when graphics wouldn’t allow for realistic or even recognizable depictions of settings and characters, narrative could shape one’s imagination when playing a game. Even then, stories were often simple and direct, with most of the tension coming from challenges in gameplay rather

than compelling plot developments.

This trend would continue for many games throughout video game history, including major franchises such as Super Mario and Castlevania.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, attitudes began to change. Narrative became an increasingly important aspect of game design. For example, Japanese role playing games, such as Final Fantasy, placed a stronger emphasis on the story, which not only justified the gameplay, but also featured unique settings and characters that would develop as the game continued. In the case of Final Fantasy, its many sequels would each tell different stories while employing similar gameplay, indicating a preference towards narrative first and gameplay as a way of maintaining excitement.

Developers were expressing greater interest in video games as a storytelling medium.

Not all games would follow this trend of increasing narrative complexity, such as the genre-defining but sparsely exposited Wolfenstein 3D. In general, early first person shooters placed little to no emphasis on plot; Doom, Hexen, Quake and the like all provided a setting, a few lines of exposition and then sent you on your way. With time, first person shooters began to really explore the use of complex stories and narrative elements, and began to pose challenging, even philosophical, questions to players who were willing to ponder them. Classics such as Deus Ex and System Shock asked what it meant to be human, or what you would do if the fate of millions were in your hands. Furthermore, they used first person shooter gameplay not only to increase tension, but also

to create diverging narrative paths, where a player’s decisions actually affected the outcome of the story.

Nowadays, the video game industry is a massive, multilayered ecosystem of AAA developers, smaller companies, indie developers and so on. By extension, there are games of all types that employ use of narrative elements to varying degrees. There are throwbacks to classic games where story takes a backseat to jumping and shooting. The vast majority of games, including those I most often play and review, have some kind of story that typically provides an interesting, flavorful setting and perhaps some lip-service to dramatic plot development. Even expansive games such as Skyrim encourage the player to craft their own personal narrative with a near infinite supply of relatively shallow adventures. Finally, there are the interesting cases of games that tout narrative as a gameplay feature. Recent examples include noir-like Heavy Rain, a critically acclaimed adventure game wherein you interact with different scenes and every decision affects the outcome of the overall narrative, and Alan Wake, a third-person horror game written by a novelist about a novelist experiencing his own horror novel.

Critics have drawn comparisons between the two for their attempts to marry narrative and gameplay in an intimate and inseparable fashion. I admittedly haven’t played these titles myself, but I hope to one day. While I don’t need a compelling story to enjoy a good game, sometimes the best gameplay can lose steam without the push of dramatic tension to keep it going. A small part of me is tired of having fun and not knowing why.

A Better, Sexier TV Show Version of “Twilight� .FHIBO .D$PMMPVHI Staff Writer A drama about vampires, werewolves, vampire/werewolf hybrids, witches and ghosts, “The Vampire Diaries� is currently in its fourth season, airing on The CW on Thursdays at 8 p.m.

The show revolves around the unfortunate life of high school student Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and the horror and havoc that are wreaked on her hometown of Mystic Falls as a result of the constant presence of the supernatural. The town of Mystic Falls has a rich history of supernatural inhabitants, and long-time (as in, really longtime; they are each over a hundred years old but, in true “Twilight� fashion, are young-looking and gorgeous) residents and vampires Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) become intimately entwined with Elena’s life, constantly coming to her rescue just when it would seem that the evil of her town is about to have its way with her.

The show is based off of a series of Young Adult vampire horror novels by L.J. Smith, which was originally published in 1991 but has seen several spin-offs and sequels since then in the form of other related trilogies. The show itself has, over the course of its four-season run, deviated greatly from the plotlines of the books it is based off of, but has retained their original premise: that of a young girl who gets swept up in a horror story and then is romantically torn between two vampire brothers. Reviews and ratings of “The Vampire Diaries� have improved over the course of the show’s run, with critics generally agreeing that the show improved as the first season developed and with the second,

third and fourth seasons premiering to generally favorable reviews. The pilot episode attracted the greatest number of viewers of any series premiere on The CW since the network began in 2006. The series has won two People’s Choice Awards, (Favorite New TV Drama in 2010 and Best Drama Actress for Nina Dobrev in 2012) and several Teen Choice Awards since 2010. “The Vampire Diaries� has been widely popular amongst teens not only because of its sex appeal what with the constant on-and-off romances between characters and steamy sex/ make out scenes, but also because of the fastpaced and action-packed nature of every episode. Elena, originally an average high school student bordering on the stereotypical (popular cheerleader with the cute blonde boyfriend), gets taken for a spin when she meets Stefan, the “new guy� in school with the “bad� older brother (Damon). Soon after getting romantically involved with Stefan (and eventually becoming torn between the two brothers), she finds out that her best friend Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham) is a witch, and that her other best friend Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola) is soon turned into a vampire herself. The welfare of the citizens of Mystic Falls spirals downhill from there as werewolves and werewolf/vampire hybrids are added into the mix, and the “vampire infestation,� constantly being futilely combated by the town council, skyrockets. Over the course of the series, the narrative has developed from having a focus on the town’s supernatural history to having a focus on Elena’s personal and very mysterious history and the key role that she comes to play in her horror-ridden world. This has been good for the overall quality of the show because it has

allowed it to seem less scattered; before Elena became truly central and key to the inner workings of the mysterious events in Mystic Falls, episodes tended to feel a bit chaotic and were layered with the feeling that Elena was simply being thrown into this world with no real connection to it or purpose within it. When secrets are uncovered dealing with both her family’s as well as her own history relative to the vampires, her character becomes better grounded in the show and the show is able to gain a stronger focus rather than erratically keeping track of all of the tragedies and supernatural elements present within Elena’s unfortunate hometown.

The show takes a dramatic turn with the beginning of season four, when Elena is forced to become a vampire; she is run off a bridge and dies with vampire blood in her system, (a requirement for the transition from human to vampire). Suddenly her relationship with the supernatural world takes on a whole new twist, and she has to learn to cope with the violent cravings and urges that come with being a freshly-turned vampire. Stefan has difficulty assisting her with this because of his troubling and violent past as a new vampire, (he did such a terrible job of resisting the urge to massacre humans that he earned himself the title “The Ripper� almost immediately upon his transition). Since Damon has no trouble with helping her at all, a new complication is thrown into their already-existing love triangle; who will be the one to help Elena through this hard time? Elena’s transition to vampirehood further entrenches her in the supernatural and improves upon the show by providing it with an even stronger focus. It is both exciting and heartbreaking for viewers to watch Elena assimilate to

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Although “The Vampire Diaries� can at times be a chaotic show jam-packed with action and violence, at its core, it is a show that viewers love and continue to watch religiously because of the strong relevancy that it has to its teenage viewers due to the character of Elena. Audiences constantly root for her to prevail against the darkness she is constantly subjected to, and, of course, are kept at the edges of their seats as they wait to see which Salvatore she will give her heart to.

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Five Menswear Tips for Staying Warm

The first step to keeping warm is keeping dry. Peacoats are a fall/ winter staple for good reason. Find a good one and you’ll be wearing it throughout all walks of life. Cheap ones will fall apart eventually — pointless for an item you can expect to wear for decades. Just make sure the fit is flattering.

Criminally under-worn, a good denim jacket will not only protect from most elements, but it’ll also get better with age and wear.

The more you beat it up, the more personalized and form-fitting it becomes. Just avoid the classic misstep: wearing a denim jacket with matching jeans. Stick to different shades or pants with a different material altogether lest you look like a monochromatic, matchymatchy block. The puffer vest is coming back in a big way. Normally dismissed because they make people look, well, unflatteringly puffy, these days you can find slimmer ones that look great either on top of a sweater or inside a blazer or coat. The puffer’s vibrant color lets you stand out among winter’s dull browns and blacks.

Leather or faux-leather jackets have been in since their conception, and this year isn’t going to change anything. Durable against the wind and rain, they also look slick with a pair of jeans and go well with boots and all but the most formal of shoes. Basically, the grown-up’s badass hoodie.

Wet socks are an invention of Satan. Red Wing, Wolverine, and Rockport are examples of brands who make good shoes in attractive silhouettes for trudging through snow and rain.

If you already have some good boots in your closet, make sure to take care of them. Water, heat and especially Amherst soy sauce can do a number to leathers. Dish soap is pretty benign for washing shoes, and when drying never use a heater or blow-drier. Stuff the insides with newspaper (only use The Amherst Student after you’ve read everything) or use a wooden shoe tree to absorb moisture.

Waterproofing kits for leather and suede are great investments.

There are quite a few layering options depending on your predilection for warmth. Cardigans are a personal favorite. These days, stores don’t sell your grandpa’s cardigans; modern ones are very slimming and add the illusion of some height if you have the right body type. Unfortunately they don’t normally get as thick as sweaters for when the cold starts biting. Sweaters and cardigans are especially reliant on fit, so take a good look in the mirror before you buy.

If you’re a rough enough dude to get by with just some flannel and an undershirt, just make sure your tee is a v-neck; you don’t want that crew showing under your collar.

Scarves are a herald of fall: a signal that the season has begun. A collection of scarves adds a ton of flair to a wardrobe and are normally an outfit’s centerpiece when they’re the only thing popping outside your coat. Match them to your accessories for extra zing.

More scarf knots than you’ll ever need to know can be found online. If you’re wearing the scarf on top of a sweater or shirt, knots leaving two ends hanging like the loose wrap are recommended, while tucking a scarf into a coat is easier with one-ended knots like a slip-knot or four-in-hand.

Socks are the most underrated part of an outfit. If everything else is relatively plain, a bit of pop on your feet can visually add a ton without being too loud. They make very powerful accent pieces when matching your eyes, watch, or collar.

Wools are the warmest material, and these days many wool blends can be easily washed. More cost-effective variety can be found in cottons, and you’re also likely to easily find awesome argyles, stripes and what-the-hell-is-that made from cotton as well.

—Brendan Hsu ’15

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Men’s Soccer Dominates Midd. 4-0 in Quarters Undefeated Jeffs Travel to Williams to face off with Wesleyan in NESCAC Semis

#SFOUPO "SOBCPMEJ Staff Writer Seeking back-to-back NESCAC titles for the first time in school history, the men’s soccer team steamrolled past Middlebury 4-0 in the first round of the conference tournament this past Saturday.

The undefeated Jeffs (13-0-2, 8-0-2 NESCAC) will travel to Williamstown this weekend to battle Wesleyan (9-3-3, 6-2-2 NESCAC) in the NESCAC semifinals. Williams (13-0-2, 8-0-2 NESCAC), who snatched the top seed over Amherst by virtue of a coin flip, hosts Tufts in the other semifinal.

Amherst and Williams finished with the same conference record (80-2) and tied each other 0-0 in the one head-to-head matchup on Oct. 6. Both schools had identical records against top-four teams (1-0-2) and top-eight teams (5-0-2) in the conference, exhausting all tiebreakers in the process.

Unfortunately for Amherst, the NESCAC never uses goal differential as a tiebreaker; the Jeffs would have edged Williams (+22 to +16) had the category been used.

Frustrated after losing out to Williams by an arbitrary coin flip, the No. 2 Jeffs sent a message to the rest of the league by thrashing No. 7 Middlebury (6-7-1, 3-6-1 NESCAC), handing the Panthers their most lopsided defeat since 2001. After a relatively competitive first half, the Jeffs opened the floodgates with three goals in the final 45 minutes. “I have all the respect in the world for Middlebury,� head coach Justin Ser-

pone said. “They fought and fought on Saturday, and we were lucky to finish the chances we got.�

Looking to overwhelm Middlebury from the opening whistle, the Jeffs nearly scored in the seventh minute when Gabriel Wirz ’15 headed a corner kick from Jae Heo ’14, but Panthers’ goalkeeper Zach Abdu-Glass swatted away the attempt before his defenders cleared the ball from danger. The Panthers played the Jeffs tough in the early stages, and nearly grabbed the lead when Alvand Hajizadeh’s shot forced Amherst goalkeeper Thomas Bull ’16 to make a leaping save in the 16th minute.

As the match progressed, however, the Jeffs slowly began to exert their dominance in Middlebury’s end of the field, beating the Panthers to loose ‘5050’ balls while attacking the 18-yard box with a steady stream of crosses.

Amherst took a 1-0 lead off a brilliant goal in the 32nd minute. After slicing through a few defenders on the left side, Heo lofted a cross into the box, where the six-foot-five Federico Sucre ’13 buried a header for his fifth goal of the season. The Jeffs nearly doubled the lead in the 41st minute, but junior Max Fikke’s close-range header went straight into the hands of a well-positioned Abdu-Glass.

Continuing to push forward aggressively in the second half, the Jeffs went up 2-0 after a bizarre goal in the 57th minute. Standing by the edge of his own 18-yard-box, Bull launched a long kick that skidded on the wet grass — bouncing past the flat-footed Middlebury defense — before Spencer

Noon ’13 sprinted onto the loose ball and fired a low shot past the sliding Panthers’ goalkeeper. Noon, who leads the NESCAC with 11 goals, has scored in each of his past three games.

Sustaining the high intensity level, the Jeffs extended their lead to 3-0 in the 78th minute. After receiving a through-ball by the end line, Julien Aoyama ’14 wrong-footed his defender before sliding the ball between his legs, giving himself a clear path towards the goal mouth. Aoyama’s subsequent centering pass deflected to Fikke, who calmly slotted a shot from the penalty spot area.

Mark Idleman ‘15 Public Affairs Office Less than five minutes later, the Jeffs struck again on the attack to go up 4-0. Ben Norton ’14 headed home

a corner kick from Mike Hoeksema ’15 to cap the scoring. “It was a solid team win,� Chris Lerner ’13 said. “So many guys contributed; I thought everyone on the team brought great energy.� “Middlebury is a great team and they always give us a tough test, so it was nice to see the team rise to the challenge,� he said.

The Jeffs out-shot Middlebury by a 14-5 margin and held a decisive 11-1 edge in corner kick opportunities. In a match that highlighted Amherst’s depth and offensive talent, eight different Jeffs factored into the scoring. “I was most happy that eight different players had hands in our four goals,�

Serpone said. “The sign of a good team is when everyone contributes.�

Before facing Middlebury, the Jeffs wrapped up their regular season with a 3-0 win at Conn. College. Amherst raced out to a fantastic start, tallying two goals in the first 23:16 of action before cruising to the shutout victory.

Noon opened the scoring in the 10th minute, beating his defender down the right side before chipping the goalkeeper from eight yards out. The Jeffs doubled the lead to 2-0 when Norton buried a header from a Heo corner kick in the 24th minute. James Mooney ’13E added an insurance goal in the 55th minute, as the Jeffs capitalized on yet another corner kick opportunity.

The comfortable victory tasted particularly sweet for the Jeffs, as they avenged last year’s gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to the Camels — a defeat that broke Amherst’s 13-game unbeaten streak in 2011. Conn. College had been

undefeated at home (4-0-4) before last week. “Conn. College is a good team that has gotten the better of us in the recent past, so I was glad to see the effort we put into that game,� Serpone said. “To win 3-0 on the road in this league isn’t easy to do.�

The Jeffs next face Wesleyan in the NESCAC semifinals. When Amherst and Wesleyan clashed in the regular season, the two rivals played to a 1-1 draw at the Cardinals’ homecoming just 10 days ago. The No. 3 Cardinals edged No. 6 Trinity 2-1 last Saturday to advance to the NESCAC’s final four. “Wesleyan is a great team that is tough, good at soccer and wellcoached,� Serpone said. “Anytime you have that combination, winning becomes difficult. We played our worst full game of the season against them the first time around, and we can’t afford to do that again in a playoff game.�

Unlike last year, Amherst will not have the luxury of hosting the semifinals and finals of the NESCAC tournament. The Jeffs, however, aren’t making any excuses heading into the crucial weekend at Williams. “We try not to worry about or think about things that we can’t control,� Serpone said when asked about Amherst’s relegation to the No. 2 seed. “Having the chance to play in the NESCAC semifinals is a privilege, so whether we play at home or on the road is irrelevant.� “We’re just focused on a very, very good opponent in Wesleyan and need to make sure we bring our best on Saturday.�

Women’s Soccer Survives Colby on Brisco Goal, Advances to NESCAC Semis

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The women’s soccer team kept their season alive with a 1-0 victory over 6th seeded Colby in the NESCAC quarterfinals. Previously, the College defeated Connecticut College 2-1 to finish in a three-way tie atop the NESCAC regular season standings.

Having lost the tiebreakers to both teams, however, the Jeffs garnered the third seed in the conference championship.

In the Wednesday, Oct. 24 game against Conn. College, Kathryn Nathan ’13 and Megan Kim ’16 scored first half goals to lead Jeffs to a 2-1 victory Captain Nathan scored in just the 10th minute, finish a pass from co-captain Kate Sisk ’14. First-year sensation Megan Kim ’16 doubled the College’s advantage in the 21st minute, striking a shot off the crossbar that bounced across the line for a goal.

In Saturday’s NESCAC playoff opener against Colby, the Jeffs controlled possession for much of the first half but were unable to

capitalize on their opportunities.

Perhaps their best chance came when Nathan found Chloe McKenzie ’14 at the top of the box. McKenzie ripped a shot off Mules goalkeeper then was denied a rebound opportunity when the goalkeeper made a sensational sprawling save.

The Jeffs almost scored just seconds before halftime but their goal was waved off by the referee’s whistle.

Coming out firing, the Jeffs finally broke through in the 54th minute when Nathan sent a long lead pass to Hannah Cooper ’14. Cooper held off the Colby defender and laid off a ball for Amanda Brisco ’14. Brisco scored from 15 yards out to give the Jeffs the decisive goal.

Colby threatened, particualry in the 88th minute, but first-year goalkeeper Holly Burwick made a diving save to make Brisco’s goal stand.

Nathan was pleased with the win despite the narrow margin of victory. “Every game in the NESCAC tournament is going to be a battle and we have to take what the game gives us in order to find a way to win,� she said. “Against Conn., we were able to put a goal away in the second half and hold them to a shut out.�

The Jeffs next travel to Williams to take on the fourth-seeded Bowdoin Polar Bears. In the other semifinal, second-seeded Williams will face eight-seed Wesleyan, who shocked top-seeded Middlebury last weekend in the quarters.

Nathan was looking forward to the weekend and believed efficiency would be the key to victory. “In order to be successful this weekend,

we must treat every scoring opportunity like it is the only one we will have all game. We need to be focused and ready to finish our chances when we have them. “We must also work to maintain possession of the ball because we are at our best when we find each other’s feet and attack as a unit. We are looking forward to a big weekend at Williams.�

Hopefully, the weekend will end hoisting the NESCAC Championship trophy on rival Williams’ home field. For the Jeffs, nothing would be sweeter.

Amherst Rugby Tops Williams, Set For Playoffs ,BSM (SFFOCMBUU Managing Sports Editor In a tough road test, men’s rugby completed a stellar regular season by topping Williams, a victory that has propelled them into the playoffs.

It wouldn’t be easy — in the first half, the Jeffs and the Ephs played to a 5-5 deaadlock. In the second half, however, the Jeffs stole the show. Senior captain Nick Parada scored two tries and converted two penalty kicks as the Jeffs ultimately rolled, 30-5.

At a time still to be determined this weekend, the Jeffs will travel to East Conn. state for their first-round playoff matchup.

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FRIDAY Volleyball vs. Williams (NESCAC Quarterfinals), 8 p.m.

SATURDAY Men’s Cross Country @ Williams (ECAC Championships), 11 a.m.

Women’s Cross Country @ Williams (ECAC Championships), 11 a.m.

Football @ Trinity, 1 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Middlebury (NESCAC Semifinals), 11 a.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. Wesleyan (NESCAC Semifinals), 1:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Bowdoin (NESCAC Semifinals), 1:30 p.m.

Volleyball vs. TBD (NESCAC Semifinals) SUNDAY Volleyball, Field Hockey, Men’s & Women’s Soccer vs. TBD (NESCAC Finals)

Andrew Erskine ’13 paced the Amherst crosscountry team at the NESCAC Championships on Oct. 27, finishing 16th overall with an 8K time of 25:02.79. The senior’s strong individual performance helped lead his team to a seventh-place finish, one place better than the Jeffs finished last year. Earlier in the year, Erskine also placed ninth overall at the Little Three Championships, in which the Jeffs took second place. He looks to match or best his time this Saturday, when the Jeffs compete in the ECAC Championships at Williams. —Karl Greenblatt ’15

Game of the Week FOOTBALL vs. TRINITY When and Where: Saturday, Nov. 3 Trinity, 1 p.m.

Sitting at 5-1, the Jeffs must topple the undefeated Bantams if they are to have a shot at a three-way tie for the NESCAC Championship. So far this year, the Jeffs have had a more difficult go of things than they did last season, but they looked strong last week, when they dispatched of Tufts by a 51-7 score. Although the quarterback situation has been uncertain at times, the running game and the defense have more than made up for it. Ryan Sil-

va ’14 has been the offensive star, rushing for 130 yards per game on 5.5 yards per carry, while senior Mike Aldo has been a stalwart at his defensive back position.

But there’s little doubt about it: the Bantams are good. In their most recent game, Trinity blew out Middlebury, who had previously earned a convincing win over the Jeffs, 45-7. The Bantams have had no trouble scoring — they have racked up 36.5 points per game this year — nor have they given up more than 14 points in any game. Additionally, Trinity has not lost at its home field in more than eight seasons. The Jeffs will need to give everything they have — and perhaps more — to pull off the upset. and vie for back-to-back league titles.

In seemingly every game for the Amherst women’s soccer team this season, someone has come up big. This time, in the NESCAC Quarterfinal round against Colby, it was Amanda Brisco ’14. She netted the decisive goal off an assist from classmate Hannah Cooper in the 54th minute. The score proved to be the only time either team found the back of the net, as the third-seeded Jeffs held off sixth-seeded Colby, 1-0. It was also Brisco’s sixth goal of the season, which tied her for the team lead. The Lady Jeffs will face Bowdoin in the NESCAC Semifinals on Saturday, Nov. 3. —Karl Greenblatt ’15

Lambert Dominates Pack at NESCACs Breaks Course Record, Paces Lady Jeffs to Third

Mark Idleman ‘15 Public Affairs Office

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Although her results this year (and race strategy of breaking from the pack as early as possible) may suggest otherwise, the Amherst native did not explode onto the Division III running scene as you may expect.

Lambert’s first year of college, she joined the cross country team without any expectations or knowledge of what the future might hold. While her first two seasons showed signs of promise, it wasn’t until last year that Lambert revealed exactly how good she might be. At the Purple Valley Invitational last September, she blew away the field for her first collegiate victory. After taking second at both Little Three’s and NESCACs, Lambert turned

many heads at nationals, finishing fifth overall. On the track that spring, Lambert won the 3K steeplechase by 39 seconds with the fastest Div. III time of the year, 10:19.37, a new meet record.

This season, Lambert has hit her stride at the right time. After getting outkicked in the homestretch by Middlebury’s Addie Tousley in late September at Williams, Lambert has dominated her last three races, winning each by at least 20 seconds.

At the James Earley Invitational 6K, Lambert outran the 452-woman field with a then personalbest 21:30.11, topping Tousley by 20 seconds. The following weekend, Lambert won the Little Three Championship by a whopping 49 seconds, crossing the finish line with a time of 18:21.0.

Although crossing paths with Lambert on campus might not reveal just how talented she is, her success has not gone unnoticed.Sports Illustrated featured the senior in their Oct. 22 issue’s “Faces in the Crowd.� Who says Div. III running doesn’t get the attention it deserves?

Indeed the pressure was on as Lambert & company traveled to Bowdoin last Saturday. But from the gun, as she seems fond of doing, Lambert

separated herself from the field and never looked back. “I’m not really the most calculated racer,�

Lambert explained. “I like to keep things simple and gutsy. At Bowdoin I focused on getting to the finish line as quickly as possible and enjoying being in the lead instead of stressing over whatever was going on behind me.�

Crossing the finish line in 20:33.45, Lambert bested rival Tousley again, here by 47 seconds.

Lambert’s conference victory marks the fourth time in the past six years that an Amherst runner has won the NESCAC Championship. For Lambert, the victory was especially sweet. “I’ve been a NESCAC runner-up four times in three different events,� Lambert said. “The pattern got kind of old.�

After the win, Lambert also expressed a fondness for her competitors and conference. “I feel really lucky to be a NESCAC athlete. There’s a ton of talent in this conference, and it’s exciting and really helpful to race against such great runners on a regular basis.�

That said, Lambert still managed to reveal the competitive spirit necessary to shatter a course record and win three straight races. When asked if she would have given the same response had she finished second, she responded coyly, “probably not.�

Led by Lambert, the No. 20-ranked Lady Jeffs found themselves on the podium, finishing third overall in the 11-team event. Behind Lambert, Lizzy Briskin continued to impress in her sophomore season, finishing 14th overall with a time of 22:14.04. Along with Lambert’s dominance, Briskin’s breakout year has been crucial to Amherst’s team success and has earned her a second-team All-NESCAC selection. Junior Lauren Almeida took 16th with a time of 22:19.41, which first-year Caroline Rose finished in 22:42.29, good enough for 36th. Rounding out the Jeffs’ scorers, Elodie Reed ’13 placed 46th with a time of 23:00.88.

Williams, ranked third nationally, dominated the team competition (45 points) with three runners finishing in the top five. Middlebury took second with 71 points.

Looking forward at Lambert’s season, it’s hard to imagine her not focused on Nationals, held in Indiana. “There’s nothing quite like cross country nationals. It’s a spectacle, you can feel the energy and

nerves and speed and confidence in the air,� she said.

But before thinking about Nationals, or the track season for that matter, Lambert says she’s taking things one race at a time. “Now it’s time to focus on Regionals. New England is incredibly strong this year, so we’re going to have to leave it all on the course.� With Lambert peaking at the right time, something tells me she’ll be able to do a little more than just that.

Men Hoping to improve on their eighth place finish last season, the men’s cross country team traveled to Bowdoin on Saturday, Oct. 27 to compete in the NESCAC Championship.

Led by senior captain Andrew Erskine, the Jeffs improved on their performance last season and took home seventh in the event with a total of 196 team points. Erskine crossed the line with a time of 25:02.79 in the 8K race, putting him in 16th place overall. Although every scoring Jeff — the team’s top five finishers — finished in the top 50, a large gap between Erskine and his teammates prevented the Jeffs from finishing higher in the team event.

Junior Pat Grimes was the second Amherst finisher, taking 39th overall with a time of 25:39.02, while sophomore KC Fussell (25:42.07) took home 41st. Rounding out the Jeffs scoring, juniors Charlie Reighard (25:50.13) and Alvaro Morales (26.00.38) finished 47th and 50th, respectively. Sophomore Jeff Turissini, the top Amherst finisher throughout the season, most notably at in the Little III Championship, posted a disappointing 26:47.93 to give him 79th place.

Bowdoin’s Colby Horowitz won the race on his home course with a time of 24:26.78, just edging out Tufts’ Matt Rand (24:27.29). Tufts, whose top five runners all earned top-20 finishes, took home the team prize with a total score of 66 points. Middlebury’s 69 gave them second, while Bowdoin edged out instate rival Bates for the final spot on the podium with 88 points.

Williams took fifth, while fellow Little III rival Wesleyan, whom the Jeffs beat just two weeks earlier, took home sixth with 164 points. Behind the Jeffs, Conn College, Colby, Hamilton and Trinity rounded out the scoring.

The Jeffs return to action this weekend, traveling to Williams to compete in the ECAC Championship.

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Field hockey continued their strong run of form last week after beating Conn. College 2-0 and winning a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in NESCAC quarterfinal play against 12th-ranked Trinity.

Conn. College entered the final regular-season game second to last in the NESCAC in goals per game and the 14th-ranked Lord Jeffs played hard defense throughout the game en route to their fifth shutout of the year. The teams ended up even with 11 shots apiece, but the Camels managed just five penalty corners, none of them coming in the second half.

On the offensive end, Madeline Tank ’15 got things rolling in the 13th minute. Off of a penalty corner, Tank got her stick on a shot from Alex Philie ’14 and deflected the ball into the corner to put the team up 1-0.

Katie McMahon ’13 added to her team lead near the end of the half after another penalty corner. Philie received the ball up top and slid it across to McMahon, who buried a low shot with 5:55 remaining before halftime for her 11th goal of the season.

Rachel Tannenbaum ’15 made 11 saves in goal for the Lord Jeffs, while Becca Napolitano had nine stops for Conn. College, seven of which came in the first half.

A hard-fought game was expected against Trinity, who beat Amherst 1-0 in overtime earlier this season.

The Lord Jeffs won five out of six after that loss and the teams came into the quarterfinal with nearly identical records.

Amherst drew first blood on the afternoon when Annika Nygren ’16 put home a rebound in the fifth minute for her third collegiate goal. The rest of the first half was a cagey affair, with 11 total shots and two penalty corners total. Krista Zsitvay ’14 doubled the Amherst lead late in the half with a blast from long range that found its way by Anne Marie Scalambrino.

Trinity increased their offensive intensity in the second half, outshooting the Lord Jeffs 15-5 and winning six penalty corners. The Bantams got a goal back after just 90 seconds when Hadley Duncan beat Tannenbaum. Trinity pushed forward but couldn’t find an equalizer, setting up a dramatic finish to regulation.

With time ticking down, Tannenbaum made a nice kick save on a Duncan shot and in the aftermath,

Trinity was given a penalty corner with no time remaining. The Bantams’ initial shot was saved, but in the ensuing scramble, Trinity fired multiple rebound attempts. Duncan was able to smack home her second such attempt in a crowded goalmouth to force overtime.

“It can be very challenging to regroup when an opponent ties the game with no time on the clock,” head coach Carol Knerr said. “In our huddle I told the team that they had to immediately forget about what just happened. We still had an opportunity to win the game and we had to refocus. The team came together and did just that.”

The first overtime saw both teams record four shots with no goals and the second overtime remained scoreless until the 92nd minute. McMahon received the ball up top off of a penalty corner and eventually passed to Zsitvay, who slid the ball into the corner to end the game.

In the end, Trinity outshot Amherst 26-16 and the Lord Jeffs had a 9-8 advantage in corners. The team got strong goalkeeping once again from Tannenbaum, who ended up with 16 saves.

After the game, Knerr noted that “Saturday was an amazing team effort” and singled out Zsitvay for her excellent play.

“Krista Zsitvay had an outstanding game,” Knerr said. “She was making 20-30 yard runs with the ball on her stick eliminating defenders at speed. She had a beautiful goal in regulation and finished a well-placed corner shot for the O.T. goal.”

With the win, the Lord Jeffs advance to the NESCAC semifinals for the third straight year. This year’s team is looking to advance to the finals for the first time since 2001 after losing in overtime for the past two semifinals. If the team is to get over the hump, it will be in large part due to the efforts of co-captain and career points leader McMahon. “[McMahon] is playing exceptionally well and is leading the team by exuding enthusiasm and confidence. She is an absolute joy to coach,” Knerr said.

Amherst will face a tough matchup in the semifinals against Middlebury, who ended the Lord Jeffs’ season last year in the NCAA quarterfinals. Ranked first in the nation, the undefeated Panthers are currently riding an eight-game shutout streak, although the Lord Jeffs did score on them in their regular-season matchup. The semifinal will take place on Saturday at Middlebury.

Firedogs Return to Playoffs With Back-to-Back Wins ,BSM (SFFOCMBUU Managing Sports Editor Facing two critical NESCAC road tests — and needing to win them both to earn the number four seed in the NESCAC playoffs — the Firedogs responded, topping both Colby and Bates to move to 7-3 in league play.

As a reward for its efforts, the squad is now set to meet fifth-seeded archrival Williams on Friday, Nov. 2, in a NESCAC Quarterfinal matchup.

In fact, the squad has won three straight for the third time this season, dating back to a sweep of Smith on Wednesday, Oct. 24. In that match, the Jeffs had a relatively easy go of things, winning 25-19, 25-14 and 25-18. Lizzie Ahern ’16 led the way with 12 kills and a .462 attack rate, both team highs. The victory got the Lady Jeffs back in the win column after they had previously dropped three in a row.

Now, the Jeffs’ task was to close out their regular season with two more wins and hit their stride just in time for the playoffs. The Firedogs headed to Waterville, Maine on Friday, Oct. 26, and their effort did not disappoint as they recorded their second consecutive clean sweep. At times, the Jeffs were forced to bear down and play their best: after the Firedogs took a commanding 14-9 lead in the first set, the Mules scored eight unanswered points to go up 17-14. The Jeffs, however, checked

the Colby momentum and fought back for a 25-23 victory. After a 25-8 runaway in the second set, the Lady Jeffs found themselves in a similar position in the third set, when they found themselves down 24-23. Again, however, the Jeffs displayed their tenacity, overcoming the late deficit to earn a 2624 set win and the match victory. In total, Nicole Carter ’16 totaled 34 assists to go along with eight digs and two aces, while Kristin Keeno ’13 led the way with 16 digs.

Still, if the Firedogs wanted a favorable matchup in the first round of the conference tournament, they would have to match their strong performance the following day against Bates in Lewiston, Maine. For the second time in as many days, the Jeffs were up to the task. In this contest, the Jeffs were never truly challenged as they cruised by scores of 25-16, 25-19 and a 25-7 rout in the final set. Carter collected 30 assists and 11 digs, and Lauren Antion ’15 tallied a match-high 12 kills.

In two of the three sets, the Jeffs also managed to hold the bobcats to a negative hitting percentage.

Heading into the matchup with the Ephs, the Firedogs should gain some confidence from their earlier-season result against Williams: On Oct. 13, the Jeffs topped the Ephs, 3-1.

Still, Coach Sue Everden’s team knows better than to rest on its laurels, especially come playoff time following a somewhat up-and-down campaign.

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,BSM (SFFOCMBUU On the heels of the poor World Series performance of the Tigers, who, by all accounts, had a stacked team, Karl examines the recent trend of good — even great — teams who fail repeatedly to win a Championship. Are there any reliable predictors of postseason success in baseball?

With all their starpower, the Tigers sure put up a sad showing in a World Series in which they were — rightfully — the favorites.

The prospect of facing Justin Verlander in Game 1, let alone the potential to have to face him more than once, should have been daunting enough for the Giants.

Then, there was the Tigers’ offensive combination of likely MVP Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, likely the most fearsome one-two punch in the game. The tandem had been terrorizing opposing pitchers for the entire season and had no reason to stop doing so now. Add to the mix Jim Leyland, a wily, veteran manager with World Series experience, and you’d be looking at at least a pretty competitive series, right? Wrong, apparently. The Giants weren’t remotely fazed by any of the factors that should have worked in the Tigers’ favor.

Actually, that’s a pretty big understatement. The Giants made the favored Tigers look like a J.V. team.

This postseason gave us a few pretty significant flukes. First off, the Braves, a championship contenders in their own right and known for their smart, fundamentally sound brand of baseball, played about as poor a game as I’ve ever seen in their first-round matchup with the Cardinals. After dominating the eventual champions in two NLDS road games, how could the stacked Reds go on to lose three straight — at home? Yankee fans, of course, were left trying to rationalize how their potent offense could suddenly become so flimsy, a surprising ransformation that almost cost the best team in the American League the Baltimore series and left them with little chance against Detroit.

And, finally, the fearsome Tigers exhibited a lack of spark and execution, especially at the plate, when it counted the most.

What’s going on here? Why, of late, has baseball proven so difficult to figure out?

The answer to the “what went wrong?” question usually starts with the fact that the ability to hit a baseball at the Major League level is a weird thing — sometimes it’s there, and sometimes it isn’t. In other words: even the best offenses can go through inexplicable slumps. But the vaunted Tigers offense would be probably as unlikely a candidate to go through that kind of funk as any lineup in recent memory. You can’t chalk it up to lack of postseason experience, either. Fielder had been there before with the Brewers and Cabrera, of course, was a former champion in 2003 with the Marlins. Same goes for catcher/DH Gerald Laird, who won it all in 2011 with the Cardinals. Starters Delmon Young and Jhonny had prior playoff experience, too: this was not exactly a lineup that should have been vulnerable to pressure, which is known to exacerbate offensive slumps.

Time itself is our next possible culprit: after sweeping the Yankees, the Tigers had a long layoff as they waited for the Cardinals-Giants series to go the full seven games. Proponents of this theory will be quick to point out that this is the same phenomenon that victimized the Tigers in 2006. That year, after quickly dispatching Oakland in the ALCS, Detroit looked rusty in the World Series and fell to the inferior Cardinals without much fight. As a Red Sox fan, I remember that roughly

the same thing happened the following year: the Red Sox simply overwhelmed the Rockies, who had swept their NLCS opponent, after a hard-fought seven-game series with Cleveland. I spurn this argument, though, because the opposite viewpoint could just as easily have been argued. After going seven games, shouldn’t the Giants — especially their pitching staff, which looked Cy-Young-esque in the Fall Classic — have been at least a little worn out? And what about the idea that the Tigers’ rest should have helped them rather than hurt them, given how long the baseball season is and how few days off most players get?

So, if it wasn’t pressure, lack of experience, or rust that hurt the Tigers, the only explanation we have left is that they were doomed by the natural ebb and flow of the game of baseball. Naturally, that isn’t a very satisfying explanation.

Come to think of it, the phenomenon of really good teams failing to win World Series titles isn’t a new one. The Texas Rangers, to name a recent example, had baseball’s best offense in 2010 and 2011 but lost in the World Series each year. Far more striking is the case of the Atlanta Braves of the 1990s and 2000s. People remember that Bobby Cox led his team to a Division Title every full season between 1991 and 2005. Excluding the strike year, that’s 14 titles. More easily forgotten is the fact that, in all those years, Cox’s Braves won exactly ONE World Series.

If you were to flip a coin without taking talent and experience into consideration, the odds of a playoff team’s winning the World Series in a given year would be one in eight under the format of the time (actually, they’d be slightly more favorable on average, since the Wild Card wasn’t introduced until 1995).

But the Braves, who were decidedly better than average (Maddux? Glavine?

Smoltz? Anyone?), performed decidedly worse than average in the Fall Classic. Can we say that, come October in each one of those years, the Braves just simply “didn’t have it?” Hardly. If we’re going by the “natural ebb and flow” paradigm, but the Braves should have had some exceptionally good postseasons as well as exceptionally mediocre ones. But they didn’t. They were a very, very experienced team that simply didn’t win the World Series at the expected rate.

Which takes me back to the Tigers and my one biggest question regarding modern-day baseball: does being a “good team” in the traditional sense mean anything anymore?

It’s become clear in recent years that big payroll, great talent and even a veteran clubhouse doesn’t necessarily translate into championships. So what does? Is it some “intangible” that the likes of Tim McCarver and Joe Buck are always trying (rather poorly, I might add) to articulate?

If so, there’s definitely no good predictor of what it might be.

So would we be more accurate to say that playoff results in general, but World Series Championships in particular, basically come down to luck? You can call it a mysterious “intangible” if you’d like, but isn’t it all the same?

Or did the 2012 Detroit Tigers just really blow it? Maybe that’s difficult for me to accept.

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Jeffs Jump Jumbos 51-7 In Family Weekend Rout Amherst Moves to 5-1; Faces 6-0 Trinity Saturday Varun Iyengar ’14 Sports Section Editor Behind a stellar all-around effort, the Lord Jeffs put together their most dominant performance of the season last Saturday, blowing

by Tufts for a 51-7 victory. Playing in front of parents and siblings for Family Weekend, Amherst had extra incentive to play well, which certainly went a long ways. The Jeffs got on the board early and never looked back, running away with the easy victory.

Quarterbacks Jonathan Pieterse ’16 and Max Lippe ’15, who contributed three touchdowns and 338 yards, led the Amherst attack.

The passing attack was matched by an equally potent running game that picked apart the Jumbos defense to the tune of 200 yards on the ground.

Amherst’s 538 total yards marked their most efficient offensive performance in two years, which, ironically, also came at the expense of Tufts.

The Jeffs scoring barrage began with their first possession of the game. The offense took over at Amherst’s own 45-yard line and immediately looked to the air, as Lippe found Gene Garay ’15 with three consecutive passes. Within four plays, Amherst had worked its way to the Tufts one-yard line and gave the ball to Steven Jellison ’14 for the short touchdown run, putting the home team on the board first.

Feeding off the early momentum, Amherst’s defense stepped up its game as well.

After forcing a three-and-out on Tufts’ second possession of the game, Michael Aldo ’13 cut the Jumbos third drive short as well, intercepting a pass to give the Jeffs great field position as they looked to add to the lead. The home team did just that, quickly picking apart the Jumbos defense to get into the red zone. Garay was again featured in the attack, making a beautiful one-handed catch along the sideline

early in the drive. Finally, at the three-yard line, the Jeffs looked to first-year running back Kenny Aboagye-Adinkra ’16, who found his way into the endzone for his first collegiate score, extending the lead to 14-0.

The Jumbos, though, responded quickly.

Helped by two Amherst penalties, Tufts attacked on the ground, trying to find a hole in the Jeffs’ defense. The strategy worked out; Jumbos’ running back Zach Trause took advantage of a clear path right up the middle, running the ball 36 yards untouched for the score and cutting the deficit to 14-7. Unfortunately for Tufts, it was all they would get on the afternoon.

With their lead cut in half, the Jeffs’ offense quickly got back to work. Amherst methodically moved downfield but was stopped short of a touchdown by an impressive Tufts’ defensive stand inside their red zone. The Jeffs settled for a field goal, as Jake Schmidt ’14 came on for the 21-yarder that pushed the lead to 17-7 early in the second quarter.

With their offense clicking, Amherst seemingly had all the answers for the Jumbos defense. Any small opportunity for Tufts was quickly smothered.

Facing third-and-12 on their next drive, Amherst seemed to be in a bit of trouble, but Lippe managed to find Brian Ragone ’16 for a 24-yard reception that kept the chains moving. On the very next play, Lippe himself took the ball 11 yards for his third rushing touchdown of the season. Amherst would also tack on three more points later in the quarter, as Schmidt came on for a last second field goal that gave the Jeffs a 27-7 advantage heading into the break.

Fortunately for the Jeffs, the second half of play featured a similar script to the first. There was certainly no letdown from the home team.

Instead, at least immediately out of the gate, Amherst kept the pedal to the floor, looking to

put the game out of reach.

However, on their first possession of the third quarter, Amherst still faced some trouble. Forced into a third-and-long situation, Pieterse was able to fire a strike to Jake O’Malley ’14 for 28 yards that kept the drive alive. Senior tight end Tim Holahan ’13 followed with a one-handed 17-yard grab on the ensuing play, moving the Jeffs inside the 20-yard line and setting up a quarterback sneak for a score three plays later.

Looking for a little more insurance, the Jeffs added to their lead on their next possession. It was Amherst’s shortest drive of the afternoon; Pieterse found O’Malley for a 44-yard touchdown pass on the third play of the drive. To cap the third quarter, Amherst’s defense got in on the party as well when Danny Chun ’14 picked off a Tufts pass deep into Amherst territory, running it back 72 yards

for another touchdown. The Jeffs would score once more in the fourth quarter, as Will Brewster ’15 came on to kick his first collegiate field goal, but otherwise, Amherst was content to run out the clock.

Feeling good from this run-away victory, the Jeffs will look to harness that momentum as they face a tough challenge this Saturday.

The team will go on the road to play Trinity, the only remaining undefeated team in the NESCAC, with the conference championship on the line. An Amherst victory likely earns the Jeffs a tie for the NESCAC Championship, whereas a loss all but guarantees Trinity the title.

The Bantams currently hold the nation’s longest regular season home winning streak at 46 games, so the Jeffs will need to be clicking on all cylinders if they are to pull off the upset of the season.

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